The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, February 13, 1891, Image 1
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'.
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{, 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. ^
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