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-/ i t ! | # ’-'W HERALD VOL. IV. NO. 18. DARLINGTON, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1894. •By Turbeville & Williams. TUB JOKER’S BUDGET. i# Tf JtSTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. HI* Father Knew*•Vary Careful-. A New Name--In Daubt--0*|Mr- tunity--Th# Retort Ceurteeua--A Case in Point, Eto., Eta. HI9 FATHER KNEW. Teacher—What makes the earth go round, Tommy? Tommy—Pleaae’m father says bad whisky will do It.—[Raymond's jloBtlily. I >' HA . VERY CABEEDL. Father (to son, who is leaning over gallery railing): “Take care, Johnny, and don’t fall. It’ll cost youadollar more in the orchestra.”—[Hallo. A NEW NAME. He (coyly)—I have my suspicions about you. Hhe<sonsibiy>—.That’s tfte firsttime I ever heard arms called “suspic ions.”—[Raymond’s Monthly. IN DOUBT. •‘Wha^sthe matter, Tom?” “I’m in trouble. I don’t know whether I ought to die while I am young and become an angel or wait an’ grow [o be a in an an’ have a mustache and side whiskers !”—[Life. Mi OPPORTUNITY. Flora—I have just found a dollar and am hesitating whether to give it to The [Mssionary Society or buy some ribbon for dear little Fido. Ffapk—Ah, I see; undecided whether to “point a moral or adorn a tail.”—[Truth.. THE' RETORT COURTEOUS. First Man (to man Who has just bumped against him)—"Blithering idiot!” Second M/iu: ■. ‘,‘And my name is Jones.”—[Hallo, A CASE IN POINT. He—Do you think a woman can be bought; with mopey? Shfei-i-I do not. v Look at Mary Jones. Mr. Harduppe offered her $1,000, all he had,, to marry him, and she refused and married Mt. Rox, the millionaire, for love.—[New York Press. THE ACTION SUITED CO THE WORD. “I feel,” said the young man, with enthuaiaam, “«aif a great career were —were fairly yawning for me.” ^ s “Please excuse me, Tdr. Spbon- amore,” replied_.the artless young woman behind her fan, “but that word js Just as catching, you know, as if you had yawned yourself.”— [Chicago Tribune. that the He’s a messenger ■ IMPOSSIBLE. Spatts—I’m very sorry for i boy.' '• YoUr scolding cut him to quick. , Bloobumper—That’s - impossible. He hars no quick boy!—[Truth. MUCH DRAWN. ’.A . First Artist—Your model seems fa tigued. Her features are very much .drawn.^ , ’Second Artist—Yes, they are. I’re drawn them at least twenty times, -trying to get a good portrait.—[Bos ton Traveller. - .. 1 INGENIOUS IDEA. ;/ [lusty Rhodes—It is quite a low temperature when your uncle gets belkfedi “ : • William—What’s up now! .’iJii'sty;Blibaes—Nothing, only I’re entered ' in about' a dozen champion . qifail-oating contests,—[New York World. ' " . -IT WOULD HARDLY DO. -I ’ . ; Fiwt [yiiack—IJere is a letter It would hardly do for us to publish. A man writes: “I have just taken the first bottle of. yqiir medicine”— Second Quack—Well? First Quack—There it breaks off shorthand is. signed,In another hand writing, “per executor.”—[Tidbit*. NO TIME TO LOSE. • * ‘ r • ..Glevcrton—Miss Twilling rejected me f tbc,'oHier night, but she let me kiss her before we. parted. Dashaway (reflecting)—I guess IT1 go .around to-night and propose my- 'M!J.tr[Judge. , • MAKING THOROUGH WORK OP IT. “My' son,” said - Mr. Spriggins, proudly, “is a very thorough young •“ mam ’- He ain’t..goin’ to go throu^ college lilte-friost-boys does. He just .. wrote jiqme that he’s goin’ to take * hia freshman year over agin, |o there won’t be no question abput his know- ln’ what he oughter know.”—[Har per’s Bazsr- ' EMBLEMATIC. An urchin with a puzzled look v Unto hfs father said, “Why is it, qpondll the coins They stamp a woman’s head?” The father thought a moment, then He gave him this reply: “My child, they say that money talks, I think that must be why.” —[Judge. WOULD HAVE THE PUN AFTERWARD. _ . ' His mother—-Tommy, if you fight with little Willie Walters to-day, I . shall put.you to bed for two hours. Tommy—Put me to bed now, Ma. —{Chicago Record. A SMALL LOSS. Maude—Doesn’t Ethel feel shocked at the news that that nobleman to whom aha was engaged was a swin dling adventurer? JeannotljP—No; she says ho waa only a baronet anyway.—[Chicago Rocord. JUSTIFIED. “I actually do believe that Mrs. Jibson thinks more of her dog than she does of her children.” “Well, if you lived next door to the Jibson young ones, as I do, you wouldn’t blame her much.”—[Indi anapolis Journal.; THE BOYS WERE POSTED. Teacher <to members of her class) —“Having enumerated the principal poets, orators and statesmen, I will now ask you to give me the names of three men famous for their science.” Half a dozen voices (all answering at once)—“Corbett, Mitchell and Sullivan. ”—[Judge. A TIMELY WARNING. The poet, with a sprig of lilies-of- the-valley in his button-hole, tripped lightly into the dim and dingy den of the prosaic editor. That worthy in dividual looked up to sec what balmy breath had blown it in. “I have,” twittered the visitor, “a pretty poem to spring.” “Well,” replied the editor, with a deep, low growl, “don’t spring it here! Ta, ta.”—fHallo. WHERE ATHLETES ARE BRED. The Tourist from Boston—Isn’t it wonderful how these Alpine guides leap from rock to rock, sure-footed and alert as gazelles? The Tourist from Chicago—Of course it’s wonderful. They’ve never had any practice among the grip cars at Madison and La Salle streets.— [Chicago Record. HER ONLY LONGING. Mrs. Norris—Since I have been married I have had only one wish un gratified. Mr. Morris—And what is that, my dear? Mrs. Norris—That I were single again.—[Life. LOW ESTIMATE. New Society Bud.—Lord Cholmod- ley handed me his card to-day and ft had the initials T. M. engraved on Mid-left hand corner, and I have been racking my brain all afternoon tqfind out what they meant.” Initiated Society Girl (laughing)— You see, the Lord Is a singly man, and has come over hero to negotiate a foreign settlement, and T. M. is simply a business notice.—Terms Moderate.—[Hallo. WHY HE REFUSED. immes—I. heard that Tom refused * ffoe£ situation, although he has. been dht of a job six months. George—Well he had a good reason to.- • James—How’s.that? * George—Twaa to be clerk in a powder mill, and he said he had a wife, and wanted occasionally to be out of reachof an explosion.—[Ray mond’s Monthly. THE PLACE FOR'HIM TO SING. Give us the man who sings at bis work! He’s happy from day to day; But he pleases best from I he E’ist te * the West, When he sings ten miles away ! —[Atlanta Constitution. EFFECTS ITS PURPOSE. Clerk—Don’t you want to make some change in your advertisement? Merchant—No, thanks, I make change out of it in sufficient quanti ties to suit me.—[Detroit Free Press. SPRING. Softly now the hills respire, Suns and stars serenely shine; While the poet strings his lyre, And the liar strings his line. —[Atlanta Constitution. There are signs throughout the weather That the time is coming when The man who saw a bluebird Will be boring us again. —[Indianapolis Journal. We’ll rejoice at the coming of radiant spring, Too grateful by aught to be vexed. We’ll welcome whatever she chooses to bring— E’en the poet who makes her his text. —[Washington Star. . MILESTONES TO FAME. Muggy—Hinks, the artist, is getting up in the world. Bruggy—How do you know? MugSy—You know that room of hia he used to call an office? Bruggy—Yes. Mu ggy—A year ago he began to call it a “studio.” Bruggy—Yes, Muggy—Well, now he calls it an “atelier.”—[Chicago Record. HE MEANT WELL. “It was hateful of you to throw that drowning man a mere shingle,” said Mrs. Willibud to her husband after the catastrophe. “It was all I had to throw him,” said Willibud. “It must have com forted him anyhow. If a drowning man will clutch at a straw, just think of the inspiring qualities of a whole shingle.” A Sinfcatlew Far Agriculturists. Bulgarian peksants have given up grain growing to a great extent and are raising roses. Attar of roses is now worth from $10 to $15 for eight teaspoonfuls. It seems that Bulgar ian farmers could give points about changing their products to some ag riculturists of the eastern part of the United States, who cont inue to pro duce Small quantities of wheat in competition with the west, instead of paying nr.ore attention to dairying and to tiie production of articles for which all the cities furnish a profitable market.—[Rochester Herald. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIR^ . CHICKEN WITH TOMATO. Fry the chicken a little brown. Then put it into a hot dish. ?onr into the pan in which the chicken was fried one pint of boiling water, half an onion chopped fine with a sprig of parsley, two tomatoes, half a table- spoonful of butter and half a tabls- spoonfnl pf flonr. Let it stew for fif teen minutes. ’ Turn it wpdft Che chicken and serve.—New York Herald. SWEET POTATO I BOQCETTER. For sixteen croquettes taka the fol lowing ingredients: 'One eap (medi um size) hot milk, fonr large table- spoonfuls butter, one level. table- spoonful salt, fonr eggs, two to be need for b lazing; one quart of mashed and sieved potatoes and one pint bread crumbs. Add the buter and hot milk to the potatoes. When cool add the eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately. Bi at until the mixture is light and smooth. Then shape as de sired, glaze with egg, erntnb, and im merse in deep bath of smoking hot drippings. Use the frying basket. When richly browned drain on brown paper, then arrange on platter with a garnish of green. —New York Tele gram. . PUMPKIN PIE. Pare and out the pumpkin in pieces*' about one inch square, put them into a stewpan with just enough water t*. keep them from horning; stew slowly till tender (about half an hour), then press through a colander. To every half-pint of pumpkin add a piece of butter the size of a walnut and a quar ter teaspoonful of salt; mix and let it stand till cold. When cold put one pint of this pumpkin into a large bowl, add to it one pint of milk, half a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon and one teaspoohful of ground ginger; mix all well togeth er and sweeten to taste. Beat four eggs until light, then add them to the mixtnre. Line four deep pie dishes with good, plain paste, fill them with this mixture and bake in a quick oven for abont thirty minn^ss,—New Yotk Journal. A CHOICB BRAN SOUP. i One of the best of the puree soups is made from black tourtle beans and stock. It is choice enough for any dinner, though, as it it quite nutri tions, it would not be as suitable as a clear soup for a dinner of many courses. Pick overapint of the beans end soak them twelve hours in cold water. The next morning drain and cover with three pints of boiling water. Cook slowly until the beans are ten der. Drain the beans, press them through a fine wire sieve. Heat three pints of beef stock, add the beans, and stir thoroughly. Heat to a boiling point, season to taste with salt and pepper. Garnish the soup with slices of lemon. Hard-boiled eggs are also excellent in this soup. Cat them iu thin slices and use with the sliced lemon. Have your soup plates hot.— New York Advertiser. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Keep a dish of water on the back of a tight stove to purify the air. A clean apron worn while hanging the clothes helps to keep them clean. A teaspoonful of ammonia to one teaenpful of water for cleaning jew elry. Place a strip of wood back of the door where the knob hits the paper iu opening. Before laying a carpet wash the floor with turpentine to prevent buf falo bugs. Powdered pipe clay, mixed with water, will remove oil stains from wall paper. In bottling pickles or catsup boil the corks, and while hot you can press them in the bottles, and when cold they are sealed tightly. Kid gloves for ordinary wear are painted; only the bright opera tints, such as fashionable ladies wear to match their colored dresses, are dyed. Vinegar and salt will clean the black crust off sheet iron frying pans, but they should be thoroughly scoured afterward with sand soap or any good scouring soap. II snelves an I floors of closets are wiped with hot water with cayenuu pepper and afterward sprinkled. with borax and alum, roaches and other vermin are kept at bay. When the fat’s in the tire it is uevsr wise to throw water upon it. If fat in a kettle boils over and there are ashes convenient to throw on the blaze, it is the surest, safest way to put it out. A simple plan of disinfecting rooms consists in putting a saucerful of salt in the middle of the room sad pour ing on it a dram or two of sulphuric acid. The fumes that arise do the work of disinfection. Silver cracker jars with separate re ceptacles for different kinds of bis cuits and crackers are a novelty. An other new effect in table silver are the wooden breud platters set in broad rims of worked silver. A silver bread knife goes with them. The chimney of a lamp should never be touched with water. A few drops of alcohol, or even paraffine oil, will re move the dimmed, smoky effect, and make the chimney as bright as possi ble when it is polished with a soft flannel or chamois skin. To clean hair brushes quickly anil easily, take a dessert spoonful of hartshorn to a quart of cold water in a wash band basin. Dip in the hair of the brushes, and rub them together until clean. Then rinse well witli cold water, rub dry with a towel anil Maud uin ieht at an ouen window. COTTON FERTILIZERS. FARMERS AMD PLANTERS WASTE THEM , FERTILIZERS. The Qvettmn Sheold Studied- What the Land and the Crop Meeds. * An article-Vm fertilizers for cotton, compiled by Dnv& kf. McBryde, Pres ident of Virgiaiif'Agrictnral and Me chanical College *^)d Director of Vir ginia Agricultural Experiment Station, from accounts of .experiments carried on under his direction for several years on the farina of the South Caro-" lina experiment stations, has just been published by the United States De partment of Agricultural ae “Far mers' “Bulletin No. 14^” and is well worthy of careful study by -every !*••' telligent cotton farmer. In the introduction to his article Dr. McBrydc briefly explains its pur pose and scope as 'follows: We have reason to believe from extended ob servation and experience in the field that hundreds of thousands of dollars are annually wasted by farmers in the lavish and injudicious applications of fertilize on cotton. In sofls abound ing in potash, potassic fertilizers, such as kainit, muriate of potash, etc., are often unnecessarily applied to a cost amounting to $4 or $5 per acre. It is especially timely at this season, when the farmers are about to plant their crops for the year, to discuss the manurial requirements of cotton, and to give in condensed form the results of careful and long continued experi ments bearing directly upon this question. The subject is so broad as to require sub-division. It will,there fore, be discussed under the following heads: Does cotton require potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen? If so, in what amounts and in what forms? Does it need lime? Will copperas prevent its rusting? At what time or times should nitrate of soda be applied? How should the. fertilizer be applied? These questions are considered very fully, and are answered by statements of results of the numerous careful ex periments made by Dr. McBryde in working out the problems which be presents. The pamphlet numbers thirty pages, and we cannot undertake to give even a synopsis of it here. It may suffice, however, to afford an idea of the character of the work to quote a few of points. In order to determine what proportions of the several ele ments named were most effective in combination for fertilizing purposes, Dr. McBryde made and employed a number of combinations, in which the relative quantity of each element .was widely varied. For instance, in * one series of experiments different amounts of potash were used with full aud con stant doses of phosphoric acid and nitrogen; in another series different amounts of acid were used with full and constant doses of potash and ni trogen, and so on. Among the results noted were the following: A double dose of potash,with afull dose of phos phoric acid and nitrogen, gave only nine pounds more of cotton per acre than a full dose; aud the full dose only twenty-four pounds more than a half dose. Double doses of phosphoric acid in comhination, it was found, can can be advantageously employed. The half dose of nitrogen gave ex actly the same yield as the double dose. As compared with the quarter dose, the half dose did not show an increase sufficient to make up for its additional dose. The results of this series of experi ments taken together show that a crop of cotton yielding 800 pounds of lint per acre “requires double the full or theoretical amount of phosphoric acid, but only about one-fourth to one-half the full amounts of potash and ni trogen.” The next series proceeded on the plan of doubling two of the three con stituents of the combination, while the third was increased or diminished. “Double doses of nitrogen and potash gave almost exactly the same results as the full or single dose of nitrogen.” “Doubling both gave no better returns than doubling only the phosphoric acid.” Double doses of all three ele ments gave an increase of only twf pounds. The value of the pamphlet can be judged in part by the farmer from these bare bints of its contents, which we have taken almost at random. The closing pages are devoted to a state ment of “conclusions” drawn from all the experiments, and a chapter of “practical applications," of the con clusions in the shape of varied for mulas and instructions for mixing dif ferent fertilizing elements in right proportions, so as to avoid waste. The bulletin is invaluable to cotton farmers and can be had free of cost by application to the Secretary of Agri culture, Washington, D. C. A German Commits Suicide in Spartanburg. Spartanburg, S: C.—Julius F. Her- rit, a German, is dying iu the Central Hotel from a dose of laudanum and strychnine administered by his own hand. He left a note saying that he had taken his life because of his wife's infidelity, giving the names of thirty of his wife’s paramours. This is the third time recently that he has at tempted to end his life. The doctors say he will be successful in this bis last attempt. All Want to be Covernor. The three pronounced aspirants for the Democratic nomination for Gover nor of Alabama are Congressman Oates, Captain <1. F. Johnston, of Birming ham, and Mayor Rich, of Mobile—all of whom are actively cnuYassiug,though in different sections of the State, and each seema to have a strong following. Up to last Saturday Colonel Oates had visited use-third of the State. CHARLESTON HARBOR. By the End of the Tear the Channel Will Af ford 25 Feet of Water. Charleston, 8. 0.—Captain Freder- irk V. Abbott, United States engineer iu charge of the jetty improvements in Charleston harbor, has completed a new survey of file approaches to Char leston harbor, which shows a marked deepening of the ship rhannel from deep water outside to deep water in side the bay. By survey of last De cember there jvas a shoal of 1,000 feet in width at the inner end of the chan nel and this shoal has been narrowed to about 20 feet. In December there was-a clear channel of 20 feet and 6 in ches, and iu the new survey there is a clear channel of. 22 feet and 4 inches. ThC scffiut of the channel is consid erable ind the w irk of deepening the ehauuel is going on steadily and con stantly. The official survey shows that there has betoi a net gain of nearly two feet in the. depth of the jetty ship chan nel in throe months. It is safe to say that by the end of the year-ships draw ing 25 feet can come into Charleston harbor at high tide with several inches of water to spare under their keels. A Rude Moonshine Still. [Greensboro, N. C., Daily Record, j Mr. Samuel Kirkpatrick of the reve ille force has captured a curiosity in he shape of a blockade still. He was. ■ n Randolph county, not far from Jn- ian, when he ran across it. The outfit s origins], if nothing more. It con-- <ists of a rough box, resembling a pig rough, about three or four feet long, n this trough is the “worm," whichris nade by joining pieces of elderwood ogether. These pieces, or the worm, hen obnncct with a “cap,” which, is icthing but a hjg wooden spigot iu- f rted into a wooden lid or top, which las placed over air ordinary dinner ot of iron. Into this U^e mash was ilaced, a fire started under it, the heat >f course eausing it to run up through the cap and down the worm. It was dated beside a branch, and kept full <f water to keep the "worm” Tiom mruing up. The first process, of ■ourse, brought'“low wines,” which vere then put back and distilled over igain when the pure raw liquor came orth. Mr. Kirkpatrick brought the thing home with him and has it at the office here. It is a.small affair aud easily carried under one’s arm. First Baptist Paper. [Greenville, S. C., Baptist Courier.') We were asked a few days ago the name and date of the fiist Baptist news- paper published in .South Carolina. The first Of which ve nave any knowl edge was called “The Southern Baptist arid General Intelligencer.” The first number hears date, “Saturday after noon, January 4,188#” and was print ed by James S. Burgee in Broad street, Charleston. The Rgv. William Henry Brisbane was editor, and it was pub lished weekly'. Brother W. G. Whil- den, of Greenville, has in his posses sion the files ©f the papqr for the first year, 1836,'bound in one volume. It was a sixteen-page paper, two columns to the page. The pages are about ton inches long and six wide. The volume contains 823 pages, with a complete index. The subscription price was, “In advance for a single subscriber, $3; payments protracted six months, $3 .50; payments protracted over six months, $4." CRISP APP0IH TE0 SEHA TOR. HE 0ECLIHES Gas. Northcn Wants Him to Take Port .in the Tariff Discussion in the Senate. Atlanta, Ga.—Governor Northen lias appointed Speaker Charles F. Crisp to succeed the late Senator Alfred H. Colquitt. Not a word has passed be tween the Governor and the Speaker, and the, latter’s name had not even been presented formally to the Gover nor. In a message wired the Speaker, the Governor asks him to resign his seat in Congress at once and qualify as Senator, so that he can take part in the tariff discussion which comes up next week. The Governor was considered a can didate for fhe Senate himself. He says that be feels iu his duty to appoint the Georgian w ho can do the country the fereatrst service and he considers Speaker Crisp that man. Sp -aker Crisp telegraphed back his refusal. Making White Brick in Virginia. An important addition to Virginia’s industries is the manufacture of a fine quality white brick made from a de posit of white clay, while most bricks are, it is said, made white by artificial means. These brick burn very hard and make a very nttraetive appearance. They are being used in the new and magnificent Jefferson Hotel, of Rich mond. They are not affected by the weather, it is said, and hence do not Jiscolor. An order for them has been received for use in tne construction oi a store on Broadway, New York. It is one of the interesting signs of the times to find Virginia brick being shipped to New York for a big Broad way building. Colonies to Settle South. Baltimore, Md. —Ths Manufacturers’ Record in itsweekly review says,among other things: The extent of the im migration movement is shown by re ports which indicate a steady increase in the eouthward trend of population. Land in lots of 10,000 acres and up ward is beingpurchasedin North Caro lina, Florida, Georgia and other States for colonies of guttlers. Flans havobeen approved in Lon don for a great Ferria wheel alter tho Chicago pattern! It is to cost a quar ter of a million dolla^H ami will bn known ns thu “(ligantio Wheel and Itacigatiim Tower.”. PITHY NEWS ITEMS At Georgetown, S. C., the construc tion of a water works system is talked of. The Newberry, 8. C., city council has ordered a survey for a system of water works. Supply will probably be obtained from artesian wells. A 30-barrel roller flour mill is being built at Cedar Falls, S. C. Tho Union, S. C., Cotton Mill Co. has increased its capital stock to $125,- 000. Lexington, N. C., is to lie light*d by electricity. A company has organized at Fnrm- ville, Va., to Imild water works. . The recently discovered gold deposit near Keysville, Va., may bo eutcusive- ly developed iu the near future. A wheelbarrow factory will be estab lished at Charleston, S. C., a capital 'if $20,000 having been subscribed for the purpose. A hand broom factory will also be started. John M. Wilhelm contemplat ‘s erecting another distillery, tube bicnted at Elmwood, N. C., near (be South Carolina fine. The Farmers’ Manufacturing Co. contemplates starting a fruit package factory in Newberne, N. C. Wesley Burnette will rebuild his burned saw and grist mill at Oswego, N. C. Contract has iiecu let t 1 > (!. F. Mayo, of Pikeville, Ky., for building the pro posed courthouse nt Clintwood, Va , which is to cost $8700. ‘ A new hall is to be built at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. Local people are interested in a plan to build a railroad from Bessemer City, N. C. to Cronse’s Station, connecting the Richmond A- Danville and Carolina Central roads. The project of buildings railroad line from Charlotte, N. C.,to the Egypt coal fields is being agitated. Charlotte, N. C. parties arc consid ering a plan to buildn belt road togive factories in the suburbs a rail connec tion with the Carolina Central and 'Richmond Jk Danville roads. A $150,000 company has been char tered to develop the gold mines dis covered at Tabscott, Va. L. C. Hough and others have incor- ated the Kershaw Building and Loan Association, at Kershaw, S. C., with $50,000 capital. The Homestead Building and Loan Association has decided to increase its capital stock to $300,000. The South Boston (Va.) Building and Loan Association has declared a semi-annual dividend of (> per cent. It is reported that the Keystone Mining A Mfg. Co. will develop the Jones gold mine in Randolph county, N. d., and erect a plant to mill from 100 to 200 tons of ore per day. The Allen A Bnyden Co. has iice.u incorporated to deal in mining prop erties, water powers, etc., at Salisbury, N. C. R. M. Eames is president; Vic tor H. Boyden, vice-president, and Geo. Allen, of Raleigh, secretary and treasurer. + C. A. Whitaker will establish a saw mill at University Station, N. O., and is nowerecting building for same. Will also manufacture bandies. The Virginia Clothing Co. has been organized and granted a charter for the purpose of manufacturing clothing at Buena Vista, Va., using principally cloth from the Buena Vista Cassimere Mills. The Enterprise Gold Mining Co., incorporated under New Jersey laws, will operate the old Martin gold mine near Smyrna, S. C. Will also prospect for iron pyrites in Bethel township. J. G. McNulty is president and mana ger of the company. South Carolina has in operation and practically ready for operation 18,034 cotton looms, against 12,544 for Geor gia and 13,3()(i for North Carolina. John W. Woods, the leader of the Alleghany county. North Carolina, lynchers, for whom Governor Carr lias offered a reward, has n wise ami nine children. It is said that he is hiding in the mountains of Tennessee. —Some of the mills in Cumberland county, N. C., are now running nights in order to keep up with orders. — The Camden Cotton Mills. Camden, 8. C., has its building and teuement- honses all completed, and efforts will shortly be made to make financial ar rangements for putting in the equip ment of machinery. It is proposed to put in 12,000 spindles and 350 looms. The machinery has not yet been or dered. —A company has been formed of principally Morgantou, N. C., men to build a cotton mill miles north of that town. It will be known as the Hunting Creek Cotton Mill. They have available 300 horse power, but will on ly develop for the present 150 horse power, sufficient to operate 2000 spin dles. The brick is made and all ready to commence building. L. A. Bristol is managing it. President Cleveland has sent the Washington Young Men’s Christian Association a $100 check, to help raise its debt. The great whale killed at Cape Look out, N. C., is expected to yield 1,000 pounds of “bo»o" and 100 gallons of oil. The contest over the will of the lalt Daniel Hand, the philanthropist, of Now Haven, Conn., who died in 1891, leaving about $500,000 to the Ameri can Missionary Association, has ended by tho contorianti) withdrawing their A MODERN ENOCH ARDEN. A Husband Lost for Sixteen Tears Turns Up Again--His Wife Married to Another Man. [Wadesboro, N. C., Mcsscnger-Iutel. ] During the year 1875 John Powell married Miss Georgia Ann Bailey, daughter of Mr. Anbury Bailey, who lives near Wadesboro. Powell and bis wife lived together for three or four years, when suddenly, without warning, the man disappeared. For ten years after Powell’s disappearance his wife remained true to him, but us nothing was heard from him during all that time she resumed nor maiden name and married again. In 1889 she married Jas. A. Dixon and lias since lived hap pily with him, bearing him several children. But the peace ami quietude of Dixon’s home was rudely broken in upon last week when Powell, the recre ant husband, suddenly appeared on the Kccene. Powell claims that he has been iu Alabama ever since lie first left Anson, l(i years ago, but, so far ns we have heard, he does not offer any excuse for his peculiar actions He claims that he did not know that bis wife had mar ried again until h" was in half a mile of her homo, when onoof her neighbors gave him the information. Reappears to be very much disappointed and says that lie came back niter Ins wife, an bo wish 'd to take lier to Alabama with him. Powell visitedthe office of the register of deeds last Friday to look up the record of his own marriage and also Hint of Dixon, both of which he found duly recorded. During his visit to tllo office he requested Mr. Benton., iu a very serious niuuucr to please ti ll him whose wife the woman in controversy was anyhow, ns lie wanted the matter settled. He said Hint Dixon was wil ling to give her up, lint that Mrs. Powell, or Mrs. Dixon, as the case may be, had a very decided predilection for Dixon, and up to that time lie had :uft been able to induce her to return >vitli him to his Alabama home. Mr. Benton was not able to suggest a way mt of the dilemma, anil the last news ,ve have of the matter the woman was still Mrs. Dixon Extracting Fruit Juices. The diffusion process of extracting juice from fruits is gaining ground. It has long been applied in France in the extraction of beet-root juice foi sug..r, and it is now used in making cider without a eider mill or a cider press. In crushing and pressing the apples the pure fruit juice is not ob tained, for much albuminoid matter is extracted with it from the colls. Tn the new process the juice is washed out from sliced fruit with cold water. Warm water acts more quieklv, but the result is not nearly so savory. The water passes from one compartment iilled with fruit to another, and the process is so arranged that in eacli it meets fresher fruit than in• the last, so that it leaves .saturated ■with juice, or. Tether, it and the juice'"change places, so that nearly pure juico issues from the machine. The results are said te hi satisfactory in the highest degree. —New York Advertiser. The Heir Money 0 djrS: ■ ThePostoffiee Department lin'a iNriied the new money orders, w hich were au thorized by the act of Congress, ap proved January 27. Tho design is the neatest ever issued l»v the department. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. G4tii Pat. —Tho Senate aljonmod out "t respaet to the memory of Senator f'oejuUr, of Georgia, after a very-hrief session. ' 63th Pay. -The funeral ceremonies of the late Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, took place in tho Senate Chamber at 90'ciOck n, in., oc cupying on'y three-quarters of an hour, af-' ter which tho Senate adjourned. ■'*' • C'Jth Day.—The Chinese treaty was favor ably reported by the Foreign Committee. The Senate adnp' "1 n resolution asking fiec- retary Smith whether the sugar refineries cos plied with the law. -—A resdlution hbro- gati ig the Claytou-Eulwer treaty was intro duced. S7th Pay.—The McGarraban hill ’was passed without a division. —The House- joint resolution appropriating "fltkOOO ad ditional to carry out the pvpvisions of tho Chinese Exclusion act was passed.——Tho S-mute reconsidered the vote by which it agreed to the resolution offered by Mr. Fryo calling on the Secretary of War for informa tion as to the employment and .discharge °f men employed on public improvements for political reasons., .... I . The. House. 82i> Pay.—Tho House voted ap expression ot its regret nt tho death of ■ Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, and instructed tho Speaker to ' communicate to. the family of the deceased tho respectful sympathy of the House. The Military'’Acad emy Appropriation 'bill was...passed.- — The House then disposed of tho Whatley- Cobh contest from tho Fiftlr Alabama Dis trict, confirming Cobb's title to his seat.—• Bills were also passed protecting the Bed. Cross Society in tho use of its insignia, and appropriating ">10,000 for tljo, furthr* enforcement of tho 'Geary ’ Chines* Exclusion aud Uegif|npjaA. .. not.—' Mr. Patterson, after one attempt to bluster al quorum, agreed to let fhe Joy,O'Neill eae# go over, The evening,was devotM to thd considef’iuron of pension fnatlbrs.A 83i> Day. The Houss.cotfsidered the Post- office Appropriation bill, but dTnl' not 'dispose of it. An amendment setting asi"je,;?20.000 for free delivery experiments in rural dis tricts was adopted ; also one directing th» Postmaster-General to report to the nex9 Congress such measures as may tie deemed practicable for extending the mail service to rural districts and their probable bbst, and another authorising the rental, or purchase of stamp-cancelling machines. 84th Day.—The House received the report oi Secretary Herbert -."On the* htmor-piat.' frauds at Carnegie's. After' passing some bills of minor Importance, •‘upon the an nouncement of Senator Cqlqqttvs death, the House at 1 p. ni. adjourned.' ‘ a'"!' 83th Day.-The House spent ghf day fili bustering over the attempt of the Elections Committee to bring up the O'Nejll-doy con test. 8tir:i Day.—The House adnpted'a rule pro viding for .tho dispusal of two contested election cases, but the Bepitbllcans pre vented llniii action on either ,hy u filibuster. — Mr. Bryan argued in support of his rose- lutit u tortho popular election .of Senators. 87th Day.—A veto of tho Bland, seignior age Idll was received from theVrWtflent. - The House fought all day over tho O'Neill- Joy contested ejection case and the proceed ings were turbulent. -• , •