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^^ r TIE WEEKLY ^RISm TIMES M ?o A?i hwkm t, JfciKiwXi'r>, Dome*io Bemomy, Pohte JMorl^ jP*Mm cmd ttus Gurrent N?tt of the Day. .. ? . S2j? ^ ? i ? - - _ _ ?? - ? I - ~-? _____ VOL. XXIIL---NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FQWAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1892. _ A _!-- * * - f jl weii-miormoci statistician has stated that more Hebrew synagogues have been set up in this country during the past ten years thau in all previous years of (American history. i The Boston Transcript laments that whales aro getting almost as scarce as .tea serpents, and that whalebone is get(ting to cost so much that dressmakers' bills are just about half "for trimmings. " t ss Columbus is everywhere, the New Tork Journal exclaims, and the very winds seem to shout his name. Even the yacht clubs talk of having lectures on the voyage of Columbus, and befor e the winter is over some of them mav debating the question "Was Columbua imuch of a sailor!" "" * > . | It was lately quoted in British shipping circles as a proof of the depression affect* ing the shipping trade that a splendid four-masted iron bark of 2000 tons register, owned on the Clyde, came into port from Australia in ballast, was unable to get a cargo, and sailed back for Ithe antipodes again with the same ballast tahe brought with her. > ' There is an unwritten law among as- 1 tronomers that when new bodies are discovered in the heavens they are not to 1 Ireceive the names of their finders, nor of any other person. Without exception the celestial nomenclature is taken from 'Greek and Roman mythology?not only ' the gods and mortals enjoying this diaitinction, but beasts, from Pegasus to Medusa, and occasionally iuanimato i thin firs of mvthr?lnr?!*?i ...??! ?!? w ujouuiatlull. ! The railroad building of 1894 la the * United State3 is estimated by the New i (York Independent at a little leu than idOOO miles. This 4000 miles will bring jthe railroad mileage of the country up to a u aggregate of 175,000 miles. Only 10,000 miles of railroad were built from >1830 to 1851; during the next Are years as many more were built, and then the increase was greater until 1887, when 13,800 miles were built, the largest num- < Iber of new mileage recorded in any one ?*-- w s *?ar. _ , -"Tho dreaded disease beriberi is on- f ffamiiiar to New York, but on this coast,'' a . Jobber vee the San fe'rancisoo Chronicle, Wt: there on so many vessels from the Orient, " INo one has been able to explain its cause. (It is something like elephantiasis, only ^ ifar more swift and deadly in its effects, and science has not yet discovered any jr cure for it. It is like many South Sea j( island maladies which show that in an learthly paradise there is always the trail 'of the serpint." - 1 The Burial Reform Society ia England jhas made an exhaustive stuiy of this 01 jsubject, and has shown the enormous ex- b< penso of the present system. It has ^ jfound also an earnest and widespread response to the appeal for a different state *P |of things; but the chief obstacle it a 'h jdeep-rootod custom which has such cher- te: lished family associations entwined 'around it,and 44 which shrinks1' in the ee* he timation of the Ohristian Guardian, on .?4from change as from sacrilege. Such a m( (feeling has no reasonable foundation; 001 and the relief aud practical benefits Va which would flow from less elaborate and expensive funeral customs, would t01 soon outweigh all other considerations." C01 , dig Incidental to the war flurry occasioned 1 by the Chilean affair officers of the ebl various railroads received communica- mil - tions from Government officials asking information relative to the movement of *n< troops in large bodies. Secretary Elkins to . has received a letter from J. T. Odell, ' General Manager of the Baltimore and the Ohio road, stating that'since the G. A. froi R. encampment at Washington he was 4 able to reply to the inquiry. Tb? four hav trunk linei, he says, can move from the has interior to the coast, taking the mean 1 distance at 1000 miles, 350,000 troops ' !m thirty hours, together with their he. jneceesary equipment, horses, etc., and givl L?.1t * ? nuj>t>iiui. ac cuo same timo, he says, in ] these roads oan move erfough commercial you supplies so as not to affect the goneral mui business of the country. tim .I. i i tH i Capitalists are preparing to establish a 8 }ine of steamers between Portland, Ore- t*n( |gon, and the Sandwich Islands to obtain *ke a share of the trade which San Franoisoo c1*1' nowmcnopolir.es. The islands last year 0001 paid to San Francisco firms #373,000 for Hour and $465,000 for grain and feed. c^' Port la ud can supply these stapl es oheapor than its rival, and in return for them ? expects to bring bananas, pineapoles, w I mangoes, and other fruits to its own " door. As a local merchant pats it: There is no reason why Portland should *Q<* pay San Francisco a commission on oar w#n traits, and no reason why the Islands * should pay Sau Franoisoo a commission 1 en Oregon flour and feed. Closer com- wlth merolal relations must prove profitable I*?** both to Portland and the islands, and I ball lee no reason why the enterprise should ^ $ot be a success." " I THAN K.SOI VINO. With quickened heart and with handed head . Bless the bounty that never ends, The great, aweet gifts of life it sends, Hope to the living and rest to the dead; For the boundless wealth of good it spends Be thanksgiving sung and said, And most for the blessing of home and friends. The pale years wane and falter. . J And melt away like snow, Bnt on its holy altar Love's fires unchanging glow} To dear, familiar plaoea, Lured by its gentle light, Come back the dear, dead faces Out of the awful night. Beside it, on Thanksgiving, The kindly feast is spread. And old, lost hopes are living. And old, fond words are said; Baid by the long-stilled voices, Beard by the heart alone, And memory rejoices In the sweet undertone. Though years the head may whiten, , The heart shall not grow gray; Young thoughts that thrill and brighten Possess the smiling day. To all our best and dearest I A loving cup we fill, 1 To friends that are the nearest, j To love Time cannot kill. rhe hearth's alight,* and the feast is sproad, , Blest he the love that never ends, Por the hope of the living, the rest of the dead, c Be thanksgiving sung and said, i And most for the gift of home and friends, t ?New York Bun. ^ A. Thanksgiving Surorise. 1 BT HELEN FORREST ORAVE8. ^5^** i\WI T was the close g ^ II ?'a brief *utumn -] A " 11 day; the last level B beams of the saf- t V^HHBiBGfe^ rou-tinted sunset a '^3lDBIIBfe/ were P?ePioS o \\\iniiu(<iP^^tbrou8h tbe fi plate-glass case- 0 .ffiSahfrf&p ~==z^- 8reat Eighth aye v jHktT ^Fr nue 'tore, and g KiUy K,W9on' a tortured with a plitting headache and wearied with the tl noeeaani buzz of questioning voices, ireaeod both hands Over her forehead ad asked herself: { s ^ "WiiU never u^rne* WiU ^ The floor superintendent came up. "Miss Kaeaon," said he sbarplj, g: rhat ails you to-day? J have heard tore than one complaint. Is it simple isttentiont or don't you care whether fa ou retain your position here or not!" ni Kitty looked piteoUsly up. C( "My head aohes so!" said she. "But w didn't known. What can I do, please?" g, "Here's a lady asking for mode-coled gloves, and you've taken out the w] >x of blacks," said Mr. Irwin, impasntly. "Really this won't dol" ^ "Kitty murmured a word or two of a lology, substituted tho mode-colors for W( e blacks, and set herself to be as at- cg ntive as possible. Tt Headache or no headache, it h?hnn?A/i ' '? us r to giro satisfaction. She had not lj herself to support, but the ailing ap >ther, whose board she paid at a iiain's larmhouse in the Connecticut j0j illey. To her every dollar meant its 1 worth, and when she saw girl cusnere of her own jge scattering the itonts of their purses with reckless regard, she could but wonder. But when the crowd of shoppers had >ed and flowed itself away, and the ich-betumbled and becrumpled stock s replaced in boxes and on shelves, 1 the girls were departing, Kitty came Mr. Irwin's desk. Well!" he said impatiently, biting handle of his pen, as he glanoed up m the big book before him. I Mr. Irwin," faltered Kitty, "I n't had any vacation this year. Can j ? e a week at Thanksgiving!" _ flr. Irwin frowned. *You had the chance in August," said ,i "No, we can't spare you at ThankeIng, Miss Kasson. Three of the girls rour department have been ahead of in securing that time, and, as you it know, we are extra busy at this s of year." 'I couldn't go in August," said Kitty. ' he did not like to tell the superin- ~ lent that she had lent her salary for , month of August to poor Mary Sin- ^ r, to pay for a sea-coast trip for her ^ ramptive sister, that the sistfcr had ftO 111 1 at Ooean Beach, and that Mary Sin- ^ r had never been able to repay the nuu >btedne?. _ [ow true it if that "it if the poor who ?jj good to the poor 1 ,( Couldn't I poeelbly?" . No, jou oouldn'tl" enid Mr. Irwin, 4J turned to hie big booki a* if the eeee ?cloeed. f*" ittie Kaaeon went quietly home to olltary hall bedroom that she thered " i n hollow-eyed etitoher in n comet . . , . . 8kei >ry, whoee cough kept her nweke nriw the night. ^ hey mode theraaeltee l cup of febuly week tee, nod nibbled at breed K butter, with a pan ef eUme, whioh . f ' ? \ si. J'* * Jil.. Miss Skerrett had cooked orur a neigl bor'a stove, to give some relish to it. They sat with shawls around them, an< left the door into the hall open, in hope that some current of warmth from th down stain rooms might set their way "Ob, here's a letter for you, whioh IN nearly forgotten 1" said Miss Skerrett. "It got slipped under the bread plate. Kitty opened it and read it eagerly. Then her head dropped on her hands she burst into tears. "No bad news,*! hope!" said Mia Skerrett, who was mending the wontec gloves which had so often been mended before. "No," said Kitty. "Nothing on* what I might have expected. The ol( homo is sold?to somebody from thi West!" "But it hasn't been really youn for s long while, has itf" said Miss Skerrett. "Well, no!" Kitty admitted. "Bui IS loner as flnitirA Tuff 14 11 0 j vnugv* lb| l/litJIC <vas somo chance of our baying it back. When I first catno to New York, yoi know, Sarah, I was suro I could sell the jovel I had written, and rebuild the famly fortunes. I fancied it was only a natter of a year or two. Now I know vhat nonsense it was. No matter. I'm roung, and tolerably strong. But it'll some hard on mother?poor mother I? vho^as kept hoping all her lifetime for hings that never came. I've got to vrite to her, now, that I can't be at lome for Thanksgiving. They won't pare tnel" Miss Bkerrett shrugged her thin shoutlers. ''Well,"said she, "what you haven't ;ot you can't miss. I never had a thanksgiving 1" Kitty did not not answer. She was hinking of the red November sun, the romatic scent of dead leaves, the sound f church bells chiming across the frosty elds, the smell of burning beech logs n the old stone hearth. And all that night long, when poor lice Skcrrett slept and coughed by turns, Litty Kassou lay awake and Jtaufijfl bcut Thanksgiving. I '^nHHH have >urae, I couldn't buy it; ^"^l I ouldn't have some so sudden if I haB iowq beforehand." Miss Skerrutt was full of a new plan ben Kitty cime home that night. "Kitty," said she, "you felt bad about sing your Thanksgiving. Let's have little one of our own, A chicken >n't cost much?poultry is always eap if you wait until the night before tankagiving. And Mrs. Daley will let cook it in her oven, and we could ye a few roast chestnuts and two red pies, and a cranberry tart from the ker's. It won't cost so much if we n together." 'Off, HKRE's I/STTER FOR YOU.n 'But it wouldn't he a real Thanksgiy. said Kitty, shaking her head, with d smile. u?t then the letter carrier's whittle 1 aded in the hall below. fow flew Kitty, and' returned with ther letter, directed thie time la Mrs. ley's stiff hand writing. [itty turned pale. Open it, Sarah," said she. UI can't. 1 ler mother's sick or ?or she's deadl" Neither one nor the othor," said ih Ekerrett, who had made haste to ik the seal. "Shall I read it to youf" f Dear Kittt: Come to Thanksgiving j year, and bring your friend Miss rrett. Do not fail. It ie to be a sur? to your mother. So no more at ent. "From your couiio, ? D ichor ah Copi.nr," itty grew red and white. Oh, butl can't I" she. a ?Obl but jou ? "What will Mr. Irwin sa$^B ^ a "What he pleases. Oh, We ar< e such slaves all our life loo|,V let ut have one free moment, and rlsPthe con-. The dimples came into>KL&?eljieek. "We willl" said she. ?uJE It was a stormy aunsetf tL Bbrooded, ; in its red magnificence, ot%r|ne smiley that night; but Thansgivthftbone of s the few things that stormy W B?r can1 not spoil; and as Kitty 8kerl rett stepped of the train, sweet scented air came fApHL pine k' glens, the rea^ft3^'ustle<^||j||HPtf-and t tno red barns in tho dwtalflPieemed as s if it were but yesterday that JL had left * Mrs. Copley was at the dlwai rubi cund and short->breathed \ "There's a waggin'bac^^i^tttTghti house," said she. 41 Wait atftU, girls, till the train's gone by. lfcefeiots', he's i skeery of the cars." vl i 4'But what do we want twcp Wagon?" said Kitty. "It isn't a quaxtfjlof a mile , to your house, Cousin Deb.J'$X 4 4We ain't a-going therel^Wtid Mrs. Copley. 4 4 Your ma, she's "Moyedl Oh, Deb, I kn^^MpVen't been able to be very regular 1W pay. ments of late," aaid Kitty, tilflJin suffocation coming into he$ WWsil'but surely?surely you haven't lefcjhfaa take her to the town house!" NijJ**.. 44Wal, I guess not!" sswf Mrs. Cop- ( ley. 44Get into the wa|^|-| . You'll 3 biram Taft was ddvfi^.^! titty viewed him sternlv. amSafii^ rAi i-~ hit nod. r "You are'not vexed irf?e^,.ott'' i aid he. . "You have broken t tie in a low voice, 1 pointed "Stopl" cried KtH^^^^fche]^ old home. Stop, me of have one look at it. iflHnere are thi lights in the window I Lwff Sarah-? thi there's the window where Imed to peep grt out winter nights and witca for Santa tat Claus's coming. Thero'i the big flat de stone where we used to pliy Jack-straws, and the apple tree, where t^e red gillsflowers grew. And, oh, Sarah I am I dreaming? There's motlifrpomlng out to the gate to meet me, just as she al- . ways did. Drive ou, A'tifaml I?I think my brain mu?t he goi<fc>" 'I guess we wou't dri^i on," said Abiram Taft, alighting nod;deliberately ^ tying the sorrel horse to the post. ^ Your brain's all right, kitty. It is ^ your mother; and you be comln' home tjQ again, just like you al*ayt did. The house's your mother's, Kitty ; I deeded it to her, I bought it of fsther with the profits I made in that Western ranch affair. I never felt quite satisfied about that foreclosure business,what I call restitution monej.' But," cried Kitty, 'the old furniture?the dear, tall clock the high- 1 topped chairs?." |r w "I manured all that,"jald Abiratn, ^ limply. 'I sort o' pfwiid^to hare it W? ill dovetailed in by Tuakijiving Day. You see, Kitty, I know ri|ht wall you ion't love me; but, for nil/ that, no oua ' Mm stop me from loving yfu and work- j log to make you happy. ( couldn't nohow stand the idea of jiur bain' shut up in that big city store like a bird in a J jage. Go in, Kitty. Doh't you see your J nother waitin' for yout" , "But?but you'll corns and spend rhanksgiving Day with V* to-morrow, kbiram!" faltered Kitty, still lingering >ut under the lilac busbsi, although her land was tightly clsiped in her % nother's. ^ 'Do yon want me *$ittyr i Yes, I do.H \ ~ 1 .... .? 1 V i "rnen I'll comer ^ Back to the old hearth na Kitty. The amiliar cricket still chirped between Us atones; the kettle ? ?* the earns /" leepy tune oyer the fie Oh, mother, mother," she gasped, how happy I ami Oh, how nun wearer J my A hi ram Tift backf ^ The little, black-roiwl widow smiled ^ a aha took a pan of h it biscuit out of 8hk:' t f" $ ft. -j the oven and set the steaming teapot p further back on the stove. ' "There's only one way, daughter, that > I know of," said she. "You've sneered i < at honest Abiram and laughed at him all a these years, but now-?" MRS. COPLEY PREPARING THE TURKEY. 8 "Now," said Sarah Skerxctt, turning e Kitty around so that Bhe could look fi full into her eyes?"now she loves him. P , . it I can see it in her eyes. Ah, Mrs. Kas- a son, time has taught her more lessons than onel" ic And Mrs. Copley, singeing the pinfeathers off a fat young turkey in the back kitchen, mused to herself. g, "Well, I shouldn't wonder if that tangle came straight arter all. Me and or Oopley got engaged on Thanksgiving Day. It always was a lucky time." cu ? be Five Grains of Corn. 8el Tl The pleasant custom of beginning a Qr rhanksgiving feast by laying five kerlels of corn upon the plate ot each per- re] on at the table, in cc ^memoration of ^}< he time when thn , : iounaera of T |jgg?gand had but five grains of corn j"' serves, .so far as it is ob- be place, render th ttgAPtrafit beTb 1^| ^or ft a inapprobeen great personal calamity: a nesti- '' . , nvi ^^Hnve carried off thousands, or ()t|K Hffea havo been hard for the people. sou Kit these things are the live grains ^ corn upon the plate; all may bo sure ^ it the account will bo much moro p|aj in righted; that our debt will be much gies eater than all our thanks can pay, our t'u" >le more beautifully spread than we ^ serve.?Youth's Compauion. ship ... to ri No Respect for Age. ?vci Is there any portion of the fowl you linci sfer. Major!" asks the sutler's wife, ' J eut1 ndly. gjvc The left wing, if you please." not ' The left wing?" *v'*'( Yes, retorted tho Major, gazing uiousiy at iuo pituicr. -i ueuevo ic char always good military tactics to bring disti > left wing of a veteran corps into acn first!" a?d " cr tl No Neck in Hi?. | tiom The Minister?"Well, my little man, ist are you thankful for to-day?" ther Bobby?"That the Thanksgiviu' dinr's mos' ready." Cor Somebody has said that if Pasteur C0J) re paid a royalty on all the money he he|( I saved to the commercial world he adv uld be the richest man on earth. old misi A Cloud on the Horizon. <iep eX?' DIXIE _NEWS. The Sonny Sooth Gleaned and Expito mized. AJl the News and Occurences Printed Here is Condensed From. Charleston, 8. C., has another savings bank?the Commercial. The mayor of Lynchburg, V?., lion. Robert D. Yancey was married Thursday night to Miss Rosa Faulkner. In the Virginia Supreme Court of Ap peals at Richmond, B. Larey Hoge was admitted to practice in the court. ( The new trunk factory to be built at | Petersburg, Vs ., will be quite a large tifair. With the most modern machinal < The Hebrews of Charleston and Sum- t ;er, 8. C., are each preparing to build a ^ lynagogue. One will also be built at c Charlotte. N. C., next year. ^ Work on the Ocmulgcc river is being l tushed forward rapidly, and within n t hort time the channel will be clear from ji lacoUfQa , to the sea. Congress ap- g iropriatcd $25,000 for this work last o PQQIAn ,.?u. V The Atlantic Coast Lino are miking <*> xtensivc improvements in its terminal C icilities at Columbia, 8. C. It intends utting in additional side-track to reach ci ldustries heretofore shut off from such convenience. Wm. Midcr, who killed Jack Wilfoug P i Iredell County, N. C-, on the 1st, m mvictcd of murder in Iredell Superioi di ourt this week, and sentenced to be fo inged in January, but appealed to the is ipreremc Court. St It is reported that n company is being ,U1 gunized to purchase 20,UU0 acres o( ll ud in Craig valley, Va. This land wil ot divided iuto teu plantations for thi ^ ltivation of such products as the soil i? st adapted to. A large tract will bi t apart for sheep and stock raising l?l le location will be near the town <?' aig City and NewCnstle. l>a The Association of Southern Cannery. (''' presenting the States of Virginia, >rtli and South Caroliua, Geoigia, Ft.M orida, Alabama, Teuuessee and Ken " ;kv, was organized at Savaunali Tues : ? y. A resolution was passed which will , sent to every canuer in the Sou'h foi . J ;naturo, protesting against the duty on !n i and demandiug its repeal. It is reported that a large cave, c<jui! Jp,C, size and beauty to that in Luray, ha- |.J Bn.discovered near Harrisonburg, Va .j0, ,e discovery was made while blasting ir twenty-four rooin* nd further exploration I t, open inauv more tur e neighboring towns lVU ic place and collec ting ovy ctites, some of wh ic! 1 autiful,, sio ^ 1' vv ^ on Long and flhort Hauls. H^^Lton, D. C. ?The inter-state ^(M ^^^^Rmimission an nounccd its de- \ [ brought by the Georgia 1 >;i I t^^^PKovlcans and Texas Pacific w?(ij Iwa^^fompany, I'13 Louisville and ^ hvillo Kuilmnd Company, and other roads and steamship lines, seven cases 11, iuvoliug rates for longer and shortauls from Cincinnati and other Ohio r points, and from New York and .. H :r nor.h Atlantic ports to points in ' .... 1 r wca hern territory. inong other points the commission (j' Is that the fact of a receivership for j( j)i fendnnt enrrier subsequent to com- j nt sli uld not interfere with the pro- j s of a proceeding brought merely for ^ t purpose of railway regulation. The ^ ise "common control, management or t ) j ngem nt for continuous carriage or incut,'' in the first section of the "act j gulate commerce," was intended to j r all interstate traffic carried through ,p nil rail or poit water and port rail .n ( he competition of ma: kcts on differlines for the sale of c unmodities at a tjou n point served by both lines does (-i create circumsta< ccs snd conditions .gg| :h the carriers can take into acount r,..a,i.?...o..i.? ??? ?s?1 ur?l -n .>/.|iutiincivc?,iu iiiu nrsi lltid mice, whether they arc justified in . ging more for shorter thau for longer J uicea over their line, wo cues were dismissed, and the is defendants are ordered to cease ^ desist from charging more to short- . . ian to longer distance points men- ^ ed in the complaints or tile applica- j ^ s for relief under the proviso clause le fourth section nod show cause ? eon, within a time specified. nminsioners 01 trie Virginia Sinking Fund. Iichmond, Va.?A meeting of the Add lunssioners of the sinking fuud was i and the Fresideut was instructed to L. ertise thHt the bond holders' commit of I having suirendered to the State the in j? obligations held by them, the coin- tight doners are now ready to receive on press osit for verification, classification and n kn tange, under the terms of the act of and i Legislature approved February 20, go o such old < bligations of the State as walk be presented to them. Swit; tic rate of exchange cannot be stated Swit; the new bond issued for the old ob knoe! io s, which may be surrendeicd, ually I the rate of d i-triliulion of the new three Is issued to the bondholder commit liclpe s adjusted l?y the co i missioocrs ap- the h ted for that purpose. relief I obligations must be presented at Th flice of tlie Second Audit r ei her i1 tho b in or by some lesponsible rgent not with ected with any ol th departments Mr e State > o bonds wid lie received that December a 1st next and n m him Sad Drowning. s?bst cxinoton, Va.?News has just reach inquc here of the drowning of Oardner n, a young farmer of this county, Co'lierstown He had been attend? corn husking, and having imbibed B' y of hard cider lay down on the Ht side. near a oond to sleep. On beiug Nornr sed by his companions a litt'e later, was I ped suddenly to his feet and sprang contc a fence into the pond He was s!ruci rued before he ^could be rescued. Prof, vas twenty-two years old, and be ialrinj ed to a very well known family in male town. " 1 in sal The I n u 48. WORLD'S PAIR NOTES. What ia Being Done Toward* Representing the South at Chicago. TKNNE88BE. The schooner Mary, built by Captain Bcttcs at Clifton, on the Clinch river, to carry a Seating exhibit from Tennessee, has arrived in Chicago. It I is loaded with products of East Tennessee, includiug gold, silver, copper, zinc, fifteen kiuds of lTlfirhlo ?ni-v """" *? A Utivt IOI1VO gjliUIU Tennessee battlefields. The route was down the Tennessee rivor to the Miaaissippi. then up to the Illinois, and thence through the canal, making in all a voyage of 2,000 miles. SOOTH CAROLINA. One of the most interesting of ths :urios to be sent from Columbia. 8. C., o the World's Fair will be a photograph vhich is said to be the first taken in Ainrica. It is the picture of Major J. G. iiibbes, and was taken December 15, 854, when this ggptleman had just rcurued from Paris, where Daguerrc had ust discovered his process of pbotoraphy. It is printed on the corner of au Id yellow sheet of writing paper and 'hiic somewhat indistinct, the likeness am be plainly perceived. The Women's cntrnl World's Fair Ciub has secured inny interesting Indian relies and other trios which they will send. KLORIDA. Florida's State rbuilding at Jackson ark, Chicago, is new uuder construction id work on it is progressing well. Founi ions are finished and the frame work r the walls is being put up. Since it to be a reproluction of Fort Marian at Augustine, its unique architecture id hisloifcal associations have caused to attract as much attention as any her State building on the grauuds. immissiouer Jackson will endeavoT to tain at the coming Pcnsacola Tobacco lirsotnc good exhibits of Florida grown Imcco for the Columbian Exposition. By request of the Horticultural Dertment, Mr. Plant is forwarding from u Tampa Bay Hotel gardens a carload choice phiLts. and np*r ??"n" ?,;i1 mI. ft larger number. These, with those eady neeived or expected from "the uce do Leou gardens, willmako a verv tutiful display. Mrs. Ellen Call Long, whose efforts to roduce silk culture in Florida have :n untiring, has had made from silk iduccd iu Florida an elegant American i, and has presented the same to Mss iter Palmer, the head of the woman'? lartmcnt of the World's Fair. kentucky. The appropriation made by the legists e for a Kentucky exhibit is not yet lilub'e. for the purposo intended, ing to a constitutional point being ted as to its legality. The cominisne s at last advices had not determined .at coursi to take, and will mobabW IVthe aeU< v file picture oi Acadia. 'louTSia will form a prominent part iu the ite's exhibit. At the last meeting ol Woman's Auxiliary, Mrs. Paul Leeds, egate from New Iberia, said she hoped [jhvc the pleasnut life of the Acadians 1 depicted in Chicjgo. Oue of the ins iu the State building will be set rt for this exhibit, and fitted out iu pie fashion like the homes of the stints, furnished with looms and :cls, cards and cotton, the represents i being completed by the woman vers plying the shuttle. Part of the n will be converted into a boudoir jrated with fabrics woven on the n, and other articles for use and oruait will be rhown. Mrs. Preston Johnhopes to get perm ss:ou to use parts 'hnrles Dudley Warner's aiticles on Acadians, written in 1887, and wants lave these, together with parts of ngcliuc and a sketch of the Acadians, nil in cloth woven by these people ornamented by their artists, he creole kitchen department will be I lie hands of a stock company and L-hr as an annex to the Louisiana ding. The contract for the construe of the State building has been let at >st of $14,500. The World's Fair jciatiou has decided to have the inds about the building beautifully out and embellished with all the its aud trees and shrubs typical of isinnn. The structure will be a frame and represents an old style plautal.otise, with the lower story cementand ernamerittd in characteristic e. Tall columns, broid galleries and panes of glass will form distinctive ures of the famous mansions of days e by. SW1TZER .SURRENDERS. itional Particulars of the Laurens Homicide. vrtiRNS, S. C.?Switzer, the slayer lieek, surrendered and was lodged ui Wednesday evening. When the commenced Cheek had Swit/.er icd against a fence, and Cheek had ifo Switzer caught Cheek's hand it was then that Cheek promised to tT and let Switzer alone. Chetk ed off, turned and threatened to kill ser, wh? threw a brick, strikiug zer on the back of the head and king him down Then Che?k paratase, and Switzer hit him two or times with a Intchst. Switzer d to carry the wouuded man into ouse, and did what he could for his e doctors testified that the blow in >ack of the head, made probably the brick, would have caused death s Switzer, Cheek's sister, swore Cheek had abused Switzer before it one time had drawn a nun .... in their house. These facts were mtia'ly sworn to on the coroner's -8t ivV * irning of Shenandoah College. minton, Va.?The Shenandoah ?Bgj ml College at Basic City, Va , which J9Qg turned, together with nearly all its :nts, was a large throe story frame lure. The property was leased by <4. W. Hoenahel who had a flour g school attended by about 100 and female students. All escaped fety, though many lost their effects. inu tl at *10 AAA