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^^^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.
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