The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, August 26, 1892, Image 1
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VOL. XXIII.?NEW SERIES. - ION C. 11., SiQl^i^^^^B^^8BBfct?yST 26,18&3, _ .J NTJ BiBER
Free baths are advocated in St. Louis
a* a means of preventing the loes ot about
forty boys who are annually drowned ia
the Mississippi at that point. .
The Detroit Free Press maintains Uxat,
"one trouble with the American farmer is
that when the weather is dry he does
not need better roads, and When the
mud is hub deep there is no chance to
build better ones." \
New Yorkers have formed a society, <
with branches in Puiladelphia and other I
American cities, for the suppression of '
the "intolerable annoyance created by
the frequent noisy clauging of inhar- ]
monious church bells." ,
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The Tecpnt British elections h&re cost rr
$12,000,000. Every shilling has to be
accounted for in sworn statements. Ac- '
cording ' ? *he Chicago Herald, corrup- ?
tion of vi. has been roudered almost
impossible OJ the stringency of the re- 0
formed elections legislation. s
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It is estimated by a statistician iu the '
American Farmer that th's country loses
over $700,000,000 a year by adulterated n
food. This is more of a burden upon it ^
than several of the great European ar- fc
mies arc upon their countries. s
Inspectors in the Adirondack* report ?
that more deer die from starvation than Q
from any othc^ cause. They have beeu a
so well protected of late years by. the o
New York Ht.tttn ? ???? -L
? w kuviiui inci uiBi inej
have multiplied beyond the capacity of ^
the woods to sustain them. '
Nev York buunoss men are greatly 11
worried over the lack of warehoute fa- E
cilities. T.io great bulk of the freight g(
ia New Yor< h is to be hauled on trucks
from piers to warehouses in the city, and e
35,090 trucks are kept busy at a cost of ^
1*35,000,00). In consequence of this ^
extra tax, business is going to Brooklyn, c
Jersey City and Staten Island. J
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A Sums' ra newspaper tells of ex perl- 1<
inent-: there last mouth to test the
value of a local petroleum us compared N
with American uud Itussinu oils, and jsvs
. the experiment "piovcd conclusively that - j]
. t lVj'upcrlQt^n brillaacy, in perrakoenco
? nuJ In wba&i'UU ut u uuSi>cost<i liuil"
to either American or Russian oil." ?
With the cost of freight doducted it is
said that this Sumatra oil promises to bo
:: formidable competitor with tho Amcri
J,..!. i/?.
( III pruuuvi? ill vuiuu auu buu IUI
eastern markets geuerally. m
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London Public Opinion uotes tuit tha (1]
centenary of the disc ivory of coal gas T
has just passed. One hundred years ago L
William Murdoch, a Cornish miner, *|
studying the coal which he handled ^
daily, filled an iron kettle with it and ftl
set it on the tire, connecting an iron tl
pipe with the nozzle; when the gas bogan
to flow from the pipe ho applied a
light, aud tho first gas light sprang into
existence. Wide as his useful invention t<
has spread, aud great as the blessings P
that have resulted from it, how many "
people evor heard the ni.ue of William
Murdoch?
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Some idea ot the growth of the coun- t<
try may be gained incidentally from a e
study of the census bulletin on the op- |-!
oration of telephone companies. It appears
that the total investment in enter- 8
prises of this kind incieised from $14,605,787
in 1880 to ?72,341,736 in 1893. g
The number of subscribers in 138') was 0
43,814 and in 1S9 ) there were 257,357, "
while the number of conversations over f
the wires in the latter yen was 453,- \
200,000. In 1880 the mileage of wire
was 34,305, in LSI) ) it ha I incroasel to ^
240,112 miles. There were 407,356 j
telephones and transmitter* in u*o in s
1S90, or more than double the number t
in 1830. A rec >rd of this kind shows a '
develop iieiit which cannot be matched *
by any oth- r con ilry oil the globa. (
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To the London Lancet is due the sug- f
gcstion that prizes should be o Icred for '
the best cup ol toa or cilTee as much as
for the best show of fruit and flowers.
Here is an idea for county fairs, cooking
school competitions and mission work. '
There is scarcely a hamlet in Switzerland,
Franco, Austria or Italy where one cannot
find a good cup of coffee. In this 1
country it is as rare as in England. Yet
there is nothing simpler or easier to
make. Perfect coffee can be made with
an old oy3ter can and a clean rag or a
born of drii-'erist's filter oancr. It should
be unnecessary to plead such a reason,
nut the nerve-sustaining power of black
coffee, particularly for people who lcai
sedentary lives, should make it at least
as accessible as bars and soda 'ouutains.
In fact, as the Lancet says, in urging its
use: "To inauy of the daily increasing
number of total abstainers a cup of
really good coffee is perhaps more
wholesome, as well as more palatable,
than a too free use of aerated waters;
while many who are moderate drinkers
would prefer coffee in tho middle of the
' day, or at any other tirnos when on
SELECT SIFITXHS.
The Amazon Hirer is 3600 u.. ^ loo#The
mean height of land above the
sea level ia 2250 feet.
The English Derby eras established in
17d0 by the twelfth Earl of Derby.
Tbey have shot a leopard in Bengal
credited with destroying 151 persons.
The Astecs of Copan used to wear
jewels in their teeth; they had no dentists.
'The regulation distance for planting
irange groves in Florida is twenty-lvo
feet by twenty-five. This gives 2303
frees for each acre.
If there was but one potato in tha
irorld a careful cultivator might produca
10,000,000 from it in ten years, and that
vould supply the world with seed
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It is piopowil i? Plulwitlpbto *? ro- - trict
bicyclists to a speed of six miles an
lour, bar them from the pavements, com- ,
kh tncm to take out a license and to
:arry an alarm bell.'
Taaey Couaty, iu Missouri, the homo
if the turbulent Bald-Knobbers aud tho .
ceoe of a recant lynching, is name 1
iter Chief Justice Taney, and its name ,
ike h?s, is pronounced "tuwny." t
In the war between France and Qer- i
aany, in 1971, France lost the greater <
iart of Alsace-Lorraine. The number ?
rho fell in battle is estimated to havo
?een 150,000, but many more died from
ickness.
Sweeping of buildings use 1 as mints are ,
Iways very valuable, and a story comes
rom Berlin that gold dust to value
f $25 was recently found in the
oot taken from the chimney of the royal
aint in that city.
One of tho features of the Fourth oi
uly parade at Tiiuidad, Col., was a
Jhinese band, consisting of twenty-ouo
Chinese residents of that towu, attired
a resplendent Oriental costumes and
erforming, hardly playiug, perhaps, on
earful and wonderful instruments of
ound.
Tho common school children of Athns
are taught ancient and modern
Ireek, French and common English,
'heir "readers" are the classics of their
wu country, and while they are still
hildreu, they arc familiar with Homer,
[enophon, Herodotus and the dramatists,
'heir nursery tales are tho myths of Hel;uic
literature.
The famous "Three Graces" of
laphael, which most experts considered
> be the gem of the Dudley collection, I
'08 privately sold some time ago to the
>uc jl'Aumale for $123jOUt>, and it is n
T '*
it Lord Dudley, who WAs reported to i
ave paid only ?25,003 for it. t
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Might Explain Memory. "
A maker of fc3t plates named Webb '
iany years ago made for the Army ,
[edical Museum at Washington a spcci- *|
ten of microscopic writing on glass,
his writing consists of the words of the
ord's prayer and occupies a rectangular (j
oaco metsuring 1-244x1-441 of hu inch. j
he lines of this writing are about as |
road as those on the test plates, which o
re 1-50,000 of an inch apart. They are,
serefore. about as wide as average light J
aves. Now, then, to get some idea of
we magnitude of minuteness of this t
writing. t
There are in the Lord's Prayer 227 let- 1
jrs, and if, as here, this number occu- ?
ies the 1-129,654 of an inch, there I
r'ould be room in an entire square inch
or 20,431,458 such letters similarly I
laced. '
Now, the entire Bible, Old and New *
'cs laments, contains bat 3,560,480 let- I
era, and there would, therefore, be roo;u
nough to write the entire Bible eight
lines over cu one square inch- of glass,
a tho same inanuer as the words ot the
jord's Prayer have been written on this
pecimen.
Such statement, without doubt, stag;ers
the imagination, but the figures are
asily verified ami are certainly correct,
,nd the whole stutement at least serves
o bring homo to us the limite 1 nature
>{ our mental capacities as compared
vith the facts of (he universe.
It also furnishes au interesting suggestion
in a very different subject.
It has been often stated that a physcal
>asis of memory may exist in permanent
tructural modification of the brain mater
constituting the surface of the fur owa
Jn a highly developed brain this
mrfacc amounts to 310 square inches,
ind it would therefore appear that the
mtire inomoriex of a lifetime might be
vritten out in the English language on
inch a surface in characters capable of
nechanical execution, as those of the
Webb plate at Wash in do:i. Lens.
VIRGINIA ALLIANCE.
rhird Day's S'sEsion?-Resolutions ol
Respect to Col. Polk.
Richmond, Va.?The third day's sos '
*ion of the State Farmers' Alliance convention
assembled at !l o'clock. Geoii/o
Jackson offered h report for the go d of
ihe order. It was unanimously adopted. '
,1. It Beverly on? red a resolution of re
spcct to the late Col. I'olk. It was unnii
imoody adopted. The special committee
on the lecturer system made its report.
They recommended thai the district lee
turer be abolished ; that one State and
three aadstnut lecturers he elected by the
Slate Alliance. This was also adopted.
A busiiuss exchange system was adopted
and placed under the control of the ex
erutivc committee. The constiution was
amended and that part which says an of
titer shall hold office only two terms was
stricken out. Auy officer is now eligible
for an unlimited number of terms The
body then went into the clee.tiou of ofli
ccrs and the following were the unani
mous choice of the body:
Maj. Mann Page was re elected president
Dr \V. E. Qucscnbury vice president
and J. J. Silvcy re elected secretary
and treasurer T Y. Alice, Pobcrt IJcvcrly
and E It. Cocke were clcctid members
of the executive committee. |
THREE STATES' BRIEFS
Telegraphic Dispatches From Han]
Points of Interest.
The Fields of Virgin*, North *n<
South Carolina Carefully
Gleaned For News.
VIRGINIA.
A Ladies' Bicycle Club has been or
ganized iu Salem.
Her. Sam Jones has begun a series oi
meetings in Harrisonburg.
Norfolk iron workers have a movement
on foot looking to the reduction of tin
number of hours of a day's labor.
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i no luuowing appointments nave Deer
made to the West Point Military Acade
uiy: David It. Powers. Jr., Port Royal,
with Willard N. New hill, of Irvington,
qltcruate.
The Salvation Annj has lost their sull
against the city of Salem. This case bar
caused considerable excitement, as on the
rerdict rest the future actions of the
"Salvation Army" in Roanoke county.
An eilort will made to get Governor
M .'Kinney to pardon the nineteen-yearsjld
girl, Octavia Hodges, whowM comnitted
to the penitentiary last week for
lix years for the killing of a sewingmachine
agent named Cunningham. She
claims that the shooting was done in
?clf defense.
NOB.TH CAROLINA.
Creameries have been completed at
Statesvillc and Charlotte and are in opcrtion.
The Wilmington alumni of the Keelcy
Institute have a "Keelcy Bi Chlorido of
Hold Club."
Thos. II. Hoke, of Lincolnton, a promnent
merchant and chairman of the Dcm
>cratic county executive committee, died
Thursday.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
leclared a second dividcud of 15 per
:ent. in favor of the creditors of the First
^atioual Hank of Wilmington, N. 0.,
insolvent), making iuall JO per cent, on
:lnims proved amounting to$510,025.10.
The Caralcigh Phosphate works at
lale'gh burned last week. The less is
127,000.
Fred Shcrrill, the colored man shot at
Vinston Suuday night by Thomas Viaon,
died, and the murder has escaped.
The mayor of Winston offered a reward of
5100 foi his arrest, and delivery to the
Ilu utitlinrili/'U
SOUTH CAROLINA!
An anti-high lie nee muuicipal ticket
nis been elected in Mt. Pleasant.
The It. & I), shops at Columbia a e
gain running full fine, and pay out
LH.OOO monthly.
A ear lonil 01 n llllv.1111 ?r?si^ nna >ed
from the Kdisto Miueral Springs at
)nmgcbnrg to Baltimore, Md., lust week.
The safe of Su'livan's store at Williamson
was blown open by burglars Tuesday
light and $<10 in money and valuable paters
were stolen.
Dr. Itabco k, Supt of the State Insane
L>-yiuin was privately married Wedueslay
to Miss Kalhcrinc Guiou, one of the
lurses of the institution.
The vacant scholaiships for the C'italel
Academy this year nre Abbeville 2,
icaufort 2. Collctiu 1, Marion 1, Union
, Charleston 1, Edgelield 1, Orangeburg
Sumter, 1, York 1.
.no mew uueen oi tne Trotting Surf.
Tennis IIautk, Ind ?Nancy Hanks,
hat won the title of queen of the trotting
urf at Chicago, going a mile 2:07$, is a
lav mare, six ye rs old, l.rij| hands h'gh.
>he was sired by Ilappy Medium out of a
)ictator mare.
Abe Line di\ the running horse who
iclped Nancy along to glory, is a bay
lorse with something of a histo'v. He
vni formerly the property of Adam Foretaugh,
Jr., who used him for many years
ibout the circus, his good points being
lis perfect gentleness and a fondness for
he society ?u' elephants, ot which lioiscs
n general s and in mortal terror. Be anse
of his level head, obedience and
borough reliability lie was taken by Hudd
)oble, lie. 11 ainer, as a peacemaker for
*buicv Hanks in her trials against time.
Nancy Hanks is owned by J. Malcolm
\ rbes, of Host on, who purchased her
ast year for $9o,0"0. He is a man of
peat wealth and for that reason it is
iouhtfill i'" Mr. ltobeit Bonner, the own r
of Maud S. and Sunol, will be able to
iccomplish his well-known purpose of
purchasing every trotter which beats his
nvn.
"Love Laughs at Locksmiths,'* But
Not at Scythe-Blades.
Siikmiy, N. C. ? A young citizen of
Uaston county received a sciious wound
ai a peculiar manner recently. He was
igaged to a girl in the neighborhood,
whose parents were opposed to his visits
>ve. iiowcver, is full of expedients and
i i ageina, and t he young man cont'nued
lo visit his swealhenit surreptitiously at
night. The girl's father dis> ovcred that
h' V wi re meeting and made his arrangements
to stop it When the young rna i
paid his next visit and proceeded to
j iw 1 into tiie window, hecainc in cintact
- itli a sharpened scythe blade which the
ol I man had fixed in the window for him
n id received a sciious cut in the abdo
in ni. He had to walk four miles before
he could rceivc medical attention. 1113
condition wss critical ior some time but
lie has recovered.
Oliver Springs Troubles.
Nakiiyii.i.i-., Tknn ?Scores of cit:zens
and business men fro.11 here and Knox
Villi', ill III '<1 Willi illiy Mill l?l ^11115# |M1?
curable, have rushed forward with armed
militia from all over the State to Clivei
Springs, where the coal miners, aftei
their victory over the militia at Coal
Creek, have lv.cn beseiging the State
tr<iop3 under Gen. Anderson. The military
is now in control.
Submarine Cable irom Cape Charles.
Washington, I) C.?The Wcsterr
Electric Light Company, of New York,
w is awarded the contract to lay a submarine
telegraph cable twelve miles u
length for the life savings rvice betweer
Cape Charles n.5<i the Jowei cidof Assa
league Island, 011 the Virginia coast,
Price 8 9-10 cents per toot.
w SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL MOTES
j This Kind of i*m Si Vor)
Au Ala buna >omtn is neatioaed ia
I "The BMlhm vtockdaa and Parmer"
as having loaned ber husband $30 wad
$40 at a time (butter money) to pay laboi
to make cotton.
The stockholder* oft he Saetera Carolina
Piscatorial Association held thvir first
annual meeting at Wiltnlngtoo, N. C.,
recently aud elected & Potter, presi
i dent; W. A. Riach, VjrteC-preeideut, and
Isaac Bate*, secretary and treasurer.
This association owns 1,000 acres of fine
oyster gro und, and has planted 51,118
bushels of oysters ia (hp past year. It la
( proposed to plant n?ny more next
spring. Besides the oyaler ground. 885
acres of Ann upland are owned, ana it is
intended to start a sms'l , town there. AU
, Castor beans are being raised in some
, sections of the 8outh, and they bring
, $1.50 per bushel of 40 lbs. There is a
market for all that it offered.
Southwest Georgia has grown so much
tobacco this year that tue people are
anxious to secure a factory to work it up
instead of skipping it away. The general
opinion is tnat the leaf is of excellent
quality,, suitable for cither cigars or
smoking tobacco.
At Banyao, Fla., L 0. Oliver is clearing
fifteen acres of land, and will plant
55,000 pineapples. J. T. Stewart is planting
15,000 common pines and an equal
number of fine varieties. J. D. Larns la
planting 10,000, and P. A. McMillan la
just finishing setting 50,000 in the ground.
There will oe over 200,000 pineapple
plants growing around that place by fall.
The Branson (S. C ) Canning and Manufacturing
Co., which was organized last
March, began operations in June of Uda
year, and hss since been turning out
about 2.000 cans per day. Tomatoes,
peaches, borries, penis, apples, okrn ana
pickles are the product, aud they have
met with quick and cost sale.
DARED DETtH FOR $25.
A Young Man Blown Up With DynaMite
to Test a Life-Saving Device.
AforiSTON, Ala.?Capt. L. D. Blondoll,
who hes been giving exhibitions at
OxfoniLalce for several days, offered
$25 trafciny ono who would get, into a
limif n nrl nllnuj Kiraeolt In Kn " *
"v uiiu?vi? *w vi. wiwn ij uv
with djranmite in order that Bloudoll
might show his method of saviog He in
sucn emergencies.
Richard Ncelcy, a young white man,
accepted the offer ana waa b'own forty
or titty feet into the air and fell back on
some of the wrccnK&
His left leg wafr~broken and he was
th'.rwisc scvcrel* ^injured, but he may
-'fivy., ?:
Other Sontherlk Vtates Might Follow.
The Board of World's Fair Managers
for Vlrgiuia proposo to make the collection
of works ofJLk|giuia*author8 as complete
and representative as possible, covering
a period of nearly three centuries,
from the establishment of the colony to
the present time. For this end they are
seckingwcontribut'ons from publishers,
authoiwlearucd societies and from all
sourccwof the works of Virginia authors,
book^pflnd pamphlets relating to Virgipia
and ira citizens, and magazines, newspa
perawetc., published in the Stato. The
entFe collection will be properly cataloged,
and at the close of the exposition
deposited in the Virginia State library.
TENNESSEE THIRD PARTY.
The Omaha Ticket and Buchanan'*
Candidacy Endorsed.
Nasuvili.b, Tknn ?The adjourned
m etiug of the Sta'c People's party couvolition
met here. There were aw or 000
delegates present, 'representing nearly
every county in the State. Tho convention
adopted a resolution endorsing Governor
Buchano- as an independent candidate
r.uu pleugiiig him support. The
Omaha platform and nominal ions were
endorsed, and after listening to several
enthusiastic speeches, the convention adjourned.
Corsets Cause a Biot.
Wnr betwecu two rival dry goods stores
at Zancsville, Ohio, Tuesday, led to a
mob of women taking posscss<on of each
store, brenkiog showcases and counters
nnd compelling the proprietors to close
their doors. The rivalry has been going
on for weeks, and finally corsets were
advertised for Tuesday at five, and then
at one cent. Nearly 1,000 women surrounded
each store, and after the doors
closed, one dealer threw out corsets froin
the second story window, nuu the women
scrambled in the street, for them.
Several in the eriwA-Jninted, but none
were seriously injur, d.
Five Children Burned to Death.
Griffin, Ga.?Five children, left at
home locked up by their parcuts, were
burned to death Wednesday night. Nath
a-i Kll<8 nnd his wife, with his sister,
had gone to chur b, leaving two children
of a dead sister of Ellis' nnu three of the
other sister's child re i locked up in the
building. The house was discovered t<
be on fire about 0 o'clock nod the flan c<
Ii-mI iviiiiiAfl fiiipli hnmliv-iv th;it it. \vn& im
poisiblc to rescue the children, although
their cries for help were heard. It is
; aid the house was set ou fire by incen
diaries.#
A Good Work.
The State University (N. U.) has nearly
completed the construction of its new
i chemical laboratory, for which Mrs. Marj
S. M< rehcad, donated $40,000. It will
have ten scpujte <00 ins for different
I branches of chemical work and will covei
in uii o.Oun square feet of ground. Durr
iog the pnst ten years the collego has
I graduated a large number of yonng mer
: in the chemical department, and some ol
them now hold responsible positions.
Five students h ive applied for a post
graduate coutst during the coming year
i Permanent Receivers For the R. A P.
tJichmond, Va.?The United Btatci
Circuit Court appointed Messrs. Rcubc ]
1 Foster, and F. W. Iluidckopcr, the prett
1 en^fcccivers iii>rmfinent receivers
Ricmhmd <fc Danville Railroad Ejf'S-n
ator Ajntionc'a friends failed to A>ntro!
the appointment. m
p?? fcgMi?
ANOTHER BIG_ STRIKE.
> Switchmen on the Lehigh Valley
Road Go Out.
i Firso* Follow the Strike and Oar*
I Burned By th? Dosen.
Buffalo, N. Y.? The switchmen's
i strike here has assumed alarming proportion*.
At 2 o'clock Sunday morning
the Lehigh Valley yards, in East Buffalo,
were the scene of a series of incendiary
flres, and tho striking switchmen arc
suspected of being the inceudiaries.
Three fires were discovered at vat ious
points half a mile apart. Eighteen
r freight cart loaded with cotton, wool,
mercband'se, and hay, two passenger
coaches, and two watchmen's house*,
were burned.
train of ten coal cars, which were
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mummpx.oo roo iresncs, were turned
loose ana started down theWr ok. They
crashed into the watcf tank, smashing it
and wrecking an cngino which was "tnk
ing water.
Monday uiorningao Erie train consist- 1
iag of 42 cars lying on the main tracks,
waa ret on fire at midnight and in nu I
hour there were 15 or 20 cars burned It i
is estimated that the loss will be #30, i
000. At 1 o'clock the tiro bad broken i
out at the yards and indications were !
that serious damage would be done as ]
the fire was burning fiercely. Nothing '
ccuild be done by the engines attached to
the train, as the crews were driven from |
their engines and thfen's were made if |
the men attempted to move them. The
flre department was unable to do any- ]
thing on accouut of the hydrants in the ,
neighborhood. The Erie had two (
stock trains already to leave for the |
east at 6 o'clock but they were not mov*
ed, as the strikcis threatened to kill the
crow if th^v left the vards , , {
An oitteial call was made upon the cit y
and county by the Leliigh Valley for '
protection and the Eric followed.
The strikers arc applying the torch in 'r
all directions. Both the Sixty fiih and
Seventy-fourth regiments national
guards, were ordered to go to the scene. 1
GLADSTONE'S CABINET. t
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The *'Grand Old Man" Selects Hie ,
Advisors and Lieutenants. 'I
London Cablegram: Following is an 1
official list of Mr. Gladstone's cabinet:
Secretary of State for Foreign AtTnirs, ^
Earl Roscbcrry; Lord Chancellor, Baron
Herschell; Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir William Vernon llarcourt; Home I
Secretory, Herbert He ii v Asquith; \
retary of State for India, Karl of Kim- i
bcrly; Secretary of State for the Col <
onics, Marquis of Himan; Secretary of '
State for War, Bight tTon. H. Campbell <
"-Kwn?p?.Vcr; Chief Sccrciasy of "Bl'rte I
for Ireland, Bight Hon. John Moiey; !
Secretary of State for Scotland, Bight
llou. Sir George Otto Trevelyti; President
of the Board of Trade, Bight Hoi.
H. II. Fowler; Postmaster General, Ar^ t
nold Morlcy; t'resiucut oi UIO ? Otim inn
Kducatio ?, Arthur Herbert Dvkc Aclnnd. (
Lord Houghton is Vice oy for Ireland.
Mr. Gladstone is Prime Minislcr and
First Lord of the Treasury.
QAUUHT THE DETECTIVES EYE.
He flaw a Poculiar Chest and Found
In It a Counterfeiting Outfit. 1
W alii am. a, 8. C.?Secret Service
Agent Forsyth nMiccd a suspicious looking
chest nt Anderson, 8. C ,several days
ago. The chest weighed liM) pounds,
and was addrc Bed to G. T. lluughman,
Walhulla, 8 C., consigned l?y II. S.
of McCormitk. The secret service agent
opened the box, nud. after removing carpenter
and blacksmith tools, found in the
bottom of the chest a walnut cabinet, lu 4
this were found six sets of inou'ds, over
One hundred coins, finished airl unfiiiish- 1
od, nnd a stick of "half and half," a 1
rueta! used by counterfeiters. There i
were two moulds for standard uolhirs, i
one for Muxicft|i dollars, two for quarters '
and oue for five cent nickels, Hniigh- 1
man is Irghly connected. His wife is the |
only dauojiter of a highly respected citizen,
and Ids biothcr-in law is a Govern- <
ment olficial.
Det'-ctive Forsyth took with him Dcp- >
uty United States Marshal \V E Bailey,
and cninc hero. Not receiving his trunk,
Bnughman became suspicious and ran
uwuy. rorsyin secured ii)I<>rmation of
his whereabouts, Duugliinan was arrested.
lie declared that while the chest
was his he knew nothing about the walnut.
bo*. He tina ly weakened and made
a full conf- ssion
Too 2?&uy Convicts lor Tennessee.
Nahiivii.i.k. Tknn.?The JWO convicts
released at Tracy City Saturday night
were brought heic under guard on a special
train ami were marched to the penitentiary.
Some of the convicts attempted
to escape. Matt Wilson was
killed and John Smith was fatally
wounded; the other time were recaptured.
The convicts released at Inn. -."
, this urorii'iig are now on their way to
Nashville and will arrive to night, '/'he
penitentiary is crowded with 1,400 <nn,
vie s now aud the Coventor says thcr'. is
. no plucc to put tlx in.
, The Three C's Railroad.
[Bristol, Tenu., News.) v
Three C's road, say the attorneys for
McDonald,Shea iV Co.,will be completed
vory soon. McDonald, Shea &. Co have
the contract for the entire completion of
r the road in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virr
giuia and the Carolinas, a fotu million
r dollar job
| Supreme Sitting Iron Hall Su-r f.
r UrcuMOXD, V*. ?Suit was *irf.titiitc??
. in the Circuit Court against the Supreme
Sit tine Iron Ilall for fitTo bv J. L
i Bloomberg. Bloomberg's policy for
f flOOO in the institution fell due, and ho
has taken above stops in order to protect
. himself.
The Jewish Tidings predic's that within
ton years Sunday services will b held
1 in the American synagogue.. It says that
I the Jewish people of this country want to
keep Sunday as a religious day, and that
5 "the delay in its tniivirsal adoption is
due nltno t entirely to the rabbis ?all of
' whom arc not as j-rognssive and up-to
the times a' they might be.''
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POLITICAL PILLS. \
Swallow and Assimilate Them n.
Quick! 7.
The Republicans of Delaware nominated
for Got eroorRsv. Jonathaa Willis. Xfc
Oklahoma City.?N. A. Ward was
nominated to Congress by (Le People's
party in this city.
Atlanta, Ga.?Tho Fifth district be
Democratic Convention rciiouiiuated L. rue
F. Livingston for Congress. get
Macon, Ga.?Congressman James II. hu
Illount having declined renomination. I>ft
the Sixth district Democratic Convention l,n
nominated Thomas 1). Cubiuis as his successor.
Tho Wisconsin ltepublicans met at thi
Milwaukee Wednesday in Statu Convon- pC
tion. John C. Spooner was nominated fh<
for Governor and John O. Koch of Mil- Se
waukeo for Lieut. Governor. thi
The Third party has nominated A. C. tat
Shuford, of Newton, N. C., for Congress 'a*
7th District, and Dr. J. A. Wilcox, of
Jefferson, N. C., for Congress 8th Distriet,
North Carolina. r
lhrzzarn's Hay, Mass.?Grover Clove- '
laud, Joseph Jefferson, William II. Crane _ *
uul Hichurd Watson Gilder are fishing ^
in tho watera of Waketey and contiguous wj
nti'iits ilnwn in 1 lu< Inillmi
Mittitpec. The- are having Hue sport. C,('J
Ulnck bass, pcVcli, uud pike uro biting ^
' lee
Cov. Hogg was renominated at lloua- fur
ton, Texas, by the Democratic Convcu- tiii
ti 'ii by nn overwhelming majority. Their for
platform advocates free and unlimited ggt
joitiuge or silver; opposes issue of ticli- Biti
lious stocks and bondi; favors an iuconio coi
ax and endorses the railway commission of
law. elt.
The Democrnts of the * seventh Kansas hat
jU^l/ciry" fsVinpson Tor Congr ss.'""X Mb
tl.it form adopted nt the Democratic State ah I
convention commending Simpson's con- kin
pessiotinl career was adopted without n t,r"
iifscnting vote. mn
Wiiitk Pi.ainh, N. Y.?While White '.1
aw Keid, Mrs. lieid, and D. O. Mills, 1
dr. Keid's father-in law, wero on their {'."I
vav from Opliir farm toeatsh the 7:45 >,e
rain for New York the carriage collided ^"ll
villi an ice wagon. Those in the carriage "
inrrowly escaped being thrown out. 1
I'hey had a good slinking iip and were \>c"
nucli excited over tho accident. After
he ice wagon ami carriage were discn- nH
angled the party drove to the station in
lafety and caught the train for New York. '
J n 1110
Nrcw Oiu.kans, I,a.?Tho Republican llti,
League has elected Andrew Hero,Captain )tD
jcncral for Louisiana. It has announced wjj
Is intention to place no Republican can
lidatc in the held in tlie First, Fourth, oxv
itid Fifth districts,but to support the cani
?r ?i.? i? ..,;II ...... ?.
. ??v . ?.?,,,? o ({J!
iu the Fourth and any
[) t i<ncrf tliPVffttng mo??il?or"J?7 ilio Ah/i.' I pj.,
I lie ITon. J. Yoise will bo nominated as ,uc
straight Republican candidate in tbc H,,|
iixtli and supported by botli factions of t|ul
'i Republicans, Judge Taylor Uealtio in wp
lie Third, and Andrew Hero in the Bee- ^b
md. U()
lhcr.idcnt Weiho. of the Ainalganured jus
Association of I'itisburg, will oppos* mo
Dal/.ell ior Cong: ess. Hugh O'Douncll crii
will imi for the Legislature as a Demo sku
i rat the
Nasiivu.t,*, Tpnn.? ftov. Huclinnar tl??
baa at last announced himself nn indc- yet
pi sulcnt candidate foi^Govcrnor. Moti* ft I
day afterno >n he inscribed a long caul in wn
the papers placing himself before the ttix
people free fiom ull classes. He says ol
he lov? s the Democracy but the citizens ma
have called on him to run and he v.II. hei
do so. VC|
a of
wc
Mew ttouthern .enterprises. |(i(i
in l he list of new Southern enterprisei ag'
for the past week mentioned in the Man- tin
ufaetureis' Record of August lb, are the del
following important items: A $50,000 liti
lumber maiiuruettiring company nt El vc.
ilorado. Ark. ; a #500,000 coal company mo
it I'hilippi, W. Va. ; a #500,000 wa'er ref
works and improvement conionny at Gray ela
ton, W. Vh ; a $20,000 publishing coin- gal
|?my at San Antonio, Texas; a $100,000 onl
water, light and power company at Oak vol
[ I i IT, Tax an; a f1500,000 ?1 is illcry at \vc
Louisville, Ky. ; a $200,000 brick works pn
company at Watetloo, Va.; a $100,000 ern
ipiarry company at Vick>d>ur??, Miss ; a
$200,000 'shoe mnuufacliirng co npany w
at Moiimlsviile, W. Va. ; a $75 000 ice,
light and water company at Marble Falls,
Texas; a $10,000 manufacturing company
at Wcatherford, Texas; a $00,000 cotton
oil company at Whitewright, Texas; a
$200,000 electrical manufacturing com- Li
pany at Itirmni.drain Ala ; a $25.( 00 St;
publishing company at Louisville, Ky.; t<>
aiid a $10,000 lumber mill company at Mi
Dayton, Ky. tui
Insane?Cured?Acquitted? Insane j/,
Again. tin
Ariikvii.i.k, N. C. ?Two years ago,
in Madison county, Hubert L Mcl'eetcrs *
and Zeb \V. Cadv quarrelled and McFceters
shot Cadv, killing trim instnidly. A *' ,
court of inquiry examined M'l'ccters
witli the result that lie was sent to the
asylum for the insane at Morganton. ^
He remained there until Monday of last "V
week when lie was discharged as circd
and sent back to Marshall for trial for
murder. The trial began at once and
c'oscd Fatmday. McPfiClCI'8 made two .
pleai: self-defense and insanity. The
jury re-turned a verdict "uot guilty" and P"
the man was rcleacd. Within t?o
hours, however, of the time the verdict c"
was rendea d, MePoetcrs became raving
mad and had to be confined in jail, cr,
where he now awaits recommitment to
the asylum. t,
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Oen. Field and a Third Party Pnper. ^
Nakiivii.i.k, Tbnn. ? It has been learned
here that the Third partyitcs have de- ^
cidcd to start a morning nc\vs| nper in
Memphis on or before the first of Bep- |t,,
teinber. It issaid that John II. McDowell '
will I c editor in-chief. It is understood j, |
that Gen. Jas. G. Field, People's party
candidate for Vice-President, is now in ^
Memphis lookh'rj over the field and aiding
his followers in making the neces j(]
sary arrangements to s'art the paper.
Gov. Buchanan announced himself as independent
candidate for Gov rnoi.
Bach man will be endorsed by the Third 011
pnityites aud the Memphis organ will P;1
support him. It is said tint the new '<
paper will be called tbo Gazctto. 'ol
LLIANCE DEPARTMENT. *
lading Hatter For the Order Care*
^
le OkMt Money Question Discussed
by the National ficonomlst.
Wheel (Arkausas) ssys. Keep it
tore the people that it requires
?ro tliau twico an much labor to
t a dollar today an it did 25 years ago,
t that dollar, when you get it, will
v no uioro debt or taxes thuu it would 5
y in 1*07.
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Iloitie Cnuntv. North Carolina iIm-Iumi
it ns tbe rights and liberties of thn
ople aro bciii# constantly abridged by
p election of Presidential tickets, and
uatnrs by the utono/ of plutocrats,
at they dciunnd of their repicsonIves
iu Congress the repeal of present
vs itutl direct election by the people.
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18 MONRT A PHODUCT OK NATITIIK?
Die argument that government cHii't
ke (Oral is, ere ?te,) money, since tho
lest simpleton in the land knows tlint
i individual who attempt4 to do so
II be railroaded to the penitentiary for
interfciting, carries with it tho iuipli- "?a
ion that money is a product of nature,
tsidc of man, iu his individual or coltivo
capacity, the only generative
co capable of transmuting the in itcrinl J
ugs of earth into factors necessary
tho continued advancement of civillion
is uaturo. Then, taking tho poon
that money is not created by law,
npols the belief that nature, instead
always being the same staid, solemn,
rnal, unchangeable force that men ^
tc always believed her to be, i?, iu
sl'MII'AYC tt&iVfttgmy treat uros i mag in- ~'*f:
o; for ?he not only creates n dilferent
id of money for every different govmcnt
in tho world, but she creates
11 v different kinds of money of differdcnoniiniitioiis
for each government,
us gold, t-ilvor, copper, nickel, brass,
terete., arc each employed by her in
mauufncluro of money. In this
nitty she gives us dollars, dimes and
Is; in Knglaud the denominations aie
aigcd into pounds, shillings And
ice; iu (Jcrniuuy into kruet/.ers, gold,
pfennings, etc. Such nsoumpiioiiH
these are calculated to make nature
car ridiculous The truth is, nature
4 110 more to do with the creation of
>ney tlma she has to do with the erron
of a eotton gin or grain hinder or
y one of the thousands of tilings into
bch men have changed the material
>vidcd for her, into things for their
n comfort and advancement. She
jvides the mutter from which everying
is made A
Byjj the fact that tlm ' oov, nm.ods ^
?per material from'widen to make
mey is gold or silver, no inure conlutes
those metals "natural money** I
in doe? the fact that fain slew ithei
h a club constitute the manner of
el's death the "natural" way to die.
on the theory that "age and custom"
tify the use of silver and gold, as
ney, can he justified tiie existence of
nit*, human slavery, corrupt ion tin I
ill-duggcry of every kind, because
se things are, all of them, older even
n the use of money of any kind. And
, one of the strongest arguments, or,
least, one of the strongest points idys
lingeringly and lovingly dwelt
:>? by our "wise men" iu their advocacy
these me'ills as the only proper mciicy
tcriul, is the fact that their use has
,ii sanctioned hy custom and made
lerable by age. Ton mind capihlo
consecutive, anslvtic.il think ng it
mid seem that the veiy fact the bare[gcd-haibarians
of thou-mdsof yen's
i used those metals for money mateIs
is of itself siillicicnt loe-st a deep,
use shade of suspicion over tlicir real
lity for tlint purpose The iucontroliblc
tiutti is Clint money, lawful ?*?
ney, the tender of which cmiuot bo
used without prejudice to oiic'h
iin, is u creature of mini in his n^rgre- >
:v or governmental c ipu-itv, mid the
y milk in the financial rocnuiiiil is inved
in the rpicstioii ns to how the
ulth-prnducors of the mil ion will
litubly nv.iil themselves of this govm*ntal
function.
C. THIRD PARTY CONVENTION.
iey Nominate For Governor Dr.
Exum, of Wayne.
IIai.kkih, N. C. ? At 12:30 W. It.
ndsay, chairman of the Third Pally
ate coinuiittee, called the convention
order in Metropolitan Hall. He culled
irion Butler to the chair. J. W. Denir\
was made temporary sc rotary,
in committee on 'permanent organit
ion was then raised, composed of one
niher of each district. 'I lie follow4
were nained: B. P. Scarborough,
. M Smith, Y. I). Smith, It. A. Cobb,
Stilley, A. J. Gordon, S. II. Swaiin,
W. I'arks, (J. E. Hoggs.
The following ware placed on the
mini11 con platform: \V. I*. Exum,
J. Dalby, Marion Iiutler, .f M Hatein,
I), ll! Ilil', II. II. Collier, J. E.
incl, \V. II. M ilone, It. A. Cobb
Col. liar y Skinner was noinina* d for
ivernor, but as there was some diftisfaetiou
the nomiuatio i was withawn
and the following Mate ticket
it up:
f)r. W. P. Exum, of Wayne, for Govuor.
It A. Cobb, of Burke, for Lieut. Govnor.
W. II. Worth, for Treasurer of State.
Dr. L. N. Durham, of Cleveland, for
icictary.
Thomas B. Long of Buncombe, fui
alitor.
H, II. Lyon, of Blndcn, for Attorney
mcral.
Itev. W. J. Woody, of nil ford Colfor
Supt. of I'uldic Instruction.
Marion Butler and Hatry Skinner, for
cctors at Large.
W. A Guthrie, of Durham, for A^soate
Josticc.
W. II. Malone, of Buncombe, far
idgc of the 12th District.
When Senator Co'quitt, now dangeri"lv
ill, was a young man his superb
lyaiquc i trembled that of llobcrt
>oinb', who was admittedly the finest
aking man in the South.
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