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flE WEEKLYtfitkoiIOH TIMES D^ot4Hi ta A^iwUurt, H<niieult^r, Bomettie JNnn <{/J>ay. . ^ A VOL. XXV.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH C AROJ.1 NUMBER 15. There is no such a thing as "next Senate," and so long as the Constitution lasts thero nover will be. The Benate of the United States is an eternal body. It never dies. It is today exactly the same assembly which met for the first tiuio in 1789. Everv second year it undergoes a change of membership, the terms of one class of members expiring. But that, oluiugo neither ends the old body nor makes a new one. It is said that $2,000,000 has been made out of a single brand ol' chewing gum. Tt is not nil used, by the way, by children and foolish women, remarks the Chicago Herald. Dentists often recommend ehewinc cum fnr fi>u teeth, aud physicians prc^cihe?iL.. sometimes an an Rt(T~fo digestion, bocause it excites the activity of tlu salivary glands. Lar^e thug houses keep gum in answer to this demand. Monro, the publisher, was a victim to his morbid curiosity, asserts the Atlanta Constitution. Mis son had qnnnnil ii?tt ?c ?? ? ? ' ? ? 1 | v..?.v.vin, ?? .v > |??..Ml (l|| 1111.| r*Jcovered. The father 11:i?I not appendicitis, I 11 < he g<d *.? nm <h interest 1 in the operation on his son that ho fancied he had th fully submitted to the surgeon's knife, so impressed was he with (lie desirability of having one's vermiforu uppeudix removed. Tt is only by comparison with other countries, observes the New York News, that wo can appreciate the financial solidity of the Unite 1 States. Our national debt ninounts to $14 per capita. That of Franco is $11 <5, and of England $87.. Our Canadian neighbors have a national debt burden live times greater per head thin ours. The most wretched plight of nil Governments worth mentioning is that of Peru, with ft debt relatively more than ten times that of tho United States. The deai.li of Publisher Monro in New York shows to the Sail Francisco Chronicle that the vermiform nppenL dix is playing an important part in H the surgery of the perio I. The danger that results from the lodg lient ol M seeds of fruits and berries in this useless part of the anatomy canuot bo rtoo strongly impressed upon all, nn>l especially upon those who have tho care of children. (Irapo seed, in pir icular, should not ho swallowo 1 hy those who have any regard for thoir health. The mining craze seems to have struck some portions of Georgia and Alabama pretty hard. A score or more of new gold min-'s have been opened in these States within the last three or four months, note-' tha St. Louis Republic, and a good many old ones nrc living worsen lis tney were never before. George Huntington Clark predicts in the Manufacturers' llecord that in the immediate future the gold tields of Georgia are going to mirpriHC the old doubters as niueh as the development of Southern iron did. The richest gold mines ?>f that St it aro as yet untouch" >, he says. Georgia's gold bed covers a strip of country from twenty t > forty miles wide, an 1 extending iitoss the State from northeast t?> southwest, embracing about 7<K)<> s.p.nre miles. It mm into Alabama and spreads out ovei soinc 3500 s |uar miles more in that State. Georgia's mines have so far produce 1 over $lit,'K)0,Oi)0 worth ol gold and silver, or more than those ol any other Southern State except Morth C'nrolini. Harold Frederic, who in n eloip observer iu English politics, ,?f opinion that the resignnti ?n in' Mr. (Halstone is duo not to the fart that hit eyesight is failing ov to tli fact tin' he is growing feeble, but ' ? tlu tab that he his b -en losing influ' n c wit is bis own administration. 'Ih theory is that hiscabi.net was out of sympathy with him in m my thirigse.n l went its own wp.y regurdlcsH o." his wishes. Roseberv was beconiin. in >re of r, power than the Grand Oh I mm. ftn I so the latter dropped a hint of retirement after th- nvuiuer of Uisni irc\, r.r.d, Ii!?< lliMiii'iivk, was surprised t > find that there was 110 clamor against his going. In other words, Gladstone is represented us being edged off the stage by his young men. The danger in his retirement does not lie so much in the lor,8 of hift personalitv, powerful as that is. as in the loss of that peculiar thing called leadership. Robbery or any ouc c-lse c.iu bo mule the otii jia! head of the ministry and the leader of tho liberal pirtv ; but no ouo eau inherit the general confidence of tho party and it* sympathizers througho it the world in (Hadstoii". This is a great source of power which he cannot tranmnit. The new leader will h tve party discipline to support him, bii" he will hove to create party sen* mien | an l popular sentiment. COLONEL LAMB S NEW PARTY. Issues Upon Which He Proposes to FightHigh Tariff. Blair Bill, Monroe Doctrine. Norfolk Dispatch:?Colonel Williar Lamb has discussed with n Times' rep resentativo his plans for comluctin, the "Whig" campaign of education He said: This spring I will issue the call am think that I will suggest a plat fern upon which all Virginians not free traders ami mouo-metalists can stund f want our Virginia manufacturers miners, ami farmers protected by tin tariff from various foreign competition I prefer, with Mr. Jefferson, that on revenue for the support of the Federn government should be raised througl the custom house instead of bv a tax gatherer coming to annoy us at oui homes. The FcdeiaL ? JUstlv pay bounties tr support the Union soldiers and snilon of the civil war in their old age, am thus necessarily contribute largely t< the Northern States, should equali/.t matters as far as practicable by assist ing tho Southern States in educating their illiterates, as proposed in tin Blair educational bill. In \ irginia w< are almost unaniinomdy in favor ot i bimetallic standard and a liberal sup ply <>t curreiiev hh opposed to .Mr Clrvi'lntid'H monometallism and opposition to Mitch legislation us is <l<-maiidct' by the neecssit irs of our people. W't want a Whig construction of th < <?!?. stitiition to enable us to foster mil agricultural and commercial int?*r??st =*. \W should carry out the recommendations of Sumuel J. Tihlen in his lust famous letter to Congress, ahoiit forti fyingour sen-coast nud foreign borders, ami we should make our unvy worftn of the flag it floats. Looking to the great work of the age, the Nicaragua canal, we should en foret the Monroe docrine in our foreign relations, bo us to avoid future complies iioiis. 1 give this brief outline of the prin eiples of the Whig party, but you must wait for the address before you judga of our claims for support by the Virginia people. HV.VGA.ir A J KOSSUTH S GRAVE. The Patriot B/rieJ Amid the Tears of Tho /s an ts. Ri'hapkstu Dispatch:?While thousands wept ami griulsti ieken peasant; knelt ninl kissed (he hands <-f his sons, fionis Kossuth was buried. I was Hungary's gloomy clay, and will all her heart she mourned for her dead leader. Knornmuscrowds had gathered from all parts of the kingdom t itteiul the funeral, and the streetwere; tilled almost from wall to wall. The police and militsiy had prepares for disorder. but nothing happened t< disturb the oppressive silence. After a short- religions ceremony a the National Museum, where the dea< patriot's body had lain i n St at e, Mettrici Jokai, the author, el??i|uently reviev.ee the events of Kossuth's life. As the collin was removed to tin funeral ear the throng ontsi ! sanglhi revolutionary air, "S/ozat, which v.aechoeel and re-eidioed down tie street* through the dbO.niKI sped dors. Tin funeral procession, which w:i- nearlv live miles long, passed between I.">,001 voluntary guards, wlmkept tin throngi back. The Ilonvcds of lsts 1< .1 the line, carrying their old standards and llagi Rehiinl them walked a thousand women, clothed in black, and then i con id less numb r of mouriu r.s in ear tingesand on fool. {Several oral ions wi re delivered el the grave, which was between those .>I Peak and lJatthvaiivi. two patriot-, oi his own tini". Alt- r 111 cotliu had been lowered into tin- vault, peasantcrowded up,knelt an-1 kis-.- | tin- luiinh and elotln-sof Ko: suth's miiis, Tlums ainls wept as t he la-t wor hi \v? i spok* r over the eotlin. A NORTH CAROLINA I. YHCWNu. They Hail no Rope. Oil Hnj Htm AH t ) So we. A special I'rotn AI ;t r i < r i. N. sn\ s Holland Knylish v.ii-; tnkmi from )ni nt Knkrrsvillf and I?f?*i** *1 i>y : ntoh two hundred lin n on Sundin nioiniie nt d o'clock for tic In of lii>. wife whom li > killed t<> marry nnotler wo man lie lirst offered lu^ I. ill mm-" $10 to poison his wife. V !l i\ lend wns used to han?^ 1'u^li-di, ii" lope l?e in? lit hiind. Stole $20,000 of Trier's Pence. Rome Dispntch A trusted cnshiei ? th" Vfitienn, charged with tie* n 1 ministration <>f Peter's Pence, hnscm fess. 1 to st tiling Silt, Hill) of tie fund Me hopes to tic fdde to rephi"o tli money. It is prolcd h- that tli Vntiem in order avoid i> scnndul, will no denounce llil.l to tli - police. I'll" Pop! is much iiuuoved t!: it the nlTisir In, 1 ? li di\ ulgcd. W/'sna Still Convalescing. San Antonio, Ti;x. CongrefHnai \V. I/. Wilson i? still ?it I he ranch o cx-( oiipif SMiiHii Ht-niplit miles south of here. Ho is ia}/i< 1 lv gaining in weight and strength, and if no re lapse oeoures, he will nhle i<> rcMimi his work in Congress in a fow weeks. Senator Patrick WnJsi*. Governor N'orthen of Georgia ha ?Pf ointerlHon. Patrick Walsh,editor <> the Augusta Chronic le, to succeed th< late Senator C'ohpiitt,after the refusa of Speaker Crisp to accept (lie up point men t. .1 So'/lher/) Collr'/r pro.' I t Kill. Him '/ l)or?;i,Asvii.i,f'., (I\. I*r?-Ki?lout ! M (Sallownv (>i tlx' I><>nplasvillc ('u||?'?r olio ni' tin* li.-st-I.ii'iv it 1'iliiratois o (ii'Oli'in, I'l.llMUltt I r lifi.lt*, shoot ill liiiiisoli 1 hron*.*h tin* h-'sit. No i nn>.' for H"i? i?I?i is 1;iio'Aii. BENEDICT, FOB LIC PR INTER . tAr. Henry Gets a Foreign Appointment-Other Nominations. n Washington, I). C.?The President scut to the Senate the following ^ nominations: Thomas E. Benedict, of u New York, to he Public Printer; James 1). Yeoman*, of Iowa, to be interState commerce commissioner. To be p United States consul: Walter R. Honrv, i? of North Carolina, atCuraeoa. Charles H. J. Taylor, of Kansas, recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia. e I'nylor is a colored man. Collectors of customs: Charles R. ltisbee, disi triet of St. John's, Florida; John D. Davis, district of Beaufort, North , Carolina. Postmasters: Tennessee?James R. *t ?? IF ^ *" lli -- K. Lamb, Fdi/.nbeth City. South Caro ^ lirri Lewis M. ??i?r?%, Greenwood I In soph S. Me(!eus"r, Florence. Mis , i.-sippi Thomas Kenan, Brookhavon 5 The Comptroller of the Currency has . declared ilivid'.Miils in favor of th , ereilitors of insolvent national hank.* , as follows. Second division, 20 pes cent., St.it' National Bank, of Kuo\ x \ iil.?, Toiin.,making in all t3 per cent, on claims amounting to $100,9112' second dividend, 13 per cent .. < *n National Bank, ofTainpn, Fla.,inakin. I in all 00 per cent., on claims proved , ainoiiuiing to $h:1,7 10. "Lowsrs" anH "Hams." CirAni.oTTF, N. C. ? Capt. Tom Tate, conductor on the Florida vestibule be' twecn Charlotte and .Tackson ville, looks a good ileal better than his hand' writing does. On his Charlotte trip lie had orders for two berths here on tie train going north, and at Chester, S. ('., he telegraphed the Charlotte ' agent to "reserve two lowers." The operator at Chester sent the message to Charlotte in this shape: "Secure two hams." Grcshnm supplies the dining cars at this place, *to the message, instead of going to ('apt. Fnyssoux, the ticket agent, for whom it was intended, wont to Gresham. Time was limited, hut Gresham hustled up town, nnd when thn Florida vestibule came in lie was there with two hntus, one weighing 17 pounds and the other 20 pounds. The cook on the dining car said he had not ordered them and didn't want them. Gresham allowed the telegraphic , order, hut the cook ahook his head. Gresham took the hams into the bagi gage room and hung them up, deelnrin.g , at the snme time that "somebody had I to pay for 'em." Then he hunted up ('apt. Tate, and it all cnmo out. "Hams! ha! ha!" roared the Captain. "Man alive! Why, 1 telegraphed for 'lowers.'" Greaham still has the hams. I i Aristocratic Champions. [Chicago Daily InW-Occan.] I Atlanta, Ga.?About twenty of the leading women of this city, interested I in church and benevolent work, met ami organized n Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Mcljciidon a member of an aristoeratie family, was elected President. Tlmir idea is t > push the question of woman ?.ntfrnge so an to have a good report to make to the national association, which meets here , next year. Within n month there wiil be woman suffrage associations organ i/ed in every city in the Slate. The preachers of this city have taken a ? decided stand lij^n 1 n^t tin- movement. which only challenges the opposition ( of thu women. 1'aliil F.e'tl lor Missionaries. Sierra TiCoiie, on tlie wort cons! of ' V.riea, lias sometimes lieen styled the [ "White Man's (irave." and no fewer 1 i.'in three Hislmps in sreeession died ' within three years of their eon-eer.e : tion. In tlm tiest twenty years of the ' mission's existence lifty -three missionni ie- i r misaionaries' wives died at 1 their posts. In INjrt, <mt of live mis si..iniries who went out, four die I within six months, in the next year i . \ elnnteers were ne 'epted, and of ti;. ?f two died within four months of their landing. These losses seemed to 'raw '"'it more zeal, fur nt-xt jmr three wont forth. of whom two died ? itlisv si v months. Itosluii l'osl. Arrest of Co /n forfeit*. -s. Asiikviixk, N. C. ? Deputy Sheriffs Morgan and Hampton captured a couple of counterfeiters in the night, together with several ha) f-dollars of the *'queer," molds, plaster paris, metal, etc. The men came here several days ago,giving their mimes as Curtis and Pulton, hut no v say they are. W. L. Morgan and ,1. Ii. Primer. They say they have recently been in Winston, Spartanburg and Greenville. They were jailed. , To he Expelled from Masonry. 1 T.orisvii.f.E, Kv. Word cornea from ui authoritative source at Frankfoi! ih it steps are to lie taken at once to \|?l Colonel Breckinridge from u i :;iy, v.itli which lie lias long been onnected. Miss Pollard's father war l m Hctive Mason. , Senator Faulkner's Mother Dead. Winchester, W. V.%.? Mrs. Mary ' W. Faulkner, widow of the late Hon. f C. J. Faulkner, and mother of Senator Chas. .1. Faulkner, of West Virginia, died very suddenly of congestion of the lungs. f The Go/emor Has Invite J the Congress. (row Car:* of North Carolina nt the request of Dr. (imlmn). President of the ' local Scot li 1rishSociety,Jhas extended < 1 invitation of the National Society 'o hold it. 11 \t Connie-.s in Ch'tilottv. A Proclamation ( >r.r\iniS. (!. (fovrrnor Tillman i is issio'd a jiroehiititit iot? taking eliur^i' tli?* J'illi't' in till* i*ltirak itnd towll? ii tlie "^'ii.) until thu roii)i)f blown ovui*. PITHY NEWS ITEMS In and around-Tort- Mill, S. C., all the cotton mills nxe running full blast. Burkcvillc, Va., K have n canning factory. A $20;000 peani* cleaning osHociation lias been eatiClislied at Norfolk, Vh. ' New ice making {Slants have been finished at Norfolk, V#., and Charlotte, Na . i-1 A draw bridge {a toTbe built connecting West Norfolk and Port Norfolk, Va. V^vr K~" Funds are being rained to build a Presbyterian aendemv at Blackstone, Va. The Raleigh, N. C., local cotton re?4 .. ihl . 4 ) - ii)A iin> mM.iuu art ruurn, against 120,71 t<> the name date last year. A two-year-old cliihl in Tdneolntou, N. (1., knows the entire alphabet. Marcus Gentry committed suicide in Ashe county, X. C., by shooting himself in the bend with a pistol. The steamer Wilmington, which has long plied between Wilmington and Sootlipoi'i, is to run hereafter between Savannah and lb nnswdek.Capt Harper .oes along. Two of the three men who drank oil ?f mebane at Kevos tobacco factory, Wilkes county. N. (k,have died. They thought 't was peach brandy. Col. .Tubiisi S. Carr, of Durham, X. (J., has sold ?200,000 worth of tobncco to be delivered by May 1st. That is a big order. The Virginia Silk Mills Co., at Kredrieksbnrg, Va., wil* build an addition, w hich will be a twe-story brick building, t?0\120 feet, and will put in Ill,WWW SpllMlleS. RTOr 1H T HO power. Tho Union (S. ('.) Cotton Mills, 11 now roinpanv which will operate n plant of 330 looms and 12,500 spindles, has increused its oapital,stock to 0125,000. Tho Volasoo Oil Mill will add carding gins 1? its plant for handling Sea Island cotton grown by tho Barry settlement of Georgians anil Carolinians on Bastrop crock. Some of those farmers have forty or fifty acres in Sea Island, last year's experimental crops having, it is said, proved the Texas staple to equal any in America. The Newton (N. C.) Cotton Mills wore sold bv the receiver last Monday, and was purchased by B. ]). Heath of ('harlotte for -S I 1,000. Col. B. I?. Moore, solicitor of the New Hanover Criminal Court, died Monday afternoon in the 00th year of his age. .fudge Men res has appointed Col. A. M. Waddell to till out the unexpired term of Col. Moore, and ho has accept "d. The Supreme Court of North Cnroluei has affirmed the derision that Cashier Canst, the Salisbury bank embezzler, mu -t serve bis sentence. The W ,t 'i n Union olliee in Char* loll... N. (',, on tli nights of April 1st and 2nd, a nit out 11?,f><><> words. They, of course, were the Tillman specials. Less Cotton am/ More Foo-J proJ:cts. The Manufacturers' l?ee?pd,of Baltimore, publish: s this week h Iters from 30 large feitdi.'.er dealers )n Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, . Alabama. Noifli Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina, which show that less cotton is being | I intcd this year and more attention is b?>iug given to food products. Sixteen ofllie firms ertiinatc that the area of cotton idauted ibis veav will be from 5 to 30 per cent., less than last year: 'H note an improvement ?u tlie general condition of bus' eess. The report to the Record of tho Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Company is as follows: "The decrease in fertilizer used will be 25 per cent., and the farmers wdl raise less cotton and more corn and hoes." A P-rl Dee /. Raleigh, N. correspondence of the ('harlotte Observer: A very reprehensible act was committed hero by a Georgia detective. He lrroucht n no gro named Hill Lee to the penitentiary, under hi" belief ttint Lee wiik an esraped convict. When he found tlint Lee was not the linn and won not wanted, he took th lirst train for Georgia, l"a\ing the poor negro here, pennilcs.i and in a .'trance place. The detective told Lee, with groat coolness. that the att.r must look out for himself. Lee went to the executive otfiee and got assistance which enabled him to return to his home and family in Georgia. He w.'.s in his working clothes, as he >\a? ploughing when aiitsL-d. The Streets RrA Lubcok wine ipuapt*' js prosented PrinceBismiL^ft10 1 ne eentennrian Madeiri't^fP.'t of the Emperor William0- * isit of reconciliation. One good thing generally leads to another. Had the Emperor of GcriVitiiiy been ? i Anderson, S. C., at th. ?lose of the Int. w ar he might have outrivalled King Gambriuua, for thi? streets all the while ran wine, the I priceless M.uleria which Charleston ' gourmets had rent there for ^fe-keepiag.?Charleston News and Courier. Madeline's rather. hatxioh. N. f Verv few people now recall 111* feet that |>. l'ollard, the father of the now famous Madeline, ?iih iiiiri' mi landless here, in 1872-1. He \vh-? in an insurance agency, his |,nt:oi heing lln- late Hasil ('. Manly. Pollard was (put" an old gentleman ' and a capital talker. DIED OF HYDROPHOBIA. Miss Annie La trie Canaday. a Beautiful Virginia Girl, Dies an Awful Death. Roanoke, Va. ? Homo time ago a largo black <log belonging to Mr. Ch L. Canndny, who lives on Craig road, uenr Salem, bit two or three eliihlren slightly, ami his daughter, Miss Annie Laurie, a beautiful girl, aged 20, was also bitten in several places by the same dog, which was then killed, without any one enquiring as to whether or not it was rabid. The wounds wore cauterized, and in time healed, so thnt nothing was thought of the matter until Thursday morning, when Dr. O. Wiley was sent" for l>v Mr, 7 had been unable to sleep; that she was .1 - - t ui'NpiiiHieui nervous, something unusual with her, and 011 that very morning, when her father had brought n how 1 of water to her be laide, she hail been seized with a terrible paroxysm. After rallying ahe rested somewhat and then naked for a toothbrush ami mug to rinse her mouth, which were lmrdly i brought in night ere alio. was ?? seized wttli v+~1ent convulsions, this time requiring to he ledd. and so on throughout the ds\ these paroxysms, fenrtul to behold, kept recurring, during which her strength Inc.vn"* wonderful and it required strong hands to hold her Nor could she swallow, though her thirst was excessive. In her calmer moments sle> \uis resigned to her fearful fate, and touching the wounds on her arm exclaimed: "Perhaps it is for the bet; these will bo the menus by which 1 will soon he in heaven." Dr. Wiley nud Dr. Shanks did all that their skill could suggest to relieve her sufferings, hut she herself knew that her case was hopeless, and on Friday morning in answer ? . }>"? ? ".*. Dr. Wiley told her there was no hope and she seemed resigned. A little later she prnved with her pastor, an 1 then remarked to some lvi< nds that she had only a few hours to live. Just before her death, which occurred at 1:20 Friday afternoon, the family assembled around her bedside, while her brother, Prof. ('. 1J. ('atisday, of Roanoke College, led in prayer. Her death occurred in one of the terrible apnsms of pain, and when Doctors Wiley, Shanks and Killen returned from the house they said that she seemed as one who had hocn asphyxiated. A subscription in bmiig'tikon up at Salem to send the children who were bitten by the same dog to the Past-mr Institute, New ^ork, for treatm -lit. A Hal table Textile riant. Interest in th" cultivation of th ramie ) lar.t in this country has ben nerensed l?v the statement that nn English concern known r.s the Textih Syndicate has secured 2-*,0!)() acres of laml in Mexico ami intends devoting it to tiie raising of these plants. Mr. Felix Kreincrey. who lias given much time and labor to their ?;routh, writ s to the Maiiulnetnrers' llecord from Arcadia, Texas, as follows regarding tin English people: "They-arc negotiating tor a big hacienda in the State of Vera Cruz, where ramie is already grown t<> a certain extent. Those gentlemen wrote me several weeks ago: "We shall he glad to know if any ramie ribbons can he obtained from tin1 United States, as we are buyers of all that can be shipped in good condition. We would arrange bankers' credit for the ship* menta, to be drawn against, accompanied by shipping documents and policy ??f insurance.' "**1 his company has its textih' works at Carpentor'a Hond, Stratford K, London, where the ribbons are degitmuicd and bleached ready lor comb and card. "There are two A No. 1 houses in Newark, N. .1., which together would take not ion; man tinny or khiv ions of blenched rami** fibres jjor month at at most ronunu'rativo prices. A tirstelass house in Patterson nlao is in need ??f ramie material. The latter named furnished the United States Department of Agriculture with that line collection of aelf-manufactured ramie fabrics which were exhibited at the World's Fair. Ramie ribbons or fibres can be sold in New York city and the New England States in any <|iiantity at the highest figures known, but seemingly there are no means to induce our planters to undertake this culture, of which one acre after the lirst year of planting yields better profits than fifty acres of cotton at actual prices." Experts in textiles consider the ramie product to he as tine as cotton, aliun-t H8 glOKSy MS SI I K , WHIM' II IS enonpev tlinii l?non and stronger than hemp. From two to thiee crops of stalks enn be raised from one plant 111 a season. nn<l it is said to be hardy enough to withstand extreme moisture and drought, though liable to sufiev from heavy frosts. The roots will like from fifteen to twenty years, and as li'gh as $4.00 per pound has been paid for the seed 111 America. China exports over .*>00,000,(100 pounds of it yearly. Among the widely diversified productsmude of rami -are ropes and cables that exceed the strength of mnnilla hemp, tablecloths that exct 1 the glass of Irish line", laee that erjuals- the delicacy of cotton and surpasses its durabilityalso vdushcs. velvets damasks and brocades. Ramie is combined with cotton, linen,wool and silk, and it alwaysHil Is to the mixed texture an element, of greater usefulness or beauty. 11 handkerchief*,cravats and hos'-ery, iu cambrics, camlets and shawls, in alpacas, carpeta and draperies, it iseonsidercd.with th" possible exception of silk,superior to the fibres with which ii is i.t- rwoveii. A physician of South llavcn, Mich., will make a vnvu^o around the world in a schooner 1'2"? leet lout, with a ' henm of about twenty-five feet. An Old Mason in Distress. Ralkioh, N. C.?Mr. Allen, the superintendent of the Wake county home, found t?v the wayside h poor old white-haired man and brought him into the city. Thin afternoon the man, whoso name is Vinton, was placed in the county home. Vinton has a history, lie is an educated man, and talks interestingly. He is 7.*> years old, dirty, badly clothed, with one hand injured and his feet no sore he can barely walk. He tells me he was born in New York, but has lived in Wisconsin. He was colonel on the stall of a Governor there; was colonel of a rvginmn^n, nnlm^ftw^r^nafnend T855 n memlier of tire Ticgisla Til re of Wisconsin; was grand worthy chief Templar of that State and has papers which show him to have been a prominent temperance lecturer. Paring the war he was colonel of the eleventh Wisconsin Regiment. He was in 18114 consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He savs he came into this State from Tennessee, and haw been here five or six weeks. He has a son in a bank at u:7 ur..: v. ,,,oc 'Tic i!? it f--* I V 11 SM I I > IIllOH. New Enterprises. Comtmbm, S. C.?The Secret U T el State has issued a commission to John H Hn^it ?>f fhitOn'ouiv, aiim Wiiiir Jones, of Columbia, hp corporators of ibe Exrhvge Bank of Rateshurg. 'li?c capita'; s*oek of the now bank wilt be $50,000 rlivirioil into pharos of $100 each. Col Jones is the cashier of the Carolina National Bnnk of tl?is c'tv. A charter was "ranted to the Sunitc* Track and Park Association,of Suuit"- . All the capital stock lias been snoM-ribed. The directors and offices are Abe Ryttcnburg, president; C. S. Martin, vice president: I. H Vus.es, Jr., secretary and treasurer; H. B. Bloom and R. H. Baker. A commission was issued to George Drcssoll, John 1>. While and II. B. Butt as corporators of the Clniihston Provision and Commission Company, of Charleston. The capital stock ip $-.5(1(1, divided into shares of ? )(>each. The work of constructing the new Electric Railway c\ lent ion toShnndon, the new suburban town, is prngessing rapidly. Operations have been commenced at the town with a view to developing it. Execitire Clemency. r<. ..... ? c ri.?..??,.,Tai..,nn V wui ,'i/u^, v . \?\?? * i uvi i iiiiunn commuted theaentcneeof Caesar Sweetwine, who was convicted at tlu- February term last of Court for Berkeley Conntv of burglary ami larceny and sentenced by Judge Townsend to a life term in the State prison. The commutation reduces his sentence to live years in the penitentiary at hard labor. Governor Tillman has also granted a full pardon to John Martin and Sweet Edwards, alias Sweet Martin, who were convicted at the fall term of Court for Horry County of adultery and sentenced by Judge Witherspoon to a term of six months in the penitentiary each ami a tine of $100 each. In a R-ioniver's Han'/;. Gen. John Gill, of Baltimore. In been appointed receiver of the Cape Fear Ar Yadkin Valley road until the exact financial condition of the company operating can be ascertained. The action wr.s taken at the instance of bondholders rep it sent i tig 000,000 in securities. It is understood that for the present no changes will be ma le in the muiiioriMii-M.t Tlx- i-ni 1 iiciil b-i? only h kin:i 11 debt, find under ordinary [ rirenmstancrp it is believed cnu rosilv earn rnunpli to pay its fixed charges siid rnnniny expens< s. Two Children B.-meJ to Death. Tjvvciiiu r.o, Va. ? Tli" following ml vice was received here: Two little eh'ldren of Mr. nnd Mrs. Clark, who reside near (diode Sprinpa, Va., wen huriied to death. The father nnd moth er were at the barn when they hcarh the Hcreoming, and when they reached the house they discovered the voungcKi child lyinpr on the floor, its elothin;.' burned off and its body cooked into i, crisp. Standing over the corps > war the older child with the cruel Humes playing over the l?o.ly. In n very few seconds it, too, lay (lend. It is thought thnt the okler child met its death iu an effort to nave the younger. How Sugar is Ilellued. The method used l>y the l>est sugar refineries is substantially as follows: The raw sugar is dissolved in large cisterns on the ground floor, enough hot water being added t > produce a specific gravity of l.'i-j. The solution is theu drawn through a connecting pipe, having r eoarso wire strainer into large pumps, by w hich it is pumped into the highest story of tho building, usually the. seventh or eighth. It there passes into vessels heated by steam coils to a temperature of about 210 degrees. Milk of lime is added to the solution in these pans for the purpose of neutralizing any acid which it may contain. From these paus the liquid naeenb i1stTK*ii t<> I lw> it n v ft.nvi* Tcltnc > if MV>~V "V*, "UC1- IV is filtered through a series of bag?, each mode of two thicknesses of elotu, ftu outer one of coarse ami an inner one of riue cotton. The bags arc enclosed in boxes to prevent cooling. After leaving there the syrup is run through filters of bone black, which absorb all the coloring matter lefi, in it. After leaving these, it is pumped into vacuum pans, large vessels heated by steam and exhausted by air pumps. The pressure being thus reduced the 11?I>11* 1 is boilel nt a lower ii'iiipcMlure, until, at I t't decrees, evapora- | tion is completed ami the ayrup r??i?i<Ilj' I cryHtftllizes into sugar. This i? the j process l>y which the best wh?te su pir 1 is Iliaile, while poorer qualities ere. pre]>ftreil l?v n method less complete. ?Jiowtoil Cultivate^ War in Africa. Whenever we were ou the march in Africa we always had vedettes and scouts out to right, left, front, and rear guard ; thus if we saw a party of s"' horsemen rushing toward ua at breakneck speed it was a signal to laager up, which wo had to do so often that it could he douo in twenty minutes? which ?s saying a great deal?tho rear wagon being a long distance astern, each wagon being almost locked in with tho one ahead of it, with the desselboom (or shaft) outside, bo that nil wagons could iuspau together. Tlio ' wagons, us described in tho^ Lo^ i ^'S^?or to the numWe made two laagers ?the Victoria one, tlio Salisbury another?and between the two laagers the cattle (300 head truck oxen) and loot were driven. Then bush was cut and put outside,' thus everything was as compact as possible, and wo mounted on top of the wagons and defended the laager.1 This continued day after day, tho monotony being only brokoa..bv.buxjy nnd shooting ganit, till wo came to a river called Shangaui. where we laagered up for the night. Of course, every night we liiul n main guard and a picket out all-night,. tlio maiu guard being 100, the picket 300 yards from the camp, and a lot of Makalak.'s (a tribe which stood in deadly fear o* tho Matabele) to tho north of the camp, t On the morning of October 25th, at 3.30 o'clock, wo were awakened by hearing shots tired, immediately we stood to arms, and looking through tlio darkness saw thousands rushing toward us. When the Maxim guna started tiring there was a sudden check. They could not believe it, mmlo another rush, and were cliGckeu. again, and so on until morning, till daylight broke, ami some of the most ghastly objects it has ever been mv lot to see?nud I was iu Egypt?were bodies literally torn in pieces and laying as near as ten or twelve yards from camp. lulling Porpoises l?y Electricity. Electricity lin* recently been utilized for purposes of fishing. A net of snrdiiial. as it is called, which was nearly 1300 feet long, and is used for catching sardines, was taken, and an electric cable with dynamite cartridges at intervals of lifty feet, was placed upon the edge of it. The cable was connected with an electric battery upon the torpedo boat in such a way that all the cartridges might be tired simultaneously. Tho net was letdown at live in tho morning in very deep water, and before this was done tho neighboring iishernicn had been asked not to go out, in or ler that there might be nothing to disturb the porpoises. About an boar after the nek iiad been letdown, the pospoiaes ennio ii]> in Jnr^e iiumlioiv, r.wl when a good ninny tish had heon got int i 1 Iks 11 e?, tlu ro were ehout richly just around it. TUo enrtridges were then tired, and the explosion was so otl'ee.ive that. oiih only ot the eighty ]>ur,? lisen esenped. wniie l lie iHiniHin i u vinim v irn in# i-hock, iin ? Hi.' wnlr'* wii'j very liltlo ?I i1:11 Weil. I itvoiii ion. FIFTY-THIRD OONGBESX ( The Senate. Cni Hay. The Bering Sen l>ill was rejee(.-i!. .Mr. Voorhees opened the tariff debate in a set speech of lliree hours. , ll'.lrii Day. Mr. Allison replied to Mr. Yooritees's tariff speech. Mr. Harris ha* I liken control of llie hill an I has given notice fli.it he. wijl.jiross the hilt daily.??Tim Senate passed the Bering;tea hill.? A numher of eonimittee amendments to tho tariff hill were submitted. 70 ?-ii May. Tiie lliiril day's dehale on the tariff hill was earned on. Mr. Allison, of Iowa, speaking against the hill for two and ? wuarier hour-, and Mr. Mills, of Texas, making a brief dehnco of it as a eompromtso tne sure. i Tlsrl'vv. Mr. (deorge introduced a hill to reduce oftbual ineonirs twenty per cent.-?. Mr. Mills opposed an appropriation to terminate the hussinu thistle. ?Tariff dehate was prevented by an executive session devoted to tin unimportant 1'lorida appointment. 721? I?av.?'Tae k>uate adopted a rosolu-* lion calling for information In regard to Samoa. The proposition to eoin Mexican silver dollars was debated. -Mr. PefTer spoke for tw>> hours on the tariff. The House. ( s'.Vrii Pay. I he House made recognition of Speaker Crisp's declination of the fleorgi;* 1 ocnaiorsnip ny a rouuu 01 np| muse as nu ascended the stops to his desk. By unanimous consent the O'Neill-Toy contested elec lion ease was postponed. Mr. Catchings introduced the Uiver and Harbor Approprlalion liili. The House thou proceeded to ^ boar ?,ulo;'irs upon the life, character and services of the lute liopretontativo Charles O'Neill, of Pennsylvania. J'Orn l>*>. Air. Boatiier iniro'liieed resolutions asking A?torney-(ieneral Olney what has Iteen iloii'11o protect Undo Sam in tho I'liion I'ji.mII rii-ei version nm"eodin??S.?? Another day was wasted in the attempt to secure a quorum 011 the election contests. * f'lsr 1>av. ? .V <inorutn having been secured the contest' election ease of O'Neill-Joy from Missouri was decided in favor of Mr.' O'Neill. Democrat, by a vote of 1.15 to 23. no lb-publican* voting. Upon :v attempt to unseat Mr. Ilillt ori), of California, and seat* Mr. Lnglisli I he Democratic quorum failed. The House adopted a resolution, presented by Mr. t.rosvenor, of Ohio, looking to a special in v ,-tigutlon of Governor Tillman'a action in interfering with the railways and telegraph in South Carolina. !>2n Day. ?The attempt to pass tho Bland bill over the President's veto failed. Th?^^^ contest from the Third California Distriaj was decided in favor of \V. I). KnaMRb. Democrat. y3n l>*\ ?f'he Hour.; approvod^ine jour- ? ual without fllibusterin ' or objection. J. 1. Islar. the newly--lectejA^ruember from South Carolina, to succeed Itepreeentativo Brawlev, was sworn iyftnd routine baslness was taken up. The Bering Sea bill was passe J, as were also ri.? Urgent Deficiency, bill and Mr. Boatuer's resolutions calling upon Attornc v-G.*ncrai Olney for information regard!afif the action iukea by thft Departm?nt of Justice to protect the interests of the Uulted States in the Union Pacific re* < eivership. f)f i h !>sv. The l.iil w as passed authorizing l lie Secret .try of the Interior to lease hotel sites in Yellowstone I'.irk. Mr. ]>unphy i hegnn a light to deprive tlio Korean of Engraving of the postage stamp contract. Mr. Livingston Introduced a hill for nn International Exposition to l?c held at Atlanta, (in. next year. The Postofilco Appropriation hill occupied tin attention of the Ilonso until roccps for an cvoning session to consider pensions,