The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, August 13, 1890, Image 1

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{Property of cfhe (Part ncton County (Hislor cal Society HERALD. VOL. I, DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1890. NO. 5. The prison population of England has fallen off so much of late years, that out of 113 prisons, fifty-seven have been al together closed. - It ia remarked m a curious fact that a certificate representing one of our silver dollars if carried into Mexico can be sold •t a premium of more than twenty per cent, over the Mexican silver dollar, which contains more silver than own. our It is said that while in England Bar naul, the showman, ejdeavorod to buy the Shakespeare homestead at Avon for the purpose of exhibiting it in the United States. His negotiations looked for jayhile as if they might succeed, declares the Oliicngo Herald, but they were finally defeated by the English Government, •which got wind of the transaction and outbid the enterprising circus man. The Italian Prime Minister, Signor Crispi, recently gave most extraordinary evidence in the Chamber of Deputies of his superstition regarding the evil eye. Signor Imbriani, having alluded to Signor Crispi's life as necessarily terminable, the latter fumbled in his pocket, drew out one of the horn-shaped pieces of coral used in Naples as a counter spell against the “jettatura,” and openly pointed it at the speaker. NEWS SUMMARY. FROM ALL OVER THE BOUTHLAID, Accidents. Calamities, Pleasant Hews and Notes of Industry. Six hundred million dollars would ' '‘complete the Panama Canal by the yeai 1^910, estimates the New York Sun. Be- 'fore the year 1900 the cuts already I 'wrought upon that isthmus will not have left so much as a scar. Festoons of 1 vines, well-grown trees, a matted jungle, Ifiocks of noisy parakeets and troops of •monkeys will be the visible scene where Prance’s millions have vanished as one of own exhalations. Beys the Chicago Herald: “The French Government proposes to tax betting, tho revenue accruing therefrom to be used in 'relieving indigent laboring men. The plan is to prohibit betting in smaller amounts than five francs ($1), and to com pel betting men to pay a tax of ten per cent, on all bets of that amount and up ward. The French are even more per sistent and reckless betters than the Americans, and the tax would undoubt- edly produce a large return.” The Mail and Hep rut think* that “Uncle Sam’s new plan at allowing the soldiers of the regular army to buy their discharge if they get dissatisfied, and also of allowing them to quit the ranks st the end of three years, if they so elect, instead of live, ought to work well ia lessening desertions. The new pro vision that ft per month shall be de ducted from the soldier's pay for the first year, and held as security against hit desertion, would seem to be a strong ad ditional safeguard against his taking French leave of the colors.” The Mutical World announces the in vention of three new and appalling in struments. The first is a bass fiddle fourteen and one-half feet high and eight and one-half wide. “The performei takes his stand on a set of steps, and skips up and down as the passages to be played may require.” Secondly, we have a steam trombone, “which can be distinctly heard at a distance of four miles.” Thirdly, an Italian has devised what he calls a “Nasi-flauto,” which the performer plays with his nose, his mouth being thus left free to smoke, sing, eat or drink. The fact that many of the natives of Nice are dying of consumption proves very clearly, observes the New York Nines, the deleterious eject of the residence of pulmonary patients in any place. It is only within the last few years that science has demonstrated the leadly character of the expectoration and Ihe breath of consumptives. Many have touted this, but the remarkable numbar >f deaths on the Riviera, which has ilways been noted'for its healthfulness, goes far to bear out the theory of the ixperts. As Nice, .Mentone, San Remo md other places on the Riviera depend ilmost wholly upon tourists for their mpport it will be impossible for them to har the class which brings them in so much coin. It is a literal case of life and death for them. The correspondent ot tne tionaon Telegraph supplies the latest pen picture of Bismarck: “Let me try to describe the outward seeming of my illustrious host, as he strode firmly along through the leafy paths and umbrageous winding ways of Friedrichsruh Park, manifestly as sound in ‘wind and limb’ as the tough est of hi* foresters or the hardiest of hi* keepers. He wore* soft, broed-brimmed hat, a thick wide neckerchief knotted la front, a long, dark, loose coat buttoned up to the throat, gray trousers and strong, double-soled boot*. In his right hand ungloved, he carried a black stick srtth a slightly curved handle, upon which he rarely leaned while walking on level ground. His mustache no longer over hang* his whole mouth, as of yore, but has been trimmed comparatively short so as to show the under lip. He bean him* self in bis old martial fashion, with head erect aad shoulders well thrown back. The incipient oorpulence which made him appear somewhat over-bulky about ten years ago has entirely vanished." VIRGINIA. A large party went fiom Roanoke to the Blue Ridge Springs Saturday night to serenade Governor McKin ney. Barrow is a newly laid out town in Prince William county, 28 miles south of Washington city. The confluence of the Quantico creek with the Patomac river has given the town site the shape of an opossum's nose. Ship building and steel works are the industries promised forBirrow. Craig and Tazewell counties have sent an unbroken delegation to the district congressional convention of the Ninth district in favor of the reuomination of Hun John A. Buchanan. The administrator of Joseph J. Kelly, the young Baltimorean who was run over and killed by the cars at Roanoke several weeks ago, has brought snit against the Shenandoah YalUy Railroad Company for $10,000 damages. The Committee of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce appointed to solicit subscriptions for buying a $00,000 lot for a seven-atory building for the organization reported that they have received pledges amoun ing to $32,000, which probably guarantees the success of tho enterprise. Committees were ap pointed to confer with tho Grain and Cot'on exchange with regard to their occupying the building with the Cham ber. The Buiiress Min’s Association of Norfolk, has undertaken a practical move. They have secured the services of a man with a large Northern acquain tance, »h) gees North and makes a town tr town canvass in New England and New York, laying before people the advantages of Norfolk, the purpose be ing to secure industries, encourage ex cursions and in every way advance the interests of the town. Colonel E. B. Barksdale, of Danville, announces hinnelf an independent Re publican candidate for Congress. He declares he will have nothing to do with any conventions, but fcc will ride his own horse and crack his own whip. He says he stands squarely by Mahone, who, he dcclaies, has more brains and capital than all the kickers. The contracts for the new church to be erected by the Grace Street Baptist con gregation. Richmond, on the site of the old building, were awarded. It will cost $55,000, building in the Norman style of architecture. There is great activity in real estate in Bedford City, and it is said that the ssles during ihe last few week aggregate $300,000 worth. NORTH CAROLINA. On Sa'urdny, at Shull’s Mill'', Watau- § a county. Capt. Walter W. Lenoir ied. aged about 89 years. Govcrm r Fowle revoked the com mission by which be ordered Judge Spier Whitaker to hold St ikes Superior Court in place of Judge Shipp, deceased; and appointed Hon. M. L. McCorkle, of Catawba, judge of Eleventh district to succeed Judge Shipp. The trustees elected Prof. John F. Luneron, of Missouri, to the professor ship of physics at Waks Forest College Professor Limeron is now pnsidentof the Baptist College at Pierce City. Mo., ard has held several prominent professor- ships in various colleges. Rev. J. M. Hilyar, for six year? pastor of 8t. Stephen’s Episcopal Chuich at Duihnm, has tci dcie-i his resignation and accepted a call in Tix-is. The Wilksboro road has been leased by the Richmond and Danville system fora period of ninely-nine years. Some of the largest stockholders of the new n ad arc said to be much opposed to the lease. The Register of Deeds of Forsyth county announces that the returns are larger by a million and a half than for the previous year. A normal institute for the instruction of negro teachers was in session at Gnensboro for some days. The en rollment was over one hundred. It was organized and conducted by white edu cators of the Quaker Church A thiitecn year-old son of Rev. William Phillips, who lives nt Mount, Airy, ac cidentally shot and killed himself with a un. The load entered his bnast, and cath seemed to have been instant. Miss Mary Murrow died at the home of her father, in the southern part of Guilford county, of paralysis, said to have been induced by acute sorrow ovir the death of her brother, Eugene Mur row, who died of fever and injuries re ceived several weeks ago while on a raid with a paity of revenue officers after illicit distillers. Miss Murrow has been an excellent educator, having taught a number of years in the Greensboro city schools, SOUTH CAROLINA. Edward Willis, of Charleston, has been appointed special agent of the cen sus bureau to collect manufactory statis tics of Charleston. There is great dissatisfaction among the employees of tho Three C’s Road because they have not received sny wages in three months. The cause of the wages remaining unpaid is not known, but it is attributed by some to lie the bond roubles, which the road has had, town ships carrying the payment of subscribed bonds into Courts. A commission was issued for the or ganization of the Bumter Ice Manufac turing Company of Bumter, whose gen eral |urpoeewill lie to manufacture ice and operate a “cold storage wareybnuae.” A charter has been granted, to the Marion Wharf and Storage Company, of Charleston. W. L. Keel, of Rooky Spring town ship, in Aiken ccuuty, on Monday killed a sturgeon or some other fresh water monster in Cedar Ctcek that measured 5 feet 10 inches in length and weighed seventy pounds. Peter Roof, a very old negro, Friday morning murdered Isaac Lockrane, his ron in law, near Columbia. Tho old man surrendered to the sberifl. Peter lays he was aiming his gun at Lockrane in sport when it was discharged acci dentally and killed him. The coroner’s jury found a verdict of cold-blooded murder. The old man objected strongly to being locked up, thinking it unjust treatment. He ws.qted to go liom$ and work bi| crop. The East shore Terminal Railroad Companv is gradually absorbing a good deal of the east side wharf property at Charleston. It has now purchased Kerr’s wharf for $18,000. This makes seven wharves that have passed into the pos session of the company since it recured the franchise to cons'met a belt line. Counting the franchises and cotton pre s property already acquired, (be company, now owns upwards of $600,0C0 worth of property in the city. It Is sta'ei, how evir. that they paid only $118,000 for the seven wharves now owned by it. All these wharves are below the Union wharf property, and their acqui-itien is taken an indication that the Terminal people propoie to build their belt line along the entire east water front, with siditracks on every pier fnm the great railroad de pot to the battery. TENNL38EF. A Memphis special says: The Louis- viilc and Nashville Railroad Compnny have mortgaged the entire system to the Central Trust Company of New York for $75,000,000. William H. McCIcan, one of the best known business men in the city of Nash ville and a member of the wholesale grocery firm of McClean, Jackson &Co., dropped dead suddenly. Editor Wright, of the Marion County llcrord, of South I’itlsburg. Tenn , while enroutc for home, was assaulted at Bridgeport. Ala., by Jot Hill a brrke- mad on the Nashville and Chattanooga road, and beaten with a coupling or dub. Wright is seriously injured, one arm b ing broken, a shoulder dislocated and other hurls being received. 1 his attack ensues as the result of a previous quar'cl and personal article in the Record, Wright’s paprr. Hill was not arrested. A lirge amount of building going on at Greenville. A fine hotel is under way; a large leaf tobacco factory is to be built, and one alicady established is to be enlarged; two new busini ss bk ek - arc going up; fifteen or m< re new resi denccs arc in var.ous stages of comple tion, and a number of new buildings bare already been completed. Harriman and Rockwood, are now connected by telephone. The Genesis & Obed River Telephone Co. has just rompietsd its line between those two points. Dyersbiirg has decided by popular vote to sub-eribo $35,000 to the Birin ingham, Jackson & Kausas City Railroad Co. to secure the building of tnat road. A force of men is busy on the excava tions lor Furnace No. 1 at Cardiff, Tenn. This furnace will be 10 bet bosh, 75 feet high, wroiwht iron shell and mounted on eight columns. There will be three firebrick stovis 19 feet in diameter and 70 feet high, of the latest modifications, of the Siemens Cowpcr- Cochranc stove, capsbie of besting 22, - 000 cubic feet of sir to 1,500 degrees. There will be two blowing engines with blowing cylinder 7 feet in diameter and 5 feet stroke, developing about 900 horse RAILROAD AND INDUSTRIAL NEWS. The first annual meeting of the Colum bia, Newbeiry & Laurens Railroad Co. was recently held in Charier ton, 8, C. Mr. W. G. Childs, president of tbs company, read his annual report, which showed that 45 miles of the hse from Co’umb’a lo Newberry had been completed by the Conaarec Construction Co , and that a portion of the road had been examined by the railroad commission and accepted. The Cape Fear & Cincinnati Railroad will, if built, prove to be of great im.vor- lance to South Carolina. From a pros pectus of the company the following in formation is taken: “The road is lo ran from AVilmington, N. C , south to Southport, N. C., thsncc westerly tbrough heavy forests of jsllow pine and other limbir lands to Conway, 8. Or Iferc the road diverges in three direc tions, the main line going southwest to Georgetown and Charleston, 8. C. Another division will ran north from Salisbury, N. C., via Marion, Bennetts- vil’o, Hickingham, Little Mills and Albemarle, and the third division will run from Conway northwest to Green vide, 8. C., via Florence, Camden, Winnsboro and Union. The total lergth of the line is 485 miles. The company owns valuable tcimiral facilities at Southport, N. C., where it is propo'ed to erect waiehouses, wh .rvcs, coal piers, cotton press, elevator, etc,, so that grain and can te taken to 8 •utbport from the Northwest and loaded into vciacls, the cl y of Southport being sitn- ated at t’ e mouth of the Cape Fear ri\er and only five m''ei from tie Atlantic ocean. 1 he ollii e s are: P e ident, J. Wilson Brown, Baltimore, Md.; vi<e president and > o e-al manager. George il. Mor'on, Baltim-ue: te'otid vhe pres ident, M. C. Gti brio, Southport, N. C. : : c -rotary, J. H. Rowlenson; treasurer, II. B. Bell.” The Massachusetts Con- slrccti m Co. has been recently organiz ed lo build this r.oid, and has, it is said, as was s ated several weeks ago, been awardid If e contract for the division octwecn Wilmington and Sou'bport, 25 miles, and between Southport and Salis bury, N. C., 196 miles. * ♦ * * The Southtrn Timber & Minert 1 Land Investment Co , which has recently been orgsnized, witboffhei in Kansas City, New Or'eirs, Chattanooga, Boston. Lynn, Mass , Aiheville. N. O., and Pittsburg, Kansas, owns land? embrac ing about 40.000 acres, located in Eastern Tennes. ee and Western North Csiolm, ard i? now making investments in s manufacturirg plant at Johnson City, Tenn. The properties of the company lie about 70 miles cast of Knoxville. The capital stoik is $350,000, widely distributed in t’. • North, Bou'h and West. * • * V The wealth ot Danville, Va., ss re- c ntly computed, makei that city, so it THE ALLIANCE. A EUfi-TREAtU&Y BILL EUBITIIUIE. Proceedings' of the (Mdwell County, N. 0. Alliarce.—They Vote Down the knb- Ti eat try B l 1 , and Offer Another Plan.---Farming Notee* POLITICAL SQUIBS. power, to supply the blast for the tur- is ijaimed, the richest city in the State — • - • »rly J p<rchpi a, Yhi population is 12.000, snl the ied esta'e as eisment Is $5,700,- 928. The red and personal properly in the place amcuuta to about $8,000,000, giving rn average wealth pir capita of *750. There are 1,400 whi'c voters in Danville, and thus it will be letn that were the wealth of the city divir'el equally amoegtien, each voter would re eivc mere than $5,009. ace. This furnace will be ve ry nearly like the Anniaton, Ala., furnace and the same size as tbc famous Thomas fn Dace in Birmingham. There will Ire five sets of boilers, capable of developing 1,200 horsepower. GEORGIA Camilla is talking about building a railroad westward to Cheevertown on Flint river, twenty miles above Bain- bridge. Five Georgia mills are engaged in making cotton bagging to covii Geor gia’s cotton crop this fall. During the month of July, there were shipped from Adele twenty-eight carloads of naval stons, twenty-seveu carloads of lumber, one carload of melons, and three carloads of live stock. During the same time there were received 185,589 pounds of merchandise. Mrs. Kennedy, livingabcut three miles fn m Tennillr, was bitlcn by a ratile snake. She accidentally stepped on the snake and was bitten on the for t. A physician wis immcdiitely summoned, and medical aid rendered. She is out of dangtr. Bainhridge’s cotton compress is going up with a rush and will be ready for budrc‘sby September lit. Before the end of anothrr summer, Bainbridgc will have a guano factory and cotton seed ill mill. A c.itton com press, ice factory, electric light plant and an $8,000 brick academy in one summer is doing pretty well. There is a 100 acre toma'o farm near Griffin. Martha Wardlaw, an old negro womsn, died at Augusta from neglcit and for want of food. On last Friday I'rofcssor Swanson, of the Dawsi nvillc high school took cci a sion to correct a son of R. E. Burt. Mr. Burt 1 arning of this went to Swanson’s home and slapped him in Ihe face. Swan son complained to the town authorities, and on Saturday Burt was brought be fore Mayor Howser, who lequired him to pay a small fine, and also to give bond to answer in the euperior court. Upon this Burt brcime very much en raged, and stiuck the mayor with an oren knife, ii flicting an ugly wound in bis shoulder. Others interfered snd separated them. Dr. Thompson was summoned, and dressed the wound. Burt bas not yet been arrested UTRKH STATES. f quiet at pre'ent. There is no telegraphic Three Cubsn officers esmo over to Key communication with Guatemala. West, Fla , to curry hack to Cuba a man who was extraditable, and they were surrounded by a mob of resident Cu bans, who tbrcnhned their hv.s. The steamship Franconia went ashore at the entrance of Fernandioa harbor, caught on fire and burned to the wstei’s edge. The Cumberland Gap and Misshsippi Valley railroad stork was subterib d for in Hopkinsville, Ky The line wiT run from Cdumhus, ilia?., through Hop kinsville, to Cumberland Cap. State Senator John W. Cutrer, of Mis sissippi, and delegate elect to the consti tutional convention, from Coahoma county, shot and fatally wounded Frre- land Chew, editor of the Keie Coaho- mian, at Friar’s Point, Miss. No par- ticulais, except that Chew bas been as saulting Cutrer in his pajier. The pinespp'c crop of Florid*, par ticularly of Brevard county, has betn a s remarkable success this season. The shipments have been much larger than heretofore, and tho prices realized have been uniformly good. The net results will probably range, for good fields, from $400 to $650 per acre. One prominent grower realized $1,300 from two acres out of the best part of Lis patch. An other reports about the same results from the best part of bis field. The so arc tie returns from the commission men. According to London, Eng., cable grams, acompinyis organizing in that city, cipital $1,000,000, to acquire and exploit lands in Alabama. * * * * The Richmond Land & Improve lent Co. has acquired 930,000 acres of land in four counti s of West Virginia and in three of old Virginia. The records of Ibis (ransaction were filed July 8th in Mercer county courthouse, West Vir ginia. The price is said to have been $2,500,010. a * • v Tl e di'e tors of the Salisbury (N. C ) Cotton Mill have declared a semi annual dividend of six per cent, and have added $17,000 to the capital stock to be divided pro rata among the stockholder*. Addi- tionsof 2,900 spiadlei and 10) looms have been made to the plant. * * ♦ * The Mier Iron Co. of East Carondelet, 8 . Clair county, Illinois, have sold their two iron furnaces. All the machinery aud appliances arc to be used in furnaces now building at Big Slone Gap, Va. The Salvador-Cnatemala War. I a Libeiitad, Sw Salvador, via Gal- vrs'i n, August 4 —Communication wiih the intc ricr-of San Salvador, has been rcstoiel. Advices from the capital of the republic stall that General Antonio- Ezeta was ordered from the frontier, with about 2,000 men, immedia'elr upoi the outbreak of the revolt, headed by Gen. Rivas. Gen.'Ere a has'eied’with all rpeed to (In capital. Gen, R vas’a forces bad captured the'artillery barracks, but the few troop j in chirgc fought dcr- I erato'y befc re they surrendered. Indians then pillaged several houses, and a panic en'iei. Rivas’s foiccs were finally de Ii a'c I and peace restored. It. is stated tint Guatemala has withdrawn her I forces from the frontier, and tbit all A Strange Card. Samce’ Colgan. an ambitious office seel er, of Edgefield county, 8. C., rail ec the following unique announcement of his candidai y, tbrough the columns of a local paper:’ “To the g od people ot EdgefiiId: The wind bloweth where it listeth, and no man can tell whence it comes, or whither it gotth, but I am not that kind of a cat. I am a Ren Tidman cat, and if elected county coin- missioner, propose to reform, beautify, adorn, rcausicate, rejuvenate and rein bilitatc Edgefield county from the edge of the water up to the top of the rocks. I am a laboring min nnd haul wood. If not elected, I can haul on. I would say more, but I am man of few words, and full of trouble.” A B g Fire at Beneoa Falls. The immense Pew building at Semca Falls, N. Y., was discovered t) be burn log early in the morning. Flames spread rapidly to Hoag’s Optra House before an honr had pasted, and that was consumed, with all of Fall street on that fide cast to Sheldon Dock. The II tines fpread to State street and buroed aeveral Urge blocks there. The firs was not cbecksd until a million dollars qvojqjj The paper knowr. as the “Sub Treas ury bill,” which bad been sent down to tbe Sub Alliance? for adoption or re jection erming up at the monthly meet ing of the Caldwell Co., N. C., Farmers’ Alliance, as unfinished business from the April meeting, a motion was made to adopt. After an able diicussion of the bill for aud against, a vote was taken and the motion to adopt was lost. Dr. R . L Beall then offered tho following paper, which was adopted, viz: Belletiog in the fundamental prin ciples of our Constitution, viz: equal rights to all, special favors to none; to constantly strive t ) secure harmony snd good will among all mankind; lo sup press personal, local, sectional and natio nal prejudices; and having faith in the intelligence and conservatism of our fellow citizeus, we offer the following plan as a remidy for existing public evils, not only to our brethren in North Carolina, but e>f tie whole order, and would firmly but rcsnectfully ask of all nndidates for the Legislature or Con gress a public acceptance of the same. Fitst, Such a modification of the tariff as will allow the products of our farms not only to reach the free mark ets of the world, but to get in exchange for our products the manufactures of a free market without unjust restric tions. Second. Such aa economical admin istiation of national finances as shall h ave none of the people's money looked in the government vau'ts as a surplus above the needs of the government, thereby contracting Ihe currency, or acting as a temptation to corrupt scheme 5 , or wasted on needless public buildings and unnavigable harbors snd rivers. Third, A tco lification of the national banking act, so as to prevent a needless conlraelion of the currency; the repeal of the tax on our State banks, and free coinage and rcmonetiziti-m of silv -r. Fourth, A cessation and rope 1 of all unconMitutun>1, centnlizing, sectional and pnrtistn legislation by Congress, tin reby promoting a feeling of nati >na! hro htrhood and confidence, in the just mss and stability of the government which is the basis of rational pros- perlty. Filth, A proper control of the rail roads, which are but the highways of the people for purposes of travel and commerce, in such a manner as not to deprive the railroad companies <-f a re sor-able profit on tleir investment and at tbs same time protect the people from unjust discriminations and restric tions on trade and tiavel. Sixth. Stern opposition to the usur pat ion of powers not granted in tbe constitu'iun and riseived to the peo ple. * * ♦ * The Alliance Sentinel (Lansing, Mich ) gives good report: Notwithstanding the extrtm: wtrm weather and the fact that farmers are exceedingly busy, tbe Alli ance is surely and etcadily traveling across th; State. Livingston county perfects its organization to-day and other counties will soon fall into line, and by the middle of August tbe State will be re dy to organize. Let each organizer feel tbe responsibility of getting his county in line. News from diffaent points in Virginia and North Carolina indicate that there is promise of the finest crop of bright tobacco grown in ten years. The sea sons have been excellent and the grow ing ciop is as good as the land can make It iismmg the possibilities that there may be at least thirty-five or forty Far- mt rs’ Alliance men in the next Congress, aud In consequence (hire is a wide field for speculation as to who will contrcl the orgmization of the 52nd Congress. Jasper countv, Indiana, has thirteen Alliances and 6')0 members. There are forty counties in tins State under tbe Farmers Mutual Benefit Association, with a membership of 40,000, all voters. The Farmer's Friend tfola, Kan. tsayl; Prejudice is being killed. Did you ever think of that ? The laboring people are coming rapidly to their senses and fully realize already that reform ran only come by I icing brought about by concerted ac tion. All over the country there seems to be a growing demand for a change in the political aepiot of things; and when such a univctsal demand is made it must be heeded. An independent party, in which the great common peo ple could j in togi ther in the election of cundidates pledgt d to teeded reforms, is demanded, and must be tbe outcome of the present state of affairs. It was a complete succe i s ” Such was the unanimous verdict of the State Farmers’ Institute at Ridge Spring, S. C. It accomplished gnat good. The farm er! spent astssion in that greatest of all schools, experieme. They came in di rcct contact with their fellow workers, exchanged ideas and experiences that were mutually profitable. New plans of c dtivation were advanced, the causes for total or partial failures explained and their remetlit s given. The eyts of many fatmers have been opened lo the necessity snd profit of new and easily cultivated crop 5 , the importarce of sor ghum as a by product for feed to cattle has been a pointer to a number of good farmers, the suggestion having been made by Col. Duncan. The most suc cessful and practical methods of fruit growing were advanced. If I _ (titer paying freight aqd other charge*, > pf property w$$ consumede The Cotton Eeuon in Texas. San Antonio, Texas, Special —This yvai's cotton pioduct of southwest Texas is beginning to come into the market, and buyers are rapidly flocking flora New York and other eastern cities. Ginning operat ons have already com menceoin many localities, and within a few weeks the maiket will bo in full blast. The increase of acreage planted in cotton in southwest Tcxa? is more than twenty five per cent as compared w th list year. However, the yield will not be so Urge this season, owing to ti e ravages of the cotton boll worm. Non*Nominatifg Conventions Cincinnati. O., Aug. 4.—Both the tenth district Republican conventions, at Wasbingtoa Court House, and the eleventh district Democratic convention, at Hillsboro, finding it impossible to nominate candidates for Congress, ad journed last night sine die. This rnaans new delegates and a nevr popiortioq ip each of these districts, At Montgomery, Ala., Hon. H. A. Herbert was renominated by acclamation for Congress from the Second Congres sional district of Alabama. In the judicial convention at Lexing ton, N. C., ArmUcld was nominated on the first ballot. The first I a'lot stood, Armfield, 102; Robbins, 102. B. F. Long was nominated for so.i itor, re ceiving tbs nomination by acclamation. The convention passed a resolution en dorsing Senator Vance. The North Carolina Republicsn con vention i< called to meet in Metropolitan Hall, Raleigh, on August 28. The State Executivs Committee, of which collector of Internal Revenue, J. B. Eaves is chairman, signed the announce ment. They purpose nominating a can didate for Chief Justice and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and Bu perior Court Judges for the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th and 10th judicial dis tricts. ThcAugusta Exchange, representing the business interests of Augusta, adopt cd a preamble and resolutions denouncing the Lodge bill, snd also tbe proposed boycott. The Omaha Republican, the oldest daily paper in Nebraska, has suspended publication. The 1st Nebraska District Democratic Congressional Convention hss nominated William J, Bryan, of Lincoln. The Democratic convention of tbc second Arkansas district nomirated Clifton R. Breckinridge for congress, by acclamation. The p’atforni adopted by the Michi gan State Prohibition convention at Lansing demands prohibition of the liquor traffic, tbc establishment of post il savings banks, a reduction of the tariff, a per diem service pension 1 iw, govern ment control of ra'lroads and tilegrapb lines, the Australian ballot system, equal suffrage, the prohibition of spccu talion in margins, and of the formation of trusts and combines, and urges legis lation that will insure to the laborer a just return for bis labor. The primary held in Webster county, Ga., resulted in the nomination of North ern for governor and all the old state officers, except Anderson and Htntler- son. Le ter and Nesbitt carried the county. Judge Crisp carried the county for Congress. The Richmond city Democratic com mittee met Thursday ni^ht for the purpose of arranging ihe precinct plan of electing delegates to the Congressional Convention to meet on August 17th There were strong expressions of disapproval of the plan from the people, but it was thought best to continue tbc precinct plan. Hon. F. M. Simmons withdraws bis nane as a Congre sional enndidale in tbc Second N. C. District. Congressman Dargan of the 6th Con gresaiontl Diltrict of South Carolina has addressed tbe following to Ins constitu ents: After mature ds iberation I have de'ermtned not to be a candidate for te election to Congress, and I le:oby announce to you this de’ermination In re iring from the public rervite itaffords n o pletsure to say that I shall cany into private li e no recollection of any personal grievance of any kind whatever, butonly a grateful rememberanoe of your gecerous support during many yaur?. Alluring you that, however widely we may now or hereafter differ on question? of Federal or State policy, I shall always feel a warm interest in your welfare and happiters, private and social, as well as political, 1 am vety respectfully your fellow citizeu, G. W. Daroan. Major E Barksda’e withdrew from tl o race for the Ee uocratic nominati m for Congtess in tie seventh Mtssireippi dis trict. His chances for defeating Coe- S rcssman Hooktr wee tlatteiing until 1 e eel*red for the sub-t e miry bill, which came I a reiction, and losing tl o pivotal county of Madison, he withdrew. Hooker will be renomina'e 1. Tie Demo'ratic convention of tie 1st Ne’traska district cert a gieating to Janet G. Blaine, congratulating him on bis denunciation of the McKtnlev tar.ff bill. The result of the primary election which took pla< e in Taylor ccunty, Ga , was ss follows: For Governor, Norlhen, 566; for secretary of ttite. Cook, 570; for tieasurer, Hardeman, 104; for comp- trolhr general, Wright, 104; for attorney gitmral. Lester, 336; Anderson, 220; for commtsdoner of agriculture, Hunnicutt, 202; Henderton, 242; for member? of congre&a, Gorman, 332; Grinret, 243; for senator of twenty-third district, Cul pepper,561; Sykes, 5. The Democrats of the 4th Georgia Congressional district nominated C. Moses, an Alliante man, to succeed Rep resentative Grimes. Delegates to the Tcnresne State Republican convention are in at andante at N shville. The convention will be just one-third as large as the late Democratic convention, because only one de’egatc is allowed for every 200 vote? The State executive committe; fe’ccted Znc Taylor, of Memphis, for to njorury chairman, snd W. T. Tipton, of Bradley, and J. O. Boyd, of Montgomery, for secretaries. The only names me more I for the gubernatorial nomination are Lewis T. Bax'er. of Davidson. W. R. Moore, of Shelby. W. W. Woodruff, of Knoxvil e Thomas H. Reeve’, of Wash ington, and J. E. McCall of Cartoll. Lewis T. Baxter was notnina'ed by ac rlamation for Governor by tbe Republi can State eon eitlon Wefnesday even ing. The platform adopted by tbc con vention enaoiret the administration of Harrison as wise, patriotic and state; - manlike; tie effort of Republican Con gtetsmen to enact th« pro’e vtivc HrifT law and tie Federal cledion bill; congratulates tie country on He wire solution of tbe Silver bill; denoumei trusts and approves tie action of Con gie?s making them a misdemetnor; denounce* tbe Stale Democratic admin istration and tl e pcol e itiayy lea e ays tem, and advising convict woik on mads; denounces recent Stale election laws as a discrimination in favor of He weiltby, and favoring a constitutionul amendment exempting from taxation $1,000 on valuation. The convention then adjourned sine die. Rational Economic; Tbe campaign in South Cart Iras is becoming complicat ed to a degree lhat perplexes ontaidcra Awonderlul thing to the uninitiated seems to be tbe notre from ti e Colored Alliance that its membeis will mpport the candidates agreed on by the white farmers. This teems to put the ekipt ut which contends that a division anu ng the whites Picsns negro supremacy at sea. 00K3RESSR/NAL. Washington, D. C.—lo the Senate Friday the tariff bill was taken up. When “orange mineral” was reached, Mr. Vance offered an amendment reduc ing the duty to 2j cent*. This ltd to a long discussion about the lead trust, par ticipated in by Messrs Vest, Morgan ami McPherson, in which trusts in general and the levd trust in particular, were at tacked. Mr. Vance’s amendment was rejected—nays 21. yeas 29. The eartbern ware schedule having been taken up, a vote was taken on the proposition to reduce the rate on fire brick and tiles, and it was rejectei, Mr. Plumb voting with the Democrats. Mr. Plumb made a violent attack on the bill, charging that especially in Ibe chinas rhedule it was framed solely with a view t > the demands of the maoufac- turers. It was about time, he said, that that the American people had an inning. The manufacturers had the present law passed by a Republican Congress on tbe recommendation of a Republican tariff commission, formed with an eye to their advantage, and now they were here de manding further advantages. There was a combination, he chvrgcd, between the crockery manufacturers and the im porters, under which they divided the market. Mr. Sherman defended the crockery manufacturers. He slid that the pr.ee of china to day was less than the duty paid on it ten year? ago. Without disposing of the china para graph, the Senate, at 6 p. m., adj turned. UNCLE SAM’S REVENUE. Commissioner John W. Mason hss submitted t > the Secretary of the Treasu ry a preliminary report of the operation? of the intcin il revenue business during the last fi'cat yeai'. The commissioner says that the total collections fr. m all ro tic >s of internal revenue were $142,- 591,696, an inertase of $11,700,262 as compared with the collectioi.s during the prsceding year. Tables appended to the report show that the receipts in ditri! during the year (which arc compired with the pre ceding wear) were as follows: Spirit?, $81,687,375. increase, $7,375 168; tv bacco, $3,339 000, increase, $2,092,130; fermented liquors, $26,008 534, increase, $2,281,699, oleomargarine, $786,291, decrease, $107,956; banks aud bankers, $70. decrease, $6,144; raised antou«, $153,434, increase, $63,363. Under the bead of tobacco the tables show (hat receipts from chewing and smoking to bacco increased $1,248,581; from clears, $661,513, ai d fion cigarette?, $10,796 Taxes weic ptid during the two last fis cal years on 4,087,889,983 cigars, 2,233,- 54,680 cigircttes, 8.5,043,336 gallons of spirits and27,561,944gallonsof ftrment- ed liquor. Illinois paid tbc heaviest contribution last year, $34,878,691 ; next in order came Kentucky, $17,059,043; New York, $1.6224,321; Ohio, $13,430,972; Penn- rylvania, $9,732,247; Missouri, $8,062,- 234; Indiana, $6,250,931; Virginit, $3,516,105. South Carolina is the smallest contrib utor among the States, $94,597, and tbe next sraalUst comes Alabama, $118 800, and Arkansas $119 015. Nttr.h Caroli na paid $759,501; Tennessee, $1,160,387; Georgia, $555 085, aid Floridi $175,- 382, THE COMPOUND LARD BILL. The house committee on agriculture ce :ided to report favorably the bill in • troduced in tbc House by Mr. Conger last Monday, to regulate the manufac ture and sa’e t f compound lard. Tl e bill i? similar in language and sc pe to the amended bill already repor cd by the committee, the only mu'crial change i being a few small ic luctions in tbe rate of taxation’, and tbe purpo e of reporting this last bill is to facilitate action upmtl e subje t in tbc Ht use by substituting it for the an ended bill first reunited and thereby avoiding ihe ne te.sity for separata votes on tbc numer ous amendn ents made to tbc crig'nal bid. reduction or rates ordered. The Inter State Commerce Commission has issued its order to take effect Sep tenter 1,. 1890, for the reduction of rates on food products, bast d on its report sent to the Senate June 7, 1890. Tbe reductions made apply only to coin, oats, wheat and flour, carri'd from Iowa, Misst.uri, Kansas and Nebraska, io Chicago, St. Louis and the Mississippi vcr. THE OLD DOMINIOy. Herman R. Baldwin, vice consul for many year? at Richmond of the govern ments of Braz 1, Spain, Portugal nnd Uruguay, was found deal in bed Mon day. Apoplexy wis the emir. Miss Sallie HoUie, a cultured Virginia girl has undertaken the industrial edu cation of the colored girls of the State. She proposes to establish small schools throughout the state, where the cilored girl can learn enough in two years to s'art squarely with the world. The citizens’ committee of Richmond decided that it is inexpedient to hold an exhibition next fall, as it is too late to arrange for a successful i-hnw. They passed a resolution asking the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical S iciaty to hold a meeting to deride whether or not a grand exposition should be given next year. Tbe money for the fair had betn nearly all pledged. Hy actual count, it L found that ioten months 228 houses have b en built In Salem. On) builder imp'0)S 429 men and bis pay roll for July wis $11,462. The handsome new N. & W. passenger station i? being completed. The sales of lots nnd improved in Salem aggie gat ed $3),000 for July. The Silem p.j»t- offiei and telegraph office report each an increase of 350 per cent, in buriocss dol ing tbc last ten months. At Ihe Thursday'.? meeting of the Richmond council, Warner Moore sub mitted a petition asking the privilege w> build an electric road from the erstirn to the western limit? of the city, with many branch lines. Mr Moore say; the proposed company has imm:nse cipital and will have the finest, road in ihe South, if allowed to build, Botton capi tal being behind the movement. The Virginia Midland road will short* ly replace,the old bridge across the Shen andoah at Riverton with an iron and steel structure. Amongthe improvements along the Loudoun branch are to be noted quite a string of villages between Hendon sn i Alexandria- 25 miles. Many pretty summer homes of Washingtoiiima are t > be seen. The old canal along th? south bunk of the Potomac is fast d if appearing. The farn ers ate grading nnd seeding it. The canal from Alexandria to opposi e Georgetown is said to have cost $1,500,- 000. The first tm miles of tbe new railroad from Kejcsvdle lo Chariottesville is graded; trains will be running by De cember 1. At the las'meeting of the A P. Hill camp Confederate Veterans of Peters burg, measures were taken looking to marking the place where Gen. A P. Hill fell near Petersburg, by a monu ment. The statement for July of the earnings and expenses of the Noifolk and \5est era railroad company show : Gross earn ings. $534,931.64 ; net earnings. $182,- 50} 57; expanses, including taxes, $352,• 368.47. There were thirty seven deaths in H'ehmird I.st week.’21, white and 18 colored. The trustees of R ehmond college met and confirm'd its committee a rccom- m-n lathm of Juige U g r Grtg trv for the Professorship of the School of Liw, by election to that chair. Judge Gregory is of King William county, anti was graduated from the University in 1855. The sheriff of Henrico c ma y arrested Thornton Adam?, a white m in employed on Mr. Jacob Fcitig’s firm, where peddler Uoscheiter wa? robbed and killed, charge t with being a party to the crime. It i? not known what evi- dence th<ri i* against Mr Ad^ms, bit it is thought, perhaps. Silly, the negro ai rested for the sune offence, may have made a statement to the officers implic i- ting the while man. The ii.tter p’-si- tively elenie? any know edge of ho v the peddler came by hi * dea’ h. A search warrant was gotten out, a id Adams s room in his sistei 5s hou e in Richmond was seaiched. A ehilt with some blood on it was found. tbe a few Chios go’s Big Far, Chicago, Auc 2.—The Dirrctc>rs of the World's Fair have prepared a state ment of the manner in which it is pro- posed to divide the exhibits between the lake front and Jackson Park. They ay lhat intend to put in Jackson Park he agricultural nisplay, in ail itsdivis sion?, including products of the soil, ivc stock and food products, machinery of all s tria, the foresty exhibits, tbc railroad display, electrical appliances, printing exhibit, glass making and pottery exhibits, mineral display, architecture and engineering, cot'on and woollen mills and their manufactures, military and sporting weapon?, mirine display, etc. ft is intended this portion of the exhibition shall equal in fnUrest that on tbe lake front. On the latter i. is propo'cd to put the art building, Ihe decora'ive nnd art manufacture building Turkish, Indian and Egyptian villages, Gov mount departmental exhibits and su on. The e ftardstbe BontL**Lnek at Hu! The best answer to fire “aters in regard lo Southern oppression may be found, like so much interesting malt-.r, It) grubbing among the cCLSua figur a.-for tli‘3 last decade, Memphis increasin': 123 per cent.; Dallas, 281 per cent ; San Antonio, 92 per cent.; L’hattano tga, 250 p«r cent.; Birming ham 270 pt r cent. Gompire this with Boston increasing 10 and Cincinnati 42 per cent. In addition to this the negroes have $150,000,000 of property and 1,000,000 of children In tbe public t- hoof? The filont f ines of enterprise and civiliz ition have been steadily liiilding up the 8mth lo a g’ory surprising the dreams of h' r proudest sous. Anti yet howling demagogue?— Ncr h ami Bjiith--would arrest and destroy this magnificent woik to secure some wretched political advantage or satiify somnjrueulrnt, puny ambition. —New York- Herald. Negroes Gedi; to M-xcj. St. Louis, Aug. 4. —During negro exodus liom the South months ago. when many thousands cf negro*s left Virgi tia and the Carolinas ftr Mississippi, Kansas ami Ttxas, J. Milton Turmr, the colored polticim and leader, was spoken of ns a moving spirit in the transportation of the members of his rac", anil placing them in their new horms. Since then several stories have been told of a rebeme Mr. Turner was hatching to transport an immense colony of negroes from St. Louis, Mo., and vicinity, to a tract of land in Texas. Verification of this has story reached St. Louis in a eommunica'itm frt m New York to Mr. Turner. I- is understood a syndicate of wealthy men have purchased 20),006 seres of land from the Mexican Government not a hundred miles fn m the city of Mexico, in a fertile valley. It i? the intention to populate it with negroes from the l nited States. The Government hss promised protection from the aboriginal inhabi tants, and givea other guarantees. Mr. Turner has indicated to th-> syndicate that, should they aceure the land and offer indu;ements which wou’d clearly show to the negroes that their condition would be changed for the better in the new home, he <ould lead a large colony and populate the valley at short notic. Gemrsl Imies'y GranLd. Dispatcher r. reive i from Buenos Ayres, South America, announced that the Aigentine government ins giaoted general amnesty to all persons who toik part in the insuirection width broke out Saturday. Tin Hydrophch aOn z > Summit, Pa., August, 1.—M s? Jen nie Hartman, who was bitten by a ja-t dog ten days, ago, shot herself dead yesterday. Fear of hydrophobi* hid unsettled her mind. ' Itia War Eure En ujh. Citt ,iE Mexico, July 28 The GauUmaulan minister has just recriv d advices announcing the foimal de claration of war against San Salva dor. Tie gereral strike was ord red Thuir* day ou all public schools now being r - paired in New 5ork. Three Dve.cc'ebrated Blythe will contest in Galifonpa was dijcidqd in favoi of Flor ence the illeeitin.iite child of Thomss H. Blythe, the deceased millionaire, award ing her the bulk of the csfatp, vajued at ft bout $4,000,060. ot tl e to tl a paired . contrncto-s are objectionable walking delegates. There ere rumors of driorj. n in Samoan villages In the ophiion of Europeans, there disorders | oint out tbe necessity of tbe treaty powers forming a proper govt ruuupj tor Samoa.