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J**OUd ** A*r<emtimr*' Bm*t"l*ur4i n*mttti* 9f t*4 -P?y;" VOL. XXV." NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, tft-' ' r>:| Tho railway mileage of Europe, Asia'and Africa now aggrcgatoo ! >??, bob miles. The railways of the United States reach 168,597 miles. . A widower's association has been formed in Dresden, Germany. No man can join unless his wife is dead, and it he marries again ho becomes an honorary member merely. Ono o? the ichief purposes of the association is to help newly-mado widowers by looking after their wives' funerals ami caring for their children ??- > . . ? The Argentine Republio is rapidly becoming u prominent competitor in the business of supplying grain to tho European markets. Shipowners of Nova Scotia anil New Brunswick are taking advantage of the trade and finding employment for their vessels at remunerative rates between the River Plate and Old World ports. Tho railway companies of the United States have no reasonable cause, asserts the New York News, to complain of their business for the fiscal year. Including all the bankrupt and nonpaying lines the aggregate uet earnings were more than three hundred aud fifty million dollars. This is equivalent to about three and onehalf per cent, of the capitalization, a very good rate of interest in view of | tne lact that tho roads are generally capitalized at from two to five times their actual coat. I The reclamation of the arid wastes of southwestern desert lands proceeds marvclously apace. Another reclamation company was incorporated at San Bernardiuo, Cal., a few days ago, with a capital stock of #2,-r>00,00(). Adam is to he erected at Victor Narrows, on the Mojave River, in San Bernardino County, fifteen feet in height, which will make a lake nine miles long an I about three wide, whose waters will be used to irrigate about 200,000 acres of land on the Mojave Desert, which will then bo especially adapted for growing Saisin grapes and alfalfa. ? r ?rst Geueral Nelson A. Miles, after having passed though the hardships o' war and faced the terrors of battle, declares in tho Atlanta Journal that American football is a risk too great for him to regard with favor. When young, General Miles played football, but it was not of the bone-breaking kind. The bovs kicked the ball more and each other less in those days, and tho "flying V was not thought of. "I am for a change in tin: rule?,'' t-uitl the General, "because I want 1 > see the game perpetuated, nil 1 ' don't bolicvo it can under 11? : existing rocnlled Rugby rnles. As now played r?t Yale, Princeton, Harvard tmil Cornell, the game <>f football is productive of a grcat-r number of injuries, both immcilintc ami permanent, than is prize-lighting under the Mar?|uia o! Queensberry rules." According to thcSviei, a Si. Petersburg paper, Russia, unlike other Ku ropean countries, incorporates in the army only one-fourth of the young men who arc drafted every year when they reach the legal ago for military service. The recruiting in 1832 enlisted 768,<572 conscripts, but only 260,290 were actually sent into the ranks. Of these 196,00') were Orthodox, 16,000 Israelites and 9000 Mo hammedans; the Russian army is therefore composed of men belonging to the National religion. There were _ 1 ' 1L. A : A 11 J A nmo in luc cuiiiiiigt'iii I'ttncd 10 Borviuo in 1892 193,000 men of pur i Russian origin, 17,000 I'olos, 4000 Germans, 16,000 Jews, 368 t Hashkircs, an I a small number of Lithuanians, Tartars, etc., so that the Russian army can be considered as being quite homogeneous in regard to its nationality. Every little while the police arrest ? man with a kit of burglars' tools in his possession, and one naturally wonders where they all come from. It is easy to buy n gun of any description, and the most reputable citizen would not be ashamed to be soon purchasing the most wicked-lo >king knife ever ,1. . U..4 1.1 1. _ ... _.l i mum; , um ?n?? \>?muu hinr.v wiiere in get a slung-shot, or u jimniie, or h de ice for drilling into a s.itV, or any of the many "tools used i?y the professional burglar in the pursuit, of his calling? There probably nre places in many large cities wlisro these things are made and sold to the users, but such places are scarce. Onc-o in n while the police find huoIi a factory, ao:l then things go hard for the proprietors. It may seem a little strange a^ l.... ii.A* r iUa aa..Ia .. a i (i; irai u mm iuum m 1 ut; usr-i ui burglaries arc made by mechanics who are looked upon an respectiblo men in the community. When a burglar wants any particular toed made lie goes to a mechanic who can do the job, and paya him perhaps live times what it is actually worth for making lite tool and keeping still about it. I MR. C ARTEL!'S S/LERT BRIDE. She Had Towed Never to Speak to Him Agair but the Marriage Came Off. Trthblk, Tknn.?Mrs. Jerry Cartel of near Trimble, has just broken rash vow whieh she nmile over twelv months ago, anil which she regrettei having ever made. About eighteen in>nths ago Mrs Cartell was Miss Fannie Brambley, i beautiful young lady of eighteen year and Jerry Cartell her favored suitor But, as is generally the case witl young lovers, a quarrel arose betweei them, and i?> the heat ?>f passion Mis Fannie angrily bade her lover leavi her presence, and vowed by higl Heaven she would never speak to hin again. Tho disconsolate lover tool his departure, but as he fairly wor whipped the girl he ardently wet abow to effect i\ reconciliation. At Inst, ii answer to a pitiful pleading l?t*er Miss Fannie relented and penned t< him ft loving, forgiving message. Overjoyed at tlie happy terminntioi of affaira he hurried to the home o Miss Fannie, and was received warmly and affectionately, but without a won of welcome. Taking a tablet anil pen cil from n desk ahe began a writtei conversation as though she could not speak n word. Cnrtell pleaded tin uselessness and foolishness of sucl proceedings, but in vain, as his sweet lieart positively refused to utter a word to him. Khe is very devout, a mem ber of tlic Methodist Church, and win firmly impressed with the idea that if she should break her rash vow Hod would punish her by striking her dumb, when she could speak to no one. Hhe was constantly on her guard for fear she might forget herself and speak to her lover, thereby inviting th?? crrible visitation. The courtship proceeded with pencil and paper for several months, and then they were joined together in the holy bonds of matrimony. During their married life of nearly a year Mra. Cartell never spoke to her husband until some weeks ago. Last Christmas Mr. Cartell made his wife a present of a handsome and costly pair of vases. The other morning the husband was bringing in an armful of wood and struck one of the vases and knocked it to tho floor, where it broke into a hundred pieces. "Oh, Jerry, look what you have done!" cried Mrs. Cartell. She was horribly shocked at speaking to li.^r husband, and believed that she had been stricken dumb. To ascertain the correctness of her belief she spoke to him again, ami was overjoyed to discover that her organs of spVeen liau nut oeeu m me icnnt impaired. In the happiness of again hearing his wife speak to him,Jerry folded her in his arms, wept tears of joy, and thanked Cod for the breaking of lier vase. Mr. and Mrs. Cartell feel ?h if a clond bad been lifted from their home, and there is not a happier couple todav in I)ver conntv. A Postmaster in the Toils. Spartanihtro, S. C.--A. I'\ McDowell, a former postmaster at Walker, this, county, was convicted in the I'ni ted States court at Creenvilh-, S. ( ., for false cancellation of stamps. The ease has been somewhat interesting in nsmuch as McDowell was connected with the Barrett gang of conspirators. McDowell was a good, honest farmer ami nan tno reaped of ins fcllowmen. Through Barrett's influence apostoflice was established in his section ntnl Ii? was made postmaster. Soon a great number of stamps were floating around town. McDowell paid his-debts with ' tamps. Inspector Peer got "onto" the ease and successfully worked it up. McDowell was sentenced to pay a line of $500 or go to jail for six months. High Praise for the Lan /lorrf. Stacnton, Va. Two well-dressed strangers came to the Virginia Hotel four days ago and registered from Louisville. Ky. They left yesterday, leaving their hill of 317 unpaid, and the following note: "Man's inability to successfully portray hia thoughts, his mental power* being incapable to correctly define his meaning, is why I will not endeavor to burden you with an attempt at ex pressing my thanks for your treatment so gentlemanly, Arc.. during my stay. Kxtend to your menials also my t hunks. May your shadow never grow less, and may continued prosperity shine in nil clouded warm rays on your benevo lent head " North Carolina's Cup of Happiness Full. (New York Sun.) Thursday was a pjrent day for Nortl Carolina. Governor EliasCarr, of tin multifarious and niultivoeal mustach ois, ate a grand luneheon of New rivei oysters at Jacksonville, and then wen on t?> Newborn and reviewed the uava parade and the Wilmington Light In fantrv, and inspected the Fish, Oystei and Game Fair. A thousand heart beat happily. The fair was a gren fair The. Oovrm??r was a ureal Gov eruor. And, not least of nil, the Hon Winter Pinnin. of Tnrburn. bad ins got ti job in the geological survey. Tin good old Tnr Heel State fairly hie cougliod with happiners. A Negro Boy Lynchci A special to the Herald from Sher man, Ala., says. Thos Douglass, a Id ytur-ohi colored boy who yesterda; shot nod killed Deputy Sheriff Cow lett, who attempted- to levy upon i - i..,.i. i.?i i 4.. ' (MiW 111*11 i?? i mother, whs hanged 1?y a mo1? ami h body riddled with bullets. Tin- mot Incut the l>ody down. The coroner's jury returned a ver diet that the hoy came to Ins death a the hands of persons unknown. Th mother says she recognized some o the slayers of lier son, and will prose cute them vigorously. s S("?f /? e' Hiaiory or Cor Ton Culture in South Carolina. '' Cotton was early sold in Charleston. The packages in which it was put up II varied in weight from one to thirty a pounds. In 1787 the fleecy staple was 0 taken to the City by the Hen from 1 Orangeburg, Newberry, and, perhaps, from Union, and sold at two pence a '. pound to the merchants, who resold it a mainly to the Indies to make "pnteh? work bed-(piiIts." About the year named two or three bags, each weighli ing near a hundred pounds of seed 11 cotton worn psckod in the store of s Wadsworth k Turpin by Samuel Mnv0 eiiek and JetTrey, a half-blood Indian, a (This Mnveriek, by the way, claimed 1 to be the first person that made sugar t in South Carolina. About the year - 1800 ho planted somo ribbon cane, t purchased in the IlavanR, in his lot to i the east of the present orphan hei:;c. , Jl yieidetl 800 pounds. The cane was > pounded in a mortar and tho juice boiled in iron pots.) i These bags were sent to Kngland as f a snmplo and an experiment. Tho r i i I..,. ..<n ... ?iioiii mey wero scm wroic I that the nrticlc war not worth produc ing, ah it could not be separated from ? the seed. l> In 1794 Dr. James Otis Prentiss ? planted cotton for mnrket near Oraugoi burg 0. H. Either in thnt year or the next Col. William . Thomas, the Rcvo1 littionary soldier, planted cotton to sell at Bellville, in St. Matthews < parish. In 1790 cultivators of this crop Appeared in Bcveral parts of the 1 State. Among them was Samuel Felder, of Orangeburg. John Mnv? rant and Asbury Sylvester first grew I cotton in the high hills of the Santee 1 in the year 1798. A year Inter Ge*? V;;do Hampton introduced the plant into Hichlaud district; gathered over 000 bags from 000 acres. 1 General Hampton was the first man 1 in South Carolina to use water as the propelling power of Whitney's cotton gin. Fifty years ago Col. Wade Hampton wrote Whitemarsh B. Seabrook: "When Whitney's gin was exhibited in i Georgia, none but women were permitted to enter the room. An ingenious mechanic at length introduced himself into the apartment in woman's apparel, and by a minute examination of the machine, satisfied himself thnt he could not only imitate but improve on its construction by mnking it more efficient. This discovery was communicated to my father by General Gun, who spoke so confidently of the capacity of this individual that my father was induced to visit him at his residence in Georgia. Thia viait resulted in a contract for threecrins, auuUciU>'il to r large scale 01 operm ions, ann tney were nnqucRtionaldy the first ever driven l>y water-power." It lias been written that General Hampton's pins were furnished by an ingenious artisan 01 Georgia ssisted bv William Munson, of Richland. These pins were roughly constructed; still they were models for others made in 1 SO 1 by William Munson and James Roatwriglit, of Columbia. These were the first of the new machines of home manufacture. General Hampton was not, however, the tirstto use the Whitney gin in South Carolina. Capt. James Kirkland, of Fairfield, put up one near Montiecllo in 1795. How to dispose of the cottonseed was a perplexing problem to some of the enrlv spinners. It was considered worthless and carelessly thrown on the grouud like sawdust. The hogs ate the seed and died. Then it wns put up in pens like shucks. The pigs got the seeds out through the cracks and soon went the way of their elders. As a Inst resort, and hoping to get rid of the "nuisance," the seed was dumped into the creeks, but in low water an odor was generated which was so offensive ns to create a strong feeling of prejudice against the further culture of the crop. The four of "overproduction" in no new tiling. Ninety years ago an opinion prevailed that the supply of cotton would Hoon exceed the demand. A planter at St. John's,Colleton, looking at his first crop, the produce of a few acres, after it had been houaed, exclaimed; "Well, well, I am done with the cultivation of cotton! Here 1 is enough cotton to make stockings for all the people in America." These items are taken from an essay on the cotton plant written two score and toil years ago by an Edieto Island ' planter, Whitmarah B. Seabrook, afterwards governor of our State, whose vcry words and sentences have been freely used.?W. S. M., of CleniBoQ College, S. C. HOW SHE IS A MASON. i Mrs. Lease Once Saw What Some One Said Was an Initiation. Oiwaoo, fnn.? Mrs. Mary Lease, of 1 KnuHiiH, xvns in the city en route to I New York. She wan asked about her Masonic connections and replied: "When I was a girl of 16 I was 1 ivH ing in Look port, N. Y.; a friend of ' mine, .vh:> w??.s a prominent Mason, |Hit in niy \vny to witness Moaouic initiation, and I saw the three degrees ad1 ministered to a candidate." e "Were you admitted to the lodge room." "Xo. I was behind a door that had a sliding wicket, in it, and I saw the wnoie procedure through that wicket. So you y.cc that is the way I became a Marion, f.<r to be in possession of ths i secrets of the craft ia to be a Mason." n * , RetJ/ci (he Acreage 20 Per Cent. r The Fanners' State Agricultural So' eiety of Alabama, which has been in M inion nt ninuinghain, decided to recommend to Alabama fnrmersthat they ' reduce the acreage of cotton 20 per f cent., and to substitute for this rcrtuc' tion crops that will supply home eon' sumption, thus avoiding the tax of transportation and other costs. When the South's Money Goes. Under the above howling the Savannah News preaches a sermon against the disposition of Southern people of all classes, front cotton planters to cottou commission merchants,to speculate in cotton. The News very truly says that speculating in cotton on the part of Southern people is almost as much a wnste of money as investing in lottery tickets. Prices arc not regulated by the law of supply and demand, except in the long run covering a period of years, when they uiojr move up or down on a general average, as supply and demand may regulate, but tho speculator who attempts to iiiakemone} on short-time operations iH very gen erally left. The South annually dum| ? into Wall street, milium of <lollnru < good html money to pay for cotton losses, and yefVGtlittle is lionrd of it. It in within bounds to say that within the hud twentyyearsthoSouth's net losses on cotton speculations have run u]> to a hundred million or more. This money, had it been kept at. homo and invested in development enterprises, would hnve added vastly to the wealth of the whole South, furnished employment to many thousands of hands and brought profit to those who owned it. Producing as the South does, not far from $2,000,000,000 of agricultural,manufacturing and mining products a year, thete ought to be a very large surjdus, and this mirplur will constantly increase as speculation in cotton futures deereasen. ? Baltimore Manufacturers Record. The Real IMvi<l Prockclt. Mrs. Ibbie Gordou, of GlarksTillc, Texas, who was bom in 1805, was ones l n...' l n ia- < I J?f?".'UUCvU 1*7 lit vruuiioi v* JL7fscribing the incident, she says: "It was in the winter of 1831, not long nfter Crockett liftd beon defeated lor Congress in Tennessee. We hoard that Crockett had crossed Red River, and fearing that ho might not come through Clarksville, but keep on the old Trammcll trail, w> intended to meet liini. .Tauc Eat i.ior, then a girl of eighteen, rode behind me,and Betsy Ea tinier followed on a pony. We overtook Crockett and his party at the house of Edward Pcen, about four miles from Clarksville. It was early in the morniug, and when Mrs. Peon saw ?is she said : 'Mrs. Clark, what in the name of Go I brings you hero at this time of tho day?' *My liorsc brought me.' I answered, and then i told her I wanted some breakfast. We went iuto the houses aiul a friend, who had known Croekett in Tennessee, introduced us. Crockett was dressed like a gentleman, and not as a bnckskin cap. It lias nl way ^disgusted me to read these accounts of Crockett that characterize him as a:i ignorant backwoodsman. Neither in dress, conversation nor bearing could he have created the impression that he was ignorant or uncouth. Ho was a man of wido m-iw>ti<>al information and was diiriii I . " ? tied mid entertaining. His language was about as good as any we bear nowadays."?Galveston News. Textile Industrial Supremacy. Tn the trade reports of the week appears an item to the effect that all the cotton mills in North Carolina have reported dividends of from 8 to 10 per cent, on the operations of the past year. This is nerving notice on New England mill-owners that they have something indeed to fear from Southern competition in cotton manufacturing, and the old claim of confidence is rudely disturbed by the test of fact. The Southern States have the cotton and the right temperature. They have the looniH and the factories. In Virginia, the f'arolinnn nml Georgia the mills have been running steadily, earning handsome profits on the investment, and the number of new enterprises on the way is as startliugly suggestive to the New England centres as tho continued increase in furnaces in Alabama and Tennessee is to the iron interests of Pennsylvania. This is a change of base on which there can be no tariff discount. Textile manufacturing in the South is now beyond the coarser grades of goods and the iron industry is keeping pace with the industrial development of the day. ? Philadelphia Times. "Singing in the ?8 .'* That unpleasant sensation known as silivrilltr ill tho e?ir ironorn 11 v nvunllu O O ?? - vnwu-o from tho hardening of tho wax. It may frequently be removed at once by syringing the ear with a little warm* soap and water or by dropping a little glycerine oil into the ear at bedtime. If these remedies do not answer, a mustard poultice applied just behind tho ear at bedtime, and ropeated, if necessary, two or three nights, is an almost certain cure. Chicago Herald. Senator Cameron "In It." BKArroRT, S. C. ? The State constables seized two eases of choice brandy consigned to Senator .T. I). Cameron, St. Helena Island, from Washington. The Senator is unfortunate, as he has been getting his cases all along unmolested and seemed lulled into security by accustomed escape from detection. Senator Hill Not a Cunuidaii for Governor. Amsterdam, N. Y.?Senator David B. Hill has written a private letter, Aaying that he was not and would not be a gubernatorial candidate this At the came time he expressed hie belief that Gov. Flower would be renominated. Gladstone Refused a Peerage. London.? Mr. Glad atone dined with the Queen, and recommended Lord ltoaebery to Huccood him aa Premier. He refnaed a peerage, offered by the Queen. \ PITHY NEWS ITEMS A. S. TompkinH.of Edgefield, S. C., has been appointed permanent receiver for the Chester (S. C.) Mfg. Co. The Newton, (N. C.) Cotton Mills will be sold on April 2. The *226 new looms of the Pneolet (S. C.) Mill commenced running February 15th. Tho burned lamp blneV factory at Wilmington, N. C., is to be rebuilt. A new factory in to 1?o built at StateBville, N. C., 5} stories high. Jackson Bros., of Salisbury, Md., have purchased n tract of about 20,000 acres of timber land in Halifax and Noah counties, N. C. The tract, aa a whole. i? estimated to cut IOO,tHJO,UOO feet of pine lumber, oak and poplar. A cotton mill ia proponed at Abbeville, 8. C., and stepa have been taken to organize a company. The Tugaloo Iron Works, capital $12,000, has been organized at Abbeville, 8. C., where they, will establish their plant. A new flour mill iH being built at Greenville, S. C. Pennsylvania capitalists, now at Newport News, Va.,nro said to be considering the erection of a large tannery. Contracts have been let for an Episcopal church at Aahevillc, N. C., for colored people to cost $8000. It is announced that Philadelphia capitalists have decided to erect a hotel at Aslieville, N. C., to coat. $300,000 i and they iiave purchased sixty acres of land for a site. The Bedford City, Va.,Masonic lodge will erect a building for a hall with stores on the ground floor to cost $6000. A new college is to be erected at uate Ulty, V it. At Jacksonville, Fin., a building for ?public market is to be erected nt a coat of between $f>0,()00 end ?75,000. It will be about 150x200 feet and two stories high. The Methodists of Newberry, S. C., will build a new edifice. The cnaea against Mitchell, Corbett and the Duval Athletic club "were no! protuted nt Jacksonville, Fin., Friday. Janiea B. Crawley, who, five yeara ago, murdered n man named Harris in Beaufort county, N. C., has been captured at Norfolk, Vn. He haa fully AibUevmjtn? ltirfn." ?* --1Shady Side plantation, near Franklin, La., haa been purchased by Hon. Taylor Beattie for $185,050. Shady Side ia one of the fineat augar plantationa in the State. It haa under cultivation 2">00 acres. Its yield for the pant aeaaon wan in conjunction with eane purchased, over (>,000,000 pounds of sugar. A movement ia on foot in favor of building a railroad line from Charlotte, N. C., to connect with the Georgia, Carolina Ar Northern in Spartanburg county, S. C. The Richmond St Danville has cptabliahed a Florida agency with headquarters in Jacksonville. W. W. Davies haa been appointed general Florida agent, with W. L. Jones and E. B. Wella, traveling passenger agents. GEN JURAL A. EARLY DEAD. He Met Death Unflinchingly and Crossed Over the River to Rest Under the Shade of the Trees. LYNrHnrno, Va. ? United States Senator John W. Daniel in a aad voice announced that his old commander, moil, judbi a. r.nriy, at whose bedside he has been a constant watcher for Home days, hml gone to liik eternal roi ward. Genernl Early died at 10:30. He passed away quietly in the presence of hi? family end physicians, his kindred and several intimate friends. The old general seemed aware of his approaching end early in the day. Before noon he called for the morning paper as was his variable custom and attempted to read, but found that his .dght was failing. Soon after, In* extended his hand to Senator Daniel and calmly said: "I want to tell you good-bye, major." Ho then told his nephew, Cabell Early, farewell, after which he dropped into a quiet slumber. Later in the day the. dying veteran asked Senator Daniel not to leave the room, as he wanted to talk with him about certain arrangements; but from that time he suffered such intense pain that he did not revive the subject. He met death untlinehinirlv. with his hand resting quietly in Senator Daniel's. It is thought that Oon. Early has left a good estate, though he was a man of astonishing generosity especially towards his numerous relations, and needy ex-Confederates. Cold Starting Europe-Ward. Washinoton, I). C.?The Treasury Department is informed that a million and a quarter of gold was engaged in New York Friday for export. The gold is furnished hy the lmnks in NewYork. The rat.'* of exchange now is sufficiently high to permit gold to he exported at a profit, and further exporation of gold, if the present rate keeps up, is expected. Again in the Stockholders Hands. WiNNSBono, S. C. On Thursday A. (1. Hriee, of Chester, moved ho for* Judge Watt* to hnvo the Cheater & Choraw Railroad taken out of the hands of the receiver, David Hemphill, of Cheater, and returned into the hands of the stock holders. Friday the motion war granted. THE PRESIDENTS EXPEDITION. He Witnesses Seine Hauling by Steam on the Coast of North Carolina and Mlso Visits Points of Historic Interest. Elizabeth, City, N. C.?President Cleveland and party are moving still further away from civilization. In the morning the Violet was lying at Long Point, near the foot of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. After affording the party an opportunity to try their skill on the ducks in the early morning the little steamer hauled up anchor and stood away to the southward. She crossed Albcmnrlc Hound and entered Croatnn Sound, about thirty miles from tho morning's starting point. Here the vessel anchored and the party panned the night nlliet.lv ill f!..i iris?.-. ?.? tlm ? ? ?" v" ,,,xi Sound light, which was close nt hand. The presidential party did not try their luck at gunning in the morning, hut instead went on a sight-seeing hxpedition. The President and Secretary Gresham are early risers, and by 8 o'clock breakfast had been dispatched and the members of the party begun their trip. The first point of interest was to see the seine hauling at Weymouth, a point on the mainland. The fisheries at this point are among the most extensive on the Atlantic const. Shnd and herring and striped bnss or roach tish have already begun their spring migration from the. deep waters of the Atlantic to the spawning grounds. They cuter the North Carolina sounds of Wilmington and through the inlet of Hatteras and at Oregon ami New Inlet, and find their spawning beds in the nr.riierousstrenms running into the sounds from the mainland. The President, Secretary Gresham and Capt. Evans landed from the Violet in a gig uml inspected the workings of the Davis and Weymouth fishery on C'roaton Sound. The tide was favorable and the party was in time to see one haul of the great seine. This net is about two miles long and owing to its great length and weight is beyond the capacity of human labor to handle; so a steamer is called upon. The party saw the seine carefully stowed on the stern of two steam "fiats." as tliev are known. The lmniH swept across the sound ami returned, forming an almost circle and paying out the Heine ah they ran. Reaching shore the lines were attached to n sichiii windlass and in the course of an hoar the great seine was landed, bringing in its meshes barrels of fish of all kinds. The President was much interested in the sight. Taking to their gig again, the party then crosBed the party visited some of the historic points on the island, including Fort Raleigh and Ballast Point, where Sir Walter landed the ballast which lie brought in his ship from England on one of his ship voyages to the new world. The President also stopped for a time, at the quaint village of Mantco, thus touching civilization for the first time since leaving Washington last Sunday. 7hey are Coming So /t.i. (Springfield Republican.) To those over-confident people who have been claiming all along that New England had nothing to fear from Southern competition in cotton manufacturing, the report of a correspondent to the American Wool and Cotton Reporter will prove disturbing. He has been visiting the mills in Virginia, the Carolina^ and Georgia, and tinda them nearly all running on full time and earning handsome profits on the investment. Textile manufacturing in h South has suffered less from the depression than anywhere else, and the number of new mills being built and old ones extended is reported to be surprisingly large. As to the claim tlmt the South will never get beyond the manufacture of the conrser grades of cotton goods, this correspondent notes a steady tendency everywhere toward the manufactureof the finer grades. It is stated that nearly all the cotton mills in North Carolina have reported dividends of from 8 to 1 (5 per cent, on the operations of the pa?i year. A Prosperous Southern Road. Tho Georgia, Carolina & Northern is one of the Southern linen whie/i surprises the Northern visitor who goes over it for the first time. There are few trunk lines in the country which ere in superior in point of construction. The roadbed, which extends from Monroe, N. C., to Atlanta, Gh., is Isid with heavy steel railH, is well ballasted and bridges and culverts are all of mason work and iron. As a result very fast time is made, and the passenger service furnished is of the beat. The management, like that of the other Seaboard Air Line roads, is composed of capable practical railroad men who see that every detail in operation and maintenance of way is carefully attended to. A New Railroad Scheme. A dispatch from Middlcsborouch. Cy., Mutes that the scheme to give that section a seaboard outlet. * TV?ri Royal, S. C., lias l>een revived, and that Clarence Cary, receiver of the Knoxville, Cumberland (lap k Louisville road, is interested in it. The connection if made would be by way of the Knoxville, Cumberland Clap k Louisville, the Port Royal k Augusta and some other line yet to be deter mined. Senator Vance Much Better A Still Mending Livf. Oak, Fi.a.- The healing waters of Suwance Springs have made a marked change fur the better in the condition of Senator Vance's health, lie is much better and improving daily. 4 Woman Son da Nor Photograph to tho Solicitor a$ Proof that Sho it Still A lire Aikf.n, 8. C.?A Kershaw county mystery is about to be solved. A white w man, who was thought to bo mnrd red, is alive in Aiken county. Ann Wright, the woman in question, iH livinrr nn Mr. MnrirHn Fox's dIhpp. in tho I""rs o-- i ? ? upper portion of this coiint*i suit ?!;? was in Aiken iast Wednesday to have a photograph taken to send to Solicitor Nelson to prove thot she is still alive. She came to this county last January 1, accompanied by two women, one white and the other colored, and four colored ihen. They came from Westville, Kershaw county. The women stopped in thi? county, but the men went on to Georgia to work on a railroad. Ann Wright's sudden disappearance with the negro men led to the rumor that she had been murdered and her dead body concealed. Two colored men were arrested in Kershaw couuty and lodged in jail, charged with being accessories to the murder of this woman. In order to prove their innocence their friends have been trying to locate Ann Wright, and by corresponding with the men who accompanied her to this county learned her whereabouts. Solicitor Nelson would not accept their letters ns positive proof of Ann's being alive, but demanded that alio either come in person or send a photograph of herself. Sheriff Alderman, of Aiken county, was communicated with, and he had the woman come to the city and have her photograph taken and sent, it to Solicitor Koinoii. This will probably satisfy him of the innocence of tho two colored prisoners. The Sojth Steps in Front. Among the most famous of New England's fine spinning mills are the Hadley Mills, of Massachusetts, with 50,000 spindles. Their products for tho mini iweniy years nave ueen sept ho in ahead of actual manufacture. T. C. Pcgram, secretary and treasurer of the Trenton Mills, has received from a commission merchant Home samples of skein yarns from the Hadley Mills. They were two-ply 30s, and were placed sido hy side with the two-ply 30k of the Trenton Mills. The product of tho Trenton compares most favorably with that of the famoiiR New England mills. In fact all the novices who examined the samples gave the Trenton samples the verdict of superiority without knowing what mills either sample was from. It would take an expert in tcxrunning twenty years and the Trenton hardly so many days, the character of its product becomes something to bo proud of. ? Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette. Burned His Pos toff ice. SrMTKH, 8. C. ? Henry Timlal, colored, ex-postmaster at Packsville, 8. 0., whs arrested in this city under tho charge of robbing and then burning the postoflSceat the place above named. When Tindal'a successor was appointed there wns on hand in the postoftice about six hundred dollars in each. The night before he was to turn over the office and books to his successor the building whs burned, and ho claimed it was the work of an incendiary, and ail the books and money and office furniture had been destroyed. The suspicions of the citizens were aroused, and every effort was made to bring the guilty party or parties (for it is asserted that there is an organized gang of thieves and plunderers thereabout) to justice. It is believed that evidence sufficient to convict Tindal and some of his pals has been secured. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. ) The Senate. 47th Day.?The Senate Foroign Relation^ Committee, by its Chairman, Mr. Morgan, presented the report on the Hawaiian invest legation. 4Sth Day.?Only routine business was transacted in order to secure early adjournment. so that the Democratic Senators might attend the caucus. 40th Day.?Mr. Frye made an attack 011 the President's Hawaiian policy. ? - TI10 open session lasted for two hours, an executive session occupied nearly half an hour, and then came an adjournment. m?th uay.? air. rryo conciuaeu iiih speeon ou tho Hawaiian testimony, after which tho Senate took up the bill for the erection of a Government printing office, ns unfinished business. This furnished Mr, Dolph a pretext for a speech on the tariff, which merged Into a personal debate between him an I Mr, Allen. The House. CiOth Day.?Tho day was consumed In aU ineffectual effort to get a quorum to consider the Dtand seigniorage bill. 61kt Dat.?Mr. Bland receded from his positIod, and his Silver seigniorage bill was considered lu Committee of the Whole. The House took the Anti-Option bill from the Ways and Means Committee and roferred it to Mr. Hatch's Committee o?> 4grleuiiure. Mr. Catu'uings, ot the Rules Committee, introduced a resolution looking to the fining of filibuster*. 621) Day.?Mr. Homers, of Wisconsin, introduced resolutions for an Inquiry into the actions of United Statea Judges Brewar, Taft, Dundy, Beatty, Pardee and Ricks in cases involving the rights of laboring meu. Mr. Bland's Silver seigniorage bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. 63d Day.?After a period of filibustering, extending over two weeks, a quorum w.i* secured to vote upon the question of considering the Bland seigniorage bill and to doje general debate thereon at a specified time, the vote being yeas 177, nays v. The quorum, however, disappeared when it was iumii|iiuu iv jut** ho oruor reporcvu vy inv Committee on Rules, making the bill the pending question to the exclusion of other business, and limiting debate, both general and under the flve-mlnute rule, to tiro hours. The vote on this was three short of a quorum. This being shown, the Houso adjourned. 64th Day. Mr. Bland's bill for the coinage of the silver bullion In the Treasury was passed by a vote ol 167 to 130. The House also passed the bill appropriating 40,000 to raise the wreck of the Kenrsarge. 65th Day.?Representatives Merodith and Funk tried to have a flat light, but wrero parted boforo blood wfts drawn. The For, intention bill, appropriating over f2,000,000, IfMjMUMd, The Tension bill was passed, y " ^