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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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*