Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V [P, cpcrt'j Of oJlic Q}crf ; n<}ton County (j(tslor.ca/ ooc.ety THE VOL. I. HERALD DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1890 NO, 17. It is said that 16,000 women, many of them widows, lost their fortunes in PaDr am a Canal enterprises. The New York Timet notices that “the development of agriculture in the South is keeping pace reasonably well with that of other industrial pursuits.” Out of nearly three hundred railroad accidents recorded in the United State* lince January 1, the liailroatl (fault Dnds that four-fifths of them were directly Sue to gross carelessness on the part of employes. In over forty cases liquor was responsible for the accidents. The Government of India, it is report ed, has decided to discontinue the annual grant hitherto devoted to search for, and purchase of, rare Sanskrit manuscripts; but the decision will not take effect un til 1892. A .egular staff of native search ers has been employed during the past ten years; and these have visited most of the large temples throughout India, ex amining and cataloguing the vast collec tion of works hoarded up there. I Stuttering is pronounced contagious in Permany, which has 80,000 stammerers, and is alarmed at the rapid increase. It Is claimed that conclusive evidence that stammering is “catching” is proved in the reported fact that the number of stutterers increases as the children pass up ward from class to class in the schools. The Germsin Government is encouraging Dr. Gutzmann, the famous expert, to start a special course of scientific, train ing for the prevention of stammering. The Prairie Farmer believes that “few people who live at a distance from the peat lakes have an adequate conception af the magnitude of lake commerce. It will surprise them, perhaps, to learn that during 234 days of navigation last year tonnage passed through the Detroit Itivcr to the amount of 10,000,000 tons more than the entries and clearances of all the seaports in the United States, and 3,000,- 000 tons more than the combined foreign »nd coastwise shipping of Liverpool aud London.” The Canadian experimental farms are said not to be very helpful to agricul turists. On the contrary, they have a discouraging effect. When a farmer of moderate means visits one of these farms he sees a largo number of dwelling houses, barns, stables, etc., erected at enormous cost. He sees valuable horses, a large staff of men and “fancy farming" on a large scale. He concludes that if such costly luxuries are necessary in order to make farming pay, ho cannot afford them, and he gives up agriculture to try something else. A leading iron journal states that im provements in the new navy are bring ing young men to ’ the front in all de partments, not the least of which is steam engineering. In the modern ships, In addition to the great triple expansion main engines, with all their complicated parts, there are dynamos, blowers, steam eteerers and auxiliary engines of all kinds and sizes, scattered in widely sep arated parts of the vessel, and with the small number of engineers carried, a large and intelligent force of machinists is a pressing necessity. Professor William D. Marks, Super vising Engineer of the Edison Electric Light Company, of Philadelphia, an elec trical expert, says he is willing to stake his reputation as an electrical engineer on his ability to construct an electric motor that could take a train of cars from Philadelphia to New York in thirty- six minutes. The Professor might have made it even thirty-five minutes, ob serves the New York World, but as he has placed his reputation at stake in the matter, he may wish to bo entirely on •the safe side. One hundred and fifty hour is the speed Professor Marks's motor wrould have to make. I Says the Ban Francisco Chronicle: (Matches are a great modern convenience, but they bring many evils in their train, ilt is estimated that at least twenty per cent, of the fires in large cities may be traced to their use. A recent report of the Fire Marshal of Boston discusses .the subject at great length and seriously recommends legislation to compel the adoption of safety matches which will only ignite under certain conditions. The losses entaile 1 are great enough to be appalling, but very few persons, even when they are fully aware of the dangers of a cheap match, will take the trouble to insure themselves by buying the bet ter but dearer article. In h!( new book on African subjects Thomas Stevens quotes one of Stanley's officers in a way that at ouce admits aud satisfactorily disposes of the charges that used to bo made ns to Stanley's harsh ness to his men. Says the officer: “I have seen days when, if I could have had the ear of the public at home, I should have felt inclined to vent, in the columns of the paper, some grievances that semne 1 very real, I can assure you, at the mo ment. But now it is all over, I cun look back and see that Stanley was right. Without the hard, exacting work we should never have pulled through, a id Stanley's seeming harshnesr never goei beyond the point necessary for the suc cess of the undertaking he is engaged l*" 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. Fire destroyed Arringdale's saw mills, in Atlantic City. Loss, $15,000; in sured. The mania for speculating in town lots has struck the people of Appomattox. In Franklin county a verdict of $8,500 was given the plaintiff iu the suit of Da vid Gage vs. the Richmond aud Danville railroad. Arrangements have been completed for the formation of a company to build a street car line in North Danville. Major Adam Clement, sheriff of Camp bell county, was mysteriously assaulted and left unconscious on the road a few days ago. Shcndun, Va., claims to be the first new town in the South to have a street railway in operation before any lots are offered for sale, the Grottoes Co., which is building the town, having recently completed a line three miles in length, which gives access to the Shenandoah Valley Railroad station from all parts of the town. The eighth annual session of the Wo men's Christian Temperance Union of Virginia, which convened in Norfolk last Monday, adjourned after electing the following officers: Mrs. It. II. Jones, Norfolk, president; Mrs. A. N. Funk- hauscr, Harrisonburg, corresponding sec retary; Mrs. II. M. Iloge, Loudoun, re cording secretary; Mrs. J. W. Newton, Staunton, treasurer. Richmond was se lected as the next meeting place. NORTH CAROLINA. L. H. Battle, of Durham, was elected cashier of the new Roxboro Bank. J. A. Long is president. The Goldsboro Fair opened Tuesday. The five New England States have built, so far this year, sixteen miles of railroad. North Carolina has built two hundred and twenty-six. The secretary of the United States treasury has awarded a gold life-saving medal to Thomas M. Webb, of Wilming ton, N. C., for rescuing Miss J. J. Hayes and Miss Irene Jackson from drowning at Wrightsvillc Beach, N. C., in August lost. Mrs Julia F. Gould the English woman recently tried for the murder of her hus band at Murphy has decided to go on the stage. Fire in the Asheville Female College Wednesday did damage to the extent of about $10,UUU. The pupils were gotten out without being hurt. The Young Men’s Christian Associa tion Convention of the Second district was held at Heidsvilllc last week. There were a number of delegates from all quar ters of the district, and all seemed to en joy the occasion. State Secretary L. A. Coulter, L. L. Hobbs, president of Guil ford College and Rev. Dr. J. F. Crowell, president of Trinity College; Mr. Cota, general secretary of the Greensboro Asso ciation ; Mr. B. E. White, of the Danville Association and Professor George Wills, of Oak Ridge Institute, addressed the convention which was presided over by Prof. Allan Holt, of Oak Ridge Insti tute. The most destructive fire which has ever visited Durham, since the entire Main street was burned down in 1885, oc curred Thursday morning when one of the handsomest buildings in Durham, known as the “Parish building,” was burned almost entirely to the ground, to gether with some smaller buildings. The Parish building was a handsome three story with terra-cotta trimmings, owned by Mr. J. S. Carr It was valued at $25,- 000, and build five years ago. SOUTH CAROLINA. Lawrence W. Edwards, of Colleton County, who was in jail at Columbia for ten days upon a charge of forgery, gave a bond of $500 for his appearance at the next term of Court, and was released and left the city. His bondsmen are citizens of Colleton. Travis Davenport was acquitted of forgery at Spartanburg. The jury was out about two hours. This will perhaps be the last of the famous Davenport cases. Secretary of State Marshall issued a commission to the Eureka Phosphate Company, capital stock $10,000. The company is to have its principal place of business near Jacksonboro, Colleton County, aud its general purpose will be to mine phosphate rock aud manufacture fertilizers. It seems somewhat unseasonable, but it is nevertheless true, that Charleston ships every day at this season to New York aud other markets a carload of beans and f tcas. The truck just now is bringing on- y fair prices, as it is brought into compe tition with Northern truck, which has not yet been killed by frost. About the 1st of the month prices will, however, take a considerable jump upwards, as the North ern supply will be limited. The ship ment of beans and peas at this season is a new departure, which, however, seems to be quite profitable and is consequently growing. The Governor has pardoned Hansel Calder, white, and James Scott, colored, who were convicted at the March, 1889, term of Court for Marion County, of housebreaking and larceny, and sentenced by Judge Pressley to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for three yean*. The pardon was nrked for on various grounds by a huge number of citizens, including vari ous county officers, and Solictor John son endorses it. The Governor has refused to pardon John Sam McCode, convicted at the Feb ruary, 1890, term of Court for Oconee County of obstructing a railroad, and sentenced by Judge Aldrich to one year’s imprisonment in the Penitentiary. A pe tition for his pardon was presented, but Judge Aldrich and Solicitor Ansel saw no reason for the exercise of clemency. TENNESSEE. C. S. Taylor, C. A. Hass and others, of Chicago, III., have secured over 15,000 acres of mineral and town lands in Unicoi county, and will build a new town to be called Uaieoi. A boiler and engine works is reported as to be established. Green county will vote on Noveihber l:)th $100,000 “bonds" or “no bonds” to aid the projected railroad from Paint Rock, N. C., via Greenville to Kings port. Gov. Robert L. Taylor, Secretary of State Miller, Adjutant General McCord and several other Tennesseeans attended the Texas State Fair at Dallas, Tex., on Tennessee day, October 25. Gov. Tay lor was one of the orators. The American Humane Society met in Watkins Institute Hall lecture room at Nashville, nearly all the states of the United States beiug represented. Among the topics discussed were the following: “Humane Education,” Humane Work,” “Object of Humane Society,” “State Conventions,” “Rights of State to Protest Against Cruelty," “Dehorning of Cattle,” “Clipping and Docking of Horses,” “HorseShocing,” “The Present and Fu ture Progress of Humane Work-in the West.” The session was very harmo nious. Tuesday afternoon while Andy, son of Wash White, was sitting in his wagon in Ncedmore, near Whitesburg, Dan Reid, Jr., surprised him and fatally shot him in the breast. White ran around a store, but received another shot in the thigh. Reid is a dangerous character who has killed one or more men and maimed others, and has been dreaded for a num ber of years. He is a tall, slender, pale- faced, kccn-cycd man of about thirty who always attacks his victims unexpect edly. The Chattanooga Board of Trade, 200 strong, accompanied by ladies, went to Fort Payne, Ala., a few days ago, as guests of that city, where they were giv en a gala time. Several trains were placed at the Chamber’s disposal and each member supplied with two tickets, the party being in charge of Capt. R. L. Gouldin, secretary of the Chamber. W. B. Higher, of Franklin, Ky., stab bed and instantly killed his wife at Leb anon, Tcun., Thursday. Jealously of the intimacy between George Dittmbrc, a wealthy fanner and Mrs. Higher, was the cause. GEORGIA. The Georgia Sawmill Association held its annual meeting in Macon, Tuesday, October 28th. In Houston superior court nearly 100 witnesses for the defense were summoned in the case of the State vs. Rev. Henry Felder—arson. Felder was charged with bunr'ng a crib in New Hope last summer. The case was continued to the next term. Bailiff Timmons had to pay a fine of about $18, in Early court, for taking the law iu his own hands and settling a case with a negro for whom he had a warrant. A writer in the Houston Home Jour nal has been trying to locate the mean est man in Georgia. The feature of the opening of the Georgia State Fair at Macon was an ad dress by Senator Joseph E. Brown, in which he announced his retirement from public life at the expiration of his pres ent term as Senator, March 4, 1891. The next legislature is typically Geor gian, presuming that there is really some thing in a name. In the senate, for ex ample, are found a Williams, two Smiths, a Johnson, a Johnston, a Brown, a Hill; with not a name in the lot that can’t be found in every town of 1,000 inhabitants in the state. Then iu the house another Johnson, two Davis's, three Smiths, two Hills, one Jones, two Browns, two Jack- sons, and three Harris's; with the rest of the list something in proportion. The four masted schooner, Howard Smith, of Portsmouth, loaded with rail road iron for Brunswick, was wrecked near Doboy. The captain and crew were taken from the rigging the next morning, and taken to Darien by the tug boat Crescent City. O^HER STATES. Mr. F. B. Sackett of Heath, Fla., ar rived in Titusville last week. Mr. Sack ett says he has sold his crop of coffee for this year, (which will be about five pounds from one tree) to the agricultural depart ment at Washington, for $5 a pound. Oranges are being forwarded at the rate of about ten cars a week from Lis bon, two stations from Eustis, Fla. They are still green, but the owner is receiving $1.50 per box on the trees, and the party who is buying says he takes them to New Orleans, colors them and makes money. Most of the oranges in Lake county have been bought. The freight depot of the Mobile and Birmingham railway at Mobile, Ala., was totally destroyed by lire. Loss, $10,009 on building. Fifty quarter kegs of pow der exploded, blowing out the brick walls, two carloads of jute bagging and seventy-nine rolls of white paper consign- cd to the Register were destroyed, also some sundry freight. The wind was blowing quite a gale from the south, and the flames spread rapidly. The loss on freight is $20,000. A colored exposition was held at Eu- faula, Ala., last week, whose exhibits are the products of negro labor, and whose management is composed entirely of members of that race. A model of a stockcar that has been invented by a Bir mingham negro was given a prominent place. It was said that a northern cor poration had offered the inventor $30,000 for his patent. A Brutal Murder Near Asheville. Rhoda Morrison was killed in a brutal manner by her husband, H. J. Morrison, near Asheville, N. C., last Thursday. The couple have lived in Asheville for a year, having come from Anderson County, South Carolina. They quarrelled several days ago and she left him going to the house of her brother, Will Sullivan. Mor rison went to the house on Thursday eve ning, while Sullivan was away, and, after beating his wife, dragged her away. Her body was found on Geo. Vanderbilt’s place, two miles from her brother’s house, on Saturday morning. There were two bullet holes in the breast and one in the temple. Her throat was horribly cut. Her father came from South Carolina, and taking the body away, buried it at her old home. He had been telegraphed for. Nows of the murder was not brought to the authorities till the next morning. A reward of $500 has bee . offered for the arrest of the murderer. An Invitation to Cleveland. The Press Club of Chicago has extend ed an invitation to Ex-President Cleve land to speak at the Auditorium in that city under the auspices of the club. If Cleveland accepts the invitation it will be about the middle of November. The Ex- President declined an invitation to visit Chicago tendered by the Iroquois Club. The Press Club had Depew as its guest in June. It now wishes to have Cleveland come to speak in the Auditorium on any subject he may select. SOMEWHAT OPPOSED TO HLU Rabbi Levy Would Like to Wipe It Out With a Big Sponge. Ciiam.erton, S. C. [Special.]—Consid erable excitement has been causeb !a evangelistic circles here by a sermon preached by R.Ibbi Levy, of the Beth- clobin synagogue, to his congregation. IIotc is the passage in the sermon which the newspapers got hold of, and v hi'.h has stirred up the excitement. The text of the sermon was, “The Rainbow.” “Men who arc without mind themselves; men who never felt the light; men who care nothing about truth, who respe< t none that does not wear the livery "f their own faith; men who belko '- do truth to be shut 'ip with faith: meu %to believe the truth to be shut up within <ho confines of their own narrow sect, w ho makes salvation dependent upon blind assent to the speculative ideas, those arc the people to whom doubt is a sin, and who predict for you the vengeance of heaven. Where do the infidels come from, if not from that class of men who were taught to take everything in relig ion as faith? What makes the atheist, the agnostic and skeptic? It is the chur< 1, that denounces doubt and free thought. It is those denominations who present God as a vengeful, cruel tyrant. It is the religious teacher who thunders in your ears the wrath of the Almighty and the terrors of an angry hell. It seems to me that if I had not other God to look up to except to a God of hate ami malaee; if I should think that the being who rules the world was that horrid monster who out-IIerods Herod, who damns innocent babes before they arc born, who punishes the helpless, ig uoraut heathen, who has created a devil to torment men, and paves hell with the skulls of infants; if this was the God that I had to worihip, I should gladly turn to the gods of Greece and Rome and serve them.” The rabbi is a popular preacher, aud presides over the reformed new syna gogue here. He is very liberal, and has often attended services at both Catholic and evangelistic c hurches. Hence the com motion. The rabbi’s congregation stands with him. CONSIDERING CORPORATIONS. The Mississippi cShvention Adopts Another Report. The Mississippi constitutional conven tion procWcltd to the dbnsideration of the repdrt of the committee on corporations ahd adopted the following: Corpomtiofis shall be formed under general laws only, which laws may from tinffc to tiiff? be altered or repealed. The legislature shall have the power to alter or amend any charter of corporations now existing and amendable and any that may hereafter be eroatod, wh ©never : ji ' their opinion it nfhy be for the public in terest to do so, provided, l?owcver, that no injustice shall be done to the corpora tions, ahd no Charter for any private cor poration for pecuniary gain shall be granted for a longer period than uiuctv- niuc years. See. 2. The legislature shall not remit the forfeiture of franchise of any corpora- tiop now existing nor alter, nor amend the charter thereof, fior plisS any general nt)r special law for the benefit of such corporation, except on condition that suCh eorporatioft shall hereafter hold its charter and franchises subject to the pro visions of this constitution. Sec. 3. All existing charters of grants of corporate franchises unfler which bona fide organizations have not taken place at the adoption of this constitution, shall be subject to the prfivisions hereof; and all such characters under which bona fide organizations shall not take place and be commented iu good faith within one year from the adoption of this constitution, shall hereafter have no validity unless a bona fide organization shall take place thereunder, aud business be commenced within two years from the date of such charter or grant. The report was adopted. THE FOREIGN IRON HUNTERS. Thoir Entertainment at Chattanooga. What they Say of tho Mineral Resources of the South. A special from Chattanooga, Term., says: '1 he memlfrrs of the British and Ger man iron and steel institutes have been here two days. They have seen the his toric battle-fields, have been shown the most prominent industries, ami were given a final reception at night at the Chamber of Commerce; after which they left for Middleboro, Ky., wherfllhey willstop They express themselves as sim ply amazed ntthe vastness of the min eral resources of the South and the favor able outlook for their development. Sir James Kitsou, president of the Eng lish Society, said “It is possible to make iron in this section aa cheaply as in any part of the world.” Percy Gilchrist, one of the founders of the basic steel process says “Ores here are peculiarly adapted for steel making.” William Whitewall says: “Basic steel made from Tennessee iron compares favor ably with that made in England.” T. M. Pcrccy, proprietor of the great open hearth steel works iu Lancashire, says: “In the South where phosphoric ores arc so plentiful and full cheap, with the basic process will compete with any part of America in making steel.” Big Money in Hop Growing. Hop cultivation has no showing in the South simply because its people have given it no attention. Yet in the “report on the condition of crops published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture” October 1st, it appears that tho average yield per acre for Alabama is 500 pounds, which is the same as that of Vefmont and 20 pounds greater than that of New York. In the same report it is stated, under tho North Carolina head, “hops arc grown in almost every county of the State, but only for home consumption. The roots never die in winter, and the increase is remark able." All of which leads the Manufac turers’ Record to wonder why the South ern States, and especially North Carolina, do not make this staple crop one of their regular sources of profit. Were Alabama hop-growers to give the same careful cul tivation to that plant that Vermont and New York farmers do, their average would exceed that of the Northern hop- yards, while North Carolina, with all nat ural advantages favoring her, could suc cessfully compete with the most favored localities in the country. As it is, South ern breweries, that are all the while on tho increase, must largely depend on Northern hop-growers for their stock. THE ALLIANCE WORLD. How the Order is Growing in the Great North West. The Michigan State Alliance Passes a Strong Series of Resolutions and Propose to Push Them.—Review of October Cotton Crop. The Farmers’ Alliance can watch its- sclf. It’s the fellows who arc complaining so much of the Alliance that need watch ing. Tnc Farmers’ Alliance have organized a meat [lacking company at Macon, Mo. Capital stock $10,000 in shares of $5 each. The Farmers’ Alliance of Montgomery county, Ky.,arc making an effort to form a company to build a $50,000 tobacco warehouse and establish sales. Many of the Alliances throughout the Southern States arc forming stock com panies and erecting cotton seed oil mills costing from $10,000 to$50,000. The'business men of Comanche, Texas, have given the County Alliance a cotton yard at a cost of $550, and are supporting it by their influence and patronage. A careful distinction should be made between the sub-treasury plan and the sub- treasury bill. The former was adopted by the National Farmers Alliance and In dustrial Union, and it was made the duty i of the Legislative Committee to prepare the latter. This they did as their inter pretation of a good plan to carry out the purpose of the former. The committee and the order generally will be glad to Iflve any person improve on the bill. —National Economist. The Alabama State Fair was started at Birmingham on Monday of last week by* Mrs. Grover Cleveland touching the elec tric button at Lenox, Mass., setting the machinery in motion. The Alliance Record, Ga., advocates the repeal of the lien and mortgage law. Editor Christopher says it makes credit too cheap and docs a positive and absolute injury to the farmers who have their mon ey invested iu lands. ****** The following are the resolutions and dethauds reported by the Michigan State Alliance, recently organized at Lansing, Betohcd, Wc demand the abolition of national banks and the substitution of le gal tender Treasury notes in lieu of na tional bank notes, issued in sufficient vol ume to do the business on a cash system, regulating the amount needed on a per capita basis, as the business interests of the country expand, and that all money issued by the Government shall be a legal tender for all debts public aud private. 2. Wc demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver. 3. Wc demand that taxation, national and State, shall not be used to bnild up cue lutercit or cL-iss at the expense of an other. 4. Wc demand governmental control of all railroads, telegraph and teWJihon® lines in the interest of the public, in the same manner as the postal service is now manipulated. 5. Wc demand that eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s work in all facto ries, mines and shops. 6. Wc demand a law permitting the debtor to deduct Ids mortgage from his assessment, sindlar to a law now in force in Massachusetts, California, and other States. 7. Wc demand a graduated income tax, by placing the burden of taxation on those most able to bear it. 8. Wc demand a government loan to the people on real estate security. 9. Wo demand a strictly secret ballot known ns the Australian system. 10. Wc demand the election of Pres ident and Vice-President and United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. 11. We demand that the State take such steps as will insure to the people uniform text books afeost. 12. Whereas, Wo believe that an in flexible volume of currency depresses pric es when the farmers’ produce is placed on the market, and inflates prices after the product is iu the hands of the spcculat or, therefore. Re wired, That we demand a law similar to the sub-treasury.bill, so called, that will secure a flexible volume of money com mensurate with the ueeds of the people. ****** The October report of the cotton crop, made by the department of agriculture at Washington, shows a material decline iu cotton prospects, a fall in general percen tage from 85.5 to 80. The state averages are follows: Virginia, 92; North Carolina, 91; South Carolina, 83; Georgia, 82; Florida, 81; Alabama, 80; Mississippi, 75 Louisiana, 83; Texas, 77; Arkansas, 80; Tennessee, 83. The largest deterioration has been in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, the fertile and productive bot tom lands of the Mississippi valley. The cause is too much rain. Excess of mois ture, coupled with lack of sunshine and reduced temperature, delays opening, causes immature bolls to drop aud full- grown ones to rot, aud induces sprout ing of the seed. The same cause discolors the open cotton near the ground, and dis charges the coloring matter of the bolls, staining the fiber. The value of the crops will be somewhat reduced by discolora tion. The high expectations of the early sea son were first reduced by early droughts, and later rains seriously by more or less continuous rams, from North Carolina to eastern Texas. In the southern districts there is some complaint of the boll worm, witli little mention of tlie caterpillar. The effective, ness of insecticides, when persistently applied, is frequently attested. A Memorial to the Anarchists. ■ A Chicago S))ccial says: The anarchists will commemorate on November 11th the death of Spies, Fischer, Engel and Par sons, who were banged in that city three years ago. The programme outlined in cludes a visit to the anarchists’ graves at Waldheim, where Mr. Schulz, of New York, will speak in German; Mr. Miko- landa in Bohemian, and probably Profes sor Gaulish in English. A large hall will be secured for memorial exercises, and ar rangements made for a big street narade. The South Ships Coal to England for Steam Purposes. Noiifo'lk, Va., Oct. 28.—A steamship of 700 tons of Pocahontas coal was made from Lambeth’s Point to London in the British steamship “Sargosso.” This is the first shipment of steamer coal ever made from the South to Europe, PRESBYTERIAN SYNODS. Annual State Sessions of the Pres byterians of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The Presbyterian Synod of North Caro lina in session at Wilmington commended the organization of church members into Missionary societies, and further approved of united efforts by different societies in a Presbytery. Also that in the case of ladies’ societies, the attendance be restricted to ladies. The clerk of the Synod was in structed to explain to the ladies of Char lotte why the Orphans’ home was remov ed from that eity to Barium Springs. Dr. Shearer, president of Davidson College, in presenting the report of the Synodical t’omn ission, submitted a plan for a Pres byterian University to be established by the Synods of North aud South Carolina, Georgia, South Georgia, ami Florida. A resolution was adopted recommending that committees he appointed by the various Synods and Presbyteries to further the University scheme, and that ministers he urged to agitate the importance of fe male education. The Synod decided to hold the next session iu Raleigh, Wednes day, November 11, 1891. The Presbyterian synod of South Caro lina, in session at Yorkville, S. C., has unanimously adopted the report of the in ter-synodical committee favoring the es tablishment of a Presbyterian university in one of the south Atlantic states. Rev. Dr. Woodrow was refused admittanre, the vote standing 90 to 2. Rev. Dr. W. T. Thompson, of Charleston, and Rev. -1. J. James, of Spartanburg, were elected directors, in the Columbia Seminary. The Virginia Synod of the Southern Presbyterian church met at Staunton. It was the 103d annual session. Ou motion of Rev. Dr. Moses D. Hoge it was unani mously resolved that the Synod of Vir ginia again commends the Bible cause, and urges that all the churches under its care comply with the recommendation of tlie General Assembly to make an annual contribution to this important object. THE THIRTY-THIRDERS. Conferring the Degree By the Scottish Rite Masons. Washington, D. C., October27.—The supreme council of the Scottish Rite Ma sons in session here elected 38 candidates to receive the thirty-third degree. Among them arc the following: Colonel A. A. Waldrup aud Captain C. M. Rocke feller, of the United States army; Charles W. Hotchkis, Texas; C. F. Buck and W. T. Benedict, Louisiana; C. F. Paukrim, South Carolina; William Ryan, Virginia; Wm. R. Johnson, George Kopmter, John W. Pruett, J. W. Staten. T. E. Linezey, D. H. Wilson, Kentucky; J. U. Paxton, T. R. Morrow, Missouri; Hon. Harry C. Stockdell, Georgia. All were present to receive the highest degree in Masonry. Tho supreme coun cil was escorted from the holy house of the temple, the official residence of the grand commander, to the Scottish Rite cathedral on G street by the Albert Pike Consistory No. 1, of this city, headed by the United States Marine Band. Alcott acted as grand marshal of es cort. Owing to the indisposition of Grand Commander Albert Pike, O'Dell S. Long, of Wheeling, presided over the work in the cathedral. After the ceremonies the thirty-thirds were entertained at an elegant banquet in the red-room. It is understood that the supremo council will on the nomina tion of the grand commander, confer tho decoration of the emeritus order of honor on one or two of the thirty-thirds of the Masonic jurisdiction. NEGRO RIOT IN GEORGIA. A Serious State of Affairs in Coffeo County. An Atlanta Ga., specialsays: Governor Gordon received an appeal for troops from the sheriff of Coffee county, who telegraphed that the negroes were shoot ing down the whites. The scene is 20 miles from tho nearest telegraph station and no particulars were obtainable. Negroes constitute a large proportion of the population of Coffee county, and the county has been the scene of several race troubles. Much of the ter ritory is covered with dense pine forests, the working of which for turpentine em ploys a large number of both white and black: These arc very illiterate, and there is much race prejudice which frequently leads to conflicts. Douglass, the county scat, is a small village of the most primitive sort. The population of the county is only a few thousand. Word was received from Waycross that flic rioted are led by a white ma\i named L. B. Varna, or Barnes, who operates a turpentine still. He had a difjmtc about sonic land with Thos. Seers, and while attempting to gain possession. Seers shot one of the negroes dead, and later, with a gang of men, attacked Varna’s hands. The negroes then resolv ed on retaliation and shot three of them fatally, D. W. McLcnnon, Frank Seers, Thomas Seers, and a companion named Hendricks. The people are described by the messenger who brought the news to Waycross, as all being furious. Allies of the Alliance. At Boston, Mass., representatives of thirty labor organizations, Nationalist and Socialist societies, attended a meeting of the United Labor Alliance Tuesday night. The secre .iry read communications from fifty organizations in various parts of the State, which endorsed the aim and objects of the Alliance, promising to support the measures adopted. Every effort will be made to secure the defeat iff all candidates for Legislative positions who will not un qualifiedly promise to vote in the interests of labor for such measures as shall receive the endorsement .o' labor and other economic assoc’ Half a Century in the Vineyard. Fifty ycarsago Dr. Geo. W. Dame found ed the Episcopal church at Danville, Va. and since that time has served it contin uously as rector. The fiftieth anniversan or his jiastoriulconnection, wascclobraUn at the church a few days since iu the pres ence of a large congregation. Dr. Dmuc was present, and his son read an inter estini' sketch of the history of the church which the venerable rector had nrcnnr.id. Farmers ot Virginia Get $16,000. A cablegram from Washington, D. C. says: The secretary of the Interior sign ed certificates for fifteen thousand dollars iu aid of the Virginia Agricultural Col- lege. | COUNTRY LIFE IN CHILI. PRIMITIVE WAYS OF LIVING NEAR THE ANDES. Plain Food and Clothing of tho Na tives—A Profusion of Water melons—The Imitative ••Peones." Agricultural Chili is a pleasant and in teresting country to visit. The scenery, suggesting memories alternately of Cali fornia, Switzerland and Northern Italy, is both grand and charming. Nothing can he seen more majestic and impressive than the main ridge of the Andes, with the volcanic peaks white with snow, while occasionally toward the south some crater shoots up volumes of smoke and lava, as Villa Rica did about tho time that I was at Traigncn. Nothing can bo more charming than tho scenery along the Rio Bio-Bio, whoso sinuous banks the railway follows between San Roser.do and Concepcion. In parts this ri’ er, the longest and broadest in the Republic, having a course of 222 miles, reminds one of the Loire, except that it flows continuously between sloping aud often wooded hills. Like the Loire, it is full of shifting sand hanks, some of clean, yellow sand, others of black volcanic sand; and these, as the water varies in depth, give to the surface a moire of vio let and yellowish green. As for the rus tic population, and the incidents of life along the road, they offer plenty of ma terial for the painter, and food for re flection to the student of manners. Here indeed is primitive civilization, needing uo house furniture, no comfort, very elementary clothing, and only the simplest forms of ceramic ware. What plainer food could he found than bread, beaus and omen pie? What more natural drinking vessel than a calabash? What less complex vestment than the “pon cho?” What shoe more easily made than a bit of cowhide tied on with thongsl What more refreshing aud obvious com bination of food and drink than the fami liar watermelon, which would seem to be the chief and only nourishment taken by many of the poorer Chilians? In tho stations you see whole trains loaded with watermelons. In the towns watermelons are sold in every shop, and piles of them are stacked in the streets wherever there is an open-air breakfast stall. On tho steamers that ply between the ports of the Facifie the decks arc encumbered with the inevitable melons, and the water in the harbors is covered with the float ing rinds of empty ones. In no other country have I seen such universal consumption of watermelons except along the banks of the Danube,where the peasants are no better lodged and no better fed than those of Chili. All this I say not iu dispraise of the Chilian “pc- oncs.” On the contrary, I am convinced that they are line fellows in their way and splendid workers, especially hy the piece. No Europeans can surpass them in strength and endurance. Above all, no Europeans could exist in tin same conditions of alimentation and habita tion. 11 Chili the “peonies” livo lit erally like pigs, both in the country and in the towns, regardless of hygiene or even the most ordinary sanitary precau tions. The consequence is that infant mortality is great; the infants die like flics, and those who survive aro only the strongest and the fittest. This rural and urban working population is igno rant, though not unintelligent. The “pcours” can rarely read or write, but they have a natural talcut for imitation, and when once they have been shown how to do a thing they will go on doing it; thus they learn in a few lessons to manage agricultural machiuery, and when they have once learned they do not forget. As for morality, it is to Ire (eared that they have but little. They are not afraid of death themselves, and have uot much respect for the life of others, and both men and women alike appear to have inherited a fair doso of superstition aud many queer beliefs from their Indian auccstors, together with a number of silly remedies. The women, when they have a headache,paste rounds of paper on their temples, or the pip of a watermelon. If they feci anything tho matter with their eyes they will plaster their checks over with leaves. Indeed,' you rarely see a woman who has not something struck on her face. All these defects, all these superstitions, and all this neglect of the laws of hygiene Presi dent Balmcceda hopes to eradicate hy education, and thereto:o, wc see, not without surprise, iu rustic townships lik<i Traigueu, tine school-houses being built,' nt a cost ol $90,009, before there is yet a single brick house within the district. This policy of building schools and pro moting education is being actively carried ou throughout Chili.AVhcrcveryou go yon see a fine school beiug built, aud at no great distance from it au equally lino new prison, and the chances are that tho cells of tho latter will he filled sooner than the classrooms of the former. However, the education of the masses has been one of the great cards of mod ern republicanism in Europe and in tho United Stales, and it is therefore not as tonishing to find imitative Ohili follow ing in the wake, perhaps a little hastily ami a little blindly.—Hurpe.-’s ilagaiine. A Bank Combine in Tennessee. Memphis, Tenn., Special.—Bankers of the State of Tennessee, to the nuhiher ot seventy-five, representing about two Imu- dred million dollars of eapifal, convened in this eity Wednesday for the purpose of I'orming an association for the protection of the hanking Interests. After Col. H. I). Fraser had welcomed the visitors a committee on permanent or ganization reported u constitution and hy laws for an association, which will he known as the “Tennessee Bankers’ Asso ciation,” with an executive committee o' nine to take charge of all business of tie association. Still More Rapid Transit. An electric railway is to he construited between Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., a distance of forty-two miles. This will In- the longest electric road in existence, and its successful and economical operation will go far to depioustrate tjlo feasibility of applying electric motive power to rail ways of very much greater length. American Enterprise in Nicaragua. Work on the Nicaragua canal enter prise to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is reported to he progressing steadily, several millimfs of dollars hating already been spent and some 1,800 men now being at work. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Artificial musk is a recent chemical achievement. Glue from whale refuse is a new ar ticle of commcice in Russia. A stenographic instrument used by the Italian Parliament is capable of record ing 250 words a minute. A rich deposit of mercury has been found three feet below the surface at Mantchc, near Wippach, Austria. A lighthouse built of masonry or con crete is said to bo the only thing that can stand the terrific force of the seas on Hattcras Shoals. Silk from paper pulp is made smooth and brilliant, has about the same elastic ity as ordinary silk, and is about two- thirds as strong. According to Dr. Chaille, woman’s average life is longer than man’s, and in most parts of the United States her ex pectation of life is greater. Dr. Koch of Berlin, who claims to bo able to cure consumption hy inoculation, is about to begin experiments on human patients who are afflicted with tubercu losis. Professor Mendenhall, tho new chief of the United States Coast Survey, is about to attempt to locate anew the magnetic pole of the northern hemi sphere. Blackening the nose and chocks under the eyes has been found an effectual pre ventive of snow blindness or the injur ious effect of the glare from illuminated snow to eyes unaccustomed to it. It is proposed securing knife blades to the stern hearings of steam launches, for the purpose of cutting the weeds as the vessel steams along, with a view of preventing the screw from fouling. Natural gas h:is become so scarce at Pittsburg, Penn., that many of the lead ing iron works cannot run full time, and the probability is that they will be obliged to return to the use of coal. A uew material called rubber velvet is made hy sprinkling powdered felt of any color over rubber cloth while the latter is hot and soft. The result looks like felt cloth, but is elastic, waterproof and exceedingly light. There is as yet no satisfactory machine for cutting cornstalks in the field. Self binding reapers are used in some locali ties to cut the smaller varieties of corn, but for large, fully matu.n sorts these do not work well. In some ninety species of plants grow ing both on the coast and in the interior of France, Pierre Lcsage has found that proximity to the se'. causes a thickening of the leaves. Artificially aalted soil produces the same result. Several doctors have been sent by the Russian Government to Asia Minor to test by experiment 1 the treatment of cholera with the Ferubia Sumbul, a plant growing in Turkestan and - possessing anti-spasmodic properties. Experiments, it is announced, are being conducted iu the channel uear Folke stone, England, for the purpose of test ing the geological structure of that por tion of tho sea bed upon which it has been proposed to construct a bridge across the straits. Compressed air, instead of steam, will probably he used in our cities to operate machinery. The pipes for its transmis sion will he laid three feet below the sur face; the air, besides giving power, will ventilate workshop. Engineers who have examined it say it will be a great improvement over steam power. A COTTON PICKER. Although inauy cotton-picking nm- i hints have been patented, they have not heretofore stood the test of practical use. It appear^ however, according to tho Memphis Avalanche that there is now - marhine in the market that is to be used ibis fall on several plantations iflMississip- pi. The Avalanche gives the following particulars iu regard to it: A boy stands on a small platform be side the sack and as fast as it is filled he substitutes an empty one. The cotton is then taken to Of ginhpuso and emptied into a cleaner, which is so constructed that all the unopened bolls gathered along with the open ones ate opened and the iint extracted therefrom. The hulls are separated from the cotton ia this ma chine, and the lint then ptfeses into a revolving fan, where it is deprived of the lighter trash aqd all substance deteriorat ing to the staple. From the fan it falls into the gin. The cotton is onlyhandle.d once until after it has been ginned, that is when it is placed in the cleaner. A double team is used in propelling a machine, aud the tongue is arranged on one side so that the horses trample on the row that has been picked. Tho machine straddles the row that has been picked. Eight bales per day is not considered an excessive limit for one day’s work of one of these machines, aud armed with one of these, if it will do what is .churned for it, tho cotton planter who raises an nually 100 hales of cotton can bid defiance to the dusky army wJio now populate his fields, plucking laboriously the lint from the poets. By means of the maehine, if it proves a success, the cost of cotton raising will bo reduced at least 30 per cent. Natural Gns in Alabama. A Florence, Ala., special says: Much excitement prevails over the discovery of natftral gas seven miles from this city by 11. O. IVcllcr and others. It has been known for months past that gas existed in this section aud several surveys have been made for this purpose. One company 1ms been nt work for months getting up options on land in this neighborhood. Prominent geologists and experts havu relied forcibly on indications for fimling gas, which has at lust been accomplish ed Express Rates Increased. At a meeting held at the American Ei press Company’s office in New York Cil. by the principal officers of the different express companies, it was agreed to ad vauoc rates beginning Nov. 1. The l«isi for all express tariffs is the rate bet wen New York and Chicago. Thu rate at pre-ent is $2 per hundred pounds. Vndoi the new tariff it will he $2.50. Theaver age iu rates, it is said, is made ou hi- count of increased expenses of the coin panics, due principally to the larger pay incuts required by the railroad he privileges. DcruarU Ktierilu, ot nammore, ngcu ninety-four, fought under Blucher nt ’ Waterloo.