Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^3^^wBWW^^^M^^^^^^B^^M^H^BB|jday. si:* ** 1 11 "iig? ? roflnet* not long ago | I?^Trrj^ed thii their Iom of eugar by thefts ?f boss amounted to $80,000 per annual. E- ' The official statistic} of - France bav< (shows that in 1891 about 72,000 person* idied of stanration in that country, and the number of those who became insane 'from misery amounted to 75,(XX). 1 1 A striking fact about the Chinese use of tea, which is told on the authority of 1 a Chinese officer, is that it is employe! ^ ,>f the dead STOCK OF NEW DRUGS , [ " i 1 All kinds of Fancy Article i Usual'y kept in a completely equipped aun _ v.uiuiuci?*<i i?rug a-ore, such is I t TO I LET SOAPS. |t I TOOTH AND IIAlll BRUSHES, , POWDERS OF THE REST QUALITIES, c AN t> At.T. OTIIMU AirriOLCS FOR Tilt TOII.F.T. c C H PRESCRIPTIONS CaIIEFULLY COM- ? POUNDED AT AI.L HOURS. I J I ! 'Ve intenl to keep a complete ilock of t ~.h goods iu each departmont, aui invite f t pub'ic to try the ijuality of cur goods Had our prices. Union Drug Company. ? \ Jan 29 o If , , 1 WOFFORD COLLEGE. i ^ SPARTANBURG, S. C.. \ JAS. II. CARLISLE, LL.l).. Piiksii>i:nt. FOUINDRl) rJ[ TU OFFORD OoP.fge oilers to stnder^s in ^ 8 1 VY the four co'legc classes two pn: v)cl Antll*QOU nf ei.i.Jt. ' ' 7 ",c." 10 "1C <lrg^ I r< oi liacliel-a' of Ait-, m one of which Modern * cni., J .V.VUS v. r hstill,teil tor (irctk .-r,1 "k u small districts. Sfffiii'V? ^ bavc a\ready f? been appointed by the Secretary in A^ri- t\ culture, and their number will dv.ibtlcsa p be increased when the usefulness of their work is shown. This, however, can not be fuliy demonstrated until, by the cheapening of telegraph and telephone service, and by the extension of free mail dcliv- .' ' . In ery, effective means arc round for carry- (| ing the predictions to the fanner in time for his use. The present work of the M 'local observers is of service in perfecting ^ their methods, and their forecasts arc of great usefulness to the fanners who can tc be reached; but their full value can never 'be realized until it is possible to put them promptly into the hands of all the farmers who can nsc them. Si . d In "While it is true," states George It. j? Kuapp, of New Jersey, in the American si Agriculturist, "that nearly all iucorpora- "( ted townH have laws compelling the building of sidewalks, and regulating their cj widtfi, material, etc , is it not aa eviaont ol that the necessity for some sidowalk in rf the country is sufficiently great to war- Ij! rant the agitation of the subject? I H1 would not, for a moment, advocate any b< law which would compel the building and maintenance of plank, Hag, or even , gravel walks in the country, but a well |j defined path or sidewalk might be had g "without injury to any one. It is true that the average, pathmaster would be of jJ( little use in carrying out a plan of this pi nature, but certainly it is possible to so construct a law that the parsimonious man can be made to fall in with his more ,, public spirited fellow citizens. I remein- <1 ber well a New York farm I worked some ^ years ago which had a frontage of nearly Hve hundred feet on the road. At an n expense of less than ten dollars in labor u a path four feet wide was constructed along that whole front. The work con- * sisted simply in marking out, by means jy of lines, the required width, usiug an edge cutter to loosen the sod next to the ^ line*, and a horse, with a light plow, to loosen up the earth and nod between the ( lines; the iron scraper was then brought lv S! into play, and the work of making a ' path was done, with the exception of the trimming up, which was performed with a hoe. Near New York many of the towns are so close together that thore is p practically no division line which is to r< be seen by the casual observer. In most cases these are macadamized roads run- ^ "mn Vitt-Vir>Io HiafanoA tlirnnarVi to the -9- ? r| city. Certainly there is nothing which w will prevent the pith I speak of being r< constructed at the aide of such a road. la aome places it is done, and the expense ? is so small And the improvement so groat a that, from a pecuniary standpoint solely, it has been considered a good invest ment. Public spirit is all very well in its place, but we all kn > v that it is pos- j sible for three or four close-Hate I men in r a to.vn to prevent improve nenta which ' are plainly for the goo I of the whole f c>n ihi i'ty. .Some way of converting > t ie-ie s inrt sighted peiple is what we ' w i it. Gravel p itlis are used in Ohio, t and r i.ir-iHy siftc 1 coal ashes make an \ excellent covering for sidewalks." ' < OfeNERAL NEWS BRIEFS ' V * Short Items of Interest FromHere There and Everywhere. Telegraphic Dispatches and Cullingi Embracing a Comprehensive News Summary. Senator Colquitt of Geo'giais serioush 11 at Washington. There are now live colored lunatics it he city jail at Danville, Va. Fire destroyed Miller's planing mill it Alma, Itobeson county N. C. Loss $10, VMt ./ - The Homestead (Pa. >Mills, of Carnegir Rhipps & Co.,are again itinning, manned vith nonunion men. Charles C. Poske, a we'l known Baitinore traveling man died of sun stroke at Richmond. Va., Tuesday. The Third pnity convention of the enth d'strict of Georgia has re nomioat d Tom Watson for Congress. The Normnl College building at Gralam, Alamance county N. C., wns hum d with all its contents last Friday night. It is probable that ex Senator Mahout >f Va., will be appointed permanent revivor of the Richmond Terminal at a saliiy of $5,000 per year. The U. 8. 8cnatc has reported favor blyon the purchase for $70,000 of the Temple Farm at Yorktown, Va.. where .ord Coruwallis surrendered. Tuesday was the hottest day Philndclihia has had, save one, in fifty years. The tern pcrature, 100 8,was ihc highest >f the country. Nine deaths resulted rum tho hent and there were many prosrations. Letters of incorporation arc being gotrn up f-jr "the Ocean View Hotel Coma " with the object of building a first a>s hotel on the suif side of Hogue bulk's, opposite Morchead City, N. C. 'lie building is to cost $150,000. A desperate fight occurred at Flat Roik, - Somerset, Ky , Weduesday after oer s een Lieputy ^hciilT Kcllcrsaud ^vjoflfey, in which both wore killed, "fers attempted to airost Coffey on a muge of adultery, when the trouble bean. A Wilmington, Del., lawyer hasrccivil a ill aft for from Bcine Swit/.c. ind, which was the amount of the ineinnity paid by the Cnuton of Berne for le false imprisonment for tire days of v.; Americans who had been arrested as ickpockcts The campaign was opened in the Valley f Virginia at Luray Monday. Colonel le.vander, of Winchester, spoke, an mincing himself a candidate for ('ongres!i opposition to Colonel O'Ferrall. The icple's party also organized, and will live a candidate for Congtess in that istrict. Two Hoanoke College students from [exico. Eruilio Hobeil Garza and Aug I etez, arc spendiug the sununcr in Sal m a. Another young man from Tampico. [exico, is expected to arrive soon to enr college in the fall. It is als ?probable mt a number of students from Con a ill be among the foreigners at Roanoke ollcge next session. The appeal made by merchants of the truth to turn the stream of immigration own here is having its effect in Kng nd and Scotland, a large number of amigrants airiving at New Yoik on the earner Gallia. The Gallia stnrted Wedcsdav for South Carolina and other out hern States. Both t* c pumps at the Staunton, Va., ty water-works arc in sueli n bad state f repair that they will not work. The servoir is empty and with the thermom er at 90 the town is without water, he springs in the suburbs arc the soic tpply. It will be several days probably tsfore the famine will end ami the pumps ut to work again. nnvnrnnr Rurlinnan nf Tonnnceno l??*o VI !'??? IIUIIUII, "I I VIIUVOOV\ { IHI-' Ben defeated in the democratic prima esin that State in ttic canvass for the nbernatorinl nominali <n l?y Judge IV r Turucy, Imt declares that he will not iter the held as an Alliance or inde cedent candidate, and will do all in his ower to hold Tennessee in lino for both ic national and State tickets. The board of trustees of the Union hcological Seminary, at !lMin|idcn-Sidey, Virginia, at a meeting Wednesday lotted Hev. I)r. Peyton H. lb-go, of k'ilmington, North Corolina, to the va tnt clndi of the Knglish Bible and pas>ral theology in the seminary. It lias ot yet been learned whether or not he ill accept. The Dismal Swamp Canal, whie'i rost 1,.'>00,000. and w hich was sold recently I public auction foi $10,100,was authored to be constructed by the General ssembly of Virginia Dceenihcr 1, 1707. lie canal is 23 miles long, and connects to wateis of Kli/.aheth river in Virginia ith the Pasquotank liver in North arolimi. It is liciived that tin! canal i destined to play an impoitant | art in nppl ing the city of Norfolk with drinkhie water. The President lias issued a proclamaon ropiest ing the observance of October I as a general holiday in honor of the >ur hundredth anniversary of the dis>very of America. The recent British elections have cost 12,500,000. Kvcry shilling his to lie counted for in sworn statement. Cor iptioa of voters hns boon rendered al tost impossible by the stringency of the formed elections legislation. The contract for the foundation, stone nd nrick work, etc., of the puhli build 9g at Tallahassee, Fla., was nwa ded to Chicago firm st $12,723. Weaver Opens Hie Campaign. Denver, Col. (Jen. Weaver, tlie 'eople's party candidate for President, nade his opening a Idress at a crowded reeling in Coliseum Hall. An overflow neeting was also held, which was ad 11 ess d l?y Mis M. K. Lease,the women's i formei liom Kansas (Jen Wc.vor re ei?cd upon ascending the platform h lilvei pen B. Clark Wheeler, who prelented the pen. said that (Jen. Weaver, when elected, could ?ign the Free Coinage ?ill with it (Jen. Weaver's address was mthusiasticallv received. r^i ^ An Italian W&r VnmI to Ck??y tha Stotmar Which io to Brine it r to This Oity. Waihmotor, D. G.?The Department 1 of State made public a pleasant exchange of courtesies between President Harrison and King Humbert, of Italy. Under date of the 19th inst the Secretary of (he Navy addressed a letter to the Secretary r of State, advising him that he had learn ed unofficially that tho steamer bearing , the statue of Columbus, a gift of the Italian Ameiicaus of the city of New \ork. was likely to be accompanied by a vessel of war of the kingdom of Italy, and thst the visit would concur with the (^oltuubus celebration to take place in - October next under the auspices of the I city of New York. The Secretary of the Navy cxpiessed the mrdi.il satisfaction ' of the Navy Department at this intelligence, and gave assurance that the Ital 1 ian vessel of war would receive a cordial 1 welcome w orthy of sucli an honored visi- 1 tor. ' The letter of the Secretary of the Navy * having been sent to the Italian Minister 1 in this city. on the 21st inst, the Minister, Baron Fava, informed the Secretary of State that tho royal 1 cruiser Hausan had been designated for I this mission mul nnnM lm of Vn,U i WW iivn Ji Win at (lie bcgiuning of October. In view of ( this notification, President Harrison sent 1 the following telegram to his Majesty ' King HuinlxTt: Wabkisotos, July 21,1WX * f!l* M \fr*ly Humbert I., KIbjo/ I'olu, Rome: 1 ho oBrr lo i-ond an Italian crnlvr l<> partlolpatc In r*n nmnlp? at Now V?r? >tt October nJTordt. me occasion to express l t your Majoatr my gratlflcatl n at thlt signal trlhutr to the lontt ana steaafast friendship of Italy anil the I'olto t state*. IlKIJUHn IIAPItlhOS. To this telegram King Humbert responded as follows: J Mo*xa Hoyal casn.r. July 23, IS9X firry) intfn ilarrhon, /'YMl'Vnt of the t'nitert State*: In the solemnization of tho glorious ronionthranooa. my will was that liy It* participation my Government ( might attest the sound frlends'vtp which hind* Italy to tho groat people of the I'nlted state* I thank you for having no nobly received this, my i entlment. f hvmmcbt LEE CHARLES WANT.S A DIVORCE I f Hie Wife is the Prettiest Girl in Chinatown, But He Says She is ^ Unfaithful. I] New Your. N. Y. ? Lee Charles, otherwise known as Lec Norn, head of c the Sang Chang Tea and Grocery Com n puny, of 28 Molt stiect, has one of the prettiest girls in Chinatown for a wife. t. Lawyer Mcl.aughliii has instituted pro cccdiugs for divorce on behalf of the wealthy merchant against Mrs. Charles. Mrs. Chillies1 inn*her was a ncgrcss ami her father n Chinaman. She was born y ami brought up in the Chinese quarter, but has always held herself aloof from lie oilier women in tho neighborhood. She speak < excellent Knglish, ha* n fair S1 education, and a slight knowledge of ol her father's I iiiguagc When she mar H lied Lee ( holes everybody in the dis- hi trict said that she was a lucky girl, and fr for a time she was very happy. But she Bi quarreled with her husband, and the quarrel was never made up. The quarrel ?1 was over the attention paid Mrs Charles w by Ung Toy, who also lives at 28 Mott street 1 he relations between the two became so well known that Charles set, fo nis friend Lee Toy to watch them. On in Sunday night Lee Toy discovered Mrs. hi Charles and Ung Toy together. He It summoned the husband. Lee Charles called Policeman Corcoran and had his wife and Ung Toy arrested. fo When they were arraigned at the pi Tombs Court the room was crowded with re Chinamen, all of whom were intensely "i interested in the proceedings Mrs. 01 Charles wanted to mnkc a charge of at- ss templed assault against Ung Toy, but the Justice refusei to allow it, and took di a charge of disorderly conduct against w both. In the afternoon a lengthy exam- hi ination was held, at the conclusi >11 of d< which Ung Toy was scut to the island re for six mouths and the woman was discharged. p< ' In Tho Industrial South, w Although the usual midsummer dull- ^ ness is at hand, repotU from the South show no cessation in the number and diversity in new industrial enterprises organized. In the list of new enterprises ' for the week ending July 29, the Balli- ^ more Manufacturers1 Record mentions , .. . . in Tlie ioilowing as some oi me m< re important items: A $25,000 silver plating company at Baltimore, Md ; a $125,000 water works and light company at Monroe, La.; a $30,000 oil and fertilizer com- '.J pany at Millcdgoville, (la.; a f45,000 1 cotton seed refining and manufacturing company at New Orleans, La. ; a $10,000 lumber manufacturing company at Home, Ga. ; a $40,000 cotton and woolen mill company at Marble Falls, Texas; a $00, 1 000 ice, water and power company at Yoakum, Texas; a $20,000 ice manufacturing company at Brinkley, Ark.; a $25,000 ^ publishing company at Baltimore, Md. ; a t| $50,000 grain milling company at Whit- H acre, Va. ; a $200,000 phosphate com- t pany at Richmond, Va ; a $300,000 wa- K ter works and sewerage company at Natchez, Miss ; a $500,000 constiuctiou , company at Wheeling. W. Va.; a $15,- y 000 manufacturing company at Hairiman, Tenn.; a $00,000 ice, li lit ami water | works couipnny at ()iange,Tex >s; a $10,- t 000 cigarette machine company at l'hilippi, W. Va. ; n $25,000 construction company at Southport, N. ; a $300,000 oil and gas dev< lopinent company at Rchmond, Va. ; a $20.0?'0 bed spring manufacturing company at Dallas,Texas,a I $30,000 flour mill at Pith ur. Texas; a | 1 $15, OOOdevelopmcnt company at Hmky . Mount N. (.'..and a $'20,000 inanufactur iog company at '-renlnim, Tr\io. . ^ A Whole Wisconsin Town in Ashes. * Ikon Hiver, Wis.?Tho entire buai- ( ness district, with the exception of one ( or t r, buildings, oi the town,is in ashes. , Fifteen hundred people are without shel- . ter. a id mi many cases without food. ( bittle is left of what twenty-four hours t ago was one of the most prosperous mill J towns The total property loss aggregates $20o,00tt. with very little insurance. , Troops Leaving for Home. Homf.stf.ad, Pa. ? More troop* left Horn* stead for home. The fourth regiment. four companies of the Tenth and Battery "C" departed this morning while , the Twelfth, Eighth and Ninth left later in the day. Chosen By the S. Jf Hti*nce o 2nd SMj COLCMOfl, S C.? mot in aquumI session fefl Kg folio* ing gentlemen w ere pttillBliHMMtk for Pr<.$ideot. Mr. fKndkhc being a complete surpBB IPMtor M D. Ev*u?. of Maiharo: j Kt L Dot aldson, of Greenville; < the Cotton Plant; Co). '^HBforrt*, < Abbeville, aud J. A SU^^^Howbern Mr. Donaldson by handsome majority uU^^H ballot The new president O^^^^Biace wi born in Green villa o? B-tyei^I He rouglMH war i Hugh Aiken's rixth *5flBj|^gBnt ler biigadc. n? a t tJQMftoe Su livnn's company, and mane a gatUbt bo (lit r. After the war ho Mttkd in Greer ville, where he went to farming and hi made i? grenK.'eqess of it. He appeare in the political niCua in the fill of 1884 when he was icnt to the Legislature. H tcrved two terms and then sucoeedei Sovcrnor Mauldin in the Scuate, whie position he still holds. In Decembci 1889, when the State Allien* e Kxehang was established, he was placed in charge ind he ran the exchange successfully un til he icsignetl last year, when the E) change was moved to this city 7"'1 general opinion among the Alliancemc seems to be that they have got the be? man for president. The following aro the other officer dected: Vice President? W. D. Evans, Bon ncttsville. Secreta y?J. W. Reid, Reidsville. Treasurer - F. P. Taylor, Mt. Cjghlan Chapla n?Rev. James Douglass Jlackstock. Steward ? E H. Taylor. Aikeu. Doorkeeper - J. W. Kenuedy, Sand, >rovc. Assistant Doorkeeper?A. R. Walker ''air Bluff. Sergeant at arms -J. E. Jarnegan, Co umbiu. Lecturer and organizer ?John R. Jef in s, Star fur in. Kx cutive committee-T. P. Mitchell Vondward; S. T. D. Lancaster, Gleoi tprings; iiuil lv H. Walters, Orange ?urg. .ludieiary committee ?W. N. Elder lutliricsvillc; I). K. Norris, Abbeville nd J. L. Keltt, Newberry. As far as can be u*t'crinittcd the lectur rs in all the districts were nil re-elected ^OT YET OirToF DANGER. fanager FricM of the Homestead Works a Suffering Man. PiTTSBitKo, Pa?Chairman H. C rifk. who Wttj^fjliot. four times in hii lice Saturday l>j Alex. Beikman, a omestead sympathizer, is mentally right and active, but he has much pain om the pistol wounds and the cut from erknian's knife. The ball which passed around the neck most grazed thp spinal cord. That hich passed onto* the side almost touch1 the spine. The upper cut on the right dc should have penetrated the lung but v the edge of the ninth rib, and half an ch more deep wotld have carried the rge lower cut intothe abdominal cavity, was regarded as astounding that this lould be true of somany wounds. Dr. Litchfield has profound admiration a the self control and courage of his itient. He says tlierc was scarcely any suit from what tits medical men call shock," no sudden fall of temperature cold sweat. The is what the doctor iid to callers during the afternoon: "Mr. Frick is dopg well. There is tnger front the secondary effect of the ounds and there ijll he for a week. He is so far digested lis food well and is ring well and hnvtstrong hopes bo will cover " The order, signed by Mr. Fl ick and tsted nt the Homntcad works this morng, to the effect tlkt. men returning to ork won d he insiyed against removal, id which was givfti in |t.he United Preas ispatchcs of last night, is regarded as le final peace offering of the firm to the rikers. In this connection 11 reprentHtive of the firm makes an important atcment. "Even jf Mr. Krick should ie,11 he said, ' the policy of the manageicnt in the present crisis will be strictly Ihered to. The statement that Mr. arnegie is not in full accord with Mr. rick, in the course the latter has purled of late, is absolutely and unqualiedly untrue." RICHMOND TERMINAL. Phe Pennsylvania Railroad En scat orlng to Socute Control. Nkw Vonk, N. Y. ? The Hichur?on? rerminal advisory coinmit'ce of sevei net and authorized Chairman Strongt< ppoint committees of three to reprcscn he t? and 5 | er cent, bondholdciv, re pet-lively. Those will confer with tin idvisorv committee as to the action to b aken regarding tlie default which wil >e made 011 the interest of the bonds. It is reported that the I'ennsylvanii tail road is endeavoring to get control o he Itichmond Terminal system by offer >( a traffic alliance. THE TORRID WAVE. ffo Let-Up in the Oppressively Ho Weather. Richmond, Va. Chubs C. rnske, hummer for u Baltimore fancy goorl louse, died suddenly Wednesday after loon from ?he elTo. ts of the unprccc lented hot weather Two other case; if sunstroke resulted John Lams, hi icrobat of the Sargent and Kidder cir oih, and W. II. Frayaer, a street ca driver. Both are expected to recover Since l**t Saturday the thermometer ha not been below 04 degrees, and has fre ipientlv registered 100 Nkw Yokk. N. Y.?The weatht throughout the New England am Middle States today continued opprci sivelv h' t M ?nv prostrations were r< ported. Factor'^ and mills shut dow: on account of the hot weather. Neariy too bear* were killed in dair during the year ending in May. i THE SOUTH BOUND ROAD. m It* L?u? to th? Florida Contra Consummated. ? 8avannah. OA.-rThe lease of th fm South Bound railroad to the Florid ^ Central and Peninsular road w as consuw mated today. The rental amounts to abou f $M>0,000 per annum. The link to uuit I* the South Bound, which ruus from Co lumbia, S. C., to Savannah, and th Florida Central and Peninsular, whicl terminates at Jacksonville, will be buil '* at once. The lease places the securitie _ # tL _ & It n % * ? j oi uiv ouuin doudu hi par. I lie nego ' tiations have been in progress som ^ months. n Expensive Chessmen. The New York Home Journal describe J* a remarkable set of chessmen that huv just been finished by a down East uu chanic. The pieces are made of si Ire j and bronze, aud the p?riod of co<tuin< ^ and equipment is A. IV 11*1, all tlu ^ characters being historical and content, porary, and strictly accural? in very do I) tail of heraldic blazonry and costume, . The knights are in chnin mail armor e with shield, as, sword and dagger >, Their fur coats have each the individua i* blazon of the wearer. The ipieens woa c- royal robes and carry scepters. Tin e bishops are in church vestments and u carry cross and crazier. The pawns arc 'f men at-arms in a kneeling posture, willspear, biiihook and knife. The white B men are English, the black French. Tin English King and Queen ,m> Hichnrd I. and his Berengaria. The bishops arc Herbert Walter, Archbishop of Canter bury, and William Longchamps, llishoj of Ely; and the knights are the Earl ol ' Salisbury and the Baron of Worcester, The castle is Anglo-Norman, and is a y perfectly accurate representation o! feu lal architecture. The Kreueh King j and Queen are Philip and logeborg, his Danish spouse, tho bishop3 being l)c Dreux and Do Sully, of Bcauvsis and Paris. The knights are also well known men of the twelfth century, and the castle is Franco-Norman. Hie set has taken upwards of six years to make. Animal Wisdom. We are all familiar enough with ox' am pies of iutelligcucc iu cats and dogs, * hut of these stories wr do not easily tire. Hero are son. facts from a coneHonndont. Iii moving to a new place of residence we fouml 011 the premises a laigo ? at which had been left there by a (onnei occupant. She was not of the rea domestic kind, but lived principally in the barn, occasionally venturing into tin house to obtain her food. On om occasion, much to the surprise of nij 1 wife, she came up to her and mowed aowm.iI limiw. turning each time to.vard the door leading to the barn. This die repented until Mrs. N. was induced by curiosity to follow her, whim she le i too way to 11 barrel half full of straw, no 'lie side of which she climbed, all the lime mewing and looking at my wife, uid there were live kittens, cold an 1 -I a I. Mrs. N. remarked: 'They are cold and dead, pussy," and the eat went away satisfied. She would sometimes scratch the children, and we were fearful sin would seriously in jure them, and one day I said in her presence that "1 would slv> >t her." rihe was missing for about si* weeks, and of course I bad then ' the notion." ? Forest and "*"1' rne~uTiKg?r." The terror of blackberry pickers in the liouth is the cheagro, popularly prononnc.d "jigger." Probably no one has ever seen a cheagro save under a microscope, and certainly he is usually invisible to his victims, hut he can inflict moie discomfort than the mosquito, or than any one of a dozen noxious insects twice his size. The chengre comes like a thief in the night. No one is conscious of his coming, and oft*n his presence is not detected for hours after his arrival, but in due time he inakes hints* If known. The victim is seized with an intolerable itching in a dozen spots at once, and scratching affords only temporary relief. Pimples rise over the itching spots, and are soon ( craned raw by the cheagrc's tortured victim. Meanwhile the invisible enemy keeps on burrowing, and the itching con tinms often for days together. When it ceases, the victim has the unpleasant consciousness that all is over probably because the cheagro has died somewhere beneath the pimple. Democrntic Candidate. Patikkusbcho, W. Vn.,?The Stab Democratic convention was in session tin til an early hour in the morning balloting ' for a gubernatorial candidate.Shortly aftei 1 midnight there was a stampede for Col. 1 W. A.McCorkle,of Charleston,and on the f second ballot the counties began to change their votes for him. In the midst of nincli l! cheering and entliusisain a motion wa' '' made to make the nomination unanimous, ' and it was done. McCorkle was sent foi and accepted the nomination in a bricl * speech, after which the convention adf journed until 9 a. m. Belief for Southern Flood Sufferers Washington, D. C ?The Hons* committee on appropriations ordered i favorable report on a bill appropriating $50,009 for the relief of the Hontbcri t noon sufferer*. I he money appropriate! is to be expended under tlie direction o tli" Secietsry of War and the governor * nf the State in which it may be expended A Bishop's Bsmi-OsntenniAl. Winston, N. 13. ? Bishop Itondthaler 8 of the Southern province, and pastor <<! 1 the Moravian church of Salem, celebrated his fiftieth anniversary Sunday. In tin r afternoon a congregational love least wai served in the church when the bishop wai 8 made the recipient of presents amount !' ng in cost to over #400. It was a mem irable occasion The Agricultural School Fund. >. Washington, I> (' The Piesiden n has approved the hill to direct the Sec retary of tin- Treasury to pay over certaii money to the Sta'e of South Carolina fo the support of the college for the hem (i i? of agriculture; also, the act lo construe a bridge across the Savannah river. OUR ALLIANCE COLUMN. Interesting NotM, Article*, ud Clipping*From nil Source*. a l" The eescnce of eUrery fc unrequited >( toil, end it is of no consequence whethir e the force which robe huu of the fruits *' of his toil be applied directly or indiv redly, the man who labors in the produc ^ tion of wealth of which others are the * principal beuefieiaries, i4 slave J5x8 change. see e Seguin Enterprise (Tex ) booms an iu coins tax as f llows: A tax upon large uconics i? needed to relievo ttic necea is . tries of 1 fe, ao the taxes that now cxis e not only enchnnce cost of living, but give o,'|> irfunity for inonopo'y and opprn sion r It is the fairest of all tax-s and the one , best tending to relieve pressure when j pr<?sure is least easily I orue. ltcvcuuc should be drawn from wealth, not wai.t Hepresentative Hiker 1 People's patty 1. of Kansas, ha* iiitioduccd a bill into ttu House ^imposing a reduction in the *.d I III IVK 01 guvcrIIIUCIU 0II101MI* receiving f more than $1 ,00,) pti year. By the hill ^ the president's salary is fixed itt $25,(ton I tlu? Vice-President's at $5,000; theiatunet ollieers nt $0,000;?liief justice <?f the Su i promo Court $7,000 ;tho associate justice!", , 1 $0,500; Speaker of the Mouse, $5,000, ( 1 ami I'nitod States Senators ami Itcpirt 1 entativee, $0,000. V W * Wabhinuton, D. I' ?There is just 25 farmer statesmen in thh ? Congress. Of these, llolman is running a farm of three or four hundred acres in ( Indiana; Morrcll has a little Vermont 1 "garden"of 05 acres; Casey of Nor.h Ma | f kota has control of 500,000 acres in hi.* ! State, nml owns pretty much hII of it I himself; Vance owns sevtral thousands ' i of acres of timber land in the old North State; ami (leorge of Mississippi is a heavy cotton planter. M st of the Kansas men are agriculturally inclined. Jerry Siinp * , son owns 1,000 acres, and works i?, too, ' when at home; Baker, Mavis, and Otis are all in sympathy and close touch with the farmer; and Fusion is j I in j seed. %?? POI.K T.C"ITWA.i. TI'NO. I'll.' ladies assembled at Onis'M ?lui ii.g ' lie national People's paily con vent ion. ; organised h ladies' auxiliary foi the pin ' * posr of assisting tho Polk Memorial Ah ' r ?ocia(ion. ' ' Mrs lion Terrell, of Seguin, Texas, i> 1 i president, ami has appointed one vice ' ) president in eneli S'ate, as follows; ' ) Alalniiua Mrs. (Jailher. i r Louisiana Mrs. ( lav(on. I Pbuida Mis. A. I*. Musk ins. i NorIh Carolina - Mia. W. W. Worth. ( i<' l leorgla .Mt>s Li//.'e Peake. i .Missouri Mis Dr. Neff. j( Tennessee Mis. .!. II. M< Dowall I Iowa?Mrs. (J mdiieh. ( Nebraska Mrs (ien Van Wyck. Minnesota Mrs. Dr. Fish. Mississippi Mrs. Kva M Vnlash. ! California?Mi*. Nye. Connecticut Mrs. Crumsby. District Columbia- Mrs. Craiidall. Kansas Mrs. Fannie Vickery. ,r South Dakota - Mrs. I.oucks. 11 North Dakota and Washinpf*Mitir. , .. I" ..ome time ago a writer in the Noitl m Aineriean Heview mnde the statement |j that the United States is the largest ten I mt farmer nation in the world. litre b ' a list of the tenant farmers in some ol the States as given by the writer: New York 80,8?'i ri Pennsylvania 4 A, 82 ft H Maryland 18,581 " Virginia _ 84,8118 * .Vorth Carolina 62,728 II (feorgi* 62,175 v West Virginia 12,000 a Ohio 48,288 n iudiana 40,056 Illinois 80,244 Michigan *-11' Iowa <?- . 17' if r?u van I .nirwHiii Nebraska 11,40) * Kentucky 44,02'. Kau-ns 22,1151 ( Tennessee .%7.21)0 l Mississippi 41,558 I A rkaiisis 20,1:10 | Texas SO,405 i Total *08,075 I lieie aie 21 of our lending S rites will I more te ant fanners tlia i hngland, Ire '.ami, Scotland ami Wall >. , Tliero is sonu-tiiing awe itispiringly prophetic in the bean iful words of Col. ]j. I, I'olk, July 4. 1*1)0: "I am staml j. uig now just hehi'.d the cm tain, and in full glow of th- coming sunset. Behind , me are the shadows on the track, beforr me lies thedaik valley and the river When I mingle with the daik waters ! want to cast one lingering look upoia oiintry whose government is of the people, for the ptopic, and by the people " f r r + t Senator Mander on has intr duced h bill in Congress to create a national high ^ way commission, to consist of two Sena tors, tivci epreseiitatives, the Sectclaries r. of war, agriculture,and interior,the post, u master-general, tin: attorney-general, and , an associate member from each State nnri Territory. Me-tings are to be held it ) Washington during the session of Con j gresa, i" Chicago during the World'i fair, and at such other places d timei as the majority may select. I hp commission is to investigate the needs ??f flip country in regard to tlio hi^htvnj; and [ r<: ?'l lo Congress. I *? *## STATR At.MANCR MKRTISOS A a fast as State secretaries report the | i mie and place of the next regit hi annual . | me ting of tin- state Alliance, it will he i added to 'his list; Tennessee. Nashville. August 16. Texas, Austin, August 16 Indiana, Indianapolis. v?iwinbei IT. Kentucky, Owensboro, Novcuihci S Columbia. 8 C\, July IT. II i Virginia, Hichmond. August 17 ' . Louisiana, Monroe. August 2 California Sacramento, October 8. 1 | Georgia, Gainesville, August 17. | T.lrtle Ttock Ark \uirust. IB V?ippi, cnnrictiiie. august vj.i Monroe, La., Au?u?t 10 North Carolina, (Jteonsboro, August 9. W?t Virginia, Clarksburg, August 10. Witliamsport, Pa., October 2.%. Arlxnnn Onyx. Arizona outs is fast gaining a reputation iu the East, ami tlu* day is not far distant when most of the ontx used iu the Vuited States will co.ue from this Territory. The great bed of this procious stone in Yavapai and Maricopa Counties nlone, when sufficiently developed, will supply a greater part of tho demand. Even now from two to live car loads arc shipped from the Yavapai hede, and arrangements arc hcing made to increase tho output. The Yavapai onyx beds, owned by W. O. O'Nell nnd partners, are probably the most extensive mines of the kind known, being almost .i solid body one mile by one mile and a halt in present about forty meh aigim IU I ah tag out the sjona . that is being shipped \o Chicago, ^ York, Cincinnati and other Eastern cft^ AJT ies, where it is worked into table tops, ' etc. Probably the largest slab of onyx ' -^3 vri tnken out in one pit i e win dug out, of the O'Ncil ledge, it being 2HxlO foot and twenty six inches thick. The stono Ironi this claim is very tine grain nnd tnkes n much higher polish than the oulfbrnted onyx of Mexico, and it contains colors that were exhausted many years ago in the Mexican mines. Then, too, the mines of that country never turned out pieces larger than live or ?i* Cent. stpiarc. Ho fur as developed the Cave Creek onyx bods do not seem to be as largo as the Yavapai beds, though tho stone ia as fine, but even as they are, they will produce large amounts and in blocks of very satisfactory sire. J. B. Dougherty, of New York, is doing a ^resf deal of development work, aim as ioon as tho road is completed, which vUl be in a few days, he will put teams o hauling and londing iti onto the cars it Phenix for shipment to New York.? 'henix GazetteWonders or Climate Changes. Tho changes of terrestrial olhnato have >een many and various. Myrtles and reo ferns once flourished In Greenland; :ornl insects built on the shores of Melville Island ; nautiluses nailed over what most thou have been the tepid seas about Spitzhergon. Hut with the lapse of ages Iho scene changed and worse than arctic rigors spread into regions now cnjoyiDg temperate climate, possibly not for tho lirat time. Tim Permian wan certainly in inclement age, according to tho Edinburgh Ucview, and its inclemency seems ?von to have reached the point of gluciaion in the west of England and Ireland, et it was precede I and succeeded by a i?ng prevalence of tropical conditions, 'hose assuredly reigned without intor* option in north temperate and polar tl.r * i ?? - - * uuv iitu vjih oi f'ltiary time. Palms and rjcadt then !>rHno "P ln the room of oaks and ee<dies in Kngland; turtles and r- , llei haunted Koi/ll8li?-:r , l ies; lions.-u. .dry land. f I,.... ..uxerlnnd a mean temperature jiial to thai of North Africa at the cscnt time is shown by its fossil flora i have prevailed during the iniocene or iddlu tertiary epoch. Antrhopoid apo* ved in Germany and France, tig and nnamon trees flourished at Dtuitzic; in reenland, up to seventy degrees of latiide, magnolias bloomed and vinos penerl their fruit, while in Hpitzbergen ud even in Griuncll Land, within llttlo lore than oight degrees of the pole, the a amp cypresses aud walnuts, cedars, ime<, plane* ami poplars grew freely, rater lilies covered over standing pools nd irises lifiod their tall heads by the._ largius of streams and rivers. "" ? Ten Chcpt Leail. O.ic of the industries in connection vail the tea tiade is the collection ot lie lead with which tea-chests are lined, hiina has been noted for many centimes or purity of its lead, and this tea-chest ead, as it is ca'led, is regarded as the Inest in existence. There arc many uses for it; it is found very valuable in making ilie best kind of solder. No machiuery is employed in the production of this ?li?-r>l l<>H<l <>vprv nh?r>l is turnip hv hand 111 the most primitive fashion. A largo brick is provided, the size of the sheet of iead to be made, and is covered with two 01 three sheets of paper. On these the molten lead is poured, and another brick is placed on tne top, which flattens the loud out the required size and thickness. The sheets are then soldered together to the size of the interior of the tea chest; '.lie taa is packed in, and the top sheet is hastened in place. The workmen are very expert, and they turn out an immense number of sheets ;n the course of i day, and, where labor is so cheap, at a price much less than if the articles were . .vn/ln/tr.fl i? i'Aiiio V i i n n r ir U oof An T natt lJl*M?Vlv;Wi MJf OIIIVUIUVI J u 'OWU ilrtU" (*?. Dlrdspjc View of Paraguay. Paraguay has 430,000 people on her 91,970 square miles of territory. Large numbers of uncolonized Indians arc net counted. The eountry is rich in vegetation, but only lt!0,00(l acres ? under cultivation. Amo:>._, ibo uotab> products aiu algaioba and quebracho for tanning, ami algorabella, indigo and annotto for dveing. There is ?c abundance of resins, copal, gum elastic, drug plants, balsams. Resides cotton, Para- '.'SS guay producea textile and fibrous plants like ramie, jute and palm. The foreign trade is about 05,000,000 a year, but tha United States gels very little of it. The principal exports are tobacco, hides, lumber and oranges. Paraguay has no sea- o port. Her products go out by the Paiaguay and Panama Rivers.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. .jH There is nothing in the world more aggravating to a man with a seers'", thai to meet people who have no curiQsity.? Atchison Globe.