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DARLINGTON HERALD.
VOL. I.
DARLINGTON, S. C., WEINESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1890.
NO. 8.
The Drovers’ Jj'-rnal states that [cream of local news.
•‘those who are iajing out new industrial
towns in the South are very wisely giving
fpecial attention to the houses of wage
workers, allowing them more room. The
workingmen's quarters in Southern cities
and towns will not be so crowded »s in the
Northern cities, and will be in every re
spect more home-like.”
ITie growth of the orange industry ii
California is phenomenal, asserts the New
York Trihunt. So great has been the
demand for young trees that the nur
sery stock has been exhausted, and no
more trees can be had. In Los Angelos
and San Bernardino Counties 5000 acres
of new orange groves have been planted
in each county this year, and in Yuba
and Placer about half as much. Califor
nia shipped last year 3400 carloads of
oranges, valued at $1,500,000. This
year the shipment will be much larger.
A Boston hotel advertises that all serv-
nnts in this hotel are liberally paid by
the proprietor, that all guests are enti
tled to equally prompt and courteous ser
vice, and that when this is not cheerfully
and properly given, the proprietor will
be thankful to be notified of the fact.
The “tipping” system is not only an ex
asperating imposition upon the guest,
who pays liberally for all he receives,
comments the Detroit Free Preti, but it
is a degrading importation, and reduces
the men engaged in a respectable em
ployment to a position of semi-mendi
cancy.
A surprising result of the census enume-
•ationin Botetourt County, Va., is the
increase in the number of farms. In one
district where there were 150 farms in
1880, the present census shows 225, the
large farms having been divided and sub.
Jivided. The Fincastle Herald regards
:bis as an indication “that the large farms
that have laid waste so long have been
:ut up into smaller ones, and that waste
places are being cultivated and made to
field more advantageously to the labor
of the husbandman; that there are more
aomes, and consequently a better con-
fiition generally of the farming class.”
The population of Botetourt County in
1880 was 11,809, while partial returns
Indicate that the present population is
19,000.
The only genuine and reliable canni-
*Tr»f- 4tt r..ls(ci;rc-vronrwtnt nr.H-<» -r
Solomon Islands, a small group in the
South Pacific. To be sure cannibalism
is pursued in a desultory way elsewhere,
but its devotees would prefer kid, kan
garoo, monkey, cockatoo and snakes, and
cat the human kind only when hungry
from the lack of their usual game. But
the Solomon Islanders will cat a tough
sailor, a hardened trader, or even one of
their own tribe iu a mere spirit of wan
ton gormandizing when they are far from
starvation and other meat is plenty.
They have just had a barbecue consist
ing, with the usual side dishes, of Lars
■Nielson, a Norwegian trader, and his
three native assistants. They have eaten
six white men within the past few months
and are really transacting about all of
the genuine cannibal business at presen
being done.
The English, or rather the cockney
superstition about the “Household
Troops” is, thinks the New York Time*,
one of the queerest superstitions in the
British army. When the Guards are or
dered abroad to take part in actual war
fare, it is the general London belief that
the war is thereby settled. No evidence
to the contrary has any effect upon this
simple faith or upon the popular enthu
siasm in which it is manifested. One
battalion of the Grenadier Guards has
just been ordered to Bermuda, where
there is no war raging, not for the sake
of going where glory waits them, but
siinpiy^tHi!i2' 3 ^ mcnt ^ or * nsu * K,r ‘li n,l •
tion. It seems aTTCthis should break
the spell in the case of Wl£sc particular
troops,but the enthusiasm w^yunabaterf.
The dispatches set forth that ufe’y were
accompanied to the station by 20,000
cheering civilians. Such an “ovation”
to % body of troops in disgrace is prob
ably unprecedented in the stories of pa
triotic zeal.
The Happenings of This And Adjoin
ing States Chronicled.
Now Pay Attention and Listen, For
Every One of These Items Will
Interest You, Whether Poor or
Wealthy, Lame, Halt or
Blind, or Healthy.
In a recent speech in England, Mr.
Gladstone advanced a somewhat striking
and novel idea concerning the bene-
fieient influence of railways. The point
he made was, that railways have organ
ized bo methodically the means of loco
motion as to subject all their employes
to a genuinely “rhythmical drill,” which
he considers vastly beneficial to all those
subjected to it. Subjection of this sort,
he argues, encourages the formation of
punctual and fixed habits in the place of
indolent speculations on chance gains
and chance employment; it promotes
discipline, and so secures concentration
and permanency of productive effort.
There is something in Mr. Gladstone’s
idea, comments Frank L**lie'*. L'n
doubtcdly society is vastly the gainer
from the discipline and exactness of
method which arc essential in all prisons
connected with the railway service, or
with any other business system having
relations to the public interests. It is
to be remembered, however, that the
drill of great corporations may bceomo
too sharp and severe, and there is always
danger that it may run into military cv
actions, inconsistent with the rights of
the employe,
VIRGINIA.
Albert Morgan, an employee of the
Richmond gas works.fell out of a rowboat
Wednesday and was drowned.
Senator .1. B. F. Mills, of Big Stone
Gap, has donated $1,000 to the Virginia
Baptist Sunday School and Bible Board.
Work on the twin furnaces in Glasgow
is rapidly going on, and (he belt line will
be completed in a week or two. The
Glasgow Rolling Mills are being moved
there from Ironton, O.
Charles Rawlcs, who shot John Stone
some weeks ago in Pittsylvania and fled
to Texas, has been captured.
Paul Muhlhauser a widely known Ger
man of Alexandria, and for upwards of
twenty years connected with Portner's
Brewery, died at the infirmary at that
place Thursday.
The Lynchburg City Council has parsed
an ordinance prohibiting drumming trade
at the depots.
Tnc first new bale of cotton brought to
the Raleigh market v. as grown by Peter
Pool, of Auburn. Barbee A Barbee
bought it at lOjc. Mr. Pool received a
cash prize of $10 from a city merchant for
having brought the first bale to the Ral
cigb market.
Charlie Didsondeit, son of an Alcxan
dria cigar manufacturer, is the plaintiff in
a flu.000 suit against the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company. The suit is
brought in Washington, and to recover
damages for injury sustained by the boy a
year ago.
A Richmond special says: Perhaps the
most severe rainstorm ever experienced
here passed over the city Wednesday.
The great downpour of rain lasted for
thiity minutes or more, during which
time the streets overflowed the curbing
and sidewalks, and many cellars were
flooded. In a low point the culvert could
not carry off the waterr It had a ccumu-
lated to the depth of six feet, and the
basements of all the dwellings near by
were inundated. Beyond occurrences of
this charm ter no damage was done.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Linville, Mitchell county, was eonnect-
cil with the outside world by telegraph
Wednesday.
The Wilmington, Onslow and East Car
olina Railroad, a prosperous short line of
twenty-three miles in length, i". now in
daily operation ('Hup'Vs I——
'r;.; h 1 '" 1 oniiuy -Run in South Car
olina.
Grant Kenan, colored, from Duplin
Roads, was shot and killed by Albert
Herring, colored, of Turkey township,
Sampson county, Tuesday afternoon. The
shooting is supposed to have been acoi
dental. Immediately after the shooting
Herring fled.
The brownstone quarries on the borders
of Durham are to lie worked on a large
scale. The stone is of fine quality.
George May. a white man, broke into
the house of .1. E. Corsbie, of Guilford
county, Sunday night. He awakened the
family, was recognized, pursued, and
captured. He was jailed at Greensboro.
The Georgetown and Charlotte Rail
road Company, which was organized
some years ago, is about to go to work
and construct the line. Hooks of sub
scription have been opened in Charlotte.
Steve .In col is, the colored desperado,
who recently escaped from the jail at
Ltimhcrton, Robeson county, has been
recaptured at Jcsup, Ga., and carried
back to Lumbcrton, where he will await
trial.
Eighteen of the cigarette hands in the
machine room at Duke's factory, Durham,
between !l and 10 o'clock Thursday morn
ing put on their coats anil quit work
They did not like some new rule made in
Hint department in regard to going out
during work hours. They did not go
hack to work.
SOUTH CAROLINA.-
A charter was granted to the Newberry
Cotton Seed Oil and Fertilizer Company;
capital stock, $30,000.
Tin- municipal election at Ml. I’lrasnnt
took place Wednesday. .1. o. Freeman
was elected intendant.
Newberry*:- lirsl bah of new cotton was
brought in Wednesday by .1, It. S. Liv
ingston. viigh* 155 pounds, middling,
bought br .f R. Martin at loje. Twelve
yUys earlier than last year.
A hard-working colored carpenter of
Aiken by the name of Rage had the mis
fortune in lose his dwelling honsc by lire
last week. Ih had near $1 ill in tin house
at the time, mid it is surmised that his
house was first robbed and afterwards set
on fire. Fortunately I’age carried insur-
’ anee.
I A charter has been issued from tin- of
fice of Set irtarv of State to the ilnriin
City Alliance Ware-house Company, of
Orangeburg county.
j The following local railroad magnates
an- among the recently elected officials of
the Southern Railway and Steanisliip As-
soeiation on tin-exei-iilive liiaird : r. M,
Ward. South Carolina Railv.av, on the
rate committee; S It. Pickens. South
Carolina Railway; T. 5! Emerson, Atlan
tic ('oa t l.ini
Walker, I-1< niing A Sloan, cotton mer
chants, who have been located iu Spartan
burg, have determined to move their
headquarters to Charlotte in the Old North
State.
Professor Adolph Koeppcr, one of the
most celebrated mu io instructors in this
country, died Tuesday morning at his
home in Columbia.
Th'- Annual Review of the Trade and
Commerce of Charleston for the ronumi -
fial year ending Augu't-'ll "ill 1“' pu->
lishecl in The TV c. -no/ ('•mri/r about tie
1st of September. It will follow the |co:i-
erul lines of the Reviews which have been
published in the put, and will irivc n
complete and m Mir.at- nirnnnt of the
progress tli •• i harli -to:i lias made clurin"
th pa*' yc ar in "en ,e-—ial and industrial
cnt'ipii -
Emmie Moon, a litth eight-year old
dauelitiir o( W t( Moo i who live, twen
ty five inili allow- tip ' a- ill was instant
ly killed in a lingula! n: mu r. Slit was
playing in the ya.'l oi l a young lady was
leaning against a past of the piazza.
The little girl stole behind the young lady
and pulled her dress, frightening the
young lady so badly that she clutched the
post, milling it out from its place and
both fell on the little girl, mashing her to
death.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville received her first bale of cot
ton on Wednesday. It came to Gordon
Bros. & Co., from Alabama, and was sold
at auction.
The president lias signed the bill for
the establishment of a military park at
the battlefield of Chiekamauga.
The plans of the E. T. V. & G. new
depot at Johnson City to cost $800 have
been annulled and plans for a $3,000 one
substituted, at the solicitation of a com
mittee of citizens.
The National Conclave of the Supreme
Grand Lodge of (he Fnited Order of Wise
Men met in Nashville. Negroes from all
parts of the country were in attendance.
Tennessee is making a reputation for
furnishing brothers to run as candidates
for Governor. Mr. Lewis T. Baxter, the
Republican nominee for Governor of this
State, has a brother. Geo. AV. Baxter,
who is the nominee of the Democrats of
Wyoming.
Henry Duncan, a jail bird from the
Georgia penitentiary, hit Sam Thresh, an
eleven year old Chattanooga boy, on the
head with a brick. Thresh was playing
marbles and Duncan who was drunk be-
rame enraged at some trivial matter. The
boy’s skull was crushed and he will die.
Duncan was arrested.
A glove fight to a finish at Chattanpoga
under the Marquis of Queensberry rules,
whirh started at a late hour in the night,
was broken up hy the police at the end
of the third, and was consequently a draw.
X. J. Wilder and AV. J. Cummings, local
light weights, were the principals, and
were arrested, but some sixty spectators
made their escape.
About dark, Chas. Davis, aged twenty,
six. was instantly killed by lightning at
LaGnardo, near Gallatin. Davis was lead
ing his horse to pasture and the lightning
killed both the owner and horse instantly.
Davis is a son of Clint Davis, of AVilson
County, and was a very prosperous farmer
near LaGnardo. He was buried at La-
Guardo.
GEORGIA.
Green county is preparing for a fine
colt and cattle show, which will be held
early in September.
In the trial of Thomas Shaw, at Jack-
son. for the murder of Thomas McNair,
the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
Down Oothcalooga valley the grasshop
pers are playing havoc ‘ with fodder,
clover and other green crops. In some
places the shuck lias been eaten from the
cars of corn. It is fortunate that they are
not extended over a very large territory,
for the damage they are doing is great.
Governor GinaLuv --<ldi-csM-<l n
at \W" c 2 w " retirees in the haf »
rv\ . Ait.rHves ;it ixuuii.i n ctinrsuny
night. It was a public affair with open
doors. The speech caused a profound
-.m-ation. General Gordon declared that
he would not subscribe to the sub-treas
ury plan—-“not,” he added, “if it cost
me forty elections.”
Alexander Stewart, an old colored man,
who lives near Columbus, is the father of
thirty-eight children.
It is learned that Moran Springs, situ-
ited about four miles from Milledgeville,
have been bought for $5,011(1, and "ill lie
utilized in supplying Milledgeville with
water. There is talk of m w watopvoi ks,
to cost $100,000,
An electrical railway will be built and
in operation at Alliens before next Jami-
••'J'-
Near Oakland, ofiieer L. A. Edwards
ittcmptcd to arrest on a warrant John
Foster, colored, who re-istod \a\ ing, “vou
will have to kill me first.'’ Edwards took
him at his word and shot him through
die head with instant fatal results. The
aflirrr then went promptly to Greenville
Hid surrendered himself.
The Macon 7V/c'/;vq>A chums that Ocor-
gia is the only Stale in Hie I'nion that i an
boast of a railroad that has made a profit
>f 30 per cent, during the last year. This
is the proud record of the A\ rightsvillc
»nd Teii-mile Railroad. For the year
Milled .luiii' 311. istm, its net earnings
ibovc fixed charges and operating ex
penses were $3ii.3!H».” I. whieli is a little
more than tin per cent, on its capital stock.
The road was built as a public cuteipiise,
mil tlie stockholders did not calculate on
my considerable return from their invest
MCllt.
Sam De Grawisa Lansing (Alich.) man
with Santat 'Ians w hiskers, w lio hunts spar
rows six days a week and makes a com
fortable income therefrom, lie furnished
a large percent, of the 10.000 sparrow
scalps paid for by Ingham County during
June.
OTHER STATES.
The Roald of Trustor, have i ontnictcd
xitliC M. Kuluirst. of Mctidian, .Aliss.,
:o build a colored Stale Insane Asylum jn
luck-son. agreeing to pay llmefoi $55,000.
A\ illie Lewis. „ ninctccn-yi nr old ne
gro. wasioiiviiled.il Montgomery. Ala.,
md scnlimi.I to imiui-onment foi life
for the murder of his grandmother last
January. He was expected to be hung
I for the crime and expressed great satis
faction at receiving a life sentence.
The first annual regatta at Aransas Pass,
Texas, closed with a grand ball. Several
thousand people from Galveston. New
Orleans and other cities of the south,
"err in ntti udnner during the three dais
of the event. Among the yachts entered
in the compe ting rnres were the A ila
Vanglui. of Galveston; Earnest, of Nrw
‘lili-ois: Alice, of Aransas Pc- and
about ferty other fast sailing bonis.
W ain i N'uniiah e, First Lieutenant of
tlo W'K'd tnck Guards at Anniston. Ala.,
h i- become viob nllv insane from smoking
cigarettes Hr was removed to the State
asylum at Tuscaloosa. _\unnal(<J "as
formerly one of the editors and proprie
tors ot tii ■ Anniston Ihii/n Wntehman.
lie had purchased an outfit and was pn
paring to start a new paper, when symp
toms of insanity i onipclled him to gdve
lip. Hr smoked t'vrnty packages nl rig-
alette:: daily
“WHO OWNS THE FARM’
An Alliance Organ Charges the R. ’s committees.
“A fund should be raised for distrib
uting papers to Alliance farmers, and dis
bursed by State and county executive
With Absorbing All Profits,
The Virginia State Alliance Holds Ji
Interesting Convention at Lynch
burg, and Shake Hands Across
the Bloody Chasm.-Notes.
Discussing Senator Leland StanfoFs
dictum in regard to railroads, that je
“essenee of ownership is control,” \c
Funner*' Alliance figures out that ju-
rrilronds own the farms of this county,
because they control the revenues from Ire
same. It gives the following account of
sales of one acre of corn:
BALES.
One car rorn. fi74 bush. 36 lbs. at
20Jc per bush., $149if-
CHARGES.
Freight, $58.56; inspection, 40c;
commission, $3.37, 62 3
Total net product, $87 <3
It goes on to say:
It will be seen that the freight on aboc
ear of corn amounts to a little over
cents per bushel. This is the gross slprc
1 be rnilroad company gets. Its net slpie
is about that amount, or 44 cents jx'i
bushel. Now, let us see how murn the
farmer gets out of it. This cori was
raised in Cass county, and it is ftir to
suppose flint flic land it was raised on
was worth $30 per ac re. It was raised in
a good rorn year, and it is fair to supivwi
the yield was about 50 bushels per iiVre.
The aecount then would stand tnus: '
Rent per acre,
Plowing,
Harrowing,
Planting,
Seed,
Plow ing three times,
Picking,
Shelling,
Hauling,
$350
loo
125
150
110
150
3 00
50
I 00
Total expense of acre, $9 35
Income, fifty bushels corn nt 13c, 0 50
WASHINGTON,
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Loss, $2 85
The above is a fair estimate of the cost
of raising an acre of corn in Cass county,
and the yield given is a good one. jo
order to come out without any loss, tin
expense must be reduced $2.85 per acre,
and it cannot lie done. Hut on that
same corn, on which the farmer loses in
unrirompetiscd labor nearly five cents pci
bushel, the railroad makes a net gain of
44 cents per bushel.
*» + **♦
“ACROSS THE BLOODY CHARM ”
The Virginia State Alliance held a
rousing annual convention at Lynchburg.
iluuv iirnmiiu-”* public men were, present
Mrnoiig whom were e\-Assistant p<5sTmas
ter General Thomas Brady, of AAVstmoro
land county; Colonel Robert Beverly, of
Fauquier; Major Mann Page, of Prince
George; and Captain Thomas AA’hitehead.
State Commissioner of Agriculture.
The second and third named were can
didates for president for the ensuing year
Major page was elected. Col. Beverly
was then elected vice-president. J. J.
Silver was re elected secretary unanimous
ly. The other officers elected were:
Robert Suarlev, of AVythe, State Lecturer.
.1. R. Garland, of Mecklenburg, assist ant.
Rev. Aldridge Grimsley, of Madison.
Chaplain: R. F. Rlahan, Door-Keeper.
The following resolutions were iniaiii
inouslv adopted: “Whereas, Allianci
are shaking hands across the Potomac
across the Mississippi, across the raggci
peaks of the Rockies, and far grande
still, across the‘'Bloody Chasm,” aeros
Mason and Dixon's Line; and
“Whereas, Conseicnccirss politicians i
our National Congress have advocate
measures and expressed sentiments t
arouse the old sectional feeling cngei,
dered by the war; therefore, lie it
licrulml. That we, the State Fanner
Alliance of Virginia, do intend to gras
with a tighter Alliance grip tin- hands o
our Alliance lurllircn of the North, dctei
mined to liold together with lockc'
shields, in spite of al) efforts to arous
prejudices between us. until the tinancia
emancipation of the laborer iind producci
is accomplished.”
THE ALLIANCE IN VlrGI.MA.
A l.y ncliliiirg Ictb-r explains the metl.
oils by which the Farmers’ Alliance h
Virginia, w hich h-id its State ('onvcntioi
in Lyneiihing ou the 19tli, proposes t,
atlai 11 iis purpose ol Raving mnnev ot
imrcha-es and increasing profits on . ales.
In -very riiy , town and village ••they will
scled a certain incrcliant. or merchants,
and hv iiniling their patronage on them
they hope, by the increase of trade to get
their go ids at a very low price or small
co iiiiic sioii. la the tobaeco counties, in
oid- r to reduce ware house and commis
sion 1 liarges 0.1 weighing and selling to-
baecns. the Alliances contemplate leuting
or erecting ware Ii-mims, since the ptililic
anil prnati ware hoiiMB which they now
p'ltmui/.c have declined to accede to the
tei 111' propo-.-l to them sometime ago,
and 1 hey will he operated under the di
rection of a board of directors of the Al
liances in lhe.-c lections. They nlsu pro
pose forming some scheme whereby they
| can reduce the commission ou all farm
products and thereby effect a saving to
the individual farmer. Another scheme
that w ill he tried, and whieli promises a
great saving, is in the district and pre-
einct Alliam buying guanos and fertil
izers of ail kinds by the wholesale, have
it shipped to some convenient point and
Uistrihutc it out to the individual fann
ers at wholesale prices. So tar as polities
are concerned llicv are very reticent.
They say it is l>.qi <| and believed that
they can seeure legislation by concerted
action in county, State and National
Government ns the agriculturists desire.
Tlieir profesed aims and intentions, how
ever, are not to go into politics, except
in so far as it may be necessary in secur
ing and maintaining their rights and tlieir
interest -.
“Every State Alliance organ should be
placed at the State capital to keep the
farmers posted of State legislation.
“A State library should be formed with
the State organ, and should be made to
just defray expenses.
“The State library should be free, fos
tered by the paper; a list of the books on
hand being kept in its eolunins. Educa
tion is the shortest route to law. taxes
and a comfortable and patriotic civiliza
tion.
#****•
A GIANT WITHOUT BONES.
Agriculture is the greatest productive
’adnstry in the United States, and the
arniers create really more than eighty
per rent, of the surplus w ealth of the na
1 ion. Yet they present this unique spec
tacle. Though the largest and most im
portant class—adding more than all nth
ers to oat w ealth and stability, and em
ploying four times the amount of capital
invested in all the manufacturing enter
prises of the country; yet they exert the
least influence in State and national af
fairs, and remain the most unconscious of
their vast power and many w rungs. {if
the twenty million people, belonging to
the agricultural classes nearly eight mil
lions are active farmers, and there is prob
ably not in the whole world so large a
lardy of homogeneous people, actively
employed and holding property, who
have so little organization, cohesion and
influence.—Fxchanrje.
******
Georgia has 2,200 Allianees.
Kansas has 2,769 Sub-Alliances and
110,769 members. She is getting there
with both feet.
The Alliance has already demonstrated
by its recent meetings in the North and
West that sectionalism as a political fac
tor has run its course. As well might the
politicians attempt to dam the Mississippi
with a straw as to expert much longer to
keep the wealth producers of the North,
West and Smith frnm fraternizing* Unity
■if action means self-preservation, and this
fact is being rapidly learned.
The Alliance pirnic season is now on,
and the brethren take the truths of the
orators home to think over. The kind of
pabulum that doesn't nourish the over
night is at a discount. Let the lecturers give
ilieir best talents to the work, and results
will attest their ability as economic tench
era.
The Farmers' and Laborers’ Union and
the Alliance of Arkansas have consolidat
ed the two organizations.
South Carolina has 1,052 Sub-Allianees,
and a membership of 40,000. An increase
of 300 Sub Alliances and 17,500 members
since last report.
Kansas, Tennessee. Missouri, Uvorum
and tVmtli eiarrUIn* 1e~i -II "’k- * ! .Ti
r> Affiance membership. Missouri is >«
the lead with 2,000 unions.
Concentrate your labor, eoneentrate
your manure, and you may eoneentrate
your crops without lessening the quantity.
Tlierc is no other occupation in this
country that yields as small returns for
the capital invested, the labor employed
and the energy used 11s farming. This is
why boys are leaving the farm and going
to the cities to enter other pursuits; for
the same reason thousands of farmers who
are able, left their farms and joined the
ranks of those whose living is made by
contact with their fellowmen instead of
with the earth. This accounts for the
continual increase of the wealth in the
cities and a constant decrease in the coun
try. Can any one deny that there lias
been a discrimination against the farmer?
Certainly not. He only asks that justice
be dealt to all men. That he be placed on
an equal standing with Ids brothers of all
professions.—Tile Home Journal, Grayson,
Ky.
THE COTTON BAGGING BOYCOTT
The Juto Trust Decrease the Price Six
tyPer Cent., But Cannot Regain
Their Foothold.
PREFERRED PUBLIC POSITIONS, CENSUS IN THE SOUTH.
That Compound Lard Bill Before the
House Again.
Washington, D. C.- -The House Thurs
day proceeded to th'> consideration of the
bill defining lard.
Mr. Meflammy, of North Carolina, op
posed the bill. He knew that it was a
big question; that in comparison with it
the Lodge bill would sink into signifi
cance. He believed that when the Amer
ican people considered the question, even
the rulings of the Speaker and the count
ing of a quorum would he forgotten.
The gentleman who proceeded him (Mr.
Brosins, of Pennsylvania), had yesterday
fallen into poetry. He could not do so.
He could only think of one verse.
“You may break, you may shatter the
land trust if you will;
“But if you listen to the testimony taken
before the Committee on Agriculture,
and find what pure lard is made of,
you will find that the scent of the
whole hog will hang rouud it still.”
[Laughter, j
Mr. Mason said that this was a fight
between the packers of impure, and the
packers ol refined compound lard. He
was in favor of branding every artiee in
the market for what it really was.
Mr. Allen (Michigan), spoke at length
in support of the biil.
Mr Henderson, of Iowa, supported the
bill, saying no one questioned the right
of Congress to enact the legislation, and
that it w as purely a matter of policy.
Mr. Honk, of Tenn., said that he had
hoped that the machinery of the Internal
Revenue system would have been wiped
out of existence at this session of Con
gross. Bui, it w as evident that this could
not be done, and lie would vote for the
bill ns being in the interest of the farmer.
Air. Forman, of Illinois, favored r. tax
of two mills a pound on compound lard,
to ensure compliance with the other re
quirements of the bill.
Mr. Stewart, of Texas, said the measure
was worse than its precedent—the Oleo
margarine bill.
Mr. AVheeler, of Alabama, appealed to
IVinonnts to stand by their constitution
il principles. The trouble, he said, was
tiiat God had blessed the South with a
vegetable superior to all other vegetables
in purity. Congress was attempting to
pass a law in conflict with (lie statues of
Almighty God.
Rending fuither debate, the House at
5 o'clock adjourned.
THE IIA CM INVESTIGATION.
The Special House committee apneint-
ed to investigate the charges made by
Representative Cooper, of Ohio, against
Commissioner of IVusiuuii.At*' 1 "
ire invcMtifrettoKi »mi r5>mii!issvinEr Rami
,i' I'VfccM on the stand. 1
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Senate bills were passed for bridges
across the Missouri river, between the
mouth of t!ie Illinois and Missouri rivers.
You ask the name of that pretty little
brown eyed maid, just passed? She. is
Courtenay Walthall, tlie daughter of Sena
tor Waltiiall, of Mississippi. She is one
of the finest types of her style of beauty
in Washington. She lias the wonderful
coloring of a creole; brown skin that
tlii'-hcs in waves of red as she talks, dark
and dreamy eyes and round dimpled
chain. Her hair is dark and it waves
back from a low forehead and rosc-tiutcd
ears.
The House Friday took up and passed
the Senate agricultural college bill.
Representative U'Donmll, of Michigan,
made an argument before the House Com
mittee on Commerce in favor of a bill al
lowing railroads to give reduced rales to
commercial travelers.
ANOTHER N. C. TAX CASE
Two Salesmen Whom the Authorities
Class ns Peddlers.
Never Too Old to Marry.
Rk ii mi NO. Vx . Spc< ial. Judge Joseph
Christian, ex pre-iiient of Oie siipic.iu
court of appeals, W .t- man h d Tlmisday.
! in Centre country, IVnnsyhnuia, to Mrs.
' Anna Rcvnnldx. ’ The bridal rouple, im
; mediate!v after Hie murii igc, left for the
| While Sulphur Spiing'-, Va., where they
! u iff spend tin ii honeymoon.
Hell. John K Massi v, '.iipeiitilendent
I ,,f public in 11 netieii for the stale mid 1 x
| |j ( liter ml eovenier. i- to be marl ied e 111\
in the fall to a incinln 1 ol a piomiiicnt
Alabama f unity. I'.olh of tin sc gentlemen
are ueariag three score and ten.
am iini e necessities.
J 11 Gay. of ('o'umbns, Texas, writes
flic Sntionnl Fennomi*': “Tim watch
word with cveiv Alii,Hire member should
be aggression. The facts of the times
demand it. and any one that douhts it
shows this information is one-sided. They
are not to be blamed, for we all eame
from that condition Let us then by ng-
gicxsion for a eoiumon interest teach them
what we know.
‘ For feu tied some one inii'hl consider
■ggie-sion iiiviisjiin, I will say that the
meanie.: ; r oi in furlhei tlcili toe table h
justice, iii-irv domestic tranquility, and
to seeure thi blessings of liberty by good
government w-ith equal rights to all.
Speaking of boycotts, il may be leinark
cd tlint tlie Imyrott of the .bile Trust Iq
the Farmers’ Alliance lias been aeonipleti
success. From 15 cents, the price dr
niandcd by the trust, which was equal u
a direct tax of $4.000.0011.1 vciv on tin
Southern farmers, jute ha 1 fallen a 5 3 I
But even at this price there is no dr
inuml for jute bagging on the p ul of tin
cotton growers. As a matter of fact tin
boycott has just fairly got into working
order, and it is not likely that tlie farineis
will again place themselves in the pnwi:
of so vicious a combination ns that Ion,h i:
by the jute manufacturers. To resort
lignin to jute as a covering for eoltoi
would not only be against the best inter
psts of the fanners, but would be unjust
to tlie interests which have hern huilt up
as a result of the Imyrott.
The greed of the jute men nverieaehi d
itself in tins instance, and the indications
go to show that the profitable market into
which they entered .n highway rolibi i-
will never again be opened to them.
The Manufacturers’ Record make,
little estimate that is of special interest
in this connectioi . |l the entire new
erop, whieli is estimated 7,000,000 bales,
should lie wrapped ill eotton bagging,
35,0110,000 yards of it would be required
which is equivalent to 27,000,OOO pound-
of the staple, making 11 new market fot
55,000 bales of 500 pounds each.
At a very low estimate, it is believed
tlmi this increased eonsiiinption will add
lo tin uuirkit price of till’ staple at least
half a cent a pound, giving 1111 additional :
i able of $3 50 to each bale, while He
saving by the use of jute would he but 23
cents a bale. It is not expected that lids
.'csult will be brought about at once, but
it is certain to follow the persistent refusal
of the fanners to use jute
\Vr inns ay here that 1111 Atlanta gen
tlenian, v. hose process foi extracting lilircs
has attracted attention even in foreign
eoinitiies, is now expi riiuentiug w ith tlie
nbre of the eotton plant. He thinks that
for a comparatively insignificant shim In
can place on each farm a machine I'm
stripping Hie luirk from (he eotton f lail,
direct ly I lie picking is over, and la Ion
the plant has become dry and bard Itoiii
the bark the fibre' ran be 1 xtraetcl .it a
cost almost nominal, and il can then la
worked up in the same maimer as |iilc
and woven on the same machinery.
\V. G. Met 'line and A. Spain, agents foi
(iateley A Conroy, a large niniinereial
house of Cincinnati, were arrested in
Raleigh, N. last Saturday.
They were* selling goods ami the city
authorities thought they were subject to
the lieen-e imposed on peddlers, and de
manded the payment of license tax.
Tlie agents declined to pay the tax.
claiming that they were driiiinncrs. ami
that the business they carried on was ex
actly I he same as that done by dnuitim is
for eoinmereial houses. One agent had
been thlough the cily‘■clliiig Ila goods,
and another agent followed, d: hiding
MU It goods as were sold.
The ease was carried before ,1. AV.
Marconi. J. I’., who all i n lioniing de
eided till' agent' Merc subject lo the tax
imposed on peddlei-. I'hry refused to
pay it and were committed to jail.
J. ('. L. Harris, who iscoiiit'c! for the
agents, left foi Raltiniore. where he will
sue for a w rit of habeas corpus before
Judge Rond.
In case this is granted the agents will
he sent there foi a hearing.
Tile panics who are in custody have
been seliing clocks. ■ ilveiw.ne, etc.
Th" South Carolina State Penitentiary
Farms.
Finn a gentleman who is familiar with
the nindilion of III" 1 lops on the various
farm operated by the S. ('. Renio iitiarv
w i'li eo iv n 1 labor the Hun an a< ei tains that
that the prospect fora large yield on all
the larniN is very fine. Here is a very
rnii'-ervative estimate of the probable pro
duction on oneh. In shels mid other ncei-
Peace Between Guatemala
vndor.
The Guatemalan legation has
a cable dispatch iiiiiiouneiiq
mala lias signed pi
The despatch furth.n' say:
and Gal- 1 mad' ami an -me t
I value are not lukea
j ‘.iiiiatc.
dents
hat re»l. Wheat
litrellr
s: Big Lake,
800;
Iree’ii Hill,
0 IO
("till 1,
100 bushels.
Hals
bushe ls;
»ig
l.nk", 7
o t); Green
Hill.
*. 0011; Am
dll i v
' M00;
SpigenerV
*ino
axington,
too-
"lal. 1 1
OUo bushe ls
l o: n
bushels;
lig
.ilk". .!
50 >; Green
Hill.
Am
lit I V
s. 2,Mill
, SpigomT’s
;;,e.oo
; Sims's |,
'•)(» ■
i.ixinql'
Ml, b O; to
ial. l
V-’OO bu c li
Is.
( "1,011
bales; Dig
Lik*.
;i0 »; the e
i Hill, 300
A ugh try \s.
*'0 ».
'pi’.e’ll. 1 v.
loo
Sim’s,
*‘.’5; hexing
ton,
t ; total,
l.l
5 bale
Ol thc.s#
Precocious People Pull Political Plums
Peisistingly, Pledging Proper
Party Promises.
Tlie Republic,ms of the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania district have nominated
John K. Sehoener for Congress.
The Republicans of the Ninth N.'C.
District renominated Hamilton G. Ewart
for Congress, by acclamation, at a conven
tion held in Waynesville.
At the convention held at the Bul
lard House, Richmond, Geqrgc D. Wise
was chosen for the sixth consecutive time
as the Democratic standard bearei i,i the
third Virginia congressional district. He
has served four terms and received the |
certificate two years ago, tint was unseat
ed by the present House to make room for
Representative Wnddill.
The Democratic convention in the
fourth congressional district of Louisiana
renominated N. C. Blanchard.
A. L. Tolden was nominated for Con
gress at the Democratic convention of
Erie and Crawford counties. Fa. The
nomination was tendered to W. L. Scott,
but he declined.
General W. H. F. Lee w as renominated
for Congress by the Leesburg, Va., eon
ventiou Wednesday without opposition.
Tliia is the eighth Virginia.
Maj. W. II. Bradley, a prominent law
yer of Charleston, was nominate^ by the
Democratic convention for Congress from
the first South Carolina diet rid to sue
eeed Dibble.
It looks as if Congress would not ad
jnurn before November.
United States Senator Henry AV. Blair
(rep.A writes: “Just think! we have put
at least fifteen million 11 year more lax for
pension money upon the South for our
soldiers at this session. She w ill now
pay $25.1100.000 or more every year in
pensions t o the North, while we refuse
iter $5,090,000 yearly to help educate her
children. It is a great shame, and the
people will not stand it in any part of the
country long."
H. E. Pattison. Tuesday, formally ac
cepted the Democratic nomination lor
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Tlie President sent to the Senate the
following nominations: Levi R. AA riglit,
of the District of Columbia, to be Register
of AVills in the District of Columbia, vice
Dorsey Claggctt. resigned, and AV. E.
Sims, of Virginia, to be consul of the
United States at Colon (Aspinwalli.
A Bradford, Pa., special says that Sen
ator Emery has addressed 11 letter to the
chairman of the committee of the indus
trial convention that nominated him for
Congress, declining the nomination. Mr.
Emery states in l* igti.w “Alv accept-
— \ lib fill.'
- r " J>i any source, however laudable,
0 f |„ v ( p
leal DcTamatcr, the ncpui>ii\.iu uoiuu.n
for Governor.
A foreign dispatch says: “The Com
mittee of the Servian Progressists w ere
poisoned at a banquet at Topoln." Amer
ican polities mny be lively, but European
Congressman Kennedy, of Ohio, has
put in circulation an agreement to be
signed by Republican members of the
House pledging them to prevent the Tar
iff bill going to the President until the
election bill is passed by the Senate, lie ]
claims to have forty-nine signatures.
Tlie North Carolina Democratic State |
convention met at Raleigh. There was a j
large mid brilliant representation from 1
seventy-one of the ninety-six counties.
Hon. A. S. Mcrrimnn was renominated
for Supreme Court Justice by acclamation,
and Hon. Walter Clark was nominated by
acclamation for Associate Justice. The
convention unanimously and enthusias
tically endorsed Senator Z. B. Vance, and
urged his re-election to the Senate by the
General Assembly in 1891.
B. F. Morgan, a AA'obster county, Ga..
Ga., republican, aspires to the honor of
of running for Congress in the third
against Judge Crisp.
It is said that Hon. John Temple
Graves, of Rome, Ga., will be one of the
secretaries of the executive department
under tlie Northcn administration.
Mr. Blaine's recent visit to Philadel
pliiu recalled to him the fact that for a
time during his early career he earned his
living in that city by newspaper work and
as a tutor in a deaf and dumb asylum.
The Farmers' Alliance w ill nominate a
candidate for congress iu the Kansas Citv,
Missouri district.
Ex Govcnor Charles Foster has publish
ed a letter positively declining to be con
sidered as a Republican eondidate for
Congress in the 8lli district of Ohio.
The Pennsylvania State Prohibition
Convention met at Harrisburg. A plat
form of thirteen sections was adopted.
Only two or three sections relate to pro
hibition.
AV. AV . Russell. Hie present postmastei
at Anderson, 8. C., is in Was|iiii;:ton.
lo a reporter lie seemed to be in a happy
frame of mind, but rather iitieoiuniiini
cative on the subject ol his vi-.il to the
Capital. He said, however, tlial it was
of i onsidernhle iuiportanee to the people
of Smite Carolina. "Y"U lieu -:i\ Hire,"
he added, "that 1 will be tin next Con-
gressman from Hie 3d district I am jiret
as sure to succeed Judge Cotluan as the
sun shines, and there ir no powir that
can prevent it save from Ih non. The
n< e among the Deni" nits in nil’ dislii-t
is very badly mixed and 1 run tiio
rnnfident that I will be elected
‘ides of Xnvcmhci I'liis is
Russell woiiid say. prefelting, lie
to keep out of public pi inis
The Repiiolieau State Convention of
Wisconsin lure re'iiomimitiai Governor
Hoard t»v aeetainalioi-i
Where Mr. Porter’s Population Table*
Put UB.
All the Southern States will show al
gratifying increase of population. The
following figures are the result of rough,
calculation from census returns:
Alabama now has a population of 1,520,-
900, against 1,262,505 in 1880; Arkansas
has increased from 802,525 to 1,182,000;!
Delaware from 146,608 to 175,000; Flori
da from 269,493 to 396,000; Georgia from
1,542,180 to 1,840,000; Kentucky from
1.618,096 to 1,870,000; Louisiana from
039,946 to 1.115,000; Maryland from
934,943 to 1,400,000; Mississippi from
1,131,597 to 1,265,000: North Carolina
from 1,399,750 to 1,040,000; South Caro
lina from 995,557 to 1,187,000; Virginia
from 1,512,505 to 1,700,000; West Vir
ginia from 018,457 to 774,100; Tennesseo
from 1,542,359 to 1,800,070. Texas has
inereased 000,000, having now a popula
tion of about 2,175,000. The increase ir\
Missouri has been 400,000, and her pop.
ulation is 2,657,000.
The tide of foreign immigration still
sets steadily towards the Northwest. The
South is gaining heavily by a movement
the older States of the North and East,
and is getting a more stable and satisfac
tory growth.
roughly
in the
ill At,
Mali d.
product* Ih" Ri iii!"ii,cii 1 viiil
half :re Hi" -li.n- of Hu Slat", cxi i pt u-
llie l.exiuglon r.inu, which is operated
solely Im Hie benefit of the prison am 1
whieli is really more of a 1 onvaleseent
I limp than a laiin. The fodder, h iv.
ipia'illis, potatoes, etc., whieli v ill in:
' be of 1 ollsidi 1 ail!"
account ol iii Hire c»-
le< civet)
(hat Guatc
with Sulvndor
that Rriident
Ayah has assumed pow er, and ir arranging
for an election for President.
Then
Tia l’n tin:
train lie , AV•
; put oa about (>1
We'll Travel.
' ' il I.iue e 111111111 ball
1 rl”!' I" At! 11!1.1 v ill be
J bu lit
.1. Hendrix Mel,nne, of Greenville, will
be a candidate for congressional honors
ihiougli the Republicans of the fourth
South Carolina district.
TheAV.Ya State Republican conven
tion nu t at Martinsbiirg. The platform
ad ipted endorses the iieiiiiiiistialiiui "f
Rri sident llarri on; 1 ongratiilates the
country on the record made by the house
ol repn .1 nlalivi s, commends Speak'r
I, id' 11 Mil -1 : i'iii lorses the federal ilee
H m I ill ami iiati"ii.il bankrupt! y bill,
an I 'Irnuiiiircs everything di moeratie.
II 'i R N Reynolds, of Keyser, received
Hie ii"minaH"ii for supreme judge.
I'll" Ti iiiiesM c Democratic executive
"ii .iiuitti c h re ilci idi il that Mi Riu Italian,
Hi" Demoeiatie candidate for Governor,
‘ fin'd uni tm el hi-- Republican unit Rro
liiliilioil r oiiipelitois in joint 1I1 bate II
1- lik 'ly that airaiieeiiieitls will In- ih.-iiIc
Ini a joint t ain ass in which the candidate
of I he Republican parly will be confront-
by Hu 1‘i'ihiliition Icmler.
Midsummer Activity in the South,
Some idea of the activity that prevails*
in all industrial lines throughout the
South, and of Hie w ide diversity of this
development, may be gained from a brief
siiiuiuary of the new enterprises reported
in this week's issue of the .Wanufactvrwe'
In Virginia contracts have been
pi'in tieally closed for the investment of
$1.5011.11110 of English money in Glasgow;
at Suffolk a $309,000 improvement com
pany has been organized: at Staunton a
$50.(00 wmiilwi'rking plant; at Roanoke
a $509,000 iron works; at Danville a
$300.01 0 improvement company; at Suf
folk a $25,000 electric light company; at
Basie City a $100,000 woodworking fac-
faetory; io Rockland a $25,000flourmill;
nt Radford a $150,000 water works and
electric company. In Florida there is
great activity in phosphate developments,
and during the week a $3,000,000 com-
piuiy , a $i ,000,000 company, a $250,000
company and a $200,000 company have
been iir/ani/eil to mine phosphate rock
and establish fertilizer works; at Fernan-
din.i .1 $30,000 ice factory is to be built.
Jn Ti iiiu s.ee a $500,000 cotton mill is to
be built, and two rolling mills, one to
m t $100,000; a $90,000 brewery, a flour
mill and $30,000 powder works. A
$609,000 coal mining company has been
organized in Texas, a $500,000 light and
heat company in Louisiana, $75,000 elec
tric company in Texas, a $50,000 lumber
eonipanv in Arkansas, two lumber com-
j ',111 it V Oj •MOO.000 and $12,000capital re
spectively in Texas, a $50,000 granite
r.'. , !!'!. Kin ' v .._ s :'. , ! H !...^r$5(rwbrr^-
works in Georgia and $50,000 brick works
in Louisiana, anil a $50,000 shoe manu
facturing company in North Carolina.
< >1 .smaller enterprises the number is very
la rue, ami includes saw mills, ice factor
ies, cotton-seed oil mills and many other
enterprises.
With such activity a* this in midsum
mer. when Southern people are closely
occupied in irettimr ready to handle their
jxrcat eotton erop, and when Northern
people are waiting for the return of fall
before taking an active part in Southern
development, it is difficult to predict
what stirring times will lie seen later on
in the season. In a month the eotton
crop will be moving freely and money
will Im* very abundant, and Northern cap
italist- will by that time be ready to be-
"in their Southward march in great num
bers
Enormous Investments of English
Capital to be Made in the South.
The investment of foreign money in the
South the coming fall and winter promis
es to he unprecedentedly heavy. The
Mnuii/th t'imr* lieconL as the medium of
communication between Northern and
English invrstois and the owners of
Southern properties, has for years been
able to carefully watch all movements
looking to the placing of money in this
section. It lias generally known confiden
tially of the heaviest investments long be
fore il was permitted by the projectors
to make their plans public. Within the
last month or so we have learned of up
wards of $<iO.uo0.000 of English capital
that has been otTcred for investments iu a
great many Southern enterprises, iuclud
ing railroads town ►ehcnies, mineral
properties Am In addition to this cnor
mous amount there are main heavy in
vestments being made which are not in
cluded in this summary, as this is only
what has been brought directly to our at
tention, and concerning which nothing
has yet been published in Europe or
America.
While the Tift'ortl has
for a eat s held a elos* relationship between
| the North ami tlie South, it is only with
I in the last twelve or fifteen months that
it lias pushed its intlueuee to the same
; extent into nearly all the leading financial
houses and iron and steel making con
cerns of Great Ihitain. though, of course,
it has had many readers there for years.
In that country it has become as invalua.
ble t«* investors as in the North, and we
are daily hearing of the great power that
it is ( \ntiiig in turning English capital *
to the South.
Within the next six months the aggre
gate investments of English memey in
Southern e’lite rpri-es \\il| astemish the
whole’ country We arc at the’ 1*. ginning
ot a period of aetivitv whieli will bring
gre ate r pn pei it \ to i lie South than has
be e n even die allied of.
Jixrnl.
Be li 'V ‘y She is Mrs. Cleveland.
Mi Eli/abetli Mihs, H brautiful young
hd' Iimiii t a na. \h . wa-take n to the
' a!e' insane .' .v him. where’an e iTurt will
In mad to t ure’ h r of a s'range’ hallue i
nat i*
Gro\
viiil
whit
Mil*
a Mi- Mil' s iu-i-tv that sh* is Mis.
• i e h va Ian i; that her husbanel is
pit- id*nt and In * plae-e m at the
h'’'!-' Sh' 1 is a el,mghter of Ira N
. a "t ahhv md promine nt e iti/e n of
SI, lh\ count.. Mi Mik me t |*re a
d< i anti Mi- \ h ve laud at Montgonerv.
\l i tin ■ v. a; a •. and wa- mm h
ph • I v i* h t h* I'tt 1 : \ viarago Mi>s
M" o II lioin :> ho;• :nd her In ad was
hadlv hurt, sle has sine e he rn elemented,
ami li.-v. - In i < I! I-* h. Mi (’le ve land.
Sh* i i at ional "ii ail ot In r subjects.
Deaths from Sunstroke.
\ugn I \*V hum.” a
Ih ui in,
m uch e>l tli" Ilav'ai tan icgime nt lre«m
EihM-tadt t > M o khreit. 1 To men l llftemi
sun troke. Thfo of them dual, and
sevtuteeu are dving.
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