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DARLINGTON, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1890.
NO. 3.
There are more social clubs in Denyer,
Col., asserts the Kew York WorU, than
in any other city of the country, not-
withstanding the fact that Philadelphia
has been called thre city «rf homes.
After a rapid decline in numbers the
first half of this century, the Quakers
are slightly increasing in Great Britain
and gaining quite fast in this country,
largely by accessions from other religious
bodies.
An international beauty show was
opened at Rome, Italy, lately, with im
posing ceremonies, but, the beauty not
being up to the standard, the ladies were
savagely hissed, and the exhibition had
to be abandoned.
The National Horn Breeder thinks peo
ple who are talking about the coming of
the two-minute trotter will be interested
in learning that to trot a mile ih the time
named a horse must get OYer the ground
at the rate of forty 1 four feet in a second,
which is a trifie fast for a trotting gut.
Ihe business tact of women has again
been demonstrated,” says the Hew York
Sun, “in the matter of taking the cen
sus. Women who were appointed as
enumerators are said to hare done their
work, better and more carefully than the
malts. When another census comes to
be taken the women will hare a better
chance.”
The general demand tnat medical pre
scriptions be written in English will ba
barren of results, predicts the Detroit
Free Prett. Latin is one of the safe
guards of the doctor and the druggist,
wnd further than that there are many
drags that wouldn’t cure worth a cent in
the English language. Latin adds fifty
per cent, to golden seal as a tonic.
The Hartford (Conn,) Timei remarks:
Horses don’t last long in New York city.
The pavements are very trying to their
feet. Borne give out in six months,
while others last as many years. The
average life of a street-car horse is about
^two years. Many partially disabled ani-
n TSJ® ^eir way into the country, and
gujjj* recover and become of good service
Stanley relate* that ona day while
convening witt. a friendly African tribe,
during his recent travels, ona of the
chiefs present inquired how many wlvaa
he possessed. Upon Mr. Stanley in
nocently replying that he had none at all
those present stood up like one man, and
unanimously exlaimed: * 'What a splendid
liar I” They intensely admired the ap
parent calmness with which he had, as
they thought, tried to pass off on them a
wondrous traveler’s taie.
As an instance of the speed at which
the world is advancing the Electrical
World calls attention to a prophecy
which a writer in Harper't Magazine
hazarded in the year 1858, This infatu
ated dreamer predicted that in the year
8000 men would be able to attach an era
tube to a wire and hear conversation*
two miles away. In the course of a
dozen centuries, he dared to believe,
news would be printed by electrical
agency on rolls of paper for prompt and
convenient distribution, and that fto-
timile transmission by wire would be
come an accomplished fact. “It is not
easy to realise,” says the Electrical World,
“that since the Harper't ingenious con
tributor thus gave rein to hi* imagina
tion there hare elapsed not the twelve
centuries he expected, but merely e mat
ter of less than two score year*.
The Philadelphia Press says: “Hie
wife market is in * very unsatisfactory
condition, as shown by the transaction*
made public during the week. Quota
tions have varied in an extraordinary
manner. One gentleman paid $20 and a
pair of boots for a helpmate in Kentucky.
In New York, it wot shown that a China
man paid $600 for a girl whom ha looked
op in a garret and cruelly Ill-treated. It
Isa pity that Amerioan law doee met pro
vide any punishment in this ease other
than that which is mated out to tha or
dinary criminal who is guilty of brutality
to a woman. Then her* is tha oaso mad*
public in Meriden, Conn., of a young
Russian who stole $3500 to buy a wife,
but was cheated out of harby her father
sfter he had accepted the purchara
money. These figures would show the*
the market value of a wife is greater ia
China and Russia than in Kentucky.”
The Philadelphia Press enumerates
these instances to prove that modern
commerce has curious effects on price
and on the lives of snimsis: Camphor
has gone up in this country from sixty
to ninety cents s pound because it if
wanted in Europe for smokeless pow
ders. Rubber has advanced from fifty-
five to ninety cent* a pound because se
much of it is wanted in electrical opera
tions. Copper, besides being wanted in
telegraph, telephone and electrio light
wires, has advanced because sulphate of
copper ha* been found to be the only
sure cure for phyloxers. Young "»«is
elephant* are being hunted out in Afriaa
because their tusks make billiard iwlt^
and this, faster than any other d—
is likely to extinguish the elephant. Ths
fancy for alligator leather is making alii.
gators extinct; the muskrats multiply
and honeycomb the levees, and hanoa a
great Mississippi flood.
NEWS SUMMARY*
PROM ALL OVER THE 80HTHLA9B,
Accidents Calamities Pleasant Hem and
Notes ef Industry.
VIRGINIA.
Major Thomas W. Daswell, the oldest
turfman'’in the United States died at
Richmond on July 17. His stock farm
atBullfield near the Virginia capital was
one of the most noted in the county.
Superviser Young has added Up the
census returns Of Richmond and they
foot up between 80,800 and 80,500.
Thomas Trux'on, the thirteen-year-
nf.thft likfA .Jfcwtaii
United Stitea navy, by his second
marriage, waa drowned Wednesday
afternoon while bathing St Port Monroe
with two young colh| anions, who both
made gallattt attempt to save Truxton,
Burwvll nearly losing bis own life in
doing so. Payne had Truxton’* head
out of wat-r, but a dog, which was on
the fort, jumped into the water and
forcing Payne’s head Under compelled
him to lose bis hold on truxton, who
sank and Was seen no more.
In the Chesterfield county court, the
grand jury indicted four white men
named Gould, Archer, Bennett and
Smith and a nogio named Jemsa Baugh,
for throwing rotten eggs at Mr. Walter
Lundy, his mother, Mrs. Ann Lundy,
and hia aistcr, Miss Lundy, about two
weeks ago, while they were passing
alotg the road on their wSy to church.
The indictment is, perhaps, the firat one
ever found in Virginia for the offense.
The population of Petersburg is 23,-
050.
Col. John L. Preston, for forty-three
years professor of ianguagea and rhetoric
in the Virginia Military Institute at
Lexington, died there Tuesday night in
the 80 th year of hia age.
The Natural Bridge property has been
sold to a Massachusetts and Virginia
syndicate for $200,000. It waa pur
chased from Oolonel H. A. Parson and
Hon.James G. Blain, who have owned
it ior a number of years.
During a thunder storm, Ben Brook
ing, a negro, who was sitting in ihe front
door of his house, in James county, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Several other people were in the house
at the time, but none of them were hurt
at all.
NORTH CAROLINA
The Ninth District Judicial Conven
tion, at Elkin, nominated W. W. Bar
ber for Solicitor, on the eleventh bal
lot.
The Seventh District Convention at
LaUrinburg nominated Capt. James D.
Mclrer, of Moore county, for Judge, and
Frank McNeill for Solcitor.
The Republican Congressional Con-
veniinn fnr wilt behold
on August 20th, at Waynesvllle.
The Lynchburg and Durham Rail
road baa been completed to Durham.
Asixteen-year-old son of Sid Ferrell,
was drowned while bathing in a pound
near Durham Tuesday.
A syndicate of Philadelphia capital
ist* has purchased the D. F. Kirkpat
rick lands just north of the city limits
of Greensboro. The price will reach
something in the neighborhood of $40,
000.
The following losses, no insurance,
resulted from a fire at Mt. Gilead last
week: McRae & Leach, $2,800; Ingram
& Haywood, $2,800; postoffice building,
$000; cash and stamps in postoffice,
$80; total, $5,080.
Another terrible tragedy has been
enacted in Mitchell, that one lawless
county of the old North State. Stokes
Burlison was fatally stabbedt on July
10th by Mitchell Green. The wounded
man lived but a short while. The kill-
ing occurred five miles from Bakersville
A number of men were quairelling about
some hogs. Green was fighting with
another man when Burlison attempted
to pull him off and the former turned
and stabbed him in the heart. Green
is in jail.
A meeting Of the Bee Keepers As
sociation was held in the room of the
Chamberjof Commerce, Charlotte y Thurs
day. The honey industry of Mecklen
burg la growing into one of considerable
importance.
SOUTH CAROLINA
A shooting bee was one of the pleas-
ent diversions at Gieenville last Wed
nesday. Major Dixie Williams, a
lawyer and Rudolph Liggon, a saloon
keeper, got into an altercation and drew
their guns. F jur shots were fired but
no one waa hurt.
A commissi' n was issued at Columbia
for the organization of the Morgan Iron
Works, of Spartanburg, with a capital
stock of $25,000 in shares of $100 each.
The company will manufacture products
of iron and wood,make brick and supply
builders’ material.
A charter was granted to the Cham
pion Canning Company, of Darlington.
Fifty per cent, of the capital stock has
been paid in.
A resident of Lesington County, who
came to Columbia for a coffin, reports
that during a thunder storm a white
farmer named James Coogler, while
ploughing in hia field in Lexington
County, a few miles from Columbia,
waa with the mule attached to his plough
instantly killed by lightning. A boy
and horse who were alongside of him
escaped uninjured.
Greenville city council has ’accepted
the bid of the American Pipe Manufac
turing Company for building a water
works BTstem in that city. One hun
dred hydrants are to be suphed at $40
each; over one hundred at $80 each.
The work is to be commenced in sixty
days, and the system is to be completed
in one year.
The State Teachers’ Association met
at Greenville, one hundred and fifty to
two hundred tebchcrs being present.
Addresses of welcome were made by
citizens and responded to by Dr. W. M.
Grier, of Due West.
Charleston will have a new census
after all. Mr. Porter has tent Juo. D.
Leland, special agent of the census
office to conduct B the new enumera
tion.
The Y. M. 0. A. of Charleston has
organized n school of shorthand.
GEORGIA
The county court house, and other
buildings on the property in the public
iquare, of La Grange, are offered for
sue,
One hundred and fifty men are now
actively at work in the burned diatrict
of Brunswick preparing the ground for
new buildings. Nearly nil of the in
surance has been adjusted.
A nbgro named Willis Grant was found
dead in a gully near Jefferson, As soon
as he waa found Ceroner , Worsham was
sent for and he empaneled a jury. Their
Verdict das that he had fallen in the
gully while out getting wood, and the
fall broke his neck.
At the public library at Macon is a
barometer made simply of a thin strip
of cedar and a thin atrip of white
pine, placed together and stuck
perpendicularly in a base rest of
wood. When it is going to rain the
strips bend down with dampness, and
when it is dry weather they stand rigidly
stiff and straight It is said to indicate
coming storms unfailingly. The device
was made by C. C. Miller, master me
chanic of the Central shops in Savannah,
in ISfiO, »nJ waa praaeaUd to the library
by Dan M. Gugel.
After t*o day! of imprisonment in the
Augusta jail on suspicion of having
murdered Lucinda' Sims, bis sister-in-
law, Oscar Johnson, colored, confessed
the crime. He exonerated the white
man who had been living with Lucijida,
and on whom he tried to cast suspicion.
Hh admitted that he first assaulted Lu
cinda and then cut her throat with his
grandfather's iszor, which he threw
away to hide hia crime. He says he did
no f deposit the body in the river until
the night after, and said that on the fol
lowing morning he went to the fatal spot
and swam out in the river to the dead
girl, tore off her dress and got hia room
key, which she had in her pocket.
Johnson’s alleged motive for putting
Lucinda out of the *ay was because he
believed hia Wife, her sister, who had
left him, Would return to him, as he
thought Lucinda’s stories caused his
wife to leave him.
TENNESSEE
The County Board of Equihzstion of
Memphis, Tenn., haa finished its annual
work and reports an increase of $12,-
000,000 in the taxable valuation of
Memphis property over last year. The
total valuation this year is $30,000,-
000.
The Rev. David C. Kelly, D. D.,
who was recently nominated for Gover
nor by the State Convention of the
Prohibition party, has decided to with
draw from the canvass.
The Memphis Home Insurance has
declared a divided of 5 per cent; the
Phoenix Fire Sc Marine Insurance Co.,
a dividend of 4 per cent., the Bluff City
Insurance Co., a dividend of 4 per
cent.
A special frbm tlyershurg, says:
Joseph Griffin, a farmer, shot and killed
one Leggett oh his farm. Leggett ar
rived two days ago, and was to work
for Griffin. Griffin in the summer months,
had been in the habit of leaving all the
doors and windows of his house open.
Leggett, whose room was next to that
of Griffin’s daughter, misconstrued this
as an invitation from her and entered
her room, making an indecent proposal.
The ,daughter informed her father the
next day and he at once ordered Leggett
to leave. Not complying with the re
quest, Griffin emptied both barrels of a
shotgun into Leggett, killing him in
stantly. Griffin gave himself up.
East Tennessee is promised another
new industrial town, which according
to one of the promoters, means the
investment of a couple of million or
more of foreign capital. The report
states T. M. Allen, of Johnson CRy,
find associates have secured large tracts
of inn, manganese, timber and town-
site land at Hampton, on the East Ten
nessee & Western North Carolina Rail
road, 14 miles from Johnson City, and
propose developing and building one or
mote coke iron furnaces; also charcoal
furnaces. The town-site is to be laid
off at once, and the name of the town
will probably be changed to Allentown.
The scheme is said to be backed by
leading capitalists.
OTHER STATER
Two hlocka of houses were destroyed
by fire at Hot Springs, j Ark., Wednes
day night.
The population of Anniston, Ala, is
11,808. Ten years ago, when the last
count was made, the new city had 942
people, showings gain of 1,100 per
cent. Oxford and Oxanna are suburbs
of Anniston, and all should be con
nected as one place, and are for all
practical purposes, as they from a con
tinuous settlement Taking all together
there ia a population of 20,000 souls.
Reliable persona who arrived from
Bastrop, La., say that seven negroes
were killed and aix wounded in the
S iy with a white poase near Merronge.
re were thirty-six negroes in the
party, all of whom came there a short
time ago from North Carolina. The
aurvivors returned home with the
whites. In other respects, previous ac
counts of the conflict are correct Mer
rouge is twelve miles above Baatrop.—
Atlanta Constitution.
The Jackson, Missisippi, Ledger de^
nounces the census just taken in that
city as being grossly inaccurate, and
calls upon the city authorities to have a
city census taken.
1,000,000 GONE;
A LAEGE N. Y. CITY OONILAGBATION
Several Live* Miraculously Saved From
the Burning Western Union Telegraph
Building on Lower Broadway.
To Meet in Charleston.
The local committee on arrangements
for the reception and entertainment of
the American Public Health Asaociation,
which will hold ita eighteenth annual
meeting in December next in Charleston,
B. C., met at the City Hall with Mayoi
Bryan in the chair.
It will be interesting to know in ad
vance something about the Assrciation.
It was founded in 1872 In New York by
a body of men who were interested in
hygiene ana other sanitary questions,
with a view of carrying out the princi
ples of their organization, which are the
lengthening of human life and the limit
ing of the spread of disease. The
society has grown from a few men to one
of from five to six hundred membera. In
its ranks are men distinguished in scien
tific circles and who are laboring in the
cause of hygiene and modern sanita
tion.
The meeting* of the Association are
held each year and at these original pa
per* are read, and th«y discuss the re
suits of their discovr the proceed
ings each year being published in a fine
large v '’me. The coming meeting in
this city will probably be one of the very
largest ever held. On the receipt of the
invitation from Mayor Bryan, although
several citie* w<re competing for the
honor, the Association determined to go
to Charleston.
Black ice cream is a new Philadelphia
dainty. It is colored by the addition of
•harooal and the juice of Turkish prunua
Two youths of Napoleon, Mich., won
a wager by each eating flv* pound* of
hone; at one atting.
WASHINGTON NEWS
The Westem Union Telegraph build
ing in New York city caught fire at
7 o’clock Friday morning. The dis
tributing room on the fifth fl ior, the
operating room on the floor above and
the restaurant on the seventh floor were
completely destroyed and seven lives
miraculously saved.
A le# thiuulea before seven o’fclock, V“T’ “‘'“‘.'i fl 11 '
the Opera tots began to arrive to go to *4*,
work. About fifty men and young
women had reached the operating room
when a messenger boy of the name of
Matthews saw & puff of some under a
table in the distributing room, on the
floor below the operating room. The
fire spread with lightning rapidity and
he rushed up stairs and panic was
the result of the messenger’s information,
and the young women screamed, while
the men rushed pell mell down stairs to
escape the flames, which in less than two
minutes had sprtad almost over the en
tire distributing room, burning up wires,
instruments and tables as if they Were
so much tindir.
The entire room, when the panic
stricken crowd passed through it, was
filled with a dense, stifling smoke.
They fell over each other in their efforts
to reach a place of safety.
By the time the flames bad reached
the ceiling of the distributing room,
and were eating their way through to
the operating room, where the instru
ments that connect with the wires that
distribute news throughout the country
were located, in less time than it takes
to tell it, this entire floor was ablaz^
and the flames were eating their way to
the floor above, where the Westem
Union Company's restaurant was lo
cated.
It now flashed upon the minds of the
frightened persons who had escaped
that there were seven others, four men
and three women, on the restaurant floor.
Exit had by this time been cut off where
by these persons could escape, and they
were not warned of their danger until
the smoke rushed up the stairway lead
ing to the operating room, in volumes.
Seeing escape cut off from every quar
ter, there was an awful panic. The
women rushed around the restanrant,
screaming and bringing their hands.
A trap door overhead waa pushed
open ana the prisoners climbed to the
roof.
The streats surrounding the building
were a perfect sea of faces of persons on
their way to work. Flames were shoot
ing out of the front windows, and vol
umes of smoke puffed heavenward.
Umtekthe eaves ot the building ifie
flames were shooting, and the building
seemed to be crowned with fire. When
the great crowds on the streets saw the
men and women rush out on the roof, a
cry of honor went up, for it did not
seem possible that they could be rt a
cued. The women on the roof screamed
and wrung their hands, and the men
yelled “For God’s sake, do something to
save us.”
The first engine had arrived before
the terrifying scene was presented on
the roof, and a volume of water was
pouring into the burning building,
which cracked and hissed spluttered.
The second alarm was sent out, followed
immediately by a third. In a few
minutes there were fourteen engines
and hook and ladder companies and
water throwers on the ground. Water
poured in through the Aiming windows
and beat down upon the roof, but the
flames were stubborn in spite of the tons
of water poured upon them, flowing
back from the roof to the sidewalk like
a cataract, from all sides.
A long ladder was eventually raised
upon the roof from Dey street and
placed against the burning building. It
did not reach within fifty feet of the
roof. Undaunted, however, two fire
men scaled the ladder. Leaving it at
the top, they threw a rope to the roof.
It was caught and tied by one of the
hi ave girls, who seemed not to lose her
nerve. The firemen pulled themselves
up, hand over hand until they reached
the top, and amid cheers from the thous
ands of throats below, they let the seven
down to places of safety.
It was accomplished just in time, for
the flames burst up through the coinice,
and soon enveloped the roof.
The building was entirely gutted with
fire. Adioinmg structures sustained
but little damage.
The building of the Western Union
Telegraph Company had been for a
score or more of years one of the great
and imposing landmarks of lower
Broadway. Facing East, on the ground
floor were the receiving offices of the
company, together with the American
District Messenger Company, with en
trances on Broadway and bey streets.
Eight lofty storiea were surmounted by
a cupola. Running up from the cupola
is a staff, on which hangs the time ball
which drop* and tells the standard
time.
The building waa filled with offices on
the five lower floors, which were occu
pied by some of the greatest railroads
and railroad magnates in the world.
The vest system of the Pacific railroad
was operated through instructions given
from the Weatern Union building, and
the private office* of Jay Gould, Sidney
Dilion, Dr. Norris Green and others,
who are famous through the length and
breadth of the land were there.
The Associated Preaa loses its inatru -
ments, type-writers, furniture and all
of ita hooka, papers, and records, dat
ing from 1845, and a valube reference
library. This lose is irreparable. All
of the material for the history of the
growth of the press in America, con
tained in letter books aad files, is de
stroyed, and can never be replaced.
The money value is estimated at $15,000.
There is no in:urance.
Investigation ahowe that the loss will
be far greater than earlier estimates.
It is now stated that the loss will ex
ceed $1,000 000. The great switch
board in the operating room waa alone
worth $z50,000.
044 Soarentn.
Many capricious New Yorker* are hav
ing souvenirs, such as ladies’ alippera and
look! of heir, covered with a thin de-
K t of eilver and displayed in their
>ee as mementoes. The substances el
the article* thus treated ar* not injuriously
affected, and they attract oonsicUraote at
tention wherever shown.—Argonaut.
PLACES WAITING FOB ELIGIBLE* FROM
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Washington, D. O,—The sivil service
commission Friday issued the following
circular:
The number of eligibles on the regis
ters of the civil service commission fot
Jnost of the southern states is not suffi
cient to meet the demands of the appor
tiooment for appointments in the depart-
jniental service at Washington. There ia
IhIso a lack of eligible* for the railway
mail service from moat of these states.
To supply the deficiencies the commis
sion baa arranged to hold extra examina
tions ar the places named below, on the
Lexington, Ky., July 23d; Charlotte,
July 24th; Louisville, Ky., July 24th;
Nashville, Tefin.,. July 25th; Columbia,
R. C., Memphis, Tenn., St. Louis, Mo.,
July 26lh; Little Rock, Ark., and Ma
con, Ga., July 28th; Montgomery, Ala.,
and Shreveport, La., July 30th; Binning
ham, Ala., and Dallas, Texas, July 31st;
Atlanta, Ga., August 1st; Chattanooga,
Tenn., and Houston, Texas, August 3d;
Knoxville, Tenn., and New Orleans, La.,
August 4lh; Jackson, Miss.. August 6th;
Oxford, Miss., August 7th.
Examinations for the railway mail
service only will be held at Richmond,
Va, July 28d, and Lynchburg, Va.
August 6th.
In view of the large number of appoint
ments soon to be made, those who pass
a creditable examination will very likely
receive early appointments. Applies
tion blanks may be obtained from the
civil service commission at Washington,
D. C , and may be piesented to the ex
aminer, duly executed, at the time of
examination. No special examination
will he given at the above named places,
except for special pension examiner and
and medical examiner for the pension
bureau.
Stanlcj’s Wooing.
The story of Stanley's wooing is grad
ually being disclosed. He first met Miss
Tennant when last in England, and for
swhile was received with the same cool-
Bess which usually characterized the
lady's reception of attentions from gen
tlemens But the indomitable courage,
energy and wonderful powers of descrip
tion possessed by the explorer gradually
won the heart of one who possessed sim
ilar traits in ao marked a degree, and
when Stanley managed to pluck up suf
ficient courage to propose she fainted
with mingled delight and excitement.
She promised to wait until he returned
from his next African trip, and insisted
that their engagement should be kept
secret.
The letters which have passed between
“Stanley Africanus” and Miss Tennant,
if they ev«r see the light of publication
—love-letters of eminent persons are now
included in the printer'a prey—will be
truly eurioua storiea, for no doubt the
explorer told more to his lady love than
be will ever confess elsewhere of the
awful tribulations of bis march through
tha African swamps and forests. His
brother explorers were aware of their
commander’s love story, and many a tree
in the strange lands visited has “Dolly”
deeply cut into the bark. The natives
Used to think it the sign of the white
chief’s fetish and often prostrated theifl-
wives before it. In one of his letter*
Stanley wrote such a harrowing account
it the sufferings Of his band and gave
lUch a vivid picture of the death of a gi
gantic negro slowly swallowed by a huge
Ktpent that Mis* Tennant swooned after
rbading it.—Sbmmercial Adver'Ucr,
ALLIANCE NEWS.
INTERESTING NOTES PEBTAHttNG
Tb ALLIANCE MATTERS.
The Pathfinder No More.
Gen. John C. Fremont, who died in
New York Sunday, had an eventful ca
reer. The son of a French immigrant,
he waa born in Savannah, Ga., in 1818,
and received a collegiate education. Ap
pointed to a lieutenancy in the United
States crops of engineers, be penetrated
the Rocky Mountains at two points, and
won the title of “the pathfinder.” He
also defined much of the geography be
tween the Rocky Mountains and the
Pacific Coast, and bore a conspicuous part
in the conquest of Upper California. He
represented California in the United
States Senate from 1849 to 1851. The
first candidate of the Republican party,
he was defeated 1 for President in 1856
by Jsmes Buchanan. General Fremont
served as a major general in the Union
army during the late civil war and at
the pretent session of Congress was
placed on the retired list, with the rack
of major-general.
A bill has been introduced in the
House by Mr. Vandever, of California,
granting a pension of $3,000 a year to
the widow of General John C. Fre
mont.
Eaot* Abrai the Melos Trnsi?
The Georgia Melon Exchange, which
waa organized to handle this season's
crop in the interest of producers of
Georgia and adjoining territory, suspend
ed July 8th and called in all its agents.
The president of the Exchange claims
that it was fought by outsider* who tried
to create the impression that it was a
trust and got the growers to believe
they were all right in loading cars with
any sort of melons. The result is that
agents in the North and West, to which
these have been consigned, have refused
to pay the Exchange drafts on the
ground that stuck did not come up to
the requirements. The stockholders
and the Exchange will lose, but the
growers have undoubtedly been btnefit-
ted by its existence, for while the crop has
)>een three times as heavy as the same
last year, prices have been 50 per cent,
better.
A Grateful Japanese Priest.
I know an American who commissioned
an agent to go to Japan in order to buy
the quaintly carved panels which adorned
one of the best and last of the very
ancient temples of Japan. The old priest
in the temple disliked to part with hia
treasure and, indeed, he persistently de
clined to do ao while one bid after an
other, of increasing sums of money, was
made to him. Not at all despairing of
tha capture of this bric-a-brac, ray
American friend wont to a Fifth avenue
cabinet-maker and procured a handsome
rosewood set of bedroom furniture. This
he shipped to ths priest. This gift ao
delured the old Jap that he stripped his
temple not only of the panels but of
many other things priceless to a con
noasieur and sent them over to America.
-(Hatter,
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS’ INSTITUTE.
Commissioner of Agriculture Robin
son has announced the following places
and dates for the holding of the farmers’
institutes:
Greensboro, Guilford county, July
23rd and 24th.
Mount Holly, Gaston county, July
29th to August 1st.
Troy, Montgomery county, August 4th
and ML.
Graham, Alamance county, August
6th and 7th.
Lenoir, Caldwell county, August 8th
and 9tb.
Lexington, Davidson County, August
12th and 13th.
Morganton, Burke county, August 15th
and 16th.
Marion, McDowell codnty, Auguat
18th and 19th.
Waynesvllle, Haywood county, Au
gust 22ud and 23rd.
Franklin, Macon county, August 26th
and 27th.
Murphy. Cherokee county, August
29th and 30th.
President Holladay and Prof. Massey,
of the Agricultural College, will attend
all these meetings.
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COL. POLK AT ASHEViLLE.
He advocited the sub-treasury bill,
and said that those members of the
present Congress who oppose it will
stand a slim chance for re-ele-ction.
Members of the present Congress, he
said, maintain that the bill is unconsti
tutional, and yet our government already
has a law on the same plan as tha’ of
the sub-treasury bill, i by which the
government advances money on liquors
made under the internal revenue laws.
Mr. Polk brought down the house
when he said that the farmers could now
get the benefits of what is proposed in
the sub-treasury bill if they will have
all their produce made into whiskey.
They could draw money on it then un
der present laws.—Asheville Journal.
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The Alliance rally at Greensboro, N.
C., Wednesday was a big success. There
weie 5,000 farmers there.
The Farmers’ Alliance m*n claim that
they will have everything theif own waj
in the politics of Georgia and Alabama,
and will elect only their own candidates
to all the offices, from governor down.
Of the present representatives in Con
gress they propose to leave eight out of
ten at home in Georgia, and will not
elect to office any man who lives in a
city.—National Tribune.
At Minneapolio, Minn., the Farmers
Alliance convention nominated its presi
dent, Robert J. Hall, for Governor.
The Russian official report on the
harvest expresses doubt as to whether
the yield will be of average abundance.
A short wheat crop in Russia means an
advance in American prices.
The South Carolina Farmers’ Alliance
will meet at Greenville, to elect a presi
dent and transact other business of im-
porlance. Col. L. L. Polk, president of
the National Alliance, wiH be present.
The Watauga, N. C., buckwheat crop
is said to be the largest in acreage ic the
history of that county.
A correspondent writes from Bates-
burg, S. C: The cotton and corn crops
in this section are all that our farmers
could wish. In this immediate section
they have not suffered a day for rain.
Other sections, from what I can learn,
are in just as good condition.
Governor Ross, of Texas, lias accepted
the presidency of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of that State, and
will assume charge as soon as his term as
Governor expires. His efficient aerveice as
Governor pointed him out as ths proper
person to conduct the affairs of the
Agricultural College.
* * * *
We earnestly commend to members of
the Farmers’ Alliance, North, East,
West, and South, a consideration of
some agricultural wisdom from so
authoritative a source at the bead of one
of Kentucky’s brightest jewels, the
Woodburn farm. It was first published
in our esteemed contemporary, the Stock
Farm Mr. Brodhead says;
“We have used thoroughbreds in the
plough, the carriage, and under saddle,
and invariably they were gamer than
animals used for the same purposes
that had not the thoroughbred cross.
A mule whose dam is highly bred will
outwear several whose dams are not.
They are better in every particular.
The draught horse, whose dam was
thoroughbred, is gamer than the pure
bred. The trotter* that we have had
with thoroughbred blood were gamer
than those without it.”
It may not furnish quite ao much fun,
but for lifting mortgages off the barn
andjhouse a little thorough blood ‘ will
beat politics way out of sight.—New
York Sun.
A Lucky Shot.
A few days ago as James Knight, of
Shelter Point, near Nanaimo, British
Columbia, waa working in the woods
close to his own house and barn,he heard
a series of iqueals from a litter of tittle
& which were running about the gar-
Going in the direction of the sounds
ha discovered a panther of very large
proportions carrying off one of the pork
ers. Running to the house with all pos
sible speed, he secured his gun, his dog
in the meantime chasing the marauder,
which took to the trees. Taking aim at
tho beast, whose glistening eyes shone
through the foliage and whose growls
made it impossible to mistake his where
abouts,he brought the animal down, pre
venting him making a dying charge by a
well-directed shot into his brain. This
brute, and several others of hia kind,
with the assistance of the bears in tho
neighborhood, have latterly made consid
erable havoc among the smaller domesti
cated animals,and it is proposed ere long
to organize a shooting party with the ob
ject of exterminating them.— Victoria
(£. 0.) Colonut.
London la overrun with what it is
pleased to call “piano recitalert,” and
the musical agents have declined for the
present to make any new engagement*
with celebrities.
NEWB OF THE DAY CONDENSED
Items ot Interest Put In 8ha , vj For
Public Beading.
The official count of the population of
New York City, shows that the popu
lation is 1,513,501, which is an increase
of 25.46 per cent, over the census re
turns of 1880, which gave the popu
lation of 1880 as 1,206, 299, an in
crease of 28 per cent, during the decade.
In 1870 the population was 649.658
The percentage of increase from 1860 to
1870 waa 17 per cent.
On Monday New York City turned
the water in her new aqueduct. The
great structure ia thirty-three miles long.
The great Croton aqueduct was opened
nearly half a century ago—in 1842—and
at that time was regarded as one of the
greatest Works of modern engineering
in the World. Its capacity, however,
was only 115,000,000 gallons daily,
while the present work is more than
double that, the calculation being that
it will carry 250,000,000 gallons diiiy.
The cost of the work is less than double
that of the first aqueduct, being twenty-
three millions of dollars against twelve
and a half millions.
Esquire John P. Hunter and Mr. J.
R. Wallace of Charlotte, N. C., have
taken the contract to supply an Eng
lish syndicate with a large quantity of
ash timber. The contract calls for ash
lumber, 2x12 and 22 feet long, clear of
knots. The contractors get $36 per
thousand feet and the lumber is shipped
direct to New York, thence by steamer
to Europe. It is to be used there for
the finest class of house and car building.
The wood is being cut in Mecklenburg
and Caburrus counties and it is conceded
to be the fiaest that grows in the world.
WONDERS OF FIREWORKS
JAPANESE LEAD THE WORLD IN
MAKING PYROTECHNICS.
HELIGOLAND.
The Little Island Which Kurland Ha*
Ceded to Germany
A Berlin dispatch states that Admiral
Reiuhold Werner declares that the possession
of Heligoland is more valuable than terri
tory in Africa, because it renders a blockade
of the German North Sea almost impossible,
and spares Germany the keeping of a fleet
there.
Bueakiug of the little island which Great
Bri tain has just ceded to Germany, receiv
ing in return extensive territory in Africa, a
Writer in Harper 9 * Weekly says:
“The relative value of national possessions
is curiously illustrated by the fact that Eng
land, With her 9,000,000 square miles of the
earth’s surface, receives for this little island,
which is not as large as Central Park, an in
demnity representing about half a million
square miles of Africa soil. Even this may
The oldest known pottery is the Egypt*
ian, which date* from 2900 B. 0.
HELIGOLAND.
prove less than profitable, for Heligoland
yields an annual revenue of $10,000, while he
would be a bold prophet to assert that any
European rower wifi make both ends meet in
the administration of the Black Continent.
But though a* a mercantile exchange the
British have received a questionable property
from Germany, still it is a matter of con
gratulation for the civilized world that the
two greatest Protestant nations of Europe,
both belonging to the same Germanic race,
and both rivals in the same industrial field,
should have removed from between them
the cause of what might at any time pro
voke a war.
“Heligoland became English after the de
feat of Napoleon and his exile to Elba. At
that time no one but Gneisenau dreamed of
such a thing as a mighty German Empire,
stretching from the ocean to the Russian
frontier, and England had little difficulty to
bolding it by treaty."
“It lies adjacent to Germany's greatest sea
port, and commands the approach to the
second in importance as well. If a foreign
power should claim possession of Block Isl
and or Fisher’s Island, we could realize how
Germans regard Heligoland in British hands.
Or if we could imagine an island off the
mouth of the Mississippi, or between Sandy
Hook and Fire Island, the cases would be
somewhat analogous, provided the British
flag floated over them. Fortunately Heligo
land has long since ceased to be considered
valuable to England, while to Germany it
has risen in importance with every increase
in the German navy, every addition to Ger
many’s merchant marine, and, above all,
every indication of having to reckon wilb
Russian or French cruisers."
Worshiping Flowers.
A recent traveler In India gives the
following description of flower worship
as practised by the Peraian, who, in
flowing robe of blue, and on his head a
sheepskin hat—black, glossy, curly, the
fleece of Kar-Kal—would saunter in and
stand meditatively over every flower he
saw, and always as if half in vision.
And when the vision was fulfilled and
the ideal flower he waa seeking found, he
would spread his mat and sit before it
until the setting of the sun, and then
fold up hia mat again and go home.
And the next night, and night
after nignt until that particular flowei
faded away, he would return to it ana
bring his friends in ever-increasing
troops to it and sit and play the guitar
or lute before it, and they would all to
gether pray there, and after prayer still
sit before it, sipping sherbet and talking
the most hilarious and shocking scandal
late into the moonlight, and so on every
evening until the flower died.
Sometimes, by way of a grand finale,
the whole company would suddenly
arise before the flower and serenade it
together with an ode from Hafiz and de
part.—New York Jvurntl.
Families That Have Done Nothing
Else for a Hundred Years—Bal
loons of Many Kinds.
The use of fireworks of all kinds be
comes more universal every year in this
country. Exhibitions are common at the
winter resorts in the South, while in the
North fireworks are used at toboggan
and snowshoe carnivals and by summer
excursionists. All the firecrackers used
in this country come from China. They
are shipped in sailing vessels that land
at New York.
Although we surprise the Oriental
races in our knowledge of chemistry and
mechanics we have never been able to
compete with them in practical pyro
technics. In this field they have de
veloped skill that is well nigh mir
aculous, and are as much our masters to
day as they were at the time of fhe in
vention or introduction of gunpowder in
Europe. Long before that event the
Chinese were enjoying firecrackers, from
those no larger than a match to the mon
strous ones which weigh live prunds
apiece—bombs, Roman candles and
Bengal lights. At the same time the
Japanese were developing their wonder
ful system of day fireworks into a fine
art.
Of the two races the Chinese were by
long odds the first in point of time.
Their annals show that the familiar fire
cracker was known to the people of the
Flowery Kingdom at least 1150 B. @.
On the other hand there is no direct proof
that the Jnpaucse were able to manu
facture fireworks of any sort prior to
1040 A. D., some twenty-one centuries
afterward.
But the Chinese seemed satisfied with
what tittle progress they made ia the
early age, and have never gone beyond
what they then accomplished. The Jap
anese, on the contrary, have kept up ex
periment and research to the present
moment.
In discussing the remarkable success
of his countrymen in this industrial aet
a member of the Japanese Embassy at
Washington said recently. “The se
cret of our prosperity is not as simple as
might bo supposed. In tho first place
we have a trade system something like
the guilds of Europe A good fireworks
maker brings up one or more of hie sons
to follow him in his profession, and
teaches them every little trick or discov
ery he has made or that has been handed
down to him by his ancestors. Thera
are many families at home that have been
firework makers for more than a cen
tury.”
The baloons are always of moderate
Size, the great majority being about six
and but few exceeding ten icit in length.
They ars made of a strong nuU v durable
tissue paper, are printed in colors, anti
usually retouched with the brush by the
artisans of the East before they are al
lowed to leave the workshop. So far as
shapes are concerned there is almost, end
less variety. The commonest kinds are
those which imitate the domestic animals.
Next to these in popularity are the shapes
of birds, fish, fruits, reptiles and dragons.
Beyond these and much less economical,
if not less popular, are human figures.
These are of all sorts, ranging from a
daimio to a grotesque head.
It is difficult to estimate tha number of
shapes turned out by Japanese pyrotech
nists. One concern in Yeddo keeps over
twelve hundred different kinds on hand,
while another house ia Yokohama has a
stock of two thousand varieties. These
balloons are so weighted as to always
keep a natural position. In some cases
they are specially weighted with fine
pieces of metal held hy a slow burning
fuse. As the latter is consumed it re
leases from time to time a weight. As
this is liberated the balloon will spring
Upward as if alive. With two leaded
luses tho movements of a fish are beauti
fully imitated.
Corresponding to these five trails are
what may be called smoke trails. The
trail is charged with some inflammable
substance like pitch, which is so treated
as to give out great volumes of heavy
flense black smoke, which fall slowly
away from the balloon and leave a long,
wavy line in the air to indicate the vary
ing currents and eddies in the atmos
phere. Some very expensive balloons
have trails so arranged as to give lines of
smoke in two, three, and even four colors.
—New York Press.
Growth of the Turnip Seed.
The seed of a globe turnip is exceed
ingly minute, not larger, perhaps, than
the twentieth part of an inch in diameter,
and yet, in the course of a few months,
this seed will be elaborated by the soil
and tho atmosphere into twenty-seven
millions of times its original bulk, and
this in addition to a considerable bunch
of leaves. Dr. Desaguliers lias made
some experiments proving that, in an av
erage condition, a turnip seed may in
crease its own weight fifteen times in a
minute. By an actual experiment, made
on peat ground, turnips have been found
to increase by growth 15,990 times the
weight of their seeds each day they stood
upon it—New York Telegram.
The population of Chili on the first of
January was 3,165,289. This includes
50,000 Indiana.
A Frone Oi rnsmOn.
A prominent dealer in leather, from
London, says that never before was there
such a craze in London for queer leather
as at the present time. He says also:
“All kinds of skins, from the tough,,
thick hide of an elephant to the thinner,
tenderer frogs, are pressed into service to
meet the demands of the fashionable.
Some of our shops are stocked with a
supply of fancy articles that are made
from the skins of all sorts of beasts, rep
tiles and fishes. These singular objects
are exhibited in tho windows, whore
their appearance proves a great attraction
to the crowds. Made up into various ar
ticles are yellow pelican skins, lion and
panther skins, buffalo skins fish skins,
monkey skins, and the coverings of al
most every living tiring known. They
are tanned and sometimes dyed with dif-’
ferent colors. I think it looks hideous
to see a pretty girl walking along the
streets swinging a portc-monuaio made of
the scaly skin of n boa-constrictor. But
it’s fashion, you know, and reminds one
of the old story of beauty and the beast."
— Commercial Advertiser.
Adjusted the Gift to Her Mouth.
Ahmed Effendi, the former Turkish
Embassador in Berlin, when entertaining
company, was in the habit of distributing
sweets among the ladies present. Oa
one occasion he gave a certain lady two
or three times as much as the rest. She,
vain of her triumph, got an interpreter
to inquire the reason of his preference.
“Because her mouth is twice as large at
that of the other ladies,” was the reply,
—Argonaut. ,.>'xv., i
The steamer Yang Tse, which arrived
, at Marseilles, France, the other day , re
ports passing through, in tire Red Sea, a
veritable bank of locusts covering an csti.
mated area of .’)25 miles. It took th«
ship twenty-four hours to pass through
the immense cloud of insect*.
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