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VOL. XXV." NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, tft-' ' r>:|
Tho railway mileage of Europe,
Asia'and Africa now aggrcgatoo ! >??,
bob miles. The railways of the United
States reach 168,597 miles.
. A widower's association has been
formed in Dresden, Germany. No man
can join unless his wife is dead, and it
he marries again ho becomes an honorary
member merely. Ono o? the
ichief purposes of the association is to
help newly-mado widowers by looking
after their wives' funerals ami caring
for their children
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The Argentine Republio is rapidly
becoming u prominent competitor in
the business of supplying grain to tho
European markets. Shipowners of
Nova Scotia anil New Brunswick are
taking advantage of the trade and finding
employment for their vessels at
remunerative rates between the River
Plate and Old World ports.
Tho railway companies of the United
States have no reasonable cause, asserts
the New York News, to complain
of their business for the fiscal year.
Including all the bankrupt and nonpaying
lines the aggregate uet earnings
were more than three hundred
aud fifty million dollars. This is
equivalent to about three and onehalf
per cent, of the capitalization, a
very good rate of interest in view of |
tne lact that tho roads are generally
capitalized at from two to five times
their actual coat.
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The reclamation of the arid wastes
of southwestern desert lands proceeds
marvclously apace. Another reclamation
company was incorporated at San
Bernardiuo, Cal., a few days ago, with
a capital stock of #2,-r>00,00(). Adam
is to he erected at Victor Narrows, on
the Mojave River, in San Bernardino
County, fifteen feet in height, which
will make a lake nine miles long an I
about three wide, whose waters will be
used to irrigate about 200,000 acres of
land on the Mojave Desert, which will
then bo especially adapted for growing
Saisin grapes and alfalfa.
? r ?rst
Geueral Nelson A. Miles, after having
passed though the hardships o'
war and faced the terrors of battle,
declares in tho Atlanta Journal that
American football is a risk too great
for him to regard with favor. When
young, General Miles played football,
but it was not of the bone-breaking
kind. The bovs kicked the ball more
and each other less in those days, and
tho "flying V was not thought of.
"I am for a change in tin: rule?,'' t-uitl
the General, "because I want 1 > see
the game perpetuated, nil 1 ' don't bolicvo
it can under 11? : existing rocnlled
Rugby rnles. As now played
r?t Yale, Princeton, Harvard tmil Cornell,
the game <>f football is productive
of a grcat-r number of injuries, both
immcilintc ami permanent, than is
prize-lighting under the Mar?|uia o!
Queensberry rules."
According to thcSviei, a Si. Petersburg
paper, Russia, unlike other Ku
ropean countries, incorporates in the
army only one-fourth of the young
men who arc drafted every year when
they reach the legal ago for military
service. The recruiting in 1832 enlisted
768,<572 conscripts, but only
260,290 were actually sent into the
ranks. Of these 196,00') were Orthodox,
16,000 Israelites and 9000 Mo
hammedans; the Russian army is
therefore composed of men belonging
to the National religion. There were
_ 1 ' 1L. A : A 11 J A
nmo in luc cuiiiiiigt'iii I'ttncd 10 Borviuo
in 1892 193,000 men of pur i Russian
origin, 17,000 I'olos, 4000 Germans,
16,000 Jews, 368 t Hashkircs, an I a
small number of Lithuanians, Tartars,
etc., so that the Russian army can be
considered as being quite homogeneous
in regard to its nationality.
Every little while the police arrest
? man with a kit of burglars' tools in
his possession, and one naturally wonders
where they all come from. It is
easy to buy n gun of any description,
and the most reputable citizen would
not be ashamed to be soon purchasing
the most wicked-lo >king knife ever
,1. . U..4 1.1 1. _ ... _.l i
mum; , um ?n?? \>?muu hinr.v wiiere in
get a slung-shot, or u jimniie, or h de
ice for drilling into a s.itV, or any of
the many "tools used i?y the professional
burglar in the pursuit, of his
calling? There probably nre places in
many large cities wlisro these things
are made and sold to the users, but
such places are scarce. Onc-o in n
while the police find huoIi a factory,
ao:l then things go hard for the proprietors.
It may seem a little strange
a^ l.... ii.A* r iUa aa..Ia .. a i
(i; irai u mm iuum m 1 ut; usr-i ui
burglaries arc made by mechanics who
are looked upon an respectiblo men in
the community. When a burglar
wants any particular toed made lie goes
to a mechanic who can do the job, and
paya him perhaps live times what it is
actually worth for making lite tool and
keeping still about it.
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MR. C ARTEL!'S S/LERT BRIDE.
She Had Towed Never to Speak to Him Agair
but the Marriage Came Off.
Trthblk, Tknn.?Mrs. Jerry Cartel
of near Trimble, has just broken
rash vow whieh she nmile over twelv
months ago, anil which she regrettei
having ever made.
About eighteen in>nths ago Mrs
Cartell was Miss Fannie Brambley, i
beautiful young lady of eighteen year
and Jerry Cartell her favored suitor
But, as is generally the case witl
young lovers, a quarrel arose betweei
them, and i?> the heat ?>f passion Mis
Fannie angrily bade her lover leavi
her presence, and vowed by higl
Heaven she would never speak to hin
again. Tho disconsolate lover tool
his departure, but as he fairly wor
whipped the girl he ardently wet abow
to effect i\ reconciliation. At Inst, ii
answer to a pitiful pleading l?t*er
Miss Fannie relented and penned t<
him ft loving, forgiving message.
Overjoyed at tlie happy terminntioi
of affaira he hurried to the home o
Miss Fannie, and was received warmly
and affectionately, but without a won
of welcome. Taking a tablet anil pen
cil from n desk ahe began a writtei
conversation as though she could not
speak n word. Cnrtell pleaded tin
uselessness and foolishness of sucl
proceedings, but in vain, as his sweet
lieart positively refused to utter a word
to him. Khe is very devout, a mem
ber of tlic Methodist Church, and win
firmly impressed with the idea that if
she should break her rash vow Hod
would punish her by striking her
dumb, when she could speak to no
one. Hhe was constantly on her guard
for fear she might forget herself and
speak to her lover, thereby inviting
th?? crrible visitation.
The courtship proceeded with pencil
and paper for several months, and
then they were joined together in the
holy bonds of matrimony. During
their married life of nearly a year Mra.
Cartell never spoke to her husband until
some weeks ago.
Last Christmas Mr. Cartell made his
wife a present of a handsome and costly
pair of vases. The other morning
the husband was bringing in an armful
of wood and struck one of the vases
and knocked it to tho floor, where it
broke into a hundred pieces.
"Oh, Jerry, look what you have
done!" cried Mrs. Cartell.
She was horribly shocked at speaking
to li.^r husband, and believed that
she had been stricken dumb. To ascertain
the correctness of her belief
she spoke to him again, ami was overjoyed
to discover that her organs of
spVeen liau nut oeeu m me icnnt impaired.
In the happiness of again hearing
his wife speak to him,Jerry folded her
in his arms, wept tears of joy, and
thanked Cod for the breaking of lier
vase. Mr. and Mrs. Cartell feel ?h if
a clond bad been lifted from their
home, and there is not a happier couple
todav in I)ver conntv.
A Postmaster in the Toils.
Spartanihtro, S. C.--A. I'\ McDowell,
a former postmaster at Walker,
this, county, was convicted in the I'ni
ted States court at Creenvilh-, S. ( .,
for false cancellation of stamps. The
ease has been somewhat interesting in
nsmuch as McDowell was connected
with the Barrett gang of conspirators.
McDowell was a good, honest farmer
ami nan tno reaped of ins fcllowmen.
Through Barrett's influence apostoflice
was established in his section ntnl Ii?
was made postmaster. Soon a great
number of stamps were floating around
town. McDowell paid his-debts with
' tamps. Inspector Peer got "onto"
the ease and successfully worked it up.
McDowell was sentenced to pay a line
of $500 or go to jail for six months.
High Praise for the Lan /lorrf.
Stacnton, Va. Two well-dressed
strangers came to the Virginia Hotel
four days ago and registered from
Louisville. Ky. They left yesterday,
leaving their hill of 317 unpaid, and
the following note:
"Man's inability to successfully portray
hia thoughts, his mental power*
being incapable to correctly define his
meaning, is why I will not endeavor to
burden you with an attempt at ex
pressing my thanks for your treatment
so gentlemanly, Arc.. during my stay.
Kxtend to your menials also my t hunks.
May your shadow never grow less, and
may continued prosperity shine in nil
clouded warm rays on your benevo
lent head "
North Carolina's Cup of Happiness Full.
(New York Sun.)
Thursday was a pjrent day for Nortl
Carolina. Governor EliasCarr, of tin
multifarious and niultivoeal mustach
ois, ate a grand luneheon of New rivei
oysters at Jacksonville, and then wen
on t?> Newborn and reviewed the uava
parade and the Wilmington Light In
fantrv, and inspected the Fish, Oystei
and Game Fair. A thousand heart
beat happily. The fair was a gren
fair The. Oovrm??r was a ureal Gov
eruor. And, not least of nil, the Hon
Winter Pinnin. of Tnrburn. bad ins
got ti job in the geological survey. Tin
good old Tnr Heel State fairly hie
cougliod with happiners.
A Negro Boy Lynchci
A special to the Herald from Sher
man, Ala., says. Thos Douglass, a Id
ytur-ohi colored boy who yesterda;
shot nod killed Deputy Sheriff Cow
lett, who attempted- to levy upon i
- i..,.i. i.?i i 4.. '
(MiW 111*11 i?? i
mother, whs hanged 1?y a mo1? ami h
body riddled with bullets. Tin- mot Incut
the l>ody down.
The coroner's jury returned a ver
diet that the hoy came to Ins death a
the hands of persons unknown. Th
mother says she recognized some o
the slayers of lier son, and will prose
cute them vigorously.
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S("?f /? e' Hiaiory or Cor Ton Culture
in South Carolina.
'' Cotton was early sold in Charleston.
The packages in which it was put up
II varied in weight from one to thirty
a pounds. In 1787 the fleecy staple was
0 taken to the City by the Hen from
1 Orangeburg, Newberry, and, perhaps,
from Union, and sold at two pence a
'. pound to the merchants, who resold it
a mainly to the Indies to make "pnteh?
work bed-(piiIts." About the year
named two or three bags, each weighli
ing near a hundred pounds of seed
11 cotton worn psckod in the store of
s Wadsworth k Turpin by Samuel Mnv0
eiiek and JetTrey, a half-blood Indian,
a (This Mnveriek, by the way, claimed
1 to be the first person that made sugar
t in South Carolina. About the year
- 1800 ho planted somo ribbon cane,
t purchased in the IlavanR, in his lot to
i the east of the present orphan hei:;c.
, Jl yieidetl 800 pounds. The cane was
> pounded in a mortar and tho juice
boiled in iron pots.)
i These bags were sent to Kngland as
f a snmplo and an experiment. Tho
r i i
I..,. ..<n ... ?iioiii mey wero scm wroic
I that the nrticlc war not worth produc
ing, ah it could not be separated from
? the seed.
l> In 1794 Dr. James Otis Prentiss
? planted cotton for mnrket near Oraugoi
burg 0. H. Either in thnt year or the
next Col. William . Thomas, the Rcvo1
littionary soldier, planted cotton to
sell at Bellville, in St. Matthews
< parish. In 1790 cultivators of this
crop Appeared in Bcveral parts of the
1 State. Among them was Samuel
Felder, of Orangeburg. John Mnv?
rant and Asbury Sylvester first grew
I cotton in the high hills of the Santee
1 in the year 1798. A year Inter Ge*?
V;;do Hampton introduced the plant
into Hichlaud district; gathered over
000 bags from 000 acres.
1 General Hampton was the first man
1 in South Carolina to use water as the
propelling power of Whitney's cotton
gin. Fifty years ago Col. Wade Hampton
wrote Whitemarsh B. Seabrook:
"When Whitney's gin was exhibited in
i Georgia, none but women were permitted
to enter the room. An ingenious
mechanic at length introduced
himself into the apartment in woman's
apparel, and by a minute examination
of the machine, satisfied himself thnt
he could not only imitate but improve
on its construction by mnking it more
efficient. This discovery was communicated
to my father by General Gun,
who spoke so confidently of the capacity
of this individual that my father
was induced to visit him at his residence
in Georgia. Thia viait resulted
in a contract for threecrins, auuUciU>'il
to r large scale 01 operm ions, ann tney
were nnqucRtionaldy the first ever
driven l>y water-power."
It lias been written that General
Hampton's pins were furnished by an
ingenious artisan 01 Georgia ssisted
bv William Munson, of Richland.
These pins were roughly constructed;
still they were models for others made
in 1 SO 1 by William Munson and James
Roatwriglit, of Columbia. These were
the first of the new machines of home
manufacture. General Hampton was
not, however, the tirstto use the Whitney
gin in South Carolina. Capt.
James Kirkland, of Fairfield, put up
one near Montiecllo in 1795.
How to dispose of the cottonseed was
a perplexing problem to some of the
enrlv spinners. It was considered
worthless and carelessly thrown on the
grouud like sawdust. The hogs ate
the seed and died. Then it wns put
up in pens like shucks. The pigs got
the seeds out through the cracks and
soon went the way of their elders. As
a Inst resort, and hoping to get rid of
the "nuisance," the seed was dumped
into the creeks, but in low water an
odor was generated which was so offensive
ns to create a strong feeling of
prejudice against the further culture
of the crop.
The four of "overproduction" in no
new tiling. Ninety years ago an opinion
prevailed that the supply of cotton
would Hoon exceed the demand.
A planter at St. John's,Colleton, looking
at his first crop, the produce of a
few acres, after it had been houaed,
exclaimed; "Well, well, I am done
with the cultivation of cotton! Here
1 is enough cotton to make stockings
for all the people in America."
These items are taken from an essay
on the cotton plant written two score
and toil years ago by an Edieto Island
' planter, Whitmarah B. Seabrook,
afterwards governor of our State, whose
vcry words and sentences have been
freely used.?W. S. M., of CleniBoQ
College, S. C.
HOW SHE IS A MASON.
i Mrs. Lease Once Saw What Some One Said
Was an Initiation.
Oiwaoo, fnn.? Mrs. Mary Lease, of
1 KnuHiiH, xvns in the city en route to
I New York. She wan asked about her
Masonic connections and replied:
"When I was a girl of 16 I was 1 ivH
ing in Look port, N. Y.; a friend of
' mine, .vh:> w??.s a prominent Mason,
|Hit in niy \vny to witness Moaouic initiation,
and I saw the three degrees ad1
ministered to a candidate."
e "Were you admitted to the lodge
room."
"Xo. I was behind a door that had
a sliding wicket, in it, and I saw the
wnoie procedure through that wicket.
So you y.cc that is the way I became a
Marion, f.<r to be in possession of ths
i secrets of the craft ia to be a Mason."
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, RetJ/ci (he Acreage 20 Per Cent.
r The Fanners' State Agricultural So'
eiety of Alabama, which has been in
M inion nt ninuinghain, decided to recommend
to Alabama fnrmersthat they
' reduce the acreage of cotton 20 per
f cent., and to substitute for this rcrtuc'
tion crops that will supply home eon'
sumption, thus avoiding the tax of
transportation and other costs.
When the South's Money Goes.
Under the above howling the Savannah
News preaches a sermon against
the disposition of Southern people of
all classes, front cotton planters to cottou
commission merchants,to speculate
in cotton. The News very truly says
that speculating in cotton on the part
of Southern people is almost as much
a wnste of money as investing in lottery
tickets. Prices arc not regulated
by the law of supply and demand, except
in the long run covering a period
of years, when they uiojr move up or
down on a general average, as supply
and demand may regulate, but tho
speculator who attempts to iiiakemone}
on short-time operations iH very gen
erally left. The South annually dum| ?
into Wall street, milium of <lollnru <
good html money to pay for cotton
losses, and yefVGtlittle is lionrd of
it. It in within bounds to say that
within the hud twentyyearsthoSouth's
net losses on cotton speculations have
run u]> to a hundred million or more.
This money, had it been kept at. homo
and invested in development enterprises,
would hnve added vastly to the
wealth of the whole South, furnished
employment to many thousands of
hands and brought profit to those who
owned it. Producing as the South
does, not far from $2,000,000,000 of
agricultural,manufacturing and mining
products a year, thete ought to be a
very large surjdus, and this mirplur
will constantly increase as speculation
in cotton futures deereasen. ? Baltimore
Manufacturers Record.
The Real IMvi<l Prockclt.
Mrs. Ibbie Gordou, of GlarksTillc,
Texas, who was bom in 1805, was ones
l n...' l n ia- <
I J?f?".'UUCvU 1*7 lit vruuiioi v* JL7fscribing
the incident, she says: "It
was in the winter of 1831, not long
nfter Crockett liftd beon defeated lor
Congress in Tennessee. We hoard that
Crockett had crossed Red River, and
fearing that ho might not come
through Clarksville, but keep on the
old Trammcll trail, w> intended to
meet liini. .Tauc Eat i.ior, then a girl
of eighteen, rode behind me,and Betsy
Ea tinier followed on a pony. We
overtook Crockett and his party at the
house of Edward Pcen, about four
miles from Clarksville. It was early
in the morniug, and when Mrs. Peon
saw ?is she said : 'Mrs. Clark, what in
the name of Go I brings you hero at
this time of tho day?' *My liorsc
brought me.' I answered, and then i
told her I wanted some breakfast. We
went iuto the houses aiul a friend, who
had known Croekett in Tennessee, introduced
us. Crockett was dressed
like a gentleman, and not as a bnckskin
cap. It lias nl way ^disgusted me
to read these accounts of Crockett that
characterize him as a:i ignorant backwoodsman.
Neither in dress, conversation
nor bearing could he have created
the impression that he was ignorant
or uncouth. Ho was a man of wido
m-iw>ti<>al information and was diiriii
I . " ?
tied mid entertaining. His language
was about as good as any we bear nowadays."?Galveston
News.
Textile Industrial Supremacy.
Tn the trade reports of the week appears
an item to the effect that all the
cotton mills in North Carolina have
reported dividends of from 8 to 10 per
cent, on the operations of the past year.
This is nerving notice on New England
mill-owners that they have something
indeed to fear from Southern competition
in cotton manufacturing, and the
old claim of confidence is rudely disturbed
by the test of fact.
The Southern States have the cotton
and the right temperature. They have
the looniH and the factories. In Virginia,
the f'arolinnn nml Georgia the
mills have been running steadily, earning
handsome profits on the investment,
and the number of new enterprises on
the way is as startliugly suggestive to
the New England centres as tho continued
increase in furnaces in Alabama
and Tennessee is to the iron interests
of Pennsylvania. This is a change of
base on which there can be no tariff
discount. Textile manufacturing in
the South is now beyond the coarser
grades of goods and the iron industry
is keeping pace with the industrial development
of the day. ? Philadelphia
Times.
"Singing in the ?8 .'*
That unpleasant sensation known as
silivrilltr ill tho e?ir ironorn 11 v nvunllu
O O ?? - vnwu-o
from tho hardening of tho wax. It
may frequently be removed at once by
syringing the ear with a little warm*
soap and water or by dropping a little
glycerine oil into the ear at bedtime.
If these remedies do not answer, a
mustard poultice applied just behind
tho ear at bedtime, and ropeated, if
necessary, two or three nights, is an
almost certain cure. Chicago Herald.
Senator Cameron "In It."
BKArroRT, S. C. ? The State constables
seized two eases of choice
brandy consigned to Senator .T. I).
Cameron, St. Helena Island, from
Washington. The Senator is unfortunate,
as he has been getting his
cases all along unmolested and seemed
lulled into security by accustomed
escape from detection.
Senator Hill Not a Cunuidaii for Governor.
Amsterdam, N. Y.?Senator David
B. Hill has written a private letter,
Aaying that he was not and would not
be a gubernatorial candidate this
At the came time he expressed hie belief
that Gov. Flower would be renominated.
Gladstone Refused a Peerage.
London.? Mr. Glad atone dined with
the Queen, and recommended Lord
ltoaebery to Huccood him aa Premier.
He refnaed a peerage, offered by the
Queen.
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PITHY NEWS ITEMS
A. S. TompkinH.of Edgefield, S. C.,
has been appointed permanent receiver
for the Chester (S. C.) Mfg. Co.
The Newton, (N. C.) Cotton Mills
will be sold on April 2.
The *226 new looms of the Pneolet
(S. C.) Mill commenced running February
15th.
Tho burned lamp blneV factory at
Wilmington, N. C., is to be rebuilt.
A new factory in to 1?o built at StateBville,
N. C., 5} stories high.
Jackson Bros., of Salisbury, Md.,
have purchased n tract of about 20,000
acres of timber land in Halifax and
Noah counties, N. C. The tract, aa a
whole. i? estimated to cut IOO,tHJO,UOO
feet of pine lumber, oak and poplar.
A cotton mill ia proponed at Abbeville,
8. C., and stepa have been taken
to organize a company.
The Tugaloo Iron Works, capital
$12,000, has been organized at Abbeville,
8. C., where they, will establish
their plant.
A new flour mill iH being built at
Greenville, S. C.
Pennsylvania capitalists, now at
Newport News, Va.,nro said to be considering
the erection of a large tannery.
Contracts have been let for an Episcopal
church at Aahevillc, N. C., for
colored people to cost $8000.
It is announced that Philadelphia
capitalists have decided to erect a hotel
at Aslieville, N. C., to coat. $300,000
i and they iiave purchased sixty acres of
land for a site.
The Bedford City, Va.,Masonic lodge
will erect a building for a hall with
stores on the ground floor to cost
$6000.
A new college is to be erected at
uate Ulty, V it.
At Jacksonville, Fin., a building for
?public market is to be erected nt a
coat of between $f>0,()00 end ?75,000.
It will be about 150x200 feet and two
stories high.
The Methodists of Newberry, S. C.,
will build a new edifice.
The cnaea against Mitchell, Corbett
and the Duval Athletic club "were no!
protuted nt Jacksonville, Fin., Friday.
Janiea B. Crawley, who, five yeara
ago, murdered n man named Harris in
Beaufort county, N. C., has been
captured at Norfolk, Vn. He haa fully
AibUevmjtn? ltirfn." ?* --1Shady
Side plantation, near Franklin,
La., haa been purchased by Hon.
Taylor Beattie for $185,050. Shady
Side ia one of the fineat augar plantationa
in the State. It haa under cultivation
2">00 acres. Its yield for the
pant aeaaon wan in conjunction with
eane purchased, over (>,000,000 pounds
of sugar.
A movement ia on foot in favor of
building a railroad line from Charlotte,
N. C., to connect with the Georgia,
Carolina Ar Northern in Spartanburg
county, S. C.
The Richmond St Danville has cptabliahed
a Florida agency with headquarters
in Jacksonville. W. W. Davies
haa been appointed general Florida
agent, with W. L. Jones and E. B.
Wella, traveling passenger agents.
GEN JURAL A. EARLY DEAD.
He Met Death Unflinchingly and Crossed Over
the River to Rest Under the Shade
of the Trees.
LYNrHnrno, Va. ? United States
Senator John W. Daniel in a aad voice
announced that his old commander,
moil, judbi a. r.nriy, at whose bedside
he has been a constant watcher for
Home days, hml gone to liik eternal roi
ward.
Genernl Early died at 10:30. He
passed away quietly in the presence of
hi? family end physicians, his kindred
and several intimate friends. The old
general seemed aware of his approaching
end early in the day. Before noon
he called for the morning paper as was
his variable custom and attempted to
read, but found that his .dght was failing.
Soon after, In* extended his
hand to Senator Daniel and calmly
said: "I want to tell you good-bye,
major." Ho then told his nephew,
Cabell Early, farewell, after which he
dropped into a quiet slumber.
Later in the day the. dying veteran
asked Senator Daniel not to leave the
room, as he wanted to talk with him
about certain arrangements; but from
that time he suffered such intense pain
that he did not revive the subject. He
met death untlinehinirlv. with his hand
resting quietly in Senator Daniel's.
It is thought that Oon. Early has
left a good estate, though he was a man
of astonishing generosity especially
towards his numerous relations, and
needy ex-Confederates.
Cold Starting Europe-Ward.
Washinoton, I). C.?The Treasury
Department is informed that a million
and a quarter of gold was engaged in
New York Friday for export. The
gold is furnished hy the lmnks in NewYork.
The rat.'* of exchange now is
sufficiently high to permit gold to he
exported at a profit, and further exporation
of gold, if the present rate
keeps up, is expected.
Again in the Stockholders Hands.
WiNNSBono, S. C. On Thursday
A. (1. Hriee, of Chester, moved ho for*
Judge Watt* to hnvo the Cheater &
Choraw Railroad taken out of the hands
of the receiver, David Hemphill, of
Cheater, and returned into the hands
of the stock holders. Friday the motion
war granted.
THE PRESIDENTS EXPEDITION.
He Witnesses Seine Hauling by Steam on
the Coast of North Carolina and Mlso
Visits Points of Historic Interest.
Elizabeth, City, N. C.?President
Cleveland and party are moving still
further away from civilization. In
the morning the Violet was lying at
Long Point, near the foot of the Albemarle
and Chesapeake Canal. After
affording the party an opportunity to
try their skill on the ducks in the early
morning the little steamer hauled
up anchor and stood away to the
southward. She crossed Albcmnrlc
Hound and entered Croatnn Sound,
about thirty miles from tho morning's
starting point. Here the vessel anchored
and the party panned the night
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Sound light, which was close nt hand.
The presidential party did not try
their luck at gunning in the morning,
hut instead went on a sight-seeing hxpedition.
The President and Secretary
Gresham are early risers, and by
8 o'clock breakfast had been dispatched
and the members of the party begun
their trip. The first point of interest
was to see the seine hauling at
Weymouth, a point on the mainland.
The fisheries at this point are among
the most extensive on the Atlantic
const. Shnd and herring and striped
bnss or roach tish have already begun
their spring migration from the. deep
waters of the Atlantic to the spawning
grounds. They cuter the North Carolina
sounds of Wilmington and
through the inlet of Hatteras and at
Oregon ami New Inlet, and find their
spawning beds in the nr.riierousstrenms
running into the sounds from the
mainland. The President, Secretary
Gresham and Capt. Evans landed from
the Violet in a gig uml inspected the
workings of the Davis and Weymouth
fishery on C'roaton Sound. The tide
was favorable and the party was in
time to see one haul of the great seine.
This net is about two miles long and
owing to its great length and weight
is beyond the capacity of human labor
to handle; so a steamer is called upon.
The party saw the seine carefully
stowed on the stern of two steam
"fiats." as tliev are known. The lmniH
swept across the sound ami returned,
forming an almost circle and paying
out the Heine ah they ran. Reaching
shore the lines were attached to n
sichiii windlass and in the course of
an hoar the great seine was landed,
bringing in its meshes barrels of fish
of all kinds. The President was much
interested in the sight. Taking to
their gig again, the party then crosBed
the party visited some of the historic
points on the island, including Fort
Raleigh and Ballast Point, where Sir
Walter landed the ballast which lie
brought in his ship from England on
one of his ship voyages to the new
world. The President also stopped
for a time, at the quaint village of
Mantco, thus touching civilization for
the first time since leaving Washington
last Sunday.
7hey are Coming So /t.i.
(Springfield Republican.)
To those over-confident people who
have been claiming all along that New
England had nothing to fear from
Southern competition in cotton manufacturing,
the report of a correspondent
to the American Wool and Cotton
Reporter will prove disturbing. He
has been visiting the mills in Virginia,
the Carolina^ and Georgia, and tinda
them nearly all running on full time
and earning handsome profits on the
investment. Textile manufacturing in
h South has suffered less from the
depression than anywhere else, and
the number of new mills being built
and old ones extended is reported to
be surprisingly large. As to the
claim tlmt the South will never get beyond
the manufacture of the conrser
grades of cotton goods, this correspondent
notes a steady tendency
everywhere toward the manufactureof
the finer grades. It is stated that
nearly all the cotton mills in North
Carolina have reported dividends of
from 8 to 1 (5 per cent, on the operations
of the pa?i year.
A Prosperous Southern Road.
Tho Georgia, Carolina & Northern
is one of the Southern linen whie/i surprises
the Northern visitor who goes
over it for the first time. There are
few trunk lines in the country which
ere in superior in point of construction.
The roadbed, which extends
from Monroe, N. C., to Atlanta, Gh.,
is Isid with heavy steel railH, is well
ballasted and bridges and culverts are
all of mason work and iron. As a result
very fast time is made, and the
passenger service furnished is of the
beat. The management, like that of
the other Seaboard Air Line roads, is
composed of capable practical railroad
men who see that every detail in operation
and maintenance of way is carefully
attended to.
A New Railroad Scheme.
A dispatch from Middlcsborouch.
Cy., Mutes that the scheme to give that
section a seaboard outlet. * TV?ri
Royal, S. C., lias l>een revived, and
that Clarence Cary, receiver of the
Knoxville, Cumberland (lap k Louisville
road, is interested in it. The
connection if made would be by way
of the Knoxville, Cumberland Clap k
Louisville, the Port Royal k Augusta
and some other line yet to be deter
mined.
Senator Vance Much Better A Still Mending
Livf. Oak, Fi.a.- The healing waters
of Suwance Springs have made a marked
change fur the better in the condition
of Senator Vance's health, lie
is much better and improving daily.
4 Woman Son da Nor Photograph to tho Solicitor
a$ Proof that Sho it Still A lire
Aikf.n, 8. C.?A Kershaw county
mystery is about to be solved. A white
w man, who was thought to bo mnrd
red, is alive in Aiken county. Ann
Wright, the woman in question, iH livinrr
nn Mr. MnrirHn Fox's dIhpp. in tho
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upper portion of this coiint*i suit ?!;?
was in Aiken iast Wednesday to have a
photograph taken to send to Solicitor
Nelson to prove thot she is still alive.
She came to this county last January
1, accompanied by two women, one
white and the other colored, and four
colored ihen. They came from Westville,
Kershaw county. The women
stopped in thi? county, but the men
went on to Georgia to work on a railroad.
Ann Wright's sudden disappearance
with the negro men led to the
rumor that she had been murdered and
her dead body concealed. Two colored
men were arrested in Kershaw couuty
and lodged in jail, charged with being
accessories to the murder of this woman.
In order to prove their innocence
their friends have been trying to
locate Ann Wright, and by corresponding
with the men who accompanied her
to this county learned her whereabouts.
Solicitor Nelson would not accept their
letters ns positive proof of Ann's being
alive, but demanded that alio either
come in person or send a photograph
of herself. Sheriff Alderman, of Aiken
county, was communicated with, and
he had the woman come to the city and
have her photograph taken and sent, it
to Solicitor Koinoii. This will probably
satisfy him of the innocence of tho
two colored prisoners.
The Sojth Steps in Front.
Among the most famous of New England's
fine spinning mills are the Hadley
Mills, of Massachusetts, with 50,000
spindles. Their products for tho
mini iweniy years nave ueen sept ho in
ahead of actual manufacture. T. C.
Pcgram, secretary and treasurer of the
Trenton Mills, has received from a
commission merchant Home samples of
skein yarns from the Hadley Mills.
They were two-ply 30s, and were placed
sido hy side with the two-ply 30k of
the Trenton Mills. The product of tho
Trenton compares most favorably with
that of the famoiiR New England mills.
In fact all the novices who examined
the samples gave the Trenton samples
the verdict of superiority without
knowing what mills either sample was
from. It would take an expert in tcxrunning
twenty years and the Trenton
hardly so many days, the character of
its product becomes something to bo
proud of. ? Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette.
Burned His Pos toff ice.
SrMTKH, 8. C. ? Henry Timlal, colored,
ex-postmaster at Packsville, 8.
0., whs arrested in this city under tho
charge of robbing and then burning
the postoflSceat the place above named.
When Tindal'a successor was appointed
there wns on hand in the postoftice
about six hundred dollars in each.
The night before he was to turn over
the office and books to his successor
the building whs burned, and ho
claimed it was the work of an incendiary,
and ail the books and money and
office furniture had been destroyed.
The suspicions of the citizens were
aroused, and every effort was made to
bring the guilty party or parties (for it
is asserted that there is an organized
gang of thieves and plunderers thereabout)
to justice. It is believed that
evidence sufficient to convict Tindal
and some of his pals has been secured.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. )
The Senate.
47th Day.?The Senate Foroign Relation^
Committee, by its Chairman, Mr. Morgan,
presented the report on the Hawaiian invest legation.
4Sth Day.?Only routine business was
transacted in order to secure early adjournment.
so that the Democratic Senators
might attend the caucus.
40th Day.?Mr. Frye made an attack 011
the President's Hawaiian policy. ? - TI10
open session lasted for two hours, an executive
session occupied nearly half an hour,
and then came an adjournment.
m?th uay.? air. rryo conciuaeu iiih speeon
ou tho Hawaiian testimony, after which tho
Senate took up the bill for the erection of a
Government printing office, ns unfinished
business. This furnished Mr, Dolph a pretext
for a speech on the tariff, which merged
Into a personal debate between him an I Mr,
Allen.
The House.
CiOth Day.?Tho day was consumed In aU
ineffectual effort to get a quorum to consider
the Dtand seigniorage bill.
61kt Dat.?Mr. Bland receded from his
positIod, and his Silver seigniorage bill was
considered lu Committee of the Whole.
The House took the Anti-Option bill from
the Ways and Means Committee and roferred
it to Mr. Hatch's Committee o?> 4grleuiiure.
Mr. Catu'uings, ot the Rules Committee,
introduced a resolution looking to the fining
of filibuster*.
621) Day.?Mr. Homers, of Wisconsin, introduced
resolutions for an Inquiry into the
actions of United Statea Judges Brewar,
Taft, Dundy, Beatty, Pardee and Ricks in
cases involving the rights of laboring meu.
Mr. Bland's Silver seigniorage bill was
considered in Committee of the Whole.
63d Day.?After a period of filibustering,
extending over two weeks, a quorum w.i*
secured to vote upon the question of considering
the Bland seigniorage bill and to
doje general debate thereon at a specified
time, the vote being yeas 177, nays v. The
quorum, however, disappeared when it was
iumii|iiuu iv jut** ho oruor reporcvu vy inv
Committee on Rules, making the bill the
pending question to the exclusion of other
business, and limiting debate, both general
and under the flve-mlnute rule, to tiro hours.
The vote on this was three short of a quorum.
This being shown, the Houso adjourned.
64th Day. Mr. Bland's bill for the coinage
of the silver bullion In the Treasury was
passed by a vote ol 167 to 130. The House
also passed the bill appropriating 40,000 to
raise the wreck of the Kenrsarge.
65th Day.?Representatives Merodith and
Funk tried to have a flat light, but wrero
parted boforo blood wfts drawn. The For,
intention bill, appropriating over f2,000,000,
IfMjMUMd, The Tension bill was passed,
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