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VOL. VXXI.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H? SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MARCH 24, 1893. NUMBER 12. \
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DIX1E_NEWS. J
The Beloved Sonth Gleaned and
Epitomized.
AU the News and Occurences Printed
Here in Condensed Form.
A family at Newton, N. C., hns sixteen
dogs.
Tarboro, N. C., is to have and artesian
wcl! water supply.
Richmond county, N. C., jail contains
nineteen prisouers, several hold on murder
charges.
Fifty-two pooplc have lately gouo in a
party from Buikc county, N. O , to Kansas.
Tlirce men aro soon <o leave Ashovillc,
N. C , iu a bont *on their way to tlu
World's Fair. The boat is rradv.
men who
fubnoy is an t stnblishedram^^^wHflMJ
Burcn, Missouri. ~bB|
The city o f, .V i ck sbu rjrJihuyfc^'TtT'l^^ "
veil a splendid monumcWwo^noConfcd- i
crate dead. 1
Work has begun on tho new f500,000 '
cotton mill at Columbia, 8. C. It is lo 1
cntcd on tli: canal. <
13 us in ess nt t he Charleston, 8. C., Custom
House is dull?only eight dollars 1
were collected last week.
Willis Watcon, who hiokc out of the
, jail at Kinston, N. C., through the roof,
Sunday night of Inst we k, hns not been
heard from sine-}.
fiumtor, 8. C., is to have a fine hotel
and opera bou c Tho first is p ojectcd
by General Moies, which guarantees its
success.
John 8hult, a hrakcinm on the East
Tin esscc and Western North Carolina
railway, was accidently killed Monday
n ar Vullcy Forge.
Hamlet, N. C. lias its indust ics
Bincc the Cotton Compr ss s ut down a
OA nor/* * * ? * 1 * 1
WV UVIV llllifVCII I MI III m?*D lO
the development of the resources.
The municipal election in Laurens, 8
C., took place Tuesday an I excited grcnl
interest, a very large v>.tc b-.ing cast. I.
W. Siukins wns elee'ed mayor.
Chester, Spartanburg and Columbis
are aspirants for the location of the South i
CnroliHu Girls' Normal and Industrial (
School, with the chances in favor of the ,
latter. i
Ninety-two of th>) students of David
son College, N. C , are working two
hours a day on a dsra for a lake there, on i
which they will place some handsome i
boats, s. i
A charter was issued to the Carolina 1
Manufacturing and lleduction Comdany
of Ulacksburg, B.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 8outh '
Carolina board of women managers of
the World's Pnir, is organizing a band of
negroes to sing plantation melodies at
the ixp<sition.
Gcorgi i began paying pensions Wednes day
to 8,200 veterans and widows. The
latter will get $6') n year, and the veter
aus will be piid according to a sliding
scale.
A prize of $1,.000 will be awarded tb*
best drilled company at the international
competitive drill between the national
guard of the tcvcral States during the
uaval rendezvous in April, 1893, io the
city of Norfolk, Va.
At Hampton,Vs.,Friday night Captain
James 81ielby, a well known horse dealer
was shot in the neck and killed in TrueI
lood's saloon while trying to get a pistol
front Richard Trucblood, the proprietor
of tho p'ncc.
The Grand Camp of Virginia, Confederate
Veterans, has been invited tt meet
io Portsmouth on tho 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 eighty-two,the oldest
citizen of Dickinson county,Tenn.,was
married to his y. ung and pretty neighbor,Misa
G'iccrn Recce, at the residence of
tho bride. Mr. Hose is the father of nineteen
children by a former marriage, all
of whom are married.
The Charleston News and Courier's Columbia
correspondent says: It seems to
. bo pretty generally und- rstood in political \
circles tbnt Ex-Congressman George D. I
Tillman will be a factor in the next Guber* I
natorial contest. The chances are alto- \
S ether favorable to his becoming a.caudiate
for Governor. d
The yellow jasmine will soon be in
that the pollen of the blosioin has blown
from Georgia into Virginia day* b. foro ,
the plant lifcd bloomed in the latter {
8tate.-N. Y. Sun. j
A Wilkes county baby, now five weeks \
old, weighs only 2f pounds. I
A jealous girl in Richmond, Va., stabbed
her lover whh a hat pin a- d married i
hiin on his death bed, as was supposed, 1
but these is a fair chance of his recovery. |
There is a letter held for postage at I
the Lake Maltl.nd Fla , postofHcc be- I
cause the writer put ou a Florida fcrtili 1
eer inspection s'amp in place of the rew
Columbian postage stamp, which is about !
the same size and color.
Hairbreadth Sec ape.
A bad accident which was one of the
narrowest e capes from instant death possible,
happened at Vandemore, Plamico
county, N. C., on Saturday. As Mr.
Morri-sey's son, Coolidgo, about 15 years
of age, was cutting wood, his little broth*
er rau under the axe as it was descending
and received the blow oa the top of his
head. The axe glanced and out out a
piece of the skull bone one and one-half
Inches squaro so that the pulsation of the
brain could be discerned. Dr. Q. 8. Attmqfe,
of 8tonewall, attended to the <
wound. The piece of bone was left out,
but the cut portion of the scalp was
placed in pos'tion again and three days
rHE EXCHANGE'OF COURTESIES.
Fha Grand Army of the Republic Fur*
niches a Ward in the Richmond
Soldiers' Home.
Richmond, Va.? A large delegation of
the Washington committee, which had
in charge the arrangements for the late
Encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic at that point, came down to
Richmond for the purpose of
presenting their acknowledgements to
Lee Post, of the Confederate Veterans,
of this city, for the hospitality and
courtesy extended by the members ot
that post to the veterans of tho Grand
Army who visited the battlefield about
Richmond.
The executive committee in Washington,
acting in the nunc of the Grand
Arm* ? . i'l -.1 ?
? nnuuiu hjiucun; uiuiurty
from that organization, dcti rmincd
to pro. uro and present some suitable
jM^moninl to the Leo Pod. A sp-.ci; 1
jdH^Uce therefore vi-itcd Richmond
since to nscertaiu whit, in
^^^pWMent, would be tho most apHHB^HRcstiuioniid.
Upon finding
(H^WloLci; Post was 1 ngely interested
n tho support of the Confederate Homo
ind that tiiii was not as yet entirely,
furnished an entire wnrd of this hospital
hems Ivis, whi h they have done, proriding
its beds aud all bedding and furliturc
p? rtniniug to each and the general
urniturc i f tho ward as well, and this
was formally presented lo the veterans
)f Lee P. st Wednesday nicrht.
Gold-Minning- in the South.
BT C. B. WARKAND.
Many years before the discovery of tho
California gold fiolda gold-mining in the
western part of Georgia and North and
South Carolina bad been an established
industry. With slave iabor gold-miniug
in tho South paid well, but since tho war
& number of spasmodic efforts which
have been tnnde to operate the mines as a
ru e risuited in failures.
In the early days ^,of mining a shaft
was sunk at some convenient spot on a
rein, tho ore was roasted'nearby.and was
then carted, often for m'lcs, to a waterpower.
Five dollars per ton of recoverable
g Id was the minimum limit at
which these mines paid. The pyrites or
gold-bearing sulphurets wore considered
worthless snd wire allowed to go to
waste. As a rule the quantity of ore
taken out of amine wns insignificant,and
a vast amount of gold still exists which
can today be profitably recovered. Goldmining
property cnti be bought very
cheap?almost at a nominal figure.
8 mo time neo I vUitad one of the
most interesting and valuable of the
gold-bearing quartz dis'r;cts, lyiug at
the foot of the Blue ltidge mountains on
the banks of Broad river, near Smith's
ford, iu York county, South Carolina.
Within a radius of less than two tnihs
[ have been nineteen veins of quartz
which, without exception, con'nin more
or less g-dd, generally in paying quantities.
The vcins^all run pnrn'lcl from the
northeast to the sou'hwest, varying from
two to thi'ty feet in thickness. I have
followed one of these veins by the dri t
rock nnd cro,>piiig8 for five miles. The
drift rock indicat-.d by pit marks that it
hnd contained at one time gold pyrites.
These veins arc almost pcrpcndicu'nr;
the bottom of oone has ever been reached,
and it is curr.utly repotted that tho
deeper the shnft was sank the better the
qua'ity of the ore became.
Probably the best of theso mines, as
well as the minllest and most comp-ct, is
the 40 acre true' known as the obi Smith
mine. It has five distinct veins running
through the whole length of the property,
44 ? yards, and far beyond on udjoiniug
land*. The veins will v.ry from three
to five feet in thicknc s, though only two
of them have over been mined. The Jeffrey
vviu had a shaft sunk 100 feet nud
hid a drainage tunnel. , The Bmith vein
hnd two shafts of 150 feet aud a tunnel
All of th- sc hive caved in to u great extent.
When tho Sni'th vtiu wns iu good
order it exposed the vein to a depth of
150 feet and a lengt'i of 125 feet,, with
[in average width of three feet. To form
some idea of the quantity of gold locked
til Ann nf f linen anino T nol/ni liitncl ?*
spice of 150 by 125 by three feet contains
51,750 cubic feet, nod ns it takes
obout thirteen cubic feet of quartz ore to
weigh one ton, the space exposed contain
d 4562 tons. The ?mine, with slave
labor, produced $7 00 of freo gold per
ion; tho pyrites orjjold-bearing sulphur[ ts
thrown away * could not be less thin
two thiids of the free gold, or $4.06 per
ton, or a total contents of $11 00 of gold
per ton. Hence a total of over $50,000
id gold is locked up in this small space.
The length exposed was less than one
vein, and tho depth'
probabinTy, that this
BffrrWHnOno has $3,000,000 of gold
treasured a*ay, and this 40-acre tract
has Ave such veins, apparently all alike.
About one and one-half mihs from the
Smith mine is the Magnolia mine, which
is on a much larger tract, containing
ninety-six seres. Th s mine has ten distinct
veins, varving in thickness from two
to thirty feet, f'ho largest, the Magnolia
vein, is thirty feet wide and exposed to
% height of 150 feet; another vein is ton
feet wide. One hundred samples taken
promiscuously from ns mnuy differ, nt
places on this vein assayed $4.87 of gold
per too. Some of the smaller veins assayed
as high as $152 of gold per ton.
Closo to these mines are still two more
imnllor mines, the Habit and the Tucker.
IT.aoti hu twn vftin* nf farrt fnof tht^lmoaa
A splendid water-power, could be easily
obtained about halt-way between the
Bmith mine and the Magnolia mine.
The climato in (he Southern gold mining
district is excellent, neither too cold
nor too warm, and perfectly healthy.
Labor'is abundant anct cheap; an ablebodied
men can easily be hired for seventy
five cents or one dollar per day.
Fuel is also cheap and abupdant, cordwood
can be had for $1 .50 per cor.l dc- I
livered. The time is near at hand when
all these mines will bo worked . Uoldminiug
South nev.ir will be in the nature
of a bonanza, but with the help of modern
methods and machinery it will become
a safe land remunerative Industry.
A Costly Stock Farm.
Nasbyili.*, Tan*.?Richard Croker,
>f New York, has purchased a half in
terest in tlio famous Beltvineado IHqcJbi
Perm for f800(,p00 cash.
FAMILY BURNED ALIVE.
A Dreadful Fire at Rutherfordton,
North Carolina.
A Wife and Two Children Perish in
the Flames.
RuTnRHFonTON, N. O.?The home ol
Thom s Dixon was burned to the ground
Wedne day night. Mr. Dixon's wife
and two children were burned to death.
The story is one of surpassing sadness,
and i.s details are sufficient to wring the
hearts of nil with pity. Mr. Dixon is s
hardware merchant here and also traveling
salesman for the hardware house of
Cottie I, Wutkin' & Co., of Richmond,
Va. lie located in Rutherfordton 5 years
ago and built a very handsome home.
There his wife and three children lived
while he was away on business. The
house was loc ted on a hill on the outskirts
of the town and was one of the
prettiest residences of that mountain section.
The fire occurred at S nVliwW ll?.
Dixon was procuring the children for b?d,
and wns silting by ? table with the baby
in hrr arms. The baby was playing with
some article on the table and accidentally
knocked over a kerosene lamp. The
lamp exploded, throwing blazing oil all
about the room. In an instant the clothing
of Mrs. Dixon, as well as that of bar
children, was ablaze. 8bc picked up twos,
of the little ones and throwiag them upon
the bed, endeavored to smother the tire
by wrapping the brd clothing around
them All this time, the devoted mother
\v.is being burned by the flames that envclope
l her own clothing. Her oldest
child, aged six years, dashed n pitcher of
wat- r up ui her mother and flod from the
house. Just nt that time a negro man
appeared and dragged Mia. Dixon from
the house, the interior of which* was a
solid blaze. The house, wi h tho little
oucs in the bed, was burned to thegiouncL
Mr. Dixon was absent in Shelby on
business and kucw nothing of the dread*
ful fate of his household until la'e in the
nigl.t. Then he hastened to Rutherfordton
nnd reached there at 1 o'clock in the
morning, in time to see his wife give her
expiring gasp.
'1 he ng-:s of the children burned were
2 and 4 yenrs respectively. Tho three
bodies were takou to Charlotte, N. C.t
and interred in ?lmwood cemetery in
two graves, ono f.-r tho mother and tiia
other for her children.
Remunerative Farming.
A correspondent of tho Charleston, 8.
C., News and Courier writes to that paper
from Nincty-8ix as foil iw?: "There
arc a great many farmers throughout tho
State who seem to think that there is no
ready money in anything except cotton.
N??w, in order to relieve those who are
laboring under this impression, I desire
iu can uiuir nvieiiuun 10 vuc tiii hi us cr
produced last year by It. P. Cftslpbi
a prosperous farmer of our town. T)
lands cultivated are the old Cambric
lands within n mile of this place. Hi
Gilphiu has jus1, furuished me with the
following statement, and therefore it can
be relied upou as correct. He snys he
produced last year with three mul s the
following crops:
On acros, 800 bunhH* at S3 eenla $Sto
AiiiIPo<k> liunillt's of foddrr.t'iUmitel loo
On So ooroii. ?3 bnlr* of cotton at 133 per bate S75
(.11 73 ai res. Itixi bushel* of oat* at SI crnt* 8S0
on is aero*. M011 Iwlp* of clover hajr at 75 cent* Itoo
On 5 ncrcs, too bale* of pea vine hay ai 50 cent* too
a rami total for all crop* $3743
"It will he seen from the above table
that the clover crop is far more valuable
than cither of the other crops He realiz'.-d
nearly twice as much from twentyfive
acres in clover as he did from fifty
acres in cotton, besides there ia vary little
expense attached to ita production.
Evi ry farmer should have his barn filled
with clover hay. It is an excellent feed
for all stock, especially cattle. Milk
cows thrive on it. It increases the flow
of utilk and produces beautiful rich yellow
butter. Mr. Galphin has fattened
and killed several fine hogs, and saja
that lie has plenty of this valuable and
indispensable article of food to supply
him this year.
"I did not ascertain from Mr. Galnhin
the amount of his expenses incurrea in
producing these crops, but it would be
safe to say he cloared over and above expenses
at least $1,000 to the mule, which
must bo admitted by ail as very fine
farming. If every farmer would adopt
Mr. Galphin's plan we would bave no
use for the Alliance nor the Ocala platform,
the sub treasury bill or nothing of
the kind, but wou)d be a happy, independent
people, and the cry of oppression
and hard times would be a thing of
the past. I simply give this, hoping
that it niay movei beneficial-* mime uuui
farmers at lesst wno bave been sticking
to their cotton idol in neglect of all other
cro; s.
"Just before milling this Mr. Galphfn
asktd me to add, in addition to the above
crops, that he mido thirty bushels of
barley and 100 gallons cf sorghum."
EGYPTIAN COTTON SEED.
An Effort Will be Had* to Introduce
the Product in thia Country.
Wahiinqtow, D. C.?The Egyptian
cotton reed purchased by Secretary Rusk
through the United States Consul-General
at Cairo, Egypt, has been received at
tho Department of Agriculture. The
purpose of this importation of seed as
set forth in Mr. Rusk's last report as Secretary
of Agriculture, is to undertake,
with the co-operation of the experiment
stations in the cotton States, experiment*
with a view to producing cotton of home
growth which may serve aa an efficient
substitute for the Egyptian, of which,
during the last fiscal year, more than
$3,000,000 worth waa imported into thia
country, an increase of lo per cent, over
the previous year, and of consideiably
more than 100 per cent, over the tear
ending 1890. The cotton seed received
at the Dcpa-tinent consists of two of the
best known Egyptian varieties, the
"Aflfl" and the "Bamiah." The diatributioa
will he made to the experiment
stations in the cotton States, and alao
through the senator* for thoee Statea to
planters whom they may recommend aa
persons well qualified and willing to
give the Egyptian seed a careful triaL
A report on the Cvinditlona of the soil and
climate and methods of cultivation of
the Egyptian cotton Is being prepared
for the Department under the direction
of our Cooaiil-Qeneral fa Barret,
"WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?"
Moody Endorses A Check for $400
and PrernU It to the T. M. O. A.
CuAitLOTT*. N. C.?That Evangelist
Moody is a gfcat man, great with power
from on II gty all acknowledge; but an
occurrence took place here at the close of
the great revival meetings oondacted by
him, wh'ch nnde even the best look at
him aghast and wonder "what manner of
man is this?'f
The fimnra committee p?ll*i ?t w.
Moody's roora,sftcr the last service st the
Auditorium, nd presented him with a
ture of $700,1 $>00 of which wss for Miss
'yson. Tbe4mount for Mr. Moody wss
ia two checkl, one for $400, the other
for $100. Whtn Mr. Hnnna handed them
to Mr. Moody he glanced at them and
taking his pon wrote his name across the
back of ono of the checks, and handed
it back to Mr. ,IIanoa, saying, "There's
my subscription to your Young Men's
Christian Asspciation." Mr. Hsnna and
all began expressing their thanks, when
suddenly Mrrllanna gave a start of surprise
and said, ".Mr. Moody, you've made
a mistake; you endorsed the wrong
check; tlft* is the $400 check." "Mo,
-no, I didn't mako a mistake." said he, in
his quick, dff hand, but kindly way;
"this one'is enough to pay. my expenses,"
pointing to the f 100 check.
The committee was too dumbfounded
to speak. This is the most remarkablo
occurrence that ever happened here. It
brings ud a little incido it that occurred
in Mr. Moody's room just after he came
hero. V
At scveril of tbo evangelistic meetings
held here a public opportunity was given
to the people to make up a purse for the
evangelist. Sgrnc members of the committee
at these meetings wont up to Mr.
Mood>'a room to sound him and sec if he
would permit them'to take up a public
collection. The; told him thit they did
not wish to offcnd his s use of propriety
and wanted to know if he objected to an
opportunity bejng given to the people to
make a contribution. "What 1" said Mr.
Moody, "for mfct" "Yes," was the reply.
"No," said Mr.l M ?ody. "I could not
thinkjof fuch a Vbing. I would rather
drink;jUljh^Uf the brooks."
- petoMhB'o protection.
Georgia'*; vWl ?& Moonshiner Goes
to JsliTpt Like a Kan.
Atlanta, G?lr-A woman moonshiner,
Mrs. Mnlinda Tw< cr. was arrested Saturday
morninj Ad brought before United
States Cominflnioncr Gaston in default
of a $il00 bond. 1 Mrs. Turner acknowledged
hur guilt and throughout the trial
whs very defiant] refusing to msko any
at'empt at givl'it bail and ignoring the
fact tlmt she cou'd be sworn In her own
behalf. Blio is lite mother of John and
Will Turner, ncjtofi us moonshiners in
White Uouuty. 1
" - * Wng iTiicit
and it is
?y. The two
n out on bail
tilling,
be about 50
per. "Don't
aid she to a
. folks won't
get off them
.kin' whiskey
in the lame
j. long Saturday
mv. ?to the still jot
'bout ua? - >
"I up and the whole otitis*
were my owAPjfclB.ird to him that I
didn't bleev^TWPJudgc ud do nothin'
wi' ine no how, lease I wuz a woman.
Whole outlay's plum mint now, so 'taint
no use to make any bond.
"Jes soon as I(gi s out I'm going to
make more wh'.*key inoomhinc?good,
too. Jcsncts, en you know yourself 'taint
no kind or way tcr make jis a drop ej two.
"Did I sell nnyf I didn't give none
away." Mrs. Turner was taken to jail.
STRAWBERRY BLONDES.
The Latest Fad in Railroading- -A
Royal Orimaon Train and its
. Equipment.
The Charleston News and Courier says:
The custom among ra:l>oads lines of
having some pet train upon which they
bestowed^unutud attention and favor is
I ccouting more acd more popular each
yv-ar. 'I ho "Nancy Hanks'' of ths
Georgia Central, the "F?st Flying Vir
giniiwi" of tho Chesapeake and Ohio
Ttoad, the "lloyal Bluo Line" of the
Baltimore and Ohio and the "West Indian
Mail" of tho Atlantic Coast Line are
instances of the popuiailty of this fad.
The Bahimoroland Ohii Road now anr
1,811 operate a "Royal
f!rim?nn T.in?" Ifc*.an ?B.lil 1
- ? i
Chicago. The Railway Review, speaking
of (he announcement in a humorous
manner, says: "Tho train will be painted
a bright crimson from the nose of the
cowcatcher < Icar back to the bumpers en
the hindmost coach, A redheaded fireman
will shovel coal for a redheaded
engineer, who wiH receive his orders
from a red-headed conductor, and will
answer the signals of a red-headed brakeman,
and special rates will be made to
red headed passengers." It is furthsr
noted by the lt-vlew that this will be
tho only train in the world that will be
strictly in favor of the colorline, and the
Review is inclined to think that the enterprising
general passenger agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio will be responsible
for some "red-headed" passenger agents
ai well as" passengers.
Colored Laborers at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa.?About 250 negroes
from the South arrived at Brinton Station
iHusday afternoon. Colored labor~
era will be given the first chance by the
Carnegie Companv at all ita works in
preference t> foreigners who apply for
work. Jmncs GaWy, general manager of
the plant, expeots marly 1,000 others in
a month. Tins will mean that as soon
as possible all Slavs will be dismissed.
nri -a? . aaa # ?
i Here mo uouui a,vuu roreigners Altogether.
Death of an African Btebop.
Wasbikotor, D. C ?-Bishop Broen
of the African Mcthodlar Episcopal
Church, died here At noon, aged id. He
r had been ill for ? >iui time and bis de.ttb
vu not unexpected bishop Brown was
eminent in tbe Church nnd wai grcetlj
rcap"cted end citcomed.
I V
COTTON MILL BLOWN UP.
One Knn Killed and Many InjuredShock
Felt Six Miles Away.
Fohkbt City, N. C.?A t. riible catastrophe
took place here Monday morn
ing at 7 o'clock.
The boiler of the Floit-nce Cotton
Mills exploded, dealing dcHth and disus
ter broadcast. The boiler, engine and
piping were totally deiuo ishcu, some of
the piping nnd fragments of the boiler
and machinery flying hundreds of yards
in orcry direction, llricks and timbers
were thrown high in the air and fell on
and damaged nearly every house in the
neighborhood, and the windows in the
mill were shattered and the water works
and machinery damaged. The boiler
nnd onorinn rnnma nw? Jr? ruins A
??? ?O'"" " "*- ? ogwuu
boiler,weighing several tons, was thrown
s me thirty yards. The windows in ninuy
houses in town were completely shattered.
The operatives had just gone to wi rk
when the explosion took place, and those
thnt were not killed or injured were terribly
stunned. People in the neighborhood
wire thrown to the ground by the
shock.
Homer Ilurrill, fireman, was killed instantly.
Tho suliercrs are: Julius Dean,
dangerously hurt; Ollle Rabb, seriously
injured by falling timbers; I. L. Sanders,
engineer, injured internally, considered
dangerously. Several others were slightly
hurt by fnlting bricks and timbers.
W. P. Hurt, superintendent, was pa?nfu
ly though not seriously hurt by the
falling of the roof in the engine room.
The shock was felt at Ruthcrfordton,
six miles distant, the people there thinking
it was an earthquake. The windows
of Dr. Harris1 house of that place, were
shattered.
Crowds of people are here viewing 'he
ruins.
Beginning of Bice Culture in South
Carolina.
The introduction of rice growing into
8outh Carolina nearly 200 jears ago wna
by something very like an accident.
Thomas Lnndgravc Smith, before coming
to this coun'ry, had paid some attention
to rice culture, and on setting in South
Carolina had bccomo impressed with the
idea thnt the climate and low-lying lands
of that region wcro well adapted for
rice growing. Tn ?!>? year 1094 n smill
vessel from Madagascar put into Charleston
harbor in distress. It turned out
that there was in tho cook's keeping a
small quantity of rice, and this fell into
tho hands of Landgrave Smith, who
planted it in n low, mo st portion of his
garden. The plant grew ami ripened in
a manner thnt was most encouraging.
Mr. Smith distributed the seed among
his neighbor.', and eventually rice became
the staple product of the colony. At
first the rice was cultivated on the high
land and on little spots of low ground .
_Thc low ground was soon found preferable,
and the inland swamps were
cleared to extend tho culture of the plant
As the fields, in the process of time,
became too gras v ana stubborn, they
were abandoned for new clearings, and
so on until at length the superior adoption
of the tide lands and the great
facilities for iriigntion afforded by their
location was discovered. For thes; the
inlvnd p'nntations were gradually abandoned.
CARLISLE'S PROPOSITION.
Provide for tho Issue of Currency by
Bunks Under State Charters.
Washington, I>. C. ?The Star says
that Secret rv Carlisle cxprcta to have
ready to submi s >nve financial propositions
by the time C->ngri8g meets, which
will form the basis of agree meat between
Congress nu I the executive on the vexed
financial problem. Gcntlemeu who havo
talked with bim on the subject sny that
he has n plan pretty well outlined in his
mind, which will involve a comple e reorganization
of our financial system.
It is said that it will include the repeal
of the law compelling the nurchnsc of
silver by the govenun lit and will provide
for the deficiency of currency by
Eroviding for the repeal of the Stnte
ank t^x and the isRuc of lurrency by
banks under S'ntc chnrters, under the
general government, ilie sccur.ty for the
currency provided for under the laws of
the States, requiring the approval of tho
government.
COTTON MILL OWNERS PROTEST
Against tho Reduction of Hours oi
X.abor.--Tho Bouth Gaining on
tho Noith.
A Boston dispatch Tuc-dny rnvs: At
a Reoripg bef re the labor cmimittcc of
the L gl.-laturo i representatives of the
cotton mills at Cliicopcc, Fall llivcr,
Lowell and Taunton remonstrated against
the reduction of the hours of labor in
manufacturing com aniestofl-l per week,
claiming they cannot stand the competition
of mills in other States and England.
Toe treasurer of tho Massachusetts
mills, at Lowell, and the Whittenton
mills Tn lintrsis ant/1 La - ? I--a _ I_
.bluivm, oniu iiu nas nusUiUlt'lj
dtircn from the State, and that he in
going South to build a mill in order to
hold his export trade. (lis goods, he
aid, can be made much cheaper in tho
South on the indical machine. The
S uth is gaini g rapidly on the North,
though he did n< t believe the South
woild destroy Northern business.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Pith and Point of Daily Occurrences.
The Solvation Army will build a magnificent
barracks on a lot in New York
costing |2-0,000.
8- . n colored cinverts were baptized
in a creek in AtchUou, Kan., a week
ago through a ho'c cut in several inches
of ic?*.
V* Secretary of the Navy Traccy made
his first appearance as a practicing lawyer
befoe the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The Princess Kaiaulani made a visit to
the White House, and was charmed with
.the 'fleet lady of the land," sa>ing afterwards
that Mrs. Cleveland was the first
woman the hud (vcr fallen In love with.
Denter, Colorado, proposes to irrigate
800,000 acres in its set tion of the State,
and, to coma s c? with, will dig a canai
coating 91,000,000.
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i BISSELL'S POSTOFFICE POL ICY.
Offensive Partisanship will Not Neessarily
Constitute Cuuse for Ho
moval.
Wabhinuton, D. C. ?To a prominent
Western Congressman, who talked with
Postmaster General Bisscll concerning his
policy as to removals, the latter said:
"It is not the intention of tlnr administration
to remove any postmasters until
their term of olti c has expired, except
for serious cause."
"Will offensive partisanship be acceptable
cause?" whs a>ked.
"1 don't say it will not," said Mr. Bisscll,
"but every case will have to stand
on its own merits, and it will have to be
a grave ease b fore a removal is made.
The fact that a postmaster bar taken interest
in the work of bis party will not,
I think, be cons'dcred sufficient cause;
but, as I have said before, every case
piust stand by itself. Complaints of incompetency,
n? gleet of business or absolute
misuse of vriil certainly
receive at tent on." lie also sucKCsted
viKimiKi nw mi! iiiuiicst man ne naci
ever seen, anil went baek and had his
sistci's child named for him, saying at
the time that "Grovcr Cleveland will be
President of the United States souie day."
Grovcr Cleveland Bridger*, it is understood,
will ask for a fourth class po?toffiee
iu his county, urging his claims that
he was the first child to be named for
Grovcr Cleveland.
Tho Jamas City Tenants Will Pay
Rent and Remain.
Bai.kioii, N. C.?James A. Bryan, of
, Newberne, having sued for and received
the right to the possession of the lands
on which James City,opposite Ncwbetnc,
is located, ou tho other side of Trent
; river, where several thousand negroes
live who took posse pion during the war,
attempted a few days ago to have some
occupauts ejected. Such resistance was
made that the sheriff desisted from executing
the writ. A large number,
however, have been paying rents to Mr.
T? ..-.l Ik 1-? ' * "
uiiau ?iii? mu ruoisiiiin u was cuiciiy instigated
by some white store keepers. It
1 is said that a peaceable settlement will
be made by the payment of nominal
rents. No collision is now anticipated.
' A Negro Mob Avenges a Crime.
Mbmpiiis, Tknn ?Hufus Haywood, a
colored planter, was assassinated by Lee
Walton, a notorious negro desperado,
Sunday night, at Villnyuma, Miss. After
robbing his victim, Walton tied, but was
run down by bloodhounds and captured
Monday morning, lie was taken to
Villayumn, where he was being guarded
by the sheriff until the arrival of the
train for Itollin Fcrk, the county scat.
Just before tl?c train arrived, a mob of
500 negroes ov<rpowc:ed the sheriff and
took the murderer t > the scene of his
crime, where he was hang.d to a limb
and his body hi ed with bid ets.
A Big Steel Plant for Birmingham.
New Yobs. ? Ex Senator Thomas C.
Piatt confirmed the report that lie is soon
to step out of the presidency of the
Tenuctsco Coal and lion Company.
Henry DeBaidelahen will be elected
president at the annual meeting of the
company. This arrangement, which it
entirely amicable, was decided upon a
year ago, when the I>cBarJelahen Iron
and Steel Company joined bauds with
the Tennessee Coal and Iran Company.
The directors of the company met Mondav
and completed arrangement* for the
building of a big steel plant in Birmingham,
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that the recommend itiou of members of
Congress would not, per so, give It
preference over others. The l'o tnjasterQcncrnl
added that the department had
promulgated a general rule, under which
postofficcs would not be given to keepers
of stores. Mr. Bisscll said that lie did
not mean that the rule should npply to
small villages in distant States, where,
unless some storekeeper would handle tho
mail, no one could be induced to accept
the office; but he did most emphatically
intend to rcfun to appoint any postmasters,
presidential or otherwise, who
would not give their personal attention
to the bushiest of hindling the mail and
who simply desired to secure the olfico
as an advertisement for their business.
Counterfeit Money in Richmond.
New York.?Detective 8erg? nnt Jungt
succeeded in running down what may
prove to he the operations of a gang who
arc ranking counterfeit money in Richmond,
Va., and passing it in New York
c ty and Et > >kiyn. Wednesday morning
he arrested Frank Halsteml and David
Bnttholomcw, of Brooklyn, on the complaint
of David Folkard, a jeweler, who
charged them with pissing count' rfeit
$50 bills on him 011 January 25. Wednesday
morning the rain called again at
his store and tried to sell F?dknrd a
watch which th> y had bought from him.
The jeweler recogu'zed them and called
in Dctcc'ivc Jungt. Tliev were arraigned
in the United States Court in Brooklyn
nnd held to aw >it the action of the
United States grand jury, llalstend
admitted that he passed $111 in counter
fcit inoiit y iii Brooklyn and New York,
and that iho money had been made iu |
Hiohmond, Va.
Edison's Great Works Flooded.
Schenectady, N. Y.?In the night the
ice in tin Mohawk lliver, west, of the
city, broke iij> sod formed an immense
gorge ngninst the Fitchburg Itiilroad
bride, tlrco miles from here. The water
overflowed the banks, flooding Edison's
park and that part of the city occupied
by the Wcstinghousc Company and the
general deetric works
The first floors of the Edison general
electric woiks, which aggregate sixteen
acres, are under water to the depth of
three feet; both plants have shut down
aud four thousand men are laid off. All
the exhibits which the Edison Company
were preparing for tlie World's Fair are
partially destroyed by water, as is also
most of the stock on the first floor. The
loss is estimated at over half a million.
Grovsr Cleveland Bridgers.
Mr. Cleveland has only one namesake
old enough to hold office, and that young
man is (Irover Cleveland Bridgers, of
Halifax County, North Carolina, 24 years
of ago. Pome twenty-four years ago the
young man's uncle, Col. Martin, went to
Buffalo to receive treatnient at a hospital
t.ml met Grovcr Cleveland, an obscure
young lawyer. C >1. Martin thought
/<i?....i...wi it ?
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THEY DIVORCE THEMSELVES.
A. Brother of Bishop Haygood and
His Wife Publish a Oard Announcing'
the Fact.
Ati.anta, Ga.?The followiDg card
has been made public:
The undersigned have this day dissolved
their rotation as man and wife.
Ncith' r claims nor believes any cause for
divorce against the other, cither ujpon
Scriptural or legal grounds. Having
gradually discovered what we did not
know nt the time of our marriage, that
we did not and do not have that degree
of mutuil love essential to a happy uaion
nud feeling that time widens rather than
hoels the breach, we belie to it our duty
to dissolve our marriage relations. Wo
will in the future regard ourselves aa
neither husband nor wifs the one to tho
other, and neither will interfere nor be
responsible for the other.
Signed in duplicute at Atlanta, Go.,
this '26th day of January, 180ft.
Mart H. Hatoood,
Wm. A. Hayqood.
William A. Haygood is a brother of
Bishop Atticus G. Haygood of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, aud is a
leading church and society mau.
wiskTvojius.
Ornamental oharactcrs arc full of weak
spots.
A man with a bad liver very often has
a good heart.
If t!io tonguo could kill not many
would live to old age.
Tho man who picks his own cross
never gets tho right one.
Every man in a brass baud thinks his
horn makes tho best music. *
Thero is no greater misfortune in life
than to have a bad mother.
The caslst thing for a loafer to do is
to And fault with busy people.
The trouble with people who can talk
is that they are apt to say too much.
The diamond has the most snarkle.
but window glass does the inost good*
When peoplo aro hired to bo good
they quit work as soon as the pay stops.
Tbo shadow of n misfortune will generally
frichton u? ip?r? Il??.U tile dhiJtf!
itself.
The world is full of Hon debtors, but
it is hard to find people who won't run
from a hornet.
Every now acquaintance wo mako has
the power to tell us something wo didn't
know about ourselves.
Do good as often as you have opportunity,
and it will not bo your fault if
you are not kept busy.
One of the times when a man begius
to cry and sigh that aTPiNi^u are not
honest is wheo he gcts>the hi iTr '* ill ill i
When all peoplo are willing to boc.uni ~
as good as they think their aioi.ghb >n
ought to be, the millennium will come.
A little weed has no more rig'itto live
than a big one. To spire any kin 1 of a
sin may mc.au to lote your life. ?Us c's
Horn.
Magnified by Mist.
Tho magnifying power of mist has
often been described, but perhaps never
in a inoro striking manner than by Mr.
Pike in tho ?*B irreu Ground of Northern
Canada." *'We were traveling in a
thick fog and saw a > animal, apparently
at some distance, bounding along tbo
hoiism at a most remarkable pace. AH
down the line tbero wero cries of
*UU3iv UAI ii uui nuiu
from thj sleighs and tlio dogs c inrged
nt a gallop in pursuit of the strange
nnirail. After a rush of ten yards the
rjuatry disappeared. The first mau had
put his foot, on it and it turucd out to be
one of the small mice so common iu thul
country."
Fastest Mail Handler.
Ex-Postmaster General Wnnamaker's
gold medal for proficiency in the railroad
mail service was won by a colored man,
Edward Burn*, who runs on the Sucra^
mcnto nnd Redding division of the
Southern Pacific. He obtained 100 per
cent, making not a single mistake in the
distribution of 1,0011 postal cards which
bore only the nnmes ot postoffices all
over the Coa?-t and Texas. Burn's speed
was fifteen cards a minute. Burns is a
North Carolinian, who served seven
years in the nrmy in Arizonn. He is now
30, and has been in the postoflicc department
about one year.
A Farmer's Disagreeable Ride;
Guano 1st.and, Nkb?A farmer living
east of Grand Is and had a narrow escape.
While going home his bo:s a-became unmanageable
and threw him and son out.
The boy fell at the side of the road. The
man's leg was caught in one of tlio hind
who la of the wagon. He held on to the
spokes with his hands nnd \vith head
downward slid the w heel for over a mile,
1 ll.A Lamas 1 K_
YYiiuii iiiu i.iuais "iiu uy muning
through ft lmb wire fence. Floyd
Sprague, r neighbor, saw the Accident,
nud when the tenia stopped helped tho
plucky farmer out. He is reported as
getting along nicely.
The Man Who Doesn't Drink?Mr*
Cleveland Looking for Him. '
A prominent New York Democrat is
reported as follows in the Hartford
Courant: "Those who constantly see
him, and who hnvc been consulted frequently
as to the forthcoming chnngcs
in nil the departmi nts of the public service,
siy that the firs* question which
Mr. Cleveland row asked na to any person
proposed to him for public place is?does
no drink?
Oreen B. Steps Down and Out.
Washington. D, C.?The Secretary
of the Jn'crior accepted the resignation
of Clreen B. Ilaum a* romnrtastoner of
Pensions and his designated Deputy
Commissioner Andicw Davidson to take
ehiirgc of that office until the appoint- Jb
ment by the President of Raum's sueccssor.
mm r?a?w . \
Not Mon?y Enough to Go Around.
duction of force erni rendered neceewoy
by the exhftM9 ion of the eppr.ipriatf >u.