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