Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ki." ^ 4 The consumption of thoso dolicicu Crustacea, crabs, in both varieties, bun aud soft sholl, has grown so fast, d? olares tbo Doaton Transcript, that goodly sum is invosted in tho fisherie* A.t Orlsfleld, Md., which has boon tin principal point of production since some body thero started the business abou Qftocn yoars ago, to the amusoiuent ol lnbelievora, there are etnployod nin tuuflniS +* a-?uou?auu pm/ptc, ove seven huudrod boats are in use, capita amounting to nearly $40,000 is required, tnd the catch foots up about 5,000,00j crabs a year, valued at $180,000. \ 1 ?? < M. Camillo Flammurion, the proa poot of tho planetary spheres, his jus made, whit tho St. Louis Star-Saying, esteems, a startling aunouncouiout. H< has discovered that tho sun is losing it force. He notices a gradual decline ii aolar powor, accompauio 1 by gigantic upheavals on its surface, which furthc tend to deplete tho caloric resources o our great luminary. After au aslrouou . ical triflo of tweuty million year has olapsed, M. Flainuiariou thinks th< sun will bo a noiseless and bluckcnod crater unfit for business. In the mean time mankind will watch tho thor moineter as anxiously as sinco tho dayi ^ of Reaumur and Fahrenheit aud the 1? uangcrs 01 coup do guloil will bo ap parent for aouio time to co:uo. Boston morcbants uro expressing n no sire, notes the Now York Post, to hnvi the Government print an issue of fractional scrip curreucy to facilitate busi ness transactions on a small basis. The; complain that they are coiupollod t< handle at a loss gre"!, n?n>hor? of nnnU?i stamps which are roceivod in the mail in payment for goods purchased. An< they all think that tho charge for tuone; orders is exhorbitant whero small sum are involved. "V One promincut Arm say that it rooontly had on haud $500 worth of stamps which it could not dispose of. Mr. Leo,of the publishing firm of Loe A Shepard, says that ho ofton receives a much as $30 a dav in Dostaire-atainns and it is impossible to work thorn oil He suggests that the Govcrutuout issue the scrip on a silver basis. Other busi qcss moil say that a return to tho olc fractional paper currency would be t great convenience to themsclvci au< their customers. Southor Farm, near San Lciudro W, has coustructe<l and fully cquippoi a saltwater swimming tank, and it is be lioved to be tho lirst ovor built for th use of a horse-training far.u. lOxpori mcnt so far have all gone to de:no:istrat the practicability of tho swiiumiug taal ft* a ' JVor^'oviug device for training wuich will sooner or later coine into general use. Horses, like all othor aui mala, require batbs, and it is claimot that while taking hi* bath ho indulge in swimming, which alfords a differen but as helpful exercise as doe* tho track. Swimming is now claimol to bo a groa assistance in developing spool, and th< drudgery of track and road work i thoceby wonderfully reducoi. Thotanl at Sout'uer Farm bos a concrete basin ninety feet long over all, twuuty fee wide and eight foot deep. From enc wall thero is an easy grade to dee water, making it sale for a horse to wall down. A platfor.u is constructed ov< the centre of the tiuk, which swintj from the roof. Upon this elevation man stands and guides the swimraiu horses, giving them tho required amour oi exercise. Pleuro-pneumonia Is ono of thoi tilings, (l imits tho American Dairyman that will not ,4do.vn.M Wo cm keep ; pretty woii nn<lor control in tliis country where tho air is comparatively dry, bu fa In moist England it keops bobbing u B serenely. Just now it is making consul erable trouble and great losses to tli farmers In various parts of England an Scotland. Sixteen outbreaks liavo boen r< ported and 872 head of cattle slaughters in the past eight weeks. This looks t as in this country as a fearful slaughtei There have been a fow outbreaks on tl Atlantic coast,whore the air,we presume lUan its tka 1?4A-I ? us iuvio iuu??v *ui*u in ?iro imuuur, ul thi* diaeaso has never taken on an epl deralc form bate, as it constantly throal ens to do In some countries in Europ and will do unless the most energet remedies arc constantly employed. Lor Island eeems to carry the burden of the. ills for the United States, at Iea3t such the freqnont report of the authoritlo but always deniod by those who II' there. It has the misfortune, so far pleuropneumonia is coacernod, to I entirely surrounded by water, thus mat tug the atmosphcro damp and arousin 9 the suspicions of tho doctors. Lil conditions, they think, are liable to pi duce like result*. uBiiuiWlli OJL'ATJJi JNKWJS. i Late Happeplngs of Importance By p Mail and Wire. <1 The Oist of Three States' Doings, j Carefully Prepared Tor Our ! Busy Headers. a VIRGINIA. j The bank cases will be moved from Warrcnton to Lohdoun county court for trial. Cadet Alboft Cyr, of Louisiana, died c at Bethel Acndcnfy lost Thursday. 0 Dr. J. F. Latimer, of the faculty of f lluui|nlse. (jy 4?Vj | ?r?w L?rU?l ttiw y College church last week. The crew of the Alice Veuable was > lined aud the vessel held at Saluda for 1 violation of the oyster law. Liquor licenses have been granted in Norton. I0 Tail Ifall, in tho Lynchburg jail for , murder, says he lias killed only four men. These homicides occurred when ? he was a Uuitcd States officer dealing 9 with desperate men iu the uiouutaiu re, gions. The Danville leaf tobacco market is 1 ululted. A little child was burucd to death in r Pittsylvania county, f A bill has passed the legislature authorizing Warren county to borrow $12,000 for the construction of a bridge over 3 one or each branch of the Shenandoah ? river at liiverton. I The lease of the Roanoke & Boutlu.in . railroad by the Norfolk & Western is an event of very great importance to the railroad nud business interests of Virgin3 ia und the Carolina*, and its eflect will j be very far-reaching in many directions. Peter Lewis Pcdigo, a deaf mu'e and well known eccentric character of Ileury county, fell from an upper platform in Martinsvillo and was so badly injured thnt he died in a short while. lie was 5 probably known to every citizen of the county and knew every mun in all the region round about. For thirty or forty years past he has never failed to nttcud ' tne county courts aud all public gather- I ? iligs and by his eccentric ways and many | it comical actions afforded a great deal of amusement. He was kiuu-heurlcd, of 8 generous impulses and was never kuowu J to wrong a human being. f A movement is ou foot to induce the j city of Norfolk to purchase the old Tazewell residence and grounds on Grnnby street ami convert the same into a park. 1 This is a fine old houso with hoautifni grounds, the vcsidonco of Governor Taze, well, and is now owned by his heirs. ? NORTH CAROLINA. New York parties will build a large brick hotel with a'l modorn iniprovcj incuts uear the university at Cupel Hill. IMaus havo been prepared for a liandj some new 140 rooui hotel at Stutcsville. Ashcvillc streets arc bciug paved with 1 vitrified brick. ^ Senator Hill is to he invited to Charlotte to participate in their 20th of Muy celebration. A clock peddler lias been doing up Union county, and has registered over a 1 1 GO chattel mortgages, for $13clocks that could he bought from Monroe merchants for $3. iO Gaston couuty is put down on the list of counties that are enfinilv out r?f floM 0 and have money iu the treasury. Qastou t also has a railroad within ten miles of every doorstep in it, yet has never paid out ' one cent of taxes to build railroads. Petfcr Eostey, a negro who was elected - alderman from the third ward in Winston , 1 will have his election contested on the i ground that he cannot hold a government and city positiou at the same time, as he 1 is now a mail enrrior. A company was organized in Wilmingt ton Inst year to cultivate ousters for mar2 ket. It now owns 345 acres of oyster planting bottom and has built a steama Iroat and several scows for their planting c oji$rations. It has already" planted over ( 100,000 bushels, and propose to distribute ' 300 bushels each mouth uud expect to ' put the first oysters on the market next ! fall. ! P The revenue authorities have lodged t in j^il at Suiitlifield, Johnston county, j Joe Pulley, a moonshiner, but they have " not ob yet secured bis still. He bad < ;s a suuk this in a marsh, upon hearing that the rcvouue officers were after liiui. 3 The Hon. Burgess Sidney Gaithcr died at his home in Morganton, on Tuesday, aged 85 years. His father, Burgess , Guithcr, went to Iredell county from An^ nnpiilis, Md., after the close of the revolution, his wife being Amelia Martin, of '* Richmond, Va. Bu-goiS Sidney Gaither received a collegiate education and enteric cd upon the practice of law in 1820. He was a delegate to the Whig National [? Convention in 1840, which nominated |. Gen. Harrison for Presidont. and in 1641 President Tyler nppoiulc-d liiin sup6 erioteudent of -the mint nt Charlotte, I which position he held (or two years. ). He served in the House of De'egatfes, I and was president of the North Carolina Senate in 1845. During this senson he ? was elected solicitor of the 7th judicial *. circuit for four years, and in iu 1848 was |C re elected for a second term of four years Eraineut Judges have said that lie was '? the ablest prosecuting attorney who had it ever appeared before them. Mr. Gaither [. represented his district both terms of vthe Confederate Congress, and was dislanguished for his manly bearing during all that perilous period. Since then he io has taken little part in public affairs ez '8 advise the younger generation. ? SOUTH CAROLINA. ** Another cotton mill is to be erected at ?, Ft. Mill. re Spartanburg's cotton acreage will be M reduced 80 per cent, jg Efforts aro being mnde for the establishment of a steam laundry at Cheraw. One of the profitable amusoincn'a at '8 the Houth Carolina College is the study re of telegraphy. A regular telegraph com o psny has been organized and there are now four stations using operated by the company. W ^ s ' " I" ?. . ^ k! *?SL*. J- HPlfii l The pasaeygers pf the Clyde steema^ip "Algonquin," which arrived at Charleston last week, had an exciting time. Among tho large crowd of passengers \ were I)r. O. F. Forrest nod his brother, Martin I. Fotryst, both of New York Tho Brooklyn linso ball tcum was also on board. The Forrfists were bound to Jacksonville. During the voyage Mnrtiu ^ Forrest was violently son sick, accused the ball players of hypnotiziug hiiu. On the arrival of tho vessel at her dock he became violently insane and created a panic among tho passengers. He was finally overpowered by the purser, aided by " Terry, the pitcher, and Burns, an out- tl fielder of the Brooklyn team and turned fa over to a policeman who took him to a ti Charleston hotel. He was placed in 1 charge of a medical inan and left there, mtlJf OlviH ttvitMuy w# !??? vv?~r a.. -1 lar General's office, says thar much had been said about pushing insurance companics out of the State and doing them great injury. lie showed a statement of one of tho largost life insurance complies doing business in tho Btate. Tho t return made a statement, of a business of Ci $240,812.55 for last year. Mr. Norton g" says that so far as lie knows this coin- SV pauy has not paid one cent's worth of 31 taxes to tho State, neither has it made ...I....... ..r It... ??? * ? nui 1VIUIU.1 ifi tin: 1IUUVV Jllll'Mllll lor IH\- III atiou. Under Section 102 lie said that d< the companies were liable for taxation bi on the gross amount of the business of ui tlie company. Whether it is proposed to insist upon the payment of this tax is an open question. jo heephill^aTreformer. ?' l! One of South Carolina's Congressmen's Energy at Washington. Washington, D. C.?lieprcsentAtive w Hemphill is a practical economist, as was 80 shown during the consideration of the 0( District of Columbia appropriation bill. ^ Upon his motion the recorder of deeds rc for the District of Columbia was made a Cf salaried official instead of receiving fees. Mr. llcuiphill proposed to give the rc- in cordcr $3 ,000, and his amendment was ol adopted. The Hepublicaus antagonized it vigorously, because the present recorder is Bx-Scnntor 11. K. Ilrucc, a colored Kcjiublican from Mississippi. In support of Mr. Hemphill's motion Cf it was shown that the net profits realized by Hecordcr Bruco during the lirst yenr of his tenure of office, over And above all expenses, amounted to $i 1,389.iO. In 1,1 the-second year business improved a lit- J* tie and his net profits amounted to $12,413.45, or a total net profit of $23,802.55 for two years' work At tho instance of Mr. Hemphill the C( House nlso gives the register of wills a fixed salary instead of fees. Mr. Hemp- ft hill is not a member of the appropriations ?' committee, but as cliairmuu of the com- J! mittcc on tiic District of Columbia he is familiar with this subject! lie believes * in giviug these officials a reasonable sal- . ary, but insists that the surplus rcvcuues of the office should be turned back into the treasury. m Such ecouomy does not cripple any ?c brauch of tho public service, but it is n severe blow to Oio politicians who are 111 constantly lighting to get the recorder 8C ship. For years past the office has been given tp colored men, much to the dis- 1 gust of the white local politicians. Gar tield gave the recordcrsliip to Fred Douglass wh? n the local real estate boom was tt greatest, and he is said to havo reali/.ed 01 over $25,000 in one year. Mr.-Clove- tl laud, to show his friendship for the col ored New Eugland Democrats, appoiut- D ed a colored friend from Albany. The tr Henate refused to contirm him, so a Bos ti ton colored man named Trotter wus ap- A pointed to succeed him. When Hurriscu came in there was a grand scramble ai among local Republicans, but Ex-Sena- at tor Bruce carried oil the prize.- A i? hi COL. LAMONT IN THE SOUTH, g tb His Trip Hue the Appearance of a ra Political Character. Jacksonvii.i.k, Fi.a.?Col. "Dan 8. Lamont, of New York, is at the 8t. James Hotel in this city, accompanied by Dr H. E. Hendricks, nil old friond, whose homo is in central Now York. Mr. La mout has been lying low ever since he has bean here. The room clerk of the hotel said: 5* "Col. Lsniont and Dr. Heudricks reg- ,/ istcred hero on last Friday. They haven't eaten a meal in the drning room since they came. Everything has been sent to their room. No 0110 bus seen them about the office, oven." The iinpiession has been given out that Mr. Lamont was ill and unable to leave bis room, hut it became known that he and Dr. IleudricUs havo been out fre- * queutly. One day they went to Palatka, and camo back at night. Another day thoy went to tit. Augustine, and this or morning Pablo Peach was their destina- en tion. They must have used the sido ea door in going out Col Lament says co that he is getting over an attack of the tb grip and taking advantage of an enforced absence from business to seo a little of ag Florida and the South. m ? cc tb Darlington'* Big Fir*, cc Dahmnoton, 8. C. ?It is found that tfa the iusurance nearly covers the loss of T1 $117,000 by fire Saturday uight, in which c* ujucu ui inc puuuc tquaie was laid Id *;> sshea. li' The Ihme.s commenced on the north * aide of public square end destroyed every m frame building on that side. Only one 'a frame building was left facing the west di aide of the public square, and the lose on P* Orange and Pearl streets is h nvy. About M fifty stores and residences were burned. F The square presi-nts an uuusual specta- P1 cle, with smoking ruins ail around, end *? tali, solitary -ekimnevs. ^ M 315 : 09 :: 8.4* ? 1. ! u Di Kalb, Mo.?We have am An within h one mile of De Kalb, William Jones, who P is 2-1 years of age, fl feet high, 52 inches ? around tho waist, wears a 60-inch coat " (chest measure), wears a No. 12 shoe, a * No. 10 hat, and weighs 815 pounds. He f can hold out at arm's length with ease a M man weighing 160 pounds. He is a farmer ? and can do as much work as two common sized men Mr. Jones is married to a u lady that only weighs 92 pounds. r FARMERS' ALLIANCE. if hat the Leaders are Doing and Saying In Washington. k Discussion on Why Cotton and Other Food Products are Down , By a Northern Paper. A Washington correspondent writes: I met Judge Fuller, of North Carolina, te other day and ho told inc that the triners of his State were seeiugjiard me? owing to tbo low price of cotton, obncco, he also said, would be planted > onlv two-thirds the extent of Inst Him' ommission recently created by tne ouse is investigating the matter and ill soon suggest a hill iutended to rem lv the existing evils. "Hon. 13. T. Stackhousc, of South nroliua, is preparing with grcnt mro ? raduutcd income tax hi'I which wil' >on be presented to Congress for con deration. "Honator Peiler says in rclatiou to pto oition: "Tliero is no efficient way to L?al with the busiucss of dram selling nt to prohibit it. Any other course ;s crely temporizing." "Senulor PcfTor, who has hitherto op used any appropriation for the World's air. has been won over nud will fnvo' irly and libeial Oovcrnuicnt assistance, he President in his recent message on lis subject intimated that an appropriaon of us much as (8,000,000 would not } vetoed. "There arc thousands of persons who onder why I am called 'Bookless' Simp >n," said that rcprescntnttv^of the State Kansas to un acquaintance. "But lere arc very few who know the real nson. I was a young fellow with a msidcrahle fondness for the society of >ung ladies, and I was very proud of y feet." The Congressman stretched it his neatly cased pidal extremities for ic inspection of his friends and glanced them with pride. "We nil used to wenr tight boots," li1 intinued, "sometimes so tight to be very iicomfortahlo. There was a fellow wlic id a foot just a trillc smaller than mine, e could wear hoots a size smaller than I, m .1 niitiii.ii acquaintance. ?!>?. '?* tho' ay, was a young lady, spoko about it i mc ouc evcuing. 1 was in tho habit of cariug heavy woollen socks, and 1 new that if I should take them off 1 )uld wear smaller boots. To my great >y I found on trying that I could went size smaller than my rival, and I at tee purchased a pair. I went to call lat evening as usual,, and found him icrc, proud in Uio ?about tho size of our boots, and ho igcrly accepted the challenge to * eusuremont. Of course I won. and he cmcd to feel as badly over it as if he id lost n horse race. But the bootaker who was in possession of my crct gave me away and the boys all got i to the story. I)o I wear socks now? should say that I do." ****** The man who joins the Alliance for le purpose ot gemug n little cheap sugui r a little office of some kind, is general ly ic one who is found kicking. The Alliance Aid Association of South akota has voted almost unanimously t ansfer its membership to the New Na onal Aid dogrec. The Kansas Mutuu' id has determined to do likewise fhon these transfers arc completed, the d degree will stand square on its feet, id bo ablo to pay losses in full at once, pplicatious are coqnine iu by the judrcd for agent's commissions, and 'erything points to^'a ^e?Jtr?t success, rotber Wardall is now inakiug a tour of e State*, nnd meets with cncourageent wherever ho goes. ****** rEHI'BTUAL MOTION. During the discussion of the United ntes Banking bill in Congress some me iu 1835 or 1836, John Randolph, ol oanokc, who was opposed to the issage of the bill wh'cli was intended to tablish it United States bank, said that i had discovered perpetual motion, and was very simple, being that? "Paper makes money, Monoy makes banks, Banks makes poverty, Poverty makes rags. flags or anas paper. Paper makes money, Money makes banks," id so on for ever and ever. . a * a a ?" The Manufacturer, of Philadelphia, the gau of the Manufacturers' Club, discing business and financial matters, ys: "The Southern newspapers and itton exchanges are just now urging e planters to reduce their cotton acre;c, and to turn their attention in large easuro to tho nroduction of food. Tliia mnsel is offered upon the theory that ie supply of cotton is in excess of the msutning capacity of mankind. For lis theory there is no warrant iu fact, here are millions of human boings in thin luntry and in Europe, to say nothing of le rest of the world, who never iu their res had enough clothing. The trouble ith the planter is not that he grows too ucli cotton, but that ho cannot get a ir price for what he does grow. He is liven to enlarge his product by a desirate purpose to force up the quantity > that with the price falling he may still iy his fixed charges, ft 'id not roflt htm to grow leas*cott#E(5T^ninre od, for food prices wet xfown also.' - He moot join in ati attempt to force up rices by diminishing the supply, for the lovcment would ruin him. The only opo of saltation lies in an advance of rices. Extreme shortage might prouce this result, hut the effect'could not e permanent, and tho planters cannot fford to make the experiment. The emedy lies in far other directions, and it i of a nature which will effect not cotton nly, but all other commodities. Cotton I down because ?old is pp. The mensro of values h*s oe^a artitloially lcngthned, and until it I *11 be reduced to lormal proportions fl.ere can be nc Eencral returns of prosperity. Wo suffer ere, and Europe suffers, from the arbitrary and useless rejection of silver by the civilized world. When bimetallism shall be geuorally restored prices will advsnco and the mud scramble for gold will bo over. It was reported Inst week, falsely no doubt, that huge deposits of gold had been discovered in Colorado. If such a discovery should be made the trouble would disappear at once, for it would tumble the value of gold in spite of demonetization, aud until that value shall be brought low by one means or nuotlier there will Ik> no improvement of the situation that will last." CLAIMS AGAINST CHILI. More Than Two Millions Asked By Washington, 1). C.?Papers were filed at the State Department asking for reparation ami damages for the crew of the Uuited States steamship Baltimore, of the Chilian Government for injuries received and false imprisonment undergone at the time of the riots at Valparaiso in October 1801. The damages claimed aggregate 42,005,000, ns follows: False Imprisonment and Assault?John McAdani, 450,000; John Downey, 450,000; Andy Boyle, 450,000; O. Wellelaud, 450,000. Very Grave Injuries?Jeremiah Anderson, 4150,000; John Hamilton, 4150,000; George Banter, 4150,000. Serious Injuries?Joseph Quigley,4100000; John McBridc, 4100,000; William I/icy, $100,000; M. lloulelmii, $100,000 ; Willinm Caulficid, $75,000; 1*. McWilliuins. $75,000; James M. Johnson, $75,000; John Rooncy,$75,000; James Oillcu, $00,000; F. Clifford, $00,000; F. Frederick, $00,000 ;F. 1!. Smilh, $00,000; Warren Brown, $50,0000; R. J. J. Hodge, $50,000; Johu Butler, $50,000; C. C. Williams, $50,000. False Imprisonment and Light Assault ?John W. Frcese, $40,000;Thomas Gallagher, $40,000; C. II. Gut It, $40,000; W. Sullivan, $10,000; Andrew Nelson, $40,000: fc>. W. Cook, $50,000; II. Cunningham, $50,000; IYter O'Neill, $50,000; Peter Johnson, $50,000; Alfred Pfciller, $50,000; Adolpli Swausou, $50,000. The Grcnt Wall or China. A correspondent of the London Illustrated News, who lnu recently traveled across Siberia, Mongolia and th? Gold desert, entering Northern China by tho Nankow Pass, gives an interesting account of the world-renowned "Great Wall of China." "Iliad fully prepared myself for something wonderful,"% says the correspondent, "but thin marvelous work more than realized my expectations ana lairly liclrt me Bpclihmiud for n few minutes. One etui form some idea of the panic the Celestials must linvo been in when they undertook such a gigantic - <JM*ier. What struck IOC must in tlaii _ wall was its wonderful state of preservation, tho symmetrically hewn stones of which it is composed showing but few signs of the ravages of timo." The building of tho gigantic wall is said to hava been aommuncod by Empcroi Che-IIwaug-Te in the year 214, 11. C., but it was not completed until several hundrod years later. U extends to n length of more tluiu 2000 miles, is from twenty-live to thirty feet, high, aud lias a thickness varying from twelve to seventeen feet. It is an earth wall, lined with bpiek on both sides and provided with numerous turrets aud battlcinouts.? Frank Leslie's. How n Russia n Peasant Pios. count ljoo Tolstoi ucscriood thus recently to Octnve Iloudnillc,who visited liim at Jusnaja-l'ojami, how n Hussiua peasAUt dies: "Death is dark an<i torrihlo on tho the canvas of tho painter, but horc in this country ft fs almost a picture of mirth. I just came from n peasant's deathbed. The man knew that he uiust die aud his pain lasted several days, yet not once did his serenity of soul leavo him. Whoa death was qulto near, and, as is customary, a waxed taper was placed in his hand, his face essoined an expression of unutterable happiness. It seems strange to ine that after such a scene that I luivc felt so little emotion. Aside from all religious feeling, death is for these people a releaso from trouble; therefore, all absence of the cloud of sorrow seen elsewhere. It is the peace, the slumber which the peasant has longed for in tho depth of his misery, and the sorrow of living is over." Phosphate Men Gloomy. Maco.s, Ga ?Freight Agent Dorscy, of the Georgia Southern 1 tail road, returned homo from South Carolina, where ho ' had been since the first of the year, looking after the phosphate business in that State for his road. Mr. Dorscy reports great gloom in the phosphate industry of South Carolina, ami says that the business has beeu badly crippled this season. Nothing like the amount of phosphate sold last season has been sold this. The demand iu business is not less than 10 per cent. None of the plants nre now in operation, and 8,t'00 men are out of employment. Mr. Dorscy thinks the fanners of south Georgia will put 50 per ccni. less fertilizers in tho ground this year than has ever been known. Mr. Holden's Funeral. ItAiJCion. N. C.?The funeral of the lato ox-Governor William W. Golden was hold from Edenton Street Methodist church hero Wednesday afternoon. The interment was in Oakwood Cemetorv. The Typographical Union attended in a'body. An Ex-Governor Burned to l>eath. Little Rock, An*.?Ex-Gov. Elins N. Conway was accidentally burned to death in his own residence. It is supposed he was usleop at tho time. Ho was very old And feeble, quito eccentric and lived alone, not nllowiug any one clso to sleep on the premises. Death of Ool. John T. Rliett. CoMinniA, 8. C. ?Ex-Mayor John T. Rhe?t died Sunday after a lingering ill> nesa of one month. IIo was stricken i with paralysis on the 31st of January. PRETTY POLITICS. The Political Field Growing Very Interesting. Straws From a Dozen Status Bonring Nowb of Importance. The North Carolina Convention. Kai.kioii, N. C.?It wns decided by the 8tate Executive Coimuittee, whieli met here to hold the State Convention at lialeigh on May 18. The dntc decided upon was the date suggested bv the president of the State All iance, who, though not a incmbcrof I meeting, was in the city, ami expressed himself on the subieet in mlvmnw meeting. There was found a disposition to make every reasonable concession to the Fanners' Alliance and there was a good deal of outspoken sentiment in favor of a Htutc ticket headed by Capt. 8. 1$ Alexander anil HI as Carr. Iu "Little Rhody." PitOViDBKCIS, K. I.?At the Democratic State Convention held here Wednesday, Ex-Lt Gov. W. T. C. Wardwell, of Ibis tol, was nomiuated for Governor, and Chas. K. Gorman, of Providence, for Lieutenant Governor. Delegates to ttic National Convention were instructed for Clevelaud. Eloction at Elmira, N. Y. N.Y. City?Special dispa'ehes to the World say that "the city and town elections in dillcreut portions of the State show general Democratic reverses. The Republicans elected Mayors iu Uti c:?, Oswego, Auburn, Coming, Hornellsvilie aud Amsterdam, and iu Elmira the regular Democratic candidate, championed by Scuutor Hill, carried but one ward of the city. Large sums of money were spent on both sides for votes, it is said, and the independent Democratic candi date, for whom Cleveland Democrats and ltcpuhlicnus voted, was chosen. "In Uticn, too, Ili 1 aud Cleveland Democrats were nrra-cd against each other, while in Oswego a split between the Democratic factions paved the w .y .'or a Hemibtiean vietorv in 'i' *?? , ,, J " * WJ > "Deniocrats elected their Mayor hy over *>,000 majority. "The Republicans also made gains in supervisors, and ill Duchess county, where last year the board stood cightcou !)em erats to eight Republicans, it is l?olievcd that the Republicans have elected til'teeu incnibcrs and the Democrats clcv, u " _ Prohibitionists Beaten. Romb, Ga.?The city election hinged it> tln<-whiskey issue, ?ud the Prohibitionists were badly beaten. Thero were mauy fights at the polls. Chicago's Big Wigwam. Chicago, tix.?The locall Democratic Convention Committee have accepted plaus for a wigwam to hold 18,000 persons. The Western incu think Hill has the National Committee, and that is why such a stubboru fight was made by the committee for a majority of the sea's. The plans are now changed nud 3,000 more seats added, which the committee will capture, thus giving this city 0,000 seats and tlip Nnliniml CnnimiH/i.. 10 linn The wigwam is to cost $24,000 and will be built on the lake front at the foot of Mudisou street. Florida Republicans. The Floriila Republican Stale Convcn tion will be held at Tallahassee April 13. Thero is some talk of the Republicans joining forces with the third party on the State ticket. The eight delegates to Minneapolis will undoubtedly be pledged for Harrison. SENATOR HILLS SALARY. He Only Drew it From the Time When Ho Took Hia Beat. Washington, 1). C ?There was quite nn interesting little episode in the rooms of the secretary of the Senate this after- | uooiT. After the vote on the Idaho caso liad heen taken, Senator Hill strolled into the room nud remarked that if convenient he would like to draw a little money. The secretary of the Senate, who is (Jen Anson (J. McC'ook, of New York, is the disbursing officer of the Senate. Me draws monthly from the Treasury a sufli cient amount pay the salaries of Senators and at tlie hegiuniug of every session draws enough to pay their niileng.* and stationary allowances Senator Mill's request was promptly responded to by Secretary McCook's disbursing clerk, who placed before him vouchers for an amount aggregating about live thousand dollars, and a ked him to sign them. "Oh, no," said the Senator, "I want a voucher for my salary from the day I w.'s sworn in, the 7th of January, 18112. up to the end of Kebruai v. This is your usual pay day. is it not - the third of the month?" The cleik said it was, hut went on to remark that they had a certain amount standing on their books to the credit of the. New Yo k Senator, and to nav out onlv a portion of that amount woultl cause confusion in both tlicit book-keeping niut that of the Treasury Department. With some brusqucness of manner Mr. Hill said this was none of his business; they must keep up their books to suit themselves. He wished to draw his salary for the actual time he served in the Senate, and not one cent more. Aft r some further parleying the clerk made out a voucher for $807.00, and Mr. Hill sigucd it and took s check for that amount in full payment of all his claims upon tho Sennte and mileage fund up to date. 8cveu hundred and seventy-eight dollars of this amount Wus salary from January 7 to February 20; the balance was for mileage. The disbursing clerk stated afterwards that the balance left undrawn was $4,221, which would iu due course bv operation of law be covered back into the Treasury. Virginia and the World's Fair. Richmond. Va.?The House of Delegates passed a bill appropriating $25,000 to the World's Fair, and the Sooatc at night agreed to it. SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. The Terminal System Completely Reorganized. Consolidation of Richmond Terminal With the It. & D., E. T., V. & O., and Central of Oeorgia ?Details of tjio Organization. , Nkw Youk, [Special.]?The Richmond Terminal Company's stockholders', committee arc about ready to submit their, plan for the financial reorganization of that company and the roads controlled ThwitttrdarfMi-ei'iiAii' V-'unifwlnj _ and all the coinpnuics included in tj??l Ricliinoud and Danville, East Tennt" Virginia and Georgia and Central Hanroad of Georgia systems, aggregating s,8' 0 miles, into one corporation and one management. The new company will l>e called the "Southern Railway Company." The committee propose the issue of $300,000,000 of new securities. These new securities an to take up and retire all of the securities issued end outstanding on the properties as at present organized, and provide for all the floating debts, car trusts and other unfunded obligations of the several companies. capitalization, debts, etc. The present amount of capitalization and tmfuuded debts of the various companies is over $180,000,000, instead of $ 212,300,000 first mortgage 4s. $02,500,000 incomes, $75,000,000 preferred stock, and $150,000,000 common stock as at first pro|K>scd. The new securities will consist of $220,000,000 first mortgage 4 per lent, bonds, $05,000,000 second mortgage 4 per ceut. income bonds, $75,OOo.ooo 5 per cent, preferred stock, nnd $110,000,000 common 6tock. Of the lirst mortaatre bonds it is nrnnmnil ?? ?c fiu- $'215,000,000 immediately for the retircntont of th-j present bonded debts and for Hie paying of lloating debt, car trust#*, etc ; $.1,000,000 arc reserved for iuipiovcmcuts to the properties. OUTLOOK FOlt TIIE NEW COMPANY. The new company will thus start with interest charge* of $8,000,000, to which will be added existing rentals of $1,5(30,0'0, making altogether $10,160,000. This is over $53,000,000 less than the prcseut fixed charges and annual car trust pnyincuts. The new plan while saving $53,000,000 of fixed charges, will relieve the eompaniesof Hoatiugdcbt and securenne management for the whole system. 13y the latter competent experts belicve'that from $0,000,000 to $53,000,000 can be added to the net earnings during the next yaar. The gross earnings of the system are now $40,000,000 per annum, with cotton and all the in-dm'ries iu the Hotith it^the must depressed condition that has eujuecr'far years. As this vast system of"railroads reaches mi |jiins 01 me south, any favorable change in the conditions there will immediately improve its earnings, hence it is reasonable to expert that the gross earnings will reach $12,000,000 next year. The ratio of expenses to earnings heretofore has be?u about 70 per cent., but it is expected that the economies which will bo promoted by this consolidation will reduce this to UGjj per cent. From this it may be seen that $14,000,000 may be reasonably expected. Such a result, which is almost certain, will pay the interest on the first mortgage bonds and the incomes, aud show immediately nearly 2 per cent, on the preferred stock, AN KqUITAllLE 1'LAN. It is said that the plan of distribution of new securities to retire the old seeuritiet is most equitable, each of flic old ones being considered in all its bearings and treated strictly on its merits without prejudice or partiality. The committee propose to raise about $24,000,000 of cash by the sale of a portion of* the new securities. The Richmond Terminal afocfc^ holders will be offered the privilege of taking the securities at prices which will promise them a profit of at least 2 per cent. This subscription will be underwritten by a bankers' syndicate, in order to assure the success of the reorganization. To the security holdeis the plan nlTnrila .nti..r fi-mntl... ~r .v?.v. iixfin iijv iiiivvi liimij wi men security and prospective losses which have stared them in the face for several years. IMMENSE COMMERCIAL VALVE. The consolidation of this gn at system under one management, aud its incorporation upon a sound and stable financial basis cannot fail to be of immense commercial value to the South. Fot the almost unknown stock and bonds issued upon local ronds through out the South there will be given an equivalent amount of securities which will have a ready market and forthcoming value iu the greatest money centres in our country. This of itsc f will add greatly to the available capital of the South. Legends of the Maorles. The M lories arc sometimes generally, and even exquisitely poetical. One of them rclr.tc3 how the heavens and tho earth were at the beginning of things united in nvmiago, and how the sky was torn away from the partner of her lovo by her own children, the star n winds. Every nigh; slic weeps over her lost husband, and licr tears aro t'.vj dew. Sometime* the stories arc very <ju lintly aiul od<lly imaginative, as whore the talo is told of three brethcren who look a canoe to llsh, and went far, far out into the open sea, when ono of them, who prepared a magic hook, caught what was supposed to be a great fish at the bottom, and, drawing it up to tho surface, found that, he linil Mow '/.at land. That was how the land came In hoing, mid the Maorics point to three of the great mountain rnngoB as the atone a woes in which their giant ancestors came from some far-olT country to people the land. Tho mixture of childish naivete and high imagination makes the collection actually fascinating.?Contemporary Review. There fire in Ihc world 147 educational institutions called universities. The largest is in Paris, the next iu Vienna and the third in iterlin.