THE WEEKLY*! 01101 TIMS ^ 1 . . , . . : : . S^? J-. ^ " -.-?g? ; ? v JkmtmI to AyrwuUurc^ BertiauUare, Dowmtto Mmtumy, Potto Litarmtvra, PtXiH* and the Currant lieu* oj the Day. '" . , ' --a , ; 'I ? r=~T? ^"inurnMiii, ... -a . win ? r -+fts *. 'v -if' VOL. XXY.-NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2,1894. NUMBER 9. The farmers in n Louisiana parish met ami with groat unanimity resolved "that onch and overy member of the order hereby obligates himself to use tho most rigid economy uutil we get out of debt, and thereby bo financially independent of anyjnan or set of men." In tho shifting movoment of this restless country some pooplo yet have been content to abido by the ancestral roof tree, muses tho Chicago Herald. Dr. George Adam died at Canaan. Conn., a few day* ago at tlio ago of eigl?ty-oiio yonrs in the sumo house in which ho was born wml iu which ho bad lived nil his life. Tho Berlin Vegetarian Society has had a hard time lately disciplining eomo of its inoinbera lor breach of tho laws. Ono of them was found to bo a dealer in poultry, who even went so far as to personally slaughter tlw birdH. Another ono was found to bo connected with a newspaper which advocates tho use of horseflesh by the poor, and a third for using fish-glue in his utanip collections. A California paper boasts that a niugle school district ifi San Bernardino County of tho State is seven times as largo as the Stuto of Rhodo Island, ami lias more coyotes than the wliolo of New England. "But wo would wager," comments the Boston Cultivator, "that the school children in Rliodo Island are better taught thau the coyotes in that district, or the coyotes of New England than the school children of that district." Tho polyglot character of tho Austrian army was abuudautly shown the other day whon tho ancient custom of solemnly swearing in tho recruits in tho prescnoe of tho troops was revived, after having been discontinue I since 18G3. In Vienna alouo tho formula of oath to tho colors had to be Administered and read out iu nino languages, to wit: Ciormau, Hungarian, Croatian, Bohomiau, Polish, Ruthcuian, Roumanian, Servian and Turkish, while the religious part of tho ceremony was conducted by Roman Catholic, Groolc Catholic and Greek orthodox priests, Proto.stant pastors, Hebrew rabbis and Mahometan ulema. In answer to a recent inquiry made of tho Secretary of the Interior l>y tho Commissioner of Education in regard to a division of the fund to agricultural colleges in tho South, the Socretary lias decided thai the division of the fund as already or hereafter to be made by the various State legislatures shall be approved by tho department, unless it is apparent that such suggested division is grossly iucquitnble and that in cases whore the State legislatures have not yet proposed an ;equitablo apportionment that the basis of division now in foree shall remain till the legislative intent regarding tho matter is made known. In the ease of South Carolina tho act of Congress of July 20th, 1892, applies not only to the sum* duo the Stato at the iirnft' Tmfr. fn nil unnto 1in/?nmitinr lo demand speedy ! justice, and when they have reason to bcliove that they will bo disappointed thoy will somotimcs dispose of tho business in their own way. With murders increasing nt tho rato of ninety per ceut. sinco 1839, it is evident that something must bo done to check tho rising tide of crime or general demoralization will bo tho result. Tho certainty of punishment without unnecessary delay is the bost remedy. f *y a criminal who is reckless enough to court death at the linnets of ft mob shudders when he oontomplatos the prospect of dying on tho gallows in ft jftil yard in tho presence of only ? fow officials. Thoso quiet, orderly, priv/ito executions hnvo n better effect than public hangings or lynchings. They inspire ftwo (is well ns terror. Justice surely and spcodily administered in the conrls will stop lynching and roiluco the number of murders. If a murderer enn be convicted in England and legally executed within thirty dnys after tKo commission of his crime, why cannot wo V? njnfrily prompt in '>ur nvu'O'ls? AN MEAL MOTHER. The First Lady in the Land and Her "Jewels." Washington, D. C.?Mrs. Cleveland is ftn ideal mother. It in truo that the "Roses of Franco" liavo faded from her cheeks since her lovely form aud face first dawned on the city's aston isneu vision, out 111 tueir place come a matronly shape, a mother's tender dignity and a wife's high resolve. No woman looks at her, especially if she is privileged to seo her with her babies, without worming to intense loyalty, ltutli was not to my thinking, a beautiful child, but one of unusual attractions and exceedingly winning. When I saw her in the spring, junL after nlie had begun to go alone, I had a bunch of violets in my hands. She wanted them, and 1 gave them to her. Hlu took them to a remote part of the room, spread out her dress, laid violet aftei violet upon it, looked at them a while then laid them daintily into the tin foil and brought them back. I never saw so young a child bo concentrate her at tcntion. The last thing I heard of her she was "doin down into the tichcn to sec the tittens," in which expedition she emulated Young America, North and South. Esther, the later horn, n an exquisitely lovely child, or was when she was 2 months old. I have not seen her lately. The President i will have it that she is not as pretty nr Ruth, hut nobody agrees with him. "First come, first served," we ery. ] The wife of one of our Republican | Senators was so charmed with the child j that her husband grow quite impatient i of her reiterations. One day he encountered the wicker carriage and ] raised the curtain. A few momenta , after hp interrupted liis wife's lunch i by thenearty exclamation, "By jovc! ] you were right about that baby!" Mrs. 1 Cleveland is sometimes equal to her ] occasions. She wanted the photo- ( graphs of her children and she got j them without informing xigra- 1 pher. No children wei ever more sacredly guarded from the public eye , thnn hers. , i Death of a Niccc of President Polk. Helena, Auk. ? Mrs. Naomio Haven Moore, widow of the late Maj. W. E. < Moore, died here. Two years ago the only daughter of Mrs. Mooro was < killed in the disastrous wreck at Statesvillc, N. C. Mrs. Moore bus t.lined a shock from which she never entirely rccovorcd. She erected n home for orphan girls in this city to the memory of her daughter, and it is called tho Ophelia Polk Mooro Home. Mrs. Moore was a Miss Hayes, wa? i born at Columbia, Tenn., and was a neico of the late President he died universally regretted. 7he Supremacy of the White Race. The Virginia House of Delegates it discussing the calling of a constitutional convention. Dclegute Patterson advocates a Constitution similar to tho ' Mississippi Constitution. Said he, "I want Virginia to follow the lead of Mississippi. I want a Constitution uttuufi.l u liii'li will allow 110 man in the Stuto of Virginia to vote unless lie tan rend tho Virginia Constitution or understand it when road." Ho said that the State could be redistricted so as to give one representative to every thirty 1 thousand votes and assure the supremacy of the white race in Virginia. j American Wheelmen Draw the Color Lint. i Lorisvir.r.r, Kv. ? The League ot ' .American Wheelmen adopted by a vote 1 of 127 to 51 an amendment to the con- 1 stitution inserting the word "white," thus drawing the color line. The two- J thirds rule obtained and the amendment had six votes to spare. W. W. I Watts who proposed the amendment \ gave as his reasons for it the bcliel that if adopted an increase in member- ; ship of over 5,000 would follow from the South within the year. Denver was chosen by n vote of 93 to 70 as the ' place for holding the next meeting. m i The New York Successfully Docked. J Newport News, Va.?The steamship i New York of tho American line was , successfully taken into the dry dock of the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company at this plnce, This is the tlrst time that a steamer ol that size has ever been docked in thu country, and no other dock could ai\ commodate a vessel of her dimensions. Colored Work at Harvard. Harvard has several colored students to the scholastic achievements of whoso e li- 1i-.1 1... tl. men* lUII'IIIIIHI iit-nniy HIIUII uy urn 85,000 scholarship instituted by tho Inle Mrs. Harriet Haydon. Tho best known among tliem is W. H. Lewis, of Virginia, a clever law student, whoso foot ball work lias given him ft reputation beyond the campus. A Law-Breaking Texas Governor. Austin, Tex. ? Tho warrant in NacogoehcB county against Gov. Hogg foi violating the game law has not reached the hands of the sheriff and the Gover- 1 not says if he violated the law he will i put in ft pieaof guilty and pay the fine. To Pay the Penalty. A. l\f. llrittam, who wrecked the First National Hank of Vernon, Tex., by the embezzlement of 805,000, ha*, been iaileil in Dallas. T!??. ilia! id flic* Imnk wrecking cashier, T. J. Wool, is in progrcso at Delias. THE BUR RETT CONSPIRACY. Action of tho United States Grand Jury ai OrHnuilh. Grp.f.nvim.e, 8. C.?Tho grand jury in tho United Status Court hero hat found twenty-one indictmonts against Charles R. Barrett and others for using tho mails for defrauding the United States Government by the illegal use of stamps. Barrett is a prominent lawyer and politican of Spartanburg, S. 0. A majority of tho accusod were post masters and several of thorn are snidtc havo been appointed at postoftices created for them by Barrett's influence. Isspvt'lvt Poor, ot the postofheo department, has been at work on the ? t? ? muuu mm* uuij. By thin conspiracy scores of merchants and manufacturers in Northern, Western and Southern citic6 were defrauded and the Government was made to pay largo amounts of commissions on fraudulent sales of postage (damps. The cases will bo tried at Charleston, and the Government will put up ovel a hundred witnesses,including businest men from nearly nil the large citiei this side of Chicago. A Pound and a Half a Day. Wo called the attention of South Carolina farmers two weeks ago to the record of one or two of their number in York county who had succeeded in rnieiug "meat" at the rate of a pound a day, as they had just killed hogH 9 months old that weighed, net, 270 [ionnds each. Oooneo hns beaten York. Our correspondent at Seneca reports that Mr. John C. Bclden, of the lower side of the "county," killed not long ago two pigs 7 mouths old, one of which netten 2^5 pounds and the other 406 poundsr The latter, it is seen, n-presentcd a growth of one and a half nounds lior fluv. fir lift nor oonl nw.ro than its rivals of York. Whether tho tipper side of Oeonce county could do better than tho lower Ride wo do not know, but the lower nido has done enough to prove that any farmer in South Carolina who does not raise his own hogs, nnd make his own hams nnd sausages ntid lnrd, ete., nnd have plenty to sell besides, is a poor farmer nnd has uo valid excuse for his failure. The Oconee pigs wcro "raised and fattened on sweet potatoes nnd buttermilk alone," and were fed on corn during the last two or three weeks o' their earcor. Sweit potatoes nnd but termilk can bo produced by the ear load on even a one-horse farm in thisState. The man who owns or "' runs" n fifty or hundred or thousand-nere farm anywhere between our blue mountains and our blue sen, nnd hauls his meat from tho nearest town to his smoke house, deserves about ns much credit for his management ns if he hauled water from the nearest creel? to keep his spring going.?Charleston News and Courier. CHAINGANGS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. A New Ruling en the Law by South Carolina's Supreme Court. CoLfMiuA, S. C.?Chaingangs nr< unconstitutional in this state. So says the supreme court in a decision. The ense cornea from Charleston, where n prisoner was put on tho ehaingnng for thirty days. An appeal was taken oh the ground that tho punishment war not legal except upon conviction by a jury of twelve and tlint n sentenco to work in tho ehaingnng in void in law. The supreme eourt lioldH that a jury under twelve in const itutionul, but that tho sentence to work on the chaining is null nnd void on the grohnd tlint this additional imposition to "tine or imprisonment" exceeds the limit prescribed by the constitution. Justice Pope concurs concerning jury trial nnd dissents as to clmingaug work, holding tlint tho word imprisonment should include employment during i m nr i tin n inr? n t "" >en. Lee Wants to Remain In "Olc Virginny." A personal friend of ox-Governor ?itzhugh Leo nays that n few days tgo President Cleveland, through secretary of State Grcshitm, tendered lin ex-Governor the position r the proffered honor, (ten. Lee hnvng no desire to enter the diplomatic ervice, nt lertflt l>y the nccptnnce of inything now nt tho disposal of the 'resident, and, in fact, General Lee rill not accept anything that would nke him out of his country. Suicideof Savage 0. Trcnholm at Flat Rock. AsUBViMiK, N. C.?News conies from Flat Look that Savage 1). Trcnholm committed suicide V?y cutting his thront. Trcnholm was a native of South Carolina and about 4t> years old, a nephew of Geo. A. Trcnholm, Secretary of the Confederate States Treasure, and cousin of \V I, Tron holm, Comptroller of tho Currency during Cleveland's first torm. His family, n wife and four children, live here. To Select a County Site. Columbia, S. C. ? Governor Tillman appointed, in conformity with the recent legislative act,a board to select a site for a county site for a county sent of tho county of Berkoley, as now constituted after the hard fight made against it in the "Legislature. H. W. Hcruggs.of Greenville, was appointed as an outside member of the board. Convicts as llo? Heritors. (*n11loriiin primm roinmiMHinncrs linvu decided to fn? into tho nl ?ekniisiriK biiHinoKH mid who tlio convict* of tho penitentiary as herders. JLI??f? ?iii iio tho particular kind of stock to which attention will be ^iven.---Chicago Times. PITHY NEWS ITEMS Jan. R. Davidson has been confirmed by the Senate to be postmaster at Newberry, 8. O. Chas. W. Carpenter, of the livery Ptaldo firm of Carpenter A llrice, of Cheater, 8. C., was kipked by a mnlo Wednesday and died Thursday of tho iwjiiiy. J. H. Fouat, the Salisbury, N. C., bank embezzler lias been sentenced to 2 years in tlio State prison. That is minimum scntenco allowed. 1\>stmasb*r Shauer, 01 Iwileigh, N. C. is a dovotcd student of ustronomy. Ho 1ms built an observatory in tho rear of liis residence and on this has mounted a very ttne teltocope, povhapa tho* best in the State. Tho North Carolina University trustees has established ft summer normal school for both men and women, anrt also special courses of summer inslruction of high grade in various University brunches, to begin July 2nd and continue four weeks. Tho Ibileigh Christian Advocate and the Western North Carolina Advocate of Asheville, the two Methodists papers of North Carolina, have been merged into one, which will be published at Greensboro. ? Tho Spartanburg, S. C., Herald claims that Spartanburg county leads all the counties in the Southern States in tho manufacture of cotton. Spartanburg lmsJ 2 mills and operates 6,563 looms and 231,231 spindles. Major W. S. Stanton, U. S. A., Wilmington, N. C., will receive sealed proposals until march lb for dredging on the island waterway between Beaufort harbor awl New river, N. C. The invention of Superintendent E. M. Roberts, of the South Carolina Bailway, for saving fuel in making steam for locomotive-power and is attracting much attention from railroad engineers nn?l locomotive builders. It lin?; linmi Illlt) Ifvvil n \? DUVVVOOitlllJ VII OV1 V4?< Northern roads. Tho city hall at Richmond, Va., recently completed, is one of the finest municipal buildings in this country, and would he a credit to a city five times the size of the one whoso citizens huilt it. It cost in nil 31,370,000. The granite in alone would make a wall 13,000 feet long, two and a-hnlf feet (hick and aix feet high. Parties from the North are npgotiating to purchase 'JO,000 acres of land iii. X"?-1. oml llalifiiji . pni'ntiptt Wnrtli Carolina for development1 and investinent. Eraatus Winian, the great financier if N. Y. city haa failed. Ho was the builder of the Staten Inland rapid trnnnit railroad, and i>rominent advojate of the annexation of Canada to the United States. Mr. Wiman wan ilno arrested on charges of forgery and fraud amounting to two hundred and | twentv-nino thousand dollars. Ho is onunitted to the Tombs in default of imil. ?Spartanburg, S. C., is to have mother mnmntoth cotton factory. The mmpunv has already been organized. I Dr. 0. K. Fleming will bo the preaiteut. The factory will bo built at Penny Shoals, 011 the Middle Tiger iver, 12 miles from the city. The aew mill will be one of the largest in .lie State, operating 4b,000 spindle#!. 1'he amount of capital invested will be ibont $600,1100. All of the money subteribed will come out of the pockets >f thi' homo people. A POSTAL CLE UK GONE WRONG. Carl J. Jatti Arrested for Abducting a Git From Washington. Carl J. .Tatti, a railway clerk, aged 35, living in Charleston, S. C., ami running between Charleston and Washington, 1>. C., was arrested in Now York City on a telegram from Chief of Police Moore, of Wnsliinabm charged with abducting Maud Gilbert, a girl of 15, living in Washington. Jntti in alleged to have taken the girl away from the latter city on Monthly, February 12, and brought her to New York City, where the couple put up at the Coleman House for a few days, later going to a furnished room at 145 West 15th St., where they were -arrested. They pnsaed under the name of C. H. Ford and wife, .fatti was hold in $3,000 for examination on Friday and the girl waa turned over to the Gerry Society. Carolina Fisheries. .i rt /? i . ticorgeiown, r>. v;., nsneries win not regret to hear that the reports from the fisheries on the North Carolina sounds arc that the catch is small and the demand heavy. Tlic price of shad, herrings and other fish, therefore, keeps well lip. As the season becomes more advnneed the fishermen expect to have their usual catch. The working force at all the steam fisheries on on Albemarle Sound are engaged for the season and on the ground getting things in order preparatory to putting in the seines. The shippers at Nor folk are doing very little as yet except in the way of furnishing local dealers with supplies from the South.?News Sc Courier. The Trouble About Biyafyes. Maryland oyslermen are giving Governor O'Ferrell trouble by poaching du tho Virginia oyster grounds. He has threatened to bring Virginia ovstcr navy into action, but if he could just get close enough to the trespassers to deliver to them an address he made when he was inaugmaled, he would drive them forever from the State and be rid of them without burning any gunpowder or the shedding of a drop lif blood. Sacred Ground. 1 Congress has appropriated thirty thousand dollars with which to purchase and improvo the Wakefield plantation on the Potoinnc ltiver in 1 Westmoreland county, Virginia. Here stands the brick foundation of j an ancient four-room house, and on this ' spot, in the year 1732, and on a day ' which was then the 11th of February, \ George Washington was born. Washington himself abandoned this 1 plantation for Mount Vernon, and < seems in his life to have had no regard ' for it, though here ho .spent liin 1 earlv days, and here his 'uihor, grand- ] father and great-grandfather lived. If tho cherry tree which was the subject of the familiar legend about the ' Jwvy Washington and his hatchet, ever ' stood anywhere, it stood hero. The old Washington family burial- 1 ground is sadly neglected, and the 1 whole plantation is snid to bo mmt? ... it ?i... ............i ..r 41... i uiavuvT) i/uu 11 itit; uuunt'im *? uiu State of Virginia in definitely obtain- ' od?for the national government ran not acquire land in Virginia without the conaont of the Legislature of the State,?the whole plantation of five thousand aorea will become a national park, and beautified by landscape arcliitecta in harmony with its natural characteristics, and in aympathy with ita enyjy hiatory. Thia purehaae ia a noteworthy ntep in the movcmimt, of which we have heretofore given aome account, to mnko public property of beautiful and liiatoric aitea, wherever they may be. * New Jersey hns obtained in the same > way the beautiful estate at Morriotown, * which was onco Washington's headquarters, and Pennsylvania has ac- ^ quired Valley Forge, made memorable < aa the aceue of his Bufferings and 1 humiliations. i It is pleasant to ace the places with 1 the memory of the Fntherof his Conn- ^ try treated aa ancred ground, and there are many other spots beautiful or fain- ' ous for other reasons which should be I guarded by public action from deface- ' meut. 1 m?? I DAVID HAD TWO WIVES. He Was a Mysterious Codger Who Forgot Who He Was for Some Time. 1 Atlanta, Ga.?Word cornea from North Carolina that David Drown is a bigamist. Drown is the man who lay at the Grady Hospital here for three weeks, unable to tell his name. He had been picked up one night unconscious, having been sand-bagged and J robbed. He was a great mystery. When ho recovered consciousness lio | ( am hi n'ji,^"r"QTrher k;" nomr e|h-.V 1 . ho was from. He offered SH>0 reward to anyone who would identify him. 1 On Monday Inst lie sprang up nnd rnn through the hospital wards shouting . "eureka, eureka." lie had remembered his name which he said wbh Drown. He had lived in Winston, N. C. Detective Cason left here with liiin to take him to Winston and place him among friends if he has any there. Columbia's Town Crier. (From the Globe-Democrat.) "The strongest voice I ever heard," I said Col. Marshal of Charleston, at the Laclede, "is that of the town crier of Columbia, S. C. Columbia is the only town in the United States that still keeps up the custom of having a town crier, and probably the largest in area that any one man's voice was expected tc reach the uttermost boundaries of. The crier stands upon a high tower nnd calls the hours. '10 o'clock ami all is well;' '11 o'clock and all is well12 o'clock, lire?lire ?fire.' The voice of the man now occupying that position can bo heard anywhere within the city, and it is remarkable how quick he sees and reports a fire or general disturbance. I was there once when at midnight ho cried a child was lost, ami within live minutes it roomed as though half of the population was on the streets, ready i. T* < ..n' j*'111 in int* muni. u w.'ih iinaiiv found under a bed, where it had rolled and pone to bleep. When the erier dies the ofliee will probably be abolished?they certainly cannot lind another with such a voice." Arrest and Escape of a Green Goods Man. Ghep.nvii.le, 8. C.? A man named tielmrilK nliiiN ltum-ru ulm line , ?- O" "* " "" "v v 11 mblishing nil advertisement intended .o be understood an an offer of coun.erfeit money at low prices, wan nr ested at Green's depot, Rogers, or [tichards, is believed to be a member >f the notorious Missouri gang which jas operated in every part of tho counry, and two members of which wero tent to the penitentiary for long terms rom Huntsville, Ala., last year. Tho prisoner escaped just as he was being ockcd up and disappeared in the darkices. Honoring Gen. Arulcrson. A monument to Gen. Robert TI. \nderson was unveiled on Washington's llirthday in Ronnventure Cemetery, Savannah. It consists of a large granite base, surmounted bv a copper bust of Gen. Anderson of heroic size, the inscription on the base giving nis rnmo, (into ot dik oirtn una dentil, .ticl the principal events of hiR life. He took n prominent pnrt in the war ns a brigadier general nnd nftcr its olofio won chief of police in Snvnnnnh for twenty-two years, serving ns such until his* death in 1888. A Decrease Probably in the Tobacco Acreage. Northampton, Mass. ? Last year's crop of tobacco is unsold, the senrity of money being the cause, nnd the prospects of an increased acreage in tobacco the coining season are small. While the Inrgo raisers: will set out about the same amount, there will be a marked falling off among the smaller growers, nnd a decrease from 1(1 to 20 per cent, is not at all improbable in the acreage. / CHARLOTTE, H. C. Essay in the United States Investor. Mere population entitles ? commttnity to no recognition for superiority. A. simple illustration is a South Sea island motley group of huts and their inhabitants. London is the world's largest city, numerically, yet Londoners would not conduct a visitor to their East End as typical of tl o'r great metropolis. We look for the largest percentage of advantages, progressivoness, wealth, culture and moral worth, whether wo rate a lar^e or small ceutrc population. The subject of our sketch, Charlotte, North Carolina, lies in the Piedmont belt, inland from the Atlantic two hundred mi leu, and is seventeen hours by rail from New York city. Several topics conspire to bring out highly interesting information concerning it. Thia ci?y in the busy centre of six railroads, with others projected and building, thus making it. nil enviable wholesale distributing point. Large wholesale drug, clothing, furnittirc, :1ry goods, grocery and hardware iiouses, and largo manufacturing plants jond forth armies of commercial travelers. The following is on unchallenged quotation: "The volume of internal trade is greater than that of any other ?itv of the State." Commercial achievements are largely lue to push, pluck and perseverance, mil the merchants who have placed Dharlotte in commercial supremacy in two States?the Corolinos?richly deserve all the success and the fortunes they have won. The topographical advantages of this town of towns are many. The site ?hosen by the original settlers, on the n-ntershorl nf t.bo ?r.il Vndirii. . rivers, n(Fords perfect naturaldrainage, nnd this perfect drainage is conducive to perfect health. Being eight hundred feet above sea level, and at the foothills of western North Carolina, justly called the Switzerland of America, with the immortal King's mountain in view, she is fanned and blessed with sweet, cool mountain breezes that make her summer days one long dream to the cotton-Held darkey. The climate is noted for its salubrity, the thermometer rarely falling ns low ns 20 degrees above zero in whiter, nr rising higher than 90 degrees in summer. A Hurry of snow is seen but ance or twice during tho winter. The mortuary statistics show a health record unsurpassed. All seasons afford peculiar advantages to the health seeker, the manufacturer and his employes. It must be kept in mind, however, t.lmt. the world has other spots favored nllit. ulit- vnlilnvc wirtt" i*Wi.uimM<%n, and we look, therefore, to other attractions, to hold the seeker of health and home. The old plantation hospitality is here; the old sincere ajid hearty handshake is here, and here pleasant people of the highest literary and social attainments, are to be found, who welcome among their "old families" accomplished people of like congenial natures. Education lends to culture, and for this the place in question does not lack facilities, having the best of public graded schools, conducted on the most modern methods, boys' high schools hihI other private schools, h successful female seminary, a school of music, ami a commercial college, and a fewmiles distant is the Presbyterian University of the Carolines, Davidson College, whose name perpetuates the memory of one of their Revolutionary heroes who fell near the spot. Wo rind in Charlotte, a large Yoting Men's Christian Association, quartered in a modern, three-story, brown-stone building, a city library, social and literary clubs, and perhaps above all, many musical-societies from which the large crowds of music devotees draw their inspiration. In fact, Charlotte is an intensely music-loving town. The original settlers planned well. Charlottetown grew into a hamlet, and, when (treat Britain began to oppress ,ier American colonies, this Scotch Irish Presbyterian settlement, 'with Real and fervor, forestalled the Continental Congress by formulating and promulgating the Mecklenburg Dccla ation of Independence, May 20, 1775, .ii the old court house at Charlotte, which historic site is now Independence Squure. .Tust there the citizens began the tight ngninst the invasion of Lord Cornwnllis, until, in desperation, he left the settlement, naming it the "Hornets' Nest." Ileal hornets' nests now occupy conspicuous places in many "harlotte homes. It may he rfientioned .hat this city has 14,000 inhabitants, ret with that number it has been tormed 'the city of beautiful avenues and ovoly homes," which name a glance will justify, for, passing along beneath ;he spreading oak, maple, elm, magnoia and other trees, one is charmed with the beautiful residences set in tweet frames of verdure and flora! ovcliness. On the Sabbath, so carefully is the lay observed by the people, that even he dragon on the city hall tower teems to wear a pious look. We arc lot surprised, then, to find three doz ii churches; Rome of those recently sompleted are grandly beautiful. Among its hotelR two take, rank with he finest in the South. Then there iro a United States public building costing $150,000, three national banks .nd one privato bank (with the largest banking capital of any city in North Carolina), a city hall to be proud of. and metropolitan business blocks. There is also a United States mint, now used as an assay office, where the annual assay of gold reaches the sum of $d2f>,000. Much of this is taken from the mines about Charlotte. INDUSTRIES. V*Te enumerate some of the principal industries of our city show to show their diversified character: Four cotton mills, gingham mill, two cottonseed oil mills, fertilizer works, large ( furniture factory, two iron works and machine shops, spoke, handle and nm factory, publishing house, two olothl'ng manufactories, four planing and and wood working mills, granite works, mattress factory, etc. The larger part of these have boon established during the past docade, and indications point to a still more rapid advancement, thus making foreign investments safo t and highly profitable. _/ Charlotteans enjoy two daily newspapers, morning and evening, electric light*, city mail delivery, oloctrio street car lines, gas works, waterworks. j. witvcv nuu ? police end Are dcpartmnts. Many of thcso have been recently acquired. Charlotte is fat the midst of the cotton, grain, tobaec?? and gold producing districts, nnd th? surrounding agricultural country abounds in food products. ? Fuel is also cheap nnd the supply ample. Inexhaustible deposits of the finest Bessemer iron ore aro being unearthed 25 miles southwest of the city. Many ear loads of the ore are shipped daily and find a ready market. Capitalists are organizing to build furnaces. Farming lands may bo bought ftt prices ranging from one-half to onefourth that similar lands aro valued ?t in the over-crowded North. The young agriculturist will find here long sea sons, cheap unci abundant labor and?. good markets. In addition to every fruit and nut known to grow farther north, figs, pomegranates, persimmons, HatBuma ornngea, pecans, almonds, etc., are hardy and grow abundantly. All of these mnko rural life a delight instead of what in so often a lmrdeu. Large fruit culturists are being attracted to thin Bpction, who foresee as kucceonful a fruit region themes* fa v' "7""' vored apots of California. ' Let ua hear the conclusion of the .<"!? whole matter: Charlotte can bo .said to be an ideal dwelling place, a solid, paying place for investments, a tempting location for new industries, and worthily the "Queen City of the Old North Slate." GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. Nhiskey Distillers Are Closing Their Places On Account of the Law. Ralkioh, N. C.?The revenue collectoi are receiving notices by the more of the closing of registered din uneries, owing 10 ine inrec-gauou law. In one county (Yadkin) all savo ux out of forty registered distilleries lave closed. The State geologist says that tlio ;oal now being mined in Moore county s by far the best ever discovered in h*? SUa?-',,1lai mo'um nJ>a piiw hard coal. . ... -ji fbe geologist" |IUI Ul i if 1 eport on tho water powers of North Jarolina, with a special view to their ltilization in the transmission of lower by electricty. lie says that all .lie kaolin deposits in the State are to ic analyzed and tested during thin rear. Interest in gold mining in this itato is greater than in thirty-fivo rears. Mr. Blaine's Estate Not Worth Haifa Million Dollars. Washington, I). C. ? It turns out that Mr. Blaine's wealth, as is usually the ease, was very much over-eatimatod. Ho was generally supposed to bo worth over more than 81,000,000, and Ill ClllllJmi^ll lillirn wnn iiimouM \?i in *eral millions. But his estate will not imount to much more than ?100,000, Mostly in real estate. A Big Order ior Southern Marble. The large order for TeimcHHue marble to l?e used in a ?500,000 memorial building at Ban ford, Conn., will require about 40,000 cubic feet. Tho Concord Quarry Co., of Kiioxvillc, Tenn., will furnish it, and the East Tennessee Stone ?V Marble Co., will finish and polish the rough material. The Cause of Education Goes On. Sll H n. lilfcf v innnuu vwnvgv, Monday morning with -175 atudontw. There were over 1,100 npplicnnta ami only fiOO can ho received aa that ia all the building will accommodate. Preparation ia being made at the girla' school at Rock Hill to accommodate 1,000 girla. FIFTY-THIRD CONftRESS, The Senate. ^ 42i? Da)\? A resolution was adopt oil call-' ing on the Proalrteut tor the Dole letter. Tho Senate spent tho romainder of tho day In executive sossion, discussing tho Pockham nomination. 43p Day.- Minister Willis's reply to Mr. Dole's spociflcatlonH of alleged unfriendly nets was sent In. Mr. Daniel spoko against) Hawaiian annexation. President Clove^ land nominated Senator White, of Louisiana, to bo Associate Ju9tico of t ho Supremo Court.i and ho wns promptly confirmed. 44th Day. ?Mr. Daniel finished his spoeciv in w|.po?iiiou to Hawaiian annexation. 45th Day. A long and animated discus-} ston which lasted all day was startod by Mr. I Voorhees rislnrr to contradict a newspnperl story as to the Democratic members of tho! Finance Committee calling upon President Cleveland nt the Whito House and receiving instructions trom him as to some points in the Tariff bill. Mr. Voorhees declared, with earnestness, that there was not tho faintest particle or shadow of truth in the statement, i 46th Da*.?Washington's Farewell Ad-J dress was read by Mr. Martin, after whichi the Senate adjourned. The House. 53d Day.?The day was devotod to an unsuccessful effort to secure a quorum to voto for ending debate on the B!?.nd bib Mth Day.?Tho debate on the Bland setgn^ crage Dili was continued. 55th Day.?The House spent the day in/ routino work and trying to get a quorum on< Bland's seigniorage bill. Minister Wlllis'J answer to the reply of President Dole o< Hawaii was sent in. 56th Day.?The day was spent in a fruit-* less effort to secure a quorum to voto oa the Bland bill. 6?ts; Day. The day was consn-.y.od by tin* House trying to got a quorum on the Bland' bill. 68th Day.?There was groat disorder over the arrest of members In tho attempt to se* cure a quoriftn On the Bland solgniorage bill. Several members declared that they had beot^ arrested by tho 8c-^ennt-nt-\rm? u/.tiume ?roucr warrant