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Ill'WIWillll'il ■nmBHSRn •*• ■* r Ahwymntlt* o mbm rock* from a I In thfc Carritxan Sea were la New York by a •eaoapiain Neenrloafcr «a to thelr ebarae- ‘ t retebkd the ftot that rljr S Mrc bone pboa- », ooiitaiatn^ over 90 per of UtU valuable fo-tillzer, or •early twiea at much at that contained la dtarleaton phosphate rock, and ten bar cent, more than Canadian Apatite, Hr - - - Itberto considered the richest phato rock known to tlie trade phos- Hero ootninea rrom mo rroocn ifov giving the company organized purpose the right to mine the in coarse of time a cargo of i was an important discovery. The next •tap was to utilize ft. Some capitalists became interested, concessions were obtained from the French government, mixed for this rock, and cargo of the rock was landed in New York. But a new difficulty confronted the company. While the phosphate of lime could be rftadtly made soluble, it was fonnd im- pomtbie to reduce it to a drv powder. The moss was so rich in phosphorus that it assumed a gelatinous condition, similar to soft bone. Hero was a dilemma. Unless the rock oonld be made soluble and at the same time dry, it would have no mercantile valnc. Science was braught to bear on the subject, and after more than a year spent in experiments she triumphed, and a soluble acid phosphate iu a per* fcctly dry, pulverized condition war manafkctnrcd, giving the following analysis: Moisture, at 100°, c 0.47 Available Phos. Acid 32.15 Insoluble Phos. Acid 11.21 This now Acid Phosphate has been named “Phosphoral”, and contains sp ric phosphoric acid as is found in any acid phosphate made from Charleston rock. The manafficturers of Photpljoral claim that the insoluble phosphoric acid gradually becomes soluble in the soil, and that good effects are seen for two and three years from one application. We have received a carload of Plios- { ihoral, and will make this season from t a small qnantltv of a very hi^h grade iiizer, containing 34 to & WT if ■ a. ammoniated fertilizer, containing 4 per cent, ammonia, 14 per cent, available phosphoric acid and 3 per cent, of potash. This w6 shall place in the hands of careful farmers at cost, and shall expect them to give us the results of their experiments next year. A high-grade fertilizer like this would be wasted if applied on badly prepared lands, but. on thoroughly prepared lands the best results should follow.— The Fertiliter. Why tha Farm Doasnl Pay. As a rule Southern farmers are not prosperous in their farming o[>cra- tions. As a class they lack enterprise aad thrift. Tltey continue to run in the same old ruts year after year, and it seems almost impossible to revolu tionize their present and {Mist evil and imperfect systems of farming. Here are several reasons why Southern farmers do not succeed better: 1st. They subscnlte to and read too few agricultural and stock journals. 2nd. They cultivate too large an area in cotton to the exclusion ot other erops. 3rd. Thev do not raise their own pork and sufficient feed for their stock. 4th. They cultivate too much land* fewer acres better cultivated would net them more money. 6th. They keep too little stock, and the same It not of a high quality. 6th. By keeping so few stock, they neoeasarUv aave but little manure. 7th. They do not feed and handle their stock so as to save all their drop pings; and what they do save is not protected properly from the wealher nor is it applied to the land so as to insure the greatest good. What is generally applied to several acres aliould bo concentrated upon one or two. 8th. They do not keep their’lands properly ditched. 9th. The stock are permitted to tramp the cultivated lands all through the fall and winter months, to its great injury. 10th. Tltey do not raise enough pea vines for green manuring—for turning under; 11th. They feed too much corn ajid not enough oats and hay. Corn is (lie most expensive feed we can raise for work stock. Oata arc more chcnplv raised, and after the crop is harvested, a crop of peas can be raised on the same laud, improving the laud even when the vines are harvested for hay. 12th. Instead of putting the larger portions of their lands iu pasture and meadow, and keeping sufficient thor oughbred or grade stock to consume thegrau; and in cuitivatiug the bal ance of the fhrm so as to keep np and even improve its fertility, bv judicious rotation of crops, baru-yard and green manuring, they let the negro butcbci up the land, robbing it of iu fertility and power of production year bv year. The share system is ruinons; so is tire renting system. The land in cultiva tion should be worked by hired labor. 13th. They do not use the most ap- K ved farm implements; the ante mm farm tools as a rule are gi laud or crops, and for should be abandoned. The above are a few reasons for the imperfect success and failure to make the farm [my.—Southern Live Stock Journal. Owwa yeti—a—jt mrni C«*toa-S«»d Meal. WilTYou please give your views on comparative value of raw cotton seed and meal from the same as a fertilizer? -‘•C," Matthews, N. C. Akswkh.—The meal from a given quantity of seed contains all the plant food, worthy of ortwideratlon, which the seed itself contained, except a very email quantity present In the hull, and which Is excioded from the meal. The bulls weigh half as mneh as the seed, or a ton of seed yields 1,000 poonds of hails. A thousand ponnds of hails contain only abont two and a half bounds each .of ammonia -and phpepboric acid, and some eight pounds sz But lb _ holla rot veiralowly and take yean to giro up their fertilizing contents. Hence we exclude them in making m jj availability of Mtfaam! aetioo npon crops. The plant food of tlwattU4»Mt encased in a hard oov- eriaf lum that of the kernel of the VfcMO Bofthc phosphoric mid and . and other mineral Ingredients encased In the hard hull are fbra lofig time kept vfery largely beyond the reach of plants. If the hnll i« broken, as when the seed are crashed, or whon^sprent ed, or when the seed is rotted by con tact with add phoiptiaQK then the plant food of the kernel becomes quickly svailable. In the second place, the meal being the tine particles and not dilnted by admixture of hnlls, ferments more rapidly than whole seed, and is brought into the condition of plant food sooner than the whole seed. It is therefore a quicker and more promptly acting manure. Whether this is to be regard ed as an advantage or disadvantage depends npon the use to be v madc of it. If it is desired to push any crop very rapidly from the sjart, the meal is preferable to the whole seed. As a top dressing to be harrowed in, meal is decidedly better than the whole seed; meal is decidedly more convenient to handle, ns it may be used simply by mixing #!th phosphates or oilier thing without the trouble of eompostlUg; on the other hand the whole seed gives better results when composted.-iVou/A- ern Cultivator. Tima to Apply St an lira to Corn. I wish to know, if it will do to put all manure especially guanos down with corn when it is planted; would the fertilizers 1>c exhausted before caring time? How would 100 pounds each of cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and kainit i>er acre applied at first plowing of corn do?—'J. M. J., Cypress, S. C. Answek.—It is well perhaps to apply the manure at or before planting, to very early varieties of corn; but for the large varieties of our indigenous corn, wo thiuk it better to apply ma nure at first or second working. The mixture you describe would do well as you propose.— Southern Cultiva tor. Buchanan'* Hopalcia Lure. Reminiscences of Democratic admin istrations of years gone by are con stant!! coming to light, says a Wash ington letter to the Baltimore Ameri can. “Right over there,” said an old society beau tecently, pointing to a brown-stone front near the executive mansion, “lives a woman who might have been mistress of (lie White House under Democratic rule if she had seen tit to accept the hand.of James Buch anan. She comes from a very wealthy Pennsylvania family, and was courted by Mr. Buchanan. Her people want ed her to marry him, but she didn’t want to. She loved a poor clergyman, rector of a church in her town; but the family didn’t want her to marry lii.n, and so they arrnged that he should be quietly transferred to an other post, some hundreds or thous ands of miles away. This broke up the match and the maiden too, for she wont into retirement at once and has married nobody. Neither the banish ment of her clergyman nor the election of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency could make her change her mind, and she remained and remains single. She is an old, withered and sad woman, living there alone witli her widowed sister in that great mansion with actually more money than they know how to use. They are the richest people in Washington, possibly ex cepting Mr. Corcoran, and they do nothing with their wealth except to keep up their magnificent establish ment and pet a lot of cats and dogs.’ The lady referred to is the one of whom the story is told that Mr. Cor coran one day sent her a polite note somewhat as follows: “My Dear Mapam: 1 have been for some time thinking of enlarging the Arlington Hotel. If you will state the valnc of your brown-stone mansion adjoin ing, I will send the check for the amount.” To which she replied: “Mr Deau Mk. Couookan: I have for some time been thinking of en larging my flower garden. If von will state the value of the Ailing adjoining, I will send you my check for the amount.” iDftiou: A KapUf to to* ** * , A LOST MINK* > WaitlMir In thfi Uowela of And fifteen or twenty cents. Bat they are not readily available; the rears to contents. making whole seed and meal first npon the fertilizing eon tents rapidity of their Washington, Febrnary 27.—The Vice-President-elect arrived in Wash ington at 3.30 this afternoon on the Baltimore Sc Ohio Railroad, two hoars and a quarter behind schedule time. A large crowd assembled at the depot before the time at which tlie train was due and patiently awaited its coming, receiving constant accessions as the time passed, until when the train ar rived the assemblage numbered sev eral hundred persons. The throng filled the depot waiting room and crowded about on the sidewalk in front of the depot, and the members of the citizens’ reception committee and of the Indiana Democratic Association with a few newspaper reporters await ed tlie arrival.of the train on the plat form in the interior of the depot. All the Democratic members of Congress from Indiana, except Voorhees, who was detained at ihe Senate, and Judge Holman, who could not leave the House, wera present as members of the Indiana Democratic Association. Hcprcscntativcs.-clect Bynum, Ford and Howard, of Indiana, and Colonel Bannister, of that State, and Messrs. Miles and Morgan, of this city, as representatives of the Indiana demo cratic Association and the citizens’ committee respecTTvely^weiil up the road as far as Harper's Ferry to meet Hendricks and escort him to fhe city. It had been arranged by the Indiana Association to meet Hendricks at the depot and give him a cordial reception without speech-making or any formal ity, and the inaugural ■ committee sent the reception committee to meet him and escort him to Ins hotel. Unfortu nately, howovc/, there was nb concert of action between the two bodies, and when the train drew up in the depot and Hendricks alighted he was seized hold of by Niles and Claggett of tbe citizens’ committee and hurried through the crowd on the platform towards his carriage without being allowed to stop a moment even to shake hands with his Indiana friends. A few of the latter, however, pushed their way through the crowd and shook hands with the Vice-President-elect. One enthusias tic individual almost knocked Hen dricks over in his eagerness to be recognized and to take his hand. As soon as tlie Vice-President-elect was recognized many of the spectators on tlie platform dolled their hats and ap- plauac*d him. As lie pushed on to ward the carriage down the length of the platform and through the waiting room to tlie street the applause arrew, until, ns he reached the street, it broke into enthusiastic cheering, to which Hendricks responded by raising his hat and bowing. The committee es corted him to the carriage, but here tlie crowd surged about tlie vehicle mid prevealed it from being driven off, while a score or more shook hands with Hendricks. As the driver finally whipped up his horses and drove off to the hotel tlie crowd cheered enthusias tically. Hendricks was accompanied by several gentlemen . from Indiana and a few ladies of his familv. A MAN r.UKIED ALIVE. Philadelphia, February 26.—Not withstanding the proclamation Usned this afternoon oalliaf on the citizens in the vicinity of the carpet mill*! of Ken sington to remain off the atrecta, ia order to prevent e repetition of last night’s riotons demonstrations, there was sgaia to-night an immense crowd of people in the neighborhood of Lee- (loin’s Mill, where the non-union loom- fixer Cameron is employed. From early in tbe afternoon ontil evening tbe crowd increased in nnm- bera until the sidewalks and, in feet, some of the streets were almost block aded. Just before the time for the hands in Leedom’s Mill to stop work two hundred policemen marched up to the building and, dividing into four oads, drove the crowd Deck for a block on each of the four streets lead ing to the mill. Twenty officers then escorted Ctmeron from tbe mill and walked with him on the sidewalk as be proceeded home. Some of the more daring of these congregated on the streets, eluded the largo force of officers and running through side streets caught np to Cam eron and his escort. The mob then followed closely, hooting and jeering, and tiirowing snow bails,..lc& stones and other missiles. The officers in charge of the squad, after having been followed a few blocks, ordered the men to draw their clubs and charge upon the mob. This was done, and a brief but furious fight ensued. Several of the policemen were knocked down, but none seriously injured, while of those composing the mob several came out the melee with broken heads and seven of them were captured. Iu the excitement attending the on slaught an officer slipped away with Cameron and he was taken to his home without beiug further molested. It was said that tlie female non-union weavers employ 6d Tn the "miH 'were taken away in carriages, but the striking weavers assert that they were kept in tlie building and will remain there all night. The seven prisoners whose ages range from 18 lo 28 years, were locKed up for a hearing to-mor- morrow. The Weavers’ Assembly of Labor, at their adopted resolutions in which they deny having any connection whatever with the riotous demonstrations whicli have taken place, and calling upon those on strike to refrain from any violent action, and to especially avoid any dis turbances of the peace. AaroH Leopold, borides his nmrim interest*'la a large it>.> estor in Lake Superior mtaiag properties. It was his good laek to be one o the men who held Calnmet and Hecla stock before the Agasaiz process for reducing copper ore Was discovered, which discovery increased the value ot copper mine stocks five hundred (old, and placed Calnmet and Hecla among the greatest wealth-producing shafts ever dug into mother earth. * Delicate Women. I have been using for n mouth or two in my household Swift’s Specific, the greater portion of it having been consumed by the female portion of my family, and with the happiest results It acted like a charm on my wife, who had been iu bad health for a long time and for whom 1 had’p&id hundreds of dollars and medicines. It began to build her up from the first dose. An other female member of my family took it with equally satisfactory re sults. It is certainly (lie best tonic for delicate ladies that I liaye ever used, and I have tried them all. I have no doubt that want of exercise What HU Friends Discovered When the Coffin was Opened. Asheville, N. C., February 28.—A gentleman from Flat Creek Township in this (Buncombe) county, ftii-nislics the information that about the 20th of last month a young man by the name ot Jenkins, who had been sick with fever for several weeks was thought to have died, lie became speechless, his flesh was cold and clammy and he could not be moused, and there ap peared to Im no action of the pulse and heart. He was thought lo be dead and was prepared for burial, and it was noticed at that lime that there was no stiffness in any of (lie limbs. He was buried the ilay after his supposed death, and when put in the coffin it was remarked that he was as limber as a live man. There was, much talk iu tlie neighborhood about the case and tlie opinion was frequently expressed that Jenkins had been buried alive. Nothing, liowever, was done about the matter until the 10th inst., when the coffin was taken up for the purpose of removal and interment in the tamily burying-ground in Henderson county. The cofllin being wood, it was sug gested that it be opened in order to see if tlie body was in such condition that it could bo hauled 20 miles with out being put into a metallic caskeL The coffin was opened, and to the great astonishment and horror of his rela tives tlie body was lying face down ward, the hair had been pulled from the head iu great quantities, and there. close confinement in poorly venlilaletL were scratches of tlie finger nails on L. ... .. .. .. .. . 1 ... 1 - _ * _ t I t M It. Cl / 1 A / \ T tlkSX 1 wl rttfc . I a . I y-. A * \. yx feet and will not give best results to imper- rei tlie most part houses, sewer gas poison and malaria poison oficn produce sickness among our wives, daughters and sisters, am I believe Swift’s Specific is the remedv for nil this sort of blood poisoning. I know many of the be»t families of this county arc using it for this purpose, and f have never known or heard of any failure to give entire satisfaction. I have known the remedy a long time. I know it to be entirely vegetable, and tlie best tonic and alternative, especial ly for females. F. L. Jones, J. l\ Quitman, Ua. the inside coffin. Lienrral Debility. For several years past my wife's health has been exceedingly feeble—a eneral down of the nervous system ho was greatlv reduced iu flesh. No remedy seemed to do her any good. In tlie spring of ll!88 I induced her to try Swift's Specific. The first bottle ave her hope and twenty bottles pro- need wonderful results. She gained thirty (rounds in flesh and it renovated her whole system. It is certainly the greatest tonic in the world. T. J. Higgins. Indian Springs, Ga., Nov. 8, 1884. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co , Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. * New Badltloo and Pegarjr. York, February 2C.—Jud, Welde to-day gave his decision in the case of Justus Schwab, tbe notorious Socialist. There were two charges against tbe prisoucr, first for inciting a riot at a Socialistic meeting about a month ago, and Ihe other was for reaisting a police officer who tried to arreat him. Sebwab was held for trial on both charges in ff2,600 bail. ,! Fallons ter a W«*k. New Yoke, February 27.—The busi ness failures occurring throughout the oonntry daring tbe last seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun te Co., number for tbe United States 243 and for Can- ada 40—total 283, against 290 iaat week, and 270 tbe week previous. The great balk of casualties are in the Western Southern and Pacific States as usual. —Tlie dead body of Henry Phifer, colored, was fonnd in tbe rabarb* of Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday, eoated with half an inch of ice. He was sub ject to rheamatism of the heart, and had fallen down in one of the attache and perished. at Duluth, good many ra do Not i... t * of the lid and sides ot the Double Poiioulng Id Newberry. Stan more Fortune and Alice Wilson, a colored bov and girl, in Newberry county, die*! suddenly on (lie 8th ult. There were rumors of font play and Coroner Bass had tlie bodies exhumed. The result of the investigation was that tlie jury decided that the parties were poisoned by Susan Pitts, colored, and she lias been jailed to await her trial. Susan Pitts is a married woman; Stan- moro Fortune was her brother, and Alice Wilson her niece. Mamie Fortune, one of the persons testifying, being duly sworn, said: “Live at Fortune Pitts’s in Newberry county. Alice and I were up stairs playing. Susan called Alice and gave her a piece of bread fried in molasses. She bit two mouthfuls and laid it down. I asked her why she didn’t cut it all, and she said it tasted nasty. In about five minutes she held her head down and said her belly hurt her. She hurt all over. There was foam all around her mouth. Fortune Pitts said Stan more and Martin took sick about 8 o’clock; Alice also took sick about 8 o’clock. Susan Pitts* oooked breakfast that morning. Stanmore told me Saturday that Susan Pitts poisoned'him and Martin and Alice. Alice said Susan told her if she didn’t eat that bread she’d make her ma whip her, a stinking hussy. * Susan and Stanmore were scuffling on Saturday be tore and Susan got her head hurt. She told him on Sunday she would not be satisfied until she "got” him. She never said in what way she would "get” him. She meant she had no good blood for him. She offered me aome bread; I asked her to let me see it. 1 It was after Alice was taken sick when site offered roe the tftead.—06- terver. reoor day or two ago he told the following fascinating story; “Copoer is un doubtedly a good thing. No man who was lucky enough to got into some of the Michigan mines on the ground floor can gainsay that, but silver is a better thing, for all that,.and as sure as my name is Leopold, some time or other the e will be one of t!:e biggest strikes of silver made on the north shore of Lake Superior ever heard of in America. It will outdo the Rocky Mountain finds just as our copper gets away w th t(ie Arizona mines. Of course, you know that where copper occurs, silver is likely to be also found, and that this is more than theory, the frequent discovery of silver in northern Miebigaa, and esiiecially tm The north shore, proves. Yon know there is an island oa Lake Superior -eaRed Sttrcr island, on which silver is very profitably mined. Did yon over hear the story of tbe lost silver mine?’’ “Never," said the reporter. “Well, it is good enoguh to print, said Mr. Leopold. “It is a current tradition' at Ontonagon, Hancock, Houghton, and especially and while you can hear it a ways, I have looked into it very often, and I believe you will find this to be about the truth of it About sixty years ago all the country north of Duluth was a wilderness. There were a few Hudson bay company's ports scattered | about the lak$s and rivers up there, and the Test of that part of British Ameri ca was the home of roving Indians and nobody else. The story was current then that somewhere down along the northern shore of the lake there was a mine where virgin silver was to be found in lumps. One day a party of Indians—this is the cold truth, which sembly of Knights I you can find on record in books printed meeting to-night, [ years ago— one day a party of Indians 1 came into port on Lake Winnipeg, but instead of furs they had solid ingots of silver. Every one of the party was provided with bricks worth hundreds of dollars. You may believe this caused a sensation. It proved that the rumors current so long had some foun dation. The Indians were strangers at the post. They belonged to a different tribe from any ever seen there before, and they pointed out vaguely in a southeasterly direction, when a>ked whence they had come. Of course, they had the usual carouse, and at last they loaded up with guns, calicoes, beads and whisky and started for home. Two Frenchmen who were at the post trackc t them a toss the wilderness, shadowing them like a pair ot detec tives, and utter about one hundred miles further than from St. Louis to Chicago—through incredible hardships and suilcrings—they at last tracked them to earth. According to the story the home of those Indians was in the range of hills between Crooked lake and Superior, south ot Pigeon river, in what is now the slate ot Minnesota. They did more than this, they found the ind an mine, and its wealth w as be yond all the stories told of it. In a grotto ot rotten rock tlie virgin silver was to bo seen v. Suing the s des in ?very direction. The two men marked down the position of the mine as close ly as could be, taking a number of land marks, so that there could be no mis take. The mine stood at the head of a long serpentine ravine, which trended southeast. Then they loaded up with %^1 the silver they could carry and start ed i ack. A 1 this time tlie Indians knew nothiiM of their visits. Well, they toiled along for days and days, borne down by the weight ot metal, and at last one of them sickened and died on the road Winter was coming on and the remaining explorer strug gled onward after burying his corn- pan on and now and then stoppingand cacheing some more silver, until at last he got back to the post Thc work and the exposure were too much for him, however, and in a collide of days ho too sickened and died, lie gave the most ixplicit instructions to his companions at the rosb as to how the mine was to be reached, and you may believe that the search ma e tlie next summer was an exhaustive one. The'body of the other explorer was found, so was also the silver hidden on the road, but the mine itself was not come upon. There is an old Canadian that everybody calls Leon, who ia occasionally to bo seen in Duluth, where he come- to buy stores, who la the son of one of thc men that were at the post when ihe survivor of the two first finders ^ot back. This Leon hartfrnsg nbnrc;; THT Tils life but hunt for that mine, lie "has got old papers describing its .b ation as close ly aapossible, but be h i- never found it, Umough there is not a ravine in tho^ hills that he has not examined. He will keep up his iium until ho dies, of course, and he may find it, stranger things hav happened." i “Do you b lievc tbe story “Certainly Ido. It nuy bo exag- 1 gerated, but that the Indians knew of soma great silver deposit, nobody who has frequented tho north shore lias any doubt. I suppose 1,000 men have at one time or anothc Inion at yvork look-' ing for that mine. You can’t help be- Foitjr-siafrt Days witkoot FmA. i lieving a story that brings along as Thenton, N. J., March 2.-Mary J* ^ Crandall died in Bloomsbury, ^ Uri* ff®,,* 00 / State, last week, after fasting forty-1 to>*re any doubt, • Aiaht ftiuv'.rwrivA Hava. Khfl weiirhed ,** a | would hardly be gatifthcd with taking. They are not active ami industrious They are slothful In everytfiliig. They do not keep up with improve ments. . They are wedded to old methods. They give no attention to details. They think small things not import ant. , They take no pleasure in their work. They rogerd labor as a misfortune. They weigh and measure stingily. They are wasteful and improvident. They let their gates sag and fall down. They will not make compost. They lot their tow's roost in trees. They have no shelter for stock. They do not curry their horses. They leave their pioyy s in tlie field. They hang the harness in the dust. They put off greasing the wagon. They starve the cow. They don’t kuoyv thc best is the cheapest. They have no method or system. They have no ears for home enter prise. They sec no good iu a ncyv tiling. They never use paint on thc farm. They prop thc barn door yviili a rail. They milk the coyvs late in the .day. They have no time to do things well. They do not read the best books and newspepcTs: HAGAN’S Magnolia beaut is a secret aid to Many a lady owes her fresh ness to it, who would rathef not tell; and you cant tell \ MOTHER! ARE YOU ...v, - rivr)/\| Tl)! 11 With any disease (le- starve tho calf and milk the [ KOI I>L IW etilhir to your gentle sex/ If so, to you we brings tidings ;>f oom- j fort and great joy. You can BUCURED and restored to perfect health by using Bradfeld’s Tho Knlrfht* of If uor Iii the United States Court at Louis ville. Ky., on Wednesday, the 26th, Judge Baxter ordered ex-Sttpreme Treasurer R. J. Breckcnridgc to pay to thc court on Thursday the sum of $111,490.18, due by Idin to tie Knights of Honor. Judge Baxter also decided that the officers of the Knights of Honor elected at Cliicagp were legally elected. The case was taken into tlie United Slates Court by the attorney of a ben eficiary, to yviiom Breckcnridgc had MOBS ABOUT THE MONUMENT. Some Itain* of Inloroat, Not Olvoa In tho Tolrffram*. [IjttUrto the Charlotte Obterter.] The celebration of the completion of | tlie Washington Monument was a grand success. The routine report by telegraph, which gives an adequate idea of the impressive character of the ceremonies as a whole, cannot furnish all the information desired, and there fore I add the following: The Presi dent was intensely bored or tatigued by tlie length of tho exercises. Mr. Bancroft, at eighty-tive, was perhaps the best listener. He received more applause than any of those applauded Except tho speakers in I heir allusions to Wushington at the close of their efforts. Fitz Lee, who came iu quietly and went by the rear to a seat on the floor of the presiding officer’s right hand, was greeted with more hearty applause than tlie brilliantly attired Phil Sheridan, who strode witli his staff dulv announced down the maiu aisle. General Lee wore citizen’s clothes, his badge tlie yellow sash of a cavalryman to distinguish him as the commander of thc second division of| the parade. Where he sat was a little group of Lees—Gen. William H. Lee, son of the illustrious hero, and Mr. Joseph Lee, a business man of this city. The son of Robert Edmund Lee bears striking resemblance to his father. Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee was a capital listener. He wore his beard somewhat pointed, nearly in the fash ion of “the spacious times of great Elizabeth,” and at a distance his head SUggl in tb esletl Lord Bacon’s as it appears ic portraits we have of him. Thc reading of Mr. Winthrop’s address yvas fairly well done by ex-Governor Long. Major Daniel’s oration was longer and more vigorous and original, but its effect yvould have been greater if the brilliant speaker had restrained his superb but exuberant rhetoric. Th* Burial cf David Dicksoa. The funeral of Mr. David Dickson took place Friday afternoon, tlie 20th ult., at 2 o’clock. He was bnried in the garden of his own homo. Tbe coffin was of unpainted pine, made at one of the shops #u Sparta, and was covered with common white alpaca. Tlie corpse was dressed in an elegant suit of black broadcloth and black silk velvet, bnt wore no shoes. The feet of tbe deceased Were crossed, his right arm lay at bis side, his hanu clenched with tlie excention of the index finger, which pointed toward his feet. Tbe left hand lay on his breast and held a beautiful pocket handkerchief, and in the right pocket of his pants were a pocket-knife, a pocket-comb and a tooth-pick. These details about his burial were arranged by Mr. Dickson some years ago, and were communi cated to his nephew, Mr. Jeff Wortheru that they might be observed. Tho funeral was largely attended. eight successive days. Sbe weighed 360 pounds when she began her fast. When she died she weighed about 126 pounds. During the last week she lost three ponnds of flesh a day.. The last four days she consumed about a gill of water. Her mind continued bright nntil last Saturday night. The doctor who attended her thinks she would have lived two weeks yet bad not mortification set in on her body. For the past week tbe alighteat touch caused tier intense pain. Mrs. Crandall | was seventy-eight years old. —A letter has been received at Korti from a non who was taken prisoner when K barton ra fell into the hands of the Arabs, and who ia now kept in captivity in El Mabdi’s camp at Om* durtnan, a few miles below Khartoum. Sbe confirms the statement that Ei Mabdi’s troop# massacred tbe soldiers of tbe garrison nod many peneeftii citizens, and the states that the num ber of persons slaughtered was fbUy 2,000. This statement agrees with tbe earlier reports of the capture of Khar* loutr, and contradicts the stories lately brought to General Wolaeley by natiro spies. ua nsruiv be satiabea witn ti one lot of silver ent of the mine*” “Thev are not satisfied. There are hundreds of stories afloat of trades made by the Indians wherein solid in gots of silver were bartered off for a couple of yards of calico. Some of them, I suppose, are false and others true; but as to their appearing at Win nipeg with the silver, nebody who will take record evidence for any fact can loubt It ia as sure as anything can be.” . m • -to . 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