The Conway log cabin., 1901-07-16

The British garrison at Richmond was attacked by 5000 Boers June 27, the engagement lasting eleven hours. Upon the approach of rein forcements the Boers withdrew.
 The civil service commission has changed the age limit for applicants for positions of clerks and carrier in the postoffice department from IS to 40 years to Is and 45 years.
 The monthly report of the statis- tician of the department of agric- culture shows the average condition of cotton June 25 to have been S1.1, as compared with S15 on the 20th of the preceding month, 7S.s July l, 1900, s7.S at the corresponding date in 1899, a ten-year average of S6.3 and a fifteen-year average of 87.5.
 Two citizens were killed in an ef- 
 fort to lynch negro named Price at lager, a small village near Prather, W. Va. Price, who had assaulted white woman, was be- ing pursued by crowd, when he took refuge in a small house and barri caded the door. The crowd battered down the door and made a rush for the negro, who fou ght like demon with knife in each hand, killing George Hooker and F. M. McGraw Price was finally captured by off cers and lodged in jail,
 The annual report of Chief Will kie, of the secret service division, Treasury Departm mt, submitted to Secretary Gage, il dicates that this has been the most successful year in the history of the livision. During the twelve months ending June 30. 1901, there were placed in circula- ton but four new counterfeit notes against an average of about ten for each year during the preceding ten years. Only one of these new notes was at all dangerous, the others be- ing of unskilled workmanship. The total amount of counterfeit currency which came into the possession of the division during the year amounted to $30,056, while S18,117 in coun- terfeit coin was confscated. Com counterfsiting decreased all over the country except in New York city and vicinity, where there has been q gradual increase in this class of crime, particularly cases in which genuine silver forms the basis of the limitations The arrests for twelve months show a total of 594.
 MT Evans, commissioner of pen sions, makes the following state ment as to the pensions granted and certificates issued for the fiscal year ending June 30; Original issues lnvalids, civil war, 20,443; invahds, war with Spain, 2,795; survivors, Mexican war, Is; Indian wars, g.; total soldiers, 23,260 Widows, civil war, l9,S42; widows, war with Spain, l,241; widows, Mexican war, 352; Indian wars, l32; widows, old war prior to 1861, 6; widows, war of 1872, 3; nurses, 25; total original issues, 44,S61 Restora- tions, 4,775; names added to roll, 49,6l2; increases, reratings, etc, 60,043; total certificates issued, l09,59 Increase, 4,064 The in- crease in the number of pensioners on the rolls June 30, 1901, compar- ed with the previous year, is about twenty-five hundred. Number of claims pending-June 30, 635,059 i; May 31, 1901, 415,409
 Thousands of horses and mules have died the past few weeks in Mis- sissippi from charbon.
 The State of South Carolina, act ing through the Governor and Attor- ney General, has instituted proceed
 ngs before the commissioner of in- ternal revenue to test the question whether the State can be legally re- quired to take out special tax stamps as wholesale and retail liquor dealer under its state dispensary laws.