Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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l^'f^ " ~ " Dmtcitd to Agriculture, fTiii tim^t^^^/K^BSit^f^fSji^^^'^liiiyo mi lli^Tw i mt iv7ii t oj tk* Day. *- -.,. ^^ ^'w-> ^v - ? - ^J^L^XXIII.-NEW SERIES UN JON C. 11., ?''-''>K<ARY 26,1892. NUMBER J) B* V A writer in * German newspaper lias ( (ObtainedstaMlHca. which show that the number of #uicidc? throughout the trorld . > \ 1 is 180.0?0*yeertjv These figures, the > writer observes, have been of steady growth. .The greatest number of suieides happen is Jane, the fewest ia Scptem- 1 ber. tfbe?first ton day* o? the month _ gives the largest number of suicide*. -r - m " - ' * A chivalrous nun is trying to awaken * V ' > ,a litt.e Interest in Mr#. Columbus in this <x ^jhnsiversary of the discovery that made ^ -'4|Ik consort famous. He tells us that ishe wis a Miss Palestrello, which is in- *( s ? {finitely more distinguished than plain , {Mrs, c possible that she suggested the Western excursion to her lord and master, and |5 spurred him on to his discovery, like " plenty of other good wives to whom the jj I husbands owe their fame. V- " ? e-g~.?i, King Lobcngula, of Matabelcland, 0' South Africa, has jost proclaimed that P 'he will send his regiments on raids no j more, but that he will develop his t< country with the aid of the white man. tl Four years ago no white man was permilled to enter Matabelcland without a special permit from the King, and mis- c, sionaries are advised not to attempt t? gi settle in his couutry if they valued their. lives. Lobeugula has just made a new treaty wicn mc JLJritisti South Africa ^ Company by which ho cedes to them si pi large tract of country in addition to it Mashonaland, and gives thciu all the power and privileges they require. The J' company now controls 100,000 square Bj miles in Matahclcland and Mashonalaud. qi ' This lias been a great season for sport ^ in the hunting regions of tho New Eug-land States, announces the New York Sun. Ono taxidermist in Bangor has re- P 'ccivod fifteen moo3o heads for mounting Tl ' I 'this season, all of them being unusually large and tine. A fur buyer iu Farmt . cr 'ington who returned a few days ago n from a purchasing trip among the trap- ir. tpcis of Maine, New Hampshire, and Ver- 111 mont brought more than a score of bear skins, a great number of fox skins, in- jy eluding a very fine gray; thirty beaver, tli about as many fisher, a quantity of otter, 111 able, coon, and cat skins, five or six bun Ired mink, and as many skunk. lie fo bought about two thousaud musk rat ' ' skins in New Hampshire. The nuimals (^ ihad been killed this season. ? . Ill L " -- - ? of ! Bays tho Gossippcr in the Now York th World: "One who witnessed the tire gi drill by Tilfany & Co.'s clerks during tho recent blaze which threatened the great wj jewelry store tells ino it was one ot tho lo best specimens of human mechanism ho ju ever saw. At the first sign of tire the store was cleared of customers and the clerks took positions assigned them in en practice. At the lirst signal the heavy iron shutters were closed, next the hose ,r> Y was uncoiled, and at the third command the jewelry was deposited in the various safes. There was no confusion, no con- Uu dieting orders or excitement. This admirable uriii uudouoLeuiy saved the lirm 414 from a heavy loss, as, had a panic taken co place, tho result may easily bo imagined." pr * Harper's Magazine contains na article n, on tlic "Old Shipping Merchants of New st York," written by George V/. Sheldon, ^ and illustrated by C. I). Gibson aud F. ('1 II. Schcll. It will be u surprise to some ,. to learn that these merchants, who c.\- bi ercised so important an influence on trade during the first half of the century, to left uo successors. They were men who w if owno 1, wholly or in part, the picket and clipper ship3 of the transatlantic service, and they did a large business in ti exporting. But where is the American house thai. exports to-day? fuu oust* i ness is in the hands of foreigners, and is done so differently that wcro tho doers of it fifty years ago to make their uppearance on 'Change, they could not uuk dcrstaud what is going on. ci ?===- 111 The New York Independent laments; It The American people hive shown so C( much aptness aud skill in almost all other lines of industry and business ^ enterprise that it is mortifying to have i, i t ti..* ..... i....... .11.. i... r. Ill liUlllUM Vlldt TV U II1MU UCVJU ^IV/ll IJ I/O" hind other nations in shipbuilding. j'1 With the finest timber in the world in great abundance, with nil kinds of p metals in great supply, with rolling p mills and steel mills and other metal j> works, wo should bo first in shipbuilding. It is gratifying, however, to I] be told by a foreign shipbuilder, who has visited our shores twice within a c rleoado thnt. we have taken a long ?!< ?? b forward in shipbuilding in this period. 1' He says the quality of our American- ^ built warships is almost as good as that ( of the British warships, an 1 they an t built quite as cheaply. If we can build H as cheaply now we ought to be ab,c to build more cheaply after having had a little more experience. 11 i] JENEftAL STATE NEWS *te Happenings of Importance By Mail and Wire. Af <Pk~A ri-i I ?? ; i ii ? ?" ?? tsrtfully Fiwjjajrou For Our Busy Readers. VIRGINIA. The Btste debt bill lias finally pawed oth Houses of the Legislature. TU# Farmers' Allinnco is organizing a lock company to establish a fertiliser iciory at Blackstone. Black marble is being mined at Finastle. Mayer Lehman, of New York, lias. pur-. A bill has been introduced in tho lug tint lire to incorporate the Virginia Furin>g Co. A well is to be sunk at Tazewell C. 1. for petroleum oil. Diuwiddie couuty wiil apply to the ig'slature for authority to issue $100,UO of bonds fur tho improvements of its ublic roads. The Virginia Mineral Belt Bailroad as applied to the legislature for a charir. The road is to run from Danville irough the intervening counties to Frcdlieksburg, and thence to deep water on re Potomac river. Gen. Thos. L. Rosser, ex-Confederate ivalry ollicer, in ail open letter to Couressman O'Ferrall, announces himself a indidute for Cougre s in tbfta seventh istriet, to succeed that gentle^^u. The House committee 01 finance jreed to report favorably a bill approropriating $35,000 for Virginia's exliibut the World's Fair. Bpeaker Crisp was at Fortrass Monroe oni Thursday until Monday nigh*. lie us not fully recovered his strength ncc his tecent illness aud needs rest uud niet. Thcro is a rumor in Virgiuia tliat inulia Hives Chuulcr is paintiug a picture oui the lovely model seen in her own ill-sized mirror. The Grand I<odgo of the Knight's of ytliias of Virginia met at Lcesburg la-d liursday. Two hundred lvuights sat >wn to the banquet at night. Colonel Philip T. Wood in, now gov- 1 uor of the Nationul Soldiers' Home at ampton, Vs., was the first enlisted en to enter Faueuii Hall in April, 1801, response to the call of President LiuI11 for 75,000 volunteers. ] The npple growers of Albemarle cone - , ll.'lVll lUPf U'Uli 1^? * " l_x-i ? ? uvni j IUH6CB lUlt'iy j rough the failure of a Liverpool coin- * ission firm, and, although they seut an torney over to look nftw , ey icaii7.en out iu cents on the dollar . r their last several consignments. The ic famous Albemarle pippins raised in is vicinty have long been noted for { eir rich flavor, and are u special favor- , : abroad?bringing the extreme price $1 por dozen. Hardly one man in n < ousaud in this couutry, outside of Vir- | nia, has ever seen one, and what won- , r if tlicy bring such a pries in foreign ] nrkets? No doubt the uow sadder and ( iser fiuit-rnisers of this section will ok nearer home for a market for their icy apples. j NOB Til CAROLINA. [ Work on Wilmington's electrical street | r line has commenced. I Asheville has sold $1140,000 of 20-year ( per cent, bends to Blair & Co., of New ] ork city. i The amount of the shortage of Charles I agio, the young absconding railroad ' id express agent of Madison, is ?800. The merchants' purchase tax has been iciarou constitutional by the supreme I lilt. Calvin McArlan, sheriff of Harnett, } ado a complete 8tale tax settlement, j tying in ?4> <?i?. 1 z 'I'lic Department of Agricultnro will ake a new collecliou of the building onos of the State for exhibition at the , rorld's Fair. A littl girl was burned to death near liarlottc last week while playing in a :ld in which her father was burning uslt. Figures just made up show that Winsin Salem's plug tobacco output for 1891 as 11,51:5.127 pounds, agamst 8,437,i9 pounds for 1S90. The Wilson Short-cut road reduces the istanee north and south via the Atlauc Coast Line by CO miles. The direct trough line is uow via Wilson and Faytcville. leaving Wilmington off. The State chemist's force havo thus far uide analysis of about 05 brands of ferli/.crs. There are four chemists and nee clerks at work. At Carbontoii, Moore county, the revluo people made another capture of a oonshinc distillery and the operator. . is developed uiai me nioonsniners put rncentratcd lye in tlie liquor they make. A bright future is before Bessemer ity. bast week ground was broken for (100,01)0 cotton factory, a 500 room otel is to be built shortly, a stove works, nniture factory, steel works ami many Lher new industries are booked. Fifty )iis of Bessemer ore are shipped daily. A Wake county sharper named lingers laved a trick on a Kulcigh lawyer. He ersonated Louis Harris, a neighbor, and iving a land mortgage got $500. When le inonev f? II due the lawyer sent the otiee and this of course reached the real [arris. The bogus Harris is in iail. Governor Holt hp.s ordered a special ivil term of Bertie Superior Court, to cgin May 9. .fudge Itrnwii presiding. A ...ilitary company has been formed t Kooky Mt. ami commissions were isned to ,1. L. Arlington, captain: .1 l>. )dom, tirst lieutenant, and K. L. Doughridge, second lieutenant, company I), ssigned to the second regiment. SOUTH CAROLINA. Judge Kershaw has granted a mandamis in favor of the phosphate compaiies of South Carolina, ordering the au- ' from $0 to $3 a Governor TUhnun was asked Thursday *"J who was hU Jprcfero rce for the Presiden tial nominee of the l>c?uocratic party. He said that he had not yet decided, bat that be was not in favor of Cleveland*. tl) The W. C. T. U. Auuuni Convention p> assembled under the most auspicious circumstances in Columbin last week with fifty delegates iu attendance. The Secretary of State lias issued com missions for the charter of the Thomas Quid Mining Company, with hcadquar- m ters at Spnrtnuhurg. llt The 8uinpter Guards lmve loaned Col. dl A. H. Chisolm, of New "York. president Al of the Southern Society of New York, til one of their most cherished relics of so- k< cession, ariz.: the regimental battle flag T1 that floated over Fort Bumpier during Yi teur Institute of Paris, France, has dls- CO covered a "new ehromogcnic micro organism, found in the vesicles of herpes labiates bacillus viridiaus." which will no doubt bring him success and fame in of the new field open to him. Dr. Svm- sit mers was graduated with first liouors ge from the universities of Aheideeti nud K.dinburgh, and will soou end his studies si iu Paris. bo Ihnuberg baa given finely located property, amounting in value to $5,000. autl an additional subscription of $10,000, to WolTord College, for the purpose of cstablisliing and lilting a school there. Led . I?y eight or ten influential citizens, the entire emmunity joined in the work | with great unanimity. The building will lie begun soon, and it is hoped they cr* will be ready for use next fall, llauberg ^ never made a better investment, or one CQ| that will make richer returns. WofTord ^ Co lege has adopted the wise policy of establ ishiug fitting schools in ditlercnt ' sections of tho State as feeders to the College. The great uecd of tho State is aU( bigli grade preparatory schools. The de- ^ mand for higher education is fully met in the colleges already established. GREAT FIRE IN ' NE\T ORLEANS. 8as .at Tr Tho Heaviest in Ten Yearn?Loss, a jm Million and a Quarter. tio New Ok leans, La.?Tho most disas- ^ trous tire of a decade swept New Orlcaus ? Wednesday uight. More than $2,000,- .? 1)00 worth of property is in ruius. At 11 10.150 tho alarm was sounded for a fire *v that was discovered in the immense dry ? i- i ^ - Tn ??tiav <>i i\. d. ocuwnriz, on canal street. By the lime (lie (iremen arrived Ihc 11 aiues were buistiug through the roof. . ri-0 Sell war I/. budding was doomed nnd * ill efforts were directed to saving adjoin- ^Ul ing buildings. At one time the tire yca seemed to be under control, nud confined 0D piano house of P. Werlein, and then 5 icross to Bourbon street. Hunkle's dry W1 joods house was next, and was soon a am oaring furnace. Unger's beer garden 'u ind the variety theatre adjoining !?uu- ? He's were swept away as if a tinder box. ~?' The Bourbon street entrance of Holmes1 ' largo dry goods store caught lire and was rlso soon in ruins. Kreuger's ilry goods u house on Canal street burned next ?a ,, otal loss. The loss on stock, as near as au .an be estimated, are as follows: A. S. Schwartz, dry goods, $300,000; P. Werlein, pianos ami musical instru- * uents, $30,000; Cluvcrius, drugs, $8,- ? 200; Hunkle, dry goods, $75,000; Uuger, ^ [>ccr garden, stock nud building, $52,J00; It. I). 8. Holmes, dry goods, $25,J00; Kuehn. dry goods, 75,000; HolTmuu Bros., $18,000; Leopold Levy, carpets ind mattiug. $50,000; Kreuger, dry ^ooda, $30,000; B. Pellmuu, dry goods, f200,000. 1 The total loss will exceed $1,250,000, tin insurance covered mostly by foreign far Local companies wiit lose 'Ti about $200,000. Thowsauds of people coi visited the scene next day. Bourbon tin itreet is so blocked with dehria that travel scl is impeded. Street cars cannot pass. go IN THE BRITISH HOUSE. J thi rhe Government's Irish Bill Deridod. ty A London cab'egram says: In the w< House of Commons Under Secretary W( Lowther, of the Foreign Office, replying to Mr. Jennings, M. 1'., said the recip- c0 rocity conference between the United Mates and Can.i<la at Washington had been of an informal character, aud that Pr it hud not been brought officially to the JJ,' notice of the llr.tish Government. Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Treas- a , ury, introduced the Irish local govern- Tf ment bill, and it was expluiucd by him , as follows: J'i1 It establishes districts as well as conn- " ty councils, with functions solely administrative. (Cries of "Oh, Oh ") Grand juries as heretofore would perform judicial or quasi judicial functions. (Benewed cries or dissent an laughter among "l the Liberals and Nationalists ) The councils w mid have powers in sanitary ^i matters, etc., and could appoint mem- a I eis on lunatic asylum boards, the Viceroy appointing an ctjiial number. (De- 8S lisive laughter among the Irish members.) \i iinii'i ik'tl I H it t it? lis \\ t>:1111 lit' Ki'tmnitf' Cf from the council* lor ndmiu'i-i-utiv pur- ?' poses. 1,1 ni Robbed linn of His Little All. 111 c>l N. Y. City, |Spceial. | < l?:?ile? 1'iankliu, vxconvi' t, and three confederates a] assaulted and robbed Thomas (Juinhin in )v Mott street on the night of tlie 7th inst., ft and robbed him of his little all?a collar r, button nnd two keys. They then ran (] away. Franklin was arrested, and he a pleaded guilty in the General Sessions , before Judge Marline of robbery in the first decree Judge Mar ine sentenced w him to rftate prison for eleven years and {' six months. 8V Sanford-Sanford. Sanfokd, Fi.a.? The Hon. John San- f ford, ineinher of Congress from the Sara- tl toga district, in New York, and Miss w Klhel Sanford, daughter of the late Gen. 8( ll S. Sanford, wore married in the F.pis- t( copal church by the Itight Rev. 11. 11. Whipple, Hishop of Minucsotn. 8 9|HSKa ? T fiSWPI^^^^^gjgn-mm m Oea- tfc K cc us iH'ti?ig^^^^^M^B^rcmove fell "Ksira ??3S?S3HBMlla^nU want ? ? Uvvesrt^Kflk^agg^^BySwtth Tur- to j ftft ' animals. jc Tii'kK^n^^^^^^Bgm^ayl our ?f .Louis- >e tton? Z^>jiwv " * !&*: ,e Raleigh, N. C^ltm representatives ha the couuty Allidntcs In this congres- er )nal district .who met hero elected Eu- ?< ne C. Beddingtield, of Wake, to ropre- b1i at the distiict at the great convention co St. Louis, in which tho fanners' and la- ?)' irers' unions arc to participate. <>> dc ****** to Washington, D. C.?The Department wi Agriculture has now in press Farmers' flii illetiu No. 5, which treats iu brief and by actical manner of suiut, iu oats and or luut especially, and of the meaus which su ould bo adopted by farmers in prcpar- th 5 the seed so as to avoid injury to the or >p from this cause. Iu order to avail t o jiuselvcs of tho suggestions therein or utaiucd, fanners will want to receive jui s bulletin without any delay, aud an eciul urgency will be used to get it out wl uraptly. In the meantime applicants wi mid send in their names and addresses esi d tho bulletin will be mailed to iU*?a ?tv mediately on its issue. th ****** co Washington, I). C.?Mr. Otis, of Kaui, au Alliauce member, lias introduced ,|)( >i 11 to authorize the Secretary of tho u,j casury to have two billions dollars of w; per moucy duly printed in dennmina- ,i : as ranging from $1 to $000, each bill ing absolute money and not in the form a promise, to be full legal tender for th public and private debts and intcrtugcuhle at par with any other kind of rful money of the United Btates. It ^ ill be known as the National Union an Fund, nud placed in the United /1 ites Treasury, subject to tho order of J tio j Govenors of the different States me i Union. Any Slato can draw on/ hia f()^ id by paying 1 per ceut. interc?\.fP?r p0 ir, aud tho State can loan to ip^itiiscna security at a rale of-intere&fe*10* *? ex" I) ^.g^ci ccnt. per jyy i Governor and Setrelarf of tho State, att th the great seal of the Btato attached, ^ I 1 in conformity w/th the laws of the .JOj itc and a full statement of tho account the Statu with tho National Uuion ,j an Fund, verified by the Treasurer of State, shall be rendered semi-annual- 1 to the Secretary of tpe Treasury of the ited Slates, aud the interest due paid. j?u e Secretary of the Treasury shall honor R? drafts made ilpou tho fund ev' tho extent of 50 per cent. '*D the assessed va^ue of the real cs- dir c in the State, undit'6hull bo tho duty P" tho Secretury of iue Treasury render an annual report to Kn ngresa of the condition of the fund and ' ! net revenue derived therefrom by the ft8* ited States. 001 ap * * * * * * SCI "haise something to SELL." tin In their complaints of hard times and ?,a jir petitions for legislative iclief the I " mcrs ava often met with tho advice, | J.:, iiise something to sell." This advice mes of course, in most instances, from jsc who never "raise anything tlicnives, (unless it is the devil) but who, od, kind souls never think how it inds, so great is their interest in the mer's welfare. Wo r ow rise to ask 'o: e question, who raises more than the mors of the United States? - If tlie Lj lount raised was an index to prosperi- Fi the farmers would *nol only be the milhiest class in this nation but of the ou >rld. They not only raise enough for th e sixty-three millions of people in this Y< untry, but export more food than any ov her nation in the world. If wealth dc oduccd remained in tho hands of the ni oducers the farmer's name would be di i, with a big E. Suppose wo apply a m< little of this advice to somo of those ly ho give it. Take the professional poli:inn for instance. Let us nil agree to ive him raise "something 10 scii." Teii m he will bo better nfL-and "nearer to at station in life to which it has pleased od toO^'l him." Let us bo generous . id charitable ui.! help him to "retire to j o scchutcU sliaucs 01 private me ' by |n idiii<4 a substiHitc to take the burdenline and houorous duties of office from j ( s shoulders. Poor fellow, he has been jt martyr long enough. j ( Then let U9 take the poor preacher at a ilnry of $25,000 a year. Advise him to raise more to sell." Put him where he ,j in raise it. for "is not a dollar a day w lough to buy bread? \y'aler coats notli- Cf ig and a man that cannot live on bread ^ id water is not lit to live. A family lay live, laugh, love and be happv that . its bread in the morning with good wa r, and water and good bread at noon, nd water and bread at u'ght." Let him lix a little sweat and brawn at a dollar |)( day, with his cogitations on the best bi iadtolIeav.li It won't hurt him It'll ti o him good. It may tan him a little ^ nd make warts on the inside of his hands. it it will make him better acquainted hi ith the environments which surround hi le men who "raise something to sell;*' nr . sides God has ordained that "in the vent of his face lie shall cat his bread," m id if lie eats a "dollnr a day's" worth, the low price it brings at the farm, it N ill make him sweat. Next let us tuko le Congressman? the fellow that don't ant any sub-Treasury aniV.land loan :hemcs Give the poor fellow a chance > "raise something to sell." Give him p io chance in the same manner that Jerry ,| impson and Jlcn Clover and others kind- u i \ i j ' give their opponents. Let them so t^yaucb of that live thousand dollar cau make iu a year by "mis g to sell" sucli mtrrRe iu **?? ' uu LUe irpi. Poor devils, they would dream o. ghUof introducing a bill to colonizr 10 gnuahonpers or aupptcss ehioeh bugs, hey would call lustily in their sleep for 16 counuiilec's report of the bill for tJovomcut Building of Mississippi ltiver grays to Water the Farms in the Missisppi Valley; or for the appointment of a muitttce to examine in the price of tnorienn wheat in Liverpool with co*t transportation, etc. Oh. it would b iu to see a Congrscsmuu compelled to r?icn a/MWidhlM? t/? 1. .1 A IW*PV WUIVIUIH^ \\J Ot'll IHMUIS VU1U9. But the very wealthy! What shall wo y of them? What lias Jay Gould had ell that he cau count his wealth by illions? Did ho raise it? Suppose we ply this ndvico to him! Go out upon e fhrm, Jay, nud raise "something to II." Suppose he ate nothing, his cloths# itot wore out and he never paid auy see. How long would it take him tc uqpnulfto a huudred mil'ion dollars? , lluf wWff of tfceV4ft<fr. tho siblo odl r" who says "there seems to be but 0110 medy, a class of laud-owneis ou otic uid, and of tcuaut farmers on the oth" Come out and bask in the kuraer's sun while the heat is 100 in tho ado. This is a hoc. Take this row of tton now and work along tho side of e. We're "raisiug something to sell" at k cents a pound. If our crdps are not stroyed by breachy niotk, or are not o lato or too early, or hlowu down by nd, or devoured by bugs, or st ing by es, or eaten by worms, or carried away birds, or dug up by gophers or moles, pulled up by crows, or ilr'cd up by the u, or drowned out by rain, or lotted iu c field or stuck, or heated iu the crib, Udteu by weevils, or they duu't all run weed or vine or straw or suiut or cob, tho rust destroy them, we can make st thiity-scvcu and a half cents a day, d with that and what we've got and nit wc liavcu't g t and wlist we can do thout, we uiay he able to pay the iuIlxL on the mortgage and barely Squeeze rough. *ll? yes, wr'in "raining somemg to sell"?to the fellows who get :h, somehow, after they buy it, and me to think these are the pesky fellows 10 arc constsnly itdvioing us to * raise >re to sell." Well, about the next ing wc laisc will he "something to buy lb,"?money. We'll kiud o' avciagt ings up a littld. THE PEOPLES PARTY. GQ)rir*ntion Hold and a Tickot Nominated in Louisiana. Alexandria, La.?The State conveun of the People's party of Louisiana t with 171 delegates present. Tho lowing Slate tifLct was nominated: r governor, 0. W. Bruce; Lieutenant rernor, J. J. Mills; secretary of State, M. McStrovick; treasurer, John Ma,rt TV ration; " ornev general, Judge Wade llaugh. State executive conimittee was up- 1 uted and the convention adjourned. Che Lumber Men in New Orleans. ^ew Orleans, La.?The fioutheru mbcr Manufacturers' Association adiruud sine die after an all dny'a session, solutions were adopted against the Is of selling by face measure, p rev itt in Alabama and Oeorgia. The diectors were cousliluted as i erniHueiit ce list. The committee with power change the prices only change in ides of star lift sawed Homing. A memorial to Congress was adopted ting for additional poitaon the (Julf tst. The various vice-presidents were pointed a committee to solicit subiptions for the yellow pine exhibit at 3 World's Fair. Kansas City was med as the next place of me.ling. 11 White, of Missouri, was rc elected t Evident; Gee. S. Lucey, of Louisiana, ..-..-i,)..... f .. ,1 if t,? *?..? .1 r ? |)>vultl(.u!, ...... ..i. i . iUi.l.LUtl, ui ssouri, treasur. r. Hopo it Will Succood. It has been rumored iu cottou circles r some weeks that .John II. [nmnu bus nued u very strong financial couihina>u to bull cottou. A dispatch from vcrpool to the New York Jourunl of nance says: It is stated here upon the authority of ic of the most important traders that e new syndicate organized in New ork to protect the cotton market has er $15,000,000 at its hack, of which 1,000,000 is subscribed hcicand iu bourn. Wcutworth, of the London C'oloal Hank, is said to represent largo bourn interests in the deal The manageent will, however, be vested exclusive in John II. Iiimau of New York. A Preachor Whips an Editor. Rai.bioii, N O., [Special. |?News ached here of a fight between an editor id a preacher at Tniboro. Two wclljowii clergymen of Kockv Mount, neai ire, liad hii acrimonious discussion ou fant baptism, us a result of which blows irse 1. J. ('. I'owcll, editor of the Tar>ro Southerner, published an account of One of the reverend gentlemen, Air. r>ve, of the linptist chureli at Itoeky ount, went to Tarboro, and there met litor Powell, lie usked f r a correc on, which was emphatically refused, hereupon the preacher and the editor imc to blows The editor was knocked jwn and badly used u English View of the American Freo Silver Agitation. A London cablegram says: Tht Times is a long article on the Hlnnd silver 11. The writer says: "Although elcconcwring tactics have beli ed itf flint it ill become a law is improbable. The nited States must eventually choose itween the gold and silver standards, it the time is not favorable now. The gument that the bill will attract gold id raise the price of cotton and grain ay suffice for the Southern and Western rniers, but it is too flimsy to aifect the orth " $10,000 for PensRcoln. Washington, I>. ('.--The Senate tsscd a hill appropriating #10,000 for ic improvement of the rotd t<> the manual cemetery near Pcusacolu, Fla, Ranewod Confidence in Bouthari InvMtmeota. Tho Manufacturers' Hocord, of Itititi ??*??, ui its issue of February SO, any#: "There ere many sigu* uf a revival o confidence iu Southern investlucnta, ao< among them are the proposed renrgauhu tiou by thu foremost financiers of th country of the Itichmond & West I'oin Terminal, tho largo amount of mono lately furnished for extensions of th Norfolk & Western Railroad, the grcn improvements involving an expenditui of soma millions of dollars by the Cbosr peake & Ohio, aud tho consummation i financial plans for carrying out tuuny d< vclopment enterprises. Tho trouble: duo tu part to low-prieo cotton, iu pni to tho nsturul eflects of such a worh wido panic as we had last year, are no seen to bo, as tho Manufacturers' Itecor has steadily claimed, only of a temporal character, aud whilo severe for a tiim they iu no way destroy tho solid found* tiou of wealth bisod on thu South'* iu comparable natural resources. They uiu have retarded tho development of thw resour&a fot- a while, bwt thoy havaoul served to show tho dangers to lie nvotc cd, aud the result will bo a more consoi Vativo and more solid foundation for 111 grout industrial activities of the future Among the new enter prison reported fi the wock are important railroad eater sions ami improvements and mining air manufacturing companies that cover wide rungo of industry. In West Vii giuia a $500,000 coal mining compan and a $1,000,000 oil and gas compan have been incorporated, also two lumla companies, one of $100,000 and one t $00,000 capital stock, respectively; Hii minghatn, Ala , lias a $15,000 compan to manufacture wheelbarrows; lluntint ton, Ark , a $50,000 improvement con pany ; at Llano, Texas, a $50,000 or $00 000 iron bridge is to ho built; Dallas br a $50,000 improvement company; Klor da Iish a $500,00') lumber company and $150,000 phospli do company; in Tenner sec a new furuaco has just gone int Was!; "Mobile li?9 organized a compan to build a drydock; Augusta, Da., $'250,000 woodwork machinery company a large rolling mill is to bo moved fioi New Jersey to llaltiinorc and a plat mill added; Queen City, Texas, bus it corporated a $400,000 iron company (Spartanburg, 8 C., a $100,000 niinin company; Knoxvillo. Tcnn., u $250.00 eoustructiou aud bridge company; Tex as, a $1,000,000 mining company and $50,000 mill and gin company, etc." Oeorgia, Carolina and Northern. A press dispatch from Atlanta, says The Georgia. Carolina and Norlliert railroad bus been completed to witliii two miles of Atlmta Trains lire Iciiij run to u point twenty-two miles ft on Atlanta, aud it is expected to complct and op'-'U the road hv the mi<lilli> > March. This road is intended as u lint in the Seaboard Air .Line, coin posed o the lines controlled by the Seaboard am Hnnnrtiu cuTupsnys. rno company \vn organized in 188U to build a stuudun gauge railroad from Monroo, N. U., t< Atlanta, (Sa , 280 miles. Work \va coinmenced ou the northern end of tin line, and it was opened to Chester, S, C. a distance of fo|ty-fivo miles, hi October 1888. On .July 1, 1880, there were is sued 5,:it;0,e0J first, mortgage 5 pel cent forty-year $1 000 goiild eoupoi bonds, wbich have beeoino very popula among investors, especially in Baltimore being considered among the safest rail road bonds that can be obtained, 'l b Mercantile Tru t and Deposit Company ot Baltimore, is the trustee named in th mortgage and interest on the bonds i made payable at the Trust Company' ollico The Seaboard Air Line is com posed of six railroads, wbich form a rai road system whose northeru terminus i at Portsmouth, Va., where c mncclion i nude with the steamers ot the Ltaltinior Steam Packet Company and the Old Ik minion Steamship Company, and whos southern terminus wil' be Atlanta, Gu. as soon as the Georgia, Carolina an Northern is completed Through train will he run between these points vi Charlotte. Committee Program Mapped Out. Washington, I). C. ? It ts announce* that tlie intcution of the Ways and Mean Committee is to call up the tariff qucs tion in the House early next week. Thi program would to some extent defer tli consideration of the silver question. Tli silver bill, cannot be taken up and g< out of the way in ad vain of that time. The uutiouuceraci of the purpose to call up the taritl que tion about the first of March, was mad in the Ways and Means Committee at brief session of the full committee. A agreement was rtachc I among the men hers of the Committee that the rninorit should have until a week from Haturdn to prepare their reports sgainsc '-ho tint hills, wool, binding twine, and baggiti measures, heretofore ordered fuvorabl repotted to the llouse by a party vote. Chairman Springer then announce that it was intended to call up one of tli three bills on Monday following the sul mission of the reports to the House. N objection was manifest d upon the pa of the Republicans to the course. A Notod Cuso Settled. Dks Moinkh, Iowa ?The Hyde-Hop* well ease, involving the civil rights of colored man, has been settled in favor < 111/? alaifetwlf nt I 11\t\i? vva* I I 'I lia? a>ant held that Hopewell had the light to r< fuse to serve llydu in his restaurant an that Die fact that (lie latter being a co orcd man. did not enter into the case. I other words the restaurant business is private one, like a grocery or a dry good store, and it dilFers from an iun and tli propria or may sell or not to any on who enters his store. The Bricoville Mines to B? Ci Operative. Knoxvii,i,k, Tknn., |Special.]?Tl mines of the Tennessee Mining Coinpai in Hriceville will bo worked upon tl co-operative plan. The details have l>ci agreed upon and incorporated in i amended charter, which has been file The miners are allowed to take stock hi have taken $10,000. Each subscrib will have twenty months in which to pi for $100. The company will erect res deuces and allow thu miners to buy < liberal terms. 1 UrRMt Ships Afloat, The largest sailing ship under any flag f b the livr-nuutni vowel La France, which recently t?x>k coal from Newcastle to if Han P'raucisco. She is 373 feet lit length, i 40 feet in breadth ami 33j footh in i depth, measured from the upper deck to 0 the bottom of tho hold. Her not gauge it It 3(500 tons and her hurdcu til (Ml tons. J Tho principal dimensons of tho vessel am iv as follows: llowsprit, 50 foot long and d 13 inches and 30 fuchos in diameter; ? miixeumast, in a single piece, 140 feet t/ long; inuin boom of tho mis/AMimast, 4(1 feet loug; np|>er throat, 21 foot; lower throat, 23 feet. The lower and top *? . masts are in a single piece, and of the 1 following dimensions t bow deck : Forew mast, 139 feet; foremainmast, 1(5(1 feet; aftennaiumast, 107 feet. The diameter of the mast varies from 30 inches to 17 j incites; that of tho topgallantinast* is k' from 16 inches to 10 inches. Tho length of tho lower yards is S3 feet, that of the y upper yards from 75 feet to 77 feet, M special supervision of the Bureau Vuiltas. fbhu ?u built on tho Clyde. , It may Ihj intotcating to mention iBflr"*** -Hi 011 lier first voyage from Cardiff to Itio o do Jrtnoiro tho trip ??? eomploted iu i. thirty-three days, and although only >r moderate winds prevailed a upood of i- twelve ?nd one half knots was attained, d tho vessel being laden with 6000 tons of ft coal. Tho ,'lftli mast *'very mueii facllir tales the working of tho ship, which y tacks about with wonderful ease," said y the captatu ut tho conclusion of tho :l_ voyage. Referring to big sailing ships, says the '* Chicago News, calls to' mind tho ninny stcr Yankee clippor, tho (.?rand Republic, ' Imilt in tlio '50s for Law and launched, ' but sho was too big for hoi time and she ended her duys as n French transport j and then as a coal hulk. Hut in her prime she made the rue from New York to IScilly in thirteen days. J ?^ ^ ^ m . 1? .. i* " * " ^ . r--?-rr1 -, LAIKIKST bailing VKMsr.l, in TIIK Welti,Ii. ^ Tho largest British ship is tliu Liverii pool, of .{,).)() tons, built of iron by u Messrs. liusscll ?& Co., on the Clyde, f She is 333 feet long, IS feet broad and ( 28 feet deep. Ilcr four masts u.e each f srjuare-riggcil,but she is far from clumsy 1 with such a ship as the Thcrmopylto j ov > a large American wooden ship, having * bright lofty spars and docks its white as u a hound's teeth. Iron docks do not lend ? themselves readily to adornment. ? Next in size is the Pnlgravo, of 3078 tons. The United States ship SlionunI doah, of Bath, Mo., built by Messrs. II Bewail ?fc Co., of that port, is tho largest 1 wooden vesssol in existence. She is ' 3258 tons register and will carry about 5000 tons of heavy cargo. Shu recently r left Sail Francisco, Gal., with 112,000 ^ centals of wheat, worth ?175,000. This is the lurgest gram cargo ou record. i- An Ingenious Bobber. ' Kulin, the grcut German naturalist, 9 informs that in tho year 1700 soim 19 monks who kept Ikjch observing thai u they made unusual noise lifted up th< ' liive, when an animal (lew out, which to o their great surprise?for they at tirsl ^ took It to lie a bat?proved to bo t I9 (lcnth h Head nnwk moth, and lie re i emd bers that several, soino years before, had been found dead in the bee bonnes. IIniter also, in 1804, discovered that il made its way into iiis hives and thos? of liis vicinity aud robbed them of tlicii honey. In Africa, we arc told, it lias the saint 'a propensity, which the Hottentots obsorv. ing, in order to monopolize the honey ol c the wild hecs, have induced the colonisti to bclicvo that it inflicts a mortal wound. ;c This moth has the faculty of emitting a ,t remarkable sound, which llubcr sup 8. poses may produce on edect on tlio boei le somewhat similar to that produced by tlu a voice of their queen. As soot: as utn tered, this strikes them motionless, ami i- then the moth is enabled to commit with y impunity much devastation in the midst y of myriads of armed bauds.?Cusscl'i Magazine. g ? !y round n .nastouori Tusk. j The tusk of a huge mastodon has been ie discovered at Darlington, ten miles north t of Crawfordsville, Ind. The And proves to be much better than was at first |t thought, and promises to be one of the finest ever made in this country. The tusk was discovered in digging a well at the residence cf (Jeorge Lynch. The tusk was struck by the drill, and so perf(M>l ili. I I lit. iv/irtr QJ'/ini ti\ Im tlint flint* n " J ? w.?j j (lcculc 1 that it had a commercial value and concluded to dig it up. They dug down to it, alwut twelve feet under ,| ground, and found that the tusk that |. they had struck was at least twelve in? dies in diameter, an I even on the outa side was almost perfectly preserved. Tho h men have nlready unearthed about four ie feet of the tusk and have found no sign ie of an cud cither way. Judging from that already iu view, tho tusk is about fourteen feet in length, and the fiudcrs arc confident in their belief that the skull and other houcs will bo found in a like state of preservation, as the whole is sub|l0 merged in living water and covered with ,y clean, pure sand. Several geologists of lm this ami other cities will make every efen fort to get it out and mount it for tho an college museum.?St. Louis Republic. d. ? id cr The landed surface of the Northern *y Hemisphere is about 44,000,000 square u- mile, as against lti,000,000 square miles jU cmbruced by the Southern Hemisphere, i. . 2