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GENERAL NEWS. - A dispatch says 700 persons were drowned in the disastrous floods which occurred at Che Foo, China, July 27th. - A negro was severely whipped near Dublin, Ga., on Friday by blacks and whites for attempted assault on a young negro girl. - Nine horses were killed by a single bolt of lightning on the farm of Henry Brosenne in Howard county, Md., on Thursday. - The New England cotton mil's continue to close down because of the high price of cotton, and of course many operatives are out of work. - The national convention of the Peoples party at Denver, Col., passed a resolution not to unite with either of the old parties but to go it alone. - A few days ago a shipment of watermelons Was made from Amerious, Ga., to London, England. Several of the melons weighed 60 pounds each. - The greatest clock in the world is being made at Milwaukee, Wis., for the St. Louis exposition. The diameter of its face will be 120 feet and the minute hand sixty feet long. - Miss Addie Evans was shot and killed at Matewan, W. Va., on Thurs day, by Mrs. Wm. K. Davis, whose husband was too attentive to the young woman to suit the notions of the wife. --- The first bale of Georgia cotton was marketed on the 4th inst. and sold for 15 cents a pound and was grown by a negro, who for several years past has been the "first bale man" in Georgia. - Cashier Dewey, of the Farmers and Merchants bank of Newbern, N. C., is short in his accounts and has fled, with a reward of $500 for his capture. The bank has been compelled to suspend. - General Fitzhugh Lee has accepted an invitation from the Daughters of the Revolution at Jersey City to deliver the oration at the unveiling of the Paulus Hook battle monument in that city on October 24. - Mrs. Swinhart, of Elkhart, Ind., recovered the use of her voice in a novel way. She hadn't spoken a word for two weeks, as the result of sciatic rheumatism. Her house was struck by lightning and the shock caused her to regain her voice. - Last week there was a big rain and much lightning in Marietta, Georgia. It came in the night time and lasted only an hour or two but during that short time 480 English sparrows were killed and the next morning were carted off and put underground. - Will Hamilton, a well-to-do white farmer, was taken from jail at Asotin, Wash., on Wednesday night and hanged by a mob of & thousand men crassaulting and murdering little Mabel, daughter of Sheriff Richards. The sheriff tried hard to save the wretch. - It is said in Washington that the negro will gradually be eliminated from the Navy. Out of 29,000 enlisted men in the Navy, only 500 are colored. As their terms expire they will be dropped, and four or five years from now the last one of Sambo's tribe will have been weeded out, - The son of the wealthiest man in Buchanan, Ga., was cowhided at a charch door by a woman for defaming her daughter, while her own sister held & pistol. She then compelled him to sign a paper to the effect that "The rumors against the girl were lies and uttered by a base slanderer.' - The life of a child one year old was saved at Raleigh, N. C., recently by a. piece of beef. The child was on the point of swallowing this when it fell into a tub of water and was found there with its head and body in the water and was pulled out. The piece of beef prevented any water from entering its throat. - A. violent fit of sneezing accomplished for Samuel Veale. of Hazleton, Pa., what a number of physicians had failed to do-restored his hearing. For several years he suffered from an affliction of the head which finally made him deaf. He sneezed the other day and heard what sounded to him like a miniature explosion, after which he could hear. The conclave, after being in session four days elected Guiseppa Sarto, patriarch of Venice, as pope to sudceed Leo XIII, and he now reigns at the vatican and over the Catholic world as Pius X. The new pope is an Italian and is 68 years of age. He was not among the cardinals promibently mentioned, but was elected as a compromise, none of the leading names being able to get the necessary two-thirds vote. - Jean A. Crone, a newspaper man of Augusta, Me., who is to visit every state capital in the United States, covering a distance of over 21,000 miles inside of three years. and six months isnearing Lansing Mich
