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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
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; 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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