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I I ^ . . y '' i w*>1''Willi Boston has decided that under the city ordi , nancos they must hereafter par a licensi lee of $40 per day, and declares tha they wiil be prosecuted if they neglect, The doctors are foni of telling pa tients, asserts the Sao Francisco Qhroni cle, that any particular symptoms which they describe are the work of thoir imagination, but a recent case has show o they are liable to error. A woman who has just died in Bridgeport, Conn., wanted the hospital physician two years ago to recover a set of false teeth which she declared she had swallowed. An operation showed the stomach to be empty, but the doctors told her the teeth had been found. A post-mortem examination showed she had lived two years with the false tosth In her gullet. Only about twenty-live Unite 1 States ships, exclusive of the revenue cutters and the training squadron, are no-v in commission, but it is estimate J that tivc years hence there will be forty-nino ships available for active service, and that of rtnlw ' yij. ? " j .uiot ur tour win oe or the antiquated types that now mike up the bulk of the navy. Before that time arrives, however, there will bo a vast change in tho make up of various squadrons. " I ffhudytil^lin lroa-ia-p^icuUr .will "have got U#Wf a new outfit. Several of tbe vessels on that station have boon kept there for years past chiefly because they 1 wore unfit for the voyage homo acrosj the Pacific. ' Says tho New York Neu>?: ??A notice ablo feature of modern metropolitan growth is to be found in the character oi Borne of our projected hotels. From the St. Nicholas, the model of old timos, to the Metropolitan and Fifth Avenuo thenco to the more recently erected hotels, there have been successive steps of improvement; yet we find tho Astors and the Vanderbilts engaged in the erection of still more ambitious hostel ries, and syndicates of millionaires preparing ,to givo New York the embodiment of the most artistic conceptions ppssible. - -a (Park, and it looks as U in the not distant .future that locality will be regarded ai the central part of the city." A distinguisaed authority upou jewelry has au interesting article in the Jewtiers' Weekly x in which he argues that the koh-i -uoor, tho great British crown I jewel, is only a fragment of the Great Mogul's diamond, all trace of which was suppose to bo lost. That remarkable stone hhs been regarded as somewhat apocryphal, but this writer holds that tho Mogul's diamond: dfol exist; that it was a stoue of 268 carats. If the koh i-noor is really the vast stone that the great General, Mir Junila, gave to Shah Jahan in 1857, the romantic history of the great diamond will have to be rewritten and made the more romantic. But this cow claim to original ownership wUlnot^JBrb the title of the Empress ^**^ram^Pe "mountain of light" In her diadem! ? 'IT? The grasshopper plague is apparently to have n successor in & caterpillar ! plague, notes the Chicago Herald. Re ports from British -Columbia stato that swarms of these pests are appearing along the railroad lines, covering Fie ?v V ' tracks and giving evidence of phenomenal numbers that bode no goo 1 to the season's agriculture. The cable reports a like phenomenon in Bavaria, where men, women And children are engage 1 fighting caterpillar*. Like grippe, it may bo that this nowest torment is to seiae Europe nnd America simultaneously. Science oilers no means of efficient resistance. The ravages of iho locurt arc still visible in Kansas and other Western States. The American farmer will have a sorry year if a visitation of caterpillars 4s to be added tr ^ grasshoppers. , . Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley said in a recent lectura: *'I often hear parson i say that they have poor memories, but it is a total mistake. Noue, save idiots, IiaVC Iiuvr laciuvtidS* iiiuiq~iu a mitinotion b?\veen memory and re2olle.Jand woman has memjjpjl ttji" art is to be able to say fowm^Pflpi^he mind, 'Come forth.' Keepl^ftody in good condition, and, with training, the memory can be mads to perform almost any feat. Trust tc memory more and it will not betray you. A great aid to the memory is vivid nest of conception'. Make believo at the time that the thing to bo remembered ii the moet important, the most extraordl W** thing in the world.* Thear^of recollec L ting is to produce a true or false relatior of things. Make a mental image of th wB^Jkname and the image will recall the nam* or vico versa. Thus jthe memory b* eomevyour servant. The fuodanic.ita rules are these ?acquire thoroughly, r? v.u v frequently." 't These Late News Notes Wvll Refresh You. 5 t A Digest of nil the Principal Hap* pening in Our Galaxy of Southern States. f VIRGINIA. / k A 50-barrel rolhr process flouring mill is being built at Covington. A charter was granted in Lynchburg 1 to the Southern Eh.ctric Company. The City Point Land Improvement Company have bought 5,000 acres of land in Prince George county for $200,- j 000. An eight-year-old son qf Dx. Jin?1-* w?ymon, or nnumtm; shot ana killed an infant in its cradle Wednosday. At Lexington "Stonewall" Jackson's body was removed Thursday morning from the grave where it hacLrcsted since 1804, and quietly placed in the vault built for it. over which the mouumcnt is at oucc to be erected. Two new summer schools arc to be instituted at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, this year, the schools of medicine and modern languages. Each of the new schools is under the guidance of a competent faculty, and will no doubt bo as successful as the older I schools, those of law, engineering, etc. SoVPI'fll Lun/leo'l ?..... u.iu?niu Buiuums arc expected to be in attendance all the summer. The earnings of the Lynchburg and Durham Haiboad for May, 1890, as compared with June, 1891,showed an increase of just 100 per cent, at the meeting in Lynchburg last week. At this meeting the restriction requiring the president and vice-presidents to be residents of Virginia or North Carolina was removed, audPW C. Hous'on, of Philadelphia, was elected president to succeed P. J. Otcy. Messrs. Otev and J. 8. Can were elected vice-presidents, and a board of 15 directors was chosen. The board of directors were instructed to consider the construction of an extension from Durham south to connect with the Raleigh and Qaston railroad. NORTH CAROLINA. The Forsyth Savings Bank, of Winston, has declared an extra dividend of .'1 per cent. One more cotton mill for Concord? (his being the sixth. It is proposed to start with $75,000, $50,000 of which is already subscribed. The North Carolina penitentiary is not ] >u!y self-supporting but is every month i jiaying something into the Slate Treasury. James M. Moring. ex-Sneaker of the. LtthoMein WiSSfrThSAj: ' *>'f Forty-seven carrier pigeons were released at Winston, Saturday, for their home in Newark, N. J. Notices ore being sent to each of tlic 1,539 soldier pensioners fo attend the encampment at Wnghtsvillc, July 29-August 4. It is roughly estimated that half the number will attend. If so it wil? bt a notable gathering. _ The scat made vacant in the directory of the C. F. & Y. V. railroad by the deulh of Col Gray, has been filled by the action of the board in electing R. Percy Grav a diicctor. At the same meeting Dr. "W. A. Lash, of Walnut Cove, was chosen president of ,the company.^ and R. j I C.U) uiiljf WU? WUUUUUCU 1 LI IUC JIU91* tion of nsiistant piesident. The merchants of the Stale have contribu ed to a fund and have employed llou. Gtorge Davis and Mr. Rouuiiee, of Wilmington, who have brought suit in the United States District Court, for the Eastern Dis'iict of North Caro'.ina before Judge Seymour, to test the constitutionality of the meichant's purchase .ax. SOUTH CAROLINA. <>t00 was raised "at Greenwood for the Jefferson Davis Monument furfd. Gen. Huguenin says there will be no summer encampment of state troops. St. John's Day was celebrated by a picnic at Orangeburg by the Free Masons. An estimate that is considered a fair one by lice men, places this year's crop in South Carolina at 1,000,000 bushels. Governor Tillman delivered an address on Wednesday last to the pupils of Cedar Springs Institute for the Deaf and Blind It was very eloquent and impressive^ says the News and Courier. The State Board of Canvassers met at Columbia and disposed of the Probate Judge contest by deciding in favor of the contestant, Green, who had a majority on uic lacc 01 inc icturn. Coosaw settlement and the surrounding Hands were visited Monday afternoon with a very sovem blow, and the numerous tiuck farms on the island were severely damaged. Hail fell with the rain, and the lightning was so blinding and incessant that the heavens had the appearance of being ablaze with electiicity. 'XJUMM JSBBJE15. At S'lver G ove, P.iinam county, James Mitchell and Oscar Plunkett shot and Lilled each other Sunday. Tripoli has bee i found underneath the "white oak slashes1' of Lewrenrcbuig, T'u's substance is used as a polishing Kiwder. and de.ives i's name from the oi'.li Af i.an county in which it was first d'scove.cd and utilized for polishing stones and metal** A company has been o jaiized to mine and marke* the Lawrencebu g trlpoli. James La te Allen, aulhc- of the two i famous stories, "S's'.er Dolorosa' and "Pla.c aiu Vol'n," deHveed the %nuuadd crs at Vsndc b'li Uuiveisky, at Nashv.'-i'e, du-ini which ho s.'.U: i ''M.a. S.owc nrght Ikvvc bec.t a g.ei'er , w.'ver if she hgHlicldia mind that the - Mayflower strifed fiom the lr?nd;ng of the 1 Pilgrrths to the the pi' chase of a cargo ofslavea on'be shores of All lea. 81avv 'ery is not 'ho ciimo of the Sou h, but of the whole Union. The responsibility lay in psrt on the Svuth, in part on England, ? in part on the whole natitfn and in part ?, on the older countries. Later gcncralions in the South were no more bltunablc for slavery than a man is for n heredi" :ary disease." The separate coach bill passed by the legislature of Tennessee Is now in effect and applies to all lailroads in the State. |.<uvi?ions ol the bill whil passengers will be admitted into th coaches set apart for the blacks only i case the remainder of the train is ovei crowded. The Nashville and Chattnnoo ga Railroad will run a coach exclusive!; for colored people at the front of th train, in which no smoking will be al lowed, and it will be equal to the othe coaches in appointments and comfort The second coach may be used for smok ing, if there is 110 objection from th< pas oncers, otherwise no smoking will 1m dloweu except in Pullman cars. The Louisville ana Nashville system will use partitioned coaches for white and colored passengers. GEORGIA. Watermelon shipments are now being made from Southwest Georgia at the rate 11111c nl^cav icr. < It is expected that the Grady Meraorid Hospital in Atlanta will lie completed by the first of next' December. So far ?80,000 has been subscribed. Mrs. Priscilla Scroggins of Gainesville, lias 1,153 descendants, as follows: 13 children, 103 grandchildren, 035 greatgrandchildren, 402 great great-grandchildren. She is 101 years oldAt the Georgia Press Association meeting recently held Editor Baukston. of the Ringgold New South, made a stiong add res r denunciatory of the Alliance, and undertook to get n resolution through thc^uieeling in line with his remarks. The stingiest man in Georgia lives in Wilcox county. -He has been married .leven years, and during that time has ouly bought one sack of Hour nud one 75ccnt calico dress, lie lives at home, and the spinning wheel is still at work in his house, it-ts alt rignt tt a man -wants to live this way, but to to nut a woman where she can't talk about tire styles and tievo.r knnwo ? ?,?So5uic ui wcarmy a new hat, is too cruel. It is not generally known tliat there is a colony of Syrians in Macon, yet such is the fact. They are all tradesmen, dealers in fruit, etc. For some time they congregated at a little fruit stall on 4th street, near Cherry, but are now scattered in various places around the city. When at home they wear tho fez and some other parts of Oriental costume, hut when at business they don ordiuary clothing and appear as American citizens. FLORIDA. At Albion, there arc COO colored laborers working in the phosphate mines. An immense deposit of yellow ochre iias been unearthed near Gainesville, on I he property of Dr. T. F. Thomas. Robert J, ^atkies, of^ Tropic, Brevard da's commissioner for the World's Exposition at Chicago. The main line of the proposed Arcadia, Lakcland-& Gulf Railroad, recently mentioned, is from Lakeland via Arcadia to Boca Grande pass, with branches to tho Manatee river from Arcadia. W. P. Neeld , of Pinellas, exhibited luring the ""convention of tho traveling Fruit Men's Association in Tampa, a number of oranges which have at the end where the stem is connected with the fruit, u raised 5-pointed star. The oranges exhibited were much admired and Mr Neeld was offered a big prize for a car-load of that variety. Neill Mitchell, of Jacksonville, has recently returned from Bcilin, where h? was present wlieu Prof. Koch announces io the world his discovery of lymph. I)r. Mitchell says that since the subsidence of ] the feeling against Koch, aroused by the failure of his discovery to prove a pnnacen, physicians have been treating tuberculosis with the lymph in a conservative way, and have found that it doeV fin that Dr. Koch ever claimed for it. At least it has attained a success in curing enses of the disease that no other medicine or method lias attained. OTHER STATES. ??he opponents <?f the Louisiana Lottery are. arranging to make a vigorous campaign against the constitutional amendments to l>c voted on in that State, which were framed iu tlie interest of the lottery company. W. G. M. Thomas, son of a prominent lawyer at Sheffield, Ala., listened to an unusing story told him by a friend and then laughed s> h?rd that be actually broke one of his ribs. One of the prettiest women in-the Blue Grass region of Kentucky is Miss Nanette McDowell, the great granddaughter of Henry ('lay. She is a slight | and graceful woman, with auburn hair, and a perfect oval fare, a little pale and serious. She lives with her father in the old Clay homestead of Ashland, one of the most beautiful and romantic places in all Kentucky. THE T'riKEE C'S. A Schema Which May L fc the Ror d Out of Trouble. Philadsi.nil a, Pa., [Special. J?Those in this city who "lire interested in the Charleston, Cincinna'i and Chicago rail road, have about completed arrange nicnts for a rc-orgauizntion of the road, and it is to be so far completed that it wil be enabled to earn interest upon it# bonds. It is proposed to take the ronil out of the lianas of the receiver and com Iilete a large portion of it. Those direct y interested in the road's future toiui time ago prepared a n)*% -JM- '.ajpu'otn t^on andjubjggi^SS^ 1\, uW4* BlUKlUCCK Swt h brought brom^QBHm^Q^nat! general agreement to the plan of rc-oi limitation wna agreed to. During th week inst passerl nearly every creaito ban affixed his signature. Only a fc> mall ones have not signed, and these At expected to come within the next day e so. As soon as this is done, applicatio will be made to hand the property'ovc to the stockholders. The engineer's ex i ruination resulted in ascertaining th fact that if between $000,000 and $700 000 is expended on the road nt once, can be so far completed that intcre inay be earned upon all bonds that luu been is?u$d. te FOfUR SIRLS OP SPIRIT. They SevKply Trounce a Fellow for Saying a Mean Thing. c Memphis, Tbnn.,- [Special.]? The lit tie village OfBartlett, twelve tpiligs from r Memphis, ha>: not yet ceased .discuss itig . .1 sensational aceue that tccurred there od Thursday evening, in which four of ? the leading belles, with long switches in . their hand{ administered to a w'ell. known yoitik mftn a severe chastiseuie"nt i for certain tft'orts said to have emanated The younA nan fn the case is Robert Yates, who?es >t 'Eartlett, and jratil a <hort timc^wwa^Ja?^ye.d by thejf^^. * dies whiov covered ther^rcs with^orj ; are Misses Hanson, (daifchter of Judge. Hansom, formerly of Sheby covyjty) Lillie Smith, Jode Smith, aifl Mattic King. Tlicy are pretjfy and brlglt. It had codfc to the euts of the ladies that young (Y^tes had wiklc a statement to the effect J that he flbi|d successfully assail the vi*ue ofiflbyilady in Bartlctt, with the ciccptpP w two or three. This remark Was TepOf^ed to have been made in the ftresogce ?^6ome boys, who cnnvAvn^ A - -j? ?- uMuiios. ihc lour girlsconcernoi deteftflned to take the matter of punkbinenVu their own hnnils without consultationJmh ther male relatives, and thedlaid i ibq to encrmpass the desired en A ^ Yates came t\ MemnjbiR on Thursday, .ud was due tilretui$i?o Bahlctt in the evening about 5Wclock. The girls were m waiting for >im %hen he alighted troq? the train, eAh armed with a stout IS dSpo? BfiOne seized him, while tfe others belabored bim. -with their svAtches. He tore i away from his captors,! but was seized again before he baa gonkbut a few stc,s by a boy, who held hlpl until the girls ban given him a terrible thrashiug Thev grasjped their switches by the slender end nnd laid the-heavy end 011 his face, arms and back, until he cried for incrcy. The girls were there for punitive, not cautionary, purposes, and they did not desist until they had accomplished their object* The scene was witnessed by half the population of Thirl lett. POISONED ON BLACKBERRY PIEAu Entiro Family lPfostrnted---A Decidedly Unique and Pecuprepared for the pie* An hour after eating them every member of the family, five or six in number, was writhing in pain. A physician was called in, and after hfffd work succeeded in relieving the suffering and deadening the effect of the poiS?g Two .or tlncc of the members ore stifl in a critical condition, but mjll p^JgMM-ecpver. Tho- Colored Tlaleigh About 80 oi tHffld^pg colored men of Uie North aud SoJHfcftVe issued an ap- | peal to thcia race to1il$, Everything possible for the promotion of the Colored Department of.the jgflBW ern Exposition, soon to be held at l?fl8p? * Twenty-live tliousaiul^eet have beea Bet apart fox the exhibits of the colorca*people, a space, we believe, not much lg?s\thao the entire area allotted to this cQppxjry at t.'Clored Depirtment at the Rfa'efgb show will be transferred to Chicago, In 1808, The circular urges "every negro who has the best interests of the race at heart" to do what ho eau to nuke the Colored Department at Raleigh a succcsa Assistant Bishop of Louisiana. New Ohlean*, [Special.]?The Rev. Davis Sessions of Christ Episcopal Church, of this city was consicrated Wednesday Assistant Bishop of Louisiana, Bishops Tattle, of Missouri, Quintard, of Tennessee, and Ga'leher, of Louisiana, being the cousccratnrs, and Bishops Garrett, of western Texas, and Watson, of cast Carolina, presenters.' Bishop Sessions is the son-in-law of the present Bishop of Louisiana, Bishop Galleher. Ozburn Respited Fo- 30 Days. AtlanvaUxi^ , [Special.] - Gov North- ' em this morning respited Clins. Ozburn for 80 days, which will postpone his execution until the 25th day of July. The respite is g nan ted on account of Ozburn's critical physical condition and at the request of theluiy which sat yesterday by special BumruDns of the sheriff on tho question of tnp sanity of the prisoner. 07.burn k.lled Jonu Brail ley. a well kuown grocciA merchant ^Tn this city, I p.bout a yet! s/ p. Parnelii and! Mrs. CPVhea Marled. London, [CahThere appears to be no longef doubt that Parnell and I > Mr# O'Bhea "Were married Thursday and that he aid his bride started for r parts unknowtt imrtediately after the I- marriage at SleVpiug. . The registrar of that place, together with books used to L record maniagt-Ahas apparently vanish \ M. ft is belit that the legistrar has ' \ *"* Geoqge Wnrhinsftoa Knew the value r>( newsjrape: adveittMtfc. In a reproduc c lion iu a f?c smile <5f its first number, r printed -118 jx? s |xt?. the Baltimore Amriiean displays rfTltn'f column "nd" ? bv the father of Uisjoiriitiy announcing " licit he had bopght'jO.OOD . e<* of lnn< n wlreli he disJjfollMto liouicslcads am t wns :eady to place? upon the innikct.l r ' Geo go was a grc?tA$>a i, but lie hod ?t| ^ A very handsoXT^oon seen recently c was of gold with a handle designed iftl ALLIANCE DEPAKTMENT The Sub-Treasury Scheme By Private Capital. Kansas Alliancemen Will Establish a Series of Banks, the Checks of Which Will pn8B a. Money. of?LCat,r,lc,C9t atlat,,cs to the nttcmnt Won whit h remains is that of bunucss success. A telegram from Abilcue, Kan., gives in interesting outline of the plan. The lollowing is the substance of it: "After a week's consultation the state committee has formulated a plan, originated by J. C. Hopkins, of the New York Economic Club, and who was a prominent (igure at the Cincinnati convention, whicu practically places t' c sub-treasury scheme of the National Farmers' Alliance in the hands of private capitalists in allinAce ranks. Mr. Hopkins has be n in Kansas for a week and is with members of the executive committee in Reno county endeavoring to induce well-to-do allinuccmen at Hutchinson to put the plan into immediate operation The executive committee has given the plan itsendor-cment and every county alliance is being urged to adopt the scheme. "The plan is to establish a bank in each county in the state under the direction of the local alliance exchange. The subscription as in other banks, except that so far as possible the subscribers are to be members of the alliance. In connection with each bank an elevator or storehouse is to be built. A farmer may then dump his giaiu into the elevator, vecciving for it a check for 80 percent, of the market value of the grain deposited By paying a small per ccntage for storage aud insurance lie will be allowed :o keep his grain in such depository until such a time as lie may deem bet to place it upon the markat. Corn, wheat, rvc, oats, tobacco, cotton, silk, castor beans or any imperishable funu product, the price of which is not liable to loo great fluctuations, is to be received at the depositories, and deposit checks issued on 80 per cent, of its value. EXPECT TO FOUND STATE BANKS. "The amount of grain deposited in this way must not exceed the amouut of capital stock in the bauk. If the bunk lias ^ Kd^HinnwnTrmb ia. - Of this one-half must be deposited in the home bank to tako.. up checks .offered there, uud the balance deposited is Chicago or tydw York. Tlie projectors expect to found state banks in each state as soon as po^ible, having them under control of the state alliance. "The chcgks to be issued by the sub .-casurv banks arc peculiarly devised, mil are printed in high colors Sonic have already been printed, aud the alliance officers think it will be utterly impossible to counterfeit, or, at least, harder thau a national bank note. Each depositor receives one of these highly colored check books, with the checks made out in small amounts, not exceeding 80 per cent, of the value of his grain or other product deposited. These arc made payable in gold or silver at any of the alliance banks, and it is intended that they shall circulate as money. They arc first made out in the name of the depositor, and afterwards endorsed by him and i.wnile payable to bearer. "Said one of the executive committee \o the correspondent for The 1,1 era Id "These checks will pass current among iur people when it becomes known that the collateral behind them is absolutely e'e, and they will be accepted in general transactions tlie same as banknotes. There is, of course, no way to make a man accept these checks, but neither is there o make him take a bank note, but he is always glad to gel one. It is better than he sub-treasury scheme, as it will he opciatcd by private capital, and we ran get the thing into operation at once. It is .bound to jivrcase our circulation, and ;iic;e is nil abundance of eastern capital ?ady to take hold as soon as wc get it started The other banks will probably oppose it because it will do away with ; ticir high rate ot ln'crest. dllPB Foil THE SCHEME. 'Vue fanners of central Kansas arc bcI ing approached first with the matter bcI cause 1 uc v have so much whe. in prospect. I'. ive f wdl coiniheuce'dn a few and line indications ore for an imnicpsc ? o i. The result will be that the fc:rne s w have plenty of grain to deposit. The inuo cut farmers take hold I i f the th iiir -uthusiastkallv and believe that ihev sec in it a 'way out' of al! difficulties? a better one than t per cent, government loans on real estate." ******* The open Al 'ante of Wisconfin held i ? eiM-ua1 session last week at La Csossc. r isideu'. Pell". by invitation, was pics erl tad made a speech to the body and one to he public. He was necouipanicd 5 ' Hon. Jetc Simpson, of Kansas, whe t'so addressed (lie people. The Alliance adopted a resolution unanimously rcoom moid:ug the consolidation of iho State Al'i.liU o with the ,i. F. A. & I. It. and subnvttpd (he matter to a vote of the Sub-Alliances of the State to be taken be fore the first- day of September. If thi a-t'OJ of Iho State body be ratified b; two rhi dsof the Sub Allium cs, then thi Statcwill be represented at our Supiem Couinil. There is little doubt that thi will Ire done. Protidont Polk was mot kindly and corelinlly received aad foiim a wa in f atC'.nnl feeling among (lies wo thv people. And thus ihc gicat cans 1 of the people goes forward. Killed in a Bear Pit. FRANKrOItT, GERMANY, [C'nblrgrtjD. ?Last evening a servant girl visited th Zoological gardens, and unsocn by an one, took off her clothing and jumpe into the bom's pit. Her mangled bod was found in the pit this morning. fc .??. * j NUMBER 27. PRE LOW PRICES OF COTTOJtf. - *?<>? Prc.ent ? M. In,nan & Co , whose long cai eWe u"ilh (lif "l1' clo8e connectio'ii ? , American crop, which was believed by uiny conservative people iu the bogiu1 ling of the year to be not over 7,500,000 ales, promises to turn out nearly 8,750,"'0 bales. That is, about 8,750,000 will ill be sold off the plantations and come' uto sight, while there will probably be from 100,000 to 200.000 bales which will never leave the plantation this season ou account of the low prices. Ileuce, it looks now as if the yield of this crop, athered between September I, 1800, uid August 31, 1891. if it could all bo counted, would be somewhere between A *00,000, and 9.000.000 bales. Now take the iuerease of the Aineriiii crop?say 8,800,000 bales, against ;.300,000 bales lubt year, giving an inrease of 1,500,000 bales-and deduct the 300.000 bales shortage in the crop of indin. and you have an increase in the world's supply for this year of probably 1.200,000 bales. While there will be a large increase iu consumption, it will bo nothing like sufficient to absorb this U)OPAOgA I'l AUMD Ijvjf iii cotton tins year ycA? is n'ppnWWr?^^" ^""""^' the same as last year. While there lu?i t ..ni :??. ?i-. ? OUT IN ARKANSAW. Octave Thanet Catches the Provi: cialisms In Use There. Of rural life in Arkansas, Octave Tin net, in her paper in the July Atlanti* "Plantation Life in Arkansas," writes; The womeu have a hard life, workin iu the fields and in the house; they ay early, and die when, under happic ehnuces, they would would bo in tliei | prime. Thus it happens that so main mcu have three, or four, or tjvc wives and a heap of niggers!" , They are very fond of[their _? lnlt . i and kind to them; unwiselyknidpr haps, as we Americans are inclined to hi To nil the other hardships of a w. man t life here is added her mourning fot I n little children, for the careless lifehei> hard ou them, especially m ??\cith seasons. Sometimes we are reminded ot this in a homely yet affecting way, jives erdav, when, in ? uying some elm k ens and asking for more the little me> chant said: "They am t , hut one old rooster ; and we don t .um " sell him, 'cause my little brother tli. died, he always claimed him, and ma said she never would sell him . A queer cxpresdBn (which is neieuli less a common one here), used by a P"' mother whose little girl was t?rno death, sticks in my memory; H tun ten years, now, hut I ain't got satisfied And a poor man, oluug v.iym a wrolfoed mortgaged litth ?;;vu.iom th.t ?lea that his two ffead childicu wr buried there, and "MV woihan she hated terribly to have thepa die, apd she cau <rit satisfied to leave 'em, nohow . g "What a life!" our Northern friends say Yet it is a little with huge nine iorations. In this ^nntr^ eve.v^o, has the climate, to begin w ith. arc only two months in the yeai whe Jan be said to have cold weather ; and oJJo through those months are scat crcu Jovcly days?of tfrucc, fftled with sunshine. Neither need wc pay for ouy'iild wu. ters with hot summers, lheiea.cii" two months that arc really 1,1 v warm for move than a few monu s a ti.no- These are August and September They tell us that the nights a e cool then /but I receive with a degree of apathy bcc?usc l nc j was iu any climate so ton id that ^ ^ )"t lwr.y it. jT 1 j||(|lli 111.Wfl aTiare sav all the c ti/ens of tb< equator that respect themselves. ^ THE TWO CAROLINA^. A Joint Celebration at Red Spring* in August. The farmers of North Carolimr. at Ree Springs, ate ""j11"1' 'Au,r?st ?iih th, J1U Che Ooee.no, SSSfiJ t \*pec\ed1 to 8 KsTf^lTroWsbiy ?". r?'iXh. conjunction with '^"{^"'jjunrUr nn< . 'Cfhe'rn tm Dnrimgf.m Jo BeuneUJ vilin ennneermn rr^h B.i the (Jape "o' "' wlth ,hc Itoanok ?(Mtor ?<'TmiUn w' 11 he rend rvilh interest by the fnrmc union will bo held at this place Augu 12-15. Thursday 13th, Governor Holt, of th State, will formally open the Fair, an address the people. Saturday, the 15th, Gen. Gordon, < Georgia, will address the veterans. Friday, the 14th, "Fanneis' day," w have have been instructed to request yo to be present ami addre. s the imtncnf audience which always assembles, upo the great economic and Onaucial quei tions of the day, espe ially as afTeetin the tillers of the soil Last year #overror Vance deliveic this add res-, and wm lhtcued to wit profound attention You will have ? audience of from five to eight thousat people. This i3 lha only sutnmcv fa iield in this State. 'I housands of poop w ill be here fiom your grand old Stat Our people are eager <o see and bear tl "Farmer Governors'' of .be iwbi (.'a1' Unas. We have the hono?, e-c., I. sv. |{. McLean. Committee. Hamilton M'Milun, P. Smith. THE PRODUCTION OF RA1NFAL ' Experimenting by Sending Expl sives to the Clouds. i Washington, D. C, [Special.]?T iasi agricultural ?|>|> <>|> inuou m_i lumn j cil an appropriation of $7,000 to be us in experiments in the production of ra 5 full. The department is about to ei v bark in these experiments,v Jiaviug p B uared to test practically the theory tl 0 heavy explosions cause rainfall. L evening a preliminary trial was made n * a balloon sent up in the northern subu 1 exploded with great violence amid clouds. Whether the subsequent dm pour of rain later in the evening was can e b s the explosion remains to be deter mio and the department will try the e.xp ment on a large scale again to the efficacy of this means of break summer droughts. ] Beecher in Bronze. y Brooklyn, N. Y., [Special. 1?The d veiling of the bronze * statue of He y Ward Bcccher, in the City Llall p? occurred Wcdacsu&y evening. M # "VI II .-"luv 11 VI11 "IV Mini lliv ITO,! Hi 111" Carolinas. Georgia and Tennessee, the balance of the cotton-raising States auditing very well, and unless some disaster occurs, we will have auother reasonably large ciop. It is the fear of another large crop which is at present depressing prices more than the burden of the eo ton that has been made during the past year, because if the world were assured that the i text crop would not be 7,500,000 bales, tliiuk there would be a edhsidciabhrally from the present prj^es. As to the future of the market, it appears to me about this way, that if we1 uiake another crop in anywise upproxij ma'ing the size of the one jugt grown, we may look for a year of The lowest | prices which have ever prevailed. You' Meetings hi the Interest of Two State Institutions. Ral.i-::oii, Is. C.. |Special.]?The executive committee of the board of trustees of the Agricultural aud Mechanical college met and elected Charles 11. Park, of Raleigh as assistant instructor in the | mcchauica! department. Plans for two [ additional dormitories were agreed upon.' . Tin- board of tiustees of the colored Agricultural and Mechanical college also met and elected \V II. Price, president, i- and John 8. Leaiy, secretary. It was , decided to advertise for the most ad? vantageous proposals for the location of i the college, bids to be made not later ; than August 'JGth. 8. McD. Tate, VY. | U. McKay. Charles 8. Moore and John i 8. I.eary, were appointed the executive^ j committee to eonfer with the committee 1 of the white college and make arrangements for conducting the h colored college here - -I I for u period1 bti>"yfWFWWfl c i" 'lie colhgmLs reuubnlv p?HftLjli^h<-'d. The |3 college cannot by law 1 >e nelWJut!tfctV'- connected w tIi any existing institution. >e It was agreed l?v the committee to equip I: the colored college out of the first ap^ propriation under the Merrill act, work to be cionc in teaching for the provisional ^ session by eacbers from the white col st AN ANTI-GIRL SOCIETY. i.Q College Students Bind Themselves to Study More and Flirt Less. W ashington, Pa., [Special.] ?An nn'c i girl society has been formed among the u leading students of Washington and Jefie fersou College The object of the socien ty is to devise sonic plan by which more s" attention will be given to college studies f? and not so much to the seminary young ladies. The members, upon initiation, take a 'h vo\v that they will not call upon any young ln soman more than once a week! if this . Mil'gat ion should be broken, the incinl,r i>ci iniisl picsent a satisfactory excuse or 'c be expelled Iroin the society. It is hope ed by the professois of the college that ')e the society may be n success. A Wisconsin Murderer Confesses. Ricui.and (V.nthe, Wis., [Special ]? Irwin Fowler, of Viola, has confessed that he bad a hand in the murder of old Ruebcn Drake, his wife ami two grand* children, in May, 1999, for which Ard ew GraudstalT was lynched three days afterward. It is reported that Fowler implicates .feff Bowker and Frank and ? Elijah Cony, who wore under suspicion at the time of the inn der. Great exhc eiteinent existed in the vicinity when the in diabolical crime was committed, and in c m con nee of of Fowler's confession in j iVrlliei violence may result re- Mrs. Davis* Final Answer. Ni'.w Your, {Special.)?It was stated ,nSj .hat a delegation from Jackson, , ontomplated calling upon MighJvifcffPoii s Mavis :d the New Yoik holf|,i||Wii flfllli. . the ,.,j to (he disposition of herpilsband's ivn" lemains Mrs. Davis knows of no such s<^' delegation except through t)io newspu1 .? pers and said sne gave her final answer rrl" i uesday last to the delegation which tcit called upon her from Richmond, Va. iug The best coffee that >s jx ported from Mexico is raised by a colony of Confederate refugees who settled in Cordona, in ' * " ? ?L. 1 .# .1, ? | tnc niaie 01 yc? ^ rui, mur tu? "? n, ? j war. They have devoted iD their attcnirj<' tion to this industry, and it L?s proven ' very profitable to them. ' *?< s i . r ... A 0