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VOL. XXV.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH C AROJ.1 NUMBER 15.
There is no such a thing as "next
Senate," and so long as the Constitution
lasts thero nover will be. The
Benate of the United States is an
eternal body. It never dies. It is today
exactly the same assembly which
met for the first tiuio in 1789. Everv
second year it undergoes a change of
membership, the terms of one class of
members expiring. But that, oluiugo
neither ends the old body nor makes a
new one.
It is said that $2,000,000 has been
made out of a single brand ol' chewing
gum. Tt is not nil used, by the way,
by children and foolish women, remarks
the Chicago Herald. Dentists
often recommend ehewinc cum fnr fi>u
teeth, aud physicians prc^cihe?iL..
sometimes an an Rt(T~fo digestion, bocause
it excites the activity of tlu
salivary glands. Lar^e thug houses
keep gum in answer to this demand.
Monro, the publisher, was a victim
to his morbid curiosity, asserts the
Atlanta Constitution. Mis son had
qnnnnil ii?tt ?c ?? ? ? ' ? ? 1
| v..?.v.vin, ?? .v > |??..Ml (l|| 1111.| r*Jcovered.
The father 11:i?I not appendicitis,
I 11 < he g<d *.? nm <h interest 1
in the operation on his son that ho
fancied he had th
fully submitted to the surgeon's knife,
so impressed was he with (lie desirability
of having one's vermiforu uppeudix
removed.
Tt is only by comparison with other
countries, observes the New York
News, that wo can appreciate the
financial solidity of the Unite 1 States.
Our national debt ninounts to $14 per
capita. That of Franco is $11 <5, and of
England $87.. Our Canadian neighbors
have a national debt burden live
times greater per head thin ours.
The most wretched plight of nil Governments
worth mentioning is that of
Peru, with ft debt relatively more than
ten times that of tho United States.
The deai.li of Publisher Monro in
New York shows to the Sail Francisco
Chronicle that the vermiform nppenL
dix is playing an important part in
H the surgery of the perio I. The danger
that results from the lodg lient ol
M seeds of fruits and berries in this useless
part of the anatomy canuot bo
rtoo strongly impressed upon all, nn>l
especially upon those who have tho
care of children. (Irapo seed, in pir icular,
should not ho swallowo 1 hy
those who have any regard for thoir
health.
The mining craze seems to have
struck some portions of Georgia and
Alabama pretty hard. A score or
more of new gold min-'s have been
opened in these States within the last
three or four months, note-' tha St.
Louis Republic, and a good many old
ones nrc living worsen lis tney were
never before. George Huntington
Clark predicts in the Manufacturers'
llecord that in the immediate future
the gold tields of Georgia are going to
mirpriHC the old doubters as niueh as
the development of Southern iron did.
The richest gold mines ?>f that St it
aro as yet untouch" >, he says.
Georgia's gold bed covers a strip of
country from twenty t > forty miles
wide, an 1 extending iitoss the State
from northeast t?> southwest, embracing
about 7<K)<> s.p.nre miles. It mm
into Alabama and spreads out ovei
soinc 3500 s |uar miles more in that
State. Georgia's mines have so far
produce 1 over $lit,'K)0,Oi)0 worth ol
gold and silver, or more than those ol
any other Southern State except
Morth C'nrolini.
Harold Frederic, who in n eloip observer
iu English politics, ,?f opinion
that the resignnti ?n in' Mr. (Halstone
is duo not to the fart that hit
eyesight is failing ov to tli fact tin'
he is growing feeble, but ' ? tlu tab
that he his b -en losing influ' n c wit is
bis own administration. 'Ih theory
is that hiscabi.net was out of sympathy
with him in m my thirigse.n l went its
own wp.y regurdlcsH o." his wishes.
Roseberv was beconiin. in >re of r,
power than the Grand Oh I mm. ftn I
so the latter dropped a hint of retirement
after th- nvuiuer of Uisni irc\,
r.r.d, Ii!?< lliMiii'iivk, was surprised t >
find that there was 110 clamor against
his going. In other words, Gladstone
is represented us being edged off the
stage by his young men. The danger
in his retirement does not lie so much
in the lor,8 of hift personalitv, powerful
as that is. as in the loss of that peculiar
thing called leadership. Robbery
or any ouc c-lse c.iu bo mule the otii jia!
head of the ministry and the leader of
tho liberal pirtv ; but no ouo eau inherit
the general confidence of tho
party and it* sympathizers througho it
the world in (Hadstoii". This is a
great source of power which he cannot
tranmnit. The new leader will h tve
party discipline to support him, bii"
he will hove to create party sen* mien
| an l popular sentiment.
COLONEL LAMB S NEW PARTY.
Issues Upon Which He Proposes to FightHigh
Tariff. Blair Bill, Monroe Doctrine.
Norfolk Dispatch:?Colonel Williar
Lamb has discussed with n Times' rep
resentativo his plans for comluctin,
the "Whig" campaign of education
He said:
This spring I will issue the call am
think that I will suggest a plat fern
upon which all Virginians not free
traders ami mouo-metalists can stund
f want our Virginia manufacturers
miners, ami farmers protected by tin
tariff from various foreign competition
I prefer, with Mr. Jefferson, that on
revenue for the support of the Federn
government should be raised througl
the custom house instead of bv a tax
gatherer coming to annoy us at oui
homes. The FcdeiaL ?
JUstlv pay bounties tr
support the Union soldiers and snilon
of the civil war in their old age, am
thus necessarily contribute largely t<
the Northern States, should equali/.t
matters as far as practicable by assist
ing tho Southern States in educating
their illiterates, as proposed in tin
Blair educational bill. In \ irginia w<
are almost unaniinomdy in favor ot i
bimetallic standard and a liberal sup
ply <>t curreiiev hh opposed to .Mr
Clrvi'lntid'H monometallism and opposition
to Mitch legislation us is <l<-maiidct'
by the neecssit irs of our people. W't
want a Whig construction of th < <?!?.
stitiition to enable us to foster mil
agricultural and commercial int?*r??st =*.
\W should carry out the recommendations
of Sumuel J. Tihlen in his lust
famous letter to Congress, ahoiit forti
fyingour sen-coast nud foreign borders,
ami we should make our unvy worftn
of the flag it floats.
Looking to the great work of the age,
the Nicaragua canal, we should en foret
the Monroe docrine in our foreign relations,
bo us to avoid future complies
iioiis.
1 give this brief outline of the prin
eiples of the Whig party, but you must
wait for the address before you judga
of our claims for support by the Virginia
people.
HV.VGA.ir A J KOSSUTH S GRAVE.
The Patriot B/rieJ Amid the Tears of Tho /s
an ts.
Ri'hapkstu Dispatch:?While thousands
wept ami griulsti ieken peasant;
knelt ninl kissed (he hands <-f his sons,
fionis Kossuth was buried. I
was Hungary's gloomy clay, and will
all her heart she mourned for her dead
leader. Knornmuscrowds had gathered
from all parts of the kingdom t
itteiul the funeral, and the streetwere;
tilled almost from wall to wall.
The police and militsiy had prepares
for disorder. but nothing happened t<
disturb the oppressive silence.
After a short- religions ceremony a
the National Museum, where the dea<
patriot's body had lain i n St at e, Mettrici
Jokai, the author, el??i|uently reviev.ee
the events of Kossuth's life.
As the collin was removed to tin
funeral ear the throng ontsi ! sanglhi
revolutionary air, "S/ozat, which v.aechoeel
and re-eidioed down tie street*
through the dbO.niKI sped dors. Tin
funeral procession, which w:i- nearlv
live miles long, passed between I.">,001
voluntary guards, wlmkept tin throngi
back.
The Ilonvcds of lsts 1< .1 the line,
carrying their old standards and llagi
Rehiinl them walked a thousand women,
clothed in black, and then i
con id less numb r of mouriu r.s in ear
tingesand on fool.
{Several oral ions wi re delivered el
the grave, which was between those .>I
Peak and lJatthvaiivi. two patriot-, oi
his own tini". Alt- r 111 cotliu had
been lowered into tin- vault, peasantcrowded
up,knelt an-1 kis-.- | tin- luiinh
and elotln-sof Ko: suth's miiis, Tlums
ainls wept as t he la-t wor hi \v? i spok* r
over the eotlin.
A NORTH CAROLINA I. YHCWNu.
They Hail no Rope. Oil Hnj Htm AH t )
So we.
A special I'rotn AI ;t r i < r i. N. sn\ s
Holland Knylish v.ii-; tnkmi from )ni
nt Knkrrsvillf and I?f?*i** *1 i>y : ntoh
two hundred lin n on Sundin nioiniie
nt d o'clock for tic In of lii>. wife
whom li > killed t<> marry nnotler wo
man lie lirst offered lu^ I. ill mm-"
$10 to poison his wife. V !l i\ lend
wns used to han?^ 1'u^li-di, ii" lope l?e
in? lit hiind.
Stole $20,000 of Trier's Pence.
Rome Dispntch A trusted cnshiei
? th" Vfitienn, charged with tie* n 1
ministration <>f Peter's Pence, hnscm
fess. 1 to st tiling Silt, Hill) of tie fund
Me hopes to tic fdde to rephi"o tli
money. It is prolcd h- that tli Vntiem
in order avoid i> scnndul, will no
denounce llil.l to tli - police. I'll" Pop!
is much iiuuoved t!: it the nlTisir In,
1 ? li di\ ulgcd.
W/'sna Still Convalescing.
San Antonio, Ti;x. CongrefHnai
\V. I/. Wilson i? still ?it I he ranch o
cx-( oiipif SMiiHii Ht-niplit miles
south of here. Ho is ia}/i< 1 lv gaining
in weight and strength, and if no re
lapse oeoures, he will nhle i<> rcMimi
his work in Congress in a fow weeks.
Senator Patrick WnJsi*.
Governor N'orthen of Georgia ha
?Pf ointerlHon. Patrick Walsh,editor <>
the Augusta Chronic le, to succeed th<
late Senator C'ohpiitt,after the refusa
of Speaker Crisp to accept (lie up
point men t.
.1 So'/lher/) Collr'/r pro.' I t Kill. Him '/
l)or?;i,Asvii.i,f'., (I\. I*r?-Ki?lout ! M
(Sallownv (>i tlx' I><>nplasvillc ('u||?'?r
olio ni' tin* li.-st-I.ii'iv it 1'iliiratois o
(ii'Oli'in, I'l.llMUltt I r lifi.lt*, shoot ill
liiiiisoli 1 hron*.*h tin* h-'sit. No i nn>.'
for H"i? i?I?i is 1;iio'Aii.
BENEDICT, FOB LIC PR INTER
. tAr. Henry Gets a Foreign Appointment-Other
Nominations.
n Washington, I). C.?The President
scut to the Senate the following
^ nominations: Thomas E. Benedict, of
u New York, to he Public Printer; James
1). Yeoman*, of Iowa, to be interState
commerce commissioner. To be
p United States consul: Walter R. Honrv,
i? of North Carolina, atCuraeoa. Charles
H. J. Taylor, of Kansas, recorder of
deeds in the District of Columbia.
e I'nylor is a colored man. Collectors
of customs: Charles R. ltisbee, disi
triet of St. John's, Florida; John D.
Davis, district of Beaufort, North
, Carolina.
Postmasters: Tennessee?James R.
*t ?? IF ^ *" lli --
K. Lamb, Fdi/.nbeth City. South Caro
^ lirri Lewis M. ??i?r?%, Greenwood
I In soph S. Me(!eus"r, Florence. Mis
, i.-sippi Thomas Kenan, Brookhavon
5 The Comptroller of the Currency has
. declared ilivid'.Miils in favor of th
, ereilitors of insolvent national hank.*
, as follows. Second division, 20 pes
cent., St.it' National Bank, of Kuo\
x \ iil.?, Toiin.,making in all t3 per cent,
on claims amounting to $100,9112'
second dividend, 13 per cent .. < *n
National Bank, ofTainpn, Fla.,inakin.
I in all 00 per cent., on claims proved
, ainoiiuiing to $h:1,7 10.
"Lowsrs" anH "Hams."
CirAni.oTTF, N. C. ? Capt. Tom Tate,
conductor on the Florida vestibule be'
twecn Charlotte and .Tackson ville,
looks a good ileal better than his hand'
writing does. On his Charlotte trip
lie had orders for two berths here on
tie train going north, and at Chester,
S. ('., he telegraphed the Charlotte
' agent to "reserve two lowers." The
operator at Chester sent the message
to Charlotte in this shape: "Secure two
hams." Grcshnm supplies the dining
cars at this place, *to the message, instead
of going to ('apt. Fnyssoux, the
ticket agent, for whom it was intended,
wont to Gresham. Time was limited,
hut Gresham hustled up town, nnd
when thn Florida vestibule came in lie
was there with two hntus, one weighing
17 pounds and the other 20 pounds.
The cook on the dining car said he had
not ordered them and didn't want
them. Gresham allowed the telegraphic
, order, hut the cook ahook his head.
Gresham took the hams into the bagi
gage room and hung them up, deelnrin.g
, at the snme time that "somebody had
I to pay for 'em." Then he hunted up
('apt. Tate, and it all cnmo out. "Hams!
ha! ha!" roared the Captain. "Man
alive! Why, 1 telegraphed for 'lowers.'"
Greaham still has the hams.
I
i Aristocratic Champions.
[Chicago Daily InW-Occan.]
I Atlanta, Ga.?About twenty of the
leading women of this city, interested
I in church and benevolent work, met
ami organized n Woman Suffrage Association.
Mrs. Mcljciidon a member
of an aristoeratie family, was elected
President. Tlmir idea is t > push the
question of woman ?.ntfrnge so an to
have a good report to make to the national
association, which meets here
, next year. Within n month there wiil
be woman suffrage associations organ
i/ed in every city in the Slate. The
preachers of this city have taken a
? decided stand lij^n 1 n^t tin- movement.
which only challenges the opposition
( of thu women.
1'aliil F.e'tl lor Missionaries.
Sierra TiCoiie, on tlie wort cons! of
' V.riea, lias sometimes lieen styled the
[ "White Man's (irave." and no fewer
1 i.'in three Hislmps in sreeession died
' within three years of their eon-eer.e
: tion. In tlm tiest twenty years of the
' mission's existence lifty -three missionni
ie- i r misaionaries' wives died at
1 their posts. In INjrt, <mt of live mis
si..iniries who went out, four die I
within six months, in the next year
i . \ elnnteers were ne 'epted, and of
ti;. ?f two died within four months of
their landing. These losses seemed to
'raw '"'it more zeal, fur nt-xt jmr three
wont forth. of whom two died
? itlisv si v months. Itosluii l'osl.
Arrest of Co /n forfeit*. -s.
Asiikviixk, N. C. ? Deputy Sheriffs
Morgan and Hampton captured a couple
of counterfeiters in the night, together
with several ha) f-dollars of the *'queer,"
molds, plaster paris, metal, etc. The
men came here several days ago,giving
their mimes as Curtis and Pulton, hut
no v say they are. W. L. Morgan and
,1. Ii. Primer. They say they have recently
been in Winston, Spartanburg
and Greenville. They were jailed.
, To he Expelled from Masonry.
1 T.orisvii.f.E, Kv. Word cornea from
ui authoritative source at Frankfoi!
ih it steps are to lie taken at once to
\|?l Colonel Breckinridge from
u i :;iy, v.itli which lie lias long been
onnected. Miss Pollard's father war
l m Hctive Mason.
, Senator Faulkner's Mother Dead.
Winchester, W. V.%.? Mrs. Mary
' W. Faulkner, widow of the late Hon.
f C. J. Faulkner, and mother of Senator
Chas. .1. Faulkner, of West Virginia,
died very suddenly of congestion of
the lungs.
f The Go/emor Has Invite J the Congress.
(row Car:* of North Carolina nt the
request of Dr. (imlmn). President of the
' local Scot li 1rishSociety,Jhas extended
< 1 invitation of the National Society
'o hold it. 11 \t Connie-.s in Ch'tilottv.
A Proclamation
( >r.r\iniS. (!. (fovrrnor Tillman
i is issio'd a jiroehiititit iot? taking eliur^i'
tli?* J'illi't' in till* i*ltirak itnd towll?
ii tlie "^'ii.) until thu roii)i)f blown
ovui*.
PITHY NEWS ITEMS
In and around-Tort- Mill, S. C.,
all the cotton mills nxe running full
blast.
Burkcvillc, Va., K have n canning
factory.
A $20;000 peani* cleaning osHociation
lias been eatiClislied at Norfolk,
Vh.
' New ice making {Slants have been
finished at Norfolk, V#., and Charlotte,
Na . i-1
A draw bridge {a toTbe built connecting
West Norfolk and Port Norfolk,
Va.
V^vr K~"
Funds are being rained to build a
Presbyterian aendemv at Blackstone,
Va.
The Raleigh, N. C., local cotton re?4
.. ihl . 4 ) - ii)A
iin> mM.iuu art ruurn,
against 120,71 t<> the name date last
year.
A two-year-old cliihl in Tdneolntou,
N. (1., knows the entire alphabet.
Marcus Gentry committed suicide
in Ashe county, X. C., by shooting
himself in the bend with a pistol.
The steamer Wilmington, which has
long plied between Wilmington and
Sootlipoi'i, is to run hereafter between
Savannah and lb nnswdek.Capt Harper
.oes along.
Two of the three men who drank oil
?f mebane at Kevos tobacco factory,
Wilkes county. N. (k,have died. They
thought 't was peach brandy.
Col. .Tubiisi S. Carr, of Durham,
X. (J., has sold ?200,000 worth of tobncco
to be delivered by May 1st.
That is a big order.
The Virginia Silk Mills Co., at
Kredrieksbnrg, Va., wil* build an addition,
w hich will be a twe-story brick
building, t?0\120 feet, and will put in
Ill,WWW SpllMlleS. RTOr 1H T HO power.
Tho Union (S. ('.) Cotton Mills, 11
now roinpanv which will operate n
plant of 330 looms and 12,500 spindles,
has increused its oapital,stock to 0125,000.
Tho Volasoo Oil Mill will add
carding gins 1? its plant for handling
Sea Island cotton grown by tho Barry
settlement of Georgians anil Carolinians
on Bastrop crock. Some of those
farmers have forty or fifty acres in Sea
Island, last year's experimental crops
having, it is said, proved the Texas
staple to equal any in America.
The Newton (N. C.) Cotton Mills
wore sold bv the receiver last Monday,
and was purchased by B. ]). Heath of
('harlotte for -S I 1,000.
Col. B. I?. Moore, solicitor of the
New Hanover Criminal Court, died
Monday afternoon in the 00th year of
his age. .fudge Men res has appointed
Col. A. M. Waddell to till out the unexpired
term of Col. Moore, and ho
has accept "d.
The Supreme Court of North Cnroluei
has affirmed the derision that
Cashier Canst, the Salisbury bank embezzler,
mu -t serve bis sentence.
The W ,t 'i n Union olliee in Char*
loll... N. (',, on tli nights of April 1st
and 2nd, a nit out 11?,f><><> words. They,
of course, were the Tillman specials.
Less Cotton am/ More Foo-J proJ:cts.
The Manufacturers' l?ee?pd,of Baltimore,
publish: s this week h Iters from
30 large feitdi.'.er dealers )n Florida,
Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, .
Alabama. Noifli Carolina, Georgia and
South Carolina, which show that less
cotton is being | I intcd this year and
more attention is b?>iug given to food
products. Sixteen ofllie firms ertiinatc
that the area of cotton idauted ibis
veav will be from 5 to 30 per cent.,
less than last year: 'H note an improvement
?u tlie general condition of
bus' eess.
The report to the Record of tho
Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Company
is as follows: "The decrease in fertilizer
used will be 25 per cent., and the
farmers wdl raise less cotton and more
corn and hoes."
A P-rl Dee /.
Raleigh, N. correspondence of
the ('harlotte Observer: A very reprehensible
act was committed hero by a
Georgia detective. He lrroucht n no
gro named Hill Lee to the penitentiary,
under hi" belief ttint Lee wiik an esraped
convict. When he found tlint
Lee was not the linn and won not wanted,
he took th lirst train for Georgia,
l"a\ing the poor negro here, pennilcs.i
and in a .'trance place. The detective
told Lee, with groat coolness. that the
att.r must look out for himself. Lee
went to the executive otfiee and got assistance
which enabled him to return
to his home and family in Georgia.
He w.'.s in his working clothes, as he
>\a? ploughing when aiitsL-d.
The Streets RrA
Lubcok wine ipuapt*' js prosented
PrinceBismiL^ft10 1 ne eentennrian
Madeiri't^fP.'t of the
Emperor William0- * isit of reconciliation.
One good thing generally
leads to another. Had the Emperor
of GcriVitiiiy been ? i Anderson, S.
C., at th. ?lose of the Int. w ar he might
have outrivalled King Gambriuua, for
thi? streets all the while ran wine, the I
priceless M.uleria which Charleston '
gourmets had rent there for ^fe-keepiag.?Charleston
News and Courier.
Madeline's rather.
hatxioh. N. f Verv few people
now recall 111* feet that |>. l'ollard,
the father of the now famous Madeline,
?iih iiiiri' mi landless here, in 1872-1.
He \vh-? in an insurance agency, his
|,nt:oi heing lln- late Hasil ('. Manly.
Pollard was (put" an old gentleman
' and a capital talker.
DIED OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Miss Annie La trie Canaday. a Beautiful Virginia
Girl, Dies an Awful Death.
Roanoke, Va. ? Homo time ago a
largo black <log belonging to Mr. Ch
L. Canndny, who lives on Craig road,
uenr Salem, bit two or three eliihlren
slightly, ami his daughter, Miss Annie
Laurie, a beautiful girl, aged 20, was
also bitten in several places by the
same dog, which was then killed, without
any one enquiring as to whether
or not it was rabid. The wounds wore
cauterized, and in time healed, so thnt
nothing was thought of the matter until
Thursday morning, when Dr. O.
Wiley was sent" for l>v Mr, 7
had been unable to sleep; that she was
.1 - - t
ui'NpiiiHieui nervous, something
unusual with her, and 011 that very
morning, when her father had brought
n how 1 of water to her be laide, she hail
been seized with a terrible paroxysm.
After rallying ahe rested somewhat and
then naked for a toothbrush ami mug
to rinse her mouth, which were lmrdly i
brought in night ere alio. was ?? seized
wttli v+~1ent convulsions, this
time requiring to he ledd. and so on
throughout the ds\ these paroxysms,
fenrtul to behold, kept recurring, during
which her strength Inc.vn"* wonderful
and it required strong hands to
hold her Nor could she swallow,
though her thirst was excessive.
In her calmer moments sle> \uis resigned
to her fearful fate, and touching
the wounds on her arm exclaimed:
"Perhaps it is for the bet; these will
bo the menus by which 1 will soon he
in heaven."
Dr. Wiley nud Dr. Shanks did all
that their skill could suggest to relieve
her sufferings, hut she herself knew
that her case was hopeless, and on Friday
morning in answer ? . }>"? ? ".*.
Dr. Wiley told her there was no hope
and she seemed resigned. A little
later she prnved with her pastor, an 1
then remarked to some lvi< nds that
she had only a few hours to live.
Just before her death, which occurred
at 1:20 Friday afternoon, the family
assembled around her bedside, while
her brother, Prof. ('. 1J. ('atisday, of
Roanoke College, led in prayer. Her
death occurred in one of the terrible
apnsms of pain, and when Doctors Wiley,
Shanks and Killen returned from
the house they said that she seemed
as one who had hocn asphyxiated.
A subscription in bmiig'tikon up at
Salem to send the children who were
bitten by the same dog to the Past-mr
Institute, New ^ork, for treatm -lit.
A Hal table Textile riant.
Interest in th" cultivation of th
ramie ) lar.t in this country has ben
nerensed l?v the statement that nn
English concern known r.s the Textih
Syndicate has secured 2-*,0!)() acres of
laml in Mexico ami intends devoting
it to tiie raising of these plants. Mr.
Felix Kreincrey. who lias given much
time and labor to their ?;routh, writ s
to the Maiiulnetnrers' llecord from Arcadia,
Texas, as follows regarding tin
English people:
"They-arc negotiating tor a big hacienda
in the State of Vera Cruz,
where ramie is already grown t<> a certain
extent. Those gentlemen wrote
me several weeks ago: "We shall he
glad to know if any ramie ribbons can
he obtained from tin1 United States, as
we are buyers of all that can be
shipped in good condition. We would
arrange bankers' credit for the ship*
menta, to be drawn against, accompanied
by shipping documents and
policy ??f insurance.'
"**1 his company has its textih' works
at Carpentor'a Hond, Stratford K,
London, where the ribbons are degitmuicd
and bleached ready lor comb
and card.
"There are two A No. 1 houses in
Newark, N. .1., which together would
take not ion; man tinny or khiv ions
of blenched rami** fibres jjor month at
at most ronunu'rativo prices. A tirstelass
house in Patterson nlao is in need
??f ramie material. The latter named
furnished the United States Department
of Agriculture with that line collection
of aelf-manufactured ramie fabrics
which were exhibited at the
World's Fair. Ramie ribbons or fibres
can be sold in New York city and the
New England States in any <|iiantity at
the highest figures known, but seemingly
there are no means to induce our
planters to undertake this culture, of
which one acre after the lirst year of
planting yields better profits than fifty
acres of cotton at actual prices."
Experts in textiles consider the ramie
product to he as tine as cotton, aliun-t
H8 glOKSy MS SI I K , WHIM' II IS enonpev
tlinii l?non and stronger than hemp.
From two to thiee crops of stalks enn
be raised from one plant 111 a season.
nn<l it is said to be hardy enough to
withstand extreme moisture and
drought, though liable to sufiev from
heavy frosts. The roots will like
from fifteen to twenty years, and as
li'gh as $4.00 per pound has been paid
for the seed 111 America. China exports
over .*>00,000,(100 pounds of it
yearly.
Among the widely diversified productsmude
of rami -are ropes and cables
that exceed the strength of mnnilla
hemp, tablecloths that exct 1 the glass
of Irish line", laee that erjuals- the
delicacy of cotton and surpasses its
durabilityalso vdushcs. velvets
damasks and brocades. Ramie is combined
with cotton, linen,wool and silk,
and it alwaysHil Is to the mixed texture
an element, of greater usefulness or
beauty. 11 handkerchief*,cravats and
hos'-ery, iu cambrics, camlets and
shawls, in alpacas, carpeta and draperies,
it iseonsidercd.with th" possible
exception of silk,superior to the fibres
with which ii is i.t- rwoveii.
A physician of South llavcn, Mich.,
will make a vnvu^o around the world
in a schooner 1'2"? leet lout, with a
' henm of about twenty-five feet.
An Old Mason in Distress.
Ralkioh, N. C.?Mr. Allen, the
superintendent of the Wake county
home, found t?v the wayside h poor
old white-haired man and brought him
into the city. Thin afternoon the
man, whoso name is Vinton, was
placed in the county home. Vinton
has a history, lie is an educated man,
and talks interestingly. He is 7.*> years
old, dirty, badly clothed, with one
hand injured and his feet no sore he
can barely walk. He tells me he was
born in New York, but has lived in
Wisconsin. He was colonel on the stall
of a Governor there; was colonel of a
rvginmn^n, nnlm^ftw^r^nafnend
T855 n memlier of tire Ticgisla
Til re of Wisconsin; was grand worthy
chief Templar of that State and has
papers which show him to have been a
prominent temperance lecturer. Paring
the war he was colonel of the eleventh
Wisconsin Regiment. He was in
18114 consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He savs he came into this State from
Tennessee, and haw been here five or
six weeks. He has a son in a bank at
u:7 ur..: v. ,,,oc 'Tic i!?
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New Enterprises.
Comtmbm, S. C.?The Secret U T el
State has issued a commission to John
H Hn^it ?>f fhitOn'ouiv, aiim Wiiiir
Jones, of Columbia, hp corporators of
ibe Exrhvge Bank of Rateshurg. 'li?c
capita'; s*oek of the now bank wilt be
$50,000 rlivirioil into pharos of $100
each. Col Jones is the cashier of the
Carolina National Bnnk of tl?is c'tv.
A charter was "ranted to the Sunitc*
Track and Park Association,of Suuit"- .
All the capital stock lias been snoM-ribed.
The directors and offices
are Abe Ryttcnburg, president; C. S.
Martin, vice president: I. H Vus.es,
Jr., secretary and treasurer; H. B.
Bloom and R. H. Baker.
A commission was issued to George
Drcssoll, John 1>. While and II. B.
Butt as corporators of the Clniihston
Provision and Commission Company,
of Charleston. The capital stock ip
$-.5(1(1, divided into shares of ? )(>each.
The work of constructing the new
Electric Railway c\ lent ion toShnndon,
the new suburban town, is prngessing
rapidly. Operations have been commenced
at the town with a view to developing
it.
Execitire Clemency.
r<. ..... ? c ri.?..??,.,Tai..,nn
V wui ,'i/u^, v . \?\?? * i uvi i iiiiunn
commuted theaentcneeof Caesar Sweetwine,
who was convicted at tlu- February
term last of Court for Berkeley
Conntv of burglary ami larceny and
sentenced by Judge Townsend to a life
term in the State prison. The commutation
reduces his sentence to live
years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
Governor Tillman has also granted a
full pardon to John Martin and Sweet
Edwards, alias Sweet Martin, who
were convicted at the fall term of
Court for Horry County of adultery
and sentenced by Judge Witherspoon
to a term of six months in the penitentiary
each ami a tine of $100 each.
In a R-ioniver's Han'/;.
Gen. John Gill, of Baltimore. In
been appointed receiver of the Cape
Fear Ar Yadkin Valley road until the
exact financial condition of the company
operating can be ascertained.
The action wr.s taken at the instance of
bondholders rep it sent i tig 000,000 in
securities. It is understood that for
the present no changes will be ma le
in the muiiioriMii-M.t Tlx- i-ni 1 iiciil b-i?
only h kin:i 11 debt, find under ordinary [
rirenmstancrp it is believed cnu rosilv
earn rnunpli to pay its fixed charges
siid rnnniny expens< s.
Two Children B.-meJ to Death.
Tjvvciiiu r.o, Va. ? Tli" following ml
vice was received here: Two little
eh'ldren of Mr. nnd Mrs. Clark, who
reside near (diode Sprinpa, Va., wen
huriied to death. The father nnd moth
er were at the barn when they hcarh
the Hcreoming, and when they reached
the house they discovered the voungcKi
child lyinpr on the floor, its elothin;.'
burned off and its body cooked into i,
crisp. Standing over the corps > war
the older child with the cruel Humes
playing over the l?o.ly. In n very few
seconds it, too, lay (lend. It is thought
thnt the okler child met its death iu an
effort to nave the younger.
How Sugar is Ilellued.
The method used l>y the l>est sugar
refineries is substantially as follows:
The raw sugar is dissolved in large
cisterns on the ground floor, enough
hot water being added t > produce a
specific gravity of l.'i-j. The solution
is theu drawn through a connecting
pipe, having r eoarso wire strainer into
large pumps, by w hich it is pumped
into the highest story of tho building,
usually the. seventh or eighth. It there
passes into vessels heated by steam
coils to a temperature of about 210
degrees. Milk of lime is added to the
solution in these pans for the purpose
of neutralizing any acid which it may
contain. From these paus the liquid
naeenb i1stTK*ii t<> I lw> it n v ft.nvi* Tcltnc > if
MV>~V "V*, "UC1- IV
is filtered through a series of bag?,
each mode of two thicknesses of elotu,
ftu outer one of coarse ami an inner
one of riue cotton. The bags arc enclosed
in boxes to prevent cooling.
After leaving there the syrup is run
through filters of bone black, which
absorb all the coloring matter lefi, in
it. After leaving these, it is pumped
into vacuum pans, large vessels heated
by steam and exhausted by air pumps.
The pressure being thus reduced the
11?I>11* 1 is boilel nt a lower ii'iiipcMlure,
until, at I t't decrees, evapora- |
tion is completed ami the ayrup r??i?i<Ilj' I
cryHtftllizes into sugar. This i? the j
process l>y which the best wh?te su pir 1
is Iliaile, while poorer qualities ere.
pre]>ftreil l?v n method less complete.
?Jiowtoil Cultivate^
War in Africa.
Whenever we were ou the march in
Africa we always had vedettes and
scouts out to right, left, front, and
rear guard ; thus if we saw a party of s"'
horsemen rushing toward ua at breakneck
speed it was a signal to laager
up, which wo had to do so often that
it could he douo in twenty minutes?
which ?s saying a great deal?tho rear
wagon being a long distance astern,
each wagon being almost locked in
with tho one ahead of it, with the
desselboom (or shaft) outside, bo that
nil wagons could iuspau together. Tlio '
wagons, us described in tho^ Lo^ i
^'S^?or to the numWe
made two laagers ?the Victoria
one, tlio Salisbury another?and between
the two laagers the cattle (300
head truck oxen) and loot were driven.
Then bush was cut and put outside,'
thus everything was as compact as
possible, and wo mounted on top of
the wagons and defended the laager.1
This continued day after day, tho
monotony being only brokoa..bv.buxjy
nnd shooting ganit, till wo came to a
river called Shangaui. where we laagered
up for the night. Of course,
every night we liiul n main guard and
a picket out all-night,. tlio maiu guard
being 100, the picket 300 yards from
the camp, and a lot of Makalak.'s (a
tribe which stood in deadly fear o* tho
Matabele) to tho north of the camp, t
On the morning of October 25th, at
3.30 o'clock, wo were awakened by
hearing shots tired, immediately we
stood to arms, and looking through
tlio darkness saw thousands rushing
toward us. When the Maxim guna
started tiring there was a sudden
check. They could not believe it,
mmlo another rush, and were cliGckeu.
again, and so on until morning, till
daylight broke, ami some of the most
ghastly objects it has ever been mv
lot to see?nud I was iu Egypt?were
bodies literally torn in pieces and laying
as near as ten or twelve yards
from camp.
lulling Porpoises l?y Electricity.
Electricity lin* recently been utilized
for purposes of fishing. A net of
snrdiiial. as it is called, which was
nearly 1300 feet long, and is used for
catching sardines, was taken, and an
electric cable with dynamite cartridges
at intervals of lifty feet, was placed
upon the edge of it. The cable was
connected with an electric battery upon
the torpedo boat in such a way
that all the cartridges might be tired
simultaneously. Tho net was letdown
at live in tho morning in very deep
water, and before this was done tho
neighboring iishernicn had been asked
not to go out, in or ler that there
might be nothing to disturb the porpoises.
About an boar after the nek
iiad been letdown, the pospoiaes ennio
ii]> in Jnr^e iiumlioiv, r.wl when a good
ninny tish had heon got int i 1 Iks 11 e?,
tlu ro were ehout richly just around it.
TUo enrtridges were then tired, and
the explosion was so otl'ee.ive that. oiih
only ot the eighty ]>ur,? lisen esenped.
wniie l lie iHiniHin i u vinim v irn in#
i-hock, iin ? Hi.' wnlr'* wii'j very liltlo
?I i1:11 Weil. I itvoiii ion.
FIFTY-THIRD OONGBESX (
The Senate.
Cni Hay. The Bering Sen l>ill was rejee(.-i!.
.Mr. Voorhees opened the tariff
debate in a set speech of lliree hours. ,
ll'.lrii Day. Mr. Allison replied to Mr.
Yooritees's tariff speech. Mr. Harris ha*
I liken control of llie hill an I has given notice
fli.it he. wijl.jiross the hilt daily.??Tim
Senate passed the Bering;tea hill.? A numher
of eonimittee amendments to tho tariff
hill were submitted.
70 ?-ii May. Tiie lliiril day's dehale on the
tariff hill was earned on. Mr. Allison, of
Iowa, speaking against the hill for two and ?
wuarier hour-, and Mr. Mills, of Texas, making
a brief dehnco of it as a eompromtso
tne sure. i
Tlsrl'vv. Mr. (deorge introduced a hill to
reduce oftbual ineonirs twenty per cent.-?.
Mr. Mills opposed an appropriation to
terminate the hussinu thistle. ?Tariff dehate
was prevented by an executive session
devoted to tin unimportant 1'lorida appointment.
721? I?av.?'Tae k>uate adopted a rosolu-*
lion calling for information In regard to
Samoa. The proposition to eoin Mexican
silver dollars was debated. -Mr. PefTer
spoke for tw>> hours on the tariff.
The House. (
s'.Vrii Pay. I he House made recognition of
Speaker Crisp's declination of the fleorgi;* 1
ocnaiorsnip ny a rouuu 01 np| muse as nu
ascended the stops to his desk. By unanimous
consent the O'Neill-Toy contested elec
lion ease was postponed. Mr. Catchings
introduced the Uiver and Harbor Approprlalion
liili. The House thou proceeded to ^
boar ?,ulo;'irs upon the life, character and
services of the lute liopretontativo Charles
O'Neill, of Pennsylvania.
J'Orn l>*>. Air. Boatiier iniro'liieed resolutions
asking A?torney-(ieneral Olney what
has Iteen iloii'11o protect Undo Sam in tho
I'liion I'ji.mII rii-ei version nm"eodin??S.??
Another day was wasted in the attempt to
secure a quorum 011 the election contests. *
f'lsr 1>av. ? .V <inorutn having been secured
the contest' election ease of O'Neill-Joy
from Missouri was decided in favor of Mr.'
O'Neill. Democrat, by a vote of 1.15 to 23. no
lb-publican* voting. Upon :v attempt to
unseat Mr. Ilillt ori), of California, and seat*
Mr. Lnglisli I he Democratic quorum failed.
The House adopted a resolution, presented
by Mr. t.rosvenor, of Ohio, looking to
a special in v ,-tigutlon of Governor Tillman'a
action in interfering with the railways and
telegraph in South Carolina.
!>2n Day. ?The attempt to pass tho Bland
bill over the President's veto failed. Th?^^^
contest from the Third California Distriaj
was decided in favor of \V. I). KnaMRb.
Democrat.
y3n l>*\ ?f'he Hour.; approvod^ine jour- ?
ual without fllibusterin ' or objection. J.
1. Islar. the newly--lectejA^ruember from
South Carolina, to succeed Itepreeentativo
Brawlev, was sworn iyftnd routine baslness
was taken up. The Bering Sea bill was
passe J, as were also ri.? Urgent Deficiency,
bill and Mr. Boatuer's resolutions calling upon
Attornc v-G.*ncrai Olney for information
regard!afif the action iukea by thft Departm?nt
of Justice to protect the interests of
the Uulted States in the Union Pacific re*
< eivership.
f)f i h !>sv. The l.iil w as passed authorizing
l lie Secret .try of the Interior to lease hotel
sites in Yellowstone I'.irk. Mr. ]>unphy
i hegnn a light to deprive tlio Korean of Engraving
of the postage stamp contract.
Mr. Livingston Introduced a hill for nn International
Exposition to l?c held at Atlanta,
(in. next year. The Postofilco Appropriation
hill occupied tin attention of the Ilonso
until roccps for an cvoning session to consider
pensions,