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god ^:vr> our native la>d, * 1 'A F lTES? briefs. From Many r of Interest f Virgina. North and hJlma Carefully ed For News, UNI A. arrnrjjed for a big tour er lTtb. J. Gibbs, a prominent ilk, is dead. :T wer e shot at Warm kichcion-i sportsman, a ha-> completed and in >,000 roller flour mill, s attended the Northern leathsville October 4. Iran, superintendent of the of Charlottesville, died in I of Boston capitalists have roprrty in Rockingham i od}x was recently dis iradance and o? valuable [city of the aew compress at f5 ba'es per hour. 1 of Elkio *?ii! open a big to house for the sale of leaf oo tb. e Ircn Co put its rolliog ion on Monday morning three furnaces. The plant y -two furnaces in all, with forty-five tons per turo, and r of them will be started a? kmen cm be obtained. BTH CAROLINA . bas a lady in the insurance I cotton mili Is to be built at Igbt away, ajad it will makf t*t place. beville Street Railway Company bt suit against each individual ermanic and advisory boards, the city for damages for the i Patton avenue. [ D. Lequeux, late pastor of the purch of Morginton, who has 1 himself within the past few ith the Presbj terian Church, has a c?U to the pastorate of Pop church, Cabarrus county. SOUTH CAROLINA. ins Pioc.*oey Browa is estab a plant lor making rope s from cotton. Jharlestoo brewery has rebuilt its ice plant and bctUing -works imed operations. and C'mnnusgs have incorporated Ithern Co-o]>e.ativre Steam Laua with a capital stock of #10,000 unbia. O'Neal, an Irishman 79 years ; ?n Anderson county, com suicide W ednesday by cutting his wi h a razor. Uis mind is said to en unbalanced. owners of land in Port Royai led suits against the United Stares will amount to nearly a ouarter of ion dollar-. It is claimed that the rnment has tfiJjen land for the coal tation and drv dock which belongs w O e complainant*. Fbile South Cwolina does not now I Ere among the iron -producing States be South, it wli once the seat of con rable iron industry, nearly all traccs ihich have now passed away. Forty rs ago there were eight blast furnaccs I ; three rolling xills in the State, the of which was abandoned aboui ty years ago. The decline and dis arance of the industry is not due to of the nccessaiy natural conditions, an abundance of ?ron ore of high fcde exists, and will doubtless some ty form the basis of a new and imper ii iron making industry. OTHER STATES, ?The grand jury of Anderson county, ! tenn . has found two indiclmentsagaiDSt i p. B. Monroe, the alleged leader of the j (miners in the Coal Creek insurrection r Hamilton Disston, in shaking of his I Bind in Florida, s.us during this year j phey ^riil raise 6,000 030 pounds of sugnr ftnd draw a bounty of $120,000. Besides Ibis they have 1,"00 acres in rice. Of their original holdiag of ?.000,000 acres ifcbey havr disposed of about 2000000 and ?till retain nearly 4,000,0 0. ? BROWNED WHILilEUCX SHOOTING ! The Recoil of a Gun Upset the Boat : and One of the Sportsmen Was Lost. Lynchburg, "Va.--J. E. Tennyson, j who was until recently manager of the | Lynchburg opera aouse, accompanied by ; E. B. Emerson, secured4 a sail boat yes terday afternoon and went duck shooting on the Jame? riv?T. Mr. Tennvson shot j fet a stump on the opposite sine of the ; bask, and his gun being heavily loaded, j the force of the discharge made him j lose his balance, throwing him into the ! water and causing the boat to upset. Mr. Emerson being the better swim mer, succeeded :;a getting Mr. Tenny son on one end of the boat and then started for the shore, swimming and pushing the boat at the same time. He | ;.ird on!y gone a short distance when he was horrified to hear Tennyson say : ; "Good fev, J5d,w and of seeing him sink, j The body "waa-ionnd. Mr. Tennyson r It ares a widow and two children. Six Bodies Washed Ashore. Wilmington, N. C.? Six bodies snp .nosed to te those- sailors were washed i ashore last Friday ^m the beach at Little River, S. C.. forty miles south of the J mouth of Cape Fro? River. They were 'ash?l to a raft tr acfe of spars and were in an advanced stage of decomposition. Tuc head and one am- of one of the men j were gone. Somexvreckage came ashore, i and it is supposed that some vessel frmn- I acred oif the cot-st, b it there is - nothing \ about "'?he wreckage to indicate the name j of the vessel or fate of the crew. Some ; anxiety is felt here concerning the schoon- j cr R. 5y Graham, which sailed from Wil- j mingtou Tor Port Royal on Sept *20 with i phosphate rock. Democratic Clubs in New York. Ni.w Yopk CirY. ? During the meet- | iug of the quadreomal convection of De j mocratic clubs here a delegate [from j North Carolina in the body of the hail r ?e and offered he fo'lowing resolution. j ?a hit-h was adopted unanimously: N.JJesolveu, Til it the chairman be re- I ??pfetcd to transmit to the President of j the United Sutes the respcctful sympa thy of the Democrats of the Association ! of Democratic Clabs with him in his days >? ??? jik'fy *od t sprees their earnest ! ?,ope that i-i the Providence of God Mrs. i isrrisoa any in Hjs own good time >*? i I r stored to health I * IS JOHN DRUNK AGAIN. He Makes Grave Charges and Says He w:ll Challenge Corbett to A special fr ra Eoston saya that Johr. L. Sullivan has lei bis friends in that city by announcing bis intention to challenge Corbett to fight again. In f.n interview he saki: '*1 an saving money now with rcsolut; dete$6iination to challenge Corbett to and give mc a chance to win, ?back thf. n;onry > hut was robl>ed from n?c in New Orleans. There was some rhi <r wrong. I am not making any dir*ct chaiges just cow, but that I was not light I well know. After the first round I could sec a dozen Corbetts, and a* good a man as Corbett is, I don't be lieve he o? any one living can stand up before me twenrv-onc rounds without being hit. There war a scheme afoot to br, ak what seemed to the pool room men a dead sure c njbi nation, and I was selected to be thrown." New Yof.k. ? A reporterof the Unite i Press called on lbs champion pugilist, Corbett, with regard to the dispatch from Boston in which Sullivan is quoted as saying thai he wsft desirsus of having mother go with Corbett. Co: belt said: "I am surprise 1 to be >r that Sullivan wants to fight me again. I had an idea he had re'ired from the ring. If he is in earnest, as a ma'tc" of course, I will give a ch-d'enge from him precedence over all others.'' S:?t:x Ctty, Ia. ? Willian Duffy, bet tc-r known ?.*>/*' BiHy the Kid," was knocked out at the Fashion Theatre, a notorious resort in Covington, Neb., by Jac? Keefe, heavy weight, after an ra- y fivf- round contest, and died within an hq^ir afterwards. Ke-^fc and al! the seconds are under arrest waiting the de c >f the coroner's jury. jn>s. Ye Joins the Church. WA&nrsGTON. D. C.?The members of the Korean Legation in Washington are showing themselves more progressive than any of the Orientals of the diplo matic corps. When the Coreans arrived four years ago they wore gorgeoui si k gowns, long pigtals. and peculiar vcntil latert hat3 which looked like fly traps. They were followed about the city by a moll of sipall bo\s, but they soon laid asid-; their Oriental garb. Over a year ago the men at the legation did)t away wi h their pigtails and douned trousers. Then Mrs. Ye, wife of the Minister, be gan wearing the most fashionable gowns of American make and her home became a social cen ic among the diploma's. Mrs. Ye has no* become a number of the Piesbyteriau Church. For some time she a?d her husband have attended the Church of the Covenant occupying se.its direct y back of President Harrison. It is oniv within recent d.ys, however, that Mrs. Ye had her name entered as a m mber of the Church. She took the step while visiting in a small Virginia town near here. It is understood that the Coreau Minister- and other members of the legation will follow the example of Mrs. Ye. DEATH ON THE RAILROAD. The Vestibuled Train Kills a Preacher Greensboko, N. C. ? The southbound vestibule train ran over and instantly killed the Rev. J. T Crocker in the room ing about J) o'clock Mr. Crocker was with inj one mile of Jamestown when the frightful a^c dent'occure i. He was driv ing down the road, along the rai road track, and when the rumble of tbetiain was heard he whipped up his horse in or der to try to in a- e the crossing, which was a short distance ahead, but the horse became unmanageable and g t on the track just as the engine struck the wagon. The minister w?;s thrown some distance and fearfu ly mangled. Gave $100 For a Confederate Bill. New fork City. - Gcnoro Casso of 323 East lloth atrcct gave $100 in small bilis on Saturday in exchange for a $100 bill to one of two men who were in search of smail change. Shortly afterwards he found thitthe bill was issued by the Con federacy. a d was worthless. He ran out in a state of mind, and overtaking (leoige Cl.vk, 22 years old. o? 280 Bow ery, had him arrested as the man who had uiven him the worthless bill. >>'o money was found on Clark, who said he knew not ing about the transaction of which t'asso was the victim. Justice Voorhis held him for trial forgraad lar ceny. right Again. ( '-.BETT IS WILLING. FATAL PP.iZE UGHT. in Guilford Two Innocent Victim# of a Feud. Huntington, W. Va.? On Fudg? ! Creek, this county, the eight and t d year-old daughters of Charles Biliups j were shot while sitting in the door of their home sad the older one is not ex pected to live. The shooting was done by Mrs. Jame* Pike, aa aunt of the chil dren, and she w%s incited to commit the deed by an attack made on her husband iast suoday by Biliups. There has been bad blood between the Pikes and B.l lu. s for several years and numerous shootings have occurred. Three years ago Biliups and Mrs. Pike's father-in-law had a terrible en counter with axes hmhe woods and Bil iups killed bis opponettand alleged self-defense *t the trial? where he was acquitted. Mrs. P$?e is now undei ?TtoUy awaiting the r?ults of the wounds inflicted on the girl^. y Wife and Mother Elopes, At Charl^te, N. C., Mrs. Mattie Wil son, wife of Mr. Vann Wilson, eloped | with a nin named Mervii Fergu- | son. All three worked at the Charlotte cotton mills. While Mr. Wilson was in the mills *? somebody brought him news that his wife had gone. Ho went to his homt in the brick row and found that Mrs. NVilson had really eloped, leaving their two sick children aione and unattended at home. Mrs. Harrison Very Much Better. Washington, D. C. ? Dr. Gardner said today that Mi's. Harrison enjoyed the best rest Sunday night she has had since her return from Loon Lake. There was also, he said, a sensible diminution I of the accumulation of water in the lunsr. I The good condition of the patient w-as | visibly improved. For the first time in several weeks. President Harrison attend ed church service Sunday. For Murdering His Sweetheart. Huntington, W. Va., ? The Supreme Court of appeals at Charleston re affirm ed the decision of the circuit court of this county in the case of Allen Harrison, | %? ho murdered his sweetheart. BettieAd- j ama, last April, Jt will te the fir^t legal ! ! hanging in C&HJ Cdunty. POLITICAL WORLD. Candidates, Conventions. Nomina tions. Elections. All the News of Political Movements, of the Four Parties. Geo. D. Bow den was nominated at Norfolk by the Republican convention, fur Congress. Albert S. Berry, of Newport, was nominated by the Democrats on the 3?2d ballot at Warsaw, Ky., as Congressman. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has been nomi nated unanimously for Congress for the seventh time at Decatur by the Demo crats of the Eighth Alabama district. New York City.? C. F. Hodsdon wiil furnish the Board of Police with 2 0(H) folding ballot booths for the fcum of $6.25 cach, such booths to be made with Nurth Carolina pine frames, and canvas panels, and similar to those fur nished by him for the election of 1890 This item of election expense will be *i2,r>;0 this year. The ballot C3ges differ from the O'Brien Association in this: The O'Briens would neither bend nor break ; the ballot cages don't bend, but they do break. About one quarter of those u c-d last year are unfit for use this, and have to be replaced at a cost of $6.2 > each. REPUBLICANS OK SOUTH CAROLINA . Columbia, S. C.? The State republi can convention which met here adopted ; a platform in part as follows: ?'We, the Union Republican party of South-Carolina, in convention assembled, do h.reby re-affirm our allegiance to the principles of the national Union Repub lican party as set f rth ia the platform adoptelatthe Minneapolis convention; we most heaitily endorse and ratify the nominees of that convention, Benj. Harrison and Whitelaw Rcid, and pledge to them our unswerving fidelity and sup port, and we hereby declare that with a*, fide ballot and a fair count' th?-State o?~ S nth Carolina would be placed in the column of Republican States by a major ity of 40,000 votes; the Democratic party or South Carolina, by its infamous action in defeating the will of the people by forcc and f:aud, deservts and must re ceive the condemnation of all just mind ed people; we hereby tender our most sin e e sympathies to Pi esident Harrison because of the illness of Mrs. Harrison and our hopes for her speedy restoration to health " The following presidential electors were chosen State lit large, John R. Talbert, W. D. Crum; first district; B&uce II. Williams; second district, James- Po.vers; third district, J. W. Morris; fourth district, Lawson W. Mel ion; fifth district. WT. E. Boykin; sixth district, M. W. Monzon ;'seventh dis- | trict, Joseph W. Collins. The committee reported a resolution to the efiect that in view of a large ma jority of the Republican voters of the State having been deprived of opportun ity to vote by the unuist registration and election laws it was aeemed inexpedient to put forward a Stat* ticket. <*] Farmyard ?0<ldities. . Among the farmyard oddities about Reading, Penn., are a sir-legged pig, owned by Elias Ssamao, of Naftzingers town, and a four-legged duckling, treas ured for luck by John Smithinger, oJ Union Township, near Birdsborough. Jacob Loeb, also of Naftzinger3town, owns a mate guinea that has just hatched out a brood of nine young guineas, which he take3 care of with the same pride and attention that a well-regulated guinea hen would manifest. A snow-A-hite crow that had for some time been flying around the neighbor hood of Cain, Chester Couaty, Penn., in company with a flock of ordinary biack crows, was shot the other day by Farmer H. A. Beale, who had the bird mounted by a taxidermist and now keeps it as a trophy. Its plumage does not include a single feather other than pure white. John Anderson, of Hanesville, Penn., has a hen that has adopted four young kittens, now two weeks old. The hen had been clucking fruitlessly on a ne3t i which Andersen afterward covered with | a board to prevent her further etforts to i set, and when the would-be chicken | mother found she couldn't raise little I chicks she transferred her attention to ; the litter of little kittens, beating off ths ! parent cat and taking possession of th< youcg mewing family as her own. A spaniel dog belonging to Mrs. t George Taylor, of West Chester, has alsc adopted a litter of kittens, and no* daims them as his own progeny. When the mottier cat or any member of Mrs. Taylor's family approaches, the dog flies into a towering passion and asserts his guardianship of the little pussies. Innkeeper Heald, of Turk's Head West Chester, has a wayward goat tha' chews tobacco with marked appreciatioc and relish. ? New York Times. A Boon for Poar Sailors. A method has been devised by Mr. Thorcycroft, the English builder of tor pedo boats, boilers, etc., for checking the rolling of a vessel at sea, namely, by moving a weight, under strieS control from side to side of a vessel, so as to bjcotftinuaiiy balance, or subtract from, : ' the heeling movement of the wave slope. It consists of a lar^e mass t>f iron in the form of a quadrant of a circle, which is placed horizout&liy, with the center -on the middle line of the vessel, being there connected with a vertical shaft; the latter is turned by a hydraulic engine, which is very ingeniously controlled by an automatic arrangement, and the heavy iron quadrant is swept round from side to side, revolving about its center, to the extent that is required to counter act the heeling movement. This device is claimed to meet a growing need ? the tendency at the present day, it is thought, being rather in the direction of increased than diminished rolling, as the steadying influence of sai Is, V which ren ders tbe motion eisy and agreeable in sailing, is fast disappearing lb steamers. ? St. Louis Republic.* ^ ?Estate of the Late Gen. Anderson. ; Richmond, Va. ? It now transpires ; that the late Joseph R. Anderson had written out a full outline of a will, but never signed it. The estate, it is now thought will prove to be worth much more than $300,000; something like 1500,000. _ " | Gov. Tillman, of South C'arolica, has accepted the invitation of the Demo cratic National Committee and the State Committee of North Carolina to deliver a couple oJ speeches in the latter State I before election day. THE DIRECT TAX FUND. Complaint from a Virginian and the Secretary's Beply. Washington, D. C ? Assistant Secre- ' tary Nett'eton has received several com plaints that commissions are being de/ ducted by State officers for making pay ments fiom the dircct fsx funds. One of these letters is from W. N. EergbDin, Eggbornville, Va. Replying to this let ter Mr. Nettleion -writes : You say that the treasurer of your county in refunding the direct tax is de- , ducting 5 per ceat as his commission, and you ask if jou are " not entitled to | interest on the tax being refunded. In, reply you are informed that only the direct tax collected has been re funded to the States, in States where the tax had been collected from inqwid- ! uals it should be returned ilK&>H Tjy th&v, r State authorities to the persoorfrom whom it was collccted, or to their heirs I or legal lepresentatives. However, since the tax was paid to I the States the Attorney General has ren dered an opinion to the effect that all penalty and interest collected should also be retu ned to those from whom it was collected in the same way. The depart ment is therelore preparing to refund to^ the Governors of States the penalty and , interest in tbc fame manner and under j the samcf conditions that the tax was ' refunded It must be understood, how- j ever, that the interest. mentioned is that which was collected with the tax. and not interest accruing s\nce. WAYLAID AN^ KILLED. A Cowardly Murder in Ocala, Fla. , ; That May be Followed by a Lynching. > Ocala, Fla. ? Th^re are fears of a lynching here. Charles Shafer, an old and much respected resident, was shot and ki'led by York Ballard. Ballard and hi* younger brother lav in wait for Shafer, and when he came up in his w*gon Balhrd f prang uptfn .him and killed him in a most cowardly manner. Several year6 ago Bal'ard and Shafer's stepson loved the same girl. She favored young Shafer. Ballard began writing scurrilous postal cards to her. He was discovered and convicted. When ths sentence, six months in the county jail, was. pro nounced. he said it was only a short time to serve, and threatened to kill Shaft r. "The Judge then gave him eighteen j months in the Columbus, Ohio, peniten tiary. Ballard returned. He gave him self up after the murder, but says that when they met, Shafer attempted to cow hide him and he shot him in self-de fence, but the body of the dead man, found in the bed of his wsgon, contra diets this assertion. Shafer was about fifty yeirs of age. Ballard is only twenty- five years old. Fighting th? Tobacco Trust. [New Orleans Times- Democrat.] The Farmers and Shippers' Tobacco Warehouse Company is a strong concern just started in Cincinnati as a rival to t he tobacco "combine." The company has a capital of $1, 000,0C0. The new j compony owes its origiu to the disaffec tion among tobacco men in Ohio and Kentucky with "the combine.1' It was understood by them that "the eombiue"' aimed at controlling prices and other matters connected with the business, to a degree that would be very troublesome and embarrassing. Ilence the desire and demand for competition, which has | resulted in the formation of the Farmers j j and Shippers' Company. Cotton Planters Despondent. Shreveport, La. ? About Shreveport the people who raise cotton are despon dent. All this Red liver valley was ov. rflowed late ia the S{ ring and the replanted cr#ps have not done well at all. I met Dr. Dixon, a large planter, who lives about twenty miies north of Shreve port, on the Red river, and he says that in a scope of country in which he lives there is ordinarily made about 15, COO bales of cotton. This year he says there will not be 5,000 bales made on the same land Coming up from New Orleans, I noticed that the cotton plant was small and not well fruited. It seemed dull in New Orleans, but in Shrereport it is worse. I am told that west of here in the black lands of Texas the crops are good ? ? >!? NANCY HANKS IN 2:04. V Lowers the Trotting Time by Three Seconds. Terre Haute, Ind. ? The world's I record for the light harness horse, either trotting or pacing, was lowered when Nancy Hanks trotted the mile in 2:04. i The ten thousand people who saw it sat j breathless for a moment after the little : mare passed under the wire, and even j I Doble, always modest of speech, declared ' when c.rried to the judges' stand on the shoulders of the crowd and called upon for a speech, that he was hoarse and j "Nancy Hanks went so fast it took my breath away." Deposed for Huggmg the Organist Owosso. Mich. - The Rev. I.\ I). Robinson, foimcily of the Me.hodist j Episcopal church at Clarkston. is a jnin ister of the gospel no longer. The select committee ef fifteen appointed at the first day's ??isiou of the Detroit confer ence has found him guilty of jmmoraiitv and has deposed bim from the mil istry and the church. The specific charge was that he hugged and kissed the or ganist. Mr Robinson is about 7-5 yea s of age, and is said to be dyiDg of con sumption. Election in Florida. Jacksonville. Fl.v? The weather ? throughout the State was fine but the voting was slow. In many localities the negroes voted the straight Democratic ticket, through as a geueral thing they supported the People's ticket, ai they were officially advised that there was no Republican ticket in the field Reports show Mitchell's (Democratic) majority for Go ernov at 20.0(JO. The entire De mocratic ticket is elected. Workingmen's Homes Burned. New Orleans. I.a.? Tuesday nigh tire was discoverei among the working men's cottages on St Andrew's stree tcar llousseau, and twenty-four of ther were destroyed before the flames wei< ^u dued. The loss wi 1 aggregate *??}. 0'X), paitiy covered by insurance. A stroug wind and p~>or water supply a. ! sisted the bteze. ^ | Fertilizer Factory Burned. Jacksonville. Fl a. --At Pensacoia fire destroyed the works of the Moulding Fertilizer Comprny, lour mi'.es frjni the city. Loss $100,000 \ partially iusured." ALLIANCE COLUMN. Good and late Reading Far the Ok .? der of Orders. f } The New York State Alliance Denoun ces tbeCoal Trust and Declaring lor 5 Per Cent. Interest. \ ). i Rochester, N. Y.? At the concluding session of the New York ? State Council Farmers' ?tlhnce this morning the fol lowing delegates were chosen to attend the National Convention' in November, either in Georgia or Cafcforcia: . E F. j Dibble of Honeove Falls and'F. JI . Purdy j of Bluff Point, Yate3Connlyj The mem- ? ; bcrship of the Stafe was reperted as 15, 000. Among the resolutiocs adopted | was the following: L Revolted, That the strike made by the consolidated coal railroads against society by arbitrarilv advancing the price of coal a ton to the consumier^ while reduc ing the cost of production {ft the time by reducing the price of - laboi , demon strates a power of taxation stronger than the fobber barons of olden times, and more dangerous'to a free republic than standing armies overawing the people; more threatcniog as to inevitable results than war, pestilence, or famine. The ad vance of the price of coal $1 rer ton and the advance of the price of sugar to six cents a pound, notwithstanding that ?. both of these articles are on the free H?t, illustrate the daugcrous power of trusts, and demonstrate that the time has come - when the people despair of relief- from reduction in tariff alone, and it is deman- i ded that ttoe people should band togeth- j er for the extinction of trusts an J kindred concentrations. ; Resolutions were adopted declaring that tha legal rate of interest, should be 5 per cent., and that real estate mortgages should be assessed as real estate, so that the holders of said mortgages shall pay tax where the realty lies. Edward F Dibble was elccted President, r. ****** GOOD ROADS. > The first questionHo be determined in road construction is the proper kind of roadway and the depthV of/the material. Roads made only of sm^l| stone, how ever carefully laid and compacted to I gethcr, arc found not to be so durable in this country as tfifcy are in Europe. In this country the power of the frost is so destructive every winter, and the road bed becomes so spongy each spring a* the frost thaws out, that a pavement of small stones only has liltle bond. The small stones sink too readily into the soft subsoil under heavy loads, and a corresp onding rut is ?? once made on the sur face. The cohesive power of the pave ment being once broken, it yields under fuithcr travel on the same principle that an arch settles when the keystone is re moved. For these reasons all good roads of the kiud usually known as "Macadam roads" have a carefully laid rubblestoue found ation. * * * Its construction consists in first laying a foundation of any rough rubble stones of convenient size for hand ling and placing th^m carefully by hand in parallel courses across the road-bed as Jor a rough street pavement. The nearer ! such stones can be brought to the gen- j eral form of paving stone by judicious i breaking, the better the work. Blocks j averaging 9 inches in thickncss by 12 j inches in depth will make ttrong work, ! however rough their gent ral shape. They j should be placed on edge, with the larg- ! est edges down, and be set as closely ! and firmly together as their rough shape j will permit. Where the jogged upper j edges project too high fur the established j thickness of the layer, they should be , broken off, and all low places should b3 I filled with suitable chips well packed iuto j place. The whole course should be gone j over, and all open spaces be filled by ramming stones of suitable sizes into ail i interstices with pounders or heavy ham- i mers. When the surface is level enough for rolliug, the heaviest roller obtainable I should be used, aud the rolling be con - J tinued until the whole foundation course j is perfectly solid and of the right shape ' aud height to receive the Macadam course ; i that is, the course of sm-dl stone. * * * j A common error in ro^d-makiug is to j have the pavement too shadow. It must ; be stromj enough to withstand the heav iest trarac to which it may be subj*. ct, without yielding when the frost thaws out in the spring. Where the subsoil is j exceptionally sandy or gravelly a depth j of from 6 to 9 inches might answer fairly I well, but under ordinary ciodiiions a 12 : to 18-inch depth is nccessary for a cem- ; etery road subject to much travel; while ; public highways should ordinarily be j still thicker. Few are aware of the great j difference in power to support a load be tween a firm layer 6 inches in depth and ! , a compact mass 18 inches deep. * * * The proper care of \h*i road under or- i dinary wear aud tear is as important as i its thorough construction. '1 he old adage of the thrifty housewife, that ' a stitch in time saves nine." may be applied to a Macadam road without any great wrench of metaphor. ?From A Talk on , Road Making, in American Gardening' ! for September. An Excursion From Indiana. Winston, N. C.? A pa-ty of 43 old , North Carolinians arrived in the State on ; an excursion from Indiana. Many of j them have been residents of the Hoosier | State since the war. They scattered out i to visit relatives in different portions ?f i I this State. Peter A^ Wilson, Sr , one of Winstoujs 'eirTv setSlera and prominent citizens, is r dead, aged 67. He was ope of the char ter members of the Winston Masonic or der and the first maeter of the lodge. He twice represented the county in the General Assembly? once in the House of Representatives and once in the State 1 S Senate. He was frequently elected com | raissioner, and a!so mayor of inston. I He leaves a wife, three daughters and ! thiee s^ns. The latter'are well kuown business men here . A Runaway Maniage. Roxboro. >t. C ? An expectant look ing voung couple alighted f;om the sou ii bou nd train, and asked the way tor the hotel, aucLalso for the services of It min ister. Their request warranted. and Rtv. j T. N. Ivey. of tha Methodist church, met I them at the Roibovo Hotel, and iu the | \ resvnee of a large r.uraber of citizens | united in marriage T. Y. Burch and Miss ! Lucy T. Pendleton, of Lynchburg, Ya. It was a runaway match. The groom is a young merchant tailor of Lynchburg, ??icd twentv-ooc The bride is a hand j ? m i brunette of eighteen, and is a daugh ter of a former ckrk of the court of Somerset countv. , TgBfc i . John Cudahy and A. W. Wright were up before Justice Brad well in Chicago recently on, a charge of conspiracy for ! " cornering" -tJw short rib market, ? . -11- i '! v ? FOES TO TRADE. h \4 ? BAD ROADS, HIGH FREIGHTS, TOLLS, TAXES AWD TARIFFS ABE THE ENEMIES OF INDUSTRY ? HOW THE FARMER'S EARNINGS ARE DEP08ITED IK CUSTOM HOUSES. j v The typical protectionist* are a queer set. From McKinley down, they all continue to cry, "We must protect American industfy;" as if they alone, and not all Americans were ic favor of any and every policy that will protect and benefit our own people and country in preference to all other peoples and coun tries. But at the same time it is clear r that their actions ? ^hen they come to substitute actions for words ? that they have no correct idea of what industry is. Doubtless, some will say, "What an un funded and impudent assertion!" inVhat a free trade lie!" But let us | reason about it a little and see wherein is the truth Industry consists of two factors, or j there are two elements in it. One is pioduction (derived from two Latin words, pro, fsrward, and ducere, to tead), meaoing, in this connectior, the drawing out of materials or product* from natural resources, and the other is exchange, or the selling of the things 1 u produced ; and industry can't get alon % without both aay moro than a man get afcng with on!^r one-leg. For example, if a harper grows 10,000 bushels of corn, and ^fcs only 1000 for himself, family and animals, and can't exchange or sell the other 9000 he might as well not have raised It. He can eat corn, burn it for fuel and make whisky of it, but I he din't clothe himself with corn hu3ks, plow with a corn . stalk, wear corn shoes, and the like. To get these other things he must sett or exchange his surplus 9000 bushels; and he must be stupid who does not at once see that the greater the facilities afforded him for exchange, such as good roads, bridges, horses and wagons, cheap and swift railroads and steamships, low tolls, freights and taxes, the greater will be the opportunity for exchange and trade to advantage. On the other hand, poor roads, unbridged streams, *few or no railroads or steamships, and high tolls, freights and* taxes, all tend to restrict or destroy trade and -the opportunity to sell his 9000 bushels of cern to advantage. A twenty per cent, tariff tax may fairly be conaidered as the representative of a bad road ; a fifty per cent., of a broad deep river without proper facilites for crossing; a seventy-five per cent., of a swamp bor dering such river on both sides; while a hundred per cent, duty, such as is levied on blankets, window glass, cotton ties, and the like, can only properly be com * pared to a band of robbers, who strip the producer of nearly all he pos36sses, making him thankful that he escaped with his life. In short, there has never j been a case in all human eiperience when the removal of restrictions-? natural or legislative ? on trade did norq . result in the extension of trade to the * mutual advantage of the great majority of the people concerned. The man who j can get a law passed that will enable j hirato tax trade or exchange, always sees an advantage to himself in the re stricted trade that will result. ^ So als^ does his brother-in-law who sits behind j a bush on the road, with a gun, and tells the farmer who sold his surplus of 9000 bushels of corn, "You can't pass unless you give me a bi^ part of^ what you received for it in exchange." But I fancy some farmer protectionist sayine, "There is no one sitting behind^ a bush for me. I don't see him." Neverthe less, he is there all the same. Our farmer sells his 9000 bushels of corn in England and, a? he waa*"""fr''<'*r3 rather than money, and as many tb!LwJ are cheap in Eogland, he CDaclule3to take his pay in hardware, woolen cloth ings, blankets, starch, paints, oils, glass, salt, cordage, bat?, crockery, cotton tie?, and other like article?, and starts for home by way of- New York. There is no man with a gun behind a bush on the wharf to lie in wait for him, but there is another man, armed with something better than a gun, who tells the farmer that he must give up more than half the value of all the tilings he has received in , payment for his corn before he can corns 1 into pos?e?sion of the other hatt. If he does not pay quickly or if he makes any fuss about the charge?, this other mai will take the whole, and not unlikely put the farmer in iail. If the farmer could pay in things instead of money, aai had tiken salt in exchange for his corn, then for every hundred bushels he wojH have had to bring and give up seventy-three additional bushel'. For every yard of the cheajH*st carpet he would have had three-barters of a yard cutoff; and if he hai cotton tie?, each tie would be shortened to the extent of ninety per cent, it he had taken the commonest kind of china plates or cups, then in order to carry a dozen of them home he would have had to pay for eighteeu. And so oo. If our Government needed toimpo3e and collect such taxes In oeaerto meet its access iry ex peadiUMt,! there would be some jusiiScatioa for ?K*a procedure. B it revenue wf? not ihe/ object sought for inUjie enactment of the laws which mi t home or require then, but the re strictions of trade; to prevent the farmer fr ;..i selliag bis proJu:ts to the best ad viu a-e. In short, carry out logically and tc , their fullest extent McKiuiey's vit*! t anout industry, and you WDuld have | every man trying to produce a :ror>d deal end sell as little u possible. ? Divid A. | Wells, in American Journal of Politics, j An Example of Tariff Reform. McKinfeyism is atrocious, but what ! would the Democrats do in the way of reform should they 3tta:n power? The i qu^-tion is sometimes n9ked io good faith ' by Republicans weaned of the Republi- i can ( olicy of hi^h tariff. During the first session of the present Congress a Democratic , House passed i a^.on: Ather bills amendatory of the ; McK'cley law one which, if there had | teen concurrence of a Repblican Sena'e ' and approval by a Republiaiu Executive, I wcUid have put binding twine upon the I free list. The tariff laid by Mciviniey- ' ism upon binding twine affects everv raider of a crop of cereals, for binding ttvine is now employed necessarily in connection with improved n*a?hi^ery | for mowing and reaping. Thatlkrilt ? ? 1 was laid and is maintainettsby JTeKisilej* ism for no other purpo?a in this .world than to enable what is now knowh as the cordago irust to manufacture thn necessary article an J make its own price thereof enriching itself but cjmj>edin2 tributeSlrom nearly 7,000,000 a^ricuU turis^/n the United Stattfs. It is this protection wbrh Democracy describes as fraudulent. It is protection which fosters a monopoly, aud, while benefiting a few persons relatively who aw engaged in the manufacture of bihding twine, as well as all articles of lik$ character, im poses a burden upon millions of the pao? pie of the United State?. A Democrats House sought to put binding twine up'on the free list in order - that the monopoly now existing by reason 6 f tariff taxation upon binding twine and articles of like character might be destroyed by tree competition. The cordage trust notoriously exists. In the expectation that the Attorney-Gen era* of Mr. Harrison's cabinet would as- J sail it in the courts a Republican organ, \ desiring that he should have fuli glory for the proceeding, indiscreetly pre~~J sented all the facts, aud though the Sherman law is said to be aimed at the trusts and so describes itself, a*d though the Executive has made some show Of commencing prosecution under that la* against such alleged combiCatio'js^as-the^ whisky trust, no hand 'has been lifted against this atrocious nionopolj^-Ta^.. tribute continues to b? exacted from e/ery field oc wheat, and rye, and .oats, all over this broad laud. Democracy de-; sired to put an end to such frauduleat tariff legislation, and having no other power than the power of tfce House it passed this bill repealing the tax on twine, but the Republicans said "No; this tax thall be maintained," and though they were not frank enough to go further and say "It shali be main- a tained in the interests of this cordage trust," yet such is the fact. This single illustrations will suffice to indicate the direction which Democratic tariff legislation would take. Whereier the tariff operates to form a .trivt its protection will bo withdrawn. Wherever taxes may be taken frotfi the necessities of existence it will be done. The aim of Democracy will be tb lay a tariff not for the benefit oi the oordage trust rtor the lumber barons, but for the purposes of revenu^ only. It is the purpose of tne Democracy so to shape tariff legislation that Government shall not bs protecting Somebody at the expense of Everybody. ? Chicago Times. Lo-oper.uive Farming. Co operative farming has been suc cessfully tried in New Zealand. Three iistinct settlements wore formed in the northern island of that colony between 1885 and 1887, the different blocks of land taken up for settlement bciag 112, 1900 and JJ221 acres. 'The total Value of the improvements made varied from $15,000 to $30,000. jThe three settle meats numbered in all eighty-seven heads of families, and oniy live have failed te ^continue their payments to the Govem i ment. These payments are in the shape of rent and interest oo advances, yet in a few years more each occupier will be the owner of his own farm, having paid for it by easy instalments. The land has been cultivated and planted to gardens, grass, orchards or other crops, dwelling? have been built, and the land Is gradu ally being entirely cleared. Each little band of pioneers forms a distinct settle ment of its own, and will, undoubtedly, prove to be the nucleus of a large farm area. They assist one another in their work, and, through the easy t,erms for. payment of the laud afforded by the New Zealand Government, they are ihu3 en abled to cooperate together and estab lish for themselves permanent aud\ pay ing h?in?s. ? American Agriculturist^^ An Effective Shield Against Bullets. ^ The Yaqui Indians, of Soa^r.i, Mexico, may be~savag03 and barbarians, / but they are no fools. In the receufc' trouble with the army of General Ignacio Pesquiera their warriors marched boldly upon the troops, each carrying suspended before hun from a pole a piece of heavy cotton cloth'. The bul lets cf the troops striking the loose | cloth spent their force upon it aud in- i flicted little damage upou the wily-' Indians. Before the troops took in the situation the Indians were upon them, t and in the hand to hand conflict which [ ensued routed them with great slaughter. The Yrt<[tii invention is well worth the attention of our military authorit'e?. If,j a loose bit or cotton cloth wiil eider, bullet ineffective s-jrne equally _ and mora impenetrable shield mi?ht stop it entirely. ? Picayune. White Hair Turning There is nothing unusual ja hair turn* lDg white, but a cxse in wulch. the hair turned black again after being white was recently told by a gentleohn from De troit. A lady of ttyatcifcy originally had black eyes ancfc.hair, but in the coiirae of time, when she had a;iained the age of about seventy years, her hair turned nurc white. This was expected, but about a year ago her hair began darkening, and is dow as black as jet. There is 114 doubt about the change, ucr w.y? any artificial means used to produce it, so that the eab? is certainly one of the most remark- I able recorded in the annais of medical history. The lady was not couscious of any change in diet or in iicr physical condition that would justify the curious phenomenon, so it is abJDlutelv inex plainable on any known hypothesis. ? St. j Louis Globe- Democrat. 1 ' Steel Ma^HPt-r.Xhai iY*u?, Steel magnets lo.^e their permanent : maj;nctL?m at the boiling point of almond oil. Steel not only lo*;s its magnetism, but becoracs - non magnetic when heated to an orange color, Silvaous Tnompsoo says that the sudden slamming on of the ! armature of a permanent magnet is liable i to deteriorate the magnetkm, ani that the sudden detaching of the armature is j of adva.nta^e to the majnet. ? Boston Transcript. X. Denmark his a system of benevolence j by which the hoefcat poor of six'y ycaro of age toe insurpd against want. It i?i on t I18 p/esumpticp that they bave^iwaj^ ! paid tares. f ' ^ ^ 1