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JP^TEEKL Y^B 0 HTOH TIMES . ~ D^oUd U Afrimtitom, H?rticmlt*r*, PtfUi* md tht Current Newt oj the Day. ^^^VOL. VXXI.- NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROIJl^gi^S^i|- MABCjfU, 1893. NUMBER 11. Professor Huxley knows of no a priori | reason "why snake-bodied reptiles fifty feet long and upward should not disport themaetvea in our seas as they did in * those of the oretaoeous epoch." * ' The St. Louis Kepublic takes no stock in the theory of the overproduction of cotton. It says that when the Southern farmers raisA all their foodstuff they cannot produco too much cotton. But the trouble is that they will not raise all thoir foodstuff for a long time to come. fegv- 1 Walter B. Harris unci It. Q. Cunning b? ham-Graham,two Londoners, assert thai they encountered in Southern Morocco, at-the, foot of the Atlas Mountains, a cozen or fourtwn mpn nonA of whni# were over four feet and a half tall, who are bciioved to belong to a tribe who inhabit the upper range of tho mountains. It is probable, predicts the San Francisco Chronicle, that the device for dispensing with tho services of telegraph 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 telegraph According to the Courier-Journal the great scramble for gold is now regarded In Europe as a sign that Europoan pence is soon to be broken. Qold is not only being locked up in the Imporial Treasury of Russia, but in storehouses of other continental Governments, and the feeling of anxiety on this aecouut is widespread. \ _ ? The London Oraphlc hu a portrait and sketch of Potara, a Maori cannibal, - who is eighty-fire years old and still has a 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 prefers a Maori, as the whites, or "Pakehas," hare "a salty and bitter flavor." Potara must hare a re* tcntire memory of hie tastes. I Pork is dearer now than it has beon in ten years, or since Bismarck bogan to raako war on the American hog. This is doubtless in part due to the opening of European markets to our pork. With better prices for pork beans havo also advanced, and the traditional New England dish of pork and beans has now to be paid for by those who would enjoy it. No sooner bavo European aeronauts improved thoir balloons almost to' the point of perfection for military uses than along comos a Russian scientist with an _ki.V. 4L. <i|i|'ai?vuo nuivu vapvuios bUD Idjfll UI VUO sua sad employs them to burn the balloous. A Russian paper states that the balloons can be burned when at a distance of fire kilometers from the person handling the apparatus. r Within the past two years a number of reefs and islands in the Pacific Ocean, long known to mariners, hare disappeared from view, leering no eridence that they erer existed. No one understands the phenomenon, unless it be that here and there the floor of the ocean has subsided with unusual rapidity, though not with such riolence as to be betrayed by the agitation of tho sea. Ths fact is simply known that these stretches of reef or bits of land, some of them rising from the depths, and all marked on the charts, . can no longer be found. One or two war ships, with orders to risit some of these places, hare cruised around in great bewilderment, qnable to dnd the objects of their quest. Italr exoends ererr rear #96.000.000 for her soldieri, and !e?s than $4,000,000 for schools. In Spain it co3ta $100,000, 000 to main the army, and only $1,500,? 000 to educate the children; but then, it fa the exception to 8nd a Spaulsh farmer who U able to read or write. Oermany boasts of being in the foremost rank among the Nations in the Kulturkampf of the world; yet she expends $185,000,000 on her army, while $10,000,000 is deemed sufficient for the education of her children. France maintains an army at an expense of $151,000,000 and eupporta her schools with $21,000,000. The United States expend $115,000,000 for publio schools, while the army and naej cost only $54,000,000. 1 The experiment of *an electric street railwav costal ear. which had baen tried fa St. Louis, has been suoh a success as to warrants' use In other cities, notes thcJfrfwYork News. The St. Louis ^r*fc??prt?haster reports that the results hate been eminently eueoessful in every particular. The our is twenty-eight feet long, includiog the front end rear platforms, and eight end one-half feet wide. It is fitted up inside somewhat like a . ^ railway postoillce, and la 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, end the number of pieces of looel mail received and delivered, at a saving of from four to five hours oaoh, has beea 300 to 590 dally. * DIXIE NEWS. Th? Beloved South Gleaned and Epitomized. U the News and Occurence* Printed Here in Condensed Form, Two men were drowned from bout* ia Neuae river, Nortli Carolina, last week. At Pickeos, 3. C., Major Sjramca was on Wednesday found guilty of manslaughter. and a new trial was refused. Gabriel Smith, aged 83 years, and Miss Floreuce Webster, aged 25 years, we^e married in Luray, Va., last week. Congressman Tnlbcrt declines to tell a reporter whether he will or not be n candidate for United States Senator from South Caroliua. ' The colored firemen of North Carolina were by the Inst Legislature given a relief fund of $600 n year, and will form a State a socialion. Mrs. Frank Ovcrby, of Faycttoville, N. C., while nlono in her room Wednesday afternoon, was taken with n tit, full in the fire mid w.ic 1.11 -nAil 1,1 The people of the county of Montgomery, N. C., pre very much excited over the di eovery of a very rich gold mine. The mine is located on the property of Joucb CM ton. One of the negroes implicated in the butchery of Henry Twittnian and wife, at Lincolnvill , 8. ('.,'nst Saturday night, has he n arrested and lodged in jail in Ohailcston. Judge Wm. B. B' dmnn died at his home at Washington. Bcaufoit county, N. C., Tuesday morning, in his 70th year. He w.:s a member of the Supreme Court of the State from 1809 to 1878. Henry llrooks was arrested for horsestealing nt Chm'ottc:villc, Va., early Monday morning, nud lodged in jail, lie wa- hotly pursued til night, eluding air st until Anally captured in the Ragged Mountn'ns. Tin white coon that lias baffled the liuntcis of Acc unac county, Va , for several months was cuptur.d quite rcc ntly. It war the i -tcution to send i*. on a* a preei nt to Prcs'dcot Cleveland, but it died from the eff cts of the light in which it was captured. Mr* Tvvi Hugg'ss, of Hcr.uuiauu county. N. C., w. s standing in front of the the with her one yjpr-old infant in her arms. The child Knock-id from tho m.utelpiecc a bottel of turpentine and it fell in thi fire and igni'ed. The child'* clothing caught and it was so burned I par i?jr COHOSH 13 VCt Ci'i iCcii. Columbia, 8 C., is nflliclc 1 just now with n French l> ron who tdks French (of ? oursc), i-hows whole buudlr* of lcttcrs ami off is to furnish 1100,000 capitnl for a partnership iq Mr^Q,rfl 'Hi.'a.drj go d* business. Trc wary Columbians seem indisposed to r:nd his letters and much dispose! t> reject his $100,000. Robert Terry, whil.* intoxicated, entered the Virginia and North Carolina whrol fnctoiy tt Hichinon!. Ho was warned by the workmen to keep away from the niaclrnerj. Tina lie failed to do, for while the back of the Itttfur was-turned Tor y stumbled over tfly??Vringc and tho saw connected with it cut his body in two, the ho d falling on one side and his le^s on the othei. The charter of the North Carolina Farmers1 Alliance was not forfeited by the Legislature, as had be.n proposed, but the charter was so ain-udcd that the mount contributed by each Allianceman can be withdrawn nthis option, and the common fund has been to projected that it cnn easily be ascertained whether it is being perverted from legitimate objects. The a'net car system of Tallahassee, Fin., coosisting of one car, is operated by "a colored man and a mule," both of whom live only to please the people. If the car happens to be going one way and a passcog- r wants to go in the opposite direction he has only to say so and the mu'o is immediately hitched to tho other end and the car started in the dc'ired direction. Around Lower Oakland, 8. C., the farmers have determined to raise more grain than hat year, nud wi'l considers* ly reduce the acreage of cotton. The weather, which for some time has been too wet to allow spring planting, has cleared, audgrouui is now bjing broken. There is a very heavy demand for fertilizers, and it is expected that the crops will be unusually abundant. E. Kirby Smith, who is prominent just now becauso he is the sole surviving full geoer.il of the Confederacy, is 75 I cars old. He is described as whiteaired. loan, graceful, of medium height and with undimoied eyes. His beard is truly patriarchal. He dresses entirely iu black, with a black necktie, and wrars on tho lapel of bis coat a little badge that is in form and color a miniature reproduction of a Confederate ensign. There are two parties in Memphis?a good and wicked one. The former has been waging bitter war on the gamblers and lewd women threatens to impeach Judge Du Dose, of the Criminal Court, Is alleged to be at the head of the wicked party. He has turned the tables, however, by having a numb r of the good indicted for routing houses to fallen women for iinmoralj purposes. Sometimes those who wear tho uniform of the truly good really belong to the wicked party. A cablegram from Pails announces that the Waldensei in their last synod resolved to send two dolegati s to North Carolina to make inquireTes, regarding the advantages possessed by that State for settlers. Tliis Is a remarkablo movement. The Waldcnsts, or Waldcsians. are the famous sect inhabiting a mountain valley on the Italian side of the Alps, where for oentu*ies they hnve maintained the Protestant faith against every persecution. They constitute the united link between the Presbyterian Church as it exists today and the Apostolic Church. No novel ever presented a more interesting story than the actual life of tho Waldenses. Through famine, war and persecution they have maintained the primitive faith. During late years they have not been able to support themselvoi at their trade of cloth making. A bill which hdflByri^onc branch of the Oklahoma L^IKKnVc makes the playing of progressive euchre a felony when m i/.es are offer d 5.^ THE RULE Of ROTATION; PoitmMUr O moral Bioeell Want* No LomI Applicttioni. Wasiiikqton, D. C --Postmaster Genital Bissell is accredited with the an* nounceraent that no local basinets men need spplyjfor postoffices under his *d ministration. He objects to commissioning loed business in n as postmasters for the reason that the actual oulies are performed by iiresponsible and often incompetent clerks and substitutes. Postmasters tinder the Bissell regime must promise to devo'e their entire time to the werk and I er'onally keep strict office hours. Hep esentattve Springer, of Illinois, who was one of the President's callers, a deed him if the rule Of not appointing men who had held office under nta four yiars ago was to. prevail as reported*- The President replied in (he affirmative; and, when ask* d if the rule was inflexible, Mr. Cleveland responded that it would be so substantially; there might be exceptional nnd extraordinary circninstances which might cause some departure from it but he could uot call to mind many possible itirs to justify a change from the policy dee ded upon. Mr. Springer asked if the rule was also to apply to fourth class posti'fficcs. Mr. Cleveland's response was tha'. he had not thought about that, but lie gave the decided impression that it would prevail to as great an extent as po sibli wt'h the small postmasterships. Tho President sent ths following nominations to the Senate: Joeiah Quincy, of M ssachusctts, to be Assistant Secretary of State; Robert A. Maxwell, ol .few Yoik, to be Fourth Assistant Postm ster General; Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United Hates to Mexico; Patrick |A. Collins of Massachusetts,to be consul general of the United 8tales at London; Edward Mansti Id Sbipp, of Virginia, to be assistant Mirgeou in tho navy. HILL AND CLEVELAND. The Senator Calls on the Piesidsnt. By Appointment. Washington, D C.?The one great fc dure of iu'ere t in polil cal circles Thursday \v s thoavisit?f Senator {David II. Hill V) his greatest p d ticni rival, President Cleveland. Senator llill came to the White House Thursday morning by apt oiut ueut, presumably arranged by Congressman Rockwell, of New York, during Ids visit to Cleveland on Tuesday. That his visit was more than a mere perfunctory call is attrsted by the length of the interview. It lasted twenty uilijuUw, ?utl during Hint time Mr. Cleveland received nn cards from Trailing politicians ^in the cabinet room. So ator Hill rime er^p^tbe groat flo d of t fH c-scchcrs <T flowing to the Whtte BflMaen AVw< rived. lie nassed rapflRy through th? hallway jn the public part of the Mansion into the r ort of Private Secretary Thurbcr, triio evidently had been (totted, fei lie uthcrcd Mr. Dill into the adjoiniag executive offi e without a moment's delay. When Sena'or Bill entered the President's room word waa sent to the doorIt ce. or that Mr. Cleveland was very bird y engaged and coul 1 not set any visitors for some time. As a consequence the arriving delegations soon filled the cabin*t room and by the tim<; Mr. Hill left the White House there were more men tlinu seats in the spartm ut The interview was of couisc of a strictly private character, but fr m the fact that it hud been previously arranged and from its length there can be little doubt that it was of more than a mere official or social character. A COLORED FOLKS' TOWN. They Won** Give Up Possession When the Sheriff Triea Evicting. ItAi.Rtou, N. C. ? News has been received hero of a sensational affair a! James C ty.n negro town near New Berne, growing out of an attempt by the Sherifl to forcibly evict the negro residents from land which the Supreme Court of th< Unit d States has decided to be the property of James A. Bryan, of New Berne Negroes have been settlhg on thi laud, which is across Trent liver fron acw iscrnr, ever sin *0/1883, believing i to be the propel ty of the Government, end there arc now in the settlement sev oral thousand negroes. Ten jears agi Air. Itrynn, to whom the land really be longed, began proceedings to reclaim it and the courts decided in his favor. H< made several attempts to remove the Ae gro s and their property upon amicabli terms, but they indignantly related al terms. Wednesday Sher'fl Larocque and i p sse wi nt to James City to eyiot them. At the first house where notice was servec the negroes told the officers they would die before they would be evicted. A fl tg was run up in the middle of tht street, and in a few minutes one thousand negroes h ,d gathered and ominoua growli went up. 1 h> y said they would fighl for their rights and die before they wouk surrCnd r. The sheriff and posse wert forced t>> retire. Great excitement pre vails, and it is not known where the matter will end. PREFERRED STARVATION. A Colored Prisoner Pasts for Days ox Account of a Joke, Colomoos, O.?Moses Allen, a super s itious Federal colored prisoner, aenl to the Ohio Penitentiary from Tennessee has refused to take nourishment for ser oral days. The Deputy Warden askec him who he was fasting, and was Informed ihat some of the guards had toM him lhat in the near future be would tx obliged to sleep in the dead house, owinj i?> the crowded condition ef the cells M en felt so sure that he would so ghos'.s every night thst he oeocloded ts starve himself to death before that fats arrived. When told that it was merely a joke Mien threw his arms about the deputy*i neck and oxclaimed : 'Well, brudder, if dat am sho' enough I'ee ready fo' i pot of biled cabbage." The Firat Cleveland Postmaster, Wasfinoton, D. C. -The first postmaster giren undrr the new administration is Newton A. Hamilton, who was appointed postmaster at Flora, Lincoln county, Tennwer. tinuod in the business font jcarr and then gave it up. Mr. Lanier is an energetic, enterprising^ and successful business man and his the canning business will be nboutrtPm^tc as could be obtain id?especially witTflA|f<*qce to i s successful csUblishnientt^w^outh. The information communicated was in a con ersation which is herewith given iu sub; stance: "Mr. Lanier, woull you object to give some information about the businc?s of canning fruit and vegetables!" asked tho reporter. "Give in j an idea of frit it sort of in f 4 2 A ft till i A iuiuiaiiun von wiiiit, nag til give u 10 you if I can." 'What is the rost of tho neccss rv , plant or equipment and is there any potit in the hu?inc.-8l" "To start with the first question," an swered Mr. Lanier, "the plant necessary to can fruit or vegetable 00 noy ordinary scale is insigniflce-it. An outfit could be put up for leas than $1,000, w'th which 1 about fifty hands c mid pack 5,000 cans per' day. This outfit would consist of a steam bo.l r of 8 or 10 horse power, Inssides which the cooking k ttlcs, piping and other nnp'hcccs wou'd not cost over $500. I could show anybody a complete I plant here at any time, but it is not in operation now. There are r.o secrets about the busiucss, and the process s are very simple indeed. Anyone of good ordinary intelligence can learn to properly prepare cud pack most of the fruits and vegetables in a few days. The work can be done in any ordinary building that will afford shelter. One thousand dollars ought to (it a plant op in good shape if a building is availublo: "Now to go on to the second question. While I am out of the busiucss, at least temporarily, it is not beoause . th re was no miney in it. ? The conditions surrounding the business here.- Kfeado very harassing one and I had' in's* to look aft-rtoMjch an. ? Hk , "The farmers do^SwHrea business 1 of raising fruit or vegetables and It is hlPfi ta rrdlt (linm <-a sa awaLlaln - ??? - ? 0~w w vv V|r?mw lu f? n ?J to raaVo sure of a regular supply of good stuff to pack and some days they would briug five times as much as wo could handle, and of course wtj couldn't buy it all. Then those who failed to sell would tell everybody wo didn't went any more stuff, and then wc would be very sennt for a couple of days. Then, too, they would bring good, bad and indifferent stuff, entailing considerable work to so t out and get what was fit to pack. These 1 irregular.tics made the mAtter of handling tho labor difficult. One d^i wo would have more hands than wo hid work for, and tho next day we would have more stuff than we had hands to work. I planted somo vegetables myself and always made out well with what I got off my own farm. My tomatoes were considered especially fine wherever I sold them. In Maryland the farmers are educated to eo arrange.their vcgeltb'e and fruit products as that they can take just so much to the poking houss t every day and they are informed that none but stlccted products are wanted. \ "Tho whole business must be done in\ side of four months, and most of it is , done inside of 60 days. }f peaches could always be relied on in this section as a crop, a profit of at least 2flft>er cent, could j easily be inide on them Atone; but some0 trnes wc have no peachevst all. Qarden t peas are also in good deni&nd, and would be very piofitable, but I could get very few, ana cv.n when I tried to raise tbem idjocm idc results were very poor. They don't srem to grow well tbout Salisbury. "The simple establishing of a canning j factory and a knowledge of how to treat and pack fruit and vegetable*, is not j enough to make a success of the business. I It must be understood what sort of goods are in demand and will bring good prices, s and provision must be made to get a rcg. ular supply of stuff. It won't do to rely I on the fanners until they get much bctl ter acquainted with the business than > they are now. Apples, b.ans and corn ? are low-price 1 ana unprofitable. Peach-s, I garden peas and cherries are always h'ghi priced snd profitable. The best results t 1 got were from vegetables I raised myI self, and from peaches, and I think it > would be best for aavono going into the business to start a vegetable and fruit ' farm, relying on this farm for tho bulk of the material, and then buy only such stuff as the farmers brought in good shapu, and only from farmors who would be regular in supplying^ certain amount i of stuff at regular interfjdb, The farmers would naturally do MBr each year. In this way the busines# could be made t Tery profitable. , "Even in the way in which I ran it thtre could be some money made when 1 prices were fair, but it is loo harassing in the present condition pf the material I markets?especially to a man with other a business to tnnlr ?fi?p TV? ?? MV Kvvua ni u I a read* sale. I told good* in St. Louis, . Memphis snd other paces and they gavo I entire satisfaction. The Sal'spury freight* > were against me both ot^the cans coming 1 in and the goods going' cx^fc, but tr, n then there is nothing to prevent making i this a fair business if a man could stand the worry with the farmers and the bands. "I should think that down in South * Carolina, where frtfct and vegetables can be raised in abundance tad the crop is sure each year, that aver J excellent bo* ineea could be made that would develop to very largo proportions If looked after and pushed. Pibvittyn ought to be made beforehand, though, for a good and regular supply of material to pack, and (f it can ho done in no Other way * DEATH IN A GEORGIA BLOW. Several Towns "Wrecked ?nd Sixteen Persons Keported Killed. q Columbus, Oa.?A t- rriblc wind sterm fi swept across s viral Kcouutics, fifty miles -?miih of Columbus. in the night, doing . I I ? ll'l# L loss of life. The ttorui cTmcnpTWW^ * the northwest and struck Greenville, the count*' scat of Merriweather County,about 8 oO o'clock demolishing the business ^ portion of the town and a great number n of dwellings. n Thirty-eight stores and dwellings arc reported to have beet; blown down, and b only three business houses in the whole ^ town were left iutact. Every house was c .dam ?gc to a greater or less extent. A ncgio woman was killed. Odessa, a small town ucur Greenville, is reported to have been completely * swept away and six persons killed. ,r At Woodbury, ten miles oast of Green- a villc, houses were blown down and trees uprooted, and about two miles from tho 11 t&m? ? sought to start a truck fruit farm "ud gift that iu good shape before trying to dtf.jtay packing, and then develop the bnsinft* by educating the farmers. Com. meaccd in this way and fo'lowo t up with busin* ss can*,'the South could bent the ^WOrld on canned vccetables~1uuf~frait*7^ Interesting Suit for Damages, allj the most obvious function of ,the. Courtis the one < f least value, Mid doubtless be advisable simply for what they dl?fifhe' .^rajpif administering justice, >t^v| l^less tWr greatest u-e is in briDgpublic notice occurrences v6i v vhiidi tyould otherwise not bo hgai^fV; vieygtel the neighborhood where tbey ffltrcc. This was admirably itHistm?iirfff,ntIy III the Weekly when it gave an account of the case of Drinkwater va. Campbell, an interesting and diverting instance of a collision between two holes which ucver would have obtained public notice had it not been taken into tin law courts Again we find the same thiug in the case of Millikan vs. Eamcs, a suit for damages brought in a local court of Running Water, Kansas. It appears that the defendant, Mr. Eamcs, has a farm near Running Watci which is largely devote 1 to stock raising. The plaintiff, Millikan, some two or three weeks ago, c.me nlpngthe road from the direction of R;g Grasshopper with his earthly possessions lied up in a bnndnnua handkerchief and lung over Irs shoulder on a lath, and asked Mr. Eamos for work. Eamcs looked him over, saw that lie did notcirrya watch or have other outward indications of tho dude, and hired him for the season at twenty dollars a month. Then, after some general ins ructions about the work, Eamcs drove for Running Water to get the m-.il, where, being nn enthusiastic Populist, lie staid till evening and denounced the government. It appears further that Eamcs is a hit ui nil vaiivriiiiuiiivi) miu hint curly in hie winter he bought a buffalo cow from "Buffalo" Jones of Goodnight, the same man from whom Austin C'orbin and others got their bisons. We ought, for the bcucflt of the ordinary read' r, to say right here, in rogird t> the American .buffalo, thnt though it gives brilliant proaii e of beeom'njj a valuable domestic animal, up to date the cow of the species has not been milked I y the weak and, a; we may say. flimsy hand of man. We arc assured by those who ought to know thai a man might as well try to shoe an ox without tho usual heavy frame-work and tackle as to attempt to milk a buffalo cow; and as to shoeing an ox without Bjfctipar.it u?, a Ver.nont.b acksmith has al/ Vcady said in print that a man "might as ujl^HU)d<^mon^j^|o|^ch and try to sa babe. When milking time came Millikan put on a pair of overalls, took two tin pails, and proceeded to the barn, tie milked two or three ordinary and, as we may call them still cows, aud then approached the sparkling and effervescent buffalo. 8kc was confined in a box stall, aud lie sayi that as lie approached her he noticed thai she she was "mighty high-shouldered ir f out, aud seemed to be wearing a buf fnlo robe on herself,"but he "didn't tliinl nothing much about it," lie casually re marked 'So, bossy!" a couple of times wiih the laudable pu pose ol opening ai era of good feeling, s.?t down on hi sto-il, adjusted the pad, and boldly struct out to extract the lacteal fluid. "Alouj shout, now" ns thn ancient. nlmnnno wri tors would have put it, this absutd buffalo cow kicked. Iutlccd, that the rcado may know the Tory worst without furthe delay, we will say that she kicked sevcra times. The lbst or forward half of thi first kick sent the pail against the manger, where it shut together like au an co dion. The second or return half ol the same kick caused Millikan to smiti the side of the barn; and this not bcioj very stiong, he went through leaving i large, irregular hole. Subsequent kick broke the stall into pieces and dcmolishci the manger, after which the intelligent beast jumped up and down stiff leggei till she had smashed do an the planl floor aud stood on the ground amid th general wreck. When in ten minutes Millikan recovered conrciousr.es?, h hobbled to the house and icinarked b the hired girl that "that there brindl heifer didn't seem to be used to havin; strangers milk her." When the girl ex p'aii ed the true ftatc of affairs to him ho forgot his hurt, aud rose up and walk ed to Itumiiug Water, where he engagct the best lawyer in town to begin suit fo heavy damages The plea which Millikan will put foi wnr4 is that Eaines was guilty of crimi nal negligence in not warning him of th danger in attempting to milk a buffal cow. Karnes will act up the claim tbi any man with common sense would kno\ better without being told. Wc fear tha about all wc can say is that much ma bo said on both sides. The questiot seems to be, should Millikan have rec ognized that shj it as a buffalo, and is tie buffalo's prejudice against being inilket Cmorally kn >wn? We presume that i amcs had had, let us say, a giraffe cod fined in his barn, any court would hav held that Millikau should have seen tha it was not a domestic cow and have kep away fiom it. Ihit a hulTalo is not a great'y dissimilar to a common cow, an dbe court at Running Water may dccid for Jhe plaiutifT. One point, iiowevci atoms clear: Esmcs will put in a cut tOr c'aim for damages, based on the hoi in the barn where Milliknn went through This claim ought not to be allowtd.Har.er's Weekly. Virginia Bureau of Information. It has f>ccn decided hy the cxecutiv committee of the bo.?rd of World's Fu nanagrr for Virginia t-> establish a burea of inform*'ion in the Virgiuit bu Idinjt Th a bureau is to be under the supervisio and control of the board >nd its rficcr. All information, incluling map?,de?crip tlve at&tcmentfl And lltonturc in rcfcrenc to the resources And capft' ilities of ever part of the State will be distributed im partially by the bureau. Tho list of ii qnlrcs f??r infoimntion about investment in Virginia will bo open to nit dealers 1 Virginia, nnd no prei'crcnco will bo n lewed to Any person or firm in giving ii formnt'on cr in sending prospective ir vc?tors in I he Ststc. / , * i * - vTWltV '7m s luvvu iwu negroes nna one wnue CQlld g were killed. Many arc reported to bo t< seriously wounded. Heavy snow fell at (] Woodbury. At Molcnn, in Pike County, n church, an academy, a planing mill, two 6torcs * and several residences were blown down. 11 A white woman, Mrs. Fell, and four ^ negroes were killed. * A report from PiedniDnt, Pike County, a few miles from Molcna, says that ouiy n two houses out of twenty remain Maud- li ing. A woman named Hawkins was 0 killed, and very few persons in the town n escaped injury. "SELECT SITTINGS. d / A pedigree book of high-bred cats ha' J just been issue! in Buglnnl. ? A flexible coupling for water pipci t< 8 be submerged uudcr water is a new in vention. Tho most graceful of domestic anion's I1 is the cat, while the most awkward birJ 8 is the duck. f c A vegetable curiosity is owned by a resident of Weaatclien, Washington, It rnntUts. it is irlaimpii. "nf n n?l i? ip'i of largo potatoos grown upon uui 8 another." * Family names ssem to 'be scarco in ( ( Denmark. In the Copenhagen direjeorj 1 tho name Hansen takes no thirty-font | columns, Petorscu thirty-two, Junset thirty columns. 1 Anion? the estates left l?y persons wu i ^ > died iu Vienna, Austria, and whose iioici i havo not been found, is 011 .1 >n istin * J of an opera glass. Auotuur mill's estate 1 consists of a scarfpiu. ' British soldiers will wear scvnlosi sogks in. future, buctuse they insure t p JreilWr marobiu? o'ttb ooojr. Tho uk' stylo^of seamed socks chafed the shin 1 and mado the soldiers footsore; the t v seamless socks do not. s Grlfton, N. C., can probably lay clain 1 to more division than any other sinul. ^ ' place in the country. The village i? 1 located, it is said, in two counties thrci 5 townships, two congressional districts, ^ two senatorial districts aud two judicia. ( 1 districts. r c A Chicago shoe manufactory make? ? 20,000 pairs of "deal iucu's shout*' a { mouth. The s >les are of pasteboard, t x covered with grained paper, the uppers s are quilted satin and crochet wor t and ( c a ribbon tied in a bow knot holds too j shoe to the foot. Florida people are telling of an crange ) tree in Doctor Abernathv's grove ni , r Altooua which has borne during the pas1 I season 15,000 orange?. It is a seedling, 3 twenty-tive years old, some thirty fed j high, and has received only the ordinary j grove care and culture. ( f In the 227 years since "Don Quixote'* j i was published 1321 editions have betr. j printed, of which 528 were Spanish, 30l . \ English, 170 French, 0.) Italia >, 8I I'or j ? tugesc, 45 Germ in, ISSwc lish, 0 Polish j 1 8 Danish, 6 Hussiaii, 5 Greek, 3 Ho i f inanian, 4 Catalouiuu, 1 Basque aud , ( 1 Latin. , Ic mr-tm e All-Powerlul Mits'c. < What, is that millionaire family 'loin; ' o sitting there in that expensive opera box 1 9 Listening to the music. Wliy docs tha ' c itreet car driver turn his head as h * ' twists his brake in one of the mos crowded spots of the IJ road way thorough ? fare? The strains of a hand organ hav< " caught his ear. See that foreign-browed ^ r broom seller leaning against a Wall street < lamp post, regardless alike ot trade ntn < dinner, as he devours the strains o | ! Ascher's "Alice," played by a poor stroii 0 band. o Music is shamefully handled at th? it theatres, but what would the r.iost stir v ring play seem without an orchestra' t Music is the bait by which tho wordlmj _ is caught in the church not of to-day t Music in tho park is tho poor man'i holiday, vacation, summering. They s must have music on race course, fail ] ground, beach, mountain side, Bowery f alley and Murray Hill boulevard. Tin i- reception's gabble would fall flat but foi e the sweet strains that envelop (ho placi it wjth au atmosphere of enchantment it Music mingles with the wine ot the festal o board. The campaign soug, tho bugh d call, the battle march arc the inspirations [(? 01 meir resjJtscuTu buouoi. v/uuucii bum r, opera feed amusement to thousands ol 1- people night after night, week aftci o week, month after month, year aftci i. year, with ever increasing power of at - traction. Music is a necessity in schools, in sa loons, in kindergartens, in prisons, m churches, iu the parlor, on the ranch, at rc the danco, in insane asylum, hospital, ir camp and club, on the quarantine ship, u and in the cemetery. The workingman, f. the merchant, thiaf, professor, rector, n belle, farmer, miner, soldier, lover, i. teacher, baby, dotard and pugilist?all >- depend more or less upon the influence o of music. The band, the player, the 3 glee club, the orchostra, the 4fiddler," are in demand upon every floor where '* people are assombled together.?No* * York Musical Courier. i' 1*1 ow uno^ui, ui., ufliiarn ana nm i i- shipped the largest cargo on record, > 20,000 bales of cotton on board the \ British ship Samoa* . . J SCI KNTIFIC AN J) INDUSTRIAL. ! To make ice by artificial me ins reuiros one ton of coal to produce from roiu five to teu tons of ice. A large sewing macliiuo, weighing ircc and one-fourth tons, is ia use in .eels, Englaud. It sews cotton belt'i'he average weigiifo^f7^^WBliiSi(J?||^^^^ rain is said to be heavier than tho^^^^^^ vcragc weight of the braiD in any other ice. Hard coal loses eight |>cr cent, in ulk per annum when exposed to tho reatber. Soft coal loses twelve per cnt. Experiments have shown that a pumpin will lift two and one-half tons, proided the weight is place I so as to itcrferc with the growth and developicut of tho vogotablc. The temperature of the Meditorracan at 200 fathoms is about fifty-six tierces, and no chango is found in going r> the bottom, which in places reaches a cpth of 1500 l&thoms. M. Ohnppuis's proposed electric railray through the Simpion l'ass is estilated to cost $8,000,000, and it would reatly roduco the distance between laly and Northern Europe. The cost of the observatory which is ow- being built on the top of Mout Uunc, Switzerland, is estimated nt $60,00. Tart of the building is to he made vailahlc for guides aud tourists. The central Sahara registers a mean of inoty-seven degrees in July. Central Australia boasts of ninety-four degrees in anuary, a mean which is attained in >outh Carolina an 1 Inner Arabia iu inidu miner. A British ncientist recently stated that t a man weighing 140 pounds wcro ilaccd under a hydraulic press ami queczed Hat, the result would bo 105 touuds of water aud thirty-live pounds if dry residue. A laboratory for tho study, under trict scientific conditions, of snake poi10ns and cures for snaku bites is to bo :stablishcd in Calcutta. It is to bo ouudod by a native, and will bo tho inly institution of its kiud in tho world. An excellent method for watcrproofng the surface of a wa'l is to cover it vith a solution of soap. After twentybur hours a coat of lime solution is apdied. This process is repeated several ioics, and is claimed to mike tho wall >erfcctly water tight. Tho researches of many observers, as eported upon by Dr. Buchan, show that he oceatf current* cause.tAw Aew^ejatows?^ ^ if tho West aide of the Atlantic, at 'pths from 100 to 500 fathoms to bo icarly ten degrees warmer thau at tho aine depths on the east side. M. Marcey, the well known investigaor of animal movements by means of iutautaneous photography au I tho zocropo, has now succeeded in rendering he beating of a living heart visible to lie eye. All the phases of the inoveuent can be followed and properly ex. itnincd by this new method. The heart ;uiploycd in this experiment was that of i turtle. Official statistics of the colcra epidemic iu Germany last year, and up to its practical disappearance, show that tho number of deaths from cholera was 3510. Ninc-teuths practically of this number were in the city and State of Hamburg, where the total number of wa9 7011?1.22 per cent, of the whole population. Tho statistics show that the cholera spread up the rivers from the :cntcr around Hamburg w.th diminishing virulence. I'i.cli pine beams will shrink in thickness from eighteen aud three-quarter inches to eighteen aud a quarter; spruce from eight and a half inchos to eight ind thiec-eights; white pine from twelve inches to eleven ami sevenligliths; yellow pine a tritlo less. Uodar beams will shrink from a width' >f fourtccu inches to thirteen and a quarter; elm from eleven to ten and three-quarters, and oak from twelve to ilevcu aud three eights. Poor Pre idsnts. It is still true, even in these dar? ol rent fortunes undreamed of vlic.i It was founded, that tho American Presidency may be aspired to by tnen who are not rich. Our wealthiest President! hasc been the lirst and the last elected ?Washington and Cleveland. Washington was one of tho wealthiest men in - the country in his time. Adam9 was worth $100,000 at hli 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 bcc ime wealthy. Vau Buren was the son of a tavernkoepcr, and had l light with poverty. Johnson's youth was even more unfor tunato than Liinoln's. He was apprenticed to a tailor, barely learned to tend in his minority, and was taught to write by his wife after marriage. Giant was born only moderately poor and never became rich. So of Ilayes. Cleveland's youth was one of privations and toil. Harrison was of good but not wealthy family, and was, up to recent times, a c mutry lawyer in good circumstances. He is but moderately wealthy. Tnc "aristocracy of wealth" has never made any inroads upon tho White House.?New York Recorder. THE NAVAL RENDEZVOUS. It is Decided to Hold the Exsrciaea in Hampton Roads April 17th. Washington, D. C.?Assistant See rctary of the Navy Soloy, Admiral ,, . J I. _ j a j n L.U - uncarm nnu i.ommunarn itiiiiiacy iivm n conferc c?? at the Navy Department re* garding the changing of the date of the nnvul review. It was decided that the rendezvous ?hould take place in Hnmptoa Roads April 17th. April 24th the fleet will sail for New York, where the Teview will bq held en the 27*h of April. T , tkiu l-w r T5wvv.?v c:'& via