Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I 1 ? - ? ~ ? ?? " " " "" - - ? ? ? ? Aries oj tk* Day. Jpdof "Washington, <m the^Bnadian ?,"W' boundary liue, is stupendous, and smu gliog is a leading industry there. . flays the New York Mercury: The English exchanges are* just now busily engaged in suggesting ways of miking village life attractive and keeping rural young men and wo.nen at home. There as hero, the cities aro drawing away from home the sinow and bloom of the country and agricultural life suffers by tbe change. This was the experience of Italy aft&r Koine became a great city, anil all Prince is suffering now because Paris has a world of amusements to offer. U begins 10 look as if the tendency of population to the towns were irresistible, and as if the world rauit prep ore to acL ._ cept the fact that farm life ia becoming iitahle in the eyes of the enbrgetic of both sexes. i ??? ^ | Wank Letlie't Weekly observes: "Mr. VK Gladstone has written a letter dcuouncing gambling as a formidable and growing national evil. He says ho is ready to aid any effort that aims at its extinction. The recent disclosures of tho baccarat scandal involving the Prince of Wales resulted in a sort of semi-apology for gambling on the part of the servile followers of the Priucc. AVe quoted recently from the London Spectator, in which gambling was openly defended. At this juncture it is creditable to Mr. Gladstone that he has publicly expressed his views. Gambling is not only tho 4>Kta*tional evil in Englaud, but also in this country. The number of defalcations, robberies, thefts, murders and suicides that can bo laid at the gatnblor s door would sboc'c tho tnoAl scusc of the peo?f pie if it wcro revealed. Occasionally the dcw3 columns of the papers show tho demoralizing influence of tho gatnbliug den aud the race track, but if the facts were marshaled in solid array, the uprising against the evil would make itself ' overwhelmingly felt." While oysters are pleutiful and cheap in New York, places farther from tho j sources of supply are beginning to feel < the effect of a consumption which has outrun the productiveness of tho old oyster grounds, and drained the n so that i it has become noce3sary to let the n lio ' fallow and rccuperato. According to * one of the largest oystcr-shippicg firm; ( in Milwaukee, Wis., which is a chief < distributing point for the Northwest an t as far West as Oregon and Washington, the beds in Chesapeake Bay, from which nearly* nil the oysters shipped West have , been taken, litive been aim.)it completely ' exhausted. The necessity of allowing thu ' seed to recruit, curtailed the supply to a great extent, and this year it is expected that there will bo u greater shortage. The plain facts,*' said a representative ot the firm mentioned, "are that tho American people have come to using oysters bcyoud the natural supply, and tho future growth has thereby been imperiled, and the supply promises to bo less each succeeding year. We as a nation arc eating more oysters now than ever before, as many people who formerly regarded them with something of disgust have learned to relish them, and are now among the largest consumers." One ol tlie most remarkable of the reAmerican manias in the estimation ( of tho New Orleans PicayuM, is the desire for and practice of building inordinary lofty houses for business and residence purposes. This style of archi- l lecture on stilts has been indulged in to great excess in No v York, and is now ' raging as nu epidemic in Chicago and j _it nr?..i i. . it a. uuiur ?yuwii ciuuj. xt'j.ifjs iru u iu:i to twenty stories high linve come into ' fashion, auti there appear to be no limits ! to the vagaries encourage 1 by architects snd engineers. In Europe there are no , tofty buildings, except towers and spires * attached to churches. People do not re- ' sido in tenth and twentieth stories an i eeem to have no taste for such high living, but hero in a effcntry where land is I abundant, sky-scarping structures arc iu \ V great demand. Wo note that a house is to be built in Chicago 200 feet high, while houses of 100 feet arc common in a'l the cities. Inaucient Home there was a law forbidding the building of houses to a greater height than eighty fc;t, aud it does not appear that any such height was common. Docs it never occui to the architects who plan these lofty piles that one day the earthquake will shake thcin to ruins? The United States cannot claim any immunity from such convulsions. Eirthquakc* are common in California. The earthquake at Now Madrid, Me , early in the century, was a formidable one, making extraordinary changes in the topography of a largo ^ -?.area of country. Toe earthquake at W* Charleston, S. C\. is so fresh in memory ihnt it is not byany means to be ignore J. It would appear that earthquake periods co ne in cycles. There is no reason to suppose that New York ai 1 Chicago are any more -ec ire tint i are C larb'ston or fchju Frau jisco. Tell It Not That Our Southland Is Prosy. We Will Tell Ton About Many Important Happening* that Have Occurred During a Week. VIRGINIA. The Virginia Conference of tlic Colored Methodist Episcopal church, met in Petersburg last week. Statement of Norfolk and "Western Hail road Company for September, 1891, shows an increase of $18,281 in gross and $10,677 in net earnings. Henry Fairfax, of Londoun and Fauquier couuties will probably be the successor in Congress of the late Gen. W. H. F. Lee. Mr. Fairfax is a planter and a man of culture. . _ ^ A special from MaTtfnsvillo says two men were killed and three wounded near that town Friday morning by a cave-in on the Roanoke and Southern Railroad. F. H. Fries, president of llie Roanoke and Southern Railroad, experts the road to.be in full operation, with regular trains l>etwecu Roanoke and Winston, by January 1st. The Ilurst Ordnance Co. has been incorporated at Alexandria. Au'horizcd capital stock, $1,000,000. The Berkeley Arms Hotel at Buchanan, which was totally destroyed by fire at 1 o'clock in the m ruing, was the largest in the State. Lo s, $100,000; insurance, uuder $00,000. The fire is believed to be the work of an incendiary, as the hotel was unfinished and unoccupied. Thirty-five thousand people attended the State Fair, Thursday. It was one of the largest crowds in the history of the society. The managers arc well pleased with tho excellent financial result. They are jubilant over the patronage from citi7.ens of all parts of Virgioiu. Tft Virginia Board of Pharmacy began its meetings at Stauutou, Wednesday. The number of npplicauts for certificates in Pharmacy present is twenty-four, one of whom is a lady. At a special meeting of the city council a plan was formulated by which the University of Viaginia is to have a water main of its own from the Charlottesville reservoir. The steamer City of Augusta, from Savannah, picked up the steamer Chat field, from Galveston for Livcrpoo', sixty miles south of Cape Henry, with her propeller gone, and towed her iu to Fortress Mon roc. NORTH CAROLINA. The area in wheat iu the section between Greensboro and Rnleig his the largest on record. lemmo iimin rrf -thr | capture of a moonshine still owned by three brothers uanrcd Stanly, iu Guilford county. W. II. Gibsou, of Charleston, W. Vn., jumped from a train near We'dou and was killed. Three thousand people saw the bicycle race between Fitzsimmons and Wynne Thursday at the Raleigh Exposition. In the first mile Wynne fell ana broke bis pedal. Fitzsimmons won, time It) minutes and 4 seconds Wynne's time being 16 seconds slower. Mrs George James, of Burlington met death from a peculiar accident Wednesday night She went to the yard to get \ stick of wood and stumbled and fell i [)v<rawhccl barrow. Dtnth resulted in a few hours. , Rev. Peschau of Wilmington and Rev. Moser of Monroe arc attempting to stir up an anti-Sam Jones movement in this State. The former has challenged the Itev. Sain Jones to a public debate. This Meeting will take place in Charlotte if Mr. Jones is willing. The report that the Winston and Sacm postofT.cco mcic ?o he consolidated i?as caused considerable indignation tinong the citizens of Salem unci they passed resolutions against it, which with umilar resolutions by the Winston-Salem .miifi i ui commerce were sent on to Washington. 80UTH CAROLINA. A charter was issued to tlio Safely Catch Guu Company, Rock Ilill. Minnesota and Wisconsin parties have turclmscd the Cash property near Cheraw for $73,000, and will improve same. It is proposed to build a courthouse tnd jail at St. Matthew's, which is to be Lhe courthouse of a new county to be known as Calhoun county. Greenville and Butler townships have voted $510,000 and $12,000 of bonds, respectively. to the projected Cape Fear & Cincinnati Railroad. P. C. Hodges, of Atlanta, has received from the Governor the $100 reward offered by Governor Richardson for the capture of Manassas Barnwell, who has been wanted ever since 1887 for murder in Aiken. A very large nnd cultured audience greeted Dr. Joseph LeC'ontc Wednesday night at the South Carolina College, Columbia, to hear him discuss "Organic Evolution." lie was introduced by President Woodrow. Gen. John It. Kershaw, now a circuit judge, presented to the Hehmond Survivors' Association Friday night at Columbia several tattered old Confederate flags. The presentation speech was made by Gen. Lcroy F. Voumans. Representatives from the 'colleges of South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi nnd Tennessee met at Charleston for the luii'DAQA nf Arrrftni'/innr ?i Soiithoi n mnnil meat for Jefferson Davis. James Barnes, cashier of the Bank of Marlboro, at Bcnncttsville, suicided Thursday morning at 5 o'cloc k. He was about forty. .Ie leaves a wife and several children. He was a pillar of the Baptist church. 11 is accounts are believed to be all right. He told his wife 'hat he was going to kill himself. She went for their pastor. Before she got back he had gone out into the back yard and shot himself. Denth was instantaneous # A Doo'y County, Al?., man is experimenting with wine making from tbe Juice of the watermelon. lie claims that it makes a most delicious wine, and he is storing away quantities of it. The syndicate that was formed in Germany last summer for the purpose of C3* 1 tablisliing colonies of German tanners in Alabama has procured a tract of land in that State. The work of enrolling the colonists is in progress in Germany, and it is reported that a body of them will be ready to take their departure for Alabama ^ next month. If the tirst colony, which c is to bo in Washington county, is sue- a ccssful other colonics will l>e rapidly or- 8, ganized, so that within a few years the ^ State may have a large German popula- ti tion. t( ? ?' O SOLID SOUTHERN GROWTH. j ii Wiu??.j*>x T|.-? rj| "" Bofithom* Attvancometit. The Manufacturers' Record, of Bnlti- 8 more, of October 31, in reviewing the in- t> dust rial progress of the South, says: ? "The business situation throughout the " South continues to improve, and the out- ?, look for the future is very promising. ^ Speculative operations arc not in much a favor, but the work of solid business de- " vclopuieut is commanding increased at- v tention. Shrewd capitalists, realizing ? the intrinsic value of good mineral ana " timber propert es, arc making a number P of purchases, and uiaiuly for immediato s( development. In West Virginia some large sales of coal lands have been made, ?' and in other States ore and timber lands ^ have changed lnuds. The pliospliato interests in Florida show increased ac- " tivity in the sab of lands and in the or- ^ gauization of mining companies, seven y new companies having been reported during the week with capital stock of from ^ $50,000 to $100,000. In Alabama a u very importaut contract was closed, se- ^ curing the building of a railroad from the Warrior coal fields ' to deep water ' river navigation at Tuscaloosa, which will open a water transportation route for Alabama coal to the Gulf; this contract v alao calls for coal-mining and coke niak- 6 ing operations at Tuscaloosa. At Gal- ?1 vestou the contract has been closed for 11 building n 1,000,000 bushel grain clevu- c< tor at a cost of $200,000, anil large cn- c< gagemcnts have been made for grain c< shipments from New Orleans-this winter, while ot Baltimore the grain trade is so active that on two days of this week alone charters were made for the export oi i5,ouu,uuu uusuels to Europe. The cottou movement continues very heavy, due in large part to the perfect weather [! for gathering the crop, and the Southern ports are crowded with vessels loading rc for Europe. I n general itfdus- 01 trill matters there is steady progress, and 1,1 among the new enterprises reported for " the week are $100,000 water works com- ^ works at Portsmouth, Va.; $250,000 dc- c velopmeut, mining and manufacturing . company in Florida; a $50,000 and a J. fl?>,000 manufacturing company in West Virginia; a $20,000 knitting mill com- J1 pany, Norfolk, Vs.; a $;K>,()00 compress / company, Americas, da.; a $500,000 !1< cartridge and powder company, Coving- ! ton, Ky.; a rolling mi'l and a sash and s door factory at Tyler, Texas; a 200-harrel 11 Hour mill, Baltimore; a $102,000 devel- '! opmcnt company at Chester, S. C.; large ~ lumber mills at Irvine, Ky.; a $200,000 general manufacturing compauy at New ^ Orleans; a $100,000 ordnance compauy, J' Alexandria. Va.; a $50,000 automatic- r sprinkler company,Columbus,Ga.; $100,- , 0J0 development company, Richmond, 0 Va; a 50 ton ice factory, Mobile, Ala., I1,' and one of same size at Fort Smith, Ark.; refrigerator works, Hot Springs, Ark.; waterworks, La Grange, Ga.; tobacco J fnctory, Greenville, N. C.; a $25,000 cottonseed-oil mill company, Texas; a $100,000 electric light mauufac- ^ taring company, Cumberland, Md., etc. C( 'This summary shows a steady, solid ..rntt'lh nil nlnnntl.n 15n? - very licnltliy development activity that p promises well for the rapid iucrease iu the progress and prosperity of the ,( South." a! INTER-STATE COLLEGE CONTEST. 8 b u Representatives from Southern Col- j] leges Ornto in Charleston. CiiAlw.iiSTON, S. |Special.]?In re- al sponge to a call from the College of ni Charleston for the Southern Inter-Colic- I? giate Oratorical contest, representatives 11 from the following institutions convened w here. " W. C James, ltichmond College, Va ; G Tlios. Pinekney, University of Virginia; J. B. Whaley and Geo. N. Cornelson, T Jr , Davidson College, N. C.; Fred Opp, University of Texas; J. Talbot Jackson, Central University, Ky.; B. L. M?>ungcr, 11 University of Mississippi; E. Mac Davis ^ and John Haudolph Neal, Tennessee; J. C. Blazengaun and (Jrcene F. Johnson, ]i University of Georgia; 15. W.Andrews t< and A. S. Thomas, South Carolina Mili- b tary Academy; .las. ('. I5lasingame,of the d University of Georgia; Isaac 15 Brown, g FieetwoodGrnver.il. Swinton McGilivray g and J. W. Canty Johnson, ofthcCollegc J Charleston. F After very spirile 1 and creditable ef- 'J forts from each representative, a gold t medal costing one hundred dollars was I. awarded to .1. Talbot Jackson, of the 1'nivcrsity of Kentucky. His subject, h ' Freedom, our heritage; its consecration, t our trust *' n The principal subject of orations was c Confetti rate memorials and an association c for a monument to Confederate s dtlicrs n was organized. d SUCCESSFUL m* d I tl Of the Willis Lipscomb Cotton Picker I Near Atlanta. ? r] Ati.anta, Ga., [Special.]?Quite a sen- j sat ion was created over the work of the Willis Lipscomb cot ton picker. In a j large cotton field near the picker wns put ^ to work under the direction of Lispenard, tire inventor, and performed its work to the satisfaction of hundreds of planters who had come to Atlanta to witness its to-t. Everybody was unanimous in pronouncing the machine a success A bale f of cotton was picked in a few minutes. f. ALLIANCE TOPIC& -r ' ' i %e Illinois CoiToition Decides j Against Monopoly. 'he Florida Farmers Held Their in* ] nasi Meeting: at Dade City and Excluded Reporters. < I Sr hi no field, III. ?The state ossein- i ly of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit*Ano- t iation adoptc i resolutions in substance j s follows: The favoring an equal as- t L'ssmcnt of all classes of property, real, i ersonal and corporate; graduated income ix; increase of the circulating medium , o a point that will admit ofrthu business t f the country being done on a cash bas- y i; free and unlimited coinage of silver , nd declaring the present system of stor- t ' ii IiiiyM jmoi o retired; opposition to fostonng cerliu industries by government bond4; in | ivor of the co-operation and federation | f all the farmer* and labor organiza- , ions; denouncing dealing in futures ou II agricultural and mechanical products; ivoring the enactment of laws to precnt the adulteration of food products; pposing alien ownership of laud; favor)g the uniform system of text books for ublic schools, to be furnished by the :atc at cost. The resolutions also favor the election f president, vice-president. United tates senators and postmasters by a di;ct vote of the people; advocate patrbu:ing manufacturers who use home-grown bres in the manufacture of binding .vine, rone, bagging, etc.; favor the cx nsion of the free postal delivery system > people outside of towns and the elccon of men of agricultural colleger to ic halls of tlic legislature. The following resolution led acted debate, hot Was dually adopted y a large majority: We are opposed to all monopolic', and ant it distinctly understood that the oranized liquor traffic is included. We [>posc the unholy alliance of the governlent with the said business. Kb a rarity* we propose that the revenue and li nse laws, high or low, must Ikj rcpcal1, both state nud national. * * * * * * the florida brethren. i . adk City, Fla.?At the second day's !ssiou of the state allinucc, President iogers appointed all committees for the nitine work of the convention and de vcrcfl his annual address. In this lie < ferred sharply to the disscusions in the j rdcr, arising chiefly from admission to , icmbership of persons who gained ad- , littanrc for the purpose of oflice or po- A tical influence. Tho subtreasury Echmac ( US wnrmlv oiulnrscjL TJm M losed his address as lUnbwB It is a fact that a partisan 'prafHSx istorted the truth in reference tlWfc t cala platform aud subtreasury plau, and , 1 our state the democratic press is iront t > rend every man out of the parly who j Ivocatcs tho Oeal^ platform aud subeasury plan. The result of such an on- , aught upon the alliance lias canscd t amy of our members to advocate a third j arty. This coudition of affairs is to be ( cplorcd. My judgment is that the cala platform contains not a syllable liicli cannot readily be endorsed by rery true democrat throughout the couu- ' yThe reports of the state secretary and ' ther ofliccrs followed tho delivery of the ^ anual address. United Btutcs Senator j asco was the delegate from the Jeff rson i ounty Alliance, and there was strong i ^position to seating him, the opnosi- 1 on being based on the theory that he is < lawyer and not a farmer. He waa duly hoY""""-. aiw1 *!.-? president 1 aving declarefi in ins layer, he^flSseali * Them ? ? flght ever the p.MMiuu oi a solution offered by Thomas Iliud, of utnam county, to exclude all press rep- ] ?scntativcs from the hall, lliud's motion, he said, was not aimed | t the corresnonfleuts lircsent. hut chilli.? t the Florida Times-L nion, which lie re- ' urded as a great enemy of the alliance ( ccnu'c of its opposition to the stibtrcitsry hill, and its denunciation of Polk, 1 laeune and Livingston. The debate lasted nearly two hours, ad was finally compromised by the ( loption of a resolution excluding rc- ' otters from the hall, but permitting ' tent to examine the secretary's notes, ith an injunction to scud nothing out >r publication except what is approved , y President Rogers. ****%? j he national ai.mance i'rocrammc. IndianAroi.is, Ino ?The State Farters' A!!?srcj met iu .iCdvL session \ itIt eighty-one delegates* Jrreseht. The allowing programmo for the meeting ( ere of the National Alliance was adopxl: On the fit si day, Tuesday, Noveiner 17, the addresses of welcome will be elivcrcd at Tomlinson llall bv Major ullivnu and President Fcrce, of the tnte Alliance, and response will be by . F. Tillman, national secretary, find J. Willetts, treasurer of the Alliance 'he forenoon will be devoted to cxccuivc session and in the evening President i. Ii. Polk will deliver his address On Wednesday addresses will be made y the president of the F. M. H A , Naional Lecturer J. P. Willcts, and in the fternoon the executive session will be ontinucd. In the evening C. W. M.iuii" anil others will apeak Thursday lorning Jerry Simpson and Alonzo Warloll will speak nod in the evening John \ Steele and Mrs Anna L. Driggs. Friay the forenoon addresses will be made >y I. II Turner and 11. II. Oliver and iu he evening by L. F. Livingstone, II. L. .oucks, Saturday J. ^"^ARgll and lenator Poller will speak, And at night V. l'owderly and Ben Terrell. On londay evening Ignatius Donnelly will ddressthc council and on Tuesday, the ast day, William Erwin, Mrs. X?ease, II. f. Humphrey and J. W. Weaver will peak. ,* + ?** mati. at the farmer's door. New Yohk ('itv.?An organized efort is being made among farmers to seme from Congress free mail delivery in ;yk country town*. The Farmers' Alliance, ] Patrons of Husbandry and other Order* ire canvassing the matter. Letter* are being written to Congressmen in favor of i the project and petitions to Congress for rree delivery are being circulated in many parts of the country. Farmer* isscrt that a daily mail delivery at their floor will add perceptibly to the money ' value of their farms and will l>e worth dill more because it will keep them in touch with the markets and the outside world and rob farm life of its isolation itul monotony. Farmers are writing to ' the agricultural press that this conveu- 1 ieuce would enable tliem generally to akc daily papers as well as to subscribe < for local papers more liberally. * Io the American Agriculturist for No- 1 rember Postmaster licneral Wanamaker ? itates definitely for the first time that ex- * jcriments made by the postoflice depart- 1 nont for free delivery iu the farming dis- I xicta show that the increase of revenue ' When a town grows to 10,000 popu- < ntion ami puts down footwalks, and 1 >u's up the numbers of the houses, the >ostolhce department is authorized by ? \ct of Congress to establish a carrier ser- < rice to deliver mails at the doors of tho ' louses and oflices, as flic town increases ' >ostal sta'ions arc established, and thus I lie postollicc service keeps pace with the 1 growth of the town. Whilo all this ' ji stotliee work is going on at the thickly lopulaled points, farmers, quairymcn, blacksmiths, millers and artisans, all > laying regulation rates of postage, arc 1 eft to get their mail as best tbey can * rom the postollicc in the village or at he railroad station. In a hamlet of one mndrcd houses perhaps sixty persons rrom the district and the vicinity make a j iaily pilgrimage of n distance of one dock to two miles from heme to the postillicc to find out whether there is auy nail or not, and a hundred or moro per- ] wninrttHHi T1Y0 etrelo of tho ofileo do not i Unci it convenient to go to the postoflicc | iftener thau once n week. One hun- i bed or more persons cacli day, in all I leathers, arc making trips to tiio post- i dice, ofien at great personal iuconvcn- j en e and disc nifort, when n single car- i ier could once or twice dnily nuke the r round of the village and deliver the innil < ind save the hundred unnecessary daily rainps. collecting the same time f om t boxes located at the street corners the t nail to bo forwarded. A newspaper irought every day to tho door of the far- I ncr or worn mm wno lias no one to go 1 :o the nostofticc would find a thankful '] lubscriuer und light a new lamp in the j household. True enough the village or t :rossroads inhabitant or dweller ou the i 'ariu chooses his home for his family, and might live in the city where gas and vnter and mails are brought to his door; >ut when the people everywhere pay service to hat provided for cities? Is it not a re- < cflcction on the intelligence and nspirn- < ions of the farmer and artisan to ignore / lis need of conveniences of correspondence 1 uui supplies of newspapers and tnaga- ( lines? Does it not retard the settlement < >f country districts to neglect to provide n sonic form the means for daily inter- 1 jourse with the rest of the world? t * >s * + + * In Oklahoma the Alliance is doing J fairly well. The condition of the conn- J try and many other mattcrs have hereto- : 'ore retarded" the growth of the O.dcr, jut by persistent work the brethren have jlaced it on a more sure footing and an ^ ncrcased membership may he expected , n the immediate future. The territory mi received no aid from national speakers, ami has really made itself what it is. rhure is no division in the milks and the jretliron arc encouraged at the prospect. ""f The reports from an over South Carolina disclose a continued healthy growth j[ the Order. The brethren of the State are firmly united and are making a valiant light for the principles of the Alliance. South Carolina was the first State to hold its election this year, and cveay member of the Order remembers with pride how nobly it stood by the demauds of the Alliance, and in spite of Itsperate opposition unanimously adopted the Ocala platform. This act set the example which all the other States have so far followed Its State officers are conservative and fearless and able to derend the doctrines of the Order against ill comers. The State organ is ably and intelligently managed, and is supplemented in its good wal k by many excellent county papers. South Carolina can bo trusted to take good care of itself. * * + * * * Nationnl T.<?pt?;r?r WiUctS in IViiisuailCO to a proclamation of President Polk, organized the Stute Alliance of Washington at Colfax. October 28. WHICH WIlTsHE TAKE? A Mississippi Girl Who is Hard to Please in the Choice of a Husband. Shbuuta, Mis'., [Special.]?This usually quiet little town is overflowing in sensational excitement the past twentyfour hours. The question in everybody's mouth is, "Which lover will she accept?" and the story runs in thiswise: Miss Mamie Bass, one of our prettiest girls, has more strings to her beau than the average Mississippi girl. She has two devoted lovers, and has promised to marry both of them, first breaking with one and accepting the other, and soon, for several times, changing her mind within the past few mouths IJoth young men are liighly respectable. They arc James Sha'man, of Sliubuta, and Will Smith, of Alexandria, La. Wedding tickets were printed in favor of Sharnoan, but withdrawn. Both rivals are hourly expected to arrive, each believing he will prove the wiuner of the fickle fair one's hand. Depot Burned. The depot of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railroad at Rockwood, Tennessee, was totally destroyed by fire early Thursday morning Estimated loss at $'20,000. LADIES EHAW THE LINE?] EI ___ E?angeliat Fife Asks Too Much of Dot Them. M aboi rhe Christian Ladies of Dmill* Will Oco Not Oo Beyond the Saloon*. sixt tres 11 Danvili.k, Va., [Special.].?The Fife the meetings here havo developed some ?pii< Matures strange to Danville. sav< The evangelist asked for a meeting of liov Christian ladies. The meeting was held Da' ind he then naked that committees heap- linn minted to do certain work. Ho wanted V i female committee to visit the saloons tail ind ask the proprietors to closo during and ervicc hours so that their employees and one hemselves could attend the meeting; mil* dso that committee of ladies he appoint- win HWTjTM frWWHI1 rrrf ings. The women drew (he lino at the tint nst proposition, but agreed to send out vnr t committee see tho saloon men. The ties committee, composed of about a dozen met natrons and young men, stalled out at cxp i p. m. to visit the saloous. They car- tuoi ied a paper, which was an agreement to T dose from 11a. m. to 2 p. m., and from tnei T p. m. to 9 p lu.?the liours the Fife The nectiugs aro in progress -aud ask. thesn- ton loon men to sign it. The answer of the t nost of them was: ''We'll consider the win natter and let you know." bor Some agreed to comply with the request, eon rhis proceeding does not strikn I'anvillc ler with a great deal of force, and it is doubt- 11ai ul if it will help the cuusc it purports o support. SPUkUEON S SUPPLY. Tin A clev. Dr. Pierson Astonishes the ^ Great Preacher's Congregation. p|(, London, (Cablegram 1?Hcv l)r. spc Pierson, the Americau divine, who has day itipulatod to supply l)r. Spurgcou's pul- to 1 |>it wliilo the latter is taking a vacation, gra trenched his flrst sermon today and start- lum ed the congregation by a bitter attack Iioii tpon ritualism. He went so far as to ex- stic ?resstlio hope that calamity would befall dan he tnlicrnaclc here prostituted to secular A s ut. At this there were plaiu murmurs h r >f disapproval. swe A number of tho members of tlic Tin aberuaele, who were interviewed after as I lie service, expressed tlieir astouishment \ it Dr. I'ierson's criticism of what had the tecu approved by the man whose place Wli tc was tilling temporarily by courtesy, wit I'lic extravagance of language wliioh the nab trencher had fallen into was excused on pnb lie ground that it was doubtless unprc- win ncditatcd. fan M 11101 CURSED OUT THE COURT. l?lu tha *? cou Albany, Ga., [Special./?TJic mayor's" **'< court of this city was cnlivcucd by a gen- 111 i. sral cussing out, which the entire city government received at the hands of one kV. H. Moore, n former cmplnyo of the Jcntral railroad, who was arraigned on a diargc of disorderly conduct. Mo "Do with me just as you phase," said kloorc to his honor, Mayor Gilbert. "I , :an't get justice in your d?u court." lie was sentenced to forty live days at 1 ?ard labor on the city chaingang, but, . 1 >eing shackled and placed on tho streets a o work, resolutely refused to uo anv- IV" hiug. ?/'' Moore was engaged in a shooting '\icrapc in this city some time since, und 'V vas shot in the mouth. lie hails from klacou aud is considered a tough custo- 7, ue.\ ,,'n ? Gar \ HONEYMOON IN THE CLOUDS. L: | of I 1 An Unnleasnnt. -P--rricr.ee cf r Sri- 1mv dal Couple Who Went up in j'01 a Balloon. nrc IhnMiNOHAM, Ala.?At midnight great *!,n anxiety is felt in Birmingham over the Me rate of a young couple who were married U. it the State Fair grounds and went on a Hal bridal tour iu a balloon. The party in ^ Ihe balloon consisted of the acronnt, bald win, II S Hutchinson, the young Ltroom. and his bride, who was Miss Minnie Conssion. The balloon shot up like a rock-1 to a W1 great height and then slowly drifted dmost due north. It was last seen high ^ up it the air passing over Newcastle, ' thirteen miles north of Birmingham, on Y* the Louisville and Nashville llailroad. 1' |* Fhe balloon was going steadily toward the remote mountain regions of North >l! Alabama, and directly away from railroad and telegraph lines, j,"'j Tne Fiddlo and tho Bow." 'V Elizabkthton, Tbnn., [Special.]?Ex- lov Governor llobcrt L. Taylor, of Tciincfisce, to 1 has signed a contract to deliver nature pat this season in the leading cities ??- the one South. The subject of the lecture will be ma "The Fiddle and the Bow.'' The lee- we ture is snid to be written in the Ex Gov- ma crnor's most brilliant and humorous style, ma nnd will be apt to bejwcll received by the des public. It is related that Ex-Governor to i Taylor is indebted to "The Fiddle and far the Bow" for his present political protni- die nence. The story is that he was deeply pat in love with a beautiful North Cntoliua liclle, who made it a condition of the acceptance of his offer of marriage that ho ,j should secure a seat in the Congress of ni the United Btstcs. Mr. Taylor was a V* ' Democrat, and lived in an East Teams- ^-7 see district which was strongly Rcpublican. But lie secured the Democratic nomination, and being an unusually good j violinist he combined music with politics JV and actually "fiddled" himself into Con- ( j.' ( gross As a reward lie s.cured as a wife j the North Carolinn belle, and the union V'1 has b'.cn an exceedingly happy one. f.j.( the Time Aronntl the World. TLc tirae required for a journey around j the earth by a man walking diy an 1 night without rest would be 433 days; < an express train, forty diys; sound, at u Di medium te.npcrature, .'11 J lours; cunon F" ball, 551| hours; light, a little over o:ij. "u tenth of a second; electricity, passing over a copper wire,a little less tin i one. j M N tenth of a second. ? St. fxrni* lie.rib'.ic. ' ()| on -i [GHT TRESTLES 7OT "^*1 ifV?* ermined Effort* to Wreck Trains \ on n Georgia Railway. Iacon, Oa., [Special.]?In the night ut 8 o'clock a trump walking from ucc on the Central railroad, about .v mile* from Macon, discovered the tie near Oconee to 1m> on lire, le returned to Oconco and awakened agent of the road. The alarm was I'kly given and efforts were made to o the trestle. It was noon learned, rover, that eight other treaties between risboro and Wadlcy were also in us. I'hen an attempt was inado by the road otiicials to lelegiaph to Macon Savanuah, it was found that some hud climbed a telegraph pole two wi from Oconcc and cut the telegraph 1*8 * .!!!,!?," it!" " c to hold tho midnight train to 8ainnh. The railroad officials thiuk tho ties were set on tire by friends of tho 1 now in jail for having robbed tho res* car near Forsyth about two it Its ngo Ttc Marshal of Tcnnillc pursued two 1 on suspicion, and arrested thrm. y provcu to l>e the br. titers of llor, one of th > express robbers >nc n'ght Inst week the telegraph e was cut with a hatchet near Daviso, and the trestle was tired. Tho ipany has received an auonymous letthreatening vcngcniico in ease tho n robbers were not set free. COLONEL POLKS SPEECH, d? 3 Alliaucco Huit Bo RecogniBed s tho B&lanco of Powor, Ho Boys. i special says: Col. L. L. Polk, sidcut of the Farmers' Alliance, iu aking at Elizabeth City, N. C\, Tburs, snid in part: I have known farmers cnvc their crops knee high in tho ss to go to tho court house and for irs sit in a hot room to hear a potiso politician speak and tell them to k to the party. They stick nnd tho co of death goes on after election day. ticker said, "all is darkness down e, what of the uiglit?" And the a?\ r comes, "all is well. Plow on.M v talk about politics, the Alliance is nil of polities as an egg is full of meat. 'cs, sir, wo are into politics, and iu ro to stay. They talk about party. i:it is party? It is a nice little collar h a chain. I dou't enro who is noroii'd 1 will vote as I please. Who has a 1*111 riirlll on liolitics? It dnm?nfh?d on - tlicr cither party recognized th* nets us the balance of power, whether re would he a third party. The pcolmvo nriscn in their miglit and assert t they have a right to help rule thU titry ami they org going to do it. Mr.^- 1 ?1 ktlun advocated dip. tportlt art id eighteen state* >w?to pledgMBBBp8 A STATUE^OFTJEB STUART. etiug of Voterau Cavalrymen to Erect One. !icnmono, Va., |Special.]?A nicctof veteran cavalrymen of the Army Sor hern Virginia, was held here and ovement started for the erection of a uimcnt and statue to the memory of total J. F. 11. Stuart. Charles A. lor called the meeting to order and odvtccd General Fitzhugh Lcc as irinnn, who made a brief speech, ill speeches were then made by Judgo nett, of Norfolk; General Thomas P. nett, of Lynchburg; General Thoma* liosscr, of Albemarle; Judge Furrar, \mclia. crinancnt oflTtceis were elected as fol? PresiiJcnt, Ccuciai * il*hugu Lee; rotary, Charles A. Taylor; treasurer, A. Catlitt. Among the vice prceideuts : Generals Wade Hampton, G. W. i t is Lee. L. L. J.omnx, T. L. liosscr, l.tiller, Thomas T. Mimfoid, William Payne, Hiadley T. Johnson, Iiev. Dr. ldo'lph iMelvc?, Colonel John 8. Mosand others. A MAMMOTH POTATO, iich Twenty Persona Were Not Able to Devour. Iyi.vania, Ga., (Special.]?Mr. George Scott has brought into the The Teic>nc ollicc a half dozen ?>f the largest ;et potatoes ever raised, perhaps, iu * country. They arc "new issues," I the six weighed fifty pounds. Tho [jest one w.-s given by the editor to a lily in which there were eighteen in be is?the husband and wife and teen children - nil of whom were great ers of potatoes. Sunday they decided have it for dinner. It was fried?a t of it, at least ?and was amply nigh for all of the family, besides a rricd daughter and her husband who re spending the day there. The rcinder of this mammoth potato was de up into potato pone, and furnished crt enough for the whole crowd and spare. Mr. Scott is one of our best iners, and will make about five hun:i bushels of potatoes on his oi:-"-ncro cli. JL'Jio ueorgia jttoaa uongress. lie (ieorgia Koad Congress, in session \thnta list week, adopted the follow: it is the opinion of this Congress t it is to th1; interest of the people the State that the labor of convicts should he utilized upon her die roads, and that no lease of conIs should he made after the expiration I he present lease. We fuithcr hold t the present couvi t force now used working tho public roads can be and uild he uiratly increased by lowering licnultict for certain crimes. Dillon Attacked and Hurt. A cablegram from Cork Rays: John lion is now hors dc combat. Ho was rsucd and attacktd while driving 'o j Hiiti-Parncllite meeting, pelted with ncs, and during the affray received a o.c blow on the knee with a stick, i account of the swelling th physicist! Icred him to keep quiet.