Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, Polite -^4)*^B?on<J (he Current 2fcws of the Day. \ ~ ~ * i '*\ * 1 1 ~ * ' " I , VOTt. XXII." NEW ftEBIES. _ UNION C. II- SOUTH ( AKl^^Fftjl) A Y. MARCH. 13.1891. ( v NUMBER 11. Bf (fVhMMVkla x*7111l??w*t I ? "* ~ ??? ?" ill" ' Sy-Oolleges bave dispensed with the coo ^^ ffypWicement orations. H' Railroad statistics show that mo |&- S people are killed while walking on tl pfr*'. Hf track than from any other cause, whit w' r Is an argument, thinks the Mail and E p press, for enforcing the laws forbiddii f this practice. H||H^.-"If yon are going to kiljl a man," sa an English surgeon of renown, "ai j^ESBfJwant to do it quickly and without suffe 9S?au^htfaheng him. If the hangman knov MMlkiS, the victim .does not. fcol i ^PPMRPI^HImvW|Se|n(nore attention to tl ^^^^^teaehing of living languages. He claic that English clerks qualified to coir spond in French and English are gre rarities, and that English merchants a obliged to employ foreigners to attend their foreign business. J Tlie TndapancUnt, of New York, harir ^ asked members of Congress?House an w Senate?whether they would closo tl "world's fair on Sunday or leave it opot publish* over 100 replies, wherein appears that the respondents are voi pearly equally divided or the mattci the* opposing opening, howover, bein about ten in the majority. J ... , - . Ex-Sscrotary Bayard has aged consid erably since leaving Washington, thougl in apparently good health. It is noted muses the Chicago Herald, that succcs in politics seems to act as a powerfu tonic, and public men in Washingtoi bear their years better than when retire* fto private life. It will bo rcmemborec that Secretaray Blaine aged faster during his four years' retirement than he dit before or has since. i Pennsylvania is taking an imports! step in the direction of better roads; tep that, in the opinion of the Net .York Tribune, every State should take 'Railroad traveling has becomo so genera and ro perfect that the common high ways of the land are largely overlooked Yet on them is the vast bulk of travel! n( transporting doaq,, after all, ant calculable extent the comfort and con Vsoienoe and prosperity of the vast bull of the people. The improvement o county roads is a topic that should stane wall toward the head of the list in ever legislative assembly, until wo havi brought ourselves at least to an equality with the Romans of two thousand yean ago. _________ If the discover!* made by tho Stat Dairy Commissioner of New Jersey adore an-example of the deleterious mixture we eat and drink in New York, there i well-founded 'reason for alarm, con fees* the New York Newt. According to his report, 2186 samples of food drugs and dairy products were examinee daring the year 1890, and of that nuin ^ ber 46Q samples were found to be adul te rated. Out of 196 samples of croao of tartar, sixty were within the require manta of the law. Moro than a third o: the lard was impure. Forty out of fifty bags of coffee were bogus. Frauds wer found in canned French peas, jc'.iec honey and olive oil. In ten lots of mus lard, not one was pure; pepper was ai abomination,and of 110 samples of drugs ? such m ate used in every family, forty four samples were adulterated. Figure ^ like the foregoing possess a lively interea and if a similar condition of the thing , exist on this side of the Hudson, th publio would like to know the fact, an see the remedy promptly applied. The Railtaay Ay* recently publiahei tog? by Joseph O. Kerberi j Qonaul at Para, Brar.il The subject of the article is "Railroad tug in Brasil," but its objeot relate more partloularly to that vast allurin, phantasy of ebullient statesmanshi known as the "Pan-American Railroad.1 This might better be termed the Tight Rope Afcr Line, for it is proposed t bridge the valleys and tunnel the peak of the Andes, traversing the great watei had of South America by balancing th road-bed on the knife-edge of mountai tops. Aside from the facts that suoh railroad would coat a thousand time more than an ordinary road simply 1 lay the rails, that an ocean steamship ca carry freight faster and cheaper than freight train, that the major portion < the country to be traveled has no popi lotion worth the inu, Mr. Korbo e(m as ? peculiar obstacle to railrosc that they mutt taanel tl foreets and new path must he openc after every train, because "the den growth of vegetation is so rapid that path oat in the morning is overgrown i the night." This last fact settles tl Pan-American railroad scheme, deolar the OMoago Ntm*. No self-res pec tii looomotive engineer will handle tl lever of an engine which is obliged shove a lawn-mower ahead of It. ? - -i jhl/YIUJJI A .LIVELY MONTH. cJ Strong Breezes Waft These News re Notes To Us, 10 :h From Many Points In the Progressive fe* Southland, Interesting We )g Are Sure. VIRGINIA. 4^, There is an increased dem #&,. for man1(* ofucturcd tohneco in DanvilK and the r- factories are all running. p 78 Although the Senate has faded to eonM tirm the nomination of James McLaughlin, postmaster of Lynchburg, it is beP lieved t^t ho will,fill that office. t na villc Street Car Company will be rebuilt at once. Roanoke will soon boast of a postofficc building constructed at a cost of $75,ro 000 by the general government. A bill to ordering this lias passed both houses of Congress and been approved by the President. ig Timberville is a new town on the line 1(j of the Broadway & West Virginia Railroad that is ?oon to be constructed. 10 It is the centre of the great foiest regions i, of North mountain and Brock's Gap. it The North fork of the Shenandoah river runs through the town. . NORTH CAROLINA. r? g, Sam Jones has been invited aud will I conduct evangelistic services in Char, lotte shortly. J The legislature passed the bill approJ printing $10,000 annually for a geologiI cal survey of the state. ' I The vacancies in the state bond of agii^ culture were filled by the legislature,as folil/ Iowa: First'district, J. B. Coflicld, fourth ^ W. F. Green, eighth, 8. F. Patterson, j On Tuesday night, David Jones, of Cape Lookout Snving station, about a * 111! IP HOllfb of Ibn f 3 *' ?uu v1,1111r, louiiu in mc wiish of the sea the dead body of a man. The body was without clothes of any kind. The arms were off at the shoulders and legs off at the hips. In the state senate Thursday bill to appropriate $25,000 to socure exhibit at Chicago, failed to pass; this raised a great howl, and at night this action was reconsidered and the bill passed the senate uuaniuioiibiy. The census officer announced the population of North Cnroliua rnces as follows: whites, 1,040,191; colored 207,170; Indians, 1,571; Chinese, 15; total. 1,617,917. Spartanburg, Dariing^>n^a^^^Columbia have bcon sold. They brought $5,900, $0,500 and $5,500 respectively. Senator Edmunds. Miss Edmunds and other distinguished tourists were in Columbia Thursday en route to Camden. Branches of the Atlanta Building and Loan Association have l>ecn organized in Yorkvillc and Florence. Thos. N. Berry and L. D. Childs, of Chester, have been appointed as delegates from this State to the Right Worthy Grand Lodge, I. O. G. T., which meets in Edinburg, Scotland, in May. Robert Mill has has prepared plans for the erection of a church at Spartan burg for the Baptists to cost $10,000. The students of the South Carolina College for women visited the State IIousc Tuesday afternoon. They were evidently delighted with their visit. The erection of the $15,000 school l-"? I me" rnmmoitr-' at Nowberry. The Anderson Building & Loan Association, which will wind up its business, will declare n dividend of about 65 per cent. Gaffncy City has voted to subscribe $20,000 to the projected Cape Fear and Cincinnati Railroad. GEORGIA. Wade Hampton will deliver the address at Augusta, April 27, at the reunion of his old brigade. A correspondent says that a large por * tion of the peach nnd plum crop lias been p killed or badly injurea in the vicinity of e Davishoro. (] Georgia's pension laws went into effect March 1, and from that date the widow of each Confederate soldier will get an 1 annuity of $100. Alabama has also at ( last recognized their claims, but their share will scarcely be half so large, r The John P. KingManufacturiogCom* pany, of Augusta, has made a direct ship ment of cotton goods to Manchester, g England. p Governor Northen has instituted a re? form in the management of the Georgia prison camp that will meet with the o nearty commendation of humanitarians. He has ordered that hereafter male and female convicts must be kept in separnto ' apartments, and that no communication ,e must be allowed between them. a TENNESSEE. * Tho legislature has passed a bill to * build a monument to John Sevier, the q first governor of Tennesee. a The bill authorizing the issuance of $500,000 of bonds by Knoxville has passa ed the legislature and ticcome a law. Three men were killed and thirteen a- wounded in an accident at Whitwell, on rt the Tennessee Coal Company's incliue ^ railway. A printer employed on The Chattano j ga News, Jim Coropton, shot Harry Herbert in the neck. The wound is probu ? bly a fatal one. * In the senate Thursday the bill creatine [n a bureau of labor, statistics and mines, ^ with a commissioner at a salary of $1,500, whoso duties are to inspect mines, mills ** and factories and gather labor statistics, jg was passed, only two negative votes bej,e <ng recorded. ^ Nashville has but few runaway weddings, consequently social circles were startled by that one which occurred Thursday, when John Means Thompson, h son of ex-Governor Thompson, of South Carolina was quietly married to Miss Bailie Glasgow. FLORIDA. Tarpon Springs has just indulged it. the luxury of electric lights. A Tallahassee special says: Gov. Fleming will leave to the legislature the appointment of a United .vs senator , to succeed Mr. Call. Fernaudina proposes to have an as- \ soeiation of ladies to ho known as the i City Improvement society, to supervise , the work of keeping the streets clean. j F. II. Oi vis, who keeeps a statistical J comparison of the Florida seasons, says ' <lint the business of January, 1S5M, was lifty per cent, over January. IStIO; that * February was sixty per cent, greater and ' that Match promises a greater increase. 1 Ajiril, says he, will be away ahead of last * r^^mnJacKsonville atinHahla Fe Hara . Hock Phosjflmte Co., lately reported as j organised, has been incorporated, with a The orange trees along tho Halifax ] river arc showing numerous buds and on- j ly require a little rain to burst into full ? bloom. A HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST. t Monroe High School Burned and 1 Two Lives Lost. ^The Monroe, N. C., High School was ' atned Thursday morning between mid night and day. j Two young men, T. E. Pcmbcrton and Albert Bost, were literally roasted in the flames. I The building, together with four fine pianos, all the school furniture ? library and most of the wearing apparel p of teachers and pupils was completely consumed. " u Monroe High Scdool, owned and conducted by Prof. II. W. Bpinks and Maj. L. D. Andrews, was a large three-story brick building situated about a mile from the centre of the town. It contained, at the time of the burning, 25 pupils, male and female, who nil, a with the exception of two, narrowly escaped with their lives. The girls occupied the ground floor, the boys the third floor, the second floor being used for recitation rooms, etc. The building and fittings were valued ?| at $!>,0()0. The insurance amounts to about $4,000. Prof. Spinks and Andrews will rent a hall and continue thoirschool. A new aud handsome building wil: l>t erected in the place of the one burned j' flown. To Abolish the Homestead Law. ^A bill has been M concurring: Section 1. That section one (1,) two (2,) three (3,) four (4.) five (5) and eight ? (8), of article ten (10) of the Constitution of this State is repealed and abolished. Section 2. This amendment shall be t(1 submitted at the next general election to the qualified voters of the State, tho3e votiug in favor of the amendment to vote a written or printed ballot with the words: "For the amendment abolishing the homestead," and those voting against )( it to vote the same kind of a ballot with ' the wt?rds: "Against the amendment abolishing the homstead" on it. Section 3. The election shall be hold and returns made; counted and the re- o| suit announced under the same rules and ^ regulations as are now provided for the tj election of the governor and other state f( This act 6hnll he iu force from and nf? ter its ratification. Cheering a Prayer. Cf A remarkable scene, and one that struck part of the aiidience as very amusing, occuiTcd iu the Michigan Democrat- . ic State Convention at Lansing, Thurs- J' day. After the usual preliminaries were _ gone through with, Rev. E. R. Claik, a ?' local preachoi', was called upon fov prayer, and, in addressing the Most High, HI made a stump speech. The delegates were wrought up to a high pitch and when he asked the Deity "to guide the K( footsteps of the convention into the track lV of. thut grand old Democrat, Thomas J 1 Jcffcrton," the convention broke into ap- ! plnusc, with wild yells of delight and ?>' approval. Even Mr. Clark was disconccrted for the moment and the prayer ?! had to wait until the applause had died ^ out. m g, Late Jacob Thompson'* Widow. ui Memphis, Ten*., [Special.]?The will of Mrs. Catherine A. Thompson, relict of the late Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Treasury under President Buchniinn, was admitted to probate Tuesday. The bulk of the estate goes to her grand , daughter, Mis. Kirkman. To Mrs. Mont- . gomery, another grand daughter known ' to the stage as "Kay Douglas," is be- ' queathed a half interest in a hotel at Ox- C( ford, Miss., and about $50,000 worth of jewelry and plate; and $50,000 is set aside to be invested for her benefit. The estate is valued at ^1,000,000. ^ ei Queen Vic. and Empress Frederick ct At a Horse Show. London, [Cablegram. J?Queen Victo- . ria, accompanied by Empress Frederick. ! by the letter's daughter, Margaret, and 1 by Prince and Princess Wales, drove today in open carriages from Buckingham ' Palace to Islington, where the royal party spent considerable time in visiting horse ? shows, now in progress at tho Agricultural Hall. Queen and her party received a perfect ovation as they passed through the streets on their way to and from the . horse show. Rev. JamM 0. Furman Dead. Giieenvilmb, 8. O. [Special.]?Rev. c Jaa. O. Furman, D. D., one of the most eminent scholars and clergyman of the southern Baptist church, and for many years president of Furman University, died at his home in Greenville, Wcdncs day. Aged 80 years. rt _ v Woman's Progress. tiansino, Micr.?A bill granting mil- c nicipal suffrage to women has passed to a third reading in the senate. KNIGHTS OP THE ROADATT \ A. Drummer Relates His Experience In Grand Rapids, Michigan. I What 1 like about these "Knights J*" I he lload" is that they ate great felk vB for secret societies. Most all the (in r liters belong to everything that is goii ^ from that of the "Grand Knights of t tnond Garter," down to "Boos of tlempcrnucc." 1 am quite a hand >t til sucli mysterious things myself, sr I ret solid with nil the hoys. My Id riend Orookston called on nte the o( i*r lay to see if 1 needed any drugs and \o lave a visit. We had a jolly old tin?. While we were sitting in the office In hup came in and wanted to borrow ? tu account of a remittance not coining u titn as he expected. I told hint my $xl kest <neii(^WMiwK)\^beit^ft^mt Jp tqe !aitr"Tnnrs-Tne. I gave mitvtTlc^rann lulling sigu of att Odd Fellow, whih he untitled to. Then 1 came to the front 'hair in the soot" grip of a Ptttynic. lie tumbled. Then Crook gave hin G. 15. of the Hons of Malta. He was onto t. Then I tipped him the liair-ptking igttal of a j(!ood Tippler... j He united and said "II. ()." This in a hcmical term, meaning "wntere." Then .'rook stuck out his hand and g*V(j him he noted P. 1). Q. sign of the ItoyalKxch kick Mason. He "got thnr" on [that. Then Crookston examined him as folows, o make sure lie was a drummer:; "From whence comcst thou, nard?" "From the Lodge of the Holy St. ohns, Michigan." f "What seek ye here to do?" "To take a few orders and collect a i till of Billson." i ' 'Then you arc a drummer?" "I nnt so taken and accepted by the i oys." 4 1 "How may I know you to be % jrunt- ' "By my cheek and my fifty-poutA sam- 1 le case. Try mo." I "How will you he tried?" 1 "By the squar1." "Why by the squar'?" 1 "Because the squar' is a magistrate j ltd an emblem of stupidity." ' "Where were you first ledtobs a drum- ' icr?" 1 "In my mind." "Where next?" ' "In a printing oflicc, adjoining a rcg- ( lar post of drummers." "llow wero you prepared?" "By being divested of my last cent, y cheek rubbed deswn with a brick, a mioti plaster over each eye and a Heavy < tuple case, in each band. In this fix I was conducted to the door of the post." ' "How did you know it was a doftr, ting bliiid?" ^ l "Ry first stepping in a coal/scuttle * id afterward bumping my headVgainst I ' Mad you the reduired ched?!/^' i "I bad not, but Steve Scars had it for ; to." i "How were you received?" i i ,"0n the sharp toe of a boot, Jtpplied 1 i my natural trousers." "What did this teach you?" "Not to fool around too nmi?n." "What happened next?" "I was set down on a cake of i?Se and l iked if I put my trust in mercantile re- < nrts." * i "Your answer ?" I "Not if I know myself, I don%" 1 "How was you next bandied?" i "I was put straddle of a goat made out < [ a2x4, and trotted nine times around ' ic room by four worthy brothers, and t icn trotted in front of the Lett Bower ?' ? further instructions." 1 ' How did he instruct you?" t "To approach a customer in three up- ? ght regular steps, .. ith mi business ird extended at light j 1 inning a perfect squan ' "How was you then disposedTW*' "I was again seated on the cake ico i front of a dry goods, and made to j ike the following horrible and binding r ith: r "I, Charles S. Robinson, do hereby r id herein most everlastiugly'and diabolt- j illy swear, by the Great Bob Tail Flush, r tat I will never reveal and always t eal all the trade secrets I cifn for the 8 ie and benefit of the Most Atigust Or:>r. And I further swear, by the Bald?adcd Jack of Clubs, that I will never ive, carve, make, bold, take or put prices jlow the regular rates. And | further 1 vear by the Pipers that played before ( uses, to never have any commercial f jalings with any man or liik wife, sister, J nndmotlier, old maid, aunt or ituclc, 1 iiless they, he, she or it is sound on the ' >ose."^ i t "I was then asked what I most needed." "What was vour renlv?" ' Money." "What did you then behold)" "A copy of t)un A Co.'# reports, open i chapter 'Muskegon.' Upon the opcu , >ok rested a pair of drug scales, in one , in of which rested ten pounds of con- ( inhaled lye, and in the other sat a small ' Ivor jackass." "What, did this emblem signify?" ' The sonies indicated the Da lame hereon debtor and creditor. The other nblems represented lte-abilties and assm of bankrupts." "Did this teaoh you any lesson!" "You bet! It taught me the fact that he former arc generally so almight j much letter than the latter." "Shake! Brothpr! ' Will ou be off or from?" ' Both, H I can borrow money eauff to ;et out of town on." "Ilnve you any cigars!" "I have." "Give 'em to me." ' I did not so receive 'em, neither will so impait 'cm." , .?!_ ?, "How wn. vou dispose "On sisty days' time or tiW mr cent, ash, F. O. B." \W "All right, licgin." "No, bogiu you." "No, you begin." "Up." "'Em." "Set." $ " 'Set 'eur up.' The worda^ftnd signs re light, Brother Snoolu, he- in a yard vide and all wool, and you Cfcn bet on lb other Oronkston and Ie*4jh lent the lisp $">, an I lie left with nflpty thnnks I nd kind wishes. I Now you c?p sep by this a h?lo it f i Lb to a follow who he yets dead broke among strnngi i to have these little things tofemback " -Onmd Rapids Times. Failures and Confirmations by the Senate. Washington, D. C., [Special."]?The The following nominations failed to receive confirmation by (lie senate: James H. Beatty, as district judge of Idaho: Louis Dcrmaris, coiucr of mint at New Orleans; James H. Young, collector of customs for the district of Wilmington, N. C\ ; Tlios. E. Oglcsgarde, register of land ofiice at Minot. Postmaster O. 15. Norris, Brighton, N. Y.; O. W. Fcrrce, Edgar, Neb.; John Clinton, Brownsville, Tenn.; Jas. Hil', Vickshnrg, Miss.; J. M. McLaughlin, Lynchburg, Va. In case of Beatty's nomination it. was resisted by the Idaho senators on the ground that Beatty was an active narti j,,_ a-Jwio.., nimii niMi^mrtu I YhfallilaMPclcction (,f senator-elect Dulx>is and finance senator Farwell, a warm friend of Dubois caused failure of nomination by dcmatld 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 opposition managed to delay action long enough to cause failure of nomination. To Prevent Lynching. Mr. Cbcars, of Uuion county, has ir troduccd a bill in the Legislature to nioi effectually prevent lynch law in Nortl Carolina. It provides that when such k crime is committed and the perpetrators arc unknown, the county commissioners may employ a special agent or issue a proclamation offering $100 reward for the apprehension of the perpetrators of tlu crime. It nlso provides that the solicitor shall send bills of indictment against such persons as he has rcuson to suppose are implicated in such violation, and the grand jury arc empowered to act upon luch bills, and the superior court is given jurisdiction to hear and determine any in dictment found by such grand jury. It further provides that if the grand jury ignores bills as sent by solicitors, lie may move the case to some other county. It also provides that the court may have the power to compel the appearance of witnesses from any part of the State, and all cost8 shall lie borne by the county in which the offence was committed. Duping the Colored Man. C! a inksvii.i.k, Tkk.?During the past on days over JOrt negroes have passed lirougli the city cn route to Oklahoma ii settle. Nearly all came from Eastern Texas aud are most distressed and desti uiu ui money, tanning implements ami jvurything necessary to prevent stnrvalion ami suffering in n new country. A j^ntynaiMTonj Oklahoma has been rop 8?*^..that they could secure sold to nenPfoi , , > ..,giw juL., . grating negroes a town lot for $1 each. These lots were represented to he located in the heart of a large town, and to he worth sf 1<0 Every negro had a deed to tome imaginary town lot. Senator Hearst's Successor. Washington, D. C., [Special. |?It is lie impression among the friends of Ex governor Murray, of California, that lie vill he the successor to the late Senator : I carat. Gov. Murray is a Kentuckian >y birth, and served in the Federal army luring the civil war, reaching the rank >f brigadiei general at tho age of 21. Ic was United States marshal! in Ken ucky, under President Grant, and governor of Utah under President Arthur. Icing free from factional connections in 'nliforuiu, his friends consider him a ] trong compromise candidate. [ugh T. Inman Made President of Georgia Central. ( New York, [Special.J?Hugh 1"' innan, a brother of John II. Inman, of the tichmond terminal system, will he made Resident, of the Georgia Central within a nonth. Mr. Inmnn, who is a mail of < ecognized ability in the south, has long i >een in demand by Georgia Central, but lot until Tuesday was it definitely known 1 hat he would accent (he positiou. The < alury is $20,000 a year. i Results of Reciprocity. , Several prominent merchants of Halti- ! nore have organized the Brazil Trading 'o., capital $50,000, with power to in- 1 rease to $500,000. The incorporators 1 tamed in the charter are Thornton Uolins, Faris C. Pitt, Unfits "Woods, Robrtson Taylor and Edwin W. Levering. This company expects to avail itself of he reciprocity recently inaugurated, and o open up a large trade with Brazil. City Clerk Gone Wrong. Richmond, Ya. [Special.]?Mr. Buford Grymes, clerk in the treasurer's oflico 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 hooks. The sum so far missing is only about sixty dollars. hut it ik icareu a mucn larger amount, nas / l?cen misappropriated. $400,000 Capital For Oil Merchants. London, [Cablegram.]?A number ol prominent cotton seed oil merchants, including Messrs. Hose, Wilson and Itosc, George Leanes, Hon and company; Hcvan Harris and Garrard and Game, Jlowes and Co., of this city, have formed a joint stock company with a capital of $100,000. Growth of Alliance in West Virginia. C'.ARKsnuRO, W. Va. [Special. J? Farmers' Alliance oreranizers nave liccn working quietly throughout the Stale for several weeks past. It has now developed that the membership in some counties is ueatly as great as. the combined strength of two old parties. A new alliance piper is to bestarted here this spring. H? Took Fronch Leave. Jackson, Miss., [Special.]?Govcrnot Stone received information that W. J. Cowar, ex-collector and sheriff of Marion county, had absconded with the public funds. He probably owes the Slate two thousand dollars. FARMER'S INSTITUTES. A Successful One Held at Charlottesville, Va. The Delegates Were Well-Dressed, Thrifty and Prosperous Looking as All Farmers Should Be. Charlottesville, Va., [Special. |-No one looking upon the Farmers' As sombied in the Levy Opera House could base received the impression that they belong to a down-trodden and impoverished class of our citizenship. They were well dressed, thrifty and prosperous looking and all thoroughly interested in the proceedings of the second Farmer's Institute. The gentlemen who occupied the stage were especially distinguished "Lyman was ch'aThnan,-~mi<\ near him were seated the Hon. Thomas L. Whitehead, the Commissioner of Agriculture; Captniu Van water, of the Miller Manual Labor School; Col. II. II. Magi uder and Dr. Charles Ellis, of the Virginia Experiment Station ; Captain Orris A. Brown, of Accomac, member of the State lloa?-d of Agriculture, and many other well-known gentlemen. In welcoming the members of the Institute to the city, Mr. Lyman said that although the nation needs the farmer more than anv other one class, political and legal (piestions would he eschewed. While the gie.il need of the farmers is instruction, a knowledge of law and the dead languages will not increase his crops or add to bis margin of profits. He said thai the true aim of his cln*s was to better itcondition and perfect the productions of the land and to do all they could to make the wot Id another Edeu. ADDRESS OK WELCOME. Tn his brief response to the addnor welcome Colonel Whitehead tnndc several points which pleased his audience very much. lie conceived the object of siiciinstitutes to he to advance the interest of the farmer without taking from anyothei class a right that it now possesses. There ought not to he, aud oaunot he fnirlv, : war upon any class by the agriculture., people, hut it is to their interest to haw what is their own. Tiie farmers wan! t<> avoid heiug preyed upon. It is not hard reuse that whulo use such terms of re prnach as "hayseed" or "clodhopper." lie thought it took just as much sense and religion to be a good farmer as a good lawyer. The move of farmers' in stitutes has been tpied elsewhere in such states as are now successful in their r.gci cultural ehterprises. He believed tllnt i northern Michigan had our admirahh climate Virginia Mrtmlft be depopulated, because the people of that jwotion have the knowledge aufi are Winning the pro! its. They don't claim that ihey are n< t making money, bvrit they want to cscupau linhnspibihlq-pMriajiUu OfauifrClhjl Ve: comfortable. He thought-it an era in tin progress of the farmersihAt the Univt rely of Virginia, and such institutions slow an alacrity in assisting the farmers in their work of education. HOG-CnOLEHA AND ITS TREATMENT. The first set address was by Dr. Chirh.i Ellis, veterinarian of the Virginia Ex peri mcnt Station. The subject, "Hog ("v>! era and its Treatment," was important aud evidently deeply interesting to tin fanners present. He believes in the gen . theory of course, but docs not believe lie disease contagious. He gave a very ir: leresting resume of the investigation which the scientists have made of 11.uibject. Many incidents, which show. in what way the disease is spread ignor mlly and discussed remedies at sonic length. At the close of his address, questions were propounded and a general discussion ensued, which was followed very losely by Dr. Tuttle of the University of tion of the Hygiene of animals and landlooking to the protection of the animn! industry. You cannot prevent hog chol era by law, he said, unless somebody sees that the law is enforced. The law now is that diseased dead animals shall he burned or buried at least four feet deep, otherwise the constable must do it, and make charge for it. Hiding about the country, he saw evidences that the farmers did not know of the existence of this statute. The law says animals infected with contagious diseases, when condemn* d by a commission appointed by the rouit shall he killed. This is too slow a process, lie thought the loss by hog cholera should be divided by means of some arrangement of the tax laws, for iu that case each man would be interested in preventing such diseases. ROAD-MAKING. The question which elicitcfV the most interest, perhaps, was road-making, in which Professor Thornton, of the University of Virginia, delivered a very striking and valuable address. Pointing out the best systems, the cost of building them, and the manner in which the financial part of the question might be best man aged. He took strong grounds in favor of the State doing the work with an engineer in charge, with headquarters at the Capitol, aud with subordinate engineers to supervise the work in progress. He thought it a waste of time to build roads that would not last for all time practically. He was followed by Captain Vawtcr, who thought a good deal of practical road building could be accomplished if the people would take to the importauuo of good highways, nod plnre at convenient places rofck gathered from thoir farms, which the county could cutish and spread on the ronds under the direction of competent men. Captain O. A. Brown, of Apmbmo, and others spoke on the same subject. NIOHT M8TOK. At night the breeding of horses wa.? discussed at length by Mr. Foxhall, A. Pangcrfield, Captain Brown, of Accomae, and the Hon. T\ 8. Martin, of Albemarle. The latter made a tcry spirited defense of breeding and racing horses, against which he conceived there was a vcrj trong prejudice. Prof. At wood, of Blackshurg, lectured on the apple and ita insect enemies. Mrs. Polly Hlough, of Lenoir, N. O., died Monday in her one hundred and third year. " vONLY ONE YEAR. TO WAIT. > : .' The Farmers' Bona Will Have Their College in 1892. Creenville, S. C\, (Special.)?Tlic boanl of trustees of the Clcmson College iii session at Pendleton, decided to press the work in all the departments and pre pare to open the College on February 1, 1892. The sessions ?>f tiic College \% i 11 be from February I to December t of every year, making ten months for stu deuts to study and work. There v. ill be no Saturday holiday, as in other schools, and the school days will be six in every week. No student under I'i years of age will be admitted unless the student has an older brother in attendance. F?vcry student will be required to work two hours of each working day at manual la bor, and will receive such tosnnensation for liis work as the hoard of truste.es cuu The students will be required to live and board at the institution, exeept where they live near enough to attend from their homes. Hoard will be furnished at actual cost, which will not be over seven dollars a month, and books and stationery will be furnished at actual cost. The College will be under military discipline, and every student will be required to wear a uniform of cadet gray. AORIftH.TUHAI, AND TECHNOI.OfW\f? The board also fixed upon a list of 'Indies, but they will be given to tire press later. There will be two general departments in the College, the agricu! tural and technological. For entrance into the College the applicant must have a knowledge of arithmetic, history, geography and grammar. Tin; agricultural course will be thorough, and the student will be given a complete education in practical as well as sciontitic fanning. The technological department, will I?? as rompiere as rnat or any rerTtnoTngrmr school in the country. The standard will be high, and every facility will be giv< n for a thorough course. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. The board has determined to provide a preparatory department on account of the present coudition of the public schools, but the same limitation as to age will ap ply in this department. The College will be able to accommodate three hundred stnHonio Tl...... already over two hundred applications on lile, and they are being received cverv day. TUITION NOT FIXED. Tim hoard lias not decided what the tuition fees will be. The committee on ihe selection of professors has been con- ' tinned, and the committee will take plenty of time before making the selections in order to get the best possible. I'ROOHBSS OF TUB BUILDINGS. There are one hundred convicts at work on the grounds. The experiments! *Ukign, the only all wood building to be put ? MMfJ ' is and are covered with slate. I'he labors-v tory, a three-story brick building, one, " hundred by fifty feet, is now being covered with slate and will soon be done. A new stockade for the convicts has been built, anil five dwelling houses, now used by mechanics, have also been completed. The historic old Calhoun house, in which Thomas Clemson lived and died, has been recovered, repainted and repair rd inside and outside. The trustees are making their own brick and have 400,<>:;<> ready for use and four thousand cor is of wood on the ground for burning more. There is also a large quantity of stone <?> hand for laying the foundations of tin* other buildings. W. XV. P. A New Rogue's Dodge. Individuals who live by putting their hands into other people's pockets and appropriating for their own uses what they may happen to llml iu them aro obliged to invent new tricks to facilitata which is new, at all evcuVs'Vft ?? seems to have answered the purpose oa several occasions. Gentlemen in Paris are, however, now warned, and probably iu future will be on their guard when a stranger seemingly accidentally runs up against them. The respectable-looking stranger who acts in this way manages, it appears, to throw the end of a lighted cigar into tho pedestrian's great coat pocket, and, after apologizing for his clumsiness, ho goes away, the welldressed pedestrian being, of course, nuitc unaware of the trick that. lia? l??cr> played on him. A few minutes later a couple of strangers hurry up to him, exclaiming: "Monsieur, your overcoat is on fire;" and, with tlio utmost politeness, they squeeze and compress tho burning cloth, profiting, it is needless to pay, by tho opportunity to relieve the pocket of whatever of value it may contain. Several persons have, it is stated, y been robbed in this way whilo waWmg ^?-J on the boulevards, and before they dis- nf covered their loss tho pickpockets wera ? lost in the crovd. But in future, if - H some one stumbles up against a French- ? man in the streets of Paris, he will pro!>ably, if lie has heard of the trick, look ?, to sec there is no lighted cigar end left ijj in his coat pocket.?London Standard. fy] An Arab water seller who was In &! Turkey during the hist war with Russia was W!Lnderinr? nbont lit. tlin rnnr nf Bfi battlefields with two freshly filled jugs of water, calling out Clear, cool water, jH two piasters a cupful," when a round H| shot bounding along smashed one jug to atoms, and the Arab wunderod on with* H out pausing, and changed his cry to 9H Clear, cool water, four piasters the cupful."? The Jester. H To purify ffwmy ? ""*? ? - .J^H down a pailful of boiling water in which three or four pounds of washing soda , have been dissolved. A good disinfectant is prepared in the same way using copperas. Copperas is a poison and cannot UO lOlb IIUUUV. _ v, American Authors Now Protected. Washington, I). C., [Special.]?lite I'icsident has signed tke copyrigV. 1>HI. WH All of regular appr'onriatjon bills javo received the Presidents signature. Artificial musk is now being manufactured in Germany. _ , i