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" ' ' - L "iusth.vm & Pit t man, Proprietors. " ' . : -r 'PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO TIIAT WHIC1I 13 GOOD." f 1.00 Per Year In Ad vane;. VOLY' 1 DUNN, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1895. NO 5. , THE s 1 1 h u i l uv conak Doyle. OLAPTER IX. A ItKHAK IX THE CHAIN If was late in the afternoon before I u,k . strengthened and refreshed. vi rl'H:k Holmes still .sat exactlj- as I :),;..! left him, save that "he had laid a-itle his virgin and was deep in a book. II.- l x-ked aerossat mo as I stirred, and I ri"i!' "t that Ins face was dark and "Y"U liiivi- slept soundly," he said. -I f.artd that our talk would wake I h.-;..rd nothing," I answered. "Hare v"U La-1 fn-sli news, then?' ! iif..rtu!iately. no. I confess that I mu surprised- and disappointed. I ex j ct.-i M.!in-thin' definite by this time. Wl,i: ha-, jiiot been up to report. I!.- says that no trace can le found of r i luunrh. . 1 1 is a provoking- check, i'..r.t very hoards of importance." uu 1 d anything? I am perfectly fre-h mn. and quite ready for another nrht's out in,'.' N'.i'wc ran do nothing.- We can - ..?i!y -a ;; it, If we fro ourselves, the mes: iiii?iit come in our absence, and .;. lay ' au-etl. Yon can do what you will. l.u-t-I must remain on guard." Then I shall run over to Camber v. t 11 call upon Mrs. Cecil Forre&ter. i- ;ibked me to, yesterdaj-." ' T4 Mrs. '"ecii Forrester?" asked II au -. with the twinkle of a smile in Wc'i. i.f -.urNO, on Miss Morstan t'H.. 1 ! v wen anxious to hear what !i;!j:tii.'l. ;I v. . uid not U: them . too much," --iiiii !l-iui-s. "Women are never to be nt in !y trusted not the best of them." I lii-i in-t pause to argue over this atr- i- UN M-ntiincnt. "T shall be back in ! .ur r two," I remarked. - All rtyht! Coxi luck! Uut. I say, if ;. "i; are crossing1 the river you may n.-. w i-li return Tub-, for I don't think it at all likely that we shall have ite "i- him now."" 1 took oi r nionyivl accordingly, and 1. !t!.ha. together with a half sovereign iit the old naturalist's in I'inchin lane At Ca ;ul ht well I found Miss Morstan a little weary after her night's advet l tires, ""hut very eager to hear the news. Mrs. Forrester, too," was full of curios ity. I told them all that we had done, Mijiim-ssing, however, the more dread ful parts of the tragedy. Thus, al Pinugh I spoke of Mr. Sholto's death, I did nothing of the exact manner and method of it. With all my omissions, li.w,ever. there was enough to startle iiiid amaze tKem. " It is a romance" cried Mrs. Forres ter. " An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal and a v.;iKHlen-legged ruflian. They take the 'l:n-.- f.f the conventional dragon or wicked earl. i " Vfi'l tv knight-errants to the res cue.' added' Miss Morstan. with a l'l-igb.t. gi'anec at r.ie. " Uliv. Mary, your fortune depends utM.n the is-ue of this search. I don't lliitik that you are nearly excited n.ir.yl Just imagine what it must he to e so rieii.aiul to have the world -fit your feet! It sent a thrill of joy to my heart to notice t hat she shwcd no sign of ela t'oii at the prospect. On the contrary, she gave a- to-s of her proud head, as though the matter were one in which Xe took small' interest. it is f,,r .Mr. Tha.ldeus Sholto that n anxi..ms, - he said. ""Sotmnff else i of any consequence; but, I think that he has behaved most kindly and hoiioral-ly throughout. It is 'our duty t clear him of this dreadful and un-foim.l.-.l elurge." It va evening before I left , Camber ell, an." quite dark In- the time I rfa.h. 1 home. My companion's book and pipe lay by his chair, but he had lisappt-ar-d. I looked about in the hope of seeing a note, but there was none. i suppose -that Mr.-Sherlock Holmes has -,,n,. (uy"" I said to Mrs. Hudson as bhe ea:ne up to lower the blinds. "No. vjr. He has gone to his room, v,r. !), , y.,u know, sir," sinking her yokv into an impressive whisper, "I am sfrai-! f.'i.- his health?"' Vii- vo. Mrs. Hudson?"' ""o-!!. he.s that strange, sir. After J"u Ta- gone he walked and he ,-aik.i. up an.l down, and up and 'wii. until I was weary of the sound 'f his footstep. Then I heard him iHiKii'tr to himself and. muttering, and every ti';;e the bell rang out he came en the st,,jr-h.-ad with: 'What is that, r"s Ih'i.I-on?" And now he has amn.i oiY to his room, but I can hear him talking- away the same as ever. , I h-Mv Jn-Vs not going to be ill. sir. I TeuJ""'"cl to say something to him about v;,:-v; uj.-.ik'ihc. but he turned on me, ir- wolr ueh a look that I don't know how i ,.v..,. j,.tlt ollt of t,10 rtK)my I .o.i f tliink that vou have anv .Muse to he uneasy, Mrs. Hudson,' I WfU' r a.", ' l have stieu him like this "tore ;;0 has some small matter up- 1 '"nii:n makes him restless." i ,r ' ' '' iv'al lightly to our worthy aGuhdy. but I was my-elf somewhat """-ea,;. v K.. through" the long night, t"il from time to time heard the duU -dof his tread, and knew how his sp;rit was chafing" against this o.uutury inaction. i At breakfast time he looked worn Jnd ha-gard. with a little fleck of "ensh color upon either cheek. !ty,"U aro knosking yourself up, old 1 ri-n2arliccl- heard you march cs abom in the night."' ..t,' 1 '""hi not sleep," he answered. Hit I'll H I Tlt 111 il Atn i nnTiwri mm f - It is to., much to bcbalked by so l.v an ol..tacUl when aU elsehad lam VV"',J"1,:- 1 know the men, the no5!;: ; ' Vt'.rythiTr:and 1 get I have set otVir acron'oc nt h'i -1 U' ''vory means at my dis s,a" , e wllole river has been 1 un eitncr side, but there is no Hirbas Ajrs.. Smitjb. hrjLxd of hei liusljand. I bhau come to the conclu sion soon that they have scuttled the craft But there are objections to that." "Or that Mrs. Smith has put us on a wrong scent." "No, I think that may be dismissed. I had enquiries made, and there is a launch of that description." "Could it have gone up the river?" "I have considered that possibility too, and there is a 6earch party whe wsmWw CLAD IN KJL'DE SAILOR DKESS. will work up as far as Richmond. If uo news comes to-day, I shall start of? myself to-morrow, and go for'the men rather than the boat. But surely, surely, we shall hear something." We did not, however. Not a word came to us either from Wiggins or from the other agencies. There were articles in most of the papers upon the Norwood tragedy. They all appeared to be rather hostile to the unfortunate Thaddeus Sholto. No fresh details were to be found, however, in any of them, save that an inquest was held upon the following day. I - walked over to Camberwcll in the evening to to report our ill success to the ladies, and on my return I found Holmes de jected and somewhat moretse.- He would hardly reply to my questions, and busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which in volved much heating of retorts and dis tilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment. I'p to vhe small rours of the morning I could hear the clicking of his test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous ex periment. In the early dawn I woke with a start, and Was surprised to find him standing by my bedside clad in a rude Bailor's dress, with a pea jacket, and a coarse red scarf round his neck. "I am off down -the river, Watson," said he. "I have been turning it over in my mind, and I can see only one way out of it. It is worth trying, at all events." . "Surely I can come with you, then," said I. . , "No; you can be much more useful if you will remain here as my represent ative. Iam loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may ome during the day, though Wiggins was despondent about it last night. I want you to open all notes and tele grams, and to act on your own judg ment if any news should come. Can I rely upon you?' "Most certainly." "I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, "for I can hardly tell yet where I ma y find myself. If Iam in luck, however, I may not be gone so cry long. I shall have news of some aort or other before I get back." I had heard nothing of him by break fast time. On opening the Standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business. "With reference to the Upper 'Norwood trag edy," it remarked, "we have reason to believe that the matter promises to be even more complex and mysterious than was "originally supposed. Fresh evidence has shown that it is qtiite im possible that Mr. Thaddeus Sholto could have been in any way concerned in the matter. He and the house keeper, Mrs. Bernstone, were both re leased 3-esterday evening. It is be lieved, however, that the police have a clew to the real culprit, and that it is being prosecuted by Mr. Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard, with all his well-Known energy and sagacity. Fur ther arrests may be expected at any moment." "That is satisfactory so far as it goes," thought I. "Friend Sholto is safe at any rate. I wonder what the fresh clew may be; 'though it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder." I tossed the paper down upon the ta ble, but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement in the agony column. It ran in this wa3" "Lost. Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son Jim left Smith's wharf at or about : three o'clock last Tuesday morning in the steam launch Auroral black with two red stripes, funnel black with a white band, the sum of five pounds will be paid to any one who can give information to Mrs. Smith, at Smith's wharf, or at 221 b Baker street, as to the whereabouts of the said Mordecai Smith and the launch Aurora." This was clearly Holmes' doing. The Baker street address was enough to prove that. It-struck me as rather in genious, because it might be read by the fugitives without their seeing in it more than the natural anxiety of a wife for her missing husband. (To bo c niiiiii'd.) A Strike Against the Hospitals. There is a strike against the hospi tals in Vienna. In Austria the private doctor is almost unknown, as nearly everybody belongs to a medical club, by which, on payment of a trifle, mediv cal attendance is furnished whenever required. These clubs have long had an agreement with the public hospi tals to give admission to sick members for thirty-six cents a week. The hos pitals are now trying to raise the rate to fifty cents per week and the clubs havo struck against them. Chicago Herald. i t ' t r . NORTH STATE HEWS. A MOUJCTAIX TRAGEDY. Two Men Killed and One Fatally fn jnred at a Dance in Cherokee County. A special from Murphy says that in a fight in (he lower end of Cherokee county, two brothers named Cross , were killed and Neal Newman was dangerously wounded. A dance was in progress at the Cross home. Neal and Mao Newman wtere - among the gueBta. Jake Cross, the head of the family, ordered the Newmans out of the house. They went outandwers followed by Jim and "Will Cross, broth ers. Jake Cross also went out and at tacked Neal Newman, who stabbed Jim Cross fatally. Mae Newman shot and killed Will Cross. Neal Newman was shot in the back, but was able to escape with his brother across the Ten nessee line. Frightened. to Death. The Newborn Journal tells of a death which cceured' at that place under unusual circumstances. Miss Julia Taylor, aged 58, who tired alone and did tailor work, screamed for help about midnight, and J. C. Green, who lived next door, answered and went over. Miss Taylor said a man had come on her porch and she had raised the window and asked who it was. He grasped at her and she dropped the window and he left. Mr. Green told her to come to his house and spend the remainder of the night, and she was supposed to be preparing to do so, but hearing nothing more of her foi some time Mr. Green looked in th window and saw her lying on the floor. Help was summoned, but she soon died. The ooroner's jury decided that she had died of fright. It Is Now Six Percent. The 6 per cent, interest law went in to effect Saturday. The act was rati fied March 13, but by a queer over sight had no enacting clause, so that thirty days had to elapse before the act could go into effect. Now what will the national banks dot Coal Mine Resumption. The bituminous coal mioes at Egypt have started upon full time and with fine equipment throughout- of new machinery. Fifty men are now em ployed and the daily output is 150 tons. In sixty days the force will be doubled. The machinery is working well. George W. Laoy, of Illinois, has just been made general manager. The New Women's College.. The trustees of the Baptist Women! College at Raleigh . have decided that the work must begin within thirty days. They have let the contract for the main building, the contractors be iug the North Carolina Car Company, of Kalcigh. The building will cost about $30,000. It will be of brick, three stories high, and the design, which is by Mr. Bauer,is quite elabor ate. It is the intention to complete the building by October 1st. The -location is between the capitol and the executive mansion, and is a fine one. This season's cotton receipts are 33, 263 bales against 25,830 to this date last season.- . Yadkin county is entirely out of debl and has money enough ahead to pay expenses for a year. f Half the dam at the Falls of Neuss was torn away by the big floods in the river. The damage will be repaired as rapidly as possible. In view of the tax levied by the Leg islature upon tham, the physicians oi Iredell county held a meeting and ap pointed a committee to draw up a new fee bill. ., The Gastonia Gazette ; says that young Ward, who was tried in Lincoln Superior Court for murder and ac quitted, left Lincolnton '" the next day. He feared his life was jeopardized by remaining there. Threats had. been reported to him that if the law cleared him Logan's crowd would see further about avenging their companion's death. Many new revenue seizures were re ported to Collector Simmons at Raleigh. Deputies Moffitt and Foard got a 40 gallon still near Broadway, Moore county, and an 80-gallon one near Hadley's Mills, Chatham county, owned by Lewin Marley; Deputy Troj a 60-gallon one near Jonesboro, owned by James Sloan; Deputy Gibson a 45 gallen one on Little river, Montgomery county. Revenue officers also seized the registered distillery of L. J. Wil liams, at Williams' Mill, Chatham county, and it was taken to Raleigh together with a quantity of whiskey. THE LEADING NU3I1NEES. McKinley and Stevenson the Favorites for President. New Yoek. In a canvass of the Re publican and Democratic national com mitteemen, printed by the Evening Telegram, William McKinley and Adlai Stevenson lead in the race for the re spective presidential nominations. The figures are: Republican William Mc Kinley, Jr., 13; Benjamin Harrison, 4; Thomas B. Reed, 4; William B. Alli son, 2; Levi P. Morton, 1; John Sher man, 1 ; Henry M. Teller, 1. Demo cratic Adlai Stevenson, 9; Governor Boise, of Iowa, 2; Matthews, 1; and Postmaster General Wilson, 1. Chi cago is highest in favor as the conven tion city, and the tariff and financial questions are believed to be the issues upon which the campaign is to be conducted. INC03LE TAX DIRECTIONS. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Miller Sends Instructions to Col lectors. i i At Washington, D. C, Commission er Miller, after several days considera tion of the changed ' condition of the income tax law, but, still in the ab sence of the full text of the Supreme Court decision, issued supplemental instructions to the sixty-three internal revenue collectors, j j These instructions may. be followed by others to meet special cases as they arise. The instructions were handed to the Southern Associated Press Ifor distribution, and will not be tele graphed to collectors of internal I re venue except in the are as follows: fur West They 1. Interest received from State, county and municipal bonds, or sec eurities, and Tents from, real estate, are not taxable as income, but persons or corporations receiving said interest or rents shall include in their returns as receiptslthe full amount thereof re ceived or accrued within the year for which the return is made, and shall deduct the same as not Bubject to tax ation. I 2. The amount actually paid taxes, insurance and repairs on for real estate may be deducted from income, as heretofore provided by. the law and regulations. j j 3. All persons and corporations that have heretofore rendered income !tax returns for the year 1894 to a collector or deputy collector, including therein interest received from State, county or municipal bonds or from rents from real estate, may have the amounts of said interest and rents deducted from their income by duly making an affida vit to that effect, and delivering the same to the collector or deputy col lector to whom the original return was rendered. j ! ' 4. Tha co lector upon receipt of the prescribed affidavit shell attach said affidavit to the return of the affiant heretofore made, and shall make the correction in 6aid returr in conformity with the facts stated in said affidavit, and forward said amended return, witl the affidavit attached, to the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue. - Jos. S. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Approved, j J. G. CARI,I8IiE, Secretary of the Treasury. This telegram was sent to collectors: Washington, D. C Have tht affidavit and instructions printed and distributed immediately to all persons who have rendered returns. All returns received here will e forwarded to jAhf mail. Correct same by attaching affidavit and making deduction as shown therein. Require all persons in making returns in future to show clearly that rents included and deducted were received only from real estate, and include j nothing whatever paid for rent or use of. personal prop erty or franchise. ! j If necessary for accommodation of persons filing income tax returns, you will keep your office open for business from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. j : ' Jos. S. MtLiiER, Commissioner. "There is no power vested in this department," telegrcphed Commission er Miller, "to extend the time for mak rcg returns under the. income tax law." WHAT IT COST CHINA. Comes Out of the War a Bad Loser-- Japan Makes i An authoritative a Big Haul. statement of the terms of peace being negotiated : be- tween Japan and China has been seoured from officii.! sources at Wash ington, D. C. The statement is made in order to clear up much , misrepres entation arising from speculation as to the terms of peace. They are five in number, as follows: The j In dependence of Corea. Permanent cession of the island of Formosa to Japan. Indemnity of 300,000,000 taels (Chinese coin,; worth SI. 33.) Per manent occupation of Port Arthur and immediate contiguous territory A new Japanese-Chinese treaty opening the interior of China to commerce. 'lhs money indemnity is expressed in Chinese taels 'instead of Japanese yen. The tael is in reality a weight instead of a coinj IU is considered silver money. Wrhile the face value at SI. 33 would be equivalent to $399, 000,000 in silver, it is said the actual Talne would be between $210,000,00 snd $220,000,000 iii gold. The fifth term as to the new treaty includes various trade features such as free access to Chinese rivers. There is no demand for territorv on the1 mainland outside of Port Arthur and roundings. its contiguous sur- I Don't be Fooled by a Rise In Price. i Alfred B. Shepperson, the cotton statistician of New jYork, writes to the Cotton Exchange of Charleeton, S. C: i "1 think an advance in cotton be fore the planting is completed would be unfortunate, as it would probably cause a larger acreaga in cotton than bad been contemplated, and the result of a full acreage would undoubtedly be to cause a serious decline in prices. I think the Southern planters have it in their own hands now, by the ac tion which they may take in respect to acreage, to control the price of cotton for many months, j A considerable re duction in acreage,' in view of the im proved trade conditions throughout the world, would certainly lead to a very considerable and permanent ad vance in cotton, whereas without such reduction I fearj that prices would continue for many j months, subject, of course, to occasional fluctuations, upon a very low range, and upon so low a range that there would be do profit to the American cotton growers. j London is twelve miles broad and seventeen miles long. Every year se?i about twentv miies of new street abided to it. HIS SALARY TAXED. HERE'S AN INCOME TAX QUES TION FOR G ROVER: ... Will He have to Pay $920 on His $50, OOO Salary? Washi-voto-, D. C President Cleveland filled out his income tax blank. In his return he included his salary of $50,000 as chief executive.on which the tax will be $920, deciding to leave it to the. proper officers to de termine whether the payment of the 2 per eent. assessment will bo in viola tion of the provision of the federal constitution which saya that the com pensation of the president shall not be increased nor diminished for the term for which he shall have been elected. As to the payment of the tax, Mr. Cleveland has until the 1st of July to make it, and as the constitutional question affecting his salary will un doubtedly have been passed upon be fore that time, the president will wait for the disposition of the matter. The tariff law directs that the income tax shall be paid by individuals "to the collector or deputy collector of the district in which they reside." It is said that Mr. Cleveland is uncertain as to whether he should claim Buzzard's Bay or New York city as his place of residence and that for this reason it is not unlikely that he will send his re-' turn to the deputy collector in Wash ington. PITHY NEWS ITEMS. The Czar has decided that his cor nation shall be celebrated in Moscow next August. lha Savannah, Ga., steam rice mill, capitalized at $72,000, was burned. Two hundred barrels of rice were saved. The insurance is $60,000. A dispatch to the London Central News from the Pescadores, under the date of April 6th, says that cholera is abating at Makung, where there are 547 old caBes, 28 new ones and 24 deaths. "John Quincy Adems, ' says the Boston Journal, "put the whole tariff question in a nutshell when he said: The interest of the Sonth is identified with that of the foreign rival and com petitor of the Northern manufacturer.' It is not the whole question but a large part of it. The rest of it 'is: If the interest of the agricultural South is necessarily identified with that of the foreign competitor of the highly pro tected Northern manufacturer, with whose interest is that of the agricultural Wet identifier ) C HICKAMAUGA BATTLEFIELD. Federal and Confederate Veterans Will Meet In September. Washington, D. C Secretary La mont has decided upon the main fea tures of the official erexcises authorized by congress in the dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Nation al military park. The ceremonies will begin on the battlefield of Chickamau ga September 19th, and will comprise the formal announcement of the open ing of the park by the war department, representing the government; two ora tions by speakers of national promi nence, and the proper military dis play. On the following day exercises in continuation of the dedication, re lating to the battles of Lookout moun tain and Missionary ridge, will be held at Chattanooga with a somewhat simi lar program. . The secretary will arrange to have all the armies represented in the bat tles participate in the dedication by setting apart the night of September 19th to the union and confederate ar" mies of the Tennessee, and the night of the 20th to the armies of the Potom- ac and Northern Virginia. Ihe regu lar army will be represented by the lieutenant general and a detachment of troops. The Society of the Army of the Cumberland will hold its regu lar annual reunion at Chattanooga oa the evening of September I8th, pre ceding the dedication, and to this all official visitors and representatives of the other array societies will be invit ed. " ' WASHINGTON NOTES. Miss G. Clifford, of South Carolina, has been promoted from a $900 to the $1,000 class in the office o the Comp troller of the Currency. Secretary Herbert, awarded the con tract of builiding three sea-going tor pedo boats to the Columbia Iron Works, of Baltimore. They will be 138 tons displacement, and have a speed of 24 knots. Exclusive of armor, the cost will be $97,500 each The Secretary also directed that the boats authorized by the last naval appropri ation bill shall be larger and faster than those contracted for. With this end in view he directed Chief Con structor Hickborn to prepare plans for vessels of 180 tons displacement, to have a speed of 27 knots. The London Times Likes the Income Tax Decision. In a" leader praising the United States Supreme Court for its income tax de cision the London Times says: "If we were under the United States consti tution, Sir William Harcourt's budget would have been declared unconstitu tional. Those Popu!iat leaders in America must envy us the freedom of dealing with other people's property, enjoyed in this m'-th-ilnnd of liberty." m a CTTblrfct -school near IvTount Oli vet, Ky., fifty-five pupils are enrolled. Each pupil is related either by con sanguinity or marriage to every othar child in the school. One or the other of the parents of each of the fifty-five children wa3 either a papil or school mate with the present teacher. PRICE OF BEEF ADVANCED The Bis Dealers In Chicago Bmj the Sap-' ply U Short Prices of dreed beef have been going up for two weeks. Lire beef to the wholesale dealer is fifteen per cent, higher in Chicago than it was then. At retail, choice cut have risen four to five cents a pound, and it is pre dicted it will require a dollar to buy a good steak in a few weeks. The public explanation of the rise offered byline representatives of the Dressed Beef Trust is that prime beef cattle are scarce. The change in conditions, they say, dates back to 1890. when countless herds were de stroyed on the ranges by storms. The de struction of 600,000,000 bushels of corn last year by the drought completed what Western storms began. It does not appear by the records, however, that the receipts of cattle in Chicago have fallen off so greatly. At the 6tock-yards dur ing March and the first week of April, 1894, they were 225,000. During the same period t&ia year they were 205,000 not quite ten per eent. decrease. In New. York City, at Washington Market, was observed the unusual spectacle of retail butchers closing up their stalls temporarily, or permanently going out of business, on ac count of the high price of meat. Two of the oldest butchers in the market closed up and more decided to fol low their example. The butchers say they are now paying more for meat than they have for twenty years. Assistant Dis trict Attorney Mclntyre, of New York City, said his office would prooeed against the Chicago meat combine if evidence were put In his hands showing that it Is forcing up the price of meat. 10,000 SPURIOUS STAMPS. Secret-Service Men In Chicago Unearth a Big- Festal Swindle. United States Secret Servloe operatives la Chicago and Washington have unearthed probabfy the most unique and at the same time important swindle ever perpetrated up on any Government.' It is believed thousands of dollars have been secured by a gang of skilled counter feiterSj who have reproduced with wonder, f ul skill and accuracy the pink two-cent stamp of commerce. Whether the counterfeiters have accom- f lices in dishonest postmasters is not known. ti3 thought the country is flooded from New York to San Francisco with these spurious Stamps, and the United States has been car. lying minions oi letters irom wmcn not one cent of revenue was received. Chicago apparently has been the head quarters of the gang, and Its product has been shipped to distributing agents through the express companies. Captain Stuart, of the Postal Inspectors' Department, and Captain Porter, of the Uni ted States Secret Servloe Bureau-called at the Wells. Fargo office, Chicago. They were taken to the store room, and there found an oblong package looking like a big roll of music. It contained 10,000 of the counterfef stamps. PEEL'S SUCCESSOR. William Court Gully Elected Speaker of the British House of Commons. The British House of Commons met at aoon and proceeded at once to the election of a Speaker to succeed the Right Hon, Arthur Wellesley Peel, resigned. Mr. A. J. Balfour, the leader of the Oppo sition, said that the Government's support of Mr. Gully was without precedent, and, he believed, dangerous to the future efficiency of the House. Mr. Gully, he said, was un known as regards the work of the House, having neither taken part in its debates nor served on any of its committees. Mr. Gully was elected by a vote of 285 to 274. The Parnellite members voted for the Conservative candidate, Sir Matthew W. Bid ley. Mr. Gully expressed his thanks to the House for his election, and his appreciation of the honor and great responsibility which they had conferred upon him. Sir William Harcourt and Mr. Balfour congratulated Mr, Gully on behalf of their respective parties. A jNEVV. COTTON PEST. A Weavll Appears In the Cotton Belt of Texas Threatening Great Harm. The Department of Agriculture at Washington has just issued a circular to cotton planters relative to a new and very destructive insect that has been brought across the Rio Grande from Mexico into the cotton belt . of Texas, and which, during 1894, . ser iously injured the cotton crop, over a territory of about 5,000 square miles.! It is a weevil which attack the cotton bolls. I punctures the boll with its beak and lays eggs in the hole thus made. The grubs hatch and ruin both the 866 and fiber, thus destroying simultaneously both products of the cotton plant. I The Texas Legislature, at the rec ommendation of the Agricultural De partment, is seriously considering the question of quarantining cotton from ij "Tct. infpnted district, and of protective legislation, as well as the enforcement of remedial work by act of law. Inasmuch as the insect is new to American cotton planters, there is much yet to be learned about its hab its before practical remedies can be suggested. This insect is new in Texas and threatens to spread to other cotton States, and the entire South is there fnro intprpstfid in the Droblem now - .... . conironriDK vue ie" iiBioionuiBi A Sign of Southern Growth. An interesting indication of the rap id increase in Southern centres ofpop ulation is found in the number of new postofiices established in this section. According to government statistics, as given in the United States Official Postal Gnide, the number of postof fices in 1890 was 62,037, and in 1894 G9.007, an increase of 6970. Of this increase the South is credited with 4196, and all the other States with 2474.' Of the increase the South has 65 per cent, and the North 35 per cent. These figures only repeat the proof that the South is not only keeping abreast of the rest of the States, but is leading them in gain of population and in the development of communi ties. It is the same story that is told by bank clearings of increased bus iness, by railroad earnings, ' of traffic improvement a steady and prosperous growth in people, commerce and . in dustries. " The Rochester j N. Y.) Common Council proposes to make an arrange ment with the street railroad company by which it will cany for a nominal sum all policemen and detectives. This is the outcome of the constitu tional amendment prohibiting the issuance of passes to public officers, I KILLED AT A BANK'S D00R Cashier Sauford Shot at Covington, Kjri by State Senator Goebel. .. jState Senator W. P. Goebel shot and killed Cashier John Sanford of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank In front of the First National Bank, Covington, Ky. ! ' . Senator Goebel, accompanied by Attorney General Hendricks, of Kentucky, and Frank Helm, President of the First National Bank, was going into the. bank. When they reached the door Sanford stood there, He shook hands with Hendricks, using his left hand. Then he asked Goebel it he wroto a news paper article attacking him. Gocl-el an swered: " "I did." Immediately Sanford pulled out a pistol i and fired, the ball passing, through Goebel" i trousers. Quick as a flah Goebef pulled his revolver and also fired. To do so he had to thrust the pistol beneath Mr. Helm's ehiu.v The ball crashed through Sanford's forehoad and he fell in the doorway of the bank fatally wounded. Mr. Helm's chin was badly t-urneJ with powder. I : Great confusion followed. Stnator'Goelcl Walked to the station house and addressing, the Lieutenant in charge, said: "I wish to sur render myself. 1 have shot and killed John tanford.'" I The homicide grows out o a business aul political feud of several years stand iug.asct was not a surprise. Both men were froni among Kentucky's foremost citizens, being leaders in politics, business and society.! Not since the famous Goodloe-Swopa affaip at "Lexington, in which both of those distin- guished men died, has so deplorable a trag edy occurred, j ; Goebel is unmarried and Sanford leaves a widow, a sister of the famous Tpm Marshall," Of Kentucky, and several.. childron.' on' a grown son, from whom more trouble wa1 feared. v THE ST. PAUL AFLOAT. A Xatlve-Bnilt Steamer for the AmcrU-air "Line Launched. The American liner St. Paul made ample apology at Cramps' shipyard, Philadelphia, Penn., for refusing to be launched jtwi weeks before. She was launched apparently with the greatest ease. She broke iway as the planks that held her fast in the launching: cradle were being sawed off. She shook her bow perceptibly as she started down the incline, and then with a steady, even mo tion, far more deliberate than that of her 'sis ter ship, St. Louis, she slid into the -Delaware. The Cramps never. had a more suc cessful launching. ' j Mi3s Frances C. Griscom, the sixteen-year old daughter of President Griscom, of thei In ternational Navigation Company, owners of the St. Paul, christened the ship. : j The luncheon in the mould loft followed Immediately, and soon the rafters of that place were ringing with laughter and elo- quenoe. Governor Hastings, Mayor War- Wick, President Griscom and Henry! W Cramp made speeches, as did Mr. J. J. Pac ker and several others of the St. Piuil delega tion. The St Taul is a sister ship to the St., Louis, wWch is soon to go into commission' and take her place in the transatlantic lleet.t Her lines have speed in every curve, so1 that when she was on the ways one could' not look up at her without - the oeU ing that she was epriuping ; forward.) Still, she is not built especially for speed.. Like her sister .ship, she hasseventeen watery tight compartments. The bulkheads f be tween these compartments are carried Weir up, and there ate no doors through them.j She might be cut entirely in two and her two halves, would float. She will bo commis sioned this summer on the American Line be tween New York and Southampton. A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. Announcement from Germany of a coverjr ly a New York Physician, j - From Germany comes the first official news of an American discovery said to curoj tho most dreaded of disease?, consumption and cancer. Consul-General De Kay, at Berlin, in a report to the State Department at Washington . 6ays the discovery, which was announced late in March in a trustworthy medical weekly in Germany, is likely to reaeiva Con siderable attention at the coming medical; congress in Munich. The discovery f was made by. Dr. Louis Waldstein, of New York; a brother of the famous archaeologist, Dr Charles Waldstein. ; Th3 h'iw treat- meat, the report says, "consists of inject big minute dosos "of pilocarpine Until the lymphatic system is stimulated and the white corpuscles of the blood overcome the poisonous particles which pro-j duco disease." Dr. Waldstein's researches' have gone to the fountain whence hesd healthfnl white corpusciesspring. and by en-j liveninir their action and productiveness M restores the condition of the blood and de stroys poisonous germs. Dr. Louts Waldstein, who Is referred the above despatch, is a well-known to in Neiv York physician. 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