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•If* (Property of elite CDarl'nrton County (Historical Society THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. I DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1890. NO. 9. An old resident of Iowa, now residing CREAM OF LOCAL NEWS. nt Nebraska City, says that in 1883 he | sold 160 acres of land in Crawford Conn ty, Iowa, for $25 an acre, and that a few days ago, although a railroad has since reached the place, he was offered the same farm for $15 an acre. He states also that in many parts of Iowa he can buy improved farms for $8 or $10 an acre less than he could buy wild lands for seven years ago. The Paris HtrM solemnly asserts that “nearly forty-five per cent, of the fe male convicts have at some period of t'-ieir lives keat parrots, and a careful comparison mo le between a thousand eTopkeepers of the weaker sex who in dulge in parrots, an l a thousand of the same class who abstain from parrots and dicky birds, sho .vs that the former are t wenty seven times more liable to be ar rested on charges of dishonesty than the litter.” Lion taming, which has heretofore been looked upon ns an exciting and dangerous pursuit, has been reduced to n safe and mechanical basis by the une of electricity, anounccs the Chicago Herald. The lion tamer now enters the cage of the king of beasts carrying a light wand with an insulating grip for the hand connected by a flexible wire with a bat tery. With this device a lion is about as dangerous as a pug dog. Ho may look terrible and roar, but he can do no harm. Anybody cau tame a lieu nowadays, and those thrilling stories in which the keeper, failing to subdue the majestic animal by the strange power of his bad eye, is torn all to pieces by him in sight of the audience, are tales cf the past. 6> Officers in the navy, asserts the New *ork Sun, look forward with confidence to the time ten or fifteen years hence when the large body cf their brother of ficers who were rushed through the Academy and in the war between ’61 and ’65 shall come to be retired, and make place for those behind them who must for years wait patiently in subordi nate offices. The resignations at the opening of the war, caused by the defec tion of many officers to the Confederacy and the sudden enormous growth of the navy, made berths for hundreds of offi cers and gave an impetus to promotion <uch as was never known in any other navy. Many of the war officers survive, and in years to come they will be retired with great rapidity. Of course, promo tions will be equally rapid, and the Lieu tenants of to-day will find themselves Admirals. A comparison has been made between railroad operations in the United States and Europe by taking the Prussian sys tem as typical of one and the Pennsyl vania system as representative of the other. The Prussian system embraces 16,800 miles and is owned by the State. The Pennsylvania system is 7884 miles long. The total earnings of the former in 1887-S were $180,000,000 and of the lifter $123,000,000, so that the Prus sian, with m ire than double the mileage of the Pennsylvania, only earned 50 per cent, more money. The earnings per mile of the Prussian were $10,000, of the Pennsylvania $16,000. The Prus sian carried 191,600,000 passengers, more than double the number transported by the Pennsylvania, namely, 73,000,- 0 )0. Bu , on the other hand, the Penn sylvania carried 122,000,000 tons of freight, against only 99,000,000 carried by the Prussian roads. The Happenings of This And Adjoin- ing States Chronicled. Now Pay Attention and Listen, For Every One of These Items Will Interest You, Whether Healthy. Poor or Wealthy, Lame, Halt or Blind. Says the Chicago Mail: Everybody knows that a “man's house is his cas tle,” or, at least, everybody ought to. The sturdy old proverb of common law comes down to us from times as far back as the granting of the Magna Charta, if not further. But of late the full signifi cance of all the rights implied in the say- ~lng,'which is in reality an exemplifica tion of good'finr.. have not been re cognized or respected, as they should have been. “A man’s house is his cas tle;” in it he is supposed to be safe; pri vacy is sacred in the eyes of civilization, ind no individual has the right to vio late the privacy of another; ergo, has not the right to enter his house without his consent for any purpose whatsoever. But the community, for the protection of itself, retains the right to violate the pri vacy of the individual, to take his per- ion, property, or life if need be. But that right cannot be exerted without due process of law, without responsible offi cial action, made necessary by the mis deed of the individual whose privacy it thus violated. The courts have so de cided, and a fresh decision by Jndge Collins has brought to notice the danger cf violation of the principle: “A man’a house is his castle.” Officer John Ma honey went to the house of Thomas Bli ley, and, without warrant, forcibly en tered. Bailey shot him, as he had a per- ’eet right to do, and the court acquitted him. Any citizen has a right to defend his privacy to whatever extent he may Ind necessary, save against recognized ind accredited officers of the law with the official order of the community in the shape of a warrant to justify their Intrusion. It’s a good, healthy, sturdy rid adage that “a man’s bouse is his castle;” one of those upon the recogni tion of which by each individual resta die foundation of aociat organization, tribal, state, civic, or ostiooal smocU- tiOI). VIRGINIA. The Exposition held at Middleton, Frederick county, on the 8d, 4th and 5th of September, under the auspices of the Middleton Improvement and Immigra tion Association, was a successful affair. The 2d Virginia Infantry regiment, Col. Joseph A. Nulton commanding, were in camp there for a few days. This regi ment is composed of Valley and South western Virginia companies, and under the direction of Col. Nulton, who was an officer of the celebrated Stonewall brigade during the late war, is rapidly attaining a state of commendable proficiency. The house committee on war claims at Washington city reported favorably the bill authorizing the secretary of the treas ury to pay William and Mary college of Virginia, ♦04.000. to reimburse it for the destruction of its buildings and property during the war. A correspondent of the Danville ter recently came across a farmer, Mr. William F. Rippeto, residing near Weyer’s Cave, Augusta County, Vn., who furnishes an example of industry and thrift worthy of commendation. Mr. Rippeto is an old soldier of Stonewall Jackson's brigade, and lost his left arm in the battle of Gettysburg. That arm was cut oil near the shoulder, and yet with one arm hr cultivates his farm of forty acres ami comfortably supports a wife and four children. In seeding time he employs help, but at all other times docs all the farm work himself, and his devoted wife attends to all the affairs of the house and kitchen. A fire in the factory of the Richmond Paper Company, at Richmond, Va., Thursday night did $25,000 of damage. Terry & Green, real estate agents of Wytheville, have sold to Messrs. Moore and Hibbert, iron-ore experts of Staun ton, Va., and representatives of northern and western capital, the celebrated Glade Mountain iron property lying four miles south of Rural Retreat. The property contains 1,000 acres. There is on it three separate leads of good iron ore which run for four miles without a break. The price paid was $35,000. The yards and docks department will soon commence extensive improvements at the south end of the Norfolk navy yard in the erection of an extensive wharf from the new dry-dock to the south wail and making ground for new building, among them electric light works. The work of plastering the new marine barracks is all now to be done to complete that fine structure, and the marines will move into their new home about the 1st of Novem ber and occupy the finest barracks build- ingin the country. During the session of the Circuit Court at Petersburg Judge B. A. Hancock granted two charters of incorporation. The first was to “The Merchants Tobacco Company of Petersburg.” The capital stock of the company shall not be less than $5,000 nor more than $100,000, and the real estate to be owned at any one time shall not exceed $25,000. The chief a lose for which the company is organ- is Ihc purchase, handling, and sale of leaf tobacco. The second charter granted was one incorporating “The East-View Cemetery and Improvement Company." This company is composed of colored men. The capital stock is to be not less than $5,000 nor more than $50,000. NORTH CAROLINA. The date fixed for the execution of Steve Jacobs, the Croatan outlaw now in jail at Lumhcrton, is September 20. Frank L. Bond, one of the oldest citi zens of Tatboro, left his home, in his night-clothes, Tuesday morning, and his whereabouts is not known. His mind has not been in its normal condition for some time. The colored State fair begins at Ral eigh October 20th. There is only one company of colored troops in the State (Charlotte) and it will then encamp there, at the fair grounds. The First Presbyterian church of Grcenslxtro has let the contract for a new church building to Porter & Goodwin, of Goldsboro. Jim Reid, Frank Caultlc, and Frank Hunt, all white, and prisoners in the county jail, made their escape early Thursday morning. The escape was ac complished by filing ;hc huge iron hinges of the doors, and the iron bars. Thru tyingtheii blankets together, the pris oners made themselves free. The Inst one escaping was seen by a person pass ing, and •law the direction of their flight The Salisbury city officers are now on their tiail, and exerting all efforts to cateh them. Neither had over eight months to remain, and Frnck t'auble was only in for two months. Capitalists icpresenting Durham, Ham let and Chatham, are negotiating for the purchase of about one-fourth of Maxton, some 400 acres of land. If they purchase, extensive improvements will be made at once. Alexia Thompson, Ihc mgro cook of 8. Cohen, of Goldsboro, was arrested Wednesday, charged with poisoning Co hen’s family of eleven persons by putting it in the coffee. SOUTH CAROLINA. A commission was also issued for tire formation of the Western Carolina Land and Improvement Company, of Anderson, with a capital stock of $150,000 in sharer of $100 each. The principal place oi business will ire the city of Anderson, and the general purposes of the company will be the buying, selling, leasing and im proving of real estate in South Carolina, but more especially in the western part oi the State with a view to building up and developing tirat section. Commissions were issued by the Secre tary of State for the organization of the American Bank of Greenville,capital $75,- 009. . The sheriff of Kershaw county, under a judgment for $25,000, in favor of Rice & Coleman, seized a locomotive of the Three C's Road. The engine is worth about $8,000 or ItUMtO, and will, it is thought, lie sold. The judgment is for an unpaid bill for trestiing over the Wateree Rivet . It is not known whether this is the firrt of a series of seizures to tie made, but evtyy one hopes that the Three C’» will be able to tide over their present trouble. Real estate continues to advance in and around Aiken, and the lands known as the Levels find ready sale at figures rang ing between $60 and $100 cn acre. The officers of the Atlnnlic Coast Line System have promised to visit Orange burg on the 10th of September to decide upon the route of the Augusta extension and select a site for theii depots and shops, which have been gratuitously of- fere the road by the city of Orangeburg. Naturally the people of Orangeburg are very much encouraged with their pros pects. The people of Clinton celebrated the completion of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern to that place on last Wednesday by a grand linrbeeue. Speeches were made by Col. I. G. McKisstck, Lieuten ant Governor Mauldin and Col. Irby. Five miles of iron have lieen laid on the Branrhville and Bow-man Railroad, and already the company is doing a good freight business. In the last few days the company has hauled four thousand erossttes, and the business is improving. The South Carolina Railway Company is imring an Artesian well nt Montmoren- ct. Chapman Bros., of Augusta have the eontraet. The Richardson Guards at Montmoren ■•i received their quota of arms from the State last week. They hope to get their new uniforms before the date fixed for the State Fair, ns they desire to attend in a body. They hold weekly drills. It is proposed to form a battalion in Aiken county, composed of the Palmetto Rifles, the Richardson Guards and the Sally Ri lies. The members of the colored Alliance on Wndmnlaw Island have made arrange ment!! for an Alliance store for the island at a plaer known as Bentz's, arrangements looking to the rentin'; of a store having been concluded with Mr. John Bentz. They will also have an Alliance gin house, having arranged with Mr. F. Schaffer for the ginning of their w hole crop. TENNESSEE. The exeitement in Chattanooga is a war between the Street Railway company and the city authorities. The latter seams to be on top now. Mrs. Neal Phelan died nt her home at Trenton from the effect of am overdose of laudanum. Her husband gave her the medicine through mistake. J. W. Campbell, proprietor of the Campbell House, Covington, and former ly on the police force in Memphis, had a wrestling tustle in fun with James Swee ney. a blacksmith, at Covington. They had their fun on the sidewalk near the hotel. It is not so funny now. In the fall Mr. Campbell had his leg btoken above the knee and a bad sprain of the arm. Sweeney escaped with a sprained thumb. A terrible accident occurred at Morris town about 8 o’clock as passenger train No. 2 was coming in. Tlirce boys, Tom Foster, Anther Lilly and Frank Blair, were walking on the East Tennessee. Vir ginia and Georgia track about two miles from town and were evidently crossing what is known as Carriger's Crossing when the train struck them, instantly killing Foster and Lilly. Blair is still alive, but not expected to live. The boys ages were front thirteen and eighteen years. Duiiup (he reu'ii of ‘hi- Army of t.bt Cumberland in Chnltnnoogn last fall sev enteen persons were injured by the run ning away down down the side of Mis sionary Ridge of a car on Hie electric road. Suits were brought by the injured persons for hea\ y damages. Eleven oi these suits have been compromised, the Electric Street Railroad Company paying $12,500 in fash mid taking a receipt in full. The unsettled claims w ill lie ad justed by the Circuit Court next fall. The reunion of the Blue and the Grey at Koxvillo. October 7, 8 and !), promisee to lie a notable event. The reunion is to lie under the ausiiii >-s of the city authori ties ami the Confedciatc and Grand Army posts of that city. At the inception oi the affair $10,000 was raised to be spent in advertising. The mutter lias been printed and much of it sent out. Already 100,000 postets, 200.' 00 folders and 180,'- 000 hand bills have been sent out. To show the interest which Knoxville peo ple are taking in it may be stated that six or eight men are now traveling in various parts of the country to work up mi inter est in tin' reunion, it is expected that nt least 20,000 veterans will be in attend ance, and pieparatiuns are being made to take care of ott.OOO people. Govcrnoi Gordon, of Georgii. will 'oc one of the most popular and prominent figures at tiie reunion. GEORGIA. Hon. II. Clay Foster, one of the promi nent members of the Georgia bar died at his home at Augusta. Wednesday night, aged 4li years. The census office has completed the of ficial count of Savannah's population. It is 43,212, or 41 per cent, increase over 1880. Mrs. Kate T. Martin abandoned Iter in fant in Augusta. She left the child with a lady and mystcriovsly disappeared, Augusta is to have a jockey club, and a meeting of fall races will be secured. General manager Haines, of the I’lant system, has voluntarily advanced the pay of conductors from $K() to $100 per month. A white man named Henry Cook is in jail nt Buena Vista charged with the mur der of his wife. The crime is alleged to have been committed in Chattahoochee county, the home of Cook. The memtierH of the Carpenters’ and Joiners Association, of Columbus, arc advocating nine hours as a day's work. Macon's canal project is being rapidly pushed forward. Savannah proposes to build another cotton factory. There w as a reunion of confederate vet erans of Cherokee county at Canton, on August 3'. The twenty-third Georgia held its annual meeting as the same time. Governor Gordon and other distinguished speakers addressed the people. A Monroe county man recently caught a fish which tipped the beam at seventy pounds, and was said to resemble au mti mal more titan a fish. Bids have liven advertised for erecting the Cjcloneta Farm eating house, which will be the dinner station on the Georgia Southern.. It is to lie a first-class restau rant, constructed on elaborate plans, managed and provided in the best style, and costing $15,0 M>. Mr. J. W. Worn mack, who was found dead in his lied, in Macon, had had Ids life insured for $1,000. He unfortunately let, himself get a month behind in bis dues, however, and thus, for the lack of $1 .25 payment his family lost u vety com fortable sum of TfOMJ. FARMERS’ NEWS & NOTES. The Morrill Agricultural Aid Bill Becontee A Law. Abandoned Land in the South Dis cussed. —President Polk in Mich igan.—Sisal Hemp Culture. Business Exchanges and Warehouses Becoming Numerous. Alliance business exchanges sre multi plying in Florida. The Jacksonville Tribune states that the Zolfo Farmers' Alliance Exchange, of Zolfo Springs, Do- Soto county, has filed articles of incorpo ration with the Secretary of Bute. _ It has a capital stock of 10,000. The directors for the first year are Marion G. Carlton, J. P. Child, James H. Brnntly, John L. Skipper, Jr., and D. D. Crews, Jr. President L. L. Polk recently address ed a crowd nt Coldwater, Michigan, and the meeting closed with three rousing cheers for the speaker and the Alliance When a Southern orator can address a Michigan meeting, and receive three rousing cheers, it begins to look like the “Woody shirt" war was about nt an end. Dispite the protests the West and South arc coming together at a rapid rate. The Alliance press and missionaries sre doing it you know.—Aye-Opener. Congress has passed the Senate bill known as the Morrill College Aid bill. When the recent Federal court decis ion was delivered, fears were entertained that the college would be badly crippled for a time at least, but this money from the Federal treasury will put the institu tion in abetter condition than it ever his lieen. Every State in which an agricultural college is situated will be entitled to this appropriation. The States in which the colleges have not yet Wen started should hasten to take advantage of this appro priation. The amount is to lie increased every year until it reaches $25,000 for each college. Each State must tiepin with the work. After the college is in operation it will be entitled to $15,000 the first year and then $17,500 and so on. Without a doubt Hits measure will boom agricultur al education. Agriculture is a science. Seicnee is knowledge, truth ascertained. We need more science, more system in farming. The rudiment of agriculture ran lie obtained in n college of this kind. The theory that farmers need no educa tion has long since lieen exploded. Every young man educated at one of these col leges may not become a successful farmer, but in order to keep up with other peo- plc we must have more and better educa tion. We must also see to it that these colleges are not used to turn out crack base-ball nines. vs* * a * ABANDONED LAND IN THE SOUTH. There are in Virginia, the Carolinas, and some other Southern States, large areas of abandoned, sr partially abandon ed farming lands. In these districts the plantations have been given over to scrub oak, old-field pine, and brambles, be cause Hie former system of agriculture did not pay, or because a long-continued robbery of the soil resulted in such im poverishment that cultivation at best would not produce a livelihood for labor expended. Land that has been impover ished by tobacco—one of the most ex haustive of crops- or by cotton, aa has been done in the South, may be restored by a change of agriculture, and this resto ration is even now going on. Fruits and vegetables will be largely cultivated in the Southern States on ac count of the good markets for such pro ducts in the large Eastern cities. It will also be found profitable to raise rattle, grain, wool anil dairy products. The re sult of this changed system of agriculture will make the South even more prosper ous than it was in the palmiest days of plantation life. When all the desirable agricultural land of the West is occupied—which is but a question of a few years—then these lands in the Southern States will receive attention. Our population is increasing rapidly, and the time will conic when these farms will have to lie subdivided. The average size of our farms in this country is four times that of the farms o; France, and in Belgium, Holland, Ger many, and England they are still smaller. While to-day in many sections farms of 75 and 100 acres will barely pay for cul tivation. the time will come when farms •f one-third or one-fourth that size must ay. It is useless to argue tirat it ran not done; such farms arc cultivated in a way to pay even to-day, anil must lieootn* even more generally profitable in the fu ture. It would lie well for the respective State Departments of Agriculture to es tablish experimental farms in these neg lected sections. Sueh experiment farms should lie conducted in a manner to dem onstrate to the unsuccessful fanners of the State how they can take their worn- out farms and renovate them; how they can carry on an industry that has hitherto appeared to be unprofitable in a way to show a satisfactory balance sheet.—F. K. Moreland in the Amerirun Agriculturist. UNITED STATES KAUMKHS. The National Farmers’ Congress met at Council Bluffs. Nebraska. Delegates were present from Alabama, North Dado- ta, Illinois, hnvn, Kansas, Maine, Missour- 1, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nebraska, Indiana. Pennsylvania, South t'aioliuu, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wyoming and Wisconsin. President R. S. Kalb, of Alabama, § resided. Governor Boise made an ad- rcss and Mayor McRae, of Council Bluffs, also spoke. In ids address President Kalb reviewed the condition of the farmers. He spoke of the decrease in agricultural wealth, and said: “This decrease is all the more shocking because the aggregate wealth of the country has immensely increased." He followed the tiistory of the last forty years, and blamed the protective tariff as being responsible for the farmers’ present con dition. Keserring to the Farmers’ Alli ance, lie called it a grand body to free legislation from its thraldom. Professor W. J. Chamberlin, of the Amines (Iowa) Agricultural College, read a long paper on “Existing facta and the law that injure agriculture,” and Profes sor W. O. Atwater, of the Experimental Station, at Washington, D. C., spoke of the work of that instituion. • ***•• Hisal-hemp culture is making marvelous progress in the Bahamas. Capitalists from Great Britain, Canada, ana New foundland bought 120,000 acres of gov ernment land last year, and are putting it into sisal, but the government has declin ed to sell more land at present. Unim proved private lands ran be bought for from $8 to $12 per acre. It is believed that in a short time the exports, which now average about $6<:fl,000, will run up ■nto the millions. Sisal plants are in great demand, and theprire has advanced from six to thirty-six cents tier dozen. A plantation once started needs no replant ing for sev ral years. Quantities of old plants have lately been discovered on some of the Florida Keys, which suggests s trial of the hemp industry in floufhern Fiorids. There ara 84,000,000 persons in the Union engaged in agriculture. Yet with a majority of the population asking foi only one measure of relief Congress rnti- not find time to consider it. There will .lie a considerable shaking up this fall on Ahis find rn<»nv vmoH fc* no regain rnemseiTw ffiarcr tnan t;ir people will seek the shades of private lift to consider the fallibilities of things ter restinl and the folly of a fellow growing too big for his breeches.—Alliance Herald. ****** Seven cotton mills in Georgia are mak mg cotton bagging. A new Allianrc building is being elect ed at Eatonton, Oa. The Alliance is organized in 79 of the 100 counties in Virginia. The Farmers' Allianrc has two thousand •nembers in Maryland, and is rapidly in creasing. The Allianrc Exchange at Shenandoah will open about the 20th of August, says the Luray, Va., Union. The Madison, Ga., Adrertieer reports the enlargement of the Georgia farmers' oil and fertilizer factory at that place,and that it will this season gin and pack cot ton also. At Griffin, Ga., the farmers’ co-oprra- •ivc cotton seed oil and fertilizer factory has also been enlarged and the operations considerably extended over what they were last season. The Maron Telegraph thinks the Alii anec is about to take charge of the govern ment of Georgia and says it's high time,for the government of Georgia needs to be in the hands of such a sensible body of pro pic. Concord Alliance, in Jasper county, Ga., is standing firm this season against jute bagging, and will not patronize any ginner who buys it for himself or his cus tomers. It asks the co-operation of all other Sub-Alliances in rontinuing the fight on this line if it takes all winter to wii. THE POLITICAL WORLD. Kc The Game of Pitch and Toss With Public Offices. A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT, And a Lot of Equally Remarkable Escapes. At Charlotte, N. C., the two-story building occupied by the Andrews furni ture store adjoins H. Baruch's store on the cast; on the west side of the furni ture store is a one-story building, used by Mr. Andrews as a display room for his pianos, organs and other musical instru ments. It had recently lieen decided to add an other story to Hie furniture store, and workmen Tuesday morning licgan to take down the overlapping brick wall dividing Baruch’s and Andrews’s, for the purpose of building it up stronger. As they dug out the bricks they piled them on the edge of Baruch's roof. Finally the pile lieeame too heavy for the roof. The roof sank suddenly, and in doing so, pushed out a section of wall thirty feet long and four feet high. Tills mass of brick fell on the roof of the music hou. e, and crushed through it as though it had lieen made of paper. The noise was terrifie. Plastering tumbled down hen; and there through the two store-rooms, and the customers, salesmen and porters who happened to lie in the building were momentarily para lyzed. It happened that the main body of brick enished through the naif near the sky light, directly above a floor space that was vacant. There were organs and pi anos all around, but they were not injur ed. Mr. John Elliotts, a clerk, was reading a catalogue when he heard a thundering noise just overhead. He leaped to one side, and the next moment the spot which he had vacated was piled knee-deep with brick, mortar, plaster and shivered plank. A bale of cotton could be dumped through Hie hole made in the roof. WASHINGTON, THE FEDEHAL CAPITAL. Embraced the Hebrew Faith. Kansas Citt, Special.—Roland Ber nard Gelett, formerly inansgine editor of s Kansas City morning newspaper and now an active newspaper man, has now abandoned whatever Christian faith he had and embraced Hebrewism, in order to marry Ada Reefer, a beautiful young Jewess. The ceremony w as performed by Rabbi Berkowitz at Hie home of the bride’s par ents. When Gelett first proposed Miss Reefer, who was his typewriter, said she could never marry a man not a Jew. Gellett said he would liecome a Jew if sueh a thing was possible. He was put on a year’s probation by the rabbi and instructed in the faith, laws, tenets, writ ten and unwritten, in the church of Is rael. He proved a good convert and was admitted to nagogue. Sole of the Danville ft New River R. R. At Danville. Va.. a large crowd gather ed in front of the United States Custom House building, the object being to wit ness the sale of the Danville and New River railroad, a narrow-guage line, which runs from Danville to Stuart in Patrick county. The sale was made by Special Commissioner Berryman Green, acting under a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for Hie Western dis trict of Virginia, entered on the 29th of March, 1883, in a suit therein pending, in whieli J. Wilcox Brown and others were complainants, and the Danville and New River Railroad Company and others the defendants. Only one bid was made and that by Mr. Frank P. Clark, of Bal timore, who offered $300,000 for the property, which was knocked out after a few minutes, and Mr. Brown, agent, was announced as the purchaser. The Druggist’s Mistake. Knoyville, Tenn.—John P. Smith, cleven-yesr-old-son of the State Superin- tendentof Publielnstruction, F. M. Smith, and a boy named Hutchins, died Monday from a dose of morphine, and three other children of Mr. Smith's, who hud taken another dose, were made sh k by the same drugjwhich was administered for a cold in mistake for quinine. Tbe mistake was made by a druggist in filling the pre- Ifription. At Lenoir, N. C., W. H. H. Cowlet was renominated for Congress on the 147th ballot. The Idaho Democrats have nominated Benjamin Wilson, of Boise county, for Governor. Mills, of Texas, and Bynum, of Indiana, were both renominated to Congress; also Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia. C. II. Moore has been nominated ns a j colored candidate for Congress, by dele gates of the fifth N. C. Congressional Dis trict. The Republican Congressional Conven tion at Raleigh, N. ('., nominated Alex ander Mclvcr, of Chatham, for Congress, against Hon. B. H. Bunn. The sixth Virginia district Congression al Convention met nt Roanoke, and re nominated Hon. Paul C. Edmunds, of Halifax county. The Democrats of the fifth Congression al district of Virginia, held a convention at Rocky Mount, and Rev. P. G. Lester, present incumbent, was renominated by acclamation. James M. Turner was nominated for Governor by Hie Republican convention at Detroit, Michigan. The platform on dorses President Harrison, the silver leg islation and Seaker Reed's course. The election in Arkansas for State offi cers and members of the Legislature will take place on the 1st of September. There are two tickets in the field. Gov ernnr James P. Eagle heads the Demo eratie ticket, having lieen renominated, whilst X. I!. Fizer is the nominee of the Union Labor party for Governor, and lias been endorsed by the Republicans. The friends of Governor Eagle saf lie will be elected by 20,001) majority, and Hie fol lowers of Fizer claim that bis majority will not be less than 10,000. It is csti mated tha*. the total vote will lie over 200,000. The number of men employed on the railroads of the eouutry by 1,750 compa nies is now reported by Hie Interstate Commission at 704,753. It is a pretty big army of transportation. It is an average of 459 men to every 100 miles of railroad. In Nebraska there are 5,045 miles of rail road, and this ratio would give, as the to tal number of men employed in operating Hie roads in this state, -23,171. These represent a population of over 100,00O that depend on railroad transportation for subsistence. Next to the farmers of Ne braska the largest class of men engaged in the same general work are the railroad men. The proposition, therefore, that “railroad men have no business in poli ties,” is not a very tenable one. They have all the rights of American citizens, and their interests are probably as dear to them as those of other working people.— Nebraska State Journal. The N. C. State Republican Conven tion was largely Htteiolcd. 1C. E. Smith colored, was temporary chairman. Many speeches were made by white and black leaders, denouncing the new State eleo- tion law and the Democracy. Charles Price, District Attorney, said that Hie I lasts of the Democratic party is preju- diee against the negro, and it is there fore impossible for the negroes to lie other than Republicans. The platform re affirms the platform of 1888, and endorses Harrison; thanks Congress for the enactment of the silver bill, which has relieved the financial dis- tress of the people; deplores Hie failure of the Senate to pass tiie Blair bill; de nounces the State election law, and coun ty government; sympathizes with the farmers in their efforts to throw off the yoke of bmirbonism which lias kept Hum in political servitude to aristocratic dem ocratic leaders; demands free elections, and favors such legislation as congress may enact to secure free votes, fair count and honest returns. Charles Price was nominated for Chief Justice, 5\ . T. Fair- cloth for Associate Justice. T. D. Win ston. O. J. Spears, W. P. Bynum, Jr., A. L. Coble and Z. W. Bowman were elect ed for Superior Court Judges, and the executive committees were empowered to make nominations in other districts. Jno. it. Eaves, was re-elected chairman of the Stale committee. John (’. Dancy was unanimously endorsed for" the Hay- tian mission, in the event the Hon. Fred erick Douglass resigns, which is current ly reported, and the committee appoint ed to wait upon the President was asked to urge his candidacy, in ease of such vacancy. The state election in Arkansas will lie held next Monday. The republicans have no candidate in the field for gover nor, but are supporting the labor union candidate. Gen. John M. Palmer, Democratic nominee for United States Senator in Illi nois, has decided to engage in joint de bate with Congressman \Vm. E. Mason, of Chicago. Gen. Palmer says lie will gladly engage in debate with any Kcpub- liean who may be put forward by Ids par ty for the Senatorship. t ne Hon. John P. Buchanan, the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor of Tennes see, opened ids canvass at hranklin, September 2. Williamson County is Mr. Buchanan's native county, and the people of that county are preparing to give him a rousing reception. There will he a bar becue, and committeemen arc appointed in every district in the county to arrange for the occasion. The N. O., A. ft M. College Finances. A meeting of the trusti es of the Agri cultural and Mechanical College was held at Raleigh r.t which it was stated that the Department of Agriculture will pay to the college only $2,000 during the remainder of this year, it is proposed by the trus tees to carry on the college until the Leg islature meets, even if it becomes neces sary to reduce the salaries of the profes sors. All of the hitter assent to a reduc tion. The college needs $8,500 to carry it until new year. There is $2,0 0 on hand now. It is desirous to get $2,000 from the Department of Agriculture at •nee and it is hoped that $2,000 will bu realized (rom the sale of a lot Potato Blight in Ireland. Speaking at a league meeting at Dublin Mr. Timothy Healy, referring to the po tato blight in Ireland, said nothing stood between the people and starvation during the roming winter. The sufferers might not legally withhold rents, but the man who paid rent and left his family to starve was little better than an assassin. If it was found necessary to appeal to Hie Irish in America and Australia. Hie as sistanec tints oblaiucd ought not to lie shared by any man who had paid rent Senator Edmunds Offers a Resolution For a Two Month’s Holiday. The Duty on Salt Diecussed. Compound Lard Bill Passed. Washinoton, D. C.—In the Senate Friday morning, Mr. Edmunds offered the following resolution, which went over for the present: Resolved, That when the two Houses adjourn on the 19th of September, 1890, it be to meet on the 10th of November, 1880. The tariff bill was taken up, the pend ing question being on the Finance Com mittee's amendment to the salt paragraph to strike out the proviso allowing draw- Imeks on salt in exported meats. Mr. McPherson moved to strike out the entire parignph, the effect of which would he to place salt on the free list. Rejected -yeas 15; nays 29, a party vote. The schedule of cotton manufacturers was passed over, and the wool schedule was taken up. Mr. Carlisle moved to strike out para graphs 357 to 369, relating to raw wool, so as to put all raw wool on the free list. A general discussion followed, the mo tion being supported by Messrs. Carlisle, Reagan, t<ray and McPherson, Democrats, and opposed by Messrs. Sherman, Al- dricq. Dawes and Stuart, Republicans. With the motion still pending, the Senate adjourned. ****** In the House, after the rending and ap proval of the journal, the Speaker stated that the pending question was the vote on sustaining the decision of the Chair ruling that the lard bill was unfinished business. The opposition to the lard bill, so ram pant yesterday, seemed to have disappear ed. and tiie decision of the chair was promptly sustained by a vote of I'tOtofU. The laid bill was then passed yeas 126; nays 81. THE ALLIANCE CAUSES A GOOD STORY One of Hie ablest men in House is Judge David B. Culberson, of Texas, The oth er day he entered the cloak room while several Democratic members were com menting upon the havoc made by the Farmers' Alliance in the South, infor mation had just been received of the de feat of a well-known Congressman seek ing a renominstion. He Wid done every tiling that could he done to placate the Alliance early in the season. He had joined it and swallowed its Sub-Treasury scheme. He even went a step farther. He introduced a lull as far ahead of the Sub-Treasury scheme in extravagance ns that scheme is ahead of the strongest pro tective tariff. It was all in vain. The Alliance ran over him and left him cry ing bloody murder. “His ease” remarked the Judge, re minds me of a story or a man I once knew in Texas. He was riding over a rough road behind a yoke of oxen. He sat in the forward end of tiie cart upon a pile of boxes. As the wheel dropped into a rut the pile toppled. He lost his balance and fell out of the cart. He was afraid that the wheel would run over him. and he loudly shouted “Whoa!" before he struck the ground. It was too late. The wheel did go over him. But this was not all. He shouted ‘Whoa!’ so loud and long that the oxen stopped and hacked the cart. The wheel went over him a second time." THEY WANT MORE PAY. A Demand by the Cotton Handlers of New Orleans. New Orleans, August 30.—Early in July last the men, white and colored, em ployed in handling cotton in the various press yards of the city met in conference and framed a new scale of prices for la bor for the roming season, which they presented to the press owners. The IkmU tes mainly interested in the conference were the Cotton Yardmen's Benevolent Associations, Nos. 1 and 2, but the team sters and loaders, in full sympathy with the yard-men, were also represented. The complement of labor in each press is thirty-one men. The press gang is composed of thirteen men, and six yard gangs of three men each. Most of those men arc employed only during the cotton season, and, as the public estimate of their earnings during that period is ger.- erally an exorbitant one, they find con siderable difficulty in obtaining employ ment in the dull season. In other words, they are dependent upon the proceeds of their labor during the cotton season for their maintenance during the entire year. The proposed tariff is higher than that of last season, it is, in fart, a restoration of the rales in effect before the last rut made by tiie press owners. The increase affects but two items in the scale, howev er—the charge for receiving, which is raised from live to six cents, and that for compressing, which is raised from eight to ten cents. This, it is variously esti mated, would increase the cost of han dling the season's receipts about $2,600 to $3,000 per 100,000 bales, and the men contend that while it would not injuri ously affect the cotton business, the r» i pay w them in Tired of Making Hig “Mark.” James Robinson, tail, robust, with a sandy complexion and forty years of age, has spent almost his entire life mining in the mountains of the West. Two months ago lie went to Kansas City, Mo., from Phoenix, Arizona. He could neither read nor write. During the past eight years he has lieen engaged in the trans action of business involving the buying and selling of mines, through which he has been placed in comfortable circum stances financially. His “mark” hai been attached to deeds and contracts so often that he was brought to realize the necessity of an education. Hence his presence in Kansas City. Mr. Robinson lias applied himself assiduously under the direction of a private tutor and can now read and write. He says he will remain anothet month in Kansas City and then return to Arizona to look after his mining interests. After the lapse of a few weeks he will return to pursue his edu cational course. In three years’ time in expects to have a good business educa tion, supplemented with the embellish ments of literature.—Chicago Herald. An Emblem Recovered After BAD Years Rrusenose College, Oxford, England, has just regained possession of the quaint bronze knocker from which it derived its name, after being alienated from its ancient home nearly six centuries. When Oxford scholars migrated to Stamford iu 1334, in consequence of a fund which then distracted the university, they took this knocker with them, and it has ever since remained on the door of a house there in which they settled, and which was sold to the corporation of Stamford early in the seventeenth century. This house, which several times changed hands, was sold again the other day, anu was purchased by Brasenose College, which thus recovered its original emblem which probably was modeled during the twelfth century. It represents a lion’s face with a ring through the mouth, and it is very curi ously embellished.—St. Louis Star-Say ings. Seven Aldermen Arrested. litriiEFoitii, Me., Aug. 30.—A sensn lion was created here this morning when United States Marshal Saunders, of Port land. placed under arrest seven alderman of liiildeford. and took them toPortland, with several penmns detained as witness es. ou warrants from the United States district court. The aldermen are charged with neglecting to strike from the Hiddo- fujd voting lists the names of parties not legally entitled to vote, and for copspira ev in arranging to plate on the list the names of persons not legally entitled to vote. This action is tin- rulminntion of the i-ec'cnt naturalization troubles in Bid- deford. Death of M. L. Bonham. Coi.l'MRlA, S. ('.—Geu. Millcdge L. Doiiliam, Railroad Commissioner of South Carolina, died at Haywood “White Sul phur Springs, Wayocsville, N. C., Wed- to them in their dull season. In present ing the tariff the men desired that it should become effective on September 1. Should the press owners refuse to accept it, or should they be unable to agree among themselves as to its aeceptanee or rejection, the matter was to tie submitted to arbitration, and a triangular conference is proposed, the press owners and the cot ton yard men each selecting a commitb r. to present their views and the Cotton Ex change appointing a committee of live to hear both sides of the ease and to pass upon its merits. Prominent cotton yard men say that arbitration by thi - nn-tbod will be entire ly satisfactory to them. They are fittnlj confident of the justice of their cause and have no fear that the verdict will be against them. So far as can lie learned the men have made no threat to strike unless their demands are conceded. The leaders deprecate any such move, and es pecially one of such a eliaraeter as would tend to violence. The white and colored yard men had equal representation in tho conference which passed upon the tnrilT, and are firmly united in supporting it. Should the press owners decline to grant the advance ii meeting of the yard men will lift called to discuss the situation and drrid/- upon the course to lie pursued. What tins course win tie tits mi* blc to forecast at present. SHALL BE ABLE TO READ Before a Voter is Qualified in Mis sissippi.—Report of the Com mittee. Jackson, Miss., Special.—The consti tutional convention met at 3:30 o'clock, p. m., and under call of the counties, which is a regular order of Tuesdays and Fridays, a flood of amendments and reso lutions were submitted, and referred to appropriate eommittess. The report of the sub-committee on franchise, which was printed Wednesday, does not differ materially from the outline of its provis ions telegraphed Tuesday night. The qualifications which are to liecome opera tive January 1st, 189(1, are: First, every qualified elector shall be able to read any article of the constitution of the state; or, second, lie shall lie able, to understand tho same when read to him; or, third, lie shall own in his own right and shall have paid taxes on property of the assessed value of $200 for the tr cal year next preceding his registration. Sol diers of either army, wdioacrved honora bly during tiie late war, shall be exempt from property or educational qualifica tion. No legislation need lie expected oi the convention until the committee on elec tive franchise submits its report. The present indications are that the convention will be in session until Octo ber 1st. A Tool 1 Excuse. that I o «*? 3frur-' Farmer—“Get down out What you doin’ up there?” Youthful Plunderer — “Oh, I oroy climbed up to git out of the way of the apples that were failin’ down on my head."—FI ieg L iuic JiUiclUr. A Cloudburst in Juarez. An El Paso, Texas, special says: “Be tween thirty-five and forty houses were washed away ia Juaroz ami sixty fami lies were rendered homeless by a i U d- burst. The street traversed by one of !h» bursts was almost obliterated. Dwellings on both sides were submerged and de stroyed. Roth railroad and street • o' tracks formed dam i for the flood ttid many narrow i-cape s were made. 1 -.-i persons only "tic drowned." A Cotton Failure in Liverpool. Kennedy A Co., cotton brokers, of Liverpool, England, have suspend'- I Other failures in the cotton trade are ex . peeled in eonsi-quence of the collapse of prices. An English firm lias purchased tne right to slaughter and pack 800,000 l.ujja • yew in Servia.