Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t (WW imml WRM m BTITO- | pean navies with ' captive balloons as points of observation. From one sent sip from a French ironclad, ships and the ' details of the neighboring coast could be seen, in clear weather, for twenty or twenty-five miles. With silk as the ma- i tcrial of the cable by which it is held, rhe balloon could rise in calm weather to a height of four hundred yards. The subject has attracted the attention of the naval authorities in Germany and England. WW???W V The Germ ui Emperor, who expressed at the conclusion of the recent school |, conference at Berlin his dissatisfaction with the manner in which Prussian his- ii tory is taught, has, according to the report ot German papers, commissioned Profsss..-meagift, or ran craw-rumour, x at Llteherfelde, to write a new history of v. Pihssis under the ftohenxollerns. The o work will serve, in the fir9t instance, as " a text-book for military schools, but is expected to be used in time at the high J' schools of Prussia. s< | The Scientific Arn'.ricat declare? that J ."the need of fast war vessels was well i| 'illustrated by the reecnt incide it in the I harbor of San Diecro, Cal., when a Chilian cruiser belonging to the iusurgeuts ca- " tered the bay, anchored, t soi on board recruits, supplies of provisions, amain- a nition, and then sailed awnv. This ship, s' ;underthe laws of nations, was in fact a piratical vessel, and as such wis seized [by $tae Government authentic< at San ? (Diego, and a United States vessel placed j [onboard and in possession. Bit tho u^Chilian rebels* paid no attention to the h laws of the United States; t'uey m iv be *' aid to have captured the place. When they had obtainc I ill the supplies they 'J wanted to a. sist the n in carrying on war |j against a friendly nation, they upheaved anchor and stcauio I away, carrying off as I a prisoner tho official reoresaatitivo of " the great republic. This was a small ship \ called tho Itata, carrying four guru. There is nothing to prevent the Chilian s rebels from sending in other boats to Jj capture or bombard Sm Diego or other ,| towns along the coast. Indeod, while t the Itata was taking on supolies at San !l Diego, other vessels of the rebels were JJ hovering outside the harbor. We have si no naYY worthy of the oaaxa. audou?*ri?~ ? all our seaports are without propor defenses. Like 8au Diego, they are at the v mercy of any single piratical boat that <1 chooses to enter. This is a very humilti iating position for a country like our.s to be placed iu. All told, we have a pair of small torpedo boats, half a dozen or go of small cruisers, and an ejuil nunber of larger vessels. There should he 8 fifty ships where now there are ouc. Every harbor in tlie country should he 1 guarded by efficient seutincls consisting of vessels of high speed, ready for in ^ stnnl action, to maintain and enforce the authority of the republic." 8 Rays the Pittsburg Dispatch: So mo wit * emarKeu~CTTHt selegrapb are rapidly makiug one people if all that dwell on the face of the earth. 1 l'hey are destroying the national pccul- ; | arities of the dress of men in the coun- ' tries of Europe by giving them the styles ^ ji vYurjr>iuj tiuiuiu^ lium Liuuuuupvuiuu ( . is the great centre of traffic for that part t 3f the world. Ready-made garments 1 from London are sold in the shops of ? (viusLerumii, tier 1 in, Vienna,Copenhagen, s _ Christiana, Stockholm and St.Petersburg, ?ad in many of the smaller cities, which ' obtain their supplies from the great ones ( on the list or fi#m London direct. Form- : srly an English sailor could bo readily 1 distinguished from a Danish or Swedish j one, and each of these from the other by ] ais distinctive costume, but at the pres- I snt time all of them are dressed alike, ' ind quite possibly their garments carati from the same factory. Fifty years ago the homespun garments of New Eastland differed from those of the Western and Southern States, and these again from those of Canada, but nowadays the homespun has been largely driven out by "store clothes." which have found their way into the gTeat nnjority of the towns and villages nil over the land. Thebusi' ness of manufacturing clothing on the theory that every garment that is made will fit somebody and find a customer is increasing year by year, and though the aim trousers thus created are sold at a price that defies competition on the part of the weaver of homespun, the trade seems to be a profitable one for all concerned. In rnanv of the lar?re establish ments the cutting is done with great rapidity, the cloth being piled in thickncss of 100 or 2'JO layers, whion are cut by a One saw that follows a metal pattern, under the guiding hand of a single operator. Thus, with the aid of machinery, one person can do the work of fifty in cutting of garments; the sewing machine follows closely an<V rapidly, and in this way the whole world is clad.' With our clothing of one pattern, and the telegraph laying befoie us every d ?y all the news of the world, we are not only dressing alike, but thinking and talking of the same things at the same time. * .. i ^ ' V LATE SOUTHERN BRIEFS. Knowing That Variety la The Spice Of Life, We Present to Our Readers All the Home News, Fresh, Spicy And Condensed. VIRGINIA A monument to the Confederate deaa ras unveiled iu Fredericksburg. A stock company lias applied for a rancbise to build au electric street car inc at Staunton 1 Au unknown colored man was found dead 11 one of the large pipes of the Princess 1 urnace at Glen Wiltou Tuesday. The corner-stone of the new Masonic i b' f gr* - nunc-Decrerary iroDtrr krtdreted the Augusta xutinty mrmery m..?.11 Staunton Thursday. The claim of a colored girl at Carringtin for $93 agaiust the Chesapeake and tliio railroad for the loss of a valise was 1 ettled Tuesday by a payment of $20. ; Cordinl greetings have passed between he commercial bodies of Norfolk and lOuisville, on the occasion of the openng of the Norfolk and Western and the .ouisville and Nashville roads. The people of Virgiuia have been nvited to send delegates to a convention 0 be held at l'ulaski, July 4th. at which ' t is expected plans will be perfected for | n elaborate display of the State's re- , ources and progress at Chicago in 1893. r NORTH CAROLINA. ? The ScaboSrd Air Line has issued rdlrs foi the erection of a handsome pas v enger station, with beautiful grounds, at x lendcrscn. 80,000 acres of land in Caldwell county t nive been sold to an agent of a Russian x ociety for the colonization of Jews. In the examination before the Exam- 1 ners of the State Medical Board, Rusell Bellamy, of Wilmington, won the ;i 1 st prize. There were 00 in the class. I Suburban real estate in close proximity o the larger Southern cities is receiving inusual attention this season. Three reeks since there was a very succesful < arge sale of lots near Charlotte. A special from Washington, D. C., ays: The Census Oflicc to-day gave out a he tobacco statistics of North Caroliua. s lie total number of planters in the State luring the census year 1890 was 27,250, , he total area devoted to tobacco 97,077 cres, the total product 36,375,258 lounds and the value of the crop to the irodueer. estimated on a basis of actual ales. |5,175,83?. i ' *wVtnff?(iay. htmy*cr~Dlkvi?7~'" olorcd, assistant postmaster at Halifax, ins convicted of embezzling a thousand , iollars from the government and 6enenced to eighteen months in the peni- | eop'ary at Columbus, O., and fined $400. ? SOUTH CAROLINA. Rock Hill now has street cars. The goods and chattels of the Experi- ;l nental Station are being moved to C'lem- ., on College, Ft. llill. J. A stock company is being organized to I; mild a cotton compress at Darlington. Capitalists have incorporated the Alta- 0 irista baud & Improvement Co. to build t \ new town near Hamburg. f .1. C. Cary is organizing a $250,000 took company for the purpose of erectng a cotton mill on Little river, near 1 Seneca. I The Board of Canal Trustees have den- % gnnted Mavor MeMastcr, Aldermnn ucsportes and nmgineer muiy c.uium- ,, ria a-special' committee to prepa'C a , inmpluet upon the history and possibilt- j ies of the Columbia canal. ^ The lice planters of South Carolina and , Georgia who have depended for so long ( m the State of the rivers for the inunda- > ion of theii fields are now experiment- j ng with artesian wells. Water is secur;d at a depth of GO to 200 feet, and the i inrtrtl*- ! ? - ' t- . , v f :.. ... I stance. t G. Wanner, secictnry of the South i Carolina Horticultural Society, luul a I veteran gold miner, is preparing for ex- t tensive gold mining in tire vicinity of | spaitanbuig S. C. The company with I which he is connected has purchased a water-powe*- for the s'atuping in I Is. a nd lias secured options on 2?,0'J0 acres of land on which it will prospect. He he- ' lieves that tlu* ores there will assay #15 0 Ion. TENNESSEE. Daytou is to have a pearl button manufactory. ( Capitalists are organizing a stock 1 company to construct a steel plant at South Pittsburg A company represented hy II. F. Starke, controls about 7 5.000 acres of land in Fentress, Overton and Pick if* counties, and will sink oil wells on same. The war department lias approved the allotment hy the Mississippi river commission of sfl-'i ()(H( for the improvement of the channel at the Memphis grain elevator. fn ?1.? IT. . in tin- 1 mien mines court at Nashville, .fudge Jack appointed Boyd Ewing, of Chat tanooga. receiver of the Cardiff Coal and Iron Company, of Roane county. This is an insolvent co operation, owing between fJOO.OOO and $400,000, and having assets nearly the name in value. In the notorious libel suits of Revs. Manker and vunpson vs. Dr. T. C. Carter, a decision was rendered at Chattanooga by Judge Traysor, overruling the demurrer filed bv the defendant It i? woe oi we most surisauonai easts in tne church history of the south. Carter is charged with adultery and made counter charge against Sampson. All the par ties are doctors of divinity. OEOROIA. The Atlanta Paik now lias two yourg .Mexican lions. Air.rriius is gelling ready to enteitan ferry Simpson, the suckles* stalesiiien iioiii Kansas, who will speak in that city next month. Kx-Oovcrnor Bullock has been unatiinously elected a trustee for four jears' 1 term of the Atlanta * university""** ?-Ea accepted the position. Governor Northen has notified th lessees of convict labor in Georgia tha rhcr must effectually separate all wome in their camps from the men. Many carloads of luscious south Geoi gia watermelons have already been ship pcd. The melons are of good size, juic; aud well developed. The ex-confederate soldier, in Let county, who says that he has one leg and one wife, certainly deserves the syinpa thy of the Confederate Veteran*' Associa tiou. A novel suit is on trial in the supetioi ourt at Atlanta. Mr John W. Keel) went to the depot at Palmetto to gel *ome freight. He says Mr. Kiilinn, the lepot agent, was intoxicated and attack i!d him with a gun, pointing it at liirr uid also.drew a knife oe him. For this reatinent he sues the "West Point road o^*5,0C|0. ... ^,,.1 lav. was passed by the lejrislhturc. Thomas P. Gray, president of the Medcal Association of Florida, and for sov?ral years mayor of Ocnla, is dead : aged iftv-six years. Hails are now being laid on the seven ?;n.c ? ? vo V* iwa I vuunvxuu^; tin; iiuw 111 1II1H own of Phosphoria, near Wiuter Haven, "la., with the South Florida rond at hit tow. The legislature passed a joint tesoluiou providing for the equitable distribution of the fuud provided for the more omplctc endowment and support of the ollegcs for the bcuetit of agriculture and he mechanics' arts. The East Coast Canal of Florida will, vhen completed, be 300 miles long. It vill then be a waterway for river steamrs from Lake Worth to St. Augustine, ind will enable the latter city to become lie distributing point for the fruits_*nd egetables of the Indian river~country. ind for other large areas of fertile lands. 1'he most difficult part of the work will ie in crossing the four miles of the Matingas divide, where quicksands will nobably he encountered. OTHER STATES. A fatal and distinctive water-spout ecurrcd in Green c:unty, Tex., a few lavs since. If has been estimated, that Louisiana iIoiip will rail for nearly $10,000,000 of ugar bounty t)iis season. The completion of the jetties at the noutli of the Brazos river, in Texas, ia innounecd. These consist of parallel wal's 565 feet apait exti nding to deep vatcr a distance of 5,600 feet. Thi; \oik has cost $1,800,000. Trid ColfSinsnuatio'n! T The New York Financial Chronicle rings its cotton facts down to last Friday light. It says for the week ending Fr:? lay evening the total receipts have cached"30,006 hales, against 33,08*2 bales ist week and 38,501 bales the previous reek, making the total icccipts since tl.e st of September, 1800, 6,783,013 bales, gaiust 5,757,028 bales for thci same icriod of 1880-00, showing an increase incc September 1, 1800, of 1,026,885 al s. The export for the week reach a total f 46,403 bales, of which 33.323 were to I rent Britain. 090 to France and 12.00? o the rest of ti?o continent. The speculation in cotton for futuie leliverv at New Tork has been fairly acive for the week under review, with >rices making rather wide variations. I'here was much depression on Monday, vhen August contracts sold at thirtypoints tr ?nrr?T??" nignc-si ' piiiTs nade about t!te middle of May. This lecline from a price already low brought 11 buyers to cover contracts. On iVcdncsday the next crop advanced .1 few points on reports of an adverse crop ac:ount from the slate bureau of Georgia, vhich said the condition was only 75 uul the acreage decreased 15 per cent. Hiis influence aud its effect upon tlie Liverpool !? > !:? caused ?<?i Tuesday general buoyaucy, which was maintained hro.ugbout' he day, the latest figures being among tlie highest paid Many who liad been "short" for mouths covered (heir contracts. But the demand was pretty well met by the room traders, whe bought on Wednesday and were sellers to teali/.e profits. The receipts at interior towns fell off materially, and this fuel was an element of strength. Friday there was an early decline in sympathy with a reduction in value at Liverpool, where excessive supplies and dull trade in Manchester arc apparantly dominat ing influences; but after the last call then was a buoyant market, in which tlx early decline was quickly recovered, owing to reports of a severe drought ir the southwest. Cotton on the spot de clined 1 -10c. on Monday and again 01 Wednesday. At the lower prices a com parativcly large busiucss was done 01 Thursday for home consumption. Fri day the market was firm, but quiet, a s jc for middling uplands. Tr.e total sales for forward delivery fo the week are ItOJt.OOO bales. For im mediate delivery the total sales foot ti| > II I'I I...lou t - \ <Vv_ nvnni.1 I.KtiS for consumption. The figures indicate an increase in th cotton in sight of 80.*>,780 hales as com pared with the same date of 185)0, an in tease of si5,:'?18 hales as compared witl the corresponding date of 188!t, and ar increase of 81>'J,08| bales as compare* with 18H8. Reports by telegraph indicate that th temperature lias in general been favorabt for cotton. The outlook in Texas is quit promising. the C. K. A W. Gets a Receivei A Charleston. S. (5., dispatch, says In the United States court to-tiay 11. C lleattic was appointed permanent receir er of the Carolina, Knoxville ami Wesi cm Railroad, with a $10,000 bone llohlets of bonds of the road are require to prove Iheii bonds before the clerk e the court. T'uc suit was brought by th National Rank of Augusta. This mak< the third railroad in this state now in tii hands of a receivei, the others being th South Carolina and the "Three C'l road?. t Mr. Titian fixpfato tin Podttn ? of Th? Farnrs' Allium. \ T v. V '* It Will Hot Support the Action of r the Cincinnati Convention-?Fro? ^posed Confederation With 9 Labor Organizations. I Washington-, D. C., (8pecial.)?To tlir quest ion of whether the Farmer*' Alliance is supporting the Cincinnati 1 episode Mr. Tillman, Secretary of the National Executive Board of the Fnr? t > 4 11 :.1 *t.?i ? -1 ?? mvi.-? niu-iuvr, situ : "iuv iiauunai r ar* * uier>' Alliance is not supporting Ue action taken l>y the Cincinnati Qmven1 tion." ^ - "How was the Cincinnati Con^nttoe "JDid not delegates ?" ' Not by authority or consent of its na '.tonal officers. I am told delegates were sent there by State Alliances from only two States, and I doubt if they were sent upon a basis of representation. Tha Cincinnati Convention appoiuted a commit lee to confer with Alliance men or the 22<1 of February next." "What, in vour opinion, will be ihc outcome of that conference in regard to the subject of a third party movement V "1 do not know the shape political affairs may take by that time, but I am of the opinion that the two old parties will so endeavor to meet the demauds of the farmers that there will be no necessity for a third party." "Suppose neither of them does!" "Then I bclivea large majority of the members of the Alliance in the South wll' remain with their ifaiieftlTO n?rtii>? " Will tin; Ix&Uvuni All* pT-H iy, undertake a Ibircl party raoVcmot, in your opinion ?" "The National Farmers' Alliance is not a political party. But in answer to your question I would say it will not, because it is absolutely non-pai tisan. Faimers of 1 all political parties can become members of the Farmers' Al'.iance." 4'What is the Farmers' Alliance, Mr. Tillman ?*' "Ii is the greatest and grandest organization on eaith. It means the greatest good to the greatest number, and absolutely detci mined to have exact justice to all, and special favors to none.* We have, standing together, from five tc eight millions in co-operation, and have nn s-c members than any ^organization known to histoiy, and the order is becoming more powerful every day." pytr. .pTis missionary cno'H^^Mtirr few jionopolists from conr^Bp everything an^ 's Salvaliou encf^x to save this country. The farmiug\ ^?l laboring people arc coming to km. w how to stick together and what organization meat13- They have the nutpliers and can ro,j.,-ol politics: that is take it from the hand9 ^ie 'ew anc* P^acc back in the hand8 ?* uian.V- Wc arc rapidly but vfic- sectional jealousies oud sectional ??'ife 'n interest of the classes who fce^ am* cl?the the world." .,y0,'. said before, 'the Farmers'A Hi a nee if. "bsolutely non-partisan.' Yon sav now'' have the numbers and car. con no?- What do you menu?" "As t\u organization, I mean it ia absolutely?|0n-partisan: but its numbers arc absolutely sufficiently grctit in the two old paiticS lo cnal,ie Alliauces to .and to control them to re j farming and laborTT'^rr iich,>.1^? "If that i9 the purpose of theFarmers' Alliance, do you mean to 687 that it i? not n political organization ?" "The Fanners' Alliance sprung to lift from the necessities of more than three fourths of our people. The National Farmers' Alliance cannot become a political parly, because it is composed of members of all political parties, and there ts no paity significance in it. But I in answer to your question, I may say that <liere is big political significance in it,* but not party political significance." I "Then there are not likely to be any ? immediate developments by your organi' zafions fo?* a third party movement?" ' "Certainly not." "Then the Alliance will not put out a t ticket tins fall?" "None whatever." ' "A New Yo'T< paper says that Lieut. Gov. Jones has vhe support aud control* ! of the Farmers' Alliance in his canvass for ihe Governorship of that State. Ji that a fact?" ^ "There is not iTwfcdl of "iruili in it. ^ The Lieutenant-Governor cannot control the Alliance,*hor have nrytliing to do ^ with it." "Suppose lie should become a moinbc.*. Wi'h ilie familiar leg-end of 'Jones, he pay- t'lO : eight.' I suppose he has ertj dc.i eil liiune'f to the faunas clas", and, if he sorlus'ied, might be welcomed ro ( liic bosom of the Alliance." "Mr. Jones is not eligible to membership in the Faunas' Alliance, If he is, as I am informed, a laigc manufacture*. ' I This not only debars him fiom mannership, out places him, with all other like manufacturers among tlio>e whom the Fa.mcvs' Alliance has seen cause to de! clarc its enemies. Therefore, wc are not ( supposed, nor or wc likely, to set a pre I cedent of going into the tanks of oui cumins for mafe?ial for Governor or any other State officer." i i ?:.i u.~i ).. A 1 (1 It IKt* w:il IllAb tHU t muiuo illliaii-jc is now wotking for hiin." L "liy what authority?" "Newspaper authority." "Wc have of:e:i iniii misunderstood from newspapn* puling into 'he c?ror ol UDintentiojcl1 v nf-siepre en'lug u?." i: "I have heard hook* t.dk of tlie Cit:> >. icns' Allison c. Wlrit t (flat ion has thai to tlie Farmer*1 Allisucet" t- "It is.a kindred oiganiz <tion for surl I. aboi ing men as are ineligible to tin d Farmers' Alliance l>y reason of their rcsi ?f donee within city limit*. The t itizens cl \ lliance is to the laboring class (ft thi a < ilios as tho Farmers' Alliance is to tin ic I iriners of the country ." c "Arc they independent organization: l" or do they work together?" "They arc independent as far as thci A . omalntioM are concerned; but there is h friendly understanding and coofcdera tion between them." "What is the purpoae of that confederation ?" "For co-operation and protection alike." "Are they fco confederated that the Citizens' Alliance is under the direction of the Farmers' Alliance?" "I have said that they have copfederMed and can co-operate. They aiv flowing rapidly." , "How about other organizations? U?w about the Knights of Labor?" ''We have also agreed to a confedeuv tioa with a number of other organizations including thg. Knights of Labor." "What arc they?" "Patrons of Husbandry, Citizens ' Alliance, Kuights of Labor, the Farmers' Mutual llcuctit Association, aud North western Alliance, which helped kill InfMs, wet Wade Hampton one side, and out Palmer in the Krnata imdn a few | Uo^^ore. several Stole Legislatures, ^^^^IRJOHNIS DEAD. The Premier of Canada Breathes His Iiast. ? -Ar? bugeraente for Tho Funeral. sir john a. macdonald. Attawa, Ont., (Special.J ? Sir John Macdonald became unconscious ami remained so until lie died, at 10:15 o'clock, surrounded by bis entire household. All the church bells am lolling, aud thousands of citizens arc expressing deep regret at the premiers' demise. The fuDcra) took place Tuesday. The body was removed to tho senate chamber and lay in state for four 01 five hours. Interment subsequently took place at PMfpiWTf uni/unr UIJ IU IEIUIJ. A Remarkable Case of Bone Expoliation, Unparallod in Medical Circles. Asiieville, N. C., [Special.]?Dr. T. E. Bales, of Canev Branch, Tciiit., lias been in this city attending the State Medical convention. Dr. Bales lelis of a 'venderful and almost unpniallcled case in medical circles. The subject lives at ('aney Branch, and her name is Mrs. Sarah Neas. Speaking of the case to a representative of The Commercial, Dr. Bales said: "I have been Mrs. Neas's physician for iwo years. She is seventy-one years o' age, and weighs 120 pounds, and except the disease spoken of is in good health. About twenty-one years ago while ironing, Mrs. Nona scorched the index finger of her left hand, and on the same evening cut the same finger on a broken dish. The night following the wound gave great pain, and the finger was badly swollen and the cuticle extended from the end of the finger. This she cut off with scissors. She suffeied incessant pain for two months, at the end of which time the bone expoliatiou began. It first commeuced in the phlanges of the I lingers and the disease pr.^itMou tire forearm became involved. The lunneius has not yet been affected. Expoliatioi. fakes place spontaneously. Ten minutes before it takes place the patient is seized with intense pain, which continues until 1 !he bone is expelled. No pus has ever formed, and what seems to ho most remarkable in the case is tlio fact that the bone seems to be immediately replaced by some process of ossification. The none does not always make its appearance on the surface instantly ufter breaking loose, out occasionally is cue mat win be souie hours moving down the arm. They move an inch or so rapidly, ami then remaiu stationary some time, thee move further until they reach the back of the hand and then appear on the surface. On one occasion I was called very huiriedly to see her. On arrivnl I louud a bone lodged in her throat. I itmovcd the bouc and she informed me that she had swallowed two bur.es previous iu inv trrival. While talking to lie.- a bone on" inch i:i length was expeleu'from her car. The bones expelled to to d;?te number 526." FAILED TO MATERIALIZE. The Ballot Reform Convention in Charleston. Charleston, S. ('., |Special ] -The ballot reform convention failed to materialize. Eight delegates and two newsIiaper reporters were at the hall at the lour of noon, and these ngrccd unanimously that the whole thing is in the soup, the eight delegates who were present sayintr that their onlv nurnose in attending wan to move au adjournment in cas? >1 r quorum had been present. This was a most audacious attempt t? split the city democracy delegates in the I fighi. between ihc two wings ot the partj to ?he regular democratic convention , which has been called to meet July 28th e There is no doubt that the reform move ment. loRt considerable strength by th< ? tactics adopted by the ofticc-seekcrs it e its ranks, but it is still in good tightint trim, and a close battle may be expectco n July. ? "" Molasses can be brought from Cuba In r a tank vessel for two cents a gallon. THE PRESIDENT INVITED. Seventy Delegates Wait on President Harrison, And Cordially Urge Him to be Present at the Inter-States Exposition of all the Southern States. Washington. D. C., [Special.]?Of <*' out seventy persons representing sll Southern States, waited on Picsideut Harrison ami invited him to attend the to attend the exposition to be held at Raleigh. N. in October and November next. The party was headed by Seuator ltansoiu, of North Carolina, aud Patrick Wa'ah, of Augusta, Georgia, ^Uad Included Mayor Badger, of Raleigh; Col. A. B. Andrews, of Richmond; Mai. R. 8. Tucker, Colonel Burgoino ooulnerti cilTes. Gov. Holt, of North Carolina, intended to be with the party but was not able to conic. The President received them in the cabinet room. Senator Ransom made au eloquent address, inviting the President to Halcich and lissm-inir him ??f a warm ami hospitable welcome. The President in reply thanked them . for their cordiality and the impressivcness of their invitation nud sain it was very gratifying to him to feel that they had come so far for such a purpose. Their invitation called for serious consideration on his part, but he could not now tell what he would be able to do at the time of the exposition, lb' said lie know he would be received with kindness, as he had recently had very conclusive evidence on that point, lie regretted that it was not his privilege to pass through North Carolina on hi? recent triii. 11 n t - ?lseat this tunc, indeed 1 am very eharry about promises. Public men have been severely criticized for making promises they could not perform and I have mado a strict rule not to make promises. There is much doubt about the future state of public business lor mo to nntici pate what I may be able to do. You will henr in mind that October and November are apt to lie busy times with the President in connection with the aa scudding of Congress and in discharge of my constitutional duty. 1 must try to enlighten congress as to the affairs of the country. So you sec it will not he easy for me to get away in the fall. 1 am in full sympathy with every movement for display of our magnificent development and material prosperity in the arts of scicuce. 1 will hear your invitation in mind and will try to arrange my affairs so aa . .. iMppW ? J ' ' "T Presentation volumo is a large silver hound and clasped book, 14 by 28 inches. , Covers of native North Carolina nine, panelled with natural curled pine, bight pages of elcgunt design on each cover. Within is framed an invitation printed .... ~ I 4..1 ? 1?t t? r 1 WII <i lai^c luunttu ICIII ui lai-iuiiit'ii North Carolina golden leaf. On the leaf 12 by 24. on the left is printed, "The citizens of the southern section of the lTnion extend an earnest invitation to Henj. Harrison, President of tho Tinted Btates, and his Cabinet." On another tobacco leaf of the same size is the following: "To visit them at the Capital City of the 'Old North State' dining the Southern Exposition in Oi l. and Nov., I8U1." Above and on each side of both leaves are bunches of rice grown in North Car olinn, and below are bolls of open cotton representing agricultural products. Below are sheets of mica, representing industrial products of the Bouth. The back grouud of the black velvet lined with gold cord and handsomely framed with plate glass. Similar imitations in port folio form will be presented to each member of tho cabinet. Mr. Walsh then addressed the President on behalf of the Augusta, Ha., Exposition and tin: President response to the other invitation applied equally to this. TREASURES UNEARTHED. Long-Looked-for Hidden Gold and Other Valuables. Great excitement prevails among tl t people of Kershaw, S. ov?r the find nil; of $ I <>'.1,000 ill gold and other valua :de t'ensure which were buried in thai neighborhood twenty-four years ago alien Sheniian's army was passing through South Caiolina. The o'-i< l is of the Camden bank collected the money and jewelry and brought it near Hanging Kbek creek," Kershaw county, to bury it. They were captured by Sherman's men and forced to give up their t??iisure. The soldiers, in turn, appointed one cl iheir ? ??.:; lilindcs io but) it. Among the treasures was a gold pilch' r presented by the ladies of Chai les ton to Calhoun. On his death-bed, a few days afterward. Mb' des satd he ha<l on* led the in ncy near an old mill. For the oast twenty lour years \ minus parties have been digging foi the buried treasure, but without success. bad Friday night, however, it was se< uicd hy a Mr. Ilhodes. brother of the man who buried it. and a M?'. Swaggnrt, both Northern men Tfifty lmvc disappeared. Hebrew Woes in Russia. A St. Petersburg cablegram says: The labbis of the principal cities of Itussin have ordered u day of fasting, nravcr and intercession against perse* ution. Het newed rumors are current that the .Jewish merchants of St. Petersburg intend to 1 quit the city. Among those mentioned i asfchnut to leave art- Poli.ikolY, the mil' way kingfand Ibnl/ki. the sugar refiner. The BaccA At Scandal. A cablegram from I.on :on says : In the t Haccaint case Sir Edward Clarke fni ^ plaintiff followed Sir Charles ltussell Sir Edward made a sensation by caving it would he impossible for authorities tc> strike t!\p name of Sir William Cordon Cmnming from the army list and leave Prince of W.i! *' name thereon. DriNirinre of UmiUunt Pcar/? Kt petition for Greenland. uE\rr*K4irr wmit. ~ ~^jjj a mousMiti people stood on the pier at the foot of Baltic street, Brooklyn, on n recont afternoon at three minutes of five o'clock and frantically waved farewell to the stanch lit* tie lutrkentiue Kite as she started away foe (Greenland. All day the Kits was surrounded be n crowd of |teople, who curiously looked at her crow as the* hurried on board boxer and hales ot merchandise to bo used lu the Arctic voyage. Then there were many peo pie in the crowd who came down to tiio vetMl to say goodby to friends, and as a result no great Kuropean steamer ever had a more entnusiaiUo departure than did the littla % Kite as she liege away the members of the Nortli tlreenland exploring expedition of isiii-'.ri I'he |>arty of scientists, of which Professor Angela lleilprin Is in command, were o? hoard the shin early In the morning. Thor were assigned to bunks aft, and soon bod their goods stored away. They oomnris* Professors , The immediate party with Lieutenant Poury, aside from himself and his wife, con* si?ted of Dr. ("oak. Profeeeor Astrop, John >1 Verhnef. Matthew Hanson and Lieutenant Peary's colored valet. A party of twenty ladiee came to the pier to wave iarewell to" Mrs. Peary and to compliment her on lier bravery In going on an Arctic expedition. Mrs. Tearv enjoys the distinction or being tbe first lady represents live of civilisation to brave the Ice and snow t?f (Ireenland. "*??j ri iu tnorrozen ^ >rth. said a lady to the bravo Mr*. Peary as she handed her a magnificent basket of ? rose.-, "so wo thought, we would give you a parting Moral tribute." The Moral gift was carried Into the little si* feet square cabin, In which Mrs. Poary will r/ to do without the usual feminine boudoir, and as the gift was gigantic in ila ? / if ?piito filled all the space tnat was not occupied by luggage. His crow was a picke t one. J? vary .nr. i was a splendid specimen of hardy mau'.ioo I and thjy "gavo way" with a will an 1 sojii party out of port'In 1831 on the Pfoteu.-'. 'l'hrce long masts from the Kite's w.dstla were sounded. A fat little tug responded with a shrill scream, and then towod the little Kite out into tho East, ltiver, whera sin- was headed for the Hound by way of Hell Hat'! ami thence for tlrcenlan l. Desire of Colored Men to Becon White. Nkw Yoiik City, [Special.]?Bishop Turner, a colored nreWe o' the Methodist Episcopal denomination, made some curious statements about colored people in his sermon of last Sunday iu l?iookl> 11. lie spoke of a desire of colored men to become white, and expressed bis disapproval of such a desire on their in*ft. He told of a roloiod lady who assured him that she would gladly bo skinned if skinning would leave her white, and be alleged that she fell in bis esteem after making this remark. He said that a great .many colored people believed that they would turn white on jjo ing 10 ncaven, nut no imormca uicmmai thcv would not thus lost: I heir identity in ihe icflinicclion. The New York Sun commenting on tbc sermon says: Wc n.*c disposed to say thdt wo are inclined to express our approval of Rishop Tinner's remark* <>? O.'.'t i^tcr eating sulijeet. The colored men who desire to become white are unworthy of their complexion; the colored lady who is ready to be skinned for the sake of becoming white deserveu to fall in his esteem, and as for the colored people who hope to be white in heaven we need only say that they were properly warned against indulgence in such a hope. Serious Result of Joke. Bikminoiiaxi, Ai,a., | Special.]?At -elma last night Mac Connell Shelly, son f Ivv-Congressman O. M. Shelly, went .nlo a saloon with a friend, Sumter Lea, Jr., and told the saloon keeper, R. F Ihuch. to send a dispatch for him, lie had been ioformed that the telegraph office was there, but Burch supposed Shelly was joking, and refeired hiin to fauidmnu sitting near ns operator. Shellv found out that he had hcen joked and bring in iiipior, lie and his compan ion jerked off their coats and propos d to whip the bar K eper. Rureh went out and returned with a rifle, i nd odcrm| them out of his house. They advanced on 11iin. She'lv armed with a h miner ISiitIi liicil, tlif iiri I stri'<ing She'ly just l>( I w tii' ninolc. *hcllv li.na <1 ?' '!. Jackson at Lexington.'4 On the QUt of .fiily Valentine's statue of Kloucwnll .lac! son w'H be uuvcileii at Lexington, Va., an l it is expected " that there will be a grand gathering of Vetera s oj that occasion. The llgdrc is one of the most spirited of Valentine's creation, and is thoroughly suggestive of the character of his subject. This sculp: tor is now transfeiring to muible his J jr< Humeri? group, A*idTomnehc and Astvanax, which promises to creates sensation ia the art v. orld. The Czar Wishes no Alliance. The Wicn correspondent of the London Kng. Times says that the (,'znr has rejected a formal proposal for a French Alliance on the groom! iSial iie couid preserve peace only by keeping ? free band. There is a large lake in Hutchinson County, South Dakota, well tilled with corn-fed fish (bullheads). Tiicy got away with seven acres of corn which wai left io the field.shocked but not husked. "I