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THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. YOL. y. NO. 1. THE Charlotte Messenger IS PUBLISHED Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interests of the Colored People of the Country. Able and well-known writers will coutrib ute to its columns from different parts of the country, and it will contain the*latest Gen eral News ofthe Ihk Messenger is a first,-class newspaper and will not allow personal abuse in it» col umns. It is not sectarian or partisan, but independent—dealing fairly by all. It re serves t,be rieht to criticise the shortcomings of all public officials—commending the worthy, and recommending for election such men as in its opinion ere best suited to serve the interests of the people. It is intended to supply the long felt need of a newspaper to advocate the rights and defend the inter.sts of the Negro-American, specially in the Piedmont section of the Carol inas. SUB6CBIPTIOHB: (Always in Advance.) 1 year - - - fl 50 8 months - - - 100 6 months - - 75 3 mouths - - - ■v) 2 months - - 85 Single Copy - - 5 Address, W. C. SMITH Charlotte NC The Berlin Homoeopathic Society re cently learned that it was the custom of -many druggists to put up on homneo 'pathic prescriptions merely some simple •compound and label it as whatever was wanted. To test this eighty different burlesque prescriptions were written out in Latin and sent to as many different dnurg : sts. Seventy-seven out of the eighty swallowed the bait, and put up what purported to be tho dose required by the bogus prescriptions. The other three sent the prescriptions back with the remark that they did not understand them. Pine apple culture, declares the Prairie Farmer, has become an import ant industry in Florida. Key West has been growing the fruit for several years with perfect success. The climate there is about the same as in the Bahamas, and the sandy soil is productive. Along the Indian River, in Florida, large planta tions have been stocked with pine apples. The product of this region is estimated as being three or four times as large now as last year, nnd in the near | future it is expected that the domestic or home grown fruit wid supply the con sum ution ofthejvntr^ountrv. With becoming pride and patriotism the Atlanta Count Hut on boast* that it has now become almost a matter of ne cessity for every genuine English states man to have an Ameri* an wife. Lord Randolph Churchill's success is attrib uted to the popularity and shrewdness of his American wife, and Mr. Evans, the liberal member u*t leturned from Southampton, occupies a similar po sit on. He was compelled to be absent from England while his campaign was in progress* and h s American wife ap peared at the meetings in his stead and catried him through in triumph. For some time the desire, inherent in human nature, to learn something "tangible about the conditions which prevail at the roles, observes the New York WorM, has not l>een productive of active operations tg coinpass its ends. Now, however, a Gennan syndicate, headed by Henry Viliard, is about to send an expedit on to the S*outh Foie or, to speak more accurately, in the di rection of that remote locality. But to the thoughtful student <?f the prat, Polar expeditions are about as iifclca* as any thing the activity of man begets. A great deal of money, much physical suffering and a vast amount of wasted energy are their cost. Up to the present time their outcome has not in tne most remote degree compensated for their outlav. A remarkable condition of things exist In the once independent republic of Peru. Bince the war with Chili the country has become bankrupt and its affairs hive poetically been placed in the hands of an English syndicate. She assigns to this syndicate the right to work silver, coal, cinnabar, and other mineral mines, and guano. The syndi cate is to have free use of eNptingquay* and railways. It is authorized to con struct highways in all deputments of Peru . to further commerce in <ocoa, cos fee, wheat, corn, alcohol, bark, wool, cotton nnd timber. Ilia to work all mine*, and lias the right to export guano, and new receives a percentage on all Custom House duea, discovered or lobe discov ered. It can mortgage alt concessions up to $2«,000,0i)0, and has the right to establish a bank at Lima. It may import free and ia absolved from all takes. In fact, the country has become an English possesion. . . WASHINGTON, D. C. IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. What Our Lawmakers are doing at the National Capital Tuesday. —ln discussing the rice ques tion in the House. Mr. Elliott, o( South Carolina, said the Republicans having 1 nominated n Chinese President, were 1 ready to sacrifice the colored labor of the South by allowing free importation of rice from China. On motion the duty on rice, flour and 1 rice meal was fixed at 15 percent, ad | valorem. , Motions to restore existing duties on peanuts, cotton thread, yarn, and cotton i cloth were made and rejected. An amendment was adopted fixing the rate of duty on flax hackled, at $lO per ton. Pending the consideration of a motion to increase from 25 to 40 per cent, ad vance the duty on flax and linen thread, twine and pack thread and manufacturers of flax, the committee rose at 5 p. m., and a recess was taken until 8 p. m. At the night session thirteen bills granting the right of way to railroads through the Indian reservations was passed. Senate. —The event in the Senate was Mr. Hoar's speech on the fishery question. Mr. Sherman offered a resolution which was agreed to, directing the com mittee on finance to inquire into the tariff reductions. Mr. Everts submitted an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $32,00$ for the completion of the mon ument at Washington's headquarters at Newburg, N. Y. Consideration of the fishery treaty was then resumed. Mr. Hoar addressed the Senate in opposition to the treaty, speak ing for four hours, and at the conclusion of ins speech the Senate adjourned. Wednesday.— In the Senate theconfer ence report on the postoffiee appropria tion bill was presented. Several minor points of difference were reported and agreed to, but on the Senate amendment known aB the subsidy clause, which ap propriates sßoo,ooo* for the South American mail service, the conference committee had been unable to agree. The tariff argument was carried on at considerable length by Senators Reagan. Hawley, Stewart, McPhersons, Salisbury and Call. Finally the motion to insist 'on the amendment was agreed to. Yeas 28; nays 10. The consideration of the Senate bill providing for sea coast defencos was then taken up. A long discussion took place and without action on the bill, adjourned at 5:30. Hoithe. —The Senate amendment to the Agricultural bill, appropriating SIOO,OOO to continue the experiment on sugar from soghum was agreed to, which passed the bill. The House went into a committee of the whole on the tariff bill. The pending amendment was that of Mr. Phelps, fixing the rate of duty on flax or linen thread, and all manufactur ed hemp, at 40 percent, ad valorem. The best portion of the afternoon was consumed in an animated political de bate, in which Phelps’ interview on the Chicago nomination, Ingalls’ letter and personal and political consistencies of Mr. Weaver, of lowa, were the subjects of discussion. The committee then rose, and the House at 4:45 took a recess until 8 o'clock. The evening session was devoted to the consideration of the census IA I. Thursday— In the House Mr. Ford, from the committee on militery affairs, reported back the appointment of a special committee to investigate the alleged evasion of the contract labor law. The House then, in committee of the whole, took up the tariff bill, beginning with the wool schedule. The agreement that no vote should be taken on this schedule to-day. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, said the Mills bill was the only one lief ore the House to reduce the surplus and increase taxation, and he would give it his hearty support if wool was placed on the free list. Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, charac terized the present bill as sectional: it was all in the interest of the south. He favored putting sugar and rice on the free list, thus cutting down the rev enue $59,000,000 on the two articles of necessity. Mr. Bootbman. of Ohio, favored a re turn to the whole schedule of 1887. He could not commend the feelings of an Americas eitizan, who, while professing a sincere love of the country was willing to destroy so import Ant an industry in the national resource 1 . Mr. Dangler, of Maine, said that since the Mills bill had Ireen launched in the press, wool bad declined seven cents a pound. A political discussion ensued between Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, and Mr. Breckcn ridge. of Kentucky, in which the form er critcised the President for vetoing pension hills. Mr. Kennedy assailed the Democratic parly bitterly for suppressing the negro votes in the south. The committee rose, and the nouse at 5 o'clock took a recess uptil 8. Ai the night seasicn of the Houso tm vnte pension bills were considered, but without jHissing any. The House st 10:15 adjourned. Senate—A resolution offered in the Heuate to print extra copies of the report of the committee on )iensions on seven vetoed pension bills, raised * big breeze. CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1888. Senators Stewart, Blair and Hawley critciscd the President severely for his pension vetoes in general. Mr. Butler spoke of and confessed to having been a party to recklessness of pension legislation of the Senate. Mr. Blair severely critcised the Presi dent, saying that he might in his vetoes have used the language of a gentleman. He also assailed Senator Butler, saying the latter had confessed himself cupablyneg ligent in the discharge of his duty. Senator Butler remarked that if the President had tc take his standard of the gentleman from the Senator from New Hampshire, it would be a torry day for the country. He charged that Mr. Blair was a demagorigue. Sesator Blair pitched into Mr. Butler as a rebel, a traitor, etc. The question, of course, was brought in by Mr. Butler's criticising Mr. Blair for assaulting the President, when the latter could not respond. At 2 o’clock Mr. George, who wa# en titled to the floor, put an end to the con troversy by moving to proceed to exe cute business, and then began a speech on the fisheries treaty. At the conclusion of Mr. George’s speech in defense of the fisheries treaty the Senate took up the bill to refer to the court of claims, claims of workmen under the eight hour law, Bnd disaussed it until six o'clock when it adjourned. Fiuday—The House passed the day in debating the mail subsidy clause in the postoftice appropriation bill. The feature of the day’s proceedings in the Senate was Senator Dolp’s speech in opposition to the fisheries t rcaty. Monday. —The internal revenue clause of the tariff bill was unexpectedly reach ed in the House. Hon. George Wise, of Virginia, offered an amendment to repeal the entire- tobacco tax. Mr Nichols’ added an amendment abolishing all punishment for violating the law and for a partial repeal of the entire system. Then Colonel Johnston offered an amendment providing for the repeal of tax on distilled spirits made from grain or fruit. This was defeated. The North Carolina delegation, as a unit, voted for these amendments. The wool section was taken up, and after discussion, a motion to strike wool from the free list was defeated. Mr Wise, of Virginia, urged and moved the repeal of tax on cigars, cheroots and cigarettes. Mr Johnston,' of North Carolina, here brought the question of free whiskey fairly before the House, by moving to amend Mr Wise’s motion to provide for the repeal of all internal revenue taxes on spirits distilled from grain or fruit of any kind. He did not want free brandy or free whiskey, but he wanted to see his people free from the oppression cf an almost militery law. Mr Sowden. of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment to the amendment abol ishing the tax on spirits distilled from ((caches and other fruit, but pending a vote the committee rose, and at 4:50 the House adjourned. Senate— The Senate passed a bill ap propriating $25,000 for the erection at Louisville of a statute to General George Rogers Clarke. Tile Senate went into an open execu tivc session on the fisheries treaty, and Senator Pugh spoke in favor of its ratifi cation. Mr Chandler followed in oppo sition to the treaty, aDd attacked the. Secretary of State in bitter terms for his decrepitude in yielding to a surrender of the American fishing rights to England. He said the great object of the Demo cratic-British alliance was to destroy the American tariff. After a short secret session the Senate at 5:55 p. m. adjourned. WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has commuted the sentrnce or Wm. G. McKee, who was convicted in May 1888 of ribbing the Asheville postoffiee, in North Caralina. Senator Frye says that when the time arrives for action on the nomination of Mr. Fuller to be Chief Justice of the United States, he will be confirmed. Ex- Speaker Samuel .1. Randall lies ill at his residence on Capital Hill. He was taken ill Tuesday night with a hem orrhage of the bowels, which lasted fully fifteen minutes before it could be checked. He lost in that time nearly a quart of blood. As a result ho was very much exhausted, and was in imminent danger for a short time. He rallied however and is resting quietly. Mr. Randall is improving. Since 5 o'clock Friday evening be has had several refreshing naps and has gained consid erable strength. There has been no re occurrence of hemorrhages. He has taken liquid refreshments at intervals and is himself much more cheerful, and his family feel much more encourage !. The President has accepted the resig nrtion of Mr. George V. N. Lotbrop as United States Minister to Russia. Mr. Lothrop requested to be permitted to re sign, giving as his reason that his health was not robust enough to stand the se vere winters in Russia. Two Men Killed. A bloody tragedy is reported at Dan ville, V».,"frnm Axton, Henry county. On Sunday a party of men more or less intoxicated, were at a store. I.«o Kanes tried to ride a mule over Hannibal Turner, when the latter struck Kanes' mule with a barrel stave. Ous Kanes took Lee's part, and Twigs Davis interfered on be. half of Turner. A few words passed be tween them, when Davjs opened Are on on Gus and Lee Kanes, killing them both. Davis fled to the woq<li and Jf captured will be lynched. ALL WENT DOWN. Terrible Wreck of a Fait Mall Train. The South bound Express. No. 52, ’in charge of Conductor Taylor and En gineer Watkins, drawn by engine No. 694, which left Washington atll:20 last night for Danville and the South, over the Richmond and Danville Rail road, Midland Division, met with a terrible accident 2 miles South of Orange Court House, at 2:30 Thursday morning. The train consisted of seven cars, includ ing mail car, three Pullman cars, bag gage car and two passenger cars. At a trestle known as Fancy’s trestle, a structure 60 feet high, the mail ear in some mysterious way became derailed and left the. track, breaking down the trestle and pulling upon it the baggage car and engine, which had already safely crossed. The rear car, the passenger cars and PullmaDs fell also upon the cars and engine, making a complete and fearful wreck. Luckily the train did not catch fire. The suddenness of the accident created the greatest consterna tion and the helpless passengers were thrown in all directions in the cars. Few indeed, escaped without injuries of a more or less serious nature. Those net seriously hure immediately began to render what assistance they could, but as the night was pitch dark, they could do little effective work before daylight. Word was sent to Orange Court House and from there a dispatch was sent to Charlotte. A wrecking train then left there at 5:30. Jn the meantime the people in the neighborhood, and from Orange Court House and Gordonsville, hurried to the scene and rendered all the assistance in their power. As far as can be ascertained the killed number seven and the wounded forty. The killed are:—Hunter, of Scotland; Cornelius Cox, Alexandria, Va., Civil engineer Piedmont Air Line It. R.; 11. T. Whittington, Greensboro, N. C postal clerk; H. C. Brightwell, Prospect, Prince Edward county, Va., postal clerk; un known woman, white; two unknown whije men. Injured Conductor Taylor, intern ally; Engineer Watkins, scalded; Fire man Kelley, scalded and otherwise hurt; Baggage master James Goodman, crush ed and will probably die; J. L. Walt hall, of Washington, D. C., postal clerk, b< ith legs broken; W. N. Parrott, Albe marle county, Va., postal clerk, crushed, may die; j. Q. West, Central Hotel Charlotte, N. C.‘ postal clerk, crushed, will die; Louis Jenkins, of Lynchburg, Va., postal clerk, seriously injured; Z. Jennings, Lynchburg, Va., passenger, badly hurt; Potterficld, express agent, badly crushed. Dr. Torrence who was killed in the wreck, was a brother-in-law to Mr. David W. Oates, of Charlotte, N. C He had been North to buy machinery for the Cherokee Falls factory. The Democratic Committee Appointed. The following announcement has been inadeby Chairman Barnum: “In accordance with the resolution of the Democratic Committee, adopted June 26th, 1888, empowering the Chair man to appoint a campaign committee, I have this day appointed the following as such committee: Wm. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania; Arthur P. Goiman, of Maryland; Matt W. Ransom, of North Carolina; Calvin S. Bryce, of Ohio; John S. Barbour, of Virginia; Hermann Olbrichs, of New York; Miles Ross, of New Jersey; Arthur Sewall, of Maine; E. M. Pheips, of Illinois. There will be a meeting of tho campaign committee at ttu: headquarters of the National Demo cratio Committee, No. 2 West 2!lth strmi'New York City, on Tuesday, July 17. 1888, at 2 o’clock p in. (Signed) Wa. 11. Barnum, Chairman National Democratic Committee. Mr. Calvin 8. Bryce has declined to act as chairman of the National Demo cratic Committee. A Long Legal Fight. Twenty-three years ago the wife of William Hall, a farmer living in Chero kee county, Alabama, was murdered. Hall was arrested for the crime. He was twice tried, convicted and sentenced to tho penitentiary for life, but each time succeeded in getting a new trial. Thir teen years after the murder the indict ment against Hall was nolle prossed. Thus, for nearly ten years, vain efforts were made to have a third trial. Hall has attended forty-five tcrm6 of court to answer the charge, and the case has cost the county over $20,000. Last week the case was taken up for the third time and the jury, after being out two days and nights, returned a verdict of “not guilty.” FOREIGN NOTES. The dinner given by the Emperor of Germany at Potsdam, in honor of the foreign ambsssadors, was a brilliant affair. Besides the ambassadors all the Ministers of the Government were pres ent. The Italian Ambassador sat at the Emperor’s right, and the Austriap Am bassador at his left. Count Herbert Himnark faced His Mojesty. The Em peror conversed affably With his guests. Late cablegrams from the Cape, re ceived London, state that the fire in Beelier’s diamond mine, at Kimberly, Africa, has Ijcen extinguished and an exploring 'party who descended the mine, re|H)rted ' that ' twenty-four white* and two h||ndfed natives have been burned to dc^th. The American system qf smbulsnc* larrie* hw introduced la Paris. North, East and West. All the brakemen on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy have again struck. John H. Loan, book keeper in the Second National Bank of Jersey City, N. J., has defaulted to the amount of $14,400, and left for parts unknown. Rev. J. C. Lawrence, an influential colored minister, of Nashville, Tenn., recently elected a member of the Board of Education, went into a meeting of the board consisting of four white men ard himself. The minister was quickly ex pelled although a legal member of the board. The great iron lockout at Pittsburg, Pa. is practically over, and before the end of next week a general resumption of the mills is expected. Sam Jones lectured at Chautauqua, N. Y., Saturday to a large, audience. His subject was “Get There.” Sugar brokers here are excited over a prospected corner in raw sugar, en gineered by Claus Spreckles. A train on the Georgia Pacific Railroad went through a trestle near Coalbury, Ala., Friday afternoon. James Mc- Donagh, the engineer and Mr. Kelcher the fireman, both of Atlanta, were se verely injured. Three colored men were badly hurt. Three cars and the engine were totally wrecked. Virginia Items. There is a boy in Forsyth county who has five fathers and mothers Uving. General P. B. Starke, of Brunswick county, is dead. David P. Phelps, one of the oldest citizens of Lynchburg, died Wednesday, aged 88 years. The Democratic Congressional con vention for the eighth district will be held in Alexandria. September 5. The companies composing the Fourth Virginia Regiment will go into encamp ment at the Alleghaney Springs on the 31st of July. The sales of tobacco in Lynchburg since October Ist aggregate 20,685,000 pounds compared with same months pre vious year. The Ivanhoe Furnace, in Wyth county, Va, is expected to be ready to blow in with coke as fuel about October, 1888. It is being remodeled for this purpose, having heretofore been a charcoal stack. The Virginia Midland Railroad com pany estimated that its loss by the Orange Court House disaster will be about $200.- 000. The coroner's jury have decided that the disaster was caused by the rot ten timbers. All day Friday wrecking trains were at work, and it is now be lieved that all the bodies have been recovered. RAILROAD NEWS. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILWAYS. On July 15th the railroad commission ers issued their monthly report of the earnings of the railroads in South Caro lina for the month of May as compared with the same period last year. Os the roads included in the report all but three show a net increase in earnings. The local earnings were $488,536. against $418,322 in May last year, showing a total net increase of $66,469. The total freight earniDgs for the month were $282,172, and the passenger earnings $159,033, against $234,668 and $136,119 respectively in May, 1887. The roads of the Richmond and Danville system show a net increase in earnings of 15.23 per cent. C. E. AND V. V. EXTENSION. A contract has been closed with the North State Improvement Company for building the extension of the C'apc Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad from Fay etteville to Wilmington, N. C., at $20,- 000 per mile, of which SIO,OOO is to be in first mortgage bonds. $5,000 in second mortgage bonds, and $5,000 in the com pany’s stock. Grading is completed on the "north-western extension to Mt Airy, N. C. Let the People Decide. The proposition to submit to the peo ple of the several States a constitutional amendment to prohibit the liquor ti attic in the United States has been favorably reported by Senator Blair from the Com mittee on Education in the U. S. Senate. The proposed amendment reads as follows: Section 1. The manufacture, impor tation, exportation and sale of all alco holic liquors as a beverage shall be hereby forever prohibited in the United States, in every place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall enforce this article by all needful legislation The report accompanying the bill says: It i 3 proper to say thHt there are mem bers of the committee who concur in the report recommending the submission of the proposed amendment to the btates who do not by such action indicate their approval ofthe adoption of the amendment as a part of the Constitution, nor that they would themselves advocate its ratification by the Legislatures of the States. An Arkansas Town Hnrned. Twenty-two business houses and resi dences in the town of Pnragnuld, Ark , were burned on Saturday nighs. The heaviest loser* are Berley Bros., ary goods. Loss (20,000; insurance $9,000. W. H. Maxey, grocery. $5,0(10; no in surance. Hobman block. $6,000, Total lossa s4s, 000; insurance light- Terms. $1.50 ner Annum. Single Cony 5 cents. HANGED TO A LIMB. Speedy Punishment of a Negro Brnfe. Sarah Parker, aged 13, daughter of Benjamin Parker, a respectable planter in the suburbs of Asheville, N. C., was criminally assaulted by a negro as she returned home from the city through a woods near her home. She was strangled and left senfcless on the ground. Re covering she got to the house in a most pitiable condition. On her throat was the finger marks of the brute and her person had been terribly lacerated. A physican, instantly summoned, consid ered her case a critical one. The police were notified and the country and town were searched closely for the guilty party. About nine o’clock Satnrday night a negro, named John Humphreys was arrested. The girl had stated that the negro wore a striped shirt and was barefooted. When arrested Humphreys had on a white shirt and shoes, but it was ascertained that he had taken off a striped shirt, put on the white one, and had put on shoes. He was made to put on the striped shirt and take off the shoes, and was taken into the presence of the girl, who identified him immediately. The negro was locked up in the city calaboose. Considerable excitement prevailed and whispers of lynching were heard. In order to avoid this, at 1 o’clock in the morning the negro was put in the steel cage of the county jail. About 2:15 a. m., a band of twenty-five or forty masked men came to the jail, and before Deputy Sheriff, James Worley was aware of it they were in the jail. He grasped a gun and ran to the top of the steps and opened fire on the crowd, which was returned with a shower of bullets. No one was hurt as far as ascertained. Worley was over powered, but would not give the combi nation or the cage lock. The mob, being prepared with sledgehammers and crow bars, tore the cage to pieces, occupying fully an hour in doing it. They took the negro out and hanged him to a tree about a quarter of a mile from the jail. The negro was a mulatto of bad repu tation, aged 19. A Floating Sawmill. Along the bayous and lagoons of Florida grows some of the finest timber in the South, much ot it in places con sidered entirely inaccessible until J. L. Maul & Son hit upon the plan of con structing a floating sawmill. This idea they carried into execution, and their mammoth mill, which now lies off the banks of Burton A Harrison’s hummock, near Palatka, is, according to the South ern Lumberman, a marvel of mechanic al ingenuity. It has a length of*eighty and a breadth of forty feet, and is so solidly built that the motion of the machinery has no more effect upon it than if it were built upon the solid land. Al though it stands five feet high out of the water.its draught is only about afoot and a half, which permit* it to be taken into the shallowest lagoons, where timber could not be floated. It is equipped with the latest machinery, planer, box header, shingle saws, and a tine forty power engine and boiler. On the hurricane deck Is the cabin and office for the proprietor, while the cook house, where the men hoard, is in a corner of the main deck, which is otherwise free for the piling of lumber, the machinery being all below it. This floating mill has so far proved eminently surce-sful, exceeding the expectations of the pro prietors in this respect, and is prol ably the pioneer of numerous craft cf the same kind. Duel in France. Paris Special—Premier Floquet and Gen. Boulanger fought a duel Friday. It took place at 10 p'clock. The wea pons used were swords. /J’he duelling ground was on Count Dillon's estate, at Neutilly, a short distance from Paris.* Gen. Bouhmgar was badly wounded in arm and neck, while Premier Floquet escaped with a slight scratch on the hand. The members of the Ministry awaited the result of the duel at the .res idence of Premier Floquet, and when that gentleman returned he received a perfect ovation. Only a small crowd was awaiting the return of Gen. Bou langer. General Boulanger lost considerable blood from a sword cut. A Fighting Judge. Tn Lexington, Ky.. at the old Broad way Hotel, one night many years ago, :he famous Thomas F. Marshall, wit snd orator, was engaged at a game of billiards wiih Judge John Rowan, a brilliant jurist, in whose honor the county of Rowan, late become notorious for outlawry, was named. The game they were playing was on one of the old fashioned biilia:d tables which had pockets at the corners. The strong point in Judge Rowan’s game wa* his remarkable capacity for pocketing balls, in evidence that he would, if he flour ished now, be an accomplished fifteen ball pool player. During the ptogro-ui of tho garao a spectator said to Mr. Marshall: “Judge Rowan ia quite an adept at pitting in hall*.” “Yes,” icplied Tom. “and nobody Might to know that belter than I, for I’ve l>ecn carrying one, ever since, that be put intome ten v<ar* ago.*’ Marshall and Rowan, \eirs before that had fought a duel in which tbe oclticose judge had “caught his man.", —Arkweatc Traveler, I nraged jftisband— “Maria, I capen duie this existence no longer. I am going to blow my brains out.” Wife icalmly) “Don't attompt it, John. You have never had any success in firipg at imall targets.”- Chicane Tribune,