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I VOL. XLYI. WINNSBORO, S; C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889. f: : NO. 10. |! ?,11.11 It is claimed that there exists in Kanlas City the meat disastrous business depression that has been brought upon any Western city in the p:ist fifteen years. * There is, 'without doubt, *20,000,000 Invested in Kansas Citv that is not pay toga dollar in return. The Chicago Herald says: "The sens Df the King of Sweden refuse to submit f_/ to royal dictation when ifc comes to their , marry ing. L:?iycar Oscar, the heir to the throne,inarricd a plebeian,Miss Monk; and just now Eugene declares that he is about [ to wed a dusky Princess of the Sandwich IV!o-rv<3o Ti.'V.n.ni vonrmflv mi?t in Pfiris. A coiauuo imviu 4Vv 4VVVMV* f T Usually the sous ;ind daughiers of the I monarchs of Europe have nothing to sav "s: A ^ v as to whom they shall many, but more such independence as is shown by the Swedish Princes might not be a bad thing for royalty. The royal blood of Europe might be purified *anu invigorated if it received more frequent plebeian admixtures." Nearly everybody abuses the postal card, but nearly everybody uses it. At j the stamp windows in the Xew York ; Postofficc there is a constant call for j them, and all classes ur.Ite in making,the demand. The chicf complaint against them, the postal clerks say, has been on. the around of size* The way some ? * people cross and recross their line? is ! quite a study. For years there has been | a demand for a larger card, and now the Ifj department is going to grant it. The 1 new card is to be considerably larger than any yet issued.and will, the Graphic ? thinks, lead to an increase mi s;iles. It [ Is also a. pleasanrer and lighter shade, j ind a groat deal"smoother to write on. ! The adoption of a system of internal improvement which may call for the ex? (/?, C:ino noh nno t^?:200-. ! p nu.inucut iiviu vawjvwjvw ..V r 7 000,000 of the public money is sonic- | thing to be approached with much care ! md caution, so far as details are con- | cerned, but, suggests the San Francisco i K/Jh.T0hlc]:?, the Arid Lands Committee will j be able to lay before the Senate an abundance of testimony drawn from analogous sources, where land, which had been | valueless without irrigation sold readily j at-from, ten to twenty-Jive dolhirs^ux acre ! * * * 1 i Ttrsiv AT.:,. ! ,. % wlien^vater c\>uki oe nau. ?> ii.u im? . prospect frr-new tvn grcss need not delay j in taking the. prelianaary sU |>> for tin.^^reclamation of arid pu:>}ic"hitftTs <Vf^ the United States; for the Government may .count on getting uaek':i!'. the money it expands ou water storage and !rrigation witi compound interest, beside furnishing homes for -hiviurc'ls and thou sands of owe -Jensens anu uieir lamjuuga.??r g Mi ii ii naw i /' .While Mr. Edison is himself receiving decorations and honors, one oi' his agents at the Paris Exposition is preparing to : ' V get a taste of "the Trench law. It seems ! - that he made sewn? pretty bold statements j .AAnjinrr il.n IXmc TVin-^rsi r>f . ilublishinj? I t?r~-- ? i <_> N - or suppressing interviews for money, ;ind some of the journal's of that city threaten to make him prove his words. His"first offense was gi veii, it is said, through the eraphophoEe, to which the "agent told his story, and which repeated the de-"' famatory statements to President Carnot when he visited the Edison exhibit. The m+ni-nctinfr :->n !S Vll*>'??est?*d ! j*/'*? UAt^AWKJUU^ 'j. ^ ? OO ~ | whether proceedings should be taken for ' slander or for libel. Tlic inscription on ^ plastie scroll by the recording needle of the instrument might be considered "v - writing in the broader sense of. the term, while the speech which gave the needle ; motion, and in -which the record reveals j " " > ?-- .1 il.,. A 4-r, ! isseii, is auaressLM n? iu<_- uu<.i iiut. i<-> the eye. This is only one of many problems, says the Washington Star; iliat might come up to vex the lawyers ^ through the extensive use of an apparatus , . whose chief recy>mmendation is its ability to '-'talk back." All the nations of Europe are nuking rigorous efforts ro extend their colonial" possessions in every part of the world, ted a French journal commenting upon their rivalry in Africa takes occasion to tell the extent of France's sv.-ny abroad. From the figures furnished it appears that France is making considerable pro-' ' jressiu the acquisition of colonial jxnvcr*. When this century be^an she* had only a small possessions left. Great Britain laving taken from-her the finest of her iolonies. Xow. observes the Courier Journal. sin- owns ?.?ut:trios v.ith apopu- j ktion of 27.00'>.000. having begun the j lew era of coloun.ial enterprise with the } sonquest of Algeria in iS:>o. These in- j I tlude Alger:.:. C.-voiino. Xew Caledonia, j o?i,r?v t,,v.lc i Ik/aUIUVKI!U? - i umi.?, j Sjfedaijascar, Sone^pd. Cochin China, SuadcloujX'. .Mrs"imi*!W and lveuniua. is true thru none of thef*e compare in Importancewith the iJntish colonics, and I l ;heir soil anil <-ii!:i:ac (to not promise j nuch forth*; future, i?ut tru-y show that j rranee i* not u> in' u*ic uul H while the division of t ho remainder of ihe earth's surfaee :< li's.-in:; on. France's WW H jolonies arc not worth a Treat deal to her W in the way of trade. total amounts to about ^lJS!M.'00,!):J0 year, >f which Prance gets nut nui; three-fifths. The * larger pari of il>is is furnished by Algeria, and nearly all the remainder iorn.es from iix- i^io-Chiuese possessions, i itre Fivneh :tre brave enough to light for and acquire territory, hut they are fcot adepts i:i developing it after it has Kane into .their possession. Their colo1 aies never thrive like those of the British, ?nd even under the roost favorable coniitions their irrcwth is siovr. THROUGH DIXIE. I SUMMARY OP SOUTHEBN HEWS ,1 QrkftMftl Tm*wr*fonn>a PfATYi I u1 aliij^va wwuw aavui | - Virginia to lie Lone Star State, NOETH CAROLINA. An executive reward of two hundred dollars is offered for the apprehension of J. K Carter, alias Jim Car thy, who stands charged with the murder of Walter Chatham, in Ilorry county. A reward of one hundred dollars is also offered for John Cox, a negrr>, who is charged with having committed murder in Jones county. ur. lucuaro. 11. vvniteueaa, demonstrator of Anatomy at the University of Virginia, has accepted the position of Professor of the Medical School in connection with the new State Agricultural and Mechanical College. The Rev. R. G. Pearson closed a week's successful evangelistic services at Chariott e. He ded icated the new ?30,000 Y. M. C. A. building, the auditorium of which is called Pearson Hall, in memory of the services he rendered them in times past. The ownership of the Catawba Gold j Mine at King's Mountain is in dispute. The matter is now in the Gaston Superior Court and is destined to be a lengthy case. Tlic coroner's .jury in the. "Morris case, winch has held Reidsville iu a state of highly wrought excitement since the death of the deceased, rendered their verdict that D. E. Morris came to his death by the use of chloroform administered by his wife, Cora Scales Morris. ' She has been arrested and is in the hands of the sheriff. John It. Johnson, Seventh North Carolina district, has been appointed a cadet at the Annapolis Naval Academy. SOUTH CAROLINA. " . The revival services conducted by the Rev. Thomas H. Leitcli in the "Washington Street Methodist Church at Columbia, continue with increasing interest. The Governor of South Carolina has appointed about twenty editors to reprc sent the State at the Raleigh State Fair. Durand L. Arrants lias declined to! qualify as postmaster atDeKalb, in Kershaw county. A new oflice was estab- { lished at this point several months ago, j and Arrants was selected as v>ostmaster. I lie failed to accept the appointment, and the office has never been fully established. As no one is suggested for the position the office will probably be abandoned. At the Convention of Fruitgrowers, which convened in Biaekville last, week, and which organized a Fruitgrowers' Association, Mr,,. Loud, Jr., of WiHiston, was appointed to visit the several towns in the fruit belt and or ganize sub-associations. ' . The Governor has commuted to six months" imprisonment the sentence of Ann Byers,-colored, who was convicted at the March term of court in burg' counts lor-jroObery.. . and. iarceny. ?>he was senten'ced by Judge Hudson-to eighteen months in the penitentiary, A commission was issued to the Anderson Ware House' and Manufacturing Company, which is to have its principal place of business at Anderson Court House. The scope of the charter is to be a broad one, allowing the company to erect and maintain oue or more ware house, -with sheds; own and -operate all machinery for manufacturing cotton cloth or yarn; ginning cottoti, grinding corn or other graiu; to manufacture fer n'iizers and compress cotton. The.capital stock is to be $30,000, with the priv-:i 4.^ <s?-t AA.AAO ?ir. ! tu ^ivu,wv, io | little etfouglt to do all they ask for. I A commission was issued to the South-' cm Fruit Company, of Charleston, whose business is to export, buy arid sell foreign and domestic fruit and conduct a generat produce business. TENNESSEE. . Every gambling house of Memphis was. closed Wednesday night on warrants issina/I Iw in.lnrf* r?f tTi? frirmn.il frmrf: "J ?w j ? ?* p ; Anna Evars, of Memphis, -whose husband is "a prominent Republican politician of color, has sued Patrolman Conway for ?5,000 damages for having called her '"Aunty"?tne term being considered a reminder of slavery days. Registration for the coming .city election in Nasnville, Tenn., shows that over 4,000 voters, mostly colored, neglected the duty, and areas a consequence disfranchised. The colored voters seemed .ii_ .1?/* A * generally lucuRereut. The Evansville & Chattanooga Railroad Company have secured $325,000 in county subscriptions and engineers will probably soon be at work running lines preparatory to active work. This road will furnisha direciline between Cnattanooga and Evansville, I.ad. Kuox county has voted a subscription of $100/000 to the .Knoxville Northwestern Railroad, which insures the;early, com; mencement of construction. ' It .will extend to the North Carolina state line, and will be with branches GO miles long. The Memphis Cotton Exchange has rejected the rates of tare on cotton bales covered with jute and cotton bagging respecti *ely which were tlxed by the New (Orleans Cotton Exchange. GEOEGIA. The National Passenger and Ticket Agents' Association met in At lanta. It was agreed that, the next convention, which will meet on the second Tuesday in March, 1SU0, should be held in the city of Mexico. . Several new members were elected. The Abbeville and Way cross company has been incorporated in Georgia by J. D. Maynord, A. C. Fisher and others, to build a railroad from Abbtville southeast to Way cross, about so miles. The 'it sl1 /lA AllA A KlinfJIlA is on the Savannah, Americas a ad Montgomery. Ernest Willingham, tiic negro pugilist, was killed l>y a blow from rhe fist of Tom Branch at Atlanta on Wednesday night. The nun were sparring when Branch knocked Willingham out, breaking 1?h neck. (_!eaeraI Manager M. S. Belknap, who leaves the Central Bailroud on October 1.1, was presented with .two handsome jofi'ifii! r?f c?H-or of Sm-onnol. /~W? present was from the engineers aud the other from the officials of the road. Engineer. Smith and A. L. LawtOn, Jr., madetbe speeches, which were listened to by n room full of railroad men. The plate-presented cost ?2,000. I t ; Governor Gordon honored a requisition made upon him by Governor Seay, of Alabama, fot.the arrest of Col. J. D. Williamson, Col.' - Pat Calhoun, Major Jack King, of Rome, and Capt. Harry Jackson, all engaged in the recent duel, and also to E. E. Bruffy and E. W. Bar relt, the two. newspaper men "wno are wanted as witnesses. The gentlemen, upon- being arrested, all gave their word of -konor to appear in Montgomery on Monday, where they will ask to have a suitable bond fixed. ' VIECflKIA. Col. Thomas J. Ewis, one of the best known lawyersjof Virginia, died at Richmond on Friday last aged 67. He had represented Richmond twice as a member of the Legislature before and pince thp wfir He was a colonel in the Con federate array, a prominent mason, and noted for his social qualities. A murder was committed on Saturday night on the farm of Sam Jones about four miles from Culpepper. It seems that some negroes were having a Saturday night ''cake walk".at the house of Janies Fitzgerald.. During.the evening one of the negroes present kissed the wife of Fitzgerald, whereupon the latter seized his gun a: d firfed at his wife, the whole charge striking her in the side, making a dreadful wound. She fell and expired in fifteen minutes. After comj mitting the deed Fitzgerald coolly, walk-I ed ur> stairs and went to i>e'd. "He was arrested and is now in jail David Harfeld, of New York, was arrested at Richmond on a telegram from ' Inspector Byrnes, charging him with' bigamy. Harfeld has a wife: in New York and has been living in: Richmond with a woman heintrod?ccd as his wife.'He was taken back on a- requisition.^ The following^convicts Were 'received at the State prison Wednesday1:' tViflianVr Jenkins, Culpepper, three years, horsestealing ; James .William3, alias. James Kissey, one year, third, conviction -of. petit larceny; and Robert Jones, alias xtr o x ~ . vv. o. .V/iiuiuu, iwu years xur luiyery^f: Lynchburg. "* . . 'The Craig Mineral railroad, of Yir-' ginia, which the Chesapeake & Ohio roi-lroad has ttnderteken to ^buiid . will open up a very fine mineral and timber country heretofore.inaccessible. Soiiie^ : active industrial developments will* ' doubtless follow the opening of this I linp . . FLOBIDA,' The Jacksonville board' -of State Jnsti-* tutions awardecL the contract Tor ' {state printing in classes B and C'to the TimesUnion and in class A to C to C. W. Dacosta. The State formerly elected a State printer but siuce the printing has by law been let out to the lowest bidder competition for it has been very sharp. II. M. Flagler, accompanied by Dre. Anderson and Smith of St. Augustine, hns loft for Tndian Tli?ir>itaintv on a tour of investigation, which may'' result in important railroad and canal enterprises.The Central Wharf Co. have commenced work on a wharf at Pehsacola^to be 1,000 feet long. Orlando capitalists have incorporated' the Orlando & Northwestern Railroad Co , capital stock $200,000, to build a railroad from Orlando to Forest City; five miles of road from Mayo to Forest City now built is owned by the company.' OTHER STATES. At Winona, Miss., a mob of about two nurarea men entered tne jail ana took Sol Purnell, a negro, and hanged him to the Illinois Central railroad trestle. Purnell was accesed of assaulting the 12 year-old-daughter of a prominent citizen of that place. He confessed attempting the assault. ? A mail train on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, was stopped at Buch Alumna bridge near Mobile, Ala., and robbed of SS.noO express money and. a number ofregistered letters. i A Texas exchange says " "3.75,000 pounus 01 oacou were lmponea <hho .ine grand old county of Rusk last year.' It was paid for with cotton. . The Georgia Pacific Railroad has let. contract for a 40-mile extension through the Yazoo valley country, the great cot-. ton-producing, region of Mississippi. "Work has been commenced on the Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railroad to run from Weatherford, Texas, to extensive coal mines near there. , OLD WORLB NEWS; - i-. A spscial embassy sent by the .'Stilt an of Zanzibar to the German Government* has arrived in Berlin. .' *u Landore steel works, 4fc SWansea^Ehg.^ have been destroyed by fire. ' * ' The French ^i^icipai>ppmmission ft as cieciaea mac tne votes cast 10 r general Boulanger in Mpntinarb;e_ in?the ier I cent elections are-mill and void, and'hp has declared M.- Joffritydabor candidate,; )vho received the next highest number of votes, elected.- T^be Commission Ms also nullified the votes cast for Henri Rochefort in Belleville. r ; Tlif> cpnciafiATi rivpr t"hft fvn.-icsirf .nr frauds in the Naval"Bep^rtsaaent of "&Qfmany, continues despite the efforts 0$ the Emperor to prevent publicity.^ Tfoer3, were several additional airests. at Klel-irj connection with the affair. < , . ;; : ; Eighteen thousand German ipiners em.ployed at Sankt Johonn have addressed ' a petition to the authorities of Bonn, i setting forth their grievances and asking I that measures be taken for their redress. I , j I The Bolton, Eng., Cotton -Association. j lias resoivea to support tne employers in.; resisting the cotton corner by 'paying its j operatives during the fortnight's susf j pension. ? v.j - Grazed by Eeligion. " . Gochland C. H., Ya.?Intense excite- j ment was created here Thursday nigh^l. I during "a church meeting by the appear-'! j aocc of Amy Boggs, a small colored girl, | | in the coDgregation flourishing a razor, j | Men, women and children ran in all di-M ! rections. Some women fainted, some-J | tumbled in the mud and the girl was i soon in possession of the church, her ' eyes, glaring acd her slight figure trembling with frenzy. When she had driven j* the last person from the chvrch she cried : out: "Now I want to see the devil," She was finally overpowered by two constables, and an examination showed that she was in a religious i ecstacy and was looking for the devil, ! whose throat she had taken a vow to cut. I It was fortunate that the congregation i fled before her as she had been told that I the devil was in some people, and shede| signed cutting them open to get at him. AN INDUSTRIAL ERA. SONG or THE ADVAHCIHG SOUTH, Encouraging Statistics Compiled "by Leading Trade Journals! The Chattanooga Tradesman has compiled reports of new industries established in the Southern States in the nine months of 188#,'ending October 1, and it demonstrates thfft 'the remarkable development in industrial.. line? that has been in progress in Vhc 'South for two years continues unabated. It. is con- t spicuous also for the diversity of plants. Durincr nine months a total of 2.41/5 industries was established, against 2,0~?2;j for the corresponding period last 'year;' 10 agricultural implement factories, 9 barrel factories, 11 breweries, *72 brick works, 10 boot and shoe factories, 8 car works, *50 canning works, 29 cigar and tobacco works and 137 cotton anc^ woolen factories were organized during nine months,'- 51 of them in the pas$ quarter; 22 cotton compresses were organized during nine months, 5 distiller les, 100 electric light works, 51 lertnizer factories, 108 flour and grist millsv, 1-48 foundries and machine shops, 49 of them in the past'three .months; 8Q blastfurnace companies were .formed during nine months, against 24'in ?the same period last year; 16 gas companies and G4 water-work^, companies were incorporated: 3 glass factories,'55-ice factories, 49 natural gas companies, 80 oil ells, 24potteries, 8 rolling mills, 494,wood works and 340 miscellaneous industries tvprf inromoratftd in nine months, also 25 railroad- companies and .198 mining* companies.,t, . % r- it The Trad^jDan^says. tha|, ;xtjiev. returns show, uniform expansion t%o.ughout the South in alt. industfiif' lines? 'The past thirty days have-: witnessed _ forma-* _ tjon of tlje^ strongest. development ofcompanies, yet^ organized...jn, the .South and they :will.??C*the'^froduetioh af more substantial, 'adyanceweat -Jthan v has .yet ^en recprd^dv -;,i; rv , ; ?&xr the irairtp^cfrrkers1'" record says *-* j, V ;* r- >?? '' rr\? * r' r a. i r> 1 "Uir^V L He untily.xacijUrenj Jiucwrc* puuusucs its qimrterl j.-revie57;pf the - Sooth's iiadustQAl' progress .'this .-week,* -showing great ^ctivity.iH jthe organization t^Lnew manufacturing., an?- maniDg ^companies: la thej-ast nina-months there .wo* e 4.053 new enterprises eatabl;shfed^ or -1,11-1 in excess.of. the same.-, moaffcs'in* 1888. In these the totals amount- of capital-and capital stoek-represented i?$154,-849,00p, ? or. $33,43^.000 more-than -the amount in-vested during the. first nine mouths of 1.888.-: Virginia- leads with '$92,395,000,' Kentucky ?20,372,000; Tex'a's;1 $19,494,-000. >AlabaiU? $16.749.000-aiid Gfeorina j $15,557,000. > i-V - J. $ , *- . * CLOUD BUEST -AT., JAOKSOMILLETavemetfts Torn\;IJp.py the Eiyers in the > - * Streets. . - /. . ( Rain began to fill at Jacksonville.Fia., before dawn Tuesday * and continued without cessation al)_.day.:. A fe.w minutes before'5 jthix a' .l>Iax?k * cloud was seen roiling toward uie city.. its velocity increased as it approached., aiid the wind became almost ^hur/icanc. Suddenly the. cloud :burst, arid a perfect del uge of water descended vupon* the city, its volume being greatest'in the territory bounded/'by- ^Newman, Forsytbe and Laura streets ;and'thc -St":John's river. In less than ten minuted; 4he str<?5ts were flooded,--the-, sewers and - surface drakts being"-wholly inadequate to carrying it.off. The ^lavement-is of circular cypfQss block's,"-and tlit; writer forcing its way peneata"them, macve tae*suriace at the streets undulate like the waves of the ocean. Teams and pedestrians brrke-through and water spurted " into the air with great force. Stir face'Streams' ran dovrh Pine," Ofce'an ^.nd Hogan streets like a mill race, washing the paving blocks up 1'ftto p"Fles"*and in some instances carrying -tnern down almost 'to tlie'whWfveg.'Ba^' street, from Pliie'to Market, M.s^mfl^'^pl;3i?lo Cated p'aVing blocks an'^isT'ift^^ssabl^ ' The? police afcd firemen'7iave iu prevent uuciueuis. travel , on 'I^yirtr^t';i0'iSi^n%d.%'^iM^ j&rcs!. werefloodpd, japd uu^aye(ftlaprpug1uares havfe l)eeu*,s^illi'ed out in matr'^h^; i so as to be temporarily imipa&aDTef^^fe'. danlasje' will' reaeli several'* TKoy^d-' .a iV ' ?' .vi's-i.'wT j j dollars. . ; ' Serjeant Townsend. of the". X; w&id States"jSignal Station rq^ort'^ ramfall t?V&Yeatest'on r?co$ ror^1B?e^aupi- , ration. ?. krolo. B^cjf ~*.<ra \1jre Atlantic coaVt'the tornado strudi th^resort ho'tel, -rr 11 t i' j*-i n'* < a P Murray, mil, ana snauerea.ir^Ai inis | boint a-boj.uamed^rP^c^P^^l^jvith i # tf^rsea.nd .vi^^ej^geiiStted^^^! the'! a*r ancPblown ;ti^ariy"'2{Jp^ee^^ were found teii)ninut^sJateV.*?" Tne^oy ftaf kiUed^.outriglf^1'- tfefr^.^tei^ly Ij.msed ana^aiwi^l. ' - 'o iii/K:*:-..".)' 7T;?$*.' ' Oottgn 2 ' icleTias issue.a.itsJrejjoij; ojntli?< total crog "6f last year'.' it^ake??w tfttatcK^^,* 88. The we^ht:"of "tfie crop was 3,437,499-..pouuSs, against #..3,.4(1)0,008,107 pounds of the year before!*V This showd" a heayier ayenvge^weight per bale for the* year ending ?ugwt ft/l^Sto. \i : ; * . Orthe^ro^ 4^042,74^ ,i>ajjcs were * exported : foreign. * /J,he*;i^oSt gratifying1 showing, ho^ev?r i$vthe increase of cotton . 'ip^nufa^ticing..iu,-typ .Sojuth^tlie tot^l ^fc>r*l889 . 480,603 bales and for l8%p3j7-3 ox*7.02 per cent of the total;?ibi>.for 1'880 a^ainst^ G.31 per cent for 1'888. " Geogia jvasljic greatest con- I sumej^gf tjbie^^uthegg^stes; JwJ?S?fepS^\V; An.^iiily sis$f. tl^^er0^;Si^jv^ thatj the Southern ^^U^^^s have.-.^nc/eased their1 capaciiy^0POo6 spindles', or^about > 16; per cent., wl-ie the Northern percentage of ,in,treasc js nj,uch sutler. It. is remarkable hc^ close-thp,authorities have come to the -0tal crop.- A;B. Shepperson thcj statist cjan 0f fhc Netv York Cotton Exchange makes the cotton crop' for 1888S9 4,0qq "bales more than the Chronicle uittis-ca ^ v The -Chicago court spent (mother weary c^y without, obtaining a jnror iu I . the Cron.,^ casc. Jiidge McConnell said , he was notN^tirelv pleased with tjie men going through the box, and if necessary I he would'adj.,ura court for a day iii Qr-^ der to give tlk bailiffs a chance to visit the whole county and bring in represent tative citizens.A boiler expl(^jon occurred at a sawmill in Berlin, John Pritz,. Edward Pritz, 01iv^r r0ss David Ross and David Baker we^s^led. "V | * . PERTAINING TO POLITICS. Eesults of the' Several States' ConVen tions,?Fall Elections.?Political Notes. Thfi ronstihitionfll nmpri^nipnf nf TCV-n-* > tuckv received a majority in its favor of 31,931. r . Gen. James R. Chalmers^is, th?-Tiepublican nominee for Governor ot Mississippi. Judge Vasser was nominate# for State treasurer but declined. John R. I Lynch, a negro was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, and W. E.'-Mojlison is the'nominee for Secretarv of State. The, Massachusetts Republican State Gonyention met in-Fremoiit Hall,: Bostorn Lieut. Gov. J. Q. 4- Brackett was noii|inated on the 'first ballot as 'candidate1 for Goveni?fi\ "Wm. B; Haifa, was ^gninated for Lieut. Governor. TB& rest c?. ^ae ticket is as follows: Secretary of . State, Henry B. Pierce; auditor, .Charles' R. Lodd; treasurer and receiver, Geueral' Georse A. Marden: attornev'-<rencrjJ, Andrew G. Waterman. .i . The New Yorlc* Republicans met at Saratoga and the following ticket * was . chosen: For. Secretary of State, John L. Gilbert, of Malone;.comptroller, Marfin W. Cook, of Monroe; State treasurer, Tra M. Hodges, of Rockland; attorneyGeneral James 31. Yarnum, of'' New York; State;'engineer and surveyor JVilliam, P. YanRens&llapr, of .-Seneca: judge court of appeals,. Judg? A.-IIaight, 6f Buffalo. At Lamonte, Missouri, Saturday, tyst, a 4T rrtfnMn niAnio wnc o 4- i rfnri , liir vcw ixx i vi v/x iJLL |;i^uxo n uo av vwuuv^ , 'j 5,000people. . ,. ..._ Robt. C. Davidson was nominated, for mayor of Baltimore by the-city ..Democratic Convection. He came into the | convention recommended by the Business Man's DemocraticiAssociation."' The others whose names were up were Mayor;. P. jC. Latrobe . and_ Col.. C. S. Woody Davids'oh received, nine votes."of,.each ward, and his nomination was ratified by . acclamation. *l~". " - The Philadelphia Democratic .city nominating conventions -weie held. JJr . James H. Cantrell -was nominated for coroner, Major Moses Veale for-.clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions, and the Republican nomination for Judge' of the_ court otcommon pleas, Samuel W. Penny packer ;-*vas endorsed. A PROTEST FEOM GOV. FOWLE. rHfc;Excelleiicy Does Not Want Geronimo , in.Hortli Carolina. -.Washington, D. C.?Officers, of- the "N^arxDepartment ;and agents of the rln?dkn: Right's; Association, are arranging! ^the" purchase of a large-area of land which j tne.association intends giving to v-teroiuind ind his band of captive Apaches', now | at Mt. Vernon'barracks, Ala., as a futurehaqje^v-The land is on the mountainous western border of iS'orth Carolina, con-, tiguous to Tennessee, from which it is separated by the great Smoky Mountains, j It is populated by a band of Cherokee Indians, who; refused to- move West with the r^.o?;feeir^hrethreii an<Lqv.ere permiJfSiiby;t% Cferen^ent".^T?nain in N6Vt?;Carj>lifla. 'A colbny.of Quafehs settled ^th/&(g!Cli^ol?^and,e^^lished j an I^iauTnission there. " lITi!! ^ india^/se^ixees' spt wanted. Haleigi^^ G.?Some, days ago Secretary of War: Proctor wrote Governor Fowlein regard ix>the^ proposed removal" ofGcronihio, ana hii band of Indians, from Mount-. Yern0tt;barra6ks, Alabama, to Westeti| IJojth Carolina. Governor Fowfc wrote a reply. He . says-that sncb-sett!emeni of these Indians i in^WesternNorikS Carolina would creatc great dissatisfaction, particularly if their location should be in the wester^jKirt o f the State.on the lands to be.purch'ased by tlTe Secretare of War. / ; 'I^seiatja^be saygj are Bot.-xesei ration. 'daqds,* from the State by the ?!berSkees,* who are now few irt'number.aj'd ^ itt soon disappear, be settled by wrnfeC pimple; ;Tue'Governor in coueluSecretly: proctor that Wetndian^e'eotonized in'Terniqi^t, cerof Jhat ^State being now* "by4-tht> white "population. i ^^GbvecjQO.r" infonfis-'the Set-ietliryj that " fWfSa'jJpie^^*sp ftrcouftiF ,b6 closed' for.^nis purposes.. " V v ' S-' : of Gen. IX H. -^'bo o'datelfc^ * ^^epcfe^' ited afcBMKofr^C^&^^xwitBnr^Rtary = hon^Mpff^^^L'^^^'-iBifleaiea at&j j".Sn,Ea&^ent;' Me.*' Fdrtress-*':.^feToe-'-anek .'vsmnjugr anaCharleston.' He was twiw'brevetted in- ; the Mexican wa'rfor'gilfeirti'y and meritorions service. ?After. the p warrSoutli 'Carolina presented him with-, a.. gol<^' ^sword. In 1848 General HiI^ybs mar~ j'ied to Miss Isabella Morrison * * *' During the civil war he was in'tfiebat-1 oi-Aiiri/l "Ri/^Vim/vn/l onri of. M?ilrr<ril I Hill, and at Boouesboro.or South tain lie held back, with his divisKn 0f G,000, McClellan's whole army unji ix>e I had safely x Mrs-j' J'Treston called this b&ttle the. \ Thermopylae of the late war. " "* . fej Being promoted to Lieutenant General he was sent to help Bragg, and- Ma jor ! Archer Anderson says that at Chica-j maugua Gen Hill's'division did tl^tub-.T hnrnpst firrVitinor of the war. " . L O "O , " 7.4P -After- the war Gen Hill was jttesidenwj of the University of Arkansas a$d 1885. resigned that position to accept the j presidency of the Milledgeville* Ga, Ag; j.: ricultural and Mechanical XJ-ollegc^ where he remained until two nYottii^gTr, when j he was compelled by ill health to resign ; and went to Charlotte^' Inisling1 to b(*j bue fitted by thes-cliange. ITe pa.sae4^peaceful]v ayay and the : ' - V J i-~ vl.r i last n , JLIUiU U\t-uthere." * &$[&&%% - - - - ~ - _ . ] i - /'/ j " A* crab' fifal^clirhbs cocoariut i tk^birgo latasppr, robber. crab, of? the | Fanning Island." .It cracks the nuts -with i us paws and waxes fat on the milky ciLsir found therein. . j It is/never the opinion of others that i dis^case-.us, but-the pertinacity- they j disfrlay/ari obtradingjtfrem'-upon.us. ? _:* NORTH. AND WEST. :if3WST' ITEMS BY TELE6EAPH, Being A Condensation of the Prineinal *' Happenings in- Different States Jacob Jbitzg^raid, a delegate to.. tne New* York Republican State convention, dropped dead -while on -his way to Saratoga where" the convention was held. - The cottop", good? manuffe ;turers of Mexico are said- to;h?&e.agreed to buy ali -theii; raw material in the United States. .... The market f^r.raw sugar is declining. A London .cable sa&s] 4'beet sugar, which shorf tiifle^agft wa5*q noted at 29s.6d., is now* 13s." ^This-will-reduce the priced of sugar. . . i ; .' - - ' * The Minnesota MeajLiftpeetioh'^La*t was , aociarQd. unconstatutaa&at, t>y tne Supreme Court, which opens the state throughout to the sale of dressed ^beef from "Chicago atfd Kansas City, ancl practically settles the- validity of the law compelling inspection on the hoof. Rev. T. H. "Goodwill,, formerly pastor of the-Baptist church at North Hiipoyer, Mass., has brought sujt foe* $10,000 for conspiracy a'gainst John S. Brookes, a well-known grocer, and a!so*'postmaster,' i ~ ^ ~ ~ :? uuu it ut'auuu in uuc ruuicu, auu uuiacc S. Crane, clerk of the church.- The trouble arose over refusal of the church to give the Rev. Mr. Goodwin letters of dismissal andrccommendationi Philip Lepnardj whose , bpdy' was found in the river Stfnday 'morning at Providence; was murdered in a; drunken row income saloon: " . Country. roa4s f are often paved with good intentions. i. . There was a heavy frost in tha^ricinity oL BellojvsFalls," Vt., ihefirit ottHfSseason there,. Ccaps.were generallyfcrn hand and the damage is smalL * .Wilkie Collins, -the -iamotis English, novelist, died Tuesday at biSt London home, after a long illness. He was born in January, 1825. little-William Defordt was seized with n.- fit of hinfnuorKiflp- at 'West Hoboken. N. J., antfcfell l>ack in his jchair dead. ' Th? publishing house of Belford, Clark & ' Co., Chicago, III., and-New York, failed Tuesday and a leceiver 'was appointed." The assets amount' to $400,000. . . ?*;* :v.- . - \ Snow has fallen on Mc>unt Washington for the last few days and is eighteen inches deep. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the issuing of the emancipation proclamation by President LincolD was celebrated Tuesday from Maine4? California, E. II. Piatt and JohnrAllen . of New York city, have completed their loog horseback ride across .tlie continent; They reached San -Francisco fout-months, and about four days from the time they left New York ? . . .."William Henry Smith, the manager pf the Associated Press, has purchised-'the Chicago Times, it is said, -for $250,000. A syndicate of New Yorkers are backing him in the enterprise. The editorial stall of the paper is to be reorganized by Eastern men selected for tliat purpose. At Ilarlan, Ivy., courthouse eig&t prisoners by means of a-hand spike re-, moved a log of the,jail wall and made their ^escape. Two of them were murderers. * - "' j;.' : .! ;if' The man-of. war Ossipee sailed for Hayti with Frederick' Douglass," the new mmister to that-country. ' ' * The police commissioners of Kansas City have ordered - tlie chieT of police to, police to* suppress the, Safvafibri "Atmy in that city. The order was-issued' on ac-' count of the numerous cases of-peaee disturbance at'the Army's headquarters. .Charles II. Halsey, of' Huiitsyillo,-lias been qlectcd -general -manager of the North Alabama Improvement' company. A spc-eial from Erie, Pa., _says;a" party' of thirty young people went'out into the* country in a band wagon for a*picnic. On their return the driver, being under the influence of liquor, drove over a bank, throwing.-tho horses, wagon and' party over a precipice forty';.feet in height. All ..sverc. bajiiy injured anaPatrick Fiaharfy, of, Springfield, and Barnes XeylaHd^bf Erie, were' so' badly tivslied internally that , tfi'ey cannot live; . ":> > d . The1 Colorado.. Mining-^Exchange of Pcnycr adopted.^!- resolution to invest! gate .the constitutionality of the. act xerstricting^the'.coinage^o^silver. K > Dr. Lkhtenstcin, Vphysici^n of Birm* i'n?-h*{fm." Ala.': was cdwhided^ii his office j^'M^Rob^rt'Fubk, -Wife of <Jhe-'of th?: the: city..:-- Tlie 23jt>S$$? Jjacl bje^tieatii^'j^Ts, Fuck for 53m e "time* ana 0jyS^j$|-day.'she 'visited Sis ofn'cc filonc. After'she ,?a& bfeei? in" offic^hq'rt-ihde^Si^'raii ^^'sCTeam*: hu>rjfiiecb?frajr< ,f^T^estU^f>tmflg she entered the Doctor's. ofli^e accompanied bjfher husband; and drawing a cowhide from' th'e^old^ . 1ft t the ..tthvsician" several] Mows oyer-the head'3^^and Mrs. iFuhk'then turried*afcfL-fef?rf>he : The Iauy charges that on Saturday Dr.*her,4 bnt liecharge. . gfepftojeiai.- ^K^y^icJjd', fiuai-d??nxei-. ^B8Wasf<?iacfce ill l>y the experiment and-^Bra 'fime his li fe /wasidfei^S^^f** :/ /: ; ',-5 Verynuich^-^fece^i. is "centered in a' iiew depaytdrie^b};Vth'e ^blaeks of Todd cmiiity, 'Kentucky,and '"MontgomeVy cOnriiy?i Tdd nesseeV;' THey fiaye organiz&T :C stork company'with' art capital of i:o~>Afifi-nr>rl Will hnlrLit.viMShnfcv'fftir. bft fyv^vw- , ? -? -j - ? T - ginuiug October"10th!' Every. oj?pcr ami employe is a black man. Only col6?bcTpeopW can compete for' premium?, Khieh>?monnt to>$10,t)00.; Fifteen hunasjJfcd dollars arc olleretVfof 'pursesin the Wsc races.' anj^onjy animals o^oed- and; ridden by negroes*Can enter/. The blacks tif: taking inrmtyise interest in -.the affair ''aD^^i&isfaidjfi If^tteqd^'- /"v ' A/^oiy 'of Lee. . "' In iii's' a&dl^&gb'fore. ttte veterans At' the re-union at Waynesville/Geir.- Vance narrated a nice little "story "atJbut Gen% Lee. Wiiefi * vonr men were passing jthrouglxa Pennsylvania town,' "a youogr pret ty girl stood on a pdfbh gravely ' and' dcliantlv. waving ..the r State and: Stripes iir the very "face of the. ^/rebels."* .When Gen'. Lee came along,.1: she redoubled her activity; the"brave""old general, with miugi'ed" gallantry, admiration for the girl's courage, an"d love for the i old flag, under which he^ad himself j often fought, raised his_hat arid bowed I a reverent salute. TfiiSBM .. ' A FAIR 6-1SL THIEF. I * t :?7 : I Etta Bobinson in Jail for Horse Steal-; J iug.?Iiist of Her Thefts. . 2J Parkersbcrg, W. Va.?There is now I in progress here the trial of a seventeenyear-old girl Darned Etta Robinson, who is accrued of horse stealing. Six months ago Etta was visiting hef brother in the adjoining county of Putnam, -who is a; farm hand employed by, Thomas. Handly, a wealthy real estate owner, ;Onemprning Etta was' missing, and also a fine horse belonging to Nathan McCoy. A/ter a search for some days the horse was found in ihe girl's possession near the Ohio .River- While her pursuers were ! debating what to do witli her, Etta dashed ixfto the Ohio, still on horseback,arfd^ndeavored to swim across. She was .eaptuaftri, ami whiiei>eing referned to sfee had.tca?el?d-fifty failes . alOnethrough a^stcan^^ouutry after' ;.nigh?' *s?e was~placed in jail^but broke "out rad'ireturned te . her brother," .when . *McCoy took pity on her youth arid, refused t6'pr6secute\fiM. " _ A short time after.. a. horse belonging fl^rmbr tpqc -iv\%oei r\ rr -v a uam^u r/ac ' just when the low country in the Kanawha valley was'airfldode'd. The l*orse was trackedto^heedge'of'thc waTf^and next day both Etta and the horse' werefound in a hollow. The girl-'Jiad^swElmthe 'stream, a mile wide, on hors'eback. She slept out at night, living on what she could ste^U- For the second time he* 1 youth protectedvher and she wasnokj A/-, pi-UaC^ULCU. / ^ v ' % Six'weeks later, phe'stole a horse from . Lewi'^Xosley^. She was:pursued across' -the Ohio," c'apfixred '^nd Brought back to tt^e*?i^aiif coHBty.-?aih-?-She was confii'eathere fcetfetil. we^k3y. -iawhifeifeiinie Jier ' winning ways won her the confidence jailor,' who alio wed^her many. privileges. Two- weeks ago he aWpke tojii^d fSefair maid-had gone", having^^^rjy" made her escape* by . cutting through W. old f wall. It was afterwards found that sM- i tad stolen a_suTt ?f men's clothes, and taking the stable, key had stolen a fine,. *horse in the jailor's possession, and fled, the cotalfry. For ten days Alf. Burnfett." the detective,,.and posse scoured the country iiL>vain. She was finally captured-with the horse near her old home, 'fhiring h^es'capades.she had lived on berries, born or Anything"she cool? find, aid wandered through the-Vfldest'territory. ^ /? rAnln?Ar^ AA? A+ + x HID vuuu^ au vciituic^ uucs UUL ovcai from auy other motive than simply the' love of exerfement; Her" *faice * glows with youth and apparent inuoee'nce: Her , education and-.mamiers have.'/JtOi -hfeen* neglected and she is neat -in-her. Her youth and beauty have; create^%?,; vast deal of sympathy in her* ^mr wa some of- the ifiost.' p^raiiDent citizens of Putnam Connty-aiH^wrtlSDgthfems^ves tq^^ure The.fcS^'wilf probably last ?? y THB JBAfflBY OOTTOSU A Hsw Grade ;.of Gettos -iWhich is. Being I'>/'*?*? if**' * .-.Cotton planers in North Carolina are watching.. ;wi'th._ p^*ticular interest the practical test, on'a Iaf?e. scale*-of .the., -merits of what, is kno^las" the ' 'Rkilev cotton, whic? take's its name" from Htc-'" , tor Bailey, a :4dlored man,' *ffco' was- its. discoverer lu Harnett cbunjy^in 1885.. /the stalk resembles that of ordinary .qpttoii, bat is stouter.: The leaves cmfer widely- fronarthose Usually seen. '..The^f -.are^iong-and shaped like a hand.,. 'The.flowers. are of a large gize, andsii are tiie bolls* The ^da^elargf, a?d ,very:blac^,' while the staple Vnj^ly*%s ' long as tfia?of sea island cotton, and i? silky in texture.' * It"was at firstvthought that* thJg .cotton was the, result of a crossing of the okra plant'with ordinary -cotton, but .itTS now knb$n"th&t this 'idea was" erroneous, and that^ho :disoovery is thalt of ar?ew variety of upland;cotton." Cap-Saiii' Octavius Coke, a-well" know&'planter near Raleigh, has several acrCfif of the "Bailey" cotton^in grQWtiyyhick is now maturing^ ; There is an 'oiler soI Sixteen ' "cenfe per pound~for the cotton, which is :-aU 'to be spcfcially"ginnSd.' The "seed will all be. handied Uy .'the IBrinlgy Cot- , ton company, of .Raleigh,- \v??ch sella . "county rights. The plantation of Captain ? Coke is i upland, -but-a few'mlles west of therethisTJotto^is being "tested . on.bottoto landi" Ai inspectjoffx".pf' the plants shows that they areheavily fruited and have stood r emarkafrl y wel 1 the Xrvfng ordeal of a eolef and Vet sufi'mer. ?"f ? r " - -? . \"V - New Mexico Wants to tJome In. ' "Mexico .State "Constitutional - Convention has cloffed'its labors'at Santa Fe.~ - It-was jiemd'ed to fifcsl 'submit the ; ; projpp8ediConstitntion..to.< Congress-,-*"" and irtMt-&>djkftIibuId pass an enabling act, 'thmffie constitution slialllbe voted uponf *&&tjy<Sx?$ (here-., aefuseto acd;-'then ..upon at ?he.?extufor delegates izea ti?n0ks fbr'i^ub-^; ' awuihem th'6/neceisit^ftsc^T'$^tit ,fi*9p 6'f N^w*ifexi?4El-#4^i[t^r<r * *>'* '" ' " 1**:, :? --* -: '*&*&?'< , . gr }'. - ( * '"' 'VM ~ j-'.-t, -*J*- ^Hcaller-aid ?uicifle^gj^ii l^j.5^^^8Kplty.aboyt^\oHnjg^jiitc'. ^von^it^^c^'petfrie ?&&.. JTftsjflvals. id et 'a^ Wed n e^TTa j*'-"tHglft^ jvflien Pettcp&tfs&feoL Bhrnftt to: wilk^ (fff^'ith hHtt'isiDRittfir. jfi'dtds t#-taijf - over the -trou|)l<j.;;' ..A;few' mkutes aftpcyard.two>;' shots ^yere heard, An . investigation' jlis-. closed thelrfel&s'bbdyjof, Burnett with* two'froaodsr'm'ttie region of 'hi^'-heart.. i The murder&d.'mSa \va& unarmed. -Pet' j V/>rc io ctill at lorarp ? - I, / vr*"' .1 Carrie,Black upon b ei c g ^in d ? ? the murder, swaflowed laudanum fromi -the'Cffefts of which shi dfcd' Thursdajj morning,' A-pos'se has gone -in' setrclf of; Pefctaifc-->-5 V; ? -v. - : ; .. '' ' ' * ' 'mwm* ' ri V i ]\ High Point ofHlre Bte^E&ge.* - : :j ? The t$ftjf ^lv/Nrf/v S<vk . '-?>* A * Art-.# f, ii4>aNK-IVj^h^t^ long. bf half-a flitle-5$id?jcohered &&*-,? Tuxuiian? growth of grabs' *f ^e^iirtem isrcaHfed LJhe boup^rj^liwfp^^rt^i^pil^^^ Tennes^'runs thrbVg^the "dxoiig^oo^ '*d{ the hotel so tfiat e guest can eat his dinner with one foot in North Carolina and the other in Tennessee. The "windows of the hotel command views of mountains in Virginia, Kentucky, Teni nessee, North Carolina and South Carolina <infl Ctfi.nrcria. EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT. J MAinr IDEAS mirsco'iraT^cmosi ' COME FROM SAVAGES. , Tlie Swift 'Catamaran?Sails Made of J Cocoannt Matting?The Center-lx>ard no Modem Invention. In an'article in the Washington Star I Wilf. P.-Pond says "As the flood'left only the ark of Xoah in the "world,- it' is Ij fair to suppose that for. a lime the shipping of the vorld was limited, and there 1 is ntvrecord of any of Noah's family in-; - A Etecesting themselves in that industry. .flj i 'In- tire, earlier records oMScrvfct and China there. is-s continuous mention of M river craft, iSut&e Phoenicians, and after \ | them the Carthaginians^ made great provem'ehts in the craft of the day, but 'these consisted principally of galleys^ having-the motive-power of oars; assisted S togsails, to be use<t before the wincL.':Af-i ter the faUo&Garthagethe-art languished,; j andit was not until the__ close of the twelfth century that an impulse was given ? to it bv the introduction of the knowl- J edge of the' magnet!* It is "difficult to trace -fee successive steps-from this peribd,' . J arid more i&sth interesting to Snd^fcafJor I speed the craft of the so-cali?l savage races have always surpassed those of ..the . ,|j civilized nations, The-catan^raa, rightly considered, is a marvel of ingenuity, -and: ' v..\ fll there appears"to be no "reliable"record of I its introdaction. * - 'It-oafeists-of one long xafher'narrowj " fl aboat, mt^toosfrstraagnt siaes/carrymg a fji enormous sail and is only kept ?rom /capsizing .by a . smaller beat,. which is ]ashed byi., species of open raft lfi a poparalel fo the larger oxiev These 'H in-cr' /Hrpy*frnT> "Vh?>* "Ymfft 'tWrrtntl stnv. - ^ fsvfcofe but<lirectly beMad them. ! e"' Tisk -surfbcat of' th& ^CSn^lese- jw a patapiaran of a slightly different, plan. The hull is about thirty* feet loag, and M not more than eighteen inch^' wide at -^k jiny point; 'two curved arrus hold eitibar' sriT" tlie^sMe-"' a sha&pen^3^ij| place bf^othier :b^, and^J^ tvcelve 37 twelri'xriggeg^^ jached to^bambocuagB outfit. < - Mkrnied <-?Tfec fnnco andbreadth'm tfe raailT craft, 4ng -a^ajvvntix.the cumbeKok and^jH -jsa^sefitod^^ii^^v^ the powelM tack a?4- reaeh, unto, idth the aid o!fl .thecenterb6ard,a good yacSt can "almost^ sail right into the -wind instead- of bnJjp^^^B before it. The Srst step .to this perfecjtion is to be iouxfd in the double canoe of " . the Feejeans and other dwellers in the isl-: ands of the Pacific Oceanl /This craft ,^j brings the two canoes quite, close togeth er,- connecting*7 "tfceni amidships by * j broad square* platform, on which is boiit "|l A l^ht^.fwaae .;J?omse> the.. interior of j which is iisea'as a stowage,.-.and, the roof . takes'jthe place.of. the bridge on a steam- jfl boat, from, where the'chief issues hii-^? s i- ' if ';T*' / . . . J 9 uers directing thg^.course of the boat.: {HKtwp canoes,are also decked over and iire^.us^for sleeping pieces for the crew.: ?. jThe sail of the Fijians is raide of mattine, ^^' 'material'-beiEfff obtained "froini % jffie leaves: of * the cocoa-nut palm-' ahcQ straiigg^ is5y,"thS is first woven'- iiita lengths 'abdufctwoscfeet wide and twenty ] keet long/ apd these are then joined to-! . j gether exactly ba.the. principle that oun 1 '.canvas sails, ol^o^aiy are made. "The centefljoard'is generally looked epo? as .a inod^-'jnvegHtfh'Srhfch jjevo-* >"Hj iutionizes principle as as old as theJuijs,-. The. Bosjeman, or Bushman, of South Africa, uses it ia ^9 fwift currents, applvjaig it to the hnmart body in swimming.' ;His device' consists ? ,of a light: flat piece"1 of 'board.'which i? * fastened .to the right'shomder: ihd under fttie arm. VS^n in'the water the -point is pl.ac.ed,directly -across the stream so (that the great force * of water comes s ' ? upon it,' while /the' swimmer, with the ' i| ileft'. arm and'^et. swims directly in the ' jjfl teeth hi :thh-.cmi^nt an3.while seemmrfv! .... i^astm'g ing strength in"- a direst iwith. thje full force of /water, s&^Iyprosrresses to the opposite,side. -Even the r ^ ^Dutchmen pf the sixteenth century had! 1 a knowledge of this appliance, and a 1 jglance at one o! the pictures of their old 11 galiots showsalarge triangular piece of - t-jpM Svood 'on the starboard side "of the vessel,; 3 .Tv&ich-, inrsailing^on'gr 'wind, was lowered I into tne.waier. aiany 01 our ca^j^oaxs,of the present 4ay,"aiid also coasting sloops.' still havejp^piece of wood on their'sicles, butHjPunmovable^ intended only as- an^Rment, and no adea.of its.one tijae u?Tis -known by th$9 :SEulor 'bf"the, craft s^T^corated' / . v^H ^'v^'f^^GTON iSC-TES. : - ?J(| -IfensfeD&;vmfce<i Camber- W land; jjnA*} -Friday and"'' there was :* v ' ?5 w* ;, Lai^p^lsffc. Deer *3fajrk *^l^as]iin^0D,./acc^^iiied by. Mrs. Kdrii&on, Private*'Secretary Salford and M _aiid?3ft5S' -^g?r, which ends* his J ^-The.. ^roagesof ; jyrjsfc---Anita McCor mick,, daughter lat$ $yraaJ2&H fl McCormick, to* ?)^<?ns^?kune, 'eldest - _ fl ~ ^ vlI r C^ofo tlTflQ SOU UI lue ocui euirv ui umv?j r.^-^ ' VtfieifBiized sat higlrticwfl* Thursday-, . ** AvBlufc Lobster, v.. . * A genuine blue lobster .of good size bait JH ,;bccii captured at Marshfield, Noth- flH ing/of., the sort has been fot^L before W *in those -waters, although acase was re- fl ported some year.?" ago" froifi Long Island . Soife^f^ This'lobstef'is of a'frare ultri- 9 marine blue -of handsome shade. - &ton'g m i^ths^aek-the:colorpf this-singular crustarce6g.'% ?l&6st is'darfc'as^ iidigo, but at i?sj& -fight* as a-robin's egg, "iM 2361^' ystats <e? fate shell shades away to a delicate ercam color, ;In an. B M ordinary lobster these Mparts would bo fl ' rrtfrmpdtand nurole on Jh smder- fl a"crst!D >^ie^obster car lias'been *a' cen- 9H ter of interest for tliV curious since the flfl capture. It was caught in an ordinary pot, and it differs in' no way except ia ;; color from other lobsters. It will be boiled for the sake of seeing to what color it will turn during the process.? 'Jfl