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1 THE WEEKLY ===== .- = . II !L JjVW^^S ===== ?? , ..? , : ; ' P VOL. XXII.?NEW SERIES. $&& C. JAY, m . L; ? | ' filaMiM Urn Ill n I work), China not excepted. ; The Now York Oonrt of Appeals has decided that a lady, who lost a cloak while trying on suits in a cloak store, is entitled to recover the value of the garment and $50 damages for the trouble and irritation to which she has been put. She laid the cloak on the counter in sight of the clerks, but when ehe needed It it was gone. The court ruled that the garment was temporarily in the care of the clerks. One can appreciate the perfection attained by the modern science of Wall street rumor-mongering, soliloquizes the New York Commercial Advertiser, when V the pay of the "bear" combination, whose ' doty it was to telegraph his employers any unfavorable news about the health of the tourist. That electric light has an uncanny way of showing up ill-matched colors most women, affirms the Boston Transcript, have learned te their cost, while some there are who havo oven found their complexions scarcely able to bear the strong, fierce light; but now the doctors are taking up the tale, and aro uttering grim warnings. It seems that, under certain conditions, the electric light will cause an illness almost precisely similar, to sunstroke. Mrs. Carrie Williams, a silk culturist,, \ of flan Francisco, says the industry will' Ha Krrtii rrV* f infra nrAtwinnnaa ? Viw?igu? ?uvv |#tvuituvu\AI aw ?uu World's Fair. Over $400,000,000 is ^ employed in tho business annually, and Americans have not taken enough in-, torcat in it. A company of Japanese, direct from Tokio, has purchased a tract of land in San Diego County, Cal., and will engage in tho industry. San Francisco has a Ladies' Silk Culture Society, the only one in tho United States. Most of the poetry appearing in current periodicals is written by women, asserts the Boston Traveller. Tho sex has an easier knack of versification than IliaUy I as well as a more sentimental enst of ^ mind, and these are the qualities mostly 4h#eg"lshhig .the poetry of the day. Even in literature as in everything else man is more practical than ever before, and now takes to prose in preference to poetry, because it pays better. But woman is not a whit behind him in this line of writing, and, generally reviewing the field, may be said to be more than holding her own in literary work. Lieutenant Wilson, who was with Commodore Farragut during the war, has a history that is like a romance l'rom the "Arabian Nights," if imagination may be allowed to fill in the rounded _ periods. About cigh^n or nineteen years ago he left this country for an exploration of Europe and Africa. lie reached Zanzibar in the course of time, and by some chance learned of an island caiieu Johnna, lying off the coast of Southern Africa, a considerable distance below Zanzibar, which could he purchased for a small sum of money. He visited the island and found it to be in a delightful climate, with a soil especially adapted to raising sugar cano. It is fw?=*y SVC by thirty Utiles iu nine, and, having bought it, he proceeded to turn it into a vast sugar plantation. Labor is cheap, the cost of living next to Inothing, and the sugar commands high prices at Bombay. He has several hundred employes, has made the island a j DAriioKlv liftl.-incilnm mul lum liiTimii' I immensely wealthy. TheChicngo Herald observes: A newspaper writer notices and deplores the lack of good masculine carvers of fowl. Laziness of men is assigned as the reason for this state of affairs. Formerly the art of carving was considered part of the education of every head of a family. Pater familias occupied tho sent of honor at table. In front of him w?3 placed a pile of plates and tho odoriferous body I of the goose, duck or turkey about to be devoured. There never was any hesitation on the part of the master of ceremonies. At the proper moment he whetted his knife with a cheery sound uu piuu^^vi 111a uu^u iui rv innui y niiu the bird. Proudly and with assurance he worked. He knew wher ; to cut to extraot the oyster dressing, h ~>w to saw off a leg and just how thick to slico tho white meat. That carving is fast becoming a lost art among men la shown by the fact that so few young men of tlie present day know how to cut up a bird. Nothing embarrasses a modern beau so much as to ask him to carve. If he undertakes the task at all he does well if he keeps his subject on the dissecting table. This state of things is, perhaps, unavoidable, so many young men living in boarding houses and hotels, where they have no opportunities for practico. It should ither become fashionable for ladies to do all the carving, or else lessons should ha given hi oorjmblio schools. Southern Hen And feaearee Paragraphed. Newsy Ohit-Chat and Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points f In Our Own and Adjoin ing States. VTROINIA. The Methodists of Danville nro holding interesting revival services. Bessie, a little daughter of Dr. R. M. Davis nf nu/.bJ.??vK?... ? 4 ? ? 1 wj W? jiuvi\ui|^U(1U1 \;UUUljry WW uuru- I ed to death Thursday. James P. Sheppard, charged with embczzlemont, was found guiity by the Saletn Criminal Court. Ten thousand dollars of Danville city bonds haa been ^keu un ?- , The civil, mechanical and mining engineers of of Roanoke have orgnuized an association in the interests of these several frrofessions. One of their prime objects s to secure a careful and accurate survey of Roanoke. The frcelioldert of Roanoke Wednesday voted to boud tho city for #426,000. For public improvements #000,000, streets and sewers #75,000, public schools #21,000, lire department and miscellaneous #00,000. Tho Norfolk and Western Road will in nddition spend #400,000 to improve the streets and property. Claremout, on the .Tames river in Surry county, and the two adjoining vil lages of Reymond and Bartlctt, amount ing to several thousand acres, have been tiurchased by parties frhm New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Judge Whittle, of the Circuit Court, has rendered his decision in the celebrated case of Moorman's heirs against the the city of Danville, T. J. Arthur nud ollicrs. These suits, iuvolvin^ something T over $100;000 worth of real estate iu Danville have been pending before Judge Whittle for a long time, aud are now awarded to the Moorman heirs. NORTH CAROLINA. A furniture factory commcuced operations iu Ncwbernc Monday. By vote of the citizens Washington I has donated $10,000 to secure rights of way for a branch of the W. ?fc W. Id that place. The King's Daughters of Greensboio arc building a Hospital. The Commercial aud Fiuiners' Bank of Raleigh was organized Tuesday. New banks have been organized at Asbeville and Rutberfordtou. Ernest Bender, a young man who lived on Core Sound, near New Berne, waa drowned several days ago in the sound while fishing. On last Saturday a few gentlemen met and determined to start a foundry in Gastonia; $1,000 were subscribed at once. The lot has already been secured. Cherokee county's marble, iron, gold, talc, timber and dirt, have commenced making an inroad on the vaults of Wall street aud more than a quarter of a million dollars is being paid out for Cherokee lauds. Every year J. Shakespeare Harris, of Poplar Tent, near Concord, gives a good suit of clothes to the two-horse farmci who makes the most cottou. East year 1). W. McCommous made the crop, aud Mr. Harris brought him to Concord Tuesday and gave him a good suit of clothes. artTTTir n?ur\r T?T A . OVVAU VAAWJJJUlAt | Maj. J no. Jones, of Blucksbur?, sent in his resignation as general manager of i the C., C. & C. Builrond. Eight convicts were received Weinesdny at the State Penitentiary from 8umptcr and five from Darlington. The visiting Boston base ball players have been giving a scries of exhibition games at Charleston. The little girl of Florence, bitten by a mad cat, has returned home from the rusieur Institute, .New York, perfectly cured, St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in Charleston by a united parade of the different Hiberniuin socities ami several banquets at night. In removing the coinerstoue of the old <on it house at Spartanburg Thursday, it was found to contain a quart of brandy, a copy of three newspapcis published in 1H5II, and some coins. An intereresting marriage took place in Edgclield couuty a couple of days siuce. Dr. Jabob Trotter, aged scveut vfivc years, was married to Miss Carrie ltidlcburg. aged bixteen. The groom was a widower. The General Committee of the Columbia Centenuial bus ollieially invited Governor Tillman and stall and all division and brigade commanders and their staffs to participate in the Centennial parade, May 14, 1891; also all white military companies in the State of South \ it11>rjmt, aim an mnn wmie umiiury companies in the other States of tho Union. TENNESSEE. They are adepts at Nashville, savs the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, in the legislative game of breaking the hack of hills by overloading it wifli amendments. A blast was fired 011 the side of tho Lookout Mountain Tuesday, which jlislodgcd 100.000 tons of rock. One hundred kegs of powder was the charge, and the ledge of rock was broken tip, and thousands of tons rolled down the mountain side. The ntilroad track was destroyed for 200 yards. The people arc now waiting with ape > cial eagerness the coming of the day wlieu the Tennessee Derby shall be run. George Moore, who was to have been hanged atFayetteville Tuesday, has been respited until June 10. In the State senate Monday morning a bill requiring school directors to have some qualifications for the oflice was passed. A special train carried l.r?0 insane pa.o iiiv Wednesday, from the Central Insane Hospital at Nashville to the Western J and comfortable quarter* bare been provided for them. The fit* destroying the entire west wing of the Nashville asylum necessitated the removal. Five charred and unrecognisable bodies have been recovered. * Greene County has subscribed $50,000 to aid in building the Unaka and Nola Chuckey H..ilrond. This railroad is pro jeeted to run from Morristown, Tenn., toErwiu, in I'nicoi county; thence east wardly through several counties of North Carolina to some prominent point of counectiou with the Cranberry ore deposits of that State. Should this be accomplished, it will become a valuable feeder o the Morristown & Cumberland Gap Hnilrond. Work on the latter road is making good progress. GEORGIA. ' .lerc Hallis has l>een appointed Inspec .'or of Oils for the Macon district, vice lfon. Torn Hardeman, deceased. as several days have driven the water out. | Mnj. E. h. Tyler, general manager ot '?ir Atlanta ana West Point Railroad, was at Atlanta elected president of the Atlanta and Florida Railroad, in place of President Robert Maddox, resigned. Savannah's cotton receipts passed bc;oud the 1,000,000-balc point for the season Thursday, and the cotton men cu I husiastically celebrated the event by a banquet. Theie arc no delinquent subscribers in | I timpkin county, says the Atlanta Con- , titiitiou. JSvery farm in that section | !.as a gold mine attachment. Even the , editors are growing rich. i Stnte Commissioner of Agriculture Nes < I it. assisted hy Dr. Hunnicut, is prepai ? ogabook designed to be a source of I general information about the state, foi | general distribution both at home and j abroad. r The completion of the Gainesville * lYtitir""*"1?* ~ Ed"** hat enterprising and growing city a waer supply system equal to any in the south, tlie supply being at least 300,000 ! gallons per day. ' Mr. 11. F. Bibb, of the Folsom stock ' farm near Aduirsville, has among liis herd ^ <?T .lerseys a sixteen-months old cow that gives three gallons of milk, and about , one pound and thrco quarts of butter . daily. This heats the record. FLORIDA. A $'?0,000 National Bank has been of ( gaui/.ed at Green Cove Springs. t An artesian well is being sunk at Live T Oak. 1 The great meetings of Rev. Sam Jones 1 at I'ensaeola have come to a close. Three 1 meetings were hehl daily, aud tlie aver- 1 age attendance was .1,000. The case of Alexander Campbell, in- ) dieted for the murder of Miss Mamie i Joseph in St. Augustine last September, | lias been set for trial in Jacksonville at ? the May term of Court. . A bill passed the 51st Congress for a survey and estimate for a railroad from ' the mainland to Key West, and for a ea- 1 mil connecting the same with the John's j river for military and naval purposes. ^ A Tallahassee special says: "Newi lias been received here of the burning ol | a large saw mill at Carrnbellc belonging | to the Carrabclle, Tallahas.sc and Georgia Railway Company. Two million feet of t lust-class pine lumber ware also destroy- i ed. The mills, machinery and building! ( were also destroyed. i The Alabama, Florida and Western 1 Railroad has been projected to start from ] Quincy. a town on the line of the Florida | Central & Western, run J\VAyr|Y,.due north , to Bainhridge, on the~Havannnh"Jk FT6FT"" H da Road, and tlieucc northwesterly. , The U. S. Government has presented ( 1 the town of Tampa with the Fort Brooke 1 military reservation for the benefit of free schools. The Quitman ?fc Tampa Railroad has been projected to run between Quitman, | ou the Kn"inn?h, Florida * V.'wolerii Railroad in Georgia, and the city of Tamnn. The nrcnosed route is an air lino some 2-">0 miles long. passing through the orange belt and some of the richest phosphate deposits yet discovered in the latter State. OTHER STATES. Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the Morgan steamship line in Galveston, is dead. He was widely known, and during the war occupied a ptoininent position in the confederate navy. ' The incorpo!ators of the Fnn-Americnn 1 Transportation Conipaoy are called to meet at Mobile on Apiil Kith, for the purpose of organizing a company and ( electing directors. The books will then be open for stock subscriptions. No legislative act was ever more opportune than the Mississippi Emergency bill, which passed both houses of Congress just before the iinal adjournment. The $1,000,000 appropriated for immediate use cnah'ed the Mississippi Kiver Commmisaion to hold itself in readiness to tight the floods then impending and which have since poured into the delta. What it Costs to Murder flu Tibet. i mm arrived hi ivnnzc in an evil nour, in the midst of tlie festivities of the 15th of tho fourth moon, when tho people from far and near congregate there and tho chiefs review their men, and when drinking and fighting are tho order ot tho day. In Tibet nearly every crime is punished by tho imposition of a fine, and murder is by no means an expensive luxury. The fine varies according to the social standing of tho victim~-120 bricks of tea (worth a rupee a brick) for one of the "upper ten," eighty bricks for a person of tho middle classes, forty bricks for a womnn, and so on clown to two or three for a pauper or a wandering foreigner, ns Lieutenant Lu Mmg-yang kindly informed inc. He said that there was hardly a grown-up man in the country who had not a murder or two to his credit, and later on Mgr. Hiet, the Iiisliop of Tibet, corroborated this statement.? T/.e Century. Tho test of every system, political or 1 ducawoaaL.ia tho men it forme. The Story of Hie Life Writtei By Hie Wife. Monument of Historic Literature and Wifely Devotion. -New Lifht I Thrown Upon Dark Places. ] i "The Memoir of Jefferson Davis," by ' liis Wife, published in 2 Vols., adorned ' with many illustrations, by Bklvord 1 Company, New York, is more than the J mere story of a man's life, even though that mau was perhaps the most promi- ' ueut figure of the remarkable period iu which he lived. Jefferson Davis was the heart and head of the Confederacy, the J representative of those principles to up hold which the South fought for foui G years in one of the bitterest struggles of " modem times, andj.,these volumes, which ^ I ell the story of h^r^'rv r, form also the 1] has ever been rumttolcsl before his ^ death Jefferson lWns contemplated an *i nwtobiography which would place his tl career, his character, and his public aids h U'foro the world in their true light. He > pre|Mucd many notes and memoranda, t? collected manv lMtan on.f '??.. ??'- I ? j -www WUM MIA UUIVIlin, " Mid had made ionic progress in the work *1 when it was cut short by 1>:? death. He left it, however, in such a pe that Mrs. tl Davis was enabled to proct ' with and ai complete the undertaking \>n the lino tl laid down by her husband. The work m may therefore l>e said to he largely auto- "1 Iriographical, and Mrs. Davis has wisely T made use of Mr. Davis's own letters 01 A Memoranda wherever the scope aud aim f< >f the work would best Ikj furthered it hereby. # Hut her own part of the two urge volumes is a splendid performance, roving the possession of rare historic (cuius, discrimination, and literary mid ditorial powers, not only altogether ex sj, optional among women, hut remaikahh: _ fa, (crrn winmm t f <lTtfOt|" Volume I, includes the period of Mr. pi Davis's life up to his retirement trom the tc Senate. A comprehensive sketch of h's it uieestry and lM?yhood is given. Vol. 1. hi pp. :i-5: tl "Shortly l>efore his last journey to bi Briarlield lie dictated to a friend an nc- R ount of bis ancestry and early boyhood. fa, riirec brothers came to Amorica from Wales in the early part of the eighteenth entury. They settled in Philadelphia. riio youngest of the brothers, Evan I)a w visy removed to Georgia, then a colony n< (Treat Britain. He was the grandfath u r of. Jefferson Davis. He married n 8t vidow, whose family name waa Emory. w Ity her he had one son, Samuel Davis, 0j lie father of Jefferson Davis. . . i H( ,vas horn on the lid of June, DO', in ,vital was then Christian County. The ?? ijiot is now in Todd County, and upe^ yy he exact site of my lr >eon built the UrptAyphurch of Fair ,f new. My first tuition was in the usual (t og-cabin school-houaO; though in the m minmer, when I was seven years old, 1 ol was sent on horseback through what was j| I hen called 'The Wilderness'?by tin country of the Choctajr and Chickasaw nations?to Kentucky, and was placed in fl, t Catholic 'institution tfcen known as Si rhouias, in Wushingtbn County, nca: ;j lit- town of SpringficTC1' t), In November, 1823, Mr. Davis was op |? pointed to a eadetship at West Point | f'( lie graduated in July, 1628. j1( Volume II, of the "Mkmoir"continue.', the story of Mr. Davis's career after his resignation from the Senate and his return to Mississippi, and includes the mo- H lientous period of his presidential in cumbcncy, the Civil War, his arrest and e, imprisonment, and closes with his death. Bt Mrs. Davis has wisely elaborated this ?p portion of the "Mcuioir," and has collect j, ?d an immcusc mass of data from sources hitherto ufifiTTsp .'iij''1 >i ' , [j especially which will command universal ^ attention and no doubt occasion much w controversy, inasmuch as many act is _ in the great drama on both sides are set q in a new ifnd frequently unfavorable ^ light. In this particular Mrs. Davis has ^ felt it to be her duty to her husband's n memory aud to herself as a historic "nothing extenuate and set down naught in malice": and however hot the rontro- *1. versv (his volume mny cause, iu the eml a, it can only work for good as violent ? thunder-storms clear the air. tj "The task," says Mrs. Davis, Vol. IT., t] p. 1., "of relating my husband's life in f the Confederacy is approached with anx- (l ious diffidence, but it must be fairly set ? forth for liis justification. I am unwill- SJ ing needlessly to antagonize any part of t] the country, but love my own with devo- n tion proportionate to the great sacrifices made in its behalf." n Vol. II., p. 776: "In May, I860, an indictment was pro al i .yy-diieftain in the United States District Court of Virginia, held in Itichinond. On June 11th, of the same year, on motion of Mr. Rout- * well, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 1 Oo yeas to 19 nays, resolved that " Mi. Dutia should be iieid in custody ps a ^ prisoner, and subjected to a trial accord- t ing to the laws of the land.' Mr. Davis t in the meantime, was exceedingly anx- ? ious to meet the questions arising on any 6 indictment which might be presented." The following ,is quoted from William n Preston Johnston's letter of January 6, f 1882: f "But there is no ground for argument a with any nmn who impugns the person*! t integrity of Jefferson Davis. The charge b recoils upon the author. For twenty b years, President Davis has breasted a t storm of obloquy and calumny from every v quarter. Yet, to-day, he stands un- ? scathed, the representative man man of e the most glorious epoch of Southern his- 1 tory." e \yiiavever.jn\y be t>ce politics or sec; c tional feenng of thos9who read these remarkable volumes, there can be but one opinion as to their historical value, or as to the impress they must make upon the c literature of the century. While it can- c not be hoped the passions and prejudices of the struggle have wholly vanished, during the twenty-five years which have elapsed since the echoepr'of the last cannon-shot died awa,^, sufficient cool judgment has supervened/to admit of this ".Memoir" being received as a most im portant contribution ^the story of our 8rent uud now BWEiiiently cemented uion. qpST# Betting BmtAj for th? I. O. OoitTtntioa? Distinguished Delegate. BUte Secretary Wynne is now hard at work securing speakers anil yetting up in attractive programme for the Young lien's Christian Association State Con rention, of South Carolina, which is to 1 neet in Charleston April 10th. State Jecretary Coulter, of North Caroliua, sill be present, and also State Secretary fenner, of Georgia. There is a probability ilso of securing the presence of 11. O. Wiliams and James Farie, Jr., of Savannah. But the Charleston Association men ecm to bo prouder of having gotten fames McConaughy, of New York, to igrce to come than nny one chc. This [cntleman stands head and shouldcis l?ovo most of tho general secretaries of tmerica. and his work in Now v.?rlc oitv at Charleston, by Mr. Mc'onaughy and Mr. Ha!!, also of New fork. Ilia gonial, hearty manner aui! inccro earnest lies* made many friends at hat time, who will bo delighted to greet im again. Mr. McConaughy comes by ivitation of the Charleston A psoriatic i > deliver their anniversary address, but f course will help at tlie Oonvontioft Iso. * From the present outlook it is evident mt tho Y. M. C. A, will have a great ad enthusiastic gathering in the City by ?e Sea. An invitation is now being nt all over the State, urgently inviting I associations to send largo delegations, he invitation is rordial, and tho local ssoeiatinn proposes to handsomely eare >r all lelegates. They know how to do , nnd propose to do their l?est. A Notable Flag Presentation. The Sailors' Home at Charleston has sen in want of a United States flag evct ace its rc-erectlon after the earthquake, uesday its desire was gratified by the ) resentation of a now flag, which came ?them under sad and peculiar circumauces. During one of our recent heavy lows the tug Vulcan was wrecked on 10 northwest breakers nt Georgetown nr. The captain and crewe constructed I!/. . i - - J -? ? ? ' 1 me ran aim wore savcu ny a piioi uimi, utfthc tug was lost with everything on nard. Oil the Inst trip of the stcamci suteo to Georgetown ('apt. Hopkins [ covered a piece of a floating wreck ith a signal of d ItrcM flying, and what tlrst appeared to he two men aboard, astily changing his course, a very heavy a running, he approached the piece of reck and found it was a small portion [ the deck on which the mast, was still ending with a United States ting Hying, uionjhrwn, lint there were no men saw, however, that there f as a steam pump on the wreck. Find I ig that it would iifiperil his own vcbscI > ? try to secure the pump he did not at mpt to do so, but broke off the nin?l id secured the signal flag, probably the nly thing that will ever be seen of the 1-fated tug. Cant. Ilopkuis decided at 1 neo to present the flag to the Ladies' anion's Friend Society, that it might oat over the Home and Bethel. The flag is entirely new, 0x10 feet in ze. It was presented to the Society on ehalf of L'apt. Hopkins by the chap lin, and will hereafter wave in graceful Ids over the house of God and the 1 nine of peace. The Movement in Texas. Aransas Harbor, Texas, is fast gaining national celebrity. At a sale recently : eld there $2.iO,OUO worth of town prop- i rty was disposed of to buyers from 22 | ates and from three European countries. I he reason for the sudden and widespread < itrest arc due primarily to the vigorous j rosecution of the gigantic undertaking iat it is confidently expected will give > ?this place a safe commodious deep- i 'atcr harbor and mako it one of the i rent commercial ports of the Mexican fulf. Besides the double terminal rail ay which is to connect this city with tie mouth of the harbor, tliero aro many ew buildings erected or under construe '"**> uij iuuing a 70 room hotel and a rilioiiAll that coast region has i cen fotA. auitablc for Rummer as well a winter *gorts, and many now structrcs arc d< .g prepared for the experted hrongs of pleasure seekers. Lands in tie vicinity can he purchased for from 10 to $25 an acre that are suitable for ruck farms, orchards and vineyards, and mny farmers from the Northwest are dd to be purchasing and improving lioin. At the present rate of settlement nd improvement Aransas Harbor and ic surrounding country will soon be otcd for the commercial importance of le one and the quantity and value of the gricultural products of the other. Through the South to California. Washington, I). (!., jSpecial.J?'The 'resident and Mrs. Harrison will leave 1 n their Southern trip and California I our between the tlfili ami tenth of Aprii, ;oiog by way of Lynchburg, Danville, tharlotte, Atlanta and New Orleans, and hence to the I'acitie coast over the louthern Pacific. Announcement of louthcrn stops will be made later. The President goes to attend the fornal opening of the great Lcland Htanord, Jr., University, I'alto Alto, Oaliornia, to which Senator Stanford has already given twenty million dollars, the mildings of which cover many srpiaro niles, and designed to give to every leedy child of that State a literary, selenitic or mechanical education. The Uuirersity is a memorial to the dead son of nr Sitntifm il uiwl It i? iu t> x ft I t rt "" ' l'-~?? mdow it with an additional twenty milion, making it the largest, best furnished and the most richly endowed school >f the whole world. Stick To a Good Tiling. A cash offer of $7,500,000 for a Southern iron and coal property now in full iperation was made not long ago and dedined by the present owners. The offer vas made by English people through American representatives, and the money vas in hand to pay for the property, but he owners thought tliey would prefer to teep it rather than (o havo $7,50 ?,000. \a the Tennessee Coal, Iron A. Hailroad [Jo's property is the largest of its class in he South, it may lie well to say that this >ffcr was not muile to that company. : Pmldwt Folk Hat Sonothlig to Say About tho Farm. The Culture *C Peenuta Discuaeed Bj August H. Tegwi.?Other Alliance Matter. i _____ We want to say to all our reader*, and especially to our farmer reader*, aome thing* about debt. Wo are auro that what wo say will help every ono who will i carefully read it and act upon it. I The time is at hand wlieh it ia necea- * aarv to prepare for another crop. l)o not i go iuto debt to buy what you want to i enable you to run auothercrop, if you can help it. It is better?farl?etter?to mako \ a small crop, and let it l>o all your own at harvest t me, than it is to go in debt <, in order to pitch a biu croi> and Uk? tha row the money on your farm for a year or i two ami pay,cash for what you buy. Bo i sure uot to buy much. Again we say, it i is bettor to make a small cron and have it all your own when it has Wen made, , than it is to go in debt. We are euro i that the man in debt is uot free in any t ssnse?can uot consider himself freo?is , not conaidred free by his ticigliliora?and ' worst of all, is not considered free by -j liis creditors. , Many debts that bang over and threat- ,, ii the farmer could have lieen avoided if ie hail managed his farm so as to make lis bread and meat and clothing at homo, f IVe are deeply in earnest when we say we ( vant to see our fanners make their meat > ind bread and clothing at home. Any f armor can raise ami keep a few sheep. < The wool from these will niako the very , icst. of clothing for both man and woman, / uid the lambs come in splendidly for j resh meat fluring the summer. Klax ^ vill grow splendidly in this latitude;and II addition to fi.yn^l.iifg, ?t,ti||,f(f.rf. ifrtf narkct crop. Lot our farmers, then, f aise some slicep and swine, and grow ( iome flax, and make their own clothing, j tn<I live on the farm, and live olT the the farm, and keep free of debt, and they , will liecome prosperous and liappy. t It is tho duty of every farmer to buy as little as possible; and what lie does buy .1.....1.1 I... K. 1.4 4- 4l._ 1. 4 -.1 4 in: IU I IIU Iir.il III I VllUIIt^r uid lie paid for on (ho spot. Alliaucctiicn now have purchasing amenta, through tvhom (hoy ran purohaao to tho very host id vantage; and they ought to form clubs uid make (hoir orders through tliest igents. Hut tho main thing is not to buy my thing you can do without, until you ire full handed und able to indulge your astcs for elegant things. Let ua eeono iliac this present year and not go in debt, md the prosperity you have been sighing or will surely come and como speedily. Net us keep out of debt at any hazard, uid all will be well. + ** + ?# I'KANOT ctrr/ruHic. Jt The following letter from August II. ' I'egan at Port SValltball, Va., 011 tboaub- ' ject of peanut eulture will Ire interesting. I was amused to read on the ngrieult- ' ural page of the Commercial Gazette of ! .laiiuary 7, in an article (aolected of i onise,) on (be "Culture of Peanuts," the 1 grave statement that the nuts will not * form unless the hlnnsoms be covered with earth as soon as they open. Tho daily i as tli?. niiivi niyied it?may bo ill- ' l< ri sting to ainnteiirs who pin 111 for ainnse iicnt, but just what it would be here in " Virginia, where farmers have twenty acres iml upward in peanuts it is difficult to imagine. The notion is as absurd as ihinling tldugs in the moon. When the dosaom falls off the slender stem bends >ver nnd the little pod goes Into the 'round, where the nut is perfected. Here in Virginia tho planting is done ibout the first of May on elevated rows (similar to sweet potato ridges, but not ] high) three feet apart in tho rows. Sandy land ia the best peanut land. They are cultivated similar to corn, ridging up * tho rows some at the last working, so the J pegs, a? mo lime poiiH nro caiieo, nave * nice, mellow Hoil to Rink into. Tliov do I t not require extra rich laud, hut must have ' tome lime to fill well. f The last season here was a good one, 1 and from fifty to nearly a hundred bushels per aero were rained; hut generally fifty to sixty bushelR is considered a good crop. The vines make excellent, cow feed, nnd are selling for $10 a ton. To prevent mice or anything else from taking up the seed, it is coated with coal tar. The same is also done here with seed corn, mid then ashes are put on the seed to make it dry to handle. Less than a pint of ashes | will cover a bushel of corn or of peanuts, cither, and save lots of replanting. ? Arrangements are being made in Minn- ' esota whereby a sub trust of the Fanners' . National Trust will be organized. The farming fraternity of the whole North- ! west, consisting of 60,000 men, propose 1 to form this trust, ami make their own 1 market. Shrewd men are at the I.?.ad of the scheme, and before the seed ripens for 1891 the farmer will know what he is doing. GEORGIA CENTRAL GONE. j The Richmond and West Point Ter- < minai octopus scoops it in. < Savannah, March 25.?The lease of , the Central Hail road of Georgia to the , Kichmond and West Point Terminal Company in the name of the Georgia Pacific Itailway was practically rfecided upon at a meeting of the Central Hailroad directors here to-day. The Termi- 1 nal's proposition was discussed and referred to a committee, which agreed upon the terms of the lease to-night. Trie lessees will take the road ana as sums its indebtedness, and will guarantee the stockholders 7 per cent on the capital stock, vhicli is $7,500,000. John H. Inman, Hugh Inman, Bamuel Inman, John C. Calhoun, Pat Calhoun, Charles H. Phinizey and Mr. Hwain, of New York, were at the meeting to-day. President Iumau left here to-night for Augusta. He will be in New York next week, where the 'ease will lie consumated. It is said to night that everything will he transferred in about two weeks. The lease of the Central will give the Georgia Pacific a through line from Savannah to the Mississippi river. The Story ?f Oomatry. Where They are Situated, and the Capital Inveetad and Labor Km. ployed in the Industry. Washington, D. O., (flpecial.l?The census office has made public tno billetiu ou truck fanning, which for the rirst time in the history of the country, iihm becu inado the subject of census inreMigntion. The statistics are compiled Irom returns which had been received up lo .Imnisry 1, 1801: Truck fanning, aa considered in this report, is distinct frtrm market garden ng. The former is carried on in favorfd localities at a distance from market, water and rail tranapotiatio* btiag necWsesw.-*^M U anadnstnd m ?.? foosl markets, the grower of vegetables wing his own team for the transportaiou of his products direct to either reader or consumer. Uupwarda of $100,000,000 are invested in this industry, the annuel product* 'caching a value of $70,507,150 lor farms iftcr paving freights and commissions, uid realized unon 084,444 acres of land. There are employed iu this iuduslrv 216,'65 men, 0,254 women and 14.874, chil Iren, ?idoil l?y 75,800 horse* and mule* iud $8,1)71,200,70 worth of implement*. Tho Norfolk district, embracing 45,75 acre*, whipped products valued at 7,002,800; the South Atlantic district, 11,741 acres. products $18,183,510; lississippi Valley 30,180 acres, products >4.070,783. Nearly 75 per cent, of the ruck produced in tho United States oiucr from n Itelt of country alotig the * it luetic const, lying east of a liue drawn rom Augusta, Me., to Macon, (la., from * iouthorn (leorgia, Alabama and Florid:;, ? long tho uoith and south linos of rail . miSgn, Bf. LBUii m?i kiwa rily/l?"!1 ruin the celery distHct of Michigan and >hio. More or loaa of truck, however, is reduced in all tho States. The following tabic shows tho acreage >f lending vegetables grown upon (let iuck farms of tho United States: Asparagus 37,837 Deans (string or snap) 12,0M< CnbhagO 77, (MM Kale 2,032 Spinach 20,105 Irish potatoes 28,043 Ducts 2,4/10 Celery 15,381 Cucumbers 4,721 Watermelon* 114,381 Other melons 28,477 Peas 50,182 Sweet Potatoes 28,321 Tomatoes 22,805 Miscellaneous vegetables 82,801 Carolinian Honored. Nkw Yokk, [Special.1?Lorettus S. tletcalf lias resigned the editorship of tin- ? ''oruni Magazine, after fifteen years of lose eoniinement to roview work. He is 0 lie succeeded by Walter H. Page, an xperienced newspaper man who has been ho business manager of the Forum. It iaa been through Mr. Metcalfe able di cot ion that the Forum has achieved high iistinotion in the literary world and haa urged to the front aa one of the best of Vmcrican periodicals. Mr. Page is well |ii<i!iiieu for iiie new duties upon which in will eut^r. He is a gentleman, a oliolar? somo people have accused him 1 being a crank, but no one has ever liarged him with any lack of honesty or bility. Mr. Page is a nativo of North 'arolina and has had a long and varied xpericnce in practical journalism, which rill servo him to good purpose in the ^ ighcr walks of literature upon which^^v nil enter. The salary is $10)000^^^ nnuin. ? Eteceirer Chamberlain's Big System. The consolidation of the management ?f the South Carolina Railway and its ensed lines and the Three C's gives to Receiver Chumberlain and Genoral Manarer Warlike control of no srgest *4 cage of railroad in South Cartlina. \ >ey have aharge of the follow- * ng lincs:< South Carolina Railway, Miles: 212 Thrco C's Road 148 Columbia, Newberry nud Lauren Railroad 48 Cumberland Gap Road 24 Total: 480 Llirhtimr Pines With an Im Tshi. The curious experiment of making a ciih of ico to light pi pen and cigars was ricd during the winter with success by katcrs in London, England. The exKsriment was first brought to notice by Dr. Mcaresby, when in the polar regions so the great astonishment of his companous, who did not understand why the ice did not freezo the solar rays. Professor Tynd&ll when a tutor la the Royal Institution Ou iKJYorn'i uvCmiuiu set firo to little heaps of gunspowder with tho rays from an electric arc concentrated upon the powder by lens of ice. His explanation was that, although ice absorbs rays of certain waves ot light, and is gradually melted thereby, other waves fire not absorbed, and these latter produce tho heating effect at tho focus of tho lens. It is wholly a question of Mm relative motions of the molecules of frozen water and the motions of tho waves of light.?JJoston Tranteript. M. Marey has succeeded in photo graphing the movements of an animal under water, taking proofs at the rate of fifty in a second, with exposures from 1-2000 to 1-8000 of a second. set twelve photographs gives all the phMtMHw of the undulations which the medusa impresses upon its umbrella of a locomotor apparatus. Another series exhibits a squid leaping out of the water. A ray has been taken in profile white waving the edges of its flat body; and the curious mode of progression of a coma* tula has been taken. For many years it was believed that the atmosphere Lad a great deal to do with thread-making, and that good thread could only, be made in Scotland. It is now known that it ia all in the twist and nothing in the atmosphere.