Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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the Current Nexct oj lh? Day. ^^^ PPHPP9MV(PWVM0o<><? of " buuias, HVasbipfftoD, on the Canadian boundary line, wj^Hfcdoini, and smu" gling is aleadin^flMSwty there. 'fry- _' flays the New York Mercury: Tho English exchanges are- just now busily engaged in suggesting ways of making Tillage life attractive and kooping rural young men and wo.nen at home. There as hero, tho cities nro drawing away from home the sinow and bloom of tho country and agricultural life suffers by the change. This was tho experience of \ Italy aftgr Koine became a great city, and nil France is sutiering now because Paris has a world of amusements to offer. It begins to look as if the tendency of population to tho towns were irresistible, & , and as if the world must prepare to accept the fact that farm life U becoming l"1 diicro litable in the eyes "of the eahrgetic of both sexes. | TVank Lttliei Wetklv obsorves: "Mr. Gladstone has written a letter denouncing gambliug as a formidable aud 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 tho part of the sorvilo followers of the Priuce. We quoted recently from tho 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 Wj. national evil in England, but alsa in this ^country. The number of defalcations, robberies, thefts, murders and suicides that can bo laid at the gambler's door would shoe'e tho moral sense of the pea' ]>l0 if it were revealed. Occasionally the news columns of thu papers show tho demoralizing influence of tho gambliug den and tho race track, but if the facts [were marshaled iu solid array, tho uprising against the evil would make itself overwhelmingly felt." While oysters are plentiful and cheap in New York, places farther from tha sources of supply are beginning to feel the effect of a coc?umptiou which haa outrun the productiveness of tho old oyster grounds, and drained the n so that it has become necessary to let tho.n lie fallow and recuperate. According to one of the largest oystcr-shippicg (Iran in Milwaukee, Wis., whic'i is a chief distributing point for the Northwest an i y? as far West as Oregon and Washington, the beds in Chesapeake Bay, from which nearly all the oysters shipped West have J"'- boon taken, have bssu almost completely exhausted. Tile necessity of allowing tho seed to recruit, curtailed the supply to a great extent, and this year it is oxpccte.1 that there will bo a greater shortage. 44The plaiu facts,'' said a representative of the firm mentioned, "are that tho American people have come to using oysters beyond tho natural supply, and the future growth has thereby boon iui? periled, and the supply promises to bo loss each succeeding year. Wo as a nay. tion are eating raoro oysters now than ever Pbefore, as many peoplo who formerly regarded them with something of disgust have learned to relish them, audare now among the largest consumers." One ot the most roinarlcabtc of tho ret American manias in the estimation of tho New Orleans PiCiiyuns, is the desire for and practice of buildiuz inor dinar} lofty housos for business ami residence purposes. This stylo of architecture on stilts has been indulge 1 fn to great excess in No v York, and is now raging as an opideinic in Chicago and other Western cities. Houses fron ten to twenty stories high have come into fashion, nud there appear to be no limits to the vagaries encourage I by architects snd engineers. In Europe there are no lofty buildings, except towers ami spires attached to churches. People do not re aide in tenth and twentieth atoms rvni seem to have no taste for auch high living, but here in a country where land is abundant, aky-scarping structures are iu great demand. Wo note that a house is to be built in Chicago 200 feet high, while house j of 100 feet are common in all the citioa. In ancient Home there was a law forbidding the building of houses to a greater height than eighty feH, and it does not ap,?c ir that any such height mu rnmmnn IVint if nevnr nitoni to the architect) who plan these lofty pile) that oue day the earthquake will shake them to ruins? The United States caauQt claim any immunity from such convulsions. Earthquake) aro common k in California. The earthquake at New i Madrid, Me., early in'the coatury, was a formidable one, making extraordinary changes in the topography of a large r#*t ?' country. Toe earthquake at Charleston, 8. C.. Is so fresh iu memory )hat it is not by any mean* to bo ignored. K It would appaar that earthquake periods . oo-.nc in oyoles. There is no reason to suppoio that New York aid Chicago are any moro secure than are Charleston or (fen Framitcu, nu rujan tTnTOrmnunrJO. Tell It Not That Our Southland Is Prosy. We Will Tell You About Many Important Happenings that Have Occurred During a Woek. VIRGINIA. The Virginia Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church, met in Petersburg last week. Statement of Norfolk and Western Railroad Company for September, 199!, shows an increase of $18,281 in gross and $10,677 in net earnings. Henry Fairfax, of Londoun and Fauquier couutics will probably be the successor in Congress of tho late Gen. W. 11. F. Lee. Mr. Fairfax is a planter and a man of culture. . A special from Martfnsvitlo says two men were killed and threo wounded near that town Friday morning by a cave-in on the Roanoke and Southern Railroad. F. H. Fries, president of the Roanoke and Southern Railroad, expects the road tobe in full operation, with regular trains between Roanoke and Winston, by January 1st. The Ilurst Ordnance Co. has been in corporatcd at Alexandria. Aphorized 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, under $00,000. The fire is believed to be the work of au incendiary, as the hotel was uutiuished and unoccupied. Thirty-five thousand people attended the State Fair, Thursday. It was one of the Inrgest crowds in the history of the society. The managers are well pleased with the excellent financial result. They are jubilant over the patronage from citizens of all parts of Virginia. The Virginia Board of Pharmacy began its meetings at Stauuton, Wednesday. The number of applicants 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 Uuiversity of Viaginia is to have a water main of its own from the Charlottesville reservoir. The steamer City of Augusta, from Sa vaunah, picked up the steamer C'hatficld, from Galveston for Livcrpoo', sixty miles south of Cape Henri*, with her propeller gone, and towed her in to fortress Mon roc. NORTH CAROLINA. The area in wheat in the section between Grecusboro and Raleig his the largest on record. The revenue officers hnrc nexra of the capture of a moonshine still owned by three brothers named Stanly, in Guilford county. W. II. Gibson, of Charleston, W. Va., jumped from a train near Wc'dou and was killed. Three thousand people saw the bicycle race between Fitzsimmons and Wynne Thursday at the Itnloigh Exposition. In the first mile Wynne fell ana broke his pedal. Fitzsimmons won, time 19 minutes and 4 seconds Wynne's time being 16 seconds slower. Mrs George James, of Burlington met death from a peculiar uccidcnt Wednesday n'glit She went to the yard to get a stick of wood and stumbled and fell over tt wheel barrow. Death resulted in a few hours. Rev. Peschau of Wilmington and Ilev. Moser of Monroe arc attempting to stir up an anti-8ain Jones movement in this 8tate. The former has challenged the Rev. Bam Jones to a public debate. This meeting will take plnco in Charlotte if Mr. Jones is willing. The report that the Winston and Salem postofficcs were to bo consolidated has caused considerable indignation among the citizens of Salem and passed resolutions against it, which with aimilar resolutions by the Winston-Salem chamber of commerce were sent on to Washington. SOUTH CAROLINA. A charter was issued to the Safety Catch Guu Company, Hock Hill. Minnesota and Wisconsin parties have purchased the Cash property near Cheraw for $75,000, and will improve same. It is proposed to build a courthouse and jail at St. Matthew's, which is to Iks the courthomc of a new county to be known as Calhoun county. Greenville and Butler townships have voted $80,000 and $12,000 of bonds, respectively, to the projected Cape Fear & Cincinnati Railroad. P. C. Hodges, of Atlanta, has received froin the Governor the $100 reward offered by Governor Richardson for the capture of Manassas Barnwell, who has been wanted ever since 1887 for murder in Aiken. A very large and cultured audienco greeted Dr. Joseph LeConte Wednesday night at the South Carolina College, Columbia, to hear hiui discuss ''Organic Evolution." Ho was introduced by President Woodrow. Gen. John B. Kershaw, now a circuit judge, presented to the Hchmond Survivors' Association Friday night nt Columbia several tattered old Confederate flags. Th$ presentation speech was mado by Oen. Leroy F. Youinnns. Representatives from the "Colleges of $outli Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Kontucky, Mississippi and Tennessee met at Charleston for the purpose of organizing a Southern monument for Jefferson Davis. James Barnes, cashier of the Bank of Marlboro, at Bennettsville, suicided Thursday morning at 5 o'clock. He was about forty. He leavi s a wifo and several children. Ho was a pillar of the Baptist church. His accounts are believed to be all right. He told his wife ibst he was going to kill blmself. She went for their pastor. Before she got back he had gone out Into the hack yard and shot | himself. Death was instantaneous. gr c.i;. ? . BX/VXJiS. A Dooly County, A1?., man is experimenting with widc making from the ^uicc of tlie watermelon. He claims that it makes a most delicious wine, and lie is storing away quantities of it. The syndicate that was formed in Germany ln.<t summer for the purpose of establishing colonies of German farmers in Alabama has procured a tract of land iu 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 takcthcir departure for Alabama next month. If the first colony, which is to be in Washington county, is successful other colonics will he rapidly organized, so 1hat within a few years the State may have a large German population. SOLID SOUTHERN GROWTH. New Movement* ?'* SofttkeYmrX<fvancem'?ftit. . The Manufacturers' Record, of Baltimore, of October 31, in reviewing the industrial progress of the South, says: "The business situation throughout the South continues to improve, and the outlook for the future is very promising. SuCClllativn onerntinno n.-? > 1 uuu >11 UlllCIl favor, but the work of solitl business development is commanding increased attention. Blircwd capitalists, realizing the intrinsic value of good mineral anil timber propert'es, are making a number of purchases, and uiaiuly for immcdiato development. In West Virginia some large sales of coal lands have been made, aud iu other States ore and timber lands have changed hinds. The phosphate iutcrests iu Florida show increased activity in the salj of lands and in the organization of mining companies, seven new companies having been reported during the week with capital stock of from $50,000 to $100,000. In Alabama a very important contract was closed, sc- I curing ine building of n railroad from the Warrior conl fields to deep water river navigation at Tuscaloosa, which will open a water transportation route for Alabauin eoal to the Gulf; this contract alao calls for coal-mining and coke making operations at Tuscaloosa. At Galveston the contract, has been closed for building a 1,000,000 bushel grain elevator at a cost of $200,000, and large engagements have been made for grain shipments from New Orleans this winter, while at Baltimore the grain trade is so active that on two days of this week alouc charters were made for the export of 2,500,000 bushels to Europe. Tho cotton movement c'ontiuues very heavy, due in large part to tho perfect weather for gathering the crop, and the Southern ports are crowded with vessels loading for Europe. 1 n general industrial matters there is steady progress, and among the new enterprises reported for the week are $100,000 water works com[i?uy at llotoiia Ark. ; ucid and clivmicnl works at Portsmouth, Va.; $250,000 development, mining and manufacturing company in Florida; a $50,000 and a *10,000 mnuufacturing company in West Virginia; a $20,000 knitting mill company, Norfolk, Va.; a $50,000 compress company, Americas, Ga.; a $500,000 cartridge aud powder company, Covington, Ky.; a rolling mi'I and a sash and door factory at Tyler, Texas; a 200-barrel flour mill, Baltimore; a $102,000 development company at Chester, S. C. ; large lumber mills at Irvine, Ky.; a $200,000 general manufacturing company at New Orleans; a$100,000 orduance company, A Invnn/lfin "U.. . ? *I;A A/lft ' * * O.VAHUUIIU, I , a y.tu,uuu UUlOIlinilCsprinkler company,Columbus,Ga.; $100,000 development company, Richmond, Va;a50touico factory, Mobile, Ala., and one of same size at Fort Smith, Ark.; refrigerator works, Hot Springs, Ark.; waterworks, La Giange, Ga.; tobacco fnctory, Greenville, N. C.; a $25,000 cottonseed-oil mill company. Corsicana, Texas; ft $100,000 electric ngTit manufacturing company, Cumberland, Md., etc. "This summary shows a steady, solid growth all along the line, and indicates a very healthy development activity that promises well for the rapid iucreaso in the progress and prosperity of the South." INTER-STATE COLLEGE CONTEST. Representatives from Southern Colleges Orate in Charleston. CiiAni.EsTON, S. C., [Special.]?In respond to a call from the College of Charleston for the Southern Inter-Collegiate Oratorical contest, representatives from the following institutions convened here. W. C James, Richmond College, Va ; Thos. Pinckncy, University of Virginia; J. B. Whaley and Geo. N. Cornelson, Jr , Davidson College, N. C.; Fred Opp, University of Texas; J. Talbot Jackson, Central University, Ky.; E. L. Mounger, University of Mississippi E. Mac Davis and John Randolph Ncal, Tenuessee; J. C. Blazengaun and Greene P. Johnson, University of Georgia; B. W. Andrews ?nd A. S. Thomas, South Carolina Military Academy; Jas. C. Blasingamc,of the University of Georgia; Isaac 11. Brown, Fleetwood Gruver, II. Bwinton McGilivray and J. W. Canty Johnson, of the College Charleston. After very spiritc 1 and creditable efforts from each representative, a gold medal costing one hundred dollars was awarded to J. Tnlhot Jackson, cf tho University of Kentucky, llis subject, "Freedom, our heritage; its consecration, our trust " The principal subject of orations was Confederate memorials and an association for a monument to Confederate soldiers was organized. SUCCESSFUL TEfci* Of the Willis Lipscomb Cotton Picksr Near Atlanta. At^ahta, Ga., [Special.]?Quite a sansstion was crested over the work of the Willis Lipscomb cotton picker. In s large cotton field near the picker was put te work under the direction of Lispcnard, the inventor, and performed its work to the satisfaction of hundreds of planters who had come to Atlanta to witness its test. Everybody wns unanimous in pronouncing the machine a success A lisle of cotton was picked in a few minutes. ALLIANCE TOPICS. The Illinois Convention Decides Against Monopoly. The Florida Farmers Held Their Annual Meeting' at Dade City und Excluded Reporters. SrniNOFiEl.D, 11,1.. ?The state assembly of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit*Association adoptci resolutions in substance as follows: The favoring an equal assessment of all classes of proi>crtv, rial, personal and corporate; graduated income tax; increase of the circulating medium to n poire, that will ndmit of tliu business of the country l>cing done on a cash basis; free and unlimited coinngc of silver and declaring the present system of stor bo retired; opposition to fostdiing certain industries by government bond4; in favor of the co-operation and federation of all the faruicrj and labor organizations; denouncing dealing in futures ou all agricultural and mechanical products; favoring the enactment of laws to prevent the adulteration of food products; opposing alien owucrship of land; favoring the uniform system of text hooks for public schools, to be furnished by the state at cost. The resolutions also favor the election of president, vice-president, United States senators and postmasters by a direct vote of the pcopiu; ads oca to patronizing manufacturers who use home-grown fibres in the manufacture of binding twine, rope, bagging, etc.; favor the extension of tiie free postal delivery system to people outside of towns and the election 01 men of agricultural college, to the halls of the legislature. Tl,? l?ll S 1-J i . v tuiiumu^ resolution icti 10 a protracted debate, but tiW'flnally;9Kluptcd by a large majority: We arc opposed to all monopolic', ami want it distinctly understood that tlio organized liquor traffic is iucluded. We oppose the unholy alliance of the government with the said business. As a remedy, we propose that the revenue and license laws, high or low, must be repealed, both state and national. * * + % * THE FLORIDA BRETHREN. t 'ADR City, Fla.?At the second day's session of the state alliance, President Rogers appoiidcd all committees for the routine work of the convention and delivered his annual address. In this he referred sharply to the dissensious in the order, arising chiefly from admission to membership of persons who trained admittance for the purpose of office or political influence. The subtreasury jjclAme was warmly endorsed. Tlio pflUUMy? closed his nddress ns nffh^rr:? It is a fact that a part isan "presHHr distorted the truth iu reference tJftnc Ocnla platform and subtrcasury ptaraaud in our state the democratic press isjwont to read every man out of the p^ft jwho advocates tlio Ocala platform and subtreasury plan. The result of such nn onslaught upon the alliance lias earned many of our mcmlicrs to advocate a third jmiij. nun V,UUUILIU1L in llllilirs 19 10 lie deplored. IMy judgment is that the Oealn platform contains not n sylUhlc which cannot readily be endorsed by every true democrat throughout the couutry. The reports of the state secretary and other officers followed the delivery of the annual address. United States Scantor Pasco was the delegate from the Jfcff. rson County Alliance, and there was strong opposition to seating him, the opposition being based on the theory that he is a lawyer and not a farmer. He was duly accredited, however, nud tliApresident having declared ip hisTA.Yc.r- hfiitvds sealcd. 7^" *.; There was a fight over the passage of a resolution offered by Thomas llind, of Putnam county, to exclude nil press representatives from the hall. Hiud's motion, he said, was not aimed at the correspondents present, but cbielly at the Florida Times-Union, which he regarded as a great enemy of the alliance became of its opposition to the suhlrcasury bill, and its denunciation of Polk, Mncune and Livingston. The debate lasted nearly two hours, and was finally compromised by the adoption of n resolution excluding reporters from the hall, but permitting t'ucm to examine the secretary's notes, with an injunction to send nothing out for publication except what is approved by President Uogcrs. * * * * v * the national almakck programme. InoianAroi-ii, Ind ?The Slate Farmers' Alliancj met in secret session with eighty-one delegates ^Treseht. The following programme for the meeting here of the National Alliance was adopted: On the first day, Tuesday, November 17, the addresses of welcome will be delivered at Toinlinsou Hall by Major Sullivan and President Force, of the State Alliance, and response will bo by J. F. Tillman, national secretary, and J. F. Willetts, treasurer of the Allianco The forenoon will be devoted to executive session and in the evening President L. L. Polk will deliver his address On Wednesday addresses will be made by tho president of the F. M. I) A , National Lecturer J. F. Willcts, and in the afternoon the executive session will be continued. In tho evening C. W. Macune nud others will speak. Thursday morning Jerry Simpson and Alouzo Wnr dell will speak and in the evening John P. Steele uud Mrs Anna L. Priggs. Friday the forenoon addresses will be made by I. H Turner and B. If. Cliver and in the evening by L. Fx Livingstone, II. L. Iioocks, Saturday J. and Senator Peffer will sptok, and at night T. V. Powderly and Ben Terrell. On Monday evening Ignatius Ddnnelly will address the council and on Tuesday, the last day, William Brwin, Mrs.,. Lease, It. M. Humphrey and J. W* Weaver will speak. # # 4 HAIL AT THE VAim(||^|ftpOR. Nbw Youk CfTTj^/^n ortftoized ofI fort is being made f?,tng farmers to sc' euro from Congress MLyataH delivery ic country towns. The Farmers' Alliance, Patrons of Husbandry and other Orders are caovassiog the matter. Letters arc being written to Congressmen in favor of j the project aud petitions to Congress for free delivery are being circulated in many parts of the country. Farmers assert that a daily mail delivery at their door will add perceptibly to the money ' value of their farms and will be worth still more because it will keep them in touch with the markets and the outside world and rob farm life of its isolation and monotony. Farmers are writing to I the agricultural press that this convcn- I ience wovdd enable them geuerally to take daily papers as well as to subscribe * for local papers more liberally. : lu the American Agriculturist for No- 1 vember Postmaster General Wanamakcr 1 states definitely for the first time that ex- 1 periments made by the postofiicc depart- ! mcnt for free delivery in the farming dis- 1 tricts show that the increase of revenue 1 mq^e than pays all tho increased expeuscs. 1 mm i in i H J^amaker's article also contains this walem ut of the case: 1 When a town grows to 10,000 popu- ' lation and puts down footwalks, and ] puis up the numbers of tho houses, the postolhce department is authorized by ' Act of Congress to establish a carrier ser- ' vice to deliver mails at the doors of the houses and ollices, as the town incieases ' postal sta'ions are established, and thus I tlie poslotlicc service keeps pace with tho > growth of the town. While all this ' p< stollieo work is going on at the thickly populated points, farmers, quawymen, blacksmiths, millers and artisans, all 1 paying regulation rates of postage, arc I left to get their mail as best they can I from the postolHcc in the village or at the railroad station. In a hamlet of one hundred houses perhaps sixty persons r.,..,. <!.? ,i:<o .....l ?1 ? Vila mv> UIQIIIVV I1IIVI lllV > Il.UlltJ IIIUIVU a j daily pilgrimage of a distance of one block to two miles from home to the postollicc to find out whether there is nuv mail or not, ami a hundred or more per- ] nons within the circle of the ollicc do not i find it convenient to go to the postoflico oftener thau once a week. One liuti- j died or more persons each day, in nil I weathers, arc making trips to tlie post- i office, often at great personal ineonven- j ien c and disc infort. when a single car- i rier could once or twice daily nuke the i round of the village and deliver tlie mail < and save the hundred unnecessary daily tramps, collecting iho same time f om I boxes located at the street corners the I mail to be forwarded. A newspaper i brought every day to the door of the far- I luer or work nun who has no one to go | to the postoflico would find a thankful subscriber una light a new lamp in the | household. True enough the village or < crossroads inhabitant or dweller on the i farm chooses his home for his family, and might live in the city where gas and wntcr and mails arc brought to his door; A>ut when the people everywhere pay < the same rate of postage, why should WMMM calities to rcrose postal service equal to that provided for cities? Is it not a rcrcflcction on the intelligence and nsptra- i tions of the farmer and artisan to ignore i his need of conveniences of correspondence and supplies of newspapers and innga- I zincs? Does it not retard llie kc! (lenient of country districts to neglect to provide in some form the means for daily inter- ] course with the rest of the world? < ****** In Oklahoma the Alliance is doing j fairly well. The condition of the country and many other matters have heretofore retarded the growth of the O.der, but hy persistent work the brethren have placed it 011 a more sure footing and an [ inc.eased membership may he expected in the immediate future. The territory ' hai received no aid from national speakers, and has really made itself what it is. There is 110 division in the ranks and the brethren are encouraged at the prospe ct. ****** The reports from all over South Carolina disclose a continued healthy growth of the Order. The brethren of the State are tirmly united and are making a gallant tight 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 liow nobly it stood by the demauds of the Alliance, and in spite of dispcrate opposition unanimously adopted the Ocala platform. This act set the example which nil the other States have so far followed Its State olliccrs are conservative and fearless and able to de* fend the doctrines of the Order against all comers. The State organ is ably and intelligently managed, and is supplemented in its good wark by many excellent couuty papers. South Carolina can be trusted to take good care of itself. ****** National Lecturer Willcts in pursuance to a proclamation of President Polk, organized the State Alliance of Washington at Colfax. October 28. WHICH WILTSHE TAKE? A Mississippi Oirl Who is Hard to Please in the Choice of a Husband. Shbiiitta, Mia'., [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. 8hc has two devoted lovers, and has promised to marry both of them, first breaking with one and accepting the other, and sooii, for several times, changing her mind within the past few months Both young men are highly respectable. They arc James Sha>man, of Shubutn, and Will Smith, of Alcxaudria, La. Wedding tickets were printed in favor of Shaman, but withdrawn. Both rivals are hourly expected to arrive, cncli believing he will prove the winner of tlio fickle fair one's hand. Depot Burned. The depot of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railroad at Rock wood, Tennessee, was totally destroyed by fire enrly Thursday morning i Estimated loss at $20,000. LADIES DRAW THE LINE. J Evangelist Fife Asks Too Much of Them. The Christian Ladies of Danville Will Not Oo Beyond the Saloons. Danville, Va., [Special.].?The Fife meetings here have developed some Features strange to Danville. The evangelist asked for a meeting of Dhristian ladies. The meeting was held ind he then asked that committees heappointed to do certain work. lie wanted i female committee to visit the saloons ?nd ask the proprietors to close during service hours so that their employees ami themselves could attend the meeting; also that committee of ladies he appoint cd to visit houses of ill-fame and request the inmates thereof to attend I ho Huntings. The women drew flic line at tlie last proposition, but agreed to send out !?committee seethe saloon men. The committee, composed of about a do/cti matrons and young men, stalled out at > p. m. to visit the saloons. They tarried a paper, which was an agreement to close from 1 t rt m ?r? '? > ?- f. i p. m. to 9 p. in.? the hours the Fife meetings arc in progress?nud ask the saloon men to sign it. The answer of the most of them was: ''We'll consider the natter and let you know." Some agreed to comply with the request. I'his proceeding does not striko I'anville with a great deal of force, nud it isdoubtful if it will help the cause it purports to support. sfukueon's supply. Etev. Dr. Pierson Astonishes the Great Preacher's Congregation. London, [Cablegram .]?ltev Dr. Pierson, the American divine, who has stipulated to supply Dr. Spurgeon's pulpit while the latter is taking a vacation, preached his first sermon today and startled the congregation l>y a hitter attack lpon rituslism. lie went so far as to express the hope that calamity would befall lie tabernacle here prostituted to secular irt. At this there were plaiu murmurs if disapproval. A number of the members of the tabernacle, who were interviewed after the service, expressed their astouishment it Dr. Picrson's criticism of what had lieeu approved l?y the man whose place lie was tilling temporarily liv courtesy. The extravagance of language which the preacher liacl fallen into was excused on the ground that it was doubtless unpremeditated. CURSED OUT THE COURT. A Railroad Employe Grows Ked Hot Albany, Ga., ["Special./?The nnyorV court of this city was enlircucd by a general cussing out, whicli the entire city r?overninent received at the hands of one .V. H. Moore, a former employe of the L'entral railroad, who was arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct. "Do with me just as you phase," said Moore to his honor, Mayor Gilbert. "I can't get justice in your d?n court." lie was sentenced to forty live days at hard labor on the city ehaingang," but, being shackled and placed on the streets to work, resolutely refused to do anything. Moore was engaged in a shooting scrape in this city some time since, and was shot in the mouth. lie hails from Macon and is considered a tough customer. A HONEYMOON "iN THE CLOUDS. An Unpleasant Experience of a Bridal Couple Who Went up in a Balloon. Birmingham, Ala.?At midnight great anxiety is felt in Birmingham over the fate of a young couple who were married at the State Fair grounds and went on a bridal tour in a balloon. The parly in the balloon consisted of the acronat, Baldwin, II S Hutchinson, the young groom, and his bride, who was Miss Miunie Conssion. The balloon shot up like a roek< t to a great height and then slowly drifted almost due north. It was last seen high up it the air passing over Newcastle, thirteen miles north of Birmingham, on the Louisville and Nashville Hailroad. The balloon was going steadily toward the remote mountain regions of North Alabama, and directly away from radroad and telegraph liues, ' The Fiddle and the Bow." Elizabethton, Tbnn., [Special.]-ExGovernor Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, has signed a contract to deliver a lecture this season in the leading cities of the South. The subject of tlie lecture will bo "The Fiddle and the Bow." The lecture is said to be written in the Ex Governor's most brilliant and humorous style, and will be apt to bejwcll received by the public. It is related that Ex-Governor : Taylor is indebted to "The Fiddle and I the Bow" for his present political promi- I ncnce. The story is that he was deeply j i!) love with a beautiful North Cnmlina belle, who made it a condition of the acceptance of his offer of marriage that lie should secure a scat in the Congress of the United Htstcs. Mr. Taylor was a Democrat, and lived in an East Tennessee district which was strongly Kcpublicnn. Hut he secured tIre Democratic nomination, and being an unusually good violinist he combined music with politics and actually "fiddled" himself into Congress As a reward lie secured as a wife the North Carolina belle, and the union has b:en an exceedingly happy one. Time Aronnd the Wot-14. TLc time required for a journey around the earth by a man walking diy an I night without rest would be 4'3S days; nn express tram, lorty mys; auuun, lit u me-lium temperature, 31J hours; cnnnn hall, 211 hours; liflfht, n little over oaatenth of a second; electricity, passing over a copper wire,a little less thai one. j tenth of a second. ? St. Ixtui* liejublij, ' EIGHT TRESTLES IN FLAMES. \ ? V'i Dotormined Efforts to Wreck Trains \ on a Georgia Railwuy. Macon*. Ga., [Special. J?In the night about 8 o'clock a tramp walking from Oconee on the Centrai railroad, about sixty miles from Macon, discovered the trestle near Oconee to be on lire. lie returned to Oconee and awakcued the agent of the road. The alarm was rpiickly given and efforts were made to save the trestle. It was soon learned, however, that eight other trestles between Dnvisboio and Wad ley were also in (lames. When i n attempt was made by tho tailroad officials to lelcgiapli to Macon and Savannah, it was found that some one had climbed a telegraph pole two miles from Oconee and cut the telegraph wire::. All travel was suspended, and inform(itwii hm to tho tiroi reached Maeon in time ( > hold the midnight train to Savantinh. The railroad officials think the trestles wire set on tire by friends of the men now in jail for having robbed tho express car near Forsyth about two months ago The Marshal of Tennille pursued two men on suspicion, aud arrested thrm. They proved to be the br. thcrs of llorton, one of tli > express robbers. One ifglit last week the telegraph wire was i nt with a hatchet near Dnvisboio. and the trestle was tired. Tho comnanv has received nil .innnvmnin Int. lor threatening vengeance in case the train robbers who not set ftcc. CO LON EL POLK S SPEECH. The Alliancco Must Bo Recognized As the Balance of Power, He Bays. A special says: Col. L. L. Polk, Prcsidout of the Farmers' Alliance, in speaking at Elizabeth City, N. G\, Thursday, said in part: I have known farmers to leave their crops knee high in the grass t<? go to the court house and for hours sit in a hot room to hear a pothouse politician speak and tell them to stick to the party. They stick and the daucu of death goes 011 after election day. A sticker said, "all is darkness down h re, what of the night?"' Ami the answer comes, "all is well. Plow on." They talk about politics, the Alliance is as full of politics as an egg is full of meat. V?s, sir, we are into politics, and iu there to stay. They talk about party. What is party? It is a nice little coliar with a chain. I don't care who is nominated I w ill vote as I please. Who has a patent right 011 politics? It depended on whether either party rccogui/.cd the farmers as the balance of power, whether there would lie a third party. The people have arisen in their might and assert that tliey have a right to help rule this country and they are going to do it. Mr. ? Polk then advocated the A STATUE OF JEB STUART. Mooting of Veteran Cavalrymen to Erect One. liicH.uoNn, Va., [Special.]?A niccti ^ w! veteran cavalrymen of the Army of Nor hem Virginia, was held here and a movement started for the erection of a monument and statue to the memory of (It uerat J. I\ 11. Stuart. Charles A. Taylor called the meeting to order and introduced General Fitzhugh Lee as chairman, who made a brief speech. Short speeches were then made by Judgo Garnett, of Norfolk; General Thomas P. Garnett, of Lynchburg; General Thoiuas L. Hosser, of Alb.marie; Judge Farrar, of Amelia. Permanent offteets were elected as follows: President, General Fitzhugh Lee; secretary. Charles A. Taylor; treasurer, K. A. Catlin. Among the vice prccidcnts arc: Generals Wade Hampton, G. W. Curtis Lee. L. L. Lomax, T. L. Hosser, McKutler, Thomas T. Munfoid, William II. Payne, Bradley T. Johnson, Rev. Dr. Randolph Mclvce, Colonel John 3. Mosby aud others. A MAMMOTH POTATO, Which Twenty Persons Were Not Ablo to Devour. Svi.vania, G.x., [Special.]?Mr. George IV. Scott has hronght into the The Telephone ollice a half dozen of the largest sweet potatoes ever raised, perhaps, in this country. They are "new issues," and the six weighed fifty pounds. Tho largest one w. s given by the editor to a family in which there were eighteen nifiuiifis- ihi? nusoanii ami wile and sixteen children - all of whom were great lovers of potatoes. Sunday they decided to have it for dinner. It was fried?a part of it. at least ?and was amply enough for all of the family, besides a married daughter and her husband who were spending the day there. The remainder of this mammoth potato was made nit into nomto nmip und desert enough for the whole crowd and to spare. Mr. Scott is one of our best farmers, and will make about five hundred bushels of potatoes on Ids one-aero patch. Tiio Ueorgia itoaa congress. 'Ihe Georgia Hoad Congress, in session ::i Atlanta list week, adopted the following: It is the opinion of this Congress that it is to th<s interest of the people of the State that the labor of her convicts should he utilized upon her public roads, and that no lease of convicts should be made after the expiration of the present lease. We fHither hold that the present couvi t force now used in working the public roads cau be and should bo greatly increased by lowering iiic pcnttiiiet ior certain crimes. Dillon Attacked and Hurt. A cabbgram from Cork says: John Dillon is now hors dc combat. Ho was pursued and Attacked while driving ?o th? nnti.PArnnll^A mooi!n? ?*** . .....V.w iuvx^viuu, |IUIiUll ? nil stones, nnd during the nfTray received a severe blow on the knee with u stick. On account of the swelling th ? phjiucinu ordered him to keep quiet.