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TIE WEEKLY?L*> aaiol ^ : , ' v ' . ., - Tun u t . ' ---''. Llevoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Sconcing, Polite Literature, Politic* and the Current Awi oj the Dny. VOL. XXV.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1894. NUMBER Hi. A Toronto 'Cauada^ minister bavi one cause of the present depression is the rush from lie farm to the citjr. Houston, so the Post announces, is now the largest city in Texas, its new directory giving it a population of 61,530. " T.or?l Koseberv, the new British Premier, once introduced a biil to substitute an elective Senate for the House of Lords. He is said to l?o heartily in favor of removing the veto i>o\vcr of the Lord*. m . n mm mm Sheriff Rowan Tucker,of Fort Worth, Texas, thinks that the substitution of t - r ... driuk of the State has hail a notable effect in diminishing the number of homicides. Iter. Dr. Rainsford, of New York, recently told his congregation to ?juit giving away their niouey to indiscriminate charity, but to give it to him instead, as he knew how to do the most good with it. John Dump, the Labor nvm'brr of the House of Commons, has delighted London with a pun purely Euglish. Correcting auotlrr member he referred to the House of Lords, "Not as the gilded ham her, sir, but as the guilty chamber.'* The use of carrier-pigeons has increased to such a degiec that the French Government has decided, to impose severe penalties upon all persons fouu<l keeping them without n license, and to prohibit the importation of foreign born pigeons, even when merely destined for pie purposes, the object being to prevent any possible carrying of news with regard to French military matters, should there be necessity. Tt appears that the Pall Mall Ga zette, W. W. Astor's paper, got a big scoop on Mr. Gladstone's resignation, having annouuoed it exclusively several weeks ago. Mr. Gladstone whkeeping his intention secret, but some one in his confidence betrayed him, and went to the papers offering to sell the information. Ho went to several before the Pall Mall Gazette, but uoue of them were credulous enough, or mean enough, to pay him for his treachery but Astor. The United States Government is seekiug bv piecept and example to induce towns with names ending in the forms burgh, borough, horn, and burg, to adopt this last form. Burg is the usual pronunciation in the United States of the form burgh, and most American-', refuse to sound the final "h,"' even of Eliubnrgh. These several hi Mixes, and, as well, bury, brough, and birrow, are r dated to the Anglo-Saxon verb bcorgau and the German bergen, to hide or to slitter. The several suffixes are also related to several Anglo-Saxon forms meaning an earthwork, an 1 from this came the application of such .miMixes to indicate a fortified town. Everybody is iutoresicd in a love affair, admits the New York Sun, but that of Miss Martin Morris and Mr. Jack Simousou, of O'ocrliu, Kan., is a new step in the evolution of law. Morris vs. Simonson rises to the dignity of a precedent that will doubtless be bound in calf ami go down generations as "108 Kansas,'* or under some kindred classification. Miss Morris and Mr. Simonson were engaged,wheu Mr. Simonson moved t<> Obeilin. There he met Miss Florence Gilett, ft school tsacher, and sought to marry her. Meanwhile his letters to Miss Morris grew colder mid finally ceased. Mr. Simonson then sought to have conveyed to Mias AiorriH turougn ins sister that lie no longer loved her. and was going to marrv Miss Gilett. Mis? Morris immediately packed her trunk and, going to Oberlin, proceeded to get out an injunction restraining Mr. Simynson from marrying Miss Gilett. This bold step on Miss Morris's part has half paralyzed the bar of the State. Nobody ever heard of such a thing before. Miss Morris's lawyers vainly tried to get her to bring a breach of promise suit. That they could handle, there being numberless precedents. Mis Monis would not be persuaded. What she wanted was not damages, but her young man. Not having read Belzae, she savs that if Mr. Simonaon can be restrained from marrying Miss Gilett for a reasonable time, she can win linn back ill'" nmviT> <>i mi MII n I'-^nin tho oaso hs a legal muI, ami neoni to incline to tic- opinion that tin* action is gronmle I in th oonrn >n law, sinl that Mis* Moms n-ll uct another trv. DA GAM A ESCAPES. He Leaves the Portugese Vessel and Takes Refuge in the Argentine Republic. Bcexos Ay rf.s via Galveston.?The insurgent a?linirn 1 T>h Gama, made liia escape from the Portuguese war ship nt 12:15 p. m., and arrived nt the Buenos Ayres quHi'Antine station in the evening. The Portuguese sailors made no resistance to Iuh leaving the war ship. The Mindella ami her companion ship, the Alfonsode Alhmpieri, sailed for Montevideo at 10 o'clock in the morning. Admiral Da (lama, with a number of his officers, wns confined on board the Mindello awaiting the arrival o' the steamei Angola, which sailed from Lisbon April i to convey him ami his followers t.? Portugal, the remainder of his staff being similarly held on board the Alfonso de Albuqueri. Sunday afternoon a tug toning a _ lirvhfor r>rr>wi?iir?n^ fftr jlie _ Portugese warships, steamed alongside the Mindello and the lighter was made fast to the war ship. Da Gama and 32 of his officers went on board the tug, cut the lines and steamed away. No resistance wns offered by the crew of the tug, which facts suggests an arranged plan for the escape of the insurgent ndmirnl and his men. This theory is very much strengthened by the attitude of the owners of the tKg. They deny any complicity whatever in the escape of the men, and positively refuse to furnish any details, but they admit {list they expect compensation from Da Gama or some one in his behalf. The destination of the fugitive ad imrnl is not known, lnit there isnn unconfirmed rumor that he has been seen in this city. This is not unlikely ns Pa Ganin has friends here, ninny o?' thcni of wealth and influence, and he would have no difficulty in finding an asylum. The people of the Argentine Republic generally are rejoicing over the cs cape of Da (iama and the reports ?>f Mello> success at Rio Grande Po-Sul. These reports are not altogether trustworthy, hut if General Gomcrcindo's laud forces arerenlh co-operating with Admiral Mello in air attack upon Rio Grande Po-Sul, it is clear that, the province of Parana lias been abandoned to Pexioto. RES TR/C TES IMMIGRA TION. Pressure on Congress for More Stringent Legislation on the Subject. Washington, P. C.?The recent lawlessness in the Pensylvania cool regions, where Hungarians Abound, the most of them being recent immigrants, has given new spirit to the purpose to insist that Congress shall prescribe more stringent regulations. This subject slumbers unaccountably, although the pressure is great on Congress to net speedily and vigorously. The de' ninnd is from no particular section, but from nearly quirters alike. A complete change of opinion as to immigration Iibh taken place throughout the country as the result of the experience of the past few years. From the workships, farms, and mines, de mauds for more restrictive laws as to immigration are flowing in, without an objection being heard from any quarter. Indeed, it is an interesting fact that the sentiment in favor of greater restriction is strong among recent immigrants. They nee that the welfare of no class ia more at stake than their own. Every fresh arrival of immigrants hardens the lot of those who have come before. In political contests near at hand, the immigration question is going to figure as never before. Organizations for more restrictive laws and for the better enforcement of present laws are growing up everywhere. If some of them act unwisely, it dors not change for fact. The non-action of Congress only tends to increase activity throughout the country. Hoke Smith Learning to Dance. Washington, I). (J. ? Hoke Smith is learning to waltz. The head of the Interior Department has determined to shine in society and finds that he cannot do so without knowing how to dance. At several fashionable funetiow.; this winter he has felt out of place because of his ignorance of the urf 4Art\cipluirtt?n oti/1 rloinmvino/1 that another winter will see him an expert ballroom guide. Secretary Smith does not wish to go to a regular dancing academy; that would be too prominent and atract too much notice, especially as down in Georgia he always said that dancing was the silliest of amusements. So he takes dancing lessons down in the Interior Department building among the patents. Hia instructor is his private secretary, Claude Bennett by name, a slender Biid poetic youth, who used to be the Washington correspondent of Secretary Smith's newspaper. Thcrte dancing lessons take place at night, late at night, when the building is (juiet and only the watchmen aro around. As all the watchmen are Georgia, men, owing (heir appointment to the Cabinet officer from thai State, they mako no report of the scene of frivolity that goes on in the room of the Secretary. A curious part of the affair is that Private Secretary Bennett himself only learned to dance this winter. so that his instruction to his chief is not ?c. expert as it might (>o. Mr. Smith ts said to be proving himself a very apt pupil. Gone to His Old Home. Rmjominoton, Kev. Henij TwestaH, former pantor of the Unita riaii chnrrh of thin city, and who has recently been n paator at .feraey City, N. J., haa been appointed to tin: anperviaioii and charge of the Union of Liberal Chlirehoa of the State of North Carolina. He has moved with hia family to Aahoville, N. which in hia birth ulaee. MADELINE MAY 00 ON THE STAGE B itterworih Says She is a Consummate Actress and a Most Remarkable Woman. Washington, 1). C.? "Miss Pollard is nil actress equal to Clnra Morris or Sarah Bernhardt," said Ben Butterworth. "Sho can simulate any passion or emotion, and it is my opinion that this is but the prelude to her going on the stage. I cannot but think that was one of her reasons for bringing the suit mid iiiat it was brought in the political and social capital for the < theatrical and drnnintic effect it would have upon the public mind. "There was no excuse on earth for bringing this suit. It was worse than foul, pestilence-breeding contagion. Far better it had been if yellow fc?er had been spread broadcast over the laud aud had entered every homo iu ...... - whose pollution is felt at every fireside. "There is no condoning of Mr. ' Brecki lridge. He has done wrong. Sue has done wrong. And especially Iihr she done wrong in bringing this suit. I do not think this ease will destroy Brockiuridge's usefulness. He will stand for re-election. "Miss Pollard is tlio most remarkable witness I ever saw or ever henrd or ever rend of. She lias her ense tliroroughly in hand. Every detail of it. Never saw anything like the tact and art of this w0111*11, If there is a time when she has not a ready nnswer she will make a pirn for sympathy to , gain time, and nil the time her mind is active to coin some nice phrase or apt 011c in which to reply. 1 "She has nothing to gain if she wins her suit, where hIic could have had everything her own way had she so willed. She could have gone anywhere or done nnvthingf rnd a word from her would have been '.aw with Breckinridge. She could have had what nhu wanted. "If Breckinridge loses he will move for a new trial; failing in that he will appeal." * MURDEROUS MOONSHINERS. Two of Them Eight, One is Nearly Killed, the Other Escaper. Muupky, N. 0.?News has just 1 reached here of a terrible fleM U.a* occurred h few days ago between two moonshiners on the head of Hanging Dog, a settlement six miles north of here, in the interminable fastnesses of dkc big mountains. Several weeks ago the revenue officers cut up a still of ono Wash Gaddis, since which time ho has been acting in tho capacity of distiller for Clayton. A crowd was at Wash Gaddis's still, drinking, singing and cutting up generally, when Gaddis aod Clayton got into a dispute about the division of some whiskey. The lie was passed, whereupon Clayton hit Geddis or. too skull just above the right eye, crushing it in, and then cut hini in the back iu twy places, the gashes being t'rom four to six inches long. Gaddis is iu a precarious condition anil not expected to live. Clayton is hiding in tho mountains and has not yet been arrested. Hoa Manf Leates on Tobacco? German t-obacco growers have been trying to settle the question that has never been settled in this country, that in: How pinny leaves should be left on the tobacco plant? In one series of trials plants having six leaves gave a larger leaf surface than those with a greater or less number. The thickness of t lie leaf was increased as the number of leaves decreased from six to one. Our lot of tobacco plants was topped and suekercd, another simply topped, and a third lot neither topped nor wickered. The size of the lenf was greatest when topping and wickering were practiced, about 2"> per cent less when the plants were simply topped, and least wlien neither was done. Trials were mndeto aacertain the effect on the size ftnd quality of the leaven of topping to ten, twelve and fourteen leaven per plant. Not only were the total yields with fourteen leavcw the largest, but these plants also gave the Jargest vield of high grnde tobacco. 'Che leaves were larger and thicker when fourteen leaves remained than when twelve were left. In Connecticut there is considerable diversity of ooin i<i* and practice in regard to tobacco growing. $3,000 Worth of Fino Jertoy Caltta Killed. Mr. Charles M. Pratt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has had S3,000 worth of the tinpst Jerseys on Long Island killed oceans? he believed they had tuberculosis. He did this in spite of veterinarians who assured him the cattle were nil right. He did it because the cattle all responded to the Koch test for tuberculosis. administered by the Vermont veterinarian, Frank A. Rich, and more are likely to be killed. The value of ,he test is generally recognize:! in the Northeastern St.ites. has never been employed, so far as reported, in any Southern State. Congressmen Warner for Trjstee of Cornell. Representative alumni of Cornell University from various parts of the country have united in nominating the non. <ioriu i;c win warncr ot the | claw of !S7'2, member of Congress from New York, as a candidate for Aiutani Trustee, Mr. Warner's services when previously a member of the Board of Trustees were regarded by Lis colleagues as of great value. Dreadful Work of Fire. The Glamorgan Pipe and Iron Works, of Lynchburg, Va., were totally destroyed by fire Monday night. The loss will bo between $7r>,000 and <$11)0,(100. Insurance unknown. This company employed about 800 work- | men and had enough orders ahead to .ruu then) six months. . ; e . * P1VHY JV '^MS The Crofts >re Fftc- < tory hns be uy W. H. Cliafec. Orangeburg, 8. C , is to have a telephone exchange. Taylorsville, C., is organizing a j building and loen association. Cleveland cot &ty, N. C., is well off. I Tt has $4,654,38:in its treasury. The Bank of Georgetown, 8. C., has # declared a ?> per cent dividend to stock- , lloldelH. ^ , V Dr. Werner. <_ 'tiouth Carolina, eon- '< mil at Cologne, petitions through Sen- < ater Butler for $600 additional for clerk hire. ' ' George W. Pack is reported to have J purchased 150 acres of lurid near Ashe !1I" V c IKn r>1,o.'llln Loan, Construction and Improvement ( Co., for $50,000. A recent transfer of real estate in < Norfolk, Va., consisted of a tract of > land on Granby street for $83,000. It is stated that Watt, Ronner A* Clay, 1 dry goods dealers will occupy it. Jerry Simpson has been critically ill for more than a week. He has a ^ kidney trouble alpn to Bright*s disease. His physicians think, how over, that he | will recover. He was better at last an/?i\i?oA ' The New York Mail and Express i says that Huns and Poles are to be im- i ported to the cotton-growing States in the South with a view to have them ( eventually take the place of the negro ( field hands. i ?The mills in Randolph county, N. C., arc nil going on full time and they j say the prospects arc good for business 1 this Hummer, The Randleman Hosiery ( Mills nre running ou full time nnd turning out from 90 to 100 dozen pairs hobo per day, 108 needle goods, fast black and mixed. They are auticipa- 1 ting an enlargement of their plant soon. State Phosphate Inspector A. W. Jones arrived in Columbia, S. C., on i the 4th inst. He reports that the phosphate companies nre all now get- ( ting rapidly back to work, and that in a very short time the phosphate fields will be worked ns heretofore. He says i the South Carolina industry will very i soon assume its former station in the < commercial world. James Boylan, of Raleigh, has a colt which is only 48* hours old, for which he was yesterday offered $1,850. The South CV.''olina Supreme Court : hns met but made no decision regarding the constitutionality of the dispensary law, as anticipated. A memorial window to "Stonewall" Jackson is to be placed in the Presbyterian Church at Lexington, Va., of which he was a member. Seven counties in Georgia were given the names of distinguished South Carolinians. They are: Brooks, in 1858, ..r*?? r>l}-....i 11 nun x I rnu'u u. x*i uu*n, v uiuwuii, 114 1854, after John C. Calhoun; Jasper, in 1812, after Scrgt William Ja?per; Laurens, in 1807, after Col. John Laurens; Lowndes, in 1815, after Win. Lowmles; McDuffie, in 1871, After George McPnflie: Marion, in 1827, after Gen. Francis Marion; Pickens, in 1853, after Gen. Andrew Pickens; Sumter, in 1831, after Gen. Thomas Sumter LEW WALLACE AND SHILOH. The General Correct? Some Alleged Mistakes of History About the Battle. At the reunion of the Blue mid Gray on the battlefield of Shiloh. Gen. Lew Wallaeo corrected some alleged mistaken of history. He said: "I was held responsible for years for the calamity which overtook the Federal troopa the first day of the fight, and before 1 received my orders. It was said that 1 was a laggard and marched only six miles that day; that 1 was going away from and not toward the fight. I came here not to make a speech, but to correct history. In going over the line of my march on April 6, in company with the surveyor of your county, 1 find by actual chain measurement Ihnt, instead of six miles, my ?livihoii lin?l marched eighteen miles and a little over. 1 tirid that, instead of marching away, every step won toward the sound of the puna. Every man who has been in an army known that fourteen miles is an average day's march for infantry. T marched eighteen milea that day, and did it under the most unfavorable circumstances, through Owl Creek bottom, with the mud up to the axles of the gun carriages. I have been going over and mnrkinr* Dip blip of fiorVif on fbo noi'/nul day. I began the tight in the morning, and ended it three-fourths of a ?nila beyond the point occupied by Sherman in the beginning." iJcstrjciive Hail Storm In Texas. The Times-Democrat special froin San Antonio, Texas, says: "A dispatch was received here from flillespieOoun ty stating that that section was visted by one of the severest hail storms ever known there. Many cattle were killed by the stones, which were six inches in circumference. The great chunks of ice went through root's of houses and ruined the prospect for fruit crops." A Bog ol Destiny. Phcenix, Arizona. , a bobtaileci dog which its destb 11 to make a place, for himself in ?tory. Recently hf broke up ? r.{:>? between hose teams. He notsast). ??*f mourner at all funerals hehl in the city. But now one more has beeu added to his accomplishments. On several occasions recently he has stopped runaway horses by seizing the lines in his teeth and holding ou till he nnima stopped.?San Francisco CJuvuiclc. ? '.| **?' " iTi *V ' .'. ?* ** /" 'n-. ' I < ? ? 1 HANTS TO PROVIDE MILLIONS OF MONEY tale Has a Financial Proposition Which Would Put Him on "Easy Street.'' (Washington Post.) Tames M. Gain, of Yorkville, 111., ins sent to the members of Congress 'a text for new monetary system ami mnking for the United States of Uneric*." A not? heading the hill snys that it a hoped that the President and member of both bonnes of Congress will itudy its provisions carefully, and give (his nation of people ft law that will ^mbraoe its features; also the tariff law hnt will do justice to all )?* tt> of the 'onntry. In the hill the author does not over ook his own interests, and tIn* hill, ii lassed, will, as one ineinher expressed t, put Mr. Gale on "Jiasy street" for ife. T'm 'h'i'i'i iniin'ii'i'in'iiui ii' '?'t?m under the control of the government, inu nrnktw gold, silver, mckle aim upper money metals, and provides fui i inAv pnper interchangeable fur coin, rhe capital uf the proposed bank is t<lie, until otherwise ordered, $'.100,000,?()(), $600,000,000 of pnper find $300,)00,000 uf ruin, half gold find hall diver. Theeapitnl of the hunks may lie snv sum from $ Id,000 tu $1,000,>00, until all places needing ? hank service shall have one National hanks ire given the privilege of surrendering their charters and beginning business under the new system. Two eominisfiions are established tu assist in the locatiou of the hanks. The first is to consist uf the Senators and mem hern L>f the Fifty-third nud Fifty-fourth Congress. The second is to consist of the Vice President, the Comptroller of the Currency, the cabinet officers, the Supreme Court judges and Mrs. Cleveland. Their business is to look lifter ihe judicial interests of the country. Mrs. Cleveland is to he president, vice-president and secretary of this commission, and for this extra service >he hoard of hank managers is to set apart 5 cents on the dollar out of the first authorized issue of the new paper money, which is to he divided into r?0() equal parts; the pay of the persons comprising the commission is to he one part, except Mrs. Cleveland who is to receive two shares. Two shares are also to be paid to the children of Mrs. Cleveland, to he loaned by her for their benefit until thev are of aire. Iii this section of the bill the Author provides for liinself in payment for his suggestion, ns follows: "And it is further provided that James M. Gale, the originator and proposer of this system, nliull receive as his reward and shrll have paid to liim quarterly, one mill on the dollar for all money issued by the government from the passage of this net. He shall have reserved for him the first bank charter issued under this act for a bank in his town (Yorkville, 111.) and shall have deeded to him the Small Islands, that is the remnant of an island in the Fox river that separates the cities of Yorkville and Bristol, one of which is the most control and only appropriate location for the bank and postoffiee for the two cities." He is to receive 000 for improving the island amibuilding a bank and postoffiee. If any of the appropriation remains after the completion of the office it is to be donated to Mr. Gale. Mr. (Isle has not appeared in Washington to look after the interests of hin bill. A BRAVE CONFEDERATE DEAD. Brigadier General Kershaw Dies at His Home in Camden. S. G. Colombia.?General J. 1>. Kershaw (lied at Camden after a lingering illneHH. He waa onu of the boat beloved citizens of South Carolina. He waa a veteran of the Mexican and the Meccaeion wars. In the latter he rose to the rank of brigadier general. For .^earf ainee the war he waa judge of tt^S Circuit Court. At the time of hia death he was postmaster at Camden. The Governor and other State ottieerawil] attend hia funeral. Monazite in North Carolina. The mining, or rather washing, ol monazite is bcconingquitc an industry in western North Carolina. So far it is confined to the counties of Burke, McDowell, Rutherford and Cleveland The mineral is found in the form o! sand in the gold-benring gravel bedi throughout Mini entiro section, the out put being limited onlv to the demand one party having offered to contract ti supply 100 tons on short notice. Here tofore a majority of the monazite used in this country has been imported, bul the discovery of the North Carolina deposits will not only prove a greai source of revenue to the above section but must at least supply the Unitec States. The methods employed ii saving it Hife simply by the uscof "Lonp Toms," or by ground sluicing, as ii washing gold. The specific gravity o the sand being greater than silica, i accumulates in the boxes or sluicei and is shoveled out, dried and sacked for shipment. Long Lived Masons While there are only three men no* living who were elected Governors o; North Carolina (Vance, .Jarvis anc Carr) yet of all the grand masters o the Grand Lode of Masons electee since 18t>3 only one has died, that on< being H. F. Grainger, it is rcallj extremely curious. Senafnr Vance's Legs Para'y/eil Wamninoton, l?. C. Gradually tin really serious condition of Nenatoi Vance's health is becoming known, lie is paralyzed in his legs, in nddi tion to the liver enlargement nlrcadj mentioned. . * ' tV4/ HE IS DEAD. s[Karon zee vance gome. He Has Passed Over the Hirer and is at Rest Under the Shade of the Trees. Washington, 1). (3.?Senator Zelmlon II. Vunoe, of North Carolina, died at. his residence, 1(?27 Massachusetts avenue at 10:45 o'clock Saturday night. The Senator had not been in good health for the past year and in the enrly part of the session of Congress was compolietl to atmuuou ma senatorial dutieo and take a trip to Florida in the hope of recuperating. His tri|? proved beneficial and on his return to Washington he wrh able for s while to partially resume liia official duties. IHs iinproveinent, however, did not continue long, and for the Inst few weeks lie lias been eoutined to his _ Knnim Up wwm Mrnrtimllv an invalid. but has lately been abb' to rcoeixe a few intimate friends and superintend the looking after of the interests of his constituents. During the past week he has been reported as doing well as could be expected and the serious change for the worse was wholly unexpected. Shortly before 11 o'clock he had an attack of apoplexy and became unconscious, regaining consciousness only ?? few minutes before his death. His wife, Thomas J. Allison,Harry Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vance, Judge W. A. Hoke and Uev. Dr. Pitzor and Drs. W. W. Johnson and ixuflin were nt his bed side when he died. The great Senator's last end was peaceful as an infant's. The terrible pain seemed to have ceased. When unconsciousness supervened he passed into a sweet sleep which ushered his spirit in a few hours into the eternal sleep lie died in the bosom of his family, all of his nearest and dearest being at the time around him, expecting momentarily the event. Zelmlon If. Vance was born in Buncombe county. North Carolina, May i't ihmo- i.. College, Tennessee, and at the University of North Cnrolinn ; studied law, was admitted to the bar in January, 1855, and was elected attorney for Buncombe county the same year; was a member of the State House of Commons in 1854; was a Representative from North Carolina in the Thirtytifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses; entered the Confederate army as captain in May, 1861; was made colonel in August, 1861; was elected Governor of North Carolina in August, 1852, and re-elected in August, 1861; was elected to the United Stub's Senate in November, 1870, lint was refused admission, and resigned in January, 187*2; was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 1872 but was defeated by a combination of bolting Democrats ami Republicans; was elected Governor of North Carolina for the third time in 1876; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in place of A. S. Merritnon, Democrat; took his seat March 18, 1875); and was re-elected in 1881 and 185)0. His term tif .mrviim uniiltl ltnvn jiviiinul Mnrcli ?, 1X97. THK FUNERAL. Monday at noon the Senate nut, ami Senator Ransom announced the ilealli of his colleague Senator Zcbulon Vanee, after which it adjourned until 4 )?. in., w hen the funeral services were held, the body lying in st'ite in the marble room of the Senate. The Home also adjourned and attended the funeral sorvccs in a body. , (lov. Carr telegraphed to Mrs. Vanee requesting her to have the remains lit* in state in Raleigh. Accordingly the train, with a special car for the family, placed at her service by the Seaboard Air Hiiic, left the Sixth street depot Monday night at 10:451 and reached Raleigh Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. The body laid in state at the capitol until 1 or 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Vast concourses of ] e.iple viewed the CillllillllU f 'i kli tl'ik.l loiaklilil ti itlOi il u I anxious to see the remains of- Senator Vnnee as any one else. Forced to Lire on Barnacles. p Not many people are ever com, polled to subsist solely on a d?et of I barnacles, and when they are it is generally after they have been ship wrecked on some desert island, instead j of in the midst of a wealthy Christian H community. And yet that is what a man lias been doing for several weeks. He has often been seen climbing over j the half-rotten piles in the vicinity of t lie iunu uook. ai low itue ami scraping oft the mollusks, but nobody paid any attention to him until the other lay he sat 011 a stringer ami began to nuke a meal out of hie gift from the sea. "Do you like those things?" asked a bystander, "and don't you know they are poison?" "They haven't poisoned me," answered the man, "and I don't eat them because T like them, but because 1 have nothing else B and don't know when I will have." I His story was only another chapter of the terrible experiences of the unemployed during the winter. He was an unmarried man, and had wandered around the streets of San Franc; noo without food until he nearly dropped r from exhaustion before he thought of f eating the barnacles. That was over three weeks ago, and in the meantime he lias eaten nnthina ' else. He was perfectly willing to talk i about himself as he greedily devoured 7 the tiny, raw bivalves. '"Pretty tough food, ain't they?" asked the man who was watching him. "You bet they nre," he replied, throwing a handful of shells into the bay, "but I would i rather eat. them all the rest of my life r than beg."?San Francisco Call. r "London has about one hundred and ftcvcnty-cight rainy daysin a y?ar._ V . ?r-- . . \ V. * *-' V ? ? ' THE SOUTH CAROL!HA ROAD SOLO. Wheeler H. Peck ham. for a Syndicate. Bid it in for S 1,000.000. OMaRiiKSTON, S. C. ? In pursuance of the dooreo of the United States Conrt made last December, the South Carolina Railroad was sold at public auction at 11 o'clock Friday. A large number ^ of prominent linaiiciers attended the sale. But, little excitement attended < the bidding. The road was sold tc / Wheeler H. Peck ham, of Now York, f who represented a syndicate of first mortgage bondholders, for $1,000,001). This amounts to the first mortgage bondholders taking the road for their bonds and paying $1,000,000 with which to discharge prior liens and out- ^ ^ ** standing . indebted boss. The price*^ paid virtually amounts to something less than $7,000,000. The Ijouisville A* Nashville system, which owna about $000,000., wojjjt^jgt" ncntcd n1 the anlc by B. Probst, but he took no part in tlmbidding. There arc rumors to the effect that there in an understanding besween the tirst mortgage bondholders and the Poiiisvillc A. Nashville people by which the Intter may ultimately control the 1 property. I Mr. Peokhnm deposited a check for j $100,000 with Receiver Chamberlain ] and the renmiiidct of the purchase money will be paid within 20 days. H Hosiery Mill at Valdese. With Joi n Meter in I Charge. H (Morgnnton, N. C., Herald.) B John Meier, a Swiss gentleman, who B lias been for the past two yearn su- H periutenuent oi the tiats Hosiery Mills in Charlotte, Iibh ?^iv??ii up his positiou and is coining to Ynldcse to oltabliub a liosicrv mill of bis own. The colony has turned over to Mr. Meier the largo ^ two-story frame building designed for n barn, and this will he at once remodeled and re-arranged for tho hosiery mill. Mr. Meier has already contraeted for his machinery, and Dr. A Prochct, on behalf of tho colonists,has A closed a contract with him by tho terms ^fl of which in consideration of the eosaic". of certain lands, Mr. Meier agrees to employ only Waldenscs in his mill for I at least live years, The work of re- J modeling the building has begun. Mr. J Meier will come to Ynldcse in about A two weeks to make his home. He will V become n member of the colony, his ^ faith and language being identical A with the Waldenscs, whose valleys fl join those of his native land. fl Cifi*]?niiiy Wunout Care. Apropos of the prevailing inability / of trainnicu on our elevated and other J railroads to call out tV?> names of sta- A tions with distinctness, a gentleman fl who has lived for several years in H Wales snvs that there is at least one fl station in that country which tho rail- B way guards are bound to pronounce fl carefully. It is Caerphilly.?New 1 JTork Tribune. fl Great B/rr.ing in G iff ah. BcFFAiiO. N. Y. ? An electrie light* j. wire caused the loss of $1,200,000 in V Haines. The American Glucose Works, 1 the largest of the kind in the country, m public fish market and Holmes' lumber ? J yard were nil consumed. Six men were burned to death. m i The Kaiser in Vienna. Vienna. ? Emperor Willinn), of tiermany, arrived here and wna met nt the station l?v Kmperior Frniicis Joseph and his brilliant stall*. hE Death of David Dudley Field. New Your. ? 1 ">?ivi I Dudley Field died suddenly at 0:00 Friday morning of pneumonia. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. \ The Senate. / HI u,\Y.? i ii(! ntjiiHU' Mi!*ni3s?Mi uiu Dmu^ ^ Sea award an I Eugland's attitu lo thereon. 74 rif Day.?Mr. Hill made an attack on tho income feature of the Tariff bill. Mr, Walsh was sworn in as Senator from Georgia. | 73ra Day. Air. Lodge spoke on tho Tariff bill. Waleott's resolution to coin Mexican. silver dollars was passed. Mr. Coekrell reported the Urgency Deficiency Appropria tion hill. Tho principal amendments pro-^ 0 vide appropriations for United States court? t R tSOOD is appropriated for Mrs. Sarah 11. Col- R qultt, widow of Senator Colquitt, being one year's salary. 9 76th Day. Air. Halo delivered a long I speech in opposition to the Wils-m-Voorheeij 9 tariff bill. r 77 rn Day. The day was consumed l>y Mr. PefTer, who continued his speech on tho M Wilson hill. , 3 78th Day.?After some routine morning fl business the Senate resumed the considers- I tion of the Further Urgent Deficiency bill. ^ ilir. villi (fkmivi3vu IVI i i 'ii iii |l 1119 IU iiiukp quorum. 'I. lie matter wont over. Whets tne Tariff bill was taken up Mr. I'effor continued his speech on the subject, the fourth installment. fie was followed by Mr. Mitchell. The House. 95tu Day.?Absenteeism on the part of, Democrats and Republican filibustering resulted in the waste of another day. Mr. j Springer moved to discharge the warrant: issued two weeks ago for the nrrest ofab-i sentees. The Republicans, led by Mr. Reed, declined to vote, and, as the Democrats failed to muster a quorum, after a few rollcalls the House adjourned. 96th Day. -It was District of Columbia day and no business of general interest was1 transacted. 97th Day. The House devoted the entire day to the Postoffloa Appropriation bill.. The attempt to inss-; tuo biii uu amendmnnt tr> nri?v?>nr thfi Tinpaihi r%1 Kn. graving aud Printing Iron nunufa during postage stumps under the contract recently, awarded to it by the Po3tofn.se Department was defeated. 98th Da v.?Mr. Sperry introduced a bill t<> establish a Bureau of Interstate Banks.? The House got into a deadlock over a technical Parliamentary question and no business1 was transacted. 99th Day.?A resolution introduced by tho Committee on Rules, at the beginning of tho session, to fine fHwnbera $10 for falling to ' * vote on the call of the yens and nays, au l for alisonce without leave, precipitated u season of filibustering, which continued until i>.;>0p. in., when adjournment was taken. Before adjourning a resolution was adopted revoking leaves of absence and directing the Kergeant-at-Arms to telegraph absent members that their preaenoo is required. I 100th Da v. ? The JIqhso was In session only A an hour, adjourning on account o' tho cau? ens no sunrKli onil no Ituilaaii J