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g|P (world, China not excepted. fr5 J ; The lfew York Oourt of Appei ? ' - decided that a lady, who lost a while trying on suits in a cloak stc entitled to recover the value of th ment and $60 damages for the 1 and irritation to which she has bee 8he laid the cloak on the count sight of the clerks, but when she n it it was gone. The court ruled th garment was temporarily in the ca the clerks. One can appreciate the perrectl tained by the modern science ol street rumor-mongering, soliloquize . New York Oommmrexal Adtirtiaer, Kjjgh.;,-;.*6 '?arn* that the leading ra ~~&epayof the "bear* combination,' duty it *m to telegraph his emp any unfavorable news abont the heal the tourist. That olectrio lighthas an un< way of showing up ill-matched < most women, affirms the Boston i script, have learned te their coet, some there are who have even found complexions scarcely ablo to bea strong, fierce light; but now the do are taking up the tale, and aro utt grim warnings. It seems that, undei tain conditions, the eleotric ligh' cause an illness almost precisely si to sunstroke. Mrs. Carrie Williams, a silk cult of Ban Francisco, says the industry be brought into prominence at World's Fair. Orer $400,000,00 employed in the business annually, Americans hare not taken enougl terest in it. A company of Japa direct from Tokio, has purchased a of land in San Diego County, Cal., jwill engage in the industry. San I cisco has a Ladies' Silk Culture Soc the only one in the United States. ' Most of the poetry appearing in pent periodicals is written by womci sects the Boston Traveller. The so: an easier knack of versification than as well as a more sentimental cat mind, and these are tho qualities nc P liven in literature as in everything mau is mom practical man ever ik and now takes to prose in prefcren poetry, because it pays better, woman is not a whit behind him ii line of writing, and, generally rerie the Held, may be said to bo more holding her own in literary work. > Lieutenant Wilson, who was Commodore Farragut during the has a history that is like a romance the "Arabian Nights," if imagio may be allowed to fill in the rou periods. About eighteen or nin yean ago he left this country for ai ploration of Europe and Africa, reached Zanzibar in the course of and by some chance learned of an i called Johnna, lying off the coa Southern Africa, a considerable dia below Zanzibar, which could be chased for a small sum of money, iaited the island and found it to b delightful climate, with a soil espe adapted to raising sugar cano. about twenty-fire by thirty miles in and, having bought it, he proceed tarn it Into e vast sugar plantation, bor in cheap, the coet of living n? ^ . [nothing, and tho sugar commands lprices at Bombay. He has several dred employes, has made the isl ; veritably little kingdom, and has b 'Immensely wealthy; j>. *** ThaOhicago Herald observes: A . *' paper.writer notices and deplon lack of good masculine carvers of latin ess of men is assigned as the 1 tor this state of affairs. Formerl art of oarving was considered part < education of every head of'a ft Pater families occupied the seat of at table. In front of him was pit pile of plates and the odoriferous of the goose, duok or turkey a bo ba devoured. There never wm any tation on the part of the master of B monies. At the proper momet whetted his knife with s cheery i and plunged his hoge fork boldlj the bird. Proudly and with rmi be worked. He knew wher.) to < extraot the oyster dressing, h.->w 1 off a leg end just how thick to slit white meet. That oarving is fast b present day know how to cut up a Zfothiag embarrasses a modern b< mnch as to ask him to oerre. If 1 keeps his subject on the dissecting \ tWs state of tilings is, perhaps, un ?Me, so many young men Hring in 1 fag houses and hotels, where thej de all the earring, or else lessons i Southern Men And J'easurea ib hu Paragraphed. cloak ,r?? * Newsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphic e gar- Dispatches From Many Points i rouble In Our Own and Adjoin nput. i n g States. er in e?d?<i VIRGINIA. ist the The Methodists of Danville are holding xe of interesting revival services. Bessie, a little daughter of Dr. R. M. Davis, of Buckingham county, was burnon at- ed to death Thut-sday. ! Wall James F. Sheppard, charged with ernes the bezxlemont, was found guiity by the Sawhen ^our^Ten thousand dollars of Danville city whose The civil, mechanical and mining en- i lovers g'ueers of of Roanoke have orgauizod an 1th of *?sociation in the interests of these several professions. One of their prime objects ts to secure a careful and accurate lurvcy of Roanoke. ] ;annj The frceholdert of Roanoke Wednesday rolors to bond tho city for $426,000. For " public improvements $300,000, streets ana sewers $75,000, public schools $21,- i whilo, 000, firo department and miscellaneous | their $30,000. The Norfolk and Western the ]^oad will in addition spend $400,000 to , improve the streets and property, ctora Claremont, on the James river in i ring Surry county, and the two ndjoiniug vil ( r cer- lages of Reymond aud Bartlett, amount t will1 to 8CVeral thousand acres, have becu , purchased by parties frftm New York, milari Philadelphia and Boston. Judge Whittle, of the Circuit Court, j has rendered his decision in the celebra- J arist, ted case of Moorman's heirs agaiust the ^rilli the city of Danville, T. J. Arthur aud .? others. These suits, involving something over $100,-000 worth of real estate in ? ** DaUville have been pending before Judge and Whittle for a long time, aud aro now j jn. awarded to the Moorman heirs. nMe, NORTH CAROLINA. , tract A furniture factory commenced oper- < 'itions in Ncwbcrne Monday. ! l?ran_ By vote of the citizens Washington " has donated $10,000 to secure rights of ' lctTt] way for a branch of the W. & W. td that place. The King's Daughters of Oreensboio cur- arc building n Hospital. * a, aa- The Commercial and Fiumers' Bank of ic has Raleigh was organized Tuesday. < maQ New banks have becu organized at it of Ashcville aQd Rutherfordtou. . Ernest Bender, a young man who 1 lostly lived on Core Sound, near New Berne, 1 day. was drowucd several days ago in the elM sound while fishing. < jfore On last Saturday a few gentlemen met and determined to start a foundry in Gas- 1 ce tonia; $4,000 were subscribed at once. I But The lot has already been secured, l this Cherokee county's marble, iron, gold, < wing talc, timber and dirt, have commenced | than Ulftkiug an inroad on the vaults of Wall . street aud more than a quarter of a mil- , lion dollars is being paid out for Chero. kee lauds. with Every year J. Shakespeare Harris, of " war, Poplar Tent, near Concord, gives a good from "uit of clothes to the two-horse farmer j who makes the most cotton. Last year intjon n w xfwv. *i --- ---i 1 11 . uvuviiimuja uiltuu kUU UUJI, 11UU mded Mr. Harris brought him to Concord cteea Tuesday and gave him a good suit of a ex- clothea. He SOUTH OABOLINA. 1 time, Maj. Juo. Jones, of Blacksburg, sent ion/i >n hU resignation as general manager of * ^anQdf the C., C.& C. Railroad. |< Eight convicts were received Wednes- ' tance dny at tlic State Penitentiary from Sump> pur- ter aud five from Darlington. I He The visiting Boston base ball player* ' e in a ^vv? l?eeu giving a scries of exhibition 1 games at Charleston. 014 The little girl of Florence, bitten by a I It mad cat, has returned home from the < i size, Pasteur Institute, New York, perfectly led to curcdLa ?*\ Patrick's Day was celebrated in 1 Charleston by a uuited parade of the dif- 1 ixt to fercut Hiberniuui sociticu and several 1 high banquets at night. 1 bun- In removing the cornerstone of the old and a conrthouae at Spartunburg Thursday, it was found to contain a quart of brandy, Bcome 1 J ' a copy of throe newspapers published in 1850, and some coins. 1 newt- An iutereresting marriage took place 1 .. in Edgctield county a couple of days " since. Dr. Jabob Trotter, aged seventy- ' fowl, five years, was married to Miss Carrie i eason Hidleburg. aged sixteen. Tho groom | y was a widower. t The Qeneral Committee of the ' Columbia Centennial has officially invitimily. C(j Qovernor Tillman and staff and all I honor division and brigade commanders and 1 M5ed their staffs to participate in the Centen- ' body nial parade, May 14, 1891; also all white , ut to mimary companies in tbo Mtntc of South , , , Cnrolinn, and all other white military , companies in the other States of the cere- Union. ,k he TENNESSEE. R " H They are adepts at Nashville, says the r into Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, in the legisirance lative game of breaking the back of bills cut to by overloading it wifh amendments. >0 gaw A blast was fired on the side of the liookout Mountain Tuesday, which disie the lodaed 100,000 tons of rock. One nunecom dred kegs of powder was the charge, and k. tho ledge of rook was broken up, and wanwmnras bird, troyed for 200 yards. *? The people are now waiting with ape , lie un- cial eagerness the ooming of Che day when 1 if ha ibe Tennessee Derby shall be run. table. George Moore, who was to have keen j hanged atFayetteviile Tuesday, has been respited until June 10. >rtr In tho State senate Monday morning a r have bill requiring school directors to liavo ihould some qualifications for the office was ttea to l>MWfd. hould A special train carried 150 insane parienfs Wednesday, from the Central Insane Hospital at Nashville to the Western I nud comfortable quarters have been provided for them. The tire destroying the entire west wing of the Nashville asylum necessitated the removal. Five charred and unrecognizable bodies have been recovered. * Greene County has subscribed $50,000 to aid in building the Unaka and Kola Chuckey Railroad. This railroad is projected to run from Morristown, Tenn., toErwiu, in Unicoi county; thence eastwardly through several counties of North Carolina to some prominent point of councctiou with the Cranberry ore deposits < of that State. Should this be accom- i plished, it will become a valuable feeder to the Morristown & Cumberland Gap Hailrond. Work on the latter road is making good progress. GEORGIA.' j Jere Ilollis has been appointed Inspec lor of Oils for the Macon district, vice j Hon. Tom Hardeman, deceased. , as the s tI several days have driven the water out. I Maj. E. L. Tyler, general manager ot ' iie Atlanta and West Point Railroad, ' was at Atlanta elected president of the ' iVtlanta and Florida Railroad, in place of ' President Robert Maddox, resigned. I Savannah's cotton receipts passed bciond the 1,000,000-bale point for the J reason Thursday, and the cotton mcucu- . husiasticnlly celebrated the event by a , jnnquet. There are no delinquent subscribers in | Lumpkin county, says the Atlanta Con- , titution. ?Every farm in that section i .as a gold mine attachment. Even the , ditors are growing rich. i State Commission?rnf *T MeiivuivuiOHV.>' < >it, assisted by Dr. Hunnicut, is prepai t <ig a book designed to be a source 01" ! general information about the state, foi \ reuernl distribution both at home and < tbroad. t The completion of the Gainesville ' VUicrVk-mka at a ooot of {31,000.00, glVW * hut enterprising and growing eity a waer supply system equal to any in the 1 south, the supply being at least 300,000 } gallons per day. * Mr. B. F. Bibb, of the Folsom stock ' "arm nenr Aduirsville, has among his herd , ;>f Jerseys a sixtcen-months old cow that afives three gallons of milk, and about J >ne pound and threo quarts of butter . laily. This beaU the record. FLORIDA. A $50,000 National Bank has been or ( {rtui/.cd at Gteen Cove Springs, t An artesian well is being sunk at Live 1 3ak. 1 The great meetings of Rev. Sam Jones ' it Peusaeola have come to a close. Three * ncetings wcro held daily, aud the aver- A ige attendance was 5,000. The case of Alexander Campbell, in- \ licted for the murder of Miss Mamie y loseph in St. Augustine last September, 1 ins been set for trial in Jacksonville at i he May term of Court. i A bill passed the 51st Congress for a ' .urvey and estimate for a railroad from ' the mainland to Key West, nnd for a ca- 1 ml connecting the same with tho John's ] river for military and naval purposes. A Tallahassee special says: "Ncwi ins been received here of the burning ol i i large saw mill at Carrabelle belonging o the Carrabelle, Tallahassc and Georgia Railway Company. Two million feet of t irst-elass pine lumber ware also destroy- i >d. The mills, machinery nnd buildingi i were also destroyed. i The Alabama, Florida and Western Railroad has been projected to start from ^uiucy, a town on the Hue of the Florida Central & Western, runj^^^yluenorth I to Bainbridge, on the Halvannaii & Flbrl- ~ la Road, and thence northwesterly. The U. 8. Government has presented ( the town of Tampa with the Fort Brooke military reservation for the benefit of free icliools. The Quitman & Tampa Railroad has been projected to run between Quitman, on the Savannah, Florida & Western Railroad in Georgia, and the city of Tampa. The proposed route is an air line ioine 250 miles long, passing through the trance lielt and some of the richest, phnte deposits yet discovered in the Utter State. * OTHER STATES. Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the Morgan steamship line in Galveston, is .lead. He was widely known, and during the war occupied a prominent position in the confederate navy. The iucorpoiators of the Pan-American 1 rransportation Company are called to meet at Mobile on April ltfth, for the purpose of organizing a company and ! sleeting directors. The books will then t J be open for stock subscriptions. / No legislative act was ?ver more opportune thun the Mississ5- ' *,">ergericy bill, which passed both houses of Congress just before the tinal adjournment. The $1,000,000 appropriated for - immediate use enab'ed the Mississippi River Oommmission to hold itself in readiness to fight the floods then impending and which have since poured into the delta. What It Costa to Marder In TIbot. I had arrived at Eanze in an evil hour, in the midst of the festivities of the 16th of tho fourth moon, when the people from far and near congregate there and the chiefs review their men, and when drinking and fighting are the order ot the day. In Tibet nearly every crime ie punished b^ the imposition of a fine, and murder is by no means an expensive luxury. The fine varies according to the social standing of the victim-.?110 bricks of tea (worth a rupee a brick) for one of the "upper ten," eighty bricks for a person of the middle classes, forty bricks for a woman, and so on down to two or three for a pauper or a wandering foreigner, as Lieutenant Lu Ming-yang kindly informed me. 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. Blet, the Bishop of Tibet, corroborated this statement.? The Century. The tesVof every system, political ot <4n?tk>?UJtJfrj?I it.lwwfc ; * ^; v' i-A*. (iLUSi ' ,WT~.? ' : -> iVft The Story of His Life Written By His Wife. Monument of Historic Literature and Wifely Devotion.--New Light Thrown Upon Dark Place*. "The Memoir of Jefferson Davis," by His Wife, published in 2 Vols., adorned with many illustrations, by Belvohd Company, New York, is more than the mere story of a man's life, even though that man was perhaps the most prominent figure of the remnrkable period iu which he lived. Jefferson Davis was the heart and head of the Confederacy, the representative of those principles to uphold which the South fought for foui years iu one of the bitterest struggles of modern times, andi these volumes, which ell the story of formalso the their politicalTnoBRioisl status which lias ever l>een published. Before his loath Jefferson Davis contemplated an mtobiography which would place his career, his character, and his public acts iieforo the world in their true light. He prepmed many notes and memoranda, ollected many letters and documents, uid had made some progress in the work when it was cut short by his death. He eft it, however, in such shu|>e that Mrs. Davis was enabled to proceed with and omplctc the undertaking on the linoaid down by her husbaud. The. work nay therefore be said to be largely auto>iographical, and Mrs. Davis has wisely nade use of Mr. Davis's own letters 01 Memoranda wherever the scope and aim >f tho work would best l>e furthered hereby. , But her own part of the t wo arK? volumes is a splendid performance. )roving the possession of rare historic genius, discrimination, and literary ami ditorial powers, not only altogether ex optional among women, but rcmaiknbio ? "??? iniiuvU lifrigniprrcr*. Volume I, includes the period of Mr. Davis's life up to his retirement trom the Senate. A comprehensive sketch of mcestry and boyhood is given. Vol.1. HP- 8-5: "Shortly lrefore his last journey to Briarlield he dictated to a friend an nc ount of his ancestry and early boyhood. Three brothers came to America from Wales in the early part of the eighteenth eutury. Tiiey wiiieu it Philadelphia Tlio youngest of the brothers, Evan Da removed to Georgia, then a colony >f dfrcnt Britain. He was the grandfath :r of. Jefferson Davis. He married a vidow, whose familyname was Emory. Fly her he had one son, Samuel Davis, lie father of Jefferson Davis. ... I vhs born on the Jd of June, If? ?, in vhat was then Christian County. The not is now in Todd County, and upon he exact site of my birQuUee has eiuce >een built the Brpt|Wnhureh of Fail dew. My first tuitioQF#as in the usual og-cabin school-house; though in the milliner, when I was seven years old, I ivas sent on horseback through what was I hen called 'The Wilderness'?by the country of the Choctaw/ and Chickasaw nations?to Kentucky, ohd was placed in i Catholic institution tften known as St Thomas, in Washington * County, nea: I he town of Springfield/* In November, 1828, Mr. Davis was appointed to a cadetship at West Point lie graduated in July, 1628. Volume II, of the "Memoir" continues the story of Mr. Davis's career after his resignation from the Senate and his return to Mississippi, and includes the momentous period of his presidential incumbency, the Civil War, his arrest and imprisonment, and cloees with his death. Mrs. Davis has wisely elaborated this portiouof the "Memoir," and has collected an immense mass of data from sources Fntherfo vlTimiMneeftf.tr yff is this.yo1uo>? especially whicn will command universal attention and no doubt occasion much controversy, inasmuch as many act is in the great drama on both sides are set in n new mm irequentiy unfavorable light. Ia this pm-ticular Mrs. Duvis lins felt it to be her duty to her hushmurs memory and to herself as a historian to "nothing extenuate and set down naught in malice"; and however hot the controversy this volume may cause, in the end it can only work for good as violeut thunder-storms clear the air. "The task," says Mrs. Davis, Vol. II., p. 1., "of relating my husband's life in the Confederacy is approached with anxious diffidence, but it must be fairly set forth for his justification. I am unwilling needlessly to antagonize any part of the country, but love my own with devotiou proportionate to the great sacrifices made in its behalf." Vol. II., p. 770: "In May, 1806. an indictment was pro chieftain in the United States Distmt Court of Virginia, held in Richmond. On June 11th, of the same year, on motion of Mr. Boutwell, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 105 yeas to 18 nays, resolved that Mr. Davis should be held in custody pa a prisoner, and subjected to a trial according to the laws of the land.' Mr. Davit in the meantime, was exceedingly anxious to meet the questions arising on any indictment which might be presented." The following ,1s quoted from William Preston Johnston's letter of January 6, 1882: "But there is no ground for argument with any man who impugns the person.1 integrity of Jefferson Davis. The charge recoils dpon the author. For twenty years, President Davis has breasted a storm of obloquy and calumny from every quarter. Yet, to-day, be stands unscathed, the representative man man of thp mnaf rrfArlAnu htrnok nf kf* ?v .?vw? i-iwuWHO uirwil v;i WIUWIVIU UW tonr." tional feeling of thpn^who read these remarkable volumes, there can be but on< opinion as to their historical value, oral to the impress they npust make upon th< literature of the aentury. W,iile it can not be hoped the passions and prejudice! of the struggle haVtwboll-j vanished during the twenty-five year/which havi elapsed since the fphoes-rf the last can non-shot died awayvjtffficient oool judg ment has MipervcawJ vo admit of thv "Memoir" being rmBjred as a most im portent contributfej^B the story of ou ^reat and now^JjHL^cnUy cementec ? 1HB Getting Brady for the 8. O. State Convention?A Distinguished Delegate. State Secretary Wynno is now bard at work securing speakers and getting up an attractive programme for tho Young Men's Christian Association State Con vention, of South Carolina, which is to 1 meet in Charleston April 10th. State Secretary Coulter, of North Carolina, will be present, and also 8tatc Secretary Tenner, of Georgia. There is a prohnbiiitv also of securing the presence of II. O. Williams and James Faric, Jr., of Savannah. But the Charleston Associntio'n men seem to be prouder of having gotten James McConaughy, of New York, to agree to come than any one ehc. This gentleman stands head and shouldcis above most of tho general secretaries of America, and his work in New York city has been ciniucntly successful. Mauv . ytm pufl-a ? tin lit m.iMMB Z 1 helain if ?TO, at Charleston, by Mr. McConaughy and Mr. Hall, also of New York. His genial, hearty manner nud sincere earnestness made many friends at that time, who will be delighted to greet him again. Mr. McConaughy comes hv invitation of the Charleston Association to deliver their anniversary address, but of course will help at the Convention also. ' From the present outlook it is evident that the Y. M. C. A. will have a great and enthusiastic gathering in the City by the Sea. An invitation is now being sent all over the State, urgently inviting nil associations to send large delegations. The invitation is cordial, and the local Association proposes to handsomely care j for all delegates. They know how to do | it, and propose to do their best. A Notable Flag Presentation. , The Sailors' Home at Charleston has I been in want of a United States flag evct 1 since its re-erection after the earthquake, J ^Fuesdiay ltsciesirc was gratified by the j' presentation of a now flag, which came 1 to them under sad and pcculinr eircum- ! stances. During one of'our recent heavy i blowB the tug Vulcan was wrecked on I the northwest breakers at Georgetown bar. The cantain and crcwe constructed a life raft ana were saved by rt pilot boat, 1 butrthe tug was lost with everything on i board. On the last trip of the stcamei i Bautco to Georgetown Capt. Hopkins i discovered a piece of a floating wreck with a signal of distress flying, and what > at first appeared to be two men aboard. < Hastily changing his course, a very heavy ' sea running, he approached the piece of i wreck and fouud it was a small portion i of the deck on which the mast was still t standing with a United States flag flying, 1 Union down, but there were no men * aboard. He saw, however, that there f wus a steam pump on the wreck. Find - 1 ing that it would iihpcril his own vessel ' to try to secure the pump he did not at tempt to do so, but broke off the mast and secured the signal flag, probably the only thing that will ever be seen of the ill-fated tug. Cant. Hopkins decided at 1 once to present the flag to the Ladies1 Seamen's Friend Society, that it might float over the Home and Bethel. The flag is entirely new, 6x10 feet in size. It was presented to the Society on 1 behalf of Capt. Hopkins by the chaplain, and will hereafter wave in graceful folds over the house of God and tin- 1 home of peace. The Movement in Texas. Aransas Harbor, Texas, Is fast gaining a national celebrity. At a sale recently i held there $230,000 worth of town property was disposed of to buyers from 22 | states and from three European countries. I The reason for the sudden und widespread < intrcst are due primarily to the vigorous | prosecution of the gigantic undertaking ' that it is confidently expected will give i to this place a safe commodious deepwater harbor and mako it one of the great commercial ports of the Mexican Gulf. Besides the double terminal railway which is to connect this city with the mouth of the harbor, there are many new buildings erected or under construction, including a 70 room hotel and a railroad depot. All that coast region has been found suitable for summer as well as winter resorts, and many new structures are being prepared for the expected throngs of pleasure seekers. Lands in i the vicinity can lie purchased for from | $10 to $25 an acre that are suitable for I truck farms, orchards and vineyards, and I many farmers from the Northwest are said to he purchasing and improving them. At the present rate of settlement and improvement Aransas Harbor and i the surrounding country will soon be noted for the commercial importance of the one and the quantity and value of the agricultural products of the other. Through the South to California. Washington, I). C., [Special.j?The President and Mrs. Harrison will leave on their Southern trip and California tour between the fifth and tenth of April, 1 going by way of Lynchburg, Danville, .. Charlotte, Atlanta and New Orleans, and i thence to the Pacific coast over tho Southern Pacific. Announcement of r Southern stops will be made later. Tho President goes to attend the fori mal opening of the great Leland Stanford, Jr., University, Palto Alto, California, to which Senator Stanford has already given twenty million dollars, the buildings of which cover many squaro i miles, and designed to give to every needy child of that State a literary, scieni tific or mechanical education. The -Uui' versity is a memorial to the dead son of Senator Stanford, and he is expected to endow it with an additional twenty million, making it the largest., best furnished and the most richly endowed school of tbe whole world. Stick To a Good Thing. i A cash offer of $7,500,000 for a Southern iron and coal nroncrfv nnii/ tn fnlI operation was made not iong ago and de, clined by the present owners. The offer was made by English people through j American representatives, and the money was in hand to pay for the property, but the owners thought they woulu prefer to I keep it rather than to havo $7,50?,000. As the Tennessee Coal, Iron A Railroad f Co's property is the largest of its class in | the South, it may l?e well to say that this offer was not made to that company. President Polk Has Something to Say Abont the Farm. The Culture of Peanuts Discussed By August H. Pegan.?Other Alliance Matter. i We want, to say to all our readers, and especially to our farmer readers, some things about debt. We are sure that what we say will help every one who will carefully read it and act upon it. The time is at hand when it is necessary to prepare for another crop. Do not go into debt to buy what you want to enable you to run another crop, if you can help it. It is better?far Iwtter?to mako a smnll crop, and let it be all your own at harvest t ine, than it is to go in debt in order to pitch a big crop and tako the risk of failure. If you must hay o mcana ttrwwn wnnrnrr rropT tTTs hettcr io borrow the money on your farm for a year or two and pay,cash for what you buy. He sure not to buy much. Again we say, it is l>ettcr to make a small crop and have it all your own when it has l?ecn made, than it is to go iu debt. We are 6ure that the man in debt is not free in any ssnse?cannot consider himself free?is not considred free by his neighbors?and worst of all, is not considered free by his creditors. >Iany debts that, hang over and threaten the farmer could have l?cen avoided if lie had managed his farm so as to make his bread and meat and clothing at home. We nrc deeply in earnest when we say we want to see our farmers make their meat tud bread and clothing at home. Any Tanner can raise and keep a few sheep. The wool from these will make the very test of clothing for both man and woman, md the lambs come in splendidly for rcsh meat during the summer. Flax vill grow splendidly in this latitude;and ii addition to furnishing tig;,fur narkct crop. Let our farmers, then, | rtiov bviiiic biicv|) nn? swine, ami crow >omc flax, and make their own clothing, ind live on the farm, and live oil the the farm, and keep free of debt, ami they will become prosperous and happy. It is the duty of every farmer to buy aslittle as possible; and what lie does buy should be bought to the best advantage ?nd be paid for cm the spot. Alliaucemen now have purchasing agents, through whom they can purchiesc to the very best id vantage; and they ought to form clubs ind make their orders through these igcnts. Rut the main thing is not to bu y my thing you can do without, until you ire full handed and able to indulge your ii8tes for elegant things. Let us eeononisc this present year and not go in debt, ind the prosperity you have been sighing 'or will surely come and come speedily. Let us keep out of debt at any hazard, ind all will he well. ****** peanutcui/tukk. The following letter from August II. Pegan at Port Wallthall, Va.. on the subject of peanut culture will be interesting: I was amused to read on the agricultural page of the Commercial Gazette of January 7, in an article (selected of course,) on the "Culture of Peanuts," the grave statement that t'no nuts will not form unless the blossoms be covered with earth as soon as they open. The daily task ?as the writer sty led it?may be inlori sting to amateurs who plant for amuse mcnt, but just what it would be here in Virginia, where farmers have twenty acres ind upward in peanuts it is difficult to imagine. The notion is as absurd as planting things in the moon. When the blossom falls off the slender stem bends over and the little pod goes into the ground, where the nut is perfected. Here in Virginia the planting is done, nbout the first of May on elevated rows (similar to sweet potato ridges, but not so high) three feet apart in the rows. Sandy land is the best peanut land. They are cultivated similar to corn, ridging up the rows some at the last working, so the pegs, as the little pods are called, have nice, incllowsoil to sink into. They do not require extra rich land, but must have some lime to fill well. The last season here was a good one, and from fifty to nearly a hundred bushels per acre were raised; but generally fifty to sixty bushels is considered a good crop. The vines make excellent cow feed, and are selling for $ 10 a ton. To prevent mice or anythiug else from taking up the seed, it is coated with coal tar. The same is also done here with seed corn, and then ashes arc 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, either, and save lots of replanting. *4**4* Arrangements are being made in Minnesota whereby a subtrust of the Farmeis' National Trust will be organized. The farming fraternity of the whole Northwest, consisting of 60,000 men, propose to form this trust, and make their own market. Shrewd men are at the head of the scheme, nnd before the seed ripens for lbWl the farmer will know what he is doiug. GEORGIA CENTRAL GONE. The Richmond and West Point Terminal Octopus Scoops it In. Savannah, March 25.?The lease of tho Central Railroad of Georgia to the Richmond and West Point Terminal Company in the name of the Georgia Pacific Railway was practically decided upon at a meeting of the Central Railroad directors hero to-day. The Terminal's proposition was discussed and referred to a committee, which agreed upon the terms of the lease to-night. 't'hn InCflOOQ will 4oVo fLo ? ? Bume its indebtedness, and will guarantee the stockholders 7 per cent on the capital stock, which Is $7,500,000. John H. Inman, Hugh Ionian, Samuel Inman, John C. Calhoun, Pat Calhoun, Charles H. Phinizey and Mr. Swain, of New York, were at the meeting to-day. President Inman left here to-night for Augusta. He will be in New York next week, where the lease wiil be consumated. It is said to-night that everything will be transferred in about two weeks. The lease of the Central will give the Georgia Pacific a through line from Savannah to the Mississippi river. Country. " r Where They are Situated, and the Capital Invested and I^abor Em. ployed in the Industry. Washington, D. C., [8pecial.]?The census office has made public the bul I din ou truck farming, which for the rirst time in the history of the country, lias been made the subject of census investigation. The statistics are compiled from returns which had been received up to January 1, 1891: Truck farming, as considered in this report, is distinct from market garden.ng. The former is carried on in favored localities at a distance from market, water and rail transportation being nccIjiwrwr *bn.l>Hwr is ronduftad. u?air - local markets, the grower of vegetables using his own team for the transportation of his products direct to either retailer or consumer. Uupwards of $100,000,000 are invested in this industry, tha annual product.-! I'cachiug a value of $76,507,155 lor farms after paying freights and commissions, and realized upon 534,444 acres of land. There are employed iu this iudustry 210,765 men, 9,254 women and 14,874, children, aided by 75,860 horses and mules aud #8.971,206,70 worth of implements. The Norfolk district, embracing 45.375 acres, shipped products valued ut #7,092,869; the South Atlantic district, 111,741 acres, products $18,183,516; Mississippi Valley 36,180 acres, products #4.979,783. Nearly 75 per cent, of the truck produced in the United States ionics frorti a l>elt of country aloug the Atlantic coast, lying east of a Hue drawn " " iroin Augustu, Me., to Macon, Ga., from ? . Southern Georgia, Alabama aud Florida, along the north aud south lines of mil-. . - i.iiieflgo, ?r. jjouib ana KSEI555 v'lty. nwl from the celery district of Michigan ami Ohio. More or leas of truck, however, is produced iu all the States. The following table shows the acreage of leading vegetables grown upon the tiuek farms of the United States: Asparagus 87,937 Scans (string or snap) 12,0x7 Cabbage 77,094 Kale 2,902 Spinach 20,19a Irish potatoes 28,040 Beets 2,450 Celery 10,081 Cucumbers 4,721 Watermelons 114,381 Other melons 28,477 Peas 50,102 Sweet Potatoes 28,021 Tomatoes 22,805 Miscellaneous vegetables 82,out A Carolinian Honored. New York, [Special.]?Lorettus Mctoalf has resigned the editorship of tno ? Forum Magazine, after fifteen years of close confinement to review work. He is to be succeeded by Walter H. Page, an experienced newspaperman who has been the business manager of the Forum. It lias been through Mr. Met calf's able direction that the Forum has achieved high distinction in the literary world and has forged to the front as one of the best of American periodicals. Mr. Page is well qualified for the new duties upon which he will eute^. He is a gentleman, a scholar?some people have accused him of being a crank, but no one has ever charged him with any lack of honesty or ability. Mr. Page is a native of North Carolina and has had a long and varied experience in practical journalism, which will serve him to good purpose in the higher walks of literature upon which he will enter. The salary is $10,000 per (111 UUUi. Receiver Chamberlain' Big System. The consolidation of the management of the South Carolina Railway and its leased lines and the Three C's gives to Receiver Chamberlain and Oeneral Manager Ward the control of no doubt tho"1^,*?v -*-Sn largest mileage of railroad in South Carolina. They have charge of the follow-' * j ing lines: South Carolina Railway, Miles: 242 1 Three C's Road 148 ' Columbia, Nc\vberry nud Lauren Railroad 46 Cumberland Gap Road 24 Total: 460 ^ Lighting Pipes With an lee Lens. The curious experiment of making a lens of ice to light pipes and cigars was m tried during the winter with success by ? skaters in London, England. The ex- 4^ pcriment was first brought to notice bv I Dr. Scaresby, when in the polar regions W to the great aatoni*hmflnft nQf hia com pan - f I ions, who did not nodmtaa^ why ice did not freczo the solar rays. Profeasor Tyndall when a tutor in the Royal Institution on several occasions set fire to littlo heaps of gunspowder with the rays from an electric arc concentrated upon the powder by lens of ice. Hia explanation was that, although ice absorbs rays of certain waves ot light, and is gradually melted thereby, other waves are not absorbed, and these latter produce tho heating effect at the focus of the lens. It is wholly a question of Mio relative motions of the molecules of frozen water and the motions of tho waves of light.?Boston Transcript. M. Marcy has succeeded in photo- ' graphing the movements of an animal under water, taking proofs at th^rate of ,'n fifty in a second, with exposures from 1-2000 to 1-3000 of a second. A. set oV, - flj twelve photographs gives all of the undulations which the fw^iwn impresses upon its umbrella of a loootno tor apparatus. Another series dkldbiti | a squid leaping ont of the water, A ruv 1 has been taken in profile while waving the edges of its flat body; sad the ; curious mode of progression of a coma- < I tula has been taken. V 1 ^ For many years it waa believed that! \ 'i the atmosphere had a great deal to do with thread-making, and that good % thread could only.be made in Scotland. '--i It is now known that it is all in the twist and nothing in tha TspUaie M