The Daily Pig from Bessemer, Alabama • 1

i PIG VOL. I. BESSEMER, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1891. NO. 1, TIT TP 1 JCIJCj DAILY GRAVE ROBBERS A SACRKD DUTY.

1 iBAMA STATE NEWS. EXPERIENCE WITH GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Mr. A. W.

Ccmmins, formerly of the Piedmont Enquirer, has accepted the editorship of the Staunton (Va.) Daily News. At Troy, Mr. John F. Swift, while at the bat iu a game of ball Saturday, received the ball full in the temple and was knocked Gen. John B.

Gordon Issues an Address to His Confederate Brothers. General Gordon has issued the following address to his Confederate brethren: Headquarters, U. S. Confederate Veterans, Atlanta, May 23, 189L My Confederate Brothers: Upon you has devolved in a large measure, the responsibility of raising funds for the proposed monument of Jeft'ersou Davis. No argument, no urgent appeal, uo special effort on our part is needed to secure your hearty cooperation in this cause.

Vou will esteem it not only a sacred duty, but a high privilege to enlist in this work and to secure the aid of all our people throughout the Uniou with unfaltering fidelity to eveiy interest of our whole country and a sincere appreciation of all great Americans of every section. We will build monuments to our own peerless heroes as an inspiration to coming generations, and we will erect a fitting one to our great chieftain, whose public and private life was without fear or reproach; wuose services to his country in peace and war will yet command the respect and wm the plaudits of all his countrymen, and whose dauntless devotion to his convictions has scarcely a parallel in history. The details for the plans for raising the money may be entrusted to the different confederate associations, bivouacs, camps and local organizations, but the committee appointed by the Press Association, largely composed of Confederate Veterans, has issued a call for the people to meet June 19th next, "to take proper steps to forward the coui-se ofjvolnntary contributions or other methods which they iuuy deem best." This seems to be both opportune and wise. I hereby most respectfully and earnestly all Confederate organizations to meet on that day for this purpose, and all Confederates not members of any organization to unite with the people aud assist the movement in their respective localities- The funds raised by Confederates may be sent to Judge W. L.

Calhoun, of Atlanta, who will act as treasurer, receipt for all remittances and place the same in the bank to the credit of the Davi3 Monument fund. J. B. GORDON, Commanding U. S.

Confederate Veterans. P. S. The co-operatiou of sons of Confederate Veterans, and especially of patriotic Southern women, is invited and assured. J.

B. GORDON. PAYING THE GOVERNMENT. The Nashville and Chattanooga Road Ready to Pay Cash. The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company has notified the secretary of the treasury that it is prepared to redeem on June 1 $500,000 of its bonds held by the government, together with interest amounting to $10,000.

During tha war this road was improved and operated by the government in the transportation of troops and supplies nudat I ho clone of the war tlm government relinquished control of the road and accepted $1,000,000 of the stock of the company, with the understanding that it would be redeemed with interest in twenty years. The first pay. meat of was made June 1, 1SS1, and the next and final payment falls due June 1 next. The exchange ot bonds for cash will be made at the New York sub-treasurr. NEW ORLEANS BRIBERS No Law to Punish Tampering With Talesmen I or Juries.

The grand jury at New Orleans has found indictments against McCrystal and Coney, two of O'Malley's assist uuts, for attempting to bribe jurors. It is not iu it pleasant frame of mind, for after investigating the hiibeiy for over a week, it has mails the discovery that there is no 'law to punish tlfo offenders. The bribery act covering the matter has not a penal clause. All parties apprtmcbed by the indicted par-tiesiwcre tales jurors, and the act only men tious grand aud petit jurors. That is the principal ground of demurrer argued, ami udge Marr promised to give decision soon.

BENNETT OFFERED HELP. To Support the Striking fHage Drl? ers. But They Have Won. A telegram from fan's uays: Owing to the intervention of the government, the strike of the stage drivers isat an end. Now stages are running as usual, and the drivers are victorious.

Previous to the settlement of the matters In dispute between the company und the drivers, when tho newspniiers of this city were raising subscriptions in order to assis' the strikers, J.unin (lordon Bennett, propria tor of tho Now York Jft-raM, otTered 'awards the support of the striking drivers JESSE I'OMEROY. Attempt to Steal the Body of Bar-num, the Dead Showman. A telegram from Bridgeport, says: A daring attempt to steal the body of P. T. Barnum, the dead showman, was made about 3 o'clock Saturday morning by ghouls.

At the time there was a drizzling rain and it was very dark. George Callahan and John Blake-man, the watchmen, were sleeping in a shanty about fifty feet south of the grave. The little bouse is in a grove, and cannot be seen from the grave pn a dark night. The men fell asleep about 2 o'clock, having remained awake during the previous day. Callahan is a light sleeper, and was aroused by the sound of the pick.

He quietly aroused his compan-i. aud both looked to their revolvers. Finding them ready for business they noiselessly proceeded in the direction of the grave, whence tho sound came. They crept to wittiin a docirf'eet of without being heard. Callahan then asked "Who's there" No reply came, but the work stopped, and one of tbe men exclaimed, "Run boys, for your life; weare caught." They dashed off, and both watchmen tired their pistols at them.

They continued shooting until their revolvers were emptied A cry came from one of the men alter he had run a short distance and the guards supposed he had been shot. They followed, but could find no one. On the north side of the ground was found an excavation in the ground several feet deep. The ground there is soft, and it had only taken a few minutes to dig it up. In order to reach the body it would have been necessary to work through a wall 8 inches in thickness which surrounds tbe grave.

Tbe crypt is covered with two stone slabs, weighing two tons. This kind of a grave was made in accord with Barnum's wish, he having said that it was safer and that it could not be entered without attracting attention of the watchmen of the cemetery. The men found a dark lantern the excavation which the ghouls had used aud dropped in their Sight. It was a cheap one, and there was nothing on it to identity the robbers. Wheu the news of the attempted robbery became known in this city it caused widespread indignation.

The two watchmen have been lardnig the grave since Barnum was buried. The object of the ghou seems to have been so get the body aud then hold it for a reward. Mrs, Barnum was greatly agitated over the affair, fribe said had tbe body been stolen no reward would have beeu offered for its return, as Mr. Barnuiu had wished it that way. Last night the guard was doubled at the grave.

Sliort of News. An Anglo-Indian editor once relieved Lis feelings and increased Lis circulation thus: Somewhere in the forties there was a paper culled the MofussiUte. The great ecclesiastical disuute, Uor-liam versus the Bishop of Exeter, was at that time occupying men's minds and filling the columns of the newspapers at home; and though a very absorbing topic in England, it Lad but faint interest for Anglo-Indians. There was tiien no telegraph to India, and only a monthly mail to keep India in touch with Europe. Any curtailment of the Bnpply of suitable news by such a controversy was, therefore, rather a serious matter, aud it was no easy thing to make a presentable appearance.

The infliction was borne in silence for some time; Lnt when, at length, alter mouths had gone by, and the stream of dreary disputation continued, the editor could bear it no longer. He indited, perhaps, the shortest leader tLat ever was written but that leader told the whole story of Lis woes. It consisted only of four words, and those vods were: "Damn the Gorbam Cae." The effect on the public was wonderful. The paper sold like wild-fire, and its circulation was permanently increased by at least 20 per cent. Killed While Stealing UlioKt.

An unknown man met with a strange death recently near Garden Plaius.Kau., C. J. Ward, a farmer, looking over Lis granary, discovered a plank oil' the roof, aud, on investigating, found a man's hat lying on the grain within. As wheat thieves Lave beeu raiding the vicinity, Farmer Ward took measures to dispose of his wheat before lie should lose any more, but he had hardly commenced transferring it to his wagon when he ran into a pair of shoes ou a man's feet, aud with a little more work, ho dragged out the dead body of the owner of the hat, "who, it was evident. Lad overbalanced while euteriug the bin, and Lad been Buffocated by the yielding grain before he could regain Lis equilibrium.

Tho coroner's jury rendered a verdict iu accordance witL the-se facts." MONEY COINED. Interesting Figures From theTreaH-ui'jr Department. The coinage at the United Slates mint foi May shows gold, total number of pieivs coined, 75,000, value hilver pieces, value Ili.t-lii.HtW: minor coins, pieces, valuo Total mini ber of pieces, value 13,030,200. Mother and Daughter Burned. The Star's Topeka, special says; A small four room frame residunee at the corner of Buchanan avenue and Cordon street burned Thursday morning.

In the ruins were found the charred remains of Mrs, A. KepU'grolT, ugl and ber three children, all girls, iged from l.r triouths to years. Revolution In Ilaytl. A cable has lsteii received at the llaytian legation in Parts announcing that a revolution bas broknn out at Port Au Prince, aud that a stnteof siege has Iwnii proclaimed at Port Au Prince. A French Ironclad has Imhii sent to the scene of disturbance.

Attains! Phillip It rooks. Tim Ktanding romniltlew of the Maine eliiinb at Portland voted unanimously uguiiist the coiilli illation of ItiV. Phillips lli-joks as bishop of Massachusetts. The principal i ess. Bsnlgmsl vi us that he Is not sound iu his theology.

illed from Every Nook and Corner. wb of Our Commonwealth Pointedly Paragraphed for Hasty Readers. The jug factory at Jasper is in full blast, me kiln bas been burned, and a first-class mality of ware was turned out. Capt. A.

P. Murray has resigned as nanager of the Decatur Tavern, to take feet June lie will be succeeded by Mr. E. Rutter. The people of Pickens county are greatly over the recent discovery of a vein of lena containing silver in very large quan-es.

Anniston the residence of Mr. C. B. joke, in the northern part of the city, was by burglars and a big haul made of (revisions. 1 Anniston City Treasurer C.

H. Parker sent In his resignation to the city council take effect at once. His successor has not etbeen elected. In Sumter county 1,880 acres of land, irtgaged to tho American Mortgage Coni-ly of Scotland, were sold recently at pub-outcry, bringing about 14,900. It Fort Payne Mr.

A. D. Jewett, who been serving as secretary and treasurer of fire brick works, has resigned and will go -j Georgia, where he bas a position awaiting him. W. H.

Zw.v, of Boston, who owns considerable Anniston property, is trying to the people of Anniston in a move to up a public garden or park in some con" jieutly located portion of the city. At Anniston Mrs. F. R. Jones, of Lexiug-ya, through her agents in that city, J.

Keith has let the contract for ecting a handsome three-story block at the jrner of Eleventh and Noble streets, to be impleted in four months. At Pratt Mines the market house aud city i lah are assured. The committee was ap-iointed at the meeting of the mayor and al-ermen to obtain estimates and plans with a of beginning at once on its construe-o. Mb. Robert FnAZEP.

was reflected presi-, ut of the Anniston mills. His report for '(pr-jMl-endwl made a very favorable wing for the compauy. The mills were aipleted only a short tune ago, and have ver been started up. At Fayette Mr, "George Will Hubbert is kl to have the finest young cotton in lompson beat, if not in the county. He an -eight acre field, which was planted pril 15th, that will average eight leaves to stalk.

Rev. Joa.v F. Purskr is holding a revival Troy First Baptist Church. The Blue Mountaii Land Company has en organized in Anniston. Its property in the northern part of the city.

At Anniston, 0. M. Reynolds' residence on ler Hill, was struck by lightning, but the mage was slight. At Anniston Bishop and Mrs. Wilmer took th departure for Richmond, where ey will remain several weeks before return-g to their home at Mobile.

At Opelika, Sterling Pitts, one of the most Ominent citizens, and a successful aud pros-rous farmer, died at his home nine miles of Opelika quite suddenly of appo-Lt Anniston the building of W. H. Zinu, Noble street, eciipied by W. II. Wilson large dry goodi dealer, was discovered to 1 on fire, and was damaged to the extent of .600.

The Presbyterian Church at Giuideti has eived a fine now bell- i protracted meeting is going on at the st Baptist Church at S-'lnia. apt. J. B. Cooke, of Marion, is a prom-it candidate for sheriff of Perry county Union Springs, on last day about Carrie Christian, colored, was fouut 1 in the field of Mr.

F. Hall. lueouta A. Steele, stood an ex-ion before Chancellor oil M( n-id was admitted to the bar to practice si'BSCRirTro of il.OOO has been raised f. dice the puxKio school fund, and Opelika have strictly a public school the next luetic year.

Fort Payne A. J. Rehkopf has tram lawmill with Juines Durham for property Durham had of 8. Powers in Cave ilion to Fort Payne. O.

Hpann, formerly of Missouri, now irand Bay, Mobile county, bus gone to cox county to investigate the alleged dis-ery of lead ore at Arlington. VT Opel'ka the building of the Standard Company is Hearing completion. The pone of the compauy is to make Oiwlika a eral distributing pout for that section. AT Oneoiita, Messrs. Champ Cornelius, T.

Hoi ton and M. D. Mince, were awarded contract on Monday to build a high wa-j bridge near the Andertun ford. They 1 to receive j.T Mobile, the chancery1 court has apatite 1 a receiver for the Urm of Thomas jury Son, doing a crorknry business at i Kt. Francis street.

Thu receiver i omas j. Henry, Jr. The increase in Hie number, of dwelling uses alone In Cuiou (Springs bttweeu 1HW 1KH) Ik eighty two that tie Wupied lj iltes imd liiby colored mnklng a gniiior HU7, and all iu lowd are oocu They Were aa Kvor Menace to Herders in Montana. When I first went West, in 76, rattlers were very plenty during tLe summer months in certain parts of Montana, much too plenty for pleasure for one whom business, riding the range, constantly brought him in contact with them. My sheep herders would kill aB many as two and three, and often more, rattlesnakes a day.

So plenty were tLey that the sheep were constantly being bitten by them, and although an old sheep would, if possible, steer clear of a snake, the cariosity of the lambs would lead them to investigate any peculiar moving object, and proceeding to watk op and smell a snake they were usually bitten. The herders would carry a little, paper of cooking soda or a small vial of stronger water of ammonia in their pockets for use when necessary. The sheep would invariably be bit-tea on some part of tha head or under the jaw. When first noticed the herder would catch the sheep, lance the bitten place in several places with his pen-kniie and squeeze out the poisonous water, rubbing the soda or ammonia into the cuts and all around the part bitten. If bitten elsewhere, and immediately doctored, the evil effects were generally of not much consequence and the sheep was all right again in a few days.

I have seen sheep which had been bitten in the head, and for which nothing was done, and finally the hair and wool would come off of the. Lead, and by degrees they would get well. One day a fine mare was bitten in the jaw, and ahorse, used on a mowing machine, was bitten in the leg. Soda was the only remedy used in each case, and they soon recovered. My herder was once using a collie pup of which he was very proud.

He sent it around the sheep, when suddenly it jumped to one side and began to cry, and came back to him he thinking she had stepped on a prickly pear was examining her foot, when he saw she had been snake-bitten and was fast swelling, lie was near a spring, and takiugoffhis drawers he tied a string around the lower end of one leg and partly filled the sack thus formed with soft mud. In this sack of mud he placed the dog, and carried her with him all day, renewing the mud as opportunity offered. At night when he reached camp he blistered the dog's leg with turpentine, but the poor thintc seemed to suffer so from it that Iw washed the turpentine off and used soda wator. The next day the dog was able to follow him, and in a few days was as well as ever. I once cured a sheep bitten by a rattler, by lancing it and using turpentine externally.

Next day the sheep was all right. A friend of mine, an old hunter, had been shooting prairie dogs, on which there was a bounty of 10 cents per head. In making his morning round he would pile tip the dogs he had killed in one place and make another pile, and so on till he was ready to return, when he would skin each dog and take the skin to camp. A rattier concealed beneath one heap of dogs, aud as the hunter was pulling out a dog the snake bit him on the arm twice. He at once hastened toward camp, a mile previously tuken the precaution to bind his handkerchief above the place bitten, and around his arm, and twisting it as tightly as possible with his rifle rod.

He was quite sick before reaching camp, so that he was obliged to rest several times. In his tent he always kept a cure for snake bites in a demi-jolin, although often indulged in as a preventive, was never allowed to go dry. Ou arrival, for once iu his life he really had a good excuse for getting drunk, and started in earnest. When he felt the medicine beginning to work strongly on him he loosened the bandage on his arm, allowing the blood from his arm to circulate to his body, and Laving the effect of at once sobering bim up. Letting the good work go on, he again resorted to hi demijohn, and this timekeeping it up till he was gloriously drunk.

Shortly afterward Lis partner, wished to send for a doctor, but no. He said, "1 am all right" In a few days the swelling weut down, and excepting a little sickness at his stomach at times he was as well as ever. I asked him if the bite of the suako was it as the stinging of a hornet, only a hundred times worse. AYhilo hunting with a favorite pup, I noticed him trailing and coming to stiff point. I Lad all tho birds I wished, and as it was gottiug lute, I tried to call him off, but he would not come.

All of a suildou he jumped fivo feet up iu the air aud nearly turned a soinersmilt, just in time to avoid tho spring of a large rattler. It was only his agility that saved the dog. (ioiiiR into my tent to cook supper I heard a rattle, aud lighting a mutch haw his hatttiiic majesty coiled up on the Hour sack, close to tho stove, and seemingly perfectly satisfied. Ho was uot contented very long. I oould relulo ruttlcsnakd stories by the blithe, but 1 Lato to.

I dread to think about the horriblo crawling tbinci mil Slrvim. Tin' Mormons Sent Back. Assistant Secretary Nettlvton has decided Hint llollier Pttlo and wife of HwcoVn, who were detained 111 Now York as polyitani. iiU, full within the prohibited class of iin-iiiinrnutM, and he therefore ordered their return to I he country whence they came at ths sxmism of the steamship company which brought them over. This Is the Hist time that polygamUU have beea debarred, Current Events of Day Epitomized.

A Concise Review for the Week of Doings from AH Over the World. Potter Bailey, shoe manufacturers of Boston, have assigned. Their liabilities are 11,000,000. C. A.

King, business mauager for Bench, cliffo Brewing Company, of Paterson, N. ha3 disappeared, leaving an alleged shortage of $20,000. At Letrobo, on a crossing, a train on the Pennsylvania road ran into a carriage, killing Miss Millie McNally and Richard Fox aud Miss Bertha McCreary. The steamer Hudson, from New' Orleans to New York with ninety-six passengers and a cargo of general merchandise, went ashore at Body's Island on the Virginia, coast. A Boston dispatch says: Ac a meeting of the creditors of the Davis shoe firm it was voted that the assignees purchase Ihe stock and continue manufacturing at Lynn and Richmond, and fill the present contracts.

Glaxqers are raging among the hoisss or Aberdeen, Miss. W. J. M. Ben, shoe manufacturers ol Cochituab, Mass.

are financially embarrassed. The liabilities are $150,000. The organization of the American University has been effected at Washington. Murk Hoyt was elected president of the Board. A Detroit dispatch says: Judge Breckinridge, of St.

Louis, of the Committee on Theological Seminaries, in the midst of a speech iu discussion of the Bdggs case' fell dead with heart disease, aud the assembly at once suspended further action, as weU as the banquet proposed. A St. Johns (New Foundlandi dispatch says: Repyrts of the French commander's stopping the sale of bait to Americans are confirmed. Steam launches from a French warship drove the boats from the sides of the American schooners. They also took up the nets of New Foundland fishermen, putting them ashore.

The outrage is a great loss to the inhabitants and to American fishermen. The striking stage drivers have won iu Paris. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, has visited Gov. Hill, of New York. Kenny Latzkt, merchant tailors of Atlanta, have failed for $18,000.

Postoffice inspectors have arrested at Le-may and Clayton, N. W. J. Nelson, alius Frank'J. Riid and Joserh Ellington, alias W.

H. King, alleged green goods men. AT Lyman, Ji bn Burn, the pugilist who was knocked out iu an eight round battle with Harry Tracey, of Cambridge, recently, died the day after the battle. Tracey has been arrested. The British bark Virbilia, Captaiu H.

Bevridge, of Yarmouth, N. en route to Savannah from New York, weut ashore near Payne's Hill Life saving Station, on the Virginia coast All were saved, but the bark burned. A Lansing, dispatch says that the governor has sent to the house bis veto of the Grand Army of the Republic bill, which appropriated $30,000 for the entertainment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Detroit uext August. A San Francisco Uispr.tcL says: The directors of the California Athletic Club held a meeting at which the award in the Coi liett-Jackson contest was again unde consideration. The directors refused to amend the resolution adopted after the fight by which the men were awarded $2,500.

A Newport, R. dispatch says: The Legislature met Wednesday, and ufter organization separately, met in grand committee, cunvassed the returns of the April election for State officers and declared that there had been uo election and then elected the Republican ticket headed by Governor Ludd. The vote was: Republican 75, Democrat "5. M. minister of Mexico, is dead.

Seven miles from Chattanooga, Jesse C. Robertson, a prominent citizen, was killed by a train. The store and stock of A. Strouso, ol Aberdeen, was partially destroyed by fire. The loss is not heavy.

In Florida, an effort will be made to get the governor to refuse Keuator Call, recently elected, a certificate. John Kei.lv fatally shot Otto Kahlor at Norfolk, Va. The luttur had married thu former's sister and treated her badly. At Htarke, Fla, Marshal L. Alvares a ltd Prince Allmrt, colored, attempted to cap turea murderer named Murray und were both killed.

Murray ecaied. A Thomasui, Maluo, dispatch says; The Standing Coiiiuiltte of the Maine Church at Portland, voted unanimously against Hie nomination of Rev. Phillips Brooks as Bishop of Massachusetts, The principal ivuhoii assigned was that ha is uot sound in his theo logv; FAMILY 111 Drunkard, HiM AVI Co and Three hililrcii Lost. A telegram from Wheeling, W. naysi The home of Ilesu-y l'hilllis at Taylnrstowu caught fire and I'IiIII'dk, his nifu and .1 year' old oil il wers burned to death, a 15 year ihl Is.y was so b.nl'y smirched that he di.sl In a few houis, i'lillllw hud mmi drinking through tlis night mid It Is hellpved that a lamp was upset causing the At Troy, the churches are all having electric lights put in place of lamps." The Parker House and all the lodges and public halls will have them also.

At Tuscaloosa, on Saturday, Prof. Carle-ton Mitchell was presented with a maguifi cent gold-headed walking cane by the pupils of the public school. Mb. Henry Folmar has contracted with two gentlemen at Dothan to build an opera house at that place, which it to be completed by the first of the theatre season. At Livingston Mr.

Tom Wilson, who was painting the ceiling of the pavilliou at the Normal College Saturday, fell some fifteen feet to the floor and was severely injured. The commencement exercises of the Eutaw Female College closed on the 27th inst. The commencement sermon was preached on Sunday, the 24th by the Rev. C. L.

McCarty, of the Southern University. At Northport Mr. and Mrs. C. L.

Bell have issued cards of invitation to the marria ge of their daughter, Miss Annie Leonora, to Mr. John C. Lawrence, which happy event will be celebrated on Monday evening, June 8th, at 8 o'clock, in the Baptist Church at North-port, DUX'u TRADE REVIEW Summed Up lutings Are Brighter And Better Stit'U R. G. Dun weekly review of trade says: It is astonishing how far the monetary anxieties have passed from the minds of men.

The most powerful sustaining influences is the continuance of exceedingly favorable crop prospects. In some places tributary to New Orleans, rain is needed for cotton and sugar, but winter wheat is now so far advanced that a heavy yield is considered certain, and prospects for other grains is as bright as it can be at this date. Wheat has fallen here; corn oats SJ; while pork bas yielded 26 cents per barrel; lard an eighth. Exports already show an increase; sugar is a shade lower. In general prices of commodities have decline i not far from one per cent for the week, and will further dc-liue as the new crops draw near, if uo disaster comes.

There is a better demand in the east for bar and structural plates. Cotton manufacture progresses without change, and eastern failures have caused special dullness in the boot and shoe and leather trade. Even for a dull season at Philadelphia there is a general hesitation because oof the state of city finances. The only irkets where a strong tendency is reported are Savannah and Memphis, though money is firm and in strong demand at Mm" neapolis and Detroit. Clearing house exchanges show a smaller volume of payments for May than last year, but railway traffic returns are more favorable and the earnings show gains.

Business failures of the week were 219; for the cone poaalng week last year the figure was 204. MORE MILLIONS. The Secretary of the Treasury May Issue $4,000,000 More. Attorney-Genaral Miller has decided that the secretary of toe treasury has no authority under the act of July 14, 1890, to issue the treasury notes provided by that act, except in payment of bullion purehaw" each month, under the provisions, but tfcai the gain or seignorage arising from the coinage of bullion under the act, when paid into the treasury becomes a part of the general cash, and as such may be used under the existing law like any other standard silver dollar, and tha' silver certificates may be issued against such dollars as may be offered at the treasury for exchange, whether such silver dollars represent the point of seignorage or otherwise. The seignorage fund now amounts to and tinder this decision the issue of silver certificates may be increased to that extent.

HOMES FOR THE EXILES. Eighty ThouHand Acres of Land for a Colony of Jews from Russia. One of the largest real estate deals made in North Carolina recently bas just been closed. Rabbi Wessler, an agent of Russian immigration society, has purchased 80,000 acres of land iu Caldwell county, siuhty miles east of Asheville, N. C.

To this property the society proposes to bring at least 1000 families of Jews who have been driven from Russia by the government. The people brought ihere will be substantial, well to-do farmers. The colony is to be established and kept up ou the plan of those already established at Santa Barbara, aud Vinelaiid, N. J. The Agent expressed himself as being very much pleased with this section of the United Htuti's und confident lliut this colony will be made a success.

The settlors will remove' to their iiuw homes and take possession early In the fall. The irloe paid for the lauds ia not made public Need Five Million Dollars More. It Is announced by a member of the way and mtiniiR committee that an additional 14,600,1100 Is to he raised in Clilcago by the Columbian Exposition committee. A thorough can vans will be made among the wealthy cil I win who liavs not yet contributed. It ia expectvd to Increase the amount to i.oooO either by loan or hy contribution from tlis national government.

The addi" tioual amount Is found necessary to carry out Hie constantly growing plans of the manage iusuf. The Boy Fiend Tries to escape Another Prisoner Trim It Too. A telegram from B.wton says: It was dis-iovered that Jesse Pomeroy, "the boy fiend" confined in the Stato prison at Charleston, had succeeded In sawing the lock so it could be easily removed from the door of Hie cell. A drill and saw were found in bis cell. He was placed ill the dungeou till the lock could be replaced.

Daniel Mullen, ancthur prisoner, was missed and di-covensl iu the loft I what is known as the sintea shop, llu was placed iu solitary confinement. KaiiHiiN Wlilhkcy Trouble. A dispitch from Tn says: I'm. hihition luaders am delighted, lit the result ot the supreme court decision in the Itutirer original jMickoge case, holding the Wilson bill Coiistituliimul. County Attorney Weleb who lropied his prosecutions of the men charged with coutlnulns; to il liquor after the passage of the U'ilson bill, ill now continue and the war will bo waged '111 ilrtir-mliintion.

World's Col Ion Supply. The U'Utl visible supply of cotton for tliu world is a.TM.ii'.'l, or which is Ameriean, against li.i'.i.Sf.s.l ttll, -wctivtily last year. of all Interior towns, m-eiplsof jdaiitutlous, Crop in sight.