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WITS Of 1SMI A List of the Ratified Acts by the Legislature. NO NOTABLE NEW LAWS. Mw( of Them of n Special diameter, Mut They Are Worth Reading; ami Saving for Future Reference. Below is the last installment of tho tint of acts rotitivil ami enrolled l?y tlio i last tieneral Assembly: ! To amend an act to rejjulato the dietin;: of all prisoners before and nfter eonTiction when in the custody of tho su .. . .....1 ..f Slialn rCKIOUlO IIIIU nuc.lun.M ...v......v. To amend an act to provide for the formation of Mutual Protection Associations. To atneml an act to require contract ars in the eroction, alteration or repairing of buildings to pay laborers, subcontractors and material men for their cervices and material furnished. To amend an act to incorporate the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Association of t lorence county. To amend an act to provide for the organization of the Supreme Court, to <fotino its powers and jurisdiction, and to provide for the appointment of its offtoers and to deiino their duties. To make corjioratioiis liable for damages resulting to land owners from the wrongful obstruction of water courses. To amend section 820 of the revised statutes relating to commissions of county treasurers. To amend section <W2 of the revised statutes of IS'J.'t, to provide a system of on'Ay government for the several tonnt 168 of the State. To amend section vf n?4 of the revised statutes of 18tW, changing the time for SMoalowi uiul Milium intra torn to account to the probate judges. To provide a jienalty on railroad 1 companies owning, leasing or operat- I - -i: :l l i:.. m.:.. ?i.:? ing couipeiiiiu i itiii iiitii uin'^ \> ivii111 vii Mate ami to provide for the recovery thereof. To amend an net to create the school district of Yorkville. Joint resolution constituting the Governor, attorney general and comptroller general a oonnuission to adjudicate the claim of Thomas J. M ticket* for services alleged to have been rendered in prosecuting the claim of the State aguuist the United States for rent of the South Carolina Military Academy. Heqiiiring that a committee of one Senator and two members of the House *?. Representatives be annually appointed to examine the accounts, books and vouchers of the penal and charitable institutions of this State. To protect the Mongolian pheasant. Joint resolution to validate the appointment of the registration of voters l>y A. K. Purhnut as supervisor of registration for the town of Dillon, and .1. J. House as supervisor of registration of Latta, iu Marion county. To require all State institutions to pay for transporting, clothing, guarding and for medical treatment of all convicts received by them under acts or joint resolutions of the General Assembly, and to gite receipts for their work. To amend an Act to incorporate the Mutual Insurance t'ompauy, of Greenville. Joint resolution to authorize and direct the sinking fund commissioners to provide for tlio lament ol any costs Mid damages consequent upon the litigation now pending 111 the United States court between .1. I1'. Tindal and J. )t. Boyles and Kdwurd it. Wesley, involving the question of the title to the Agricultural hall, in Columbia. To amend an act to create a school district within the corporate limits of the town of Willistou, as to election ? f trustees. To provide for the appointment of additional magistrates for Berkeley county. To umend the law relating to pensions. To repeal an act to further regulate the jurisdiction and places of residence of certain magistrates in the county of Orangeburg. To empower the supervisor and b?>ard of county commissioners of Beaufort county to borrow money for certain piir|K>ses. To require the supervisors of the iituto to publish quarterly reports. Joint resolution to authorize and require the county board of commissioners of Anderson county to approve claim of J. M. I'ayiie, late treasurer of Anderson county. SlAu for collecting commutation road taxes t\ r lNy/? and lMiMt. and county treasurer to pay the Mine. To prohibit secret Greek letter fraternities or any organizations of like nature in State institutions. To amend section In of an act en titled "An act to amend an act entitled *an act to provide a system of county government for tin* several counties of this State, so far as it relates to the working and inaintaiug the roads and highways 111 this State,'" approved March ^5, lsyh, exempting t airfield nuunty from said section. A joint resolution to authorize the State hoard of control to pay to tho city I of Columbia certain dispensary profits. ] Providing t< r a<l>litioiial magistrates for the count; of Aiken. To amend section in'itt of the revised statutes v> 1 volume !; relating to the report of the school commissioner to the court of sessions. To regulate the appointment of rereivers by the courts of this Slate in can cs therein. t u until. "c ills I e' .; w i t iie < > ov <tr io t > .i ' .1 hi t .:*c ai;d i > i still. CI* I to r 1 |k>V. ei .. i l To a ... a i .i i a ' e i". it let I "In act to uilio'*:;e i . ? .< *iI ut Clui. lc ' it to till itp low li.t in' .l . rounds in ?im " oil !::*rie t I. l.i ell;i'!l iM'-i illnl (ei otlier pill) " a iaKoto I. pal an wet entitle i "An -.< i t >.: < u I an a t retitieil ''An net to ant! i/e tin- e.tv MHinei! of ('hurl. -be. P. < .I up low |..;s j ami ground in liiec:i, . ( co'e-ton ! in certain cu - - at: I i >' u-r pur- ! JKM-S. " \ n act t.< iie tine the :: i" - >! > -trui of | ami to settle tin- ; : ,>i i.i i | pai courts ol tin i it u* - a ' town- i i t , > State. lit net to iimei 1 :n. a t to i:.. r [ irate towns of n. x lh ,u 1 inhab- j aunts. I Ail not to provide for a laborers' I lien. I An not to amend the free school law. 1 An aot relating to the phosphate commission, empowering it to fix royalties. " An not to amend section ?'>!>!> of the revised statutes so as to include probate judge, auditor, treasurer uud master iu equity under its provisions. An aot to authorize cities to operate "J water works, etc. An act to lix the time for the meeting of the county board of Kdgetield i county. To repeal an aot to validate and confirm the consolidation of the Augusta, Kdgetield and Newberry Hail road Company with the Northeastern Kailroud Company under the name of the (Georgia, Carolina and Midland Kail road ft Company. (J To protect terrapin and oysters with- ft in the State. io amend an net to provide tue mnntier in wliioh railroad companies a incorporated under the laws of other s< States niiiv hecoine incorporated in this ... State. * * To umend section v?, :{ * and 2,402 of the revised statutes of isjcj relating to b jury commissioners. si 'Lo amend the free school law. d To incorporate the Atlantic Coast h Tjino company and to charter certain a railroads under that name. ii To incorporate the Farmers' Mutual b Insurance company of Berkeley county. Relating to the fees of clereks of u courts and to establish a special fee hill a for Spartanburg county. c To amend an act to authorize the ii holding of a special election in the town of Honea Path in Anderson county for IS the purpose of issuing bonds to build 1 a court house at that place. ft STATU TAX ON COMMKKCK. a f Cotton Seed Meal Imported Into the J. State Without Tugs, Seized. There are other things that the State seizes besides liquor. It has just seized several car loads of cotton seed meal. ?. ft appears that a New York linn, so the ^ record goes, shipped a car load of cot- (> ton seed meal to Heiuiettsville. It ap- v pears somewhat strange that a New . Vork firm should shij cotton seed meal to South Carolina, hut such seems to he ^ the allegation. When the meal got to . Heiuiettsville Inspector Crosslaml found that it was not tagged, and under the ^ law requiring a tag on such meal, seized it. The facts were reported to s liovernor Ellerhe and he directed the iiuiutunt I to invtitllf,. V immediate proceedings against the par- ^ ties shipping the meal into the State j without proper tags. Cnder the law j the State can recover from the shippers to the amount of the meal, which is j said to he ahout $1S. r?u per ton. The lot is said to he M() tons, which, it will ho seen, is quite a eousiderahlo prize, j even if the cotton seed meal itself j should he confiscated to the State Mr. j Townsend will get all of the facts and -j hnii;,1 action at once. j The understanding is that the State ^ does not charge twenty-live cents a ton v privilege tux on cotton seed meal when j it is used for feeding purposes, l>nt when the meal is used for fertilizing purposes the charge is made ami in east; t of non-payment seizure is made. The matter may result in an inter- *" esting legal light on the inter-State i Commerce Acts the same as the dis- j pensary law. The statement was made during the ^ last session of the (ieneral Assembly that a great deal of fertilizers sold in this State escaped the payment of the ^ privilege tax, and that in other eases the tags were taken oil'of the sacks of fertilizers and returned to the broker in Cliarlestown for credit, and were r fused, or the party receiving the for- *' titizcr not i lied the broker that lie r would pay the tax on the next ship- ' ment. Mr. Connor sought to remedy ' this trouble, but his bill did not pass. r It is understood that the cotton seed 11 meal seized at Bcnncttsville was sold a through New York brokers and was for u Western manufacturers. In addition n to the failure to be tagged it is stated ^ that the meal failed to come up to the requirement in not having any com- * mercial \alue guaranteed. c ? I: A Pneumatic Tire Test. v In a paper presented lately hv A. J. Mieheiin to the French Society of Civil v Cngimers. the author gives a suggeslive account of Ins experiments with c the pneumatic tire ami the ordinary jwheels. The lirst experiment was made t on three days, that is. when the ground 1 was overed with throe inches of snow. ' also when the snow was melting, and a then when the ground was muddy. The results showed that when the empty " carriage moved at a walk through the ^ snow, the draft or pull required to move v it wast r-.V.t pounds with iron wheels [ and only 2.V2 pounds with pneumatic r wheels: while moving at a trot, with a s load of (MO pounds, the pull was GS.c? pounds and 2'.t.r> pounds, respectively; I in the mud. under the same conditions J of load and speed, the pulls were 2."?.2 and f<0.7 |>ounds for the iron wheel ( and 23.1 and 21.2 pounds for the pneu- , matie tire. Other tests consisting of 1 pulls of varying speeds over macadam, t paved and ordinary roads, in all of these the pneumatic tire showing a sav- 1 ing in pulling power of from thirty to nearly tifty per cent. The main fea- j ture of interest in Michelin's experiments consisted, of course, in the fact t that the actual amount of power re- j quired to pull a carriage equipped with t pneumatic tires was so much less than when ordinary wheels were used. -uipci-liiifiidcnt Tlayliclil llusy. i Ifel llltemlellt of Killient ion M'iv I i>> liusilv ?,iii;ai.r?Ml in haviiiLf < ii|iU'% .... <'f all ints |'i?ss?'<! by tin* b Mii'tal ' iltly lit its recent M?sin'i making . y? III i ill.' M'lllHll !>i W of till' till''. ' .? < " i a ii pels llicin ill shape Im j iii! Iia\r tli' .1 pi I lit ci i in i-;: I'll lar t : in j ami i Ml tn ail part of tlio State, sii | that none ot tin' public school author- J Itii will be able to j'Uiul iyuoruilcc ot t lie luw . Nerwe o .a Vvc:i'tjnnj Gifts. . . ' ! . I l r ! i.i i ; i. I i . \ w.ll - \'* in * . ; i ... ; i Jii'i: woihliti;- pi , a v In t;i:ili;- pa-' "f J i v -4 of ! Ml' i- is" ' lit* p." ' ! , . i.. .p. ! ; i! m . i i. ,? tiiU'ij" pht??' 1" ; | v.; "ii!.".i .. Ii'il o, tin; a r.i.'Mt ioff-ii 'l. Such fiii- iw tl.i? hIioW tiiO | practical Mb- of a nation';, nature. I m 1 DiMltS. wo State Constables Get in Trouble in Charleston. HEY SEIZED A PRIVATE KEG lotol Dlsprasurlcs Ordered Closed After O O'clock?Dispenser Stutts ut Ktngstree Kobbed. State Constable J. M. Scoit and >rmer constable, W. J. Harling, of harleston were nrrested Saturday upon n order of Judge Simonton, charging leni with contempt of court in seiziug t the Charleston and Savannah depot avorul weeks ago a o-gallon cask of 'hiskey valued at ijli, iuq>orted from avannnh for personal use. The liquor elonged to M. Herskowitz. The con. tables refused delivery of whiskey upon einaud of Herskowitz's counsel, and once the present action. Herskowitz lso wants damages of :?(?,000 and costs i me rase. i ms is similar io me eeiorated Cantim case lost by the State. The constables will be prosecuted nder the decree of the Circuit Court tiirined by Supreme Court, giving iti/.ens of South Carolina the right to nport liquor for private use. Hon. J. l\ K. Bryau and J. N. iathans, Jr., represent Herskowitx. lulling gave a bond of $1,000 after a 3w hours delay, but Scott was unable j do so. Chief Bahr made a personal ppenl to Mr. Bryan to give Scott urther time to lilo his bond. Mr. Irynu consented, adding that it was he principle of the thing, and not men ie was after. THE HOTF.Ij DISPENSARIES. Saturday night about lOo'clock Chief itate Constable Bahr walked into the 'harleston Hotel dispensary andorderd the establishment closed. When)he .as shown permits from the Suite loard ^granting the privilege to keep pen at night, Mr. Bahr declared tjiat hey did not go with him, as he was fuluwing strictly the Constitution. Mr. Bahr left two guards at the 'harleston hotel dispensary while ho talked over to the St. Charles and isued the same orders, which were beyed. Then Mr. Bahr, after detailug two constables to guard the place, isited the Calhoun and went through he same programme, paying not the east attention to Mr. Sol Bowmau's rivileges from the board to sell at light. It is to be stated that the keeping ipen of these hotel dispensaries is nothng new, and has been in force since the irst of the hotel privileges was granted >v (Governor Tillman and his board, ['he present State board, it is stated, ook up the regulations and orders as o these dispensaries that were in effect vhen Governor Evans was in charge of he dispensaries, and the hotel dispeniaries have been acting under authority >f these orders allowing them to keep >pen at night for the business of their fnests only. Chief Balir, it appears, has acted enirely with the consent of Governor Elerbe, as the statement is made that the ?i lit* i m i< j\\ 111;^ mt'riu Liu it? i u i>|iuii?unt?? o keep open at night will he modified t once. and when the State board holds ts next meeting it will he revoked, and he hotels will have to keep the same tours that other dispensaries do. KINUSTKKK OISl'KNSAIU HOB11ED. A special from Kingstree to the Sunny News says: "A daring and mysteiotis robbery occurred in this usually uiet little town last night. Mr. 11. It. tutts, the dispenser at this place, was obbed between the hours of 12 o'clock lidnight and daylight of $1H*? in cash lid a check for .322 on an Atlanta bank, lso his double-barrel shotgun, watch ml chain, his hat and five cigars, and wo one-cent pieces. ".Mr. Stutts attended a meeting of he Masonic lodge here last night, and ;ot home a little before midnight, lie s positive that he had the money in his est pocket when he went to bed, and ie is equally positive that he put his est under ins pillow just before retirng; and here comes in the mysterious art, how the burglar succeeded in pcuiug the window and entering the oom without disturbing or awakening he occupants, consisting of Mr. Stutts, lis wife and two children and Mr. Newnan, a mail contractor, sleeping in an idj<lining room. "Mr. Stutts thinks that both himself md wife were chloroformed, as they nth slept late this morning, and elt queer and somewhat stupefied ipon being aroused from their slum ers. There was a lamp burning in the oom where Mr. Stutts and family were ileeping when the robbery took place. Mr. Stutts lias no special reason forsusjecting anyone, and it can scarcely be aid that any clue exists to the rob ery. " l'ltis is the second robbe.y that has ccurrecl in Kingstree recently. The loor to the safe in the ex press oflico was down ofVsome weeks since, but fortunitely the robbers were frightened away. 1'his robbery of Mr. Stutts is all the nore unfortunate as the greater part of lie money stolen from him belonged to lie State dispensary, audit will be very jam <>u 111(it i<> nine it io pay i'lU'K. " I he dispensary at tltis place seems <> Ik- unfortunate, as about two years ?Uo Mr. McDonald lost his position as lispenser l>v sending money through II. (). Snow, whose cheeks proved not to Ik- worth the paper they were written on." rll VNMK IV THE DTSPEXSAUY I.AW. There is considerable talk ooinu or. just now ahont a possible change in the lispensary law which, il is said, will be u1 by some of the strongest, friends nf the dispensary system a1 the next session of llio l leneral Assembly. I.retly expressed, the proposed haiiuc is to retain the present system 10 far as the State in ifelierul is con erned and ijive the cities of 10,DOM in; i1ants and over the )ii?h license sys< !; .11-" 11-1" the dispensary regulations i- pi'o.aled for in the State ('oust it it- i : ii m. I tin- iiiends of the dispensary law i ivi.o fa\or this plan believe that such a provision will be for the best interests .1 the Mate and tl e system. Thev all i e that the present system makes no mat rial dillerenco to the man who j 1 ; \e- in the country who wants his whi-io \ in bulk so that he can carry it Lome. The argument in favor of the proposed change is that tho bulk system will never prove satisfactory to tho people who live in cities of the size indicated. A different class of people have to be dealt with. The change it is thought will settle all issues over the dispensary satisfactorily. This is the view those who talk of pushing the measure take of the mnttor. But others who have stood to tho dispensary system are now in favor of doing away with it altogether, taking up the license system for the whole State, to me what upon tho plan proposed by Senator May field. L.1QPOR CONHTAHIiKS APPOINTED. The list of constnbles appointed by Governor Ellerbo lias been given out. It will bo noted in the list given that tho postoflice addresses are given, hut this does not indicate the counties from which tho appointments weio mtido. The list is as follows: Chief of lower division, Wm. X. lhthr, Charleston. Chief of upper division, J. 11. Fant, Anderson. F. .1. llankin, Greenwood; 11. C. Fos. ter, Spartanburg; C. Ij. Cureton, Pick ens; T. .J. Harmon, Newberry; S. I* Howie, Lancaster; G. L. Cooley, NN illiamston; A. T. l>avis, Edgettelil; I. McD. Hood, Chester; W. H. Newbold, special detective, Chester; It. II. Newell, Iva; J. T. Speed, Lowndesville; ?T. E. Moorhend, Columbia; J. H. Buice, Gaffuey; J. T. Thomason, Itoek Hill; It. M. Floyd, Spartauburg; W. 1). Howard, Spartanburg; It. 11. W'riglit, Anderson; It. M. Gardner. Newberry; John T. Langstou, Laurens; J. 1*. Ellege, Laurens; J. J. Pearson, Bennettsville; ltichard Jt. Webb, Jharloston; John G. Stroble, Blaekville; J. N. Clauton, Lancaster; J. L. Nunnamaker, Sumter; J. M. Scott, Aiken; F. M. Davis, Florence; C. S. Moseley, Charleston; Chas. F. Glover, Charleston: B. W. Peeples, Mellett's, Barnwell county; P. P. Meekius, Beunettsville: J. E. Moore, Walterboro; B. F. Phelps, Camden; \Vm. Livingston, Orangeburg; W. W. Sellers, Marion; S. .T. Brown, Sumter; Van D. Game, Marion County; Geo. Just Brown, Sumter; J. A. May, Graniteville, Job N. Koon, Columbia. It will be noted that the list shows 4'J constables employed in the enforcement of the dispensary law. Before the pruning by Governor Idler he there were 57 men on the force, and by the work of Governor Ellerbe lifteen men on the forced have been dropped, others may go later on. Most of the men on the force have served before, the only new men being Constables Cureton, Newell, Floyd, Howard, Elledge, Webb, Moseley, Glover, Moore, Phelps. S. J. Brown, Game and Chief Bahr, of the lower division of the State. A WOMAN CONSTABLE. She Does Her Work as a Man Does His The Pet of the Force. The new woman has broken out in a new spot. This time it is the constabulary of the city of Allegheny, l'a.. which she has invaded. Miss Florence Klotz can scarcely be called even a woman constable, though, for she is only 18 years old. Hut she's a constable all right. She serves warrants, summonses, and subpoenas with till the authority and determination of a male minion of the law. Miss Klotz's father is an Alderman whose regular constable was an old man who had an inconvenient way of being sick or invisible when he was wanted for duty. On one of these occasions, about two months ago, the despairing Alderman pressed his daughter into service. That settled the matter. The?girl constable proved to be the pluckiest, quickest, most reliable one in town, ller very first mission was to serve a subpoena on a farmer living four miles out of town. Miss Florence put on her bloomers, mounted her wheel, and went after her man. When she came back, tired, muddy, but triumphant, she found si crowd in front of her father's ollice to welcome her. "I served them, papa," she exclaimed, and then, womanlike, she cried, even though she was a constable. She says she would rather deal with one hundred men than ten women. The women think it is a joke, but the men think the law must be obeyed even if it is embodied in an 18-year-old girl. Before she went into the constabulary ti'li/kiJiol t lk ?'/kii i/h A I I < < r t k V f'fll getting trade fop her father's < ; factory. Next summer she and sister will ride a tandem gearei <js on the same errand. She is scribed by the St. Louis (Ilobe-I)rcrat as slight and handsome, with en black hair and snapping black * In one case Miss Klotz acted as c< seller as well as constable. A but had kicked in the door when lie f< his hallway locked up by the ha who with his family occupied the of the house. The locking was by o of the landlord who demanded t lube done at 10 I'. M. The butcher sued for malicious mischief. Klotz brought her man to court, served a score of subpoenas for nesses. arranging the details of hearing, cross-examined the witne and finally had the case dismissei her recommendation that each of parties lie furnished with keys, costs were divided, and the young yer-constable smiled with deligh she counted over her share. The only unruly case she has across was a youngster of 11 win fused to go with her. She took dilemma by the horns and the In t'.e collar, tripped him up and. w t l .tkIv copy of ' I'ilm-ini H I'mitr administered a series of luisine Mows where they wonlil do the 1,'oikI, and led tiiin wo >]ii111; to ? A lift Ic jeweled revolver is her weapon. It. was presented to In a hi^ eonstable who was tilled admiration of her pluck. She ::\ do( -i,'t know what he would do 1:111 against a.n ukIv customer. I"i ?|e? I; ( s, 'i h a . a.in of her I hiel; t hat . !.< w *iIf! not liltn. Sinof tJio limn pal force, and it . In { lit word J' ! !p the etiiite t. of i lefks, I of e I pill : 11 11 underlines would urn out to the . ut Coii.Au.lilc i'lorciKC. PENSIONERS IS! MIT For Their Money Owing to Tangles1 In the New Act. THE BICYCLE BAGGAGE ACT. Some Homls Continue to Charge for Wheels?Columbia Horse and Florul Sliiiw The new pension law 1ms lm?l the comptroller general scratching: his head and wondering where the State hoard of pensions is at. There are some provisions in it that would puzzle anyone. As a result, even construing the act as it was evidently intended it should pass, the pensioners of the State will ol neces.-ily he compelled to wait, possibly till ugust, before they can gut their money, and it is 110 fault of the authorities charged with the execution of the law. In the first place, in the section providing for the time for the payment ol the 1 ensions the figures living the year were left reading "1800" instead ol "181)7." Of course the intention is clear, hut unless the law is construed jn that light nothing at all can be paid until the general assembly meets again. Then township boards have been provided for and other complex machinery as to the approval applications. There are something over 1,000 townships in the State. It would be a physical impossibility to get the boards organized in every township in the State and have the applications go through all the machinery provided in time for the payment of the pensions by the 15th of June, as is provided. Conitroller General Norton, who has had much experience with this pension matter, declares that leaving everything else i aside it would be impossible to get the warrants out to the pensioners in the ? several counties before the middle of July or August. He is going to prepare a set of instructions am' rules governing the organization of the township and county boards and simplifying the law so that they can work in a uniform manner, but does not think that this will facilitate matters very much, lie will eudeavor to remodel the former blanks in such a way that they can be used. In ?lil iIi.iti O, ll...'<.1 ?1....... Jo the matter of the formation of new counties. Scarcely one of them will l>o in working order in time for the township hoards even to he formed. There ! is hut one way left open for the pensioners in these counties to get their money along with the others, and the others cannot get theirs until it is known how many there are in the several new counties, inasmuch as the amounts have to he prorated. This is by a loose construction of the law, requiring the hoards in the several old counties to act upon the applications of those residing in the new counties or leaving the pensioners in the new counties out altogether, letting the legislature help tiioin when it reconvenes. ? < ? ?It is said that several of tin? railroads of tin* State are refu-ing to carry bicycles in baggage ears without the payment of the usual amount of via cents. The trainmen of the road said to he charging for carrying bicycles inform the owners that they have received no orders from their siipi riors in regard to the usual charges.and their instructions require tliein to collect the fares. The act passed at the late session of the (ieneral Assembly was approved and became a law before that body adjourned. For the information of all, it is republished; any one who is charged for the carrying of a bicycle simply has to report the matter to the railroad commission. The act reads as follows: "Section 1. He it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina that from and after the passage of this act, bicycles shall he deemed baggage for the purpose of transportation by common curriers. Section 'J. He it further enacted that common carriers shall carry bicycles under the same rules and subject to the same liabilities ns govern trunks and other separate baggage of passengers. Section :!. He it further enacted that no person shall be required to crate, cover, lock, box or otherwise protect bicycles as baggage under the I provision 01 mis net. nccimn . l?o 1 111111011 carry u i torso and pril 12S splenid the rangeit tliis ds of 'isher, go II. .-ill lio s such IO COI1oiinds. prizes ; cumlurness or best a gcnor l>est a lady, t pony, a bv a under, . saddle second driven second est decsecond c team, t design prizes; ridden ad sue>f ('lem < i i el ii rn college \ i i.r or a:is for <r it \\as IH l \\ as college u ar tliis .( O'l'lllt 11o'la CHAMPION FITZSIMMONS. \ Ho Puts Corbott to Sloop In tho Four- | teonth Round by a Blow Undertho \ llourt. I At Carson, Novadu, Wednesday I after two yenrs of doubt aud vexatious * postponement. the heavyweight championship of tho world was decided be- A yond cavil, wheu Robert Fitzsimmous sent James J. Corbett helpless to his \ knees, with n. left hniwl blow under the 1 heart, aftor one minute ami 45 seconds, yB in tlio fourteenth round of their hattle in the arena. The great contest was won in the simplest manner, aud the knockout was the result of one unwary move on the part of Corbett. The dispatch says that the ex-champion is almost crazed over his defeat, but says that it was a fair fight aud that ho was not satisfied and would have it over. After the result was declared Fitzsimmon's wife stepped up and kissed the bloody face of her victorious husband. After the big mill there were two side fights, which resulted: Hawkins put Flaherty out with a left swing in 40 seconds, and Green defeated Smith ic the thirteenth round. Forge crowds . witnessed the fights, and it is impossible to estimato the amount of money that changed hunds on the above results. COTTON OltOWEKS. Meeting of Their Protective Association In Augusta, (in. The meeting of the American Cotton Growers' Protective Association at Au gusta, Ga., was attended by a very representative body of men. President Hector D. Lane, of Alabama, presided and addressed the convention. An address was also made by ex-Senator Patrick Wnlsn. Resolutions were adopted urging the farmers to first make the cotton States self-supporting, and then the area devoted to cotton will yiehl more profitable than if they sought to increase the number of bales. While the reduction of the aereago to ne planted in cotton for the sole purpose of reducing the size of the crop may he impracticable, the increase of area planted in food crops must inevitably briug prosperity to the cott >11 growers, irrespective of the size of the cotton crop. There has never been a time in our history that a movement looking to the increased production of corn, hay, oats, hogs and other food crops was also important and necessary. Illness of <?en. Hampton. (Jen. Wade Hampton, the famous warrior-statesman of South Carolina, is dangerously iil at his apartments in the M ctropolitan Hotel, Washington, and his recovery is regarded by some of his friends as doubtful. His health has been failing him for several 111011'lis past, and in addition lie lias suilered greatly from the never-healing wound which followed the amputation of his l ight leg at the close of the war. His vitality has heen further taxed recently by a distressing cough, which appears to have settled upon his lungs. The < ienernl is now nearly SO years of age, and it is feared he has not suflicient recuperative power to withstand the latest attack upon his already depleted syste .11. Short In His Accounts. At Richmond, Va., the hoard of directors of the old Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia make public a defalcation of some $?r>,o<it> the result of the examination of the books of the association by an expert bookkeeper. Sir. 1\ l>. Stegur, the assistant secretary, in whose account the defalcation - * .1 f i .. 1 * tlx. occurs, was m?in ior iu c.\piuiii inc mut11*r, but <li<l not appear and is said to have left the city. All tho securities of the corporation, which is one of the oldest and strongest in the State, are intact, the loss being on collections. Nominations Favorably Keported. Tho United States Senate committee on foreign relations Wednesday ordered a favorable report to be mude oil tho nominations of John Hay, to be ambassador to <ireat ilritain; Horace l'orter, to be ambassador to France, and .Mr. White, present secretary at London, to be secretary of the embassy at I aiudon. Cleveland's Outing Ended. At Cape Charles, Va , Wednesday, ex-President Cleveland disembarked from the lighthouse tender violet and took the New York express for Princeton, N. J. Miscellaneous Items. Eight men were drowned in a mine at Dover, England. The Arkansas Legislature adjourned yesterday without passing any of the appropriation bills for the executive and judicial departments. I.oans to the amount of $4,000,000 have been obtained from New ^ ork banks within a week to pay duties on goods held in bond in anticipation of higher duties under the new taritl*. The petition of Mrs. Huiz, widow of the dentist, Kicardo Huiz, murdered in Havana, has been delivered to Secretary Sherman. It is thought immediate* action will ho taken. As the result of the proselyting < f Mormon elders in the lower end ol Allegheny county, Maryland, and contiguous section of Pulton ami Pcdford counties, in Pennsylvania, migration to I'tah has coiniuenced m lar;;e numbers. The Southern Express Com pane will lost" about forty of its oHires in the State of Florida because of thodrri<-ion thai they must pay State and < oil >ty tax of SlOaiitl ^respectively. 'I he receipts of the ollices do not warrant payment of such tax. No Chimneys in Mexico. T!:3 Boston Transcript says: From the top of the cathedral spire in Mexico i ><>ii < .in (> e the entire city, antl tl.e i most striking feature of tlie view :s 1 the .<1> . nee of chimneys. There is not 1 a chimney in all Mexico, not a Kit", ' nor a stove, nor a furnace. A11 th<> cooking is done with < liaicoat in Dutch (iM-Ds. and wliile the ^as is sometimes offensive, one soon becomes usetl to it* ?