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- . - - ,/jfl * ?? ?; ??? ?? ????' "?^?: ? ______ . VOL. XLYI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1889. .. : ' NO. 8 : j jl ^ t>- - ' - - . r'"f . The Superintendent of the Enilding Department in New York city thinks that, ki actual construction the first half year f 1889 was the busiest that has ever 1 _? xV. .3. i ?. oeen Known since tue uepartment was reated. There is a movement on foot to bring tack the remains of Davy Crockett, the , hero of the Alamo, to his birthplace in Tennessee. He was born midway between Greeaville and Jonesborough, where the landma rk of his cabin home is still to hff cftp.n y Electricity Trill be used in a practical jpt .way in the taking of the census. The . census blanks will be the same as usual,' but the information they contain will be (recorded on a large sheet of paper by the [punching of holes in it at certain internals. An electrical circuit is formed through these holes, and counters are ?dded electrically, recording on their dials all-items of the same kind. 1 The New York Commercial Advertiser' predicts that a revival of the old spirit of | Arctic adventure will result from Dr.i KToncon'c npvf: WAr for "which. he has succeeded in securing subscrip-. tions amounting to $100,000. The ship: 1 will be used to curry the party as far; ? Qorth as practicable, and -will then be either sent home or abandoned. The | I explorers will push on with boats and. I i sledges, without depots of provisions and : b" without a base for retreat, persevering in, their northward course so long as there is' i any chance of approaching the pole. f Q??? r ( Ox course it will never be known exv iaetly how many men, women and chiltdren perished in the awful disaster at w 'Johnstown, observes the New York Mail \ and Express, but the Board of Inquiry at \ Johnstown has made a careful estimate, based on long and patient research, of the number of persons drowned in the flood, and this estimate is believed to be m- approximately correct. It places the entire loss of life at 6111. This is an appalling total, but it is very far short of fcha -wild estimates which were at one tim? r^: v * made, and -which placed the total loss of i v- life in the Conemaugh Yalley at from )? 10,000 to 15,000. L ' Says the Atlanta Constitution: "The i ^ n German Emperor opened his eyes when w* , he saw the British naval review at Ports-. fmouth, England, the other day. He saw ! blood and muscle and iron enough to stir his pulse. He saw 113 grim war vessels manned by 23,000 British sailors. The - iight impressed him. He must have felt. that although he represented a great mil-1 itary power England had a war-like armament on the sea surpassing anything of aie kind in the world. Now, as always, ' England's strength is on the water, bhe is still mistress of the seas. Her sturdy. Fj. bailors are able to whip anything that iails the briny deep."' The gradaai-dtminution of the popu-: % / lation in certain parts of New England V by reason of emigration to the West is1 . having a curious sequel, remarks the New' Fork Tribune. Steps are being taken in Vermont to attract a good class of imzru-; ^ grants from abroad, and thus the. first I, State to be admitted under the Federal 1 Constitution comes into competition with flie young Commonwealths of the NorthI? \ west in the bidding for settlers. The iensus of 18S0 showed the population of I v Vermont to be practically at a standstill, there having been an increase of less lhau 9000 in twenty years. Maine and Sew Hamushire made even a poorer ihowjng, though ia both cases there had j ; y eeen some increase since 1870. The re- 1 / wit of the drift westward has been that f . toany farms are abandoned and the prices , >1 good farms, as we all know, have / Jallen to a singularly low figure. f v ' The New York Sun says: "David S. J Terry, of California, died with hio boots >n, and David Colbreth Broderick, after |) ' in interval of just thirty years, is at last In some infinitesimal degree revenged by > i deputy marshal's pistol. He may have t been more revenged, however, for it will " ' 1 + To-i.r L' ^ &oz ao to overioc'h. uue uu? i?ij | L jn&rried some years ago the notorious L ' Sarah Althea Hill, the blackmailer of M- Sharon and of Sharon?s estate, and a I ^ ?"oman of almost as turbulent and fierce K? i nature as Terry himself. Of all the to fighting lawyers and Judges of California ferry may be said to have -been the last, although Stephen Johnson Field survives ' K apon the bench of the United States SuM9? preme Court and reposes upon the well K earned reputation of having in his time k/mn Of Konrl-tr TT-ifVi 'Kic nietll <15 Qn V la\C og jiouuj niku AUM ??v- ?- - fer of distinction on the slope. Terry kas had little other business of late than feeking how best to shoot Judge Field, ??ho, among other things, had sent him do jail for contempt of court during one of the Sharon trials. It was a most necestary vindication of judicial dignity, and Judge Field did it with the full knowledge that it would possibly co3t him his dfe. Judge Field has always been one of ffche last men to be afraid of any such conf sequences, but he will doubtless rest none the less easy now that his enemy is out of the way. Terry was one of the most reekjess and desperate survivals of the early days of Californian development. His slaying of Broderick embittered his life, exasperated and deviated him at all points, and made him lawless, irresponsible, and ? menace to society. He is well out of * fche way.!L_ - ' i THROUGH DIXIE. SUMMARY OF] SOUTHEEN NEWS Happenings of Soecial Importance Prom Virginia to the Lone Star State, vr/vnrnTT /I A T> AT TIT* nuxviin uja_D.ujjj.nii. Poindexter W. Capehart, son of B. A. Capehart, of Kittrell, has been appointed by the Governor to succeed the late Bryan Satterthwaite as his executive clerk. Mr. Capehart is a young man, 18 years of age. Maj. John Hughes, of New Berne, died at Beaufort on Monday. J. 31. Dye, dealer in groceries at Raleigh, has-made" ail" assignment to Major T*Un W Af ATnArn r?Aiinttr friiQ U VILLI If k'CV/ 4.4?j V* iHWVi V W***4VJ^ ?- --' tee. Assets and liabilities not stated. Winfield S. Chadwick, of Beaufort, was elected president of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railway, i.ycceeding Washington Bryan. At Williamston, Wednesday, after deliberation of about three hours, the jury in the case of the wife murderer Council found a verdict of not guilty, the cause being that he was insane. He was ordered by Judge McRae to be held till arrangements could be made to get him in the Insane Asylum. It is reported that the Nag's Head ! Hotel, off Roanoke Island, was blown down during the storm and a number of persons killed. SOUTH OAEOLDTA. Mr. David Bonnetheau, aged about 75 years, died at the city hospital at Charleston. He was severely burnt on Friday night at his home, and from these injuries died. Bonnetheau is the last of an old Huguenot family of that name, and for many years has kept a junk shop, ana was a jeweler Dy traae. He lived all along and in a hovel, but is said to have left a snug sum of money, the stinted savings of years. When his house was found burning he was in the fire anjl refused to be moved. He was taken out by force, but fought to stay with his property. His brother, who died several years ago, was a painter of decided merit and some reputation. The Alliance is coming to the front with its business institutions. Ware houses and oil mills seem to engage their attention at present. Within the next month it is expected that at least fifteen Alliance ware houses will start in business in this State. There have been thus far only five Alliance ware houses chartered, but a number of others are being planned. The Co-operative Alliance store of Anderson, with a capital of $50,000, is the largest of the Alliance enterprises. Lynchburg, in Sumter county, has an Alliance store with a capital of $3,000. The Farmers' Alliance cotton seed oil mill has been started by the Alliance men of Oconee. Gaffney City has asked for a charter for her Alliance ware house. * 1 ~ V J 1 4-U/v WTrsr^A iv. store Jias ueen upeuuu uj mc ?t wuruff Alliance upon a charter recently issued. State Treasurer Melver received by express from the American Bank Note Company State bond? representing about half a milliou dollars. These bonds he has obtained to exchange for stock that may be held, and for which State bonds, may be desired. The former bonds were signed by the late Treasurer Bamberg, and the present supply are the first signed by Col. E. R. Mclver as treasurer. The denominations of the bonds are $1,000 4? per cent. South Carolina blue bondsand $500 and $1,000 brown conThe next State Fair, which is to be" the twenty-first given by the State Ag ricultuml and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, begins on November 11 and continues until the ICth. From every indication it promises to even excel ail previous fairs . TEKJfESSEE. Joe Moron and family were poisoned at Nashville by eating mushrooms which they had gathered. They grew very ill and only the prompt arrival of a physician saved their lives. William Braill, of Hopkinsville, Ky., who was a passenger on the Earlington accommodation train, shot' and killed Conductor James Lemon near Baker's station, Tenn. "When Lemon asked "Uwiii Vn'o tirl-pf near Raker's station he found that he had not purchased one at Nashville. Braill refused to pay the extra fare asked, and had some words with Lemon. The latter was about to put Braill off the train, when Braill shot him- in the right side, the ball causing death one hour afterward. Braill jumped from the train and has not been seen since. Lemon died on the train, and his remains were brought to Nashville, where he resided. Lemon leaves a wife and child. He was 36 years old. GEOEGIA. Dr. H. H. Tucker, an eminent Baptist rh'prl at Atlanta Monday moraine from injuries sustained in falling from a [ second story window of his residence. He had been Chancellor of the University of Georgia and President of Mercer University. The total business of Savannah for the year foots up $109,000,000, about $3,300,000 increase over 1SS8. The naj val stores trade was $3,000,000, an in| crease of $1,000,000 over last year. The grocery trade was $10,750,000, and the liquor and tobacco and provisions trade $8,750,000. The dry goods trade was $3,500,000. A million and half dollars in building improvements are in pro gress. It was rcpo i ted that six negro preachers, en-route to Ciacinnatti, were taken from the ladies coach on the north bound East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia tram, at Baxley, Ga., and badly beatp-^^r having refused to go into a sc011^ c^ass coach, when asked to do soPLOSIDi. \ At Fernandina fire desf1*0^^ t^ie Clty jail and one negro prisonername<^ Henry { Baker, perished in the flai^0'5- The ofi" ?*~ A-f* ? /-? ie unl'nr\rt*T\ \ t)llt> It IS SU3~ j iTiil Ul LUC lilt- iO uunuv/nu,;. . pectcd that the prisoner Ba?er acci"^utally set himself and beddjE# ?" . while lighting his pipe. c'JJp water-works were in operation e tirst time, and a stream from a hy<^K| helped to save the county jail, whichsMfc joiued the city jail. ^ Seven butchers doing business in the old city market at Jacksonville were arrested for violating an ordinance which compels all market men to secure permits for private markets. The city has just had a new market building constructed, and the market men refused to vacate the present stand and move into ifc. Twice , before they have been arrested, released. I t on bail and then their cases dismissed. However this time Judge Baker, of the Circuit Court, issued an injunction re| straining the city authorities from molesting stall men in the old market. The cigar factory of Lorenzo Pendas & Co., jn Jacksonville, was damOTT tt^CU UJ UlC A UOOVAC4J . VIRGINIA, Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, the Southern poetess, is very ill at her home in Lexington. T. L. "Waller, a well-known merchant of Norfolk eoufrty, engaged in business at SeveH's Point, six miles from Norfolk, was murdered Sunday morning. The motive for the murder was robbery, and six negroes are now in jail for the crime. In the Danville City Council an order was made for an election on October 15th on a corporate subscription of ?50,000 to aid the Atlantic and Danville Railroad in extending its line from Danville to the coal fields of Southern Virginia. The hotel at Bon Air, a summer resort near Richmond, burned to the ground "Wednesday. Hon. Allen G. Thurman, wife and grandchildren who have been summering at Hot Springs left for his home at Columbus, 0. Judge Thurman is much : J ?,i -u:? -v mipiuvcu, <uiu ottvo mo iiicuuiaciouu jo very much better. The President appointed Richard C. Kerr, of Mississippi, to be Register of the Land Office at Jackson, Miss., and Thos. Gordon to be postmaster at Newport News, Ya. The Dawson National Bank, of Dawson, Ga., capital $50,000, was authorized to commence business. OTHER STATES, The State reunion of ex-Confederate soldiers began at Fort Worth, Tex., "Wednesday. Thousands of people were present. There was good feeling all around. The reunion continued three days. Since July 4 there have been six ini i> _ Tfc r* _ r> cenaiary nres in itosiynuaie, .suss n. J. Dulfee, aged 21 years, of West Rex bury, and Benjamin Davidson, were ar rested in the act of setting fire to an unoccupied house. Monday morning' they were held in $1,000 bail each for the Grand Jury. The losses by the fires attributed to them aggregate $G,000. A special from CofEersville, Miss., reports seven negroes killed there within forty-eight hours. George Allen, who burned Benjamin Jamison's store, in Laflore county, was carried to Grenado and hanged. The total number killed is now ocfirmif/arl 1 HO The' white population in Texas increases more rapidly than the black. In 1870 the white population of the State was 1,197,237; colored, 394,512. In 1887 the figures were: White, 1,619,459; colored, 395,576; showing a vast increase of the whites, with a trilling increase of the blacks in seven years. Maj. Chas. F. Hard, a former Charles tonian, was re-elected mayor of Bessemer, Ala. Henry Perry, a negro laborer living at Avondale, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., beat his wife's head to a jelly with a briek. .Tpfllnnsv was tVip raiiss nf the murder. About a week ago Perry attempted to kill his wife by shootiDg her, but inflicted only a slight wound. After she had retired Sunday night he beat her io death with a brick. LONDON QUAEUTG AGAIN". Another Mutilated Human Body Pound j in Wiritechapel A cablegram ?fom"Aft?don says: A policeman found the body of a' RfeUea^woman lying at the corner of the railway? arch on Cabl6 street, Whitechapel. An examination of the remains showed that the head and arras had been cut off and carried away and the stomach ripped open, the intestines lying on the ground. A cordon of police instantly surrounded the snot, and nolicemen nass the SDOt ev ~j- - -7 x- ?- r ery fifteen minutes. Those on duty the previous night say they saw nothing suspicious. Physicians who examined the body state that in their opinion the murder and mutilation occupied nearly an hour. It is surmised that the perpetrator carried off the head and arms in a bag. The murder is the worst of the whole series of Whitechapel muaders. The manner in which the limbs had been severed from the body shows tnat the j murderer was possessed of some surgical skill. The woman was about thirty years old. Her clothing was shabby and she was evidently a spirit drinker. The remains have not been identified. The most intense excitement again prevails in Whitechapel. Crowds surround the mortuary in which the body lies. Later details concerning the find|n<r^ the body show that there was ncf olood on the ground where the bo^J was found, neither was there any bl?)0d on the body. From this, it is evident that +Vio mnrdnp irae onmmittod in ?r?wne Oth er place and that the body was5 subsequently deposited under the/ railway arch. The trunk was nude. A- reQt and bloody chemise was found^/i^g near the body. The arms were rptact, .but the legs were missing. It isv. believed that the woman has been der-^ for two days. Three sailors who w ere sleeping under an arch next toj&Q one under whicE":the body was fo\*rfu;were taken into custody by the poliq^- They convinced the authorities, hPweTer, that they had seen nothiog Qp'a suspicious nature and were dischar^ftd. ^ ^ Dr. Srissom's [Successor. v 'n1 T- 3 ^ c *1 7^ ^ ^ i. * ine uuaru ui uireciurs ui me Jtuscera yforth Carolina insane asylum met at Raleigh and elected Dr. William ft. Wood, of Halifax, superintendent, and A)r. Pearsall, of Fayetteville, second assistant physician* l)r. Wood has for years been President of the State Board of Examiners, and was, during the war, an army surgeon, and is one of the ablest physicians in the State. There -were thirteen candidates for the position. The Hew Alabama Midland BailroacL Messrs. 'James M. Brow & Co.; of New York, who are building the main line of this road from Cambridge, Ga., to Montgomery, Ala., have been given the contract of constructing the extension from Montgomery northvrest through |AIaplesviIle to Tuscaloosa, Ala , a distance of about 110 miles, v \A New Sachem for Tammany, ^^aham B. TappeD, of the 24th AssemblyNJistrict? York City, was Wednes^HB^emoon elected Grand Sachem. flfl^^Bfcfcj^ySociety, in place U???agape??^p I I I OVER THE WIRIiS. IMPOETAST HEWS FIOM ALL POINTS, rio4T>ftvnrl o-r?r? flnrnl atiOD/1 Tn \w4 UlUAiVji V>U. CUiU VUUUVUUVU lu j.wwvkv.w*v Style for the Public. The six days celebration of the anniversary of the defense of Baltimore in the war of 1S12 continued from Monday until Saturday, inclusive. President Harrison reviewed the parade ou the opening day, together with Secretaries Windom and Tracy. A Chinese divorce case is the latest ai"1 ~ tion to the marital misiit bureau of. the Chicago courts. The complainant is Mrs. Blanche Loy, wife of Ching Loy, a Chinese laundryman, whom she married in New York, September 10, '80. She alleges cruelty and desertion. Valentine Hatfield, leader of the faction bearing his name in the IlatfieldMcCoy feud, on the Kentucky-West Virginia borders, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the part he took in the murder of the theee McCoy boys. Alex. Messer, another of the gang, gets a similar punishment. A gas well drilled in at upper Sandusky, 0., Saturday night is conccded to be the largest in the world, showing a capacity of over 50,000,000 cubic feet daily. Forty-five thousand people visited the well.in one day. In York county, W. Ya., W. B. Boyd, a white man, shot his wife and then killed himself. Mrs. Boyd lived about an hour. Boyd moved to Arkansas with his wife some years ago and returned without her, claiming to have been divorced. The fate of the second wife suggests that he may have murdered his first wife. Two widow ladies of St. Louis, Mo., who were prominent in social circles, have entered convents in that city. They ? m n UIC -LUIS. X . Kj. i3HH.JJ.tll U.UU o niiu Rogers. Dick Fisher, alias Dick Rhodes, a negro, -was lynched in Bonaphin county, Kan., Monday for the usual crime. Tailor'? bustle manufactory at Bridgeport, Conn., where about COO girls have been employed, shut down Saturday night because the bustle has gone out of fashion. Fire destroyed the steamer Theodore Wcems lying at Pier No. 9 at Baltimore. The following additional candidates have been admitted as cadets at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis: C. E. Fitch, of Illinois; A. A. Pratt, Illinois; L. F. James, South Carolina; W. T. Crosby, Connecticut; S. G. Talter, Tennessee; Graham Sloan, Penntylvania; Edgar Richmond, California; John L. Stich, New York;E. G. Asbury, Louisiana; J. C. Hooker, Tenncssoc; II. L. Darling, Texas, and J. S, Morris, Missouri. - > John O'Brien, the once famous showman, died at his home iu Frankfort, | near Philadelphia: As Lyman Quinn was passing through a dark covered bridge at Gonverneur, St. Lawrence couDty, N. Y., he was fatally stabbed in the abdomen by some unknown person whom he and his companions met. 7 The assassin escaped. Four arrests were made of the rioters at Newcastle, Del., and wan-ants for eight more have been issued. A boiler explosion at Carbondale, III., on the farm of John Yv. Snider, killed five men. Snider was usin# a steam | thresher and a leak in the boiler caused the accident. . THE GBOWING COTTON. the Crop Com- ( paratively Late. > The cotton report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture at Washington for September, represents i the crops as comparatively late. Too 4 abudnant moisture is generally reported "* producing aj-ank weed, and retard the development of the bolls. Ilust | appeared quite generally on san*r?y~ uplands. The grey soilS of Atlantic coast show the most rust;'red land*and heavy' soils have been less aflected/ or are entirely exempt. y Drought has not been^eported, except in the light pine landrfs of Mississippi, similar soils in Louisiana, and in a considerable part of yfexas. In these districts there was abundant moisture till June and July/ {.There hasb^en considerable dropping of r/Mir?rr in flm 1U11U3 CliiU. J WViW JU VA^V, M4V??V most affeo^ed by the extremes of moisture an<3*temperature. The plants are still gi&'wing and blooming in -most locations, though in light soils the bolls are small, and not developing rapidly. The general condition is $0.8 against 89.3 last month, and 83.8 in September, of last year. The State averages are as follows: Virginia, 62, North Carolina, i 70, South Carolina, S7, Georgia, 90, Florida, 94, Alabama, 91, Mississippi, SS, Louisiana, 91, Texas, 81, Arkansas," 90, Tennessee, 84. The presence of the caterpillar and boll-worm is reported in all the Gulf States, and in Arkansas the first brood of the former has webbed up, and preparations are generally made for the vigorous use of Paris Green and Loudon Purple, which have been very effective with the first generation. The damage has been slight east of the Mississippi, and not generally serious farther west, with a few exceptions. Correspondents recognize the value in the present crop of the factors 01 good Autumn weather and late killing frosts in determining the aggregate of production. Convicted for Killing an Editor. R x "Rt? a tcpTsrn. (.'al. -^Dr. T,1 ewel 1 vn i A. Powell was convicted of manslaughter | Saturday night for killing Ralph Smith at Redwood City, Cal., two years ago. Smith, who was editor of a paper at Redwood City, published an article to which Powell took exception, and when the men met a quarrel ensued in 'which Smith was killed. Powell was tried twice in Rodaood City, but the jury disagreed both times. A change of venue was tuen ouiaiuea ro mis cnv. >. Subset Cox Dead. . , Hon. Samuel Sullivnn Cox, the well known New York Congressman, died at his home in the metropolis at S-:2T Tuesday evening. In the morning his condition suddculy changed for the worse, and Dr. Lockwood, the attend ing physician, immediately sr^it for the other dbctors who have been m consultation with him sincc Mr. Cox wa? taken ill. 3fany telegrams of sympathy were received from "promine'nt'pcpple-till, over the country. . * ' 7" '-;_ u ' ' m' l" 11* ' hi MONTANA'S GREATEST HEE. A Forest Eire That Swent Awav a Mil *, lion Dollars. A dispatch from Helena, Mont., says: Information is just received here for one of the fie rcest tires yet reported in Montana. The fire occurred Sunday night in the St. Regis District, Missoula county, and the Cokely. ranch was made a barren waste in less than three minutes. Cokeley and the hostess of the ranch mounted horses and barely escaped with their lives to the river. less than a quartor of a mile away, and reached the water after having their clothes nearly all burned from their bodies. They remained in r> rr-ofnr- r\yr>r Ti/yittq - on/} nrron xu tilv n utv,i vmv,i mu uwiu^ wnv* v> vu there heat and smoke were almost suffocating. A $vedish prospector, named Anderson, tied his horse in a gulch about half a mile from the Cokeley ranch, and went up the hillside to his claim. Both horse and man perished ir the flames. - J. C. Yeeder, who has returned from the St. Regis co?ntry, says lie feels certain that several men perished in the flames higher up the mountains. The destruction of property will aggregate foiiw 41 nnn nnn The Ootton Oil Season. Following is a review of the cotton oil industry by Col. Jos. H. Duggin. of New Orleans; The cotton seed crushers have lately closed one of the most profitable and successful seasons known in the business for many years. The former contentions and squabbles seem to have died out, or at least subsided, and from all sides we get reports of good results from all mills that have been properly worked. Prices of cotton seed products have ,1>een unusually high, considering the competition they have had to meet witl^ competing products, and the entire crash has been marketed to advantage?particularly the cake and meal outputs Owing to unusually h gh export freights it wsis thought that the foreign shipments would be considerably curtailed, but, strange to say, this has not been the case, and the products have commanded prices above their parity, which is indian corn. The growing demand for cotton seed meal as a straightout fertilizer has greatly increased and stimulated the mills to seek and encourage this home demand. And, again, the great increase in cattle feeding.in the South ados another valuable .outlet to cotton-seed meal. The total crush of seed the past season is estimated roughly at about 800,000 tons, or say 25 per cent, of the probable seed c.rmi Owinf to unfavorable weather 1 -x-- - o during the latter part of the cotton picking season a considerable quantity of cottonseed was injured by healing, but as there are demands for all grades of cottonseed products, the crushers have been abi* to place their off products without loss. All things considered, the . cottonsee4 crushing business is in a prosperous condition and steadily on the increase. As\the products become better known the demand in/->T%vrso/.o on/1 XT nOW millfl ATP VI V?4WCCj UUU WUMVVjUvUb'AJ UV?( - - - being erected every year' as new centers open where crushing can be done to advantage. The South in Ten Years. The sixth annual review of the progress of trade, manufacturers, agriculture and education in the "Southern States, published by the New Orleans Timen-lJemocrot. is an invaluable contri bution to the literature of the day. The following table is given showing the assessed value of property in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, JK11? iMujcy, Louisiana, Missjssjjjni^q^ Darolin^ Carolina, Tennessee, rexas^^^FVirginia: ' Assessment, J&W. . . ?2,104,792,795 r lSjgO, . . . 2,377,564,34X r 1^81, . . . 2.473,020,423 ,4882, . . . 2,505,903,787 1883, . . . 2,782,115,803 ' 1884, . . . 2,887,834,801 1885, . . . 2,900,514,535 1S80, . . . 3,154 208,813 1887, . . . 3,407,037,091 1S88, . T . 3,522,597,307 18S9, . . . 3,759,053,307 i TJie mcrcase in the assessed value of the property in the twelve States named during the past decade was 73.9 per cent., and this vast improvement in the material condition of the South is attri uuieu "co an advance in every uuc ui industry, manufactures, mining, agriculture." During the past year the farmers of the South realized $SG8,979,523 on their agricultural products, an increase of 42 per cent, on their income duringt lie year 18S0, itself an unusually goad crop year. Bare Postage Stamps. A discovery was made recently at Galena, 111., that will be of great interest. It consisted of three Government postage stamps, issued according to law by the Postmaster at St. Louis, for the State oi Missouri, in 1S45, the denominations being two of the ten-cent and one of the twenty-cent series. These stamps were issued in five, ten and twenty cent denominations, and are among the rarest and most valuable to stamp collectors ol all those issued by authority of the Gov eminent for use as postage. a. vvymerwas Postmaster of St. Louis in 1845, and gave the order for the plates to J. 31. Kershaw, a local engraver. The fiv? and ten cent stamps are found on two varieties of paper. The twenty-cent were printed from an altered plate of the fiver cent, and are perhaps the rarest stamps known. The stamps bear the arms of Missouri, with uSt. Louis" above and "Post Office" below, are rectangulai in shape, and printed in black on blue paper.?5Chicago Herald. Japanese Windows. Japanese rooms are lighted, not by glass -windows, but by a kind of wooden gratings, over" which a white paper is pasted on the outside. This paper diffuses the- sunlight about the room very pleasantly,but it is not proof against rain; in rainy weather, therefore, the shutters have to be put up which are used to close the veranda and house in the night time, and which are the only doors in a Japanese house that is thought a- r _ t. .ii A ? 4.1. ~ necessary to iurmsu wim a uou. xsj> wc putting up and taking down of these shutters is a matter demanding some time, it is usual to have a small door made in them, which is called "the earthquake door," to provide means of quick,, escape in case of emergency.? decorator and Furnisher, - "" | STORM ECHOES. JEOM THE AK6ET ATLANTIC, Details of the Great Storm Off The Jersey And New York Coasts. For a long time it will be referred to in the meteorological annals as the great cyclone of September, '89. It generated in the "West Indies. The storm traveled along the Gulf Stream for a week and reached the height of its fury along the Jersey coast. Sea Island City was cut" off from the mainland. The sea wall there was destroyed and fifteen hotises washed away. At Atlantic. City, the damage was very, gj^at and .wreckage, was strewn over the-iuSswA. Lewes, Del.?The tide was the highest since 1879 and telegraphic communication with the Breakwater was destroyed. The schooners Allen, Covert, Henry M. Clarke, J. F. Becker, Byron M., Maud Seward, Norena, Gertrude Summers Jinrl nine unknown snhnnnprs went i ashore. Both wooden piers have been destroyed. The schooner J. L. Bryan sank up the bay and her mate and one colored seaman are the only survivors. At New York City vessels at anchor along the South street piers had the appearance of haviDg passed through a veritable cyclone. The rigging of many of the crafts was torn into shreds and spars and masts were dismantled, while waves beat with great fury against the vessel's sides, even as they lay at their piers." The Custom. House quarters at the end of the immigration dock was completely filled with water. Manhattan Beach grounds are ruined. The great bathing pavilion is a total wreck. On the beach between Manhattan Beach and Brighton Beach Hotel, the only strip of beach left there was a regular line of wreckage. To the west of Brighton Beach Hotel there is an expanse of wreckage and debris 100 yards long and 50 feet wide. loss o? life. Lewis, Del.,?The crew of the Kate E. Morse were rescued and conveyed to a place of safety. Shortly after the Morse went on the shoal the schooner Walter F. Parker also grounded within thirty yards of the Morse. She soon wpn t rlnwn n.nd thosft on the Morse saw her crew drown one by one. The Morse is a total loss. News comes of the ivreck of the schooner "W. O. Snow, of Philadelphia, coal laden, with the loss of all on board?nine persons. This again raises the total loss of life to SI. The wreck of the Snow was found by the tug Luckcnbach between Brandywine and Brown shoals. EXPERIENCE OF THE ENGLAND. The National line steamer England, from Liverpool to New York got to her* dock Thursday after experiencing one ol tne rougnest voyages ntr commander had encountered to a service of sixteen years at sea. At midnight of Tuesday one of the firemen was washed overboard and drowned. The England was struck by the storm on Tuesday evening. The wind and sea were something terrible. Capt. Healey says that the steamer was almost turned over by the combined force of the wind and sea. She careened until the tips of lier yards dipped into the water. THE WORK OF KESCDE. tt i ~ "u "u "u j.-;. ^ JLlUgllbYilJLC, it SUUUIU UCIW^U LUC town of Lewis, Del., and the beach, was submerged and its two hundred inhabitants fled for life, leaving all their possessions behind. The first boat came ashore and then came another and another. The life-saving crew, reinforced by the Henlopen and Rheboth crews, went to work and labored unceasingly. The crew of_ every vjsseltiiat was men, and not a life was lost among the scores of men they handled. Remy Fegel, who keeps the Fe<?el Thoroughfare Hotel,at Atlantic City,tells of a daring rescue on Tuesday afternoon. It was found necessary to move out, owing to the rising waters. The current was too strong to row a boat, so Mr. Fegel and six strong men took a party of thirty people from the Thoroughfare Hotel to Atlantic City. The ladies were led several hundred yards through the water, which was up to their necks. There were twelve small children in the party, several of whom helonjjed to Mr. Van Horn Costomer, of Philadelphia, and this gentlemen was one of thr> party. A Priest Must Pay $1,720. The jury in the case of Dr. Louise Morasse, a practicing physician of Southbridge, Mass.,against the Rev. Father G. Ely Brochu, priest of the Notre Dame Church, brought in a verdict in the Superior Civil Court giving damages for plaintiff of $1,500 with interest, or a total of $1,720. Dr. Morasse was a parishioner of Father Brochu. He was di vuiucu iiuiu iixa jitsl wne auu was married a secono time by a Justice of the Peace. For this he was denounced from the pulpit by Father Brochu, and this caused Dr. Morasse to bring suit against the priest. Snmmer "Sccne? From a Snowy Peat. The Signal Service officer on Pike's Peak, Col., said to a correspondent the ' other day: "Sometimes I stand at the window with my telescope. I can see the houses of Colorado Springs, twenty miles away, tne men siinng m tneir shirt sleeves, sipping iced drinks to keep cool, the ladies walking about in white summer robes. I lower the glass. The summer scene is gone. Green trees, animal' life, men and women fade away like creatures in a dream, and I am the only living thing in a world of eternal snow and ice and silence-" A fortune in Ochre. Michael J. Leonard, a contractor of Mayfield, Ky,, recently discovered seventy-five acres of land near Ripley, Tenn., iroon -which were rich deposits of yellow ochre. He told his friend, L. H. Bell, publisher of the Louisville (Ky.) Catholic Advocate. Bell bought the place at the ordinary value of land in that region, and will give up his business to bring the ochre to market. It is. supnnsAfl tn hfn crrp&t fnrfmiA fnr Tiini TVinrr r * are only eight other beds of ochre in this country. . Want to Break Up the Cottw#fig. Liverpool, England.?A joint committee of the Blackburn cotton masters and mill operatives have been appointed to consider means by which Lhe ring controlling the prices of cotton maj be broken, .. A I A LOUISIANA OUTEA&E. An Incredible Grime* In' the Creole State Reported From Here. A special from' Lafayette, La , says: "A brutal murder was committed*six miles from this place, on the Abbeville' road, on Monday nisht. Near the^coad.-. J. J. n A JTLZs. siue sum us u smau uuai, OULU J*L -JW, the mutilated bodies of Rosmond Cormier, colored, and his daughter, Rosalie, were found. The following particulars were elicted at the coroner's inquest. "Rosmond, who was over 40 jears oi age, was whipped and ordered.,to. leave, some months ago"by a band of Regula-* tors, and? faiHUg-to ^obSy, incf 'an' untimely end ca-Monday tfigbtr.lt appears "that about.10 o'clock .a party of. masked men rode up to his house and demanded admittance, and on being refused broke fl/vcm +>ip r?nr>r TVia nld man firpd hoth barrels of his shotgun into the crowd, killing a white man named John Judas. Iiosmond then fled, pursued by the nowenraged party, who flred repeatedly at the fugitive. They overtook him about two hundred yards from his house and blew the entire back part of his head off and then crushed in the frontal bone Kit KIauto nrifK fVioii* rriino TIlO lwW Af k/iv U O ni.bU bUVU WVV.J w. Rosalie lay stretched in front of the cabin next morning, with her throat cut from ear to ear. The little cabin was riddled with bullets from "Winchester rifles and smaller arms, about two hundred balls having been fired into it. As the cabin was an isolated one the coroner's jury could find no evidence incriminating any one. The body of masked men who murdered Rosmond and. his daughter number about thirty. 'The Regulators, before reaching Cormier's house, severely whiDced two ne groes, Lucien Montgomery and Joseph, alias Toby Cobb. The victims were fearfully lacerated on their backs and received ugly wounds on the head -and face, inflicted with an instrument made by attaching a piece of buggy trace about two feet long to a handle made*>f wood of about the same length. Cobb says the crowd came to his house and with an oath demanded admittance. Being refused they broke down the door and took himself and Lucien down the road quite a distance and there beat them unmercifully for nearly half an hour. He UlU UUl lCV,UgUI45 ""V. masked, one being dressed in woman's clothing. lie could not give any explanation as to why he was flogged, but did not ascribe it to politics. He heard the men say something to Lucien about voting for Miner, but could not remember what it was. ''It is learned that about two months ago Cobb had a negro school teacher living with him, and this man was ordered to leave. Not doing so, the party j went to Cobb's house one night and de-1 manded that the teacher be given up, whereupon Cobb grew angry and fired into the crowd, wounding two of- them. Since that time veEgeance has been vowed upon him, and it >ras wreaked on Monday night. Cobb, when seen, was in bed and will remain there for several months before he recovers from the severe whipping administered to him. It is the opinion of the sheriff that other norties were wounded in the affair List night, but so far nothing definite has beeu ascertained in this respect."? Charleston Hem & Courier. OOTTOIT COTOTOIL AT NEW OELEANS. 'The Southern Cotton Exchanges Adopt a Discriminating Tare. New Orleans, Lav; Special.?A Convention of Cotton Exchauges and the I cotton trade in general to consider the ; difference of tare in cotton bale covering met here Wednesday afternoon. Delegat.es were present from Baton Rouge, ' TTtt Meridian, Yicksburjj, New Yo^St!^S#?i^i?2^w^fillj Greenville, Miss., Memphis, i\ashvnl^ Mobile, Savannah, Jackson, Miss., and j many other cities. In addition to the j regular delegates, commissioners of agri- j culture from seven Southern states and representatives of the Farmer's Alliance were admitted to seats on the floor. At the Convention's request President Thomas, of the New Orleans Exchange, gave his views on the subject as express ed in his report at the time of the call. In order to bring the matter before the meeting he moved that all cotton in I American markets be sold at net weight, ' allowing 5 per cent off for the tare on ! on/1 T?or P/inf fr\v ; juiv V/*/t V/i vu uaiV/O auu uj vv/uw iv/i cotton-covered bales. Mr. Copeland seconded the motion, which was discussed and amended. One of the interesti ing features of the meeting was the speech of President Livingston, of the Farmers' Alliance of Georgia. He made a strong appeal in behalf of the resolution as a measure of justice to farmers, and he said that the Alliances were getting stronger and would soon cease to beg, and would take what was undeniably theirs. Encouraging cotton bagging manufacture would leave several millions in the South annually. England would object to it at first but would soon accept the situation. fTM. T ? ' I rt -1.J A a! - a. me jLivurpoui v^uxiun Associiiuoii seut a letter against cotton bagging. The Bremen Exchange wrote that it had no objection to cotton bagging if it was heavy enough, to protect the cotton. The following resolution was passed: "That on and after the first day of October, 1889, all cotton shall be sold at net weight, allowing t wenty four pounds off the gross weight for tare on jate-covered bales, and, sixteen pounds off for tare on cotton-covered bale3, cotton covering to be of standard weight, threequarters of a pound to the yard." The resolution was unanimously adopted. The Farmers' Alliance people said that tin resolution would be ratified, and they would only send cotton to points where the tare was in operation. Bird Dog, Watch JDog and Nurse. Joe, a pointer dog belonging to the family of the Rev. Mr. Flanders-, of Ellaville, Ga., is a faithful servant, and comes as near earning his victuals and . ? ? C clothes as any servant in town. Besides being a first-rate bird dog, ever rcady for field sport, and a good night watchman, he performs the services of nursery maid and market boy with apparent enjoymeat. lie rolls the baby out in its carriage for airing morning and afternoon, hauls up the packages from the stores and market, minds the chickens and pigs, and pulls the garden plow.? Strtf'.nnah 2feics. A "nAWArtroflA "Plotilr xx. A iun ?? . From the platform of tlie New Jersey Democrats, adopted at the Trenton Convention : y ' The tendency of our advancjfoc^^^i ilization is to inqreas^^M^^^ ageofJ^jU^Hj THE &MENBACKEBS. I Their Convention Opened in Cincinnati 'tjM Thursday by George 0. Jones. . The Greenbacker's Convention was opened at Cincinnati Thursdayby George 0.. Jones, of Xew York, who read an ad- ~ cfress in which the keynotes of the party <fl| were^touched on,- and from which were gatnef-oct-'the fact that the 'Greenback ^astyjteelifivea in the payment of the pub- ?" ^1 Jie.debts, according to "the original con- ' tracts' under which they were contracted; Jjjji carrying on needed public improvements ; encouraging an American merchant" ma- f riT.e; aiding the manu&cture. of Ameri*. _<|9H can cotton; limiting the debts of railroad, telegraph and other public corpo- -. rations; the owning of all land by Amer^ftp^B H ican citizens, or by those who declare H their intention to become such; private land ownership to a sufficient amount only for the convenient operations of its ^ilfl property; restoring a true spirit of fra-^^ ternitv and nationality among the wfiole~^M||^^H American people through a currency, that would make all alike loyal to the w government by being alike interested in fHH it, and in keeping its volume at such an -JM amount as "would always secure goodpric 4H es for its products ard uniform buSi ness prosperity. FOBEKffl SEWS. ' r Jfl ' | Ti. Z~ L - J ' ' it, is report?u cuut me new (jerman Army bilL will involve the expenditure JH of 2000,000,000 marks. fl A dispatch from Vienna says confirmatory advices, have been received there concerning the reported massing of large fl forces of Russian troops in Armenia on fl the Russo-Turkish frontier. The deficit of the Turkish income will this year exceed $10,000,000. An H The move togive"a Sunday holiday to the French railway employees has begun on the Paris-Lvons road. It will prob- MA i-? -3 -n" uuiy awnu 311 over j? ranee. Ia consequence of the succeis of tlie smokeless powder, the Italian Governmeat lias suspended the manufacture of all other kinds of gunpowder. Queen Victoria's recent visit to Wales brings out the statistics that during her reign of over half a century twelve days only have been spent in Ireland. ?"J| The first section of the railway from. V| Pekin to CLin-kiang has progressed as- aH far as havinc tenders made for its issir struetion. The sum estimated-Jor rails fl and plant on this line is $7Q,000,068T * WASHINGTON 'ST0T5S. M Secretary Tracy has appointed a board - JSSfl consisting of Captain P. M. Bruce, Na- a vai Constructor E. W.-Steele and Civil II Engineer T. O. Maxton to meet at Nor- IB folk, Va., j>n September 17th and in- 9 specl and test the new Simpson dry^ dock, to be opened on that date. Secretary Windom selected what is known as the Bowling Green site for "1M the erection of a.oiir?tnm "h^uc^ ?nr? orv. praiser's store in New York city. Congross appropriated $1,000,000 for the purchase of the site.' ; Henry Cr. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has been appointed collector of customs for : the district of New Orleans, La. Seat on N. Jones, of Columbia, S. C., has been appointed a cadet at the Point Military Academy. Corporal Tanner, of the Pension Bareau Thursday sent his resignation to V President Harrison who accepted ; aB TVori of Eleefcricitj^^^ V There are how in use inj? rm'}^ States more than 5650 . stations for light and 1 SlO.OM^lights^^^j^ | -were, fifty-nice Jj *?lSWftSfflft?rays m operation in March - Jj last, and eigMy-six reads in' process of construction. The increase of capital in electrical investments during 18SS was nearly .$*70,000,000. These are very- ? significant figures, and they point unmistakably to the course of future inventions and discoveries.?Scientific AmeriDied From a Mad Wolfs Bite. A Mexican boy who was bitten by a ' H mad wolf in the San Bias Mountains of fl New Mexico, has died in great agony. -fl He acted like a -wolf, and, though, small, it took several men to hold him down. He and his elder brother were plavin^s^fl few yards from the house when thew'oI^M attacked them, lacerating their faces and hands, the younger brother, however, receiving the deepest wounds. A Slexi- fl cjin herder lassoed the wolf, tightened jQ the rope, and strangled it to death.? V Nac York Sun. a v A mtY Mtuviat awiiv* A new kind of artificial stone has been patented and is known as the McMurtrie stone. It consists essentia] iy of Portland cement and sand or gravel, compacted by tamping, into the pores of "" fl which are poured compounds of alumina fl of the fatty acids by the double composi- I tion of alum and a potash soap. Its _ special advantage is its resistance to the " '1 absorption of water. All morters aryd-- 1 artificial-stones absorb water and^dHrt^^X integrate rapidlv under the action or^ frost.?San Francisco Chronicle* . . Loading a Phonograph With Knsie. At the Edison laboratory, in "West ~ Orange, Is". J., a local brass band was re cently kept at work every afternoon for two weeks playing into a funnel of the phonograph. A large number of duplicate cylinders are being made. These,as . fast as completed, are shipped to Mr. .: Edison at the Paris Exwsition. The . process of cylinder -manufacture will be ? .J0 continued as long as the Exposition re-. J^k mains open.?Ntu: York Tribune. ,-^M Canning' Jack Hat>J)its? The Lakeview (Cal.) Eill Lamb is coming to the front unique enterprise. He is canning the hams of jack rabbits and shipping them TTocf "Ho ic -ronrlnnrr in -fV>z> Koof >u the country,-the sagebrush plains of Tick Ridge. Four thousand have been salted down up to^jlate. Geese areJalso beina slain by the ^hundreds and the featheit saved up for shipment'East. OatUwiug the Squirrel. The squirrel must go.. The Board of *" M Supervisors of Alameda and Contra Cos^ta Counties, California, have passed an ordinance declaring squirrels: anui^^j^B Apparently thesQmr|^|gMd|