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VOL. XLYI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1889. ^ NO. 11. ' f Dr. Henry C. SIcCook, in a pa#1- in the North American Review on thef^ermination of the mosquito, holds that there is hope for us in an incre?86 dragon flies and spiders, the pa ticular enemies of this particular insect. / Dueling has not only lorn, heen in the French army^ s recent order of the Minister <|j War teems to encourage it. The orde-j inter( ? f , diets the use of fleurets, or foi' and specifies either small swords or bres. Duels with sabres, as fought the French army, ar-* almost always ^ to one of the combatants. ,, The number of the blind in th^phiied Kingdom according to the las' jcensus was 32,296, being at the rate ^ blind persons per million of tht-leriera^ normlation as compared with Ooi^f 1871, 964 in 1861, and 1021 in IS; j The decrease in blindness -would thwaPPear to be gradual but steady, even Rowing for the fact that many who have ?*7 defective sight and are practical blind object to return themselves as su u The Argentine Republic is t~ ?hably i 0 ~ * V |lhe most progressive of the nat p south of us. Every head of a fam: js eQti tied bj law to 250 acres of 4 free, f and as much more as he mjrt|ant to f purchase, to a limit of 150C atBeventy-five an acre. Or a s- fr may acquire 1500 acres free after /), years, by planting 200 acres in | a^d twenty-four acrea in timber. ^0 -. r Slave free transportation frcotPuenos !A.yres to the place of location ^fnption from all taxation for ten years; the Government "Will loan them mo-T> QOt exceeding $1000, at six per c?- Per annum, upon the cultivation of pertain area of land, and the erection F * jprovementa of a certain value. Is a rs* Wt of these liberal laws, over a million | acres a year are added to th< ?ricul'toral area. The opponents of capital pu; hment J el aim that hanging does not 1?!n the - - ??-a? iirm.:-, ? *1 2$ew Clime 01 muruer. - i um>, fork Star regards as "rank i sense. J J" Certainly that operation prevent ie fel~ k tow that is hanged from killing r niore people; and that is a good dea ;"*ined toward the protection of soci - So would the hanging of burglarsind to lessen the crime of housebreakil~both I * by redaciagihe number of thatj^ ?f f criminals and by deterring otU -worn ; r entering into the business as a r-ns of | y^ining & livelihood. And t ktter crime must sooner or later b ia(^e a capital offense. When a mar lter3 & bouse for the purpose of comm robbery he goes prepared and d roiled to commit murder if necessarj } carry out his purpose or to escape action, i * " " "* nf tlio I Pills is the history ana nair crime everywhere, and it is r t*1116 rthe law-makers of the coudj should awaken to the fact, and give fa com_ mvmitj that protection .igainrurS^ai7 . to which it is entitled." f t r It throws light upon Chinp^kods ? to read in the same issue of * * * * -* - - ^ - it Hr^flrh Journal wtucii aescnoes me J in the Yellow River banks tpe^orial j L from the Peking Gazette r?mending I special honors to the mandaiw^? fur@fe oiahed materials for the em&P-evts. En The Chinese, in carrying or&& >or^j V* persistently T?fixse to ^mplpuropean f engineers or to listen totj suggeatF ions. The result -was costly# k- which ' was opposed to all scientif 10^163 tod which lasted only a fevreks after ' *he laborers had put the la|ouciies It. The mandarins in *?r~ tones in commissions and ra^ honors I for services which, in any i country, Would have led to their dl5^ from v - v iffice. The San Francisco \nicle con" aidsrs that the incident is f^^hy 83 r| specimen of the hope less at" temp ting any large publica1"^ un^er v She present Chinese sy$ten?^eremus^ w- idle to UC XMUAXU IClUlUId Vi I talk of an efficient army o 01 even railroads, telegraphs or th ;*nc I Where every public work e?ar<^eci as m opportunity for piund< a<^vancc ^ possible. ^ The introduction of 1 - iuL? 0Ur wn country is traced b; ^orr?w ^ lour separate and distinct ,e*" I earned into Louisiana iJF Into the Northwestern S? "u-v ScandiEm ??vians, along the Pacific?*" ^7 Chinamen, and emigrants fromW^est IQdies brought it to the Southe Jantic coast- I forty-two cases were reported I at New Orleans and oneljrecl at Ke7 West, while numerous ? concealed eases are suspected as eMg *Q differRrvt mrh? of the UnicH^1"- Morrow I k therefore regards the cA'? spread oi I teprosy in this countryM possibility J *trong enough to requirBac*?PtioQ of legislative measures foM ^?hition ot every leper, and to preM*c immigration from foreign countjff" those who J ffcave ia their systemafce^s ?* the I f?ghtful and so far ^E>le malady. Contrary to the opinio?1^ foreign physicians of emineJI maintains, from his personal o'ose^P ?' leprosy in the Sandwich Islafip1^ there is "'the most abundant a^FJusiveproof m of its eminent contagiB5- 11 uuh B is tl e case, of course^ iei)er is dac gerous, observes the B York m **or is it safe to assumJB^e susceptim bility to leprosy is extjB:ed ^7 eiviliK zatioa. As Dr. Morr&s> spread of leprosy in the Sa*f Elands has BP been coincident with ^ anced civiiiK tatioa of tfee aatiyes, jS THROUGH DIXIE. 3UMMABY OF ! SOUTHEEU" Happenings of Suecial Importance Prom Virginia to he Lone Star State. ! ffOBTH CAROLINA. The production for August of the new Hoover Hill Gold Mine in Randolph county was 12 ounces of bullion. Rob Roy won the trotting race at the Concord fair in 3.13 and 3.00, and Black Bess won the running race. Dr. Kemp P Battle delivered an address on the Farmer and Education. Dennis Murphy, a young white man, was accidentally shot at Charlotte while bartering for the sale of a revolver in the gunsmith shop of A. R. Williams. The 1 ball entered just below the left corner ot his mouth, ranged upward, tearing away two jaw teeth, splitting liis tongue and lodged in the back of his head. The i physicians would not probe for the ball. The weapon was nickel- plated, 32-calibre. The physicians say the wound is not necessarily fatal. Murphy is resting easy. A letter has been received from Russel Alger, the Michigan millionaire, saying that he intended to visit North Carolina iu the near future with a view of investing some of his vast accumulated wealth. It is not know* j.ust what line of business he will interest himself in, but it is believed he will place a good deal of money in the state. Hammet J. Harris, of Davidson county, an ex-member of the legislature, died Mondav. awed ^ 7 ?0 ? Dr. J. C. Gidney. a prominent physician and druggist of Shelby, died Wednesday of heart trouble, aged 54. Dr. Gidney was secretary of the Cleveland county board of health, county physician and county treasurer, and secretary of the Masonic Lodge. He leaves a widow. He was buried with Masonic honors. J. T. "Wyati & Co. will shortly erect a distillery for making sassafras and pennyroyal oil in Salisbury. SOUTH GABOLINA. The trustees of Charleston college elected H. F. Wagencr, of Charleston, to the chair o* the modern languages, and Beauregard Boaz, of Virginia, assistant professor of mathematics. There were over one hundred applicants for the position, and these came from all parts of the world. It is regarded as the most remarkable election ever held. The salaries are $l,200'each, and there were applicants from Europe, Asia aod America. Mr. C. S. Gadsden, representing the Plant system, has purchased for $60,000 the road and rolling stock of the Green Pond, "Walterboro and Branchville railroad. The new desks for the House of Representatives, which the secretary of State was authorized to purchase, have been received by that officer. They aro handsome single desks of antique oak, one for each member. They will be ranged around the hall in curred line?, after the plan of the congressional arrangements. The State has not saved much by making stricter rules for the allowance of pensions and decreasing the payments. The number of applications approved and pensioners paid during the fiscal year just closed was 1,952, only 73 less than last year under the old law. The appropriation of $50,000 was exhausted bv the payment to each pensioner of $2.40 in September instead of $3, the sum allowed. A special meeting of the Penitentiary Twixd was hpld at. Hnlnmhia for the rmr pose of investigating cases of convicts deserving of clemency, aod several recommendations for the commutation of sentences wore made to the Covernor. The directors inspected the big Taylor farm in Lexington county, a few miles from Columbia, which they desire to buy for the institution when authorized by the Legislature. TENNESSEE. Another rich company has been organized at Chattanooga for making iron and steel. Charles Lacy, a well-known livery man of Memphis, was shot and killed at Dexter, by a negro named Bill Swift. A few days ago Swift stole a mule from John Farrable a farmer, living near Dexter, and brought it to Memphis, where he traded it with Lacy. Farrable ap peared and claimed the mule. Lacy swore out a warrant for Swift and in company with Farrable drove out to the thiff's house. Swift was ready for them and as Lacy opened the door he shot him dead. The murderer escaped. A Chattanooga saloonkeeper by the name of George A. "VVarmack fell from the second story window of his residence, a distance of twenty-five feet, and sustained injuries from the effects of which it is thought he will die. r\ jrroiessor vadium ocusuvmu, piufessor of modern languages, in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, is dead. He contracted typhoid fever while on the coast this summer. He leaves a wife and one child. He will be buried at Gallatin. GEORGIA. Tom Ruck, Ed. Butler, Charley Harris, and Will Olio, four white boys, were arrested at Augusta for being drunk. Several packages of cigarettes were found on them, and they admitted haying buying the weed from Mike Sheehan, a dpaler on McKinnie street. Shehan will be tried for violating the law against selling cigarettes to miDors. The Augusta Brewery company -will also be prosecuted for selling the boys a keg of beer. The Atlanta Perfumery company intend to erect a factory and distillery this winter, for the manufacture of raw materials for perfumery, with a capacity of AAA ? f "?n 4 *"%/* UOQCiMI puuau5 Ui iivnvio 1U .IV 9V4MWU, The plant is to be put up ic the orangs belt of Florida. Frank E. Ramza, of Ramza & Arno, acrobatic comedians, now with Wilson's Minstrels, died at Atlanta of malarial fever. lie was burifd Sunday by the Birmingham Lodge of Elks. An Athens special to the Constitution said: "Major Hill, colored, of Banks county, challenged Will Gobee, also colored, to a duel. The men met and were placed in position, when Hill broke and ran, ending the fight." VIRGINIA. A silk I'a^toiT with machinery for 200 hands, is about to be set jap in Fredc-ri icksburg. ! The Mayo Bridge and Improvement Company has been chartered in the Richmond city court. The objects are to run a toll bridge between Richmond and Manchester, and other points ovei the James river^and elsewhere also to construct steam, electrical, horse and j other railways, to erect buildings, mms, I etc., to furnish gas and electnc light, to utilize water power, etc. The capital stock is to be from $50,000 to $1,000,000, Ware B. Gay, of Boston, President.. On Septenibei 16th the body of a man was found in Oakwood cemetery with a pistol near by with one chamber empty. Ineffectual efforts have been made to ascertain the name of the suicide. Friday a looking glass was found near the spot with the following words scratched on the back: "My name is John Bowen, of Baltimore." .Tosenh B. Davis will erectanlant for x utilizing the ammoniacal liquor i'rom the City Gas Works in Richmond, Ya. D. W. R. Read and others are organizing the Lynchburg Drug Mills to manufacture paint, drugs, chemicals, tobacco flavors, barytes, etc. A building has been secured. Capital paid in will be about $50,00C. fir Anm a rbUJ&iiM.. "W. II. Adams, a postal clerk on the route between Melbourne and Jupiter Inlet, died Sunday night from the effects of a rattlesnake bite. About midnight on Saturday he accidentally stepped on the snake as he was walking on the public highway. The serpent buried his fangs in Adams's leg. He twisted a handkerchief about tho wound and hurried to a physician. The wound was cupped and poulticed and whiskey used freely, but the treatment availed nofhinD the natient suffering intonselv until ?o? x - o ? the poison finished its work. Sunday night burglars entered the Jacksonville postofiice and opened the safe in the most skilful manner. Only $160 was secured. Nothing else was disturbed. No clue. A board of trade of Jacksonville took final steps toward making Jacksonville a cotton market. "Warehouse facilities have been secured temporarily and a stoCK company nas Deen iormeu to duiiu a new warehouse. All Farmer's Alliance growers will ship their cotton to Jacksonville, and a Brunswick, Ga., firm has agreed to open an office there and ship largely through this port. It is expected that at least eighty thousand bales will be handled there this year. OTHER STATES. At Cedar Bluffs, Ala., Pat Calhoun, J. D. Williamson, Henry Jackson and John King, principals and seconds in the late Calhoun-Williamson duel, were placed under $ouu Donas to appear in court on Dec. 1. A. C. Pool, editor of tlie Vernon, La. News, and Lee C. McAlpin, sheriff of the Vernon Parish, shot and killed each other at Rabelien last Friday in McAlpin's office, the resnlt of a newspaper controversy. The Pioneer Chemical Co. has been incorporated to manufacture medicines in Augusta, Ga. At Blountsville, Blount county, Ala , Saturday morning, George Smith, aged 72, was tried before a jury of twelve in the Circuit Court and found guilty of an assault and fined $20 dollars for kissing his eighteen year-old niece, Annie Slaughter. Governor Lowry,of Miss., has appointed Hon. Thomas H. Woods, of Meridian, judge of the "supreme court, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Arnold. He was strongly endorsed by the bar, and is thought to be well equipped for the place. His term will expire in May, 1891. A Dallas, Texas, recent trade issue makes a splendid showing for Dallas, which at the close of ttie war was a small town. Here are a few points: Pooula tion 65,000, taxable values $21,000,000, six hundred new buildings in ten months costing $3,500,000, ten banks, twentyeight miles of street railways, ninety-one factories, railroads in twelve directions. Wild Land Speculation. The town of Trenton, Tenn., eighteen milts south of Chattanooga, on the Alabama Great Southern Road, is on a great boom, occasioned by tlie reported closing of a big deal by a Northern syndicate in volving the purchase of large tracts of mineral and town lands, and pledging the syndicate to spend $600,000 in improvements. Hundreds of people are therefrom Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and other States laying off old cornfields, etc., into town lots. The people are fairly wild, and large amounts of property are changing hands. Thursday's sales amounted to $40,000, and the following day's reached about goO, 000. Another deal, known as the Pudding Mountain deal, is now on foot, and part of the inonoy to consummate it has been placed in a Chattanooga bank. This deal involves thousands of acres of iron J! J3 x"L - 1 i.1 .f iL.T ana coai ianu anu. ine location 01 cue iurnace and rolling mill. Eastern men are behind this, and it will be closed in a few days. This will cause greater excitement than ever. The sccnes of 188G are being re-enacted in Trenton, and large sums are being realized. Charleston vs. Chinese. The first over act of the war ef expulsion instituted by the municipal authorities of Charleston against the heathen Chinese was committed Wednesday, when the city sheriff sold at auction the effects of -five Chinese laundrjmen, who had sneaked into the city and opened laundries. The city charges a license of $15 for laundries. The five heathens opened laundries and refused to pay the license. The sheriff levied upon their effects and sold them. A wealthy Chinaman named Charlie Chin Souy bought the entire outfit for $50. and will re establish His countrymen in ousmes?, diu the Sheriff -will levy on their effects again and again until he realizes the entire $500 besides tbe cost. Most cI the laundrying in the city is done by the negro women, and these have declared war against the he athen, and will aid the municipal authorities in the tight. An Officer Killed. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 3.?Charlie Sparks, a United States deputy marshal, was shot and killed at Bell Green, Franklin county, by a man named Loc-k Ezzell, who wa3 resisting arrest. Sparks was a u'Ood officer, and had agreatmaDV friends, who, together with sheriff Watrip, are out with a posse after the murderer. A reward of $150 has been offered for Ezzell's arrest. M.irfu, ! IHIHHIIWI i 11 mm ik ; FOUR NEW STATES. ADDED TO OUB COMMONWEALTH. t ' Montana, Washington and The Dakotas at The Polls.?All Eepublican "With Montana. fn Dnnht. The elections in the four new States in the Northwest have been held, and the voters have given expression to their political views. WASHINGTON. So far as heard from the vote against women suffrage is two to one. The legislative ticket is believed to ba Republican throughout. Washington capital fight will be probably net settled until a later election, a majority vote being required. Terrey (Hep) is elected Governor and Wilson (Rep) for Congress. SSONT-ISA. Reports from all sections of the Territory indicate that there was no disorder of any kind. In Helena, scarcely a man was seen under the influence of liquor, and there were no attempts at illegal voting. The Australian balloting sysrem proved, so far as heard from, a complete success. The ticket is a long one, and it will be late before sufficient returns are in to exactly know the result on Governor and Congressman. At least a quarter of a million was staleod on the result in Helena alone, most of it in the ratio of $10,500 on ; ivuitj i/cuiuviai/iu ivi uv*ernor, to $2,800 on Power, "Republican candidate. Even money has been the rule on bets on ila^innia and Carter, candidates for congress, 'while on the legislative tickets tbe Democrats, gave odds of 2 to 1. Helena is the capital, no other town contesting for the honor. NORTH DAKOTA. The legislature is strongly Republican. Tlio Democrats elect Senators in eleven districts. The Republicans get twenty, with the 23rd district.in doubt. The Republicans also get thirty-six members of the assembly. The Democrats get 18, and there are five districts in dnubt. Ilamsbr-.ngh, Republican, is elected to Congress by about; 12.000 majority. Bismarck was chosen as tho capital of'North Dakota; no opposition. The ticket elected is as follows: Jno. Miller, Governor; Alfred Dickey, Lt. Gov.; John Flittle, Sec'y of State. SOUTH DAKOTA. The Republicans have made a clean sweep of the State. The majority, as shown by "Mellette for Governor and Pickler and Gilford for Congress, will' be from 10,000 to 12,000. The Republicans will have a large majority in the Legislature, thus insuring the election of two Republican United States Senators. The constitution is earned almost unanimously, and the minority as to representation is so far in minority as to be almost lost sight of. There is hardly a doubt that prohibition has carried, as the cause got a good majority in many of the leading towns, and everywhere its success is conceded. In the contest for. the capital of South Dakota were Pierre, Watenown, Huron and Sioux Falls. Pierre was chosen, having received the highest nuunDtr oi votes. A Southern Woman's Ohaim The charm of the Southern woman is not that she knows so much, is not that her gowDS are the very latest style, or that she aspires to any high degree of * physical culture, but that she is essen tially a woman. She is a happy girl, she expects to be a mother Bome day. She doesn't think all thi3 out, but still if the question were to be put to her, she would tell you that it was the truth She does not wear a tailor-made gown wiili the chic of the New York girl, but she is wonderfully bewitching in the white one'that she dons in an evening, and in Which, just now, she locks a bit like a picture taken from one of the old Beauty Books. She "wears a full, plain skirt, a bodice that is cut round at the neck, showing the white, firm flesh, and the sleeve# that are the veritable and yet which show the entire arm. About her waist is a white ribbon belt, and just in front is a buckle set with briliiants that gran'dmftmmn wore in her dancine davs. Her ? - - ? - fj ? - - hair is knotted low on her neck, and just on one side is placed a great creamy white rose. She will tell you that ?he heard that the beautiful girl who married the Duko of Portland inclined to wearing a flower in this way, and then she remembers that there was a picture 'home of some aunt who was famous in her time, and who had her rose placed just so, and from it she learned the nrcmer method of arrangement. Now. i. I <-? * tliis is a pun-and-iuk photograph of a real living girl who is going to marry a New York millionaire.?Boston Trareler. Mr. Tweedy's Wrong. Augusta, Ga.?Mr. Ephriam Tweedy,a prominent Republican, who is an as^ pirant for Postmaster of Augusta, is prosecuting Mr. Fred. Jones, a society youDg man, upon a charge of adultery, Which Mr. Tweedy alleges young Jones committed "with his wife, Mrs. Jesse Tweedy, a handsome lady, on the night of September 5th, at hiB house on Elbert street. The court room was crowded all day with the best people of the city anxious to hear the testimony of Mr. l weeay, wno is cue principal wime??. i The evidence was not reached. "Wednes- I clay as the entire day was consumed by lawyers arguing the point whether the . husband can testifv against his wife. That point has not yet been decided by the Court. Mrs. Tweedy is not here, having left a few nights after the crime is.alleged to have been committed. She is in Atlanta with relatives. The case is the first of its kind ever tiied in the courts of Aui gusta, and the people are surprised at I Mr. Tweedy dra^gin^ it into the courts. I Mr. Tweedy has filed a libel for divorce, | which ,.iil be heard in a few weeks. Cap9 Faar and Yadkin Valley, Twenty-three miles of the track of the C. F. & Y. V. railroad between Wilmington and Fayetteville has been laid. The intermediate trestles between the end of the track and Black River bridge are being constructed and will not delay the work of laying the rails. A. turn out i i hasbc-ei: nut in near Mott'3 Cross-roads. ; k # . ' i seventeen miles from Wilmington in. | Pendur county. It is proposed to chII the place "Currie." in honor of Sir. J. j H. Currie, of the firm of Wood & Currie,. I of Wilmington. y j THE FA&MEBS' NEW MOVE Tare Mnst be Settled for Whon the Parmer Sells Hi a Cotton. The national committee of the Farm ers' Alliance met at Atlanta and adopted the following preamble and reiolutions: "Whereas, the Association of American Cotton Exchanges met in New Orleans on the 11th, and in conjunction with various commissioners of agriculture and j representatives of the farmers' interests, j did recommend that cotton be sold by weight as a solution of the tare question; and whereas, information now received shows that said action has not received tne approval oi a sufficient number ol > Cotton Exchanges, and to enable the j New Orleans Cotton Exchange to carry i it out, commencing on the time agreed I upon, to-wit, October 1, 1889; and j whereas, the action taken by the New I Orleans Cotton Exchange, in faTor of assisting the farmers to get paid for the eigbt pounds more cotton than each cotton-wrapped bale contains than the jutecovered, is highly appreciated, but for said Exchange to contend for the cause | in spite of the fact that many leading j exchanges had deserted, ia especially j commendand will be co-operated in ! by the interests wo represent; and whereas, the justice and equity of the farmers1 claim on the tare question is basea on the fact, which stands boldly and undisputed and indisputable, that erery cotton wrapped bale actually contains eight pounds more of lint cotton than it would if covered with jute: Therefore, it is hereby resolved, That the action had by the Shreveport Cotton Exchange be adopted in the present em^'-gency, and every farmer is hereby instructed, when offering for sale cotton wrapped in cotton bagging, to demand payment for eight pounds more of cotton than the actual gross weight of such bale. Resolved, That this action is intended to supersede and take the place of the tare question. In no case shall a bale ; of cotton be sold subject to a dock of sixteen pounds for cotton bagging or twenty-four pounds for jute bagging as agreed in New Orleans unless the cotton be sold at half a cent per pound in . advance of the current price at that time and placc. Further instructions will be given the Ureter by the national cotton committee on the 26th of Octobar, through the president of each County Alliance, " Wheel or Union of their county sites, where the President of each Primary Alliance, Wheel or Union will meet ! them to receive the same. Signed; J. R. Sledger, chairman, Texas; M. L. Donaldson, South Carolina; ' W. J. Northen, Georgia; T. T. Hather, Louisiana; Oswald Wilson, Florida; S. B. Alexander, North Carolina; B. M. Hord, Tennessee; S. P. Feathers tone, Arkansas. A Queer Oase of Lunacy. | D. A. Reid, a well-known citizen of , Chattanooga. Tenn., formerly a member ' of the firm of J. K. Sneed & Co , Mem pms,wno lately Dougnt tne mountain : cave in north Alabama, and was elected ; general manager of the Alabama Black Land, Coal and Iron company, has become violently [insane, and was taken 1 into custody. His company has organized a new town called Memphis, and extend- : ing from Scottsboro to' Lime Rick, Ala 1 batna, and Reid's hallucination is that the 1 Memphis is a sort of an association. He j started out the other morning with a rifle on his shoulder, and flipped nickels &t hk acquaintances. He then announced i that the Memphis would give ai* enter tammcnt at the opera house, ana forced his wife to accompany him there. The principal part of the performance con sistcd in his violently striking his -wife's head against the building, which he did a number of times, and would p.obably have killed her had the police not sac ceeded in stopping him. He is now in 1 the city jail, awaiting an inquisition of . lunacy. h ~ T-*- Cfi.i. TTT-J J." Q-U jJiici-cttttD neumu?. |. Allegitajnt Station, Ya.,?There was a romantic wedding the other day on top of the Alleghany Mountain. The bride was on'e of the rosy mountain girls, Miss Honard. The groom was a splen did specimen of manhood. The ' mountain selected is directly upon the border between the Virginias. The bride and groom redo ';:p and dismounted. They were met t;.ere by the Ret. Mr. Suerren, a Mjchodist minister from "White Sur *r Springs. The wedded couple st i upon the Virginia side, wllilA fl. .lov/yrrmftw p^AArl Awn* IITIA *1^ J1L4C*" otvvu wci wo uuw in We-: Virginia, as he could not perform ""'.j ceremony in Virginia. The Peabody Educational FnncL New York,?The trustees of the Peabody educational fund held their 27th annual meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Among the trustees present were: Ex-President Cleveland, ex-President Tiayes, Justice S. J. Field, Chief Justice Fuller, and others. Hon. J. If. M. Currv, of Richmond, Va., reported a grati fying increase of interest throughout the South. "William "Wirthenry, of Richmond, and JudgeR B- Summerville, of Alabama. Tvere electcd trustees to fill the vacancies caused by tha resignation of Trustees Stewart and Jackson. A. banquet followed in the evening. "Where He Got The Counterfeit Money. A ttoo rtrnofori in omk/arQ A ocuoauvu ??tw v&vc*fv%* au county, Ala., several days ago by the arrest of Rev. J. H. M. Duran, a Methodist minister, charged with. passing counterfeit money. He was lodged in jail, and his trial came off Tuesdf y He admitted that he had passed spi nous money, but proved that he had got it out of the contribution box. There -were eight silver dollars in the box, and seven of them were counterfeits. He said God and the sinners who passed the coins were the nnltf nnpc .vchA triAW Thft nftilfi VT89 dismissed on account of the officers inability to get absent -witnesses. . A National Bagging Trust, Si.. Louis; Mo.?The bagging interests of the United State# ar$ to consolidate under the' name of the American Manufacturing Co., of New York. About twenty dhffr-rent factories at various nninte it io stntpf^ rtp ttt Via ftTlsrcrhfd into the* American company. "Warren, Jones & Gratz, of St. Louis, the head of the jute bagging trust are the chief promoter of the new organization. The combination is precipitated by the Missouri anti .trust law.' NORTH _AND WEST. newsy items by telesbaph, Being A Condensation of the Prmcroal Happenings in Different States A Chicago bookkeeper is off for Caoa da with $39,000. The world's visible supply of cotton is 1,070,988 bales. The Florida Farmei a' Allian ze Convention has adjourned. It Is said that $50,000,000 of American property is owned by Englisnmen. One man was killed by a railroad col- \ lision at Wilmington, Del., on Saturday -afternoon. The danger of running passenger traina twu v/iwo^/ n ao luuauatcu ai x aia" tine Bridge, New York, on Friday night last. Five persons killed and a large number injured. A meeting of sixty or seventy Fourth district Democrats was held at the Sherman House, Boston, in the interest of John L. Sullivan's candidacy for Congress in that district. Eulogistic speeches we re made and plans were laid for securing the champion's nomination at the 'ixpiration of the Hon. J. H. 0?Neir? term. Shipping circles in Baltimore were somewhat alarmed at the yellow flag displayed on the British steamer Recta, C'apt. Lowe, which arrived in ballast i from St. Lucia, West Indies, to load for London. She remained at Quarantine with eight seamen aboard having what : is thought to be charges of fever. The Captain remained aboard the ship, but the pilot was allowed to land. A man and his wife wore killed by a boiler explosion at Wrightsville, Penn., on Saturday. The committee selected by the Cali fornia Legislature to erect a monument : in honor of J. W. Marshall, discoverer ; of gold in California, has accepted the monument made by Sculptor Wells of ; Sun Francisco and ordered payment of his claim. The statue will bo unveiled 1 at Goloma, Eldorado county, the site of i the discovery of gold, next May. Some of the old canL.on and anvils whioh wereused in the settler's fort will be placed in position about the monument. A bashful young Icelandic woman was landed at Castle Garden Monday from the steamship Ethopia. Her name is Guddjorg Bjarnardoptis. She is from Reykjavik. Matthia* G ruber, a member of Company P A fVi Vofirvno 1 rvf "Pi>nn_ 1 Uj A V/^iUiwUb| AlOUVllOl UIKUUVI JL VUU sjlvania, was shot through, the back and ibdomen at target practice at Allentown. He cannot live. Action has been commenced by Attorney General Tabor, of New York state, against the Assembly ceiling contractor, John Snaith, in the Supreme Court of Oaeida County, to recover $250,563. The Albany County sheriff arrested Snaith, who gave bail in $50,000. A canal 250 miles long i* to be built for navigating purposes in New Mexico, [t will be 80 feet wide. J J California engineers have accomplish sd the difficult task ot lilting the i'eather River, a fast flowing stream, fifty feet, and carrying it for more than half ^ a mile in an artificial bed at that height ] above its old channel. It has been ac- } romplished in a little less than a year. | The object was to drain the river near ( Oroville in order to reach the very rich i gold deposits believed to exist in its bed, < The promoters of the great enterprise ( are chiefly Englishmen. The fiftieth birthday of Miss FraBcis E. Willard, President of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, was celebrated Saturday night by a huge gathering in the First Methodist Churcn, Evanston, HI, Messages of congratulation were read from notable people throughout the oountry, including the poet YVhittier. The Brotherhood of Bat* Ball Players has leased two block* of ground in NewYork city. A special to the New York World from Ottawa says: British Columbia advices state that the United States Cruiser Rush i? expected shortly to call at Victoria on her way south, and that it is feared trouble may ensue between the crews of the seized sailing schooners and their frisnds and the orew of the Rush. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad have ordered 1,000 more freight cars and twenty new locomotives. Four mill operatives living near Pontoosuc Lake, Mass., were rowing on the ' lake when the boat was overturned. Alfred Ford and Firon Champion were drowned. The other two were rescued by a boat from shore. Admiral Kimberly has arrived at San Francisco He was given an ovation at Honolulu. On August 80th last Arthur F. Dow. a prominent business man of Littleton, N. H., the owner of three dry goods stores, a coal and wood yard, and a creamery, came out of his coal office, aad directing one of his drivers to tell has wife that a telegram had called him to Plymouth, N. H., and that he would be back on the 4 o'clock train, disappeared toward the railway station. He took a train for Plymouth, since which timehis friends have neither seen nor heard from him. Aire. Dow hai offered a reward of $500 for his capture. MAF7 LIVES LOST. The Boilers of a Pasaonger Steamer Ex' ploda With Fatal Eeralts. The iteamer Corona, of the Onachila consolidated line, which left New OrTIT J _ 1 .r i-v leans weanrsaay evening lor me unachiia river, exploded her boilers at False river, nearly opposite Port Hudson about noon Thursday, causing the loss of the steamer and about forty lives. The Anchor Lin? steamer, City of St. Louis, happened near by and her crew saved many lives. The following is a list of the passengers lost, so far as known, besides the crew of 20 lost: Dr. Atwell, a chiropodist, and four negro musicians traveling with him; Scott, of Smithland, La.; Sin. LJavis, oistocuman, jiexas; ?ir. noenicn; Mr?. Huff, of Opelousas, and Mrs. Kaufmnu's nurse and eldest child. The < orona^aa on her fibt trip of the season, and had but recently been repaired at an expense of $12,000. She yas valued at $20,000. V f WHY SLIGHT "TEE SOUTH? i Pensacola Insists that the Delegates to the Continental Congress Shall Visit That Port, Tho following communication has reached Secretary of State Blame and the matter of bringing the delegates. South will be brought to the attention of the board of trade of-- Birmingham and chamber of commerce as Pensacola immediately : Pexsacola, Fla., September 2S.?To the Hon. J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State, ?Sir.: It has been given out by the As-. sociated Press, as shown in the enclosed clipping, that the department of State wilL by the 3d pros, start a train bearing delegates from South and Central America to the InternationaT"Congress for a tour over twenty States of the Union,' that they may appreciate the vast re- i <jrniwv>a nf niir r>rmntrv Of fru? mentioned Kentucky appears as the most southern in the list. ? The object of this communication is ' to submit respectfu'ly, and.to most earnestly petition that this expedition be extended to Pensacola. It would be de-, plorable if these delegates are not shown Birmingham, Ala., the centre of. the minerai development which-has aston- ' ished the world. Once at Birmingham I1 it .would follow as a natural sequence that these delegates should visit Pensacola, the only land-locked deep-water i harbor on the const of tiie (iulf of Aiexi-11 co, and the natural outlet of the inter- ; change of traffic between the Gulf States ' and Central and South America. For !1 years the people of the Gulf States hav6 ( watched with interest the grewiDg ] tendency for better commercial relations ^ with both Americas. 5 Pensacola has already a largo timber ( trade with both, and itffliarljor ouers security and deep water to the fleets J which are to carry our increasing com1 merce. Pensacola is the nearest port to Birmingham, the centre of the coal and mineral section of the South. Taking Nashville as a common point through ( which the produce of the vast areas of 1 the Middle and Northern States would 1 pass, Pensacola offers the port nearest to producers, whether on the Atlantic or i Gulf, through which commodities can be \ sent to the nations south of us. I beg. 1 therefore, that you trill grant our peti- ] rtonsand give our neighbors an oppor- j tunity to see our Gulf. Respectfully, ( "W. D Chipley, Mayor, i ( ? ? 1 Superstition in Alleghany County. j Allejrnany Station. Ya..?A month 5 igo Dick WiDSton, a track walker on the 1 ^hesipeake and Ohio railroad, was asr ias^inated by another ne<?ro, who asserted ( :hat he had bewitched a member of his * family. Another negro. Joe Rose, who 1 eras liked by blacks and whites, sue. ' - - - - i * -r 1!C seeded mm. jno sooner naa joe entered ? apon his duties than he asserted that he tad seen the spirit of the dead Winston c jit her entring the tunnel where he form j jrly worked or the culvert where he fell tvhen shot. Strange characters would suddenly shine out upon the dark sides of the interior of the tunnel like the famous handwriting on the wall. These strange visitations continued for a month. Joe went to the White Sulphur Springs 3n Saturday night. At the station he , iccidently brushed against a mulatto ; boy, one of the crowd of negroes who lang about. The mulatto would take no explanation !)ut going to his room . brought down his revolver and shot Rose dead. The nesrroes connect the ghostly appearances \riLh this fatality, considering them to have been -warnings to Rose 3f his approaching death. Fruit Groiriag Oat of tlis Eocks. A hardy apple tree, loaded with rips, luscious fruit, growing from the crevices of a rock, was a curiosity which attracted the attention of visitors to Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the past summer.' The tree, which is very large, shoots uj from the crevice of the rocks blasted tc form the pool for the pumping at th? Fairmount Water Works. The apples on the tree were the beauti ful rosy ^cheeked, yellow variety, and; j from their quality and size it would sp- j pear that there was some rich source ol i sustenance, though none was visible fron j any point of view, the roots being plainly j seen clinging to the'rocky walls, shooting j in one crevice and cut of another. Hundreds of small boys tried, day after day, to procure specimens of the fruit, but th? isolated position of the tree saved it Irvuj their raids. . _. More Praudulant Louisiana Bonds. New Orleans, La.?The statement is now made that irregularities have been discovered in what are knows as B:ib>. bonds, commencing at No 103.o00, -with some slight regularity previous to that number. Nearly all of the Baby bonds above 102,000 are fraudulent. s The State Auditor and Treasurer will soon take up this branch of-the invest^- j gation. Attorney-General Rogers ad- j inits that the Baby bond3 have been ab- j stracted or. otherwise tampered - with to [ the amount of $400,000. According to Judge Roger's figures,-the defalcation already in right will reach more than $1.200,000. Booth and Modjeska in Pittsburg. , Edwin Booth and Mme. Modjsuka opened iheir season Monday night at the Grand Opera House in Pittsburg in ; "The Merchant of .Venice " It was the first appearance of Mr. Booth and Mme.Modjeska, and, despite the disagreeable 4 weather, the large auditorium was j packed. The indications arc that the J engagement will* be the largest ever j played by Mr. Booth in this city The J Combination goes to Cleveland for one j week and then to New York for eight ; weeks. Danville's Tobacco Trade. Monday closed the Danvillp, Va., to*; bacco years. Sales of leaf tobacco i on warehouse floors for the year j were 28.803.363 pcuads;-a decrease fro;:; | I-.* V, . O -trwi AAA T'^ .. ! ladt o dated i>i 4r,oyu,vvv. j j average price was ?8.To per 100. The j decrease in sales was due to the' short crop. The sales of uian-ufacrured pro duct since January 'were 5.807,000 pounds, an increase over the same tinje of last year of neaily 2.000.000 pounds." Planning a $3,000,000 EoteL A New York syndicate of eight men have secured an option on real estate for the site of a $3,000,000 hotel at Louis ville, Ky., after the styie of the Hotel Ryan at St. Paul. The location is convenient to the Chesapeake and Ohio station, and it is supposed that C. P. Huntington has an interest in the sup-., posed hoteL I * WASHINGTON NOTES. 'jl It is estimated at the treasury departmeet that there has been a decrease of ?13,500.000 in the public debt since the first of September. Bids were opened at the Treasury De- v5j partment for the construction of a court -- 2 ^ ni vr n ' uwuec duu puj>tuuu:c au v^uitnutte, JLUV*; .*& the lowest being that of J. E. Tinsley, of Staunton, Ya., at-?65,831. J ~M The comptroller of'the currency has authorized the First National Bank, of Tallahassee, Fla., to begin business wife a capital of C/ivjL service lyommissioner Hugb. Thompson and his wife Have given i*p their streets house for the season and ; have taken apartments 1.332 Mass&ehu. setts avenue. Miss Thompson is visiting relatives in Soutii,Carolina, but will. JN be back for the winter gayeties. fl| Beautiful -white marble busfc-o*3S?3. Cleveland, upon a pedestal of black and white marble,', is at present occupying a corner of Mrs^-Wilson's drawing room, v It was left in the ex-Marshal's "charge V 7|jS when Mr.' Cleveland went to New York. \ '*, The bust is life-size, and is the work of \ -. :'fi G. Scanki, Genoa, and bears date, 1886. jmi It was made from imores lions taken when sha travelled ia Europe. The marble represents the head and'shonldtsfs, showing the chest midway. ' The hair Is" MA Pressed in the style that is now familiar to the public-as that worn in the photographs extent of this popular lady, in a coil on the top of the head. The features ' ire idealized, and the form is slight. rhe drapery is a knitted -undergarment i made with square opening at the neck, ^ 2d<yed with Hamburg trimming, and a Jfl| knitted shawl falling from the shoulders A in a roll forms the edge of the bust. - The JH statuary will be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland as soon as they are located in l Vfo<^ %cnr? oxr/irmo Iiaitc/* nna-r street, New York ciiy: LATE OABLEG-EAMS, Subscriptions to the fund to meet the expenses of Parnell in his defence before the Parnell commission have closed. The :otal amount subscribed is ?1,000. By the treaty between Italy and King ilenclik of Abyssinia, the latter engages * ' J :o communicate with other powers only *' Vvrnri<-rTi Ttoltr T>tt tT-?ic frnofr +V> A n?v I ?ing of Abyssinia has in effect accepted :he protectorate of Italy over the whole >f Abyssinia and Shoa, and the sovereignty of that power over Massowah on ' :he Red Sea coast, arid Keren and AsTiara on the northern highlands of Abys sinia. The Italian t.rfrq>ps-have alread^^^^^^ ;aken possession of Keren an3TCsmaaC~^. _/UJ| RheDish newspapers anuounce that N IJount Yon Hatzffcldt, German minister jo England, will shortly remarry his for- 4 ner wife, an American laav named J Vloalton. The ceremony will take place M it Wiesbaden. German government will ask a credit >f 300,000,O*>0 -marks -for bronze .guna or the hew smok^lpss powder. J .1 .r> xs. . T _ ? oou unu wart) 01 me jLaoraaorxans. The manner of subsistence of all the Indians and half-breed population of Labrador. is practically the same. The ijijM Montagnais and Nasquspees live in lodges the year round, whetlierinthe interior.or on the coast. The Esquimaux generally * fl live in igloes, a sort of turf-covered wig* fl warn, -when in the interior, and when afc ' fl the missions in rude huts modeled aftet^_J| the igloe;. while the few remaining dians seldom appear on the coast, unless H y.i *r> .Kr- fowsina A* Ttr'fion t"K/?TT /W\WA uiiv^u. AAA uy sjx. J TTAAWAL CAAVJ* WAUU r^mm to the villages to barter, when they bring all their belongings down the rivers and fl inlets in open boats, camping at night under sealskin tents. The* coast Labradorians, and there are not 600 others, are occupied in sealing.in the early spring; they fish in the summer and trap in the -winter; and these occupations ^ are common to all, including half-breeds \H and -whites. There"is nothing else to be done, whatever the ability or inclination. In the extreme north the clothing is ex- fl Mneivpl-c- coolcL-Tri onrl nn trio ?nnA aVinro th8 attire is a combination of sealskin and fustian; the" latter being especially _ I prized for withstanding the cruel" winds "** and storms of - the region. The number of stockings worn by these folks is often 4H astonishing. Four, five and. sometimes M a half-dozen are used inside their sealskin boots. There is nothing striking about the dress of the few white* women who are here, save that they remind one, in H the mountain of clothing they -bundle upon inemseives 01 me iremeuu.ous sains of the women of Irish Connemara. But^| the Indian women of the._sojjJh. Esquimaux womeri of the north are/wonderfully appareled. Anything they can get their hands upon -possessing gorgeous color is more noticeable among the worfiten ~ ' i of the St. Lawrence coast than with the northern Esquimaux.?New Orleans Time* fl Democrat. ~ Tka Fat TTiTes of' Labrador. - I The dress of the women of Labrador usually consists of huge1 -seal-skin 'boots, a petticoat, a seal-skin' garment covering H the -whole person from the neck' to'the' ' JHfl knees trimmed with -white for,' a cap en-veloping the .entire heajl. an^.a sort of baggy cape or hood hanging. .down. ,the. . , back, in which their fat little -babies,pee, flj carried. The cradle is unl^^ Vio 'P.cniiirr.onv hilt. ' tn'o ivnirp'tssl'* dencvof all mothers to bounce, ~s\?ayjfl^" heave about^the helplessfafant^Jfitf^as* ** tration here in the "jigg*ng?o^h?:I&-:r quimaux child, in its aerifsT.craddler.:v? Walking or .sitting the EsgfSimaa? rngthr_ ,j| er has an endtess s^y^kent like that of /J Jfl an old tar under a heavy sea. "It is a' " writhing, weaving, ' spraying Diction. which cannot be adequately described. But it suffice?, and the fat mother gets a good deal of exercise out of it, whatever the effect upon' the babe. Only among the half-breed women are' there forms and faces that are" attractive as civilized " ' fl folks judge-these things.* The compensation is-here, however, for- nearly all ^ H Esquimaux women will measure in girth fl what they will in height; and ail forms of fat represent the Labradorian idea of ^ both utility and" beauty. At childbear ing their" own women-officiate as mid- * wives; and they get- along very well in fl every respect without physicians.-,T!iere fl is not a resident doctor in all Labrador; nor, for tnat matter, a lawyer.?2?ew Orleans Times-Democrat. 4^ No More Gmblmg in New Orleans. .By direction vof .Orleans city 9 council Mayor Shakespeare has ordered 9 H the cioing of all the gambling houses in the city. The Mayor himself has been in,favor of licensing t';e.>e places, but .the council refused to endorse his views, fl and have ordered him to. close all the S gambling places at once. k. - A m w