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CA31DEN, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 lger aile that if in aa y i?r to orer * ^aire is for t the dignity, We." itereat is being wftjictV improvia^ the |nys eoaatr y. Co! M A. Papt, of Boston, ha* |^ja>ptf?to the question by j* pa?p'i^t torn aA Me Jii? on t^&bjec: of a i{a|?Rn?xiibit of BaHs, Their tai Miiateiaace at the ibia Exposition." The Itoatm letters from members of the i# number of other ia every section of the lyesn a endatory of the rthe airoveaieat or pablic it fte Uaitei States. B> iesfc*c*i giv eu from i fitjc ia ? road reform ia i?!i caer the Union. Tire?> that t:03 pr ess every fcte lau I able ef liataia pablic tra-ler among ir day of these | the richest per ( of Indiaas ia bey have a rev and receive 10 Govewcneat. Jmoitof Southern ^nth the Gyr >iviag a large ieir lands, ^vhich sttlemeat. The , .t holds ia tru*t *,000,000, aad it. per annum oa about $560,000 amoacj 1700, the ze Indians. They crviliie-i. Taey |t scbojls at the 0. The Catholics i<r about $ JO, 000 the children are ;hool, the Indian t^even years to four seven to sixteen. rIadian is the same,' tnaa of aixty-S*e? 1j with the school draw their aa fcave a Governor, a Council (or Lej a Supreme Court Judges, a High Sherifs aad other iQT the Civil War served *a the ao ae ia tiw Coa to s_R*p3bllean av jjo^l>e?ra as * \% - ' **, * ? f STATES' BRIEFS. Dispatches From Many Points of Interest. of Virgina, Worth and Carolina Carefully Gleaned For New?? VIRGINIA.^ flooded the officc of the People's iottesville.acd drowned it a hole in a lead water Syrian immigrant*, holding tickets for Suffolk, Va., via were stopped at Cape Charles back to New York whence of Norton's Virginia and nearly 3,00 ) gallons, was ship week from Charlottesville to New by the Monticel o Wine Company. Taylor, who wan sentenced in to death for murdering the family, has been taken to Lynch to avoid lynchiBg. ?uie has been granted by the Court against the town council of to show cause why they are contempt in refusing to assess of the Richmond & Danville Company at that point . are reported to be dying in Char ty for want of blossoms, result th^ severe drought. B. Clay, of Chesterfield county, has farm a stalk of corn fifteen feet ioche3 high. Ife is going to wnd the State Exposition. It is the stalk of corn ever raised in that \ IvUBTH CAROLINA. EW; Donald MacRae, of Wilmington, Thursday at Lenoir. He was )*, rectok of the North Carolina and Wil tgton and Weidon railroads. Winston's fiftV tobacco warehouse waj ned. _ Revenue officers have seized a big gov | eminent distillery in Yadkin county, owned -hj A. E. fcbore. It was for a vio la! loo?f the law. The plant is aDnounc td to be sold. Gov. Solt was absent from Raleigh during the Stevenson reception, attend ing the burial at R^'dsville of Mrs Williamson, his wife's sister. "Raleigh ladies gave a fstival last w ek to aid the Confederate monument, *td raised #600. Mr*. Virginia Madison has been jailed in Tarboro on the charge of k H ing tlv. new-born child of ber daughter, Rosa. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston has quarantined against New York . Two terrific cyclones passe i through Newberry county last week, destroying much property. Tbeo. D. Jervey, a veteran Merchant aad prominent man, of Charleston, died ust week . The flags of the city werv lowered to half -mast as a mark of mourn ing. In the second Democratic primary erf the Second Congressional district Talbcrt, (.\lliance) defeated Tillman. Attorcey General HcLaurin is proceed- ! ing against several phosphate companies i for selling fertilizers, analysis of which ! by the Btate, showed to be one-half sand ; A Sumter company is the first on tha list. The Creosote Lumber & Construction I Co , ofFernandia, Fla. , is engaged on an ? order for creosoting 600,00(T feet of yei | iow pine and 60,00) feet of oak, to bi used in the construction of the govern ment drydock at Fort Royal, 8. C. OTHER STATES. . M?stsomebt, Ala.? Thomas H. Watts, exGovernor of Alabama, and At torney General in the Confederate cabinet ' died here at 3 o'clock Friday (mornirg I after several weeks illoess. Mr. Davis '8 Monument. Richmond, V a. ? The conferences b?i- ; tween the representatives of the Davis Monument As>ociation of Virginia and the committee of the United Confeder ate Veterans removed most of the obsta- j cle* that have hitherto prevented the desired progress in the matter of raising funds to erect in or near this city a mou ument to commemorate Hon . Jefferson j Davis's service*, 3acrificies, ?.nd sutler- ! ings. * In view of the fact that Richmond wai the capital of the Confederacy and that Mrs. Davis has expressed the wish j I that it should be" selerted both ss the ! permanent burial place of her hifobajjfc j and as the spot for the monument, the veterans' committee, who were clothed with ample powers, in substance agreed that their organization would throw all of its influence ? and.it is very weighty ? in favor of Richrronf.\ The permanent burial and monument are to be here. The funds collected for this purpose by the United Confederate ; Veterans will be sent to Richmond, and J we understand a like course will be pur sued by tae Southern Press Association. Mr. Davis will have a suitable monu ment. It will be erected in Richmond, by the people of all the Southern States. Oth?t plans are to be fused into the plan of Slw Virginia A**ociatiotf.' wjjica will at otace^et to work to choose a de sign and site and to lay the corner-stone. It wa^r solved that Monroe Park be chostu at site for the ptoposed moiui menc. - . ' i ' ..?* The Poj? Market $f P*r!?. Among the queer institutions of Pari?, I of whose.existence the ordinary Ameri can visiter %ith all his zeal for explora | -ion has no notion is the Dog Market. which is held every Sunday in a cornei ( of the Marche aux Chevaux. It is a duly authorised market that Wings into the ; exchequer of the city an annual sum | equivalent to $500. This, says a corre I spondent, proves that a <rre*t detl of | business is done by the sale of dogs hi ; the course* of the year. A tax of fiUeen j centimes is lev.ei upon the I.e?d"?>f eac h J ^animal that is brought to roarke*. Tu : ; number of entries averages 14,000 annr ' ally, but the exutbition is said to ha-? j injuriouai# affected the dog business, fo j there was a marked decrease last year ! .The market is also saiti to have suffered j from the competition of those who sei : dogs in the streets and take large ! families of them every Sunday into th? Champa- Elysees and the Bois de Bou i logne under the pretext that jthey need j air and exercise, but reallv^n hope of ^ejrot^atj n? their sale. ? New York Tr* i buae. ? ? - | 1^ P~il?dc!nb?a sew milk I; g*.*er " j to 3.1 wno ask for .r, and i? disthbmed i H tenS j>etiveen 11 and 3 <f clock. : ; : .1. - : ! CHOLERA IN NEW YOEK. ; The Dreaded Disease Within The Citadel. | A Number Dead and More Stricken. Precautionary Measarea Taken. New Yobk City.? Five death* in ! this city from Asiatic cholera were an nounced by the Board of Health. This is the list of those known to hare died of ; Asiatic cholera: TITE DEAD. Name. %ge. Died. ; Charles McAvoy 3o Sept. 8 William Wiegman 52 - Sept. 10 Sophia Wiegman 03 Sept 11 Mianie Levinger 1-| Sept, 11 charlotte Beck 31 Sept. 13 Each has been reported by the attend ing physician as auspicious, but no no tice wa3 given out until the nature of the disease had been definitely determined by a bacteriological examination, which delayed announcement of the presence of cholera. In but one case is these a clue io the i possible origin of ihs disease Four Hungarian immigrant* who arrived from Antwerp on the Fries'and ob Aug. 29 lived for several days in the house where Minnie Lerioger died on Sundav. None of the Friesland's passengers were ill, but the vts?el was disinfected and detained about forty hours. The city authorities express confidence that thej will be able to keep the disease from spreading, and the announcement j of its presence in the ci'y does net se?.m to have created public alarm. The health inspectors have reported another case of cholera. The victim, Mary Connoly, 16 years old, residing at { 692 Second avnue, has been removed to the St. John's Guild Floating Hospital i at the foot of East 16th street. Two sus ! pected cases were found in Brooklyn. A young German girl, whose name could not be learned, residing at 56 State street, was one, and Simon Co inski, of North Ninth street WftliamsbtiTg, tie- other. The German girl died in a few hours. She had beea in this country since last j February. | THE CLYDE FACTION IN CONTROL. The Richmond and West Point Ter minal's Status Fixed. Richmond,Va.? W.P. Clyde and thoee in sympathy with him are now in full control of the Richmond and Weat Point Teiminal Railroad aad Warehouse C^m paoy. At the general meeting of the stock holders the ticket proposed by what is known as the "Calhoun faction" was de feated as were also resolutions which Mr. Pat -Calhoun trL d to hive passed . Ever since the meeting heM here was called p there have been two committees at work receiving proxits. The oae headed by 1 Wm. E. strong represented the Clyde ; people and that of which Alex E. *Ojt was chairman represented the. "Calhoun faction' To-day the tupportcrs ef Clyde coatrollcd 400,122 shares of stock, while the other side had only about 175,00) shares to vote. The meeting was callcdto order in the j Times Building at noon by W. G. Oak man, receiver of the company, and' im mediately adjourned to the Exchange j Hotel. W. P. C Jyde was made chair man. The inspectors of the e'ection i reported the following .gentlemen*, had received the vote of 41)0.122 shares of j stock voted and they were declared elected directors: Wm. E. Strong, Geo. F. Stone, Wm. P. Clyde, J. C. | McBean, Alex S. VanNest, Thomas F. Ryan. Geo. Blagden, C. A. Law, li. G. Erwin, W. H. Goadly, Jno. N Hutchin ! son, Jos Bryan, Edward Packard, Jno. A. Rutherfurd, R. S. Hayes, G. J. Gold, | Thos. Mansoo, Jr., and Ohas. McGhee. [ This was the ticket put up by the | i Clyde faction. The names of the per sons on the Calhoun ticket were- not ; given out They received the vote3 of about 175,000 shares. I The meeting adjourned to ths 26tb of ! October. Joint Letter of Acceptancc of Weaver and Field. ? Pefsacola, Fla.? Generals James B. Weaver and James G. Field, the Pco pie's party candidates for President a u Vice-President, have issued their joint letter of acccptancc of nominations which is addressed to the public. They say they have visited fifteen I States in the Northwest and South on their political tou s and hive not said that "the pe.*>plc a e ia poverty, their substanccs arc being devoured by mo nopolies, trusts, pools and> mone} sharks %y A strong plea is made for a free bal lot and a fair count, and recent election methods in Alabama are complained of. | they claim that Captain Kolb was elictcd I Governor of Alabama by 40,000 majority but < ountcd out. They also assert that j the People's party was cheated in the ; Arkansas election. The candidates say in conclusion: j ' After an experiment of many years it is ' apparent that ucithcr the Republican j pat ty nor tlie Democratic party <an or will accomplish the much des;re^ tc _ form to -wit, the restoration ef tjse bal- . Jot on a fair and henest basis Ua._ the , States of the Union The People's party alone can secure the desired end. If the people of the whole country who 'desire honest elections and the repeal of c'ass laws will rally to the support of ; the great industrial movement and place j j th* party in power under whose banner ' | the whit-.' people of the South arc now marshaling themselves, this vexed qu? s j tion wiUbc settled forever. It is certain j that the p*>p!e of .the South will not joi'i the rai&s of the Republican party, i It is equally certain that the Republicans | will not unite with the Democratic pa^jL The People's party aft. >r s the only so^" : iutiouof %se important matters.'' j A 81anderous Preacher Cowhided. >Jew Orleans. La. ? Dr. A. E Br'.dger, pastor of the Congregational church at ! .leanings, w as cowhided Sunday by ' D. E. M. Burke, who acted for the male port on of the congregation for uttering | sweeping condemnations of the charac ! teTs of the women of the town geoer aliy. Dr. Bridger did not flinch under i the punishment. ? ? Each little gTave of Queen Victoria's favorite dogs is marked by ? stone tablet bearing an appropriate inscrip tion. The coal mines of Fienn-les-Kons, la j Belgium, are of n^reat depth, sad a recent survey has shown that rich veins of coal exist at a depth of 1300 metres, ? are to be worked jfa tgje. .. . < - ; v . I POLITICAL WOBLD. 1 Candidates, Conventions, Nomina * tions, Elections. All the News of Political Movements of the Four Parties. Fall returns from Vermont give Ful | ler (Rep.) for Governor 39,190; Smalley, (Dem ) 19,526; Allen (Pro.) 1,650. Judge Geo. T. Werts was nomiaated for Governor by the New Jersey Demo cratic convention last Wednesday, in spite of his letter saying he would sot accept it. His friends have induced him to yield. . ' - The Massachusetts Republican State convention at Boston nominated by ac clamation for Governor, Lieut Got. Haile. The Democrats of the Second Virginia district at Norfolk nominated for Con gress D. Gardner Tjler, of Charles City county. The nominee is a son of tx President Tyler, and was born in the White House. Tne Democratic Congressional Con vention of the Ninth dis'rict at Birming ham, Ala., nominated Lewis W. Turpin on the first ballot. - ; X. tTSVSNSOB* Hod. ^fTTaT E. Stevenson spoke to large audiences last week at Asheville, Raleigh, Charlotte and Winston. Cctton Manufacturing. AJ 'red B, Shepperson, of the New ... Cotton Exc - angc, has published . ".-tateznent of the American cotton ;rop of 191-'92," ps compiled by him. Vlr. Shipperson argues that while the crop for the past year was the largest "comjjerciai crop on rccord, the actual cotton yield was probabiy 600,000 less than the year previous, fie bases this upon the fact that a very large quantity of old cotton, held ever from 1890-91, was marketed during the year just closed. This view of the matter is valuable in making estimates on the present crop, based upon a comparison with the con dition of that of "91 "92 at the corres ponding period las: year. The portion of the state i ect, how ever, which is of gvea er i terest to \i?, is :hat giving the consumption of cotton by the mills in the Southern S ates. Four years ago, in 1S88 89. the South ern cotton mills consumed 479.781 bales, in 1890 9J, 612.892 and for the year just clos d, 684,367. In the first yejr named ?ou h Carolina's e ?nsumpt-ion was 1 32, - -;19 bales and ia<t year it was 18 >,367, n increase (4 15,009 bales over the consumption of t he previous year. Georgia comes se> ond on the list w:th 167.713 bales utilized !>v her mills last I year, an iacrease 1 -?,000 for the year, j North Carolina is tli rd, her mills having ustd 157,600 bales tif cotton, a gain of 20,000 bales over 1890 91. These three I States show an increase of 48,000 bales I consumed, as compared with the year before . The report cflfrmy G. Hester, of the "cw Orleans Cotton Kx change, upon the same subject has also been re ceived. 'lhct \o gr at authorities are wonderfully close together in their fig ures, and for tl><i first time t hey agree in naming South Carina as the greatest cotton manufactuiing State of the South Mr. Hester's figure?--mdieale an in crease in t he consumption of the two Carolinas and Georgia of 61,00 > bales over that <>! 1890 91, which is more fa voraiile to this section jthaft Mr. Shep peak's report, but all evidence goes to show that these is general prosperity in the cotton spinning business in the I f outh, and thit we arc making wonder j ful strides in the manufacturing industry j Last year the mills of the remainder of i this country and Carada manufactured le-cs than four and a half times the quan tity of cotton consumed ii^he States of So ;th Carolina, Georgia and North Car olina. In ten years more these *i 1 be the cotton manuf ctu ing Stat?* of the Un ion. Ion? T)i?laace Occan Towing. The subject ol long distance oceat towing has been receiving much consid eration at the hand* of American ship* owners. A proposal has already been made to employ hermetically sealed steel barges lor ocean transportation, these I barges being towed by specially designed ! tugs and towing apparatus. It is believed by many shipowners in this country that are;: Hearing the time when the tow -iajtf steamship" w|U be largely employed to drag freight barges across the Atlan tic. The possibilities in this direction bare been suggestively indicated by sopae noteworthy feats of towing done receoit* ly by the Unite 3 States tu^ steamer S*t ura, which is about 2*230 tons, and is fitted with very powerful engines. The chief difficulty 3n ocean towing is the failure of the tow rope or steel hawser or its fastenings. Neither man ilia rope nor steel wire rope can withstand the sudden strain ca<H Hwtioif dt 1 the towboat and i-cr cotflJPl in a heWy J seaway, the great vait being elasticity. To overcome this dirficaity the Saturn has been fitted with a towing apparatus inTeatel by an American engineer. It j is a balancing cable dru n, waich is so I geared up that the normal prepare of the engine cylinders, situate i on either side of the drum, will balance the nor mal strain on the cable or hawser; but | if the strain on the hawser is increased, j the drum revolves aft and the hawser | pays ont, running in ^gain when tni ' strain is relieved.? New Orleans P^ea I yune. A Mountain Murder. Raleigh, N. t' ? The Governor has icceived a telegram informing him thit i Matthew W. Rector, a deputized po ?( licemas, was murdered at Marshall, Madison county. by Alonza West, whom Rector was endeavoring to arrest for di* ?rderly conduct. .1 i * ' ! ! ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. 1 State Alliance Elections East and West. -V News of the Order From Various Points. The Alabama ?tate Alliance met in coor^Qoo at Cullraani The following officers, Were elceted: B: W> Gr^e, pres Ment; Merrill of Batiftotpfc. vita pros ide?t; ft. If. Adauft. SiwTT&ttirer ; T. J. Carl sle, of Pike, assistant lecturer ; W. L Brock, secretary and treasurer;. Elder Blackwell, of Madison, chaplain; C. C. Lee, of Barbour, doorkeeper; G. W. Jones, assistant doorkeeper; King, of Butler, sergeant -at arms. * 4 + * * rm . it t t ?? ^ 1L G. BUiey, of Howard county; .Tice president, J. W. Kerr, of Caroline county; secretary and treasurer, T. Canfieli Jea?_ kins, of Charles county; State lecturer, Frank H. Jones, of Caroline county. Executive committee: Hugh Mitchell, of Charles county; N. A. Duuning, of Prince George's county; Charles Gum, of Wor-' cester county. Committee on tho good of the Order: E. 8 Heffron, of Caroline county; E. J. C. Parsons, of Worcester county; J. H. Downing, of Wicomico oounty. F." H* Jones and M. G. Ellsey were elected delegate* to the National Alliance. Alonzo Wardell writes: I attended^ the Statejoaeeting of Missouri Industrial and LabofUnion atMoberly, Mo., August t8 25. Had a good meeting. The old Hall difficulty has practically disappear ed and so has he, sb far as the AUianco is concerned. The Ocala demands wer'e fplly indorsed. The national bid degre<K was adopted, and the officers were' le qusW to proceed at once to introduce it A Joseph Miller, of G anger, ScitlanH county, was elected president and JV Weller Long, Warrensburg, secretary; Larkin Wise, lecturer, and Brothers Wollard, Aldrich andlLeanard were elect ed delegates to the/ eupTeme council. Missouri is in good condition and con be depended on for a big rote for Weaver ana the Ocala demands The rew 'offic ers are able, energetic and reliable, juul will push matters. General Weaver mads them a grand speech the evening of the 83d. _ / - i Coming Crisis (Colorado) reduces tlji nation ill banking problem to ene para graph, and hits it right : Have you got a "bank'* note in you pocket? Then know that somebody hai to borrow It out o t bank at the current rate of interest? 10 or 12 per cent. sX^eti know that your government made this bastard money especially for the po.r bankers and loaned it to them at 1 per cent, per annum And yit these baukers stick up their nose and tell you that the government cannot loan the peeple money at 2 peree&ti ****** ~ CUBAN TOSACCO IN SOUTH^AllOLINA. If reports be true theire will soon be even stronger reasons^or Cuban cigar manufacturers to mov< to thij country than the high taxc3 imposed upon theiu by the Sp anish government. It is ssid that on the Willcox O'Neill phantation at Kstill, S. C., sixttf miles from Sav?u nah, Mr. W- P. Wilicox has succe.ded in r-.ising some remarkable fine Havana tobacco from Uvelto seeds, which is one of the bettt varfeties g?owu in Cuba Fifteen acres were planted, buc through insufficient knowledge of the proper methods of cultivation and trouble ?with insects the crop w:fe small. Evtn "with these drawback*, however, the resul' have nettei nearly |400 per acre. With the experience gained by this trial Mr. Will cox thinks he can more than double his return# nexti year, and will give about seventy-five acres to it. The leaf has been examined by experts, who pro nounce it equal to any tobacco grown in Cuba. It may take some years to acquire a full knowledge of the methods most satisfac tory for growing ?uch a crop, and the variety may change under the new condi tioc-s of soil and climate, but the experi ment is well worth trying, and even though later crops should not be of as high a srade as this fiist^one, they will mora then pay the expense of cultivation. A careful study of what is needed , coup led wi h the judicious use of su t;?ble fertilizers, shouldjit least aid in prevent ing any material change in quulity or value of the leaf. Dr. JENCK'S ??BUG". The Cholera a Warning of Christ's Second Coming. Isdianapolts, Ikd.? The Rev. Dr. Jencks of this city, in an intereiew. declar ed his belief thai the cholera epidemic now sweeping over the world is a warning of the n^ar approach of Christ's second coming. "I believe that plngue has been sent to warn us,'' said he, ''and awaken us to a perception of the prophecies in the Bible concerning the fearful j heuomcna that are to preccdc his coming.1' Dr. Jencks declares that the world is murh mor>; wicked than it was twelve months ago, and ns time rolls on the world will become more an 1 more de based. From this time on plague, war and famine are to multiply*/ and minds of mortals will t c Sistdunded by the violence of these visitations. We Have Been Enttrtaining a King. Nashville, Tenn. ? A young negro, who has spent four years at the Central ^Tennessee College in this city, has been 'called to a throne in Africa. Ilis name is Momolu Massaquai, aud he came from V|y country, a region of interior Africa, ac^oining Liberia. He was converted -eome years ago to Christianity by Mrs. Mary Brierly. tin English missionary, and though her influence aud that of B:shop Pcnick, of Louisville, was brought to this country and put at school, lie le ceived the news to d .y that his father, King Balah, had been killed in war aud he is called to teign in his stead. A Greenville Juvenile Prize Fight. Grxexville. 8. C. ?Two twelve year old boys of this city fought sevea rounds in the loft of a stable for three dollars a side. One was knockcd out in the seventh round by a blow on the nose which brought blood. There were sev eral other fights in the same party. The boyshadaring and gloves. Pugilism is the rage here now. Baby's Bedfellow. , PrivA^EE*, S. C. ? A rattlesnake with nine raffles and a buttoS was found one. morning r. cently in the cradle with Wi liam Gedding's chiild. ;? tfisE vijom. - Womens jars makej men's. wars. A woman's tears are a fountain of craft". \ The cunning wife makeaher husband her apron. Women laugh when thej can and weep when they please. j Troth travels in , slow boats whilf hope and fear run 14 slippers of light ning. Iu maturity reason sometimes builds s palace out of the ruin?; which the passions of youth have left. ^ A little depression ifts more favorable to improvement than much cornalacency. Better pass through life dipping witl self-distrust than trip aloeg elated witi s globule of gaiin the brain. ??* Prejudice is intellectual and moral im purity disturbing the balance of our " '^Acuities with a personal bits. , It nuxtt our ignorant error an^ wilful desire with what should be kept clean and tree to: the truth. 9 1 1 ? ; I Disagreeable duties are better done i with quick resclVe by n'^enerous impulse of devotion than with pareful delibera tion by a dogged perseverance. Whet one has to take an; emetic >it is a greail economy to swallow it at oneheroicgulj and not dribble it down insucoessin disgusts,; Rectitude is the noroial condition foi ^religious peace; certitude tlie nortqal condition for intellectual contentment. Rectitude is "the regulation of personal conduct by ttlajstandsrd of universal good. Certitude is the complacent re pose of the mind in conscious union witl its object " i: < V~; j ' -JEU&biMKUlfcf "Ijwutry. In New Sottth Wales tie Government !cDded over *4>??M00 fromd883 to I LS90 endeavoring to exterminate them. Besides that a greater sum baa been ex pended in private moneyl In one year 2$, 2$u,000 skins bad royalty paid upon them. Now, there is another aide to this question of extermination, and thai (??? the Tabhit killer's; and rabbit skin PpUer. Interest* The killer get? ' two cents a head royalty 'from the Got- i ernmenfc for destroying the animal. ? He i then sells the skin at frofo four to ait { cents. On the meat at tto canning fac? ' tories, he averages .from two to four cents. It is a nice easy ^ray of ??ipng ? money. The skins are bale-pressed ancM: exported to London. In that city there is a general auction sale of skins every six weeks. The sales average from fif teen hundred to two thousand bales, and thie average to a bale is 'two hundred skins. Pasteur endeavored to exter minate the rabbits by innoculation with chicken cholera. It is well known to those behind the scenes that he did not get affair trial, and, in fact, was so hin dered and hamper^! that he withdrew his agents from further experiment. The question has come up before the Gov lament again, and a bill is new be fore the Sydney Legislature asking foi a vote Jo build a brick Mall entirely around the agricultural boundary of the colony of New South Wales. Rabbits ? will not buirow lower t/han two and a half feet, and it is proposed to sink the wall to that depth. The wall being once built, a *-eaeral extermination cif the rab uits within the luclos^re will be com menced and carried through. The other coiomes will watch the experiment with great interest, and if it. succeeds will probably all follow suit. Such a course would confine the rabbits to the great Austt^npa bush, in whose sandy deserts they would scon die out. What use is made of all these rabbit skins? Why, the hat on yottr head is made of them. 1 he hair is plucked off the pelt *>J hand. A fortune awaits the man who can invent a machine to do it. A fine blue fur is then left on the pelt. The skin is then pared away from the fur bv delicate machinery so fine that when the last paring is cut off the fur sometimes hangs in one filmy section. This is -.worked up into felt. Ordinary hats are .made from rabbit skin. A better class {is made from a kind of water rat trapped in Buenos Ayres, and then come beaver and musquash, obtained in the United 'States and Canada. ? Boston Transcript. Katfiesiinkes and I'rafrle Dozi. It is often remarked that owls, prairie flogs, and rattlesnakes live amicably together in cne hole, which the prairie dog is supposed to have prepared. Iq order to test the question of the peaceful relations between the dog a?d snake, an old army officer tells me that he once turned a rattler loose in his room. Open ing tie cage of the prairie dog, the little felloA-at once came out aod ran back and forth immediately in front of the reptile, which was coilei with its head poised ready to strike the dog. The snake followed the dog's movements with its head. The dog's eyes were constantly direced toward fhe snako's eyes. After a time, the movement of the snakes head from side tov side grew slower.\ It seemed to have become confused or dizzy from the continued 'exercise. With a quick spring the dog; seized the snake's to the head and bit it vie -?-EseTiBsr - 1 - ? ?tinued snake along the spmal cord jeck to tail, the first bite having practMjy ended the snake s life. When toe :dea&-0pti!e Vaa swung to and fro from the bar* of toe s cage, the animal trie 1 to it Off with his fore fee'. These actions c >nvinccd the officer that the'dog a i predated thJUangerous quaJtie* of the snaiie. This observer also ttou rht that snakes did ncK^strike adult |o/s when living with them because thef holes were too small to maneuver in.UjifcientHlc American. A {f ir* (>ne?r Froa'i. Hop \\ iiitnsy f of Moiroe, G*., tells a -range story of animal life." A cat ae lectcd the fouder loft a* the h^me for tier kittens. A sittiprg hen was near ber neighbor, and ha J the uiisfortun^to be i broken up. She at once ousted the cat from her bed and appropriated herltbree kittens. When Hop went into thefloft, he was surprised; to see the mammj cat lyingwithout her kittens, and when he a .tempted to uke the kittens from the hen he foand he/fid a considerable row on hia fcand?.-? Atlanta Constitution, / .'7ii. ; .. / j j "There goes Blobski, the poet.1' . "Hoy* did he get that nam?' "By his vewes always coming back to him."? Philadelphia Record. FECK RIDDLED. A Blttftonov OF TBS HXW TOM LABOl COIOOUIOHIB'S EXTORT OH THJ xmct Of THE TABZFT OK LABOT A3TD WAGES* v Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, having nude an alleged inresti r'?tioB of 4 'the effect of the tariff on "wagea," has issued a one-sided report in which he claims that protection is a boon | and the KeKinley law a blessing. Mr. I J. Schoenhotf, a we!! known writer on the tariff, thus riddles Peck's peculiar re port in the columfes of the New York World: Mr. Peck's totals show a net increase in wages for 1691 orer 1890 of $6,377, 985, and a net Incrfrsss in products in this Stats during (be sum pwiod of ?81,515,1*0. i F ; j I will not inquire into the relevancy of the sta^SMat to the McXinley bill or sny other tariff maasnrs. If tike increase does not skow mere then tee ordinary ratio, the refroci ft Its short o< ill purpose. ? Bo long ss no data are furaished, as by 1he United States Census, covering ell in dustrial occupations, the inference is not excised that selections sre made with a riew to oojrering a certain end in "view. Many very important in?uitries are left out. Cottoo, woolens and other tex tiles, Iron and steel nrodrcts, etc., sre not mentioned at all. Did they not show a sufficient Ineraass in wages to parade them as glorious - examples of tariff beoefltst Yet these are. the prin cipal industries whldh hate received tariff favors. 1 will show, <u round figures, their rates of Increase, under the beneficent protective tariff, from the census of 1S70 to 1880 (In thousands) : 1 FIOOUCTS. : . ism. 18W. *T*C. Cotton goods ...HI 19,70^ $1,478 Hata, cut nd out- N terials. ...?.?????.?? 10,700 7,500 *900 Iron aod steal mmfactam ...... 61,000 fy?0 26,030 Here wo tare tbo principal industries which can bo els? d we eminently it protected industries suffering a decline within one brief decide of $53,000,000? from $89,000,000 is 1870 to $16,000,. 000 in 1880. In the cruder iron and steel products and, manufactures New |]Tork State, 1870, contributed over 15 per cent, to the total product of the United States. In 1880 the percentage of the State of Hew York had gone down^to 8 per cent, in the total of these Industrial products. Under the blight ing influence of the tax on the raw ma terial tie industries falling under these headings hare become tranferred from the Democratic State to the Republican State of Pennsylvania. It is not known to the writer that a perceptible increase has taken place m the succeeding decade, which is to be covered by the expected returns of the eleventh census. All reports bava so far tended to advertise further decline in these industries in this 8tste. If proof were required further than that of the generally itnown condition of these in dustries in New York State, the omis sion cf Mr. Peck to inclose them in his tabulations would hare furnished it. Cotton goods hare not increased either, as is well known. Their manu facture becoaaes more and more concen trated in certain favored localities from natural causes, the same as in England. In all wool goods the decline is general and alo&e doe to the tariff on raw wool. The decline in the consumption of wool in proportion to the growth of the popu lation, and the corresponding increase in shoddy and wool substitutes to make up the deficiency, gi?e full evidence of the benefits of a tarifl on raw materials. The increase in shoddy goods, of course, would make up for the difference. But the silence of Mr. Peck does not seem to warrant the assumption that increased prosperity came to the working people in 1891 in excess of that enjoyed in 1890, against the general depression in woollens everywhere else, a fact so well I known to everybody at all familiar with the trade. The three branches cited suffered a decline in wages paid out and in the number of work people employed, according to the census tables, as fol | lows (in thousands) WASXS AXD RAItDS. . ? ' ltTO / 1880 \ V umber Number of /? Of Water Haafr. WtjSfc. Hani*, j Cotton goods.... 9,144 fMW 9 9W I Hats, cap?, stc... 5^630 5,870 8,155 5,213 ' Iron and steel | products 9,903 *,991 ^567 Totals $1^153 33,689 $8, *54 38, 630 These industries suffered a deeline to the extent of $6,780,000 paid less in wages and 5018 fewer working people employed. But what is of further and greater significance is that the rate of wages, as shown here, has gone down to the extent shown here. The average per hand employed is as follows, ^ 1170. 1880. Dec Cotton ipods Iggkj *}j ' Hats and caps, etc . . ?!??? : l Iron and steel pro^uda. 8S8 870 15. This is indeed shuwin* which woutd give thi death -knell to any high-tarifl sentiolaat still maspant in the greatesl manufacturing State of the Union were i any facts wanted to prove the absnrciitj I of the claims usuilly set forth. I wil' not draw any inferences frorr ! this nor generalize on the Hcts furthei 1 than to show the positions of cert a- n in j dustries which ought to have stca My in j cr$?se4 in jfoduct and in wages pai< . out under the benign influence of the I tariff, but have, oa the contrary, sufferel , tht heaviest decline. TLat these facts have been ignored by j a Democratic official authority of the Stat* and spurious facts substitute! to bolster up the policy of the oppo?itio:i party ic the only thin:; which give* a somewhat serious tone to the absurdity of :be publication. A compfriton of the producf, of wages and of bands employed in Industrie? furthest removed from the in8u?n?? re ferred tc rho-vs on the contrary th2 following increases: > ? ? irre ? Prod act. Waje*. Ran**. ? (Thousaad*. ; (Tfco'iwrSs.l Boots and sho?s. ...M7.818 S4.9JS U.4C9 Clothing 44. 7 IS fe.L9*> 28. "?0 Women's clothing. . 4,?9> 14,27-! 4 . ? , | QZ. I . _____ -..i ? , Product. Wa^et. Han't ^ > (TtaoaMaa*.) <Tftou*aod?-.? \ Boots and shoes. . . .?18,97y i 3,400 v Ck) thine . 81, 1?3 1\2 4 . <U,00 > Women's eloth'c.?. . 12 ',41^ 27,32. j 9.', 100 "It has been demonstrated sufficiently i by comparisons made here end that labor ib boots and shoe* is ci thae in Europe. Ia clothing a ineffective. Fashion and taste alone ft bid importations of ready-made clo and give a clear field to the hofce mis facturer, though bis materiel*, by taxation , are so much higher than foreign clothing manufacturer has to that the protection by the tariff clothing is quite neutralised. In industries jwhere tariff protection . equally ineffective similar Rowings i be made, jln clothing, the leut pr^ tected artiolerthe increase is highest: ? 75 per centi in product, 125 per cer^, m wages and 150 per cent, in the a ' of hands. Women's clothing hea in the product from four and a millions to over twenty millions, new census will show a heavier inu yet These items suffice to ~ show damning evidence of facte ignored Mr. Peck. Having pointed them OtttT will &3W return to the facts adduced tj; I his theory. f' in products is set dowr | The increase from 1879 ),000,0p0. ' Considering ions of all commodities 5 1880, and the decHn f it industries noted above 1880 over 1870 shows fo " lew York fully $400,000, 000,or 6?|f per oent On jthe same basis of pi ogres sion the |1, 080,000,000 of 1880ough to have grown to $1,800,000,000 fa 1890. The years of the end of the de< cade, however,- must show the greatest ratio of increase, pertly on account of the incfesse of 25 per cent, in the population of the Stale an^ partly on account of tile general trade activity ratipg in 1889, 1890 and ltftl against the great'stagna tion ruling and spreading in intensity from 1888 }887. The ratio of !& creese ought from these .considerations to be nearer a hundred millions than iiventy millions, which would be the^avefage off the decade. If j Hr. Peek is not abb to show more than thirty-one millions of increase he and his theory stand con* demned by his own figures. v him to suppo: The as $31,000, to 1880 was the price as compared in such fm the increase itiU Reed oa "Ext rsvaj sace. " - - Ex-Czar Reed is something of_i humorist in his way and he hat seldom been more humorous than he is now Ha' accusing the Democratic House of "ex travagance," because with a Republican' Senate and a : Republican President 1 Wainst it it could not repeal thei sugar' ? b^intj act, the steamship subsidy actf and such like acts passed by the Reed; Congress, with ithe deliberate intention of increasing the expenditures of the * Government and making the ri a crease1 \ permanent. The Reel Congress and the Harrison r administration have run the annual ex-' pense for pensions elone up to $140,- \ 000,000, so that! with this and $10,000,-* 000 a year for sugar bounties we have a j permanent expense of $150,000,000 a year altogether aside from what are* properly the ordinary expenses of gov-' ernment. ' [ ' r Under the Disability Pension bill and other pension acts now in operation the ; annual expense for pensions will (grease for some years to cooae. It will reach at ? least $150,000^00 a iyear, and the only chance the country h^s of getting rid of it is by outliving thex pensioners. The ! sugar bounty will be repealed as soon as the Democrats elect a President and a majority of the Senate. Until then it re mains with the other permanent charges imposed on the country by the moat j scandalous Congress the country ever had. With a Democratic Senate these per manent charges can Ue greatly reduced. When Mr. Cleveland is inaugurated he will certainly renew the poptice of that ' strict economy which characterized his first administrate and resulted in the surplus which Harmon has dissipated, t In the meantime Harrison is responsi* ble before the country for the increased expense of his radical administration. He is costing the country a round hundred million a year more than Arthur cost it. Where is the Republican who will say that Harrison is worth thi3 much more for the country? It may be that we are to have another Republican as Presi dent in the future; If so, let U3 get one who costs less and is worth more for the money,? 8t. Louis Republic. >1 Build Canning Factories. While the past season has not bee^ together favorable for the farmers a cann^rs in Botetourt county, Va., t latter have found a stronger demanC t readier sale for their output than was pected. Altogether over 50,000 canned corn, tomatoes and okra made in the county by some fo canners. This indurstry seems tqfs, taken a goM hold wherever tried should become more general. benefit to the farmer and to the *n which it is located. Goaded School Boy Ave^g ss Himself. A Vienna cablegram savs^At Tarnpol,in Austrian Gallicia,a j (school boy named Schwedt, exasperated beyond endurance by the harshness with which he had been treated by sProf. Glbwacki,shot the pro ftsser dead as he was leaving the clsss reom. Glowacki was noted for his severe treaimeot of the children under his charge. Schwedt then shot himself through the head, dying ins'aatly. "Guilty, But Drunk." 1 !; Nashville, Tenn,? The case of Jo sephSmithacdJ.il: Lockhart, sheriff and deputy sheriff of Warren county Ala., charged wit h tlie larceny of $2,00i) worth of diamonds from a New York drummer, while in Nashville were ''roll ed" in the ciiminal court. The deftnd ents admitted their guilt, Jnrt said the robbery was committed while they were in a drunken frenzy. Wirh&taniTs Heat and Cold. Professor Breiger, of the Koch Inst?-' tnte, of Berlin, has been experimenting carefully for some time past with the cholera bacillus. Ho has ascertained that the deadly microbe cannot be killed by a heat of 176 decrees Fahrenheit, and that it is alive and lively Kftor being frozen in a solid block of icc fortwentyi four hour?. It is saii that lie has suc ce;ded in inoculating Guinea pigs with the virus so as to make them proof against the disease. y ; ,|Wj When a man sits aud looks dreamily oat into the night, it is not nea? so likely that he is thinking of his ?irl a? that he is calculating something about a dollar.