Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 October 1898 — Page 6

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Is rumored in Paris that Capt. has been transferred from the Diable to Cayenne, where he a steamer to carry him to a or Algerian port. Dedham, Man., went into mourn- ; on the 29th, out of respect for the memory of the late Thomas F. Bayard. The flags on the town hall and courtwere placed at half-mast. Paris dispatch intimates that it Faure will resign and seek on an anti-revision platand that in the event of success will at onee dismiss the Brinson An order of the war department directs that sick and wounded soldiers granted furloughs are entitled to $1.50 per day commutation and transportation when traveling to and from their homes to posts of duty. It is estimated that the total hop crop of toe state of Washington will be between 27,000 and 30,000 bales. Work of picking has begun, and • considerable portion of the crop has already been contracted for. Although the majority for prohibition throughout toe Dominion of Canada is about 18,000, even the prohibition papers consider it too small to influence the government to attempt to enact prohibition lgislation. Sir John V. Moore, an alderman of the city of London, and senior partner of Moore Bros., leather merchants, was elected lord mayor of London, on the 29th, to succeed Horatio David Davies, the present incumbent of that office. Col. John Hay was sworn into office as secretary of state on the 30th. The ceremony took place in the presiroom at the White House, and of office was administered Harlan, of the supreme now looks as if it would the earliest before the can leave for the PhilipNone of the transports due at Francisco have arrived, though may put in an appearance at any moment. Queen Louise of Denmark died at Copenhagen, on the 29th, at 5:30 a. m. The kings of Denmark and Greece and the princess of Wales, alternately,during many hours, held the hands of the dying queen, who for a few moments recovered consciousness, but could not speak. It is expected that the French minister of justice, M.-8arrien, if he has not already done so, will issue directions that the rigors of the imprisonment of M. Dreyfus be modified, according to custom, pending a final decision in his case, which is now before the court of cassation.

At the meeting of the American Public Health association at Ottawa, Out., on the 29th the executive recommended that the (governments of the United States, Canada and Mexico be requested to make the RertUlou system of classification of disease the basis of the census of 1900 and 1901. . , « — — ? Complaint reached the treasury department, on the 28th. from a steamship agency at New York, that one of their vessels, the Arkdais. had been refused permission by the Spanish authorities at San Juan, Porto llico. to unload her cargo. The matter was referred to the war department. The state department has given its assent, through the American consul at Apia, Samoa, to the return to Samoa. after an exile of ten years, of the former king. Mataafa. It is assumed that this chief is to be made Icing, to succeed the late King Malietoa, who died about a month ago. The president has given instructions that all the sick at Porto llico lie sent north as soon as they are able to travel, his purpose being to relieve Gen. Brooke of the further care of the Sick, and at the same time enable the men to receive the treatment obtainable in the better appointed home hoe .pitals. It is stated on good authority that a deal has been concluded by Delaware Indians for the purchase of 550,000 acres of land in Mexico, and that as soon as they secure settlement with the United States and the Cherokees, they will remove there. It is thought that many of the full-blood Cherokees will accompany them. Sear-Admiral Montgomery Si card, president of the board charged with the promotion of officers distinguished for gallantry during the late war, was retired, on the 30th, having reached the age of S3 years. Secretary Lonm however, by special order, directea • that the officer retain his place at the bead of the promotion board. The house and furniture of M. Emile Zola ere about to be sold to satisfy a, judgment of 30,000 francs obtained against him by three handwriting experts who recently won a libel suit, gowing out of the Dreyfus case, against the author. The experts refused the offer of M. Octave Mirebeaa to be responsible for the amount. The smneroue articles of mail matter reaching the San Francisco past office, addressed to Hawaii, paid for at only domestic rates, indicate a general but erroneous impression that our domestic postal system was extended to those islands when they were annexed. Except on matter addressed to our soldiers and sailors the Universal Postal union rates apply.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS nr BRITT. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The British consul at Hong Kong has been instructed to protect the family of the Cantonese reform leader. Kang Yuwei, on his way to Hong Kong on board the steamer Ballarat. A dosen persons, including a number of women and children, slid down a clothes line at a Chicago apartment house fire, bn the 29th, and escaped. Seventeen others were rescued by firemen with ladders. Five persons were injured by flames and by jumping from windows. Japanese advices state that scandals have developed concerning the financial management of two Japanese railway enterprises. The ultimatum of the powers to Turkey regarding the island of Crete was presented to the sultan on the 29th. Nearly 3,000 carpet weavers have been thrown out of employment in Philadelphia because of the action of the ingrain carpet yarn spinners in deciding to shut down this branch of their business. One hundred and fifty men are now at work on the raised cruiaer Maria Teresa. They have removed a lot of debris from the bilges, and have got up steam in the starboard after boiler. The other boilers are all right. The result of the last terrific storm in Japan is thus summarized: Deaths, 250; housef swept away, 104; houses overthrown, 1,195; houses partially wrecked, 11,460; houses inundated, 15,597; river banks broken, 78. Advices received from Van say fighting has occurred at Alashgorb between the Turks and a number of Armenians from Russia. About 50 Armenians were killed. Twenty-four disgusted gold hunters just returned to San Francisco from Kotzebue sound, on the Catherine Sudden, bear out the reports of the other miners from there that there is no gold to be found. Reports received at the railroad offices in Milwaukee are to the effect that the forest fires in the northern part of Wisconsin were quenched by a heavy fall of rain on the night of the 29th. The entire business portion of Ipawich, S. D., with the exception of one block, was destroyed by fire on the

Two transports were expected to arrive at San Juan. Porto Kico, oq the 2d, for the purpose of taking on board 2,000 of the Spanish troops. This would so reduce the Spanish garrison that the island was expected to be turned over to the Americans as soon as they departed. Gen. Brooke's troops are closing in. Dr. F. A. Todd, assistant superintendent of the Ohio state hospital for the insane, at Toledo, died at the Presbyterian hospital. Chicago, on the night of the 30th, where he had been several days suffering from an acute attack of hydrophobia. His death was unattended by the terrible symptoms usually accompanying the malady. Naval Constructor Hobson is making a survey of the Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, which was sunk when Cervera’s fleet dashed out of Santiago harbor. His operations are for the purpose of determining what work is necessary to raise the vessel. The Wisconsin battleship commission hare decided on Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, daughter of ex-Congress-man Isaac M. Stephenson, of Marinette, to christen the battleship Wisconsin at the launching event, which will take place at San Francisco on November 26. It was decided to use wine. There are good reasons for believing that Gen. Merritt will not return to Manila, but that, after the final conclusion of pcaoe, he will be given the supreme command In Cuba, with Generals Lawton. Wade and Lee in command of the three districts. Members of the Chicago W. C. T. U. want ginger pop used instead of wine at the banquet to be given the president there during the peace jubilee. They think the use of wine would detract from the dignity of the occasion, and that the president of the United States could be toasted more appropriately with pop or mineral water. Hawaii !m to come into the United States as a territory, with all the government machinery of an embryo state, according to the plans reached by the American commission, recently returned from its visit to the islands. Humiliated by the knowledge that he had been supplanted by another, and believing himself forever disgraced his profession, Scott Inglla, leading actor of Julia Author's company, killed himself in New York by ■ending a ballet into his heart. The army investigation commission, on the 30th, decided to call upon the editors of various newspapers that have ° published specific stories of abuses and maladministration to furnish such information as they may possess hi substantiation of the

Hi© Epworth league of the Metlk odist church south now numbers 25*-, 73$ members. ~ The Ma drid ~ Nacional ~ boldly advo^ cates the giving up by Spain of the Philippines. This attitude is also taken by many of the leading papers throughout Spain, the view being that the retention of the archipelago is yet another pitfall for Spain. The American peace eomission has taken possession of its working quarters, a suit of seven rooms on the ground floor of the Hotel Continental in Paris, formerly used by the ex-Em-press Eugenie. American flags drape the entrance of the commission’s apartments. The Hawaiian comissioners returned to San Francisco, on the 30th, on the steamer Gaelic. Little in regard to their work in the islands and their probable recommendations could be learned, although they were willing to talk of the beanties of the island, and their kind and enthusiastic reception by the islander*.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Soranuah, the southern coast and the Sea Islands were visited* on the 8d, by a violent West Indian cyclone* which wrecked shipping at sea and property on land, and doubtless carried death and maiming to many homes. Growing crops were destroyed and the losses will aggregate a heavy amount. Personal investigations made in the provinces* emphasise the determination of the Philippine insurgents to obtain a specific guarantee of favorable terms before releasing the prisoners now in their hands, and it is certain that they will never cheaply relinquish their dearly-bought conquests. Herrman Doerring has been arrested in Kansas City, Mo., on information from Sheriff Reese, of Utica, N. ^ that Doerring is wanted there on a charge of grand larceny and for other crimes. Doerring is a German newspaper man. A duel between M. Charles Ernest Paulmier and M. Turot, of the Paris Lantcrne, was fought, on the :?d, rapiers being the weapons used. M. Turot was thrice wounded in the thigh and side, and M. Paulmier was slightly wounded on the lip. Maj.-Gen. Merritt* who, with bis staff, left Manila on August 30, en route for Paris, where he will take part in the peace conference, 'arrived in Marseilles, on the 1st, and proceeded to the French capital. The interior department authorities fear the situation in the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota may be serious, notwithstanding official reports to them state that uo trouble is apprehended. Sealing in Behring sea. owing to past wholesale slaughter, has already become SO unprofitable that the sealers would gladly sell their ships and quit the business if they could see their way out of it. A convention of postmasters of the first class will be held at Detroit,Mich., next week. ^Postmasters desiring leave to attend it can secure it by applying to Assistant Postmaster Heath by wire or letter. A sanitary board, with an American at its head, has been established in Manila. A corps of physicians are superintending sanitary work in all the districts of the city and vicinity. The transportation of horses to Manila has practically been abandoned. MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The French wheat crop is estimate* at 133,000,000 hectoliters, the largest since 1874. Eev. Henry A. Brown, chaplai:! cf Roosevelt** rough riders, is to resume his church work in Arizona. The social democracy of America has selected a body of land in western Washington and will establish its first colony within 30 days. Owing to the overproduction of yarn, the ingrain carpet spinners of the Pennsylvania district have decided to shut down their mills for an indefinite period. At White lake, near Forestport, N. Y., a deer hunter while stalking mistook a' moving object in the woods for a deer and fired, killing instantly his 16-year-oid son. Maj. T. C. Tupper, who died recently at Cleveland, O., was on the active list of the army for 32 years, having enlisted as a private in the.Sixth United States cavalry in 1862. George Mulligan, a Klondike miner, lost a purse containing $61,000In cash and checks in a Spn Francisco street ear. Gripman John Donahue found it and restored it to him. One hundred and twenty-three members of the sacred college of cardinals have died since Leo X11X. ascended the papal throne, and 67 of this number were of his own creation. Lady Gay, a noted dog owned by Samuel B. Stannard, died at Mr. StanaAd'i kennel in St. Loui*. The collie was valued at $5,000 and has taken first prizes all over the country at bench show*. Dr. G. Q. Colton, the noted American dentist who died in Rotterdam some time ago, had pulled more than 1,000,000 teeth in the course of his practice, and was the first dentisbto use “laughing gas** in practice. Robert Roberts, an English write* on religious affairs, the author of over 100 books and editor of the Christadelphta, of Birmingham, England, was found dead in bis room In San Francisco from heart disease. The imperial Chinese government has granted to the Peking syndicate of London the right to open and work mines and to construct and operate railroads in the empire free from Chinese control. This la the first con

—- HOOSIER HAPPJMNGS loid in Brief by Dispatc eg from Various Localities. * 0« the Ticket. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 1.— rhe fact has just been made public thm t on Sep* t ember 12 Leonard J. Hackiu y, one of the judges of the supreme :ourt of Indiana, had sent to the sta e board of election commissioners hi* formal withdrawal as a candidate for re* election on the democratic ticket. The reason generally as ?gned for this action on the part of Jkdge Hu :kuey is that he has been offered a position as associate counsel by the Big Four railroad at a salary of $6,000.a yeur for a term of years.

liiiue uiru aiiiiBf. Warsaw, Ind., Oct. 1.—The two little daughters of Mrs. Grant Rami all left their home to go to school Thursday and have not been seen since. All efforts to locate them by their parents and the officers have proved fruitless. Their father, Charles Miller, committed snicide a few months ago, and facts brought out at the inquest go to prove they have been kidnftped. Had Thirteen Hatband*. Noblesville, Ind., Oct. 1.—Mrs. Polly Owens, who was lately married to William Owens, of White Kiver township, near here, is now living with her thirteenth husband. Mrs. Owens has six children as the fruits of her former marriages, no two having the same name. She is about 50 years old. She was separated from the larger number of her husbands. Coltese Openings. Indianapolis. Ind., Oct. 1.—The various colleges that constitute the University of Indianapolis are beginning the sessions of ISOS and 1S99. Wednesday the Medical College of Indiana opened its doors with nearly 800 students entering. The Indiana law school and the Indiana dental college will begin next Tuesday. Butler college will open Monday. Praises the Soldiers. Anderson. Ind., Oct. 1.—In a letter i from Quartermaster J. T. Brunt, of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana infantry, to his family in this city, he says Gen. Fitahugh Lee said to him: “I am going to take the One HundredandSixty-flrst to Havana with me as an escort and they will make a great parade in that city.” — School Children’s Pennies. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 1,—The governor has issued a proclamation inviting the school children of the state to contribute their pennies for the monument to be erected over thegrave of La Fayette in Paris, it being the expectation to unveil this monument during the Paris exposition of 1900. L. A. W. Nomination*. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 1.—The nominating committee of the Indiana division. L. A. W., has made the following nominations: Chief consul. Wallace Sherwood, of Indianapolis; vice consul,. Walter B. Hassan, of Jeffersonville; secretary-treasurer, James A. Allison, of Indianapolis. Fatal Collision. Seymour, Ind., Oct. 1.—There was a head-on collision on the Baltimore <fe Ohio Southwestern railway near Dillsboro in which Harvey Bryan and John Lee, of Sparksville, this county, were probably fatally hurt. Several tramps, whose names are unknown, were also dangerously injured. Not for Sale. Anderson, Ind., Oct. 1.—The big syndicate which is trying to buy up all Indiana breweries, and has already absorbed almost all, made overtures for the Norton brewery in this city, but their propositions were all rejected and they were told the Anderson brewery was not for sal*.

Drowned While (lathing. Indianapolis, lud.. Oct. 1.—Harry Glenn. 2? years old, was drowned while swimming just below the apron of the dam at Broad Ripple. Glenn is a candy maker, and was employed at Canton, O. He came home for a vacation a short time ago. and to visit his mother. Died of Paralysis. Anderson. Ind., Oct. 1.—Stephen Funk, aged 50, a resident of this city for 30 years and in business here 25 years, died at his home, the result of a stroke of paralysis two weeks ago. He leaves a wife and four children. Given Damages. Wabash, Ind., Oct. 1.—The jury in the breach of promise case of Miss Roxie Anderson ts, Irvin Murphy returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $800. Miss Anderson sued for 95,000 damages. Branch Railroad. Anderson, Ind., Oct. 1,—first steps have been taken by business men of Gaston to secure the construction of an extension of the Gas Belt el fetric railway to Hartford City vim Gaiton and Gilman. , Has Gan great1. Logan sport, Ind., Oct. 1.---Charles Leffert, a Logs ns port boy who was w!th Roosevelt at Santiago, is lying in a dangerous condition at his latame in this city, suffering from gangrene. Hew Glass Factory. Summitville, Ind., Oct. I.,.—-The Fairview Land company has located a 11pot window glass factory here and arrangements are under way for the erection of the plant._ Cyclist Fatally Hurt. Jeffersonville. Ind.. Oct. 1.—Charles Golden, a wheelman, ran intoa grocery wagon and la thought to be fatally injured. _ Utassa Race Meett: tag. Lebanon. Ind- Oct. L—Tie Badness

A WEST INDIAN CYCLONE. Ik* SotthwB Out and 8w Island* Apia Devastated with Mach Doss of Lite and Property.

Savannah, Ga., Oct. 3.—For 15 hours, from three O’clock yesterday morning until six o’clock last nighty Savannah was in the grasp of a West i Indian cyclone. During that time th« wind blew steadily from 50 to TO mile* an hour. While the city escaped with comparatively little damage, the loss of property among the Sea Islands ot the Georgia and South Carolina coasts is believed to be heavy. For miles in every direction around Savannah the lowlands along the rivers are submerged. Only one fatality has so fai been reported—the drowning of a negro while attempting to reach the mainland from a small island neai Thunderbolt—but heavy loss of life ii | feared on the South Carolina Sea Islands, where such fearful loss of life occurred during the great tidal storn of 1893. The conditions now are similar to those during that storm. Owing to the submerged country and the isolated location of the islands, nc news can be had from them until the water subsides. The EnUr* Country Submerged. For eight miles north of Savannal the entire country is a lake, with onlj the hemlocks visible. At noon the water was eight feet above the highest tide. Driven on shore by the northeast storm it filled up on the island^ swept over banks and dams, carrying away the remnant of the rice crop that was left by the August storm and had not been gathered, and wiping out farm crops. The loss to rice growers alone will be from $50,000 tc $75,000. Of the entire rice crop along the Savannah river, valued at $230,000, all but about fifteen per cent, was lost in this and the preceding storm. The damage to shipping is considerable. The schooner Governor Ames, which was on her way to sea with a i cargo of 1,500,000 feet of lumber, went adrift in the harbor but was secured safely. The wharves at the quarantine station at the entrance to the river here, were partially carried away. The quarantine officer and his family and servants were rescued by a tug. Four vessels which were at anchor at the station, were torn from their moorings and driven into the marshes. Three of these were the British schooner Syanara, bound for St. John, N. B., the American schooner Millerille, N. J., the Fannie Child, for Boston, all lumber laden, and the Italian bark Franklin. How badly these vessels are damaged is unknown. No news has been received from Ty* bee island since early in the morning and nothing is known of the damage there. ituat-HoiMM and Hundreds of Hosts Carried Away. At Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope, suburbs of Savannah, all the boathouses on the banks and hundreds of small boats were carried away. The extent to which the railroads suffered is not fully known. The naval stores and cotton and lumber yards of the Plant system are submerged, and the tracks of the Central railroad of Georgia and Georgia & Alabama railroad, around the city, are covered. The north-bound express on the F. C. & P. railroad, due here from Florida at noon, has not yet arrived-. Telegraph wires, except ene wire over the Western l nion lines, are down and the condition of the railroad track sunken. Ex teat of the Storm Unknown. The extent of the storm is unknown and until telegraphic communication is restored or news is received from the country between Savannah and Jacksonville, over which the heaviest part of the storm passed, the full extent of its damage cannot be told.

MINERS TAKE THE TOWN. They Corral the Negro Miner* and Attempt to Drive Them Away—They Defy the Police. Washington, Ind., Oct. 2.—This city is in a state of excitement to-night. One hundred and fifty coal miners from Pana, 111., came here this afternoon, and met at the Fair grounds, with the home union miners. At ten o’clock to-night they got together and, masked, visited all the shacks where the colored . miners Uved. About 50 of the negrdhs were corralled, and, at the point of pistols, were run out of the-town. One negro refused to go, and the miners fired on him. He has not been found. The police could do nothing. One* policeman, Anderson Cannon, went up to the mob and demanded of them to disperse. They answered by covering him with 25 or 30 pistols. The masked miners took the town. Chief of Police Call turned in the fire alarm, and called out the citizens to assist In keeping the peace. At this hour of night the streets are covered with people. The masked men have hidden themselves, possibly to make an attack on other negro shacks. There are about fifty negroes who declare they will die before they leave town. ITaat to Swan s Military Camp far Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Oct. 3.—Congressmen Bromwell and Shattuck yesterday accompanied a committee of the Cincinnati chamber of commerce to Washington to present to the war department a proposition to make a military camp ont of Oakley Park suitable for five or six thousand troops. It waa desired to have Senator Foraker accompany the party, but the senator was compelled to leave Saturday night for Washington. Sen

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Some Idea of the Vessel Just Launched and Christened at Newport News, Va. THE BI66EST BATTLESHIP IK THE KAVY. Um WU1 Differ from gome •t the Battleship* la Having a Sfnct Freeboard. Which Is Kxpeoted to Kahaaee Her Seagoing Bower*—Her Dlmeosion*. Battery, Ktc. Washington, Oct. 2.—Next Tuesday,at 11 o’clock, there will glide off the ways at the yards of the NewportNews Shipbuilding Co., the biggest,, most powerful and probatuy the most, generally effective battleship in the United States navy. This will be the Illinois, which is expected by the naval* designers to be a worthy godchild ok the state whose name she bears. Larger by a thousand tons than the Oregon; larger than the Iowa, nowthe biggest battleship in service, the Illinois is so designed that she will be able to enter any harbor open to the smaller battleships, while in the matter of speed she will rank with any of* them. Ttk* Meet Striking Difference. The most striking difference be-' tween the Illinois and the battleships now In service, is the high free boa re > of the former, enabling her to fight, her guns from their great elevation* above the water in seas so heavy that the guns of the lower vessel would be submerged and useless. Splendid seagoing powers are also expected to result from this increased freeboard, by which is meant the height of the hulP above the water line. Some of the details of the great ship: which vary in many important particulars from the existing types, are given in the following description prepared by Chief Constructor Hichborn: Her General Dimensions. The dimentionr of the Illinois are as follows: Length on load water line,, 369 feet; beam, extreme, 72 feet 2V*.. inches; draft on normal displacement! of 11,325 tons, 23 feet 6 inches. Maximum displacement, all’ ammunition and stores on board, 12,323 tons; maximum indicated horse power (esti- - mated), 10,000; probable speed, 16*/,knots; normal coal supply, 800 tons;; coal supply, loose storage, 1,200 tons;; full bunker capacity, 1,400 to 1,500 tons. Complement of officers, 40; 'seasmen, marines, etc., 449. ■ , Her Batteries. f The main battery will consist offour-13-inch breech-loading rifles in Hichborn balance turrets; oval in shape.. and placed in the center of the vessel*, and fourteen 6-inch rapid-fire guns. The secondary battery will consist of Bixteen 6-pounder rapid-fire guns, four-1-pounder rapid-fire guns, two Coll guns and two field guns. She will carry four torpedo tubes. The 13-ineh*. guns have an arc of fire i>f 135 degrees*, on each side of the center line; andSL the 6-inch an arc of 90 degrees on thebroadside, with the advantage of thoseon the upper deck of a direct fireahead and astern. Any injury to, ornear, either of these 6-inch guns, wilE be confined to its own compartment,, as a 1 Vi-inch steel splinter bulkhead separates each oi these guns from itsneigbbors. She will be one of the most perfect \j armored vessels in the navy. Internal Operating Machinery. The turrets will be operated by electrical power,also the amunition hoists*, and the dynamo and auxiliary blower** for ventilating purposes. There will be some SO odd auxiliaryengines in the vessel, thus adding" greatly to the efiiciency of the ship*, in the celerity and certainty with*, which the work can be done.

Four powerful electric searchlight** are also provided; two on top of theforward chart house, and two on each side of the after military mast; alii having an elevation of 25 feet abovethe water, and commanding a complete all-around Tange. There will be two sets of triple expansion, twin-screw engines, each in* Its own separate water-tight compartment; the collective indicated horsepower will be about 10,000. The first keeiplate of this vessel* was laid February 10, 1907, not quite30 months past, and the percentageDf work completed to this date, based! on the vessel fitted out and ready torsea, is now reported between 53 an<£ 54 per cent. The contract price was* $2,595,000. and the date of completion* <a stated to be October 5, 1899. fire la a Mas Cana the Lms of ftv» Um Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 3,—The fire In the Midvale mine caused the loss of* five lives. The body of the fifth victim Joseph Torofski, was found yesterday, morning. All died from suffocation: After the recovery of Torofski’s body, no farther search was made, as the* employes had been accounted for. Superintendent Lathrop says the fire: caused very little damage to the mine and that work with a full force of met? will be resumed to-day. Wmmt to Witness the Laaaeh of the flUChicago, Oct. 3.—Gov. John R. Tanner and his staff with! 200 other citisens of Blinois left yesterday afternoon for Virginia on k special trail* over the Big Fonr and Chesapeake As Ohio. Old Point Comfort- will boreached to-night. From there the* party will leave by boat tor Newport News, where the battleship “Illinois*** will be christened Tuesday. Miss Nancy Letter,of this city,whom* Gov. Tanner has selected to break the? bottle over the vessels’ bow, will join. at Old Point Comfort,