Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' Tho Speaker of the Japfmese^ParlhT mcnt and the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole are Christians. Emperor William of Germany Is said , to be working on a project to secure the disarmament of all tku nations of Europe. Tl\cro are 5000 Indiaus still living or reservations in Now York. They are civ* ilized, well educated and never giv? anybody any trouble. The samo is trus of the Chcrokces in the Indian Territory. The Indinus of the Northwest and fai f^puthwest give us more trouble than all of the others. _ . _ Statistics show that at the present ^ m'1 -" tr"'1 r*' rF gaged ill different employments twentyix women to every 100 men. In Phila dclpliia tho proportion is fifty to 100. Half a century ago there were in Massachusetts only seven occupations open to women. Now there are 284. Twentytwo leading cities in tho country show 342 occupations in which women fine employment. Captain S. S. Leach, of tho Missis* sippi River Commission, says that it has been estimated by skillful engineers that $10,000,000 would pay for a levee system on tho Mississippi River, that, if properly watched and maintained, would bo safo against flood. \ The cost oi ninintenace to nation and B^te he estimated at less than $1,000,000 per annum. The effect of such a ryatem, ne said, would be to rovolutioni .e the carryiug trade of the river, and redeem 80,? 4*. 000 squaro miles of the finest agricultural land. Tn tho North American Review, apropos of the question of the advisability of parents providing dowries for their daughters, it is said ''The father who gives his children a loving, sensible mother, who provides them with a comfortable home, and who educates fully nil their special faculties, and teaches , them tho cunning in their ten fingers, ! dowers his daughtors far better than if lie gave them money. He has fended for thorn a provision that neither a bad husband nor an evil fate can squander. He has done his fi}!^ t flijfc.. and everj The Announcement that - the Duke of Mecklenburg-Scliwcrin wanted Prince Bismarck for President of his Council * of State was sufficient to prompt Emperor William to abandon a pleasure trip to Cannes. Now comes tho news that tho peoplo of Bavaria decidedly object to a review of their army by the German TT.mnnmi* altlinnirK ? U Klini OllUJf IB OU 111" tegral part of the defense of the Empire. On tho horizon of Germany signs are abundant, observes the St. Louis StarSayings, that tho Bismarckian fabrio of Confederated States under Imperial rule is not so solid as it was on a certain day in March, 1890, when its founder was asked to step down and out. ''Tho extent cf the influence of irri* ^eating enterprises on the future of California agriculture may be inferred," opines the San Francisco Chronicle, "from tho magnitude of some of the companies formed to build d&ros and supply water. The Bear Valley Irrigation Company, which has been incor 1. 1 UL _ ll.l -l?l- <11 <l/?A jiuin?iu wim tlUCK Ol 9t|UUU(? 000, when its new dam, whioh is intended to supplement tho one already ^ built, is completed,will be able to supply water to a district containing BIO,000 acres of the choicest fruit land in southern California. The number of engineering works of this character is increasing so rapidly in this State that wa may fairly assume that California in s cry few years will rival India in her facilities for irrigation." 4 PT'1"" " .T. Scott Keltic, librarian of tho Royal ? Geographical Society, London, in his articlo "About Africa," in Sertbn&r, lays: "In tho final scramble for Africa, Great Britain has managed to appropriate a very satisfactory share. South of the Zambesi sho has obtained nearly all that is worth having, and hero we see in the _ unliving wimii in me uiiure may pronably become a great English-speaking nation or confederation. In the center of tho continent, again, thanks to the public spirit of Sir William Mackinnon, lior dominion extends over those great lakes which give origin to tho Nile, and the magnificent plateaus with their i t pplondujhf ^??tions around them. Oa " the other snr command of the Prlllzod countries to which t Ives access. England Is supre jt, and will probably let no ot footing iu thoso upper li ?s which are at present terrorh y the Mnlidi. The history Africa may only now be said >gun. Tho problem hero is v? t from that which has had to America, in Australia, and ev ; what will be the final outcoi , who can b*U?" SOUTHERN STATE NfJWS. Happenings of Importance For A Week. Dwellers in City nnd Country Get a Write-Up Hero Jj'roe of Charge, and No Questions Asked. VIRGINIA. Lexington has secured a large plant for the manufacture of edge tools. The plant to lie erected witl cost $$00,000, nnd will give employment to IJOO men. Everyone in business circles is predicting an unprecedented "boom" for Staunton as soon as the weather will permit the building of factories, shops, houses for hands, etc. lor boys, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia, at Alexandria, fell dend at the breakfast table Thursday. The Hon. A. H. II. Stewart, cx-sccre1 tary of the interior in President Filmorc's cabinet and a member of the Pcabody educational board, is critically ill nt Staunton and is expected to die at any time. Col. Richard F. Bcirno, formerly editor of the Richmond State, died at his home in Ashland Monday night. During the tir?t live weeks of its operation the Huena Vista iron furnace has shipped 1,500 tons of pig iron to various Northern points. A temperance crusade has started at ?r?t? a. r ai_ ? cnMUM I 11U pUSKII'K 1)1 nil' I |? tist, Methodist and Presbyterian churcn08 nre at flu- head of the movement. NORTH CAROLINA. Ten weeks free tuition, beginning Moi-r-h 15th. will he given hy the State University to teachers. Write lo rrcMdent Battle for particulars^ The direetors of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad have applied to the leg islature to so amend the charter as to extend from Goldshoro to Charlotte. Raleigh has raised $10,000 for the In ter-State Exposition, ami it will he held in that city next fall. Every county in the State should help Raleigh to make this an affair worthy the State. Cant. T. T. Smith, agent at th" Richmond and Danville freight depot in Charlotte, says that, three times as much cotton has been handled at the depot, up io the present time, this season, a:; was handled during all of last season. One of the Charlotte compresses has compressed so far 88,600 bnlcs, against 50,000 the same date of last year. The McEadden press at the junction has handled nhout 60,0.0. , Everyone connecter! with the KtaUi, ^ .rnmrc Ifflsy during the week. It will take 500,000 tags to supply the demand this season. The house of representatives passed the railroad commission hill. It is the bill with a few slight amendments, that passed the senate. It provides for three commissioners to lie elected by the Gen crnl Assembly, nnd they are given the power to Hx and regulate freight and passenger rates, to regulate telegraph and express companies, and to prevent nil discriminations. SOUTH CAROLINA. The South-Bound tailroad is being graded from Columbia to Grahams, 47 miles. C. II. Blanken, of Charleston, lias secured a patent and is now having his "Improved removable sidings for beds" manufactured. J. B. Williams, who murdered Majoi W. A. Williams at Greenville on Friday sight, and has since been a fugitive from -who captured near Wnynesvllle, N. C., nnd brought back to Greenville. A reward of $800 was offered for his capture. .T. L. Withers has resigned his place in the agricultural department of South Carolina. He did not desire to work under the Tillman administration, by which he has been retained as clerk of the board of trustees of the department of agriculture. At the last session of the Legislature the Kansas City, Birmingham, Macon, Foot Point Railway system obtained m i "i " ' I mission to enter this State. The roa<l is an air line from Kansas City to Foot Point. A construction company, with John Temple Graves as general manager, has already, it. is said, began Operations on the Booth Carolina section of the road, which will run through Colleton ' and Hampton couuties. The company, it is reported, has bought largely of land near Foot Point. GEORGIA. There is no abatement to the building boom in southwest Georgia. And every day ushers in new enterprises in the progressive towns. In the oyster-opening contest in Brimswick recently, Editor Whitmire catnc within six oysters of winning the first prize, lie has since decider! that Tie pen is mightier than the oyster knife. A special from Savannah says that the steamer Katie, plying between Augusta and Savannah on the Savannah Itiver, sank about fifteen miles above the latter city. The cargo was mostly fertilizers. The ripping of a seam was the cause. The Augusta bureau of the Southern Inter States' Immigration Riiivhu wns organized Thursday. All the money needed to procure a f>.'?00 charter for a city with a population of 50,000 has been raised and the local bureau will com nal muion w derided the best county i the Blu*? Ridge cireuit. in mnny respect be| Court remained in session, last week, 01 ly two and a half days, and only or '"? inan was convicted of crlmo. The com led ty is out of debt, its bridges and nubli Qf buildings are all in very good conditio! and there is about $8,000 in the treason Mercer University is fortunate. A wes Georgia gentleman promises to give fh be university $75,000, a lady adds $25,000 en so rumor has it, and other ample dona tiona are said to be in sight. I TENNESSEE. ? I'wo sous of Circuit Court Clerk Dsl *T Ion. of Smith rouuty, were drowned near | Carthage Monday while riding in the hack waters. Their bodies were recovered. That E. A. Collins, of Milan, has sold to Eastern parties since Jan. 1, #10,000 worth of horses born and br?d on his farm carries a lesson to West Tennessee farmers. The llcv. S. W. Kramer, the boy | preacher, in reported critically ill at Hristol, ami it is thought by those near him that his mind is affected?probably a ease of softening of the brain. A peculiar discovery was made at Stone Fort," near Chattanooga, just, as men were hewing asunder a large piece of rock. It was found that a crevice divid ?-<i ir, Mir aperture, however, narrowed town until it liecame solid toward the bottom. When the men broke it nsundor, within the bosom of the rock was < illc to fill the varanejr caused hy the esignation of C. P. McCarvcr, was held Tuesday. A little over three thousand voters, or less than one-third of the voting population, were registered, and of these only 543 voted. Win. Litterer, the Democratic nominee, had no opposition, and received 528 votes. Contract for the construction of the Danville and East Tennessee Railroad has been awarded to the Intcistate Con ?truction Co., of New York, which has sublet the first division of 2fi miles to James F. Edwards & Co., of New York. FLORIDA. Do Land will begin the erection of a handsome public school building in a lewdays. The Jacksonville Street Railway ('?>.. has applied to the city council for an thority to operate its lines by electricity. The United States census bureau an uouncc# d,r population of Florida by counties and races as follows: "Whiles. I 224,?10; colored, 1fifi,G78; Indians, IGS; Chinese, 101; Japanese, 14; total, 001, | 422. The Florida Sugar Manufacturing Co. works at St. Cloud, has amended its charter increasing its enpital stock from #275,000 to #1,000,000. Juno Reach, a considerable sketch of land in Florida, hounded on the east by the ocean and on the west by Lake Worth, has been purchased by a syndi<ntc of New Yorkers consisting of Samuel Barton, a cousin of the Vanderbilts, and a well known metropolitan broker, Frederic W. Vandcrbilt, Commodore Van Santvoord, II. Walter Webb and Chaun cy M. Depew. who are to build a hotel costing several hundred thousand dollaia, construct an iron pier and mako other improvements. To a reporter Mr. Depew said: "I have not seen it, but from Mr. dcscrTpuoijn ideal r **** OTHER STATES. At Montgomery the Senate has passed a bill appropriating. #:W),000 to rcpreseut Alabama at the World's fair. James S. Richardson, the great cotton planter, denies the report that he is engaged to Miss Winnie Davis. He says that he has not seen her in three months end that he is not correspondence with er. He is a gieat friend of the Davis family, ami is much annoyed that such a report should get into circulation. The Troy Fertilizer Manufacturing Co., of Trov, Ala., has declared an 18 ............ .if..:.i 1 ~? ? ' ? JIVI Mill, iniurun on lis i:i|>llHl Ol ^ 100,000. HILL GETS HAMPTON'S SEAT. Apparently He i? Getting Ready to Occupy It On March 5. A spccial'frora Washington, D. C.. says: When David B. Hill of New York takes his seat in the United States Senate on March the 5 next he will find himself amid finite pleasant surroundings, llis desk will lie situated'between that of Senator Daniel of Virginia on the left and that of Senator Colquitt of Georgia on the right. Senatorial desks are assigned on the principle of tirst come first served. Capt. Isaac Bassett, the white-haired old Assistant Sergeant atArms, who has been an employee of the Senate for nearly sixty years, keeps a little red book in which he makes note of the requests of Senators to get possession of certain seats when vacated. Thus, us soon as a Senator is defeated for relection a colleague enters his name in the red book, and the vacated ? hair is assigned to him accordingly. Yesterday Capt. Bassett received a letter from Senctor-clect Hill requesting as desirable a seat as possible. The old gentleman thereuponconsulted his list of applications. He found it possible to assign to Mr. Hill the desk now occupied by Senator Wade Hampton of South Carolina, and so it hnppcns that a New York Scuator will lind himself on the 5th of March seated between those handsome and whisker icas statesmen, the Hon. John Warwick Daniel and Alfred Holt Colquitt. The chair has been occupied for twelve years by the one-legged veteran, Wado Hampton of South Carolina, who was defeated by the Alliance candidate, Mr. Irby. The desk to which Senator Hill has thus been assigned is the outer row of the Democratic side, but is centrally located and in direct line with the eye of the President pro tempore. Immediately in front of this desk is that occupied by the leader of the Democrats, Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland. It is regarded as a very desirable location, and Mr. Hill, being a new Senator, may congratulate himself on having had the to, PsintiQtumiaUL ~ i; ? Georgia Agriculturalists. ^ Savannah, Ga., [SpecialJ.?The Gee f fiia State Agricultural Society held i ?j?ring meeting here. Governor Northei the retiring president of the _ I I'l ? siclf-rl and installed tho officers elect, ii r- eluding J. O. Waddell as incoming pre; t. ident. About two hundred and fifty dc c cgatcs were present. Reports and speed ?, e? were made on agricultural topic? Governor Norlhen held a public roeep ion and reviewed the troops which pit raded in his honor. The convention 01 Thursday was given an excursion t< -- Tybce. * WATTERSON TO HILL An Extraordinary Letter, which is Baid to have had an Extraordinary Effect. The Baltimore Sun published last Wed ecsday a letter written by Henry Wnttei on to Governor Hill, which the Sun snvs was probably instrumental in bringing .bout the meeting of Governor Hill and x President Cleveland and also on Hill taking the New York Benatorshiit. Wat rison's letter was prompted solely by his ?wii eonvietions and without the least eonsultation with any one. It is as fol lows: I a U'isv i i.'.k, November 21, 181)1. ? My Gear Sir: 1 take leave to add res* you .Iris letter as one of some millions of Democrats who have never sought or held office, and who could not l>e in con""tur^Wl^^si^WIWroT New York there is a well-nigh unanimotrs demand among he rank and tile of Democrats for the nomination of Cleveland. This is too .trong for party leaders and managers to esist. I think I have some influence in Kentucky, but on that point I should he overwhelmed in the State Convcnvention. If you should eoinc to the National Convention with a New York delegation I soi id against it, you would be overwhelm | e<I. You arc powerless to prevent it. Rut you can defeat the election of the ticket. There arc Democrats in every part of the Union who believe you did this in 1 know that to be false. I know exactly what happened, and 1 have stead ily defended you in public and in private. Rut it will cling to you as long as you live, even as the lmrgaiu, intrigue and corruption story clung to ('lav, ami will meet you in every National Convention. if it be not dissipated by some act on your part great enough to blot it out. In default of this^ff^TR have any hope of the Presidency it will defeat that. My judgment is clear that, if you could reconcile it with your judgment and feeling to make peace with Cleveland and to take the delegation to the National Convention in 1802 to put him in nomination, you will save the party and place yourself upon an elevation you can never attain if you fail to do it. You would lie re eoived by the country with enthusiasm, be accepted at once as a Warwick, and I do not see liow you could be kept out of the succession. tin the other hand, even if you succeed ed in defeating the nomination of Cleveland, you will stand upon sinister and dangerous ground with a stormy future before you. ' t These are plain words, ami I have no relations with you which aivc me tin; right to oiler you cv/ 'J Tl.cv may Twit ann" of the country at large, and has given some proof of intelligent devotion to party interests, to ignore ceremony and to send them to you. In conclusion let me say that I shall, in any event, be glad to know you better, and that, meanwhile, I am most sincerely your friend, IIenry Wattkkhon. To the lion. David B. Hill. ( THE STATUS OF THE STAPLE. i Report of the United States Agricultural Department on tho Size of ( the Crop, the Amount Still on Plantations and Pro. portion of Seed to Dint. Tln n r ci.. ? ? ii nniunuiun, u. v.. [opCCM!].?TUe cotton returns of tlic (VpartmeuJ^ot ngri v'liltmrtoi1 FehftMi^uprTfTtho estimated product compared with last year, the proportion sent from plantations and the yield of lint to seed. The plants were prolific in trolling, opening so rapidly in the early autumn as to tax the capacity of pickers and leave cotton exposed to the weather, which was unusually moist. There is consequently general complaint or discoloration and to some extent injury of the fibre from the same cause. An unusual amount of trash was gathered with the cotton that was thus exposed. The consolidation of coiiuty estimate as returned by the reporters, makes 10 per cent, of the product of last year. The State averages areas follows: North Carolina, which had a very small crop last year, 98; South Carolina, 100; Georgia, 105; Florida, 95; Alabama, 104: Mississippi, 108; Louisiana, 95; Texas, I 108; Arkansas, 102; Tennessee, 110. ' Some correspondents claim that there has been no-organized effort to hold hack -the delivery uf "1 he hop? oT lietter prices. Others report its rapid marketing to get. the benefit of the higher rates of the opening of the season. It is possible that these causes were both operative. One enrly in the season, the thcr later, counteracting the early movement. The proportions sent from plantations TO thus reported: North Carolina, 86 percent; South Carolina, 85; Georgia, 85; Florida, 90; Alabama, 86; Missiasippi, 86; Louisiana, 90; Texas, 89; Arkansas, 85; Tennessee, 85. General averages 87. The proportion,of lint to >oed is reported at 32 to88 per cent., the better results being in the Atlantic roast States, in Louisiana and Texas. Gut Off His Quene For a Bride. A Lnusing, Mich., special says: A marriage license was issued to-day to Sam Lee, a Chinaman and proprietor of a 'aundrv hero, and Maacde v . - ceremony parfdjj? Ja* with I (lie full consent of thef,pB nareuU >r- ?n?l friends and the bi^Tf Ve bride ts atood Hi) with her A w f ," . ?, about the bride's homcfe"^ ,mr. e- n.-i^rc look nlaoe. invittf?*' ? ?? the 1 Dumber of 150 I>eing jS SPtum ifa ? !)?!>?|?rfeiiow. "hft0 I hank, and rims the lFu? w! . ; 1 the capital city. y ?!! ?. a bridal trip, but ?e* l>a'r ,1f| 8?.00 in ft house Ham had 1 "V^WuroUh 1- ed There was noth ou?ht RUp i5I iho courtship, except iF r> out off his v.i UiUfc'/Obedience to hw , t a * MEN OF MARK. of John P. I,ovell. o? Boston ?Fifty Years In Business. JOHN P. LOVELL. The golden anniversary of the businesi career of Mr. John I'. Lovell, oneof Boston's iiost widely-known business men, wrr ap jropriately celebrated in that city recently. (Speaking of Mr. Lovell's career, which might'well "point a moral and adorn a tale," the Turf, Field and Farm says: "John 1*. Lovell was born in East Braintree, Mass., July 25, Is-jn. At the age of eleven he left school and went to work in a cotton factory. One year later his mother opened a boarding house in Ronton and John had another year of schooling. With this scant equipment, but with an indomitable determination to succeed in life, the boy of thirteen entered into the arena of llfe'a untile. "The years that follower! witnessed the lad making a noblo fight against the disadvantages with which he was surrounded. After an eventful life in various lines of trade, he settled down to the gunsmith business in the employ of A. B. Fairbanks, to whom he became apprenticed at a weekly salary of CJ, with |U5 yearly allowance for clothes, and n raise of fifty cents per week end (10 per year additional clothing allowance for each succeeding year until the age of twentv-onc. "The qualities which in later years developed the man of large enterprise and unswerving integrity took firm root in the gunsmith boy, and TVfr. Fairchild was so gratified with his success that, when John was twenty years of age, tho old gentleman voluntarily took him in as a partner WYt.h onohnlf interest. At this time John liad not a dollar in the world. '"Thus, fifty years ago, was formed the firm which to-day "is represented by the great house of John P. Lovell Arms Co., whose business radiates throughout the world. "John's profit for tho first year was (700. In 1H41 Mr. Fairchild died and Ijoonard drover entering, the firm became Orover As Ijoveli. In 1H44 John P. Ixivell bought out his partner s share and with renewed seal pushed his business toward the high mark of sue cess which ho had set before himself in his ?outh.' As the years sped by, bis name and ame traveled from city to city. Through ?lie inn*H~ orrHe sporCTng goods dealers of America he hewed his way from the lowest to the highest place of success, until with honest pride he felt his feet securely planted on the nigh ground to which In boyhood days, when gx>r And unknown, liisambitinn had nspired is family had grown up around him in tho intervening years, and he now beheld his sons, developed into men ready to assist him in his old age to carry to a further success the enterprise begun years before. "In 1874 the business was removed to tho present spacious buildings in Boston which are located in the business centre of the city. "Hero daily may he seen John P. liovoll.no longer tho young man whoso steps are elastic in i he pursuit of lofty ambitions, but John I* liovell the man of years, who has trodden life's pathway through both the bitter and th- .weot, and has emerged from its shadows ami contests, a man of success both in the development of wealth and of character." A LIFE RACE FOR A TROPHY. Gen. Jackson's Cup Will Go to tho Last Survivor of the Old Palmetto Guard. Col. J. J. Martin is one of the twenty survivors of the old Palmetto Kegiment, oomn Carolina, wno are running a life race for a historic trophy. Just after the war of 1H12 the I suites of South Carolina presented Gen. Jackson with a hcauliful and costly cup indicative of their appreciation of the bravery and gallantry displayed by him at the battle of New Orleans. When General Jackson died his will ordered the cup to he given to the bravest soldier from South Carolina in the next war which should occur. The cup was carefully put away in the State archives at Columbia to await the outcome of the next war. The next war was tho Mexican war. South Carolina sent out the Palmetto Regiment, 1,100 strong. It fought in many battles, and only J00 of the 1,100 came hack. Then the question as to who should have Jackson's cup arose. The Legislature appointed a commission to 4ecide the matter. The commission could reach no conclusion. Every member of the regiment had fought well. No one had run away or showed the slightest cowardiee, and it. was impossible to award the trophy. Thereupon th.> Legislature decided that the cup should go to the last survivor of 200. There are only 20 left, and it is tho especial ambition of each to outlive the others so as to possess the trophy. JERRY SIMPSON NOT S0CKLESS The Alliance Statesman Denounces tfte Accusation ns a v?e 81ftn(lfir < ongrossman-clort .ferrv Him,,* ?Vf?l m Kansas r,i? , Y *"npson the now Congn*sm?? ..Th??i . Ba"* ?nd a vile slander. I weaT * '* ^ g lift ? *. ?nv other gentleman hi ?ig0?d Sork, & "sihistTpon Keeping me supplied with socks that would no even for a 'Prince Hal,' and she don't let any holes get in 'em, cither. She knits the 'hoses' herself, and when the holes come out she darns 'em in a fashion that would do i credit, to the first lady in the land. II you don't lwlicve that I wear socks just look here." And pulling np a trouser leg of coars< blown stuff, similar to that worn hv nine ty-nine farmers out of a hundred, he dis playod a calf of genuine proportions an a pair of stockings made out of coinmo yarn, the regular blue and gray, the fi vorite with the farmers' wives, who hm discovered that the coarser the yarn tV fewer the stitches. ? Kansas City Time I FARMERS AND SILVER A Determined Effort to Influence Congress. The Council of State Presidents of the National Farmers Alliance Adopts a Resolution Demanding the Prompt Report of the Silver Bill. Wasuinotos, D. C. Fob. 10.--The pre* idents of the State organizations of the National Farmers' Alliance met here, the purpose being to formulate certain measures to be presented to Congress and tc map out some feasible plan for disseminating the literature of the council foi educational purposes. The meeting was called to orner with President Polk in _ the chair, representatives (if.the follow iqe land, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas and Penn sylvania and several other States. The only business transacted in the morning was the appointment of a com mittee on silver legislation. At the evening session this committee submitted the following report: Resolved. That we regard it as a high duty enjoined upon Congress by the Con stitution to provide for the unlimited coinage of both the precious metals. golu and silver, to the end that the people of the several States may he provided with a circulating medium. We express out surprise and indignation that this duty has been so long delayed and neglected. ( ontnu-y. as we believe, not only to the duty we have mentioned, hut the best in terests of the masses of our people, who ..... ..nr.,..:? ?i .... -mhvimil; miu 01 poverty ami stagnation of business caused by the want of n sufficient circulating medium. We believe and charge that such delay and neglect has been ocnwiuuo'l J?_v an undue influence in our governmental policies by those whose interests it is to contract the currency and subserve the monopolies and money lenders. We therefore urge upon Congress the demand heretofore made by the National Fanners' Alliance aud Industrial Union for free and unlimited coinage of silver i upon the same terms and conditions tint gold is now coined. Wc express our cut nest condemnation of the exercise of at bitrary power which prevented the fair consideration of the free coinage bill at the last session of Congress, and in thiconnection we give expression to tinhope that the free coinage bill which passed the Senate during the present scs siou aud is now being considered in the committee on coinage, weights and measures of the House, shall uot be suppressed, but shall lie speedily reported back to the House and enacted into law. With proper respect, and deference to our Representatives on the committee in the Iloust we say that any efforts to unduly delay the rep ?rt on that bill so as to prevent action thereon l?y the House in the few remaining days of this Congress will mcr it. and will receive, still further roudem nation by the farmers and laborers of this country. We have waited many years for the simple justice of having both pre cious metals restored to free coinage, and hereby declare our determination to pros the tight on this line until thi? relief isaecorded to the laboring and producing masses of our nation, and to hold rcspon sible the men, irrespective of par v. who obstruct in any way the legislative enact incut of tins ju-H measure so strongly demanded by ihe laboring classes of aM parties. The report is signed by J. If. McDonald, Tennessee, ihairmnu; U. S llall. M. D.; Frank McCruth, Iv:uisa<; T. S. Adams, Louisiana; Martin page, Virgin in; W. S. McAllister, Mississippi The Council will eudeavov to obtain .1 hearing before the House committee 011 ' coinage, and. if this is accorded it, the report of the committee on silver legist a tiou will Ire presented. The committee on legislative demands has under consideration the sub-treasury proposition and the land loan plan. There is a strong m iMiiiH-m mine council that tin Hoiih' coininittec on ways and means shoulii ?< port to the House the sub-treasury bill, so that there may be a discussion of its provisions. There ate a numbers of members of the Council however, who are opposed to the idea. Tfie |>rcss commit lee consists of Messrs. McDowell. Suavely. Hall and Kenmore. Th-i Council then adjourned. Heretofore it has seemed an impossibility to get stained cotton white without injuring it. A process to accomplish this lnis rec ently been discovered by J. J. Williams, a successful farmer at Elienton, 8. C. He packs his seed cottou in layers. Over each layer he sprinkles water with a pine top, ahcl after doiug this leaves it for nearly three days. The stained and blue cotton, when talcon out is clean and white and the staple as good as ever. The cottou when packed in this manner generates heat, which removes the stains, and the farmer is saved the difference in price between the stained and white cotton, besides gaining one pound in eight in ginning. The beat generated in the packing kills the germ in the seed, but the; oil in them is not injured, aud they are saleable to the oil mills. Mr. Williams has found this process successful, and he w ill be glad to answer any iuquiries concerning it. As the best evidences of its value it may he stated that this year he sold his entire crop as first-class cotton. Thos. Keogb.ofthr Hpvo,inR himself mission, isjcre an ^ complete rept? ,b0ctW?rof NoHh Oarolina at the grea n utation of No ,un, is dtsposed "V'tr it?olf of wit At is undoubtedly mum \ ;u ; ol ilia's greatest opportunity. It will h asked to appropriate 000. It i f thought this sum is reasonable and prop cr. One of the plans is to have a Nort! Carolina building at Chie?ago, in whic tl the materials will he the beautiful buile n ing stones and the ehoice woods of tl v State and in this to place every artic zc which is enumerated in the census r l0 turns. North Carolina is the only Htf a, I iu all the Uniou which can do this. ( 15EN. 5VM, T. Ml RUMAN DEAD. I'lllCC be to liis ushe.s. , NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS MEET. ' Mitf-jJ/CNt.M,., TJVvcm,.,,V-m Various Cities. The annual convention of the Anieri. an Newspaper Publishers' Association ?vns lichl Inst week in the large Hoffman House, New Yoik City. President .las. \V. Scott of the Chicago Herald presided. About two hundred publishers wcie piesont. Among them were: A.'olph N S. Orhs. the Times. ChattnnnoRn, Tenn. S. P Fell, Omaha. Bee. K. Kennedy. Cleveland Plnlndenler. \rthurS. Prase,Evening Reporter, Woonsockot, It I .1. J. .hirdon, (lie Truth. Srranton. Pa. It II. rampe. Chronicle-Telegraph. flushing F. l>. I'linurr. TrlvHrant llsrsl'l. Orand Rapids. Mich Frederick Urlsoofl Pioneer Press. SI. Paul. II. Theodore Rllrwin. Dispatch. Richmond, Vn. It. W. Pallornon", Jr.. ehf-ago Tribune. I,. I,. Morgan. UoMnn Post. T K Mlaeh, san rranelsco. oal lii-orge B Hlrseh. Ohio slate .lonrnal. columlms. o s.i imiroril. voiingstown, Ohio W .1 Ulehnrds, News. Indianapolis. Ind T It llaves. slur. Wi rhlngton. P r i hnrlt's m Kiiapp. si l.ouls Republic \V It Vnllliows, nomoriBi A < hronlcle, Rochester I red I* Hall. Jmimnl. Jamestown N Y Mlllon ? MoHae, Cincinnati Post l> K I .Insane. Telegram. Providence, It I J M Young. st Minis chronicle A W hnnghlln. Evening Express. Portland, mo ,i A Butler. Buffalo News IVnIIao* sr srnrfilnr. NewarSr /tsws .1 Ti l.orenlz. Ualveston News t . n M Kellogg nrooklvn clllr.en |. K H Woods. Boston Herald v. w r arrant. Brooklyn TlUles Vldor K la?wson. Chicago nally News s s rushing. Boston Ty pot helm W K A Whllllng. A I. Fowlr. Iloslon Herald Francis AI water. Pally .lonri.nl, stridden conn II K Ounnlaon. Brooklyn Eagle IK wnllnwi-r, nvleiw-ii'lPtH-e, Hnrrlahnrg, I'ft AIi'xhikIit crnlK. Now llavpn News I. swift, Jr. Nliini-npolls .tonrna I I Thomas II F.vnns, s.in eranclsoo chronicle u ii si'lf. I'lilibiirartiwii .lotui It l.lmliuir, Albany Knprratt li ltolin-?, TorontoTolegram Arllinr Jenkins, Syracuse lliraM Digest of Now Fertilizer Laws. Tlir following digest of the new fertilizer laws just passed by the Nortix < amlinu General Assemby will l?e of general interest. The law substitutes a tonnage charge instead of the, privilege tax on the brand. Manufacturers or others must now pay a tonnage charge of '1,1 rents per ton on all fertilizers and fertilizing materials. Tags must be procured from the Commissioner of Agriculture to be attached to every bag before shipment to agents, dealers, , <>t t wnsomcrs in Ahre ? It is a misdemeanor and a fine of $10 for each bag. for an agent or dealer to offer foi sale nny such fertilizer or fertilizing materials not properly tagged, or a mummer to remove it, or a railroad agent ;o deliver it. Fertilizers which now have a licence to sell (secured last yeai) will not be required to pay tin- charge or to be tagged until expiration of their licenses. All others on sale must be lagged properly at once. Goods kept ovet Irom last season must be tagged to represent this fact, and all dealers are required to report the amount on baud at the close of the fiscal year on Nov. "i 11. No fertilizer can be sold with a content less than 8 per cent, of available phosphoric acid, 2 per cent, of ammonia and 1 per cent, of potash, Kainit, cotton seed meal, for fertilizing purposes, and other fertilizing materials must now be inspected and analyzed, and possible adulteration so prevented.?H. B. Battle, Kxperiinent Station. Bnlcigh. Georgia Gold. Chattanooga, Tknn., Feb. 18.?Gold was discovered in Gilmer county, Ga., i- early as |8;|.'?, but on account of the lack of capital and energy of th? inhab it-oils, and their icnorunce ns tn ?I l.nii'l tinf of precious metals in the county, the development of the mineral wealth of the State was delayed till (his late '1 iv. Gilmer county is almost in its infancy in the development of its precious metals, yt*t it has been known ever since the white man came into this conn try that it had some very rich gold mines. Among the most noted gold is the White Path'' mine, from which it is estimated $.>00,000 of gold has been taken from the placer alone. The Car teeny mine is known as one of the richest in the South. Our oldest citizens estimate that between $'200,000 and fli 0.ooo have been taken from its placers. In Is>sr> some practical minors opened up the vein upon this property and exposed about l'i feet of the vein that assayed $ ?;},OttO per ton. Another assay made within 'he last year shows it worth SjiUVlOl). EX GOVERNOR GORDON ROBBED Pickpockets Relievo Him of n Roll of Money and His Railroad Tickot. IN hen ex Governor Gordon, of Georgia, .11 lived at the Pennsylvania railroad station. in .Jersey City, hound south, Wednesday afternoon, he found that his pocket had heen picked, and he had neither railroad ticket nor money to lnty any with. Ilosidea his ticket, he had h> I $IIS, I lis. grand hailing sign of distress 'nought him relief at the ticket, o?? ttrnnttr delay. Patti Sued For $25,000. A St. Petersburg Cahlegamsays; Tho Russian impresario who engag ' ' rlie St. Petersburg concerts will ; lor ts.v.000 brertrli .'I contract refused to appear unless ner ; money whs deposed with her bunko Fun Ahead in Minneapolis. Minn., sap: ic niii'lc for a joint debate the last of Mnrh |e lifl ween Ignatius Donnelly and Bob In* o- ^eisoll, Donnelly to dcfcud the ervptoite Kratn, and Ingersoll to uphold the Shakespearean end of the controversy. i J