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^ 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.? .. - ?, ?.? I' WJ^IVVJ 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. Ki? - 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 ' " i>j 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. ? 5 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 i J *4 ** If A ' I 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 ...... Lwi'kf r< .1 XI....I!.. _! 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 . 1... hi n.? 1 i'......... 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*?." d . >" Fastest Mail Handler. it _ w ? . i .... i \ir i (. 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. 4 V. , V; J&jkM