The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, July 27, 1894, Image 1
Denoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, l\dte Literature, Potitdoe and the Current Hete* Qj the Day. #
VOL. XXV.^N&W.SERIES, UNION G. Il.y SOUTH OAI^S)^VRIPAY, JULY 27,1894, _ NUMBER 30,
.. Russia proposes to tnnnol tho Caufasus
for a military railroad.
Nirjety-fivo per cent of vacant public
lands aro in the Arid regions.
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It Is claimed tlmt bettor metal ships
Can bo built at Sau Francisco thau in
tho East, bocauso bettor wood for thu
framowork can bo had thero.
p Canadians are preparing to barnes*
Tip their Biilo of Niagara Falls now. |
("Thoy know a good thing whou they |
Boo it," roranrks tho New Orleans Pio?
ayune.
Tho Rwamp rogions of this country
anil tho allavial districts of tho Misfeissippi
have 2,695,009 population,
inostly colored; in tho dosort an I
bomi-dcsort rogions thoro arc 1,1
nnr? . T>??1? Tvr.^?i r. > -
V?wy , 1U tuu AIUOUJ 1 y'9 9 J%000.
v Robort Liouis Stoveusou's estate in
Bamoa includes 400 acres of forest
land, and is situated at an clevatio n
rauging from GOO to 15)3 foot. Among
tho products of his plantation are
bread fruit, pineapples, bannas, coaaa,
india rubbor, sugar cane, ginger
fcava, taro, grenadillas, orangos. lime-?,
citrons, cocoanuts, mangoes, vanilla,
Coffee, cinnamon and guava.
1
. Why do not somo farmers who find
bo money in their present style of
crops try raising sunflower se.vl? asks
tho Courier-Journal. Tho North Carolina
Station found in experimenting
With sunflowers as a farm crop that
thoy paid well. Though a now thing
in this country it is not altogether
now, for Russia has raised this crop'
for years. At tho North Carolina 3b *
tion, tho avorago yiold was sixty-five
bushels. Thoro is really no wast.) to
the plants. Oil is oxprossod from the
Roods, and hulls or shells use 1 for
fuel. Tho stalks and seedcnp.s are fed
to shcop.
Two very ingenious contrivances for
- -ywviter _pounder*^havo"boou recently
ylaced on thrt npirlcot. Tho ono is
styled a "typewriter prism." It is a
rod of highly polisho I glass, fist-one I
to tho carriage beneath the impression
roller. Two of its silos are flat
and inclined to each other av. an
....I,. ,.r r__i ? f 1 - .i ?
Biigw ui i -HIV *u Vi! negroes ; hvj x:?i r i j
is ii strong cylin Irioal curve. This j
contrivance rodents the writingun 1 T- ]
noath, nn<l the lifting of the earring* \
to locate an error is thus obviate I. i
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The other device is an attachment, by
'
wliieh the writor can tell tho m n'or j
of words which ho lias pom lo I out of ;
liis inaeliino. 1
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Orvo f f the documents submitted by ,
Krnstus NViman's coiimol in tho ('.ana- i
_
dim's trial for forgery was a state- 1
in mi! showing the enormous profit* of
the mercantile agency business. Ac- |
j or tin g to this statement the Dun con- !
corn canto 1 $J4">,7d() in 1SH5, an l tho 1
profits steadily increased until, in
1 they roaehe 1 S"i2o,0')), making
the total for eight years of J'l.'l I d,?>!)).
"This enormous sum being tho net j
prolit of only onooon mru in tha Imiiu<ms,
" romirks tho Atlanta <
tioii. "wo lire only loft to <5 injooturo
how much money tho business men of
Am 'rioiv .spnii'l to loivrn tho iinanoial
icanlin'of ill- ir brothers, tin I inforontially
how enormous must 1m
tho original transa itiou > 11 (> >:i wiiioh
th?! ii'.jeuoy business is meroly u parasite.
"
From what wo rea 1 in tiio papers
f.y oil Won I 1 bj jusl'tie I
in believing tint tiey wore a roa<jh
ami vulvar lot. Aoontlomm just from
tho Wr it, mi 1 wh i has in my cowboy*
in his employ, surprise,! us not a littlu
l?y assuring us th it. 111 my of thos s nun
lire well- lui' ite 1; th it they boloi.^
to "oo 1 fit'u11i<:s, unil that many of
tiiioii nr.' not nl liot >1 to profanity ??p
iiit.'iup r.atr.'e. lie also ^ ivo in tlvi
important information that a her.I of
half-wil l rattle is as timi'l mil no"vous
as .s ? many sheep, an 1 that tho
li-w l'Ts, wh > fully un l'-rstan 1 th'vr
j> uliaritii'.--, are accustomed to soothe |
them, particularly in tho nicjht-tiiu.',
I?v siir_riii'_'. At the Hinlilou anooar
mice of tiny utriucpi object, or the
s 'tin 1 <>f any unfamiliar noise, llio
11? r' 1 Ktil'llpo l'-, ll!l I wilO'l till Cltth)
running, they are almost us difl8.cult
to chuck > ::: -untiiu lorivni, or
ii prairie lire. A? su"h times, >i part of
n cowboy's iluly is to rido around nil I
14 r< > It II < 1 tlio "iHlllch" of c ittlo, nillirill'
a how? - often ii iiyimi as melodiously
as he can. (Ii'ii lually th?j animals nr i
ipiieteil, And c >m.i to ii hilt, mi I drop
down, oil" by on", | ill at length they
are nil asleep, an 1 tin weary siuyor
can dismount from his panting hor.so.
fiiwl tfivo bin own tluoiit u ro*t.
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IN PRISON.
PRESIDENT DEBS NOW BEHIND IRON
BARS.
Adjudged in Contempt of Court Secaust
They Had Violated the Injunction Rest ruining
Them from Interference With
the Transmission of Mails and
With Inter-State Commerce.
Ctucaoo, Ilt,.?The report that additional
proceedings wore likely to be
taken by the Federal authorities against
President Debs anil his associate oft!
cers of the American Railway Union
had the effect of bringing a big crowd
to the United States Circuit Comt
room in the government buildingJudge
Seamnns, of Milwaukee, prosided
in the absence of Judge dross
cup.
Thero were lengthy arguments, lust
finally the court cut the discussion
short by ordering the issuance of at
tachments for contempt against Debs
Howard, Ktliher and Rogers, nnd instructed
the United States marshal to
wuivo service on the understanding
that the defendants would voluntarily
surrender at the bar of the court.
Judge Seamans fixed tin; additions'
bail at ?M,OdO each and ordered tinfour
men held in custody of the United
States marshal until the sureties
had been approved. Debs announced
for himself and the throe other defendants
that they would go to jail and
refuse to give additional bail on th
ground that their bondsmen in tlu
other ease? had been so bitterly at
taeked by the press that limy ieit a
great deal of hesitancy in asking any
more citizens to go additional bail for
them.
A Heoro or more of friends clustered
around them, urging them to reeon
eider the determination. One of the
number said that he waa worth a half
million dollars and would go bail for
the entire quartette. Others offered
to become individual surety for the
several defendants. Debs, however,
was obdurate, and in bis determination
was supported by bis associates
On their arrival at Hie jail the pris
oners were courteously received bv
.Tailor Morris ami .Jail Clerk White.
The marshal <lnl the introductory honors
and the prisoners shoc k lunula cordially
with their new custodian. At
the demand of the turnkeys they held
up their hands and submitted to a
search. They were deprived of nil
valuables and then led to the spacious
and roomy cells in the debtors' depaitment.
President Dubs and Vice President
Howard were assigned to No. 5,
and lingers and Ilclihor to No. 0. It
ww? wratv^d...iad.. "Avmh'h
neighboring restaurant, and the ptis-.
oneia were then left alone.
Two Livs: Hews /(ems.
Hat.f.ioii, N. ('.? SheritV MeDiail,
of Columbus comity, has arrived from
Wheeling, \V. Va., bringing with him
George Ark!e, who two years ago,
found on a train in North Carolina the
pocket book ol ex-Tn-asurer .J?? Im
11 ii rrnlc.oii, <>! Columbus containing
SOO ami valnal I. j apers. Arkle refused
to return tin in. (lovomnr Cnrr
lniidi; a requisition for Arkle. Sheriff
Mcl'liail says the Wheeling people rejoice
at his arrest, us he is not liked
there. Arklc'a wife accompanied liim
mid is at a hotel while he is in jail.
Democratic conventions held in
Craven and .loin s counties endorse
Tarv's for I'nited States Senator as
iigninst Jhuisom and instruct their
nominees for the legislature to Mite for
bin*. Theso coin ties and others demand
a primary < Section for senators
to lie held at the November election
This is a new departure in North Caro
iinit nnd the movcinent is significant.
Hurts' a South Carolina Seaport.
Prior to the opening of the Sue?.
Canal 1,0110 ships stopped lit damestown,
the port of St. Helena, every
year, and the f?,0(MI inhabitants of the
island were kept employed. Now
il. i n... 1 i . : i ?.* -?
i ii'ii mi* ciiiiiii juih hiiic-iriiciuiii 111e
island the young men are leaving to
tind wo Hi elsewhere, clVorts are being
made in London to start fisheries which
will aiTord occupation for the islanders.
This effect of ilic building of tliv
canal do s not appear remarkable, Init
it will surprise many people to hear
'hat the Sue/. Canal had very much to
do with deereasi tig t he t rude of (ieorgetown,
S. (!, An eminent citizen of
that port explains that much of the
timber used by tin: ship-builders of
Maine and New lliunswiek was imported
from < Jeorgetown, hut that the
construction of tlm Suez Canal made
the use of iron steamers practicable
for commerce with China and India
and thus dealt a heavy blow to American
ship-builders.
Storm and Lightning Fire.
Oot,t>rhoro, N. <5. ? During the
heavy thunder shower Sunday, lightning
h! r liek the 1 ill me use WiilehmiKO of
the <iohlnboro Storage hiiiI Wart house
('oinjiHiiy, igniting it ninl shout It ID
bales of cotton. KHicient work <>f flu:
tiro department |?rt-v? nt? ?I nit extensive
conflagration, Imt not before u portion
of the building and contents witrr badly
injured. T. I> (Sully and I1',. (5.
1 leach, proprietors of the North State
Cotton Mills here, who owned 210
bales, Hnll'er a loss of nearly .*? ">,OOP; no
insurance. Tim storage company's
100 bales foots up a loss of S'.'.OOO;
MJled. I lie damage to the warehouse
amounts to ?1,000, covered by insurance.
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flitleiyh's D'iHy Bowyht In,
llAf.r.i'iii, N*. (The N ews a ml Observer
was sold at auction by the receivers.
.1. N. Iloldinu was tlm buyer
and the price paid was -V,t.s|M. I he paper
will I eoui l u in d.a nd 11 b said in a ny
improvements will be made. Numbers
i?f persons at once Oth re I to take stock
if given the oppoi lenity.
THE PLATTORM COLLAPSED.
Carolinians Crowded on It to Keep Out of the
Rain.
Hampton, S. C.?Six hundred people
heard the campaign speakers here.
Before the speaking waa half over Tain
commenced to pour in torronts and
neither Butler nor Tillman had u
chance to make a connected speech at
olio timo. Men crowded on tho stand
to escape the raiu until the flooring
collapsed, but nobody was injured.
Butler defended the tariff* ttnd insisted
that the national democratic administration
should not bo condemned
when two yearn still remained for the
redemption of the plntforra pledges
Tillman, discussing the dispensary,
said that within two or three weeks
constables would be hunting blind
tigers again. This is taken ns a oloer
declaration that the dispensaries
will bo reopened as soon as Justiceelect
Gary takes bis seat on the
supreme bench July 20th instant. The
governor asserted that the dispensary
net of 1893 was still intact and that
when the net of 1899 \vnn declared mi.
constitutional ho unci Attorney Genera!
Buchanan had "taken to the woods
with it to prevent a test ease from being
brought beforo thj court." Tlio
majority of the crowd cheered for
Tillman.
SOU THERN TNVE)J T/ONS
Wasuinuton, 1). 0.?Patents have
been granted to the following meritorious
Southern inventions:
Clamp, Alta M. Cole, Asheville.N. C.
Proeeso of and apparatus for analyzing
gases, E. A. Uehling and A.
Steinburt, Birmingham, Ala.
Air blast attachment for thrashing
machines, W. L. Johnson and W. L.
Hay, Franklin, Tenn.
Car fender, L. C. Lamar,Oxford,
Miss.
Bouquet holder, Abbio L. Mnreton,
Bedford. La.
Watchman's time detector, Johaiit)
Matitsidi, Danville, Vu.
A New Textile fabric.
According to the Monitctir Industriel,
an invention depending on the
direct extraction of a tibrous material
from the bark of the mulberry tree lms
recently been patented. Without laying
claim exclusively to any special
process. the inventor* Mmm R. Khourl,
gives some details of the processes which
appear to him to supply the best practical
solution. "A quantity of tho bark
is placed in a basin of soft water. At
about twenty-one days it becomes mature
fpft
order to help tho removal of gummy
substances it is soaked for twenty-four
hours in a basin containing chloride ol
lime (o per cent on the quantity ol
bark.) It is then boiled in water for
from five to six hours, then immersed
in a basin of soft rater for twenty
hours and dried in the sun. This treatment
gives a product hitherto entirely
unknown, and which is suitable for the
manufacture of curtains, silk, paper,
cardboard, etc." It does not seem to
be worth while to take so much trouble
to get a little ''fibre" when there are
so many sheep and Angora goats ami
such things in the world, and when
cotton is selling at 7 cents a pound.
However, if the mulberry product if
valuable, it in another bonanza for the
South Sono* vnrictii'H of tlietreo grow
like weeds iu tins part of the world.
Mississippi's Paper Curreacy.
Jackson, Miss.?The State auditor
received another batch of ?2H,000 of
special warrants, and the olTiee force
has been buav all day issuing than.
So far j?l"Jo,<)!)<) have lieen issued, and
it is tic intention of olliciuls to keep on
till the ;?2()0,0lk> provided by law is in
eir. illation. They do not seem at all
dirtnrbed by Mr. linden's demand.
They feel certain when the Treasurer
of the United States fully understands
the question that he will not say any
law was violated by their issue. What
menus the (rovernor and auditor will
take to lay the question before the
United States Treasurer has not yet
been determined. They have poai<:
i.. .1i..a i '? *<
II \ ri \ ii<-citiru, MUM c\ci , III ignore .111.
Ma/en's ic'innnd. The Attorney (len?
r 111 says lie (lin-s not think the bunds
me in violation of law.
A Young Woman's Suicide.
Mauion, N. ('.?Mrs. Denton, wife
of Dlbeit Denton, of Pysartsville, in
this county, committed suicide by
han/fin/^ herself in lu r husband's barn
Monday night. Mrs. Denton was a
dan/filter of the late William 'I'ate, and
wiik a young woman of exemplary
character and excellent family connections.
No cause, so far, 1ms been assigned
for the unfortunate oecurranee.
Mrs. Denton lenvea a husband, two
small small children and a large circle
of relatives and friends to mourn her
untimely death.
Tivn kill a,I
T\ voxvit.i.K, Tf.nn. ? On July 4th
there wiis ti hliilt' <if slate ill Cumberland
(Jap tunnel. A of men were
I>111 to work nml since that tune two
other slides have occurred, in one of
which tieneral Hupe* intendeiit Wynne
nearly lost his life, and the other men
escaped just in the nick of timo. Mojjilay
uo'hf : !at< leli and t wo nico w* re
killed and another had his leg broken.
A Prominent f.fan DcnJ.
Mors i .1 ack' os, Va. Holieit T.
Harris, a veteran journalist and
prominent association orpaui/er of the
I'opnlist paity in Virginia, till troin
his carriage and died in a tew minutes
from heart failure, caused by the
shock. He MitVcrcd no bodil\ injury
other than shock. ilis latest newspa
pel connection was with the \'ir;*;ui*
bun, the I'opnlist orgau.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF.
Hon. Ceo. D. Tillman declinea to
rim for Governor of South Carolina.
L. H. Priolenu, eon of the lute C. K.
Priolenu, of Charleston, S. C., wot
married at St. Puul's church, Knights
bridge, London, to Miss Frunces Morris,
duughtcr of Gcuerul Sir 13. 11.
Morris, of tho British army.
F. E. Hege & Co., who are establishing
dog kennels, poultry yard*
rtiul ??pei. stock farm at Newborn, N.
('., have also bnilt a dam und will
ruiao bull frogs. Tlioy expect to market
about n thousand a year.
Joseph Bryan, colored, who lived
near Newborn, N. C., tied Iuh inult
to the railroad track, when be heard n
special engine coming. He rnu to rescue
his mule and in trying to do so
lie was himself struck by tlio engine
and killed.
The board of directors of the Western
State Hospital (lunatic asylum), at
Staunton, Vu., have elected nuothcr
female physician in place of the one
w ho lately resigned. The flew doctor
is Miss Hopkins,of Warm Springs, Va.
A PRACTICAL JOKER
Places a Sign on a Columbia Dispensary,
Announcing that it Would Open Aug. 1.
Coi.umiua, S. C.?Friday morning
the first thing which was noticed when
the people of the city came down the
street was the following sign hanging
in the door of Mr. Roach's dispensary:
; Will Open August 1st w ith a Full !
; Line of Choice Liquors. !
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It was at first thought that this sign
was official and the people of the city
had no further doubt about the matter.
Dispenser Roach, who sleeps in the
dispensary, however, drove up about
1 o'clock and declared that the sign
had been placed there by some joker
luring his absence and that lio knew
nothing about it.
LARGE POPULIST CONVENTION.
Arkansas Stato Convention Meets at Littlt
Rock.
TjIttlr Rook, Akk.?The largest
crowd of populists over assembled at
the state capital was in attendance at
West End park Thursday morning
when the people's party state convention
was called to order.. Fully 10,000
men, women and childie}n, nearly all
wearing "keep ott'tho f^rass" badges
cut. MfhineJ^i"** ''"-vus riiuTc permanent
chairman, j. IV. Dollioon secretary
and \V. jr. Manning assistant chairman.
After addresses by populist leaders
and the appointment of a committee
t>ii resolutions and platform, the convention
adjourned until Friday. W. J.
Parks, of LuFavette, will probably be
the gubernatorial nominee.
HIS BROTHER TOLD HIM TO SHOOT.
A Little Day's Fatal Faith in His 8 H.ct-prooi
Coat.
Wichita, K\n\?Clarliel 1 Wilkesson,
aged I I, was Killed I?v his brother Willie,
aged 11, and the mother of the
boys has become violently insane from
the shock.
The dead boy had been engaged for
Rome time in making what he thought
would prove a bullet-proof coat, fashioned,
he imagined, alter one of the
re out inventions.
Having completed it, he put it on,
pfave his younger brother a pistol, and
told him to shoot at him. The boy'a
aim was pood and hisbrotlmr fell dead,
the bullet having pierced his heart.
The So /th Carolina Fly Trap.
(St. Louis (J lobe-Democrat.)
"1 remember seeing a very singular
I hint in South Carolina last summer,"
said (VI. II. I'. Harris, of lhiltimore,
who was at the Southern last night,
"and I was told that it only grows in
that State. It is called the tlv trap,on
account of the extraordinary manner
in whirh it cnlehi-s llii-s In ulmtin it
t>r?:?11v resembles a tulip. During the
?la*v Hi" leaves. which form llic Imp,
lire wiilc open, but as soon as a fly
touches any ??f llieloiij? hairs which
fjrow within the leaves the trap suddenly
closes on the intruder and holds
it. last until its st nitrifies arc over,
w hen it slowly opens ajiiiin until closed
by another victim. The plant 1 saw
had ten or twelve dead flics in its tiup
that had been caueht in this manner."
So /th Carolina Leeds.
With the exception of Colorado,
South Carolina and Florida so far this
year have 1 milt more railroad track
than any id' the other States. Colorado
has built fifty-four mile-since.lanuary,
South Carolina lilty miles and Florida
forty-cijjht miles. The largest extension
of it system so fur inside this year
was in South Carolina, nnule hy the Athintie
Const Cine. The next wits in
Florida, made hy the Incksonville, St.
Augustine ninl Halifax IJiver. Tltert
has heen very little btiihliiio Koin^ on
for six months, the 11it11wiiy A^e putting
the total for the whole country sit
52r> miles.
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Mules in Trousers.
(From the Nebraska State Journal.)
'irorge Finney, an express wagon
tltiver, has clothed his mules' forelegs
in trousers. to speakino ,,j- jj, ||U said
that (lies bothered the forelegs of n
foilr-footed animal more than they did
the hind limits, and lie, therefore,
having some reapeet for the comfort
of his faithful savants, hid made a
pair of trousers to protect them from
the pests. The trousers were supported
hy suspenders passed up over
the backs of the animals.
PITHY NEWS ITEMS.
Tlio gold mining interests around
Benuettsville nre looking up.
Tlic Hnwnian Republic was proclaimed
at Honolulu ou July 4tli, with
San ford B. Dole as president.
The People's Party of Massachusetts
nominated u full ticket, headed by Geo.
H. Gary for Governor.
Thins have been completed for tlio
new high school building at Columbia,
s. c.
A sale of 953 shores of stork in tho
Lynchburg (Vu.) National Bank was
recently effecteil at $135 per sluire.
At Staunton, Vu., the Farmers' Mutual
Fire Insurance Co. has been chartered
with John ?T. Laren, of Greenville,
Va., as president. The. capital
stock is to be not less than 810,000.
"Ex-Governor Sherman, Iowa," it
is reported, "is now a 820 a month
clerk in a country store in the northern
part of the State." It is added
that he is a faithful and good clerk.
The construction of the new mill
-t l'el/.er, S. C., is moving right along,
"apt. 1C. A. Smythe, president of the
Vizer Co., is now North arranging for
the machinery.
The sale by the master in equity at
Mount Pleasant, Berkeley county, S.
will release from long litigation
tnd put upon the market.th" phosphate
tract of 510 acres at Ten-Mile Hill, ii
large portion of wliiek is said to eontain
a valuable deposit of high-grade
rock. The milling operations on this
met were stopped by an injunction
cvcral years ago.
The Pinevillo, N. C., Cotton Mill is
now to be put into operation.
Hydraulic engineers have made surveys
for water supply at the new Industrial
School for Girls at llock Hill,
S. C.; also at Agricultural ?fc Mechanical
College, Haleigh, N. 0.
Victor Taylor shot and killed Charley
Stuart near Cntawlm Station, N. C.,
Saturday night-. It appears to be a
case of self-defence; both were full of
One hundred and ninety six fresh
cases of cholera were reported at St.
Petersburg Tuesday and 70 more
deaths have been recorded.
A special from Burlington, Boone
county, O., says a mob of 20 masked
men took Louis Lnferdette from jail
shortly after midnight Monday night
and hung him. Luferdett was a tramp
and had murdered a farmer named
William Wheeler.
The umbrella trust, with headquarters
in New York and capitalized at
$8,000,000 has gone into the hands of
receivers.
A boiler at the Iteekleson ft Parmalee
Lumber Association Mills, Jacksonville,
N. (A, exploded Saturday
night, killing three colored men instantly
and fatally injuring u fourth.
SENATE EXCITEMENT.
Cane/ifiann/ C/mac/?r>o nmi Connfu* Cimf/i /?n.
dares that the House M ist be Told that
the Senate Bill or Hone at All Can
Pass.
Washington, 1). ('. ? Attracted hy
the expectation ??t" stormy scenes over
the disagreeing con fcrcnce report on
the tnrill' hill, spectators begun to Hoeh
into the Senate galleries its early as 11
o'clock ami when the chaplain's opening
prayer was begun, at noon, the
galleries were well tilled, though not
crowded. laidies in light summer
costumes, with fans in perpetual motion,
gave light and color to the scene.
Senat'/rs were in attendance in much
larger numbers than at any time since
the jiassagc of the tnrill hill.
Senators Smith, llill and Vest all
delivered lengthy and sensational
speeches.
There was great excitement during
the delivery of Mr. Hill's speech, and
there was still more when Mr. Vest in
a fervent ami impassioned hurst ol
oratory, defended the course of Democratic
Senators against the intimidation
in the President's letter.
Foreclosure Sale.
This has heen a not ihlo year for
foreclosure sides of railroads. Most of
the Southern roads so disposed of are
part of the Richmond Terminal, and
the sales art* made in pursuance of the
plaii of reorganization. The Richmond
?v Danville, Hast Tennessee,
Charlotte, ('<>1 nin 1 >iti ?V Aii^rustn am)
Columbia .V (lieenville have already
boon 1 ?<?iii*l11 l?y tin* Southern llailway
Co., ami llic following sales are lived:
Louisville Soiilliern, ! ?() miles, on
August ]('?; (Jeorgia I'tc ilie, fxili miles,
on August IS; Western North Carolina,
1105) miles, on August '21 ; Northwestern
North Carolina, 100 miles, on August
'J I ; Oxford A- Clarksxillc, (5(1
miles, on August J'J.
Greensboro Iron Works Sold.
(lUKKNsnoUo, N. C. 'I he North Carolina
Steel ami Iron Company's property
here was purchased by a syndicate,
represented bv (Sovernor black, o|
Pennsylvania, and A. A. Arthur, <>l
Tennessee. It will hereafter 1 ?* known
us tin- (Srrriishoro Iron nml Steel Company.
tin'! will d?? mi extensive business.
Letters of ilieol'|ior:itioii were
granted hy tin* secret m y of State.
To Sail Aro unrf the World
(Slirll.y, N. (V, Aurora.}
Miss Delia Dixon, (laughter of Rev.
Thomas Dixon, arrivril home last week
from New Yol k, w here lie has attended
for two years ineilieal lot'lurea. Sim
will sail next month for lapan, China,
Turkey, (Irerre, Italy, France ami
Kngland. She "ins as a companion to
Airs. V aiulerpoel, a wealthy New York I
lady, who is a inemherof Kcv. Thomas
Dixon, Jr.'s, church.
BELVA AT THE BAR.
How She was Admitted to Practice in Virginia.
Richmond, Va.?Of course you've
heard of the admittance of Mrs. Belvu
Lock wood to the Bar of the Supreme
Court of this State, but in the hope
that you have forgotten it I will treat
it as news and tell you about it.
It seems that in March of this year
Mrs. Lock wood went to Augusta
County nud was qualified to practice
at that Bur, being the first woman ever
admitted to that privilege since the
settlement of Virginia. The sensation
the Judge's action created shook the
foundations of the legal profession. It
was about the time of the revival of
the sull'rage question in New York, and
in some quarters was taken as suggestive
of the geneial feeling of the
Virginia Bar, but the fact is there
were good people who, when the news
came, acted as their ance stors did w hen
they heard Jefferson was elected President;
they hid their Bibles in foot
stools and other unlikely places and
looked for the coming of the Antichrist.
Unluckily for Mrs. Lock wood
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Court is very limitoil, and admission
to the Augusta County liar did not
mean admission to any other liar in
Virginia, so the lady d? termined t<make
her next trial in the Cireuit
Court of the city of llichmond. Tin
Judge of thia Circuit Court is one o<
the most eonrteoUK as well as learner
jurists in this part of the country, bid
his principles on the woman question
are probably those of a iuedifev.il
knight.
Mrs. Ijockwood appeared with he;
counsel and withoul her bonnet, claiming
no privilege of sex, you see, bin
simply and unostentatiously basin;
her plea on the Constitution of tin
United States and the statutes of Vir
ginia. They sny it wasa very nmusiu
scene. His honor was overtlowiii;
with respect for the person ami se
of the pleader, but though as a kniglof
chivalry he sighed, as a Judge o
the Circuit Court li^ denied, and th
more respectful his attitude to the lad;
the more hopeless the case for tin
would-be practitioner. When In .
counsel undertook to explain the Con
stitution of his country, however, h
the Judge, the game was up. Jli
Honor knew the Constitution befor<
he knew his letters; his grandfather
helped frame it, and so, with a suavilv
of manner which was doubtless billet
to hear, he delivered his opinion tin.
it never intended woman to praetielaw
at this or any other JJar of out
great country.
I cannot think of anything more exasperating
tlniu to Have to stand a
Mrs. Lock wood stood and hear a pane I
gyrie on the beauty and loveliness, am.
sweetness ol lair women, wlien sn.
was there for the purpose of ignoring
-vx altogether ami ashing to be eon
shirred ill the dictionary sense of man
in distinetion to the lower animals
When the .Judge of this oireuit had
bowed Mrs. Jmckwood out of his juris
dietion her indefatigable counsel went
over to Wytheville, where the Court
of Appeals was holding its summei
session. This time he took with him
another distinguished lawyer who argued
the ease, and to the surprise ot
the country won it.
Tom Reed Scared of his Wife.
(From the Boston Transcript.)
According to Kate Field, Ex-Speaker
Tom Reed is afraid only of his wife
and daughter when he is about to
speak a piece, and begs them to slay
at home, and tlu-y had to smuggle
themselves into the crowd without his
knowledge when he delivered his last
speech on the tariff. "Now, girls," he
said, appealingly, "you know 1 can't
do anything if you two are up there
looking at inc. Kitty, if I make u
failure, you ami your mother will he
responsible. I really think you might
stay away and persuade her to, when
you know just how I feel. I can't
help it. I don't care a continental
for the rest of the world, hut I do not
want you two in the gallery." What
could they do? Well, they did what
they had done before ? apparently
yielded to his entreaties, and let him
start for the Capitol a happier, hut not
w iser man. When lie was safely out
of sight they quietly left t he Shorehain
and went to the Capitol. They avoided
the gallery "Deserved lor Members'
Families," and went direct to the
public seats, where tliev saw and heard
? unseen by the timid Tsar.
THE BILL BY MR. BRANCH
To Devote to Charities tor Negroes Unclaimed
Pay of Colored Soldiers in the War.
Washington, I>. C.?Mr. llrnneh,
Democrat, of North Carolina, introduced
in the House a bill to appropriate
the amount of money in the
Treasury being unclaimed bounty and
pay due Union colored soldiers of tin
States of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina. Georgia, Florida.
Alabama, Mississippi,Lou i si ana, Tex as,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and
Kentucky, in proportion to the colored
popuhitioii of cucli State, to l>c
applied for the est'ililislinient of a
home or homes for the care of indigent
colored people or orphans, in
ancli manner as the I.rgi daltuca oi
those States shall provide.
The Seizure of Plates in Mississippi.
Jackson, Miss.? Auditor Stone received
a telegram from the St. Louis
Mank Note Company stating thai United
States officers had seized the plates
from which $'21)0,000 of special per
cent. Mississippi warrants were printed;
that the total nuinher of warrants had
Keen shipped and the plates enneelled.
The officials here anxiously await the
negotiation of Senator J. /. <leorgi
with the Treasury ollioials as per Auditor
Stone's letter. The question is
s assuming grave proportions.
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.
Tho Senate has confirmed W. F.
llarr, postmaster aft Anderson, 8. C.
In a head end collision on the East
Tennessee, Virginia A- Georgia road
between a freight and passenger train
near Macon, Gn., tho firemen of both
engines were killed.
Congressman I/.lar has secured the
appointment in the Government Printing
Office of W. H. Drayton, of Orangeburg,
S. C., and J. C. McDaniel,
of Colleton country, S. C.
Clifton 1?. Breckinridge,of Arkansas,
lias been nominated to be envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipoteutia- j
ry to Russia, vice Andrew D. White a
resigned. jr
Senator Georcre. of Mississippi.
introduced n joint resolution propoi^tft
mi Hinendineiit to the constitution ^Poviding
that eight hours sluill conRti^n^P i
day's work for persons engaged in
nuinuid labor, mid that persons lawfully
so engaged "shall not be unlawfully
hindered or obstructed."
The bill notorizing John E. Johnson
and others as keeper and crew of tho
life saving station at Hog Island, Va.,
to accept medals of honor and diplomas
from the King of Spain for saving tho
crew of the Spanish ship San Albano
on February 2, 181)2, passed the Senate,
also the bill authorizing Rear Admiral
G. Walker and Surgeon General
J. Kiifus Tryon, U. S. N., to aceept
decorations from the government of
Venezuela, also authorizing Communder
C. II. Davis, U. S. N., to accept
decoration from the King of Spain in
recognition of his services to the Infanta
Eulalie during her visit to the
World's Fair.
AN ATROCIOUS CRIME.
It is Suspected that Murder Was Planned
by the Family.
Rai<kioit, N. C.?The preliminary
trial of George Mills, charged with
murder and attempted criminal assault
on his niece, Miss Wimberly, near
here several weeks ago, was held here.
Several witnesses were introduced,
among them the father of tho murdered
girl, and two physicians, who
attended her after the assault.
Tho father acknowledged that he
made another daughter wash blood off
of Mill's clothes when he came back on
the nitrht of the tragedy and reported
(lit' fill's death. Hut tin; father denied
thai lie suitl that those spots would
break the neck of both of them if any
one else saw them.
The trial lasted throe hours and
en sled a great deal of interest. The
courthouse was crowded: "
The general belief is that Mills killed
the girl, but that her family )>launed
and caused the murder to save her and
the other Members from disgrace.
it is said that there is much evidence
of a very sen: r.t ional character that
.ill not In- brought out till the final
.rial, on September24th. At the close
of the trial to-day Mills was marched
back to prison, without bail.
Ministers Build a Tabernacle.
TjKNoih, N. ('.?North Carolina's local
ministers' conference, which was
organized twenty-live years ago, anil
which is the oldest organization of the
kind so far as is known anywhere iu
the world, met at Rutherford college
near here, the session lasting three
days. The quarter centennial was
celebrated with much enthusiasm.
Tlio conference lias built it tabernacle
at Uutherford college, ami lias selected
that iustitution l"??r the permanent
meeting place.
POLiTICAl. NEWS.
II. M. Wellborn of Wilkesboro.N. C.,
is a candidate for tin* nomination of
judge on the l'opulist ticket in his district.
Alleghany county, N.C., Democratic
convention instructs for Bower for
Congress, and for J. W. Todd,of Ashe,
for judge.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. '
'I'l.n ,1
1i> Ti w. ? Tin* S<*nato adjournail for look
r>' a <|tiorifn. without acting on tin* I.ngfgln*
V\ \ pproprint ion l?i 11.
I'l'.n I)av.?Tito 1 .ogislativii. Kxccntiva
nir < .1 ii iI ami l>istri<*l <?f ('olu'iitria A|>)>r>>:-riali"ii
wills wi-n* posso \
"iirii Day. Tin* Vgri.ailtiir il Appropriation
t-ill was p-issivl, with an aiimiwlmont
or I ring tin* i*xpi*n-lit nr.* <?f iI,IMHI,0(H) to oxtor
mill* tlx* liiis-oun tliistle. ?Mr. IVtT?>r
intr In I a i ?**l it ion asking < 'on gross to
r Mtornoy-tii'iioral t Hnnv f<> cnforoo tln?
h n an law against tint Eastern Kuilroivl
A-- i it ion.
I "i.Vrn I?ay. -Tin* day was oeotipiivl with
tin* ' oiisideration oi tim In linn Approprintion
l>ill.
I rn I> a v. Tli * Indian \pprnprlnlinn hilt
1 I I of II... ? rr
? ' j ? !-*-? -? i . i ii' i' j? mi ?? iii?' liiiin rvuf<T
-inM' was present" I an I r derrod.
1 "?7 i ii t?\v. -President I'levohind's letter to
Chairman Wilson was tin- subject of n sharp
debate, in wliieli .Messrs. Mill, Smith, Vest
mi ! others took part. Mr. Mill said that In
view of the I 'res j tent's letter, that holy had
no alternative hut to recede from its Tariff
hill amendments. Mr. Vilas moved tosfrlko
out i lie one- jtfhtii ota cent dilToroutial on
ri'llucu su^ar.
Tlio House.
171 > ir Pat.?The House sp^nt the day
considering t he IJevenue <"uttor Sorvico bill
wlliimi' vtitr.? upon if.
17-Vrti l>\v. 'Clio House discussed tlio
I'.aiiev Uankrupley bill. ?Tlio House adopt(
I a strong resolution approving the President*'
nurse in the strike. it was passed
without division, the minority not botntf
stron ; i'iioii^Ii to ;;et the yeas and nays.
I7r.ru I?\a . The House, after passing the
I'. ulev llankriipb-y bill by .a voto of 127 to
hi, devoted thereat of the day to tlio eon ideration
of lull reported bv tlie Committoo
on .1 a lieiary.
177ru May. Koutino businoss only was
Ir.insaeted.
17*<rii Dav. Chairman Wilson, in reporting
the disagreement ol tlio Tariff Conforenee
Committee, read a letter from tho
President, urifin^c 'he House not to adopt tho
Senate amen Iinents , Mr. lined also spoke.
The House then vote 1 to disagree, and tho
old eonh rees were reappointed.
17i?rii 1>ay. Tho 'J uekor resolution for
eleetion of Senators by tho popular votu
was discussed.