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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.
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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
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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,