Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DuUd to A$\ fawWum, BirHw&w, tto Omrrmt J9me? of th* Day5 vol. xxiii.^ewseries. union c. h., southcabqjbfp^rii)ay. nom.mbkh n. i8<?2. number m. reduced by tbe Gorernmeut of Queensd land which owns all the railroads. Few cities ever get.started?"laid oat," as it is comrao ily called?as they ahould bo. They get in shape by mere ohauce and that, explains the Chicago Herald, is why the? are so frequently misshapen. Near York City has fewer, alleys than any other city in the world, notwithstanding it is one of the largest. * 'London requires some women to act as sanitary inspectors," is the opinion of Dr. Corner, Medical Officer for Poplar. nun tne neip oi emcteqt women work* jog among the poor, he thinks eplde nics might be nipped in the bud. Glasgow, Scotland, already has six women inspectors, who aro doing an admirable work. An article is said to be sold in Paris which consists of an aqueous solution of iodide of starch and is "speciully intended for lore letters" In four weeks, explains the Chicago Herald, characters written with it disappear, preventing all abuse of letters and doing away with all documentary evidence of any kind iu tho ' hands of the recipient. Captivity is made as endurable S3 possible for the Apache Indians who, with their brutal chief, Geronimo, are canfined at Mount Vernon, noar Mobile, Ala. Geronimo has been the gardener of th6 garrison, and has become noted locally as a maker of canes. To a id to his dignity be has been made a Justica of the Peace to sit in judgment over of cuuors 01 uie trios. I _ ' Life insurance made immense gains In 1S91, declares the New Hayen (Conn.) Palladium. The payment in death elatras alono by American companies i cannot bare fallen much, if any, short o' o*e billion dollar*. The amount of uew business written undoubtedly exceeds that of any preceding year. More families are protectni by lite insurance to(a ' day tha.-\ aver before in* the history of .tfc*foulness. , .-.r O.'loins Pics'Sb's, was there a deeper or rairo gen-.. .&*'-ffal interest in the subject of astroaonx*. jh^iosi research than at th9 present tinas. Too recent interview with tho planet Mir*, tho speculations that it called forth and the results expected fro n it, Invc clttime I the attention of thousands, an I even miohauio* talk astronomy over their work. The transit of Venus, not ionj ago, likewise stirrel th? intereit of thousands of people, who could not even understand why it was of iranortmce. The two grent wonders of London are Its aristocracy nnd its fog. Just novt there is a lull of aristocratic scandal of high grade, nnd so the twin wonder, the fog, is the uppermost topic of discus ion. The President of the Institute of Civil Engineers has discovertd that the fog is worth its weight in gold, or at le&st in sulphur. He says that the sub phurious vapors produced by coal combustion in London, in one day, is equivalent to 350 tons of puro sulphur. This gaseous mass, mingling with the fog, "deodorises and disinfects the air, destroying disagreeable smells emanating from refuse and sewers, killing disease germs," e'c. Oa the other han 1, the chief medical journal of London, while partially admitting this srgu uent, declares that the sulphurious log attacks the luogs, "bringing oa bronchitis and asthma, to say nothing of disagreeable taste, filthy smell, studed nose, husky throat, smarting eyes and healaohe." It la pretty evident that there is nol much choice between the moral and the physical atmosphere of Loudon. Tha rt'ac of the Hudson Hivor as an attraction and an advertisement for the New York Central Ultima 1 is, declares a writer for the New York Mail and Express, incalculable from tho monetary st-indnoint. It is certain!v worth mil. ---r ? ? -? lioos. Foreigners desire to com para tba Hudson with the Rhiue. General Passenger Agent Dsniets uji Englishmen Inquire of him sometimes, after they haro made the trip from New York to Albsny, along the beuks of the Hudson: "Whj don't you oall this river fee American Rhine!" Mr. Daniel's reply is: "Why don't they call the Rhine the Gerraso Hudson!" The writer said to Mr. D.tniels that if there were no Hudson River the freight traffic of bis railroad would bo largely inoreaaed and he astonished him by making this reply: "But for this ' river and the Brie Oaaal, it would be impossible for the enormous grain crop of tbo West to reioh the seabosri. O ir railroads could not transport it. It would be necessary for the people of the West to keep it, or to burn it. The railroads have all they can do. The river aoi the canal ara both necessary fre'ght highways." v-Xx FOREVER. Jfwo little streamlets leapt Mid flowed, ^iotflKang their songs together; They felt alike the mi Timer rays; And bore the stormy weather; 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 they dance.l. Each leaping toward the river. And then they met to kiss an 1 part Forever and forever. Two human lives, two kindred hearts By destiuy's decree. Met in the spring of life, to learn Its deepest my*t?ry. They dreamed their morning dreams oi hope, " Through fair unc'onded weather; They opened love's bewitching book, An 1 read it through together; They saw in one another's eyes A deep unspoken bliss; And from each other's lips they took Love's ever ready kiss. And then the fate that crushes all The sweet Dleasures here. Turned hope's glad music to a sigh. Its glory to a leir. It stepped between them: ab, it mocked The lovo it could not kill; It bade them in its fury lire, And lore, and suffer still. They tried with outstretched hands to span Fates wide unyielding "Never." The voice of destiny replied: "Foreror and forever." Mine is no wild imagined thorn*, No idle fancy fl'ght. It lives through daylight's busy hour a, And haunts the silent night. The wail of sorrow Alls the air, It rests, it ceases never; It wrings some soul, it breaks some heart, Fortver and forever. ?Chambers's Journal. AVON BY* FIRE. aaMUScoLor.o'3 A . l^jB^weslero windows I ( \reflected back the _\\ 1 y i\V/V^Bi turora as the sun \\\ I I - '0///AMKL went down over ^\\\\ the Wis c o n s i n y/ vA| Prflir^e# through 'Jl \ \1 a bank of illumi> h'ISL^ Y*J Dated ra'8t one '/wk. * X. ^October evening, 'iflik iM^LR,{e Superior's \ vi^UX Vn I waves were tip..'fyflai X. ped with the re^\al ^ ^ect'oni au(^ the |)|^9I light-house at the entranco to the little harbor cougbt up the glow end clung to ' ' ?^jjL ... |l| ll .|l i JPL* 1 ^ It Ukilll fM JOIIflP \ ' *' blaze within and the darkness without banished the color. The night breeze set in oil the land and the autumn leare? turned and scurried backward like school children answering the master's bell. Lissic Dean, her goidcu hair blown about her face by the breeze and burnished red in the setting rays of the sun, stood in front of her father's gate bidding good-by to Mark Conway. Her 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. Dean 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, vas Mark's lather. Many times have such good-bye been said before. Many times the promises made in the gloaming have been broken. Many times hands have been piessed and kisses havo sealed a solemn compact between girl graduate and prospective college student. Lissie stood leaning on the pickets long after Mark had gone away- Stood there until the moon came up and the lap of the waves at the back of the house attracted her attention, and she walked around ber dilapidated home and entered a boat moored to a little landing reached by a solitary plank that spanned the shallow water. Evening after evening was spent in the boat singing, talking to the X i * -? " is uuuui ucr wuu uer iqidu always OQ -the youog student. , Letters came frequently?the fervent breathings of no enthusiast. A year passed by. Mark returned to Tuscololo for the vacatiou and found Lisste teaching in the village school. The old house had been remodellod with the money she had earned. The sweetness of the vacation aud tbo memories treasured for the winter mouths 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 wont out to the docks to witness the sight. Qreat pillows of crystal splendor choked and gorged and ground out through the entrauce of the harbor, forced lakoward by the strong wind from the southwest, went out post tho lighthouse aud slowly floated away. Navigation was open and business for the season began in earnest. That night when Lizzie stopped at the postofflce a bulky bundle 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. Ono tide of the package was half covered with stamps. Her letters I Only a line came with them: "I cannot explain now. Forgive me, dear Lxsie. Mark." When John Dean cam* home that night he found his daughter's head bowed over that sorrowful pile. For a II,-,,- - - - * k* ? ?.1 .A 4L. -t _LA mi >?'?i?ut uv gn/toi* J?t mo {{ill. inCD bis arms went round hor drooping shoulders, "This is hard, poor girl. Hard, bard/" Tears be^an to fall upon the well-preserved envelopes. What could Jobn Pean do) Ha thought of tho dead mother and wished, as he had wished tbousauds of timas before, that she were here to give her girl advice. Liuie was sensible and he knoW it and did what he TOtStf Bot^ef^olog?gare her comfort c in his sympathy, and savr the tears shin- a .ng on her browa eyelashes as she gath> t ered together Mark Conway's letters and fa sent them in a little box to the postoN n flee. Ife did not see the slugle scarlet geranium that was placed on the top of a the pile. o * * * r Bell rang out a merry chime across . the restless waters of the lake from the a :hurches of Tuscololo one Wednesday t light in August. The sun had just set ind the glow of the clouds was again rejected upon the polished glass of the r lighthouse at the entranco to the harbor. B In this limited haven, bounded on fa three sides with double rows of Dihnir > and on the other by hugo stacks of luna- ( ber, rode a couple of barges and a schooner with her sails furled. Over the f side of the boats the red-shirted "lum- { Insr-shovem" crawled back and forth with their white' pine boards like ants ^ with grains of wlieat. In the middle of iho towering piles was the dosk where * the steamboat tied up once a day with r the mail and where the offices of Con- ^ way Co. were located. Just outside the harbor a little row* ^ boat tossed a solitary occupant?a woman?Lissiu Dean. When the bells * ceased ringing and the yellow beacon flashed out to guide and warn the be- * lated mariner, the strains of a hymn ' canto floating in from the boat. Lissie i was singing. Hersnd, sweet voice roie t and fell, was wafted in or carried away by a fickle breeze that hesitated betwee.i 1 the land and the water, to a little knot i of loungers around the door of the wharf 1 office. The gulls flew in flocks beside her, I tlieir gray wings whistling near hei 1 head. The wind sprung up cool from i oil the shore, and the girl pulled a heavy woolen shawl about hor shoulders and turned her boat across the rifllss that began to lap audibly against tho breakwater. Tne stars came out in myriads, spanning in a speckled arch the land and the water. Fire I Fire I Fire I Fire!" I The cry came from a man near the < dock, was caught up by aaother and nuotber, and swept to the uttermost limits of the town swifter than the fastest , swallow could fly. The 'longshoremen, silently working by the light of lanterns, < dropped their boards and started to- , wards the offlce near which a red glare j could be seon in the sky?a glow that stood for a moment over the dim and ] towering piles whose dark shadows | were reflected in the waters below. The church bells that had so musically called the worshiper^ to prayer wheu the sun went down wore seized wit'i the fever 1 of fear and clnuvad their warnings out with stuttering tongues. A flame like :?dT^niu^ti"wihl' JtafIfr 'I der. The flamee leaped upon the very ' top of one of the central piles, hissed and danced the length of the resinous planks, ciuog to the edge a roomeut, ' 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 and 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 flame skyward. The crew of the schooDer 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 Lissle witnessed the sight, saw the burning shingles carried up into the sky to fall bae'e into the water with a hiss. The crirl stcod up and with lipt apart watched the fight. A. bucket brigade had been quickly formed, and lino of men sent the water up from the lake in a brokou stream. The hoarse commands of the extemporized captain echoed out across ihe harbor, mingling with the crackling flames and the sputtering of the burning wood. Then a pile of lumber fell. Great sheets of fleme shot up, waved a fierce defiance as the demon grasped a blazing banner and flourished it half way between earth and sky; burning boards fell upon the barges, and the crews took to the little boats and escaped 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 heartrending screams of the women who had crowded up to the line of endurance. With eyes following the sparks, 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 IsPAthop KnaUanH ?rvr?? futKne or sweetheart?were in that faithful line under the burning planks. Part of the bucket brigade ha 1 been cut off. The wharf was ablaze frotn end to end. The black smoke settled upon the water and rolled out towards the girl in tho boat. She heard the cries and knew the meauing. Lizzie Dean dipped her shawl into the water and threw the wet wrap over her head and, shoulders and took up her oars. No mau ever pulled a boat more lustily, and the little craft shot into the black cloud as if propelled by more than humau strength. Tho cry of the baffled men grew plainer. Burning brands fell about her and her breath was almost burned away bf the intense heat and chocking smoke. She Eushed on until the prow of her boat noted against the pier in front of the office. Lizzie drew the wet shawl over her face. The back ot her hand was blistered ia tbe operation. By the burst* of flame she saw three meu clinging to the alippery pi I in at, their bodies ia the water. Like a phantom the little craft wa* pulled aloag uader the protection of the wharf, the rower'* head bowed well down. Every now and then she le-tue 1 out, her lipa almost in the wnter to dr iw a breath not laden with smoke. O.te at a tiae the men, nearer dead than alive, limbed into the beet, then she rowed way to the lighthouse landing, wh?rp he keeper helped to carry the smoke egrimed victims up the steps into tlic " larrow living rooms. Lissie was tenderly tjing a bandage bout the blistered hand and arm of ono i ( the men she bad rescued when she ecognized in the blackened and swollen ace the features of Julius Conway. His ;een, gray eyes were following her back r ,nd forth and the conscious blood mau- I led her pale choek. "Are you John Dean's girl?" be asked. < "John Dean is my father, sir,*' she i eplied, stepping haok, showing the wo- I nan in the pose. Then anxiously. "Is le safe!" in the sudden recollection she , ntrcatingly laid her hand upon Mr. ( /ouway's shoulder. "Yes, he is all right. T sent him up or more buokets and took his nine ? in , ho lino." J Lissie went on wifik life bandage*, and vben she had pinued tho last fold her , >atient rose to look oat of tho window t the fire, which was still burning fitiously. "I must get back, but how?-' le was saying. ( I shall row you in," Lissie said. t rhey ontered the boat and the womau ! lulled around the breakwater, in spite f the high waves, which now and thou i howed white caps on their crests. No 1 vord was spoken until the boat grated i n the sands back of John Dean's cotage. I "Come in and drink a cup of tea be- < 'ore you go down. You can do nothing i low. The lumber is bound to go aud 1 the wind will save tho town." Btrangoglrll Julius C'onway sipped bis tea and ate his toast, peeping over i Ihe edge of his cup at the woman who quietly set the thing boforo him. "So you wanted to marry Mark?" 1 Lissie, just in the act of entonug the ' kitchen, turned and stood in tho doori way, looking her questioner squarely in , the face. ! "Why!" 'You may if you wish." Tho cup rattled a little in the saucer as it was taken out to be refilled. * * Bells rang out once more over the waters from the steoples in the town of ntecotolo; this was two years later, when Mark had finished his couise at college and had taken a half partnership In bis father's business. This time they joyfully tapped out their weding chimes, for Lissie Dean and Mark Conway were made man aud wife. ?Chicago News. AN ERRORMAY~L6SET STATE The Democratic Electoral Tickets of South Carolina Printed Wrong. Chahi.kston, 8. C.?There is- danger vote of thid statc to icfioui eTW mfci t>e?^mna o Tn prlnVlffgr * the Democratic electoral ticket which would hare lcsultcd in the entire Democratic <-let on* i V4>ie being thrown out on account of illegal ticket. As it is, the tickets have been in the hands of the rommiss'oners of election and county committees for some time and have been partly distributed. Therein lies the danger. It is hard to te'l what proportion of the tickets that have been sent out from the State committee headquarters are illegal. Most of those hoard from are a sixteenth of an Inch too long, some too small, and some too large. The law says tbey must be 5 by 2 J inches In size. The responsibility for ?uch a serious error seems hard to fix. The tickets went through the hands of the executive committee. Secretary Tompkins lias ordered new tickets printed. He says he cannot tell how many of the illegal ticktts have gotten into the hands of the voters, but tbey were all distributed a week or so aco. lie states that he has sent out wa ning notice* to each coun'y clinir man and nil the Commissioners of election and docs not think any harm will come from it if they all act promptly anil energetically. Air. Tomptkins fails to account for the error. Late Mew* Items. It is probable that Scnor Cartellar, Spain's accomplished and eloquent prime minister, will be the orator on Ceremonial Day, when the Columb'an Exposition throw* its gates open to the world. Andrew Stephens, a full cousin of lion. Alexander II. Stephens, late Vice President of the Confederacy and last of the grnnluvs of Captain Alexander Stephens, who was with Braddock in his memorable march against Ft. Duqiiesne, died at his home in Newport Saturdny. Governor IIoll has appointed Richmond Pcar<on, of Ashcville, local vice president for North Carolina of the National League for Good Roads. Mr. Pearson will r present tho State at the rationnl convention at Washington City next month. The league was formed at Chicago week before last. On November 14 the Carolina State Fair will oped At Columbia, S. C A number of exhibits have been promised, among them a large entry of cattle and horses, and also one by Loring Brown of the poultry for which he is so well known in the South. Arrangements have been made for five performances of Paine's "Paris, from the Empire to the Commune," in which some 800 persons will take part 8everal racing purses have l>cen riiI,scribed, nod the city merchant* expect t > raise another of $1,000. Beat Hta Little St p-Daughter to Death. Colombia, 3. C.?Doreey Goodin, of Timraon*vHle, deliberately beat his seven-year-old rtepdnughter to deAth Saturday. He whipped the child with a large leather strap, having an iron buckle at the end, for twenty-flve minutes, and then picking the little girl up, hurled her to the floo-. She died shortly nftcrwards. Goodiu was arrested and, in spite of t rests of lynching, has been lodged in the Florence jail. Georgia Girl*a Conquest. Dknvkr, Cat-. - In the contest for the J) mor**t diamond medal Monday night tiM Margaret p. Badger, a font to- n yiar old glr', from Atlanta, On., whs the rictor. H?r subject wm: "Young America's War <|Crjr." y' *3 i . :* J ' . / DIXIE NEWS. Phe Sunny South Gleaned and Epito mized. Ill the News and Occurences Printed H- re in Condensed Form. At Reidsville, N. C., several gentleu en were arrested for playing crack-a-oo and fined #5 encli. A 2 year-old child of. Mr. Burnett, at 3lndcsboro, Va , fell into a boiler of hot n ila-ses the other day and was burned :o death. n n ii ... v. m. *# %\v\mi, i cpi t'suuiaug ? i nniajiranin syndicate, is in Columbia, 8. C., examining several large properties with new of large purchases. All efforts to revive the Younj? Men's Christian Association of Greenville, 8, D., and to put It On* a sound ~ financial b: sis, have failed. The furniture of the issociation has been piled away, and it is 1 kc-ly to be a long time before it will ever be used again. Tennessee's eapitol is without water, lie city of of Nashville having cut off the '.ho supply, owing to the failure of t he Hate to pay its water tax. Ex-Judge John Col'ier, of Atlanta, ivni striken with paralysis Wednesday morning and is dying, lie is a native of North Carolina and 77 years eld. The Home, Ga., Holliog-Mill went into the har.ds of a receiver Monday. They employed 300 h auls. The company is in deht to the employes |3,500. The muse of the trouble is not known. At Greensbo o, N. C., adr.iyman conveyiug a barrel of brandy into GorroU's saloon let it get away from liitn and ro 1 to the ground, where both heads fell out and nil the brandy ran into the gutter, except what was gobbled "up by spectators. During 1891 about 1,200 acres of land in South Carolina were planted in tobacco and nearly 900,000 pounds of tobacco raised. This year it is estimated that 4,413 acres have been planted, and thnt the yield will be over 3,900.000 pounds. George II. Allen, of Louisville, Ky., lias leased for fifteen years a tinct of 1,000 acres of coal lands near Norton. Va. Mr. A lion proposes a thorough devcl"pmcnt of the property, and will make arrangements for commencing work immediately. A battery of 500 coke ovens will be constructed at once and make about 500 tons of coke daily at the start. Messrs. Egan & Friday, who reeently secured the contract for completing the Charleston (S. C.) jetties, have com mcuced dredging, and will proceed will: the work as speedily as possible. The National Women's Christian TcmItcrancc Union convention, which has >ccn in session at Denver,Col..adjourned Wednesday. North Carolina showed Ilenrv M. Ncill, the well-known statis tician, estimate* the cotton crop of 1802 at 7.100,000 bales, maximum, exclusive of old cottou. In the event that the Texus yield falls below 2,000,000 bales he believes the crop may not reach even 7,000,000 bales. The new city directory of Roanoke, Va , shows over 10,000 names, aud the total population of the city, estimated, about 24,000. In the past two years nearly 1,500 houses have been erected, aud 5100 more are how uudcr construt' tion. The residences average in value between $2,500 and #5,000. Within the corporate limits there are 5,0G9 resi deuces 'occupied by 3,086 families. During the past few weeks there ha* been unusual interest in real estate a Savannah, Ga., and it is estimated tha since Sep*. 1 the sales have aggregate! over $100,000. An interesting statement as to the cos of cotton growing is made by Z. P. Fos ter, of Greenville, s. C., who plantei six acres in the staple this year. Ih reckons fifty londs of stable manure, witl hauling, cost $41 00; tivesarksof guano $11.25; hoeing, $15 00; plowing.$5 00 preparing ground, $8.00; picking,$40.05 seed, $1.00, making n total of $121.70, or $20 45 per acre. From this ground nine bales of cottoa have been secured, avcragi g $34 00 each, or $300. and ii addition $45.00 for seed, a total of $351, or $58 50 per acre, leaving a net profit of $228 30, or $38 05 per acre. At this rate cotton growing should be profitable, but, unfortunately, lliivo-ecnt cotton i* oftener road about than ?een. THE PRESIDENT'S 0RATITUDE. Feeling Acknowledgment of the People's Sympathy. Washington, I). C.?The Provident made public the following card in response to the inn merablc letters and telegrams of condolence and sympathy received by him during the past few weeks; "The expressions of sympathy with me and with my family in our great nuiiun, iiuiu muivmunir, irom societies, from church conventions, from public meetings, from political clubs and committees of all parties, ami. indeed, from all om people, have lie m so tender ami so full or respect and love of Mrs. Harrison, that I reluctantly abandon the purpose of making a personil ncknow lodgment of each. We are grateful, very grateful, for this cup of good will and for your prayerful intercessions. May God give to each of you iu every trial that grace and strength which you have nskrd foi us." Set a Hyena's Broken Leg. Cktmtsvii.mt, Tknn.?The hazardon task of entering n don of hyenas to at tend a wounded wild animal was per formed by Veterinary Surgeon Stanton Two hyenas belonging to Sells & It- n fpo'6 circus engaged in a fierce fight, an before separated one of them had broke the other's leg iu two places. Dr. Star ton was called and entered the hycu cage while the beasts were howling hid eously, tied the wounded animal with rope, set the broken limb and escnp unhurt. Several hundred person watched the operation with eager eye expecting every moment to see the sui geon eaten alive. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Latest News of America and Othei < ? Continents. A Resume of tho Happeni nga Fron ] All Parts of the World. The Belgian Chamber of Deputies a> Brussels rejected the proposition to grant ' universal suffrage. The Coney Island Athletic Club offer) a purse of $:io,000 to Bob Fitzsiinmoiu to fight Jim Mall next April The British government launched flu first clasi battle-ship Revenge at tlu Armstrong yard. Furniture and wicckage, picked up on North Island, conlbms the news of the loss of the steamer Gilcher. Moral ins Harris, a Homestead striker, killed "himself Tuesday, owing to do sppndcncy over the condition of nfTairs. John Lyons, of Cambridge, Mass., i? alive with a broken neck. Me was drunk and fell from a wagon, striking on his head. Lieut. Frederick Schwntkn, of Arcti< explorations fame, committed suicide a) Portland, Oregon, last Wednesday. The Hudson county, N. grand jury indicted 54 colored nnd 100 white met for false rcgi (ration. At Vinngora, in Austria, aery that the tower was collapsing caused a panic in a church, during which 25 people wort trampled to death. The Northumberland miners in England have voted to accept a 5 per cent, reduction of wages instead of going on t strike. Geo. J. Wheat, an engineer oti the Panhandle Hailroad, was struck by a train at Pittsburg Thursday morning nnd instantly killed. A gale swept over St. John's, N. P., j Wednesday, causing widespread destine tion nnd the loss of a schooner with q crew of four men. Ripple and Whalen, two soldiers at F. rt Brown, Texas, fought over a woman. Hippie killed Whalen and then took his own life. In an iuterview at Indiauapolis Attorney General Miller confirmed the report that he will soon retire from the Cabinet. The Fall River. Mass., manufacturers yesterday agreed to increase the wges of weavers to 21 cents a cut?practically a 7 per eeut. advance. The report of the American Cotton Oil Company, submitted at the nunual meeting iu New York, will show net profits of $2,000,000 against $1,322,094 in ' 1001 ; $775,000 was expended in repairs, and $225,000 covered into the ><nkinn I fund* . At the coining session of the British Parliament Joseph Chamberlain will in* treducea bill providing thitf miners shall Q',c^than forty etght hours a ^iwovision for local exemption', where the THOUSANDS IN CHARLESTON. Her Festivities Bring Many Visitors to the Historic City. Ciiahi.eston, S. (1 ?Charleston's g; la i week was opened in the in n ning by the formal call of Commander llrownson, of t the Vesuvius, up <n the mayor of. the c'tv. The officers of the warships were then escorted to the St. Charles Hotel, : where they were cordially welcomed by ! the (Jala Week Association. They weiv afterwards driven around the citv, and witnessed the Venetian display and , illuminati 11, which innugurated the fes t tival. t The cit v is decorated with the natinna. ^ eolors from the old ramparts to the Bat tery. Tin* second day of the Charleston earthquake gala week brought ten thou " -a id visitors. A leading feature in die programme of amusements was an in 1 tensely exei ing game of I.a Crosse l>, a 1 hand of civilized Clc rokee Ind tins from | the Government reservation i i North ' Car linn. At liitrht there was a ircnuiiie ' South Carolina rake walk, in which ' twenty of iho A fro-American elite of the State competed. 1'. was wit lessed by tif ceil tliousainl spcctato s and was a gre t sin ce s. The blue jackets and marines, such of them as can get shore leave from the war ships, are having a jolly time The officers returned from their deer hunt up the Ashl y river with veni on enough to snpt ly the mess tables or an entire cruise. Confession Extorted. Graham, N. C. ?A crowd of masked men, supposed to number more than fifty ( went to tlie jail in this place Tu fdaj night and took therefrom J. 8. Scwcll, . who is in jail under suspicion of know ' ing sometliing about the murder of J. F. Mu'thews. lie was carried over on .In 1 hill west of tho town, a rope having been placed ar.-uud hisneck, was throwi over a I m'?, and under these circumstan cos was asked to tell what lie knew about the klling of Mat hews. What h* *aid or confessed we do not know, a* the jailor was advised to keep his own counsel. After getting what they could out of ilie pr soncr they returned him b 1 A Built t in His Breast. ? I.u hkns, s (.'. -A. W. Ibirnside, ex Judge of I'robate fur this county, was found in an uncoits ions state* in liis gar | den in this city ?t 11 o'clock. A pistol wound was found in t'.ie left breast and I a small pistol at Ins side. He liar been ' inwe'l for some time, and in a fit of aberration of mind he indicted the fatal w- und himself. A New Orleans Opera House Burned. < Nkw Oiu.kans, La.?The Grunwald Oj?rra House, valued at $2 0,000, was .. destroyed bj fire at an early hour. The building was insured for f (10,000. Only th ough the work of the fire department j was a terrible ^oefl gration avoided ,. Mis. Met* and son were badly burned, i A.'rested Ait ino undertakers. Wichita Kan.?Wichita is wi bout ' an undertaker. Deputy United ?tate* '' marshals cime from Topeka and arrested all the undertakers in town as " defendant? in the prosecution started by the Topeka undcrtakei who is not in the tius*. They expect to give bond and rs" turn ALLIANCE READING. Some Interesting Matter For The Order. News of Alliances and Remarks of Interest From Different Sources. In Wilson County, N. , a Union Al linnce meeting is he *1 quarterly l>v live ?uh-Alliances. Last week they met at Rock Ridge Academy, Wilson county. Each Al'inure furnisher a ch ir, and they consolidate nod furnish cxccllc t music on such occasions. Uro. Hoover,Lecturer for Wilson county, made n speech at the mnv uivCKUg Jj. Cj. 11VWBIIIII, ?>l I.ucama, was also called out and made a good Rjiecch. Governors I'cnnnyor,of Oregon; Buchanan, of Tennessee; Toole, of Montana; Tillman, of South Cy?rrtMnj~;"~1SrofUI?TE of Utorgi.i, nnd several others arc all A! lianceinen. The postal system pays the rnilro.*ds $325. o<) for hauling a mail ear fi in New York to San Francisco. This car would easily seat sixty people, which would be a little over live dollars a passenger across the continent! This shows some of the things the future has in store for our people. * * ? ? * CHAIRMAN KUKIDKNTIIAI. A( (Jt'iri K?. Aiiii.knk. Kan.?Chairman Breioenthai,of the Alliance State coiumitt-e, accused of violating the banking law, alter a three days' trial, attracting much at tcntlon, was acquitted. The court held that, as secretary of the Irinalon company, the law did not apply to him, and the case was dismissed. Tho Farmers' Alliance have done it! God bless those who inaugutuUd a means by which the people can meet ou common grounds ? Union. Montrc*e, Col. lluron(S. i). ) Jluralint: A full legal tender dollar never depreciate s below any other full legal tender dollar, no mait t what it is made of. A man has no more right to pile up wealth and improverish his fellow men than he h is to dam up all the spiings and cause th-rm to | erish fioni thiist. ? WythceiUe (K?.) Neicn. In 1H08 it took 50 baits of coltou to pay the salary of or.c Con^ressm m iio.v it takes 100 bales! to pay him. No won der he wants scarce money ?Liberty, A'. C.y Aiii mice Echo. At a recent mcct'ng of farmers held in Meridian, Miss , a Farmers' Institute was organized for the purpose of encouraging wheat growing. It is expected that u large flour mill will l>e erected in Meridian shortly, provided that the parties in terwted cjii feel asiurcd of a good share of wheat from the neighboring sections t-amue. bailey is chairman of the institute.. and VV. C. Grcsett, secretary. + 4 * * * ' ital at the expense of labor? c. ^ If it is within the province of the Gov- t eminent t > help capitalists lower the wages of labor, is it not also within the providence ol the Government to help laborers increase their wnires at th.? ex pensc of capital? If not, why not? Are not latnrcra ns useful citizens and ns much entitled to the protection of the Government ns capitalists? That is, since capitalists claim the right to Government aid in lowering the wages of !ul> >r (and receive the aid they claim), why should not laborers receive Govern meat aid and protection when they desi?c to increase their wages? In the great industrial battle, why should the Government place i'sclf at the disposal of one side, and one side only? Why should the Government under take to shoot laborers for the benefit of capita ists, rather than to shoot capitalists for the benefit of laborers? Is a government which makes war upon the people, n Government of, for, and by the people? Can it be possible that our Government has forgotten iti origin, and is now more ready to aid the rich in their s hemes than to protect (lie p? r? Such qucst'ons as 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' f-hnll wo vote fo. the interests of millionaires, or shall we vote in the interest of the Atnerienn people? Which shall rule, h otic or the ninetynine? \\ hieh shall rule, men or money? Hiall men nil money, or shad money rule men? "Nature's Citj." There fs a curious group of rocl<s near fllilnu, Italy, which forms the oft-describcd "Nature's City." An irregular moss of rocks some 200 feet high resembles a citadel. Helow are five depressions, of which one is a gigantic amphitheatre, and the second a necropolic, a third a parade and the fourth a regularly laid out city quarters, with public monuments, gates, streets, eic.? . Chicago Herald. ' *4R ' A Not I .Hatch. A novel much is bo.iig made ii Swede j. It is in the form of a tapj ol paratli ied paper, with igoitiag poiats at regular intervals, and a protecting metal cover. As a piece of the paper is drawn out it iirntte*. burning slowly and evenly. The metal cases may be raide in varioui design*, and when *k roll of paper ha been used a new o.-e can be inserted.? Trenton (N. J.) American. A Well Known Cotton Buye. Wrong. Nkw Oui.kvns, La ?Thomas A. Gleaaon, cot'on bu vcr, has Ix-an arrest d charged * ith obtaining money, oMiina e?l > * ^ at from fft.OOO to fl5,C00, from the Whitnc/ National Bank of this city b/ means of forged press receipts f-?r cotton and fraudulent policies of insurance upon the tame, lie was arrai.ned up n two charg s. Mr. Olcason has been in Ihu cotton busi?era here for the list liftmu years, and is well known t? cotton men throughout the country. ' jSm