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r ir it i i? i 1 1 J f r A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VIII. NO. 14 MAXTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1893. SI. CD A YEAR. ji jii o in jA a 0 A Montana man has just completed and applied for a patent on an auto matic machine that bide fair to revo lutionize the cutting of precious stones. This machine can do the work cf at least twelve men. Edison says that gold is not as val uable nor as necessary as iron or lead. A public library and literary resort exclusively for the blind has been opened in Chicago. It is said there is no case on record in Massachusetts where a verdict hav ing been set aside in a capital case and a second trial granted a conviction was secured. The Chicago Herald has discovered that every crowned head of Europe, with the exception of that of Turkey, is descended from one or two sisters, ihe daughters of Duke Lmdwig Rudolf of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, who lived about one hundred and fifty years ago. We have nn idea that the United States is a great place, with its 60, 000,000 people, observes the Detroit Free Press, but there are 800,000, 000 people in Asia, and more than 200,000,000 in Africa. The scientific estimate is that there are 1,450,000, 000 people on the earth, of whom not more than 500,000,000 wear clothing from neck to sole. One of Boston's pleasantest small charities is the furnishing of street car tickets in summer to poor invalids for rides in the suburbs of that city, but it is now asserted by the conductors that very many of these tickets are misused, being tendered to them by persons who not only are not ill, but are, from their dress and appearance, abundantly able to pay their own fares. The Manufacturers' Record of Balti more publishes a list of 502 industrial concerns established in the South since the 1st of July, showing that business was affected very little by the panic below Mason and Dixon's line. The list is made up largely of cotton mills, canning factories, foundries and wood working establishments. During the first half of the year some 1400 new enterprises of this kind were started in th6 South. M. Francisque Sarcey, the French dramatic critic, announces himself as a convert to vegetarianism. He has written a letter to a Paris paper de scribing his experiences, in which he says that he is only a "moderate" veg etarian that is, he eschews only meat and admits eggs, butter and cheese, milk and fish to his regimen. He finds that he is in much more vigorous health and in better working condi tion than before. The first week, he says, is rather hard to bear, but the benefit is soon felt thereafter. ! The big liners New York and Paris, according to the New York Sun, burn about 330 tons of coal per day, oi about 30,800 pounds per hour, in main taining 18,000 indicated horse power, which is equivalent to a coal consump tion of 1.71 pounds per hour per horse power. The average for all the fast ships with triple expansion engines, like the New York, Paris, Majestic, Teutonic and Fuerst Bismarck, is said to be about 1.75 pounds per horse power per hour. In the case of the Umbria and Etruria and similar ships, which have only compound engines, the rate is higher. This is an evidence tf the advance made in marine en gineering by the introduction of the triple expansion system. The Atlanta Constitution says: "After sixty years of restricted suf frage, Belgium, under her new consti tution, is about to try a startling ex periment. The new law gives a vote to every male citizen who haa reached the age of twenty-five. A married man who pays taxes, or a tax-paying bach elor of thirty-five, is entitled to an ex tra vote. A third vote is given to a citizen of independent means, possess ing a certificate of high education, or who holds or has held a public office of a certain rank. It is believed that every husband will place his extra vote at the disposal of his wife, thus indi rectly giving her the elective franchise. Under the new constitution the num ber of votes in Belgium will leap from 150,000 to 1,200,000. .A well-equipped Belgian will now be able to cast a vote on election day just after breakfast, and if he feels greatly interested in the campaign he can stick in another vcte at ( :nner time, and still another on his lK Jome to flapper." THE HEADSMAN'S AX STORY OF THE SWIFT AND SI LENT GUILLOTINE. Notoriety Won by a Chance Remark The Idea Not Exclusively French Scene at a Paris Morning Execution. 1 fHE story of the guillotine forms one of the saddest, not to say the most revolting pages of history, so distasteful even to the writers of French annals that its origin was not definitely known till come forty or fifty years after its in vention. Popular legend attributed it to one Dr. Guillotin, a member of the convention in 1780, who two years be fore the machine commenced its deadly work had with humane intention sug gested in that body that criminals who had to suffer the death penalty should be beheaded by some mechanical means, the mode of which he did not specify and of which he had himself no definite idea. It has often been asserted, and is still repeated, that Dr. Guillotin was the first person who died by the guil lotine. This is not a fact. He was ar rested on some trivial charge, but re leased. He afterward acquired a con siderable fortune, and died peaceably in his bed at Paris in 1814. The following description of the guillotine in its perfected form is con densed from &n admirable article by Maxims de Camp, published in the Revue des Deux Mondes. Until 1872 it was mounted on a scaffold, a scaffold being traditional, but it is now placed on the ground, and in Paris not far from the door of the Roquette prisons in order to ab breviate as much as possible the agony of the condemned and soften the hor rible features of the scene. The in strument, which can be taken apart for the purposes of transportation, is about thirteen feet high and sur mounted by a croespiece, called in French the "chapeau." The ax is a triangular blade solidly fastened by bolts to a piece of wood fourteen inches broad. The ax itself is a foot in width. A little more than three feet from the ground are' two boards, the lower one fixed, the upper made to slide up and dowm in the grooves. In the lower of these is cut a half moon. There is another in the upper, and when it falls on the lower. the two half-moons meet, making a perfect circle, which receives the neck of the criminal and keeps the head- in place. This is called the lunette. In. front of the lunette and on the side on which the condemned approaches the instru ment is an upright board, long enough to reach from the ankles of "the criminal to his breast, which turns upon pivots in the middle. It is called the "bascule." On one side is a huge basket, lined with zinc and partly filled with bran or sawdust, that is destined to contain both the head and body. The bascule is fur nished with straps to confine thetbody and limbs if thought neeessary. The criminal approaches the bascule erect before him. The executioner, who stands beside it, pushes him forward, tilting it at the same moment. His head falls into the lower half of the lunette. The executioner touches a button, which drops the upper half of the lunette imprisoning his neck. The pressure of another button lets fall the ax, whose movement is accelerated by a heavy weight of lead and rollers set in the grooves, and the work is fin ished. Though the instrument seems to be so precise in the accomplishment of its work, mistakes or imperfections are possible, caused by involuntary movements of the condemned, who, however composed he may be, is not always entire master of himself- The ax elides down close beside the lunette, but a contraction of the musles of the neck sometimes causes the blade to strike the chin, and though the arms and legs are fastened it is not so closely that all motion is rendered impossible. To perfect the operation the execu- tioneer has two aids, 'one of whom presses on the legs and the other seizes the head, which he draws toward him to enable the blade to strike the neck squarely and sever it without accident, after whioh, if there is any need, he pushes the head into the basket. As soon as the President refuses to intervene, We executioner appears on the scene, and the execution usually takes place on the following day, or the day after. If it is desired to avoid a public execution it may be delayed several days, in which case the Place de la Roquette is besieged every night by a crowd such as Paris alone can produce. The guillotine is brought after midnight, but long enough be fore the fatal moment to render it olid and to raise and let fall the ax i several times to see that thera is no obstruction. The military arrive, part ly on horseback, and form a square, forcing the crowd back to the limits of the place. When all is ready the director of the prison, the priest, two or three officers and usually a few reporters, proceed to the cell of the prisoner, whom they find sleeping quietly, en tirely unaware that death is so near. The director awakes him and in a formula, whose words are almost al ways the same, says, "Your appeal has been rejected. The President refuses to pardon you. Have courage." To this the prisoner commonly replies ; "I will have courage." But sometimes he complains, affirming his innocence, or accusing certain witnesses of hav ing testified falsely against him. He rises, dresses, and is taken into an other room where he has his hair cut and the upper part of his clothing cut away to allow the ax to operate free ly. The executioneer appears and takes possession of him. The cortege is formed to conduct him to the scaf fold, his arms tied and his legs confined but not in such a manner as to pre vent all movement. The priest goes before to hide the terrible instrument, holding up the cross which the con demned rarely raises his eyes to look upon. The executioner or his aids support him if he falters. He arrives at the guillotine facing the bascule. The priest dismisses him with a kiss of peace. The executioner tilts the bas cule, the neck falls in the lower hall of the lunette, the upper half falls clasping the neck and the ax falls in stantaneously. The work is finished in a few seconds. There is the fall of the ax, a spurt of blood; the head rolls into the basket, and the body is tumbled after it. Then the basket is put into a wagon, which gallops away to the potter's field. The instrument is taken to pieces, taken down and car ried off the building where it is stored. The squad of the Republican Guard that guarded the place with other boI diera on duty are marched off to their baracks. The spectators disappear from the few windows that command the place, and the crowd melts away, a few remaining to inspect where the guil lotine stood, the traces of blood hav ing been carefully removed the mo ment the instrument disappeared. An hour after the sight of the tragedy re tains no trace of the occurrence. Ban Francisco Chronicle. Frost Torches to Protect Vegetables. The project adopted by the farmers of Saratoga County, New York, to pro tect their crops from damage by early frosts is worthy of imitation else where. It seems that a Swedish farmer has talked of the use of ' 'frost torehes" in his native country, made of petroleum-soaked peat ; but, as peat is not common in Saratoga County, the farmoir; employed their leisure time in tri summer in preparing pine stakes two inches in diameter and five feet long, then they laid in a stock of kerosene. A few evenings ago the thermometer dropped to thirty-eight degrees by 8 o'clock p. m. and the agricu l turists began soaking their pine sticks. By midnight they had them in place, about fifty to the acre and blazing vigorously, the dense smoke preventing the chilling of the at mosphere. As the torches cost .but about one-half cent each, and as all the torch illumined farms escaped dam age, while the others in the visinity were probably depleted of two-thirds of their produce by frost, it is clear that the scheme is as economical as it is successful. Newark News. Lsriaf Made of Human Hair. Carlos Guttierres, a Mexican cow boy of White Oaks, New Mexico, wears at his saddlebow perhaps the most curious lariat ever possessed by a herder. This lariat is composed entirely of human hair of & beautiful glossy black, as fine as silk and strong as hempen rope. The whole is the work of his mother and his wife, both of whom contrib uted to its length for a period of sev eral years, carefully braiding in their locks from day to day. The lariat measures something over seventeen feet in length and is about half an inch thick. Both of the women are noted for the beauty and abundance of their hair, the elder's being eight feet from the crown of her head to where it falls on the ground, while the wife's tresses, when she sits, sweeps the floor for three feet. Gutierres has been offered his own price for the rope, as it is a superstition among the cowboys that a rope of human hair is a talisman against death in the saddle, besides bringing good luck with the cattle. Philadelphia Times- Typewritten letters have been formally ruled put illegal evidence. TREASURY THEFTS. FAMOUS ROBBERIES FROM UNCLE SAM'S STRONG BOX. The Hallock Case- A Twenty-Thousand-Dollar Robbery in the Issue Room of the Treasury De partment. HE Treasury Department fur nishes the greatest field for possible crime. Almost all the employes of the Treas urer's office in the department at Wash ington handle from tens to hundreds of thousands and even millions of dol lars every day. None of these men and women is under bonds. The Treas urer of the United States gives a bond, which is expected to secure the Gov ernment against loss whether by theft or by error. A little clerical mistake by one of the employes of the office might make the Treasurer a very poor man in a very short time. The amount of mutilated money received by the Treasury Department and handled by many clerks in the course of its pro gress to redemption is $700,000 a day. The most famous Treasury robbery is known as the ' 'Hallock case. " This robbery occurred in June, 1875. Ben jamin Hallock was a clerk in the cash- room of tho Treasury Department, Money is handled and tossed about there all day like bread in a baker's shop. One day a package of $500 notes, aggregating $47,000, was miss ing from the cashroom. The city de tectives became suspicious of a man named Theodore Brown, known as "Pegleg." Brown, who was a constant frequenter of a saloon kept by "Billy" Ottman on Pennsylvania avenue Brown displayed a great deal of money and presently went to Saratoga, where Detective George Miller, of Washing ton, found him playing the races with $500 notes. He was not risking much money on the horses and it was evident that he was using the race meeting to have the $500 notes broken into notes of smaller denominations. Brown was arrested and brought back to Wash ington. In the meantime Hallock, who was under suspicion, had gone to New York. He was arrebted and brought back to Washington, where he was used as State's evidence in an effort to convict Ottman and Brown. The Secret Service detectives found $14,500 on special deposit in Ottman's name in Alexandria, and this was re covered temporarily. It was finally paid to Matt Carpenter and George Bliss, who were the attorneys for the accused men. None of the money stolen by Hallock was recovered, and, as Brown was never tried and the jury in Ottman's case disagreed, no one was punished for the crime. One pecu liar feature of the Hallock robbery was the fact that the money stolen by Hal lock was not of a new issue, but was money that had come back to the treas ury in good condition and was being reissued. If the money had been of a new issue the numbers would have been consecutive, and it would have been very easy to trace the stolen notes. Evidently Hallock had taken that fact into consideration. Another famous affair was the Wins low robbery, which occurred on De cember 7, 1879. Winslow took a pack age containg $11,900, chiefly in $100 notes, being sent to the National Bank of Hlinois by express in exchange for notes sent in for redemption. The Secret Service Bureau went to work on this case, and got so well on the track of the thief that on the morning of January 7, 1877, a package containing $11,200 of the stolen money was left at the door of the home of the Secret Service Chief. Facts in connection with the return of the money pointed to Winslow, and he was arrested. All the money except $555.85 was recov ered. Winslow confessed and was sentenced to a year and a half in prison. In his confession he said he had pre pared an envelope resembling the of fice envelopes, which he had filled with blank paper and surreptitiously sealed with the office seals, which were not in his possession. At an oppor tune moment he had substituted this dummy for the package intended for theNational Bank of Illinois. One of the most picturesque rob beries occurred in General Spinner's time. In his annual report for 1869 Spinner had boasted that although his office had handled billions of dollars evary year, no shortage had occurred during his term. Certainly this im munity from loss wa not due to the perfection of method in the Treasur er's office, for Mr. Spinner's system was very crude compared with the check system of to-day. Almost in an swer to General Spinner's boast came a robbery that is unique in the history of the department. It was customary then as now to permit visitors to go through the issue division if they were vouched for by employes of the office. In the early part of June, 1870, two T strange men were noticed by some of the employes of the Treasury Department loitering about the corridors, but no particular com ment was made and no watch put on them. On June 11th the wife of a well-know resident of Washington was visiting the Treasury Department with some friends. She stopped at the door of the issue-room, and Mr. Root, who was in charge of the room, invited her to enter. One of the men who had been loitering about the hall pushed his way into the midst of this lady's party. Mr. Root supposed that he was one of the party and the lady sup posed that he was a friend of Mr. Root. The stranger questioned Mr. Root very closely about the methods of the office, working his way over to the table on which lay many packages of notes. He managed to get Mr. Root between him and the clerk who had charge of the money. At the same time the other man entered the room and bending over the messenger of the office so a i two obstruct his view of the table on which the money lay, made particular inquiries by name for a fictitious clerk of the office. At this moment the first man distracted Mr. Root's attention by telling him that the party of his "friends" was about to leave and that he must join them. When Mr. Root's head was turned the man picked up a package containing 200 $10 notes. He might just as well have had $20 notes, as packages of these notns were on the table, bnt he did not have time to se lect. The package which he took was of the size of a $10 bill in length and breadth and was six inches thick. It was too large to be concealed under his coat, and it was remembered after ward that he had in his hand a large Panama hat, in which he doubtless concealed the package. There was no suspicion of the robbery until the fol lowing day Sunday. No clew to the thieves could be had at Washington, but the numbers of the notes were sent out and all banks were warned against receiving them. Some months afterward a man deposited $7900 in these notee in a New York bank. He was arrested and part of the money recovered. His accomplice fled the country. The records of the Treasury Department do not show that either of these men were punished. San Francisco Chronicle. The Competition That Crushed. "No," said the man with a straw in his whiskers, "no, you don't catch me shippin' no more stock on your steamboats." "And why not?" asked the freight agent. "I done it once," was the reply ; "had a fine mule ; worth $200 ; wanted to send him from Cincinnati to Louis ville ; put him on a steamboat that had one of them forty hoss-power bass fiddle whistles on to it, with a snort and a screech at the end ; mule went on the boat all right but he was lone some ; got to brayin' ; had a bray on to him that he was proud of ; brayed till the passengers organized a committee to wait on the captain ; captain couldn't do a blame thing; had a contract to de liver the mule in Louisville unless the boat busted a biler : thebiler wouldn't bust and the mule kept on brayin' ; about midnight the boat was goin' to make a landin' ; pilot pulled the string and the whistle began to blow ; mule stopped brayin' soon's the whistle started and cocked up his ear to listen ; listened a minute ; tried to bray ; didn't know whether he was brayin' or not, for that blame whistle ; tried again ; whistle kept on, then it give a snort and a screech, and bust my buttons if that mule didn't give one look of dis appointment and grief and drop dead right on the deck. No, siree, no more steamboats fer me shippin' stock on," and he went xmt to find a railroad freight agent. Detroit Free Press. Stealing the Diamonds. Despite the guarding of the dia mond mines there is still a good deal of stealing of diamonds, " says Dr. J. W. Matthews, a pioneer of Cape Town, South Africa, in the San Francisco Chronicle. "They are constantly in venting new ways to circumvent the guards. It is a great temptation to steal. A native finds a diamond, for instance, as big as a walnut. Well, if he can secrete it it means that he has a fortune and that he need never work any more. A diamond that size is worth $25,000, enough to last a poor native all his life. So he sets to work contriving how to get away with it. "I have known them to conceal dia monds in their nostrils and in their hollowed-out boct heels and in all manner of ways scarcely to be imag ined. Do the best the guards can the laborers will make away with some." The District- of Columbia has the largest death rate from consumption of any part of the United States, AUGUSTA EXPOSITION. Governor Northen Delivers an Address. The Georgia Stata "Fair Combined With the Exposition. Augusta, Ga. For the tbird time n grand exposition has been held. On this occasion, however, there is joined with this enterprise the Georgia State Fnii under the management of the Georgia S ate Agricultural Society, the two com bined forming an exposition that equals in its scope and magnitude any similar enterprise ever attempted in the history of the South. Ia lh building it the finest agricul lural di-play of Southern products eve: sen, fifteen counties of Georgia an) South Carolina and th'j collective ex hi bit of the State of South Carolina, par ticipating. In the industrial, mechani cal and electrical departments nearly all the States and eight nations are repre sented, while among the attractions are many of the best features from the Midway Plaisance at the World Fair. Gov. Northen ia his speech aid : "This is an auspicious day, not for August;' only, but for Georgia and the South. ' Willi cheap material, cheap labo; and no stiike, the South can claim the entire contract of the manufacture c! cotton goods at no distant day. Noth ing but ourselves can hinder the growth of our section and the wealth of ou people. We do not need to cultivate our farms less but more, while we invite capital to develop our mines, utilize oui forests, manufacture our cotton, broaden our agriculture, and open our pons to the commerce of the world. "The South, under the diversification of crops and diversification of industries, is thrilling with new life. As this new prosperity comes to us it will bring no sweeter thought than that it adds not only to the comfort nnl happiness of our section, but that it makes broadet the glory and deeper the mnjen'y and more enduring the strength of the unioi of States. Ia this Republic of curs is 'odged the hope of free government on the earth. Here God has rested the ark of the covenant with ths sons of men. Let us scar above ell provincial pride and find our deeper aspirations in gath ering the fullest sheaves into the har vest and standing the staunchest and most devoted of itss"ns, as it lights th path and makes clear the way througt which all the people of this eirth shal come in Goof's appointed time." TO COIN $4,000,000 A MONTH. Colonel Oates Bays that Mr. Carlisle Intimated to Kim Mis Policy. MONTGOM EI! V, A LA. CODgl SSRiS n Gates has anived in this city direct from Washington. In an interview he said he hsd recently called on Mr. Carlisle and the Secretary gave him to under stand it would bo the policy of the ad -minis! ration to coin all the silver bullion in the Treasury, or about four mitliom monthly. At this rate, which is the capai!y of the mints, it would requiK four years to coin all the bullion on hand That would be at the end of Mr. Cleve land term. The succeeding admin'st-a tion would p:ovidc for additional cur rency and relief to the people for increas ing the circulating medium. He sayt he thinks the bill repealing the 10 pe cent, tax on State banks will, if pissei, give a sufficient domestic currency and relief to the people, but he ii not sure the President favors it. The President is non committal. A Crew Rescued. Norfolk, Va The berk 8. S. Southerland, Captain BroiiixJ, from Charleston or BreuieD. which put in h re for coal, brought to this city Captain McDonald and crew of fix men belong ing to the schooner Ttter H. trowell, of Dennis. Mass. The Crowell sailed from Noifolk on November 3d, for Fa!! river with a cargo of coal. She encoun tered bai weather from the first and on November 5th there was five feet of water in hr hold, and it steadily in creased notwithstanding all effoits to clear her. When sighted by the S Suth erland Saturday morning she was 13 miks o3 Bdy Islaid. II r decks had bad bee a swept ashore, suits lost and a'l her bo.Vs carded away. The men were in an exhaustc 1 condition and had to be hauled oa board with lines. Nine Feet of Water inner Hold. Wilmington, N. C. The schooner Douglas Gregory, Captain L. S. S'.ill well, hailing frcm Pert Dennesvilie, N. J., from Savrnnah to Baltimore, with cargo of lumber, was towel into South port in distress. The captain repo-.ts that she wa3 struck by a northeast storm on the 10th, in latitude :33 deg. 35 min. north, and long:tude 78 deg. wesf, dur ing which the vessel lost her rudder and sustained several leaks. At present there is nine feet of water in her hold. ' Kills the Sheriff. Menu at, Kt. J. M. Ereedlove,sh riff of Henry county, Tenn., was shot and instantly killed by a negro named Cole man. The nrgro was in ambush and used a shot gun, blowing the top of the sheriffs head off. IT CAME TOO LATE. The Death of a Direct Tax Claimant Before his Claim was Paid. Beaufort, 8. C. At a time like thi?, when toft-handed charity is pouring it benefactions upon the distressed ami storm stricken sections with bounteous hand, it is a base and additional r flec tion upon a common stnso of justice that this lattrr should be withheld from thos j entitled to its rewards and that, too, 1t the greit Government under which we live. Kdwin C. McTureoua, respectibiy con nected and Biid to hnvc been a faithfui and gallant Confederate of Kerahaw'j brigade, an heir to a moderate urn ot money from the direct tax fund in the hands of the United Stales Government, died here last night in extreme proverty and destitution, while the little pittuuee from his paternal estute on St Helens Island confiscated by the UuiUd State; during the war, and from which he lotij 6ince should have received his quota, ha? been withheld in Accordance with the cruel and inexorable rule of delay in these cases for long months of postponement of the check, and he haj diel just about tho time tint it shoul 1 have arrived, and now tco late for him to enjoy its benefits, which nvght. have smoothed the roiih asperities for his life or lightened up his dark pa'hway to the grave. He sought not tho general chirity that might have been obtained, but preferred to abide the sickening pang of hope de ferred, aid so groaned and died ! We had obtaiueJ for him a judgment in the Court of Cla:nis for his portion of money, which our pateroal Government Lad allowed him to expect, but the usual formality of procrastinating payment for niuety days was required by the Government, and when it comes it will come too late to af ford bim the litt'e comfort and pleasure of its receipt. It is a sad irony of fu(i. He hid nevertheless some kind friends ho saw that he wai not entirely neg'ect- d and saw him decently interred. TOBACCO MEN COMFORTABLE. They Think the Tobacco Tex not Iikely to bet Raised. "Washington, D. C A committie from Winston, N. C. rcpicsenting the tobacco interests have visit, d the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. They have also had a hearing before the ways and means committee. As a result of the various interview s th-y any they are sm fuine that the t:x on manufactured to D bacco wid not be increased, and that tl.e provision of the McKinlcy law as to haf tobacco will not be re enact-d. Ihe Secretary has made no recommend .ii n of the kiud and bo'h he and Ihe Commis sioner are opposed to troubling RuV.cco. These gentlemen unders'and thai the commit'ee is not likely to increase the tax of sis ceuts on the pound, but ;bc7 have a tub committee to look aft r thing? if it is propofo 1 to distuib ti e situation. A distinguished nvmber of the ways ml m ans committes said tb-t the in ternal revenue fea ures of the bill were not yet arranged. As to the tarifl rr ens r.re, prcm sing in view of the elect i"u resutts.he smiled and remarked, "I 'l ink the committee has sonic backbone, but it is cor servative and its action will be cone. vdtive." THE WORK OF ANARCHISTS. They Throw Dynamite Bombs Into the Midst of a Theatre. Barcelona, Spain. During the gfcond a"t of the opera, William Tell. Wednesday eight in the Lyceum Opera House, two bomb'', prisumab y loaded with dynamite, were thrown from 'e galleries inti the audience below. O e s'ruck ta tin; back of a man in one rf the seat, and fell to the floor harmhss. The olhr exploded in the c owd of spectators, killing and wounding a Iargi number of people and makii g a wreck of the fix'urcs of the building. Pifteei persors were killed cuiriht. O.lnn have tincfc died, bringing tie total :o 1 went, -five. Two Lawyers Tight. Columbia, 8. C Burrell Miles, a i. an G) pe i'S of sge, working iu the St-ite dispensary, fell down th elevator opening, and he was rendered uncon scious, and is thoug t to b- s' liou-ly in jured. He w is sent to the hospital foi Lrctment. J hn Bausket and J. S. Verner, two prominent lawyers of th's city, hid a peisonal cocountrr on th ; stteet. Th y werj teparated without being much hurt. Picking Cotton by Machinery. New Yukk. The United States Cot ton Picking Company, which was re cently formed in New York with Jacob Schwed j s president, has been sold out to tin Wcllcr Cotton Picking Company, with a capital of $1,000,000. cf which Mr. S-hwe l is also president. '1 In mv chice acquire 1 by the Weller Company from the United States' Company has b.eo in op;ration ia the cott.m fields near Anniston, Ala. The Gridiron Clu" of Wah:n.2tor, D C., visited Asheville, N. C, last Friday, where they were wined and dined.