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Llevoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Sconcing, Polite Literature, Politic* and the Current Awi oj the Dny.
VOL. XXV.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1894. NUMBER Hi.
A Toronto 'Cauada^ minister bavi
one cause of the present depression is
the rush from lie farm to the citjr.
Houston, so the Post announces, is
now the largest city in Texas, its new
directory giving it a population of
61,530. "
T.or?l Koseberv, the new British Premier,
once introduced a biil to substitute
an elective Senate for the House
of Lords. He is said to l?o heartily in
favor of removing the veto i>o\vcr of
the Lord*.
m . n mm mm
Sheriff Rowan Tucker,of Fort Worth,
Texas, thinks that the substitution of
t - r ...
driuk of the State has hail a notable
effect in diminishing the number of
homicides.
Iter. Dr. Rainsford, of New York,
recently told his congregation to ?juit
giving away their niouey to indiscriminate
charity, but to give it to
him instead, as he knew how to do the
most good with it.
John Dump, the Labor nvm'brr of
the House of Commons, has delighted
London with a pun purely Euglish.
Correcting auotlrr member he referred
to the House of Lords, "Not as
the gilded ham her, sir, but as the
guilty chamber.'*
The use of carrier-pigeons has increased
to such a degiec that the
French Government has decided, to
impose severe penalties upon all persons
fouu<l keeping them without n
license, and to prohibit the importation
of foreign born pigeons, even
when merely destined for pie purposes,
the object being to prevent any
possible carrying of news with regard
to French military matters, should
there be necessity.
Tt appears that the Pall Mall Ga
zette, W. W. Astor's paper, got a big
scoop on Mr. Gladstone's resignation,
having annouuoed it exclusively several
weeks ago. Mr. Gladstone whkeeping
his intention secret, but some
one in his confidence betrayed him,
and went to the papers offering to sell
the information. Ho went to several
before the Pall Mall Gazette, but uoue
of them were credulous enough, or
mean enough, to pay him for his
treachery but Astor.
The United States Government is
seekiug bv piecept and example to
induce towns with names ending in
the forms burgh, borough, horn, and
burg, to adopt this last form. Burg
is the usual pronunciation in the
United States of the form burgh, and
most American-', refuse to sound the
final "h,"' even of Eliubnrgh. These
several hi Mixes, and, as well, bury,
brough, and birrow, are r dated to
the Anglo-Saxon verb bcorgau and the
German bergen, to hide or to slitter.
The several suffixes are also related to
several Anglo-Saxon forms meaning
an earthwork, an 1 from this came the
application of such .miMixes to indicate
a fortified town.
Everybody is iutoresicd in a love affair,
admits the New York Sun, but
that of Miss Martin Morris and Mr.
Jack Simousou, of O'ocrliu, Kan., is a
new step in the evolution of law.
Morris vs. Simonson rises to the dignity
of a precedent that will doubtless
be bound in calf ami go down generations
as "108 Kansas,'* or under some
kindred classification. Miss Morris
and Mr. Simonson were engaged,wheu
Mr. Simonson moved t<> Obeilin.
There he met Miss Florence Gilett, ft
school tsacher, and sought to marry
her. Meanwhile his letters to Miss
Morris grew colder mid finally ceased.
Mr. Simonson then sought to have
conveyed to Mias AiorriH turougn ins
sister that lie no longer loved her. and
was going to marrv Miss Gilett. Mis?
Morris immediately packed her trunk
and, going to Oberlin, proceeded to
get out an injunction restraining Mr.
Simynson from marrying Miss Gilett.
This bold step on Miss Morris's part
has half paralyzed the bar of the
State. Nobody ever heard of such a
thing before. Miss Morris's lawyers
vainly tried to get her to bring a
breach of promise suit. That they
could handle, there being numberless
precedents. Mis Monis would not
be persuaded. What she wanted was
not damages, but her young man. Not
having read Belzae, she savs that if
Mr. Simonaon can be restrained from
marrying Miss Gilett for a reasonable
time, she can win linn back
ill'" nmviT> <>i mi MII n I'-^nin
tho oaso hs a legal muI, ami neoni to
incline to tic- opinion that tin* action
is gronmle I in th oonrn >n law, sinl
that Mis* Moms n-ll uct another trv.
DA GAM A ESCAPES.
He Leaves the Portugese Vessel and Takes
Refuge in the Argentine Republic.
Bcexos Ay rf.s via Galveston.?The
insurgent a?linirn 1 T>h Gama, made liia
escape from the Portuguese war ship
nt 12:15 p. m., and arrived nt the
Buenos Ayres quHi'Antine station in
the evening. The Portuguese sailors
made no resistance to Iuh leaving the
war ship. The Mindella ami her companion
ship, the Alfonsode Alhmpieri,
sailed for Montevideo at 10 o'clock in
the morning. Admiral Da (lama, with
a number of his officers, wns confined
on board the Mindello awaiting the
arrival o' the steamei Angola, which
sailed from Lisbon April i to convey
him ami his followers t.? Portugal, the
remainder of his staff being similarly
held on board the Alfonso de Albuqueri.
Sunday afternoon a tug toning a
_ lirvhfor r>rr>wi?iir?n^ fftr jlie _
Portugese warships, steamed alongside
the Mindello and the lighter was made
fast to the war ship.
Da Gama and 32 of his officers went
on board the tug, cut the lines and
steamed away. No resistance wns offered
by the crew of the tug, which
facts suggests an arranged plan for the
escape of the insurgent ndmirnl and his
men. This theory is very much
strengthened by the attitude of the
owners of the tKg. They deny any
complicity whatever in the escape of
the men, and positively refuse to furnish
any details, but they admit {list
they expect compensation from Da
Gama or some one in his behalf.
The destination of the fugitive ad
imrnl is not known, lnit there isnn unconfirmed
rumor that he has been seen
in this city. This is not unlikely ns
Pa Ganin has friends here, ninny o?'
thcni of wealth and influence, and he
would have no difficulty in finding an
asylum.
The people of the Argentine Republic
generally are rejoicing over the cs
cape of Da (iama and the reports ?>f
Mello> success at Rio Grande Po-Sul.
These reports are not altogether trustworthy,
hut if General Gomcrcindo's
laud forces arerenlh co-operating with
Admiral Mello in air attack upon Rio
Grande Po-Sul, it is clear that, the
province of Parana lias been abandoned
to Pexioto.
RES TR/C TES IMMIGRA TION.
Pressure on Congress for More Stringent
Legislation on the Subject.
Washington, P. C.?The recent lawlessness
in the Pensylvania cool regions,
where Hungarians Abound, the
most of them being recent immigrants,
has given new spirit to the purpose to
insist that Congress shall prescribe
more stringent regulations. This subject
slumbers unaccountably, although
the pressure is great on Congress to
net speedily and vigorously. The de'
ninnd is from no particular section, but
from nearly quirters alike.
A complete change of opinion as to
immigration Iibh taken place throughout
the country as the result of the experience
of the past few years. From
the workships, farms, and mines, de
mauds for more restrictive laws as to
immigration are flowing in, without
an objection being heard from any
quarter. Indeed, it is an interesting
fact that the sentiment in favor of
greater restriction is strong among
recent immigrants. They nee that the
welfare of no class ia more at stake
than their own. Every fresh arrival
of immigrants hardens the lot of those
who have come before.
In political contests near at hand,
the immigration question is going to
figure as never before. Organizations
for more restrictive laws and for the
better enforcement of present laws are
growing up everywhere. If some of
them act unwisely, it dors not change
for fact. The non-action of Congress
only tends to increase activity throughout
the country.
Hoke Smith Learning to Dance.
Washington, I). (J. ? Hoke Smith is
learning to waltz. The head of the
Interior Department has determined
to shine in society and finds that he
cannot do so without knowing how to
dance. At several fashionable funetiow.;
this winter he has felt out of
place because of his ignorance of the
urf 4Art\cipluirtt?n oti/1 rloinmvino/1
that another winter will see him an expert
ballroom guide.
Secretary Smith does not wish to go
to a regular dancing academy; that
would be too prominent and atract too
much notice, especially as down in
Georgia he always said that dancing
was the silliest of amusements. So he
takes dancing lessons down in the Interior
Department building among the
patents. Hia instructor is his private
secretary, Claude Bennett by name, a
slender Biid poetic youth, who used to
be the Washington correspondent of
Secretary Smith's newspaper.
Thcrte dancing lessons take place at
night, late at night, when the building
is (juiet and only the watchmen aro
around. As all the watchmen are Georgia,
men, owing (heir appointment to
the Cabinet officer from thai State,
they mako no report of the scene of
frivolity that goes on in the room of
the Secretary. A curious part of the
affair is that Private Secretary Bennett
himself only learned to dance this winter.
so that his instruction to his chief
is not ?c. expert as it might (>o. Mr.
Smith ts said to be proving himself a
very apt pupil.
Gone to His Old Home.
Rmjominoton, Kev. Henij
TwestaH, former pantor of the Unita
riaii chnrrh of thin city, and who has
recently been n paator at .feraey City,
N. J., haa been appointed to tin: anperviaioii
and charge of the Union of
Liberal Chlirehoa of the State of North
Carolina. He has moved with hia family
to Aahoville, N. which in hia
birth ulaee.
MADELINE MAY 00 ON THE STAGE
B itterworih Says She is a Consummate
Actress and a Most Remarkable
Woman.
Washington, 1). C.? "Miss Pollard
is nil actress equal to Clnra Morris or
Sarah Bernhardt," said Ben Butterworth.
"Sho can simulate any passion
or emotion, and it is my opinion that
this is but the prelude to her going on
the stage. I cannot but think that was
one of her reasons for bringing the
suit mid iiiat it was brought in the
political and social capital for the <
theatrical and drnnintic effect it would
have upon the public mind.
"There was no excuse on earth for
bringing this suit. It was worse than
foul, pestilence-breeding contagion.
Far better it had been if yellow fc?er
had been spread broadcast over the
laud aud had entered every homo iu
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whose pollution is felt at every fireside.
"There is no condoning of Mr. '
Brecki lridge. He has done wrong.
Sue has done wrong. And especially
Iihr she done wrong in bringing this
suit. I do not think this ease will
destroy Brockiuridge's usefulness. He
will stand for re-election.
"Miss Pollard is tlio most remarkable
witness I ever saw or ever henrd
or ever rend of. She lias her ense
tliroroughly in hand. Every detail of
it. Never saw anything like the tact
and art of this w0111*11, If there is a
time when she has not a ready nnswer
she will make a pirn for sympathy to ,
gain time, and nil the time her mind is
active to coin some nice phrase or apt
011c in which to reply. 1
"She has nothing to gain if she wins
her suit, where hIic could have had
everything her own way had she so
willed. She could have gone anywhere
or done nnvthingf rnd a word from her
would have been '.aw with Breckinridge.
She could have had what nhu
wanted.
"If Breckinridge loses he will move
for a new trial; failing in that he will
appeal." *
MURDEROUS MOONSHINERS.
Two of Them Eight, One is Nearly Killed,
the Other Escaper.
Muupky, N. 0.?News has just 1
reached here of a terrible fleM U.a*
occurred h few days ago between two
moonshiners on the head of Hanging
Dog, a settlement six miles north of
here, in the interminable fastnesses of
dkc big mountains.
Several weeks ago the revenue officers
cut up a still of ono Wash Gaddis,
since which time ho has been acting in
tho capacity of distiller for Clayton.
A crowd was at Wash Gaddis's still,
drinking, singing and cutting up generally,
when Gaddis aod Clayton got
into a dispute about the division of
some whiskey. The lie was passed,
whereupon Clayton hit Geddis or. too
skull just above the right eye, crushing
it in, and then cut hini in the back iu
twy places, the gashes being t'rom four
to six inches long. Gaddis is iu a precarious
condition anil not expected to
live. Clayton is hiding in tho mountains
and has not yet been arrested.
Hoa Manf Leates on Tobacco?
German t-obacco growers have been
trying to settle the question that has
never been settled in this country, that
in: How pinny leaves should be left on
the tobacco plant? In one series of
trials plants having six leaves gave a
larger leaf surface than those with a
greater or less number. The thickness
of t lie leaf was increased as the number
of leaves decreased from six to one.
Our lot of tobacco plants was topped
and suekercd, another simply topped,
and a third lot neither topped nor
wickered. The size of the lenf was
greatest when topping and wickering
were practiced, about 2"> per cent less
when the plants were simply topped,
and least wlien neither was done.
Trials were mndeto aacertain the effect
on the size ftnd quality of the leaven of
topping to ten, twelve and fourteen
leaven per plant. Not only were the
total yields with fourteen leavcw the
largest, but these plants also gave the
Jargest vield of high grnde tobacco.
'Che leaves were larger and thicker
when fourteen leaves remained than
when twelve were left. In Connecticut
there is considerable diversity of ooin
i<i* and practice in regard to tobacco
growing.
$3,000 Worth of Fino Jertoy Caltta Killed.
Mr. Charles M. Pratt, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., has had S3,000 worth of the tinpst
Jerseys on Long Island killed oceans?
he believed they had tuberculosis. He
did this in spite of veterinarians who
assured him the cattle were nil right.
He did it because the cattle all responded
to the Koch test for tuberculosis.
administered by the Vermont
veterinarian, Frank A. Rich, and more
are likely to be killed. The value of
,he test is generally recognize:! in the
Northeastern St.ites. has never
been employed, so far as reported, in
any Southern State.
Congressmen Warner for Trjstee of Cornell.
Representative alumni of Cornell
University from various parts of the
country have united in nominating the
non. <ioriu i;c win warncr ot the |
claw of !S7'2, member of Congress
from New York, as a candidate for Aiutani
Trustee, Mr. Warner's services
when previously a member of the Board
of Trustees were regarded by Lis colleagues
as of great value.
Dreadful Work of Fire.
The Glamorgan Pipe and Iron
Works, of Lynchburg, Va., were totally
destroyed by fire Monday night.
The loss will bo between $7r>,000 and
<$11)0,(100. Insurance unknown. This
company employed about 800 work- |
men and had enough orders ahead to
.ruu then) six months.
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P1VHY JV '^MS
The Crofts >re Fftc- <
tory hns be uy W. H.
Cliafec.
Orangeburg, 8. C , is to have a telephone
exchange.
Taylorsville, C., is organizing a j
building and loen association.
Cleveland cot &ty, N. C., is well off. I
Tt has $4,654,38:in its treasury.
The Bank of Georgetown, 8. C., has #
declared a ?> per cent dividend to stock- ,
lloldelH. ^ , V
Dr. Werner. <_ 'tiouth Carolina, eon- '<
mil at Cologne, petitions through Sen- <
ater Butler for $600 additional for
clerk hire. ' '
George W. Pack is reported to have J
purchased 150 acres of lurid near Ashe
!1I" V c IKn r>1,o.'llln
Loan, Construction and Improvement (
Co., for $50,000.
A recent transfer of real estate in <
Norfolk, Va., consisted of a tract of >
land on Granby street for $83,000. It
is stated that Watt, Ronner A* Clay, 1
dry goods dealers will occupy it.
Jerry Simpson has been critically ill
for more than a week. He has a ^
kidney trouble alpn to Bright*s disease.
His physicians think, how over, that he |
will recover. He was better at last
an/?i\i?oA '
The New York Mail and Express i
says that Huns and Poles are to be im- i
ported to the cotton-growing States in
the South with a view to have them (
eventually take the place of the negro (
field hands. i
?The mills in Randolph county, N.
C., arc nil going on full time and they j
say the prospects arc good for business 1
this Hummer, The Randleman Hosiery (
Mills nre running ou full time nnd
turning out from 90 to 100 dozen pairs
hobo per day, 108 needle goods, fast
black and mixed. They are auticipa- 1
ting an enlargement of their plant soon.
State Phosphate Inspector A. W.
Jones arrived in Columbia, S. C., on i
the 4th inst. He reports that the
phosphate companies nre all now get- (
ting rapidly back to work, and that in
a very short time the phosphate fields
will be worked ns heretofore. He says i
the South Carolina industry will very i
soon assume its former station in the <
commercial world.
James Boylan, of Raleigh, has a colt
which is only 48* hours old, for which
he was yesterday offered $1,850.
The South CV.''olina Supreme Court :
hns met but made no decision regarding
the constitutionality of the dispensary
law, as anticipated.
A memorial window to "Stonewall"
Jackson is to be placed in the Presbyterian
Church at Lexington, Va., of
which he was a member.
Seven counties in Georgia were given
the names of distinguished South Carolinians.
They are: Brooks, in 1858,
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nun x I rnu'u u. x*i uu*n, v uiuwuii, 114
1854, after John C. Calhoun; Jasper,
in 1812, after Scrgt William Ja?per;
Laurens, in 1807, after Col. John Laurens;
Lowndes, in 1815, after Win.
Lowmles; McDuffie, in 1871, After
George McPnflie: Marion, in 1827,
after Gen. Francis Marion; Pickens, in
1853, after Gen. Andrew Pickens; Sumter,
in 1831, after Gen. Thomas Sumter
LEW WALLACE AND SHILOH.
The General Correct? Some Alleged Mistakes
of History About the Battle.
At the reunion of the Blue mid Gray
on the battlefield of Shiloh. Gen. Lew
Wallaeo corrected some alleged mistaken
of history. He said:
"I was held responsible for years for
the calamity which overtook the Federal
troopa the first day of the fight,
and before 1 received my orders. It
was said that 1 was a laggard and
marched only six miles that day; that
1 was going away from and not toward
the fight. I came here not to make a
speech, but to correct history. In going
over the line of my march on April
6, in company with the surveyor of
your county, 1 find by actual chain
measurement Ihnt, instead of six miles,
my ?livihoii lin?l marched eighteen miles
and a little over. 1 tirid that, instead
of marching away, every step won toward
the sound of the puna. Every
man who has been in an army known
that fourteen miles is an average day's
march for infantry. T marched eighteen
milea that day, and did it under the
most unfavorable circumstances,
through Owl Creek bottom, with the
mud up to the axles of the gun carriages.
I have been going over and
mnrkinr* Dip blip of fiorVif on fbo noi'/nul
day. I began the tight in the morning,
and ended it three-fourths of a ?nila
beyond the point occupied by Sherman
in the beginning."
iJcstrjciive Hail Storm In Texas.
The Times-Democrat special froin
San Antonio, Texas, says: "A dispatch
was received here from flillespieOoun
ty stating that that section was visted
by one of the severest hail storms ever
known there. Many cattle were killed
by the stones, which were six inches
in circumference. The great chunks
of ice went through root's of houses
and ruined the prospect for fruit crops."
A Bog ol Destiny.
Phcenix, Arizona. , a bobtaileci
dog which its destb 11 to make a place,
for himself in ?tory. Recently hf
broke up ? r.{:>? between hose teams.
He notsast). ??*f mourner at all funerals
hehl in the city. But now one more
has beeu added to his accomplishments.
On several occasions recently he has
stopped runaway horses by seizing the
lines in his teeth and holding ou till
he nnima stopped.?San Francisco
CJuvuiclc.
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HANTS TO PROVIDE MILLIONS OF MONEY
tale Has a Financial Proposition Which
Would Put Him on "Easy Street.''
(Washington Post.)
Tames M. Gain, of Yorkville, 111.,
ins sent to the members of Congress
'a text for new monetary system ami
mnking for the United States of
Uneric*."
A not? heading the hill snys that it
a hoped that the President and member
of both bonnes of Congress will
itudy its provisions carefully, and give
(his nation of people ft law that will
^mbraoe its features; also the tariff law
hnt will do justice to all )?* tt> of the
'onntry.
In the hill the author does not over
ook his own interests, and tIn* hill, ii
lassed, will, as one ineinher expressed
t, put Mr. Gale on "Jiasy street" for
ife.
T'm 'h'i'i'i iniin'ii'i'in'iiui ii' '?'t?m
under the control of the government,
inu nrnktw gold, silver, mckle aim
upper money metals, and provides fui
i inAv pnper interchangeable fur coin,
rhe capital uf the proposed bank is t<lie,
until otherwise ordered, $'.100,000,?()(),
$600,000,000 of pnper find $300,)00,000
uf ruin, half gold find hall
diver. Theeapitnl of the hunks may
lie snv sum from $ Id,000 tu $1,000,>00,
until all places needing ? hank
service shall have one National hanks
ire given the privilege of surrendering
their charters and beginning business
under the new system. Two eominisfiions
are established tu assist in the
locatiou of the hanks. The first is to
consist uf the Senators and mem hern
L>f the Fifty-third nud Fifty-fourth Congress.
The second is to consist of the
Vice President, the Comptroller of the
Currency, the cabinet officers, the
Supreme Court judges and Mrs. Cleveland.
Their business is to look lifter
ihe judicial interests of the country.
Mrs. Cleveland is to he president,
vice-president and secretary of this
commission, and for this extra service
>he hoard of hank managers is to set
apart 5 cents on the dollar out of the
first authorized issue of the new paper
money, which is to he divided into
r?0() equal parts; the pay of the persons
comprising the commission is to he one
part, except Mrs. Cleveland who is to
receive two shares. Two shares are
also to be paid to the children of Mrs.
Cleveland, to he loaned by her for
their benefit until thev are of aire.
Iii this section of the bill the Author
provides for liinself in payment for his
suggestion, ns follows:
"And it is further provided that
James M. Gale, the originator and proposer
of this system, nliull receive as
his reward and shrll have paid to liim
quarterly, one mill on the dollar for
all money issued by the government
from the passage of this net. He shall
have reserved for him the first bank
charter issued under this act for a bank
in his town (Yorkville, 111.) and shall
have deeded to him the Small Islands,
that is the remnant of an island in the
Fox river that separates the cities of
Yorkville and Bristol, one of which is
the most control and only appropriate
location for the bank and postoffiee for
the two cities."
He is to receive 000 for improving
the island amibuilding a bank and
postoffiee. If any of the appropriation
remains after the completion of
the office it is to be donated to Mr.
Gale.
Mr. (Isle has not appeared in Washington
to look after the interests of
hin bill.
A BRAVE CONFEDERATE DEAD.
Brigadier General Kershaw Dies at His Home
in Camden. S. G.
Colombia.?General J. 1>. Kershaw
(lied at Camden after a lingering illneHH.
He waa onu of the boat beloved
citizens of South Carolina. He waa a
veteran of the Mexican and the Meccaeion
wars. In the latter he rose to the
rank of brigadier general. For .^earf
ainee the war he waa judge of tt^S Circuit
Court. At the time of hia death
he was postmaster at Camden. The
Governor and other State ottieerawil]
attend hia funeral.
Monazite in North Carolina.
The mining, or rather washing, ol
monazite is bcconingquitc an industry
in western North Carolina. So far it
is confined to the counties of Burke,
McDowell, Rutherford and Cleveland
The mineral is found in the form o!
sand in the gold-benring gravel bedi
throughout Mini entiro section, the out
put being limited onlv to the demand
one party having offered to contract ti
supply 100 tons on short notice. Here
tofore a majority of the monazite used
in this country has been imported, bul
the discovery of the North Carolina
deposits will not only prove a greai
source of revenue to the above section
but must at least supply the Unitec
States. The methods employed ii
saving it Hife simply by the uscof "Lonp
Toms," or by ground sluicing, as ii
washing gold. The specific gravity o
the sand being greater than silica, i
accumulates in the boxes or sluicei
and is shoveled out, dried and sacked
for shipment.
Long Lived Masons
While there are only three men no*
living who were elected Governors o;
North Carolina (Vance, .Jarvis anc
Carr) yet of all the grand masters o
the Grand Lode of Masons electee
since 18t>3 only one has died, that on<
being H. F. Grainger, it is rcallj
extremely curious.
Senafnr Vance's Legs Para'y/eil
Wamninoton, l?. C. Gradually tin
really serious condition of Nenatoi
Vance's health is becoming known,
lie is paralyzed in his legs, in nddi
tion to the liver enlargement nlrcadj
mentioned.
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HE IS DEAD.
s[Karon zee vance gome.
He Has Passed Over the Hirer and is at Rest
Under the Shade of the Trees.
Washington, 1). (3.?Senator Zelmlon
II. Vunoe, of North Carolina, died
at. his residence, 1(?27 Massachusetts
avenue at 10:45 o'clock Saturday night.
The Senator had not been in good
health for the past year and in the enrly
part of the session of Congress was
compolietl to atmuuou ma senatorial
dutieo and take a trip to Florida in the
hope of recuperating. His tri|? proved
beneficial and on his return to Washington
he wrh able for s while to partially
resume liia official duties.
IHs iinproveinent, however, did not
continue long, and for the Inst few
weeks lie lias been eoutined to his
_ Knnim Up wwm Mrnrtimllv an invalid.
but has lately been abb' to rcoeixe a
few intimate friends and superintend
the looking after of the interests of his
constituents.
During the past week he has been
reported as doing well as could be expected
and the serious change for the
worse was wholly unexpected.
Shortly before 11 o'clock he had an
attack of apoplexy and became unconscious,
regaining consciousness only
?? few minutes before his death. His
wife, Thomas J. Allison,Harry Martin,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vance, Judge
W. A. Hoke and Uev. Dr. Pitzor and
Drs. W. W. Johnson and ixuflin were
nt his bed side when he died.
The great Senator's last end was
peaceful as an infant's. The terrible
pain seemed to have ceased. When
unconsciousness supervened he passed
into a sweet sleep which ushered his
spirit in a few hours into the eternal
sleep
lie died in the bosom of his family,
all of his nearest and dearest being at
the time around him, expecting
momentarily the event.
Zelmlon If. Vance was born in Buncombe
county. North Carolina, May
i't ihmo- i..
College, Tennessee, and at the University
of North Cnrolinn ; studied law,
was admitted to the bar in January,
1855, and was elected attorney for Buncombe
county the same year; was a
member of the State House of Commons
in 1854; was a Representative
from North Carolina in the Thirtytifth
and Thirty-sixth Congresses; entered
the Confederate army as captain
in May, 1861; was made colonel in
August, 1861; was elected Governor of
North Carolina in August, 1852, and
re-elected in August, 1861; was elected
to the United Stub's Senate in November,
1870, lint was refused admission,
and resigned in January, 187*2; was the
Democratic nominee for the United
States Senate in 1872 but was defeated
by a combination of bolting Democrats
ami Republicans; was elected
Governor of North Carolina for the
third time in 1876; was elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat in
place of A. S. Merritnon, Democrat;
took his seat March 18, 1875); and was
re-elected in 1881 and 185)0. His term
tif .mrviim uniiltl ltnvn jiviiinul Mnrcli
?, 1X97.
THK FUNERAL.
Monday at noon the Senate nut, ami
Senator Ransom announced the ilealli
of his colleague Senator Zcbulon
Vanee, after which it adjourned until
4 )?. in., w hen the funeral services were
held, the body lying in st'ite in the
marble room of the Senate.
The Home also adjourned and attended
the funeral sorvccs in a body.
, (lov. Carr telegraphed to Mrs. Vanee
requesting her to have the remains lit*
in state in Raleigh. Accordingly the
train, with a special car for the family,
placed at her service by the Seaboard
Air Hiiic, left the Sixth street depot
Monday night at 10:451 and reached
Raleigh Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock.
The body laid in state at the capitol
until 1 or 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Vast concourses of ] e.iple viewed the
CillllillllU f 'i kli tl'ik.l loiaklilil ti itlOi il u
I anxious to see the remains of- Senator
Vnnee as any one else.
Forced to Lire on Barnacles.
p Not many people are ever com,
polled to subsist solely on a d?et of
I barnacles, and when they are it is
generally after they have been ship
wrecked on some desert island, instead
j of in the midst of a wealthy Christian
H community. And yet that is what a
man lias been doing for several weeks.
He has often been seen climbing over
j the half-rotten piles in the vicinity of
t lie iunu uook. ai low itue ami scraping
oft the mollusks, but nobody paid
any attention to him until the other
lay he sat 011 a stringer ami began to
nuke a meal out of hie gift from the
sea.
"Do you like those things?" asked
a bystander, "and don't you know
they are poison?" "They haven't
poisoned me," answered the man,
"and I don't eat them because T like
them, but because 1 have nothing else
B and don't know when I will have."
I His story was only another chapter of
the terrible experiences of the unemployed
during the winter. He was an
unmarried man, and had wandered
around the streets of San Franc; noo
without food until he nearly dropped
r from exhaustion before he thought of
f eating the barnacles.
That was over three weeks ago, and
in the meantime he lias eaten nnthina
' else. He was perfectly willing to talk
i about himself as he greedily devoured
7 the tiny, raw bivalves. '"Pretty tough
food, ain't they?" asked the man who
was watching him. "You bet they
nre," he replied, throwing a handful
of shells into the bay, "but I would
i rather eat. them all the rest of my life
r than beg."?San Francisco Call.
r "London has about one hundred and
ftcvcnty-cight rainy daysin a y?ar._
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THE SOUTH CAROL!HA ROAD SOLO.
Wheeler H. Peck ham. for a Syndicate. Bid it
in for S 1,000.000.
OMaRiiKSTON, S. C. ? In pursuance of
the dooreo of the United States Conrt
made last December, the South Carolina
Railroad was sold at public auction
at 11 o'clock Friday. A large number ^
of prominent linaiiciers attended the
sale. But, little excitement attended <
the bidding. The road was sold tc /
Wheeler H. Peck ham, of Now York, f
who represented a syndicate of first
mortgage bondholders, for $1,000,001).
This amounts to the first mortgage
bondholders taking the road for their
bonds and paying $1,000,000 with
which to discharge prior liens and out- ^ ^ **
standing . indebted boss. The price*^
paid virtually amounts to something
less than $7,000,000.
The Ijouisville A* Nashville system,
which owna about $000,000., wojjjt^jgt"
ncntcd n1 the anlc by B. Probst, but
he took no part in tlmbidding. There
arc rumors to the effect that there in
an understanding besween the tirst
mortgage bondholders and the Poiiisvillc
A. Nashville people by which the
Intter may ultimately control the 1
property. I
Mr. Peokhnm deposited a check for j
$100,000 with Receiver Chamberlain ]
and the renmiiidct of the purchase
money will be paid within 20 days. H
Hosiery Mill at Valdese. With Joi n Meter in I
Charge. H
(Morgnnton, N. C., Herald.) B
John Meier, a Swiss gentleman, who B
lias been for the past two yearn su- H
periutenuent oi the tiats Hosiery Mills
in Charlotte, Iibh ?^iv??ii up his positiou
and is coining to Ynldcse to oltabliub a
liosicrv mill of bis own. The colony
has turned over to Mr. Meier the largo ^
two-story frame building designed for
n barn, and this will he at once remodeled
and re-arranged for tho
hosiery mill. Mr. Meier has already
contraeted for his machinery, and Dr. A
Prochct, on behalf of tho colonists,has A
closed a contract with him by tho terms ^fl
of which in consideration of the eosaic".
of certain lands, Mr. Meier agrees to
employ only Waldenscs in his mill for I
at least live years, The work of re- J
modeling the building has begun. Mr. J
Meier will come to Ynldcse in about A
two weeks to make his home. He will V
become n member of the colony, his ^
faith and language being identical A
with the Waldenscs, whose valleys fl
join those of his native land. fl
Cifi*]?niiiy Wunout Care.
Apropos of the prevailing inability /
of trainnicu on our elevated and other J
railroads to call out tV?> names of sta- A
tions with distinctness, a gentleman fl
who has lived for several years in H
Wales snvs that there is at least one fl
station in that country which tho rail- B
way guards are bound to pronounce fl
carefully. It is Caerphilly.?New 1
JTork Tribune. fl
Great B/rr.ing in G iff ah.
BcFFAiiO. N. Y. ? An electrie light* j.
wire caused the loss of $1,200,000 in V
Haines. The American Glucose Works, 1
the largest of the kind in the country, m
public fish market and Holmes' lumber ? J
yard were nil consumed. Six men
were burned to death. m
i
The Kaiser in Vienna.
Vienna. ? Emperor Willinn), of tiermany,
arrived here and wna met nt the
station l?v Kmperior Frniicis Joseph
and his brilliant stall*.
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Death of David Dudley Field.
New Your. ? 1 ">?ivi I Dudley Field
died suddenly at 0:00 Friday morning
of pneumonia.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. \
The Senate.
/ HI u,\Y.? i ii(! ntjiiHU' Mi!*ni3s?Mi uiu Dmu^ ^
Sea award an I Eugland's attitu lo thereon.
74 rif Day.?Mr. Hill made an attack on tho
income feature of the Tariff bill. Mr,
Walsh was sworn in as Senator from Georgia. |
73ra Day. Air. Lodge spoke on tho Tariff
bill. Waleott's resolution to coin Mexican.
silver dollars was passed. Mr. Coekrell
reported the Urgency Deficiency Appropria tion
hill. Tho principal amendments pro-^ 0
vide appropriations for United States court? t R
tSOOD is appropriated for Mrs. Sarah 11. Col- R
qultt, widow of Senator Colquitt, being one
year's salary. 9
76th Day. Air. Halo delivered a long I
speech in opposition to the Wils-m-Voorheeij 9
tariff bill. r
77 rn Day. The day was consumed l>y Mr.
PefTer, who continued his speech on tho M
Wilson hill. , 3
78th Day.?After some routine morning fl
business the Senate resumed the considers- I
tion of the Further Urgent Deficiency bill. ^
ilir. villi (fkmivi3vu IVI i i 'ii iii |l 1119 IU iiiukp
quorum. 'I. lie matter wont over. Whets
tne Tariff bill was taken up Mr. I'effor continued
his speech on the subject, the fourth
installment. fie was followed by Mr. Mitchell.
The House.
95tu Day.?Absenteeism on the part of,
Democrats and Republican filibustering resulted
in the waste of another day. Mr. j
Springer moved to discharge the warrant:
issued two weeks ago for the nrrest ofab-i
sentees. The Republicans, led by Mr. Reed,
declined to vote, and, as the Democrats
failed to muster a quorum, after a few rollcalls
the House adjourned.
96th Day. -It was District of Columbia
day and no business of general interest was1
transacted.
97th Day. The House devoted the entire
day to the Postoffloa Appropriation bill..
The attempt to inss-; tuo biii uu amendmnnt
tr> nri?v?>nr thfi Tinpaihi r%1 Kn.
graving aud Printing Iron nunufa during
postage stumps under the contract recently,
awarded to it by the Po3tofn.se Department
was defeated.
98th Da v.?Mr. Sperry introduced a bill t<>
establish a Bureau of Interstate Banks.?
The House got into a deadlock over a technical
Parliamentary question and no business1
was transacted.
99th Day.?A resolution introduced by tho
Committee on Rules, at the beginning of tho
session, to fine fHwnbera $10 for falling to ' *
vote on the call of the yens and nays, au l for
alisonce without leave, precipitated u season
of filibustering, which continued until i>.;>0p.
in., when adjournment was taken. Before
adjourning a resolution was adopted revoking
leaves of absence and directing the Kergeant-at-Arms
to telegraph absent members
that their preaenoo is required.
I 100th Da v. ? The JIqhso was In session only
A an hour, adjourning on account o' tho cau?
ens no sunrKli onil no Ituilaaii J