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The best date attainable gives the Rapdblio of Colombia a population of S,MO,000. k ?a?? Thirty-two out of the 102 counties In Illinois have actually decreased in popu-*, lation during the last ten years. 'The Boston Tranacripi avers that ' young men in Connecticut are leaving tie farms for the cities in droves." An English penny-in-tho-slot machine company has been mulcted in damages by tha victim of a machino that didn't value of ~ jggWJuthern property increased in value to Ihe extent of f270,000,000 during tho year of 1690. ??i? Statistics show, alleges the New York World, that one-fifth of the native married women of Massachusetts are cliild ess. It is said that in no country save France can a similar condition of oo found. The Dominion of Canada proposes to settle the Behring Sea question by buying Alaska. "A simpler way to settlo it," opines tho San Francisco Ghronicl "would be for the United States to buy Hinkd* " A man was recently sent to prison in New York Oity becauso he could not furnish $500 bonds to keep tho peace. As there was mo one to furnish it for p. him this was practfgjflfeimprisonment for life, so after a coupTWlf months tho man was called up and discharged. Mexico's tariff of $2.50 per hog has failed to suppress the American imports of that article of food, remarks tho 'Boston Cultivator, but it has sent up tho price in the City of Mexico from eight to twelve cents per pound. ^ The Chinese are no more welcome in fctoJtara than in many other countries. introduce the consumption of opium 'impoverishment of the poorer ^^ Pfsuntold mischief amoug tho poor, fl^Vho have to pay such high interest that BBafn and misery befall most of them whon IWchcy once take to bori owing, and this re' suits in an increase of crimo. 1 The Boston Cultivator thinks it strange that "though Germany is opposed to tho importation of American pork, she admits our beef. Receut shipments of dressed beef to Hamburg wero well resolved, ana sold at remunerative prices. It was pronounced much superior to tho Australian beef. The masses in Germany demand chcapor meat. They will 1 welcome shipments of American beef, | and before long will force the Government to admit our pork." Major-General O. O. Howard has undertaken mission work in Now York since ho was stationed at Governor's Island in command of the United States troops, according to tho Chicago Times. He and his son have been teaching Bible classes in a miserable room over a stable in Elizabeth street. He is now trying to buy adesorted church in Chrystio street for the use of the school and for services > for adults. The General contributes 1 $1000, and asks tho Christian public to help him raise the balance, about $17,000. _____ Tho new Anti-Kidnaping League's National Committee recently issued in New York an address to the public stating that many sano persons have been proved in court lately to be illegally imfljubrisonod in lunatleasyluins, and that yppttch imprisonment's easily inflicted without trial and hard to escape from. They say that rich pooplo whoso property is covetod and persons whoso spouses wish to get rid of tuem, aro specially liablo to kidnaping. Tho committco asks all who know of such cases and all who feel themselves in danger of such incarceration to write to the Secretary, Miss C. C. Lathrop. Collector Pholps, of San Francisco, Cal., in testifying before tho Congressional Committee, spoko of the opium smoking of tho Chinese And of knnr fliou Hnrl inlrdflnrorl fhn amnnff "v" *"VJ ? ? tt white people. Ho would huvo astringont law against the sale or uso of tho drug. A new law would bo useless, declares tho Report. Tho old law and public opinion have already greatly reduced the use of opium. We mean that the habit is not spreading nearly as fast us it was. It is a vice that cannot bo practiced in secret. The fumes of tho drug are too penotrating for that, while tho apparatus is ciumsy and not easily carried about or concealed. So morphine and the syringe have succeeded opium and tho pipe. The tfnorphino habit is frightfully prevalent and will spread. No congressional committees or laws will stop it. It seems destined to be the national , vice. THE NORTH CAROLINA GIRLS. An Appropriation of $20,000 for a Female Industrial School. A petition has been presented to thr North Carolina Legislature during it: present session praying for au appropriation of $20,000 to aid in the establishment of an "Industrial School for the "White Girls of North Carolina." This is a very trifling sum, as the Wilmington Messenger observes, "for 1,500,000 people to give to the cause of wouiau ? I to the safety and happiness, and comfort, and usefulness, of hundreds of tht white girls of Carolinn fpom year to year and from generation to genera irtu j?BPTT nuu innc me scnooi will be established. Certainly the State could not find a bet ter investment, nor one that would pay larger aud handsomer returns. Tho movement is under the direction of the King's Daughters, who are circulating petitions throughout the State foi signatures, and who will doubtless go to Raleigh with so many of the intelligent and patriotic people of the State behind them that, even if it should be so. disposed, the Legislature will not dure to refuse their reasonable request. The number of i lliterates in North Carolina is positively disgraceful. According to the census of 1880, of persons 10 years of age and upward 08.2 per cent, were returned as unable to write. Of the 52,010 white females, from 15 to 20 years of age, both inclusive, who were returned by the census enumerators, 15,219 or 28.0 percent, were unable to write, and of the 215,350 white females of 21 years of age ami up- ( ward, 72,017 or 33.4 percent were unable to write. More than one third of the white women and girls in North Carolina, one of the richest and most flourishing .States in the South, cannot write ' their names, and very nearly ns many arc unable to read the language which they 1 speak. Surely, something should be < done by the State for the education of the future wives and mothers of the ' State, who are to give character to the citizenship of the generations yet to be. i In their present most praiseworthy un- < dcrtaking, as we are told by our Wil- : mington contemporary, the King's Daughters "arc moved by a profound appreeia- \ tion of the necessity of doing something } through the State for the benefit of that j class of white girls who are unprovided ^ for aud have no way of obtaining a place or 'occupation whereby they may 'earn an houest living.'" "NVc are rejoiced to know that North 1 Carolina is Keeping step with her sister Southern States in their MTorts to ameliorate tlie condition of . the. 1 mTff is nrnc nsr crtious for the menus of making a living. In his inaugural addles* Governor Till- | ! man directed attention lo ibis important ' fuhjcct, and, with the co-operation of the State, we have no doubt that his re- I commendations will assume practical shape and that it will not he long before ' South Carolina makes ample provision " for the education iu "the practical arts < and sciences" of its daughters, as it. lias 1 already made provision for the education t of her sons. The experiment of industrial training school* r.JV .voiiic-n has t been made in Mississippi and Georgia I with the best results, and what has been < accomplished iu these States can be ne- ( complishcd with even greater satisfac- t tion in the two Carol)nas. t In Mississippi and Georgia the location i of the industrial schools was left open by i the Legislature to the com pet ion of rival < towns and cities. The Mississippi Col- 1 lege was established at Columbus because < Columbus, with a population of six * thousand, many of whom were colored, gave $90,000 to secure the location of I the school at that place. Of this amount 1 $ " 0,000 was represented by suitable build- I ings and grounds, and $40,000 was eon- i trihutcd in cash. In Georgia the little I town of Milledgcville entered the lists 1 nge.iurt the buigconmg city ol Atlanta, ' and secured the establishment of the Ge n - j gin Industrial and Technological Insti- i lute for women within its limits. To accomplish this end Milledgcville, with a population of four thousand, subscribed $10,000 in rash and made a loan of $12,- ] 000 to the Slate to aid it in pushing for i it < - ' iv.-ini ? ih:\yui k or cimisi run ion. urn Mississippi ami Georgia have done i i this direction the two Carnlinas can do. The need for industrial schools is ever, more urgent in the last named States than in the former, and when the public mind shall he fully aroused upon the subject we have no fear as to the ultimate result. Our girls ought to be educated,, aud educated in flic most practical way. North Carolina is moving on the right inc, and we shall be much disappointed if the "Farmers' Legislature of 1891" do not take a practical view of the question v! extend the aid lor which ttie King's daughters pray.?Charleston News and Courier. FOUGHT TO THE I AST. A Mad Stallion and n Jackass, ill Mercer, Fight a To* *iblo Battle. Lexinoton, Kv., Fell. 10. A battle to the dentil took place in Mercer county, between a valuable saddle stallion and a jackass, belonging to William Thomas, a stock raiser. A few days ago a mad dog bit Thomas's little boy and the stallion. The horse went mad, and knocking down the door of the jack's stable commenced biting him. The jack retaliated, ami h>r fifteen minutes they fought, using their teeth, heels ami fore feet. Finally the jack tore the stallion's left, car wit it his teeth and the stallion then bit a piece from the jack's neck. This seemed to make the jack more ferocious than ever, and grabbing the lower part of the stallion's neck in his teeth, he tore out his wind pipe. Hut the high-mettled stallion did not give up, ami before f.;!! 'og be kicked the .lack's left, hind leg, breaking it just below the bock, lie tl.cn fell dead. The jack uttered a long, haul bray and went into bis stable. lb- was covered with blood and wounded unto death, so that his muster killed him to put him out of his misery. The boy was taken to a madstonc. The stone stuck three times, and he shows no signs of madness. It is believ l ed he will recover. I SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Happenings of Importance For A Week. Dwellers in City and Country Get a Write-Up Here Free of Charge, and No Questions Asked. VIRGINIA. A oew town is soon to be built in Prince George county. The dwelling house of John J. Russell, a wealthy resident of Petersburg, took fire Monday and before the flames could be extinguished, Russell, who was / <?,.nut, t' IV f-AUfttfjkH y f Danville and East Tentim-e Railroad* 150 miles from Danville, in this State, to Bristol, Tenn., have been awarded to the Inter-Stato Construction Company, of New York. Work l?egau under contract Thursday. < The proposition to remove the l>ody of Mr. Davis from New Orleans to Richmond ( for permanent burial has been revived. Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond, will con- | suit Mrs. Davis in regard to the matter | upon his approaching visit to New York, and it. is hoped that she will consent that her husband shall tind a resting place in A the old Confederate capital. No other city in the South can offer so appropriate ' a place of sepulchre for the sacred dust 1 of the greatest of Presidents. NORTH CAROLINA. H r An act to incorporate the North Caro- I lina Society for prevention of cruelty to I children and animals was passed by the ^ Legislature Friday. Charlotte had a $100,000 tiro lul wo?k. ^ The Bolinont hotel and the Wilson Drug Company building were burned. ^ Many county Alliances arc instructing members of the Legislature to vote for a bill increasing the school tax from 12 1-2 to 25 cents on the $100 valuation ? af property. Large droves of mules from Kentucky j, ind Tennesssec are being brought to Halugh and Charlotte, and tind ready sales it good prices. *v Bills passed the Legislature prohibiting he sale of cigarettes to miuors, and () unending the Constitution so as to elect p he District Solicitors by a vote of the (.] vholc State. j SOUTH CAROLINA. ? The Episcopal churches of Charleston ' lave organized a Church Guild. v The bank of Georgetown lias been H r "tipw toieiF y if At the Young Men's Christian' Knnoclh-"ion county convention, which will be d teld at Edgefield on February 28 and darcli 1 and 3, ex-Governor J. C. Shep>nrd will make the opening address. The ball team of the South Caroliua Jniversity has organized for the season md sends a challenge so all whom it may :oncern to coutest for the State chain- s liousliip in a series of three games during he Columbia Centennial festival. The executive committee o? the State mi g.- met at Wright's Hotel, Columbia, dastcr of the Grange Thompson in the hair. All of the cominitte, with one ex:eption, were present. The general afairs and prospects of the Grange were borough ly discussed, and it was deternined that the executive committee shall ssue an address to the patrons throughnit the State, urging organization and 'corganization. 'Ihere arc already well jrgunized branches in Kershaw, Chester, Oconee, Florence, Maricj^ Ahbcvillc and \udorson. All of these branches have lieen in existence since 1873, nnd have well sustained the honor, credit nnd usefulness of the organization. The committee also discussed the recommendation made to the last Legislature that the State should establish at the Penitentiary a manufactory for bags and bagging from the available fibres of the State j and from jute. GEORGIA. Gen. It. S. Henderson, a prominent Loniencraic oiucer, men in miama j. Thursday. Half the county officers elected . in Lunipkiu county arc Allianceiiicn. I A pitiful sight on the streets of Co- 1 lumhus recently was a boy 9 years old in ' a beastly state of intoxication. He was u arrested, but the lllack Maria had to be I summoned in order to convey hiin to the < 1 loek-up. 11c raved and cursed fearfully | while being carried there. i The oldest colored woman in Georgia died in Itockdale on Wednesday morning t last. She was one hundred and five 1 years old. ( Mrs. Merry was found in her room at ' Columbus late Tuesday night with her throat cut from ear to ear. The murderer is believed to be Mrs. Kerry's husband. ' The couple had been living apart, but on 1 Monday they were apparently reconciled. ' Kerry is missing. , Krunswiek will have some very im- j portant meetings of associations, encamp- i 1 ?? J...I iU? IIH'Ills aim niinnnniin mui 111^ mu ut.w i three months. They are: The state con- i vention of the Young Men's Christian Association, from February 20th to 23(1; the annual convention of the Georgia Teachers' Association, from April 28th to May 1st; the annual encampment of , the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias of Georgia, to begin on May 19th and continue for a week. These are all meetings of great importance to the people of the State generally. TENNESSEE. A newspaper reporter on the American, at Nashville, committed suicide Thursday evening at the Capital City. A special from Dunlap says that lightning struck the livery stable of J. II. Huddlostoa at that place, killing three I horses. Gen. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, is one of the inuny Congressmen who will retire to private life on Murch 4. He says, though, that at his age?nearly seventy ?and after twenty years'service at Washington, he is glad to doff the harness. Dr. C. C. Lancaster, one of the leading physicians of East Tcnnesseea nd a member of the faculty of the Tennessee Medical College, died Tuesday night of blood |H>isoumg. X tew days ago Uc performed an operation on a lady having gangrenous wound and received the poison through au exceedingly alight abrasion under a finger nail. FLORIDA. Pasco county has n genuine coffee tree on exhibition at the Ocala Semi-Tropical Expoaiton. The eleventh annual assembly of iho Florida Chautauqua opctcd at De Fuuiak Springs Wednesday* T\|e exercises will continue six weeks, with a progamme rich in music, literature <%d art. Edward Bosenqucst, sc| of a wealthy Loudon banker, waa bittti on the leg by a rattlesnake near Dayton^uuday, while hunting, and is beyond hvUe of recovery. ALABAMA. The race war iu Alabama scfos to be i very small affair. The kills are rehired from sixteen to one. A biography of the cclcbrs|jd South "nroliuian and adopted Alabanfeu, Wiliam L. Yancey, is one of thedromised looks. Col. John W. Dubosf of Birningham, Ala , is writing it. i . The dead and manorled hndvnf ? * ? >? vns found at a railroad crosuig in the lenrt of Birmingham Friday ni^pt. He las born identified as a harms maker ituned King, who got on sprees The Southern Exposition wil open at ifontgoincry ou October 28, ?d close "lovomber 11. Capt. II. Q. Bibb has eeu elected president. Preps rit ions are ?einef made to make the expoition the ;reatest fair ever held in Alabtma. VQULDN'T ACCEF^NOBIl'S PLAN. 7he Governors of Virginia and Gergia Disagree With the Socretary of the Interior. Bichmond, Va., Feb. 9.?Secretary 'bible has insisted that the money approiriated under an art passed at the preset session of Congress for the support f agricultural ami mechanical colleges houbl be divided equally between the rhitc and colored institutions. Gov. McKinney took issue with him n this point, ami hold that this money hould be distributed in accordance with lie school laws of this State. Gov. torthen, of Georgia, took the same poit ion, and sent this letter to Gov. McLinuey ou .Tauuary 31: "I enclose a clipping giving you somcrhat 'the condition of matters in this tate touching the appropriation made istribution of the fuuvrxSjjp-'00" Ine bites and the negroes not TCo&lcmplated i my opinion, in the bill As 'equitable ml just.' Until he assigns stronger realms for his conclusions than he has yet resented it is my purpose to insist upon lie terms of the act of the General As L'liibly of this State giving one-third to lie negro college and two-thirds to the tate College for the whites. This diisiou is based cur school popula ion. I will be glad to have you give io ine coiiuiuuns m your ouue aim inc oursc you have pursued in this matter.-' Secretary Noble expressed the desiic liat th(> same rule should lie adopted iii lie distribution of this fund ia Virginia * in Georgia, Gov. McKinnoy maintain d that equitable division did n?>t lean equal division of the money between he colored normal school at Hampton nd ihe Blacksburg College. As is tin asc in Georgia, the Virginia school law ;ives the whites two-lhjrds and the colred ones on?-thfrd "of the .school fund, nd Gov. McKinney went so fur as to give fr. Noble to understate that upon no flier condition would he accept "" / inia's share of the appropriation./- 4u ieeretarv hn? for*v??rrteJ ?he siouvv I?en\ ml it has been divided between the two ollcges in the ratio named in the State iiws. STRUCK REV. SAM JONES. Texas Mayor Assaults the Evangelist and Gets the Worst of It. cnm Jones is now at Palestine, Texas. I i denounced Mayor Ward last year. I'he Mayor was not home at the time, >ut this year he laid for Jones. Friday is he was leaving Palestine Ward struck lim with his eaue. Jones jerked the anc away and beat the Mayor over the lead and face. Ward tried to draw a listol, but was prevented. Jones' Georgia grit pulled him through all right. The news of the encounter, s^on thread hrougliout ~Pa1e8ti'.AT"**?fter a "hasty neeting of citizens, handbills weae issued allium a mass-meeting for the purpose of :-ondcmning the attack of the Mayor. The act of Mayor Ward is generally denounced, while there is an clement averse !o attaeks upon private characters such is are occasionally made by Sam Jones in his pulpit zeal. Mayor Ward was subsequently arrested ind placed under houds of aggravated issault and for carrying a pistol. The mayor avows his right to carry weapons, find declares that he hail no intention of carrying his resentment further than can- { ing the evangelist. IWP.nfNf; THtf STARVTNft Tho Poor of England's Capital Being Fed Each Day. London Cablegram, Feb. 10.?Charitable committees for the relief of the awful destitution in London are going about their business in a rather peculiar fashion after an investigation of various rases of the alleged poverty, the inquiry in each case being prolonged so as to give the victim a fair chance to die of starvation,rclcif wasat length distributed. I',lit for fear flint two dm'-h bc?K?olriiCc might lie followed by |iliRa.strous results, the relief was carefully regulated, lueatl being distributed the first day, then soup the next day. and eoalfthe third day. Why the articles cduld not all have been given the first duly is not explained. At a large meeting of unemployed labor eis on Tower Hill, la speaker declared that they did not want to stop any shops unless it was actual IJF necessary to do so; hut that they were determined to obtain work, if not by fttir^ffcang then by foul. TH1 DEADLY PARALLEL COLUMNS ' IiOok on This Picture, Gentle Reader, j Then on That. tN TIE WEST AND I IN TUR SOVTIl. . M} K V11 \\ KST. | Indian wars. >A reign of i?ence. Farmers Wing 'Everybody prosperscalpcd.j ous and happy. Peoplo fleeing from Farmers yearly betheir homes. | coming better off. The deadly blizzard. Sunshine. Five suceessivo crop Five successive good failures. I crops, iucrrasing yearly. Want and starvation. Plenty.* A knrwlwa loot) ?' H- 1 -* ? ? -rutttntlfTTl products. Cotton, sugar, rice, t o haceo, tibres. Western 1 High w heat, products: | Low prices { corn, oats Wheat and I prices for | fruits of corn J nearly | all kinds, j all. | vcgctn hies w ithoiit end, fish and oysters in to unlimited rj i supply. hi No home markets, Home markets and pi and remote from near to great eon- w the great centers. tern. hi Burned u n tl v e An equable climate, 01 months ana frown n reliable and well c< up seven. distributed rain- a fall. di '^TourerAve months the year round. e? of the year. E Treeless ex pauses of Hieh valleys paral- le sand-hills and leled by inoun- fr sage brush. tains of eoal, iron at anil t iml>cr. g A heterogeneous pop A ho 111 o g e n e o u s g Illation. lwiotiliil inn I l"'l * Furnaces going out Old furnaces runof Must. niug fullenparity; new ones going into blast; new initics being opencd it Nothing to build on. Tremendous indusf trial intciusts ,j, building up. cy n g New railroads buildlit ing; railroads ^ tie business there over-taxed with is. traffic. A dismal future. A splendid destiny._ ? SerriLisu AT LAST. 1 'set msnnouneement of tho ) o; Change in the Richmond & Dan- "< ville Railroad. The following official circulars settle ' the question of the long rumored promotion of Mr. W. 11. Green to the position ^ of general manager of the Richmond and .'] Danville road, and the resignation of J, General Manager Peyton Randolph: Richmond & Danville R. R. Co., ) j, Okfick ok thk President, [ 80 Rhoadway, New Yobk. ) c| GENERAL OltDER. d Mr. W. II. G rccn bas^bcen elected general manager of this company, with offi?< at Washington, I). C., taking effect Feb ni ruary 1, 1801, vice Mr. Peyton Randolph. p< elected third vice-president. i? i lie is charged with the direction of tin a operations of the transportation depart r? mcnt in all its brandies, and will report ii to the first vice-president. si John H. Inman, n Jan. 81, 1891. President.lt y Richmond ?fe Danvii.i.r R. R. Co., ) n Okkick ok General Manaokii, ? ci Washington, I). C. ) i) uEiir.KAL OltDRIt, NO. 48. 1 C( The office of general superintendent j, and assistant general manager is hereby abolished, ami all reports heretofore made to that office will hereafter be sent direct. In this office. W. H. (SlIKKN, * I Fob. 2, 1H9I. (Seneral Manager. Petitioned the Court to bo Handed. . " Wiikkm.no, W. Va., Fob. 11.?The 1< County Court of 1'iosfon county was as- A tonishcd the other day when James Car- w roll, a prominent although illiterate, far- Si liter, presented a petition signed by 250 oi of his acquaintances and friends, pray- In ing that he be hanged, and the Court k speedily appoint a day for the event. u It turned out after an investigation that |, Carroll was a road surveyor and desired p to resign. He asked Dr. James A. Cox u to draw tip a paper to that effect. Cox is ? a >?ag, and knowing that Carroll could p not. read, lie drew a petition asking that. 0 he be hanged, and awaited curiously to jj I see how many people would sign it with- e out knowing what they were doing. ,| About 150 signed it without reading j, it. The remainder "caught on"' and nl| lowed the paper to go its rounds. ~ ^ The Cotton Crop Movement. I Nkw Dm.KANs, Feb. 10.?The cotton c crop movement to February 1 shows: " . Port receipts f??r five months 5,27H,085 ' 1 bales against 4,951,151 last year; net 1 overland to mills 795,70(5, against 1 :>7,- 1 . Din. ..... I -. in nv/iiuu #.f Sr.nliini I f tici I, 4:i7,:i82. against 800,082; South- " orn mill tnkings, exclusive of consumption lit out ports, 808,215, against 80V,- ( 820; crop in sight Feb. 1, 0 814,408, ! Against (>,202,202 last year ami 5,760,?.t0 ? year before last: crop biought into sight ? i'or January, OA 1,0(1 f, against 706.080 " Inst year, and ?U2,H05 the year before. Tl>e last comparisons for the previous <" y< ar embrace alt correction* tttti?rW<i to ? the proper periods, instead of adding 1 them in lumps later in the season. The Proachor Made Whisky. N \sitvii.i.k, Tknn., FebniaryO.?(Jen- < oral Deputy Collector Spurrier raptured ] an illicit distillery at the rosidenee of i Kev. Bciry Bridges, n Presbyterian preacher, near Flintville, Lincoln county, which .Mrs. Bridges explained the doctor i had been operating in making a little whiskv for his own use. The still was a I crude affair, but capable of making a gal- i Ion a day, ami was locked in a cellar, un- | dcr the smoke house. * rHE FARMERS' SEX ATM K Sketch of the Man Who Defeat* Ingalls. rhe New Senator is a Six-Foot* of Slender Build?In&alls Takes His Defeat in Good Humor. wilmam mmn. Topkka, Kansas. February 8.- Sena >r lngnlls take* liis defeat philovuphi illy. He remained in his room at llie del while the Imllot was taken, tteeom rniod by three or four friends, autl hen the news of his defeat eame to hi in 2 gave no evidence of disappointment feeling, hut took it as a matter o >urse. lie had to push his way throng! l?ig ciowd ns he entered the Copelam tiling room shortly after 10 o eloi k 1^. ation of a sarcastic smile on his face, vcrylmdy within sight wanted to get n *>k nt him to see how he took his detat and a few shook hands with him ami tempted to hurriedly exp^-ss their ve ret. He simply acknowledged their re rets hy a nod and a "Thank yon." rr didn't spoil, his appetite. Oen. and Mrs. Humphreys sat just a "oss the table from linn, while Kugem . *Ware sat at his left. He ordered r IIIIICI 1VI1H II HllfJffC.SK'll a gOOU ??1 likewise encouraged one, ami lie at? with evident relish, talking cliccrfullv id almost'incessantly to his friends, lie large dining room was crowded ami rcry one paid more or less attention to ic distinguished Henatdr. In fact all res seemed to he directed toward tlx ildc at which he sat, aud a large crowd ashed and jostled aronixj jhc dininsj uun * - -^ tl" ' PT nTH to pay the Blightivst all ml ion \* ny one cxcejtt those at his tultic, heinj biivious to the fact that nhuudred |>aiifevea were constantly upon Mm. Tfr win t dinner an hour and when lie left tlx iuing room for his room lie again had > press his way through a crowd. Senator Ingalls' friends, to all appeal aces, take his defeat miieh more 1 earl than lie does. Senator ltii<-li.in liairman of the llvpuhlicati Centra ommittee, who lias been closer to bin i this light than anybody else, and win as bad charge of the Campaign, is tin icturo of dispnir. Ife has stood by hi lief with uinpiestioned loyalty and cvotion. NOT RUKPKI8KD. Senator Ingalls conceded his defeat to ght. lie did not conceal his disaplintinent, but lie said the result w;d it wholly unexpected to him. Nearly year ago he expressed a doubt of lib selection. The old Kansnn deleg.i on in Congress at that time began l< low signs of disintegrat ion. Congress inn Tlmiij^i Ryan was mudc minister ti Icx'co; then Conjjrefisman Peters an minted his determination not to he : imlidate again; then Congressman Tut" er was defeated for rc ongressinan Anderson was also dafcal I in the nominating Convention, and trulls said the Convention was like 11 >\v of bricks, one being pushed ovei \e others were likely to follow. ll< jems to he personally gratified at tin hoice of l'feffer and extended his eon ratulations today. HKFUBLICAN HOPES. Republicans generally are well satis I'd- with .Judge l'feffer, whom they him ?oked upon as the best of the Severn llianr-e aspirants. It is thought In ill affiliate with the Republican ; in tlx ennte in all matters not directly antag nistie to the interest of the farmers ami iboring classes of the country. Iln cord as a soldier helped him to tri mph over his competitors, and he wil e an advocate of the veterans in all leg ilatioD affecting them. One objectioi irged against him by Jiis Alliance oppo ents was his age ami physical inflrnii y. Some of the members who at firs pposed him feared that he might no ike to serve his entire term, in whir l vent a republican Governor would nil loubtedly appoint Ingalls to succeei lim. A SKI.K-MAIIK MAN. William Alfred l'feffer has Ii\ ife of toil and hardship vei v siipihi ti hat of Lincoln and Garfield hcfoic tina me into public notice. Ife has me II the common vicissitudes that bene lie human family, such as poverty, poo lops, unfortunate investments and iiu tailed health. lie has been a pionee armer, a pedagogue, a soldier, a lawyer 1 II PUIUiri mill ill! Mllllll, Mr. I'frffor was born in Cumticrlaui >?unty, l'a., on Kcptcmlrcr 10, IHJH, In >a rents being farm people of kiwi! nouns. The locality nfferwl limitoi idvantagcs for education aikI training ind young Pfeffcr had no opportunity or advancement except such as h' ouhl make for himself. He /^Undet L?K . winter months between the age of 7 aw 17. Tic was a clos? si mien t and rea *"i ind at the age of 15 had a teacher's ccrtili ate, and was given charge of a distrit school at $1(1 a month, from which li paid for his board and clothing an saved something for books and paper He tauglit school for several winters an worked on the farm in the summer,* an employed every snare hour in reading At 1ft he poKsesed a miscellaneous libr. ry of one hundred volumes, was a read debater, and some of his cniiiinimicatioi had hoen published hv theanti stavei and temperance preSi'. _ w w {, A# A UOOSIKIt VAHMRR. Ho nuoricd in Doc-entlter, 1S*?2, and |(j removeJ to St. Joseph County, Ind., whore he iKUijrht a small tract of timber land ami beyan to ticnr it for a farm. Ho was m>t successful in thy undertak,r inir, ami in IHott, he went to Southwest Missouri ami purchased a farm in Morfpsu County. Then the war (rouble came on, . and, a* he bad expressed stroiut Union sentiments, It hccatuc nrudent for hint to make another ntovo?this time to Warren1 County, III., wltemho ranted a farm, put 111 it general crop, and tn~ August, 1803, lu- en lint cil ns a private in Company Fr of tin- 83tl regiment, Illinois lufautry. IN THK A MIT. JSHbB Ptivnte PfefTer wu commissioned H econd lieutcunut, and was *nb#c<pu>ntfflM^^^H ?4 w^iVwfwffir, supplies for the military divisinna Mississippi under General Sherman. Ho served without nick leave or furlough until June 30. 1805, when ho wan honorably discharged. > Such leisure as came to him in the army lie had devoted to study, and after his discharge he opened a law office in ('lai ksville, Tenn. lie secured a iiuiuIkT of important eases growing out of the war, ami prosecuted them successfully. In th e \ ork of re-establishing pence and' good will in the South he took issue with the extreme radicalism of Governor Krownlow and labored for the organi/.a| tiou of a Conservative-l'nion party in harmony with the National Hcpublican I party. After a four year's residence at' Clarksvillc he grew tired ??f the social and political condition, and sacrificing ' his property there, he removed to Wilson county, Kan., in 1870. There lie located | a claim and again engaged in agriculture. . Jh^"l?o establish^! a ... WKnn.|cr anil at or from Wilsou and Montgomery couu1 t ies. AH A JOUHNAMST. lie met with tinaneiiil reverses in 1875, and elinnged his location to ('olTeyvillc, Montgomery County, where he started the t'olTeyville Journal ami abandoned bis law practice on account of failing health, lie was a Republican l'resirien lial elector in 1880, anil gave up party 1 politics with the election of Garfield 1 and removed to Ttmcka in I8HI. am! subsequently accepted tlie* editorship of the Kansas Fanner, and beeamu special editorial writer for the Tupcku Daily ('apital. inn iioiiniK*. Mr. PfdTor has been a prominent champion of the interests of tln^farmers for many years, and was their principal 1 mi*"' BUCccKsfnl campaign , hut has always acted with tlm lb piil J ..can party, llu is u member uf Xlm Pr4kLjtt|MriMKM| ^tontnut MftlKrormt-fhuroh mnd in ? jr Mason and a Knight of Labor, Mo trH" ; vols free coinage and endorses the domands of the St. Louis platform, upon whit h the People's party was founded. , Mis principal hobby is the construction by the tioverumeut of north and south I railroads in the west, nntl the loaning of , money by tln? Oovcninient '><> the fanners , at a law rate of interest. His article in the Forum on the "Defensive Movement of Farmers" gave him the general fav?>r w I of the farmers. Me is the author of 'PfelTers Taritr Manual," which was considered a good flepublienn campaign document in IHH8. He also published another pamphlet in 18811 under the title of "The Way Out," which embodied his t peculiar ideas of government loans to farmers. Judge PfefTcr is six feet in height, of slender build, wears a full black bcatd 1 , and in general appearance Is plain uud unpretentious. \1e is slow unu mcthodi ' onl in inunncr, but in addressing an audience he talks rapidly, earnestly, pcr1 ..istcofly and diffusively. As the renre?e??ta*?v? gf t;.? Aiiinnec, hi- whole effort will bb devoted to securing a more abundant circulation of money and cheaper rates of transportation. 1 Judge Pfoffer lives tpiietly and com fmtahly in a suiull cottage on Fillmore street in Topcka. His tastes arc domestie and studious, and his home life is devoid of display or fashion. He has a wife ami four children?two girls and two hoys?the latter being practical printers working in this city. I Onyx in Missouri. When water containing lime in flolution drips into a cavo upon the ores of metals it forms with them a chemical ' combination and produces the oxquisito translucent substance wo call Mexican onyx. If the inetalic oxido or ore is ' gold then rich purplo veins and splotches appear through the oynx; if silver, then II the coloring is yellow; if copper, green; if iron, red. and arseuic produga^yua|||| : white. Ages ago King Solomon mined this I, rare onyx in Africa. The deposits there becamo exhausted. It was found in I modern times at Oberstcin, in Germany. The deposits there failed, too, however. Then the most beautiful decorative ma, ferial known to man cropped out in i, America, but in Mexico, as if scorning a v Yankee republic. For some years Mexi i I co tins supplier! tho world, the splendid l ( shining blocks of precious value being i , cut from tho quarries by hand by Indiana. Machinery hw not been applied to It ? hitherto to any great extent, because tho ? substance ia so fragile that any force more violent than that of deft Indian ' fingers wonld split it and luin it. * Now, however, a flutter of interest has 1 been aroused by the announcement that in Missouri, in Crawford County, in the ' Ozark range, inexhaustible quarries of ? onyx havejust been discovered within , seventy miles,of St. Louis. This is great i plentiful that it will be vulgarized and ! applied to nil manner of base uses, but it !* i would be delightful if this material :, ! should become so cheap that persons of ^ moderate..means can have a little of it in . j their homes. Thus every good thing is found sooner or later in the United ' Stutcs.?Jncelert* Catalogue. i It is stated that for tho year ending y July 25, 1890, there were in Now York is HtAtc 800,000 children of school age y , who did not attend school lor any part i vf the Jtcrjou. ^ .. Jjj