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DARLINGTON
HERALD.
VOL, 1.
DARLINGTON, S. C„ WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1890.
NO. 11.
Only one couuty (Wasnoe) j E Nevada
ehows an increase in population over tLe
census ten years ago..
It is estimated that the railroads of
tae United States lose §2.000,000 yearly
by land-slides, §5,000,000 by floods,
§1.000,000 by fire and §9,000,000 by
coilisioas.
Nearly one thousand heads of families
in the Province of Quebec alone have
made application for the state bounty o
100 acres of land voted to Canadian
who are the father* of twelve children o.
more.
‘‘The transfer of Heligoland to Ger
many is creating an amount of talk and
excitement that is much greater,” says
the Chicago Herald, “than the subject
calls for. Every week some real estate
dealer transfers a larger and more valua
ble tract right in the city limits of Chi
cago, and makes no noise about it at all.”
In the future, in all Government docu
ments and official publications in Canada,
such words as flavor, labor, honor, etc.,
must be spelt with the “u,” according to
the English usage, as favour, labour,
honour, and not as hitherto, after
American style.
Montana leads all other States and Ter
ritories in the value of its mineral out
put, although a very small proportion of
its mines are being worked. The mineral
produced iu 18S9 was 814,000,000, and
over half this amount, or over §22,900,
000 was produced in Butte alone. Tina
output is increasing all the time.
The rules of the Now Tork Co.Tce
Exchange have been amended «n as to
make codec from the East and West In
dies, North. Central and South America
a “good delivery,'’ that from Brazil only
paving beau a goal delivery heretofore.
The amount of coffee from these coun
tries, estimates the Farm, Full and
Stockman, will be 12,000,000 bags iu
lieu of 4,000,000 as the rule stood be
fore.
The Supremo Court of Illinois has
just decided that a man cannot be ex
cluded from the witness stand in that
State on occouat of his religious disbe
lief. The witness la the case under re
view believed in a God and a hereafter,
and in punishment through the courts if
he swore falsely, but he had formed no
opinion about punishment in the next
world. Tho Supremo Court hold that
he was a competent witness.
The wealth of the United States is un
officially estimated at §71,500,000,000,
an increase in teu years of forty-two pel
cent. England’s wealth was placed at
§51,000,000,000 in 1835, but divided
among a smaller population than that of
the United States; while the value of
France's property is put at $36,000,-
000,00'J. Taxes in England average §20
per capita and in the United States,
§12.50. ___________
The decree of the Sultan of Zanzibar
that no slaves be sold in his dominions
will be the same dead letter, predicts the
Washington Star, that it is <n Constan
tinople. The open slave market has
been abolished in both places for several
years, but the traffic in human flesh goes
on just the same, for slavery is part of
the social fabric and cannot be elimi
nated auy more than Mohammedanism.
The British have winked at it for years,
and the Germans will have to do the
same.
“You would be astoaished to see the
progress which Socialism has inadt
among the rustics here in Germany,”
writes a tourist to the Lewiston (Me.)
Journal, “A mile below the castle is a
little vKIsge iu which there were sixty
Socialist votes'at the last election. Tares
miles away in tho opposite direction is a
village of paper-making mills, in which
there were 300 Socialist votes at the last
February ‘poll.’ The State church iu
Germany is not in touch with the masses
of the people. And it never will get the
masses until it takes a different attitude
toward institutions and especially toward
Socialism.”
CEEAM OF LOCAL NEWS.
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,
Holt or Blind.
A clergyman writes as follows in th*
Chicago Adcance: “Clarical hospitality
Is declining. T.ie minister's house is no
longer the stopping place of all ministers
who pass his way. Possibly the change
to both bon and guest is in some respects
desirable, yet ia other respects it is un
desirable. The virtue of hospitality may
sometimes be a hard drain upon th«
narrow larder of the parsonage, but it
does tend to promote that hearty fellow
ship which ministers need and whiol
they are glad to give and receive. Every
one in Massachusetts knows the Rev.
Daniel Butler, the agent of the Massa
ehusetts Bible Society, a man with such
a leputatiou for wit that it must indeed
be no small strain even for one who ba?
so much ability to sustain the reputation.
Mr. Butler tells me that fifty years age
there was hardly a parsonage in Massa
rhusetts that he would not feel free ta
eater as an uninvited guett, but tha
now there is hardly a parsonage int<
which he would feel free to go witbou
a special invitation. I confess that
rather mourn the old days of clerical bos
pllcUtj.”, _
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The good people, of Trenton, Edgefield
county, are erecting a new school building
and will open a graded school at that place
on the first of October.
W. M. Bostick, of Allendale, and O. F.
Hunter, of Hartzog's, are the successful
candidates for beneficial y cadetship from
Barnwell county.
T wo white convicts escaped from a con
vict camp at the Ciemson Agricultural
College on Tuesday last. The guards shot
at them,but without effect, and they made
good their escape. They are William Glad
den, sent up from Pickens for house-break
ing and larceny and who had one more
year to sbrve, and I). D. Duncan, sent up
from Williamsburg for two years for grand
larceny and had served seven month:-.
Whitfield Murrell, one of the young
white boys convicted of tho murder o't
Younce, will be hanged in the Edgefield
jail on Friday, the 20th instant, unless hb
sentence is commuted to life imprisoment
in the Penitentiary. Strong petitions for
and against his commutation of sentence
have been forwarded to the Governor.
The people of Graniteville and vicinity
arc looking forward to the completion ot
the Augusta extension of the Atlantic
Coast Line from Sumter.
Th" Edgefield Ginning, Milling and
Fertilizer Company building is completed
and has commenced active operations. Ii
is a mammoth affair and is among one ol
thti largest establishments of the kind in
the State. There are four distinct busi
nesses operated at the same time. The oil
mill, the compost factory, where fertilizers
o _ are prepared, the ginning department,
u §3,530,461,° and the operating ex j where six ninety-saw cotton gins are run
iscs §2.139,850, leaving as the net' —the price for ginning a bale of cotton
being one dollar—and the grist mill.
This enterprise will give employment to a
large number of persons and will open up
an extensive and entuely new business for
Edgefield.
H' ury Hemmiuger, colored, who was
in the jail at Abbeville under sentence of
death died Wednesday night. He was
convicted at the last term of Court on the
charge of rape, committed on a little negro
girl about 9 years of ago, and sentenced
by Judge Izlar to be hanged on Friday,
the 0th of September, which was last Fri
day. His attorney, Mr. W. L. Miller,
took an appeal to the Supremo Court,
winch is now pending, and thus the exe
cution of the sentence was suspended.
Death has ended the case and' Henry
Hcmminger will be tried at ahighcr Court.
He had been sick for some days.
GEORGIA.
AMONG THE ALLIANCES.
What The Organization fa Doing
Throughout The Country,
A Resume’ of The Work Accomplish
ed at Washington By The Closing
Session of the National Legis-
islature, And What More
Is Needed.
POUfioAt poktebs. AMBER, CRYSTAL PEARLS,
State and Congressional Conventions
Of tho Different Parties Hepoited
Correctly.—Political Chat, and
Signs of the Times.
BOMB INTERESTING TACTS ABOUT
THREE CURIOUS SUBSTANCES.
TENNESSEE.
The town cf Hickory Valley, nine miles
south of Bolivar, is afflicted with an epi
demic of slow fever.
W, Byrne is president of a newly oi-
ganized bank at Jasper.
Rev. J. J. Tigcrt, D. D., Professor of
the Biblical department cf Vanderbilt
University, has resigned that position, as
he has been selected as pastor of a church
in Kansas City, Mo., (he pulpit of which
was formerly occupied by the Rev. &. A.
Steele.
Mrs. James K. Poik, the widow of Pres
ident Polk, completed her 87th year last
Thursday. She lives on the Polk place
near Nashville, and each year the members
of tho General Assembly go out to pay
their respects in a formal and courtly man
ner at her home. Three years ago Mrs.
Cleveland called on her.
The stockholders of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, met I
at Nashville. The annual report shows ;
tho gross earnings for the year to have
bee
peuses §2.139,850, leaving
earnings !?1,410,010, most of which was
expended in extensive improvements and
building of the new shops at Nashville.
An increase of teu per cent, capital r-tock
of the company was authorized,
The city council of Knoxville has passed
a resolution to issue the §273,000 of bonds
to pay tho subscription which the Knox
ville Southern railroad company became
entitled to by completing its line to Knox
ville on time. The road connects at
Knoxville with the Knexvilie & Cumber
land Gap Railway, which line furnishes a
connection with the Louisville, at Mid-
Ulesborough, Ky., giving that city a con
tinuous line of nearly 800 miles by way of j
Knoxville to Atlanta, Ga., and passing j
through a prosperous country.
Spotted fever has broken out in Sum- 1
ncr county so badly, that people arc leav-
• the infected district. Twenty cases !
of the fever and nine deaths are reported.
All those attacked are men and boys.
The boys that have it were attending
school, near which place is a burying-
ground, where several victims were buried
daring the existance of tha fever in March.
The fever is known as the cerebro-spinal
menengitis by the medical fraternity.
It is acute inflamation, and involving mem
branes of the brain, spina! cord and me
dulla. Its average duration is about four
teen days, but several have died within a
few hours after being attached. County
Physician H. M. Foitea has been notified to
visit the stricken district.
VIRGINIA.
A vein of gold has been struck in
Spotsylvania.
§560,0 iu is to be appropriated ior the
improvement of the streets of Roanoke.
Judge Bond has issued an order re
straining the Roanoke and Southern road
from obstructing the track of the Danville
and New River road at Waller’s ford,
Henry county.
2,790 bales of cotton was received at
Norfolk Wednesday.
Delegates to the Pharmacist Convention
were entertained with an oyster roast at
Virginia Beach.
Captain Samuel Kimberly, recently
appointed consul to GnuUmala, has sailed
from Norfolk for his post of duty.
Tho Atlantic and Danville railroad is
controlled by an English syndicate, who
will speedily extend it Westward.
The first session of Randoluh-Macon
Academy, at Lynchburg, openecl with an
entire enrolment of students highly satis
factory to the faculty. A majority are
from Virginia,but Texas, Alabama, North
Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia, and
other States are well represented. The
local attendance i-. also good.
A couple of wealthy gentlemen from
Dakota are at Petersburg, for the purpose
of purchasing, if possible, five thousand
acres of land near there on which to settle
a colony of famers from Dakota. If the
land can be purchased, it is proposed to
cut it up into farms of from fifty to sixty
acres each.
The purchasers of th< luxe ruiroundiug
the natural bridge at Natural Bridge. Yu.,
are maturing plans fur buddies’ a magnifi
cent summer resort. The syndicate have
chartered the Natural Bridge Park Asso
ciation, and propc .es erecting a $‘’50,000
hotel of brownitone imd guiuitc, to bo of
the most modern style and lighted by 000
incandescent aud 12 t.vc lights, and intend
making the sui rouudiugs equal to any sim
ilar resort in the count i y.
H CAROLINA
bail team defeated
NORT
The Winston bail team defeated the
Richmond, Vu., team al Winston, Mon
day, by a score cf 20 to 12.
T. R. Folsom, founcrly of Sumter, 9.
C., but for the last three years of Wil
mington, commitcd suicide at the latter
place Monday by shootinghimself through
the head with a pistol. Ill health aud
despondency are unsigned a:; the cause.
Section 6 of the act creating th*
World’s Columbian Expos'dion et Chica
go, provides for the selection of a board
of lady manages, composed of two ladies
and alternates from each State: Each
commissioner makes .an appointment.
Col. A. B. Andrews yesterday appointed
Mrs. George W. Kidder, of Wilmingiou.
Pt. Jas. E, Roger: war fatally thot by
William F. Boyd near Alexander's, Bun-
f ombo county. Rogers received three
balls in his head, and died in 45 minutes.
The cause of the sliooting was a dispute
about the payment of an account due
Rogers by Boyd. Boyd was taken to Ash
eville aud committed to jail. He claims
that the shooting wus done iu self de
fense.
Wednesday afternoon a warrant was is
sued for W. V. Sellers, postmaster at
Lebanon, Columbus county, on charge of
embezzlement, end making false returns
of cancellation of stamps. He is said to
be §2,000 short. Sellers has fled the
State.
A temporary structure has been built
over the Yadkin river ia place of the
wrecked bridge end tho Richmond and
Danville have commenced a tunning as
usual over tho regular line. The old
bridge will be replaced by a handsome
new Ror one,
The apple crop in this section this year
says the Daltou Citizen, is somelhing im
mense. Our produce dealers are shipping
barrels upon barrels of fruit to all parts of
the country.
At their September meeting the county
commiseiouers fixed the county tax rate of
Terrell couuty at 5 mills and 4-100 of a
mill, which, added to the state tax of 3
mills aad 90-100 of a mill, makes the tax
es of Terrell countr this vesr, *9 on the
§100.
The date of the Catoosa county fair has
again been changed to the 30th of Sep
tember.
Albany citizens held a mass meeting to
secure a better locatiou than the one pro
posed for their new union passenger depot.
The Southern Musical Convention of
Middle Georgia met in annual session at
Fredoniu church, Griflin, and continued j
until Sunday. This is one of the largest
and oldest society of musicians in the
South.
Walker county >' fast becoming one ol
the largest in mileage of railroads in the
slate. She h .:'uov. completed over fifty
miits, and w ithin a year will have not less
than P5 or 90 miles of railroad within hci
borders.
A negro named Henry Williams was
•struck on the head by a Columbus South
ern passenger train, near Dawson, a few
nights «gc>, receiving an ugly w ound on
bis lead and a hole in biship. Williams
had been tilling up with a corpse, and
being overcome with fatigue while en
route home sat down on the track aud fell
asleep
A sad and latat accident occurred near
Agiieola last Saturday. A little child of
Mr. Henry May was standing near a tree
when lightning struck the latter. The
fragments hit the child on the head and
body, breaking its leg and otherwise in
juring it. The little one died instantlv.
General E. Alexander, receiver of
the Savannah, Griffin aud North Alabama
railway, will oiler the road, rolling stock
and all its franchises for sale at Griffin,
Tuesday, November 4th. This road is 60
miles in length, and runs through the
counties of Spalding, Fayette, Coweta
and Cmrollteu. The road is to be sold
for not less than §500,000 Loth of w hich
is to be paid to the receiver at the time
of the sale, and the balance when the
Spalding superior court lias confirmed the
sale. The road runs between Griffin and
Canoltou.
FLORIDA.
The Apalachicola Times invites South
Florida to send its surplus of fruit and
vegetables to that place to be «anned.
The ice famine at Tampa, caused by
the shutting down of one of the works for
repairs, caused a temporary suspension of
the fishing industry.
8. J. Slight, of Lady Lake, has withiu
the past six weeks bought 80.000 boxes
of orange* on the trees, and is still buving.
The prospect now is that the bulk of the
crop will he sold iu the State this year.
Major Green, of Ooala, sold his entire
crop on the trees at §1.45 per box.
Mr. W. C. Sherman has the skin of a
rattlesnake at his jeweriy establishment
in Orlando, seven feet and lour inches in
length, and having eleven rattles. The
snake was killed near Pinecaetle, and
when cut open a full-grown rabbit and
squirrel were found inside of it.
OTHER STATES.
Baitk Start was arrested at Bonham,
I'ex., on a charge of assault to kill, coai-
aitted tweutv.seven vearsacro.
The bodies of tweuty-one persons who
wete drowned during Hi lloo ls in Ger
many have been found floating in the
Elbe.
David 8. Dougherty, a wealthy lumier
>f Ferris, Tex., while lying on a cot in
tis bouse talking to his wife, sitting near
lad the hole top of his head blown off
>y uu assassin using a double-barrel shot-
,'uu. No cause is known for the. deed
md no clue to the perpetrator.
Telegrams have been sent from Mont-
,’omery to the Senators from Albany, it is
eported. “urgjug that every effort be
lade to defeat the Conger lard bill, on
he ground that it will fie a calamity to
he South,” and conveying the information
nat ‘ the price of cotton seed has
iilea 20 pet cent already in consequence
of the probability of the passage cf the
bill."
An Alliance store has been opened at
Shenandoah, Va.
Mr. Burks, the Georgia State Seorettiy
continues to send out cnartere.
Fifty thousand dollars has b*en put L.to
a State exchange in Georgia of colored
Alliance men. „
me National tanners’ League has only
been started six months, ana has a mem
bership of 40,000 in the state cf New York
alone. /
The Georgia county and eub-Alliances
are all standing firmly against the use of
jute, bagging. Cotton bagging will be one
substitute.
Now that that tl's'A.lliance has decided
to build their oil miH here, says the Jack-
son Herald, of Jefferson, Ga , let us have
the bank in operation by the time the
mill is eomnleted.
The Americus, Ga, Recorder state*
that an Alliance warehouse is to be open
ed at Pinehurst, in Dooley county. This
gives Dooly several warehouses at conven
ient points
An Eastman, Hat, letter cays: At a
meeting of the Alliance here on Tuesday
last, they decided that they would use
cotton bagging again this year, and made
arrangements to have a large lot of it
at once.
As the season for State and county fairs
is close at hand, it is urged upon members
of the order to secure wherever possible
an “Alliance day,” and obtain a good
Alliance speaker }or the occasion. Through
this means the doctrines and principles of
the order can be placed before many of
th* best fanners of the country that Alli
ance literature has failed to reach.
President Polk ha* completed his tour,
and will be at his office in Washington
until further notice.
The State Alliance meetings for the
year are now nearly all adjourned; and
encouraging reports come from all over
the field. It is apparent that a more per
fect consolidation will be effected at the
Ocala meeting of the National Council
next December.
The Missouri State Alliance, at its re
cent meeting, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, U. 8.
Hall; secretary, J. W. Rogers; treasurer,
T. V. Hickcox; State lecturer, George W.
Williams.
A. P. Baskins, secretary of the Florida
State Alliance, Anthony, writes that “at
a meeting of the board of directors of the
Alliance exposition, there was donated
1,000 boxes of oranges as. a free gift to
the delegates to the National Alliance to
be held in Ocala in December next. Flor
ida wants to make our brethren from the
different states of the Union feel at home
while here, nnd this donation of 120,000
oranges is freely given to help make their
visit here one of pleasure, and to help
them feel we appreciate the honor of en
tertaining them as our guests.”
+ *«►**♦
THE KAIIOSAE AGRICULTURAL APPRO
PRIATIONS.
The Department of Agriculture, as the
farmers’ representative in the administra
tion of the National Government, should
be strengthened in all useful ways aud all
reasonable methods. To that department
belongs oversight of the “land and the
fullness thereof." Its scientiflc work be
ing always utilitarian in character, de
mands the best talent and the most hon
est service. It is a department to be
trusted, because, though it may make j
mistakes and fall short of its own require
ments, as does everything human, it can
not but right itself in short order.
The farmers are in favor of all reasona-
able legislation which tends to make their
department of more service. Some cf
such measures now pending in Congress
are, for example, the proposed transfer of
the weather service fiom the War to the
Agricultural Department. There ha* been
a general desire to see this accomplished
at the present session, and it is confident
ly expected that the 51st Congress will
not adjourn without making this import
ant change. Another valuable proposition
is (hat to enable the Secretary of Agricul
lure to continue to completion the inves
tigation begun last April into the under
flow and artesiju water supplies that are
to be found within the great plain* re
gions, or between the 97th meridian of
west longitude aud the foothills of the
Rockies. An appropriation of §40,000
has already passed the Senate as an amend
ment to the general deficiency bill, now
pending.
The anjendm-nt containing the appro
priation also directs the Secretary to in
quire into the general subject of irrigation
and its relations to agriculture. The far
mers must lie as a class practieal men.
They need information. It is within the
most stringent limits of the strictest rules
of constitutional construction that money
maybe expended- for the gathering and
publishing of economic and other data.
The appropriation referred to is within
those lines. It is part of a v ise policy
which will make the Department of Agri
culture more and more important, as in
justice to the great interests under it* cate
should be the case. The transfer of tfc
weather service nn.l t',.; comimhensive
investigation of irrigation will naturally
lead to an extension of the study of clima
tology, of zone-plant, and animal life; of
forestry and of hydrology. It will lead
up to them as utilitarian aims and ends,
and not for the mere posing so often
known as “research for science.”
It is possible In the closing dajs of the
session, either by oversight or' through
organized resistance by other influences,
that the irrigation appropriation may lx-
overlooked or ignored. The conflict over
the Geological Survey .and its uv- of the
irrigation appropriation during the last
two years may have bred some ill will
offices, and tuu reduction of >alaries all
around, and declares that “white supre
macy is the bulw ark of every civilization,
which can only bu secured by democratic
unity."
The New Hampshire Prohibition Stats
Convention nominated Josiah M. Fletch
er, of Nashua, for Governor, and the
following for Congress: 1st distriat, Rev.
Frank K. Chase, of Dover; 2d district,
Chas. H. Thorndike, cf Concord.
Chairman E. C Smith, of the N. C.
Democratic State executive committee,
has returned from WaHiington city. As
regards the editorial attack on Senator
Vance by Col. Polk, it is stated that thsre
will be no further attacks of that charac
ter in the official organ of the Farmers’
Alliance.
The Republican State Convention
Insects Encased In Amber—A Re
markable Discovery of Crystal-
How Chinamen Produce Pearls.
| “Amber is a curious stuff,” said a col
lector ef curios the other day, “It is
Duly comparatively recently that iu na- j
lure has been known, and even at this
i lay very few people seem to have any
lotion as to what it is in reality. The :
indents regarded it as altogether myste* 1
nous and even magical. They found that
It wae rendered electrical by friction so
as to attract light substances, and onr
word ‘electricity’ comes from the Greek |
name for amber, which wat ‘electron.’ :
! A favorite puzzle with them was how the j
of insects so frequently found in amber ,
of Delaware has nominated Henry A. C ame to be so situated. I have mysel?
Richardson, of Dover, for Governor, and a chunk of very transparent ambei
Henry P Cannon, for Congress. . la w hieh a small lizzard with five legs
The U. S. Senate Tuesday confirmed was encased, looking as if it might have
John Gafiigow as collector of customs for been alive yesterday, though,
the district of Cherrystone, Va.; John W. i doubtless, it had been dead for
Ross, commissioner of the District of thousands of years. Tha mystery
Columbia; S. T. Poimer, postmaster at
Spartanburg, S. C.
lies with extended jaws, as if waiting for
the unfortunate fisherman to drop into
them, Tho victim, dropping out of his
boat into the depths with a heavy stone
attached to his feet, brings hi* leg into
contact with the mantle of the hug*
mollusk, which closes upon -fhj limb
with one tremendous bite. Only on*
thing remains then for the diver to do,
namely, amputate the limb with his own
knife, because the mighty bivalve's Jaws
are clasped together with a tenacity that
wou».i take several horse powerto !oo««a,
and it is anchored to the bottom with i
cable of its own fnree times as strong a*
tho best inch..rope.”— Waslintton.Star..
COLORED FARMERS’ ALLIANCE.
!?’>:*-cn Sub-A’lir.nces of the State Or-
ganisalicn ITeet at IIompton-Ac-
cersione to the Order—Powell’»
Common Sense
AN EDITOR ARRESTED
£', r ates from sixteen Snb-Alliancss o!
‘he ('•.-lured Farmers State Alliance o!
•uth Carolima met nr Hampton Court
The Untaxed Ballot League of Massa
chusetts was organized at the rooms of
Wendell Phillip, Hall Association iu Bos
ton. Tire Huu. T Gieeuhalge, of Lowell,
was elected President.
The Democratic State Convention n;t.'
at Grand Rapids,Michigan,and nominated
E. B. Winans, of Hamburg, for Govern
or by acclamation, and Joan Strong, of
Monroe, for Lieutenant Goveruor.
There was a time wheu lawyers pro-
domiuated in the race for office, but the
Dcs Moines Leader has discovered that
the newspaper men are now coming to the
front, there being iu Wisconsin two edi
tors on the Republican State ticket and
(our on the Democratic, while the fifth is
a printer by trade.
Chairman Michencr, of the Slate Ccu-
ryal Committee called the Indiana Repub
licau State Convention to order. Ncarh
all the 1,820 delegates were present. Aitot
the usual trouble'in getting the delegate:
-ciited. Dr. H. A. Cleveland of tho >jf. E
Church, invoked a blessing. He said
"We thank thee for harmony among
.hose here assembled.” “We thank thee
for members here represented, and guidu
these descendants of those who gave their
lives to preserve the Union. May there
go from this convention the note of vic
tory.” Milton Truster was nominated for
Secretary of State. He is a Fayette county
farmer. Auditor, J. N. Walker, of Mar
ion; Judge Supremo Court, R. W. Mu-
Bride; Clerk Supreme Court, Wm. T.
Noble, of Wayne.
Summer Howard, one of the most prom
inent Republican politicians, of Mk-hi
gan, died on Saturday at Flint. In 1870
tc was appointed by President Grant as
district attorney for Utah. He secured
•he conviction and execution of John I>.
Lee, the noted leader in tho Mountain
Meadow massacre. In 1882 he was a mem
ber of the Michigan Legislature and was
tbosen Speaker of the House. Later he
was appointed by President Arthur as
Chief Justice of Arizona, which office ho
resigned in 1886. He had represented
Arizona and Michigan in many natianal
conventions.
The Democratic clubs, of North Caroli-
ua arc to meet in Raleigh on the 24th inst.,
md there is a strong and widespread
lesire in the State that Ex-President
Cleveland should accept the invitation
extended to him to be present. The
Wilmington Messenger says: “North
Lin oliua Democrats would bo highly
pb used to sec the Democratic Ex-Presi
dent in our capital city. If Mr. Cleveland
should agree to attend it would be very
gratifying to the young Democracy, and
the veterans, too. would be glad.” J. i>
Carr, president of the association, an
nounces that Senators Vance and Ransom
will certainly attend, and every Demount
Congressman and nominee for Congress
from North Carolina is expected.
V V w
•n Sntmd -y last. State L cturer
in the chair. The petition of
•7.a! tonal Alliance clubs praying to
riUrcc! into the State Alliance was
•1 ‘ltd Suite Lecturer Powell gran-
ir request.
i oucty Exchange matter was dis-
•red referred to the executive com-
Stab, Leetwr T'ou ell requested
coui.'y officers to devise some planfoi
berer education of the youths of the
er in the county, and tiy tc improve
• community schools, and advised al!
.te bugging and not allow their coitoa
•;■ tov rad with jute, for *hc cheap
t vc-ic only a snare trap There was
uc content! .n, and that w as to bring
peace and prosperity to aliconcern-
t-’aie Lecturer Powell said ‘ We
citizens cf this state, and we are
hu- to star. Our ancestors helped to
iu ike this State what it is, and we shall
hup to make her what the shall be in the
future. Wc are determined to build up
. -, _ - , ? w ! ec-operatic* industries, giving employ-
found at Hove some years ago, togetner tJ 0 , Jr children, which they ccuid
nut get otherwise. We have as good a
chance here as anywhere else, bu f wc
mu t utilize those chsaccs.
j regarding this eort of phenomenon is
| easily enough explained wheu it is un
derstood that amber is actually the fes-
\ sil gum of an extinct kind of cone-beat
â–  ing tree. Ia the process ef hardening it
. imprisoned the flies and other creatures
I preserved in the chunks of it that are
| found to-day. It is discovered plenti-
| fully by digging in certain puts of the
great plains of North Germany, where
I the strange tree once flourished. It is
i also found ‘a considerable quantities
| along the shores ot the Baltic, in the
i yellow sand stone. At Palmicken, in
| East Prussia, it is dug in regular mines:
| elsewhere it is picked from cliffs, and a
; good deal of it is gathered in the shape
of nodules cast up by the waves. The
! finest specimen of amber in Europe is a
cup made of that material cow at the
Brighton Museum, England. I
; llou-e
i J'; •ell
• three u
1 I.;.! the
1 he
, - ..
r-rin.-
: the cot
! the be:
i Older i
! t!
Irit
3 bo l
TLr;
i.-tl
‘ ..i, ,1c -
; To an
i death
din mi
> of th.
i Yotk
Loigham Court, Streatham, near Loa
don, comprising elxty-eix acre*, has Just
been sold for §450,000. It wa* for
many years tha residence of the 1st* Ji
ff. Tredwell, » railway contractor, .-who
began lit* as a navvy. His widow still
preserves th* pick and shovel with which
he worked u a laoexare
Several farmers' institutes will bo held
in different pvt* el New Jersey during
th* wmtar,
*» -* ■'*• ■# . . .v-*- ....z - 4
SOU1H CAROLISA DEMOCRACY,
The South Carolina Democratic State
aominatiug Convention remained in scs
-ion all night, discussing the report of
he Committee on Credentials which rec-
lotmnded the eeating of the contesting
rilbnmi delegations from Sumter, Fair
iebl, nod Berkley counties. The rtpcti
was finally adopt' d and between three and
five o'clock Thursday morning, the fol
lowing Tillman or Fawner's Movement
ticket was nominated by a vote of 269 to
to.
TIU, IICKEI.
For Governor, B. R Tillman, of Edge-
told: Lieutenant Governor, E. B. Gary,
>f Abbeville; Attorney General, Y. j.
.•ope, of Newberry; Secretary of State,
1. E. Lindal, of Clarendon; State Trese
ller, Dr. W. C. T. Bates, of Orangeburg:
Comptroller General, W. II. Ellerbe. o*
Marion; Adjutant and Inspector General.
•TughL. Farley, of Spartanburg; Superin-
endent of Education, W. D. Mayfield ol
Greenville.
It is a singular laet that the nominees
or Governor and Secretary of State arc
he only farmers on the ticket. Tin
fieasurer is a banker and physician, and
ill the others are lawyers. There will
be no split in the Democratic party.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform adopted reaffirms the
platform and principele of the National
Democratic party; favors free and unlim
ited silver coinage; an increase of the cm-
rcncy; and the repeal of the internal rev
enue system, denounces the McKinley
tariff bill; the Lodge force bill, and the
action of Speaker Reed; demands the ab
olition of uutional banks, and that legal
tender treasury notes be issued iu lieu of
national bank notes in sufficient volume
to do tho business of the country on a
cash system, and that ail money issued by
the Government shall be legal tender in
payment of ail debts, both public and
private; also that Congress pass such laws
as shall effectually prevent the dealing iu
futures of ail agricultural productions,
prescribing such stringent methods of
procccdure as shall secure prompt convic
tion ; also that Congress shall provide for
the location of incomes of individuals and
the supplies of corporations thereby equal
izing the burdens upon the poorer clm-ecs
and finally di-.inau.dsgeiKr.il l etrenchments
and reform in the administration of the
(State government, the almlition of useless
which might cause indifference t« tho re
sult ; ought in this measure. For this rea
son it is impressed upon Congress that a
continuance of the artesian and underflow
investigation is of great importance to the
millions of agriculturists struggling to
create now furor, and homes on tue great
. great plains. They want a uuull appro
priation w.uli', and it will be money " isc-
0’ uPUhJtui if the purpose of tho Stsau
— S’iiert?hn*ri* it conew/d tn by Mie ttouse.
11
On t
th
with weapons and utensils of stone and
bronze, so it is evidently very ancient,
! indeed. In the fourteenth century, imd ,
I before amber was made into knives and
i forks with one prong, which were used
: by princes and church dignitaries, it
• was more valuable than gold then. Now
! it is worth from §2 to §50 a pound, ac
cording to its quality. The most im
jiortant use made of it is for meerschaum
and other pipes. Meerschaum, by the
way, is a material dug out of the earth
in Turkey; it comes in boxes holding
fifty pounds and valued at ftom §20 to
|300. The dust and chips obtained
from it in the process of manufacture are
worked in pipes, this material being
called ‘imitation meerschaum.’ Ambei
dust is melted, and the product is what
is sold as ‘amberinc.’ ”
•‘What a very beautiful sphere oi
crystal this isl” said tho newspaper man,
taking in bis hand a cool globe that
looked like a huge dewdrop, which the
collector handed him for examination.
“Ye*, that is a pretty specimen. 1
suppose j ou are aware of tho theory en
tertained by the ancients regarding eucb
rock crystal. They thought it was ac
tually tco frozen to great density by dura
tion of time, congealed beyond liquida
tion. ‘Krystallos’ in Greek means ‘ice. 1
! The famous writer on natural philosophy,
| Pliny, who wrote more facts that were
I not true than ever any man collected to-
i gether before or since, says tho crystal is
j undoubtedly water frozen by cold so in-
! tense that nothing can melt it again.
â–  Roman ladies of that time were acctts-
! tomed to carry such spheres as this one ;
| in their hands during hot weather for j
| coolness. It was the thing, also, to have j M
I the material worked into wine jugs and j p'
i other vessels. Nero had two drinking '
cups of crystal worth §3000 each, and a
1 crystal ladle also; but when he learned
i that he had lost his kingdom he broke
i them, lest they fall into the hands cf any
‘ one else. A crystal lens was employed
in Rome to kindle the sacred vestal five, i
\ Great care was taken not to put the crys
i tal ware in a warm place for fear that it
â–  would melt. The most remarkable dis
j eovery of crystal on record was made in
1867 above the Tiefcn glacier by a party
of tourists, n single cave in the granite
yielding 1000 crystals c f from fifty to
i00pounds weight.”
“And what is this? ’
“That,” replied the collector, “is a
diminutive Cninese god, coveted with a
coat of pearl by a real pearl oyster. On
tuch parts of the coast of the Flowery
Kingdom as produce pearl oystera a reg
ular business is often made of manufac
turing pearls articficially by introducing
Into the shells of the live oysters foreign
objects of various kinds. You doubtless
know that the pearl is a morbid symptom
in the bivalve. A grain of sauci or some
such substance getting into the oyster
produces irritation, and the animal pro
tects itself by covering the objectionable I Gn tl;
panicle with coiling after coating of its
own pearly secretion. Tho interruption
of light by the successive coats of xghich
the pearl is formed in this way gives it
its beautiful lustre. Taking advantage
of this habit ol tne pearl oyster the in
genious Chinaman pries it gently open
and puts in whatever he like?, maybe ?
little figure oi a god like this. The oys
ter goes to work and covers it with
pearl, until after a few months the idol is
a pearl idol. It is worth mentioning in
cidentally that sharks are by no means
such a terror to pearl divers ns is com
monly supposed. It is true that now
and then a diver docs get gobbled, but
for every such human victim hundreds of
sharks are killed by the divers, In a
great majority of instances the diver
proves much more than a match for tbs
sharks, at home a- he is iu the water.and
armed with a long, keen knife for strik
ing the fish behind the pectoral fin in the
fatal spot. The diver is perfectly safe
while on the bottom gathering oysters,
because the man-eating sharks are not
ground feeders and they will nut touch
him there. It is when he is rising to the
j surface with his catch, out ot breath
j after two minutes spent below, that he is
! apt to Hud a fish perhaps thirty-live feet
; in length looming overhead like agigau-
! tic shadow, waiting to take him in at a
1 bite. This is unpleasant, but it is the
i shark that gets too worst of it usually,
j The first thing that the diver tries to do
! is to get to tho surface for a breath of
air, then he gets under again and manceu-
vres until he gets the lislt afoul. Pearl
divers iu the Torres Straits are not one-
twentieth part so much afraid of the
tiger shatks which are swarming there
as of the giant mollusk at the bottom,
tit feet ot mor* «m«is it* shell, winch
It I* Asesrtcd that His Political En
emies Have Put Up a Job cn Han.
Des Mon-’ES, Iowa. Sopt. 15.—North
western Iowa is excited ever the arret of
George F. UTlliams of Ida Grove. He is
one of the best known ccuntiy newspaper
rtyn in Iowa, a leading politician and a
banker. Early last spring the old opera
house at Ida Grove, v.-hich is a competi
tor of the opera house twned and man
aged by Williams, was damaged by Lie
On Monday A P Newman, arrested on
the charge of setting the building on flrr.
was arranged. He pieced guil.y and
made a statement that startled’fda Grove
j He said Williams paid him $1C0 to bum
| the building.
I An indictment agatnet Wirhama was
; returned, and he war, attetted. Th' at-
j rest is hailed with delight by the .rati-
• Williams faction in Ida couuty. Wilh
-ims has been the acknowledged leader
one cf the factions. He is a hard fight
er, a man who never forgive nor forgets
He has been charged with severalernu..
About two years ago he was indicted i â– 
criminal libel, at the instance of Bax::-.
KecddrCo., banker?. A few days later
Banker Reed was arrested cn the chatg:
of stealing cattle , having taken a num
ber of head of cattle from a Wecdbury
j county farmer upon, as he asserted, a
j chattel mortgage. Williams wta under
; bonds to appear'for trial, biv: he reopen-
i ed the war cn Reed and, hire all hi< at
tacks, it was a bitter and a warm one,
Williams showed at the trial that the ease
against him was brought on account ef
personal enmity. He was accordingly
•discharged.
A number of Ida Grove people unite in
pronouncing the arrest a put-up job
One of them said; They have been atV:
Williams for years I am net surpr.s 1
It may be that they have made tho .Mb
complete this time, and that there ’■ ill
be persons to swear to stuff that • .".i.: i
vict Williams
Williams gave bonds in the sure ot
} §5,000and was released,
FATHER AND SON SLAIN
BOYCOTTED Hlifl.
Would Have Nothing to Do
h a Man Who Insulted the
Str.rs and Bars.
:?•" a. Va. Speoijl.— The death of H.
• ulur b'-r-’ Saiui'bn night was hidi-
ibi'-to a re-oluti'u iTltred by him
Grand Vnuy Convention at Peters-
•-! sprim: rail vet big on the Confcd-
tiag. Up to that time ito was very
popular with the peoph of Norfolk. The
H -flutu.n be ('fla red was in the shape of
■i petit•••n lo t ongre-u to -tup the mnnu
i â–  .nn ct the Confederate flag, which.
V, h-xler termed “a courtmptible rag."
U'- ra t'.'ii irouted the poop!.- here and
itib u!ri! \\ breler's business to such an ex
tent that after m um weeks ho publicly
denied bi ing rcsponsiblo.for the resolu
tion He even weld so far a? to appear
cd -
road
Two
froiu
mi
u'on.
ie a p Hade
at tin: if ad
of
n detachment
-r Grand A
rmy men at
the
time of a Con-
f rad''rare eel
el'ration.
It was su
''fciptently
pin
•veu, however,
tr-.'i lie was
the author
of
the resolution,
traid tlran th
e feeling again.
it him became
intensified.
Hi? busir
:C j ss
continued to
n tmd be sought relief in drink,
over indulge:n e >• attributed hi-
Wheeler w&s an ex-Union sol
I a post department ccmmuudcr
tnoul Vrui' and a native of New
The Macon Carnival.
.rent trade carnival to come off a'
'• > ou the ,:4th cf Octobei will
el feature The
propose to hat e n
the
1,1 VC OIK !â– 
A. ■ •iciativ.
â–  (tin : n paxiilion, whose four
ie seal of Georgia. The
.* paviiiioa "ill ba after the
S* 4 ' te g,i; i ol and the Goddess
will “si.d t.-n top of the dome.
’•!
itiv o
IJii.d
be|,.i
l and n.
pavilli";
•,v.r<l ar
•It'
I e.
I III
that
M •< •
III"
of tie t dit' V ■ •
•-ill tide G.u ifel't
lie-.Je llpui the ta" .
I •- •!' lie 1'
-ri, law vers who
i -i â– â– II re. -uivi--fullv
Million a throne
on whieh i?
On each ide
iintiful god-
(ui the fuur
id â–  oldiei
• i in the md-
• jeopini: the
• • and hi"
• • >1 the (ttv.
Silas Whitney nnd Sou Robert Riddled
With Bullofe.
Silas Whitney ami aoii. of Wi'-ra < .run.
ty N. C-, were killed from arc, 1 •••:-.
nesday morning. They lira ;T
miles from Wilson on the L.
and they started fur there .,t n,.
other sens followed. About a iri
their home, they found i’ a
oral buck shot wound - in n
aud breast, and in a chin. ••,.
He died before they ■ oukt -. • hit i home
About 2 miles further, tie - te jnd theii
father in bis buggy (lead, hi 'uu', inv.
ing brought liiui on after f. v sh-'l.
He was shot in theleft shouldet t
being killed instantly.
They were shot at four tin es lust Sal
urday night, when returnin'.; borne, but
were missed, the 1 tor- i e.ng a a: •_’.
Whitney was called n desperate man.
Twenty-eight bullet hole fraud in
him, and tnirrt ■ “
The Latest Freak,
’Squire Knapp,living near Mihr. O'.ii •
owns the latest freak. It i turitej
gobbler that is not only tho bora, of th?
barn-yard, but a sort uf emergency r.re'
bstor. Some time ago th' ‘Squire killed
one of hu hens. Shortly afterward h«
missed the gobbler ftom his usual L.tuntj
and instituted a search for him. E<
found the bird among the v sc . i
short, distance from the houra. ih
gobbler was doing h s level bra.l f) uv>
bate a neat of five eggs whi
had left. His efforts wete in a n.
successful, for lie hatched out .c
some little chick. The gobbis: i
attached to it, and struts a ra v; .
scratching up something lor it 11
night, instead of fir ing up on h .
bedsits down and take? the lira
under its wing until mottling. —
mti Enquirer.
sari
,'oe
dat
. At
I!
Tb > Mac.m Carnival
great cnnival to come off a*
G - , on tire 'ilth of October wip
one novel feature. The
Vv-ociutiuii propose to have a
ntiii/u p.iviilion, whose four
rebablv hire,
Im on Bar
Hilt R jH
• i h > r qirc.-'M the h d of Georgia. The
re of of tic ret', tilion "â– ill be after the
.-ttleof the State Capitol, and the Goddess
ot Libuity "ill M.'• n'I on top of the dome.
• inside of the pavillion a throne
entirely of flowers, on which is
the blind ::• ddcs-. On each side
throne will be fom beautiful cod-
ii- •• . In r haud-inai<b ire On the four
side- .-f the pavillion will stand a soldier
viih dinv.n sword aud dressed in the Uni
term of tiiat day. Accompanying the
l! rat will ride Gen. Oglethorpe and his
‘ the city,
wjreral eu-
fieUnninid
nied out.
Meeting of the Blue nnd Ore
l An elaborate programme has but p::
; pared for the reunion of tire Com •. •“•
! and Union veterans to take place at .
Olle. Tenn. next month. On Tit ra
| Oc tober 7, there will be a reception ra "
: itors by the various commiitees from A
, M. to 2 I* M. which " ill be folio.- . 1 !•;•
mi address of welcome delivered from t •
i grand tent. At night receptions •■ l
vend en- j qpiq p,- veteran organizations ina bigtent
fi n niiiued , . in ,j t }„. different headquarters. Th. pro
.•rainmc for Wednesday, the grand :
•on (lav, includes rpeucncs by i i
speakers, to be followed by a ura.tra'.h
cue at Fort Saunders, a !'• uinatnei:
socialism, and jirivale reception? vt r
On Thntsday <t competitive drill
morning by the different milii try ra
ies. at 2 o'clock a sham battfi,
night a grand peace jubilee v ill :
the exercise.
• at vied c
uu
•itori
irbe
tb.
-.fierimade up of the lawyers of
T i:'. project is in the hautis of sc
Struck By a Waterspout
Passenger train No. 119 era
from El Faso. Tex, or. the Souti;
rifle railway, w re caught iu a v '
about 25 miles west cl IN 1 II
w*ter, some 10 feet wide stru 1
ward part of the train It 1C' -
gins, baggage-car :*.nd mail (â– 
that ;t
in lawyers, "ho are
-I all be successfully c.
Shapes of Musical Sounds.
Sounds giro curious impression:- ot j
colors and objects to some tiKiividuaU. |
A Tuunq woman recently mentioned 1ms I
distinct visions of various objects at the i
sound of different nmsioal instrument*, j
Titc playing of au oboe brings to her ;
the image of a sharp-pointed white (
pyramid or obelisk Vitreiug it: pra'por
tions with the quality of the nuie The
cello, the high notes of tho otstoon, the
trumpet, and the trombone, aud the low
notes of clarionet and the viola, suguira
a dal, undulating ribbon of strong white
fibres; and the horn gives overlapping
white circles of graduated rare.-. Tin
sudden striking up of the violins in
orchestra oftci bviug_ to view a sbo vu
of bright white ihnt m -and —} - •'•.•
f V. J • A «(; :•■ a:/ 1
ginr. uaggati.-i.«> •
coaches, nnu carried th
turning them
Tha "p#.'Scngvr« knew no*'
approach of the w.-.rei ir.ti!
j red. Beth tho engine .
I caped drowning by s’da,,,
j ground. The track w to .
• yorde, and a gully ten i •■
I through it.
r .i'
Ic-..,
South Carolina at the V/ora' V ra
At Cresson Spring l’ 1 ,
dent Wednesday 'igacd
a* commissioner and ul “ ■: ■'< ■
• r to the World's Fair * • :
lie* of John li. Cot litun at l .
dull. The governor ru ibet
inadvertently noiuinaU l r
and alternates cntirclj from t
tc party, overlooking the ; : un i â– 
required an equal repure .atiou •
jiartie?. His. attention hnvii . i • • >
to the mutter lie promptly la i.rii ••.
two gentlemen above mimed .n pi
J. tra Coil nnd H. P. Ilimteu u*.
Wreck Off Cape Fear
The American steam yacht Migreun,
Captain. D. H. Pugh, of New Yoik, to
immli, grounded Tuesday afternoon
on tin eunme point ol Cape Fear near
Wilmington. The vu-cl is it total loss.
'I he «new o! live, iwfiulitig the Captain,
were rescued by the Cape Fear life raring
Clift.
Cotton Export* tor Aug
Cotton xp.'rts from the Unites
during the para, month? of A ra,
gate 62,203 bales, valued
• gainst 08,608 Vales v.r.K .
'J3 in Align'-' ‘ i .-
be 12 month • ending A • . t
iggrtgah'-I ' 11,Id!! bile, , n i
MU, 030. | ^ |
Rosa Bouheur •Tains t'n‘.
painted her best piat-irc. in'
tawed the ag'e cf fifty
; l. .C.-
v-.J-