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reduced by the Oorernmeut of Queetis6
bed which owe* *11 the railroads.
Few cities erer get started?"laid
oat," as it u comraoily called?as they
should be. They get In shape by mere
chance and that, explains the Chicago
Herald, Is why the? are so frequently
misshapen. New York City has fewer,
alleys than any other city in the world,
motwlthstandin^ it is one of the largest.
"Loodon requires some women to act
as sanitary inspectors," is tho opinion of
Dr. Corner, Medical Officer for Poplar.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ^
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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.
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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.
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