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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JULY 13, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844. PLMETTO POINTERS .EVENTS ALL OVER THE STATE. New Electric Power Plant. The latest industrial improvement ito be undertaken in Columbia is the 'building of an immense electric power plant at the foot of the canal which will convert the 10,000 horse power furnished by the water of the canal into electricity which will be supplied to the various cotton mills and other industries in the city at a yearly rental of $15 a horse power. This canal, which was completed at a cost of about $1,000,000, is owned by New England capitalists, who have built the largest ducking mill in the south on its banks. With the building of the electric plant the canal company will also enlarge its ducking mills so as to . employ about 1,100 hands. Supreme Court Decisions. M. C. Butler vs. W. H. Ellerbe. Comptvoller ' -ieral, and W. T. C. Bates. Treasurer of South Carolina. !The judgment of the Court is that the complaint be dismissed for want of jur -sdiction. Pope, A. J., and: Gary, A. -J., concurring in that conclusion in separate opinions, McIver, C. J., dis :senting for reasons stated in his opin lion. U. B. Brooks, clerk of Supreme Court, upon the affidavits of Richard 9D. Lee, Esq., uttorney for respondent, ,in accordance with Rules 1 and 2 of ithis Court, entered an order dismiss. ing the appeal for want of prosecution, with costs, in the case of Samuel Cope land, respondent, vs. the Western As purance Company, appellant. This case was tried before Judge Wither spoon, in Sumter, at the March term. 1895. A new hotel has been erected at Olenn Springs. W. J. Bowen, the Charleston liquoi 'dealer that Judge Buchanan sentenced :o four months in the penitentiary for contempt, cannot be found. Charles A. Brown will issue at Dar lington on Wednesday, the 17th of this month, the first copy of the Dar lIngtonian, a newsy five column folio. .The politics of the paper will be strsightout Democracy. - The'drganization of the company for the fir 'Lancaster mil1 was effected ;there onday. The capital stock will be $1 ,000, half of which $76,000, is ho subscription. The balance will orthern capital. A commission for a charter was is ;aued at Columbia to the Florence T4 and Warehouse and Prize Com nyof Florence. The capital stock the company to be $3,000, which is to be increased to $6,000 if the stock tolders so elect. - Ezekial Long, a white bcoy. was ;killed about fourteen miles above Wal halla, on "Sunday morning. He was Sdriving alone on an ox-cart and in go ing over a rough place in the road, he was thrown. His foot caught under a cross bar and his head under a wheel. IClifton is to be extended to the Southern Railway. The large mill number three is now in course of con straction and streets are being graded .t make arrangements for a number if new buildings. After this work is ~completed the Clifton Mill will have a ~opulation of from 3,000 to 4,000. In a circular letter from the Asso 'ciated Railways of the Carolinas and Vignai is annour:ced that the fare for the State Fair will be one fare for ithe round trip for all passengers. As to freight one full re~te will be charged. If after the Fair the property is still ' e--he property of the exhibitor it will be returned free. -The Rev. A. C. Osborn. D. D., of Dr .E. Becker as president of the Benedict Institute, located in Colum bi.Dr. Osborn comes to take charge cation of tecolored people, bringing :with him the highest recommenda tions. *The Cheraw correspondent of the polumbia State says: Some of Chernw's ~merchants are selling Dailingion ,oking tabaceo, while :come of the Pligton merchante are selling Cheraw socks. An interchange of the tue productslof neighboring tosin a pleasant way of developing te resources of the State and at the pame time serves to bring about a ~ rtof enterprise and good feeling ini a different towns. - UITTLE GIRLS MURDERE2. A Serica of Terrible Crimna on the Olut skirts of Lond~on. *A series of outrag~es and murdre:; little girls of age~s rang~ing~ from four to se- a u r hau-'r.eatedl great ecitement a-none the w r'k ing cl.ases in the dlist rict of WValthonto-.. sev.n miles northeast of L.~ i on, E'vglan 1. Within two months five little ones hm beeni decoyed from near their h''.no' aa1 vanished completely. S'-archina parte have subsequenfly foun-t their b-vlies i:Pth fields stripp~ed of atl their clothinr. an-i r~,v ing evid'onee of the m-'t outra:mu-i t ra' menut. In every cas' the r'tima hv been children who have been 1!ayi: alone the roadside or on their way in the di charge of short errands. The i-nm'diata cause of death in every instance has been stratngulation. The misereant usually hhie.. the bodies of his victims in secludled place in the fields and under hedges an-t .overs them with leaves. The Magnet in Surgery. A few days ago C. H. Fiske, the Old Orchard hotel proprietor, got a needle into his foot and was unable to ex tract it, although he tried many ways to do so. Finally, knowing the affinity of steel for a magnet, he went to the electric-light station and placed his foot near a dynamo, and out came the THE BEST OF THE YEAR. Weekly Bulletin of the Condition of the Crops Quite Encouraging. The following weekly bulletin of thy condition of the weather and crops in South Carolina, which is more en couraging than any heretofore issued this season, was issued by State Weath er Observer Bauer: The g-eater number of reports, and including nearly every county, are of a favorable tone, and indicate that all crops have made satisfactory growth, are in excellent condition generally, and with a few exceptions are clean and well worked. There are reports from Pickens, Gieenville, Laurens, Union, York and Chesterfield counties of serious injury to the cotton plant by lice. These in sects have appeared in localities where they were never before known. Whole fields are said to have been ruined in a short time, as the lice spread with marvellous rapidity. Lice have about disappeared from other portions of the State. Worms are still injuring corn in the northern and western counties. No destructive wind or hail storms were reported during the past week. There was scarcely an average amount of sunshine, although includ ing the whole State, nearly so. There was least cloudiness in the central and northeastern counties, and most in the Georgia border and extreme westein counties, and in Berkeley where there was but 25 per cent of the possible, while in Horry there was 90 per cent. There is but little change to note in the condition of crops, but what change rhere is, is towards betterment generally, except over acomparatively small area where insects and want of timely rain caused positive injury or retarded growth. Of cotton, it is universally said that it is very emal but healthy, and where well fertilized looking promising. It is putting on squares freely, but is slow to bloom in the up-country; blos soming is general in the eastern por tions of the State. The crop is gener ally well worked and free from gils. Aside from its being undersized, its condition is all that could be desired. Corn is doing well generally. Early planting is being laid by in excellent condition. In a few localities it was too dry, but this is exceptional. Later corn looks fine. Some corn planted in stubble land just coming up and some still being planted. In the eastern counties the crop is alm6st made. Small grains nearly all harvested and tbrashed, with a yield below an average crop for wheat and oats, con sidering the State as a whole. Watermelons are ripening and Vill be ready to market, from the southern portions of the State, this week. The crop is not uniform, being large in lo calities and only fair in others. The indications are lthat there will be a large acreage devoted to peas this year, both as a forage crop and for fertilizing purposes. Sugar cane and sorghum as well as rice are growing well and lool- promjs iug. The acreage devoted to rice is larger than last year. The tobacco crop is a fine one, and is being harvested and cured. t will be a very remunerative crop. here properly handled since planting. Some fields were partially ruined by njudicious cultivation. Expeqrience and observation will indicate the pro :er treatment for this crop. Fruit continues quite plentiful with he single exception of Horry county, here it is scarce. Vegetables continue in abundant pply. Truck shipments to the north rn markets from the coast regions ave about ended for the season. In comparison with other portions f the country, this State has been ex :eptionally favored by good growing eather, and immunity fromi destrue ive agencies, whether winds, excensire ains, floods, or insects, sinicethegrow ng season began, and as a result there S possibly no State where the crops~ re uniformally more promising at this AGREED TO DIE TOGETICER. . A. Fields Kills His Wife and Child and Then Commits Suicide. S. A. Fields. until recentiy editor of the ost at Polo, Mo., eut the throats of his wifo ad baby with a razor. and then ended his ife in the same manner. Thr bodies were ound in a garden 200 yard-; from tho house f his father-in-law, five miiles~ from Mead ile. Mo. Fields and his famiily were visit nthere at the time. A note was fouznd in SIrs. Fields's pocket saying that everything hev had was to be left to -her mother. Mrs. [homas. It in evidlent that Fields as-I hik wif" htwl sreed to die together. for she want int) tho ouse after they' hali left it. put 'on ani ol ress, and then went ba-:k t' b, kille t. ields was a lawyer by profession and wa< bout thirty-flve years of age. but had mn-lo failure of hi; nraete'. Tro- year; ag' h, attempted his own life by thiriwing himnself mt of a second-story window. KAISER GREETED BY KINC, Emperor William Received With Marlh Cor diality at Stockholm. Swe:lea. Emperor William. of Germany. arrival at Stockholm. Sweden. on board th' Imperia acht Hohenzollern. King Osear boarded the yacht and greeted his Imperial visit or embracing him and kissing him twi'e. The Emperor then landed andl was eheered by the immense crowds assembled and received with military honors by the troops. TheE-nperor and the King entered at car riage and were driven to the palat-," es'rrtedl by the Horse Guards. The- two monar.:hs took luncheon together at the palace. Woman Ties the Knot. Rev. Ella G. Thorp, a roving preacher and a young couple from Bentley. Kan.. m- t apointment at the Keystone H 'tet ini Wihita, Kan. and the lady performed the wedding ceremony. The couple were L. C. Kennedy and Mrs. S. F. Helvie. The we.! ding attracted much attention from the fact that a woman tied the knot. It is the irsi instance of the kind known to have occurred in Kansas. At some place in the world wheat is 110W nown every mionth in th~e year. MIIA B OES Their Thirteenth International Con. vention Held in Boston. THE CITY A TENTED FIELD, rhousans Camp on the Fanous Common -3ass Meetings Held Daily---The So clety's Marvelous Growth--A Worla Wide Organization, With Nearly Two Million 3cimbers. There is hardly a spot on the civilized globa that was not represented at the thirteentl; Christian Endeavor Convention, which as, sembled this year in Boston, Mass. The ol :ity was decked in holiday attire t elcome her gue'sts, most of thl usiness houses and public resi mnces displaying bunting and emblems. - -' REv. DR. F. E. CLARR. (Founder of the Y. P. S. of C. E.) k mammoth dry-goods house in Tremont .treet had its entire front covered by an lectrical design. The Park Square station >f the New Haven road was tastefully deco -ated. The churches were decked out with lags and in more than fifty pulpits on the ;untiy before the convocation the sermons ouched on the convention. The two great tents on the Common, with capacity of 10.000 people each, were amply -quipped with electric lights and seats ar anged as in an amphitheatre. The chorus of rwo voices was the largest ever heard in Boston. The feature in which the general public nanifested the greatest interest wasi the ;hree great mass meetings held each day in Iechanics' Hall and in the tents. These xere addressed by some of the most noted 3van-:elists from all parts of the world, and :he addresses were supplemented by "open ,arliaments." lasting for a half hour or more. Next in general interest were the commit :ee conferences. held simultaneously at fif :een different churches, each representing a. special department of Endeavor work. Another feature which excited great en, :husiasm was the State rallies, receptions ind general soeial occupations at the State leadquarters. These State rallies were held in the di fferent State headquarters in Boston. rhere were also several local receptions at the hotel headquarters, given by the variout ity delegations to the officers of the United socity. On the third afternoon of the convention 2n informal reception was tendered to the state and Territorial officers of the Christian Endeavor by the United Society in Cotlar Ral. Over 800 invitations were issued for this. A unique feature was the series of noonda3 meetings held at factories, stores anC wvharves wvherever they could be arranged More thant one hundred companies of work ars organized in various parts of the countrj o take charge of these meetings. The first Nattional Convention of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor was eld in rortland, Me. (its birthplace). ii 88?. The membership then was 481. corn rising six societies. At the t welfth conven. *ion held in Cleveland, Ohio. in June, 1894 i,741scieties, with a membership of 1.724. 100, were repres nited. Reov. Dr. Francis E. Clark, of the Willistop hurch, oif Portland. Me., was the originai or of the society. Being desirous of inter ~sting the young people in church work he nvited them to his house and talked to hlm about it. andl their enthusiasm being; uroused., he askedl thema to sign this pledge: "Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ fot trenth. I promise Him that I will strive t'i 1 whatever Hie would like to have me dol .hat will piray to Him and read the Bible ve~ry day, andi that, just so far ats I know tow throughout my whole life. I will endea ror to lead a Christian life. As an active member I promnise to be true to all my uties. to be present at and to take some :iart aside from singing in every meeting, nless hindered by some reason which I can onscientiously give to my Lord and Master, fesus Christ. If oblIged to be absent from he monthly conseeration meeting, I will, if possible. seund an exeuse for my absence to, b. society." Thr first name subscribed to this pledgel asthat of WV. H. Penn:'ll. who has ever' nee bee~n prominent in the society. It wasj iot long before every church in Portland, id n'similar sot-iety. A member of Willls on Chureh miov'.d to LIneoln. Neb., and arrieud the idea there. Another member noved to South Hadley. Mass., and started society there. And so it spre-sd, not only :roughout this eountry~but t0- foreign coun rie, until it lhas reached every civilizec :ountry on the globe, and, in fact. somi which are not civihie.d. Fore~gn Note.. The Prince of Wales announced that ha rould not be able to visit the United States o see the America's Cup yacht race. The French Chamber of Deputies asked the lvernment to negotiate an arbitration eaty with the United States. An Imperial ukase relating to the Chinese oan has been issued: Russia will indorse thle oupons of the hondholders. The railway station at Dortmund. Ger nany was de'stroyed by fire and two men vere killed by the falling of its wails. Ambassador Eustis presided at the Fourth f July banquet given in Paris by the Ameri an Chamber of Commerce. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, s:Iys that committee of the Ministers wIll arrange a ettlement of the Mora claim. Michael Cleary was convicted in Ireland i burning his wife to death as a witch. . Four hundred Cuban insurgents, under tmadorGuerra. were defeated in two bat les in Palma Saltas. Cuba. Their leader d threeljieutenants were killed, together rith sixty men. The hossof the Government roops was seventeen killed and about the ame number wounded. Expeditions for uba are leaving North. South and Cent ral Emerie. Fire in Godillet's military establishmn!t~ie 'aris caued $1,400,000 damage. In Glasgow an windows above the ground floor must be hinged so they Dan b clanerd from the inside, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED TC Co Washincton Itenis. John W. Foster has arrived at his home in Washington from China, where he served as counselor to the Chinese peace envoys in the de negotiations to end the war with Japan. Ai Mr. Foster has been absent from Washington da. on this mission nearly seven months. tiI Secretary Herbert's investigation of the to] labor system in Brooklyn Navy Yard led to the removal of Naval Constructor Fernald sei and Civil Engineer Asserson. cal President Cleveland has pardonedEdmund oli I. Crittenden, of Kentucky, sentenced on by June 28. 1894, to eighteen months' imprison ment in the Ohio Penitentiary on the charge of robbing the mails. co Secretary Carlisle has directed that the new en revenue cutter now being built for service fez along the New England coast be named the th4 Daniel Manning, and that the one being built for service on the great lakes be named Ge the W. Q. Gresham. both after former Secre- nu taries of the Treasury. thl The appointment of Willis L. Moore, of th, Illinois, as Chief of the Weather Bureau was an announced from the White House. Fishermen who, by squatter sovereignty. m occupyshanties at Sandy Hook, were ordered col to leave by the War Department. They cit threatened to resist eviction by arms. of The State Department instructed Ambassa- as lor Eustis to take steps for the relief of ex Consul Waller. who is ill in a French prison. The principal postoffices throughout the !ountry have discontinued the use of the pr !ancelling machines, by which letters are ne postmarked and the stamps upon them can- be celled. The total number of stamps of all kinds is- ir sued to postmasters in the fiscal year just - closed was 2.823,000.000, valued at 956,885,- of 418. This is an increase in valuation of e4,- a 000,000 over last year. Secretary Hoke Smith accepted the invita tion of the Cordele (Ga.) Bound Money League to deliver an address there on the currency question. na! The total value of envelopes Issued to post- 1h( offices during the fiscal year was $12,036,019, t and postal cards $4,968,16L Domestic. 49 nECOnD Or THE LEAGUE.oLUS. th Per .T Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. MOu. Wno. IVt'. et. th( Baltimore 34 21 .618 Oincinnati.34 27 .557 me Boston.....33 22 .600 Philadel...32 26 .552 Chicago...40 29 .588 lew York.28 31 .475 Pittsburg..37 26 .587 Wash'ng'n.23 35 .397 ab Cleveland..37 28 .569 St. Louls..21 43 .323 of Brooklyn..33 26 .559Loulsville.10 40 .169 Senator Blackburn has been called off the or( stump in Kentucky by the Democratic State Central Committee because of his free sliver me views. A tornado of terrific violence and wide spread extent swept over the country near wb Newton. Kan.. destroying everything in its Ca path. Four houses were wreeked and over fra thirty farm houses destroyed. Twenty-five persons were injured, seven of them fatally. be One man was killed and sixteen people i were injured in a trolley-car accident at East $QJ Liverpool. Ohio. Josiah Chamberlain, a farm hand. went to his wife's boarding place at Norwich. N. Y., ' and afte'r firing two bullets Into her neck en mnd abdomen killed himself. ten Justice Gaynor, of Brooklyn, granted to . 3x-Police Inspector McLaughlin, of New i10 York City, a certificate of reasonable doubt. 3p which acts as a stay of judgment pending de- a ision by the Court of Appeal. The President and Mrs. CJi1and received 6 ountless congrataialic:~. a* ay Gables," Buzzard's Bay, Mass.. on the birth of their daughter. col Abram Eckert, janitor of the High School I In Nanticoke. Penn., killed wealthyFrederiek Col T. Bitteabender, chairman of a school com mittee. the At San Luis Obispo. Cal., ex-Governor tw( Stevenson, of Idaho. committed suicide by the taking laudanum. He was a great sufferer ver from sciatica. ing Defender's trial trip indicated that she 2 rill have wonderful racing qualities. Sheriff Tamsen removed Warden Raabe pet md Keepers Schneer and Schoen, of Ludlow ho: 3troet Jail. New York City. because of thu S ax dIscipline which permitted the escape of the he Postoffiee robbers, Killoran. Allen and Russell. Charles 3. Klnsler, ea PhiladelphIa alder- CO~ an, was shot and killed], evidently by acci-- Co' lent, while watchlag a flag-raising. tio1 Grover and Lela, aged eleven and thir- for n years respectively, children of William~ fol] hultz of Marceline, Ill., were drowned in . sear Ureek. Grover was bathing in the eit reek, and thbe girl, hearing his screamus~went nu~ o rescue him from drowning. the Dernberg, Gliek & Horner. proprietors of car he Leader. one of the large department, an tores of Chicago, have failed. Creditors told a chattel mortgage for 8225,000. It is ser aId that the assets of the fiem wi reallze big 'ver 8400.000. m Three people were drowned In the Delt- gal rare River at Beverly, N. J., by the capsizing i a boat. They were John Anderson, Frank 3evana, a bicycle manufacturer, and Miss bet arembek, wh Becauseo Mollie B~ors would not marry him did uke Hoyer blew up her home. In Le- tio nont, Ill., with dynamite, fatally wounding of ter, her mother and her aunt. Francis M. Dickinson, seventy-one years P.~ )ld, a prominent JBechertown (Mass.) far- tio ner, was gored to <leath by a bull. HIs sons ] ~ound him 'mangled and dead, lying in theex The sate in the County Treasurer's offico at Iarsburg, Ark., was robhed of $3100 at kn ioon wvhile Mr. Vanderver was in court con- a ulting with the Judge- tat Cai bol LYNCHED THE PREACHER. ofi Stevival Service Wac G:ing On and the =wel 1,ynchgrs Enterent the l'alpit. At Hope Henry colore-l church. about live miles southwest of Lake City. Fla.. R )bert 'i Bennett, a young clorel preacher. was y dragged from the pulpit and lynched by a ~ party of men. A revival has been going on ehn at the church, and whent services closed a I mourner was at the bench in a trance. teni The preacher and several others remained an to watch the man. All went to sleep and at four o'clock the lynchers entered and dragged th Bennett from the p~ulpit. They took him about a mile and shot him to death. Bennett had been working in Suwanee county for Bryant Pagett, and was accused of oe attempting to assault the latter's daughter. ml Elll the Pursuing Sherifr. a "Railroad Bill," the colored desperado and rain robber, murdered Sheriff McMillan, of ba Escambia. County, Alabama, near Blue cli S prings, Fin. The Sheriff, with a posse, had o! chased him through the swamps for a hun dred miles. ri lBoth Were Drowned. w Lois Galpin, the ten-year-old daughter of A. . Galpin, of New Haven, and Ella John- I J eon, aged sixteen, were drowned at Taunton Lake. near Newtown, Conn. Ella Johnson lost her life in an attempt to save that of the other girl. at carlnese 'Wlsdomn. t man sweep the snow from his ownt doors and not trouble himself about the frost in his neighbor's tiles"-- ci The Scotchman. David Oldham, a Baptist deacon, of Ukiah, CaL is on trial on a charge of holding up tfe lendaino..stage C~a~h. --~ ~ ' r c2 GO TO THE SUPREME COURT, lored Men Preparing to Test Soutb Carolina's Election Laws. laving been appointed vice presi its of the South Carolina Suffrage 1 Society, which was organized Fri F evening at the Metropolitan Bap Church, many of the colored pas s of this city Sunday devoted their mons to the discussion of the politi status of the negroes of South Car an, as told to them Friday evening Congressman Murray of that State. hough the attendance at the many ored churches was small, those pres seemed much interested in the dif ent phases of the political states of negro in the Southern States. Rev. orge W. Lee, of the Vermont Ave e Baptist church,who was selected as president of the new association, says t he is in earnest about the matter, I that he is in earnest about the *tter, and that he will urge all the ored pastors of the churches of this y to make unusual efforts in behalf the securement of a fund here to ist in the employment of counsel to :e the question of the registration rs of South Carolina before the Su ,me court. The services of a promi it law firm of this city have already m secured, and a South Carolina n will assist in prosecuting ti-e eose. conversation with a representative rhe Star the president of the new ociation said: 'Our object is to raise means and ploy competent councel to contest registration laws of South Caroli which, we believe are contrary to Constitution of the Unil'ed States. 9ink that the people will respond erally to our appeals to them if the tter is put to them prop y. I shall urge the subject before ministers of this city, and ex ect ir co-operation. 1 shall call a mass eting to be held at my church next nday night, and we will secure e men to speak upon the importance the colored people here giving their >port to this movement. The col d people of South Carolina are poor I unable to contribute the necessary ans to test the case and it becumes duty of the colored people every ere to give them aid, for if South rolina can enact a law that will dis nehise 140,000 negroes, it will nut long before every State in the South 1 adopt similar laws."-Washing Stpr. Equal Division in York. 'he Yorkville Enquirer gives an ex led notice of a meeting that was in York County, at which a divi of the delegates was agreed to. eches were made by Judge Earle Judge Witherspoon, Twenty >s had representatives at the meet he following is the action of the ference: 'esolved, That it is the sense of this tvention that, so far as practicable, re shall be an equal division be en Conservatives and Reformers of delegates to the Constitutional Con tion, as the best method of secur the best men to send to that body. . That we pledge ourselves to per nate white supremacy by fair and Lorable means. .That the homestead provision uld be retained in the Constitution. .That the five candidates for the stitutional Convention for York itv be nominated by primary elec 1, and be divided between the Re rn and the Conservative factions, as ows, to wit: The candidate d. ier faction receiving the highest nber of votes in the primary to be first or odd delegate, and the two didates from the Reform factions the two candidates from the Con vative faction receiving the next est number of votes in the pri ry to be the remaining four dele .That in the interest of harmony ween the factions and a united ite people we suggest that each can ate for the Constitutional Conven pledge himself to abide the result the primary election under the s above set forth. The resolu as were unanimously adopted. lefore adjourning Chairman White ended his sincere congratulations the most happy solution of a very >tty question. mong the delegates were Represen yes W. N. Elder, Dr. T R. -ethers, Commissioner J. C. Wil 'n, Senator D. E. Finley and most he Reform leaders Conservatives -e present from most of the clubs. PROMINENT PEOPLE. he Mikdo of Japan is fonl of fo:>thall. 'rince Bismarek is partly of Slav origin. dron Albert Rothsehild is one of the best 'ss playrs in Vienna. ,x-Presidenlt of France Casimir-Parler in ds to spend the summer travelini in Italy I Austria. 'he press of Japan show:- its reapn~itfor Mikao by p~rintinl' his na:Ln always im >ital letters. iv the death the othe' day of .a':= C v' I Goveror Frank Brown, of Marylandt Lerits $20.00. ield Marshal Lord Rberts. "0 ir' .he most popular military man in E-.&i~, I his portrait is in great demand. 3jsmarch~ declare~s that hi' is .a n'atura. reter, and thay slightest, implen ling 1,nge of weather !~sugst to him the n--rl stimulants I. Alfred Copus is sail t-o be the' really ig literary man o[ Ei.an-li'- H h-t- pu' bied several noveln wvhieh have bo ' v 1 received. Lord Woseley wa3s s'xty-two y.ara ci 1 on ne 4. He entered the army ini 1352. wae Lde a Peer in 1882 and rfr Fie'A M tr.:'it '>n rv 26, 18I. The Czarina of Russia i-i fond o[ 5swfim Lng. and to ind'ige in it i.. havmn' a h'ath white marble made in the Winter !'dlin St. et-rsurg. Andrew Carnegie has su;s'ribl &4) I e anom alreadyv raised f., _a ted''n n D . S. F. Smith. au'tho:~ ; ---.nri atiinga tota' of ;$2 03. Carls Alexandesi, the Cania: 1 p t euding ibt a-n >n ,..idrl.~ th :1 h > ' O-to sar,:-al miillion d101im- wa d t vversiOn to her children, from a rich me -a Dn A andra Slar o1 Madrid. THE COTTON MOVEMENT Nearly Eight Million Bales at the Different Ports. The cotton year for 1895 is rapidiy closing and it be-gins to be possible to figure out just where each of the ports stand in regard to re eeipts. The crop was, of course, as was long ago knowu, the largest ever made, but it is stiil interesting to observe the directions id wh sh it moved. With the increased number of biales every port should have shown some considerable increase in its receipts, but this; as will be seen from the statistics, is not al ways the case. At the very beginning of the year it became apparent that Galveston and New Orleans were forging far ahead of any thing they ever did before, and this record they have maintained steadily down to the present time. So great was the increase :L the receipts at Galveston that this year it re ceived nearly as many bales as New Orleans did last year. New Orleans, however, ii the meautime was making a like advance, and still easily maintains her supremacy as the chief cotton port of the world. For some months during the height of the season the South Atlantic ports, with the exception of Poit Royal, showed a decline, but recently thev have not only regained what was lost, but'have run considerably ahead. Port Boyal, however, shows the largest increase of any of them, her receipts running up from 77,000 bales in 1894 to 158.000 this year, a clear gain of80,000 bales. This is, of course, attribu table to the establishment of direct com naioication with Europe, and the excellent and enterprising management of the Port Roy.l aud Augusta Road since it was taken out of -the hands of the CentraL. Oharlesto, now shows a gain of 22,000 bales and Savan nah 49,000 over last -ear. Wilmington has pulled up forty odd thouvand and Brunswick about ten thousand less. The receipts at the Virginia ports have been prao'ically fne zame as those of 1894. While Norfolk shows a ,ols'derable decline West Point has forged ahead more than et ough to make up the deficit. All of thd Eastern points show slight increases except Boston. which for anunaccountable reason i reported as having fallen two hundred thoun sand bales. The total receipts reported up to date are 7.892,167, as aganst 5 Wo,082 for the same day in 1894. The iol towing is a comparative statement ct the receipts up to last Friday at all of the leading American ports: Galveston. I,65 I. I0%76S New Orleans, 2^676 Mobile, Savannah, Sharleston. 42,47 1.64 Wimigon, 3,3 Baltimore, 112,25 6 New York, 187,636 118,61 Boston. Sam 100.18 NwportNews, IR 4P,56 1 wPo &intIi 286,01 W3.119 103,64.4 7 1460 9692 P et Royal, THE LABOR WORLD. London has 200,000 factory girls. Japanese workmen wear on their backs an Inscription describing their business. Vermont has 24,894 persons employed in its factories and turns out an annual product valued at $30,340,066. Men attending the pans in salt works are never known to have chalery, small pox, scarlet fever or influenza. Miss Jessie Gray, a young Scotch woman. has been appointed sanitary inspector of women's workshops in Islington, London. Canadian carpet manufacturers are com plaining of the competition of carpets and rugs made by prison labor in British India. The American flint glass workers have ac cepted last year's scale, except engravers, who were reduced ten to twenty per cent. on cheaper grapes. The International Bakers' Unions have in vited the Independent Bakers' Unions to join them in their efforts in trying to have the bakers' laws strictly enforced. Missouri, by her Supreme Court, has de clared unconstitutional the law which placed restrictions upon the discharge of men be longing to labor organizations. Five thousand three hundred and sixty three white men and 40,888 natives are em ployed in the sixty-se'ven gold mines at the Rand. Transvaal. South Africa. The manufacturers of iron and steel sheets in the Pittstburg district signed a new wage scale for the year beginning July 1, which assures work for 20.000 men. The Bellaire (Ohio) Nail Works Company notifed its 1030 employes of a ten per cent. iicrease in wages to take effect August 1. This made the second increase since last Apri'. In Philadelpha and Baltimore alone 900 garment-makers have received an increase in their wages. Following these two industries comes that of the oil wells of Pennsylvamia, which has also obtained a great spurt. The statistics of strikes occuring in Eng land from 1888 to 1894 show that the percent age of successful strikes has fallen from for t-eight to seventeen per cent. in that time. 'hat method of righting wrongs seems to be growing rapidly less successful. Buyers of iron and steel seem to have finally abandoned the extremely conserva tive position they have been holding for the past year or two. All large consumers are now contracting for more material and sup plies than the orders in hand call for. In Paris male domestic servants are en couraged to marry, as they are observed to be more settled and attentive to their duties than when bachelors. In London such mar riges are discouraged, as rendering ser vants more attentive to their own families than t o those of their masters. The National Tube Works and Rolling Mills of McIeespert, Penn., emp)loying 4500 men madle an advance in the wages of its emloes last month of 12K per cent. This is ased on ordlers ahead and the prospect of a heavy dlemaind for pipe from the North Clayton County, Ga. for 16 to 1. Clayton county, Ga., has orgaidxed an enthsiastih leagr~e of bimnetallists, an-d has namedl a strong delegat ion of representaV'ave democrats to attend the state bime-allie con vention at Griffin. The following resolutions, introduced by Mr. J. A. Morrow, were unanimously adopt "dResolved, 1,That this organization shall be known as the Clayton County Bimeta!!ic -'eslved 2, That we are unequivocally opposed to tile 'single gold standard policy now maintained by this government at the expense of industrial progress and commer cial enterprise. "Resolved. 3, That the joint standard of both gold and silver is the only just moneta r basis: it is the money of the constitution a'nd, prior to 1873, prevailed in this great coutry to the advancement of progress and to the prosperity of its people: and ..he pub lic iterests can only be satisfactorily pre se-ved by its full and complete restoration. "Resolved. 4, That In accordance with our right and duty of citizenship we -respectfully demand at tbe hands of our represenu~tives in congress that this standard, as it existed pior to the demonetization act of 1873, be restored to us; and to this end we pledge ourselves, and by these presents league oar selves together to support these principles and do everything in our power to secure the remonetization of silver at a rat'o of 16 t o 1, and independently of any other nalios. Big Fire at Oswego, N. Y. At Oswego, N. Y., several building on East Second street. occupied by mnercatntile firms, were destroyed by fire. The Iona was *153,000 and insurance ~*80,450. Mrs. Isaac Bond, forty-Seven years old, was seriously hurned. BILL ARFS LETTER. ii DISCOUBSES UPON THE SUB. JECT OF BABIES. lie Is Much Pleased that Womankind Love Them so Much. That was a pretty Persian rhyme which laid: "A new-born child lay crying While all around were smiling; An aged man was dying And peacefully was smiling While all around were crying." Sir William Jones put it in better verse: "On parent knes, a naked new-born child Lay weeping, while all around it smiled. 3o live that, sinking in thy last long sleep alm thou mayest sm'le wh le all around thee weep." What is more wonderful or more beautiful than the maternal instinct-what an attraction loes a birth in the family have for all the sex, the women and children, girl children I mean, the men and the boys rhow no great concern. rhe babes would have a hard an i perilous time if entrusted to them. Babes are born every lay, every hour, by the thousand. It is the most common and universal event that con wrns our humanity. It is more common than eath, for more come into the world than go Dut it every year, and yet the excitement of a birth goes on and is a big thing with matrons d with maids. For a few days past I have sat In my veranda and ruminated, for the women ome and go and the ne'ghbori Eend flowers ind kind messages and the girl ch ldren come to see the b&by, an:i the tiniest one wants to hold it in her arms. Verily, it looks like .this was the first and the last one that ever was born. hethree great events of our life, our birth d marriage and death, are ministered to by woman. What a sad affair would either be without her presence, her care and sympathy. The wonder is that she can go through the or deal that Providence has assigned her, and be io contented, so calm and serene. What moth er ever harbors gloomy fears or forebodings bout her infant child? How hopefully they look upon the future, how happy in the love of her offspring. The poet says: "A mother is a mother still," The holiest thing alive." And she is. I wiih that I was as good, as true and as loving as the average mother in this land. I wish that I wasas mro of hetven. fost of them have a child up there, and they still treasure every smile, every dimple, every ong, and in their waking dreams realiz3 what the poet so beautifully said: "Oh, when a mother meets on high The habe she lost in infancy, Bath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrows, all her tears An overpayment of delight?" The maternal instinct! The never fading ove of children. My wife is serenely happy now for there is another child to look after. and she moves around with ner old alacrity. I used to help her with her own, but my time is out. As old man Calder said after the first batte of Manasas, "I have fit enough." r used to tote the little chap around the room sometimes half the night and sing my little song until I wore it out, and at times I felt like the tired parent who hogged his little boy to his bosom andiaid: "I wouldn't take a mil lion dollars for you-no I wouldn't-but I wouldn't give a nickel for another." It is a weary business-nursing and caring for a little child. But it is a part of the bargain, and has to be done, and it has Itsrewards. The more thi father helps with th children the better he loves them and the more they love him. The country peo ple, as a rule, have no nurses for their children except the members of the family, and their devotion to the little help-ess ones is beautiful. The baby in a country home is common prop erty. All nurse it and the father does his share when he comes from the field. Go to a country church on Sunday and see how many fathers are not ashamed to "tote the child" and keep it while preaching is going on. Why shouldnt he? It shows his love to the child and his loyalty to his wife. The average farmer has not a very wide field for his ambi tion. Ee is not seeking fame or office or riches. He has no longings for going to New fork or Washington or crossing the ocean. His hope and desire is limited to his family and his farm, and he looks to God for rain and sun shine. There is nothing that weans him from his wife and children or that gets between him and themi. Sometimes he takes the family to town in the big wagon, and somietimes the chil dren go with him to the mill, and on Sundays all go to mieetinzr, and so the weeks and months roll on -provingthe truth of the poet's lines-' "Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound." It is given to but few men in this world to do anygreat thing. but all can be happy if they will be content nith their humble lot. I used. to envy the rich and great, bus I do not now. As a general rate grief and sorrow are the per quisites of riches an I of fame. Great men are rarely blessed with loving children. Not long ago one of our noblest men found himself face to ace at Delm'in co's with a drunken son. His mortification was intense and the lincs of trouble still linger n his face. The pressure of public affars and t o constant struggle to keep up socially and politically consumed the time that should have been devoted to his children. In sneh cares the muothr is their only saf guarIl. She may do all she can, but she cann:>t na'ch her boys when they get mn their teens. She can I ,ve ani pray and chide, but still they will a ray away. It is pitiful to see the breaking cof a mother's heart over a eon who is on trial fcr his life. How closely does she cling to h'm when all the world is against him. I remember oec a widow who sold her cow and her htitle furniture and thenwent from store to store begginr fo -a little more money to take her to Arkansas to see her son who was in jail for munbtr. Her devotion saved his life, but not his liberty, and she was thankful. for she found some work near by and could visit him in his prison and comfort hin *with her love and blessing. What an awful thing it must be to have no one to love you, and yet the e are thousands of such in the prisons of the land. Nothing was so touching in Gover nor Atkinson's affliction than his respite of a man who was to be hung-his tender thought while on the brink of the grave of a poor wretch who was begging for his life. Dan Voorhees once hurried to a distant state to de fend a young man accueed of murder, and he saved him for his widowed mother's sake, be cause her father had been good to hinm when he was young and poor. If we men do not have love in our hearts like a mother's, we honor it and respect it and admire it all the more.-BIru An in Atlanta Constitution. MRS. O'LEARY DEAD. Owned the Cow Alleged to Have Caus ed the Great Chicago Fire. Mrs. Catherine O'Leary td ,at Chicago last week. She was +.4e owner of the frac tios cow which in a barn in the rear of No. 137 De Coven street on a me~morable nighte In October, 1871, kIcked over a lim and started a blaze which cost Chicago 3,0 000. Since the night of that historiceofa rtion Mrs. O'Leary's life was emhtttendI the popular belief that she was indireetly responsible for the loss of life and enormous destruaion of property. She denied the story vigorously and the committee which ~nvestgated the fire and cause made amda vits that the allegations about herslf, the cow and lamp were not true. he potential militia of this country includes all males from eighteen to forty-four years, and in 1890 the num ber was 13.230,168. nec traqe or the seven Australian coloales decline nn0n00n00 In 1I0 - --'