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"vol. xlvi. wisnsboro, s. c,, Wednesday, September 25, i889. ^ ^-m, tj French physicians ixho are studying the matter are confident that hypnotism "will1 In time succeed the use of chloroform in; the practiec of painful surgical opera-' lions. Many mo3f; remarkable experi-' ments in this direction have proved sue-' cessful. Patients have been hypnotized, B nfld while in that condition undergone; S operations of the most painful and delicate nature without evincing sensibility in the slightest desrec. / The Brooklyn Citizen thinks thati Bhr 'Americans may therefore well be proud1, Bk of the notice Edison has won, for he is aj typical American; one of the most inter-j fwrKno- in n. nfrsf?n:il sense, of his time.; I and one of the greatest of that type of; which Franklin stood at the head, whose; histinetion is in their application of; great brains to practical things, and theirl development of strictly material enter-; prises. n pr The California civil engineers,T ce^ployed in surveying the boundary' line between Nevada and California, have H about completed tiieir labors, it is re ported at the lake, on good- authority,' If, that the line established by Von Schmidt Wf is a long way cast of that .established by. the United States surrey, and that the monument now* marking the boundary ft between the two States, crected near the ft itown of Bijou on the Yon Schmidt line, will be removed west to Meyer's on the Placerville wagon road, near the foot of Lake valley. This will give about the s ? entire area of Lake Tahoe to Nevada. f.. There were some curious features about the rec:it revolution at Honolulu, ft Hawaii. King Kalakaua was informed by telephone that his palace was invested by rebels, and by telephone he sent for his Chamberlain. They spent the day quietly in a boat-house playing poker. Meanwhile "Wilcox, the leader of the reK volt, attired in an Italian uniform, had B sheltered himself in a gasoline tank from which he issued his orders regarding the eiprrA rvf tlio-nal-i.-vi Ttr/?lvA fif TTalnlrmift'i? i jwarriors repelled the onslaught of the 6 gasoline hero's myrmidons, and by night-' fall the farce was ended. JL ^ * I The stars ir the American flag are get-! ting so numerous, avers the Detroit Free, ! Press, that to gel them all on medium-; -?sized bar.ners is difficult. Forty-two; Hfc Stars rather crowd the little azure field' [in the corner of the flng. Many means j !>f remedying this difficulty have been.: suggested. But it is rather strange that no one in authority has yet proposed thei simple remedy of letting the white and; fed stripes represent the thirteen original! States, as at first designed by Congress, and have one star for cach of the twenty-; nine new states in the union. Twenty-: r.4-n-~, -r,.:n nr-.-t- *1, ^ A mflwnon 1 1L11UC aittld ?? ILL IXKJO LiUUVl VJUV i.xmvAA^uu Sag* There will still be room for thei I future Stytes of New Mexico, Idaho, Ari-| zona, "Wyoming and Utah. Every State i will be represented, and no flag will be; more beautiful, symmetrical or symboli cal than that which waves over the home, .of, the brave and *he land of the free. The South must have the best of everything that will lend to its economic W industrial development, and there is no one thing that can lend more to this economic development than electricity. 'This marvelous force is the most mobile, * Convenient and economical agency for lor tiie distribution 01 energy in tne industrial world. It has all the virtues of "both steam and water, without the accompanying bulkiness, smoke, dust er noise, and there is nothing in it to explode or give way. It can be used on the spot where it is generated, or it can m be transported twenty miles or more. K Most important of all to a busy community, with its numerous small industries, it costs much less than an equal capacL ifr nF cfpim An irm-inrffrnf fn/?fnv in k h is economy is that electricity, unlike steam, can be used over and over, so to speak, the same as water can in a mountain stream.?Menvfaeturcrtf Eecord. L I There is something suggestive, avers the Leavenworth (Kan.) Times, in the deliberations with which the several Indian tribes arc considering propositions ^ to open their reservations to white set-' ? ners. i ne savages oegm 10 sec ineir rnaBiF biHty to stay the mighty waves of civilH ization which are rolling westward as the 15tar of Empire leads the way of progress in that direction, and rather than be -overwhelmed by the rush of thousands -seeking homes there, and involved in bloody conflicts against unequal numbers, Wkr ihey are-ready to sell their lands and yield-io the inevitable sure to follow in P - the absorpt ion 01 the race. Whenever ' r counsel can he givsn to ir.tiuence tne jlh clians to adopt this course the admonition will be in the interest of peace and the ! v ' safety of person on the prairie. The red oman must now be absorbed, not exterminated. He unu-t be accepted and treated as a fellow-citizen and a brother, *>n/l ni.,it.,. iin/ln!'?tnn<l Viic business rights rani how to maintain ^ them. Under such a policy all Indian Territory wiii he made to inure to the highest possible benefits for the Indians. The wise men among- the tribes see this; and their counsels are -winning their ^ j brethren to the adoption of a course' that wnll bring tncm nearer m business reiav tions and social intercourse to white men |- than they ever were since the discovery of the country by the bold Norseman iaarines. , . f THR01JGH_ DIXIE. SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN HEWS Happenings of Snecial Importance Prom Virginia to the Lone Star State. NOBTH CAEOLDTA. Governor Daniel G. Fowle, In view of the lynching at Morganton, has issued a proclamation enjoining .all officers to energetically exert themselves to arrest and bring to justice these offenders against society. Beginning with January, 1S00, a course of lectures will be given at Trinity College, on railroads and railroad problems. Ex-Governor Thomas J. Jarvis has declined to accept the presidency of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College, to which he was recentlv elected. He savs his sole reason for declining is that he does not feel qualified for a proper discharge of the duties incident to the position. Louisburg opened its tobacco market on an elaborate scale. Two | mammoth new warehouses just built there held an opening sale and over five hundred wagon loads of tobacco found ready sale. Prominent tobacco men from all over the State, attended. The authorities of the Richmond and Danville Railroad met at Raleigh and passed resolutions for the erection of a $50,000 Union Passenger depot on the capital city of the Old North State. jl ne directors 01 tne j*aieig.u ;tuu uusiuu then met and agreed to the proposition. The new depot will be erected at an early date. Work on the new cotton factory at Raleigh has "been bogun. The factory starts with a capital' stock of $100,000, but it is learned that the amount will probably be increased. SOUTH 0AB0LDTA. A novel and unusual procession passed through Greenville. It was a covered wagon drawn by two oxeD, a mule aud horse, antf hitched to the back ot the wagon were two cows. The owner, W. H. Blanton was a returning pilgrim from Arkansas going to his old home in Union county. He left Arkansas in April last with has four children, and has travelled in this manner all the way through the country, camping and living in the wagor. He has made five stops to work for persons in order to get money to push on his Jong journey. Two other families, al?o going to Union county from Arkansas, are on the road travelling iu the same style. Two children died on the way. A charter was granted to the Globe Cotton Mills of Rock Hill, the third establishment of the kind organized in that pushing town. Of the capital | stock of ?100,000, $50,000 bis been ; subscribed, and 20 per cent, of the latter amount has been paid in. The directors are John R. London, W. L. Roddey, A. F. Ruff, A. E. Smith, A. Friedheim, J. N. Trainer and W. E. Trainer. John R. London is president and pro tern secretary and treasurer. Corral Lee, white, of Wadesboro, N. C., was arrested at Rock Hill charged I with counterfeiting and passing counx? TT? -u?,3 ? i,:,. ? i/?riezb iiiuiiuj. xxc uau. uu mo o, discharge from the North Carolina penitentiary. At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the State Agricultural and [ Aiecnauicai society aaamonai premiums were offered for South Carolina raised and owned colts 2 to 3 years old, trotting in harness, and also 1 to 2 year old colts and colts under 1 year old, trotting halter led by the side of running or trotting mate. These races will be run in the arena. GEORGIA. Charles Ellison, whowas indicted for murder on his own confession of having having caused a wreck on the Georgia Midland road, near Warm Springs, last May, in which the engineer of the train was killed, has just been convicted of involuntary manslaughter by a Merriweather county jury. The maximum penalty for this offense is three years imprisonment. Local branches of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have passed resolutions denouncing the verdict as a bid to train wreckers to continue their deadly work. fipnrcriji "PVirmer'a Alliance hinds its w,vV.0.?, members to demand 121-2 cents for uplands, and 20 cents for sea island catton. A dispatch from Home, Ga., says tliat Rev. Sam Jones is ill. Dr. B. S. Holmes, president of the Georgia Medical Association, says the evangelist is overworked. He says that Mr. Jones will recover his health, with a few weeks rest. Fire at Macon destroyed two buildings ok Cherry St., the one a furniture manufactory and the other a carriage shop.Gov. D. H. Hill, of New York, will visit the Atlanta Exposition. Monday evening, the body of a negro boy was found in a hole of water in Ogechee river below Colclough's bridge, about four miles west of Crawfordsville rmr?r> it TYrftVPfl tn lir? -JfV- - - 1 the body of William Copeland, a 14year-old boy of Buck Copeland. M. S. Belknap, general manager of the Georgia Central railroad, has resigned to become manager of a bank in the City of Mexico. PLOBIDA/ A Jasper special says: ''About midnight on Tuesday night, as a party of railroad construction men were asleep in a camping.car about a mile from here, three negro gamblers entered the ear, awoke the men ana aemanaea a game 01 poker. The men refused, making excuse that card playing was against orders. The aegroes then began to curse and make a disturbance generally. One of the gamblers was armed with a Winchester rifle. Meeting witli strong resistance in their attack they jumped from the car and then fired upon it with the rifle and guns. Sidney Thomas, one of the railroad gang, was instanuy killed and three others were seriously wounded. The doctor says one of them will die. Bill Gates, of the attacking party, is under arrest. Tom Rush and Charley Polk escaped/' Jasper is in Hamilton county, not far from the Georgia line and about eighteen miles north of the Suwanee River. The camping car was on the line of the Georgia boutnern and Florida Railroad, now being built southward to Palatka. At a meeting of the Florida Tobacco Growers' Association at Quincy, Fla., Judge Pulling, .of Madison, in an able address, favored the Phillips process, and stated that he had been offered from eighty cents to one dollar per pound for tobacco cured by that process. Every member present, excepting one, favored the adoption of the Phillips process. VTRfrTNTA. Conrad N. Jordan and Henry "W. Ford, trustees under the first mortgage of the Norfolk Southern Railway company, filed a bill in the circuit court of the United States in Norfolk, for foreclosure of said first mortgage. Harrisonburg was visited by a cloudburst Tuesday, and parts of the town were badly Hooded. In. Main street boats could have been used for a time. There was much damage from Hooded --11 CClUtli, UlU. The equestrian statue of Gen. Robt E. Lee will probably be unveiled in Richmond, Va., on December 5. The statue is now being cast in bronze in Paris, and will be ship])ed about the last of October. It is expected that military compauies and other organizations will be present from every State in the South, and that Richmond will have within her limits on tliat occasion more people mail at any wine 111 jul-i history. Iiev. J. W. Blincoe, one of the most prominent ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at Ashland, Sunday. Governor Lee has appointed delegates from Virginia to the National Farmer's Congress to be held at Montgomery, Ala., November 13th. At Tliaxton's, near Roanoke, Saturday evening, an engine backed on a buggy in which Capt W. II. Frye and his daughter, Miss Katie, were seated. The horse was killed, the bucrcrv torn to pieces, and tlie occupants dragged some distanc(*aud rendered insensible. The engine approached in the darkness -without ringing the bell for the crossing, as required by law, and Capt. JFryc brought suit. The body of an unknown white man about 23 years of age waifound in Oakland cemetery, Richmona, Sunday with n nistnl hnll in his.hfftd finrl thfl wesiwn iii his hand. A note was found in his pocket saying that he was of sound mind, and that he had $30 to pay funeral expenses. The money was found on his person. OTHER STATES. Robert T. Scarborough, a prominent merchant at Purvis, Miss., and bondsman for Sullivan, Kilrain, and llenaud, is dead. His death will necessitate making a new bond in each case. Two men were killed and five others severely inju red by falling slate in one of tlic mines of tlie Eureka Company, near Oxmoor, Ala., Monday niglit. Jerry Dennis, a prominent young business man of Birmingham, Ala., who is <]uite wealthy, was married to Miss Addie Heydinger, a society lady. The next day a young woman^Nnamed !Nora Thompson liad Dennis arrested on u warrant charging him with seduction, and she will also bring a civil action against him for breach of promise. She claims to have been engaged to him for several months. Dennis's bride is completely prostrated oy tne suock. The British steamer Statesman, Capt. Edgf.r, from Liverpool, arrived at New Orleans. She brought the Captain and crew of eleven man of the Portuguese hark Nobreza bound from Lisbon for Brunswick, La., in ballast. The crew were taken oil their vessel on Sept. 11. The bark had encountered a hurricane An n ?nrl ('. inrl w.is flismnstrr! sprung a leak, and the pumps choked and broke. She also lost all her fresh water, the casks having been stove in. The crew were without water for six days, and had but a small quantity of provisions, she being forty one days out. She was built in 1864 and owned in Lisbon. J. C. Dillenger a printer, twenty-four years old and unmarried, committed suicide at Birmingham, Ala., by taking morphine. He had been drinking heavily for scv^al weeks, and this was his third attempt at suicide. Dillinger went there about three months ago from Fort Smith, Ark., where his parents re side. HIS WHITE CAPTIVE. A Negro Keeps a Pretty Girl Under Lock and Key for Over a Tear. New Orleans, La.?Louise SchoewtnUnv n nK/i+frr ArtltT 1 tl VAOtO iLUiiid, a piciLjr viuuuv/f vuij iv j VMI^I old, has been missing from her parents" residence for over a year. All efforts to find the missing girl proved futile until Tuesday morning, when Sergeant Kenny was Informed that a young white girl was kept a prisoner in a room in the rear of the barber shop on Felicity street, between Dryades and Baronne, by a negro named Gus Reed. The police repaired to the place, and finding it closed, broke open the door in the rear of the shop.. As the door swung back a horrible sight greeted the eves of the Sergeant. Standing in the centre of the room was the frail form of a white girl, her nakedness being hid by a tattered and torn undergarment. Her face was as pale as death, while her eyes gleamed in a most unnatural manner. As the Sergeant entered the room she rushed toward him with a wild cry, and clung trembliugly to liis arm, repeating a half dozen times in piteous tones, "Save me, save me.'' Kenny attempted to console the poor creature, but her mind being somewhat unbalanced, she could not at once un derstanci wnat ne meant, it v."as oniy after repeated assurances that slie was now in friendly hands that the unfortunate girl realized her position and become cjuiet. She was much emaciated and had a look of terror on her still pretty face. The policeman immediately secured clothing, and upon questioning the girl learned that she had been locked up in the room by Roed for about a year, and was compelled to live with him as his wife. Serjeant Kennv immediately O ? w ~ sougjit Reed, found him in tlie shop, and placed him under arrest. The culprit was taken to the station and charges preferred against him.?N. Y. Sun. Prost and Snow. The reports of temperature to the Signal Service Bureau indicate that frosts fell the last few nights over a large area. The States and portions of States in<1*/* frAct W*lf. Kansas, Northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and points further north. Iron Mountain, Mich.?The - first snow of the year for this section of the upper peninsula fell here Tuesday afternoon. It was only a sprinkling, but was followed by a bitterly cold wave. OVER THE WIRES. IMPORT AM' NEWS FEOM ALL POEiri^ . : ' V; fla+.hprpfl , nrif] flrnirlA-nsftfl Tri Rpadahlft Style for the Public,. * - . . i A perceptible shock of earthquake; was felt Tuesday afternoon at Sants Anna, Cal. -xt-j . ' : - ? The heaviest rainfall in years was ex-, pcrienccd iu Western Pennsylvania Tuesday. A' southbound Central freight : train was derailed near A"int&, Ga.v ! about midnight. It ran into ? cross-tie : placed across the track. The engineer, firemen and a brakeman were killed, y 0 The New Jersey Republican ..State onveniion at Trenton nominated Gen- i eral E. Grubb, for Governor. The platform endorses the Harrison Administration. Tom Allen, ex-champion pugilist of the world, Tom Kelly, Dan Daly, Ed. TTV'llv Ar+ifi "Flint anfl filiarlffi Tlalv. 1 who took part in the Daly-^clly prize fight in Lincoln county, Missouri, two years ago, the largest prize fight of its class on record, have been arrested and -were taken to Troy, Mo., for trial. Steve Brodie jumped from the "bark of a tight-rope waiker on a cable into the artificial lake at Beyerles Park, Ohio, Sunday, a distance of 100 feet. Fire thousand spectators were present. , Rev. J. W. Bliccoe, a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died in Ashland, Va., Sunday.'". At the fifth annual reunion of Mauli tit Tr? -a,.*. uy ?? itu TV llCCIlUg, Tf > cu, urday, JohnW. Mason, Commissioner of < Internal Revenue, declared himself in favor of a service pension for every hon- : orably discharged Union soldier." Mrs. Lizzie Brcnnan, of Holyoke, Mass., is on trial for the murder of her son in June last by giving him arsenic^ Delhi Walker, a beautiful and acccsriiplished girl, aged 19 years, committed suicide by drowning at LaugdonvK. H. The cause of Miss Walker's suicide is a mystery. She was an intimate friend of \] Miss Skinner, of Keene,and[Miss Walker ; of Springfield, Vt., both of whom committed suicide last winter. All three young women formerly attended the Vermont Academy together. Frank Pine, who was known all over Europe and the "United States as one of the smoothest confidence men in the business, died at the Windsor Hotel, Dourer, Col. Advices by the steamer Wainiu announce the death of the Queen of the Tonga Islands. Gen. Ripley, President of the Raritan PiPAr il flnm-nornr flip directors, "William Ilendriekson, the"general freight agent, Thomas* Hussey, a contractor, and William F. Fisher, a wealthy brick manufacturer of Sayre ville, have been indicted for murder. The three last named men were supposed < to be in charge of the men who attempted to lay a truck across Edwin Furman's : land near New Brunswick by which a riot was created and one man killed sev- '< montlis ago. 1 A mArrr ofo/irArro ^ooccr?rfci,c < bUV UVV CtVVlttgV ? landed by the steamer Edam at Castle : Garden,. N. Y., are more than .110 Arabs. They were detained to await the Collector's decision. The Edam also brought over Ethel Grodzinski, a Polish woman of middle age, with a six-year-old daughter. She says she has been married l>y letter to a Mormon who lines at 0?den, Utah, to which place she is bound. The ball given iu the City of Mexico ] in honor of the birthday of President Diaz was largely attended. The anniversary of Mexico's independence was celebrated throughout that country. Seven thousand soldiers apd rural guards paraded, under command of Gen. Jose Cebalios, Governor of the Federal district. There were pyrotechnic displays, and immense crowds filled the streets cheering for Gen. Diaz as the "apostle of peace."' i3 Edward Early, captain, Lawrence i Steigliter, pipenian, Thomas Whalen, j John Monahan, Patrick Foley and Frank j Bess were the firemen killed by a falling . 1 wall during the recent big fire at Louisville. - i . m. 1 THE SIMP30IT DEY DOCK , A Suceesssul Test and Pormal Opening of ] the Portsmouth Dock. The new dock at Portsmouth Va., was [ inspected by the'naval committee Tues- ; day. The committee, consisting of Capt. IJruce, Naval Constructor Steele ( and Civil Engineer Maxsom, of the ' Washington navy yard, report that the dock containing 24 feet of water, was pumped dry in sixty five minutes:, no ' vessel being in it. The drainage pumps . delivered seven thousand and sixty gal- ; Ions per minnte, or three and one-half [ times the capacity required by the con- j tract. Large parties from "Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other points at- j luuueu I lie JLU1 JLUO.1 If vv?MVM day, after -which a banquet was served at the Portsmouth navy yard. The Use of Hollow Bricks. ~*r ! One or the new features in building j in New York city is the use of hollow , bricks for partitions and even outside ( waits. These bricks are so moulded j ^ that when a wall is perfectly plumb, youj < can. drop a pebble right down in the; ; wall, there being hu'ndreds of hollow ; spaces. Walls thus built are said to re: ; sist heftt and coldffar better than the i solid kind, niicl they are about 25 per i cent, cheaper.. I have seen sawdust sub- < ..x4.^,1 -T^ .. 1*? rv m A|4qT OTlfl j !)tlLUtCU 1U1 Dduu J.U uiaaua^ v?? tin; practice is getting- quite common.' The gfeat saving of weight makes sawdust mortar very appropriate for plastering, but time will have to decide whether anything can be as durable as the regulation article.-*?New York Gratihic. Virginia Colored Convention. Thomas A. J. Clemens, editor of the Xiitinnal Tiuuan or<ran of the colored people in Alexandria, Va., lias issued a call for a convention of the independent < colored citizens of Virginia, to be held at Alexandria, Oct. l. The call declares the condition of the colored people in the State of Virginia politically, indus * --- -- n ~ rAmollTr lio rrorrr lincflftQ. | umuv iiuvi skjisLuuj w ?v^ ?v?j muwmv.w I I factory. It is signed by a committee of ,, seven. Mr. Clemens says he has assur- i ance that at least seventy delegates will be in attendance. The convention will endorse one of the" candidates for Governor now in the field. PBOGEESS' IK SOUTHERN SCHOOLS Colored Children Eeceive Equal Gonsidera" tdoh with the Whites. * "Washington. D. C.?The annual report of N. H, R. Dawson, Commissioner or .^aucauon, nas oeen. suDmittea to tne Secretary of the Interior. It shows that 1 during the year 179,901 documents were 1 distributed. The library has been enlarged by the acquisition of 2,500 vol- 1 umes and 10,000 pamphlets, making the ! total number in the library 23,500 vol-: 1 umes aud 90,000 pamphlets. The mu-'a seum connected with the bureau includes20,000 articles. From an analysis of the statistics of public schools for the decade 1 1876?77 to 1886-87,. it appears, says the report, that the growth of the system outstripped during that period the growth of population, the excess of the increase of enrollment over the increase in population, 6 to 14 years of age, being 1.6 per cent. This gain is attributed to i Pnp TirnoTP.os of the rmblie sehools in the i . i . r?- mr two Southern sections, ana more espe- j daily in the South central division. "Here the increase of enrollment," . says the report, "shows an excess over the increase of population probably never , before paralleled in a country so long , settled." Since 1876-77 the increase of , enrollment in the public schools of the South has been C3 per cent. In regard to the value of statistics exhibiting the condition of State school system the re- : port says their usefulness is greatly im- ; paired by want of uniformity in the work of the different States. "Their sentiment in favor of free schools sup* ported by public fund," says the Com- ' missioner, "is becoming each year more universally prevalent. The public school . systems of the Southern States have been ; undergo^g an unprecedented develop- . ment under laws adopted in each case to local circumstances, and are now nil rm a Twrma nent basis. Colored children are apportioned an equal share of the scjuooI funds (except in the case of Bel aware), and their schools are kept open as long and under as"w$U-paid teachers as those of the white children. ~ The funds for the support of these schools are furnished mainly by the ^hite inhabitants, and after making due allowance for all the sums that have Ueen furnished for the education of the negroes through private sources of br ;volence and through taxes raiser' "^y themselves, it may well be said th?._.Jhe children of those once held in servitude in the South are being educated by the sons of their former masters. The conditions affecting public education in the South, the report says, make it necessary to maintain two separate school systems. Their population is made up of two distinct races and colors. In this section the statistics show that 64 per cent, of the white pop^ _ uiation oi school age are enrolled, wwie but 53 per cent, of the colored population of school a^c are enrolled. In the District of Columbia alone does the colored enrollment, as compared with the population, exceed that of the white enrollment of school age.. A considerable- portion of the report is devoted to education in Alaska, and the Commissioner recommends that all the scnools now in operation be brougnt ; more closely under Government control. . KAOE WAE IN ILLINOIS. | 1 Utt/ro Arrested for Knocking Down a 3 j iidge?The Negroes Organize and * Eelease the Prisoner. 1 Lawrenceville, Ills.?A race war \ between the whites and blacks l Dccurred here Saturday night. A few Jays ago a St. Louis negro named Slick :ame to town and Saturday afternoon in' i quarrel with a white man attacked him with, a knife. The latter escaped after ' receiving two wounds, and then Slick ' lashed down the street-slashing at every 1 yne. Judge Barnes, of the county ^ lourt, ordered the negro to stop. The 1 negro attacked the judge, but the latter } retaliated by knocking him down. The 1 aesrro was then disarmed and arrested. < Meanwhile, the blacks, hearing ef the 1 irrcst, determined to rescue the prisoner. I A. few white men rallied around the j judge. There was a hard fight in which ] the negroes were l)eaten back and all 3 the ring leaders arrested. The prisoners were taken to the coun- < ty jail and the sheriff and his deputies } wore ordered by the judge to guard the , building. The blacks quickly organ- : izad and made an attack on the jail. The ] sheriff was ordered to fire on them, but . refused, and the negroes forced their . way into the jail and rescued the prison- j ers. Juage uarnes organized tne wnues and attacked the blacks at the jail. ' There was a bloody fight, in -which ] pistols, knives and clubs -were used. 1 Judge Barnes -was cut and shot, but his ! wounds are not fatal. Dr. Johnson, Ed. ' Lamb, and three other white men, were 1 seriously hurt. Two negroes were shot 1 and half a hundred heads- were broken. J rhe whites won, and the ring leaders 1 were again put in jail and-a heavy guard placed around the building. The jciot ) lias created creat excitement. ^ : ' 1 Cotton Bagging, < A dispatch from Greenville, Ala., ] jays: The members of.-the Farmers' i A-lliance in this portion'of the cotton 3 belt of Alabama are aiding to break ; 3own the jute/trnst; "whi^ "'S being an tagonized in every j)^ >e State by 1 the introduction of ?giDg a-s a 1 substitute for baling _ The latter i system is a new one; ^u'the farmers are,, as yet unftble to prepare the material on 3 account of the failure of the factories to 3upply.the demand. Increased facilities are being rapidly adopted for turning it . out, and before long cotton bagging will entirely supplant jute, notwithstanding that a loss of 50 cents or per bate is sustained "by those who use cotton bagging. In some sections pine straw" is being -woven into bagging, winch is saia to dc mucn superior to jute. It is not inflammable, and Tvill protect cotton better than any covering yet brought into use. Slain in the Prize Eing, A St. Louis, Mo., special says: Thomas W. Jackson, a well known young man of this city, and Ed. Ahein, ? clever light pugilist, engaged in a prize fight in Daly's sporting resort in this cityT Eleven rounds were fought, and at the end of the eleventh round Jackson was led fainting to his chair. . The fighting was desperate. Jackson died in a few minutes after being taken . to his chair, and before medical atten tion could be secured. Ahein was ar rested. - 2 . .-.vU .-r' V '. sf. -Ov-'' WASHINGTON NOTES. Robert S. Terrill, of Massachusetts, a colored man, was appointed a chief, of division in the fourth auditor s office by Secretary "WTndom. Secretary Tracy has received a grace tui reply xo nis telegram congratulating ex-Secretary Whitney on the remarkable performance of the cruiser Ealtimore. President Harrison commuted the. sentence of W. D. Spearman^ district of South Carolina, convicted of violating the internal revenue laws, "to nine months. He was sentenced, February,4 1889, to IS months, imprisonments The sentence of Dr. Burke Pred.dy, of the eastern district of'Tennessee, conracted. of violating trie pension laws, was commuted to one year. Jie -was sentenced in April, 1889, to two years' imprisonment. The Secretary of the Treasury has ap- < pointed Edward G. Haywood, of North Carolina, to be chief of the judiciary division of the First Comptroller's office. Secretary Tracy received the bills for the seventh payment on the cruiser, (No. 5) the San Francisco, building in that city for the government, representing $128,520. They will undoubtedly be approved. Recently the Indian Eights Associal: - _/ JJ it. O ?A. 4.U *4. tiuu miuruieu uic oeurc tarj ui vvai tuat it -would purchase a large tract of land in North Carolina and provide homes on it for Geronimo and his' Apache Indians, who arc now confined at Mount Vernon barracks, Ala,, if the Secretary -would agree to the removal of the renegades. Secretary Proctor informed that association that he would agree to its proposition. An agent is now in North Carolina to secure the land, and when that is done the removal will take plsce. .HU LIlULLK JtUil iLLJL Colored Representative Mclver to Be "Married Before De Bredren.' Atlanta, Ga.?Aged Representative Mclver, the colored State Legislator, is looking for a wife. "When he finds a mate he proposes to be married in a novel manner. His wife died on the 11th of last July, "but his home looks so lonely that he is determined to get him another partner. He heard of a very likely girl down in Macon and went there Sunday to see how she would suit. When he was asked Monday about his trip he replied: "I saw the girl, but nothing more than a pleasant talk passed between us." 4 'Do you think you will ask her to change her name ?" "Well, I don't answer that question. I will only say I am casting about to find some one who will suit me.'' "If you'll get married, Mac'! said Representative Clifton. of Savannah, /Til give you the finest beaver in Atlanta." "I shall invite the General Assembly to the wedding, sir" replied the old man, bowing low and smiling in a way that showed to full advan tage his white teeth. "Yes, sir, when I have found the woman, I intend to be married on the floor of this House. I shall get one of the clergymen in the House to perform the ceremony, and every member shall be invited. I will ask the Speaker to occupy bis seat, and I will take my stand in front of his desk with the woman of my choice, and there, facing my brcd'ren of the House, I will once more assume the matrimonial yoke. I believe in doing 2verything in order, sir." "You are right, and we'll all be there," replied several members, while the old man resumed his seat, his white j tiandkerchief, and his palmetto fan. ^ A Central American Despot. v j TO tne stuaeni ox metapnysics me iharacter of Rufino Barrios, the despot >f Guatemala, must necessarily appear as. m engima, from its many strange contrarieties and inexplicable moods. He was a dove and an adder by turns, and, like the satyr in the fable, could blow iot and cold with the same breath. On 3ne day lie was a Caligula in his ferocity, trtiile tie next found Mm practicing the Christian virtues of forbearance Mid forgiveness. To-day he would laugh, Nerolike, in an orgy of blood, while to-morrow he might break the shackles and set at liberty his most inveterate foes. Strange, tvayward, and many-sided, he was withal i man with a crude idea of justice, and certainly aimed at the material advance- I ment of Ms country. But a summary of his life, taking into consideration all of its lights and shadows, will lead to the inevitable conviction that he was a very bad man who was domineered by his grosser instincts. His unpublished history is written in the blood of 600 victims among his own people, who have suffered death to^satisfy his supicions and caprices. An attempt to bring out the true facts of his life by a young lawyer of this city was suppressed by the government as entailing a scandal upon the nation. He allowed 110 man or set of men to stand in the way of Ids ambition, and upon bare rumor often ordered a citizen bo be shot without a moment's warning or shadow of trial. Not less than two hundred citizens of Guatemala now lie in death's embrace, by his order, who * ? n never knew eveu tne cnarges prererreu igainst them. At one time a rebellion was brewing in one of the northern districts, and, without knowing who were the ringleaders, but to spread terror in ^ the department and quell the uprising, sight men were selected, more or less at random, and shot. We ^countered the indubitable authority of this heiuons order of Barrios, ind saw men who had read it.?Chicago Neics. Peculiar Names for Railroad Cars. A Port Jervis investigator has learned that Erie men have a nomenclature for all kinds of cars and engines, and that these names extend over the entire road and branches. ' 'Black Marias" are Pennsylvania coal cars, which are painted a jet black. The TVotten engines with the * " "? ?11-J in* ClOUDie carjs are caueu. -v_-<iuiei ui Hog Scaldere." The various classes of coal cars are named as follows: Long Johns, Exclusives, Standard, Black EEarias and Jimmies. The "Long Johns" are the gondola-shaped cars with sides, "Black Marias" are mentioned above, "Exclusive" are the twenty-ton cars ana are used exclusively for the Delaware and Hudson coal, Standards" are twentyfive ton cars and are the present Erie standard coal cars, and "Jimmies" are the four-wheeled dumps, of which there are but few in use.?Toicanda {Rnn.) , Review. .> -?- - I A ! ft ATT,"ROAD OONSTBUOTIOH. Hew Sections of the Sonth Being Entered By the Iron Horse. - : Birmingham neo?le are becoming in terested in electricity as a. motive power for street railroads. . . . English capitalists are contemplating, the completion of the Carolina, KnoxviHe & Western Railroad from* Green1] ville, S. C;, to Knoxville. vyvci i,uuu uuinua aie ttiicauj at win*. on the extension of the (Jeorgia, Carolina & Northern Railroad between Chester, S. C., to Athens, Ga., contracts , for which were recently le4*?_ It is reported tfeaf the road-bed now being graded to Llano, Texas, will be finished within 90 days, thus making possible the active developments of the Rpcaunifir iyta ^enncifi r\f fhaf wMinn Mr, C. P. Huntington, who ' recently purchased the Chattaro! Railroad of Ohio, with a view to its extension, will shortly, it is understood,, commence work on a 135-mile road from Richardson, Ky., to Pocahontas, Ya., passing through the Big Sandy Valley ana across the Cumberland mountains at the Breaks of Sandy. It is reported that work will shortly be commenced on a new railroad from Cumberland Gap (Middlesborough) to South Pittsburgh, Tenn. Should such a road be constructed, it will run throuffh a rich coking coal country and down the Sequachee valley, creating a new line for shipment of coke from the Middlesborough district to a number of Southern furnaces. Great activity ijL the manufacture in railroad construction throughout that entire section is now absolutely certain. - ' The Norfolk and "Western Railroad are building to meet the Capt Fair and Yadkin Valley at or near Mt. Airy, N C; This new line of 65 miles, now under contract to George T. Mills, will form A/vf in/* in lug xuuiv xu a tmvu^u auu^v by which. Pocatontas can reach Eastern and Central Carolina, and already some of the railroads are getting iready to change their locomotives from wood to coal burners. A large section of country will secure cheap coal through this *ew line. How the Coreans Mourn. The Coreans go into very extensive .1 r - i rrrt i.! J. mourning lor tneir inenaa. mey mue their faces from the public gaze and dress in sackcloth. Their mourning costume is not at all picturesque, but it is curious. The hat, stiff with starch, is of coarse hemp cloth and resembles somewhat an inverted bowl or old-fashioned soup tureen. Under the hat is -worn a head band and a cap. The hat, the cap and the head band are worn together the day of the death, aiflEe'funeral and at the expiration of the first and second years of mourning. At other times during the mourning period the head band alone is won. The mourning robe is made of a coarse hemp cloth similar to that of which theliat and screen are made, but with ex- ; tremely large meshes. The back is a wide straight piece, two gores extend from the armpits down and the front is a straight piece and a gore. It has a rolling collar three feet long and sleeveseighteen inches wide, cut square. The The robes are of a vellowish-brown and white in color, and at the bottom they measure nine and one-half feet in circumference. Over this is worn a robe of. finer quality and slashed up at the sides. The sleeves are wider also. After the ' death of a father a girdle of Lamp rope is worn. If it is a mother that is dead a hemp cloth sash is worn. A variety of hats are worn for mourning. A screen hemp cloth is always held in front of the facc by a mourner. It is considered a <rrcat nflFensA tn lnnk rntn the face of a mourner. Before, missionaries -were permitted in Corea they used to steal into the country by disguising themselves as mourners.? Washington Star. k A Lake's Freak. < A strange phenomenon is reported from Harrison Lake, and one that is ?^ ^1* A A! <3 vtATTI ^uzziiiig mt; uiaua vi mc v:ucdi uatigators of these waters, as well as the Indians who have lived on its shores for many years. The water in the lake has continued to rise steadily for two weeks, and during that time has risen three and a half feet. This is unaccountable, as there has not been a drop of rain during the past month, and the rush of water from the mountain lakes is not greater than usual, besides which the Fraser River lias been falling slowly all this time. Of course there must be a reason for this singular phenomenon, but it cannot be discovered. Any of the river steamers can now pass up Harrison .River and into the lake without difficulty, while a month ago only the smaller vessels nould find water enough to float 1 them.?British Columbian. "When the Eing Drinks. Whenever King Dua, of Africa, writes S. R. Werner in his book, "A Visit to Stanley's Rear Guard," took a drink of palm wine, or ate his meals, one of his wives produced a hard, dry nut, about the size of an egg, with one end cut off, ana tne insjae nonowea out. ims nai ue slowly placed on tlie great toe of his left foot; this done the palm wine or food was placed before him, and a slave boy came and 6tood behind him with a handbell. Every time he took a mouthful of food or a drink of massanga or palm wine, he wrapped the bottom of the canoe with tho nut on his great toe, while a tinkle on the bell announced to all whom it might concern that Dua, of Ikoluniru. was eating or drinking, as the case might be. He went through the same ceremony when smoking, taking a tg pull at Ms pipe for every map of toe and tinkle on his bell. The Two Cleopatra's Needles. There were two so-called Cleopatra's needles. They stood originally at Heliopolis, in front of the great Temple of the Sun. After remaining: there 1600 years, they "were floated down the Nile by the Romans and re-erected in 23 B. C. One of them was presented by Mahomet Ali to the British Government, and it now stands on the banks of the Thames, in Loudon. The other was presented by the Khedive to the city of New York, and in 18S0 it was brought ever and set up in Central Park. It is 70 feet high, 7 feet squar^^Jh^i^^gid weighs 196 SCIENTIFIC AND Efl)lJSTRIAL.^ . Schemes are being devised to cook with, electricity. I An ore mine Has. jxjst been. openedin Michigan. 106 feet deep. A Ww? W/lfQli /van - Jcaich 1000 flies in an hour. ./>; flj ! The largest swing drawbridge in the jworld is'at New London, Conn.. | The^gMlbh containing 281 cubic inches pa the stahd^ umttjf'measure. f -Gfee-?g^on of pirierwaiier Wc^hs nearsly eight and a half^oand^SEVOrdupois. They have a "Drop a nickel in the 'slot and get yotffsphotogrkph" machine at ; German experimenters have^fcowthai serious blood maladies may be transmitted ~ m by the mosquito. - , A steel air-ship is talked aL It is to be-built on the vacuum principle, and\ * Will cost $220,000. |. The annual production of chemicals in. France is said to hare reached the great value- of $300,000,000. ! mi. i_r i L-i. l i. iue icugui vi uic turuxuu traua. va?i? from 300 yards to about 200 miles, tea average being 24.79 miles. \ Entomologists have observe! the larvae ? of the dragon-fly swallowing undeveloped mosquitoes in large numbers: It has been stated that the lamented; Father Damien attributed his leprosy to the inoculation of an abrasion in the scalp through the agency of flies. . The largest engine for driving machin- __J ery in a steel rail mil J nasjnst beenepectea in Newcastle, England; it is of 10,600; horse piower"; the crank shaft is twenty one inches in diameter. An attempt has recently been made at H Portland, Oregon, to increase the somewhat limited variety of native song birds \ J in this-country by the importation of several varieties of German birds. - An Austrian botanist, Professor Peyritsch, has discovered that double fiowem maybe artificially produced by mites,; ; and believes tnat eacn nower nas its pecu-, : liar "mite-parasite which ^ives rise to .the doubling. The boiling points of potassium and sodium have been satisfactorily determined by an English physicist by .placing the metals in a hollow iron- balL^prrounded with a screen of fire clay and: < iieated with a blow-pipe. ^ A process has been invented by means of which photographs can be printed al- . most as fast as a newspaper, and without ^ I dependence on sun or light. They are. ^^*1 said to be of the first quality. That, of course, would make photographs much' cheaper. [ Professor Babbage, of calculating-ma-[ chine fame, also invented for his amuse-; ment a "miracle "machine,"' to, prove: that, given a certain number of revoke; -. ^ J tions,. "coincidences" occur at regular intervals with an mfalhbihty that de-. " prives "chance'' of much of the meaning usually attached to the word. I An immense glass bubble or globe; ?v^j??8 which has been exhibited at the Paris J Exposition is oyer five feet in diameter,: with a capacity of 1950 imperial quarts.' _ ' and weighs forty-eight and a half pounds.; It is^aspure as crystal and without a' j blemish, and is a work of French glass-; - J hlnws>r? Rj?id in hnve never been enualed.: ' . flj Chief Nafehes and the Sign Language.! j Although there are seventy-three dif-j ferent languages and about 800 dialects' I spoken by the American Indians, the! sign language is. equally understood by all' j the tribes, j Chief Nafcphes of the. Piuta tribe is an adept in the "sign language."; j In "Washington city, sojne years ago, he ; held a consultation by signs with' the best experts, in which he gave an account of the troubles existing-at-that time with some bands of renegade Indians up near the Oregon line, describing a, trip he J I made to the camp of the hostiles. Natches I crtTiVtraalm/xif "snlff-Arir "Tirmor nf llftV* . 1 ing had his talk published in fhe Govern- , M ment reports on these matters, with a full ' ' explanation of every sign he.used in con* veying the intelligence sought from him.' He was highly spoken of by the Govern- . j ment experts for his great knowledge ol | and readiness in the Indian sign lan* ! guage.?Virginia (ifor.) Enterprise, a I German. Frontier Boundary Posts. v The Franco-German frostier ruajSC^"^"?' " ^ i through the Yosges is bein^ arefully * rectified by officials from the two coun- ji I tries. In some places the "frontier line passes through such dense forests that ex- ; tensive clearings have to be made to mark the divisions and. erect the frontier posts. The Germans have put Tip 200 posts, strong iron columns cemented into jgranite beds so as to prevent any" m&Ii:dous removal of the boundary mark. A?~ - ,...aj ;the top of each post is a big disk bear- ^ jing the Hohenzollern eagle in black, sur- lq jrounded by red and white bands to con> ^ plete the national colors, and inscribed 4 German Empire!"?Few York Post. i An lndnstrioos Wliittler. j 1 There is a man in Biddeford,' 3?e. y who- has whittled so industriously- and -skillfully or eleven years as to bring himself into notice. Among tne products or nis jackknifeare a violin'case made of 2937 pieces of wood of 106 different kinds; - S J a yoke of oxen and a cart, put' together in a glass jar,with a smalF neck,.-.and a great number., of really well-made animals that would sell readily as toys. "R-nf +"K?< TWaino tpHT nrtt. T4*rf. any of his creations for love or as he does nothing but- -whittle getting together^ large and-interesting collection. The Largest Swinging Bridge. i Queen Victoria recently formally opened the railway bridge over the river . Dee in the presence of a large number of. fli specially invited guests. Re structure, jB wmcu is biuu 10 ue me iitrge^fc awuigmg bridge in the world, has a swinging girder of 287 feet in length, height sixteen feet, and dear width of span 140 feet, ~~fl with two fixed spans of 120 feet*- each. The bridge forms the connecting link between Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire. and the great northern railway sys? tems and .North Wales. - -m The largest County. . The County of Custer,in Montana, is the largest county in the United States. . It contains 13,569,920 acres and is 150 flj miles long and 125 miles wide.* It is a place of historic interest, containing as it rl/voa rto oifa s\f l-lio rtroot of thft Little Big Horn, where Caster and his Jgrce were massacred.?Chicago InZer* JM