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THE LATEST NEWS. , GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. . v * C Important Happenings, Both Home , and Foreign, Briefly Told. Q . H I] Southern Dots. n A special to the Age-Heruid from Fork land, n Ala., .says that during a thunder-storm there h Tuesday, two negroes who had taken shelter t under a tree were instantly killed by light- tl ning. 2 At Lincoln, Ala., on Tuesday, James A. Hackney, while standiug in the doorway of '' his residence, was killed by lightning. " His wife, who was standing close by, was badly v shocked. * The quartette of 'oyclista who left Knox- ^ ville, Tenn., for a run to Washington, GOO . miles, made the trip in twelve days. The j. distance covered each day ranged from ,j thirty-three to sixty-five mile9. At Grove City, Fla., Tuesday,Mrs. Richard , Talbott was carried out into the Gulf by a huge tarpon. Iler husbaud was fishing in a boat and he rescued his wife as she was dragged past by the fish. The lady w.-u not seriously injured. T< Mr. Robert B.u ringer Kramer Aud Miss Ida Irwin Howell were married at tlio First Methodist church in Atlanta, Ga., ou Wednesday night. The groom is the city editor In of the Constitution, and the bride a daughter jU of Captain Evan 1*. Howell aud a sister of . Mi . Cla-fc Howell, editor of the Constitution. Iron was advanced $1 a ton by the Teuu- i*'1 essee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, at Pl Birmingham, which make* ntotal ndvauce of -pr 2.75 a ton s'nce the 15th of March, and the th indications are that k is uot done rising yet. jec "Bad" Tom Smith, was hanged at Jackson, icc ICy., Friday for the murder of Dr. Rodes. He 'flj made a full coufcssion to the jailer before the |di drop fell. |T< The Georgia fruit growers are fighting the Georgia railroads, on account of alleged ex- ijv cossive freight charges, before the State rail- jK road commission. The railroads claim that :11 fruit ?s the most difficult of all freight to j handle, that ice must be provided, aud hence . the high rates. ^ Miss Nellie Murphy, while out ruling near re Uraideutowu, Fla., was attacked by a vicious hi stallion, chased for two m'les and bitten sj, several times. ar Lightning struck the barn of W. A. Gilles- gc pie, uear Charlotte. N. C.. some time in the re early part of Wednesday night, set lire to it, re and the whole building was oousuuied, in- tr eluding all of Mr. Gillespie's wheat, which he th had just finished hauling aud gettiug uudex cover, uud his wagon. fr 1 Crime. pt A. C. Love, formerly assistant postmaster at Col vert, Tex., stole ?2,600 postotHee m^ney 1,1 and escaped. studied medicine, and made off _ to Central America. The postal authorities st have caught hiin at Panama. ^ Louis O. Desforges, a convicted boodle ?(: aldermau in New Orleans, has been refused Q( a re-hearing by the courts. I Private Secretary Cole Thursday morning. th under instructions from Governor Morton, of vr New York, informed Mrs. Annie Buchanan ail that the Governor must decline to hear any 1, further appeals tov clemency in uehalf o( tr Dr. Robert W. Buchunan, now uuder sentence ic of death at Sing Sing prison. p< Fires. A llro in Minneapolis resulted in the loss ol six persons, crushed by falling walls. A t. wholesale crockery establishment was burned at tl loss of $90,000. J Sun Francisco, Cal., was visited Thursday night by the most destructive fire in thirty D( years. The loss is estimated at $1,500,000, m with $800,000 insurance. pi Mortuary. ui Julius Rufflno was fouud dead iu a Pullman A car near Lynchburg, Va., Thursday. ai Mr. George Lee Todd w.is fouud dead in bed Friday morning at his nephew's, Mr. J* Mac Jamison's, three miles from Charlotte. ,u Mr. Todd had ueea sick for some time w'th |* dropsy. He was 70 years of ago. ~ Foreign. te 'ilie insurgents uuuor 1110 comxami 01 -y Admiral Da (Jama, in vbe proviuoe of Rio do Sul, Brazil, huve been defeated by tbe govorumeut troop9 at Campos. Admiral Osorio was Wounded and captured; be suosequeutly succumbed to his injuries. Admiral Du Gama, Uridine himself overpowered, committed suicide. Ge:i. Tavarez assumed couimaud of tbe lebels. Miscellaneous. Independent manufacturers of telephones and telephone supplies are organizing iu as Pittsburg for iho purpose of fighting tho Bell pf Telephone Company. The Southern Railway reports lor May gross earnings of $1,389,503, au increase of $90,837; expenses and taxes, $1,184,379, In- $( crease, $45,815; not, $205,334. increase, $45,023, aud from July 1st to May 3rd, gross. $15,789,935, increase. $386,806. expense* anil *| taxes, $10,902,658, decrease, $258,486; net, ril $4,887,256, increase, $645,292. J. L. Eisenberg, of South Bend, Ok la., m publisher of the Wuve and tne author of the bt scurritious articlo that lead to the killing of re 'Register Patterson and Marshal W'lliams, sn loft town to avoid being mobbod. Tbe people 8t on roadie# tho articlo, became so incensod p< that threats of a mob vroro froely mado and w had ho been found ho would have been sara- 01 inarily <lealt with. Threats are made against pi the Wave office aud it was with great diffi- tii culty that the crowd was kept from tearing tr the building te pieces. pr While this is about tho dullest reason of the w year for railway freight traffic, receipts show ' 11 a good increase ov.or last year's business. ' Tho net gain of 82 lines iu the flrjt week of Juno was 10.18 per cent. Only 58 hnve re- I" ported as yet for the second week, aud the'.r of not increase is about 8 per cent. The Contract Fulfilled. In tho marriage of Brooks Townes, a vji young Atlanta lawyer, and Miss Fannie Rosa l\ Atkinson, at Kirkwood, Ga., Wednesday, a <o< contract mailo twenty-one years ago was <,rt ful III led. When the two were infants their l'? mothuis plighted them. Mrs. Atkinson gave f?"i a deed for her daughter to the Townes baby r" boy. Thechildren did not see eacli other <*? from the time they were three years old until they were twoniv wh?? they ;..el by acci- '"It ?louf. liach knew of the contract, and they. t'r proceeded to fall in love with each other anil A! carry out tho agreement. Or m _ da a i Iirice Chosen hs Chairman. to The central State committee of Ohio md. at Columbus on Tuesday and selected Springfield as the place and August 20th and 21st as the date for holding tho Democratic State convention. United States Senator Brie* b< was chosen astemporary chairman, receiving n 18 oat of 21 votes. L A H\RO!N FOR COVER MOR. rii? Kentucky Democratic Convention Adopted "Sound Money" Ueaolutinne. A victory for "sound iniuoy' was von in the Kentucky Democratic State Jonventlou sic Louisville, but a free liver sympathizer. P. Wstt. Hardin was lomlnated for Governor on the first ballot, ienator J. C. S. Blackburn made h speech efore the Convention, and pleaded for haraony sind a broad double standard. He sited that a compromise plank be adopted, ut it was rejected by a vote of nearly throe e one. Here is the financial plank which he Convention adopted by a vote of 643 to 34: . "We reaffirm, without qualification the rinolples au:l policies declared by the Naional Democratic platform of 189*. and delare that our present National Democratic .dministration is entitled to the thanks of he party for its honest, courageous and tatesmanlike management of public affairs; ud we express our undiminished conlldence j tho Democracy and patriotism of Presluut Orover Cleveland and his distinguished l-udviser, Secretary .John <1. Carlisle, ef L ntuolty." THE SILVR RITES CALLED o Meet In Washington, D. C., An* gust 14. # Whon the silver convention recently held Memphis, Tenn., adjourned, a meeting of -eminent silver Democrats was hold to forulate plans for the organization of a najual Democratic bi-metallic league, the lrpose of which wa3 declared to be to so srfect tho organization of silver Democrats iroughout tho country as to place them in mtroi of the county, state and national In their cvnressions unou the iuncial question. Senators Turpie, of latum; Jones, of Arkansas, uud Harris, of mnessee, were the leaders In the moveent. It was decided to issue an address to Ivor Democrats throughout tho United ates, asking their oo-operation in the work, iis letter has been prepared and a copy is i follows: "Dear Sir : Soon after the adjournment the silver convention held in this city on u 12th aud 13th instant, many Democrats, presenting several states of the Union, lid a meeting hero for the purpose of conilorlpj the best uimuud oi securing tho free id unlimited coinage of both silver and >ld into full legal tender money of ultimate idemption, at the rntio of 16 to 1, without igard to the financial policy of other counios. and it was unanimously agreed as to e court dent opinion of that conference: First?That the only hope of securing the ee and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to Ls through the action of the Democratic irty. "8econd?That a large majority of the emocratic party of the country, and a very rge majority of the people of the United ates, irrespective of party, favors such linage. "Third?That tho success of the Democratparty in the campaign of 1896 largely, if >t wholly, depends upon the earnest, active Ivocacy of the free and unlimited coinage silver. iiVnurfh?Tlmi a ihnrmiffh nnrAnir.atlnn of e Democrats of the several States who fa>r the free and unlimited coinage of both [ Iver and goid on terms of equality, at 16 to I is a necessary and proper means of conoiling the notion of the national Democratoonvention of 18W upon this vitally im>rtant question. Fifth?That in order to avoid friction and e complaint of such Democrats as oppose | iB free coinage of silver, we will now invoke j ib action of the remaining machinery of | ie party, whose duty it is to act for tho ! hole party without regard to differences of >in(on, upon a single question. 'Therefore, we, the undersigned, were ap. \ jinted a committee to take such steps as j ay be necessary to a thorough national or- j inizatlon of silver Democrats, and for that i jrpose we respectfully invite you to meet i at Washington, D. C., on the 14th day of 1 ugnst, '895, in ordor that we may oonfer I id co-operate in establishing such organizaou, and you are also requested to bring ith you such Democratic friends as are in ill sympathy with this purpose. It is imirtant that some Democrat acceptable to ie Democracy of your State, and willing to ipresent it on a national executive commlte should attend this conference. "An oarly answer addressed to Hon. Casey, j oung, Memphis, Tenn., will greatly oblige, ! "Respectfully, "Israii O. Harris, "J. K. Jo MRU. "XLavxd Tubus." IURUAN BELMONT BOND DEAL. hey Make a Good Profit Out of Uncle Sam. The syndicate's payment of gold Thursday ' fg negated over $6,500,000, completing that irt of the contract, a ml raising the Treasury >1(1 reserve above the $100,000,000 mark. | y the terms of their contract they received i >2,150,000 iu 4 percent, bonds, for whi-h ev have paid $65,116,275. The difference between the price paid? I 104.4946 per flOO?and ri3>.;. which is the mug market price now. is what the syudl- j ife ami tbo.se associated with 'hem have j ude by reason of the advanced price of the ! inds. This latter price, however, has been i ached by easy stages, and tiie exneuse of ipplying sterlings exchange since February j ll to the present time, and the further ex- J ?nse of furnishing it until October 1st next ill have to bo deducted from their apparit profits to ascertain thuirapproxiinate net oilt from the entire bond transaction. At ties, during the period covered by the conact. exchange has been below the exporting int. at other times the cost of stipplynig it as slight, whde at some periods (lie exi tnge ra'e was so high that the cost must ive boon ?111 it?t heavy. Only the syndicate p>escntaiivim know the amount, a.- 'Iiede- . ir'.aieut In- nothing to do wi'.U 'his feature j t tie '. r.,:i ' 'on, Convicted Twice. At Atlanta, fi i , Wilbam Myers was < >u. ated for the second time of the tnifder of [ rest Crowley. The murder was commit, j I last August, when Mayers fled and wt\ j ptured at Cincinnati. lie denied having i mmitted the crime and declared that a t end of his named Brown Alcn was tlie I al murderer. Mayers stated that lie n<* | mpttniod Crowley aid Allen to the an burii nark ? >?? Crcr.'...? ?vas Killed, but lit limed that Crowley ami Alien left htm sitig in a buggv and they went off together leu came tiiielc and said that lie had killed owley. The verdict is witiiout reconimee. Mon to mercy which moans hanging uutes) tew trial can he ob'atnod or the Qoverro: mmu'ej. Mobbed. John Freya young white man, and memir of a gang of fire bugs, was caught tiring house in Gretna, a suburb of New Orleans, a., aad was banged by a mob. HORR1RLK A<rrs OF A MADMAN. ? Ho KUIs His Wlfo, Mortally Wounds < One Boy and Trios to Kill Others. i: A horrible affair occurred near v Huntersville, N. C., Friday afternoon, the facts in the case as nearly as could ? bo ascertained being those: J A white man named Huns, who is a (. farmer, was at work in his cotton n patch. Throe or four boys of the neighborhood passed along and holler- t' od at Sims, not meaning auv harm, but e bo took it as an iusult, aud turned on 0 tho boys, furiously. One of the bravest in the crowd picked up a rock and ' threw it at him. Sims put his hand to p his hip pocket, drew forth a pistol u and lired at the boys. The ball struck tr oue of them (name not known) under the eye,it is thought, mortally wound- 3 ieg him. Sims t.heu rau across the field toward Ins house. His wife saw him ( j comiug, anddiviuiug iutuitively that ho meant harm to her, ran out of the ,'i house and across tiie field. >| He pursued and caught his wife, who, frightened nearly out of her wits, had hidden iu the field Tho demented q husband, put the pistol to bis wife's temple aud fired, killing her iustautlv. Sims left his wife in the field wel- * tering iu her own blood and went tc Huntersville aud gave himself up. He said the reason he killed his wife was iU..4 U. 1 L. ..1.1 i VUUV IIt5 IVUW? UO WUUIll ciuuct uc uuug or sent to the penitentiary for life for fj shooting the boy, and he con hi not bear to he separateu from her. j Tho boy who was shot was taken by ( ^ the othor boys iu the crowd to a neighboring house and a physician summon- n od His chances for life are slim. Suns made the following confession c to a reporter of the Charlotte Ob t, server: I, "I was on my way homo from tho ^ low grounds and had a 'square' in my J* hand which t had used iu measuring a 0' ditch. It was about 4 o'clock in the h afternoon. I had to pass a field along 2 the roadside where a lot of young men h were at work cutting wheat. They were Ben Barnett, Grant Stewart, Ar- < thur and Will Alexander. They were near the road and hollered at me, asking me what I was doing with the * square, at the same time using some bad language. Will Alexander spoke p up and said 'you had better 'square' n things right now.' I became incensed tl at what the boys had said, and said to 0 _ ! ti ' : r .IOIIN SIMS. )) Alexander: 'Come out in the big road and you and I will fight it out here, ti and if you are afraid to come let any of the gang come and I will 'square' ? things.' . ?' "The boys stepped out into the road 11 and Will Alexander said he was ready "J to meet mo. At this juncture I ran to ^ my hou3e, about 30 yards away, and 01 got my pistol and was returning >\ nere h the boys were when they, the bovs, be- G gan throwing rocks at me. When I ,l had gotten near tncm Will Alexander spoke and said: 'Goon back to work and put your old pistol up. 1 am not afraid of you or your pistol either ' I said: 'I am not afraid either.'' Alexander t[ again said: 'Shoot if you dare; cotr.c out in the road and I'll tight you," and picked up a rock and advanced and threw it at me He was about 30 yar '. J* away from me when he threw the rock I pulled my pistol from my pocket ai.i j r, ran toward Alexander and fired two | w shots. The S2Cond shot cutered the ; p< face under the left eye. or at least r j in looked that way to me. I was sure I ; had killed Alexander, and the next n! thought that entered my mind was my wIKK. "I could not think of going to jail and leaving her. I turned and ran toward the house. My wife was out at the road, about ten steps from the house, 1 o: talking to John and Jim Johnston, who ' rt> had passed the field where the fracas I ^ occurred. I supposed they were talk 0f ing about what had occurred between ad me and the boys. When 1 got near ' where m v wife was she sr r<?? in?>il nmi lif said, 'Oh, John, don't shod.';uul ran hI to the cotton Held near the house. 1 !:l ran after her with pistol in hand, him j'J when I was about 30 yards from her. m fired, She wheeled and foil. ItPou.-lii , I had killed her, but aft?r examining ! her closely I saw that, the sine oni, | took effect in her hand. While I *vm- I preparing to shoot iter a if* in she m \or in spoke, but lay as if she were dead. I ! !lc placed the pistol to iter forehead and t|, tired while she was lying senseless on ,.0 the ground. ru "1 turned and went back to where th the Johnston's were standing, and said br to them: 'I killed my darling wife, i 1"' and will go at once and give myself up.' Before leaving for Iluntersville I went back to the Held l.i .r.vd ui; wite auo said, 'darling, meet me ir. Heaven ' When asked what he meant by kill- c' ing his wife, Sims said he couldn't C< bear the idea of being bung and leav- f(] ing his wife behind: that he dearly n, loved her and they had always gotten along together nicely, with the exeep tion of one or two little quarrels they ' had had, and they didn't amount to ' anythiog. His wife was always good Hto him and treated him kindly on all C occasions lie said, furthor, do family troubles whatever led him to the rash sot. m I I , . .Sims was married four months ago to larah Martin, the woman he murderid. Sho was 18 years old last May. Ihe is the daughter of J. C. Martin, 1 rho lives near Caldwell's Station, on le Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Rail- ' oad. Sims will be 25 years old tooorrow. His weight is about 100 lounds. He has sandy hair and musaclie, and has a very good counten- '] nee. His last words to the reporter were < liat "he had given up everything and , xpected to be hanged, and that his ] nly hope was to meet his wife in Leaven." Ho made a request that the t ood people pray for him. and that the ? reaohers visit him and pray with him. A [e seemed perfectly sane, and when iked if he had ever had any mental " ouble, replied that he had not. He (. lid he let his temper get away with im when he shot Alexander, for which e was sorry, and that he hoped God ? ould forgive him for what he had ? Jne. ? COMMERCIAL REPORT . (I THE OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING. , I c 3uslness Improving Despite the Crop t: Prospects. u I It. O. Dun A Co's trade review for the ^ ast week says: The half yearly report of L li lures next woek will include about 6,900 ' gainst 7.039 for the first half of last year, j ud liabilities of about $88,000,000 against ? 1101,578,152 last year. But for tho cordage i oncern, the aggregate would bo nearly 23 >er cent, less than last year, and tho rnunu- * icturing liabilities 26 per cent, less but in- ., '.tiding it, the manufacturing liabilities will t e about $40,000,000,000 against $41,476,102 P ist year, and tho trading $45,000,000 against j, i52,34o,978 last year whi|" miscollaueous lia- t ilitios were only $2,700,000 against $7,856,- i'1 72 last year. Failures for tho past week ave beeu 256 in the United Htatos against I 11 last vear and 22 in Canada acrainst 35 ist year. .11 Business is bettor, although the crop out- b >ok, atTecting prospects beyond the near full re, is a little less distinct. Cotton has fallen three-sixteenths to seven gt ents, in spite of reports of serious injury by aius in Texas and Louisiana. A little buying by Northern spinners surrises the market for their takings have been lore than enough for the year's consumpIon. and British returns show a great dorease in exports of cotton goods. The labor roubles are passing with frequent advances 1 1 the rate of wages paid. w The closing of the contract by the syndicate w aises the Treasnry reserve about $100,000,000 ut the certainty that 110 moro gold is to be S. nportod by the bankers makes foreign ex- D hangc stronger, and if a large part of the al onds taken abroad have been ro-sold to sf liis country, deliverable as soon as possible, j<i 9 some believe, the heavy merchandise im- 01 orts for June at New York, 48 per cent. g< irgcr than last year, against exports about per cent, smaller, will render exports of old altogether probable. Money still comes 6 ither from tho West in amounts aggregat- ~ ng $250,000 daily, and commeroial loans re enlarging, particularly on iron and other lanufacturing paper. The volume of business represented by ox- C| lianges through the principal clearing . ouses is, for the past week, 35 8 per oont 11 irger than last year, a really surprising gain o nd only 7 to 1 per cent less than in 1892, ^ diit; tho averse for ttie month is 28 8 per r ei.t. larger than list year and 7.1 per cent Mjllinn in 1H09 Thu ^tnpn ia I,I,.1,1,. tl ouragins, in spite of the comparative mugni- a ido of speculative importations. t< There ore a few evidences of a revival of b oneral trade at the South, "but merchants at ,!> Imost all leading cities in tnat region report ?< lut the demand continues vqry moderate, * nd collections are slow. Cotton and fruit b roos in the South Atlantic States promise b e 1. and tho business outlook is reported si icouraging. Incessant rains in Texas have ti urt the crops. Increased shipments by I< alveston jobbers are reported due rather to | g railway freight rate war than to increased , cm and.' ti S v Asked to Resign. tl Governor Morrill of Kansas, has demanded n ic resignation ol W. J. Hurd and J. J. Barnes, ! *' le two Populist members of the State board ^ r dircctcrs of tho penitentiary. Hurd and tl arncs wore hold-ovor appointees of Gover- w cr Llewelling and constitute a majority of ci le board. la his letter demanding their I signations, the Governor charges them ti ith being incompetent aDd derelict in tho tl rtrformauco of their duties, calls upon them, c: i case they decline to rosign, to appear be- b ire him and show cause why they should ii 31 bo removod. Both say they will not si ve up their offices and defy the Governor T i remove them. a M P Vote for Sliver or Resign. The democrats of Wood county, Tex., have f< gnnized a strong bimetallic club. In tho Is is solutions recently adopted declaring for a e free, unlimited and independent coinage fl silver at 1G to 1, this resolution was also w lopted: Xj "We call on our representatives in both o nisos of congress to labor for the repeal ot (j I laws, if there be any, granting the secro- tl y of the treasury the power to issue bonds h ttm? of peace, and if any member of either c< >use of congress refuse to so labor, wo do. m and his immediate resignation." t( | u 2,000 Men Oct a Raise. At PhcDnixvsllo, Pa., notices were posted p all tho departments of the Phoenix Irob si id Bridge Company Satuiday announcing tit iho wages ot 2,000 employes of tha j t| mpany are raised. The works aro now i y lining full time on some la-go orders and e work on the material for the Sioux City idg'\ which which was stopped wheu the inio began two years ago, has boeD resum. The works are rinninir niL'ht and daw t C'ic.MiT i iiited. ? Cheater County Demon Hi* b.ive de- a ared for pence ami unity. In the j onnty Convention called to suggest a ut men to no run in >ho primary on v I? 20tli of .Tnlv for delegates to the J (institutional Convention the follow- c >, v.? .o noiniuaied by a large majority: t Jj. C.'onn and A. O. Atkinson, Conrveiives; (?eo W. Gage and T. J. ' unntpgham, Hefonuora. ? ? H rteorgla peaches by tho carload are on rno ? ore, TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. The Georgia Press Association loft oa Siit- H irday for u trip to Camilla. The forty-third Georgia Volunteers are to uld their reunion this your at Gainesville. I'he date in August 17th. At Bun Francisco, Cat., Saturday. Louis ^ 3lauc, ex-troasuror of tho B'Nni 11'Kith So iety, committed suicido l>y asphyxiation, lo was short $13,000 in his accounts. Dr. Oeorge a. Loreombo died at Savannah,, la., Friday of typhoid fever. He was at me timo assistant and house surgeon at Isllevue Hospital, New York city. The fruit and market garden business of he south now brings into that section $50,KiO.OOO a year and in tho uoxt few years it VilV be doubled. It**v. Dr. Thornwell. of Fort Hill, 8. O., rid Dr. E. Nye Hutchinson, of Charlotte, N. J., have been appointed delegates to the Pan Vegbyteriau Council which moots In Lonlon. George 8. Moore, assistant postmaster at ilobile. Ala., under H. D. Barker has been enteucud to two and a half years imprisonn *:it at hard labor for embezzlement of funds v'lilo assistant postmaster. In te.iring down an old house on the Morls',u place near Jackson Springs, Moore outity, N. C., a few days since, K. M. Mcl.tukill found twenty-seven Spanish silver l-dlars, wrapped iu a handkerchief and sercted between the walls. Some of them: -ore the date 1717. The handkerchief was so Id that when tho boards were removed tho iionoy rolled out, says the Carthage Blade. TheCintral Railroad of Georgia, the Geortia Railroad aud the Atlanta and West Point tailroad, with an aggregate of about 2.200 niles of track, covering almost the wholel Hate of Georgia except tbo portion covered. y the Southern Railway, which will erect an udependent building, will join in tho orec-j ion of a handsome building for a display of! he resources of their respective territories ,t the Cotton States and International Ex*1, losition ui Atlanta. A report comes from the town of Ipava, H., saving a Mr. Budloug, a clerk at the ho-i el Bloom field, at Mount Sterling, grabbed upj . small grip, which, from Its size, appeared! o weigh but a fe - pounds. But it was-thej >iw}rciiv ui ti ii nyruuK lOuiranumuTO UI ?| ypo foundry ?nd wan filled with ThOi ??? 4,?r~i-y^ uk? shoulder when ne under* ook to lift the light valise not expecting a ieavy weight. His shoulder and side be-, ame tuflamed. and, u few days later, he lied. having also symptoms of pneumonia. 1 Several cases of yellow fever are reported t tlia port of Vera Cruz, but thus far there ive been few or no deaths. I At San Francisco. Cal., Judge Ross in the aited States District Court has decided the lit of the government against the estate of 10 Into Senator Stamford for $15,000,000. he decision is against the government. A due1 was fought ou Saturday by M. adaod. e\-miuisler of agriculture, anil M. eon Mirnmu, Radical-Socialist, member of ie French Chamber of Deputies for the irst district of Kbeins. Swords were the eapous used. Pf. Gaudaud was slightly ouuded. A local passenger train, ea3t bound, on the vjtheru Railway, was wrecked at Fullen's epot, ninety miles east of Kuoxvilie, Tenn., i 8 o'clock Friday. Engineer John Patter >u of Knoxville, was hilled. His flromau imped and was only slightly injured. No ae else was injured, although the oassen.'rs were badly shaken up. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. ur Regular Correspondent Gives ol Interesting Letter. The issuing of that call for a free silver onference or convention to meet in Wash-i lgton in August, by Senators Harris, Jones,' f Arkansas,and Turpie.all Democrats, indl-i ates that the setbacks which the silver. lemocrats nave received in Ohio and Ken-] icky have not caused them to think ofi bandontng the tight. Just what is expectedl j be accomplished by thisoouterence has not, een made public and probably will not be! rior to the conference; but there are grounds' >r the statement that one of its purposes j rill be to ascertain definitely what proba-< ility there is of making a successful com-', inatlon of the South and West in behalf of liver. While many Democrats continue to ilk of the probability of that party declaring jr silver at its National convention, the oneral impression is that the Administration rill be able to duplicate its success In Ken-i ucky in a sufficient number of Southern' lates to give it control of the National coot onffon. It Is daily becoming more certaiw lint the Republican National convention will either declare for silver nor nominate a liver man for President, although it may omiDate a silver man for Vice-President, ccording to those who are deeply studying So situation, the whole thing will turn upon rliother ihe silver Democrats And Republic tins can be kept in their respeotive parties, f they can be, then silver will not cut ? gure in the Presidential campaign. Rut, if lo silver men should all leave the Demo^ ratic aud Republican parties, as many elieve they will, r.nd act with the Populists 1 supporting a silver man for President, ilver would be very much in the campaign.! he leaders of the old parties recognize thls^ nd are doing all they know how to do to revent the desertion of their silver members, inch depends upon their successor failure, Thut the United States is far ahead of the iremost European countries in many things, i well known to well-informed people, but it i seldom that h European will acknowledge s much. An exception Is Mr. Robert Westeld, ot London, now visiting Washington, 'ho.savs: "The temneraneo ouostion in the ulted Slates Is better dealt with iu at leasts lie particular than the same problem in1 rent Britain. I haye boon pleased to note int the disastrous effects of alcohol on the uman system are generally taught in your immon schools. This is, I think, about thej lost rational plan. If boys were educated > know the poisonous properties of spiritous liquors they would lie lass Inclined to so them n? a beverage. I understand that i this country a large proportion of the ubiirr schools use text books treating on tho' ibject in a scieofiflc way, yet not above the >mprehension of the pupil. Tbisrtrikes me < one of the most admirable ideas In educa-i on, and I hope that it will beco|;<<*d in in? Idei countries of Europe." Georgia as a "Pencil Orchard.*' On a single railroad system in Oeor????( jj -> itiporieo, there are 2,OSS,000 peach treo9 I ready bearing, and tho whole State is grudu>lly developing into a magnifieent peach irchard. Some single orchards number over 00,000 trees, while almost all tho farmers ire setting out orchards In tho hopo of desloping the Industry still further. "Tho alue of the crop," it Is added, "is not conInod to the producers alone. Tho railroads ome In for n very handsomo precentago of ho profits and the individual canners not inly make a good deal of monoy which is nvested in other industries in the State, but' five employment to a large number of peo<>le, thus increasing the inducements for' ttlemeot in tho various districts and in* r easing the value of land, as well as giving ho other Stats Industries a big lift" I