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??* ( About a century ago Paris had only bbout fifty pickpockets; now the police Reports show that their number has (reached 4000 in the metropolis alone, and about 10,000 in the rest of France. The Madrid (Spain) -pplicc have been directed to submit an exhaustive report to the Minister of Justice ou the subject of bull fights with statistics as to th? number of fatal accidents in recent years, A reform is said to be contemplated. Coal mining is on the increase in the United States. In 1888 the grand total of tho output was 132,731,609 tons, showing an int ?*;c of thirtf-threo per cent, in quantity during thrco years. t imiv ||M hid*f,tir. Great Britain, which was, in 1888, 169, 935,219 tons. The Salvatioa army has money and property in the different countries where it is established valued at $3,213,690. The trade effects, stock, machinery ani goods on hand are valued at $560,000. Borne idea of tho trado deparlmeut may be gathered, suggests tho Chicago Herald, from the fact that they sell 23,000 army bonnets every year to the female soldiers. The agent in charge of taking the livo Stock enumeration of tho Kansas range, J. G. McCoy, recently stated that enough data was in to show that the total number of cattle now on range would not excecc^9,000,0000, or 4,000,000 less than in 1880, while sheep would show 28,000000, or 9,000,000 moro than iu the last census. The last census showed 8,000,AAA 1 ' " ' " " uuu uogs on too range, but this census will scarcely show half that number. fhe Cincinnati (Jhr'uliin Standard sarcastically observes: Poor, belated Japan has got ahead of us in providing postal saviugs banks foi those of moderate means. Thoy were established in.18/5, to encourage thrift, aud the first j'ear showed 2000 depositors with $15,320 in bank. Last year's report showed 356,000 depositors in Tokio alone,with $10,400,000 to their credit, and the deposits in all Japan amounted to over $20,000,fe 000~ - . really serious in their purpose to build a yacht to come over here and compete for the American cup. Wo lmvq no doubt, acids our inrormaut. that American yachtsmen would be very glad to welcome their Gallic brothers, although there would be so little chance of their taking the cup back to Franco that, not a great deal of excitement would be stirred up over the contest. But let the Frenchmen comc. They will be sure of a good titnc in any event. ' The American bison is nearly extinct, and many a farmer has rcgrettod the fact, because it has cut off the supply of "buffalo robes" with which ho was wont to protect himself from the winter's cold when obliged to be on the road. If reports from Illinois arc correct, states the American Dairyman, a substitute, having nil the advantages of theoiiginal article, has been found in the hides of the Gallo way and Augus cattle. If, as seems likely, the skins can bo readily cured to muni samnlos roli(oi< ii??o l>no|i they will be of considerable value for use as robes, and the breeders will have an additional argument in favor of these cxcellcnt animals, which have long been noted for their beef-producing qualities. The following statistics arc taken from a memorial presented to the United States Senate by Charlotte Smith, President, and Catherine Bergen, Secretary, of tho Woman's National Industrial League of America: According to tho Labor Bureau of Pennsylvania, fullgrown women do not average fifty cents a day the year round. Women spinners get seventy-one cents a day; spoolers, fifty-three cents; weavers, from forty to ninety cents, paid only to experienced hands, aud finishers receive only fiftyfour cents a day. In tho textile factories women spinners get from forty-seven to fifty-five cents, winders sixtv-six cents and finishers forty-three ceuts per day. Iu the knit goods factories the women are paid fifty-five cents a day for winding; twisters of yarn receive sixty-tivo cents, spinners sixty-sir cents, rcelcra sixty-five cents and spinners of cloth or garments flit* cents a day. In the boot and shoe factories female labor averages fifty cents for a day's work of ten hours. That is five cents an hour. In New Jer?III ?{ - trffridover, wages in tho jute, cotton and thread mills average $1 a day, but the work is so hard that even the strongest girls cannot work moro than six months in the year. The hands in the silk mills get from $3 to $10 a week. Wages nrc raised on the penny system, and one will find gray-haired women of fifty or sixty who have been at the frame since childhood getting $8, #0 and $10 a week in "I - SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. I 11 Happenings or Importance For A Week.} u Dwellers in City and Country Get a .V Write-Up Here Free of Charge, n and No Questions Asked. t< VIRGINIA. '' A little girl was accidentally shot and 4j killcnl in Fairfax county a few days ago o by her brother. H The Port Norfolk Land Comnanv. has u Wen organized by twenty-five Baltimore j, eapi'alists. Friday they purchased for |, $100,000 valuable Norfolk water front land. (| A Merchants' Association has Wen orMay ? r Ellyson, of Richmond, has sign- I ed the ordinance which gives tljc Jetf ( Davis Mansion to the Ladies' Confederate *v Literary Association for the purpose of s, making :t a museum for the preservatian of confederate relics. ... ... . . I) rot ismouih h.t'l?. delightful sensation , Thursday morning. Miss Ada C. Tnbb y and J. (J. lludgins, both of whom arc just IN, escaped parental watchfulness ^ and boarded a train for Halifax, N. where they were married. n Oen. Charles B. Peek, late general o manager of the Atlantic and Danville road thinks the counties mil towns in Virginia subscribing to the company's stock will lose their mouev if they do not ' do something at once to protect their in :l terests. General Peek claims that the receivers appointed represent only the Kng- A lish interests, which have as yet been ou f* ly partially paid for, while the Virginians ti have fully paid for what stock they got. ' Jacob \V. N. Keeling was found dead in his room in Portsmouth with a quart ' bottle of whisky lying beside him. The deceased was 72 years of age, and was at ni one time a practicing physician in Nanse- p tnond county. , lc Reports from the bay say that the ovs- si ter gunboat Chesapeake is making it hot ' for the dredgers. During a tight near t.-i the Maryland boundary line several days hi ago between the Ohe apeake and the c schooner (\ W. Reach, a sailor on the fi latter, named Albert Kct/.man, was badly wounded. The schooner was not captured, but another vessel, the Joseph W. ,| Brooks, was. nl NORTH CAROLINA. m An important measure int rod need ir the Legislature is a bill to redistriet the 'I State, both Congressional and Senatorial rt dirtricts. fi The office of the Argonant and Warren M L. I'itts's large store at Rocky Mount, in was burned Monday, The tire is report- tl ^gd to be accidental. Loss several thous- ai | Near Faliston, nine miles from ~ ~r,. I John Beam, seven years bid, fell in the g'j J tire during the absence of his parents and 1,1 was so badly burned that lie died in half -s<liour. 111 At the opening of the Legislature all oi the lifty Senators were present and 10(5 of the 120 members of the House. Nearly ^ all the members are of middle age and are substantial men, mainly farmers. Richard A. Dough ton, of Alleghany count v, was elected speaker of the lower house*. ?! 1\. K. I'. Osborne, late owner of the Charlotte city railway, has failed. The assets and liabilities are not yet known, rl but the latter greatly preponderate. Alahama land speculation was the cause. 1" Coventor Fowle, in his message to the Legislature, recommended that increased ' . provisions he made for the public schools a of tlic Stale, lie also advised that the |l( proposed system of tonnage tax on fertilizers he adopted. . Enoeli Wellman, a well-to-do (Move w land county farmer, was rohbed of $800 (j one day last week. During the absence s( of the family some one entered the house by cutting a hole in the lloor. j. SOUTH CAROLINA. The legal executions in the state dur e< ing the year were eight in number. la Dr. Kinloch injected another small dose of the Koch lympli into the negro man hi at the Charleston city hospital upon whom h< the experiment is being made. As far as el judged the. lymph is having the desired I. effect. e< When the appointments of guano inspecters were made some time ago Oov. | Tillman and .1. G. Wannamaker, of Or- -p nngehurg, were empowered to select a fourth inspector. The appointment has been made, W. A. Mnckay, of Orangeburg N being the man. *' ?1 One of the plans of the trustees of the . Clemson College, as described by President Simpson, is "to kecb a large num- ? Iter of sheep on the College farm, from " the sale of the wool of .which it is proposed to furnish a clothing fund to aid 1 poor young men." students at t lie Col lego, ^ in supplying themselves with clothing. Governor Tillman has olTcrcd a reward -p 1 ft of $a() for the capture of Alva Scott, who (> is wanted in Marion County for the mur- | dcr of Fair lee Mill on Christmas eve. p Prof. F. C. \\ < odwurd, of Columbia, I u in a recent address, said that tli" south, and Anieriea, in fact, are too young to have a litcratuie. W lien England had b been founded SUM years, she had baldly '1 the beginnings of a literature, lie inti- ?> mated that it would be generations before ?, our writers and their bonks cut much of a figure in the world of letters. ft Capt.George l>. Wallace, who was killed "( by the Indians in the battle of Wounded Knee, was buried Wednesday morning in the oenn'terv at Yorkvilic. his old ? s ,.ere coiuiurtea ar the Pre-bylei ;..i rhuivh, the Jenkins ,'a Hilles nartieioati ig. Tin. casket was ? placed immediately in front of the pulpit !( and was draped with U. S. Mags and cover- !' ed beautiful floral offerings. ' It was guarded throughout the night by a sentinel :V at the head and foot, and in the morning was delivered to Gen. E. M. haw, a com f< ?!? ratr brigadier, ascliief marshal of the '! ceremonies, ('apt. Wallace was a son of Hon. A. s. Wallace, republican congress V mail from Ibis state, and a brother to , 1 ' H M Wallace, P. s marshal foi *" t aioliua under Grunt and Arthur. Oil ? GEORGIA. The president has nominated Laura H. Wilder, of Forsyth, as postmaster. Atlanta in to have a new station house >r city prisoners. A |ihotograj>hcr pitched his tent in lonroe Monday and that night some lischievous hoys cut the ropes. The iud blow the tent away, and the pho>grapher. thinking it was a warning to uit, fled the town. The death of the little ten-year-old augliter of John Brantley, au engineer f the Savannah cotton mills, was a sad ii< 1 terrible one. While she and several titer children were playing brush fires er clothing caught fire and she was urncd to h crisp. Governor Northern has written a letter d (he secretary of war, asking that Lieu Pliant C. 11. Satterlce, of the United ft. T. Mullikin, who has been mi mb* rom Walton county for about ten days, ras found dead in a creek near Richard's tore, in Morgan county. j A company was formed at Cordele to uy out 2,000 acres of land at the juncion of the Savannah, Ainericus and lontgomery and the East Tennessee, Virinin and Georgia railroads. The comany commences business with a paid-up apital stock of $100,000, and will com lcnce business at once in the new town f Helena. TENNESSEE. K. S. reck, of Frankfort. Kansas, has een appointed receiver of the Farmers ml Merchants' bank, of Clarksville. Governor Taylor appointed Hon. John . Moon, of Chattanooga, judge of the nirth judicial district of Tennessee, to II the vacancy created by the death of udge I). 1). Trewhitt. There were five men executed by law i Tennessee during the year 1800. The American Dialect Society held a iccling in Nashville this week. The eople who feel so much interest in diact arc the very first to turn the cold louldcr to those who speak it. The funeral <>f Judge Trcwhitt at Chat inooga Tuesday, was attended by a 11!re concourse of people. Few men in hattanooga had morn warm personal iends than Judge Trewhitt. In electing presiding officers for the ,vo houses, says the Knoxville Journal, in Tennessee Legislature seems to have lade a good choice in each instance, ini of character and ability. Twenty-seven of the worst prisoners in w county jail at Chattanooga, who had volfed and refused to enter their cells mil the corridor, have lieen starved into ibuiissiou. At 11 o'clock in the mornig twelve submitted, and at 5 o'clock in in aftcrntou the other flftscn, hungry id cold, gave in. The janitor and nauiig vms "fu'lidcd by IIihV'< ioi ("inn, who ordered Deputy Sheriff Gordon, and vcral of the convicts would stop nt athing to gain their freedom. FLORIDA. The Masonic grand lodge of the State I Florida will assemble in Jacksonville i Tuesday. Florida is to contest with a Chicago am for superiority in live-bird shooting, id the Times-Union predicts that Florin will win. The annual meeting of the State Tench's' Association which was to have been ;lil in Tampa next month, has been >stponed until March. II. A. Tanner h is sued the city of Dcund for $'?lftOl) damages. I fell from sidewalk several months ago and has "en lam: ever since. On Arbor day, January S, a new Uni,| States flag, presented by Dr. Chase, as hoisted, with .suitable ceremonies, on ie Observatory of the Grade* 1 High hool building at < >caln. The easting of a turn table plate for ie use of the S. F. railroad at Ivissimlee was recently successfully accomplish1 l.u *lw. Uniill. l.u. . ... .... loumu v in ur- | lido. The ?"i*liny weigh'" 2,350 pounds. A mass meeting 1?? organize the pliohiition party in the State of Florida has [ en railed at. Oralu l?y Samuel Dickey, lairman of the national commit tee; .1. lovd Thomas, secretary of the national unmitteo; and I. McQueen Auld of Orndo, chairman of the State committee. 'reductive and Abandoned Farms in Maine. Arm si \, .Inn. 12. The report of the iuroau of Industrial and Labor Statistics >r the State of Maine tor 1HJI0 shows that iie average number of acres in each of ie :b0 farms reported is I'M; total value f those farms, *1 ,038. 425; average vnl- I e, 2,80tl; number of farms growing oi roduetive, 28'.); less productive, 41; umber holding their own. 411; number f farms mortgaged, til; total value of lese farms. $201.150; amount of niortage.-, $52,5mio; average interest, $0072. lie average profits ol farms reporting ains with rosl of family's support reckned as "expense," is $233; average loss, #10. The average profits of farms reorting gains, without reckoning cost of imilv Mipport. is $'211! ; average loss ill.' The aggregate number of abandoned irnis reported is 3,318, and. estimating ic number in delinrpient towns and Imitations at HO, the total is increased itr ,308. The total acreage of eliose report 1 is 254,5I3,oi an average of 7<i7 to each Irm. Their assessed valuation isfl. 15M TC.O A Kiss Lands Him in Jail. Ituuuiui'oui', Jan. 13.?Owcr? Me(?innii 1 amiable nud loving niooil, strolled long the street of West Norwallv, mid lecting n pretty girl with blue eves and >sy he accosted her, suddenly slipped is arm about her waist, and imprinted a iss on her red, ripe lips. Ifc didn't see ?y harm in the act, lie protested to J usee of the l'eaee Austin, but both the tdgc and the comely young woman did. nl Owen is now in jail for thirty dayuirged with assault. A very explicit iniieeti< nt statute provides that no man all kiss a lassie against her will, and hind ii is a still more rigid old hint w 11,;,? say - a man shan't kiss his wih i the Sabbath. ,, Advantage* of Hi*"R?w. I <&> l A gentleman who has t|w management of a business that requiraaa large number of negroes said to one of jfla employes recently, according to the Savannah (Ga.1 News: 44Sam, the colored people srr n wonderful people, are thaw not ?' It was dinner-time, aaf fhun looked up ii-um his tin dinner kettle and replied: I "Yes, sah. They can cM|?t Hong with less money and havs more loafing time than any people I kcOw of. "They are heap better off than w hite folks. They douT Unre anything to worry them. You knot, bow, colored poo pic get their eating for almost nothing, and if they don't <riak whiskey a little money goes a longjrarwith them. "If a colored rdta uM friends around lownjbe can alwayi get a good dinner; a leguitl wwt? maofa dky&CL for nothing. Whitecooks ally, and if he has a few tcquaintances who cook lie gets along very well in the outing line. "Of course, some colored men have to 'keep house," but that don't always pre vent them from going arouid and dou't make giving cost much, lxxause his old woman, if lie has one, take* in washiug or docs other things to help along. And boss, you know colored uieu get along just as well single as raarrifd or married single. "Yes sah; the colored folks are a wonderful people. Auyltody's clothes tits them. Your clothes will fit me. A colored man with* your old clothes on and withhis shoes blacked looks just as well ns a white man with a new $?r> suit. He don't mind wearing any white man's clothes, nevermind what his size is; they will fit or he will make them so. "Then, boss, you kuow a colored man cnu sleep anywhere. He don't want a bed. He can lay right hero ami sleep. This plank is good it*v^?L-fnr im*. And you know the colored man, if he is cTvP and handy, can get lots.of good things fiom the white people for nothing. I mean from people down this way. 1 don't know how it is in the North or up in the country. 1 ain't got a thing on me now that cost me a rent. "Yes, boss, colored people is the Lord's ; people. He takes rate of them. If a colored man dou't get along in the world better than a white man it's his own fault. The colored man, sah, is just what you say of him, 'a wonderful man.' If he works a little ho can sleep in the sunshine and almost wait for the victuals to come to him." ALLIANCE LEGISLATION. 1 I Bills that Will Be Introduced at this Session of ths^Hansae Legislature. Toi?eka, Kan., Ja}i. 12.?The Legislative , Committee of the Kansas State Farmers' will soon convene. These bills have been approved by the sub-alliauccs, and will receive the united support of tho Farmers' Aiiiancc legislators. The titles of the bills arc its follows: For an extension of the Stay law for a period of two years; a redemption law giving the mortgager three years in which to redeem land not exceeding 320 acres, sold under foreclosure; revision of the Chattel Mortgage law; ? law requiring the mortgagor to pay his proportionate part of taxes; a reduction of the rate of interest to 0 per cent, with penalty for forfeiture of principal and interest for its violation; a revision of assessment and taxation laws; a reduction of the salurics of public otlicers, a reduction of State Printer's expenses; school text books to be published by the State and furnished <i -i~ -? ? 11 ... ill.; (HJUJUC ill nisi; revision Ol court I officers' fee lulls; adoption of the Austra- j Han system of voting aud the Crawford county systeyjL of mwwvcs ; requiring Railroad Commissioners to be elected by the people; a law requirng land sold under foreclosure to bring the amount of judgment aud costs;a law suppressing the I'inkerton detectives or similar organizations in the State; such a reduction of railroad tariffs as will yield an annual income not exceeding <? per cent, on the actual investment. The Caucus Will Rule. Nasiivii.i.i;. Tknn., | Special. | Xotwilhstanding the very large democratic majority in each branch of the state legislature. the caucus will prevail. Fiftyone icpresentntives and twelve senators met Saturday night in joint caucus, and adopted a resolution to select all officers to he elected I?y the general assembly in caucus. They pledged themselves to consider all measures of importance in caucus, and abide by the action of the caucus. WHY NOT COME SOUTH ? Where Such Scenesaa This Can Never Take Place. Mkokinf". I.<ii>uk, Kans.?Two brothel.-. named Hell, aged twenty-two and nine ycais, anil a sister nineteen years "ki, aiicmicd a meeting near here Wednesday night and a blizzard arose ns they started for home at 10 o'clock. When 200 yards from their home, the elder brother remarked that they could not make the distance against the storm, and would have to go with the wind. They drifted south about a quarter of a mile and took icfuge in a canyon where they were soon covered by snow Thurrday morning. The elder brother crawled out of the snow and attempted to get home. He called to his sister that he wass > stiff that he could not travel, and in a short time lie w frozen. The younger broth- < er y | cons The 7T i''iTfartc^ i>ui Vursdav lnorning to tind l htf^jLtfrratiid in a short time scniehing ptQ^ji- witre organized. Friday morning the tf^Byof the young man was found, and thoflBlw .-dirchers found < the girl, who was owesixty hours. The girl did not know tdBBiotluin* were dead. She is in a fair wajg.tiK, rfro\lor. A Rich NoJjn Murdered. A llclena. I,a., njpoits the assassination of l'i iiiH^Rfallory, at Island lil, Saturday night.^Kjallnry was a colored man and the f^Uicst man in that sect inn. Three m groclHksuspetled of the assassination have escaped Preaches on Sectionalism and the ? Farmers' Alliance. J i "The Christian Manhood of America < Owea to the Farmers A Debt 1 of Gratitude." t Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr., pa$)pr of tlie Thirty- third street Baptist chureh. New -j York city, addressed his largo audience { Sunday morning on the subject. "What is Religion ?" It. was preceded by the v following review of current events: At last the bloody chasm has lieen | bridged. The war has really ended ami tiring must soon cease. The farmers of ( the West and North have joined hands with the farmers of the South, solemnly covenanting together to forget the bitterness of the past and throw off the curse ot traditional sectionalism. 1 , Thg Christian manhood of America owesltf the" farmers a'debt of gnditude for undertaking this divine work. General Sherman lias said, "WAR 18 HEM,." It is. And we have had enough of it. }>ery effort to revive the bitterness of the iitte war is inspired only by the devil. The curse of the nation for the last two decades has been the determined efforts of a certain class of demagogues to trade in the memories of the dead When the soldiers laid down their arms and returned to their homes and loveil ones, these ghouls began their ghost dance over the fields made rich by the blood of lie roes. While the war was in progress these men were in it. "When the lighting erased they whetted their jawbones and began, au<\ 4hey have been at it faithfully ever since. They have driven the sections further apart by slander and misicpreseiitalion. They have wearied the ears of heaven and earth with their sin. They have fanned the dying embers of keAewl- lluuie aifuiu, and again, that in the conflagrations which followed they might roh ami steal. They have marie progress impossible because they have 1,1 ? ISSUES OK MKMOKIKS, and marshaled the hosts of the living to fight the hopes of the dead. They arc neither brute nor human; they ate ghouls. The farmers have declared that they are going to hang the ring leaders of this gang antl put an end to their business. In this God given task they should have the earnest prayers and co-operation of the Christian manhood of the North and South. I The Christian exclaims with the farm or, 4,In the mime of God, the common I ( Father, let us be brethren Let us cease this foolish wrangle over memories and turn to the great work of to-day." I The men and the organizations who it fuse to give heed to this cry of the heart of the nation for peace and fraternity will be (rushed by the resistless sweep of dctogether press forward to the goal of a ' regenerated nation. The issues of the ana past arc all settled. They are liisto- 1 ry. "isaioslppi rises from the lethargy of traditionalism, turns her face toward the rising sun of a new day, drops a tear over the grave of Jcllcrson Davis, for- ' mally repudiates in her new Constitution the doctrine of secession, and extends j her hands to the struggling farmers of . Kansas. Slavery is now only a memory lor the aged. It is ancient history foi the young. I never saw a slave. The ' negro is enfranchised; and it only re i mains to educate him and lie will be free. There is no krgro v ho hi .em iu-uity omsme me imagination of political schemers, except the problem of education and giowth of the uegio race. Such men as J. C. Price, of North Carolina. ( President of Afro-American League, have long siuce recognized this fact, and have entered with energy and enthusiasm upon the gigantic work of thus uplifting their race. The problem that confronts ^he ^ negro in the South is the same that con fronts his white brother in the North and West. It is not the problem of ballot, ' but of bread. The real Rsurs of our life have been obscured now long enough by the fog of j sectional animosity. We must address j ourselves to living issues A N li W li KN K It AT1 ON of men has come upon the scene. They have new problems, new hopes, new aspirations, new fears and new dangers. ! This younger generation of men are sick ami tired of listening to harangues about memories and issues of a great pa. t by ' loud mounted demagogues, who eonlri- . billed nothing to that past except an ad- | ditional name to the census roll which . cannot be found on the army niu.der. , They ate tired of this sort of thing for , many seasons. They feel that it was not , Hipif fiiilHttnI'lKni' ? I ...v.. Kiiit nit T ?m m i IM'III liiniri . and could u<>t shine in t hat golden age. , They feel that it is :t crime to rob the , living of the highest possibilities of life, though it he in the sacred name of the loved and sacred dead They refuse to < immolate the livimr on the altar of the j dead. This generation of men will join t hands with the homey-handed farmers in j their determination to lid a suffering na- ( tion of this peat. We arc confronted to- ji day with i TUB on.VVEST I'ltORI.KMS ever submitted to the human incc for so- 1 lution. It may he that tin destiny of 1 the, world hangs upon the solution of I America will give to these problems We ' feel even now the eaith tieiubling beneath our feet, with the shock of the lirsl hat- 1 ties of a world wide social si niggle. Can I the clashing interests of conflicting class- ' cs be reconciled, and our civilization sav- 1 ed from a catastiophe? We must answer ' this question. The iuteicsts of the hosts of the late contending hi inies are piaeticAIIV flllP WllPH lliO eoouo/1 t into 1 fc II lit nTfea ofboth recognized this. The South- 1 eru man now fervently thanks God that his 1 country is freed from the curse of slavery. '' The Christian manhood of this nation 1 ought to be a unit in purpose, ideal, and ' effect. ' VOl n flKARTH A IIK ONK. You arc separated only by externals, and they are mostly traditions. At the close , of a battle, during the war, a dying Federal officer asked u passing Confederate to have a few moments prayer with liiin The Confederate dismounted and kneeled by the side of the dying man. lie prayed earnestly and tenderly. l p in the utma of a loving heart he took the sufferer - al one sweet n?nii, ,f#^r notheffTWF vheo he eloaeu, the dead Iread of the oficer lay on his bosom. The dying man tad used what strength he had left to ' 'rawI up aud wind both arms around the 1 ieek of his late enemy in batttle while j" prayed. The hattie had ceased. In hat hour of sorrow their two hearts hat >ith a single thought. They were one. >bu and brethren let us remember this Piie buttle has ceased. We are children ?f a common Father. 1 The era of fraucidal strife between tlu tortious of this nation is passing away ' I'he day of the real fraternity is dawning ' Let inen, North, South, Fast, West, take lotiee. The grave already yawns to re civo him who refuses to heed his fact. ONE GIRI/s" LUXURY. lor Beautiful Rooms and How They Are Furnished and Arranged. A .. A * ? * ' ? mi mncnrni} pnm'rM, wmnn" imnrr is i cotton king, Inis just completed in 1 ho internal mansion the furnishing of hot irivato apartments. They am four in nnnher, and could Ninon do I'Kudos, or ven the late Madame do Pompadour ho how 11 through, certain it is the ancient levotees of the toilet would lose their leads and stand embarrassed la-fore the dories of Miss Parvcnue's boudoir. Kven n the loftiest dreams those luxury-loving adies never conceived the minute details if elegance surrounding this daughter of i millionaire. %'roin the silver-wreathed 1 'syche minor that swings to reflect her nil-length loveliness to the repousse spir- j t lamp burning to warm her lotions, ( iludcmoisello is iucompasscd by a sumpuousuess unknown to (Juccus. The scheme of color decorating the nits warms from white to blush pins in he both, and iu toilet and reception ooms melts into a rosy lilac. Her bed rhumber might have been designed for I fans Andersen's snow maiden, so fine in Ts immaculate purity. Mural iluodraiioiia ire iii white and silver. On the wide silver frieze dogwood blossoms bloom, while by a wonderful bit of fresco painting the ceiling seems enveloped in a loudy drifting fog. Here and there the soft mist curls about /aguclv outlined figures, with a sharp ift in the centre from which hangs a rystal chandelier blown to resemble u Knupict of lillios. All of the white manieled furniture is finished iu silvei. md from the carved lied depend drape ies of heavy silk brocaded in silve: leur do lis. The spotless fleece of lee ami snecp provides a tlutty carpet to. the liar?l white wood floor, and glanciug >ver the many tall screens, tow rocking rliairs, long divans and even rare has reliefs on the wall, one is impressed the tln/.y.ling whiteness of every part. Gorgeous at the faith-room proves with its pink marbles and roseate hangings, it is in her boudoir that this young money (I woman has evidently found her mo.u sympathetic surroundings. The apartment is a study in that rare shade of rosy like tied when found beautifies all womankind. It is called the wistaria-room, from the wealth of pale purple flowers leeorating the walls and woven into eiirlains and through the mesh of the thick arpet. Here all the wood-work is of lack mahogany, upholstered in a warm lieliotrope silk, with many bronze orna nents. valuable etchings and mirrors in awed frames.?New ^ ork Sun. NORTH AND SOUTH MATCHED. A Great Inter-State Pigeon Shooting Arranged for Next Month. Ciucaoo, Jan. 13.?Preparations are in active progress here and in New York I'ity for the grand championship contest at live birds to take place between the North and the South during the first two weeks in February. It was lii9t proposed when ? repirsen Lntive from the Dixie Quu Club, ol Flori la, 11. W. Simmons, mine to Chieagi uul held ? consultation with local shoot jrs to make the match between Florida tnd Illinois crack shots. A chnllciu.ro o.-iii iiie Southerners resulted, and at rangements were shortly afterwards per fected tc? take a Chicago team with a >peeial train, which will start South on lie afternoon of February 7. Charles 10. tVillnrrf, one of the best known amatuerx n the West, will be the captain of tie; cam. After this team had been chosen it. was roposcd to send another team, which ivoukl meet picked teams in New Oceans, Mobile and Pensacola for a challenge cup to be emblematic of the chainlionship and shot for under the Ameriain Shooting Association rules, the repeseiitntivc winning the majority of shots o hold the cup for one year. The match x will probably be at twenty-five birds *nch per man and held under the supervision of the local gnn clubs. Tho Art Interchange )pens its XXVI volume with a charm ng number dated January ;t, 1801. several improvements are notieable, imoiig tliern a handsome new colored over and smooth finished paper and tin iddition of a J Ionic Dccorolion depait ncnt. Ti i 1 ' -? . ? .i. i 111- muni/ | u ?111 ?t i ur i'l i iciiiurc.s m uir ssue urc a very beautiful picture of I'rim " es in color, which is very cleverly tainted. It shown a row of enrtheru llow r pots, each bearing a mass of blooming lowers. The picture is well worth a rame. Other illustrations arc a pretty tailor, blue birds and golden rod for hair back, arbutus design for after din icr coffee cup and saucer, cut-work boiler for embroidery, head of "Medusa" or brass work, wood carving design berg of stool, design for carved seat for tool, decorative initials "M. & I'." The ext includes careful directions for carrying out all the designs, notes or current irt events a New Year's ghost party, latest fashion in home decoration, a course if art reading, a cotillion?Sir Itogci de' ['overly?decorations for (lining room at golden wedding, over mantel treatment te. The issue is tilled with information taluahle alike to the art student and to ivoinen interested in pretty liomes. Price >f i-Mie, including colored study of I'rim oses, 20 cents. For Sale by News Dealas. The log book of Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic expeditiou is said to have been discovered. 111 y *ja'j . \wWL i K M. Crosby, of writes to th* Jscksofivillw Tf oww^TViofc Dm?- ^7* ' J rollows: The state of Florida is welmnM to all I have learned about immigration after three years incessant advertising, travelling and correspondence without "a $2,100 salary," prefurriug my own hard learned business as now established?to ?ny publie office. , Fifty dollars each is too tuueh to pay lo secure Florida immigrants; $30 for each family is different; but this is too much and will be reduced when tho hundreds sure to follow, as the result of past years work and advertising, arrives?as arrive they will, for 1 lmve narrowed down my system to a certainty?i. c., each dollar spent in advertising must bring ten replies (the Times-Union does his for me.) When a pn|H*r does not bring this proportion of replies, some tiling is wrong either with the paper or til? way the s<lyrrti*mrnt is worded. To ^ so word an advertisement as to bring """ " *fliis result without a tinge of exaggeration is ii line ni t, and I still believe the adver- , lisenient that is to bring its thousands to FloWda is yet unborn. As it is, you may now see my advertiseinents in nearly eve. < y northern magazine and in over 3,000 northwestern weeklies. From each 1,000 replies (if 1 do inv luty, i. e., follow them up with niv monthly paper, keep on writing them personally, mailing eireulars of cheap .'xeursions, etc.,) 100 will eventually oiuo to Florida hs settlers, investors or tourists, though this taken from twelve to thirty months from the time of their livat writing me. Immigration built up on these lines will not, however, consist ol" a roving, visionary trlngs, so often attracted by co-called "paper city" builders, hut they are of the hone and sinew of tb land, viz., the farmers and mechanics of the North. To prove the above statement, I will sny (tow <tr,,unu ?4H ut iu advertising I can show AGO real estate sales already ??made?:$ 10 during the past year-and ful ly 200 new settlers already in the state; and I have good reason to expert fullv three hundred more before spring. What 'hey do after they get here for a living ami other like details, would take too much of your valuable spare to tell; but the facts are yours when you want them. To a legitimate immigration agent selling the land and securing settlers are but the liist steps in a long ladder of work niul worry which is often dropped at this point by the real estate agent eager only lor his connniiwiou. Surely there is enough of the hig "I" in this screed to clear me of the charge of being "'too modest,1' and I hope it is equally clcur to the reader thnt 1 will not under any circumstances accept a salary or a position as state immigration agent, but will do my utmost to encourage the Ni/jijr in/iiiiigriiH-iffT" ~] liopfi flte-ic lilflfU given above may stimulate greater effort and success. O. M. C'hosiiy. Simple Explnnation of (.'cavitation. (Gravitation is n subject thnt nearly everybody is somewhat familiar with, but there arc .'.oine things about it that you n:ay not know. For instance, suppose you were weighed at the top of a deep coal mine, and afterward at tho bottom, do you suppose that there would he any difference in the result? Yes, there would. You would bo lighter nt the bottom. If it were possible for you to go 011 downward 2000 miles in tho earth, and there ho weighed you would ...tl !w% 4 ~ il.w1 2?1-m. jiiuimiiij uu nui|mi3uu iu uuu ^uur only one-half of what it was at the surface; and if you could go to the center of the earth you wouldn't weigh an > ounce. This is because the ceuter of the earth is Iho center of its attractive power, which is exerted equally iu all directions. If you ascend from the surface of tho earth, your weight will also decrease, but not iu the same ratio as when you descend. In going upward the dccreasu will be iu proportion to the square of tho distance. Thus, while you would weigh nothing if you should go downward 4000 miles from tho surface, you would still weigh one-fourth your actual weight if you could weigh yourself 1000 miles up in the air. The law of gravitation is at oucc the strangest and the most sublime in all nature. I.iglit travels at the ama/.ing rate ol 180,000 miles in a second. Thcro are visible stars so far away that if ono were blotted out at this instant it would be seen on the earth thousands of years lienec, because rays of light, starting now, would take so long to reach us, even at the wonderful velocity at which they travel, But if a new star were now placed out there in the depths of space, where the blotted out one was, its attractive force would reach us instantly. That strange force which dominates tho universe would nt onm t>c felt, though. of course, inappreciably, between the new star ami our earth. (Cavitation tlifTers from all other forces in iinother respect. The intervention of bodies in the line of attraction makes no difference in the attractive force exerted. For example, when the moon comes into direct line between the earth and the sun, there is not the slightest di(Terence in the reciprocal attraction between the two ^ former. The enormous power of this attractive force is utterly inconceivable. We are constantly reminded of the power the earth exerts in pulling us downward, hut think of the attractive power of a body like the .sun, more than a million y? times larger than the earth. And this power controls every speck of light that we see in the heavens. ? l'ltiltfUtl* 2'/iiu Thuts. Emperor William, of Germany, has issued a hook of regulations ordainiug, among other things, that "the distance between the rows of gold lace on a field officer's sleeve shall be .277559 of an inch." _ A European statistician tells us that tho Sultan of Turkey has five wives of the first class, twenty-four of the second class and 250 of the third clas8( Paris can now be reached from London ?u hour sooner than Ediuburg.