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"' Aocorcrme to tne flnwrisaunvwrf fin*, t ?
etie, the proportion of fetal accidents on
the basis of numbers carried is very
~ ' greatly in tavor of the electric and cable
roads and against the horse car lines.
The Chicago Herald maintains that
the buffalo are iu uo dauger of becoming
no extinct species. Since they have been
placed under protection of Government
troops they have been increasing.
The IV.tlo King of Spain very much
dislikes being seated upon the throne at
State ceremonials, lie tries to olimb
down, and on one occasion declared,
with tears, that he would athcr sit ou
his mothors lap.
**** Sftttqp Hog landers have fully half a
million dollars invested in rare dog flesh.
The dogs in the Hillsido Kcunels, at
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uaucasier, muss., are vaiueu at *iuu,uuu,
And those at the Melrose Kennels are
worth $75,000.
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' It is said that Mrs. Kylo, wife of th?
Alliance 8enator from South Dakota, fell
overpowering confidence during the canTags
that her husband would be elected,
and whenever ho talked of declining the
nomination she insisted that he would
yield aud win. This, confesses th<
Boston Transcript, brings woman'i
Intuition into play in politics in a new
and admirable way.
Says tho Washington Post: "TLo
careless and apparently indiscriminate
manner with which the courts of to-day
destroy the wills of rich men, documents
that embody the purpose and ob.
ject of a lifetime of toil, has become one
-d^-of the notablo and notorious abuses of
the day, aud against this evil there is risv
. ing a vigorous demand for rectification
and reform."
The Atlauta Constitution gives these
ominous facts: Italy has ten ironclads,
five steel warships, and two wooden warships,
all of the first-class; twenty-one
war vessels of tho second-class, twentyseven
of third-class, fifty ocean torpedo
vessels, sixty torpedo boats of various
classes, twenty-three ironclads for coast
defense?in all a navy of 258 vessels,
carrying 583 guns and manned by 16,at
very high speeds ./SET
be best secured by very slightly j
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curving vue IIUU Wl IU?U JUOK OUUIl,ICUUJ
to cause the flanges of the wheels to bear
constantly against one side. With that
construction he considers that an)
possible speed that could bo got from
electric motors, say up to 200 miles an
hour, would be perfectly safo.
The Atlanta Constitution remarks:
1 First-class type-written copy is hailed
with pleasure in newspapers and magazine
offices, but very little of it is first
class. It is a positive relief to get n
manuscript legibly written on white paper
in good black ink, with a pen thai
makes a broad stroke. The trouble with
many writers is that they use a pen with
a fine point, and writo a hair-line scrawl
that is hard to read. It is possiblo to
make written copy as plain as print, and
this is what every writer should do.
I "King Cotton must be surely losing
'his grip on the South," exclaims tho
'Washington Star, "when cotton States
like Georgia embark in the culturo of tobacco.
In old times, before Cotton was
crowned King Tobacco's reign was ovei
~ a smaller territory than at present, and it
^ss a sway finally detrimental to tho
whole region, for it left the lands of
^Maryland and Virginia very nearly worn
out. The change may be good for
Georgia for a short season. What is
wanted in the South is variety of crops
and the shifting of crops on the same
farm from field to field from year to year
as fo prevent the soil from becoming
exhausted."
Thero arc a large number of words
which, until recently, have escaped the
attention of lexicographers. In the text
of the Encyclopaedia Britnnnica there are
10,000 words which havo never been
formerly entered and defined in any dictionary.
In the Century Dictionary there
are 70,000 words found in no other.
This fact shows the unrealized wealth
of the English language. It takes a
. child several years to acquire 1000
words. The average illiterate person
never uses more than from 1000 to 2000
words. Intelligent persons, even those
engaged in the learned professions, do
not make ose of more than from 6000 to
8000 words alt told, although there are
~ belonging to the English language
over 225,000. The Shakespearean
standard was less than 2500 words, not
counting these that are compounded Ihd
hyphenated. However, the famous
writer or authority of to-day, whether he
, nees words to express nice shades of
moaning or as technical tools of thought
in-his own department, must havwht his
command a vocabulary of from 80,000 to
40,000 words, the latter being the raaxl&
mum aoqutred bymy mdh now living.
HUUTtiflKJN STATE NEWS.
Southern Men And Measures
Paragraphed.
Newsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphic
Dispatches From Uany Points
In Our Own and Adjoining
States.
VIRGINIA.
The Farmers' Alliance of Albemarle
county is rapidly growing.
The North Side viaduct, at Richmond,
connecting the city with Chestnut Hill,
was opened with great ceremony.
The criminals in the Amherst jail have
beer, taken to Lynchburg for safe keep
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Four thieves were arrested near Dauville,
Thursday, all charged with arson,
vbrft. and poisouiug.
Final arrangements have been made
for the erection of the glass works plant
at I3uena Vista.
The Virginia Pyrites Mining Co. has
been incorporated with a capital stock of
$100,000 to develop pyrite mines in
Louisa county, ^vv.nufacture sulphuric j
acid, soda, efcl"
Sutherland & Ashworth have purcbas- j
ed the Swan coal land of 100,000 acres
in Wise and Dickinson counties, and will
develop same.
Dr. E. H. Smith died at Richmond,
Wednesday night. He was known
throughout the south as the surgeon of
Chimborazo hospital there, during the
war. He was consul to Naples under the
administration of Presidents Garbcld and
Arthur.
NORTH CAROLINA.
In I80O Charlotte contained 65 free
Eersons and 59 slaves. It had a court
ouse and a jail.
| In 1792 Wilmiugton had about 1,100
inhabitants. according to Gen. George
Washington's diary or itiuerary.
Ground was broken at Winston Wednesday
for the new $100,000 hotel to l?e
erected there.
It is reported that Baltimore, Md., Salem,
Va., and other capitalists have purchased
several hundred acres of land in
North Winston as site for the construe
tion of a Bessemer steel plant.
Dr. John F. Crowell, president of
Trinity College, was mairied Thursday,
April 30, at Woodbury, New Jersey, to
Miss Carrie 11. Paseoe. Jas. H. Southgate,
of Durham, was groomsman.
The machine s^ops of the Raleigh &
Gaston Railroad Co. will be moved from
Raleigh to some point farther south, it
being intended to consolidate the shops
??t~ n ? " ?-M ,,
I HpWJ.ll' ot $85,000,
has been organized. 1
The Central Hotel, which was burned ?
a few weeks ago' at Florence, is being ^
rebuilt. ^
The 8outh Carolina R^way authori- j
ties have placed the tug Lila oh the Coop- u
er River for the accommodation of truck ,
farmers on the islands aHa matjjand. r
Another tug is run on the Ashley River. 8
MeCorinich, Abbeville county, owes t
its name to Cyrus H. McConnick, the ?
famous inventor of agricultural machinery,
who, after hejfec^yiii'ed his fortune,bought 1
in 1868 a gold mine and 1,300 acfts of
land where now this town stands.
The gardens of Magnolia,up the Ashley (
river, near Charleston, are justly famous ,
as ouc of the most charming resorts in
the world. These gardens are visited ,
by thousands of people. There can lie
seen the linest collections of flowers in '
4Kn tTArl/1 4V?o ottrootiAM *-*
%MW nvnu, VUV vuivt uvi'iaviiuu UViU^ II1U j
gorgeous Azaleas.
The numiOTorfeppUcanta for adnisoion
to uiemson College is increasing
very rapidly. Secretary Tindal received i
a letter in which the information is giveD
that the roll is now 410.
TENNESSEE.
Knoxville will vote on June 16 whether
to issue $300,000 bonds for seweruge
and streets.
John Cruze, a prosperous farmer living
near Knoxville, was instantly killed by
lightning Thursday.
Perry Durham, of Franklin county,has
had in the last five years, 12 illicit dis- (
tillcries destroyed by the government. 1
Though arrested he has always escaped.
Wednesday he was convicted and sen- <
tenccd to prison at Columbus, Ohio.
The state board of dental cxamiueis, J
provided for in the act regulating the
practice of dentistry, was appointed by
Governor Buchanan, as follows: Dr. J.
Y. Crawford, Nashville, three-year term:
Dr. It. B. Lee, Nashville, two years; Di.
J. L. Newborn, Memphis, three yearsi
Dr. T. W. Ailington, Memphis, one year\ j
Dr. T. A. ShotWfell, Itogersville, on# I
year; Dr. 8. B. Cook, Chattanooira twa I
years.
Two bridges in Shelby county,one ovei
Loosa Ilntchie river near Memphis at
$5 ,350, the other on Livermore avenue, in I
the suburlw of Memphis, at $1,535.
GEORGIA.
David Kempncr, manager of the National
Hotel, Atlnnta, is dead in that
city. IIo was also a musician of ability.
Colonel L. F. Livingston is just from
Oglethorpe couuty, where a big meeting
of Alliancemen has been held.
A new theatre is being built on Edgewood
Avenue, Atlanta. 1,400 will be
the seating capacity.
| Wiley Miller, a freight conductor, fell
uimer tnc cars nwu Cochran, and was inThe
at%bjMbnveutiou of northwest
Georgia will nftt in LaFayctte on Saturday
l>eforo the third Sunday in May, and
will hold a two days' session.
The Sumter County Alliance Co-opcrativo
Association is reported as to erect a
fertilizer factory.
FLORIDA.
Between Lake Ilanis and Lake Miunehnhn,
there ate about tifteen bundled
acres of very tine tomatoes, from which
shipments are being made daily.
The Rev. II. C. Colinan, of Louisville,
Ky., was at Brooksville Saturday lector- I
ing to (lie Free Masons ou "Masonry in
the Holy Ltad?"
Griffin & Brice will build a railroad
ftom Lakeland to the Alalia phosphate
fields.
The Methodists are preparing to erect
a $15,000 church at Tallahassee.
The Polk County Alliance will establish
a bank at Tampa.
The St. Augustine Guards have rcecived
word, indirectly, that Governor
Fleming has decided to call a state encainpment
of the Florida state troops in
duly, and that the north beach has been
decided upon as the place of rendezvous.
Last year an effort was made to have a
state encampment, but the governor decided
against it, as there were no
funds.
OTHER STATES.
In his speech at Birmingham, President
Harrison remarked to the South
w&r
but, as yet you are spinning iu the South
only 8 percent, of it. Why not, with the
help we will give you in New England
ami the North, spin all of it?"
Gen. Albert Pike's successor as the
highest dignitary among the Free Masons
iu this country is Dr. James Cunningham
Batchclor. of New Orleans.
Death of Major Peyton Randolph.
Washington, D. C., [Special.)?Major
Peyton Randolph, an old citizen of
Kichmoud, and who has many friends
and relatives iu thnt city, died at his
residence on Iowa circle, Thursday.
He had been suffering for months with
heart disense, and since February was
confied to his house. As is usual with
heart trouble, Major Randolph's condition
fluctuated. At times he seem to
rally and his family grew hopeful, butv
these recuperative symptoms would be
folloWed hv sinkinsr arm 11 a
Ma jar Randolph a alio red a severe attack
of grip about a year ago, and that
seemed to aggravate his heart trouble.
He remained at his post of duty as third
vice-president of the Richmond and Danville
system despite his illness until the
1st of February. For a month prior to
his death the condition of Major Randolph
had caused his family serious
aiarm. Ills death was quiet and
peaceful, lie was conscious until withiu
a few moments of his death. When
the sununous caine he was surrounded
by his family, Mrs. Randolph and five
daughters.
Money in "Sang."
One of the queer industries of the
country, about which very little is known
outside the custom house, is the cultivation
of ginseng. It is fouud in the
mountain regions of Georgia, North Carolina,
Alabama and Tennessee in abundance,
and only the roots of the plant
are used. These are dug up in the fall of
TnT^ineers, and it is popuwe.
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Tie roots are dried and sold to the ncarst
storekeeper, aud are eventually col- J<
ected in large quantities, sent to Cali- Is
ornia and theucc are shipped to China, ol
The Chinese attach wonderful medicinal ci
iroperties to this article, which has an d
abominable odor aud a vilainous taste, hi
ind they place nil especial value upon al
oots which has fantastic shapes. A gin- st
leng root bearing a fancied resemblance e:
o a human shape is worth its weight in c<
fold in China. tl
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Che Terriblo Experience of Young t}
Men. la
GRBENViM.r, S. ('.. (Special. | A party
if young men trom this city went up the '
Jarolina, Knoxville & Western railroad
>u a hand car. While going down a J
itccp grade they lost control of the car,
md it b-guin increasing speed until it
was running at the rate of forty miles an 1
liour. They were nearing a high trestle,
*nd feurii g it might jump the track, all
of the party, except one, named James 0
Henderson^ leaped down an embank- c
meat, and escaped with only a few
bruises. Henderson prepared to leap,
huug his foot over too far, when it
caught between the crossties and jerked
him off. He fell 011 the rail just in front
of the car. and the wheels on one side
iinKHcrt across liis hod v. He was serious
ly injured and will di<\
A Home For Printers. s
Colorado Springs, Col., [Special. | ?
[ round was broken here for the national 1
Ijome for aged and indigent printers. 1
The home is I he outcome of a donation 1
>f $10,000 by G? orge Wm. Childs and A. 4
1. I)rexel, of Philadelphia, to the inter- ,
national typographical union. Subscriptions
from printers of the United States
have increased this fund sufficiently to
warrant the union in erecting a building
nt u cost of $50,000. The land upon '
which the home is being built consists 1
of HO acres and was donated to the printers
by A. A. McGooncy and L. F. Martin,
of this city. The structure will be
40 by 150 feet, three stories high, with
a 00 foot tower on each end. Ittd sandstone
<|uarried iu the mountain of this
vicinity will be used in the construction
of the home.
Pensioning Confederate Widows.
Atlanta, Ga., | Special. J?In providing
a pension of one hundred dollars for
widows of soldiers who died in the Confederate
service or from wounds received
or disease contracted therein, the General
Assembly of Georgia estimates that some
six hundred bencUciaries would be found
in the State, but up to this time the applications
are about double that number.
As the law requires that the widow shall
have been married while her husband
was in ine service and snail nave remained
unmarried since his death, the num- Z
ber of applications proves either much
fidelity to the memory of the departed
or such a destruction of male marriageable
material by the war as to render
impracticable a second choice, perhaps
both.
Raid on Kentucky Bourbon.
Louisville, Kv.?Revenue agent Hawkins
and a posse has returned from a
moonshine raid through Letcher, Lestie !
and laurel counties. They made a five
hundred mile trip, captured and destroy- 1
cd si* stills together with 100 gallons of
whiskey, 1000 gallons of high, and 500
gallons of low wines. Fifteen moonshiners
were arrested. i
MEXICO HONORS HARRISON.
Our Sistar Republic TJnitfes Witb
Texas in Greeting the Priiident.
El Paso, Tkx., [Specia/j?Mexico
joined the United States Tiitsday in doing
honor to President Hivrison. The
traiu arrived at El Paso after a mn of
600 miles from San Antonio
A part of the route lay Along the picturesque
Rio Grande, andfthe President
spent several hours on the rear platform
of the observation car admiring tne scenery.
As the train ran through the section,
Mexican men, woirien ana children,
came out from queer-locking huts and
gazed with wonder at tM train A large
encampment of Mixioaa railroad laborers
cheered as the train went by. A
lation of the tittle ff vn turned out to
welcome the Chief Executive. The station
building was lairly covered with
wreaths of roses, and bouquet after boquet
was handed to the Presidential party
by persons in the crowd until the
platform of the observation car was deep
in swcct-smelling dowers. Two little
girls presented the President with a large
basket of roses, and the public school
children presented a writeeu address.
The President made a few remarks and
Mr. Wanamaker and Mr. Rusk also spoke
Ysleta El Paso, which the inhabitants
claim is the oldest town in the United
States, had a brass-band with Mexican
musicians to greet the President. When
the train halted there at 9:30 o'clock
this morning, Mexicans and Indians
crowded about the car and nearly all
shook the President's hand.
s The train arrived at El Paso on time,
governor Carrillo, of the Mexican State
Af Chihuahua; Mexican custom officers of
tme border, General McCook, of the
Unitefl States, and prominent citizen*
met tile President at the train.
A detachment of the Fifth Infantry
_ j x _ l * 1 -am
aim onniijaa nuinoer 01 mexicau umceis
with a military band and local organizations
formal a procession to the courthouse,
wliflke the speaking took place.
At many of \he street corners were banuers
in Hpan(h a?d English bearing the
words, "Reciprocity witn Mexico."
General A.VL. Mallory made the address
of welcome at the courthouse.
Governor CaHUo also spoke in behalf
of President Dia^and several others mado
speeches welcoming the President to the
Lone 8tar State. V,,
The President matfe a brief response
and was heartily appliiutied.
Mrs. Harrison and m number of ladies
of the party visited Jtfuarez, on the Mexican
side of the river,jjwbere a salute was
tired by Mexican artinlery. A. salute was
also tired on the A American side.
A MODk" FARMER,
Eastman, Ga., [.PfeeCTa!."]?Last year :l
shn II. Hargrove, elcclled the second T
est farmer in the county in the number '*
r bales per ncrf fbtr nis entire cotton 81
op. And this proposes to re- I
nee his number oNlcrcs to less than s
rlf of what it was last year, so that he c'
lone, in person, can^ultivate it, and
ill obtain a like yi^Tof cotton, lie "
cpects to apply seventy-five bushels of
jtton seed and 800 pounds of guano in "
le drill per acre at. planting, and in '>
uly feed 300 pounds more of guano to l|
ic growing plants. Mr. Hargrove's '
inds are already in a high state of culvation,
and, with good seasons and the '
iccellent tillage he will give it, we may '
>ok for fine results. " V
tICHMOND'S TREASURYROBBED. "
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)he Mayor Makee an Incriminating 111
Report. J
Richmond, Va., [bpecTalff?The mayir
has submitted to a joint session of the
ouncil his report of the investigation he
pis made of the offices of treasurer and y
uditor. He says E. Buford Grimes, who ,
s under indictment, is guilty of frauds (
oniiuittert through several years, that ,
ic has used every conceivable means to rj
nanipulate the records to rob the city. f(
iis shortage, so far as discovered, is t
ibout $2,600, but the mayor thiuks
ii it her investigation will add to this |
hortage. He criticises severely the g
oose manner in wmcn tne auditor and
rcusurcr have conducted their departncnta,
saying they have completely iglored
all ordinances respecting their
jffices. H
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Another Bellamy Looking Backward.
\
Nou.mon. <>. T., April 211. ?George "
Bellamy, a youug druggist of this place, {
is noted for his joking proclivities. Vesterday
evening he<- proposed *
marriage to Miss Emma, daughter of Dr.
J. 8. Cannon. She jokingly consented, j
and County judge F. F. Case happened
in and was invited to perform the ceremony,
which he did in regulation style
in the presence of several witnesses, i
Upon returning to his office, the Judge !
made the record of the marriage. t
This morning, when younf? Bellamy 1
learned of the Judge's action, he made
haste to explain to his Honor that it was i
nil a joke, l>ut was cooly informed that ?
law did not recognize jokes; that the law
had been complied with, and that he was 1
legally married. ^
A Centipede in the Coffee Pot.
Littlk Rock, Am., [Special. |?Par- '
titulars of a shocking poison were received
here. A family of Ohioans named
Building, on the route overland from
Tipton, Tenn., to Texas, were poisoned
while in camp in Boone county, Ark. 1
were uvea with difficulty. u*?a?na i
tion showed that they ~2f- ??ffee
in which a large centipede
A Suicide a I
Birmingham, Ala., vfjal' fj&j
Fi. M. Goldstoin, about
and the wife of a mer^ jj, ^ sixty
grains of morphine, ?ur nBC. *<i? .* 'e*
hours. General despoutfvAKne''
*k xmm ^
TIME TO AWAKEN.
A Wail of Distress From New Hampshire.
The Oreen Mountain State Is Visited
by "Sockloss Jerry" Simp,
son, Who Preaches Alliance
Doctrines.
Mancaestbr, N. H., fSpecial.]- The
Wick/i/ Bmfrjrt says: Hon. Jeiry Simpsoil,
of Kansas, visited our State last
week. Precious little welcome did he
get from the newspapers of the State
The message that he bore was Dot suited
to their tastes. But he set the people to
thinking, and scores of those who heard
seen events that coutinned those people
in their belief. The Supreme Court of
New Hampshire, responding to the
queries of the Legislature, has issued the
dictum, almost iu so many words, that
the railroads have succeeded in defrauding
the State of its interest in the Con
cord railroad. The Legislature of 1880
as was generally understood, contemplated
no such result. Not au advocate of
those bills by which railroad consolidation,
stock watering to large amounts,
and a revival of old and dead stock were
permitted, ever dared to suggest that the
people were surrendering any rights they
possessed in passing the act of 1880.
But the court has said that they did it.
That right which so sagacious a man as
Austin Corbiu was ready to pay $500,000
for it in 1880 and which he considered
worth $1000,000, this year the court in
?ffect declares has been waived, given
away, utterly lost. And how? With an
understanding of what was being done?
No! But through subterfuge and chicanery.
The act ot 188H pretended to sccure
the people iu their rights, but the
I court does not hold that it (lid so. On
the contrary, it coolly informs the people,
by implication but not set words, that the
reservation of rights iu that statute was u
delusion and a snare, void and of no
. fTect. The act of the court in that regard
has been followed up by another iu
the same direction?the issuing of an
injunction by Judge Blodgctt preventing
the laying of the rails on the old road
from North Weave to Ileuuiker. This
last act of railroad arrogance is he last
straw to break the back of the long sulToring
patience of the people of New
Hampshire. It is a reassert ion in nu aggravated
form of the Vanderbilt creed,
"The people be d d." And if the
people do not resent it they deserve just
that fate aud nothing better.
The Knights of Labor were organized
iu this State for one purpose, the securing
of a ten-hour law. When that was
Ml! JV'lU e
wore rccom Gt the Legislature of 1801
nswer. Its first business almost was to
ass, absolutely without amendment,
ills in jecting millions of dollars of new
took into two railroad corporations and
resenting to their fortunate stockholders
ifts of millions of dollars which must
rcutually come out of the people's pockIs.
It has followed it. up by voting
own in the Senate the only measure in
ic interest of the poor man that the
louse could he induced to pass, viz: the
ill allowing tHe poor man's live dollars
> buy an egual proportion of tiansporta011
over its lines with the rich man's
vouty dollars. The same Senate is reed
upon to thwart the will of the people
i the matter of the construction of the
ITeaie-IIenniker road as authorized by the
louse of Representatives. The exactions
ad extortions of the railroads of Kansas
ere at the bottom of the Farmers' A11 iace
movement in that State. Have the
irmers and citizens of New Hampshire
>89 manhood than they?
Cheerful on the Scatio'id.
Chi a hi.otte8v 11.t.e, Va., [Special.]?
Villiam Museoe, alias William T. Jordon,
lie negro who murdered Policeman
Icorge F. Seal in this city on Dec. 31,
888. was hanged in the jail yard here
'uesday morning. He made a full couession.
He distributed money and
rinkets to the women prisoners, and rcucstcd
that his body be sent to bis paents
in Lynchburg. He joined in the
iiigiitg on the scaffold.
tnurinn Degeneracy.
A Rhode Island paper says: The averge
Florida crocodile brought North by
he tourists is seven inches in length, and
te has sea room enough in a cigar box.
Vc look h( I he little eugs, and then,
hiiiki 11 ir of his ancestors whom we saw
licturcd in the geography of our boyiood
days, carrying oft an ox in his jaws,
ve conclude that the Augustan age for
rrocodiles, is past
\ Fireman Killed by an Electric
Wire.
Ciiattanoooa, Tenn., [Special. J?A
arge crowd gathered at the corner of
Vinth and Georgia avenue, to witness
he Fire Department put out a small
daze in the European Hotel.
Charles Werner, head hoseman of the
.ookout Fire Department, was at the top
if the long ladder near a third story winlow.
lie touched a live electric light
vi e and dropped dead to the ground.
Received Her Money and Fainted.
Washington, D. C., [Special.]?Elizabeth
Mulverhill, of Frederick county,
Va., fainted in the Treasury Department
just after she signed her receipt for $4,445.17
and received a draft for the same.
The money was due her under the Bowman
act for property destroyed by the
Federal army during the war, and the
claim had been Dendina for veais
A Tragedy in the Churchyard.
Lake CnAm.es, La., (Special. |?At
Dry Creek church, as the people were
.-oli./ionu cornipf>u an 111.
congregating ; ? ,
tercation took place between E. Miller
and I)r. W. A. Siller, in which Dr. Sig
ler was shot and instantly killed by Miller.
The cause of the trouble is not
known. The murderer was arrested.
A Mayor Accused of Dog Fighting1.
Cincinnati, O. .lames Hroderick,
Mayor of Carthage, was arrested this
morning on the charge of participating
In a dog tight.
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I THE POSTAL SUBSIDY ACT.
Entabliahing of Steamship Lines
Between Southern Ports and
South America.
Warii noton, D. C., [Special. 1 ? For
some time representative** of commercial
organizations of New Orleans, Galveston
and St. Louis have been conferring with
Postmaster-General Waiiauiakcr and oth
er postal officers with the view of establishing
lines of vessels to ply between
New Orleans aud Galvestou nud Soul h
and Central American ports.
Ex-Governor Warmouth, representing
New Orleans aud Galveston, has conducted
the priucipal negotiations, and
he took advantage of Wauamakcr's trij>
South with the President to urge the r
has received advices from Wanamaker
showing that the negotiations have
reached what may be regarded as a favorable
termination.
Wanamaker in the first place gave assurance?
that the administration was
specially anxious to aid tfie South in developing
commerce with South ami Central
America, as the nearness of Southern
ports to the proposed new field of com- |
merce renders them the natural trade
centres for our Southern neighbors. lie
added that if the companies of steamers
could he established from Southern
ports to Southern aod Central America
on terms to compete with projected
steamship liucs from the East, then contracts
would be made with the South.
The representatives oj ^puthorn commercial
bodies claim ibat they can establish
lilies with advantage over Eastern lines.
eiul Ihev an? gratified witbtne assurances
thut the South will be givfcn a fair show.
In a Syrian Cafe.
to gather in Boine^pu^Uc<'c^^anT^nte^
tain themselves with pipes and tiny cups
of black coffee. At such times the professional
story-teller is welcome. Somo
winter night we look in upon such a scene.
A 6Core of men sit about on low stools,
while at one end of the arched room sits
the story-toller. Sometimes he recounts
very vividly the valorous deeds of his
warlike ancestors; now he speaks of love,
throwing into the form of verso his visions
of beauty and gentleness; now the
intent listeners forget their pipes as he
brings back to their minds scenes of 1860,
when feuds between Druzes and Maronites
had sprinkled the sides of Lebanon
with Christian blood. Between tho
stories, the low gurgle of tho water pipes
sounds a musical applause, and we Westerners
realize that we arc, in very truth,
in the land of "The Thousand and One
Nights," listening to the magic language
-4 nil Jit 'it diV-1' ""."J1i*
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there ate signs of creaking up. Tho t
story-teller is rewarded with a copper bit t
from each of the company, the host is ()
paid lor his eveniug provision of pipe f
and coffee, and tho men retire to their ?
homes.
The next morning our friend, tho cafe
keeper, washes out his pipes, places them
in order on tho long shelves, and is
ready for another day's entertaining.
A Fetish Man.
From "Fetishism in Congo Laud,"
by one of Stanley's pioneer officers,
printed in the Century, wc quote as
follows:
The fetish man under any name is the
authority on all matters conuected with
the relations of man to the unseen. He
is the exorciscr of spirits, the maker of
charms and the prescriber and regulator
of all ceremonial rites. He can discover
who "ate the heart" of the chief who
died but yesterday, who -xtrwns who ?
caused the canoe to upset, and givo
three lives to the crocodile and the dark
waters of the Congo, or even who
blighted the palm trees of a village and
dried up their sap, causing the supply of
malafu, or palm wine, to cease, or drove
away the rain from a district and with- <
ered it? fields of nguba (ground nuts'). (
All this is within the ken of the Nganga
Nkisi, and he is appealed to on all these
occasions to discover the culprit, by liis
insight into the spirit world, nud hand
him or her to the just chastisement of an
outraged community. This is the only
substitute for ?eligion that the African
savago possesses; its tenets arc vague and
unformulated, for with every tribe and
every district belief varies and rites and
ceremonies are as diverse as the fancies
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Settlement of the Virginia Debt. I
London, Eno., \Cab\egram. The or
gotiations between Mr. Ellis, of the
American committee on the Virginia
debt, and Messrs. Lubbock, Liddcrdnlc
and Daniell, constituting the English n<i
visory board, have resulted in negotiations
for a settlement of the debt based
upon the plan of November, 1800, recommended
by Messrs. Cleveland, bayard.
Phelps, and others.
Wants to Come South.
The Grand Hapids Refrigerator Co., of
Ginnd Rapids, Michigan, in addition to
their refrigerator business, manufacture
portable houses. The company contemplates
the removal of the |>oitahle house
building brunch of their business to some
point in the South where iron, lumber
and cotton cloth can be had at low cost.
It invites correspondence on the subject.
Waynesboro,
is being circulated here by a negro
preacher, who lives a few miles out in the
country. It is an appeal for money to
purchase a set of false teeth. He was
greetcu wnn isugnier wnercver ne appeared,
but nothing daunted, he is still
| going the rounds with his petition. Ho
says he can't preach the Gospel without
teeth.
Different classes of substances have
been found to affect the organs of taste
in the following order: Bitters, acids,
saline substances, sweets and alkalies.
The taste nerves arc nearly 2000 times as
sensitive to quinine as to sugar.
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! ROSENTHAL ANXIOUS TO BUY,
And Afterward Repented of His
Haste in the Matter.
Greenville. S. C., [Special. J?A
transaction and subsequent events connected
with it have been the cause of
considerable comment in commercial circles
here. It appeals that L. Rosenthal,
a wealthy retired Hebrew merchant, who
lias recently removed here from ltaleigh,
N. entered the store of H. Elide),
and iu an apparently jesting manner offered
Mr. Endel a ceitain amount for his
stock of goods, lease of stole and
will. Mr. Endel icplied
would take a cei-i-*
Roseuth*a" i . 4
.'.V :,i,. r.nnet s
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for the amount, receiving a bill of sale,
the entire trransaction being iu the presence
of witnesses. A few hours after
this took place Mr. Endel was surprised
to receive a visit from Mr. Rosenthal,
who requested him to cancel the trade
aud return the chocks, giving as his reason
that lie did not care to go into business
again. This Mr. Endel declined to
do, whereupon Mr. Rosenthal insisted
that the trade l?? declared olT, and, Mr.
Endel further declining, notified him
that he would stop the payment of his
checks. When t lie bank opened the
following morning Mr. Endel presented
the checks. Payment was refused. The
case is how in the hands of the attorneys,
and the public, with considerable curiosity,
is awaiting the course of events.
Ill Fate of An Armenian Girl;
A London cablegram says: Considerable
excitement prevails on the Astncnian
frontier, owing to the fate of an Athenian
r*8L fe,
as far a? the Russian frontier, tfliero sho
was captured, and, it is saftl, carried back
to Ri/.n and murdered.
The girl had been kidnapped two years
before from tier house in Russian Armenia.
and sold to ft wealthy Moslcmnlrisn.
When the story became known to the
refugee Armenians on the Russian side of
I 1 he border, tlicv were, with difficulty.
H'struined from crossiog the frouticr t<>
invade Turkish Armenia.
An Agent of a Bird Houae Hangu
Himself.
New Ouleans, La., [Special.]?('has.
Bernhs, a German, 32 year9 old, from
New York City, hanged liiinsclf to a bedpost
in his room over William Barters
bird store on Chartrcss street, lie came
here from New York with a consignment
of birds, and ever since his arrival has
acted as though he was slight I v demented
JSe. W tiw
rcasury department has information t??
he capture of "Dean, the counterfeiter
if Winstcd county, Alabama." Moulds
or making coins were found in his poscssion.
S77? I EXCURSION RATES j
I ZL O j Tickets Good for
| Five Days.
KEEP YOUR EYE OH
DILWORTH,
"THE CITY OF AVENUES."
A Suburban Town Site of 45(1
Acres, forming the Southern
Corporate lAnitts
OF"
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
The Queen City of the State. A
Boulevard 100 feet wide, gives a 3
mile, drive around DILWORTH
and its avenues, running at right
angles, are 00 feet wide, constructed
with a view to sanitary advantages,
for sewerage with water facilities.
Over one. hundred thousand dollars
has already been spent on this properly
and many more thousands will
be exvended in the near future. The
property cojitains the beautiful
LA TTA Park of 90 acres, a lovely
feature, of which is Forsyth lake,
nearly 1200/ee? long. Taken altogether,
this is the prettiest resort of
itscharacter in the "Dixie" country.
At LATTA Park there are tvoio in
course of const miction, and trill be
completed by August 1, 1891, a )ntvilion
designed by the celebrated
Norrman, "the architect of !>eauti~
ful designs," together with a keepers
lodge, unique in character and a
conservatory after the English pattern,
at a cost for the buildings and
furnishings of over 8i3,000, together
with other attractive features, now
being arranged for by the
Charlotte Consolidated Cons. Co.
The company will offer at public
sale on the. premises on
MAY 20, 21, 22, 1891,
a number of valuable building lots,
in the immediate vicinity of the pic >
turesque places above described.
Terms of sale: One-fourth cash, balance
in 1, 2. and 3 years. The visiH*r
to Charlotte on that day, will be
present also at the regular annual
celebration of
lfAAblftaKtiM/ir nfiAlnniliAH nf In^AnnndnnAA
mc Aiciiuurg uGuauiiuii ui muciicuucuuc.
This fbtb day is a feature of North Carolina's
Queen City, end is well worth the trip from the
remotest section of our surrounding country. The
f urchaser of a lot, or lots, will be rewarded with
he return of the cost of his fare to the sale. Irrespective
of business, the pleasures of the day
will amply repay all for the outlay Celebrated
music will be ou hand to enliven the party. Ample
accommodations for visitors, through four
hotels and a large number of boarding houses A
finely equipped electric city railway to carry
Jaaseugers over Charlotte and bee environs, now
ecorated In their beautiful Spring attire.
mahe n note wf It, iejrlsil Oil,wohtii
n it ft (iiARMrm, mar *o,
JI and aa, lull. CJCl
For further information, address
CHARLOTTE CONSOLIDATED CONS. CO.
x; (HABLOtTE, !t. C, |
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