The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, April 24, 1891, Image 1
j D?otsd ta tfc (^rrywT J\W< 0/ tAs Day.
The la* cmdm
'wood sod apiMt hMi Is Maasi chueetta
:at thirty-oi* ptr coot, of its whole ooroTo
Aacrfca, pun* the Boetoa Tranteript,
that family which ia becoming
sore and more widely known ia called
bacilli; in Paria, pariaitea; in Germany,
germs, and in Ireland, microbea.
The extension of the use of the typewriter
is ahown by the fact that ia one
single building in New York Oity there
are 100 typewriter operators at work
from nine o'clock in the morning till Ave
in the afternoon. In the office of one
insurance company there arc seventy-fire
young women employed as typewriters,
operators and clerk?.
X writer ia the Southern Ftirm makes
a strong argument in favor of female physicians
for women. He says that certain
. specialties wero in the hands of women
practitioners in all countries and all ages
until comparatively recent, time?. fn
support of his position he ouotc* from
the Old Testament.
According to the St. Louis Republic
the Japanese Consul at San Francisco,
Cal., appeared before the Trades Council
to ask that ?o boycott be made on the
Japanese houses. He said that Japanese
workmen would never affect American
labor, and ^Ihat instead of nending
their earnings home they spent them
with Caucasians.
One of thePrinoe of Wales's daughters
having married a Duke, arotbci is now
\ likely to marry an Earl, whose income ir*
something like $2,000,000 a year. Tn -sc
^ marriages between royalty and peers,
v muses the St. Louis Star-Snuino.4 i?r^
steps in the direction of the abolition of
both, especially when the fact is remembered
that the prospective bridegroom is
**in trade," and ha ^vlc his fortune out
of iron and roal.
Discourtesy often rankles deeply in a
sensitive soul, soliloquizes the New York
World. It rankled io the tune of $25,000
worth in a Buffalo millionaire, who
revoked a bequest to that amount which
be had made to the Buffalo Fine Arts
Academy because it had failed to nc?m
in ifwn'ii'"" * rrmf if. r g&'t
common art, but academies of tine arts
are digniE jd by its practise.
According to London Truth the order
against extravagance in the German Army
has led to the resignation of nearly all
the wealthy officers, and the Emperor
now has no regiment at Berlin or Potsdam
which can afford to entertain "distinguished
foreigners" in the old fashion.
Formerly, a foreign guest who had vis
ited the barracks of a crack rogiincnt
was invariably invited by the officers to
dinner; but now there are no entertainments,
and the Emperor has tardily discovered
that he had better not havt ,
meddled in the matter, for aft the Russian,
Austrian and Italian visitors leave
Berlin exclaiming at the poverty of Prussian
officers, to the infinite mortification
of Ills Majetty.
Says the New Orleans Nex Delhi:
From all over the section of Louisiana
which is devoted to the cultivation of
^ cotton comes the news that the planters
arc prepariug to decrease the acreage of
thnt staple and diversify their crops to a
greater extent than heretofore. This determination
is the result of the low price
for the fleecy staple the present season.
This is a wi?c move on the part of the
planters, as nothing tends more to keep
the farmer poorer than the one-crop system.
If the low price of cotton has had
the effect indicated above, it has at least
taught the planter a wholesome lesson.
The subject of irrigation of the arid |
lauds in the far West is and will continue
to be one of importance. The publication
of. the first census bulletin ever
issued on the subject, therefore, is intor^
esting apart froin the valuable information
it contains. The present acreage
uuder irrigation approaches the maximum
with the present supply of water and
method of using it. The irrigators look
to the adoption of systems of storage for '
the conservation of flood water, such
large waste supplies of which have within
recent date destroyed some of the
most flourishing towns in the territory.
An announcement by the Pennsylvania
Railroad mechanical department that all
brass work on their locomotives will <
hereafter be painted black is a sad blow
to the artistic appearance of theae majestic
iron horses, muses the Mail and Exprcst.
This move has been induced by
the fact that the labor required to keep the
bnght parts looking well makes a serious
inroad upon the time of firemen. A few
years sgo our locomotives were things of
beauty, with their red wheels, gilded
carriages, steam chests, sand boxes and
headlights, but they have gradually developed
into sombre and solemn looking
machines with a decided air of business
about them.
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SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
Southern Men And Me&snrts
Paragraphed.
Waway Chit-Chat and Telegraphic
Dispatches From Many Points
In Our Own and Adjoining
States.
VIRGINIA.
The Broomsluw brick works, at Alexandria,
have been damaged to the extent
of of $50,000.
Secretary of State James G. Blaine and
a party of officials visited the Norfolk
navy yard Thursday.
The farmers of Campbell county report
a favorable outlook for crops and fruit.
The body of Robert Downs was found
tw the Ttappnhnnnock Wver near Fredericksburg.
The conference of Evangelical Lutherans
adjourned at Alexandria aftsr an
interesting session. m
The grand jury at Danville brought in
forty-live indictments against moonshiners,
after which the jury was discharged.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The n9k! session of the North Carolina
Tcili'llPI's .V vki'inlde Mi.ri.lw?n?l f'ltwlis*
' * ??? i.IW.V li< MM ' B,J ,n "
gius Juiw |."?tli. :int 1 end* on 1 lie 30th, of
llnit month. Secretary lhurcll says that
Jl.l.OO persons will attend.
Tim I rust cos of thi? Baptist IVmah
l"nivorsity plrclctl Hev. .1. it Boone, of
Missouri, formerly of North Carolina, financial
agent of that institution.
Blanks were sent out iroin the Department
of Agriculture to 1.000 correspondents.
in all parts of the State, to he rebutted
with data for the lirst crop bttlleI
tin issued this year. These, bullet ins are
monthly all through the season.
The Railroad Commissioners have
been sending applications to all railroads
cf the State for copies of their tariff tables
and time tables.
A terrific thunder storm prevailed at
Raleigh Thursday evening for an hour or
more, and lightning struck in at least a
half dozen places in the city.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
An Opera house to cost $10,000 is to
be built at Beaufort by the Knights of
Pythias.
Prof. Hardin, chemist of C'lemson college,
has completed 15G analyses of fertilizers,
only six of which fell below the
test.
The third and last piece of granite for
the Washington Light Infantry monumeut
at Charleston has been shipped
from the llockton quarry.
If there is one thing more than another
that Columbians pride themselves on if
"M-aeltW nrAWHTftf^-fn TOlUlttHllhw uWiwn
for the Coluinbia?soldiery.
Another wreck occurred on the Ashevillc
and Spartanburg railroad Wednesday
night by a collision of a freight train
from Aslievillc and a material train near
Langdruin. The fireman and a negro on
the material train were killed. Both of
the engineers and eighteen of the hands
were injured, many of them fatally.
TENNESSEE.
W. S. Smith, of Knoxvillc,grand master
of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
of Tennessee, visited King Lodge at
Bristol Monday night.
The Tennessee legislature, which adjourned
a few ?lays ago, passed a law
granting pensions to all disabled Confederate
soldiers, ranging from 1-11 to
$25 per month, according to the degree
of the disability.
The Bristol postotlice lias been advanced
from a third to a second-class, and the
salary of the postmaster increased to $2,100
and the free delivery system will l?o
established in June.
The first regular passengei train on the
L. ?fc N. (Big Stone (lap extension) left
Cumbeiland Cap at 7:15 o'clock Thursday
morning nml reached Big Stone (lap
%t noon; returning, reached Cumberland
(lap at 8 o'clock, p. M.. in time
to connect with the north-bound Louisville
and Nashville train from Knoxvillc.
This opens a new route between Atlanta,
Knoxvillc and the east.
GEORGIA.
Savannah gets the negro agricultural
college.
The Pittsburg ami Cleveland base ball
teams played exhibition games at Macon,
Thursday and Friday.
Robert Thomas Summers and Mrs.
Mattie J. Huffman, of Thoniasvillc, were
married Wednesday. The groom has
been blind since his birth, and consequently
has never seen the lady who is
now his wife.
Cardinal Gibbons and the Bishops of
the province of Baltimore met at Savannah
a few ilavs ago in Conference. \ new
see will be created, including N. ('., S.
C., Gil. and Fla.
A letter from the Fruit Growers" Asso[
elation at Gridin to the agricultural deI
partmcnt says there will ben half crop of
I peaches, a fair crop of plums and u full
crop of apples and grapes. But there
will be few pears.
The people of southwest Georgia must
have very fast horses, or the schedule of
the Blakel v extension must be a very slow
and convenient one. This will illustrate
the point: A citizen of Arlington arrived
at the depot only to lind that the
train had gone. It was then four miles
ahead of him, but, procuring a horse and
hnnrtrv lli(> cili'/on imvi./.Imou ,I
1 --oo.' ? "?? . ..millJJ
' the train at Commissary Hill, a distance
of nearly five miles, lie then waved it
down,got aboard and arr'-sted a man who
owed him $1 and was y'ng to make liis
escape.
FLORIDA.
A survey is being made for a radioed
from Melrose via Campbell to Miranopy.
Jacksonville parties incorporated the
Railway Water Supply Co. with a capita!
stock of $100,000 to manufacture patented
articles.
A collector of relics at Tampa, has ic
ceived a halberd head which was lately
unearthed at. Memphis. There can be no
doubt of the < tic in of ibis interesting
relit The lorin with tin- battle a <e on
one side, the book ?>ppo>t*e and the spike
termination, oi.uk u as u i. lit of the til
teenth teiitiirv.
Thetelefftfone
hotel at 1 am pa. Instead of en eucVC9
press button, every room will have a telephone
connected with the office. Guest*
will l?e able not only to communicate
with the office, hut with their frienda iu
other rooms at will. The great orchestrion.
which was one of the marvels of
the Paris Exposition, is to ho placed in
the iuu<ic room of the hotel. It has beeu
arranged that any guest in his room cau,
by merely telephoning to the office, be
connected with the orchestrion and have
the music transmitted to hiiu in full volume.
OTHER
STATES.
The Farmers Alliance of Hinds county,
Miss., lias endorsed the Hon. Ethel
Itarksdale for the I'nited States
Senate, to succeed Senator Walthall.
Seveuteen Sub-Alliances were represented
in the Convention, which unanifhoaslv*
IHtilirrc/wl * a l*!l' 5 *%
-' - "" - ! 11-MSUI Y uiiyyuniJOl
Cicala platform. This acttoTrTTTFpTiixiofi
as placing Mr. Ilarksdnlc sijuniTly in the
Held for I'nited States Senator. He was
present ami made u speech, l)\it (lid not
announce himself a candidate.
Minnesota's Anti-Tights Bills.
St. Paui., Minn. ?When Senator McF[ale's
Anti-Tights hill, which was pa?sed
by the rousing majority of II? to 12,
came up, Mr. McIIale moved a call of
the Senate, hut made no speech. As the
roll call on the measure proceeded several
Senators explained their votes, hut
there was no genera! discussion. Sena- |
tor Keller talked about "art" and the
value of the property invested iu the- i
aires in St. l'aul, and Senator Mayo i
claimed to Le iu doubt as to the mean- <
ing of ihe expression "nether limbs"
used in the bill, lie said that since the
bill had created so much talk lie had
taken occasion to go to see the extravaganza
now playing iu the city to see
what there was so bad about the exhibition.
"I wan so pleared," continued J
Senator Mayo, "that I went a second
time, and don't know but what I shall \
go again. I am indebted to Senator Mc- J
Hale for two vciy pleasant evenings.''
Senator McIIale interrupted him to (
ask if. as a bjdd-hcadcd man, he occupied
the traditional front row.
"No, I was in the middle of the '
house," replied Dr. Mayo; but. lie added, j
"that was because all tlie front seats ,
were taken before I went in." .
As this bill lias excited as much comment
as almost any other hill before the (
Legislature, it is given herewith in full:
A bill for nil act to define and nunisli
oj)(>n and gross lewdness and lascivious t
behavior of female persons in certain
cases. .
lie it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota: ^
Skction i. Any female person wlio ?
shall, upon the the stage or platform, in
any theatre, opera house, concert hall, or y
cd, or dressed in pny manner whatever t
so that the shape aVl form of her nether
limb or limbs arc plainly visible to such (
other persons present, shall be deemed (|
guilty of au open and gross lewdness and_ f
lascivious behavior and guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof t
shall be punished by a tine of not less t
than (?."> nor more than $100, or by imprisonment
in the county jail not less |;
than live days nor more than ninety days.
Si:<\ 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
The Patent Centennial. 1
On the 10th of Apiil, A. 1)., 1701,
f'.esidont IJcorge Washington signed tho
act of Congress tli.it gave birth to the f
American patent system. Friday, tho v
one-hundredth anniversary of that event,
was celebrated at Mount Vernon by a largo 3
number of American inventors, who had
been in session at Washington for the
preceding two days. Au address, made
up in large measure of extracts from
Washington's diary, was delivered by I)r.
J. M. Toner, of the capitol city which j
was "of histoiical interest in showing
bow a mind broad cnouirli to frame a condilution
could also apply itself to deter- .
mining the relative value of tallow and
spermaceti in giving light at least cost."
It also showed from Washington's frank
entries in his diary how he hud tried to
improve his plows, and how he had con
striated a machine to facilitate the sowingof
grain, this consisting of a barrel
into which many holes were drilled.
The Alliance in Aiken. i
Coi.rMltlA, S. [Special. |?Slate '
lecturer Talhert takes comfort front the
following; extract front a letter received
by hint front an officer of the Aiken Alliance
yesterday:
"Have just got in front a short leeturiitL;"
tour and lind everything working
finely, ami I have heard much praise of '
yon ami your work as State lecturer. I 1
Imve beard no Alliance man dissent front
your view that the St. bonis and Oeala
were the only farmers' and laborers' congresses
that were ever held in America,
and we endorse every act of those bodies.
We bid you Hod-speed in your patriotic
efforts to redeem the people front the
Shylock rule under which they have
groaned so long. Conic to our county
whenever it is convenient and we will
give you a warmer reception than over.*'
Painted tlio Statue Red.
]{Al.Kloli. N'. 1 Special. 1 Hon. '
Kemp I*. Battle, president of the State '
University, passed here on his way from I :I
Gohlshoro, where he appeared in u re- '
inarkahle ease. Two years ago at the '
centennial eoinniencetnent at the University,
Kirhv Smith, of (Soldshoro, was arrested,
charged with having painted red
the monument to Dr. Caldwell, the fust
president of the University. The matter
raised a great stir. Smith some months
ago brought suit agaii st President Battle
and the trustees for $10,000 for false
arrest. The jury in the ease of President
Battle were unable to agree upon a verdict
and were diseha
A Young Lady iiurneU. to Doath.
spa 1st a nisi'ins, S. . C., (Special.]?A
young lady, eighteen years of age, daughter
of Cohnnhns Christopher, of Fairmount
in this county, while setting fire
to logs piled in a new ground in the afternoon,
had her clothing to catch on '
lire. I'eiore : -01 mice came she was '
limned tesiiblv ami dii d Coin tin-1 fleets. i
vhe v.'.i^ a l.trcC. v.i 111 g gnl ui.it highly . '
e>lei nu d
-jlrijMtluii Aoo?pUd n
JE4r ICr. WrtipAf of Indi,'r'tu
AppOttUd.
Wasw^otom, D. C.% [Special. J?Tl?c A
following correspondence explains it
elf: t ^
Trkasort or Til Unitbd StatkS.
Washikuton, D. C.
IV the Vreeident;
Sik: I would respectfully tender my
resignation as Treasurer of the United fn
States, tp take effect when it may bo con- J|
venient to name my successor. Acknow- ^
lodging my deep sense of gratitude to you
for the kindness received at your hnud*. j"11
1 remaiu "truly yours,
J. N. lIlSTON, 0,1
Treasurer of the United States. P'1
Exkcitivk Mansion, *v!
Uo<>. J.X*1l'*L>n: ^
~^yru~ *f? * ?tu?? iijitm tmu
letter of Pro. Wta, tendering your resig
untion of the i fllcc of Treasurer of tl?e ' ,
United States, for reasons know n to you |(H
I now yield to your request to he relieved (j(
from the duties of your office, and accept ,(|
your resignation, to lake effect upon the
appointment and qualification of your
successor. 1 regrd that your )>ersona' jt.f
affairs compel you to this step, anil beg
to assure you of my sincere ttud continued 4)#
regard and best wishes. Very sincerely
your*, Uknj. II aiuii&on. 0j
Til.. l->"
"" > "- . |?|?iiihcu .nr. i\? t?l
beckcr, of Indiana, Treasurer, to succeed sin
Mr. Huston. Mr. Kcl>ecker called on Sii
lhe President, and left for Ins home in j?r
Covington, 1ml. He may not assume po
charge of the office for some lime yet. rit
eff
Southern Wit In War. ^1
As we are remiuded by tin' author of ou
"Four Years iu Rebel Capitals,''the South,
well as the North, says the Youths' Com- W
l>anion, needed to exercise its sense of ait'
humor, whenever that was possible, to w
carry it through the terrible strain of war. do
Sonic of the puus, builesqucs ami rnpar- Al
lee of that dreadful time have become
locally historic. Colonel Tom August, of s"
Ihe First Virginia, was the Charles Lamb '*,r
hf Confederate war wits, genial ami very ro
jay. Uf
Early iu secession days a bombastic fi'
friend approached him with the question, M
"Well, sir, I presume your voice is still ra
'or war?" w
"Ohyes," replied the wit, "perfectly Si
itill!" * ??
Always to be reuiembcre< is Central
Solution Vance's apostrophe to the rabbit,
lying by him from a heavy rifle tire: "(Jo
t, cottou-taill If I hadn't a reputation, co.
M be with you I'* *'
Equally forcible was &ho protest of the I,r
Vcstcrn recruit, orderccjLriMtaMUhA at ,0
ilunson's Hill: Pl,c
"Oo yauder ter keep'cm off! W'y, 081
rc-uns kem hyar ter tight th' Yanks, an'
IIU lliuumg lur II<IIIB|1UI1?, Willi titllllll'I'M
olcnscd frou? Northern prisons on parole. K1
)nc day a most woebegone and cmnci- to
ited "Johnny" sat swinging his shoeless ur
cct from a barrel, awaiting his turn, w
vhen a pompous Federal major remark:d,
to no one in partictftr: "It isn't far Kn
o Richmond." H
'"Itcck'n et:s near onto three thousiir J"
nile," drawled Johnny, weakly. 18
"Nonsense! You must be crazy!'' p"
ctortcd the officer, staring. <1*
"Wal, I ent a-reck'nin' edract," was
he slow reply. "Jest thought so, Ni
linder." '8
"Oh, you did? And why, pray?" 1,,(
"Cause it's took'n you-uns nigh onto 1?
oore year to git thar from Wash'n'ton," T?
vas the settling retort.
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Idled More Than a Bushel of Snakes. sir
Nonwrcir, Conn., Imperial )?A month 1111
igo workmen killed forty-live black l)n
makes on the farm of I)uvid A. Johnson
tt Moutville Ceuter, six miles southwest .!
>f this eit v. The fCptues were all in a
mneh ami dormant, and it was easy for J.'
he men to despatch them. After the ,.
jaiilc liii- men gathered a bushel basuet- Z\~.
full of dead snakes, some of which were ''
ii v feet Innif
Yesterday, workmen who were denning? ,,,
nit nn old well on the same farm came
>n another nest of snakes, and on oceount I
>f the warm weather the men had a ''
ivelv light with them. In fifteen min- 'i1
jtes they killed thirty snakes, fourteen _
?f which were milk snakes, which are
are in Connecticut. The snakes were in M
cngth from two to six feet. Newell 'M
lohnson ronimaiideil the snake-killing ''
upind, and the bodies of the snakes more ( "
hun tilled a bushel basket. u<
The Frost in Florida. jj"
Washington, I). C.?The signal oflieer t li
urnishes the following special bulletin r'i
o the press:. If
The condition of unusually low temp
nature mentioned in the special bulletin fit
>f yesterday as prevailing over Northern
Florida ami Southern Georgia has moved at
southward and Ill's morning extends over 11
he whole of the Florida peninsular, pro- G
hieing, except in the extreme northern jj,
lortion, the coldest weather ever known |?
iiere at this season of the year. The mill- Sl.
mum temperature at Titusville, Tampa, C{|
lupiter and Key West were IlH and 54 respectively,
I icing from 7 to 14 lower than j(,
uiv previously recorded during April. es
Killing frosts occiired tliis morning as ^
ur south as Jupiter Inlet, ami it ih probtble
that early fruits and vegetables w
hroughout this section have been severe- ]K
viniured. n)l
Lumbermen m... oodworkers. ?"
b<
The North Carolina Lumbermen and rc
Woodworkers' Association met in (Jreens- Ai
boro. Its object is to inaugurate a new th
era in the lumlH-r interests of the State. j?e
The meinbershij) of the Association now all
embraces all the principal finishing con- be
cerns of the Piedmont section of the State,
and it is the object of she Association to ?u
extend its roll all over the State by taking
in every manufacturer who will
join with them in a better system of eon- sa
ducting the lumber business iu North C<
Carolina.
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A. Physician Arrested for Grave Rob- llc
bing. m
as
Wiikrmno, Va.. | Special. ] - Dr. John an
It. I'ipes, inn-ill the bc?t known physic !'
ians in the cit\.{,i.d Taylo, I'onimm. ?n
illpClilitCinli l.l 1.1 I la < tiir,|y pool buiii, i )i
was arrested Im ^.invc lobhui t
ie Alliance Announces Its Plans
and Calls for Funds.
Rational "Propaganda Committee"
And an Army of "Lecturer*"
Are Rsady for tho Fray.
Washington, I). CM |Si?ei iul.)?-The
inner*' Alliance is Itcginning early its
mpaign. A "campion of education"
is called, and the National CnMpaiun
nnmittce goes by the name of the
'mpagamlft Finn I Committee." The
*t appeal for campaign fuiuls lias just
en issued and the work is to he proseted
vigorously all along tha line. The
in of campaign has been carefully and
itematieally laid out, and with the i
;ani/ation niaehinerv at command it i
nwnumi. wativ
rtion of the plan which is made public
ovides for the utilization of the great
dure system of the Alliance throughout
e eountrv, under control of the Nat oni
...
Tin" Alliance has regularly appointed
itional, State, District ami County
turers. whose duty it is to preach
liancc doctrines to the member*. More
these lecturers are to he appointed, and
ry will talk persistently from one end
the country to the other. They will
k to outsiders as well as members, and
I'll missionary t urs as that which .Jerry !
mpson is making will he made by other
muinent lenders. The Alliance plan of
litical salvation will lie preached in the
ies as well as in the country, and every
ort will he made to popularize the
lianee doe*lines. To make sure that
Iv the pure doctrine is taught skeleton
tores will Im; sent out periodically from
ashingtmi to all authorized speakers,
d a register will Ik* kept there of the
ny of talkers and the work they are
ing. Thus the nutionnl organ of the
lianee, the h'ronomint, says of it:
"Jay (Jould, Mr. Rrice, Mr. Quay, or
V other capitalist or politician, will
ul the Propaganda Fund Committee
nily to accept donations from them and
v the monu*' where it will do the most
>od in the cause of reform, and should
r. Stanford ilesiie to contribute some
ilroad money to assist the farmers he
ill have a splendid chance to do so
one of the extremely wealthy may need
depository for 'conscience money,' and
ev will find this a good place.
"The propaganda fund is not est ah lied
to collect money to be used for
rrupt campaign methods. The money
II lie used to educate the masses iu the
inriples of the Fanners' Alliance and
bring about a better understanding
tween the good, the true, and the Jion,
citizens of this nation, to the end that
such may lay aside sectionalism and
itc in a determined effort to abolish
W* ami usages OI me luiimry,-- mm we '
igurnte a reigti of justice that bIiuII
larantec equal rights and equal chances
all worthy citizens. Political parties
ti-|n mwiiv inrgc donations irom men
lio expect to control the patronage of
e party when in power. The propaimlti
fund collection is entirely different,
lose who donate to it may well be
oud to hnvc the matter known, because
shows net necessarily liberality on their
irt, but ;t is substantia! evidence of their
ivotion to the cause ?f humanity."
J. F. Tillman, the Secretary of the
ntional Executive Hoard of the Alliance,
to have charge of the propaganda
ovemcnt, and sympathizers arc invited
sen<l their cheeks to Secretary J. II.
irner of the Alliance.
It is said that in accordance with the
sire to devote a few months to the
aping of public sentiment before comitting
the farmers to an open third
rty movement, the Alliance leaders are
-iving strenuously to olfsei the piuus for
c Cincinnati conference in May. The
ronomitt declares that the Knights of
ibor, the Fanners' Alliance, of the
i rlhwc.vt, the Colore! Farmers' A I?i?m%
nit. uiiii ?i ?! I III am 11 mi 11 If I
ti/.ens"' Alliance will not In* tc presented
Cincinnati. Discussing I In* cal I it adds
"What organizations are behind it';
hut element of reform in ivement does
represent, and why is il demanded':
:t evciy ineinber of the \. of I... Farm
s' Alliance white or eol red, ( iti/.ens'
llianee, or anv other line reformer, ask
id answer for himself these iptcsiiniis
fore he goes into spasms over this
oposed meeting. The time foi hurrah
inferences is at an end. They have
used the people long enough. Il is
>t agitation the people want it is editition
on i orreet tin-s. What, will be
e result of this meeting? Of what will
e substance consist when the froth and
ithusiasin have Srlo' n olf: Who will
there that icpig-ems org.uii/ed labor?"
Mississippi is the only State in the
mth where the eleetiou this full will be
iseil on (listinet Alliance issues. The
niggle of the Alliance will lie io elect
Legishituic which will iclire Senator
eorge, who is outspoken in his nppnsian
to the SubTreasury seheiue. The
st men the Alliauee can muster will Inlit
to Mississippi to take part in the
unpaign.
Some recent Alliance piopositions for
gislalive emit Intent aie niiioiu-'y interling.
Thus the district union of the
i lit 11 Kentucky ( cngics dish jet m ently
solved tliat all notes, mortgages 01 oilier
litten evidences of indehlcdiiess should
! pieseuted to the Assessor for nssessL-iit
and he annually stiilu|ied I?v hint,
id if not so picsented and stamped to
iconic invalid; 'hat the Inst certified
ports of hanks to he taken hv the
iscssor as a hasis of assessment; that
e rolling stock of lailronds he made
irsoual property subject to execution for
I stock killed or injured, and no appeal
granted beyond tin- circuit courts for
ins of ^','00 or le?s
# * 4 * ? .
Col. I'olk, at (Vision, Iowa, last week
id there are too ninny lawyers sent to
jngicss. That the only way to succeed
to send farmers there. The Alliance,
said, intended to go into politics, hut
it into partyism. Sonic hy-stnnder
ked him how nhoiit North Carolina,
d Senator Vance's remarks that on a
nidv day In- could not tell the ililTcri
i' lietweeu an A IliatK email and a
.'IliOli.il Col folk "lodged t"> Ml}?
-ting that the l-.imets v.oul.l have a
The speech made by Hen Terrell here
Isst Saturday was the Irit speech on
living issue* that wr hive !* fened to in
.? long time. No ? < ...?torof what
;tiofi?*slott or politi i. eoultl object
to the doctrines ! .. 1 Vs for their
principles are t' < ; .,,.?iplcs of eternal
justice. His speech was common-sense
in every way. nn.l he dealt with facts, not J
sentiment, ami prim iples, not men. As
long as such men as Hen Tt rrell shape
public opinion we need not fear any
serious harm being dune, and for this
reason we wish we hail a thousand Terrells.
? The Charlotte, N. C., Time*.
Farmers do not realize what an advantageous
Held that lies before them in
the direction of rearing Iioims that will
match, or if not situated for this through
brood mares looking exactly
what the tailors call a 'mislit" for an I
animal or animals from other farms, thus |
getting together a double team whieb all
buyers will want on sight. There are, in
this direction, great opportunities lost to
farmers and great gains made by dealers.
******
The February report of the Agricul
Jural bureau shows ttt.it the average value
nt milch cows is largest in New York, or
$:lt each. This high average is probably
iluc to two causes. First, the early
I'stahlishmcnt of cheese factories in tliis
State, and second, the iin|iroveinent in
stock through the introduction of many
line herds by enterprising breeders.
POLK'S PECULIAR WILL
lu Which Ho Attempts to Hoop tho
Property in tho Family.
Nasii vim.k, Tknn., (Special.)?The
home of cx-Prcaidcnt Jauus lv. Folk, in
*thlch his ftgsd 'widow now mldeii, is
ncivertlaed to bo sold for city taxes,
amounting to $1,000. Mrs. Folk is
amply able to pny tho taxes, having a
pension of $5,000, and receiving nearly
$2,000 interest on her State bonds, aud,
perhaps, docs not know that she is in
nrrcars. lu his will, President Folk attempted
to keep tkc mansion in the
family forever, by bequeathing it, upon
liis deatii, to the Statu of Tennessee, to
be held in trust by the (lovernor, or, if
he should decline to assume the trust,
then such a person as the Legislature
may select, wno shall permit tho house
to be occupied and used by such of his
blood relations as have the name of Folk,
preferring the nearest of kin, but if there
lie none named Folk then the house is to
be used by such other blood relations as
may lie designated, it is provided that
whoever occupies the house shall keep it
ii* 1e pair nun ]>:iy mc taxes. i no relatives
with whom Mrs. l'olk is now living
are, not blood relatives. It is contended
outside party lorTaTos, nnn n mrrn - nrv
made,, this would defeat tin* I runs of the
will, and the State could not curry out
the trust iin|ioscd on it. The property
is very valuable, lining two acres in extent,
and being in the heart of the city,
on the corner of Vim; and Union streets.
INGALLS A. A FARMER.
H That by tho Plough Would
Thrive, Must Either Hold
or Drivo."
Atchison, Kan.- Since his retirement
froui ollice .Mr. Ingalls has developer1,
into a full-Hedged farmei. lie own*
a thirty-acre tract sootli of his resilience,
which he is transforming into a pastnio
and truck farm, and he is at present engaged
in planting potatoes. Of course
he does not shovel dirt or carry weeds,
or do the other disagreeable things that
must he done about a truck patch. He
just supervises the job. two stout colored
men doing the work. Mr. Ingnlls spends
several hours each day on his tiuck farm,
and seems to be greatly interested with
b He t?.!k?. about b greatII?
whikh around x lie larm at 11 in i m a light
suit of clothes, and wears that long gray
overcoat which lie has worn from a time
whereof the memory of man lunncih not
to the <ontiary. lie also wears a blood*
red necktie and eariiesa eane. Mr. In*
galls will not talk politics. '"The burning
question of the day," he says, "i?
potatoes.'' If lie < ii's anything about
tlie clfor'r; of the ling Iteputilirami in
trying to re-id him out. of the party, ho
dues not show it.
The Blue and Gray Dino Together.
N. V. ClTV.? On .Monday the 21st, the
thirtieth anniversary of the formation of
the Ninth New York Volunteers, Hawkins
Zouaves, was celebrated by a banquet
at the Ihiinswick Hotel. Their
guests were survivors of the third Georgia
Jtcgimcnt, who arrived by the steamer
City of Augusta from Savannah.
Three limes ?M<\ these two rrglmeiita
come together in the war. At Fredericksburg
and Aiitietam the grays were1
ttic victors, hut at Koiiuokc Ishtnd
the Zouaves won a decided victory.
Attained a Ripe Old Age.
1 .incoi.nton, N. <*.- Mrs. Sully Weaver,
who was horn in this county 1780,
died four miles west of Lineolnton last
Saturday at the age of 105 years. She
was u remarkably stout woman arid was
possessed of a good mind and memory
until the last. She was kindly attended
during In r last, illness by her oldest
daughter, Eva, the wife of Numa Alexander.
who is a vigorous woman at the
ripe old age of 71) years.
The Condition of English Agriculture.
London Cablegram:?The Standard
publishes nn exhaustive review of the agricultural
outlook in the course of which
it says the steady rise in wheat revives
the hopes of the English farmer. It adds
wheat will secure the best price obtained
in many years the principal cause of the
rise being the failure of foreign crops.
Gen. Spinoln Doad.
Washington, I). ('., | Special. [ Gen.
Spinola died at I : ?.? o'clock Monday
morning.
Influenza is raging in epidemic form in
lull, Eiit'land. The death r.te, which j
- usually j-ivttou per 1,001), has readied
.orty -six per 1,000. '
Phf and SenatOr^HJI
Muor Tho Exciting: TopicFo^^^i
Discussion. -J,
Tai.i.aii vsskk, Fla., (special.]?tha
Senate and House organized at noon by
the election of tlie otneers nominated in
the Democratic caucus.
(lovernor Fleming's biennial messngo
was submitte<l file next morning. It is
| an exhaustive document. He recommends
radieal changes in tho jury laws,
so as to make convictions for murder
more speedy and sure, n liberal appropriation
for the World's Fair, tho assignment
of property at its full market value,
a liberal appropriation for inducing
immigration, continued support of tho
Slate's policy for the prevention of infectious
diseases and the creation of a
State board of phosphutc rouunisslorieni
and of tho new ortlco of phosphate inin
the phosphate deposits in tho beds of
navigable streams with tho view of the
eolleetion of a royalty on all phosphato
mines.
A Democratic caucus \vill probably be
called in a few days on I ho Senatorial
question. II the eaueus is railed the rules
will require a two-third vote in making
nominations. Senator Call's supporters
are in a large majority, but the opposition
rlaim that, he eaunot secure twothirds
vote i i joint caucus. Some of
Call's supporters prefer that no caucus bo
railed, thus throwing the election into
the Legislature direct, where a majority
of both houses would elect.
Senator K. I-'. Kodgcrx, president of
the State Farmers' Alliance, is working
hard to get an Alliance caucua called for
the purpose of passing an Anti-Cull
resolution. The Call men in tho Alliance 4
are opposing lhulgci* vigorously.
A Keinaihnlile Induction.
Shortly uftor twelve o'clock on SalUT",. ^.Aj
day night a party of goutloman wore taking
lunch at a resort oil Wabash street,
when their attention was attracted to a
peculiar clicking of the carbons in onoof
the electric light globe- overhead. The
sound wasexnetly akin to that of a telegraph
instrument and was kept up incossautly
for fttily fifteen miuutcn.
Comments were passed on tho uuttfual
phenomena, but at last the novelty wore
oir and the party proceeded to tho discussiou
of chicken sandwiches. A few
moments later a new customer eutered;
he was nil operator from tho Western
Union otllee, and us ho rat waiting for
his order to he filled tho clicking of tho
carbons was .renewed.
The tehcr.iiiher nliirl<<.l lnnlrnrl nil
around him uml then at the electric lights
above. After listening intently for a
moment to the sounds lie drew a tab of
paper and a pencil from his pocket and
I began to write. The others were watch*
rnnwmwy tnwntiwiwiwig iipwm i i?
"Well," lie said, drawing a long
breath, "that beats all thu induction I
over heard of in my life."
"What is it?" asked every one in
chorus.
"What is it? Why, it's a message of
the Associated Press, hook here," and )
the operator exhibited the paper ou which
lie had hecn writing. It read:
"Were traced to the train on the North
Pennsylvania branch and tin* thofts located
as taking pi so in Hocks County
from trains bet ween New York and Phila- *
dojphia. On Monday evening Lewis
Hansel I, William Coyle and Abraham
Kulp, brakemen, were arrested aud taken
to Doyleston, given a preliminary hear*
ing and bound over for u further hearing.
Tho value of the goods taken will
amount to many thousands of dollars."
Tim only explanation that eun be offered
of the phenomena is that there wns
a contact ai soma point bctm*ou a telegraph
and electric light wire.?tit. Paul
Pioneer-J'rtm.
?i
I
Tho Avenging Mule.
Pig-sticking is a great sport in British
Indin, where tiio hold Briton is never
happy unless ho is killing something.
Mounted on lino horses or mules, u party
of gentlemen will sally forth, armed with
spears and accompanied by native servants
to chase the wild boar. A little
beating of thv bush soon starts up one or
two line specimens of the bristly animal
with the tusks, and away goes the party
in hot pursuit.
When the boars havo been caught and
impaled, luncheon is spread iu a convenient
jungle where there aro no tigers
or suukes, and the Britishers return home
happy at the elose of a day of British
"sport," divided in the usual way?violent
exercise, n heavy innl, a long rest.
On one occasion rcceutly u British officer,
who "w.it mounted on a fleet mule,
1 was close to the wild lioar When the ant- "
inal bolted in to the mule's leg, bit her
iifl v ftntl fliftiv fln/1 orroln
The mule screamoJ. In n minute aho
had deposited the ihitish otliccr on the
dirt; then kicking out vigorously Ave or
.six times us if to see that sho was '-all
there," she lit out after the untortunato
pig ut lightning speed, fury in her eyo
and vengeance in the crook of her car.
The race was not long. The unhappy
wild boar felt that he had exasperated a
relentless enemy. He was soon winded,
and the mule, coming up to him, caught
him by the backbone with her teeth,
crunched him, threw him over her head
and kicked viciously at him ?s he fell
dead behind her. East Indian boars after
this will probably light shy of the
mule.?Am York Journal.
i Strength of Ice.
The following figures are taken front
Spoil's Engineers'2'nbles: "A thickncsa. ot
two inches will allow the passage of men
in single file on a liu<y>f planks placed on
lliu ice. No uiuCt iv \ ol phiuks should
he placed nearer thai six feet. A thickness
of four inches will allow tho passage
of cavalry, carts or light guns, with a
inodcrato interval between each. A
thickness of six inches will allow the
passage of wagons drawn by horses, etc.
A thickness of ten to twelve inches will
riipport the heaviest loads ever likely to
pass over he."
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