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THE DARLINGTON HERALD VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1890. NO. 16. • The State Geologist of New Jersey ( toys the coast of the State is sinking at the rate of at least two feet in a century. Other observers hold that the rate is much taore rapid. ; The Southern people are advised, states the Chicago Sun, to raise hops as being the most profitable crop they could raise. A great many nurseries have been ttarted this year. The Nevada towns are exceptions to ‘he rule of increase in the population of Vne Western municipal communities, they generally show a decrease since 1880. , f The Chicago Iftvt thinks that "th< farmers are creating a new party that will absorb the best elements of the old parties, and enter upon a career of pres tige and power.” ' Secretary Proctor is in favor of the Government employing twenty acting chaplains to assist the thirty post chap lains now in tha United States army. They should be paid, he thinks, $1500 a year. ( There is no end to the projections of Mectric railroads in different parts of the Country, exclaims the Drovers’ Journal. The electricians are the busiest engineers In the country. The business is expand ing even faster than it can be conven iently kept up with. A charming story is told by a reviewer In the Scott Observer to illustrate Darwin’s freedom from scientific bigotry. Having been told that music had an influence on plants, he procured somebody to play a bassoon for several days close to some growing beans. That mysterious quality called “gift” strikingly revealed itself in the childhood of the distinguished French artist, Mine. Jeanne Madeline Lumaire. As soon as the little girl could move about, a pencil was her greatest joy, so that even at the age of five or six she busied herself in “making pictures.” WE—p—I In the estimation of tue l unet-Demo- ?r<zt “Connecticut is a thrifty State. The receipts of taxes over the estimates for 1890 were $805,000, which has enabled |he Treasurer to redeem $200,000 in bonds and still have a surplus of $36,732. Veit year the State tax is to be dispensed ♦rith-” THE SOUTH EPITOMIZED, And, Grouped Here Under Proper Divisions, J* The island of Tristan, in the south At lantic, is inhabited by eighty people, the patriarch of the party, Peter Green, a (veritable Robinson Crusoe, having been there for fifty-two years. He has just sent a letter complaining that some of the grown-up children show a desire to leave their lovely island hoqje. Simultaneously with the taking of the irecent census, and under Government 'auspices, though by a distinct process, a religious enumeration was made. From approximate figures already announced it appears that the total church-membership in the United States is about 22,000,000, and is gaining at the rate of 1,000,000 s year. ' “Every traveler has noticed,” observes the St. Louis Star-Sayings, “that rail roads get rid of their old, discarded ties, by burning them up. The ordinary practice is to place them in piles as near the rails as possible and then set fire to them, to the great annoyance and die-' comfort of passengers. At the same time there are thousands of families on the line of the road who would be glad to take these tics away and use them for fuel.” A striking proof of the unpopularity of the English army among the Irish is iurnished by the official army statement that has just been publishhd. This state-^ ment shows that twenty years ago out of' "toSyUlO non-commissioned officers and Jirivates ufthe 'army 47,151 were Irish, Whereas to-day, although thisjforce has keen increased to 199,473, thof Irish ele-' oaent among it has dwindledtto 28,712.' Further than this, the statement indi cates a similar feeling amongjthe Scotch, i where the decline, while notj so marked; is in the case of the Irish, is’great. In 1870 out of every thousand'men the pro-j portion was 614 English or Welsh, 97] Scotch and 284 Irish. This year the pro-, portion per thousand is 759 English or Welsh, 83 Scotch and v 145 Irish. I From Lloyd’s new war-ship table it is seen that the British Empire has thirty- eight merchant steamers to each war ves sel capable of steaming upward of four teen knots; the United States have twenty-two, France seven, Germany seventeen, Italy four and Russia eight. It further appears that the approximate walue of the British mercantile navy is $550,000,000; that of the United States, $42,000,000; of France, $48,500,000; of Germany, $63,500,000; of Italy, $22,- ,000,000, and of.-Russia, $12,500,000. In 3888 Great Britainfs total annual imports and exports were approximated worth $3,476,500,000; those of the United States, $1,462,500,000; of France, $1,470,000,000; of Germany, $1,624,, GOO,000; Italy, $413,600,000; Russia, $62,500,000. An examination of those Ifigures, thinks the Timet-Democrat, will serve-better than any other form of rea- •oning-to show how important it is that pavalcruisers should be sufficiently strong jand numerous to protect the vast wealth 5 posed to the depredations of an enemy Will be Found the Late News of Our Home Section and Important Happenings From the Poto mac to Alabama. VIBGINIA. Every ship joiner in the Norfolk navy yard was discharged Tuesday night. There were about two hundred of them. The recent issue of Danville bonds have been put on the market and brought $102. The machine works of Walker's brick yards at Wnterton have been destroyed by fire. Loss $14,000. Forty-three thousand bales of cotton have been received thus far at Norfolk. The Petersburg Greys are preparing for a military encampment at Virginia Beach next summer. A few bags of new peanuts have arriv ed in Norfolk. An immense crop is an ticipated. Two boys of Arlington, Harry Ed wards, white, and Harrison Morrison, colored, got into a stone-battle, and the latter was hurt so badly that he died. At the sale of lots at Clifton Forge by the Chesapeake and Ohio Development Company two hundred lots were sold for $200,000, or an average of $1,000 a lot. The sale began at 1 o’clock, owing to de layed trains. It closed st 5 o’clock, the sales averaging $50,000 an hour. The tournament to take place at York- town on tlfb 22nd inst., is attracting much attention. A small boy named John Clements, who fell from the pilot of an engine of the Atlanta and Danville railroad, near Claremont, and was badly hurt, will sue the road for $10,000 damages. NORTH CAROLINA. Internal Revenue Collector Rollins will move the office from Statesville to Ashe ville. Petitions are in circulation petitioning the County Commissioners to order an election on the question of local option ill New Hanover county. Two persons were killed on the O. & C. railroad near Durham on Tuesday, within three hours. The first victim was Mas. Sallie Scoggins aged 06 years. She had on a sunbounet, and could not see the train, or hear it either. The second victim was Thad Gilbert aged 45. It is alleged that he was intoxicated. The Winston-Salem Land and Invest ment Co., capital $250,000, Hon. F. M. Simmons, president, W. A. Blair, Presi dent Peoples Savings Bank, secretary and treasurer, was organized at Winston Thursday. The company is composed of English, Greensboro, New Berne, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and home capital. $30,000 subscription was turned down. A man named Dixon in Allegheny county discovered the infidelity of his wife with a man named Halsey and kill ed the latter. Halsey’s brother attacked Dixon lateron and Dixon also killed him. Popular sympathy is with Dixon, and the people declare they will keep him from the law. The largest crowd that has ever been seen at Raleigh attended the State Fair. The grbat attraction of the day was the balloon ascension by Professor Ward, of New York. He made the ascension suc cessfully, about 1 o’clock, to a height of seven hundred feet. An agricultural ad dress was made at 12 o’clock by James Madison Leach, Jr., of Lexington, in the old Exposition building. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Palmetto Social Club is a newly or ganized society in Charleston. They will give their first annual ball this week. A charter has been issued to the Ameri can Bank, of Greenville. The total capi tal stock of $75,000 has been subscrib ed. An important and noteworthy innova tion in the higher education of the women of this State was inaugurated in the South Carolina College for Women, at Columbia, on Monday, on which occasion the medical class of the institution began its regular lessons, under the instructions of Dre. A. N. Talley, Sr., and George Howe. Both professors and pupils mani fest great interest and enthusiasm in their work. Complete arrangements have lieen made to facilitate these studies and the public generally will look with intense in terest to the outcomeof this new feature of woman's work in South Carolina. A charter has been granted to the Blacksburg Machine and Iron Works Company, of Blacksburg, York County. A charter was granted to the Whisnant Lumber, also of Blacksburg. Peter J. Couturier, a well-known citizen and planter of Upper St. John’s Berkeley and a gallant soldier of the Confederacy, died at his plantation, “Lawson’s Pond,” on Tuesday, probably the result of a crimi nal ssault l>y parties unknown. The affair is shrouded in mystery. Col. Joseph H. Earle, who took such a prominent part in the canvass against B. R. Tillman for the nomination of Gov ernor, was in Charleston in attendance up on the session of the State board of health. He was asked by a reporter what he had to say about the present political situa tion, and replied: “I have done all I could and have finished iny fight.” Col. Earle further said that this embraced about all he wished to say on the question at this time. TENNESSEE. Ground has been conditiouallyselcct- ed in Morristown for the location of six large woodworking factories bv a 61.- 250,000 stock company, composed of Boston and Philadelphia capitalists; the company owns 25,000 acres of timber lands near Morristown. The Rev D. C. Kelly, Prohibition can didate for Governor, has been suspend ed for six months from the Tennessee M. E. Conference, in session at Pulaski, for leaving his post at Gallatin as pastm without permission from the Confer ence. A Chattanooga special says: “In the city election the Democrats captured oidy two wards, the 3d and Hth. The politi cal complexion of the new board of alder men will be eleven Republicans and five Democrats. It was the quietest election ever held here, owing to the Dortseh registration law.” The citizens of Clarksville, are making preparation for celebrating the laying of the corner-stone of the Graccy-Woodward iron furnace. A large number of visitors arc expected, including many Northern Cam till i-til aiul it is uiLwmiwl to makatiu* occasion a memoranteone in tne industrial progress of the city. The Nashville, Chattanooga & 8t. Louis Railroad Co., has completed a survey for a proposed branch line from Tracey City to its main line near Dunlap. The com pany is also surveying a branch line up Little Sequachec river from Scquachec. GEORGIA. At Jackson, Lovick Edwards, six years old, was bitten by a mad dog and died of hydrophobia on Monday. The second annual convention of the Young People’s Society of Christian En deavor, throughout the states of Georgia and Alabama, will be held at Marietta. Frank Walker, colored, who is wanted in Mitchell county for murder, has been captured and jailed. The Georgia State Pharmaceuticnl Board at Rome on Tuesday. The fourth annual county fair of Jef ferson county promises to surpass any past effort. There will be Veteran’s and Alliance days. A freight and passenger collision at Braswell on the E. T., V. & G., seriously injured six people and derailed 50 cars. The third fair of the Piedmont Expo sition Association was formally opened at Atlanta in the presence of a large '•crowd. The procession to the grounds was made up of military companies, and was one of the finest ever seen there. Senator Colquitt and John Temple Graves were the orators of the day, and Mayor Glenn was master of ceremonies. The Exposition, which will lie participated in by the whole Piedmont section, opened under the most favorable circumstances. The East Georgia Railroad Company are commencing to build its line from Grovcton to Appling. OTHER STATES. David C. Henncssy, chief of police of New Orleans who was shot down by three men shortly before 12 o'clock Wednesday night, died at nine o’clock Thursday morning at the charity hospital. The assassination, it is supposed, was the work of Italians, whose vendettas the chief ex pressed his determination to suppress. Sev eral arrests have been made. Gen. Reuben II. Davis, of Aberdeen, Miss., died suddenly of apoplexy at Huntsville Tuesday. He was en route home from Chattanooga when stricken. He was a second cousinof President Jeffer son Davis, and author of the recent pub lication entitled, “Mississippi and Mis- sissippians.” He served as a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress and was re-elect ed to the Thirty-sixth. WHAT, FARMERS, HO! Come Listen To Our Tale Of News Gathered For You. REVISING THE CONFESSION. The Principle of Foreordination Not Attacked by the Committee. Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 18.—At the ses sion of the Committee on the Revision of the Westminister Confession of Faith, the principal action was a final decision on the chapter relating to foreordination. Section 1 was revised to a more concise reading, so that it does not seem that God is the author of sin. The last clause of Section 8, which reads, “and others foreordained to everlasting death,” was omitted. Section 4, which reads, “The angels and men thus predestinated and foreor dained are particularly and unchange ably designed, and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot lie either increased or diminished,” was also omitted. The other sections were modi fied in various ways without making any radical change. The principle of foreordination was not attacked in any way, and nothing was done affecting the doctrines of tha Church. Chapter 4, which is called the chapter of creation, was also settled finally, but the committee refused to make known what changes had been made. Considerable time was devoted to-day to the discussion of Chapters it and 10. Letters were read from the Morris, Orange, and Peking Presbyteries, asking for a revision of the first clause of the third section. The clause reads, “Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hatli wholly lost all ability of will to any spirituV good accompanying salvation.” The de bate indicated that the majority desire tin: section to lie revised so that it will not declare that man is entirely incapable of doing anything toward his own salva tion. Action was postponed until Judge- Strong, who was summoned to Washing ton by the illness of Justice Miller, would return. Chapter 10, relating to the salvation of infants and idiots, was also considered for a short time this evening. Action will probably be taken on it to-morrow. The committee decided to adjourn at 5:30 to morrow evening. AN EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. The Negroes of Richmond Wish to Establish an Annual Fete Day for their Race. The Sumter County Fanners’ Alliance Endorse the Proposed Alliance Bagging Factory and Es chew Politics Entirely. A NEW CITY BY THE SEA. The Macon 8c Atlantic Railroad Invest Heavily at Colleton Neck, Purchasing 32 Square Miles of Land For a Terminal. The colored people of Richmond, Vs., celebrated the twenty-seventh anniversa ry of the signing of the emancipation proclamation by public exercises at the Exposition grounds, Geo. T. Donnagin, of Newport, R. I., making a brief ad dress. Governor McKinney, who had been in vited to attend and deliver an address, wrote this: "Thfit you should rejoice on tho day from which you date your freedom and celebrate it in a proper manner is right and natural. See to it that each dsV’s proceedings arc characterized by good or der and a dignity becoming so important a period in the history of your race and our common county, that nothing may occur to mar the pleesure of the occa sion or justify harsh criticism of your conduct.” Thursday was the great day, when a parade took place and the effort made to fix a date for an annual celebration throughout the country. A Mammoth Enterprise. A company of English, Virginia, Chica go and Philadelphia capitalists, it is stated, have determined to develop the tin mines in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and will build at odcc a mill at Savcrnafte capable of producing 2,500 boxes of tin plate weekly, with the works so arranged as to admit of extention to a capaeity of 8,000 boxes weekly for the second year be a good thing for Virginia. Thirty Thousand Spindles Less. A London cablegram says: The Per severance cotton mill, situated near Bel ton, Lancashire, was destroyed by fire. Thirty thousand spindles are ruined. A new Alliance warehouse has just been completed at Yatesville, Ga. The Springfield, Minn., Alliance will build a grain elevator this fall. The new Alliance warehouse has been thrown open at Tatcsville, Ga. The Alliance warehouse and compress at Covington, Ga., luis been completed. The Alliance at Marble Falls, Texas, will erect a bagging factory. The National Grange will meet in At lanta on the 12th of November. The Farmers’ Alliance of Illinois will establish a co-operative plow factory at Decatur. The Alliance Exchange at Henrietta, Texas, is doing a good business, and said to be giving satisfaction. The directors of the Arlington, Ga., warehouse made their first payment last week, says the Montezuma Record. Evan Jones writes from Coleman: “The outlook for the order is very hopeful in tho counties I have visited.” The Alliance grocery store at Decatur, Ala., was buglamed last week,and several articles taken. A number of prominent Alliance men have lensgjj tho Southern Mercury, the State organ of tho Farmers State Alliance of Texas. They propose to put ample capital behind the enterprise and make it a strong Alliance puplisliinghouse. They will employ an able editorial corps and make the Mercury one of the best reform papers in the laud. Does farming pay? It don't pay as well as railroading or banking and never will until the farmer gets a square deal with those monied fellows. Give the fanner an equal chance and farming as a business will be what it ought to be.—Alliance Times. ****** Says a letter from Sumter, S. C.: The following action of tho Sumter County S. C, Alliance, at its meeting, will be of in terest to the public and particularly to members of the Order, and I am permit- tted to send it to you for publication. It is embodied in the enclosed resolutions, which I will give in the order of their adoption. Resolution No. 1: Whereas, we have heard explained the project of the State Alliance bagging fac tory of sufficient capacity to supply the members of the Alliance in South Caroli na ; and whereas, we are heartily in sym pathy with the move to manufiicturc the covering for our cotton, and are glad of the opportunity to co-operate with our brethren of the State in an enterprise that we have desired for eighteen months, there be it resolved: 1. That the Sumter County Alliance earnestly commend the favoraplc consid eration of the subject to every Bub-Alli ance in the county, with the recommen dation that each Sub-Alliance endeavor to take fifty or more dollars stock in the company. 2. That it is an earnest of our good-will toward the enterprise and belief in its success this Alliance hereby appropriates the sum of one hundred dollars to buy stock in the South CarolinaStatc Alliance Bagging Manufacturing Company, this being all that this Alliance can subscribe at the present time. 3. That we hereby appoint the chair man of our executive committee (the Hon W. Q. Cain) trustee of said stock, and au thorize him to represent is in the organ ization of said company; Mid that the sum of ten dollars, or so mnch of it as may bo necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay his actual expenses in connection with the organization of said company. 4. That wc instruct him to urge upon the corporators of said company to pro vide in the charter that any fibre may be used, so that the management of the fac tory may not be confined to jule butts, but may use any fibre which will make a standard bagging that can be obtained as cheaply or cheaper than jute. Resolution No. 2. Uttdlved, That this Alliance recommend that the Sub-Alliances, whose natural market is the following places, will sell their cotton on the following days of the week: Hagood, Mondays; Wcdgefield, Tuesdays;Ilishopville, Wednesdays;Sum ter, Thursdays; Mayesville, Fridays; Mag nolia, Saturdays; and that cotton buyers are invited to hear in mind these days and places and lie present on the above named occasions; and that a committee of one or more from each Alliance repre sented at the above points take charge of the sales. Both of the iqiovc resolutions were unanimously adopted after careful con sideration. There were over fifty representative farmers from all sections of the county present and a very harmonious meeting was held, one that cannot fail to promote the growth of the Order in the county. Notwithstanding the wide difference of opinion on political subjects held by the men who composed the meeting not one word of polities were discussed, and every man present was heartily in accord with each other, to work as a unit for our financial betterment. 1 make this state ment because of the constant assertion that “the Allianec has gone into politics.” Whatever may lie the difference of opin ion on political questions, when we meet in tho Alliance those differences are laid aside and we are determined to work only for the good of each other. Respectfully, E. W. Dablw, County Secretary. Sumter. October 5 ^ The Mississippi Convention. Jackson, Miss., October 20.—In the judiciary rc|Kirt only one more section remains to be considered. The legisla tion accomplished to-day embodies im portant changes in existing laws. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace is in creased from causes in which the amount involved is $100 to those where $200 is at issue. District attorneys*will hereafter be limited to salaries. Justices of the peace and constables are to hold office lour years and la-chosen by districts. The Legislature shall from time to time establish such inferior Courts ns may lie necessary and abolish the same when ever they deem it expedient. There shall bo an Attorney Genera! elected by the people and a competent number of dis trict attorneys elected by the people of the respective districts. An old Mississippi River that Mark Twain was the laziest white DMn ho oyer aaw.ia a pilot house. The purchase by the Macon Construc tion Company and the Macon and Atlan tic Railroad Company of large tracts of land hindering on Port Royal harlior for the purpose of securing deep water termi- ual facilities on the Atlantic coast is an event of large importance to the people of theJower part of South Carolina, and in deed of the whole State, if the promises ■ huh are made as to the plans of the two companies shall be carried out. Tbe several purchases of the companies it is stated, cover thirty-two square miles of land on Colleton River, and the inten tion is [to build wharves, depots, ware houses and grain elevators, at Foot Point and establish there a new “city,” which is expected to become speedily one of the leading ports on the South Atlantic coast. Tha site chosen for the city is said to be an admirable one In every respect, as it is on a high bluff with deep water on two sides; the projected railroad is expected to lie completed and in operation within eighteen months; land which was sold a few years ago at $5 an acre is now sell ing at $1,000 an acre for the purpose of lining divided up into building lots; and generally speaking a “boom” of no small proportions has struck the long neglect ed Colleton Neck, and will engage the attention of the local public for some time fo come. The Macon and Atlantic Railroad au thorities seem to be pushing work along their line and making for Foot Point, which is on a “boom.” A gentleman who was in the city yesterday said that work is now going on near the South Carolina line in the vicinity of Monteith, Ga. It is proposed, he said, to cross the Charleston and Savannah Road very near the Savannah River. Possibly the Macon and Atlantic Road will cross the Savan nah River on the Charleston and Savannah bridge.—Charleston News and Courier. Concerning the sales of the site for the terminal faciltics for the road, tbe Savannah News: “A Savannah syndicate closed a deal yesterday for Hunting Island, a 3,000 acre tract of laud on May River, South Carolina, four miles south of Foot Point, the proposed deep water terminus of the Macon and Atlantic Railroad. The prop erty has a frontage on May River, which it overlooks, for a mile and a half from a high bluff. The tract is principally pal metto. It was brought some time ago by Dr. A. E. Highway, of Cincinnati, for $15,000. The price paid by the Savan nah purchasers is understood to have been considerably above that figure. The original intention of its purchaser was to erect a hotel on the bluff overlooking the river and to develop the place as a sum mer and winter resort. Its purchase by the Savannah syndicate-is understood to be for investment.” Telegraphic Brevities Salvado has formed a new cabinet. The Lcland hotel, in Syracuse, N. Y., was totally destroyed by fire. The count of Paris and his party in spected tho battlefields of Gettysburg Thursday. A resolution was offered in the Ohio legislature censuring the govetnor for calling the extra session. The cloudburst in West Virginia last Sunday afternoan did great damage to the farmers. The crops were nearly de stroyed. Two policemen of Chicago—Junge and Madden—fell out ami had a scuffie, in which Madden shot and mortally wound- Juuge. Dr. McGonegal, charged with malprac tice in the case of Annie Goodwin, in New York, was sentenced to fourteen years in the state's prison. The Loyal Legion is in session at St. Louis. Sessions will be presided over by cx-Presidcnt Hayes, and none of the pro ceedings will be given to the public. The foreign iron masters passed through Louisville, Ky., en route to Birmingham, Ala. There are three trains loaded w ith them. There is No Kissing in Japan. Young Japanese girls are as nature made them, and very sweet they are, too, in their quaint dresses, showing the plump chest and rounded arms, says the Hot.\e Queen. Pages could bo written about their charms. What dear, dainty little dolly they are 1 Such white teeth, rosy lips, coy smiles I Who shall describe them? And what next? A kiss, per haps? Not over here. Oh, never! They never do. They don’t know how; actu ally they don’t know how, and even peas ant girls are closely guarded. Fancy a young man in cotton kimono and wooden cloga stealing a chance to walk with his best girl under the bloom ing cherry trees, explaining the constella tions and quoting sentimental poetry, telling her that he “hung upon her eye lids,” that “her voice was like a temple gong,” in fact, that he loved but her alone, and then making her several formal bows at the door of her father’s straw- thatched hut as they parted iu the moon light. Can an American lover stretch his imagination enough io believe in a sweet heart not kissing those pretty lips, paint and all, by asortof “natural selection?” ’Tie a melancholy fact, but a Japanese has no such impulse. No lover courts his mistress with “sweetest, persuasive kisses.” No mother kisses her baby as she cuddles itagaiusther bosom. THE OHIO P0LITICAI CAULDRON. Congressman McKinley’s Seat the Great Bono of Contention, and the Great Leaders of Both Parties Participate in the Campaign. The fight in the 10th Congressional district of Ohio, now represented by the Hon. Win. McKinley, is waxinghot, and promises to be a memorable one. The district as at present constituted gave about 2,000 Democratic majority at the recent Gubernatorial election, but Mr. McKinley has determined to make the greatest effort of his life in the attempt to carry the district, and expresses him self ns confident of achieving success. Congressman Burrows and Gen. Alger, of Michigan, Speaker Reed and other distinguished Republicans will make speeches at various points in the district this week, and Secretary Blaine has wired that he will speak at Canton, Mr. McKin ley's home. Ex-Lieutenant Governor John C>. Warwick, the Democratic nomi nee, is also making an energetic canvass. Whilst not the equal of his opponent on the stump, Mr. Warwick is a gentleman of large wealth, a hustling campaigner and an unsurpassed handshaker. So far the Democrats have been unable to secure any considerable amount of outside speak ing talent, but Gov. D. B. Hill, of New York, has telegraphed that he will speak next week at Canton and two other points in the district. He will be accompanied by Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, who will also speak, and Senator Carlisle, of Kcntuek, has also promised to put in some work for Mr. Warwick before the campaign r.lncDM SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES. ’Tia Getting To Be An Old Song, But Still Musical. The Manufacturers Record reports the closing of a contract for the construction of large works including three furnaces, rolling mill, etc., at Tredegar, Calhoun Co, Ala., to employ when complete over 3,000 hands- r a $200,000 rolling mill at Cardiff, Tenn.; and a $1,000,000 com pany to establish manufacturing enter prises at Roanoke, Va. A foretaste of the development of the iron industry iu the South is given in the bids for the water works pipe at Atlanta, Ga., opened a few days ago. The lowest bid, $22.24 per ton, was by the Howard Harrison Iron Company, of Bessemer, Ala. The next lowest, $22.05, was by the An niston Pipe Works. Other bids, giving only the name of cities, were as follows: Philadelphia, $25; Louisville, $25.80; Cincinnati, $28; Philadelphia, $28.01; and Burlington, N. J., $2071. Thus, with tho exception of one Philadelphia concern, which was $2.70 higher, the Northern bidders were $6 to $7 a ton higher than tho Bessemer company. As Atlanta has about 6,000 tons to buy, the difference in the whole hid is from $26,- 000 to $42,000. Referring to this, the Atlanta Constitution remarks: "A differ ence of 25 per cent, is not explained by tho remoteness of Northern foundries. The eomliti ms of iron manufacture are more favorable South, and that is what made the bids lower. Southern Populatione. Washington, I). C., Oct. 20.—Tho census office announced the following population statistics: Montgomery 21,- 790, Increase 5,077; population of Ken tucky 1,805,436, increase 206,746; Ala bama 1,508,088, increase 245,508; Galves ton, Texas, 29,118, increase 6,870; Houston, Texas, 27,411, increase 10,808; 4 Pensacola, Fla., 11,751, increase4,001. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Sixty Years in the Service. There is a man in tho United Navy to day who haabeen a “blue-jacket up ward of sixty years. Admiral Portei and he were boys together in the service. Though the winters of nearly three- quarters of a century has come and gout since bis birth, he is as hale and asactivt to-day as many a man whose sum total ol years does not exceed thirty. He—be ing the oldest man in the service, and having performed more than one heroic deed during the Mexican, Seminole and Civil Wars,for he participated in all three —is allowed great privileges, and may come and go whenever he pleases. He it not a drinking man to any extent, not s total abstainer by any means, but ho al ways uses liquor in moderation. He has not a living relative in the world that he knows of; he has always been, as he ex presses it, “a biid alone.” He was not more than twelve years old when he en tered the navy, and a man-of-war has been his home ever since. Ho Is now a shipped boatswain's mate, and his pay amounts to between forty-five and fifty dollars per month. He has been most severely wounded in two or three en gagements, as the scars still visible are testimony, and they aro of no delicate description either, but quite the reverse. —Bolton Transcript. Another Piedmont Carolina Railroad. It was learned at Asheville, N. C., that the Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel and Iron Company, that owns the Pocahontas coal fields in Virginia and the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad, constructed from Bristol, Tenn., to Big Stone Gap, are surveying a line from Bristol to Linville, N. C., where connec tion will be made with the S. and \V. air line. Two parties of engineers are now ih the field, and the officers of the com pany say they will build the road if they can get a reasonable good line, of which there seems little doubt. The steel and iron company owns 50,000 acres of land in Mitchell county, adjoining the lands of the Linville Improvement Company, on which they have found magnetic ore. This will cause the immediate develop ment o? the mineral wealth of that sec tion, and be a great stroke toward the up building of Piedmont North Carolina. The Alliance in the West. A special from Kansas City, Mo. says: An intended extension of its business by the Farmers’ Alliance of the South west was discovered Friday wheu it was learned that it is to establish an independ ent stock yard in Kansas City. The Mis souri, Texas, Nebraska and Iowa Al liances are back of the scheme. Fifty acres of laud adjoining the present stock yards is the site of the new yards. By maintaining their own yards the farmers believe they can save much money iu marketing their cattle by doing away with commission men and a great part of other expenses. A Beautiful Lunatic Actress. A special from Richmond Va., says: Miss Shaw, the beautiful variety actress who was rescued from the roof of the Put nam biiilding ou Franklin street, while walking in mule condition along the roof in her sleep, Monday morning, was ad judged a lunatic. Miss Shaw belongs to Putnam’s variety show here. She is about 22 mid is described us a beautiful girl of a mild blonde type. The girl is an opium cater and has been drinking to excess for several weeks. She is believed to be a native of Toronto, Canada. The Building of Bridgeport. Tho New Town Company, just begin ning operations at Bridgeport, Ala., on tlic Ten ncssee River, has sold out to a syndicate headed by Hubert Bonner, the newspaper man, associated with H. B. Claflin and Connell and Dclamuter, the iron kings. They have organized a now company, with a capital of five million dollars. The members of the new com pany have taken formal possession of the property. now TO MAKS AN EGG-TESTER. Take a piece of leather five inches wide and six inches long. Now bring tho edges together (with the dark side of leather inside) and sew them, and it is ready for use. Take the egg to be tested, hold it up to a bright light, place tho eye at tho other end and you see ex actly what condition tho egg is in. Tho leather adjusts itself to the egg so as to exclude all tho light. Another good point in its favor is that there is no dan ger of breaking tho egg by accidentally letting the tester fall or by' striking the egg against it. CORKS CURE STUTTERING] A SIMPLE DEVICE FOR THE RELIEF OF STAMMERERS. A GOOD LAUNDRY POLISH. A laundry polish that is recommended by an authority on such questions is made as follows: Dissolve on a slow fire one ounce of white wax and two ounce of spermaceti with one largo tea- spoonful of salt. Turn into a wet cup to cool. Make boiled starch ns usual, cooking slowly for twenty minutes, anil for every tablcspoonful of dry starch used put iu a lump of tho preparation the size of a cherry. Use no cold starch and do not sprinkle. When tho starched pieces are dried, lay them in a wet towel for two hours, and with a polishing iron bring out the gloss.—New York World. NOODLE PUDDINO. Three eggs beaten light, a little salt and flour to make a paste that will roll. Roll tho paste an eighth of an inch thick, lay on a clean paper for five minutes, let ting it stand either in tho sun or in a warm oven with the door open. Aftci taking them out cut in strips two inches wide; cut fine, then put them in clear, salted water which is boiling and allow them.ten minutes for boiling, but do not let them stick together. Take them out and drain well; add two well-beaten eggs, mix thein in a quart of milk and stir in the noodles; add salt, sugar and spice to suit the taste. Bake forty-five minutes. Noodles are very nice used in soup instead of' maccaroui.—New Fork World. WHOOPING COUGH. A physician of well-known repute,talk ing about whooping cough, says it is a contagious disease peculiar to childhood, although it occasionally attacks adults. It is spasmodic in its action, generally protracted, and is qjways accompanied with inflammation of the mucous mem brane of the windpipe, bronchial tubes and tbe cells. A dry cough, an occa sional sense of constriction in the chest, fever, quick respiration and other symp toms of a common cold mark its begin ning. These disappear and the spas modic stage ensues, In which there is a frequently recurring and obstinate cough. At times the child is convulsed with a paroxysm of coughing which is con tinued until the lungs seem to be incapa- blo of further action. Tho spasm aftei a second or two is relaxed and the breath is drawn with a prolonged, almost con vulsive sob, or “whoop” which is pe culiar to this disease and prevent^ it from being confounded with any other malady. Children who are weak teething or being weaned are liable in whooping cough to iaflammating of the lungs or brain, which often results fatally. Vigorous treatment in its earliest stages is of the utmost importance, and great care should ho exercised in regulating the diet and avoiding sudden changes ol temperature.—New York World. RECIPES. Potato Pic—Slice eight raw potatoes and cut into small pieces one-half pound of bacon. Line a basin with some suet paltry and put in the bacon and potatoes; add boiling water and a little Hour to make gravy. Put to steam for four hours. Cocoanut Cream—Ono pint of milk, yolks of three eggs, one-half cup of sugar, flavor with vanilla. Cook as for boiled custard. Put ono dozen cocoauui cakes in a pretty dish and strain the hot custard over them, When cold, whip the whites and pile on top. Crab-applo Preserves—Take tho red Siberian crab-apple. Wash, and wipe dry, leave tho stems on, put in water to cover, and let come to a boil. Take up, let cool, and carefully remove the skins. Weigh, allow ono pound of sugar to every pound of fririt. Slake syrup, flavor with the juice of one lemon to every three pounds. Put tho crab-apples ou, and cook until clear (put in Jars while hot. Blackberry Mush—Bruise one pound ripe blackberries and add a very little salt. Put in porcelain-lined or granite kettle, add one tcacupful of boiling water and stew for three or four mingles. Mean time stir smoothly in a bowl two heaping tablcspodufuls of flour with water to make a thick cream; add to tho berries, and stir constantly till thickened. Re move, set in very cold place. Serve with sugar and cream. Beef-Loaf—Get two pounds of lean beef and chop fine. Season with salt, pepper, a little parsley, summer savory or something of the kind, and chop and add a very small onion. Press into a square or long baking pan and fit a tin over it. Bake an hour and a half. Put a weight on it when done, and do not turn out untj^ it is perfectly cold, when it may be c(ft in nice slices with a sharp thin-hladcd knife. Rice Cream—Lovers of rice will enjoy this: Bake one ounce Carolina rice iu half a pint of milk with three bay leaves. When sufficiently cooked, re move tho scum and bay-leaves. Dis solve onc-quarter ounce gelatine, previ- viously soaked in two tablcspoonfuls of milk, in half a pint of boiling milk, add the yolk ot an egg and two ounces ol loaf sugar. Stir over tho fire for five minutes, mix with the rice, pour it into tha mould, and let it remain until set. , A Monument to A. P. Hill. At a meeting of Ex-Confederates, held at Riehmoml, Va., it was decided to move tiie lemaius of Gen. A. 1’. Hill from Holly wood to a lot donated by Lewis Gintcr, not far from the Lee monument, in the western suburbs of the city. It is in tended to increase the fund now in hand for the erection of a monument to Gen. Hill, and to locate the monument on the lot given by Uinter. me centennial of the diseovory of coal in Pennsylvania U to be celebrated in 1891. What Makes People Stutter—Tongue- tied Women Are Rare—A Majority of Stammerers Are Teutons. _ Curiously enough, from statistics it ap pears that the Germans, though reported to be such a slow-speaking people, have a larger percentage of stutterers among them than any other nation. Next to them arc the English. Americans are noticeably free from this failing. It is probably because of this that there are but two training schools for stutterers iu the whole country. One is in New York, and tho other is in Chicago. The one in, this city was started three months ago by Dr. Lothar Schwarz, a young German specialist, who gathered practical experi-j encc in his chosen line in some of thei best institutions of this character in Ger many. Ho has had twelve resident pa-' tients, some of whom are from neighbor ing States. He has been able te effect a number of cures during the brief time ho has managed his institution. Dr. Schwarz says that tho causes of stammering are varied. In a majority of cases the trouble originates during baby hood, the child being either too lazy to imitate sounds correctly or else some-, what deaf and unable to hear sounds properly. Sudden fright, diseases like diphtheria, typhoid or scarlet fever often bring about a partial inability of tho ton gue to enunciate clearly. Again, a dc-j fectivo formation of muscles or ot organs such as the larynx, the tongue, the palate or tho mouth is often the cause of tho trouble. In a number of cases, too, tha lungs are not tranied to perform the func tions properly during speaking, so that the stutterer attempts to breatho whilol speaking, thus causing an interruption o£ the voice. Tho forceful grimaces mado by so many stutterers while trying to pronounce difficult letters, such as “d” and “t," “f” and “p,” "m” and “n” and “s,” aro duo to the violent contrac tion of the facial muscles. In regard to a euro to be effected tho doctor said; “The first means to bo employed—that) is, tho means which aro most cffectivo and. rapid in nearly all cases—is tho ono brought into a system and first mado public by Professor Koen. This is a system by which the tonguo above all is carefully trained to perform its manifold duties. The tonguo is exerflsed, mado pliable, and is taught to do always that which the owner means to have it doj To accomplish this tho stutterer is sub-: Jected to a regular' course of exercises,! some of them ijuito disagreeable and wcarisomcl For instance, ho has to hold! a cork between his teeth, and then hisi tonguo must try aud pronounce words,! syllables, Jetteis, and even whole sen-i tenccs distinctly without dropping the, cork. By nil sorts of tricks the tonguo, ts forced to attain proficiency in pro-) nouncing just thoso letters or-combiua-i tions of letters which it was formerly un able to pronounce, except perhaps with great difficulty. While tho specialist was talking ho, entered a room in which tho handsome twelvc-jcar-old son of a well known! college professor iu Iowa was just under- 1 going one of thoso exercises the doctor was discusing. Tho boy’s organs of speech had normally developed until a year ago, when he met with an accident —a heavy fall from his velocipede. Sincei that time ho was unable to speak two words in succession without feeling pain and discomfort. Tho muscles of his, face contracted and his checks and brow became suffused with blood in his violent efforts to speak. As he stood before tho specialist his eyes were fixed upon thoj wall, and lie repeated for the hundredth time: “Don’t do wrong I Where will you bo to-morrow?” and other phrases' difficult for him to enunciate. He pro nounced them after a fortnight’s treat ment, plainly, but very slowly and with; evident effort. Before each word ha drew a deep breath and there was a queen whizzing sound from his lips. “That will soon disappear," said the doctor, “but with all this bravo boy’s persistence It will require at last another mouth to rid him completely of his abnormal) peculiarities of speech.” Girls have this affliction much more) rarely than boys. Their tongue appears to bo more clastic than is tho tonguo oil the opposite sex. AY omen who ere una ble to speak quickly and plainly are veiy rare, according to scientific writers otn the subject. The largest percentage of stutterers is furnished by boyhood, es pecially between tho tenth and fifteenth year. This is due, in part, to an impet uosity of speech, which gradually disap pears as tho boy learns a little mora sense and reserve. There are no reliablo statistics to show the percentage of thoso having some impediment in their speech, in the different countries on the globe. But tho fact is sufficiently established that this percentage is much, smaller in all tho Latiu countries, such as France^ Italy, Spain, Portugal and South Amer ica than it is iu the Teutouio lands- This is su’d to be largely due to tho fact that the^Genuanie tongue is less voluble than tho Latiu one; that the languages derived in part from tho old Latin are moro easy of pronunciation than thoso descended from the old Teuton linguis tic stock, and that there aro more vowels and less difficult combinations of conso nants in them. i’Ms theory seems to find support in the fact that the English speaking people, who talk a tongue about evenly mado up or Teuton aud Latin words, have far less stutterers among them than the Germans and Scan dinavians, while there aro at tho same time more stutterers among them than among tho French or Italian or Spanish speaking nations.—Chicago Herald. Marvels In l uce. Tho Sumtcrev was shown some photo graphs of tho exhibits of lino point ga/ • iacc that secured the prizes at the Paris Exposition. They must have bec-u mar vels of dainty and finished workmanship. One was a parasol that was valued at $2600; another was a bed sheet trimmed with this lace and valued at $500, ami vet another was a baby’s lace trimmed bantisinnl robe valued at vOTiU. Point gn/o lace is capable of being used in more ways and for more purposes thnu any other kind of lace manufactured.— Chicago Pot'. In Russia a man may appear as a wit* aess in a lawsuit against his wife. "V