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^ , } . ^ I>erotM to Agriculture, and th? Cxrrmt I/?c? M tK? Day. ?? ' ' ?*?' i'i i..'. . .?i. !JL . _?* .... . > ? '' ^~>^ LutLa^r > --- ..-. :??1" 1 ?" " '' '1 "* T In one California county (Inyo) then | SOUTHERN STATE NEWS I ^ I?M? lRfm m<I ? ?aa ?> " * s^iwr : - iu WW wuiie BKinp. J Tho Kentucky Court of Appeals -lias decided that money loet at draw pokor can be recovered by the loaer. V- - ???p??? Bitting Bull was the Macchiavelli ol [the North American Indians of his time, jeays the Jfail and Baprem. By a'rather rem triable coincidence the name "Spurlock" appears in three - stories written by three different authors in the December issues of Harper, Scribtier's and The Century. ' Captain Mea^c, of the United States Navy, says that in peace times we do not noutoKeenenk of *' |B*ao?taB, II]M a suburb of Chicago, lhave Juai availed themselvos of the cooperative housekeeping scheme, and .now their fifty displaced domestics have engaged a lawyer to assist them in regaining their situations. ( The Commercial Advertiser thinks that Wie Argentine Republic has done a good etroke of business by abolishing, on the (ground of economy, its embassy at [Switzerland. Buenos Ayres needs t (minister plenipotentiary at Berne about jas much as Constantinople needs an on. i . I Toy extraordinary in Iceland. Englishmen are to have "an autojmatic railway library," which means n case of books fitted into railway cartilages. The books will consist of short i novels and stories by good writers, nod k~. (any books likely to tempt tho weary 'traveler into putting the all-important (coin "into the slot." According to the Detroit Free Preu, a firm in New York can make you a great big fire and burglar-proof safe, with a .nice landscape and your name 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 themsolves. They give outsiders a feeling of confidence. ; Poor ministers ia England have a source of rcrenue which the Springflekl (JSUMf) unian cnaniauiy uuper*ui?w be accorded to thoir brethren in tula country. Instead of salting down their old sermons in barrels they send them to tho bookseller, who gets as much as $5 a hundred fox them. A London dealer offers 4000 sermons in job lots at this price, and if they are written in "a largo, bold, plain hand" they bring more. The Export and Financier, of New York, is of the opinion that Mexico offers a new field for enterprising Americans, who would be certain to succeed there if they understood and could speak tho Spanish language,or if they possessed some useful specialty. Judging from the ?f that R?nuh. lie, profitable employment can be found 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 in a lawsuit against the poet, James Whitcomb Riley, his chum for years in the work of making Americans laugh. Nye and Riley hare been a money-making V?!.?a ? k?>* -W-A *K-? CUUit/lUV iwl J UOIO) UUW VUDU ( ^ while bis own humor was always dry, Mr. Riley's was too frequedtly wet. In Louisville, he says, early in the year, Riley poured out to Bacohus libations altogether too copious, and the result was that when the hour arrived at which . the combination should appear to amuse the publifi Riley presented a very willowy form to the audienoe. Hence Nye's aotton. The action, which is for the recovery of $20,000 from Riley, will be tried at Indianapolis. Very few people realise how much the dentist has done for mankind. To mention one thing only, the perfection to which the manufacture of false teeth has been carried has practically abolished old age?that is, old age in the sense .that 1 used to know it, says a writer in the flWs-ZMnoemf. Tou eee none of the helpIeM, mumbling old men and women thai you fonnerly did. This it not beoauae people do not attain the age their parent* and grandparent* reached, bat beeaoee the deatiet ha* prereatel some of the moet unpleaeant ooneequencee of admnoing yean. Men of seventy no longer either look or feel old, became they are not deprived of nourishing food at the time when they need it moet. f?sm! um of likaMt, ud thin 4ou not appear la the BeeeHstraragant when one think* of the difference in the nutriment aooeaalble to one with a Una set of molan and oaa condemned to gam it ||gr; W? dedttahv ritn, ^ _ I Happenings of Importance For A Week. Dwellers in Oity and Country Get a I Write-Up Here Free of Charge, and No Questions Asked. NORTH CAROLINA. Another cotton factory is to b 3 built at Buffalo paper mills, Cleveland county. Btatesville organizes a Land Development and Improvement company. Lieutenant J. B. Hughes, who has been instructor of tactics at Bingham school, Orango county, has gone to Fort Grant, under orders from the war de- I partment. Senator Zebulon B. Vance was re-electT Southern exposition at that place. r A ? ** ? - ~';r? a. new cnarrer nas been granted Trinity College by the North Carolina Legislature. 'Ibis allows its removal to Durham and increases its board of trustees to thirty-six, of which the two Methodist Episcopal confercuccs in the StAte choose twelve each, while the alumni choose four. The work of the brown-stone quarry has brought to 8anford quite a number of foreigners. Nearly all of these stonecutters are from France, and nearly all of them are below the average stature. As a rule, they are very reserved and well behaved. Governor Fowlc commissioned Julian E. Wood, of Elisabeth City, colonel of tho First Regiment of North Carolina State Guard, and W. T. Howell, or Goldsboro, major. An appeal to the supreme court of the United States in the suit of Baltzcr and Koaks, of New York against the State of North Carolina, which was decided adversely to plaintiffs by tho State supreme court, was perfected at naielgn. Tfte | case involves $140,000, and is to get I payment for irou furnished the Chatham I 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 COUntv of flmmrilln ? .-rf -^.ww.ctiu AO I Ml in the lead of any county in the Srate. This county reports fifty-seven private schools, flftv-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 lively discussion was created over a bill to increase the penalty for carrying concealed weapons to $80 or thirty days in fail, which finally passed the second reading. -... SOUTH OAROIAHA. ceived the appointmciitui _ missioner to succeed the late Qen. Bonham, thus completing the commission. The French government has abolished the office of French vice consul at Charleston. State Treasurer Bates moved into tb Treasurer's office at the State Capital last Wednesday, having been occupying temporarily a corridor office, wliilo the official chamber was undergoing repairs. The wife \ind child of the Treasurer arc I still quite ill. The town of Goldville, on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroed, in Laurens county, was almost totally destroyed by fire 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 in that time. Columbia's new daily paper wut , its first issue before the people of the | State by the middle of February. I Emma Abbott, the sweet opera singer I who died last week bequeathed a lega- I cy of $50,000 to the Citadel Square Baptist church of Charleston. The international pet and poultry show at Charleston was a great success. There were over 2,000 entries of poultry and 107 dogs. At the Wednesday's session of the Binkiug Fund Commission in Columbia, the Secretary of State nomiuated D. M. Means for chief clerk of the public laud department, and Col. James G. Gibbes for abandoned land agent, and they were elected by the commission. The board intends to vigorously press the collection of debts due the State for prior liens, and has concluded that under the existing laws it has the right to bring suits to assert the State's prior and confessed lien on land for taxes,- costs and penalties accrued prior to 1887. J. A. Norris has been appointed postmaster at Stateburg, Sumter county. Col. H. 8. Hints, general mauagcr of the Charleston & Savannah railway, was elected vice-president of ths Plant Investment Co., to fill thff vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge W. S. Chisolm. FLORIDA. The Kinsimrorc sugar mill is turning out a fine quality of sugar and running day and night. Ground is broken and work un<l?r atPunta Gorda upon a largo ice factory, the daily product of which will be twentyfive Cons. ^ Bartow has new Irish potatoes and will ooon have all kinds of fresh vegetables of home growing. V. J. Bhipman, receiver of the land office, Gainesville, says there are over 3,000,000 acres of laud in the State yet subject to homestead, also that the past year has been the busiest the office has ever known. Over 11,000 settlers have "proven up." The Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic r. la advaat$a?u} for sale under a is ranching out for this persimmon. The forty-seventh session of the Florida conference of the If. I. church. South, met in Monticello, Bishop W. W. Duncan presiding. Among the the venerable men of the body was Rev. 8. Woodberry, who for fifty-two years has been present at the opening session of thf confer* n^uce. r ? uiq umer amy (Mm J ones said to his audience of four hundred people: "If the devil and Jesus Christ were to run for office in this place, his sataoic majesty would get five votes to Christ's one?if people voted as they live, I mean. Wouldn't he, now?" (Here he appealed to the ministers and a voice replied: He'd get a majority, sure.) Commissioner Turnbull says that it is high time that public interest was 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 keep taxes down for their.constituents and still appropri-. ate money liberally for the general good. Robert Miller, of the Atlanta Real Estate Exchange, is in Florida closing up a big deal in phosphate lands for an English syndicate. About $150,000 is involved in the deal. VIRGINIA. son and a negro named Rcubin Willis, and totally destroyed the engine. Governor McKlnney Issuod a requisition for "Judge" A. B. East, now in the District of Columbia. East is charged with forgery and altering a negotiable note purporting to lie signed by one H. , T. East, lie has been taken to Rich- ( inond for trial. ** At Lynchburg a thirteen-year-old son , of Councilman J. D. Sullivan, while walking on the street, laid his hand on r ] guy wire from an electric pole and war. ( instantly killed. A companion, who en- , deavored to release Sullivan from the wire, was knocked down, but escaped injury. j Gov. McKlnney has received a copy of resolutions from the Lunenburg county Alliance protesting the calling of an ex- ' tra session of the Legislature. The resolutions stated that the Alliance was op- 1 posed "to any settlement of the tttatc j 1 llcVlt fni- ? >? ??1? A .v. ?uj ^uoiti amuuni man was ' agreed upon by both political parties in 1 tho Riddle be rj^ur art." The Svnod of Virginia in Lynchburg appointed Revs. H. II. Hawes and D. A. Penick to conduct evangelical work. j That an English syndicate will shortly locate a stctd plant with a capital of three million dollars in the 8tate, and somewhere within a radius of two hundred miles of Lynchburg. The capital- ! ists arc experienced men in that line, ' having been long engaged in the steel ' manufacture in Sheffield, England, and 1 the exact location of the enterprise will 1 greatly depend upon the action of the ' land companies here as well as of monicd c men. n TENNESSEE. j' Alice MncGowan, of Chattanooga, is a v new syndicate writer whose articles arc tl popular. Her letters and sketches deal o with southwestern life as It is. jj Mrs A melia Townsend McTyeire, widtuvuf McTrrirr nf thf 9-^uttt 1 ing at Nashville. She was a relative ot "T the Vanderbilta, and was instrumental in o getting the endowment of Vanderbilt Uni- i versity. Bishops Kcene and Fitzgerald v will assist at the funeral. 1 ArthurS. Colyar, Jr., of Nashville, whoso escapades during the past few c. years have greatly grieved his family, ' and attracted wide attention, has been adjudged insane by the circuit court at ? Manchester, Coffee county, and ordered ( to the asylum for the insane. There Will be do strike on the Nashville , & C hattanooga railroad. An amicable settlement was reached at the final con- j fcrcnce between the officials and the em- ^ ployes' committee. , A bill has been introduced in the Leg- ] islaturc providing for the calling of a Constitutional Convention, by Ralph Da- 1 A press dispatch from Columbia sajrsivCaptain J. H. Andrews and Lewis Laudsdown, two prominent citizens, met iu front of the Second National bank and r began 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, und through his immediate efforts Laudsdown's life was pro- I longed for a short while, but ho finally 1 blea to death. Ex-Governor Taylor will now reside in Chattanooga and is not particular wheth- ' er he pleases the haughty Nas'nvillians or not, especially. The current rumor is, that there have been times when ho rej ceived none too much consideration st the hands- of the aristocrats of that straight-laced old city. John P. Buchanan was last week declared by the legislature duly and constitutionally elected governor of Tennessee for the ensuing two years. He was Inaugurated Saturday. Gov. Taylor delivered his retiring address, after which the oath of office was administered to Mr > ? Buchanan by Chief Justice Turney. of the Supreme Court. Gov. Buchanau then delivered his inaugural address. &?0?wl?. The board of education has opened a night scjiool at Savannah, whicn is in session three nights a week. A policeman dure not take a drink, while an duty in the streets of Albany. They are not allowed to enter a barroom while on duty, unless called in on official business. A new bill passed by the last Legislature, has been agitating the people of Rome a good deal lately, and especially the city council. It provides for thi creation of the office of recorder aud combines that office with that of city attorney, making one man both judge and city attornoy, which i.\ of course, impossible. ITho bridge of ibe Georgia, Carolina and Northern n^tfosd, across the Savanhah river, is hofng rapidly puslted to com- I pletion. It in being built of the best wrought iron, th ipaoi ?w lour in cumber. _ nival began Tuesday. A mortgage has been filed in Richmond county Superior Court, at Augus- i ta, for $6,000,000 on tho Augusta and West Florida Railroad. The Mercantile Trust Company of New York, is trustee. Tho mortgage provides for $10,000 per mile. Twcury-nve miles are graded from Augusta toward Thomasville. N. B. Griffin has madli quite s discovery on his plate bear Rome.tHe has found a vein of lead' and silver ?mbincd?nliQut 50 per cent. stiver. It is cut in t^o by the Ooetanaola river#nd ut that point is fourteen feet wide n flf-' teen thick. Mr. Griffin has refused m offer of $.10,000 by a Chattanooga ?rty. He says he wouldn't take flOOfOOO/or it. Hie re is an old Indian legend of /silver uiine in the vicinity. / OTHER STATES. / The cotton crop of Alabama $ valued ?' $10,000,000. I Kev. Mr. Finger, a Methodist fcinister, ran for Governor on the Republican ticket in the last Arkansas election.! He has now Ix-en sus|>ended for six rionths by his Bishop for going into politics. Smallpox is on the Increase In Texas, and at several points appearstobe assuming an epidemic form. The Gowrnor has ordered the ftta^H^SBrOffisar to AuaC ?! V educators in the ctflpSPfttldMn^rj ncnt figure at Methodist iubilec tnafis soon to be bed in Now Orleans. He will speak on "The Future of the Negro Race"?a subject which he is imrticularly fitted to discuss, us much of his work has been among tin colored people of the South. The heavy snows up north make is ver^ probable that the lower Mississippi region will have a tremendous flood this spring. It is feared that the snov will thaw and cause the river to rise bdore the new lc vees can be completed. The Postmaster Oencnl has abolished the office at Catherine, Ala., owing to the recent trouble there. Four thousand miners at Pratt Mines, kla., have returned to wwk. Colonel Daniel Dennett, a woll-knowu STiculturalist writer, diejat Brookhavcn, iss., the other day. fee was at one time the associate cditof of the New Orcans Picayune. 1 THE OYSTERTSESERVEST Worth Carolina Will*^ight, if Naeessary, Againstjhtruders. kalriob, n. c., [Sjkcial.]?The lcgslaturc passed unanimously a hill einlowcring Governor Fowle to use the miltary or other force ip protecting the State's oyster interests, and authorizing rim to expend a sum not to exceed $15, 00 for the purpose of putting a stop to he piracy. The bill prohibits the taking >f oysters by any other means than ordilary tongs, and forbids all use of dredges nd drags. Ample authority is given for he arrest of offenders and the seizure of esscls engaged in tho depredations In he oyster beds. Members from all parts f the State are heartily in favor of irouipl action, which wjil be taken. HU HUM. I i gy'lW^. . ; , . f regret to be read afwRnSSScfpafton*' >ay celcbratiou at Alexandria, Va . in rhichhe said : "The Spth will cease to ?c politically solid whtSb the colored vote s divided, as it will be when the voters lo their own thinking hnd vote accordng to their party feelui|js and principles, rhe whites liave always been divided, ind pretty evenly divided, upon political ]uestions when not united in defending common rights. 8o will the blacks when freed from outsld B pressure. They will Income mombert ,of the two great political parties into ihichthe couutry lias ever been divided Some will be Republicans and sot* Democrats. To neither party are they indebted for their freedom. This was* Ufestowcd as a military necessity to akvtfcilio Union, aud it should be used fqrthwommon good and preservation of frtkitylutions.^ As they stand j litical equality witfilhe ? THE BLACK DEATH SCOURGE. rhousands Dying from the Malady in Asiatic Bussls. St. Pf.tkuhbuuo, [Cablegram.]?A dis patch from Tobolsk, 8iberia, saya that the terrible scourge known as "Black Scourge" has reached the city of Tobolsk, the central of West Siberia. The whole of Asiatic Russia from Bnmarcand to the mouth of the Obi, is suffering from the scourge. Thousands arc dying at Abdorsk near the mouth of the Oui. Owing to the lack of physicians, it seems almost hopeless to try and check the spread of the fearful disease. An Allienqb Agent Short. A special from Lawrence, Kas., says. L. II. Corse, alliance exchange agent in this city is short. It seems the farmers who had shipped their farm products lit" ?'Ulli f'I r-i| |gL*"V 11I IIIt 24/.00. Corse clamw <ttai lmr*inawrwawr*T?tnt to the fact that the shipments were made to unreliable flrtns. The products were sold in in Chicago aud Denver, but the comniissiou merchants failed to remit. A committee has been appointed by the alliancc to investigate the affairs of the exchange. For the Colored Folk. Mr. Teller introduced in the Senate Wednesday, at the request of the Afro American Colonisation Society of Washington, D. O., a bill for the relief of the American colored man. The bill appropriates $50,000,000, to secure land in South California, transportation and sub siatanre for the permauent settlcnv tit of the colored neoMe of the Unitni 8tn?os. to be returned tol the governnwnt with interest iii forty ycaw. The Worth Carolina Xaaona. Ralbwb, N.'^.jfSpecUl.l?The grand lodge of IjteaotM, North Carolina, met ronvj W srden, Mid Bccrc gainst EnghnSBh^^ut MB?>00 and North (JjlOO/'U ALLIANCE TOPICS. The Southern Farmers Opportunity I And Duty. An Exposition of What Constitutes a Prosperous Country; Skilled Labor is Wealth. By the operation of nature's laws thii f ear would seem destined to be the turnng point in the financial condition of the Sreat mass of the farmers of the world, or years past the price of the product? 'of the farm has been gradually decreasing, and the decrease has been intensified by the abunbance of the cropa raised, not only here but in all the great cerealgrowing countries of the world. Tho effect of this decreased value has been to materially reduce the area planted to cereals; but this reduction alone would not p wrautfikiUi t 1m "onn, caused a material reduction io th< crop yields. sufficient, we believe, to cause n near approximation to supply and demand, and to lift from the market thai overwhelming surplus which whilst it existed surely prevented a rise in value. \Vc Hre uow in receipt of the returns of the year's crops frcfin the principal producing countries of the worlu, and ail examination of them yields some startling results. Taking this country first, we find that there will be a probable decrease of 115,000,000 to 120.000,000 bushels of whfcat below the crop of 1889; corn will show a decrease of ubout G00,00\090, 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 1,020,060,000 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. Indeed, tfc* whoh? oT jsiiropb, taken together, will require to import about 20,000,000 bushels. The Indian wheat harvest is officially reported at 13 per cent, below the average of the last five years, with ndecrease in area of 1,500,000 acres aitd in'yield 055,000 tons. With such figures as these before hiin no one can doubt hut there must be a substantial increase in the value of all the cereals during the winter, and we arc strongly of opinion tliAt this will be a permanent increase, as the shortage will, from the natural increase in population aud decrease in the area of available laud, 1m? a permanent one?that is to say, that even giving good average crops, the sur plus having becu swept away by this year of diminished production, supply and demand will continue for some years to nearly balance each other, and so a permanent higher level of prices will Ire maintained. Now here is the Southern farmers'opportunity, and he ahouh^mako li ste to seize it. In this an^d'the ad join"nave>w 'hmiliQkrA'eiW JtafM had ,?tliay, every farme** economize in the use of wheat nnd c n. and hold them as long as he can c nveniently. ftsually corn is extravagantly fed here and other equa^W valuable feeds arc negle'c^d, or, if uSea at all, only to a very siqpll extent. Bran, cotton seed, and cotton seed me*l may with great economy be rfubstitufed for a part of the corn ration for horses, cattle and hogs. Ilran will no doubt advance iii price, but may yet be bought so as to save money when Qomparea with corn. The cotton crop being a Ihrgetfne, cotton seed aud cotton seed meal is likely to he cheap and'ought to be used freely. In this way corn may be saved nnd money be made by its sale whilst the head of paying stock on the farm need not be reauoed. Market all stock in excess of what can be well and profitably fed at once, and do not waste an ounce of corn upon Wm.?Soutb?'n Planter. ^ ***** * SKILLED LXBOp IS WEALTH. The 8outh in natural' product? to without a rival, says the Constitution. All the world utilizes her raw material for commerce and manufacturers. But the raw material alone cannot make any section rich. Wc have inexl,?i,c?UUn nf irnn hilt thf? oriwlo irnri is comparatively of little value. It take: skilled labor to make it count. A single iron bar worth $5, worked into horse shoes is worth $10.50; made into needle: it is worth $355, and made into balaucc springs of watches it is worth $250,000 This is an example of what skilled la bor can do. Then wo have cotton. A bale is wort! about $50. Skilled {labor comes alanp and turns it into calico worth $250, oi into the finest lace worth $10,000! We might go on indefinitely on tin line, but these two illustrations show hov the value of a crude product is multiplier when skilled labor takes hold of it. .Here in the Houth we are just entering UpOil OUr march of lndwvirirvl prv.gru?a Our greatest need is to have our labo properly trained. The technologies school is Georgia's latest effort in th<( direction. With the judicious suppor of the State it will open for our brain and ambiuous young mcu brighter, mor useful and more profitable fields in devel oping our material resources than an profession can offer. Money spent o this school will be a good investment. ] will train up an army of workers wh will turn our iron and cotton and othc raw material into thousands of useful an beautiful forms that will make this th richest spot on the globe.?Alliance cord. Cat Off the Fair Patient's Wig. There is a story told of a young physi cian of this city, who was connected a ono time with the Emergency Hoepital It has caused many a smile at his expense He had not been long stationed at th hospital when a woman was brought ii suffering > from a severe scalp wow9 (SSC dyeTSg her golden curls ; rutty red, and the doctor was engaged i tltOl Uciniiucu, , _ Thinking he might have hurt her, 1 eeld: 4 Oh, nerer mind; that's nil right q "No, it's not," responded the lady wi U some warmth, "for you are cutting c wig." And ao he sort of napoleonof "finance Ex-Counsellor Crawl Hypnotized n Cashier and Squanders Thousands. Baltimore, Mn., Jan. 21.?Ex-Coun k sollor 11. Webster Crawls hns succeede<l in making a reputation as a sort of local "Napoleon of Finance," by a series of ingenious transactions. Mr. Crawls has been extensively*engaged in land specui lations, and failed several months ago, owing several hundred thousand dollars. , On Monday afternoon, at a meeting of the stockholders of the Franklin bank, it ( was learned from President Baker that Crawl had overdrawn his account on that I bank upward of #100,000. Further than this, the bank holds Mr. Crawl's paper to an extent to Increase his indebtedness to the bank to #11,000. President Baker , said Craad was enabled to overdraw his account through the incapacity and un. trustworthiness of Caahiur Gardner, who had been dismissed. - - -Mr, But LPT, ajmh to a question as to . \vbother hqthought Gardner had made jj tyrtnfe' transactions, replied , That he thought not, but he could not acj count for the cashier's action except on , the ground tlAt Crawl had hypnotized I him. What Crawl did with the money he picked up around town is a mystery to those who know him. lie borrowed , right and left, subscribed for stock, guv. [ bis note for it, and then hypothecated il . mortgaged the same property twice, aud. in fact, wherever he couid pick up dollar lie did so, and that was the Inst seen of it. Crawl is in Itoanokc, Vn. Gardner was a Sunday school super in tend'nt, and Crawl was a pillar of tin- I church. iiaai* 11 ii-? ? * m tii-mug- iji-Rrco in Alaska. For several seasons past the Esquimaux of northwestern Alaska have experienced great hardships in obtaining a supply of (leer moat for their winter stores. It is to he feared that when the Bear makes her annua', visit to the Arctic next summer many of tho villages will bo fouurl to havo lost their rnsid^n** Aoro starvation. TUu 1 tstcct advice* from tho Arctic report a failure not only in the autumn deer hunt, hut in the entiro catch of whales, walrus lud seals. Naturally of n timid, disposition tho Jeer have learned that the natives with breech-loading arms are far more formidable foes thau when bows, arrows and ipears were employed in the chase. Again the Esquimaux sparo neither young or old when a herd is found, and little suckling faWns as well as docs carrying young, fall victims to bis gun. Formerly on the lower Yukon around St. Michael's, on Norton Bound, and in the country known ss tho Kotzcbue Sound district, numbers of deer made yearly visits. Now it is rare to find that the natives living at these points have teen or tasted deer meat. The Alaskan deer of tho Arctic and tub-Arctic regions have been confounded with the reindeer of other localities, but while certmnly belonging to the Uariau. , of Lapland and Siberia in being smaller in body andhorus. From July to September the instincts of the deer induce them to come from the interior to the sea coast to obtain rest and freedom from the tortures inflicted by the hordes of mosquitoes that infest the inland swauips, and also to get saline matter from the herbage aud tnoes growing in proximity to the ocean. In September they commcnco their inland migration, and from July until tho middle of October they are ruthlessly pursued by the natives. Some rest is affnrilnrl t/\ t.hn animnla Hnrinor tlin dark days that prevail in the Arctic zone from November until January, but as soon after the early part of February as the weather permits the food-seekers again tako the field. The does have their young during April, and by a provision of nature the horns of the female only attain size during the time she is suckling the fawn and until it reaches such an age that it can feed J ?about two months. - - _ ' ~ "When it Is considered that n. deer weighing on an average 125 pounds is consumed at a single sitting by tive or six natives it may bo readily perceived that t the average returns of a successful huntj ing party must be large to feed a village. , ?San Francisco Chronicle. i Sonoma's Seve Moons. There have been many explanations offered in times past as to why the name of Sonoma was given to this valley by the native tribe of Indians, who, upon i the advent of tho white man over 100 years ago, peopled this section of the r country by thousands. Of course we all know that Ronnm* vkIIas in nhnrirnnnn ? means "Valley of the Moon," but just I ! 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 r aged Indian who has resided Oil i\ic u\d j Nick Carrigan ranch for mnny years, ^ and who was an old man when Oencral Vallejo settled in Sonoma fifty yoars ago, y and must now be something over 100 0 years of age, he stated the reason the [. valley was called Sonoma was because it y had "heep muchee moon," (translated n into good English, many moons). Furt ther inquiry developed tho fact that beo tween the town of Sonoma and the Bella sr Vista vineyards, a distance of four or <1 five miles, the moon, whon it is full, can e be seen by the traveler to rise seven times in succession over the mountains in tho east, owing to their peculiar formation. TTiis phenomenon has Ik en witnessed by many old residents in the early evening at the rising of tho full moon. This, no doubt, has boon observed by the Indians, and hence the ' name, "Valley of the Moon."?Sonoma l? (Caf.) lnd?x- Tribune. rrjwt''(tabbing ?? .f glycerine, and an dMded from ? a pure cultivation of tubercle baccilll. th A Wickfotd (R" I ) recentV nv killed eleven out of thirteen quail at i ft. single discharge of his fowling piece. HOW JEWELERS MERCHANDISE IS MADE BY THE TRADE. Valuable Sweepings?Making'the Alloys?Wonderful Ltttlo Sawsllow ltiugs Are Made. "I get Bixty dollars a barrel for tho sweepings of my floor," said a manufacturing jeweler to a Washington Star reporter. "There is no question of poking the dust over before it is bought. Tho people who purchaso it are glad enough to tako it at that rate uusight-unscen, as the boys say. I sell the stuff to the refiners, who mako a business of buying refuse that has precious metals in it and separating it. The gold and silver they get in this way aro sold by them to jowelcrs in turn. ' 'I buy from tho refiners or from the assay office the gold and silver that 1 use, getting it always perfectly pure?that is to snv, twenty-four carats. Then I make my alloys for myself, putting the desired proportions of gold, silver and copper into ono of theso little thrco-corncred earthen pots and melting them all up together with tire. The copper I uso is like what I have here in this box. You sec it somowbat resembles shot of differ cnt sizes. The copper is chemically pure and when being prepared is poured from the smelting pot held at some height into a receptacle full of cold water, which is kept stirred rapidly. Upon striking tho water tho metal takes t *.o form of theso globules. It is much moro convenient in this shape, becauso we can weigh it out readily in any proportion desired. ,4The silver and gold as wo get it is melted up with the copper in proper proportions for tho alloys and cast in iron molds. Thus prepared tho ingots are flattened out under a powerful roller to tho thickness desired. From these slabs the pieces, of sizes nced?*<1 ? wva cpucpoaa or aothw, it? CUt of? wituT^? big machine-knife. Of every new design that is brought into a manufacturing jeweler's shop a pattern is made of zinc or copper, so that when something of the same kind is ordered all the workman has to do is to lay the pattern upon the little slab of gold, trace its outlines on the metal and afterward saw out the article. Such sawing is done with what is called a 'pierce saw,' which has a blade like a line wiro and no thicker, with little tectli. These saws are cheap, costing only eighty cents a gross, but the work thoy do is wonderful iu the hands of a skilled operator. ' "If a riug is to bo made a strip of gold of the proper width is bent around by a contrivance specially ndaptcd 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 produced tho melted gold is first made into a square bar of the length wished for and then than 1 hat prceo<nnjr,~WnJK'VA ~ still ifJa required diameter. Then it only remains to cut off, bend, solder, and connect tho links in order to complete tho chain. Tho chief part of our business consists in doing 'stock work' for tho jewelers. They tend us all sorts of things to make. For f xample, they want six rings, each with a one-carat diamond. In conveying the order the dealer includes the six onecarat diamonds in a piece of paper folded ^ up, written on the outside the brief directions that there are to bo half a dozen rings, each with a sings, -tone. My busiucss thereupon is to made the rings, set the stones and deliver the goods as ordered. I should never think of advervcitisiug myself to tho public, because people might be disposed to come to me a directly for work, aud, although I might bo paid more for an individual job, I should lose tho custom of t'jTe -jewelers, npou .whose putronage_I/ain obligefl-to depend. Jewelers'" recently Iihv/t f iIr^pyw^?j to selling hair brushes and other artic1e?i^M'^^^ which compose toilet sets, with backs of sterling silver richly chased. People generally are not awaro how this chasing is done. The ignorant imagine that tho designs in silver on the backs of tho cambs and brushes are stamped on with dies, but as a matter of fact they are always made by hammering with blunt tools from the wrong side of tho silver, so as to fetch out in relief tho patterns. This process requires the greatest skill, and ? it is for this reason, rather than for the valuo of tho metal that goods of this sort cost so much." Population of Africa. Under the name of tho Independent States of Congo, its government was organized after the most approved methods of Belgian administration, and it entered fully "<vu'iuwi into the faquir of nations. . writes Colonel Sanford in toe" Forum. There is within its erea, which is thirtythree times that of Belgium, u population of 450 whites, about one-half State officials and employes, and tho estimated number of natives within its borders is about forty million; and in the whole Congo basin is estimated at about fifty million. Africa is about three times the area of Europe, or 12,000,000 square miles, and sonic writers estimate it to contain about an equal population?325,000,000 souls. The enormous trade development there comes mHiuly from the narrow selvage which separates tlio mountains from the sea. It is a great basin composed of I 1 - ? i...n.. 1: i. Turin piaieuua, giuuuoiij wvcuuiu^ (u |VVn ieetftt some of the central lakes. It has tour great river systems: On the west i the Congo, second only to the Amazon in the volume of its waters, and theNirun* irfin.iT, huwuj megai llg "*7". through the mountain bnrrier^ltave desceudctFhy CRtaracts and cr tons to tho ocean, leaving great yr% of rich de| posits of wonderful ferr /. * ' Tho population of Kcw r.rtg'nnw :.ss f Increased nearly half n million in t1 fjj ? teu years. Ihit the farmiog pupuiui.oa has decreased, i ''m