The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, October 08, 1890, Image 1

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• **»•»* %. / ) I ; ... j y/ {Property of / \£fhe (Darlington County 3(islor ca! Society >( *‘C-* W%t DARLINGTON HERALD 9 l - — VOL. I. 1 The Roumanian Government ha* oft ifered prize* to the architect* of all na dions for the best plan* for it* new assent bly and senate chamber*. The first pmi for each building is 83000; the second, ♦1500; third; |600. ■ For several years past, remarks the New York Star, the hauls of mackerel have been shorb.in these Western water*. The fish have been disappearing, and now it ts said they have, to a consider able extent, shifted their habitat to the ■waters off the coast of Africa. There they will at least be free from diplomatic controversy for some time to come. I Where the Argentines have failed as amateur bankers, say* an Bnglish Jour nalist recently returned from Buenos Ayres, properly qualified men of Eu ropean experience might achieve a great success. With even moderately good polities, and moderately sound banking the Argentine crisis might bo solved in a year or two. Without them it can only go from bad to worse. The New York Telegram is convinced that they can build ships on the Pacific Coast. The new cruiser, San Francisco, developed 19J knots an hour, with 120 pounds of steam and 120 revolutions of her screw,during a preliminary trial trip. The building of two such good ships as the Charleston and the San Francisco is an honor to the other side of the coun try. The official labor statistics of England and ‘of the United States have been pub lished. They show, according to com pilations made by the Chicago Herald,' that the average cost of producing iron in the Northern States is frdm |12 to 815 a ton, and that the average in the South ern States is from 88.55 to 813 a ton. In England the average is from 87.70 to 89. The average for the whole of this is 812.37. ' “Men are natural cowards, where there's a fire,” said a fireman, recently; “pjit all Barn urn’s wild animals in that lot over there and then drop a child among them, and, in nine eases out of ten, the father of that child will go in after it. But, let there be an alarm of fire in his house in the night-time and that same man will run into the street- and leave his child behind. I have never seen a man suffocated at a fire with a child in his arms, but I have seen women, lying dead from suffocation with a child in each arm. The man’s first thought is. to get into the street when he heats the house is on fire. The woman's first CREAM OF JtOCAL NEWS. The Happenings of This And Adjoin ing States Chronicled. Wow Pay Attention and Listen, For Every One of These Items Will Interest You, Whether Healthy, Poor or Wealthy, Lame, Halt or Blind. VIRGINIA. Col. William C. Carrington, who served ns mayor of Richmond for four terms, died in Williamsburg Thursday night after a lingering illness. , % Fire at Hampton destroyed Blnkmoe’s feed store and Darden’s residence, on King Street, and broke the plate-glass fronts in Schentz and Slaughter’s block. The loss was 85,000. A special from Lexington says that two cadets at the Virginia Military In stitute, Frank W. McConnicOj of Texas, and W. T. Taliaferro,, rtf Gloucester County, Va., engaged Thursday in a per sonal encounter, in which fifteen rounds were fought. Two hours afterwards Tal- iaWrro died. It is presumed from th” punishment received at the hands of Mc- Connico. The affair has cast a gloom over the entire community. A convention of 150 of the influential and representative citizens of Augusta and Rockingham counties was held at Staunton recently to formulate plans for urging on the authorities of the Cumber land Valley Railroad Co. the feasibility and advisability of the further extension of their road from Winchester to Roan oke, Va., and thus a connection with the Roanoke & Southern or Norfolk & West ern. The suggestion is to have the road extended from Winchester through the counties of Frederick, Shenandoah, Rock bridge, Rockingham and Augusta, and to run through the weatern part of the valley in order to open up and develop the mineral section along the eastern base of the North Mountain. Young Pusey Carlton, who was recent ly shot by the negro George Harris, in Essex, is dead. A large new peanut factory is to be erected in Smithfield. Last year the business in peanuts there amounted to over 8500,000. The widow of a well-known citizen of Lunenbcrg has brought a slander suit against certain parties for accusing her of burning a barn. Lnnenburg farmers arc busy cutting tobacco, in anticipation of early frost. The census office has announced th population of the following Virgini cities and towns with increases sine 1880: 5,562; increase 2,88 10,285; “ 2,75 19,779; “ 3,82 6,921; “ 25 Charlottesville, DanyiUe, Lynchburg, Staunton, NORTH CAROLINA. The fall term of the North Carolina Su- § reme Court began at Raleigh on Mon- ®y- , Several important moves have been set on foot by the Chamber of Commerce in Reidsville. thought is her children.” Engineers in this country and in Eu rope are now exjwsimonting with com pressed air to determine whether it is available for transmitting power for ma chinery. A company In Paris proposes ■to work a large number of factories by means of this motive force, but it is not yet explained how the largo loss of power due to expansion of the air is to be counteracted. The first general use of the pneumatic system in this country thinks the Ban Francisco Chronicle, will probably be in the distribution of letters and packages by the postofflee and the express companies in large cities. An enormous saving of time and labor could be effected in this way, and a few years will see the system in general use. At a place called Fort Pine, in or near Natal, South Africa, a local chief re cently summoned a native doctor to at tend his wife, or one of his wives. What the ailment was is not known, but the remedy prescribed by the doctor was human fat. Like some of his profession In other parts of the world, the doctor was a plump man and the chief prompt ly oniei'ed him to bo killed and adminis tered to the illustrious ggtJcst- This was done and the chW Is how awkl’ir" his trial at Maritzburg in consequence. "For its own credit,” comments the Timet-Democrat, "it is to be hoped that British law will deal mercifully with this potentate, who seems to have a practical sense of justice os well as a droll vein of humor." To the employes directly engaged in operating the trains the railroad busi ness is rather more dangerous than war. The statistics of the accidents among this class during the year ending June 1 are given In the annual report of H. O. Adams, the statistician of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, just issued at Washington. They are fairly startling. They show that, during the twelve months mentioned, 1972 railroad em ployes were killed and 20,023 were in jured. The killed and wounded of s great battle seldom reach figures pf any such, magnitude. The nature and result of the injuries, of course, are not desig nated, but in many cases they have caused :dcath and in many more they have caused the permanent disability of the unfor tunate victims. It is a frightful record for a single year of railroading. It is significant of recklessness, mismanage ment and a disregard of life and limb on the part of railroad officials. The Im provement of the railway service is in the direction of adding to the oomforts and luxuries of travelers rather than in that of securing the physical safety of the employes, aifd these startling figures will not be reduced as long as this con tinue# to be true, The Teachers’ Normel Institute of Reids ville opened with good attendance, most ly ladies. The graded school has nearly divided its pupils. Governor Fowle has issued an appeal to the people of North Carolina for funds to purchase headstones for the graves of 220 North Carolina soldiers buried in the Confederate cemetery at Fredericksburg, A cash prize of 81,000 has been ffocrcd for the best short story or novel, having the Grandfather Mountain and Ihc beau tiful scenery of that locality woven into the plot. This mountain, situated as it is in the most picturesque part of Western North Carolina, furnishes an attractive setting for an interesting story. The selection will lie made by a committee of competent reviewers, and the story must not be less than ten nor exceed fifty pages. Detailed informatjon may be ob tained of the Linvillc Improvement Com pany, of Linvillc, N. C. . Diyvid Watson found an ancient steel badge under an old hohsc in Locke town ship, Rowan County, the other day. It was a Tippecanoe badge, shaped like a coin, the size of a quarter. On one side was a log cabin, and the inscription. “The people's choice. The hero of Tip pecanoe.” On the other a bust of Harri son, with the words “Maj. Gen. W. H. Harrison, Born Feb. 1773.” Millard Kerley, a young man about 19 years of age, and a son of 8. C. Kerley of Johns River, became deranged on Tuesday night and on was confined in the Western Asylum at Mnrganton. About six weeks ago his father, for the first time observed indications of mental unsouud- ness in the Iwy. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Court-martial commenced by or der of Gen. Lee, N. G. 8. C., for the trial of ('apt. B. F. Goins and Lieut. Frost, of the 1st brigade of the National Guard of South Carolina, have acquitted Capt. Goins. The Secretary of State of South Caroli na has granted a charter to the Rock Hill Land and Town Site Company. Of the capital stock of 81611.1*66, 858,160 has been subscribed and paid in. . Large crowds attended the Spartan burg land sales, and aljout 160 lots were sold at fair and satisfactory prices. John Ratteree's livery ..table, occupied by Neely & Fcwcll, were burned at Rock Hill Thursday. The loss is about 81,600, fully covered by insurance. A young gentleman from the rural districts of Ihakeh-v "ountv mailed two postal cards in the police telegraph box at the corner of East Bay and Market street* at Charleston on Friday. An officer took them out and put them in a mail box. I’rof. Hampton's Colored State Fait Association met in the Court House at Co lumbia and arranged an *bn|V>siiig pro gramme for their fair, which is • to b< held at the State Capital November 24 tr 27, inclusive. A committee of femah memlicm was appointed to solicit sub scriptions throughout the city. AUrac lions for the fair were discussed tfmd it '"** decided to have fireworks and mili tary displays each night of the fair. A sham 1 ml tie on Thursday preceded by a grand bulnlliou ib ill on Wednesday. All the colored military of the State and a number from outside will Ire invited. During an amateur performance, “The Carnival of Commerce,” at Spartanburg tiro broke out behind the scenes. The bouse was packed from top fo bottom, DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1890. leaving no standing room. * ’hie curtain had just gone down on the first act, when a blaze was seen to burst forth from the left side of the stage, a panic ensued. In ft twinkling hundreds n f people, mostly Indies and children, were surging back and forth and screaming at the top of their voices. The excitement was quick ly subdued, or the fatalities must have been enormous. The fire caught in sonic properties in the stage dressing room, and had quickly spread to the stugj when it was discovered and extinguished. editor of the onday night at Nashville. Will Caruthers and Bob Owens, both colored, were arrested taAJUfbt and lodged in jail on a iTisrgc StT murdering William Caruthers, waged #nd res pec cd citizen, Saturday night. An application has Ireen filed at Knox villc for the incorporation of the East Tennessee Navigation Co. It is the in tention of the originators of the scheme to put a fleet of steamers upon the’ Ten net-sec river and do a general freight and passenger business. The boats will be rttn to highest navigable point of the river and as far down as Florence, Ala The gentlemen are from Norfolk, Va., and represent a large amount of capital. Knoxville will Itc their headquarters. A prominent local attorney is looking after their interests at present. Gen. Samuel Thomas, president of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rat|road, was invited to attend the veteran’s reunion in Knoxville. He can not attend but has written a very patriotic- reply. No. 254, a new compound passen ger engine, and the first of a type to be used in the passenger service on any American railway took train No. 6 over lite E. T. V. & O. Wednesday. Monroe Beams was at the throttle. The trip was somewhat of an experiment, and the suc cess' of it places the East Tennessee road aliend of ail other systems Fifty miles an itour wls made witli perfect ease, and seven miles up Greenville grade was made in 9 minutes. 1 he run was made from Knoxville to Johnson City for water. The Tennessee Industrial Land Co., comprised of Chicago parties, has pur- clfhsed, through W. Englewood, 1,000 acres of land at Dayton, Tenn., for 8318,- 500. It includes coal, iron and other mineral property, and the company in tends expending a considerable amount on improvements. The building of a dummy line around the city and the con struction of an electrical railroad are among the projects on hand. While coming down the mountain near Shell mound Joe Hackwork, a brakcraau ou the Memphis A Churleston Railroad, fell between two cars cut off aud shoulder dislocated. He died. GEORGIA. TENNESSEE. N. O. Wallace, the sgeJ’' Fayetteville Observer died M Bainbridgeis now lighted by electricity. The Chattahoochee is quite low now, and the boats experience considerable difficulty in navigating the upper river. An Elbert county young man has been sent to the chaingaug for six mouths for running a blind tiger. Mayor Walker, of Darien, expects to ship 28,060,602 bushels of rice this sum mer. The Manlcy-ManufacturingCo., of Dal ton, has a eoutraet for furnishing 206,006 feet of Georgia pine, to be used in the construction of Chicago's sidewalks. Mr. Walter L. Winston, a young den tist of Macon, mysteriously disappeared from his office on Friday night last, since which time nothing has been heard of him. His family arc greatly distressed and fearsome foul play. Telegrams have been sent in all directions, but no clew of the missing man has been found. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun announces the death of Rev. James Rees, of Musco gee county. Mr. Rees was a Baptist min ister, and was licensed to preach the gos pel in 1825. He was perhaps the oldest Mason in Georgia, having become a mem ber of Flint Hill lodge in 1838. He was ninety years of age at the time of his death. Toe Norweign steamship Christian Johnson is loading 1,1126 barrelsof rosin at Brunswok fortheport I’ittsburg, Russia Continued rains in southwest Georgia have greatly damaged the cotton crop in many counties. The census office at Washington gives ont the information that Rome has a I iopnlation of 6,910 souls; whereupon lome howls and proposes to have a re count. The Tribune claims from 16,000 to 12,006. OTHER STATES. Napoleon White, colored, was hanged at Tallahassee for the murder of his wife, in 1888. The tall broke bis neck. He •lied without making any statement what ever, so far to the public. Large cr owds of negroes Hocked to the city from the surrounding country, eager to see and hear all they could of the hanging, any all rejoiced ns if it were a holiday tired were celebrating. Tuesday morning nearly all the colored hands engaged in the preliminary work on the flour mill at Ojiclika Ala., struck demanding 81 per day. Superintendent Dowdell discharged them, and is tilling their places. Six hundred men are now at work on the big hotel grounds and buildings at Tampa, Fia. One of the most remarkable rases ever tiled in any court in this country was tried in Cleburne county circuit roiut*Ala., a few days ago. Over twenty years ago a man named Zaner killed another man named Hogan in a row over a hog. Zaner was arrested, hut his trial has been con tinued from term to term for the past twenty years, and now he is sentenced to a term of only one year for his deed. Virginia’s Farmers’ Institute. A sperial from Riehmond, Va., says: “The first farmers’ institute ever held in Virginia convened on Chaffin farm, three miles below the city Thursday. Not over 300 persons wen; present. Colonel Whitehead, commissioner of agriculture, made an address of welcome, w hich was re; ’ a by Major Mann Page, pres ident of the State Alliance, in which lie dwelt nt length upon the prieiples of tlint organization. Lecturers were deliv ered by Hon. F. Danforth Curtis, of New York, and Professor W. F. Massey, cf Nortli Carolina. Advances by tho Alliance. A special from Montgomery, Ala., says: “Geo. F. Gaithers, manager of the Alabama Alliance Exchange, an nounces officially that arrangements have been perfected by the Alliance Exchange to advance 835 per bale on 500,000 bales of insured cotton in wore houses. AMONG THE ALLIANCES. k Convention to be Held in Atlanta to Consider “Direct Trade.” Hews Notes For Our Agriculterists to Head and Become Edified, A Farmer’s Alliance School, Etc. An Alliance store has been opened at Sycamore, Ga.> and is doing a good bus iness. The Louisiana Farmers’ Alliance expel led nine mcmliers because they voted in favor of the lottery bill. The Alliance Cotton Gin at Flower Mound, Texas, was burned on the 3d; loss, 82,500. The farmers of Clarke county, Ga., say all the cotton will Ik- picked by Oct. 15. The bulk of the cotton is being stored in the Alliance warehouse. The Alliance of Summit eounty are building a largo store house at Bwaines- boro, Ga. It is now nearly completed. The warehouse at Helena, Ga., was for mally turned over to the Alliance men on Sept. 25. A big barlieeuc was given. The Farmers' Alliance of Texas recom mended the establishment of factories within the walls of our penitentiaries, for flic purpose of manufacturing cotton or other (tagging to wrap the crop of the state. One of the points of most interest to farmers wliirh was acted upon at the ses sion of Alliance men in Atlanta, was that of selling no cotton during the month of September, or at least none except where absolutely necessary. The Alliance Herald, of Montgomery, Ala., very cheerfully remarks that the Alliance men of Alabama have not less than one hundred co-operative ginneries in operation, and that toll is not so high when it comes back as a dividend to the patron. The new Farmers’ Alliance tobacco sahv warehouse will have a 1*11 tower. It will he up in a few days—in fact the building will be completed in the course of the next week. It is a large, handsome structure and equal to the best warehouse in the State.—Oxford Day. Editor Elam Christian, of the New South, at Douglasville, Ga., drops this hint: It will pay the Alliance men of Douglas county to concentrate all their efforts on the cotton factory. This enter prise will be worth more to the farmers than anything yet proposed. The board of directors have decided to open at once in Birmingham, Ala., an Al liance Exchange office, for the especial ben efit of the Alliance brotherhood in north Alabama. All business will be given Col. L. I,. Polk, president of the Na tional Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union’addressed at Fredricksburg, Va., on Tuesday, Sept. 36th. The occasion was the Alliance day of the fair held there by tiie Bappahaunock Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society. No, it is not Shernan who is ‘ ‘marching through Georgia” this time; it is the Far mers' Alliance. Every Thursday the members of the Barnwell, S. C., division of the Alliance haul their cotton to town for sale. On Thursday last they disposed of 300 bales. They had'a called meeting in the Barn well courthouse in the morning and an other late in the afternoon. Messrs. McNah A Walker took in about 160 bales and Mr. J. Michaeison 217. They say they will have over 500 hales for sale each Thursday, and desire that cotton buyers abroad will govern themselves accordingly The North Carolina Fanners' Alliance will establish a school of their own at Morchead City. The foundation of the first of the buildings was laid last week and it will speedily lie completed. The object is to furnish tuition and hoard at actual cost. The superintendent will buy food at wholesale, and each pupil will pay his exact proportion of the coet. It is calculated that this will not exceed 85 per month. It is proposed to divide the salaries of the teachers among the scholars in the same way. Agents arc now at work among the Alliance in various sec tions of the State. ****** DIRECT TRADE. The State Farmers Alliance of Georgia at its recent session passed a resolution re questing the governor of that State to call a convention to meet in Atlanta Septem ber 10th, in the interest of direct trade with foreign countries, and request the goveinqrs of the different Ststes to attend and seiiS delegations. The convention was held on the date named, and the States of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee represented. Tlic govern ors of (hrec States also graced the conven tion with their presence. The daily pap ers report the following resolutions as a summary of the action done: Jletolted, That this committee rec- onmuiud to the convention the rrcatinn of a rorporation to promote direct trade at some point on the South Atlantic coast and another to promote direct tnnle at some Gulf port. Each company to l>e capitalized at 81,000,000, with power to increase to 810,000,006. The committee recommended to the convention the adoption of the following: Jleeo't d, THt this convention recom mend the fchciiou by the Alliances of each Southern State of a delegation of twelve members, and by each organized commercial body of each city in the South of one delegate from c e ll of said bodies, to meet in Atlanta on the second Wednes day of Janeaiy l891to pci feet the details for the organization of two companies to promote •liieet i;a le. and to perfect a plan for soliciting subscriptions to the stock of such companies. Tins report was adopted as a whole, A subsequent resolution provided that the granges and State agricultural societies I* represented, and that each governor of a Soutlifirn State he a niemlier of the uext convention. A committee, consisting of W. II. Flem ing, of Georgia, Governor Fowle, of N.C. Governor Fleming, of Fla., and CM’. Good year, of Ga., and Jasper Miller, of 8. (’,, was appointed to investigille the subject of obtaining charters of the corporation named in the rrsohitions above. A North Carolinian Honored. Rev. Dr. J. H. (Jordon and Joseph G. Drown, who represented the grand lodge of the state of N. O. at the meeting of the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows at Topeka, Kas., returned to Raleigh and report that last Saturday Charles M. Busbec, of Raleigh, was with grest cere mony, installed as grand sire of the sov ereign grand lodge ol the World. The order now has 800,009 members. CONFERENCE REPORT COMPLETED Congressman McKinly Presents to House With the Amended Tariff Bill; the Senate Provides for Reciprocity. Washington, D. C.—In the House Friday, Sir. Enlec, of Tennessee, offered a resolution alleging that the House post master has on the rolls at 8106 a month, an employee of the government printing office named Bradley, who pays 895 a month to the postmaster, and who is not employed in the postottiec of the House. Adopted. The House took a number of bills from *hc calendar and passed them, among jhem a bill to bridge the Alabama river near Selma. The entrance of Mr. McKinley with the conference report on the tariff bill, w as greeted with applause from the Republi can side. The report was submitted, It preserves the Senate reciprocity feature, nut the date for it to go into effect is changed from July 1, 1890 to Jan. 1, 1892. Mr. McKinley said that the points of disagreement on the principal features, were well understood. He insisted up on consideration of the report the follow ing day. Mr. McMillan then insisted that the report he read iu full, and the reading had not been concluded when, at 6 o'clock the House took a recess until 8 o’dlock, the evening session being de voted to private pension bills. CAPITOL NOTES. President Harrison and party returned from Crcsson Springs, Pa., to Washing ton 'I hursday. B. Walker was appointed postmaster at Woodsdale, Person county, N. C. Total collections for internal revenue, for the first ttfn months of the fiscal year of 1890-91, July and August, aggregated ♦25,502,506, against 835,670,774 for the corresponding period last year. Chief Postottiec Inspector Rathborue has received telegraphic notices of the arrest of the proprietors of a Montgomery. Ala., paper, and of the Age-Herald and the Evening News, at Birmingham, Ala , for violatien of the lottery law, in pub lishing and mailing lottery advertise ments. Judge Tyner, the assistant At torney-General for the Postoffice Depart ment is busily engaged in preparing in structions to postmasters in regard to the enforcement of the new anti-lottery law. Mr. McKinley introduced in the House Saturday a concurrent resolution provid ing for the adjournment of Congress ou the following Tuesday. Palmetto Fibre Bagging. Another substitute for jute baggin» ha* appeared, this time patented by Mr C B. Warrand, of Savannah, Ga. It is the saw palmetto, uud in AIoImiiok, Booth Carolina, Georgia and Florida it grows abundantly. Mr. Warrand claims that his palmetto fibre must take the place of jute, as it is cheaper mid much superio.- to it. Specimens of the saw palmetto’s different fibrous products have been ex hibited, together w ith a sample of paper manufactured from it and a sample of fannic acid extracted from the stem, which, it is claimed, will tan leather in from one to two months less time than the ordinary oak bark. Mr. Warrand proposes to organize a 830,000 stock company for the purpose of electing an experimental plant in Savannah to give Ids patent a thorough test, and if suc cessful, doubtless many other factories will spring up to prepare the fibre for tire market. Blue and Gray Together. Lexington, Mo., Sept. 30.—A call has been issued, requesting survivors of the bat’le of Lexington, both Federal and Confederate, to forward their names and address to John MeNulta, Bloomington, Ills.. J. D. Connor. Lexington, Mo.,orG. S. Grover, 526 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. A monument is to be elected to the memory of the dead soldiers. Weekly Cotton Statistics. Liverpool, September 27.—Total sales 55,000 bales, American 40,000; trade takings, including forwarded from ship's side, 68,000; actual export, 4,000; total import 82.000■ American, 237.000, total afloat. 145.000; American. 130.000. The Toad and the Bnke of Wellington Short Cuts has unearthed a peculiarly delightful letter of the Duke ot Welling ton’s, which runs as follows: "Strath- fieldsaye, July 27th, 1837. Field Mar shal the Duke of Wellington is happy tc inform William Harries that his toad it alive and well.” During one of his coun try walks tho Duke fouud a little hoy lying on the ground bending his head over a tame toad and crying as if his heart would break. On being asked what was the matter tho child explained that he was crying “for his poor toad.’ He bronght it something to cat every morning, but he was now to Ire sent away to school a long distance off, and he was afraid that nobody else would give it anything to eat, and that it would die. The Duke, however, consoled him by saying that ho would himself see tho toad well fed, and by further promising to let the boy hear as to its walfare. During the time the boy was away at school ho received no less than five autograph letters similar to that given above, and when ho returned for the Christmas holi days the toad was still alive to gladden Ills heart. The story is even more de lightful than that of tho Duke's indigna tion when he fouud that a party of chil dren at Btrathfieldsaye—among whom, we believe, was the present Prime Minis ter—were having their tea without jam. Theincidentrousedhimto immediate ac tion,and heat once rang the bell and issued a general order that “children’s tea” was never to be served in his house with such "maimed rights.”—^peefafor. Chained Books. As late as the year 1751 notices occur in the librarian's account books of pro curing additional chains for the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England. But tho removal of them appears to have com menced as shortly afterward as 1757, and in 1761 there was a payment for un chaining 1458 books at ono halfpenny each. In 1769 some long chains ware sold at twopence each and short ones at three-halfpence, and then en masse nine teen hundredweight of old iron at 83.50 per hundredweight. Several ot the chains nr# still preserved loose as relics. KEEP THE BALL ROLLING- The South’s Aggregation of Advan tages Presented. The South the Best Field For In vestment, shown By the Flow of Capital Hither. No one can studytheconbinationof ad vantages possesed by the South without being amazed at the possibilities of the figure. Cotton, of which it practically holds the monopoly of the worlu, is a won derful wealth producer, that has unequal in the agricultural products of this or any oilier country. This crop alone, raised on 19,006,000 acres, will this year be worth, including the seed, nearly 8560,060,000, w hich about equals in value the total corn crop of the United States,raised on 75. • 000.060 acres, and is about 8100,000,006 greater than the value of the wheat crop of the whole country, raised on 38,006,- 660 acres. This is a basis of wealth for Southern agricultural interests that prom ises greater prosperity than the farmers of any-other section of the country can ever hope to enjoy. Added to the cotton crop are the rice, sugar and tobacco crops, all sources of great wealth which the farmers of the North and West do not have. Then there are the early vcgatable business, which is assuming such large proportions and which already readies not less than 856,060,000 a year; the fruit-growing in dustry, including the raising of oranges, grapes, early peaches, etc., in addition to the usual farm crops of wheat, roru and oats, the three staples upon whidi West ern farmers must almost wholly depend. The agricultural possibilities of the South are greater than those of the balance of the country nil combined, based on the aggregate values and on actual profits to the producers. With this unequalled agricultural foun dation the Soutli has the mineral resources that make it certain that it will become the center of the iron and steel produc tion of the world, for nowhere else on the globe can the same combination of advan tages be found for producing iron and steel at the lowest cost. It has far more coal than Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and all of Great Britain combined, and its coal is more easily mined. It has the largest supply of pine and hardwood timber to be found in the I'nited States. In addition to all of tliese advantages it can produce cheaper than any other section because living is cheaper. New England for instance gets its foodstuffs from the West and the South; its cotton, coal,iron and lumber from the same regions. Every thing that its people consume or manufac ture enhanced in cost by long transporta tion. Besides its rigorous climate adds greatly to the cost of living The South produces its own cotton; it has its own iron, coal and timber; it raises its own foodstuffs, its mild and health-giving cli mate must always make the cost of living much lower than iu the Nortli or West, and with these advantages, which no other country possesses, it can manufacture cot ton, iron, steel ami lumber and everything into which these enter cheaper thau is pos sible in any other section. These facts are gradually impressing themselves upon the people of the North and West ns well as upon the capitalists of England. They probably more fully understand the great possibilities of sueii a country than the people of the South themselves. They see that there is no danger of overdoing the ImsincM iii t he way of starting new towns and new indus tries and building new railroads so long as good judgement is exercised in band- ling such enterprises. And it is because they understand tliese facts that they are now putting so many millions into South ern prupurlies. ****** THE SOUTH TIIE r.KST HELD FOR INVEST- . _ .. MEET. Tiie tide of capita! haging turned Southward, everything now helps toswell the < uncut, and leading hankers through out the country advise their customers that (lie South is tiie field of profitable invest ment. In their last weekly circular, after quoting freely from the statistics of. the South's grow tli given in of late issues of the Manufacturers’ Record, Messrs. Jim. A.Hamblctou A CV.,bankers,of Baltimore say: The spirit of the age that induced the conception of the famous picture, “West ward the course of empire takes its way,” which adorns the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington, is now concentrated upon another section of our country, and all eyes are turned and all footsteps lead to the sunny South But how different are •the surrounding-, and circiiuistanees. The West of those days was a wild, rough, nn- cultivated plain and wilderness, unin habited except by savages, and the pio neer literally took his life in his hands. The South of to-day, the land of flowers, fertile, productive, with all modern conve niences for travel and traffic, and popu lated by a cultivated, genial hospitable people. But the inducement which drew men and money to the West in the past is the same which now attracts capital and enterprise in the South. The possibilities and prospect of success and fortune at tracted the frontiersman and pioneer in the West, and in like manner, the possi bilities and promise of the profitable em ployment of capital and enterprise now make the Sonth the center of attraction. A modern painter might create a com panion piece to “Westward the course of empire,"Ac., by substituting for tire fron tiersman, the Indian, the wagon and other accompaniments of the wild West, the modern steam ears, the telegraph, with a background of cotton and grain fields, fur naces and foundries. Unquestionably the South presents tho liest and most attractive opportunity for the investment and employment of capital, and hence it is that that section of our country is enjoy hie such marked prosperity and is making sm li rapid advancement iu •'oipmevcf'-l sm, jj,,l-.-*• •.,„•?•••*- Telegraphic Novelties. “That’s a funny thing," remarked the veteran telegraph operator in a down town newspaper office one night last week, as he bent over his key listening to tiie clicking of the instrument. "Tho operator in tho office of tho Boston Glebe wanting to speak to his chief in ths main office in Boston a few blocks sway from him, talked to him through a New York newspaper oltiee. The mes sage traveled 506 miles to get a lew blocks. But such tilings often happen in our business. In the great blizzard of 1888 a man in this city who wanted to assure his family in Boston that hs wai safe sent a cable dispatch to them by way of Europe, and what is more, got s reply by cable."—Dew York Hun, It la not true that the rata falls alike upon the just and the unjust nowadays. It falls more upon the just, because the other follow ha* atoleu hi* umbrella. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. cherry sorp. Cherry soup is nice served cold. L T so ene and a half quarts of nice ripe cherries md three pints of water. Boil one quart of the cherries until they beeome pulpy, iweeten to taste and strain. Stone the Dne-half quart of cherries left, and with one-half of a teacupful of sago put into the soup, and boil until tiie sago is clear, not dissolved.—Brooklyn Citizen. STEWED CCCl'MnEUS. . Stewed cucumbers may be an unknown 3ish to some cooks. They arc a novelty, however, in the vegetable line, and this is the way to prepare them: Peel and cut cucumbers in quarters; take out the seeds, and lay them on a cloth to drain. Roll the pieces in flour when dry and fry In butter. The butter must bo hot be fore the cucumber is put on the pan. When they are a light brown remove them from the lire and place them on a sieve to drain. Fry some onions in tiie same butter, and when brown put them, with the cucumbers, into a saucepan and cover with gravy. Stew slowly until they are tender; then take out tho cucum-, hers, thicken the gravy with flour, let It boil up once, then seasou with salt and pepper. Put in the cucumbers and as soon as they arc warm serve. FAMOUS MACCAHONI DIB. A celebrated chef, whose maccaroui pie has added considerably to his fame, says his recipe reads os follows: Take a piece of gravy beef, cut in small pieces,’ put It into a saucepan with an onion sliced and a piece of butter, toss it on, the fire until the onion and pieces of meat are browned, a bouquet of sweet herbs,' a carrot cut in pieces, spices, pepper and. salt to taste, a few mushrooms and a. fair allowance of tomato sauce. Let the) whole simmer for a couple of hours, then strain and skim off the superfluous fat. Put the boiled maccaroni into a saucepan with a piece of butter, plenty of gratcijj Parmesan cheese, and as much of tho sauce or gravy as it will absorb; toss it on the fire for a few minutes, nud put it by until wanted. Make a nice pic paste, line with it a tin mould previously but tered, uniting the joints carefully with the white of eggs. Have ready some very small fillets ot breast of chicken just cooked with butter in a covered tin in tho oven, some cooked ham or ox tongue cut in dice, some truffles and mushrooms rut in convenient pieces and cooked iu the gravy used to dress the maocanni. Fill tho lined mould with all these things in judicious proportions, letting tiie maccaroni predominate, and adding during the process a little more sauce or gravy and a due allowance of Parmesan cheese; cover up tho mould with a disk of paste, unite tho edges carefully and bake in a moderate oven for shout nn hour Turn out of the mould carefully and serve. HOUSEHOLD HINT*. Silver that is not in constant use can be kept bright by packing it in oatmeal. To keep silver from tarnishing apply with a soft brush a coating of collodion dissolved in alcohol. Steel knives that are slightly oiled, then wrapped in tissue-paper, will keep an indefinite time without rusting. An uncovered soap-dish is the best kind to use. The air dries the water and preveuts the soap from getting soft. Old people and young children need the sun. The more they bask in its light the better their chances arc for life and health. Just before sealing the bottles of to mato catsup add a teaspoouful of brandy to each one. Besides preserving the cat sup it improves the flavor. Stove zincs can be kept bright and nice by rubbing them with either kero sene or lard. After a few minutes take a soft, dry cloth and remove all traces of the oil or grease. Pretty iron-holders are made of brown linen bound witli red braid. A loop to hang up by should always bo sewn in one corner. These covers should he made to slip off easily so that they can be washed when necessary. Flat-irons that are rusty may bt cleaned very quickly with beeswax and salt. Heat the iron then rub the wax over it. Have a paper or cloth near cov ered with salt and scour the irons will it. This will not only remove the rust, but make the irons as smooth ns glass. Honeycomb counterpanes that hive become worn in spots and are of no use for bed-coverings should tie cut up for towels and wash-rugs. The irregular surface of tiie material makes it a very good substitute for Turkish towels. Neatly hemmed they will last a long time. If a dose of castor oil is prescribed, have the druggist prepare it after the following formula: Oil, ricini, one dram; glycerine, one dram; tinct. an- rauti, twenty drops; tinct. senecas, live diops; aq. cinnam, to mane half nn ounce. The saucepans, pans, etc., that are used in cooking should always he placed after they are cleaned on the range or iu the sun to become thoroughly dry. When put away damp tho rust soon eats holes in them. Sec that the tins are dried properly and your stock will not need replenishing quite so often. To clean glass jars and remove any odors till tho jars with hot water, then stir in a teaspoonful of baking soda. Shake well, then pour out the water. Should any of the odor remain, till the jar again with the water and soda. Let it remain in the jar a few minutes, then pour out and rinse the jar in cold water. Borax, a laundress says, is a valuable addition to the raw starch for collars and cuffs. Too much should not ho used, as it has a tendency to make linen yellow. Lump borax may be- dissolved in boiling water and bottled for future use. Per fectly clear gum arabic water can also lie used for the same purpose. Heat, fric tion and pressure are absolutely neces sary to produce a polish on eollara and euffa- Bullctiu No. 72 of ihc N . C. Agricul tural Experiment Slulion ;ii Ruleiefi con tains the objis l ami work of the Horti cultural Division, also the details of the expei imeut to lest the value of pea vine manure for w heat where an increase of ten bushels per acre was the result. An interest hug numln-i Sent free to those who request it NO. 13. QUEER CHILIAN HARNESS. THE ACCOUTREMENTS OF A TRAN3- ANDEAN CARAVAN. A Brkllo Which is Both Whip and Muzzle—Hij;li-Cu*hione<l Saddles —Enormous Wheel Spurs. Our little caravan consisted of .six nules—one fo. me, one for Benigno, ono for the baggage, two spare animals in :ase of accident, and the "yegua mad- rina,” or bell mule, which all the others followed. Tho general order of march was the "madrina," the spare mules, and tho baggage mule in tho van, followed by Benigno, who drove them on with his lasso, and chased them back into tho path when they wandered away. A short distance behind Benigno, my mule stepped along at a rapid walking pace, rarely breaking into a trot, and that only when he saw that tho others weio getting too far ahead. As for the accou trements, they presented some special details worthy of notice. The bridle of both mules and horses iu the mountain districts of the Argen tine and of Chili is provided not only with a bit and curb, but also with a semi-circular metal guard which covers tiie lips, nud serves the double purpose of protecting the nose of the animals in case of a fall or slip in going up hill, and at the same time preventing them from drinking when they are fording streams. This Chilian bit is a formida ble engine against which no animal can rebel. The reins are generally made of twisted strands of untanned leather, finely plaited in round lengths which are joined together with rings, while at tached to the bridle is a leather lash two yards or two yards and a half long, which takes the place of a whip, and which you whirl round as you would whirl a lasso, and thus ileal very effica cious strokes across tiie flanks of recal citrant beasts. This long lasso-lash is especially useful when you meet another troop of mules, or when you have to spur and "whoop” your way through one jf those herds of a thousand or fif teen hundred homed cattle which ire constantly being driven over tiie mountains during the summer months, »ud crowd tiie narrow path in an often alarming manner. Tiie saddles used are the high-cush ioned Chilian or Mexican models, or, more commonly, a series of superposed skins and cloths arranged somewhat in Ihc ‘amo manner as the "recailo” or sad dle of the Argentine "gaucho”—first of all, a cloth or some sheepskins, then a leather saddle, then a peaked wooden fiamc called "bastos,” to which the stir rups arc attached, and the whole held iu place by a belly-band, and theu over this two or three more sheepskins aud a sad- ile-cloth, held iu position by moans of a Proud surcingle. This surcingle is not provided witli buckles, but simply with rings uud thongs, which are tied with running knots, and so can be more read ily loosened and tightened while tho vari- 5us elements of the saddle are being re- •oinposed—au operation which has to bo done from time to time during the day s march, especially when the road is pre- ripitous. The stirrups are simply heavy wooden shoes or sabots, always curiously •jarved, aud an excellent protection igainst the bowlders aud thorn-bushes which line the mountain track. To tho inexperienced eye this equipment may teem primitive and cumbersome, but in reality every detail of it has its reason and use. Indeed, as a general rule, wu may lie sure that usages consecrated .by long tradition are not to be sneered at. Even those enormous wheel spurs iia/o their raison d’etre, which ia not to hurt the horse or mule—no spur is more harm less—but to assist the rider to sit iu tho saddle with ease aud cling more closely to his horse. A Chilian does not feel his equilibrium complete unless ho Wears a pair of tliese big spurs, which arc so ter ribly embarrassing when ho dismounts and walks on terra tirma. As regards the baggage mule, bags, trunks, and all sorts of luggage arc piled up on his back on a pack saddle, and tied on with long thongs of untanned leather in such a manner as to balance well. Now, as the baggage mule trots on in front, free to err a little from the patli aud snatch on passage a sprig of vegetation, it often happens that ho abuses his privilege and '-11113 up hill or down hill some distance. Then he lias to be driven back to the road. All this ends by disturbing the equilibrium of the cargo, aud then the "arriero” gallops up to tho baggage mule, dismounts with agility, and throws Ids “poncho” over tiie animal's head. As long as his head is covered with the "poncho” the mills remains still, and recourse to this method of blindfolding U had each time the mula is loaded, aud eacli time that tho baianee needs to lie re-established during the day’s march. In fact it is one of the lit- tle'incideuts of mountain traveling that amuses tho novice, for the aspect of a mule with his head wrapped up in a “poncho” has a certain element of com icality .—lIn rs Mtgasine. Tito South's rnpnlation. The Manufacturer* llecord, of Balti more, says: Notwithstanding the fact that immigration has added over 5,200,- 000 foreigners to our population during the last ten years, none of whom have settled in the South except in very rare cases, and that (lie great industrial de velopment of this section, with its at tendant Southward trend of men and money, only commenced a few years ago, the South makes a fine showing of popu lation in 1890 as compared with 1880. The preliminary census report gives the population of Southern States as fol lows: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Virginia West Virginia. Tennessee Texas iste. isse. . l,.VJO,G00 1,‘20‘.\50? n/j, .vj; . ;im,oog MOO, 40? . 1,MG,GOO 1,5!:.*, IK . 1,$70,01)0 1,0 IN, Got i,n.\ooo 030,00' . 1,400,000 o;ti,M-'’ . V.MlN.ooo 1,101.50? . 1,6(0,ism 1,300,751 1,1*7,000 005,57? . 1,700,000 1,5IM,50;1 . 774,000 01$, 15? 1, MM, 35V 1,501,74V lU,b6t,000 16,103,334 American sea captains are complaining jf the absurdity and tiie inconvenience >f a recent edict of the Russian Govcrn- nent whereby no hnllast cau he dis- : barged in Russian ports,