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?"? - I.. - 'dr' 9 * :-r*;;" * :_?? ?- " iwfjJ' ?ff' ^s?r-- 1 '"ffivV- i ' ' ., , r ' ..'ij&H *C ':^riSuVOL. X XIII.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CARO^^f^^W^HBJU^^ ' . i - NUMBER 3fc 'M Mfe= waeaiBMHMMaMMab**-*-- . n'*i ' 'ivr" ~ - __^__^^!^==^!s^ssmim^mimm^^m^m^ 1_ * *- __.-^-_i? *-? twt fry 'amounted ialj on?-lttl( of ooe per cent. ? f;; A Canadian electrician states that eleep tricity causes the tides and demonstrates I it by electrifying a rubber comb by rub| bing it through the hair and then draar? \ fag it orer the top of a glass fllfofc- with Cy crater, the result being that the tidal y*y fellows the comb. rt^e morning. Until recently Professor Blackie had not needed a dootor's sarrioa jfor thirty years. f "Tommy make room for your uncle'1 Sa from Schubert's "Rosamuude" music, where it is given to the oboe (some years ago it was alleged to have been borrowed ' from Handel's "Susannah"), and that ("After the opera is over" is from the melody to which Heine's "Du hast Diamentun und Pcrleu" is sung in Germany. {But nobody has yet discovered the ori|gin of that universal scourge, "Ta-ra-raboom-de-ay." ? A catalogue of twenty towns in Kansas! with $30,000 opera houses, $20,000 schoolliouses, hotels, stores and dwell .kings all doserted, and scarcely an mnaoleft to occupy any part of then, with their issues of town bonds upon jEastern markets seeking for buyers and foiling to find theui, even at the hundredth part of their nominal value, because there are uu citizens left in the to pay interest or priucipal, looks to the - JBoetton Cultivator even worse than the catalogue of abandoued farms in the *>' Me#'-England States. ? ?: '. v a ?- =? . ^Australians have had bitter experience Of ilte mischief which rabbits are c ipable of doing, and uow they seem likely to jfc, ^ave trouble of a similar kind fro u the inttoduhtioa of foxQ3. An Australian journal, quoted i? ttp-Aoologlst, says area, and are ?o9t obstructive to lambs and poultry. They attain greater size ,and strength in Australia thau in England, and the mild climate is highly {favorable to the iucre&se of their numibers. "It must be very disheartening," says the writer, "to all who have stock ,of any kind to lose, to tini themselves confronted by some new enemy introduced by thoughtless or seltish persons. If some energetic steps are not soon taken, nothiug can prevent the spread of foxes over the whole coutinent." a. imgo uiajuiltjf Ul I.LK3 LllUU VVUU OQIOT the governmental departments at Washington remaiu in the service unless dismissed, says the Washington Post. Many young men enter with the view of ptudying for a profession, and the short hours and regular salary offer ample opportunity for this. Some of them carry out their intention and occupy leisure hours reading law or medicine. Others lose all ambition for hotter things or become entaugled in some love affair,marry, and then are dopendent on a salary for -v maintenance and compelled to keep up the routine life. Continue! service in the departments has a tendency to make men timid, and many who quit and go out in the world tind themselves unfittod to buffet with the rude, rough demands, and return to the treadmill existence. Bach year more women are added to the department service and in a few years they will monopolize the clerkships. The life of a department clerk has soon attractions and ra iny drawbacks. One thing is certain, his salary, and this is an Important item. \ ?. ' Professor Lloyd has just made his first yeport of the work at the Sugar School of the University of Nebraska The course is one of scientific research into } the culture and utilization of the sugarbeet. The school opened in January last with twenty-five pupils. There were two lectures on the chemistry of sugars, technology of beet-sugar, manufacture and culture of the sugar-beet, and five hours of laboratory work each week. Under the second head of lectures, the various processes that the beets, juice, and sugars undergo, Iroui the washers to the grauulator, were- studied in detail. Both the French and German forms of machinery were described. As each process was studied, the methods of the analysis of its products ami by products were referred to. Tuo study of sugarhouse control was in this way presented to the student. * The laboratory work V x of the course consisted in analyses of the various products and by products of the sugar factory. The lectures were also supplemented by practical work at the station farm. Several students who have taksn the course, are prepared to do jpolariscopic work in sugar factories. ?TO ALLIANCE IwJMN. Lines Suggested on Hearing of tiie Death of Gol. Polk. Some Csntsr Shots sad Clippings Tor Uiancemea sad Others to Ponder Ov?*. Help. Lord, for the Godly nan ccavth. tho faith f?l roll from anion* the children <?r uien."'? Ha 1-th When the great Law giver axeended Mount Neho. lilt life to reaign How naif wore the Canaan bouml pcoplo To enter and leave hint behind. - leug and lillter the day* of the mourning. Year* of not row and anguish they kImmI 1 heir leader he'd been and their aavlor. 8lnee from bondage In Kgypl they'd fled Now how iiliall we crone the wild Jordan. With none to ghow u* the way. *nd who Khali now order our leitlMTbey in.Kined In dlatntxt-ln dismay Hut Ood the eueeeaelon appointed And the man with the (Ion heart With a will which the heaven* rc*peoted Aroae for the unftnlxhed part. With the people he croaweo the dark wat* rie towering wafta Ilown Vame'lumMint: When the boat* their war hlanUi did Mm \nd Canaan, the Ood given Canaan. Wa* clear of each ungodly lie ? King* -Auakliu?giant* moat powerful Uiu rendered or died In the tightFortune smiled on the brave?The donor Kcjolced and bloomed a* the row: I lie ptomlxe* all* were fulfilled, when i he people had conquered t'.ielr foe a Th? patriot, the sti?iesmcn--onr chlsf'80 ?oved. ?o esteemed by the Rood. 80 exalted In earthly position. > called to his higher reward. 8atl tears from their hidden recesses How freely from manv an eye; 'Tls wetl?we should mourn when the faithfulThe useful drop from us to die. Rut tears must not linger, O brother. Up and doing our Order must be; Ask heaven to direct all our efforts Till through the dark mystery water May the spirit of him that * departed Baptise unto Its wisdom and power A brother beloved of the order To hold In this perilous hour--To lead 011 the hosts In their marches The rest of the wilderness through. To walk with them over the Jordan The war to begin of a new? To storm every enemy's eastle They've built up with stlTerand gold-With silver and gold most lllsotten Which the hard tolling millions should hold. Be strong, be strong, worthy brothers; Be stroug In the might of thy power, God strengthen the weak, the wavering. Who halt when the battle clouds tower. The God whom we tiust He will bless us. Ho fought for His people of old: The auspicious dav needed lengthening. Too fast Its machinery rolled. sio-ntii sffff. sun and moon on Qlbeon. The leader invincible cries? The lights In the heavens obey, llll The last cursed Amorltc diesHarks wood. N. O- a. H. I*. assess CENTER SHOTS. Whoever controls the volume of money of any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.?James A. Garfield. Liberty cannot long endure in any country where the tendency of legislation is to concentrate wealth in tlm bunds of a few.?Daniel Webster. That prices will fall or list: as the volume of money be increased <n diminished is a law a9 unalterable as any law of nature.?Professor Walker. If the whole volume of money in circulation was doubled, pricci would double. < If it was increased ouc-fourth prices would riae one fourfli.? John 8tuart Mill. A decreasing volume of money and falling prices have been and are more fruitful of human misery than war, pestilence and famine. Thcv have wrought more injustice than all the bad laws ever enacted.? United States Money Commission. If a government contracted ndebt with a certain amount of money in circulation and then contracted the money volume before the debt was paid, it is the most heinous crime a government could commit against the people.?Abraham Lincoln. The government ought not to delegate this power (of issuing money) if it could. It is too great a power to be trusted to any banking business whatever. The people are not safe when such a company has such a power. The temptation is too great, the opportunity too easy, to put up and down, to bring the whole community on its knees to the Mcptuncs, who preside over the flux and reflux of paper money. Stocks are their plaything with which they gamble with as little secrecy and less morality then common gamblers. ?Thomas H. Benton. The ill paid drudge cwcs society no thanks. Every glutton has for his complement some one who is starving. Think of this: every dollar of taxes is paid our of the net oarnings of the taxpayer. Marshall (III.) Acorn: The money power is preparing to fasten the chains of slavery upon the common people. Gonzales (Texas) Sigual: There can be no such thing as money without the "fiat" of the government. Mountains of wealth and valleys of wretchedness. Lower the mouutuins and the valleys disappear. He or she who honestly pcrfoims the humblest necconmy work, is as much entitled to the comforts of life as the President himself. There should not be an idle man in America while our public roads are as ooor as at nrescnt. and Congress has power to issue money. Anarchy is dangerous; so is small pox. Neither exist without a cause. The wise man will remove the cause and pi event the danger. Protection protects J American labor does it? And national statistics show that American laborers earn an average of 9<i cents per day. Come off. Debts should be reckoned in work, and it should take no more days of work to pay a debt thau itwculd have taken to pay it when the debt was contracted. There is an era rushing this way, in which the man who fattens on the ignorance, weakness and passions of mankind, will not wear the mantle of respectability. S1LVRR ANP WHEAT. The Faimers' Record, of Munice, Ind., gives the following facts and figures show ing the relation existing betueen the price of stiver atid wheat There always hash en a close relation between silver bullion and the market valnp of wheat and other staple farm proline's, as the iteng* piice of these plndiiet* will show In 1S72 liefme silver was demonetized by t'ongiess, silvei loillion was worth f>I.:t'2 and wheat 1 27 per bushel. In 181U the average price of silver bullion was HO cents and wheat 80 cents. If the cry of a dishonest dollar has as% foundation, the tanner has equally fC~~ cause, from the atlinity of the two prod> ucta, to cry dishonest price for a bushel f wheat. is th* At.manor nrtNQ? Ralkiuh, N. C. ? Secretary Barnes says more order s for application blanks have been sent to his otlice for the pat thirty days then for the whole twelve tn< n'hs | re eding One sub secretary writes: We have 20 initiations for next m< e>ing and other applications pending. Let the brethren Ircstir themselves, and let esoh one work for the cause ns he never hns before. Rtjyj^Lby the Constitution of your Order, anTRec that it is no* overridden in your lodge room LAW AND ORDER AT HOMESTEAD The Militia Arrived.?Peace Again. Hojirst k a o,T*a.?Xsw aridordeFEinbeen once more established in Homestead. xi i? martini inw ana Major ueuerul ?no? den is dictator. The advisory committee of the Amnl gamated Association called on General nowden, at Brinton, during the night and told him of the decision reached at the mass meeting of strikers yesterday, to receive the militia with bands and ho sannahs. Gen. Bhowden said he did not want any demonstration and refused information as to the time his division would arrive in Homestead. The lodges of workingracn that expected to form into bodies and give formal weh-omcfto the military were not called into service. Some were disappointed, many were not Between 9 aud 10 o'clock a boy rushed down the main street in Homestead towards the railroad station and shouted to the people that the soldiers had arrived. The people rushed from their places of business towards the hills near the Carnegie Works. Women and children flew to doorways and looked with frightened glances up anddown the streets The warning of Burgess McLuckio in his proclamation for women and children to keep indoors failed of its purpose, and petticoats fluttered iu the wind, the wearers keening pace with the throng hurryiug in the direction indicated by tho sound of martial music. Up the big hill overlooking the town aud adjacent to the Carnegie plant, the wearied, tired militiamen toiled in the broiling sun to the places assigned them. The regiment marched into the borough, bands playiug and flags flying; but there was no cheering. Lines of pickets guarded the approaches to the mills. A provost guard took possession of the borough itself. The pickets of the workingmen had disappeared, and recognized law and order reigned. At no time while the troops were as sembling was there any attempt at resentment on the part of the workingmen. Borne of them objected to being stopped by guards on the roads leading to the Carnegie Worka. It was the county road, they said, aud uo damned soldiers could block it. Their friends drew them away and a disturbance was avert ed. Such is Homestead to day. Strang ers parade the streets feeling secure in the presence of troops. These outsiders who knew the danger that threatened them during the uncertain days of last week breathe freer. The woikingroen did not express their feelings. They are divided in sentiment as to the militia,but on one poi it they are firm?if any more Pinkerton men are brought to watch the Carnegie Works there will be bloodshed. CHARLESTON POSTMASTERSHIP. The Nomination of the Colored Doctor Withdrawn. Washington, D C.?The President has sent to the Senate the following message: 'T withdraw the nomination which was sent to the Senate ou the 30th of June, 1802. of William D. Crura, io be postmaster at Charleston, S. C." Mr. Crum was a delegate at large to the Minneapolis convention. The South Carolina delegation wss instructed for President Harrison, but when the delega tion reached Minneapolis Mr ('rum was considered doubtful, and it is said did not declare himself for Mr. Harrison uii til the post mastership of Charleston was promised him. After thccouventi' n the nomination of Mr Crum was sent to the Senate and referred to the committee oa postotlices and post roads. Meetings were held in Charles to i) protesting against the confirmation of Mr. Cium, and the delcf;ation from South Carolina opposed it beorc the committee and proved stiong enough to authorize the President to withdraw it, much to the satisfaction of the delegation. Mr. Crum is a colored physician. Cyrus W. Field Deau. Conn's Fkuhy, N. Y. ? Cyrus W. Field die i Tu? sday morning at his country home in Ardsley Park. He was attacked early in the morning by one of the violent sj ells of deliritim which have occuried so frequently during his illness. Dr. Contanant was at once sumin n d from Tai'iytown. but his servicva were of no avail and in less thin three hours the age I financier was dead. At the time of his death there were present at Irs bedside three brothers: David Dudley Field, the Kev. Henry M. Field and .fustire Stephen J. Field; his daughter, Mrs Isabella Judson, and her two sons, Cyrus Field .ludson and Frank Judson. Mr. Field had been suffering from phyfi cal ami menial cxhauston, brought on by the many troubles which nave ovttlsKf him during the past year Negroes Going 'to Homestead. Richmond Times. Messrs. S. T. Moorman ?fc Co., of Lynchburg, have forwarded another ear load of colored men to Pittsburg, by way of the Chesapeake &, Ohio. They were gathered up on the line of that road be tween Lynehburg and Richmond. And though the men profess not to know the work they had engaged to peiform, it is surmised that their destination is Homestead, Pa , and that they sre intended to have a part in the solution of the labor tr ubles at ?!>? place. Their presence there may cause a renewal of the disturb anees which have made the Carnegie mills so notorious. *HE latest 4 ' NEWS j tVERVWHK ^ Prof, li D. Strode, President of Clom* son College. Port Hill, S. 0., hss resigned, said to be from quarrel with uiivcriHir i 11Kiitiu. 1110 sutrcsior will Of* W. Christie Bcnet. Columbia, S. C., is to have a big Labor Day the first Monday ia Septeiubj'. The Republicans of (he 9th N. C. Congressional district have nominated Thoa. Settle, of Reidsville, for Congress W. P. Bynutn. of Uieenaboro, was nominated w . let mar . The Paris Gauloia says thatrrof. Louis Pasteur's illness will almost certainly prove fatal. The distinguished scientist t is suffering from the disease so prevalent v in Paris aud which the authorities call F cholerine, but which is declared by many | experts to be genuine cholera. s Ignatius Donnelly has been named as F the People's Party candidate for Gov- i ernor of Minnesota. a The French are leaving Canada and * settling in the United States, saying they " ?an earu a better living here. * Ex-Senator Mahone, of Virginia, is ? trying to sell to the U. S. Government, j, for $25i\000, a building site in Washingtou, D. C., for a new Government ? Printing office. (] THE COLORED POPULATION. ' I II Rate of Increase of Persons of Afri-? | can Descent Only 13.51 Per Cent. <" Washington, I). C.?The census office j on last Thursday issued a bulletin on the subject of the colored population of the United Slates in 1390. The bulletin shows that the colored pop- g ulation as returned under the census of ^ 1890 is 7,638,300. Of this number, 7,470.040 are persms of African descent, 107,475 are Chinese, 2,039 Japanese, and 58,806 c'vilized Indians. Considering persons of African descent it is seen that there has been nn increaoo during the decade from 1880 to 1890 of 889,247, or 13.51 per cent., as against an increase dining the decade fr?ni 1870 to 1880 of 1,700,784 or 84.85 per cent. The bulletin says: "The abnormal increase of the colored population of the South during the decade ending in 1880 led to the popular belief that the negro was increasing at a much greater rate than tlio white population. The present census has shown, however, that tho high rate ^ Af increase iu the colore*! population, as eut only, and was due To tne Ifriperfeet enumeration of 1870 in tho Southern States." There has been an increase in the number of Chinese in the United States dur ing the decade from 1880 to 1890 of only 2,010, 1.94 per cent - the number returned in 1880 being 105,465, and the number returned in 1890 being 1 ;7,475. The Chinese increased 68.88 per cent, from 1870 to 1880, and 80.91 per cent. from 1800 to 1870. In 1880 the Japanese in the United States numbered only 148, while in 1800 they numbered 2,020. In 1870 there were only 53 Japanese returned under that Ct nsus The civilized Iudians have decreased during the past ten years 7.001, or 11.45 percent , the number retained in 1880 being 06,407 as against 58,806 returned in 1800 EXPLOSION ON LAKE GENEVA. Twenty-six Killed and Thirty Others Injured. Bkhne, Switzerland.?A frightful explosion occurred on Lake Geneva. The steamer Mont Blanc wns carrying a considerable load of passengers, including a number of tourists, on tin lake, when the boiler exploded, killed many and wounding a number of others. The 6cene is said to have been tLe most terrible ever witnessed on Lake Geneva. 1 lie t'atuiaiuimbu nuiw ijuiu ijr cujvijiu^ tho beauties of tnt sceue, the weather being delightful and the water plucid, when the explosion occurred, and in an instant the scene of quiet pleasure was converted into a spectacle of horror and death. Not less then twenty-six } ereons were killed instantly by the jagged iron, pieces of which swept the boat like grape and canister. About thirty were iujuud, and their screams and cries of agony could be heard across the lake. Other vessels went to the rescue, and the injured and those who had escaped injury were rescued from drowning in the shattered steamer. No Americaus, it apoears. were among the dead or injured. DID HE SHOOT HIS BROTHER? An Attflltini At Murrtor frnm Amhmh Which May Result in Fratricide. Marion, S. C.?About ten days ag-A. (J Amnions, one of the most pronii rent planters of Marion county, was shot by some unknown person in ambush on the roadside The shooting was at night, and no onwas present but the assailant and his vie tim. The weapon used was a doub ebarrelled shotgun. Both barrels were discharged. At tiie second fire Mr. Amnions fell, severely wounded Fie could not tell who shot hint and said he had no Cersoual euciny. He reasoned he must ave been mistaken for another. A few days after the shooting circumstances developed which pointed strongly to Mr Amnion's brother, K. It Amnions, ns the assailant. He was arrested, changed with the crime, but was released on bail. This morning it was aseeitained that the condition of the wounded man was very cii'ical, and the brother was sur endcud to the authorities. He 13 now in iail 'Yes, every man has his price," but . he can't make his grocer agree with him, ?Columbus Post. AM ATROCIOUS MURDER. Hm fiatta*! Skull Fractured and Hit Tklial Out From Bar to Bar. OiAttMiOR, 8. C.?The body of J M. ftylM, Who was murdered uenr Greet Food, on the Char lee ton ami Bavauua] Railroad, Aaa brought to Charleetoi about 8 o'olpck. J. Abraham, the frien< of the daoaaaed, who reported the criai to the authorities UTi it was one of th moot atrocious murders ever comuiittet is the State; and, in addition to having hit head fractured, his throat was cu from ear to ear. As was at first supposed, robbery i proven to have been the motive. It wa discovered that the crime was committer by Jef rcy Meyers. He was pursued b; p*ee?/?f constables, but evaded captur by swimming the Ashepoo river. The; are hot on his trail and will probablj capture him soon. unatMmuu 'development. Among the mere important cntcrprtaee rgnnir.ed in the South during the past roek. as noted bv the Manufacturers' lecord of Jul; 1ft. hfo the following: A 115,000 electric light company at K isimmoe, Pla. ; a $'250,000 machine com>auy at New Orleans, La. ; a Oft,000 coton-aeed oil company at ltust l'oiut, La.; n $80,000 transfer company at Baltimore, id.; a $10,000 canning factory company it Winchester, Va.; it $100,000 manufneuring company at Louisvillo, Ky.; a $10,>00 electric company at Louisville, Ky.; i $12,000 woodworking company at Dor tarn, N. C.; n $20,000 commercial coin>any at Pcrnandina, Fla.; a $10,000 real state company at Koanoke, Va. ;u $125,>00 mining and milling company at Newmrt, Ky.; a $100,000 laud and mprovement company at Baltimore, >ld.; a $25,000 pearl button manifacturing conipauy at Nowpoit, Ky.; n 1100,0)0 brick and tile manufacturing ompany at Charlotte, N. C.; a $100, >00 ice, wutcr and lighting company at Slburne, Texas; a $25,000 gas and oil ompany at New Martinsville, W. Va. ; i $100,000 cotton mill, colton-sced oil nill ami electric light company atChiffiicy, 1. C , and n $10,000 packing company it Macon, Georgia. Lightning as a Photographer. On examing the field glasses used a the Ohaervatory on Mount Ario, situated near the summer resorts. West. Baden am French Lick, it was found that, one o the field glasses had nti impression o flowers in both lenses, like u negative It must hare been caused by lightning as the glass was lett on the upper plat form of the observatory, and the 1 in pros sion is of such flowers as arc growing 01 Mount Arie. The quality of tho glass i not impaired at all, though the imp res ion seems to go clear through the leu fee. Mr. Buerk, the proprietor of tin observatory, cannot account for thi> freak of lightning, otherwise than the electric action on the flowers and lenses. ?Louisville Courier-Journal. The Gk)v?rnor's Daughter Elopes. Jackson, Miss.?Jackson society win shocked by the news of the cloncincnt o Miss Annie, the eighteen-year-old dangh ter of Governor John S. Stone, with K L. MrKie, a young inan of Water VhI ley, Miss. The couple quietly boardci su Illinois Ccutrnl train and went t Jackson, Tenn., where a license was pre Cured aud tho nuptial knot tied. Th Governor is said to he greatly inccnsei over the action of his daughter in eloj ing with MoKio, who is ilnniiciully ur able to support a wife. So fur the youn couple have not been requested to com home. The Boycott Will Be Used. Homestead, J'a.?Iu discussing tli situation, Hugh O'DonncIl said: "W will fight this strike out on legitimat iiiiv*. lutiujr iu111 tv wu liiicnu un deavoriug to maintain our position b lawless means. Such never was our in tcntion. 1 lie workman's only effectiv weapon, the boycott, will be employed and we will endeavor to strike a blow a Carnegie's every industry. I'll guarante there will be no harm offered nou unio men coming here, but I cannot offer th same protection guarantee to Pink*' fton* for every man, woman ami child i Homestead goes wild at the mention c one " The Grand Old Man Wins--The Lino als Carry the Elections. A London cablegram says: The resnl of the electiona so far as known up io o'clock p. m., show sufficient Liber ^ains to wipe out the government's m jorfty and assure Mr. Gladstone's ret 11 tn nnu'rr Tho nof T i'liorol rrain tKitia f is jld. This fives a majority of foi against the Conservatives on division. No Sunday Opening Washington, D. C.,?The Senate h i passed a hill requiring the closing ol th World's Columbian Exposition of ''tin first day of the week, commonly en I In Sunday." Mr. I'cller moved u furl In amendment: "The sale of intoxicatn liquors on the said exposition ground shall be prohibited except for mcdicirin mechanical and scientific purpose* which was carried 26 to 2ft The Grand Old Man Wine--The Libe ale Carry the Elections. A London cablegram says: The rcsul of the elections so far as known up to o'clock n m show sufficient Liber gains to wipe out the governments in jority and assure Mr. Gladstone's ret ) to power. The net Libers! gain thus i is $6. This gives a majority of fo against the Conservatives on division. First Male of the New Crop. Gai.vkston, Trx.?A special dii pntch from Houston says: "The lirbale of this year'R cotton crop, consign to the Houston Cotton Exchange, read cd here and was classed by the committc as seven eighths stric t middling and one eighth strict low middling Harrity to be Chairman. Nf.w York.?The World says "Wm F. M.mity, of Pennsylvania, has con scr.tcd to be the chairman ol the nations Pcmocratic organization." NO FREE SILVER, ? The Bill Is Killed in the Honee of Representatives. i c j Th? Vota Was Tsas 30, tha Nays 104.-Mr. McKsighan Oat I i Down Upon. I ? 1 Washinoton, I>. O.? [Howe ]?J*ot j Irinee the silver hill was under contideration last April, has the Hours of Representatives contained so many member# as < ? were jvesent this morning. Even before ' the House assembled there was largely 1 more than a quorum nreseot, and the | f members were engaged in discussing the ] piohahle result of the silver battle. Al V tltallirll fKm iltkv ?a?aa I?aI *1*- ? t ? > ~"V "?"? "? > ?WUU?BW . f in the galleries was conspicuously large. * A number of private pension birfia which ? lull *>*?* - -Mr. Catching*, Democrat, of Mississippi, t called up the resolution from the committee on rule*, letting apart to day and to morrow for the consideration of the : silver bill, and demanded the previous question on its adoption. Mr. Reed, Republican, of Maine, fa claimed that ho haa a right to move to a lay the resolution on the table before the c previous question wm put. The Speaker said the gentleman from { Maine could not tako the gentleman from , Mississippi off the floor and could only ? 1 obtain it if the latter should yield to him. Mr. Catchingn inquired if ho had a had a right to portion out his time. The Speaker replied affirmatively, Mr. 1 Catcliiugs having yielded to Mr. Rland, I I Democrat, of Missouri, the discussion began. < Mr. Bartiue, of Nevada, followed, sup- t potting the hill. c Mr. Clnikson threw a bombshell into free silver camp by opposing the passing of the hill. Even if it passed here the 11 President would veto it, ho said, and this " would be giving them a club with which F to injure the Democratic party. Mr. Forman, Democra*, of Illinois, fol- | lowed with a similar speech. ) Mr. Patterson, Democrat, of Tennessee, . also surprised the free silver men by spcakiug against the bill. Mr. Catchings: 1 now yield to the ' ^ gentleman from Maine. 1 1 Mr. Reed made a lengthy speech, gen ' ' ernlly criticising the Democratic party, < f and throw a great doal of wit and sar f casm into it, cutising roars of laughter on both sides the llouso. , Mr. Pierce, Democrat, of Tennessee, nnd Mr. Culbersou, Democrat, of Texas, supported the hill, i 'I no yens nnd nays were called for l?y 3 Mr. Tiwcy. The House was in com para t. ve quiet, the members leaving their seats after voting, nnd before the roll call I j had proceeded very far it was evident I j that the resolution was dead. Before the voto- wnif gnpflwwa^&K yrinfgjjift > < Democrat, of Georgia,- aoved waajourn. diii mo spraacr gnvo uie result 01 mo vote nnd then inquired: "Docb the gen tleinnn from Georgia move to adjourn ?" "Not now,'' whs the reply, s The vote resulted: Yens 130, nays 1.14. f Upon the announcement of the vote, 1 Mr. McKeighun, Democrat, of Nebraska, 1 a member of tho coinage committee nnd a pronounced frtc silver advocate, clnini1 ed recognition from the chnir. lie stood , 0 in the main aisle and pluinly showed his 1 chagrin. e Speaker Crisp asked: "For what pur1 pose docs the gentleman rise?" ? "To make a motion." i The Speaker: "The gentleman will g state it " ic Mr. McKcighan: "I movo to adjourn, if Wall street?" Hut before he could conclude the sentence his voice was drowned with cries e of "rata," and other unseemly invectives. c The Sneaker rapped him to order with 0 his gavel. t. Thus ended the attempt to pass the Y silver bill, which promised to be more of a contest, and the House proceeded with r, the consideration of the confcicuco re port on a private claim bill. t - c May Have an Alliance Candidate Columbia, 8. C.- It 14 not improh 0 able that a now turn may bo givcu to the '? gubernatorial contest by the entrance of " a distinctively Alliance candidate in the > arena. It is ascertained that for some time prominent Allianceinan havo been at work onSeanatorW. I). Evans, of Marl r boro, to appear as their chnmpion. Ben ator Evans ia a candidate for the cont gresaional vacancy caused by the death cf Col. Stackhousc, and it is said that (l) the fact that the administration has cs a poused the candidacy of .James Norton rn and thus rendered him the more liable to l)r defeat, induced him to turn a willing [ir ear to the gubernatorial candidacy idea. Senator Evans was in the city and he states that he is not a candidate Other sources of information develop the fact that leading Tillmanites prevailed upon him not to oppose Governor Till 1 man, but it is by no means certain that i: Evans and those behind him have rclin I quished their plans. Gold Coins in a Duck's Gizzard. From the Atlanta Constitution. J 1 Wf.akki.y, Oa.?I noticed the other day a Fekin duck that was moping aboil' and making strange motions with its Xj head. I decided from its actions that it had some foreign substance in its dices tive organs and would consequently tie. I's I therefore resolved to make an exftmina? r> t ion and sec what it was. On opening id the duck I found, to my surpr'se, two a pieces of gold and a cartridge hull. The ro g*"?|d pieces were too badly worn to tell r,; ?>f what denomination they were, but I J* think they must havo lieen one-dollsi pieces. The cartridge hull was all worn away and gone except the head. Toughs for Homestead d Pittsburg, Pa.?A special to Hie <1 Leader from Cincinnati says it in known i to be a fact that a local detective agency e has foi several days been gathering men s for Homestead. Since Sunday 280 men have heen sy :ured and every one is now in PitUbur/ or its immediate vicinity The last ^/f^ieft Wednesday night. The men are *'%t, brawny fellows, but me toughs. carcely any of them know a J thing about mill work. They were hired ,ut wages ranging from $3 to $5. SELECT NFTim ujpm? orlntmllj an* from India. It ii mid that 968,000,000 ii spent in he selooos of Chicago erery year. Philadelphia Omnibuses /have awnings itm the people who sit on the roofs. In the dreary dsuets of Arabia the osemary and la render flourish to perfection. Plane for additional hotels of the 'monster" kind hare just been published n London. , , An oil painting ste>lfipiJjAmgf9a lark place loaes soma of For fifteen minutes flsh rninfed<otf{tie farms north of Janesrllle, Wis., recently. r'jBjf j fhe whole county was lull of them. v.tJ* An English mathamaticiau.rfttiusatesv. **** He UmU of Idmt entertafned by any mlud luring a lifetime ie MM,770,000. . . . bree-querter inches in otroumferenoe. J \ One of the keepers in the Phitanel- f ihia Zoo" says that an elephant will / ramble with fear attbesight of a m< us . / A lobster that weighed nineteen and a / lalf pounds was recently caught by flth- j rmen in St. Andrews Bay, on the Maine ' oast. j It is said that the only person in the j Jnlted States entitled to ho called "Hon/ rable" is the Lieutenant-Governor ojy^ llassaohusetts. / General Grant was tho youngest dent the oountry had over had; he fleeted at forty-six. But at thirty ie was unknown. ^ A iiue was imposed latej' "'^tted ruel Englishwoman who >)<f^rlkagc ler two dogs to draw her/*"*"/ iu the pubiic highway. . Since its settlement ,,t>? and tioro than once,change ! ' re* not confirmed to England till tlic " >oace of Utrecht, in 1713. In a cavo iu the Pantheon, at. Home, taly, the guide, by striking the flaps of ds coat, makes a noise equal to that produced by a twelvo pound cannon. ?x. v. r^... n?.? aavqiu o t/nik jiunu aajii vunv u Vdim ain i :hoe?e factory hat au or-ler for n clues* to weigh 14,000 pouudi. It in to lia exhibited at Chicago next year. It will ruquire 225,000 pounds of milk. Od of tho largost cmnelia tree* in Europe it now iu full bloom near Dresden, Uermauy. It was takeu from Japan 150 years ago, is tifty feet high, and hat an annual avorage of 40,000 blossoms. Selectman S. Byron Brownson, of Ansonia, Conn., hat two remarkable egg*. One measures seven inches around the longest way, and the other ouu and three-quarter inches. Both, it is claimed, were laid by the same hen on the same William H. who die 1 ia Roanoke, Va., recently, bore the colors of tho Fifty-second Virginia infantry in thirty-six battles and participated in thirteen other engagements without receiving a scratch, though his Hag was shot from his bauds several times and his clothing pierced hy bullets. Fred Rutin, the young man who was drowned at Quuon'a Lake, 111., several days ago, had a strange presentiment of his death. When hu weut aboard the skiff he handed his gold watch to a friend, remarking that he felt as though he wouiu never roiurn auve. no was drowned iu the lake less than hour alterwards. Hoir to Preserve a Piano. "In spite of all the efforts of the makers," said a piano tuner recently, "I do not believe there is one piano iu uum hundred that, with ordinary parlor use, will stand in tune more than two months. An unskilful musical car, it is true, will fail to detect any important discord in a Eiano for six months, or perhaps longer; ut no cultivated ear can tolerate the discordant notes that tho best piano wilt insist upon giving out after two months of use. "Whon you think once that the steel wires and iron frames of a piano are alternately contracting and expandiug under the variations of the surrounding atmosphere, giving a constant movement of the wires and a consequent change in the pitch and tone of tno instrument, the impossibility of a piano maintaining a perfect toue for any length of time must be at once apparent, and if you will but reflect on the surprising fact that the tension of the strings of a piano causes a strain on the body of the instrument equal to the weight of 100,000 pounds, you will doubtless agree with me that a piano that will remain in perfect tune for a year is an instrument that must necessarily be of extreme rarity, if not impossible to make. "A piano, good, bad or indifferent, when new, should bo tuned onco I month. The longer an instrument remains uctuued the lower its pitch of tone becomes; and wheu it is desired to nave ine piano drawn 10 concert. pw<> the strain on the body of the inajgimeat is greatly increased, so much' in fact, that the case is liable to yield gradually, necessitating a second tuning within a week, or two weeks at the furthered. It is a common errur among non- professional pianc players to think a piano shou. i remain in tu 11 at least a je?~. Profe:?. ?ji!s know better."?>ie\v lolk Pre*? Pine Wool Por Pillows. The so-called pine wool Is made of tbo leaves of this tree by steeping them in a solution of caustic soda or potash, and thus removing the silicious matter which makes them so hard. The residue is a soft fibre which ma tes excellent material for mattresses and pillows, the latter being much used by persons affected by pulmonarv diseases in the behef thr.t benefit is derived. As any benefit must be derived from the turpentine in the leaves, any similar use of this substance might have the same effect by the breathing ot the vapor of it.?New Vouc limes.