The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, October 29, 1890, Image 1
THE
DARLINGTON
HERALD
VOL. I.
DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1890.
NO. 16.
• The State Geologist of New Jersey (
toys the coast of the State is sinking at
the rate of at least two feet in a century.
Other observers hold that the rate is much
taore rapid.
; The Southern people are advised, states
the Chicago Sun, to raise hops as being
the most profitable crop they could
raise. A great many nurseries have been
ttarted this year.
The Nevada towns are exceptions to
‘he rule of increase in the population of
Vne Western municipal communities,
they generally show a decrease since
1880.
, f The Chicago Iftvt thinks that "th<
farmers are creating a new party that
will absorb the best elements of the old
parties, and enter upon a career of pres
tige and power.”
' Secretary Proctor is in favor of the
Government employing twenty acting
chaplains to assist the thirty post chap
lains now in tha United States army.
They should be paid, he thinks, $1500 a
year.
( There is no end to the projections of
Mectric railroads in different parts of the
Country, exclaims the Drovers’ Journal.
The electricians are the busiest engineers
In the country. The business is expand
ing even faster than it can be conven
iently kept up with.
A charming story is told by a reviewer
In the Scott Observer to illustrate Darwin’s
freedom from scientific bigotry. Having
been told that music had an influence on
plants, he procured somebody to play a
bassoon for several days close to some
growing beans.
That mysterious quality called
“gift” strikingly revealed itself in the
childhood of the distinguished French
artist, Mine. Jeanne Madeline Lumaire.
As soon as the little girl could move
about, a pencil was her greatest joy, so
that even at the age of five or six she
busied herself in “making pictures.”
WE—p—I
In the estimation of tue l unet-Demo-
?r<zt “Connecticut is a thrifty State. The
receipts of taxes over the estimates for
1890 were $805,000, which has enabled
|he Treasurer to redeem $200,000 in
bonds and still have a surplus of $36,732.
Veit year the State tax is to be dispensed
♦rith-”
THE SOUTH EPITOMIZED,
And, Grouped Here Under Proper
Divisions,
J* The island of Tristan, in the south At
lantic, is inhabited by eighty people, the
patriarch of the party, Peter Green, a
(veritable Robinson Crusoe, having been
there for fifty-two years. He has just
sent a letter complaining that some of
the grown-up children show a desire to
leave their lovely island hoqje.
Simultaneously with the taking of the
irecent census, and under Government
'auspices, though by a distinct process, a
religious enumeration was made. From
approximate figures already announced it
appears that the total church-membership
in the United States is about 22,000,000,
and is gaining at the rate of 1,000,000 s
year. '
“Every traveler has noticed,” observes
the St. Louis Star-Sayings, “that rail
roads get rid of their old, discarded ties,
by burning them up. The ordinary
practice is to place them in piles as near
the rails as possible and then set fire to
them, to the great annoyance and die-'
comfort of passengers. At the same time
there are thousands of families on the
line of the road who would be glad to
take these tics away and use them for
fuel.”
A striking proof of the unpopularity
of the English army among the Irish is
iurnished by the official army statement
that has just been publishhd. This state-^
ment shows that twenty years ago out of'
"toSyUlO non-commissioned officers and
Jirivates ufthe 'army 47,151 were Irish,
Whereas to-day, although thisjforce has
keen increased to 199,473, thof Irish ele-'
oaent among it has dwindledtto 28,712.'
Further than this, the statement indi
cates a similar feeling amongjthe Scotch, i
where the decline, while notj so marked;
is in the case of the Irish, is’great. In
1870 out of every thousand'men the pro-j
portion was 614 English or Welsh, 97]
Scotch and 284 Irish. This year the pro-,
portion per thousand is 759 English or
Welsh, 83 Scotch and v 145 Irish.
I From Lloyd’s new war-ship table it is
seen that the British Empire has thirty-
eight merchant steamers to each war ves
sel capable of steaming upward of four
teen knots; the United States have
twenty-two, France seven, Germany
seventeen, Italy four and Russia eight.
It further appears that the approximate
walue of the British mercantile navy is
$550,000,000; that of the United States,
$42,000,000; of France, $48,500,000; of
Germany, $63,500,000; of Italy, $22,-
,000,000, and of.-Russia, $12,500,000. In
3888 Great Britainfs total annual imports
and exports were approximated worth
$3,476,500,000; those of the United
States, $1,462,500,000; of France,
$1,470,000,000; of Germany, $1,624,,
GOO,000; Italy, $413,600,000; Russia,
$62,500,000. An examination of those
Ifigures, thinks the Timet-Democrat, will
serve-better than any other form of rea-
•oning-to show how important it is that
pavalcruisers should be sufficiently strong
jand numerous to protect the vast wealth
5 posed to the depredations of an enemy
Will be Found the Late News of Our
Home Section and Important
Happenings From the Poto
mac to Alabama.
VIBGINIA.
Every ship joiner in the Norfolk navy
yard was discharged Tuesday night.
There were about two hundred of them.
The recent issue of Danville bonds
have been put on the market and brought
$102.
The machine works of Walker's brick
yards at Wnterton have been destroyed
by fire. Loss $14,000.
Forty-three thousand bales of cotton
have been received thus far at Norfolk.
The Petersburg Greys are preparing
for a military encampment at Virginia
Beach next summer.
A few bags of new peanuts have arriv
ed in Norfolk. An immense crop is an
ticipated.
Two boys of Arlington, Harry Ed
wards, white, and Harrison Morrison,
colored, got into a stone-battle, and the
latter was hurt so badly that he died.
At the sale of lots at Clifton Forge by
the Chesapeake and Ohio Development
Company two hundred lots were sold for
$200,000, or an average of $1,000 a lot.
The sale began at 1 o’clock, owing to de
layed trains. It closed st 5 o’clock, the
sales averaging $50,000 an hour.
The tournament to take place at York-
town on tlfb 22nd inst., is attracting
much attention.
A small boy named John Clements,
who fell from the pilot of an engine of
the Atlanta and Danville railroad, near
Claremont, and was badly hurt, will sue
the road for $10,000 damages.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Internal Revenue Collector Rollins will
move the office from Statesville to Ashe
ville.
Petitions are in circulation petitioning
the County Commissioners to order an
election on the question of local option
ill New Hanover county.
Two persons were killed on the O. &
C. railroad near Durham on Tuesday,
within three hours. The first victim was
Mas. Sallie Scoggins aged 06 years. She
had on a sunbounet, and could not see
the train, or hear it either. The second
victim was Thad Gilbert aged 45. It is
alleged that he was intoxicated.
The Winston-Salem Land and Invest
ment Co., capital $250,000, Hon. F. M.
Simmons, president, W. A. Blair, Presi
dent Peoples Savings Bank, secretary and
treasurer, was organized at Winston
Thursday. The company is composed of
English, Greensboro, New Berne, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and home
capital. $30,000 subscription was turned
down.
A man named Dixon in Allegheny
county discovered the infidelity of his
wife with a man named Halsey and kill
ed the latter. Halsey’s brother attacked
Dixon lateron and Dixon also killed him.
Popular sympathy is with Dixon, and
the people declare they will keep him
from the law.
The largest crowd that has ever been
seen at Raleigh attended the State Fair.
The grbat attraction of the day was the
balloon ascension by Professor Ward, of
New York. He made the ascension suc
cessfully, about 1 o’clock, to a height of
seven hundred feet. An agricultural ad
dress was made at 12 o’clock by James
Madison Leach, Jr., of Lexington, in the
old Exposition building.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Palmetto Social Club is a newly or
ganized society in Charleston. They will
give their first annual ball this week.
A charter has been issued to the Ameri
can Bank, of Greenville. The total capi
tal stock of $75,000 has been subscrib
ed.
An important and noteworthy innova
tion in the higher education of the women
of this State was inaugurated in the
South Carolina College for Women, at
Columbia, on Monday, on which occasion
the medical class of the institution began
its regular lessons, under the instructions
of Dre. A. N. Talley, Sr., and George
Howe. Both professors and pupils mani
fest great interest and enthusiasm in their
work. Complete arrangements have lieen
made to facilitate these studies and the
public generally will look with intense in
terest to the outcomeof this new feature
of woman's work in South Carolina.
A charter has been granted to the
Blacksburg Machine and Iron Works
Company, of Blacksburg, York County.
A charter was granted to the Whisnant
Lumber, also of Blacksburg.
Peter J. Couturier, a well-known citizen
and planter of Upper St. John’s Berkeley
and a gallant soldier of the Confederacy,
died at his plantation, “Lawson’s Pond,”
on Tuesday, probably the result of a crimi
nal ssault l>y parties unknown. The affair is
shrouded in mystery.
Col. Joseph H. Earle, who took such
a prominent part in the canvass against
B. R. Tillman for the nomination of Gov
ernor, was in Charleston in attendance up
on the session of the State board of health.
He was asked by a reporter what he had
to say about the present political situa
tion, and replied: “I have done all I
could and have finished iny fight.” Col.
Earle further said that this embraced
about all he wished to say on the question
at this time.
TENNESSEE.
Ground has been conditiouallyselcct-
ed in Morristown for the location of six
large woodworking factories bv a 61.-
250,000 stock company, composed of
Boston and Philadelphia capitalists; the
company owns 25,000 acres of timber
lands near Morristown.
The Rev D. C. Kelly, Prohibition can
didate for Governor, has been suspend
ed for six months from the Tennessee
M. E. Conference, in session at Pulaski,
for leaving his post at Gallatin as pastm
without permission from the Confer
ence.
A Chattanooga special says: “In the
city election the Democrats captured oidy
two wards, the 3d and Hth. The politi
cal complexion of the new board of alder
men will be eleven Republicans and five
Democrats. It was the quietest election
ever held here, owing to the Dortseh
registration law.”
The citizens of Clarksville, are making
preparation for celebrating the laying of
the corner-stone of the Graccy-Woodward
iron furnace. A large number of visitors
arc expected, including many Northern
Cam till i-til aiul it is uiLwmiwl to makatiu*
occasion a memoranteone in tne industrial
progress of the city.
The Nashville, Chattanooga & 8t. Louis
Railroad Co., has completed a survey for
a proposed branch line from Tracey City
to its main line near Dunlap. The com
pany is also surveying a branch line up
Little Sequachec river from Scquachec.
GEORGIA.
At Jackson, Lovick Edwards, six years
old, was bitten by a mad dog and died
of hydrophobia on Monday.
The second annual convention of the
Young People’s Society of Christian En
deavor, throughout the states of Georgia
and Alabama, will be held at Marietta.
Frank Walker, colored, who is wanted
in Mitchell county for murder, has been
captured and jailed.
The Georgia State Pharmaceuticnl
Board at Rome on Tuesday.
The fourth annual county fair of Jef
ferson county promises to surpass any
past effort. There will be Veteran’s and
Alliance days.
A freight and passenger collision at
Braswell on the E. T., V. & G., seriously
injured six people and derailed 50 cars.
The third fair of the Piedmont Expo
sition Association was formally opened
at Atlanta in the presence of a large
'•crowd. The procession to the grounds
was made up of military companies, and
was one of the finest ever seen there.
Senator Colquitt and John Temple Graves
were the orators of the day, and Mayor
Glenn was master of ceremonies. The
Exposition, which will lie participated in
by the whole Piedmont section, opened
under the most favorable circumstances.
The East Georgia Railroad Company
are commencing to build its line from
Grovcton to Appling.
OTHER STATES.
David C. Henncssy, chief of police of
New Orleans who was shot down by three
men shortly before 12 o'clock Wednesday
night, died at nine o’clock Thursday
morning at the charity hospital. The
assassination, it is supposed, was the work
of Italians, whose vendettas the chief ex
pressed his determination to suppress. Sev
eral arrests have been made.
Gen. Reuben II. Davis, of Aberdeen,
Miss., died suddenly of apoplexy at
Huntsville Tuesday. He was en route
home from Chattanooga when stricken.
He was a second cousinof President Jeffer
son Davis, and author of the recent pub
lication entitled, “Mississippi and Mis-
sissippians.” He served as a member of
the Thirty-fifth Congress and was re-elect
ed to the Thirty-sixth.
WHAT, FARMERS, HO!
Come
Listen To Our Tale Of News
Gathered For You.
REVISING THE CONFESSION.
The Principle of Foreordination Not
Attacked by the Committee.
Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 18.—At the ses
sion of the Committee on the Revision of
the Westminister Confession of Faith, the
principal action was a final decision on
the chapter relating to foreordination.
Section 1 was revised to a more concise
reading, so that it does not seem that
God is the author of sin. The last
clause of Section 8, which reads, “and
others foreordained to everlasting death,”
was omitted.
Section 4, which reads, “The angels
and men thus predestinated and foreor
dained are particularly and unchange
ably designed, and their number is so
certain and definite that it cannot lie
either increased or diminished,” was also
omitted. The other sections were modi
fied in various ways without making any
radical change.
The principle of foreordination was not
attacked in any way, and nothing was
done affecting the doctrines of tha
Church.
Chapter 4, which is called the chapter
of creation, was also settled finally, but
the committee refused to make known
what changes had been made.
Considerable time was devoted to-day
to the discussion of Chapters it and 10.
Letters were read from the Morris,
Orange, and Peking Presbyteries, asking
for a revision of the first clause of the
third section. The clause reads, “Man,
by his fall into a state of sin, hatli wholly
lost all ability of will to any spirituV
good accompanying salvation.” The de
bate indicated that the majority desire
tin: section to lie revised so that it will
not declare that man is entirely incapable
of doing anything toward his own salva
tion. Action was postponed until Judge-
Strong, who was summoned to Washing
ton by the illness of Justice Miller,
would return.
Chapter 10, relating to the salvation of
infants and idiots, was also considered for
a short time this evening. Action will
probably be taken on it to-morrow. The
committee decided to adjourn at 5:30 to
morrow evening.
AN EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION.
The Negroes of Richmond Wish to
Establish an Annual Fete Day
for their Race.
The Sumter County Fanners’ Alliance
Endorse the Proposed Alliance
Bagging Factory and Es
chew Politics Entirely.
A NEW CITY BY THE SEA.
The Macon 8c Atlantic Railroad Invest
Heavily at Colleton Neck,
Purchasing 32 Square
Miles of Land For
a Terminal.
The colored people of Richmond, Vs.,
celebrated the twenty-seventh anniversa
ry of the signing of the emancipation
proclamation by public exercises at the
Exposition grounds, Geo. T. Donnagin,
of Newport, R. I., making a brief ad
dress.
Governor McKinney, who had been in
vited to attend and deliver an address,
wrote this:
"Thfit you should rejoice on tho day
from which you date your freedom and
celebrate it in a proper manner is right
and natural. See to it that each dsV’s
proceedings arc characterized by good or
der and a dignity becoming so important
a period in the history of your race and
our common county, that nothing may
occur to mar the pleesure of the occa
sion or justify harsh criticism of your
conduct.”
Thursday was the great day, when a
parade took place and the effort made to
fix a date for an annual celebration
throughout the country.
A Mammoth Enterprise.
A company of English, Virginia, Chica
go and Philadelphia capitalists, it is
stated, have determined to develop the
tin mines in Rockbridge county, Virginia,
and will build at odcc a mill at Savcrnafte
capable of producing 2,500 boxes of tin
plate weekly, with the works so arranged
as to admit of extention to a capaeity of
8,000 boxes weekly for the second year
be a good thing for Virginia.
Thirty Thousand Spindles Less.
A London cablegram says: The Per
severance cotton mill, situated near Bel
ton, Lancashire, was destroyed by fire.
Thirty thousand spindles are ruined.
A new Alliance warehouse has just been
completed at Yatesville, Ga.
The Springfield, Minn., Alliance will
build a grain elevator this fall.
The new Alliance warehouse has been
thrown open at Tatcsville, Ga.
The Alliance warehouse and compress
at Covington, Ga., luis been completed.
The Alliance at Marble Falls, Texas,
will erect a bagging factory.
The National Grange will meet in At
lanta on the 12th of November.
The Farmers’ Alliance of Illinois will
establish a co-operative plow factory at
Decatur.
The Alliance Exchange at Henrietta,
Texas, is doing a good business, and said
to be giving satisfaction.
The directors of the Arlington, Ga.,
warehouse made their first payment last
week, says the Montezuma Record.
Evan Jones writes from Coleman: “The
outlook for the order is very hopeful in
tho counties I have visited.”
The Alliance grocery store at Decatur,
Ala., was buglamed last week,and several
articles taken.
A number of prominent Alliance men
have lensgjj tho Southern Mercury, the
State organ of tho Farmers State Alliance
of Texas. They propose to put ample
capital behind the enterprise and make it
a strong Alliance puplisliinghouse. They
will employ an able editorial corps and
make the Mercury one of the best reform
papers in the laud.
Does farming pay? It don't pay as well
as railroading or banking and never will
until the farmer gets a square deal with
those monied fellows. Give the fanner
an equal chance and farming as a business
will be what it ought to be.—Alliance
Times.
******
Says a letter from Sumter, S. C.: The
following action of tho Sumter County S.
C, Alliance, at its meeting, will be of in
terest to the public and particularly to
members of the Order, and I am permit-
tted to send it to you for publication.
It is embodied in the enclosed resolutions,
which I will give in the order of their
adoption.
Resolution No. 1:
Whereas, we have heard explained the
project of the State Alliance bagging fac
tory of sufficient capacity to supply the
members of the Alliance in South Caroli
na ; and whereas, we are heartily in sym
pathy with the move to manufiicturc the
covering for our cotton, and are glad of
the opportunity to co-operate with our
brethren of the State in an enterprise that
we have desired for eighteen months, there
be it resolved:
1. That the Sumter County Alliance
earnestly commend the favoraplc consid
eration of the subject to every Bub-Alli
ance in the county, with the recommen
dation that each Sub-Alliance endeavor
to take fifty or more dollars stock in the
company.
2. That it is an earnest of our good-will
toward the enterprise and belief in its
success this Alliance hereby appropriates
the sum of one hundred dollars to buy
stock in the South CarolinaStatc Alliance
Bagging Manufacturing Company, this
being all that this Alliance can subscribe
at the present time.
3. That we hereby appoint the chair
man of our executive committee (the Hon
W. Q. Cain) trustee of said stock, and au
thorize him to represent is in the organ
ization of said company; Mid that the sum
of ten dollars, or so mnch of it as may bo
necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay
his actual expenses in connection with
the organization of said company.
4. That wc instruct him to urge upon
the corporators of said company to pro
vide in the charter that any fibre may be
used, so that the management of the fac
tory may not be confined to jule butts,
but may use any fibre which will make
a standard bagging that can be obtained
as cheaply or cheaper than jute.
Resolution No. 2.
Uttdlved, That this Alliance recommend
that the Sub-Alliances, whose natural
market is the following places, will sell
their cotton on the following days of the
week: Hagood, Mondays; Wcdgefield,
Tuesdays;Ilishopville, Wednesdays;Sum
ter, Thursdays; Mayesville, Fridays; Mag
nolia, Saturdays; and that cotton buyers
are invited to hear in mind these days and
places and lie present on the above
named occasions; and that a committee
of one or more from each Alliance repre
sented at the above points take charge of
the sales.
Both of the iqiovc resolutions were
unanimously adopted after careful con
sideration.
There were over fifty representative
farmers from all sections of the county
present and a very harmonious meeting
was held, one that cannot fail to promote
the growth of the Order in the county.
Notwithstanding the wide difference
of opinion on political subjects held by
the men who composed the meeting not
one word of polities were discussed, and
every man present was heartily in accord
with each other, to work as a unit for our
financial betterment. 1 make this state
ment because of the constant assertion
that “the Allianec has gone into politics.”
Whatever may lie the difference of opin
ion on political questions, when we meet
in tho Alliance those differences are laid
aside and we are determined to work only
for the good of each other. Respectfully,
E. W. Dablw, County Secretary.
Sumter. October 5 ^
The Mississippi Convention.
Jackson, Miss., October 20.—In the
judiciary rc|Kirt only one more section
remains to be considered. The legisla
tion accomplished to-day embodies im
portant changes in existing laws. The
jurisdiction of justices of the peace is in
creased from causes in which the amount
involved is $100 to those where $200 is
at issue. District attorneys*will hereafter
be limited to salaries. Justices of the
peace and constables are to hold office
lour years and la-chosen by districts. The
Legislature shall from time to time
establish such inferior Courts ns may
lie necessary and abolish the same when
ever they deem it expedient. There shall
bo an Attorney Genera! elected by the
people and a competent number of dis
trict attorneys elected by the people
of the respective districts.
An old Mississippi River
that Mark Twain was the laziest white
DMn ho oyer aaw.ia a pilot house.
The purchase by the Macon Construc
tion Company and the Macon and Atlan
tic Railroad Company of large tracts of
land hindering on Port Royal harlior for
the purpose of securing deep water termi-
ual facilities on the Atlantic coast is an
event of large importance to the people of
theJower part of South Carolina, and in
deed of the whole State, if the promises
■ huh are made as to the plans of the
two companies shall be carried out.
Tbe several purchases of the companies
it is stated, cover thirty-two square miles
of land on Colleton River, and the inten
tion is [to build wharves, depots, ware
houses and grain elevators, at Foot Point
and establish there a new “city,” which
is expected to become speedily one of the
leading ports on the South Atlantic coast.
Tha site chosen for the city is said to be
an admirable one In every respect, as it is
on a high bluff with deep water on two
sides; the projected railroad is expected
to lie completed and in operation within
eighteen months; land which was sold a
few years ago at $5 an acre is now sell
ing at $1,000 an acre for the purpose of
lining divided up into building lots; and
generally speaking a “boom” of no small
proportions has struck the long neglect
ed Colleton Neck, and will engage the
attention of the local public for some
time fo come.
The Macon and Atlantic Railroad au
thorities seem to be pushing work along
their line and making for Foot Point,
which is on a “boom.” A gentleman
who was in the city yesterday said that
work is now going on near the South
Carolina line in the vicinity of Monteith,
Ga. It is proposed, he said, to cross the
Charleston and Savannah Road very near
the Savannah River. Possibly the Macon
and Atlantic Road will cross the Savan
nah River on the Charleston and Savannah
bridge.—Charleston News and Courier.
Concerning the sales of the site for the
terminal faciltics for the road, tbe
Savannah News:
“A Savannah syndicate closed a deal
yesterday for Hunting Island, a 3,000
acre tract of laud on May River, South
Carolina, four miles south of Foot Point,
the proposed deep water terminus of the
Macon and Atlantic Railroad. The prop
erty has a frontage on May River, which
it overlooks, for a mile and a half from
a high bluff. The tract is principally pal
metto. It was brought some time ago by
Dr. A. E. Highway, of Cincinnati, for
$15,000. The price paid by the Savan
nah purchasers is understood to have been
considerably above that figure. The
original intention of its purchaser was to
erect a hotel on the bluff overlooking the
river and to develop the place as a sum
mer and winter resort. Its purchase by
the Savannah syndicate-is understood to
be for investment.”
Telegraphic Brevities
Salvado has formed a new cabinet.
The Lcland hotel, in Syracuse, N. Y.,
was totally destroyed by fire.
The count of Paris and his party in
spected tho battlefields of Gettysburg
Thursday.
A resolution was offered in the Ohio
legislature censuring the govetnor for
calling the extra session.
The cloudburst in West Virginia last
Sunday afternoan did great damage to
the farmers. The crops were nearly de
stroyed.
Two policemen of Chicago—Junge and
Madden—fell out ami had a scuffie, in
which Madden shot and mortally wound-
Juuge.
Dr. McGonegal, charged with malprac
tice in the case of Annie Goodwin, in
New York, was sentenced to fourteen
years in the state's prison.
The Loyal Legion is in session at St.
Louis. Sessions will be presided over by
cx-Presidcnt Hayes, and none of the pro
ceedings will be given to the public.
The foreign iron masters passed through
Louisville, Ky., en route to Birmingham,
Ala. There are three trains loaded w ith
them.
There is No Kissing in Japan.
Young Japanese girls are as nature
made them, and very sweet they are, too,
in their quaint dresses, showing the
plump chest and rounded arms, says the
Hot.\e Queen. Pages could bo written
about their charms. What dear, dainty
little dolly they are 1 Such white teeth,
rosy lips, coy smiles I Who shall describe
them? And what next? A kiss, per
haps? Not over here. Oh, never! They
never do. They don’t know how; actu
ally they don’t know how, and even peas
ant girls are closely guarded.
Fancy a young man in cotton kimono
and wooden cloga stealing a chance to
walk with his best girl under the bloom
ing cherry trees, explaining the constella
tions and quoting sentimental poetry,
telling her that he “hung upon her eye
lids,” that “her voice was like a temple
gong,” in fact, that he loved but her
alone, and then making her several formal
bows at the door of her father’s straw-
thatched hut as they parted iu the moon
light. Can an American lover stretch his
imagination enough io believe in a sweet
heart not kissing those pretty lips, paint
and all, by asortof “natural selection?”
’Tie a melancholy fact, but a Japanese
has no such impulse. No lover courts his
mistress with “sweetest, persuasive
kisses.” No mother kisses her baby as
she cuddles itagaiusther bosom.
THE OHIO P0LITICAI CAULDRON.
Congressman McKinley’s Seat the
Great Bono of Contention, and the
Great Leaders of Both Parties
Participate in the
Campaign.
The fight in the 10th Congressional
district of Ohio, now represented by the
Hon. Win. McKinley, is waxinghot, and
promises to be a memorable one. The
district as at present constituted gave
about 2,000 Democratic majority at the
recent Gubernatorial election, but Mr.
McKinley has determined to make the
greatest effort of his life in the attempt
to carry the district, and expresses him
self ns confident of achieving success.
Congressman Burrows and Gen. Alger,
of Michigan, Speaker Reed and other
distinguished Republicans will make
speeches at various points in the district
this week, and Secretary Blaine has wired
that he will speak at Canton, Mr. McKin
ley's home. Ex-Lieutenant Governor
John C>. Warwick, the Democratic nomi
nee, is also making an energetic canvass.
Whilst not the equal of his opponent on
the stump, Mr. Warwick is a gentleman
of large wealth, a hustling campaigner
and an unsurpassed handshaker. So far
the Democrats have been unable to secure
any considerable amount of outside speak
ing talent, but Gov. D. B. Hill, of New
York, has telegraphed that he will speak
next week at Canton and two other points
in the district. He will be accompanied
by Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, who will also
speak, and Senator Carlisle, of Kcntuek,
has also promised to put in some work
for Mr. Warwick before the campaign
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES.
’Tia Getting To Be An Old Song, But
Still Musical.
The Manufacturers Record reports the
closing of a contract for the construction
of large works including three furnaces,
rolling mill, etc., at Tredegar, Calhoun
Co, Ala., to employ when complete over
3,000 hands- r a $200,000 rolling mill at
Cardiff, Tenn.; and a $1,000,000 com
pany to establish manufacturing enter
prises at Roanoke, Va.
A foretaste of the development of the
iron industry iu the South is given in the
bids for the water works pipe at Atlanta,
Ga., opened a few days ago. The lowest
bid, $22.24 per ton, was by the Howard
Harrison Iron Company, of Bessemer, Ala.
The next lowest, $22.05, was by the An
niston Pipe Works. Other bids, giving
only the name of cities, were as follows:
Philadelphia, $25; Louisville, $25.80;
Cincinnati, $28; Philadelphia, $28.01;
and Burlington, N. J., $2071. Thus,
with tho exception of one Philadelphia
concern, which was $2.70 higher, the
Northern bidders were $6 to $7 a ton
higher than tho Bessemer company. As
Atlanta has about 6,000 tons to buy, the
difference in the whole hid is from $26,-
000 to $42,000. Referring to this, the
Atlanta Constitution remarks: "A differ
ence of 25 per cent, is not explained by tho
remoteness of Northern foundries. The
eomliti ms of iron manufacture are more
favorable South, and that is what made
the bids lower.
Southern Populatione.
Washington, I). C., Oct. 20.—Tho
census office announced the following
population statistics: Montgomery 21,-
790, Increase 5,077; population of Ken
tucky 1,805,436, increase 206,746; Ala
bama 1,508,088, increase 245,508; Galves
ton, Texas, 29,118, increase 6,870;
Houston, Texas, 27,411, increase 10,808;
4 Pensacola, Fla., 11,751, increase4,001.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Sixty Years in the Service.
There is a man in tho United Navy to
day who haabeen a “blue-jacket up
ward of sixty years. Admiral Portei
and he were boys together in the service.
Though the winters of nearly three-
quarters of a century has come and gout
since bis birth, he is as hale and asactivt
to-day as many a man whose sum total ol
years does not exceed thirty. He—be
ing the oldest man in the service, and
having performed more than one heroic
deed during the Mexican, Seminole and
Civil Wars,for he participated in all three
—is allowed great privileges, and may
come and go whenever he pleases. He it
not a drinking man to any extent, not s
total abstainer by any means, but ho al
ways uses liquor in moderation. He has
not a living relative in the world that he
knows of; he has always been, as he ex
presses it, “a biid alone.” He was not
more than twelve years old when he en
tered the navy, and a man-of-war has
been his home ever since. Ho Is now a
shipped boatswain's mate, and his pay
amounts to between forty-five and fifty
dollars per month. He has been most
severely wounded in two or three en
gagements, as the scars still visible are
testimony, and they aro of no delicate
description either, but quite the reverse.
—Bolton Transcript.
Another Piedmont Carolina Railroad.
It was learned at Asheville, N. C., that
the Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina
Steel and Iron Company, that owns the
Pocahontas coal fields in Virginia and
the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad,
constructed from Bristol, Tenn., to Big
Stone Gap, are surveying a line from
Bristol to Linville, N. C., where connec
tion will be made with the S. and \V. air
line. Two parties of engineers are now
ih the field, and the officers of the com
pany say they will build the road if they
can get a reasonable good line, of which
there seems little doubt. The steel and
iron company owns 50,000 acres of land
in Mitchell county, adjoining the lands
of the Linville Improvement Company,
on which they have found magnetic ore.
This will cause the immediate develop
ment o? the mineral wealth of that sec
tion, and be a great stroke toward the up
building of Piedmont North Carolina.
The Alliance in the West.
A special from Kansas City, Mo. says:
An intended extension of its business
by the Farmers’ Alliance of the South
west was discovered Friday wheu it was
learned that it is to establish an independ
ent stock yard in Kansas City. The Mis
souri, Texas, Nebraska and Iowa Al
liances are back of the scheme. Fifty
acres of laud adjoining the present stock
yards is the site of the new yards. By
maintaining their own yards the farmers
believe they can save much money iu
marketing their cattle by doing away
with commission men and a great part of
other expenses.
A Beautiful Lunatic Actress.
A special from Richmond Va., says:
Miss Shaw, the beautiful variety actress
who was rescued from the roof of the Put
nam biiilding ou Franklin street, while
walking in mule condition along the roof
in her sleep, Monday morning, was ad
judged a lunatic. Miss Shaw belongs to
Putnam’s variety show here. She is
about 22 mid is described us a beautiful
girl of a mild blonde type. The girl is an
opium cater and has been drinking to
excess for several weeks. She is believed
to be a native of Toronto, Canada.
The Building of Bridgeport.
Tho New Town Company, just begin
ning operations at Bridgeport, Ala., on
tlic Ten ncssee River, has sold out to a
syndicate headed by Hubert Bonner, the
newspaper man, associated with H. B.
Claflin and Connell and Dclamuter, the
iron kings. They have organized a now
company, with a capital of five million
dollars. The members of the new com
pany have taken formal possession of the
property.
now TO MAKS AN EGG-TESTER.
Take a piece of leather five inches
wide and six inches long. Now bring
tho edges together (with the dark side
of leather inside) and sew them, and it is
ready for use. Take the egg to be
tested, hold it up to a bright light, place
tho eye at tho other end and you see ex
actly what condition tho egg is in. Tho
leather adjusts itself to the egg so as to
exclude all tho light. Another good
point in its favor is that there is no dan
ger of breaking tho egg by accidentally
letting the tester fall or by' striking the
egg against it.
CORKS CURE STUTTERING]
A SIMPLE DEVICE FOR THE RELIEF
OF STAMMERERS.
A GOOD LAUNDRY POLISH.
A laundry polish that is recommended
by an authority on such questions is
made as follows: Dissolve on a slow
fire one ounce of white wax and two
ounce of spermaceti with one largo tea-
spoonful of salt. Turn into a wet cup to
cool. Make boiled starch ns usual,
cooking slowly for twenty minutes, anil
for every tablcspoonful of dry starch
used put iu a lump of tho preparation
the size of a cherry. Use no cold starch
and do not sprinkle. When tho starched
pieces are dried, lay them in a wet towel
for two hours, and with a polishing iron
bring out the gloss.—New York World.
NOODLE PUDDINO.
Three eggs beaten light, a little salt
and flour to make a paste that will roll.
Roll tho paste an eighth of an inch thick,
lay on a clean paper for five minutes, let
ting it stand either in tho sun or in a
warm oven with the door open. Aftci
taking them out cut in strips two inches
wide; cut fine, then put them in clear,
salted water which is boiling and allow
them.ten minutes for boiling, but do not
let them stick together. Take them out
and drain well; add two well-beaten
eggs, mix thein in a quart of milk and
stir in the noodles; add salt, sugar and
spice to suit the taste. Bake forty-five
minutes. Noodles are very nice used in
soup instead of' maccaroui.—New Fork
World.
WHOOPING COUGH.
A physician of well-known repute,talk
ing about whooping cough, says it is a
contagious disease peculiar to childhood,
although it occasionally attacks adults.
It is spasmodic in its action, generally
protracted, and is qjways accompanied
with inflammation of the mucous mem
brane of the windpipe, bronchial tubes
and tbe cells. A dry cough, an occa
sional sense of constriction in the chest,
fever, quick respiration and other symp
toms of a common cold mark its begin
ning. These disappear and the spas
modic stage ensues, In which there is a
frequently recurring and obstinate cough.
At times the child is convulsed with a
paroxysm of coughing which is con
tinued until the lungs seem to be incapa-
blo of further action. Tho spasm aftei
a second or two is relaxed and the breath
is drawn with a prolonged, almost con
vulsive sob, or “whoop” which is pe
culiar to this disease and prevent^ it from
being confounded with any other malady.
Children who are weak teething or being
weaned are liable in whooping cough to
iaflammating of the lungs or brain,
which often results fatally. Vigorous
treatment in its earliest stages is of the
utmost importance, and great care
should ho exercised in regulating the
diet and avoiding sudden changes ol
temperature.—New York World.
RECIPES.
Potato Pic—Slice eight raw potatoes
and cut into small pieces one-half pound
of bacon. Line a basin with some suet
paltry and put in the bacon and potatoes;
add boiling water and a little Hour to
make gravy. Put to steam for four
hours.
Cocoanut Cream—Ono pint of milk,
yolks of three eggs, one-half cup of
sugar, flavor with vanilla. Cook as for
boiled custard. Put ono dozen cocoauui
cakes in a pretty dish and strain the hot
custard over them, When cold, whip
the whites and pile on top.
Crab-applo Preserves—Take tho red
Siberian crab-apple. Wash, and wipe
dry, leave tho stems on, put in water to
cover, and let come to a boil. Take up,
let cool, and carefully remove the skins.
Weigh, allow ono pound of sugar to
every pound of fririt. Slake syrup, flavor
with the juice of one lemon to every
three pounds. Put tho crab-apples ou,
and cook until clear (put in Jars while
hot.
Blackberry Mush—Bruise one pound
ripe blackberries and add a very little salt.
Put in porcelain-lined or granite kettle,
add one tcacupful of boiling water and
stew for three or four mingles. Mean
time stir smoothly in a bowl two heaping
tablcspodufuls of flour with water to
make a thick cream; add to tho berries,
and stir constantly till thickened. Re
move, set in very cold place. Serve with
sugar and cream.
Beef-Loaf—Get two pounds of lean
beef and chop fine. Season with salt,
pepper, a little parsley, summer savory
or something of the kind, and chop and
add a very small onion. Press into a
square or long baking pan and fit
a tin over it. Bake an hour and a
half. Put a weight on it when done,
and do not turn out untj^ it is perfectly
cold, when it may be c(ft in nice slices
with a sharp thin-hladcd knife.
Rice Cream—Lovers of rice will enjoy
this: Bake one ounce Carolina rice iu
half a pint of milk with three bay
leaves. When sufficiently cooked, re
move tho scum and bay-leaves. Dis
solve onc-quarter ounce gelatine, previ-
viously soaked in two tablcspoonfuls of
milk, in half a pint of boiling milk, add
the yolk ot an egg and two ounces ol
loaf sugar. Stir over tho fire for five
minutes, mix with the rice, pour it into
tha mould, and let it remain until
set. ,
A Monument to A. P. Hill.
At a meeting of Ex-Confederates, held
at Riehmoml, Va., it was decided to move
tiie lemaius of Gen. A. 1’. Hill from Holly
wood to a lot donated by Lewis Gintcr,
not far from the Lee monument, in the
western suburbs of the city. It is in
tended to increase the fund now in hand
for the erection of a monument to Gen.
Hill, and to locate the monument on the
lot given by Uinter.
me centennial of the diseovory of
coal in Pennsylvania U to be celebrated
in 1891.
What Makes People Stutter—Tongue-
tied Women Are Rare—A Majority
of Stammerers Are Teutons.
_ Curiously enough, from statistics it ap
pears that the Germans, though reported
to be such a slow-speaking people, have
a larger percentage of stutterers among
them than any other nation. Next to
them arc the English. Americans are
noticeably free from this failing. It is
probably because of this that there are
but two training schools for stutterers iu
the whole country. One is in New York,
and tho other is in Chicago. The one in,
this city was started three months ago by
Dr. Lothar Schwarz, a young German
specialist, who gathered practical experi-j
encc in his chosen line in some of thei
best institutions of this character in Ger
many. Ho has had twelve resident pa-'
tients, some of whom are from neighbor
ing States. He has been able te effect a
number of cures during the brief time ho
has managed his institution.
Dr. Schwarz says that tho causes of
stammering are varied. In a majority of
cases the trouble originates during baby
hood, the child being either too lazy to
imitate sounds correctly or else some-,
what deaf and unable to hear sounds
properly. Sudden fright, diseases like
diphtheria, typhoid or scarlet fever often
bring about a partial inability of tho ton
gue to enunciate clearly. Again, a dc-j
fectivo formation of muscles or ot organs
such as the larynx, the tongue, the palate
or tho mouth is often the cause of tho
trouble. In a number of cases, too, tha
lungs are not tranied to perform the func
tions properly during speaking, so that
the stutterer attempts to breatho whilol
speaking, thus causing an interruption o£
the voice. Tho forceful grimaces mado
by so many stutterers while trying to
pronounce difficult letters, such as “d”
and “t," “f” and “p,” "m” and “n”
and “s,” aro duo to the violent contrac
tion of the facial muscles. In regard to
a euro to be effected tho doctor said;
“The first means to bo employed—that)
is, tho means which aro most cffectivo and.
rapid in nearly all cases—is tho ono
brought into a system and first mado
public by Professor Koen. This is a
system by which the tonguo above all is
carefully trained to perform its manifold
duties. The tonguo is exerflsed, mado
pliable, and is taught to do always that
which the owner means to have it doj
To accomplish this tho stutterer is sub-:
Jected to a regular' course of exercises,!
some of them ijuito disagreeable and
wcarisomcl For instance, ho has to hold!
a cork between his teeth, and then hisi
tonguo must try aud pronounce words,!
syllables, Jetteis, and even whole sen-i
tenccs distinctly without dropping the,
cork. By nil sorts of tricks the tonguo,
ts forced to attain proficiency in pro-)
nouncing just thoso letters or-combiua-i
tions of letters which it was formerly un
able to pronounce, except perhaps with
great difficulty.
While tho specialist was talking ho,
entered a room in which tho handsome
twelvc-jcar-old son of a well known!
college professor iu Iowa was just under- 1
going one of thoso exercises the doctor
was discusing. Tho boy’s organs of
speech had normally developed until a
year ago, when he met with an accident
—a heavy fall from his velocipede. Sincei
that time ho was unable to speak two
words in succession without feeling pain
and discomfort. Tho muscles of his,
face contracted and his checks and brow
became suffused with blood in his violent
efforts to speak. As he stood before tho
specialist his eyes were fixed upon thoj
wall, and lie repeated for the hundredth
time: “Don’t do wrong I Where will
you bo to-morrow?” and other phrases'
difficult for him to enunciate. He pro
nounced them after a fortnight’s treat
ment, plainly, but very slowly and with;
evident effort. Before each word ha
drew a deep breath and there was a queen
whizzing sound from his lips. “That
will soon disappear," said the doctor,
“but with all this bravo boy’s persistence
It will require at last another mouth to
rid him completely of his abnormal)
peculiarities of speech.”
Girls have this affliction much more)
rarely than boys. Their tongue appears
to bo more clastic than is tho tonguo oil
the opposite sex. AY omen who ere una
ble to speak quickly and plainly are veiy
rare, according to scientific writers otn
the subject. The largest percentage of
stutterers is furnished by boyhood, es
pecially between tho tenth and fifteenth
year. This is due, in part, to an impet
uosity of speech, which gradually disap
pears as tho boy learns a little mora
sense and reserve. There are no reliablo
statistics to show the percentage of thoso
having some impediment in their speech,
in the different countries on the globe.
But tho fact is sufficiently established
that this percentage is much, smaller in
all tho Latiu countries, such as France^
Italy, Spain, Portugal and South Amer
ica than it is iu the Teutouio lands-
This is su’d to be largely due to tho fact
that the^Genuanie tongue is less voluble
than tho Latiu one; that the languages
derived in part from tho old Latin are
moro easy of pronunciation than thoso
descended from the old Teuton linguis
tic stock, and that there aro more vowels
and less difficult combinations of conso
nants in them. i’Ms theory seems to
find support in the fact that the English
speaking people, who talk a tongue
about evenly mado up or Teuton aud
Latin words, have far less stutterers
among them than the Germans and Scan
dinavians, while there aro at tho same
time more stutterers among them than
among tho French or Italian or Spanish
speaking nations.—Chicago Herald.
Marvels In l uce.
Tho Sumtcrev was shown some photo
graphs of tho exhibits of lino point ga/ •
iacc that secured the prizes at the Paris
Exposition. They must have bec-u mar
vels of dainty and finished workmanship.
One was a parasol that was valued at
$2600; another was a bed sheet trimmed
with this lace and valued at $500, ami
vet another was a baby’s lace trimmed
bantisinnl robe valued at vOTiU. Point
gn/o lace is capable of being used in
more ways and for more purposes thnu
any other kind of lace manufactured.—
Chicago Pot'.
In Russia a man may appear as a wit*
aess in a lawsuit against his wife.
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