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5^' ~ VOL.XXII.-NKWSKRIKS. ~ ^ I' tua uo>k ubhi attainable gives th Republio of Columbia a population o E 8,640,000. Thirty-two out of the 102 counties in Illinois have actually decreased in population during tho last ten years. a/,*-. ' The Boston Tran$eripi avers that ttyoung men in Connecticut are leaving he farms for the cities in droves." (tejjf- - ' An English penny-in-the-slot machine company has been mulcted in damages ^ ? . by the victim of a machine that didn't Mannjac tho aMBSffd valuo pPflPBSlhern property increased in value to extent of 1270,000,000 during the year of 1690. .vV. J . > Statistics show, alleges tho New York World, that one-fifth of the native mar-. ded wojnen of Massachusetts are child-, ?ees. It is said that in no country save France can a similar condition of affairs oo found. The Dominion of Canada proposes to ! settle the Behring Sea question by buying Alaska. "A simpler way to settle it," opines the San Francisco Chronicle, "would be for the United States to buy Canada." A man was recently sent to prison in New York City because ho could not furnish $500 bonds to keep tho peace. As there was no one to furnish it for " . him this was practically imprisonment for life, so after a couple of months the man was called up and discharged. ^ Mexico's tariff of $2.50 per hog has failed tc suppress tho American imports 'of that article of -food, remarks tho | 9 'Booton Cultivator, but it has sent un tho price in the City or Mexico from eight to twelve cent* per pound. 1^^^^ The Chinese are no more welcome in than in many other countries. MHBMV introduce the consumption of opium 'impoverishment of the poorer ^^^ BHVTttntola mischief among the poor, M Who have to pay such high interest that and misery befall most of them when KSjl||Hney once take to borrowing, and this resuits in an increase of crimo. x The Boston Cultivator thinks it strange that "though Germany is opposed to the importation of American pork, she admits our beef. Recent shipments of dressed beef to Hamburg were weil received, and sold at remunerative prices. It was pronounced much superior to the Australian beef. The masses in Germany demand cheaper meat. They will weloome shipments of American beef, and before long will force the Govern* ment to admit our pork." Major-General O. O. Howard has un? dertaken mission work in New York since he was stationed at Governor's Island in command of the United States troops, according to the Ohicago Timet. He and his son have been teaching Bible classes in a miserable room over a stable in Elisabeth street. He is now trying to buy adeserted church in Chryatie street for the use of the school and for services i > for adults. The General contributes ' \ $1000, and asks the Christian public to help him raise the balance, about |17,000. The new Anti-Kidnaping League's Wa4U..i u_ _i ?iouvuai VUIUUIIIICQ rvuouilj 133U0U in New York an address to the public stating that many sane persons have been in court lately to be illegally imH^^Hpsoned in lunatio asylums, and that HRBR^^fctr imprisonment is easily inflicted 5"W^^nlhout trial and hard to escape from. They say that rich people whose property is coreted and persons whose spouses wish to get rid of them, are specially liable to kidnaping. The committee asks all who know of such cases and all who feel themselres in danger of such iaoarceration to write to the Secretary, Miss 0. 0. Lathrop. Collector Phelps, of San Francisco, Gal., in testifying before the Coni ! l n ix a i_ - - # xt_ grroeiuuai spunu oi iae opium smoking of the Chinese and ol 'how they had introduced the habit among white people. He would have a stringent ^ law against the sale or use of the drug. ' '"A-new tow would be useless, declares the Report. The old law and public opinion have already greatly reduced the use of opium. We mean that the habit is not spreading nearly as fast as it was It is a vice that oannot be praoticed in secret. The fumes of the drug are to< penetrating for that, while tho apparatus la olumsy and not easily carried about o y concealed. Bo morphine and the syringi have sooeeeded opium and the pipe The 4frtorphine habit is frightfull; prevalent and will spread. Ho con greeskmal committees or laws will stoj it. It seems destined to be the nations vioa. a e THE NORTH CAROLINA GIRLS, f An Appropriation of $20,000 for & Female Industrial School. i( ' A petition has been presented to the North Carolina Legislature during it: present session praying for an appropriation of $20,000 to aid in the establish ment of nn "Industrial 8chool for the "White Girls of North Carolina." This is a very trifling sum, as the Wilmington Messenger observes, "for 1,500,000 l people to give to the cause of womau? t to the safety and happiness, and comfort, and usefulness, of hundreds of tin white givls of Carolina fcom year t<?i vear and from generation to genera- I and that the school will be estabhshed. Certainly the State could not find a bet ter investment, nor one that would pay larger and handsomer returns. The movement is under the direction of the King's Daughters, who are circulating petitions throughout the Stale foi signatures, and who will doubtless go to Ralciirb with ko mnnv ..f ??>? 0 WE HIV- IIIIUIIIgent and patriotic people of the State behind them that, even if it should be so. disposed, the Legislature will not dare to refuse tlieir reasonable request. The number of i liberates in North Carolina is positively disgraceful. According to the census of 1880, of persons 10 years of age and upward 38.2 per cent, were returned as unable to write. Of the 52,611) 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 and upward, 72,017 or 33.4 per cent 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 as many nrc unable to read the language which they speak. Purely, something should be done by the State for the education of j the future wives and mothers of the State, who nrc to give character to the citizenship of the generations yet to be. In their present most praiseworthy undertaking, as we are told by our Wilmington contemporary, the King's Daughters "are moved by a profound appreciation of the necessity of doing something through the State for the benefit of that class of white girls who are unprovided for and have no way of obtaiuing a place or 'occupation whereby they may 'earn an houest living.'" We are rejoiced to know that North Carolina is Keeping step with her sister Southern States in their tfforts to ameliorate the conditiou of the woruou of iru.?0 largely dependent in this practical I crtions for the means of making a living. In liis inaugural addre?s Governor Tillman directed attention to this important subject, and, with the co-operation of the State, we have no doubt that his recommendations will assume practical shape and that it will not be long before South Carolina makes ample provision for the education in "the practical arts and sciences" of its daughters, as it has already made provision for the education of her sons. The experiment of industrial training schools for women has been made in Mississippi and Georgia with the best results, nna what has been accomplished in these States can be accomplished with even greater satisfacs.* ? r??is?? I MVU iu iUV VHU VyrtlUlMUVJ. In Mississippi and Georgia the location of the industrial schools was left open by the Legislature to the coranetion of rival towns and cities. The Mississippi College was established at Columbus because Columbus, with a population of six thousand, many of whom were colored, gave $1)0,000 to secure the location of the school at that place. Of this amount $ ">0,000 was represented by suitable buildings and grounds, and $40,000 was contributed in cash. In tieorgia the little town of Millcdgcville entered the lists against the burgeoning city of Atlanta, and secured the establishment of the Georgia Industrial and Technological Institute for women within its limits. To accomplish this end Milledgeville, with a population of four thousand, subscribed $10,000 in cash and made a loan of $12,000 to the Btnte to aid it in pushing forward the work of construction. What 1 Mississippi and Georgia have done i i this direction the two Carolinas can do. The need for industrial schools is even more urgent in the last named States j than in the former, and when the public mind shall be fully aroused upon the subject we have no fear as to the ultimate result. Our girls ought to be educated, and educated in tnc most' practical way. North Carolina is moving on the right ino, and wo shall bo much disappointed if tho "Farmers' Legislature of 181)1" do not take a practical view of the questiou and extend the aid for which the King's daughters pray.?Charleston News and Courier. _ FOUGHT TO THE L*ST. t A Mad Stallion and a Jackass, in Mercer, Fight a To* riblo Battle. Lexington, Ky., Feb. 10.?A battle to the death took place in Mercer county, between a valuable saddle stallion and a jackass, belonging to William 1 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, and for fifteen minutes they fought, using ! their teeth, heels and fore feet. Finally the jack tore the stallion's left car with 1 his teeth and the stallion then bit a I piece from tho jack's neck. This secm, cd to make the jack more ferocious tlnm everj and grabbing the lower part of the stallion's neck ir his teeth, he tore out ' his wind-pipe. But tho high-mettled I stallion did not give up, and before fallr )ng he kicked the Jack's left hind leg, breaking itjust below the hock. He tbeu * fell dead. Thc^ack uttered a long, loud bray and wont iuto his stable. lie was j covered with blood aud wounded unto death, so that his master killed him to put him out of his misery. } The boy was taken to a madstoue. 1 | The stone stunk three times, and he shows no aigna of madness. It is belie v(cd he will re^qvej. SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. 4 | Happenings of Importance For A Week. Dwellers in City and Country Get a Write-Up Here Free of Charge, and No Questions Asked. VIRQINIA. A new 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 anfltpoatiul to dqatlfr _ ? _ Contracts for the construction pf tne Danville and East Tennessee Railroad* lfiO miles from Danville, in this State, to Bristol, Tcnn., have Itcon awarded to the Inter-Stato Construction Company, of New York. Work began under contract 1 Thursday. The proposition to remove the body of Mr. Davis from New Orleans to Richmond for permanent burial has been revived. Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond, will consult Mrs. Davis in regard to the matter upon his approaching visit to New York, and it is honed that she will consent that her husband shall find a resting place in the old Confederate capital. No other city in the South can offer so appropriate a place of sepulchre for the. sacred dust of the greatest of Presidents. NORTH CAROLINA. An act to incorporate the North Carolina Society for prevention of cruelty to children and animals was passed by the Legislature Friday. Charlotte hnd a $100,000 lire last wook. The Belmont, hotel nnrl tlio Wilonn iw... Company building were burned. Many couuty Alliances arc instructing members of the Legislature to vote for a bill increasing the school tax from 12 1-2 to 25 cents ou the $100 valuation of property. Large droves of mules from Kentucky and Tcnnesssec arc being brought to Raleigh and Charlotte, and find ready sales at good prices. Bills passed the Legislature prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors, and amending the Constitution so as to elect the District Solicitors by a vote of the whole State. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Episcopal churches of Charleston have organized a Church Guild. The bank of Georgetown has been granted a charter, petit ioners being A A. BpfTfigs ana ??spiral riOCk $5u. ' jl't t^ToungT^n's'^rlsflan'AssofcU-" 1 tion county convention, which will be held at Edgefield on February 28 and March 1 and 2, ex-Governor J. C. Sheppnrd will make the opening address. The ball team of the South Caroliua University has organized for the season and sends a challenge so all whom it may concern to contest for the State championship in a scries of three games during the Columbia Centennial festival. The executive committee of the State Grarge met at Wright's llotcl, Columbia, Master of the Grange Thompson in the chair. All of the comraittc, with one exception, were present. The general affairs nud prospects of the Grange were thoroughly discussed, and it was determined that the executive committee shall issue an address to the patrons throughout the State, urging organization aud reorganization. There arc already well organized branches in Kershaw, Chester, Oconee, Florence, Marion, Abbeville aud Anderson. All of these branches have I liPKn in oviutonnA oinr-o 1(1701 unrl Viu.r.. well sustained the honor, credit and 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 and from jute. GEORGIA. Gen. It. 8. Henderson, a prominent Confederate officer, died in Atlanta Thursday. Half the county officers elected in Lumpkiu county arc Alliancemcu. A pitiful sight on the streets of Co. Iumhu8 recently was a boy ft years old in a beastly state of intoxication. He was arrested, but the Black Maria had to be summoned in order to couvcv him to tho lock-up. lie raved and cursed fearfully while being carried there. The oldest colored woman in Georgia died in Hockdulc on Wednesday morning last. She was one hundred and five years old. Mrs. Berry was found in her room at Columbus late Tuesday night with her throat cut from car to ear. The murderer is believed to be Mrs. Berry's husband. The couple had been living apart., but on Monday they were apparently reconciled. Berry ia missing. Brunswick will hare some very important meotiegs of associations, encampments and conventions during the next three months. They are: The state convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, from February 20th to 23d; the annual convention of the Georgia Teachers' Association, from April 28tli to May tst; 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 nil meetings of great importance to the people of the State generally. TENNESSEE. A newspaper reporter on \ne American, at Nashville, committed suicide Thursday evening nt the Capital City. A special from Dunlap says that lightning struck the livery stable of J. H. Huddleatoa at that place, killing three horses. Gen. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, is one of the many Congressmen who will retire to private life on March 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 Kast Tennesseca nd a mem l)cr of the faculty of the Tenne.?w:c Medical College, died Tuesday night of blood 1 .'.iteaL. 'v'>' ' _ > I poisoning. A tevr days ago lie performed an operation on a lady havinggangrenous wound and received the poison through an exceedingly slight abrasion under a linger nail. FLORIDA. Pasco county has a genuine coffee tree on exhibition at the Ocala Semi-Tropical Expoaiton. The eleventh annual assembly of the Florida Chautauqua opi ned at I)e Funiak Springs Wednesday The exercises will continue six weeks, with a progamuie rich in music, literature iud art. Edward Rosenqucst, son of a wealthy Loudon banker, was bitten on the log by a rattlesnake near Davton Sunday, Avnile hunting, and is beyond hipc of recovery. Surveys of the Mexican, fiutf, Pacific od the middle of March. T. ' ALABAMA. The race, war iu Alabama scans to he a very small affair. The killo| are rc| duccd from sixteen to one. A biography of the cclcbra^d South Carolinian and adopted Alabaman, William L. Yancey, is one of the Promised hooks. Col. John W. Dubosf of Birmingham, Ala , is writing it. < The dead and mangled body of a man was found at a railroad crossdg in the heart of Birminghnifi Friday mjit. lie has been identified as a harnro maker named King, who got on sprees The Southern Exposition wil open at Montgomery on ^)ctober 28, md close I movcmoer u. Uapt. II. G. Bibb has been elected president. Prepnntions arc being made to make the exposition the greatest fair ever held in Alab.tna. WOULDNT ACCEPT NOBJ.ES PLAN. The Governors of Virginia and Gergia Disagree With the Secretary of the Interior. Richmond, Va., Feb. '9.?Secretary Noble has insisted that, the money appropriated under an act passed at the present session of Congress for the support of agricultural and mechanical colleges should he divided cipially between the white and colored institutiyns. Gov. McKinney took issue with liim on this point, and hold that this money should be distributed in accordance with the school laws of this 8tate. Gov. Northen, of Georgia, took the same position, and sent this letter to Gov. McKinney on January 31: "I enclose a clipping giving you somewhat 'the condition of matters in this State touching the appropriation made ' the Federal Government jfor the cntnent and support af co?egM *nv '^i^^LoI^^giikure ainoclmnienl distribution of the fuuv3R^0?^cen the whites and the negroes notnt<p?icmplated in my opinion, in tip} bill jds 'equitable and just.' Until he assigns stronger reasons for his conclusions than lie has yet presented it is my purpose to insist upon the terms of the act of the General As sembly of this State giviug one-third to the negro college and two-tliirds to the State College for the whites. This division is based upon our school popula lion. I will be glad to have you give me the conditions in your State and the course you have pursued in this matter.1' Secretary Noble expressed the deshe that the same rule should be adopted in the distribution of this fund in Virginia as in Georgia, Gov. McKinney maintain ed that equitable division did not meau equal division of tfce money between the colored normal school at Hampton and the Rlacksburg College. As is tin ease in Georgia, the Virginia school lawgives the whites two-thirds and the colored ones one-third of the hool fund, and Gov. McKinney wcut so far as to give Mr. Noble to understand that upon no other condition would he accept Virginia's share of the appropriation. Tin C/ini<niiictr boo tt Lo nt/ttton l?,?...? I'vvumij IJCVO IUI nuivttu iut uiiiiiuj lltl I, and it has been divided between the two colleges in the ratio named in the Stnt<* laws. STRUCK REV. SAM JONES. A Texas Mayor Assaults the Evangelist and Gets the Worst of It. Sam Jones is now at Palestine, Texas. He denounced Mayor Ward last year. The Mayor was not home at the time, but this year he laid for Jones. Friday as he was leaving Palestine V/a-d struck him with his cane. Jones jerked the cane away and boat the Mayor over the head and face. Ward tried to draw a pistol, but was prevented. Jones' Georgia grit pulled him through all right. The news of the enqounte; ?j?read throughout PaleshVit;1-* "JrtcT a nasty meeting of citizens, handbills wese issued calling n mass-meeting for the purpose of condemning the attack of the Mayor. The act of Mayor Ward is generally denounced, while there is an clement averse to attacks upon private characters such us arc occasionally made by Bam Jones in his pulpit zeal. Mayor Wnrd was subsequently arrested and placed under bonds of aggravated assault and for carrying a pistol. The mayor avows his right to carry weapons, nnd declares that he had no intention of carrying his resentment farther than caning the evangelist. FEEDING THE STARVING. Tho Poor of England's Capital Being Fed Bacfe Day. Lonoon Cablegram." Feb. 10.?Charitable committees for the relief of the aw fill destitution in London arc goiug about their business in a rather peculiai fashion nftcr an investips^ion of vanbui raws of the alleged poverty, the inquiry in each case being prolonged so as tr give the victim a fail rhance to die ol starvation,rcleif wasat Ifngtli distributed Hut for fear that two ftiurh benevolene< might be followed fey fiisastrous results the relief was carefull \ijegula ted, l>rca< being distributed tho fnat day, then sou] the next day, and coal<the third day. Why the articles ccild not all havi lieen given the first day U not explained At n large meeting of^uucmploycd lal?oi era on '1 ower Hill. % speaker declare ; that they did not want |o stop any shop unless it was actually npcessanr to do sr but tliat they were do?-WU?iocu to obtai i yrork, if not by fair fjftM then by fou THfl DEADLY PARALLEL COLUMNS LooH on This Picture, Gentle Reader, Then on That. i tN T^E WEST AND I IN T1IK SOUTH. NORTHWEST. I Indian wars. !A reign of peace. Farntpfs being 'Everybody prosper scalped. | ous and happy. Pcoplef fleeing from Farmers yearly betheif homes. | coining better off. The depdly blizzard. Sunshine. Five successive crop Five successive good failures. j crops, increasing yearly. Want and starvation. Plenty. A hopeless load of Practically frco ol i debt. * debt. L_ a gf i . . -???rryvftnittJl II |>roducts. Cotton, s u gar, rice, tobacco, fibres. Western 1 11 igh | w heat, products: | Low prices -J corn, oats Wheat and I prices for | fruits of coru J nearly | all kinds, all. j vegc tallies without end, fish and oysters in uulimitcd | supply. ISo homo markets, Homo markets ant! and remote from near to great contho great renters. ters. Burned u 11 ti v e An oqualdcclimate, months and frozen a reliable and well up seven. distributed rainfail. Om* cfrn'i muK -"-'j J . - ,, ? ^ four or five months the year round, of the year. Treeless expanses of Rich valleys parnlsand-h ills and leled by 11101111sagc brush. tains of coal, iron and timber. A heterogeneous pop A ho 111 ogeneous illation. population. Furnaces going out Old furnaces runof blast. nbig full capacity; new ones going into blast; new mines being opened. Nothing to build on. Tremendous industrial intciests building up. Railroads cutting Now railroads buiblrates for what lit- ing; rai 1 roa <1 s tic business there over-taxed with is. traffic. A dismal future. A splendid destiny. SETTLED "AT LAST. The Official Announcement of the Ckango in tho Richmond & Danville Railroad. The following official circulars settle the question of the long rumored promotion of Mr. W. 1L Green to the position of general manager of the Richmond and Danville road, and the resignation of General Manager Peyton Randolph: Richmond & Danville R. R. Co., 1 Office of tub Phesidf.nt, > 80 Bboadway, New Yohk. ) general order. Mr. W. II. Green has been elected general manager of this company, with offiei at Washington, D. O., taking effect Fell ruary 1, 181>1, vice Mr. Peyton Randolph, elected third vice-president. ** He is charged with the direction of the operations of (he transportation depart merit in all its branches, and will report to the first vice-president. ionn ii. inman, Jan. 511, 181)1. President. Richmond ?fc Danville R. R. Co.. ) Office of General Manager, > Washington, I). C, ) O en Kit A i, ORDER, NO. 46. The office of general superintendent and assistant general manager is herein abolished, ami all reports heretofore made to that office will hereafter be sent direct to this office. W. II. Green, Feb. 2, 1801. General Manager. Petitioned the Court to bo Hanged. " Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 11.?The County Court of Preston county was astonished the other day when .lames Carroll, a prominent although illiterate, farmer. presented a petition signed by 250 of his acquaintances and friends, praying that he be hanged, and the Court speedily appoint a day for the event. It turned out after an investigation that Carroll was a road surveyor and desired to ft'sign. He asked Dr. James A. Cox to draw up a paper to that effect. Cox is a wag, and knowing that Carroll could not read, he drew a petition asking thai he be hanged, and awaited curiously tc I see how many people would sign it with I out knowing what they were doing. About 150 signed it without readiug it. The remainder "caught on"' and alJ lowed the paper to go its rounds. The Cotton Crop Movement. New Orleans, Feb. 10.?The cottor crop movement to February 1 shows ' Port receipts for five months 5,278,06? 1 bales, against 4,051,151 last year; nei I overland to mills 705,706, against 167, 240; interior stocks in excess of Scptcm ber 1, 467,682. against 600,082; Month era mill takiugs. exclusive of ennsump tion at outports, 606,255, against 60V, 820; crop in sight Fcl>. 1, 6,814,408 against 0,202,202 Inst yearnnd 5,766,751 ; year lieforc last; crop brought into sigh * for January, 001,001, against 700,08! last year, and 703,Ntw fhe year before ' Tl>c last comparisons for the previoui > y> ar embraee nil corrections sUnchwt v T the proper periods, instead of addinj tlicm ill lutnps Inter in the season. The Preacher Made Whisky. ' NAsnviM.lt, Tknn., February 9.?Oer l* oral Deputy Collector Spurrier rapture an illicit distillery at the residence < B Hcv. Deny Bridges, a Preshyteris ' preacher, near Flintville, Lincoln count; which Mrs. Bridges explained the doct< ^ had liecu operating in making a litt 18 whisk v for his own use. The still was crude affair, hut capable of making a gn 11 Ion a day, nnd was locked in a cellar, u j[ dcr the smoke house. AS A llOOSIlin KAH.MRR. lie mat t ied in December, 1N V?, and removed to St. Joseph County. Ind., w'ncir lif liuiifjlit a small tract of timber laiul ami begun to elear it for a farm, lie was not sueeessful in the undertaking, ami in lS*'t, be went to Southwest Mi.-souri ami purchased a farm in M'irg".u County. Then the war trouble ratne on, and. as he had expressed strong Union sentiments, it became prudent for liirn to make another move?this time to Warren1 County. 111., where he rented a farm, put in a general crop, and in'August, 1 SPg. lie enlisted as a private in Company l'\ of the 83d regiment, Illinois Infantry. IN TUB ARMY. frfl 'JlfTttr Vfeflfer 'iXjJHHHHfl second lieutenant, and was BubK9UBn^Hn|j^M W'\?:mh'7tbV supplies for the* military <1ivisionn or MissisMinni mulor ' el.- 1 r THE FARMERS' SENATOR. A Sketch of the Man Who Defeated Ingalla. The New Senator is a Six-Footer of Slender Build?Iugulls ( Takes His Defeat in , Good Humor. < WILLIAM PFKFFEa. ? Topkka, Kansas. February 8.?Sena- 1 tor Itignlls lakes his defeat phib'sopbi- ( rally. He remained in his room al I he i hotel while the hallot was taken, accompanied hy three or four friends, and { when the news of his defeat came to him he nave no evidence of disappointment j or feeling, but took it as a matter of ' course. He had to push his way through ' a big ciowd as he entered the Copelainl dining room shortly alter jo o'clock, Ij.1' , T gestion of a sarcastic smile on his face. Everybody within sight wanted to gi t , a ( ti look at him to see how lie took his defeat and a few shook hands with him and attempted to hurriedly express their regret. He simply acknowledged their regrets hy a nod anil a "Thank you." j it iiidn't spoil ius appetite. j, Gcii. and Mrs. Humphreys sat just a |, cross the table from him, while Huge tie ti F. Ware sat at his left. Ho ordered a dinner which suggested a good appetite ., and likewise eucouraged one, and he ate s 1 il with evideut relish, talking cheerfully ( and almost incessantly to his friends. , The large dining room was crowded and ( every one paid more or less attention to the distinguished Senator. In fact all eyes seemed to lie directed toward the table at which he sat, and a large crow d J pushed and jostled around the dining s ropnr to net n !>??? iu *??< ( I en not to pay the slightest, attention j any one except those at his table, being oblivious to the fact that ah mid red pairs of eves were constantly upon him. He was J at dinner an hour and when he left 111" dining room for his room lie again had x to press his way through a crowd. Senator Ingalls' friends, to all appeal J nnccs, take his defeat much more t > ' heart than he does. Senator liuchaii. chairman of the Hepuhlican ('milnil 1 Committee, who lias been closer to him ' iu this tight thau anybody else, and w ho :| has had charge of the Campaign, i* the 1 picture of ilispair. He lias stood hy hi> ' chief with unipiestioneil loyalty and ' devotion. BUT HUIUMUSEP. Senator Tngalls eoneeded his defeat in night. He (lid not vonecal Ids distp- , pointnu'iit, hut he said tic; result was j not w Holly unexpected to him. Neath | a year ago he expressed it doubt of hire-elcetiou. The old Kansan deleg.i v tiou in Congress at that time began l?? . show signs of disintegration. Congress , man Thomas Ryan was made minister to , Mexico; then Congressman Peters an nounced his determination not to lie a eandidate again; then Congressman Tut ner was defeated for re-nomination. 1 Congressman Anderson was also dofeal ; ed in the nominating Convention, and IngalIs said the Convention was like a row of bricks, one being pushed over | the others were likely to follow. lie v seems to he personally gratified at the , choice of Pfoffer nud extended his eon- , gratulations today. , 11EPUBLICAN norES. I Republicans generally are well satis ] fied with Judge PfclYcr, whom they linvi looked upon as the best of the several Alliance aspirants. It is thought In will affiliate with the Republicans in the Senate in all matters not directly antag Ollistic to the interest of the fm-iiiei-< mnt I laboring classes of tin* country. Mi* i I record as a soldier helped him to tri umph over his competitors, and he will ' he an advocate of the veterans in all leg ' islation affecting them. One objection urged against him by his Alliance oppo1 nents was his age ami physical infirnii' ty. Some of the members who at first _ opposed him feared that he might, not ' like to serve his entire term, in which event a republican Governor would un , doubtedly appoint Ingalls to succeed him. A 8KI.K-MADK MAN. , William Alfred Pfeffcr has- lived a life of toil aud hardship very siuiihi to that of Lincoln aud Garfield hefoie they ( enm'e into public notice. He has met . all the common vicissitudes that l>< s?t i die human family, such as poverty, poor t, crops, unfortunate investment? and im . paired health. He has been a pioneer farmer, a pedagogue, a soldier, a lawyer, n legislator, a lecturer and an editor. Mr. Pfeffcr was horn in Cumberland County, Pa., on September 10, Hill, his i parents being farm people of small j |j means. The locality offered limited ! t advantages for education and training, 1 ) and young Pfeffcr had no opportunity , ttfor advancement except aucn as ho h conhl make for himself. He attended ? UmUWM) - ? .. g winter months between the age of 7 and I 17. He was a close student and reader, | and at the age of 15 had a tcoehcr's ecrtiti- j cate, and was given charge <>f a district | i- school at fit! a month, from which he ' d paid for life board and clothing and >f saved something for books and papers. I ,n lie taught school for several winters and p, worked on the farm in the summer,, and ! >r employed every snare hour in reading, le At 1ft he possesen a miscellaneous libra- I a I ry of one nundrcd volumes, was a ready d- | debater, and some of bis eommunications a- I had l?een published by the anti-slavery , ^ and temperance press. *, J'. MI iin.ii Pill 1 lll.'lll. IIC served without si? k Iwivc or furlough until .f11iii.* ','0, 1 wln n lie was liouoriblv discharged. S'leli leisure as emne (<? him in the irmy he had devoted to study, and after lis discharge he opened a law office in 'iarksville, Tenn. lie secured a numltcr >f important eases growing out of the var, and prosecuted them successfully, n the work of re-establishing peace ami rood will in the South he took issue with he extreme radicalism of Governoi* Jrownlow and labored for the organi/.atou of a Conservative-Union party in larmony with the National Republican wrly. After a four year's residence at 'larksville he grew tired of the social nd political condition, and sacrificing lis property there, he removed to Wilson oiintv, Kan., in 1870. There he located claim and again engaged in agriculture, le also established a m wMi-ipcr and ______ [< -wkm in * tin ln?<??l? In. ..f UBUl .. a . tor front Wilsou and Montgomery counies. AS A .lOfHNAMRT. lie met with financial reverses in 1N7-7, ml changed his location to CotToyville, lontgotnery County, where lie started lie ("otTeyville .bnirnal and abandoned is law practice on account of failing ealtli. He was a Hepubliean Presiden ial elector in 1880, and gave up party lolitics with the election of Garfield nd removed to Topeka in 1881. and ubseipiently accepted the editorship of lie Kansas Farmer, and became special 'dilorial writer for the Topeka Daily 'apital. ins uonniKs. Mr. PfclTer has been a prominent eliatntioii of the interests of the farmers lor nany years, ami was their principal nokesmnn in the successful campaign d IV,ftn. HO Is a Strong Vr<?\\U?itiouist, nit has always acted with the Rcpubli an party, lie is a member of tjio Prolestant Episcopal church and is a J"! tfason and a Knight of Labor. Ifo fa<us free coinage and endorses the dciiands of the St. Louis platform, upon vliich the People's party was foumled. lis principal hobby is the construction ty the Government of north and south aihoads in the west, and the loaning of noney bv tlit? Government to the farmers it alow rate of interest. His article in he Forum on the "Defensive Movement >f Farmers" gave him the general favor f the farmers. He is the author of ITellers Tariff Manual." which was conidered a good Republican campaign locnmcnt in 1888. He also published mother pamphlet in 1881) under the title >f -The Way Out," which embodied his ie. uliar ideas of government loans to armors. Judge PfelTer is six feet in height, oi -lender luiild. wears a full black beaid uui in general appearance is plain ana unpretentious, lie is slow and methodi nil in manner, but in addressing an audience lie talks rapidly, earnestly, pcr istcntly and diffusively. A- the representative of the Alliance, lib whole effort will he devoted to securing a more abundant circulation of money ind cheaper rates of transportation. Judge Pfeffer lives quietly and 00111"oitably in a small cottage on Fillmore tin t in Topeka. His tastes arc domesin and studious, and his home life is dcroid of display or fashion. He has a ivifc and four children?two girls and two hoys?the latter being practical jointers working in this city. Onyx in Missouri. When water containing lime in solution drips into a cave upon the oris of metals it forms with them a chemical combination and produces the exquisite translucent substance we call Mexican onyx. If the metalic oxide or ore is gold then rich purple veins and splotches appear through the oynx; if silver, then the coloring is yellow ; if copper, green; if iron, red. Zinz mid arsenic produce white. Ages ago King Solomon mined this rare onyx in Africa. The deposits there became exhausted. It was found in modern times at Oberstein, in Germany. The deposits there failed, too, however. Then the most beautiful decorative material known to man cropped out in America, but in Mexico, as if scorning a Yankee republic. For some years Mexico has supplied tho world, the splendid shining blocks of precious value b'cing cut from the quarries by band by Indians. Machinery has not been applied to it hitherto to any great extent, b< cause the substance i? so fragile that any force more violent than that of deft Indian fingers would split it and luin it. Now, however, a flutter of interest has been aroused by the announcement that in Missouri, in Crawford County, in tho Oxark range, inexhaustible quarries of onyx havejust been discovered within seventy miles of 8t. Louis. This is groat i uvQ/i iTyHrMtuS ? ...ttyv pr>f?Av?\nft,*v?> plentiful that it will be vulgarized and applied to nil manner of base uses, but it would be delightful if this material should become so cheap that persons of moderate means can have a little of it in their homes. Thus every good thing is found sooner or later in the United States.?Jeteelert' Catalogue. It is stated that for tho ye.ar ending July 2f?, 1890, there were in Now York Htatc 800,000 children of school age who did not attend school lor any part of the .period. 1 ' Vi