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' ■ ■ % 'WWO .lawmam {Property of of he CDurhngton County (Historical Society DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL, 1. DARLINGTON, S. C„ WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1890. NO. 11. Only one couuty (Wasnoe) j E Nevada ehows an increase in population over tLe census ten years ago.. It is estimated that the railroads of tae United States lose §2.000,000 yearly by land-slides, §5,000,000 by floods, §1.000,000 by fire and §9,000,000 by coilisioas. Nearly one thousand heads of families in the Province of Quebec alone have made application for the state bounty o 100 acres of land voted to Canadian who are the father* of twelve children o. more. ‘‘The transfer of Heligoland to Ger many is creating an amount of talk and excitement that is much greater,” says the Chicago Herald, “than the subject calls for. Every week some real estate dealer transfers a larger and more valua ble tract right in the city limits of Chi cago, and makes no noise about it at all.” In the future, in all Government docu ments and official publications in Canada, such words as flavor, labor, honor, etc., must be spelt with the “u,” according to the English usage, as favour, labour, honour, and not as hitherto, after American style. Montana leads all other States and Ter ritories in the value of its mineral out put, although a very small proportion of its mines are being worked. The mineral produced iu 18S9 was 814,000,000, and over half this amount, or over §22,900, 000 was produced in Butte alone. Tina output is increasing all the time. The rules of the Now Tork Co.Tce Exchange have been amended «n as to make codec from the East and West In dies, North. Central and South America a “good delivery,'’ that from Brazil only paving beau a goal delivery heretofore. The amount of coffee from these coun tries, estimates the Farm, Full and Stockman, will be 12,000,000 bags iu lieu of 4,000,000 as the rule stood be fore. The Supremo Court of Illinois has just decided that a man cannot be ex cluded from the witness stand in that State on occouat of his religious disbe lief. The witness la the case under re view believed in a God and a hereafter, and in punishment through the courts if he swore falsely, but he had formed no opinion about punishment in the next world. Tho Supremo Court hold that he was a competent witness. The wealth of the United States is un officially estimated at §71,500,000,000, an increase in teu years of forty-two pel cent. England’s wealth was placed at §51,000,000,000 in 1835, but divided among a smaller population than that of the United States; while the value of France's property is put at $36,000,- 000,00'J. Taxes in England average §20 per capita and in the United States, §12.50. ___________ The decree of the Sultan of Zanzibar that no slaves be sold in his dominions will be the same dead letter, predicts the Washington Star, that it is <n Constan tinople. The open slave market has been abolished in both places for several years, but the traffic in human flesh goes on just the same, for slavery is part of the social fabric and cannot be elimi nated auy more than Mohammedanism. The British have winked at it for years, and the Germans will have to do the same. “You would be astoaished to see the progress which Socialism has inadt among the rustics here in Germany,” writes a tourist to the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, “A mile below the castle is a little vKIsge iu which there were sixty Socialist votes'at the last election. Tares miles away in tho opposite direction is a village of paper-making mills, in which there were 300 Socialist votes at the last February ‘poll.’ The State church iu Germany is not in touch with the masses of the people. And it never will get the masses until it takes a different attitude toward institutions and especially toward Socialism.” CEEAM OF LOCAL NEWS. The Happenings of This And Adjoin ing States Chronicled. Now Pay Attention and Listen, For Every One of These Items Will Interest You, Whether Healthy, Poor or Wealthy, Lame, Holt or Blind. A clergyman writes as follows in th* Chicago Adcance: “Clarical hospitality Is declining. T.ie minister's house is no longer the stopping place of all ministers who pass his way. Possibly the change to both bon and guest is in some respects desirable, yet ia other respects it is un desirable. The virtue of hospitality may sometimes be a hard drain upon th« narrow larder of the parsonage, but it does tend to promote that hearty fellow ship which ministers need and whiol they are glad to give and receive. Every one in Massachusetts knows the Rev. Daniel Butler, the agent of the Massa ehusetts Bible Society, a man with such a leputatiou for wit that it must indeed be no small strain even for one who ba? so much ability to sustain the reputation. Mr. Butler tells me that fifty years age there was hardly a parsonage in Massa rhusetts that he would not feel free ta eater as an uninvited guett, but tha now there is hardly a parsonage int< which he would feel free to go witbou a special invitation. I confess that rather mourn the old days of clerical bos pllcUtj.”, _ SOUTH CAROLINA. The good people, of Trenton, Edgefield county, are erecting a new school building and will open a graded school at that place on the first of October. W. M. Bostick, of Allendale, and O. F. Hunter, of Hartzog's, are the successful candidates for beneficial y cadetship from Barnwell county. T wo white convicts escaped from a con vict camp at the Ciemson Agricultural College on Tuesday last. The guards shot at them,but without effect, and they made good their escape. They are William Glad den, sent up from Pickens for house-break ing and larceny and who had one more year to sbrve, and I). D. Duncan, sent up from Williamsburg for two years for grand larceny and had served seven month:-. Whitfield Murrell, one of the young white boys convicted of tho murder o't Younce, will be hanged in the Edgefield jail on Friday, the 20th instant, unless hb sentence is commuted to life imprisoment in the Penitentiary. Strong petitions for and against his commutation of sentence have been forwarded to the Governor. The people of Graniteville and vicinity arc looking forward to the completion ot the Augusta extension of the Atlantic Coast Line from Sumter. Th" Edgefield Ginning, Milling and Fertilizer Company building is completed and has commenced active operations. Ii is a mammoth affair and is among one ol thti largest establishments of the kind in the State. There are four distinct busi nesses operated at the same time. The oil mill, the compost factory, where fertilizers o _ are prepared, the ginning department, u §3,530,461,° and the operating ex j where six ninety-saw cotton gins are run iscs §2.139,850, leaving as the net' —the price for ginning a bale of cotton being one dollar—and the grist mill. This enterprise will give employment to a large number of persons and will open up an extensive and entuely new business for Edgefield. H' ury Hemmiuger, colored, who was in the jail at Abbeville under sentence of death died Wednesday night. He was convicted at the last term of Court on the charge of rape, committed on a little negro girl about 9 years of ago, and sentenced by Judge Izlar to be hanged on Friday, the 0th of September, which was last Fri day. His attorney, Mr. W. L. Miller, took an appeal to the Supremo Court, winch is now pending, and thus the exe cution of the sentence was suspended. Death has ended the case and' Henry Hcmminger will be tried at ahighcr Court. He had been sick for some days. GEORGIA. AMONG THE ALLIANCES. What The Organization fa Doing Throughout The Country, A Resume’ of The Work Accomplish ed at Washington By The Closing Session of the National Legis- islature, And What More Is Needed. POUfioAt poktebs. AMBER, CRYSTAL PEARLS, State and Congressional Conventions Of tho Different Parties Hepoited Correctly.—Political Chat, and Signs of the Times. BOMB INTERESTING TACTS ABOUT THREE CURIOUS SUBSTANCES. TENNESSEE. The town cf Hickory Valley, nine miles south of Bolivar, is afflicted with an epi demic of slow fever. W, Byrne is president of a newly oi- ganized bank at Jasper. Rev. J. J. Tigcrt, D. D., Professor of the Biblical department cf Vanderbilt University, has resigned that position, as he has been selected as pastor of a church in Kansas City, Mo., (he pulpit of which was formerly occupied by the Rev. &. A. Steele. Mrs. James K. Poik, the widow of Pres ident Polk, completed her 87th year last Thursday. She lives on the Polk place near Nashville, and each year the members of tho General Assembly go out to pay their respects in a formal and courtly man ner at her home. Three years ago Mrs. Cleveland called on her. The stockholders of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, met I at Nashville. The annual report shows ; tho gross earnings for the year to have bee peuses §2.139,850, leaving earnings !?1,410,010, most of which was expended in extensive improvements and building of the new shops at Nashville. An increase of teu per cent, capital r-tock of the company was authorized, The city council of Knoxville has passed a resolution to issue the §273,000 of bonds to pay tho subscription which the Knox ville Southern railroad company became entitled to by completing its line to Knox ville on time. The road connects at Knoxville with the Knexvilie & Cumber land Gap Railway, which line furnishes a connection with the Louisville, at Mid- Ulesborough, Ky., giving that city a con tinuous line of nearly 800 miles by way of j Knoxville to Atlanta, Ga., and passing j through a prosperous country. Spotted fever has broken out in Sum- 1 ncr county so badly, that people arc leav- • the infected district. Twenty cases ! of the fever and nine deaths are reported. All those attacked are men and boys. The boys that have it were attending school, near which place is a burying- ground, where several victims were buried daring the existance of tha fever in March. The fever is known as the cerebro-spinal menengitis by the medical fraternity. It is acute inflamation, and involving mem branes of the brain, spina! cord and me dulla. Its average duration is about four teen days, but several have died within a few hours after being attached. County Physician H. M. Foitea has been notified to visit the stricken district. VIRGINIA. A vein of gold has been struck in Spotsylvania. §560,0 iu is to be appropriated ior the improvement of the streets of Roanoke. Judge Bond has issued an order re straining the Roanoke and Southern road from obstructing the track of the Danville and New River road at Waller’s ford, Henry county. 2,790 bales of cotton was received at Norfolk Wednesday. Delegates to the Pharmacist Convention were entertained with an oyster roast at Virginia Beach. Captain Samuel Kimberly, recently appointed consul to GnuUmala, has sailed from Norfolk for his post of duty. Tho Atlantic and Danville railroad is controlled by an English syndicate, who will speedily extend it Westward. The first session of Randoluh-Macon Academy, at Lynchburg, openecl with an entire enrolment of students highly satis factory to the faculty. A majority are from Virginia,but Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia, and other States are well represented. The local attendance i-. also good. A couple of wealthy gentlemen from Dakota are at Petersburg, for the purpose of purchasing, if possible, five thousand acres of land near there on which to settle a colony of famers from Dakota. If the land can be purchased, it is proposed to cut it up into farms of from fifty to sixty acres each. The purchasers of th< luxe ruiroundiug the natural bridge at Natural Bridge. Yu., are maturing plans fur buddies’ a magnifi cent summer resort. The syndicate have chartered the Natural Bridge Park Asso ciation, and propc .es erecting a $‘’50,000 hotel of brownitone imd guiuitc, to bo of the most modern style and lighted by 000 incandescent aud 12 t.vc lights, and intend making the sui rouudiugs equal to any sim ilar resort in the count i y. H CAROLINA bail team defeated NORT The Winston bail team defeated the Richmond, Vu., team al Winston, Mon day, by a score cf 20 to 12. T. R. Folsom, founcrly of Sumter, 9. C., but for the last three years of Wil mington, commitcd suicide at the latter place Monday by shootinghimself through the head with a pistol. Ill health aud despondency are unsigned a:; the cause. Section 6 of the act creating th* World’s Columbian Expos'dion et Chica go, provides for the selection of a board of lady manages, composed of two ladies and alternates from each State: Each commissioner makes .an appointment. Col. A. B. Andrews yesterday appointed Mrs. George W. Kidder, of Wilmingiou. Pt. Jas. E, Roger: war fatally thot by William F. Boyd near Alexander's, Bun- f ombo county. Rogers received three balls in his head, and died in 45 minutes. The cause of the sliooting was a dispute about the payment of an account due Rogers by Boyd. Boyd was taken to Ash eville aud committed to jail. He claims that the shooting wus done iu self de fense. Wednesday afternoon a warrant was is sued for W. V. Sellers, postmaster at Lebanon, Columbus county, on charge of embezzlement, end making false returns of cancellation of stamps. He is said to be §2,000 short. Sellers has fled the State. A temporary structure has been built over the Yadkin river ia place of the wrecked bridge end tho Richmond and Danville have commenced a tunning as usual over tho regular line. The old bridge will be replaced by a handsome new Ror one, The apple crop in this section this year says the Daltou Citizen, is somelhing im mense. Our produce dealers are shipping barrels upon barrels of fruit to all parts of the country. At their September meeting the county commiseiouers fixed the county tax rate of Terrell couuty at 5 mills and 4-100 of a mill, which, added to the state tax of 3 mills aad 90-100 of a mill, makes the tax es of Terrell countr this vesr, *9 on the §100. The date of the Catoosa county fair has again been changed to the 30th of Sep tember. Albany citizens held a mass meeting to secure a better locatiou than the one pro posed for their new union passenger depot. The Southern Musical Convention of Middle Georgia met in annual session at Fredoniu church, Griflin, and continued j until Sunday. This is one of the largest and oldest society of musicians in the South. Walker county >' fast becoming one ol the largest in mileage of railroads in the slate. She h .:'uov. completed over fifty miits, and w ithin a year will have not less than P5 or 90 miles of railroad within hci borders. A negro named Henry Williams was •struck on the head by a Columbus South ern passenger train, near Dawson, a few nights «gc>, receiving an ugly w ound on bis lead and a hole in biship. Williams had been tilling up with a corpse, and being overcome with fatigue while en route home sat down on the track aud fell asleep A sad and latat accident occurred near Agiieola last Saturday. A little child of Mr. Henry May was standing near a tree when lightning struck the latter. The fragments hit the child on the head and body, breaking its leg and otherwise in juring it. The little one died instantlv. General E. Alexander, receiver of the Savannah, Griffin aud North Alabama railway, will oiler the road, rolling stock and all its franchises for sale at Griffin, Tuesday, November 4th. This road is 60 miles in length, and runs through the counties of Spalding, Fayette, Coweta and Cmrollteu. The road is to be sold for not less than §500,000 Loth of w hich is to be paid to the receiver at the time of the sale, and the balance when the Spalding superior court lias confirmed the sale. The road runs between Griffin and Canoltou. FLORIDA. The Apalachicola Times invites South Florida to send its surplus of fruit and vegetables to that place to be «anned. The ice famine at Tampa, caused by the shutting down of one of the works for repairs, caused a temporary suspension of the fishing industry. 8. J. Slight, of Lady Lake, has withiu the past six weeks bought 80.000 boxes of orange* on the trees, and is still buving. The prospect now is that the bulk of the crop will he sold iu the State this year. Major Green, of Ooala, sold his entire crop on the trees at §1.45 per box. Mr. W. C. Sherman has the skin of a rattlesnake at his jeweriy establishment in Orlando, seven feet and lour inches in length, and having eleven rattles. The snake was killed near Pinecaetle, and when cut open a full-grown rabbit and squirrel were found inside of it. OTHER STATES. Baitk Start was arrested at Bonham, I'ex., on a charge of assault to kill, coai- aitted tweutv.seven vearsacro. The bodies of tweuty-one persons who wete drowned during Hi lloo ls in Ger many have been found floating in the Elbe. David 8. Dougherty, a wealthy lumier >f Ferris, Tex., while lying on a cot in tis bouse talking to his wife, sitting near lad the hole top of his head blown off >y uu assassin using a double-barrel shot- ,'uu. No cause is known for the. deed md no clue to the perpetrator. Telegrams have been sent from Mont- ,’omery to the Senators from Albany, it is eported. “urgjug that every effort be lade to defeat the Conger lard bill, on he ground that it will fie a calamity to he South,” and conveying the information nat ‘ the price of cotton seed has iilea 20 pet cent already in consequence of the probability of the passage cf the bill." An Alliance store has been opened at Shenandoah, Va. Mr. Burks, the Georgia State Seorettiy continues to send out cnartere. Fifty thousand dollars has b*en put L.to a State exchange in Georgia of colored Alliance men. „ me National tanners’ League has only been started six months, ana has a mem bership of 40,000 in the state cf New York alone. / The Georgia county and eub-Alliances are all standing firmly against the use of jute, bagging. Cotton bagging will be one substitute. Now that that tl's'A.lliance has decided to build their oil miH here, says the Jack- son Herald, of Jefferson, Ga , let us have the bank in operation by the time the mill is eomnleted. The Americus, Ga, Recorder state* that an Alliance warehouse is to be open ed at Pinehurst, in Dooley county. This gives Dooly several warehouses at conven ient points An Eastman, Hat, letter cays: At a meeting of the Alliance here on Tuesday last, they decided that they would use cotton bagging again this year, and made arrangements to have a large lot of it at once. As the season for State and county fairs is close at hand, it is urged upon members of the order to secure wherever possible an “Alliance day,” and obtain a good Alliance speaker }or the occasion. Through this means the doctrines and principles of the order can be placed before many of th* best fanners of the country that Alli ance literature has failed to reach. President Polk ha* completed his tour, and will be at his office in Washington until further notice. The State Alliance meetings for the year are now nearly all adjourned; and encouraging reports come from all over the field. It is apparent that a more per fect consolidation will be effected at the Ocala meeting of the National Council next December. The Missouri State Alliance, at its re cent meeting, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, U. 8. Hall; secretary, J. W. Rogers; treasurer, T. V. Hickcox; State lecturer, George W. Williams. A. P. Baskins, secretary of the Florida State Alliance, Anthony, writes that “at a meeting of the board of directors of the Alliance exposition, there was donated 1,000 boxes of oranges as. a free gift to the delegates to the National Alliance to be held in Ocala in December next. Flor ida wants to make our brethren from the different states of the Union feel at home while here, nnd this donation of 120,000 oranges is freely given to help make their visit here one of pleasure, and to help them feel we appreciate the honor of en tertaining them as our guests.” + *«►**♦ THE KAIIOSAE AGRICULTURAL APPRO PRIATIONS. The Department of Agriculture, as the farmers’ representative in the administra tion of the National Government, should be strengthened in all useful ways aud all reasonable methods. To that department belongs oversight of the “land and the fullness thereof." Its scientiflc work be ing always utilitarian in character, de mands the best talent and the most hon est service. It is a department to be trusted, because, though it may make j mistakes and fall short of its own require ments, as does everything human, it can not but right itself in short order. The farmers are in favor of all reasona- able legislation which tends to make their department of more service. Some cf such measures now pending in Congress are, for example, the proposed transfer of the weather service fiom the War to the Agricultural Department. There ha* been a general desire to see this accomplished at the present session, and it is confident ly expected that the 51st Congress will not adjourn without making this import ant change. Another valuable proposition is (hat to enable the Secretary of Agricul lure to continue to completion the inves tigation begun last April into the under flow and artesiju water supplies that are to be found within the great plain* re gions, or between the 97th meridian of west longitude aud the foothills of the Rockies. An appropriation of §40,000 has already passed the Senate as an amend ment to the general deficiency bill, now pending. The anjendm-nt containing the appro priation also directs the Secretary to in quire into the general subject of irrigation and its relations to agriculture. The far mers must lie as a class practieal men. They need information. It is within the most stringent limits of the strictest rules of constitutional construction that money maybe expended- for the gathering and publishing of economic and other data. The appropriation referred to is within those lines. It is part of a v ise policy which will make the Department of Agri culture more and more important, as in justice to the great interests under it* cate should be the case. The transfer of tfc weather service nn.l t',.; comimhensive investigation of irrigation will naturally lead to an extension of the study of clima tology, of zone-plant, and animal life; of forestry and of hydrology. It will lead up to them as utilitarian aims and ends, and not for the mere posing so often known as “research for science.” It is possible In the closing dajs of the session, either by oversight or' through organized resistance by other influences, that the irrigation appropriation may lx- overlooked or ignored. The conflict over the Geological Survey .and its uv- of the irrigation appropriation during the last two years may have bred some ill will offices, and tuu reduction of >alaries all around, and declares that “white supre macy is the bulw ark of every civilization, which can only bu secured by democratic unity." The New Hampshire Prohibition Stats Convention nominated Josiah M. Fletch er, of Nashua, for Governor, and the following for Congress: 1st distriat, Rev. Frank K. Chase, of Dover; 2d district, Chas. H. Thorndike, cf Concord. Chairman E. C Smith, of the N. C. Democratic State executive committee, has returned from WaHiington city. As regards the editorial attack on Senator Vance by Col. Polk, it is stated that thsre will be no further attacks of that charac ter in the official organ of the Farmers’ Alliance. The Republican State Convention Insects Encased In Amber—A Re markable Discovery of Crystal- How Chinamen Produce Pearls. | “Amber is a curious stuff,” said a col lector ef curios the other day, “It is Duly comparatively recently that iu na- j lure has been known, and even at this i lay very few people seem to have any lotion as to what it is in reality. The : indents regarded it as altogether myste* 1 nous and even magical. They found that It wae rendered electrical by friction so as to attract light substances, and onr word ‘electricity’ comes from the Greek | name for amber, which wat ‘electron.’ : ! A favorite puzzle with them was how the j of insects so frequently found in amber , of Delaware has nominated Henry A. C ame to be so situated. I have mysel? Richardson, of Dover, for Governor, and a chunk of very transparent ambei Henry P Cannon, for Congress. . la w hieh a small lizzard with five legs The U. S. Senate Tuesday confirmed was encased, looking as if it might have John Gafiigow as collector of customs for been alive yesterday, though, the district of Cherrystone, Va.; John W. i doubtless, it had been dead for Ross, commissioner of the District of thousands of years. Tha mystery Columbia; S. T. Poimer, postmaster at Spartanburg, S. C. lies with extended jaws, as if waiting for the unfortunate fisherman to drop into them, Tho victim, dropping out of his boat into the depths with a heavy stone attached to his feet, brings hi* leg into contact with the mantle of the hug* mollusk, which closes upon -fhj limb with one tremendous bite. Only on* thing remains then for the diver to do, namely, amputate the limb with his own knife, because the mighty bivalve's Jaws are clasped together with a tenacity that wou».i take several horse powerto !oo««a, and it is anchored to the bottom with i cable of its own fnree times as strong a* tho best inch..rope.”— Waslintton.Star.. COLORED FARMERS’ ALLIANCE. !?’>:*-cn Sub-A’lir.nces of the State Or- ganisalicn ITeet at IIompton-Ac- cersione to the Order—Powell’» Common Sense AN EDITOR ARRESTED £', r ates from sixteen Snb-Alliancss o! ‘he ('•.-lured Farmers State Alliance o! •uth Carolima met nr Hampton Court The Untaxed Ballot League of Massa chusetts was organized at the rooms of Wendell Phillip, Hall Association iu Bos ton. Tire Huu. T Gieeuhalge, of Lowell, was elected President. The Democratic State Convention n;t.' at Grand Rapids,Michigan,and nominated E. B. Winans, of Hamburg, for Govern or by acclamation, and Joan Strong, of Monroe, for Lieutenant Goveruor. There was a time wheu lawyers pro- domiuated in the race for office, but the Dcs Moines Leader has discovered that the newspaper men are now coming to the front, there being iu Wisconsin two edi tors on the Republican State ticket and (our on the Democratic, while the fifth is a printer by trade. Chairman Michencr, of the Slate Ccu- ryal Committee called the Indiana Repub licau State Convention to order. Ncarh all the 1,820 delegates were present. Aitot the usual trouble'in getting the delegate: -ciited. Dr. H. A. Cleveland of tho >jf. E Church, invoked a blessing. He said "We thank thee for harmony among .hose here assembled.” “We thank thee for members here represented, and guidu these descendants of those who gave their lives to preserve the Union. May there go from this convention the note of vic tory.” Milton Truster was nominated for Secretary of State. He is a Fayette county farmer. Auditor, J. N. Walker, of Mar ion; Judge Supremo Court, R. W. Mu- Bride; Clerk Supreme Court, Wm. T. Noble, of Wayne. Summer Howard, one of the most prom inent Republican politicians, of Mk-hi gan, died on Saturday at Flint. In 1870 tc was appointed by President Grant as district attorney for Utah. He secured •he conviction and execution of John I>. Lee, the noted leader in tho Mountain Meadow massacre. In 1882 he was a mem ber of the Michigan Legislature and was tbosen Speaker of the House. Later he was appointed by President Arthur as Chief Justice of Arizona, which office ho resigned in 1886. He had represented Arizona and Michigan in many natianal conventions. The Democratic clubs, of North Caroli- ua arc to meet in Raleigh on the 24th inst., md there is a strong and widespread lesire in the State that Ex-President Cleveland should accept the invitation extended to him to be present. The Wilmington Messenger says: “North Lin oliua Democrats would bo highly pb used to sec the Democratic Ex-Presi dent in our capital city. If Mr. Cleveland should agree to attend it would be very gratifying to the young Democracy, and the veterans, too. would be glad.” J. i> Carr, president of the association, an nounces that Senators Vance and Ransom will certainly attend, and every Demount Congressman and nominee for Congress from North Carolina is expected. V V w •n Sntmd -y last. State L cturer in the chair. The petition of •7.a! tonal Alliance clubs praying to riUrcc! into the State Alliance was •1 ‘ltd Suite Lecturer Powell gran- ir request. i oucty Exchange matter was dis- •red referred to the executive com- Stab, Leetwr T'ou ell requested coui.'y officers to devise some planfoi berer education of the youths of the er in the county, and tiy tc improve • community schools, and advised al! .te bugging and not allow their coitoa •;■ tov rad with jute, for *hc cheap t vc-ic only a snare trap There was uc content! .n, and that w as to bring peace and prosperity to aliconcern- t-’aie Lecturer Powell said ‘ We citizens cf this state, and we are hu- to star. Our ancestors helped to iu ike this State what it is, and we shall hup to make her what the shall be in the future. Wc are determined to build up . -, _ - , ? w ! ec-operatic* industries, giving employ- found at Hove some years ago, togetner tJ 0 , Jr children, which they ccuid nut get otherwise. We have as good a chance here as anywhere else, bu f wc mu t utilize those chsaccs. j regarding this eort of phenomenon is | easily enough explained wheu it is un derstood that amber is actually the fes- \ sil gum of an extinct kind of cone-beat ■ ing tree. Ia the process ef hardening it . imprisoned the flies and other creatures I preserved in the chunks of it that are | found to-day. It is discovered plenti- | fully by digging in certain puts of the great plains of North Germany, where I the strange tree once flourished. It is i also found ‘a considerable quantities | along the shores ot the Baltic, in the i yellow sand stone. At Palmicken, in | East Prussia, it is dug in regular mines: | elsewhere it is picked from cliffs, and a ; good deal of it is gathered in the shape of nodules cast up by the waves. The ! finest specimen of amber in Europe is a cup made of that material cow at the Brighton Museum, England. I ; llou-e i J'; •ell • three u 1 I.;.! the 1 he , - .. r-rin.- : the cot ! the be: i Older i ! t! Irit 3 bo l TLr; i.-tl ‘ ..i, ,1c - ; To an i death din mi > of th. i Yotk Loigham Court, Streatham, near Loa don, comprising elxty-eix acre*, has Just been sold for §450,000. It wa* for many years tha residence of the 1st* Ji ff. Tredwell, » railway contractor, .-who began lit* as a navvy. His widow still preserves th* pick and shovel with which he worked u a laoexare Several farmers' institutes will bo held in different pvt* el New Jersey during th* wmtar, *» -* ■'*• ■# . . .v-*- ....z - 4 SOU1H CAROLISA DEMOCRACY, The South Carolina Democratic State aominatiug Convention remained in scs -ion all night, discussing the report of he Committee on Credentials which rec- lotmnded the eeating of the contesting rilbnmi delegations from Sumter, Fair iebl, nod Berkley counties. The rtpcti was finally adopt' d and between three and five o'clock Thursday morning, the fol lowing Tillman or Fawner's Movement ticket was nominated by a vote of 269 to to. TIU, IICKEI. For Governor, B. R Tillman, of Edge- told: Lieutenant Governor, E. B. Gary, >f Abbeville; Attorney General, Y. j. .•ope, of Newberry; Secretary of State, 1. E. Lindal, of Clarendon; State Trese ller, Dr. W. C. T. Bates, of Orangeburg: Comptroller General, W. II. Ellerbe. o* Marion; Adjutant and Inspector General. •TughL. Farley, of Spartanburg; Superin- endent of Education, W. D. Mayfield ol Greenville. It is a singular laet that the nominees or Governor and Secretary of State arc he only farmers on the ticket. Tin fieasurer is a banker and physician, and ill the others are lawyers. There will be no split in the Democratic party. THE PLATFORM. The platform adopted reaffirms the platform and principele of the National Democratic party; favors free and unlim ited silver coinage; an increase of the cm- rcncy; and the repeal of the internal rev enue system, denounces the McKinley tariff bill; the Lodge force bill, and the action of Speaker Reed; demands the ab olition of uutional banks, and that legal tender treasury notes be issued iu lieu of national bank notes in sufficient volume to do tho business of the country on a cash system, and that ail money issued by the Government shall be legal tender in payment of ail debts, both public and private; also that Congress pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing iu futures of ail agricultural productions, prescribing such stringent methods of procccdure as shall secure prompt convic tion ; also that Congress shall provide for the location of incomes of individuals and the supplies of corporations thereby equal izing the burdens upon the poorer clm-ecs and finally di-.inau.dsgeiKr.il l etrenchments and reform in the administration of the (State government, the almlition of useless which might cause indifference t« tho re sult ; ought in this measure. For this rea son it is impressed upon Congress that a continuance of the artesian and underflow investigation is of great importance to the millions of agriculturists struggling to create now furor, and homes on tue great . great plains. They want a uuull appro priation w.uli', and it will be money " isc- 0’ uPUhJtui if the purpose of tho Stsau — S’iiert?hn*ri* it conew/d tn by Mie ttouse. 11 On t th with weapons and utensils of stone and bronze, so it is evidently very ancient, ! indeed. In the fourteenth century, imd , I before amber was made into knives and i forks with one prong, which were used : by princes and church dignitaries, it • was more valuable than gold then. Now ! it is worth from §2 to §50 a pound, ac cording to its quality. The most im jiortant use made of it is for meerschaum and other pipes. Meerschaum, by the way, is a material dug out of the earth in Turkey; it comes in boxes holding fifty pounds and valued at ftom §20 to |300. The dust and chips obtained from it in the process of manufacture are worked in pipes, this material being called ‘imitation meerschaum.’ Ambei dust is melted, and the product is what is sold as ‘amberinc.’ ” •‘What a very beautiful sphere oi crystal this isl” said tho newspaper man, taking in bis hand a cool globe that looked like a huge dewdrop, which the collector handed him for examination. “Ye*, that is a pretty specimen. 1 suppose j ou are aware of tho theory en tertained by the ancients regarding eucb rock crystal. They thought it was ac tually tco frozen to great density by dura tion of time, congealed beyond liquida tion. ‘Krystallos’ in Greek means ‘ice. 1 ! The famous writer on natural philosophy, | Pliny, who wrote more facts that were I not true than ever any man collected to- i gether before or since, says tho crystal is j undoubtedly water frozen by cold so in- ! tense that nothing can melt it again. ■ Roman ladies of that time were acctts- ! tomed to carry such spheres as this one ; | in their hands during hot weather for j | coolness. It was the thing, also, to have j M I the material worked into wine jugs and j p' i other vessels. Nero had two drinking ' cups of crystal worth §3000 each, and a 1 crystal ladle also; but when he learned i that he had lost his kingdom he broke i them, lest they fall into the hands cf any ‘ one else. A crystal lens was employed in Rome to kindle the sacred vestal five, i \ Great care was taken not to put the crys i tal ware in a warm place for fear that it ■ would melt. The most remarkable dis j eovery of crystal on record was made in 1867 above the Tiefcn glacier by a party of tourists, n single cave in the granite yielding 1000 crystals c f from fifty to i00pounds weight.” “And what is this? ’ “That,” replied the collector, “is a diminutive Cninese god, coveted with a coat of pearl by a real pearl oyster. On tuch parts of the coast of the Flowery Kingdom as produce pearl oystera a reg ular business is often made of manufac turing pearls articficially by introducing Into the shells of the live oysters foreign objects of various kinds. You doubtless know that the pearl is a morbid symptom in the bivalve. A grain of sauci or some such substance getting into the oyster produces irritation, and the animal pro tects itself by covering the objectionable I Gn tl; panicle with coiling after coating of its own pearly secretion. Tho interruption of light by the successive coats of xghich the pearl is formed in this way gives it its beautiful lustre. Taking advantage of this habit ol tne pearl oyster the in genious Chinaman pries it gently open and puts in whatever he like?, maybe ? little figure oi a god like this. The oys ter goes to work and covers it with pearl, until after a few months the idol is a pearl idol. It is worth mentioning in cidentally that sharks are by no means such a terror to pearl divers ns is com monly supposed. It is true that now and then a diver docs get gobbled, but for every such human victim hundreds of sharks are killed by the divers, In a great majority of instances the diver proves much more than a match for tbs sharks, at home a- he is iu the water.and armed with a long, keen knife for strik ing the fish behind the pectoral fin in the fatal spot. The diver is perfectly safe while on the bottom gathering oysters, because the man-eating sharks are not ground feeders and they will nut touch him there. It is when he is rising to the j surface with his catch, out ot breath j after two minutes spent below, that he is ! apt to Hud a fish perhaps thirty-live feet ; in length looming overhead like agigau- ! tic shadow, waiting to take him in at a 1 bite. This is unpleasant, but it is the i shark that gets too worst of it usually, j The first thing that the diver tries to do ! is to get to tho surface for a breath of air, then he gets under again and manceu- vres until he gets the lislt afoul. Pearl divers iu the Torres Straits are not one- twentieth part so much afraid of the tiger shatks which are swarming there as of the giant mollusk at the bottom, tit feet ot mor* «m«is it* shell, winch It I* Asesrtcd that His Political En emies Have Put Up a Job cn Han. Des Mon-’ES, Iowa. Sopt. 15.—North western Iowa is excited ever the arret of George F. UTlliams of Ida Grove. He is one of the best known ccuntiy newspaper rtyn in Iowa, a leading politician and a banker. Early last spring the old opera house at Ida Grove, v.-hich is a competi tor of the opera house twned and man aged by Williams, was damaged by Lie On Monday A P Newman, arrested on the charge of setting the building on flrr. was arranged. He pieced guil.y and made a statement that startled’fda Grove j He said Williams paid him $1C0 to bum | the building. I An indictment agatnet Wirhama was ; returned, and he war, attetted. Th' at- j rest is hailed with delight by the .rati- • Williams faction in Ida couuty. Wilh -ims has been the acknowledged leader one cf the factions. He is a hard fight er, a man who never forgive nor forgets He has been charged with severalernu.. About two years ago he was indicted i ■ criminal libel, at the instance of Bax::-. KecddrCo., banker?. A few days later Banker Reed was arrested cn the chatg: of stealing cattle , having taken a num ber of head of cattle from a Wecdbury j county farmer upon, as he asserted, a j chattel mortgage. Williams wta under ; bonds to appear'for trial, biv: he reopen- i ed the war cn Reed and, hire all hi< at tacks, it was a bitter and a warm one, Williams showed at the trial that the ease against him was brought on account ef personal enmity. He was accordingly •discharged. A number of Ida Grove people unite in pronouncing the arrest a put-up job One of them said; They have been atV: Williams for years I am net surpr.s 1 It may be that they have made tho .Mb complete this time, and that there ’■ ill be persons to swear to stuff that • .".i.: i vict Williams Williams gave bonds in the sure ot } §5,000and was released, FATHER AND SON SLAIN BOYCOTTED Hlifl. Would Have Nothing to Do h a Man Who Insulted the Str.rs and Bars. :?•" a. Va. Speoijl.— The death of H. • ulur b'-r-’ Saiui'bn night was hidi- ibi'-to a re-oluti'u iTltred by him Grand Vnuy Convention at Peters- •-! sprim: rail vet big on the Confcd- tiag. Up to that time ito was very popular with the peoph of Norfolk. The H -flutu.n be ('fla red was in the shape of ■i petit•••n lo t ongre-u to -tup the mnnu i ■ .nn ct the Confederate flag, which. V, h-xler termed “a courtmptible rag." U'- ra t'.'ii irouted the poop!.- here and itib u!ri! \\ breler's business to such an ex tent that after m um weeks ho publicly denied bi ing rcsponsiblo.for the resolu tion He even weld so far a? to appear cd - road Two froiu mi u'on. ie a p Hade at tin: if ad of n detachment -r Grand A rmy men at the time of a Con- f rad''rare eel el'ration. It was su ''fciptently pin •veu, however, tr-.'i lie was the author of the resolution, traid tlran th e feeling again. it him became intensified. Hi? busir :C j ss continued to n tmd be sought relief in drink, over indulge:n e >• attributed hi- Wheeler w&s an ex-Union sol I a post department ccmmuudcr tnoul Vrui' and a native of New The Macon Carnival. .rent trade carnival to come off a' '• > ou the ,:4th cf Octobei will el feature The propose to hat e n the 1,1 VC OIK !■ A. ■ •iciativ. ■ (tin : n paxiilion, whose four ie seal of Georgia. The .* paviiiioa "ill ba after the S* 4 ' te g,i; i ol and the Goddess will “si.d t.-n top of the dome. ’•! itiv o IJii.d be|,.i l and n. pavilli"; •,v.r<l ar •It' I e. I III that M •< • III" of tie t dit' V ■ • •-ill tide G.u ifel't lie-.Je llpui the ta" . I •- •!' lie 1' -ri, law vers who i -i ■■II re. -uivi--fullv Million a throne on whieh i? On each ide iintiful god- (ui the fuur id ■ oldiei • i in the md- • jeopini: the • • and hi" • • >1 the (ttv. Silas Whitney nnd Sou Robert Riddled With Bullofe. Silas Whitney ami aoii. of Wi'-ra < .run. ty N. C-, were killed from arc, 1 •••:-. nesday morning. They lira ;T miles from Wilson on the L. and they started fur there .,t n,. other sens followed. About a iri their home, they found i’ a oral buck shot wound - in n aud breast, and in a chin. ••,. He died before they ■ oukt -. • hit i home About 2 miles further, tie - te jnd theii father in bis buggy (lead, hi 'uu', inv. ing brought liiui on after f. v sh-'l. He was shot in theleft shouldet t being killed instantly. They were shot at four tin es lust Sal urday night, when returnin'.; borne, but were missed, the 1 tor- i e.ng a a: •_’. Whitney was called n desperate man. Twenty-eight bullet hole fraud in him, and tnirrt ■ “ The Latest Freak, ’Squire Knapp,living near Mihr. O'.ii • owns the latest freak. It i turitej gobbler that is not only tho bora, of th? barn-yard, but a sort uf emergency r.re' bstor. Some time ago th' ‘Squire killed one of hu hens. Shortly afterward h« missed the gobbler ftom his usual L.tuntj and instituted a search for him. E< found the bird among the v sc . i short, distance from the houra. ih gobbler was doing h s level bra.l f) uv> bate a neat of five eggs whi had left. His efforts wete in a n. successful, for lie hatched out .c some little chick. The gobbis: i attached to it, and struts a ra v; . scratching up something lor it 11 night, instead of fir ing up on h . bedsits down and take? the lira under its wing until mottling. — mti Enquirer. sari ,'oe dat . At I! Tb > Mac.m Carnival great cnnival to come off a* G - , on tire 'ilth of October wip one novel feature. The Vv-ociutiuii propose to have a ntiii/u p.iviilion, whose four rebablv hire, Im on Bar Hilt R jH • i h > r qirc.-'M the h d of Georgia. The re of of tic ret', tilion "■ill be after the .-ttleof the State Capitol, and the Goddess ot Libuity "ill M.'• n'I on top of the dome. • inside of the pavillion a throne entirely of flowers, on which is the blind ::• ddcs-. On each side throne will be fom beautiful cod- ii- •• . In r haud-inai<b ire On the four side- .-f the pavillion will stand a soldier viih dinv.n sword aud dressed in the Uni term of tiiat day. Accompanying the l! rat will ride Gen. Oglethorpe and his ‘ the city, wjreral eu- fieUnninid nied out. Meeting of the Blue nnd Ore l An elaborate programme has but p:: ; pared for the reunion of tire Com •. •“• ! and Union veterans to take place at . Olle. Tenn. next month. On Tit ra | Oc tober 7, there will be a reception ra " : itors by the various commiitees from A , M. to 2 I* M. which " ill be folio.- . 1 !•;• mi address of welcome delivered from t • i grand tent. At night receptions •■ l vend en- j qpiq p,- veteran organizations ina bigtent fi n niiiued , . in ,j t }„. different headquarters. Th. pro .•rainmc for Wednesday, the grand : •on (lav, includes rpeucncs by i i speakers, to be followed by a ura.tra'.h cue at Fort Saunders, a !'• uinatnei: socialism, and jirivale reception? vt r On Thntsday <t competitive drill morning by the different milii try ra ies. at 2 o'clock a sham battfi, night a grand peace jubilee v ill : the exercise. • at vied c uu •itori irbe tb. -.fierimade up of the lawyers of T i:'. project is in the hautis of sc Struck By a Waterspout Passenger train No. 119 era from El Faso. Tex, or. the Souti; rifle railway, w re caught iu a v ' about 25 miles west cl IN 1 II w*ter, some 10 feet wide stru 1 ward part of the train It 1C' - gins, baggage-car :*.nd mail (■ that ;t in lawyers, "ho are -I all be successfully c. Shapes of Musical Sounds. Sounds giro curious impression:- ot j colors and objects to some tiKiividuaU. | A Tuunq woman recently mentioned 1ms I distinct visions of various objects at the i sound of different nmsioal instrument*, j Titc playing of au oboe brings to her ; the image of a sharp-pointed white ( pyramid or obelisk Vitreiug it: pra'por tions with the quality of the nuie The cello, the high notes of tho otstoon, the trumpet, and the trombone, aud the low notes of clarionet and the viola, suguira a dal, undulating ribbon of strong white fibres; and the horn gives overlapping white circles of graduated rare.-. Tin sudden striking up of the violins in orchestra oftci bviug_ to view a sbo vu of bright white ihnt m -and —} - •'•.• f V. J • A «(; :•■ a:/ 1 ginr. uaggati.-i.«> • coaches, nnu carried th turning them Tha "p#.'Scngvr« knew no*' approach of the w.-.rei ir.ti! j red. Beth tho engine . I caped drowning by s’da,,, j ground. The track w to . • yorde, and a gully ten i •■ I through it. r .i' Ic-.., South Carolina at the V/ora' V ra At Cresson Spring l’ 1 , dent Wednesday 'igacd a* commissioner and ul “ ■: ■'< ■ • r to the World's Fair * • : lie* of John li. Cot litun at l . dull. The governor ru ibet inadvertently noiuinaU l r and alternates cntirclj from t tc party, overlooking the ; : un i ■ required an equal repure .atiou • jiartie?. His. attention hnvii . i • • > to the mutter lie promptly la i.rii ••. two gentlemen above mimed .n pi J. tra Coil nnd H. P. Ilimteu u*. Wreck Off Cape Fear The American steam yacht Migreun, Captain. D. H. Pugh, of New Yoik, to immli, grounded Tuesday afternoon on tin eunme point ol Cape Fear near Wilmington. The vu-cl is it total loss. 'I he «new o! live, iwfiulitig the Captain, were rescued by the Cape Fear life raring Clift. Cotton Export* tor Aug Cotton xp.'rts from the Unites during the para, month? of A ra, gate 62,203 bales, valued • gainst 08,608 Vales v.r.K . 'J3 in Align'-' ‘ i .- be 12 month • ending A • . t iggrtgah'-I ' 11,Id!! bile, , n i MU, 030. | ^ | Rosa Bouheur •Tains t'n‘. painted her best piat-irc. in' tawed the ag'e cf fifty ; l. .C.- v-.J-