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Property of She (Do rL nylon Co, vfmtor cal (Society THE DARLINGTON HERALD VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1890. NO. 15. I Only one county (Washoe) In Nevada shows an increase in population over the figures of the census ten years ago. Work is being vigorously pushed on the Nicaragua canal. Tho large plant used by Slaven, of San Francisco, on the Panama canal, has been purchased, and a new set of powerful dredges have been contracted for in Scotland. Meantime work has been carried on at the mouth of the San Carlos River, tho depth of which, at tho mouth, is said to have been doubled already. At the rate that work is being advanced, vessels will pass through the canal before 1895, if no un foreseen obstacles occur. The increase in railway mileage in this country during tho first six months of the year was 1893 miles. This, in the opin ion of tho Chicago Newt, is accounted highly creditable. More miles of rail road have been constructed in the South ern States than in any other section of tho country. Tho Northwestern States and Territories, where construction went on rapidly for awhile, have nearly stopped building. Massachusetts laid but a mile and a half of new road, Maine about ten miles; the other New Eng land States stood still. California gained one mile. The quantity of meat thrown overboard Into the Atlantic is very great, says an English paper. Out of 185 cargoes of animals sent to British ports in one year from Canada, consisting of 61,092 head of cattle, 61,382 sheep and seventy-five pigs, 658 cattle, 1170 sheep and one pig were consigned to the deep during tho voyage. Of the 432 cargoes imported from tho United States into Great Britain, comprising 138,661 head of cattle, 30,- 317 sheep and seventeen pigs, 1570 of tho first and 857 of the second class of this live stoek was thrown overboard dur ing the voyage, thus numbering 4856 animals which were pitched into the sea for tho year. , - 1 Professor Wiggins, the notorious Ca nadian meteorologist, advances another novel theory. He allgcs that tornadoes and kindred storms are generated by the efforts of accumulated electricity in the' clouds to release itself. It is his belief, therefore, that tornadoes will not prevail in any locality with a considerable net work of overhead wires, for these wires will give tho electricity a smooth and easy vent. It is to bo feared, the Troy Timet suggests, the professor is working in the interests of the electric service companies. Else he would take account of the municipal storms of which over head wires are so frequently tho cause. Compared with these what would an oc casional tornado be? There is nothing to be surprised at in the story that an establishment has been discovered in Paris whero imitations of the pictures of the great French painter Courbet are turned out by wholesale. It has been the fortune of all tho French masters, says the New York Star, to at tract tho attention of tho forgers, and without doubt there are to-day in tho galleries of tho world more spurious than genuine works of Corot, Daubigny, Diaz, Courbet and Jacquo, not to mention any others. Most of tho pictures are as ex cellent, as works of art, as masters could paint, only they are not the real thing. There seems to bo no way of preventing these frauds, but tho picture business all over tho world is being seriously dis credited and damaged thereby. Tho Chicago Tribune is led to make some comparisons between tho salaries paid to tho American and the British judges. There is a wide disparity. Tho Lord Chancellor of England gets $30,- 000 per annum while in office, and when he goes out with his party he gets $20,- er annum. Tho Irish Lord Chan- ^jJ.OOO in and $20,000 per annum on going out. 2Jrce Lords of Ap peal—Supreme Court Judges—are paid $30,000 per annum. The Lord Chief Justice receives $40,000; the Master of the Rclls, chief of the chancery division, $30,000; the other Chancery Judges, $25,000 each. The Queen’s Bench Judges are paid $25,000 each. Tho couuty judges get salaries ranging from $8000 to $20,000. Tho Irish judges are paid $17 ,000 to $25,000 per annum, or more than three times the salaries of our Su preme Court judges. The death of a man near Syracuse, N Y., from the sting of a bee is regarded by physicians as one of tho most remark able cases on record. He was stung on the nose by an ordinary honey bee, from one of his own hives, and died within ten minutes. The sting of a bee appears to have previously affected him in a most singular manner. Thirty-two years ago he nearly died from tho effects of a sting, and as a result of his illness at that time his pulse never thereafter beat faster than forty-five pulsations in a minute. Men and even horses havo.been stung to death by large swarms of bees, but this is be lieved to bo the first case in which a man has died from the sting of a single bee. The little busy bee, which improves each shining hour and gathers honey all the day from every fragrant (Vower, must oc casionally gather some rank and deadly vegetable poison with its honey, or else, believes the Chicago Herald, there are certain people who should beware of the bee os they would shun a mad dog or a rattlesnake. THE SOUTH EPITOMIZED, And, Grouped Here Under Proper Divisions, Will be Found the Late News of Our Home Section and Important Happenings From the Poto mac to Alabama. VIRGINIA. Rev. Dr. Moses D. Huge, of Richmond was thrown ten feet from horseback Thursday morning. He was very much hurt but will preach as usual Sunday. James B. Taylor, a confectioner of Staunton, died from an overdose of bro mide of potash. Robert Keen, a negro citizen of Crook- town, near Danville, cleaned out the town Saturday. He was arrested, but got away. The historic Jameson house, at Cul pepper, has been sold for $3,000. So far orders have been given in ad vance for eighteen thousand Smithfield hams, and curers will not be able to sup ply the demand. Petersburg Lodge, No. 15, A. F. & A. M., will present the Masonic Orphan’s Home of Virginia with a handsome clock. A freight train became derailed on the Virginia Midland road near Alexandria, in Culpepper county. It resulted in wrecking ten freight cars and killing Brakcmcn S. C.IShacklett and Edward Tribble. Edward Johnson, who is serving a term of threc-and-a-half years in the pen itentiary for housebreaking in Pago county, was pardoned Friday by Gov ernor McKinney. Dr. John W. Nash, the surgeon at the penitentiary, recom mended Executive clemency inasmuch as Johnson is hopelessly ill with consump tion. The Dominion National Bank of Bris tol, has made application to the Comp troller of the Currency for authority to lx; gin business. The bady of an unknown dead white man was found on the Norfolk and West ern railroad near Waverly. NORTH CAROLINA. Free delivery service has been ordered for Durham and Greensboro, on the 1st of November. During September, 2,952 bales of cot ton were sold in Wadeslxiro, against 690 bales in September, 1889. Lest Saturday afternoon, Allman Bos- worth, living near Norwood Stanly coun ty, was instantly killed by having his head caught by the lever of a cane mill. He was about 75 years old. The Ladies of the Raleigh Confederate Memorial Association are to have a guess ing match for the benefit of the Soldiers’ Home. Steve Jacobs a noted Croatan Indian outlaw, was hanged for murder at Lum- herton Friday. G. W. Pack has sold to W. B. Gwyn 145 acres of laud in Chunn’g cove, just cast of Ashvillc for $10,000. Mr. Peck purchased the land from J. W. Jeanneret, in January of this year for $5,094. Durham District convention of the Y. M. C. A. meets at Henderson on October 30th. Sam Jones has closed his series of meet ings at Wilmington. Collections during the meetings amounted to $4,000. Half the amount was presented to Mr. Jones, and the other half was applied to the Wilmington tabernacle fund. Mr. Jones has agreed to appear in Wilmington again next year. There was a large crowd at Oxford from both Virginia and North Caro lina at the drawing of the lots of the Land and Improvement Company. Tho event of the di.y was the drawing of the famous Grandy mansion. Mr. George Richardson, of Farmville, Va., drew the lucky number, and got the mansion, which is valued at seven or eight thou sand dollars. SOUTH CAROLINA. Evangelist Fife begun a series of meet ings in Blacksburg on Oct. 16. A state commission was issued to the Mead Phosphate Mining and Mf'g Co., of Meadville, Berkeley county. The senior class of the South Carolina University held a meeting at Columbia and elected annual officers: President, F. C. Withers, Fairfield; Vice P., C. ’ N. MeBryde, Richland; sec’y and treas., b! H. Harvin, Clarendon. The Limestone Springs Lime Company, Spartanburg county, capital $40,600 has been incorporated. The Spanish steamship, Pedro, Capt. Bonctp* was cleared at Charleston for Liverpool on Wednesday with 8,200 bales of cotton. This is the largest cargo of cotton that has ever been cleared from the port of Charleston. Henry D. Howrcn, the brilliant journ alist-evangelist was buried from Trinity church, Charleston, last Wednesday af ternoon. Mrs. Capt. F. W. Dawson had a boquet of flowers placed on the coffin, together with other beautiful floral tributes. A dead man had been found just out- sidc the Columbia city limits on the Savan nah Railroad. On examination it was found to be the body of a tramp named Bennett. He was probably cut with a knife, death resulting from a terriblegash in the side. A companion, who was seen with him, has since been found and ad mits doing the killing, but says it was done in self-defence. Upon the recommendation of the board of directors of the Penitentiary, the Gov- eruoi took action on the following cases: Alfred Singleton, convicted at the June term 1875, for Charleston Comity, of bur glary and larceny in five cases, and senten c'd by Judge Reed to thirty years in the Penitentiary. Sentence commuted to date. Green Burch, convicted at the March term 1878, for Darlington County, of arson, and sentenced by Judge Aldrich to twen ty years in prison. Pardoned Sol. Habb, convicted at March term 1882, for Union County, of obstructing a railroad, and sentenced by Judge Pressley to ten years’ imprisonment. Pardoned. TENNESSEE. Henry Smith, giving his homo us New Votk was arrested at Nashville for passing a form'd cheek on Chus. Thurman for a suit of clothing, and $15 in change. An other $50 check had been cashed by Smith with Walter Keith. Smith at tho time he was taken into custody had his pockets full of checks. Tho third annual session of the Baptist Educational, Missionary, and Sunday school convention of Tennessee, convened in the Knoxville Mt. Zion (colored) Bap tist church Reg. H. B. Vandavcll, D. D in the chair. The owners of the .'Et na coal mines near Chattanooga, have decided to use Cpnvict labor. The miners employed by the company went out on a strike some time since and considerable trouble has resulted. Fifty convicts were sent from the main prison at Nashville to the mines. Two burglaries were committed at Johnson City last Tuesday night. Toney & Brow n, clothiers lost $300 worth of goods, and a $200 horse was token from Martin’s Livery stable. The thieves es caped. A distressing accident occurred at Brownsville. Harold McDermott, age 15, was practicing with a small target gun, when he accidently shot it off, the ball striking tho jaw of his little sister Floy standing near, the ball going upward'. The victim lingered for several days be fore dying. In the County Court at Chattanooga, the committee appointed to confer with the National Park Commissioners, report ed as follows: “The Government of the United States proposes to construct and keep in repair two highway approaches to the Cluekamauga National Military Park, namely, the Missionary Crest road, from Sherman Heights to Rossvillc Gap, and the road crossing Lookout Mountain, now known as the Hooker road, thence by the present county road viajlie iron bridge across Lookout Creek to Rossvillc Gap." The report was approved. GEORGIA. Louis Brown, quartermaster of the steamship Nacoochee, fell overboard at the steamers pier in Savannah, Monday, and was drowned. A Liberty county farmer raises pears to fatten his hogs upon. Jas. Atkins, a lawyer and prominent Republican politician, was found dead in his office at Savannah. He was formerly United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Georgia, collector of customs for Savannah and for years lias been u bolder of Federal offices in Geor gia. He died from heart disease. J. S. Bailey, of the firm of Hillard A Bailey, large lumber dealers in Southeast Georgia, was killed on tho Barilla River, Camden county, Tuesday mluht bv one of his clerks named Patterson. Nearly thirteen million shad have been planted in the open waters of Georgia during the last two years. The rivers of Georgia arc said to bo the bast in the country for the propagation of fish. A white woman named Becky Loyd, who was serving a term of ninety days in the Washington county jail, made her es cape last Sunday night. The sheriff al lowed her the freedom of the grounds which she took advantage of and made her escape while the sheriff was at church. Over a week ago a firm of contractors in Lawrenccvillt furnished a negro a mule and sent him off to hunt up hands for a railroad. When the negro got to Duluth he sold the muie and skipped the coun try. Manager Glover, of Glover’s opera house, Amcricus, is threatened with a lawsuit for damages for permitting an amateur company to present “The Little Tycoon,” which proved to be a copy- righted play. Miss Anna C. Salford, who recently died at Soochow, China, was a native of Grcensborough, Ga. Miss Salford was connected with the Southern Presbyte rian mission in China, where she did special work among the women. OTHER STATES. William Packard, who lives near Bay- minettc, in Baldwin County, Ala, is the smallest man in America. He is 21 years uf age and weighs only 49 pounds. He is three feet high And perfectly formed. Isaac Frazier, a negro, 98 years old, died at Montgomery, Ala, Saturday. Some eight or teu years ago Isaac, who had worm glasses for many years and was then complaining of his defective vision, received what was called his second sight and was able to see almost as ever, although up to his dgath he occa sionally used glasses. After having jmss- ed his 95th year the old man was mar ried. Micaqppy, Fla., is now without a saloon. The only one in the place was closed up last week. 1 The Deaf, Dumb and Blind State Asy lum opened at St. Augustine last week. The Sun’s Cotton Review. The New York Sun says: Cotton fu tures opened two to three points decline (Wednesday) closing quiet at four to five points decline from yesterday’s closing pin ■es. Liverpool disappointed the bulls this morning, and southern reports gen erally advised clearing weather at the south. Only at a few points had rain fallen in the previous twenty-four hours, and nowhere heavily. A selling move ment to realize profits was at once begun by room traders. The lowest prices of the day were reached before noon. Then for two hours the market was very dull, with hardly any change in prices. In the last half hour, when the crop movement for the day hud been bulletined, both at the ports and principal interior towns, showing a mateii- ul lulling off from the corresponding date of last year, there was a slight and partial recovery, hut the demand appeared to be nothing more than a little covering. To the Memory of Her Husband. Mrs. Alma Avcra lias presented to Trinity College, at Durham, N. C., 643 acres of valuable land in Johnston coun ty, with the proceeds of the sale of which the Avcra memorial building is to be erected in memory of her late husband, Willis II. Avcra. This is the fifth build ing thus given, and in it a divinity school is to lie established. The other four buildings given to this leading Southern Methodist University are the main building, technological building, science building ami library. Confederate Courtesies to the Comte. A special from Richmond, Vn., says: Dr. J. F. D. Cullen, formerly of Gen. Longstreet’s staff, (’apt. 1‘liillippax, cx- confcdcrate officer, and Col. Archer An derson, formerly of Gen. 1). 11. Hill’s staff, accompanied the Comte dc Paris on his visit to the battlefields around the city of Richmond. Mayor Ellison presi dent of the board of Aldermen and the president of the common council met the party at the boat on its arrival and made it very pleasant for the Comte during his stay. WELCOME LOCOMOTIVES! The South’s Progression In Railroad Building Reviewed, Showing That She Has Lead the Coun try in Number of Miles Construct ed, In the Front Ranks For Railway Earnings, And a Bright Future Prospect. AILROAD8 are flic advance guard f civilization. This saying has had so many il lustrations that it has become proverbial. In our Southland was built the first railroad of America to use st» am, the South 'arohna rail- .- - road in March, 1831, having put to practical use their two new steam engines, “Best Friend” and “West Point.” But little was ac complished, however, in opening up now sections of the fertile North America ly ing between the Potomac and Rio Grande rivers, until the Southern States began to recover from the civil war. Even then the progress in railroad and industrial dcvclopement was slow and uncertain, for our future prosperity and settled state of internal affairs was by no means assured. Time, that nssuager of all troubles, vast, hut latent, mineral and agricultural wealths and a salubrious climate, together with a determination of the people to overcome tremendous difficulties, paved the way for the successful introduction of outside capital and up building the South. Here wc again find the Railroads leading the advance guard. ****** Considered from a revenue standpoint the great trunk lines demanded first atten tion, and were of absorbing interest. They were the great money-earners, and their securities were oftenest spoken of and purchased for investment. From a speculative point of considera tion the transcontinental lines were first sighted. They were gigantic enterprises that challenged attention. The boldness of their conception, the problem of their completion, the uncertainty of their profit able Operation, the political atmosphere surrounding them, their varying fortunes at the hodds of successive Congresses, all lent fascination. There were speculations, and so drew the thought of the speculative. But a change has come. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, it progressed. Lit tle by little tho small lines of the South were amalgamated and extended. Systems pew in geographical extent and financial importance. New industries contributed additional traffic, and for some years past the South lias lead the rest of the country in the extent of its new railroad con struction. Wc note in the Railroad Age a summary of said construction in the U. S. in the first nine montlis of 1890, which shows that 3,782 miles of new road were built in 39 states. Georgia lends with 323 miles, North Carolina third with 226 miles, and the other Southern states close ly following. But the roads ot the South have not only taken to themselves greater import ance physically, but they have also come up to a higher level in the amount of their earnings. For months past the Southern systems have been shotting re markable progress in gross earnings, and' in a table of comparative earnings fol August last, us compiled by the Financial Chronicle, a Southern system holds second place &moug the large gainers, and out ol the list of 20 companies reporting tin greatest increase, nine arc located in tin South. Furthermore the strides made by South ern railroads in the past few years m» safely be taken as an index of what tic future will reveal. The impetus whim has been imparted will carry railroad i»- tercsts forward with greater power in tie future, and the importance of Southern roads in every respect will he reeognizid to a degree hitherto unknown. We append a few late news notes edi- ccrning railroads building and projected. ****** The 3 C’s road, after its reported tre bles and the reports as to its finances, is now to come all right, and the great coal hauling line is to be completed ata nuch curlier day than the most sanguine had hoped for. The syndicate of Euirlsb capitalists who furnished the original 16,- 000,000 of capital with which the roadhas been built thus far, having made arrange ments w ith Berkeley Bros., the New York financiers, for the immediate placing of another $0,000,000,and the road is now to be rushed through with the greatest rapidity possible. This is good news to every one in tins section of the country and another winter will not pass before Columbia and Charleston, S. C., can re ceive coal direct from Tennessee. ****** The East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia is said to be seriously contemplating the building of a line from Bristol to Dan ville, Va. J here is already a road exten ding west from Danville to Bristol, 75 miles in length. ’Ibis would nnlvrequire the building of 113 miles to reach Bristol, the distance from Bristol to Danville be ing 188 miles. From Danville to Norfolk a distance of 190 miles, there is already a road, tlie Atlantic and Danville, owned by the Richmond and Danville. So by this new route the distance from Bristol to Norfolk would be 378 miles, against 408 miles by the Norfolk and ’ Western via Lynchburg. From Danville to Lynch burg, via the Richmond and Danville, is 66 miles. Tuc distance from Bristol to Lynchburg, via Danville, would be 254 miles, against 204 by the Norfolk ami Western. ****** Ny a eontruet executed between the Virginia and Nortli Carolina Construction Company and the Roanoke Development ami Guarantee Coinputiy, it is provided that within thirty days of the delivery of the right of way into Roanoke City by the latter company, the construction com pany is to begin at Roanoke and construct the line of the Roanoke and Southern Railroad no meet tlie portion already loca ted by tho railroad company, and that the ^company’s ear shops are to be located at Roanoke. The southern tetniinus will bo either Charlotte or Monroe, North Car olina The contract provides that Roanoke is to be the northern terminus of the road. Two six months’ notes for $50- 000 each have been made by tho president of the construction company in favor of the Development and Guarantee Compa ny, and are to be discounted by the Mer cantile Trust and Deposit Company, of Baltimore. Tlie notes arc secured by $150,000 in first mortgage bonds of the Roanoke and Southern Railroad Compa ny, and are endorsed by wealthy men of Roanoke, whose names represent over $4,- 000,000 in property. ****** 1 he Shenandoah Valley Railroad was «rold at Roanoke, Vn., last week at public auction to Louis Fitzgerald, representing the Norfolk & Western. The price paid was $7,100,000. ****** The \ irginia and Kentucky railroad has been organized at Wytheville, Va. ****** Tracklayers are now at work on the Silicon Birmingham railroad, and it is thought the track will ho laid to La Grange, Ga., within the month. ****** The Tallahassee & Northern Railroad (o., contemplates building a railroad from Tallahassee to Thomasville, Ga., con necting with tho Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad. ***♦»* The Cnarleston, Sumter & Northern is constructing its northern extension to Bennettsvillc, S. C., via Darlington. Tho grading lias been completed along tho entire route, and the work on tlie trestles mid on the steel bride across the Pec Dee river is being pushed with expedition. ****** All the lines of tho Carolina Southern road have been located, and work has been commenced at Chcraw, S. C., which will he its northern terminus. It is pro jected to be built almost in an air line to Savannah, Ga., and thence by connecting lines enter Jacksonville, Fla. The object of its construction is to secure ns direct line as possible from the North to Florida. C. S. Donaldson. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 11, 1880. RUBE BURROWS KILLED. Thr Noted Outlaw and Murderer Himself Dies by Violence. A special from Birmingham, Ala., says: Rule Burrows was shot and killed in Linlcn jail early Tuesday morning by a deputy sheriff while trying to escape. carrows complained of hunger and was given Ids wallet in which was fond. The'efrom lie pulled forth two pistols and captured his captors, making them rcleise him from jail. He woke up J. W. Carter, a colored duputy, who had his Honey and rifle, and demanded the rctii'ii thereof, when Carter opened fire and ivc shots were interchanged, Carter hciig shot in tlie shoulder and Burrows in tiie abdomen. Burrows died almost instiiitlv. Tlie (lesperado had been trapped by a dctc'tive named McGivcn and carried to Liinjjen county court house, where he met bis death in the above manner. Gen. Longstreet at Knoxville. A reception was tendered Gen. Long- sfeet at the residence of A. J. Albers, yiain street, Knoxville, Tenn. / About 8 o’clock the Louisville band darted from Gay street, and followed by /in immense concourse of veterans, most ly ex-confederates, marched to Mr. Al bers. After the hand bad rendered ‘Dixie” in excellent manner, the vete rans tiled into the beautiful residence. Standing in the hallway, jusi inside the door, was tlie old war horse. With a hearty hand shake he greeted every one who passed through, notwithstanding the general is considerably bothered with rheumatism in his right arm. He stood the trial very well, however, apparently suffering no fatigue from Ids exertion, for lie grasped the hand of tlie last comrade with as strong a clasp, and with as much dignity, as he did the first, Several old colored men also came in and shook hands with him. On the following day the address of Gen. Longstreet was read by Hon. Ed. An- gicr, of Atlanta, to tlie assembled ex- confederate and ex-union veterans. It was received with applause. Other nota ble men also orated, and altogether the meeting of the grey and blue at Knox ville was mi event to be remembered pleasantly by all who attended. Favorable to Greater Education. 'I lie Governor-elect of Georgia, Mr. Northeu, has always manifested great interest in educational matters, and the Georgians hope that during his term ns Governor he may he able to carry out some of his projects for providing better schools, and more numerous, for the farming sections of the State. Says the Macon Telegraph: “Residence on a farm in Georgia should not entail a penalty so severe ns the loss of an education to tho farmer's children, if farming is to contin ue to be a respectable and profitable bus iness. In many parts of Georgia that penalty docs run against the man who lives on a farm away from tho schools which the towns and cities have estab lished, and this fact lias had much to do with the drift of population away from the country. North Carolina's Banuer County. The increase in the taxable property in Mccklcnbung county, N. ('., in which Charlotte lies, is remarkable. In 1870 the county issued $300,000 in bonds, ami took $200,000 stock in the Charlotte and Atlanta Air Line Railroad and $100, 000 stock in the Atlantic, Tennessee aud Ohio Railroad. At that rime the aggre gate property in the county was only $4,093,000; in 1880 it had increased to $5,904,010, and in 1890 it sums up a grand total of $9,115,780. Again, in 1890 there was but $151,500 railroad property in. the coumy for taxation, whereas in 1890 there is $627,686 railroad property on which the cofinty gets tuxes. Too Small for Headings. The New York shoemakers have de cided that shoes must advance. Wiley Junes, u colored man, owns aud controls a street car system in Pine Bluff, Missouri. 1 he first picking of the Egyptian cot ton crop lias been finished. The quality of the cotton is reported to be very good. Joseph Jonassen has been acquitted of insulting the Emperor of Germany. May Attend a Higher Congress. Capt. W. J. Rogers, Democratic noiui- nee for Congress in tho second North ( arolina district, lias published a card resigning Ids candidacy, in consequence of continued ill health. He lias been very ill for live weeks, and recently Ini? been lying at this point of death. NEWS FOR ALLIANCEMEN. Late News From the Field Demanding Careful Perusal. A Special From Alabama Explaining Tho Practical Working of That $36 Being Advanced on Every Bale of Alliance Cotton. The Mississippi Clod Hopper is working hard for an Alliance cotton warehouse at Kosinsko, Miss. The Pacific Union, of California, says that an Alliance boom has Struck that State and is going like a prairie fire. Tlie Alliance people of Jackson, Banks, Madison and Franklin counties, Ga., will establish an oil mill aud guano fac tory at Harmony Grove. When the Atlanta, 111., Fair Association awarded prizes to farmers who had killed the greatest number of rats, there were 20,948 tails presented, and a man wiio had killed 4,300 rats took first money. A few days ago at Garfield, Dakota, 4 ear loads of sacks were unloaded for the Farmers’ Alliance. At a conservative es timate, the farmers have saved fully $1,- 505 on the trausacaiou. About 100 delegates met at Pioneer Hull, in Lansing, Mich., Sept. 17th, and organized a State Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union. Everything passed off harmoniously. The order will be vigor ously pushed; an addition of 100,000 members is expected during the coming year. 'I he following officers were Chosen: A. E. Cole, of Fowlerville, was elected president; T. C. Anthony, of Marengo, vice president ; John D. Carlton, of Di mondale, treasurer; Luther Ripley, of Port Hope, State lecturer; Mrs. Emma Moore, of Fclta, chaplain. ****** THE $35 ADVANCE PEIl BALE IN ALABAMA. A special from Montgomery, Ala. says: General Manager Gaither, of the Alliance Exchange, in this city, is pro ceeding in a painstaking and methodical way to advance the fafmers money on their cotton in Alabama. What success he will meet with remains to be seen. One thing is certain, he is in dead earnest about this matter, and is displaying ex traordinary energy, shrewdness aud sa gacity in an undertaking of such gigantic proportions. He has the money—no matter where he got it—to advance to the fanners $35 per bale on 500,000 bales, aud all he asks is that the farmers hold their cotton for his agent. In this week's issueofthe Alliance Herald, which appear ed on the streets to-day,is published an important notice addressed to the “alliance warchousinen," to each and every county alliance, to each aud every sub-alliance, and to each aud every idivinduid alliance man throughout the length and breadth of Alabama, signed by John 11. Harris who has recently been made manager of the cotton department of the exchange. Mr. Harris states that he is daily receiving more letters than he can answer from far mers desiring advances on cottou, and adds: “I wish to say to all at the same time that when you have cotton to sell, get in lots of 100 to 1.000 bales, aud while you are bulking it, place it where there is a railroad station agent, and tell this sta tion agent to write to his general freight agent and give you the through freight rate on the cotton from that particular staiton to Liverpool, and when you have this rate, then I can tell you how much I ran pay you ou the middling basis. I will pay for cotton through the nearest bank.” Everybody here, outside of the Alliance is wondering where the money comes from. * * * * r * THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR. You should attend the State Fair and see Business Agent Worth’s Department on the grounds, and be convinced a mil- liondollars can be saved in 1891. Any farmer will acknowledge this when he visits the business agent's department and examine what is being done. It is of muchimportancc to every farm er in Nortli Carolina, whether he he an Alliance man or not, to visit the State Fair, see the exhibit of Business Agent Worth, and they will be more than con vinced that the Alliance is doing a great work for the farmers of this State. In the purchase of farm supplies many thou sands Of dollars was saved the past year, and with money in hand the farmers can this year save more than a million dollars in buying for cash through the business agency. Mr. Worth will have a full line of sam ples and prices to farmers. He will have headquarters iu the main building on the Fair grounds from Oct. 13th to 18th, and farmers attending the fairshould hunt up headquarters of the Alliance and they will see how the Alliance is doing practical work for tlie farmers. With a good crop and cheapest railroad excursions, every farmer in the State will find it money well invested to attend the Fair at least one day, and by all means let your boys go with you, so they may see the new machinery and field crops. It w ill do them good and he of service to them in after years. Farmers make their children discontented with farm life by keeping them home all the time, and as soon as they get large enough they leave the farm. Carry your boys fo the State Fair aud let them see that it is an honor to be a good farmer. They will more Ilian make up what you spend for them before the year is passed by working harder. Progressive farmers and Alliance men will go to the fair and carry their hoys. Besides the real value iu dollars to the farmers, they ought to take a little rest acd enjoy themselves and no better place and time presents itself than the State Fair of 1890.-“A Working Faniu r" in Raleigh, N. ('., Progressive Farmer. A Turnip Seed’s Increase. The seed of a globe turnip is exceed ingly minute, not larger, perhaps, than tho twentieth pact of an inch in diame ter, and yet, in tho course of a few months, this seed will bo elaborated by the soil and the atmosphere into twenty- seven millions of times its original bulk, and this is in addition to a considerable bunch of leaves. Dr. Desagulicrs has made some experiments proving that, in an average condition, n turnip seed may increase its own weight fifteen times in a 'minute. By an actual experiment made on peat ground, turnips have been found to increaso by growth 15,900 times the weight of their seeds each day us they stood upon it. SKIPPED THEIR BAIL. The Irish Home Rulers, Dillon and O’Brien Flee to America. Dublin, Get. 10.—The case of the Crown against William O’Brien aud John Dillon, charged with conspiracy, in inciting tenants not to pay rents, was again called iu tho magistrates court at Tipperary this morning. Messrs. O’Brien and Dillon have hith erto been present at all hearings, but this morning when the court opened they did not put in their appearance. Both defendants are members of the committee appointed at tlie conference of Irish Nationalits held in Dublin lust Friday, to visit America for tho pur pose of soliciting aid for tho National ists, and a rumor is current that they have forfeited their bail of 1,000 pounds in the conspiracy case, and that thev sailed yesterday from Queenstown for ■ he United States. LATER—THE RUMOR CONFIRMED. Mueli excitement prevailed in Tipper ary when it became known that O’Brien and Dillon had abandoned their de fense. aud left the place. Confirma tion of the rumor that they have left ilie country has been received. There is no confirmation, however, of the re port that they sailed from Queenstown yesterday for the United States. The information thus far received shows that they did not leave by ordinary channels of passage. Their bail escheat ed, and will be paid by the National League. IS THE BOND RESPONSIBLE? All the other defendants who are jointly charged with conspiracy with Dillon and O'Brien, were present in court. Mr. Rouan, prosecutor for the Crown, announced tho absence of Dil lon and O’Brien, and asked the Court append to their bail bond the usual cer tificate of non-appearance. Mr. lleuly of counsel for defendants, submitted an argument that the sure ties on the bail dotnls bad fulfilled their obligations when O'Brien and Dillon ap peared iu court on the first trial. The Crown, he ggub had subsequently amended tlie particulars of the charges, and therefore the bail given for the de fendants no longer held good. MR. HEALY OVERRULED. After listeuing to arguments on this point, the Court announced that in its opinion the charges against the defend ants although they had been amended by tho Crown, were substantially the same; it therefore granted Mr. Rouan,a request, ami the Court’s certificate of non-appearance was attached to the bail bonds of Dillon and O'Brien. Adjournment was then taken to en able the Crown to consider what stop should be taken. Warrants were issued for the arrest of Dillon and O'Brien, now THEY E-CAPED. London, 10.—The Star says that Mes srs. Dillon and O'Brien, went to Havre via Waterford, Wedueslay, aud sailed from Havre for Now York. Henry Ward Beecher's Widow. Mrs. Eunice Beecher, widow of the great pastor of Piynioum c/iiurch, itroolc- lyn, is living diagonally across tho way from the church her husband's eloquence made famous. Her residence is a neat, tasteful, well-kept house, where in every nook aud corner is some reminder flf tha great dead. Over her desk iu tlie front parlor where she writes is a life-sizo p'eture of Mr. Beecher taken over thirty years ago, and in whatever direction tho eyo turns, east, west, nortli or south, from the walls of these rooms look down life-size pictures of him in familiar atti tudes iu which lie is remembered. Flowers and birds are features also. Tho windows arc bright with blossoms, ami the small yard is a bower of bloom. Boxes supported by brackets around tho COMATS IN THE HOUSE, OLD-TIME FISTICUFFS IN THE LOWER BRANCH OF CONGRESS. There Was Snow in Clouds. Simon, Col., Oct. 11.—A light snow fell at intervals here. There lias been u heavy fall of show oh Mount Shasta. MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER, fence are filled with plants in blossom, and these brighten up the whole place. Mrs. Beecher is by uo means a gloomy woman; there is no black or mourning visible. Women many years younger might covet tho delicate bloom still on her cheeks and the cheery light in her eyes aud tho pleasant words with which she greets her friends. Only in moments of depression from physical suffering, with moist eyes, she has been beard to say: “I do so miss Mr. Beecher.” One of his views on death had been as lie ex pressed it: “If you have lost com panions, children, friends, you have not lost them. They followed tho Pilot. They went through tho airy channels unknown and unsearchable, and they are with the Lord; and you are going to Him, too.” Perhaps it is this and kindred thoughts that enable her to hold her way serenely us she does, that leave with her a spirit so bright, so sweetly sympathetic, that the people of Plymouth Church regard her with reverential affection as “all that is left them of Mr. Beecher.’’—Chicago Po»t. ^ An Emperor’s Earache. Refeiriug to tlie chronic earache from whicli tlie Emperor of Germany suffers, Harold Frederic says in the New York Times: “Just what the affection is no one has yet been able to determine. It grows worse in cold and wet weather, and that is about all that is known of it. The phy sicians disagree ns to its character. Will iam himself, though at times suffering acutely from it, has never been alarmed about it, and really believes it to lie a local ailment. Its existence naturally enough suffices to create a certain un easiness in the minds of his friends, ami of Germans generally, but I cannot learu that any responsible professional men re gard it as necessarily dangerous. This year it is said to bo less troublesome than usual.” Virginia Farmers Show Strength. Dr. John \\. Lawson, F.inni :-' Alli ance candidate, was nnmiimu d for Con gress by the seventh Virginia Denioemric couvcutioi). Knock down and Drng-ont Rows of Uygono Yearn—How Temper Has Shown Itsylf In Debate. The recent “fisticuff” in the House of Representatives lias had many precedents. Tho hand-to-hand encounters, extending hack nearly fifty years, were more numer ous than is supposed at this day, when political and exciting debate is not so •requent and is generally conducted with more decorum. < - The code was recognized in those days, end whatever may bo said against “tha# relic ot barbarism,” as it was called, it made men more careful in bandying epi thets, for tho responsibility rested on them to accord satisfaction for personal assaults. Mr. Jolm B. Weller, n member from Ohio, then, January, 1844, and subse quent Senator from California^ ass an 1 to end beat very severely Mr. Schrivcr, n reporter of the House, The assault took place iu the lobby and it was construed to have been committed on the floor and cn an oflicer of tho House, and Mr. Weller was arraigned and censured. In April, 1844, there was a regular fight ou tho floor of Congress between John \\ liite, of Kentucky, afterward Speaker, ami Mr. Rathboru, of New York. Mr. M bite left bis scat and, coming to Rathborn’s, knocked him down. A gen- era! scrimmage ensued, aud Mr. Moore, a member, fired a pistol, which severely wounded an officer of tho House. They were arraigned before tho bar of tho House, but as tho wounded man was comfortably provided for, mutual apol ogies wero accepted. In 1859 Mr. Gruw.f of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Branch, of North Carolina, had an altercation which resulted in a challenge, but mutual friends prevented a hostile meeting.! About that time Mr. Grow and Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, indulged iu a pugilis- iio encounter. When they were arraigned Mr. Keitt took all tho blame on himself and apologized to tho House and Mr.! Graw. Tlie Hon. Robert W. Johnson,; then a member of tho House, came to very closo quarters with Hon. O. IL: Fickliu, of Illinois, blows were exchanged, and they apologized for a momentary for-j gotfulncss in yielding to the impulse tot punish each other before tho ascmklcd wisdom of tho nation. In the early fifties tho Hon. Joshua R. Giddings and Hon. R. W. Meade, of Virginia, had a personal altercation,i which involved respective friends. Mr.J Meade seized Mr. Giddings by tkc neck-' cloth and proceeded to twist it, when! Long Jolm Wentworth rushed in to part/ the belligerents, but Mr. Edmundson, of Virginia, standing on a chair to reach hisj tall adversary, threw himself on Went-! worth, canying him to tho ground, or; ratUtr ♦koflonr A. early as 184n MV j fnge, of Alabama, aud Edward Stanley- having had cn tlie floor of Congress, some Very exciting debate, a challengo, passed. After tho third fire a rcconcilia-i tionwas effected. Not long after,thol difficulty with Mr. Inge Mr. Stanley bc-j came involved iu a duel with Mr.! Pickens, of South Carolina, and after a Gro or two a reconciliation took place, j and again. Mr. Stanley was tho principal la a duel with Henry A. Wise. They; wero on horseback and met at tho raco course, and Mr. Wise’s horse became un manageable and ho rode against Mr. Stanley. Tho debate that day in tho Douse in which they both took part was very hitter, and Mr. • Stanley, supposing Mr. Wise’s action was intentional, struck him with his whip. Mr. Wise returned the blow and for somo'scconds they be labored each other. A challengo ensued' and while practicing with Mr. Stanley, tho Hon. Rcvcrdy Johnson, who was his sccoTid, received tho injury to his eye, of which ho event ually lost the sight. A fragment of a ball rebounded from a tree aud struck him in the eye. 'After the first fire a re conciliation was cffectid. In 1848 Gen eral Clingmau was challenged by Yaucy. They fought at Eeltsville, aud after onoi or ttvo shots a settlement was effected. I in 1858, Senator Gwin, of California,) challenged Henry Wilson and the matter was referred to Mr. Crittenden, Mr.' Seward aud Jefferson Davis aud settled by them. Henry S. Foote drew a pistol an Colonel Benton iu tho Senate, and ■onto Senator interferred, when Colonel! Benton, baring his breast, said: “Let the ascasain fire.” These are only a few of tho many exhibitions of temper dis-j played in both Houses of Congress. Mr.! Clay and Mr. Calhoun used most bitter expressions in debate. On ono occasion Mr. Clay said, in tlie course of tho de bate, “I am tho gentleman’s master,” and Mr. Calhoun in reply said: “My masteri my master! I would not own him as a llave.” Mr. Seaton’s intervention pro-, vented a hostile meeting. Dixon H.‘ Lewis, of Alabama, an enormous man iu size and strength, stopped a fight on thu Hoar of Congress by holding the lielligj rrents nt arms’ length aud arguing witli them in very forcible terms.— Waihington Star. Makes Them Weigh Heavy. Sam Davis, editor of the Carson Ap peal, was in town a few days ago. There wero several small fish exposed at the Truckco Hotel, and Davis picked ono up. “Pretty light,”ho remarked; “won't weigh over half a pound." Ho was told that was about its heft. “Pretty light," ho continued; “fish of that size over in Carson River fre quently weigh two or two aud u half pounds.” Noticing a smile of disbelief on tho faco of the bystanders, he went on: “You know there are eomo of the big quartz, mills on (lie Carson. In amalga mating they use lots of quicksilver, and lots of it is wasted, it rims off into tho river, and tho stream is full of it. Tho fish of courso absorb this quick silver, and it makes tticni heavy out of proportion to their size.”—Ti’uckce lie- publican. Clierrapoonjt, India, has tho well-de served reputation of being the wettest place in the world. Last year the aggre gate rain-fall there was 450 inches, and it was a comparatively dry season. In wet ones it averages between 500 and <1(10 inolioa. Tn nnn flfiv thirtv-sovon Mr. Of, tho New York picture framer, has tho shortest surname in that, r.itv