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Denoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, l\dte Literature, Potitdoe and the Current Hete* Qj the Day. # VOL. XXV.^N&W.SERIES, UNION G. Il.y SOUTH OAI^S)^VRIPAY, JULY 27,1894, _ NUMBER 30, .. Russia proposes to tnnnol tho Caufasus for a military railroad. Nirjety-fivo per cent of vacant public lands aro in the Arid regions. ! 1 . J It Is claimed tlmt bettor metal ships Can bo built at Sau Francisco thau in tho East, bocauso bettor wood for thu framowork can bo had thero. p Canadians are preparing to barnes* Tip their Biilo of Niagara Falls now. | ("Thoy know a good thing whou they | Boo it," roranrks tho New Orleans Pio? ayune. Tho Rwamp rogions of this country anil tho allavial districts of tho Misfeissippi have 2,695,009 population, inostly colored; in tho dosort an I bomi-dcsort rogions thoro arc 1,1 nnr? . T>??1? Tvr.^?i r. > - V?wy , 1U tuu AIUOUJ 1 y'9 9 J%000. v Robort Liouis Stoveusou's estate in Bamoa includes 400 acres of forest land, and is situated at an clevatio n rauging from GOO to 15)3 foot. Among tho products of his plantation are bread fruit, pineapples, bannas, coaaa, india rubbor, sugar cane, ginger fcava, taro, grenadillas, orangos. lime-?, citrons, cocoanuts, mangoes, vanilla, Coffee, cinnamon and guava. 1 . Why do not somo farmers who find bo money in their present style of crops try raising sunflower se.vl? asks tho Courier-Journal. Tho North Carolina Station found in experimenting With sunflowers as a farm crop that thoy paid well. Though a now thing in this country it is not altogether now, for Russia has raised this crop' for years. At tho North Carolina 3b * tion, tho avorago yiold was sixty-five bushels. Thoro is really no wast.) to the plants. Oil is oxprossod from the Roods, and hulls or shells use 1 for fuel. Tho stalks and seedcnp.s are fed to shcop. Two very ingenious contrivances for - -ywviter _pounder*^havo"boou recently ylaced on thrt npirlcot. Tho ono is styled a "typewriter prism." It is a rod of highly polisho I glass, fist-one I to tho carriage beneath the impression roller. Two of its silos are flat and inclined to each other av. an ....I,. ,.r r__i ? f 1 - .i ? Biigw ui i -HIV *u Vi! negroes ; hvj x:?i r i j is ii strong cylin Irioal curve. This j contrivance rodents the writingun 1 T- ] noath, nn<l the lifting of the earring* \ to locate an error is thus obviate I. i | The other device is an attachment, by ' wliieh the writor can tell tho m n'or j of words which ho lias pom lo I out of ; liis inaeliino. 1 ' i Orvo f f the documents submitted by , Krnstus NViman's coiimol in tho ('.ana- i _ dim's trial for forgery was a state- 1 in mi! showing the enormous profit* of the mercantile agency business. Ac- | j or tin g to this statement the Dun con- ! corn canto 1 $J4">,7d() in 1SH5, an l tho 1 profits steadily increased until, in 1 they roaehe 1 S"i2o,0')), making the total for eight years of J'l.'l I d,?>!)). "This enormous sum being tho net j prolit of only onooon mru in tha Imiiu<ms, " romirks tho Atlanta < tioii. "wo lire only loft to <5 injooturo how much money tho business men of Am 'rioiv .spnii'l to loivrn tho iinanoial icanlin'of ill- ir brothers, tin I inforontially how enormous must 1m tho original transa itiou > 11 (> >:i wiiioh th?! ii'.jeuoy business is meroly u parasite. " From what wo rea 1 in tiio papers f.y oil Won I 1 bj jusl'tie I in believing tint tiey wore a roa<jh ami vulvar lot. Aoontlomm just from tho Wr it, mi 1 wh i has in my cowboy* in his employ, surprise,! us not a littlu l?y assuring us th it. 111 my of thos s nun lire well- lui' ite 1; th it they boloi.^ to "oo 1 fit'u11i<:s, unil that many of tiiioii nr.' not nl liot >1 to profanity ??p iiit.'iup r.atr.'e. lie also ^ ivo in tlvi important information that a her.I of half-wil l rattle is as timi'l mil no"vous as .s ? many sheep, an 1 that tho li-w l'Ts, wh > fully un l'-rstan 1 th'vr j> uliaritii'.--, are accustomed to soothe | them, particularly in tho nicjht-tiiu.', I?v siir_riii'_'. At the Hinlilou anooar mice of tiny utriucpi object, or the s 'tin 1 <>f any unfamiliar noise, llio 11? r' 1 Ktil'llpo l'-, ll!l I wilO'l till Cltth) running, they are almost us difl8.cult to chuck > ::: -untiiu lorivni, or ii prairie lire. A? su"h times, >i part of n cowboy's iluly is to rido around nil I 14 r< > It II < 1 tlio "iHlllch" of c ittlo, nillirill' a how? - often ii iiyimi as melodiously as he can. (Ii'ii lually th?j animals nr i ipiieteil, And c >m.i to ii hilt, mi I drop down, oil" by on", | ill at length they are nil asleep, an 1 tin weary siuyor can dismount from his panting hor.so. fiiwl tfivo bin own tluoiit u ro*t. ? IN PRISON. PRESIDENT DEBS NOW BEHIND IRON BARS. Adjudged in Contempt of Court Secaust They Had Violated the Injunction Rest ruining Them from Interference With the Transmission of Mails and With Inter-State Commerce. Ctucaoo, Ilt,.?The report that additional proceedings wore likely to be taken by the Federal authorities against President Debs anil his associate oft! cers of the American Railway Union had the effect of bringing a big crowd to the United States Circuit Comt room in the government buildingJudge Seamnns, of Milwaukee, prosided in the absence of Judge dross cup. Thero were lengthy arguments, lust finally the court cut the discussion short by ordering the issuance of at tachments for contempt against Debs Howard, Ktliher and Rogers, nnd instructed the United States marshal to wuivo service on the understanding that the defendants would voluntarily surrender at the bar of the court. Judge Seamans fixed tin; additions' bail at ?M,OdO each and ordered tinfour men held in custody of the United States marshal until the sureties had been approved. Debs announced for himself and the throe other defendants that they would go to jail and refuse to give additional bail on th ground that their bondsmen in tlu other ease? had been so bitterly at taeked by the press that limy ieit a great deal of hesitancy in asking any more citizens to go additional bail for them. A Heoro or more of friends clustered around them, urging them to reeon eider the determination. One of the number said that he waa worth a half million dollars and would go bail for the entire quartette. Others offered to become individual surety for the several defendants. Debs, however, was obdurate, and in bis determination was supported by bis associates On their arrival at Hie jail the pris oners were courteously received bv .Tailor Morris ami .Jail Clerk White. The marshal <lnl the introductory honors and the prisoners shoc k lunula cordially with their new custodian. At the demand of the turnkeys they held up their hands and submitted to a search. They were deprived of nil valuables and then led to the spacious and roomy cells in the debtors' depaitment. President Dubs and Vice President Howard were assigned to No. 5, and lingers and Ilclihor to No. 0. It ww? wratv^d...iad.. "Avmh'h neighboring restaurant, and the ptis-. oneia were then left alone. Two Livs: Hews /(ems. Hat.f.ioii, N. ('.? SheritV MeDiail, of Columbus comity, has arrived from Wheeling, \V. Va., bringing with him George Ark!e, who two years ago, found on a train in North Carolina the pocket book ol ex-Tn-asurer .J?? Im 11 ii rrnlc.oii, <>! Columbus containing SOO ami valnal I. j apers. Arkle refused to return tin in. (lovomnr Cnrr lniidi; a requisition for Arkle. Sheriff Mcl'liail says the Wheeling people rejoice at his arrest, us he is not liked there. Arklc'a wife accompanied liim mid is at a hotel while he is in jail. Democratic conventions held in Craven and .loin s counties endorse Tarv's for I'nited States Senator as iigninst Jhuisom and instruct their nominees for the legislature to Mite for bin*. Theso coin ties and others demand a primary < Section for senators to lie held at the November election This is a new departure in North Caro iinit nnd the movcinent is significant. Hurts' a South Carolina Seaport. Prior to the opening of the Sue?. Canal 1,0110 ships stopped lit damestown, the port of St. Helena, every year, and the f?,0(MI inhabitants of the island were kept employed. Now il. i n... 1 i . : i ?.* -? i ii'ii mi* ciiiiiii juih hiiic-iriiciuiii 111e island the young men are leaving to tind wo Hi elsewhere, clVorts are being made in London to start fisheries which will aiTord occupation for the islanders. This effect of ilic building of tliv canal do s not appear remarkable, Init it will surprise many people to hear 'hat the Sue/. Canal had very much to do with deereasi tig t he t rude of (ieorgetown, S. (!, An eminent citizen of that port explains that much of the timber used by tin: ship-builders of Maine and New lliunswiek was imported from < Jeorgetown, hut that the construction of tlm Suez Canal made the use of iron steamers practicable for commerce with China and India and thus dealt a heavy blow to American ship-builders. Storm and Lightning Fire. Oot,t>rhoro, N. <5. ? During the heavy thunder shower Sunday, lightning h! r liek the 1 ill me use WiilehmiKO of the <iohlnboro Storage hiiiI Wart house ('oinjiHiiy, igniting it ninl shout It ID bales of cotton. KHicient work <>f flu: tiro department |?rt-v? nt? ?I nit extensive conflagration, Imt not before u portion of the building and contents witrr badly injured. T. I> (Sully and I1',. (5. 1 leach, proprietors of the North State Cotton Mills here, who owned 210 bales, Hnll'er a loss of nearly .*? ">,OOP; no insurance. Tim storage company's 100 bales foots up a loss of S'.'.OOO; MJled. I lie damage to the warehouse amounts to ?1,000, covered by insurance. ?. ?- ? flitleiyh's D'iHy Bowyht In, llAf.r.i'iii, N*. (The N ews a ml Observer was sold at auction by the receivers. .1. N. Iloldinu was tlm buyer and the price paid was -V,t.s|M. I he paper will I eoui l u in d.a nd 11 b said in a ny improvements will be made. Numbers i?f persons at once Oth re I to take stock if given the oppoi lenity. THE PLATTORM COLLAPSED. Carolinians Crowded on It to Keep Out of the Rain. Hampton, S. C.?Six hundred people heard the campaign speakers here. Before the speaking waa half over Tain commenced to pour in torronts and neither Butler nor Tillman had u chance to make a connected speech at olio timo. Men crowded on tho stand to escape the raiu until the flooring collapsed, but nobody was injured. Butler defended the tariff* ttnd insisted that the national democratic administration should not bo condemned when two yearn still remained for the redemption of the plntforra pledges Tillman, discussing the dispensary, said that within two or three weeks constables would be hunting blind tigers again. This is taken ns a oloer declaration that the dispensaries will bo reopened as soon as Justiceelect Gary takes bis seat on the supreme bench July 20th instant. The governor asserted that the dispensary net of 1893 was still intact and that when the net of 1899 \vnn declared mi. constitutional ho unci Attorney Genera! Buchanan had "taken to the woods with it to prevent a test ease from being brought beforo thj court." Tlio majority of the crowd cheered for Tillman. SOU THERN TNVE)J T/ONS Wasuinuton, 1). 0.?Patents have been granted to the following meritorious Southern inventions: Clamp, Alta M. Cole, Asheville.N. C. Proeeso of and apparatus for analyzing gases, E. A. Uehling and A. Steinburt, Birmingham, Ala. Air blast attachment for thrashing machines, W. L. Johnson and W. L. Hay, Franklin, Tenn. Car fender, L. C. Lamar,Oxford, Miss. Bouquet holder, Abbio L. Mnreton, Bedford. La. Watchman's time detector, Johaiit) Matitsidi, Danville, Vu. A New Textile fabric. According to the Monitctir Industriel, an invention depending on the direct extraction of a tibrous material from the bark of the mulberry tree lms recently been patented. Without laying claim exclusively to any special process. the inventor* Mmm R. Khourl, gives some details of the processes which appear to him to supply the best practical solution. "A quantity of tho bark is placed in a basin of soft water. At about twenty-one days it becomes mature fpft order to help tho removal of gummy substances it is soaked for twenty-four hours in a basin containing chloride ol lime (o per cent on the quantity ol bark.) It is then boiled in water for from five to six hours, then immersed in a basin of soft rater for twenty hours and dried in the sun. This treatment gives a product hitherto entirely unknown, and which is suitable for the manufacture of curtains, silk, paper, cardboard, etc." It does not seem to be worth while to take so much trouble to get a little ''fibre" when there are so many sheep and Angora goats ami such things in the world, and when cotton is selling at 7 cents a pound. However, if the mulberry product if valuable, it in another bonanza for the South Sono* vnrictii'H of tlietreo grow like weeds iu tins part of the world. Mississippi's Paper Curreacy. Jackson, Miss.?The State auditor received another batch of ?2H,000 of special warrants, and the olTiee force has been buav all day issuing than. So far j?l"Jo,<)!)<) have lieen issued, and it is tic intention of olliciuls to keep on till the ;?2()0,0lk> provided by law is in eir. illation. They do not seem at all dirtnrbed by Mr. linden's demand. They feel certain when the Treasurer of the United States fully understands the question that he will not say any law was violated by their issue. What menus the (rovernor and auditor will take to lay the question before the United States Treasurer has not yet been determined. They have poai<: i.. .1i..a i '? *< II \ ri \ ii<-citiru, MUM c\ci , III ignore .111. Ma/en's ic'innnd. The Attorney (len? r 111 says lie (lin-s not think the bunds me in violation of law. A Young Woman's Suicide. Mauion, N. ('.?Mrs. Denton, wife of Dlbeit Denton, of Pysartsville, in this county, committed suicide by han/fin/^ herself in lu r husband's barn Monday night. Mrs. Denton was a dan/filter of the late William 'I'ate, and wiik a young woman of exemplary character and excellent family connections. No cause, so far, 1ms been assigned for the unfortunate oecurranee. Mrs. Denton lenvea a husband, two small small children and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn her untimely death. Tivn kill a,I T\ voxvit.i.K, Tf.nn. ? On July 4th there wiis ti hliilt' <if slate ill Cumberland (Jap tunnel. A of men were I>111 to work nml since that tune two other slides have occurred, in one of which tieneral Hupe* intendeiit Wynne nearly lost his life, and the other men escaped just in the nick of timo. Mojjilay uo'hf : !at< leli and t wo nico w* re killed and another had his leg broken. A Prominent f.fan DcnJ. Mors i .1 ack' os, Va. Holieit T. Harris, a veteran journalist and prominent association orpaui/er of the I'opnlist paity in Virginia, till troin his carriage and died in a tew minutes from heart failure, caused by the shock. He MitVcrcd no bodil\ injury other than shock. ilis latest newspa pel connection was with the \'ir;*;ui* bun, the I'opnlist orgau. THE SOUTH IN BRIEF. Hon. Ceo. D. Tillman declinea to rim for Governor of South Carolina. L. H. Priolenu, eon of the lute C. K. Priolenu, of Charleston, S. C., wot married at St. Puul's church, Knights bridge, London, to Miss Frunces Morris, duughtcr of Gcuerul Sir 13. 11. Morris, of tho British army. F. E. Hege & Co., who are establishing dog kennels, poultry yard* rtiul ??pei. stock farm at Newborn, N. ('., have also bnilt a dam und will ruiao bull frogs. Tlioy expect to market about n thousand a year. Joseph Bryan, colored, who lived near Newborn, N. C., tied Iuh inult to the railroad track, when be heard n special engine coming. He rnu to rescue his mule and in trying to do so lie was himself struck by tlio engine and killed. The board of directors of the Western State Hospital (lunatic asylum), at Staunton, Vu., have elected nuothcr female physician in place of the one w ho lately resigned. The flew doctor is Miss Hopkins,of Warm Springs, Va. A PRACTICAL JOKER Places a Sign on a Columbia Dispensary, Announcing that it Would Open Aug. 1. Coi.umiua, S. C.?Friday morning the first thing which was noticed when the people of the city came down the street was the following sign hanging in the door of Mr. Roach's dispensary: ; Will Open August 1st w ith a Full ! ; Line of Choice Liquors. ! x xx xx^xxxx : It was at first thought that this sign was official and the people of the city had no further doubt about the matter. Dispenser Roach, who sleeps in the dispensary, however, drove up about 1 o'clock and declared that the sign had been placed there by some joker luring his absence and that lio knew nothing about it. LARGE POPULIST CONVENTION. Arkansas Stato Convention Meets at Littlt Rock. TjIttlr Rook, Akk.?The largest crowd of populists over assembled at the state capital was in attendance at West End park Thursday morning when the people's party state convention was called to order.. Fully 10,000 men, women and childie}n, nearly all wearing "keep ott'tho f^rass" badges cut. MfhineJ^i"** ''"-vus riiuTc permanent chairman, j. IV. Dollioon secretary and \V. jr. Manning assistant chairman. After addresses by populist leaders and the appointment of a committee t>ii resolutions and platform, the convention adjourned until Friday. W. J. Parks, of LuFavette, will probably be the gubernatorial nominee. HIS BROTHER TOLD HIM TO SHOOT. A Little Day's Fatal Faith in His 8 H.ct-prooi Coat. Wichita, K\n\?Clarliel 1 Wilkesson, aged I I, was Killed I?v his brother Willie, aged 11, and the mother of the boys has become violently insane from the shock. The dead boy had been engaged for Rome time in making what he thought would prove a bullet-proof coat, fashioned, he imagined, alter one of the re out inventions. Having completed it, he put it on, pfave his younger brother a pistol, and told him to shoot at him. The boy'a aim was pood and hisbrotlmr fell dead, the bullet having pierced his heart. The So /th Carolina Fly Trap. (St. Louis (J lobe-Democrat.) "1 remember seeing a very singular I hint in South Carolina last summer," said (VI. II. I'. Harris, of lhiltimore, who was at the Southern last night, "and I was told that it only grows in that State. It is called the tlv trap,on account of the extraordinary manner in whirh it cnlehi-s llii-s In ulmtin it t>r?:?11v resembles a tulip. During the ?la*v Hi" leaves. which form llic Imp, lire wiilc open, but as soon as a fly touches any ??f llieloiij? hairs which fjrow within the leaves the trap suddenly closes on the intruder and holds it. last until its st nitrifies arc over, w hen it slowly opens ajiiiin until closed by another victim. The plant 1 saw had ten or twelve dead flics in its tiup that had been caueht in this manner." So /th Carolina Leeds. With the exception of Colorado, South Carolina and Florida so far this year have 1 milt more railroad track than any id' the other States. Colorado has built fifty-four mile-since.lanuary, South Carolina lilty miles and Florida forty-cijjht miles. The largest extension of it system so fur inside this year was in South Carolina, nnule hy the Athintie Const Cine. The next wits in Florida, made hy the Incksonville, St. Augustine ninl Halifax IJiver. Tltert has heen very little btiihliiio Koin^ on for six months, the 11it11wiiy A^e putting the total for the whole country sit 52r> miles. ? ? Mules in Trousers. (From the Nebraska State Journal.) 'irorge Finney, an express wagon tltiver, has clothed his mules' forelegs in trousers. to speakino ,,j- jj, ||U said that (lies bothered the forelegs of n foilr-footed animal more than they did the hind limits, and lie, therefore, having some reapeet for the comfort of his faithful savants, hid made a pair of trousers to protect them from the pests. The trousers were supported hy suspenders passed up over the backs of the animals. PITHY NEWS ITEMS. Tlio gold mining interests around Benuettsville nre looking up. Tlic Hnwnian Republic was proclaimed at Honolulu ou July 4tli, with San ford B. Dole as president. The People's Party of Massachusetts nominated u full ticket, headed by Geo. H. Gary for Governor. Thins have been completed for tlio new high school building at Columbia, s. c. A sale of 953 shores of stork in tho Lynchburg (Vu.) National Bank was recently effecteil at $135 per sluire. At Staunton, Vu., the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. has been chartered with John ?T. Laren, of Greenville, Va., as president. The. capital stock is to be not less than 810,000. "Ex-Governor Sherman, Iowa," it is reported, "is now a 820 a month clerk in a country store in the northern part of the State." It is added that he is a faithful and good clerk. The construction of the new mill -t l'el/.er, S. C., is moving right along, "apt. 1C. A. Smythe, president of the Vizer Co., is now North arranging for the machinery. The sale by the master in equity at Mount Pleasant, Berkeley county, S. will release from long litigation tnd put upon the market.th" phosphate tract of 510 acres at Ten-Mile Hill, ii large portion of wliiek is said to eontain a valuable deposit of high-grade rock. The milling operations on this met were stopped by an injunction cvcral years ago. The Pinevillo, N. C., Cotton Mill is now to be put into operation. Hydraulic engineers have made surveys for water supply at the new Industrial School for Girls at llock Hill, S. C.; also at Agricultural ?fc Mechanical College, Haleigh, N. 0. Victor Taylor shot and killed Charley Stuart near Cntawlm Station, N. C., Saturday night-. It appears to be a case of self-defence; both were full of One hundred and ninety six fresh cases of cholera were reported at St. Petersburg Tuesday and 70 more deaths have been recorded. A special from Burlington, Boone county, O., says a mob of 20 masked men took Louis Lnferdette from jail shortly after midnight Monday night and hung him. Luferdett was a tramp and had murdered a farmer named William Wheeler. The umbrella trust, with headquarters in New York and capitalized at $8,000,000 has gone into the hands of receivers. A boiler at the Iteekleson ft Parmalee Lumber Association Mills, Jacksonville, N. (A, exploded Saturday night, killing three colored men instantly and fatally injuring u fourth. SENATE EXCITEMENT. Cane/ifiann/ C/mac/?r>o nmi Connfu* Cimf/i /?n. dares that the House M ist be Told that the Senate Bill or Hone at All Can Pass. Washington, 1). ('. ? Attracted hy the expectation ??t" stormy scenes over the disagreeing con fcrcnce report on the tnrill' hill, spectators begun to Hoeh into the Senate galleries its early as 11 o'clock ami when the chaplain's opening prayer was begun, at noon, the galleries were well tilled, though not crowded. laidies in light summer costumes, with fans in perpetual motion, gave light and color to the scene. Senat'/rs were in attendance in much larger numbers than at any time since the jiassagc of the tnrill hill. Senators Smith, llill and Vest all delivered lengthy and sensational speeches. There was great excitement during the delivery of Mr. Hill's speech, and there was still more when Mr. Vest in a fervent ami impassioned hurst ol oratory, defended the course of Democratic Senators against the intimidation in the President's letter. Foreclosure Sale. This has heen a not ihlo year for foreclosure sides of railroads. Most of the Southern roads so disposed of are part of the Richmond Terminal, and the sales art* made in pursuance of the plaii of reorganization. The Richmond ?v Danville, Hast Tennessee, Charlotte, ('<>1 nin 1 >iti ?V Aii^rustn am) Columbia .V (lieenville have already boon 1 ?<?iii*l11 l?y tin* Southern llailway Co., ami llic following sales are lived: Louisville Soiilliern, ! ?() miles, on August ]('?; (Jeorgia I'tc ilie, fxili miles, on August IS; Western North Carolina, 1105) miles, on August '21 ; Northwestern North Carolina, 100 miles, on August 'J I ; Oxford A- Clarksxillc, (5(1 miles, on August J'J. Greensboro Iron Works Sold. (lUKKNsnoUo, N. C. 'I he North Carolina Steel ami Iron Company's property here was purchased by a syndicate, represented bv (Sovernor black, o| Pennsylvania, and A. A. Arthur, <>l Tennessee. It will hereafter 1 ?* known us tin- (Srrriishoro Iron nml Steel Company. tin'! will d?? mi extensive business. Letters of ilieol'|ior:itioii were granted hy tin* secret m y of State. To Sail Aro unrf the World (Slirll.y, N. (V, Aurora.} Miss Delia Dixon, (laughter of Rev. Thomas Dixon, arrivril home last week from New Yol k, w here lie has attended for two years ineilieal lot'lurea. Sim will sail next month for lapan, China, Turkey, (Irerre, Italy, France ami Kngland. She "ins as a companion to Airs. V aiulerpoel, a wealthy New York I lady, who is a inemherof Kcv. Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s, church. BELVA AT THE BAR. How She was Admitted to Practice in Virginia. Richmond, Va.?Of course you've heard of the admittance of Mrs. Belvu Lock wood to the Bar of the Supreme Court of this State, but in the hope that you have forgotten it I will treat it as news and tell you about it. It seems that in March of this year Mrs. Lock wood went to Augusta County nud was qualified to practice at that Bur, being the first woman ever admitted to that privilege since the settlement of Virginia. The sensation the Judge's action created shook the foundations of the legal profession. It was about the time of the revival of the sull'rage question in New York, and in some quarters was taken as suggestive of the geneial feeling of the Virginia Bar, but the fact is there were good people who, when the news came, acted as their ance stors did w hen they heard Jefferson was elected President; they hid their Bibles in foot stools and other unlikely places and looked for the coming of the Antichrist. Unluckily for Mrs. Lock wood 4 lwv itiviuilirdifin ?*f II f 11 111 111 \ . WMV..I, >m |<u.n..? ......... Court is very limitoil, and admission to the Augusta County liar did not mean admission to any other liar in Virginia, so the lady d? termined t<make her next trial in the Cireuit Court of the city of llichmond. Tin Judge of thia Circuit Court is one o< the most eonrteoUK as well as learner jurists in this part of the country, bid his principles on the woman question are probably those of a iuedifev.il knight. Mrs. Ijockwood appeared with he; counsel and withoul her bonnet, claiming no privilege of sex, you see, bin simply and unostentatiously basin; her plea on the Constitution of tin United States and the statutes of Vir ginia. They sny it wasa very nmusiu scene. His honor was overtlowiii; with respect for the person ami se of the pleader, but though as a kniglof chivalry he sighed, as a Judge o the Circuit Court li^ denied, and th more respectful his attitude to the lad; the more hopeless the case for tin would-be practitioner. When In . counsel undertook to explain the Con stitution of his country, however, h the Judge, the game was up. Jli Honor knew the Constitution befor< he knew his letters; his grandfather helped frame it, and so, with a suavilv of manner which was doubtless billet to hear, he delivered his opinion tin. it never intended woman to praetielaw at this or any other JJar of out great country. I cannot think of anything more exasperating tlniu to Have to stand a Mrs. Lock wood stood and hear a pane I gyrie on the beauty and loveliness, am. sweetness ol lair women, wlien sn. was there for the purpose of ignoring -vx altogether ami ashing to be eon shirred ill the dictionary sense of man in distinetion to the lower animals When the .Judge of this oireuit had bowed Mrs. Jmckwood out of his juris dietion her indefatigable counsel went over to Wytheville, where the Court of Appeals was holding its summei session. This time he took with him another distinguished lawyer who argued the ease, and to the surprise ot the country won it. Tom Reed Scared of his Wife. (From the Boston Transcript.) According to Kate Field, Ex-Speaker Tom Reed is afraid only of his wife and daughter when he is about to speak a piece, and begs them to slay at home, and tlu-y had to smuggle themselves into the crowd without his knowledge when he delivered his last speech on the tariff. "Now, girls," he said, appealingly, "you know 1 can't do anything if you two are up there looking at inc. Kitty, if I make u failure, you ami your mother will he responsible. I really think you might stay away and persuade her to, when you know just how I feel. I can't help it. I don't care a continental for the rest of the world, hut I do not want you two in the gallery." What could they do? Well, they did what they had done before ? apparently yielded to his entreaties, and let him start for the Capitol a happier, hut not w iser man. When lie was safely out of sight they quietly left t he Shorehain and went to the Capitol. They avoided the gallery "Deserved lor Members' Families," and went direct to the public seats, where tliev saw and heard ? unseen by the timid Tsar. THE BILL BY MR. BRANCH To Devote to Charities tor Negroes Unclaimed Pay of Colored Soldiers in the War. Washington, I>. C.?Mr. llrnneh, Democrat, of North Carolina, introduced in the House a bill to appropriate the amount of money in the Treasury being unclaimed bounty and pay due Union colored soldiers of tin States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi,Lou i si ana, Tex as, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky, in proportion to the colored popuhitioii of cucli State, to l>c applied for the est'ililislinient of a home or homes for the care of indigent colored people or orphans, in ancli manner as the I.rgi daltuca oi those States shall provide. The Seizure of Plates in Mississippi. Jackson, Miss.? Auditor Stone received a telegram from the St. Louis Mank Note Company stating thai United States officers had seized the plates from which $'21)0,000 of special per cent. Mississippi warrants were printed; that the total nuinher of warrants had Keen shipped and the plates enneelled. The officials here anxiously await the negotiation of Senator J. /. <leorgi with the Treasury ollioials as per Auditor Stone's letter. The question is s assuming grave proportions. WASHINGTON BRIEFS. Tho Senate has confirmed W. F. llarr, postmaster aft Anderson, 8. C. In a head end collision on the East Tennessee, Virginia A- Georgia road between a freight and passenger train near Macon, Gn., tho firemen of both engines were killed. Congressman I/.lar has secured the appointment in the Government Printing Office of W. H. Drayton, of Orangeburg, S. C., and J. C. McDaniel, of Colleton country, S. C. Clifton 1?. Breckinridge,of Arkansas, lias been nominated to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoteutia- j ry to Russia, vice Andrew D. White a resigned. jr Senator Georcre. of Mississippi. introduced n joint resolution propoi^tft mi Hinendineiit to the constitution ^Poviding that eight hours sluill conRti^n^P i day's work for persons engaged in nuinuid labor, mid that persons lawfully so engaged "shall not be unlawfully hindered or obstructed." The bill notorizing John E. Johnson and others as keeper and crew of tho life saving station at Hog Island, Va., to accept medals of honor and diplomas from the King of Spain for saving tho crew of the Spanish ship San Albano on February 2, 181)2, passed the Senate, also the bill authorizing Rear Admiral G. Walker and Surgeon General J. Kiifus Tryon, U. S. N., to aceept decorations from the government of Venezuela, also authorizing Communder C. II. Davis, U. S. N., to accept decoration from the King of Spain in recognition of his services to the Infanta Eulalie during her visit to the World's Fair. AN ATROCIOUS CRIME. It is Suspected that Murder Was Planned by the Family. Rai<kioit, N. C.?The preliminary trial of George Mills, charged with murder and attempted criminal assault on his niece, Miss Wimberly, near here several weeks ago, was held here. Several witnesses were introduced, among them the father of tho murdered girl, and two physicians, who attended her after the assault. Tho father acknowledged that he made another daughter wash blood off of Mill's clothes when he came back on the nitrht of the tragedy and reported (lit' fill's death. Hut tin; father denied thai lie suitl that those spots would break the neck of both of them if any one else saw them. The trial lasted throe hours and en sled a great deal of interest. The courthouse was crowded: " The general belief is that Mills killed the girl, but that her family )>launed and caused the murder to save her and the other Members from disgrace. it is said that there is much evidence of a very sen: r.t ional character that .ill not In- brought out till the final .rial, on September24th. At the close of the trial to-day Mills was marched back to prison, without bail. Ministers Build a Tabernacle. TjKNoih, N. ('.?North Carolina's local ministers' conference, which was organized twenty-live years ago, anil which is the oldest organization of the kind so far as is known anywhere iu the world, met at Rutherford college near here, the session lasting three days. The quarter centennial was celebrated with much enthusiasm. Tlio conference lias built it tabernacle at Uutherford college, ami lias selected that iustitution l"??r the permanent meeting place. POLiTICAl. NEWS. II. M. Wellborn of Wilkesboro.N. C., is a candidate for tin* nomination of judge on the l'opulist ticket in his district. Alleghany county, N.C., Democratic convention instructs for Bower for Congress, and for J. W. Todd,of Ashe, for judge. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. ' 'I'l.n ,1 1i> Ti w. ? Tin* S<*nato adjournail for look r>' a <|tiorifn. without acting on tin* I.ngfgln* V\ \ pproprint ion l?i 11. I'l'.n I)av.?Tito 1 .ogislativii. Kxccntiva nir < .1 ii iI ami l>istri<*l <?f ('olu'iitria A|>)>r>>:-riali"ii wills wi-n* posso \ "iirii Day. Tin* Vgri.ailtiir il Appropriation t-ill was p-issivl, with an aiimiwlmont or I ring tin* i*xpi*n-lit nr.* <?f iI,IMHI,0(H) to oxtor mill* tlx* liiis-oun tliistle. ?Mr. IVtT?>r intr In I a i ?**l it ion asking < 'on gross to r Mtornoy-tii'iioral t Hnnv f<> cnforoo tln? h n an law against tint Eastern Kuilroivl A-- i it ion. I "i.Vrn I?ay. -Tin* day was oeotipiivl with tin* ' oiisideration oi tim In linn Approprintion l>ill. I rn I> a v. Tli * Indian \pprnprlnlinn hilt 1 I I of II... ? rr ? ' j ? !-*-? -? i . i ii' i' j? mi ?? iii?' liiiin rvuf<T -inM' was present" I an I r derrod. 1 "?7 i ii t?\v. -President I'levohind's letter to Chairman Wilson was tin- subject of n sharp debate, in wliieli .Messrs. Mill, Smith, Vest mi ! others took part. Mr. Mill said that In view of the I 'res j tent's letter, that holy had no alternative hut to recede from its Tariff hill amendments. Mr. Vilas moved tosfrlko out i lie one- jtfhtii ota cent dilToroutial on ri'llucu su^ar. Tlio House. 171 > ir Pat.?The House sp^nt the day considering t he IJevenue <"uttor Sorvico bill wlliimi' vtitr.? upon if. 17-Vrti l>\v. 'Clio House discussed tlio I'.aiiev Uankrupley bill. ?Tlio House adopt( I a strong resolution approving the President*' nurse in the strike. it was passed without division, the minority not botntf stron ; i'iioii^Ii to ;;et the yeas and nays. I7r.ru I?\a . The House, after passing the I'. ulev llankriipb-y bill by .a voto of 127 to hi, devoted thereat of the day to tlio eon ideration of lull reported bv tlie Committoo on .1 a lieiary. 177ru May. Koutino businoss only was Ir.insaeted. 17*<rii Dav. Chairman Wilson, in reporting the disagreement ol tlio Tariff Conforenee Committee, read a letter from tho President, urifin^c 'he House not to adopt tho Senate amen Iinents , Mr. lined also spoke. The House then vote 1 to disagree, and tho old eonh rees were reappointed. 17i?rii 1>ay. Tho 'J uekor resolution for eleetion of Senators by tho popular votu was discussed.