The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, March 27, 1891, Image 1
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 ; *
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(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.
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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