Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Bvanston, III., suburb of Chicago, 'bars Just availed themselves of the cooperative housekeeping scheme, and .now their fifty displaced domestics have engaged a lawyer to assist them in regaining their situations. ^ Tho Commercial Advertiser thinks that ithe Argentine Republic has done a good -stroke of business by abolishing, ou tho jground of economy, its embassy at Switzerland. Buenos Ay res needs t minister plenipotentiary at Berne about >as much as Constantinople needs an enjroy extraordinary in Iceland. Englishmen are to havo "an autoImatic railway library," which means a caso of books fitted into railway carriages. The books will consist of short inovels and storiaa by good writers, and | K jany booke likely to tempt the weary | ''travelor into putting the nil-important coin "into the slot." According to the Detroit Free Press, n firm in New York can mnkc you n great big fire and burglar-proof safe, with a .nice landscape and your uamc on tho door, for $13. It is a dummy, made out of sheet iron, and is for the use of .people who want to set up offices and make a spread of themselves. They give outsiders a feeling of confidence. Poor ministers iu Englaud have a source of revenue which the Snrincfteld (.111133.yrrrm cnarirkwty impes wiff But be accorded to their brethren in this country. Instead of salting down their old tensions iu barrels they send them to She bookseller, who gets as much as $5 a hundred for them. A London dealer offers 4000 sermons in job lots at this price, and if they are written in "a large, bold, plain hand" they bring more. Tho Export and Financier, of Now York, is of the opinion that Mexico offers a new field for enterprising Americans, who would lie certain to succeed there if they understood and could speak the Spanish language,or if they possessed some useful specialty. Judging from tho -* k\xat -Ranuh. i:- 1 A ' J jiu, uiujuuymuut tau uv louan in the Mexican capttal and principal towns for tutors of English, first-class mechanics, trained agriculturists and drummers for business houses. Bill Nye, the humorist, is plaintiff iu a lawsuit against the poet, James Whitcomb Riley, his chum for years in the work of making Americans laugh. Nye uuu nut') imvu ucvu a iiiouoy-maKing combine for years, but Nyo charges that whilo his own humor was always dry, Mr. Riley's was too frequodtly wot. In Louisville, ho says, oarlj^tu the year, Riley poured out to Bacchus libations altogether too copious, and the result was that when the hour arrived at which the combination should appear to amuso the publii Riley presented a vory willowy form to the audience. Honce Nye's action. The action, which is for the recovery of $20,000 from Riley, will be tried at Indianapolis. Very few people realize how much the dentist h&9 done for mankind. To mention one thiug only, the perfection to which the manufacture of falso teeth has been carried has practically abolished old age?that is, old age in the sense that I used to know it, says a writer in tjre Olobe-Democrat. You soe none of the helpless, mumbling old men and women that you formerly did. This is not because people do not attain the age thoir parents and grandparents reached, but because the dontist has preveate 1 some of tho most unpleasant consequences of advancing years. Men of seventy no longer either look or feel old, because they are not deprived of nourishing food at the time when they need it most. Estimates liavo been made showing that UDMOU IllflU IVUt v'stV jVnra'uj rfaxj general use of false teeth, and this door not appear in the least extravagant when one thinks of the difference in the nutriment accessible to one with a floe set of molars and one condemned to gum it through his deolioing years. SOUTHERN STATE NEWS Happenings of Importance For J Week.; JDwellera in City end Country Got i Write-Up Hero Free of Charge, and No Questions Asked. NORTH CAROLINA. Another cotton factory is to ba buill at Buffalo paper mills, Cleveland county. Statesville organizes a Land Develop mcnt and Improvement company. Lieuteuant J. B. Hughes, who has been instructor of tactica at Bingham school, Orange county, has gone to Fori Gmnt, under orders from the war department. Senator Zebulon B. Vance was re-electA new chatter has been granted Trinity College by the North Carolina Legislature. 'lliis allows its removal to Durham and increases its board of trustees to thirty-six, of which the two Methodist Episcopal conferences in the State choose twelve each, while the alumni choose four. The work of the brown-stone quarry has brought to Sanford quite a number of foreigners. Nearly all of these stouccutters arc from France, and nearly all of them are below the average stature. As a rule, they are very reserved and well behaved. Governor Fowle commissioned Julian E. Wood, of Elizabeth City, colonel of the First Regiment of North Carolina State Guard, and W. T. Howell, o'" Goldsboro, major. An appeal to the supreme court of the United States in the suit of Baltzcr and Roaks, of New York against the State of North Carolina, which was decided adversely to plaintiffs bv the 8tatc supreme court, was perfected at itaielgh. Tnc case involves $140,000, and is to get payment, for iron furnished the Chatham Railway Company. The report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for the last fiscal year shows that, in the matter of private schools the county of Granville is far in the lead of any county in the Srate. This county reports fifty-seven private schools, fifty-three of which are for whites and four colored. The House in session at Raleigh adopted a resolution favoring a repeal of the tax on the State National Banks. In the Senate a livelv rlicfn??inn .- i ^ ?j writ* LitutCU over a bill to increase the penalty for carrying concealed weanon<? t.~. 530 Ci ydays in jail, which finally passed the second reading. ? - SOUTH OABOLtKA. ceived the appoiutracn^oi^SRVktelrf missioncr to succeed the late Gen. Bonham, thus completing the commission. The French government has abolished the office of French vice consul at Charleston. State Treasurer Bates moved into tl: Treasurer's office at the State Capital la?i Wednesday, having been occupying temporarily a corridor office, while the official chamber was undergoing repairs. The wife and child of the Treasurer arc still quite ill. The town of Goldville, on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, in Laurens county, was almost totally destroyed by lire Monday. There was an explosion of powder that injured several people. The place has just been built since the new road was opened, and has -ting. time. Columbia s new nauy pr.per "wm ? pmw its first issue before the people of the btate by tne middle oi February. Emma Abbott, the sweet opera singer who died last week bequeathed a legacy of $50,000 to the Citadel Square baptist churc h of Charleston. The international pet and poultry show at Charleston was a great success. There were over 2,000 entries of poultry and 107 dogs. At the Wednesday's session ?1?? Sinking Fund Commission in Columbia, the Secretary of State nominated D. M. Means for chief clerk of t lie public; land department, and Col. James (?. Gibbes for abandoned land agent, and they were elected by the commission. The board intends to vigorously press the collection of debts due the State lor prior liens, and has concluded that under the existing laws it has the right to bring suits to assert the State's prior and confessed lien on land for taxes, costs and penalties accrued prior to 1SH7. J. A. Norris has been appointed postmaster at Stateburg, Sumter county. Col. H. S. Hines, general manager of the Charleston & Savannah railway, was elected vice-president of the Plant Investment Co.. to til! thc? vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge W. S. Chisolm. FLORIDA. The Ki-sinnnee sugar mill i* turning I out a tine ipiality of sugar ami running day and night. Ground is broken and work under way at Punta Gorda upon a large ice factory, the daily product of which will be twentyfive tons. Bartow has new Irish potatoes and will soon have all kinds of fresh vegetables ol home growing. V. ?T. Shipman, receiver of the land of flee, Gainesville, says there are over 3, 000,000 acres of land in the State yet sub J'ect to homestead, also that the past yea las been the busiest the office has eve known. Over 12,000 settlers hav< "proven up." The Tavares, Orlando and Atlanta io irl for 8iilC UUdCV I is reaching out for this persimmon. The forty-seventh session of the Flor: da conference of the M. E. church, South met in Monticello, Bishop W. W. Dun can presiding. Among the the venerabh men of the body was Hev. B. Woodber rv, who for fifty-two years has been pies ent at flu pining session ol the ?ii fv I in e , At Tampa the other day Bern Jom? Raid to his audience of four hundred peo- < pie: "If the dcril and Jeena Chriat were I 1 to run for office in this place, hie sataoic I majesty would get fire votes to Christ's < one?if people voted as they live, I mean. i Wouldn't he, now?" (Here he anpealed < k to the ministers and a voice replica: He'd I get a majority, 6ure.) I Commissioner Turnbull says that it is high time that public interest was 1 awakened in the matter of having Florida ^ properly represented at the World's fair. 'I he legislators have a serious problem on their hands. They must keen taxes down for their.constituents aud still appropri-. ate money liberally for the general good. 1 1 Robert Miller, of the Atlanta Real Es- B 1 tate Exchange, is in Florida closing up a j, big deal in phosphate lands for an Eug lish syndicate. About $1.10,000 is in volved in the deal. VIRGINIA * 11 son nod a negro named Kcubin Willis, and totally destroyed the engine. M Governor McKinney issued a requisi- ^ tion for "Judge" A. B. East, now in the j, District of Columbia. East is charged p with forgery and altering a negotiable w note purporting to l>e signed by one II. ^ T. East. lie has been taken to Rich- C) mond for trial. *> At Lynchburg n thirteen-year-old son ., of Councilman J. I>. Sullivan, while w walking on the street, laid his hand on r |, guy wire from an electric pole and war. n instantly killed. A companion, who cn Y( lenvored to release Sullivan from the wire, was knocked down, but escaped in- . Gov. McKinney has received a copy of resolutions from the Lunenburg county . Alliance protesting the calling of an extra session of the legislature. The resolutions stated that the Alliance was op- H? posed "to any settlement of the State debt for any greater amount than was *l agreed upon by both political parties in 0 the IliddlebcrjjtM- act." v The Synod of Virginia in Lynchburg appointed Revs. H. if. Hawes aud D. A. 1'enick to conduct evangelical work. That an English syndicate will shortly .VTV..IV n |?mm, wirn o capital of three million dollars in the State, and somewhere within a radius of two hun is| died miles of Lynchburg. The capital I" ists arc experienced men in that line, having been long engaged in the steel S< manufacture in Sheffield, England, and the exact locatiou of the enterprise will greatly depend upon the action of the 1,1 land companies here as well as of inonicd of men. tin TENNESSEE. Alice MncGowan, of Chattanooga, is a vci new syndicate writer whose articles arc tin popular. Her letters and sketches deal of with southwestern lift BS Tt 1(1'. pr Mrs A melia Townsend McTyeire, widunoiL Jiutuu.. JUi'TvRirc. of the 9?iitli ' ing at Nashville. She was tt relative of~ "m tl.c Vanderbiits. and was instrumental in of getting the endowment of Vauderhilt Uni- Da versity. Bishops Keenc and Fitzgerald wl will assist at the funeral. be ArthurS. Colyar. Jr., of Nashville, whose escapades during the past few . years have greatly grieved his family, J"! and attracted wide attention, has been 11 adjudged insane by the circuit court at ftn Manchester, Coffee county, and ordered ffv to the asylum for the insane. . w There will be no strike outlr Nashville & t hattanooga railroad. An .. oicable settlement was reached at the final con- J^f ferenco between the officials and the em- ^ ploycs' committee. n{ A bill lias been introduced in the Leg- fr islaturc providing for the calling of a *n J yonstiUitioiiHi convention, ny naipn ua- > A press dispatch from Cohmibia"say5T^ Captain .1. H. Andrews and Lewis Lands- .. down, two prouiiuent citiiseus, met in 1 front of the Second National hank and mbegan discussiug a point upon whith Andrews had been sued by Landsdown. After a few heated words, Andrews drew a pocket knife and cut Landsdown's throat, severing his jugular. A physician happened to be near, and through his immediate efforts Laudsdown's life was pro- t>J longed for a short while, but he tiually bleu to death. *"' Ex-Governor Taylor will now reside in 'l Chattanooga and is not particular wheth- ? er he pleases the haughty Nasiivillians or 111 not, especially. 'I he current rumor is, s.c that there have been times when he re- l- ' ; ceivcd none too much consideration at " " the hands- of the aristocrats of that n! straight-laced old city. John I'. Buchanan was last week declared by the legislature duly and constitutionally elected governor of Tennessee for the ensuing two years. lie was 1n- L nuguratcd Saturday. Gov. Taylor dcliv- tl ered his retiring address, after which the w oath of office was administered to Mr. U Buchanan by Chief Justice Turney, of the Supreme Court. Gov. Buchanan then t< delivered his imuiL'tirnl address. t< GEORGIA. * The board of education has opened a ^ night school at Savannah, which is iti session three nights a week. t, A policeman dare not take a drink ' while au duty in the streets of Albany. They are not allowed to enter a barroom while on duty, unless called in on offieir,'. \ 1 business. J A new bill passed by the last Legisla- i tnrc, has been agitating the people of 1 ' Home a good deal lately, and especially | ' the city council. It provides for the J creation of the office of recorder and com- fc bines that office with that of city attor- t ncy, making one man both judge and city t attorney, which is, of course, impossible, i r The bridge of the Georgia, Carolina r and Northern railrond, across the Savan! hah river, is being rapidly pushed to completion. It is being built of the best I , wrought iron, tli spans are four in num- i I l,rr- . f nival f>egan Tuesday. v 15 A mortgage has been filed in Hit-bin ?i*l county Superior Court, at Augusta, for ftl,H(iO,tNIO on the Augusta and ' J"'* Florida Railroad. The Mercantile rust Company of New York, is trustee. I'he mortgage provides for il.r?,000 per mile. Twmn live milts are graded fr..m I Angiisia toward Thomasville. N. B. Gnflla has made quite a smpble li?coTffj oa his plan near RowlBe has found * rein of Iead apd silver iu t>ine?l?alioatB per cant direr, p i? ut in two by the -Oottaaaah riverJmd it that iHiint is focurttua last wide a fifteen thick. Mr. Griffin has refused i offer of $50,000 by a Chattanooga Jwty. lie says he woulan't take $100,OOOpr it. Iltere is an old Indian legend of fsilvei nine in the vicinity. / OTKEB STATES. I The cotton crop of Alabama I valued > $50,000,000. I Her. Mr. Finger, a Methodist minister, an for Governor on the Republlan tick t iu the last Arkansas election J He has low ln-en suspended for six Jonths by lis Bishop for going into politii. Smallpox is on the increase! n Texas, nd at several points appears tap as*urn r?g an epidemic form. Th? Gopfrnor has nii-red the $tajo QflNT *? ^us* uucators in 1 figure nt 4HHB||jBHlNPfRi Icthodiat jubilee that* soon to be bed i New Orleans. He will apeak on "The uture of the Negro lace"?a subject hich he is jwrticularlrfitted to discuss, * much of his work has l?een among tin ulored people of the South. The heavy snows up north make isver^ robable that the lower Mississippi region ill have a tremendous food this spring, is feared that the anon will t^aw nml iuse the river to rise brfore the new lores can lie completed. The Postmaster Genonl has abolished ic office at. Catherino, Ala., owing to the cent trouble there. Four thousand miners at Pratt Mines, hi., have returned to work. Colonel Daniel Dcnnek, a well-known jriculturalist writer, dislat Brookhaven, is*., the other dav. jHe was at one me the associate editor of the New Orans Picayune. THE OYSTER PRESERVEST" orth Carolina Will Fight, if Necessary, Against Intruders. Kaleioh, ft. c., [Special.]?-The ioglaturc passed unanimously a hill em wcring Governor Fowlc to use the mil'ry or other force in protecting the ate's oyster interests, and authorizing m to expend a sum-not to exceed $b1,0 for the purpose of putting a stop to e piracy. The bill prohibits the taking oysters by miy other means than ordi- ] ry tongs, sud forbids all use of dredges d drags. Ample authority is given for e arrest of offenders &uu iiic seizure of <sols engaged in tho depredations in j oyster IkmIs. Members from all parts t the State are heartily in favor of oinpt action, which will be taken. - ? goutn~ ? -' ^ regret to be read ay -19? EntaoctpSTtott' " Ly celebration at vj^cxandriu, Va . in , lichhe said: "The South will cease to politically solid when the colored vote divided, as it will be when the voters 1 their own thinking and vote accordg to their party feelings und principles. ie whites have always been divided, d pretty evenly divided, upon political icstious when not uulted in defending minon rights. So will the blacks hen freed from outside pressure. They ill become members( of the two great ilitieul parties into vhicb the couutry is ever neen divided! Some will be epublicans and sonte Democrats. To ?ither party are theyindebted for their ecdom. This was bestowed as a miliiry necessity to save' the Union, and it lould l)c used for th# common good and reservation of free institutions. As they tical equality with the white* " * HE BLACK DEATH SCOURGE. bousnnds Dying from the Malady in Asiatic Russia. St. PKTKissni'KO,[Cablegram.]?A dis itch from' Tobolsk, Siberia, savs that ic terrible scourge known as "Black ?ourge" has reached the city of Tobolsk, 10 central of West Siberia. The whole ' Asiatic Russia from Sninarcand to the outli of the Obi, is suffering from the ourge. Thousands ore dying at Aborsk near the mouth of the Oui. <)wig to the lack of physicians, it seems aliosl hopeless to try and check thcsprcad f the fearful disease. An Alliance Agent Short. A special from Lawreuce, Kas., sajs# . II. Corse, alliance exchange agent in lis city is short. It seems the farmers ho bad shipped their farm products irotujh cabout 24,000. Corse claim's "that the iossesrw?r? | > the fart that the shipments wrc iiiaile ? unreliable firms. The products were aid in in Chicago mid Denver, but the ommission merchants failed to remit. . committee han been acpomtcd by the llianrc to investigate the affairs of tin xchatige. For the Colored Folk. Mr. Teller introduced in the Senate Vcdncsday, at the request of the Afro l.mcricnn Colonization Society of Wash ngton. I). C., n bill for the relief of the imerienn colored man. The bill approiriates $"i0.0<)0,000. to s? cure land in tauth ('aliforuin, transportation and sub .istance for the permanent aettlem nt of he colored people of the Unitol States. :o be returned to the government with nterest in fortyj^enr^^ The North Carolina Masons. Rai.kioii, N. C., [Special. ]?The grand lodge of Masons, of North Carolina. met at Raleigh in their 104th annual convenGran^^Su^ettIf. m! Moye; Juni< r Grand Warden, Dr. 1?. ?. Noble: Grand Hccre tary, D. W. Rain. The fifty largest libraries ir. Germany possess about JiJ,700,000 volvtn.c-. against England ?.h about f?,4.r?0," > 1 and North Auierif'?.itb about U.lOU/ithl volumes. I 'ja| ALLIANCE TOPICS. The Southern Fanners Opportunity And Duty. An Bxpoaition of What Constitute* a Prosperous Country; Skilled Labor ia Wealth. By the operation of nature'* laws this year would seem destined to be the turning point in the financial condition of the great mass of the farmers of the world. For Years itMt the nHr. of nwwtnrt* of the farm ha* been gradually decreasiug, and the decrease has been Intensified by tho abunhauce of the cropa raised, not oiily here but in all the great cerealgrowing countries of the world. The effect of this decreased value has l?ecn to materially reduce tho area planted to ce reals; but this reduction alone would not WOTnTcaused a material reduction in the crop yields, sufficient, we believe, to | cause a near approximation to supply and ' demand, and to lift from the market that overwhelming surplus which whilst it existed surely prevented a rise in value. \W are now in receipt of the returns of the year's crops from the principal producing countries of the worlu, and an examination of them yields some startling results. Taking this countrv first, we nnd that there will be a probable decrease of 115,000,000 to 120,000,000 bushels of wlitat below the ciop of 1^89; corn will show a decrease of unout 000,00^,080, and oats will yield less by probably 800,000,000 bushels than last year. Adding these three staples together, we have a gross deficiency of 1,020,000,000 bushels of grain in this country alone. The returns from England show that she will need to import quite as much wheat as last year, say 144,000,000 bushels. France, also, will need to import from 40,000,000 to 50.000.000 bushels. fJidecil. ?* wUohi m Europe, taken together, will require to import about 20,000,000 bushels. The Ionian wheat harvest is officially reported at 13 per cent, below the average of the last five years, with n decrease in area of t,.V>0,000 acres ami in'yicld 000 tons. With such figures as these before him no one can doubt hut there must be a substantial increase in the valuo of all Ihe cereals during the winter, and we arc strongly of opinion that this will he a permanent increase, as the shortage will, from the natural increase in population and decrease in the area of available laud, he a permanent one?(hat is to sav, that uvea giving good average crops, the sur plus having liecn swept away by this year of diminished production, supply ind demand will continue for some years 10 nearly balance each other, and so a permanent higher level of prices will lie maintained. Now here is the Southern farmers'opportunity tbid he should make 11 ?te to seize it. In this ai^d'th* adjoin liavelsfi "hP'Hit?ttfArc<wu every farmer economize in the use of wheat and corn, and hold them as loup its he can conveniently. Usually corn is 1 extravagantly fed here and other equuJW valuable feeds are ncgle'C^d, or, if ufcea at all. only to a very sigjUl extent. Bran, cotton seed, ami cotton seed meal may with great economy be rfubstitufed for a part of the corn ration for horses, cattle and hogs. Jtran will no doubt advance in price, but may yet be bought so as to save money when compap.a with corn. The cotton crop being a IfirgeOttc, cotton seed and cotton seed meal is likely to hi1 cheap and ought to ho used freely. In this way corn may he saved and money be made by its sale whilst the head of paying stock on the farm need not bo reduced. Market all stock in excess of what can he well and profitably fed at once, and do not wustc an ounco of corn upon ""4 ?-?Finnl horn Planter. m U v SKILLED LABOR IS WEALTH. The South in natural products is without a rival, says the Constitution. AM the world utilizes her raw material for commerce nnd manufacturers. lint the raw material alone cannot make any section rich. We have inexhaustible ncins ot iron, but the crude iron is comparatively of little value. It takes skilled labor to make it count. A single iron bar worth $5, worked into horseshoes is worth #10.50; made into needles it is worth $555, and made into halauce springs of watches it is worth $250,000! This is an example of what skilled labor can do. "'o Kowa /-Affnn A holo l'c a'Al'th about $50. Skilled {labor comes along and turns it into calico worth $250, or into the finest ln< e worth $10,000! Wc might go on indefinitely on the line, but these two illustrations show how the value of a crude product is multiplied when skilled labor takes hold of it. Here in the South we are just entering Updtl OUr marCh of InH-nMri'nl Our greatest need is to have our labor properly trained. The technological school is Georgia's latest effort in th;(l direction. With the jiiflieioiio j???ort of the St^tc it will open for our brainy and ambitious young men brighter, more useful and more profitable fields in developing our muterial resources than nny profession can offer. .Money spent on this school will be a good investment. It will train up an army of workers who will turn our iron and cotton and other raw material into thousands of useful and beautiful forms that will make this the richest spot on the globe.?Alliance Hecord. Cnt Off the Fair Patient's Wig. T'nore is a story told of a young physician of this city, who was connected at one time with the Emergency Hospital. It has caused many a smile at his expense. Ho had not been long stationed at the hospital when a woman was brought in suffering from a severe scalu ?I -3&1 \&T*lnsr3ye'ng her golden curls a rusty red, and the doctor was engaged in hastily clipping her hair, when his pa-^ tient exclaimed, "Oh, doctor, don t. Thinking he might have hurt her, lie said: "Oh, nevermind; that's all right. "No, it's not," responded the lady with . some'warmth, "for you are cutting my wig." Aud so he was.? oft. Ex-Counsellor Crawl Hypnotised n Cashier and Squanders Thousands. Baj.timohk, Md., Jan. 31.?Ex-Coun sellor U. Webster Crawls has succeeded in making a reputation as a sort of local "Napoleon of Finance," by n series of ingenious transactions. Mr. Crawls has been extensively engaged in land speculations, and failed several months ago, owing several huudred thousand dollars. On Monday afternoon, at a meeting of the stockholders of the Franklin hank, it was learned from President linker that Crawl had overdrawn his account on that bank upward of $100,000. Further than this, the bank holds Mr. Crawl's imiwr to an extent toTncreasy ltin imltbtwiom to tho bank to fit,(KM). Pr?W?nt Baker ] said Crni\l was enabled to overdraw his ! account through the incapacity ami un- I tniitTrnr\hil>M^ rtf Cash"*"' 'Uninn*- ttho 1 hart bffn tTwmtwwT 1 iMft >hV'r j*<? question m to [ wHrthur 1m. thought Gardner had made 1 Ifjtltnir mi* iTftfir transactions, replied matncthihight not, but he could not account for the eashicr's action except on the ground thkt Crawl had hypnntixed him. What Crawl did with the money he picked up around town in a mystcn to thoae who know hint, lie borrowed right and left, subscribed for atock, ga\> hi" note for it, and then hypothecated iif mortgaged the aauic projierty tw ice, and. in fact, wherever he could pick up a dollar hu did so, and that was the last seen of it. Crawl ia in llonnokc, Va. Gardner was a Sunday school eupcriu tend'nl, and Crawl was a pillar of the church. Deer Getting Scarce In Alaska. For several seasons past the Ks<]uimnux of northwestern Alaska have experienced great hardships in obtaining a supply of ticer moat for their winter stores. It ia to l>? feared that when the Bear makes her mnua' visit to the Arctic next summer oianj of tho villages will bo fouud to huvo lost, their rn?ut??*-? flow starvation. Xllu < latest advices from tho Arctic renorl a Failure not only in the autumn deer'hunt, but in tho entiro catch of whales, walrus lud seal*. Naturally of a timid, disposition tho ieor have Icarnod that tho natives with breech-loading arms are far more foruiid* this foes thau when hows, arrows and jpenrs were employed in the chase. Again the Esquimaux spare neither young or Did when a herd is found, and little suckling fawns as well as does carrying young, fall victims to his gun. Formerly on the lower Yukon around it. Michael's, on Norton Sound, and in he country known ss tho Kotxcbuo 1 iound district, numbers of deer made rcarly visits. Now it is rare to find that he natives living at theso points iiavo teen or tasted deer meat. The Alaskan deer of tho Arctic and lub-Arctic regions have been confounded with the reindeer of other localities, but whil? c?rteijs!y belonging to lii<* ana,esruwo,?~J^?? a. )f Lapland and Siberia in being smaller j m body and horns. From July toSeptem- i ber tho instincts of the door induce thorn to come from the interior to tho Bon const to obtain rest and freedom from the tortures inflicted by the hordes of mosquitoes that infest the inland swamps, and also to get saline matter from the herbage nud cnoss growing in proximity to the ocean. In September they commence their inland migration, aud from July until tho middle of October they are ruthlessly pursued by the natives. Soino rest is afforded to the animals during tho dark a ays mat prevail in me Aruuc iuhu nmu November until January, but as soon nftcr the early part of February aa the wcuthcr permits the food-seekers again tako tho held. Ths Ao? ban Uuh jouagduring April, and by a provision of nature tho horns of the female only attain size during the time she is suckling tho fawn and until it reaches such an age that it can feed ?about two months. Whcjn it Is considered that a deer weighing on an average 125 pounds is consumed at a single sitting by live or six natives it may bo readily perceived that tllC 7wtuiuo Ui u auiAAJOiui nun,* ing party must be large to feed a village. ?ikrn Francieco Chronicle. Sonoma's Sere Moons. Th'ere have boon many explanations offered in times past as to why the name of Sonoma was given to this valley by the nativo tribe of Indians, who, upon the advent of tho white man ovor 100 years ego, peopled this section of the country by thousands. Of courso we all know that Sonoma valley in aborigiucc means "Valley of the Moon," but just why that name was bestowed upon it is another question, and one, too, which we believe has never been satisfactorily answered. Recently, in talking to an aged Indian who has resided on t\io uW I Nick Carrigan ranch for mnny years, and who was an old man when General Vallejo settled in Sonoma fifty years a?o, and must now bo something over 100 years of age, he stated the reason tho valley was called Sonoma was because it had "heep rauclieo moon," (translated into good English, many moons). Further inquiry developed tho fact that between the town of Sonoma and the Hclla Vista vineyards, a distance of four or | five miles, the moon, when it is full, can be bccu by the traveler to rise seven times in succession over the mountains in the cast, owing to their peculiar formation. This phenomenon has bten witnessed by many old residents in the early evening at the rising of tho full moon. This, no doubt, lias been observed by the Indians, and hence the name, "Valley of the Moon."?tionontu (Cal.) Index-Tribune. ?\DaWesSml? report just published, describing Ih composition of hia, lymph, iR compar. tiv. lv brief. It says the lymph consist f glycerine, and an extract divided from , pure cultivation of tubercle baccilli. A Wickford (R. I.) man recently killed eleven out of thirteen quail at a ingle diacharge of his fowling piece. (f HOW JlIWBLm* MBROHANDIf ! * HADE BT THB TRADK. ^ ' V?luablo Swceplnjt*?Making?ho Alloy*? Wonderful Little 8awallow HIdk* Are Made. "I get sixty dollars a barrel for the sweeping* of my floor," said a manufacturing jowoler to a Washington Star reporter. "There is no question of poking the dust over before it is bought. The people who purchase it are glad enough to tnko it at that rate unsight-unseen, as the boys say. I sell the stud to the reliners, who make a business of buying rsfuso that has precious metals in it ana separating it. The gold and silver they out In thin wnv ar? saM K? tKem *a U?a1_ O" "~J "J ,v !?"? era in tu^n. V'Xb?y (?? th> MIIIM - ii fiw >Wi assay office the gold and silver that 1 use, getting it always perfectly pure?that is to any, twenty-four carats. Then I make my alloys for myself, putting tho desired proportions of gold, silver and copper into ono of thoso little three-cornered eartlion pots and melting them all up together with tiro. The copper I use is liko what I have hero in this box. You see it somowhat resembles shot of different si/oh. The coppor is chemically pure and when being prepared is poured from tho smutting pot hold at somo height into a receptacle full of cold water, which is kept stirred rapidly. Upon striking tho water tho motal takos the form of thci.o globules. It is much moro convenient in this shape, becauso wo can weigh it out readily in any proportion dosirod. 'Tho silver and gold as we get it is melted up with the copper in proper proportions for tho slloys and cast in iron molds. Thus prepared tho ingots are llatteucd out under a powerful roller to tho thickness dosirod. From those slabs tho piocos. of sixes needed tnr TtucpoM ok sw cot off >ig mncbino-knife. Of every new dosign that is brought into a manufacturing jeweler's shop a pattern is made of ziuc or copper, so that when something of the Biuuo kind is ordered all the workman has to do is to lay the pattern upon tho littlo slab of gold, traco its outlines on tho metal and afterward saw out tho article. Such sawing is dono with what is called a 'pierco saw,' which has a blade like a lino wiro and no thicker, Willi lilll.i Tl. ? .........i.v ivvui, aiivbu flaws nro cnonp, costing only eighty cents a gross, hut I lie work they do is wonderful iu Ut? hands of u skilled oporalor. "If a ring is to bo made a strip of gold of the proper width is bout around by a coutrivanco specially adapted to the purpose and joined with gold solder so artfully that the place of juncturo cannot possibly be discovered. Supposing that a watch chain is to bo producod tho molted gold is first ma/Jo foto - crusro bar of tho length wished for and 'then than I'hnVjSYf^fttTflpytrt.in'Vt _ mill JU+ _ required diameter. Then it ouly remains to cut off, bond, solder, kinl connect tho links in order to complete tho chain. Tho chief part of our business consists iu doing stock work' for tho jewelers. They lend us all sorts of things to mako. For fxample, they want six rings, each with a one-carat diain >nd. In couveying tho order tho dealer includes the six onocarat diamonds in a piece of paper folded up, written on tho outsido tho brief directions that there arc to bo half a dozen rings, each with a singw -tone. My business thereupon is to made tho rings, set the stones and deliver tho goods as ordered. I should never think of advervectUing myself to the publio, beoauso people might be disposed to come to me directly for work, and, although I might ho paid more for an individual job, I should lose tho custom of tho jewelers, upon whoso patronAgo I ain obligedt^^^^^^ depend. Jowelors recently have to sellini' hair brushes nod nflw>r xi-Holo. which compose toilet sets, with bucks of sterling silver richly chased. Poonln generally are not aware how this chasing is done. The ignorant imagine that the designs in silver on the backs of the rumba and brushes arc stamped on with dies, but as n matter of fact they aro always made by hammering with blunt tools from the wrong sido of the silver, so as to fetch out in relief the patterns. This process requires the greatest skill, and it is for this reason, rather than for the value of tho metal that goods of this sort cost so much." Population of Africa. Under the name of tho Independent fUntcs of Congo, its government was organ izud after the most approved mothods of Belgian administration, and it entered 'Su-rrxsi There is within its crea, which is thirtythree times that of Belgium, a population of 4">0 whitos, about one-half Htato officials and employes, and tho estimated number of natives within its borders is about forty million; and in tho whole Congo basin is estimated at about fifty million. Africa is about threo times the area of Europe, or 12.000,000 square miles, and some writers estimate it to contain about :tn equal population?325,000,000 souls. The enormous trade development there I comes mainly from the narrow selvage J which separates tho mountains from the i sea. It is a great basin composed of plateaus, gradually ascending to 7000 ieet.it some of tho central lakes. It has four great river systems: Ou the west tho Congo, second only to the Amazon in the volume of its waters, and the Ki- ^ "<ir .on ilisn swsii ^ i .? mppw? through the mountain barriers, have desceudctrby cataracts and a ions to tho ocean, leaving great a^n of rich deposits of wonderful fert /. The population of K'cw England '.as increased nearly half a nv.lhou in t'*c ten years. Ihit the farming popuau.o.i f has decreased, * / . \ ;.-jj Jl