Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ijjj^ "" *'' - - :r~?- -?? Rc-^'; Devoted, to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domett ic EconomuMjiti JJ* Current Neret of the Day. Bp'-iy1 ' 1 * " ~*' ~ ----'?- '-~ ' - ? .-. . , v f'/d J'** 0f . ? ? ? ? pp* VOj-,. XXI.-- NEW'vSKHlKS. UNION 0. 21, 1800. NUMT.KK 47. Bfifr.1 I*brm and Firetide declares "that far-! finilTlIUDV attowci I g?^ncn *n taking more interest in politics Pthan ever before." The Sioux of South itaknta arc dying . ntpidly of consumption and other throat aud cheat'diseases. Statistics show, alleges the Atlanta <rOn*tilution% that 5,000,000 young men I ** this couutry never enter a church. mBjt In answer to inquiries from Governor "moss, of Texas, over 100 county judges litiv^glven their observations in regard *o crime in their oountles. There is a j? unanimous concurrence, states the At& laota Oomtilution, that felonies and misHfekIM lJL ^ j General Nelson A. Miles lias asftimod ^^pmmand of his military divisiou at Chi* A rejHirter asked him if there is ^^ hy danger of another outbreak among R' the Indians, to which ho replied: " Not ST at present auyway. The danger of Iudian f" troubles is decreasing every year fot ? various reasons. I hardly think there will over be another serious Indian war." * Says tho New York Press.* "Adirondack forests chopped down for timber and pulp, large game nearly exterminated and rivers in the remotest Northwost re quiring to be restocked with fish. God 1ms given his American prodigal son n magq^flgpnt poAion, but tho young mnu will come down to husks pretty soon if ho isn't more careful." A jury at Syracuse, N. Y., a few days ng.? found a verdict for the defendant, but the foreman blunderingly announced a verdict for the plaintiff, uud tho Court confirmed the name nnd gnvo judgment accordingly. When the mistake was discovered after the jury's disehargo tho judge said lie could not change tho record. The case furnishes a riddle for tho lawyers. People who "change their minds" can jg- now justify their, apparent inconsisten(Ues on the authority of a German his' V" Otologist, who has calculated that the huI man brain coutains 300,000,000 nerve I cells, 6,000,,000^ of which die, aud are I succeeded by new ones every day. "At 4l^? ^ an*entlfff!Y W new hridn e*ery sixty days." Myitis estimated by the Ners that the IV- number of new buildings erected in Chicago during the present year would il V placed ride by side form * frontage of . . a ?.n<*. The average for ItboQt iony-u?o uiuv. w the whole year will be about thirty-five new houses erected every working day. iAt this rate it is evident thaj the enormous area recently added to Chicago bj annexation will hot be long in filling up The National flag will be saved from ignoble uses hereafter, rejoins the (Lowell (Mass.) New. According to tb new law passed by Congress any pcrsoi who shall use the National flag, eitho by printing, painting or affixing on i any advertisement for public display c private gain, will be held to be guilty c a misdemeanor, for which the Unite States coitffe'may mulct him $50 or sou jhim to jail for a period of thirty days* The Chicago Pott indulges in tt grisly speculation: "Did you ever thic of how much space the peoplo who d every year require for decent burial? one could be content with a grave t bj six feet, 8680 bodies could be interi * "round, allowing nothi tau UUD Kbiu v. 0 > for wallu, monuments, roads, etc. this crowded plan London's annual de ^Umbering about 81,000, would fill cemeter j of about twenty-three acres. The Hew Orleans Picayune has covered that the only State that has t absolutely uniform in its oongressi* Twfltaentation is Rhode Island, it itfQuetnbers under the first census tU^pamo number erer since. It is b< 'to remain in the same category am ten years. Its population in 1880 S70,081, and it is now 388,000. T .a variation which precludes chi (whatever basis of representation mi .adopted. Delaware has always hat one, except that under (he third c It had two. These are the only cot quantities In the entire category. The Director of Russian prison left St. Petersburg for Tchotchon, i bland In the Caspian Hen, to <>\ um B ! piece with e view of planting n .colony there, like that at Baghntier V measure is urged bj the regular j I itioa yAtiiberla, who consider the ii oonvknwl criminals a great drawl (the development of their iudustr | 'peaceful institutions. The (lore seems to be inolined to dispose 1 - criminals sentenced to hard laborl in a different manner from her. Tenel eotoniee on leeleted islands 1 to be saers practicable for the P then the eeelusiou of criminali ^ fortress or jwiso*^ ^ I nrjTfo PH/J.H1?. 11 The Happenings of a Week Proserv- ' ed and Chronicled. i < Tb > Fields of Virginia, North Caroli- ? Ma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida G&ro- ] fully Cultivated; Read ! the Results. t 1 VIRGINIA. t More than $1,900,000 of outside capital been invested in Norfolk during the past J month. A vein of coal, thought to be of good ^ quality, lias been discovered on the farm of Richurd Sweeney, in Fauquier. B "Henry M. 'Meyer, proprietor of the f Palais Royal dry goods store, at Rich- v nioud made ?u assigiiiucut Wednesday. > Liabilities $70,000; assets unknown. g A blind man named Charles Etliridgo fell out of a second-story window of a 8 boarding house ou Main street in Norfolk t while under the influence of liquor and t broke three of hie ribs. He died. is It is rumored that the Pennsylvania a Railroad Company has purchased lands t in Lynnhaven bay for the purpose of e erecting extensive terminal facilities ou them. Lynnhaven hay is two hours <] nearer Cape Charles than Norfolk, and by . running a ferry across from the capo to u tho hay iustead of Norfolk that much *] time would be saved. The Charleston, Wilmington and Norfolk railroad, uow under construction, it is lielieved, will be built by Pennsylvania rond money. A joint stock company has been started to build a licit line railroad from Glasgow to the Natural llridge, Lexington, Bucua Vista, and other cities of Rockbridge, back to Glasgow. The Rivennost Land Company of Lynchburg has resolved to give twenty acn?s of land aud $1,000,000 in money and non-assessible stock for a female college. Work was commenced ou the new Masonic Temple at Glasgow, cx-Qovcrno; Lee throwing the first spade of dirt. Major A. It. Courtney, of Richmond, president of the Temple Association, was master of ceremonies. A large numbci of citizens, Masons and others, were present. Great enthusiasm prevailed. NORTH CAROLINA. Raleigh and Durham are being connected with telephone wires. I A stock company purchased one thous- i and acres of land iu and arouud the new < town of Gordon, near Wilkcsboro, Thurs- 1 day. These lands will be divided up inL tf ^ Mjtth * view ?* establishing a big I The following postmasters In North Carolina were appointed at Washington Tuesday * J- Wbitty, at Jasper, Craved K'8 B. Kocch, at Old Sparta, gE&ta count,; 8. A. Clause, .t Smith Grove, Davie county. The superintendent of the Silver Valley mines, in Davidson county, reports the finding of the richest deposit of silver ore ever found iu the south, a large vein of carbouate of lead carrying 70 to 100 ounces of silver uud 80 per cent, of lead r to a ton of the ore. Mr. Frahklin, a Methodist preacher of ' Rowan county, was mstnntty killed Sun day night while on nis whj ?< m, nu ' |)ointment, by a mule's running away, i and throwing hiui out of his buggy, 0 against a stump, which broke his neck, j A syndicate composed of Lynn, Mars., and Kansas City capitalists, has secured r 175,000 acres of laud in Madison and t Yancey counties, which they propose to ,r develop at once. The land is Heavily ? timbered and contains mammoth deposits ' of iron ore and some mica. Governor Fowle appointed State Seun id tors-elect H. C. Green and Z. V. Walse as inemliere of the State Returning Hoard which meets at Raleigh, Nov. 27th, t . canvass the election returns of the State The Governor of the State, Attorney 'k General oud Secretary of the State ar lie also cx-oflicio members of the Hoard. If While the "white ribbon train," con posed of six Pullman cars, and contaii log 189 or 140 delegates to the Nation ?d Convention of the W. C. T. U., at Atlai ng ta was stopping for a half hour in Cha On lotte Thursday, in somo way, one of tl ad, numbe? discovered Mrs. Stonewall Joe I a son's residence, and in a few minutes t whole party were at Mrs. Jackson's fen or in the yard getting leuves or sprigs the bushes as souvenirs of Stonewall Jac dis- son's wife's home. Several who had th ieen kodaks along took pictures of Mrs. Jac . son's home, and a general request v 9 made to aee her, but she was too unw had to present herself. and BOU'in vajwiuab. >und ^ State fire insurance company is >th?r |ng organized in Greenville with Ik waa quarters there and with agencies it his m towns, $100,000 has already been i scrilied. tuge, . The present has been a remark year in the fertilizer business. The a 1 ju*t ments to jioitits within the State as ensus as neighboring States has been la istant ^1Hn usual, in fact up to the 1st of tober they were larger than lor any vious twelve months The State Knir at Columbia was v * ually mteiesting A new exhibit in i small clilnery Hall wis tlio Hreeden e? iue tha stock cutter exhibited by its hive i W. M. Brecden, of Bennettsville. Anwar osbibit. esuceiallv the clirysa The mums, were the dnest ever iu Colui mpula- Spec in I designs in chrysanthemums nflnxot ited delighted comment. One by a Htck to named exhibitor was n big picture ies and eaR,!'i painted wholly in the colore ture. It represented the cont of a1 rnmcnt Hut^th Carolina, with all its minut of ita tails, beautifully worked in chryn for life n,umsatnfnrw ^ IS mile railroad ia to l?e built I nect Lowndcsville in Abbeville i *PI?*r | with the O., C. A N. purpose flu regular course at the Cha i within Medical College is now well und< There are some fifty students in dance. The lectures take place lis- John's countyttrSHM^K nvwTVmjl ud it wilf strike St or 'ntfl^^rcdcfw PX crossing the river to Sauble, it then tKj ion i southwesterly direction to Cedar aSf lis- passing through Orange lake, whichfl| lis- proposed making a great central and locate along the shores intniuM ru. aud industrial enterprises. The iJH'I n,| of the canal is stated as 117 a depth of 28 feet and a surface qf Bh u<j 200 to 250 feet. The company hflf the work in hand is the Florida Oc<RT Gulf Canal Co., and is said to txflff ^ tlnaucially to carry out its plans. I mt OTHEK STATES. Monday wns Editors' Day at the Ajft , ern exposition, at Montgomery, . ind Colonel A. K. McCure, of Tbe^^m nn delphia Times, and John Temple <9k> 1U* of Georgia, made speeches. Joe Jackson one of Rube Burroi^H gang jumped from tlte parapet j^H ?R grouud floor of the Mississippi.^ Art tary Monday, aud was *8' Terry and Washington ^n)y^P c lt- about a girl. Brown told not to dance with the girl again, b*M latter did uot heed the wnrninXlBiile he is was wntt7.ing with lier BrovBpkcd up of and sliot him twice tliroughXlody, inliis flietiog wounds from wlBlv died ins shortly afterwards. K cti The stock holders of thBlptsviUe, )a" Ala., hew million dollar c^B factory organized a few days ago. Dallas is to la; business manager aAbc w >rk of lieglus on erecting buiidingiBC 1. m" A tire iu the afterhold of "tlitcamship ?l Buenaventura in dock at M Orleans *? enirced damage by water anopto about >*- 800 hales of cotton. The Btner was loading for Liverpool and liJtD board 2,200 bales, most of which p slightly each lasting about one hour. The <3 wrting clntwos meet in the afternoon a *re in session about two hours. All persons arrested for alleged electi frauds iu Hampton county have been d -barged by the Uuited States comm done. The contracts for the sale of the Bai sell nnd Blackwcll and the Alston a Newberry railroads to the West 8h< rermmal were signed at Charleston, a cceiver Chamberlain, of the South Ca ma railway, went to New York to ch ip the busiucss. Before leaving ho to tension to say he did not believe tl he Louisville and Nashville road was 1 iiud the deal. He was rather of t pinion that the Bast Shore Tcrraii vould seek connection with the west1 kugusta or through the Chicago, Cinci iatti and Charleston road. TENNESSEE. ^Kmoxvillc has an ordinance re^uiri Iristol, Tonnl, with all their comten rcre destroyed by tire Thursday nigl fice President Bates estimates the loss 110,000. Hon. II. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, poken of as the probable successor lecretary B. F. Tracy iu the event of 1 rausfer to the Supreme Court. Mr. Eva i Congressman from the third distrf nd itTs claimed that very intimate re ions oxist betwoeu him nnd the Chief I cutive. Uov. Taylor commuted tho sentence lenth iu the case of Dan Bcelcr to life i risonmcut. Bcelcr was convicted nurdcr in Granger County, and was lave been hanged November 20 at Km ille. Ho was only twenty years old ho time. The Memphis Appeal has purchased t k vahtnche and the consolidation is kno' is the Appeal-Avalanche, Congrcssm fames Phelan, proprietor of the Avalanr laving retired on account of protract II health. The interstnte commerce commissior n session in Chattanooga, heariug arj nents in a suit brought against railwi jy the Chattanooga board of trade. Col. J. W. Barrow, United 8tates ch ingiuecr in churgeof tho Tennessee lib mprovemcnts, Monday formally dec'ai he Mussel Shoa's Canal open for co uercc. The steamboat R. T. Coles tl passed through the caual with a cargo frieght from Evansvi le, Ind., and Pa< ah, Ky., for Chattanooga. It mark* oew era in the devclopcmcnt of the T nessco vallev. GEORGIA. The Nntionnl Grange of America bc( their annual convention in the State C itol building at Atlanta Wednesday continue in session ten days. Ma Glenn delivered the address of welco in behalf of the city and Governor Noi en in behalf of the State of Georgia. stodc of the Girl's Industrial Union legislature is invited and many of most prominent members will m speeches. Arrangements to begin work on mammoth hotel on Cumberland Ish near Brunswick are l>eing made, i hotel and improvements will ncconi date 1,000 guests. Judge Dupont Gi) is at the head of the Company. Goveuor Gordan sent in bis valedic message to the Georgia Legislature Saturday, after which liis successor, Hon. William J. Northen, was swori ^ a . _ t irnri.'i The ccninii i\a lirunu ui scooped the Chattanooga, Home am Iambus. Presidcut J. 1). Williamsc the latter will be retained hs gc t rathe manager. Judge Samual Lumpkin was el Associate justice! of the Supreme of the State at the joint session ol ( legislature ou Monday. The foll< were elected to other circuits: Ass chief justice, Samuel Lumpkin; . James H. Guerry, Pataula circuit; , r A. L. Miller, Macon circuit; Judge ? Hutchius, western circuit; Judge 0 Honey, Augusta circuit; Judge ' Maddox, Home circuit; Judge r" Welborn, northeastern circuit; ? Roger Gamble, middle circuit; Hanscll, southern circuit; Solicit o eral, Thomas Gason; Solicitor g l- Howard Thomson, northeastern cir Dr. Hrunner of Savannah went to a" wick to investigate the rumors of r" fever in the latter place, lie ?aj 10 are some cases of malarial fever iu fc. wick, but they present no syinp yellow fever, ice The Telfair Confederate Vetcr of sociation met at Jacksonville ou Si :k- the 15th of November. e'r It is said that for more than tlf ?355, which was originally int< ra* be applied to the education of ,e'l Georgia, has been lyiug in the Scotland. FLORIDA. be- The National Alliance aud I ?t__i? ?ill onnwiw at Ocala, ou ;WJ_ UI1HHI nu, I all ',er ?nd. "^,e n,,J jub- ra"ro,4tl wi" transport delegates on all lines of its system to Hiv tion and return. 0 Way Ijec, who is a distant r< "Ijj the Emperor of China and 01 w most gentlemanly of Mongol! the Jacksonville Times-Union h up a very handsome restaurant i pre- Times-Union building. J. M. Fowne of Kissimmee ai 'If"" ?' ,,or'^ern capitalists will buil * ice factory anil cold storago war *?n Tampa. Tho T. A. Melter purchased 5,' nthc- oranges and placed them on nbia. wharf, foot of Ocean street, A>i ellc- tributton. The only proviso the eater should quarter the in un- place the peel in a barrel of ale on an lng n,.Hr# About 4,000 of tl of na- werc eaten by the surround! rms of Mr. Melter got a goodly o de- wnr|( done for nothing. 1 anthe- wj|| i*. shipped to England t for medicinal purposes.?, to con- Times-Union, county important project is a! placed under way in Florida irleston construction of a canal acrosr er way. uniting the Atlantic with t atten- Mexico. The route selected i daily, to be from St. Augustine he damaged i?y water. wn Four members of the laAississippi ian Convention were so much o?d to the :"C new Constitution that they Scd to put ,CI* their names to the instnunetff The Kunis 1 ,s painted 30,000 bates of tneansstnph fu" thus fur this season. 1,8 A railway e?r facto ay, carrL n o4pi . tal of $300,000, has been esB*hedr "t ,e? Beaumont, Ark. if The starkville Citizen atuiirii tjie death in Gainsville, Miss., ofw llocli. ' " a negro woman, at the age otUQfears. 1 ? It is u( t stated whether nursed Willing ^ ton or George III. LU CLAIMS OP THE ALLjUHE. President Polk Says it Bp ?an Thirty-eight Congresmen. nP" L. L. Polk, president of he Nation! ' to Farmers Allirnce, is very jijilant ovc' y?r the result of elections. In tl/i course o an interview he said: "The Democrats and Republicans ai claiming everything just now^hut whe lip tlmy come to sift tin-. oh-CR fhe~ the proportion of the goo<HHeafW^)j^^| lake seats in the next Congress, 'upw t present time it is a certainty that C< the KrCRS contain thirty-eight straigl ind oot Alliance men, and there are twelve The liftecn more who are pledged to us. Thi nno- lmn "re lrom South and Northwest lerrv ,'u> two actions iu whjch most of pur w< was doue. The Alliance in Nebrai Minnesota and Iowa is not our orpani ry tion, and has not amalgamated with ' ?n but it made the same fight and will j 1 yie us this winter. Our Alliance co-opera 1 ID" with them; we will co-operate with lia9 farmers' association, ana in a little w 1 Co- have a grip on the situation in aln ?u, of every corner of the laud. ineral "We are here to stay. This greut ref movement will not cease until it has pressed itself indelibly in the nation's iccieu I {a ?K? nercsail Court 'ory. r uiaucini icivnuw f the the hour, and it must come. The press iwiug the voice of the stump sneaker were ocinte oU,y nssistauts. The Alliance luul no i Judge ["'ign fund, no boodle. If we had Judge money wo would^not have used it. N.B. v?rtue and patriotism H. C. the things to appeal to. Our methoits J. W. ffttr nnt' square, and the whole world < C. J. see what we were doing. The principl Judge which the Allinncc is founded are Judge ?nd correct; we must succeed. The r gen- wn8 no "mail affair. The extremis .eueral, '*>th parties attacked us bitterly and cuit. i"(,h of ground. In the South il Bruns- the Democrats who opposed us. I vclli.w North our most vigorous antagonist rs there Kepublicans."?N. Y. Times. Bruns- _ ^ ' toms of SOUTH CAROLINA CONVIC ans' As- They Will Till The Soil on the J iturday, Purchaaed State Farm. v vmm At a called meeting of the State P< i * tary board held at Cohimbiaa prop ? from Co1- T- J- Lipscomb was co Bank of ^?h Lipscomb sought to engi convicts for hve years, with the pi of increasing the number and time and teu years, the bands to be en ndustriid ? agricultural labor on the Tayloi Decern- tation, in Lexington county, near Nashvillo bia. free up- The board declined to accept tl er June- proposed. Then the question of chase of a State farm for the emp lation of of convict labor came up as it n ic of the monthly for the last ten moot! ians, says long deadlock as to the choice of as opened was broken by Governor Richard next to the had heretofore held out for the plantation, and now with Messrs . nartw 8on> Bnwkcr und Sanders voted a narcy in 8un)tcr c tl a large the Watereo itiver; Messrs. 8ai chouse at 0ujgIiani holding to the Taylor heat. The Dcyaussurr place 000 sweet near1y 3,000 acres. It is purrh C'olcord's twenty-live thousand dollara. p free dis- propria! ion for the purchase c was that was #40,000. fruit and ohol stand- The South CsvwftijA Alliooe lie oranges rpjJC committee of t ng crowd, holders of the BtJtte Alliance amount of nif,t in (Joluuihia, 8. 0.ftocoi rhe peeling matter of establishing a Btatf 0 be used |mnll t? c0|,imbia. The comn Jacksonville discussing the tpieslion fully, recommend tlint tluAcharter c rout to lie change be so amnnddH by the I It is the that the Exchange cmpowci 1 the State, scrilie a portion of its capital t he Gulf of stion of a hank. This will do is understood . d oe, and an Allidwc bonk in through St. may bo consider^ a certainty. mSlM ft Order Furnishes a Greatt Deal of ?! \ News For This Coliufnn. 4 Fair Florida Woman iftends Her Yard-Stick of Thirty-Sijc Inches JJ' Advocating Many Vending w Political MoaWres. t< U In 1880 there were in the United States r( 070,000 tenant fanners. Cl The Teuucsscc Ii/porting compauy has , just imported from Spain tweuty-two n jacks. ./ u An Alliance school will bo established ti n Dublin, Texas, iutlie near future. v Alliance men iu Floyd county, Ua., expect to erect three Alliance stores this \' fall. ; New Mexico is credited with 2,000,000 .j ^ad of cattle and 31,000,000 head of K con8um"?0,"(>0o)l000 bushels of wTiCSt Tn j France. j A charter lias been granted to tho Pet ? ersburg Alliauce Exchange, to do business c at Petersburg, Va. 1 The Washington Gazette leanis that an ' Alliance store will be started iu Washing- * tou county at an early date. j The Fanners' League is systematically . organizing the State of Massachusetts. , At a recent sale in Iowa seven Red Polled hulls sold at an average figure of $153, .< ten females at nu average of $201.50. i The Fanners' Exchange of Oconee, in 11 Orange county, Flu., is to start off with ? $o,0(H) capital. D. O. Maguirc is president and George P. Brannon, secretary. The New York State Alliauce has adopted the Sub Treasury plan, ami declares I that the force bill shall never be saddled upuu the South if the fanners of that A 21 uuuv; *juu jm vrin iv. I . This item appears in the "Eastanallec I | Notw" of tUu CarucHvillu, (4a., Enterprise: t Tlie Liberty Hill Alliance 1ms just com- r pleted a substantial hall near the Baptist i church at that place. ( According to the Department of Agri- t culture the imports of goat skins and > go^t hair last year amounted to $8,000. < 000. 1 The Farmers' Alliance, of Montgomery ' county, Ky., are making an effort to form ' a company to build a $50,000 tobacco warehouse and establish weekly sales. ' The Michigan State Alliance Exchange will lie organized at an early day. The State Executive Board will hold a meet ing in a few days and select a business fcigent. r I 'or cattlemen to take bearings * I ind tKlWii^ance- It must be borne in I in their refri&V^'d l?cef men can carry * (probably mortjv^ftccn days* supply to step out and 'or them A (hev pieasc. But they Cft^t wh,.n . mSkv^fof Z President W. E. "J. mer8? Banking Company, of Griffin, -I* la appealing to the Alliance men of tl ?e State to take $40,000 worth o' ^bajk the bank, it already having $03,000 en] >ri, ital. . ska A llich'aud, Ga., co^ftondent writ iza- that tho Alliances are wielding a powc us ful influence toward tho advancement oin the town. They have a warehouse. ted tlieir own and store house runieu, hi any will build a store near their warehouse bile an early date. aost A correspondent of Wutkinsvillo, G iu discussing the delay in getting eott ?nn bagging, offers this plan as a reinc< Im- ,4The only way out for the Fanners' , m" liance is to manufacture our own cot' y ?| bagging. Do uot depend on such ns i l?e monopolized and have us waiting our til October or November for baggi nam- fj10 Alliiyicc is iui organization not tt Jjl?" trifled with." The ****** e are were AN ALLIANCE WOMAN'S VA11D flTICJ :ould Mrs. E. M. King, of Dauatia, I leson scuds the following ''Alliuticu woui solid yard stick ? r thirty-six inches, good it fight ure, sure not to be adopted until the f its of ere have more insight, more self rein [gave more detenniuntion, and less party sj t was nor until women have their fair shar n the political power." were 'J*reamltle.?Whereas the farmers the hardest workers iu the nation, producers of the food, aud of the ITS. I nintcrial for the clothing of the nti the largest tux payers, and niuncr I . the strongest body of voters iu the mi ^ they demand and have a right to dc the following measures: miten- 1. Passage of a bill euil>o<lyiiifi os it ion principles and intentions of the subinsider ury bill. ?ge 180 2. Aliolitiou of the "spoils svsten riti'ege y Extension of civil service refoi i to 800 4 Decrease or nbolitiou of payiiu 'Ployed legislators. r nlan- n iimnhlinif and drinking iu an; r -r. r Colum- every house of legislation to be i prohibited, ic terra* ^ Tariff reform, the pur- 7 Protection for every indust loyment nooc at ?n. as clone g No Industry to l>c subsidized w. The "IxMintine'' given it at the expense son, who 9 Equal taxation, whether cli i Taylor indirect. . Andcr- jo. Equal sufft aye. without (list I for tha q! sex ounty on |j An educational test for all T?tt and 12. The Australian ha I lot systci place as \ "campaign fund" to be i contains legal, each-Htnte t i defray its ow used for tjon expenses. The ap- y. All oflleinlr, including 1' i a farm a?d Heimtoc, to he elected din people. e Bank. An Archduko Missing he stock- Count Kolnoky, Austrian Min Exchange foreign Affairs, has just, forward raider Uto ular dispatch to all the Auatr ) Alliance ids In Americ a, requesting then ritee, after heir utmost endeavors to hunt agreed to' Areh Duke Johauti, who is ntu f the Ex- I'aptaln .fohu Orfh.. lie has r legislature heard of fc?r nearly four months, xmF to sub- 'eft Morrteveido on July 11th las o the ere- [raraiso in his ship, tho flanet M mhtless be It has since l?een ascertained III Columbia dorms were racing when the Arc chlD left. SOllEWHAT VISIONARY. bio Scheme of Mr. Gilpin to Bridge pe Bohring Straits. .1 itnf.au, Alaska, Novcmlicr 10.?Tinreject of ex-Governor Gilpin, of Coloni i), to build ii line of railway through the fr, ilds of Alaska to Cape Priuce of Wnles a j > connect with the Russian railway ays- "at .'in through Siberia, thus linking the old y, ml the new worlds with a railroad, is a .H visible one, and the future will see it ncDinplished. But there is a giant obsta- j, le in the wuy of one uubroken liue cou- ^ ecting the two hemispheres, and that is cr ieliring straits. Mr. Gilpiu's pronosi- ^ ion is to bridge these straits, which is all ,,j roll enough iu theory, but quite a differ- jj, nt thing in practice. At considerable xpenso the straits can undoubtedly be r? ridged, as an island lies alniut midway tl, intweeu the American und Asiatic shores, u rho distauce is not great and the water is u; hallow, the government charts showing he greatest aept^dOi,">?^,N.?)t>\ictvstwAJ il^fn Tvnnugfl~*irr,allow huge icebergs to p ass under it, ami Avith strength to with- c land the great ire floes that are yearly i. iwept down through the straits from the a Vrctic ocean f The current is sweepiug hrough the narrow straits from one groa' t ica to another very swift and strong, and / rreat icebergs would lie home against ,, las bridge, its piers and abutments with i force that neither steel nor mason work would stand against. Captain Emery, of the United States iliip Thetis, stated that the only practi- .1 able means of crossing these straits at r ill seasons of the year is by tunneling un- *< Icr tliem. RAILROAD "MOVEMENTS. e Lines Projected in tlio South At- ?' lantic States. 11 Augusta, Ga., ant. Chattanooga, Tcnn., J' ne probably to lie joined together by a ^ ong-hoped-for direct line, to be cslled lie August a-A Chatlanooga Hail load. 1'bis proposed road will run from Angus- ^ a to Gainesville, and tlieuce across North ieorgia to Chattanooga. It is said that liis enterprise lias for hackers a wealthy >yndientc which is building a line from I liicago to Chattanooga. Should this lielief he well founded, then a new line I >f eoniniiniicatiou between the metropolis . ?f the Northwest and the South Atlantic iiorts is something to l?e expected iu the L'arlv future, tliat will inure to the ad- ^ vautage of the eutire region through 1 * which it is to ]kiss. 1 Namivii.le and Knoxvim.e.?Twon Ly-oiie miles of track have Itccn laid from I aney Fork river to Conkville, Teuu., on i he exleusion of this line from Cookvillc lo Nemo, 55 miles; A. Vandevort, gener- , d malinger, Lebauon, Teuu. , Hf.ahoaud and Roanokk.?The auuu < , rt'l?(,rl. presented at a meeting held oi. ? October 21st, showed that the receipts I were $081,010.44, aud the operating ex- I 1 lenses, *452,582.27. The company ex- \ pcets to havo.its southern extensions into J AtluuUi iu uipe mouths. 10 in Tho Warehouses of Cincinnati ?u ,i- Louisville United. u* I .oi isvii.i.ic, Ky., Nov. 11.?Iucorpori !l tioii papers fortlie tobacco company whir embraces nearly all the leading warehous , in this city and Cincinnati, and of whit mueh has already been published, we filed to-day. Its business embraces t! storing autl selling of leaf tobacco ai 11 everything that usually belongs to wai housing. ly The capital stock is *I.O'JO.OOO, one-li preferred. The preferred stock is to ha tor dividends of 8 per cent, per annum out L'MU the earnings, but nothing more. 7 uu- corporation may issue *1,000,000 ng hontls. The prineipal places of husin > b' uro Louisville ami Cincinnati, ami the rectory, which holds till January, elutles the best warehousemen iu the t 4 cities. It is claimed l?v the iucorporat j,.' that the organization will be of great 1 V etii to tobacco growers. There will laus f(.WPr agents, and the agents' pay, t K'ns" assert, comes finally from the groi arm 'pjH. organization will control nine-tci lI.K*c? of the leaf tobacco trade in this rcgioi lint; I _^ ? of FIGHTING THE SALOONS. The Governors of Throo Statos Co raw UR?nit ion; ically Nasiivii.i.e, Trim.,?| Special.]?' ition; i-rnor Taylor has received from the mand (,lo of Cumberland tlap, Teuu., a I showing tin* location of sixteen sal j the within about one mile of that town, tieas of them being iu Kentucky and fou of tliemiii Virginia, Also, locating snots ad uiceiit thereto where fifteen I .? in. have I will shot within the past jut to months. None of the saloons are on shle of the line, but live of the nil y and have occurred in Tennessee. The itriotly l?'? that sect ion have derided to sent the faetr to the governors of tueky, Tennessee and Virginia, an ry, ov 'heir co-operation in improving the lion, which they attribute to the pr or have "f t he saloons. of the *1 A Rico Mill Trust. red or Trusth seem to In- contagious. test now spoken of is a Bice Mill tinction Tin- matter is now bring considei rico mill owners, ami il could bar voters, expected that they would say ar u. ulhnit it just now. Anyway a pro node il- Charleston rice merchant said ' tl Mr dec- trust was not among the imposs and could he looked for. Whe resident will include all the mills is not L'Ctly by There are 111 the South at prescni twenty six rice mills. Of these are in New Orleans, three in Ha three 111 Charleston, one. each in V lister of iont Ooldshoro, and Washington, ed " c,r" A number of the mills in New lap con- ^ js understood, are now controll r to use syndicate. It is probably this an out the poration which wishes to extend ? called }?U8 lot been ? since he A Brazilian squadron will sh t for Val- rive at New York, bringing ? m argrethe. letter of thanks to I'n-sident lat heavy for his prom lit recognition of tlv >h Duke's public. Orilers have been issue the Bipiadrou a reception. jft,? r- ) ~SHOT AFTER THE KAun.? kwwm BUlled by the Brothers of the Woman He Had Married and Deserted. Hays an Associated press dispateh >m Columbus, On: T. C'. Dawson drove horse in the "gentlemen's trotting race" the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition jesday. There were probably 15,000 trsons on the grounds. Immediately after the race Dawson rove into the open spare in the rear of le judges' stanrl. In a few seconds the owd was startled by the report of a pis1 shot and the sight of Dawson rutting, pursued by three ineu who were ring at hint. Dawson was seen trying > get his pistol from his poeket its he m, ami as soon as lit: Ncciirud the weapu he turned his pursuers and icturnrd ic fire. Dawsou fell aud died in a few linutcs. The three men, Dick Howard and Kob#iRw*itfduJ>'l,?!l,irs' uuti their brotlier'our bullets had hit Dawsou.r *TTie ' ause of the shooting was a family trou:!e, Dawsoa having married and deserted sister of the brothers Howard. Dawson was the son of the Hon. W. C. )nwson, a wealthy resident of Eufanla, tin. The Howards belong to one of tho ildcst ntid most respectable families in Jcorgia. Making War on the Editor. Maryvuxe, Mo., Nov. 10.?In August he first issue of thoAfaryvijle Haih/ Allocate appeared devoted to Democracy and [ mperance, aud vigorously opposing the iiloons. On Sept. 1 it not ires were posted n the show windows of the principal uaiucss liouHos, warning Frank Griffin, ditor of the Advocate to go slow, or omething serious would result. lie paid 0 ntteution to them, but proceeded to ublish a rcdhot jiolitical paper. The ntirc Democratic ticket was elected in bis county, which incensed his enemies, rho believed that he was instrumental in arrying tlio election. Yesterday/ inornng between 4 and 5 o'clock some person ntered the Advocate composing rooms ,nd destroyed and carried away the veekly forms consisting of twenty-four olumus of display and body type, galeys, sticks, mid newspaper headings, fortunately for the Advocate, the daily orms were in the press rooms and were laved. Tho daily appeared this morning is usual, and contained an offer of $.r?00 'or the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of the outrage. The Bishop's Assignments. The hoard of bishops of the Methodist episcopal Church, in session at Washing* on, I). ('., completed the assignment* of lishops for holding annual conferences luring the next half-year, as follows: Misissippi, Moss Point, January 7th. Ilishop fi'wman; Georgia, Deumrest, January 5th. Bishop Andrews; Florida, St. John's liver, Lawley, January 1.7th, Bishop Varren; Alabama, Edwardsville, January 12nd, Bishop Andrews; upper Mississip?i, Holly Springs, February 5th, Bishop \ndrcws; Florida, Gainesville, January -jo central Alalwunn, ireenville, FebruaryAth. ?.? ?*. . ' _ Virginia eonferenee, Honeevelt, W. ^ February 25th, Bishop Joyce. h Xhe nluakrat's Houso. ? Tho musk rat builds its house so that 1 while it has a couple of stories high and |u? dry ou the ground, tile uuirauvu n? .? ... id always uuder water. This entranco is a re- a loug tunnel ruuniug from a point a foot or more beneath tho water at low :il f tide line to tho ground door of the house ive which is always flooded. Tho muakrnt's of ' reason for having this subterranean cnhe trauce to his dwelling-place is that there,n by be has an exit or an entrunco in timo of danger that will not betray him to r1" his enemies, either in his flight from lu" borne or in seeking refuge within its wo walls. But his iustiuct docs not warn s him against the trap bis most cunning ^ and persistent enemy places at bis bidden Lhev entrance to bis house, changing it from A.eir a way to safety into an avenue to certain [)tjls death. This trap is a wooden box, threo , feet long aud six inches in width and deyth. In each cud is a wire door, hung on hiuges at tho top. These doors riso at tho slightest push on the outside, hut llod W1" not ?P?n fr<>n> the inside. The trap is sunk in the water to the mouth of tho muskrat's tunnel and anchored there,and whether tho muskrnt is going out of his f?ov- house or returning to it, he is sure to poo- go into the trap. If he had time, tho map, captive rodent could gnaw bis way out loons 0f the box, but before bo cau free hini,tt" 1 f,'< will drown. A wliole family of "" SVIl uv '' en musk rats may be taken in n single night ' ,,lt' n ono of theso traps.? Courier Journal. men |M few Removal of the Hamuli Liver. ir(V;1; In the course of a loug series of carcm 1 ls fully coiulucted investigations, Professor J'lV Ponfic, of Breslau, has made llio imporKen tant (l,8COVcry a large part <?f the <1 ask Kvor?even as much as three-fourths? situa- ,nay f,c removed without serious disturhcscucc anco of tho animal functions. Surgeons have long known or regarded it as a fact that the whole of tho liver is not absolutely essential to health, but have The it hardly supposed that the sudden desfruoTrust f'ou ?f H considerable part of it would red by n?t serious in tho extreme?the disdly bo covery to tho contrary now enabling lything oporatious to bo performed which Imvo minont hitherto been considered nlikc beyond mt tho surgical skill and human endurance, ibilitics professor Pontic's remarkable investigather it tions in this lino prove that the liver has known. a wonderful power of reproduction?in t al>out aorno oases, ho stitos, a portion cijual to sixteen two-thirds having liecn replaced by a an nan, UPW growth within a few weeks.?Neu> tT 8! rort n??n. ?r,~BS | A linn III Siiin y, Ark., iilTclnlu liny "ill 1 ? 1.. ,.f ,n iea ny n (.Ufs premium on earn ... 7)e. C?T* tvruii|H'il iu cotton bugging ami Iwuglit ay them. ortiv ar- William H. Finhhnrk will oppose J. edal an<l H. Jones for United States Senator from Harrison Arkansas. p new re The hand of France has consented to d to giv? supoly Madrid with 300,000 pounds in K'^d. 0 .