Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* THE WEEKLY-flfil O110H TL Devoted to Ayrioulhtrt, Horiieultmre, Dtmmtie Eooaomytjflm> MUratare, PoUUm and tMt GurrtrU Jitwt of the Day. . X' ' " " ' ,"r 1 """ 1 ''^ '"' " - - - > ? VOL. XXIII.--NEW SERIES. UNION IT., SOTT'TliTTKM^ 19, 18?>2. "" At th? dinner <r!*mi thn ntlmr Manloo ! ?? ?? ~? ? 1 bj the Cleveland (Ohio) Hardware Jobben' Association the menu card wai a novelty. It waa fastened with a kniniature padlock, and it was necessary nee a key to aaoertain what vianda had been prepared for the least. I In Cape Colony, South Africa, the native* are coming into citizenship so fast that the people have raised the property qua locations for votes from $125 to $375, and the voter must bs able to write his name and address clearly. * '. The United States Senate is a great 4 place for chums, aven the Chicago News* WL- Bpcord. Beck and Allison wero such a BP pair, as were Don Cameron and Butler, jVest and Plumb, Edmunds and Thurman. "Another notable case of congressional Damon and Pythias is that of Tom Reed ana nourke Cockran in the House. V i __ f ~ ! There is no equal ares on the (ace of jthe globe no well adapted to sherp husbandry in all its branches, maintains tho (Farm, Field and Stockman, as the south* era half of the United States, and no i?qual area where it is less appreciated tand improved. The climate is 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 ithe additions that have been made to iBritish territory since 1885. They loot up as follows- In Asia, 278,700 square miles and 5,500,000 people (estimated); in South Africa, 1,693,205 square miles and 14,329,000 people; in Australasia, ',*97,300 square miles and 158,000 people ?a total in the seven years of 2,069,20J jsquare miles and 19,987,000 people. Now 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, Perrs Rfllmnnt.f!h?irm?n nf tha A.? mittee for the Columbus celebration on October 12, has called to his aid as advisers the leading painters, sculptors, designers and architects of'the city. This is a uwiiucl aud iuipjrUut advance in civilization, declares the Boston Trans;script. The popular tasto has been too (long at the mercy of mere contractors. John Burns, the eminent English labor authority, says that no man's services are worth more than f2500 a year. Tho 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 Erring Thomas memorial fund in the shape of a check tor $800. At three performances a week that amounts to the neat sunn of 9125,000 a year, more than the most fashionable physician or the most successful lawyer can hope to clear. For the last two generations, says the G&sette, famous singers hare been paid the most enormous rates, yet none of them hart transmitted any amount of money to the next generation. It is easy come, easy It has not been many years, muses the New Orleans Picayune, sluce 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 New York, and so grain shipped in vessels from Western lake ports was transferred at Buffalo to canal boats, aud so brought to market to the advantage of New York. But the day came when Canada built a ship canal around Niagara Falls, and so vessels were able to carry cargoes o! grain direct from the lakes through the 8t. Lawrence itiver to Europe without touchlug at New York at all. Thao there came another day when grain was doatcl in great barges down the Mississippi Hirer for shipment to Europe, and this was done so much more cheaply than can be done by auy New York route as that the American metropolis is becoming sensible of the disadvantages it* trade is suffering and is casting about fur a remedy that will restore it) ancient prestige. But the remedy bids fair to be a most costly one. It is nothing less thao the proposea construct ioi or locks around Niagara Falla oo the American aide, and a ship canal from Lake Ontario to the Hudaon Hirer. The matter haa beeu / brought before Congress, and engineer* hare made aurreya and estimates of the work required, nod they place the coat at $100,000,000, which Congress will be asked to appropriate. The estimate* oall for a waterway for ships, of a depth of not less than twenty feet. That such a waterway will be constructed some day cannot be doubted, because it will become necesmry. in case of a war with (Jansda all the throu/h water route* would be in the hand* of the enemy and out ot our reach either foi > the purpose* of defense or of commerce But its consummation is o di|ws|aai IOOB. ? rfc-' THKKE STATES' BKIEES. Telegraphic Dispatches From Mauy Points of Interest. The Fields of Virginia, North and South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For News. VIRGINIA. Miss Zoo Gay ton, the famous pedestrian, stopped a day in Charlott sville, on her way from New York to San Fran ciaco. Spott Brown and Tom Dahnoy (colored) have l cen arrested in Cnitcraviilc for burning the tobacco house and horses of A. T. Moon. The case was worked up by a colored doiectivc named Rowc from Huhmond. f A debtor in Madison county turned over as his only property a sold, watch Imori n rv tKn namn /?f Will Cmilh** and the dato 1830. Extra Billy, who died not long since, was nine the manager of a stage line^betwcen Washington and points in Virginia, but later Governor of that Btate, 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. Smi'h, chief clerk of the Virginia Direct Tax Commission and commissioner for the City of Richmond and Henrico county has issued a circular letter to tho several treasurers and commissioners distributing the district tax fund, in forming them that the amount to be paid to a claimant showing himself entitled under the law is ouly the net tax paid and the amount noted as excess when any excess appears to have been collect- d . The amount noted as interest, penalties and costs are not to be paid out, as they have not yet b en refunded to the State by the Federal Government. HOB-TH CAROLINA. Aunt Wiuniu Finley and nunt Nan Parks, both colored, of Wilkes county, nre respectively 114 and 113 years old. At the Stat s Pharmaceutical Associa tion meeting at Raleigh they decided to meet next year at Winston H. R. Chears, of Plymouth, was elected Presi dent. Auditor 8anderlin has appointed to succeed Mr. Boushell as his < hicf clerk T. Fahnur Jormnn, Jr., now executive clerk to the Governor. Mr. Jcrman will be succeeded in the Governor's offico by W. W. Vass, Jr , of Rilcigh. The summary cf the crop report for August in completed by the Department of Agriculture, and the showing made is a bad one. The per centage of ccrDditiou of cotton is given as 70, and the per cent, of damage as compared with the report a month ago is given as 24 per cent.; corn, condition 86}; percent, of damage, 21$; tobacco, condition 84$; damage 20$. The condition of the other crops covered by the returns is as follows: Rice 85, turnips 92, pcauuts 82$, sweet potatoes 90, late cabbage 0?, late Irish potatoes 87, grapes 82, peaches 46, apples 02. hast year at this date the coudition of coru was 91|. cotton 73, tobacco 87, rice I 16, peanuts 90. SOUTH CAROLINA. Tax returns from 25 counties show shout the same amount of personal property as last year. Philip Hicks, an escaped convict burgI >r from the pententiary, was caught near Charlestou Wednesday. Green Rice, colored, 14 years old, was accidentally shot and killed in Union county by his cousin, whilo they were playing with a gun At Columbia, in thee iunty courthouse Miss Addison, a niece of T. 8 Cavender, created ouite ascent* l?v alnnnin? o?tr?p?iu in the face Lawyer jfhuisket, who whs trying to get possession of n little colored ; boy. The parents of the boy had put ( him iv der the guardianship of Miss Ad dison, and thou wanted him back. The railroHd commission in issuing its June report of the earnings of the roads of the State, as it marked the close of the railroad year, also gave a statement showing that the net decrease in the total earnings for the twelve months, ending June 30, 1803, as compared with the corresponding months of 1890 an 1 1891 to be the sum of $007,173 70 New Southern Enterprises. A glance at the list of new enterprises organized or established in the 8outh during the past week, shows continued activity. Among those mentioned by the Manufacturers' Record in its issue of August 13, the following are the more important: A $500,000 sugar planting ana manufacturing company at Plaquemine, La.; a $10,000 lumber company at Arkansas uuy, ArK.; a fju.unu cpoKe manufacturing company at Union City, Teno.; a 800,000 bushel grain elevator at South port, La.; a $7,000 canning company at Memphis, Tenn. ; a $10,000 cannery company at Sharon, Tenn. ; a $10,000 manufacturing company at Henderson, Ky.; a $10,000 water works com pany at Newnan, Oa.; a $5,000 canning company at Gardis, Miss.; a $3''0,000 barb wire and nail works company at Kanawha City, W. Vn.; two $2,000,000 coal companies at Beattsville, Ky ; a $50, 000 refining company at Louisville, Ky.; a $100,000 distilling company at Baltimore, Md. ; a $80,000cottonseed oil com pany at Rockwall. Tex -, a $80,000 canning company at Barstow, Texas ; a $20,000 steam laundry company at New Orleans, La.; a $800,000 paper mill company at Louisville, Ky., and a $800,000 publishing company at Baltimore, Md. The Democracy of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.?The State Democratic convention was called to order at noon by W. Y. Atkinson, chairman of the State committee. Pleasant A. Stovall wasun a uiiouttiy eieciea temporary cnairman After completion of the temporary orgnnizat'oo, W. Y. Atkinson was elected | perm meat chairman by virtue of which no continues n-ofhcio chaiimnn of the Ht*?? committee for the next two years. The following State ticket was nomi uated: For Governor, W. J. Nor hen : for Sec ctary of State, Gen. Phil Took . for Comptroller, Oen. W. A Wright; foi 1 Treaauier, R. M Hurdman; for Commit* r aioner of Agriculture K. T Nesbitt, and for Attorney General, T. M Terrell. An electoral ticket pledged to Cleveland a d * Stevenaou wm alao placed in the field, # ft a - QUITE ABLE IN THEIR AGE. Connecticut Farmers of 80 and 00 Who Can Still Make the Hay Fly. Hartford, Conn.?A stranger, strolling along Bloomfiuld avenue at Windsor rccvntly, saw an cxliib tion of old-fashioned haying that surprised and amused him. Two hale and gallant old gentle uien in a smooth open lot by the roadside were swinging the scythe like sixty, but they were a good deal older than that and the stranger was sure of it. Accosting a Windsor wayfarer, he puintcd to the haj-ticld and inquired: "Who are the email old men over there and how old are they?'" "Wall.*' replied the Windsor man, "they are tho boss haycrs about here One is Mr. Prentice of Court street, and lie's 84 last March; Hnd the other is his neighbor, Mr. Langdon of Maple avenue, -?ud In. mw OS! Unnt" UIU uiuutbJ) SgW " Ifny it yet? Wall. Course they kern't hay it as they used ler forty years ago. but you kin bank on it there aiu't no voting fellows 'round here that wants to buckle outer a snath and fuller 'em all day novT; lookin* just as they do this mio u e. Yer hear me." As genuine old-style Connecticut "hayers" Messrs. Lnngdon anil Prentice have quite a requtation all about Windsor; they have the old-fashioned, easy swing ing style with the scythe, and tho swing ing, gliding, swift, gait that modern mowers know is monstrous hard to keep .... ...ii -i ? - -* I' mm mm.ijr. mc oia men are no only neighbors, but life-long friends, and 11 ley were mowing the Frisbie lot in Windsor at the time the stranger saw them on account of a mutual resolution to "try the old scythe'' and see whether thoy had forgotten the way to swing it yet. There's nothing very wonderful, howev? r, about rugged old fellows doing men's work all day on Connecticut farms 'I h re are lots of them in the Land ol Steady Habits. Thtre arc many octogan arUns and a few nonogenarians who labor all dny nil the year around, and there are others just hs vigorous, whom, however, only the exigcncio of the baying season bring to the front among Conner ticut toilers. There is Ephraim Newell of Ellington, iu lofty Tolland county for instance, who became 85 years old one day lercntly, and celebrated the event by taking down the old Newrl cradle and craduug just one acre of 6toui rye in the forenoon of the day. 8 id one of liis neighbors, speaking of the old man's vigor: "Why, lie not only cut the clcauest clip of all the men who workeo with him iu that field, but he cradh d right around men who are not more th-in one half his age. It was a boiling hot day, too " It is a fact that the best rye cradler in New London county is a man over 8(; yours old, and ho is as straight as an a> row, 0 feet 2 inches tall, and with the full, plump muscles of a man of 40. In the same county is Francis Brown, of Norwich, who is 80 years old, and who a week ago cradled nn acre of rye on his funn near that city. Gilbert Chandler, of Putnam, Windham county, recently celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birthday, aud the day before that incident he shingled one roof of his homo aloue. Then there is Deacon Benjamin Brown, of Brooklyn village, in the same county, who, his neighbors think, is rather too frisky; he is 85 years old, and his friends say he is a regular boy yet. lie takeschancei that would appall some of the modern dudes of 18 or 20. So he got ruj away with the other day, driving in his usual reckless style, and got "hove out," the Brooklyn folks put it. He fell on a heap of stones, and was bruised about his side and shoulders Most men would have been done up by the accident, but the Deacon was at work about his farm a day or two later. But old Mr. Lyman To!le9, of Tolles Station, Terryville, is perhaps the niftiest old boy in the State. He is over 90 years old. and was hay in' it every day this week in the hot open fields of his farm, where the temperature over-topped the number of hi9 years by more than 10 dfiOTPPri. Hf> i* fit i nner our) nnrrh oo aaln o * *v"*" "" M,/,v leather, and steps about as briskly ss a boy. At Plainville is Mhhael Culleo, who rides a bicycle like the wind, but he is young, of cou'sc, being only 71. He goes to and from his business daily on nis wheel, and ordinary riders are not anxious to tackle him for u running bout. In the same town is Mis. William Newton, who rides a horse daily, and her hardihood and ambition are worth notrng, because she is 78. At the village of South Killiogly is Mr. Schuyler, 83, who has got the measles, and the joke of it is he has all there are in Connecticut. Therefore he would like to know how he got them. He's got 'em mild, however. Judge Joseph J. Davie Dead. Raleigh, N. C.?Associate Justice Joseph J. Davis, of the Supreme Court, died Monday night at his home at Louisburg. The flags on the capital were half masted. The entrance to the Supreme Court building, the door to the court room and the chair in which Judgo Davis sat were draped in mourning. His death was not unexpected. For two or three years, since bis first attack of pa ralysia, he had been very feeble and had been able to do very little work. During the two last terms he was not on the bench. Hix weeks ago he was taken to Morehcad City in the hope that the air would benefit him, but returned unimproved. He was gicntly esteemed, ss a gallant captain in Ocn, Scales' biigade, as the representative five years of this congressional district and as a justice of the court since 1886. (lis funeral was held Tuesday morning at Lonisburg, and will be attended by the mem be s and officers of the court and several State officers ^ A Bridegroom'* Brief. Chattahoooa, Tuhb.?Saturday Geo. McCallie, a young white bev, well connected, waa married, and inaide of ten | noun alter ms marriage He waa arretted for stealing the suit of clothee in which he wae married. He preteeta innocence, although he waa caught with the auit on Bnake Cooked With Cabbage. Lrx i no ton, Ky.-J. H. Mclntire'a family of four ano the colored c^ok, of Buena Vista, aU otbba} e for dinner and died shortly aftervards. Upon inreetigation, it was louwd that a poisonous snake been cooked with the oebbaft. ALLIANCE AtJGURS. The Present, Pert and Future of the P. A &I.U. o Sundry Happenings, An Alliance 1< Poem, apd Other Matters ?f Interest. f f v President Lfucks was called home in South Dakota Friday from Washington, D. G\, by a telegram conveying the sad c news of the rieath of his oldest son. It is needless t? say that in this their hour of distress. Brother Loucks and family r have the sincere sympathy of the frater- n nity everywhere. tl ****** * ' folk's work just bkoui*. . a nt.? rmim, ni?t vikohii. When sighs the wind of hwren, When fall* the erenlng (lew. 0 -^StpgBP-?-i For la the echoing thunder | We'll hear the gleeful song. That right again shall triumph. That Justice shall he done. And then will sound the seraph. tl Tie Folk's work J tint begun. _ ? Wail listen Ions In silence ? Enraptured, flllad with Joy. With bated breath and Htlllnsaa. 1< As stands a tlinld boy; Weil catch It to the echo, t As echo will prolong = Beyond the mighty shadow. 11 Ne'er stirred by huninn song; m And angels In the chorus Will cry aloud, "well done!" And bright will be the glories Of Polk's work Just begun. t TIs God tbst hides fhe % Islon \ From mortal eyes so far, _ And laughs at human wisdom I That tnlnks lo know a star; t But He la God, our Father. 1 And hears hit children cry, n In mercy tries to lead them When for the right they try; e Though be the effort humble. . In Ignorance begun. > Still grand will be the coming Of Polk's work Just begun. ****** i Reporter (Kansas) sizes conditions up i carefully in thia way. Puck once had a c picture of a king, a bishop, n sold er and ? a laborer. The king with outstretched 1 ar.ept.re, asirl "I rule nil;" the priest with I his prayer book said: ' ! pray for all;-' r the 9oldier with his ritic aaid : "I fight for j all," and the laborer, in the midst of all t the different kinds of tools and mnch<n ery, said; "I pay for all." ****** c Ooodland Republic (Kansas'! lets on 1 the light: Manager Frick. of the C r r negie iron mills, lins an income derived ' from that institution of $2,000,000 an- < nually. The entiro pay roll of 8,800 i workman only amounts to $2,400,000 an- t nually. It would seem that this condi- 1 tian of affairs would justify a cut of < wages. The average wages of Ihe work < men are $52 a month, while the manager , makes $160,606,601 in the same period. : Knights of Labor Journal (Pennsylvania) says: The 12,804 business failures ' in the United States last year?an increase 1 of 1.70Q over j&Vft?are not so much sn Indication of 'eiCepuoant hilugcncy iu the money market as of the tendency to- 1 ward conct titration in commercial matters. The big capitalists are eating up the < smaller ones, and, whether the times are I Sood or bad, it is becoming increasingly j ifficult for the small trader or manu- I facturer to exist. Production and distri 1 bution aro getting into fewer hands, and i it is for those who suffer by the process \ to say whether they wish their lot and ( that of their children to be the condition ( of wage-slaves to a handful of plutocrats or partners in a national of in (biatrial organization. Thera is no alter- * native. Olay King's Sentence Commuted. j Mbmpbih, Tknn.?Governor Buchanan t in Nashville commuted to imprisomcnt t for life the sentence of Colonel II. Clay i King, who was to have been hanged t Friday for thfc murder of David II i Poston on March ltfth last on a public i street in this city. Unusual preesure was brought to bear < upon the Governor during the past few j days. Petitions signed by thousands i from Teunessee and Kentucky reached t the Chief Executive. Delegations from ( military and civic societies besieged him < and the wife and daughter of the con demned man, and the wives and daugh ters of other prominent citizens made personal appeals. Senator Harris and | other leading politicians made several , calls upon him, and finally succeeded in , securing the desired commutation. ( The prisoner heard the news with but little interest. He had been indulging in stimulants of late and seemed indifferent to what was transpiring. Tbo people j of Memphis arc very indignant over the action of the Governor. A plan was ( formed to lynch Col. King, but he was spirited away to Nashville by the Sheriff Gov. Buchanan was burned in effigy. The Cotton Crop. Those of the Southern cotton planters who, a half year ago, were anxious to bring About a general reduction of the cotton product, in order to raise the price of the staple in the market, have seen their object gained in an unpleasant way through the destructive forces of nature. The extent nf the nxliicllnn ii ahnwn in the report* of the Department of Agriculture containing the fact* gathered in all the cotton-growing State*. '(he product ha* been reduced by heavy flood* in some part* of the South, by an excessive J rainfall or weather otherwise unfavorable in many parts, and by other caunes not under the control of the planters There were fear* last spring that cotton would be an unprofitable crop this year, but thonc fears have been dispelled by agencies that have brought grief to many planters. Centennial ot Buncombe. | AnnnviLtK, N. C. ? Buncombe is a hundred years old and people have been celebrating the centennial in great shape. The Legislature Hs JT?2 established the county by cutting off from Rurke and Rutherford the whole western section of ! the SUte, comprising what is now Macon i Yancey, Henderson, Madison, Jackson Clay, Trans) Ivania, Swain and Oraham The celebration was addreased bv Attorney General David?on ? .'? Buncouibc, Hon Kemp P. Rattle, Col. I V. 8. Lusk, Hon. R B. Vance, Col. J. I D. Cameron and Col. A. T. Davidson. I There was a trade* display in the after noon, showing the resource# of the county. In the tournament J. B. Sevier, who rode at Charlotte, u on flrat prize. Several hundred Confederate veterans wont Into 0Mip (or throe daya. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Pure butter may contain ton per cent, f water. A lead mine which yieldn almost pure sad has been discovered at Turner, Me. Morgau County, Missouri, it is said, urnisbes the best fire-brick clay in the rorld. Professor Calvin, of the State Uniersity has been chosen as Iowa's State leologist to conduct a new survey. Tests recently made at Cornell Uuiersity, Ithaca, N. Y., show that alutniiiutn has no vory marked influence upon he magneto, conductivity of cast iron, iut slightly decreases its permeability. The strawberry plant seems to possess n amount of Intelligence. It will iuariably run its shoots in the direction f ground which contains a maximum mount of nutriment, and will never row Ibl TruttHBia w? a. - h?n? andy spot. There are in southwestern Missouri aany openings in the earth, which aro ailed "blow holes'* and "cold caves," rom wbioh issues a cold blast of air. A oca I theory is that the temperature of hese places is reduced by the enormous lepositof ammonia, caused by the presnceof bats. Pieces of iron which can bo set up in he form of a rudimentary steam onglne vere recently found, together with a jatin treatise on steam as a force, in nn ron chest, dug up near Helsingfors. This extraordinary archreologicnl find is opposed to date from the first half of he twelfth century. Shooting-Btars aro small bodios weighng at most a few pounds and consisting nainly of iron and carbon. They travtree space in swarms aud also rcvolvo wound the sun in long elliptical courses ike comets. Their brightness is duo to leat engendered hr the enorcro of thnir notion. Their speed is enormous, beng nearly twico as great as the speed of he earth on its orbit. The installation cf a 4000-ton liyiraulic press in the Bt. Jacques iron works at Montlucon, Fraucc, serves to nark the progross of an innovation in brging works. The substitution of hylraulic presses for powerful steam hamnera for the forging of large masses of iteel has for some time been steadily on the increase. It is found that the work jf the press 19 more regular, homogenodub and rapid, and that the press costs much less to install than the steam hammer. It is said that ravens often reach the age of a hundred years. Oucks and cuckoos are likewise very long lived. g^gpiM. nkvoh Uvo to k vary advanced go at liberty, do not exceed twentylive years in the confinement of a cage. It is not rare to see domestic cocks of fifteen years; and with care they reach twenty. The limit of the existence of pigeous Is ten years; the smallest species live from eight to eighteen years. Nightingales will not endure more than tuu fears of captivity. Canaries rearod in a :age live twelve or fifteen years, but iu their native islands they reach an age of several dozen years. >hio Extension of Norfolk ^Western. Uii.iT<iunr.r\vT W V? If ie iiVll i liiuuuiij if t a. iv ao aiiuuuiiv id thai the great Norfolk & Western )hio river extension will be completed Jctober 1st, when through trains will hi un from Norfolk Va , to Columbus O., ind Chicago. The extension runs througl :he wildest part of the State for over 20( miles, and strikes the Ohio river at Ka nawha, W. Va. This country is richer in natura wealth than any other part of West Vir criuia, coal, iron and timber being found in abundance. There are 20 tunnels ii his extension. This road passes througl the homes of the Hatfields, the notorious outlaws. The Five Money Commissioners, Washington, D. C.?The names ol the five commissioners who are to repreicnt the United Htntes at the coming in' ternational monetary conference are ofti rially announced. Thcv ai^: Senato Win. B. Allis'in, of Iowa; Senator Joht P. Jones, of Nevada: Congressman Jns B. McCreary, of Kentucky; Ex Comp trollor H. W. Cannon, of New York and Gen. Francis A. Walker, of Mas"a chusetts. With the exception of Mr McCreary, theso names have all beci among those discussed for the appoint raent The Sea Gives Up Its Dead. CiMiU KsroN, 8. C.?The body of Na polcon liiidson, one of the eight negroc who were drowned, was washed nslior* on Sullivan's Island. The mouth am cars were partially Jcstrojcd by fishes otheiwiae the body was in a gcod state ol preservation. This is the fifth body ic covered. Parties were out dragging tin bottom of the harbor, but to no elTect; all thoy obtained was a pair of pauti with 96 cents in the pocket. h. Committee With "Barls'' of Money Nbw Yohk, N. Y.?The adviaoi committee of tho Republican nation, committee is said to have bean nrnrtio ! ly decided upon. Among those selected it is said, me: B P..lours, of Pittsburg Hamilton Piston, of Philadelphia; N? 1 ion W. Aldrich. " Rhode Island; Pliile tus 8awyer, of Wisconsin, and Geo. ft Pullman, of Illionis. All five men ai Immensely wealthy. People's Party in Georgia. Havannah, Ga. ?W. R. Kemp, o! Emanual county, was nominated for (.'on gross by the People's party of the fust congressional district. The Republican? are trying to form a coalM-m wiih th? Third part?. There was nnn norr?A legate in the convention. The tiva?ury Deportment hns dccidei that n (oieigner who makes a contract ii this country to work here nnd then rc turn 'n hi* own country cannot coin ^ The summer exodu* ha* left only or cabinet officer at Washington to repre*en the power and dignity of this great gov irangaf. THE MECCA PILGRIM IMPOSING ANNUAL OERE OF THE MOHAMMEDAN WO Horrtm of Pilgrims on Their V the "Holy City"?Scene* ol tut Ion and Heath. THE pilgrimage to Mecca occurs every year iu tl month which the B mod an* call Ramadam is, religious as well as a sauitary \ view,one of the problems with wh civilized world will eventually I; deal. Every year it adds new fuel ! fanaticism that seeks by the conq the interior of the African contin maintain the slave trade, and means of infectiou by which is di tinted that most deadly of epi scourges, the cholera. The faith . All parts of the Moh,WP-oedau wyrj tain it,ana the two pTlbcipal^Afusi rulers?the Khedive of Egypt ai Sultan of Turkey?lend it counb in order to iuniutain their authorit their subjects and their moral supi among the followers of the prop general. The Khedive sends am with imposing ceremony, a constcarpet, and the Sultan a quan valuable presents, accompauiod magnificent cortege. Access to the holy city is easier in former times. Mecca is six miles from Jeddah on the Red Se is most easily approached by this The Mohammedans of Morocco, AI Tunisia, Tripoli and the north of go to Jeddah by steamer when th alford it, or find their way to tl Sea by caravau. Thoso from the of the Sahara, from the Soudan, interior of Africa follow generali caravan routes to Suakiin, Masson other ports on the western shore o Red Sea, whence they cross to J in dhows. The Mohammedans India come by the French, Engli German steamers that connect it with the far East, bringing the ger the cholera in their filthy gart There are four other principal rouh sides that of Jeddah, which are en overland. These lead from Yem Southwestern Arabia, Irom Nejd < Persian Gulf, from Persia and trot north of Syria. The Persiau route to the north of Nejd. The gifts o Sultan start from Damascus and south through Palestine iuto Ai where the caravan has the protecti* several subsidized tribes. To this cat are generally joined the Kurds, T Albanians and Syriaus. The Y caravan sets out from the city of S The pilgrims of meaus travel onvnvlu ?? Unuuta unil so Wfiil DfOI for the journey, but the?_> are a/ with the caravans a great number of sons in such a stat j of destitution they are obliged to live entirely by given by their fellow travelers with or less willingness while their own s last. Those poor wretches are the fanatic believers. Even under the favorable circumstances their bouess the desert for the entire length ol route. An unbeliever who had audacity to unite himself to a car would be detected and assassinated before reaching Mecca, uuless like ton, he were thoroughly acquainted the lauguage of some Mohatnm 1 country and with Mohammedan cust and religious rites. When the multiti 1 brought by all those caravans have < 1 verged at Mecca,a city badly provisioi whose water, naturally bad, is polli by the presence of such filty hordes t I jectod to no sanitary regulations, wl the heat during the Rimadain moot I always intolerable, the misery is ii j scribable and the mortality exce3 i evjn in seasons considered healt j vv nen tue cnoicra prevails Mecca is a ply a charnel-house, and what passe only known to the Christian world tho chance reports of more intellig pilgrims which find their way into European papers. When all tho ritos and ceremonies acted of every faithful pilgrim h r been conscientiously performed at i , holy city those who have not a cumbed to heat, fatigue or disease ti their faces homeward, carrying w , them usually the gcrinsof somodisagrable or dangerous disorder, and j variably i.a their hearts a more ferocio a hatred of tho infidel. lu Persia tfc fanaticism finds vent in revolts dircch against the Shah, who is accused being too favorable to the Christians, i Turkey in a general opposition toforei> influence, in Algeria in threatened it ? surrection against the authority of tl j French, in the Soudan in the in?*> ten nice of the slave trado. It is on tli j traflic that Christianity and Mohai mcd&nisrn will finally have to join issm , It is only Mohammedanism that mail I tains slavery. Its strongholds sro i i Morocco and Arabic, to supply who' harems Tippu Tib and other traders o Arab descent, or nativos converted i> '. the Mohammcdau invasion, inako tlioi y ra/.zias anil decimate the African tribes ,1 This question of interest renders th |_ problems arising from tho relations o Christianity to the followers of Mo r hamms.l much more dilHcultof solution |- The Mecca pilgrimage bids fair to pla > its part this year as usual in spreadin [. the cholera, which has appeared in violen e epidemic form 111 several localities i India und Central Asia.?San Franoisc Chronicle. t How to Store Table Silver. I Silversmiths now counsel their patron* to keep line table silver in Canton tlan* nel rather than in wool. Tho explanation is that tho woolon flannols hitherto commonly employed for this purpost are treated, in the course of their pro1 .1 nr.1 i An avifW a.ilnK.ip ark.1 o mil I (f ll rtf " the latter clings to the flannel to tarnish the metal when it is kept in flannel bags. ' ?Boston Transcript. "I felt eo cheap daring the ceremony," ' confessed the bride to her dearest friend. * Why, my dear?" "Because pa gave me awav."??Detroit iPine Press.