The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 23, 1889, Image 1

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VOL. XLVI. * WINNSBORO, S. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1889. NO. 13. S>'' <5 The drum was used by the Egyptians end brought by the Moors in'e Spain. The Form* says that the wealth of the United States is $60,000,000,000, and that half of it is owned by less than 25,000 people. These are the men to put the world s fair on its feet. Cordele, one of Georgia's newest cities, Ss a place with, a population of 3000. A year and a half ago the site on which it is bnilt was a cornfield. It is already aspiring to have a street railway and electric lights. \ ' Probably the longest 1 'bee'* line railTray in the world is that from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes, It cov ~ crs about 275 miles, and is as straight as an arrow. The highest grade is about three feet to the mile. It crosses no ravine and no stream,^m^gfkgreioTO no bridge. According to the Portland Oregon wn the fact that the Western people are not slow in taking advantage of modern improvements is shown by the statemeni that one company alone during the last V.O-. A AAA 1VU L IHWUtU.") X LL ilCAi I > JLVjVVV electric lights,in Oregon and "Washington. > It is significant of the present state ot our knowledge of the interior of Africa that the makers of the big globe model n&f ^TT^-n^rfntrHrt' T?ariq had dunng^ the progress of their work twice to altei their representation of that continent in order to indicate the results of the most recent geographical discoveries. : There is every reason to expect that the great Exhibition at New York in 18S2 will far surpass the Paris Expo dition in tne matter of attendance, as it should also do in respect of grandeur and attractiveness. There will then be over 70,000,000 of our own people, and within a radius of fifty miles from New York the population will be nearly 4,000,000. Rice planners in the South are accus tomed to burn their rice straw to get it out of the way. "We understand that recent practical tests have demonstrated that this straw makes excellent paper material. One paper company has gone 60 far as to order some 3,000 or 4,000 tons of this straw to further experiment. Rice straw may yet prove to be a cottonseed in miniature. The results of these experiments will be watched with in-?terest. : Women vrho make their complexions clearer by the use of arsenic, should study medicine if they wish to keep themselves from the danger of being poisoned by the drug. A jliss phauncy, a noted beauty of Columbus, Qid^, whose fine complexion came from t-iking a mixture of arsenic and nitratofcf sih er turned herself almost black .-by going to the sulphur springs and taking baths. The sulphur decomposed the silver salts in her skin and now she has retired for a year to re^ co^r her lost looks. Km y ' ' The London docks, the sceue of the L recent strike, are one of the greatest systems of docking to be seen in the ^^orld. Up'ward of $100,000,000 have Mp expended in their construction, and QAdreds of acres are covered by them. Hk* are built of stone and concrete, |rae as substantial as such "work can 1c. Many of them date back to I of the century. The ic upon them is enormous, that in the -warehouses of company there is at all $25,000,000 worth of kte years been regarded werful competitor in the t market. Advices from ear, the New York Cominflirate that I we have little to fear from India's competition. th'e official estimate being that this season's output will be three-quarters of a million tons short of last year's As showing that no large marketable stock can be ?n hand, the official figures of India's wheat export for the second quarter of this year are of interest. It cfitomonf fV?af. Tnrlifl i I> CUiO DUUWUAVUV WMMV JLMV.... sent out in the three months 3,646,590 hundred-weights of wheat, a decrease of 3,139,046 hundred-weights from the 6ame quarter in 1SSS, and 4,890,752 hundred-weights less than in 1887. / "Don't brag and strut so much, Chicago, " facetiously remarks the Detroit Fret Press. 41 You are getting to I be a big, overgrown town, but there are dozens of cities to which you would aot make a respectable suburb. Your little million could be added to the five md a half millions of London without increasing the streaming city's central ' >- ?j-?i. fr*i? froar to any appreciate exieat. xuc at the base oi the Eiffel Tower is twice indfe half your size. The suburbs of New York contain as large a population 13 you have on all your hills, valleys and prairies. Even Mongolian Canton could swallow you twice in rapid succession. Soochow, Hanehow, Kingtehching and Changehow all lap over tyo'i, and towns that are your equal in size and superiors in virtue swarm all over the Middle kingdom from the A moor to the Brahmapootra and from the mountains of Thibet to the Yellow Ocean. Go to, Chicago." THROUGH_ DIXIE. S3MMABY OP SODTHEKH RE ' S. Happenings of Fpjcial Importance From Virginia to the Lone Star State. KOETH CAEOLINA. The new wing to the North Carolina penitentiary will he completed by the 1st of February. "Rev. T. M. N. George, of Durham, has accepted the call of the congregation of Christ Church. Newhern, to the pastorate. Rev, Mr. Shields*goes, to Jacksonville, Fla. At a revival meeting in Durham Sam Jones asked ail the ^brethren who read the book of Hezekiah to stand up. Six pious brethren rose witn gravity, mey were "squelched"' when informed that there was no such hook. From "Watch Knob, a high peak in Buncombe county, there ai ises solid volumes of black smyke to the height of 00 and 100 feet above the tree tops, which remaius motionless for a few minutes and then vanishes. It has been seen every day for two weeks past and is creating ' ? 1 - rnu ~ great excitement amoDg me peupje. a uc phenomenon appears from 10 a. in., to 4 p. m. even on the brightest days. The Clyde Line steamer Pioneer, from New York.to Wilmington, went ashore two miles east of Ocrocoke Light, off the North Carolina coast. The crew of I eighteen men -were rescued by the life saving people at tlie inlet and lauded safely on shore. It is thought the steamer can be saved. Pennsylvania capitalists are negotiating the purchase of 22.000.acr<?s oi' timber land in Moore a;irl Montgomery" ocunties, jtnd if^mrchase is made will "iSigrvsiSge saw mil;3. Two new tobacco factories arc being erected at Durham. The Durham Bull Fertilizer Co , of Durham, X. C., have completed the building for their fertilizer factory at Richmond, and are putting in the machinery. SOU Til UA-KUL-LIN ii. The Governor appointed J. E. ~W. Chandler, Wm Harrell and J. E. Pettegrew commissointrs of flection for Florence County. The Columbia council are considering a bid of thcEIcctric Light Company for lighting the entire city with incandes cent lamps. A. E. Boozer, a South Carolina University graduate of the class of 1SS9, has been appointed assistant demonstrator in 1 =-- v:? -1 +? ? j cncmisiry iu ms vi u|jn<nuo Vi w hundred students iu the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. The silver medil was awarded lor South Garolia rice at the Paris Exposition. The South Carolina Naval Construction & Ship-owners' .Association has been chartered to establish the ship yard at; Charleston. Capital stock is $100,000. Corporators are Andrew Simonds, Geo. ? -OJ W AT or,/) ^f-V,oi-c JL>. JjU VV HI H JL/UU VWiivur. I. H. Meigban, of Columbia, has been commissioned ordinance officer on (Jen. R. X. Richbourg's staff, with the rank of major. Treasurer J. E. Murray, of Aiken County, lias made a settlement with Ihe comptroller general. Total State tax charged $26,991.39; commissions, $438; abated by comptroller general, $69 70; in hands of sheriff, $662 68; paid State treasurer, $25,771.01. TEN1JESSEE. The Raugum Root Medicine Co. has been chartered to manufacture medicines at Nashville. Sholtze Bros, arc moving their fertilizar works from St. Elmo to Blowing Spring, and enlarge same. I A soap factory is to be started at Chattanooga. F. A. Estep is fathering the enterprise. Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey; "William S?lrrorrroo<1 of Ralfimrvre. Md._ anfl others have bought of mineral lands in f East Tennessee, several hundred thousand acres, and will develop. The company is organized with capital stock of several millions. In Tracy City, a short lime ago, Calvin Johnson, a man with a wife and three children, took a young miss by the name of Prudie L. Duggan, and skipped out, leaving his wife and children in such hardVircumstance> that the citizens'.here have had to make up means for them to live on. It is now learned that Johnson ar,> of "KYirf Po i n<? I O UVI UiO j/atUUlVUl (U V >4V A Vi w A vm.v/j *a *w. j living as man and wife in a house with his wife's brother, a man by the name of Kilgore. VIRGINIA. Thomson & Crowdcr arc developing manganese and iron ore beds near Riverside. At the Rockingham county fair the public wedding of Mr. II. Dc Capper to Miss Louis Agnor, well known, highly respected ana connected pcopie 01 me county, was the feature of the clay. A handsome bedchamber suite of furniture and other useful and valuable articles were presented the bride. While Chauncy M. Depew was in Richmond he interviewed a reporter thoroughly on the growth of the cit}\ the chaiacter of the business men and the social customs of the people. He said he was informed as to the resources and prosper" V..X T -J! - J 4. A lty 01 Virginia, DUX, DC was giau w ?cl information from all the people he met. He said his party was on a tour of inspection over the Chesapeake and Ohio. The business of that line was developing rapidly, and it had a great future. He remarked that Mr. Vanderbilt was well read in Southern statistics, and had great faith in continued Southern development, Dut tnat ue never suonnc- i ted to an interview. A stock company has been organized ; to secure the removal to Roanoke of u ; Northern factory manufacturing hard- j ware specialties. Site has been donated and a two-story brick factory, 50x150 feet, is being erected. Eaton Bros, are starting a cheese fac torv at Amherst. At Richmond ou Sunday Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. O'Connell, president of the American college at Rome, consecrated Bishop Van de Vyver in the see of Rich mond. Mgr. O'Oonnell was the bearer I of and delivered into the handsof Cardi- j nal Gibbons a letter from the Pope, in i which the Holy Father congratulated the catholics of America upon the centennial of the establishment of the first See in this country; also prays God to shower Ilis blessings upon the great republic and its people. The dry dock at Norfolk, -which the Simpson company, of New York, built for the government, was formally acceptcd. The contract price is $495,707. Joseph B. Walsh, a large furniture manufacturer of 2823 Rockets street, Riehmonrl tnndn an assif/nment. Lia bilities about ?8,000, which is believed to be more than covered by the assets. GEOEGIA. The legislature killed the Olive Bill. The Farmers Alliance will organize a $100,000 stock company to erect a cottonseed oil mill and fertilizer factory at Newman. A. M. Lambdin, the grand king of the grand chapter of Georgia, was in Atlanta, whither he went to officiate in confering upon Governor Gordon, H. W. Grady and E. P. llowell the most excellent and royal arch degree. TV. ?1 J r\^ T,i x-aiKt'i auu lyouguujr, ui Ji/uugt wulily, are purchasing timber lauds and will manufacture ua%'ai stores. At Florence, the gin house of G. W. Willford, with 2.000 bushels of cotton seed and bales of cotton, was burned late Tuesday night. No insurance. Parties have made a proposition to build a large iron furnace at Rome, if local parties subscribe $75,000. At Smyrna, the Concord Woolen Hills were distroyed by lire. Cause unknown. Loss $100,000; no insurance. Fire broke out in the British steamer, Carlton, loading at Savannah with cotton for Liverpool. The steamer had 0,700 bales on board, of which but few bales were saved. A bill has been introduced in the Georgia legislatU?e to incorporate the ^.merican Co. witj^g Albert S. YYlitis, Augustus i'ullis, iiugn" II. Gordon, R. S. Miner, M. It. Constant and Gustan R. Wahl as corporators. The bill authorizes the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Panama, and the construction and operation of warehouses, factories, railways, cable lines, ctc. It is claimed that a new and practical route across the isthmus has been discovered, along which a canal can be cut at comparatively a small cost. The capital stock of the company will be limited to ^100,000 :it first. PLOEIDA. A $50,000 stock company has been organized to erect a cypress shingle mill at Jacksonville. An iron foundry and several ne>v factories are projected at Tallahassee. Phosphate beds iti the New river are to be developed. Florida has received twenty awards on its Paris exhibits, including four gold medals. Two of the latter are known to be ou sea island cotton and cigars. OTHEE STATES. Wednesday morning, on the Texas & Pacific Road at Maddeu, about sixty miles east of El Paso, Tex., a washout threw a freight engine and several cars down an embankment. Engineer P. J. Bible, recently of St. Louis, and fireman Clias. Jones, was caught under the side of the engine and literally roasted to death. Brakcman G. W. Manfield was also killed. James Ilickiy was arrested on some minor charge in lower Clinton county, Ala. Ilis captors consequently found that he was concerned in some brutal murders near Montevallo some weeks ago. lie confessed, and then he was swung to a limb and shot. Wallace O'Lcary, of Houston, Tex., is preparing to organize a $100,000 stock company to manufacture Kedam's Microbe Killer at New Orleans. mi L All! A11C J>tO\\Jlll Aiijuuuc iuauuia^tiuiuLj Co. has decided to build the cottonsced oil mill and fertilizer factory at Gadsden. Ala. A site has been selected. Julius Berg, of Lenoir, X. C., is reported as about to establish a tannery at Little Rock, Ark. C. H. Biic-hanan "\viil shortly add a dyeino denartment to his straw hat factory at Sheffield, Ala. Governor Hill At Atlanta. The Governor of New York, David B. Hill, attended the Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta. His presence filled the city to an unprecedented extent. In one of his speeches he began by sayiDg: "In behalf of the great- State, of which 1 am proua to do tne representative, and for which this kind expression of esteem and hospitality is intended, I wish to thank you most cordially. The Empire State of the North sends a warm gieeting to the Empire State of the South. She is proud of your progress? as she is of her own. Piling up wealth tkrough a century of wonderful prosperity, her rich men have searched for other fields of investment, and with that keen foresight for which most of them are noted they have found the looked-for opportunities in the vast re sources of your State, in the rich mine3 of Alabama and Tennessee, in the manufacturing facilities of the Garolinas, in the orange groves and hotels of Florida, and throughout all the broad area called 'the South.' The entire North is now a partner in your prosperity, and her interests are closely interwoven with yours." Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, Ros?-' t} t71 r.on/1 a+'Kor tvaI if i/mqtiq r\ f note accompanied Gov. Hill. Georgia's capital showed true South- ! em hospitality to their guest and never was au American citizen more honored. Eligible to the Presidency. A young Western American, who can't speak a word of the United States language, arrived at Castle Garden, New York on the steamship Amalfi from Hamburg. He told Major Semscy, the able linguist of tiie uaraen, in auice: JL?onemian that he was Joseph Nobritne, aged nine, and that he was going to join his Bohemian mother at St. Paul, his birthplace. lie said he was sorry he didn't undertand his own language, and he begged to Major to excuse him, as he had spent eight years of his life with his grandparents in Bohemia, where everybody, he was pained to remark, spoke Bohemian. lie was pleased to hear from thMajor that he might sspire WJtn ien millioa oiuur juuug&Lexs iu wc Presidency of his native land. Inaugurate the World's Fair with Bonfires. Ex-Mayor Lewis of New Haven, Conn, will propose to th? "World's Fair Committee that when the Exposition is formally opened the whole United States rccoirni/.c the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America bj siraultanously lighting huge bonfires on the hilltops all over the country. A MUftDERER DIES IN JAIL He Killed His Son-in-law and His Motive Is a Mystery. John T. Lyon, of Abbeville county, S. C., who murdered D. L. Mabrey in May last., died in jail Wednesday. The court which was to try hiai was in session, but his lawyers had already obtained a continuance of the case. The crime occurred in Hay last. The murderer was a native of the State and about l?2 years old. His victim was only 2G years old. The murderer was the stepfather of the wife of the murdered man. On the morning of the murder Mabrey had to pass Lyon's place of business. When nearly iu front of the town academy, Lyon emerged from the building, cocked his gun, and, covering Mabrey with it, asked him if he wanted | 10 light. Mabrey said nothing. Lyon drew his guu down on him. Mabrey said he was a damned coward if he shot," and Lyon shot. Mabrey staggered and fell, asking Lyon not to shoot against, as he was dead. Lyon shot him again, and, holding, his gun down, massed near the dying man, and enlerod a residence near by. Later he went to the wife of his victim to break the news of her husband's death. The motive for the crime will proba bly never be revealed. Numberless newspapers reporters have tried to ferret it out, but with without success. Monev Needed to Improve "Watercourses i of tlie South. General Casey, Chief of Engineers, in ' his annual estimates submitted to the j <!T5Snmen da t ions for appropriations for j continuing work ou the principal im- J provemcnts under his charge during the year ending June 30, Putoniac River flats^ Washington, D. C., $1,000, i 000; James river, below Richmond, I ? 100,000; Great Kanawha river, SoOO,000; Cape Fear river, North Carolina, $310,000; Coosa river, Georgia and Alabama, $220 000; St. Johns river, below Jacksonville, $300,000; Biack Warrior river, Alabama, $300,000; Cumberland river, above and below Nashville, ?500,000; Tennessee river, above and below Chattanooga, $1,030,000; Mississippi 11vt;it miuuca^uiao iaj iuv/iuw ici|jivao, $1,000,000; Mississippi river, from i)cs Moines to Illinois river, $300,000; Mississippi river, from Illinois to Ohio river, $000,000; Norfolk harbor anil approaches, $100,000: Charleston, S. C., harl)or, $750,000; Winyaw bay, S. C., $300,000; Cumberland sound, Georgia and Florida, $500,000; Savannah harbor, $300,000; entrance to Key West harbor, imnonn- Mobile harbor. $.100,000. The tutal amount recommended by Gen. Casey for river and harbor improvements is $30,180,300. The total amount appiopriatcd by the river and harbor bill for the Year ending June 30, lS'JO, was $22,397^617. The Mississippi River Commission recommends appropriations for the fiscal year 1800-91 as follows: Continuing surveys, $150,000; from mouth to the Ohio river, $4,000,000; improvements at Hickman, Ky , Greenville, Yicksburg and Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans, $1,080,250; rectification of Red and Atchafalya rivers, $50, 000. Total, Death of Ex-Governor Perry. Edward A. Perrr, Ex-Governor of j Florida, died at Kerrvilic, Texas, Tuesday, from paralysis,, after an iiiness of about a week. On Saturday, October 5, Governor Perry rode horseback accompanied by his son Ned. from Pandora to Kerrvilic. When about one hundred yards from Kerrvilic the Governor was noticed falling from his horse. His son managed to hold him until assistance came. After being taken to a house near by, the pbfe sician discovered that the whole ri<*j5? side was paralyzed. Since then lie has been UDablc to speak, and has been unconscious most of the time. Governor Perry was a native of Massachusetts, but settled in Pensacola prior to the war, where he practiced law. He raised a company in the spring of 1861, and took it to Virginia about July 1st of fVsat. vpjir ITnon the death of Colonel Ward, of the Second Florida regime: t, Governor Perry succecded to its comma-id. Later lie became brigade commander, and participated in all campaigns of the army of northern Virginia. He was wounded at the battles of Seven Pines and of the Wilderness. After the war he returned to Pensacola and resumed the practice of law, subsequently entering actively into politics. In June, 1884, he was nominated as Governor ol i ?JI J A-U ~ : jc loriua anu eieuisu. lliu wuumu^ iw vember, serving a term of fouryears. In 1887 he wus a prominent candidate for the United States Senate to succeed Senator Jones, being opposed by ExGovernor Bloxham. The election linally resulted in the choice of Samuel Pasco, a compromise candidate. Governor Perry was strong with the older element in the Democratic party and popular with ali classes. His body will be taken to Pensacola for interment. Lee's Leniency. Simon Peter Walker, a negro youth of 15 years, who was to have been hanged at Cliasterfield Court-IIouse, Ya., on Friday, for the usual crime, was surprised the previous morning to receive a visit from Governor Lee. Seated in his buggy, behind his pair of favorite gray ponies, the Governor drove out to the Oourfc House to see the doomed bov. He liad received so many divergent reports as to "Walker's ageand the circumstances under which the crime for which he was sentenced to death was committed that he determined to have a personal interview with him. # . The boy was astonisncd when informed who his distinguished caller was. As a result of this interview the Governor reprieved the prisoner for thirty days, and it is believed that he will, before the expiration of that time, commute his sentence to imprisonment for life. The negroes have manifested unusual infnrficf in Willror'c noco A fr?w fliVT.Q 4*1 VV1 VJV 1U II U \/U>'Vi AV ? V ??? ? NT I ago a delegatien. headed by the Rev. J. II. Heimes, of the First African Church of Richmond, and composed of nearly all the colored preachers in Richmond and Manchester, called on the Goevrnor in the boy's behalf. Carried Off by a Eear. Black River, Wis.,?A three-year old daughter of Kciliy, living near City Point, in this county, lia> beeu missing for several days, and as numerous bear tracks are found there, it is inferred she has been carried off by one of these animals. J ! NORTH AND WEST. j NEWSY ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH. i Beiccr A Condensation cf the Principal Happenings in Different States The Republican Congressional Convention, at Hastings, Neb., has nominated Secretary of State G. L. Lavr^-, to I suceced the lute Congressman Laird, i ? Judge Jameson, in the Superior Court j at Chicago, granted a bill to close up the affairs of the Treacy Carbon Lamp Company. The Company is said to be a tremendous swiudle. About 100 colored meu, at Milwaukee, formed the Union League of Wisconsin, and issued a call for a State Convention. "Walter Fite, tlic five \ear old son of Walter L. Fite, fell in a boiler of hot : soi'jjhum, at Rutherfordton, N. C., Tues'i - lay, :*ii -1 was iicu'kiv, i to dealh . j A special from Dothan, A!u.. say-s: ; U: a difiieulty here Thursday, seven men i were shot. Two are dead and another dying. The trouble arose between the town council and the draymen of the Farmers" Waro house, the latter refusing to pay the license demanded by the town authorities. ISoth marshals were shotc and one will. die. Two draymen were killed. Great excitement prevailed | amoug the farmers in the night, but now I all is quiet. 0* United States Government offers j have rei/.ed the distillery of Fr^flrg & [ "Workum, :U Lvnchbunr. [ ing the U. S. amounted tojl-rrriwrinuollars. passenger train was wrecked on the Denver & Southern Park Railroad near c.... /i?i i.:ii:? ..?: I7ivjui; oui., jvuuug uii; and injuring many passengers. The legislature of South Dakota met at Pierre. The members were sworn in and Gov. Mellette delivered his inaugu ral. A violent gale prevailed on the Massachusetts coast Monday. Several cases of hydrophobia exist at Meriden, Jefferson county, Kansas. Diphtheria in its worst form is playing havoc with the children in the little i ,.r ?>.? r?. luvvu ui U'luiiAiii, x a. mv; |jooi two weeks the average number of deaths | has been three and four per day. California will make 8,000,000 gallons J less of wine this year than last. This is I because so large a portion of the grapes | went not to the juice, but to raisins. | The vinyarders found they eouid squeeze more money out of the dried grapes than by squeezing wine out of the fresh ones. The man-of-war Pensaeola sailed from New York on Hon day with a party of American scientists, under the direction of Prof. David P. Todd, of Amherst College, wlxo go to West Africa to v:c\v the eclipse of the sun on December 22. While Prof. Todd is viewing the eclipse the Pens^cola will cruise to St. Helena for coal and to allow Prof. Agassiz an opportunity to take deep sea soundings and dredgings. Ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, is ftill in Detroit, where he wanders the streets in the -last stages of slxabbiucss. A passenger car on the Mfc. Auburn Inclined Plane at Cincinnati broke loose from the cables on Tuesday and dashed * . I to the bottom into another car, killing Jive people and seriously injuring many more. By the capsizing of the schooner Laura in East River at New York, Tuesday afternoon, William James Hughes and Alexander Christie, were drowned, and Captain Eugene McLean and James Lawler severely injured. H. 1). Gregg, for many years private secretary of General Sheridan when the General had his headquarters in Chicago, and for some time department clerk at ?Y tUli, ilLiii iaiv;i ib uw?i o|;apv;i uiaa at Omalia, Neb., "was sentenced to the penitentiary at Kansas City, Monday, for live years for horse stealiug. The "Western wheat growers met in convention at St. Louis, Mo., this week. Fifteen boarders at the house of Joseph Morgan, in Woodbury, N. J., ate Monday night of a dish of oysters and immediately afterward all were taken sick. It was feared some would die, but all are recovering. Two masked men robbed all the stores in the village of Iklleview, four miles south of Omaha, Neb., Friday night and psraned. Horacc Sebring, the Berrien Springs, ! Mich., youth who tried to poison all the members of his family, including his father ana mother, and thus come into possession of a paltry estate, which would have enabled him to get married, was sentenced to twenty-five years in the State piison. Rfinrescntatives of an English svndi cate purchased the three largest breweries 111 Indiana, all situated in Indianapolis. The second meeting of the oyster packers of the Deleware peninsula took place in Seaford. Forty-nine packing houses in Baltimore had made an agreement to raise the price of standard oysters to ?1 per gallon, which is an increaae of over 20 per ccnt. 011 last year's prices. The members of the oyster trust employ over 30,000 people. The Boston base ball team of 1889 disbanded Tuesday after playing a game for the benefit of Superintendent llaggarty. Mary Lellunt and John Burns, an eloping couple from county Wexford, Ireland, were among the steerage passengerslanded at Castle Garden, New York, Tuesday, from the steamship Aurania. John was gardener for Mary's father, Major Lellunt, on the latter's estate, and Mary fell in love with him. They wanted to get married, bnt the Castle Garden j officials wouldn't let them. A despatch had come from Major LeIIunt asking to have the runaways detained until the girl's brother arrives. A Fantastic Ice Palace. A meeting of the St. Paul. Miun., Ice Palace and Carnival Association was held and the weather permitting, it was decided to build the most fantastic ice palacc ever known and the biggest and tiaest carnival possible. Financial back ing in abundance lias aircatly been seemed, and every indication points to the most successful carnival in the history of the Northwest. On the day that Simon Cameron was buried the Court House bell at Emporium, Cameron County, Penn., w:ts - - rru,. 1.^11 ^ tolled ninety nines, iiie uwi a Sm, from him at the time the county was formed. i \ MILLIONAIRES IN WESTERN N. 0. George Yanderbilt's Pour Thousand Acres Near Asheville Will Be Beautified. Asheville, N. C.?The purchase of j lour thousand acres of laDd by Geo | Yanderbilt in the suburbs of this city | i? now a matter of current notoriety, but j what he proposes to do with his real j estate here has been, up to present, a i matter of conjecture. Mr. Yanderbilt ; is now in this city. He has brought ! with him from New York city one of j the best known architects of Gotham, I and a landscape gardener from Europe. ; It is now certain that he will make his ! large lauds into a parK Dot uniiKe I Tuxedo park, in New York. The work of laying off these four thousand acres has been begun, making drives, aitificial lakes, fountains and other natural ornaJ mentation suited to the location. The | prof ci ty embraces many eminences that j command views of the surrounding j country and are considered the finest j and most comprehensive in this section. I This property will be made by far the 1 most magnificent and attractive of its kind to be founjf-fa^the South. It will giadually be-made a re^rt for northern millionajros, each of wj^a^'^vn Ills for summer use. Amonir other : Hyogs will be a club house, the most j ^borate and elegant in the Southern ^States. The Palmetto State Crops. COTTON. The crop is estimated to be from ten days to two -vreeks late. The caterpillar lias appeared in some sections, but only slight damage is reported. The condition is reported as follows: Upper Carolina 92, mi idle Carolina 89, and lower Carolina 87; average for the State 89, against 77 at the same date in 1888 and 89 on the 1st of September, 1889. The indicated yield is given at 181 pounds of lint per acre. CORN. The corn crop is estimated to be the finest lor several years, me condition is reported as follows: Upper Carolina 105, middle Carolina 104 and lower Carolina 102; average for the State 104, against 76 at the same date in 1888, and 103 on the 1st of Sjptember, 1889. The indicated yield is 14 bushels per acre. RICE. The condition of the ncc crop is reported good as follows: Upper Carolina 08, middle Carolina 90, and lower Carolina 90; average for the State 97, against the same date last year, and 95 on the 1st of September, 1889. The indicated yield is 23 bushels per acre. OTIIEU CHOPS. The condition and prospective yield of the smaller crops is reported as follows: Peas, condition 98, against 72 at the same date in 1888; indicated yield G bushels per acre. Irish potatoes, condition 9:), against 91 at the same' date in 1S88, yield G2 bushels per acre. Sweet ' T - /w Ai -i. ~ potatoes, condition y?, against y? at mc same date in 1SS8; yield 87 bushels per acre. Sugar cane, condition 95 against DO at the same date in 1888; yield 123 gallons syrup per acre. Sorghum, condition 97 against S3 at the same date in 1888; yield 82 gallons syrup per acre. WASEItfOTOE NOTES. Postmaster General Wanamaker received Thursday a large colored delegation from South Carolina, -who came to sec liim in regard to appointments. The wife of the new Chinese minister has not emerged frequently enough from 4he seclusion of the legation for. the passers-by to catch a glimpse of her. She gats all the fresh air she wants and her knowledge of the city as well by driviug about in the evening or else walking with the minister. The streets in the neighborhood arc so quiet, and so few of the residents arc at home, that her coming and going i will not be noticed for a while. There is some curiosity as to whether her husband will rival his predecessor in social display. A Washington correspondent sajs: "It is not generally known that the father-in-law of the late Thomas J. ('Stonewall') Jackson, the Rev. Dr. R. H. MorrisoD, of North Carolina, had a -J - rx? x. TH li-V son narnea aner me ummcut jciu^uau statesman and philanthropist, William Wilberforce. The son is dead. He resided in "Washington for some years after the war. Dr. Morrison was a leading minister of the Southern Presbyterian church. Like Madison, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason and so many other great Southerners of an elder age he at one time favored gradual emancipation of the slaves by the separafportinn r>f the States in which the 'peculiar institution1 existed, for he was a contemporary of the movement in Virginia, in the early thirties, looking to a restriction of the legislative power of the slave communities." A Colored Witness Slain. A special from Jacksonville, Fla., says : John Bird, a colored witness before the United States Court sitting in Jacksonville, was murdered on Saturday night on his return from the city. He was a witness in behalf of the government in a case involving some election frauds in --- -- o Madison county. On the vote of this county rests the next Congressman, Goodrich, Republican, contesting Bullick's majority. Partisan feeling is running high there, and open threats are made that if Madison county prosecutions are not stopped by the Federal authorities more serious difficulties will arise District attorney Stripling and marshal Muzzell will use their utmost endeavors to find out the murderc-rs. Strenuous efforts have been made by Madison people to cover up the crime. No true version of the affair can be procured. Judge Withcrspoon empanelled a jury to view the body. A Robber Makes a Big Haul The oflicc of the Southern Express Company at Millport, Ala., was robbed a few nights ago of $6,000. "While the agent was in the office a man entered with a drawn revolver, and compelled him to hand over all the money in the safe. The matter was kept secret. The company's detective arrested a man named Abercrombic, who has been identified by the agent as the robber. None of the stolen money has been recovered. The African 3Iethodist Church, which has not a white man among its members or udv organic relation with any White church organization, reports a member-, , ship of 460,000. ) I ! THE GOVERNMENT HOBSES. IT TAKES PRIDE IN ITS POT7EFOOTED STOCK. AH the Animals Hare to Conform With Certain Regulations? A Horse Generally Lasts Six Yearg. Whenever, upon the occasion of any public parade, the cavalry stationed at the garrison at Fort Myer forms part of the procession, the magnificent appearance of the horses excites the universal *^TKoir C170 ZLU-LxllL a.ll\JL? Ui LUC auv&i for they are above the ordinary build, suggests in itself the idea of strength, while the uniformly shaped head and large, prominent eyes tell of 'the intelligence of the animal. The horse is as much of the cavalryman's outfit as his sabre or his carbine, and he must needs possess the strength to endure long forced marches, and the understanding to be Of the most possible benefit to his I ?-V?-rr vonnirinrr i XUC1 UI liguiiiug K/J vuv a wv attention. Congress annually appropriates about $200,000 to be expended in the purchase of horses. This amount is expended pro rata among the divisions of the army, the Atlantic coast not requiring ,?iWa^^T?nS'arSrirxavaSfy^c?^??^^. tier, where the life of the animal is not altogether one of lazy contentment. In Arizona, especially, the equine mortality is greater than in any other section, and K^atvid /licoKlofl nnfit UlVig UUi WVWU4U 'W.for further service. The burning sands and alkali deserts lead to blindness and diseases of the hoof, and the animal has either to be shot or sold. The lack of proper pasturage and feed also cuts an important figure in the life of a cavalry horse in the remote garrisons of the West, for while his Eastern brother is feeding luxuriantly on a full allowance of oats and corn twice a day knd sleeping in a comfortable stable, the Western horse is making a scanty meal on husks and sleeping in a ramshackle building that seems to have been especially confnr a frpfl circulation of air. There are nearly 10,000 horses in use by the United States Army. Of this number about ten per cent, are sold annually because of their unfitness for further cavalry or artillery duty, and about five per cent, arc lost by death. So, in order to maintain the standard, it is necessary to purchase about 1500 animals every year. When a stock of a garrison needs replenish) ng^ the Quartermaster-General's Department is.notified. An advertisement inviting bids is in serted in the prominent papers and a contract entered into with the lowest; bidder to deliver the horses at the desired point, if, after a suitable inspection by the Secretary of War, they meet the requirements of the standard fixed by the army regulations. The regulations require that the horse shall be a gelding of uniform and hardy color; from fifteen to seventeen hands high; from four to eight years old, and weighing between 900 and 1200 pounds for a cavalry horse and between 1050 and 1300 for artillery horses. There are omer requirements necessary, &ucu as the general build of the animals and their health. Whenever it becomes necessary to purchase the half-breed horses of California or Southern Texas the standard of the height is reduced to fourteen and a half hands. Long-legged, loose-join ted, long-bodied and narrow-chested horses, as -well as those which are restive or vicious, are rejected. Most of the horses used in the army are purchased in St. Louis and Louisville, although the general rule of late has been to obtain the animals in the neighborhoood in -which they arc desired for use, the idea being to obtain thoroughly acclimated animals. The avarajre cost of a horse is a trifle over $134. As soon as the purchase is completed the horse is branded with the letters "TJ. S." on the left fore shoulder, and a complete descriptive list is made of him, which always accompanies him where aver he is transferred. The horses are distributed by the regimental commanier. and the riders or drivers are not al lowed to exchange them or permit anyone else to use them. With every troop of -cavalry a record of the animal is kept, containing a description of every one received and transferred, showing the kind, name, age, size, color, marks, brands, or other peculiarities, how and when acquired and disposed of, the name- of its rider and driver, and the use to which it is ap plied. The forage ration for a horse is fourteen pounds of hay and twelve pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and in special cases of hard service or exposure the grain ration is usually increased three pounds. In localities where good grazing is practicable for a considerable portion of the day, or during seasons when little labor is required of the animals, tne ration is usually reduced. t The animals usually last about six years, and at the end of that time are sold at auction, or before, if they are disabled so as to be unfit for service. When sold the officer puts another brand on the horse, making it impossible for the horse to be sold to the Government at some other point. O "cmned animals do not bring very much. They are worthless for carriage purposes, and are too much worn out to be fit for the more Bv^imno wnrlr nf cfr<iof.Mr llfllllinflr MUUVUd ? Viifc V4 wwivvv %<?.? They are usually sold to contractors, who employ them in hauling small- loads. But the army horse does not last long after he drops out of the service. Usually he does not amount to much when the Government has no further use for his services, and his career thereafter is as short as it is uneventful.?Washington Post. A Public-Spirited Embezzler. Emmet V. Rhor.ds, cashier of the First National Bank of St. Paris, 0., pleaded guilty to the misappropiation of the bank funds. It was shown that thr-re was no ultimate intention of defrauding the bank, anr* the money was used in a public-spirited effort to advancc the interest of his community. The minimum sentence, five years was imposed. Consumption is rare in childhood, but increases rapidly after the age of fifteen, and is most common between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. Those who escape it till the latter age are less and less prone to it as they advance in years, and may escape it entirely, even though they may have a heredetary predisposition to it. POEEIGIf FOBLES. The festivities at Athens to celebrate - ' '.jzM the marriage of the Duke of Sparta and Princess Sophia of Prussia are to be on a scale of magnificence hitherto unknown J lil ViCCCC. i ilia ui<u la wiucuuu^ -; more than popular among the Greeks, S who now expect that the famous prophecy will be fulfilled, according to -which the JIarque of St. Sophia at Constant!nople will be restored to Christian worship by a Greek Emperor whose name shall be Constantine,. and whose wife is to be called Sophia. The Duke of Spar ta's name is Constantine and that of his ' ^1 l)ride Sophia. Advices from Constantinople say that Prince Dolgoronki, before his departure A from Sofia had a conference on behalf of Russia with Regent Stambouloff on the subject of expelling rnnce jeerainaaa . -.-jam from the Bulgarian throne. ThG electric light on tlie Eifel Tower jM can be seen at Orleans, seventy mika* Certain envious French sportsmen have endeavored to prove that BufEalo Bill and his troups of Indians from the Wild West are nothing more than clever vituosi who throw dust into the eyes of 1 i the spectators of their show by the agil- H j ity of their performance. ^^The strike of the Scotish school Doys which began in Hawich has spread to Glasgow, Gov&s^jS^enock, Port Glasgow, S and other places int&r-rv^t of Scotland, and also into Ayrshire aboifc>*&0tiKft?lL . The boys have formed regular labor-like parades, with banners and cries for "shorter hours." The strike has also J spread into England. The other day : 100 malcontents paraded the streets of Bametr demanding "abolition of the cane, less hours in school, less parsing aDci no home lessons." T? !- w1 v \u tYP IT? ATYE mil v <uu II VJk Ailiu irjLM nmr i The Iron Trade Healthy, and Cotton Hannfactnre Thriving. * Messrs. R. G. Dan & Co., in their nB weekly review of trade, say: The iron trade is still healthy, Southern farmers seeming to have well sold up, and though j| an offer of a Lehigh Valley brand No, 1 1 at $16.30, is reported, the quotation for pig is. $17 to $18. The cotton manufac- j ture is thriving and the trade in- goods satisfactory, print cloth sell at 34 cents | K Af 1 1A in Mm 1 1<JL Ut5. 1\. 1U11UU UCU.U1V VI J. JLUU1 'Viri cotton helps, and sales here were 540,000 bales for the week. The receipts and exports continue to I exceed last year's largely. The failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number, for the United States 182-, ancL>f(5r ' \ J8B Canada 41. or a total of 223. as comj)ared with a total of 214 last week and 21t the '|fl week previous to the last. For the corresponding week last year, the figures were 224, representing 202 failures in the V 7'ni+^r? anr! 22 ?n the Dominion of *' CHOKED TO DEATH. M - * SM Hie Fatal Ending of a Thanksgiving Din' ner in Augusta. The state Thanksgiving day was not _ :"-1 much observed in Augusta, Ga. The _ banks were closed and the postoffice observed Sunday hours. In the afternoon a few places of business houses were -;/. Vjfl closed, but there was no general obser VAMAA 4-Vl A y^ATT AT ^ fftTTA +Vl A a! AOl n /<* /vf YcwJ-Uv ui tuc u-cij, ouu. oa*g ULLO V/IVoxxj^; VI ?- -v^^H the banks and postoffice there, was nothing to indicate the holiday. Th^re were?,? few Thanksgiving dinners, and one of the few ended in sorrow. A worthy . negro woman living on Jones street, prepared a thanksgiving dinner and had her grown son, who lives elsewhere, at home .J with her. His name is Henry Wigfall, V>JjB a well known young drayman. Fish was " one of the dishes and Henry ate heartily ? of it, but while in the midst of - the meal " suddenly cried out,' 'Mother, I am choking," and fell from his chair. A fish . . bone had caught in his-throat, and in less than five minutes he choked to death. ATV>dif?nl air) a-rrivf^ +r>r> fn savp him Death of Judge George W^Logan; Judge "George "W. Logan, ex-Saperior Court Judge in North Carolina, died at - his home at Chimney Rock, ia' Kutherford county. He was elected to the Confederate Congress, was a member of the Constitutional Convention . of 1886, and a member of tb? u<f;I;;ture in 1867. Elected judge in 1368, when the present Constitution of Forth Carolina was adopted, and served eight years. He obtained great notoriety by receiving the confessions of membership of kuklux men before the war. He rose from v>autu ucuuai JUJL LAIC uiaig jjxiuvuv* ? . . Since retiring from the bench. Judge X Logan has led a private life, owning Chimney Hock, at the foot of the Bala mountain, one of the most noted places in the State. Acquitted After Getting a Life Sentence ' Newaygo, Mich.,?A sensatianal trial here has just drawn to a closc. Oresan Hamilton, tried for beating his child to death, was acquitted. The first trial of Hamilton for the crime occurred in March, 1888, and resulted in a verdict of conviction, ana. ne was sent 10 oac&suu prison for life. At the present trial Hamilton introduced a flood of testimony showing the great affection he had for the child, and the case became so sensational that standing room in the Opera House, where the trial occurred, could hardly be obtained. A! ir TV T 1 3 unaimcey m, uepew mierviewea. Messrs. Cornelius Yanderbilt, Chauncey M. Depew, Dr. Seward Webb, President of the Wagner Sleeping Car ^ Company, and Charles F. Cox, a director / " of the Big Four reached Richmond, Va, Tuesday night from New York, and let shortly afterward for Old Point. Speakr\f r\AlifiAC T^AvvAtrr e>c\?f\K ../ vx yvixczvoj ujii. rv oaiu *jjxr# Cleveland was sure to be the Democratic nominee for President. As to the Republican nominee he did not know who it would be, but the men inside always had the best show against outsiders. ?..,vrjn-C3t lighting With Pacific Islanders. Advices from Brisbane, Queensland, say that Sir William Macgregor, admini.efrntor of Xew Guinea, aceommnied hv a party of twenty-two men, landed on Jg tlie inland of Demara. A force of 250 ^ W natives made an attack upon the party, but after hard fighting they were finally Jfl repulsed. "When the natives retreated they left eleven of their number dead or wounded behind them. Several of the Jk w ai^o nuv nv/uuuvu. vii ?* iiu^uu o party then set fire to and burned the - mk viihge of the natives.