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; THE WEEKLI&BUHIOH TIMES I 1 ?? ! '. ? -? ' i i , . i cooUdum low and ibowl a steady decrease month by month, an- , aovnccs the Army and Navy RtgitUr. ' A court in Vermont has just decided 'that a man who hurts himself while | hunting on a Sunday cannot recover on an accident policy which he held, because he was violating the law of the State in hunting on that day. ?A Kmile Zola, the Frcnc i novelist, who i recently visited Spain, is credited witli I saying that ho never saw such simplicity ^ as that which prevails under the Govern a incut of t^ueen Maria Christina *ud hor |, yoang son, Alfonso Xllt., even the ^jjJUI'rench Republic being far more pom- O J ^cconnng^o"Tbo*^few "Tork Com 'tnitrciol Advertiser "a prominent Canadiar c llnds tl^t the strongest opponents to the m Mnncs.itinn movement are the provincial (n snobs who iiave petty aristocratic titles T aud are trembling in their boots lest they b< might lo?o them should Canada become Vf tli a part of the United States." t; - ? ? tj x It doesn't take foug lr. England to ar naturalize an oyster. Alderman Phillips lo CO ruled that oysters taken from the waters (>f of a foreign State and placed for a time in English waters could uot he sold dur- du ing the close season in England. Ho 1HI held that the saving words, "taken with- *v CO in the waters of some foreign Sinto " r>- -> ri? applied ouly to oysters intondu 1 for iui- wr mediate consumption, and that a "tcr.n Jet of residence'' made the oyster British. He therefore imposed n nominal penalty. lej \ i . _ ho' The Inst India census shows that, in "V1 do he finst teu years, the nnturnl growth ofr wc India's population has been 27,500,000. wc The population nosv number 286,000,000. So( One can hardly appreciate what these ^ figures mean except by comparison. India contains more people than all Eu- 'j rope, exclusive of Russia. Its provinces Ha are as populous as great European states. '1 Heng^. contains a population larger than that (T}tho United States and nil British North America, and fully oue-fifthof the fli eutirc human r.tce lives upon this little and peninsula jutting out from the c< ost of 8*rt Asia into the Iudiau Ocean, ^',8, Tho progress that the muvcratent tor tho lul higher education of women is malting iu wis America in 4hnivn Kv tK? rl tt.i. 1 % there are 200 students in attouda nee at ?aiu Sea tho Harvard Annex this fall. This is a . remarkable showing, for tho institution diet Is only twelvo years old. Tiie young oth women of tho annex receive exactly tho an*' same instruction that is given to tho ^ regular students of Harvard Uuiversity. y q Tho requirements for admission and the erii examinations arc identical. The only difference is that the auuex girls receive ^ Dn graduation a 4<degiec ccrtillcato'' in ct>i place of tho college degree which their r brothers got. e.\j Sinco tho Mikado of Japan per.nittod Jpj" his subjects to cmigaato to other coun- pr< trios, nearly 100,000 of tho.u have loft H*v Iheir native land. There are about 20,D00 of hem iu Hawaii, aud more of then tj In Australia. They are to bo found in bii r*?ioiM countries of the Asiatic eonti- P? aeub, ami so.ne of tho:n are iu Europe. There are about 2000 of them iu California, aud others aro constantly arriv- ^ Ing there to work in tho viuoyards. In Urn citv of Mnw York there mav bo 200 Japanese, and there are a few of thorn in tu many other Auiericau cities. Wherevor Pl w they go they have the reputation of being industrious ami inolleasive. Tho st population of Japau is -40,000,000. di A The Construction Department of the World's Fair has solved the problem of how the niilli kis ot visitors are to be y( fed. Plans decided ou call for twenty- tl seven principal restaurants or cafes, and, $' in connection with them, 115 diningrooms, which arc to be opened in ten of tho principal buildings. Iu the maiiu. l> facturers' building there will he, on accouut of its great siz.', sixteen restau- (; rants, but tho most attractive restaurants t< will be found in tho "bays" of tho gallery.at the north end of tho electricity building, which overlooks tho lagoou. a The bays are 96x1)3 feet, and their floor C space is to be divide I into nino dining- c rooms. In each bay and around the series of dining-rooms is a balcony, a 24x115 feet, and here guests will ho < served in fair weather. In tho mint ( building thero will bo one rcstuurant?. { in the gallery; and four in the machinery i building. In the restaurant of the fisheries building only oysters and fish will | be served. Appropriately enough, too, , ? "dairy kitchen" will be found iu the s dairy building, and a railroad "lunch" ^ counter in the transportation building. , The agricultural building will not be 1 dignified with a restaurant; it is to havo | an immense "lunch counter." The calculation is ma le that 3000 peoplo will i be nble to sit at table at the same time, and for their accommodation 100( waiters', cook?, and scullions will be employed. The dining-rootns will cover five acres of space. i Tfce Latest News From a Trio of ? States. Jj ii Interesting* News Items From Many jj Points in Our Own and n Neighboring States. ei ti VIRGINIA. Jj E. E. Meredith is elected Congressman tl a the Eighth District to succeed Geu. ^ee, deceased, with about the samo ma- j;( ority as his predecessor. . A colored womau one hundred years j od one day old was buried in Claremout f? 1st week. G| Hobert E. Cockc and Miss Mary Scarce, an [ Danvitlo. eloped across the Carolina or no Thursday and were married at of 'elham The Grand Lodge of Masons, which en onvencd Tuesday in Richmond, is he lectiug in the 1 tilth annual convocation. res The Stato of Virginia owus about a *J? lillion and a half acres of oyster lauds. 1111 he question of managing these oyster 8^> }ds so that they shall yield a proper '"'f vcuue to the State is to be taken up by J10 ic Virginia Legislature now in session. |r" Gen. Scott Shipp, superintendent of |)<u ic. Viiginia Military Institute, is making ^.| rangements to build a memorial ball (,(>n Stonewall Jackson. f8tie estimated . st of the buildimr is #40.000. tin ooo wliich, it is saul, has been secured. The revival of some of John Randolph's En idling exploits recalls to ninny Virgin- t as the beauty of his famous plantation, ,.on latiokc, which was situated near the me{ uflucnec of the Roanoke and Staunton jjOI rer8. It contniued 7,005 acres and unj is divided into quarters, each designa- nicg 1 by a name of its own and managed .)ar| its own overseer. On a commanding {^j,, inence overlooking these smiling val- q s and well-timed hills the mansion den use reared its ample proportions. In Bjre nc, 1846, by the provision" of Ran- rjBO Iph's remarkable will, all the slaves con, re freed. Even in those days there woll re will contests, but the slaves at last rogj| t their liberty and made their way to ce8S rcer county, Ohio, where homes hud q< n purchased for them. risoi NORTH CAROLINA. deV( The new union passenger depot at ing leigh is being finished. The The cotton receipts at Raleigh (local) hi'1" 9 season to date are 15,5118 bales hard linst 26,615 last season. uiati It Shore's Ferry on the Yadkin rive . i ' ursday the wire broke, letting the boat '.u (' I its cargo lloat down the river. The Lic.i am was swollen and the ferrymun in 1 N cudeavor to save the men ami team {""Vi* ieh were crossing over, sustained pain- " 1 and perhaps fatal injuries. Roth is were broken, besides being otheru bruised. "ilv at "Lndford oil the ttmuumtr ?.?.n fun(, board railroad. Pcd Turner, an es hU)i( ned citizen, ft boh ftud daughter a wa3 I one morning of pneumonia ami an com, cr child the following day. lhe wile a, tli I mother died a few davs auo. " I II V it Elizabothtowu James Johnston, cx,'.,. orcd, was hanged in the presence of ei0Vi 00 people. Johnston committed a wiual assault on Florence Sutton, a ,visli ored girl ten years old, and then mur to tl ed her. He confessed the crime tive en arrested, hut protested his iuno- m c ice on the gallows. ,,f t1'he wood pulp mills at the falls of the havi use have begun work. There has been trea (ended on these mills, aud on the new the tut for the paper mills there, $22,000. con c company owning the property pro- ccr. jposc to open very vuluable aud cxtcu- the e granite quarries at that place, and to be 1 aire a branch railway from the Halcigh on Gaston, some three miles >11 length, cap io water power is very great: The tur- rats se at the wood pulp mills is 350-horse |da wcr. " i SOUTH CAROLINA. A survey is being inude by Major Lee, lin< the Eastern llarnwell and Western eh< nil road towards Walterboro. It is said wli at this road will be built. vis A bill was introduced iu the Legisia- pci ire Thursday, to require railroad com- c?n inies to furnish separate coaches for hitc aud colored passengers. The America, U. S. lighthouse supply earner, touched at Charleston a few ( iivs ago, on her annual tour of South o'c tluntic lighthouses to which it carries hcl io yearly supplies. The steamer has a oul ipucitv for 100,000 gallons of oil. ]>,, The total taxes for York county this I'[ ar will amount to considerably more ?f lan $100,000, and not more than 25,000 has been collected up l',( > this time. Sa The steamship Yemassee, which nrriv1 ul Cuariestou from N. Y. last week, 110 ruuylil tliu lii'st iusUluiunt of iron for ie new West End Electric ltailwav EC! Company. Cr ssties have been hauled 40 a the corner of Spring and Ashley T' trecta, and the work on the new liuc I<fl as begun. ne The recent two days' communication, JL1'1 t Charleston, of the Most Worshipful Iraiul Lodge of Ancient Fiee Masons >f South Carolii a showed by 1 he very 1 argc attendance that the Masonic spirit tas a deep root in the entire State. The mount of business transacted iu the two lays' session was surprising, but the cfti C9 ient officers had so syst matirally map- e( >ed out the liuc of work that there was no ,M icccssary delay. The next annual com- ,u :??.:ii fl litiuii.iii iuii ? 111 uu mill an v/imi h.-muii, As the result of tlie confession of a ne;ro named Henry Suber, to thcellect ?( hat he murdered Thornton Nance some " 1 uonths a go, ten persons who ])ad been icntcnceato hang October 24th last, at 3recnvillc, but whoso execution was ^ stayed by an appeal to the Supreme Court b will now l>e rclcnni u. Sober confessed lhat he alone committed the deed and - that he makes a clean breast of it lie does not want to see ten innocent men suffer for his crime. OTHER STATES. ? Florida is probably the best timbered 1 State in the Union. Out of about :i8,- I 000.000 acres, only some 8,000.000 are r included in farms, the rest, nineteen- I twentieths, exclusive of the area covered i icavy forests. Judge Ridley, of the Criminal Court f Nashville, Teno., a few days ago dis barged the grand jury because they ha< Unregarded his instructions in regard t ndictinents. The Judge had instructed hem to include iu ouc indictment al artics charged with gambling, but the; uturned separate indictnicuta agains sell, saying that the Attorney Genera ad instructed them to do so. Th< ourt refused to receive the indictments, isrharged the jury and refused to lieai lie Attorney Geueral'8 cxplmation. The irreat liridm> i? ?'? n ... v.i -v, in uuii?rucon over the Mississippi river at MemIris, Teun., is to completed by May of next year. Already a programme r a demonstration upon the formal toning of the bridge is being discussed, id the occasion will doubtless be made le of the most interesting In the history the city. ^ ' Aku iiiwivottu^ ?twit* ??m Mory nas uor* aor Jones, of Ahicnmn, for its ro. At the time Gordon wan listing Sherman's advance, nes, then a stntT captain, was deliver * a message from his chief, when he v a little chihl, clad only in uight ithes, hiding in terror behind a frame use in the direct tracks of the bullets *iit each army. Jones rode forward, >k the child on his hor.-c and galloped ?k with her to the Confederate line. lieu the Union forces saw the act they tseil tiring, and there was an imprompcessation of hostilities until the child 1 been carried to a point of safety. glish Views of Harrison's Mors ago. I cablegram from London says: In lmcnting upon President Harrison's isage, the Post notices with satisfaci the absence of signs of bluster towforeign nations, and say a that if the isage meets the idea of the President's ty, Dlaine's chances have seriously dilished. he Daily News aay?. "The Profit's measago leavea nothing to bo do a either in tone or temper. Mr. Har11 is less exasperating than ftlftne and sequently more stntesincnlikc. He lid not speak so tenderly of reeip ty if his protection policy was a suche Standard says: "President Harm's message is not notable for its large it ion to foreign affairs. This showis due to Bluim-'s fidgety activity. I i csidcfit glides with his customary d optimism over several matters, lly doing credit to American dinlo ists." 1 It must l?e admitted that the figures notes, although they do not justify sanguine hopes of the authors of the .inley t;n iIT law, are sufficient to u some surprise to adverse critics at home ami abroad " Georgia's Plan. WforiTat, ^ - -C^)II of $100,000 to have a Georgia cx; at the World's Fair at Chicago. It decided to appoint an executive mittcc of one from each Congressionistrict, and one person from every of :$,000 persons in the State. The utive committee is also to consist of in honorary vice presidents, who I be the Congressmen in the several licts. The Governor of the State is lie honorary president. The txccu committee tliall appoint one director ach county, who shall form a board (unity directors. Kacli board shall e a treasurer and a secretary, the surer to report all funds collected to general treasurer of the executive unit tee, who shall he a bonded otfixi >< <>t> will In' tin' hi-niliinailers of committee. The first meeting will Held December 15. The executive imittee will decide how tuucli per ita assessment lo make in order to e the fund, ami can devise any other n to raise it. The editors also hearti;adoiSvd a movement .wuicli bus been I on foot?to advertise the Statu of ngia through the medium of a traveljj exposition car, to be stocked with ?ice selections of Georgia's products, icli shall travel through the States, it fairs and expositions and serve as a manent advertisement for and avant trier of Georgia's exhibit at the World's ir. A New Attorney General. JolL'.miwa, S. C , |Special.]?At one lock Wednesday a joint assembly was d to elect an Attorney Geueral to fill t the unexpired term of Hon. Y. J. pe. Senator Ivcitt nominated Mr. J. McLnurin, of Marlboro; Mr. Hughes, Clmileston, nominated Ernest Gary; . Kirkpatrick, of Kershaw, nominated ; Hon. I). A. Townsend.of Union ; Mr. rratt, of Bpartancurg, nominated the m. Stanvarc Wilson. Each of the initiations was seconded by several inibcrs. The first vote taken resulted: Town id 40, McLaurin 40, Wilson 4, Gary ; total 130; necessary to a choice 66, le second ballot: Townsend 34, Mclurin 52, Wilson 1, Gary 45; total 132; ccssary to a choice 07. The third and al vote stood: Townsend 8, McLaurin , Wilson 1, Gary 43; total 129, r.ccesiy for a choice 65. McLaurin was ercfore declared elected Youngest Member of Congress. John W. Huih-y, of Texas, the young t member of Congress, is thus dcscrib1 by the Washington Post: "A young an of u strikingly uob'e face and coinanding presence s ood chatting w ith lends in the lobby of the Metropolitan, id was the observed of all observers, is features were n fined and almost as gular as could be chiselled by an artist; pes deep blue and a wonderfully band >nic suit of jet black liair, worn verj >ng. That, together with his soft fell at of expansive brim, was enough tc ill that he hailed from Dixie, and pic jie?<|iiciy attractive he was " Mr. Bai ty is 2H years old, well-to-do, and a na ivc of Mississippi. The percentage ot fiirbviduals abov< iix years of ago in the Sandwich Island ind able to read and write Hawaiian English or some European language is a 'ollows in order of merit, viz: Ameri :ans, 93.04; British, 90.60; German? S9.88; lialf castes, 83.05; natives, 79.80 Hawaiian bom foreigners, 52.12, b ALLIANCE COLUMN Colom) Polk Uterviewod About th 0 Indianapolis looting. 1 j f Something lake the 8ub-Treaeur t Bil i Seemn to Work in Russia. 1 ? , Washington, D. C.?The Post hit r (lie fol awing interview with Col. Polk on liiit turn to the city from Ituliatiapo lift: Col. jT. L. Polk was being enngratutn ted at ihh National on his re-election tc the Piisideucy of the National Farmers Albania- at the late Indianapolis conven lion j The partisan press, as usual, misrcircsented our meeting," he said. "Whs the Iudisnspol'iM woctiug bar h a an it will be productile of viwthenetit. There was no effort to carry the Order into auy political party. Tbe'Ocala demands were indorsed unanimously by all of thn thirtv (our Slates represented, ami also by the dolcgat a from Iho F. M. IV A , which practically merges it and the Alliance into one harmonious organi/.ation." "Ih there to lie no politicul action, then next year." "Well, the meeting of February 82d will decide about that, it will be a grand convention, composed of twentylive delegates at large for eac h order or organization represented, and one additional dcVgate for every lO.Ot.O members of oieh order. Ttio delegates at large will be selected by the organizations, but the ottiers by a direct popular vote. The convention will probably be held at tvt. Louis or Cincinnati. "I don't euro to anticipate its action, but mum thing of importance wilt come out of it. The dit ?mil to bo ou tlio retge of ooJhwcin'jtr. Read the cdito r ids in i he Democratic newspapers fa- I , voriug tbo retunrof John Sherman to the Senate. Doesn't that look like coalition 1 I suggest that the Dcmocrnts should nomiiinte next year Cleveland and Harrison, and the llcpub'icuns Harrison and Icvelnnd. In that way Wall street | w nId be certain of compassing its ends, for both parties are under its domination." ****** SEEMS TO \gORK IN RUSSIA. The ('h.vlcston flews and Courier bnR | following despatch from Washington, I). C.: Consul Ueucral Crawford, of St. Petersburg, has sent to the department of S'ato a report on the system now in use in Russia (resembling certain plan* incorporated in the platform of tho Farmers' Alliance iu this country) of making advances on farmers' grain stored in ware houses or delivered to ofltcals of the railways of tho colllltrvOfl'A 8y* Jrfc n'iuistry of linanCT^ ho per coot, of the value 01 ihl grain at the nearest market jilace, except in cases of loans of six weeks or less, when an 80 |ki cent, advance may be obtained. The usual interest is 0 per cent., payable in advance with further small charges on account of a sinking fund aud commissions to railroads. The loans range from six months to one year, mid if they are not repaid at thcii^rpiration the grain is sold at auetion by ue railroad company, (irain may also be ?ld if in danger of deterioration, or if yt is feared that the value will not covtir the loan and cxpen ses of storage. The railroad compnni s bear the entire rt sponsibility for the loan by the bank, and arc '?quired to meet their liabilities within seven day# of settlement of a loan or auction sale of grain. In calculating the percentage of advance the cost of transportation to the point of destination is charged as part of the loan. No distinction is made between farmer# and middlemen in ntaltin? r.dvr.r.ces, the loau being mudu-y^y ?7 /*" W*****- ??Iu conclusion tlitTconhil general says: "This scheme went into effect June 14-20, 188H, and at the present day I it is generally atiopieu uiiiMigumii hid country, and business is carried on under it on n very large scale. I should also add that the scheme gives great satisfaction to the fanners, very many of whom declare it has been an essential feature of successful farming iu Russia." ****** The Alliuncc in Louisiana is doing as well as it can uuder the circumstances Its growth has been obstructed somewhat by unavoidable circuinstauc s, yet the brethren arc in earnest, and aie deter mined to place the Order on vantage gruitud in the near future. It is a ditti < ult Rtate to organize, and those who have stood in the front have had a hard struggle. VT ithin the past year a Rtst? 01 gan, The Vidette, has been started, and a most excellent paper it is, which will dou ties# aid materially in the prosccutior of the woik of ref tin. The Alliance ii this State are lighting the lottery swindle and as a result are meeting with all tin opposition that a moneyed corporatioi can bring to bear. It is expected tiia the Older will succeed, which will plac it on a high road to permanent pros perity. ****** That was a very good answer given gentleman by cx-PresidcntEliasCarr.of fi ('.when the man remarked t. at such let isla'ion as the Al iancc proposed, woul make him get only 80 cents for u dollai Hro. C'nr raid that wouldn't be ai bad i the farmer getting only lifly cents on tli dollar for pioducts of the farm. ****** At a mass-meeting of 20,000 workin/ [ men held at Dammen, Norway, resoli r tions were passed, demanding that tl ^ government should buy the land of tl y country, distributtyFamong the lahore and ndva.::v' them the money r.Cv.c? ? to work it. ****** There are 12,000,000 workmen in tl i ountrv ad ting to its wealth at the ra 9 of $7 pur <lny, but they gut less than 1 veil. Who gets the other $6? ?Kuigl ^ of I iibor .louinal. '? I'oui hours' (lailvjfrirk in pufliciunt '? support :iny purMj^^P-social coixlit ( nru just. { The Outlook StMdilf Grows D 0 BrighUr. The Manufacturers' Record, of Haitinrore, of December 18, in revicwiug the industrial progress of the South, raja: ? f "Tin* past week has shown a very decided increase in the monitor of industrial enterprises organized and projected throughout the South, mid a careful s study of the whole situation and of the , plans that are Iteing matured for many others seems to indicate a tendency to a more general activity than has t>ccn seen for many months. It is true that > there is a considerable complaint of dull' ness and slow collections iu some places, hut the outlook apparently shows that the South, in sympathy with the whole countrv to nr?<lii?ii? ?' * j, .. uncling upon a period of renewed activity, tho full force til after the first of the year, ami possibly /j not until spring. Among the enterprises Hr/ reported for the week, but by no means ijJj all of them, are a $100,1)00 plow miaouinclining company at Temple, Texas; increase of capital stock of tinplato ami "Jti steel company at Savcrnake, Vs., front Jl $1.000,0(H) to $2,000,000; a $200,000 dovelopiuent company at Chester, S. (\ ; tobacco factory at Winston, N. C.; $20,000 ice company at llarritnan, Tenn.; $10,000 planing mill company at Pensacola, Flu.; $20,000 brick company at Cloverport, K v. ; sash and door factories ^ at Kooky Mount, N. and Augusta, 'nK tla.; largo lumber mill to be be built at (looigetown, 8. C-, by Western people; 1 $120,000 ipiarrying company in Virginia; "Pr $ 100,000 furniture company ut Parkersburg, W. Vn.; $25,000 coal ami coke ? company ut Farnuin, W. Va.; electric vani light company at Purngould, Ark.; $50,- ^r8t tete^^P-f'-SaSrifile x 4 $iu>i>,000 to be spent by Jacktonville, l"*J' Fla., in securing deep water; a canal ?t Port Tampa 2,000 feet long and 25 feet "nai deep to improve harbor facilities; a shoe factory 111 Atlanta; $500,000 at Atlanta ( for improvement of water works ;u$400, 0i)0 auloiii'tic sprinkler company at Columbus, (la. ; 100 coke ovens at Central jn City, Ky.. extensive lumber mill, shingle mill, etc., in Louisiana; a $500,000 and a jmj| $25,000 manufacturing company in Hal- ,.am ti 111 ore; the purchase for $X2,N00 of a site |,y ( in Kaltiiimrc for cable railway power j/rn( house; a $25,000 agricultural implement ^ company at lluckeystowii, Mil.; electric (]?, | light woiks and enlargement of water ,.el? works at Cantousville, Md. ; a $500,000 (|.s. iilphuric acid company ?i Itlackshurg, ( ?? X. C ; a $75,000 coal mining company at for? C al Creek, Tenn ; $17,000 lumber com Mew puny in West Virginia; a $200,000 coal '|v and coke company in West Virginia; a UIH.f t?uu,(iu() ? <>)!I and coke ?otupany at Fair '"""I, W. V?., and a $100,000 coal and !!'/'' coke company at Kenovu, W. V>tj Thi? " ' dccl improvement, which will dnubtleAs ^TiTT | increase from week to week. There is ?P?-t every reason to expect that 181)2 will ho a ' year long to he remembered for the no- tl tivity in industrial and trade interests, theii tnd if this prove true, the South will in- h? o cvilubly share in this reuewed pros T purity." the THE COTTON CRl>r. ?i??i rca< ('a I i Complaints of Low Prices Come Up ,||(. From the Plantations. roHii WA8HINOTON, I). (' --Cotton receipts nm' of December to the Department of Agticulture relate to the average prices on H'"' plnntat iomis. Complaint til uiiremnner- "l'') ative values is general and tleclarations ,rsl are frequent that the crop does not re- l'?" turn cost of production. A feeling of ' discouragement pervades the report, and a disposition to reduce is expressed. u'ei Plantation price, which is the actual rate for cotton sold at gin, averages 7.2 cents ' per pound. For the live years proceed- Niu ltig the til' ge was from H. 1 to H.tl, and 1 ih? aversgw neatly ti.-t cents. HC" This decline is echoed in records of *^or exportation, which averaged in October for a value of 8 9 cents against 10.11 cents ? for Octo" er of last year, u drop of 12 per ",w| cent. ty 1 State averages arc as follows: Vir- 80,1 ginia, 7 cents; North Carolina, 7.1; ^lo South Carolina, 7.4 An almost uncx: am empting season for harvesting is report ed, with pu king and ginning and mark- hit eting far advanced While fibre is at !'v many points short, it is clean and of cct good color. North Carolina's Seats, Wcdncs lay evening was devoted to : seating of tin- Coiign ssineti mid the North Carolina Congressmen did fairly well, i consideiing the chance game. A Washi ingl n correspondent i.tnt's: ; ' Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina 0f 1 delcgnt on, was very lucky. Heretofore tj| I he has to get well towards tho hack i rows, but he steurcd a seat in tha front i row almost immediately in front of the j Speaker Col*. C'owles, of tha same Stale J fated mm h worse lie was among the 1 ^ i last reached ami selected a place away )n j round i:i the extreme light hand east |( (, corner of the Democrat side, lie has I(1 been in that part of the ! .>!! hefoic. |(1 Messrs. Hunn and Hranoli, of North CaroUna, were fairly lucky. They will tit h beside e tch other u little in fiont of j ft Messrs. Wise and I,ester,of Virginia, and ^ ' Mr. Crawford, of North Carolina, is in (|] C the same locality just in the rear of the " seat reserved for Mr Ihiehanan of Vir- (j r- giuia. Virginia ami North Carolina 13 members are pretty well bunched on that j( e j side of the hall, and whom a majority of (t the Democrats arc located In their vi (j cinity, also, is Mr Wilson, of West )( Virginia, who was among the last called, (j u but he, however, is clear over against JC the wall, on the outer aisle The others ie are fuither out ami have better locations. rs m Iy Silled Hi? ?i oilier. Uockinoham, N. |Special J?Snow <j Singletary was shot by his brother J>ee, ? near Old llundrid, in this couuty on , V1 Sunday night. Snow did not live but a , few momenta, as the ball from bis broth- ? ' er's 32 cal. pistol pierced his heart. The , 1 s murder it seems, uas unprovoked and no , cause is assigned for the cold blooded | act. The murderer is about 22 years of ; | to H,u' 's st'" at huge They are sons | ! ins of Joe Singletary, a hard working and : respectable colored man. MB" emoc ratio Caucus Nominates Georgian. f Two Houses of the f?3d Coup Assemble. roNonicstiMAN cnisv, i r momma. Vabhikotow, D. 0.?Monday inoi the Democratic caucus was "icsum balloted several hour*, the thud It standing, Crisp, f 1U; Miiln, It inger, 4 Springer and McMillan h lidraxvn, which broke the dead lor x-Congrecsuinn Keir, of IVnns in, was uoininnted for clerk on t ballot. oiWWPfSf^FKenii'l^at-arinH by a lar, irlty over Kx-Congressman Mtirpli >wh, and the nomination wan inai rdinous. Kx Congressman Turner, f Yolk, easily beat (Ion. Colt, necticut, nnd Kx-Doorkeeper Uiel irgitiia, for door keeper. i the CHpliol all was bustle and co >11. Ah the Republicans entered t of the House where the Democrat uh had been held, thev were meet heir Democratic colleagues, and co illations ami condolences exchange a the clock of the city was ch um hour of noon, Clerk McPhcrson i led to tlio "clerk's de?k and tall House to order. Not since the 41 l/TOSH has ItllV hold nvnr . iing n similar dnfy, fared H.> u/ai work, ih in I lie legislative lid.J. Iio clerk liuviiifr mi ih hi ii. fd I lio pre of :i'2(t members of the House, k iiitely, on motion of Hohnun, of 1 ih, adjourned to meet ut noon ui^ Bciuif? eTi iiTilicr aim the sesshflrw icl with prayer by Chaplain Hcv. hitler. Tliu Vice President wolcoi lie Senators lo the resumption r ofli. ial duties mid < ill led tin: Sena rdcr. lie Vice President then laid befu Seimto credentials of new Senal. letters of residual ion received by hi i n^r tin; recess. These pa tiers \vi I lirst, bcinit credentials of K.I ton, ifornia, to fill the va< ancy caused death of Hearst, and next ivaa t ^nation of Kdiniiiida. of Verm.ii appointment of Proctor in lii.slra ,t ere.lentials read were lh"So of ('i Davidson, each claiming to lie t ator from Florida Also the letter ^nation of Senator of Texas, and n iitmciit by tin: (Jovernor of that Sti ilr. Chilton in hiH stead, 'lie credentials of Call and Davids o both placed on file for future i i. 'lie name of Hill, Senator elect fr. ,v Voi k net ;:ri:ated v>n iSio i Senators, nor were his credentials p led. Only four members were a hue ie?, of Novada; .louefl, of Ark ; 81 .1 and Vance. Ilicimau and Harris were appoim inbers of the joint committee to m the President that Congress had ibled and awaited commitment! in him lt?n.ilutions were offered a I agreed to, fixing noon as tWe da ir of meeting ami directing tin: Hit v to inf<>rm the House of Kepiesun es that the Senate was ready to | d to husiuesa, and then, at I UO na'e adjourned. RAID ON MOONSHINERS. tvonuo Officers Capture Qunnlit of Moonshine Liquor Tum.ahw.ma, 'iV.NM., j Special.')?< the most successful if.itls on illicit < Icrics in suntlicrn Tennessee and noi n Alabama Iiiih just l\un matin On Dec Mth (Jcncral Deputy Collet L. Kpurrici, accompanied liy Dep sr.dial Ktiong, Orange, Storekcr i iibcrtson, left Tullahonia for a raid oniishincis on the Tennessee and i una line. They returned tonight ported I he capture of two huge dii lies together with several thous illons e?f lit er and o.her materials, ills were loeatetl tin the headwntei ittle Coou Creek, about ten miles f Icpbciisuii, Ala., and 011 rugged 1111 lias of nortlierii Alabama. They liatl been in oner lion for a I me and carrying on their bu iness. wners of the still were inclined to I lit were driven ofT, and the officers 1 ged to evatle a conflict by deuiolis In1 still (piickly and gutting out of reality, as the nioonsliiners weic luiitly hunting help No arrests i:\dc A Whole Town Burned. Hii.vkh City, N M , (Special.] i:210 this morning (ire was discovere i v leant frame hotel building in the >f I'inos Alto? Not a drop of t ,vhh accessible and the whole town 10011 in flumes. Men, women and iron turne I out to light the tire, bu try buildings burned like tinder, Iroying nearly the entire town, two business house* were saved, loss will reach $100,000. Insurance The fiie is thought to have been inc ary. -V j|ie FtMt of Xloquonco ud a Flow of Wit. Columbia, 8. C., [8pcrinl.]~ A( Ibo rooming M-vtiou of the 8tsto Hnr Asnoc!s* res* ti?u *?? nddrrvvs wear rend, "I'li'iwwA ' > u .w? .... .in- imi, written UJ T. M. Kay* sor ami read by John P. Thomas, Sr.. aud "The Ktbfcs of the Ptofcssiun," by V^3R[ I'ommiitiii wore appointed, one to ^ consider ntul report ou the formation of tlio County liar Arao< iation, and tho , other to consider tho changes in timo and place of holding the annual meeting. In tlu-evening the annual address, prepaled by Hen. Kdward McCnnly, was H lead bv lion. Charles Hichardanu Miles, '~J!W oialor pietiens Incut lis est rhiqiicutcr pro omtore absent!. m??? Ui c" and ('entral 3 Hotel. It was an exceedingly enjoyable alTair, every oue of the speeches being a not only eloquent but brilliant, as ail > fj lawyers' speeches are, which way of slat* H ing the faet is patented by this Bnieuq.j In 1). S Henderson eloquently intiodinv Ijv* ed the liou. J. 8. Cocliran, who spoke e\ (/ eloquently on tho Btato of Bouth C'aro- ', Col. Q, W. Croft eloquently intmduc* Jfl ed Col. Joseph Hanahl, of Heorgiu, who C'-h spoke eloquently on the subject of Oeorgin and a good deal about South Caro- r i,.t| Mr. Culp, of Union, eloquently intro-* " 'Jj H|. dneed the eloquent Judge Hudson, who 14 spoke eloquently of tho other momhers of , iui tlie judiciary. 4 k Tiie Hon. J. S. Vcrncr eloquoutly In ? v|. tinduced the lion Bsiuuel Dibble, who 9 eloquently responded to tho toast ??TKn . -? _ 11 liiivvl, w^-^mTroTTWSccT lVy. ' ^,0 tho eloquout W. C. lionet, tho icsponso ' v licing l?y (ho eloquout M. F. Ansol, of (J Greenville, ?f The eloquent young member of tho I (lf liar whs introduced l?y tho eloquent oft1 ' ,l_ member of llio B?r, the Hon. C. Richunison Miles, tho response being by (ho young mill eloquent F. II. Weston, of < 'olumltiii. 11 Tho young ami interesting Hernial Ash? Hoiuhly w?s eloquently introduced by tho io oloi|iiuut solicitor, .1. M. .lohnson, the rc- ' ';$H ml spmiso being by tho eloquent Hprnker u Jones. 1. The eloquent Ibtr of Houth Carolina "J was introduced by the eloquent D. It. 71 is Duncun, the response being by tho clo' c quont ('. A. Douglass, of Columbia. L The silent, absent and beautiful wo r men were introduced by the gallant and >y eloquent Ernest Clary, of Edgefield, the 11-qioiise for the silent, absent and beauit l iful living by tho eloquent C. G. films, in- (if Barnwell. U- After the tegular toasts tho eloquent - * 'w ^ (htifilfcm. 1 ' " 1 1 !g jMH J The Bar Association then adjourned J" about liiilf oast I o'clock. 'J nf The special Incidents of the fenst were 1 that when Judge Wallace's name was ^ iiientioncd by Mr. Gulp, of Union, tho .. 1 House rang with upplauso, ~ lu wliieli was repeated when Judge f HH Hudson arose to speak. Taking it all iu " all, everybody is agreed that it was tho r most admirably conducted nud ' tin.roughly enjoyablo >pd enjoy- ;j| 'l' nl banquet of l liu Itar in many years. UUliltENOY~OF THE LOST CAUSE. ill , lie A. Million Dollars Bent Away--Keep "f It Here. in ltu The demand for Confederate bills of all denomination}! continues active. The ()|) culls coiiui mostly from Western business lu. men. wlio use the notes principally for advertising pur-poses, it is said, stamping Jm their cards on the back and circulating j thCul ailiuug iiii'il CUHIOUICI'S. A COIlsid- ? MJ IC erable number are also sold as curiosities and purchased by private collectors as iQ' well as public musuems. Billa from five dollars up to one hundred are tolerablo (t.(j abundant, but live hundred and one thons ? and dollar notes arc scarce and command, as curiosities, good prices. Orders for jon ten, twenty, iifty and one hundred tliousmj and do'lars in Confederate notes have been coining in very frequently of late |(>. and nearly one million dollats huve been l;l collected and sent on during the past (ro. months. llw MILLS FOR THE SENATE. .JSI His Texas Friends Determined to Send Him to the U. 8. Senate. A special dispatch from Galveston,Tex. says that the defeat of Roger Q. Mills for Speaker gives good support, it is said, to >uo the efforts of his admirers, to elect him lis. to the U. S. Senate. Gov. Ho^g has ith stated tli.it an extra session of the Legislature will be called in March or April, tor The election of a successor to John M. uty Reagan will be one of the duties of th.?t? uid body. Senator Chilton holds his apnoint011 ment from the Governor, and although Via a candidate for election by the Legisla and ture, the friends of Mdls are said to bo iI - confident of electing the tariiY reform ?1 !l?? ? iiiirupivii. friie ???i i a of Th? Mineral Deposits of N. 0. roiu mn. IIalhiuii, N C., [Special )?Professor Holmes, State geologist, arrived here, |ol)l, having completed surveys in Ashe and 'I l.o Alleghany counties. He found hitherto |ir t unknown beds of copper and magnetic M. iron of a high quality, and of a large ex- ' Ja liing tent. The iron is prononnccd equsl in $i ,|1(J quality to thai of the fnmons Cranberry evj. mines Owing to the cold weather I hie "is were State geologist will now conduct opera- ' jU tions near Weldon, on the Koanoke r'^? jC His work is full of results. Bulletins will be rAtued for vsrious groups of conn ties surwyed> so that that rfc? ?A!ic . ?|2 ! will be kept constantly informed. |?At 1 wsi - -- d in town A Jealous Wife Murderer. -3 water Savannah. (Ja , (Speciil.) - Jones was | Preemau shot and killed his wife in chil Takenall, 40 miles west of Savaunah. vJS it the Freeman stood behind a tree on the road* '-w des- gj^c wjth a Winchester rifle and shot his j ; Only wjfe as sin passed at night. Jealousy The WH9 the cause of the inuraer. Her body I'flht. lay on t lie road until next morning. endi Freeman was arrested isd is Jail m jga Reedsvills.