Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST j ? V * !iH %J Jero ->n ? Garden skfl ' from rhe Blue Rider# :m to Georgia will j *ed Starts 10 respect : r.) Appeal says that a fasteas itself on the xe fail, and etudes a ibstance, is often re sn fences. The insect ie wire all winder, and rire parts at that point. 1157 millionaires in, -i according to the Tri-* >ning. The Vander-V] the Goulds four, the ! Goelets four, and the 1 , while the onmpreseni d all the reit with i Weekly states that^the r<nia shows toe largest fceign born adult males | the percentage in that of the total number, ?522 persons. In the fork, 193.614 foreigo or 2S13 per cent., are iKew Jersey, 41,877 or ire aliens. New York number of naturalized lit males, there being in 13, or 60.74 per cent, of forei.pi bora adolfc The city <J*New York percentage of foreign population, the foreign I city representing 42.23 le total population as tent, in 1830. Bulla |p?jr cent, of foreign -born per cent, in 1880. 32.46 per cent., an in i.3*> per cent, in 1980. ,'ity has .a foreign-bom $.67 per cent., while ia Suborn element in tha^ per cent, of the total teen places show a great foreign bom population shown in the State as a in 1880 nineteen places |as having a larger percent -boru population than was State a? a whole. lover the -juestion, ''How fife," has brought thou to the N?;w York World, the uoiijue content was ad [Rev. Charles F. Deems, rn metropolitan clergyman, itioa was signed with the re, "l\ Joiner.1* Dr. CSSa,?t-3ir'*-?3.foJWWB: ! " that? Does it manage & horse, ?lor hu v&n intellect to | his superior physical to obtain the bes*, %w?fe is not a horse. >as are weil married the to her husband in an as h< is superior to her in rppiness is to be the result th$ a rst business of thelius lage himself so as to keep rays his wife's respectful |? her tender lover, alway taer, alwayv her superior *his will necessarily stimu to be alwaH an admiring >js aa affectionate sweetheart, ifty housewife, always a con An i this wilt 90 react 3b?nd that his love for his row so as to make it ea*y ffci r }, with alt his faults, to bear intirmitiei of his lone and oth Cfc^stnut Company has ized in New Jersey, with a $50,0^0, all paid in. This, Tlea^.s Picayune explains, is tnut in, the reproachful sense. own1' a natural chestnut 550 acres in Camdeu County, said to be the prettiest and lire pisce of chestnut tim Uoited States. The idea is to the holdings to 1000 acres in ns of the State, and go into of mammoth chestnuts on a scale. The tree* ia the grovt are about as for apart as those ore h an', and bare beea cat off > Irom the ground, while the ea has been c earert the wood ob than paying the cost. . Slips ese chestnut; tree* are being to the stumps, and a crop of the [jths" is expected in two years, are many varieties of improved but the Japanese hare been j. Lgp'v cultivated for centuries, and |fil others. The combinatioa with j the sweetness and flavo^.of the ! ican vtriefcy, wfitch* has never j r litigate-"!, will, if it isacco.il bring about a perfect product. e nut is ready for market two i weeks earlier than any other, and Ppeose of gathering the crop is jvely slight. Sheep can. be iafthe or~i* 1 Mde late game preserve. One ?Otto* ?treai? in the State i?*nd it is full of small very com non to see a "thfcstcut six inches or more in It is not palatable raw, oooked and used as food ia t W3.TV LABOK AND ANTI-OPTION. \ : Senate Argues Both Qiwftioiji Without Action. fenator Peffer Favors "Hands Off" For Employer and Employe*, and Senator White Closes His 4-j Honr's Speech. ^AsnisoTCN, D. C. ? {Sehatb. ]? Mr. ?effer, Farmers' Alliance, of Kansas, .allied up hi* labor resolutions and laid ;here -were only three ways to meet the 1 iifficulty wh|ch now faced us between miployees anA employers. This, he ad ilitteed, was unpopular. Another way was for the government to take hold and egulate the rates of wages. This was re garded as unconstitutional. The third was for the government to deal with j Jtfse gieat labor employing eslabtish n*nU as it did with the private lands of he people: condemn seize and pay for :hem. Urn, he thought, would be re garded as still wore revolutionary than she second proposition. But he submit ted there was no other way to arrange :hesc disputes except through tbs bloody jates of waT. Therefore, he recommend ?d to the government the first proposi ;ion : "Take your hands off and let em ployee aad employer settle the matter for themselves/' the resolutions were -eferred to the committee on education ?nd labor. Mr. White, Democrat, of Louisiana, roncluded his speech against the auti-op .ion bill. He said in the community in % .vhich he lived, and he presumed else- \ where, when a difficult matter of com nercial law was involved, the custom was -o call in commercial experts. Acting L >n this ptinciple, he called the attention >i the Senate to the fact that there was a ;>ersistect, consistent declaration of all he commercial bodies of the country igainst this bill. He read the protest of he chamber of commerce of the city of Sew York, the greatest advisory coir nercialbody in the United States, and he bankers of New York, Chicago a*id Sew Orleans, and a long list of nil the stber commercial organizations which aad protested ag*iost the-, bill. There cvas not a cofton l/oom in all the South rrn States today/which did not in some way trace Us origin back to the capital represented in these great ^petrrrans, yet we were told that these gentlemen did not belong to the producing class, s?nd aad no right to itesj^rd on this great }ues'ion of commerce. He also read telegrams from the lead ing cotton factors and rice and sngar ieders of New Orleans, opposing the sill. Hc^exhibited tables, which he said proved thfei before the period whq^the lystem of 4 'future"' selling was inangjfratj >d in the cotton trade, the fall in .price ? insing from a glut in the market was greater than it had been since, and that . he greater the amount of future sales in proportion to the crop the higher had oeen the prices. Mr. White concluded his speech short , v before 5 o'clock, having occupied in ;he twa days abou* four hours and a fialf in its deliver?, and the. Senate took up ;he Canadian retaliatory Bill, passing it. The Seaats than we&? iifto executive sts GOV. PATTISON FIRM NOW. He Says He Will Bemain in Home stead All Summer if it is Necessary. Homestead, Pa.? Col. Colgren, the Provost Marshall, said to a reporter : "I was talking with Gov. Pattison about the situation herevand he said something to me that I thought was quite in>jw\ tant. He said: 'Colonel, there are |8.<KH),000 in the State Treasury. I will spend wery cent of that money. I will raise more mouey by mortgaging the whole ft .ate. and I will stay here myself all .?umm? r to suppress this sort of thing and restore iiw and order here.' I asked him if I might repeat that, and he said he had no objections to my doing so. " The reporter mentioned this to the Governor and he seemed somewhat annoy ed by it. '"I have nothing to say on that subject," he said, "I would rather Dot deny nor affirm it." This statement of the Governor is the s verest blow the strikers have felt yet. It means that even if the works are in full operation with non-union employees the troops will remain here. The strikers will have no chance of revenge. It meansthat the State of Pennsylvania has resented the usurpation of power by the strikers, and intends to crush the spirit that prompted it. l?ol Aheal of the Nobleman. Lord Charles Hamilton used to gj about Naples attended by a large fero cious bulldog. Having decided on going to Rome, he proceeded to the station indtook his place in a first-class car riage, the lidawg'' taking up a position on a seat opposite hi? master. The plat form inspector, with many gesticulations, declared that the bulldog should no? travel in a passenger carriage. *^Very well, then; takf him out," was Lord Charlie's rejoinder. In vain the official expostulated, fie merely reiterated his iormer reply, a piece of advice, it is needless <o say, . which wa? not followed, and Lord Charles apparently master of the sitaatioo; threw himself beck in his seat and calmly light ed atagsr. '? Bat the Italians were not to be out done, sod quietly detaching the carriage in which the English "milod? was seat ed, they made up the train "tfith another compartment, and started it off. > Lord Charles sat quietl/ smoking r*?r -about a quarter of an nour, and then ap prised at the delay, thrust his bead oat of the window, and demanded whou the frain was going to staff, H?* feelings may b? imagined ? London Tit- Bits. A Whole Wisconsin Tows in Ash**. Iron Riveb, Wis.? The entire busi ness district* with the . exception of one or t *o buildings, oythetown,is in ashes. Fifteen hundred people are with ut shel ter, a d in many cases without food. Little is left of what twenty-four hours ago was one of the most prosp?F<??^-fniU towus- The total property loss aggre gates #2Uv.0?K?.with very little insurance. Democratic National Commitee. New Yoke ? The Democratic National Committee met here, Chairman Brice pre siding. W. F . H^rrity. of PennaylvanES, was eiccted as chairfcan of the commit tee. and S. P. Sheetfn, of Indiana, waff re elected secretary. \ R^ert B. Koose velt. of New York, vtes elected trtasu*r to succeed Charles J. * THE LATEST Lnews Oliver W. Gaskins. an engineer on the \ Seabord and Roanoke Railroad, was kill ed by the breaking of a connecting rod;? an his engine. The truckers of Charleston, S. C . and vicinity organized the Truck Farmer*' Association last week, electing W . D. Lawt^n, president, and E. B. Gadsden, secretary. The Virginia Paving <fe Construction Co, to which a charter has just been grafted at Roanoke, Va , has contracts, from Roanoke and Lynchburg aggreg/.t-' mg 90,000 square yards. The Athert on mills have been incoi I porated at Charlotte N. C., for the man ufaetufe of cotton goods. The capital stock is $100,000. Another company with $75,000 capital stock will build mills for the manufacture of bed ticking. Representatives from Louisiana, Ar kansas. Alabama and Texa^Sfa appear v 2d before the House committee on appro priations and made urgent appeals for ippropriatioos by Congress in aid of the destitute sufferers from the floods in tlje 5 iower Mississippi region. They want n [ total of about $190, 000, but none ofjbe [ States has formally ask?d for assistance. Asheville, N. C* parties have sold a iiJfcge lot of poplar, ash, cherry and black ? *slnHt trees in Cherokee and Town coun ties, NVC1 , to J. J*. Besby, C. H. Chat burn, J.Np. Ball and Mr. Culbertson, of Minneapolis and Augusta, Minn. The ourchasersVill organize a company and jrect mills nW Murphy, N. C., for man tfactuifrg tk^umber. The President hi?^h?jgd a proclama tion" requesting the ob?terv2?fc???October it as a general holiday in honor the four hundredth anniversary of the dis covery of America. The recent British elections have cost 112,500-000. Every shilling has to be accounted for in sworn statement. Cor ruptioa of voters has been rendered al most impossible by the stringency of the reformed elections legislation, Thfl contract for the foundation, stone and brick work. etc. , of the public build ing at Tallahassee, ~Fla., was awarded to a Chicago firm at $12,723. V0T -YET OUT OP DANGER. ? ? : Manager Triclf of the Homestead Works a Suffering Man: Pittsburg, Pa.? Chairman H. C Frick, who was shet four times in his i office Saturday by Alex . Berkman, s | Homestead sympathizer, is mentally bright and active, but he has much pain from the pistol wounds and the cut from Berkman's knife. The ball which passed around the neck almost. grazed the spinal cord. That which passed out on the side almost touch ed the spine. The upper cut on the right side should have penetrated the lung but for the edge cf the ninth rib, and half an inch more deep would have carried the large lower cut into the abdominal cavity. It was regarded as astounding that thit should be true of so many wounds. Dr. Litchfield has profound admiration for the self control and courage of hi9 patient. He says there was scarcely any result from what the medical men call 4 'shock," no sudden fall of temperature or cold sweat. This is what the doctor said to callers during the afternoon: "Mr. Frick is doing well. There is danger from the secondary effect of the i wouods and there will be for a week. He has so far digested his "^food well and is doing well an d have strong hopes he will recover. " The order, signed by Mr. Frick and posted at the Homestead works this morn ing, to the effect that men returning to work wou d l>e insured against removal, aud which was given in (the United Press dispatches of last Bight, is regarded as ffce final peace offering of the firm to the strikers. In this connection a repre sentative of the firm makes an important. ? tatement. ''Even if Mr. Frick should die,*1 he said. 4 the policy of the manage ment in the present crisis will be strictly ndhered to_ The statement that Mr. Carnegie is not in full accord with Mr. Frick, in the course the latter has pur i ted of late, is absolutely and unqual ifiedly untrue. " The "Ji gg9T." j The terror of blackberry pickers in the South is the cheagre, popularly pro f nounc. d ' jigger. " Probably no one has I ever seen a cheagre save under a micro scope. and certainly he is usually invisi ble to his victims, but he can inflict more discomfort than the mosquito, or than any one of a. dozen noxious insects twice his size.. The cheagre comes like a thief in thflk night. No one is conscious of his coming, and often his presence is not detected for hours after his arrival, but in due tims he makes himself known. The victim is seized with an intolerable itch ing in a dozen spots at once, and scratch ing affords only temporary relief, Pimples rise over the itching spots, and are soon tersoed raw by the cbeagre's tortured victim. Meanwhile the invisible enemy keeps oa burrowing and the itching con tiou-s often for days together, when it ceases, the victim has the unpleasant consciousness that all is over probably because the cheagre has died somewhere beneath the pimple. A Terrible Deatti. A correspondent writes the Charlestii.,, News and Courier that a -ycung lad\, M;.ss Lizzie Langlev, who lived~four mi >s ; from Barnwell, S ?., lost her life last I Sunday under peculiar circumastauces. she was driving to church in a buggj j with a youcg man who was smoking a ! ;igarette, when some burning tobacco j >11 from it into the foot of the Hujggv. Her uitder< lothing caught fit e aud she was burned to death. Semi-Centemsial. Wnwitre, N. C. ? Bishop Nondtbsler, of^the Southern province, and pastor of the Moravian church of Salem, celebrated his fiftieth anniversary Sunday. In the afternoon a congregational love feast was | served in the church when the bishop was made the recipient of presents amount ing in eost to over $400. It was a mem arable occasion. STABBED WITH A BAYONET. A Drunke# Militiaman Attacks a Citizen ax Pittsburg. David Lester, of Company A, Fourteenth Regiment, stabbed !?Vank Calhoun with hie bayonet on Grand street* near Fifth avenue, ha Pittsburg, Penn. The affair is the odt- ? come of a night's carousal that Les ter and Howard Hook indulged in the night before They were still drinking.' fUey w?nt along Grant street infu'ting almost every person they met and brandishing their bayonets in the faoes of passers-by. They entered the rooms of Undertaker Beinhaur, singing and very noisy. Mr. Beinhi.ur ordered them ont? They went oat, but renewed the noise out* side and defied arrest . * ' W hen they reach<sd Devore's undertaking establishment, where Calhoun is employed^ the latter advised Iiester to be uiors cartful with the bayonet. Lester, with an oatfc, plunged the weapon into Calhoun's ab> domen. Calhoun iell without a struggle. Leeter rushed upon him again, tat was naught by bystand<ars. After a nans fight, Lester and Hook wore arrested. The liver was penetrated by the and there was no hope of Calhoun's resovsry. Calhoun was fifty -lour years old. a m? ibsr of the G. A. R, aid bad a family. Lest* lives in the Thirty -seoond Ward and it twenty-six years old. Lester and Book were deserters from the camp 'in HocnsrtMd* COL. raffs HOPE. Che Efforts iritis Friends to Save His Life Cheer Him Up. i Memphis, Trnn ? For several day! H. Clay King, condemned to be aanged on August 12 for killing David H. Poston, has been in a sta te of mental ind physical cotiaps^ but yesterday he otightenfcd up. Tbc strong petition sent from Kentucky to the Governor asking that his sentence be commuted, is thought to have created the hope in Col. King's mind for a reprieve at last. This morn ing Judge Greer returned from Washing ton, where h3 and Jtodge King, of Texas, went to make an efort to bring the esse under Federal jurisdiction . It is thought that there will be eome action taken is the case by the Federal court. Friends of the murdered lawyer aire receiving nu merous signatures to petitions asking that the law be enforced. "r ' J j New Industries in tho South. The organization of new industrial eli te* prises in the South continues actively, us shown by the Manufacturer's Record, of Baltimore, in its issue of July 22nd. Afrong some of the important enterprises mentioned are ths following: A $30, 000 molasses reboiling company at New Orleans, La. ; a $100,000 cotton mill company at Charlotte, N. C. va $100,000 taol works company at Wheeling, W. Va. ; a $10,000 canning company%t For est City, Ark. ; a $10,000 industrial com pany at Water Valley, Miss. ; a $20,000 ffedge fence com pany at Newberry, 8. | C. jj a $20,000 coal and coke company in Virginia; a $50,000 coteon mill company at Rome, Ga. ; a $1.00,000 light and rail way company at Huntington, W. Va. ;? a $100,000 shoe manufacturing company at Elizabsthfon, Teno. ; a $50,000 furni ture company at Fort Worth, Tex ; a $1,000,000 coal and lumber company at Philippi, W. Va ; a $50,000 comprcss company at Mineola, Texas; a' $50,4)00 electric light company at Mt. Wash ington, Md. ; a $50,000 electric light company at Bay View, Md. ; an $8,500 lumber manufacturing company at Betii^_ el^S. C. ; a $35,000 cotton ^iU^WDbany at Fort HilKS._J,.va|1^0$0 jnSfishini ? "irargwport, ; a $30,000 au tomatic tire alarm company at New Or leans, La. ; a $25,000 coal and coke com pany at Brbmon, W> Va., and a $10,000 publishing aomps.ny at Austin, Texas. Building in the Day# of the Fathers. Greensboro, N. C.? Col. Julian S. Carr was here yesterdaj morning on his return from New York. In answer to a question about the restora tion of an old time mansion near Hills boro which Mr. Carr has on hand, he went on to say i:hat whan some of tht flooring of the old house was torn up it was found to have distinctly marked on the under side, Hezckiah Hogg. June 21st *1741. The lumter used in buildiug the nouse was sawed in England and shipped to Newterne, and from *. New Berne distant about ? 200 miles, it was hauled on ox- carts, requir ing something near a month to make the round trip. But if this be a wonderful undertakiug, how much greater was it to haul the brick in the same way with which to build a house just over the river from Mr. Carr's place, abrckhouse, the brick of which were burnt in Eng land. No wonder our people called England the "Mother Country" in those davs. \ Senator Teller Thinks His Party Must Bestir Itself. % Chicago Special, New York Sun. Un ted States Senator Henry M. Tell er. of Colorado, whc is at the Grand Pa cific Hotel, said: \ ' The silver question has been shelved for this session, but next winter another free silver bill will be reported, and it will pass. Its defeat this session will hare no material effect on the vote in Colorado, which will go Republican by the usual majority. Republicans in Colorado will gain nothing by voting for the People's party nominees. A vote for Weaver means a vote for Cleveland. yf-am afraid of some of the Western States goiog against us. Nevada is in a very bad way, and may give the elcctor " al vote to the People's party. If the Democratic and People a pirty fuse in any of the Western States th<- Republi cans will have to bestir themselves to jan themselves from defeat. ! A Birth uncf V At Possibilities. ,> Newport, R. 1. ? Mrs. J. H Hooker Hamersly, of New York, gave birth to \ son yesterday morning. The an nouncement is fraught with the greatest importance in the parents of the child, to the Duchtss of Marlborough, and to the many charitable institutions to which she may he kindly disposed; for if this child be "alive wheuthe Duchess dies he wi ll in- i herit the $7,000,000 left by Louis C . Ham ersly, whose widow the Duchess was be- j fore.she was allied to!the nobility. Shs is now enjoying the incopae of this for tune. Should the chilf* father, who is a ccusin of i:he testator, fist* no son liv ing it the time of the Duress* death the money will go to whoever charitable in stitutions al e may designate in her will. The small guild ofVdraughtsmen who havS-the franchise to draw picttyes on the London pavements, have suddenly taken to cultivating a higher raw of art. They have improved greatly in their profession, and are going into political caricature? -something |the ? med > ]' I . \ ir-r v- .? ? L RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD, SIXTY-BBV5S YEARS' PROOMM IK STBAM TRAVEL. J*he First Roads? Fast Rons? Trav eling Palaces of Bojral Princes ?Interesting Statistics. HE operation of steam railways began in England by the open ing of the Stockton and Dar lington line, September 27, rhe world then saw the com mencement of a most gigantic eater privet one that has extended to everyji . and to almost every uncivilized on the globe, and which has 1 become the greatest of all enterprises and industries, and whose magnitude is greater ^han any other single interest in the jworld. This Stockton and Darlington Road | was a single track affair, thirty-eight miles in length, and the greatest speed attained was twenty miles an hour. Four years after opening of this road the first line war opened for general traffic in the United States, August 9, 1829, on the Mohawk and Hudson Rail road. The first locomotive used on this line, sbd consequently, the first that ever turned a wheel: in the West* ira Hemi sphere, was the "Stourbridge 3 ion/' im ported from Stourbridge, Engl And, Jby the Delaware an&Htldsen Canal Gtmpanyin May, 1% j The second railroad in Ami srica upon which" a lodpmotive was ever run was the Charleston and Hamburg of South Carolina, which also had the honor of being the first regularly or sengerroad in tWa countrfy,\and the first to adopt the locomotive < motive power. The engine uled onl road was the ''Best Friend, the machine of the klo<& cot country, and wasitatlt in If est Foundry. It made Its trial rember, 1830. At the beginning of the pnssentyear 166,817 piles of railway were in oper ation in the United States It would be difficult, no jdoubt, to imagine a perfectly straight line of! rail for the entire distance from New York to Boston, but^'Gch a railway with such ? atr.usht stretch does, howeveir, actually. ex:st in the New Argentine Pacific Rail-^ way from Buenos Ayres to tie foot of the Andes. For a distance of 1,211 miles the line is laid without ? a ciirre. The level nature of the country willbe evi dent from the fact that there is neither a cutting nor an embankment deeper or higher than three feet. This is the longest straight stretch^f railway in the yorid. Another wonderful piece ;of| railway in South America is cui the ? Calao, Lima and Croya line, raniing from* Awquipe, Peru, toll? Paz, Bolivia. This is a rail way in the clouds, for it reaches a point 14.U66 feet, or nearly three milea above the level of the sea. The whistle of a locomotive is heard at no higher point < oil tfre globe. Near the highetfc. elevation of this railway a tunnel 3848 feet.ong is being bored through the peak of the mouotain, 600 feet above the perpetual, snow line. Audes exhibit somj^SiliBmMtreinarkable re tgineering skill which the world < ! contains. < . The Dew railway ? the Bnenzer Roth horn bahn? which was begun Ootober 1, 1890, and has just been completed and opened, is tto-Tiigliert railway to the Alps, and also in all Europe. It is 7886 feet high at the summit level, where it commands magnificent views. The highest point of railway in the United States is on the Denver and Rio . Grande Railway. At Marshall Pass this road attains an elevation gf 10,850 feet. The longest railway system in the world operated by on&ingle company is that of the Atchison, Topka and Sante Fe Railwayt which cover*?ril0 miles. The longest journey taken by any European train is -from Paris to Con stantinople, 1857 miles. The two oountries having the smallest number of miles of. railway art Persia and Porto Bico? each have but eighteen miles. In the former country, there are only two locomotives and four cars. The smallest railway in the world Is that from Ravenglass to Boot, in Cum 1 berland, England. The guage is three \ feet, and the engines and carriages are miniatures. The stations resemble double bathing houses more than anything else. The entire staff of employs* is composed of an engineer and stoker combinud, guard, ticket collector, ticket distribu tor and two portej^. The shortest s*?am railway in the world is at Buffalo, N. Y., and is kuown as the Island Railroad, and is but one eighth oC a mile in length. Owners of private cars seam to vie with oach other in the magnificence of their coaches. The Imperial train which has just been completed for the German En peror consists of eleven carriages, and has occupied three yean; in construction and cost nearly $985,000. There is nothing like it in the world. Many of the details were planned by the Km p*rur himself. The carriages include a study hung with red Gobelin tapestry from Charlottenberg, h saloon up holstered In white satin, a nursery, a re ception room adorned with marble stat uary, an oak dining room and large separate slee^ng ro<?^. ^ f isoe'is one*oHbe Smdscm^P^lan caw that! j have ever been built. The walls are of ? satinwood, highly polished. The cushions are of white silk embroidered in gold thread. The apartment contains four easy chairs, besides a 6* tin wood table about stx feet long atrCr three- feet wide. The carpet is of velvet pile,covered here an<^~fttere with luxurious India rugs. The curtains at the windows and the magnificent portierres are hoUg on silver poVjs. The door handles are solid sil ver. The whole saloon, ^ith its fittings, etc., cost about $36,<KK? The fastest tisne ever made on an < * American railway w?s recently done on 4 the Reading road, when a locomotive drawing four passenger coaches cov ered a mile in 39* seoond^whicb speed, if maintained, would come very near to one hundred miles an hour. The fastest long distance run that was j ever made fn England was tne famous performance on the London and North western between Londcn and Edinburgh*, : 400 miles, August 13, 18A8. Three stops were made, the average speedy at tained while in motion being 55 ?uleettiW- Foot ?U* ;? ' - r Mi' i=i '! stare aone m crjv *7 ana [?r onds. The Empire State Express, which runs daily over the New York Central road ,is the lasted regular train in the* world. The distance iron is 439}! miles, the stops being Albany, TJtica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffslo. The actual running^tfme, deducting stops, is 52? miles an hour. On September 14, 1891, the New York Central Company ran a train from New York to East Buffalo, 436$ miles in 425$ minutes, or. within ta fraction of 61 miles an hour; i * ^ ; The two cities faring the largest num ber of trains in ap&uus of their stations daily are Xondon and, Manchester. No fewer than 2210 trains ordinarily arrive at slid depart from the former city every twenty-four hours, and nearly as many at the latter * \ The railways of the United Spites get almost $83,000,000 a year for carrying the maik, while the amount paid by the British Gomnaent for the jams service in England irtS, 750,000.^ In the United; States during 1891 ne .fewer thah 520,082,082 passengers were carried on the liilwayt, and 701,344,431 [tons of fright were also nyved on the tame lines. To do this vast amount M business required 32,241 locomotives, 22,958 patieager cars, 7fS8 baggage^ and mail bars aid lr06 1,970 freight care. If I these locomotives were coupled to gether they would make a train 240 'miles lone, and the passenger cars would ; make 800 miles more and' could carry 1,500,000 people at one time- With Ihe addition of all the freight caft the ' train wonld be more than 7000 miles lono* Tbo number of men employed in the railwsy industry in this country Is 714, 750, by which lit would appear that -over 5,000,000 persons, or nearly one?tweta iieth of the entire population, are de pendent upon the railway operations for a livelihood, I : ' j ; The Hew York Elevated' caries year a-laner number of passengers jsny othier railway In the world.' London {Underground comes ,nfcxt former, In 1891, carrying an average lot 512,000, and the latter 405,500 per Tlie* largest railway siation in the world' is 8t. Pancras of the Midland (Railway) in Lpndoe. Very rew persons havej any Idea of the weight of ik>coaiotive3 and passenger^ pa ra. {lie engin^tbat haul the /imous Pennsylvania "limited" weigh 93,000 pounds] while! the tender, loaaed, weighs 50,000 pound* more, making the outfit at the bead of the trsHiMreigh more t&RK 142,000 pounds. Other bfeavier engines on the Pennsylvania weigh 150,000 pounds, and the giants 170,000. ? An ordinary passenger coach weighs about 50,000 j pounds, while the Pullman sleepers are of nearly 75,000 pounds weight. The parlor ours weigh from 65,000 to 79,000 poaodreacb. * An or dinary passenger train of, say, six ce^ 1 and the engii^weigas in Ihe aggregate Nearly &00,^ jjounds. TbeJ4iuiitec,-M Hided * up as ^110^1^111^,136,563 miles; Asia, 19, 23n miles; America, 197,114 miles, Africa, 5354 miles, /and Australasia, 11,112 miles. ? >'ew York Advertiser* ? A Host ttoit&rna Creature. The chameleon has for ages been an ob ject of curiosity, not only on account of its ability to change its color at will, as one might suppose who had read Ac counts which mentioned oofa that one [characteristic, but also on flMtyint of a remarkable power which ad mm of the creatute instantly changing its form. At times it takes upon itself almost the ex- i act form of a mouse; again, with back curved and tail erect, it is the exact counterpart of a miniature grouching lion, which no doubt gave origin to itl name, chamel-leon, which clearly means "ground lion." By inflating its sides and flattening back and belly it takes upon itself (the form of an ovate leaf, the tail acuog as the petiole, the white line over tfce stanacli becoming the mid rib. Whentfrm expanded it also has the extraordinary power to sway itself over so as to present an edge to the ob server, thus greatly adding to its mians of concealment. As is well known, the least excitement, as in handting, will cause a change im the color. In its nor iinal state it is of a light pea gree*. {When excited the groundwork remains the tame, but transverse stripes about thirty in number appear on the t*>dy. These stripes, which are of a very dark green to begin with, soon change to inky .blackness. The prevailing idea that the chameleon takes upon himself the pe culiar hues of whatever he is placed upon is as curious and widespread as it is er roneous. Placed in boxes lined with red or blue silk, they retain their pea grc?n color with no leaning towarcFthe brighter hues &f the surroundings. ?St. Louis Republic. * Some Abyssinian Customs. Even a cbiet ot very high standing would ask for dollars .without any ap parent shame, and if the amount of the ^ gift did not come up to bis expectations, he would politely say, "I require nothing but your friendship," which meant that be vftrald be as \ unfriendly as possible until the required sum was forthcoming.. The King might have put a stop to it at < | once, far no monarch is more absolute i or despotic 3^ the \worB. Hk wofd, proclaimed in the market place with- a prelude of tom-toms, is the only law;v and' he has absolute power of d^athand 'j mutilation . . > Political offenders and obstructionists are arreted, chained, and placed on the small table land of Abba Salama, a high, F9tky, and precipitous mountain about thiity miles from Adowa. So sheer and steep are its aides that the prisoners are drawn up by ropes. Their chance of escaping is impossible, unless they run of dashing themselves into eternity cn the rocks below. On this I lamely height there is soil on which they i mar grow graiu, and there are wells witk , good water.. There is no speakers to | keep order, and they may, if they choose, ; abuse the prime ministers and crowned S heads to their hearts' content, but they return no nore to the ways of the world, j j . ! 1:1 i . ' ? ( The lai*e?t ?wn clock m the world is in the tower of the Glasgow Univer sity, at Glasgow, Scotland. The cloc c . j L weighs about a too And a half, and has ! ! ft pendulum weighing 800 pounds. }, j J *} ? 0 , ^ ? } r. ? m PEOPLE'S PARTY PLATFORM. A Declaration of Principles Differing From All Other Parties. 'A< rambled on the 116th anniversary of tbe DecUrat i ? of lnd pendence^ the Peo ple's party of A eric ?, iu h-ir th-st nation.- 4 al convention, invekir* on their action the blessing o( Almighty u id.^uts forth in the name and on behalf of th* people of this country the foll wing pteauible and declara tion of primiyb**: "The, conditions which surround upbeat justify our cp-operation; we meek rm tbe uaidst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political snd material ruin. Corrup tion dominates the ballot box, the legisla tures, the congress, and touches even the ermine of the b?nch. The psople an demor alised. I Most of the states have com pelled to protect voters at the polling place to pr?*ant universal intimidation or bribery. The nesrspa ers are largely subsidised or muuieri; public op'nion is silenced, business is prostrated, our homes' are covered with mottAgss,' labor is impoverished, and the land fciooirosDtrating in the hands of capital ists Urban workmen are dentopthe right of organis?Uon. for self- prot^ctiofT Import ed pauperised labor beats down their want. A hinting standing army, unrecognized by our late, it establ ished to shootihem down, and tlasey are rapidly degenerating) into Eu ropean oooditiene. The fruits of tketoilof mfittOM sTs waly stolen to build up tor a ' taw od^sMlj fortunes unprecedentfcHri the1 history of mankind; and the poasceeora of thaaa m tarn despise the republic and endan ger lib?rty. Prom the same prolific womb e( govertmsntal injustice we bread the two j great riasMS tramps and wfllknulm a TAir oowwnuOT. "The national pawir tc create maneyhi rlated to enrich bondholdeeeTntart payable in legal -tender enr* n fiaM into fold bearing ,.v /adding miiliona to tip bur? Idans ofthapeopk, . Mirer, wljich nea bee# oepfced ee coin since the deira of history; ( a bee* demonetised to add to the purcbaarl | r power of gcM br ftcreaeing the vatae el funny f properl^^s well ae human 1*% bor. end the upply ?r currency to purpose! j r abridged to fatten u?u era, bankrupt Miter pttsnT end nakve industry, A met (piracy againet mankind bee been . on two continent*, and it ie rapidly of 3m world If not met n it forebodes terrible social con the destruction of civilisation, iafcment of abeolute despotism. 014>i PARTUS WIWOH8IBL*. , jf "We hare witnessed for ng^ than a quartet of a Century the etougwgt' of the two greet political parties for wbwer and plunder, whl'e grievous wrongs have teen inflicted on the suffering people. We charge that the control Ing influencee dominating both these S? bare jermitted the existing dreadful tiona to dereloi) without effort to pre or restrain them Neither do they now kiroqtiec us any eubetantial re'orm. Ihej nave agreed together to ignore in th* coiniag ^Campaign way iasoe but one. They prop* e to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar ef a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, na tional banks, rinae, trust*, watered stock, the demonetisation of lilver and th? oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of," v "They propose to sacrifice our hom?s . lives \ ?ty1 children on the alter of mainmort; to de "stroy the multitude in order to secure cor ^option funds from the millionarits. m THIRD PARTY PDRPOBKf. ??Assembled on the anniversary of th? birthday of the nation and filled wit" spirit ct the grand chief who independenoe^we meat of the-; l^HWStore the govern iblfc to the tfluadsrof 'the With which class it orfglant'd. purposes to be iden'ioal nilb of the national coi^titutinu? to form a mote perfect union and cistiMi*!! jus tice, in6urasdomefrtic tranqu'lity, provide fur he commom defence, prosiote the genera! valfare, audv secure the blessings <>f liberty ourselvea and our posterity. We declare republic can only endure as t> free ent while built upon th<? to> e of the for each other and. for the na ctnnot be pianed together by t the civil war is over, and the tment which grew out of.it and that we muu be in in name, one united brother coJtDinoys unprech dented "Our country finds it*elf coufro?-ted by conditions for which there is no precedent in the history of the w^rld. Our annual agri cultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions of dollars In commodities consumed in their production. * The existing currency supply U wholly inadequate t (r mako this exchange. The results are falling price?, the format ton of combines and rings, the impoverishment of the producing clan. We pledge ourselves that it given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and rea?onablevlegisldti6n in accordance with the terms of our platform. GOVERNMENTAL l?OWBR8 SHOULD BE EXPAND ED. ?'We believe that the powers of govern ment?in other words, of the people? should be expanded (as in the case of the postal ser vice) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teac! trigs of Providence shall justify, to the end that op prrttion, injustice and poverty shall eventu ally cease in the land. While our sympa thies as a party o' reform are naturally upon tihe side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous and tem perate, we nevertheless regard the?e ques tions- impcrtant as they are? as secondary to the great isfus now pressing for solution, and up n which not only our individual f roaterity, but the very existence of free in stitutions depend : and we ask all men to first help us to determine whether we are to have a republic to administer before we dif fer as to tne. conditions on which it is to b# administered. THE PLAT70RM PR0PER. "Believing that the forces of reform this day organized will ne\ei r^ese to move for ward until every wrong isrighu?d, and equal right* and r qual privileges are se ui oJV estab lished for all the men and women o* this country, we declare, therefore? "***-< "First. That the union of the lalior forces of the United States this day consummated shall be permanent and perpetual. May ite spirit enter into all hearu for t he sal vation of the republic and aia in the uplifting of ; mankind. "fcfccmd. Wealth belongs to him wfco i oraetee it, and eveiy d"l sr 1*l*n from in dustry withe ut an equivalent i? a robbery. 'If any will not work neither shall he cat.' Ti)e interests of rural and dric labor are the sam<Ytb ir enemies are id4piic*l ~ 'Tftird. Wa oelie-'e inat the time has ? ccfaewben the railroad cor porationt will either own the peop e or the people must own -! the railroads, and shouM the government enter on the work of owning and managing all railroads s!;r>u!d favrjr an amendment to the Const tution by which all penoneca* g ged in thewr;t^e should be p aiT?d under tuvil'S rvice regulations o' the mo?t rigid | character, so as to prtvenit tbw mere f* or the power of the natfor at administration by I the uae of such additional government e?n ploVeea. THE MONET PLANK. "F^nrfh W* demand a national '-"rre cy. J safe. s<u?d, *ndflexibl* ??sutd by tt > cental j jfovermn^"' nv'y, a >i t er^l teout: fora'l I d?bt?, l ni'd privHle. .???ul tbaC \ about 'he use of barking corpora' ions, a equi table, and efficient means .of distribution ! dr<?ot to the people at a tax not to exceed 2 1 p^r cent, fer annum be provided, asset forth ; in the sub-Treaniry plan at the Farmers' j Alliance, or a better s> stem ;also by payments in the discharge of ite obligations tor public improvement*. ntn fxvrzjL "A- Weflemanl tne iree anrt cr tipor^i winage of sT ver and gold at thf pie-HY leg" I ratio of 16 to 1. "B We demand that the tnu-ont of 'h* : circulating radium be speedily incre scd to not lev than *50 ph> capita. "C. We demand a graduated income tax "D. We LKieve that the mo? *>y of the country should Da kept as mpcb at do:f lile in the Lauds of ttia people, and teaco *ye demau i that all 8&te and aatlonal re^e- u-rs f abail be limited to tks msomaa j expms * vi ronmnMt acdoomk-jdlT aiaJbou^tr ! ? ['* i ' I i '<& We demand thatpojttliai be eetabttshed bj.thegorenuae&t deposit of the people end to fi change. Transportation beift | i exchange end a pbbUo necessity, 1 ment should own and ; operate; 1) in the ietersel* of the peoala. ? \ "F. The telegraph sootslMke postofBce system. beta* a mm transmission of Nwt, should' M operated by the goTwnoeeattftl or the people. "j - ! M "G. The tend, 'ineludtog; ill. sources of weelthistbeheriugaa and should not be monopoUssapsr purposes, and alien ownSrshtpat! be prohibited. All lands no# fe roads and other corporations tnatt actnaT needs, and laMSoovovall should be reclaimed ltd Ml settlers only." j . Hot* Chlawe c*te* "There are some *e?yc carried on by the Chinese on coast," said an officer States Pish Comaaiistiqn Recently. <4,Oaeofthe id the catching of shrimp important industry in 8an sod adjacent waters. .These , taceans upon being; captured ? ashore and bolted in big fyon a rude fashion, holes being scocp^ont of the side of a steep mnlr ipr fire places, which are built up\ with agones.) Alter the shrimp hare remain* |4 boil ing water lor tan minqtec the? at eji pread out to dry upon bare gronndSo is i snch ; shrimp yard at Hunter's Print i i iboutj ^fifteen aoes^n extant Hie Ohlsj^i use : brooms, shaped somewhat like hj5e#, for. Spreading the ishrimp and to at the required intervals, If ? :?*? After being thoroughly dri posure to the son for about lv* shrimp are crtejiad' by j upon by Chinese in wood loosens the meat ir are removed by ,? "yy bi^*8| them crude fanning: mill. Both ^ma| are thfa packed fit. sacks Cot * to China, where the meats Uw. food jsnd the shell* dbposed op tiliie* for tea plsatl,riceead so ** classes of . people inOhU* eat although regarding them1 as the native shrimp, which tirely scaroe nod? proportl Both meats and _ with remarkable egg pttdttabg them' J.; moU of M mmm arid the shells sbippit latter being highly vali tiful motbef-of 'pearl. "> lcau.~ A New Gold Finder; ' -i. jj A new instrument for search of gold deposit! it-a Tteaaat $^gu ; lish invention, which. bat sdfid ? dm- j| tide principles to back it J i thought suggested by the nifl ik 4,Pdrti?h;i; able Gold Finder,?' under filch the instrument, it is announa ^ witt toOjtfJk be put upon the market, wit ;bi minds that tytj is a sort of divining rod ; and, barring! (be odhhd fl attached, to the term, and t^h.fact tkijfj! the so-called divining rod w?a' nsvflt'<i|: f anj use except to the chavtttans gained a livelihood through -}tjl employ-;^ rnent, the suggestion would ! not bt wi >\ from tha truth. IV iu?traja?ot, principal\part of it, if a rod; by alluvial earths may be pforoed.* described in English jpurnalft It.coasffta t essentially of a steel; tube jcascyfag i4.l inner rod that communicate By? wilt I with a small electric batteryjcarrie4 by L strap over the shoulder of the pcw?l j >ec tor. When thruit into j alluvial posits,- and upon meeting with say ? metallic obstructions, aay a tfold nugget, an electric current is set upu which : : causes the ringing, the dejtcacy ot th* action is alleged to be so freat that.a ?jram of gold so large as a *mall beQ At tached to the battery, and jt pin's bead t will give a vigorous tadietctjon of ttij } presence. Though thisac(^d&t It fooM in a scientific journal,, il fairy tale.? St. Louis Star- Bay ing* "7" fi -?+ ITnites, Largt! andHmall. The baleen whaie rarely thing larger than a be which are entangled in whalebone already deecri it j of the baleen whale1! enough to contaia a ship's the opening of the than a man's fist, i' fl beside? ;je4 f. v ide enough to take I? amaa , of Jonah's siX wKbout choking. Th#?:^r Greenland wtg^U iixty o? eereotjfee*| -*t long, with. ? flLNil fflflt longed t?M.?U t ty- life feet t or sixteen ieet l&g and tea or feet high inside, bat hii eye it not get than that of an ox. They, like other J whales, propel themseWeej thttUfh the! water mainly by meaoe,of their powerful! tails. Their speed 1* four Or Ire mileei an hour, swimming near ji ihe BUf^SoeU They usually come up ereqi etaht of taft! minute* for air, butc&n reqeainrlowa half an hour or more; ? stay on the surface for aboiiit two during which they )blow eight or time* and then dijrrf. under again. of tiie most interesting pecrrtiaritiee whale* ie their spouting $r-Mo?ritt? jets of water from th*top of the haadjy^i This is simglj a means the whale has off gettinglfWTjf the water taken into that jiouth in catching bis food or otherwwe,* The baVien whaie, for instance, in catetu in .' i *h<>al of herring gets his big f of shU water, jipd as this a-ree with him if swallowed: it out through the l?low ho'NH a'rso his external breithin^ ap 8t. Louis Kepublic. iuees Victoria s American Nkw York, Y.? 'hiotrgh her Amc^icia U*vv?r, >--preuie Court, -Chambers, to jider requiring bcr to furnish for court cotfe in hdr suit " }QP worth of asphalt wh lire been stolen from u> the Standard ? Deciiioo wee reaerred.'