The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, March 24, 1893, Image 1
^ VOL. VXXI.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, M ARCII 24,1893.
DIX1E_NEWS.
The Beloved South Gleaned and
Epitomized.
AU thi Maws and Occurences Printed
Here in Condensed Form.
A family at Newton, N. C., has sixteen
doge.
Tarboro, N. C., is to have and artesian
well water supply.
Richmond county, N. C., jail contains
nfnetccn prisoners, several held on inur'der
charges.
Fifty-two people have lately goue in a
party from Butkc county, N. CJ , to Kansas.
Three men aro soon *o lenve Ashoville,
N. C , in a boat on their way to tbt
World's Fair. The boat is ready.
900
menwho
luoncy is tin <stablishedind3*i^1^^F
veil a splendid moitumelWl^^SoCoiHccb
crate dead.
Work has begun on tho new $500,000
cotton mill at Columbia, 8. C. It is lo
cntcd on th canal.
|k Business at the Charleston, 8, C., Cus
W torn House is dull?only eight dollars
were collected Inst week.
AVillis Watson, who hioke out of the
jail at Kinston. N. C., through the roof,
Monday night of Inst we k, hns not been
heard front sinc-J.
Sumter, S. C., is to have a fine hotel
nnd.......... t??.. ? Tl.?
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by General Moies, which guar<n'ccj its
success.
John SliuH, a brnkem in on thn East
Tt n esscc ami Western North Carolina
railway, wns nccidcntly killed Monday
n nr Valley Forge.
Ilamlct, N C , has its indust ies
Since the Cotton Compr s< s ut down n
20 acre chicken farm givis impetus to
the envelopment of the resources.
The municipal election in Laurens, S
C , took place Tuesday an t excited grent
interest, a very large v..tc b-.ing cast. I.
W. Sinkins wns elee'ed mayor.
Chester, Spartanburg and Columbir
are aspirants fe.r the location of the South
Carolina Girls' Normal and Industrial
School, with the chances in favor of the
latter.
I Ninety two of tho students of David?
son College, N. C , are working two
' "X liours a day on a dam for a lake there, on
which they will plnce some handsome
boat 8.
A charter wns issued to the Carolina
Manufacturing and Reduction Coradany
of Hlacksburg, S.C., with a capital of
*1 ,000,000. The purpose of the company
is to do a general mining business.
Mrs. Helena Brayton, of the South
Carolina board of women managers of
the World's Fair, is organizing a band of
negroes to sing plantation melodies at
the ixpcsition.
Gcorgi i began paying pensions Wednesday
to 8,200 veterans and widows. The
latter will get $6') a year, and the veter
ns will be paid according to n sliding
scale.
A prize <fi fl,.000 will be awarded the
best drilled company at the intcrnat'onnl
v competitive drill between tho national
guard of the fcveral States during the
naval rendezvous in April, 1803, in the
city of Norfolk, Va.
ai nninpton, vn.^'riday night Captain
James Shelby, a well known horse dealer
was shot in the neck and killed in Truc1
lood's saloon while trying to get a pistol
from Richard Trucblood, the proprietor
of tho p'ncc.
The Grand Camp of Virginia, Confederate
Veterans, has been invited 11 meet
in Portsmouth on the 18th of May, on
which occasion the annual Memorial Day
exercises will take place, and the bronze
statues on the Confederate monument on
Court street will be unveiled.
John McRose.Aged sights-two. the oldest
citizen of Dickinson county,Tenn.,was
married to his y. ung nnd pretty neighv
bor,Miss (Jicera Recce, at the residence of
the bride. Mr. Rose is the father of ninc?
teen children hv A fnriiipr _mnrrior?? ?ll
- J - l>??
of whom arc married.
The Charleston News and C^Wcr's Colunibia
eorresj)ondcnt say9: It so iih to
^ be i-rctty generally unci- rstood in political
circles that Kx-Congressman George D.
Tillman will be a factor in the next Gubernatorial
contest. Tire chnnces are altogether
favorable to (unbecoming a candidate
for Governor.
The yellow jasy&gw will soon be in
bloom at its U'-rthv^Tlimit, possibly 5160
milcB south of New York. It is the
vel and charm of the far Southern springjp
and it Is said to bo well authenticated
that the pollen of the blos*om has blown
from Georgia into V rgima days b. fore
the plant bad bloomed in the latter
tfiuce.? IN. V. Sun.
A Wilkes county baby, now five weeks
old, weighs on'y 2) pounds.
A jealous girl in Richmond, Va., stabbed
Iter lover wi ll a hat pin a d married
him on his death ln?d, as was supposed,
but those is n fair chance of his recovery.
There is a letter held for postage at
the Lake Maitl >nd Fla , post office because
the writer put on a Florida fertili
zcr inspection s'ainp in plafc of the i cw
Columbian postage stamp,which is nbout
the same size and color.
A Hairbreadth Escape.
A bud accident which was one of the
narrowest e capes from instant death possible,
happened at Vandcniore, Plamico
county, N. C., on Sstutday. As Mr.
Morri sey's son, Coolidgc, about 15 years
of age, was cutting wood, his little brother
ran under the axe as it was descending
nod received the blow 0:1 the top of his
head. The axe glanced and cut out a
piece of the skull bone one and one half
inches square so thit thcpulsition of the
brain could bo discerned. Dr. U. S. Attino/c,
of Stonewall, attended to the
wound. The piece of bone wns left out,
^ but the cut portion of the scalp was
placed in pos tion again and three days
after the accident Dr. A'(more pronounced
his little patient in a fair way to perfect
recovery, h s youthfulness being in
favor of Buch a result.
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THE EXCHANGE OF COURTESIES, f
The Grand Army of the Republic Fur- *
niehee a Ward in the Richmond
Soldiers' Home.
Richmond, Va. ? A large delegation of .
tbe Washington committee, which had
in charge the arrangements for the lute
encampment of the tlrand Army of the
Republic at that point, came down to j.
Richmond for the purpose of ^
presenting their acknowledgements to ai
Pee Post, of the Confederate Ycteraus,
of this city, for the hospitality auti a(
courtesy extended by the me inters oi jJ(
that po;t to the veterans of the Grand ^
Army who visited the battlcfiel i about jn
Richmond. n
The executive committee in Washing- y
ton, acting iu the i nine of the Graud Rt
Army, although without specific uuthor- y
ity from that organization, dctirmincd
to pro. ure and present some suitable ^
^^tncnni! to the Lee Po t. A *p ci; 1
therefore wi-itcd Richmond
eajts since to nscertniu whit, Jj
BBBBSmP**"*' would be the most ?p?zsKSfiMjb*r*cstiinoniiil.
Upon finding jj
Post was I irgcly interested a,
in the support of the Confederate Homo jn
and that this was not as yet entirely, 8C
furnished an entire ward of this hospital
thorns Ivis, whi h they have done, pro- ja
viding its beds and all bedding and fur- nj
niture p< rtnining to each and the general j
lUTiiiture i f tho ward as well, ami this (.j
wns formally presented to the veterans ()(
of Lee 1' st Wednesday nierlit. .v
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Oold-Minning in the South.
BT C. B . WABKAND. ^
Many years before the discovery of the cj
California gold fields gold-miniug in the u
western part of Georgia and North and jl(
South Carolina bad been an established
industry. With slave labor gold-miniug ^
in the South paid well, but since the wai* g(J
a number of spasmodic efforts which 0|
hnvc been made to operate the mines as a
ru e ri suited in failures.
In the early days ^tof mining a shaft f(]
wns sunk at some convenient spot on a nj
vein, the ore was roastedJnearby,nnd was t()
then carted, often for m'les, to a water* m
power. Five dollars per ton of recover
able g Id was the minimum limit at
which these mines paid. The pyrites or 0
gold-bearing sulphurets wore considered ^
worthless and wire nllnwed to go to
waste. As n rule the quantity of ore
taken out of amine wns insignificant,and t
a vast amount of gold still exists which
can today be profitably recovered. Goldiuining
property can be bought very
cheap?almost at a nominal figure.
8 me time ago I visited one of the ,,
most-interest lag and valuable of the
gold-bearing quartz dis'r;cts, lying at ^
the foot of the blue ltidge mountains on
the banks of Rroad river, near Smith's
Ford, in York county, South Carolina.
Within a radius of less than two milts j
I liave been nineteen veins of qunrtz 't
which, without exception, contain more
or less g<dd, generally in paying quuuti- ''
ties. The veins^all run pnrn'lcl from the j
northeast to the sou Invest, varying from ^
two to thi ty feet in thickness. 1 have
followed one of these veins by the elri t ^
rock and cropping* for five miles. The j
drift rock indicated by pit marks that it
had contained at one time gold pyrites. I*
These veins arc almost perpendicu'nr;
the bottom of none has ever been reached, (^!
audit is curr. ntly repo: ted that tho
deeper the sh?..v was sunk the better the o'i
qua'ity of Iffi ore became.
Frob.ibly the best of these mines, as
well us the imallest and most comp-ct, is
the 40 acre Mac* known as the old Smith ^
mine. It has live distinct veins running
through the whole length of the property, n|
44 i yards, and far beyond on adjoining jj
land-*. The veins will v ry from three a,
to five feet in thicknc s, though only two fj
of them have ever been mixed. The Jeffrey
vein had a shaft sunk 100 feet and w
lvid a drainage tunnel. The Smith vein ft
ii;iu two sinus or i.-ju icet aim a uiimci C(
All of tlv sc hive caved in to a great cx- 0|
tent. When tho Sin'th v?in was in good jf
order it exposed the vein to a depth of
150 feet and a length of 125 feet,, with
an average width of three feet. To form j?
sonic idea of the quantity of gold locked ft
in one of these veins, I calculated that a
sp -.ee of 150 hy 125 by three feet con- ^
tains 51,750 cubic feet, and as it takes ,r
about thirteen cubic feet of quartz ore to St
weigh one ton, the space exposed con- p(
tain d 4502 tons. The ?iuinc, with slave
labor, ptoduccd $7 00 of free gold per
ton; the pyrites or'gold bearing sulphur
ets i brown away4 could not be less thin U!
two thiids of the free gold, or $1.06 per f(
ton, or a total contents of $11 00 of gold jj
per ton. Hence a total of over $50,000
ot gold is locked up in this small space. s;
The length exposed was less than one-tgntl^of
the whole vein, and the depth'
can'lirobMilv bo tripled or even quad- f?
riialiiljKB^uitc within the range of
rpdsfflW^PJPvcn of probability, that this C]
one vein alono lias $2,000,000 of gold
treasured a.vay, and this 40-acre tract n!
has five such veins, apparently all alike. t.|
About one and one-half mih s from the ),
Smith ming ? t{ic Magnolia mine, which
is on a much larger tract, containing
ninety-six ceres. Th s mine has ten distinct
veins, varying in thickness from two ^
to thirty feet. The largest, the Magnolia
vein, is thirty feet wide and exposed to
a height of 150 feet; another vein is ten
feet wide. One hundred samples taken
promiscuously from as many differ, nt ft|
places on this vein assayed $4 .37 of gold ()
per ton. Some of the smaller veins as- *'
saved as high as $162 of gold per ton.
Close to these mines are still two more
smaller mines, the Habit and the Tucker. '
Euch has two veins of two feet thickness, ^
A splendid water-power, could be easily
obtained about hall way between the
8mith mine and the Maguolia mine. ^
The climate iu tlin Southern gold min- ,
ing district is excellent, neither too cold ^
nor too warm, and perfectly healthy. ''
Labor'is abundant and cheap; an able- j
bodied men can easily be hired for seventy
live cents or one dollar per day. n
Fuel is also cheap and abupdant, cord- )
wood can be had for $1.50 per cord dc- ?
livered. The time is near at hand when
all these mines will be worked. Gold- h
mining South nov?r will be in the nature j
of a bonanza, but with the help of mod
em methods and machinery it will become
a safe and remunerative industry.
A Costly Stock Farm. ?
Nashvim.h, Tknn Richard Croker. <
of New York, has purchased a lnlf in
tercst in the famous IJelUmoado bto.U f(
Farm for $250,000 cash, ()
AMILY BURNED ALIVE. '
. Dreadful Fire at Rutfeerfordtoa, 3
North Carolina.
. Wife and Two Children Periah in 1
the Plamen. I
4
RvTBKRroBToa, N. C.?The home ot I
hoin s Dixon was burned to the ground 1
feilne day night, Mr. Dixon's wife 1
id two children were burned to death. i
The story is one of .urpaasing sadness,
id i.s details are sufficient to wring the ]
L'urts of all with pity. Mr. Dixon is a j
nrdwaro merchant here and also travel- j
ig salesman for the hardware house of '
ottie 1, Watkin* A Co, of Richmond, i
a. 11c located in Rutberfordton 5 years 1
jo and built a very handsome home. I
here his wife and three children lived t
liile he was away on buslne-s. The I
ouso wns loc ted on a hill on tb ' out- i
tirts of the town aud was on* o[ the i
rettiest residences of that mountain sec- (
Oil. i
The Gre occurred at 8 o'clock: Mm. |
ixon n ns preparing the children for bad, ]
id was silting by a table with the balm i
i her urilis. The baby was playing with 4
imc article on the table and accidentally .1
nocked over a keroscuo lamp. The 1
nip exploded, throwing blazing oil all
lout the room. In an instant the cloth- ]
g of Mrs. Dixon, as well as that of hfr
lildrcn, was ablaze. 8bc picked up twb-' t
the little ones and throwing them upon 4
ie l>ed, endeavored to smother the tire 1
r wrapping the b:d clothing around i
em All this time, the devoted mother 1
ris being burned by the flames that cn lope
l her owu clething. Her oldest 1
lilil, aged six years, dashed n pitcher of
at r up in her mother and fled from the
>usc. Just at that time a negro man
ipeared aud dragged Mis. Dixon from
ic house, the iutcrior of which* was a
lid blaze. The house, wi h the little
irs in the bed, was burned to thegiound.
Mr. Dixon was absent in Shelby on
isiness and kucw nothing of the dreadI
f.tte of his household until la'e in ths
gl.t. Then he hastened to Rutherfordii
and reached there at 1 o'clock in the
liming, in time to sec his wife give her
piling gasp.
'J he ng :s of the child)cn burned were
and 4 jenrs respectively. The three
idies were takcu to Charlotte, N. C.,
id intcricd in Elmwood cemetery in t
o graves, one f.-r the mother and the
licr for her children.
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Tl.mi.no?litf* V.nnlil* U
(t
A correspondent of tho Charleston, 8.
., News and Courier writes to that psJr
from Ninety-Six as foil iw?: "There T
re a great many farmers throughout the a
late who scein to think that there is no j
ndy money in anything except cotton. ^
Tow, in order to relieve those who are ^
iboring under this impression, I desire ^
> call their attention to the ynrioutrbfijia
rod need lust year by H. P. <rnl |>li
prosperous fanner of our town. Tl
aids cultivated arc the old Cambric!
mils within a mile of this place. Mi.
ilphin has jus", furnished me with tho
illowing statement, and therefore it can.t
c relied upou as correct. He snys he
roduecd last year with three mul s the
?'lowing crops:
it l<> acres, 800 biwhcl* at 13 ccnla $5To
ml fdim liumlli's nf foilili'r.i'ftlmalM loo (
11 v> acrca. ball'* of cotton at $(15 per l>ftto 875
II 75 acres. 1700 bushels oC oats at 9>l cents SSo V
n i"i ucros, lfioo bales of clover hajr at 75 cents I Too t.
ii 5 acres, 4<M) bales of pea vine hay at 91) centa Too _
Cramt total for all crops #8749
"It will be seen from the above table
ml the clover crop is far more valuable ]j
i&n either of the other crops He re- c
liz.d nearly twice as much from twenty- '
vc acres in clover as he did from fifty '
. res in cotton, besides there is very lit- 1
e expense at tidied to its production,
vi ry farmer should have his barn filled 1
ith clover hay. It is an excellent feed *
>r all stock, especially cattle. Milk 1
>ws thrive on it. It increases the flow
r milk and produces beautiful rich yel- "
?w butter. Mr. Qalphin has fattened
id killed several fine hogs, and sajs
nit ho has plenty of this valuable and ,
(dispensable article of food to supply
im this year.
1 J did lint ar.rnrt.niii frnm Mr Dalnhin
ic amount of his cxponses incurred in
reducing these crops, but it would b?
ifc in say iic cleared over and above excuses
at least $1,000 to the mule, which
iu<t bo admitted by all as very fine
inning. If every farmer would adopt
[r. Gulphin's plan we would bave no
sc for the Alliance nor the Ocala platmil,
the sub treasury bill or nothing of
ic kit.<1, but would be a happy, indecndcut
people, and tho cry of oppreaon
and hard times would be a thing of
ic past. 1 simply give this, hoping
tat it may prove beneficial to momo poor {
tuners at least who bave been sticking (
> their cotton idol in neglect of all other
roj a.
"Just before msiling this Mr. Galpbin
skid nie to add, in addition to the above
rops, that be mule thirty bushels of
ar.cy and 100 gallons cf sorghum."
EGYPTIAN COTTON SEED.
in Effort Will be Made to Introduce !
the Product in this Country.
Washington, D. C.?The Egyptian ,
otton seed purchased by Secretary Husk |
trough the United States Consul-General ,
t Cairo, Egypt, has been received at
ic Department of Agriculture. The i
urposc of this importation of seed as
- t forth in Mr. Husk's last report as See- ]
. tary of Agriculture, is to undertake, f
uth the co-operatiou of the experiment
tat ions in the cotton States, experiments
ith a view to producing cotton of home
rowth which may serve as an efficient
ubstitutc for the Egyptian, of which,
uring the last fiscal year, more than
:>,000,000 worth was imported into this
uuniry, nn increase 01 id per cent, over
lio previous year, and of coneideiably
tore than 100 per cent, over the year
ltd iit?r 1800. The cotton seed received
t the Dcpirtment consists of two of the
est known Egyptian varieties, the
Aliti" and the "Bainiah." The disr:bnti??u
w iii i>e made to the experiment
tat ions in the cotton States, and also
liron^h the senators for those States to
lanters whom they may recommend as
crsons well ipialitled and willing to
ive the Egyptian seed a careful trial. '
l report on the c mditious of the soil und ]
liina'c and methods of cultivation of '
lie Egyptian cotton is being prepared
or the Department under tho direction '
f our C'ousnl-Oeneral in Esrvnt, 1
'WHAT HAINI&Of HANISTHUST
Moody a Oktak for $400 O
and ffMMWi ItUthaT. X. O. JL
CiAiLorrt, N. C.?That Evangelist
Moody it a irteat nun, gnat with power "
From on II gh, all acknowledge; but an "
xxurrence took place here at the clone of
.he great rcriyal meetings ooadocted by
aim, wh cli iqnde area the bast look at te
aim aghast asd wonder "what manner of P
man is thi.r tl
The finance committee called at Mr. *'
Moody's room after the last serrloe at the ic
auditorium, wad protested him with a *
Far e of $700, $S00 of which was for Mies *'
yson. Tfaekpount for Mr. Moody was n<
in two checks, one for $400, the other 111
for $100. When Mr. Hanna handed them 11
o Mr. Moody he glanced at them aod JJ
inking his pen wrote hia name across ths
>ack of one of the checks, sod handed *
t back to Mr. vHaaaa, saying, VThere's
my subscription to your Touog Men's
Christian Association." Mr. Hanna and *
ill began expressing their thaa^ when "
uddenty Wt. Hanna gars a start of ?ur- f1
prise and saidy. "Mr. Moody, you're made
t mistake; you endorsed the wroog "
:heck; tlAi is the $400 check." "No,
10, I d? In't make a mistake," said he, in '
lis quiok, off hand, but kindly way;
"this one is enough to pay my expenses," *'
minting to tho $100 check. CJ
tk. A L/ a.J n
m uu wu???i?vi?vv WW UUmUlUUllll^U
to speak. This is tho most remarkable
recurrence thst ever happened hers. It y
>rio$VuD s little incido it tbst occurred ,
n Mr. Moody's room just after he csme
?ere. Ufc.
At sercri! Of tho evangelistic moctings f1
isld here s public opportunity was given u!
;o the people to make up a purse for the ,
angclist. Some members of the com- *
nittce at these meetings went up to Mr.
Hood)'* room to sound him and sec if he n
would permit them to take up a public
collection. TUoj told him that they did B
sot wish to offend his s nsc of propriety
ind wanted to know if he objected to an
>ppdrtunity being gireu to tho people to g(
nake a contribution. " What!" said Mr. j,,
Hoody, "for met" "Yes," was the reply, fi
No," said Mr.i M ody. "I could not t?
bink^^^hi^iing. I would rather to
I \ iTlBMllll I llllll I mill
tsorgia'fc iHHt Moonshiner Qoes
to jraiTlBr Like a Man. Jj
Atlanta, GJt-A woman moonshiner, th
frs. Malinda Ti t'.cr, was arrested 8st- sr
irday morning ( #d brought before Unit- tli
d States CoiniiT ssioncr Gaston in default pi
f a $300 boud. Mrs. Turner acknowl- gi
dgid her guilt ind throughout the trial a
ras very defiant! refusing to mako any M
t'empt at gi*i"fe bail and ignoring the h!
act that she cou. d be sworn In her own ti
ichalf. Site is the mother of John and fii
Vill Turner, natofi us moonshiners in la
Vhite County. I T
* ??-i i in|cit cr
a"d it is cl
' The two a
AUf out on bail b<
n. J: \tining. w
??:?17? bo about 50 so
i State of Soiitlt Curolinjier. "Don't t'<
UNION COUNTY.
Court of Common Pious, get off them in
3. A. Wilson r?. Jl K. Alronmkin' whiskey d<
uons for Relief. Cornp'aint/ ln ']je ,am?
bout'cfSthJvtujttiM
4'I up and {SflHfm the whole outlaf
rere my owrt^^Braufil to him that I
IMn't blecve^lnPjudgc ud do nothin'
vi' uiq no how, .case I wux a woman. th
Yholc outlay's pium luint now, so 'taint rci
to use to make any bond. tic
"Jis soon as I gi a out I'm going to w'
nnke more wh'ski'y moonshine?good,
oo. Jcsnc?s, en you know yourself 'taiut fi"
to kind er way tor make jis a drop e/two. ,a
"Did I sell any? I didn't give none he
iway." Mr9. Turner w is taken to jail, m'
? or]
STRAWBERRY BLONDES.
of
rhe Latest Fad in Railroading--A B>1
Royal Crimson Train and iU vii
Equipment. pr
The Charleston News and Courier says; pa
The custom among r?:!'oads lines oi OA
having home pet train upon which they f?e
bcBtowcd unutud attention and favor is c"
I ecoming more nsd more popular each
y?ar. 'Ihe "Nancy Hanks'' of tha ?
ripArirta Hon(rMl (KA I'P.ol V??
V..V A ?D? i'.JlUg Til
ginian" of the Chesapeake and Ohio n
Road, the "Royal Blue Line" of tho J
Baltimore nnd Ohio nnd the "West Indian
Mail" of the Atlantic Const Line aro *
instances of the populailty of this fnd.
The Baltimore.nnd Ohio Road now announces
that it will operate n "Royal
Crimson Line" Viet* con Bultiinoro and "
Chicago. The Railway Review, speak- '
ing of the announcement in n humorous Ct
manner, savs: "The train will be paint- Ied
a bright crimson from the nose of the
cowcatcher < lcar back to the bumpers su ?'
the hindmost coach, A redheaded fire- c'
man will shovel coal for a redheaded ''
engineer, who will receive his orders
from a red-headed conductor, and will "
inswer the signals of a red - headed brake- 1,1
man, and special rates will be made to di
red headed passengers." It is further g'
noted by the R- view that this will be
the only train iu tho world that will be ""
strictly in favor of the color line, and the ^
Review is inclined to think that the en- ^
tcrprising general passenger ngont of the l'
Baltimore and Ohio will be responsible w
for some "red-headed" passenger agents
...nil r,c
Ill "VII WO p<io)CUi;t-|o?
Colored Laborers at Pittsburg. **
PiTTfiBuno, Pa.?-About 250 negroes
from the South arrived at Hrinton Station
Tuesday afternoon. Colored labor- n
era will be given the first chance by the C(
Carnegie Company at all its works in
preference t> foreigners who apply lor In
work. James Galey, general manager of *!
the plant, expects n< ariy 1,000 others in ol
a month. Tins will mean that as soon
as possible all Slavs will be dismissed. hi
There are about 3,000 foreigners alto- y<
gethcr. di
Death of an African Bishop. tl
Wasuikoton, I). C ?Bishop Brown
i>f the African Methodist Episcopal w
Church, died here at noon, aged 15. Pc w
liad been ill for s um time and hi9 dcith
was not unexpected bishop Brown was 3(
jminent in the Church and waa greatly ai
resp'Ctcd qnd esteemed. ct
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COTTON HILL BLOWN UP.
M Kan Killed and Many Injured ?
Shock Fait Six Kileo Away.
Foxkst Citt, N. C ? A brrible catitrophe
look place hero Moudtty mora
ig at 7 o'clock.
The boiler of the Flott-nce Cot too
[ilia exploded, dealing death and diaaa
r bro.iucast. The boiler, engine and
iplng were totally demo iaheu, aouio of
le piping and fragment* of the boiler
id machinery flying hundreds of yards
i avery direction. Bricks and timbers
'ere thrown high in the air and fall oa
ad damaged ucarly every house in the
righborho'd, and tho windows in the
illT were shattered and th? water works
od machinery damaged. Tho boiler
ad engine rooms are in ruins. A second
tiller,weighing several tons, was thrown
me thirty yards. The windows in rnnuy
3usee in town were completely shattered.
The operatives had just gone to work
hen the explosion look plnce. and thoae
int were not killed or injured were teel?ly
stunned. People in the neighbor>od
wire thrown to the ground by the
lock.
Homer Hnrrill, fireman, waa killed inantiy.
The sufferers are: Julius Dean,
nnircroualv hurt: Ollle Rabb. scrioiulv
jurcd by falling timbers; I. L. Sanders,
lgincer, injured internally, conaidercd
aogcrously. 6eTeral other* were slight'
hurt by falling bricks and timbers.
f. P. Hurt, superintendent, was paini
ly though not seriously hurt by the
illing of the roof in the engine room.
The shock was felt at Ituthorfordton,
x miles distant, the people there thinkig
it was an earthquake. The windows
f Dr. Harris' house of that place, were
tattered.
Crowds of people are here viewing 'he
tins.
eginning of Rica Culture in South
Carolina.
The introduction of rice growing into
>uth Cntolinn ucaiiy 200 )cars ngo was
i something very like an accident,
homo* Landgrave Smith, before coming
this coun'ry, had pnid some attention
rice culture, and on sc'tling in South
irolina had bccomo iimpressed with the
ca that the climate and low-lying lands
' ?hat region wcro well adapted for
cc growing. In the year 1004 n smill
?sscl from Madagascar put into Cliarlcsn
harbor in distress. It turned out
lat there was in the cook's keeping a
nail quantity of rice, and this fell into
ie hands of Landgrave Smith, who
lanted it in a low, mo st portion of his
irdcn. The plant grew and ripened in
nmnncr that was most encouraging.
>. Smith distributed the aecd among
is neighbors, and eventually rice became
to staple product of the colony. At
rat the rico wns cultivated on the high
md and on little spots of low ground .
he low ground was soon found prefablc,
and the inland swamps were
oared to extend tho culture of the plant
s the fields, in the process of time,
?caine too gras y ana stubbors, they
ere abandoned for new clearings, and
i mi until nf. Irnolh <)t? ainixrinr mlnn.
? ? n-? 1? r
dii of the tide lands and the gnat
oilities for iriigp.tiou afforded by their
cntion was discovered. For then: the
l>md p'nntations were gradually abanjncd.
CARLISLE'S PROPOSITION.
rovide for tho Issuo of Currency by
Bunks Under State Charters.
Wasuinoion, I). C. ?The Star says
at fccrel ry Carlisle cxprcta to have
ndy to aubmi 8 >nie fmnncial proposiins
by the time C<*ngnss meets, which
ill form the basis of agreement between
>ngrc?s an I the executive on the vexed
isncinl problem. Gentlemen who hnvo
Iked with bim on the subject say that
has a plan pretty well outlined in liis
ind, which will involve a eomple e reganization
of our tinnncial sjstem.
It is said tlmt it will include the repeal
the l-.w compelling the purchase of
vcr by the governm nt and will prole
for the deficiency of currency by
oviding for the repeal of the tftn?e
nk t?x and the issue of inrrenoy by
nka Under tt'atc charters, under the
neral government, the accur.ty tor the
rreucj provided for under the laws of
c States, requiring the approval of the
vernment.
OTTON MILL OWNERS PROTEST
.gainst tho Reduction of Hours ol
Labor.-Tho bouth Gaining on
the North.
A Boston dispatch Tuc-dny rnve: At
hearing bef re the labor e >mmittce of
?e L gi.-latuio representatives of tlie
>tto? mills nt Chicopec, Fall River,
owcll and Taunton remonstrated against
\<t reduction of the hours of labor in
anufactming com anies to 5*1 per week,
aimini! they cannot itnnd the compction
of mills in other States and England.
Toe treasurer of tho Massachusetts
ills, nt Lowell, and the Whittenton
ills, nt Taunton, said he was absolutely
riven from the Btate, and that he is
>ing South to build a mill in order to
i?ld his export trade. His goods, he
iid, can be made much cheaper in the
ruith on the indienl machine. The
ulh is gaini g rapidly on the North,
tough he d <1 n? t believe the Bouth
o rid destroy Northern business.
nnvrnn a r tTnmn
UEilNHitVALi INfcWS.
he Pith and Point of Daily Occurrences.
The Solvation Army will build a magificcnt
barracks on u lot io New York
istlng f2.0,'.00.
8 v. n colored onv? rts were baptized
i a creek in Atchison, Kan , a week
jo through a ho'c ot in several inches
f ice.
Kx-Sccretary of the Navv Tracey made
is first appearance us a practicing law;r
befo e the Supreme Court on Tues?y.
The Princess Kniaulani made a visit to
le White House, and was charmed with
te ' Hast lady of the land," saving afterurds
that Mrs. Cleveland was the first
oman rhc had tver fallen in love with.
Denver, Colorado, proposes to irrigate
)0,000 acres in its sat tion of the 8tatc,
jd, to comn ? ce with, will dig a canal
>sting $1,000,000.
B1SSELLS P0ST0FF1CE POL 101
Ottaalf* PutiMuhip will Not Neeoosurily
Constitute Ouum for Ro
monL
Waiiimuton, D. C. ? To a orominen
Western Congressman, who talked witl
Postmaster Qencrel liissell concerning hi
polk/ aa to removals, the latter said:
"It is not the intention of tho aduiin
latration to remove an/ postmasters unti
their term of orn e has expired, excep
for terious cause."
"Will offensive partisanship bo accepl
able causat" was asked.
"1 don't say it will not," said Mr. Bti
sell, "but every case will have to atan
on its own merits, aud it will have to I
a grave case b fore a removal is madt
The fact that a postmaster hai taken it
tcro-t in tho work of his party will noi
I think, be cons dorod sufficient caun
but, as I liavo said before, every cai
must stand by itself. Complaints of ii
competency, mglect of business or sti
solute imauku ?l v? 1,1 '? wm ccrtnmi
r?ceivo at ton* on." Ho also auggosts
that the recommend?tiou of members (
Congress would not, per bo, give !
preference over others. The Po-toiastei
General added that the department ba
promulgated a general rule, under whic
postoffices would not be given to keepei
of Atorrs. Mr. Disscll said that ho di
not menn that the rule should apply 1
small villages in distant States, wher
unless somo storekeeper would handle tl
mail, no one could l>e induced to accei
the office; but he did most cmphaticall
intend to rcfusj to appoint any postiuaa
tors, presidential or otherwise, wh
would uot give their personal attontio
to the business of handling the mail an
who simply desired to securo tho offic
ns an advertisemont for their business.
Counterfeit Money in Richmond.
Nhw York.?Detective Sergeant Junj
succeeded in running down what inn
prove to bo the operations of a gang wh
arc making counterfeit money in Iticli
mood, Vs., ami posing it in New Yor
c ty and Di > 'klyn. Wednesday mornin
he arrested Frank IInlstead ami l)avi
Bai tholomew, of Brooklyn, on the eon
pi dnt of David Folkurd, a jeweler, wh
charged them with pissing count*rfei
$ 10 bills on him on January Vi.Y Weil
nesday morning the mm called again n
his store and tried to sell Folkard
watch which they had bought from bin
The jeweler rccogu'r.ed them and cnlle
111 uricc-ircjungt. Ilicv werearrnigne
in the United States Court in Hrookly
mid held to nw tit the net ion of tli
United States grand jury. llalstoa
fiduiitted tlint ho passed fill in counte
fuit inoiii y in Brooklyn mid New Yorl
and that tho money lind been made i
Itichmond, Va.
Edison's Great Works Flooded.
Rciiknrctady, N. Y ?In the night tl
ire in tin Mohawk Hiver, west of tl
> city, broke up and formed an immenr
gorge against the Fitehburg Uiilron
bride, tlrco milps from hero. The wat<
overflowed the bunks, flooding Edison
park slid that part of the city occupie
by the Westinghoii.se Company and tfa
general dectric works
The first floors of the Edison gonen
electric woiks, which aggregate six tee
acres, nro under water to the depth e
three feot; both plants have shut dow
aud four thousand men are laid off. A
the exhibits which the Edison L oin pun
were preparing for the World's Fair ar
paniaily destroyed by water, as is ah
most of the stock on the first floor. Tl
loss is estimated at over half a million.
Grovsr Cleveland Bridgers.
Mr. Cleveland has only one nsmc?nl
old enough to hold oflicc, and that your
man is (1 rover Cleveland Bridgers,
Halifax County, North Carolina, 24 yea
of age. Some twenty-four years ago tl
young man's uncle, Col. Martin, went
Buffalo to receive treatment at a hospit
Mid met (liovcr Cleveland, an ohscu
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I ? = .UWI.g!
Cleveland was tlie 'Vniartest" man lie ha
ever seen, and we nt back and had h
sislci's child named for him, saying i
the time that "(hover Cleveland will I
President of the United States some day
Orover Cleveland Bridger*, it is nude
stood, will ask for n fourth class potto
flee in his county, urging his claims thi
he was the first chilu to he named f'.
Orover Cleveland.
Tho Jamas City Tenants Will Pa
Rent and Remain.
Itai.kioii, N. C.?James A. Bryan,
, Newherne, having sued for and reccivi
the right to the possession of tho lan
011 which James City,opposite No when:
is located, on tho other side of Trc
river, where several thousand negro
live who took posse sion during the wr
attempted a few days ago to have aor
occupants ejected. Such resistance w
made that the sheriff de?!?tcd from ej
ccuting the writ. A large numbc
however, have been paying rents to M
Bryan und the resistance was chiefly ii
stigate.i by some white storekeepers,
is said that a peaceable settlement w
be made by the payment of nomin
rents. No collision is now anticipate
A Negro Mob Avenges a Crime.
Memphis, Tknn ?Kufus Haywood,
colored planter, was assassinated by L
Walton, a notorious negro dcspcrad
Sunday night, at Villaymnn, Miss. Aft
robbing his victim, Walton lied, but w
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illM UUUII Uj wnnauiuuilUO illMI I U|>IUM
Monday morning, lie was taken
Villayumn, whore ho was being guard
by the sheriff until the arrival of t
train for Kollin Fork, the county seatJust
before the tr-;iu arrived, a mob
500 negroes ov? rpowciod the tlicrilT ai
took the murderer t > tire scene of h
crime, where he ?a.? hung d to a liu
and his body fil ed with bid ets.
A Big Steel Plant for Brrminghan
New York. -Ex Senator Thoinas I
Piatt confirmed !h~ rcpoit that he is so?
to step out of the presidency *of tl
Teuuerseo Coal and Iron Compan
Henry DeBaideluben will be elccti
president at the annual meeting of t!
company. This arrangement, which
entirely amicable, was decided upon
year ago, wheu the I>cHnrJelabcn In
and Steel Company joined hands wi
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.npun
The directors of the company met Moi
day and completed arrangements for tl
building of a big steel plant iu Birmin
ham, Ma
r. THEY DIVORCE THEMSELVES.
Brother of Bishop Haygood sad
Hit Wife Publish a Card Announolng
iht fMt
Ati.akta, Ga.?Ths following cord
h hM been made public:
8 The undersigned ha to this day die- *
solved their roTation as man sod wife.
' Ncith< r claims nor believes ant cause for
divorce against the other, either upon
' Scriptural or legal grounds. Having
gradually discovered what we did not
know at tho time of our marriage, that
we did not and do not hate that degree
of asutuil love essential to a happy uaton
d and feeling that time widens rather than
>e liula tlia km>l>ll w a K/iIIava It ml* illltv
9< to dks'ilvo our marriage relation*. Wo
'* will in tbo future regard ourselves aa
' neither husband nor wits the on* to tho
5? other, sod neither will interfere nor bo
M responsible for the other.
Signed in duplicate at Atlanta, Qa.,
this 26th daj of January, 180*.
J Mart H. Hatoood,
W*. A. Hatoood.
/ William A. Haygood la a brother of
Bishop Atticua O. Havgood of th* MethrJ
odiat Episcopal Churcn South, and ia a
leading church^an^oclstyjnau.
ra IT 188* (Ml OS*
id *'
to Ornamental oharaoters are full of weak
e? spots.
10 A inan with a bad llecr vory ofton has
a good lioart.
If the tonguo could kill not iuauy
a would live to old ago.
n Tho man who picks his own cross
d never gets the right one.
10 Every man in a brass band thinks his
horu makaa the bost music* *
Thcro Is no groator misfortune in life
ft than to have a bad mothor.
' >' Tho oasist thing for a loafor to do is
? to And fault with busy pooplo.
It Tito trouble with |>eoplo who can talk
K is that thoy are apt to say too much,
d Tho diamond h*s the most sparkto,
but window glass does tho most good*
When peoplo aro hired to bo goo.l
I they quit work at enon as tlio pay stops.
,t Tho shadow of a raisfortuno will gon*
a orally frighten ua more lUau tUo disaster
Itself.
(1 The world la full of Hon flghtors, but
(1 it la hard to find people who won't run
n from a hornet.
'(j Every now atqualotanoe wo mVto has
r the power to tell ua something wo didn't
r know about oursolvea.
M
in Do good aa often aa you hard opportunity,
and it will not ho your fault if
you are not kopt buay.
One of the tlmea whon a man holloa
to cry and sigh that all in$u are not
10 bouoat ia wheo ho gate* the wron^f-hut*^
'? When all people aro willing to hocouji
(i aa good aa they think thoir aioighb h i
*r ought to he, the raillonniu'ii wilt co.no.
^ A little weed haano moro right to liro
l# than a big one. To spire nay kin 1 of a
in may inonu to loio your life. ? lit u'a
kl lloru.
>f Magnified by Mlat.
Jj Tho magnifying power of mlat haa
often been deacribod, but perhapa never
7 in a moro striking uianncr than by Mr.
^ Pike in tho ,411 irren Ground of Northern
JC Canada." "Wo wcro traveling in ?
thick fog and saw u-i nniinal, apparently
at souio distanc.*, hounding along tho
horitin at a most remarkable pace. All
down tho line thoro wero criea of
'Musk oil' 4 Wolf P G.ma were suatc'.iod
t)f from tha sleighs and tho dogs c larged
rs at a gallop in pursuit of tho strango
l,e animal. After a rush of ten yards the
to quarry disappeared. Tho first man had
nl put liis foot on it and it turned out to br
ro one of the small inico so common in tha?
it count*?."
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>" Fastest Mail Handler.
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Ig AA'I UDIlllilQlVI ?iriicini TT MIINU>SmvT o
,, goid medal tor proficiency in the railroad
r mail service was won by a colored man,
f Edward Burn*, who runs on the Sacra-*
mento and Redding division of the
Southern Pacific. He obtained 100 per
cent, making not a single mistake in the
diatributi'-n of 1,003 postal cards which
ky bore only the names ol postofiicea all
over the Coa*t and Texas. Burn's speed
()f was fifteen cards a minute. Burns is a
ptj North Caroliuian, who served seven
iJh years in the army in Arizona. He is now
)0 80, and has been in the postoftlco departmcnt
about one year.
08 A Farmer's Disagreeable Ride;
no Guano Isi.and, Neb ? A farmer living
as east of Grand Is'and had n narrow
K. While going homo (its lio:s s became unr
innnagenblc and threw him and son out.
r' The boy fell at the side of the road. The
t,l man's leg was caught in one of the hind
It who: I < of ihe wagon . He held on to the
ill spokes with his hands and with head
al downward slid the wheel for over a mile,
J when the horses were stopped by running
through a barb wiro fence. Floyd
Spraguc, a neighbor, saw the accident,
ft and when the team stopped helped tho
ec plucky farmer out. He is reported as
getting nicely.
cr The Man Who Doesn't Drink?Mr*
38 Cleveland Looking for Him.'
A prominent New York Democrat is
? reported ns follows in the Hartford
I* Courant: "Thore who constantly see
10 him, and who have been consulted frequrntly
ns to the forthcoming changes
, in nil inc urpnnrat pis ui wiu piiunu per1.(
vice, H\y that the firs* question which
",8 Mr. Cleveland r ow asked as to any person
1 0 proposed to him for public place is?does
he drink?
a Green B. Steps Down and Out.
g Washington. I), C.?The Rwtsry
jn of iii" in'crior accepted tho resignation
he of Green B. llnum ai rommtssloner of
y Pensions and his designated Deputy
C(j Commissioner Andiew Davidson to take
he charge of that office until the appoint*
jB nient by the President of Raum's sdc*
I cesser. . ; ,
('j| Not Monsy Enough to Go Around.
y \Vashing row, P* t/.^-Secretaiy Carlisle
tt_ dismissed ten temporary clerks employed /
ll0 iu the second auditor's cffice. The re*
g. duction af force was rendered necessary
* by the iothaus:ion of tho appropriation.
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