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) r. y i Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Dotneetic Economy, Polite Literature, Politico and the Current fletet oj the Day. J ^jl VOL. XXV.-NEW SERIES. UMraaZ SO. Tli CAUOI INA.PR1DAV. MAIfrll *>. 1?9L .. .- ? ^MBKH . L " - 4'' + * .**, '.* , ' * V ^VVi Says the I ml in im nolle, (fail.* Sentinel: An Illinois gouin4 has started it new political party called "tlio poor man's party." No one is t<> lie nominated for office who has an income oi over $1000 u year. The movement is said to be widespread, and is to he extended all over the country. The party will devote its attention mainly to local offices. The Milwaukee Wisconsin exclaims: "Housekeeping is a scieuee. It cannot l?e intuitively grasped. Its principles itiu sometimes imparted by mothers lo their daughters. No doubt, She science <>f housekeeping could be effectively taught in schools. When the time comes when no girl who expects to marry is believed to have finished her education until she lias graduated in the science of housekeeping, the vexing servant girl problem, which now seems so formidable, will have disappeard from American life." ' "In one sense," confesses (he New York Independent, "we mav sa.v that tho more we study diphtheria the more humiliating is it fo the medical pro fession ; for though a careful sifting of eases, microscope in hand, shows that many supposed eases are not the genuine Kicks Locfiler bacillus kin I, still the melancholy fact remaius that, of the true eases, medical science today cures no larger a percentage than it did ten years ago. Just now, many of the doctors fancy they are getting the best results from peroxide of hydrogen ; but this, used too late, is futile. No other of the contagious diseases seems to he so rapidly fatal as his, and the immediate moral of all the cases we can collect seems to he that no sore throat should he regarded as a light affair, or he neglected a moment. The rate of in or tidily is still forty to sixty per cent." Tn the effort to prevent the supplying of firearms to natives of the I'acilio islands regulations have just been made by the British High Commissioner for tlm Western I'aeifio prohibiting British vessels from carrying more than one ritlc and one pistol for each member of the crew and each bona fulc passenger not u native. It has also boon made an otV.-nse, punishable by fmo and imprisonment, for any person to supply firearms, nmmuuition, explosives or intoxienti/ig liquors to the natives <>f any of the Pacific islands under British control or protection. Unscrupulous tril.-rs have recently supp!' <1 th - natives of several of these island- with Winchester lilies mi l ammunition, with he result that the natives r-> armed have made raidson neighborin g islands and slaughtered the inhabitantA British war vessel on a recent tour of the islands found that a party of these armed marauders, notorious e.innibals, i.. ; i... i .. i T iniiVM a IIVUl ~ l^1 I'I'l I'll I lmtchoreil tin- inhabitants <>f a lar&'o village, leaving < v? ry ? vi?I :i< of subsequent liorribh- ouiiuihuiirt i prne ticos. fVienee is supivm 1 in \m -rieati )>r?> -lueti?>n, an I tho Am-rifim hive outrun us nl! in t ?vi? ?1 i? itioii, eonfessoH tin: K linbur.qh Heviuw. Tuey were thn first t ? utiliz eh-*t.unity, 11 it mor. ly in ("v.* <! win y.r.in' of telegranliy an 1 111 kin Ire I arts, but as a powerful ally in in innI ir In the weliliu.? ??l nr iils, f<>r iiuliirv, ii now plays an important part. It lias ro<lneed tin- prim; of nluininiuin fr.ini ?11'. ;?0 ft pOllIld, ftUll tlli met ll lifts now in <Miisei|iicn?'n passe I irit > < mi moi) use; it outers into the fabric of the bicycle ; il i? m i l" into shoos for the horses of Kussian cavalry ; it is embodied in tiio oiii"inat ieal figure which crowns the Shaftesbury Memorial. In iron hii'1 stool, the use ?.i highlydeveloped machinery, which is m more thfin tii" application ni science, has revolutioni/.eil production. The new drop-hammer his hrought down ttie price of American plow* to less thin So, and in the ni'ikiu * of all sort, of ftgrieultnml implement- it is calculated that 'i '( m 11 c in it > .v pro lu i as much as a )V.v v.-ars iin'n, Where k single workm 111 coul 1 ni ike throe dozen pair* o'. .-l"< v links in u day, a bnv rail m??v in ik? !>')'? ?. Tin manufacture <>i' j?iu^ still buhls u-. own as an "object lesson;' but whereas Adam Smith notes with astonishment ??ud admiration ten men turning out 48,000 pins a day, the modem American maiiufaeturer f?ml< n-. difficulty in supplying T.V' hOO ! in la- same- timr, _ n ??..U ..? 11... i..i . <: w* i if i wii i * *i i iiv- i i * ~ ' "i : ? > ' I ?<i i I .** c?f Jlrtli'is. < *? Til J ?;1 r?? ('tis with (111 stntc of t hin ;s m 111 tii-m ??f 1 he Wur of li)ili'|i< mh ii c, wii_11 iin: ?i l I 11iri 8<>I?I for i: ilo/i-ii. : !) I when, ( > encourage lioiiii in !u '?iv, the < i iveruinont ofl'eroil ?'.(">11 for the liest twentytivo ?lo/,en of jiius ion 1.' in Aiiuthm Cuuul ty thos-; import : 1 frjin I'sU^huui. NORTH CAROLINA POTTERY. The Gteat Beds in Jackson County to be Developed. RiLKiaii, N. ?T. K. Bruuer, lins i\ letter from Koidzumi, the Japanese who is so greatly interested in knolin and who is impatient to get soim thing done. Koidzuini guarantees to raise $150,000 if a liko sum is raised in this country to establish ft stock compnin and bring Japanese workmen to North Carolilift to the knolin deposits, locut< nnd equip n plant. The deposits considered best bv experts are in .I?ekson county. Mr. Brnner bus honed to ha able to interest some North Carolinns in this importnnt matter lmt so far 1ms no enoournsrement iiithewnvof rninincr money. Acting on the tulvice of Col. A. B. Andrews,he writes the New York owners 444X> mwea-of-the best kaolin with the view of inducing them to take stock and joining with Koidzumi Hint 1?in colony. Mr. limner savs he goes out of the State for uiil with extreme reluctance. The class of ware which it is proposed to make is of the highest quality, dutiable at 10 to 00 per cent. Ilv bringing potters and decorators here from Japan, the calculation is made that the wares can bs manufactured nearly as cheap as in Japan, saving freight and duty and enabling them to be sold cheaper than foreign product ioi^^ A MOUNTAIN CLEOPATRA Bewitches a Detective While an Offenrlei Escapes. IIkndersonvilLiK, N.C. ?Ed Rogers, a young adventurer of this county, who has displayed some unusnl ingenuity in speculating in Confederate currency, and has been much sought nftcr by detectives from both South Carolina and this State, on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes, has again eluded the oflieers. T. C. Israel, special detective, and K. G. Morris, assistant postmaster, both of this place, went to the lmmo of iiik father, four miles from here, to arrest him. Mr. Morris was placed in front of the house, while the detective secreted himself in a hack room. Mr. lingers, getting wind of the odicers, sent his charming female cousin to entertain the young postmaster, and she did her work so well that he was aide to walk right before the young Anthony and make his escape, leaving the detective still in his excellent hiding place. His brother, J. T. Rogers, was arrested and is now in jail. Governor Tillman Fainted. The Charleston News and Courier's Washington correspondent said: "Governor Tillman had a fainting spell in Senator Irby's commit too room, and for a few minutes his friends feared lie was threatened with a stroke of apoplexy, llestorativ.'s were applied trid he soon recovered. It was afterward ascertained that he was overcome hy the excessive heat, which was tin seasonably severe itl 111" capito], and. especially so in 111" I >?st>nicut. where Senator Irby's roi in is located. As several of the (?ov? riior's family have been en it it* | ofi' I iv lli?? npop! \ y I lie nnxntyof his friends ln-re mux li" up | i n t < mI . " Secret a iy Tompkins <-aid Tuesday inorniiifilh.it nothing had Ik nil heard by liini or the (lovcriioi 'sfamily about his illness ami ? ? lie presi nied that tin re was nothing serious. Bill Nye to Stop I ,-ct/ring. ChI'-auo. Mill Nye has decided to stop lecturing, lie said to-day: "I'lie fact is I can't keep tip my writing and lecturing. The work is too hard, and then my family, for whom I toil, are anxious to see more of me. I shall close my platform career in a few weeks, and get home in the mountains of North Carolina in time to gatlierthe strawberry crop on my model farm. I can it ? model farm because it. cost# me three times as much t?? run it as 1 g? t out of it, nml I understand from competent- agricultural sources that that is what constitutes a model farm.' Methodists Abroad. The Wesley a 11 Methodist executiv jominittco has e:\pressed great ph-nsun at learning that Bishop Andrew and Mr. Theodore Kunvon, I'niteil States aiahassailor to (Serinany, have been a]>poiiited to represent America in tin international conference which is tola held in Birmingham next summer. It is understood here that Hiahou .Inlm P. Newman will preside over ? nnrnbei of Methodist conference* in the Kuro ncnn countrioo next summer. Arrested on Suspicion That He Murdered His Wife. Winston, N. < . - Mrs. ?T. T. Poach was found dead in her house at Pilot Mountain Thursday night. Her husband gave the alarm, saying that she had shot herself with a pistol. 'lhe husband and wife were not living to* gtther 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. Strenuous efforts are being made to build a railroad from Brevard, N. via Mills River, to Hendeisonville, N. (\,th enterprise promibcH success. The Moody and Snukex meetings at Norfolk \ *n II rr> imni/in^i. im.1 i> >i perfect furor r.moii^ the religious 1 si? nt ?>f tt>i> til %. I**?hir or five iIioiisiik) people nt I ' 11 I Armory 11111 nightly. iiit<I from 1 .' ? >() t<? vi.iHMi ]u<li< r. D t i t i i i I | Ii nfte; uooll Nerviei H. TCvery Finnish town Inn; u Mpotre culled the liuirket," where on eertnin dfiys the country people roort orI olfir their pro.luce t?> the inIribiliiuh*. PITHY NMVS ITEMS A paint mill is the latest industry reported for Charlotte, N. C. Parties are preparing to manufacture saws iu Greenville, S. C. Pig Stone Gup, Va. will build a canning factory for fruits and vegetables. William ^Eadcs, of Paducah, Kv., wants 200,000 feet of elm logs. A cotton mill will be erected at Carrollton, (ia., this summer. The Mercantile lunuimii'd Agency of Richmond, Va., has been chartered. The Jefferson Insurance Co. liasbecu chartered at Charlottesville, Va., with 8100,000 capital. The Lutheran congregation at Lincolnton, N. C., will erect a brick edifice. A Tarboro (N. C.) firm want to correspond with manufacturers of checsefrctory machinery. ?The Abbeville (S. C.) Cotton Mills Co. has been formed with capital stock .r diitG n/u\ "I A little colored boy wns killed by a freight engine at Charlotte, N. C., Fi i-lay. It is rumored tlint Lord Roseberry, Frinio Minister of England is to marry Princess Maud, daughter of Prince of Wales. A movement is under way to organize a bank at lbirlington, N. C. W. H. Carroll and C. A. Bray are among those interested. The First- National Bank of Wadesboro, N. C.t recently opened, has $-r>0,0(10 capital. James A. Leak is president; Charles M. Burns, vice-president, and S. W. Norwood, cashier. The Economical Building and Loan Association has been chartered at Orangeburg, S. C., with 8200,000 capital by A. CI. W'uuiuunaker ami others. The Farmers' Bank of Edgefield, S. has declared a dividend of 8 per cent, for the year ending March 10. Tt is estimated that there are 10,000,000 bearing and non-bearing orange trees in Florida. California is credited with having 0,000,000 and Arizona about 1,000,000. The business of the Pcnsncola and Havana steamship line has increased so rapidly that another chip hns keen added to the service. The Aiken, S. C., County Loan and Savings Bank was closed by the United States Marshal under an injunction order from Judge Simonton. A. L. White lmsbeen elected cashier of the Merchants and Farmers' Bank of Spartanburg, S. C., in place of L. C. Cannon, resigned. The llaleigh (N. C.) Wagon Works have earned a profit of 0 per cent, from the business for the pant nine months. A Richmond (Va.) publishing house propose to organize a &">0,000 stock company to publish Southern school histories. Th-- Virginia Midland will add eight ID wheel locomotives to its rolling stock. They arc of the most ino?1crn type and weigh '201,000 pounds each. The First Presbyterian Church,Charlotte, N. C., is to ho enlarged and improved at an expense of 812,000. The plans of Charles C. Wilson, of Hoaiioke, Vu., have been accepted for the liovk Hill (S. C.) Presbyterian Church which is to cost 815,000. The Stat-,i of South Carolina will want plumbing material ami ranges for the new college building at Kock Hill. Address 11. K. Tillman at Columbia. Fire Friday afternoon at Money Point, near Norfolk, Vs., destroyed lumber mills, planing mills, lumber, etc., to the amount of half a million dollars. The Hank of Johnston, S. C., has decided to increase its capital to $00,000. It started with 810,000, but riuH"u ui'ii sum 1.09011,111111. The Columbian Building k Loan Association of Richmond, Va., has decided to increase its capital from 8500,000 to 810,000,000. It is currently reported that the Brnnson gold mining property in Randolph county, N. C. has been sold to Ohio capitalists, who will incorporate n 830,000 company to develop. The Kenmore Shoe Co. ia the name of the new concern organized at Fredericksburg, va. to manufacture shoes. A new brick building 00\30 feet, three stories high, will be built at once, and from 100 to 150 hnnds will Reemployed nt the plant. The Wvtlicville (Va.) Woolen Mills, after an idleness since the fall, has resumed operations. It is said that the company expects to make considerable enlargements to its plant during the summer. The Atlantic Coast Line has just built nt Washington, N. C., a steamer called tlie Aurora, which will be one of a line of steamers belonging to the Styron Transportation Co., to run between Washington, N. C., and eastern North Carolina. A ch/ii ier has been issued to the Fairfield Granite Co., whieh will ilcvelop cpiarries nt Blair's Station, near (\ iliim bin S Th.< iimiimnrjlAfo nro T. \V. Woodward, of Rorkton; lohii ('. Haskell, of Colombia; Henry F. Tumor, of Baltimore; Jhhior B. Frazier, of Blnir'a, and others. Cnpi il stock is placed at $1100,000. For sonic time the authorities of the '2C? and IJC'a have heeii on a trade looking {,> h consolidation of business from Shelby to Rutherfordtou. It is proposed to consolidate the agencies find deports at all points where the roads crosa?that id at Shelby, Lattimore's, Mooreaboro, Forest City and liutherfordton, having union pasaenger and freight depot* at those points. Colonel William Wallace has l?cen ? appointed jiostmaster for Colombia, i S. 0. Colonel John S. Mosby, the celebra- j ted cavalry leader of the Confederacy, ia in El Paso, Texas, en route to Washington. In an interview last Sunday he announced that ko w ill be a candidate for the presidency at, the next election. The Matin newspaper, of Paris, says I thnt the Prince of Wales won ?8,000 nt Monte Carlo last week, and donated j 1 1 1 1 A- it. f -\K me Mimic mi in h; mcpoorj^jionaco. i t White eApe bent a youugman in Vo- ^ lusia county, Flu., Sunday night, nnd posted warnings on n number of blind * tiger doors in New Smyrna, a prohibition town. The wife of ex-Secretary of the In- f terior Noble died nt her home in St. j Louis Sunday, while sittingnt the din- l ner table. She wnsetrickou with heart ? failure. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, war ' again strieken with paralysis nt Wash- 1 ington, D. C'., Tuesday, this time in ' his throat. His eoudition is critical. f |M| ( A Premising New fibre Plant. The Florida Fibre Co., which is ex- 1 perimenting with sisal hemp culture, has a tract of 1-100 acres lit Fort Lau- j derdule, of which forty are under cul- t tivation. The plantation at Fort Lau- ] derdule, which is on the Middle river t about midway between Lake Worth f and Uiseayne bay, has been visited on > several occasions by Charles R. ] Dodge, a special agent of the Agricultural Department at Washington, who :J lmR reported very favorably on the ex- t periinents being made, and savs that 1 there is no reason why the sisai plant i should n-?t be suecessfnlly cultivated i in Florida. The importance of the f hk p indcotvv i:i Yucatan may j be realized from tii fact, that the im- i portutions from tin re last year wore t valued at Si.r?<10.OO.'I. rhreo Revolttioas Fio irishing in Hondirns. Dai.i.as Te\. ? General W. I. Cabell, ^ >ne of tin; migrated members of the Louisiana Lottery Company, return oil ram Honduras. IIo report two or 1 tliroo revolutions on lmud. and one ^ general eleetion for President. Dr. H \rios is the loading candidate and will undoubtedly be elected. He is a close 1 friend of Bonilh, and Bogrnn. and has * their active support. General Cabell ^ insiders Bogran the ablest man in the republic and one likely to shape large- 1 ly the public a Hairs of the country in ' the near future. \ The exiled ex-President Vasquez is 1 safe in San Salvador, where he has as ; i companion Maj. R. A. Burke, lato ' defaulting State Treasurer of Loilisi- 1 ana. 1 i A So.'(hueit Virginia Exposition. Hoaiioke, Ya., has dehrmineil to hive an industrial ''xoosition next fall. The enterprisi ng m n who have made tItnl progressive town ??r?? ut the head < of this movement, and this fact prac- I tieallv insults n sue cuss. Surrounded I us Itniinoke is l?y n tributary country i rich in minerals, in timber ami in agricultural n sources, it ought to he able < to gather togethei a display which will i he of far more than State interest. It t ought to he possible to attract the at- I tcntion of many Northern and Western 1 people, and 11n.lt r goo.I management, I as this exposition doubtless w ill he, it i ran he matteof great value to all south- I west Virginia, as well as to lloanoke. I i Dr. Henderson. i Pktersbvro, Va.?A well tlrcssed, ' mi?ldlc-ageil woman, weighing about ' 200 pounds, claiming to he Dr. Hen- J derson. of Canada, a graduate of a 1 medical college at Hutlnnd, Vermont, was arrested here on the request of the ! mayor of Wnverly, a small village on the Norfolk k Western Ilailroatl near this city. She was charged with administering a "knock-out" prescription ton hoarding housekeeper in that town t and robbing her of $00. She will he ' taken to Wnverly for examination he- ^ fore a magistrate. J Serenader's Sharp Reception. Hikmixoham, Ala. ?Wm. Ingram, a voting farmer, living near Evergreen, Ma., was married Thursday night. Toward midnight a pnity of frienda uirrounded his houae and commenced i serenade, using for instruments tin ana, cow hells, etc. Ingram became <o incensed that he seized an axe, and, tinning t<> the door, hurled it into the rowd. The sharp edge st ruck a young nan named Jim Dixon and cleaved his pinnl column, producing death. Inrain surrended and is spending his toneymoon in jail. Some Virginia Land Sales. Anion# recent salt s of Virginia real estate was a tract of forty acres in the suburbs of Alexandria, which, it is stated, has been purchased by Phila delphia parties who will divide it into , residence lots. The farm of H. Fulkerson, in , Lee county, Va., lias just been sold for $30,000, an average of $100 per acre. t\ Low to Cover S:jrh Coses. Washington, 1 >. <\ ? The Pollardheekinrman has developed the i act tlmt there is no law in tho District ?f Columbia for the punishment ol eduction. CongrcH nmn Morao, ol i Massachusetts, has introduced ft bill .\hich contain* the text of the Stringent Mapenchuttcttn law on the subject. BUSINESS AT THE SOUTH. The Manjfactirers' Record Says an Era oi * Great Prosperity is Approuchinj. Bai/timorr, Md.?Tho Manufacturers' Record, in reviewing the business? 1 in the South for the week says: J Report-* from sill pnrts of tho South ' indicate that the general business out- ' look is very promising,'though the vol- i line of trade does not yet aliow any * rery large increas.?. lint, if judged by ? the southward trend of capital and im- * nigration and by *;;c t , idcuco in the ' ?rganization of new enterprises, the f South is entering upon the most solid- * y prosperous era of its history. t The immigration movement is es- ' lecially one of the most noticeable i figgs of. the listnnd throughout the c VofTh AW West TTie (Trrt?trrr" to more '< ^outh seems to be assuming propor- 1 ions of national importance. 1 Special reports from New England t diow more disposition than ever be- t rore to invest in Southern cotton mills I lud n manufacturer of that section tells ' lie Manfacturers' Record that a num- f >er of large mills will be built in the J$outh by New England people. ( Ainongthcinore important industrial i nteprises reported for the week i re a 1 ompr.ny, capitalized nt $0,000,000, to 1 mild a town and develop shipping fa- t ilities onPatuxent River, Md; a $100,- * tt)0 coinnnnv organized to shin barvt -s 'mm Blaeksburg, S. to Baltimore, vliere a large manufacturingplant will >e CRtnbliphed, nml others. n The Manufacturers' Record has com?iled t!ic stntisticsof manufacturers of . he South in 181)0 as compared with 1880, which shown nn increase in capi>i 1 from $257,241,500 in 1880, to $05.),- ' 108,817 in 1890, and an increase in the f .nine of product from $157,452,777 in [880 to $917,589,015 in 1890. The number of hands increased from 105,407 to 588,528, and the amount of licir wages from $75,917,171 to $222,118.505 Addin g to tilt* >aiue of mail- I lfaeturing products, the value of minng products and the total for the 5outh in 1890, was $940,000,000, or nore than two and a half times asmueh is the average value of the South'.seoton crops. KISSES COT Hl? I HI JAIL. I Philadelphia Grocery Clerk Embraces Ont Girl Too Many. Patkrson, N. J.?James Williams, 'hunting to he a grocer's clerk, from Philadelphia, reached this city in icarcli of employment. As soon as Williams struck the city a kissing malia seized him, and he could not re- j drain his desire to hug and kiss every ft'omun he met. The passion grew so rapidly upon lim that he hoarded street cars, hugged mil kissed the passengers, but sue'ceded in escaping before the nston- 1 shed conductors could capture him. \n otlicer found Williams near the Market Stri ct church just as prayeruiseting had hccn dismissed. lie was i in the net of hugging n pretty miss, intl bestowing n kiss on her ruhy lips. ( He is now in jail. Prospsro73 Carolina Farmi-s. Commissioner Hobin.soii,of th 'North Carolina honril of agrienlture, in the Inst bulletin of the board, calls ntt uiiiou to the prosperous agricultural icctiona of the State in th so words: The condition of farin a's in North Carolina is one which gives great assurance at this tiui >, and should en iourago our people very much. In the North, and particularly Northwest, the suffering and destitution amongst [he one-crop farmers is such as to cause great apprehension. So great is the tlepiession that many are writing this office in search of new hour's in a mild climate where a variety of farm products may be grown. The financial depression has affected our farmers lint little. They may not have much *ash, but tlicy have plenty to feed man nid beast and a prospect of a good crop before them. The climate conditions tiave nevcr been better for the furtherance of all farm operations than we iiave enjoyed in this State this year. Not Guilty as to Isaac Bates. ^Vm.minoton, N. C.?The case of the State vs. Isaac Rates, Into president of the Hank of New Hanover, on the inlietinent. chnrging him with making raise return muter onth to the State IVeftaurer, eaine up in the eriminnl 'ourt. After the jury was empanelled uid sworn, the State offered in evilenee one of the statements as mndo to the State Treasurer. Counsel for lefendnnt objected and after a long argument theobjeetion was sustained and tlie court ordered that a verdict of not ojuilty be entered. The point of difference was that the State wished to introduce a schedule which was on the reverse side of the sheet, containing a dat unent as apart of the statement itself. The defence contended that this schedule was no more than a mere memorandum, it being neither sworn to, signed 1101* attested. The onsen tgaiiist nil the other officers of the defunct bank were nol pressed. Ba *e Ball. At Greensboro, N. C., Friday, the Vale base ball club and tne club from the University of North Carolina played ? great game. The latter were vanquished by a score of 7 to 1. lehigh beaten again in virginia. Richmond, Va. ? The Lehigh Uriversity base ball club received another defeat at the hands of the Virginia nine. Their conquerors, to whom victory came easily, were the Kichinond College SpiiliTM. The l<clii(.'h iimii plnvnl 11 very piml game, hilt wen* weak in the ho\, having to make three rhangoH in jiiteliera. The Kiehmoml College eliil?, on the other hand, hail a valuable And puzzling man in Anthony. The Kcoro wflH H to 7. FLORIDA GROWN SUGAR CANE. I Favorable Report by (he Agriciltjral Department's Chemist. Washington, D. C.?Dr. H. W. Wiley, chemist in chief of the Departnent of Agriculture, litis recently reurtied from Florida, whith ?r ho hud ieen to visit the United Stites experinent station at Rnnnyiuede in tluit itate. The doctor brought with him ipecimcns of sugar cane grown at the itntiou, and since his return the lave been analyzed with most satisactory results. Oftho ribboned cane, vhicli amounted to 00 per cent of the tunc in the field, the analysis revealed incross in juice 10 50 per cent, showng 312 pounds of sucrose per ton of '.inc. OomofiriMotis of iinnlvKin nimli' of "ifbntt ri?)f, showing the liip[heitt lolarisation of juice in the latter l<> invr |)ccn 18 20 per cent, and from hat down to 15 29 per cent, according o the month when tested. "The tunnymede onne," said Dr. Wiley, 'was gathered at random, and thereore, the figures of tho Cuban earn fiven for comparison are for unseleet ><1 eane. I have no hesitation in sayng," the doctor added, "that I believi hit a yield of 20 to 25 tons of eane tor acre enn be secured by proper eul ivation on these Florida r-nud lands, vhere our cane was grown." Tho Water Power of Anguitn, Ca ro Editor of the Scientific American: In the Scientific American dated February '5, 1801, on page <>7, top of irst column, subject "Niagara HyIr.inli.' Wurks in (liii-rnl inn. " kimllv tllt?w mo to correct an error. You refer to $8 per II. P. per year, !i hours to tluMlay, as being the ehoap st power ever obtained |said to he J. The city of Augusta, On., lias been or years, ami still is, furnishing hou:;r.Jis!s of H. P. to aii who want it it the rnte of $5.50 per II. P. per year >f 24 hours to the *lnv, or 25 hours per lay if necessary. A magnificent canal T miles long, with masonry dam across lie Savannah Hirer, furnishes at present about 12,000 II. P. to cotton, flour, ram, and other kinds of mills, eleeric street railroad, electric power limits, electric lighting plants, and ithor uses, with a capital invested of ibout $8,000,000 or $0,000,000. Augusta, (In. W. E. Jackson, .Tk. WISE WORDS. sTho first of tho now in our raeo*s dory boats tho last of the old.?Browning. Most mon, until by losing rondorod jager, will back their opinions by a wager. ? Byron. Walk boldly and wisely in the light tliou hast; there is a hau I above will help thee on.?Bailey. He draweth ont the thread of his verbosity fiaor than the staple of his argument. ?Shakespeare. The gem cannot ho polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.?Chinese Proverb. Trust not him with your secrets who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ?Lavater. Men arc generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dog} than of their children. ? Penn. A person is always startled when he hoars himself seriously called old for the first time.?O. W. Holmes. The avarice of the miser is the grand sepulcher of all his other passions at they successively decay.?Colton. Excess of grief for the dead is mad* ness, for it. is an injury to the living nud (lead know it not. ? Xeiiophon. Eife, T repeat, is energy of love, divine or human, exercised in pain, in strife nud tribulation.?m ordsworth. The hours we pass with happy prospects iu view arc more pleasing than thorn crowded with fruition.-(toldsmith. Itogs Spr.'al Consumption. The medical profession in Franca is much stirred up over the groat increase of the deaths from consumption shown by recent statistics. This disease carries off live persons out of each 1000, or 170,000 a year, in France, while in England the mortality froin thin cause has fallen to two per 1000. The scourge is worst in Paris, where one dentil out of every five is due t< Consumption. At Marseilles it is one out of six, and nt Dijon and Nancy it is oue out of sever". Dr. Gilbert, v specialist on the disease, says that drunkards are specially susceptible to the disease, and flint, the tenement houses, where the poor live, are very hotbeds for its spread. In such places five out of twelve dentils are due to consumption. Professor Cadiot, a prominent veterinarian, says that there can be no doubt that dogs very often communicate the disease. Ho says that a microscopic examination has shown that many dogs are infocted with it. Ho has held post mortom examinations of a largo number of dogs, which wero supposed to liavo died of cancer, and in every case found that tuberculosis was tho cause of death. He says that people who keep infected dogs about them are almost sure sooner or later to contract the ftiser.se. ? New Orleans 1'icavoue. The Breckinridges. The Breckinridge sof Kentucky liavo been equally distinguished iu the Church and in politics. They have usually been uncompromising Presbyterian, ninl they liehl to tie* older branch of the ('liurcli when the Cumberlnud schism stirred the whole Presbyterian body in Southwest. Kentucky l'reabyterinniHin has been of a peculiarly aggressive and energetic type,and these are several names among the list of Kentucky ministers that hold the highest placoB of honor in the Church, k COURT LIFE IN ENGLAND. I DAILY PLEASURES AND DUTIES! Cri QUEEN VICTORI A'3 HOUSEHOLD. ' Dining With the Queen Is Delightful, but Standing About is Fatiguing ? How Appointments Are Made. ~T ELIEVINCI tho public always I?-s. welcomes any fresh details 1 y concerning royal places ?<im 6 their royal occupants, writes* Stuart Erskino in the Now York Herald, I determined to apply myself to the fountain head, and if possible to procure first class information from a member of Queen Victoria's household. A gentleman consented to tell me all I wanted to kuow upon my giving a guarantee that I would not publish his name. These terms I was obliged to accept, and the result of my interview appears below. "May I ask," I began, "how tho various 'waits,' as I believe they aro called, are arranged at court?" "Well," said my informant, "tho principle on which they aro arranged is simplicity itself. The 'waits' of tho various gentlemen employed in Her i..'.. i ?e.. i.i 1? i iunjcoty n nuint'iiuiM DUiicwiiUUU, n? far as the system is concerned, with those of an ordinary constable. A constable is told oil to watch a particular thoroughfare or guard a particular spot in the same way that we arc told off wait as Her Majesty's servants. 1 have just come oft* my beat," said my informant laughing. "My next 'wait* I will not take place for some time yet." "Is there nny special rule or principle," I next inquired, "upon which appointments in Her Majesty's Jioii.se- hold are made to operate? Most of the gentlemen of the Queen's household are, I believe, ex-oftieers of tho British army, but I suppose the Queou is at perfect liberty to exercno her own discretion as regards the appointments iu her household." "Well, of course you know," said my informant, "that some of these appointments to which you refer are, so to speak, in the gift of the Government of tho day." , They aro exclusively political ap I. 41 41 4. | ><>: ii 1 mni ir<v uuu I lit?uu; n IUU tUIJotub of Her Majesty to a particular appointincut iH necessary, accord in# to tlio terms of the constitution, Rtill they arc not upon the same footing with the minor appointments which Her Majesty can till up without consulting any one, and which indeed, as you say, are generally bestowed upon officers of the array, men, in fact, who, having done their Queen and country good service, are in need of a little assistance to make life pass pleasantly for them when they retire." "May 1 ask," I then said, "in what your duties as a member of Her Majesty's household mainly consist V" "As to that," replied my informant, "J suppose our duties as members of Her Majesty's household would bo much on a level with those of a private individual in a private household, supposing it were the custom to employ gentlemen in such capacities. We have, of course, to be in attcmlir..,. at..;...,*.. ...i. l/H Jin i'lWJUOIJ MUUlltHl 11 ID required of us; to look aftrr the distinguished strangers whenever they come oil n visit to Her Mnjesty, and generftlly to make ourselves useful hh servftutfl to the Queen." "What is culled the Windsor uniform is most geuernlly affected by persons employed ftt court. Oflieers, generals, etc., who are members of Her Majesty's household, are allowed to wear the army uniforms suitable to their rank in the service. The ordinary court dress, which you can see ftt any levee or royal function, is also much worn at court." "Howdo gentlemen of Her .Majesty's household live when they are in attendance on the Queen?" 1 thensui'l, addressing my informer. ' r.aeh individual, he saul, "has.ot course, private bedroom, etc., at court, whether it be at Windsor, Balmoral or elsewhere, but there is a general 'mess' or dining room for tho various ollicers employed in this particular branch of the Queen's service. Very often we receive commands from tho Queen to dine, etc., with the Queen, not, of course, in a body, but in such numbers as it may suit her pleasure to invite us, or tho exigency or the nvmient may decide. A day rarely passes at court without somo one of our number being called upon to perform this agreeable sorl of duty, for Her Majesty is one of the kindest and most gracious hostesses that ever li red." "About the duties," I then said. "Takiug them as a whole, I suppose they are light and pleasant enough?" "Oh, yes," replied my informant, "we have nothiug to complain of on that head. We have plenty of leisure, nlentv of time in which to amuse our selves. Sometimes the work is of a very fatiguing nature. For instance, there is sometimes an immense amount of standing: about to be done, which for men not exactly in thoir first youth, in iv source of greivt incouveui- < ence ami even physical trouble. Hanging about passages for hours together clad in heavy uniforms and fully equipped, is a service which, though / it may seem pleasant and easy enough to those who have never experienced it, to those who have done so is not by any means the thing of joy and delight whieh the others are no loud of making it out to be." A .Marvelous 'laie. Mr. CoourcdStiwiuter, our esteemed fellow-townsman, caught a suuppiug : - J - * ' . ? luiuc, tmrieu it nomp, cut on ir. neao ami throw the head over into the buck yard and ate the turtle. A day or two afterward aoine e'uiekeuaeame near the lurtlo'a head, and one wan eaught l>y the jaws of the head and th<> head its grip until it thundered. -Cave I Spring (da.) Herald. Virginia City, Kev., in 0100 feet ' above tbc eea.