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Jfr V V 4s qperatlng orilciat who kuows about
^ Wiping-cart, their cost and profit, ro'
'?anaikcd recently to the Indiuuapolis
Kind.) Journal: "Slcepiug-cars pay big
money, and when ono knows the cost of
Operating thein it is uo wonder. A new
* car costs, good, stroog and modern, anyfcray
from $8000 to $10,000, a'though
Eou hear of them worth twice that sum.
fowevor, these costly cars don't get outBide
the shops. The railroad companies
pay three.cents a mile for the privilogo
x>l haulim them, and the car will average
300 miles in twenty-four hours the
year round, or $0 a day earnings. Say
' It oarns $3000 a year, a lo.v estimate, it
will pay for itself iu three years. Now a
ten-section cur has Iwcntv berths soiu.w.
j , "g
local at $2 a berth, making the earning
capacity par night $40, not couutiug tho
Jay earnings. Of course, sleepers don't
carry full loads every night, but if they
did not average teu passengers a dry wo
would haul them on our road. Now, wo
pay for ice, water and fuel and insure the
cars; that is, we repair them when
wrecked or injured. The sleeping-car
compauy pays a porter $25 a month at
tho most, ft conductor $1)0, and has to
furnish linen and soap. It is not difficult
to see how tho slecpiug-cur coinp?,uics
pay dividends."
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To illustrate the strength of tho prejudice
against corn in Groat Britain,
mention may bo made of an instaaco in
tho city of Glasgow, Scotland, where it
was proposed by a Member of the Poor
House Board to substitute maize for
costlier foorl in that institution. The
mere suggestion brought a storm about
his cars, because of his inhumanity in
thrusting upon defenseless paupers a food
which was only lit for pigs. American
canned goods of all kinds are largely
sold in Europe, but canuud corn is almost
never seen there. If a demand
(or it could bo created it would inea i
hundreds of thousands of dollars yoarly
to the proprietors an 1 workers of our
canneries. Agents of the Department of
Agriculture have been exhibiting tho
cereal in this form also abroad with the
hope of teaching the people to liko it.
Wherever corn dishes of various sorts
have been prepared and distributed by
them they have been receive 1 so favorably
as to give good grounds for confident
expectation in this regard. The
use of the potato, the tomato and tho
tobacco plant, nil of American origin,
lias spread through Europe and added to
the comfort and happiness of millions.
There seems to be more hope for corn
now than there was for any of tlio9e
commodities at the beginning
M. do Varigny gives iu the Paris
Tlnvue (Ins den* Mnni'lua n nl ?A1* aun'Muof
account of the events of the Chilean war,
which the conflicting reports of ue.vspaper
correspondents have left vague in
most minds. While lie blames the conduct
of Balmacedn, ho regards much <>f
what has happened as the almost in^
* evitablc outcome of the opposition of
English and American ideas and influence,
which, working as they have
worked together in the evolution of the
Chileau Rcpublic,hadcieatc la condition
of things under which it was impossible
for a people so naturally vigorous to continue.
Chilean parliamentary institutions
are impregnated, according to M.
de Varigny, with the monarchic t! spirit
of England, from which co.intry they
were copied. But this monarchical systotn
has for its own crown an autocratic
President, whose powers were gmuted
to him under American inilncnco, an 1
whose position in the Constitution was
rnni?'fl frrwn tlmf i>? f ln? I'nsiiliint i?f tlin
United States. The two institutom
caunot work together. Ililmncudi only
followed in his unconstitutional practices
the "deplorable deviations'' of all
his predecessors, and one of the results
of the war is likely to be a revision of
machinery of Government which may
bring the powers of the President and
the Parliament into a more logic il relation
to each other. Too Chiloau war,
In fact, has been, in M. Varigny's reading
of it, a war between the force \vh ich
mado for closer union with the United
States and thono which male for the
supremacy of English influence; the
English forces have won, and with Iheir
victory the dreams of the three Americas
united noainst. the world loses all chance
of realization. The indignation of
Chile, ho continues, has bee 1 stirrc I
gainst the United States,and too deeply
?' * heale l, ami
1811to J)?y the l?*t <*'l tribute
not hciSi1.""' wor,il !UI' .i ,u'- v 'C(M "
ns.
casions. No Wot. Mtfnl sfrvai*. enter tin
of tho department, who
Washington a fortnight ago,
recommended that increased rewards he
offered for the capture of such criminals.
SSSBSmw and Di?-'
PotomabTo
tile Quif.
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'' Roanoke is to have a match factory.
The Danville Fire Insuruuco Company
' has been organized.
Another uationahbauk is being organized
at Harrisonburg.
Norfolk has a now bank called the City
National, with $200,000 capital stock.
The Book-Sellers' Association met at
Richmond last week.
More attention is now being paid to
stock raising iu Louisa.
Twenty-seven marriage licenses were
corned during January in Bedford county.
Senator Daniel delivered a lecture in
Charlottesville for the benefit of the Confederate
veterans of that city.
The Barig Iron Works of Buena Vista
made an assignment Thursday, with liabilities
of $80,000.
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tion convention convened at Richmond
Thursday with 145 delegates present
Eighty years ago there were less than
1,000 lambs raised yearly iu l'ulaski
county for the northern markets; now it
will average about 10,000. Then the
lambs averaged not over 00 pounds; now
from 75 to 80 pounds.
The Chesapeake Ohio Railroad Co.
has given a contract to the Richmond Locomotive
and Machine Works for 25 locomotives.
which makes 40 ordered by
that road of this company. It was only
a few years ago when Southern railroa Is
were compelled to buy all their engines
in the North.
Farmers' Bulletin No. G, in press at
the Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C , treats of the cultivation
and curing of tobacco. It is written by
Joliu M. Estcs, a practical tobacco raiser,
nuu uas icceuny inane a carciui siuny oi
the subject in the tobacco raising States
Any one can procure the pamphlet by
writing for it.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Tlio bank of North Wilkcsboro will
open up March 1st.
Salary of the mayor of Winston lias
been increased to ^ 1,000.
The new Atlantic Coast Line machine
shops are to lie built at Rocky Mt.
Salisbury i> about making an organ
i/.ed movement again t the saloons.
The State Sunday School Association
meets in New Berne March 29th.
Average death rate iu eleven tcwni of
Ninth Carolina is 10.0 for the whi ?s per
1,090, anil 17 4 for the blacks.
Juo. T Patrick lias been notified by
the Commissioners of Agriculture to
"move his plunder" from the Agricultural
building at Raleigh.
Governor Holt is at Haw River, where
his aged mother is quite sick.
J. I). Bridges, dry goods merchant ?f
Shelby, has assigned. Liabilities about
#10,000; assets #5,000.
The First and b'eeoud regiments of the
State Guard arc to encamp in July at
Wrightsville, the Third aud Fourth iogiments
ut Ashcville.
Dr. Albert B. Ilait. professor of Ainer
icau History ut Harvard University, is
delivering a series of lectures at Chapel
Hill before the faculty aud students of
the State University.
Governor Holt olTcrcda rewnrd of $200
for It. L. Askew, a white man who in
llcrtic county n?uriVred Charles Hardy,
also \\ hito. It is believed Askew tied to
Virginia.
in Lewis Fork township, Wilkes county,
Amos and Matt Ilatnby got drunk
and had a row. The latter received ten
knife wounds and will die
ltov W k. 1* burner Riyuti, pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Asheville, has
received a call to Cincinnati with a salary
of $5,000. lie has it under advisement.
Sheriff J. It. Smith, of Cumberland,
completed his settlement of State taxes,
paying to the State Treasurer $0,080.95.
He is the (ifty fust sheriff tj settle iu full.
Jaunty Crankfield, of Wilkes county,
dropped dead the other day, aged 80
years, llo made a request sometime before
his death that his body be buried iu
a "Republican graveyard."
Ceo. A. Shuford, of Ashevdle, the
newly appointed Judge of the 12th dis
tilet, vice Judge Mcrrimon, resigned,
was born iu Henderson county, and is
about forty years of age. lie studied
law at Dick and Dillinrd's law school at
Qreensboro. and after obtaining license,
located in Waynenvide, Haywood county,
moving to Aslicville in 1882.
Castor Popo, of Hatt'eboro,
went to New York to buy "grecu
goods" and got scooped for
$500. The scoopeis generously gave him
$15 and he got home ou it He i9 pros
trnted with grief.
The sale of hickory timber at Rock
well, Rowan county, lias amounted to
nearly nine thousand dollars this winter.
This industry has brought a lot-of money
to Rowan. The timber is shipped to
various points iu the Slate, and is used
in making spokes, handles, etc.
BUUlil UAK' LINA.
The year book of tlie City of Charleston
for 1890 has just been issued
Governor Tillman offered a reward of
$50 for the captuie of the person who
burned the barn of J. P. Cook, in Newberry
county.
A stage line is to bo established between
Orangeburg and the nearest station
on the Houth Bound railroad.
There is a movement on foot to form a
new county out of portions of Orange,c
th> Berkeley county with Holly
and <>ur prieei.
H. K. SMITH CJhinston
j.? 20 0
As a
' nearly all o.
crvicc returned to <|fc??*i{le from * raid <
in Ocooeo afcri-Pickens dmiiitfes. He ucstroy*d
four illic t distilleries and live
Iprudrcd gallons of b?3 and miwli.
A scheme is on foot nt Greeuville nnd
will l>o carried out to build a magnificent
new opera house by qtganizing a branch
of a northern building uud loan association.
A meeting of the prominent citizens of
Pickens was held and a company organized
to build a railroad from Pickens to
Easley, where a connection will bo made
with tho Kichmoud and Danville road.
The East Shore Terminal Co. Las decided
to iucrca'e ihi bonded indebtedness
by an issue of (Kinds to the amount
of $200,000, also to inc rease the capital
stock of the company $200,000.
The Wolfe & Tiger Mining Co., incor
pointed br the last legislature, is devel
oping, gold mines in Greenville and Spar
tiiiburg counties, and is having surveys
made f><r a canal to be constructed four
miles in length.
Another fatal accident occurred in the
Northeastern railroad yard, Charleston,
by which C. A. O'lJrian, acting yardmaster,
was crushed to death while coupling
cats. The deceased w.is 22 years old.
He will be seut to Sineath, on the South
Carolina railway for burial.
OTHER STATES.
Greenville, Miss., special sa\s: "Duo ?
clue Ferguson, son of Gen. S. W. Fcrgu- ]
son, shot uud killed Jaiues Goodman,
merchant and larir : lilanter. Goodman's
brother wiis also wounded. The alTray
o roiled at Leosburg, Miss., twcuty
mites from here." ,
Among the speakers at the meeting of ]
ihe Southern Educational Association at ]
Atlanta, July 5-8, will he President <
Winston, of the State University; Frcsi- ,
deut James IJinwiddie, of Peace Insti- ,
lute, Ruloigh, and President C. I). Me- \
Iver, of the Normal aud Industrial School \
f. r White Girls,% at Gtcetisboro. These i
gentleman will well represent North Car- i
olina. I
Fish Planting in North Carolina ,
Streams. i
Newton, N. C. ? 1 Jr. Josephii9Turner, I
of Shcrrill's Ford, takes much iuterest in 1
tisli and has been corresponding with 1
Concressmau Henderson with regard to \
stocking the Catawba river. The fol- ]
lowing reply of the Commissioner of Fish 1
and Fisheries to one of Mr. Henderson's
coniinuiiieations, which is furnished us
by Dr. Turner, will he of interest to many
readers, especially those nloug the Catawba
and Yndk u rivers:
Hon. Joiin 8. IIkndeuson, Homo of
Representatives,
Dkaii Sik: ?Replying to yours of January
l'Jth, I beg to say that in June, 1880,
305,000 slnnl fry were deposited in the
Catawba river, tear Morganton, N. C.
In December, 188-t, 500 red-eye perch
were planted in ttie Yadkin river near
Salem; and during the same month 2,455
carp were put in the sane stream near
Salisbury; also, in January, 018 yearling j
rainbow trout were deposited therein. 1
have directed these streams be placed on
our list for deoosit of shad in ilie <ti*iii.
button of die aperies next spring. Should
you desire thai notice in rcfcreuce to the
planting be given to any of your cot- '
stitueiils, please fu.wnrd name and address
to this ollice.
Very rt spcctfully,
M. AIcDonai.d, Commissioner.
Atlantic Coast Lino Violates the
law.
Washington, 1> O., 1 P.pccial.]?The i
Tnler-State Comma *ee Commission has
made a decision in favor of the complainant,
in the t tse of Charles !?. Perry
against the Flori.ia Central and Peniusular
Company and oilier roads forming
the Atlantic Coast Line. The conditions
affecting rates on strawberries from Florida
points to New Vork are compared
with those connected wi h the transpor
talion of oranges and other freight carried
in the same trains, and the Commission
rules that the rates for forwarding
strawberries from Florida to New
York city should not exceed 3.33 per
hundred pounds from Callahan, Flu , to
New York, and from Lawtry, Hammock
ltidgc, and other stitions inorc distant
from New Vork than Callahan; anil
through rates should not be in excess of
the charge from Callahan, and should he
filed with the Commission and published
according to law. The Commission
nlso reaffirms its power to determine
what rates arc reasonable, and in regard
to damages it holds that the measure of
reparation is the difference between the
rate charged and the reasonable rate
winch should ha\c been charged. The
defendants are ordered to bring their
freight from Law try and all points to
Callahan in conformity with the long ami
short haul provision of the law, and fault
is found with the practice of charging a
thr 'Ugh rate and adding a local rate to
or from a local point upon a through
shipment intended to he continuous.
Killed in Trying to Save Her Sister.
W hkki.ino, W. Va., (Special.) ?A
terrible accident occurred at Cameron,
near this city, in which two beautiful
young girls, daughters of William Criswell,
lost their lives, one of them while
heroically attempting to save the other.
Essie and (Jeorgiana Criswell, aged lespe
tfully fourtecu and sixteen, wete
walking along the Baltimore and Ohio
track, and while attempting to cross in
front of a westbound train Essie fell
when the engine was almost upon iter.
(Jeorgiana, seeing net- sister's dar.gci
and i "iinri 111' : ho fm i ?!??? dw. ?it. .? ?
- f r> """"(^
was almost certain death, rushed '.o her
rescue, hhe, too. slumided, and wti3
killed. Kssie was cut in two by the
wheels. ____
Lynching nt Rcanokf).
Roanokp, Va Karly Friday morning
a mob of lr)0 persons took Win. Lavender,
tlie negro who was confined in the
polico station here for an attempt assault
on Alice Perry, a whit girl, and hanged
him to a tree. Lavender confessed b$'ore
uo was hanged,
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3apt. Alexander Hit' a Rill. Which |
He Thinks Will Regulate the t
Cotton Acreage.
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Washington, D. C.?"Impossiblo to y
control it; useless speculation to consider
it,'' emphatically and tersely yeplied '
Sydenham 11. Alexander, of the sixth
listrict of North Carolina, when asked if 1
:oucertod reduction in acreage was the 9
-cmedy for the prevailing depression in
:otton. (
"Wc cau't uinke cotton in my part of J
North Carolina under 9c.," Mr. Alexao
Icr said.
"What is your remedy for tho present
:oudition?" lio was asked. t
"This," he replied.
Mr. Alexander producers-bill which t
s before the committor?o? "waya and (
ncaus. Tho proposition ia as concise as s
'.he author's speech. The most important i
provides "that all vessels built within 1
lie United States by citizens thereof, aud t
ahollv owned aud manned by citizens of 1
:lin llliitpil Ktntna onir.nlnn i?? *
....?, ?o"o--n ,",v,8u
:ommcrce, shall be allowed to cuter Hud t
lischargc their returning cargoes at any t
port of the United States, free of all con- I
lour duties; provided, that said vessels I
shall have carried full outgoing cargoes 1
rrorn the United States, three-fourths at t
least of which cargoes consisted of ugri- j
cultural products of tho United States." t
rite other sections simply provide regu t
lations to curry out this idea. t
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The nine third party Alliance member* s
>f Congress?Simpson, Otis, linker, Da- 1
fis ami Clover, of Kansas, Kctr nud Mc- <
Ivcighan of Nebraska, Uallowcll of Min- t
aesota, nud Watson of Georgia?held a t
conference, and a declaration was drawn t
up to be issued as a manifesto to their 1
constituents and the country. It declares I
that these gentlemen propose to Hock by t
themselves hereafter and denounces the t
Livingston faction for going into the old t
party lines. Tho S inpsou-Watson fac- c
lion want it undcrs'ood that from this (
time on they are third party men, and <
not to be reckoned as sum to support the t
party measures of either pnrty. Con- i
jrcssman Clover of Kansas has in prcpar- c
ntiou a bill, to be introduced iu a day or i
so, which he says will warm the cockles <
of the Alliance heart. It is a bill provid- (
iug that- cvwy State shall own all rail- |
roads in its borders and operate the same- i
A full programme for the conduct of <
those new State enterprises will be set <
f ...1. l.V. ? i ' '?
luini. j-mn per cvui. 01 an proms arc 1
to l>e laid aside as a repair aud mainte- i
nance fund, and the residue is to fatten <
Llie public treasury, and iu that way to i
lower taxes. Mr. Clover claims that his j
scheme will make travel cheaper; that I
railrou-d tickets will bo sold for 20 per i
cent, of the present tariff, and that, as a
direct result, many moro people will triyv- <
el and more freight will be shipped, aud (
I he aggregate of receipts will be larger
lhau ever. i
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RESOLUTIONS OF MECKLENBURG ALLIANCE. t
Resolved, That we adopt tho Caroliun
Watchman as the orgau of the Meckleuburg
County Alliance.
2. That we endorse the principles laid
down the in Ocala platform iu to to, and
the sub Treasury especially.
3. That we endorse our National President
and worthy North Carolinian, L. L.
Poik.
4. That we endorse our national editor,
Dr. C. W. Macune, and recommend
the taking, and urge the rendirg of national
organ, the National Economist,
so ably conducted by hint, by all Aliiancemen
and liberty loving citizens.
5. That we arc in hearty sympathy
witii our Western Alliaucu brethren and
will be found solid, side by side with
them at the ballot box next. November,
voting for reform and pure government.
C. I hut ?*e recognize co-opcratiuu in
business essential to success, aud, as out
State Alliance lias successfully inaugurated
a business system, and each Alliance
business agent do his trading through
our State a ircnc v as far as nrneticnl
O I *"**"
Fraternally,
L. M. McAi.i.ister, Scct'y.
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A V ISE MOVE IN GEORGIA.
One of the best moves that has been made
in the South tosecurc a good class of immigrant
farmers has just been inaugura
ted iu Putnam county, (da., by some enterprising
citizens, who have organized
the Middle (ieorgiu Land Co. with a
capital stock of $50,000. Subsfiip?w?t;s
to the capital stock are to be in laud and
money The company will purchase
good farming property and divide it into
100 acre farms. On each farm a comfortable
residence will be built and such
improvements made ar will enable n tcnaut
( r purchaser to begin active farrning
operations as soon as be takes poseasion.
Tlie Atlanta Constitution, in giving
some details of the plans of operations
of tlie company, says:
"The intention is to sell these farms to
desirable settlers on long time and easy
payments, thereby securing industrious
and tinifty immigrants Put home people
wid not be shut out foil) the benefits
of this scheme. Farmers who have
licretof ic rented land may, in u r< nson1
il- ^ - - * * ?
uviu icngiii 111 nine, own a uirin 01 nicir
own, paying for it an annual sum not
exceeding the amount of their rent uotes.
Thus renters who have been living from
hauil to mouth and moving about in the
hope of bettering their condition will be
enabled to iccurc homes of their own and
pocket the prntits of their labor.
"The opt-iulions of the company will
not be confined to one county, but will
embrace several counties. The result of
tin- movement will add largely to the
number of small farms, and give to the
section interested a large increase of the
white pcpulation. Incidentally it will
be the means of settling the labor question.
In seeming emigrants the new
company will have the active aid of
W. (Jlessner, who h>s scored considerable
success in this direction. He has
already brought a large number of homcscckers
to Georgia from toe Northwest
sailed an experiment. Its purpose ia
slear, and its plan so aitaplo and
ions', that it can hard!} (ail of succ<
We truat that other fteeUoaa <5f the 8t
will follow the State will follow this'
tin pie." *
Tbo hope which tbo Const itutfitJ'
?roases thst other counties in Oeoi
will follow this example is applicable
he whole Smth. The organisers of t
:ompanv have preseuted a good pi
which every part of the Bouth may ad
with great profit.
! THE SOUTHS DEVELOPMENT.
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h Good Showing For Tho Pi
Week.
The Manufactu!crs, Record, of Ha
norc, in its issue of Fcbruavv 13. says:
"While there is no marked ineroiisc
he organization of now industrial 'ml
irises throughout tlie South, there i
toady, solid advance, and also a git
ng coutidcucc with the leading cupi!
sts of tho country tliat thu South is
>est field in America for invest me
klany plans of great magnitude are bei
vorked out, and with a return of acti
y iu investment and business interests
he eouutry at large the South will ag
leconic the center of development, ?
uture operations will probably be o
arger scale and by heavier capitali
huu anything which the South has s<
ct. Among the more impoi tant tint!
akings reported during the week
he very cxteusivc iron and steel mak
ind town building operations to bo c<
nenced by Alex. A. Arthur, the fouu
>f Middlcsborough, in counectiou \\
oino of the foremost iron tnakers ti
argest capitalists of tho North '1'
mterprise, or rather these combined
erpnses, will probably draw not 1
hau $10,000,000 into that section wit
he next 13 or IB mouths. At Tuscaloi
Via., $250,000 coal and coke compauy
>ecu organized, in counectiou with t
ructspreviously made,to secure a railn
,o navigablo water on the Warrior rii
hus openirg a water route from A lab;
:oul fields to the (Julf; a $00,000 <
:oiupany has been organized in She
rouuty, Ala.; a knitting mill will be
noved from thoNertli to Bridgeport, Al
it Oca'n, Fla , it is reported that a syu
rate with a capital stock of $1,000,1
will establish 8 huge tobacco factorie:
;ompany is being organized to c.stab
i bleachury in Georgia; a $1,000,000 c<
any lias been incoi'i orated in Louisvi
Ky.. to deal in timber lands, and a i
)00,000 company in Kentucky to j
:hnse and develop oil and mineral Ian
in Frankfort, Ivy., a $500,000 distill
company has been incorporated ;Mai ie
3a., is to have a large furniiure facti
i $250,000 kaolin company has been
{uni/.ed in 1 ukc county, Fla ; a $15,
furniture factory company in Grecnvi
3. C. ; a |60,000 ice factory in Shu
port, La.; a $000,000 company is be
organized to purchase and develop I
)00 acres of Kentucky coal lands, i
Ure Norfolk & Western milioad lmsj
secured $2 000,000 in New Yoik
pushing the work on its Ohio ox I en*
riore rapidly. These are signs wl:
bow how the outlook is improving."
EX-GOVERNOR SCALES DEAD
Ho Fasses Away at His Homo
Greensboro,
Ghf.kksuoro, N C.?Ex-Govei
Alfi cd Moore Scales died at his horn
9 05 Tuesday night. lie was I
November 2Ctli, 1N27, in Rocking!
county, lie served in Congress one t
before the war and for five cousecu
terms after the war. lie entered
Confederate army as a private, was
many of the most important battles
that conflict, was twice wounded and
fore the close of the < oldest was crei
brigadier-general. In 1SS1 be was c
I...I '.t Xr~-.il. / II-? 1
IV?? VH?*VHIV7I Ul .MJIIII \/illUIIIIII UY
jority of 20,000. After hi* term oxp
lie rclircd to private life, nml lias *>
been interested in tiiiaiicial cutcrpri
being at tlie time of liis death prc-sit
of the Bank of (Ireensboro. He lias I
very ill for many months, and his d<
was not unexpected.
The funeral took place at 11 oYl
Thursday from West Market Street l1
hyteriun church, the pastor, Rev. l)i
Henry Smith, conducting the excrci
At 10.30 o'clock nil hells of the city
gan to toll and so continued for hal
hour. The pall bearers were Messrs
S Michaux, It M. Douglas. It. It K
Dr. It. I*'. Dixon, D Selienck, .Jr.,
I*. Bynum, Jr., S 'I rogdon. J.
Morehead, J. A. lbtriiiigcr, J. N. \
son, Dr. !). H. Sch.enck, Hubert Vaugl
Olov. T. M. Iloit and s'.alT were prei
at the funeral.
Free Puss Excitement.
Richmond. Va.?A bill introduce
few days Hgo making John E. Masi
superintendent of public instruction,
officio inemher of tiie board of visitor
the deaf and dumb institutions and
of the university, tame up. Sen
Flood, of Appomattox, opposed the
on two grounds, the first cf wlfch
that Massey was the officer to which
boards made their reports which unfi
liiin to serve; the second and main
jection was that, though paid $.?!)0
annum for expens s by the Statu. Ma
regularly traveled on free railroad pas
and hoarded w ith the professors of <
tional institutions while he charged
Ftute for railroad faro and hotel L
Flood read some of th itemized 1
making these charges against the S
and also a letter asking for $70 f
from Prof. Lomax to defray his (Masse
expenses ba k from Alabama, where
had j'.iijt been n#?."r;c?'!. A ?~,oiiiiiiiiiee
appointed to investigate the report.
Albert Fink to Bo President.
New York.?There is a good nutli
ty for the statement' that when the i
ganization of the Richmond Tciin
property is completed, A1
Kick, the former trunk line commissi
cr, wiil be offcied tiie presidency of
new corporation. The Olcolt commi
has completed its work, ami the pla
reorganization prepared by it will pr<
bly be made public io a day or two.
y vi
, x. 1 *
o T?r*d and Belovod Ooufed- wefi
r?- arete Leader. y ?*~j
The "Life and Letter* of Q?n. Thul . \i0
ei J. Jackson T>y hit wife, Mary AnunJacK* wish t
ton," bM boon issued from tho press qf Mm
Harper & Bros., with au introduction ty uiinuti
Hov. Dr. llcnry Field. only ii
U'B Writing from the other tide Dr. Field jai.^8,
t? says, "The time has couro wljcu wo csfci ?ot ^
'?* do justice to those whh aeto ouco ^ the m
?? arms against us." "It ia**<mly a fotr 4>f t|l0
?Pl months since (.Ion. 6hermkn was boriw Knglii
through our streets, and among those #i|ol, ,
who followed at his bier was his gre^t cjen,j,
adversary, Hen. Johustou, who, by a sin- hauler
gulir coincidence, survived him but a ruo,^,
. few weeks. Thus the warriors who onoe W|U fj
'to battle rodo' nt tho head of hostile jlw cxj
armies, now fall iuto liuo iu tho great 8Unuo
Iti- procession to that realm of sileuco its wliate
which all ouaiitica are buried." intero
i in In this bearing of our great soldiers m>riou
er towardaoach other, they who wero "first p0int
is a i" war" were also "first in peace," ami ??ovor
>w- ii ?cn won umi mey snou.u rental u "tirsi |t
Lai - in tho hearts of their countrymen," as yyj,
llu> the leaders whom we are to follow in tho
nt. work of reunion Why, then, tecall the maxin
ing bitter mcinnries of a war that is ended? ,jr,.ss
[vi- "JLct the dead past bury its dead." But out |?t*?-|?a
i iu of the ilead past comes the living present. WUH;
uin "It is a poor reconciliation which is ob- Holve
,iul tained by ouly agreeing never to speak of |jf0 jt,
ii || the past." "Men who are honest and
Hts brave havo nothing to lie ashamed of. jon xv
L.v|, and nothing to conceal." Lessons of -p),,
It!-, heroism, of patriotism, of patient en bir- |.\|St
arc ranee may be learn? d from illustrious and f
jug examples on both sides, the blessed finds S'-coii
,i?. of which are to broaden character, to en- vutioi
der large sympathy, and to teach respect for
itli a foe who honestly and courageously dit- \y\
for* from us. .??l ,|
iiis Already "Stonewall" Jncksop has he- j
vu. come a national hero, uod the North 11{?
less (without tlie tender lovo uod hero-wor
hin *bip for him that inspires every Southern toldisa,
heart,) proudly claims him &a tho highest :uu| ']
has type of an American soldier. Dr. Field ..
on- "ays: "lie was the most picturesnue i'age?
Dad figmc of the war. None of tho other .,u t|
;cr, leaders luul a personality so unhpio. In jj?. K|
,m;i Jackson, there were two men in one that awav
.,,.,1 seemed absolutely iucoinpntiblo- the tains,
11,^ highest military genius, with a religious retun
iw fervor that bordered on fanatacisin, a ?i,c tl
Irt . union of soldier nml suint for which wf |jf,. |,
lt| I * must go hack to the time of Cromwell. n
[)l(0 His ? haracter is oue of the most fuscina . hey
,. n tint; studies of Amcricau history." died
The world has heard so much of Jack- jlUt u
)|n. son through two previous Biographies, p,
jHt. that it will hardly be prepared for the ,,f p,
11 ' revelation that awuits it in the charming were
,ul'_ hook before us. Its purpose is not to re- t|l(;
,js. iterate what has already been said by j,,.,. a)
lt.,y able and loyal pens, nor to portray in OIH. ?
p.j fresh coluinus the matchless Confederate wjj| |
'! hero, but to disclose to the public, for .,assj,
,j, the lirst time, another phase of his charjwja
acter, not less attractive because so dif doss
II,. fereut from the "iron man of war," as wor|i
,v,.' many have only regarded him. Another ,,f mil
jl|tr beautiful illustration of the lines that, 1,1,,, j
y,," "The bravest arc the tenderest, heart
L>(^. The loving ure tlie daring." j? |,js
j,ls| His "inner life known but to few, dis ,|C1U.(
j-,,, closed fully only to her who was united -p,, ju
jlH| to him in the closest of human relation- limj t
,jc|, ships, is by her beautifully and delicate- |j|s( |
ly unveiled for the wonder and adinira- Wouh
tion of thousands who never knew him, mur ,
und of many who met him in the clash ,|CVot
l# of arms aud on fields of carnage." Mrs. |;,
Jackson, in her preface, gracefully and yCani
louchingly gives her reason* for the pub- j-,,) p(
*D licatiou of these memoirs and letters. orv
The work was undertaken at the earnest
nor solicitation of her now sainted daughter, (,|,j
o fit the lovely Mrs. Julia Jackson Christian, ,llore
torn who, especially after she bccuiue a moth- |,rj?||
!iam er, felt such a desire that her children p'ipei
crni might know more of the jm.)U
tivc domestic life of their illustrious Hj,ol,|
the grandsire than they could ever learn otli- (|j(| ,
in erwise than through this book. She,too, not'o
of had known the father only at second amj h
be- band; Iter historian had been the loyal te|1,p
itcd mother, from whose lips she daily lis- vt.a|0
dec- tcned lo some sweet reminiscence and j0 jlt.
ma- reali/.ed. as vears nnssoil nn . ? et?u?r ?...
i ? - ' i 7 l liov
ired quttiutuucc with, and appieciaton of, the WOini
incc the matchless father, whom God "called ..ytS
ises, up higher" Indole she hud learned to lisp |y 0
lent hit name. 8hc "with gontlo footsteps J ,, 0
iccn followed him. even i s he followed a <ou
;ath Christ, into the Upper Sanctuary before r()?(|
the work was completed. With heart of al0 a,
ock lead, and hands that seemed t? have lost luj|i(
'res- their cunning, Mrs. Jackson resumed ?|-|
r. J. her sad but sacred task, inspired by her la- Hj/t,
ses mentcd daughter's wish,ami the prayerful |IO)1'k
be- hope that the motherless lambs might he
f an spared to read, to admire, and emulate aj60 ,
his grand example. Most worthily and the ri
m?f> even toucliiugly has she completed her more
W. "labor of love.Her style is chaste and phies
' vivacious, and is peculiarly adapted to war.
^ 'I' biography? a socMcs of composition that "writ
,mn- issooitci heavy, even in the hands of ^
sent mod,, experienced or p eteiitious wr.ters.
O'cn Ja< ksou's life was of rouise full of
advenluie, and of incidents All this Oil
n inu.iv iiiwii uitu am 111<-?<m.i iiy unci- (iratli
woven by the cnthudastic uutlior. ami his re
' forms an unusually attractive book. w,lH ''
Two points of character at ron^ly i in pi ess ateil s
tx" the render One is tin- deep tenderness tlio la
s.? end a lied ion of his nature a romunlic out ol
s'j love for his wife tint never fails or varies L'niu
a. . ' ?combined with complete unfieliishncss passu
" ?in fact, cntiie self abnegation to love made
V."v or to duty; the other is, his inleuss re robin
ligious character. It was not a profes- w
e' siou it w.tn a life permeating his being, SOutl
? ' and entering into every detail of his daily XV;,s
' life. It was often remarked, during the mcut
SS(,y wnr, that it was hard for a man to be u
ises, Chiistian in the amy, where Ids t* inptaj.u*
tious were so great and so multiform, but Th
...lC' here is a marvellous example of the Chris- to fu
tian soldier nevei too tired or too hur- of th
" s ricd to piay- alio, in the heat of action, mnki
a e amid storm of shot and shell, so ofteu have
,ni ra scd his eyes in devout supplication to to at
the God of batt'es Kpisi
was This latter characteristic is strikingly conij
testified to by his colored servant, Jim, $15,1
who said he could alwuvs tell when there buih
whs goiuh to be a battle Slid be: 'The Hupt
General is a groat mail for praying, morn- terpr
ioii- in# and night?all times. Hut when I ye?i>
oor- 8c<- him get up several times in the night of et
iual besides, and go off and pray, then I ?Q j
bert know there, in going to he something to pot/,
ion- and I go straight and pack his haversack,
the because I know lie will call for it in the W
ttee morning " No wonder that success Tenr
n of crowned the efforts of one who felt that the a
>ba- ''in the b>rI icds his strength." "If the laws
Lord be lor us, who can be agaiust us'<" la ;h
vt mjr OOB qould read t ltd Ml
? I* a Chrlitian. ? ^
Jncksou has. happily, given 4o
s accounts of battles, and they ft re
atroduced as forming a |>?\rt of den*
)n's life, from which they could
i dissevered. The first diopters of
emolr ore devoted to a hriof history
.lockson ancestors ?people of old
?li and Scotch Irish stock, n delinsof
whose sturdy, vigorous natures
I? reveal whence the great military
inherited his indotui table will, his
I' and trampiil courage. "The hoy
itlier of the man." In childhood, +
lihits wonderful determination in
untirg ohstaeles and Accomplishing
vcr he undertakes. This is voijf >t , ^
stiugly nan a tod in his trying oxico
when Attempting to enter West
, his suliHOtpient trials, and dual A. *
coming" of tliein nil hy the end of
ur years' career as a cadet,
ilw in the military academy he comfor
his own use a set of rules anil
as, relating to morals, tnauti'zrs,
choice of friends and aims in life,
ps the most cliaru? tot islic dC these
"You insy l?o whatever you roto
lie.*' Another was: "Through
t your principal object he the dise
of duty. Disicgnrd public opiulicn
it interferes with duty."
jn there conies "M' iivis to Action,
regard for one's own h'nppiucas,
or the fumily in which you live,
id, stri' y to attain a very liigh elo,
,.r .11,...-... i?.. n...i - i.i.i.
ion."
tli such lofty resolves ho could do
lure. Wliul an example for young
i career in the Mexican war 1846 to
is pleasantly, but not lengthily
his subsequent years of usefulncu
happiness an a professor in the VirMilitary
Institute, his two mari
are foil of interest ami till his lifo,
ic shadows of 1H61 railed hitu ia
niug to the ttormy Hcencs of war,
from the peaceful neat in tho innunto
which he was destined never to
n. The interest never (lags through
tree years, in which we count his
y ilmfs, not yearn, till tho fatal
, when at the very ctiinnx of hia
a shot from th so who would have
for him, palsied the strong arm and
n untimely end to his grand career.
Field says: "Next to his thought
at and ac knowlodgement to Him
thoughts of the dear ones at homo
young mother with his child in
rins. All his heart was Centered in
pot. Many who read these pages
ic surprised at the revelation of his
mate love of home, to which ho was
to return, though lie was never to
its threshold imam. While tlio
I saw only Ilu> soldier w ith hi? coat
til over his breast, k^yni.? " i m
rest saw uprirT if a grehl human
Aho\j>4tll to hur who lookad up
i face Jffuh perfect trust-and conti
U'f'l face was open as the day.
:r this mail of iron was the gentlest
elide rest of all human beings, whose
bought was always for her; who
I not ''that even the winds of sumshould
visit her too roughly." Such
ion cannot lie forgotteu even after
ipse of u quarter of a ceutury. The
inghcj.it turns to thcpist?the faithimiiii
carries with it a great incuiud
a great alTcction.
s bhesits hv her desolate fireside, the
ays come again, mid they are once
in the home that was always made
t by the sunshiuo of his presence,
il with such memories, it is hut thv
Ise of loyalty to the dead, that she
d w ish others to kuuw him as .</(?
lint the world should know liiiu
nly as the t>oldier, but as the man,
iliould know all the gentleness and
irness in that lion heart. Thin is re?
d nowhere so clearly as in his letters
r during the war. If miiv think
are too personal, I have met the
inly shyness and timidity hy saying:
i, you can leave it all out, and supv.
ry word of endearment hy a blank,
verv time you do this you leave out
.1. ,'.r mi.tii. tf.tii r..i.nn ?i.i.
Irvotion. this cxquisitu tenderness
i much a part of the mail as was hi*
try genius."
< volume commends itself also in
binding an I finish?not so vo'umior
ponderous as to deter the mass of
is. nor is it at all prolix The price
!$'?!.00) is such as to make it within
i! ich of many who cannot nlTord the
extended and expensive biogrnof
other ".eat leaders in the lite
It is a simple and beautiful story
tteu out of a woman's heart."
ov. McGrath Stricken With
Appoplexy.
aiu.rrton, H. C. ? Ex-Governor Mci
had an attack of appoplexy and
"overy is doubtful. (i ?v. McGrnth
iorn in (his city in 1810, and gradurt
Harvard. He studied law under
ite Judge Story. At the breaking
f tlie war of tlio rebellion, lie was
d States district judge, und on the
ge of the ordinance of Accession,
a dramatic scene in co irt by dis<i
himself of the judicial ermine,
as dining the last war Governor of
i Carolina, and nfter the surrender,
imprisoned bv the Federal governin
Fort 1'ulaski for same.
Money Well Spent.
e citizens of Conway (Ark.) propose
rther the enhance the nttiactiveness
eir town to the home-seeker by"*
n# it an cducalionnl center, and *
made liberal contributions of cash
tain to this end. The Methodist
r>pd Ma'e College has been lately
ileted at a cost of from $40,000 to
>00, and work will commence soon on
lingt to cost $30,000 for tbc State
ist Female College. In all this euising
town has during the past two
i raised $113,00) for the furtherance
location.
Pension Soldiers of ths Florid*
Wnr.
AfiiiNr.TON, I). C. ? Mr. Ilouk, of
icasee, introduced n bill providing for
intendment of the general pension
so as to include soldiers wlio served
ic Florida war.