Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jr E**ot*d to Agriculture^ Horticulture, Dometfie Economy-, JMitica and the Current jfetee of the Day. *MV |?? vrJX-WW ^>/U4UJViVaHU^ V U\J Ol' bcrian reindeer in Alaska -promises well, thinks the Bjston Tra.iacript. Captain Hchly, of the revenue steamer Bear, purchased several (leer of the Siberian natives during his recent cruise and brought four to Alaska. There is little *' doubt but that they will thrive, as the moss unon which they feed is pleutiful in AlisiC'., an-l that climate is almost identical with that of Knstern Siberia. Savage or half-civilized princes often prefer death to exile in a foreign country. Malietoa, the Kiug of Samoa, jumped overboard when the Germans took him to the Gilbert Islands, and was not rescued with bU o.vn consent. Three chiefs of tho Comoro Islands, off the jyatt (torn home three months ago ?m ?n<f5?n? of the revolution which thoy lieido.1 against tho Preach. Tuey wore very ui^ happy on board ship, and when the vos^ eel reached Oboch they tried to juuip overboard, and were placed in irons to prevent further suicidal attempts. In excavating tho Casi Gr.iodo ruins in Eastern Arizona with a view to repairing tho walls, Messrs. Stougor & White dad the cc nent foundations as hard as when tuey wore laid, which was, perhaps, 1000 years ago. The mystery is, marvels the JNo.v York Posit how tho builders, with the materials to be found in the desert, were able to make a cemeut as hard as the celebrated Portland. The oldest writing[ discovered in the ruins is tho name of "P. Weaver, 1831," which was evidently scratched by that faruoui trapper, long since dead, who lives, iiki Daniel Boone, iu tradition. It is said thai a fe w years ago soma of the members of foreign legations iu Washington gave the police uo end of trouble. Thay knew tbatr.the/ could not bo punishod for any ordinary misdemeanor, and frequently raised a ro.v oa the streets. When arrested thay ha I to \>e released as soon us identified. Filially the polics triod n uo w dodge. They had a few sluggers loafing around tha I ' station, who made it a point to pitch into the foreigners, and give them black eyes aul bloo ly noses. This quietel tha riotous meuibars of the legation, and for ^ . .7."^" JPTff>- ? ?** ?'?-r 1>??j niDLxa _tHa qq, lice very little trouble. Professor W. O. Atwater, of Wesley an University, contributes au article to tho Century on "The Food-Supply of tho Future''?tho first in a series which will have especial value to farmers. The writer believes that the doctrine of Mil* thus?that the time will come when there will not be food enough for the hunan race, owing to tue theory that population iucreasas iu a geometrical and foodsupply in an arithmetical ratio?is one which need novergiva the world any uneasiness, owing to the great advaucas ? thathue being made in chemistry. Scieace has shown what are the essential factors in vegetable production, and sanu t?y nuwmj-?i-'v^ i n etn Professor At water girea the result of ao interesting experiment rocsatly mtde ia his laboratory. Sea-sand was brought from the shore of Long Island Sound. Tc divest it of every possible material which the plaut might uso for - fool excapt the saad itself, it was carefully washed with water and then heated. It I wtp put into glass jars, water was added and minuto quantities of chemical salts wore dissolved in it. Dwarf peas, planted in this rand, grow to a height of eight feet; while peas of the same kind planted by a skilful gardener in the rich soil of a garden close by, reached u height of only four feet. . ? Jjord Armstrong, presiding at the,annual meeting of the great English gun firm of whir, i he is a member, delivcrol au address upon tho improvements ia modern artillery, and dilated upou the extraordinary advantages of quick-firing guns of large calibre discharged by smokeless nowder. H? ??i<s n>?? tick-nt Attention had not been given to tho subject of disappearing guns, which, io the near future, would be mod com* monly for coast and harbor defence. By the use of modern rnn ?e and positionfinders they could be fired effectively without the gunners ever seeing)the object they wero aiming at. No knowledge of the distance and no elaborate calculations were necessary. This system could not be used by a ship operati?(cngata?t an object on shore, and the ship therefore was at a disadvantage in attacking a land battery. Quns were no longer mere tubes for giving effect to explosive force. Evea in their simplest form, modern guns required to be treated as machines, while in the case of heavy naval ordnance they were elaborate gt engines of war requiring to be understood and handled with almost as much mechanical skill as the steam engines by which the ship was propelled. Navst warfare was becoming more and more a ??-?? - luaumuorjr, ftoa mose who | | ^ ^ worked th? machine* should hnvo ;|' i nnnK3UIVINOi te Wt The golden grain Is garnered? th Uur store-houses o'erttow? tei GVr prairie broad and city mart gc 'J h? winds of fortune blow. No losses from (iistemper? til ^ No rust the wheat to blight? til Thanksgiving to the Father \V ko has blessed us day and night. w; No pestilence is near us? No sound o? war is heard? ca Peace tinkles in tho shepherd's bell, And rusting lie3 the sword. I *e I tL The brooks rush on right merrily? 1,11 The song-birds seem to say, rc "Praise God for every blessing sent w On this Thanksgiving Day!" is Friends who have long been parted, The donr old homesteed seek, 1 To cliat of pleasures that are past, 01 A nd of the future speak. All home once more, with hearts aglow byr^Ami err in oonowl. fervently, "Thanksgiving to the Lord 1* m at All selfishness is put to flight? gj Tho wretched poor may feast w On dainties that they seldom touch For this ona day at least. I ol And e'en the felon in bis cell I ?moww vi uaiiity ilirC Oh, God is gracious! Shout His praise t< Thanksgiving everywhere! ? Francis S. Smith. ____________ w A THANKSGIVING BURGLAR K1 ^"Ouo o' butter, two o' sugar, throe o' t>: flour'n four eggs," soliloquized Aunt Hepsie Barber, as she measured out the la ingredients for the children's favorite iii cupcake. "Seems like that rule is like bl a veree of poetry, it runs off so glib; but, tr myl it ain't nothin' to the way the cakes tt go off after the children gets a holt of them. T.et's sec, now, how many tinsful ol did I bake last Christmas? Six, as I'm a pi livin' woman, an' afore night their faces si was all puckered down with, 'Oh, Aunt Ilcpsic, ain't there no more patties?' as ^ doleful as if they hadn't had one apiece. 10 It does beat all how much children can hold, uu' not hev an explosion. Now, I P' sot out to have enough this year, but I d'no's I hev. One good thing, that rule's sure?true blue, like indigo cali- P' ker, au' not light's a fe*. therone time an' Hat'* * nnnoakc another, like some rules. "Rules is like folks sometimes, an' not ^ to bo trusted; they're all nice au'pinicky ^ ouct or twict, an' next time ye see 'em they're way off the handle, an' you've ^ got to get acquainted with era' all over again. That Widow Jenkins, now, she's ^ that sort?well, Marion; here you arc at ^ last, au' right glad I am to see you, too." li - i expecica you would be, Aunt Hep- it lie, nud I should have been here earlier, H lot get away. ' . .. !?> &kjm j DU8T?J> AND AIIRANOKD BVEHYTIIINO. A bright-faced girl aad entered and woe taking off her wrappings as if perfectly at ho?ne in the farm-house, and perfectly sure of her welcome. She wa9 u-?-Li 1 - ? - ? ui ?iiiuuic iifjpib uuu n gracciui duiici* Her face was a very pleasing one, though just where the charm was one could scarcely determine, whether in the bright, expressive eye?, the warm, sympathetic smile, or the winning expression, but at all events it was there, if somewhat beyond analysis, anil MarioD Ainslie was a charming girl, with the faculty of attaching warm friendship to herself from young and old. "Uncle Jerry's folks came and stopped over on their way to Watertowu to spend v Thanksgiving with Eli," she explained, v "They u anted me to go too, but I knew n you needed me( and I cau go there an- e other time." p "Land sakes, child, you needn't a- u stayed for that." Aunt Iicpsie turned n quickly around from her baking. "I k could u found some one else to help me 'I through." v "But some one elso wouldn't have it been rac, would it, auntie?" The gir! b came and laid her bright head on the a elder woman's shoulder. "And then, too, Thanksgiving isn't quite the same h to me anywhere else but here." ri "No, .Marion, nobody can fill your < k place." tbebonv old hand willinM/l "<! worn in service for others, smoothed tne Q satinj black hair caressingly. "If you y was really my own darter, I couldn't set J more store by you." a A crimson flush overspread the soft brunette cheek. ci "You haven't heard anything from tl Jack, have you, Mariont" - at "No, auntie, not a word," she at CJ tighed. "Just a year ago to-day, and it seems like too." la "What was it, child, that set him oft ti lot" naked Mrs. Barber gently. "I've nl ilways wanted to know, but I thought li when you wanted me to hoar it you'd tell cl me." "Why, Atint Hepsie, didn't you ti ci o.vl" The girl raised her head with a tc look of MtOQiabmoDt. "I supposed of course that he had told you the whols m foolish story, or I should hare spoken of 01 t long ago." "Not a word, dearie. He only earns lb u one day. his face all white and set, to *1 11 mc that ho was going, nud that all anion were flirts and deceivers. I ought for awhilo that you had mitDc^him, but I've put two and two toith^Pliucc and changed my mind." 44Why, you know, auntie, I was innate with Dolly Jcnkings about that ao"~ 41Therc, I kuowed that tormented idder had something or other to do with Interrupted Mrs. Barber cnergetiilly. "And she kept telling rae of the atntions which Jack was paying her on ie sly, aud intimating moro than she ally said, until at last I taxed Jack ith it, and?you kno w how quick Jack , auntie?"' "Yes, ready to go off tho handle at a invite's waruiu' an' then too proud to wn that he's in the wrong." 41 And he wouldn't give me a word of itislaction as to whether she had told 1* truth or not, only that if 1 had comlenccd distrusting him so soon we might v well part first as last, with other peeches which cut deeper still. Oh, it as so hard, Aunt llespie, when I loved im so. lie accused mo of being jealHO i* ....... -"? r ?iL i?o, uuv ?. " .m Uuk ?i. x uniy mougnr. best if he really cared for her, to have le matter settled rightly before it w as jo late." 'My poor little girl; and that widder." itlx detestation in every tone, "she's sen after him thicker'n mush ever since >o took oil her mournin', an' all her lievance is that he would have notliiug > say to her." "Yes, I know that, now that it is too ,te, Auutilespic, but tbero's uo use cryig for spilt milk," a blight tear tremled on the long eyelashes, "and I will y and not spoil my Thanksgiving with tars." For the next few hours tho discussing f the measuring, weighing and beating redotrinated in the large kitchen and ucy ocors (illed each nook and crauny, (nctrating to the dicing-room, and even the parlor beyond. "Seeim sorter useless to make pumpkin es when Jack ain't here to eat'cm," marked Aunt Hespie disconsolately, 'pears like there never was a boy love(" jiupkin pies like he does." "Perhaps that youug miuistcr who ii siting Horace will eat Jack's share," iggcaicd Marios. "Ministers luually ive a pretty fair appetite for good lings, I've noticed." "I s'pose now Horace will bo auxious ? show off his relations in pretty good yle to his college lriend,"rejoino l Aunt espie, reflectively. "When he told ic ue was coraiair. uo sum. laughing ko 'I've been bragging on your cook* ig, auntie, and I want to show Sammy [olland what a. real Thanksgiving in ^TYougYfr'lAfrferaxtUg was?aw unm| le big turkey pressed and ready for uttng, and the rows and rows of ple3 id rich, plummy cakes, the pan of oughuuts and the heaping platter of jp cakes and another of jam tarts sug* ested a large gatheriug on the morrow. Iu Jack's room alone, no preparation as to be made, for Aunt Hcpsie would be the room for no one but its owner; ut Marion went in there with a lonely :tling in her heart, the song dying upon er lips as she did so. She lingered about the little dressing ible, absently pushiug in the pins rhich spelled "Jack" upoa his pinusliion,and thinking of him with such jngiug mat juck coma not nave remined angry with her could ho have eeu her huugry eyes. "COME BACK TO ME!" Suddenly u thought came to her?she rould prepare JacVa room, too, as if he rere coming with the rust, and witn imble lingers she dusted and arranged very thing in the best possible order, inning a spray of dried ferns and sumac pou the window curtains that the closeess might be dispelled by the clear, eon air of a perfect November day. "he window opened out upou the broad erandah, nnd Jack lmd often climbed ts supports and goue to his room and to ed without awakening the family, when t home. She would have boon his wife now, ad hc not gone oil in such hasty, unfasonaoici anger, aud she sank on her nees by tho bedside when all was done. 'Oh, Jack, come back. Come back to te," her heart cried out, aud if spirit oices can become audible to each other, ack's spirit must have heard the earnest ppeal wherever he was. The house began to till with a merry rowd of relatives at an early hour oh le morrow, for a Thanksgiving dinner i Aunt Hepsie's was a treat to youag ad old. Mrs. Barber herself looked ire worn and old. "I guess I was too tired to sleep well ?t night," she said, as she basted the irkey,"for I keptturnin' an' twistin* all Ight long, an' I dreamed o' burglars an*, ijuns, an' along toward rnorniu' I dearc if I didn't imagine some one teak in' around the house. I was too red to get up an' tee, an' I dropped oft i sleep again, an't must been a dream ith the rest on't, for there's nothing itfing, an1 the silver spoons sot right i the dining room table." "If anyone had come in for plundet iev would have looked for silver first of I, so you roust have been dreaming, what shall wo do with thfcqftil/lrca until dinnei's readyV* \ n 'Bend them upstairs Wplay," si. Aunt Hcpsey. "Here comVryour Couun Horace and Iris friend, andh proper, fine young man he looks, too."y A moment later end MariVi was making her company bow tp\tho young clergyman and as she carriffilis overcoat and hat into the hallway, ?ko gave the children permission to gl into the chambers. \ "And please don't bo ru*b Pr noisy," she said, warningly, "for Aint Hcpsey has a headache this morning/ "We won't. "We'll bo mil as mice,' said one of the flock, confldintly?as if it were a possible state of things at a family merrymaking. \ The young minister was iusretplaining the diflcrenco between aapirfJd and a merely intellectual belief in /cripturo, when a frightened trig of foffll/ren came - scrambling dxira UlE ' "Oh, AUrt Hepsie, there la burglar in Jack's iooin; there is, and Irs asleep on the bed." * "A burglar. Oh, my us! Then 1 wasn't a dreaming after all.' Mrs. Barber was jetting tie table, ano she fairly turned n&le with rnrvous excitement. "Don't get frightened, am tic, I'll go up and rout them out. 3ive mo the poker," und Horace started ip the stairs hurriedly, with his formidsMo weapon. "And I, too." Uncle Duke, a jolly old fellow of immense avoirdunoiu I caught up the tongs. "Ill pinch hiiu while Horace belabors kirn.'' It is needless to say tl^y were followed by an excited retinae of spectators, at a safo distance, kowover, for there was no telling what tlje presumably lavage intruder might do vueu alarmed. "Perhaps he's armed," suggested the youug minister, nervously, lie had prosided lilmsclt with an qalHulln, ? he brought up the rear. The burglar must liSvo been in a sound slumber not to have heard the confusion of whispcriug voicos at the door, but there wns no sound within the cham ber until Horace opened the door and peered cautiously in, the p^ker in hand in defensive readiness. "Jock Barber, you villian, if you haven't been up to your old tricks of climbing in the window." Horace's voice rnme floating down the stairway in a peal of surprised laughter. "Jack I My Jack I Weill never," cried Auut Hcpsie, pushing her way through the crowd and rushing up the ilairs. "rEIUtATS he's aiuied." Marion, at the first sound of Jacv' nauic, had diyinodia a moment ju? < *?--' ;wyiriTiT^v^jr V'i' comt on the c.iriyViiZ^aqQ^p^j^A urv( wig>i inpf to arouse ther..otf ny,-t< his room window ia the tuo inlighva57 as she had so obli^ioxrlv J oft it onen.hnr found no trouble in gcltWg in ' <|uie'.ly, and trembling and blushing, she re'rented to the kitchen tothink it over, and compose herself for 'tho meetim with him. \ They hnd parted in noger, and sht fcarcciy know how to reccivp him now. Last nioht in her loneliness and grief sht would uave lushed into his arms and have shown all her delight and desiv^c undo the past; this morning she more self-reliant, and- she Wisely r? solved that a littlo of tho concession a least must como from Jack, since ho haci left her so cavalierly land so unkindl; without just cause.' ? She was standing tjiare still, balancing the fork with whiobhho had just turnel the turkeJ^TTtt>""ir!f^ll*"haad, when an arm stole round hit waist and Jack'i voice, very humble aul loving, whispered in her ear: "Will myi Marion forgive and forget?" All tier pride vaulsted at once under the spell of the dear, familiar vcice, and turning, she shed happy tears of rejoicing on her lover's shoulder. "And why haven't you written to mo, Jack?" she asked reproachful I j, after a few moments of happy converse. "I did, Marion. 1 wrote you a lonj letter asking your forgiveness for the miserable part I bad taken in that wretched quarrel, bat I never received ? word iu reply, and of course 1 supposed you were augry and unforgiving towardi ine." "How gpuld I answer it dear Jack, whcifl never received it*, no, not one line from you weary year." "If I could\HV?ft>y known it, bti not hearfhg ..latRTTfife so angry that I determined that y#t or no onu else should know where I wafc, or anything about mci infill .... "XOU joousn, not-tempered Jack,' sr.id Marion, f>oftly, ,4but how did you chnuce to como borne, dearf" "I could not keep away," ?aid Jack imply. ,4Aa Thanksgiving drew near, the attraction toward* the old home became too at root? to be resUted, and now that I have you again, Tin not going t<i Jet you go, aad I propone that we b? married thia' very day. I'll go for a minister directly afUr dinner, and we'll make it> ThanlfnjJ^^ Worth remem " ' 1 " 1 ^ ' M J*#: "Well, as for that, there's no use o' stir* rin'oui of the bouse for a minister." Aunt llepsiu had come in to look after her neglected dinner, and stood regarding them i with a beaming face. "Young Mr. Holland is a minister, and I dou't doubt but that he'd be glad to have accrcmouy to [ sorter get iu prictieo on, you know." ; "All the better; we'll be married before i dinner then, and have a wedding dinner ! as well as u Thanksgiving feast. Just let me brush up my hair a bit while Mar1 ion takes oil her kitchen apron, i The great brown turkey was an interesting witness of a surprisingly impromptu ceremony a half hour later. The guests were not informed of what was going on until they were all gathered around the table in their several places. Aunt Hepsie, ut the head iu her best cap,and Jack and Marion at her right, Mr. Holland coming next. He officiated iu a particularly happy manner for a comparative MMtutr, aud never had a jollier Thanksp givlnjr dinner bfeMTIBft in the old farmhouse thin upon this occasion, inado memorable by the presence of a burglar in the house, and the subsequent riuging of wedding bells.?bid its' World. A VICTORY FOR THE BANKS. Comptroller General Ellorbe OTer ruled by Judge Hudson: Nkwijkhuy, o. G\, [Special.]?The banks arc on top now. Judge Hudson de cided that the Comptroller General in ordering, the auditor to increase the returns of banks acted without the authority of law, and his act is therefore illegal and nugatory. The case came up on a petition for a writ of inandumus by the Newberry National Hank to compel the county audiI tor to change his tax list and tax duplicate and to reduce the assessment to the . ^-'etas as mfldc Vy t^c.president of tlie OWtfk. The petition was granted and the clerk of the Court was ordered to forthwith issue the writ. The bank was represented by J. F. J. Caldwell, and Assistaut Attorney General Townscnd represented the auditorThe bank returned its stock at par. Tilie rnf urn uinn K ? 4 ? ' a auvi tvvuiu nuo OH rjnCVI UV lllU III WII* | ship board of assessors and tho county board of equalization. The market value of the stock is about |G0 on the share nbovo par. The Comptroller General ordered the auditor to chango the return and place the stock on tax duplicate for taxation at its market value, thereby increasing the returns , of the bank about $80,000. Under this decision the auditor is required to correct his tax duplicate so as to restore the origiual valuation of the t property and make the corresponding re' duction in the tux payable by the hank. 1 The case will go 10 the Supreme Court. | The Court of Common Picas adjourned I sine die and Judge Hudson left for home. Virginia and Tennessee at War Over a Strip of Territory. Knoxville, Tknn., [Special.]?A number of prominent lawyers of Virginia and Tennessee are en route to Cumberlaud Gap, Tcun. Their mission is an important one to Tennessee and Virginia. They go to the place named, where ? they will spend several days in taking i depositions in the suit of Virginia vs. ; Tennessee, now pcudiug in the .supreme s count of the United States. The states have been in dispute for I several years over a slice of territory along their border line, from Kentucky to North Caroliua. Virginia claims this territory and is suing to recover it. The territory in dispute amounts to between eight bun's died and one thousand square mile.1, it being about eight miles deep and some B one hundred and (ifty miles long. If Virgiuia should win, she will get nearly one-half of six counties, including the ^mi^Derous one of Bristol, tlio town of CanMfMna uxn. m* j i, n - anu Nashville railroad tunnel, several miles ? of Knoxville, Cuinberlaud Gap and Louisville railroad and the East Tenuessee, ? Virginia and Georgia railroad. ? The couutry involved is rich in mineral, timber and coal, and the Old Do> minion is fighting hard to gain it. It is expected that the case will bo heard next ) March or April. Tcunessee resists on the I ground that a line which has stood undisturbed since 1802 should not bedisturbed ' now. Virginia claims that she has never k acquiesced in the line and that the mat^ ter has always bccu in dispute. ' On this territory in qucstiun it is I thought there arc about ;<r?,0U0 souls If f taken from Tennessee it would not affect the state politically, nor 'would it affect Virginia materially, as the votes are about evenly divided between the democrats i and the republicans. | co-operativeTtores. ? The Alliance Going Into Business On a Large Scale. Aberdeen, 8. D., [Special.]?It is learned through Alonzo Wardell and Geo. C. Crosc, the heads of two divisions of Alliance work in the Northwest, that the business department of the Alliance in I twenty-two States has united with business men of New York city and formed a 1 company similar in its plan to the celebrated ltochdalc system in England, and ' to the co-operative store of Utah. The organization is called the National Comi puny, and has large means. "It is the aim of the new organization," said Mr. Crose, "to buy out a meri chant in every trade centre of importance, stock him up with everything he wants in the line of general goods demanded by the farmers and make him local manat ger of the concern. We have options urn uu9iiii?3 men in lony-one towns in 9outh Dakota, and work is still being ? pushed along." i ? Edward F. Se.iries is to present to tlio sown of Methucn, Mass., a statue of , General George Washington, designed Ojt Thomas Ball. The head of the statue, which is of bronze, will stand about* i 1fty feet from the ground. Deer are reported to lie exceedingly J numerous intia etster.i aui northern parts of Maine. Tell It Not That Our Southland Is Prosy. We Will Tell You About Mauy Important Happenings That Have Occurrod During a Week. VIRGINIA. David Morrison, the defaulting clerk of Scott county, has been arrested. The combination of lumber dealers which was recently formed in Norfolk to routrol the output of North Carolina dressed pine lumber has advanced prices fifty cents per thousand. The Norfolk, Albemarle and Atlantic railroad is to be changed from narrow to broad gunge. The tMnte debt commission and the Olcott committee of New York, the latter representing the holders of Virginia bonds, who Were in rnnfWnnon ?l liioli mond several days upon a plan of settlement, have come to au agreement and the Virgina debt question is settled at la-t. The rush of coal and grain to Newport News is beyond the power of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to handle, highteen hundred carloads of grain have, it is said, beeu engaged for shipment to Europe via that port. Judge Thomas T. Bouldin. of Keysville, died Friday. He was born the 24th of March, 1813. lie died in the same house, the same room and on the same bed in which he was born. At a meetiug of the Town Council of Salem, the overseer of the poor reported that six inmates of the town poor house, although chronic sufferers, were as well as could be expected, and that the cosl of feeding them was $1.93 per head pel -mrmtb, an average of nbout five and a half cents a day per bead. There is some probability of there be ing a three-cornered fight in the elcctior of a successor in Congress to the lati (?en. W. II. F. Lee. The solution of tin limlilnin conntc fa in ?1??> 1 I ? *" ",vi *' tlie Alliance men O. Iv. Lnpham, of Chicago, wlio has large business interests in Staunton, ha; recently proposed to the Augusta count} farmers a plan for making beet sugar lie agrees to add the necessary plmt t< his present establishment at a cost i> $)'?,000, and the farmers of Augusta un dertike to grow 1,500 acres of suga beets, for which they are to be pah <3 50 to $1 per ton at the factory. The New River Mineral Company, o Ivanhoe, has opened a promising ore l>e< about two inilea south of AustinvilU They will build a tramway to conuec with the Norfolk an? Western railroad. NOKTH CAROLINA. I A few (lakes of snow have fallen i Two men were arrested in Shelby la: week for making counterfeit money. Iloswell Smith, president and found* of the Century Maga/.iue Company, is t Ashevillc. The State Temperance Convention i Raleigh was addressed by Rishop Ga loway of the M. E. Church, South. Revenue oflicers have received uews < a seizure at Head*haw's, in Orange coui tv, of an illicit distillery owned l?v Jnnu Powell. At Greensboro the citizens and Fai luers Alliance are organizing u $10,00 stock company for the purpose of estal lishing co-operative tobacco factor) W. G. Le I)uc, receiver, will dcclar another dividend of 20 per cent., Dec. 1 to the depositors of the defunct People' National Bank of Fuycttcvillc. W. F. lJeasley, president of the 0> ford and Coast Dine Railroad, expeel the right of way will be secured by Dei 1, and construction will then comnienci At Chapel Hill on Friday Trinity Co lege and the University played foot ba ? score C to -1 in favor of Trinity. Oxford and Henderson have joined tli State Choral Association and w ill pai Impute in the Music Festival in Charlotte i May. The Presbyterian Orphan Asylum r Barium Springs, Mecklenburg count) burned Thursday The lire originate from a defective flue. The children a escaped unhurt, and are bein.g cared fi in Statcsville SOUTH CAROLINA. Lemon squeeze pai tics arc being give in Charleston. J. II. Burckhaltcr will soou place a engineering corps on the route of tl railroad he contemplates building froi Ersley to Pickens C. II Efforts arc being made for the organ zation of a $20,001) Mock company ft the purpose of establishing a ras'tct an furniture factory at Branchvillc. The Berkeley Phosphate Co. propost rebuilding its phosphate works, reportc last wee'; as burned at Ashley JuuclioL Orangeburg is making great prepare tions for her Confederate Fair to begi Dec. 10. A baby show has been adde to the programme. The Childs prohibition bill which willl presented to the next Legislature, prom ises to make one of the severest fight of the session. IJoth the prohibition nn nnti-prohibition factions ore work in quietly and vigorously in the interest t their sides. The crown sheet of an engine on tli raiiroad blew out at ("ana in the nighi scalding and knocking out of the ca Fiieinan TCobert Allen, about 21 vcni of age. He was attended by n ph sicia at Greenwood, but died a horrible dcatl Rev. J. A. B. Schcrer, the new mi sionary of the Southern Lutherans to Ji pan, was ordained Sunday to the hoi ministry in St. John's Lutheran Churel Charleston, the Lutheran congregi tions of the city uniting in the rcrvici roudueted by Rev. W. C. SehaefTer, < Newberry, the president of the Syue of South Carolina. Treasurer Bates has submitted his ai nual report to the Legi?'atiiro He calls e pecial attention "to the fact that theStal owes a large floating debt, estimated i $271,890.07 of past due interest aloue, b until, representing for' tlie most part debts and not credits of the States." No secret has possibly been guarded with more jeu'oudy than the bids of tho various counties for the (Jills' Industrial .College. It is reported the (inures of tho two highest are Greenville, -">00; Anderson, $ 125,000, both being cash olh rs. OTHER STATES. The Florida orange crop is now being shipped to New York and other localities. The yield of the State this year was over It,000,000 l?o.\es, ami an average box holds 1j0 oranges. About half of the crop will be seut by roil to the Western States. Chicago is a great consumer of the Florida orange and also of the California orange. The papers of Now Orleans are prophesying that their port will become the greatest shipping port of the ' country within the next ten years, great or even than New York. They say that the produceis in the Northern States, west of the Ohio liiver, and the Southern States, west of the Alabama l.iver, have found out that they can ship grain, rotton and potk to Europe from New Orleans more cheaply than from any other port. A few days ago a committee of the Kansas Millers' Assoeiati mi visited New Oilcans to make 1 arrangements for exporting Kansas ''our to fore'gn <: untrics by way of that liort at the rate of 10,000,000 bands a year. DIRECT FOREIGN TRADE. The South's General Advancement Broadening Out. 1 The Mnnufactur r's Record, of Ihdtit more, of November 21, in reviewing the r the industrial progress of the South, says: ?? L **Thc broadening out of St)utlii'rn "luT"" vancemcnt is illustrated this week in the official announcement of the inaugura( tion of the four regular European steamship lines from Newport News?the first regular lines from any point south of Dal^ timore?which must mark the beginning of an ever increasing foreign trade.' It is not simply intended that these steamers 1 shall take nut ward cargoes, but that the s import business shall be worked up with a view to bringing in foreign goods for We tii distribution Arrangements have already been made for loading ' about twenty steamers on these four lines lief re the end of the year, and heavy ^ contra ts have been made for the shipmeat of west-ra produc ts?grain, llour, nrnvift hik r?to Tim *?? .*/ ?# f lion of these lines, through the cll'orts of d the Chesapeake A Ohio Haihoad. will !. necessary force other Southern railroad :t systems reaching the Atlantic ami Oulf ports to take steps to secure the establishment of foreign steamship lines. Thus, while the low price of cotton ntfects for the time being the business in,r only a moderately act ive one in tlie nu^ guratiou of i c.v enterprises, but the outlook i- very promising for a steady, solid growth. Amo'g some of the more fin- v I poitant enterprises report d in this week's issue of the Manufacturer's ltecord are the building of a thousand new coke ovens, tin- constructiott of a new railroad ii:I > :iit undeveloped timber section, and ;S lite proposed erection of large lumber mill"- end the sale of a tract of timber r- laud for $:.!?.ClO cash, all in West YirU giuia; a $100,000 chemical ami drug )- manufacturing company at Monroe, l.a ; a furniture factory at Alliens, On.; a c $O21t,0U0 sstle of phosphate land in I Florida, and several new phosphate comJ panic* in the same State: a $100,000 vitrified brick company at C'iovcrport, Ky. ; a woodenwarc factory at Bristol, Temi ; " an $80,000 furniture factory company at _s Ycxnikann, Ark.; a $10.( 00 tobacco fac' my company at Morristown, Tcnn.; a tj.) >,n('0 canal company in Florida; a J" ? 55,000 canning company at Ne.v Berne, .V. C,; a ?750,000, phosphate company at Atlanta, Ga.; a$l,000,000 lumber com- -*iJ? ic pa y in Pitt county, N. Ca $125,000 i- manufacturing company at Baltimore, n M<1.; a $25,000 improvement company in llalc county, Texas; a $50,000 fish-haudLt Hog company at Galveston, Texas; a $:>00,000 oil and gas company, a $250,,1 000 improvtmctit and construction comII panv, a $50,000 coal and c oke compmy, u a'l in West Virginia; a $25,000 water company at I.onucuning, Md.; a $50,000 (ottonsccd-oil ccifcV^iv at New Orleans, W ' i Annual Report of Clomson College. n ie Coi.umbia, S. C , [Special.)?The nnu! nual report of the Clcmson College trustees has been sent to the printer. Governor : Tillman, Secretary of State Tiudal, and . J. K. Wntinmaker attended a recent (j meeting of the trustees. The number of applicants for admission by counties is as follows: is Abbeville 80, Aiken 16, Anderson 57, d Barnwell 40, Beaufort 1, Berkeley 10. i. Charleston 0, Chester 23, Chesterfield 5, L. Clarendon 18, Colleton 9, Darlington 25, n Edgefield 52, Fairfield, 15, Florence 3, j Georgetown 7, Greenville 44, Hampton 22, 1 lorry 2, Kershaw 7, Lancaster 14, Laurens 38, Lexington, 5, Marion 14, 10 Newberry 38, Oconee 32, Orangeburg 73, 1 Pickens 35, Richland 14, Spartanburg 14, ' j Sumter, 826 Union 9, Williamsburg, 13, York 5, unclassified 71. The following resolution wa? passed: 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 shall be in the proportion of five to each member of the House from said tl county; that in event enough applicants shall not report to fill out the county's Jjj quota then the vacancies shall be given * to the counties being in excess, preference 'y being given to those who apply first: b I Provided, however, when applicants from | a county are in excess of its quota the I fitness of the applicant for collegiate Jf work on examination will govern, d The financial exhibit shows a balsncc of $3,7u7 on hand; receipts 121,058, ini i hiding $25 813 froin last, year; disburses monts, $103,127 on College, $11,224 on te I chemical analysis, etc. ?t { It will require about $65,000 to finish e- i the College.