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W *' /] DARLINGTON HERALD VOL. IV. NO. 20. DARLINGTON, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1894, By Turbeville & Williams. A Toronlo (Canada) minister says one cause of the present depression is the Utah from the farm to the citr, ITT ?:*,'<■ i i so the Post announces, is now Hie largest City in Texas, its new directory giying jt a population of M:; mi "' - tula an oleolira Beztale for lha fiome favor of removing the veto pdwqjr of "rwk i Lord fti , ? ^heriff|h>lsab , Egdk«r.of Fort Texas, thinks that the. substitution of beer instead of whisky as tfee common fhii rl j f i < Bpv. Dr. R«ina£ord..ff.ltf«Tdrk, recently told his congregation to quit giving array their money to indis- forinfod* ctontyjmt to PT? it to him instead, as he knew m>w to do the most good with it. John purne, the Labor member of the teorlse of Commons, has delighted Londqn with a pun purely English. Ooifoeting another member he re ferred to the House of Lords, “Not as the gilded ohamber. sir, but *k the guilty chamber. The use of carrier-pigeons has in creased <tq inch a degree that the French' Government has decided to impose severe penalties upon all per sona found keeping them without a license, and to .prohibit the importa tion of foreign born pigeohs, even when merely destined for pie pur poses, the object being to prevent any possible carrying of news with regard to French military matters, should there be necessity. It appears that the Pall M»U Ga zette, W, W. Astor's paper, got a big scoop orilfr. Gladstone’s resignation, having announced it exclusively sev eral weeks ago. Mr. Gladstone was keeping his intention secret, but some one in his con3denoe betrayed him, and went to the papers offering to sell the information.. He went to several before the Pall Mall Gazette, but none of them were credulous enough, or mean enough, to pay him for his troiohery but Astor. The United States Government is seeking by wecept and example to induce towns with names ending in the forms burgh, borough, boro, and burg, to adopt this last form. Borg ia the- usual pronunciation in the United States of the form burgb, and ,mpat Americans refqye to sound tbe “h,” even of E linbnrgh. These aevatal suffixes, and, aa well, bury, brongh, and borrow, are related to fhe Anglo-Saxon verb beorgan and the German bergen, to bide or to iheter. The several sufinfes are also related to •eveeal .Anglo-Saxon forms meaning an earthwork, and from this came the application of such suffixes to indicate a fuatihed'town. / L tanie,! JJjerfbody iapnlereated/.n a love af fair, admits the New York Sun, but that of Miss Martin Morria and Mr. Jaek SimCn^oh, of Oberliu, Kan., is a flaw step in the evolution of law. Morris vs. Simonson rises to the' dig nity of a precedent that will doubtless bo bound in oalf and go down genera tions as “108 Kansas/’ ok tinder some kindred elassilSoation. Miss Morris ^Ib. Simonson were engaged, when Mr. Simonson moved to pborlia. ’t3wr* hn-mat 4i« Flqranoe Gilett, a school teacher, end sought to many W. MaaowHiU his letters to Mias Morris grew ©older ttd finally ceased. Mr. Siuonsob thhn sought to have conveyed "to Miss Morris through his «Mdrthahhe Ao longer loved her. and to marry Mias Gilett. Miss , Morris immediately packed her trunk and, going to OberHo, proceeded to get.out aq Injunction restraining Mr. Bias on son from marrying Miss Gilett. This bold step on Miss Morris's part fate, half paralyzed the bar of the State. Nobody ever beard of inch a thing befove. Mias Morris’s lawyers • vainly -dried to get her to bring a ' breach of psoaiae auit. That they ^spqld bmdle, there being numberleie psesedenta Mias Morris would not be'pcrsuaded. What shs wanted was n£t damages, but her young man. Not hawing read Belzsc, she says that if Mr. Simonson can be restrained from marrying Miss Gilett for a reason able time, - she can win him back . sgqlEp. . ^4® lawyers of all aorta regard tb»MM> as. a legal nut, and seem to * fdclfne fo the opinion that the action ia ftonndfcd.in tbe common law, an 1 that Mill Morris will get Another trr. THE JOKER’S BUDGET. ICSTS AND YANNS BY FUNNY MCN OF TH* PA US. * •. Quite Pronsr' -True- - His Favorits-* CsuMn’t Kosp Hsuas Without One --Ths Phyaiainn’o Hero, It©., Its. QUITE PROPER. “He wps fired”.—INew York Press. '■'J* V -‘ UW. ^ »V« ! PAfoaisi;. and te to know if that isn’t keeping time, if it doesn’t giro jt away. ! <1 /< >t ins First Barnstormer—And, jnay I ask; mp boyj what ia yeur favorite rolef • ’ Second Barnstormer—By rny faith, I wlH'foeely tell you, mi the pay roll.—(Pittsburg Bulletin. couldn’t keep house without one. Briggs—Did you know Hpteerly had proposed to his cook, and been re jected ? Grifegs—Gracious, no! What did she reject him for? Briggs—She said she didn’t know where they could get another one.— [Brooklyn Life. 1 the physician’s hope Grocer—Did Dr. Newpill pay that thirty-dollar bill tie owes? Collector—No, sir; but he was very nice about it. He said that he hoped he would soon have a chance to work it off in attendance on your family.— [Detroit. Trlbule. preparing for action. Featheretone—Will your sister -be down soon, Willie? Willie—I guess so. She is chang ing her dress. Featheretone (impatiently)—What is she doing that for? Willie—She said she wanted to pbt on something that didn’t rumple— [Philadelphia Life. AN UNTIMELY PURCHASE. “I need a new umbrella, and I’m going to buy one,” declared Mrs. McBride. “Let me give you a piece of advice about buying umbrellas,” added her husband. “Never buy on a rainy day.” • “Id like |o know why not?” ■' r “Because they aw always up then.”—[Detroit Free Press. NOT SENSITIVE. Fweddy (lighting a cigarette)— You—aw—don’t mind my smoking, do you? Stranger—Not at all, air. I work in a glue factory.—[Chicago Tribune. NOTHING MEAN ABOUT GEORCE. • The Daughter—Papa, George has got only seven dollars and a half a week, but he wishes to marry roe. The Father—Only seven dollars and a half a week and I am worth a mil lion ! I should think he would wish to marry you—[New York Press. CALLED DOWN. *he He had given her his seat 1 car and had not heard he “Thank you,” so he stooped down and said: “Did you speak to me, madam?” “No, I didn’t,” she replied in a voice loud enough to be heard all over the car. “and I think a man of your age ought to be ashamed of him self to try to flirt in a crowded car.” Then he crept slowly forward, strap by strap, kicking himself as he went. —[New York Press. NO RICH OLD AUNTS THEBE. Mrs. Youngma — Bee the baby smile, Ooo, ze darling! Isn’t she lovely? Just think, in China, when a girl baby is born, the parents go into mourning! Brother George—iu china all prop erty is held by males, and the people can’t name a girl baby after a rich uncle, you ’.now.—(Good News. ONE WHO OUGHT TO KNOW. Detective—Yes, I’ve got the de scription of the missing jewelry writ ten down all right. Now, how much money did tbe fellows take? Mr. Blllus—I don’t know exactly; Maria, ray dear, how much money was there in my pockets last night? —[Chicago Tribune. WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE DONE. “How did you come to sell out your restaurant?” “My health was bad.” “Why didn’t you take your meals somewhere else?”—[The Club. * BOTH BROKE. Percy (a rejected suitor)—Oh, my heart is broke 1 Jack (tbe accepted suitor)- Bo am I! A BAD SIGN. “How do you like the dressmaker I sent you to? “I afraid she’s not first-class.” “Why?” “Well, she allowed me to make a suggestion without losing her tem per. ”—[ In ter-Ocean. BAT TOO CLOSp TO HIM. “Chawlfey, I understand Jones spoke vewy dlswespeetfully of you lawst night when he saw you with mo at the Opwy House.” ■ “What did he say?” “SAid yo-i were weally next to nothing. < “Well,” mused Ohawley, “1 thought 4 sat too close to you, but that’s all right, old fellow.”—[New York Advertiser. V ONE KIND. “Scribble has to keep his verses traveling from one magazine publish er to another, and yet he will have it that they are real poetry.” “Maybe thsy’re the poetry of mo- tion,”?*)Chicago Record. THEIR CHARM. “Yes,” said'the young man. “I must confess that I mb deficient In musical taste.” “Perhaps the modern music bores you,” said the pleasant young woman. “It does many people, you know.”- 1 -'' S''; “Yes.' I don’t care for modern mnsie. There Is one'thing about the old songs that I like very much.” “What ia that?” ‘ ‘The fact that nobody sipg*th#m.” —[Washington Star. ( • - 1HCBHM or LANGUAGE. “What is verso ss distinguished from poetry?” as*ed tbe iinquisitive man. '■ “Verse,” replied the magazine editor, after he hsd pondered, “is the term applied by any poet to the workgqf his contemporaries.”—[ Wash ington Star. NO MUSIC THERE. Stranger in town (to hotel clerk)— Where can I go and hear some music? I haven’t heard any in two years. Hoijbel Clerk—Great Scott I Whore have you been? In darkest Africa? Stranger—No; director of a travel ing Comte Opera Company.—[Ray- . ~TX7~ too HuggeStive. Dedude—Well, a fool and his money are soon parted! Lister—How much have you 'lately?—[Hallo. lost THE IMPORTANT Charles—My father died' when I was young and left me nothing but brains! Jack—What have you done with them?—Hallo. r; yqilcY fljYffltfMpSfc 3 ,f When Lot’s wife looked back,’’ said the Sunday school teacher, “what happened to her?” ‘ ‘She was transmuted into chloride of sodium," answered the class, with one voice.—[Chicago Tribune. DISPELLED THE PEAR. He had given her the engagement ring and was telling her fairy stories about the trouble he had experienced in securing a pure white, flawless stone, when he saw a sad look creep into the eyes but now fired with joyous mirth and gladness. “What is it, my own?” he whis pered in her left auricular append age. “Oh, Harold, suppose—^ “Yes, sweetheart.” “Suppose we should get married 1” “We will, dearest,” ho exclaimed with a ten-dollar-a-week nerve. “And I should lose this ring in the fluff of our velvet carpets?” For a moment he was dazed. Then a decorative possibility rushed ath wart. his prophetic soul and he said firmly: “We will have hardwood floors.”— [Detroit Free Press. A DESPERATE RESORT. “Slopay is having his memory trained.” “If# a good scheme; bull don’t believe there is any use of his trying to improve.” “He says he is getting along first- rate. If s the chain sf ideas system.” “Well, if hfd only strike some chain of ideas tjtaf 11 lead his mind up to $20 that he borrowed last sum mer, I’d be willing to pay half his tuition.”—[Washington Star. prospecting. Chicago Girl (to stranger, who has taken her hi to dinner)—I am going abroad soon and want to get some points. Do you know anything about English law? Stranger—I am an English barris ter myself. Chicago Girl—Oh! how nice! Now, suppose a Lord’s wife gets a divorce, does she still have tlie title?—[Brook lyn Life. acceptable attentions. Maude—How could you allow him to pay such marked attention to you when he was a perfect stranger? Elsie—Don’t you think it nicer to receive attentions from a perfect stranger than from an Imperfect ac quaintance?—[Boston Transcript. THE FAVOR SHE ASKED. She—No, it can never be. I do not love you enough to be your wife. But before you go I want to ask one favor. He (dejectedly)—Well, what? She—Please do not marry anyone else.—[New York Weekly. GRAMATICALLY CORRECT. Teacher—Give me an example of a common noun. Scholar—Man. Teacher—Now, give me an example of a collective noun. Scholar — Tax man. — [Brooklyn Life. FRANK. Wifey—Do you love mo better than any woman you have ever met? Hubby—I love you better than any woman I could ever get.—[Detroit Free Press. EXPECTATION SURPASSED. Parker—I have received very grati fying news of my son, who recently went, to college. Barker—Yes? What nows? Porker—He’s alive.—fl’uck, HOUSEHOLD AFFAIBS, to rrmovr man Atom, Ths best way of removing the white spots caused by water drops on crepe is an exceedingly simple one. Lay the crepe on a table with a piece of black silk beneath it. Dip a camel’s hair brush in ordinal/ ink and go ovsr the stain. Wipe the inl^ff with a •oft piece of silk. The stamwiil dis appear as soon as the ink dries.—New York Journal. TQ TOhAtiff gMK DISBR& ’ An appliance that will at ones recom mend ifaelf aea useful aeeessegy to the kitchen Is a tel so Mist all the an outlet st the front which the artiolee end which is placed A gfeet many plat) jugs, decanters and drained at the feme which ie fitted aarosl; articles placed in quite securely, wi; slipping. It is made so that no part will raM,'AuHfis yare placed upon it is not lidhfe chipped. The rack, Mgsfeunfft parts can be folded up iatp) »’Vt*y smell apace, and quite flat, trouble, so it takes mp Tittle rbonf when not in use, andoen be hung upon the wall if desired. —New York Ad vertiser/ keeping nousaaoriO accounts. To one who has never kept an ac count of the expenses and income of the house it may seem like quite an undertaking^ bat when it is once be gan, one gets so interested in it that it becomes easy. There is such satis faction in knowing jnst what the fam ily expenses art and what proportion of them we have paid by onr own ef forts. To begin, provide yourself with a firmly bound blank book, not too small; twelve inches long by ’eight wide is a convenient size. It will cost lees than fifty cents. Select one ruled 'for single entry bookkeeping, as this will give more room on e page of the size named. i Begin a . new page each month for both dry goods and groceries, apdTf yon have a large credit account use a separate page for that. I usually make one page do for dry goods and credit by marking a divided liqe across the page near the middle end using the lower half - for credit. Write at the head of each page the name of the month of the year, aud the words “Groceries, etc./’-and “Dry Goods, etc.,” across the pages intended for those entries. Let the “etc.” stand for things that are neither one nor the other, bnt which for convenience may be set down with them, such as things bought for the kitchen in the way of cooking utensils, dishes, and such articles. The dry goods page may also hold entries of furniture, of all kinds of books and papers and snch things. Date each entry at the left hand and place the amount paid in the space provided for it at the right. At rite end of each month add the amounts up and set down under their respective columns, and at the end of the year it will ba only necessary to look at these figures to see what the expenses 'for the year have been. Keep the credit account as carefully and fSot up each month’s credit separately. This account will consist of all fncoms from the cows and the poultry, and from any other source which is under the management of the women of the household. To avoid the necessity of going to the book each time an entry ia neces sary, »ke a “day book” of a common nohoL tablet. Tack it to the kitchen wall, keep a calendar just above R and a penoi’ hanging beside it. Only a moment is required to eet down an itehi, and the lea; may be torn olf and “posted up” on the book each even ing, or ss often as necessary.—Farm, Field and Fireside. BR SIPES. Veal Kidney Saute—Melt a lump of butter in ths chafing dish, havesqnsr- ter of an oniou chopped fine,' wad brown it in tbe butter. Have the kid ney ready, cut ia thin slice* and put witfa ths ouion, Season with salt and red pepper. Cover the dish tightly and let the kidneys cook until tcudsr. Serve with bits of lemon. Lobster a la Newbnrg—Have ready A W Y medium-sized lobsters cut into dice. Cook slowly for five minutes. Season with one-half teaspeouful salt, one saltspoqpfnl pepper and s slight costing of nutmeg. Remove the lob ster to s platter. Beat the yolks of four eggs with a uup of cream, turn jnto the saucepan and stir until it be gins to thicken. Remove before it cardies. Pohr it over the lobster and serve at once. English Monkey—Have ready one cupful of stale bread crumbs which have been soaked in onecupfnl of milk for fifteen minutes. Put a heaping tablespoonful of butter in ths chafing dish and wheu melted add half a cup ful of mild cheese, out fine. Stir until, the cheese is meitod. Turn slowly in to the melted cheese the crumbs, to which hsve been added one beaten egg, salt and cayenne. Cook three minutes and serve on toast. Tongue Soup—Put a small tongue into a stew pan with trimmings end bones of fowl or veal aud stew gently for four hours; skim carefully. Take out ths tongue, skim and clean it and leave it to cool. Put back the trim mings and the root, with a carrot, a turnip, a head of celery, an onion and half a teaspoouful of red pepper, aud let it cook one hour longer. Then strain the soup, aud when cold remove the fat and set it on to heat with a turnip and carrot cut in dine and two tablespoonfuls if grated tongue. Let WMTS TO PROVIDE MILLIONS OF MONEY lah Hag a Financial Proposition Which WojM Put Him on “Easy Sfrost. “ (Washington Post,) James M. Gale, of Yorkville, 111., iss sent to the members of Congress “a text for new monetary system and ■ankhig for the United States of Vmerica.” A note heading the bill says that it s hoped that the President and mem- ier of both houses of Congress wiH .tody its provisions carefnlly, and give this nation of people a law that will mbrsce its festurfs; also the tariff law ttht will do justice to all parts Of the •ountry. In the bill the author docs sot over lock his awn interests, and the bil!, i; will, as offs member expressed put Mr Ggie on “JJasy street” for “ TBe ttll establishes a banking system 'fetfer the OMtfbi of the government, nickfe And ividcs foi for'coin. I of the "proposed bonk feta r i . ^#WO,OO0t- . . paper Mid $800,- '"100,000 of coin, halt gold end hall diver. The capital of the banks may beany sum from $15,000 to $1,000,.- 000, until sll places needing a bank service shall have one Nstlflns! banks are.given the privtlegeof surrendering their charters and beginning business unde? the new system. Two comuis- eidns are established to assist in the location of the banks. The first is to consist of the Senators and members of theFifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con gress. The second is to consist of the Vice President, the Comptroller of the Currency, the cabinet officers, the Supreme Court judges and Mrs. Cleve land. Their business is to look after tbe judicial interests of the conntry. Mrs. Cleveland is to be president, vice-president and secretary of this commission, and for this extra service the board of bank managers is to set apart 5 cent* on the dollar ont of the first authorized issue of the new paper money, which is to be divided into 500 equal parts; the pay of the persons comprising the commission ie to be one part, except Mrs. Cleveland who is to receive two. shares. Two shares are also to be paid to the children of Mrs. Cleveland, to be loaned by her for their benefit until they are of age. In this section of tbe bill the author provides for hinself in payment for hi* suggestion, as follows: “And it is further provided that James M. Gale, the originator and pro poser of this system, shall receive as his reward and shall hsve paid to him quarterly, one mill on the dollar for all money issued by the government from the passage of this act. He shall have reserved for him the first bank charter issued under this act for a bank in his town (Yorkville, 111.) and shall have deeded to him the Small Islands, that is the remnant of an island in the Fox river that separates the cities of Yorkville and Bristol, one of which is the most central and only appropriate location for the bank and postoflice for the two cities.” He is to receive $200,000 for improv ing Hie island and building a bank and postoffice. If any of the appropria tion remains after the completion of the office it is to bo donated to Mr. Gale. . Mr. Gale has not appeared in Wash ington to look after the interests of his bill. HE IS DEAD. SEHATOH ZEB VAHCE GOHE. Ho Has Passed Over the River and io at Rost Under the Shade of the Trees. . A BRAVE CORFEOERATE OEAu. Brigadier General Kershaw Dies at His Home in Camden, S. G. Columbia. —General J. B. Kershaw died at Camden after a lingering ill ness. He was one of the best beloved citizens of Sonth Carolina. Ho was a veteran of the Mexican and the Seces sion wars. In the latter he rose .to the rank of brigadier general. For' years since the war he was judge of the Cir cuit Court. At the time of his death ho was postmaster at Camden. The Governor and other State officers will attend his funeral. Monaiite in Horth Carolina. The mining, or rather washing, of monazite is beconing quite an industry in western North Carolina. So far it is confined to tho counties of Burke, McDowell, Rutherford and Cleveland. The mineral is found in the form of sand in the gold-bearing gravel beds throughont that entire section, the out put being limited only to the demand, one party having offered to contract to supply 100 tons on short notice. Here tofore a majority of the monazite used in this country has been imported, but tbe discovery of the North Carolina deposits will not only prove a great source of revenue to the above section, but must st least supply the United States. Tho methods employed in saving it are simply by the use of “Long Toms,” or by ground sluicing, as in washing gold. The specific gravity of tbe sand being greater than silica, it accumulates in tho boxes or sluices and is shoveled out, dried and sacked for shipment. Long Lived Masons. While there are only three men now Jiving who were elected Governors of North Carolina (Vance, Jarvis and Carr) yet of all the grand masters of ths Grand Lode of Masons elected since 1863 only one has died, that one being H. F. Grainger. It is really extremely curious. Senator Vance’s Logs Para'yied. Washington, D. 0.—Gradually tho really serious condition of Bountnr Vance's health is becoming known. Washington, D. C.—Senator Zebu- Ion B. Vance, of North Carolina, died at his residence, 1827 Massachusetts avenue at 10:45 o'clock Saturday night. The Senator had not been in good health for the past year and in the early part of the session of 'Congress was compelled to abandon bis senatorial duties atid take a trip to Florida In the tripe of recuperating. Hjs trip proved Wfidal and on hi* return Us Wash- Ington he was able for a while to par tially rest! me his official duties. Mia improvement/ however, did sot Continue lung, and for the last few weeks he has 'been confined to his house. He was practically an invalid, but has lately been aide to receive a few intimate friends and superintend tbe looking after of the interests of bis . Qnrjng the past week he has been reportiri as doing well no ooitld be ex- peeked and the aerions change for tbe worse was wholly unexpected. Shortly before 11 o'clock ho had an attack of apoplexy and became un conscious, regaining consciousness ouly a few minutes before his death. His wife,-Thomas J. Allison,Harry Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vance, Judge W. A. Hoke and Rev. Dr. Pitzer aud Drs. W. W. Johnson and Ruffin werfe at his bed- side when he died. The great Senator’s . last end was peaceful as an infant's. The terrible pain seemed to have ceased. Wheu unconsciousness supervened he passed into ft sweet sleep which ushered his spirit iu a few hours into the etcrunl sleep. He died in the bosom of his family, all of his nearest and dearest being at the time around him, expecting momentarily the event. Zebulon B. Vfttice was burn in Bun combe county, North Carolina, May 13, 1830; was educated in Washington College, Tennessee, and at the Univer sity of North Carolina ; studied law, was admitted to the bur in January, 1853, and was sleeted attorney for Bun combe county the same year; was a member Of the State House of Com mons iu 1854; was a Representative from North Carolina in the Thirty- fifth aud Thirty-sixth Congresses; en tered the Confederate army as captain in May, 1861; was made colonel iu August, 1861; was elected Governor of North Carolina in August, 1852, and re-elected in August, 1864; was elected to the United States Senate in Novem ber, 1870, but was refused admitmion, and resigned in January, 1872; was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 1872 but was detested by a combination of bolting Demo crats and Republicans; was elected Governor of North Carolina for the third time in 1876; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in place "of A. 8. Merrimon, Democrat; took his seat March 18, 1879; and was re-elected in 1884 and 1890. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1897. THE FUNEA.lL. Monday at noon tbe Senate met, and Senator Ransom announced the death of his colleague Senator Zebulon Vance, after which it adjourned until 4 ]>. m., when the funeral services were held, the body lying in state in the marble room of the Senate. The Home also adjourned and at tended the funeral serveee in a body. Gov. Carr telegraphed to Mrs. Vance requesting her to have the remains lie in state in Raleigh. Accordingly the train, with a special car for the family, placed at her service by the Seaboard Air Line, left the Sixth street depot Monday night at 10:43 and reached Raleigh Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. The body laid in state at the capitol until 4 or 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Vast ojneonrses of people viewed the remains. Colored people were as anxious to see the remains of Senator Vance as auv one else. ^ _ Hois paralyzed in his legs, in nddi- it simmer slowly for rbbow and WV* tion to the liver enlargement already with boijgd rige. y mentioned. THE SOUTH CAROLIHA HOAD SOLD. Wheeler H. Pechham, for a Syndicate, Bid it in for $1,000,000. Charleston, S. C,—In pursuance of the decree of the United States Court made last December, the Bonth Caro lina Railroad was sold at public auction at 11 o'clock Friday. A large number of prominent financiers attended the sale. But little excitement attended the bidding. The road was sold to Wheeler H. Peekham, of New York, ,wbo represented a syndicate of first mortgage bondholders, for $1,000,000. This amounts to the first iportgage Bondholders taking the road Tor their bonds wad paying- $1,000,000’ with which to diaeharge prior liens and out standing indebtedness. The price tti&jrirtWlx RHioiHttMff; something Ttss than $f,00fou00. The Louisville & Nashville system, which owns about $900,000 worth of Second mortgage bonds, was repre sented at the sale by J. B. Probst, but he took no partin the bidding. There are rumors to the effect that there is an understanding besween the first mortgage bondholders and the Louis ville k Nashville people by Which tho latter may ultimately Control tho property. Mr. Peekham deposited a check for $100,000 with Keceiver Chamberlain and the remainder of the purchase money will be paid within 20 days. Hosiery Mill at Valdese, With John Meier in Charge. (Morganton, N. C., Herald.). John Meier, a 8wins gentleman, who has keen for the past two years su perintendent of the Oats Hosiery Mills in Charlotte, has given up his position and is coming to Valdese to eltablisha hosiery mill of bis own. The colony has turned over to Mr. Meier the largo two-story frame building designed for a barn, and this will be at once re modeled and re-arranged for tho hosiery mill. Mr. Meier has already contracted for his machinery, and Dr. Prochet, on behalf of the colonists,has closed a mtract with him by the terms of wbi< in consideration of the cession of certain lands, Mr. Meier agrees to employ only Waldcnscs in his iniil for at least five years, The work of re modeling the building has begun. Mr. Meier will come to Valdese in about, two weeks to make his home. He will become a member of the colony, his faith and language being identical with the Waldcnscs, whose valleys join those of his native land. Cacnmilly Wiuumt Care. Apropos of the prevailing inability of trainmen on our elevated ami other railroads to call out ths names of sta tions with distinctness, a gentleman who has lived for several years in Wales says that there is at least one station in that country which the rail way guards are bound to pronounce carefully. It is Caerphilly.—New York Tribune. . Forced to Live on Barnacles. Not many people are ever com pelled to subsist solely on a diet of barnacles, and when they are it is generally after they have been ship wrecked on some desert island, instead of in the midst of a wealthy Christian community. And yet that is what a man has been doing for several weeks. He has often been seen climbing over the half-rotten piles in the vicinity of tils Mail dock at low tide and scrap ing off the mollusks, bnt nobody paid any attention to him until the other day he sat on a stringer and began to mike a meal out of his gift from the sea. “Do you like those things?” asked a bystander, “aud don't you know they are poison?” “They haven't poisoned me,” answered the man, “and 1 don’t eat them because I like them, but because I hare nothing else and don’t know when I will have.” His story was only another chapter of the terrible experiences of the unem ployed during the winter. He was an unmarried man, and had wandered around the streets of San Francisco without food until ho nearly dropped from exhaustion before he thought of eating the barnacles. That was over three weeks ago, and in the meantime he has eaten nothing else. He was perfectly willing to talk about himself as he greedily devoured the tiny, raw bivalves. “Pretty tough food, ain’t they?" asked the man who was watching him. “You bet they are,” he replied, throwing a handful of shells into the bay, “but I would rather eat them all the rest of my life than beg.”—Han Francisco Call. Great Bsming in Biff oh. Buffalo, N. Y.—An electric light wire caused the loss of $1,200,000 iu flames. The American Glucose Works, the largest of the kind iu the country, public fish marketaml Holmes’lumber yard wore all consumed. Six men were burned to death. The Kaiser in Vienna. Vienna.—Emperor William, of Ger many, arrived here and was met at the station by Emperior Francis Joseph and his brilliant staff. Death of David Dudley Field. New York.—David Dudley Field died suddenly at 3:30 Friday morning of pneumonia. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, j The Senate. 73d Dat.—Tin) Senate discussed the Bering den award and England's attitu Id thereon. 74th Dat.—Mr. Hill made an attack on tho income fealura of the Tariff bill. Mr. Walsh WAS sworn in as Senator from Georgia. 75th Day.—Mr. Lodge spoke on the Tariff bill. Walcott’s resolution to coin Mexican silver dollars was passed. Mr. Cockrell reported tbe Urgency Deficiency Appropria tion bill The principal amendments pro vide appropriations for United States court), ♦5009 is appropriated for Mrs. Sarah B. Col quitt, widow of Senator Colquitt, being ono- year's sal-try. 76th Day.—Mr. Halo delivered a long, speech in opposition to the Wilson-Yoorhces tariff bill. 77th Day.—The day was consumed by Mr. FefTer, who continued his siieeoh on tha Wilson bill. 78th Dat.—After some routine morning business the Senate resumed the considera tion of the Further Urgent Deficiency bill. Mr. Hill proposed to count pairs to make a quorum. The matter went over. When tne Tariff bill was taken up Mr. Peffer con tinued his speech on the subject, the fourth installment. He was followed by Mr. Mit chell. 1 The House. 95th Day..—Absenteeism on the part of Democrats and Hepublican filibustering re sulted in the waste of another day. Mr. | Springer moved to discharge the warrant issued two weeks age for the arrest of ab-1 sentees. The Itepublieaas, led by Mr. Heed,' declined to vote, and. as 4be Democrats failed to muster a quorum, after a few roll- calls the House adjourned. ; 96th Day.—It was District of Columbia day and no business of general interest was transacted. 97th Da..—The House devoted tbe entire day to the Postoflice Appropriation bill. The attempt to insert in tbe bill an amend ment designed to prevent the Bureau of En graving and Printing iron manufa.-turini; postage stamps under tho contract recently awarded to it by the Postoflice Department; was defeated. 98th Day.—Mr. Sperry introduced a bill to establish a Bureau of Interstate Banks. Tbe House got into a deadlock over a techni cal Parliamentary question and no business was transacted. 99th Day —A resolution introduced by tho Committee on Buies, at the beginning of the session, to tine members 410 for failing to vote on the call of tbe yeas aud nays, and for absence without leave, precipitated a season of filibustering, whieh ••oiitiuuod until H.SOp. m., when adjournment was taken. Before adjourning a resolution was adapted revok ing leaves of absence and directing tile Ser- geant-at-Arms to telegraph ab»'’nt members that their presence is repaired. London has almnt. one hundred and I 1®°™ I> *»- - Th" Ho, * 8u ’'t* h> "“ly , ,, . , , »an hour, adjourning on account o'tho can- seventy-eight rainy days ra a y$ar.. cue, no quorum and no l-usinw -at,