The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, January 22, 1892, Image 1
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VOL. XXIII.--NEW SERIES. UNI^N cf^^^S^^ROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22. 1892.
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' Borne years ago a rich Glasgow (Scotiai)
merchant niu .-d Bichania left the
noney to build and maintain a suburban
aome for sixteen unfortunate business
sen or othor deserving citizens o( Glasgow,tho
oaly stipulatioa being that they
ihould bear the na no of Buchanan. The
place, which is under the trusteeship of
die Provosts an J magistrates of Glasgow,
b now ready for occupancy. Tucre is a
park ol three acres, u haudsome building,
accommodations for sixteea men iu
perfect stylo, and aa am i si r.evjaus of
ftJOOJ. Tire oaly thing lac ring is impoverished
Baca ana as. Tuore uro lots
>f that us ne in the to.vn, but none who
teal? help, and th-j Trastesi aro going
o upp'y ti thecuurii for p3?\nisiion t>
bstall bsirors with lou fortunate
yatroay.nic* instead.
' Siuec 17'JO tho iucrcusc in the population
of American citios 19 one of thn
most significant sign* of our growth,
observes the New York News. Iu that
year, taking 80')0 as a basis, tiioro were
six. In 1330 there were 23G, in 1S00
here were -4I'd ?au increase during the
decade of nearly forty-four par cent.
Grouped, the majority of people find
their homes on the Atlantic slopn. Yet
xvbile this shows a tendency to mass
population aud with it active enterprises,
Jit lias not, as in the case of England,
;becn at the expense so far, of the country
population. "Should the migration
to the cities continue," aids the News,
'it would be a subject of concern, but
the average of growth is fairly distributed,
and the tenement houses and slums
of the great commercial centres are not
absorbing all the life-making influences
of the nfcw people who arc tiuding homos
in our country." j
, Remarks the Boston Twiicript: "Too
story of the tragedy justcaacte.I in IIuu- 1
gary is one which, h i 1 it been wrought
out upon the theatrical stage, would j
have been declare 1 impossible. A son '
returns after long absence in Americi
with $3000in gold. He seeks his old ^
home, and as a stranger asks for fool (
and lodging. The mother is absent, ?
but the father lvcogaue l his soa. Thay 1
I
* embrace, and the son tells of his good t
fortune. The mother returns after the i
son has gone to bed. Her husbaa I 1
speaks of the stranger, hat docs not say j1
be is their sou. He will keep that sur- )
prise until the moraiug, when tin son ^
shall reveal himsolt tj his happy '
mother. The mother rise* in the ,
night. She overhauls the stranger's
baggage. She see the gold. Her cupidity
is arouse .1. S>? gnu pi u knife, J
cuts the stranger's tiiro.it au 1 eei/.Ji and
bides the gold. When the father awakes
bo discovers liis sou dea I an I in a pool j
of blood. 1IU cry of horror arouses the
mother who h id expected her huso m I <
would bo a re rly a ^eo nplic.* for the sake <
of the plguv^. The f.it'aer gasps the
name of the victim. Tin murderess
utters a cry, reels aa I falls ileal. Coal I
anything be more dramatic? Could anything
be more terrible?"
Says the San Francisco Chronicle:
"During the. last six month* there have
bceu many attempts made to introduce
the meal of ni ii/", or Indian com, into
Europe as a food, most of which, it is
understood, luvo been unsuccessful.
The Europeans insist on considering
cornuieal as fo icier for animals instead
of as food for human beings, an l this
prejudice must be removed before Amer
ican comment cm liml a market there.
A gentleman who has lived iu several
countries on the Continent of Europe,
suggests as one reason for the prejudice
that the Europeans know nothing of
the distinction which exists between different
kinds of corn. They are familiar
with the coarse, rank kind which is fit
only for fodder for horses and cows, aud
know nothing of American sweet corn,
or of the fine meal which is ground from
flic best varieties of corn produced iu
this country. It is very likely that this
in oue of the causes which lead to tho
dislike for American cornineal. Ignorance
is very hard to overcome, cspecia l|y
when backed by predjudicc. However,
if the continental nations will como to
Chicago in 1803 they will have an opportunity
to complete their education iu j
tins respect. n is propose-1 u> uruui. u
corn palace, ami inside it to have coru
and cornmcal cooked in every way known
Vmerican gastronomical science. If
European visitor can resist cornmeal
mush and cornmcal cakes and hominy
aud hulloa corn nul roasting cars we
may as well give up the experiment of
introducing corn into Europe, aud keep
it for home consumption. As a mattet
of fact the com pro I nets, or many of
them, which are refused as food it
Europe, are luxuries in this country, aud
we cannot believe that our taste is sc
crude and barbaric as to differ very
widely from that of tin people of
Europe. What they nee I is to be educated
in the possibilities which lie iu
the husk of the golden corn, and i(
should !>e out proud privilege as welt t?s
our duty to instruct theiK."
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest Happenings in Virginia
And The Caruiinas.
Many Mishaps, Newsy Notes, Telegraphic
Ticks, Town Talk, Rural
Records. Rapidly Reviewed.
VIRGINIA.
Tlic Norfolk police made 3,848 arrests
during the past year.
The electric street railway from Fortress
Mouioc to l'hu'bui has been completed.
Bneua Vista has applied for a city
cuaner, out the people of the county are
trying to prevent their securing it.
All the city ollices ami public buildings
of Norfolk were draped iu mourning
last week iu memory of I he late May
01 Morris, whft was buried Friday.
A county physician says, "The whole '
of Gloucester county is one big hospital.
In a 40 years' experience I have nevci
known anything like it." 'Tis the grip.
The lion. Frank Morris, mayor of .
lticluuoud, and president of the Uuion
Savings Bank of that city, died Wednea- (
day aftcrnoou at 0 o'clock after a lon^
illness of cancer of the throat.
The Chesapeako & West Virginia Kail ,
road has applied to the Legislature for a <
charter. The road is to cxteud from <
some poiut in llighlaud, Augusta or ;
Hockiugham county to c poiut on the
Potomac or Rappah -k river.
The Richmond, Bthckstone ?fe Southern
Railroad Co. has applied to the Lcgisla 1
ture for a charter, authorised to build a e
railroad from a point at Richmond or s
Manchester through Chesterfield, Amelia. 1
ami Nottoway counties to Blaekstouc,
and thence to the North Carolina line at $
a poiut near Henderson or Ridgeway. t
Among the nominations for post mas- r
iers sent to the U. S. Senate Thursday t
were llie following: Morten G. Sanger.
Basic City; George T. McClcnlic, Cov v(
ington; George Richardson, Fjrmvi'le; e
William II. Mosbv, Bedford City; Thos ii
B Malioue, Williamsburg, ami Robert t<
A. Fulwilei, Buchanan. George Rich fi
ardson, who is to succeed Captain McIvcnney,
a brolli 1 of the Governor, of
Fnrmville, is a step-brother of cx-Coupcssinan
Hooper. Captain Mosby is a
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' """ I "i vwoni'i JOliu S. JllOSby.
Colonel Whitehead. Commissioner of
Vgriculture, and tiie members of the
stale Roaid express themselves much encouraged
at increased inquiry from
ibroad about Virginia lands, and think
he outlook for valuable immigration to
he Statu is rapidly improving under the
Hurls of the deiy?i'tr,"?**t
nission was in receipt Thursday of three
etteis, one each from Canada, England
ind Ireland. Two of these were exper y
cnccd agriculturists, with capital, who /
Liiuounecd their iuteutirm of moving to /
Virginia, and asked for detailed particu w
ais as to dilTerent loca'ilics, while the |J
hird wanted to establish an industry
.villi machinery.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The State Geologist is boring for coal
it Walnut Cove.
Asbestos mines are to he developed in
Watauga county.
Corundum mines are being opened
n Jackson county.
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Machine shops arc to he erected at the j,,
I'olorcd State Agricultural and Mcchaui- ?j
ill College at Raleigh. n
Philadelphia paitics are to build a os
(at),OOU cotton mill at New Ilcrne. c?
Northern capitalists arc negotiating ol
for the purchase of mineral lands in K
Granville county.
Receiver Robinson, who is in charge of
the wrecked Fii?i National Rank ot l"
Wilmington, places the amount of the 1
shortage at f'J'JG.OOO. ^
There are over two thousand children ..
attending ihc several schools in Winston j,
Milein.
The No v Rome tisli. oyster and game s|
fair, in February, ir being well adver* tl
tisod. The agent h:u been in 4-> conn- (
ties. ,,
l>r. A. W. Miller. *vlio lias been pastor ii
of llic 1st I'resbyUM inn rhurch. at Char- n
lotie. for Ii? years, is dead. Five ihous- '
and people attended the funeral.
A prisoner made good his escape from
ihc Rockingham county jail Thursday.
The jailor went into the cell and left Ihc "
door open. As he did this, the prisoner,
who was standing in the corridor,jumped Li
out the door and lied.
North Carolina is going lo do well at
Chicago. The 20,00 > feet of space asked
for is a larger amount than has yet been ]
applied for by any State It is proposed
that the display shall be in five departments.
Col Thomas B Kcogh gives
as-iiiance that the Stutc will have a build- '
ing at the Fair, the plans being now ma- '
tilled.
i
lie fore the Grand Lodge of Masons adjoin
ned at Hnlcigh it elected all its old
officers and also elected Julian R Carr to
succeed himself on the committee on the
orphan asylum. It forbade any Mason
in Noith Carolina from having anything
to do with the Ceriicaii iite The ic pub- !
beat ion of the Masonic i ode. as amended.
was ordered. The installation of the
officers was done iu the picscticc of at
least three hundred members of the or
del It was decided to lio'd the minimi
session of JS9-1 nnv where save at Knleigh.
It is desired to liold it at Wilmington,
then in honor of the St. John's lodge
centennial.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Greenville will spend To,000 for sewerage.
.1 Klinore M u'in ? the new Chief of
I'oliie of ('Inn leston.
Abbeville will erect several ward
school buildings
A shell road is under construction from
Port ltoyal to Beaufort.
Gen. Hudolph Scigling lias been elected
President of the Bank of Charleston.
1 In the chicken tights at Greenville bci
nvi.cn Augusta and Greenville, the cocks
of the latter city won; prize. $300.
A $00,000 resort hotel is to be built on
St. Helena Island, to be known as ''St.
Helena by the Sea,"
It is said that Governor Tillman has
sold a herd of Jersey cows to the Lunatic
Asylum for something over $400, and the
News and Courier wants him to pay a
license tax for dealing in live stock.
Peak. Lexington county, is a "dry"
town, and some of her citircus have
formed a club for "social aud literary
purposes " on the order of the Columbia
Club.
A little six year-old i;iii named Fowler,
burned to death on Monday morning
last, near Cro uvillo. She stated
In-fore her death that her clothing was
set on tire by a younger brother.
The towu-hipsof Jonesvilleand Pincknev,
I'niou county, will hold an election
to consider the subscription of $''0,000
each to the capital st?r !>?
Jonc?v1llo Lovkhart Shoals Railroad. J
TliO Savings and Flvd Per Cent. Asso- j
elation. of Columbia, has decided to in- f
crease its capital stock to $<>0,000 and J|
convert its orgauizitioa into ? bauk. f
The main building of Converse Col- <
lege, Spartanburg, consisting of halls,
chapel, dormitories, recitation, art. dining
rooms, etc . b^ned the other day,
will be rebuilt a^oiice at a cost of
$05,000.
The recent death near Statcsliurg of of
Mis Edward Rutledge, the daughter ?J
if the Hon. William Lowndes, recalls to
nctnory that great statesman, who, Hen
y Clay mid, was the wisest man he ever
vuew, who was recognized during the
>rar of 1812 as the founder of the United it
States navy, and who was a prominent "l"
andidate for the Presidency of the
Jnited States at the time of his death. R1*
OTHER STATES. Vs
del
Tha county court of Knox county, '!a
IVnn , has voted $20,000 towards the
xpenscof making an exhibit ot tlio re- tioi
on roes of Kuril I 1 nlrt *hc World s lict
!?ir. '
A company with a capital stock of ,
150,000 has been organized in Halves
on tj establish a factory to make lace,
amie ami cotton curtains, mosquito noting,
etc.
The Oemler Oyster Company has just i,r,
eltle?l sixty colonists front Wilkinson wc
ountv. Ha., on Wilmington Island, be- ^Cl
>w Savannah, where an extensive oys- ye.
r packing cstnblisliuicut is iu success- fol
il operation.
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cardinal manfflno.. | "?
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Cardinal Gibbons Grievod. nt
Baltimore. Mil, |Special. | ?Cardinal lm
ibhons was profoundly nfTtcted when H. $
iformed of llio death of Cardinal Mau- 'ln
ing, of England "May God have met- '):l
f oil liis soul," was his simple and < am- nc
't prayer upon reading the dispatch 'm
Mivcying the intelligence of the demise
f his distinguished co-laborer in the /e
nglisli speaking religious world. Car- ,nf
inal Gibbons at once imparted the sad,
ut not unexpected news to the priests
f his household, and said he would pre r
not t > be disturbed for a short time,
ut before he could reach his room, anther
dispatch was handed him. It read:
Cardinal Siinconi died this morning of jj
iliuen/.a." ra
This aunounceuicnt, following so se
U1U villi \ t \ 11*^ 115
10 intelligence of the parsing away of pt
ardinal Manning, almost completely ul
rostrated Cardinal CSibbons, and ho gt
nmed'atcly retired to liis room, ( ardi- tli
al (Sibhons lia<l long Known each of his at
. ad associates of the church.
ANOTIIK.ll CAK0INAI. DEAD.
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A cablegram from Home says: Cardi- tj
al Simconi, fonncily Papal Secretary of r.i
tato and Prefect (leneral of the l'ropa- rt
anda, died Thursday, His dcatli w;is si
lua to an attack of influenza, from which ai
e had been suffering for several days. tl
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Failed as a Farmer and Committed J'j
Suicide. u,
li.vnu.wrnu M V 1 T i?l w
l.M | t/,1, 1* . I , J I ?* I . J ? J i I lo If J
spring Andrew Johnston of Springport '
L'iiiue into poses-ion of $20,tJ<>0. He 11
thought he could mnkc a sue ess of farm- u
iug on a large seal.-. He did not Know ''
much about farming, but lie purchased a i
well-known farm of HI) ac res in Tonip- j
kins county, to try his luck on. lie paid
$10,500 for the property. The farmhouse
on the premises is one of the finest in the ''
State. It is of stoue, and cost its origi- ^
rial owner $30,00'). When Johnst u had "
purchased this f irm he married a pionii- V
nent Tompkins county young woman and I1
settled down as a farmer. The oxporiincut
was a failure. His nops of last
season sold for less than $700. He recently
sold his farm for f 13,0 -0. His
line live slock and expensive farm m i?liiuery
he disposed of for n song. Last Jv
week lie figured up that his brief expert- J
cuce tn farming would CkM him $10,000 n
more than it had brought him iu. Then '
he went out in his bain and hanged himself.
His young wife discover--*! him c
and cut him down, but he was dead. <
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Hf>a w..o nnr...?/i T?
juu- t *r ?a jivviiianu A&liil?
Smithfiki.it. N . [Special.]?An |
old feud between Hit;) I'.i'ish and Davis 1
Lnnglcv. \> hit? fanners mi Johnston '
county, has caused the pci pet rat ion of a j
terrible uiuie The ine:i live near '
Princeton, and I.auglev w s waylaid by | ?
P.nish. seized ami diagged \do the lat- ; '
ter's house. Tbeie he was set upon and t '
beaten untjl he was cntii iy insensible, i 1
Both of iii.s eyes were p.it out, and his '
internal injuries me considered fatal. '
Parish is in jail here, bail being refuted. '
' A NEWSBOY-GOVERNOR.'
Norifc DakolnThief Eiei-ntiTr Orlg>
iually a Now Vork Wall
' GOVERNOR ANDREW It. Bl'llKb J
Andrew II. Burko, th? present Uovennr t
North Dakota, is one of tho 7.",(XX) waif J
Xi \V Yr.rlf t?r ?k- m.n -
?? - v. nuvm ?uu vyuuuron a AM
H'iety of that city has provided homes in
e> West. Young Andrew Hnrke was muI
it uiany yours ago and was adopted by iv
utleuian named Butler. For two years ho
is employed in a wholesale houso in Mm*
ap >1 is nud was married theiv. Krom Miaa|
olis he went to a small station named
iw York Mills, on the Northern 1'acifio
niroad, and took charge of a general storo
d sawmills. Afterward he removed to
ssjllon, N. D., and aftor six months' rosiiK-e
Itecamo Cashier of t.ho First Nations! i
nk there. Three yoars lat"" , uWS '
rled Tr.w?s? * ^ - "*""7 an l held
1 position Tor six yoars. At tlio last eloo- <
ii lio was olocted li over nor on tlio ltopub (
m ticket. - _ ?
A Good New Year's Start.
The Manufacturer's Record, of Balti- s
nore, January 0, in reviewing the in- j
strial progress of the South, says : i
"It is too early in the now year to ex- t
ct r.ny very great activity in new enter- ?
ises, Inil not withstanding this the past F
tck shows a healthy growth, with a .
tided teudency of capital to seek in- u
dmciits in the South nioro freely than 8
many months. Very largo sales of
utheru municipal securities have lately '
;ii made in tlie North and the West, 0
d the outlook is promising for in- P
ased confidence in Southern securities j!
all kinds. Active olforts for tho
ilding up of Newport News additional a
pping facilities arc to bo constructed;
Norfolk largo piers, a machine shop
1 roimdhousj are to be built by the
rfolk & Western to accomupdaifl its
ivilv increasing business 0>
iwv fnfiiurn Ifniln irAOfl nfifironflll V_~ 1
"S 1 I,v- 11 *\'? ? muv ^\/VM the
industrial line there ha* (been * fc
r amount of activity, and nmoug tbi
v enterprises reported for the week I'
a $2oO,(K)0 real mining company in It
?ban\a with the full capital subscribed; at
5t,0,000 coal mining company iu West Y
ginia; a $l.">0.000 car works company oi
Florida; a $'35,000 brick comnanv at m
Jar:own, (la.; a *1 ,000,000 phosphate N
lipany in Florida; a f.iO.OOO clothing a
lipany at Atlanta, (la.; a $'200,000 e.:
d improvement company at Fort 0
nth, Texas; a $200,000 hotel company U1
Dallas, Texas; a $1,000,000 loan nnd
migration coinpany'in South Carolina; f(
;.")0,000 kaolin company iu South Caro- u>
a; a SoO.OOO improvement company, nt ^
lias, Texas; three large tohacco factos
nt Louisville, Ivy.; a $50,000 canal 11
ihling company at New Oilcans, La ; bl
M00,000 distillery company nt Dalian,
xns; a $"i00,000 street car motor build?
company at Pcnsacoln, Fla ; a $110,
0 phosphate company in Florida; a
00,000 machine company at Baltimore.
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Africans Not to be Molested.
Washington, D. C.?The Bcnntc '-j
outlay, iii executive session, finally ,
t itic 1 the general Act signed nt Bins- r
Is July 2, 1MU0, by seventeen Powers,
-I . -1 ? - .i ? ?i Vi m.i t ? x 1. "
ciuuing ilie <_ mien Diaies, jor me re- ^
cssion of the African slave trade, and
sa a convention of commerce and naviition
between the United States and 11
ic indejicndcnt State of Congo, signed
lb tinsels .July 2 J, 1801. H
The slave tre.vv was sent to the Sen- '
le by the President nearly a year ago, '
ml hut a few weeks remained of tlie
ine allowed for the exchange of final
tilicalion. Sixteen of the Powers rej.
sent d at the Urussels conference had
gned the convention many months ago,
id the failure of the Senate to act upon
ic convention until this late day was {
iu?ed by reluctance on the part of a
nmbcrof Senators to recognize the jus-ce
of the pailitiou of Africa among the
ntions of the world. This sentiment
as urged very strongly by Senator Chan- J
!er when the treaty was under consid
ration last vear, and again at Jhe begin
ing of this session he introduced a pro- |
used amendment to the pending rut ill- ,
itiun Act, disclaiming on the part of the
lined States any approval of die whom,
expediency or law fulness of protccamies
i i Africa. Then* was no substiui- '
al objection to the t'cuty on other
loimds, and foil was rntilied, the views
t Senators who sided with Senator
handler being recognized in the ndopion
as part ot tlie ratifying Act of ttic 1
tugnage of (.'handler's amendment.
A Great Failure.
I5..i timoi.k, AIi?.?Tin- old and well
mown banking house of^I. J. Nicbol on
c Sons made nil assignment in the aflerinon
to John M. CaitJr and Matthew K.
(ikon.
A great crowd gathered about the
loors of the bank, ninny of whom were
iepositors, but none could gain admisiou
or information as to the extent o\'
he failure. John II. Cholson was seen
n tlie back office "f tlie bank.
The assets will not go over $250,000,
It is absolutely impossible to tell wh..i
he liabilities arc
The firm was organized In 1H2S. A.
T. Nicholson died suddenly a few days
igo while talking on business at the
ounter of the bank. The house has
ong en joyed an excellent standing and
for a long time has done fin extensive
mildness both in the United States and
Europe, having correspondents iu nearly
ill the laige cities.
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EACH HAD A NEGRO LAWYER.
4. Young: Man Accuses Bis Prospective
Mother-in-Law of Stealing:
The License.
Hicmmonp, Va., [Special ]?Marx Mc- (
litits nppcarcl uguius tMrs. Berths Brenner
charging her with stealing the marriage
license from her daughter, to whom
Mvlitits was engage*] Tho marriage
was to occur early in December, but w s
pos poncil until December 2d. Mean
t me the prospective bride asked lies be \
tio'hcd to let hci keep tho marriage 1U l
eeusc. so as to shpw_it.-W trfflf TlTends. ,
ytnnfreoTrte one poisoned tho mind of tho t
young woman against Marx. llo dis- j
covered that his prospective mother in- t
I iw had the license, which she refused to
suricmler. t
tJileu Jackson, a colored lawyer np- j
poured for Marx who is white, nud B. A |
itandolph, colored, represented Mis. \
Breuncr, slso white. 'I ho poiut was t|
nude that the bride expectant owned ?
mc half interest in tho license. There t.
couhl 1 c no theft of it, and Mrs Breuucr ?
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nnsuiiviiui^iui. r
Origin of tho lMiosiiliati) noil*. ,'l
Professor E. T. Ox, formerly Siata u
Geologist of Indiana, ro'.arJ* tuo root A
phosphate of some of the immense phot- r
phato beJs of Florida, as of miner il o
and not animal origin. He calls this n
especial variety ol phosphorite by the
name of Florldite. Those remark ib'" "
beds ho has traced in a'1 area '
of nlvvo ^..?uiy miles in width. The "
phosphite rests oa rocks of Eocene age. ''
fho uu ierlyiug rock tray bj carbonate 1,1
i)f liino or sandstone, and contains from a<
>nc to tliroo per cent, of phosphoric neid. ,
Jotno of tho beds of bom; phosphate are H|
thirty-seven fret deep; and the rock will (|
sometimes yield eighty per cent, of bone m
phosphate. Floridito lie regards as tho
nincrali/.ation of an ancient guano. As n
;hc Peninsula of Florid i was elevated <b
ibovc the ocean, the !a:i I bor ioring tho
>ca on the west coi^t. became the restingilncu
of innumerable agnatic birds and
thor animals. Kiins oarriel away the
oluble alkalies, leaving the less soluble y
ihosphatc of lime. He says that on souk '
f the islands of the Pacific Coast ar<
uano beds 200 feet thick- -so tint there 1(I
i no ditlicully in the way of looking t< j0,
Ills a* a source for the mineralization ol ft|.
n ancient guano.?.Ve n York JudejiS'i'J- jn
,u- ' th
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G.jvricrliig Kauri Gum. 2 ]
u been accumulltiug Tor ages and *??'
usually found in a scmi-fossili/.J I state. g"
is used in tho manufacture of varnishes '?<
id tho ureater nronortioa is sent to New | "l
ork. During the last twonty-fivo years i,s
rer 150,000 tons of it h ive bjju shippu i
,vay, about seventy per cent. going to i,s
qw York. The kauri tree grows in the J'1
ucklaud district only ami the vast forits
of this beautiful tree are largely
ivncd by a syn lieate. Homo of t'ae tr?u<
re fifteen feet in diumalcr. The wood ^
i crosse I-grained an I tough and is use I '
>r shipbuildig to a large extent. It i:
specially valuable beeaus; there arum
nots in it, an I it i? r.otunusuit for a ru
incty-tive-foot mast 10 be without u J','
luglc kuol.?- 'ijs'. j i Tr.t'ti'i'iit'. .
01
Ago of Trees.
The German Forestry Commission
ssigns to the pine 50!) and 700 years as '
maximnm, -125 years to the silver iir, ^
71 yenrs to the larch, 245 years to the
ed I leech, 210 years to the aspen, 200 ]j
cais to the bireb, 170 years to the ash, j?
1(5 years I?? (be abler ami 120 years tc# ,,
he elm. The heart of the oak begins to s|
ot at about (lie age of .'500 years. The s
oily oak aloi.e escapes this law, and Hi
here is a specimen of this aged 110 years ?
II VMS'MUX* IlClir .'llMllllii i "lug, iuuii- \i
uany. JJutin Kngluu.i there are several <1
minus ?!<i oaks of gigantic proportion?, -I
ml with a.es variously estimated at A
roin 7V0 to JSO-t years. The latter age,
lowcver, seems incredible.?j\iu) York "
World. u
Gen. Robert Ransom Dead. p
Ni.w Hki;xk, N. C. (Sen. |{ol?t. Hnn;om
died at his home hcic Thursday
Homing. lie was seized with congesive
chill and died l?f: the phy.-i< i.m A
a-iit for arrived h
He was a gradual* of West Point and e
served in the I*ailed States army uuti! <1
N'oith faioliua |oined the ("onfedernry, f
when he sided with his State. He rose s
in the Confederate army to the rank of t
lb gadier Hernial, serving in many notu ?
blelntlh s. He was ranking otlicer for i
this Stnt<-. I.ast autumn he was ?'..cled
president of the Confederate Vct? runs'
Association I.ate year* he has been en
gincd 1 iij{ the govt i nmeiit improvement r
of :iv<is in Ivisti in Noith Caiolina.
3ullivan Takos a Temperance Pledge. |
T\coma, Was., [Special.J?.John L.
Sullivan, after gtttiug beastly drunk 1
Widnesdav night, signed tlit; temperance
pledge aud joined Murphv Blue Itilibou
ihigade. Murphy met Sullivan aud, after
talking for sjiii? time. Duncan llari
is and Manager Frank Morau agreed to
join the I Hue Itihbon jociety if Sullivan
would. To their surprise Sullivan consented.
Friday night Sullivan talked
temperance to a large crowd in a dive.
Ill' set-IIIS 10 iinvi; n<? lui i'. j'li'i , |
' mi win lii'i in' Iir.'i.i.u Wlii be pel iiiiliiciit
is an open ) nest ion
Legal Holidays in Virginia,
ItiriNjoND, V \ , [Speeial. | -A bill was
introduced in liio Legislature designating
as legal holidays liiu HMh of January
(Lee's birthday) and tlia 3d <>l June, to
be known as Confeder.it'! Memorial Day.
It is also providid that every general
election riay aliili be a holiday, and it
forth r declares that every Sdurday,
from 12 o'clock noon, commencing the
1st of June and ending the 30th of September,
shall be designated as half holiday.
I
ALLIANCE TOPICS.
Some Wide Awake Work Being Done
Here and There.
The Agricultural Commissioners of
Fivo States Pledge n Reduction
Iu Acreage of HO Par Cent.
At Memphis. Tenn , in the parlors ef_
III1 IVuN^t u*'"' ( rouuu mo lien"
between tho commissioners of agriculture
>f tho various cotton States who attended
ho convention of cotton growers regardng
the action of tho convention, nud
hey agreed to tho following memorial:
"Tho commissioners of ngiicui
rtro representing tho States of
Ushama, Arkansa*, North Csro
inn, Georgia and Tennessee, Iieirtg
inpn-fseu wiiu mo necessity of the ro
111 tion of tho acreage of cotton and the
;icnter diversification of crops for home
onsnmptiou, hereby endorse the action
f the Cotton (1 rowers' and Merchants'
'on vent ion, held in the cit y of Memphis,
Viiu., on the 8th day of January, 1882,
lo earnestly appeal to all agricultural and
icrcnntilo organizations, consisting of
illinnccs, ({ranges, State and county ngicultural
societies, hoards, cotton ex
hang) s, chambers of commerce, etc.,
Iso individual fanners and inerclnoo-,
> ass'st and co-oner ? - ' '? us iu aeeur,v,.
Miegoing results, and to tins end
. commend the general and local ndopon
of the action of tlio Convention
ledging themselves to a reduction of
>1 less than 20 per cent, of tho cotton
'rcnge of last year; and further urge and
'commend tlio iinnicdiato organization
' States, counties, and districts or townlips
to art either independently or
trough legnllv organized soeieties u?
av bo deemed best, and as w ill most
adily insure the benefits arising from
uieerl of net ion and the deereased pro
let ion of cotton for the year 1882 "
Senator PelTer, of Kansas, Thursday
t rod need a bill to loan Indiana farmers
00,(180,000. The farmers are to give
eir promissory notes for the amounts of
eir loans and mortgages on their farms
secure them. They are to pay no incest,
hut tho (lovernor of Itidinua is to
i'V a tax of 1 per cent, semi-annually
d turn over the nrocceds to the Becrc-.
ry of State. If the farmers never My* J
ey are to stay flioy (
isted 1.1 the paid reports which nro being |
>s* imliibtiiouslv circulated to tho effect
it Somitor Stanford is posing in favor
an Alliance candidate for tho presi- '
lit nl nomination, and say they "might
well run Jay (lould as Stanford " I
esidcul Cannon lias put in operation n 1
tore system, hy which lie hopes to I
read inform ition and political truth *
I th ougli his State. lie gives his lee- 1
rers suggestions and points as to what
ouhl hi talked uhout, and summari/.cb i
follows: i
' Show them how the Union Pacific 1
ilroad gang invested $218,000 and 1
icketcd $147,208,770. Show that the
mitral Pacific, railroad gang invested j
12,000 and pocketed about $100.000,- ,
Ml. Tell them these millionaires now
ve the people $1110,000,000 ami refuse ,
i pay a dollar. Show tliein that we ,
ive built, and paid twice the cost,
<k y one of liio railroads to the I'acilie
>asr, and we are paying for them in
eights and fares every tivc years; ilint
icsc monster monopolies have the whole
acific coast hy the throat and arc clink
ignl' our industries to death by their
iinv grip; that while they wall in the
tate on the east and charge all the traf
i: will hear, their friends build a tariff
all across the Golden (Sate (hat lines
easels $10,000,000 a year to enter and
i?charge their cargoes. Demand that
ay (lould, Kussell Sage, Sidney Dillon
Co., of the Union Pacific gang, and
lanford, Huntington and Crocker A: Co ,
ne C. ntral Pacific gang, pay theii debts
> the government, as well as their taxes
> this .*-tate, or surrender their railroads
it I retire froru business for the good of
l u. ??
lit- man:.
Arkansas has arranged for seven great
illiam c ramp and mass meetings to he
icl<l in August, and ;s asking for spenk
ia from everywhere. The State preailent
writes that the people n.e thirsting
or eduealion as never before, and that
peakersand lecturers must he sent among
hem. "Van nmy expert Aikansas to
nine to the front,"is a significant rvinark
ii the f tate president's letter.
TII K l-'l'Tt'RB OK Til It AI.I.IAM E.
National Kconomiat. j
The Fanners' Alliance cannot as an or
i;ani/at on eoiiftolidation or organize a polit
ieal party:
I Because such cosnolation or < onlition
wou d make such party a class parly.
or more properly, no party, hut a poi.tical
f>etiou
2. Because the Farmer*' Alliance as
nil organization would eons? to exist; the
moment it yielded sovereignty as a far
im i'.-i organi/.ntiou it woiihl becomesonicthing
else.
Because to merge villi any one
parly would drive those belonging (o
3'! "*!:? !' parties ft'lt <i( the ini'ci, mid
that is eontrnry to the fundamental priuciples
of tiie organization.
IVnnosaao Minors Give Up tho Fight.
A Chattanooga special says: Miners
from the Coal Creek regions aie passing
iliiougli here en route to the Onita Mines,
in Aikansas, owned by Chattanooga puties.
One hundred or more men will
einigrao. taking their families with
them. The latest information from the
mine legions, in the oa tern part of tho
State, is very encouraging, .and there is
very little probability of any further
trouble.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Ores are purified bj electricity.
An inch of rain means 100 torn to the
acre.
Tho process of separating iron oro by
electricity is working satisfactorily in
Michigan.
An export says that the left main
(lrlvop nt n ?A? 11
? . w. ? .WVUIVMVV UM?%VU? uiuiu man
Ono or mure holts rgffni...? i..,!
anii? i i rp tt will add
much to the transmission of power. vlP
A scientific journal stutos that a little
sugar put on tho bauds with soap will
greatly increase ita lather and cleansing
power, and will rctuovo dirt, choinlcjl^-w;
stains, etc.
An engineer of Home llnds that 00t),?
OOO effective horso-powcr can ho ob.
taincd from tho streams of Switzerland
tor electric lighting or electric power
transmission.
Helta running over pulloya of small
diameter at high speeds ought to bo thin
und as wide as possible. Orange tan
leather of uniform thickness answers re.
uurUahly well.
A young man who ha* never had iho
sense of smell has been the subject of
some curious tests, which have
Professor .!*? ? ? i nut annny thing*
?incii wo oat with relish are not tasted,
but only sinullcd.
A Frenchman has invented an iin
proved method of telegraphing, so that
it is practicable to truusmit one hundred ' *
and lifty words per minute on a singly
a ire. The message when delivered from
the machine is type-writtou.
Those engaged in tho production ol
quinine, whether from bark or chemical,
ly, suffer with a peculiar akin affection
caused by the inhalation of the vapor
fi (tin hot solutions of the drug. Fever
is an accompaniment of this malady.
It is said Inventor Kdison is cnuaorod
iii <i mnJiticiiMoii of tho phonograph to
lit it to become the successor of tho rainoil
loltor system in production of hooks for
the blind. Tho changes uro chiotly in .
tlio way of increasing tlio 3apacit? of tho
sylindcrs.
What is described as the most perfect" ^
known epututnen of a petrified humeji-4^^'*-v ?
body hns recently boon disaqglf^Sw]
Arizona, The llgufo to o
a fully.?lovc^Mdwn*gri|flB^j^M^HgHSHj
p
In nu oloctrlc hammor that Tins tew '
levisc I recently tho piston U of a ,niSJ*
letlc inntcrinl and tlio cylinder is coinmeed
of a series of colls, through each
>f which a current of cloctricity may bo
mssed. The passage of a curront through
lie upper coils raises tho piston. By
Milling oil tho current and tranferring
t to tlio lower coils the piston is released
nid drawn down. Tho blow may be
.hortened or ienghtjiicd, as desired, hy
regulating the ilisiriouuou 01 wiu ctirrcui.
iu the coils.
Provision lias boon made for neutralizing
tin; deteriorating ctfects of acid
spray from n buttery of accumulator*
iv lie re metal fittings and brass or coppor
conductors are aiound. The medium
employed for this purpose is an anti-snU
phuric acid cuasnol. It is applied liku
varnisli, in black or other colors. It is.
found to withstand the attacks of the
Btrongcst sulpliuric acid for weeks, ami
is now largely used iu Kngland for coatin/
woodwork, iron and capper in the
neighborhood of batteries.
Memphis Shaken.
Mk.viimiis, Tknn. ? Many citizens of
ids city were awakened from their
lumbers early Thursday morning by a
lux k of carthipiake. It was a distinct
me and was noticed a few minutes after
: o'clock. The vibrations were from
mi- li to south. The seismic disturbance
v is pronounced enough to gently shake
cverul buildings, (.specially in the sub- .
ii b3.
<Jcn. Sauiuet Thomas, of New York,
who ou?ut to be iu a position to know,
says tImt !> anticipates that 1892 will bo .
a year of rccupoiation in the Smith. Tho
mineral, coal and iron intcicsts are reviving,
and this fact will offset iu a
measure the depression which exists in
the cotton belt. The South will also ho
benefitted l>y the great activity in the
granger Slates.
A Villngo Wiped Out by Fire.
Jackson, Miss. ? The little town of
Bolton, 2'J miles west of here, was almost
entirely destroyed by liie Thursday night.
Seventeen homes were burned ami only
three stores are left standing. This is
the thud village wined out by tiro in
the county within the past two months.
Prosecuting Savannah Cotton Firms.
Savannah, Ga. ?Summons of garnishecmcnt
were served on all cottou tirnis
walehouses hero by lawyers representing
the Philadelphia National Bank, which.
lias :? claim of $"J5,000 against J. II.
Coats & Co., the Philadelphia cotton
merchants who have failed.
A petrified "green" pine lhnb was
found recently by a (Jeorgia man near
Buena Visln. "The limb is perfect.
showing where the straws inado identa
lions and the grain of the wood. 'It is
somewhat white, and resembles coral
wieaih."
Kx-Pres:dcnt McCosh, of Princeton
College, has undertaken a very ambitious
literary work. He proposes to issue a full
re* of volumes on the various departments
of the human mind, and is at present
writ i g a little book on ethics to beg.n
the se?ira.
Plowing is done by electricity in
Spain. '