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of? eopie.in In* BHI inn of ItUtDO Wm Torn Kv#ry Living Animal I..* Andernonvllle (Kj.) ^^^^^H^^^Hnisville Evening Post ^^^^M^^Harileld, ind,, ni el* ^off the m?p by the ^^^^^^HH^Heighty quarts of nitro-glyohad beon brought over^^^^^^^^^ ontyelier and plaoed in en half a from town, ^ a ci %a- ?* 1 y ana cam xuaguirw is wells near by when ] >conrrcd. Monsey was i bat not fatally injured. < :own a hundred feet in ' dly lacerated, but will ames Cold's bonse, 800 ! 3 blown to pieces. The , explosion tore a bole in the ground down to tbo water line, and so far it is < }0*Vned, it was spontaneous. A three-ton engine was torn to frag- j ments and ovory living animal wae killed instantly. The little town of | Chesterfield is a mass of x'uin, every , house being movod from its foundation, windows shattered, doors smashed in, every light pat ont and the plastering shaken from tho walls. Several people wore ahixkeu ont of bed. AtDalesville. two miles distant, nod at Yorktown, tiro miles distant, the damage was almost as groat. Mauy people were injured and it is a miracle that none were killed outright. The Jar of the explosion was felt in all directions for fiftoen miles distant. The gas in tho well was blown out and a workman named Cooper lit it and caused another explcsiou, in which ho was fatally burned. The damage cannot be estimated. A FICARFCIj typhoon. One of tho Worst Disaster's Kver Ro? ported from tho southern Ocean. A dispatch from Ban Francisco, Cal.. eays the typhoon which swept over the Fhillipino Islands on tbo Gth of October, was tho cause of one of the worst disasters that has been reported from the southern ocean iu many years, if not in tho history of that section ox tho world. Thousauds of lives were lost, including many Europeans, and the dam ago to property was appalling. The diflicnltios of getting news from tue iBiaruiH in great at any time, ana owing to the remoteness of some of tho provinces visited by tbehnrricane, all details of tbo storm did not reaon Hong Kong until the let of November. Tbo steamer Gaetio, from the Orient, brought letters and papers whiohoontain accounts of tbo ravaaM^|^fB[ wave and ^ towns were ^^^pully ^^^^Br2oa at 6amoa swept inland noarly Jb a mile, destroying property valued at ?J* r.overal million dollars and causing th? vvholo.-nlo deaths among the nativea. *pa iW ? thi INDIGENT CUBAN-AMERICANS. J|j* Gen. Lee Says Tliore Are 1,G07 in the P'e Island. ?0C Consul General Lee has made a report to the Seoretary of State, in whioh an* he says there are 1,607 American citi- pic zons in Cuba denendontupon oharitable *n< resistance. Thoy have been partly provided for out of tbo .$30,000 appro- dn priated by Congress. General Lee says By( that in making provision for the relief *0i of those oitizeus more than $1,000 a ?d week must be ezpouded. Ho baa drawn oui g2>,000 of the eum appropriated, of h?i which two draft3 for ?8,000 each were i0v drawn last month. He expresses the th? opinioa that a considerable time musi 0m elapse before tbo indigents will bo self- thr eustainicg. ed pr< Visible Supply of cotton. Bjr Secretary Hester's -weekly statement eee of tbo world's visible supply of cotton 'efl shows an Increase compared with last week of 234,104 boles, as compared with po, last year as 230,803. He places the to- up <nl visible at 8,443,510 bales against -i 2,811,800 last week and 8,67o,889 last ^ year. Of the former amount 8,40,620 ar duIos are American. Not a Pipe of Peace. ^ At Moant Sterling, Ey., J.|B. Em* act brey, a farmer, was Bhot and killed by L?1 bis tenant, L. A. Sbull. They qnarreled ovor a divisiou of tbe tobao jB, co crop. me l'.'nsy Death Prom Hydrophobia. 1* Errost Eggniokor, a farmer, died .J from hydrophobia at the Baptist Sani- P' tariuoi in bt. Louis, hlo. Ho was bitton by a dog in September. His doatb 21? iviiii in diroct contradiction to tbe popu* P Jar impreesion that death by hydropho- ?J. bia is alwaye atlendod with horrible sufferings. Tbo patientwas rational at P? all times, diank water freely, did not **j' froth at tbo month, cor bark Jiko a dog f.1 and did not sufler. Ilis one attendant ? was mora for comnanv than for modical 5? __ -- - - - v nr< rcrvioo. Rrynn Kndotvs n College Prize. 1?1 William J. Bryan has given tolbe Missouri Stato University 8250, which Pn Is to bo anunolly used in awarding a V31 prize for the host cssoy on the soienee Jj?' of govornmcnt. To Print $48,000,000. 00 Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has authorized the Direotor of the Bnrean 1 of 1'ngraring and Printing to print and ba rioHvor to the U. S. Treasurer 848,000,- wb 000. as follows: United States notes pr< 818,000,000; silver certificates 3?*>000,- st? 000; troasury of 1800 80.000,000. th< ticorgo Could A.lv'uucos Salaries. pu It is announced from Si Louis, Me , |n that as a Thanksgiving present Mr. in( Cloorare J. Gonhl, of the Missouri Paoitlc railroad system Las advanced sol- *0< arise all along tho lint 10 p?r ceat. pn TOBACCO CURING By the Lotf Curo on Wlro and tk? Stalk Processes. By EL n. BatUe. Dieeotor, assisted by T. L. . BtaJock sod P. O. Carpenter, Assistant I .'North Oaruuns ExporLaant taUonJ A crop which is of ao maoh import* race in North Carolina that 27,950 'armors (as shown by the Eleventh Census, Bulletin lis) engage in planting it, deserves to be studied with the riew of improvement in onltivetion ana handling for market. The acreage in 1880 in the State was 07.077 a ores, and he total orop produoed during that year eas 88,375,958 pounds. The value of his tobacco was 83,175,883, and the tverage relue per pound was 14.9 cents. Considering only the large tobaocoproducing States (those producing over &T6 million pounds annually). North Carolina heads tho list with the average ralne per pouud. The average yield per acre is 875 pounds. The seed is sown first in a plant-bed fcnil the plants transplanted from it to the field. The pood-bod is generally in t proteoted situation, sheltered on the north by trees, and facing the South to have the benefit of a sunny exposure, and gen orally on the side o* a small stream. The beds are prepared and the seeds sown dnring January or February, or even as late ae the earlier part of Mar&h. The soil ohosen is generally virgin, of light sandy textare. moisttnd rich. Brush or wood le burned upon this to kill out all inseots and weeds. The soil, after cooling^ is thoroughly hoed and raked to get it in as fine condition as possible, leaving the ashes in tho soil for their fertilizing properties. Stable mannro, well rottea, or a strong ammonieted fertilizer is next worked in. Seed ia carefully sown at the rate usually of one tablespoonful for every 100 square yards, having previously mixed the seed with a distributing medium of ashos or an ommoniated far tilizer. Cross-seeding is recommended to ensure a oertain and regular stand. Some planters reoommend a second sowing of seed, of a tablespoonful in quftutitv, to ensure this. The seed is now lightly covered by brushing in and fgrossed in by a weeding hoe, or by a ight roller, or by tramping of the feet A light covor of straw or leavesis placed upon tho bed for protection, or a slight covering of stablo manure. It is the general custom to give tbe bed an additional protection of a oloth toooinplotoly cover it This is accomplished by setting 13-inch planks ou their edges in the ground, to make a square framo, with the oornors oarcfully nailed together. Inexpensive cotton-sheeting is sewed together and then taokod on the frame so as to completely covor the whole bod. This is to act both as a cold frame as well os to keep out insects, the principal ono among which is tho lleaboetlo, whioh, in every locality, is dostruotive to tho young plants. Tbeoovor can be removed two or three weeks boM 11 1 1- A. .A. 1_ 11 <5.,1.1 luru mv piuui? aru ?oi? uuv iu iud uom. This in doue whoa their leaves are about 0} inoh?i in length. The time varies from the middle or latter part of April to the last of May, according to the sea* on. Generally, different fields are transplanted at different times to CAase their maturing oonneoutively, and to givetbe cnrer time to attend to the ye* riuMelds in ancoession. A hew pro ^^^Haing developed in which sprout* artificially beforg they are ^^^ Bnsed, whioh is said to do* nsplantin^^tnTrtyoffotty {&ya. equality of soil needed var:'ea for ' Ferent types. For the yellow variety ' ?soil best salted is a light, gravelly 1 m, with open clay sabsoil to prevont c > oolleotion of mnch moisturo around i roots. It is woll cultivated aud put ( fine, mellow oondition, and a com* | ite fertilizer, generally at the rate of < 1 to 500 pounds to the nore, applied in ills 8? feet apart, either alone or in f inaction with stable manure or sped* ' y prepared compost. A turning j >w is ueed to bed on this fertilizer, ' i with a weeding lioe hills are 1 .da 2A to 3 feet anari. Hill culturo is sessa'ry for tobacco, to insure proper 1 linage, so much needed by it. The ] item of roots is superficial, and the ' I. consequently, should not be work- I deeply. For this reason most of the tivation is by hoes. Grass must bo 1 pt out, and the top soil kept in a mcl- 1 v condition. During tho growth of 1 > plant, especially after topping oo- 1 rs. suekers grow from the stalk at i d&so of the loaves, and must bo pull- 1 off every week, very carefully, to j jvent injury to the leaf. Itisnotdeed that the tobacco shonld bloom and 1 td, as this injures tho quality of the 1 I. To provent this it is topped by j lling off tho button at the top, which II. in time, form the flower and seed Is, together with several xnoheo of the per stalk. This topping is done so to allow from ten to fourteen leaves remain upon tho stalk. The leaves never countod, as an experienced ad can tell at a glance how much of > upper stAlk, together with the butl, should he removed to leave the ex, number of leaves dosired. This exrieuce is gained by the following fact: om the regularity of the growth of > leaves upon the stalk, tho ninth leaf Always tho one on tho third tier, imdi&tely abovo the first and lowost f upon tho stalk. L'hu insect enemies of the tobacco int, iu addition to tlio tloa-bug or atlo, already mentioned, aro the cntrm, had or boll-worm, and hornrm, all produced by the matured fly the partioulnr opeeies. Tliecut-worm acks tho young plants after translating, often cuttinp entirely through ? plant in a single night. T he worms the largo Curoiinn moth (Plegothou ,s Carolina)?tbo tobacco worm, cr rn-caterpillar, which is the most saded of all tobacco inseots?ivppear Juno or July on the largo tobacco tves, and must bo carefully nicked oil baud as often as they appear. The d or boll-worm, so injurious to coti aud corn, is also destructive, feed' t on the bud, and is oftentimes quite mblesome. li and--picking is to be sferred. WWO TOBACCO BY TBS OLXV-6TTLS 13TALK PBOCB33. EJp to this period in the life of a tocoo plant, the treatment is identical, lether tbo ouring is to bo done by ono aoess or another. Au cnliino of tho ilk-curisgprocessisaefollows: When B topping of the tobacco occurs, tbo ver loaves next to the ground are lied off, or "primed," usually loaving this way tbo stalk baro for 4 to (1 sbas from tbo ground. Homo prefer allow tbeao leaves to remain to proit tho onos abovo from dirt und sand d other injury, but the more oomrnou *4tieeis to prims them. Up to re* eentty, as has been stated, Uieee leaves j bavo been thrown away, and are yet in many localities. Others prefer to core J theso priming leaves, and the Step in this direction is to be oommonded, Tho plants are carofnlly snckered, and ( the worms taken off as soon as they appear on the leaves. As a general rale, it may be said that plants are ready to be oat off for oaring 90 to 120 days after transplanting. The tobacco is considered ripe when tho leaves turn a light ehado of green or Seenish yellow, often in spots, when eftuz on the leaf disappears, and when the leal is folded over from below it wUl eraok open when pressed between the thumb ana finger. The stalks then, while standing, are split open tiro* thirds of the way from the top to the bottom, and out oft an inch or two bolow the bottom leaf. For earing, 6 or ? stalks aro arranged upon a smooth Klne stick, usually 4 feet C inches long, y inserting it through the split portion of tho stalk. For curing, th com* nou log barn is used, the sizes boing 10 feet nud 30 feet square, and 20 tcet high. The stioks holding the stalks are c&rofally bandied and plaoed in tho born, arranged in tiers. The curing is done by means of two return flues about 13 inohes in diameter, made of sheet iron, running horizontally at the bottorn of the barn and fired from the out* side. This method is known as finecaring, to distinguish from sun-oaring and direct heat curing with wood or charcoal, both of which are practioed, according to the locality and the type of tobacco desired to be curod, and the degree of advancement attained iu the culturo af tobacoo in various seotions of th? country. Improvements in the caring of tobacco made it possiblo for tho develop* ment of the yellow or golden leaf tobacco. In earlier days tobacco was cured over au opon fire. Conspquently IUU KAVUO ?OlU w* tool DU1UACU, and a yellow leaf vat an impossibility. The firat notable advance was made when Capt. Abishai SI ado and William Long, of Caswell county, N. C., in 1824, iirst used charcoal for oaring by direct heat. To tho former, who doscribed afterwards, in 1850, tuo motbod be followed, both in the cultivation, curing and management of yellow tobacco, much praiso should be asoribed. It was his teaohing that enabled others subsequently to improve upon his plan and to cure yellow tobacco in a more satisfactory and systematic way. The liaglaud method, first brought out in 1871, was one of theso, and is the one now generally used, tLongh this has been improved in many partionlars by Major Liaglaud. It is now as follows, (be thermometer in nil oases being used, which is generally placed in tho bora on a level with the lowost leaves: , First. Snppiug Process.?90 degrees (Fahrenheit) for 3 to 80 hours, then advancing rapidly to 125, to remain only s few minutes: thou cat off beat and descend to 90 degrees. Second. Yellowing Process.?90 degrees from 24 to SO hours. Third. Fixing Color. ?100 degrees 4 hours; then 100 to 110 degrees, 2$ degrees every 2 hoars; finally 110 to 120 degrees 4 to 8 hoars. Fourth. Caring the Leaf.-?-lS0 to 121 A . a X ii X. ^ ? _ degrees u wo uuuro. Fifth. Curing Stalk and Stem. -183 to 170 degrees, 0 degrees par hour; ooutinuo at 170 degrees till etalk and stem are thoroughly killed and dry, whioh is Tffe metboc^^wl^^^^^WWWs lomowhat simtlar, but doss not inolnde ho sapping iirocese of the former, ? vhioh was a later addition to tbo art of M snring. It is as follows, iu outline: First. Yellowing Process.?At 00 iegroes If weather be mild, or 80 de- 80 rrees if ctool, for 18 to UG hour3, or uayl tho desired color be attained. or Second. Drying Process.? At 98 de? hc frees for 2 hours, at 100 for 2 hours, at tb 05 for 3 hours, at 110 for 3, 115 for 2, oz 120 for 0, at 180 for 3, at 140 for 3, at 150 or 2, at 1C0 for 34 hours, or until stalk K ind stem are dry. C< When properly cured, tobacco re- at sins at first a slight tinge of green, at srhich fades and bleaohe9 whenever it W wftnmea soft, until it disappears alto- Si gather. at iln-ee are merely outlines of the cur* H ing processes. To be an expert ourer M requires experionoo, iutolhgenco and, kbove all, careful supervision of all bj contingencies a* they arise. jj Aftor curing,the tobaoco is allowed to p( cool and to "order," which is the pro- j.j cess of taking up moisture, wheu the jj, loaf becomes soft and pliant. It can u tLon bo namtiea witnout danger or jj Bracking or splitting. In dry weather r, moisturo may bo prortuoed in tko barn by sprinkling the floor with water. The Icavos oan bo stripped then from tko Ktalk and gradod, or allowed to remain -j< upon the stalks to bo stripped later ^ when it is more convenient, in the as inoantime either bunging up or bulk* ra ing down iu any convenient plaoe. The ^ grading must be dono by careful ex- j-j perienced hands. On each stalk usually tj, are found three grades of loaf, aud two A of lugs. Tko gratlos aio placed togather aud bulked down to await a con- "e euient time for marketing. G. A Ftrmchraan named Turpln has devised what he claims to be a preventive of tornadoes In towns. As tornadoes sc Invariably come from tko southwest, ho lu would bnlld on that eldo of a city n sc number of metal towers about 135 foot oi high, and place on tholr tops cylinders filled with some extremely explosive matorlal. such as melinite. To the cvl- hi lnders are attaehed arms with disks. u; Tho tornado strikes these arms and ?< explodes the melinite, producing an a enormous displacement of gas and oi breaking up tho rotary motion of the a< storm. M. Turpln sayo tornadoes orig- *v Inate in the Gnlf of Mexico, but 6eems tr to forgot tho recent specimen that tl wreeliod many houses in a suburb of g. Tarls. . m tioino Largo Fruit Yields. 'r' An orchard of 00 trees in New Cu- j? naan, Ct., produced 200 barrels of Jr picked apples tbe eighth season from L planting. A 15-year-old tree In the [1 same neighborhood yielded 12 barrels Ir of choice, picked apples. A grower iu Ontario county, New York, sold 370 Rt barrels from bis orclwird of 1V6 acres and In addition bad betwoen 300 and 400 bushels of paring and cider apples. A tree In Glastonbury. Ct., produced tl 05 bushels of apples. In 1881 Uale w Pros., of Conucctlcut sold about $21,- nl 000 worth of peaches from 3r? acres.? m American Agriculturist. b, Governor Ellerbe Wants to Remain in Office Another Term. HE OEFENDS DISPENSARY WW. Ho ! In Favor of Amending the Law, and Drop tho Profit Feature^ Eta? Horrible Murder in Horry. Governor Ellerbe has declared hit candidaoy lor re-election as governor of the State, and in advance of his annual message to the general assembly, he has seen fit to present hi* views in regard to the liquor question. He also strongly expresses himself in renard to oriiioisms that had been made of bis offioial nets. Last week he gave out an interview. Ia regard to ? state* meat in a Charleston paper that he had told Newbold not to surrender, the governor soys: "I am getting heartily sick and tirod of snoh dirty flings oud insinuations. It seems that a gentleman has no proteo* tion, bat has to eabmit to such slander* ons insinuations. "Ihere seems to be aeoxnmon understanding on the part of oertain people to destroy the dispensary law, and they take advantage ot all unfortunate ooeur* rcuces to nee thorn against the law. Since I have been Govornor I have tried fearlessly to perform my official duties, and will not be swerved by idle olamor or senseless criticism. The most difficult problem that confronts txs today is that of the liquor trallio. The dispensary, I think, is the best solution of the question, bnt as the courts have decide 1 thattho dispensary is not a police regulation. I am in favor of amending tho law bo as to make it a poliee regulation by eliminating tho profit feature, and if necessary not sell it as a boverage, but only for medicinal and sacramental purposes. "Those who advocate high licenso have surely not read carefully the dociBions of the courts, for in tne case of Koott vs. Donald, tho court advaucod the view that the State could prohibit, they oould inspect, bat could do no more. If tbe dispensary is not a police regulation, und tho State caunotcontrol the liquor uuder tho dispensary law, it certainly cauuot do so under high lioenso. Bosidcs, under a high licenso system it would, in a few months, degenerate into tho open barrooms. "I proposo to go before tbe people on my record, and, if necessary, to advocate tbo policy just outlined. Some of my enemies have said I might bo re-eleoted because of the unwritten law to give a governor two terms. I trint. it nnitarslnnri iii?i nA nn? t>aai3 keep out of the race ou this account, and I would cot have itas a mere matter of precedont if my efforts did not warrant an endorsement. "If I cannot refute the numoroua charges that have been made against me* and oannot show to the people that I have honestly and faithfully tried to discharge the aaties of the ofiloe, I do dot oare to be re-elected." any Murder* Follow Simon Coop- ?! er's Inauguration on Jan'y 1. A speoiel to the State from Sumter, ya: Tho year 1807 hoe been a bloody bi te in Snmter county. The numborof *h >mieides that have bean committed in *? e county already average more than te a month up to the present time. ,b The publio will remainder that on a ow Year's day the arch fiend, Simon ?E coper, killed Grant Davis at Magnolia r ift unrimiclv TPnnnrl?il unvAral nthnra. P1 id in a few days after butchered the ox ilson family and the negro, Preston nith, making a total oftivoforhim ftt id was subsequently lynched himself; ?e enry Cooper killed by J. J. ?Coy at lot. Charles, justifiable; B1, srry Mack killed at Elliott's ?f r John Blaylock, aoquitted; P1 m Boone killed by Henry Carter, mitentiary for iife; Harvey Taylor lied at Brogdon's by Lyons Wil* imi, acquitted; Hen Hill killed at ** ishopvilio by Ben Britton; Alex 3" aynsworth killed at Bear lioro by Hen- j \ r Burrows; W. J. Leo killed near W ishopvilio, supposed to have been 01 lied by Charles Williams, now in U1 il; Mingo Thompson killed in Sumter. eu his does not inolude the number of w lose who have met violent deaths, such [" 1 by lightning, cut in gins or killed by lilroad trains, etc., bat only a list of juiicidof, tho names of the parties illed ond by whom and the result of !0 trials whero trials have been held, s far as tho information obtainable O jos, the number of homicides in Sum* oi t county equuls or exceeds that of any tv her county in the State. of As the record stands, the number is of ^palling, and unless something is done w put a stop to this wholesulo killing d< id to bring the guilty ones to just de* irved puutshment those who hold hu* an lifo so cheap Humtor oounty will >011 havo no right to claim tho title of a cs vilized and law governed community, p mm Vr France Is not so overwhelmed with a ftr own woes that ehe has not time to g( ston to the woes of others. It is not ^ tneraliy Unown that there is in Paris pc Franco-Scottish cougress, the object w f which Is to continue the agitation of Ijustlng Scottish wrongs, although II as thought that Scotland's greatest ouble was settled loug ago by the It ininrhtfnhifis* of th? Int? rinlr* <vf a ?i pie. But there Is a strong pan-Oeltic M ovement In France, and one of the Jit te results has been the establishment ct ' a newspaper having for ite object the Ow eedom of Ireland. It Is called Irlacdo Ibre, and It la trying to-lmpress upon 10 people of Frauae the justice of the lsb cause. Tho traditional hatred of *; 10 French for the Englis, la still rong enough to gain for the new pub* ce . ation an attentive ear. J5 A St. Louis paper Is marveling ovet le enso of a septuagenarian whoso Bt bite hair tnrneil black In a single Ct Ight recently. lie probably was deter- a Incd to rejuvenate himself, even If ho F ad to dye far It, ct BRSP1TB FOR JOH* EVA51 Governor Rauwl Wm Urged by Huy Md Council of buu Advleed It* A. speoial from Raleigh, N. 0., myi the council of State met on the evening of the 84th to oonsider what ehould be done regarding John Evans, oolored, who was oonvieted at Rockingham a few days ago for rape. All the petitions aud students wero laid before the couuoii by tbe governor aud tuere was dit>ctt?Mou. As a result of the conference the viovornor respited Evans until Jan. Xhe OoYernor gives the following reasons for lespitiug Evans: 44lhe oase domauds serious sud thoughtful investigation. out of four other like cases that have occurred in this State during this year, one of the oulpriis escaped before arros^ two were hanged by the , courts aud one by a mob. in the two convictions tliere was bo reasonable doubt ol guilt aud the probabilities are that tbo mob got the right man. Here oouios a case wuere a friendless wreiou has boeu put ou trial iu o commuuity fevered vruh excitement aud iudigua* tion, justly aroused by the commission ol a ortme lor which the perpetrator ought to sulier death. There were ex* ceiient men on the jury, but no jury can expect to deliberate and oooly weigh evidence uniuhueuoed by the spirit pervading the commuuity. It is possible that a jury of line charaoter in a diilorout commuuity would have rendered a dillereut verdict upon this same evidence, and it remains to be seeu whether the jurors in this case may not change their opinion apon mature coudsideratiou, under quieter circumstances. Evidence directly material to the prisoner's guilt has been ,1 it.- Ti 1. 1 juuuutou 9111 uu iuu uui. JL? 49 mgoa that the identification of the prisonor was incomplete and unsatisfactory; that an alibi was completely proven by witnesses of both races, and that the admitted facts of the case strongly indicated that the porpotrator of the orime was familiar with the habits of tho prosecutrix in walking along that cortain path, and at that cortain hour when the crimo was committed; that Iho prisoner could not havo known theso things booause ho was virtually a stranger in town; that he had only lieon there once inside of a year and heuoe it is most unlikely that ho should have knowu tho prosecutrix or been familiar with her habits. As to tho truth of theBe allegations, no opinion is expressed, bat thoy ooms from sourcos m) worthy of consideration as to demand time for olose scrunity and thoughtful investigation. It further appears from documentary evidonca that there is a sentiment to tho effect that aside from the guilt or iunoceuce of this prisoner, it would be best for tho county that the sentence of ths court bo at once exooutod. This sentence cannot bo prevailing among just or Christian people except as a result of temporary ebullition of passions, provoked by frightful outrages. Iu gianting n postponement of this execution, the excoutivo is sustained by the Council of State, by prominent citizens oi Richmond county and various other counties, by intelligent clergymen and eminent lawyers and editors, and fot ijiiu iiodd r.uarp wiuiams ot missis- | lippi, Governor It L. Taylor aud Gen. rohn W. Gordon, of Memphis. Demands Prison Keformatlon. C. E. Vawtor, chairman of iha comnittee on prison reform, presented are* x>rl to the Virginia Mothodist Confermoo, wbioh eoverely condemns the Jrowdou condition of Siato prisons and n the name of humanity and Christianity demads reformation of the system prevailing there, so as to provide a greater number of cells and otherwise ! improve tho facilities. '1 ho report was unanimously adopted and Bishop Fitzgerald expressed hope that every nowspaper in Virginia would publish it Scalper's Ticket Causes Suit. James Foley, of Savannah, Ga , is ining tho Central of Georgia for 8G,OCO iamagos. Foley bought a scalper's ticket from Atlanta to Savannah and was pnt off the train. Tho ticket whs issued by tlio Chiongo & Eastern Illinois Railroad, in Chicago to Jacksonville. Poloy supplied hia name as pnrohasor. Will Ko CourUSInrtlokd. The Virginia Grand Camp Sons of Veterans' investigating coxnmitteo at Richmond finds Mr. Minilroe Folkos guilty of boiuft in the employ of the American Book Company and he will be court-maitialed by the grund camp of the sons. $13,000,000 Paid Into t!ic 1 rcasury. The United States Treasury has received from tbo ex-organization coatin ittoo of tho Union Pacific road ?13,345,3)0 in cash and turned over to the somralttee that amount, in bonds, which has been ou deposit with the government. QDfi,000,000 Is Needed, fieorctnry of War Alger, in his ftroi annual report, asks for more men tmd officers for klie army, and n?ys $tft?,000,? UOO is needed. He also wants Alaska Btnitwtod to racrus 1*w1ms?ms. * f\no manufaottirors of the country, ] i J to include bv absorption all of tho | )) concerns malting instruments. The initialization has been placed at toU,- , '0,003. Tho Glrafle ilroko Its Neck. , The Atlantio Transport Company's earner Massachusetts, which left New oik on November 1!?, for London, i irrying as a csrzo tho groater part of ( arnnm and Bailey's menagorie and iow, arrived off Gravo^oud. at the iouth of the Thaue.s on tho 34th. Kx? >pt on the first three davs she had a nooth passage. A dispatch from ravosend "ays that the giraffe died of broken neck on the night of the 14th. our horses, including Logic, alto suo- ' imbed. ... I I tbo further consideration of this case he evoked the advice of the educated, substantial, religious and law-abiding elements of the State." i ho President Will Advise Against b the Recognition of ttelligerenoy. c It is understood that the President in t s messngo will suggest to Congress t at it would bs inadvisable at prosent c tako any action which would oompli- ( to the situation in Caba. It is said t atho will suggest that the passage of ? resolution recognizing the belliger- t icy or independence would be inex- t idicnt while the measures of reform -oposod by Spain aud to be carriod it by General JLilauco arc being introiced. The release of the Comptroller . id other American prisoners will be ferred to as gratifying and as rolievg tbo United States from the necesty of intervention upon the ground i the i rotection of Amerioan life aud ^ operty. Sold Coflln .Nails to >niall Boys. t At Salisbury, N. C.. twonty or more i nail boys testified beforo the grand ( iry upon tho subpoena of Solicitor * oltou, aud as a result twenty true j ,11s were returned against dealorn in ( garottes for solliog them to minors j mer ago, almost tue statute in such ises made and provided. The*? cases ill not be tried until uoxt term, and eauwhile it is to be hoped the small jy will tind it more difficult to obtain 1 ieao ruinous things. ] The T-ieakavllle t'ostofllco Robbed. ( A spocial to the Charlotte (N. C.) i bservser from Winston Bay* the post* j lice at Leaksville, Rockingham coun | was brokeu open and robbed. The . dee safe was blown open and robbed i 1 all the money and stamps in it. \ liioh amounted to several hundred , >llars. I A French Railroad Accident. A dispatch from Tarbos, France, ^pital of the Department of Haute- , yrenees, announces that a ballast ( uiu overtook a passengor train during ( fog at the Tournay Railroad station. , ovornl cars were ground into splinters, j wolve persons wore killed and nine ivcroly injured. Tlio bodies of several ere badly mangled. A Monster IMuuo Trust. Another groat trust is being formed. ; is <n hft enmnAMid ft# thn nrinwnul ' TlKKl llV TUP MOUNTAINS* They Obscor* the t?uu and tb? Alt>Mi Pallia Marlon. epeoial to the Charlotte (N. 0.) Observer from Marion, or the 23d. says: Taeterdaj and today the ran hung in the skies like a ball of lire, end at times wee almost obscured by the denae moke, which hovers over and around the town. It ia the same story that has been toid for the past weekoi the (oro?t tires, which oontinuo to raire with unabated fury. Flames with red tongues I can be seen from Marion at night, leaping over the mountains, lioking up everything that Nrill Knra TKa Mamae nea litaK anH (treat volumes of smoke are puffing I heavenward. The fires have approaohj ed to within seven milos of Mariou and tho ashes of tho leaves ore falling tliioklv in town. Mouutaineors report that the fire is all over the mountains in the upper end of the oonntj, on the Mitchell and Tancey county lines; also on the famous Black mountain, and that many milos of fencoa bavo been destroyoa. Leaves and brush are vory dry, owing to tho fact that thore has been no rain for a month. RETROSPECT OF TIIK EPIDEMIC Out of 4,280 Casos of Yellow Fever, 440 Proved Fatal. Aooordiug to the last woekly report, issued by the Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service, giving the returns up to the 10th instant, thore had then appeared during tho yellow fever epidemic in the South a tots! of 4,280 cases, of which 440 had proved fatal. Of tho total number of cases, 1,847 were reported from Louisiana, 1,025 from Mississippi, 740 from Alabama, 63 from Tonuessoe, 10 from Texas, 4 from Illinois, 8 from Georgia and 1 each I. ni I J. J tr a a ate t-i | iiuui cioriun nuu neniucKy. All uui I too of the casoa reported from Louisiana are orodited to Now Orleans. '1 ho canes in Kentuoky, Illinois and Goorgia were coutlnod to refugees. A computation shows that about 10$ per cont. of the oasos rrovod fatal. 8HAKKRS TO FORM A COLONY. Looking for a bite In Georgia on W';loh to Settlo. Dr. J. R. Slingerlnnd, the head of a Shaker colony in Ohio, is in Savannah for the purpoflo of taking steps to orgsuize a colony in Gocrgia. llo wont out with partios for the purpose of looking at some land and says the oolony will purchase 15,000 acres to start with. Two of the slaters, Misses E. Downing and J. Foley have already arrived, and W. 0. Ayer, Dr. Slingerland'a assistant, is expected in a week or so. These four oompose a board of ministers of the oolony and they will dooide what ehall be done with reference to the looation of the oolonv Dr. Blingerland sayc the colony will noed about 50.000 aoros of land if the colony is a success. The colony expeota to raise orops and bloodod took. _ ALL FOUR W1CRR KILLED. Fend of Extermination In Louisiana Town. MMMHMV J ay on Lacombe, a small settlement 11 1 oiles east of here, bas been the soene ' if a terrible tragedy. News has jnst 1 teen reoelred here of a desperate fight ' ! istweon Arthur and Edward Jolie on | me side and .Lawrence and Edward 1 Jousin on the other, which resulted in he killing of all the parties concerned, ihotguns and pietols were the weapons 1 ised. The cause of the difficulty is atributed to an old family feud. i IIKMORIAIj KXRKCI8RS n Commemoration of the Idfo of Souator Isbam G. Harris. At Memphis. Tenn., last Sunday manorial exercises in commemoration of he life of the late Senator Ieham G. ' Harris, was held at the auditorium. A ieating capacity of 0,000 was packed md hundreds were turned away. AdLresees eulogistic of tho dead Senator Tut pie of Turpio of Indiana, Controls- j Blackburn Make* ttl IT WAS He to Alee OItm Power Innocent Labor. . An Atlanta dicpatob nonnoement I3eojam)f^^^^H^H^^| editor of the his Domooratio nomination ouwcou V/Ui. uiria^ iuu, form. After declaring extreme inter Chioago platform, he addt^j^^^^^^H^H "I believo e some ideas of his own, groat many things that I good results that are not to bo fouo.4in I am in favor lynchlnj^|^^^|^^H the orime, because I it is our religious duty to efn homes pure and nndotulL.liove the South was right iu the aiictieo', and that the sentiment of Jijor people will sustain me to day. 1 em opposed to anv system that, gives brutal and cowardly eycUophanta the^rtght to shoot down tunooent labor AWflts lately done in Fennsylvanio." iV ? i_. HYPNOTIZED AND ALMO^TDIEU. A Pennsylvania Girl's Redthrkablo Experience. wrt ' A Wilmington, Del., dispigbh says: Miss Helen Baldwin, aged 15. lof Dolaware county, Fa., almost diedtas a result of being hypnotized ataprivate party at tho home of Owon W? Everett, on Jackson street. During themvening Clyde Thomas, who has some fid^Ul in the art, hypnotised setAali young womon, and Miss Baldwin amo consented to try the tost. \ Mr. Thomas made a few si Ighff raises and Miss Baldwin was aslsejs. iu a twinkling, bhe was revived, nit bo* f?mo hysterical aud dually JapswJ into a cataleptic conaition. Tho usual pn^Bcs failed to awakgft her. I bhe was carried into tho open iyr, bat still slept *nd a doctor was uttaplo to rorivo her. Prof. Hamuel Booth end J. B. Martin, who possesses skill ^hypnotists, were hastily called from - tuoir beds and found wise Baldwin icold, with her pnlse spasmodically bdaSngat thirty-nine a minute. \ Occasionally she would exolnitiriK "I am awake." After an hour'iglmxd work the men restored bar t|g|pP-1 sciodsyebs. . 8KNTKNCKD TO DKATH?i j Tan Police Officials Must Dlo flMttfljj x0Uurdcr of ArroyM>^^^^^ [fllexico. -^(SpegiakL-~The finished, terminating in the senteaoe^^HHj death pronounced on ten of tho poUa^^BH officials and policemen concerned In butchery of the helplose wretch, who' attack on President Diaz caused i profound a sensation hero. . . X The condemned do not eeom to I'd ize their perilous position au4t t&fcat matter coolly. Their lawyers have t tered nu appeal in each case. Phb opinion in this city sustains the T diet of the jury ana the seutenoe of ' 'lhe polico officers who mUi^OTMlr Arroyas will be executed at ap carlMpr A Postofflce Robbed. Waxton, If. C., has been visited by ay band of professional robbers. The safe' in the postoffice eras blown open and rifled of its contents. There was $100 in money, abont $200 in stamps and three registered letters, all Of which were taken. Tbe burglars first visited a blacksmith's shop, where they secured a drill. They found $14'in the old > ? blacksmith's tool chest. They took that <? and then went to the postoflloe and knooked a panel out of the door. *J"1 1 J ' Wsam Deslcrn for Armor Plate Plant. The special naval board appointed to examine into the oost of armor-making, has designed a plant, details of which < it will present to Congress. It will i coat more than tbreo million^ dpilare . -L and Trill have a capacity of 0,000 tons of ; t armor per annum, which ie about the M combined cm, eoity of the twjp armor fia plants now supplying the nary. The Message Complete* V.'< } The Cabinot held a very abort meet- t hig last week. It took up irtfitters . L~ from sovoral of the departments. Prosi- fi9J( dent McKinlcy informed the Cabinet that his message was practically completed. He did not read any of it It will probably bo considered at the next meeting. Bull Head Mountain on Fire. A. npeoial from Elkin. N. C., to the Charlotte Observer, says: For suveral days the atmosphere up and down the Yadkin valloy has boon full of ei;u>ke. Bull Head Alouataio, twenty miles from hore, is on Are. It la sweeping s timber, fencing, oto., bofovo a, and v >1 l.i - J JJO uuuui a giuuu , ; Colonial Resldoneo Durned. ''-'ii A private telegram from Northampton county, ou tho eastern ohovo of Virginia, states that tlio bmduome colonial residence of Lieor. iMwin ft. Jacob*, U. 8. N., retired, bat been burned to tho ground. I/iout. Jooobe estimates bis loaa at S7%0?0. Must Pay t lialr l>ebls? .) The Secretary of the Treasury has tamed an oTder that clerks receiving a stated salary must pay their debts ? loae their pieces.