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44 VOL. xill. 11. 1 -NNa - - - , S. Cl., AN-1',1) ,%N-Eds1)Ay, s1".I 1I",111)I,1%, . 7,r"imrl 'r 117 S DIREFL PfREUiV' 11UN PROF. SERVSS CN THE B:RTH OF A NEW WORLD. Prue. oortsan s- ys the t~u u'iug G! 'be -x' the Sun Wi b- Uu-1-d (ut auto p -ce and Will I)stroy ihI- E>r'b The fcl'owing a:t'ce frcn the New York Journal ,ii be rit ad w it? ict r-; est: Whatever very be thought of ise alleged disc .-'rv Of Pr'escor S J C'rrigan, of the Gxd ell Observa-ory, of threte Lu.to ucrecog rz d planets circling between it e earth and tre sun and of anotherplanet yet utnfii-led and in prcc ss of evolution from the sun, the breaing off of which~ from the solar body thrratens the destrec tion of all iivir for:t s on the earth by fire, at any rate his saggestiou of the birth of these rcv serids out o: tte: central body of tthe s- irr svstem awak ens a train of thouizh.t which places the sun in a newv and starlirg light. Every astronomer knows that the sun is the parent of the earth and of all the other known planets; that trey are bone of tis bor.e aid fish of his flesh, and without him they never could have existed. The famous discovery, two years ago, of the strar ge solar element, helium, in the rccks of the earth, was really a teautiful proof of the substan tial identity of the two bedies, the sun and the earth. Helium on the earth is a mark of parentag", ike a pe<u Jar strain in the blood of an animal No astronomer doubts that our globe and all its ccmrades, has their origin from the sun. The separation of a vast molten mass from the sun would, no deubt, produce eff cts that might easily make themselves felt across many miu lions of miles of space. The fact is that we have, perhaps, been wrong in locking upon the. un as a body which has already passed through all the more violent stages of evolution and has entered upon a steady course of radiation and slow cooling, leading ultimately and placidly to gradual ex tinction in cold and gloom. I: is this view which has induced many mod ern thinkers to re j ct utterly the Scrip ture prophecies of a fiery end to the earth and to predict instead that when our globe reaches the termination of I its career as a living world cold, and not heat, will be the agent of its de struction; in other words, that the earth wil1 eventually free za to death. Speculating in this way, we have turned cur backs to tte sun and practi cally left it out of account, except, of course, so far as the conseq-zences of its gradual extinction are concern d. { But this-process of extinction has been regarded as something that wculd take place gradually, slowly, regularly, and without any catastrophic inter ruptions. In fact, many have been peering into interstellar space to see if some concealed danger, stnye hir den rock, some invisible wandering hulk of matter might not lie in wait there to bri.g sudden disaster by collision into ihe- otherwise smooth course of the flying earth. The keen light of . the great star Vega, millions and mil lionsasf miles away, but toward which we are moving with the sun, has even suggested that in the unthinkably re mote future, when we have arrived in the neighborhood of that star, a catas trophe may over'take us through thej terrible power and intensity' of is ra diation- and all the while close by us the sun has been shining and exhin ing evidences of its tremendcusenergyv for good and for.evil, some of which evidence~, perhaps, we have regarded too lightly or have interpreted wrong ly. Professor Corrigan is probably right in recalling us to a realization of the fact that, jast as we depzend upon the sun for Jight, heat and ble itself, so we should lock to the suin only whei' we try to lift the curtain that hideb the future fate of the globe we live on The idea which bee u uests, Ihat Lae birth of ane w world si.ould have the effect of destroying it~e ife of an older one, has a peculiar significance. Granted that a plAert may be born from the sun in the way he points cut,J tne conse qtcncesindicated might well' result. .ure on this earth is p ssible! only through a ves y dlelicate balance of concitions and ierces, and the evi dence is daily acc mrulating that even comparatively slight disturbances i the sun are cap~able of strcting ta balance in various was s. it is simply a question of the art ount and intensity of the eistubar ce propa gated from the sun whether it passes; in an electric sto.rm or produces some more sericous e ffect on the atmosphere of the earth. The well knovn pheno mena of sun spots are sailicient to in aicate the trrmendcus nature of those! m-'ergies 'which are continually active' 1 uae sun. The astronomer at his .,:escope sees a huge black s-pot on the' sc-lar d:sk, with torn and ragged edges, surreurded with heaped up masses of metallic vaisors, thousandsI of miles in height. H~e bebo'd; othe masses of such vapor spouting, a from the bowels of a trcmendous vol-1 cano, to an elevaticn o: hundreds of thousands of miles, and instant'v upon the appeara,.ce of tne solar outoreak eltetric impulses shcot roiund tte earth, play ing with the ttchgraptc in struments and waving mysterious auroral streaameis in the higier atmcs riere. Yet what has seen in tse sun and what has pre uced so surprismng an e ffect on the ea.r:b, is a mere notn ing compar-d w ith such an cutburstI as" would attend the binth of a new p lanet from the body of the sun.I The new world which Proifessor Ccrrigan sees about to be detache~d from the s-un nmay be somethmig simil lar to what took pla-e G~f Protkssor Dam win's matheinatics can be trusted) at the birth of the mocon. Then the earth was th~e parent body, from whtse side the satel:te was torn while bothj were yde in a molten condition, at-d the active agent in the firy birth was the centrifugal forrec of the earti's rotaion, secorded by the tide raisingI pop-er of the sun. la lie nman!rr th-e earth had its birdh fin mtuec kof m;e Sut whe the iatLar we5 sotxpataceu a it oc cupied all tae empty spac3 now ex tending between it and cur globe, and~ later on V enu, atd aftera~d ru ry, wCZC born !rom the slo-wly con tracting sun. All tePaes Lo~s ever, proba?bly rs Ma Are u m ssne of ri' gs surcu lest the mt an'J were r -l sarc.u viur te vioence from t:.e parent oy. N>K however, the. sunl hs become comac tetL and explcsive energies are siend ( up in it wich could n'u exist wnhen it was exar aog r so vrst a spcc asi nat which it filied at the time the earth was born. .a mass of matterI separtin from the sun at presentj A~CC +.U dzs :''(C crev '"a-c' very, f-rert from th< (S f'mer x x surz. The m:ei U}1u spols whlichl PLave pued ainmr eam leo :w them r ib his n 't t'lesc re. the tren-er dous u; a fa trom , e ti ready been rr adec; th'e i -)!' s : r!:. i uin, and th- UUxp'si' d .er. e' c'aracter (f ali I b s eted Snomera. :ike the eob' d n , of a tire, are reg-d-d by Profess e 'r ara as proofs; thait the, t:rre isi n-ear ar d perbay~s just et ha wl-en ar otter rnanetary -irth is ti take Slace. The seas th e baz ng faculae, streakirg the solar surfatce at inter veis, the violent outbursts follo-.v d by sussidences, all these are regarded as in ications of the straining of the eiit in its birth throes. When the detachment of the matter that is to form the nev planet occus, pIenomena such as no man- eger be ueld must present them selves in the sun. Stars have been knovn sud derl5 to bL z forth with hundreds a:.d even thousands of times their form: r iatrn sity. Something of this kind would probably occur if the predicted birth should take place in the sun. \ iewed from the depths of the universe the sun-visible from that distance cnir as a star-wou'd burst out with an ex traordinary display of brilliancy. I Spectroscopic observations would show a sudden intensification of its radlative energv, and violent movements in the neighborhood of its surfac would be revealed by the shifting of the safc troscopic lines In the course of time the fact would became evi ent tht a re17 fiery body had made i s appear ace clese to the sun, and from this body the processes o: evolutior., aeit ing :hiro.2h long ages, would pr;:u e the fu'l fledged planet rith its rocky ruxt. and, if the conci:ions w're far rable, its coverim: of vegetation and its complement of living frms. In the meantiae the fierc output 'rom the sun would have c ns . d the face of the earth, and our pilan would float in srace, wrC.ksi and abandoned, with no sur of life un:. is cindery .urface. TVe past history of the earto, howvever, enaoies us to :ay what would be the mai s.eps in the evolution of the new world, whose birth had cost the life of its elder sis ter. The eve of science would be able to see, dimly shininz through the hotl vapor playing over the new born! world, its future living forms existing like germs within it. Science per eeives no occa-"n for a mirecle in hese things. Processes of the same'j order as those which are able toj change a blsz-ng gas into a solid rock can, with equal ease, fviv ibe mus-s c'es of a tiger arcd the brtin ;f nau from elements wrich, io their o-igiual state, are blinding bri;h toms iii the shining sun. WatE r atmospi ere. metals 'oak-all ould be intermirgled an-, indistin gishable in the tiery mass that nad pa ted from the sun. but as it cooled lid chemical uuti ns igs:an to take p'. e among its atonms and 'rav tatiou! d"'(ua!!' brought it into stape these hings wou d assume ti: forms,such -s th~e earth krows them I, t of the wildest chaos muld come, )rdr, beauty and the evident ricgc of aw. Bat if Profess 'r Cc:rrigan's predic ion is well fcundejaad a new is about to be added to the sc f ty, and the earth is in danger fro-o the consquerc:s of the disturbince tnt the birth of the new worl~d wil reate, yet it wr-uh-l r..t folio'v thr anewest men :-r of the syst-'m to be t aual in magnitude and imnpor ance to the clder c'es. The three new plares which Profes-:r Corrigan thiuks he has found nearer to the sui.a than the ancient planet Mercury are al. comparatively small bodies. and te circumstrca of its formal2ion: n id prescribe for the one t5bat is yct~ -et separated f rom the sun a simuar sn nfiarce in mnagnitude. ort av :. is oroit will be so near tae sun ' consumirg heat must ctatinue o ia upon its surface as longz as the u remaiT s in its present ste, so tat the chances would appear tobo . 3against the development ojf ;iving 'o'rms upon it. ProessrCorrigan evidntly thins that the birth of one of the smnall in tra-Mercurial planets just referredi to ws the cause of the estatrophe which ~ecogy indicates overtook the eart oe twenty odd millions o-f years go. Since that disaster, howvever. the earth has recovered its livin fores an avanced to a stsge of evos a.mnu at eyond anything that existed pre voufy. ~GaRRETT P. SE1tviss. aH-eteras otacn Stamen:. I Scretary Hester's Nw O:ies,.s cot o exchange statement is~ued F'raiy, ows that the amount broughit into. sicht for the week ending Friday af teroon is 253,000 bales agsast 3t7, 000 tor the seven days ending Septem or 17, last year. Tim- s:atemua-t ows receiots at til Unt-d : e Dorts since 'Septem'ber 1, of 292,2)00 bales, against 4t8 37) ior tcie cories ponding pDriod iaet er. Foreg l~ ex rts for the 17 d ys have o;n 64,-|5 1$7 against 145,141, I.cl dU... amouns eft over in st-se- :oun e lsst .:roi and the nun:r (f bo ed broghtinto s:(ght itus fir f~ h new crop, the supply to d&m is 537 ast 923,47 'or thes: tgo last year. Tne wals of cotton tUday iS 1,139 74 lat year. 0. 'is l' ta American- cato is 91 J M ) S.2 ,23 s:u we i arid 1 ".A,5a Duel to ii Dedh aid Cnaries P.' ?asseil; o o fras, two 0' the "'n-' proue ; men of that section~.. wno -ad shot alnd killed each 'tn at A bo'n pse of busi's relative 10 a la-: in a qprrel andI an agreenAses to mee at.A.ccottfor th fi~nsisuen - A' he a pinted .hour cnari s . n dpt and drew pistois, exc..nn' a umber of shots. Bh me-' fe and xpr d ithbna a -in tes Iis understood that an a.ranemen!' a been reachled in the muro h '.gerus -a ac m- s t' o ino M. . 1. Sainau , w 9.e me n 'te or gree~ak will b1 reeedb FIVE YiEN LYNCIIE1 VENGEANCE WREAKED ON ROBERS IN INDI.NA. 'rth M-n Draig'd Out of .Jat, : t Up Tr 'he-r by Their Fteucw (Cizn on thy Same Trec in t he T:wn cf Vrsaait. Wednesdav vwas t' most exc.t:ieg day in the history of Versailles, idi ann. The bodies of five men who Lad been luehzd the nitht befcre were found hangir: to.other on the same Irce near the j a:1 We;sesday ririg. F I sears s lnent Idia:a has N en a11 eted with lawless gan s. The ra ilways and express companies breae up the depredations of these an2s along their lines and latterly they have greyed upon the citizens. Tae citizens have t ken the i. ir;to their own hands in this locality before, bat never to such an m xtert as touay. Te Reno broth ers were lynched together at Seymour. Ind., 20 years ago, and the Meyer gang, three in number. were strung up togct'er at Snoals. Ind . 32 years ago. There have b:I nume:cus lvcchinr of oe at a tue, t u: tre j b lot" of five tcday breaks the ecorci. Toat an unusual state of feeling existed is shovu h:- the deter minateln of the mob, which led it to Uie ferreity of First killing three men in the jiil ard thmen drigg ig the it iae au, dead togethr arid hanging then to the same irce. It is notable. too. that n otttrnge that usuali1y rouses a mo:s ven gearce, no murcer, w.as chair.:ed agemt_,t ther victin-s, butt th:ir death was tpcreed because of lng and txasneraling sufferin from robery, some of whica were a:c'ru panied by torture of the vic:ims. The extement o& the day was not lessen ed by tha, suppressed hints tnat more bjeCts of the neople's wrath would' be made to suffer in the same w ty. Stout rcp"s, not over six feet in e:th, had served to send each to his -trnity, and their feet were but a few inches from the ground Versailles is a town of 800 peoule. It is one of the Iyest ia the State, and although it is tie miles from a railroad station atd has no telegraphic communication with the ou:side wvorld, it is still the county seat. Ftr Liar or fice years ard even longer, the farmers of the county hove b-'n the vicims of a lawless ganz. Farmers wou'd come into tonwitha bach _ c.- tle r load of farmi:g troducts and net' :nrniag they would be fLund along the roadside su:fYring froe a wound a'd minus the prcc-'s of their sre. OAd German farmers htave teen visit ed, and bot!h men and women have been subjacted to tortures. Aged German women have been forced to s:and uron a red hot stove in an e IIbrt to c".mpel them to disclose the hiding !"_e of some treasure in the house. These depredations have continued ceasingly. Arrests have been made, ut the guilty psrtis had cav ere up their lawlegsnes; and . wit seldom that coaviciop follaied. Aew weeks befor- th% lyrebg robberies had increased alar.ningly o Saturday prcc':edingj the terrible butchery word was receavia by tae shrirf that a store about ten iles from Veraaiifks was to be entered he info mation was given by one of he garg's confedera-.es, who had been tdr suspicion. Sh riff Henry Basbng arralged thct his informanm : ould accompiauy the~m, and secarmg ixe deDnmies they wszt to .ne place Sherff Bushin. conceald bimself in .e celar, while his deputies were 'aineda a con venient distarc~e out d. snortly after midnig ht the gang reached ti e store. Cu:Kard G 'rdon d the sheritits in formiant were desig aed to bre.k into the building. Groon hiself dlrnel an entrance, ad just as he stepped inside t'-e sher ifeabe him. Both pulled pistols at he vm ime and began firing Bert m'~a was with the robbers and he, o, j~ i'd mi tue fiujide, while the L'eputies came to the assistarnce of ine The teraf was shot throughs the n andi Gordon was shot sevrai .ies Trce pistol balls entered i 'od v and he0 was shot in the leg. Gor no'arnd Andrews succseded in escap . andi went to Usgoc d. where tr ey1 ere arrested. Tne robbers had dr n out to t he place in a buggy b&lone ng to Lyle Levy, and fro:i7informa tion sucsequmntly gatuered, it wes learned that the robbery had been aaned at the home of Williamn Jen iins. Tne t wo latter were arreszed as csorkcs. All wcre taken to the ji at Versaiikes. Henry Schu'ter, .ged 24 years, w:as put ia the jlil for robning the harhrcshuop at Os ood last week. L evi w-as 57 s ears of ae, Gardon 23, Andre ys 30 and Jyn is 27. It was 1 o'clock Vvednesday norning when hcrso'men seeme~d to aze from all gaart -rs and dismount d on a biisid eunr Versailles. Little iie was Irs:, fror the ceasils had ceen oi a.c d iiate n rne -jul ns Rashian1's br \ne i-ei. e~ I nne . I Uf': ofU e pr .e a a0redec a. inth: wee ci-rg r n a od R n rt 'Crett Wii D onkun and L ' We az1 dep-s. e a th a d '0l nio he jdi. hrkeof e i:.aes Ja i s ... --1 : . e e n t-. fo m4 is 5. ho~t ti .r th *sr v~ere u h d a a 'c c'oi. Lun.'xa ne~ ru'' a x'-e neek r --. .rftd -.. nd..O 1"" were tiuion 1sudc !.,r tI e nsc sa.Te ee05 car d, bauz.itnL. ver : /. toa l e whr heboie 'kin ) n *ute ere dedxfr ths rached t the plae. t --au ed rd tsra Iu lat cnate cr.o d-Ls Oed o'Ar-e on - n. ry ?r~ti v? ' it r~i 31' fl pa.cf, restlidet ..a( vunotrs. r,ot one was he-ri ?" rxre's a woad c con demtrain : jrngh.ts work. The l ro1:'C of V rs&'les dtclare theu th? heseI: 1 non re:iden:s ut' .a i :ig in or ear i^. n sa :* u.r. td"urrient of a p.rov l (.: ti": ti a ali d it is said tha:t no 2f r. , li. r osre to epprti-e:i nryc.T. SU C BFUL ROUND BALE. N ix r#, N.' :dr. No IaggNi:, Ni 11 4, A1 'o-tton. T.ne; r:c "s of putting u , e t t i'n ri4und bi-.ls is d:stiad to rvo tr in i the i iig fcr shi.en, of t.' "r 8 +t" ern tspze. Tie ie process i. ; i: - . : i" i.e3 at ;h E c - s iic in Nashill:te, and all cottern m'en who Lave exainr.d h process trclain it a sucss In spei n of the matttr te "ahviie A r:can -"The American Cottoe! ern p) Lny nmde experi rents coveri: severa oaes of round cotton widht3 i neb Cotton cloth, weihig 15 otuCeS per? Card. T::tare cu tlese L la's will not txcted thiee .uocs per oa'e. The cloth proned strog!i e nouh anai m. :es a scod sutlai covering. Tne cos of t cS o is ^ .iil not c-':d 3i cemts per by , tnd the strong ariu mf using it is trat i is made'. in t e b :li and c2 b usu: again f"r' : r p )r.os s and ,"sicis i: v: d. a ,y til, if ad.t d (?s it eaa b' to a . pr..ti:.) iih- truo. -me qust'io of tariff djTit:. --n I!. dh! j :te b ggig and imprttd L varp-ol '-The bae is- ropale plcrrad,' N s tar , LO tarit, no baggig, to tits, all cot:on " Esitors :re carried aw:ay ith th is n cdr al revolution i the cottou idustyt. T Le showing of :rm.tj savi's grow day by day, as is provenb b; setu:1 resulits. Toe company is dicking to their standard 425 pounds bale, not bemuse it is to their benefit; quite to the contrary, for they turned out a bale at one of their plart in Texas ytstergay we:thing 700 pound, ' ijth a density of a fraction over 4l; no. nds to the cubic foot. But these large packoaes, tney claim, are nct only incnuvetxient to bandie, but they ara an inj;stic, to labor. Tne 425 pound baks aire made to conform tot the strecgth of a man. and all railrcad iaboring men hail this change with approval. -Sonme of the most prominent advo cates of this new system, and foremost among them Mr. Stephen A. Knight of Providence, R. I, have urged the compary i)t to increase the weight of the covering of cotton. The results of these tests are phenomenal, when it is considered that the cid box bale has to be "tared" 25 pounds per bale. The weight of the bile of cotton is also approved by the manufacturers, and boih the four foot length and weight of their standard bale was suggested and urged by one of the most promi nent rs1ircad me.n .a all the s.thera est:oni c~un:tey." Col. Mike Diona of Barn well rit install a Qcclindrical plant there and commence operations the latter part of the present week. B'.ryan on Dour.r Wheat. W. J. Dryan rccently wrote a letter to the St. LiuisPostDispatch in which he say's: "Wheat has risen bmcsause the~ foteign crop has been exceedingly short. Toe fact that silver and wheat hve parted company will cause no cismay to those who understand that the law of supply and demand regu-I ates the price of both. Nothing can rtter disclose the weakness of the R&pubican position than the j y man iRestei by the R :publicans over events for wvhich their administration and thaeir polities are in no wise responsi ble. If t's .Republicans desire to :laim credit for the high price of~ wheat. they must~ ass ame toae responsi ijlity for the famine in India. A great rie in price should b'e follow d by a~ rise of w.ger. Mr. Bryan says that the j:oy over the irncrease of moneyj rm wrheat is evidence that we have oo itLie mor.ey ; that if tbe farmers are b-:netitted ov the rise in one ot their uroduc:.s, how macai better would t e tf the rise was universal; that the p:cC of wheat iii fall when toe for ~ign demand bWcimes normal and that the present spasmodic rise will aid rather than iuj are thme cause of Throat ouit tram Ear to Ea&r. Jo Goss while acting as pollee-t ar: in Brookiand, Columbia's neigh ooring to wn, was instantly killed 'Sat urday aftern oon by Robert Hook, a youg farmer of Lexington c~unty. it aprars that Kinsler Rook, a brotn er of the man who did the kiliing, was bcing arrested by Otficer Gossi whn Robert tl.pped up bet~id him! nd v aa his pocket knife in the police a's throat G ss wras sati from eare ti ar. He, died instantly. J..ter the~ alfa b Robert. Hi.k and anather broth 'r, L ', -o on a horse an'd thd peilconstables Lave te':n cernt uter t.et:2 Kiasler, who is wanted >:l fr a misdemeanor ass been locCk co (xGosswork d in tLb CAlumbiaI D:airg noilis and had j nt returned romn worka when he0 attumpted to ar re K'1sler Erk. He ~are fo liehs~e an hd b en herea'outaI the i A-erai~oa avs giva ou t l thts wh ~ e to leave that city; 'o C 'ri'-toa and sa-auu.ao, whiachf stes V o .q aranti2i' aguiinst yIo-;0se ..:Isf ragin -rong ian d tr o.t' -.inV ~ cerliajr n the c ; C lui ns wh, ~,o wanted to l-1v th city n Li e. ;ou-a their way~t to e ct hl- buili: ad mad re-F oucc C' that those traveu'g 'from -arsan Columbi can pas quar Shp 31000 [usadtr Dse s re~sived c-.ir the~ i~m~le m enra. we d ln A U)A ti tU LU1V TO THE ORIG-NAL PACKAGE ESTAB LISPMENTS. The RItrode tSy that L'(1pors In ottles When N.t l'ckced In Casen or Cask, Arc, Nut in Pr p-r !hipp'ig Condi tion. Sme ci ti-e ratiroads are getting ti:t(i of handing the original package vtuff and nronese to refuse it shipment is future. The tr-o most extensive r i.rosd systems in the State. the South ,rn sr d the Atlantic Ccast Line, have i1ned circulars to the above Ef- ct. The followting is the circular of the iuthern laiiivcy Cornpany, Grter-erl Freig Department. Trwr~yrtation of interstate ship ,fents of spirituous a:: d malt liquors t" p^-m-s vithin the State of South Nolie to shippers and conractira !ires: Ccus l hsvirg decided that spirit uous and ralt liqu rs in bottles when not packed in cases or casks are not in proper sippine condition, and that the utii form of release will not re sieve the conipaLc fromt liability in case cf damage by wreckage, notice is hereby siven that on and after Sep tem ber 16:b, 1897, shipnents of spirit ucus or malt liq Fors in glass loose not packed in cases. ke2s or casks, will of be accepted by this company for 'rarsnortation. Issied Septer er 9.h, 1S7, by H F. Smi~, irenerai freight agent, Wash icst'n, D. C. EiL clive Sn'ermeber 16 h. 1897. An mroved :v J Li Cule tr tic manager. WVashing t-m, D C. I: il b: i.( t d that in the circular of the Sou'hern, it is stated "that s ioments of spiritcus or malt liquors in class lcose, n t packed in cases, kegs or casks, will not be accepted." It will be remembered that shortly after the decision of Judge Simonten, many shipmcents of "original pack ages" the bottles being wrapped in tissue paper and packed in sawdust in the car, were received by agents. The cxtra n-ecaution of shippicg in saw dust wius. of coarse, done for no other purpose than to prevent breaksges. Bat the circular ststes particularly that 'originals" cannot now be so shipped. It appears that the alterna tive of this is, that if each bottle is se curely fastened in a wooden box then "original packages" can be shipped. Again, it would appear, from the circular, that if a jag of whiskey is se curelv packed in "small half barrel siz?," for instance, the road will ship the same. The following is the circular of the Atlantic Coast Line, which speaks for itsilf: Wilmington. N. C., Sept. 9, 1897. To Agents and C.nnections: Referring to Circular No. D. 130, subject: Handling shipments of liquor to noints in South Carolina. Inasmuch as our legal department ad:vises that the release adopted for shipments of liquor in bottles, packed i separate cases, will not be of legal ufact to protect us acainst loss, in case of wreckage caused by our own negligence, aid as property is not in shipping condition without a legally effctive release, we give notice that, from and after September 35th, we will not receive shipments of liquor so packed. Circulars Nos. 33S4 and 3385, Au gust 7th, 1894. con tinue in effect. issued by H. M. Enerson, general freight agent. Approved: T. M. Eme~rson, trafice nanger. It was learned from reliable author ity that the Columbia, Newberry and Laurerns road and the Seaboard Air Line had issued circulars quite similar! to that of the Coast Line. In connection with the recent cir clars the Sumter Item has the folio w ie to say: If the Atiahtic Coast Lirne enforces the order that no more shipments of original packages are to be transport ed over that system, the original pack ae dealers in' inis section of the state' will find themselves i-a a veryv atvk ward predicament. They will soo n dispose of iheir stocks and will then,i eing unable to procure a ne w supply,j have to go out of business. The Columbia State of Thursday says the Seaboard Air Line and thee Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroads have joinEd forces with the Southern and the Atlantic Coast LineI in their ref usAl to longer haul uncasedi battles packed loose in boxcars forj origial package stores. The Florid a Central and Peninsular, the South Carolina and Georgia and the Charles-i ton and Western Ca o'ina roads seem til bent on getting all the businessj th-y can. In view of the crculars sent out by the Southern and CoastI Line, tbe Florida Central and Penin salar has is ued l.strettons to its agens not to receive ship"ents for1 connectingliims. At tibst:g ' - ieaic ol the S)uth en, the Cast Lir..e ,;. the Seaboardj ould appear to be a eathx bios' to~ the original package dealers through-I out the State, but~ a glance at a rai rosd map en'.ie di proces it. The countes that can be areached by thet roads incep:'r-dn of th agnemxvt are: Oconiee PikNs, Genvile, Saartanurg, L--r-s, Anderson, Ab Hampton. B-'ufrt, CA n ,o.Bek le, Charlestou. Onebrg. Lexin: - ton, Richlar 'I,. Gorgtoa, K-rs~ha sv, Lncater. YorYk, Cnester andt bor. Te couant-s mosti sericaIsly ml eted bu-rg, Flo:r;c ,Marion Maooandi La~ii-gon. '>t so-se of these- . nr~ ecuz ~ to the hota co a lin to ci utr l quc- --ciaorii e*i p e to Le h dinb a i:.erating qu-e'.ti. A few~ eksj ao th-ta's v ere~ made of .forfeitn from~ ihe~ Sate supreaae courL res"ra'k. ' p ' r.ts. As inuvmauoa wasI "aa *du-s)ay by a departmaent as '-sar t ths ti'ul the~ Fiorida (entral and G:r' and odaer roadsst pr ;;te ad to these rn a-urts. The j mec re: yfo shu d they, un se n s4e ie saure ' eir enar Te govr~: nme - reorz aandca'ei hat the c-otton crop 'has b ea materi-j aiiydaaigd in thae a:L month, whichJ m o in t n el2pi some. Irne d by :he Martnh Ho'pita I urean at WashingtoD. T e eficial builetin of the marine lhos).tal bureau will contain in its forthcominz issue a syncps's of the veahw fever situatio', wit'i a summa v or the cases rnd deaths up to the 11-h irstart. The lstof c.-szs and deshs i lower than that re'orted in press disatches from iafec,-d points, but the, tir', slitbat are officially 's tablisi_. T e surmmary by state is as ' - ?dobile, 1 case, New Or leans, 17: Barkley, Miss., 9 rases, 4 deaths; Ed'ards, Miss, 12 cas.s: Ocean Sorings, Mist. 5 cases, 2 death; Pascagonla, Miss., 2 cases; Perkinston, 1 cate. The synopsis covers the outbreak from its inception, with all the bu resu crders, reports from surgeons ard boards of health. etc., concerning the status df the fever at varicus points "A brief synopsis of the occurrence of 3e1 ow fever in the South is given as follows: "B-.ginning with the report of Pass ed Assistant Surgeon Wasdin of Sep tember 3, stating that the situation at Ocean. Springs needed investigation, aLd his detail to proceed to that place and make an investigation in connec tion with members of the Mobile board of health, and his subsequent report of September 6. stating that an au topsy made by himself confirmed the diagrcsis of e-iw fever, the repre intatives o tbe i:,te boards concur : , :rceautio's re e immediately iter by the bure.au, directing p>sed Assistant Sre n We di1 to arrange for a c.;rd1n, employ necessary help S:d turn matters over to Surgeon Murray on his arrival and t> notify the railroad agents that until a cordon should be established, to sell tickets only to -:oints north of Nashville or peicts iin mountairous districts, and to keep a record of all rersons leaving with points of their destination. noti fy ir.g the local authorities " afier detailing the assigrment of sur geons to various points, the synopsis proceeds: .""he total numb: r of cases at Ocean Springs September S was 2 in a sick list of 40 persons, and one case result ing in death was reported from New O:/cans, vhcs9 illness, it is slated, coommenced at Ocean Springs. Train inspection at the Alabama line was established on the 9.h. Oa the same diy yellow fever was reported at Scranton, Miss., and several suspici cus cases in cne kcality in New Or leans were examined by experts of the Louisiana state board of health train nsoection on the Louisiana hav ing been inaugurated several days previously by the Louisiana board. On the 10th six new cases of sickness were reported by three physicians at Ocean Springs. The suspicious case at Scranton was examined by Dr. Guiteras and reported to be yellow fe ver. On the 10th Surgeon Carter re orted a case at P.:rkinston, Miss., contracted at Ocean Springs." The report then refers to the 12 suspicicus cases reported on St. Claude street, New Orleans. No positive diagnosis of yellow fever was mace. Nine of the cases recovered; the re maining three are doing well. The situation at Mobile. Biloxi and Edwards is referred to, and the many official dispatches showing the various cases are reproduced. Thcse have al ready been published. The S,.ary of the Preacherd. A Methodist newspaper has ascer tained that the average salary of preachers of that denomination in the South is only $173 35 a year. In this case the cent column, usually omitted in stating salaries of professional men, is really important, for 35 cents have a deal of work to perform in a family compelled to subsist, or die, on so meaaer compensation as that. The .$;3 35 a y ear gives about $t 30 a day. The average ureacher's fa~mily consists of live per.ons. Allowing tnle munzi ficent sum of St a day for rent, cloth ing. feel, deccr's biil snd the numn 'oerless incidentals, we find thirty cents remainiog for the table. This allows 10 cents a meal for breakfast, dinner and supper; or in otaer words two cents a head for father, mother and children. It will be seen that no part of the preacher's income a oes for a servant's hire. The wife of the cler gyman, who is expected to take a lead ing part in r-eligious and social work and to entertain many callers, must do thje housework, including washing and ironing. The Methodist paper that figured out the average salary of 473 35 has some pathetic comments on the thread-bare coat of a clergy man thus situated and tho "actual misery" it represents. The wonder is that so many men can keep up even a semi respeetacle appearance on euch an allowance. If it be 'urged that thousands of wcrkingmen support their families on Xss than that, we submit that the fact "has nothing to do with the case." Preachers cannot' adopt the hr~bits of the wo-kingman. They .must iccur manary expensss that are nA in the account of a wage-e-rn r- encaged in manual labr. Thos.: for h~o.n preachers work are pre sumed U belare that such ork is cf vi imporance. They expect good! aomos an:d a faith'ul per-ormaance opsstorail duities. Arid yet they do uot ay for half of what they expect.I If the era of prcsperiy does not ormng sniir-creese mn tue compensaticnl ei those ministrs it will :niss one of the~ feids in whtich ii. will be greatly need In aa 1' -t'view Sentr )'rby den .es ver s-- n-: he imended to - k Ic -ao Ti mnau'. L by asgs c e mm'I e -I mer a 'me acst.sior a urer per ial 1sul c.e Tn ua c ut-r-the----:>.:--:u'd if the ra-e jItas Tav da"\- O . s;n as yo-u can remove the~ '-et shoes ad r'ub hem al wi-h ~ a soft rag~ to get -me ote dap'ts out and to -sith ac lthi 'aturat'd -n i. keosene.I C'et a.s much of the oli in':0 them as -for a few hours, w''en -aply ar.cs.er :o tn- of k-r e ..- SE:e will ~ave u sappI ed In Japans m-,!eidn of te g nuses to lcok'. a't -h - re -a-e ~urded by the s-pl rc utono bangthin ael rond ther nes' wm A Very Eat! Sca- 3 Fa:! .rs L.is I c:r view With E3s Chairen. H. S. Perry, of D ctur, Ga., was executed in that city Wednesday for the murder of a ym't g man, Bi:y Lanier, whom he s- witth i dvina breath he killed to rortect Lis wifes honor. The day bore he exu'.ion Perry's little cLi r' were t^ken to see him for the lt tine and the scene was re th a idme a .eart of stone. A tel g-arm .os dc..c:ibes this patnetic ccc rc Perry was this mrainrg. as he Las been every rmorni;az c d7 and delibe rate, until his chIdJren arrived at the j ill and were admitted to his cell. dis oldest son ,vas net in the party. but his four younger children. ac con ?a"-'d by their Sunt, Miss Corley, wer- takgn to hi:a. The condemond mar_ 2t~Wed t: hem quietiy for some time, stcugh Le was making a strns.- Fifort to csnceal hisemotion. The itle children did no. reaiz: the scri:a ess of the situaiorn. Th;, knew their aunt w s deeply troubl:d and that some greatsorrnm was upon the mind cf their father, bat t'heir in nocent minds could no: grap the horrible truth, and they were spared the suffering of the older persons. Perry retained his nerve until the children started to leave his cell. As nis little boy, a child of 6, walked to the dor, he said: "Be a good. boy, son," and then a wail that made all in hearing shudder, came from the cage as Perry saw his children leaving. With heads bowed in sorrow, caus ed by they knew not what, the chil dren following their aunt, walked into the j ilor's cfl~e. Standing with nis face against the heavy door of iron bars Perry cried aloud in his anguish, and his strong frame trembled as he gate way to iris feelings that had to that time been so well conceMei. I Oh, God, have mercy upon my children," he cried again e-nd agaia, as he pressed against the cage door in a last effort to see them. -God help them, Oh, G.d help them!" cried the miserable man, as he dashed himself 'upon the iron cot in his cell and buried his face in his trembling hands. For ifteen min utes Perry lay upon his cot sobbing like a child, with a group of prison ers peeping through the bars at him, One of them laughed, not at Perry. but for some unknown reason, and Tom Cyrus, who is in jail for killing his mistress, demanded siienca, whitie I quickly folio ;,ed. Perry was not long recovering his composure, but, when be attempted to talk to a Journal man he sgain lost control of himself, and bet:een soos said: "WO., to think that I amn to be taken away from them so soon. To thick that I am to be made to leave my wife and my children, and all to sati:fy the wicke: flesh. May the God have mercy on the man who is doirg this." .As if appreaensire that some one would think .im in fear of death, Perry suddenly stood erect and said: "I have no fear of death for myself, but I am thinking of my poor wife and my little children, who will be left without me. "I have a hope, a glorious hope, in the great world beyond, and I know that I am to go there when I leave this mace of sin. The Lord has said He will be a father to my children, and a husband to my wife and this gives me comfort." Afri!d of You~cw Fever. Followiog circulars we.re il.med Tursday oy the Southern Railway company: To Azents and Conduictors: Chareston, S. C.. Sept. 15th, ordar ed absolute quarantine against New Orleans, Mobile, and al yellow fever infected territories. South Carolina and Georgia Raiiroad will decline to receive or nandle any passengers, bag gage. household eifncts, merchag dise or o'her articles from the inftetic ritries. No nrovision fo: psssexngers to held certifiates, cic , fromn w ien i understand q'uarantine :s ao b.=e'. To Agents and Conductors: Augusta, Ga., Sept. 15:haquaran mned against all yellow fever lufected teeltories, includiog Naew Orleans, Mobile, etc., and will not receive pas sergerr, baggage or freight from such infected places until after thirty days' isolation and then, only, on eersidene~ from president of board of health. From Atlanta, passangers will be re quired to produce clean bill of health efore being allowd to enter Aueusta Auus will have quaarantine~ oliiers n urni rma, on all trairns ar-d passen gers will be requaired to satisfy such li.ers of their place of residence for previous thirty days bmfore enteri'ng the city. _____ A cc of Frut:; Run Ond. I; was learntd Wednesdaey niah. .t s th.e Newvs and C>urier tht LrcuP'h the earlemsn'ess C'c"'om one aca c& baonannas from on as shioped into Chaarleston crer the Soun Caroliaa and Gcorgia ral:road, but ten minutes after its a"ira the ar was shipped cut again Ju who i reponsibe for the trut' c me an is 'hu: far unknown. D-tetic John Ho.n as teid by the saion agent at 'a MIil Hill that th car nad ly Lo i2.d the nesich d-v par-.:"' of tec cr -alaead 1 0 thi ''mv kno s - marnee iofe 7 ...;L.L L4 . 11 ' v . TTHE CONDITIONS OF THE STATE'S FARMIN3 INTERESTS. TI: General Oatlook -Weekly Balletin er the Weather lareau Issued List Week bj DIrector Baaer. The folo:ing weekly statement of the crcp and weather conditions for this section has been served by Direet or uiuer: TDMPE2ATU RE. T :e a:perature conditions during the past week were slightly above the normal, due to comparatively high day temperatures and seasonably cool nantz. The former ranged in the 80s and the latter in the 60s, with daily range from 20 to 26 degrees. The higtcst reported, 95 on the 10th at Hodges, and the lowest, 52 on the 5th at Liberty. The mean for the same period is apprximately 75. RAINFALL. 0,rr nearly the whole of the State the week was a rainless one. Six olac-.s reported light showers on va ri)us dags, with a maximum meas urenhent of 0.15 at Allendale. The %ho ers were confined to portions of Lh lrkelev, Colleton, Hampton, Charles ton, Bau'cr: and Marion counties. Over te remainder of tae State the ground is very dry with severe arcughty conditions in places. Cor resoondents all note the need of rain for the growing crops. The normal for the week is about 1.27. The week of corresponding dates in 1895 was also without rain. The winds were generally light, eastcrly. The sunshine was in excess witih an estimated percentage of 85 of the possiole for the State, ranging from 61to 100. GENERAL REMARKS Favr able weather prevailed for har Ses'ing and gathering the ripened crops, sucti as haying, rice harvest, picking cotton, making syrup and nousing corn and fodder, but pastures, ja.rdens, late corn, turnips and gen erally all crops not fully matured stand in urgeat need of rain, over the &ate. CROPS. The reports on cotton would indi cate a further decline in condition due to the dry weather which caused young bolls to shed freely over the Iwestern counties, where, until recent 17, the laut had continued to fruit, pad where it is yet in places putting on fruit sparingly, but not generally. Tnere are reports of a small "top crop" over the extreme northwestern coun tie-, but over the larger portion of the State .those bolls and squares that usu ally form the "top crop" all shed off during and following the August rai. s. Over the eastern counties generally , nd over a large portion of tne west ern counties cotton is opening rapidly, i places prematurely, and in Berke ley, Marion, Orangeburg, Bamberg and continuous counties from half to three fourths, or more, of the bolls are open. In one locality in Berkeley 70 per cent. is already gathered. In the eastern counties the plant is apparently dead, caused by rust, which developed over large areas during the latter part of August many fields look as if cared by frost. Uder the prevailing ;favorable weather conditions, picking made ISea Island cotton has not shared in th~e deterioration, on the contrary, im Iproved in condition during the week. The dry weather injured late corn to some extent, but permitted fodder to be saved in good condition. Some corn has been gathered. ISweet potatoes look and yield well generally, bat rain is needed for late plantings. Rice harvesting has made great strides ia Colleton and elsewbere in in the r::e districts and threshing has begun genvrally. Upland rice in P~Icken~s would be benefitted by rain. in places turnips seem to stand the dry weather, but generally the young plants were kiulei by the hot sun and tields will have to be resown. It was an extremely favorable week for curing pea vine and other hay and ucwasaved. I orghum and sugar cane maintain thei excellent condition and syrup an con tinues. F'stures and gardens are parched. Pnusyielding well. Tobacco be ing freely marketed. Late, apples plentiful and of good quality in Salti da. Scuppernong grapes plentiful. FAJl plo wing continues in the truck raising districts. Fromn the national balletin of Sept. : Tne general condition of cotton :s less favorable than in the previous .week and over portions of the middle sctiorns of the cotton belt there ha~s een marked detmroration. Absence'of rain has ei used it to open rapidly, to some extent prematurelv. In portions~ of sou:P and southwest Texas showers improved late cotton and the top crop, over the northern part of the State and ovrer the central and Eastern portions cf te belt the conditions have been A d gae afromn Atlanta says like 'i. eaid birds of passage, storm s e: rm the shores of the Gulf of &"ic. .a'e reugees are flocking to mehucountry in search of safety frm i terri'ie seurge of yellow rer y train that arrives from 'S:012s, Mo bie, Biloxi and other Gul' i-.i , 'no Jackson, Miss., ad e ng ~neyAla ,is loaded with afagss. :Som of them stop in At "- jy torardi:ae mountains of "~e ci. nd Nrth Carolina. Sare filled with udth oft accents of hefr south are as e hau" of conversa c~ e-e rngo of t:1e dele c uaty commijssioners' at the~ Kimball. Most of -r contented and. uncon e a 2. u y of them exhibit the a ex as tuiC lears in no uncertain ag.A large per cent, of tb~e *s ae traeog men who were e lddstricts at the time of ul~rm at d hfinding bus~i ni a themselves in b caedup inquaran .b ..-eeto get out oftnarm's e Wilia E Canmeron, olatfall stumnped the d d cncrats, is out in ahe wilsupport the etcket, and calling n n demomats to do the