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mail VOL- XXIH.mtISEW SERIES. - < ' NUMBER 6 ,w -.vww WW UU bUC imuriMi |iuuon I ' . i of physician% who seek to take their livoi. Hp The death by this means of Dr. Dougfit lass, iu Kansas City, Mo., will recall to V the memory of newspaper readers the B ' fact that within the last six months there have beon four or five cases reportod of ' medical men who have committed suicide by the use of this same drug. a American visitors in England aro often surprised to lind unfamiliar names '' . of Englishmen current there as the inventors of what they had always been , accustomed to regard as tho creation of 1 American brains. It is not Cyrus field's name that is spoken there in con- 1 oec??b?v^fvith tho Atlantic cables, nor ^ Singer's with the. sowiug machine. In , fact, laments the Bostua Trafifcrint. fnw j^.- things are ever seen labelled "American" iu London shops, no mslter what 1 their origin may hare loon, that are not of tho cheapest and often mo3t inferior , description. According to tho Boston Cultivator . the wood cutters of Englaud strongly object to the methods of the Salvation Army in interfering in their businoss. 1 One of tho avocations to which Qeneral ' (Booth has assigned a part of tho outcasts and unfortunatos he is reclaiming is that | of wood cutters. Tho enterprise, backed np by benevolent contributions, has boen 1 extremely successful, so that Qeneral 1 Booth is now one of the largest wood merchants of London. Ho is, of course, nblo to undersell thoso with smaller capfej ital who have no one to set them up in 1 business. What is needed for England j 9^^-jis not greater competition, for it is that ^ miibuuiu uioiiiiniwu luiiui, 1 ney neeu ~ jr. country where nnmrw>tit.inn in less fierce and the chances of success for small i capitalists arc greater. 'Statistics show," alleges the New 1 (York Tribune, "that more inmates of 1 insane asylums comes from farms than ] from any other source proportionately i . nnd a very large per cent, of these are women. The cause is evidcut. Tho farmer's wife, contrary to uature, spends \ most of her time in comparative isolation, and litr wakeful hours are all passed in humdrum, wearing, nerve-exhausting labor. There are fe .v to converse with to.lead her thoughts outward, uway from herself and her euvirourueut. Her mind is ever turned inward, upou herself. This, long continued, becomes a strain and the miud cveutuilly gives away. -> foreisrn countries, where farmers Vivo I mostly iu villager, ail imiiw wo.nan is u rarity, bocause her condition ii natural. Thoughtful care for 'mother' ou tho part of her husband ami tho other members of tho family would oft deprive the asylum of a new victim." Some person with a passion for facts, .no matter what sort, recently askedAmerican Note*and Queries what diseases jtho American Presidents died of, wind p. this was tho answer* Washington's (fatal illness was due to a cold caught .'while riding about his farm in a elect /storm. John Adams's complaint was old 'nge; that of JclTcrson, chronic diarrhoea, duo to excessive drinking of the wators jot Whito Sulphur Springs, Va.; Madison and Monroe, old age; Jolid Quincy j Adams, paralysis; Andrew Jackson, consumption and dropsy; .Van Buren, I asthma and catarrh; wflliam Henry lllarrisoe, pleurisy, the result, of a cold 1 (Caught at his inauguration; Tylor, unknown; Polk, cholera; Taylor, cholera j morbus, caused by tho excossivo drink- , /ing of Ice-water, followed By the im 1 1 moderate eating of chorrios; Fitlmoro, iparalysis; Pierce, dropsy, and Buchanan, 'rhoumaklc gout. Tho remaining diseases uro fresh in mind, Androw John.?1 son's having been due to paralysis. It , is noticeable that colds and bronohlal < i affections played a largo part, effectually refuting the fallacy that "only a cold" lis * matter of trifling eonccrn. An Aniorican boat builder who lias just i built a small steamboat for the Magda- i leuo Illver, in the United States of Colombia. Rnvjt' "Thou not .til no. Iflrt , j - -..-j b?- -*- f"* *vv (or freight 380 miles, and (60 for passengers, (10 extra if they take a room. But there is hardly one who wants n room. They all carry their bed with them. It consists of a straw rant. You will see them come aboard with beds under their arms. Along this river there is some very fine land. Everything grows without aid. They never plow or hoe, but just put tho se;d in the ground and go off nnd leave it till it gets ( jo**. ripe. Thoy can rniie three crops of oorn a year, nnd fine potatoas. Vegetation of ( - every kind grows the year round. The ollmate is just the same, never varies 1 more than ten degree?. It is now seventy-fivo degrees. Movjuitoos and alii* ] gators aro plentiful on the river. It is amusing to see tho monkeys playing on , the trees as we pass, and the alligators plunging into the water. There is no 5?ynemaoout ooaung uown nere. rney KK ire new in a burrj and take no oare of anything. If they had a full crew of our atenmboatmcn they would get rich in a aliortUme." J!!!iflltUAKY FANCIES. Many Important Happenings That Get People Into Print. The Latest Mows Motes and Dispatches From the Potomac To the Gulf. VIRGINIA. Richmond has a meat juice works. At Radford Geo W. Miles will erect st odcc a largo "St. Albans" college for boys, at a cost of $20,000. Several cases of hydrophobia are reported in King George county. The National Government will establish a light-house on the Shamrock shore, fifty miles below Washington, on tho Potomac. There arc seventy theological students at Huingdcn-Sidney Seminary. Gilbert Brooks, a wealthy farmer was killed by a traiu near Lynchburg Thursday. -v It is said (hat llio Richmond and Danvillo will g^t control of the Lynchburg ind Durham railroad. Charles Johuston was sentenced to ten years imprisonment at Staunton Thursday for complicity in the murder of James F. Lots. Supreme Regent Loving, of the Royal Arcanum, died at Norfolk and was liuriod Saturday. The Bueua Vista Casaimere Biills have received from the United States Government an order for 40^000 ya^ds of cloth. President Harrison has pardoned L.W. Buckey, of Norfolk, now confined in Albany prison. The motion for a new trial for JefTctsou Phillips, convicted at Alexandria for murder, was overruled and he was sentenced to hang March 25th. A new fire insurance company was organized in Danville Wednesday. The sale of 85,000 acres of iron and limber lands near Covington to West Va. capitalists have been consummated. Mrs. Annie Smith, of Danville, wants to practice law, but can't. The courts say "no" and the law says "no," and so Mrs. Smith has set to work to have the law changed. She has so far succeeded that the committee on courts of justice in the State Senate are considering her bill and arc likely to report it. What chance it will have before tl\p farmers in the Legislature is another question. NOBTH CAROLINA. The State Guard now munbera 1,578. Robert Phipps mu: tiered Eininet Long in Ashe county. The Fisher gold inino near Greens boro, will be worked ngaiu. The street railway of Wilmington has been sold to an electric coiupauy. At Sumincrflcld, near Greensboro, there are a number of hydrophobia eases. Nearly two huudrcd brands of fertilizers have been reported in the State. J. N. Norwood, of Greenville, 8. C., is interested in a project to organize a new bank in Wilmington. The Hornets Nest Riflemen, of Charlotte, offered their services to the Government during the Chili war scare. The Secretary of the North Carolina Teacher*' AammliU - J * ? ?n.ia m mugeu ior several teachers1 excursions to the Vtorld's Fair. Dr. Edwanl Ashe, the oldest physician in Anson count**, died at Wadesboro Thursday. His practice once extended over half a dpzen counties. An olTort will be made by the chamber of commerce of Winston to induce tho Postal Telegraph Company to build a line to.that city. Lieutenant Shipp, of the Fifth Calvary U. 8 A , is detailed f..r duty inspecting tho State Guards by the U. S. War Dopartincnt, Governor Ilolt having applied for such an otliccr. Legal proceedings are to be instituted against several preferred creditors of tho defunct First National Bank of Wilmington. Mrs. Sallio Foard, a well-known lady of benevolence, who died at Greensboro recently, left in her will the sum of $200 to the King'* Daughters' Hospital of that city. Yadkin county jail was destroyed bv fire last week, originating from a basket of ashes which was left in the hall. All the prisoners in the jail were safely rescued and prevented from escaping. Borne beautiful specimens of kaolin have been taken from the deposits recently discovered at Wulnut Cove. The deposits arc said to be inexhaustible, aud the kaolin is as white as chalk. It is stated that a pottery will be established at Greensboro to manufacture the finer wares from the material. A posso of revenue officers have just completed an exciting raid in Wilkes county. They succeeded in destroying three distilleries on Roaring river, which is the stronghold of the "moonshiners." While the work of cutting up the stills was going on the "rnoonshiuers'' had fouud the horses of the officer* all their throat*. As the officers wore leaving they were fired upon, but nobody was hurt. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston now has a pawnbroker'* shop. The Charleston Light Dragoons have donned a dark green aud gold uniform, which is a revival of the old antebellum uniform. The South Bound railroad company has decided to erect it* machine shops at Qrahams. R. H. Righam of Florence county will erect a canning factory at Effingham. Plans have been prepared for the new buildings of Converse College, at Spartanburg The Qovernor has appointed J. W. Halletnan Master for Oconee county, at Walhalla. In Spartanburg county the oat* and wheat have stood the winter well and are i . B ' full of nromiso. Many more acrea oT oats will be put in during this month. The U. 8. Senate has confirmed the nomination of C. J. Pride, postmaster at A ltock Hill. The Republicans of Ac State will very likelv put a full Sta'e^icket in the Ucid next November says Chairman Webster. K Samuel Jones, colored, was cutting down a tree on Edisto Island when it fe'I and crushed the life out of him. Hon M L. Donaldson,of (Jreeuville,has resigned the'position of manager of the State Exchange of the Farmers' Alliance. Is This goutleman is being mentioned for h Oovcruor. d Mrs. Helen C. Bray ton is in Barnwell " attending to the Investment of the fund j raised by her for the benefit of the 1 widows of the eight negroes hnchcd there in 4&90. * J The 10th annual session of the W. C g. T. U. will be held in Columbia Feb. 18. J Columbia will welcome and greet the 0 guests wi h her accustomed warmth of 0! roception. Mrs. Tillman has extended t] the cowrtwoa and hospitalities of the ^ Executive mansion to Mrs. Chapfn, pre^i p dent for South Carolina, and to Mrs. Sib- p ley, tlie president for Geoig'a. Mrs. Marv Latbrop will attend the couvcn ion g nnd deliv. r two addresses. tl OTHER STATES. k t. nuinnavSIU Wl~ 1 * "? VH1UV9I niVf X- in., mil it imiy lawyer, j and is very proud of 111 s fact. W hile w sonic other towns cannot boast of a legal y light of the feminine gender, yet almost c nil of them have women who occasional j ly lay down the law,ns many married men j, will testify. j Thc*committccs of Jewish iabb's that a has been in session in New Orleans pre ti paring a unifoim and revised ritual fir s< use in the I'nited States has Comp'etcd w its work, and will presdnt its report to a m r.?l>t>inical Conference to be held in New ri York. Ji Two gi ent-great-grandohildrcn of Sit Francis Drake, the great English Ad miral of West Indiau, South P.icitic, and Spanish Armada fame, are living in Sn vannab, Ga. At least Mr. lames Hoctoi J' and his sister, Mrs. Mamie. Filzpatrick, ' hclicve they have the distinction of that relationship, and they are claiming a share in a reput d estate of fcir Francis Drake's estimated at $1)0,000,000. A b few days ago they received a request h from an English law tirm for all the fncts v in connection with their claim. A Sa vaniiah lawyer is preparing the interest tl ing documents. n f A REFORM CONGRESS. I Representatives of the Alliance, ^ Prohibition and Labor in Chicago. r Chicacio.?It is safe to say that such a gathering as that which assembled here Wednesday morning has seldom, if e ever, been seen before. It was the Na- t( tioual Conference of representatives of c the various political reform movements t now existing in this country, including J fnohibitionistH, farmers, laborers, Grccujuckers, general reformers, etc. tl M iss Francis 10. Willard presided and n stated the object of the Conference to be g to devise ways and mcaus of electing a a President of the United Stater who will s; with one blow kill tho rum traffic. If Among those present at the mec'ing were: Lady Somerset; Geo. A. Wash- j burn, of Boston, secretary of the peo- 4 p'c's party; Gilbert Delemator, of Ak- y rnn, Ohio, a Grecnbrcker; Mrs. Anna M c Digga, of Kansas; Gen. Weaver, of Iowa; ? A. Wnrdell and II. L. Loucks, of Huron, v South Dakota; Prof. Samuel Dickey, of Albion College, Albion, Mich., find President Powers, of the Farmers' Alliance. 1 I Donnelly was down for an opcu'ng 1 speech, but failed to appear. The ecu- ? trnl idea is to unite all of these cleincuts on one candidate for the Presidency, and * their belief i? that they outnumber either ' of the regular parties. The meeting was held with closed doors. f v TO CURTAIL THE CROP. } tl A Meeting of Merchants and Farm- ^ ers to Reduce the Acreage p of Cotton in M. 0.. d Raleigh, N. C., [Special ] ?In purau ance with a resolution of the Alliance of Wake county at a recent meeting a committee appointed by them met here with ti a number of the merchants of the city to tl consult concerning the cotton acr. age g question and to ascertain whether they tl tould secure the co operation of the t merchants in the reduction movement, p The merchants expressed themselves ns n being in entire harmony with the move- ii mcnt, and a committee of live was ap- f pointed from the'r number to act with f the Alliance committee in preparing h resolutions calling for n reduction of tho t cotton acreage. These resolutions wiil ho submitted for the signatures of all the t merchants and business men of Wake i] county. ^ North Carolina in Congress. j' Senator Vance has introduced a bill in a the Senate to pay the administratrix of Thomas C. Tatnam, of Valley Town, .. Cherokee county,N. C., f3,82i).50?being ? principal and interest on a claim of tho v deceased for services rendered in 1842 ns , a surveyor in surveying the pre-emption j, rights of the Cherokee Indians iu North Carolina. Itepresentntivo Alexander, of North Carolina, has introduced in the House , the following lulls: Providing for tho *; l?rppf inn i\t a mAnnmnn> f a ? ?* ?? KK/Iiuanv> V (u I lie laicilivsr y | of Brigadier-Gener.1 William Loo David- ^ soo; for the construction of n macadamized road to tin National Cemetery *. near Wilmington, N. C., and to continua t the improvement of Town Creek river in ^ Brunswick county. N. C. Representative Williams has presented c a petition in the House for n mail route ? from Greensboro to Qlenona, N. C. v 1 Something Had to Give Away. t Wasiiinoton, Pa., [Special.]?George t Crrlisle. a .toung farmer of Amwelltown- i: ship, called on aia betrothed, Mies Nellie \ Adams. He became so affectionate and It his embraces were So fond that ha nip- r tured an artery in his arm, and a doctor t waa sent for. Nollie's ribs are still in I tact. a ~ii 2flHHS3H?& ~ \ TKttffT 'APTfiltlERltT^! lliance News and Notes Interestingly Arranged. ruU to Crack at the Fireside?Topics Of Conversation Throughout The Country. Washington, D. C.?Jerry Simpson a brick, socks or no socks. He is living lots of fun in Washington and oing Bomo valuable work. Ho recently itroduced a bill to have tho agricultural epartment at Washington aired. Speakig of it, he said : "I have been as much among the fariars us any man in the country," said erry, "und I know that there is a wideircud opinion among thein that the griculturul department is not conducted u the square or solely in the intcrits of the fanners. Information from lie department which should first reach ? farmers are gi v? a it. pro I rietors of bucket shops. | Th"ii the seeds urchascd are old and wdltbless.Tlie seed ouscs palm their old stock oiT on the overnmont. The department is simply lie nest of a lot of politicians, who are cpt there owing to their influence to elp the Republican party. Now Uucle erry Rusk is an old gentleman and 1 rould like to sec hiin stand well with he farmers. If he runs his department in the level and only in the interests of he farmers, they should know it and avc confidence in him. Possibly the cpartmuut is run as the farmers believe nil Uncle Jerry doesn't know it. He lay be imposed upon. That is the reain I want an investigation. ! hope it fill prove that the farmers are mistaken ad th it tho agricultural d. p ir incut is in only iu their inteicst,for I want Uncle erry to stand well." - ****** In California as well as in Kansas and :ic east, the question coufronts our peole ?shall wo own tho railroads or are lie railroads to own us.?Boston New tatlon. The Farmers' Alliance lias never reeded from any proposition. It is uot uilt that way. It has never been nor ever will be a political party.?Gaiuesille (Tex.) Bigual. Bo called municipal governments cost lie people more t han tho Federal governlont does, and to sum it up, it is only to ui nish a lot of bums and frauds a job. ? Southern Mercury. TllC Croat unteirifinti n?i>r?crnti/? influ W - I J iow lias a chance to show its liana. The srmers are watching to see how long its ilutfurm and the pledges of its leaders emniu in force.?Dallas (Tex.) Farm and "arm. 0 The men or party who can and will ffeLtually put through Congress a hill r> break the backbone ot'thc money powr, will merit the everlasting gratitude of ho people of this country.?St. Louis ouruat of Agriculture. The Alliance has not come to destroy lie primitive principles of the governrent, but to.correct abuses, purify the ovcrnmcut, and to ro establish justice; ud this, too, without becoming a parti an organization, or political paity.? outhern Mercury. At the pre cat price of corn it would akc three solid trains of cars, holdiug 00 bushels each, reaching across the itate from Colorado to the Missouri rivr, to pay the interest on our farm inort;ages for one year Ob, how prosperous 10 arc. ? Kansas Western Advocate. ' There is only one hope for relief for lie laboring classes of this country, and hat is through legislation The plutorata aro condemniug the* reform press; mt then the reform press can stand it as he people are with it.?Terra IJaute lud.) Standard F. rmer. The greatest political revolution and uiblic upheaval ever known to this ustion nil be witnessed during the year 1892. Vhat its results will I e, this deponent aycth not, but we do say the very exigence of our government and the freedom f our people from the degraded serviudc depends upon the patriotic action of he honest masses at the ballot box. Healer, you arc ouc of the peoj le and must cu-your part of the rcsponsility. ?'The 'oiler. Wo rejoice to announce that Fostmaser General Wanam <ker has recommended lie ownership and coutrol of the tele * .1 1 - * * m|#u. ic'iufiuuiie iinu express service of lie United States, and confidently looks 0 the time when we will havo a 1 cent >o9tagc, S cent telephone and 10 cent tessages. The new doctrine is sprendng like wild Arc and it will continue to pread until monopolistic greed is swept rom the face of the earth. Wanumnker as certainly been reading the New Naion.? Alliance Echo, Kansas City. The fact that 2u,u00,00() of peopie are tarving in Russia, where women sell the air from their headj for tmali turns to levourfool, where famished children Invoiir men* mtrl < ?? !!? %*?!*/?? *- ?it n - ruiixc.s ore reduced to 8olitude: is, indeed; , terrible iucident in this wonderful year, tut to us the fact t> at in this city 150,000 teopie go to bed every night guests of hnriiy, not knowing whom a morning acal is to come from, with nothing lhatovcr to do, hope ev u being dead, i a much graver factor in the problem of iiir to day.?New York Itecouler. When it becomes thoroughly underlood, it will be seen that the doctriuc of Ulinnce is for n'l tho people, and no dception or trickery about it. It is a docriue that inust be pressed the front, to bo end that the old ideas, purposes and >olicy of psrtyism may be overthrown fcacefully at the baUot box. Bossism ... 1- >Dh? I - ?UII? ni?A, nuu lb I* HOW lime IOT he people to coroo to the rescue, end souro good government for ell. Let tl;0 'Illinois' Alliance and .Industrial Union rake up and put on the whole people.? 'be People's Aid. Wo note with pleasure tho advance of he good woik going on in Oregon. Less haiv.A year ago tho 8ub-AUianco organr.cd IK Kastern Oregon, ainco then a vouderful change has taken place, the shoring element of the Btate are not ash in their conclusions, but have given he matter profound attention. It has men to thorn a subject of much study ud premeditating. The priociplea of CM VU Ihcm A remedy whereby thj Wealth producers cufr unite ami break down those section d lines which will ho ij the. means of destroying party power and bloqdy shirt rackea. "Old things have .passed away anil all have become new."? The People's Aid. About $2,000,000 ware spent in North S Carolina for fertilizers last season. Whether this was a wise expenditure or not we cannot say, hut anyhow raise your own supplies and buy less of everything. Blaine Tells a Story on His Health. j Washington, D. C. ? Blaine told a t good story "to a prominent citizen who | for certain reasons, does not want his i name mentioned," illustrative of the sen- t sational reports of his sickness which arc going about the country, and which lie i declares arc and have been for a year largely imaginary. I ' I have told this story before," said i Mr. Blaine, "but not with the present I application It is about a man who was i parrying something across the Fulton < street ferry in a box. Every now and thfin he would open the box curiously, peep in, and then close it mysteriously, llis nction excited the attention of a nat- , uralist who was seated near him, and who \ finally touched him on the elbow and ' said: . 44 'I beg pardon, but I am curious to know what you have got in that box. What is it?' 44 'Oh, I don't want to tell,' said tlio j man. 44 'Well, let me look in' said the ua'u- ' ralist. " Tin afraid to,' replied the stranger, it might get all over the boat.' 44 'Is it a savage animal?' 1 " 'Yes, kills everything.' Then ths 1 peeped in nga ?. Coming more curious the naturalist begged him to tell its J name. 44 'Its a kal-tna-roo,' lie said, 'from J v^ciurai Ainca?a very savngo ucasi; cats men and everything.' 1 " 'What do you feed it on?' inquired 1 the naturalist. " 'Snakes, sir; plain snakes.' " 'But where do you get snakes enough to feed such a ravenous monster?' said the eager man of science. " 'Well, sir, ray brother in B ooklyn lias the delirium tremens, anil when he *oes snakes by the thousand we just ntch 'cm and? " 'Oh that won't- do,' interrupted the naturalist; 'you can't feed a beast ou iru aginary snakes.' " 'Well, the fact is,' said the man, opening the box and blowing In it.'don't give it away, but this is au imaginary kal-maroo.' '"When the lid was taken oiT and the box looked into," said Mr. Blaine, "the correspondent discovers that my sickness is an imaginary kal-ma roo." Au English View of the Cottou Question. The Textile Mercury, of Manchester, England, is afraid that if 8 utlicrn cotton planters reduce the acreage iu cultivation the English cotton mills will not he able to get their raw material at the low pric< s now prevailing, and so it attempts to prove that there is no need to decrease the acreage. In its last issue it says* i iiu union growers are reported to do in trouble owing to the superabundance of their crops We suspect litis is a trouble that will be much easier to bear than a great deti icncy. As an illustratio ttike for instance the grain famine in Russia, and tits sufferings this is inflicting upon the poor peasants Suppose the cotton crop had failed in the American States as completely as the grain crop in Russia, what would have been the plight of the growers? We venture to say?a great deal worse than it is at present. Supposo that the cotton crop and that of last year had been each a million hales less than tliey have been, whilst the same outlay had been made upon them Take it that the present decline will tepresent an average drop through the two seasons of 20 per cent.?it w ill certainly not he more ? they have had a gain in the ptoduction of 2.1 per cent , which will have left them a handsome ptotit. Where then is the necessity for the agricultural commissioners of the cotton States to have adopted a joint appeal to tlfe those concerned to reduce tlie cotton acreage by 20 per cent., as we learn from Memphis that they have just done? Of course this appeal corresponds to appeals made to spinncis and manufacturers in Lancashire in times of pressure, hut is quite destitute of the like justification; and we don't expect it will be any more successful; therefore, the tra ic on this side need not run down to Liverpool to volutrccr |d. per pound more for the raw material they may require We hardly think the tnnl irou Sir f ! o \ I J # i i < fr?l' crtntl liii'il ion among cotton growers exceed those to be found on this side, or that a more successful result will attend this appeal. North Carolina and the World's Fair. The committee on collections, appoint ed by the Board of Agriculture, met in Raleigh. The preliminary arrangements for the educational exhibit were made and the committee will have the co-operation of the Snpt. of Public Education in making this exhibit, and the committee expects that the exhibit will be such as to represent the entire educational system of the State, the public and private schools, the colleges and the University. The committee also made preliminary arrangements for gathering together the exhibits in agriculture, horti cuiiure, iorcstry, mines and mining, general natural history and fish and fisheries, and the details of this work wcro turned over to specialists who will report at nn adjourned meeting of tho comcnittco on the 13th of next February. The members of tho committee present were President Peter M Wilson, Commissioners John Robinson, T. K. Bruner, Prof. J. A Holmes and I)r. II. B. Battle. Chased by Sixty Girls. Ciiattanoooa, Txnn., [Special.]?A rather good looking girl entered the second district schoolhouse and took somo hats. The teacher turned all of the girls out after tho thief, and tho citizens witnessed tho novel sight of sixty girls chasing a hat thief through tho streets. The thief escaped. Phe Mexican Revolutionist Means Fight. laid to bo ut Tho Head of a Biy Army and Will Begin a Desperate War in February. A dispatch li s been received front Del Rio, T< .\ , stH'iltg that (Jar/a is now >r? the Mexican side of tlie liver ncurtliat place and that he is ?t tlie head of an irtny of from 4.500 to too,000 well arm d and mounted Mexican revolntionists. Hands or from 25 to 100 men are joining him every day. It is fu>ther staled in the dispatch [hat Garza means light, and that the most desperate war Mexico has ever kuowo will he opened by February with an attack by the Garza men on the town of Las-Vegas, located just across the river froir. I)el Kio trying to capture gaitza. Camp Fitzsimmons, Tex.?Roth the state rangers and troops of the Tinted States army are making their way in the vicinity of I'ena It is umhustoood that Garza's rendezvous is 1 eated there, and [hat the Mate rangers were the first to liscovcr it As soon as word w as telegraphed to the A->jutant-General of TVxis, who is in the field that Garza was located, the entire forces, both Jitate and Federal, received orders to brctk camp sud march tc the scent of action. San Antonia, Ti.x. ?Gaiza has another hand in the Santa Rosa mountain country "f from I,S00 to 2,00(1 men, well armed and mounted, under command of General Francisco Sains, and it is a wellknown fact among all Mexicans v ho try to find ?ut anything nhoift the trouble that Garza will have at least two-thirds of the tutiie Mexican population on his side wlier. tlie nmtler riim.n In ?... which will be imtn dialely after the first fight will take |>lacc. Yesterday eightyfive Mexicans in one band, well equipped for war, headed for the Kio Grande to join Garza, passed through Souora, Sutton county, Texas. There is great ex citenicnt all along the upper part >f the border, not only among the Mexicans but among the Americans as weli. Hands of revolutionists meet at Souora daily ami organize. They are not molested, and are permitted to proceed on their way to Mexican ten dory. PENNINGTON AIR ~SHIP. To Build Ouo That Will Carry 50 Passongeis Across the Ocean iu Ono Night. Wasiunutox, I). (Special ] ? K I. Pennington, the inventor of the fa nous air ship that bears his name, is in be eity. For the past nine years he lias been engaged in stmLing the problem oi ciial navigation, and is confident that ie has tolvcd it. Mr. Pennington said bat a company comprising umiic of the wealthiest and most progressive citizens >f Chicago had been organized with a aid up capital of $:>0,000,000 to build be air ships. "We are engaged in constituting sev ral small ones," he said, "at our works : Mount Carmc', III., and e'er long will toeeed to manufacture a ship with 'aicli to crors the Atlantic and capable f carrying fifty passengers. The last .ill require about a year to complete. As .on > s it is finished 1 will < ross the ocean i it. In fact it is perfectly fens b'.o to avel in it all over the globe. We w 1! I i ible to go through the atmosphere at a rait 200 miles an hour. A man can go to sleep i i New York and wake up in London T .ere is hardly any limit to the uses to .. it'll it can be nil' A fm-mnr livin.. i09 miles from a city could load up a lol f ga <lc 11 truck, carry it to market, ant !y home - all in two hours time. Tin tails could be carried from New Yoil > hicago in live hours. Freight am I kimlsof articles could be let dowi .ito buildings by means of chutes con tiii|^ with the roofs. Carrying tin .tails will be one of the prime uses of llu :ir ship." "And what is your ship to be bttill -f r "Aluntnium. that marvellous meta whose peculiar properties make it cspe ia'ly adapted to aerial machines. It ias light as water, or nearly so. A sited of metal will float, though a solid chunk will sink. The houyancy chamber, car, ptopcllcr, engine, and ertiie ntachim will be made of aluminium " Mr. Pennington's machine will fl\ against tlie wind, and thereby solves j problem that has hitherto baffled till in ventors. The entire scientilic world ha> become interested in his experiments, and lie has had correspondence with sevcra leading European Governments about lib air ship. He says that Maxim, the fa in .us inventor of improved guns, is n! utAt-L (til ?? fli'tmt maoKino In u !???.!? I. ? ' ? ?..!< II III- Iessayingto imitate nature, taking a l>ire as a model. Mr. Pennington thinks thai Maxim will succeed to a limited o.xtcnl only, though ho does not doubt his ahili ty to prodoco a machine that will navi gate the air. So far from in juring the. business of railroads, Mr. Pennington it sure they will he called 011 t ? do mort traffic than ever. The telegraph did no cause people to cease writing letteis IT< contends that his nir ship will he indcti iiitclf snfer from accidents than the rail rend or steamship locomotion, and travc will he greatly cheapened, seeing that in roadbed will have to he kept up and in wear and tear of machinery. King Kotton at Augusta. Augusta, Oa.?Tho Carnival of Cot ton III. has begun If the expectation of the ardent citizens nro realized, thcr is at this moment "no gayer, no mor joyous city in the universe than Angus ta." The King was escorted into th city by the First Georgia Battalion am by other military and semi military 01 ganizntions, amid the ringing of all th bells of all the factories, while the streel were crowded with clrldrcn in mask and fancy costumes, and the houses dcr orated gayly with tho royal colors, pui pie and oiangc. Wednesday a gren pageant parades on Broad street, an Thursday was the occasion of the King ball. Great is King Cotton, and Ion may be reign! Great is bis favorite city August a, and long may she flourish I Tho Precious Stonesi of Nort^^^'^P Carolina. The precious ami rare stones of Noith Carolina, although constituting but a moiety of ti.c State's mineral wealth, have been unearthed in such variety and under such conditions as to lead to tho belief in the minds of many that sooner or later they will be found in abundance in nature's as yet hidden storehouse. Speaking of this recently, one who witnessed the scene told the following story, which the Manufacturer's Record thinks worth publishing: In the autumn of 1382 the Richmond & Danville Railroad Co. detailed Maj. C. C. Mcl'hail to make, at a Boston exposition, a display of tho resources of tho territory traversed by that line and its feeders. A splendid exhibition that attracted thousands of visitors was the result. Among tlnse one day was a cultivated, sweet faced and venerable geutlewoman of the best I'uritau stock who had bein induced by her son to go with him to see tho wonderful resources of the Piedmont Smth. Major McPhail has the courteous dignity of a Virginia gentleman of the old regime, the practical training and experience of this age of progress, and is a keen observer and au excellent judge of human nature. llo paid especial attention to the venerable matron and delighted her by his lucid explanations. Finally, after taking a number of specimens from his showcase and arranging them on the tables before lrcr, he said interrogatively: "You are familiar. inadaine, with St. John's description in the Book of Revelation of the precious stones os that great city, the holy Jerusalem?" "Yes, indeed," washer reply. "Permit me, then, to show them to you in this order," he said. "These an? not polished, as St. John saw them i_J his vision, but they are all here and were found in Western North Carolina. The first foundation was jaspu;. This ia it. ' The second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an ttnerald; the fifth, ssrdo >yx; the sixth, sardius; tho seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." As the speaker hatned them he handed each stone in turn to his interested visitor, aud when she had seen them all ho said: "Now, madam, you can have some faint idea of the glories that will ouc day he revealed to you." "Oh," said tire dear old lady, as she clasped her hands, while joy sparkled in her eyes, "Often and often I have tried to imajinc how that wall would look as 1 ilea reel the pearly gates, but 1 never expee od to see the stones of that licavculy foundation with these mortal eves. I thank Cod that He has given me this privilege, and 1 thank you, too, for your kindness." Turning' to Tobacco. Many of iliu Georgia cotton growers, who have been groaning over the low price of iheir crop, arc turning their attention to the tobacco plant, which may possibly be raised in the State with profit. There is now a great demand for tobacco seed in Georgia, and the St ito Commissioner of Agriculture says thai a vast amount of tobacco will be planted there this year. The Georgia Commissioners' opinion is | that the f inurs of the Statu should raise more grain than they have been in , the habit of raising, and we guess that , this is a sensible opinion. It is an opiu, j ion that was sustained by tho Cotton , 1 Growers' Couvculiou recently held iu I Memphis. | Cleveland Keeps His Mouth Shut. i New Oui.i:\ns, 1,a.? Ex President Clevelaud was seen at Joe Jefferson's i Lonu; on Orange Island, and in reply to I a question as to how he regarded the ac, tion of the New York Statu Dumoeratic Committee in fixing Feb. it'J, as the date of the convention said: "1 have every confidence in tho commit- T-' tee's ability to transact business." In t reply to a question as to whether he would write a letter defining bis poi sition on matters political, Mr. Cleveland said: "I have written many such lett ! tors, hut I cannot say what I may write in the future." Mr. Cleveland will lo.iva for home next week. Robbed Her While He Kissed Her. A Chicago special says: Miss Susie i Il'iy, of 14b West Madison street^ called 011 Justice Woodman, nnd, after request; ing a private interview, told tlie Justice I the wanted a warrant for the arrest of I Floyd Tyrell, a llalstend street clothing i clerk, on the charge of robbery. Miss Hay saiil that when Mr. Tyrrell left her a Sunday evening he placed one of his > arms around her neck, and, while in the 1 act or kissing her, abstracted a puivu I containing '20 from her dress pocket. i i lie warrant was isssueu and Tyrrell was a: rested. Alliance Election. ; Chicago, li.i. ?The election of officer* I of tlie Farmers' Alliance took place, and President Powers, of Nebraska, did not get enough votes for a third term. I>. Havens, of Washington, had far superior I strength. On the caucus ballot the voto o stood : Havens 70, Powers 58. Nebraska n thereupon conceded Power's defeat and moved to make the caucus nomination unanimous. This wus done forthwith. There was nothing to prevent, harmony in the vice-presidents' elections ami the s list was selected by acclamation. M.ev. wooerBUhurch to Cost $110,000, 0 J The new Second Prcab\terian church 1 now being built in Memphis, Tenn., of j which Rev. Ncnnder M. Woods, I). I)., c is pastor. It is situated on the corner of 3 two of the principal streets. It will cost s $110,000, not Including the lot. Tho ' I lower (loor of the audatorium seats 800 r- | people, and the gallery 400 Tire organ it | will cost over |C,0'J0 It will be situated d to the left of, and a little nbove tho pul'* pit An arch of 15 electric lights furg nishes light for the organ loft. The \ church will be one of the handsomest in the ?outh. 3 1H I