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. {Property of ghc OJa'Pnyton County {}(islor cc! Sod ety THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEINESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1890. NO. 8. The Drovers’ Jj'-rnal states that [cream of local news. •‘those who are iajing out new industrial towns in the South are very wisely giving fpecial attention to the houses of wage workers, allowing them more room. The workingmen's quarters in Southern cities and towns will not be so crowded »s in the Northern cities, and will be in every re spect more home-like.” ITie growth of the orange industry ii California is phenomenal, asserts the New York Trihunt. So great has been the demand for young trees that the nur sery stock has been exhausted, and no more trees can be had. In Los Angelos and San Bernardino Counties 5000 acres of new orange groves have been planted in each county this year, and in Yuba and Placer about half as much. Califor nia shipped last year 3400 carloads of oranges, valued at $1,500,000. This year the shipment will be much larger. A Boston hotel advertises that all serv- nnts in this hotel are liberally paid by the proprietor, that all guests are enti tled to equally prompt and courteous ser vice, and that when this is not cheerfully and properly given, the proprietor will be thankful to be notified of the fact. The “tipping” system is not only an ex asperating imposition upon the guest, who pays liberally for all he receives, comments the Detroit Free Preti, but it is a degrading importation, and reduces the men engaged in a respectable em ployment to a position of semi-mendi cancy. A surprising result of the census enume- •ationin Botetourt County, Va., is the increase in the number of farms. In one district where there were 150 farms in 1880, the present census shows 225, the large farms having been divided and sub. Jivided. The Fincastle Herald regards :bis as an indication “that the large farms that have laid waste so long have been :ut up into smaller ones, and that waste places are being cultivated and made to field more advantageously to the labor of the husbandman; that there are more aomes, and consequently a better con- fiition generally of the farming class.” The population of Botetourt County in 1880 was 11,809, while partial returns Indicate that the present population is 19,000. The only genuine and reliable canni- *Tr»f- 4tt r..ls(ci;rc-vronrwtnt nr.H-<» -r Solomon Islands, a small group in the South Pacific. To be sure cannibalism is pursued in a desultory way elsewhere, but its devotees would prefer kid, kan garoo, monkey, cockatoo and snakes, and cat the human kind only when hungry from the lack of their usual game. But the Solomon Islanders will cat a tough sailor, a hardened trader, or even one of their own tribe iu a mere spirit of wan ton gormandizing when they are far from starvation and other meat is plenty. They have just had a barbecue consist ing, with the usual side dishes, of Lars ■Nielson, a Norwegian trader, and his three native assistants. They have eaten six white men within the past few months and are really transacting about all of the genuine cannibal business at presen being done. The English, or rather the cockney superstition about the “Household Troops” is, thinks the New York Time*, one of the queerest superstitions in the British army. When the Guards are or dered abroad to take part in actual war fare, it is the general London belief that the war is thereby settled. No evidence to the contrary has any effect upon this simple faith or upon the popular enthu siasm in which it is manifested. One battalion of the Grenadier Guards has just been ordered to Bermuda, where there is no war raging, not for the sake of going where glory waits them, but siinpiy^tHi!i2' 3 ^ mcnt ^ or * nsu * K,r ‘li n,l • tion. It seems aTTCthis should break the spell in the case of Wl£sc particular troops,but the enthusiasm w^yunabaterf. The dispatches set forth that ufe’y were accompanied to the station by 20,000 cheering civilians. Such an “ovation” to % body of troops in disgrace is prob ably unprecedented in the stories of pa triotic zeal. The Happenings of This And Adjoin ing States Chronicled. Now Pay Attention and Listen, For Every One of These Items Will Interest You, Whether Poor or Wealthy, Lame, Halt or Blind, or Healthy. In a recent speech in England, Mr. Gladstone advanced a somewhat striking and novel idea concerning the bene- fieient influence of railways. The point he made was, that railways have organ ized bo methodically the means of loco motion as to subject all their employes to a genuinely “rhythmical drill,” which he considers vastly beneficial to all those subjected to it. Subjection of this sort, he argues, encourages the formation of punctual and fixed habits in the place of indolent speculations on chance gains and chance employment; it promotes discipline, and so secures concentration and permanency of productive effort. There is something in Mr. Gladstone’s idea, comments Frank L**lie'*. L'n doubtcdly society is vastly the gainer from the discipline and exactness of method which arc essential in all prisons connected with the railway service, or with any other business system having relations to the public interests. It is to be remembered, however, that the drill of great corporations may bceomo too sharp and severe, and there is always danger that it may run into military cv actions, inconsistent with the rights of the employe, VIRGINIA. Albert Morgan, an employee of the Richmond gas works.fell out of a rowboat Wednesday and was drowned. Senator .1. B. F. Mills, of Big Stone Gap, has donated $1,000 to the Virginia Baptist Sunday School and Bible Board. Work on the twin furnaces in Glasgow is rapidly going on, and (he belt line will be completed in a week or two. The Glasgow Rolling Mills are being moved there from Ironton, O. Charles Rawlcs, who shot John Stone some weeks ago in Pittsylvania and fled to Texas, has been captured. Paul Muhlhauser a widely known Ger man of Alexandria, and for upwards of twenty years connected with Portner's Brewery, died at the infirmary at that place Thursday. The Lynchburg City Council has parsed an ordinance prohibiting drumming trade at the depots. Tnc first new bale of cotton brought to the Raleigh market v. as grown by Peter Pool, of Auburn. Barbee A Barbee bought it at lOjc. Mr. Pool received a cash prize of $10 from a city merchant for having brought the first bale to the Ral cigb market. Charlie Didsondeit, son of an Alcxan dria cigar manufacturer, is the plaintiff in a flu.000 suit against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. The suit is brought in Washington, and to recover damages for injury sustained by the boy a year ago. A Richmond special says: Perhaps the most severe rainstorm ever experienced here passed over the city Wednesday. The great downpour of rain lasted for thiity minutes or more, during which time the streets overflowed the curbing and sidewalks, and many cellars were flooded. In a low point the culvert could not carry off the waterr It had a ccumu- lated to the depth of six feet, and the basements of all the dwellings near by were inundated. Beyond occurrences of this charm ter no damage was done. NORTH CAROLINA. Linville, Mitchell county, was eonnect- cil with the outside world by telegraph Wednesday. The Wilmington, Onslow and East Car olina Railroad, a prosperous short line of twenty-three miles in length, i". now in daily operation ('Hup'Vs I—— 'r;.; h 1 '" 1 oniiuy -Run in South Car olina. Grant Kenan, colored, from Duplin Roads, was shot and killed by Albert Herring, colored, of Turkey township, Sampson county, Tuesday afternoon. The shooting is supposed to have been acoi dental. Immediately after the shooting Herring fled. The brownstone quarries on the borders of Durham are to lie worked on a large scale. The stone is of fine quality. George May. a white man, broke into the house of .1. E. Corsbie, of Guilford county, Sunday night. He awakened the family, was recognized, pursued, and captured. He was jailed at Greensboro. The Georgetown and Charlotte Rail road Company, which was organized some years ago, is about to go to work and construct the line. Hooks of sub scription have been opened in Charlotte. Steve .In col is, the colored desperado, who recently escaped from the jail at Ltimhcrton, Robeson county, has been recaptured at Jcsup, Ga., and carried back to Lumbcrton, where he will await trial. Eighteen of the cigarette hands in the machine room at Duke's factory, Durham, between !l and 10 o'clock Thursday morn ing put on their coats anil quit work They did not like some new rule made in Hint department in regard to going out during work hours. They did not go hack to work. SOUTH CAROLINA.- A charter was granted to the Newberry Cotton Seed Oil and Fertilizer Company; capital stock, $30,000. Tin- municipal election at Ml. I’lrasnnt took place Wednesday. .1. o. Freeman was elected intendant. Newberry*:- lirsl bah of new cotton was brought in Wednesday by .1, It. S. Liv ingston. viigh* 155 pounds, middling, bought br .f R. Martin at loje. Twelve yUys earlier than last year. A hard-working colored carpenter of Aiken by the name of Rage had the mis fortune in lose his dwelling honsc by lire last week. Ih had near $1 ill in tin house at the time, mid it is surmised that his house was first robbed and afterwards set on fire. Fortunately I’age carried insur- ’ anee. I A charter has been issued from tin- of fice of Set irtarv of State to the ilnriin City Alliance Ware-house Company, of Orangeburg county. j The following local railroad magnates an- among the recently elected officials of the Southern Railway and Steanisliip As- soeiation on tin-exei-iilive liiaird : r. M, Ward. South Carolina Railv.av, on the rate committee; S It. Pickens. South Carolina Railway; T. 5! Emerson, Atlan tic ('oa t l.ini Walker, I-1< niing A Sloan, cotton mer chants, who have been located iu Spartan burg, have determined to move their headquarters to Charlotte in the Old North State. Professor Adolph Koeppcr, one of the most celebrated mu io instructors in this country, died Tuesday morning at his home in Columbia. Th'- Annual Review of the Trade and Commerce of Charleston for the ronumi - fial year ending Augu't-'ll "ill 1“' pu-> lishecl in The TV c. -no/ ('•mri/r about tie 1st of September. It will follow the |co:i- erul lines of the Reviews which have been published in the put, and will irivc n complete and m Mir.at- nirnnnt of the progress tli •• i harli -to:i lias made clurin" th pa*' yc ar in "en ,e-—ial and industrial cnt'ipii - Emmie Moon, a litth eight-year old dauelitiir o( W t( Moo i who live, twen ty five inili allow- tip ' a- ill was instant ly killed in a lingula! n: mu r. Slit was playing in the ya.'l oi l a young lady was leaning against a past of the piazza. The little girl stole behind the young lady and pulled her dress, frightening the young lady so badly that she clutched the post, milling it out from its place and both fell on the little girl, mashing her to death. TENNESSEE. Nashville received her first bale of cot ton on Wednesday. It came to Gordon Bros. & Co., from Alabama, and was sold at auction. The president lias signed the bill for the establishment of a military park at the battlefield of Chiekamauga. The plans of the E. T. V. & G. new depot at Johnson City to cost $800 have been annulled and plans for a $3,000 one substituted, at the solicitation of a com mittee of citizens. The National Conclave of the Supreme Grand Lodge of (he Fnited Order of Wise Men met in Nashville. Negroes from all parts of the country were in attendance. Tennessee is making a reputation for furnishing brothers to run as candidates for Governor. Mr. Lewis T. Baxter, the Republican nominee for Governor of this State, has a brother. Geo. AV. Baxter, who is the nominee of the Democrats of Wyoming. Henry Duncan, a jail bird from the Georgia penitentiary, hit Sam Thresh, an eleven year old Chattanooga boy, on the head with a brick. Thresh was playing marbles and Duncan who was drunk be- rame enraged at some trivial matter. The boy’s skull was crushed and he will die. Duncan was arrested. A glove fight to a finish at Chattanpoga under the Marquis of Queensberry rules, whirh started at a late hour in the night, was broken up hy the police at the end of the third, and was consequently a draw. X. J. Wilder and AV. J. Cummings, local light weights, were the principals, and were arrested, but some sixty spectators made their escape. About dark, Chas. Davis, aged twenty, six. was instantly killed by lightning at LaGnardo, near Gallatin. Davis was lead ing his horse to pasture and the lightning killed both the owner and horse instantly. Davis is a son of Clint Davis, of AVilson County, and was a very prosperous farmer near LaGnardo. He was buried at La- Guardo. GEORGIA. Green county is preparing for a fine colt and cattle show, which will be held early in September. In the trial of Thomas Shaw, at Jack- son. for the murder of Thomas McNair, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Down Oothcalooga valley the grasshop pers are playing havoc ‘ with fodder, clover and other green crops. In some places the shuck lias been eaten from the cars of corn. It is fortunate that they are not extended over a very large territory, for the damage they are doing is great. Governor GinaLuv --<ldi-csM-<l n at \W" c 2 w " retirees in the haf » rv\ . Ait.rHves ;it ixuuii.i n ctinrsuny night. It was a public affair with open doors. The speech caused a profound -.m-ation. General Gordon declared that he would not subscribe to the sub-treas ury plan—-“not,” he added, “if it cost me forty elections.” Alexander Stewart, an old colored man, who lives near Columbus, is the father of thirty-eight children. It is learned that Moran Springs, situ- ited about four miles from Milledgeville, have been bought for $5,011(1, and "ill lie utilized in supplying Milledgeville with water. There is talk of m w watopvoi ks, to cost $100,000, An electrical railway will be built and in operation at Alliens before next Jami- ••'J'- Near Oakland, ofiieer L. A. Edwards ittcmptcd to arrest on a warrant John Foster, colored, who re-istod \a\ ing, “vou will have to kill me first.'’ Edwards took him at his word and shot him through die head with instant fatal results. The aflirrr then went promptly to Greenville Hid surrendered himself. The Macon 7V/c'/;vq>A chums that Ocor- gia is the only Stale in Hie I'nion that i an boast of a railroad that has made a profit >f 30 per cent, during the last year. This is the proud record of the A\ rightsvillc »nd Teii-mile Railroad. For the year Milled .luiii' 311. istm, its net earnings ibovc fixed charges and operating ex penses were $3ii.3!H».” I. whieli is a little more than tin per cent, on its capital stock. The road was built as a public cuteipiise, mil tlie stockholders did not calculate on my considerable return from their invest MCllt. Sam De Grawisa Lansing (Alich.) man with Santat 'Ians w hiskers, w lio hunts spar rows six days a week and makes a com fortable income therefrom, lie furnished a large percent, of the 10.000 sparrow scalps paid for by Ingham County during June. OTHER STATES. The Roald of Trustor, have i ontnictcd xitliC M. Kuluirst. of Mctidian, .Aliss., :o build a colored Stale Insane Asylum jn luck-son. agreeing to pay llmefoi $55,000. A\ illie Lewis. „ ninctccn-yi nr old ne gro. wasioiiviiled.il Montgomery. Ala., md scnlimi.I to imiui-onment foi life for the murder of his grandmother last January. He was expected to be hung I for the crime and expressed great satis faction at receiving a life sentence. The first annual regatta at Aransas Pass, Texas, closed with a grand ball. Several thousand people from Galveston. New Orleans and other cities of the south, "err in ntti udnner during the three dais of the event. Among the yachts entered in the compe ting rnres were the A ila Vanglui. of Galveston; Earnest, of Nrw ‘lili-ois: Alice, of Aransas Pc- and about ferty other fast sailing bonis. W ain i N'uniiah e, First Lieutenant of tlo W'K'd tnck Guards at Anniston. Ala., h i- become viob nllv insane from smoking cigarettes Hr was removed to the State asylum at Tuscaloosa. _\unnal(<J "as formerly one of the editors and proprie tors ot tii ■ Anniston Ihii/n Wntehman. lie had purchased an outfit and was pn paring to start a new paper, when symp toms of insanity i onipclled him to gdve lip. Hr smoked t'vrnty packages nl rig- alette:: daily “WHO OWNS THE FARM’ An Alliance Organ Charges the R. ’s committees. “A fund should be raised for distrib uting papers to Alliance farmers, and dis bursed by State and county executive With Absorbing All Profits, The Virginia State Alliance Holds Ji Interesting Convention at Lynch burg, and Shake Hands Across the Bloody Chasm.-Notes. Discussing Senator Leland StanfoFs dictum in regard to railroads, that je “essenee of ownership is control,” \c Funner*' Alliance figures out that ju- rrilronds own the farms of this county, because they control the revenues from Ire same. It gives the following account of sales of one acre of corn: BALES. One car rorn. fi74 bush. 36 lbs. at 20Jc per bush., $149if- CHARGES. Freight, $58.56; inspection, 40c; commission, $3.37, 62 3 Total net product, $87 <3 It goes on to say: It will be seen that the freight on aboc ear of corn amounts to a little over cents per bushel. This is the gross slprc 1 be rnilroad company gets. Its net slpie is about that amount, or 44 cents jx'i bushel. Now, let us see how murn the farmer gets out of it. This cori was raised in Cass county, and it is ftir to suppose flint flic land it was raised on was worth $30 per ac re. It was raised in a good rorn year, and it is fair to supivwi the yield was about 50 bushels per iiVre. The aecount then would stand tnus: ' Rent per acre, Plowing, Harrowing, Planting, Seed, Plow ing three times, Picking, Shelling, Hauling, $350 loo 125 150 110 150 3 00 50 I 00 Total expense of acre, $9 35 Income, fifty bushels corn nt 13c, 0 50 WASHINGTON, THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. Loss, $2 85 The above is a fair estimate of the cost of raising an acre of corn in Cass county, and the yield given is a good one. jo order to come out without any loss, tin expense must be reduced $2.85 per acre, and it cannot lie done. Hut on that same corn, on which the farmer loses in unrirompetiscd labor nearly five cents pci bushel, the railroad makes a net gain of 44 cents per bushel. *» + **♦ “ACROSS THE BLOODY CHARM ” The Virginia State Alliance held a rousing annual convention at Lynchburg. iluuv iirnmiiu-”* public men were, present Mrnoiig whom were e\-Assistant p<5sTmas ter General Thomas Brady, of AAVstmoro land county; Colonel Robert Beverly, of Fauquier; Major Mann Page, of Prince George; and Captain Thomas AA’hitehead. State Commissioner of Agriculture. The second and third named were can didates for president for the ensuing year Major page was elected. Col. Beverly was then elected vice-president. J. J. Silver was re elected secretary unanimous ly. The other officers elected were: Robert Suarlev, of AVythe, State Lecturer. .1. R. Garland, of Mecklenburg, assist ant. Rev. Aldridge Grimsley, of Madison. Chaplain: R. F. Rlahan, Door-Keeper. The following resolutions were iniaiii inouslv adopted: “Whereas, Allianci are shaking hands across the Potomac across the Mississippi, across the raggci peaks of the Rockies, and far grande still, across the‘'Bloody Chasm,” aeros Mason and Dixon's Line; and “Whereas, Conseicnccirss politicians i our National Congress have advocate measures and expressed sentiments t arouse the old sectional feeling cngei, dered by the war; therefore, lie it licrulml. That we, the State Fanner Alliance of Virginia, do intend to gras with a tighter Alliance grip tin- hands o our Alliance lurllircn of the North, dctei mined to liold together with lockc' shields, in spite of al) efforts to arous prejudices between us. until the tinancia emancipation of the laborer iind producci is accomplished.” THE ALLIANCE IN VlrGI.MA. A l.y ncliliiirg Ictb-r explains the metl. oils by which the Farmers’ Alliance h Virginia, w hich h-id its State ('onvcntioi in Lyneiihing ou the 19tli, proposes t, atlai 11 iis purpose ol Raving mnnev ot imrcha-es and increasing profits on . ales. In -very riiy , town and village ••they will scled a certain incrcliant. or merchants, and hv iiniling their patronage on them they hope, by the increase of trade to get their go ids at a very low price or small co iiiiic sioii. la the tobaeco counties, in oid- r to reduce ware house and commis sion 1 liarges 0.1 weighing and selling to- baecns. the Alliances contemplate leuting or erecting ware Ii-mims, since the ptililic anil prnati ware hoiiMB which they now p'ltmui/.c have declined to accede to the tei 111' propo-.-l to them sometime ago, and 1 hey will he operated under the di rection of a board of directors of the Al liances in lhe.-c lections. They nlsu pro pose forming some scheme whereby they | can reduce the commission ou all farm products and thereby effect a saving to the individual farmer. Another scheme that w ill he tried, and whieli promises a great saving, is in the district and pre- einct Alliam buying guanos and fertil izers of ail kinds by the wholesale, have it shipped to some convenient point and Uistrihutc it out to the individual fann ers at wholesale prices. So tar as polities are concerned llicv are very reticent. They say it is l>.qi <| and believed that they can seeure legislation by concerted action in county, State and National Government ns the agriculturists desire. Tlieir profesed aims and intentions, how ever, are not to go into politics, except in so far as it may be necessary in secur ing and maintaining their rights and tlieir interest -. “Every State Alliance organ should be placed at the State capital to keep the farmers posted of State legislation. “A State library should be formed with the State organ, and should be made to just defray expenses. “The State library should be free, fos tered by the paper; a list of the books on hand being kept in its eolunins. Educa tion is the shortest route to law. taxes and a comfortable and patriotic civiliza tion. #****• A GIANT WITHOUT BONES. Agriculture is the greatest productive ’adnstry in the United States, and the arniers create really more than eighty per rent, of the surplus w ealth of the na 1 ion. Yet they present this unique spec tacle. Though the largest and most im portant class—adding more than all nth ers to oat w ealth and stability, and em ploying four times the amount of capital invested in all the manufacturing enter prises of the country; yet they exert the least influence in State and national af fairs, and remain the most unconscious of their vast power and many w rungs. {if the twenty million people, belonging to the agricultural classes nearly eight mil lions are active farmers, and there is prob ably not in the whole world so large a lardy of homogeneous people, actively employed and holding property, who have so little organization, cohesion and influence.—Fxchanrje. ****** Georgia has 2,200 Allianees. Kansas has 2,769 Sub-Alliances and 110,769 members. She is getting there with both feet. The Alliance has already demonstrated by its recent meetings in the North and West that sectionalism as a political fac tor has run its course. As well might the politicians attempt to dam the Mississippi with a straw as to expert much longer to keep the wealth producers of the North, West and Smith frnm fraternizing* Unity ■if action means self-preservation, and this fact is being rapidly learned. The Alliance pirnic season is now on, and the brethren take the truths of the orators home to think over. The kind of pabulum that doesn't nourish the over night is at a discount. Let the lecturers give ilieir best talents to the work, and results will attest their ability as economic tench era. The Farmers' and Laborers’ Union and the Alliance of Arkansas have consolidat ed the two organizations. South Carolina has 1,052 Sub-Allianees, and a membership of 40,000. An increase of 300 Sub Alliances and 17,500 members since last report. Kansas, Tennessee. Missouri, Uvorum and tVmtli eiarrUIn* 1e~i -II "’k- * ! .Ti r> Affiance membership. Missouri is >« the lead with 2,000 unions. Concentrate your labor, eoneentrate your manure, and you may eoneentrate your crops without lessening the quantity. Tlierc is no other occupation in this country that yields as small returns for the capital invested, the labor employed and the energy used 11s farming. This is why boys are leaving the farm and going to the cities to enter other pursuits; for the same reason thousands of farmers who are able, left their farms and joined the ranks of those whose living is made by contact with their fellowmen instead of with the earth. This accounts for the continual increase of the wealth in the cities and a constant decrease in the coun try. Can any one deny that there lias been a discrimination against the farmer? Certainly not. He only asks that justice be dealt to all men. That he be placed on an equal standing with Ids brothers of all professions.—Tile Home Journal, Grayson, Ky. THE COTTON BAGGING BOYCOTT The Juto Trust Decrease the Price Six tyPer Cent., But Cannot Regain Their Foothold. PREFERRED PUBLIC POSITIONS, CENSUS IN THE SOUTH. That Compound Lard Bill Before the House Again. Washington, D. C.- -The House Thurs day proceeded to th'> consideration of the bill defining lard. Mr. Meflammy, of North Carolina, op posed the bill. He knew that it was a big question; that in comparison with it the Lodge bill would sink into signifi cance. He believed that when the Amer ican people considered the question, even the rulings of the Speaker and the count ing of a quorum would he forgotten. The gentleman who proceeded him (Mr. Brosins, of Pennsylvania), had yesterday fallen into poetry. He could not do so. He could only think of one verse. “You may break, you may shatter the land trust if you will; “But if you listen to the testimony taken before the Committee on Agriculture, and find what pure lard is made of, you will find that the scent of the whole hog will hang rouud it still.” [Laughter, j Mr. Mason said that this was a fight between the packers of impure, and the packers ol refined compound lard. He was in favor of branding every artiee in the market for what it really was. Mr. Allen (Michigan), spoke at length in support of the biil. Mr Henderson, of Iowa, supported the bill, saying no one questioned the right of Congress to enact the legislation, and that it w as purely a matter of policy. Mr. Honk, of Tenn., said that he had hoped that the machinery of the Internal Revenue system would have been wiped out of existence at this session of Con gross. Bui, it w as evident that this could not be done, and lie would vote for the bill ns being in the interest of the farmer. Air. Forman, of Illinois, favored r. tax of two mills a pound on compound lard, to ensure compliance with the other re quirements of the bill. Mr. Stewart, of Texas, said the measure was worse than its precedent—the Oleo margarine bill. Mr. AVheeler, of Alabama, appealed to IVinonnts to stand by their constitution il principles. The trouble, he said, was tiiat God had blessed the South with a vegetable superior to all other vegetables in purity. Congress was attempting to pass a law in conflict with (lie statues of Almighty God. Rending fuither debate, the House at 5 o'clock adjourned. THE IIA CM INVESTIGATION. The Special House committee apneint- ed to investigate the charges made by Representative Cooper, of Ohio, against Commissioner of IVusiuuii.At*' 1 " ire invcMtifrettoKi »mi r5>mii!issvinEr Rami ,i' I'VfccM on the stand. 1 WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES. Senate bills were passed for bridges across the Missouri river, between the mouth of t!ie Illinois and Missouri rivers. You ask the name of that pretty little brown eyed maid, just passed? She. is Courtenay Walthall, tlie daughter of Sena tor Waltiiall, of Mississippi. She is one of the finest types of her style of beauty in Washington. She lias the wonderful coloring of a creole; brown skin that tlii'-hcs in waves of red as she talks, dark and dreamy eyes and round dimpled chain. Her hair is dark and it waves back from a low forehead and rosc-tiutcd ears. The House Friday took up and passed the Senate agricultural college bill. Representative U'Donmll, of Michigan, made an argument before the House Com mittee on Commerce in favor of a bill al lowing railroads to give reduced rales to commercial travelers. ANOTHER N. C. TAX CASE Two Salesmen Whom the Authorities Class ns Peddlers. Never Too Old to Marry. Rk ii mi NO. Vx . Spc< ial. Judge Joseph Christian, ex pre-iiient of Oie siipic.iu court of appeals, W .t- man h d Tlmisday. ! in Centre country, IVnnsyhnuia, to Mrs. ' Anna Rcvnnldx. ’ The bridal rouple, im ; mediate!v after Hie murii igc, left for the | While Sulphur Spiing'-, Va., where they ! u iff spend tin ii honeymoon. Hell. John K Massi v, '.iipeiitilendent I ,,f public in 11 netieii for the stale mid 1 x | |j ( liter ml eovenier. i- to be marl ied e 111\ in the fall to a incinln 1 ol a piomiiicnt Alabama f unity. I'.olh of tin sc gentlemen are ueariag three score and ten. am iini e necessities. J 11 Gay. of ('o'umbns, Texas, writes flic Sntionnl Fennomi*': “Tim watch word with cveiv Alii,Hire member should be aggression. The facts of the times demand it. and any one that douhts it shows this information is one-sided. They are not to be blamed, for we all eame from that condition Let us then by ng- gicxsion for a eoiumon interest teach them what we know. ‘ For feu tied some one inii'hl consider ■ggie-sion iiiviisjiin, I will say that the meanie.: ; r oi in furlhei tlcili toe table h justice, iii-irv domestic tranquility, and to seeure thi blessings of liberty by good government w-ith equal rights to all. Speaking of boycotts, il may be leinark cd tlint tlie Imyrott of the .bile Trust Iq the Farmers’ Alliance lias been aeonipleti success. From 15 cents, the price dr niandcd by the trust, which was equal u a direct tax of $4.000.0011.1 vciv on tin Southern farmers, jute ha 1 fallen a 5 3 I But even at this price there is no dr inuml for jute bagging on the p ul of tin cotton growers. As a matter of fact tin boycott has just fairly got into working order, and it is not likely that tlie farineis will again place themselves in the pnwi: of so vicious a combination ns that Ion,h i: by the jute manufacturers. To resort lignin to jute as a covering for eoltoi would not only be against the best inter psts of the fanners, but would be unjust to tlie interests which have hern huilt up as a result of the Imyrott. The greed of the jute men nverieaehi d itself in tins instance, and the indications go to show that the profitable market into which they entered .n highway rolibi i- will never again be opened to them. The Manufacturers’ Record make, little estimate that is of special interest in this connectioi . |l the entire new erop, whieli is estimated 7,000,000 bales, should lie wrapped ill eotton bagging, 35,0110,000 yards of it would be required which is equivalent to 27,000,OOO pound- of the staple, making 11 new market fot 55,000 bales of 500 pounds each. At a very low estimate, it is believed tlmi this increased eonsiiinption will add lo tin uuirkit price of till’ staple at least half a cent a pound, giving 1111 additional : i able of $3 50 to each bale, while He saving by the use of jute would he but 23 cents a bale. It is not expected that lids .'csult will be brought about at once, but it is certain to follow the persistent refusal of the fanners to use jute \Vr inns ay here that 1111 Atlanta gen tlenian, v. hose process foi extracting lilircs has attracted attention even in foreign eoinitiies, is now expi riiuentiug w ith tlie nbre of the eotton plant. He thinks that for a comparatively insignificant shim In can place on each farm a machine I'm stripping Hie luirk from (he eotton f lail, direct ly I lie picking is over, and la Ion the plant has become dry and bard Itoiii the bark the fibre' ran be 1 xtraetcl .it a cost almost nominal, and il can then la worked up in the same maimer as |iilc and woven on the same machinery. \V. G. Met 'line and A. Spain, agents foi (iateley A Conroy, a large niniinereial house of Cincinnati, were arrested in Raleigh, N. last Saturday. They were* selling goods ami the city authorities thought they were subject to the lieen-e imposed on peddlers, and de manded the payment of license tax. Tlie agents declined to pay the tax. claiming that they were driiiinncrs. ami that the business they carried on was ex actly I he same as that done by dnuitim is for eoinmereial houses. One agent had been thlough the cily‘■clliiig Ila goods, and another agent followed, d: hiding MU It goods as were sold. The ease was carried before ,1. AV. Marconi. J. I’., who all i n lioniing de eided till' agent' Merc subject lo the tax imposed on peddlei-. I'hry refused to pay it and were committed to jail. J. ('. L. Harris, who iscoiiit'c! for the agents, left foi Raltiniore. where he will sue for a w rit of habeas corpus before Judge Rond. In case this is granted the agents will he sent there foi a hearing. Tile panics who are in custody have been seliing clocks. ■ ilveiw.ne, etc. Th" South Carolina State Penitentiary Farms. Finn a gentleman who is familiar with the nindilion of III" 1 lops on the various farm operated by the S. ('. Renio iitiarv w i'li eo iv n 1 labor the Hun an a< ei tains that that the prospect fora large yield on all the larniN is very fine. Here is a very rnii'-ervative estimate of the probable pro duction on oneh. In shels mid other ncei- Peace Between Guatemala vndor. The Guatemalan legation has a cable dispatch iiiiiiouneiiq mala lias signed pi The despatch furth.n' say: and Gal- 1 mad' ami an -me t I value are not lukea j ‘.iiiiatc. dents hat re»l. Wheat litrellr s: Big Lake, 800; Iree’ii Hill, 0 IO ("till 1, 100 bushels. Hals bushe ls; »ig l.nk", 7 o t); Green Hill. *. 0011; Am dll i v ' M00; SpigenerV *ino axington, too- "lal. 1 1 OUo bushe ls l o: n bushels; lig .ilk". .! 50 >; Green Hill. Am lit I V s. 2,Mill , SpigomT’s ;;,e.oo ; Sims's |, '•)(» ■ i.ixinql' Ml, b O; to ial. l V-’OO bu c li Is. ( "1,011 bales; Dig Lik*. ;i0 »; the e i Hill, 300 A ugh try \s. *'0 ». 'pi’.e’ll. 1 v. loo Sim’s, *‘.’5; hexing ton, t ; total, l.l 5 bale Ol thc.s# Precocious People Pull Political Plums Peisistingly, Pledging Proper Party Promises. Tlie Republic,ms of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania district have nominated John K. Sehoener for Congress. The Republicans of the Ninth N.'C. District renominated Hamilton G. Ewart for Congress, by acclamation, at a conven tion held in Waynesville. At the convention held at the Bul lard House, Richmond, Geqrgc D. Wise was chosen for the sixth consecutive time as the Democratic standard bearei i,i the third Virginia congressional district. He has served four terms and received the | certificate two years ago, tint was unseat ed by the present House to make room for Representative Wnddill. The Democratic convention in the fourth congressional district of Louisiana renominated N. C. Blanchard. A. L. Tolden was nominated for Con gress at the Democratic convention of Erie and Crawford counties. Fa. The nomination was tendered to W. L. Scott, but he declined. General W. H. F. Lee w as renominated for Congress by the Leesburg, Va., eon ventiou Wednesday without opposition. Tliia is the eighth Virginia. Maj. W. II. Bradley, a prominent law yer of Charleston, was nominate^ by the Democratic convention for Congress from the first South Carolina diet rid to sue eeed Dibble. It looks as if Congress would not ad jnurn before November. United States Senator Henry AV. Blair (rep.A writes: “Just think! we have put at least fifteen million 11 year more lax for pension money upon the South for our soldiers at this session. She w ill now pay $25.1100.000 or more every year in pensions t o the North, while we refuse iter $5,090,000 yearly to help educate her children. It is a great shame, and the people will not stand it in any part of the country long." H. E. Pattison. Tuesday, formally ac cepted the Democratic nomination lor Governor of Pennsylvania. Tlie President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Levi R. AA riglit, of the District of Columbia, to be Register of AVills in the District of Columbia, vice Dorsey Claggctt. resigned, and AV. E. Sims, of Virginia, to be consul of the United States at Colon (Aspinwalli. A Bradford, Pa., special says that Sen ator Emery has addressed 11 letter to the chairman of the committee of the indus trial convention that nominated him for Congress, declining the nomination. Mr. Emery states in l* igti.w “Alv accept- — \ lib fill.' - r " J>i any source, however laudable, 0 f |„ v ( p leal DcTamatcr, the ncpui>ii\.iu uoiuu.n for Governor. A foreign dispatch says: “The Com mittee of the Servian Progressists w ere poisoned at a banquet at Topoln." Amer ican polities mny be lively, but European Congressman Kennedy, of Ohio, has put in circulation an agreement to be signed by Republican members of the House pledging them to prevent the Tar iff bill going to the President until the election bill is passed by the Senate, lie ] claims to have forty-nine signatures. Tlie North Carolina Democratic State | convention met at Raleigh. There was a j large mid brilliant representation from 1 seventy-one of the ninety-six counties. Hon. A. S. Mcrrimnn was renominated for Supreme Court Justice by acclamation, and Hon. Walter Clark was nominated by acclamation for Associate Justice. The convention unanimously and enthusias tically endorsed Senator Z. B. Vance, and urged his re-election to the Senate by the General Assembly in 1891. B. F. Morgan, a AA'obster county, Ga.. Ga., republican, aspires to the honor of of running for Congress in the third against Judge Crisp. It is said that Hon. John Temple Graves, of Rome, Ga., will be one of the secretaries of the executive department under tlie Northcn administration. Mr. Blaine's recent visit to Philadel pliiu recalled to him the fact that for a time during his early career he earned his living in that city by newspaper work and as a tutor in a deaf and dumb asylum. The Farmers' Alliance w ill nominate a candidate for congress iu the Kansas Citv, Missouri district. Ex Govcnor Charles Foster has publish ed a letter positively declining to be con sidered as a Republican eondidate for Congress in the 8lli district of Ohio. The Pennsylvania State Prohibition Convention met at Harrisburg. A plat form of thirteen sections was adopted. Only two or three sections relate to pro hibition. AV. AV . Russell. Hie present postmastei at Anderson, 8. C., is in Was|iiii;:ton. lo a reporter lie seemed to be in a happy frame of mind, but rather iitieoiuniiini cative on the subject ol his vi-.il to the Capital. He said, however, tlial it was of i onsidernhle iuiportanee to the people of Smite Carolina. "Y"U lieu -:i\ Hire," he added, "that 1 will be tin next Con- gressman from Hie 3d district I am jiret as sure to succeed Judge Cotluan as the sun shines, and there ir no powir that can prevent it save from Ih non. The n< e among the Deni" nits in nil’ dislii-t is very badly mixed and 1 run tiio rnnfident that I will be elected ‘ides of Xnvcmhci I'liis is Russell woiiid say. prefelting, lie to keep out of public pi inis The Repiiolieau State Convention of Wisconsin lure re'iiomimitiai Governor Hoard t»v aeetainalioi-i Where Mr. Porter’s Population Table* Put UB. All the Southern States will show al gratifying increase of population. The following figures are the result of rough, calculation from census returns: Alabama now has a population of 1,520,- 900, against 1,262,505 in 1880; Arkansas has increased from 802,525 to 1,182,000;! Delaware from 146,608 to 175,000; Flori da from 269,493 to 396,000; Georgia from 1,542,180 to 1,840,000; Kentucky from 1.618,096 to 1,870,000; Louisiana from 039,946 to 1.115,000; Maryland from 934,943 to 1,400,000; Mississippi from 1,131,597 to 1,265,000: North Carolina from 1,399,750 to 1,040,000; South Caro lina from 995,557 to 1,187,000; Virginia from 1,512,505 to 1,700,000; West Vir ginia from 018,457 to 774,100; Tennesseo from 1,542,359 to 1,800,070. Texas has inereased 000,000, having now a popula tion of about 2,175,000. The increase ir\ Missouri has been 400,000, and her pop. ulation is 2,657,000. The tide of foreign immigration still sets steadily towards the Northwest. The South is gaining heavily by a movement the older States of the North and East, and is getting a more stable and satisfac tory growth. roughly in the ill At, Mali d. product* Ih" Ri iii!"ii,cii 1 viiil half :re Hi" -li.n- of Hu Slat", cxi i pt u- llie l.exiuglon r.inu, which is operated solely Im Hie benefit of the prison am 1 whieli is really more of a 1 onvaleseent I limp than a laiin. The fodder, h iv. ipia'illis, potatoes, etc., whieli v ill in: ' be of 1 ollsidi 1 ail!" account ol iii Hire c»- le< civet) (hat Guatc with Sulvndor that Rriident Ayah has assumed pow er, and ir arranging for an election for President. Then Tia l’n tin: train lie , AV• ; put oa about (>1 We'll Travel. ' ' il I.iue e 111111111 ball 1 rl”!' I" At! 11!1.1 v ill be J bu lit .1. Hendrix Mel,nne, of Greenville, will be a candidate for congressional honors ihiougli the Republicans of the fourth South Carolina district. TheAV.Ya State Republican conven tion nu t at Martinsbiirg. The platform ad ipted endorses the iieiiiiiiistialiiui "f Rri sident llarri on; 1 ongratiilates the country on the record made by the house ol repn .1 nlalivi s, commends Speak'r I, id' 11 Mil -1 : i'iii lorses the federal ilee H m I ill ami iiati"ii.il bankrupt! y bill, an I 'Irnuiiiircs everything di moeratie. II 'i R N Reynolds, of Keyser, received Hie ii"minaH"ii for supreme judge. I'll" Ti iiiiesM c Democratic executive "ii .iiuitti c h re ilci idi il that Mi Riu Italian, Hi" Demoeiatie candidate for Governor, ‘ fin'd uni tm el hi-- Republican unit Rro liiliilioil r oiiipelitois in joint 1I1 bate II 1- lik 'ly that airaiieeiiieitls will In- ih.-iiIc Ini a joint t ain ass in which the candidate of I he Republican parly will be confront- by Hu 1‘i'ihiliition Icmler. Midsummer Activity in the South, Some idea of the activity that prevails* in all industrial lines throughout the South, and of Hie w ide diversity of this development, may be gained from a brief siiiuiuary of the new enterprises reported in this week's issue of the .Wanufactvrwe' In Virginia contracts have been pi'in tieally closed for the investment of $1.5011.11110 of English money in Glasgow; at Suffolk a $309,000 improvement com pany has been organized: at Staunton a $50.(00 wmiilwi'rking plant; at Roanoke a $509,000 iron works; at Danville a $300.01 0 improvement company; at Suf folk a $25,000 electric light company; at Basie City a $100,000 woodworking fac- faetory; io Rockland a $25,000flourmill; nt Radford a $150,000 water works and electric company. In Florida there is great activity in phosphate developments, and during the week a $3,000,000 com- piuiy , a $i ,000,000 company, a $250,000 company and a $200,000 company have been iir/ani/eil to mine phosphate rock and establish fertilizer works; at Fernan- din.i .1 $30,000 ice factory is to be built. Jn Ti iiiu s.ee a $500,000 cotton mill is to be built, and two rolling mills, one to m t $100,000; a $90,000 brewery, a flour mill and $30,000 powder works. A $609,000 coal mining company has been organized in Texas, a $500,000 light and heat company in Louisiana, $75,000 elec tric company in Texas, a $50,000 lumber eonipanv in Arkansas, two lumber com- j ',111 it V Oj •MOO.000 and $12,000capital re spectively in Texas, a $50,000 granite r.'. , !!'!. Kin ' v .._ s :'. , ! H !...^r$5(rwbrr^- works in Georgia and $50,000 brick works in Louisiana, anil a $50,000 shoe manu facturing company in North Carolina. < >1 .smaller enterprises the number is very la rue, ami includes saw mills, ice factor ies, cotton-seed oil mills and many other enterprises. With such activity a* this in midsum mer. when Southern people are closely occupied in irettimr ready to handle their jxrcat eotton erop, and when Northern people are waiting for the return of fall before taking an active part in Southern development, it is difficult to predict what stirring times will lie seen later on in the season. In a month the eotton crop will be moving freely and money will Im* very abundant, and Northern cap italist- will by that time be ready to be- "in their Southward march in great num bers Enormous Investments of English Capital to be Made in the South. The investment of foreign money in the South the coming fall and winter promis es to he unprecedentedly heavy. The Mnuii/th t'imr* lieconL as the medium of communication between Northern and English invrstois and the owners of Southern properties, has for years been able to carefully watch all movements looking to the placing of money in this section. It lias generally known confiden tially of the heaviest investments long be fore il was permitted by the projectors to make their plans public. Within the last month or so we have learned of up wards of $<iO.uo0.000 of English capital that has been otTcred for investments iu a great many Southern enterprises, iuclud ing railroads town ►ehcnies, mineral properties Am In addition to this cnor mous amount there are main heavy in vestments being made which are not in cluded in this summary, as this is only what has been brought directly to our at tention, and concerning which nothing has yet been published in Europe or America. While the Tift'ortl has for a eat s held a elos* relationship between | the North ami tlie South, it is only with I in the last twelve or fifteen months that it lias pushed its intlueuee to the same ; extent into nearly all the leading financial houses and iron and steel making con cerns of Great Ihitain. though, of course, it has had many readers there for years. In that country it has become as invalua. ble t«* investors as in the North, and we are daily hearing of the great power that it is ( \ntiiig in turning English capital * to the South. Within the next six months the aggre gate investments of English memey in Southern e’lite rpri-es \\il| astemish the whole’ country We arc at the’ 1*. ginning ot a period of aetivitv whieli will bring gre ate r pn pei it \ to i lie South than has be e n even die allied of. Jixrnl. Be li 'V ‘y She is Mrs. Cleveland. Mi Eli/abetli Mihs, H brautiful young hd' Iimiii t a na. \h . wa-take n to the ' a!e' insane .' .v him. where’an e iTurt will In mad to t ure’ h r of a s'range’ hallue i nat i* Gro\ viiil whit Mil* a Mi- Mil' s iu-i-tv that sh* is Mis. • i e h va Ian i; that her husbanel is pit- id*nt and In * plae-e m at the h'’'!-' Sh' 1 is a el,mghter of Ira N . a "t ahhv md promine nt e iti/e n of SI, lh\ count.. Mi Mik me t |*re a d< i anti Mi- \ h ve laud at Montgonerv. \l i tin ■ v. a; a •. and wa- mm h ph • I v i* h t h* I'tt 1 : \ viarago Mi>s M" o II lioin :> ho;• :nd her In ad was hadlv hurt, sle has sine e he rn elemented, ami li.-v. - In i < I! I-* h. Mi (’le ve land. Sh* i i at ional "ii ail ot In r subjects. Deaths from Sunstroke. \ugn I \*V hum.” a Ih ui in, m uch e>l tli" Ilav'ai tan icgime nt lre«m EihM-tadt t > M o khreit. 1 To men l llftemi sun troke. Thfo of them dual, and sevtuteeu are dving. THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER . Y r • /-1 f * i Im mmm A