Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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! THE WMttliJfa QI181 TUBS Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domatie and ths Current Jfmet oj the Day. S ' , _ l% VOL. XXIV.?NEW SERIES. UNI()N C. II., SOUTJI CAIU)I 1899.. NCMBEJ r :?-?? ? ? ?? 'ii ii n i ' r 1 J?i?gi8VTV?; ' i hi isi ? ^ ? - ? " JAMES 6. BLAINE Bis Fnblic Career From Hanhood to Old Age. TRIUMPHS AND REVERSES. i His Early Life as a Sohool Teaoher and a Journalist. ft*- "^2^?= = >Bej{lnnlnK ol Ills I'olKlcal Career? Speaker, Senator, Secretary of Slate. I'rmlilAniinl Historian?His Bereavements and lll-1'atcd House tn Washington? lliu Blaine Household, t AMI'S O. DLAIMK ? FHOM TJtST rHOTOUitAPir, TAKEN IN 1893. .. James Gilletplo Blaino was bora on tho 81st of January, 183h^at West Brownsville, Pcnu.. in a house built by his great- Irani father before tho "War of the Involution, which stillstands. Tho Gillespies an I B!aino9 were people of standing before tho RoyoIu tion. Colonol Blaine, who was cemnilssaryfencral of the Northern Department of Washington's army during the Revolution, was JnmtM U. Blaine's grcat-graadfnthor. When eleven years old, ho went to live with uucle, Thomas Ewinr, in Ohio, whero his mother's father, Ncal Gillespie, an accomplished scholar, directed his studies. Later ho attended Washington College, at Washington, Penu., graduating at- tho age of seventouu. La.>_ 1 - A/ler loqvinz colleza ho tau;ht school at "J " ^nTWultWT|i? l'>s' i Wi* - 1 ? ? - ? sor in the military school there that ho made the acquaintance of the lady?a school teacher from Maine?who afterward beuimo lilt wife. Later ho went to Philadelphia, where he taught school and stuiiel law. But after two vears he abandons I law studies, went to Maine, and becaino proprietor an?l editor of tho Kennebec Journal. At the birth of tho Republican Party ho was a delegate to tho Philadelphia Convention in 1858, which uominatod Fremont. After serving as Speaker of the Maine Legislature, he was sent to Congress and began his National career in 1803, with tho outbreak of tho war. During the I'orty-drst Forty-s.cond and Forty-third Congresses he was Speaker or tUo House. Mr. Blnlnb's administration of tha Speakership is commonly regarded as one of tho most brilliant and successful ill the annals of the Houso. He had rare aptitude and equipment for the duties of presiding officer, an1 his complete mastery of Parliamentary law, bis dexterity and physical endurance, his rapid dispatch of busiucss, and his Arm and impartial spirit were recognized on all sides. It was during his occupancy of the Speaker's chair in 1874 that ho took the floor an 1 succeeded in defeating the passage of the original "Forco bill." The political revulsion of 1S71 plackl tho Democrats in control of the House, and Mr. Blaine became the leader of the minority. The session preceding the Presidential contest of 1876 was a porioi of stormy and vehement contention. On the 2 i of May a resolution was adopted in the House to in vestigate an alleged purchase by the Union Pac-ino Railroad Company of certain bonds of tho Little Rockanu Fort Smith Railroad Company. It soon becamo evident that the investigation was aimed at Mr. Blaine. An extended business correspondence oh his part with Warren Fisher, of Boston, runniug through years and relating to various transactions, had fallen into the hands of n clerk named Mulligan, mi l it was alleged that the production of this correspondence would confirm the imputation against Mr. Blaine. When Mulligan was summoned to y - ?% ? IT ' - MB. BLWfCR'a BrBTHPLAOK L WeAlaaton Mr. Bleioe powmeihloseK of the letter?, together with memorao'inm t.hnf. mnUln?.1 m. full InrlAT nnd thitrje'.. On the 5th of Juno, 187.4, he row to e personal explanation, and after denying the power of the Houee to compel the proloctiou of bia private papers. and hie willingness to so to any extremity in defense of his rights, he declared that be propow I to reeerve nothing. Holding up the letters be exoleimed: 'Thank God. I am not ashamed to show them. There is the very orlgnal package. And with nomeeenw ot humiliation, with n mort{floation I do not attempt to' oonceai, fci-i with a tenSe of outrage Which 1 think any man lo. my poeition would fev>, I invite tho confidence of 40,000,000 of my countrymen ' . Lg ?- while I road theee tetters from my desk." ,/y The demonstration closed with a dramatio '3m toene. Joeiah CaWiwell, ona df the orlcina^ tor*of the Little Hook and Fort Smith Hallroad, who had full knowledge of the whole transaction, was traveling in Europo and both tides were soekinx to communicate 1 with him. After flnishinx the reading of < the letters Mr. Blaine turned to the Chair- I man of the Committee and domanded to 1 know whether ho bad received any dispatch i from Mr. Caldwell. Receiving an evasive < answer Mr Blaino asserted, as within his I own knowledge, that the Chairman had ro- I ceived such a dispatch "completely and ab- < solutely exonerating ma from this charge 1 and you have suppressed it" I i 1 i ?> li mb. nr mvit'h wminiwo*-' Mb. TJTaTn^was nppointejto tho li Senate Ujfllhthe vacancy caused l>/-tWo ro- s signntion of Senator M >rrill, on 1 the next 1 winter was eleeto 1 bv tho Legislature to tho c succeeding term. His career in tho Sonite h was both brilliant And distinguished, ns it t had been in the House. Ho was c illol from the Senate to outer President Garfield's v Cabinet as Secretary of State. It was while l? parsing through tho railroad depot loaning S on Mr. Blnino's arm and pleasantly chatting with him about his co ning holiday that Garfield received tho assassin's fatal.bullet. Toe death of Mr. Garflold le.l to Mr. Blaine's retirement from tho Cabinet, in December, 1881. From that dato until he entered Mr. Harrison's Cabinet as Secretary of State, he was in private lifo except during his campaign for the Presidency in 1884. 1 During his retirement Mr. Blaine wrote his 'Twenty Years in Congress," a work of I great historical value. It w.os in accordance with his original suggestion and duo to his earnest efforts that provision was made in the McKinley bill for the reciprocity treaties which formed such prominent features of Niit.ii.mil r^li/>? an,- a ' ties, the complications at'isiii* out of the >s lynching of Italiaus at New Orlean*,and the t m, MRS. .TAMF.fl o. m.vixn. . I killing of American seamen at Valparaiso * were also disposa l of while Mr. Blaino was 1 at the h-o.il of the State Department. Tho 1 event* pr?osdingand atteiilin; tiio recont 1 Minneapolis Convention are too recent a'.- 1 most to need recounting. Mr. Biaino was induced to permit his na-no to bo usod at n ( cindidnto, and reti<nol his plaoo in tho 1 Cabinet. Whether in public position cr in ' private life, ho always romaiuoi a central figure in National nfftir^. BI. A INK'S LtFS IS WASHINOTOX. v.. tki.t. ?.... vi- nuu. i.~. * V/A UVttt IT VUII VJ TU?I J 1UI. UinillJ been a resident of Washington. While ho never gave up his homo an I home lifo in Maine, where he had a town residence in Augustaand a mi minor rosidenco 'at Bar Harbor, yet he also had a homo in Washington. It was only a few years after going | there as a Member of Congress that ho bought the residence, 821 Fifteenth street, lftA* WABHIIfUTOir, _ where he lived to many years. This was about the year 1889, when ho was electa! Speaker of the House for the first time. The house he bought was one of a row whioh hod jnst been built oad was regarded at that time as one of the chisf architectural features of theoity. He nlade bis home at 821 Fifteenth street fkC. Airan Ian waasM mnrt fhan hAVin7 hill It. ths fine residence fronting on Dupont Circle, be sold the old house and took possession of the new one. The death of Garfield and Mr\ Blaine's retirement from pnbllo Hfe oanaed a change la hie plans and be leased hi* Dupont Circle house to Hr. Lslter. He was aboenti from the city for sorer at years, although be sprat a portion of one or two winters there and oooupled the bouse on Lafayette tquaro adjoining General Bealsf* reetdeno, which hi owned by the datfghter of t!|p lato Representative Hoott,o? t'onnsjyl yania, Mrs. Soott Townseod. 5?.ffi**[''* /*v ?}, K j. About the beginning of his administration tie purchase ! hie late home, whloh is on the jpposito side of Lifavette square, and is <nowu as the Seward House. The old place lad beea unoccupied for soms years and was in a dilaoidatel condition. It wai considered notoriously unlucky, two tragedies havit^ .occurred within its portals. During Ruchauita's administration It was cccupied as a clubhouse. One day PbtHp Barton Key, the vouag an l handsome Die r.ct Attorney of the District of Columbia, ill ml just'left ths elsbbooN trfem' be vrmM* hot down by Oonjcrossnan Sickles, of Hew fork. Mr. Key was carrie 1 back to the Jublioiu?. An intrigue which Ker had ieen oarryiug on with Hicklea's wife was he csuse of the encounter. Tw > years after this occurrence tho bouse, rbie'i was for a t-imo unoccupied, was taken y the then Sscrotary of Etite, William H. s war J, an I bo mored into it with his fnniA ? ^ BLAINE'S AUtiU.STA RESIDENCE. ly. On the night of April 14, 18(15, while Mr. toward lay sick in hod In one of the upper oonis, a big, oak coruplexionod. brood houloered man ran-? the door Ml and old tho servant who admitted him that i# hacLa.paekage oC medicine whloh Mi* Sec <?taryT? phyiioiau bad ocdantd h-l?4fih> ' film& Kl't?<w""tfiffl"ftV*PA"YirSiuir . ?4 ths tocretary's son, Frederick \V. Seward, also tpposod him; hut the stranger, making a pint of departure, suddenly sprang at Frederick and felled him to the floor with lio butt of n revolver, almost on the same indent slashing the servant with a knife, ie then darted forward and reached the ick chamber where Secretary Ssward wis ittiug up in bed. The knife gleamed again ind Mr. Seward, weak and helpless, was tabbed in the face and neck, but the ban 1iges that swathed his nock savel him rom a mortal wound. As the murderom ntruder retreated ho was again intercepted, his time by Major Augustus H. Seward ind an attendant, hut he shook them off, ind runtime down stairs, leaped on his lorso aud rodo off. Ho was captured a ow dnYs later, and being fully identified is Iyowis Payne, _one of tho no en implicate 1 in President Lincoln'* Ivatb. was tried, oondemnei and exicutod with hi* fellow-conspirators. Secretary of War Belknap was the next en.Mit of the house of misfortune, and for a ime the sober old edifice became gay with ho lii'e of the Grant regime. Before a twelveuonth its evil geniui had again asserted it* olf and Mrs. Belknap lay dead under its -oof after a brief illness. Then, after the !lolltua;>K vnrvate.l, it again did duty, as in .lie earlier dnys, as a boarding-house, but IVashington had somehow got the irapresioii that the place was uncinnymnd that its enants were dogged by an evil fate. For i time the Commissary General's staff leld possession, then when they had noved to the War Department's new bnild* ng it was again tenantles-. It was about ihis time that Mr. Blaine, shortly after his ipi>ointmoot as Secretary of State by Presilent Harrison, astonished his friends by -enting the ill-omened house for ten years it $3000 a year. He decorated and renovate 1 it throughout, tearing down the stalls it the room in which the attempt on Mr. Seward's life took place, and by generous ixpenditures transformed the dingy old .side-roomed house Into a magnificent modern residence. Yet all tha changes failed to -radicate the characteristic attributed to the mansion by the superstitious Waahingtonians. Becoming its tenant, Mr. Blaine has ?ncountored the greatest reverses to his ambitions, and experienced the keenest sorrows af his life. MR. BLOINH'S HOUSEHOLD. n,niLattar'a Mini^vter^rapB'suddenly stricken town by death after reeohing maturity. His Mdeet sou. Walker, a young man of duo parts, who had glvsn evidence af rare abilities and was apparently destined to a brilliant future, died two yeers ago. Emmons, his eeoond son, u bright business man, in manner and character closely resembling his father, also died suddenly in the heyday of youth and prosperity. A. third and crushing bereavement was the death of the eldest daughter, Alice, U4 ta r lawtsZ.at fVUMal VT11U VfttH JIiaiTitM W lilVUWUlUV WlVliVi John J. Coppinger. It followed cloesly ?n the death of her brother, Walker Blaine, whose funeral she was at tending when seize! by the fatal ill iicsj. Of the three surviving children, the son, James Gk, made an nnfortunats marriage, tbe result* of which en> bittered the latter years of his father'* life. One of the daughters. Miss Margaret, is married to Mr. Walter Damroech, the fa mous New York musical director, and the other, Miss Harriet, is unmarried. Mrs BI.aiNE'B OOTTAOB AT BAB BABBOB. Blatne is still aa active and brUUaa lady. Hhe bar bean a devoted wife to th great statseuiAp; whom she'married forty one years ago when both war* sohot teachers In a country district with but littl to indicate the oromioaut nlaca thav trsi destined to All In the highest drafts** Us Nation* * ing the exnet >lisfl llg Blaine until he had received of the family. ThoJiews of death spread like wibl-firc. CrM^KgHtfieri" i on tnc corners an<t visitordfl^Ecd to the house. Dr: Hamlin, passing the house at the time'fl^H'nouficcmeut of death was made, at{MflH?entcrcd and remai ed with the faH^Bome time. Word was s;nt tcJ^Wprcsident immediately after h:s deAt 1! :25 Pr?si dent llnriison, accoiflflBud by Private Secretary Ilulfonf Jw-Lieut. Parker, walked over to the^Hpe inansini. The President showed iti^Bkd signs of grief. Postmaster General.BBmakcr followed the President. To a reporter Dr^flku^on said: "I was called Friday ih^Kgto the Blaine residence about ov/oc^s !! \vas more than it liad bfl HHP9H rent for nnd nrnj B o'clock ilftcr niy^^^^D^<lT7jHB||Bs :ontinued to grow sBSHrar liis niilse becomioiX^Hra <iic< 1 at 11 o'clock, wKT' was* jttj2R9; onscious up to witl^Bjfccf^w! ummeW y of his deatl^, and rcMftized ill! tliosT tround him. He dTcti^PtnfflE*tiff er indL The President ba^pn wiifte^ of Mr. Blaine's approaching^Bfj through press bulletins which infofKd Ijiih that Mr. Blaine could not livcSKnmgh the day. A few minutes Inter*? received the au nounccmcnt of his <$bhr The 'cabinet was immediately not {led. Secretary Foster, of the State JsLartnieat, was at home prepariug ta'tejte toWn When he was notified by nf th? ?.*-Secretary's death. HeJiMponOd his trip and ordered tbefQtdflp department to bo coscd^, .v ..?^^"'l<?faw5r jir-^tterte tbaC on the day of the funeral ail the executive departments at Washington should be closed; that on all the public buildings throughout the United States the national flag be displayed at half mast, and that for thirty days the Department of State be draped in inouruThe funeral took place Monday forenoon at Washington, where the dead statesman was interred, temporarily, it is said. The attendance upon the services included all the officials of the Government and everybody of note in the capital. The crowds were overwhelming. THE SOUTHERN FAST MAIL. The Item Beatored and the B. & D. to Carry the Mail. Washington, D.?? C.?The postoflicc committee r? considered its decision at the last mc ting and ndded $10(5,(184.22 for special fast mail facilities, hut changed the route so as to run from Springfield, Massachusetts, via Washington and Atlanta to New Orle^a* instead of by tlie coast no to lninp.a, norma, as heretofore. It is .stated that the Coast Line did not rsk an extension of tho fa cUitics. Tlic transfer of the fast mail-ndvantages to Atlnn'a and Charlotte it largely due to Col. A. B. Andrews,of the P.cdroout Air Line '.FIFTY-3E00ND CONGRESS. In tbo Senate. 27th Day.?Mr. Woloott made a speech attacking the new Colombian postage tamps The Anti-Option bill was afterward taken up and rtlseusssi for an hour. 28th Day.?The Renate took up the AntiOptlon bill, and Mr. George oontinned bis argument in favor of bis substitute. He !waa followed by Messrs. Washburn and Chandler. At the dose of Mr. Chandler'* speech the bill went over without action ? The Cherokee QuUet Mt:, which bad come . A.wTBt House, wm taken up tor consideration. 20th Day.?The Senate adjourned lor the day as a mark of respect to the late Arson late Justice Lamar. 30th Day.?The hour of the amnion was taken up in routine matters, none of them entitled to be regarded as of much public interest?j-A hill was introduced to increase the navv by twenty-one vessel*. 81st Day.?Mr. Cullom introduced a Mil to give a pension of 850 a month to the widow of Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctio explorer ??Mr. Gorman introduced a joiot resolution authorising tho Secretaries of War and Navy to lend ensigns, flags, etc., (exoapt battle flags) for decoration of the World's Fair buildings, and it was pawed?The Anti Option bill wns debate!. 82d Day.?Following roll call the death ot James O. Blaine was announced by Mr Fry*, who also more I the adoption of t aeries of resolution*. After this was dons the Senate adjourned out of respect. In the Hoage. ( 30th Day.?Mr. Gumming> withdrew the Fort Oreene Monument bill?The Sena to bill abolishing post traderships was passed The Diplomatic and Consular ApproSiation bill wudeported??The floor was en accorded to the Committee on Com* merer. and the Quarantine bill was c*Uei up and discussed until adjournment. 81 it Day.?The Quarantine bill was passes.' I after a stormy debate The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was discussed. 82d Day.?The House refused to agres to a motion to take up the Sundry Civil bill, the fight against It beiag made by the friends ot the Bankruptcy MIL The rots stood: Yeas. 107; nays, 137?As a marlco.' respect to the memory ot the late Justice Lamar the House'then adjournal. 83p Day.?The day was consumed in flll>buffering against, the Torry Bankruptcy Mil. ' Mm Day.?The Sundry Civil Mil was die' cussed??The Lsgblatfve, Executive and Approve''t'r.r hdi I 8&TH DAY.?Imnvedfately after the a seen) blaga the death of Jadiea U. Blaine was announced. Appropriate resolutions of reSurDed* ^ th*? *** Houm ad" I ^ r?' a ^VwT.. . - HE DIED rodKBpSS Blaine's Long SicMKjpIr-tlnaed at And He Hoe Pui?lBf?r That Dark ^ ' River of at nth. Washington, D. Qv-Jnnus o. Blaine died nt 11 o'clock FrBy morning, lie passed a rcatle'S niufcAiid in the morn tng wq? very wcal^Bhor.ly before S o'elpofc# change for?dBworsc occurcd, nod both physicians iHw hastily gummoncd and renninca ibis bedside until His death was qitoAid peaceful and he retained his consc^Bhcss until a few minutes before deatti^B His whole f.'.inily^.jJp^Dodgc and the trained nurses were ntMBTbcdsidu. ?rrTTtnt fsald tluJMk Blaine's death was duo to shMc4^Aptiou. Tie was unwilling to nuk<i^^H?itcincnt regard A Big Legal Battle Between the Tw< Precipitated. Suit for One Thousand Square Miles Instituted bd Mr. Rufus A. Ayera ?A Humorous Side. Bristoi., Tknn. (Special.)?Virginia and Tennessee are preparing to light a great battle which has beeu brewing for years. A few months ago Hon. Rufus A. Ayers filed a bill in the Supreme Courl of the United Stitcs to extend the southern boundary of Virginia eight miles into Tenuessee. A subpoena was issued foi the Attorncy-Generd aud Governor ol Tennessee to appear aud answer, which they did. The case will come up in tin Supreme Court in February or March and will sl4vs*it national .attention. The territory in dispute amounts to about 1,000 square miles, being about E miles deep and 150 miles in length. II Virginia should win this suit she will get one-half of six counties, including the towns of Bristol and Cumberland Gap, the big Louisville and Nnsiiville railroad tunnel nt Cumberland Gap, several miles of the Ivnoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville railroad, and part of the great East - Tenncs.sc, Virginia and Georgia road. The country involved is rich in mineral, timber and coal. On ?n.. ?..r..iio....... vuv/ K.uiiVI 1 III Vll.7i;vliv IV 19 vol Imuted that then: are about-10,000 inhabitants. If taken fioni Tonne s.-c it would not seriously affect that State politically, but would give the Democrats a biggei majority, as the voters in this territory arc largely Republican. By giving up thedispu'ed territory the ^^y^^jDujmJjouiulary, from White r Yean ago the people of Bris'ol'ttgrei.l dn the centrj of Main street a3 the State Iiue for the sikc of convenience.* . In tfie water works suit Virginia claimed that all of Bristol was on her side of the line, while Tenness e claimed that the State line was really the ca-t ru lino of Maiu street. This is the poiutthcy expect tc establish in the United States Supreme Court. The records in the case would till scv cral bound volumes of ordinary si/.e, and include hundreds of depositions tikfrg tii Bristol nud along the line ail the way Id n;.. . < . vuw.wv?m?ii\? viajf, cyjMvs ?m surveys maai at diitcrcut tinns, und reports of the sev (he dispu i'Q botincTary at different tlmcA The records contain much valuable his torical matter which has never appeared in print. Going back to the beginning, there was a controversy between Virginia and North Carolina regarding the line between Virginia and the territory belonging to North Carolina now embraced ic the State of Tennessee. In 1783 a commission was appointed to establish tlu boundary, starting on the Atlantic coast, "When they reached White Top Mountain that bold sentinel of the Alleghauie! which can be seen a hundred miles in any dincction, upon whose summit th< three States of Virginia, North Caroliui and Tennessee corner, they disagreed a: to the line westward. Two lines wen run from the White Top to Cumberlam Gap, only three miles apart. One survey conducted by the Virginia commissioners was called the "Worth survey. The Nortl Carolina survey was kuown as Header son's, and was made by General 1 fender son, who at one time had a charter fo nearly all the territory now included ii the State of Kentucky, and in whosi honor the city of Henderson was named Neither survey was ever adopted, and tin strip of disputed territory soou became known as '"No Man's Land,' and wai the rendezvous of thieves, murderer-| ?nc criminals of every description. lhcs< outlaws came from both sides of the strip, and when a man committed a crime within reasonable distance he made t break in that direction, where be wm positively secure from officers of eithci State. The condition of niTuirs was the causi of a bit'.er controversy between Williau Blount, first Governor of Tennessee, anc the Governor of Virginia. They "fi and bled," as the saying goes, over th matter from the time Tennessee became State in l'i9tJ until 1802,when they finnll agreed to appoint tommissioncrs fror each State to settle the boundary. Thcs commissioners agreed on a compromts equidistant between the Worth an Henderson lines, which lias ever sine been recognized by both States. Th people on cither sido work their road and pay taxes up to this line. It is sup posed to be a straight line, but it is not The law required the engineers to rui absolutely due west from the White To to tnc ty'umoeriano mountains, out owinj to the density of the forests and to othc natural obstacles there are several offsets the most valuable of which is in Denton' valley in Hancock county,and in Powell' valley, near Cumberland Gap. Thtrc was no trouble about the lin any more until along in the 'oO's, whe the country had bee mic mo c thickly sef tied. Confusion then arose as to th proper location of the boundary, liecaus of tne destruction by tiro and othcrsvis f marked trees. In 18S8 both States agreed on n join commission, with power to appoint eng neers to ruu out and remark the com pro miselineof 1802. The Virginia commit aioncrs were LeonidAs Uaugh and Jamc Black, of Abingdon, and Tennessee ws represented by General Milligan, c Greenville, and Colonel Gcoige R. M C lellaud, of Sullivan county. A caref survey was made and exhaustive repor of the same submitted to the respectb Governors. The com miss; oners report* that they had found no difficulty wit the old line, and that it was correct a cording to the compromise. Governor Wise, of Virginia, recor mended the rejection of the report, whic the Legislature proceeded to do. II objection was based on the fact that tl engineers commenced their survey at tl base of White Top Mountain, instead going to the top. Tennessee never act< PlllfJWIlliL Led uii til tbo suits were instituted at Bristol ' three years ago. If the Commonwealth of Virginia gains this famous suit much that is novel and 1 makes romances for Bristol will be knot ked out. The magnificent new court-house and city hall will bo useless, and the beautiful new school building will have to be converted into a church. The municipal officers will bo forced back tr their former professions. Father Bur roughs, who has married more than three > hundred runaway couples fiom Virginia in the past two years, will have to move i to some small village near the linc^and i that is not the worst of it. Thoso three hundred couples he has married will bt 1 unmarried, as the ceremony was per formed in Virginia. ' A very old lady wlio has resided on the - IVtinessee sf<tc aft her Iffe was "grieving r 1 over tlio danorer of Uruinl crainw into 1 ' Virginia. "I wouldn't mind it is much,' she said, "if it wasn't that the Virginia climate is so much more severe than the ! Tennessee climate. Then, I would havo to give up my good limestone water." ' Every one knows that when a man commits a crime in Tennessee lie can run over iuto Virgin'a and avoid arrest unti' a requisition is obtained from the Governor. The officers of Bristol. Tenn. pursued a colored man for a crime he hail committed^ lie cscapstl into Virginia, where the officers of the Commonweal) t I tried to arrest him for a robbery on thei side. lie ran back towards Tennessee, [ but about the time lie reached Main street tin thought struck vhim that he was ' wanted on that side, lie stopped in tin , middle of Main street, put one foot it | Virginia and one in Tennessee, while on ' The taking of tcstimoiiy-ifififTom Wat| son's contest of the congbwstonal eliec uon m tbe tenth Georgia district began . in Augusta Wednesday, i A new Loun & Savings bank is to bo > established at Charlotte, N. C. The citizens of Hampton, Va., arc very niucu excited bjr Luu discovery ul u plot to burn the town. , It is reported from Russell county,-. rYa., tbat a child froze to death iu his Soother's arm's during the cold snap. The Carolina Mfg. Co., of Barnwell, c -faryretfiTe'nnff ii'i'JO.vpftSft'wj^K y.W?,'fllC-vGov. Carr, of N. C-, has appointed 1 Oliver P. Mcars judge of the Criminal Court for New llanovcr and Mccklcni burg counties. I The friends of Colonel O'Fermi', Congressman from the seventh Virginia district, arc pushing his gubcrnatori tl c nui didacy, and an organization has been effected for the purpose. ' W. L. Campbell, city treasurer of Charleston, S. C., for 22 years, died at 1 bis residence iu Summervill*, S. (5.,aged 3 02 years. lie served through the late 1 war as captain in the Confederate army and was one of the most popular aud 1 highly cstccincel ollicc s. ^ Anew railroad coin piny has b'en j chartered by the North Carolina L gislaturc to build a railroad fioin Durham ' to Charlotte. J J. M. llyams, the fellow who faked 'lie story of the Bakersville, N. C , lynch, ing riot, has lied from Johnson City, r Tenn., leaving an unpaid board bill, i Nancy Garrison, a negrcss living nt B Holly Springs, Miss , has the longest hair probably of any woman in tho world. b She is about six y years old Her hair b she wears in three plaits. The side plaits i just touch the floor, while the pl.it bcl hind drags two ic.t nine inch s on the 3 floor anel m-nsures eight feet in length. It is a silver sable in color, and she wears i it coiled up on her head. 1 Edward Gibson, son of a farmer living s r.ear Cascade, Pittsylvania county, rer ceivcd a slight wound in the knee several days ago with an axe. The wound was B not regarded as at all dangerous, but the 1 1 boy so ?n developed a genuine case of 1 lockjaw and aied from its effects. 1 In the matter of new cotton mills 0 erected in 1892 Massachusetts leads with nineteen, while North Carolina is second y on the list with sixteen. South Carolina n follows with eleven. This is more than c half, there being only s.venty-threo miles I ,c erected In the wiiotc Vnlnn. I Sam Milling, colored, was arraigaed e Saturday morning before 'Squire M?xe well, of Charlotte, N. C., charged with 9 bigamy. Sam, it seems, has a wife in " Winnshoro.S. C., one in Georgia and two ' Ar fKrnn mAfA eoaHorn/1 ,1 VI wivu ?.v?v ovm??.ivu muuuu uutvu n South. He was brought to tinio by MaP mic White. A lot of revenue officials from Grecns; boro went up to Wilkts county last week s and made one of the biggests hauls for two days work cv(r recorded in the nnnals of raiding, at leistin this part of the country. Thirteen distilleries^!) full blast were captured, with c:glit copper stills and 13,000 gallons of beer, but if they n caught any of the men cugaped in the nefarious business we have yet to hear !e ofit" A bill has been introduced in the Ala>t bama legislature reuuirinsr railroad offi j. rials to instruct conductors on trains of their respective roads to report all casualties or accidents immediately after hsp!S pening to the nearest telegraph operator. l8 The operator is to at once telegraph the ,f particulars to the nearest newspaper publication. A penalty is attached for failc ure to oomply with this law. 11 J. H. Freeman, of Americua, Ga ., has ^ purchased a 50-aoro tract of land near . that city, and is stocking it with poultry and planting fruit trees. It is his in* tent ion to raise fine fruits and poul'ry and to give i?mc attention to the dairy business. Already he has several hun, dred chickens and eight well bred Jersey cows. Nearly 5,000 fruit trees, peach, plum, apple and ponr, 400 grape vines 10 and 12,000 rtrawberry plants, besides l, numerous vegetables, have been planted this month. F This Column of Interest to F. A. and *" I. U. Lecturer Terrel Talks Interestingly About the Work of the SubAlliance. To the glorious worn* n'of the Alliance: Animate by your example your future emancipators. Attend sub -lodges, ai.?t become prominent in their councils. ****** Alliance Courier, Indian Territory, gives another twist to a thought tap: If the next crop of cotton could be disposed of direct to the manufacturers, what an immense amount of money would be saved the cotton grower. Did you ever givo this any consideration? Has it. ever out*rod your mind that the manufacturer would he willing to allow you almost what he is bound to grant as a profit to the middle man ?the cotton buyer? * * * * * * The Secretary of Lodge 2-V1, Hrnnch County, Michigan writes: I like I he idea of the new department?Suggestions for the Good of the Order. It seems as if we might learn a great dctl from it if every bo ly would write ami tell us what they arc doing to kc p things going. We arc pretty thoroughly < rgan /.e<l in this county, having n county organization, a town lodge, which meets at the ?tilT- rcnt school-houses monthly, and the >u'?Allinncc which meet weekly. lVliti.s killed one rr two lodges. I want to tell you about (ur World's Fuir night. May be it will give some body an idea. VWe were gettng talked out and wanted sp.nclhing difTcrinf. A* FWr 1><S l' * vVvvV V V. * : . " L.ETTKK TO 8UB-Atl.I\KCK^.-y *'*%' There should be no lenders in tfce Al^ . . liaucc; the very thought is rcpggnant-tc those who understands .the real purpose and iutciit of the order. There cauoot "*vbe u reasonable doubt but th it the prcsupt poiitieai condition of the country is .traceable to the disposition of our people to confide in and follow m^n and parlies. 71.:. ?l? *i?: ' * o inu nnmucc wuum cnailge. It would have every man an independent in thought and action; it would net have or man,'buT coMflltf Hf M'llllL'iri'li,' '? their own judgments, and perform every duty of the citizen for the; right?as they see it. This is reason, aiul all members of the Alliance should inform themselves upon all ma'tcrs pertaining to their interests, that they may act with intelligence in the performance of their duty. This is the true intent of the order, and looking at it in this l'ght the Alliance must meet the commendation of all. And if kept free from assumed leadership, allowing no one to 11 e it for personal ambition or aggrandizement, it will so educate public opinion that reforms would be inevitable. Through what methods or parties these reforms may conic the Alliance is not concerned. Educate the people, inspire them with self confidence, make iu iependent thinkers of them and they, ss citizens, wil; find means to secure such reforms as an c (lightened public will demand. If it require that old p rty organizations give place to a new, well and good, the people will attend to that., The Allimnnj i?-r . to educate, educate, educate. Now, brothers, this must be done in the subAlliance. All depends on workers at home. Your office s, State and natioual, can only urge you to action, the responsibility r?sts upon you. Will you act? uoa grani you may, atul ttint you may catch the spirit of our grand order. May it fill your hearts and engage y our minds with the great work tho Alliance Ins before it. flow best to accomplish this work is the question to be considered. First, the Alliance mu<t be so conducted that it will be a pleasure, as well as duty, for the immbers to attend its meetings. Then make debate pleasant by respecting and encouraging a free expression of opinion by each member. Tn! troducc singing, music, etc., so as to interest and make it pleasant for all. Make your sub Alliance a home improvement club; make it so jolly, so pleasant for all, that no one could afford not to be a mcmb?r. Go to work at once to building up your sub-Alliances; the very life of the order depends upon the work done in them. Write ana toll us what you arc doing. Make suggestions. If your Alliance is prospering, let others kuow how you accomplished this most necessary result. Let us go to work all along the lino. Let us rebuild and mnke stronger than ever our order. Bkn Terrrpp, Lecturer N. F. A. & I. U. Senator Kenna Died Poor. Washington, D. C.?-It has just become evident that the late Senator Kenna. of Wc^t Virginia, died a very poor man. He left his widow in almost destitute circumstance', his long illness and its attendant expenses having consumed what little money he had saved from his salary. In order to provide for tho widow and her large family the West Virginia delegation in Congress met and. united in a strong nlca to President-elect Cleveland, asking him to appoint Mis. Kenna pos'mistress at Charleston. W. Va., as soon as he enters tho White House Ths salary of the office is about $2,SCO. As Senator Kenna was one of the very few Cleveland men in the United States Senate it is thought probable that Mr. Cleveland will make the appointment. Alliance Men Oppose State Banks. Waco, Tnx.?The district Farmers* Alliance of the Seventh Congressional district adopted resolutions opposing tho State Bank billjiow before the Legislature and urging Senators and Representatives to vote against, its passage as a measure i utterly inimical to the interests of the farmers.