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|g^ jjj'' ';''S^v '~^V' ^^MHHMHBMlKgffSfi^ M nm .j'" |,^185!. iffiijWjfefrflfflBttiijhfcfttt^teB^ ~ - *?*' .-Jl*!^^^ ^wim ^ ^ Osiarfi B vwivw Mpf* *" T our comnationalities resulting from the J fcj (number of foreign emigrants, notes the (New York Bun, is the liability of Italians "to become counterfeiters. The Englishes peaking races, the Germans and the (French, seem inclined to regard counterfeiting as not worth the trouble at the <risk at which such a pursuit is engaged In. But the lower class of Italians, for some mysterious reason, regard counterfeiting as an easy way of earning a lirra?? W li "What mamma of a new baby," asks ibe Courier Journal, "will thank Dr. ^ Robinson for his pictures showing the je nf m .KnKyV ?oaI 0 ipc? No baby should be so' ill-used. A Sttlo further on, when the baby has si frown to be the 'small boy,' his actious 01 \nd sometimes his looks arc rcraaikably w ike those of the monkey race. At this' in imc only should Darwinian ;n.?*? inuvvirtL11H18 ?e allowed All comparisons that do to tot compare baby with the angels should j1^' H) thrown out." nn Large as has beta the increase of populatiou in the United States during the in# past decade, it shrinks into insigniH- PCI icance beside the growth of the population ar} (of India. The present population of In- (jU( Vlia is 289,000,000, and the incre.iso dur- pri ling the past decade has been about 30,- ''ai -> {000,000, nearly half the entire populafcion of tho United States. Gratifying as wjj jthis increase is to the British Govern- one ment, it is also viewod with alarm by fed many of her statesmen, for somo believe 1 that India is already so thickly populate 1 that it can sustain no more inhabitants. ii. . * ?? thai , United States Commissioner of Agri- he < 85 ) fculture Rusk, says: "Farming is fast serv ."becoming a science in tho United States. 'orr i ? com .The ftftmers are studying more and they ^,rcf know more to-day than ever before ??* ? They have better advantages for study. thai ;We are scodmg out a vast amount of |J1 good information from the Agricultural War 'Department, and we reach through our mati reports aud the newspapers fully a rail- 1 flion families every month. The country Jia full of agricultural books and news- M jpapers and onr experiment stations are ( hni jdoing wonders. My idea is that Undo ?<hc f?- thJ .show how to bring up soils and should iprovo to him by experiments whether |-)0 { certain kinds of faruiiug are protltable ja or not. We are doing this thing at our kille jexperimont stations and the results aro |j ['closely watched." jng l Yankee woodeu nutmegs are a com!mon joke, but few people know, thinks ^,| the Boston Transcript, that in Marseilles, g0,? (France, nutmegs arc actually mtnufac- tccti jtured for the foreigu trade. When kept ^ T "very long, nutmegs becomo wormy and sCflf l?? fl.m'r rnmml>rf>illl Vftllln. but the LOU 1UOU UI1V>11 VVlMll.vaw.Mi. ... nuui (thrifty Frenchmen do not feel able to of c (throw away a case of nutmegs only be- 0 (cause the spice happens to be full of i"'P (worms, so they put the nutmegs in a jj"" {mill, sometime) like a coffee mill, and Sle< (grind them up, and with clay, bran, a ger, preparation of glue and a set of suitable a(^ (moulds, pioduce a very fair article of (nutmeg. They can scarcely be detected C by the eye or hand, being very hard and T about the weight of the genuine article; but a soaking in warm water will mako 1 . ... . 00,1 them drop to pieces, while the genuino j? article successfully bears any te3t of this ?j kind. snc ?--= ! SU| ; A terrible tale was told by the miser- 1 ' able survivors of a band of emigrants, goi; who left Yorkshire, England, for the jm Bra/.ils about a year ago, and roickgJ bcl homo in a destitute condition a few days we ,ago. They started out 140 in number, in auswer to an advertisement pronaia- ^ ing, on bohalf of the Brazilian Govern- ? ment, land, free homes, food for si* months, nwt fw imn prupi, all th? ro necessary tools, etc., and were landed in Rr . . ro due time at San Paulo. Their hardships began at once. The food provided was g, . y'nedible, and no accommodation had Ik M been prepared, 210 men, women and ^ children being compelled to live to- jj' gether in one great room. Then thoy 0j were sent to Santos, where they were H kept for ton days exposed to all sorts of 'hardships an I privations. A.fter this . W they were put on boar 1 a small steamer \ .for Paranaqua, and remained for tour t? days on an open dock in drenching rain IT (storms, with only a few crusts to oat. ? 'When they wore landed >. , last, their ft 1 ? -V,nlln.. htho anmn niwernhlo ah inties ^ Ull IJ DUV?IV? i ?? %m~M ... in the swHinp, and before long fever J' broke out among them, reducing thoir numbers at a fearful rate. To procure assistance in tho burial ot the dead they were compelled to part with tho last ^ remnants of property that remained to j them. Finally the survivors made thoir r way hack to Uio, whoro thoy were de- 4 hided by frodi promises, and subjected I i to gross brutalities by tho soldiers and | police. All the living nicmbors of this ^ disastrous expodi'ion toll similar storios, :and there appen-i to be no doubt that they have passed turoagii an experience almost without par.tllol in the history of immigration frauds. THREE STATES' BtflEFS. 4 Condensation of the Principal Happenings. rhe News Gleaned From All Sources and Prepared For Our Busy People. VIRGINIA. Pamplin city hue been denied liquoi icense. Two white women have been indicted w horse-stealing in Nelson county. Ex-Governor Taylor, of Tennesse, is icturing and fiddling in Southwest VirThe resident* on Franklin and Grace reets, Richmond, with one accord, vigously oppose electric street lights b> ing it on those streets. They say that it ill destroy the privacy of their h-ancs the evening. , A new wharf is being built at Chatter- I n, King George county, on the Poto- ' *c, and will be completed about .Tuuc I t. A wharf has long been uecded thero I d it will be made a large shipping | int. t A. company is actively at work mining 1 inguniicrous ore at Cotapaxi, and * ct very soon to woik the vein on a ger scale. ^ seuator Barbour, of Virginia, introced a bill in the U. 8. Senate approatiug $1,000 to mnrk the birthplace of nes Madison, the fourth President of ? i United State'. leneral A. P. Hill whose monument I be unveiled in Vi-ginia in May, was d i of the bravest lignietH In tliu C'ou^ bi cracy. He was Lee's trusted lieutenant, vi ""he approaches to Chincoteague Island, a Virginia gunning and fishing resort, w so sliallow that it is sometimes ncces- li f for passengers upon the little steamer "1 t plvs across Chincoteague Sound b. of ^arricd ashore on men's backs. This ice wns once very satisfactorily per- allied by one stout fellow for a party i?] sisting of ex-Secretary Bayard ex-Con- ? v isinan Martin, and several other Del- th renns weighing considerably more i 200 pounds each. Mr. Bayard was P? rested to learn that he who came to lat rescue was a pensioner of the civil th< but a little astonished at the in for- of ion that the man drew his pension o i dri score of a weak bark. Jcl NOBTH CAROLINA. ?P iss; Inez Sikes. a 17 year old girl, oi ?tte was seized by n uiftinn the r night who cut h-r hair off. . Henderson, last week was perfected Iin tfUOUlOAi u\44 nf a ' . . 1 ks," for tho in*...*, , t/,oU, ' ,as ceo, with an authorized capital ot pe< ooo. ike Hartzell, of Locust Level, was fie] d several days since hy the bursting Go le mill rock at his grist mill. A piece Mi le rock struck him in the head kill- foi liiin instantly. tlcigh is to have a new $50,000 city he merchants of Winston-Salem have i into permanent organization for pr )- . ion from had debtors. he Commissioner of Agriculture says the value of the tobacco crop for the ;on of 1800-'91 (duly to Julv) \uw ?, nt $10,000,000; of cotton $15,000,000; oin about the same as cotton, rcenshoro Female College has 220 n" > !? enrolled, ibis being the largest Vf iher since thi war. The commence- ti it sermon will bj preached hy Rev. 1). q( Id, of Norfolk, aud Hon. H. A. Gud- Ci , of Asheville, will deliver the literary iress before the societies SOUTH CAROLINA. barleston's floral fair has opeued. m "he work of rebuilding the Charleston adel has been completed. ,n tainwell countv now has a htduc fence W_ upany, the capital stock, $10,000, be; all subscribed. I'lic South Carolina Bar Association A t at Charleston, Fiiuay 1 lie annual ci iper was spread at the Chaileston Ho- ir n rhe corner stone of Suinlci's new Ma lie Temple was laid last week with prcssivc ceremonies A buiupict was Id at uight at which over :500 Masons re present. * The South Carolina Fress Association H 11 meet in the city of Anderson on a edncsday, July 6, 1892, at 8 o'oclock 1 m. ( The Cape Feai Yadkin Valley Itail- ' ad Co. is imported as making financial I rangements for the caIoii&Suu ,,f jj8 I ad from Bennetts* ille to (J luinbin i The big pumps and the water wheel of olumhia's new city water works have cn at work for several days pumping le water that is being used throughout ic city. Thirty stroke? of the piston of ic pump will supply <1,000,000 gallons r water per day, and it is very easy work lerefore to give the J.000,000 gallons rcessary to supply the city. The finest private collection of rel s of this kind in the South.if not in mcrica, is that of Dr. Babcock, of Chesir, who has many thousands of lost rare specimens, to the getting toether of which he has given the greater art of a life time. Dr. Babeoek has leased a number of tempting olTets from lie Smithsonian foMitnlo and other like astitutions, nud positively declines to lart with his treasures. A Gold Craze Strikes Virginia. Richmond, Va ?The old gold fields vhicli before the war were worked in lartinl manner and then suspended, have esumed operation by the aid of Northjrn capital for both milling and washing ind are ' panning out" eipial to the best tYcs'ieui mines, yielding from *io CO f 100 per ton. The excitement just now is due to the rich "washing. r-oinc 01 ine diggers secure ?s high as $130 a day and none less than $10 In Fluvanna and Gooch land counties, some of the nuggets found weighed nearly two ouncis. A few of the farmers have stopped plowing and offered their places for sale at four time? their jjrice of ten days ago. SHACKS OF SLAVERY. Vagrant Negroes Sold on the Bloc) in Missouri. Fatbits, Mo.?This town is sgsin ot the verge of s race war, because of? vagrant sale of negroes which took place here yesterday. About a month ago a good deal of excitement was caused by the sale of three vagrant uegtocs. Yesterday the feeling was intensified by the public sale on the block of three men and one woman, because they could oiler no visible means of support. Henry Thompson, Wm. Miller and John Wilkins were the men. All are healthy uegroes, who have never before been arrested on any charge. The woman was a gojd looking mullatto, Mary Hhn ocas arrjiaqd?atThe colored people were brought iuto the public square at 11 o'clock and a great crowd of both colors gathered. The whites made fun of the poor victims, and the blacks freely expressed their displeasure at the scene, that so cruelly brought to their minds the days of actual slavery. The woman wok put up first. She brought $10 for the sixty days work that ,hc couuty fined her. The men sold for >10, $12, and $10. resnectivalv J* "V,"K akcu by reliable fanners hereabouts I'lie woman will work iu a good family in own. The negroes declare that this must stop ir that the whites be sold with the negroes, '.'he sale look place on a block Sheriff Jrygier olliciating. arah Randolph. Authoress and Zd* ucator, Passes Away. Baltimore, Mu , ?Miss Sarah N. Ranolph, who for many months past has cen seriously ill at lier iesideuce in this ty, died Monday. Miss ItaiillOipn whs native of Albcrmar'c couuty, Virginia, here her father, Col. Thomas Jefferson audolph, resided 011 his plantation. Edge Hill " She was a grauddaughter Thomas Jefft-son. At the close of the war Miss lirudolph d an elder rister opened a girls' boardg school at "Edge Hill," which gained vide reputation, j artieularly through c South Afterwards, for a number of t ars, Miss Randolph was principal of < tapsco Institute, Elliott City, Mary- 1 id. Miss Randolph was well known in 1 b literary world, having been the author ( "A Life of Stonewall Jackson forChil- 1 mi 'and "The Domestic Life of Thomas \ ITersou," besides numerous articles aud f en letters in the Nation. <1 a Foreign Notea of Real Interest. So far the Russian famine has cost the * SrkSo;'?.oTho ? ater bw jusl .lic.i. He m.l?-Joe ? Her in the Chester Cup in 1852, ?ben P ty-three horses faced the staiter. - ' I The Crops. ;1 Washington, D. C. ?The Department 1 Agriculture has issued n report show- 1 g the condition of the wheat crop on H e first day of April. It is claimed in J is that the average conditio ? of the ' op in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, * issouri aud Kansas, the principle winter ' heat States, is twenty points lower than i April 1st of last year, or 77 against 1 r :t. In Now York it is 07, Pcnusyl- ' inia 84, and in the States from Delaware ' North Carolina it varies from 70 to 06, ) to 03 in the Southern belt, and high l the Pacific. A Dishonest Postmaster. AsiiKvir.tR, N. C. ?Mr. Buckner, postaster of Grautvillc, Madison county, as arrested Saturday cvtuing for stealig registered letters from the mails, and as brought h re and put iu jail. For ?me tiuie past registered money passing irough his oflice has been missing, and ispicion pointed to him as the thief, n inspector has been looking up the isc for several weeks aud Saturday cvenig caught him So far as learned, he doea ot deny his guilt. Brother Editors Fight. Oxford, At a.?A fight between two iditors h>*s created a sensation here. Phc paiticipants were brothers, Ben and Pom (Iwynn at the head of the Voice i u<l Night hawk, respectively. The tiighthawk is for Cleveland for Presileut, and Governor Jones for the head >f the State ticket. The brothers enwaged in a rough and tumble tignv, uu? friends interfered before either could draw a weapon. * Sad Accident. Windsor, N. O. ?w.day afternoon, ?f - ? i ..l / ' mn.clno nnd i. v.?k? i'l >*. i\l|MIUIU.V V lUtiioivo ucv, nauj, , nb sit one year o'.d, were killed by a tree fall ig on them. Mrs. Measles was in the v. oods raking up dirt for manure, and bad left her baby lying near a tree. The tree caught 011 lire, and when she saw it it was nearly burned down. She ran as fast as she could, but before she could rescue the child the tree fell on both. Southern Unitarian Conference. Charleston, S. C.,?The Southern Unitarian Conference closed its session after the following officers were elected: President, John T. Dixon, Atlanta, Ga ; Vice-Presidents Hon. F. G. Bromberg, Mobile,Charles H. Couledge,Chattanooga, and Hev. Leo. L. Chancy, Atlanta; Secretary and Treasurer, A. T. Welch, Charleston. The Conference was addressed by ... i>. Ward Dix. of Brooklyn, president of the Woman's National Alliance. Senators neait?t??. Fkankkoht, Ky ,?This was the busiest day for several weeks in the Senate. A resolution prohibiting chewing tobacco in the Senate chamber was adopted, and a motion to reconsider was entered. To Grow Boota and Overahoea. Secretary Husk proposes to have a plan t at ion of rubber trees in the everglades p Florida, ?Albany Jourtutl. r? m \ V THE SOUTH PlIkFARIN 1 IiUnsttag KxUMM To Mas st the World's Mr. ( Tk? LuUm Asa at Wor ud With Uaitod liwlt ku ulta WU1 Bs BurprisinjfThe first entertainment of M Litl Girls* World's Fair Club, of Cfclumbi 8. C., was held at the Agricultural Hal Tuesday evening, and they netted $98. a * I R. 8. Moore, of Newborns, N. C claims to have fragments of the dial which r?i?rsi"'u"v'*'?' * nuvMvmmuum WM9 M was I at the WorldTsTTaifr.'h? to of New York, say snJ dwVimi? of it house iu San Domingo in which Colon bus was imprisoned, and be has a almili desire. *** .* Qen. A. W. Gilchrist, who addresse* a letter to the members of the Florid legislature in regard to an extra seesioi to make an appropriation for the Worlds Fair fund, has received several encour aging replies from prominent members staling in each case that the gentlcmai addressed would be willing to make I trip to Tallahassee to attend an extri session of the Legislature without an] mileage or per diem from tbo State, anc that $*>0,000 or $100,000 would bo voted for as an appropriation. ****** The State board of World's Fair commissioners of West Virginia have decided t > make the West Virginia State building at tho Columbian Exposition characterMm. l-vnrh ?*p.d .lftisa J a p. k son, the State s representatives tfn the noarcTol lady managers, are doing eQielent work Mis Lynch has per pared a lecture concerning the aims and objects of the big show, the woman's department particularly, and is delivering it iq every schoolhouse in the State. ****** It is stated that the gems for North ?nT)Lnd^\hlbiti0nat^lcT> aro ?t. and that some splenditf specimen? :(C. ;C'"S prepared by the lapidary. Be sides the great mineral wealth.of North Molina in coal, different ores and the ;?ccious metals, gold and silver, all the 'an?. .OS of gems and precious stone- arc State. A .plendld e.WbU >f those ? ?? made .t Bo,ion tee years 30, wheu were shown tho twelvo stone* Mentioned in tho Book of Revelation, all oilshed and from North Carolina mines .to. The agricultural committee of the Wo lan's Central Star World'! Fair Club, f Columbia, 8. C.f has sent the following ietition to 8 crctarv Ilolloway, of the tate Agricultural and Mechanical Socle v: The department of agriculture of iic Woman's World's Fair Central Club sks that the State society will encourage lie efforts of the Women by adding to he premium list a premium for the best uniples offered by women, of rice, wheat, ye, oats and other grains, and grapes, t < >c nut in bundles eight inches in diameter, jacn contestant furnishing two bundles, inlf of the samples received to be entered for premiums at the Columbian Exposi [ion and the others to be used in decor iting the sp~cc r.Hotted to Soiitu Cmuli' u in the World's Fair building at Chicago + * ? Mrs. Gorge W. Kidder, of Wilmington, N. C., one of the North Carolina lady managers of tho World's Fair, has addressed a letter setting forth for the in formation of the ladiibfji. the. State the ? - _ \T' Vt. i * necessity nua importance 01 pusning forward the plan of raising $10,000 by popular subscription for the Stat? building. The first colony made in America was planted on the shores of North Carolina, and the fmt white child bora on the American contincut, Virginia Dare, saw the light there. Mrs. Gotten. of the State board, proposes that a memorial of this fact be placed within the women's building or in the State building, the memorial to he a wood carving or other artistic work, and to be in part the work of wo man's hands. Now, Where's the Well of Whiskey I Great Falls, Mon.?The riches! mineral ever found in this State is re ported from Ncibart, in the Little Bel district. The vein is eight inches thicl and assays from $2,000 t,o $20,000 a ton Reports of rich discoverw* cf KO|<j con 111 tiro iu n/mu </?> ?liO Lnw.rn.._.v southeast of Chinook. A ton of surfac or float ores from these mines yielde* over $600 in bullion A stream of wat? coining from the Gold Bug mine is sai to cure the taste for liquor, and has hce named the Bichlorido of Gold Springs Convicts Cruelly Beaten. VICK8BUKO, Mtss. ?Indisputabl proof of cruelty to convicts has finall betu disrovcied. W. H. Fosselaian, < Woodvillc, who, with 100 other convict was leased to Brit Lee, of Wasliingtc county, was frightfully beaten by a negi by order of an overseer and narrowly e taped death. Others of the same squi were almost killed. Mauager Jenkins, the State prison, arid It G. Walt, charge of the convicts, have been order* before the State board of control. W* will be indicted and Jenkins severe dealt with^^^^^_^^^ No Mora Chinaman. Washington, D. G\?Asaittaut 8ccr tary Spaulding lias written a letter to tl collector of customs at Eagle J*aas. Tcxs disapproving of the collector^ action admitting into the United States a Chi auiau on the ceriiricate of Judge Valdc of Mexico, that he was a citizen of Mexir The Treasury Department cmphasiz the statement that Chinese (tersoos w not be admitted into the United Stal on the submission of naturalization r pers issued by the authority of otr countries. ^ Fire at Joncsboro, Oa., last Friday nig f destroyed, among other things, *,000 bi ?l COttQ. :5S j , vv"? _ _ G. BIG WATER IMPROVEMENTS. ?? lumy* of Southern River* and Harbor*. The bill making the annual appropriations for river and harlwr improvements k. which has been reported in the House by the committee on rivers nud harbors, ditects the Secretary of War to have preliminary examinations made with a view to needed improvements at the following j, localities: ^ rM>RIDA. It, Harbor at Canaveral. GEOHOIA. Savannah river, between Spirit Island ? and the point where the Ch?rl??tn? * 1 n SavaudhIi Railway crosses said river. > ? MMgcBjcAwym? * Beaufort, Potohuuk river. |. south cahulina. tr Lynch river. tknni'.sskk. " Sequatchie river. Ilaibor at Memphis, v i including icmoval of bar forming oppo ? site the upper part of city and bank pro? taction along tnc city front ."Kinory-tivei * from its moutli to Hfcniman. ^ virolhla. ' > Milford Haven, bar at mouth. Morat tico creek, obstruction at mouth n % Little \Vicoin:co liver, obstasction at w mouth. Harbor of Petersburg and ApI pomattox river, for diversion of waters n I to old north chaunel above the city. A Growth in a Woek. A glance at tlio ikw industries of tho South for the pnst week, as noUd in the ft Baltimore Manufacturers' Record of April yt > 29th, shows continued activity in tjie orf m ganization of industrial and development be the most important: A $1\000,000 phos ~ ' phktc development company at Trenton, Fia.; a $25, 000 builders' suiu>jy.coiu|?;0iy I at St. Augustine, Fla.; a f H)0,00d land ' Pn compauy at Atlanta, (la., a $^!$,00<i knit- I'." ting mill company at CordMfa, ft;? ; a f 100,000 mining .and milltbg \ nmfrany, 'll and a $200,000 wheel imtuufftvjioHilg . V" compauy at Covington Ky.; a $IOO,uOO iron fence manufacturing company at : Louisville, Ky.; a $100,000 land com- 1 p?ny at Magnolia, Miss ; a $500,000 cotton mill company at Durham, N. C.; a $15,000 candy manufacturing company, am aud a $10,000 cotton mill company at lor Columbia, S. C.; a $2,000,000 iron com- p<>' pauy at Bristol, Teun.; a $100,000 stove be foundry company ut Kuoxvillc, Tenn.; a ui? 1300,000 mill and elevator company at Cameron, Texas: a $100,000 hat company at Dallas, Texas; a $30,000 mining and I ^inpflnv ,i'' 1 "I m" " " a f 1W,UU0 terry company at mason, nr. ^ V?*.; a $100,000 laud corapauy at Golds- |-Cq boro, N. C.; a $100,000 machine tool ii company at Moudsvillc, W. Va.; n 200 t|,<barrel roller process flour mill at Chilli- r||, cot he, Texas.; a $500,000 abattoir and t|,c icfrigcrating compuny at Wheeling, W. ju ( Va.; a $10,000 manufacturing company mU( at Austin, Texas.; a $100,000 cotton oil j,e, company at Dallas, Texas; a $1*10,000 <-|ie water power company at New Braunfels, |,CL. icxaa; and a $50,000 cotton-seed oil mill ,.on company at Itasca, Texas; |t..? Thfe President on Civil Service Re- ' ?" eac form. inj< Washington, D. C.?In reply to a let- vnl ter from Mi*. Foulke, of luuiana, dated dol December 26, 180!, asking why he did tot not cxtcud the civil service rules to the ter postofficcs and custom houses having loss IJr than fifty employees, President Harrison thf wrote as follows 011 December 21, 1801: ?ii< "Hon. Wm.'Dudley Foulke. art Richmond, Ind. an My Dear Sir: I have your letter of ret December 26: I have not time this ttai morning to discuss at any length the question which you present or to attempt any I have attempt j,\( ed to do in the promotion of civil service reform movements siucc 1 have been here. ju My thought was that the first thiug to Wf do was to satisfy the country thai (lie law was being fai%>>fvi!ty an.' inipr.i iiary |UI administered as to those offices already classified. I think a good deal h is been accomplished in that direction an I there i has been an important extension of the 40 > classified service. The subject presented a" by you, as well as some otli r suggested |>' movements, has been having, and will 2( P have, my consideration, but lam not now al prepared to announce my programme. P1 Very t uly yours, bl ^ BKN.IAMIN II aiikikon.'' a| t m ? c p i. Birds That Practice Surgery. r< w |r ituu mo nowuntauj a uuw ? Some interesting observations relating j( to the surgical treatment of woundsby r T itii.Is were recently brougiit by At. Patio g| oefore the Physical Society of (Jencvn. jj n According to the Medical Itccord, he c ' ipio'.cd the case of a snipe which he had often observed engaged in repairing dam- li ages. With its beak and feathers it a le makes a very creditable dressing, apply- n !_ ing plasters to bleeding wounds, and even 1 securing a broken limb by means of a 1 1 - :? i- _ ?.:H...1 g t oil ligature. ud odc nucwiiuu iiu k nivu 11 snipe which hud on the chc9t a large ro dressing composed of down taken from other partsof the body, and securely fixed l(j to the wound by the coagulated blood, of 1 wicehe had brought home snipe with 1 jD uterwoven feathers strapped on the site 5<j of fracture of one or other limb. lit - 'J Political Points. Johu S. Lcary, a prominent colored man of North Carolina, is rpiotcd as say g that the time has come for the negroes ?" to divide politically. k9 As cx-Qovcrnor John P. St. John dcjy c'nrcs absolutely and emphatically that Q he will not accept a nomination to the tz presidency, ihu Prohibiiiou parly wiii ,'0' have to look elsewhere for a candidate. ^ W. Jennings Demurest, of New York, is HI the most probable candidate, tes Lieut Gov. Haiic has consented to bo >a the Massachusetts Republican nominee ier for Governor if be is wanted next fall. This practically puts nu end to specu a tion as to the "Republican candidate ;ht, against Gov Russell. I.icut. (Jov. llaile ilea is the most popular Republican now in office. ? I r I mm j 11 1MB II?ITT *. % [" * *> ALLIANCE COLUMN. We Furnish Some Mighty Interest ing News. Senator Kyl? Introduce* n Bill il Congress For a 1 'Composite Dollar" Based on Farm Products. NOT Mt'CH LONGER. *> on ??HTjnro*. How tons' how Ions, my tsuinirTmen. h?.tl dr?pot l?m drat Tho people through the dust lH>fonp our country"! glorious lt*K ' Flow I .ng shall those whom wa emptor lo ?crrc ut legislate VrmIimi the Interests of nil In city, nation. Mate! '"lltTf |h"* ,"*,rpr-r> w"h arrogance low long! how long, shall wo rrmaln contented. |>a tU'lil. meek. Vhllc imiImIo ocrranta full to grant tho remedies wo low lone! how long. shall mildness mark tho torn per of owr plan, fhllo rested rights onoronrh upon tho holy rights of maui! > . < low long shall vvonMfe created hy prolific labor's band o wrung fro? HUf hp thwfow who cfOlW to own tlx1 land? ff'. M-I'IM i fi ' ?(! ot long' not lon?. for now I hoar tho rl <lng of Ilia toa4n. ml on tho I or Iron I ore Its hntxl sha|>ed. doml IlkefOr?. . w | ot long" not lone, for like n bolt from ttreat John vnh's hau l >'ll smite as OiMeon amoto of ol<l tho hentfcen In tho land nt lone' not long shall despot* twh n people t>raee nnd frCe. V inl mjou from Maine to Oregon wilt sound tho juMlco. A graduated income tax went iuto cfTt in (iCnnany nt the beginning of this at. lids about tho same as that dt untied by the Alliance, except that it gins lay taxing simiNtr incomes than c American fanner wwuld think proper. V w-r-w-w?w L Wllen the farmer learns learns thatjthe iprly paid city luborqt makca but a or tleinaud for farm pfwfucts, apd the y taltorer learns that IhoTaimirSelliiig t products for less than the price of injiictioii, makes hut a poor demnud the products of the shop and factory, rn they will come together for mutual it tit. The monopoly of money is the worst 1 most vicious kind of monopoly. So ig as I lie national hanks shall have the wer to control the currency money will a monopoly in their hands and he ti aus to oppress and rob. * * * + * * AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. ' ir kZu. of South Dakota, bv uest introduced the most remnrknhlc tiriiil hill of the session ? providiugfor establishment of a "composite dollar. " s chief clause of the hill enacted that composite dollar should he established he following mamcr: 1'Designate so ch of wheat, rye, oats, corn, barley, n?, potatoes, cotton, wool, butter, ese, eggs, flour, sugar, lard, pork, f, tobacco, salt, leather, hemp, lime, icnt, cotton-seed, meal, bay, brick, I, pigiron, coal and cooper as shall be veniently near to one dollars' worth of h in the New York market, so arrang; quantities that the sum total of (lie tic of thirty article: shall be thirty lata, and that one-thirtieth of the sum tit of tuc ?iilioli.-B designated shall be mcd the composite dollars of Ihe lited States." Further provisions enact it an accurate monthly average record >uld be kept of the daily price of tin so ivies, and that it should be lawful for y person or corporation to engage to :cive or deliver composite dollars on is security. There is now an organization of the inners' Allinnce in every county in >rth Carolina. The last countv to coine contains the sjiot where Virginia Daie 19 born - the first white child burn in nerica The name given the sub alince was "Virginia Dare." When tlic farmers owned this country l years ago thoy contr.d'cd its legislation id rendered every class of business olitable. In 18i)2 when they own only ) per cent, of the wea'th of the country id every brunch of the government has a^scd out of their hands paralysis of nsincsa of cvciy character has followed, ad it has become difficult for may zen obtain subsistence in - '?nd of lenty. Farmers, rn.-?-uibcr that the ins of simply passed ? your hands, but not beyond your onttol if you make up your minds to itluence their management or regain ontro! cf Isn't yoiu situation a jfticieiit conimeutiwy the wrongs you avc endured, or do you ?wi8|, to be furtlir enslaved etc you wake up. Verily "a ittle mote sleep; a little more slumbci, ml your poverty comcth as an mined nan." Will you sleep on and lose yout leritage??Southern Farm, (founded by lenry W. Grady.) The Indian who, told by the white mar that feathers made a soft bed, took om ind, after hiving on it a'l night, got iq ?ud said "white mail heap big liar," woul< make a lit companion to the man who dc clares the reform movement is a fnilur i i.--? fiimiicnii tin* nnl IiioiioIi UeCilllSU .ifii y uiui|fovm ...w 0__ financial prosperity to the country, say the Iowa Farmer*' Tribune. ****** OHKAT PROSPERITY. Georgia is the empire State of th South. Texas i* a powerful compciilG for the banner. What is the situation Destitution in both town and countrj In both States within the past ten dnj "relief committees" have been orgai ized. flight in Atlanta, wlierc inonr is supposed to be plenty, where "pro jwrity" is sung by every editor, the' is great destitution. What does this a mean? Simply that the few arc drai' ing the many. This is the beginnin, wliat shall the end l>e? Unless the co ditions are quickly changed, revoluli will follow. There is no alternativ But still we hope that there is a w out. i??? ii ini'i*> Tho Texas call for relief says 15.000 "vji or SO,000 are starving, while the remainder of the population ha rely have a . sufficiency of fooa for proaaot need*. "Great prosperity" indeed.?Prog re alee Farmer. ? j The Oratt-OaUet Out for a Stroll. It it a most interesting sight to watch an orang-outang make its way through tho jungle. It walks slowly along the larger branches in a semi-erect attitude* g this being apparently causod by the length of its arms and the shortness ofl its legs. It invariably selects thoea branches which intermingle with thoecj 1 of a neighboring tree, on npproaohin* , which i| stretches out its long arms, and, grasping tho boughs opposite, seems flrsf to shake at if to tost their strength, and - 4luia dcUtoatciLaymjg-itsoif across to before. It docs not jump or l|triBg a * . S monkeys usually do, aod .never appear* ??S to hurry itself unices somo roal danger presents. Yet in spite of its appaiently slow movements It gets along far quicker than a person coulu running through tha forest beneath. ? The habits and customs of this animal arc peeuliarlv intnr.iitii... i- --?? ? ... .ppW r.nce it is uot at nil unlike n man, thus illustrating Darwin's theory that t.ha races of human being* nro descended from apes. Its hands and foot are formed exactly liko thoso of a human being, from the shape of tho nails to the linger* themselves, and its fare resembles that of an exceedingly ugly ami hairy man. It* strength is enormous, and when attnekod it is extremely dangerous and fierce. Various storie* cro told about its huge dimensions and great height, hut I hare never seen two over four feet high from head to heel, and from seven to eight feet, measuring from linger to fiuger wrnmlta mnatWWhod arms, tho width of the face varying in measurement from eight to twelve inches, though tho accounts of larger animals having bam mot with may bo correct.?San Francisco Chronicle. Japanese Houses. | Tn the construction of their houses, which aro built of wood without, an aloin of paint, the Japanese, unlike inoat builders, begin with tho roof. This is built on tho ground, and when framodit covered with shingles about tho siae of two fingers, as thin as a aheot of paper. When it is done they raiso it on four corner posts, and it is a pleasuro to see, it is R<*> light and yet so Tlia of a nail. In tho evenings when tho ~~ lanterns dispense their soft light round the inside of Micso white buildings, tho spectator seems to bo looking at a magic' lantern. During the tiny time tho sidos of the houses are slipped out and tho house becomes only a roof resting on the' four light corner posts, tho whole inter*' ior being thus opened to tho air. Every! part of it is exposed to viow and everything done in it can he seen, while behind it ap|>ear the charming little gardens situated in tin rear. Tho great luxury of the Japanese eonsits in their mats made of plaited straw. They nro perfectly rectangular in shape, about three inches thick and soft to tho touch. They arc never Htepped on with shoes, since the Japanese go about thuir houses always barefooted. Of furhiture thoy have next to nothing; a small furnaco in y' one corner, a closet luado like the side* of the house and intended to contain tho mattresses, a small set of shelves on which arc arranged the lacquered plates for rice and tisli, this is all the furnishing for these housos, in which they live, s? it were, in the open air. In the mid die of each house are two articles of general use among aii classes?brazier and a box for tobacco. Jieiug great ton drinkers, great smokers, ami great talkers, iiie Japanese pass a great deal of their time, in groups of seven or eight, seated on their heels around tho tea kettle.?Detroit Free Press. ? . -4M* May Not Convene in Oruwha. Omaha, Neb., ?tbeya ?* a possibility that the Nations) convention of the People's part\ may n?f he held in t tii 4 city as ex|),w<c<l. Local hotel keepers promised give rales of to $5 per day, but they have raised them to from $5 to $8. Letters from the leaders of the party say if this rate is not reduced they will tnnsfer their Convention to another city, May Remove to Baltimore." Hai.timohk, Mo.? Grand Secretary Jones, of the Maryland <4rami Lodge of Odd Fellows, says that that the members of the Supreme Orand Lodge were in correspondence with a view to the removal f the headmnrters of the order from \ ('oUin>i)us, Ohio, t<.?hjg citv. The plans \ are to ercrv a suitable ?, *no for thu Su. ^ preme Lodge, which it is i>or?,yet| wm-t\ located on Saratoga street, whe an op- \ tion on property lias been secured. \ ' fen't Thinking of a Watery Grawei 5 , #Whfbmno, W. Va.?Jennie Suttoi, I who jumped into the river about thre* . weeks ago, and who was supposed to havt . c been drowned, has, it is said, been sees / t by a rnilroad mau, who claims that a she is living as the wife pf a lending cict 1 u,.iui? Ohin whrt laft hia wife Atrii vi iicuifuv, v...v, ? _ _ four weeks ago, and went down the river, where he ie said to have located with Mim DuUei. e " ~ " ~ if Tuo Say uf Aflli. j Richmond, Va.?At ft recent meeting p of the Drug Clerks' Association of Kich.nond, it was resolved to appeal to the I. proprietors ami people for ft pr per icc>y ognition of the religious rights and privs ileges of the drug clerk as to Sundny re d,,ty 11 Our New Minister to France. Wasiiinoton, I). C.?The President sent to the fiennto the nomination of T. I)M Jefferson Coolidgr, of Massachusetts, to r(J be envoy extraordinary and minister H_ plenipotentiary of the \Jnit d States ty " France. J