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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The \ irginia and Kentucky railroad
has been organized at Wytheville, Va.
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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.
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The Tallahassee & Northern Railroad
(o., contemplates building a railroad
from Tallahassee to Thomasville, Ga., con
necting with tho Georgia Southern &
Florida Railroad.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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