Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It is probable, predicts tho San Fran. cisco Chronicle, that the device for disKpensing with the services of telegraph 0 operators will be like the machine for setting type. Human ingenuity can go ' a long way, but it cannot furnish brains, and brains are very essential in tclcgra*? According to the Cour.er-Journal the arrest scramble for rrold in mow rn"nr.li?l In Europe as a sign that Europoan peace is soon to be broken. Gold is not only W being locked up in the Imperial Treasury of Russia, but in storehouses of other continental Governments, and the feeling of anxiety on this accouut is widc?$*2: spread. The London Ctrapliic has a portrait and sketch of Potara, a Maori cannibal, who is cighty-flvo years old and still has n good set of natural teeth. He has not -< eaten a white man since 1816. He ^ speaks well of white folks, but for a steady diet prefors a Maori, as the whites, or Pakehas," havo "a salty and ' bitter flavor." Potara must have a retentive memory of his tastes. Pork is dearer now than it has been in ? ten years, or since Bistnarck began to make war on the American hog. ThL is doubtless in part due to the opening of European markets to our pork. With bettor prices for pork beans havo also advanced, and the traditional New England dish of pork and beans has now to bo naid for bv those who would eniov it. A W * " ? No sooner have European aeronauts improved their balloons almost to the point of perfection for military uses than along comes a Russian scientist with an apparatus which captures tho rajs of the sun and employs them to burn tho balloons. A Russian paper states that the balloons can be burned when at a dis??. tancc of tivo kilometers from the person handling the apparatus. T Within the past two years a number of reefs and islands in the Pacific Ocean, long known to mariuers, have disapI % pearcd from view, leaving no ovidonce that they evor existed. No ono understands the phenomenon, unless it be that here and there the floor of the ocean has subsided with unusunl rapidity, though not with such violence as to be botrayed by the agitation of tho sea. The fact is imply known that these stretches of reef or bits of land, some of them rising from the depths, and all marked on the charts, ^ cau no longer be found. One or two war v ships, with ordors to visit sonao of these places, have cruised around in groat bewilderment, unable to dnd the objects of their quest. Italy expends every year $915,000,000 for her soldier?, and lc-:s than $1,000,000 ur for schools. In Spain it costs $100,000,jf * 000 to main the army, and only $1,501),000 to educate tho children; but then, it is tho excoption to find a Spau& 'farmer i* who is able to read or write. Germany br' . boasts of being in tho foroinost rank a, . among the Nations in the Kulturkampf of *' world; yet sho expends $185,001, .00 on hor anny, whilo $10,000,000 is deemed sufficient for the education of her children. France maintains^ army at an expense of $151,000,000 and supports her schools with $21,000,000. The United States expend $115,000,000 for public schools, while the arnav and navy cost only $54,000,000. is < The experiment of an olec.ric street railway postal car, which had boon tried In St. Louis, has been such a success as to warrant its use in other cities, notes - N the New York News. The St. Louis ~ ? postmaster reports that tho results have been eminently successful in ever; particular. Tho car is twenty-eight feet long, including the front and rear platforms, arid eight and one half feet wide. It is fitt; -} up inside somewhat like a railway postoffice, and is operated by a double dynamo, with a capacity of twenty-five miles an hour. The city and suburban route over which it travels is eighteen miles long, and tfic number of pieces of local mail received and delivered, at a saving of from four to five hours each, has been 300 to 5 )0 daily. DIXlE_NEWa The Beloved South Gleaned &i Epitomised. U thi Hews ud OccurencM Print H?r? in OondtnMd Form* Two men were drowned from boats Neuse river. North Carolina, laat week. At PickeoR, 8 C., Major Syramcs ^ on Wednesday found guilty of ma slaughter, and a near trial was refused, Gabriel Smith, aged 83 years, and M Floreuce Wcbatcr, aged 35 yea were married in Luray, Va., last week, Congressman Talbcrt declines to tel reporter whether he will or not be n cs didate for United States Senator frt South Carolina. The colored firemen of North Carol! were by the hist Legislature given a rel fund of $000 a year, and will form State a sociation. Mrs. Frnnk Ovcrby, of Fnycttcvili N. C., while alono in her room Wedne day nftcrnoou, wns taken with a tit, f? iu the fire and was bu-ncd to death. The people of the county of Montgoi cry, N. C\, ere very much excited o\ the di covery of a very rich gold mil The mine is located on the property Joues C-. Hon. One of the negroes implicated in t butchery of Henry Twittnian nnd wi! at Lincoluvill , S. ,'nst Saturday nigl has be n arretted and lodged in jail C'bai leston. Judge Win, B. H dmnn died nt 1 home at Washington. Beau fori count N. C., Tuesday morning, in his 76 year. He w.:s a member of the Suprei Court of the State from 1809 to 1878. llcnry Brooks was arrested for hors stealing nt Chnr'nltc.ville, Va., cai Monday morning, nnd lodged in ja He wn hotly pursued ill night, eludi nit m. utiiii 1111 iiy cnpiurcti in me Hf gel Monutn'ns. Til! white coon tlint has baffled t huntcis of Acc >mic county, Va , for sc oral months was cuptur. d (jnite rcc ntl It was tiie i leution to send i" on n? prost nt to Pres cient ('lev. land, but died from tlicefT ctsof the light in whi it was captured. Mr#. Lr.vi llugg'ns, of Ilcndersi county. N. 0., \r. s standing in front the fl'C with her one y -nr-old infant her arms. The child knocked from 1 m.ulelpiccc a bottel of turpentine nnd fell in lb; lire and ignited. The chit clothing caught ami it was so bum that her conditi >n is yet cii ical. Columbia, S C., is afflictcl just nt with a French l> ron who tilks Fren (of i ourse), shows whole huudlcs of h tc rs and oil' is ti furnish $ 100,000 ca tal for a partnership in Mr. C rd dli'sd go els business. Trc wary Columbia seem indisposed to r;ad his letters a much dispose t to reject his $100,000. Hubert Terry, whil.? intoxicated, entt cd the Virgini i and North Carolina win factoiy tt Itichmonl. llo was warn by the workme n to ktep away from t mach'nery. Tins he failed to do, i while the back of the ajgwycr was turn Tcr y stumbled over tlW CaVrintrc and t saw connected with it cut his body two, the lie d filling oil one side and 1 legs on the othei. Tiie charter of the North Carolina Fi mcrs' Alliance w.>8 not forfeited by t Legislature, as had be.n proposed, I the charter was so nin-udcd that t amount contributed by each Alliaucem can be withdrawn at his option, nnd t common fund has been so pro'ccted tl it can easily be ascertained whether it ul-mil; j>i i vi-i uu irom legitimate, oujec Tho s'r?et car system of Tallahassi Fla , consisting of or.c car, is opcrat by "a colored man and a mule," both whom live only to please the people, the car happens to be going one way and pnsscng- r wants to go in the oppos: direction he has only to say so and t mu'c is immediately hitched to the otb end and the car stnrtcd in the dc-ir direction. Around Lower Oakland, S. C., t farmers have determined to raise iue grain than list year, aud wiU consider bly reduce the acreage of cotton. T weather, which for some time his be too vyet to allow spring planting, b cleared, and ground is now bsing brokt There is a very heavy demand for fcrl izers, and it i3 expected that the crc will be unusually abundant. E. Kirby Smith, who is prominc just now because he is the sole Mirvivi full general of the Confederacy, in years old. He is described as whi haired, lean, graceful, of medium hci?j and with uudiinmed eye?. I * is beard truly patriarchal, lie dresses entirely black, with iTblnck necktie, and wn ou the lapel of bis coat a little bad that is in form and color a miniature i production of a Confederate ensign. There arc two parties iu Memphisgood and wicked one. The former I becu waging bitter war ou the ganibh and lewd women threaten? to iuipca Judge. Du Hose, of llie Criminal Cou is alleged to be at the head of the wick parly. lie lias turned the tables, ho ever, ??y having a numb r of the go indicted for renting houses to fallen w men for immornlj purposes. Somctiir those who^^^- the nn of the tri good icolly^Wong t?? the wicked pari A cablegram ' rotn Paii?- announces tl the Waldcnse their last synod tesol cd to send two delcgat'S to North Cat lina to make inquircics, regarding the a vantages possessed hv that State for se tiers. This is a remarkable inoveiner The Wnld ens; s. or Waldesians, arc t famous sect inhabiting a mountain vail on the Italian side of the Alps, where f centu'ies they have maintained the Pi tcstant faith against cverv p rsetutio They constitute the united link bctwe the Presbyterian Church as it exists i day and the Anoa'o'io Cl'nucii. No no1 ever presented a more interesting stc than the actum life of the Waldensi Through fami*, war and pcrseeuti they have maintained the primitive fait During Into years they have not been al to support themselves at their trade cloth making. 5TV " A hill which lias one branch the Oklahoma LejflWrure makes t playing of progressive euchre a felo when prizes arc olTor.-d THE RULE OF ROTATION. f] ad PoitniMUr BtMnl li?ill WmU th Wo Lowl ApplteiUo?. Wawiiotox, D. C --PoitmMlir Q?Ml tr?l Bissell h accredited with the n* ? nounoeroeat that no local liwiaih MM need apptyjfor pottoflen atdwkh idala{ Utr*tlon He objects to conalnioriaf 1 loc <1 burioess mom neeta* eaters for tha qa ras reason that the actual aulie# are perform- try id by ii responsible and often iacornpetent clerks and substitutes. Postmasters under tho Bissell regime most promise to ^ ,M deeo'e their entire time to the work and j r,? | rr*onally keep strict office homo. j?f. Hep esentsttve Springer, of Illinois, u. I a who was one of the President's callsrs, L m- ft'kcd him if the rale Of net appelating _M >ra men who bed bstd office ondsfAdm four jtet Ti nn ago wis to.prevail aa reported.- The t,u na President replied in (he affirmative; end, icf when ask' d if the rate waainflexible, Mr. ?nl a Cleveland responded that it would be ee Hn( substantially; there might be exceptional wjj le and extraordinary circumstances which t(j. ' might cauac some departure from it bat ccg he could not call ti mind many poesibil- j0f itifs to justify a change from the policy Tc, dee ded upon. Mr. Springer ashed if gta m the rule was also to apply to fourth class ' cr postofiiccs. Mr. Cleveland's response gon ,e- was lha'. he had not thought about that, car of but lie gave the decided impression that re. it would prevail to as great an extent as he po sibl i wi'h the small postmasterships. for fc, Tho President sent ths following nora- _p, it, inalions to the Senate: Josiah Quincy, * < in of M ssachusetts, to be Assistant Secre- pja i?ry of 8tate; Robert A. Maxwell, of |R liis Xcw Yoik, to be Fourth Assistant Post- < m slcr General; Isaac P. Gray, of In- gW( th dinna, to be envoy extraordinary and "(o no minister plenipotentiary of the United ut iles to Mexico; Patrick tA. Collins of _u e Massachusetts,to be consul general of the " I'nited Sta'es at London; Edward Mans< |)e| II ti Id Sbipp, of Virginia, to be assistant gt ng *"rg''Q? "> tho nasr^ M lB HILL AND CLEVELAND. he The Senator Galls on the President v- By Appointment. ?P' 'y- Wasiiinoton, D C.?The one great ,n fe.tureof iu'ere t in polit'cal circles Thursday w s tho^visit of Senator (David C'1 II. Hill to his greatest p d ticnl rival, President Cleveland. a,, Senntor IIill came to the White (louse wji of Thursday morning by ap, oiut ueat, pre- . in sum ?bly arranged by Congressman Rock- ' ho well, of New York, during l.is visit to < it ClevcUud on Tuesday. That his visit w] cj?a was mo e than a mere perfunctory call is cd attested by the ler.gth of the interview. It lasted twenty minutes, and during no that time Mr. Cleveland received no r 1 , cards from waiting politicians Jn the { , S cabinet room. Sc ator Hill rame er the great *J, ' flo (I of < ffi c-scckers I- ~*S.? ^Agun > ' flowing to the White H'* neat" T? ' d rived. He unsscd through the , hall CM? in the public part of the Mansion . into the r omiJT Private Secretary Thur- . Ir" bcr, who evidently had been posted, fer . r?l he ushered Mr. IIill into the adjoining ? e<* executive offi e without a moment's de- f . ;!> Iny. * ?* l\ hen Sens'or Hill entered the Presi- "f.1 dent's room word was sent to the door- . \10 kce, or that Mr. Cleveland was very ? \a bird y engaged aud coul 1 not set any ?u ^1S visi'ors for some time. As a consequence ?r the arriving delegations soon filled the w.? *r- cnbintt loom and by the time Mr. Hill 8 V he left the White House there were more ?u >ut men thnu seats in the apartmut !rn he The interview was of couisc of a strict- m an ly private chnractcr, but fr m the f?ct wo he that it had 1 ccn previously arranged and tat from its length there can be little doubt . is that .t was of more than a mere official ts. i t social character. J? ce; A COLORED FOLKS' TOWN. w? I 6. " They Won'. Give Up Possession are I When the Sheriff Tries Evicting. b'c It VI.RIOll N. d. ? N?iW<? hn.a hnen re. hak he rc'Te(l lior.? of ? sensational offsir at evt er James C ty.n negro town near New Berne, noJ ,j growing out of an attempt by the Sheriff to forcibly evi?-t the negro residents from land which the Supreme Court of the "ol "e Unit d St'.tcs has decided to he the pro- a'v' ,ro perty of James A. Bryan, of New Berne. crfl Negroes hive been settlir g on this caa "? land, which is across Trent liver from * n cn New Berne, ever sin *c/1803, believing it PCI ia9 to be the propelty of the Government, ')C and there are now in the settlement sev- 'c* oral thousand negroes. Ten years ago JP5 'P3 Mr. Bryan, to whom the land really be- "?j longed, began proceedings to recla;m it, nt and the courts decided in his favor. He ^ ng made several attempts to remove the he- hn< 75 gro s and their property upon amicable ?n< tc- terms, but they indignantly refused all 1 [ht terms. arc is Wednesday Shcr'ff Larocque and a anc in p sse w. nt to James City to evict them, uln *rs At the first house where notice was served on gc the negroes told the officers they would tcr ie- <1 ic before they would be evicted. A the 11 ?g was run up in tho middle of the are -a street, and iu a few minutes one thousand gai As negroes h ,d gathered and ominous growls nri urs went up. 1 h< y saicj they would fight 1 a ch for their rights and die before they would sel rt, surrend r. The sheriff and posse were wo cd forced to retire. Great excitement pre- ^U! w- vnil?, and it is not known where the jnr od matter will end. >?cs PREFERRED STARVATION. 'ly be y A Colored Prisoner Fasts for Days on of mt Account of a Joke, era v~ | Columbus, O.?Moses Allen, s super- In '0- J s itious Federal colored prisoner, sent Tei *?- to the Ohio Penitentiary from Tennessee, ' t- Ims refused to take nourishment for ?ev- thi it. oral day*. The Deputy Warden asked pri he him who lie was fasting, end was la- in <-y fo-nicd that some of the guards had told ma ?i hi in that in the near future he would be bu obliged to sleep in the dead-house, owing a r !l to the crowded condition of the cells. Me pn AT en felt so sure that he would see ent ghosts every night that he concluded to we to- ?tat-ve himself lo death before that fate jn 'C1 arrived. thi >rJ When told that it was merely a joke, thl ss* Alien threw his arms about the deputy's tin on neck and exclaimed: "Well, brudder, ?* if dnt a n slio' enough I'se ready fo' a ?a pot of hi led cabbage." kc The First Cleveland Posimatter. Washington, I). ('.-The first post- to of master given under the new administra- am he lion is Newton A. Hamilton, who was ma ny appointed postmaster at Flora, Lincoln am County, Tennessee. am - . " J %* Bottth riU TOttWlMIBOI WWdWw to ib an enterprise wot^^SPVf'BDi Looking to this M^aP^e tbAi ormstion available (Hb ifiore * t, * reporter went MMmeburj, K. ioterflegJ,^Bt^B^About ^ w of uod in the business four jean and t) re it up. Mr. Lanier is an merge erprising end successful business o 1 his account of the canninc busiti I be about as accurate as could be obt ?especially with reference to i s ful establishment io the south. 1 ormntioo communicated was io a c satiou which is herewith given iu si nee: 'Jfr. Lanier, woull you object to g nc information about the business ining fruit and vegetables}" asked I >orter. 'Give mj an idea of whit sort of I mation you want, and I'll give it i if f can." 'What is the roit of the neccss nit or equipment and is there any p< the bu-inc.s?" 'To start with the first question," ercd Mr. Lauier, "the plant necess can fruit or vegetable on any orriia le is insigniflce it. An outfit could t up for less than $1,000, with wh jut fifty hands cutld flack 5,000 c r day. This outfit would consist c am bo:I r of 8 or 10 horse power, I cs which the cooking k ttles, pip i other app'iaoccs wou'd not cost o )0. 1 could show anybody a coin pi >nt here at any time, but it is not sratlin now. There arc r.o scci >ut the business, and the process s y simple indeed. Anyone of good inry intelligence can learn to propc pare cud pack most of the fruits ? , rubles in a few days. The work * done in any ordinary building t II afford shelter. One thousand d s ought to fit a plant up in good sht i building is availublc. 'Now to go on to ths second questi liilc I am out of the busiueas, at b oporarily, it is not beoaute _ th rc i tmney in it. .. The conditions i indir.g the business here made y harassing one and I had jmajtss to look aft* r to sudk an. AMMi t referred to quit ralhcr thnn HBP The farther* dorfflSj Kf^usiii raising fruit or vegetables and it rd to get them to co operate Id a i ruakc sure of a regular supply of gc ff to pack and some days th?y woi ug nvc times ns mucli ss wo co idle, and of coarw wo couldn't bu; Tbcn those who failed to sell wo I everybody wo didn't went any m ff, and tlwn wc would be very sc a couple of days. Then, too, tl uld brim? good, bad and indiffcr ff, entailing considerable work to t : and get what was fit to pack. Th jgular.ties made the matter of ha g tho labor difiicult. One dm uld have more hands than wo 1 rk for, aud tho next day wc wo re more stuff than we had bands >rk. I planted some vegetables I f and always made out well with w ot off my owu farm. My toraat re considered especially fine where aid them. In Maryland the farn educated to eo arrange their vegc and fruit products as that they ;e just so much to the packing ho\ ;ry day and they nre informed t ic but si lcctcd products are wauiec 'Tho whole business must be done e of four months, and most of il ae inside of 60 day# If peaches co rays be relied on in this section a a profit of at least 2^per cent, co >tly be inide on them a)one; but so ics we have 110 peaches at all. Gar is ate also in good demand, and wo very piolitable, but I could get s r, and cv. n when I tried to raise tl self the results were very poor. T n't seem to grow well about Salisbt >(Thc simple establishing of a cann tory and a knowledge of how to ti i pack fiuit and vegetable*, is >ugh to make a success of the busin must be understood what sort of go in demand and will bring good pti< i provision must be made to get a i r supply of stuff. It won't do to the fnnners until they get much 1 acquainted with the business t iy ore now. Apples, b.ans and c low-price! and unprofitable. Peacl rden peas aod cherries arc always lr ced and profitable. The best res ;ot were from vegetables I raised i f, and from peaches, and I think uld be best for anyone going into uncss to start a vegetable and f in, relying on this farm for the b the material, and then buy only s ff as the farmers brought in g ip?, and only from farmers who wo regular in supplying a certain lino stuff at tegular interval. The fn would naturally do hotter each y< this way the business could be m y profitable. "Even in the way in which I rat rc could be some money made w ccs were fair, but it is too hirrass the present condition of the mntc rkcts?especially to a man with ol ?in<ss to look aft?r. The crnnd* eadj sale. I sold goo-Is in StTLo raphis and other p aces and they ? ;iie satisfaction. The Sal'sbury freif re -gainst nie both ->n the eanscjir and the goods going out, but e ;n there is nothing to prevent mak s a fair business if a man could st ; worry with the farmers and the hai "I should think that down in 80 rolina, where ffti t and vegetables raised in abundance and the cro| -c each year, that a very excellent I ss could be made that would devt very large proportions if looked a ;1 pushed. Provision ought to de beforehand, though, for a g 1 regular supply of material to pi 1 if it can be done in no other wa ^^KuKbt to atart i truck fruit farti |Nt that iu good shape before trjrinj PjFVto Mtu packing, and then develop th< 3?-| bjr educating the farmcra. Com ^ I WRm la thii way and fo'lowei up witl By buita* a* care, the South could beat th oa canned vegetables and fruits J ^ ILxttttraating Suit for DsmsfM, Mfccr all, the most obvious function o the one of least value , j ^a&arh^nflbnld doubtless be advisabl j,' Ltd simply for what the j do in Oaf administering justice , ft no re rtbel+tatHtr greatest u>c is in brio? ja 1 ^ public notice occurrence V j of value should otherwise not b kvei ?^*(^NBki the neighborhood whar This was admirahl ^ ttie^Wcckiy whe lien gave anraccouut of the case of Drink ilCi water vs.-Campbell, au intcrcrting ani inn diverting instance of a collision bet wee icss 11,0 holes which never would have ob ?jn taincd public notice had it not beei ?c. taken into tin law courts Again w Che And the same thing in the case of Milli on. kan vs. Eames, a suit for damage a. ft.rait'>kt in ft lnr.nl mint of Yiimnlnnr Wn UD. - ? e> tcr, Kansas. jve It appears thnt tho defendant, Mi cf Enmes, has n farm near thinning Watt tho which is largely devote! tostock raising The plaintiff, Millikan, some two or thru In- weeks ago, e.me nlongthe road from th direction of B'g Grasshopper with hi earthly possessions lied up in a hnndnnn rv handkerchief and lung over h's shouldc ^{j'j on a lath, and asked Mr. Eamos fc work. Enmes looked him over, saw Hit an. ho did not cirry a watch or have otlic ary outward indications of tho dude, an arv hltcd him for the season at twenty do ^ tars n month. Tiicn, afttr some ger.cri |c|i ins ructions about the work, Enmes drov ans 'or .Running Water to get the nisi a where, being an enthusiastic Populist, li l)C_ staid till evening and denouuetd th ing government. ver R appears further that Euiucs is a hi ctc of an experimenter, and that early in th j? winte r nc bought a hulTalo cow froi cts "Buffalo" Jones of Goodnight, tlie sain arc man from whom Austin Corbin am or. o*.hers got their bisons. Wc ought, ft rjy the bciufit of the ordinary read' r, to sa ind right here, iu regird t) tho America _.an .buffalo, that though it gives hr.lliar hat proaii e of becom'ng a valuable domcsti 0j. animal, up to date the cow of tho specie j.>c hns not been milked I y the weak and, i wc may say. flimsy hand of man. We ai 0IK assured by those who ught to kuow thi ,as^ a mau might as well try to shoe au o Kaa without tho usual heavy frame-work an iur. tacklo as to attempt to milk a buffal cow; and as to shoeing au ox withoi ^^W6t?paralu?, a Ver.nont.b ucksmith has a f /^iVady said in print that a man "might i I ""^M^Muidcwnor^m^^ach and try < is I Innocent**f icss * babe. |8 When milking time came Millikan pt yay on a pair of overalls, took two tin paili ,Q(j and preceded to the barn. Ho milke two or three ordinary and, as we may ca u|^ them still cows, aod then approached th ? j* sparkling and < ffeivcscrnt buffalo. 8I1 u|(j was confined in a box stall, and be sin 0?c thit as he approached her he noticed thi n'nl she she was "mighty high-shouldered i (,cv f out, and pccraud to be wearing a bu eQl[ falo robe on herself,"but he "didn't thin 1Q ^ nothing much about it," lie casually r iesc marked 4 So, bossy!" a couple of time n(j. with the laudable pu pose ol opening n wc era of good feeling, set down on b [j|(j stool, ndjusted the pad, and boldly struc yjj out to extract the lacteal fluid. "Alon to about now" ns the ancient almanac wr m_ tcrs would have put it, this absuid bu fat, falo cow kicked. Indeed, that the read ;ocg may kuow the very worst without furth [ver delay, we will say that she kicked sever jerj times. The thst or forward half of tl ,tg_ first kick sent the pail against the mat can ?er' ?hut together like an a< ,8 g co dion. The second or return half < jn? the same kick caused Miliiknu to smii j the side of iiic barn; and this not bcin jn, very stiong, lie went through leaving L jg lurgc, irregular hole. Subsequent kicl u*1(j broke the stall into pieces and dcmolishe lg R the manger, after which the intclligci uld l>civ?t jumped up and down stiff legge mc_ till she had smashed do.mi the plan den door ami stood on the ground amid tl uld ^oner,d wreck. When in ten minute rfrv Millikan recovered consciousness, 1 ?em hobbled to the house and icmarked 1 jje_ the hired girl that "that there brind heifer didn't seem to he used to bavin jn ' strangciM milk her." When the girl cj reat J)'?ii ed the true t tate of affairs to hit n0? no forgot his hurt, and rose up and wall cgg cd to Ilunniug Water, where lie engage 0(]8 the best lawyer 111 town to begin suit f heavy damages cc9? The plea which Millikan will put fo "eff* war4 is that Knines was guilty of criui rely nal negligence in not warning him of tl >ct- danger in attempting t? iniik a buffn ban cow. Kami's wili set up the claim th ""n ||qv man with common sense would kuo fl' 8 ' better without being told. We fear tin ults "bout all we can say is that much mi be said on both sides. The questio . seems to be, should Miliikan hare re< the ognized that sin iois a buffalo, and is th buffalo's prejudice against being inilke ruit generally kniwn? We pie uine that ulk Kiuncs had had, let us siy, }l gjruffe co >?ch fined in his bam, any court would ha nod held that Milliknn should have seen th u'd it was not a domestic cow and have kc unt away fiom it. Hut a Imffalo is not rm- great'v dissimilar to a common cow, ar car, ft(jc the court at Running Water may deer for the plaiutifl. One point, howcvi , seems clear: Estites will put in a ecu hen 'cr c ?'m f?r damages, based on the bo .jn? in the barn where Miliikan went throng This claim ought not to be allowul. jK>r liar, er's Weekly. arc " ' uis, Virginia Bureau of Information. "vc It has been do.'idcil by the exeruti tbts coajmitiee of the board of World's Fn l,p<f nsnngr for Virginia t > establish a buret n of iDforma iou in the Virginit buhl in ;ing Th s bureau is to be under the supervisor and and control of the board and its officer ids. All information, incluling maps,deseri| nth five statements and lltcnturc in rcfcrcm can t-? the resources anil capa' ilities of evei > is part of the State will be distributed in jus- partially l?v the bureau. The list of i slop quires f..r inhumation about inve-tmcn fter in Virginia will be open to all dealers be Virginia, and no preference will be r ood lowed to any person or firm in giving i ick, format on i r in sending prospective i y a v<??tors in the State. n * DEATH IN A GEORGIA BLOW. I a 8tv?rtl Town* Wrecked and Sixteen P*r*on* Reported Killed. i 1 Colvmbos, Ga.?A t- rrible wind storm ? swept acro?s s vtral ^counties, fifty miles ' north of Columbus, in the night, doing ( great damage aud causing ronsidcrmhle loss of life. The ttorui cuno up from f the northwest ?nd struck Greenville, the ' count* aeat of Mrrriweather Countj,about o 8 30 o'clock demolishing the business J portion of the town and a great number S of dwellings. f- Thirty e:ght stores and dwellings aro > reported to have been blown down, and * only three business houses in the wholo c town were left intact. Every house waa J .dam ?ge to a greater or less extent. A ? negto woman was killed. Odessa, n small town near Greenville, d U reported to hsvc been completely n aftcpt away and six persons killed. At Woodbury, ten miles oast of Oreon> n villc, houses were blown down and trees c uprooted, snd about two miles from tho i- town two negroes and one white child it were killed. Many arc reported to be i* seriously wounded. Heavy snow fall at Woodbury. r. At Moleua, in Pike County, a church, 'i an academy, a planing mill, two stores f. and several residences were blown down, e A white woman, Mrs, Fell, aud four o nrcrrnes were killed. is A report from Piedmont, Pike County, a n few inilcA from Moli na, rays that ouly 'r two hnuAca out of twenty remain rtnud r ing. A woniau named Hawkins waa it killed, and very few persons in the town r escaped injury. |. SEIiECT SIFTINUS. \1 0 A pedigree book of high-bred cats ha? 1, just been issue t in Knglnn I. Il' A flexible coupling for water pipe* ti 10 bo submerged uudcr water is a uow in cntion. The most graceful of domostic nnimV* n is the cat, while the most awkward birJ iC is the duck. d A vegetable curiosity is owned by a >r resident of Woaatchoj, Washington, y It consists, it is claimed, "of a network n of largo potatoes grown upju out ft another." Family names stern to T?e scarco in ^ Denmark. In the Copenhagen diroooorj ro tbo name Hanson takes u*> thirty-font lt columns, Peterson thirty-two, J onset x thirty columns. d Among the estatos left by parsons who lo died in Vienna, Austria, and whose hoirs it havo not been fo.iu<l, is on i .1 ?ndstin ? I- of an opera glass. Auotiiur in iu's osliic 18 consists of a ecarfpiu. British soldiers wilt svear so union 1 Mfks in. future, hueiuse they in s ire ls greater msrohfn^ ofUv'onuy. Tito oh stylt^of seamed socks chafed t.hc shin lt and tnado the soldiers footsore; the , seamless socks do not. I d Grlfton, N. C., can probably layclaiu U to more division than any other stnal. io place in the couutry. The village it o located, it is said, in two counties tlirct ?'8 townshios. two congressional district. two senatorial districts sad two judicia. ? districts. ^ A Chicago shoo manufactory mike; e. 20,000 pairs of "dual iiigu's shoos'' a s month. Tho r ties are of pasteboard, m covered with grained paper, tho up,tort is aro quilted satin and crochet wor e and k a ribbon tied in a bjn ku.it holds too ig shoe to tho foot. fl" Florida people aro telling of an crango tree in Doctor Abernathy's grove at er Altooua which lias borne during tho pav season 15,000 orange*. It is a suedliu g, ic twenty-five years ol<l, some thirty foil ^ high, and hits received only the ordinary _ grove care and culture. >f In the 227 years since ,,I)>n tjuixoto'' te was published 1321 editions have botr. qj printed, of wiiich 52s were Spanish, dOi a English, 170 French, 0.1 Italia i, HI 1'or tugese, 15 (Icrin ?u, 18 rswc lisli, 0 Polish d 8 Danish, 6 Kimiau, 5 Greek, 3 Ito i inaninn, i Cataloniau, 1 Basque and , ^ Liliu. lk mr ? ,c All-Fowcrlul Miis'c. ?. What is that millionaire family doln; ?c sitting there in that expensive opera box Listening to the music. Why docs tha 'c itreet car driver turn his head as h " twists his brake in one of the inoi c~ crowded spots of the Broadway thorough fare? The strains of a hand organ hav? J caught his car. See that foreign-browo: broom seller leaning against a Wall atrce! lamp post, regardless aliko ot trade nn< r> dinner, as ire devours the strains o ,j. Ascher's "Alice," played by >> poor strca 1C band. ]o Music is shamefully handled at that theatres, but what would the roost stir w ring play seem without an orchestral ^ Music is the bait by which tho wording is caught in the church not of to-day Q Music in the park is the poor inan'i >. holiday, vacation, summering. They io must havo music on race course, fait id ground, beach, mountain side, Bowery if alley and Murray Hill boulevard. Tin n- reception's gabble would fall flat but foi ve the sweet strains that envelop the plact at with au atmosphere of enchantment pt Music mingles with the wine ot the festal o board. The campaign song, the buglt call, the battle march arc the inspirations de ot their respective scenes. Concert ami r, opera feed amusement to thousands ol n- people night after night, week aftci lc week, mouth after month, year aftci 1). year, with ever increasing power of at ? traction. Music is a necessity in schools, in sa loons, in kindergarten*, in prisons, it churches, in the parlor, on the ranch, at v,. the d*nco, in insane asylum, hospital, iir camp and club, on the quarantine ship, su and in the cemetery. The workingman, g. the merchant, thisf, professor, rector, >n belle, farmer, miner, soldier, lover, a. teacher, baby, dotard and pugilist?all [>- depend more or less upon the influence '? of music. The band, the player, the rJ glee club, the orchestra, the "fiddler," are in demand upon every floor where people are assembled together.?New .,9 York Musical Courier, in il- New Orleans, La., believes srio nas n- shipped the largest cargo on rocord, n 20,000 bales of cotton on board the British ship Samoa. j SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, j To make ice bj artificial meant re* quires one too of coel to produco from from fire to tea tons of ice. A Urge sewing machine, weighing three ami one-fourth tons, is ia use in Leeds, England. It sews cotton beltkrK* The ererege weight of the Ohineeo brain is said to be heavier than the >a ererege weight of the brain in eoj other race. Hard coal loses eight per cent, in bulk per annum when exposed to the weather. Boft coal loses twelve per v>7' * Experiments hare shown that a pump. kin will lift two and one-halt tons, provided tho weight is place 1 so as to interfere with tho urowth and dereloo. tucut of the redouble. Tlio temperature of the Med (terra* nenn nt 200 fathoms is about fifty-six degrees, and no change is found in g^ing to the bottom, which in places roaches a depth of 1500 fathoms. M. Chappuis's proposed electric railway through the tthnplon Pass is estimated to cost 000,000, and it would greatly roduco the distanco between Italy and Northern Europe. The cost of the observatory which is now* being built on the top of Mout Hlunc, Switzerland, is estimated nt $60,000. Part of the buildiug is to bo mado available for guides and tourists. Tlio central Sahara registers a moan of ninoty-seven degrees in July. Central Australia boasts of ninety-four dogrees in Jauuary, a moan which is attained in South Carolina an 1 Iuuor Arabia in midsummer. A llritish scientist recently stated thAt if a man weighing 140 pounds wcro placed under a liydraulio press and squeezed flat, the result would bo 105 pounds of water and thirty-five pounds of dry residue. A laboratory for tha study, under strict scientific conditions, of suako poisons and cures for snaku bites is to bo established in Calcutta. It ia to bo fouudod by a native, and will bo tho only institution of its kiud in tho world. An excellent method for waterproofing tho surface of a waU is to cover it with a solution of soap. After twentyfour hours a coat of linio solution is applied. This process is repeated several times, and is claimed to tuiko tho wall perfectly water tight. The rcaoarchos of many observers, as reported upon by Dr. Buchan, show tbat the oceari currents cause the tcmperaturo ' ?of the west sfdo of tlio Atlantic, at depths from 100 to 500 fathoms to be nearly ten degrees warmer thau at tho same depths on the east side. M. Marccy, tho well known invostigator of animal movements Oy means of iu stautancous photography an I tho zoctropo, Inn now succeeded in rendering the bcatiug of a living heart visible to the eye. All the phases of the movement can be followed and properly examined by this new method. The heart employed in this experiment was that of a turtle. i Official statistics of tho colcra opidora1c iu Germany last year, and up to its practical disappearance, show that tho number of deaths from cholera was 8510. Ninc-teuths practically of this number were in the city and Stato of Hamburg, where the total number of was 7011 ?1.22 por cent, of tho whole population. Tho statistics show that the cholera spread up thn risers from tho ceutcr around Hamburg w<th diminishing virulence. Pi.ch pine beams will shrink iu thickness from eighteen and three-quarter inches to eighteen and a quarter; spruce from eight and a half inches to eight and thiec-cights; white pi no from twelve inches to eleven and seveneighths; yellow pine u tritlo lesi. Cedar beams will shrink from a width' of fourteen inches to thirteen and a quarter; elm from eleven to ton and three-quarters, nnd oak from twelvo to eleven aud three-eights. Poor Pre Idonts. It is still true, eviu in those days ol great fortunes undreamed of wlic.i it was founded, that tlio American Presidency may l?o aspired to by men who are not rich. Our wealthiest President! have been the first and the last elected ? Washington ami Cleveland. Washington whs one of tho wealthiest men in the country in his time. Adams was worth $ 100,000 at hii death. Jefferson was "land poor'* and in straits. Madison and Monroe had comfortable estates for those days. Jackson was born in abject poverty and never bee imo wealthy. Vau Dureo was the son of a tavcrnkoepcr, and had l fight with poverty. Johnson's youth was even more unfortunntc than Line >ln's. Ho was apprenticed to a tailor, barely learned to tend in iiis minority, and was taught to write by his wife after marriage. Qraot was born only moderately poor and never became rich. So of Ilayes. Cleveland's youth was ono of privations and toil. Harrison was of good but not wealthy rnmily> ?"'i w'oa, up to recent times, a :: >untry lawyer in good circumstance*. 11c is but moderately wealthy. T.ic "aristocracy of wealth" has never made any inroads upon ?u? White House.?New York Recorder. THE NAVAL RENDEZVOUS. It ie Decided to Hold the Exirciaea in Hampton Honda April 17th. WaaniNOTON, 1>. C.?Assistant Secretary of the Navv Solcy, Admiral (Ihcnrdi ami Commodore Ramsey held n con fere ce at the Navy Department regirding tlie changing of the dato of the naval review. it was decided that the rendezvous hould take placo in Hampton Roads A]>ril 17th. April 21th tho fleet will sail for New York, where the review will bq held en the 27-h of April.