The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 07, 1895, Image 1

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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C, SEPTEMBER 7, 189. A JIN(;LE OF JOY. ain't this life were livin' b le-t? 'oney in your noul h 03%n corn in the winsome west, %Ielons in the svuth: A. believers, Hear the bugle's call, Green corn in the sunmer time, Punkins in the fa!l: Ain't this life we're livin' jest Brimmin' full o' joys? 'Fiddles goin' south an' west. - Swing your Icweethearts, boy Oh, believers, h ear the bugle's.call. Meions in the summertime. Punkins in the fall. -F. L. Stanton,in~Chicago Times- Hera ld aiT "BT3 EYES. Mrs. Robert Livingstone was a woman of superb dignity. Yet any one of her city friends would scar'e 1v have recognixed her in the rather &kumsy figure running and stumbling up the rough canon road that led from' the lower bean field to tihe ranch house. Her black skirts were not held up, but allowd to trail a little and catch the line dust and tar weed stain as she hurried on. Nothing of trIlling importance could have f'rc-i Mar y ivi ngstone thus far to. forget, her elegant self, even alone-in a canon. The fog was coming up from the sea and slowly closing in and deepen ing the shadows of the gorge. It was already late' twilight, and the loneliness and gloom of the place tor tured her over tense nerves. A little owl flew with a shrill scream over her head, and she screamed with it. A belated ground squirrel rustled in the underbrush up the bank, and she felt that all the terrors of the jungid'were upon her. - Asharp turn in the trail brought her'at last in view of the house and the welcome glimmer of a light gave her a little courage. She quickened her-steps still more in her eagerness, forgetting that. the canon stream crossed the road at the bend, and, missing the board,.she stepped in an kle -deep. Even this she scarcely noticed, but splashed on over thr slippery stones. It was only when sie reached the gate, breathless and disheveled, that she seemed to be able to think. "I can't let: Allen s would ask all manner of questions ind not be put off, and I could not tell him that. Oh, no, no!" But 1 just then a slight, youthful figure ap at the veranda steps, stand on crutches. "What makes you so awfully late, mother?" he called out to her. "I thought you 'never would get here,'' and the thin, complaining voice wis even a little more iilpatient than usuaL ."Sing is on one of his worst rampages and is mad as hops because dinner is late. I was even a'fraid to ask him to light the lamp and I've been sitting out here in the dark~ for ages. If there's a dish left out there it won't be his fault. Listen to that" and just then a tin pan seemed to go spinning across the kitchen. "I am very sorry, my dear," said Mrs' Livingston, quietly? "'but I wa detained by the engineer, lie sanys the thresher~ engine is broken, arnd he must go to Seco Grande to-mor row for repairs. Some of the mn were to'be paid off. and I had their accounts to look over. I wil be ;;iad I when your fat-her gets home, iar - s ting is too important a time for me to be left alone. Poor A~he. W~hat a forlorn -tinre you've had: Come in aud:it,'Il ma~ke up for i," and she pr~'eeded him in to t he dai'k little parlor.* Quickly lighting the laimp, shej said: "'Turnit up moire, dear. afte-r it has burned a little, and tell Sing to have diniier in five mi nutes. I'I be right otut,"' and shre hurried to he~r room, leaving her sonwodrn vaguely that his mnothter's imod.. should tremble as she hlvd the mnatebt, and secretly wishing she had not heft him to frge the irate Sing alone. Allen Livingstone was .17, buat long accustomed to having ev'ery win I tempered for him, lie was naturaly timid anfti not at little spoiled. M rs. Livingiti.n, lavished upon him that yearning and tenderness that a hiopelessly crippled child calls forth from a mother's pity. Hie was at once her idol andl her sorrowv and his slighrtest wish was law. Dinner at the ranch house was even more quiet than~ usual that eveni Ing. 3Irs. l ivingstone appeared tired a preoccupied, while Allen frett ed hildishly over t he rather wvarmned un llavor of things on tihe table. went in sullen rotine.A After the coefice, 3r.Livingstone putt her a:, lovingl~y over her son's shoulders a:d they went out to the parlor thui~s. '"I have a lovelyv sch.'me, dhears she said. "WhV ile fatheir is aiwamy I think it. would ,be nice for you come over tint sleep in youri al room adjoining mine. It will be iiore sociable and we :wm play we are bothI young :rgnlin. What do yo think ? --I doni't. mind -it.'."Mid.\len.in'lif ferently, lighting a delicate eigari a. The house was one of those tirimi tive Spanish structtures, built 'f adobe, one story and three sides facing an open square-very. pleasant and artistic with the deep verandas, vine covered aiid cool, and the little court always full of flowers and stunshinre. but not so convenient and practicaml for everyday comforts as somne more Lmmodernlans for homes. T1he imin part of the hotuse is taken ump by t he living rooms, leaving the sleeping oo-s in the wings and far sepa It had been a trying tine for Mrs Livingstone, when bor itusband had insisted that Allen shonld give u p his little bedroom next to theirs. which he had always o.-curied, and go across the court. The boy was no longer a baby. he said, and he had always needed that room for his own private use. He wanted a place for his desk and books and the big safe which held the family valuables and vften considerable sums of gold and silver, as he preferred to pay his men in coin rather than by check in the usual way. But his wife had never been recon ciled to having her delicate child out of the sound of her voice at night, and many a time had she stolen out in the darkness to listen at his win d3w to see that her darling was sleeping well, and to indulge in a long moment of adoring worship, as she strained her eyes to see the pale face on the pillow. "I will go around the veranda now, dear," she said, as Allen smoked. "and bring your things for the night. The couch is vory comfortable, and it will be lovely to have you back." The chill air struck her unpleas antly as she opened the door. Sh': shuddered a little and drew her shawl closer. "What a fog!" she exclaimed. "The beans will be again delayed. It's worse than the conflict of hay making and showers in New Eng land.'' Coming out of her son's room a few moments later, with her arms full of his clothing she was startled by a slight. noise across the court. It seemed like some heavy thing drop ping with less sound than its weight would suggest. In the misty dark ness she could see nothing. Mary Livingstone was known far and near as a woman of unbounded courage and self reliance. During her husband's frequent business trips to San Francisco she stayed and ruled the little kingdom like a queen. Not a man on the ranch but was glad when Mrs. Livingstone was boss. The house in the canon was her cas tie. where she and Allen, with the faith ful Sing, abode in security which none dared to molest. If anyone had told her a week ago that this night she would be a haunted crea ture, trembling and unstrung, tor mented by an evil presentiment and dreading she knew not what, she wou'd have laughed the prophet to scorn. The parlor door had been left a lit tle ajar, and she pushed through it ind on to hrown naatmejit. hands are full V11 be redlyfr yu soon." Drawing the shades, she set reso lutely to work about making her son's room comfortable for the night. She dared not think, or she felt that she would scream from sheer nervous ness. The daintv silver toilet articles, which were his pride, she arranged n the broad desk. and soon had the low lounging couch transformed into an inviting bed, with even a hot water bag tucked in at the foot. She took from her closet shelf his lit tie toy like night lamp, which had been one of his childish idols, and lighted it, and, .after one or two little final touches here and there, she called him. "It's time small boys were asleep. Lock the front door, dear, and come. I have such a funny story to read to you."' Allen hobbled in, a slight frown on his delicate face at being babyed. and surveyed the little room. "Its as cold as a-barn here." he said. '"What makes it so cold? I lo't want to go to bed yet.' "Ohl, ::es, you do. It's getting late. You'll soon be nice and corn foable in y-our old nest. You will fini it wvarmed."' "Uhi well, I suppose there's nothi ing else to do," lhe complained. "Where's the story?" "'i'll begin it right now, while you're gett ing ready." and Mrs. Liv ingstonie settled herself by her lamp to re-ad. In less than half an hour she equietly peeped in to find her hoy fast slep. She wanted to stoop and kiss the white forehead. but she de nied herself lest she waken him. Nearly closing the door she walked restlessly about her room a few mo mnents, aimlessly touching this and looking at that. She took her account book out of the dIraggled dress she had wvorn down the canon andl looked it over a little, soon putting it aside. She tried to read, but the words followed each other uinder her eyes in an uin kwn tongue. She took up her Bible, and even that seemed to hioldI no word of peace. Something as people in great peril go ove- their past life, she fell to thinking of hers, but she was soon brought ba-k face to face .with the present. The thought that she wa struggling so to keep in abeyance 'at. lmst semed to break its bounds and fill her soul with an irresistible fas enaion: she dwelt upon it and (lid not try to ptit it aside. Three nights ago, at midnight, she had awakened studdenly, being con sious of a noxious presence near, and swly there had grown from it two dark. glit tering eyes close to her& -'n which held her gaze with terrible 'n ent ness. The ev-ening in the canon he- had been there before her aill thewari. and she had almost su cumbedi to their terror. For the first time she had noticed that the brows n corners of the eyes ha beeni litly upturned, like the Mongo iam. What did it all mean? Thle end was not yet. What would it be ? These thoughts seemed to enthrall It was nearly 11 o'clock. Would it come to-night? Outside, the iht.as mo enathly BaiUl and 801 one- Why didn't the wind blow' Anytiing that would break the spell upon her. She turned the light down, and threw herself wearily on the bed as she was. With the first stroke of the clock at midnight sho woke from a troubled leep. In a moment she became distinctly conscious of a smoky odor, the minniistakable scent of a Chinese's loithing. A slight noise on the floor caused her to sit up quickly. A man's head and shoulders were slowly emerging from under the bed. Dne sickening moment she wavered, then sprang out upon him, holding him down for an instant; but he turned. and there glared up at her those same eyes-the fiend like eyes :f her vision, and the man was Sing. She grappled with him in super human strength, how nany desper ite. struggling moments she never knew. Jt seemed an eternity. Not a word was uttered. She saw that his superior strength must gain in the end. le constantly tried to reach for a knife, which evidently was caught in some way, for he failed to get it in his hand. At last, Allen heard the noise and ppeared at the door, almost faint ing with fright. His mother spelled out to him: "G-e-t t-h-e a-x q-u-i-c-k," then added: 'Go to bed, child." The boy had presence of mind to go around, as there were many locked doors in the way through the house . The Chinese, afraid of some out side assistance, began to beg. "31a catchee money-me no kill. You gib key-me no kill. You no ib, ine allee same killee you, killee Allie, too. You gib key." Mrs. Livingstone said nothir, and in an incredibly short time for him, Allen came in. panting and dragging the gleaming ax. The fiend saw it and became like a madman. He shrieked and bit at the strong white wrists that bel.J him like a vise. He foamed at the mouth in his fit of rage and fear. "Allen," she said, "get the trunk rope in the closet-be quick." After an almost hopeless struggle nd a little weak help from her son, she managed to tie one hand, then both together, and had Allen make the other end fast to the bedstead. The rope was old, and if it gave way they were lost, for it was the only thing of the kind available. Her knees were still on his chest. Allen," she commanded, "go He was almost stupefied, br.t obeyed blindly. In another instant lie heard an awful blow and a short shuffling round, then a long moment of silence, but he dared not go in agaim. 1'resently his mother appeared holding her wounded hand. She looked to him in the dim light like an old woman. Her face was ashen and drawn, and her dark hair had turned almost snow white. Ie looked at. her mutely. M dear." she said, slowly. "o knows it was the only way. He gave me the power to save us, or ou and I, Allen, would this moment have been in the traitor's place." She gave an involuntary shudder, but turned and locked the door on the ghastly scene. Taking some antiseptic solution she bathed her hand thoroughly and bound it with some of Allen's hand kerchiefs. She then sipped a small glass of whisky and water and lay down beside her son. So the long nig't wore away. There have been few changes in Seco Valley. The lima beans grow on the broad, sunny lowlands, are harvested and grow again. The can on brook st ill sings its love song to the blossoming hillsides. The owhs and mocking birds, the squirrels and the lizards, live as before. but the vines run rampant over the broad pazas of the ranch house in Secc Canon. Only a few complaining doves have their home in the low garret. When Mr. and Mrs. Robert Living stone returned to live in New York their friends welcomed them with open arms. It was hinted that. not being to the manor born. Mr. Living stone had not covered himself with glory or lined his purse with gold in his ranchingv scheme; but it was the change in Mrs. Livingstone that ex cited the most comment. The snowy hair, the restless, hunted expression and absent manner spoke of some stupendous change from her old self. T1o only one trusted friend (lid she confide the mystery of her life. Every night at 12? ''clock there appeared to her two fierce, hard eyes, which would not turn till she was nearly beside herself with horror. Character Readin2 From Teeth. Characlier reading from hanjdwrit1 ing from shoes, and from the face, has now heen succeeded by a char atr r-eading from the teeth. A dentist asserts that a careful study of teeth will reveal the fact that they invariably indicate, accordling to their shape and setting, the tem perament of their possessors. (1ne has only to note the teeth of one's friends and relatives to verify- his observations on pointed, projecting. short., square, tangled. ev-en and pearly dentures. Those that are 'ong and narrow, we are assured dlenote vanity; those that are long and pro jecti ng indicate a grasping disposi tion; trea.-hery is shown by the poS session of small. wvhite separated teeth, and inconstancy is revealed by overlapping teeth. inegar is mentioned in the Egyp tian records as a medicine in the tenthmcnry, B.0 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. Wi Deliver the Opening Address. Judge Emory Speer, of the United States Court for the Southern District of Georgia, has accepted the invita'ion to deliver the opening address at the Cotton States and In ternational Exposition. In his letter to President Collier Judge Speer says: "I beg you to convey to the boa d my high sense of the honor they have conferred. I accept with pleasure their invitation, so kindly and cordially supported by your own expressions. Indeed, I am unaffectedly happy to be con nected with an occasion auspicious for Geor gia and the South. and instinct with the -vitality and patriotism of your great, broad minded municipality." Newsy Southern kotes. At Hogansville, Ga.. Mr. W. N. Sims sold the flrst bale of new cotton on - Saturday evening at 10% cents. The Buckeye Marble Mills at McMillan's Station, Ten., was burned. Loss. -10.000; fully covered by insurance. . The first bale of this season's cotton re ceived t his y-arat Opelika. Ala.. was brought in by Mr. T. A. Whatley, of Beat 7. It was classed as middling. and brought 7 cents. In the delta region of Mississippi boll and army worms and caterpillars are playing havoc with the cotton. The farmers are flghting them with Paris green and poisons. At Ik'.-man.Ky.. on Monday, Will Butcher, a negro. was taken from the city lock-up early in the morning and shot to pieces by Whitecaps. 8Sunday night he had killed a white man while resisting arrest. At Louisville. Ky.. Henry H. Wolfe & Co., wholesale clothiers. assigned. The indebted ness of the firm is said to be between $200. 000 and ?250,000, and it is elaimed that the assets will equal, if not exceed, that sum. Mr. Marshall McDonald, of Vest Virginia. who for the last seven years has held the position of United States Commissioner of fish and fisheries, died at his residence, in Washington. of piLlmionary disease, after an illness of several mouths. At Hot Springs. Ark.. the dead bodies of Dr. E. M. Remington and his mother were found Monday at home by a colored girl. They were alnost unrecognizable. Thesu p position is that the son. who has been dis couraged for sometime on account of having no practi-o, killed his mother and then himawli. The following is the official statement of the cotton "rop of the United States for the year ending Auust 31.t. 1895. as posted at the Charleston Cotton E whango on Tuesday: Port receipts. 8.006.177 bales; overland. 1.087.101. Southern consumption, 807,973; total '-rop 9.901.225 haes. Total bouthern ' consumption. 862,83S bales, including 54.865 bales taken from and couite-i at Southern This year's pilgrimage to Lourdes is the largest on recerd: 8.000 persons left Paris in special trains ron one day recently, and were joined by 9.000 more from way stations. An official report has just been issued shows that there were 2.025 cases of cholera and 118 death from the disease in the gov ernment of Voliynia. Russia, between July 11th and August 17th. In Norway a new law has been passed which makes girls ineligible for matrimony until they are proficient in knitting, baking and spnning. Crtiflcates of proficiency have to be earned, and without these no girl may marry. A dispatch from Shanghai says that the sixteen persons sentenced for participation in the massacre of missionaries at Kueheng have been executed. The dispatch adds that as yet nothing has been done in regard to the claims made by the British and American ministers respecting the attacks on mission aries at Sechuan. Labor. At Phila-lelphia, Pa.. the firm of Gaulbert, McFadden & Caskey, proprietors of the Fair Hill Iron Works, have announeed an increase of 10 per cent in the wages of their men, to go into effect at once. This is the second advance of 10 per cent made by this Arm within a year. the first having been given some months since. The parade at Washington in honor of Labor Day occupied the principal streets of the national capital all the forenoon. Many thousand representatives of organized labor turned out in procession, making a display which, for diversity and attractiveness, has never been equalled on a like occasion in Washington. Fully two-thirds of the trades in line were uniformed. Pugilistic. At Bpltimore, JTohn Van Hest, Wisconsli~, knocked out George Smith, in the twenty fifth round, before the Eureka Club. At Louisville, Kid McCoy bested Dick Moore, the middle weight champion of the northwest, in six rounds, Monday night, Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities. At Central City, Col., the accidental flood ing of the Americus and Sleepy Hollow mines caused the death of sixteen miners by drowning. Libertyville, a small town thirty-five miles from Chicago, narrowly escaped total de struction by fire Saturday morning. Fifteen buildings burned. Loss, $75,000. The New Jersey Populists. The Guhernatorial State Convention of the People's party of New Jersey was held at Trenton en Monday. Win. B. Ellis, of Tren ton was nominated for Governor after sever al1 others had declined the honor. There were thirty-six delegates at the con vention, which was presided over by Thos. H. Proctor, of Cunmberland county, chair man of the State Committee. One woman delegate was present, Mrs. E. J. Whitehead, of Wmtfield. There was a long discussion ov at the adon tion of the party platform. The committee on resolutions reported a long platform re affirming the national platform adopted in Omaha, in 1892, with a number of planks of State Import. The chairmam was ordered to send the fol lowing telegram to Eugene V. Debs, recently released from jail in Wcodstock, Ill.: "The People's party in convention assem. bled at Trenton, on Labor Day, sends greet ing to Eugene V. Debs, champion of the op.. pressed, and illustrious victim of the viola tion of the American citizen's con stltutiona right of trial by jury." Wire Rope 199)0 Years OIl While conluetin.; a series of testn nithm a 100) ton testing machine at the Yorkshire College in England, which included the testing of a eteel wire rope, Professor Goodman Edated that such ropes were not a modern inven ficu, and that he had recently seen a bronze wire rope one-half inch in diamneter and from twenty to thirty feet wvhich had b~een found buried in thec ruins of Pompeii and which must htave ben at least 1900 yearS old. FIRST WOMAN SHER!FF, Mrs. Stewart Has Been Appointel in Mis sourl to Succeed Her Husbaid. 3Irs. Helen C. Stewart has been appointed by the County Court to succeed her husband as Sheriff of Greene County. Mo. She will serve until the unexpirel term is filled out by the election of a Sheriff to take the place of her husband, who died in the harness. The indieattons are that Mirs. Stewart will be nominated and elected at the pr!s ti sue ceel herself. An effort was made to have the County Court appoint her brother to the place, who would turn over the fees to Mrs. Stewart. Her brother is Willian D. Garwood. general bi':zaie agent of the St. L- uis and S:w AS MRS. HELEN C. STEW At!'. Springfield. Greene County, Mo. First woman Sheriff in the United Statez. Franciseo railway, and was perfently will ing to go into an arrangement of that kinl. But in this age of bloomers and new women Mrs. Stewart promptly put her boot down on any such a policy and declare:1 that she wanted the office. "0. I can run the office with my son." said Mrs. Stewart. "He is now Chief Deputy and can greatly assist me." The Missouri law in regard to women holding office is vague. If Mrs. Stewart should be eleeted to fill out the unexpire-l term the legality of her position would come to ni issno. Mrs. Stewart is a woman of about forty-five. short and rather heavy. s: is good-looking and intelligent. She has not Uxen ilentifleil with any of the women's rights movements in Springfield. She is a womanly woman, but can be firm enough to qas Sheriff If duty demands. A COLORED STATE FAIR. A Local Mass Meeting Decides to Act With Its 31anagenhent. Monday night a mass meeting of the colored people in the interest of the .,i. <-o"rc ,.to frir wam hefd in brief address that the railroads would allow a cent a mile each way rate. The following resolutions were adopted: Whereas the colored citizens of the city of Columbia and Richland county have met iD mass meeting for the pur pose of considering the various indus trial interests of the colored race and the State relative to the propriety of encouraging an exhibit for the State fair which is to be held at Columbia, S. C., beginning November 25th, and ending November- 29th, 1885, and-to effect such other arrangements as alhall be deemed fit and proper in carrying out the purpose and object of the meeting. Therefore be it Resolved, That we, the colored citi zens of the city of Columbia and c->n ty of Richland, in mass meeting us sembled, do, in view of the present peace and harmony prevailing among the people in the various avenues of in dustry, urge and encourage our peo ple to prepare a large and creditable exhibit for the State fair which will be held under the ausp~ices of t-be colored ~Agricultu ral and Mechanical Associa tion of South Carolina. Resolved, That we recommend that this meeting appoint a general comn .mittee on attractions and amusements, to be divided into as magy bsub-comi mittees as the chiirman of,the . com mittee may deem necessary. Resolve'd, That we further recom mend that this meeting select two dis tinguished gentlcmen of acknowlddged ability to deliver addresses on the ca pability and progress .of the negro at the State fair. -The committee prov'ided for is to he appointed at a meeting on Monday night next. George Washington Mur ray and the RevR: E. Hart were se lected orators, as pros ided in the last resolution.- - Cotton Picking Started. Ini Spartanburg County cott)n iek ing biegan in a very -smiall way this wek. The early-lots began to -open andl thec farmers thought best to gather it before a rain. .The ginning of cot ton has undergone a revolution in this count y. Fifteen years ago toll was al ways ~charged. One-tenth .was th'e price in the old days.' Then it dropped to one-twelfth and finally when compe tition was5 sharp got down to one twentieth. WXhen cotton was 10 cents that 1aid $2 to $2.50 a bile. One gin nr now prpoe to gin a bale and furnish bagging and ties for 75 pounds of seed cotton. At present prices that is about $1 .85. The largest gin in the country proposes to gin at:75 cents a bale and furnishhbagging and ties at cost. That reduces the price to about $1.35. The old ginners who twenty years ago~ made about four dollars a bale by ginning do not uriderstand how it can be done at the present prices. The farmers seem inclined to keel) the production of cotton reduced. Even the rise in price does not encour age them to plan for larger crops. They now talk as if they would .continue to buy grain on a small scale and plant cotton cautiously. They know if they rush into the btusiness headlong the prce will dr-of on them. In the gardens around London there are more rpecimnens of the cedir of Le Man than na Mount Lebamion itself. WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN. Director Bauer Has Issuedthe Follow ing Interesting Bulletin. The past week was characterized by its excessive heat, which, with the wet condition of the ground and generally light winds, gave the weather a hot house condition and with a similar forced growth to crops. Corn profited by those conditions, and that of latest planting is now fully or nearly ripe, so that now the entire corn crop is fully made and entirely independent of heat, cold, drought or rain, exepl so far as thoso conditions would affect gathering and housing it. Cotton in places grew too much to weed under forced growth, and on light sandy land growth ceased and the plant is turning yellow and shedding its leaves as well as its shapes. Small field crops made won derful growth and are generally in ex cellent condition. The showers of the week hindered rice harvest some what. There were two or three local wind storms that damaged crops, in the vicinity in which they occurred, to a small extent; and bottom lands in Lancaster County were flooded and some corn ruined. In Aiken County much swamp corn was drowned in the freshet of the previous week, but the sum total of the damage to crops is comparatively insignificant. The reports, with but. few excep tions, state that the weather was un favorable for cotton which continues to shed freely in all portions of the State, the rust has become more general during the week. Boll worms are not reported from any but Edge field County, where, however, they have done much injury already. Cottou is opening freely over the entire State, but picking has not been actively begun in the western coun ties, but will be during the present week. The bolls are said to be of large size generally -and the staple as a rule of high grade. Fodder pulling is fast nearing com pletion in all but the extreme north ern portions of the State. A great deal of fodder was damaged by the rains and the weather generally was unfavorable for curing. The hot moist weather of the past week ripened corn very fast and has made the crop. The harvesting of rice has been pushed in the Georgetown and lower coast regions, but was hindered con siderably by showery -weather. The grain is said to -1. f'ul large -and yielding- well.- Soget'Iland rice harvested; - the crbp..e-y ftne * he tobacco crop about all been the sales progress, sbowrng remunera tive results. Peas are generally doing finely. Sorghum boiling well under way and the yield of syrup satisfactory. Sweet potatoes doing well, but run ning too much to vine. Late fruit excellent, and the apple crop in Greenville county promises to exceed the best of former years. Pas turage excellent. Peanuts; turnips, also good crops. Lands being prepared for winter vegetables and oats. THlE COTTON CROP, 9,901,000. The Newv Orleans Exchange Puts It at That for the Year Ended Aug. 31st. The New Orleans cotton exchange state ment is as follows: The cotton crop of the United States for the year ended August 31st. 1895.is as follows the figures being given in round thousands: North Carolina,.465,000 bales; South Caroli na. S00.000: Georgia. 1.:300.000: Alabama. 1. 000.000: Florida, 60.000: Missi3Sippi. 1.20('. 000; Louisiana. 600.000: Arkansaus. 8->O000: Tennessee. 350.000; Texas. 3.276.000. Total crop, 9.001.000. The Texas crop. which amounts in exact figures to 3.275.858 bales. includes 120,9S2 bales. g-own in Indian Tlerritory. The statement of overland this year in eludes 80.000 bales by two railroadk that have not hitherto been considlered as cottonl handlers. The cotton crop for the United States for the year ended August 31. 189J5, giving port receipts, overland and Southern consump tion, is as follows: Port receipts. 8.006,170 bales; -Southern consumption. 807.9t73 baies; overland. 1.087. 101 bales; total crop. 9.90!,251 bales. The total Southern consumption was 862.8.38 nales, and included 54.865 bales taken from and counted at Southern'outports. Labor Diyfbservances. *The L abor Dag pa rade in Milwaukee was the largest ever seen there. -Publir business in the city was largely suspended, and there was a general observance of Labo-r.Dye At Kansas City. Mo., the' day was marked by the dr~eatest< l-rboi- deionstration ever held. Fully. 0-.000- were in line, and ,the floats wecre nuj~meas and magnificent.' - At Atlanta. Ga.. Labhor Diiv was celebrated by .a pir~.de-of .flfteen hundred working men through fthe pi-ncipal streets. Mobile. Ala~.'eelirated the day by a large street paradeef the principal labor organiza tions together with the police and lIre de -prtments.- - ~ 'At Dulnth..-Minn.. over 1.000 men marched in the Labor Day parade. One of the fea turcs was the presence of Mrs. Aiken, a dele gate to the Trade Assetnbly, at the head of the column. She isa' sister of Roy Good wm., one of the six American Railway Union direetors who were imprisoned by the~ Fed eral Courts for contepipt. Buffalo. N. :Y., celebrated 'the day by .a monster parade in which 51000 working men took part and by athletic games and speech-. making at- Germania Park. At many other points the day was duly ohserved,. while at other pla"es -no attention was given it, matters mnovinn~along as usual. I MMIGRATION COMING SOUTII. Over 40,000 Aeres of Land - old to Northern and Western People. . A Southern States magazine special says that the recent siles of landl along the M. & 0. B. Ri:to Northern and Westten ipeopl aggrega.o 40.000 a-res. Of this arnocunt 22. 000 ae-rs ha~ve Iben soldI to a colo niz:ation company organized at Sioux City. Iown whbch proposes to settle~ people from law; and other Western States ',n this tract. The. land-will be laid out for farning purp'ies, with.,atOwn ini ocnne'-tioni with it for-,ru4 settlers as pref'-r town life. This procperti is locnted about si~ity miles north 01 3Iobile a v- $( army or eim neeties IS de~vtazn South--ra Newv England, destroying some hi: ori-- elms. Money has been appropriated [or their extermnination b-rsral cities. THE LABOR WORLD. The latest statistics show that Sweden had in 1893 4764 factories. employing 112,031 la borers Thirty labor organizations have drawn up a platform and are making arrangements to enter politics this year. The woolen factories of this country are mostly located in New York, New England. Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Hop-pickers have formed a union to en force their demand for the restoration of their former wages, reduced last year. The Order of Railway Telegraphers pay to its grand officers alone $10,000 salaries each year and feels that it gets the money back in benefits. The International Co-operative Congress at London has passed a resolution advocat ing greater activity in the establishment of co-operative workshops. - The name of every telegraph operator who figured in the American Railway Union strike is openly announced by the Western Union to be on the black list. The wages of the Mtna Mills employes at Bemis. Mass., have been increased five per cent. The action is entirely voluntary on the part of the mill's management. Seventeen thousand mill workers went on strike at Dundee, Scotland. They agreed to resume work if granted five per cent. in crease in wages, instead of ten per cent. Mrs. Thomas Lewis, wife of a poor coal miner of Knightsville, Ind., has just heard that she is the sole heir to $100.000 left by. an-unale in California, of whom she had not heard for thirty years. The Window-glass Workers' Wage Com mittees of the Eastern, Western and North ern Districts met at Atlantic City, N. J.. and completed the wage scale. It calls for fif teen per cent. advance along the entire list M. Thivrier, the French "workingman" Deputy, has just died. He made it a point to appear in the Chamber in a workingman's blouse, and had once really been a miner, but long before his election had given up work. The Countess Cacilia Plater-Zybeck. one of the wealthiest women in Russia,'has been enrolled in the guild of mastertailors of War 'saw. She is at the head of the cutters' school in that city and does much to help to the poor. The Newmarket (N. H.) Manufacturing Company has increased wages ten per cent. This company has run through the hard times without a shut down, and has paid its help in cash every week. The increase af fects all operatives. The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association says that during the month of June the steel rail mills of this country received orders for 170.000 tons of steel rails. Not for many years have so many rails been ordered in one month. The employes of the Franklin Copper Mine, Houghton. Mich., have had their wages restored to the figure paid before tho cut caused by the panic of 1893. A general cut was made then in all the copper mines of the lake district. The example of the Franklin was speedily followed by eight other mines. NORTH CAROLINA FACTORIES. The State Has Twice as MIany Cotton Factories as in 1890. The State Agricultural Department at Raleigh issued a specialy valuable bulletin giving lists of all manufactur ing~ enterprisesn-N t4 arnl - That portion of it which is of greatest interest is in regard to cotton millo. This shows thate eleven mills afe now in -course of construction, that the stock in eight more has been sub scribed and that 149 are now in opera tion, spinning or weaving. Besides these, there are twelve knitting mills, one silk mill, one towel mill, four bag mills and one manufactory' of sash cord and cording. There are thirteen woolen mills in operation. The total of all is 192; Alamance county leads, *having 22 cotton mMis; Gaston has 21, Randolph 15 and Mecklenburg 13. There are mills in 41 of the 96 coun - ties. There are reported 19,000 looms and 756,000 spindles. Henry G. Hester, secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, has sent Governor Carr the following tel egram: "I congratulate you and the people of North Carolina on her re markable progress in cotton manufac ture. She is now practically equal to South Carolina, the largest cotton consumer in the Southb. By the actual census of mills North -Carolina has consumed of this year's crop 227,000. bales, an increase of 55,000. over last year. She has new spindles which may be brought into play. in 1895-'96 whic-h, with fair trade condition,ahould increase her total to at least 250,000. In 1890, North Carolina consumed 114,(l00 bales. So -your State has prac tically doubled her cotton manufac turcs u itlhin the past five .years." DEATH OF FOUR. CHILOREN. Three From Rattiesna'ke;' Itites and One by Dr ,vynng. Three children of a widlw na-.ne l.Jenkins, . living at Salliva'i. M i., wi'a b t play went - to a place na'ar the barn to) gathir eggs. Tlrr .place was rather out of t he wav.aaf danger ous. owing to snakes, whieh'are numerous in that region. One chill thrust Its hanud into what it supposed wvas the hen's nest and quickly withdrew it. exelaiming that the hen had peeked its hand. The other two chil dren put in their hands with the same result, and lhen set up~atondl ery. The mother was at the well with her infant, and the alarm so e.xcited her that she lefi- the child and ran to ihe assistance of the three older ones, who hap been bitten. by'a rattlesnake. D'uring the excitemnent the infant fell -into the well and was drowned: The three children died soon afters~ardis SIX MEN HELti' RESPONSIBLE, Biame Placed' for the New York City Itnilding Dlsaster. The inquest into the cause of the collapse, in New York City. of the Ireland building, through which, on August.6; fifteen inenlost *their lives, was brought-to a conclusion. he jury, after a consultation lasting more thai - four hours, returned a verdict fixing the blamne on six of the men connected with the eree:ionf of the building and'"exonerating Joseph Guider, the plasterer. andl Jefferds E. Silloc'k. The jury found that the building was put up with a criminal disregard for fiuman life. They charged that the responsibility for the collapse rests upon the architect. Blehrens: the. builder, Parkei: his master mason. Murray: his general superintendent, Walker: the assistant to Behrens. Youdale,. nthe Buildjjng Inspector. Buckley. The Sault See. Marie Canal, between Lakes Huron and Michigan, now car ries 20,000,000 tons a year, or twice the w-eight that passes through the [Suez Canal annually. Mrs. Woodard, of'Ovid, Mich., celebrated recently her 100th birthday in pretty god I health.