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^_jY^*_JY" -nkw 'aatfififc.,M^____^^Tr,jaaittLCi,flM^QU^ QAiM^^^fcAJLJIARCH, 13,i89i. \ - NUMBER 11. [ Columbia, Dartmouth and Williams] hara dispensed with the coxa-' F-*H?aneeaaent orations. Ha Railroad statistics show that more people are killed while walking on the ff? track than from any other cause, which & Is an argument, thinks the Mail mnd Beprats, for enforcing the laws forbidding tibia practice. in i ? i r "If you are going to kiU a man," says Hi pn English surgeon of renown, "and P jraat to do it quickly and without suffer^UHbog him. If the hangman knows ^JHHjjflBttaaktiML-victim jjoes not feel as the heyt ^*5<^*^w^?s?Wpl^^!Katfentioiito the p?T'" teaching of living languages. He claima that English clerks qualified to correspond in French and English are great rarities, and that English merchants are obliged to employ foreigners to attend to their foreign business. | The Independent, of New York, baring naked members of Congress?House and Senate?whether they would close the ^world's fair on Sunday or leave it open, publishes over 100 replies, whoreln it appears that the respondents are very yearly equally divided or the matter, these opposing opening, however, bcingj about ten in the majority. p^is??? Ex-Secrctary Bayard has aged considerably since leaving Washington, thoughj in apparently good health. It is noted,; muses the Chicago Herald, that success in politics seems to act as a powerful^ tonic, and public men in Washington oear tlieir yours bettor than when retired to private life. It will bo remembered that Secretaray Blaine aged foster during his four years' retirement than he did before or has since. / Pennsylvania is taking an important step in the direction of better roads; a step that, in the opinion of the New .York Tribune, evory State should take. 'Railroad traveling has become so general and so perfect that the common highways of the land are largely overlooked. Yet on them is the vast bulk of traveling tTiin*Pnr*inFr done, after all, and *1 11 1 'li?M" I'1* calculable extent the comfort and convenience and prosperity of the vast bulk of the people. The improvement of eounty roads is a topic that should stand well toward the head of the list in overy legislative assembly, until wo have broucrht ourselves at Inaat t.r? an nnnalitv with the Romans of two thousand years go. _________________ If the discoveries made by the State Dairy Commissioner of New Jersey afford an-example of the deleterious mixtures we eat and drink in New York, thoro is well-founded reason for alarm, confesses the New York News. According to hia report, 2186 samples of food, drugs and dairy products were examined during the year 1890, and of that number 46$ samples were found to be adulterated. Out of 196 samples of croam of tartar, sixty were within the requirements of the law. More than a third of the lard was impure. Forty out of fifty bags of coffee were bogus. Frauds were found in canned French peas, jellies, honey and olive oil. In ten lots of mustard, not one was pure; pepper was an abomination,and of 110 samples of drugs, such as ate used in owor? forty four samples were adulterated. Figures y like the foregoing possess a lively interest and if a similar condition of the things 1.1 iL ! _ .! J- _ ? il I T 1 ll BXUt OH U11B 81(10 OI Ull) I1UU3U11, II1U public would like to know tho fact, and seethe remedy promptly applied. The Baioway Age recently published - -?clever article by Joseph O. Kerbort, ?"-My1 Qonf"1 at Para, Brar.il. The subject of the article & 1'Railroading in Brazil," but its object relates more particularly to that vast alluring phantasy of ebullient statesmanship known as the "Pan-American Railroad." This might bettor bo termed the TightRope Air Line, for it is proposed to bridge the valleys and tunnel thn peaks of the Andes, traversing tho great watershed of South America by balancing tho road-bed on tho knife-edge of mountain tops. Aside from tho facts that suoh a railroad would cost a thousand times more than an ordinary road simply to lay the rails, that an ocean tteamship can carry freight fastor and cheaper than a freight train, that the major portion of the country to be traveled has no population worth the name, Mr. Korbort cires as a peculiar obstacle to ruilroads in Brazil that they must tunnol tho forests and a new path must bo opened after every train, becauso "tho dense growth of vegetation is so rapid that a path cut in the morning is overgrown in the night." This last fact settles tho Pan-American railroad scheme, declares the Chicago Nev>t. No solf-respecting locomotive engineer will handle the lever of an engine which is obliged to hove a lawn-mower ahead of it. W V MARCH A LIVELY MONTH. Strong Breezes Waft These News Notes To Us, From K&ny Points In the Progressive Southland, Interesting We re Sure. VIRGINIA. There is an increased demaud for manofuctured tobacco in Danville and the factories are all running. Although the Senate has failed to confirm the nomination of James Mclaughlin, postmaster of Lynchburg, it is bellered that ho wil^iill that office. t . -Thefntjrecrewof the lo%g-l>oat "Hope," The burned electric' plaui ofThc ville Street Car Company will be rebuilt I at once. ' Roanoke will noon boast of a postoffice building constructed at a cost of $75,000 by the general government. A bill ordering this lias passed both houses of Congress and been approved by the I'ievident. Timbervillc is a new town on the line of the Broadway & West Virginia Railroad that is soon to be constructed. ; It is the centre of the great foiest regions of North mountain and Brock's Cap. The North fork of the Shenandoah river runs through the town. ' NORTH CAROLINA. Sam Jones lias been invited and will i conduct evangelistic services in Char- t lotte shortly. The legislature passed the bill appropriating $10,000 annually for n geological survey of the state. The vucancics in the state bond of agriculture were filled by the legislature, as fol- r lows: First'district, J. B. Coflicld, fourth ] W. F. Green, eighth, S. F. Patterson, i On Tuesday night, David Jones, of t Cape Lookout Saving station, about a mile south of tho camp, found in the i wash of the sea the dead body of a man. v The body was -without clothes of any c kind. The arms were off at the shoul- | ders and legs off at the hips. tl In the stale senate Thursday bill to np- 1 propriatc $35,000 to secure exhibit at Chicago, failed to pass; this raised a n great howl, and at night this action was n reconsidered and the bill passed the senate unanimously. '' '/lie census officer announced the pop- . ulation of North Carolina races as fob . lows: whites, 1,040,191; colored 207,- ' 170; Indians, 1,571; Chinese, 15; total, 1,617,917. The ngflcuffuml<exi$ffiWW%l?1llWI1K ? Spartanburg, Darlington and Columbia 11 have been sold. They brought $5,000, c ,500 and $5,500 respect ivcly. Seuator Edmunds, Miss Edmunds and | other distinguished tourists were in Co- * lumhia Thursday en route to Camden. Branches of the Atlanta Building and s Loan Association have been organized in t Yorkville and Florence. v Thos. N. Berry and L. D. Childs, of a Chester, have been appointed as dele- v gates from this State to the Itight "VVor- t thy Grand Lodge, I. O. (?. T., which i meets in Edinburg, Scotland, in May. t Robert Mill has has prepared plans 0 for the erection of a church at Spartan burg for the Baptists to cost $10,000. B The students of the South Carolina ? College for women visited the State House Tuesday afternoon. Thcv were evidently delighted with their visit. The erection of the $15,000 school t ' -'-'-?rr 1-1'C" eommaneed nt. bcrrv. The Anderson Building & Loan Association. which will wjnd up its business, s will declare a dividend of about G5 per i cent. i GafTney City has voted to subscribe f $20,000 to the projected Cape Fear and ? Cincinnati Railroad. ' GEORGIA. I Wade Hampton will deliver the nd- v dress r.t A.April tf, at the reunion v of his old brigade. f A correspondent says that a large por- ^ tion of the peach and plum crop has been killed or badly injured in the vicinity of ) Davisboro. n Georgia's pension laws went into effect j March 1, and from that date the widow ( of each Confederate soldier will get an annuity of $100. Alabama has also at last recognized their claims, but their , shftr^^Tscnrcely be half so large. J King Manufacturing Com- t pany, of Augusta, has made a direct ship- , ment of cotton goods to Manchester, i England. ( Governor Northen has instituted a re- J form in the management of the Georgia I v < prison camp tlmt vill meet with the I i hearty commendation of humanitarians. He has ordered that hereafter male and i female convicts must be kept in separate < apartments, and that no communication must he allowed between them. i TENNESSEE. The legislature has passed n bill to build a monument to John Sevier, the first governor of Tcnnesee. The bill authorizing the issuance of $500,000 of bonds by Knoxvillo has passed the legislature and become a law. Three men were killed and thirteen wounded in an accident at. Whitwell, on the Tennessee Coal Company's incliuo railway. r A printer employed on The Chattano ga News, Jim Compton, shot Harry Ilei bel t in tho nock. The wound is probu bly a fatal one. In the senate Thursday the bill creating a bureau of labor, statistics and mines, w ith a commissioner at a salary of $1,500. whose dutieB arc to inspect mines, mills and factories and gather labor statistics, was passed, only two negative votes being recorded. Nashville has but few runaway weddings, consequently social circles were startled by that one which occurred Thursday, when John Means Thompson, a sod of ex-Governor Thompson, of 8out Carolina was quietly married to Miss 8a lie Glasgow. FLORIDA. Tarpon Springs has just indulged i the luxury of electric lights. A Tallahassee special says: Go> Fleming will leave to the legislature tli appointment of a United States senate to succeed Mr. Call. Fernnndina proposes to have an a* .socialion of ladies to l>e known as tin City Improvement society, to supervis the work of keeping the streets clean. F. II. Orvis, who keeeps a statistics comparison of the Florida seasons, say that the business of January, 1891, wa fifty per cent, over January. 1890; thn February was sixty per cent, greater am that March promises a greater increase Auri^av^^^wiin>^wa^ahea^>flas ^^TeaocaRmviTic' ahdnanta TeHan Hock Phosphate Co.. lately reported a: organized, lias been incorporated, with capital stock of $500,000. The orange trees along tho Halifax river arc showing numerous buds and on ly require a little rain to burst into fill bloom. A HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST. Monroe High School Burned ant Two Lives Lost. The Monroe, N. C., High School w?; nirncd Thursday morning betwceu mid light and day. Two young men, T. E. Pemberton and Vlbert Bust, were literally roasted in tin lames. The building, together with four fun lianos, all the school furniture, a good ibrary and most of the wearing apparel >f teachers and pupils was completely :onsumcd. Monroe High 8cdool, owned and conlucted by Prof. II. W. Spinks and Maj. j. D. Andrews, was a large tlnec-story rick building situated about a mile from he centre of the town. It coutained, at the time of the burnng, 25 pupils, male and female, who nil, rith the exception of two, narrowly osaped with their lives. The girls oceu ied the ground floor, the boys the third loor, the second floor being used for ecitatiou rooms, etc. The building and fittings were valued t $0,000. The insurauce amounts to bout $4,000. Prof. Spinks and Andrews will rent a nil 1 '! ' * * <?ii j?iiu niunuuc ineirscnooi. A new aud handsome building wil. <* erected in the place of the one burned own. To Abolish the Homestead Law. oucurring: Section J. That section one (1,) two 2,) three (3,) four (4,) five (5) and eight 8), of article ten (10) of the Constitution f this State is repealed and abolished. Section 2. This amendment, shall be ubmitted at the next general election to he qualified voters of the State, tho3e otiug in favor of the amendment to vote , written or printed ballot with the rords: "For the amendment abolishing he homestead," and those voting against t to vote the same kiud of a ballot with he wt*.ds: "Against the amendment bolishing the homstead" on it. Section 3. The election shall be held ,nd returns made; counted and the rcult announced under the same rules and egulations as are now provided for the lection of the governor and other state llicers. This act 6hall be iu force from and nf? er its ratification. Cheering; at Prayer. A remarkable scene, and one thai truck part of the audience as very ninus ng, occurred iu tlic Michigan Democrat c Stale Convention at Lansing, Thurs lay. After the usual preliminaries wen joee through with, Rev. E. R. Clatk, f oral prcaehoi', was called upon for pray ir, and, m addressing the Most High, nade a stuiup speech. The delegate! vcrc wrowrht. up ' ? a ''igh pitch r.r.c vhen he asked the Deity "to guide th< ootstcps of tlio convention into the track >f that grand old Democrat, Thomas rcfTerfcon," the convention broke into ap tlause, with wild yells of delight and approval. Even Mr. Clark was discon erted for the moment and the prayei lad to wait until the applause had died ?nt. Late Jacob Thompson's Widow. Memphis, Tenn., [Special. |?The wil >f Mrs. Catherine A. Thompson, relict o he late Jacob Thompson, Secretary o he Treasury under President Buchanan was admitted to probate Tuesday. Ttr :?ulk of the estate goCs to her gram laughter, Mrs. Kirkman. To Mrs. Mont Tnini?ru nnntluT in nnil rliii<rlit?r L- nnvui J ? o "" to the stage as "Hay Douglas," is be pieathed ft half interest in a hotel at Ox ford. Miss., nud about $50,000 worth o jewelry and plate; and $50 000 in ? f?si*ie io l?e invested for her benefit. Th estate i6 valued at $1,000,000. Queen Vic. and Empress Frederic! At a Horse Show. London, | Cablegram. J?Queen Victn ria, aecompanied by Kmpress Frederick by the latter's daughter, Margaret, an by Prince and Princess Wales, drove ti flay ill open carriages from Buckinghai Palace to Islington, where the royal part spent considerable time in visiting iiors shows, now in progress at the Agriculti ral H.all. Queen an<l her party receive a perfect ovation as they passed throng the streets on their way to and from tl horse show. , Rev. James O. Furman Dead. (?ukknville, S. C. [Special.j?he las. C. Furman, D. D., ono of the mo eminent scholars and clergymen of tl southern Baptist church, and for mar > ears president of Furman Univcrsit lied at his homo in Greenville, Wcdnc day. Aged 80 years. Woman's Progross. Lansino, Mice.?A bill granting mi nif ipal sulTrage to women has pas ed t third reading in the senate. ? h KNIGHTS OK THE ROAI)\ A Drummer Kwlttwi His Experience In Grand' Rapids, Mich%e?. | What I like about these "Knights .0^ r the ltoad" is that they are great felkir* ie for secret societies. Most all the dner uiers belong to everything that is goiap " from that of the "Grand Knights of 1st niond Garter," down to "Sons of li> temperance." 1 am quite a hand ? u all such mysterious things myself, 6q I - get solid with all the boys. My fad friend Crookstou called on mo the otL'r 1 day to ace if 1 needed any drugs and Yo ? have a visit. Wc had a jolly old tit*. s While we were Bitting in the officeja t ehap came in and wanted to borrow ft , 011 account of a remittance not coming p him as he ex pre ted. 1 told him my Ml keft [ to lend was in now, being seat h the hailing sigu of an Odd FcJl'ovr^whifi be A tumbled to. Then I came to the n*ent "hair in the soot" grip of a Ibrtljnie. He tumbled. Then Crook gore hin G. 1?. of the Sons of Malta. lie was onto ii. men 1 tipped turn tho hair-piking signal of a jjtlood Tipiilcr. He smiled ami said "H. O." This la a chemical term, meaning "watere." Pheu Crook stuck out his hand and gav? him the noted 1*. P. Q. sign of the Royal Vrch I Brick Mason. He "got thar" on [that. Then Crookston examined him as fo|ows, to make sure he was a drummer: "From whence comest thou, pard?" "From tho Lodge of the Holy St. ' Johns, Michigan." 1 ' "What 6cck ye here to do?" < "To take a few orders and collect a i hill of Billson." I "Then you arc a drummer?" ] "I am so taken and accepted by the i ' boys." < "How may I know you to be a drum- ' mer?" - - ? ? ^ "By my cheek and my fifty-pound tarn- i pie case. Try mo." 1 "How will you be tried?" 1 "By the squarV j "Why by the squar'?" < "Because the squar1 is a magistrate { and an emblem of stupidity." ' "Where were you first led to be a drum- ' mer?" 1 "In my mind." 1 "Where next?" ' "In a printing office, ad joining a reg- ' ular post of drummers." "How wero you prepared?" "By being divested of my last cent, my check rubbed down with a brick, a bunion plaster over each eye and a Heavy < sample ease in each hand. In this fix ' I was conducted to the door of the poet." "llow did you know it was a doftr, Ix'ing hliiid?" t "iiy first stepping in a coal .'scuttle i and afterward humping my headVgamst ' 4 Had you the required cheel^Y^^^^ i 4,1 had not, hut Steve Scars hid it for t inc." 44How were you received?" . i ,4'Ou the sharp toe of a hoot, Applied ' to my natural trousers." < v f 44What did this teach you?"' JJ& 44Not to fool around tooiuu?n," 4,Wlint happened next?" 4'I was set down on a cake of ice aud < asked if I put my trust in mercantile re- < ports." i 4 4 Your answer ?" I 44Not if I know mj'self, I don't." 1 44llow was you next handled?" t 44I was put straddle of a goat made out < of a 2x4, and trotted nine times around 1 the room by four worthy brothers, and t then trotted in front of the Left Bower *' for further instructions." 1 4 How did lie iustruct you?" < 4'To approach a customer in three up- s right regtuar steps; ?;tu my business card extended at light .V ~ j^is i 1 forming a neriect scnum 1 k "llow was you then disposcrf^??" ' I was again seated on the cake of ice in front of a dry goods, and inude to [ take the following horrible and binding ' oath: "I, Charles S. Robinson, do hereby and herein most everlastingly'and diaholi' caliy swear, by the Great Rob Tail Flush, i that. T wilt nowpi- .~n:l ..I.vavs | sieai aii the trade secrets I can for the ' use and benefit of the Most August Or" dor. And 1 further swear, by the Raidheaded Jack of Clubs, that I will never [ give, carve, make, hold, take or cut prices below the regular rates. And I further 1 swear by the Pipers that played before ' i moscs, lo never iwve any commercial dealings wish any man or his wife, sister, ] grandmother, old maid, aunt or undo, ' unless they, lie, she or it is sound on the \ , goose.", ' "I was then asked what I most needed." \ ' What was your reply?" 1 ' Money." ' What did vou then behold,?" "A ropy of Dun <& Co.'s reports, open at chapter 'Muskegon.' Upon the opcu book rested a pair of ding scales, in one II pan of which rested ten pounds of con* cent tilled lye, and in the other sat a small f silver jackass." What did this emblem signify?" e ' The scales indicated the balanic between debtor and creditor. The other emblems represented llC-abilties and ass k cts of bankrupts." "Did this tench you any lesson?" "You bet! It taught me the fact that the former arc generally so almightj much 'i better than the latter." "Shake! Brother! ' + Will n you be olf or from?" "Both, if I can borrow money enuff to get out of town on." "Have you any cigars?" (j "I Jiave." ^ "(Jive 'em to nic." "J did not so receive 'em, neir/icr will f so impart 'em." j .? "How will you dispose kl^ene" ' "On sixty days' time or two per cent. v, cash, F. O. B." st "Alt right, I>egiu." 10 "No, begin you." " "No' you licilu." y "Up." "'Bin." 'Set." s" " 'Set 'eui up.* Th words and signs are right, Brother Snooks, he is a yard wide and all wool, and you can bet on him." Biother (Yookston and I each lent the i- chap $">, an I lie left with ir nv thanks j o and Kind wishes. Now you can sec by this what a hsio it I 'Jf m it to a fellow wli.-a lie jets dead broke among atr.iogi ?>. to have these littI* thinga to fall back << ' Grand Rapids Tillies. Failure* and Confirmations by the Senate. Washington, D. Cm [Special. "j?-The The following nominations failed to receive confirmation by the senate: James H. Beatty, as district judge of Idaho; Louis Dcrmaris, coiner of mint at Now Orleans; James H. Yjmng, collector of customs for tho district of Wilmington, N. C.; Thos. E. Oglosgarde, register of land office at Minot. Postmaster O. E. Norris, Brighton, N. T.; G. W. Ferrce, Edgar, Neb.; Joliu Clinton, Brownsville, Trnn.; Jas. HU', i Vicksbnre. Miss.: J. M. McLamrldin. I Lynchburg, Va. In case of Beatty's nomination it wns resisted by the Idaho senators on the pro,,ml that Uo.ll v w ?Q .clivc ft?ttl ThifalianUPelectioii of senator-elect Poinds anil finance senator Par well, a warm friend of Dubois caused failure of nomination by demand that it lie over four days, which carried it over March 4. Young's nomination was bitterly fought by faction of his own party which sent delegation here to oppose it. While in case of Hill, colored, man nominated for postmaster at Vicksburg, Democratic op position managed to delay action lo.ig enough to cans* failure of nomination. To Prevent Lynching. Mr. Cbears, of Uuion county, has ic- ' reduced a bill iu the Legislature to mm effectually prevent lynch law iu Nortl Carolina. It provides that when such k ' crime is committed and the perpetrators ue unknown, the rouuty commissioners may employ a special ngeut or issue a ' proclamation olTering $100 reward for the ' ipprohcusion of the nerpetrntors of thi :rime. It also provicles that the solicitor ihall send bills of indictment against such Arsons as he has reason to suppose arc i mplicatcd in such violation, and the ) ;rand jury arc empowered to act upon i mch bills, and the superior court is given i jurisdiction to hear and determine any in i lietment found by such grand jury. It i further provides that if the grand jury t ignores bills as sent by solicitors, lie may move the case to some other county. It ilso provides that the court limy have the power to compel the appearance of wit- i aesses from any part of the State, and all i [ osts shall be borne bv the county in | which the offence we a committed. Duping' the Colored Man. CJainksvii.i.k, Tkx.?During the past > en days over J100 negroes have passed s hrough the city cn route to Oklahoma < o settle. Nearly all came from Eastern i Texas and are most distressed and desti- < ute of money, farming implements and I vcrything necessary to prevent starva- ' ion and sullering in a new country. A i ^^^ynai^roin Oklahoma has l>een rep- i thoy could secure . 4 sold to 'f ' ' ' 'rating negroes a town lot for $1 each. ' These lots were represented to l>c located n the heart of a large town, and to he worth $1< 0 Every negro had a deed to sotnc imaginary town lot. Senator Hearst's Successor. Washington, D. C., [Special.|?It is Ivc impression among the friends of Kx- , governor Murray, of California, that lie will be the successor to the late Senator Icarst. Gov. Murray is a Kcntuckiau ?y birth, and served in the Federal arinv | luring tiie civil war, reaching the rank ( ?f brigadiei general at the age of 21. Ic was United States marshal! in Ken , ucky, under President Grant, and gov ruur ot Utah under President Arthur. Icing free from factional connections in 'alifornia, his fricn?> consider him a | trong compromise caifQidate. "?! ^ -?" 4 lugh T. Inxnan Made President of Georgia Central. New Yohk, [Special.]?iiugn mrr nan, a brother of John II. Inman, of the i Richmond terminal system, will he made I 'resident of the Georgia Central within a i nonth. Mr. Inman, who is u man of < ecognized ability in the south, has long t >ecn in demand by Georgia Central, but >ot, out" Tucsdr.y v/as it uvSiniteiy known " ' hat iic would neecpt the positiou. The 1 (alary is $20,000 a year. Results of Reciprocity. , Several prominent ineieliants of Haiti- ! nore have organized the Ilrazil Trading ; ??., capital $.-,0,000, with power to increase to $500,000. The incorporators 1 named in tlie charter are Thornton Polling, Faris C. Pitt, Kufus "Woods, Robrtson Taylor and Edwin W. Levering. ri.Ja nvnA.dc t/? nimll Uenlf (lie reciprocity recently inaugurated, and to open up a large trade with Hrar.il. City Clerk Gone Wrong. Richmond, Ya. [Special.]?Mr. Buford Gryines, clerk in the treasurer's office was arrested on the charge of the embezzlement of city funds. It seems he had collected some, gas hills and failed to turn in the amount to the treasurer, or enter them on his books. The sum so far missing is only about sixty dollars, but it is feared a much larger amount has ( been misappropriated. $400,000 CApital For Oil Merchants. London, [Cablegram.]?A number of prominent cotton seed oil merchants, including Messrs. Hose, Wilson and Hose, George Leaues, Hon and company; Bevnn Harris and Garrard and Game, Howes and Co., of this < ify, have formed a joint stock company with a capital of |kiO<V 000. Growth of Alliance in West Virginia. Ci.AiiKsnrRO, W. Va. [Special.)? -Farmers' Alliance organizers have been working quietly throughout the State for scvernl weeks past. It has now developed that tl:3 membership in some counties is ucaily as great lujthe combined strength of two old parties. A new alliance piper is to be started here this spring. ft ? He Took Fronch Leave. jACksoN, Miss., (Special.]?Governoi Stone received information that W. J. Cowar. e\collector and sheriff of Million county, had absconded with the public Hums. lie probably owes the Slate two thous;?ud dollars. . A Successful One Held at Charlottesville. Va. The Delegates Were We 11-Dressed, ' Thrifty and Prosperous Looking as All Farmers Should Be. CH ARI.OTTE8V II,LR, VA., (Hpocial. 1? ' No cue looking upon the Farmers' As < sembled in the I/evy Opera House could 4 have received the impression that they 1 belong to a dowu-troduen and impovor * ished class of our citizenship. They ' were well dressed, thrifty and prosperous 1 looking and all thoroughly interested in 1 the proceedings of the second Farmer's ' Institute. The gentlemen who occupied ' the stage were especially distinguished J I'.'Ljruiau mm mtawu, * near liint were seated the lion. Thomas I/. Whitehead, the Commissioner of Ag- ' riculture; Captain Vanwater, of the Mil- ' ler Manual Labor School; Col. II. II. Ma- ' gnuler and !)r. Charles Ellis, of the Vir- 1 ginia Experiment Station; Captain Orris ' A. ltrown, of Accomac, member ??f the * State Hoard of Agriculture, and many ( other well known gentlemen. In we! :l c iming the members of the Institute to % 11... u.. T ?' i -i . ? ?/, mi. i.yiuaii smu mai nmiougn Il?p nation needs the farmer more than any other one class, political and legal [questions would be eschewed. While the j, .peat need of the farmers is instruction. ,| j knowledge of law nud the dead lan (( 40ages will not increase his crop* or add j, In his margin of profits. He said that a lhe true aim of his clius was to better ite n ondition and perfcet the productions of he land and to do all they could to make w ho wot Id another Eden. " |, ADDHEi.-* or W EI.COM E. Tn hin hricf rcspousc to ttic addi\;?s o" nl ivelcomc Colonel whitehead made several ^ points which pleased his audience ver. ouch. He conceived the object of such " institutes to he to advance the interest of 1 lie farmer without taking from anyothci lass a right that it now possesses. There y aught notyj be, aud onnnot lie fairly, : |i war upon iCy class by the ngrieullura. |i |)coplc, hut it is to their interest to have 1 what is their own. The farmers want, to avoid beiug proved upon. It is not hard ,| ?ensc that wOuln use such tcriim of re ? I > roach as "hayseed" or "clodhopper." fi lie thought it took just as much sens.- (] and religion to be a good farmer as :? pmd lawyer. The move of fanners' in titutes baa been tji6d elsewhere in Mich (| tatos lis afe now successful in their r.gri ultural enterprises. Ho believed that I ,j llOl'illf>rn MiVhicrun .irl K1. .-limatc Virginia rfronlfl be depopulated, >c cause (he people of that section lnv< Ihe knowledge Rr? Vanning the prof its. They don't claim that ihey are n< t mukiug money, bu* they want to escup- ' progress of the faraieca rhftt the Univi rri * ly of Virginia, and such institutions show t( an alacrity in assisting the farmers i" ' their work of education. '' i HOO-cnOLEUA. AKE 176 infitTMENT. The first set address w? by Dr. (Jhurh i | Kllis, veterinarian of the Virginia Expert merit Station. Thfe subject, "Hog Ch??' x era and its Treatment," was important |, and evidently'deeply interesting to tin , fanners present. He believes in the gen*. ,, Lheory of course, but docs not believe t! disease contagious. He gave a very in ,, [cresting resume of the investigating. ^ ivhich the scientists have made of tl.- |, aibject. Many incidents, which shov.v. ,, 11 what way the diswiso is spread ignor intly and discussed remedies at sonic ength. the close of his address, ipicstions j (Pre propounded and a general discu:;>ion ensued, which was followed very ,i Joscly by Dr. Tuttlc of the University of , ^ ? J. ..J O lion of the Hvgieue of animals and TainTlooking to the protection of the animal M industry. You cannot prevent hog chol 81 [ ra by law, he said, unless somebody sees 81 that ilic law is enforced. The law now ?' is that diseased animuio shall i?c 11 burned or buried at "least four feet deep. otherwise the constable must do it, and a make charge for it. Hiding about the si country, he saw evidences Hint the farm- ? lis did not know of the existence of this e statute. The law says animals infcctoil p with contagions diseases, when condemn- c i d I?y a commission appointed by the f] louit shall he killed. Tins is too slow a ~ process. lie thought the loss by hog jj cholera should be divided by means of c some arrangement of the tax laws, for in c that ease each man would be interested in f preventing such diseases. ItOAD-MAKING. h The question which eliciterk the most s interest, perhaps, was road-making, in j which Professor Thornton, of the Uuiver- t sity of Virginia, delivered a very striking f and valuable address. Pointing out the c best systems, the cost of building them, c and the manner in which the financial j pari of iiie question might be best man , aged. He took strong giounds in favor i of tiie State doing the work with an en- j gineer in charge, with headquarters at t the Capitol, ami with subordinate engin- j eers to supervise the work in progress. He thouglit it a waste of time to build roads that would not last for all time practically. He was follpwed by Captain Vawtcr, | who thought a good deal of practical road building could he accomplished if the people would take to the importance of good highways, and place at convenient places rofck gothtrred from their farms, which the county could crysh aud spread on the roads under the direction of competent meu. Captain O. A. Brown, of Accomao, and others spoke on the same subject. < NIGHT MARION. At night the breeding of horses was discussed at length by Mr. Foxhall, A. Dangcrtield, Captain Brown, of Accomnc, and the Hon. T\ S. Martin, of Albemarle. The luttcr made a very spirited defense of breeding and racing horses, against which he conceived there was a ven strong prejudice. Prof. Atwood, of Blackshurg, lectured on the apple and its insect enemies. 1 Mrs. Polly Klough, of Lenoir, N. died .Monday in her one hundred and third year. ^ Ih? Farmers' Bona Will Hit* Their College in 1899. tinRKNviLLB, S. C\, [Special.]?The l>oard of ttUKtcos of the L'lemson I'ollcgo in session at Pendleton, decided to press the work In all the departments and pro |>are to onen the College on February 1, 1893. The sessions of tho College will >e from February I to December I of very year, making ten months for atulouts to study and work. Thenj will l?o io Saturday holiday, as in other schools, md the school ilavs will Ik* six in ever* veek. No student under 15 yours of age will Ik" admitted unless the KtHilcnt lw in older brother in attendance. Kwrj itudent will l?e required to work two lours of each working day at manual la>or, hihI will roreive sit-h tomncoaatiou or his work a* the board of trustees cm* .T* w . .1 "Ta"V Hi I he students will bo required to live ami mard at the institution, except where hey live near enough to attend from their mines. Hoard will he furnished at net till cost, which will not lie over seven dotal* a month, and hooks and stationery v i 11 lie furnished at aetual cost. The 'o I lege will la- under military discipline, lid every student will lw required to venr a uniform of cadet gray. An RICt'l.TI'll A I. AND TF.CHNOI.OIIlCAIi. The Imard also fixed upon a list of (tidies, hut they will lie given to the less later. There will he two general epartments in the College, the agrieuiiii al and technological. For cntianco ito the College the applicant must have knowledge of arithmetic, history, geog iphy and grammar. The agricultural ourae will be thorough, nnd the student, rill l>e given a complete education in radical aa well aa scientific farming. The technological department will he * complete aa tnat or any reennormro-m -iiuui in inn coiinuy. i nrimnuuru will c high, anil every facility will tie given !>r a thorough courae. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. The board haa determined to provide n reparatory department on account of the ireaent condition of tho public schools, nit the same limitation as to age will up ?1 v in tliia department. The College will be able to accoinmolatc three hundred students. There are !ready over two hundred applications on le, and they are being received everv ay. TUITION NOT FIXED. Tha board haa not decided what the lit ion fees will be. Tho committee on lie selection of professors has been coniuued, and the committee will takcpleny of time liefore making the selections in rdcr to get the beat possible. PROOHESB OF THE BUILDINOS. There are one hundred convicts at work n tho grounds. The experimental stamy, a three-atory brick building, one ? inndred by fifty feet, ia now beiner cov red with slate and will aoon doer. ? new Blockade for the conyicta has been milt, and live dwelling houses, now used ?> mechanics, have also been completed. The historic old Calhoun house, in \liieh Thomas Clemson lived and died, uis been recovered, repainted and repair d inside and outside. The trustees are inking their own brick and have 400,!>() ready for use and four thousand cords f wood on the ground for burning more. 'here is also a large quantity of stone on and for laying the foundations of the I her buildings. W. W. P. A New Rogue's Dodgo. Individuals who livo by puttiug their an da into other people's pockets und ppropriating for their own uses what icy may happen to tlnd in them uro bljzed to invent now tricks to facilitate ,diich is now, at atrTvonWffl 'Mft, eerns to havo answered the purpose oi> L-vcral occasions. Ceutleinen m Paris aro, owever, now warned, and probably ir? mure will i?? on their guard when tt trnnger seemingly accidentally runs up gainst thcra. The respectable-looking trangcr who acta in this way manages, it ppears, to throw the end of a lighted i?mr into thn rmdpalrinn'ii rrrpftfc cnat ockct, and, after apologizing for his lumsiness, ho goes away, tho wellresscd pedostrian being, of course, uitc unaware of tho trick that has becu layed on him. A fow minutes later a ouple of strangers hurry up to him, exlaiming: "Monsieur, your overcoat is n fire;" and, with tho utmost politeess, they squeeze and compress tho nirning cloth, profiting, it is needless to ay, by tho opportunity to relieve tho >ocket of whatever of vulue it may conain. Keveral persons have, it is stated, >ecn robbed in this way while walking * >n the boulevards, and before they dis:ovcred their loss tho pickpockets were ost in tho crowd. Rut in future, if ome ono stumbles up against a Frenchnan in the streets of Paris, he will probib!y, if he has heard of the trick, look o sec there is no lighted cigar cud left u his coat pocket.?London titandaru. An Arab water seller who was In rurkey during the hist war with Russia was wandering about at the" rear of the battlefields with two freshly filled juga A water, calling out "Clear, cool water, lwo pinstcrs a cupful," when a round shot bounding along smashed ono jug to ttoms, and the Arab wandered on without pausing, aud changed his cry to "Clear, cool water, four piasters the cupful."?Tho Jotter. To purify ffronay ?n*? ?"i r'l*"* Pou? Iown a pailful or boiling water lu wiiicn three or tour pounds of washing soda have been dissolved. A good disinfectant is prepared in the same way using copperas. Copperas is a poison and cauuot be left about. American Authors Now Protected. Washington, D. C., [Special.]?The I'icsidcnt has signed tie copyright bill. All of regular appropriation bills liave icfeived the President's signature. Artificial musk is now being manufactured in Germany. , m