Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ THE WEEKLYdSuiIQH TIMES ' Th? project ol d oaiostioatingYao Siberian reindeer in Alaska -promises well, thinks the C-wtou Tra iacript. Captain Hcfcly, of the revenue steamer Bear, purchased several deer of the Siberian natives during bis recent cruise and btought four to Alaska. There is littlo doubt but that they will thrive, as the moss unou which they feed is plentiful in Atis.t'., an I that cliuita is almost identical with that of Hastern Siberia. Savage or half-civilized princes often prefer death to exile in a foreign country. Malietoa, the Kin* of Samoa, jumped overboard when the Germans took mm to the Utlborl istaau, sua was not rescued with bin o.va consent. Throo chiefs of the Comoro Islands, oil tho ' East "ATrifcin ?o'A!, iV'J'.U Ukuu itfiuir from home three moutUs a^.. of tho revolution wjieli they he idol against the French. Tuey were very 111^ happy ou board ship, and when the vesBr eel reached Oboek they trie I to jump overboard, and were place I in irons to prevent further suicidal attempts. In excavating tho Cnsa Grande ruins iu Eastern Arizona with a view to repairing the walls, Messrs. Stouter & White Qad the c .cut foundations a; hard as when taey were laid, which was, perhaps, 1000 years a^o. The mystery is, marvels the Ne.v York /*>?', how tho builders, with the materials to bo found in the desert, were able to make a cement as hard as the celeorate I Portl in i. The oMcst writiug disc >veroi m the ruins is thenaneof "P. Weaver, 1831," which was cvi k*ntly scratched by that famous trapper, Jong since deai, who lives, like Daniel IJoone, in tradition. It is said that a fe.v years agosonu of the me.libers of foreign legations iu Washington gave the police no end of trouble. Tiioy knew that- they could not be punished for any ordinary uiislemeaner, and frequently raise I a row on. the streets. When arrested they ha i to be released as soon as i leutilie.'l. Finally the police trie J u ue v dodge. They had a few sluggers loain g arc and tin , station, who iua ie it a point to pitch into the foreigners, and give them black eyes juTl bloo ly nosos. Tuis >|'iietel tin riotous me mbers of the legatio 1, an I for W.....U t? - -1 r ii^ i\n. lice very little trouble. Professor W. O. Ativater, o f We si oy a a University, contributes an article to the Century on "The Fool-Supply of the i Future '?the tint iu a series 'which will ocnnniul v.ilil.l t.(l I'ar.lltsrs. TilQ writer believes that the doctrine of M ilthtis?that the time will come when there will not be food enough for the iriniu race, owing to the theory that population increases iu a geometrical and foo 1supply in .in arithmetical ratio?;s one which nv-ei never give the world any u ieasiness, owing to the great advances ? thut arc being tu lie in chemistry. Science Las shown what are the essential fuctor.s in vegetable production, anil Professor At water gives the result of an interesting experiment recently in l ie iu liis laboratory. Sua-saad w-u brought from the shore of Long Island Soun 1. Tc divest it of every possible miturial which the plant might use for moo I evcept the sand itself, it wis cirafnlly washed with water and thosi iio.ite 1. It was put iuto glass jars, water was added and iniuuto quantities o; chcniicil salt3 were dissolved in it. Dwarf pens, lvlniiio 1 its Hue run I iriM'U K > ? is<?I l . ... ?... ? " ?of eight feet; while pens of the inu kin I plantc 1 by a skilful gardener in the lie 1 soil of a garden close by, re ichod a heigat of only four feet. i.-.rh Ai.ii-> * ?>:j "id-tig the antuii i meet in.; of tin; givil i ,lis i gun firm of whie i he is a m no.-r, deliverel an a I dress upon the improve meats iu modern artillery, and dilate I upon the extraordinary advantages of quick-firing guns of largo calibre discharged by smokeless powder. He saiil that sufficient attention had not been given to ! the subjeo " disappearing guns, which, iu the ne.dtau^ure, would be me 1 commonly for cotTh and harbor defence. My the use of in ) ler.i range an I positiontinders they ould be tire I effectively without the gunners ever seeing^ tho object tliey were aiming at. No knowledge of die distance and no el ibonte calculations were necessary. This system could not be used by a ship operating against an object on shore, and the ship therefore was at a disadvantage in attacking a land battery. Guns were no longer more tubes forgiviug effect to explosive force. Even in their simplest form, modern guns require! to l>e treated as machines, while in the ctJC of ' heavy navil ordnauce they were elaborate engines of war requiring to be understood and handled with almost as ruuoh mechanical skill as the stea 11 engines by which the ship was propelled. Naval warfare was becoming more and more a matter of machinery, and those who \\i:k'd the machines should have i i (chn;:>!.l training. TH ANK5GIVINO, Ti.e golicn grain is garnered? Uur store-houses o'ertfow? G'< r prairie broad and city mart 'J h? win.is of fortune blow, lio lows from distemper? ^ No rust the wheat to blight? Thanksgiving to the Father WLo has blessed us day an 1 night. N<? pestilence is near us? No sound of war is heard? Peace tinkles in the shepherd's bell, And ru-tiiig lies the sword. The brook* rush on right merrily ? The song-birds seem to say, "Praise God for every blessing sent On this Thanksgiving Day!" Frieuds w ho have long been parted. The dear old homesteed seek. To cliat of pleasures that are past, And of the future speak. All home once more, with hearts aglow . ^ ?i lyesnwwu? *-&": Ami cry iit ooncert, fVrveiitJv*, "Thanksgiving to the Lord!" All selfishness is put to flight? The wretched poor may feast On dainties that they seldom touch For this oua day at least. And e'en the felon in bis cell May taste of dainty fare? UI), tiod is gracious! Shout His praise Thanksgiving everywhere! ? Francis S. Smith. A THANKSGIVING BURGLAR "Cue o' butter, two o* sugar, tlireo o' flout'11 four egg?," soliloquized Aunt Hcpsic liuiber, ns she measured out the ingredients for the children's favorite cupcake. "Seems like that rule is like a ver?c of poetry, it ruus oil" so glib; but, my I it ain't nothiu' to the way the cakes go oil after the children gets a bolt of theui. Let's see, now, how many tinsful did I bake last Christmas? Six, as I'm a livin' woman, nn' afore night their faces was all puckered down with, 'Oh, Aunt Ilej sic, ain't there no more patties?' as doleful as if they liadu't had one apiece. It does beat all how much children can hold, an' not hev an explosion. Now, I sot out to have euoug'u this year, but I d'no's I liev. Oue good thiug, that rule's sure?true blue, like indigo caliker, au' not light's a fe?. therone time an' flat's a pancake another, like some rules. "Ku'ics is like folks sometimes, an' not to be trusted; they're all nice au' piuicky ouct or twict, au' next time ye see 'em tliav'm WAV it'T flw> lionflln J -- J juu to got to get acquainted with em' all over again. That Widow Jenkins, now, she's that sort?well, Marion; here you are at last, au' right glad I am to see you, too." ' I expected vdM&Mild L?e, Aunt Ileplie, and I should hHKbecn here earlier, '? . 1 ?*? - j T u lot get away." i"/ III- Ml \k mmi f??\ \ Spf1 \} \ \ \ /Pii /111 ri w h i \ j_ Ji y\ tp- t?saaa DL'STKi> AND Alt H A vowp r.Tr.VTNi.M.. A bright-faced girl fad entered and was taking otl hor wrappings as if perfectly at home in the farm-house, and perfectly sure of her welcome. She was of middle height and a graceful build. Her face wasC. very pleasing one, though just where the charm was one could scarcely determine, whether in the bright, expressive eye?, the warm, syin pathetic smile, or the winning expression, but at all events it was there, if somewhat beyond analysis, ami Marion Ainslie was a dunning girt, with the faculty of attaching warm friendship to herself Irom young and old. "1,'nch: Jerry's folks came and stopped over 011 their way to Watertowu to spend Thanksgiving with Eii," she explained. " i'hey anted me to go too, but 1 knew you needed inc.. and I can go there another time." "Land sakes, child, you needn't astnyed for that." Aunt llepsie tamed ipuckly around from her baking. "1 could a found some one else to help ine through." "l>ut some one else wouldn't have been me, would it, auntie?" The gir! came and laid her bright head on the elder woman's shoulder. "And then, too. Thanksgiving isn't (piite the same to me anywhere else but here." u \ n Wnr?flll unit \f\ If f'll ? ? , ........... .......?v?jr win nil J"Ul" I place," thuhouy old hand, withered and worn in service for others, smoothed tne satiny black hair caressingly. "If you was really my own darter, I couldn't set more store by you."' A crimson flush overspread the soft brunette cheek. "You haven't heard auything from Jack, have you, Marion?" "No, anutie, r.ot a word," she sighed. 4 Just a year ago to-day, and it stems like ten." "What wa? ir> child, thai, set hun oil J so?" ashed Mrs. Barber gently. "I've always wanted to know, but I thought when you wanted me to hear it you'd tell me." Why, Aunt Hopsie, didn't you ki o.v?" The girl raised her head with a look of astonisuinenr. "I supposed of course that he had told you the whola foolish story, or 1 should have spoken of it long ago." "Not a word, dearie. He only came in one day. his face n" a'bitc and set, to ' i tell me that ha was going, nud that all women were llirU and deceiver*. I thought for uwliilo that jou had mittened him, but I've put two and two together since and changed uiy mind." "Why, you know, auntie, I was intimate with Dolly Jcnking* about that time"? "There, I kuowed that tormented w idder had something or other to do with it," Interrupted Mrs. Barber energetically. "And she kept telling iue of the attentions which Jack was paying her on the sly, aud intiiu&tiug more thau she really said, uutil at last I taxed Jack with it, and?you kuow how quick Jack is, auntie?" "Yes, ready to go oil tho handle at a Uiiuuib a nmuiu au lUDU urj [JiaUU U) own that he's in the wrong." "Ami he wouldn't give me a word of satisfaction as to whether she had told tWif.t lull anw ^, latticed distrusting hioi so soon we might as well part first us last, with oilier speeches which cut deeper still. Oh, it was so hard, Auut lfespie, when 1 loved him so. lie accused me of being jealous, but it was not so. I only thought it best if he rially cared for her, to have the matter settled rightly before it was too late." "My poor little girl; and that widder." with detestation in every tone, "she's been after him tliicker'n mush ever since she took oil her inournin', au' all her grievance is that he would have nothiug to say to her." "Yes, I kuow that, now that it is too late, Auutilespic, but there's no use crying for spilt milk," a bright tear trembled on the long eyelashes, "and I will try and not spoil my Thanksgiving with tears." For the next few hours the discussing of the measuring, weighing and beatiug predominated in tho large kitchen and spicy ocors tilled each nook and crauny, penetrating to the diciug-room, and even to the parlor beyond. "Seems sorter useless to make pumpkin pies when Jack ain't here to eat 'cm," remarked Aunt llespie disconsolately, "'pears like there never was a boy love(' pumpkin pies like lie does." "Perhaps that young minister who it visiting Horace will eat Jack's share," suL'L'esled Marion. "Ministers usually have u pretty fair appetite for good things, I've noticed." 'I s'pose now Horace will be anxious to show oil his relations in pretty good ityle to his college friend,"rejoined Aunt Hespie, reflectively. When lie tolci tie he was coiniuir. lie said, laughing like 'I've been bragging ou your cooking, auntie, and I want to show &unmy Holland winit a. real Thanksgiving in wiiu ? ? mwmt the big turkey dressed and ready for stuffing, and the rows and rows of pie3 and rich, plummy -cakes, the pan of doughnuts and the heaping platter of cup cakes and another of jam tarts suggested a large gathering011 the morrow. In Jack's room alone, no preparation was to bo made, for Aunt Hcpsic would use the room for no one but its owner; but Marion went in there with a lonely feeling in her heart, the soug dying upou her 1 ii>-> as she did so. She lingered about the little dressing table, absently pushiug in tiiu pins which spelled "Jack" upon his pincushion,an-l thinking of him with such longing that Jaca eould not have remained augry with her could he have seen her hungry eyes. r ? tu&Mwr -m/'- zMIf "COME HACK TO ME!" Suddenly a thought eamc to her?she would prepare .lar.h's room, too, as if lie were coming v.ith the rest, and wita nimble lingers she dusted and arranged Everything in the best possible order, pinning n spray of dried ferns and sumac linr.il 111.. ..in,1,11.1 nii.l.iiiii Ihnl I l.r. /i 1 i-in.i nogs might be dispelled by the clear, keen air of a perfect November ilay. The window opened out upon tiie broad vera: hdi, and Jack hud often climbed its supports ami gone to I.is room and to bed without awakening the family, when at home. She would have been his wife now, had<henotgone olT in such hasty, unreasonable anger. and slie sank on her knees i?y the bedside when all was done. "Oh, Jack, come back. Couie back to me," her heart cried out, and if spirit voices can become audible to each other, i Jack's spirit must have heard the earnest appeal wherever he was. The house began to till with a merry crowd of relatives at au early hour on the morrow, for a Thanksgiving dinner nt A.iint Hcpjie's was u treat to young and old. Mrs. Barber herself looked careworn and old. "I guess I was too tired to sleep well last night," she said, .*s sue basted the turkey,"for I kept turnin1 an' twistin' all night long, an' 1 dreamed o' burglars an' Injuns, an' along toward tnorniu' I declurc if I didn't imagine some one sueakiu' around the house. I was too tired to get up an' see, an' I dropped oil to sleep again, an't must been a dream wdth the rest ou't, for there's nothing missing, an' the silver spoons sot right on the dining room table." "If anyone had come in for plunder thev would have looked for silver tirst of ad, so you must have been dreaming, what shall wedh^^S^eohilArea until dinner's rssdyP y^" r ''Send them upstair* tS play," as. 1 Aant Hcpsey. "Here comkYjrour Cou?m g Horace and his friend, antraproper, finu v young rnau he looks, too."\ li A moment later and llarifo was mak- t ing her company bow to\the young s clergyman and as she carrie^ its overcoat and hat into the hallway* (he gave the d children permission to jn into the a chambers. \ 1 41 And please don't bo ru^? or noisy," i she said, warningly, "for iint Hcpsey has a headache this morning ' > "We won't. "We'll be s 11 as mice," c said one of the flook, confid ntly?as if * it were a possible state a? ihiug* at a 1 family merrymaking. 1 I The young minister was jusLeiplaining s tho diflercnco between aapirinM and a ? merely -intellectual belief in jfcrlptuie, < when a frightened trio of jqlitl/ren came 1 Ti niuiiiinriinn mhiCt|*i n i , n "Oli, Aurt llepsie, there", a burglar in I Jack's loom; there is, and M*s asleep on ' the bed." 1 "A burglar. Ob, my tisl Then 1 ' wasn't a dreaming after all.' ? 1 Mrs. Barber was setting tie table, aua she fairly turned pale with ntrvous excitement. "Don't get frightened, amtio, I'll go < up and rout thcin out. Sive mo the poker," and Horace started tp the stairs hurriedly, with his formulakle weapon. "And I, too." Uncle Duke, a jolly I old fellow of immense avoirdupois, < caught up the tongs. "HI piuuh hiiu < while Horace belabors him.'1 1 It is needless to say tipy wore fol- ' lowed by an excited retinqc of spectu- 1 tors, at a s\fo distance, kowever, for there was uo telling what tlie presumably ( lavage intruder might do vruen alarmed. , "Perhaps he's armed," suggested the youug minister, noivously. He had provided himself- willi * w^bmlla, as he brought-up the rear. 1 The burglar must have been in a sound slumber not to have heard the confusion of whispering voicos at the door, but there was no sound within tho chamber until Horace opened the door and peered cautiously in, the p^kcr in hand in defensive readiness. "Jack Barber, you vidian, if you haven't been up to your old tricks of climbing in tho window." Horace's voice came floating down the stairway in a peal of surprised laughter, "Juckl My Jack! Well I never," cried Auut- Hcpsie, pushing her way through the crowd aud rushing up the ilairs. I f* i i f ? I "rcnHArs IIK'S ahmed." Marion, nt the flr?t sound of i* nn'oo li" ? divine ' U iii^.uoav jusl ...i * .Uaa-^u1 r"'1 come on l!?c vavlyV^lf^J^ljbfc^Ux wisbing la arouse th xT.vmTny,-rr?irr*tCpt up to his room window in the mo udight, and as she had so obligingly left it open,had* found no trouble in getting ic ^gwic'ly, and trembling and blushing, < tie re rented to the kitchen to think it over, jiiui compose herself for the meeting with him. They lire I parted in anger, and she remedy Knew how to receive him now. La1-! ui.ht ia her loneliness and grief she would nave lushed into his arms and have shown all her delight and desire to undo the past; this morning she was more self-reliant, and she wisely resolved that a littlo of tho concession at least must come from Jack, since ho had left her so cavalierly ami so unkindly without just cause. c>hc was standing there still, balancing the fork with which ^hn had just turne 1 the turkey, idly1 hand, when an arm stole round her waist and Jack's voice, very humble and loving, whispered in her ear: "Will my\ Marion forgive and forget?" All her pride vanished at once under the spell of the dear, familiar vcice, and turning, she shed happy tears of rejoicing on her lover'sshoulder. "And why haven't you written to me. Jack?" she asked reproachfully, after a lew moments of happy converse. "I did, Marion. I wrote you a long letter asking your forgiveness for the miserable part I had taken iu that wretched quarrel, but I never received a word in reply, and of course I supposed you were angry and unforgiving towards inc." "How cpuld I answer it dear Jack, wlicul never received it; no, not one line from youiT J^V'9 weary year." "If I coniit'V^fjf^^V known it, bU not hearing isnaB^ste so angry that I determined that you or no one else should know whero I was, or anything about mc." "You foolish, hot-tempered Jack," said Marion, soft'.y, "but how did you chauce to come home, dear?" "I could not keep away," said Jack simply. "As Thanksgiving drew near, the attraction towards the old home became too strong to bo resisted, and now that I have you again, I'm not going to let you go, aud I propose that wo be married this ?oij> uay. I'll go for a minister directly after dinner, aud we'll malie it ft Thanksgiving worth romoan\ . 1 ^. 11 i m ' Well, m for that, there's no use ?' stirin'ouc o! tha house for minister." Aunt lepsio had corao in to look after her neglected dinuer, and stood regarding theiu rith a beaming face. "Young Mr. Hoiand is a minister, and 1 don't doubt but hat he'd be glad to hare a ceremouy to orter get in |>rictico on, you know." "AH the better; we'll be nuti ricd before liuuer thou, and have a wedding dinner ? well as a Thanksgiving least. Just et me brush up luv hair a bit while Maron takes oil her kitchcu apron. The great brown turkey was au iatcrestng witness of a surprisingly impromptu seretnouy a half hour later. Tno guests vere not informed of what was goiug 011 .??: ......... ?n i ........l >1,.. lUtil tu\iy nqiv mi ^nvuviuvi niuuuvi vuvj able in their several places. Auut Heptie, at the head iu her best cap,and Jack ind Marion at her right, Mr. Holland ranting next. Ho offlciatod iu a parliollarly happy luauuor for a comparative MkUur, an* r.arer had a jollier Thaaka* fivlnn diuuor bei?tr#ev> ai in the old farmiou?o thin upon this occasion, made neuiovable by the presence of a burglar in ;ho house, and the subsequent riuging of wedding bells.?bid its' World. A VICTORY FOR THE BANKS. Comptroller General Ellerbe Over ruled by Judge Hudson: Nkwhkkuy, 8. C., jSpecial. | ?Tlu tanks nre on top now. Judge Hudson de :iilcd that the Comptroller General in itdeiing.the auditor to increase the re rams of banks acted without the authority of law, and his act is therefore illegal and nugatory. Tlio case came up on a pctitiou for u writ of inandunuis by the Newberry Na tional Dank to compel the county auditor to change his tax list uud tax duplicate aud to reduce the assessment to tlu .'idus as made Ijy t^c .president of tlu UaulT. The uutiliou was grouted aud Um clerk of the Court was ordered to forth with issue the writ. The bank was rep resented by J. F. J. Caldwell, and Assistant Attorney General Townscnil represented the auditorThe hank returned its slock at par This return was accepted by the town ship board of assessors and tho count; hoard of equalization. The market valui of the stock is about #00 on the slum above par. The Comptroller General or dered the auditor to change the icturi and place the stock 011 ta: duplicate for taxation nt its mar i_ _ i a i 1 ; 11. . ... i kci vaiue, mercwy increasing me renin) of the bank about $80,000. Under this decision the auditor is re quired to correct his tax duplicate so h to restore the original valuation of th property and make the corresponding re iluction iu the tux payable by the bank The case will go to the Supreme Court The Court of Common Pleas adjournei sine die and Judge Hudson left for home ? mi mm Virginia and Tennessee at War Ove a Strip of Territory. Knoxvii.lk, Tknn., [Special.]?i number of prominent lawyers of Virgini and Tennessee arc en route to Cumbci land Gap, Term. Their mission is an important one t Tennessee and Virginia. They go to the place named, wher tliey will spend several days in takinj depositions in the suit of Virginia vs Tennessee, now pending in the suproim count of the United States. The states have been in dispute fo several years over a slice of territory alou; their border line, from Kentucky to Nortl Carol iu a. Virginia claims this tcrritor and is suing to recover it. The territor; in dispute amounts to between eight huii drcd and one thon??o?> c mile? being about eight miles deep and aom one hundred and tifty miles long. I Virginia should win, she will get ucarl onc-mm oi six counties, including th prosperous one of Bristol, tlio town c Cumberland Oap, the hi# Lonimvillo n a Nashville railroad tunnel, several milci of Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louis villc railroad and the hast Tenuessec Virginia and Georgia railroad. The country involved is rich in luin era], timber and coal, and tlie GUI I)o minion is lighting hard to gain it. It i expected that the case will be heard nex March or April. Tennessee resists on th ground that a line which has stood (indie turbed since 1802 should not bcdisturbei now. Virginia claims that slio has neve acquiesced in the line and that the inal ter has always been in dispute. On this territory in question it i thought there are about .<5,0(10 souls I taken from Tennessee it would not ullec the state politically, nor would it alTee Virginia materially, as the votes are abou evenly divided between the democrat and the republicans. COOPERATIVE "STORES. The Alliance Going Into Businea On a Large Scale. Aberdeen, S. D., (Special.]?It i learned through Alonzo Warded aud Geo C. (.'rose, the heads of two divisions o A 11: ?i. a. v?>i ?i-~. .1 illllMlllC ?UII\ III I HIT 11UIUIWIM, llllll lll( business department of ttic Alliance ii twenty-two States Las united with busi ness men of New York city and formed i company similar in its plan to the cele bratcd liochdale system in England, am to the co-operative store of Utah. Tin organization is called the National Com pany, and has large means. "It is the aim of the new organizn lion," said Mr. Crose, "to buy out a mer chant in every trade centre of importance stock him up with everything he want in the line of general goods demander bv the farmer; ?cd make him local mann ger of the concern. We have optiom from business men in forty-one towns ir South Dakota, and work is still beinj pushed along." Edward I\ 8e tries is to present to tin :nw;i <,{ .Mctiiuen, Mass., a statue o General Geo.go Washington, designed _>y Thomas Hill. T.ie head of the statue, which is of bronze, will stand about 2fty feel from the ground. Doer are r?p'>r'"f to !?< xeee lingb numerous 11 11;: etstr.i a:i 1 northern parts of Maine, c Tell It Not That Our Southland Is > Prosy. W We Will Tell You About Many Im- J portant Happenings That Have 't, Occurred During a Week. t| VIRGINIA. David Morrison, tlio defaulting clerk 8 of Scott county, has been arrested. 1 The combination of lumber dealers which was recently former! in Norfolk to !i control the output of North Carolina '' dresseri pine lumber lias advanced prices ' fifty ceuts per thousand. v The Norfolk, Albemarle nud Atlantic ? railroad is to bo changed from narrow to Urnnsl miami ^ ttm rommt^lon and tba * Olcott committee of Now Vork. the Inttcr representing the holders of Virginia bonds, who wore in confcroiico at Hieli mend several days upon a plan of settle- ^ incut, have come to an agreement and the 'j. Virgin a debt question is settled at la-t. ^ The rush of coal and grain to Xcwpoit j News is beyond the power of the Chcsa- f peake & Ohio Hail road to handle. Kigh- ? teen hundred carloads of grain have, it is said, been engaged for shipment to r i Europe via that port. I .bulge Thomas T lbutldin, of Keys- i i v i I It*, died Friday. Ho was born the *241 li of March, ISIS. He died in the same house, the same room and on the same bed in which he was born. At a meeting of the Town Council of ^ 1 Salem, the overseer of the poor reported that six inmates of the town poor house, although chronic sulTercrs, were us well as could be expected, and that the cost 1 | of feeding them was f 1.03 per head per 1 ; month, nil average of about live and a 1 halt cent* a day per bead. ^ There is some probability of there he- | I ing a three-cornered light in the election of a successor in Congress to the late (Jen. W. H. F.Lee. The solution of the J problem seems to rest in the attitude of the Alliance men i 0 O. K. Lapham, of Chicago, who has , b large business interests in Staunton, lias c recently proposed to the Augusta county farmers a plan for making beet sugar 1 He agrees to iui?l the necessary pluit to n his present establishment at a cost of ,000, and the funnels of Augusta uns dert ike to grow 1,500 acres of sugar fur ivliii li llinu nri> In !.?? iini.l - *3 50 to $ per ton at tlio factory, s The Now Hivcr Mineral Company, of c lvnnhoo, has opened a promising ore herl about two inilca south of Austinville. They will build a tramway to connect with the Norfolk and Western railroad. 'I NORTH CAROLINA. A few llakes of snow have fallet^ at ,r Two men were arrested in S helby last week for making counterfeit money. \ Itoswell Smith, president and founder ii of the Century Magazine Company, is ut Ashcvillc. The State Temperance Convention at o Haleigh was addressed by Bishop Calloway of the M E. Church, South. c Revenue ollieers have received news of !? a seizure at Brad'haw's, in Orange eoun' tv, of an illicit distillery owned bv .lames B Powell. At <>rcensboro the c itizens and Far t mors Alliance are organizing a $10,000 ^ stock company for the purpose of cstablisbing co operative tobacco factory, y W.ti. Le Due, receiver, will dcclaic i. another dividend of 20 ??? ? . i.u the deposit oik of the defunct People's c National Hunk of Fuyetteville. f W. F. Beusley, president of the Oxy ford and Const Line Hailroad, expects e the right of way will he secured by Dec. >f 1, and construction will then commence. d At Chapel Hill on Friday Trinity Col8 lege and the University played foot bull l" ? score (i to 4 in favor of Tiinitv. ' Oxford and Henderson have joined the State Choral Association and will p/uticiputc in the Musi Festival in Charlotte in ; Mtty. t The Presbyterian Orphan Asylum at e Barium Springs, Mecklenburg county, I. burned Thursday. The lire originated i from a defective Hue. The children all j r escaped unhurt, and are bein-j cared for I in Statesville SOUTH CAROLINA 8 - I f ia'iiumi atpicc/.c games arc UCIlJg glVCS t ia Charleston. t J. II. Durckltaltcr will soon place an t engineering corps on the route of the a railroad he contemplates building froui Ersley to Pickens C. 11 K(Torts are living made for the organization of a $20,000 ito? k company for the purpose of establishing a casket and 9 furniture factory at lhunchvillc. The Ilerkclcy Phosphate Co. proposes rebuilding its phosphate works, reported s last wee"; as burned at Ashley Junction. I Orangeburg is making great prcpura- | tions for her Confederate Fair to begin Dee. 10. A babv show has been added to the programme. \ The Childs prohibition bill which willbe presented to the next Legislature, prom1 ises to make one of the severest fights B oi me session, iiowi me prommiion and ! anti-prohibition factions arc working quietly and vigorously iu the interest of their sides. The ci own sheet of an engine on the ( raiiroad blew out at Cnna in the night, s scalding and knocking out of the cab 1 Ftiemail rtobeit Allen, C5 years ot age. He was attended by a pli siciau g at tiicenv.ood, but died a horrible death. 1 Rev. J. A. B. Schcrer, the new mis> sionary of the Southern Lutherans to J a pau, was ordained Sunday to the holy ministry in St. John's Lutheran Church, 5 Charleston, the Lutheran congregaf tions of the city uniting in the service, I conducted by Rev. W ('. SehatlTer, of Newberry, the president of the Synod !; of S(>uth Carolina. . r Treasurer Rales has submitted his annual report to the Legis'aturo He calls esi peeial attention "to the fact that the State 1 i owes a large floating debt, estimated at 07 of past due interest aloue, be- i i bove, amTTHriofw?nw^W^PWIWI^^^^PPI15| ailed 'treasury reserve fund* u practically ' nth, representing for the most part obts and not credits of tlio States." No secret 1ms possibly been gunrded rith more jealously tlmn the bids of tho arioiu counties for tho (litis' Industrial 'ollege. It is reported the figures of tho wo highest arc Greenville, tt'J6.r?00; Anerson, $125,000, hoth being cash oil-rs. OTHER STATES. The Florida nmngc crop is now being * hipped to New York and other localiics. The yield of tho State this ear was over It,000.000 boxes, and an vertigo box holds 150 oranges. About ndf of the crop will he sent by rail to he Western States Chicago is a great onsutner of the Florida orange and also f the California orancre. Tho papers of New Orleans arc proplieying that their port will I>000100 tho peuteat shipping port of tho oun'tiy ivilhin the next ton years, grratr even thai! New York. Thoy cay that ho pmduecis in tho Northern States, rest <>f tho Ohio River, anil tho Southern hates, west of the Alabama Uiver, have omul out that they can ship grain, roton and pmk to Europe from "few Orleans more cheaply than rom any other port. A few days igo a committee of the Kansas Millers' \ssorinti >11 visited New Orleans to make 11 r ingeinents for exporting Kansas Hour o fore gn <'"UHtries by way of tit it poll 11 tiie rate of "TO, 000,000 bands 11 year. DIRECT E0REIUN TRADE. Che South's General Advancement Broadening Out. The Manufnctur r's Record, of Baltimore, of November 21, in reviewing tho the industrial progrcsr of the South, says: / . "The broadening out of Southern a(Tranccment Is Must-rated this week in tho >flleial announccincnt of the inauguration of tho four regular European steamship lines from Newport News -tho first regular lilies from any point south of Baltimore?which must mark the beginning >f an over increasing foreign trade." It is not simply intended that tlieso steamers shall take outward cargoes, but that tho llllptUl IMi siucsh Sllllll IK! WOIKCU Up Willi a view to bringing in foreign goods for Western distribution Arrangements have already boon made for loading about twenty steamers on these four lines lief re the eiul of the year, and heavy contra ts have been made for the ship* nient of west* ra plot)ne ts?grain, tlonr, pro vis oils, etc The practical innugurnt i<mi of these lines, through the efforts of the Chesapeake & Ohio Knilrond, will necessary force otlter Houthern railroad systems reaching the Atlant'c and Clulf ports to take steps to secure the establishment of foreign steamship lines. Thus, while the low price of cotton Ht* fe^fort^Mhn^mng the business aiid tf.Vffh STirl'l'o tfir' only a moderately active one in tlio nuguratiou of i civ enterprises, but tlio outlook is very jiromisin^ for a steady, solid glow tli. Amo g some of tlio more impoitant enterprises report d in this week's i->ue of tbe .Maaufacturei's Record aro the iiuibting of a thousand new coko ovens, the construction of a new railroad into an undeveloped timber section, and tin- proposed erection of largo lumber mill* end the sale of a tract of timber land for $.',0,000 cash, all in West Virginia; a $1(10,030 chemieal mid drug manufacturing coinpanv at .Monroe. La. ; 'i furniture factory at Alliens, tin.; u (1211,000 siil?? of phosphate hmd ? ? !'!wii.!.i, miii several new phosphate conrpanier in the same Slate; a if 100,000 vitrilied brick company at Cloverport, Ky. *, a wooden ware factory at Bristol, Tumi : an $H(),000 furniture factory company at lYxarkami, Ark.;n $10,000 tobacco facory company at Morristown, Tenii.; a >,000 caiial' comp.iny in Florida; a $55,000 canning company at Ne.v Berne. V. (J, ; a $750,000, phosphate company I Atlanta, <Va. ; a $ 1,000,000 lumber compa .y in I'itt county, N. C.; a $127,000 manufacturing company at Baltimore, M<1.; a $25,000 improvement company in Male county, Texas; a $50,000 fisn-haudling company at (ialvcston, Texas; a 4:500,000 oil and gas company, a $250,000 improve meat and construction company, a $50,000 coal and coke compiny, a i in west Virginia; a f25,(j(J(f wator cuuipanynt Lonaconing, Md.; u $",0,000 (ollon&ecd-oil company at New Orleans. I.H., fto Annual Report of Clorason College. Coi.u.MBiA, S. C, [Special.)?The annual report of the Clcmson College trustees has been sent to the printer. Governor Tillman, Secretary of State Tindal, and J. K. Wnnainnker attended a recent meeting of the trustees. The number of applicants for admission by counties is as follows; Abbeville 89, Aiken 16, Anderson 57, Barnwell 49, Beaufort 1, Berkeley 10, Char oston 9, Chester 23, Chesterfield 5, Clarendon 18, Colleton 9, Darlington 25, Edgefield 52, Fairfield, 15, Florence 3, Georgetown 7, Greenville 44, Hampton 22, I l orry 2, Kershaw 7, Lancaster 14, f.aureus 38, Lexington, 5, Marion 14, Ni wberry 88, Oconee 82, Orangeburg 78, I'm kens 35, Kichland 14, Spartanburg 14, Sumter, 82tCnion 9, Willismsburg, 13, York 5. unclassified 71. The following resolution wa? passed: na Resolved, That if upon the opening day of the session more applicants report than can be accommodated in the dormitories the number Admitted from each county chr.l! be in the proportion of Ave f| to eacl^incmbcr of the House from said county; that in event enough applicants shall not report to till out the county's quota then the vacancies shall be given to the counties being in excess, preference being given to those who apply first: tifl Provided, however, when applicants from * a county are in excess of its quota the fitness of the applicant for collegiato work on examination will govern. The financial exhibit shows a hahnce i>f $8,7o7 on hand; receipts 131,058, inluditig $35 818 from last year; disbursements. $108, 127 on College, $11,224 on i ht-mical analysis, etc. It will require about $65,000 to finish the College.