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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.
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t A Digest of nil the Principal Hap*
pening in Our Galaxy of
Southern States.
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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