Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A company bu ocen nrmcd In Rio J tttt t tit lurTCICITCicsTr>T?t I imposed nnff toQNhold virtue end thus 1 *t t "*" Jaueiro, Brazil, with a canital of *N -1 HUlll UN JW IJSNINSI MPI 000,000, to explore and develop the natural resources of the Amazon. Colonies are to be established and means provided for reaching a market for a region heretofore practically unexplored, A few old toll bridges do.vu in Maine bear signs that perpetuate the memory of a curious law. These signs proclaim that all persons, save ''paupers, Indians ud clergymen," must pay toll in crossing the bridge. The indulgence shown to paupers and clergymen is easily understood from the practice elsewhere. bat why the India as wero exempted, -~~"? , unless, indeed, it was a recognition of the aboriginal right to the freedom of the region. .. The Czar of Russia plans a return to serfdom for a portion of his poople. Many villago communities liava so increased that the land of the commune, which they hold in common, will not support them. These arc to be colonized on the vast plains still uuoccupiecl and started in farming. Of their crops ^ticthird is to be used by their community, one-third goes to the State tt pay for the debt incurred and one-third is for taxe3. The peasaut is bound to rcmaiu there, and under conditions that ma'cc hint ? Bert. ' f The rolative decline of New York Citj at a port of entry is, observes the CourierJournal, worthy of mention. In 1893 the Port of New York received sixty!five per cent, of the country's imports; tin 1891 it had only about sixty two and :a half per cent. This was not becauso l there wae any decrease in tho business of 'New York, but solely owing to the increase of business at other norts. llostor. lis the second city in the matter of im ports, Philadelphia is a good third ana San Francisco fourth. New Orleans, ' though its imports are less than onethird those of Boston, is the second city of the country as to expoits, and the exports of Baltimore are but little less thau those of Boston. - : "?* M Cowlev. a Dioneer in the North'west, who for many years dealt in iurs .with the Calispel, Spokane, Coeur d'Alone, and Columbia River Indians, and !is one of the be9t informed men on all .matters pertaining to the tribes in tho Northwest, says that the Indians are dying off rapidly. "Take the Uceur d'Aleuee, for instance," he says. "1 was amoug tbem for a long time. They have a magnificent reservation and fine farms and good houses, but the houses re killing thorn. They can't stand roofs. When I was located ou the Spokane River, there wore immcmo bands of the Coeur d'Alene, Calispol, Spo'cuuo, nd Columbia River Indians about there. iThey were ongaged steadily in hunting and trapping all kinds of wild animals. I bought black and silver gray fox skins . of them at 41.50 and 42 apieoe, 500 martins a year at $10 each,fisher, grizzly,' black bear, beaver, and other kinds of skins without number. Then the whites had not encroached on them, and they were robust and healthy. It is a misialrn #A 4?n on/I rI^l>?? VI j uuu VITlWKg liUCIUi A UCjf must be wild or they arc nothing. If we keep on civilizing them, we shall ' have no Indians. Apparently this Is something the Government will not understand." ' Chicago is net to note a monopoly of the celebration of Columbus's great discovery, announces the New York Ledger. Every city in the Union will do something to signalize the qu&trocentenary of this memorable event. New York City has hit upon a unique way of celebrating it. f great, food exhibition is to be held at the Madisou Square Garden in October. The object of the exposition is to improve the quality and to elevate and maintain a high standard of purity and wholesomeness of our food supply. All the States and Territories of the Union will be invited to participate, and it is proposed to show the progress made in feeding the world in the past four ? hundred years. This is the first exhibition of the kind which has ever been held. Not even England, the birthplace and home of exhibitions of all kinds, has ever hit upon one of this description. Probably the reason is that Bogland Is a manufacturing country, and m not, like the United States, a great food* producing country. This oountry is, in foot, the granary of the world, and affords material for one of the most inter eating exhibitions of modern time*. Only food products will be ellowed on exhibition, producer* end manufacturers only being ellowed to exhibit. The ex* elusion of middlemen, it if thought, will furniah e guerenty of the bonk fide chereeter of every article, end that it is the erne as is offered to the public. Every ?-_a.iUi.-A e. I iL - kmc I a siuuma mu? war hue uiini and Address of pro iucere or msaufsctur n, under whose exclusive direction th" ^_p?hibition will be held ?w^*n/s/xjl jl j.s The Senator Make* a Rousing Speech At Jackson. He Defines and Eulogizes Pure States' Rights Before the Mississippi Legislature.? Jackson, Miss.?Senator Hill spoke in tho hall of the House of Representatives. Early in the afternoon the gallery had been filled with colored people, but they wcro cleared out by the police and ranm *??? *? *1 uvu. nU uiniie lor me wmto men .and for the ladies of Jackson. Some of the wives of the members wero admitted to ~calkal-i? owkr by -HpahiYiBtiii at p. m., while at the other end of the capitol Lieutenant-Governor Evans called the Senate to order. Five minutes later the mombcrs of the Senate appeared at the door of the House nnd were formally received, the Lieutenant Governor mnintaiuing the platform beside the Speaker. A few minutes before 2 o'clock Governor Stone appeared, escorting Senator Hill. The whole assembly arose to meet them and the galleries and floor npplaudcd loudly. The Governor escorted Senator Hill to the rostrum where he took a sent beside the Speaker. When the assemblies had quitted Gov. Stone arose and introduced Senator Hill in a speech, replete with warm praise for his services to the Democratic party while Governor of New York. After the applause had subsided Senator Hill spoke as follows: "I am deeply sensible, gentlemen of the Legislature of Mississippi, how rare your bestowal has been of the distinguished honor whioVi ?srV? ?!J w?) nivu Ulltu irnuc, I come here to receive at your nanas and to acknowledge with gratitude. What statesmen of our great republic, the most venerable, the most renowned among the ' living or the dead, in the flowering of his fame would not have travelled long for the gathering of such a leaf to bind with all its laurels. Iu this new world, where the people . rule, shall we not brighten every tie that links our Demo cratic denominations, principalities and powers in the banded sovereignty of an imperishable union. I will trust your white-haired veterans, familiar with public cares; I will trust the young man, who for the first time treads these hulls and is burning to hurl his part in the service of the State, to kuow what thankfulness 1 shall ever feel, gentlemen of tlio State of Mississippi, to have been for an hour tiltfocus of that reciprocal good will which I owe to the favor and return to you on behalf of the State of New York. There is good icason at all times for inpVeora to insure one anothers liberty in the pur-suit of happiness. But there is excellent reason at the present time for such interchange between men whose political philosophy and practical politics alike are summed up in preserving for our own benetit, for times to come, the great Democratic faith an*d tradition. It was never iu such peril. Scarce ever until November two years ago aud November next did popular elections put in issue such extreme danger, or so large deliverance. The ground upon which Democrats of the State of New York have their Btaud is the whole Democratic faith and tradition?not some corner of it merely, not some splinter of it merely, but the whole. This is the ground upon which I would see the Democrats of the State of Mississippi, with all Deinocrata north, south, east and west, both of the regular organizations and the Farmers' Alliance unite and take their slaud in the approaching contest. Other duties for auother day. For like the victory of Jefferson, this union, this victory will close a chanter of history; will doom to final disintegration a degrading party and will fix the direction of your political progress for some decades in the century to comc. Now, ns in principle, I depend for triumphs upon partics aud the organization of parties. They create parties. It is the Democratic principle which created the I)eracratic party. In its union lies a greater strength than all its enemies combined, can ever finally subvert. It survives every disaster. It is the great and most efficient organ of the people's power. The Dem ocratic party is stronger than any man oset of ineu. No mau is ever dispensible 4a its oil/t/tAao t /Vl? Ua at ? 2 A I. V V HO OUV/tVOO, 1VI 119 3 ICU^Ill n Willi llll" people. It is more powerful than any class, however numerous. Therefore it is large , tolerant, liberal, progressive. It invites to its membership, to its control, all men who will uphold the Democratic faith and apply them to the people's needs. Continuing, Mr. Hill urged a close adherence and strict construction of the constitution of the United States, which he said "was the standing marvel in the historv of civilized men." The powers which grants it are few and specified, and it concentrates and centralizes these few. After the century of the storm and stress it remains almost wholly unruptured and has eraercged umiinpaired from ths torsion of our war. It is not any legalized excursion by Congress outside the constitution which explains wliv we still live end move and have our being beneath its aogis. It is in spite of trans gression, not by help of tliem that we still live. We have not profited by them we have survived them. It is the old abridgment and the limitations of the functions of government to its own proper business despite transgressions: it 1* the distribution and devotion of its powers, despite usurpations, it is the prohibition of State powers; 14 is the declaration of 8tate rights; it is the rfiltration and surrender of the- residue to the states respectively^ of the people^ wmcn we nave iruiy uvea ana bhii Dear our life; it ie individual freedom, not a government rulo, which explains our awift expansion from a fringo of thirteen feeblo colonies to a continent of mighty states. It is individual freedom, not Republican force bills, not congressional leading strings, that will enable you, the fetrong and nigh'y civilised race to guide forward your less gifted fellowcithen from the plane of equality before the law the higher level of thrift, economy, good husbandry, .social order, self transform the present difficulties and unshared burdens of the South in the -solid 'oundation of still more prosperpat and more powerful States. It must M admitted that for a few brief years our constitution did not perfectly avail to insure domestic tranquility. That was in the last generation, and broken hearts must be healed by time or death, and one or two more generations must pass away. In doubling and redoubling your incredible achievement of the past 20 yenrs your magnificent progress in the productions of the field, farm, forest and mines, before it becomes palpable that war, with its devastations, its passions, its griefs may not, perhaps, have all been too high n price lo pay lor transmitting an insoluble political problem. We must live up to that constitution. New Jtt Mississippi and exists, every disaster that impends, and every danger that is feared, throughout our whole laud, not merely in some part u <1-- * - - v/i ib, in iuu uircci and obvious consequence of Republic an legislation In disregard of the spirit of the letter of our constitution. Not for one hour during the last thirty years has the Democratic party possessed, nor does it now possess, the power to rcptal or amend those laws, the fount and origin of every present disturbance to the general peace and prosperity. A little while the Democratic party had the Senate, a little while the executive; foi longer periods ihe House of Representatives but not for a moment during 30 years has it had all three, so that all the evil producing laws have been absolutely beyond our rench aud went on operateing and are operating now just as if the overwhelming Democratic majority in the House of Representatives were a Republican majority. Senator Hill spoke at considerable length and made a f.ne impression on the large crowd that heard him. He was frequently interrupted by enthuiisastie applause. SHE FED THE CHIOKENsTPOISON. A South Carolina Woman's Peculiar and Fatal Method of Thief-Catching. Columbia, 8. C.?Colored people living in the outskirts of the city have been greatly excited of late over the sudden inexplicable death of several of their neighbors. It is now alleged that an old colored woman iiving in that quarter, who had been losing many chickens finally bought some poison and fed Ik to few old hens, which would fatten them, but prove certain death to any one who ate them. One negro in the neighbor-1 hood soon sickened and died. Shortly two or three others followed. Chicken stealinc in that neighborhood has ceased. * Xirr^ui mmmm ?, , Columbia S. C.?The result of the primary elections for mayor and aldermen is announced. In the mayorality race no candidate received a majority, and a second primary was held Tuesday at which W. C. Fisher was elected mayor. Col. F. W. McMaster, the present, mayor, was the other candidate and the result r.s reported by the manaffAr0 (ymrn Kim curnnn nlnon Kuf Kn ' ccutivc committee decided the contest in Ward 3 in S^Jpan's favor, making Sloan second. The aldermen elected are: Q. V. Allworden, Charles Nary, Henry Altee, saloon keepers; J. T. Barron, lawyer; Kufus Muller, ?. J. Brennen, W. B. Lowrauce, Joseph Allen, grocfers; T. J . Harper,drayman; Frnuk Ehrlich, shoes; F. S. Earlc, druggist. George Shields and Henry Ilennics will run over. Railroad Change*. Mnj. John C. Winder, 8uperintendent of the Seaboard and Roanoko Rail-roitrt, i??? i'""" H"nti of the Georgia, Carolina and Nortnern nauroad and also General Agent of the Seaboard Air Line System, with headquarters at Atlanta, where he will at once move his family from Raleigh, and Capt. T. W. Whistnant has been Snpt. of the Seaboard and Roatoke with headquarters at Norfolk. The wife of W. G. Oakman, who succeeds Mr. Irman as president of the Richmond Terminal System, ia a daughter of the late Roscoe Conkling. Mr. Oakman, who was only a division superintendent at the time of his marriage, has since risen rapidly in his profession. Lynching Near Gainesville. Alexandria, Vs.?A special from Warronton says: Lee Hefflin and Jaa. Dye, who last fall murdered the Kines family, were this morning at 8 o'clock lynched near Gainsville, Prince William county. The men were to have been hanged, but tay of proceedings had been secured. Warreoton authorities fearing violence in the night took the men from jail and placed them in a vehicle and started with them for this city. A party of sixty men was hastily formed, who overtook the vehicle near Qainesville, overpowered the guards and hanged the murderers to a tree and riddled their bodies with bub lets. A Chilean Popular Beverage. A pleasant beverago called "cbica de mirtilla" is obtained in Chile from a jpeciea of myrtle-berries. These are about the size of a large pea, of a deep red color, and of a peculiarly sweet and delicious aromatic flavor. They are prepared by crushing them in water, and allowing them to ferment for a few days. The black cluster-berries of the molletree are also gathered for this purpose by the Indians. They have a combined flavor of juniper and pepper.? Onoe A Week. Haven't Sense Enough to Avoid Mala. For some moatha a number of wild monkeys were daily fed by Mr. Kipling amd bin family in India; and they soon learned to distinguish by smell between fresh and stats biscuits. Tot these monkeys are not sharp enough to provide themselves with shelter against the beevj rains of the country. In the Simla region they may be seen in troops, sitting Shiverincr for linnn within > SSBWfii | or covered apecee.?New ?ork Foe<? ,> -iisir* j l v ''J.ikS *. * ! rl .^wjSRk! najttjttwjrtttiis up sfjkiinu I M News Notes as Fresh as the Crisp Air. I I The Moat Interesting Events Hap pening in Three States Chronicled Here. VIRGINIA. The Baptist Aircb1 at CharloltesviU< hag ju*t c?lebrat?a*hcr Centennial. Jams* O'Brien^ tho' Agent of the Balti more and Qhif?ll. K at Lexington. hai mysteriously d Appeared. The truekiuff'iqftercsteiu the vicinity o Rjs^jajuijknu West point XVill be largei libnaire founder of Ofcpe Charles City, has been admitted to probate in North ampton county. Ho bequeaths all his immense Cape Charles property to his two daughters. W. L. Watkins, the oldest, member ol the Petersburg bar, died lust Thursday. $20,000 life insurance will be paid to his heirs. Elbert Carrico in suing the Berths Zinc Company at Wythcville for $20,000 dnmages for tf>e loss of both arms. Boys set Are to three barns near Levingston, destroying much tobacco and hay. A great fruit and flower exhibit wifl be given in Norfolk next fn I b? the Nor felk Pomological and Horticultural So ciety. The land U: books of the commissioner of revenue for the year 1892 show an inPrmtBA In rani 1 ' ,x ?,u ,V?1 voilivv tniuus ?II l/IlDVllie of $120,000 as compared with 1801. NORTH CAROLINA. The Baptist State Sunday School Convent on will be held at Winston on April 14th. A fac ory is to bo built at Besscnci City to manufacture soap, dyes and stove polish. A largo amouut has been subscribed to liio Jefferson Democratic Club of Wins ton. Winston board of aldermen arc discussiug the question of taxing all retail drummers Tho Guilford Battlo Ground Company will make a lake on ibeir grounds near Greensboro. Baptist revival meetings will be held in Charlotto beginniuu with Mav 80th. under the leadership of Rev. H. M. Wharton, a noted divine of Baltimore Mr*. Boyd, formerly postmistress of New London, confessed on h r death-bed f"r 7l'^:h A great many fish arc being caught nil along the Ncuag liver, aiul the fishing down at Morehcad City ou the coast is finer this season than for years. Over $'3,000 worth were ^hipped from there in one day, recently. Judge John A. Gilmer died at Greens boro Thursday. His^ health had been failing for two years, having Bright's disease, and bis end was quiet and peaceful. Ho was born April 22, 1838. The fuueral took place Friday. The State Board of Pharmacy, in session at Greensboro Inst week examining applicants for license to pr ctico pharmacy, granted licenses to the following whe passed the examination successfully: K V. Howell, Wake Forest; B. K. Kysei and P. B. Kyscr, Selina; H. S. Scd berry, Fny< ttcvllle; P. W. Parker, Hal eigh; Thomas N. Hill, Moorcsville, a d Mrs. P. B. Kyscr, Selma. Mrs. Kyser it the first lady in the State who has evci received license to practice pharmacy or wnd tvwwlfld an' exnmiuui iou. SOUTH CAROLINA. Canning factories are to be built al Aiken aud Brunson. The Carolina M'dlnud Alliance Warehouse and Banking Co., of Sciglingville, has been chartered. The survey of the Jonesville and Lock hart Shoals Rn lway will be commenced in a few weeks A dog case was tried at Spaitanbuiq last Saturday. The plaint iff had a sette who was fond of eggs, and when CAugh in tho act of poaching Inst week, wa fired upon, putting out an eve. The Canal Dime Savings Bank hai been organized at Columbi.i, with ?. W Robertson, president; A. L. Gsubert n?.l n ii n n: viwjiiveiurm, auvi U. i*l JJCIIJf, IHQUIUI The capital stock is $30,000. A Utile Sopth Carolina girl, only 1< Tear* old, Mi?s jBeriha Visanski, in mak ing'quite a Furore in New York City as i pianist. 8hc lend the Nntionul Conserv atory Orchestra at the Madi o j 8quari Concert last week. Columbia is Mis Bertha's, home The Superintendent of Education ad eertiseethe imctiog of the Mate board o examiners, when applicants for Stat teacher's certificates will be issued, t< take place April 1. During the pnst week the Penitentian authorities have received convicts frou a! 1 _ .t /.? ? m? louowing co ill! ics: unarieaton, 19 Darlington 4, Lnncaalcr 7, Sumter 5 Pickens 2, Union 2, Hampton 1, Edge field 2- Out of the forty-two prisoner - two were white. The Columbia Hascbali Association which will mainhil. a team In tho South efw Inter State 'League, has organize*, with President, J. O. ih-nnctt; vice, F, H. Stevens; secretary and treasurer, A T. McCante ; corresponding secretary Olair Trfttef. Pit (man and Cnmpbel will do the box v\ <>: k. The loam secur ed in one of the finest Columbia ever had Swygn t will decline tho offer to go witl the Mobile ' 'Southern League'' in orde to remain, South Australians urge more qonsfat Inspection of cattle, also tho ore r en tin of tha mW of milk awl meat from dw aased animal*. i?? ? The Rurrowe, Tvtrcm, Hnnsrere nun Oban* uso joy) ami nlvcr in bullion lui CUm?3^ ^5 . FARMERS' ALLIANCE. The Latest News Of And For Th Order. "The Cause of Hard Times" Account ed For By a California Paper. The graded income tax sentiment i 0 growing palpably stronger. If it can b crystalized so as to be brought to direc pressure upou the present Congress the; s may grant it recognition. Ben Butler declares himself in favor o f issuing all the paper currency the coun r try wants. "Put," he says 7" ~o<A lt Is flic gBVCTtofntni's ImforseW&ri ( which makes money, anyhow." They have the right kind of girls uj 1 in Nebraska, says an exchange. At Sor torm a young lady won't dance with i young mnn unless he belongs to the Al f linnce, nnd the tripping of the light fan tnstie has got to be done on the Ocali t platform. On a fashionable - night at the theatri t in New York, frotn $7">,000,000 to $100, > 000,000 gleam from the boxes of the As tors and Yandorbilts in the form of glit tering jewels Old Mrs. Astor, the lead 1 er of the ultra fashionables, is describet by the New York World as covering he I neck nnd shoulders with diamonds esti mated at $2,000,000, and sitting smiling like a bride in the gaslight. Senator Peffer's eulogy of the late Sen ator Pluinb, on the 17th inst., awakencc the admiration of his conferees. It ere i ated a wonderful impression, rmd was re fcrred to later by Senator Ilnlc as "on? of the most beautiful tributes he had evei h nrd offered in the chamber." Tin Kansas Senutor's laurels grow fast anc I thick. The committee of agriculture hav< ceased herrings upon the option and fu , ,ture bill, nnd will shortly report it tc Congress. It is admitted that the oppo sition have won concessions, but the seh ' ling of futures will be stopped, and n< saics lor future delivery will be permit ted, unless the article is in hand or parties to such ngreenient are in a positioi to curry it out, *** ?? By it icq i est, the demands adopted bi the confederated organisations at theii meeting in Washington last winter ii I printed below: 1. We demand the abolition of national banks as banks of issue, and ns r substitute for national bank notes we demand that legal tcuder treasury notes be issued in sufficient volume to transact the busiuess of the country without . damage or special a^vnntage to any aud private aim such ridt?!f " Vl'llCu HrtH maimed by the people shall be loaned to them at not more than 2 cent per annum upoll nou-peiishablc products as iudicuted in the sub-treasury plan, and also upon real estate with proper limita tions up .u liie quantity of land aud amount of money. 2. We demand a free aud unlimited coinage of silver. i 3. We demaud the passage of laws prohibiting alein ownership of land, anc that Congress take prompt actiou to der vise some plan to obtain all lauds now ! owned by aliens and foreign syndicates k ntwl that nil binds held bv railroads niu other corporations in excess of such as i i actually used and needed by them b reclaimed by the government and held fo actual sett lets only. I 4. Relieving in the doctrine of equa i rights to all and special privilega-i tc none, wc demand that taxation ?nation al, State, or municipal?shall not bi used to build up one interest or class a l"5 U W'"dcu'imn'd'thai Tffl nriuuuuw ? I tioual, St?te or county?shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the gov eminent, economically and honestly ad .miuislcrcd. ' " 0. We demand a just and equitabh system of graduated tax ou incomes. 7. Wc demand the most rigid hon ' esty and just State and national coutro! aud supervision of the means of public j communication and transportation, and i if this control and supervision docs no t remove the abuses now existing, we de s mand the government ownership of sucl means of communication aud transport* tiou. 8. We demand that the Congress o the United States submit an an. end men ' to the Constitution pr ividing for th< election of United States Senators by th . direct vote of the people of each State J also the PresiJent and Vice Presiden by a popular vote. * 9. Resolved, That this cotifctTafairoi of industrial organizations demand thu B in each State a system shall he providet and faithfully executed that will insut an honest and accurate registrational al voters, n free, fair, secret and official bal , lot, nud an hoiust public count; uud w demind that each State legislature shal > make it a felony for any improper intc: , ferencc with the exercise of the registrs tion, ballot, orcouut. 1 1 TOWN AND COUNTRY, Thfv'ii a prejudice nllus 'twlxt country and vonn which I wlnht In rny heart wasent so. Yon tako city people. Just square up and down, S And thayr mighty good people toknow; And wharo's better pcjple a-llvln' to day. Than us In the country? Ytt good A* both of uk l?. we're dlvorsed you might say, , And won't compcrmlse when we could, J Now on ulgh Into town for j or pnp, ef yon please. i _ia *ne wmi i called the aoot>url>* H>r thare '*Mt ketch a wlillT of the hreese and a anl ' Of the breth of wlhl flowr.< cv'rvwhftre, , room fdr the chlhlri'n to piay. and grow, too Aad to roll In tho graft.? r to climb ? Dp A trea and rob ncata, like they orient to do, 1 ?dt they'll do anyhow ev'ry time! My eon In-law nald. when he lived In the town, tic Jcat natchurly pined, night and day. Far* night of the wooda. er a aero of ground Where the tree* wanent all cleared away, . And he aayato me onc't whtlne n-vtaltli.g ua 1 On the farm, "It'a not strange, I declare, r That wo can't coax you folka, without ralaln' a ful To como to town, visiting tharc." And aa*a I, "Then git back wharc you aorto belong And Matiallnc, too, -and ycr three , Little children," naya I, "lint don't know a bird tor Ncraliawk front A chick.v-dee-deen Olt l>aek," I-aaya-l, ' to the blue of the sky And th< green of ihc flcldn, and the *hlne |. Of the aim, with n laugh In yer votca and ycr eye Aa hnrty aa mother'a and mine. Well?long endehort of It?he'a compermlaed ?<>in< I He'a moved In thoa.tohurlia. And now I They don't haf to coax, when tney want ua to cot , 'Cauee we turn In and go anyhow. Far there -well, incy'?i-oom for the *009* gad p Or the grove and the old nrchurd ground. And thoy '* room for the children out thare, and thry's rnont Kcr theyr gran' pap to waller 'em round! ?(James Whltcomb Riley. e *+*** CAC8B or HARD TIMES, Vcgtora (Cal.) Unit. | Our merchants solemnly contemplate ; shelves loaded with gjods and commercial hills coming due while many of our best farmers are borrowing money to carry them through the season. The number of mottgnges filed for record al;s most equals all other documents. The e unemployed can find nothing to do and t the army of tramps is receiving large acy cessions. On the other hand, our houses are full, farms arc well tilled and harvests have been uniformly good for years ' Ventura county is rich in houses nud lands and has rich goods in store. Why, ? then, is there universal complaint of a 6 portation of our produce to the foimumer is carried on at a price that is ruinous , to us and that yields a profit of 40 per _ cent, to the railroads. This and the inft famous combinations of speculators who . control the chief markets to suit their ca_ price, is the cause of the distress that has a at last aroused the people to remonstrance and perhaps rebellion. If the business men nre shrewd enough to sec 9 where their interest lies they will join with the Alliance in demanding a coui* pletc revolution in the tinaucial and " transportation system of the country. I ? r A Week of Southern Progreaa. The Manufacturers' Record of March 5 19 contaius the following: "Reports from all sections of the t?outh indicate a steady inflow of capital I for investment in the new enterprises. . The establishment of new industries, as indicated by the incorporation of comnan 5 ics.shows that a large amoiiDt of new monr cy is being wk?i? it -will be o( im > meDse benefit to the South. The railroad 1 situation is still complicated by the uti uncertainties of the Richmond Terminal reorganization, but present indications 5 poiut to a plan that will place this system and allied interests upon a sounder ' basis than hitherto, and relieve the properties of the great burden of obligations it was proposed to impose upon * tlicin. "The iron trade is strengthened by the consolidation of the two greatest pro 1 ducers, the Tennessee Coal, Iron <& Railroad Co. and the I)c Burdelehcu Coal & Itou Co., and there is still a prospect of f the inclusion of the Sloss Steel & Iron r Co. in the deal. s ?n?r record of new enterprises for ilic week shows the following as the more important items: A $ 123,000 electric 1 plant nt Richmond, Vu; a #600,000 stockyards company at Louisville, Ify.; a 1 #50,000 school-desk manufacturing company at Newport, Ky.: a $1,(05.000 coal and coke company nt Corinth, W. Vn ; aj$500,000 iron *Aul zinc company at - ,.? (10(1- (?*(.- liieafSTVr1 tine, Texas; a #25,000 mauufacturii ; company at Sa/em, Va ; a $1,000,00'J manufacturing comnauy at Baltimore, Md.; a $20,000 woolen-mill company at Salem, W. Va.; a $350,000 phosphate company at Plant City, Fin.; a $'10,000 I brick company at Louisville, Ky.; u| 1 fauu,uu> loan nnu irusr company at Charleston, S. C.; a $1,000,000 mineral ' anil mining Company at ITarriman, 1 Tenu.; a $275,000 copper-mining company at Henrietta, Texas; an iron fur1 nace at Queen City, Texas; a $500,000 ? cotton factory company at Newport J News, Va., and a $200,000 coal and coke s company at McDowell count v, W. Va " c r ? ( Norfolk to Charleston. ? Weodon, N C., [Special [?The engi? nec s of the No folk, Wilmington and e Charleston Railroad Compary have corat pleted their work of surveying the entire length of the r ad 252 miles, and arc now - xtuiuiiid in locating the line. Starting I from NorforK fFc"Survey*** ro?t? /?lk?ws - almost an air line to Charleston, passing - through a section of country which is now almost without railroad facilities. e The surveys show that the construction will be easy, the greatest difficulty to be - encounted being Dismal Swamp, which I the road run directly through. I he main ; line will run through Norfolk county, I in Virginia, Hertford, Bertie, Martin, t Pitt, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pender, i Bladen, Columbus and Brunswick in i North Carolina, and Horry, Georgetown - and Berkley counties in South Carolina. Among the larger towi s through or near which the route has been surveyed are ' Wallectown, Vu., and Yard ley, ColeII raine, Windsor, Williamston, Pactolus, e Johnston's Mills, Dover, Piuk Hill, c Washington, Point Caswell, and Wilmington, N. C , and in South Carolina, * Conway, Frazer, Georgetown, Santee and n v """ "ll" t ? ?. 1 0 Foster Gets Home With a Black Eye 1 and Brings Silver News. New Yokk.?The North German e Lloyd steamer Spree, with Secretary Fos1 ter on board arrived at port. The Secr retary had a rather rough voyage. On i- the 12th the sea was very rough. Mr Foster was seated iu a steamer chair on the upper deck when the steamer lurched heavily, throwing him to the deck, his head striking the port rail and blackening his eye. His health has been much improved by the trip. Secretary Foster touched upon the silver qutstion which he said greatly int rested the English people, the manufacturing cities strongly favoring bi-metalism, but LornB bard street, which corresponds to Wail street, being strougly opposed to it. There was, however, a growing sentiment in England in favor of a double standard. There was no arrangement uiaUo lor a monetary conference. Mi Inspected the Troops in a Confederate Uniform. A special from Louisville says: Ad'* jutant-General Gross has created n sen sation by inspecting the State Guard in a gray Confederate uniform. lie did this at Bowling Green last Saturday ?- night. When asked why he did so he r4 is quoted as saying that he had said he would never wear th$ blue during hit " term of offlo*. POLITICS, CROPS, ETC. News From the Entiro Unitod States Reported By the Hon. Eli Perkins. Philosopher and Lecturer. N. Y. Citt.?On the Erie train last night was Eli Perkins, just arrived from an extensive trip down through the Southern States "Yes," he said to a Sun reporter, "I am just from Texas and Missouri, via Charleston, Savannah, Atlauta, Birmingham. Vicksburg. San Autonia, Galveston, the staked Plains of Texas, Arkansas, States. What do you want to know?" ' Well, how arc the crops?" "The immense cotton crop is swamping the entire South. They raised 9,000,000 bales, aud a million bales more thau the world wants. The price has fallen from 10 cents to .m in t???a nnrl the surplus is piled up arouud the stations with uo one to buy it." "Who is hurt by the low price?" "The cotton merchant. Many farmers s >lcl at eight ccuts, but ruin stares r the Southern merchant in the lace. The entire South is suppressed, and they cry out to the North for sympathy I saw 80,000 bales piled up in Fort Sin'th. The Red and Brazos rivers arc lined with it. The farmer's corn bin is empty, and the merchants who have not failed are not able to curry him through another crop. Meetings are being held all over the South recommending the restriction of the crop this year." "How do they expect to restrict it?" 1 Bi putting in mora sugar, lice and - corn. The price dropped too late for a wheat crop. They arc in 1 rouble in the sugar country ia Texas and Louisiana, because just as ?hoy want to plant more sugar Mr Breckinridge of Kentucky jumps up in Washington and offers a resolution to take the two-cent bonus off of sugtr. This would destroy the sugar industry and throw a million more hales of cotton upon the market. Then South Carolina, which used to make ],( 00,000 bars els of rice, and Louisiana, which made 900,000 barrels of rice, want a tariff against cheap Chinese lice, which has about broken up American rice planting." "What argument do they use in speaking of a tariff on Chinese rice and Egyptian cotton?" "They say: 'You Yankees put a tariff on tobicco and wheat to help your farmer, and why cau't wc have a tariff on C'hiuese rice?'" "How is the winter wheat crop?" "I bring good news abgut wheat," said Mr. Perkins. "It is simply superb everywhere. I have not seen such a stand wheat io sixteen years. The last Carolina to tho Staked Plains \n and every kernel sowed has come up. Ic could not be better in Kentucky and Tennessee, and tbe farmers in Texa*, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio have told me within four days that they never had such a prospect. The wheat is short. It hugs the ground, but it is even,and looks just as they want it to look for a splendid crop. Along the Atchison and Missouri Pacific roads, clear into Colorado, the ground is soaked with a long, warm rain. "Did you see any political changes?" 'Yes; the Farmers' Alliance is petering out like the old Greenback party. They have all come out for frc^ silver, and Weaver, the old Greenback candidate, is their man for the Presidency. The Farmers' Alliance iu Texas legislated against aliens holdiug property in the State, and millions of dollars were driven out of Texas. The Tesans blame Gov ernor Hogg,the Alliance Governor, for all the depression in Texas. Clarke, wlio is mo v running against Hogg will be triumphantly elected Govern or. lie says: 'Hogg drove out the Scotch and English aliens, and they now let their money to the Yankees at four per cent , and the Yaukee comes down and lets it to the Texan at 10 per cent.1 The Alliance fellows in Kansas have so ruined the State , by talking repudiation and free silver that nlmcm all mortgages in Kansas are now written 'payable in gold."' "What about the old Southern Democrat ?" "The old cast-iron Democrat has given up Cleveland. The 'Stuffed I'ropliet' never enthused them, and cow that he has spoken free silver the Democrats have dropped him They have also began to talk about Gorman. They say Gorman enn carry the solid South and nil the silIwiooncn lio triuiml lilQ cill'Pl' in. fluenee with Wolcott for votes against tlie Election bill.' " yon bcu anything funav in the South?" I found the Texan is given to making fun of the Arkansan. The Rev. Dr. Pritclictt, President of the Normal College at Huutsville, told me that he asked a passenger on the Texas Pacitic I where he came from. " 'Wbar'd I kum from?' repeated the man, 'why, you're the twentieth man that's asked that today. I kuin from Arkansaw Now, dog on you, laugh!'" "At Texarkana, where they burned the negro at the stake," continued Eli, "I saw a little Texas boy in the depot. Patting him ou the head, I asked inquiringlv: " 'Are you n good little boy?'" " 'You l>et 1 am,' ho said proudly. 'I'm the best boy in Texas; you nsk mi father and mother.' " 'Do you say your prayers every day?' I continued. " 'No, not every day,'he said thought fully. 'I didn't say 'cm yesterday, nnd I havn't said 'em today?and?if I get long pretty well I shan't say 'tin enny more't all.' "'Why not?'" " 'O, caus' paw and maw's goin' to live up in Arkansaw.'" Tito 300th anniver?ary of the death of ! Tk?io will ho celebrated with considerable pomp this ye ar in Home, Italy. The t.'nr-iinal-Vlcar Parorhi ia President of i the Committee of Arrangements. A I bronze monument of the poet will l>e prcctcd.