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_ THE lffEEKLYiia|^>DllOH ^ TL^^l At the dinner given the other evening by the Cleveland (Ohio) Hardware Jobben' Association the menu card was a novelty. It was fastened with a hniniature padlock, and it was necessary use a key to ascertain what viands had been prepared for the least. ( In Cape Colony, South Africa, the native* are coming into citizenship so fast that the people have raised the ?roperty quail cations for votes from $125 to $375. and the voter must be able to write his name and address clearly. * ' The United States Senate is a great , place for chums, avers the Chicago News* . Record. Beck and Allison were such a pair, as were Don Cameron and Butler. .Vest and Plumb, Edmunds and Thurman. 'Another notable case of congressional 'Damon and Pythias ia that of Tom Heel and Bourke Cockran in the House. V __________ V ! There is no equal area on the face of |the globe ao well adapted to sherp husbandry in all its branches, maintains the (Farm, Field and Stockman, as the southern half of the United States, and n > equal ?\rea where it is less appreciate 1 tand improved. The climate i3 perfect, t>eing free from the extreme heat and drought of Australia, which often rots the wool and kills their sheep by the ) millions. , Some ambitious Englishman has been (figuring in the Toronto (Canada) Empire the additions that have been made to iBritish territory since 1835. They loot up as follows* In Asia, 278,700 square miles and 5,500,000 people (estimated); |n aoucn Airica, 1,(>1)3,205 square mile* and 14,329,000 people, iu Australasia, ,97,300 square miles and 158,000 people ?a total in the seven years ol 2,069,201 square miles and 19,987,000 people. 1 ======== i New York is the first city in the country to start an effort to provide artistic street decorations for a public celebration. In order to seeure worthy results, Perry Belmout,Chairnian of the Ait Committee for the Columbus celebration on October 12, has called to his aid as advisers the leading painters, sculptors, designers aud architects of the city. This is a distinct and impjrtaut advance in civilization, declares the Boston Transscript. The popular taste has been too 'long at the inercy of mere contractors. John Burns, the emineut English labor authority, says that uo man's services are worth more than $2500 a year. The St. James Gazette notes that an exception will have to be made in the case of opera tenors, as Jean do Reszke earns that much in a week. Recently he contributed one night's salary to the Erving Thomas memorial fund in the shape of a check tor !jS8U0. At three performances a week that amounts to the neat sum of $125,000 a year, more than the most fashionable physician or the most successful lawyer can hope to clear. For the last two generations, says the Gazette, famous singers have been paid the most enormous rates, yet none of them have transmitted any amount of inouey to the next generation. It is easy come, easy _ It has not been many years, muses the New Orleans Picayune, siuce the export grain trade was done chiefly, if not exclusively, through the port of New York. The Erie Canal created a waterway from Lake Erie to Now York, and so grain shipped in vessels from Western lake ports was transferred at Butlalo to canal boats, and so brought to market to the advantage of New York. But the day came when Canada built a ship canal aiound Niagara Falls, and so vessels were able to carry cargoes of grain direct from the iakes through the St. Lawrence Uiver to Europe without touching at New York at all. Than there came another day when grain wastloate-1 in great barges down the Mississippi River for shipment to Europe, and this was done so much more cheaply than can bo done by any New York route as that the American metropolis is becoming sensible of the disndvaut iges its trade is suffering and is casting about for a remedy that will restore itiancient prestige. But the remedy bids fair to be a most costly one. It is nothing less than the 4 proposed constriirtio i of locks around Niagara Falls on the American side, au I a ship canal from hike Ontario to the Hudson Kiver. The matter has been btought before Congress, and engineers have made surveys and estimates of the work required, and they place the cost at $100,000,001), which Congress will be asked to appropriate. The estimates call for i waterway for ships, of a depth of not less than twenty feet. That such a waterway will he constructed some day cannot be donate I, because it will become necessary. In case of a war with Canada all the through water routes would he in the hands of the enemy and out of our reach eithor for the pui poses of defense or of commerce. But its consummation is 11 S?'iV ;tnfr?ai>ce soon, THREE STATES' KRIKKN. Telegraphic Dispatches From Mauy Points of Interest. The Fields of Virginia, North and South Carolina Oatefully Cleaned For News. VIRGINIA. Miss Zoe Gay toil, the famous pedes liian, stopped a day in Chnrlott sville, on her way from New Y??i k to Sau Fran cisco. Spott Brown and Tom Dabncy (colored) have I cen arrested in ( 'hi tcrsrill'c for bin ninn the tobacco house aud horses of A. T. Moon. The case was worked up by a colored detective named Howe from ltich* moud. f A debtor in Madison countv turner! over as his only property 11 gold watch bearing the name of "Extra Hilly Smith" ami the dato 1830. Extra Hilly, who died not long since, was on?e the manager of a stage line.bctween Washington and points iu Virginia, but Inter Governor of tliut !?tate. Congressman, and Major General in the Confederate army. Extra Billy's watch, though it has run for at least sixty two years, still keeps good time. Colonel W. P. SmMi, chief clerk of the Virginia Direct Tax Commission and commissioner for the City of Hichinond and Henrico county has issued a circular letter to the several treasurers and commissioners distributing the district tax fund, in formiug them thut the amount to be paid to a claimant showing himself entitled uuder the law is only the net tax paid nud the amount noted as excess when any excess appears to have been collect- d . The ainouut noted as interest, penalties and costs arc not to be paid out, as they have not yet b en lefundcd to the State by the Federal Government. NOBTH CAROLINA. Aunt Wiuniu Finley ami aunt Nan Parks, both colored, of Wilkes county, are respectively 114 and 113 years old. At the Stats Pharmact utical Associa Iiou meeting at Italcigh they decided to meet next year at Winston II. 11. Chears, of Plymouth, was elected Prcsi dent. Auditor Rnndorliti Vi?q nom>i:ilod to succeed Mr. Uotislicll as Ids < hicf clerk T. Palmer Jermnn, Jr , now executive clerk to the Governor. Mr. Jcrman will he succeeded in the Governor's office by W. \V. Vass, Jr , of Rdeigb. The summary of the crop report for August is completed by the Department of Agriculture, and the showiug made is a bad one The per cent age of c&nditiou of cotton is given as 70, aud the per ccut. of damage as compared with the report a month ago Is given a* 24 j>?? <wut. ; o*>rn, condition 864; percent, of damage, 214; tobacco, conoition 8IJ; damage 20J. The condition of the other crops covered by the returns is as follows: Rice 85, turnips 92, peanuts 82$, sweet potatoes 90, late cabbage 90, late Irish potatoes 87, grapes 82, peaches 40, apples 52. Last year at this date the condition of corn was OH. cotton 79, tobacco 87, rice 16, peanuts 90. SOUTH CAROLINA. Tax returns from 25 counties show about the same amount of personal propel ty as la^t year. Philip Ilicks, aa escaped convict burgI r from thepententinry, waseaught near Charleston Wednesday. Green Rice, colored, 14 years old, was accidentally shot and killed in Uniou county by bis cousin, while they were playing with a gnu At Columbia, in thee unity courthouse Miss Addison, a niece of T. 8 Cavender, created quite a scene by slapping severely in the face Lawyer Oausket, who was trying to get possession of a little colored boy. The parents of the boy had put him ik. der the guardianship of Miss Ad disoo, and then wanted him back. The railroad commission in issuing its June report of the earnings of the roads of the State, ?? it marked the dose of the railroad year, also gnve a statement showing that the net decreasciu the total earnings for the twelve months, ending June 99, 1892, as compared with the loircspouding months of |8P(| an I 1891 to be the sum of $067,179 76 New Southern Enterprises. A glance at the list of new enterprises organized or established in the South during the past week, shows cout nucd activity. Among those mentioned by the Manufacturers' Record in its issue of August 12, the following are the more important: A $500,000 sugar planting anil manufacturing company at I'lmpie mine, La.; a $10,000 lumber company nt Arkansas C'lfy, Ark.; a $30,000 spoke manufacturing company at I'ninn City, Tcnn.; a 300,000 bushel grain elevator at Southport, La.; a $7,000 canning company at Memphis, Tcnn. ; a $10,000 cannery company at Sharon, Term. ; a $10,000 manufacturing company at Henderson, Ky.; a $10,000 water win ks com pany at Newnan, On.; a $"?,000 canning company nt Oanlis, Miss., a $3<0,oo0 barb wire and nail works company at Kanawha City, W. Va. ; two $tj,000,000 coal companies nt Beat taville, K y ; a $r>o, 000 refining company at Louisville, Ky. ; _ A4 AA A<IA Ji llll! ? ... .. , | J 1 , I ft tluu,u<ml (uhiiiihi^ i:uiii|i<iuj> in ijiiiiimore, Md. ; h $30,<'00cottonseed ??iI com pnny at Rockwall. Tex ; a $30,000 canning company at Barstow, Texas; a $20,000 steam laundry company at New Oilcans, La.; a $350,000 paper mill company at Louisville, Ky., and a $300,000 publishing company at Baltimore, Md The Democracy of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga .?The State Demon-it i< convention was called to order at noon In W. V. Atkinson, chairman of the State committee. Pleasant A. Stovnll was un .i iniously elected temporary chairman After completion of the temporary organ i/at'on, \V Y. Atkinson was elected imminent chairman by virtue of which lie continues x-oth in chahnnn of tie State committee for the next two years The following State tiiket was nomi u itcd for Governor, W .1 Nor hen foi See i tniy of Slate, G? n. Phil < ook for ('omptroller. Gen. \V. A 'Aright; lm Tn asuier, R. M Ifurdinan; for Coinini-sioner of Agricultuic It T Nesbitt, ami for Attorney General, T. M Tir?ell Atelectoral ticket pledged to Cleveland a <i Stevcnsou was also placed iu the Held. QUITE ABLE IN THEIR A6R. Connecticut Farmers of 60 mid 0 Who Can Still Make the Hay Fly. Hartford, Cosh.?A stranger, itro ling along Bloomfield avenue at Wind?< recently. saw an exhib tion of old-fasl ioncd having that surprised and amuse hint. Two hale and gallant old gentl men in a smooth open lot bv the roadsid were swinging the scythe like sixty, bt they were a good deal older than tha and the stranger was sure of it. Accosting a Windsor wayfarer, h pointed to the haVtield and inquired "Who are the smmt old men over then and how old are they?'' "Wall.'' replied the Windsor mar "thev are the boss liayers about hen One is Mr. Prentice of Court street, an he's $1 last March; and the other if hi neighbor, Mr. Langdon of Maple avehwn<nl liv nm Ol 'iHlut two muuttia II.,. it ? ?.? i.-? iiujl ?v y v i i nan. vuui cmj i ?IT"T IV VIII hay it as they u-ed let forty years agi but you kiu bank on it theie niu't p voting fellows 'too in I here that wauts t buckle outer a snath and foller 'em al day now,- look in' just as they do this inio u e. Yer hear me." As genuine old-style Connection "hayers" Messrs. Langdon and Prentio have quite a rcqutat ion all about Windsor they have the old-fashioned, easy swing ing style with the scythe, and tho sw ing ing, gliding, swift gait that modeti mowers know is monstrous hard to kee up with all d ?y. The old men arc no only neighbors, but life long friends, am i hey were mowing the Frisbie lot ii Windsor at the time the stranger saw ther on account of a mutual resolution to "tr lie old scythe'' and see whether they hai forgotten the way to swing it yet. There's nothing very wonderful, how ev. r, about rugged old fellows doin; men's work all day ou Connecticut fann< I h re arc lots of them in the Land o Steady llabits. Tliero are many octogeu aiiuis and a few nonogemuians who Ih bor all day all the year around, and ther arc otlleis just to vigorous, whom, how uu i, oni y me I'AiarutHJi i?i nit' uaviu: season hi ing tu the front Among Conner ticut toiler*. There is Ephraiyr Newell of Ellington, iu lofty Tollnud count\ for instance, who became 85 years olt one day icccntly, nnd celebrated th event by taking down the old Newel cmdle nnd cradling just one acre of stou rye in the forcuoon of the day. 8 i one of his neighbors, speaking of the ol man's vigor: "Why. henotonlvcut th cleanest elm of all the men who worke with liiin in tint held, but he cradb right aroun l men who arc not more tin ouc half his age. It was a boiliu hot day, too '* It is n fact tint the best rye cradler i New Loudon county is a man over ? youru oltl, untl b? i? m u u low, 0 feet 2 inches tall, and with tl full, plump mu i lcs of a man of 40 1 the same county is Francis Brown, f Norwich, who is 80 years old, nnd who week ago cradled an acre of rye on li farm near that eity. (Iillicit (.'handlit of Putnam, Windham county, recent I cclelnuted the eightieth anniversary c his birthday, and the day before that in cidcut lie shingled ouc roof of his liou# alone. Then there is Deacon Benjami Brown, of Brooklyn village, in the satr county, who. his neighbors think, rather too frisky; he is 85 years old, an his friends say he is a regulnr boy ye! I'e takes chancer that would appall son of the modern dudes of 18 or 20. So I jut iu.i away with the other day, drivm in his usual reckless style, and got "hoi out," the Brooklyn folks put it. He fe on a heap of stones, and was bruise about his side and shoulders Most me would have been done up by the acc dent, but the Deacon wa3 at work nboi his faun a day or two later. But old Mr. Lyman Tulles, of Tolh Station, Terryville, is perhaps the niftier old boy in the Slate. He is over 5 yenis old and was bavin' it every d? this wick in the hot open fields of h farm, where the temperature over-toppe the number of his years by more than 1 degree-. He is strong and tough as so leather, and steps about as briskly as boy. At Plainville is Michael Cullei who lidos a bicycle hkethc wind, but I is young, ? ' U'sr. being only 71. I goes to and from his business daily c his wheel, an I oidiiiary riders are n< anxious to tackle him for a inuningbou In the same town is Mis. William Nei ton, who rides a horse daily, and h hardihood and ambition are worth no rng, because she is 78. At the village South Killingly is Mi. Schuyler, 83, wl has got the measles, and the joke of it he has all there are iu Connection Therefore he would like to know how 1 got them. He's got 'em mild, howeve Judge Joseph J- Davis Dead. Km.kioh, N. C. ? Associate Justi Joseph J. Davis, of the Supreme Coui died Monday night at his home at Lou burg. The flags on the capital wt half masted. The entrance to the 8 preine Court building, the door to t court room and the chair in which Jud Davis sat were diapcd in mourning, fl death was not unexpected. For two three years, since his first attack of ji ralysis, he h ut been very feeble and hi been able to do very little work. Durii the two last terms lie was not on t bench. Six weeks ago he was takeu Morchead City in the hope that the i would benefit him, but retmned unit prove !. He was greatly esteemed, a? gai' int captain in Gen. Scales' biigad as the representative live years of tl coiigiessiuiial distort and as a p.slice tlie comt since 188(? His funeral w held Tuesday morning at Lonisbuig, ai will be ittinded by the inembe s ai ofliccis af the omit and several Sta ollit IT" A Bridegroom'# Grief. Chattanooga, Tknn. ? (Saturday Oe McCallie, a young white boy, well co nected, was married, and inside of t hours after his marriage he was arrest for stealing the suit of clothes in whi he was married. He protests innocent although he was caught with the suit o Snake Cooked With Cabbage. Lrxington, Kv. J. II. Mcfntin family of four ano the colored c~>ok, Btiena Vista, ate otbb.v e for dinner ai died shoitlv aftervards. Upon inves ? grdion, it wa<; l.>u*?d that a poisono snake had been cooked with the cabbag ALLIAIIC?_AtGURS. ? The Preaeit, Part and Future of the F. A. Jr l. U. I- Sundry Hapyenings, An Alliamoe w Poem, and Other Mutters I ?f Interest. 0 President Laucks wm celled home in 'c South Dakota Friday from Washington, II D. C., by a telegram convening the sad 1 news of the death of hi* oldest son. It Is needless ta say that in this their hour 16 of distress, Brother Loucks and family I: have the sincere sympathy of the frater' nity everywhere. ****** ? roLK'e vrojRK juarr BBorm. U itt.? srMwaas, was* vnanu. it When sloka tha wind ft? ksavsa For li tfc* ecS?tn?SSn4*r * We ll hrnr the K>ng. I, That right again alkali triumph. Thatjuntlcf shall ho <lon?\ r> And then will Hound the aeraph. 11 Tl? Polk'a work Jnat begun. We'll I late a long In silence F.nraptured. HI led with F,/. With Itatod breath and allllnaaa. As stand* a tluild boy; > We'll catch It to the echo. p As echo will prolong Hejrond the mighty aha<low. ; Ne'er stirred by human song; And angola In the chortu Will cry aloud, "well <inae?" Ami bright will be Ibe glories Of Polk'a work Just la-gun. Tla Ood thai bldea the Alston |> From mortal eyea so far. And laughs at human wisdom That tnlnka to know a star; | Rut He la Ood, our Father, And hears his chtUlren cry. II In mercy tries to h ad them ,, When for the right the* try; 11 Though be the elrort humble, \ In Ignorance begun. Still grand will he the renting l< Of Polk's work Just begun. ****** Reporter (Kansas) sizes conditions tip !' carefully in this way. Puck once had a 1 picture of a kiug, a bishop, a sold er and 'I a laborer. The kiug with outstretched ' scuptro, said "I rule all;" the priest with i- his prayer Itook said: 'T pray for all; * < the soldier with liis rifle said: "I fight for all," aud the laborer, in the midst of all I the different kinds of tools and miieh'n ery, said; "I pay for all." I * *** Good land Republic (Kansas) lets on i the light: Manager Frick. of the C r ' negio iron mills, has an income derived from that institution of $2,000,000 ani' uuallv. The entire pay roll of 0,800 d workman only amounts to $2,400,000 aud nually. It would 6cem that this condiii' tien of affairs would jubtify a cut of " wages. The avtmgc wages of the work d men are $52 a mouth, while the manager o makes $100,006,60| in the same period, g ****** Knicdits of Labor Journal fP*nn?wl ? vania) says: The 12,304 business failures '< in the United States last year?an increase i?< 7f 1 1 tt'Yi?arc pot so much an it' indication of FXt'CpiiunnT Mriugvacy iu ii the money market as of the tendency to f ward cone* nt rat ion in commercial matters, a The big capitalists are eating up tlic is smaller ones, and, whether the times arc r. good or bad, it is becoming increasingly y difficult for tlie small trader or manuif facturer to exist. Production and diatri button ur?j getting into fewer hands, and e it is for those who suffer by the process u to say whether they wish their lot and >e that of their childicn to be the condition is of wage-slaves to a handful of plutocrats d or partners in a national system of in t. (biatrial organization There is no altertc native. te ? ,g Olay King's Sentence Commuted. re Mkmpiiih, Tknn.?Governor Buchanan " iu Nashville commuted to imprisoipent d for life the sentence of Colonel II. Clay :a King, who was to have been hanged i- Friday for the murder of David II -if Poston on March 15th last on a public street iu this city. ?R UnuRunl preesure was brought to bear Rt upon the Governor during the past few 0 days. Petitions signed by thousands iy from Tennessee auu Kentucky reached 's the Chief Executive. Delegations from d military and civic societies besieged him b and the wife and daughter of the con le deinned man, and the wives and daugh ? ters of other prominent citizens made personal appeals. Senator Harris and >c other lending politicians made several 1? calls upon him, and finally succeeded In securing the desired commutation, ot The prisoner heard the news with but h little interest. He bad been indulging in stimulants of late and seemed indiffcr ft ent to what was transpiring. The people 't- of Memphis arc very indignant over the of action of the Governor. A plan was io funned to lynch Col. King, but he was is spirited away to Nashville by the Sheriff it. Gov. Bin hanan was burned in effigy, he T* The Cotton Crop. Those ol tlie Southern cotton planters who, a half year ago, were anxious to ' 0 brintr about a ere aural reduction of the f1' cotton product, in order to raise the price ls" of the staple in the market, have seen 10 their object gained in an unpleasant way through the destructive forces of nature. The extent of the reduction is shown in the reports of the Department of Agriculture containing the facts gather* d in or nil the cotton-growing States. -The pro,H. duct hn? been reduced by heavy floods in some parts of the South, by an excessive ininfull or weather otherwise unfavorable " in many parts, and by other causes not V under the control of the planters There nr were fears last spring that cotton would 111 be an unprofitable crop this year, but [ * those fears have been dispelled by agen ' cies that have brought grief to many m, planters. of ^ i('I Centennial ot Buncombe. nd Ashrvim.k, N. C.?Buncombe is a ite hundred ycais old and people have been celebrating the centennial in great shape. The Legislature in 1792 established the county by cutting off from Burke and n Rutherford the whole western section of the Htate, comprising what is now Macon, n Yancey, Henderson, Madison, Jackson, Clay, Transj Ivauia, Swain and Graham The celebration was addressed by ^ Attorney General Davidson, a native of Buncombe, Hon Kemp P. Rattle, Col. V. 8. Lusk, ifon. R B. Vance, Col. J. D. Cameron and Col. A T. Davidson. There was a trades display in the after e's noon, shewing the resources of the of county. ?d In the tournament J. B. Sevier, who ti- rode at Charlotte, won first pii/.e. Several us hundred Confederate votei ans went into ;e. camp for threo days. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Pure butter may contain ten per cent, of water. A lead mine whioh yields almost pure lead has been discovered at Turner, Me. Morgan County, Missouri, it is said, furnishes the best Are-brick clay iu the world. Professor Calvin, of the State University has been chosen as Iowa's State Geologist to conduct a new survey. Tests recently made at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., show that aluminium has no very marked influence upon the magneto conductivity of cast iron, but slightly decreases its permeability. The strawberrgjpl&nt soomi to poshes* an amount of Intelligence. It will iuvarisblv run its suoota in the direction of ground whioh oonUina a maximum amount of nutriment, aud will never glOW It* rUUQUIv k?rriiit rvj? . andj spot. There are in southwestern Missouri many opeoiugs in the earth, which are nailed "blow hole**' and "cold caves," from whioh issues a cold blast of aiv. A local theory is that the temj>erature of these places is reduced by the enormous deposit of atnmouia, cause* 1 by the presence of bats. Pieces of iron which can bo set up in the form of a rudimentary steam engine were recently found, together with a Latin treatise on steam as a force, in au iron chest, dug up near Helsingfor*. This extraordinary archnological llud is supposed to date from the first half of the twelfth century. Shooting-stars aro small bodlos weighing at most a few pounds and consisting mainly of irou aud carbon. They traverse space in swarms aud also revolve around the sun in long olliptical courses liko comets. Their brightness is duo to heat engendered by the energy of their motion. Their speed is enormous, being nearly twice as groat as the speed of the earth on its orbit. The installation of n 4000-ton hydraulic press in the 8t. Jacques iron works at Mootlueon, Franco, serves to mark the progress of an iuaovatiou in forging works. The substitution of hydraulic presses for powerful steain hammers for the forging of large masses of steel has for some time been steadily on the increase. It is found that the work of tho press is more regular, homogeneous and rapid, and that the press costs much less to install than the steam hammer. It is said that ravens often reach the ago of a hundred years. Ducks and cuckoos are likewise very long lived. I whUI- ?' ~ mmmw *ilv*UCSd | -Wo at liberty, do not exceed twentyfive years in the confinement of a cuge. It is not rare to soo domestic cocks of (iftoon years; and with care they reach twenty. The limit of tho existence of pigeons is ten years; the smallest species live from eight to eighteen years. Nightingales will not endure more than tun years of captivity. Canurios reared in a cage live twelve or fifteen yoars, but in their native islands they reach au age of several dozen years. Ohio Extension of Norfolk AWestern. Huntingdon, W. Va.?It is announced that the great Norfolk & Western Ohio river extension will be completed October 1st, when through trainB will be run from Norfolk Va , to Columbus O., ..-.J t Tl\.> nvlnnainn rlinu tlii'Aiwrl. HUUVIIIV-O^". * ....... the wildest part of the State for over 200 miles, and strikes the Ohio river at Kanawha, W. Va. This country is richer in natursl wealth than any other part of West Vir ginia, coal, iron aud timber being found in abundance. There are 20 tunnels in this extension. This road passes through the homes of the Hatflelds, the notorious outlaws. The Five Money Commissioners, Washington, D. C.?'l'ho names of the five commissioners who arc to represent the United States at the coming international monet try conference are officially announced. They a/e: Bcnutoi Wm. B. All > ), of Iowa; Senator John I'. Jones, of Nevada; Congressman Jits. B. MeCreary, of Kentucky; Kx Comptroller H. W. Cannon, of New York, and Gen. Francis A. Walker, of Massachusetts. With the exception of Mr. MeCreary, thoso names have all been among those discussed for the appointment The See Oiw<>? Up lie jjend. cli xhi.rston, S. C.?The hotly of Nft polcon Lndson, one of the eiyht negroes who were drowned, w?h washed iishore oil Sullivan's Island. The inoiith and cars were potially Jestrojed by fishc*, otheiwisc the hotly was in a cr?ro?J state ?>1 preservation. This is the tilth ho.ly ic covered. Parties were out drawing the bottom of the harbor, hut to no clfoct; all they obtained was a pair of pants with 90 cents in the pocket. A Committee With "Barls'* of Money. Nrw Yohk, N. Y.?The adviaoty committee of the Republican national committee is said to have been practical ly decided upon. Amoog those selected, it is said, nie IJ F. Joins, of Pittsburg; Hamilton Dis'.on, of Philadelphia; Nilson W. Aldrich. "Rhode Island; Phile tus Sawyer, o( Wisconsin, and (leo. M. Pullman, of Illionis. All rive men sic immensely wealthy People's Party in Georgia. Havannah, Ga. ?W. It. Kemp. of Kmanual county. was nominate ! f,M v' m> gross l?y the People's party of the liiM eongicssional district. The ItipohlKniiare tiying to form a coali<ini iviih the Third party. There whs one negio delegate in flic convention. The ti a?ury Department tins decided that a loieigner who makes a contract in this country to work here and then return 'o his own country lannot come .. , u The summer exodus has left only oi>? cabinet officer at Washington to repreaent the power and dignity of this great gov erorueut. THE MECCA PILGRI >TE IMPOSING ANNUAL OBBB OP THI MOHAMMBDAN WO HokIm of Pil(rlm?nn Their GtK the "Holy City" ?Soenee o^jy dftV (niton nnd l>e?th. THE pilgrimage to Mecca 1 iicruni erory year in tto l)e\t month which the 1%. rnedaur call Kamadam la,Olli rehgioua as well as a anuitarj ( view,one of the problems with wh . civilized world will eventually KOlUCro< deal. Every year it adda new fuel wlfanaticism t|iat seeks by the conq> 9 *i.A :..i?: t A A_i av -A tuv iiiuuiur *ii uiu rvinc-nn conun]S CIC. maintain the slave trade, and menus of infection by which is df QUOt1 nated that most deadly of epipLJ? < scourges, the cholora. The failt* all parts of the Miilij?iifind>a wgrjfUXJ. tain it,and the two pTTTinipaT^uirt) . rulers?tho Khedive of Egypt ni-*^* ? , Sultan of Turkey?lend it counbyf^^J in order to lunintnin tbcir nuthorit their subjects and their moral supilOc. lit among the followers of the prop- ? general. Tho Khedive sends am" Gill V with im|k>sing ceremony, a coiihoQ>| ~ ^ carpet, and the Sultan a cpian ' 7 valuable presents, accompauiod 111 f)0 t mngniticont cortege. 1 Access to the holy city is oasioi In former times. Mecca is six*, miles from Joddah on the Itcd No , is most easily approached by this IGI' ? 'Hie Mohauimcdnus of Morocco, Mrd's i I unisin, I rtpoli nud the north of go to Jeddah by steamer when th> alford it, or find their way to tl M , Nea by caravan. Tlioso from tho* " of the Sahara, from tho Soudau, interior of Africa follow generab caravan routes to Suakint, Massow-^ other ports on tho western shore o~^ i~\ Hod Nea, whence they cross to J* in dhows. The Mohammedans 15 India come by the French, Engli German steamers that connect with the far East, bringing the gerl L' tho cholera in tlioir filthy gnrnL JL.J J Tlieraaro four other principal routi sides that of Jeddah, which am en overland. These lead from Yam Southwestern Arabia, Iroui Ncjd i Persian Gulf, from Persia and Iror uorth of Syria. The Persiau route at to tho north of Nejd. The gifts ohyoyy.j Sultan start from Damascus and south through Palestine into Ai wncro mo caravan nas tue proteciH'"^"?> several subsidized tribes. To this cai straw are generally joiuod the Kurds, Tnecd Albanians and Syrians. The V caravan set9 out from the city of S The pilgrims of means travel f f I I > * ?" ml art wall IUSIl I for the journey, but the,j are aV J [ with the caravans a great number of sons in such a stair of destitution they are obliged 10 live entirely bv i?ir:i(i giveu by their fellow travelers with Lj j^.. ( or less willingness while their own s ^ lust. Theso poor wretches are the fanatic boliovcra. vou under the * favorable circumstances their bones s I the desert for the entire length ol route. An unbeliever who had audacity to unite himself to acarj|..j s would be detected and assassinated * before reaching Mecca, unless like ton, he weie thoroughly acquainted tXT the language of some Mohaiuin*" country and with Mohammedan cusr and religious rites. When the multitt? brought by all these caravans have fc* 1 verged at Mccca.acity badly provisioi. whose water, naturally bad, is by the presence of such fllty hordes r jectod to no sanitary regulations, wl the heat during tho It rnndam inout I always intolerable, the misery is it* scribable and the mortality excos|-| ti cvjn in seasons considero I hcaltli II When the cholera prevails Mecca is h[ j J ply a charue! house, sad what passe * only known to the Christian world[jp tho chance reports of more intellig^ pilgrims which find their way into 'COti European papers. .LIN When all tho ntos and ceremonies aotod of every faithful pilgrim h piCl been conscientiously performed at i , holy city those who have not s \ cumbed to boat, fatigue or disease t>- d. * their faces homeward, carrying w them usually the gcrinsof somoslisagn . able or dangerous disorder, and fSl-H variably i.i their hearts a more ferocionm hatred of the iathlcl. la Persia th fanaticism finds vent in revolts dircctt,^ against the Shah, who is accused ? i>ria% roo favorable to the Christians, Turkey in a ^cueral opposition to foreiy influence, in Algeria in threatened iP surrccfion against the authority of tl) ]j French, in the Soudan in the insij- _ ten ?nco of tlie slave trade. It is on thl I traliic that Christianity and Mohar*--"m danism will fin illy have to join issutj.jj It is only Mohammedanism that inaii tains slavery. Its strongholds are Pt Morocco and Arabic, to supply wbo^tlt haicms Tippu Til) and other traders o Arab descent, or natives converted b the Mohammedan invasion, make thoi rar/.tas and decimate the African triboa Tlliu .....wllnii .O iol..rnu) r /.rwO.-a Vi problems arising from the relations og Christianity to the followers of liamm* I much mere ?lilticultof solutionis The .Mecca pilgrimage bids fair to pla its part this year as usual in sprcadin, the cholera, which has ap[>eare<) in violen epidemic form in several localities ii"""" India **id Central Asia.?Han FrancisoChronicle. ^ I low to Store Table Stiver. Silversmiths no w counsel their patron* I to keep fine table silver in Canton flan-"* nel rather than in wool. The explanation is that the woolen flannels hithertof commonly employed for this purposedare treated, in the course of their production, with sulphur, and enough of the latter clings to the flannel to tarnish the metal when it is kept in flannel bags. ?Boston Transcript. "I felt so choap during the ceremony,"* confessed the bride to her dearest friend. "Why, my dear?" "Because pa gave rae swav."~~Dfttrait Free Press. R SALE. H ><ls to be closed out in -s, anil we have marked them. Cannot afford season. In some lines e-half. Summer ClothGloods, such as Figured d Robes, Rlack Plaid te Plaid and Striped , all to go at a price, e prices on muclu but )f what we have done. ** 1 "^plux-iuiumL . ut yard. ^ Go. a yard. 1.00 to $5.00, tor $1.50. lor 50c. o 08c. for 25c. ?st and best assorted ice men's Sunday shoo $1.25 to $1.50, A lot vnd Slippers must be trouble to show goods. Sl'ECTFULLY, Y & BELK. 1 . R SALE. a great reduction, including y, Bedford Cords, Silk FoulScersuckers etc. T.ndies Oxllats at your own prices, the money to lay in our JOCK. ~4 "o diat good goods for short >ur patrons, N E "It Y and prices. McLURE, Ag't. >y UYKRW , OF xOODS. ER BEFORE. AND Ki: CONVINCEDIs and Trimmings, also IERY. to in all lines. (I) SHOES. di as Ginghams, Prints, cs, we are headquarters. / house in South Caro show von one of the stocks ever brought to 1;s, and we have bought V ' aid pan. JJNERY! Minings arc lull in all up to any pocket book it received. Sparks. if >1 <*u. ry Goods iats, and jail on ns I bo change URCELL. J ^ J ,.1