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fProperltj of 3fhe C‘J::r!'ii''‘on County 3Cistor : ca! Society DARUNGTON VOL. I. .5 DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1890. NO. 20. The New York Telegram laments that '•‘in these days of smokeless powder and email-calibre rifles, the militia of New A orlc StAte are drilling and shooting •with ft/blunderbuss which throws a pro jectile, iinlf an inch in diameter.” The curator of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) institute told a reporter the other day that one beautiful butterfly in the col lection of the institute is rained -$1000, that sum haring oaid for • duplicate. at recently been The Chicago SertM recalls the fact •that not many years ago the abandoned timber lands in Aroostook County,Maine, away up near the British prorince, were almost worthless for agricultural pur poses. Later on Swedes and other in dustrious foreigners mored in, and now, declares the Herald. Aroostook County is tho greatest potato-growing county in New England. SOUTHERN NEWS NOTES. The Happenings of a Week Preserr- ed and Chronicled. Tb j Fields of Virginia, North Caroli- aa, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida Care* fullyJCultivated; Read the Remits. “Many New Yorkers, doubtless, have ’Leen puszled to account for the fact that 'we have an East and a North River, in- Htead of an East and a West River,” ob serves the New York Tribune. “The ■ explanation is found in the circumstance that the Hudson was originally called tho North River to distinguish it from the Delaware, which was popularly known as the ‘South River’ among the early colon ists. While the latter designation has become obsolete, the former is still in current use, although there is no reason why this should be so. It is no harder to say ‘Hudson’ than ‘North,’ and it is certainly more beautiful and appro priate.^ Thg Chicago Herald wonders what is ^htre about the figures five feet eight inches that is so attractive to policemen? Did you ever notice, it asks, the descrip tion of a drowned man who was not just that tali? Maybe you have, but just no tice and see if the vast majority of them do not conform to that rule, and also are reported ns wearing congress gaiters. Whether men measuring five feet eight .inches high and wearing congress gaitera are more prone to drowning than others, so far as is known, has not been deter mined, but it is an odd suggestion which comes to the mind of man; who constant- ly watch such cases. The herd of buffaloes that the Govern ment has preserved at the Yellowstone National Park as almost the last speci mens of the noble species have got loose and wanaered away. News of their es cape has been sent out in every direc tion, and an expedition has started in pursuit. But up to recent date nothing had been heard as to their whereabouts and their recovery ia doubtful. They are likely to be picked off by settlers and hunters, who can get almost a fabulous price for their skins. As the herd comprised the only known buffa loes in a wild state their loss is a seri ous one and their slaughter would al most complete the extinction of a once countless rac% During a convereatloh due nay re cently, Congressman Flower, of New York city, casually remarked that he represented the richest district, in the country. “More than that,” said he, “my district, the Twelfth, is richer than any State in the Union except New York and Pennsylvania. It is richer than Mss sachussetts, or Illinois, or Ohio, or Cali fornia.’^ Of course, says the New York Ptar. Mr. Flower’s little observation set everybody to discussing, and it was ac knowledged to be true. The Twelfth Congressional District extends from East Fortieth street to East Eighty-sixth st reet and from the East River to Seventh ave- - IrBC. I" 'ive the Vanderbilts, the RockfeUerfi^-Iay Gould, Russell Sage, D. O. Mills, and, in fact, almost all the very rich persons in the city except the As- tors, who live in the Eleventh Assembly District. The united possessions of the. residents of the Twelfth Congressional District must be more than $4,000,000,- 000. Illinois is valued at about $3,000, - 000,000, and Ohio and Massachusetts at a billion and a half. gays the New York Timet: There are always difficulties io the selection of judges at the fairs. An exhibitor, of course, is disqualified unless he has the unselfish disregard of his own interests to withdraw bis animals from competi tion, which is too much to expect, in view of the fact that his stock is show* for business purpose*. A prominent breeder is also excluded.because he is in terested in the stock of his breding, and few outsiders have the confidence of the exhibitors because they lack the requisite expert knowledge. The selection of pro fessional judges who are properly com pensated for their services an 1 have the requisite knowledge would stem to re move the difficulty, as they could act at several fain in the same capacity and would be quite diainterested. Thk method has been found satisfactory at the English exhibitions, and would doubtless be so here. It would not, perhaps, pra- vent disappointment on the part of some of the exhibiton, who might be apt to protest against the decisions, but that difficulty might be met by the selection of a jury of the exhibiton who should decide any questions raised by a disap pointed party on the basis of the scale cf points. The matter is one of sufficient importance to be met and disposed ol 4JL0* (or aU. VIRGINIA. More than $1,900,000 of outside capital been invested in Norfolk during the past month. A vein of coal, thought to be of good quality, has been discovered on the farm of Richard Sweeney, in FaUqUiet. Work has been commenced on tha Morgan College (colored), in West Lynchburg. General Thomas A. Rosser is seribusly ill at his home near Charlottesville. Henry M. Meyer, proprietor of the Palais Royal dry goods store, at Rich mond made an assignment Wednesday. Liabilities $70,000; assets unknown. A blind man named Charles Ethridge fell out of a second-story window of a boarding house on Main street in Norfolk while under the influence of liquor and broke three of his ribs. He died. It is rumored that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has purchased land* in Lynnhaven bay for the purpose of erecting extensive tesminal facilities on them. EynnhaVeh bay is two hours nearer Cape Charles than Norfolk, and by running a ferry aeross from the cape to the bay insteail of . Norfolk,, that much time would be saved. The- CSarfestog, Wilmington and Norfolk railroad, now under construction, it is believed, will be built by Pennsylvania road money. A joint stock company has been started to build a belt line railroad from Glasgow to the Natural Bridge, Lexington, Buena Vista, and other cities of Rockbridge, back to Glasgow. The Rivermost Land Company of Lynchburg has resolved to give twenty acres of land and $1,000,000 iu money and non-assessible stock for a female col lege. Work was commenced on the new Ma sonic Temple at Glasgow, jcj-Governo; Lee throwing the first spade of dirt. Ma jor A. R. Courtney, of Richmond, pres ident of the Temple Association, was master of ceremonies. A large numbci of citizens, Masons and others, were present. Great enthusiasm prevailed. NORTH CAROLINA. Raleigh and Durham are being con nected with telephone wire*. A stock company purchased one thous and acres of land in and around.the new town of Gordon, near Wilkesboro, Thurs day. These land* will be divided up in to lots, with a view of establishing a big town in Wilkes. The following postmasters in North Carolina were appointed at Washington Tuesday: J. Whrtty, at Jasper, Craven County; 8. B. Koech, at Old Sparta, Edgecombe county; 8. A. Clause, at Smith Grove, Davie county. The superintendent of the Silver Val ley mines, in .Davidson county, reports the finding of the richest deposit of silver ore ever found in the south, a large vein of carbonate of lead carrying 70 to 100 ounces of silver and 30 per cent, of lead to a ton of the ore. Mr. Franklin, a Methodist preacher of Rowan county, was instantly killed Sun day night while on his ,way to fill an ap pointment, by a mule’s running away, and throwing .him out of his buggy, against a stump, which broke hi* neck. A syndicate composed of Lynn, Ma s., and Kansas City capitalists, has secured 175,000 acre<of .land in ' Madison and Yancey counties, which they propose to develop at once. The land is heavily timbered and contains mammoth deposits of iron ore and some mica. Governor Fowle appointed State Sena • tors-elect H. C. Green and.Z. V. Walser as members of the State Returning Board, which meets at Raleigh, Nov. 27th, to- canvass the election returns of the State. The Governor of the State, Attorney- General amt Secretary flf Jthq State are also ex-officio members of the jlosp d. While the ‘'white ribbon ttain,” com posed of six Pullman cars, and rootain- ing.135 or 140 delegates to the National Convention of the W. C. T. U.. at Atlan ta was stopping for a half hour in Char lotte Thursday, in some way, one of the Dumber discovered Mrs. Stonewall Jack son’s residence, and in a few minutes the whole party were at Mrt. Jackson's fence or in the yard getting leaves or sprigs of the bushes as souvenirs of Stonewall Jack- son’s wife’* home. Several who had their kodaks along took pictures of Mrs. Jack son’s home, and a general request was made to see her, but sfte was too unwell to present herself. SOUTH CAROLINA. A State fire insurance company is be- Newberry railioads to the West Shore Terminal were signed at Charleston, and receiver Chamberlain, of the South Caro lina railway, went to New York to close up the business. Before leaving he took occasion to say he did not believe that the Louisville and Nashville road was be hind the deal. He was rather of tho opinion that the East Shore Terminal would seek connection with the west via Augusta or through the Chicago, Cincin- natti and Charleston road. TENNESSEE. Knoxville has an ordinance requiring the vaccination of all school children which is rigidly enforced. The S. A. & O. machine, shops at Bristol, Tenn., with all their coDtenta, were destroyed by fire Thursday night Vice President Bates estimates the loss at $10,000. Hon. H. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, is spoken of as the probable successor of Secretary B. F. Tracy in the event of his transfer to the Supreme Court. Mr. Evans is Congressman from the third district, ana it is claimed that very intimate rela tions exist between him and the Chief Ex ecutive. Gov. Taylor commuted the sentence of death in the case of Dan Heeler to life im prisonment. Beeler was convicted of murder in Granger County, and was to have been hanged November 20- at Knox ville. He was only twenty years old at the time. The Memphis Appeal has purchased the Avalanche and the consolidation is known as the Appeal-Avalanche, Congressman James Pheutn, proprietor of the Avalanche having retired on account of protracted ill health. The interstate commerce commission is in session.in, Chattanooga, hearing argu ments in a suit brought against railways by the Chattanooga board of trade. Coi. J. W. Barrow, United States chief engineer in charge of the Tennessee River improvements, Monday formally dec’arcd the Mussel Shoa's Canal open for com merce. The steamboat R. T. Coles then passed through the canal with a cargo of frieght from Evansvi le, Ind., and Padu cah, Ky., for Chattanooga. It marks a new era in the developement of the Ten nessee valley. GEORGIA. u-ipuui i imes, ana jonn lempte uraves. of Georgia, made speeches. .Toe Jackson one of Rube Burrow's old gang jumped from the parapet to the ground floor of the Mississippi peniten tary Monday, and was killed. It was suicide. At a dance in Avondale, Ala., Nathan Terry and Washington Brown qilarrelled about a girl. Brown told Terry not to dance with the girl again, blit the latter did not heed the warning. White he was waltzing with her Brown walked up and shot him twice through the body, In flicting wounds from which he died shortly afterwards. The stock holders of tho Huntsville, Ala., new million dollar cotton factory organized a few days ago. T. B. Dallas is to be business manager and the w. rk begins on erecting buildings Jan. 1. A fire in the afterhold of the steamship Buenaventura in dock at New Orleans caused damage by water and fire to about HOC bales of cotton. The steamer was oading for Liverpool and had on board 3,200 bales, most of which was slightly damaged by water. Four members of the late Mississippi Convention were so much opposed to the new Constitution that they refused to put their names to the instrument. The Ennis cotton compress has mani pulated 30,000 bales of the Texas staple 'hus fur thia anftsrtn ALLIANCE PRECINTCS. The Order Furnishes a Great Deal News For This Column. of A Fair Florida Woman Bends Her Yard-Stick of Thirty-Six Inches Advocating Many Pending Political Measures. CLAIMS OF THE ALLIANCE. insurance company Ing organized in Greenville with head quarters there and with agencies in all towns, $100,000 has already been sub scribed. The present has been a remarkable year in the fertilizer business. 'Theship ments to points within the State ns well as neighboring States lias been larger than usual, in. fact .up to the 1st of Oc tober they were larger than for any pre vious twelve months. The State Fai* at Columbia was unqs-. Aially'iDtetesting. ' A new exhibit in chinery Hsll was the Breeden cotton stock cutter, exhibited by its inventor, W. M. Breeden, of Beuncttsville. The flower erln!>it, especially the chrysanthe mums, were the linest ever in Columbia. Specinl designs in chrysanthemums elic ited delighted comment. One by an un named exhibitox was a big picture on an easd, painted wholly iirtho colors of na ture. It represented the cqat of arms of Smith Carolina, witli atl its minute de tails, beautifully worked in chrysanthe mums. ■ • ■ A 12 mile railroad is te be built to con nect Lowndcsville in Abbeville county with theG., C. AN. The regular course at the ' Charleston Medical College is now well under way. There are some fifty students in atten dance. The lectures take place daily, each lasting about one hour. The dis secting classes meet in the afternoon and are iu session about two hours. All persons arrested for alleged election frauds in Hampton county hkVe been dis charged by the United States commis- sione. The contracts for the sale of the Barn well and Blackwell and the Alston and The National Grange of America began their annual convention in the State Cap itol building at Atlanta Wednesday to continue itt session ten days. Mayor Glenn delivered the address of welcome in behalf of the l ity and Governor North- cn in behalf of the State of Georgia. A grand celebration is to be held in Milledgville at the laying of the corner stone of the Girl’s Industrial Union. The legislature is invited and many of the most prominent members will make speeches. Arrangements to begin work on the mammoth hotel on Cumlterland Mind, near Brunswick are being made. The hotel and improvements will accommo date 1,000 guests. Judge Dupont Guerry is at the head of the Company. Govenor Gordan sent in his valedictory message to the Georgia Legislature on Saturday, tfter which his successor, the Hon. William J. Northen, was sworn in. The Centnl Railroad of Georgia has scooped the Cl jttanooga, Rome, and Co lumbus. Prosn’entJ. 1). Williamson, of the latter will be retained as general traffic manager. Judge Samurl Lumpkin was elected Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the State at the joint session of the legislature on Monday. The following were elected to other circuits: Associate chief justice, Samuel Lumpkin; Judge James tf. Gueiry, Pataula circuit; Judge A. L. Miller, Macon circuit; Judge N. S. Hutchins, western circuit; Judge H. C. Konev, Augusta (f euit; Judge J. W. Maddox, lt< me circuit; Judge C. J. Welborn. northeastern cirruit, Judge Roger Gainl le. middle circuit; Judge Hansell, sm them circuit; Solicitor gen eral, Thomas Kfison; Solic itor general, Howard Thomson, northeastern circuit. Dr. Bmn icr of Savannah went to Bruns wick to in /estigate the rumors of yellow fever in tbs latter place. Me says there are some ctscs of malarial fever in Bruns wick, but they present no symptoms of yellow fc> er. The Telfair Confederate Veterans’As sociation met at Jacksonville on Saturday, the 15th >f November. It is sa d that for more than fifty year* £355, w itch was originally intended to beapplitd to the education of slaves in 1 Georgia, has been lying in the Bank of Scot land FLORIDA. The National Alliance and Industrial Union wi 1 convene at Ocala, on Decem ber 2nd. The Louisville and Nashville railroad w.ll transport delegates free up on ail lines of its system to River Juno lidu and return. Way Lee, who is > distant relation of the Emperor of China and one of the most gentlemanly of Mongolians, says the Jacksonville Times-Union has opened up a very handsome restaurant next to the Times Union building. J. M. Fowne of Kissimmee and a party of northern capitalists will build a large ice factory ami cold storage warehouse at Tampa. T. A. Melter purchased 5,000 sweet oranges and placed them on Colcord’a wharf, foot of Ocean street, for free dis tribution. The only proviso was that the eater shoidd quarter the fruit and place tire irecl in. & barrel of alcohol stand.- ' 1 ■L •“av ’ A A rxArt sx'Mnavaa President Polk Says it Ha* Elected Thirty-eight Congressmen. L. L. Polk, president of the National Farmers Allirnce, is very jubilant over the result of elections. In the course of an interview hr said: “The Democrats and Republicans are claiming everything just now, but when they come to sift the chaff fom the wheat they will find that the Farmers’ Alliance had something to do with electing a fair proportion of the good men who willhave seats in the next Congress. Up to the present time it is a certainty that Con gress will contain thirty-eight straight- out Alliance men, and there arc twelve or fifteen more who are pledged tons. These men arc from.the South and Northwest— the two sections in which most of our work was done. The Alliance in Nebraska Minnesota and Iowa is not our organiza tion, and has not amalgamated with us, but it made the same fight and will join us this winter. Our Alliance co-operated with them; we will co-operate with any farmera’ association, and in a little while have a grip on the situation in almost every ebrner of the land. “We are here to stay. This great reform movement will not cease until it has im pressed itself indelibly in the nation’* his tory. Financial reform is the necessity of the hour, and it mnst come. The press and the voice of the stump SOMEWHAT VISIONARY. Iha Scheme of Mr. Gilpin to Bridge Behring Straits. speaker were Our only assistants. . The Alhanee had no cam- , ~ , paign fund, no boodle. If we had hau '(poikab.y-more)^ and it to easy money we would not have used it. The virtue and patriotism of the people are the things foappeal to. Our methoo* were fair and square, sad the whole world could see what we were doing. The principles on which the Alliance is founded are solid and correct; we must succeed. The fight was no small affair. The extremists of both parties attacked us bitterly and gave no inch of ground. In the South it was the Democrat* who opposed us. In the North our most vigorous antagonist were Republicans.”—N. Y. Times. SOUTH CAROLINA CONVICTS. They Will Till l!he Soil on the Newly Purchased State Farm. At a called meeting of the State Peniten- lary board held at Columbia a proposition from Col. T. J. Lipscomb was consider ed. Col. Lipscomb sought to engage 150 convicts for five years, with the privilege of increasing the number and time to 300 and ten years, the bands to be employed in agricultural labor on the Taylor plan tation, in Lexington county, near Colum bia. The b >ard declined to accept the term* proposed. Then the question of the pur chase of a State farm for the employment of convict labor came up as it has done monthly for the last ten months. The long deadlock as to the choice of a farm was broken by Governor Richardson, who had heretofore held out for the Taylor plantation, and now with Messrs. Ander son, Brooker and Sanders voted for tha PeSaussure place in Sumter county on the Wateree River; Messrs. Sarratt and Uuignard bolding to the Taylor plare a* best. The PeSaussure place contains nearly 3,(M)0 seres. It is purchased for twenty-five thousand dollars. The ap propriation for the purchase of a farm was $40,000. RAILROAD MOVEMENTS. ■fay Png nsnf.- Abont 4(000 of ibe oranges ‘ were eaten by the surrounding crowd, and Mr. Melter got a goodly amount of work dque for nothing. The peeling will be shipped to-England to be used for medicinal purposes.—Jacksonville Timc^ Union. An Important project is about to be placed under way in Florida. It is the ronstrurtion of a canal across .the State, uniting the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico. The route selected is understood to be from St. Augustine through St. John’s county to St. John’s river, which it will strike at or near Federal F«»nt: crossing the river to Sauble, it then take- i southwesterly direction to Cedar Key, passing through Orange lake, which it is proposed making a great central point, and locate along the shores commercial and industrial enterprises. The length of the ennal is stated as 117 miles, with a depth of 28 feet and a surface of from 200 to 250 feet. The company having tho stork in hand is the Florida Ocean A Gulf Canal Co., and is said to bo able timUeiaHy k>c«*ry oitt its ptanA-.. . OTHER STATES. Monday was Editors’ Pay at tlie South ern exposition, at Montgomery, Ala., and Colon*! A K AtuUura of Tha PhlU- - New Lines Projected in the South At lantic States. Augusta, Ga., ant Chattanooga, Tenn., are probably to be joined together by a long-hoped-for direct line, Vo be eriled the Augusta & Chat.anooga Railroad. This proposed road will run from Angus ta to Gainesville, and thence across North Georgia to Chattanooga. It is said that this enterprise has for backers a wealthy syndicate which is building a line from ( hicago to Chattanooga. Should this belief lie well founded, then a new line • >( communication between the metropolis of the Northwest and tho South Atlantic ports is something to be expeeted in flic early future, that will iuure to the ad vantage of the entire region through which it is to pass. Nasuvim.b aj>d Knoxvim.b.—Twen ty-one miles of track have been laid fron Cnney Fork river to Cookvillo, Tenn., mi the extension of this line from Cookville to Nemo, 55 miles; A. Vandevort, goner at manager, Lebanon, Tenn. Skaiioard and Roanokk.—Tlie annu il report, presented at a meeting held oi. October 21st, showed that the receipts were $1181,019.44, and the operating ex peases, $452,582.27. The company ex peels to have its southern extension* iutc Atlanta in nine mouths. In 1880 there were in the United States 570,000 tenant farmers. The Tennessee Importing company has just imported from Spain twenty-two jacks. An Alliance school will be established : n Dublin, Texas, in the near future. Alliance men in Floyd county, Ga., expect to erect three Alliance stores this fall. New Mexico is credited with 2,000,000 head of cattle and 31,000,000 head of sheep. It is estimated that sparrows annually consume 10,000,000 bushels of wheat in France. A charter has licen granted to the Pet erslmrg Alliance Exchange, to do business at Petersburg, Va. Tlie Washington Gazelle learns that an Alliance store will be started in Washing- km county at an early date. The Farmers’ League is systematically organizing tlie State of Massachusetts. At a recent sale in Iowa seven Red Poll ed bulls sold at an average figure of $153. leu females at an average of $201.50. The Farmers’ Exchange of Oconee, iu Orange county, Fla., is to start off with $8,000 capital. D. O. Maguire is presi dent and George P. Brannon, secretary. The New York State Alliance has adop ted tlie Sub Treasury plan, and declares that the force bill shall never be saddled upon the South if the farmera of that State can prevent it. This item appears in the “Eastanullec Notes” of the l arnesville, Ga., Enterj/rix: The Liberty Hill Alliance has just com pleted a substantial hall near tlie Baptist church at that place. According to the Department of Agri culture the imports of goat skius and gout hair last year amounted to $8,000. 000. The Farmers’ Alliance, of Montgomery county, Ky., are making an effort to form a company to build a $50,000 tobacco warehouse and establish weekly sales. The Michigan State Alliance Exchange will be organized at an early day. The State Executive Board will hold a meet ing in a few days and select a business agent. It is time for cattlemen to take bearings for future guidance. It must be borne in mifid that the dressed beef men can carry in their refrigerators fifteen days’ supply j ', and it ia easy for them to step out and break the masket when they please. But they-cannot go out for thirty days, and a short supply for thirty days will change the market.— Wettern Exchange. President W. E. H. Searcy, of the Far mers’ Banking Company, of Griffin, Ga., is appealing to the Alliance men of the Btau to take $40,000 worth of stock iu the bank, it already having $83,000 cap ital. ARicWand, Ga., correspondent writes that the Alliances are wielding a power ful influence toward the advancement ot the town. They have a warehouse of their own and store house rented, and will build a store uear their warehouse at an early date. A correspondent of Watkinsvillo, Ga. in discussing the delay in getting cotton bagging, offers this plan as a remedy "The only way out for the Farmers’ Al liance is to manufacture our own cottoe bagging. Do not depend on such as can be monopolized and have us waiting ur- til October or November for bagging The Alliance is an organization not to Ik trifled with.” *.«•**• AW ALLIANCE WOMAN'S YARD STICK. Mrs. E. M. King, of Banana, Fla., sends the following “Alliance woman’s yard stick or thirty-six inches, good meas ure, sure not to Ik 1 adopted until the farm era have more insight, more self reliance, more determination, and less party spirit; nor until women have tbeit fair share of political power.” PreamMe.—Whereas the farmers are tho hardest workers in the nation, the producers of the food, and of the raw material for the clothing of the nation; the largest tax payers, and numerically the strongest body of voters in the nation; they demand and have a right to demand the following measures: 1. Passage of a bill emliodying the principles and Intentions of the sub-treas ury bill. 2. Abolition of the “spoils system." 3. Extension of civil ser vice retorin. 4. Decrease or abolition of payment it- legislators. 5. Gambling and drinking in a-.y and every house of legislation to be strictR prohibited. 6. Tariff reform. 7. Protection for every industry, or none at all. 8. No industry to Jiesubsidized oi ! “bounties” giveu it at the expense of tax payers. 9. Equal taxation, whether din e Indirect. 10. Equal sulfis; of sex. 11. An eRucationnl 12. The Australian 13. A “campaign Juneau, Alaska, November 10.—Tie project of ex-Oovcrnor Gilpin, of Colora do, to build a line of railway through thi (vilds of Alaska to Cape Prince of Wales to conucct with the Russian railway sys tem through Siberia, thus linking the old and the new worlds with a railroad, is a feasible one, and the future will see it no eompiished. But there is a giant obsta ele in the way of oue unbroken line con necting the two hemispheres, and that is Behring straits. Mr. Gilpin's proposi tion is to bridge these straits, which is all well enough in theory, but quite a differ ent thing in practice. At considerable exjiense ‘he straits can undoubtedly be bndged. an island lies about midwai between ti American and Asiatic shores. The dislaiiv is cot great and the water is ■hallow, tht government charts showing the greatest . 'epth to lie only thirty-two fathoms. Bu could a bridge be built high enough to allow huge icebergs to pass under it, and with strength to with stand the great ice floes that are yearly swept down through the straits from the Arctic ocean? The current is sweeping through the narrow straits from one grea sea to another very swift and strong, and great icebergs would be borne against the bridge, its piers and abutments with a force that neither steel nor mason work would stand against. Captain Emery, of the United States ship Thetis, stated that the only practi cable means of crossing these straits at all seasons of the year is by tunneling un der them. THE BIG TOBACCO SCHEME. The Warehouses of Cincinnati Louisville United. ; and Louisville, Ky.', Nov. 11.—Incorpora tion papers for the tobacco company which embraces nearly all the lending warehouses in this city and Cincinnati, and of which much has already been published, were filed to-day. Its business embraces the storing and selling of leaf tobacco and everything that usually belongs to ware housing. The capital stock is $4,000,000, one-half S referred. The preferred stock is to have ividends of 8 per cent, per annum out of the earnings, but nothing more. The corporation may issue $1,000,000 in bonds. The principal places of business are Louisville and Cincinnati, and the di rectory, which holds till January, in cludes the best warehousemen in the two cities. It is claimed by the incorporators that the organization will be of great ben efit to tobacco growers. There will be fewer agents, and the agents’ pay, they assert, comes flualjy Irom the grower. The organization will control nine-tenths of the leaf tohaiVo trade in tbra region. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. SHOT AFTER THE RACE. Dawson Killed by the Brothers of the Woman He Had Married and Deserted. Says an Associated press dispatch from Columbus, Ga: T. O. Dawson drove a horse in the “gentlemen’s trotting race” at tlie Chattahoochee Valley Exposition Tuesday. There were probably 15,000 persons on the grounds. Immediately after the race Dawson drove into the open space iu the rear of the judges’ stand. In a few seconds the crowd was startled by the report of a pis tol shot and the sight of Dawson run ning, pursued by three men who were tiring at him. Dawson was seen trying to get his pistol from his pocket as he run, and as soon as he secured the weap on he turned his pursuers and returned the tire. Dawson fell ami died in a few minutes. The three men. Pick Howard and Rob ert Howard, brothers, and their brother- in-law, J units Bickerstatf weje arrested. Four (flkpA had . hit Dawson. The cause cW' shooting was s family trou ble, having m.-nied and deserted a sister orlhe brothers Howard. Dawson Jw(is the son of the Hon. W. O. Dawson, a wealthy resident of Eufaula, Ala. The Howards belong to one of the oldest and most respectable families in Georgia. Making War on the Editor. Maryville, Mo., Nov. 10.—In August die first, issue of the Maryville Daily Ad- riy/ite appeared devoted to Democraey and temperance, and vigorously opposing the saloons. Ou Sept. 19 notices were posted on the show windows of the principal business housos, warning Frank Griffin, editor of the Adcocate to go slow, or something serious would result. He paid no attention to them, but proceeded to publish a redhot political paper. The entire Democratic ticket was elected in this county, which incensed his enemies, who believed that he was instrufcental iu carrying the election. Yesterday morn ing between 4 and 5 o’clock some person entered the Advocate composing rooms and destroyed and carried away the weekly forms consisting of twenty-four columns of display and body type, gal leys, sticks, and newspaper headings. Fortunately for the Advocate, the daily forms were in the press rooms and were saved. The daily appeared this morning as usual, and contained an offer of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the per petrators of the outrage. FIGHTING THE SALOONS. The Governors of Three States Called Upon. legal, each Slat tion expenses. 14. All official and Senators, in 1 people. without distiiiciioti test for all votcis. ballot system, iind” to he Him If il-* t defray its own c'vc- iu> hiding Uiesid. at elected directly In Nashville, TenD.,—|6pecial.]—Gov- • rnnr Taylor has received from the peo ple of (JuMilx'i'lund Gap, Tenn., a map, showing the location of sixteen saloons within about one mile of that town, two of them licing in Kentucky and fourteen of them in Virginia, Also, locating the spots adjacent thereto where fifteen men have been shot within the past few months. None of the saloons are on this side of the line, but five of the murders have occurred in Tennessee. The peo pie of that section ha»e decided to pre scot the factr to the governors of Ken tucky, Tennessee anil Virginia, and ask their co-operation in improving the situa tion, which they attribute to the presence av,>oof the saloons. " 1 New York’* Monkey Population. Fifteen new monkeys have boon re ceived at the Central .Park menage ria Ten are of the rhesus species, hardy' and lively. Above all they are impudent. An authority says; "For coQlimpudence and audacity these monkeys are far ahead of any other of the monkey family," .They are native to Contincutial India, where they steal grain m the boldest manner, enter houses and abstract, there The Summit of KUInia-nJaro. The ascent to the summit of Kilima njaro, the highest .mountain in Africa, was accomplished by Mr. Hans Meyer in October, 1889. Tho base of tile Jce-cap of Kibo was reached at'18,270 feet above the sea.' Tho' upper part- of this ascent was ckfremoly tcfllsome as the sur face of the ice U4ca'rae increasingly cor roded, taking the form which Gussfeldt, on Aconcagua, in Chili, called nievs peniteute; honeycombed to a depth of over six feet, in the form.of rills, teeth, fissures and pinnacles. The travelers fre quently broke through as far as fh^ir breasts, with an alarmingly rapid dimin ution of their strength. Reaching the summit of the ridge, they found the pre cipitous walls of a gigautice crater yawn ing beneath them, with the loftiest ele vations in the shape of three, pinnacles ris ing above the ice on its,.southern brim. These they calmly and", systematically climbed one after the other. The cen tral pinnacle reaqlYed a height of about 19,700 feet, overtopping’’the others by fifty of sixty ftet. Dr. ifeycr was tho first to tread this peak, and planted the German Hag upon it,christening it Kaiser Wilhelm’s Peek. • The diameter of the crater measured about 8300 feet, and its depth was about 800 feet. In the south ern portion the walls of lava were of an ash-gray or reddish-brown color, and wore free from ice; in its northern half the ice sloped downward from the upper brim of the crater iu terraces, forming blue and white galleries of varying steepness. A rounded cone ot eruption, compose^ of brown ashes and lava, rose in tht: IltiYshera portion of the crater to a height of about 500 feet, which was part ly- covered by the more than usually thick sheet of ice extending from tlm northern brim of the crater. The larger orater opened westward in a wide cleft, through wuioi* «.i— melting water ran off, and the ice lying upon tno won..- part of the crater and the inner walls is sued in the form of a glacier'.—ityiritre Science Monthly. Has Only One' Inhabitant. The township of Skiddaw, Cumber land, in all probability stands unique in the United Kingdom as a township of bne house, says the London Daily Hews, and the solitarjf male adiilt inhabitant is deprived of bis vote because of tho fact that there are no overseers to make out a voters’ list, and no church or public building on which to publish one, if made. On several occasions unsuccessful claims have been made for an. occupier’s vote before the revising barrister at Kes wick, and this year one of the registra tion agents served a notice of claim upon the assistant overseer of the adjoining township of Underskiddaw; but that of ficial declined to have anything to do with it, on the ground that he could not saddle his township with the duty and expense of another. The tenant of the house is the shep herd of Skiddaw forest —a forest without a tree. The Bishop's Assignments. The board.of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session at Washing ton. D. C., completed the assignments of bishops for holding annual conferences JiHfing tlie nGxt half-year,^s follows: Mis sissippi,' Moss I?oint, January 7th, Bishop Newman; Georgia, Demurest, January 15th, Bishop Andrews; Florida, St. John s River, Lawif'V. January' 15th. Bishop Warren;’Alabama,'Eilwardsville, January 32nd, Bishop Andrews; upper Mississip pi, Unity Springs, February 5th, Bishop Andrews; Florida,, Gainesville, .January >2nd, Bishop Warren; central Alabama, Marion, Jami&fy 29th,' BisKbp Andrews; Savannah conference, Macon, Ga., Janu- iry 29fh. Bishop Warren; South Carolina, Greenville; February5th, Bishop Warren; Virginia conference, Roneevelt, W. Va., February 25th, Bishop Joyce. What is known as Dutch gold is • combination of copper and zinc. Nearsightedness is overrunning the French people as much as tha Germans. Dr. Hammond says that thin soles are tho worst propagators of disease among women. Sawdust is being compressed and used for gun wads in England, and seems to enhance penetration and pattern. A largo number of the carriages in cities are now supplied with rubber tires to prevent jolting and deafening clatter. Uranium was unknown a century ago, but a lode bus been found in a mine in Cornwall, England. It sells for $12,000 a ton. It is said that a solution of chloral hy drate of a strength of five grains to tlie ounce of water will clear tho hair of dandruff. About 859 species of birds are now known to make North America their home, and representatives of eighty-two additional species rind their way to this continent from other countries. “A good many people spoil the effect of a good night’s rest by the ridiculously heavy bedclothes they use,” says the Lon don Hospital. “Beit clothes should be like body clothing, light and warm.” Tho are about 1390 paper-mills in Europe, and ’ of these 300 were built last year. The daily product of pulp and paper is almost 7300 tons, ami the chief material'used is wood, although jute is in-demand. Cordite containing fifty per cent, of gun cotton, forty-eight per cent, of nitro-glyceriuo and two per cent, of castor oil has shown very satisfactory re sults at tho Springfield (Mas*.). Armory for use with small arm-. The United States Navy Department is collecting samples of nickel ore from all sources of supply from this and other countries, and with tho design'of using tho material for armor plate will invite proposals from all mine owners.’ An electrical company of Antwerp has despatched by the last stcamei which sailed for the Congo, iu Africa, all tho 1 material accessary for the installation of 1 the first telephone line which is to bo placed along the Congo railway. A novel leech jar has been brought out, in Germany, the innovation consisting of a vertical partition dividing the vessel into two equal compartments, to be filled respectively with pure water and with moist peat, so that the inhabitants may change their abode at.'pleasure. The cracking of the knot at the end of a’ whip is simply the conclusion of’ the air produced by its rapid move-i ment. Tlie effect, differs with the ma- terial uftnd for t1\p whin-lush, linoaysa some textures present a much greater re sistance to the air than others. , William J. Chamberlain, an inventor,, of Norwich, Conn., has patented an air. gun with a pressure behind tho projectile «* t xno to 2000 pounds. It also explodes hydrogen to give » hundreds of atmospheres. It sends a shot uuvo. and further, Mr. Chamberlain says, than any other weapon. It is said a good cement for joining, parts of apparatuses, etc., permanently, solid and waterproof, and which rcsista heat, oils and acids, is made by mixing concentrated sirupona glycerine with finely powdered litharge to a thick, vis cid paste, which is applied like gypsum. Glass, metal and wood can bo cemented' together by it. WISE WORDS. A Rice Mill Trust. An Ancient Egyptian Scythe. ' An F,gyptinuscythe,recently unearthed, is exhibited among the antiquities in the private muaeiRu of Flinders Petrie in London. The-shaft pf the instrument is wood, supporting a row oi flint saws, which are. securely cemented into it. This discovery will set at rest the specu lations which have been made as to bow the crops of flic land wetro -gathered iu the flint and early copper age. It has Neglected opportunities never return. Success never comes without a ipecial invitation. If you want to be great don’t tell the birds about it. The wisest men have uevor in any ago been host men. It isn’t hwtd to be anything. It is tho seeming It * thst is hard. Earthquakes to both men and conti nents always come suddenly. Many people who are ravens at home pass for doves away fr/O home. All that “mossbacki - are good for i* to show that moss can grow on anything. When a man begins to injure you, be gin to be kind to him, and he will have to quit first. There are people who feed the same kind of a fire iu weaving titles that oth ers do in wearing diamonds. . Don’t worry about the opinions of other people. Live so that you will al ways have a good opinion of yourself. One reason why many people always have such great burdens, is because they are not standing in tlie right place to lift much. If you go through tlie world with a long face you will some day find out that your life has been more of a curse than a blessing. You must know where you are sowing and how you are sowing, if you earn enough about the matter to want (■« get your seed liaek."—Indianapolis {Inti.) Bam'* Horn. This Man’s Candidates Were Elected. m An Archduke Misaing. Count Knlnnky, Austrian Minister of ■’orrigu Affairs, has just forwarded a cir- ular dispatch to ail the Austrian enn uis in America, requesting them to use heir utmost endeavors to hunt out the Arch Puke Johann, who is now called “aptain John Orth. He has not been ■card of for nearly four months, since he efMffimle'Vt'iff(Tbn July 11th lust for Val- iiiraiso in his ship, the Huuet Margretlie. t lias since been ascertained that heavy tnrmx were raj ihio left, .ing when the Arch Duke's Trusts seem to lie contagious. The ia test now spoken of is a Rice Mill Trust. The matter is now I icing considered by rice mill owners, and it could hardly bo expected that they would say anything about it just now. Anyway a prominent Charleston rice merelmut said that tb* trust was not among the impossibilities and could be looked for. Whether it will include all the mills is not known. There are in the South at present about twenty-six rice mills. Of these sixteen are iu New Orleans, three iu Savannah, three in Charleston, one each in Wilming ton, Goldsboro, and Washington, N. 0. A number of the mills in New Orleans, it ia understood, are now controlled by a syndicate. It is probably this same cor poration which wishes to extend it* hold ings. In < omluHning the vanity of women, men complain of the lire that they themselves have kindlwi. fronTTuythlng they haiipen to fancy and T lon'K been suspected Jhat'such.an instru- can carry off easily, ami oven, steal hats of the people as they pass under the trees. They will amuse the visitors at tho park. Two of the others are Suotymandabeya from West Africa. These are blue-back, with white eyelids, and the7 look like, half-tint chimney-sweeps. They aro great acrobats. Two bonnet nionkeys from India arc among tho oolleetfon. They get their name from the bonnet like appearance of the hair on top of their heads. It is parted exactly iu tha- iniddle and gives the monkey a dudish appearance. One mate pig-talo monkey from India completes the list.—jVzkj Ti rk Neut. A Georgia farmer has bought only fifty-five cents worth of meat diiciug twenty-five year* of housekeeping. William H. Fishhook will oppose J. II. Jones fur United States Senator from Atkantas. ment its Mr. Uetrie’bas brought to light was med,- but .there vyas no direct evi dence... _ . .if •• The South- Carolina Alliance Bank. The special .'committee of the stock holders wf tlie -Shite-Alliance Exchange niet.iq-Colnnibia,. S l.’., to consider the matter.of csUblWiiiio a. State Allianee bank in Uolumbiil., ’tlie oonrtuitco, after discussing she qitMVin fullv'" agreed to recommend that :thi> ebtftcr of ific Ex chung- lx* so ujc Mde 1 by tin* Legislature that’ th.'. KxiMiaagv' U empowered to sub scribe a portion cl i,i qii(a 1-1 o tlie cre ation of a bulk. T'.i'i will* doubtless- be 'il rte, and an .Mii.incc bank, in Columbia may lie cdnsitlxiv-d’n <’ ‘ ta’iitv. A Brazilian squadron will shortly ar rive at New York, bringing a medal apd IfUcr -*>£ tlfitiikatp President Harrison for bis prompt recognition of the new re- public. Orders have been issued to give the squadron a reception. y*>- ft' •pwrajja MOW *'>)Wl'll." , «) R ." n K Mil. -Ark., offers to pay i ' each .bale of entti- ittou baj^.diig find bough' A firni'iit Searcy, cuts picniiiim on wrapped in »y them. The Alliance of l.umpki::county is pre paring to bail I ustob it Uulihmcga, G#, 1 THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER r-ro YAnn^Ti m \Y A^PF^ ON THF FIT M