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Hli'ti ar-iyi illi Ml fy. 1 J. A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VII. NO. 49 MAXTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1893. Si. QO A YEAR. tiff T ppecial commission Jias dbii or dered hy the French Parliament, to jtufly wovs and meai18 for improving the breeds ofjsheep. Jn Atbintfi, Ga. , in January, 1S73, fottou brought twenty-one cents a pound. To-day it is about seven cent?. Mfxico toot over 6,000,000 bushel gi corn from this country last year. The Minister of Public Instruction jn France has decided to establish 1000 more experiment fields in addition to the fiOO that now exist in connection with the primary schools. According to the American Agricul turist, a short crop, both here and in Europe, has largely caused the recent high prices for seeds. Ordinarily Eu rope chips' seeds to the United States, Imt this year we have been shipping to Europe. The Turks who are on exhibition at the World's Fair do not have a surfeit of the luxurious ease of which their Nation is proverbially fond. They are employed most of the time in carrying people about in palanquins, and some times the burden proves onerous. One who with a companion was thus trans porting a corpulent woman was heard to murmur: "Accursed am I, and I kick my bones for the day that I first henrd of Columbus." Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, says that no person can be brought in close connection with the mysteries of na ture, or make a study of chemistry or of the law of growth without being convinced that behind it all there is a Supreme Intelligence. He says that he hopes to be able some time to dem onstrate the existence of such Intelli gence through the operation f these mysterious laws with the certainty of a demonstration in mathematics. A Lowell (Mass.) man gave a sur geon now practicing in Great Falls, N. H., a deed some years ago, dispos ing of his body for anatomical pur poses, at his death, for $10 in hand. Tie has since been in South America, has made a great deal of money, and is now anxious to have a decent funeral and interment when he dies, but coun sel whom he has consulted, advises him ihat the deed holds good unless he buys it from the holder. Thi? he has tried to do, but the doctor has refused large offers. There are 5552 benefices in England anil "Wales affording a les3 income to the incumbents than $1000 a vear. There is great complaint at the joverty of the clergy. It is almost as grievous to-day as in Sydney Smith's time, and the New Orleans Picayune suggests that the witty and sarcastic jibes of that reverend satirist on the policy that permits such conditions might be reproduced. If England is to have an established church she should not give princely incomes to bishops and leave the humbler clergy to abject poverty and misery. Says Once A Week "The year 18)i -as one of the worst years ever known in the iron and steel industries of Great Britain. Attention will be di rected at once to the building of rail roads in India and to the development f the resources of that country. It is in order now for us to devote all oui energies to the development of our new States and Territories, and to cul tivating closer commercial relations with South America. The develop ment of India, forced at last upon Great Britain as a commercial and in dustrial necessity, will mean a fchor Old World market for us." The other day a drummer on the Chicago and Northwestern Road pre sented his milage book to the conduc tor, and the latter, after asking him a few question, put the book into his pocket, saying, "Will see you later." After a while the drummer asked for hi3 book, and the conductor refused to surrender it. Thereupon the drummer got off at a station and telegraphed ahead for an officer to arrest a thief. The officer boarded the train and the drummer pointed out the conductor, who was arrested'ih spits of his pro tests and taken before a-magistrate, who fined him $7 and costs, and re turned the book to its owner. As they were both leaving court the conductor eaid, TH smash your face for thisl' Thereupon thy drummer immediately bad him rearrested and taken before the same judge, who put him under bonds to keep the peace at more costs. That conductor met his match. FJ3PW0KKS FETES. PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS IN AM AGES. The Art of Pyrotechny Understood for Ages In the Orient Some Su perb Royal Exhibitions A Terrible Catastrophe. HTNA and Persia for centuries I past have understood the man- tifacture of squibs and fire crackers, but it is doubtful il the Greeks, whose celebrated Greek fire was only used for burning their enemies' ships, had any knowledge of the art of pyrotechny. It is true the word is made up of two Greek words, meaning fire and its artifices, but the only thing approaching it was ilium inations and bonfires lighted in honoi of Mercury, Vulcan and Ceres, and continued by the Christianizing priest hood at similar celebrations in honor of St. Peter and St. John. The practice of leaping three times backward and forward through the bon fires of Ceres was still performed on Midsummer's Eve, the feast of St. John, both in England and Ireland up till a very recent date. The Chinese, who have known the art of making fireworks, as they knew the composition of gunpowder, cen turies before Europe, have been cele brated throughout Asia as pyrotech nists, and from them the art has been transmitted to Japan and Persia. The Persians look upon a feast oi fireworks with the same enthusiastic delight that the Spaniards feel when they witness a bull-fight. At Tiflis or Ispahan, the natives are not satisfied to witness the fireworks, but they all, from the gravest old graybeards to the youngest children, must themselves as sist in setting them off, and the crowd, regardless of rocket sticks or carcases of squibs and shells,, rush into the midst and whirl and throw and fizzle to their hearts' content. The climax of a Persian pyrotechnio exhibition is a wild fire dance, when male dancers clad in rough dresses, steeped in water but covered with squibs and crackers, are set on fire and allowed to exercise an incendiary can-can before the enthusing public. When gunpowder was thoroughly understood in its earlier form of plain sulphur, charcoal and saltpetre, every bonfire was augmented by the smoke and the noise of the infernal invention which Shakespeare calls this "villain" ous saltpetre, " and now no celebration in any part of the world is complete in which gunpowder in every kind ol form does not take part. In America no Fourth of July would be a Fourth if it were not for fire works. John Adams predicted, it is true, what would happen in future years in celebrating the glorious Fourth; but if he had lived to endure the fizz-zz-zz-bang of every second of the day he would, like a modern Jupiter, have made a law to stop it. In France the days of July, the Em peror's Fete, and the Bepublican Day of Liberty. have superseded each other, but fireworks must be exploded there as elsewhere, while in London not only is the art pushed to its highest by the artifices of the Crystal Palace but the Fifth of November, Guy Fawkes Day, is a medium like the Fourth of July for the evaporation of the young idea's infatuated love tor firing something, if only a Chinese firecracker. Of late we have been here in Nev Tork initiated by the Pains, Brock and others into the beauties of the art, and since the introduction of magnesium into the manufacture of aerial fire works their charm has been greatly in creased in brilliancy and vivid color ing. The rockets, which evolve all sorts of floating asteroids, have been invented by Pain, father or son, and are mar vels of pyrotechny, as are many other sneiis wnicn, springing witn a ioua re port into the sky, burst and deluge the atmosphere with living stars of gold, silver and copper, now descending in showers of winged , meteors, now gy rating in swarms of epileptic sparks lighting the upturned faces of bewil dered crowds; many of whom have been satisfied up to now with the ex citement of a ten-cent Boman candle or an occasional Catharine wheel. Speaking of the Feasts of Guy Fawkes and Independence Day, I am reminded of a curiously similar feast to the former, which for some centuries toot place in France. It has, in fact, only been done away with since 1743, and it was celebrated on the Fourth of July, on which day, in fourteen hundred and something, a Swiss sentry, who had been convicted of sacrilege that is, stealing some of the holy plate out of a church was burnt at the stake in the Bue de l'Ours, or Bear's street, Paris. In memory of this incident a basket. work dummy or doll, representing tha poldier of infamous memory was para ded in honor of the Virgin and burntf- before her statue by a certain -societv of roysterers, who combined piety and pyrotechny called the Confrerie of Virgin of the Bear. The leader set r to the guy amid shouts of laughter a'nd prayers to the Virgin, whd for nearlj three hundred years' smelt the .griittl powder of the faithful-under her- 0s for the sin of the Helvetian guard. '''" The first displays of scenery, oddly enough, were not devised for the dra ma, but for shows of fireworks execut ed in honor of the various royalties of Europe. The people were not in cluded among the spectators. They had to climb on the adjacent roofs and steeples in the neighborhood. The first public display of fireworks to which the populace was invited was during tho early years of Louis XITI's. reign. Tho entertainment was most elaborate, and commenced by the exit of an enormous car from the gates of the Paris arsenal, on which the god of war rode, surrounded by trophies of, arms aiul weapons ol ail description, lit up with colored fires burning on tri pods which surrounded the group. Mars was met on the quay by warrior on horseback, who attacked him witi grenades and fire-clubs which wer quickly met. The god lighted all th trophies, in which Boman candles and other fireworks were concealed, and the flaming combat was much ap plauded. But this was only the pro logue. There were castles on eithei side of the Seine which vomited firei pyramids which became volcanoes, and revolving obelisks which ejected rockets till the firmament was aliyi with 6tars. The Italians have always, until th Nineteenth Century, been in the ad vance in pyrotechny, and there ar several works in large folio existing full of etched plates representing fire works displays of historical interest. Some of them are marvels of scenic in vention and most suggestive in theii design for theatrical tableaux. Probably the most extraordinary pyrotechnic fetes ever given, even al lowing for the inferiority of their light producing compositions, were during the reign of Louis XV., at the mar. riage of the Princess Koyal of France with the Infant of Spain, Don Philip. The centre of this display was a Greek temple constructed upon the Pont Neuf, the peristyle of which was composed of four rows of columns, 32 feet high. Outside upon enormous barges were built pavilions for the or chestra, painted in bas relief with fig ures on lapis ground of blue and geld. The whole fabric was illuminated with countless lustres, though it musl be remembered that electric lights were not dreamt of, and gas was as yet un known in commerce. It would be never-ending to describe the clouds o) comets, the sheaves of serpents, and the various set pieces of this exhibition, but it mav be mentioned that the con cluding girondole was the firing or a centre group of 5000 rockets, and on either side two smaller ones, each oJ 500. Thirty years later . (1770) came fi feast of fire which changed to the most horrible holocaust of victims re membered in European history. II was on the celebration of the marriage of the Danphin with Mary Antoinette. Her career wa3 ushered into France with a catastrophe that the super stitious declared at the time boded evil to the wedded pair. In the place Louis XV. on the same ground where now stands the obelisk of. Luxor, be tween the two beautiful fountains so well known was raised a Temple to Hymen around which were cascades, fountains and allegorical groups. The display was wonderful, but the epilogue was most agonizing. On the following day the Gazette de France published1 the account which I here translate : "Yesterday's fete, May 30, 1770, was followed by a cruel catastrophe. The immense crowd of people, the crushing of carriages, and the fact that the ..-street. .wis. .unin..he..B!i Koyale, which leads to the square of Louis XV., brought about the im molation of from 130 to 140 persons of all conditions who after,, the display were leaving by this street. "The first who fell into the open trench created the panic. Carriages were crushed and broken, which, in their fall, dragged down those who were inside and those on whom they fell. Among the dead were found many corpses whose pockets were filled with watches, on which account it is surmised that they were pickpockets. More than 400 spectators have been wounded." This catastrophe took away the Parisian taste for fireworks for at least a score of years, and the next torch lit was that of the Revolution of '33. New York Journal. The consumption of tooacco in XYancd averages two pounds a year for ever wnaDiiant. CURIOUS FACTS. The Irish language is not a commer cial language, though it is still spoken by persons who have business' to trans act.';. . ' - One of the first tunnels in the United States was on the Alleghany Portage Railroad in Pennsylvania. It was 900 feet long and finished in 1831. D. W." Hughes, of Mexico, Mo.f possesses one of the few patents issued by the Confederate Government. It was for a breech plug for a cannon. The letters in the various alphabets of the world vary from twelve to 202 in number. The Sandwich Islanders' alphabet has the first named number, the Tartarian the last. Youghiogb.eny, the name of a river in Pennsylvania, is not hard to pro nounce. Try it this way : "Yaki-yah-gheny." It used to be spelled "Yogyyoyhgania" on the old maps. Many of the South Sea Islanders be lieve that Faradise can be inherited only by persons of perfect physical forms. Wheie this belief prevails a man will die rather than submit to amputation. Fleur-de-lis means the flour oi Louis, and it was a white one which Louis VIII, of France, took as his em blem. The name of the flower family to which this plant belongs is Iris, the Greek rainbow. Eddie Johnson, a Kentucky boy, who is two and a half years old, weighs eighty-five pounds and is regarded as the largest child of his age in the State. He wears a man's hat and nine and a half shoe. The size of the Columbian stamps just suits a wealthy farmer in Wayne County, Iowa. He proiioses to paper his parlor with one, two and five . cenl Columbian stamps, and has sent $ 4000 to Washington to pay for the necessary material. The producing power of the banana is forty-four times as great as that ol the potato. The dried fruit is -readily converted into nutritious flour ; it may also be manuiactured into sausages beer can be made from it ; while the skin can be turned into cloth, and the juice made to do service either as ink nr vinegar. With the natives of Bur m ah it is the belief that people born on Monday are zealous ; on Tuesday, honest ; Wednes dav, quick tempered, but soon calm again ; Thursday, mild ; Friday, talka tive ; Saturday, hot tempered and quar relsome ; while Sunday's children will be parsimonious. Lemon grass, known only in Ceylon' grows to a height of six or seven feet and ignites spontaneously- At first -a single curl of smoke or bright tongue of flame will be noticed. Soon, how ever, as the water runs down the stalks and mingles wTith the oil and acids con tained in the pith of the curious herb fierce fires burst into view here, there and every place, soon covering the whole mountain in a sheet of flame. At Columbus, Ind., recently a carp, which weighed eight and a half pounds, had been left in a small sound of watei by the recent overflow, and was dis covered by a dog, who began Marking at it. The fish began jumping at the dog, and his gills and fins became dis tended, plainly showing his intense anger. Finally the dog sprang at the fish, and plunging under the water, brought the carp out and laid it on shore. i A Portable Faper Hospital. A portable paper hospital is the latest type of building invented, to be easily set up and taken down and removed. It is a French idea, and when folded up forms a load for three two-horse trucks. By double walls, which inclose a cush ion of air, it resists outside variations of temperature. The elements of con struction are panels of a fixed size, and tubular beams also of a fixed size ; but when in position ihe interior of tha building is' without post3 and without visible framework. The two parallel walls arc connected by a number of tie-beams of thin wire of galvanized iron. The tracks upon which it is loaded are. so arranged as to form the foundation of the floor of the building when ranged side by side. . Then they are covered by panels of paper, some light T-shaped joists of iron having been stretched across the intervals to hold up tho paper panels. The roof ia mad j of panels fastened in pairs, and the ventilation z obtained by holes bored at the angle between the ceiling and the walls, the building is so closely jointed as to bo easily varnished and disinf ecte 1. The windows are of wire gauze covered by some transparent coating. The advantages of such a hospital in a military campaign are too obvious to need pointing out. lude- pendent. THE BANK OF NEW HANOVER. Extracts from the Report of Bank .Examiner Clement Dowa. Wilmington, N. C. The bills and notes of the failed Bank of New Hanover classified in the usual way show the fol lowing results: One name paper $380,294.79. Two name pap.r 85,871.05. Real estate mortgaged 300,994.05. Other collaterals 617,417.97. Tutl . $1,384,577.87. Of this large sum without security, $70,431,20 is past due, while the total amount of past due paper is $132,408 86. The item "other stock and bonds" car ried on the books as part of the assets, consist of stock in this bank and $2,700 in Great Falls Manufacturing Company all purchased at a premium. The bank stock is now. worthless and the Great Factory stock worth about 5) cents on the dollar. The indebtedness of the president, Mr. Bates, is $41,000 while the collaterals supporting it are estimated to be worth about $17,000. The cashier, Mr. Smith, is indebted to the back in the sum of $22,852 34 and his collaterals are esti mated at not txceeding $10,000. A corporation in which the president and cashier are said to be interested as managers or otherwise is indebted to the bank in the sum of $78,729 61 with col laterals estimated at n )t exceeding $25,C00. A firm of which one of the di rectors of the bank is a partner owe3 the bank $129,084,38 with collaterals esti mated at not exceeding $35,000. A sin gle firm owes the bank a debt of $129, 708,33 besides large arrearages of interest while the collaterals are not worth more than $30,000, if so much. An individual debtor owes $135,000, upon which the probable loss is estimated at $100,000. Another debtor corporation owes $81, 500 and still another corporation $22,50 both deb'.s probably without security and both corporations practically insol vent. A single debtor owes $26,754.25 which is of several years standing, while another individual owes $39,500 with n leal e&tate mortgage (no other security) worth say $2,000. The real estate carried among the as sets are taken from the books of the bank, but on examination we fail to find tnit amount Dy neany so.uuu. it is possible that in the confusion incident to the suspension these notes were mislaid or overlooKea. .bus as tne DanK cas no statement book and never attempted to make up a statement except when called upon by the State Treasurer, there is no way of ascertaining how long this defi -ciency miy have existed. According to the facts above and many others, too, founded upon actual examination and such opinions, estimate and information as. were accessible to the examiner, there can be no question that the bank is largely insolvent; that its capital stock is worthless and its as gets bo reduced by numerous and heavy losses, that its depositors cannot reason onably expect more than 75c on the dol lar, and perhaps not nearly so much as that. The cause of the failure, in the opinion of the examiner, were rnisman agement of the bank, unbusinesslike methods in keeping the books and rec ords; the habit of lending money without any sort of security following so reck lessly and persistently as to approach the very verge of .criminality, and very gross negligence in the matter of looking after and trying to secure and collect debts that were past maturity and man ifestly in danger of being lost. Another Southern Improvement. The contract for the Colbert Shoals lock, in the Tennessee River, . has been awarded to Prof. M. B. Henry, of Flor ence, All., on bis bid of $345, 342. The canal, when completed, will cost $3, 000,000, and the money for the work is all available. The complete scheme calls for a canel eight miles long, one hun dred and fifty feet.wjde and seven feet deep at the lowest water. There will be but one lock on the canal and the contract awarded was for that lock. The work on the lock will begin within two weeks, and the c Detract calls for its com pletion within two and a half years. The canal will begin twent y'two miles below Florence, and the lock will be at the lower end thirty miles below that city. This canal will enable the Tennessee River t) be Eavigated from it mouth to Chattanooga at ail seasons of the year ind in all stages of water. In connection with the great Muscle Shoa's Canal, seven miles abjve Florence, and which was comp'eled and opened for navigation two years ago. this is one of the most important public work in the South. Two Hustling Carolinas. The New York L fe Insurance Comp any offered a free trip to Chicago to the agent ge ting the greatest number of p licies in the Carolinas. W. &.. Parker, of Moresvllle, N. C, won the prize. The prize ia the general contest, taking in thi United States, was won by Mr. Co hen, of Union. From Father to Son. Bethlek am, Pa . Howard Mutchler, is nominated as a Democratic cindidate. for UonreJf, to fill tha unexpired . term of his father, tfcfe- late William .Mutchler. . 14 FIREMEN KILLED. A Burning Building at Chicago Col lapses. rhe Firemen and Others Were Burn ed to Death. Chicago, III. Fire was discovered in the tower of the b:g cold storage ware house, near the Sixty fourth street en- rance of the World's Fair, at 1 :50 p. m. While a large number of firemen were on he dome of the building the flames burst Dut below them and they were forced to jump to the roof below, a distance of 100 feet. A few minutes later tho tower fell jpon the roof, crushing it in and carry ing into the burning building a large number of firemen, dead and alive. Among those carried down by the tower were some who had cme upon the roof to help their companions who had fallen or jumped from the dome. This all happened in the sight of twenty or thirty thousand visitors to the fair. The excitement among them was indescribable. No accurate estimate of the loss of life or money is at yet possible. Wildly exaggerated stories as to the extent of the losses have gone abroad. Fire Mar shal Murray reports fourteen firemen kdl sd, that two or three painteis at work in the tower could not possibly have escape 1 nd that several Columbia Guards, who joined in the effort to extinguish the fire at its first appearance, lost their lives. The financial loss will probably exceed f50O,O0O. The cold storage warehouse was de stroyed. Its dimensions were 130x255 fett. It had a massive tower running to an altitude of 260 feet. The plice was outfitted with a complete apparatus for the manufacture of ice, cold storage, etc, and was on the grouuds as an exhibit. A.n artificial ice rink in the top story had just been completed and th9 place was usually thronged with sight-seers. A PISTOL WAR. Dealers Not 'Bothering Themselves About Licenses. Charleston, 8. C. The misunder standing between-the pistol sellers and the State promises to become permanent .Last year tnere were Ave houses in Charleston that, paid the two hundred- dollar license for the privilege of selling firearms and cartridges. All of these li censes have expijed, and a majority if not all, of the dealers will open their establishments without having renewi their licenses. The trouble bids fair to assume a permanent shape. A reporter called upon a leading dealer and ssked for a statement of the case. He said that the dealers were tired of paying a license to' sell pistols when the State gave them no protection."-The law provides that persons detected selling without a license shall be fined not over two hundred aHd fifty dollars, but does not fix a minimum fine and does not provide any means of securing the detection of violators. The consequence of this was, . the gentlemen said, that any and everybody could and did sell pistols and cartridges. The men who paid their licenses were forced to charge higher prices and the trade left them. About a year ago one house that was selling without a license was report ed. A trial was had and a fine of five dollars was imposed for the offence. This was, of course, mere nonsense. - Taking all these facts into consider ation the gentleman speaking said that most of the dealers were not going to bother themselves to secure licenses until the State would provide them with a pro quo. The dealers seem to be in earn st in their fight and it is impossible to say exactly what will be the outcome of it all. Eminent consul is being con sulted as to ways and means of securing protection from a tax which the vendors consider to be little less than an im position. The Register of the Treasury. Washington, D. C. james F. Til lman, of Tennessee, the new Register of the Treasury, is not well known to the public, but he is described by an esteem ed Virginia contemporary as "a ' gentle men of much ability, fine social qualities, and handouae personal sppeafance, who has been ' prominently indentifi'e'd with the National Farmers' Alliance." It secins that Begister Tiilraan is a manager and an owner of the Nalional Economist, the national orga,'n of the National Farm rs' Alliance and Industrial Union. Quickest Waiter. Asheville, N. C. Capt.J.W. Glo-ter ha3 returned fiom Chicago, where he has for the past three month? been manager and head waiter in a bi? restaurant in the German village on the fair grounds. At the contest Last Thursday night, Glozer was awarded the prize of a hun dred dollar bill and a beautiful gold medal as the most efficient waiter in Chi cago. Agriculturists to Meet in Atlanta. . Richmond, Va. Col. Thomas White head, State Commissioner of Agriculture, has accepted an invitation to address a convention of commissioners of agri culture to bejheld in Atlanta, July 19th. His subject ill be ''The. Uniform Lew for the .control (ind Inspection of Ferti lizera, . , JUSTICE BLAT0HF0RD DEAD. A Peaceful End, In the Presence ol Til. HTItf . mo uiio inn soiir it M76TICB 6AMCEI BLATCHFOftD. . Justice Samuel Blatchford, of tho United States Supreme Court, died at his cottage on Greenough place, at Newport, E. I., a few evenings ago. Death had seemed probable for three days, but it was not till 3 n. m. that the family realized that it was at hand. From that hour Judge Blatchford sank rapidly, passing away as n asieep. Mrs. JBI.itJhford and Mr. Appleton Blatohford. tho dwoasnd urist's only son, and Doctor F. II. Rankin, lis physician, were with him when he died. 'inree weeks belore he received two slight paralytia shocks, which iiis physician described as partial loss of motion. Thu 6hock affected his system generally, and left him very weak, but in full possession of his faculties. Justice Blatchford had ben a Newport cottager for twenty-five years and was regarded as one of the most distinguished of its summer residents. Samuel Blatohford was born in New York City on March 9th, 1820. He entered Colum bia College very young and graduated at the age of seventeen, showing promise of what his future career would be. He received the degree of LL.D. from Columbia College in 1867. Judge Blatchford then became private secretary to Governor William II. How ard for three years. In the year 1842 he was admitted to the Bar, and boan practising in New York City, removing to Auburn in 1845. He then entered into a law partnership with Governor Seward, and came back to the city in 1854. About this time Judge Blatchford began publish ing his decisions in the United HtatKS Circuit Court, which won him a gre;it deal of fame in legal circles. His career was established from that time, for he was ap pointed Judge of tho District Court of the Southern District ol New York in May, 1887, by President Jobrison, and on March 4, 1878, President Hay! showed his appreciation of the bril liant lawyer by appointing him Cir cuit Judge of tho Second Judicial Court. His last promotion occurred on March 22, 1882. when President Arthur made him As sociate Justice of tho Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Blatchford was one of the ablest jurists in this country, and his loss will be deeply deplored by the entire Ameri can Bar. Killed by Lightning. Winston, N. C Luther and John Vipman, aged respectively 17 and 13 years, were struck by lightning and kill ed fivj miles west of Winston Saturday evening. Their sister, C years of age, was also knocked down and b idly stun ned. The boys were working in a meadow with their father. Seeia a storm coming up, the father told his children, two son3 and a daughter, to go under a large ties near tho edge of the meadow until the raia was over. They went but just as the oldest sou lemed up agakst a tree a keen flash of lightning came down the tree, killing the two boys and stunning the sister. The youngest son was about three feet from the tree while the sister stood about six feet away. The father was horrified when h3 went out to the tree and found the three child ren lying on the ground. He thought at firot that they were all killed. Tha daughter soon regained conciousness and ia now thought to be out of dinger. The funeral services of the two young men were conducted by Rev. II. A. Brown from Bsck'a church at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon 25 Millions Dividends. The aggregate of interest payments 1Dd dividends on the first of July in tha South, says the Baltimore JIanuracturers' Record, was as much as $25,000. Out of 117 Southern banks only eight are pay inf less thsn 6 per cent, dividends. Thirty-six py 6 per cent., but the greater number pay from 8 to 12 per cent. The South is not affected greatly by the present stringency, having shortened sail i year or more ago. "Sou thern business men," says tb.3 Record, "have been mov ing in a cautious manner, and reducing ill transactions as near to a cash basis as possible. It is to this cause that the stability of the South duiiag the present disturbed CDnditions is chitfly due." Carried Off to Sea. Savannah, Ga. The Austrian baik Sirena, Capt. Martenlicb, has been libel led for $5,000 by Francis B. Whea, of this city, who seeks to recover that amount for being shanghaied. La;t De cember, while drinking, Wheat fell in with a runner, who carried him off to the Sirena and shipped him under the name of a negro who had deserted. When Wheat came ti his senses the bark wss at sea on the way to Trieste. There he lail his case before an American Consul, who sent him to Genoa, the Consul there sending him home. The Sirena ieac'icd thi3 port a few days ago, and Wheat will endeavor to k cp her he;e some time. Money Order Superintendent. JYashington, D. C. Edward E. Gads den, of Georgia, has been appointed Superintendent of the Money Order gcrvice, PostofSce Pepartroeat. ..IT
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