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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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JAPAN WANTS LIGHT.
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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.
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