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^ ^^^^^^S^B^iil^"''1 ,?-:^ " ' *' "'* **?"SapflH BHH^^BB^Bj^^fcfcfe"~*^r 1 1 *Jgk jrp" j(L. -' * - " ' ? " ~* 1 * ?-? j2i HH^H^EbKL - ? A* ' -?> >fc V ~ .-, IWif.rfjOlM ^rtxiiH^' fnifryr*, Dem*Ue Em^^hHu jyfanatvr*, Mitu?m?4.ti? {frg?U .W ^ d? ZX^ ~"* ?f & | 4 -*V%?* :&?? m? _ __..fT^..|? _..? ,. . . Clftcago is made iu about thirty-one days. Ia giving some further details of the alleged cure Jor tuberculosis discovered by the eminent French surgeon, Dr. Loanelongue, the Paris correspondent of the London Timet says he hs3 not failed In a single case of exterior tuberculosis during two years of experiment, and that all his patients hare been cured, llis experiments with the lungs are still in progress, but the results, so far as they have obtained, have been uniformly satisfactory. Dr. Poyet, a well-known specialist in the treatment ?f tuberculosis of the larynx, is quoted as saying that Dr. Lannelongue is one of the greatest ot **'1 liuilitr lung, i 11 mi r ' i "r" spoken to the Academv of Molirino it he had had the smallest doubt of the correctness of hie conclusion?. The use of chloride of zinc in itself is not new in cases of tuberculosis. His triumph lies yj in the discovery of the ability of that substance to harden the tuberculous tissue without cauterization. In the estimation of the Boston Trailtcript "on- of the most significant of possible indications of the genuineness of the bonds which unite Germany and Austria was furnished recently on the battlefield of Koniggratz in Bohemia, where deputations of officers from the various Austrian and Prussian and Saxon 1 bv-: regiments met to commemorato the ' tWMty-fifth anniversary of that conflict the pretensions the ' Hapsburgs to authority in Germany. Per- < ? haps the idea may have been gathered J * f from America, where Gettysburg and many other fields have become fami- f ' liar with the spectacle of such re- 1 unions of whilom antagonists But the ! Jnrr in ^ ' ? ?6 ?uouiun,ij( uurci iii Ei-jrops, ani f the fact that the Austrians and 8axouson 1 the one aide could bring themselves to r drink with the Prussians on this scene of ' heir historic humiliation helps us to (] tmeasure how truly the world has beet ii changed siuce the Bonaparte empire wa? ^ demolished in France. Perhaps the jj Baxons' part in the celebration is even (, more remarkable than that borne by the 1? Austrians, for Saxony still recalls with bitterness how barely it escape 1 the fame J, ? " ' p After this there can be no qu93tion of ^ the entire homogeneity of the interests % and aims inside the German Empire. William is, as it were, to put the official seal upon this complete unification of his n subjects in the autumn by reviewing Bavaria's two army corp?, something no g German Emperor heretofore has done out of fear of wounding South German sus- 1' ceptibilities. ^ vIt is said that Mr. Eiffel, who built the Paris tower, and Mr. Bartholdi, who de- ? signed the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, have been miking calcu- a * lations about the Colossui of Rhodes and c h n up nrrivAi flf thft pAnpliUl^n. frfim 1 ^ V , careful mathematical and scientific data, ( that the Co!o3sus was impracticable, im- ^ possible and that no such thing ever ex- } isted, and a contemporary announces e that ^another myth is annihilated." M. Eiffel and M. Birtholdi are undoubtedly . * great tower builders and statuem ikers, j perhaps rue greatest in the world, and 1 their opinions on subjects of this kin I arc very weighty indeed. But it does \ qgy not follow, maintains the New Orleans j Piciyune, that because they are the greatest now. there never were greater. Perhaps they could not build a Colossus of | ' Rhodes. B it to argue that, therefore, j J there was newer a structure is a sad non i sequitur, and reminds one of the African ' chief who refused to believe that water could be solid, lie had never scon ice. Historical evideace goes a great way in this world and is not lightly to he set aside by somebody's assertion of its impossibility. As for Colossus, there is abundant prehistoric evidence. It was not erected in fabulous ages, but in his toric times aud in a civilize 1 country, at Rhodes, 23 ) years B. C., in the very f heyday of Orecian civilization. The ' k name of its dasitgnei, Chares, is known. It stood but fifty-six years, being too weakly constructed, and blew down in ! a storm, and its ruins lay th?rc fn. Odd years, until they were sold by the Saracens to a Jew, who carried away 000 camel loads of brass. Pliny s.i v the fragments, and wrote about this wonder ! of the world. And now we are to den v 1 this unquestionable fact of history, be cause some gentlemen tell us that they 1 could not duplicate it. Then had we 1 fW-' better not deny the building of the I Pyramids, for it is very doubtful if there is an engiueer to-day who could build another, it was only a short time ago j that it was the fashion to laugh at Homer and his .?'Siege of Troy." But Dr. fichliernann turned the lau'h arou id by ! .V uncovering Troy, and the day m?y shortly come when another Chires will put \IV1. Eiffel and Bidnii to the blush by building another Colossus seventy cubits high, w lich, in our measure nent, would In alnut l"ri futt. puui'iukjl MM Nilvii Oar Coterie of Commonwealths Represented Here. Happening* of the Day Reported and Notes of Industrial Progress Find Space. VIRGINIA. Governor McKiuney aud family are visiting their old home iu Fairaville. Hon. R. R. Nobliu was appointed as Viiginia's representative to the Corn Palace Festival in Sioux City. Thirty Petersburg youug men met and subscribed their names, organizing a new athletic club. II I ! ? II>1 court house at Newport News was awarded to a Noifolk firm at *18.975. Four orphan children ai rived at Lynchburg, Thursday morning, from California. They were the children of the late William Abbott, and were sent there to relatives. They were very tiled and woin out. They traveled in care ot the trainmen. Charles Sharrar, a young white man from North Carolina, was airestcd at Petersburg, Thursday, on thiec charges of larccnv. His f. llow-boarders have been raissmg valuables very rapidly. The Norfolk floating elevator has arrived The force of nren who are handling the graiu are now working day and night in .the effort to keep up with the growing traffic. The steamship City of Worcester sailed Thursday from Norfolk for Antwerp, with a cargo of 12,000 bush?!s of wheat. Haden Penu, of Buchanan, has in his rossessiott a masonic medal which will >c exhibited at the World's Fair iu Chicago, and whicjr has a history worthy of >ciDg record, d . It is between seventy- i ive and a hundred jears old, and was ouferrcd upon Charles B. Peen, grandather of the present owner, and lirst i uesident of the State Bank at Buchanan, t was the symbol of the thirty-second legrec iu Masom v, the highest then curetted in thi;> country. The medal is t iteralIy coveted with Masonic emblems, < epresenting all the degrees from entered t pprenticc to the thirty-second degree. The Grand Lodge, of the Viiginia In- 1 lepcndent. Order of Good Templars met ' u annual session in Portsmouth, with lennis Archer, grand chief templar, in i lie chair. They changed the name of s re order and elected and iustalled offi- t H;5 me uran11 L,odge ot Good Temp i lis of America: Grand Vice-Templar, t lary A. Ash by, of Capevillc; Grand onductor, Mrs. M. Washington, Richtoud; Grand Guard, Mrs. Adeline Lo- r L TehflUP. "me ur?u? cmplar-elect is A, N. Jones, of Nor,1k. NORTH CAROLINA. The Raleigh electric street cars are now inning. The Secretin v of State is sending out rent number of the road laws. Another latpe hotel to cost $75,000 is i built at Blowiug Rock. The Caroliua Queen gold iniue, of luike county, was sold last week for 12,000. Will Wynne, of the Raleigh Bicycle 'lub, has been to Maine and back oo a icycle. A Tniboro newspaper makes a pathetic ppeal for a cemetery for the town Cirumstanccs are such, it points out, that oon there will be no place for the dead xcopt the public dump. A special from Carthage says L. W. ;ocKman was muracrea near mere oy iVillis Shaw, colored, having bceu stabb- ' d through the heart. After a long pursuit Deputy-Marshal ( Jftrrie captured a noted inoonshiuer namid Fleming, in Robeson county. Flcm- j ntf mad" his esranp Tii#?jday n'ght. J30S eward is now offered for him. The lower Neuse river, after having done vast damage to the crops, is falling, rar river is near its usutl level. Much low land on the Cape F?ar is yet under water. The lice crop is badly hurt. There are 28,000 claimants of the li- j icct tax. B g as that number is, it has i in two months (.July and August ) beeu reduced by 7.400 that number or warrants having been issued. At the rate of 200 a day now the warrants are made out and approved. Clearly, at this rate the 404,000 will soon he paid out. The State commissioner of agriculture states that there will he twenty-one fairs held in the State this year. His statistics also make a tine showing for coton factories. There were just after the war ixty small mills in the State. In 1800 they had increased to 113 and this year there are 184 cotton mills in operation in North Carolina. A colored hoy while swimming with some other boys in the liver near Greenville, Thursday, was drowned. The steamship Kurnpie reports having passed a steamer sunk off Hatteras, out side Diamond Bhonl. one mile fiom Hat- j teras light, liear ng northwest. Iler inasinonti.s. wnictt were painren wniie, , projected out of the water about six feet, j She was in thirteen fa limns. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Germans will celebrate Deutsche l'ag at Charleston on Oct. (5. Governor Tillman has sent letteisto solicitors calling attention to Section ?j.V2 i of the General Statutes, with a request that incompetent v in trial justices he re- j ported to the Coventor. ' -* Attorney General Pope also calls at- | tention to Section r?09, requiring them and the Attorney General to examine the condition of the cl'rks of Com I, sheriff and registers and lopoit thereon. Fine progress is being made building the Port Royal dry dork; 200 workmen ; re employed. The Alliance warehouse at Orangeburg has opened and is storing a gteat deal of fleecy wealth Com nor Ti'unnn hns appointed f'apt. <>.'ii1 ye II Wall* r lo be county t?ci?urcr of ( irarb?tnn Cnumv. It is said on the j irtst auihoiity, that the Governor was % not influenced in ranking this appointment by local political "consideration* but selected Capt. Walter for the place ioecause he believes him to l>e fully competent for the discharge of its important duties. Geo. L. Kingman, a well-known comme-cinl traveler and for a long time president of the Travelers' Protective Association, of Char'cstou, died Thursday at j Sumtci. Comptroller General Kllerbc has returned to Columbia, having made satisfactory settlements with the officers of Anderson, Newberry and Abbeville. South Carolina in common with other States, says the News ancl Courier, will send an exhibit to the Raleigh Exposition and it will be one that shall reflect credit upon the Palmetto State. D. C. Ebaugh, of Greenville, lately mentioned as having made a proposition erectJa fcmiiie?~' is incorpoiating the Gate City Phosphate Co. for the purpose of erecting the works. The stockholders of the Magnetic Iron & Steel Ore Co.. have pledged $70,000 with which to build an iion furnace, near Blacksburg. At a mccfiog of the board of Penitentiary directors Wednesday night the most iin port ant bushiest done was ihe passage of the following resolution: Resolved. That supeiintendent give notice through the press that he is prepared to consider propositions for the lease of convicts, or for contiact work by the month or by the year. Resolved, That tlic superintendent be autlioiized to take steps looking to the selling or renting of the Lexington faun, with t'- e piiviledge of selling, pending the action of tnc Legislatuic, provided the board think best to scl!. Resolved, That in the opinion of the i boprd it is to the interest of the Penitentiary not to renew nnv contracts on fanus or farm with any person or persons On shares, but it is best to lease the convicts to the highest bidder, reserving to the Penitentinty the authority to control and supervise the same. OTHER STATES. A Georgia farmer is living with liis , sixth wife. Each of his five other wives , "tied ou the Fridiy preceding the second , Sunday of the month. ' J. T. Williams was nominated by Hie < epublicau city convention, of Chattn- 1 looga, as a candidate for mayor. < Col. Duncan, who is recently from a reeling of the Gcorgil State Alliance, ' mys that the conference of cotton grow- 1 ms, to have bccu held this week, is post- 1 loned until the first Wednesday in Oeto>er * Au individual described as '-a gentlenan of the oltl school, sail."' passed v te'"hiFenwWifiiilii"iitih Mum * ind lightning" cloth, made on his own j oom, and a big white sombrero with a ] eather band around it. A yellow beard j cached from his chin nearly to the pom- ( nel of his saddle On bis back was trapped a long, old-fashioned fowling . liece, and a pack of dogs followed at t lis heels. In New Orleans, on the 14th of the i nesent mouth, there wi 1 be laid the oundatiuu stone of a monument that is i o commemorate the victory gained by | j he citizen soldiery in the battle fought j it the foot of Canal sheet seventeen rears ago, and which put an end to the t ;arpct-bag rule, in Louisiana Judge It. j fl. Marr is to preside at the ceremony. Ex-Senator B. F. Jones will be the ora:or, aud there will be a militaay display. The value of real and personal | rop;rty in Fulton county, Ga., iucludiug 1 Atlanta, accoiding to the returns just 1 made by the property owuers themselves, is $52,344,900, ivtfamV. $10,005,276 in 1 1890, an increase in one year of fo,- ~ 279,029. This is the largest increase in the value of real and personal property ever show n by any county in Georgia. The total increase in the State over last year is $26,140,580. Last year values in Stalt; made the most unprecedented step forward ever known, aud the total value -a nil nrAnortv wi iii from &:t-t5.938.837 f * ' to $;578.l>t50.7SL a? increase of *31.427,t)4L or nearly 10,000,000 more than any previous year, and the ine'easc Una year is second only to that of last year CONNECTED WITH MANY~^APERS. Career of Dr. Kingsbury, the Editor j of the Wilmington Messenger. We copy the following from the i editorial column of that excellent jour- ! nal, the Wilmington rN. C.) Messenger: : "It may interest, sonu our readers to | know with what papeis. etc., we have i been connected. Wc edited entirely the ; Oxford Leisure Hour. Oxford Torch- ' light, Warrenton Indicator, Raleigh j Crescent. Out Living and Our Dead, a monthly, and the Educational .Journal, a ! monthly. We were nt one time as9o- j ciatcd in the cditoisfiip with the Raleigh i Daily Sentinel, lia'eigh Daily Record, Raleigh Christian Advoctte. (twice eon- | nected with it ) Raleigh Biblical Record- 1 rr. (paid to write editorials*, Tnrbo'o . Southerner. Wilson Advance, Tatboro Catolinian. (when Major Hcarne was : editor!, and Memphis, Teun.. Baptist We edited Kind Words, a Sunday-school j monthly, published at Memphis, Tenn. We wete traveling correspondent of ilie Weldon News and Fayeitevillc Gazette I signature "Tircarora"): was at one time a paid correspondent of Otilcutiflrl's dailv nt Petersburg. Va . i ailed the News, and also of theRichmond Pis patch. We were also a paid contributor, editorially and otherwise, of Dr. Deera'a New York Wah hinao, and ljave ( fteli-11)9.leading papers of the 8tnte, such as the old Raleigh Register, Raleigh Standard. Spirit of the Age (in Alex. Gorman's day) and Wilmington Journal and other papers. Wc have been connected with two other dail es in I thin city for now nearly fifteen years, i making twenty-two newspapers, month* ! lies, etc., we have been in some way ' identified with.'' ! The American hog has won, and rumor has it that he will enter Germany in tiiumph in a very short time. The lawa of supply and demand, seem to be in favor of American fanners this year all | along the line. O FARMERS' iLLIANCE. Addrtes of the Texts Wllance President, Evan Yobm. BookwaltePa "Village* Farming" Theory Attracting \ Much Attention. ?The W Virginia Alii on ej Prosperous. I The mother State Alliance has held a harmonious session at IjN&s- There was no division, and everything went of smoothly and amid enthusiast). The address of President Evan J\nes conveys an idea of the general drif/of Texas Alliance sentiment, and tha^ist of his nd?llir "oeingOt'VTwrrreevtnnjjlWnSwaud directly under the control* the stockholders, and whereas the StJtc Alliance has no jurisdiction over the same, we must look to said stockholders for the perpetuation of the sumc. ' Southern Mercury?This is the property of Farmers' Alliance of XCXM> n,,d controlled l?y a priuting board, coinposed of the following members: The president, vice-president, lecturer, and executive committee of the State Alliance. "Lady membership?'There is nothing that portcuds to the exalting and purifying of human nature so much as that which endeavors to better the condition of life and mako its environments more pleasant. To this end the Alliance is working, and one of the great factors necessary to the success is tne leavening influence which the noble women of cur laud can give. The relation which they sustain to the great drama of life is no less than that which they sustain to the the hopes and aspirations of life would, with all they imply, blast in creation were it n-'t that woman, the crowning work of God, was, and is to be, the inspiration of man's endeavors through n'l ages of the world. "While we approve of our high schools and State universities, yet owing to the depressed condi ion of our people, ihcre ire but few who can avail themselves of i university course; therefore would rc ommend that you take such steps as is accessary for the establishment of a higli:r grade of public free rchools Also hat we provide tome way for the mainenaucc of a more perfect svstem of edu alioii among out members, on the great Manciples nud demands of our Order. "While we find that the present local ys cm of lecturing and organizing has caul ted in much good to the <?rdcr, yet re arc confident that much greater roups could have been attained if wc had P"TII!fj ?ody p-cpare a thorough system of Stite ec-turing and devise ways and means for ts support. Would further recommend hat you devise means to furuish the ccturers an encyclopedia of necessary lata in condense5 form, to the end that hey may be able to present authenti:atcd facts ti the people oj nil leading ssius. "Kemcmbci in things essentinl we nust have unity; also that it is better to rune than destroy, and that eternal viglance is the price of liberty." President Jones was re-elected, and he Ocala demands unanimously ledlirraed. ****** bookwaltkh's "vili.aor farming." An article on this subject in the September Forum n one of the best contributions of the in nth. Mr. John W. IJookwaiter, known throughout the United States as a manu-"-M^oX-au^iculUn ji; machinery bke others who have achieved success In TjtTS1"" iness, has turued his atteution at ivcly to political economy and social probhms, and very properly f.*eWo t?? moke i.s? efforts profit the people fr? nt whose patronage he h:ts made a fortune. His scheme for what he tills "villngcfarining" is attracting a great deal of attcuiiou, and is likely to do a great deal to make the fanner's lot a happier one. Mr. Book waiter is now preparing to demonstrate how the need of social oppoilunitics rn *y be supplied by establisniog farm villages in Nebraska. The fi st ot the ? will be built on a tract of 12,000 litre* in Pawnee county 'I he land will lie divided into 150 farms of eighty acres each, and in the center of the tract will be a village consisting of 150 hous's, one liousc for every farm. Regarding the cause of discontent among the fanners. Mr. Book waiter says: "Wh Ic in my own view there seem to be many and marked causes for th s discontent, tftifSimnnl experience* of my early life as an agi iculturaiist leads me to tefei the difficulty in great measure to one dominant a d conspicuous cause. To my mind, therel- ,l"' 'hief difficulty of the farming class arises ft rrs the las k of association ami to-operation. the lack of united effort, the diffusion rather than the concentration of encigf N t only does this lack of organized effort result in much misdirected energy and eons* cjuent economic loss, but it works an even more serious injury by pitting the farming population at a disadvantage in the great industrial eontfst in which other and co-ordinated industries, by virtue of their cap.hility for thorough concentration and organisation, have a superior advantage. "It scctns to me tint the Amciican farmer has not yet mastered the problem of combined action . t'onseriucntlv he lias not yet fully realised' upon his enetgie*. Under tho system now practiced, each separate farmhouse i an isolated community and >i law unto itself I ii economic loss, however, is but a trifle com pared with the woeful waste of soc ial energy. From this w**tc comes the hunger cf the heart and ?t?> often the atrophy , of the intellect. From this, too conies that abiding soul-weariness suffered by I so many farmers and still more by so many farmers' sons, and, worst of all, bv so many farmers' wives. For it is one of the sadde?t features of this wretched isolation th it the farmer himself oftei gets used to it by middle life; it become' so completely second nature that be f rget* that it was not his first nature. He com mrnmrnrnmWT~~ plains because his sons wish to <??> to town, ?ud he thinks his wife very un reasonable because she is not satisfied with a ifood home and a iiood provider.' If an argument is made with him o ? ihe subject his last word usun ly is that she 1 docs not have to work any harder th n other farm women. Indeed, she docs not, and there is the pity of it | "AllnvL- m? In ? w ??? nn average poor farmer's family in the west?I will say anywhere within two hundred miles of the Missouri river. Tom Miller worked hard on a i Ohio farm from the age of twelve until he was twenty-five. He then married and succeeded in reaching the new lands and iu getting his quarter-section homestcaded' and his so-railed habitable dwelling built on it. ? itfMeiei^m I 'That's the way the governrti^nt is defraudedbut hab tabic or not. Mr Miller has lived in it ever since. He is not given to drink, and his only extravagance is tobacco. lie married a fairly good-looking farmer girl in Ohio, and she has work-d?it would he nearer the truth to siy has 'slaved?on that prairie farm ever since: and how little she has had to show for it! Both have struggled in almost hopeless toil fifteen years in nntd, and sun, and w^d, and rain, and snow. Ilis farm is mortgaged, his hands arc hard, nil the poetiy and the sentiment of youth have long since I gone out of him, and, worst of all, he has become used to it."' Then he shows the monotony of farm life, which has sent so many farmers' wives to the insane asyluui, while it l made dullards of their husbands. To cure all this, he propose) that the far mere of a district, five miles square, locate these dwellings in a central village where several hundred families would be giQiined. \yilh all lite i.j.-nnomuwl . intal lectual and social advantages of the association. To show these advantages, he goes somewhat into details, pointing out the j advautagc and economy of living where i the division of labor may go on ccon | omically. There are some th'ngs a fui- i tner must have, thouirh tlio tools or the arrangements, foi it are inure expensive than one household shou'd be tailed upon to buy. They might do tbe work df n village, but the isolated farmer must have them. Among these arrangements he cites the laundry, the village bakery and the butcher. At the lone farmhouse it is hard to get laundry work 1 done; at the village laundry it may be i done well and cheaply with little trouble. < Bo with the baking of biead. It is a I < well kuowu fact that farmers have much j less frc-h meat than people in towns or ! cities. You cannot kill beef for one family; so with other incats. For this ways have a Iresh supply. Much time ' and expense would be saved in getting to the blacksmith, the doctor or fhe store. In the same way as the bakery, the creamery would he a great convenience and labor-saving arrangement Then com-s fhe intellectual advantages of the village community. Mr. Bookwaiter says. 'In an intellectual way the list of pos- j sibilities stretches to a gicat length, j The vi'lage club and evening school, the village schoolhouse, the library, the music hall, and the reading room?why should not y'.i these come as natural products of associated effort? Arc we to believe lhat there is something in larm life and work which necessarily forbids the development of those conditions wmcn svvceren aim Drigiiieu numau me i in most other pursuits? Is the farmer I doomed to liavc a poorer social life than j men of other vocations? Must his faru- i iify > uuui lUUIt; lluyt hiOlSClfl Alld ! must the inevitable questl on be deSJTtnr- y ingly asked. 'Why don't the hoys 6tny on the farm'' j ' The village church being near at hand and e sily accessible, the habit of attending it would be greatly stimulated ; the music and the atmosphere of quiet mental calm even now make it attractive to many not directly influenced i by religious motives; and surely it is well that religion should call to its aid all innocent forces, especially such as effect the young. In the long catalogue of advantages secured by the farm village and its associated energies, many will place the quickening of church life as the first. | The habit of mingling together, and the ' discussion of public and other questions. ; would soon arise with the good i fleets of mental attrition, 'bon sharpenoth iron, j so a man sharpened! the countenance of j his friend." ****** The West Virginia State Alliance elected the following officers Vr*?t- i dent, T. A. Houston; vice-president, J. J R. Thayer; secretary and treasurer, H. J. 1 Parks; lecturer Joel Johnson; business j agent. JJ. M Sidenstrykei ; representative j l to National Alliance, M. Pish. The secretary's report showed thirty-eight conn- , ty organizations, an increase of eigteen . within (he veni. while there are &00 local i ? 11:-- - :.i IU I.iwi j milllnc?!', Villi I 1 l Mil i IIII-IIHI in i<< on- I jution* were adopted reatliiming Ihr | Oca la platform: leavi'.g Ilia rpiestion of j a third party open: favoring tempo an'e j ami urging tlie impoiInner o' a farmers' ; j exchange and appointing a committee to > | work to that end. 4 ? 4 * 4 4 Although cars have been genern'ly disI tributed by Ihe railroads of Illinois, but j very little wheat is flowing eastward ' from that State. Alliance leaders at- j | tribut this to the circular sent out from ' i Wellington advising the farmeis to hold I thefr grain In the southern parfrof the State, where the yield was the greatest, . onlv enough wheat has been thrashed and sold to pav pressing debts, while the ; bulk of it has been pui in More-houses to 1 await higher priees. ****** ! The Farmers' Alliance of Elk county . has passed resolutions asking the Presi d ?? t of the F A. and I. U. of Kansas to rail a convention of the people to petition the President to assemble Congress > for the purpose ?>| issuing and lending i t Treasury notes to the people. HE DRENCHED CHEYENNE. Tht Rainmaker Operates Through a. f Hole in a Roof and Cheyenne Has Showers. of t CnsYENint, Wr., [Special.]?If Frank Albcrson did not produce rain hero this p.* afternoon it must be be conceded that he has private and accurate advices from the raiu-makiog regions. He operated with his secret process, aud there were two showers, amounting to nearly half an t. inch of precipitation. * . . Every condition favored a continuation ' of the lair waa her of the past four days, .. ggajiliiaiiiii tt to iw-i '.fr. Eftorii. Cspt. Ravcnscroft, the weath- , ernureau agent here, went out on the ( | roof r. peatedlv, watched hi* barometer I cjcai closely, for the tool for tegisteiiug h im [ {n(T : Ki- : ? J ' * inj mm inc, nnu ueci?;e?l on 111* leputa- I "~J\ tion ami without prejudice that if it ! * . | rained to-day he was no prophet. pi At 2 30 t>. in. this wuo the exact eon- , , dition, with the streets crowded. In lit teen minutes, and with all tb<- weather ?.V| indicators lying, rain set in Clouds ?" -v gathered over the shops of the doctor, e> (' " lightning flashed, and the thunder sound- i P() eel hollow liken counterfeit. j lm^' In twenty minutes the g ugo showed Rl!|. clcven-huiidreilths of an inch of preeipi- 1,11 " tatio ?. The clouds then floateil away, "J1 , and it seemed as though the wea.her hail uo* settled for tha lest of the day; hut i i ^"r . two hours Alhertsoii hid started his null V,n again, and the sharpest shower of the 111 season came up, making the total fall sn.m.c very near the promised half inch. w .'f'( C'apt. Ravenseroft, a student, who has w heen five years in the service, is firmlv of . r Evciy appearance and indication was against the visi ation. The heavv rain was focal, (. heyennc . . . ? . i \ out being the storm centre of a ninety mile . ij(i circumference. Melhourneand his leak ( trs are simply elated The wi/.ard and his brother will bet auythiugund go any whero. The experiments will hccuntinucd. If conclusions are reached, Mel- ,(,n bourue will he engaged to furnish show 1AJU ?rn mr large areas in mis Mini' He keeps his secret well, lie works in a barn ami loafs very little. There i< n hole in the roof for his use. but its utili- * ' ly has not been aseeitaiued. Opinions rre divided as to whcthei he u?es i liemi- jj ] cnl gas or electricity. The two storms deiti aaie from different dilct lions. Oalv MORE TEXAS RAIN EXTKIII M K NTH COMINO. "U rapt i Midland. Tex, [tip- cial. | John T. g?c y Ellis, who has charge of the Government suco tKWWfl It BI'l'WM \ The expedition nHI'go*"to E115aso~*as \T~on the guests of the city, and the niuuici Bf0r pality will bear a larg) part of the ex- froll penses. The"small appropriation under jvir. which the men have been working is not rea( sufficient for all the experiments which rphr they would like t > make, but the citizens jn? of Texas are sufficiently interested to fur- gecti nish the necessary funds. A delegation fns|, from the large ranch owners of southern cons and southwestern Texas has just had a towi conference with Mr. Ellis regarding ex- mor perimcnts which they wish to have made <>r u| on the great King ranch of nearly one (;0. million acres, near Corpus Chri-ti. of T Mr Ellis, in behalf of Gen. Dyreu- for ? forth, has sgra*d to go t? that part of If the State after the experiments arc made ioss at El Paso. Prominent Government offi- pm\ cials from Mexico have signified their in- l;,ft tcntion of being present at the El Paso demonstration, and hundreds of people from various parts of the State will be present. aim ? ? II I? .a In mh, Bancioh. Me.. (Special ]?at tc/.m. west lliver, Labrador, where tlicre is a \ trading post of the Hudson Bay Com- l(<l, pany, the Bowdoiu College explorers, tjia found an cncampinent of the Mountain- , |1(. cer Indians, who inhabit the in'erior ic gions of that bleak country They arc ,,7,, described as undersized, half starved, yjiV and poorly clad pe >ple, but very shrewd, j|,c" even "fo.w" in theii dealings with j ,|u. white men. Tliey come to the coast ( once a year, in the spring, and <<ITer ; j,v their goods for sale by the piece, instead ?jcl of in lots, thereby getting more money j ()f for them. 1 n||c The natives aic paid chiefly in pork j 8( j, and flour, and us a title they don't re j tju( r.eive a great quantity of these conunod 1 ities. Last winter game was scarce in KOO Labrador, and many of the Indians tw;. etaived to death. The physical measure- US(. meats of several of the natives and also t|?. specimens of their implements were oi>- , taincu by tlie Bowdoin party for exhib- v;;_ bifion at'tne worm's Tnt: 7v Suiug His Sweetheart for Flirting-. | St I'at't., Minn., (Special )?So iul ; circles of the twin cities arc on a broad I sm ile ov? r the rem rkablc suit brought j R1 by Joiin W. Turner of Minneapolis i against Miss Ella Tetwillig.r, a pretty ' brunette of Z't summers. 'I he suit is for J 4 I $5,000 damages, and the young man j claims this amount on the ground that | (he young ln?lv is a common flirt He- | ferring to liis case. Kir. Turner sui?l to a 1 ,ni reporter with great warmth , " 1 "This is not a breath of promise ease. but a case for damages. I don't like M1! lilting, and I am going to show people I ? 1 hat ihis country is a very unhealthy one " for thnt kind of business I have been . A*" fair with the giil. I told her that I d<. tested flirting and when I commenced i keeping company with her I told her J that I did it with the intention of marry- j ing her, and had every reason to believe ,l 1 the intended to marry me. Now she lias gone to flirting with other people, aud I j intend to punish her for it." j Ku Bradfieid Wiii Sue urower. Winston, N C , | Special ]?Joseph i Bradfieid, one of the defendants in a \\ prosecution for lib 1 at the instance of or ex Congressman Jno. M. Brower. who Wj attend d the trial last week in which his yj, case was nol pressed He says he will hring suit "gainst Brower for malicious w, prosecution for #10 0 0 and feels sure nn that he will l>e able to recover puiitive damage. hi JAPAN WANTS LIGHT. i Appeal to Oor. Fifer fbr Point* SJ on Local Self- Government. , PHiNOFiKLD, III , [Special.1?An In- twisting letter was received by Gov. cr to-day. It comes from Japan, and been turned over to Secretary Wine* he State Board of Charities with a uest that ho reply to it. The letter ddressed to tho "Hon. Joseph W. and is as follows: Tamura Street, Tokio, J at an, ) Aug. 7. 1801. f :\ he Hon J<\*rj>h W. Fij, G?wnor qf the $ fate of Illinois. Deah Sir: Count Stagki, the leader of that system in ita newer form that ' ^ nnot do better than extract from a r and trustworthy writer the follownccount of the whole scheme of local government in that. State, which ia v typical of the New World, by ? crt Shaw, L.L. D.T;j ?o I translate four pages of the Iocs crumcut of your State, but it gives the main points. I would like to \ manual of local self-government v Minn uo nine 10 Know just now Ji work bc'ongs to the State, couoty, town each. In Japan the ceptrai >ual Government takes up all worka civil government. Centralization sens the people. So we wish to reform 3 administrative system. We want ocil self-government as you have merits Will you please send me i of your ofilcal publications in # * h we may find all pointa for local government or local administration? would Ilka to know the extent of ' ivork, the taxes for national, State, cful for a sketch o^ToeiXsell goVern- ' "**.'* $|j t. It will give us new li^ht. Excu?n me for the abbreviation of mime. I just got it from theAmerLegntion l>v telephone, so that J of get the Inst part of your name. Yours most sincerely, "SilENKMOTO." , RAFT TO CROSS THE OCEAN. is of n Galveston Man to Make j tio Experiment Next Summer, ilvkbton, Tkx., [Special. |?Charles iloore, of this city, proposes to unike the shipment of a log raft front est on to Loudon ns an experiment. ihs consulted some of the oldest sea ? tins in America, men who unite in ioli**f (lint the e xneriment. will nr.iv* II t),n. H?.,n jt |r|? mn . .. " r i nni|lr"* encoun er the levew' ^ lw,l <ion Wuuiwi"" ^ ma and seas incident to the coast i) the Buy of Fundy to New York. |H Moore proposer to have the raft lv to stait late in July of next year. cc months will be cotisumcd in ntal^ the raft. It will consist of thro'S ions firmly spiked together after the ion of a catamaran. The raft will be Lructcd in Galveston harbor, nod !>d across the ocean by the steamtug in King and an oreau trauip slc'tnr ;l,000 tons belong ng to I.evland ?fc of Liverpool. The raft is to consist exas yellow pine, and is intended ship and house building. the cxpcriincut proves a failure, the ? will be about $20,^00; if it should re successful, similar shipments by will be made every sutnuie". AMERICAN PORK. a VAstiiNOTON, D. C., [Special ]?8eciry Husk has received official notice t the German government has raised embargo on Amer can pork. The cement relative to the admission of k into Germany was signed at Cape V Point about ten days ago, but at rc<|iic'st of the German government fact was withheld from the public vs until ollicial action could be taken the home government The agreeit not only provides for admittance t our poik into Geimany but nbo ads to the Uni ed States the rame edule with reference to our farm proits as that enjoyed by Russia. tJecirv Husk is confident that he will 11 i?e able to extend our market for a by introducing it into Germany for ns an article of food in place of rve, crop of which iu Germany is tide r exceedingly short. To this end, hr.i strutted liir. coin agent, Coi. J. Mxnphrj; rtrrr* i? l.-... -p, piwj^ once to ib rliii and lay the matter l)0? c the Geiman government. SPORTED ALABAMA OUTRAGE. ramilies Driven From Their Home# Into Missiesipi." Washington, D. C. [Special.]-Act- f g Attorney-General Taft has received # i (e'epram from U. 8. Marshall Walker, thc'Southern District of Alabama, sayg that a mohof fifty peisous had driven niinber of families out of their homes / 'l./.rtt /. A U r\f i liom I * I.O. K.?? W. ... rl into Mississippi and left their homes, ?ps and cattle ungualdcd. Acting Attorney General Taft replied lrni by telegraph that the facte *jJ ted did not constmrte, in 4iis opinion, case calling for Federal interference, c suggested, however, that the matter iepoi.cd to the State mitl oHtiea for ^ ch action they may deem necessary. *, Steamer Burned. Washington, D. C., [Special. ] ? The '. W Corcorao, an excursion steamer i the Potomac river, burned to the iter's edge Thursday. The loss i: ea- *j tinted at $45,000; insurance $85,000., obert Orantly, a colored boy, who> <s_l nrked on the boat, jumped overboard d was drounded. The steamer George ) ^ 'ftry caught fire from the burning boat it suffered but slight damagp. ?aQ0*