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Tho Kentucky Court of Appeals -lias
decided that money loet at draw pokor
can be recovered by the loaer.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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