THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. IV. NO. 41.
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W. C. SMITH Charlotte NO
The European rivers which have over
flown their banks, causing widespread
devastation, run through a great and pop
ulous territory. The Elbe rises in the
Riesengebirge, Bohemia. It enters the
German ocean near the port of Cuxhaven.
Its length in a direct line is 305 miles
—with windings, 550 miles. The Vistula
rises in the Carpathian Mountains, flows
into Austrian Silesia, traverses Poland
aid East Prussia, forming the main chan
nel of trade in those countries. Its total
length, including winding, 530 miles.
The Oder is one of the large southern
affluents ot the Baltic Sea, its head
stream passing through Austrian Silesia.
An Ohio firm has been sending circu
lars to the students in Main colleges,
offering to furnish them with essays,
orations, invectives, etc., made to order,
at from $3 to $25, according to length.
When boys start out in life by hiring
other men to do their thinking for them,
remarks the Augusta Journal, they
might as well forego the expense of the
so-called liberal education. There are
maDy worthy callings in life which do
not call for liberal education, but there
is not one that furnishes any chance of
success to young men who are not
accustomed to think for themselves.
Now the real terra incognita is the
under world, remarks the Chicago Timet.
Daring navigation and enterprise have
ransacked the odd corners of this great
globe's surface. The track of discovery
is now downward. As yet the deepest
borings cannot be compared to the sting
of a gnat on the body of an elephant. It
has been near four hundred years since
Columbus. What will one century do
for discovery in the under world! In
view of the surprisers in the last half
century and their influences upon
modern life, who is bold enough to pre
dict the results of mining surprises in
the next?
The Government has already a very
large school established for the Indians.
Including agency, industrial and board
ing schools, it has an aggregate of 227,
with a capacity of 13,756 pupils, an
enrollment of 14,333 and an average
attendance of 10,520, On these schools
the Government expended during the
last fiscal year $1,106.025.57, besides the
expenditures for construction and repair
of buildings, the transportation of pupils
and sundry miscellaneous items. In his
last annual report < ommlssioner Atkins
declaresthat “the Indian can be educated
equally with the white or the colored
man,” and that the average cost decreases
fromjeartoycar. The cost last year for
each pupil in a Government building
school was $170; in a contract boarding
school, $130; in a Government day school,
$53; in a contract day school, S3O. It
must not be inferred thst the contract
schools are the cheaper. The difference
is due to the fact that the private socie
ties supply the deficiencies in the latter
(rom their own funds.
THE TIME TO HATE.
hav© a friend—l mean, a foe—
Whom cordially I ought to hate;
ißnt somehow I can never seem
To lay the feud between us straight.
When apple boughs are full of bloom,
And Nature loves her fellow-men
With all the witchery of spring
How can you bate a fellow then!
And then when summer comes, with days
Pull of a long and languid charm,
When even water-lilies sleep
On waves without a thought of harm,
When undorneath the shadiest tree
My hammock hangs in idlest state,
I were an idiot to get up
Out of that hammock just to hate.
Then harvests come. If mine is big,
I am too happy with my store;
If small, I’m too much occupied
With grubbing round to make it more,
In dim recesses of my mind;
I have no Idle hour to spend
In hunting up the bitter foe
Who simply ought to be my friend.
In winter? Well, in winter—ugh!—
Who would add hate to winds that freeze?
All love and warmth that I can get
I want in such dull days as these.
No, no, dear foe; it is no use;
The struggling year is at an end;
I cannot hate you if I would,
And you must turn and be my friend.
—Alice W. Rollins , in Harper's Weekly.
THE TWO VASES.
What I am about to relate is abso
lutely true. It has never appeared in
type before. I shall merely make a
necessary change in names and locale,
leaving the facts exactly as Ihey were de
tailed to me by one personally interested
in the story.
In a rambling old rectory in the Mid
lands there had stood for more than forty
yaars two china vases—not specially ad
mired or valued by the owner—dusted
by the sacrilegious hands of every
chance housemaid, yet, curiously enough,
unbroken during that long period of
time. There were quantities of china
lying about and ranged along the walls,
apparently of equal or greater value.
The place was a vast china warren —why,
no one seemed to know.
At the end of the forty years the
Hector, who had a more dignified
ecclesiastical title as well, died. Like
Mr. Bardell, “he glided almost imper
ceptibly from the world,” and left his
china behind him.
The Rector left two sons, Robert and
James Fitzroy. The property was
divided pretty equally between the two,
except that to Robert, the elder, went
the furniture, pictures, plate and china.
Before the final settlement, however,
James Fitzroy said to Robert: “I have
a fancy for those two vases out of the
hall—more for auld lang syne than any
thing else.” _ To which Robert replied,
with generosity more conspicuous than
discrimination: “AH right; I don’t care
about them. You may have them with
pleasure. ”
The incident, which seemed to both
trivial enough, did not dwell in the
minds of either of the brothers. James,
who was a barrister by profession and a
farmer by preference, took his spoil
away. The vases were placed in the
drawing-room of his country house,
where his wife, partly because her hus
band from old associations attached
value to them, dusted them herself.
One day a lady of their acquaintance
called at The Briars. After the usual
platitudes about the weather and the
aulness of the season, the visitor glanced
round the room in search of a new sub
ject. The errant gaze lighted on the
strange vases, and the quest was over.
“On, what lovely vases! Where did
you get them, Mrs. Fitzroy?”
“They came from my husband’s fa
ther’s. Were they not in the room when
you called last, Mrs. Hemming?”
"No, lam sure they were not. Ido
admire them tremendously; don't you?”
Here the visitor crosses the room to in
spect the delicate ware more closely.
The pantomime of devotion which fol
lows can be more easily imagined than
described.
“I like them very well,” replies the
hostess, unsympathetically; “but I have
seen a great many vases that I like bet
ter.”
The visitor returns to her seat, but
cannot keep her eyes and thoughts from
the object of her admiration.
A week afterward Mrs. Hemming calls
again. This time she is accompaned by
Lady Sarah Mordaunt, who is unknown
personally to Mrs. Fitzroy, but who is
an ardent chinamaniac. Mrs. Hemming
introduces her friend. Together they
■trike becoming, appreciative, and, lo the
unsympathetic, somewhat ludicrous at
titudes before their idol. Mrs. Fitzroy
plays second fiddle to her own china.
Lady Sarah Mordaunt is even louder in
her praises than Mrs. Hemming. To
gether they insist, unmoved by the pas
sive resistance of their hostess, on re
moving the contents of a glass hitherto
filled with bric-a-brac, and installing in
its place the two vases. Departing with
a solemnity becoming to the occasion,
they thus exhort Mrs. Fitzroy: d‘lf you
and your husband do not really value
tbit china, why not send it to Messrs.
Christie & Mason, and let them send it
to some one who will f”
Lady Sarah Mordaunt, with, indeed,
an enthusiasm worthy of the cause, was
quite rude about it. The world outside
chinamania is, to the true believer, very
much what Macedonia was to Athens in
the dsy of Pericles—a barbarism only
to be touched with the tongs.
These exhortations sunk deep into the
receptive soul of Mrs. Fitzroy, and event
ually permeates! even the more |>achy
dermstous entity which composed her
husband. The barrister communicated
with the famous firm of auctioneeis.
They asked (or » description of the
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1888.
china, which was given. Ultimately, by
their advice, the vases were sent up to
King street, St. James's Square, to be
inspected, and sold for what they would
fetch.
“Let us have a little jaunt up to town,
my dear,” remarked Mr. James Fitzroy
to .his wife; “if the china is all they
say, the vases ought to fetch a ten
pound note each, and that will pay our
expenses. We have not had a holiday
for a long time.” Like John Gilpin,
when proposing a similar excursion,
Mr. Fitzroy was unaware that the future
was big with fate. There the simile
breaks down.
Accordingly, to town they went, pnt
ting up at the Bedford Hotel, in Covent
Garden. After a few days spent in en
joyment Mr. Fitzroy received a notice
from Christie & Manson that his vases
would be sold on a certain day the fol
lowing week at the end of the sale of
Count Mirabcau’s china. Count Mira
beau was a name dear to connoisseurs,
and even celebrated outside the charmed
circle. He was, in fact, a hierophant of
the china fetish.
“1 should like to see this collection of
Count Mirabeau's they talk so much
about in the papers,” said Mr. James
Fitzroy. “I think we will go to the
sale.”
With this view, when the day arrived,
they went, prepared to swallow quietly
their own (and the vases’) comparative
insignificance. On their arrival in King
street they found the rooms, of course,
crowded with gentlemen and dealers.
The time fixed for the sale had not yet
some.
Making their way with difficulty
through the room, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy
met an acquaintance from the Midland
shire in which they lived.
“Hallo, Fitzroy! what are you doing
here? I never knew you were a maniac.
What brings you to Christie's on a
china day?”
“I don’t go in for this sort of a thiog
as a rule, but I thought I should like to
see Count Mirabcau’s collection. They
talk so much about it. Besides, I have
a little thing in the sale myself.”
The friend did not heed the last part of
the remark, but answered the first.
“Oh, Count Mirabeau! Yes, that is fine
enough, I confess ; but it is nothing com
pared to some china at the further end
of the room. Y'ou come this way and I
will show you.” The trio threaded their
way to a remote corner of the sale-room,
passing as rapidly as might be a great
quantity of very handsome china which
was arranged and ticketed ready for
sale. At the end, remote from the door
and near the rostrum, under two glass
molds, en a table stood their own two
vases.
“Tlere, look at that,” remarks the
friend complacently, with the gentle
patronage of auperior knowledge. “That
is china if you like—worth any other
ten pieces in the room. Quite uniquel”
“Hangit!” said Mr. Fitzroy. “I need
not have come all this way to see those
vases. Why, they are mine!”
“i’ours, Fitzroy! I like that! Y T ou
have turned humorist in your old age.
Don’t you wish they were, by Jove! You
must take care of your husband, Mrs.
Fitzroy. He works too hard.”
“Thank you for the insinuation,
Somerset. lam sane enough to know
my own property when I see it. I tell
you those vases that you think such a lot
of are mine. I sent them to Christie.”
The tone and the words were too earnest
to be mistaken.
By this time the bystanders had heard
the colloquy, and had gathered the im
port of what was passing. The dealers
6warmed around Mr. Fitzroy like vul
tures upon carrion. They took the facts
and the “greenness” in at a glance.
“I will give you five ’undred pound
for those vases.” “I will give you six
’undred pound for those vases.” “I will
give you eight ’undred pound for those
vases.” “I will give you more than any
man in England for those vases on the
table, sir.” Such were the cries
which resounded on all hands.
Mr. Fitzroy was perfectly bewildered,
and ran considerable risk of being re
duccd to the condition Somerset baa sug
gested previously. The latter, who was
an old hand, came to his rescue.
“Don’t be a fool, Fitzroy. If they
really are yours, keep a cool head on
your shoulders. They tell me telegrams
iiave been on the go all over Europe
about those vases' to-day. They are
worth a mint of money. Don’t part ta
my of these sharks. ”
On the steps of the hall the barrister
would have taken twenty pounds for his
ihances from that day’s sale with cheer
ful alacrity..
Mrs. Fitzroy was looking very white.
The sudden turn affairs had taken was
almost too much for her.
“Don’t faint, my dear,” remarked her
auaband. The advice was needed. She
felt very like it. But woman's buttress,
curiosity to see the end, sustained her.
If a woman were not curious, she would
die more often than she does.
The sale began. Count Mirnbeau’a
collection was sold first. The junior
partner was the auctioneer. The Count's
china was indeed magnificent, and duly
appreciated. The bidding was active
and tho prices adequste. Nevertheless,
throughout there was a restless feeling
jf impatience. More wna coming. The
lid-bit was kept to the last.
There waaa pause. Then, amidst loud
applause and great excitement, to which
it may be imagined the Eitzroys were
jot wholly insensible, the two vases
were plncod before Mr. Woods the auc
tioneer, in full view of the audience.
When ailence supervened, Mr. Woods
laid:
“ Gentlemen, we know next to nothing
about this china which stands tiefore
you. and of which you hare just testified
your approval. We cannot give you its
detailed history. All we know it that
these vaaes have been hidden away in a
country rectory in the Midlands for forty
yeflri and more. Anything further back
Men* to bo obtolutofy uncertain. On*
thing, however, we do know absolutely:
The tinting is the real Rose du Barri.
We thought there were only five vaaes in
Europe, the finest existing examples of
this beautiful ware. -We now know
there are seven. The sixth and seventh
stand before you, gentlemen.”
Another round of applause greeted
the conclusion of this short speech. The
bidding began. Mr. and Mrs. James
Fitzroy stood in the corner unnoticed,
breathless with suppressed excitement.
No one heeded them. They again played
second fiddle to their own property.
Five hundred pounds was the first bid
for the pair. A cheer emphasized the
spirited start. A cool thousand was,
however, soon reached. Then there was
a pause, amid silence which could be
felt and almost heard. Only three bid
ers were left in. Every one understood
that they were gathering up their forces
for the final conflict.
“ It is against you, my lord,” the auc
tioneer remarked quietly.
The hint was taken, and the bidding
began again. “Fifteen hundred guin
eas.” An unanswerable argument. The
hammer falls. The crowd cheers. The
welthiest nobleman in England is the
purchaser. Mr. James Fitzroy is the
wealthier by one thousand five hundred
pounds. Mrs. Fitzroy marks her ap
preciation of the gravity of the situation
and her own good luck in true feminine
fashion, by promptly fainting.
It reads like a romance, yet happens to
be perfectly true.
******
About the same time a girl chances to
die of starvation. One of the weekly
papers saw fit to couple the episode of
the vases and the death of the girl to
gether, although the two things were
quite distinct. The effort was lyrical,
and the last couplet ran:
"But she was only common clay.
And these were Rose du Barri.”
**** * * \
A puff of smoke rises up into the air
and curls in graceful spiral curves to the
ceiling, where it hovers until its identity
is lost, owing to the fact of its being
joined by other unsubstantial emanations
from the same source.
R“But you are Robert Fitzroy?” queries
the listener, who has been silent for five
minutes after the narrator of the story
had finished.
“Yes,” with another and more vigor
ous puff of smoke, which may or may
not have been expressive of internal
emotion. “I gave those vases to my
brother." — London World.
Frlepdshlp Swerved Him Not
Henry Bergh, the groat friend ot dumb
animals, never beat around the bush.
He never spared the rich to prosecute
the poor. One of the bitterest enemies
he ever made was a man who had been a
near neighbor of his and even exceeded
him in wealth. This man was a banker
and owned a palatial residence on Fifth
avenue. New York, not far from Mr.
Bcrgh’s home. One night the great phi
lanthropist saw a pair of mettlesome
horses chafing their bits in front of a
fashionable theatre. Walking to the
curbstone he saw that they were in tor
ture. Their heads were held aloft by
means of a barbarous burr bit—one of
tbe most frightful species of equina
punishment ever invented.
“Take these bits out,” he commanded
the coachman.
The latter paid no attention to the or
der.
Throwing back the lapel of his coat
and exhibiting his badge of office, Mr.
Bergb repeated the command.
“Take them out or I’ll have you ar
rested.”
Just then the owner came out, greeted
Mr. Bergh cordially, and asked the cause
of the disturbance.
“1 am surprised Mr. ,” exclaimep
Mr. Bergh, “that you should allow such
brutality. Those bits must be removed
at once.”
In vain the banker pleaded, stormed
and threatened. The bits were removed,
and from that day to his death, a half
dozen years ago, he never spoke ta Mr.
Bergh.— Washington Pott.
Reminiscences of “Old Hickory.”
One of the greatest characteristics of
General Andrew Jackson was his oppo
sition to anything English; he imbibed
this feeling, no doubt, from being so
often brought to confront the British
troops and the intrigues of English states
men.
From the very beginning of the revo
lutionary war, Jackson wns more or less
in fighting harness. When only fourteen
he volunteered to meet the British, who
were then committing depredations upon
the defenceless people of South Caro
lina. He once remarked: "Ilike Balti
more. because the footprint of a British
soldier has never been seon there.”
It is somewhat singular that this great
warrior aud stubborn statesman once
studied for the ministry in the Presbyte
rian Church.
It was his firmness of purpose, more
than skill, which made him so uniformly
successful in dealing with the savages
in the southern territory, as well as the
invincibles of Wellington at Orleans.—
Baltimore American.
A House of lee.
A house constructed entirely of ice
has just been set up at the Aquarium at
St. Petersburg, Russia. It Is built afler
the style of the historical house of 1740.
The building, formed of dressed blocks
of ice, comprises three spacious .rooms.
Bed, washstand, and all the furniture
are of ice. The fireplace in the drawing
room contains ice blocks imitating logs
of wood, while a petroleum atove burns
behind; the smoke from the stova
escapas through an ice chimney. Gut
aide a balustrade of icn surrounds tha
houaa, and thu facade li ornamented by
two larga statues bawn out of ic«. The
total coot ot tho itniotura WM 4000 ruble*.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A consultation was held in Raleigh by
gentlemen of that city and other points,
and it was the unanimous opinion that
the breeding of fine horaea in North
Carolina has assumed proportions which
justifies and demands the formation of a
State Breeders’ Association. A call is
therefore issued for a meeting to lie held
in Raleigh on the 15th of May for the
purpose of forming such association.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Florence hopes to have the Southern
shops of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany built there.
John Hawkins, who robbed the post
office at Newberry a month ago, was
brought here from New Orleans, carried
before United States Commissioner J. 8.
Reid and admitted to bail in the sum
of $2,000. He gave the bond without
trouble.
NORTH. EAST AND WEST
Earthquake shocks were felt in Cali
fornia a few days ago.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has become
an honorary member of the G. A. R.
Near Wilkesbarre, Pa., two men were
killed by a gas expldsion in a mine.
The rice plantations on the lower Mis
sissippi have been badly damaged by an
overflow from the Gulf.
A dispatch from Valentine, Neb., says
a severe blizzard is now raging there,
making travel almost impossible.
The South End Bank, of Columbus,
Ohio, has suspended for two or three
days. The dashier had overdrawn his
account.
On Lee’s creek, near Fort Smith, Ark.,
two desperate characters were killed
while resisting arrest.
Near Olean, N. Y., a train was
wrecked, four persons were killed and
thirty-five injured.
The New York banks now hold $16,-
196,525 in reserve in excess of legal re
quirement.
Manuel Santalla and Miguel Gonzalez,
convicted kidnappers, were executed ’at
Matanzas, Cuba, on Saturday.
Reports from all sections of the Pied
mont, Va., region agree that the fruit
crop has been ruined by the late cold
spell.
An American flag made by the Nuns
of Cashel was formally presented, by
Governor Hill on behalf of Archbishop
Croke, to the 69th New York regiment.
Near Rochester, N. Y., a train wsb
thrown from a twenty foot embankment
and Beven persons were dangerously and
thirteen persons less seriously hurt.
The largest dry goods store in Brook
lyn, E. D., (Edward R. Storer’e) was
burned. Loss on building, $40,000;
stock, SIOO,OOO. Adjoining buildings
damaged, $75,000.
The following crimes and accidents
were reported on Saturday: At Belle
Fontaine, Ohio, the floor of a public hall
gave way and many women and children
were killed. At Portland, Oregon, a
man and three young women were
drowned by a boat capsizing. At Salt
Lake City a boat, with two men and two
children, was swept over a dam. One
man and the children were drowned.
Over In Georgia.
The people of Acworth have resolved
to build a hotel costing from $25,000 to
$40,000.
The melon acreage of Mitchell county
is aboi.t double what it was last year, in
round numbers 3,000 acres.
The convention of the colored school
teachers of Georgia will convene in
Athens the first week in May.
William B. Jones, of Dublin, caught
two young rabbits in his garden a few
days ago. He had an old Maltese cat
which had a family ol kittens, and from
some cause the kittens died. The old
cat has adopted the rabbits, and happi
ness reigns throughout tho household.
The cat cares for the rabbits as tenderly
as she did for her own offspring.
The announcement that Col. W. L.
Scniggs woujd accept the editorship of
the prohibition weekly at Atlanta seems
to have premature. It is now said that
Col. John William Jones, the historian,
will lie selected to fill the position. Col.
Scruggs is a regular contributor to the
North American Review, but on account
of his being a Republican it was thought
best not to select hip. Tbe first issue
of the paper is expected to appear on
May Bth.
The Land of Flowers.
The old Slave Market at St. Augustine
has been repainted, a new roof laid, and
this famous old building will soon be
neat as a pin.
It is reported at Key West that Cubans
arc actively preparing to send a series of
small squads of filibustcrers to Cuba, but
are cautious about committing them
selves.
B. D. Hart, of Adamsville, Sumter
county, has just netted $250 on one
fourth of an acre in atrawberriea, and
there was SSO worth he never gatnered.
Tbe orange-growers in and around Or
lando arc making extensive inquiries for
piping, pumping engines, <fcc., to be put
in their groves for irrigating purposes in
ease of any protracted dry weather, thus
guarding against the danger of the fruit
dropping from the trees, which iaueually
the rceult of too longM Interval between
showers.
Terns. $1.50 per Annul Single Copy 5 cents.
A NEGRO ASSAULTS A LITTLE GIRL
A Mob Takes Chars* of Him and Hants
Him to a Limb—Threats of Venseaaee*
Hardy Posey, colored, was lynched by
a mob of masked white men for attempt
to .rape a twelve year old white girl at
Bessemer, Ala.
The negro went to the home of a farmer
named McKinney, who lives just outside
of town. ' He found Alice McKinney, a
twelve year old girl, alone,and approach
ing her from behind, threw her to the
ground and attempted to outrage her.
Her screams brought her uncle to the
rescue, and the negro raa, but was soon
caught. He was taken in charge by the
police and was locked up. The girl waa
brought in
AND IDENTIFIED POSEY
in a crowd of twenty negro men. There
was no excitement, but a determination
to make swift and certain punishment
was seen in the faces of the white men
of the town.
The town marshal took the prisoner to
his residence and placed him under
strong guard, but his precautions were
useless. Soon after midnight two hun
dred masked men appeared at the officer'*
house and demanded the prisoner.
The men were very quiet and had little
to say, but they meant business. Posey
was taken, and the officers were com
pelled to go along with the mob and see
the work well done. About fifty feet
from the depot, near the center of the
town, stood a large oak tree, and under
this the crowd stopped. The negro was
bound hand and foot and the rope placed
around his neck with the regulation
hangman's knot. A large placard was
pinned to his breast, bearing the
words:
“Our mothers, wives and daughters
must and shall be protected.
[Signed]
“Bessemeb’s Best Citizens.”
The leader then gave the order to pull
away, and in a moment the negro’s body
was hanging from a limb, his feet being
ten feet from the ground. The crowd
then moved away as quietly as they
came.
The body was left
HANGING TO THE LIMB
until 9 o'clock in the morning, when it
was cut down by the coroner.
Posey was a brother of Wesley Posey,
who came near sharing the same fate at
the hands of a mob in Birmingham four
years ago. Wesley Posey assaulted a
white woman, and the efforts of a mob
to lynch him brought about the “Posey
riot” at Birmingham, and caused all the
State troops to be ordered there. He was
afterwards tried and convicted, but died
in jail soon after being sentenced.
The Eye of a Rabbit.
One of the most delichte and notable
surgical operations ever performed in the
world occurred in Philadelphia a few
days ago, being nothing less than the
transplantation of a portion of the eye of
a rabbit to the eye of a human being.
The object of the operation was to re
lieve the obscurity of an eye of a patient
which was caused by inflammation, and
which produced in time an opaque sur
face. The patient was a servant girl.
The operation took place at Germantown
hospital, under the immediate direction
of Dr. L. Webster Fox, opthalmic sur
geon of the institution, who witnessed
one of the only two operations of this
nature which have ever been performed
in the world, in Germany last year, it
being performed by Prof. Von Wipple,
of Giessen, Germany.
A TERRIBLE CRASH.
Tbe Floor ot an Exhibition Hall Give*
War.
A terrible accident occurred at Push
sylvania, Ohio. A school exhibition was
in progress in Brookman's hall, situated
in the second story of a brick building.
The hall seats about four hundred peo
ple, and was crowded to its utmost ca
pacity. Suddenly, without the slightest
warning, the floor gave way with a
frightful crash. It appeared to sink in
the center, funnel-shaped, and the entire
audience went down in a surging mass
to the ground, a distance of twenty feet.
All physicians in the town were imme
diately summoned.
Eight people were killed and probably
fifty others more or ‘less seriously in
jured. The walls did not fall in, or the
calamity would have been much worse.
A number of ladies and children were
taken out, some of them unhurt, with
their clothing torn completely off of
them.
The Deadly Kerosene.
Ai explosion occurred in a dwelling
house on West street, between 13th and
14th, Topeka. Kansas, caused by the
pouring of oil from a five gallon oin
nearly full into the tank of a gasoline
stove. The building was set on tire and
destroyed, resulting in the death of
Annie Rogers, an English girl, who had
been in this country only a short time,
and her charge, Mary McLaughlin, the
six year old daughter of McLaughlin and
wife, who with A. D. Campbell, a trav
eling salesman for a Cincinnati notion
house, and his wife, occupied the house.
The bodies when recovered wero a flesh,
less, charred mass.
The Cotton Supply
The totnl visible supply of cotton for
the world i* 2,400.451 bales, of which
1,706,451 are American, against 9 518,003
and 1,887,000 respectively laatyior. Re
ceipt* this week st all lnterlcr town*,
149,584. Receipts from plantation*,
18,930, Crop In sight, 8,#00, 589,