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i^j . nil illllltn tfripTFbm Chicago is m*de fn -* "* about thirty-one days. Ia giring some further details of the alleged cure dor tuberculosis disco vcred by the emiaeat Freach surgeon, Dr. Laanelongue, the Paris correspondent of the London Timet says ho htu not failed In a single case of exterior tuberculosis during tiro years of experiment, and that all his patients have been cured. Ilis i 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. JLanpelongue is one of the greatest ot <f^0uoli uu.uuvt (vwuia ucroi U5V&~' spoken to the Academy ot Medicine if he had had the smallest doubt of the correctness of his conclusions. The uso of chloride of sine in itseir is not now in cases of tuberculosis. His triumph lies in the discovery of the ability of that substance to harden the tuberculous tissue without cauterization. In the estimation of the Boston Transcript "on j 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 h* regiments met to commemorate the ftha nn i versary of that conflict pretensions the ^ Hapsourgs to authority in Germany. Perhaps the idea may have been gathered from America, where Gettysburg and many other fields hare become familiar with the spectacle of such reunions of whilom antagonists. But the thing is absolutely novel in Europe, and t the fact that the Austrians and Saxons on the one side could bring themselves to drink with the Prussians on this scene of heir historic humiliation help3 us to , measure how truly the woriu has beci i changed siuce the Bonaparte empire wa< demolished in France. Perhaps the Saxons' part in the celebration is even t more remarkable than that borne by the ' Austrians, for Saxony still recalls with | bitterness how bar&fy it escaped the fame , mC ? i . -f ?* - " ?? 1 After this there can be no question of \ the entire homogeneity of the interests j and aims inside the German Empire. William is, as it were, to put the official seal upon this complete unification of his t subjects in the autumn by reviewing Bavaria's two army corpi, something no t German Emperor heretofore has done out 6f fear of wounding South German sus- 1 cepiioumes. ? i %It is said that Mr. EiSel, who built the * Paris tower, and Mr. Bartholdi, who de- J signed the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, have been miking calcu lations about the Colossus of Rhodes and < have arrived at the conclusion, from ' careful mathematical and scientiflo data, that the Colossus was impracticable, impossible and that no such thing ever existed, and a contemporary announces that * 'another myth is annihilated." M. Eiffel and M. Bartholdi are undoubtedly great tower builders and statuemakere, perhaps the greatest in the world, and their opinions on subjects of this kin I are very weighty indeed. But it doss not follow, maintains th? New Orleans Pi&iyune, that because they are the greatest now, there never were greater. Perhaps they could not build a Colossus of Rhodes. But to argue that, therefore, there was never a structure is a sad non sequitur, and reminds one of the African chief who refuted to believe that water could be solid. He had never seaa ice. Historical evidence goes a great way in this world and ia not lightly to be set aside by somebody's assertion of its impossibility. As for Colossus, there is abundant prehistoric evidence. It was not erected in fabulous age*, but in historic MOies aud iu a civilize ! country, at Rhodes, 230 years B. C., in the V9ry heyday of Orecian civilization. The name of its dosignei, Chares, is known. It stood but Hfty-six years, being too weakly constructed, and blew down in a storm, and its ruins lay these for 000 years, until they were sold by the Saracens to a Jew, who carried away 900 camel loads of brass. Pliny saw tho fragments, and wrote about this wonder of the world. And now we are to deny thia unquestionable fact of history, be cause some gentlemen tell us that they ~ ?ould,jpo?. duplicate it. Then had we il | the building of the 'fianili, for it is very doubtful if there A? ? * ? ? A* mmmW ra AAitlil hlitlrfl U III lOglUUOl VU'UKJ n HU vvuivt **% ? %? another. It tree only * short time ago that it was the fashion to laugh at Homer and his i'Siege of Troy." But Dr. Bohliemsnn turned the lau]h around by ** uncovering Troy, and the day may shortly tone when another Cxires will put XH. Eiffel and Birt'ioli to the bineh by building another Ooloisue seventy cubit* high, w lieit' in our measure nent, would b? about \01 (nek St--. "* :*^8SSfejdik ' ' 'Jtm&rl uyuxuxxiui OXA1JD ix je yv n Our Coterie of Commonwealths Represented Here. Happenings of the Day Reported and Notes of Industrial Progress Find Space. VIRGINIA. Governor McKinney and family are visiting their old home in Farravillc. Hon. R. R, Nobliu was appointed as Virginia's representative to the Corn Palace Festival in Sioux City. Thirty Petersburg youug men met and subscribed their names, organizing a new athletic club. court house at Newport News was awarded to a Norfolk firm at $18,975. Four orphan children ai rived at Lynchburg, Thuisday morning, from California. They were the children of the late William Abbott, and were sent there to rela- j fives. They were very tired and worn out. They traveled in care of the trainmen. Chailcs Sharrar, a young white man ftom North Carolina, was arrested at Petersburg, Thursday, on three charges of larceny. His f. llow-boarders have been missing valuables very rapidly. The Norfolk floating elevator has arrived The force of men who arc handling the graiu arc 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 bushels of wheat. Haden Penu, of Buchanan, has in his possession a masonic medal which will be exhibited at the World's Fair ia Chicago, and which has a history worthy of being recorded. It is between seventyfive and a hundred jenrs old, and was conferred upon Charles B. Pecn, grandfather of the present owner, and first president of the State Bank at Buchanan. It was the symbol of the thirty-second degree in Masonry,- the highest then conferred in this country. The medal is literally covered with Masonic emblems, ppn?Tanr?fi??? *!?? ? ' uii luo ucgrees irooi entered apprentice to Ihe thirty-second degree. The Grand Lodge, of the Vitginia Independent. Order of Good Templars met in annual session in Poitsmouth. with Dennis Archer, giand chief templar, in he chair. They changed the name of he order and elected and installed ofli ;ers as the Grand Lodge of Good Tempars of America: Grand Vice-Templar, dary A. Ash by, of Capevillc; Grand Jonductor, Mrs. M. Washiuglon, Richuoud; Grand Guard, Mrs. Adeline Lo[17 "L. "Teaghf", * 1 if? i^tsirtr remplar-elect is A. lJ. Jones, of Norolk. NORTH CAROLINA. The Raleigh electric street cars are now unning. The Secretary of State is sending out jr at number of the road laws. Another large hotel to cost $75,000 is :o built at Blowiug Rock. The Carolina Queen gold mine, of Surkc county, was sold last week for *12,000. "Will Wynne, of the Raleigh Bicycle Club, has been to Maine and back oo a bicycle. A Tarboro newspaper makes a pathetic appeal for a cemetery for the town. Cir-' cumstances are such, it points out, that soon there will be no place for the dead except the public dump. A special from Carthage saya L. W. Cockman was murdered near there by Willis Shaw, colored, haying been stabbed through the heart. Aftav a Inner nnrauif nfinntir-MAifihAl -* ? - s, I'"*"?" I -> Cfrrrie captured a noted moonshiner named Fleming,- in Robeson county. Fleming made his escape Tuesday night. $500 reward is now offered for him. The lower Neusa river, after having done vast damage to the crops, is falling. Tar river is near its usuil level. Much low land on the Cape F?ar is yet under water. The rice crop is badly hurt. There are 28,000 claimants of the iirect tax. B g as that number is, it has ; in two months (July and August) been j reduced by 7.400 that number or warrants having been issued. At the ra'c of 200 a day now the warrants are made out and approved. Clearly, at this rate the $404,000 will soon be paid out. The State commissioner of agriculture states that there will be twenty-one fairs held in the State this year. His statistics also make a fine showiug for cotoa factories. There were just after the war ixty small mills in'the State. In 1800 they had increased to 118 and this year there are 184 cotton mills in operation in North Carolioa. A colored boy while swimming with some other boys in the river near Greenville, Thursday, was drowned. The steamship Enuque reports having passed a steamer sunk off Hatteras, outside Diamond Shoal, one mile from Hatteras light, beanng northwest. Her mastheads, which were painted white, projected out of the water about six feet. She was in thirteen fa horns. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Germans will celebrate Deutsche Tag at Charleston on Oct.. 6. Governor Tillman har sent letters to solicitors calling attention to Section (5.V2 of the General Statutes, with a request that incompetency in trial justices be re ported to the Governor. * ; Attorney General Pdfle atto ?-n1|n attention to Section 509, inquiring them and the Attorney General to examine the condition of the cl'rks of Court, sheriff and registers and report thereon. Pine progress is being made building the Port Royal dry dock; 200 workmen r.rc employed. flie Alliance warehouse at Orangeburg has opened and la storing a great deal of fleecy wealth. Governor Tillman has appointed Capt. Ororge II. Walt-r to he county tre.uuver Iof < Inrbston ('ouuiy. It is said on the ' rest authority, that the Governor was not influenced in making this appointment by local political considerations but selected Capt. Walter for the place because he believes him to l>e fully com- j petent for the disehatgc of its important duties. Geo. L. Kingman, a well-known comme'cial traveler and for a long time prcs- j idcot of the Travelers' Protective Association, of Char'cstou, died Thursday at Sumter. Comptroller General Kllerbo has returned to Columbia, having made satisfactory settlements with tho officers of Anderson, Newberry and Abbeville. South Caroliua in common with other , States, says the News and Courier, will send an exhibit to the Raleigh Kxposi- gJ tion and it will be one that shall reflect credit upon the Palmetto State. ai D. C. Ebaugh, of Greenville, lately ]i, mentioned as having made a proposition crect^aTerfimci" uwi I OT is incorporating the Gate City Phosphate ly Co. for the purpose of erecting the works, an The stockholders of the Magnetic ju Iron & Steel Ore Co., have pledged $70,- to 000 with which to build an iton furnaco. of near Blacksburg. eri At a mcetiog of the board of Penitcn- co f.inrv ilnfofAve ? ? j ^..wtuio H vuucauvy nigoi me po most important business done was ihc pr passage of the following resolution: Resolved, That superintendent give ]ja notice through the press that he is preCtared to consider propositions for the thi ease of convicts, or for contract work inj by the month or by the year. wl Resolved, That the superintendent be Gf authorized to take steps looking to the pi? selling or renting of the Lexington fnim, wc with t^e priviledge of selling, pending ue( the action of ttic Legislatuie, provided inf the board think best to sell. lar Resolved, That in the opinion of the 6us bojtrd it is to the interest of the Pcoitcn- les tiary not to renew any contracts on farms At or farm with any person or persons on th< shares, but it is brst to lease the convicts wi to the highest bidder, reserving to the we Penitent ' authority to control and wo supervise ?nc same. spi OTHER STATES. A Georgia farmer is liviug with his an( sixth wife. Each of his iive other wives dej died on the Fridiy preceding the second ftrc Sunday of the month. * a u J. T. Williams was nominated by the cor republican city convention, of Chatta- nee nooga, as a candidate for mayor. er j Col. Duncan, who is recently from a uii'cuug oi iiie ucorgir mate Alliance, 1CU says (hat the conference of cotton grow- cnt era, to have been held this week, is post- Pril Iioned until the first Wednesday in Octo- 4 >er. ays An Individual described as '-a gentleman of the old school, sah." passed w<j .fas and lightning" cloth, made on his own ,MK loom, and a oig white sombrero with a jec leather band around it. A yellow beard jts reached from his chin nearly to the pom- tjia mel of his saddle On bis back was jcc, strapped a long, old-fashioned fowling Iiiece, and a pack of dogs followed at lis heels. I ca^( In New Orleans, on the 14th of the issi Jiresent month, there wi 1 be laid the 4 oundatiou stone of a monument that is mu to commemorate the victory gained by tvn the citizen soldiery in the battle fought ilnt at the foot of Canal 6treet seventeen 1 years ago, and which put an end to the the carpet-bag rule in Louisiana Judge R. alii H. Marr is to preside at the ceremony. Ex-Senator B. F. Jones will be the orator, aud there will be a inilitnay display. 1 The value of real and personal property in Fulton county, Ga., including Atlanta, according to the returns just trl made by the property owuers themselves, ' is 152,344.900, against $40,065,276 in ?? 1800. an increase in oue-year of $6,279.629. This ia the largest increase in the value of real and personal property ,n< ever shown by auy county in Georgia. P? The total increase in the State over last an year is $26,140,580. Last year values in State rnude the most unprecedented step Pa forward ever known, and the total value of all property went from $045,938,837 ^ai to $378,360,784. an increase of $31,427,- tei 947, or nearly $10,000,000 more than any previous year, and the increase this year is second only to that of last year "c n P? CONNECTED WITH MANY PAPERS. *is n'i I !2 j Career of Dr. Kingsbury, the Editor . of the Wilmington Messenger. We copy the following from the H* | editorial column of that excellent jour- 15 nal, the Wilmington rN. C.) Messenger: "It may interest some our renders to ar know with what papcis, etc., we have been connected. We edited entirely the b* Oxford Leisure Hour, Oxford Torch- di light, Warrenton Indicator, Raleigh 08 Crescent. Our Living and Our Dead, a monthly, and be Educational Journal, a OI mouthly. We were at one time asso- m ciated in the editorship wiih the Raleigh Daily Sentinel, Ibt'cigh Daily Record, Raleigh Christian Advoctte. (twice con- ?! nccted with it ) Raleigh Biblical Recordor, (paid to write editorials), Tarlroro , Southerner, Wilson Advance, Tatboro . Carolinian, (when Major Hearnc was ,u editor), and Memphis, Teun., Baptist T We edited Kind Words, a Sunday-school monthly, published at Memphis, Tenn. J? We were traveling correspondent of the ' Weldon News and ' Faveiteville Gazette (signature "Tuscnrora"): was at one v time a paid correspondent of Cmtch- c< field's daily at Petersburg, Vn , called 81 the News, and aUo of the Richmond Dis- f patch. Wo were also n paid contribu- \ tor, editorially aud otherwise, of Dr. j ? Deemji New York Watchman, and have !? < tlieJeading paper* of ~ thi State, such as the old Raleigh RegtSter, Raleigh Standard, Spirit of the Age n (In Alex. Gorman's day) and Wilmipg- o ton Journal and other papers. Wo have p l?een connected with two other dail es In e this ciiv for now nearly fifteen years, g making twenty-two newspapers, monin- c lif*, ?lc.t wc have been in some way identified with." The American hog has won, and rumor has it that ha will enter Germany in triumph in a very short time. The laws of supply and demand, seem to be in favor of American farmers this year all i along the line. farmers' Alliance. Address of the TexasVll lance President, Evan Tones. JookwaltePs "Village\ Farming" Theory Attracting \ Much Attention.?The "west Virginia Alliancl Prosperous. I The mother Btate Alliance has held a armonious session at Dallas. There as no division, and everytiing went of noothly nud amid enthusiasm The adtoss of President Evan .Hnes conveys 1 idea of the general dfiyof Texas Al- ! luce sentiment, and thygist of his ndicssfollowswp. / ^te-ttgemrr;?' direct- . under the conttol n the stockholders, td whcrejvs the Stdc Alliance has no riadiction over tht same, we must look said stockholders for the perpetuation j the same. * "Southern Mercury?This is the prop- 5 ty of Farmers' Alliance of Tcjuu>- and ntrollejl by a priuting board, com- ! >sed of the following members: The esident, vice-president, lecturer, and 8 ecutive committee of the State Al- 3 ince 1 "Lady membership?There is nothing ?t porteuds to the exalting and purify- * 5 of human nature so much as that j lich endeavors to better the condition life and make its environments more usaut. To this end the Alliance is irking, and one of the great, factors 1 cessary to the success is toe leavening 1 luencc which the noble women of < ur ( id can give. The relation which they 1 stain to the great drama of lif6 is no ( s than that which they sustain to the 1 iancfl. ?floK^?ould He ? ( ; hopes and aspirations of iife would. ' th ail they imply, blast iu creation 8 re it not that woman, the crowning irk of God, was, and is to be, the in- 8 ration of man's en deavors through all 8 is of the world. While we approve of our high schools c i State universities, yet owing to ihe r aressed condi iou of our people, there a but few who can avail themselves of * nivcreity course; therefore would re- 1 nmend that you take such steps as is ? cssnry for the establishment of a high- J grade of public free fchools Also 8 t we provide tome way for the main- 8 nuce of a grbrc perfect system of edu- * ion amoti^oui members, on the great ( < iples audVlcroands of our Order. "While we nhrl that the present local ' 'cm of lecturing and organizing has ' ultcd iu much iGod to the Order, yet ' are confident tnkt much greater re- ' ts could have be^n attained if wc had ' ly p-enare a thorough system of St.te ^ turing* aud devise ways aud means for ^ support. Would further recommend j t you devise means to furuisb the tuiers nil encyclopedia' of necessary { a in condunsol form, to the end that . v may be able to present authenti- ? cd facts tithe people oj all leading c if s. Remember in things essential we v st lmve unity ; also that it is better to r ice than destroy, and that eternal vig- " ice is the price of liberty." ^resident Jones was re-elected, and i Ocala demauds unanimously rermed. ? I 1 ****** I I sookwaltkb's "village farming." 1 Vn article on this subject in the Sepnber Forum ii one of the best conbutious of the m nth. Mr. John W. Bookwalter, known oughout the United States as a mamiof agricultural machinery, bke lifcrs who have achieved success in bus;ss, has turned his attention ac ivcly to liticul economy and tocid probh ms, d very properly seelbs to make his oris profit the peopTfe from whose trouage he has made a fortune. His scheme for what he ftills "villagcrming" is attracting a gre^t deal of ~ntHion, and is likely to do a great deal make the farmer's lot a happier one. Mr. Bookwalter is now preparing to nonstratc how the need of social opitunities m v be supplied by estahniog farm villages in Nebraska. The st of the c will be built on a tract of ,000 acres in Pawnee county 'I he ud will be divided into 150 farms of ?hty acres each, and in the center of c tract will be a village consisting of iO hous's, one house for every farm. R? garding the cause of discontent nong the fanners. Mr. Bookwalter says: 1 "tVh le in my own view there seem to j many and marked causes for th s scontent, the'dwrnnl experiences of my irly life as an agriculturalist leads me lefei the difficulty in great measure to le dominant n?d conspicuous cause. To y mind. theref,,v* chief difficulty ! the farming class a'ises fr -m the lat k ' association and <o-operation. the lack I united effort, the diffusion rather than ic concentration of cueigr N t only oes this lack of organized effort result i much misdirected energy and cons : uent economic loss, but it works an ren more serious in jury by pi tcing Ihe irming population at disadvantage in ic great industrial contzst in which Iher and co-ordinated industries, by irtiie of their cap.bllity for thorough DDccuiranon nna orgHi/.mion, mrce u jpcrior advantage. "It sceins (o me that the American irmer haa not yet mastered the problem f combined action i/onsequcntly he has ot yet fully ;realign' upon his tneigic*. Inder tho system now practiced, each pparale fariphoit?c i? an isolated coqq-> lunlty andS law unto itself. Th l-ronmlc loss, howover, is but a trifle com>ared with tile woeful waste of social enrgy. From Uub w?ate comes the hunger of the heart atld too often the atrophy ?f the intellect. From this, too comes hat abiding soul-weariness suffered by o many fanners *nd still more by so nauy farmers' sons, and, worst of all, by ? many farmers' wives. For it is one of h? saddest features of this wretched isolation th it the farmer himself oftea gets ised to it by middle life; it become' so ; :ompletely seeond nature that he f igrta j hfl it was not hit first nature. He comH \ IV * 4 1 ' A ' plains because his sons wish to go to town, ?nd lie thinks his wife very un reasonable because she is uot satisfied with 'a good home and a good provide.' If an argument is made with him o the subject his last word usua lv is that she does not have to work any harder th n other farm women. Indeed, she docs not, and there is the pity of it "Allow me to sketch an 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 twonty-five. He then married and succeeded in reaching the 'new lands' and in getting his quarter-section 'homesteaded' and his so called habi'ablc dwelling built on it. When 'he swore it in' at the Iff id 'Cin -nxmnvtr. r.oasfr TneerttT: 'That's the way the government is dcFrauded;' but hub table or not, MiMiller has lived in it ever since. He is jot given to drink, and his only extravagance is tobacco. He married a fairly food-looking farmer girl in Ohio, and ihe has work- d?it would he nearer the ruth to siy has 'slaved?on that praiie farm ever since; and how little she ras had to show for it! Both have itrugglcd in almost hopeless toil fifteen rears in mud, uud sun, and wind, and ain, and snow. His farm is mortgaged, lis hands arc hard, all the poetiy and he sentiment of youth have long since ;one out of him, and, worst of all, he las become used to it.'' Thcu be shows the monotony of farm ifc, which has sent so many farmers' ivives to the insane asylum, while it nade dullards of their husbands. To ;ure all this, he proposer that the far ners of a district, five miles square, lorate these dwellings in a central village vhcre several hundred families would be | grouped. with {il| tl^e cconomicjrb u?ntcl- ^ ovv tPI uuMiuiajjw U1 lilt: lib- I lociation. To show these advantages. he goes iomewhat into details, pointing out the idvautage and economy of living where ! he division of labor may go on ccon- | imicallv. There are some th'ngs a far- i ner must have, though the tools or the ! arrangements for it nre more expensive ' hau one household shou'd be called ipon to buy. They might do tbc- work it a village, but the isolated farmer must lave them. Among these arrangements le cites the laundry, the village bakery nd the butcher. At the lone farmiousc it is hard to get lauudry work lone; at the village lauudry it mav be lone well and cheaply witli little trouble. 5o with the baking of bicad. It is a well known fact that farmers have much ess fredi meat than people in towns or j :ities. You cannot kill beet lor one I amily; so with other meats. For this village farming Htic" ' butcher wouia \ ways have a Iresh supply. Much time 1 J'ggjexpe.nje would be saved ^in x> the DtTitRShiiOi,"" t"He doctor or fhe tore. In the same way as the bakery, he creamery would be a great conveuence nncl labor-snviug arrangement rhen com"s the intellectual advantages j if the village community. Mr. Book- I valtcr says: "In au intellectual way the list of pos- I ibilitics stretches to a gioat length. j I'he vi'lage. club aud evening school, the I 'illage sclioolhousc. the. library, the | nusir. hall, and the reading room?why hould not all these come as natural prolucts of associated effort? Are we to iclicve ihat there is something in farm ife and work which necessarily forbids he development of those conditions which sweeteu aud brighten human life n most other pursuits? Is the farmer loomed to have a poorer social life than j nen of other vocations? Must his farnXy liuffii aveii more than himself? And must the inevitable questi on be despairingly asked, 'Why don't the boys stay an the farm?' "The village church being near at hand and e sily accessible, the liabit of ittending it would be greatly stimulated ; the music and the atmosphere of :|uiet mental calm even now make it attractive to many not directly influenced 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. | fhe habit of mingling together, and the j aiscussion o! public uuti otuer questions, would soon arise with the good < fleets of mental attrition. 'I'on sliarpencth iron, so a man sliarpenetli tiie countenance of his friend." The West Virginia Slate Alliance : elected the following officers: Vre?<- i dent, T. A. Houston; vice-president, J. R. Thayer; secretary and treasurer, B. J. Parks; lecturer .Joei Johnson; business agent, J.I. M. Bidcnstryker; representative to National Alliance, M. Fish. The secretary's report showed thirty-eight county organizations, an increase of eigteen within the year, while there are 800 local Alliances, with 18 000 menih'rs Resolutions were adopted reaffirming the Ocala platform; leaving tha question of a third party open: favoring tempc atve and urging the impoi tnnce c' a fanner*' exchange and appointing a committee to work to that end. * * * * Although cars have been genera'ly distributed by the railroads of Illinois, hut very little wheat is flowing eastward from that State. Alliance lenders attributthis to the circular sent out from Wagjrjngton advising the farmers to held their grain "in the Southern parbof the State, where the yield was the greatest, only enough wheat has been thrashed and sold to pay pressing debts, while the bulk of it has been put in store-houses to await higher prices. The Farmers' Alliance of Elk county has passed resolutions asking the Presid-o-t of the F A. and I. U. of Kansas to call a convention of the people to petition the President to assemble Congress for the purpose of issuing and lending Treasury notes to the people. ? J MORE RAIN MAKING. HE DRENCHED CHEYENNE. ! The Rainmaker Operates Through a Hole in a Roof and Cheyenne Has" Showers. Cheyennr, Wy? [Special.] ?If Frank Albcrson did not produce rain here this afternoon it must be be conceded that he has private and accurate advices from the raiu-making regions. He operated with his secret process, and there were two showers, amounting to nearly half an inch of precipitation. Every condition favored a continuation of the fair wea her of the past four days, infrtriyflents of the local signal tng cordb." CapF. Rnvcnscroft, the weather bureau agent here, went out on the roof r> peatedly, watched his barometer closely, for the tool for registering hum bly inactive, and declared on his reputation and without prejudice that if it rained to-day he was no prophet. At 2:30 p. m. this was the exact condition. with the streets crowded. In fifteen minutes, and with all the weather indicators lying, rain set Clouds gathered over the rhops ot the doctor, lightning flashed, and the thunder sounded hollow liken counterfeit. In twenty minutes the g up;o showed elcvcn-hundredths of an inch of prccipitatio ?. The clouds then floated away, and it seemed as though the weather had semen tor trn rest ot tlie clny: but ia two hours Albcrtson hid sta'ted his null again, and the sharpest shower of the season came up, making the total fall very near the promised half inch. Capt. Ravenscroft. a student, who has been five years in ihc service, is firmly of the the ouinion that, the precipitation was due almost wholly to nrfineiareauses Evc>y appearance and indication was against the visi ation. The heavy rnin was local. (hcycnne being the storm centre of a ninety-mile circumference. Melbourne and his back t.rs are simply elated. The v izard and his brother will bet anything and go any where. The experiments will be rontiuued. If conclusions are reached, Melbourne will be engaged to furnish showers for large areas in this State He keeps his secret well. He works in a barn and loafs very little. 1 here i? a hole in the roof for his use. but its utility has not been ascertained. Opinions are divided as to whether he uses chemical gas or electricity. The two storms came from different directions. more texas rain experiments com 1 no. Midland, Tax , [Sp-cial. ]?John T. Ellis, who lias charge of the Government ;;in diftking theon"A WJLV'P/M The ty?^.'P "' "J? " .. . _ j J ... --o rri go to Jbl Paso as the guests of the city, and the municipality will bear a largj part of the expenses. The'small appropriation undcr which the men have been working is not sufficient for all the experiments which they would like t ? make, but the citizens of Texas are sufficiently interested to furnish the necessary funds. A delegation from the large ranch owners of southern and southwestern Texas has just had a conference with Mr. Ellis regarding experiments which they wish to have made on the great King rnuch of nearly one million acres, near Corpus Chri-ti. Mr. Ellis, in behalf of Gen. Dyrenforth, has sgra^cl to go to that part of the State after the experiments are made at El Paso. Prominent Government officials from*Mexico have signified their intention of being present at the El Paso demonstration, and hundreds of people from various parts of the State will be present. HUUuvalu .1- . ?? X-?A??artro Rancor, Me., [Special ]?At Northwest River, Labrador, where there is a trading post of the Hudson Bay Company, the Bowdoiu College explorers, found an encampment of the Mountaineer Iudians. who inhabit the in'erior regions of that bleak country They are described as undersized, half starved, and poorly clad pe >ple, but very shrewd, even "foxv" in their dealings with white men. They come to the coast once a year, in the spring, and offer their goods for sale by the piece, instead of in lots, thereby getting more money for them. The natives ate paid chiefly in pork and flour, and as a tule they don't receive a great quantity of these commodities. Last winter game was scarce in Labrador, and luanv of the Indians etaived to death. The physical measurements of several of the natives aud also specimens of their implements were obtained bv the Bowdoiu pnitv for exliib ! bitlonaCthe world's Yn\r Suiug His Sweetheart for Flirting. fvr Paci., Minn., [Special j?So ial j circles of the twin cities are on a broad smile ov?r the rem-rkablc suit brought 1 by John W. Turner of Minneapolis against Miss Ella Terwillig<-r, a pretty brunette of 20 summers. 'I he suit is for $5,000 damages, and the young man j claims this amount ou the ground that i the young lndv is a common flirt lte | ferring to his case. Mr. Turner said lo r j reporter with great warmth "This is not a breach of promise case ' but a case for damages. 1 don't iik< flirting, and I am going to show peopl ! that this country is a very unhealthy on for that kind of business 1 have bee fair with the girl. I told her that I dc tested flirting and when I commence* i keeping company with her I told he j that I aid it with the intention of man y l ing her, and had every reason to boliev ! she intended to marry me. Now she ha gone to flirting with other people, and intend to punish her for it." Bradfleld Will Sue Brower. Winston, N. C., (Special. 1?Josep Bradfleld, one of the defendants in prosecution for lib 1 at the instance o e* Congressman Jno. M. Brower, wh* attend d the trial last week in which hi* rase was nol prossed He says he wil bring suit ?gaiast Brower for maliciom prosecution for #10 0 0 and feds sun that he will be able to recover puritiv damage. * JAPAN WANTS LIGHT. ?? )i??8 j An Appeal to Gov. Fifer for Points on Liocol Self-Government. Springfield, III, [Special.]?An interesting letter was received by Gov. Fifer to-day. It comes from Japan, and has been turned over to Secretary Wines ! of the State Board of Charities with a j request that he reply to it. The letter is addressed to the "Hon. Joseph W. j Fif," and is as follows: "Tamuka Street, Tokio, Japan, > Aug. 7, 1891. ( | "The Hon Joseph TF. Fif, Governor of the State of Illinois. I ' Dear Sir; Count Sfngki, the leader | of the Liberal party of Japan, asked me | to investigate the local Government of I tin I nited State-;. So I read Biyce's _ T*"^TmTftns'"YtU'HliSflCM ?b*~gootr-*? *sauiJ pic of that system in its newer form that j I cannot do better than extract from a j clear and trustworthy writer the followi ing account of the whole scheme of local I self-government in that Btate. which is fairly typical of the New World, by ' Robert Shaw, L.L. D. So I translate four pages of the loca 1 Government of your State, but it gives i only the main points. I would like to i see a manual of local self-government i so we shall be able to know just how i much work be'ongs to the State, county, and town each. In Japan the ceptral national Government takes up all works on civil government. Centralization weakens the people. So we wish to reform our administrative system. We want our locil self-government as you have in America Will you please send me some of youi ofiical publications in * which wc may find all points for local self-government or local administration? We would lik? to know the extent of the work, the taxes for national. State. | grateful for a sketch of iocal self-governi meat. It will give us new li^lit. I "Excu?e me for the abbreviation of J * our name. I just got it from the Amerl i au Legation by telephone, so that! cannot get the last part of your name. Yours most sincerely, ' Siienemoto.'' . j LOG RAFT TO CROSS THE OCEAN. Plane of a Galveston Man to Make the Experiment Next Summer. Galveston, Tex., [Special.]?Charles II. Moore, of this city, proposes to undeitakc the shipment of a log raft from Galveston to Londou ns an experiment. He has consulted some of the oldest sea captains in America, men who uuite in the belief that the experiment will prove successful. . . *] rsfff Mft"' AtHL 'to, ^ ; ' ilil pun ri- i In- <pVf.rn Lonaon wuuitKl ^ storms and seas incident to the coast m from the Bay of Fundy to New York. Mr. Moore proposes to have the raft W ready to stait late in July of next year. Three inomhs will be consumed in making the raft. It will consist of tlircs sections firmly spiked together after the j fashion of a catamaran. The raft will be constructed in Galveston harbor, and ! towed across the ocean by the steamtug j Storm King and an oceau trauip sterner of 3.000 tons belong ng to Leyland ?fc Co. of Liverpool. The raft is to consist i of Texas yellow pine, and is intended j for ship aud house building. If ilic cxpcrimcut proves a failure, the loss will be about f'-lOJ'OO. if it should j prove successful, similar shipments by j raft will be made every surnuie'. AMERICAN PORK. . Til a E mbareo Raited, by: Uirm?JT. Corn Instead ot Rye. : Washington, D. C., [Special ]?Secretary Husk has received official notice that ihe German government has raised the embargo on Amer can pork. The agreement :dative to the admission of pork into Germany was signed at Cape May Point about ten days ago, but at ' the request of the Uerniau government i the fact was withheld from the public i press until official action could be taken ! I%v tl?A linnw oiivp.nmpnt Thp flfrrAP meat not only provides for admittance of* our pork into Gciinany but also affords to the llni ed States the fame schedule with reference to our farm products as that enjoyed by Russis. Secre'ary Rusk is confident that he will soon i>e able to extend our market for corn by introducing it into Germany for use as an article of food in place of rye, 1 the crop of which in Germany is this year exceedingly short. To this end, he has instructed his com agent, Col. J. IV Murphy, row in Kiuope, to pr0CC6<l J a' once to i>< rlin and lay the matter ba? fore the German government. I t REPORTED ALABAMA OUTRAGE. ? 4 Families Driven From Their Homes Into Mississipi." "Washington. d. C. [Special.] - Aet, | ing AttorncjuGcncral Taft has received i a te'egrnm from U. S. Marshall Walker, ! of the*Southern District of Alabama, sayc ing that a mob of fifty persons had driven e | a number of families out of their homes r, ! in ( hoctaw county. Ala. Most of them u fled into Mississippi and left their homes, ! crops and cattle unguarded. 1 j Acting Attorney General Taft replied 1 to h m l>y telegraph that the facts ! stated did not eonstilute, in his opinion, c a case calling for Federal interference. lS lie suggested, however, that the matter I be repoi cd to the Stn*e mrttorhles for Jj I such action y they may deem necessary. Steamer Burned. h Washington, D. C., [Special.]?The ft W. W. Corcoreo, en excursion steamer f on the Potomac riser, burned to the 9 water's edge Thursday. The loss it ee- li 1 timated at $45,000; insurance $85,000.1 Robert Grantly, a colored boy, who t J worked on the boat, jumped overboard e and was drounded. The steamer George e Lenry caught fire from the burning boat but suffered but slight damagp. Jgj