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X {Property of ' cfhe (Dcrlington County ' BLtoAcal Society THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. I DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1890. NO. 7. According to the Buffalo Saturienp Tiding), the Chinese have one custom in connection with medical men that wo night adopt most advantageously. They >ay their doctors a small regular salary, tnd this salary stops as soon as sickness secure in the family and doss not begin igain until the sickness stops. Owing to the fact that the lands of the West are being rapidly taken up, a Denver paper predicts the abdication of the cattle king and the extinction of the cowboy. Of the latter is said: “The cowboy, with rattling spurs, his leather trousers, his broad-brimmed hat and his dedant swag ger, will soon join the stage-driver, the nunter, the scout, the trapper and the mountain explorer in the procession that moves reluctantly to the quiet, peaceable commonplace ways of life.” The Atlanta Comtitution thinks it re markable that New York, with all its immigration, has increased only thirty- three per cent, in the past ten years. “Little or no immigration comes South,” it observes, “and yet the cities of this section are growing rapidly. The average increase of twelve Southern cities in the past ten years is 182 per cent. There is nothing in the North like it. In another generation the complaint will be that the South is too densely populated.” Advices from Florida to the Atlanta 'Conttitution state that the excitement in the phosphate fields is intense. There is much dissatisfaction over the news from Washington that all the phosphate lands will be classed os mineral lands, and that those who have taken homesteads must give them up. Many persons have been staking out claims, and when the proper papers come from Washington there will be a greater upheaval than Oklahoma ever saw. Lawyers and business men have been staking out claims, and at least 5000 ejectment suits have already been filed. The value of the property involved is at least $16,000,000, and the home steaders will not yield to the Government without a stubborn fight. > The people of Japan will hereafter have their greatest political anniversary very near our own Fourth of July. On the fintof July 5,000,000 of them voted for the first time for members of a national legislature. The results of this new step in political progress will be watched with deepest interest in this country. Jap anese islands occupy geographically much such a position on the Pacific as the Brit ish Isles do in Europe. The strides that their people have made in civilization mark them as the Saxon race of Asia, md perhaps as great a future awaits them as did the Anglo-Saxon race, for ages •unk in barbarism long after civilization of its kind had flourished and decayed in Egypt, in Rome and in Greece. It is a noteworthy fact that the cession of Heligoland is really the capsheaf in the unification of Germany, regarding Heligoland, from its geographical stand point, as German soil. It was Prince Bismarck's ambition to add this little itom of territory to the Empire which he created. Its possession by England, ilthough not originally seized from Ger many, was a rankling thorn in the side >f the German nation, like Gibraltar to Spain, Malta to Italy, Aden to Arabia, tnd such as Calais was for centuries to Prance. The floating of the British flag »ver the long outpost in the North Sea bos been a perpetual reminder to the world of Prussia's great humiliation, and Its surrender is the crown of Prussia’s triumph. It is disclosed by a lawsuit in San Prancisco, states Frank Lttliet Neva- taper, that a number of millionaire min- og kings and business men in Western States agreed to furnish from $1000 to (10,000 apiece to have their picturesand liograpbies printed in a publication ityled “ChronWes of the Kings.” The hirst for fame and noierjety, so common B this country, is especially common tmong that large class of Americans who lave, as the saying goes, “more money than brains.” And yet, nowadays, it trdinarily takes brains to make money. Che only surprising feature about the natter is that in view of the constant ex posures of schemes of this sort to obtain noney from the wealthy on the promise hat they will bring them into public no tice, there still remain men of means, if sot of intelligence, who submit to being Imposed upon by unscrupulous adven- brers. The Milwaukee Witeoneln gives credit to Bigvald Qvale tor leaving $1,000,000, constituting the bulk of his estate, t> endow a State hospital for cripples But it does not give credit to him alone. It declares that Mrs. Qvale also is en titled to public praise and gratitude, be cause, with full knowledge of the effect of her act,she signed the deed conveying her husband’s property to trustees for the purpose named. And so she is, agrees the Chicago Timet. She deliberately chose to second the humane and philan thropic wishes of her husband, when she might hare defeated them and se cured much wealth for herself, and to bestow upon her two sons by a former marriage. As the adopted citizen who made the bequest has set a noble exam ple for native Americans of wealth, so his wife, also a Scandinavian by birth, has set a noble example for native Amer tanMrej, NEWS SUMMARY. FROM ALL OVER THE BOUTHLAHD, Accidents. Calamities, Pleasant Mews and Nates of Industry. VIRGINIA. It has bren doubtful for some time whether Roanoke or Salem would be the northern terminus of the Roanoke and Southern railroad. $50,000 has been raised by Roanoke citizens and now the railroad will go there certain. Some sensational features concerning the murder of Treasurer Caddall, of Pulaski county, arc being developed, in which m'pcion points strongly towards a prominent citizen as the murderer. Interestiog developments are expected in good time. , . The one-bundred snd fifth annual ses sion of the Roanoke Baptist Association closed at Ricev,,.., in Pittsylvania county. The annual termon was preached by Rev, T. B. Thomas, of Danville. A meeting of farmers was held at the Junior Order of United American Me chanics" Hall, in Petersburg. There were some fifteen or more delegates in attendance, repnsenting the counties of Dinwiddic, Prince George, Chesterfield, and Surry. The meeting was held with cloc&d doors. It is understood that it was dccidid to establish a farmers' co operative waichouse. All of the cotton presses in Norfolk are now being oveihaultd for the com mcnccmcnt of the season. At West Point one of the cotton presses bos been taken down end shipped to Charlotte, N. C. A white man namid Walter Hughes jumped from tho decks of an Old Do minion stean er while she was crossing Hampton Roads Sunday, and was drowned. His body was recovered Monday and interred Tuesday in the cemetery at Newport New s. Financial embarrassment caused the suicide. A man was found floating in Jackson river west of Clifton Forge. The body was of a man of sandy hair, with a light moustache. He was five feet eight inches high, and apparently about thirty- five years old. It is supposed to be the body of John Dull, of Staunton, who was last seen about ten days ago. De composition had set in, anil the remains vere not fully identified. The coroner’s werdict was accidental drowning. NORTH CAROLINA. At Highlands, Macon county, Vender- hart Lewi-*, a wealthy planter of Green Pond, Colleton, county, 8. C . met a tragic death, by falling 100 feet over a precipice while walking out with his lamify. Mr. Lewis was rpending the summer at his Highlands co'tage. The body was taken to Charleston for burial. The Lumber River Industrial Fair was a success. It was held at Red Springs and five counties were represented. Sen ator Vance attended the fair and made a pleasant speech on Friday. From a letter it is learned that Dr. Eugene Gtisscm, formerly of Raleigh, has opened offices in the Masonic build ing, Denvci, Coloiadn, and is practicing medicine in that city. A handsome portrait of Col. Thos. 8. Kennan has has been added to the col lection in the State Library by Librarian Birdsong. A rich vein of silver ore has been dis covered by the contractors who aie con structing the Roanoke and Southern railroad, near Price’s station, in Surry county. The ore is of fine quality, and parties arc now negotiating for the pur- ebtue of the land on which the vein is situated. An old negro dropped dead in a bar room at Winston. He had been drinking all the mcroing. He is said to be the third man who has dropped dead in the same bar room. The late census gives the five largest towns in the State -Wilmington, 19,500; Raleigh, 12,070; Chailotte, 11,098; Winston Salem, 12.100; Asheville, 10,- 500. Charlotte, Winston Salem and Asheville have made the most satisfac tory progress. BOOTH CAROLINA Mr. Deltvan Yates, supervisor of the census for the 2d districi, has furnished the returns of his enumeration for Aiken county, which puts the present imputation at 31,935, an increase in the last decade of 3,523—a gain of about 12 per cent. The work of locating the lire of the extension of the Ch irlcston, Sumter acd Northern Railroad from Sumter to Renr e'-tsvillc has been completed. The construction of the line has been com menced, and all the contracts for brdges, trestles and grading have been awarded. C. L St. John, the new British consul at Charleston has been going over the affairs of the office, aud now takes formal charge,. Mr St. John paid his respeefs Wednesday to a number of the consuls of other nations resident in the city by tho sea. John D. Muller, one of the highest gradua'cs of the class of 1890 of the College of Charleston, has been < tiered the position of first assistant of the Marion graded schools. Mr. Muller has accepted the position. The St. Matthew's Saving? Bank was chsrteiel in June, 1889, and commenced business with a capital of $15,000. This was toon found inadequate to meet the demands of the town, and was increased to $25,000, upon which a dividend of 11 per cent, was declared the first year. The prospect of the rice crop has de cidedly improved since the last teport, and the outlook Is very promising on all the rivers north and south of Charleston, except on the Cooper and Ashcpoo, and even on these things have brightened up materially. The work of locating the line of the Carolina Southern Railroad, which has been surveyed from Cheraw to Sumter, has been completed as far South as Black Creek. This road is expected to be in operation in a year between Cle raw and Sumter, and this will give Charleston another feeder into a splendid farming section, as well as another out to the North. TENNESSEE. Earnings of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia for the fourth week in July, 1890, $200,134; 1889, $151,139; increase. $40,044. For the month of July, 1890: $593,052; 1889, $471,405; increase, $121,556. At Lebanon, Tenn., an old negio man named Levi Gordon, killed bis wife by placing a shotgun, loaded with buckshot, st her breast and discharging it. She was instantly killed. The negro is a habitual drunkard, and when asked why he bad murdered bis wile, replied that she had bien woirying him fifteen years and he bad eto:d it as long as he could. At Dresden, near Palmetsville, Satur- dsy afternoon, Erastus Webb, a piomi- nent farmer, acd eight neighbors were killing sheep under a large tree, when a thunder storm arose. During the storm, lightning struck the tree. Webb was killed almost instantly. George McWhirtcr was struck, and lost his mind. A negro's clothes were buined off bis body,but he was not fatally hurt. Sim Eanes's hat was burned off his head but he was not otl erwiie toucl ed. The escape of the otheis is aegarded as miraculous. For several years James Phillips, a merchant at Adamsville, Tenn., has been engaged in selling whtsky within four miles of any institution of learning except in incorporated towns. His vio lation of the law has always been a thorn in the side of the women of the locality, and they held a rreoting to discuss the question. As a result, a notice was sent to Mr. Phillips to move hia w hisky out of town immediately. He declited to do so. acd seventy five wonen immedi ately marched to his establishment and broke in the door. Several jugs were found and placed in a r w outside the building. Mrs. Saliie Wolverton then broke the jugs with an ax acd notified Phillips that he would be whipped with hickory switches rind tarred and feath ered if he sold any more whisky. GEORGIA The Rome exposition is si cured. The money was raised on Tuesday and the lists have been closed. Feet are cbeip in southwest Georgia. Mr. Guinn, the young man of Shellman, who had his feet cut off b.y a Central railroad train vt Dawson son e months ago. has been given $500 by the road. The Forty-third Georgia regiment held a re-union at Buford Thursday. Ad dresses will be delivered by Governor Gordon, Hon. W. T. Smith and Hon. H, P. Bell. The forty-third was invited and some members attended, Miss Hattie Hester istheUnited Stabs mail earl ier over a 40 mile route through a spars* ly settled region in Montgomery county. She is not twenty years old; but besides delivering the mail in person three times a week, she manages a farm, doing much of the work herse f, and supports her widowed mo'her and three other members of the family. Tic 1st battalion of the Georgia Vol unteers (eoloredj had a gala time in Savannah Friday,which was thcoecasion of their lentil anniverstry. Troops from ail over this part of the Sou-h were pirsen*, including a large contingent from South Carolina. The following companies participa'c 1: Atturks Light Infantry, Lincoln Light Infantry, South Carolina Volunteers, Randolph Riflemen, I/ncoln Republican Guards, Hawkins Rifles, Douglas Light Infantry, Garrison Light Infantry, South Carolina Kill s, Mishaw Rifle Guards, and the Mount Pleasant Rifle Guard. In addition to there companies from Auguata and Jacksonville were present, and the occa sion were probibly the greatest m the history of tho negro military of the South. Deputy Coroner Rivers hdd an inquest Thursday over the body of Jan ei Sul con, who was run over by a train of the Charleston and S.vannsh Railway at Montcith, Ga. The jury Lrought in a verdict that the deceased came to bis d< ath by being run over by a Charleston and Savannah train, through his own carelessness. The body was buried in the public burial ground?. The Georgia State Agricultuial Soci ety convened at LaGrange with Prcsi dent NortLen in the chair. After the meeting was organized Col. Nortkcn de livered his annual address and talked about the State fair. There wss only one lady delegate to the convention, Mies Mary Walker, of Carsonvil'e, Tay lor county. She is a daughter of Col A. M. AValkcr, of C'ar*onvi le, the gen tleman who delivered the address on “Practical Dairy Farming in Georgia.” She often takes control of her father's dairy during his enforced absences. She was a great favorite among the dele gates. FLORIDA The Citrus County Hard Rock Phos phate Co. has been formed and incor porated with a capital of $100,000. The Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax railroad company will build their machine shops at St. Augustii e Ground will broken in a few weeks. L. J. Haisdell, of Ocala, sold 934 acres of phosphate land in Msrion, Citra and Hernando couniics ta J. A. Harris, of Citra, for $40,000. Summerficld parties purchased 1,000 acres of the rich ''dirt' 1 near that place. The town of Madison will sink an artesian well, J. A. Durst, of Crescent City, having the contract. OTHER STATES. The Sruthern ice manufacturers will bold a meeting for the purpose of organ izing a stock company to erect an am monia feretory either in New Orleans or Galveston, Texas. A dispatch from Beauvoir, Min 0 ., states that the wedding of Miss Winnie Davi? bss been postpone:*! until next June, at the desire of Mr?. Davis, who did not wish the marriage to take place until at least a year after the death of Mr. Davi*, The date now set is June 25. Apropos of the wedding, it is said Mrs. Davis and her daughter arc busy making a fish scale necklace, which will be set with diamonds, to be worn by the bride. They Hauled Down the Fisg. Washinotos, D. C., Aug. 15.—The State Departusat gives out information that last Friday afternoon a telegram was received at the Derailment trom Minister Mezr.er at La Libertada saying during a battle in the city of San Salva dor, the forres of tl e provisional gov ernment seized tho consulate in that city, hauled down the flag and damaged property. Tbs dep»rtin**nt the same day instruc ted Mr. Mizoer by telegraph to demand full repsrationjof Salvador,the reinstatement and protection of Consul, and see that nil rights of the Unite*! States and its citizens were observed. Last night the depsr'roent received word from Mr. Mezaer informing it that the Provisional Government of Salvador had hoisted our flig over the United States Consulate the day before, st the same time saluting it with twenty-one guns, nod the Consul bad been reinstated in office, and the rights of the United States and it* citizen* were guaranteed- F. A. & L. U. ALLIANCE AND KINDRED NEWS. 0. W. EtevsnBOs, State Lecturer of Illi nois, Writes a Pleasant Letter, The North Carolina FanneV il-iacoe Meet at Ashevi le, AVriting from Hanover, III,, C. W. Stevenson, F. A. & L. U. Lecturer of that state, says: “Now let me suggest that we go to the national meeting next fall, and form a soldiers’Alliance, composed of the blue and the gray. Let us there clasphands; let us dig a grave across the Mason and Dixon line. In that grave let us put the bloody shirt with all its bitter remem brances ; let us bury that shirt and its bitterne-s deep from human eyes and dau.ned be the man that ever rcsunects it to divide the people of this gpvern- nent. Let the cry be for fraternity for yourselves as well es cur dear brother. In the language of AVashington, let us guaid with a jealous eye and indignatly frown upon any attempt to alienate one part of this Union from another. And if political blatherskites and wealthy scoundrels persist in trying to array us against each other, let us retire them from business. , 'AA r c are brothers of one bomehold; eve may disagree and even fight, but that is no reason why we should always be divided. Anl when any man or set of men tells you that the soldier of the North or the people of the North have any such feelings towards Ihe soldier or people of the South as you see in our pjp*:r.*, tell them that they sre liats. I am pi city well ncejuainted with the sentiment cf the working people of the North.” * * * + * * The North Carolina State Fanners’ Alliance as: ombled at Asheville, Presi dent Elias Cat r, of Edgecombe county, presiding, every coeinty in the State but one being icprcscnted. President Carr said that it was the largest, as it would lie the most important assembly of the kind ever hold in the State. S. B Alexander, a prominent delegate, said that the Alliance, as a body, woulel not oppose the re-election of Vance to the United State* Senate, and he was certain he would bo returned. A meet ing of delegates and citizens wsa held in the afternoon, at which addresses of welcome were made by Mayor Beanton, General B. B. Vance, Captain T. D. Johnston, and others. K< spouses by Piesident Carr, Coi. L. L. Polk, Presi dent National Allianee, and others. Colonel Polk spoke at night. Officers wore elected for the ensuing year as follows: President, Elias Carr. Old Sparta, N. C.; V.ce President, A. H. Hayes, Birdtown; Secretary, E. C. Beddlngfield, Raleigh; Treasurer, J. D. Allen, Falls; Lecturer, Thos. B. Long, Asheville; Assistant lec turer, R. B. Hunter, Charlotte; Chip- plain, 8. J. Veacb; Doorkeeper, AT. H. Tomlinson. Fayetteville; Assistant door keeper. H. E. King, Peanut; Sergeant- at Arms, J. S Holt, Chalk Level; State Busiicts Agent, AV. H. AVorth, Raleigh; Trustee Business Agency Funei, AT. A. Graham, Machyciah; Executive com mittee, S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, chair man; J. M. Men borne, Kinston; J. S. Johnson, Kutfio. ¥ * Y * * * Georgia now has 140 counties organ ized and a membership of 85,000. Rice county, Kansas exchange h's been organized with a capital of $5,000, A elay has been set apart for the Alliance at the Piedmont A Fiance, Atlanta, Ga. Ford county, Kan., Alliance exchange has been organized with a capital of $100,000. Dr. AV. T. Cheatham has been ap pointed physician to the Vance county, N. C , branch of the National Farmers’ Alliance. The farmets of Leavenworth, Kan., have resolved that they will not support any lawyer or banker for Congress here after. An Alliance man in Georgia walked twenty miles recently to cany important news to hi? bretheren. The Alliane-c of Alabama will use flax bagging for the coming cotton crop. Cost cents per yard for 1J i>-iund bagging, six cents per yard for tvo pound bagging. TheKanausCitizens’ Alliance, supple mentary to the Farmers’ Alliance, and composed of men who are in .ether pur suits than farming, but hold the same political belief? as the farmers, met in State coiivculio-i at Topeka and formed a State organization. This new alli ance now numb.rs 10,000 membera. The State convention of the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union of Tennessee met behind closed door*, Itia said by the leaders that the Convention took no ac tion as to the pending political campaign nor consielered the Sub-Treasury bill. The meeting of the Arkansas State Union was most satisfactory to friends of the Order and its purposes. Consol idation with the State Alliance was ratified, thus paving the way to one organization when the latter body meets at Dover next month. Six weeks of drouth, eight months of Congress, cyclones on our trail, a mort gage on the farm, tariff on our clothes and a pension bill to raise for every soldier, we ought to be glad that air is yet free to breathe, and water to drink. — Hi/e- Opener, Congressman AVhceler, of Alabama, introduced a resolution, which was rc- fcried to the Committee on Rules, to instruct the Committee on AVajs aud Means te> report to the House the sub treasury bill on August 4, and that it be made special order in Committee of the whole daily until disposed of from August 12. It is yet possible that some opportunity may be given to discuss this matter in this Congress. The Anvil (Castroville, Tex.) says: It is objected to the demands of farm er and of the erganized labor of the country that many of such demands are too radical, too extreme. A ready reply woeild s*:cm to be that their cone ervative claims have teen so uniformly ignored that they are only illustrating the natu ral trend of all forces, natural or artifi cial, that meet with undue opposition. The demand for a whole loaf is requue 1 in order to get a half loaf—or anything at all. Men who have lern permitted to be come members of the Farmers' Alliance, and now go about throwing cold water upon it are like “gnarled oaks in the forest of industry,” and should be weeded out immediately. Such meo, wbije they cannot injure the order materially, are no good to themselves and of but little honor to any class of people who might be deceived into permitting them to mingle among them. Drive out the drones. AA’hat is the remedy for hard times? ATe answer cheap money to piy off hi? mortgage, raife his supplies and equip his farm for higher pioeiuction. A land which withstood the destructive shock of the greatest war of modern times for four years, and the mercilcsa extortions of the usurer for twenty five years, and still auruives, deserves cheap money to rebuild its homes and farms, and a just political economy 1 f the nation will grant it.—Alhtila Southern Farmer. TELEGRAPHIC TICK 3 . The cotton mills of Fail River, Ma's., shut down for sixty hours to curtail productien. Emperor AVilliam arrived in Berlin on hia return from hia visit to Queen Vic toria. He will create Prince Estel Fred erick, his second ton, duke of Helieigo- land. The English geivcmmcnt lias informeel Cardinal Rimpolis, papal eecietary of Hate, that it is impossible for Englano to receive a papal envoy or to send a minister to the Vatican. A water spout in the mountains above Boulder, Col., caused the wrater in the river to rise rapidly, and the cabin of AV. J. King and his wife, which was on the banka of the river, was caught by the flood and both were drowned. The colored people of Kansas 1 eld a convention at Salina, to decide upon a colored man as & candidate for auditor at the coming republican s’atc conven tion. B. K. Bruce presided. John L AA’allace, of Kansas City, Kan,, was chosen ss the candidate. The great New A'ork Central strike is over. It ended in a complete discomfit ure of the striking employees, Their places are now all filled. Tina AVitts, whom Max Shultz mar ■ tied two weeks ago. has entered suit for divorce in Chicago, claiming that Shultz has five wives living. Chief Justice Colson, of the Supreme Court, handed down a decision that in rffort totally does away with the sale of intoxicating liquor in Scuth Dakota. Boulanger is now a journalist. He helps m managing the Voir <hi People, a Paris weekly, a BoulangUt organ. Frau August Schmidt of Berlin, 83 yeats old, reeeitly announced the birth of her sixteenth child. She has had four pair of twins, and is the wife of a potter. The Republican Convention of the 5th 8. C. district nominated T. E. Miller for Congress by a vote of 21 to 18. Miller was the colored candid tte. E. M. Brayton, who ran against him, and who got 18 votes, drew out his forces, and will enter the race against Miller. Are the Vanderbilts doming 7 Two rumors have l een current during the last two weeks concerning th# hiten- lions of the A’anderbilt? in the railroad world. One is that they aie considering the purchase of the Cotton Belt Hoad when it is sold this fall, and the other that they will probably parallel the Louisville & Nashville from Princeton, Ky., to Clarksville, Tenn. As regards the constrnction of a road from Prince ton to Clarksville, the Louisville & Nashville bav® given the Ohir Valle y Railroad Co. 10 days to reply to an offee made for the sale of the former's road to the latter company, but it is expected that the prke is so high as to prccltn’-e the possibility of the sale. Thus it is thought that the Ohio A’alicy people will build a competing line. The Oh o Val ley Railroad runs from Henderson to Princeton, Ky., r-nd it is expected that the Vanderbilts, should they reach C'arksville, will find it comparatively easy to get to Nashville. Though the Vanderbilt people own the Chesapeake A Ohio ancl Ohio Valley roads, tl ey have not to any extent proved an cle ment in Southern movement*. If. how ever, either of these rumors prove true, it marks the entrance into the railway arena of the South of perhaps the most powerful agency in Northern tailrcad circles. Oannirg Georgia Vegetables. Griflin, Ga., has taken hold of fruit canning ir earnest, a systematic fae.tory being conducted by Captain AT. H. Hart well. Ho has an experienced superin tendent from New Jersey, who lias been in the business for years, anel is thor oughly potted in all of the details of the busine a. The principal vegetible Gin ned is tomatoes, which arc supplied from his hundred-acre tomato farm, wbichjir superintended by E. B. AV’armxn, a man whoi? well posted in regard to the cultivation of tomatoes. Other fac tories in the section are having trouble in getting fruits and vegetables to can. laptiin Hartwell employs about sev enty-five hands, all of whom make good wage a, and spend their money st home. He only employs skilled labor, and the fruit and vegetables that are canned are of the best quality and carefully seiected. A reporter was shown specimens of peiches, apples, corn and tomatoes that have just been put up, and they were very fine', retaining the flavor of ripe fruit. Captain Hartwell says that his capacity hail been greatly increaseel over las* year, but ivcn now orders were rushing in so fast that he was afraid that he would not be able to supply the de mand on him, but that he would work to his fulieit capacity. 26,000 fores of 'Jentessee Land Sold. A syndicate of English capitalists is rcpoitcd as purchasing the Cumberland Iron AToiks propery in Tennessee from M. T. Scott, of Bloomington, III. This projerty include? 46,086 acre? of land on the Cumbcrb ud river in Stewart county, about 100 miles below Nashville. Of this 26,0( 0 acre's ire agricultural lands, and the remainder mineral lands con taining extensile beds of charcoal iron. The syndicate is raid to have incorporated in London the Cumberland Co., Limited, with a capita I slock of £250,000, anel proposes expending $1,000,000 in the development of the mines and the cstab lisbment of industrial plants. Mr. Bcott acquired the Cumberland Iron AVorks property tao years ago, and is believe 1 to have made e handsome profit by the deal. Strike on the Wabrsh. Chicago, Aug. 18.—The switchmen employe! by the Wabash Railroad have (truck, and business in the yards is at a standstill. POLITICAL POINTERS. The census will give Georgia another congressman and the next legislature will most probably have to provide for the eleventh congressional district. The Delaware Drmocratic convention at Dover nominated R. J. Rrynald for Governor and John W. Cansey for Con gress. Both arc Bayard met. The Siiulsbury faction was routed. The Bepubiican judicial convention held at Morganton, N. C., nominated J. W. Bowman, ot Mitchell, for judge, and E. Spencer B ackburn, “the tall sugar maple of AVautaugs," for solicitor of the 10th judicial district. Hon. John A. Buchanan was renomi nated at Pulaski City for Congress fiom the Ninth Virginia district. W. O’B. Branch was nominated on the first ballot for Congress in tl e Dem- rcratic convention of the 1st district of Nortn Carolina to succeed Mr. Skinner. Mr. Branch is an Alliance Democrat and is a son of L- O'B. Branch, who repre sented that district in Congress before the war. The Texas State Democratic Comei- tion met at San Antonio Tuesday with 2,000 delegates preaent and as many more visitors, who cane in the in'erests of candidates or as lookers on. The hall, built especially for the * cession, holds 5,000 people, and it was crowded. The elclcgstioD, as a whole, had a decid edly rural ap.-earancc, the farmer ele ment largely predominating. Thu d. ~ was spent in choosing temporary am. I emanent officers. B. D. Tarlctou of Hall county was made temporary chair man . J. C. Hutthcson of Harris county was made; permanent ehairmsn. The platform denounces the exorbitant tariff and the Federal Election bill. A plank was imerted demanding separate cars for whiles and blacks. The utmost cn thusiasm prevailed. The supporters of Gen. Hogg were so vastly In the ma jor ity that there was no opposition to his elimination and on AVcdneaday he was nominated by acclamation. At a full meeting of the Maine re.pub lican state committee, Chairman Manley said that it was the unanimous vote of the committrc that the campaign be very shoit, and tbit public speaking would be confined to the last two wciks of the campaign. Chsirmau Manley saidtbatMr. Blaine would take no p.rt in the ermpaign, so far as speaking is concetned. The Connecticut Prohibition convon tion met at Hartford. N< minations were made as follows: Governor. P. 51. Augur, of 51iddleficld; lieutenant governor, DeWitt C. Pond, of Haitford; secretary of state, Henry R. Palmer, of Stonington; treasuier, John B. Smith, of New Britain; comptroller, Fred Haw Icy, of New Canaan. They were all nominated by acclamation. The Farmers’ Alliance of the State of Kansis met in convention at Topeka to nominate candidates for State offices. AV. F. AVrightmoie was nominated for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; John F. AVillctts, of Jtfferaon county, foi Governor, and A. C. Shinn, of Frank lin county, for Lieutenant Goviruor. The Mississippi Constitutional Con vention a sembled in Jackson with 135 delegates present. Gen. Fcathcrstone, of 51'irshall county, was made temporary Chairman. After some discussion as to wl at should be done fir.it, the conven tion elected Judge Cathorn, of Jackson, President of the convention over Robert Patty, of Noxubee, by a vote of 64to61. Mr. I’ntty was the Alliance candidate, being President of their State organiza tion. The members ere representative Southern men Prominent among them may be mentioned United States Senator George, Judges Chrismau, AViley P. Harris, S S. Cslhoon, Prof. Edward Mayes, Gen. Featherstonc, cx-Gov. Alcorn, Henry 51uldrow, John AV. Fewell, and a host of others whose names adorn the pages of the recent history of Aiississtp pi. As to the work the convention is expected to do columns could be written, but the most important will be the settlement of the race prob- le n. The people expect their represent atives to puss some sort of a ballot law that will for al’. time to come eliminate tl e vote of the ignorant, and it is more than probable that the Australian system, with seme modifications, will beadopted. Otbirs demand an elective judiciary, a limit to tenure of office, curtailment of Executive power, and the aboli-hmentof the office of Lieutenant Governor. “The other day,” said an old Tennes seean, “in speaking of the diction of James K. Polk to the presidency tome people seem to believe that it was 5lr. Polk's success in the guberna torial contest in Tcnce?a*e, immediately preceding the presidential contest of 1814, wh’ch gave Nm the nomination that year for president. This is * mis take. Mr. Polk was never but once elected governor of Tennessee, and that was in 1339—five yeats before his elic- tion to the presidency. Ho was beaten for governor in 1841 and 1843 by James C. Jones. He was not, in the usual acieptation of the word, a candidate for president in 1844, but, the national con vention failing to agree upon either of the pronounced candidate?, Mr. Polk was introduced as a dark horse er com promise candidate and elected." The id Florida district Congressional Democratic Convention met at Ocila. Ex Gov. Robert Bullock, of Mari'n county, tbe Congressman just unstated, was placed in nomination by acclams tion. Hon. L. T. Sm'tb, of Dillon, Ga., created a sensation by announcing him self ns candidate for Congress of the seventh congressional district on the republican ticket. The Democratic convention of the 11th N. C. Judicial di-trict met at Liu colnton and nominated AV. A. Hoke for Judge on the 65:h ballot. F. I Os borne was nominate 1 for Solicitor by acclamation. The N C. Republican Judicial con vention of the AVinston distrut was hi Id at AA’ilkeaboro, and renominated Thos Settle for tolicitor by »cclam -t'on. CONGRESSIONAL. AVashington, D. C.—In the Senate, the House bill to ratify a boundary line agreement between New York and Pennsylvania, and the Senst 1 : joint reso lution to lelieve the sufferers of Okla homa were pissed. The tariff bill was taken up and the tin plate paragraph discussed. 5Ir. Vest's amendment to teduce the rate to 1 cent a pound, was rejected. 26 to 30, Messrs. Davis and Plumb voting in the affirmative. Mr. Plumb offered an amendment to reduce the rate to 1 cent, and to pay a bounty of one cent a pound to manufac timers in tte United State*. This amendment was pending when the Senate adjourned. A NEGRO IN THE PRESS GALLERY. Elliott Shepard has sent to AVashing ton a colored man named Anderson, to represent the Mail and Erpres*. He is arrayed in a blue flannel suit, a white straw hat, russet shoes aud Gordon sash. Anderson appeared in the House press gallery and delivered his credentials. His scat in the gallery is between the Boston Olnhe and the Chicago Tribune. FOR CAROLINA STREAMS. The tariff bill was laid aside in the Senate Friday morning, and on motion of Mr. Frye, tiie river and harbor bill was taken up. The bill was considered all day. Among the amendments agreed to were the following: Increasing the appropriation for the Caps Fear river at and below AVilmmgton, N. C., from $100,000 to $200,o00; for Contcntnea Creek, N. C., from $50,000 to $ij),000; for Ncuse river up to Smithfield, N. C., from $12,000 to $20,000, and for Mack ey's Creek, N. C . from $10,000 to $15,- 0J0; inserting an item of $3,000 for Pasquotank River, N. C. Tho Fesllforons Jamaica Tick, Those tiny pests, the ticks of Jamaica, in the AVcst Indies, hang in awarms on tho blades of grass, on the leaves and branches of trees, on the most graceful ferns, and on every green thing. Tho lady who brushes her skirt against tho verdure on the roadside, tbe planter who is superintending tile work on his estate,) equally with the colored laborer in the cane pieces or on the stock farm, are li able to be practically covered with ticks at any minute. Of course, people who are able to do so take every precaution to keep clear of their attacks, and this may always be managed with more or less success; but they are an every-pres- ent source of worry and annoyance, and even if whole battalions can bo avoided, no care can prevent the. occasional inroad of single spies. And a tick, though only the size of a pin’s head, is no de spicable assailant. He crawls, he bites, 1 he burrows under the skin if he has time and opportunity, and if ho aud his com panions have a fair chance of working their wicked will, the result of the wounds which they inflict may be very disagreeable, and, In some cases almost dangerous inflammation. Independently of tho nuisance which they are to human beings,they cause scri ous mischief on the stock farms. Besides pervading and irritating the outer cuticle of each individual of the herds, the cat tle, and especially the calves, take them into their mouths while grazing. Then they burrow under tho skin of the tongue, palate ami air passages, forming lumps and sores, which, of course, de stroy condition, and, if not carefully at tended to, eventually choke the animal. In some pastures their presence is so marked that cattle are known to refuse to go in willingly to graze, but have to bo exceptionally forceil to cuter feeding grounds where so much pain aud discom fort await them. It is supposed that ticks first made their way to tho island on cattle im ported from the Spanish main, but though they have been long more or less known, it is only in comparatively recent times that they have thrust themselves into a bad notoriety. The direct cause of their increase is the gradual disappear ance of their natural enemies, which, if they did not exterminate the tiny para sites, at least kept them within a reason able limit. The first of these cnemic? were the bird tribes. To-day one of tho first things that strikes a visitor is the re markable absence of the bird life which forms such a distinctive feature in most tropical countries.—Dlachtood't M’ga- tine. 0 arlotte acd the R. & D, The location of machine shops at Charlotte, N. C., by the Richmond & Danville liailroad Co. has been a matter of much conjecture for tome time The Maiiiifarturert' Femrd has received the authoritative inlormation to the effe t fliat the company has no idea of moving any of its present shops to that city, but the large additions being made to tbe motive power and equipment of the C< mpany re e*sitatcs the building of additional shops, acd tbe chances arc that one of them will be erected in Charlotte. Bismarck Caps A’on Moltke's Sent iinenl A young lady one day requested Jloltke and Bismarck to write a few words in her album. Tho Marshal took up the pen first and wrote: “Falsehood passes »way;i truth remains. — Von iMoltkc, Field Marshal.” After reading what Moltke had written, Bismarck took tho pen and added the following: “I know very well that truth prevails in the next world, but in the meantime a Field 5Iar- shal himself would be powerless against falsehood in this world.—\on Bismarck, Chancellor of tha Empire.”—Sew York World. An Ovaiflow 01 the Ganges. Calcttta, Aug. 16.—The River Gan - ges has ovciflowed its hinke, inuudatirg the surrounding country to an extent cover before known. A gieat number of j ersons have b*cn drowned. BOUIHERN MARBLE AND GR ANIIE, They are Growing More Pojnlar Every Day aid Displacing Northern Mub'e. Says a well known Southern marble dealer about Southern roaib'e: “It has been only about three years ago,” said the dealer, since touthern marble began to be used for cemetiry purposes. Long before that it ranked the market for furniture tops, and its standing was good for building purpotes, but it was thought to be too gritty for cemetery work. The Producer*’ Marble company, of Vermont, held the entire southern trade, and almost owrod the deahrs down here. But when the change canro it came rapidly, and a year ago the representative of t!*e Producers’ Marble Company, who had been with them for years, quit in disgust, and went into the retail busiaeas. It wss found that the southern marble could be worked advantageously, and its color gives bettor satisfaction than tbe color cf the eastern marbl*. The Little Dor set, Southerland Falls, Rutland or Ameriean-ltalian qumiee, In a few years, will rank lower than the north Georgia or E *st Tennessee atone. The Georgi* pink marble is now becoming know n throughout the country. As a building stone it is ucsurpasicd; for furniture work it rank* the maikct, and for cimctery work its heanty is begin ning to be appreciated. “There is now very little call for Italian marble used. America will be the marble market of the'world in a few years, and the south will be the section which will supply the moat of the stone. 1 do not anticipate any sudden boom, but there will be a rapid and continuous growth in the bus’n'as in this rection. “The white mtrb'o of north Georgia and North Cirolina is finer . than the Caratra ynarble, although its more fre quent form is with pink or blue variega- U;ns. “The piers and abutment! of tbe bridge serosa the North river on the Marietta and North Georgia railroad,and the AVautchello river on the AVeatern North Caioiina railroad are built of marble, the stone being right near the bridge and consequently as cheap as any other material. These bridges are a great cm iosity t > passengers. In north Georgia is the only vein of blaik marble in the Unit' d States that has stood the test of experts. Should this be developed it would be a most important factor in southern industry.” * + * + AA’innsboro Granite —The sleimship Seminole, whic sailed from Charleston, 8. C., for New York on5Ionday, csrricd an elegant piece of work. It is a monu ment made of AVinnsboro granite, and is intended for the Bristol family lot in Woodlawn Cemetery, New A'ork. The monument was made at the marble and granite works of Cnpt K. It. AVhitr, in Charleston. It will be surmounted by a beautiful maible figure. Next week Capt AVhite will ship another monum nt of AVinnsboro granite. This is destined for Hackensack, N. Y., and will rest in the Gnmewell lot in the cemetery at that place. The granite industry baa grown to large proportions in South Carolina, and shipments arc not only made through the South, but all ovrr America. Australia's Drawbacks. “What inducement does Australia rffer to a young American in search of a fortune?" was asked of J. H. Mulford, of Rockford, III., who is registered at the 3hcrm.au House on his return from the :ontincnt In the Southern Pacific. “None,” he answered promptly. “Don’t Hesitate to advise all young and old Americans who desire to make a living to Ho satisfied in the finest country God ever made. If a living can't be made here it ain’t be made anywhere. Of course if a man lias a situation ready for him there it might lie all right tor him to go there. But 1 doubt if even then he would suc ceed. Very few Americans remain there who ran get away. You *Co that the uuainesa men from Australia are English men who were brought up in English ways, which arc altogether too alow for men accustomed to the business methods of America. Moreover, businessJs at a standstill there. It has bcea growing worse for the past four years on account of the big droughts. Water is scarce, there being only a few rivers, and along their banka there have been this year floods which proved equally disastrous to tho droughts. Anil if these two combi nations were not enough, the labor ele ment is getting restless again. Australia has the strongest labor organization in tho world, and when a demand is made by the organization aomething has got to give way. Eight hours with a half holi day on Saturday is in vogue throughout the colonies, but that is not enough, and tho question of seven hours with a whole holiday on Saturday is being agi tated. Many of the branches have de clared for it, and it will only be a short time when the entire organization will declare for seven hours and all of Sat urday. The purpose of doing so will be the hope of supplying work for the thousands of now idle men by lessening the productive power of those at present employed. No—tell young Americans in search of fortunes to stay where they are, or if they are bent on leaving this country to go anywhere but to Australia. I have just traveled all over that conti nent, studying the aituation carefully, and know whereof I speak.”—Chieagt Pott. Cold Drinks Don’t RellrTO Thirst. It is a mistake to suppose that cold drinks are necessary to re lieve thirst. Very cold drinks, a? a rule, increase the feverish condition of the mouth ami stomach and so create thirst. Experi ence shows it to bo a fart that hot drinks relieve the thirst and ‘‘cool off” the body when it is in an abnormally heated con dition better than ice-cold drinks. It is far better and safer to avoid the free use of drinks below sixty degrees; in fact, a higher temperature is to be preferred; and those who are much troubled with thirst will do well to try the advantages to be derived from hot drinks instead of cold fluids to xvbich they have been accus tomed. Hot drinks also have the advan tage of aiding digestion, instead of caus ing debility of the at imach end bowel*. Chicago Newt. The Democrats of the 3d Congressional district of Georgia have r* nominated Charlie F. Crisp, by acclimation, for his sixth term. Threi Missionaries Murdered, Information ha? been received in New A’ork city of tbe murder io the Soudan, by Arabs, of F. M. Gaten, E. Kingman, and John E. Jade (juista, Presbyterian missionaries, who, with se?ea other mis sionarirs, left the United States in May 1b|P. No detail! are at bend, The G. A. R The G. A. R at Boston elected Col. AVhteioi k O. Veszey, of New Hamp shire, commander in chief, and decide*! to hold tl e national encampment next year in Detroit. A Mysterious SLootirg Results Fatally. Charleston, AA\ \'u.. Special.—Geo. N. Vutlert the Republican candidate for county clerk, who was mysteriously shot on Sunday, is (laid.