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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JULY 30, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844. SALISBURY'S DOUBLE HANGING The Story of the Crimes for Which They Forfeited Their Lives. The two negroes. Whit Ferrand and Ander: son Brown, who were sentenced wo be hang 'ed at the last term of the Superior Court for the murder last February of Deputy Sheriff H. C. Owen near Cleveland. N. C., were publicly executed shortly before noon on Thursday at Salisbury. An immense crowd, estimated between 5.000 and 10,)00 people, witnessed the hanging. ' At 11:45 Sheriff Monroe bade the prisoners good bye. and with two blows of the axe severed the rope which held the scaffold. Their necks were broken by the fall, and death ensued with searcely a straggle. The bodies of the men were turned over to their relatives. That of Ferrand will be taken to the upper part of the county, near his home, for burrial: that of Brown will be buried near Salisbury in a small plot pur chased by his relativesfor that purpose. THE CRIES. rhe erimes for which the n1Um paid the death penalty to-day, were is follows: On Pe bruary the 29th, Whit Ferrand shot end instantly killed Deputy Sheriff i.L C. Owen, near Clueland, this county. The crime was S '.one of the most ecld-blooded murders ever I committed in Rowan county. Ca the pre N'io-us night. Ferrand. who was 9 desperAte rharueter, and a party of negro accoerlices had been disturbing the neighborhoed near Cleveland, and a still belonging to Mr. Hutchison had been broken into during the right.of which orience Ferrand and his party b Wtre charged. E. A. Barber, Esq., issued warrant for their arrest. Deputy Owen de. pU tized Messrs. Mae Hellard and S. P. Martin to assist in the arrest, and accompanied by M. B.irber, they started to find the negroes. Three of the negroes were arrested with out trouble and were taken back to Cleve land by M[r. Barber. Sam" time during the l&y '. Pink Webb. who had joined in the pA.rsuit, ran on Ferrand in a broom-sedge. .He ananeed towards 31r. Webb as though he udended giving himself up. but when n-:ar enough jumped on him and wrenched his gun from him. and shot him in the wrist 'with t pistol. He then allowed Mr. Webb to let'e. keeping his gun and pistol. Later Mr. Bellard and another officer ran upon Fer rand hiding behind a tree. He snapped his gum at them. when they fired upon him, one load taking effect in his face. Mr. Owen some time afterwards came up and stopped the firing. He called to Ferrand to surren der but he refused with an oath. - inally.he agreed to give up if they would nct shoot at him any more. Mr. Owen then ad vanced on him and when in a few feet of the negro the latter raised his gun and fired, thbe ball enterinirMr. Owen's breast at the top vtst b.utton. Hes clasped his 'a id on the wound and advanced on Ferrand but fell in the act and expired immediately. Ferrand struck at Mr. Owen with his gui as he fell and then jumped on him. At this juncture he was caught and held by the other offleern. The news of the murder of Mr. Owen soon spread over the country and Ferrand was in danger of lynching. He was finally slipped through the country to Lexington where he was kept several weeks until public anger had subsided. He was tried and convicted last court and to-day paid the -ust penalty of his crime. On Saturday morning. March 2nd, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock. Anderson Brown visited the house of Mollie Roberts, his mistress. and walking into her room with -'a few words shot her while she was in bed. The woman was fatally shot but lingered several days before expiring. He was arrest - ed for the'erime and on learning the next day that she still Iived he said if they would let him out long enongh to complete the job he would be willing to be hung. For the n..mrder of this woman he was tried and sentenced to be hanged to-day, forfeiting his lie on the gallows. The double execution was the first one at Sahslbury in sixty years. - A GREAT RICE CROP. A 10,000,000 Bushel Yield--The Largest Crop Ever Raised in America. The last circular from Dan Talmage's Sons has this to say about the coming rice crop: We hand herewith present condition of and prospect for the rice crop in respective States. It cannot as yet be said to be assured as contingencies may arise whieh would cur tail promised outcome. I I, however, there should be a continuation of previous favor able circumstances, will give a result fract ionally in excess of 1892. Estimated yield 10.000,000 bushels-treble amount grown prior to the war and bouble that of any year since: NORTH C~unoLsA.-Under the contrary conditions crop got a iate nnd poor start. Plant has made fine growth past monrtb mnd promise now better than expected. Estimiate~d yield 200,000 double that of any year Mnee. Sourri Csanots.-- g the Cooper. e o9. Codyahee Pon pon rivers evem y circumstance conductive to tne prosperity of the plant. Acreagje larger than last year and a liner crop. both as to (luantity ' nul quality, contldently looked for. Further~ north. Pee-Dee. Satntee. Wacemaw and Black rivers, chances much less favorable. Fields under water during almost entire month of March. April and May. Only by use of powerful steam pumps could any land be drained sufficiently to be seeded earily. Few havingsuch facilities, planting generally delayed until June and with limited time. work performed in a crude imperfect man ner. Some fearing blight by early frost decided not to plant at all; the result in latter section will be two-thirds average. E:-timated yIeld 850.000 bushels. GxoRGIA.-ConditionS fine: well advanced considering late start. Only doubt expressed - is in regard to the fate of May rice.and there is more than usual, when the birds strike it in September. Estimated yield 450.000 bushels. -Lor'Is1An.-River crop promising and will greatly exceed last year. U~nder heavy awl almost continuous rains the past month: plantations, abandoned as too expensive to work or because ready to die. have coe to life again with unexampled vigor. The strek is good. tall and- heading heavily.. but grass rankand product will be mc. re s-edy on the average than ever before. Texas. Florida. Alkihama and Mississippi Good progress. but th.' first named only of commerciatl prominence. Estimated yield Z0).000 bushels. SUN FLOWERS. Somnething that wvill Interest a Good Many People. The cultivation of sun flowers for their seds, which are feed to the poultry, is said to be on the increase in Pennsylvania. the country of fine farmr. and economical. Pros perous farmers As long ago as 1826; the following n'rti* " of th' value of the sun flower appoaredl in a Charle.4in publi-'ation: Nati' e Oil --Fin.'r, swo::ter oil no country can supply than what we can, wit h little trouil~e andi exp.'nse. prepaire for ourselves. The tali, annual sun thower will prove this. its seeds bruised and pressed yield an oil as swe. t and as tlne' as that wve import from Florence. From a bushel of this seed a gallon of oil may he' d1rawn and with this ad vantage. that it can be~ obtainedl at any time, quite soft. bland andi fresh. The s.'ed also and mass that remain. afte~r the tex.ression of the oil. are of e~xcelle.nt us" to f'*t.i and fodder hogs. poultry. t. D..t besidles all these uses, the growing plant is of cminernt service, it having been proved that near twenty times as much pure depelogisticated air iS exhaled from one plant in twenty-four hours, in light and clear weather, as a man respires in a - . vitiated and impure state in that space of time. Hence tho inhabitants of close, ill -red and unwholesome places should be diii nin its cultivation. LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. Important Happenhigs, toth H1ome and Foreign, Briefly Told. iewsy Southern Notes. For the second week of July the Southern Railway earned *321,SSO, an increaso el $33,012. Nails of every kind were put up 59 cents a keg by order of manufacturers meeting at Boston. The Union Cotton Mills, of Lafayette, Ga., Is adding 3072 spindles and eighty-fout looms. The coal operators of Birmingham have advanced domestic coal 25 cents a ton and steam coal 15 cents. Another mill will b-e built in Kuos ilo at once, capitalized at $100,000. Three bvusiess men have sub--ribed to 55.000 of the stock. The Monroe,Ga.. Cotton Mill.has organized and will erect a 5000 spindle plant for manu facturing cloth and yarns. Henry M. Payne, sugar planter and mer chant. who had been on trial for several days at Franklin. St. Mary's Parish. La., for the murder of L. Murray Ferris, a promi nent sugar reilner, was acquited by the jury on Saturday. At Tuscaloosa. Alabama. on Monday, ork began on the new cotton factory. Tie mill will make yarns exclusively. The nahinry is all of the finest grade and the mill is thor oughly equipped. This is the fou rth oAton factory owned and operated by Tuscaluosa people. At Dallas, Texas, while J. A. McCullough, a farmer, was asleep in his doorway last night, an unknown man shot him in the head. McCullough is in a precarious condi tion. Sam Langley, a neighboring farmer, is charged with the crime. Captain Coffee's company, Florida Volun teers, which was stationed at Tampa Bay. Florida. during the Mexicau war for the pur pose of relieving the regular troops there, is held not to have been in service in the Mexican war, and the members, therefore, are not pensionable under the Mexican war pension laws. The Exposition. President Cleveland or some member of ths family, possibly Baby Marion, will start the machinery at the Cotton States Exposi tion. The directors have arranged for a wire into the grounds and another into Gray Gables on the opening day, S'eptembcr 18. A very interesting part of the exhibit to be made by the Department of Houseliol Economies of the Woman's Board, at the Cotton States and International Exposition, will be cooking by electricity. Electric stoves .vill be shown in operation, and the process lully explained. Aladdin's Oven, an inven lion of Mr. Edward Atkinsou. tho, famo::s statistician, will also be shown. By mean3 f this oven, the heat from an ordinary oil lamp will cook a dinner. Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities. A runaway horse in Fairmount Park, Phil adelphia, on Sunday tramlpled to death two children of Edward Seallins, Nellie and Joseph. A northbound train of empty passengcr coaches crashed into a light vehicle at Maia ga station. N. T., Sunday. and instantly kill ed Sederwick Souders, aged 35 years, and Henry Clark. At Buffalo. N. Y., the Gould Coupler Works, were destroyed by fire. Loss about $200,000. The destruction of the plant throws over 100 men out of employment. A pleasure'party of five men while driving across the railroad track between Williams town, Mass.. and Pownal, Yt., Sunday after noon, was struck by a train on the Fitchi barg Rtoad. Three of the men were instant ly killed; one died shortly afterward, and the retuaining occu pant of the carriage, Win. Prindie, escaped injury by jumping. Tie parfy had waited for a freight train to pas~s and did not see the passenger train coming from~ the opposite direction. The names of the four men killed, are Nelson Trudea Peter Rtoche, Tatro, Oliver Dudley, allo' North Adams. Crime. James L. Travers, who murdered Lena Gross on Nov. 29, 1894, was exeuted in tbe District of Columbia, at Washington jail, Friday morning. Labor. The strike at the Malleable Iron Works, in Dayton. 0.. was declared off Monday by a committee of strikers, and about 150 men re turned to work at the old wages, At L-ineaster. Pa., the wages of the, pud dier of the Columbia Iron Company were increas~ed from 82.50 to 53 per ton. The pay of other eml~oy.s was advanced psropor ionatelv. The' increase fi."s 500 men and boys. Notices we'' posted in the vamrious rooms of the New York Balting and Pacmking Company's rubber shmops, in Ne'wtown, Conn.. to the effect that on and aftr Augu:st 1st the company would rest or" to all its em ploves the old seale of wages in fore' prior to 'the cut-down of 1893. The increasi ranges from ten to twenty-five cents daily. A TRAIN HELD) UP. Six Mounted Robbers~ Do Their Work Expeditioutsly. An express train on the' Lak' $hore and &ihigan Southern Railrvand. was hld~l up by six masked men Wednesday midnight. at a lonely place in the woris known as R~e,'e iding, between Arehibald and Striker, Ohio. ['be train stops there to let the easte.rn xpress pass. The latten train w~as ap proaching when the robbery t)ok phIae. The robbers were mounted and rode out of the woods, which are denis' andi elos to the' track. Conductor Darling, who was sad ing near one of the ceache~s. w~as orde'r'd inside at the point ojf a r'vo'lv.'r. A'lmi-si,'n to the express "ar was ob tainied by he :en means, and the mnessenger was for:'i to open the safe. Theanmunt replort'd to have been obtained by' thim is said to e c :;.00, but it is believed that a mu'ch iaru'r .n-m was taken. No atte'mpt was made to mi '1st the passengers. many of whom knew nothing of the occurrence. Whena the' thi.ves hael secured the contents of the safe theyv rod', quietly away. Strung Up) by a Mob. At Stcelvill'. Mo.. IKimbiall ;reene, with his two brothers aini his ramth"r. was tried. for the mnurd.'r and er.!mat ion of Da:vid Hildebrand. a neighbor. KiwmbaW :'et separate trial r'cently andi was a'quitted. Thursday' night a in' of t w'n ty men wcnt to his house, dlragg''d hiim to a tre and strung him up. leaving himm for d'adl. As his hands were free, he' manag,d to ''mt himself down with a pocketknife. hfi' went to toni next mornin;g and s"' urni warrants for two of the mob whom h e re''rni;. Is neck and body show rough treamtm'nt. Two Children Blurned to Death. At Norwvich, N. Y.. thme Conmgrngati' nal p.:ronage occuid~ by~ ]T'v. W\'!:m'n If. S-udde'r aind fanmilv.,'onsytimr' ' f his wife andt seven cildrn was mtm lyd''str'y'd by fir'. The children,. whom n'upi'd a imek room,. were just retirimr~ whin cal gas in a c imepldad nm tithIhu the er-'ption of C'laris- and Mary. bothi i'l titEAI' TEN D)AYS' I)I*BATE Betveen the Autitor of "Coin's Fl nancial School'' and Ex-Congress m1ian Rosvel G. Ilorr. a da'sv rct for the partlipants. the Hr-Il trvey debate wis resumed Saturla. aflbr.w'on it Chicago. "I wish to say. bl'an Mr. Ihraer- "that I huie iio in the, y 4 in'i d-I*ite yet madle any charge ,::I 0 . int- that thos;e who ar r r-i' it. ht .i - bail eScenc criticism by thr d utm is Al'ak th" int*'v Tm t .f 1893. by hekib siver wa.' - d.-. ' i"1d. wi then ikeni Ip, 1r Pott . . t m' it? he tran'otioni bein the ;0be-. T emt e " in o oed fre-clv tim the C.:r'ssuna 1'*oild to how that pen.-l wit' . thelii realin- ''' )th substitut- blIl dmn:t 'i Hing tsilve'. "'le re was an attipt, Sal ' t ! rIr a y "to ileh isi.nte or th t lift I~ ..!v- e-d t nat; n Iit remligi the 3ill. M r..r aidi eiore i. hibe.an hi.: oihning n Ot dyt for -heday he want t! protest . I! wo in: d y b3or y1edy 3r. ii-!rtkha theon stt tat wYhene ver Mr. py'- "I will !,Iiy down thi- rulo for 31-. Iar o'aguida'ne' taid the gd-I adlv.-nse. "I d) INi" vthiaug it.-- : true uiless I "*"ne ri::i; out and say . I want '.c say aln-th-. tlhn-. The ietree dhay I qu11ted -.'n-th'; from 'oi'i- Fmaniial 1--hool.' a .i br. try osed tack 'Coin' up in hit asseiortions. Now I siibniit to you, what are' we gving ti do in i case M Is If Mr. Hilrve-y won't I:ack up -Coin' who will? This is all in'slanoe where tho boy is father of the ia. If ii hal not ben for young 'Coia' we' wou all have had no Mr. llarvey. ll1. Hrr then dein.ted iimselft.) a defense of 1Ir. Hi-r's a-ti i1 regard to the bill of 18573. It Is n1ow 3Iri. larvoy's turn again. and hie continu'ei reading from thi Congressional Record on te pas:igo (i thi su!stitute ad voc-atedl bI.- IIceper. Iii reply to a ques tion. Mr. Hocper had said the bill made no chiang's i" the existin. coinage laws. Short iv afierwad -witin the h; -the bii! was Sissed withir-t being read. Mr. Hlarvey now wntt into the St-uate history of the bill. Sen tor Sherman,i he ilieged. had made frequent ritations froni Ohe rceord* in proof of his as sert ions. niade reoeatedly alnost to accele ra"'t a-tion on li- I..i!' whe-n the inattar was O-st hrought ip in the' St'-nate, and to con Vince *.the., er Snatoc that the bill was ono') no imot tance whatever. and they need b.: ''i('cv- ri hour altogether to its con sirati. '".mnd in thes!e things," continued the sip--nr. "h(- szeoeeded." Editor 1orr dided that undue haste had Deen ia- its th- passage of the bill, either In the S-nate or the House, and defied Mr. [farvey to prodn'ee any proof that there ivas anything hidden about the bill. At 3Ion-ay'sm:;ion of thc Horr-Harvey silver-g'i't de!ie. at Ch-ago, there were just b3 peisens 11esen-t wh .J r. HI-rr re openeul thte disci-sion. for the first tine since the begininiing If the debate reading from miaiinuscript. D;nring the nineteenth century al the ;:.at eountries had adopted a gold stanilard, h aserted, but had not disardel silver. However, none of them had opened i heir initits to the free coinage of silver. Then lie dipped into the history of finance' in Franeo and was still talking about it when interrupted by th - ell. Mr. Harvey said lie had had many requests to put into the record--the utteranoes of Ingalls. ]la.-kbern and othi.-rs on the subject of fintanv-, but owing to the limited iiunber of words at his disposal he could not prom ise to do so. However. he would probably mention them in his 2,500 word summary at the end of his part of the debate. An attack on Senator Morrill followed. "He was not very careful of the truth." said Mr. Harvey, ''when lie stated that no silver dollars had been coined for many years prior to 1873." Copies of the mint reports for several years previous to 1873 were here suimitted. show ing that several udillions of dollars in silver had been coined in those periods. "Now," said the author of Coin, "if Sena tor Morrill could not tiell the truth in one par ticular. I have a right to assume that he could1 not tell it in any." Mr. Horr warmly dlefended Senator Mor ril. He said]: "When Senator Morrill made the assertion that there had been to silver coined for many years prior to 1873. he did not mean to be taken literally. Het meatt that by comparison to the amount of gold coined there had beeni practically none coin ed and that is true. Mr. Harvey admrits that he made one bad imisstate-ment in his book. According to his method of argtument I have a right to assutme that nie is wrong in every thing.". . Mr. Harvey turned to the discussion of bi metallisma, taking tip first that branch of it relating to unlimited coinage, and went into the history of the matter among other nation't. "It nmakes no difference." sail Mr. Horr, i'~ihat the history of unlimited coinage is. Itis admitted un every haud that all nations have now closedt their mtintC to silver and that is the main point.." The discussion of i-metallistm was cor tinued throughout the afternoon. The Horr-Harvey silver-gold debate Tues day entered on its sixth round. Mr. Harvey I'esi with a vindIication of the importance (41 the debate, which he said rested upon five hisorical reasons: .irst. for two hutndrced years prior to the demnonetizationi of silver in 1873, silver was seeking the mints of the world for coin age inito money. Second, for two hundredl yars prior to 1873 there was no variation i-twe''t the commercial and the legal ratio f 15'. to 1. During the 22 years since 18731. how". er. the two ratios hail separated widi lv- aimi gone from 15% to 1 to about 32 to 1. Third. for 338 years prior to 187:) the cluin tity ratio be"tween silver and gold ranget from ,6 of siv'r to 1 of gold to 4 of silvetr to 1 of gold, but notwithstanding this wide variattion the" commercial ratio hail euing tumnniius'iy to the legal ratio. Fourth, the p~ie of 'silver in the London market as wa? in" gold up to 187:3, was practicaily steady, wile, sie thiat dat-,' silver had declin'ed fr'm 60 powire pr~ r unce to 28.7 pence pi otuneii Fifth, that thmi.; violent fltuetuation fomn the rice ot silvur has been going on in'e its~ de-monetization and is going on to Mr. Horr dlid not reply directly to his op 'oi-'t but took up Mr. Harvey's stateneit of vesterdIav that butt one i'rror hal bieen out''1 ini his work. saying tat thter" were nvria'hs of mi:--tatements, uiot ini 'xpres. stat:a:nts of fadts, bitt by false itmpji-ation whm'- any tan of sens': wo-ibl reimdt'latc (in sight. AtJ tis point Mr. He'rr oreated so'me tath id-~ not deny that his opponent Ibe .tved a'h hail writtein. A :t matt'er of fact, it was impossile for himi .''It wht' a man in Mr. Hlarv'y's state ol .dmi-:t be' capabd': of b'lievinig. Tlh: : t. iet in ":di's Financial Sc.hool"' thaml e-'v o'ne of~t') silver producedl up toi t hi p,.-itim h ad ':ost the produc~ers 1w' 'ldIats .' :un.- was s'-outed. by Mr. Ht'rr. 'I't' ih'Xat and"i -Hingtk as the ha en if.hI t fom ar.e o95 annly paying theuy hI 't.lhv.t3 r.aHtor duin ths pr'i ''tht ear sonit wo :n' hmieiled any thit y Thent pi: thf -atrto wall the statimn on pat- '' :;t ef Hatre's oktattepo of rh-is tountry tark annall opyin to tasut p'iatr bin. s ir.' Herr elnied this p poiitiont!y aid a enoud n b e v fErohs oiinlve lanyk such taa H'a -r ten took h-ispnt te graak Gr for hi ea urit insead. onit:hm COTTON FOR A HUNDRED YEARS kH'IE PRICES AND FLUCTUATIONS, THE BULLETIN Of the Agricultural Department Shows That Prices Have Been Lower Than Now and That Supply Regulates Them. the bulletin on "the prices of cotton for 100 years," which the Department of Agri cilture has had in course of preparation for some weeks, was issued Thursday. The period considered begins and ends with two of the most important events in the history (it cotton culture: the introduction of Whit ney's saw gin (1785) and the production of the largest crop the world has ever seen, The highest and lowest average prices 6t the erops of the United States; the exyorts to foreign countries. the supply and consump tion in th-- United States. Great.Britain and continentlal Etrope are given for each year, hs well as tl ehief causes that have led to tit# rise maw fall in prices from year to year. In addition to a series of tables in which these facts and figures are presented the bulletin coitains nituierous data relating td the progress made from time to time in the produetion and consunmption of cottonin this and foreign countries. These are so arranged as to pr'sent a brief historical sket-h of cotton-produotion and consump tion in the Uiited States during the past cniury. The tables show that prices of botton have not been so low during thd past pensoin as they were during the decade from 1840 to 1850. The object of the Department has been to piake this bulletin a valuable work of refer en-e as to the production. consumption and prices of cotton and other numerous facts Srelating to cotLon, for all who are'interested either in cotton planting or in the cotton t role. l-erring to the conditions of the market and price in the decade from 1840 to 1850, the bulb-tii savt : I"II 18-10. the largest crop ever Made-up to that tine-. anil the largest accumfulation of sto--Ls .er wit-iessed in Liverpool, caused dc-line to ti,- lowest average for ten years. This was thi g or thlheay aceu midilti 1-f sto-!k; in Europe during the next five vears. whidli led to an extraordi nary deilie in pri--es. TIhe highest priee 1.er poiund in New York that ieem.le wa; 13 7-8 ents, in 185.0, and the lowest. 5 cents, in 1812 and 1S45. Shepper son inleted middling in that year as low as 4 cent. "la 1812." continues the bulletin, 'mid dlinz It , ':r :iotton reached as low as 4 1-2 ent.s in N-w Orleans. and there is on file in the D).partrnenit of Agricultire a letter show - ing that a Marengo county. Alabama, planter soil this year 17 balos of coittoni in Mobile at 3 1-4 cents. The price currents of the day qiuote middling to fair cotton in New Orleans in 1845 as l1w a 4 3-8 cents, and in Mobile the .-ame year. 3 1-14 eents per pound." With respoct to the lustrum ended with iS5. it is shown that the highest price per pound in New York wLs 10 5-8 cents in 1891, and the lowest 5 9-16eents, the present year. A tabl of the fluctuation in prices show.4 that in 1825 it amounted to 18 cents per pound: in 1837 to 12 1-2 cents; in 1865 to 1.21; in 165 to 1.47. 'And in IS86 to on*..-.86 of a cent. the smallest on record. Dipensary Prices Eed ueed. The dispensary authoritics have issued the price currents that are to take effect on the 1st of Augnst. There will be a considerable reduction. There has been no change at all in thme pirices of Ol Cabinet. Pepper, Thotmpson, Dilinger or Old Elk liquors. The following are the prices to the consumers after August 1 in such arti cles as present changes in prices and which will be of considerable general interest. Eighty per ceent corn. gallon $1.60, quart 40 cents, pint 20 cents, half pint 10 cents, Eighty per cent rye and Bourbon, galloni S2, quart 50 cents, pint 25 cents, half pint 13 cents. X corn, gallon $2, quart 50 cents, pint 25 cents, half pint 13 cents. X rye. Bourbon, rum and gin, gallon $2.40, quart 60 cents, pint 30 cents, half pint 15) cents. XX rye, Bourbon, corn, rum and gin, gallon $2.75, quart 70 cents, pint 30 ns, half pint 20 cents. XX re or Ohd Velvet, gallon $3.80, quart $1, 'pint 50 cents half pint 25 cenits. Mont Vernon rye, gallon $6.80, qjuart S1. 70, pint 85 cents, half piet 45 cents. The old prices on these same grades of liquor were: Eighty per cent rye, corn and Bour boa. gallon $2.25. quart 60 cents, pint I 0 cejits, half pint-1.5 cents. X rye. Bourbon, corn, rum and gin, gallon $2.50, quart 75 cents, pint 40 cents, half pint 20 cents. XX rye, Bourbon, corn, rum and gin. gaillon $3, quart 90 cents, pint 4.5 hatlf pint 25 cents. IXXX rye or Old Velvet, gallon $4, quart $1.20, pint 60 cents, half pint 30 cents. T. lac ta Brothier's A'mhes. A novel claim is being made up'on one of the great French r.ulivay com-~ paiesiC. A gentleman vwho ica'ne to Paris to have the b)ody di his deasoi brother cremated at the crematorin-m at Pere la Chaise Cemetery, tookt the ashes away in a hsandbag, antd, p)revi'ns to sctting out u~ his return journey to his home in the country, deposited the bag at the "consigne," or cloak room of the railway station. When he camne back to claim it, it hol gone. Someone had comec and claimed the bag, and it had been given np. proboy by in mistake. Ingniries .were insti tnute(1, but the missing biag could not be discovered. T1he gentleman hia brought action to recover damuimes for the loss hie has snstainel, a thte judlges will be callel upon to decide whlat is the money value of a brotherS ashes. F ior a Glian~l~hip. A 'oar 114 fcet long~ withent a 1huoN or blemish, forty-eight inehes an imameter at the big endl, twenty-nine inches at the small end, was run into Lake Whatcom, Washington, recently. . -orlnd nreonnian. AN APPEAL TO ALL VOTERS. The Address of t he Conservative Demoo crats of Anderson County. The following addresshas been issued t, the voters of Anderson County: The kxConserviitive Democrats in Con 'ention assembled having petitioned the conimittue conmonlv known as the "Irby executive committee' to recom mend to the voters of the county an equal division of delegates to the Con stitutional Convention as a means of subserving the interests of all our peOpIC, ald this committee having re fused as requested to grant such peti tion, the undersigned were appointed a committee to issue an address to the voters of the county, setting out the following as the views of the said Con servative Democratic Convention: First. That all voters who have lost faith in the primary election ordered by the Irbv executive committee as a fair, and untramnnelled method of nominating candidates for the Con stitutional Convention are hereby ur gently requested to refuse to partici pate in the primary to be held on the 30th instant, in order to hold them selves free to vote in the general elec tion on the 20th of August according to their best judgment and conception of the fitness of candidates for the im portant positioni of delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Second. That while such voters will not be bouid to support any man not of their choice, yet a ticket will be nominated in an open mass meeting of voters sympathizing with these views for the consideration ot all such voters. That these nominations will be made in the interest of all ottr people, re gardless of past factional associations, and with an eye single to the qualifi cations of the individual nominee. That the delegates to the Convention shculd be mell pre-eminent for ability, safe in council, strong in argument, in firmness unyielding. in moderation wise, whose devotion to their State is unfailing. Such men will be made our standard bearers. Third. That in legislation so mo mentous and far reaching. in its results to our lives, our liberties and our property, and to the welfare of our posterity, as will be enacted in this Convention, it is not the part of wisdom or of prudence to delegate to any men or set of men.the supreme anthority of acting absolutely and finally for us, and wo are unalterably committed to the requirement that the candidates we vote for shall pledge us their sacred words of honor to use their best endeavors to have any Constitution adopted by the Convention referred back to the people for their ratifica tion or'rejection, The thing created should never exceed in power the source of its cre:ttion. The Conven tion shoild not be greater than the people. - Fourth. That we conj-ae every voter to abide by the convicti-ons of his own mind and the dictation of his own conscience, and assert his individuality at tbis great crisis in our history. It is i nfi nifely better to be an independent in manhood than a dependent in poli tics, and it is better to resist what we believe to be wrong and lose than to ncqufiesce and still lose. Fi th. That we stand for a peaceful and friemlly contest and a fair ballot, and m-ncerely hope that the right and 'the true may prevail, whether it be in those we oppose or in ourselves. .John iK. Hood, chairman; John C. Ganmtt, James H. Hutchinson, com mittee. The Alabama Populists. The executive committee of the Populis party in Alabama met in Birmingham os Thursday. Capt. Kolib. the Rev. San Adams, State Senator Goodwin. Frank B3altzell and many other leaders of thme part3 were in attendance. Col. D. S. Troy. o: Montgomery.was present as an invited guest and delivered a speeeb, which was vocifer ously atpplauided. Among other things he said'that, in his opinion. the right of self government in Alabama could only .be re stored through thme Populist party. The report of the committee on resolutions as wlopted claims that the executive cam zmittee has no power to commit the party to poliev thatd contemnplates fusion with any ot her political .)rganization; that the candi edate of the People's party for Governor sh')uld lbe an avowed Populist and untainted with the financial vagaries of John Sherman :mmii Grover Cleveland. They are cordiali invitedi to *. -i -operate with the Populists. and it is him~td that minor places on the ticket may be given th:m. Both wings of the party applear to be msatishie~d with the resolutions. Se'niill Uses of Liquit4 Air. In a recent lecture on the scientifio uses of liluid air Professor De war froze a soap bubble by mneans of the intense cold produced near the sur face of liquid air. The same effect, however, was obtained by Mr. Pim b~y natural cold in Coloralo last winter, when the thermometer stood at four teen degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, that is to say at forty-six degrees oJ frost. Acting ona the suggestion of his little boy, who was blowing soap bubllbles, he sent one into the cold air outside. It froze instantly, and set tled to the ground as a hollow shell of ice. When the 'thermometer rose ta zero the bubbles would not freeze, but whether this was owing to the change of temperature or some othei .condition of the air Mr. Pim is unable to say, -London Globe. An engineer of the Chicago Urain age Board has figured out from care fuli experiments and computations that the level of the great lakes will be lowered permanently between one and a half and two inches b~y the big dratn ago canal. The etlect will be greater on the upper than on the lower lakes. While genuine hydrophobia is not understood, there is na increasing euspicion among pathologists that many cases of what is supposed to ihe hydrophobia are merely acute hys teria. As it is as fatal to the s'xffder, however, it will make no diiference what it is called nless a re.nily is fndi for it. WiE 3MTHL OF WASHINGTON &n Appeal for More Fundi to CoM plete the ionument Erected at Mt. Vernon. Mrs. J. W. Lewis. who is vice-presi dent of the Mary Washington Memor- r ial Association for South Carolina, has issued the following address to the women of South Carolina: To the Women of South Carolina: I On Washington's birthday, Feb. 22, of year 1890, the National Mary Washington Memorial Association was chartered in the District of Columbia. The President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States and the Governor of Virginia were the directors and trustees of the Associa tion. In June. 1890, a forcible and 6 touching appeal was issued, addressed 1 to the women of our whole country, 1 urging them to unitcd efforts to erect a suitable monument over the grave of Washington's mother, the first mnonu ment erected to a woman by women. e A vice-president was appointed for c each State, and the work was begun by many with all the enthusiasm which this noble and loving cause called forth in patriotic and appreciative spirits. t Waving been appointed vice-president 1 for South Carolina, it became my duty L to endeavor to arouse the interest of the women of our State. It is suffi-. cient here to say that, having enlisted; the cordial support of many ladies a here, I was enabled to .send to the u secretary of the Association, Mrs. Morgaret Hetzel, in April, 1891, the sum of $589 as our contribution to the I monument fund. On April 10, 1894, the monument, r our monument, was unveiled with .iany beautiful ceremonies, President Cleveland making a very fine and r touching address, in which he quoted the well known words of Washington: t "All that I am, I owe to my mother." I This monument is a beautiful obelisk of Barre granite. fifty feet high, rest ing upon three courses, the upper one bevelled and surmounted by a die I bearing the simple inscription: "Mary, the mother of Washington." All ex penses are paid, and in the hands of i the treasurer there is more than half I enough money for the endowment I fund, absolutely necessary for the pre servation of this monument through all the future years. Only the sum of 8 $7,000 (seven thousand dollars) is f needed to complete the work thor oughly and well. Surely the women of the United States need exert them- E elves bnt little to obtain so small'a a sum and for such a purpose? The Association now appeals through - its vice-president to the women of eaich State; and also it has called upon all of the patriotic associations of women tbroughout' the length-- and t breadth of our vast country to come a for ward and give their aid and sympa I thy -in this last' effort. We will -not c::Il in vain, and withoiaC&doubt when Ia the full annual meeting of the Associa tion takes place on Washington's birth day, Feb. 22, 1896, our task of love, reverence and duty will have bien ac complished. But will South Carolina do her share ? "Coloiial Dames," "Daughters of the American Revolution," will you not hear this call, take this matterinto consideration and into your hearts, and, acting in concert, make one unfite2d effojrt to send from South Caro lina our proportion which, though it need be but small, will prove that the past history of our Statein those days wihen Mary Washington lived is not forgotten, but Jives with us-a proud beritagre, the influence of which may, even yet perchance, guide us through the darkness and gloom of political transgression now enshrouding our Statz, and blackening forever the re cord of these unhappy years. M\Is. J. W. L EwIS, Vice-President for South Carolina, N. M. W. .M. A. Cheap at the Price.1 The Chicago man who had gone on1 a business trip to Omaha had started home again. He had been compelled1 to run several blocks to catch the train and was somewhat overheated. The temperature of the car was over 1 100 degrees and still climbing. He stood it for about five minutes, and then tried to open a window. It was one of those car windows that are not built for opening pur poses, and it didn't open. He tried another window with the same result. The third window stuck equally tight, and he raised his foot and kicked a arge hole through the plate glass. The conductor heard the crash and came running into the car. "Who broke that window?" he de manded threateningly. "I did," said the Chicago man. 2 "Well, sir, it will cost you just $5." "Here it is," said the other, hand ing him a $10 bill. "I---I haven't change for that," said the conductor, somewhat taken aback.J "Never mind the change," replied 1 the Chicago man.* "Keep it." He raised his foot again, kicked out another window, took a newspaper out of his pocket, sat down and went to reading as if nothing had occurred. --Chicago Tribune. Too "Seriumo., by JTove. If we again attain what we lost thirty years ago, the power to com pette with her for the carrying trade of the worldi, it will be an extremely serious matter for "British interests." - -New York Times. Yes. It would be very "derious," ou know. So "serious," by Jove; hat the New York Times opposes the encourage ment or American shi pbuilds i i ng by subsidies as it is encouraged int England, you know, preferring that we buy their secondl-hand old tubs,' which w ould always keep us at the ent) of the procession, by Jove, and1( pre vnt anything so shocking fr-en hap pnirg; that would be an extremely 1 CHILDREN'S COMM-N NESTING TIE. round the chimney swallows fly, And wrens explore the barn and shed, he orioles go flashing by With bits of straw and cotton shred. he sunlight glimmers through the treesr And finds them busy everywhere, lie robins, jays. and chickadees. - And all the builders of the air. -FRANK IL SwEE', in St. NichOl"s AN OLD THEBMOMETEB. Editor Root of "Gleanings in Bee ulture," while in Cincinnati lately, iw in the Sunday school room of the 'ine street Congregational church a ew kind of thermometer. It was a oard about four feet long, lettered ad graduated like a common thermom ter scale. Lengthwise through the entre of the board is a groove in rhich.runs a cord over pulleys at ach end of the board. One half of is end is painted white, the other lack. By pulling on the cord at the ack, the superintendent runs the ap arent column of mercury up and own, and this is the record of attend nee, the figures running from zero p to 250 or 300, or as high as need e. The high or low temperature de ends entirely on the efforts of the upils and teachers. If they wish to iake the mercury stand high, they iust bestir themselves fo bring in as any as possible. No wonder they atch eagerly to see whether the at ndance on any Sunday runs high or w.-New York Observer. LUMNOUS MUSHROOMS. A man traveling -in Australia found large mushroom of this genus weign- - g five pounds. He took it to the ouse where he was stopping, and ung it up to dry in the sitting-room. ;ntering after dask, he was-amazed to ee a beautiful soft light emanating rom the fungus. He called in the atives to examine it, and at the first lance they cried out in great fear hat it was a spirit. It continued to .ive out light for many nights, -radually decreasing until -it was rblly dry. Dr. Gardner, while walkig throagh, he streets of.a BIzilian townj saw ome- boys playing -with a luminaou bject, which he at first thought ws , large fiuey bt hWftimd ne94W pection if wasa brilliant mushi 7 rhich now bears his name. It gave ut a bright light of a greenish hue, nd was called by the natives 'or e "co'g--ii-grew- 3 5 eclcs of alm. The young plants emit a brill ant ight, and the older ones'a pale ~renish light. Many kinds <if fungi ,rc phosphorescent. Huml;oldt de cri bes some exquisitely beautiful ones. ie saw in the mines. The glow in rot' en wood is caused by its containing. he threads of light-giving fungi. -St. iicholas. - MONKEY vS. CAT. Dick Walker lives in- Vandam street, .nd is manager of an uptown glass rare emporium. Animals of all sorts e is fond of, especially dogs and nonkeye. The mate of a Brazilian hip recently brought him a monkey rhich he named Adam. The simian ras very tame and was allowed the iberty of Mr.. Walker's residence and >ack yard. The fence there was a avorite roosting-pl~ace for Adam un i Friday. Mr. Walker was looking out of the iindow, and in the next yard saw a nother cat with three or four kittens. he carried them one by one -in her outh and deposited them on the ~rass plot. Adam was gravely watch. g the proceeding, andl suddenly de cended into the neighbor's yard, he ized a kitten as he had seen the cat lo, and with it dangling from his jaws, se srambled up the fence. He was iot slow either, for right behind him* asMrs.. Cat, with herdicbk up and ir tail as .big-as a muff.. Along the 'ence to the window Adam ran, and uniped in the 'room. Mr. Walker oo the kitten froin him just in time, ld shut the window. Mrs. Cat k-new o stopping, however,-and through he glass she dashed, and after Mr. tdam. Walker managed to separate hem, but -not-until he was scratched nd bitteni, too. Adam was punished everely by the enraged cat, and when ver he sees one now he: runs under a ofa and hides. He still sens Mr. Walker the price of the papeof glass. -New York Woi-ld. - - Valley Forge's Lene Gravestone. Only one grave, that of John Wat erman .of Rhode Island, marke'd.witb Srudely carved sandstone, -has been jeen identified of allV wha& died at alley Forge duringtliat periloue vinter of 1778. "J. W%, l-78," are all he marks that are on the stone, bu't he records show whoseggve it i' tl the other graves hav4e-been plowed vr for more than-a century.