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With the help of efflcieqt women workin# among the poor, he thinks epide nics ' might be nipped in the bud. Glasgow, Scotland, already lias six women inspcctors, who arc doing an admirable work. An article is said to be sold in P.uis which consists of an aqueous solution of iodide of sturch and is "specially in^ tended for lore letters" In four weeks, I explains the Chicago Herald, characters written with it disappear, preventing all abuse of letters and doing away with nil documentary evidence of any kiud in tho hands of the recipient. Captivity is made as endurable as pos. tl.l. /?- A ' T 12 1 ... VII/IV IVI mo rvji.tuuc luumui WQ()| WIIU their brutal chief, Goronimo, are canfined at Mount Vernon, near Mobile, Ala. Gerommo has been the gardener of the garrison, and ha? become noted locally as a maker of canes. To a Id to his dignity he has been made a Justice of the Peace to sit in judgment over of4k cnders of his tribe, i. * Life insurance made immense gains in 1891, declares the New Haven (Conn.) Palladium. The payment in deatb Claims alone by American companies * cannot have fallen much, if any, short o' o0e billion dollars. The amount of new business written undoubtedly exceeds that of any preceding year. More families are protected by lite insurance today tha.*^ ever before in* the history of the business. . >' : Kever, aver* "fh^ Now CMcsns PicsS* jjjpaj, was there a deapar or msrogeu-. rai mterest in the subject of astroaom*"'icil reieiroh than at the present tim>. T.io racant interview with tho pVanct Mors, the speculations that it called forth an 1 the results expected fro n it, have claims! the attention of thousands, an I even m:chv?os talk astronomy ovar their work. The transit of Venus, not long a jo, likewise stirre I th? intercit of thousands of people, who could not even uaiarstaad way it was of importunes. The two great wonders of London are Its aristocracy and its fog. Just now there is a lull of aristocratic scandal of high grade, and so the twin wonder, the fog, is tho uppermost topic of discussion. The President of the Institute of Civil Engineers has discovered that the fog i9 worth its weight in gold, or at least in sulphur. He says that the sulphurious vapors produced by coal combustiou in Loudon, in one day, is equivalent to 350 tons of pure sulphur. This gaseous mass, mingling with the fog, 'deodorizes and disinfects the air, destroying disagreeable smells emanating from refuse and sewers, killing disease germs," e'c. On the other lian 1, the ^ chief medical journal of London, while partially admitting this argu neat, declares that the sulphiirious fog attacks the lungs, "bringing oa bronchitis and asthma, to say nothing of disagreeible taste, filthy smell, stmTel nose, husky throat, smarting eyes and hea lacoe." It is pretty evident that there is not much choice between the moral and the pby.si cal atmosphere of Louuoo. The value of the Hudson River as an attraction and an advertisement for the New York Contral Riilroa 1 is, declares a writer for the New York .Mai! and Express, incalculable from the monetary standpoint. It is certainly worth millions. Foreigners desire to compare the Hudson with the Rhine. General Pas senger Agent Daniels says Englishmen inquire of bim sometimes, after they Invc made the trip fro n New York to Albany, along the banks of the Hudson: "Whj don't you call this river the American Rhine?" Mr. Daniel's rcnly is: "Why don't they call the Rhino the German Hudson?" The writer said to Mr. Daniels that if thero were 110 Hudson River the freight traffic of his railroad would be largoly increased and be ustoolshe I him by making this reply: "Bat for this river and the Erio Canal, it ivoul I b3 impossible for the enormous grain crop cf the \Vi3t to roach the seaboard, u ir railroads could not transport it. It would be necessary for the people of the West to keep it, or to btira it. Tae rail roils have all they can do. The river an I the canal are both necessary frc-ght highways." n *f rS. MUa Ming tbetr tongs together; They fait alike the hi miner raja; And bore the stormy wratber; The self-same blossoms decked them both In colors rich and rare; * And in each stream the song-birds wooed * Their bright reflections there, And on, and on, and on thej dance I, Each leaping toward the rirer. And then they met to kiss an I part Forever and forever. Two human lives, two kindred hearts By destiny's decree, * Met in the spring of life, to learn Itsdeep*et myst?ry. They dreamed their morning dreams oi hope. Through fair nnc'onded weather; They opened love's bewitching book, An 1 read it through together; They saw in one another's ayes A deep unspoken bliss; And from each other's lips they took Trove's ever ready kiss. And then the fate itaat crushes all The sweet pleasures here. Turned hope's glad music to a sigh. Its glory to a iatr. It stepped between them; ab, it mockel The lovo it could not kill; It bade them in its fury live. And love, and suffer still. They tried with outstretched ban Is to span Fates wide unyielding "Never." The voice of destiny replied: "Forevor and forever." Mine is no wild imagined them?, No idle faucy fi ghts It lives through daylight's busy houri, Aud haunts the silent ni^ht. The wail of sorrow Alls the air, It rests, it ceases never; It wrings some soul, it breaks some hearty Fort ver and forever. ?Chambers's Journal. WON BY FIRE. nMMUSCOLOLO'S j l^HM^^western wiudows X 0 / 'Jj %<M reflected back the \\ 1 'hJllUBl aurora as the sun h\\ 1 I went down over \ the Wis c o n s i n y"\| Pra,r'es through 'a \ \J a bank of illumiv&k. *x nRtet^ rai8t one ,'wV. xvvOct?ter evening. $/\ Lak? Superior's "ffifflfV JfT 1 waves were tipped with the reat the entranco to the - little harbor 'V'-A caught up the ^ glow and clung to ' "<?/) * ' ?/ W ^fttnitiHheyrtUfc^ TP^ . '** blaze within and the darkness without banished the color. The night breeze set in oil the land and the'nutumn leaves turned and scur-? ricd backward like school children answering the master's bell. Lassie Dean, her goidcu hair b'.owu about her face by the breeze and burnished red in the setting rays of the sun, stood in front of her father's gate bid ding good-by to Mark Conway. Iler left hand rested upon the top of tbo rotten post and the other upon the pickets that separated them. Lissie was John Dean's only child, and John Dean was a widower. Mr. Deau was bookkeeper for Conway & Co., proprietors cf the big saw mills and lumber docks that supported half the population of that little town. Julius Conway, senior member of tha firm, was Mark's father. Many times have such good bve been said before. Many tunes the promises made in the gloaming have been broken. Many times bauds have been piessed and kisses have sealed a solemn compact between girl graduate and prospective college student. Lissie stood leauingon the pickets long after Mark had gone away* Stood there until the moon came up aud the lap of the waves at the back of the house attracted her attention, aud she walked around her dilapidated home aud entered a uom moored to a little lauding reached by a solitary plank that spanned the shallow water. Eveniug after evening was spent in the boat singing, talking to the waste about her with her mind always on the young studeut. Letters came frequently?the fervent breathings of no enthusiast. A year passed by. Mark returned to Tuscololo for the vacation and found Li9sTe teaching in tho village school. The old houso had been remodelled with the money she had earned. The sweetness of the vacation and the memories treasured for the winter months did not tend to lesson the blow that fell in the spring. One day in April the ice went out of the harbor and all Tuscololo went out to tho docks to witness the sight. Great pillows of crystal splendor choked and gorged and ground out through the entrance of the harbor, forced lake ward by the strong wiud from the southwest, went out past the lighthouse aud slowly floated away. Navigation was open and business for the season began in earnest. rb?t night when Lizzie stopped at the postotlice a bulky buudio was in waiting for her. It bore the post mark of Ann Arbor. Lizzie eagerly grasped the packet, blushed at the knowing smile of the postmistress * and hurried home. One side of the package was half covered with stamps. Ilcr letters! Ouly a line came with them: "I cannot explain now. Foivive me, dear Lrszie. Mark." When John Dean came home that night he found his daughter's head bowed over that sorrowful pile. For a moment he gazed at the sight. Then his arms went rouud her drooping shoulder?, "This is hard, poor girl. Hard, hard." Tears bo^an to fall upon the well-preserved envelopes. What could John Dean do? lie thought of the dead mother and wished, as he had wished thousands of times before, that the were iierc to give her girl advice. Lizzie was sensible and lie knew it and did what he VRnaMMlpvm?gin ber comfort it his sympathy, sad saw the tears shinng on her brown eyelashes as she gathered together Mark Conway's letters and sent them In a little box to the postotrice. He did not see the single scarlet geranium that was placed on the top of the pile. e Bell rang out a merry chime across the restless waters of the lake from the churches of Tuscololo one Wednesday tight in August. The sun had just set ?nd the glow of the clouds was again refected upon the polished glass of the lighthouse st the entrance to the harbor. In this limited haven, bounded on three sides with double rows of piling and on the other by huge stacks of lumber, rode s couple of barges and a schooner with ber sails furled. Over the side of the boats the red-shirted "lutniMjr-shovem" crawled back and forth with their white' pine boards like ants with grains of wheat. In Che middle of iho towering piles was the doek where the steamboat tied up once a day snth the mail and where the offices of Conway Co. were located. Just outside the harbor a little rowboat tossed a solitary occupant?a womau?Lissio Dcau. When the bells ceased ringing and the yellow beacon flashed out to guide aud warn the be- ' lated mariner, the strains of a hymn 1 came floating in from the boat. Lissie i wai singing. Hersnd, sweet voice roie I and fell, was wafted in or carried away by a fickle breeze that hesitated betwee.i I the land and the water, to a little knot l of loungers around the door of the wharf office. The gulls flew in flocks beside her, their gray wings whistling near het head. The wind sprung up cool fro:n of! the shore, and the girl pulled a heavy woolon shawl about her shoulders tnd turned her boat across tiie rifll^s that began to lap audibly against the breakwater. Tne stars came out in myriads, spanning in a speckled arch the land and the water. "Fire I Fire! Fire! Fire!'' The cry came from a tnau neat the dock, was caught up by another aud nuother, and swept to the uttermost limits of the town swifter than the fastest swallow could fly. The 'longshoremen, 1 silently working by the light of lanterns, dropped their boards and started to- , wards the office near which a red glare could bo seen in the sky?a glow that stood for a moment over the dim and towering piles whose dark shadows j were reflected in the waters below. The church bells that had so musically called the worshiper^ to prayer wheu the sun went down were seized wit's the fever 1 of fear and clanged their warnings out with stuttering tongues. A flame like der. The flames leaped upon the very top of one of the central piles, kissed and danced the length of the resinous planks, clung to the edge n inomeut, crept inch at a time down the side to the ground, caught in the sawdust and loitesed across the narrow roadway to climb up the side of the opposite pile anil to be met halfway by the fiend that had spanned the space with its fiery tendrils. The wind that had hesitated over the yellow sands of the beach when the beacon was lighted whirled the sheets of flume skyward. The crew of the schooner hoisted sail and stood out of the harbor to the open lake where, at a safe distance, anchor was cast. The helpless barges were loosed and pushed away from their moorings. From her seat in the boat Lissie witnessed the sight, saw the burning shingles carried up into the sky to fall bae'e into the water with a hiss. The girl stood up and with lips apart watched the fight. A bucket brigade had been quickly formed, and lines of men sent the water up from the la'oo in a brokou stream. The hoarse commands of the extemporized captain echoed out. acros? the harbor, mingling with the crackling flames and the sputtering of the burning wood. Then a pile of lumber fell. Great sheets of flame shot up, waved a tierce defiance as the demon grasped a blazing banner and flourished it half way between earth aud sky; burning boards fell upon the barges, and the crews took to the little boats and esc sped to the wharf. Still another pile tottered. A cry of warning went out across the blood-red waves. It fell. The Babel of voices rose for a moment as the sparks and burning brands again went up, lighting anew the whole village. Added to the confused bawling of the men were the heartrendiug screams of the women who had crowded up to the line pf endurauce. With eyes following the spnrks, their hands raised to protect their faces from the increased heat, they beat a hasty retreat, but not before they realized that some of tho men ?perhaps a brother, husband, so.t, father or sweetheart?were in that faithful liue under tho burning planks. Part of the bucket brigade lial keen cut off. Tho wharf was ablaze frotn end to end. The black smoke settled upon , the water and rolled out towards the girl in tho boat. Sho heard tho cries and | knew the meaning. Lizzie Beau dipped her shawl into the water and threw the wet wrap over her head and, shoulders i and took up her oars. No mau ever pulled a boat more lustily, and the little craft shot into the bhsck cloud as if propelled by more than human strength. Tho cry of the bafHed men grew plainer. Burniug brands fell about her and her breath was almost burned away bp the intense heat and chocking smoke. She pushed on until the prow of her boat, bunted against the pier in front of the office. Lizzie drew the wet shawl over her face. The back Gt hoi hau 1 was blistered in the operation. By the bursts of flame she saw three meu chuging to the slippery piling, their bodies iu the water. Like a phantom the little craft was pulled along under the protection of . the wharf, the rower's head bowed well down. Every now and then she leaue 1 out, her liptt almost iu the water to driw ^ a breath not laden with s-noke. O.ie at a tiac the men, nearer dead than alive, climbed Itto the boat, then she rowed ?w?y to the lighthouse landing, wh ;rr the keeper helped to oerry the smokebegrimed victim op the steps into the *' narrow living rooms. Llssle was tenderly tying a -bandage iboqt the blistered head and arm of one A ?(the men she bad reecoed when she reoognised la the blackened and swollen face the features of Julias Conway. His keen, gray eyas were following her back m end forth end the oontcious blood man- to tied her pale ohoek. 4,Are you John Dean's girl!" he asked. Q 'John Dean la my father, sir," she m replied, stepping hack, showing the wo- to man is the poee. Then anxiously. "Is lie safe!" in the sudden recollection the T|) rntreetingly laid her hand upon Mr. p) Don way'a shoulder. vj Yea. he la ell rlnht T * >( Kim nn for more buokets and took hU ulac; in n the line." v - - c I,!?le went on wiflk the bandages, and b when the had pinned the last fold bar ,,s patient rose to look oat of the window ) it the Are, which was still burning fu- <m riouslj. "I must get back, but how!"' he was saying. "I shall row you in," Llssio said. th rhey entered the boat and the wotnsu St pulled around the breakwater, in spite >f the high waves, which now and thou Wl ihowed white caps on their crests. No m word was spoken until the boat grated N in the sand* back of John Dean's cottage. to "Come in and drink a cup of tea be- cn fore you go down. You can do nothing in now. The lumber is bound to go and cn the wind will save the town." Strange girl I Julius Conway sipped v< his tea and ate his toast, peeping over ?? the edge of his cup at the woman who to quietly set the thing bofore him. ,u "So you wanted to marry Mark!" cx Lissie, just in the act of entonug the ta kitchen, turned and stood in the doorway, looking her questioner squarely in cn the face. rn Why!" 4> "You may if you wish." The cup rat- tli tied a little in the saucer as it was taken out to be refilled. ),,, * * 1, Bells rang out once more over the Vi waters from the steeples in the town of vt IdiseoToIo; fhTs was two years later, 111 when Mark had finished his course at w college and had taken a half partnership cr in his father's business. This time they nr joyfully tapped out their wediog chime*, " for Lissie Dean and Mark Conway were made man aud wife.?Chicago News. AN ERR0R MAT~L0SE A" STATE ?, ! " The Democratic Electoral Ticket* of Bouth Carolina Printed Wrong. 8. O.?There is? danger In the Democratic electoral ticket which would have resulted in the entire Demo- tj( rratic (letoral vote bciog thrown out on nt account of illegal ticket. As it is, the Qf tickets have heen in the hands of the ij>( commiss'oners of election and couuty jl( committees for somo time and have heen ~ partly distributed. Therein lies the ' danger. It is hard to tc'l what propor- v tion of the tickets that have been sent out from the Stato committee besdquart- ? ers are illegal. Most of those heard ft from are a sixteenth of an Inch too long. n< some 'Oo small, and some too large. *.1 The law says they must be 5 by 2 J inches .1 in size. The responsibility for tueh u V serious error seems hard to tlx. The . tickets went through the hands of the 4 1 executive committee. Secretary Tompkins lias ordered new hi tickets priutcd. He says he cannot tell 8i how man? of the illegal tickets have s> gotten into the hands of the voters, but they were all distributed a week or so aso. lie states that he has sent out ol wa ning notices to each county chair tc man and all the commissioners of olc- si tion and docs not think any harm will re come iroin 11 n iney nil net promptly ami In energetically. Mr. Tomptkins fails tc $1 account for the error. pi m 8C Late Mews Items. ot It is probable that Senor Cnr.tcllnr, 1,1 Spain's accomplished and eloquent prime minister, will l>c the orator on Cereino a( trial Day, when the Columb'au Exposi- ol tion throws its gates open to the world. ?' Andrew Stephens, a full cousin of |}) Hon. Alexander II. Stephens, late Vice o( President of the Confederacy and last of the granlso-s of Captain Alexander Stephens, who was with Rrnddock in his memorable march against Ft. Duquesne, '[ died at his home in Newport Saturday. Governor Holt' has appointed Rich- A ntond Pcar?on, of Ashcville, local vice president for North Carolina of the National League for Good Roads. Mr. m Pearson will r present the SUiu at the &11 rational convention at Washington City to next month. The league was formed at re Chicngo week before inst. w On November 14 tlie Carolina State Fair will open at Columbia, S. C A 1,1 number of exhibits have been promised, among them a large entry of cattle ami horses, and also one by Loring Brown of 111 the poultry for which he is so well known in the South. Arrangements have been * muue lor live performances of I'nine's "Paris, from the Empire to the Com- rii mnne," iu which some U00 persons will J^l( take part Several racing purses have been subscribed, and the city merchants expect t? rnisc another of $1,000. (.( Beat His Little Be p-Daughter to Death. ns Columbia, S. C.?Dorsey Goodin, of Timmon>villc, deliberately beat his seven-year-old. itepdnugbter to death ^atjirdny. He whipped the child with a large leather strap, having an iron buckle t, at the end. for twenty-five minutes, nnd te then picking the little girl up, hurled (,] her to the fioo\ She died shortly after- p wan!:; Goudiu *?u? auesieu and, In spite fr of t reals of lynching, has been lodged |? iu the Florence jail. ,j ?, " t,i A Georgia Girl's Conquest. Denver. Coi.- In the contest for the et D morait diamond medal Monday night r< iis? Margaret F. Badger, a fouitc-11 in r*ar o!d gir', from Atlanta, Ga., was the w uctor Hir subject was: "Young ? > America's War Cry." g< 1 PIXIE NEWS. ie Sunny South Gleaned and Epito mixed. 11 the News and Occurence* Printed H- re in Condensed Form. At ReidsvlUe, N. C., several gentleen wore arrested for playing cmck-ao nod fined $5 each. A 2-vcar-old child of. Mr. Burnett, at Indcsboro, Vh , (ell into a boiler of hot 'daises the other tiny aud was burned de*th. C. 0. B a\ton, representing a Pennsyltuin syndicate, is in Columbin, 8. C., ;nmining several large properties with cw of large purchases. All efforts to rcvivo the Youpg Men's liristian Association of Greenville, . 9. , and to put Tsoun(r~flftiUiefa1 -sis, have failed. The furniture of the socintion has been piled nssr, and it li kely to be a long time before it will rer be used again. Tennessee's enpitol is without water, c city of of Nashville having cut off the c supply, owing to the failure of the ate to pay its water tax. Ex-Judge John Col'ier, of Atlanta, i?? str'ken with paralysis Wednesday nruL-g and is dying. lie is a native of orth Carolina and 77 years old. The Home, (la., Kolling-Mill went inthe hands of a receiver Monday. They nployed 800 h aids. Tho company is debt to the employes |3,500. The iuso of the trouble is not known. At Grecnsbo o, N. C., a drayman eon ying a barrel of brandy into Gorrell'a loon let it get away from him and ro 1 i the ground, where both heads fell out id all the brandy ran into the gutter, :cept whnt was gobbled "up by spectors. During 1891 about 1,200 acres of land South Carolina were planted in tobne? and nearly 900,000 pounds of tobacco i?cd. This year it is estimated that 413 acres have been planted, and that iu yield will lie over 3,900.000 pounds. George II. Allen, of Louisville, Kv , is leased for fifteen years u tinet of 000 acres of coal lands near Norton, a. Mr. Allen proposes a thorough dcd-tpmcnt of the property, and will ake arrangements for commencing ork immediately. A battery of 500 ike overs will be constructed at once ul mnke about 500 tons of coke daily at io start. Messrs. Kgan & Friday, who recently cured the contract for completing tlu harlcston (S. C.) jetties, have coin icuced dredging, and will proceed will ic work ns speedily as possible. The National Women's Christian Tern jranco Union convention, which hni ^cn in session at Denver,Col.,adjournet 'ednesday. North Carolina shower U^grcttteat uet numerical gain and re "ITCH IUU 1IHI?MUM Ilcnrv M. NciH, the well-known statis cian, estimate* the cotton crop of 1802 7.100,000 bales, maximum, exclusivi old cottou. In the event that the exus yield falls below 2,000,000 bale? s believes the crop may not reach even 000,000 bales. The new city directory of Roanoke, a , shows over 10,000 names, aud tlu tnl population of the city, estimated, jout 24,000. In the past two year? Mirly 1,500 houses have been erected, id JlOO more nro now uuder construe on. The residences average in value ;twcen $2,500 and $3,000. Within ic corporate limits there ore 3,009 resi ences occupied by 3,580 families. During tl'.e past few weeks there lia? Jen unusual iuterest in real estate a! avannah, On., and it is estimated tlia nee Sept. 1 tiie sales have aggregate! rer $100,000. An interesting statement as to the cos f cotton growing is made by Z. F. Fos t, of Greenville, S. C\, who plantce x acres in the staple this year. II< ckons fifty loads of stable manure,witl: uiling, cost $41 50; five sne-ks of guano, 11.25; hoeing, $15 00; plowing.$5 00: eparingground,$8.00; picking,$40.95 ed, $1.00. making . total of $121.70, $20 45 per acre. From this ground tie bales of cotton have been secured, rcrngi g $34 00 each, or $300, and it ldition $15.00 for seed, a total of $351, $58 50 per acre, leaving a net profit $228 30, or $38 05 per acre. A? tbi< ttc cotton growing should be profitable, nt, unfortunately, thru* cent cotton ii rtener read about than seen. 'HE PRESIDENT'S GRATITUDE. . Feeling Acknowledgment of the People's Sympathy, W,c... IX /. mi - w Anuinu iuri, I/. K.'. ? i 110 IT0?l<iei)l acle public the following card in re muse to tlie iiiii mcriiblc letters nnd legrnms of condolence and sympathy ceived by him during the past few ccks: "The expressions of sympathy with e nnd with my family iu our great now, from individuals, from societies, oin church conventions, from public ectings, from politic.il clubs and comit tees of all parties, and. indeed, from 1 oui people, have he :n so tender and full or respect and love of Mrs. Marion, that I reluctantly abandon the trpose of making a person il ncknow Igment of each. We are grateful, very atcful, for this cup of good will and r your prayerful intercessions. May id give to each of you in every trial nt grace and strength which you have k* d foi us." Set a Hyena's Broken Log. CmkksviMjK, Tknm.?The hazardous s < oi entering a ucn 01 hyenas to at nil a wounded wild animal was per unied by Veterinary Surgeon Stanton. *vo hyenas belonging to Sella & II- it o's circus engaged in a fierce fight, an fore separated one of them had brokci ic other's leg in two places. Dr. Stan m was called and entered the liycn: igc while the beasts were howling hid nisly, tied the wounded animal with i >pe, set the broken limb and escap i ihurt. rcveral hundred persoui atehed the operation with eager eye , meeting every moment to see the sur :on eaten alive. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Latest News of America aid Othei Continents. A Rfivira? of th? HtpMiisn Fron. All Parts of theWorld, The Belgian Chamber of Deputies a* Brussels rejected the proposition to grant universal suffrage. The Coney Island Athletic Club offeri a purse of $51.1,000 to Dob Fitxsimmom to fight Jim Hall next April The British government launched tht tlrst claai battle ship Revengo at tht Armstrong yard. Furniture and wicckage, picked up on N<>rth Island, con Ann* the news of th< loss of the steamer Oilchcr. 1 Horatius Harris, a Homestead striker, : killed 'himself Tuesdav, owing to dp s|u>ndenry over the condition of affairs. , John Lyops, of Cambridge, Mass., is > nnvc wiin a inoKen necK. lie drunk ' nn?l fell from a wagon, striking on hi.* head. Lieut. Frederick Schwatkn, of ArctU exploration* fame, committed suicide at Portland, Oregon, Inst Wednesday. The Hudson county, N. .!., grand jury indicted 54 colored and 100 whito met r for false rcgi tration. At Vinagora, in Austria, n cry that the tower was collapsing caused a panic in n church, during which 25 people wen trampled to death. The Northumberland miners in Eng land have voted to accept a 5 per cent, reduction of wages instead of going on i strike. Geo. J. Wheat, an rnginror on tht Panhandlo Railroad, was struck by a train at Pittsburg Thursday morning and instantly killed. A galo swept over St. John's, N. F., Wednesday, causing widespread destruction and the loss of a schooner with a i crew of four ineu. Ripple atul Whalen, two soldiers at F. rt Brown, Texas, fought over a woman. Ripple killed Whalen and then took his own life. In an iuterview at Iudiatinpolis Attorney General Miller confirmed the report that he will soon retire from the Cabinet. The Fall River, Mass., manufacturers 1 yesterday agreed to increase the w<ges of weavers to 21 cents a cut?practically a 7 per ceut. advance. The report of the American Cotton Oil Company, submitted at the annual meet ing in New York, will show net profits ui ?*.uui/,uuu ngmusi in 1 lHftt ; $775,000 was expended in repairs, and $225,000 covered into the sinking fund. . At the coming session of the British | Parliament Joseph Chamberlain will introduce a bill providing tha^t miners shall ! miners so desire. ! THOUSANDS IN CHARLESTON. Her Festivities Bring Many Visitors to the Historic City. C'liAiu.rcsTON, S. C ? Charleston's gi la . week was opened in the m truing by the formal call of Commander Brownson, of i the Vesuvius, up >n the mayor of. the c'ty. The officers of the warships were . then escorted to the St. Charles Hotel, i where they were cordialiy weleoired by i the (lulu Week Association. They were afterwards driven around the city, and witnessed the Venetian display and . illuminati n, whieh inaugurated the fes t tival. ^ The city is decorated with the nntiona. j colors from the old ramparts to the Bat tery. Th e second day of the Chariest on earthquake gala week brought ten thouj aid visitors. A leading feature in ?he programme of amusements was an in tensely exei ing game of I.a Crosse b, n 1 band of civilized ?.,'!? rokoo finl an* from ' the (Sovernment. reservation i i North ; Car linn At night there was a genuine ' South Carolina cake walk, in which ' twenty of the Afro American elite of th" State competed. If was witnessed by (if ecu thousand speetato s and was a gre t suc ee s. The blue jackets and Hill llll'S, MII'll III III! Ill IIS Citll gl'l SIKin' leave from ilie war ships, lire having a jolly time The officers returned from their iher hunt up the Ashl y river with veni on enough to sup, ly the mess tallies or an entire cruise. Confession Extorted. Graham, N. C. ? A crowd of masked men, supposed to number more than fifty j went to the jail in this place Tu rdiij night and took therefrom J. 8. Scwell, , who is in jail under suspicion of know ing something about the murder of J. F. Ma'thews. lie was carried over on .In hill west of the town, a rope having been placed ar.iind his neck, was thrown over a I m'?, and under these cireuinstnn res was asked to tell what he knew about the klling of Mat liewi. What In aid or confessed we do not know, n? the jailor was advised to keep his own counsel. After getting wlint they could out of ihe pr soncr thejr returned him t' i i i I. A Built t in His Breast. I.ai:kkn8, S A. W. Hurnsidc, ex Judge of I'rohnte for this count v. was found in mi uncoils ions state in his gar(Jen in this <ity at 11 o'clock. A pistol wound was found in t ic left breast and a small pistol at his side. He bat been vnwe'l for some time, and in n fit of aberration of mind he inflicted the fatal w und himself A New Orleans Opera House Burned. Nkw Oiii.kana, La?The Griinwald Opera House, valued at $2 0,000, was destroy, d by fire at an early hour. The building was insured for |60,000. Onlv th oiigh the work of the tire department I was a terrible coofl gration avoided Mis. Met/, and son were badly burned. a*restea ah mo undertakers. Wichita Kan.?Wichita is wi bout an undertaker. Deputy United fcdate? ' marshals nunc from Topeka and ' arrested all ttie undertakers in town as ! defendant in the prosecution started by the Topeka undertakci who is not in th?i tins*. They expect to give bond and re turn * * - mmm ALLIANCE READING. Some Interestiag Matter For The Order. Niwi of AlliucM and Remarks ot Intirat From XHArent Source*. la Wils-rn County, N. C., n Union A'li*nc? meeting i< he d quarterly by flvo Sub-Alliances. Last week they met nl Rock Ridgo Academy, Wilson county. Each Al inncc fnrni*hc? s oh ir, nnd ihev coneolidttc sod furnish oxccllo t m?*lo on such occasions. Uro. Hoovor, Lecturer for Wilson county, made a speuoU attho lot meeting Hro. L. E. Ncwaoro, of Lucaina, wm also called out and mndc a good speech. ??***? Governors I'cnnoyer.of Oregon; Ouch anao, of Tennessee; Toole, of Mutdnu.1; * TUtmsn of ftnmti CSSeOHH 11 of Utorgi.t, and several other? nrc all A! llancemen. ****** The postal system pay* the ral bonds $884.50 for hauling a mail car fr in New York to San Francisco. This car would easily went sixty people, which would lie a little over liredollnrn a |Mt?xciigcr across the continent! This shows some of the things the future has in store for our people. * ? * * CHAIRMAN HRKIDKNTIt At. At tjUlTI Kt>. Atiii.RNK. Kan.?Chairman Uieiucnthai,of the Alliance Btntc committ-c, nocuscd of violating the bnnking law, alter a three davs' trial, attracting much nt tentioh, was acipiitted. The couit held that, as secretary of the Sinaloa company, the law did not apply to hiin, and the case was dismissed. ****** The Farmers' Alliance have done ill tlod bless those who inaugurated n means by which the people can meet ou common grounds - Union, A/oaf rev, Col. iluron(3. D. ) Rurali*(: A full legal tender dollar never tleprecinh s below any other full legal tender dollar, no matt -r what it is made of. A man has no more right to pile up wealth and improvorish his fellow men than he h'H to dam up nil the spiings and cause them to | crish fiom thitst. ? Wythcrillf. ( Ka.) Nr*>?. In 1808 it took AO bait a of cotton to pay the salary of one Congressnt sit iio.v it takes 100 Imlesl to pay him. No Avon der he wants scarce money ?Libet-ty, N. C., Alii mice Echo. At a recent mcct'ng of farmers hold in Meridian, Miss , a Farmer*' Institute wus organized (or the purpoaa of encouragiug wlu-at growing. It i* expected that a large flour mill will he erected in Meridian nhertly, provided that the parties in-. tercated can (eel assured of a good shine of wheat from the neighboring sections, t-amuei llnilcy U chairman of the institute., and W. C. Oresett, secretary. ital at the exoenso of luborf ^ * * If it is within the province of the Got- * 9 eminent t > help cspitalista lower the wages of labor, is it not also withib the providence ot the Government to help laborers increase their wages at the expense of capital? if not, why not? Are not Inbh'crs as useful citizens and as much entitled to the protection of the Government as capitalists? That is, since capitalists claim the right to Government aid in lowering the wages of Sal) >r (and receive the aid they cUim), why should not laborers receive Government aid and protection when they desire to ioercasc their wages? In 1 lie great industrial battle, why should the Government place i'self at the disposal of one side, nnd one side only? Why should the Government under take to shoot laborers for the benefit of capita ists, rather than to sh >ot cr? ists for the benefit of laborers? Is a government which makes war upon the people, a Government of, for, and by I he people? Cum it be possible that our Government has forgotten it? origin, and is now more ready to aid the rieli in their n hemes than to protect the pe r? Much quest'mis a* these are forming themselves in the minds of every thinking American citizen. in a woid, shall we vote with the old parti s to uphold the capitalist, or with the new, in the aid of labor? t-hnll we vote fo. the interests of millionaires, or shall \vc vote in the interest of the American people? Which shall rule, h-oiie or the ninetynine? V\ hich shall rule, men or money? rdiall men nil - money, or shad money 1 rule men? "Nature's City." There fs a curious group of roclvs near fllilau, Italy, rvhic'i forms the oft-de- , scribed "Nature's City." An irregular moss of roeka some 200 feet high resembles a citadel, below are five depressions, of which one is a gigantie. ^ amphitheatre, and the second a neoropolic, a third a parade and the fourth a regularly laid out city quarters, with public monuments, gates, streets, etc.-? Chicago Herald. ^ ___ ' iW?&* ' a Not 1 match. A novel initcli is boing made ii Swedes. It it in the form of a taps of paratti red paper, with igniting points at regular intervals, and a protecting metal cover. At a piece of the paper it drawn out it ignite', burning slowly and evenly. The metal cases may be mvle in varioiu " design*, and when k roll of paper ha been used a new o^e can be inserted.? Trenton (N. J.) American. 1 ^ """ p- \ A TV el'. Unuwu C^ttvu Buys. wiuu^. Nbw Ohi.ksns, La ?Thomas A. Glenson, cot'on biijcr, has Ivan arrest d charged with obtaining money, cstiina e?l ? at from $8,000 to $15,COO, from the Whitne/ National Bank of this city br means of forged p-rss receipts f.?r cotton and fraudulent policies of insurance upon the lame, lie was arrai.ned up n two charg a. Mr. Olcason has been in the cotton busiiters here for the l?at liftct n years, and is well known t > cotton men ^ throughout the country. J