Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^^^ pKiYflpoiioi TIKES. ?baT0 l(h? t< Deoetod to Agricmtture, Horticulture, Dome#* lAterature, the Current If ewe the Day. of the oined al ~ .. . . <yn .r'-^^ '. Ruii 5 .?&. " j . union n.gtfjjWIitt^fMI^yn JTTT.y in ism NUMBER 28. J fi con^H from the le*d mines, or work I- I ' . Figure# collected by tbe,Aftiei^i0 B^^^^V^,uor(c,m t|n"?the "hith ?m 1 Jl I to cjllect funds sod attend to the details I iPAMlli1!)? alTTAirrrri Statistical Association show that the tfcred^^Ka ?" ?- ?woU,<t ?* b*bl" t which people marry is steadily advan^^^E Thr average age of bridcprroow^M now is twenty eight, and twenty-five the brides. Judge Irving Halsey, in hi* raemor^^ address over the grave of the famc^^fl pacer, Tom Hal, in Tennessee recentlJ^H asserted that this peculiar stride used by horses 2500 years ago in Greec^^B and that the proof of this fact is to found in the equine figures on the ms^^E bles stolen from the Parthenon by Lo^H Plmn ?8? mmmmmmm?m???? It is generally believed, remnr^H .FVa/ifc I/tilics, that suicide annuls an i^^| auranee policy. An exception to tt^H| "~30R "must be noted. In the Unit.? . States Circuit Court at Kansas City, MqBK Judge Caldwell has decided a case which suicides does not annul. UnqCoim the laws of Missouri suicide does not af?e, w Ik nul unless it can be shown that at W dime of taking out of the policy the rtv dis , " cured contemplated suicide. John i,,^C) Berry took out a policy in the Knigty^ < Templar and Masons' Life Indemni!fro,u Company doing business iu that 8U The policy provided, as all policies d out. that self-destruction would annul i The Judge Caldwell held Ahat this provisic trttin of the policy was rendered null by t' laws of Missouri; and, though John lt< Berry committed suicide, his heirs rau recover under the policy. QIIJ The population of British India, a xi . wording to tho census that was taken I Adix February last, now runs up to 220,5001^??! 006, or an Increase within ten years of 26,000,000. There is an additional population of 65,000,000 in those Ea^b ^ Indian States that are under feudo^ory rqle subject to British influence y' with British protection. The peasants in some 01 the congested districts efc seeking new homes in regions white the population is less dense than it is in the provinces of Bengal and Oudt. Mr. Gibson ' cays that in the Bingle province of Bengal, which has an area only one-twenty-third as large as that of the United States, the population is 9,000,000 more than that 'of the American republic, though Bengal is almost wholly agricultural, and has ^^i^i^iCsrcgly_anyJflmftjgaaufacturing centres. In tStpronncetSer^T^TyperVons to .A.? ?. 21- - * W! i * 9 vrvij njunie luuu 01 luuivauioie iana. 1 A. E. Gamraage is suing a physician of Grand Rapid3, Mich., for $50,030 for having performed an operation upon him against his will. GwSfl^ge wa* to undergo an operation n \el. He was placed on the operatf ^ *ar>(e and everything was ready, when his -nerve failed him and he declared the operation off.. Dr. Peterson insisted upon going ahead with it, and endeavored, with the assist' ance of attendants, to administer chloroform. Gammage resisted. Two policeman passing by were called in, and upon tfefe representation being made that the patient was insaad( assisted the doctors and attendants in putting him to sleep. ' The operation was then successfully per* formed. When the patient revived it was found that his left arm was broken. In two placea, the injuries having been sustained in his struggles against the anaesthetic. It is for those injuries and his lacernted feelings that he brings w Jgfc Jpr ' rJmTof the singular facts developed by recent discussions as to American laws of roairisge, is the wonderful variance under the statutes of the several States and Territories, of what is known as the 'lawful age of consent." The different conclusions to wb'ch public opinion has come, through H .legislation, on this subject, would sha.tvr/ be believed, observes the New York News, wero not tbo facts a matter of record. The English law bad fixed the marriageable age for boys at fourteen and for girls at twelve years, and such was the law in this country up to a recent period, when we began to improve upon the wiadom of our ancestors. In New York that was the lew until the year 1887, when out Legislature raised the age, at a sudden jump, to eighteen for boys and sixteen for firirls. Our new rule h?? been fnl. lowed by Delaware, Michigan, Nevada, Nebraska and Ohio, Another group ol States, such as California, Oregon, Minnesota nod Wisconsin, have fixed the agt at eighteen for boys and fifteen for girls. % Still another, as Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Illinois, have seventeen for boys and fourteen for girls. Others, as * Tens, Iowa and North Carolina, instsl on sixteen for boys and fourteen tot girls. And the Common Law rule of fourteen for boya and twelve for girla ' stUl prevails in New Hampshire. Virginia, | Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. The most remarkable of all these local requirements is' that of the Territory of New Mexico, enacted with the consent Of Congress, which invalidates a marriage where the man is under twenty- I one, or the woman under eighteear unless the oonsent of the parents of both be given. Between the English CommOn Lew and the New Mexican statute there surely a widwpre.d range of opinloD. ?Sut keep Ihe mints ruoning cd culuting, and wouHn't we p ^^^Hperois pe m U ^Ha a cp fur her. ss some ?e ha* e cl, if "fiat" is go id for the w lull.' or a dollar, make it all fiat ^^Mito pr.n ing presses for coining d ^^ 'c ing f ixes, direct and indirect, a Stat', for why should the peo- It H^^K>nrd with paying money for taxes ^^ o crnmcnt cm "make ita own ^^^Hy it town expones with par, of n na all with the rest? R) -elieoic fellow citizens a scry rxh I irnting am'iaement | the suing breaks?and then J?" |^^^Kn a billoon is anil lobe very .at ^^^Kero sa, but the difficulty is to u n-rtb without a broken neck -r is gone. f ^Kt above suggestions are "free," j. I^Voflfered on the lino that you can't uo vmnefi or a good ihtug. ?mr??6fo ?*~ !y ' tie ^ ousriot occurred on tho Charlotte Sia & August* ttain Smtrday night, c, ee*i Augusti and Columbia. A party of [e iea\returning from a fuu-th of July id talivn in Augu<ta bccttne involved in t * pti'o yrhich resulted in one of the num- l3 being literally cut to pieces, and ten , ^ a being bad y wounled. The scene one of ferror. Tbo white people rushed ^ car to car and finally teok refuge in the ier. The conductor lockeJ the car where riot wa i gnng on and let t ic u light it r* L'lato'h and razors were used freely d* negro who did mod of the cutting and 3D killed the o hsr negro jutnpe 1 from the ni nnd escaped. to - ? st sh on li'tniin and horses and t'la tl mal & d in 80 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary ki ?u. This never fails- So d by J. M. ?n US & SON, Druggis's Union S. C. ne - _ - - p. lii onn fairly b?CftU<jl "the ground mole j liwiliration." tonccifed in a secret Hug at ronllou>Bt boru in cl an "o ?u- I 6, tlTc'Wr^.?'ir^riVo.,a,io F Negotiations are in the comae of conbu mat ion for the sale of several hundred acres of Rowan county granite land to a man in Asheville for paving ^nd macadamizing the mountain city's streets. Winston is piaying great ball. She won two straight games from the Richmond club, beat Roanoke twice and Thursday defeated the Bristol club? 11 to 4. The buildings of the State Agricultural aud Mechanical College at Winston will be improved at a cost of $10,000. The county of Buncombe was organized on the 18th day of April. 1792. The 16th day of next April wiii therefore be the lOQth anniversary of that event, and it is proposed to celebrate it by fitting ceremonies. With that view a number of leading citizens have.' called a public [ 18, to form an organization and adopt such other measures as may be thougnt necessary to make the centennial anniversary a conspicuous success. Several car loads of accoutrements for the 8tate Guard at Wrightsrille were shipped Thursday from the Btate Arsenal. Gov. Holt will spend several days at the encampment. Rev. T. W. Kendall, a local Methodist preacher, of Anson county, and his two sons, Pearl and-V. H. Kendall on the onv side, and William Thomas and his two sons, Charley and Shelton, on the other, engaged in a fight last week in which several arms were broken and blood flowed galore. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Charleston Citadel cadets are encam oed at Snartanbnror A bank with $90,000 capital is being organized at Conway. A movement has been started to build a railroad from Batesburg to Orangeburg. Robert Grant fatally stabbed Jack Bcott at Greenville. Both were colored draymen. Negotiations for the sale of the Columbia canal are well under way. The city council has given an option for 90 days on the property to two companies. D. K. Norris, a trustee of C'leuoson College, has purchas- d for it a herd of registered Holstein-Fripian cattle of the Empress family. , The Charleston, Sumter and Northern railroad opsned its line from Pregnall's through to Bennettaville for business on Friday July 3. The vacancy in tha superintendency of cne outre iqsane Asyium was nuea w c<tnesday by tne appointment to that position of Dr. James W. Babcock, of Chester. The appointee will assume charge Auadit 1st. The position war' first offered Dr. N. 8. Hardin, of son. v; An interesting caae involving the right of the Governor to remove the supervisor of registration wai decided in the court of common pleus at Charleston Thursday. Judge Wallace holds that the Governor can neither appoint or re move tne supervisor, without consent or advice of the Senate. Cantweli, the supervisor, had been removed VB 1 ground of holding unconstitutil' ' two offices at one time. viz; eld ?f county commissioners and supervif of registration. Judge Wallace dfet fen that two offices are not incompatible or unconstitutional. TBNNSMXX. A new $19,000 hospital for surgery is being built at'Ng9hvtlle. Catherine Bibb (colored) was convicted of murder Wednesday at NaabviUe for the second time, fehe put "Bough on Rata" into some coffee, poisoning two other colored wojnen, one of whom died. All of the $100,000 of the stock of the Iron Belt Lisnd Conpv*. of Johnson City, Tenn., has been taken and the work of developing their suburban tract of land will be pushed. # H. Williams, a well to-do farmer of Bhelbyville, has brought suit against B. L. Dosier, a wealthy young man, charging him with the seduction of hia daughter^'an^only child. $10,000 damages is Captain John W. Childress, of Nash ffle^chsinnan of the committee from ,: ; v ^ 'jA 01 erecting a monument to the memory of Jefferson Davis, says that the commit*, teeo feels much encouraged at the progress of affairs About $20,000 has already been ruined, but before actual work is commenced on the monument they expect to raise $50,000. The Elorn Land Company, incorporated, is improviug land and' laying off town site at Elora. Its capital stock is $150,000. Several industries are already under wav. The Memphis jury has found II. Clay King guilty in the first degree for the murder of D. H. Poston. GEORGIA. Athens and Clarke county went "dry"' by 14 majority Thursday; 1,810 votes were polled. Right Rev. Etliclbert Talbott was at Athens elected bishop of Georgia to sueceed the late Bishop Beck with. Wednesday morning nl ^ I ' Kingsb rry, the receiver for-Mftpmn A. Ryan, filed his bond for $100,OJO, and took charge of the store. DeKalb county will soon have a macadamized road from Decatur through Clarkson to 8".one Mountain. Ti.e county commissioners have decided to do tlio work at once. The smallest "moonshine" distillery ever captured by the revenue officers was found receutly in Atlanta, rnd scn< to Washington as a curiosity. Its capacity is about three gallons, it is constructed so as to be operated on an ordiunry cooking stove, and it is complete in every detail. The Middle Georgia Progress has the following: "A female temperance lec turer visited Vnldosta last week. She published a pamphlet setting forth the norrible effects of intemperance, and exemplified them in person oy getting on a rousing drunk.1' T..?J? al. - vu * ucounjr uic corner sionc 01 tb$ new Presbyterian church was laid at Dc- ' catur. The building is to be finished by October 15th, and the synod of Georgia will meet in it in November. FLORIDA. Independence Day was observed at Fcrnandina by exciting yacht races and brilliant fireworks. Tampa parties have purchased from H, D. McLcod n tract of phosphate land oa the Alafi i river for $15,000. .Northern pnities are investigating with a view of establishing iu Fernandina car-wheel works, iron ami brass foundry, marine railway and niach'nc shops. Cocoa Public Spirit: Soiri idea of ihc guava jelly business may be had froqt our amouut of sm^ar used. J. M. Sanders received this week (our'tonsof granulated sugar and C. J. Schoomaker has two and a half tons to arrive in a few iavq._ A now jollcgc b-ilding for The"Fldrida Conference College to cost $8,000 hiu been begun at Leesburg. The Interstate Land and Construction Co., of Tallahassee, has contracted to build the entire line and branches of the Florida, Georgia & Western Railway Co , and is now at work. The road is to run from Tallahassee Harbor, with s branch to the Atjantic coast. The improvements and alterations of the Alcazar Hotel, bt. Augustine, will consist of changing the ^rancfparlor from the second to the principal story, facing both the street and court, a large addition to the diessing room and the building of a fourth story. Tho estimated cost is from $85,000 to $40,000. We are pleased to hear of the project that has been started for the raising oi cocoauuts on a large rcale in the State oi Florida. The undertaking is both inter eresting and promising, tnougb, on ac count of the alow growth of the cocoanat tree, it cannot produce speedy returns. We import large quantities of cocoanubi from tropical countries; we may hereafte? have a full supply of them grown o-> American soit. . OTHER STATES. ^C. J. Reeves, residing near Pwt Gib / La., mortally shot his brother-in1a Ajaac Rush. Family feud the cause Mrs. Eliza Saunders, of Te*n? i? th? owner of a pig; now four weeks old, th$t bears a striking likeness to a miniature elephant. There were nine in the litter, ana the other eight were ju t ordinary pigs. The Illinois Central will shortly com mence the erection of a depot at New Orleans to cost from t30O(000 to $400,000. Natural gas and oil discoveries near San Antonio, Texas, are causing consid erable excitement there. The San Antojp'o Times claims that the deposit of nar Val gas is the greatest ever discovered ^ it of the Mississippi and South of the Ohio rivers, and that the fuel question in that locality is solved for all time fa come. Brabham Hung. Chaklottk, N. C., [Special.]?Henry W. Brabham, the negro who last April killed Johu B. Motca, an Italian witn a conpliog pin was hauged in this city last Thursday morning at II o'clock in the jail corridor. There were at least 1,000 persons piesent. Brabham confessed at the last moment of committing the deed. He died by strangulation in Jli minutes, when his body wm cut down, embalmed and shipped by expiets to his relatives at Bamberg, S. C. Brnbliaiu was in his 22nd year and a gambler by profession. mm r?? ? Weather Bureau Appointmente. Washington, D. C., [Special. I - Sec retary Rusk to-day made fhc following appointment* in the weather bureau bl? vice: Cleveland Abbe, re appointed pro lessor of meteorology; II. A. Haxen. o: . Connecticut, Thonuui Russell, of Michigan, and 0. P. Mariven, of Ohio, meteorologists; E. L. Bugbee, superintendent of telegraph lines, and J. J. Robinson, chief telegraph operator i mggpp i hi Appointment of Poetmaatera. Wasbiwqton, D. C., [Special. 1?The president ha* appointed tfto following n<raed poetmaatera at offices which were recently raised to the presidential class: Mitchell G. Hell, at Cordate, On.; Miss Ella N. Henry, Elberton, Qa.; Walter 0. Shaw, Harrimao, Tena.; James P. JSdSondeon, at Maryville, Tenn.; Exckiel . Gilbert, at Buep* YlsU, v, Commissioner Nesbitt CallW ttention to "A Defective Systeri' and Propones RemedieV The Hon. R. T. Nesbitt, Bta\ Commissioner of Agriculture of Georla, has 1 written a letter to the pjfees in witch he [ *"A defective systejn of ngrieilture long and ruinously co/tiuued has reduced our farming industry such a condition [ that many owners ojrcven large tractaof land are seeking employment in otljrr channels. In wh^vcr direction we tuin we find dissatisfaction and a feeling of ' n^JSwerand higher, our name crops less and less remunerative. Agriculture has in all ages had more than Its share of the burdens of government, and in many instances has fallen bcucath the weight, and yet it has always been the foundation stone upon whicn every other occupation is built. ( Our farmers, from their numerics' strength, if from no other cause, should have a share in the affairs of State, but !rum adverse circumstances and unfavorable national laws, this class of our people have been only the burden bearers. Poverty, ignorance and an inability to ( meet and cope successfully with their more enlightened fellow-men in other occupations, Have made them timid and shrinking, and while other have gone rapidly to the front in state and national affairs they have remained in the back grouud until driven to desperation by circumstances, often beyond their control ; they have been forced into combinations for obtaining relief, of which the grange, the Alliance and other organizations are the'UUTglOfKlS?'' It is only necessary to*glance backward with Cel. Nesbitt to the old days, and then look at the present, to see that ibe depression of agrtoulture is a condition and not a theory. There was a time in the recollection of men now living when our farms were more than self-sustaining ?when plenty sat with peace at evevy fireside, and when the average farmer was thoroughly independent, out of debt and with cash in hand. We now live under very diffcreut conditions. We raise cotton at an act tin I loss of several cents a pound. Wenle pend upon the West for our grain and meat, despite the fact that wo ceuld raise it for about what it costs to freight our supplies here. Worse than all, our farmers are in debt, and gettiug out very slowly. Col. Nesbitt thinks that it will take years of scientific, diversified farming to .reclaitq onr. them profitable after they have been so long under a mistaken system, and the sooner we begin the better. We must regulate cotton production?plant less of that staple ana more food crops. We must reclaim our lands by judicious fertilization and culture. In this work the commissioner thinks that the agricultural departments can reader efficient aid if properly backed by the States. It is bin idea that the departments should send out experienced and successful farmers to impart their methods to their less fortu nate neighljora. and to make experiments in various sections. ' We must not only regulate the pioduction of cotton, but we must reclaim our lauds. Too much stress cauuot be laid on this all importaut question. '1 With our olean cultured crops we must constantly add fertilizing properties to the soil, thus repairing the waste which is constantly going on. | GwfcTiTu- subsoil contains all the*1 piopertles which once existed in the surface soil, except, perhaps, tlie humus, and that with proper methods of ditching and terracing to prevent washing, we have only to wait on nature's silent agencies to recover from the iujury inflicted ivy nun's injudicious and im* proviaem methods. "We have spent thousands of dollars to iudtve ininugratiou, why not apply a small ptiri of thai sum to helping those within our own lrorders? 1 have suggested that ihe agricultural department oe allowed to undertake experiments in the four eei.tioos of the State of Georgia thus by object lessons, proving that Ore lands can be icelaiiiied aud opening the way for that intensive Rj?tem which must come, nud which will be the agricultural eslvjniou or the South. Every known plan to pievenl our lands from leaching or washtug should Ire studied and trietT and the laforuud i?m should be scattered broadcast o?ej oui country. VTjfWdllfl. her f*rn?er% ^hro'igh Dies? fl^?utios,"liow to re clothe these oarrvn fields and hillsides and educate theiu <o raoie Intelligout and profitable methods. We have our teachers' institutes, and even now huudreds .of teachers are being Instructed in more progressive %ud Inciter mothods. The farmers have put millions of dollara into school funds, la it asking too much that a small portion be returned to them to enable thcui to belter usderstaud their suuotmdiugs aud to giatp the possibilities within their icacn? The Btate should by every reasonable ia?ans foeter ino ministry on whtcli lier proiperfty depend*. I cm anxious to ?fee the press take up this subject, aud drmoustr&ta its i iii ports nc?. To the farmers themselves I will speak in my July isport is to their pint in lh| great work." Florida Tobacco Statistics. WaamuteToiv, U. ., [Special.]?The census office hifejnatlc public the tobac CO statiStWieiHi^WikU, The tdtal mini ber of pluntcrb in (tie state during the census year *qs 629; to'el ares devoted to tobacco, 1,W9 seres; total product, 407,298 pounds, nncT value of crop to the producer, estimated on a basis of actual Removal of Gtea Hill's Remaina. Rjcmmoud, [Special.]?The re mains of Oen. h P. Hil' were quiet ly removed Wedneedoj eveuing from HoV lywood ccraoterjyyMksre the* have rested for the paat quarter of a century and placed in the retilbteole at the base of ocaie Agricultural Society. Columbia, 8. 0., [Special.]?Col. T. W. Hollo way, secretary of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society ot South Carolina, has issued the following circular: The annual meeting of the society will I e held in the city of O.angeburg on Wednesday, 5th August. The subjects ^elected for essays arc practical ana arp recommended to the earne-t attention of the people, and it is hoped that there will be a very large attendance of not only the members of the society, but of ill if interested iifthe development of the rcsourccs of our State. The subjects are: "The Aims of Clcmson College and the Methods to be Pursued in their Attainment, " by H. A. Strode, president of D'erason College. "Fig Culture," by Prof W. F. Mnswcy, Raleigh, N. C., professor of horti culture, botany and mechanic arts. __l!Xho Tariff and how it Affects the w mm?^ n p| 1 can, of Spartanburg. "Fungoid Diseases of Certain Agricul tural Plants and Fruit Trees," by E. B. Moore, of Anderson, 8 C. "The Canning Iudustrv of South Carolina," by C. S. Nettles, Darlington. "Fancy Poultry," by Ross A. Smith, Charleston. "Raising Poultry for Profit," by Dr. S. T. Lea, Cokesbury. "Cotton < ulturc in Russia," by John S. 8cott, Mars Bluff. There are several other subjects that will be discussed; among the number is sorghum by a distinguished agriculturist who will be able to prove that it is one of the most important crops grown for forage. A Girl Whipped by White Caps. New Albany, Ihd., I Special.]?There was another brutal whipping by White Caps in Crawford ccanty on Sunday morning, 'n which a yc ing woman of 18 years waj one of the victims. William McQuirc aid his rVp-daujhter live near Leavenworth, the_CQUnty ?n of Crawford county. They wei e reported to" "be living in adult* ry, but there was no proof of this charge. About 10 o'clock on Sunday morning twenty masked White Csp., all armed with revolvers, went to the McGu'~e residence, broke down the door, and seizing McGuire, who is about 50 jci rs old, and the stepdaughter, they dragged them to the woods and lied thcni to trees. Then the clothing ol both victims was lowered to the hips .nd the While Caps commenced the work of switching them on the bare backs, flaying them from the ?. .1 L!- - Duuuiucia iu uiu Ui[/S I I1C yOUDg WO- ' man shrieked for mercy nt every blow, biit her appeals were vaiu until she wink, fainting from the puin. She received over fifty lashe-, and her shoulders, back and hips were frightfully lacerated. Old man McGuire received seventy-fir* lashes, he also fainting uuder tha savag > White Caps notified theni Them^naTif they were found in the county twenty days later they ^o'lld be hanged. This outrage has created the most intense ?.\ citeraent, and is denounced with great bitterness. Quarrelling Over a Fortune. The recent death of the widow of the late Bcrtrand Saloy, of New Orleans, leaving an estate of $750,000, has afforded some of the lawyers of that city rich pickings. Mrs. Saloy died without making a will, and a number of collateral relations put in a claim, and the work of winding up the successions and distributing the funds was pushe 1 forward with Sreat rapidity. The proceedings wtrs istituted April 7, and tne final account was filed by the administrators June 17. This account makes the following liberal awards: Attorney for alisent heirs. $5,0001 attorney for administrators, $17,5001 attorney for heir, $17,500; other attoruoy for heir, $17,500; notarial fee, $4,500; appraiser's fee, $600; two administrators, $?.8,776; total $81,376. Remarking on this award, the Naw Orleans Delta says: "It is certainly at variance with the common report that the legal profession is in its decadence and that there is littlo being made at the bar " In the meantime a claim has been set up by the Attorney General th t the estate belongs to the State of Louisiana, and is to become part of the educational fund of the Commonwealth^ JL Subterranean Lake. A traveler who recently visited Bibb county, Alabama, says that near a place adied Six Miie Creek ho came across a field of two or three acres which is over a Hii'uerrauean lane. The toil in only Uirse o> lour feet thick, and you can take a ?barp pole and drive it through to the water beneath.. Half a dozen men juropiup; up autf" clowu at once in any partic tilii spot, will make the corn stalks trem ble for van or twelve feet around. In the dryeat seasons that patch of ground is always damp, not to say wet, and it can to distinguished from the rest of the field by the luxuriant dark green of the corn planted on it. In one place a well has been dug to the water, and they say a 100-foot line failed to roach the bottom. The water >s clear and as cold as that of an ordinary spring, but there seeui.-i to be no current. Through a Trestle. Nbwton, N. Ch, [Special ]?A passen ger train on the Western North Carolina division of the Richmond and Danville railroad went through Setzer'a trestle, near Newton Tuesday morning at about 11 o'clock. Captain Limater, the conductor in charge of the train, was instantly killed, as wm a negro urakeiuan. The train Is a tota! wreck. It is miraculous how the passengers escaped with their lives. The paaseugcr* and bnggage were transferred and will go bv Snartau bur?. " Aimed for a Grow and Killed Hie Father. Saratoga. N. Y. [Special.]?Morgan B. Coleman, 70 yearn ola. liviug in the neighborhood of Fort Aon, was shot and killed on Sunday by his son, Frank The <vax ill bidiug to shoot cross which were gulling corn in t)\e- garden. .7ust aa he had hi* akn on a crow and pulled the trigger of hia gun, his father st*pi>ed from behind au outbuilding and rce'ved tho charge iu his body, from the f fleet* Of wl^irh he died. ' \ DO YOU 1/1** ?WD NJL"WS! The Sonth's Increasing Foreign Trade. The American Export Commerce Changing Its Baee?Tbe Comparison. No feature of Southern progress is now more worthy of careful study thnn the increasing trade of Southern ports. Recent railroad combinations and new lines have made it possible that a large volume of traffic will nencefuth reach the seaboard at Southern ports instead of by the much longer all-rail route to the North. This is illustrated in the heavy shipments of wool from Utah to New England via Savannah and Newport News, recently mentioned in the Manufacturers' Record. > iiim) mm l? lli? inn? " ' " p" trade ot Southern ports, it does not adequately represent the growth of their commercial interest, because the heavy incrrnse in coastwise trade, of which no statistics are kept, is not shown in any manner. This is not simply an increasing business in cotton, lumber, naval stores and phosphate rock shipped to Northern ports, but a large growth of traffic betweeu the West, and Northwest and New Eugland through Southern ports instead of by all-rail routes, as formerly. "I he foreign exports from the South continue to show a rapid increase. The value o these exports for the eleven mouths of the fiscal year ended May 31 were as follows: For the 11 months ended May 31, 181)0, to al for the South $301,451,277; total for the whole country $804,717,334. For the 11 months ended May 31, 1891, total for the South, $321,179,906; total for the whole couutry, $826,823,004. The increase from Southern ports as shown by these figures was nearly $20,000 ?,000, while the total increase from the whole country was only $22,100,000. ^mtliern ports made an increase of $20,while the combiued net increase at all other united States ports 'was*onty one-tenth as much, or $2,000,000. The largest gains shown by Southern points were $9,300,000 at Galvcctou, $8,0 10,000 at Charleston, $3,800,000 at Newport News, $2,300,000 at Norfolk and Portsmouth. $2,000,000 at Savannah and $2,100,000 at Wilm ngton By far the largest percentage of increase was at Newport News, where tlic value advanced from $0,300,000 to $10,194,000. Every month brings out more proiui ncntly the increasing importance of Newport News and Norfolk as destined to be two of the greatest commercial cities of the Atlantic eoas'. Their foreign export trade is now ncnrly as large as that of Philadelphia, a city of a million of inhabitants. With s.n railroads having their seacoast^^^^^ at the towns cenIcuittLamunrlVII^Bnn 1 ?I-* ? f t'u v uu these roads fnst extending their Westerc and Southern connections and thus increasing their hold on through business, and with the development . f the manufacturing interests of these towns, then is a certainty of great progress and of their taking rank in the list of the world's great seaports. ATUlUHCUCS. . Snow-slides play a greater part in shap ing the Himalayas, according to Colone a. O. B. Tanner, and office/ of the Indian Survey,than geologists generally suppose This author has encountered four distinct kinds of avalanche. The tirst, and inosl common, is the precipitation of a mass ol new snow from slopes too steep to retain moro than a limited quantity. Thcst occur generally in winter and early spring. The second kind of avalanche is the old snow, loosened by the heat o the sun. They may be heard throughoui the lummer and autumn, and, thougl usually not of great extent or weight are dangerous from the unexpected ane irregular manner in which they slide off The third kind can only bo 6een whei the mountains are of peculiar structure and are really ice and not snow avalan ches. They are of very constant occur rence in some localities, more particular ly where small glaciers are situutec high up on the crest of mountains, and are gradually pushed over the edge. The fourth kind was seen by Colonel Tannei but once, and not known to have beer described before. It is very curious, being the movement of billions of snow< I 11- -1 a at- - * " I i.iniibj hdoui me size 01 one s bead, which, | in a stream a mile and a half long, slowly wound down the upper part of an elevated valley in the Gilgit-Darel Mountains. How this form ot avalanche originates, or how the snow is rolled uj into the countless balls, is a mystery.? Irenton (N. J.) American. Something of Texas's Bigness. "I live in the greatest State in th< Union," raid Richard M. Anderson, ol San Antonio, Texas, at the Metropolitar Hotel in New York City, ' 'and from whal I know of her resources I think her ex hibit at the World's Fair in Chicago will astonish the people of the United States. The largest wheat farm in this country outside of California is situated in the Panhandle of Texas, 01 what is known as West Texas. It comprises 10,000 acres on the railroad, ten miles cast of Colorado, and is owned by a company of I some of the best known capitalists of Dallas, Fort Worth and Colorado. This immense trnct of land lies high and almost level, while the soil is rich and deep, with hardly any timber. The farm is ten miles wide, extends forty miles north and south, and is all being fitted for cultivation. The work is principally done by twelve immense gang plows, which turn eight furrows at one time. Our cotton crop last year was something over 1,500,000 bales and there were 180.000,000 bushels of corn. We hsve within out border* 7,500,000 cattle, 4,600,000 sheep, 1,400, ,00 horses and mules, and other thing* in proportion, Texas la a great State."? St. Louie Republic. Lady Kacdonald Raised to Peerage [Cablegram.]?It is ofllcialh announced that Lady Macdouald, widow of the late Premier of Canada, hit Job: Macdouald, has been raised to tbo pee* ; age as an acknowledgment of her hus | band's long sod distinguished public ferric#. 000 Daring the Past Month. Decided Falling Off of Receipts from All Taxes During- the Fast Fiscal Year?Increase in Indian Expenses. Washington, D. C., [Special.]?The monthly public debt statement was issu?* cd to-day in an entirely new form. If combines both the secretary's statement of the public debt and the United States Treasurer's monthly statement of assets and liabilities, heretofore issued separately. Comparisons with the last monthly statement and the statement issued July 1, 1890, shows an increase in the public debt during the past month < m*C *> ?.4 Awfl ?|gf- rf^iinfiftn during the past fiscal year of $22,000,000." The surplus in the Treasury to-day in tho new form of statement, pyt out if placed at $53,893,80S, or about five mil-! lions less than a month ago, with no change in the interest-bearing debt of the Government during the past month. the bonded debt. The bonded debt of to-day is $610,529.120, made up in round numbers of $50,000,000 fours and $50,500,000 four \nd a half per cent, bonds. Government receipts from all sources during the past fiscal year were $401,530,716, or about one million and a half less thau during the preceding year. Customs receipts were $219,060,653, or about ten millions less than during the preceding year; internal revenue receipts were $145,943,281, an increase over the preceding year of three millions and a quarter, and receipts from miscellaneous sources were nearly thirty-six millions greater than in the preceding year. On the other hand expenditures during the fiscal year just closed were $888,690,824 against $318,040,710 during the preceding year. Seventeen millions and a half 'of this iSrf?sri?>.tel0in,.!he. ,k',"i"n change of $124,4157iy^. the past year. increase in ixpenditl'rbs. Civil and miscellaneous expenditures during the year amounted to $il0,147,399, an increase oyer the preceding year of nearly thirty millions. Indian expenses were $85,366,198, or nearly two millions more than during the precediog year. Navy expenditures were $26,115,098, or four millions more than during the precediug year, and War Department expenditures were $48,723,116, or four and a quarter millions greater than in the preceding year; $37,-.27,201 were paid out durinrr tlic rpor fnr - Q - ?- J AUVVkCOV UU IUC public debt, and $10,401,220 in premiLuin on $.114 -AMMO? houfla , purchased, ^BHI i and redeemed during the year. Yellowstone Park Scenery. The merits of the scenery of Yellow) stone Park appear to Professor Q. P. Wright to have been considerably exagi gcrated. The figures representing the height of the mountains around it above the sea are deceptive. A mountain 10,000 or 11,000 feet high does not I look extraordinarily large and massive when it does not rise more than 2000 or 3000 feet above the elevated plateau on which it slauds as a base; but those 200O or 3000 feet are all that is shown of the mountaiu-rim of the park, while the ( glimpses to the outside mountains are > fe v and far between. The grandest " views are those on entering the park as one looks outward to the encircling rim. j The gevsers, Professor Wright says, are t decidedly vulgar, and one can afford to } die without seeing them. Boiling jiaintpots, with ouly one dull color in them, L arc not inspiring. - Acre* -of lsndp. Uid v. wasto by sulphurous waters and gases, such as greet one on every hand in those 1 geyser basins, can be seen at any time in ' Pennsylvania where the water is pumped from the coal mines to spread its desO' lation all around.?New York Commercia. J Advertiser. i A Zulu Dainty. Mealies ate the chief food of the Kafirs, but they rejoice at an occasional 1 I onnortunitv nf rr J ? ? **? "trek" ox?no matter if it has died from natural causes?albeit their glimmering > of religious superstition forbids them the 1 use of animal food. They loathe ?ah as 1 we should loathe eating a snake; but, on the other hand, their fancies for certain ! tidbits run in a curious direction. One 1 afternoon a spray of glittering green foliage is brought to me, from whence are depending the most enormous caterpillars I have ever seen in my life, as thick as my thumb and twice as long?fat, ? green fellows, studded with small, spar f kling scales. The little Zulu girl from i whom they had been obtained wept bsi cause "we had taken away her food." I flatly declined to try a caterpillar or 1 two, whereupon a native eagerly se'.eots a couple of the finest, pinches off their tails,manipulates glove-fashion the wrig1 gling creatures one within the other, frizzles them before the fire, and finally daintily devours the nauseating morse! with the lingering enjoyment of an English schoolboy eating a fine tresh strawberry.?Mijatin'. Pickpockets Are Born. A man must have the physical endowment to be u pickpocket, just as v man must have a certain mental endowment to bo a poet, says a noted criminal in the St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat. The lining of the pocket must be taken bold ot?aboofc mu men iroLa we top OB Utt luidl, it ^ must be drawn up easily and quietly at ' the same time. "jSg Not more than half a dozen movements of thn finders should be necessary I to get the lining out fsr enough. With the lining, of course, will come the pocketbook, and this should never be touched by the fingers until it is almost ready to drop into the band of the thief. Some experts never touch the book >* until it is in the band. Now, the finger* .... Jj ' to do this should be slender; aot oecev , 1 tarily long, bat thin and flexible, sod figS the best pickpockets are those whose j finder ends are naturally moist.