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THE WEEKLYflftBDNIQE TIMES 1
... *> DeeoteA to Agrieulture, Eortteulture, Demeetic Ftonoin y, Polite L '
VOL. XXV.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MARCH 2.1,1894. NUMBER 12. f
Marriages are proportionately about
trrico an numerous in small Western
cities as in New York.
Siuee 1840 tlio world's production
of meat lias increased fifty-seven per
cent., that of grain 420 per cent.
The Paris Hieele says that Englnnd
nets ns though it owned the world,
and that it is about time for an explanation.
The Chicago Evening Post says that
"Chicago policemen do less work for
inoro pay than any other elsss of the
un*mnl<vr?d."
Tht signs of the times point, iu the
opinion of the Electrieal Review, to renewed
activity in electrical circles.
Improvement and extension of electric
lighting plants ami installation of nonelectric
railways aro leading features i
in this movement.
Aitcr n care.ul calculation ol tirj
risks from all possible data thy Jjou- '
don life insurance companies havo j
fixed the "war risks" to bo pai.l extra ,
by their patrons ordered on aetivo <
service at $2.10 per 85i)). That is to <
say, tho British soldier has but about j
uuo chance in 250 more of dying mi ,
uci.it e service, than if ho staid quietly
at homo in Loudon. <
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Chicago is worried over tho fact (
that so many of its streets and avenues '
have tho same names, notes tho New \
Orleans Picayune. One hundred and i
sixty-live names have to do duty for
720 streets, and the result is not
wholly satisfactory. It has twelve .
Centre nlreets, seven Ashland avcnues,
seven Chestnut streets, ten Lin- f
dcii streets, thirteen Oak streets, thir- 1
teen ?Jf.rk streets and fourteen Wash- ^
ingtou streets, besides a number ]
which are less reduplicated. (
A few yearn ago, relates tho New i
Orleans Picayune, tUo Mikado ol 1
Japan determined to ask bis people to
help biin govern them, an 1 with a 1
flourish of trumpets called for an elec- t
tion and organised a parliament. Lata ^
reports from that country say tint
now ho it> having a hard time to manege
the popular representative:). Not |
long ago the conservative majority ex- ]
pelled the President, Hoshi, bes.urij
he insisted in keeping faith with for- '
eign powers. Then Foreign Minister '
Mit-m made them an add re is, sli >.viu ? '
that the course of the majority woul 1
result in losing everything that Japan ^
had gained in thirty years, but they '
would not listen to reason, and the \
KPQMtaitt un< unaiu vidnrl fur ion <luvu Ti 1
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is said that the doings of the Japanese !
parliament would furnish first rate material
for a comic opera. Tlio ministers
attend the sessions with orders for
the suspei^sion of parliament ready
signed and sealed l?y the Emperor in
their pockets, and when the body becomes
unruly the orders are producod,
and the session suspended for ten days
or a fortnight. Tho majority of the ,
members nro intensely Japanese, op- l
posed to everything foreign, an 1 they 1
have no idea of parliamentary pro* J
ceedure. It is said that the Mikado .
line uf .1 p i ml > nwiiroannnf it-li ml> in e11 p. > t
to give him u good deal of trouble ultima
t e 1
For several years past au I probably
for several years to com*', predicts the
New York Independent, tho news
which will tell most in th ; world's future
history is that which comes from
Africa. During th*J past week there
has been uu important new chapter
added to this history. A French
military force has eutere 1 Timbuctoo
in the very interior an l most ina>
; t- I _ A e A I, Ct A 1 At t
cessions purr 01 rne nonm nanaro i
neighborhood. Franco proposes to '
control the whole of this territory, '
and she reaches Timbuotoo from the
north by way of Algeria and from tlu ,
west by way of Senegal. Tiinbuetoo |
has been an almost unknown city. '
visited very rarely, an 1 geuerally by
Europeans only in disguiso. The information
is too moagro as yet for us
to understand tho full meaning of this 7
occupation. So far as wo know tho
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iuiuu is u nut 111 IIUC) iiU'l u M.ll 111 lore J
coulil hiivc 110 chance in case o" oppv .
eiiiou. Wo have no question thai <]
France intends to mako Timbuctoo u r
great centre for its influence ami *
power, nor that Northwest Africa will
bo finally under French control. It i*
often said, ami truly said, that France
fcas shown no great aptitude for colo \
r>i#?l entcrpi i?es owing to a lack of ?nr- j
plus population. But she has put t
Algeria under civilized conditions,
and Frenchmen may multiply more
rapidly in the colonies tu 111 they do
in their own country. The partition
of Africa will afford a great outlet for ^
Fnropern population and enterprise R
and will have a great influence on Un o
world 1
CIGAR-V'XCnS KICKING.
Against Increasing the Internal Revenue
Tax on Cigars to $5 Per 1,000.
Washington, D. O.?Representatives
of about three-fourths of the
cigar manufacturers of this country
met at theShorelirm to frame a protest
against the proposed increase of the
internal revenue tax from $3 to $o per
thousand on cigars. These delegates
represent about 300,000 working people,
who, they claim, will suft'er greatly,
together with the consumers and themselves,
if this disproportionate increase
of 09 2 3 per cent is levied. The cigar
industries suffered a" csmiuiouh decrease
last year which the makers attribute
partly to excessive taxation.
A committee of these delegates will
wait on _ thy beualc committee to pro
1 ??t nntn*r^f.* tHj ? .1.-1 ? ?
claim will increase the price of the
eheuper grades of cigars about 50 |?er
cent., and affect the higher grades very
little.
Railroads vs Melon Growers.
The trouble between the railroads
and melon growers is not confined to
South Carolina says the Charleston
News and Courier. Agriculturists of
Wicomico county, on the eastern shore
r>f Maryland, are loud in their complaints.
The melon growers and the
railway company Hint carries the melons
to market have long quarrelled
over the question of freights, and tho
sompany Iuih refused to grant what the
growers esteem an essential concession.
Some of the growers any they will
Liaiisport their melons solely by water,
nhile others will plant no melon seed,
>r only enough to yield melons for
home consumption. Wicomico county
has hitherto been an important mel)U
growing district, and its melons
usually come into market hard upon
lmnlB nf ilin nrnii ffnrn
region.
Free Information for Farmers.
Washington. 1). C ? The United
Hates Department of Agriculture is
ibout to issue 11 farmers' bulletin on
'ertilizers for cotton. This bulletin
ins been prepared by I)r. J M. McBrytle,
prcHident of the Virginia Agricultural
College and director of the
Virginia experiment station, and gives
i concise account of numerous experiments
with fertilizers on cotton
nade under his supervision in South
Carolina. It ulso contains directions
is to the selection, compounding, and
ipplication of fertilizers for this ciop.
the bulletin will be sent on npplic*.ion
to the Secretary of Agricnltnre,
SVashington, D. C.
Foreign Notes of Real Interest.
M. Carnot completes his term of office
ah President of the French republic
on Dec. 3 next.
A Mr. Samuel Lewis is said to have
won over $80,000 at treiite et quaranto
*t Monte Carlo in four days recently.
Another player, a Hungarian, won
130,000 there in one day l ist month.
The gold product of Went Australia
last year whh double that of the previous
twelve montliN. The total export
For the year was 110,391 ounces. The
prospects for the present year are most
promising.
Johanti Strauss, the celebrated compower
of waits music, is shortly to celebrate
his artistic jubilee in Vienna. Ho
rondo his debut in 1814 at the head of
i dance band in the gardens attached
to a Viennese restaurant.
$33,400 for the Cherokvo Indians.
Washington, 1). C.?The Secretary
of the Treasury transmits to Congrei
a communication from the Secretary o
the Interior substituting for the appro
priation in the Indian bill r. more lib
pral provision for the North CarolinCherokee
training school. The forme,
item was $1 4,050; tin- latb-r is $33, 100
Two hundred pupils are to have $10*.
3aeh and $3,000 is to be expended foi
4 largo two-story log school hoitso re
jomniended l>v Superintendent Pottoi
*nd Commissioner Browning. The In
liana are to bring the loga. Mr. Pot
tor recommends the education of 25(
>f the 400 full-blood Chorokces nov
ready to rooeivo instruction. The pros
?.nt rotten building only accommodate:
HO. Ho snys tlint for the brat tim?
these Indians are taking interest ii.
education.
The German Government to Coin SilverVe/.lin,
Germany. ? In the Bunlesroth,
Chancellor Von Caprivi Hub
nittod a proposition for the eoinnce of
11,000,000 marks in rive murk pieces,
7,000,000 marks in two ninrk pieces,
mil 4,000,000, murks in one innrk
>ieees. The chancellor stated that, thr
proposal was made because of the in
reused demand for sneh coins and
dso because the coinage of silver had
alien below the authorized limit, 22,>00,01)0
marks.
rhe Commons Vote to Deprive the Lords of
the Veto Po^er.
London. ? The House of Commons
>y x vote of 147 t" 14." Las passed 7>Ir.
jabouehere's ntnendment to the adIress
in reply to the Queen's speech
ccomuicndiug the abolitinn of the veo
power of the House of Lords.
Bank of Chester Fails.
Chester, S. C.?The Bank of Cheaer
made an assign me ut. Tuesday morn
uh to J J. Hemphill HMfl .r. L. Glenn,
["he hank is the wucocssor of the Nniou?l
Bauk of Chester. ?T. MeLure
s president iiud i>. Hemphill enrhier.
Killei By Electricity.
Arthur L. Itccse whs "electrocuted"
11 n Methodst Chureli nt Sparrows*
*oint, Md., Monday while preparing
ppni atiiR l?y which to deliver a lecture
11 electricity before nu Kpworth
jORgue Meeting.
Torn by a Florida Fisherman.
(From the Washington Post.)
"It is well worth n trip to the North
Carolina coast," said Col. Keogh of
thnt State, "to nee the operations of
one of the l?ig seines in the waters
along Albemarle or Pamlico Sound.
And what enormous takes are frequent
iv innue?narrcnuis ?i ncrring at. h
single haul!"
"Abundant hh the finny tribe iH in
tlie North Carolina watera," said Col.
Walter It. Evans of Florida, who had
been batoning to Col. Keogh, "it ih
not till you get dywn into inv country
that you find fish i?> !nv!t! ".dinC/Uo
14.ua.11 titles, ho to speak. In the Indian
Kivcr, particularly, they are too thick
for the comfort of tho fishermen, and
often embarrass him by their rodundi1^
nu^ *?* *****'
night and a party of ub were on tho
river in a good-sized sloop after big
fish. We had not been long anchored,
when the light in our boat began to attract
schools of mullet, and into that
craft they jumped by the hundreds.
Yes, thousands. Well, we stood it for
a while, till tho burden not too lieavv.
ami we felt the boat beginning to sink.
Then hurriodly blowing out tlie ligbta
and pulling anchor we made for the
shore. I am positive if we hud let
those fish keep on piling into ua they
would have carried all hands down to
a watery grave. Aa it waa we made n
narrow escape."
A Boy Kills His Brother.
The Newbern, N. C., Journal tells
of a tragedy at Fort Barnwell, Craven
county, last Thursday. James Russell,
aged 21, persisted in using a horse
collar which his brother John, aged
10, forbade his using. After hot word
John went to the house, fired a load ol
bird shot out of his gun, loaded it
with buckshot and sought James,
threatening to kill him. The latter
presented his breast and teld him to .
shoot. John attemped to fire, the csp
popped but no discharge followed.
James then slightly advanced toward
John, who then with an oath remarked
he'd shoot him anyway, and filed the
other barrel. The load took effect at
the knee, an nrterv was severed ?n<l
tlio yooug man died in two hours. The
slider fled The father of the young
men is a prominent citizen, and was 1
Democratic candidate for the Legis- 1
lature in Craven in 1888
A Sojthorn Prison Wan tod.
Mac9n, Ga??In their preecntav^^
to the United States Court here thi.
grand jury made an important recommendation.
Itwas that there should be 1
a government prison ia 4he Southern 1
States Tlu-y recommended the govern- '
inciit property near Augusta, Ga., as a
suitable site All government prisoners
have now to be carried to Colum- i
bus, Ohio. The grand jury thought ]
that men taken there from the South 1
suflered from the severity of the ]
climate, citing instances of the huf- i
fering of many prisoners sent there. <
The recommendation is looked upon 1
with favor here.
A Gang of Tramps Captire a Train.
San Antonio, Tf.x. ? An east-bourn
freight train on the Southern Facile
whh captured by n gang of .'10 tramp!
or unemployed workingmen west o
Marfa, and when they were ordered t.
leave the train by the conductor tie
men refused to do so and became ver;
insolent in their language. The sherii
of PrFKitlin PnltTilv wnc fplorrnmlwul 4)??
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situation nn<l asked to afford the trail
protection. When the train arrive*
at Marfa, the sheriff anil a lnrge poss
of deputies met it and placed all of th
tramps under arrctt.
A New National Bank.
Washington, I). C.?Representative i
Alexander tiled the application of tin
following for a charter for the Firm
National Hank of Wadesboro, N. 0.:
Jan. A. Leak (who will he president);
Chan. M. Burns, cashier; and W. C.
Hnrdisoti, W. P. Parsons, J. L>. Home,
L. J. Huntley, J. T. Bradley, T. S
Covington, K. W. Ashcraft, J. i)
Leak Capital stock $50,000
Tobacco Culture in Fairfield County, S. C.
VINNSIJOnO, ?. i;. ? (i 1). PittH, oi
northern North Carolina, is in the
county organizing clubs for the intra
duction of tobacco culture. He will
organize all over the county and himself
personally oversee and inspect
from time to time the progress of the
crops. It is expected that this will (
soon become a substantial crop iD this |
county.
Wholesale Chicken Raising. ,
L. S. Wood and John Ellisare goine
into poultry-breeding near Newbern.
N\ C., ou a large scale. 15 acres art
to be demoted to the purpose aud the}
ire to raise teu or twelve breeds ol
hickens of the leading varieties ie
separate pens. In addition to tht J
breeding pens of high-claps birds they
will keep 501) brown Leghorns for eggs (
A Double Funeral.
Covington, Va.?Mrs. V. W. An- j
derson and child, who were drowned {
Saturday were buried Sunday. Dr. ]
Anderson is greatly depressed by his >
J froubles, and his condition is very ]
rieriuun. j ]
uciih of a Soldier Preacher. \ >
New Orleans.?Rev. l">r. T. R '
Murkhftti). one of the l>est known Pres- ?
I bvterisn divines in tho South, died ni *
midnight. He was 11 veteran of th/
I Civil War. (
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Iilar Has a Big Majority in Charleston.
Charleston, S. ?T zinc's majority >
in Charleston is 1,800. 'JCliis willl
jtrohnhly overcome any majority I r
| iiyiiinst him in the country, I ,
PITHY NEWS ITEMS
A casino building is to be erected At
Columbia, 8. C.
A $7,000 coflin manufactory is being
started at Gastonin, N. C.
Three tobacco factpries are being
erected ut Mt. Airy, N. C.
A new gold mine is to be opened
near Mouroe, N. O.
*
Worth of Wilmington, in preparing
to erect an ice plant at Rocky Mt., N. C.
New lumber sTi'in aie lo be erected
at Charleaton, S. C. ^
The Charlottesville^ Va., electric
light works were burned; loss $18,000.
^ Water works are to be built at FsrmThe
Pacolet (8. C.) mills have
placed their orders for 2000 Dew spindles,
216 looms and a slasher.
The Buffalo Shoals Mfg. Co., Buffalo
Shoals, near Shelby, N. C., have
their mill built up, ready for the roof.
A new $50,000 banking company
has been organized at Charleston, 8.
( ! .T Wpuinnnf rtronirlont
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70 men will be employed-at Staunton,
Va., iu the bark extract workB
resumed there.
A #15,000 company to sort and sell
ponuuts has been started at Petersburg,
Va.
A*-Carbonton, N. C., the coal mines
have been opened for the first time
since the war.- *
The Abbeville Cotton Mills Co. has
been organized at Abbeville, 8. C.,
capital 8100,000.
810,000 will be spent, under direction
of Monsignor Quigley in complc
ting the new Cathedral at Charleston,
8. C.
Tk? oi i..? xr/_ r>
x uc vuri i?i\i.c i hi in " ?.
p?uy oi Biacksburg, S. C.,will enlarge
it-H capacity l?y the addition of 100
looma to its plant.
There ia going to be put up near
King's Mountain another cotton mill,
foundations of which have been commenced.
Rudolph Seigling, of Charleston, S.
U., died Wednesday morning, of paralysis,
aged 54 years. He had been a
Confederate soldier, was president of
the Bank of Charleston and of the
News and Courier Company.
Jerry HorJ- >ek, or^pdemned for ^
killing a const aide, whs hanged in
Berkley county, S. C., jail. He made
a futile attempt to cut his throat with
a piece of tin in the morning, and
died protesting that his act was in selfdefence.
The Wilmington (N. C.) cotton
mill's new boiler plant has been completed.
The pew boiler is the latest
type of tho water-tube pattern, of 300
horse-power. This mill manufactures
colored cotton goods. Its equipment
L'onsists of 7,000 spindles and 227
looms. W. A. French is presideut of
the company.
Grand Master of MaRonsof Georgia,
Hon. Jno. S. Davidson, is dead.
Chas. C. Culp, a prominent member
of the Union, S. C., bar, died
while sitting in the court room there,
listening to a speech, last Saturday
night.
Fifteen young \v?..nen of Vnssar College
have joined the Salvation army.
They nre of aristocratic families, an/
their action has caused a great deal J
talk in the college.
W. L. Kennedy, of Falling Creek,
Lenoir county, N. (!., has a cow that
yields '1 lbs, 2 J o/s. of hotter daily
President Winston expects to see 500
students at the summer normal at the
North Carolina University.
The Brazilian insurgents hnve deserted
their cause,and the government
ih innsuT 01 i nc ntiu. ine war n
ended.
The R. & D. R. R. and the F. C. A
P. R. R. will construct a new joint
passenger depot at the east side of
Columbia, S. C.
At a Republican primary hold in
the Knoxvillc, Tenn. district Chancellor
Henry R. dilmon was nominated
for Congress, defeating John C. Houck,
present incumbent by 1,000 majority.
Exhaustive experiments in tho cultivation
of ten nre soon to be made in4
Russia. The Czar is personally inter
ested in the plan, and experts aro ar
ranging for the cultivation of the plant
in the western limits of the Caucasus,
where the temporaturo is much th?
?" ?*" mat iu n iih1i tu? pianl grOWJ
in China
The P.a.d Trust.
A big meeting of the Coos Export
in<l Commission Company was held at
Greensboro, N. C., Tuesday, it ivaa
tnc of ?-pe ial importance,but as usual
lothing is given out for publication,
rbe following gentlemen were present:
f. H. Ferree and 8. Bryant,of Randlenun;
B. F. Mebane, New York; R. L.
Steele, Sr., and w. L. Steele, Jr.,
Rockingham; J. H. Davidson, Gibsonrille;
?T. S Scott,J. L.Scott and L. B.
iolt, Graham; B S. Robertson, Kaw
River: J. H Holt.Sr..E. C. Holt ?. If.
ioit and J. H Holt, Jr., Burliugtou;
iV. E. Holt, of Lexington; W.-H. Wiliamson.of
Graham;Tbos. M. Holt,Jr.,
tad R. L. Holt of Burliugtou; James
Willinmsoii. of Graham; W. E.
iVhitr, of Me bane; W R. and J. M.
>dell, of Concord; G. W. Williams,
iml L F. Woodurff, of Columbus,
Ja; Messrs. Oresar, H. N. and Mosos
Ff. Cone, of New York, and Hal M.
Vorth, of Asheboro.
A resolution was adopted that the
nills composing the association aro
lot to shut down.
THE NICARAGUAN CANAL
SHALL IT BE CONSTRUCTED BY THE AID
OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT?
The Views of the Governors of Virginia and
the Carolinas on the Question.
rno Manufacturers' Kecord recently
asked the governor of each State in the
Union for an expression of opinion on
he question of national aid in order to
secure the building of the canal. The
replica received indicate that, the in:
portsr.ee ot the cnnal ia fully appreciated.
and that the majority of those who
have answered are in favor of Rational
nosistance, provided it can be given
without enriching private individuals
at the expense of the country.
^ * Tiaotma.
uovernor's Office.
Richmond, Va., February 8.
I believe the building of the proponed
Nicaragua Canal is a scheme
worth of consideration in all business
sud commercial circles, but while a
member of Congress I opposed government
aid in building the same, either
ilipPftflv iiP llV Iho miviiriimont itvolriti/v
itself liable by endorsing the bonds of
the company. I have not changed m;
VJPWS. CHAS. T. O'FERRALL,
Governor of Virginia.
NORTH CAROLINA,
Executive Department.
Raleigh, N. 0., February 9.
Replying to your favor asking my
views in regard to the proposed NicaiHguft
Canal upon the following points,
viz: 1. The necessity of the canal and
its influence upon the development of
our country. 2. Ought the Unitod
States to aid in the construction of the
eanal? I would state: 1. The opening
of the Nicaragua Canal would, in
my opinion, be a great stimulus to the
material development of the entire
country, and especially the Southern
States. The general effect upon the
commerce of the country can hardly be
estimated. 2 The United States government
should by all means aid in
the construction of this canal to the
extent of making it the highway of
comnierco between the two grent
oceans, and own enough stock in the
company at nil timcR to be able to cou
trol it. I am heartily in favor of its
construction both in relation to promotion
of commerce between the States
and for the purpose of national defence.
Elias Carr,
Uovernor of Nortli Carolina.
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south carolina.
Executive Chamber.
Columbia, S. C., March 3.
Yours asking "a brief expression of
opinion upon the importance of the
early completion of the Nicaraguan
Oaual, and as to whether the government
should or should not give financial
aid to it," reached me yesterday.
To the first proposition I presume
there can be but one answer from any
intelligent, progressive man. The canal,
which w ill give the means of transporting
vessels across or through the
isthmus which divides North and South
America, must necessarily be as great
boon to commerce as the Suez Canal,
and the Nicaraguan Canal will become
more ami more valuable as the western
slopes of North America become thickly
peopled. To the people of the MisSiOBl
ppi valley and the entire south Atlantic
slope the advantages and possibility
it offers are iiiestimable. Now,
as to whether the government should
lend aid or not will depend upon the
conditions of the grant. If we are to
have a repetition of the steals perpetrated
in connection with the Pacific
railroads I should oppose Congress
lending any nid, hut with the proper
precautions to prevent jobbery and
guarantees against robbery, I think
Congress can do no better than assist
in joining the wnters of the Atlantic
and the Pacific by means of this contemplated
waterway.
B. R. Tillman,
Governor of South Carolina.
Duck Night at f wells,
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Duck night nt Swell's store, down
ou tho Virginia coast near the North
Carolina line, is locally famous in the
ducking season as the special night in
the week when the storekeeper is at
home to the duck hunters of the region
Ewell buys the ducks of tho hunters,
paying for the game in goods from his
store, and shipping his purchases to an
up-coast life-saving station, whence
they find their way to the markets of
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New
York. As Ewell waits behind his
counter with a lantern, tho duckers,
rude-looking fellows of the beachcomber
type, drop in one by one and
sit around in the gloom. Ewell hangs
the game in a cold room Bt the rear of
the store and credits each ducker with
the agreed value of his ducks As each
transaction is made the ducker recalls
something that he needs from the merchant's
stock, and when he has received
the article the price is debited against
his credit. The ducker then relapses
to the nearest barrel or box and waits
until some other needed article shall
occur to hi* mind. He then makes
the new demand upon the merchant,
has a new debit placed against his
credit, and again slinks back into the
gloom. After fully two hours ot this
sort ot thing, those who wish the balance
of their credit paid in cash receive
their Jues, aud everybody cautiously
repairs to a hollow tree hard by, where
moonshiners from over the North Carolina
line are waiting with a fiery article
of untaxed liquor, and the heart
of the ducker is made glad
Left His Party.
Roanokk, Va.?Colonel John Hampton
Hoge has renounced his allegiance
to tho Democratic party and appeared
before the Republican city committee
and tendered his services to thut party.
CLARA BARTON S WORN.
The Red Cross has Nearly Accomplished the
Relief of the Sea Islands. I
CharijK.ston, S. O.?Hero is a letter <
from Clara Barton, president of American
National Red Cross Association,
loaching on her work in the Sea Island
region of South Carolina, which
was devastated by last August's cyclone. !
The letter is dated February 23rd and
is addressed "To our Generous Friends,
the Public," aa follows*
On the first day of October, 1893,
we accepted the sacred trust of taking 1
care oi the Sea Islands of South Caro*
Una, storm-wrecked by the cyclone of .<
August 27 From time to time we have \
issued statements of the conditions of
the people and the progress of relief.
January 1st, wa published nnr Midfiebl _
report, giving an accurate exposition
of f lit' fiolil ' ihii cf dfonir nfe tlioroi 11 nmi
twined spe^k for themselves. To-day
wo issue this statement, which we trust
will be as gratifying to the friends of
humanity to receive as it is for us to
givo.
When ws accepted control of this
most difficult of relief Holds the coun11y
was in the midst of a universal depression,
both financially and in business
circles, unknown in its history.
It has been under these circumstances
that the great hearted humanity of our
people has been tested. In the face of
destitution and suffering at their own
loors thsy h?ve put ilu-ir shoulders to
the wheel for this distant and often
poorly comprehended field If something
of this has been due to the symbol
that represents us, the name and
insignia under which our friends have i
known us and learned to judge our
wotk and fitncsB for it; if the seeds of
confidence sown in the toilsome furrows
of many another field have borne <
fruit on this, then God be praised foi
past endeavor.
To these friends, tried r%ud true, who
have made success possible, to nil lov i
?-rs of humanity who nrc still struggling
with tne great questions of relict
at homo, and yet straining every nerv? (
to administer to the necessities of tli?
poor in the Sea Islands, we come with
loving greeting to state this cheering
fact, that although our ration lists are
for a time increasing, although then
are stern duties to be performed, w?
feel that in view of so mueh suffering
all over the length and bredth of the
country, that as we have an almost perfect
system of relief, thereby producing
the greatest amount of good with <
the smallest amount of money; that as
we, on thia field, are not dependent j
upon tariff legislation or the ponder- i
ous machinery of commerce to end this
distress, but directly upon that great <
unfailing Power that briugeth seed i
time and harvest, that we will from
this day undertake to carry the bur- ,
dens of this relief on our own shoulders,
using the funds already entrusted
to our rare as far as they will go, and
our own funds after that, when necessary,
and will ask our frienda to use
the money and material which they ,
had intended for us on this field to re
neve distress ami suffering in then
own cities, towns and villages.
Ander^o"), S. C.
Anderson county, 8. C., produces
about 60,000 to 70,000 bales of cotton
annually. Of this about 20,000 bales
are annually marketed in the town of i
Anderson, where there is but one cotton
mill, cousumiug about $5,000
bales. The cotton produced in this
section is of the best grade of uplands,
owing in the maiu, perhaps, to its being
harvested by white farmers or undor
their immediate supervision.
There is just now a particularly good
opening at Anderson for two or more
eottou mills owing to their capacity.
There is not only the cotton that is
annually marketed there, but with
railroads running in every direction',
could be transported from all the ad
joining counties. The same railroads
offer facilities for shipping the manufactured
goods either southward to
Charleston, Port Royal or Savannah,
eastward to ttie cities and seaports of
the North and East, or westward
through Atlanta. But the oliief advantage
just now offered by this locality
is that a company in being organized
to bring into the city from 5,000
to 8,000-horae power of electrical motive
power from a neighboring river
for all industries that may require it.
All it requires to make it reasonably
sure is that at least 500 of its horse
power, in addition to to that nlready
spoken for, should be taken up or engaged.
B. F. W.
Arrested on Suspicion That He Murdered His
Wife.
Winston, N. C.?Mrs. J. T. Roach
was found dead in her house at Pilot
Mountain Thursday night. Her husband
gave the alarm, saying that she
had shot herself with n. nifitol . tk<,
husband and wife were not living together
amicably. Her husband was
arrested on suspicion of killing her.
She was his second wife. She leaves
three small children. The parents of
the deceased (Pender) live in Greensboro,
4 G/eat Vineyard.
A dispatch from Howell county, Mo.,
states English capitalists have decided
to plant one of the largest wine-grape
vineyards in the world in that locality.
A syndicate composed principally of
hotel and restaurant owners has been
formed, and will divide about 4000
acres of land into 40-acre tracts for
vine-growiug. Peach and apple or
rliarda may also lie planted The wiuo
from the grappa is to lie ?'>ld iu England,
and all the products of the ]>laco
sent to England. The country and
climate are especially adapted for vineyard
purposes.
The "Boston Public library haa
556,000 volumes, that of Chicago 230,ooa
m
Mews Motes from Ooorgia.
(From the Atlanta Constitution.)
Mr. T. P. Thraikill of Spring place
has in his possession perhaps the oldest
razor in North Georgia. It was
made in 1775.
There is a man in Puberty county
who lives in a hollow tree. Heia supposed
to be insane, and the negroes
regard him with superstition.
Dade county has a freak in reg^o
whose eyes emit a brilliant light during
electrical disturbances. He was
nuee shocked by lightning. \ ^
*
.In Dougherty comity a farmer r&- '
eentlr plonghed npthree swords which /
belong to the Revolutionary *' period. \
There had onco been jewels in tno
baudle of one of the sword*, but they ^ r . y.
At Talbotton a negro men had an
eating match. Ho succeeded in getting
outside of eight boxes of sardines,
two dozen eggs, two pounds of crackers,
two pounds cheese, one box of
snlno.n, three bottles of pepper sauce,
sad was stopped by the spectators for
fe?r he Would make himself sick.
Sky-Land! .
James R. Randall writes thus of
Western North Carolina in the March
unmber of the Southern States magazine,
of Baltimore, Md.:
And what a valiant exaltation the
rh'll breath of the ozone-ladened breeze
fixes in our blood, and what roses in.
our cheeks! How we dominate with
; e.dstlesB stride the pedestrian .paths.
>r how we credit the fable of tho
Centaur, when, in the fervor oi en'irepment,
we partake of the joy and
very existence of the nimble steed wo
have bestrode adventurously! In other
climes and with other surroundings we
have felt languor, or dullness, or
roLliv^ innnixanifw lxnf V*uiTM tllA
?? *? X- J ?
potent inspiration of the panoramaand
the atmosphere.our whole being bounds
with daring briskness and mastering
activity. In the overwhelming senno
of powerful forces put in play, wo do
not ask if life be worth living, but
thank God that we are alive and filled
with the alchemy of Sky Land. When
these agencies react and demand the
unbent bow, we lounge, it may be on
the porches of the grand hotel, with
eyes restful upon Pisgah and the euormous
petrifaction of the rat that
i) ever budges from its lair. Perchance,
with appetite made robust and undeniable,
we attack the toothsomo
repast provided, but ever and anon wo
glanco through the big windows at tho
splendid pictures beyond, as if we
were afraid that some stray expression1
of the amphitheatre would escape u?
unaware. We 6troll, happy end satisfied.
to the piazza. and roll in an
easy chair, puffing at pipe or cigar,
but. never ceasing to confront admiringly
the scenes that intoxicated us
from the first. The sun has driven its
fiery, glowing chariot beyond the vast
barrier of loam and basalt, but left a
sparkling, glowing, radiant wake behind.
The clouds are blushing like
traditional brides, and the sorcerer of
the sky lias grouped them among shining
lakes and islands and witching
perspective that this inimitable artist
alone can fashion and dissolve. You
presently understand how tho poet
merely revealed whainenad seen when
N'ght dropped her crimson mantln
and pinned it with a star. And ft was
no exaggeration when the grim CHrlylo
bade us witness how Bootes drags his
reluctant dogs in a leash of sidereal
tire, or how mailed Orion flames his
pin men'nml bright-battalioned planets.
As the mystic dusk robes the familiar
scenery with a pall, we hear the insect
world, if it be the proper season, conversing
in n thousaud tongues, startled
anon by the shrill cry of a night bird,
and possibly we wonder if the momenta!
y shadow on the o?*b of the moon
was 4he vagraut pinion of Mioerva's
Lird, or the flashing stroke of the eagle,
put to flight from his ey.ry slumber.
Wafer Works Successful.
W. B. Moore, auperirteudent Yorkville,
S. C., water works says: "Yorkville
water works iu flourishing condition;
only in operation about two
months, aud is self-supporting; plant
cost $17,000; two miles mains and
twenty-two hydrants; standpipe 12x70
feet on fifty feet brick work; 500,000gallon
pump; citizens ore delighted
with the investment "
FIFTY-THIRD 00NQRE33. \
Th? Semite.
36th Dat.?Mr. Blnnchard took his sent a<
successor of Mr. White, of Louisiana.
The motioa to Investigate reports of stockjobbing
in connection with the Tariff hilt
was table*). The Bland bill *">s debate I
by Messrs. Allison, Vilas and Walcott.
S7th Day.?The Bland seigniorage bill
was discussed during the entire session.
58th Day.?Mr. Allison's motion to reconsider
the third reading of the Blan I hill was
defeated by a vote of 28 yeas to 45 nays ;
also Mr. Manderson's motion to recommit
for amendment.
5Uth Day.?The Bland seigniorage bill vri?
passed, 44 to 31. ,
The House.
72d Day.?The District of (Jol an hi a An-'
propriallon bill was passed by 111 to 11. It
carries ft total appropriation of 5,206.773,
half payable by the general Government. A
committee amendment, appropriating 43.000
for the improvement of streets extended
beyond the olty Tva? agreed to. and an
amendment requtrln* lliumlaatiu* k?s furnished
consumers to be twenty candle power
was adopted.??The House then took np
the Hundry Civil Appropriation bill, making
it the unfinished business.
78u Day.?Only District of Columbia mutters
were considered.-?dir. Walker mado
charges against the trolley trust an l said
mo in?u ui iqo monster, tne i/3ner?ii tioc*
trio, can be traced in this House."
74th Day.?Th? House in committee appropriated
90,003 for the improvement of
the New York l'ostofllce.??A resolution askInR
Secretary Herbert for information f Harding
thai armor-plate scandal was
adopted.
76th Dat.?The day was devoted to discussion
of the Sundry Civil bill.
70th Dat ?Further consideration of tho
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was held.
77th Dav.?The Sundry Civil Approprla*
Hon bUl was further discussed.
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