THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. V. NO. 10.
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Address,
W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC
It is only sixty years ago that the first
stage carrying the United States mail
westward passed over the Allegheny
Mountains. The road taken by the stage
was from Cumberland, Md. t to Wheel
ing, a distance of 130 miles.
The gossiping Paris correspondent of
London Truth reports that the French
are elated over the Czar's persistency in
talking French to the German Knipcror
on every public occasion, and at his pro
posing his imperial guest’s health in that
tongue at a Setate banquet, William, the
story goes on, attempted an answer in
Russian, but liis memory failed him and
he had to wind up abruptly.
The Steel Car Company is said to be
constructing a fire-proof steel < ar at Bos
ton, which will contain nothing that can
burn except the upholstery, and even
that is constructed of uninflammable ma
terial. Not only immunity from lire,
but an increase in strength, a decrease in
the liability to telescope, and diminish
deadweight are expected to be some of
the good features of the new cur.
According to a recent writer, what
Napoleon did with the enormous fortune
he left somewhere when sent to St. He
lena, has since remained a mystery. Iu
IS I*2 »e told Marshal Berthier, and also
Bouriicnne, his private secretary, that
he hid nearly 100,000,000 francs, or
$*30,000,000 in our money, to his per
sonal fortune. That he did not expend
it is c'Ttain, for there was no occasion
to do so. Then, as Kmperor, the na
tional exchequer received and honored
ins drafts. In 1801, Napoleon, after
having enriched all his family, had $15,-
000,000 of his own. The money re
ceived from the United States for the
Louisiana purchase he used in re-c juip
ping the grand army that fought and
won at Austerlitz and VV igrain. At
least $1,000,000 of that money was
never accounted for by the Kmperor.
Wh<*re did he hide this enormous sum:
He was by far the richest man in Europe
ia lif 4, and not a trace of the money
wa< left behiud him. The French Gov
ernment thinks it has a clew. The re
milt vill be watched for with the great
est interest.
Al! the city editors of the New York;
morning papers declare, according t|
the K)'oc 1 !, with one accord their rcadi :
lies* to go to prison, if necessary,
vmd cate the journalistic right to publish
details of executions. This is apropos
of the statement by ( ommodorc Gerry
that when the new law requiring the in
diction of capital punishment by elcc
tricity goes into effect, the editor who
giv<-* a description of the act will l.e
guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to
imprisonment. Conritfcriug that the
death penalty will be dealt out, under
the new law, without notice, and with
out the presence of witnesses other than
the officials of the jail, it is difficult to
see what occasion the City editors or
their representatives will bare to court
raai tyrdom. The b ire official announce
ment of the fact that the 'criminal ha*
had life extinguished by an electric cur
rent is about ail they can record, inas
much as the very last moments, with all
their horrible concomitants, which arc
now so faithfully reported, will have,
under the new system, nothing particu
lar to distinguish them. And then,
there is the further reflection that, after
ail, if anybody should be seat to prison
for too copious reporting, it would
probably be the responsible publisher or
or proprietor ot the newspaper and not
the daring City editor.
HOUSE AND SENATE.
OUK BUSY LEGISLATORS.
Many Laws Introduced, But Few
Passed.
Monday- -House —Mr Wheeler, of Al
abama, to-day reported favorably to the
Home frem the committee on expendi
tures in the Treasury Department, the
bill appropriating $500,000 to establish
cams for yellow fever refugees. The
bill authorizes the 3’rcsident to establish
camps for refugees iu designated locali
ties; to furnish supplies to camps and to
destroy camp equipage after the disap
pearance of the epidemic.
Incidentally the question of adjourn
ment was discussed and the conclusion i
was reached that it would not be politic,
under present conditions, for the Demo
crats in the House to send any question
of adjournment to the Senate.
Senate— The tariff debate iii the Sen
ate was inaugurated to day by the
speeches of Senator Allison and Senator j
Vance for the liepubhcm and Demo- I
cratic sides respectively. But the tariff !
has already been discussed so much this \
session that very little interest was man- j
ifested by the genual public, and the
galleries, as usual, were almost deserted.
On the floor, however, there were more
members present than have shown up for
some weeks, but * they did not remain
very long. The two speeches consumed
the entire day, and as there are more
than thirty Senators who have already
ask< d President Ingalls for recognition,
it is presumed the debate cannot even be
concluded by the first of November.
Tuesday — House —The Hou-e did no
business to-day, every effort at legisla
tion being met by points of order, or
“no quorum ’’
Senate —ln the Senate to-day Mr Ed
munds mide seaeral ineffectual efforts to
pass the bill for the relief of Mrs. Waite,
widow of the late Chief Justice, Mr Ber
ry objecting.
Mr Hiscock made an extended speech
on the tariff.
W ednesday — House —ln the morn
ing hour Mr. Post. of Aikansas, repre
senting the committee on Indian affairs,
which was entitled to the floor, asked if
the objections made yesterday to the bill
bill to settle the claims of the Old Settler
band of Indiana would be withdrawn.
After a great dtal of diplomatic wrang
ling the report was final 1 y agreed to.
The House th( n. at 1:40, adjourned
until Friday.
Senate. —Senator Hale to-day pre
sented the report of the select committee
on the opcia’ion of the civil service law
and said that the minority report would
be presented hereafter. Ordered printed.
Several bills were introduced, but the
Chamber being without a quorum none
were passed.
After a short executive boss ion the
Senate adjourned.
Thursday—B enate —The Senate
chamber pnsented this morning,
after the reading ofthe Journal, a
depressingly deserted aspect, there
being but five Senators on
the Democratic side aud but fifteen on
the Republican side. Subsequently,
however, half a dozm more Democrats
put in their appearance.
The House bill appropriating SSO, -
000 for the enforcement of the Chine?e
Exclusion Act was reported by Senator
A 111-son and passed.
Senator Mitchell then proceeded toad
dress the Senate in advocacy of the bill
heretofore introduced by him to reduce
letter postage to one ( ent. The bill was
referred.
The Senate then resumed confedera
tion of its Tariff bill until 4:40 when it
adjourned.
Friday— ln the Senate after the trans
act oj of some routine business, discus
sion of the fieuate larillbiU was resumed.
Mr. Call deplored the doctrine on
which the Senate bill is based.
Mr. Hawley thought the Senate bill
the best draft of a tariff bill ever sub
mitted to Congress.
Mr. Reagan said he would not agree
to vote for every item in the House bill,
nor against every item in the Senate
hill.
The conferenr e n ports on the Cth of
July claim th' 1 bill, and the bill to retire
General Pleasanton were agreed to, aud
alter a s'noit Executive session the Sen
ate adjourned.
WAS fll NOTON NOTES.
Senator Vance’s tariff speech in the
Senate Thursday was well reeebod.
The event in Washington last week
was the visit of Judge Thurman.
The Senate Wednesday confirmed the
nomination of Jos. P. Sessions, of South
Carolina, to be Consul General nt Mel
bourne, Australia.
Newspapers Come High.
Fireman Moore, ofthe National Tran
sit company of Colevi!lp, Pennsylvania,
received a package Wednesday morning
which should have contained $1,730,
but instead, only contained several
copies e«f the Pittsburg Dispatch.
It had been sent from the company’s
be idquarters at Oil City, Pa , and was
robin don the way. An investigation is
bd ng made.
A Itlse In the Price of Crackers.
At a joint meeting of all the cracker
bakers between Pittsburg and the Rocky
mountains, they unanimously voted to
advance the price of crackers. The ad
vance ranges from one half a cent to one
and a hslf cents per pound on the vari
ous kinds manufactured.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1888
WHOLKSALE MAIL ROBBERV. I
A PotofficA Clerk In BnlTAlo Engaged j
in Robbing the Mail.
Au extensive and bold mail robbery I
was perpatrated at Buffalo, N. Y., by I
which most of the arriving mail in that I
city from all points, were plundered, and I
papers, documents and money extracted.
An examination revealed the fact that
the robbery had been general in ehnrac
acter, and covered letters from Canada,
Pennsylvania, New York State, New Or
leans, Boston and nearly every point
east, west, north and south. There were
in the basket checks, drafts, mercantile
ordeis, and the usual inisccllanv which
goes to make up a business mail.
Among other things were Louisiana
lottery tickets. There was a check
found in which its amount S3HUH)
alone remained intact, bank drafts, n
letter notifying the enclosure of a draft
tor $1,404.24, the draft being missing,
and numerous letters notifying of the
enclosure of cash.
The thieves had evidently disregarded
everything hut cash, and checks and
drafts were thrown aside after l>eing
mutilated.
Soon after the banks opened a man
named John Shields, a night stamping
clerk in the post office, presented a ehcck
at one of the banks and upon the re
quest to identify himself, establishing
his connection with the postoffice, he was
promptly handed over to the police,
Shields did not attempt to deny the
charge of robbing the mail, and is now
incustody. Shields was intoxicated
when captured. The check which he
presented to the German American Bank,
was payable to Jacob Dole!, and Shields
had endorsed it with his own name.
The police have not been able to get
any information from Shields as jet, but
they suspect that he had accomplices, as
no money was found on him.
Record Growing Smaller.
Dr. Neal Mitchell, president of the
Jacksonville hoard of health, reports sev
enty-five new cases of yellow fever
Thursday; deaths, one; total cases to
date, 2,971; total deaths to date, 271.
Physicians report a decidedly milder
form of the disease, and the death rate
plainly indicates this.
All the physicians are engaged in pri
vate practice. About 225 patients were
reported discharged today. The day has
been very warm, and it has consequently
bjen a good one for convalescents.
THE SUNNY STREET CORNERS
have all contained groups of them con
versing upon their different experiences
during their fight with “yellow jack ”
They can be detected at once They in
variably have on overcoats and a two or
three weeks growth of beard, carry
stout canes and display hands from
which the dead skin is just beginning to
peel off. The mustard bath treatment
and the severe course of “sweating,”
to which the yellow fever patients r.re
subjected, is a tenthly trying one to the
system. One man who weighs 190
pounds when well is reported to have
lost 40 younds, and he was only taken
sick a week.
Political News.
The Republican committee of the first
Louisiana district nominated P. B. S.
Pinch! aek for congress
The Republicans of the third Louisi
ana district have nominated R. O. Jelly
for Congress.
By the fall of a platform erected for a
display of fireworks in Quincy, 111., Friday
night, 150 persons were hurt. Home of
them will die.
Jeter C. Pntchaid. the Republican
candidate for Lieutenant Governor
ot North Carolina, spoke Wednesday in
Charlotte.
The Republicans of N. Y. city made the
following nominations: Joel B Erhardt
for mayor. John W. Jacobus for sheriff,
Colonel Henry IJ. Perley for county
clerk.
Mayor Hewitt has accepted the county
Democracy and city nominations for the
mayoralty of New York city. He an
nounced that he would voce for Presi
dent Cleveland.
The Upper lowa Methodist Confer
ence adjourned at Vinton, alter adopting
a protest against the third party move
ment, praisirg the Republican paity in
lowa, and resolving to muintaiu a nou
political relation to all political parties.
A Small Girl’s Essay.
“A cow is au animal with four legs on
the under ride. The tail is longar than ,
the legs, but it is not wed to stand on.
the row kills flies with her tail. A cow
has big years that wriggles on hinges; so
dns her tail. The cow is bigger than
the calf, but not so big a> an elephant,
tjhc is made so small that she < an go in
to the barn when nobody is looking,
home cows are black ai.d some hook. A
dog was hooked once. She tossed the
d*»g that worried the cat that killed tin
rat. Black cows give white milk; so d>
other cows. Milkmen s II milk to b»y
tin ir little girls dresses, which they pit
water iu and chalk. Cows chew cads
and each finds its own chew. That is
all there is about cows,”
Good News from Jacksonville.
Friday morning was clear and bracing.
Tw o of the telegraj h operators—Turn* r
nnd O’Driscoll—have relapsed. T. T.
Stockton is doing well this uoou. All
the other sick are reported in fair condi
tion. Twenty-three eases up to noon,
bat no deaths.
A French Ministerial organ confesses
that the country runs into debt at the
rate of $00,000,000 a year.
FIFTY-FIVE KILLED, j
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT j
In Pennsylvania—A Young Lady’s
Leg Amputated with an Axe.
W HjKKkharre, Pa. —The Father Mat
thew celebration at Hazelton, Pa.,
Wednesday, ended in a most frightful
disaster, the like of which has never j
been seen before on the Lehigh Valley j
road, or, indeed, in the country. The j
wreck occurred at Mud Run, about'
midway between White Haven and Penn !
Haven Junction.
The first section, while standing still, j
was run into by the second section. The
last three cars of the first section filled
to overflowing, were totally wrecked,
and all the passcngeis in the rear '*ar
were killed. The last two cars were
telescoped, and the passengers were
CRUSHED TO DEATH,
packed against the boiler. The scene !
was heart-rending. It was nearly six!
hours before the first section was able to i
reach Wilkesbarre, the wounded being J
conveyed in ambulances from Mill creek 1
to the city hospital.
HORRIBLE INCIDENTS,
Passengers on the several sections of
the train tell tales too horrible for belief
under any other circumstances. Thay
relate that the third section of the ex
cursion train stood in the track a few
hundred yards from Mud Run, waiting I
for the sections ahead to get out of the I
way. A biakeman, so they said, had
been sent back with a lantern to guard
the train in the rear. Suddenly they
saw a train approaching from the rear at
a high rate of speed. Several who were
on the rffcr platform jumped off and
escaped. One young woman sprang,
but seeing two little boys who were in
her charge, yet on the platform, she
climbed back to rescue them and lost her
life by her daring. In one instant the
flash of a headlight illuminated the ,
interior of the ill-fated car. There was
a frightful crash, and the engine plunged |
her full length inti the crowded mass of
humanity. The shock drove tLe rear i
car through the next one for two-thirds |
of its length, and the second into the j
third. It is not likely that a single |
perso” escape 1 i n the rear car. The |
seen d was crowded with maimed and |
bleeding bodies, and the third car had !
but few passengers who escaped. The !
passengers in both trains were terribly
shi ken up and bruised. They soon
swarmed upgn the track, and the
EUI.L HORROR OF THE ACCIDENT
dawned upon them. The throng? from
from the two trains gathered beside the
telescoped engine and car. and there
witnessed the most fearful sight of their
lives.
The shattered engine was pouring
forth clouds of scalding steam and
fctreuins of water which partly hid from
human eyes many horrible scenes.
The hissing of steam deadened the
shrieks and groans of those involved in
the ruin.
Ghastly, wh ; tc Faces peered in the
windows to he greeted by faces more
ghastly. The already deal, gripped in
the broken timbers, sat, some erect as in
life,
the horrible surroundings.
Here a youth, stone dead, held his
little brother, whose feet were pin
ioned. A father was c.ushed and
mangled, and lay at full length upon
the prostrute form of his son, badly
injured.
As the steam and smoke cleared from
the car, its
GHASTLY HIGnTK WARE BETTER REVEALED
The timbers were crushed and
wrenched into all sorts of shapes, while
in every part hung mangled bodies and
limbs. It was a slaughter pen, bloodier
than butcher shambles. A few unman
gled bodies were burned and scalded by
the st< an, and little remained iu the cars
which bore human resemblance.
AIDING THE UNFORTUNATES.
When the fiist shock subsided the un
hurt passengers begin to do what they
could for the unfortunates. The few
light tools on the train were called into
requisition, but proved feeble instru
ments, iude.d.
The windows of the cars were
.smaahrd, and brave men entered,
and rc eiscd those least hurt or least
entangled.
in one car they found John Lynch,
brother-in-law of Policeman Guiuney,
banging from the roof by one leg. His
erics brought friends, who, to relieve
him. stood on the wreck and held his
weight upon their backs for two long
hours. Finally axes affecte 1 his releiue
His leg was fracture 1.
LEG CUT OFF WITH AN AXE.
A young Indv was found caught by
th** legs, one of them nearly severed.
One leg was quickly r< b ased. The other
could not be freel, end a blow of au
ixe severed it from her body. She saw
the blow struck and never flinched.
Taking out her gold watch, she handed
it to an acquaintance as n irift to a friend
at heme. She was put on one of the
mins, and given all possible care. She
<•( nversed freely and cheerfully with
:ilends. Suddenly she gasped and fell
back a corpse.
The killed are placed at 55 nnd the
injure d at 75.
The Toting Man With the Sash.
First Old Party ton ho’el piazza).—
“Whitt has that young man got that big
• ta*h around his waist for?”
Second old Party.— 1 * Dunno, unless
lie has got a pane in his stomach.”—
iiot'oii Hull el i*.
SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS
Are Denied Representation by Governor
Richardson.
At a recent meeting of the State Re
publican Executive Committee, a com
mittee of live was appointed to wait
upon Governor Richardson aud present
a preamble and resolution adopted by j
the committee, and in the name of the j
Republican party, demanding represen- j
tation in the management of the general
election in the State. The documents
set forth that in but one county in the 1
State the commissioner aud managers of 1
elections were all Democrats; that this 1
tended to prevent a fair vote and honest i (
count. It intimated that the elections i
for Electors and Congressmen are now j
very corrupt in the State, and spoke of j
the Seventh District have been fraudu
lently taken from the Republicans.
In conclusion, Governor Richardson |
was requested, in the name of a hundred !
and fifty thousand voters, representing |
over seven hundred thousand people, aj 1
large majority of the inhabitants of the j
State, to give the people Republican i
representation on the boards of election, j
This they requested as simple justice, j ■
and for the sake of sn honest vote and i
fair count. 1
Governor Richardson has sent the 1
committee his reply. It was in sub
stance that the elections in this State
were now the fairest in the world, aud -
were only corrupt under Republican
rule. He would make no change in the i
present order of things, for he consid
ered to accede to the requests of the I <
Republicans would not result in a fair j,
and pc iceful election. He proposed j
appointing as commissioners of electiou ■
men of standing whose patriotism and i
honesty could he doubted by none. In j
conclusion, he said that the committee |
could not make their demands in the i
name of any organized i arty, as the !
Republican party has been so dead in the
State for years past that their nou
recognition : 3 a party was justifiable.
The Condition of Cotton.
The October returns of the Department
of Agriculture make a decline in the
condition of cotton. The heavy rains of
the latter part of August have been coa
tinued during the larger part of the last
month, causing sprouting of seed in the
bolls, rotting of the lower and shedding
of the top bolls aud foliage. Ruins and
winds have interfered with picking nnd
discolored the fibre and reduced the
grade. Recently the weather has been
more favorable, and the quality has
somewhat improved. Some correspond- ;
ents report a short staple.
The crop is everywhere late, and light
frosts threaten the early destruction of
the plant; yet killing frosts are still in
the future, and the length of the season
therefore uncertain. The average of re
po it 3d condition is 78.9, a decline from
83.8 in September. i
Louisiana and South Carolina show j
the greatest reduction, and Texas, Flori
da and North Carolina the least.
The Stat 3 estimates are as follows:
Virginia, SO; North Carolina, 81;
South Carolina, 75; Georgia, 79; Flori-I
da. 88; Alabama. 82; Mississippi, 81; j
Louisiana, 70; Texas, 75; Arkansas, 82;
Tennessee, 91.
The caterpillar and boll worm have
been present in all except the Northern i
tier of States, and have wrought sc m 3
dam*g3.
Pans green and London purple have
been Used less effectively than usual,
the heavy rains washing off the poisonous
powders.
The New York Produce Market
BUTTER AND EGGS—
Greamei y Butter, 23 to 24c
Dairy " 17 to3oc
Factory “ 121 2to 14c
Eggs 17 to 19c
MEALS AND POULTRY—
Live Veal Calves 7to 8c
Calves (country dressed) 9 to 10c
Lambs 5 3 4 to 6 1-4
Sheep 4 12 to 5c
Hogs 91-4 to 91-2 ;
Spring Chickens 14 to 15
Fowls, Southern, 13 to 14 1-2
Turkeys 10 to 15
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES—
Apples $2 00 to $2 50
Pears 2 00 to $4 00
Peaches .75 to 1 (JO
< Irapes sto 0c
Watermelons (bbl) $7 00 to $8 00
Bean#, *1 75 to $2 (X)
Peas (green) per bu., 1887 l 00
CHARLOTTE COTTON MARKET
Middling f*ir 8 3 4
Good Middling W
Strict Middling 9 1-8 *
Middling 9121
Tiiigee 8
Stain- 7 a 8
Murdered His Father.
Saturday afternoon, in Alamance coun
ty, N i.\ a young white man named Rip
i p!ey shot and imt ntly kilied his father,
i Three wi eks ago a relative died and left I
j voting Kippley considerable proj ety (
; and he hid b en on a spree eves since. |
1 Satuiday he went t> his father’s house j
and turned liis hore into his father’s
I corn field. His father expostulated
; The son became violently angry, and
eric d out:
“Wait until I come back, aud l will fix
] you ”
I Iu a little while young Kippley re
j turned with a shot gun, w Inch he pointed
lat his father. The father was not fright
ened
“You can’t scare me in that way.”
In an instant toe fell dead, shot through
the heart. His son had filed both bar
rel-, aiming directly at his breast. The
i murderer rode to to town, aud gave
I himself up to the sheriff, holding out bis
I hands iu readiness for the handcuffs.
m
i It is laid that 1000 bushels of grain
f arc killed by heat in the West where one
j is injured by frost
Terms. $1,50 per Annum. Single Copy 5 cents.
THE TWIN STATES.
NORTH CAROLINA.
There are 206 student* at Wako
Forest College.
Plans are on foot for the erection of
t wo cotton factories at Duchnngjl
j The new'Agricultural and Mechanical
j College at Raleigh is beginning to loom
up into a most imposing building.
The freshets have greatly damaged the
road bed of the Oxford and Durham
Railroad.
Quite recently., while Mr. Jessie Gen -
try was out hunting near Jefferson, Ashe
county, he accidentally shot himself, dy
ing instantly.
The city authorities of Asheville, N.
C., have closed a contract for sixty thou
sand feet of sewer pipe for that city at
$16,827.55. Eight bids were received
from that many different manufacturers
of pipe, ranging from $22,283.56, to the
sum first above given.
The saw mill, cotton gin, engine and
six bales of cotton, belonging to C I
Hamrick & Sons, eight miles from Shel
by, were burned at 2 o’clock Tuesday
morning. TLe loss is twenty-five hun
dred dollars, upon which there is no in
surance. The origin of the fire is un -
known.
A corps of engineers which has been
running experimental lines for the Caro
lina, Cumberland Cumberland Gap and
Chicago railway, ha* completed the sur
vey to Asheville. The route chosen is
said to be an admiiableone. It will
cross the Blue Ridge mountains at a
grade of not exceeding eighty feet to the
mile, and without anytunncULg or diffi
cult curves.
A year ago a man named McMahon
j shot and instantly killed a yourg man
i named Buchanan, in Jackson county.
Both parties were white, The crime
created considerable excitement, and
McMahon, under the plea that he could
not get justice in Jackson,, secured re
moval of h’s case to Macon county.
The tr al occupied several days, and Las
resulted ia the conviction of the murder
er. Au appeal to the Supreme Court
will he taken.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A two-headed snake is a curiosity at a
Darlington drug store.
A County Farmers’ Alliance has been
organized in Anderson,
The Aiken County Loan and Havings
Bank will soon erect a handsome three
story building.
Mr G R Spencer, of Bishopville, is
now a student at Leipsic University in
Germany.
The water works lor the use of the At
lantic Coast Line at Florence have beeu
completed.
A county colored Farmers’ Alliance has
I been organized at Darlington, with a
! membership of 265.
The County Commissioners think it
will take SIO,OOO to rebuild Abbeville's
bridges on the most economical scale.
William Thamas, who lately died in
Lexington, Mississippi, left a fortune of
$150,000, which will go to heirs in Pick
ens county.
The Baptists of Pickens are making
strong efforts to buy the buildings of the
Piedmont Institute for a denominational
school.
A most brutal and outrageous murder
was committed near Branchville. The
victim was Ca*sar Stevens, an offensive
negro. His murderers, McFall, Crtim
pler and Richardson, three white mon r
accompanied by others, entered a garden
in which Stevens was at work and shot
the man down in cold Llood, literally
riddling him with bullets and shot, after
which they deliberately rode away. They
made no attempt to hide their identity.
The cause for the murder is not known.
It was not politics, for the victim was
well known and liked by the white peo
ple. The most disgraceful part of this
outrage is the fact that no arrests have
been made, aud so far as known no at
tempt made to arrest them.
Telegraphic News.
Mr Powderly, of the K. of L., bits
been studying law and will ask for ad
mission to the bar.
The grand vizor of Turkey has issued
a decree forbidding the publieat on of
I morning papers.
' The who it market is.now quiet. “Old
l Hutch,” having made another snui’ 1 f »r
• tune in th; deal last we k, is content to
allow the cereal to have a rest.
Recorder Smith in the court. of
general sessions in New York City, sen
tenced Adolph Lei'h' S, the w f • mur
derer to 1 e hanged on Friday, Nov* w
b.r 30th.
i The Southern Association of Home*
I opathists, in Louisville,has adopted r< s>-
1 lotions protesting against the allege l
efforts of the allopathic school to gain
possession of the practiceof n’.lmidi icc.
Twenty thousand Yorkshire. England
collieis have given notice to their em
p oyer4 that they will go i d strike unF *s
they are conceded ten per cent, advance
in wages. It is expected that fifty thou
sand colliers will give notice to thesamo
effect before the cud of the week.
Clara Dickson, colored, was run over
1 and killed by it freiibt.truiu on the Min
eral railroad, Alabama, Wednesday nf
5 ternoon. at Smith mines, eight miles
5 [ from Birmingham. Her mangled body
* j was thrown into a ditch with by
the tram crew, nnd this so angered the
I negro miners who it. that they
i | attempted to lynch the tinin crew. The
i ' latter escaped on their*train, which left
J immediately.