The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, November 12, 1890, Image 1

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THE DARLINGTON HERALD VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1890 NO. 18. The Boston Board of Education Is going to abolish flogging in the public schools. About 20,000 pupils arc flogged every year. California has 1,200,000 people, yet, marvels the Chicago Pott, they pay as much taxes as Transylvania flora ^ith 6,000,000^ The succession of horrible railroad ac cidents that has marked the present year is something beyond precedent, avers the Detroit Free Press. Of all the pasts that afflict the Sooth African farmer, there appears to be none to compare with the prickly pear. It fastens especially upon tho good lands, and is officially reported to be at this moment destroying portions of the best and most fertile soil, both publio and private, that the colony possesses. Austin Corbin, the New York railroad magnate, is anxious to beat the record as a tunnel maker, avers the New Orleans 1 Times-Democrat. He now has two in contemplation, one running under the 'two channels at each side of Staten Island, :the other under the East and Huilsot 'IlivTrs, with the central point at Forty* second street, New York city. Tho salary list of the staff of tho great ^Vord’s Fair is interesting. It is as fol lows: Gage, President, $6000; Bryan, Vice-President, $12,000; Butterworth,, Secretary, $10,000 ;8eeburger, Treasurer, $5000; Palmer, National President, $13,- 000; Davis, Director General, $15,000; Dickinson, Secretary, $10,000. This makes a snug total of $70,000. j The following figures are published in a German publication that stands high as an authority on railroad matters. Tho table gives a summary of the world’s railroad mileage last year as compared with tho figures of four years ago: Dec. 81, '81. Dec. 81, ’89. Mites. Miles. America 149,600 Europe 116,600 Asia..* 18,200 Africa 4,600 Australia 7,600 Total 191,000 133,900 17,800 6,800 10,600 357,400 A New Yorker, who has recently spent some time in the literary circles of Lon don, says that thoro must bo at least 100 biographies of Mr. Gladstono already in manuscript, awaiting tho event of his death, at which time they will be ready' for publication in book form. Beside these manuscri pts, there are to be found in the pigeon holes of all the newspaper of fices sketches of the aged statesman's life, in readiness for tho dispatches announc ing the end of his career that may be re ceived at any time. It is said that Mr. Gladstono has seen some of these biogra phies and sketches, and ho himself has prepared memoranda for the use of some of his biographers. Distinctly suggestive, observes the. New York Sun, is the lawsuit which hat; been brought under Benjamin Franklin’s will, probated in 1790. This good year of grace is 1890. Tho sum of $100,000 is held under the will to be lent to young mechanics to aid them in setting up in their trades. The conditions of industry have so changed that young mechanics can no longer set up in trade in the way contemplated by tho testator. Bo tho purpose of the trust fails, and his de scendants claim the money. But sup pose another 100 years or 200 years to have passed, and who shall say that wo may not have attained to the pressure of Chinese life and that \vc, too, may not inhibit tho use of “power," and get back to the handicraft? Then who shall take the endowments of our technical schools whoa; occupation will be gone? And at such a day B.-Franklin’s fund would re sume its function. In the past 100 years It has multiplied twenty-fold, namely, from $5000 to $100,000. At the same rate of increase the coming century would see it swollen to $2,000,000. And this would be a pretty turn to help young; fellows start in life at a time when a steam engine should be a misdemeanant and a railway a public nuisance. ! Hon. Charles A. Boutelle, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, says, in regard to the trial tests at Annapolis: “The result of the armor tests concluded at the proving ground at Annapolis is startling in it significance, as showing the comparative worthless ness of the Cannwell compound armor which has been used on the most impor tant battleships of the British Navy. The | demonstration of the destructive power I of the American high-power rifles, even of the smaller calibers of si: and eight inches, is as emphatic as the . . oof of the superiority of the nickel-steel ar.nor from the French works at Creusot. The sig nificance of the test Ilea in the demon stration of the inferiority of the a. mor to which Great Britain has trusted for the invulnerability of her fighting ships, and the shots just fired at the Annapolis proving ground will literally be heard around the world, and it will cause con sternation in naval circles on the other side of the water." The advantage these tests will give our Navy Depart ment in providing armor for our new fighting ships can hardly be exaggerated, adds U;e St. Louis ffiff-foyingr. ALL THROUGH DIXIE. What Has Transpired Since Last We Greeted You. All the News of the Eastern Section of of the South, With the Chaff Sifted Out, Presented Here in Neat Form. VIRGINIA. Decatur Axtelle, recently elected amem- ber of the Hoard of directors of the Ches apeake A < lliio Railroad, will be made vice-president. Tho James River Episcopal Convocir tion began its session at Christ Church, Amelia Courthouse, Tuesday night, and adjourned Friday. More marriage licenses were issued in Danville for the month of October than for any previous mouth in three years. A foundationless rumor that tho bank ing bouse of I). F. Kagey & Co., at Lu- ray, was in a critical condition caused a rush for a time, but tbu excitement soon subsided. Erastus Stewart, of Carnegie City, fell from the front platform of a passenger conch of the East bound passenger train and was instantly killed, bis neck being dislocated. An electric-light plant, agricultural works with a capital of $.i(),()()(t, the Bu chanan woodworking establishment, to manufacture portable houses, sash, doors, blinds, etc., glass works and a printing establishment arc reported as to be estab lished at Buchanan, Botetourt county. An exciting foot-ball game at the Uni versity of Virginia lietwecu the Laws and the Mods, resulted in a victory for the Jtcds; another between the engineers and Acadcms ended in the defeatof the latter. Atticus Winfree, a well-known citizen of Petersburg, and a colored woman in his employment were badly burned by a powder explosion. NORTH CAROLINA. A nandsome fund for the establishment of a Chair of History in the University of North Carolina lias been subscribed. Two large land companies have been or ganized in Raleigh. A contract for thirteen more miles of the Roanoke & Southern Railroad has been let, stretching from the summit of the Blue Ridge to Roanoke, Va. This will connect the latter city with Winston, N. C. A mammoth cotton factory is to be es tablished at Oxford, with a capital stock of $100,000. A fight between Lemuel Allen and Ju lius Tyson, in Ansonvillc, over Miss Grace Greene, resulted in tho death of Tyson. The annual report of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad has just been pub lished and shows that the total length of the road is 361 miles. The net earnings for the fiscal year were $331,625. TV. F. Stilts, who was arrested on the charge of robbing the mails and who was to be tried in the Federal Court at Greens boro, bus left bis bondsmen in the lurch to the tune of $1,000. There is a great activity in Charlotte re ligious circles. The Second Presbyterians have just decided to build a new bouse of worship to cost $35,000. The Congrega- tionalists will build two new churches. The Methodists have built a mission and have adopted plans for remodeling their Tryon Street Church. The Trade Street Baptist Church has just evolved from a mission started by the Tryon Street Bap tist Church. The handsome new Episco- . pal church is nearing completion, while the Associate Reformed Presbyterians will soon sing psalms in a beautiful brick struc ture on Tryon Street. SOUTH CAROLINA. Thcoid Tiirnliuli Mansion on the Lau rels plantation. John's Island, Berkeley county was burned a few days ago. At a meeting of the directors of the State Alliance Exciutnge at Columbia the location of the Exchange was decided. On and aftci January i the Exchange will be located at Colombia and the Alliance Bank with It. A north-uuiiiki passenger train on the Richmond & Danville Railroad ran off the track near Central and was wrecked. Eight people were taken out in jured, three of them dangerously and one lady from New Orleans may be fatally. One of tho porters was badly hurt, but acted bravelyaml succeeded iu putting out the tires in the cars before a conflagration could be started. Will Lee. the negro who was arrested at Columbia on suspicion of being the mur derer who was wanted in Huwkinsvillc, confessed his crime. Ifcndmittcd having killed Henry Elder last Sunday night with Elder’s pistol, at Smith’s preeinct, in Oco nee county. Lee says Elder got mad be cause he teased hin. about getting dnmk and assaulted hin. with rocks. The removal of Erskinc College from Due West, S. C., excited a great deal of discussion at the meeting of the Associate Reformed Synod at Paint Lick, Ky., last week. Rock Hill, Chester and Due West bid for it. The matter was left to the ; trustees and w ill be decided on December ' 10th. In 1880, according In ihe Uuitefl Slates census, the population of South Carolina was 995,577, ot which 391,105 were whites and 004,472, including Indians, Chinese, and negroes, were colored. The popula tion of South Carolina to day is 1.147,171, consisting of 512,809 whites and 034,788 colored, including Indians, Chinese and negroes. In Hie last ten years, on account of the contiimrms mo.’ciucnt of colored colonists to Tlississipp) and Aransas, the increase of the colored population has only been 30,316 while the wlijtc population has in the same time been increased by an addition of 124,201. Foi every 20,000 of increase in white population there has lieen but 8,000 increase iu black papula tion. TENNESSEE. One hundred and twenty-one lots were sold, aggregating $15,000, at the Morris town land sale Wednesday. Outside par ties secured the bulk of the property offer ed. The first annual meeting of tho State Field Tournament was held at Chattanoo- ? :a last week aod 16 medals were given, twas decided to call a meeting of dele gates from every athletic association in the State to meet at Nashville on Novem ber 50, to form a permanent organiza tion. _ There was a heavy fall of snow at Knox ville, Tenn., Thursday. It snowed all through tho Cumberland region. John Davis, tho murderer of Marshall Aiidrew Atkins and John liiley Newport, I at Hcllenwood, Saturday night was cap tured nt. Jcllico by Drew Smith who de livered him to Sheriff llcwcll and they left with their prisoner for Huntsville. A Chattanooga special states that the books of John J. Irving, lale Circuit Court clerk of Hnniilton county, have been found short between $9,000 and $10,00, accord ing to Irving's checking. He has mort gaged his property to hif bondsmen, and says he says he will have $5,000 to $7,000 after his shortage has been made good. GEORGIA. The Chattahoochee Valley Exposition opened nt Columbus on Nov. 5th. The racing purses have been increased and many horsemen arc there. T. J. Rogers rifled $400 from an ex press package in the Southern Express Company’s oflirr at Herndon. He was arrested at Augusta, where he had spent the money in u drunken spree. Tom Glenn was shot just over the left eye, with n pistol in the hands of Rena Jones, Wednesday evening, in front of Mr. T. M. Brown’s store, Ft. Gaines. The wounded man only lived a short time. The sheriff traced the murderer with Mr. B. I). Williams’ trained hounds, and caught him in less time than the crime was committed. Gazaway Hartridge, the youngest mem ber of the Georgia legislature and editor of (he Savannah Times, made his first up pearanee as a humorous lecturer on Wednesday evening iu New York City. His subject was “The Seamy Side of Life; or People I Have Never Met.” George A. McShane has brought suit against the city of Atlanta for $10,000. He claims that in walking on Butler street, some time ago, he fell into an ex cavation and hurt himself very badly. One leg was badly wrenched below the knee, and he claims will remain distorted all Ids life. He bringsln a Ijill of $110 for doctors’ bills, and winds up by saying that “in all he is damtlgcd in the sum of $10,000.’’ Jefferson D. Lee, a prosperous citizen of Cordele, engaged v.i the lumber busi ness there, committed suicide last week. He was in the prime of life, and the cause of Ids rash act is inexplicable. Barnum’s great circus was wrecked on the Covington & Macon railroad while cn route to Athens, where it was to play on Tuesday of last week. Two engines were badly wrecked and a colored fireman was eruslied to death. A clrcns-mau named Kelly was killed, and one was wounded. Eight circus work homes were killed. The track was badly torn up for half a mile. It is estimated that this wreck will cost the Covington & Macon road from $100,000 to $125,000. The circus held the Covington & Macon road responsible for damages for the two day’s perform ances it missed, and this is put at about $15,000 per day. FLORIDA. The St. John's County Savings Bank and Beal Estate Exchange, doing business at St. Augustine, assigned to G. A. Crock er. A statement of liabilities shows heavy mid-appropriations. City officials anil others are heavy losers. At an informal meeting of the directors at Monticello, to arrange for the Alliance Exposition in Orala, President Rogers was authorized to commuuieate with the sec retary of state. James G. Blaine, extend ing him unofficial invitation to be present at the exposition in Ocala on the opening day, and deliver the opening oddicas. Encli county in the State is to lie allowed $10 for collecting and packing exhibits. A woman commissioner is to be appointed from each county to attend the exhibition and to take charge of certain exhibits. Jlt'O.OOO went up in flames at Appala- eliicolu last Monday. The Kennedy plan ing mill burned to the ground and several other mills were partly burned. It was thought for a time the entire town would *"• The Pensacola Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee to meet with tile Board of Health and discuss the ad visability of taking the census of the city, as the opinion prevails that the work of the federal enumerators was not proper ly done. The belief prevails that Pensa cola has a population of 15,000, while the census returns fix it nt less than 12,000. Rev. Sam Jones will lie in Tampa Janu ary Hth, if the audience is ready, and will stay ten days. He w id make no appoint ments in the State this season except for Tampa and Pensacola. By the capsizing and sinking of a too- lieavily ballasted sailboat in Charlotte Hnrlmi bay, Mr. Will Elliott in charge of ihe Boeia Grande light, was drowned. OTHER STATES. A law went into effect in Louisiana last Friday requiring the railroad companies to furnish separate ears fur white uud col ored persons. VV. D. Jones, a physician of Osceola, Ark., bust Sunday shot and killed Dwight McKinney, whom he caught in bis wife’s lied room, and then fatally shot his wife. The Mississippi convention Friday refused to reconsider section live, or tho franchise report, which requires a voter to be able to read t'ae constitution or under stand the same when read to him. Tho Country for Peaches. The day is not far distant when the central belt of the Carolinas will be the greatest pcucli-growiug section of the At lantic coast. So fur we have no yellows iu Virginia or North Carolina. This dis ease is fast destroying the orchards of Delaware and Maryland, and tho peach supply must soon come from elsewhere. While the whole middle section of North Carolina will produce peaches to perfec tion, I am inclined to think that the high, rolling, sandy, pine land between the Yadkin and Capo Fear Rivers, through which the Raleigh & Augusta Railroad runs, is destined to he the great peach district. Planters should never plant a peach orchard in a low bottom or on tho east or south slope of a hill, but select the highest and coldest exposure possible, otherwise the trees will bloom too soon and be caught by frosts.— IK. F. Massn/, Horticulturist, N. U. F.rperimmt Station. Classmate of Jefferson Davis Dead. Col. F. L. Daneey died at bis home near Orange Mills ou the St. John's river, Flu., Tuesday midnight. Ho was 85 years old and was one of the best known citizens of Florida. He was educated at West Point and graduated in the class with Jefferson Davis. Ho served with distinction as United States officer in the Seminole war and later constructed for the government the famous sea wall at St. Augustine, Fla. Latterly he devoted his life to orange growing. He was buried Thursday with military honors, THE KANSAS ALLIANCE. A Stupendous Popular Movement in the Great West. Hon. L: F. Livingstone Has Some thing of Interest to Say of His Western Trip. Hon. L. F. Livingston has a great many things to say about his trip to Kansas. He went, it will be remembered, as one of the three delegates appointed by the Georgia State Alliance to bear fraternal greetings to the alliance of Kansas. Pres ident L. L. Polk, of the national alliance, accompanied the Georgia delegation. The other two delegates were Mr. Wil son, of Americus, anil Dr. Stone, of At lanta. “The great day of the Kansas meeting,’’ said the colonel, the oilier evening, “was the 16th. The country people came in from everywhere, until by 11 o’clock there was a procession of them five miles long. It was the most enthusiastic gathering I ever saw anywhere. At one point in the line were 100 pretty country girls, all dressed exactly alike, and all on horse back; then 100 young men on horseback. “There were flags and banners without number, with cartoons and odd inscrip tions. “The condition of the Kansas farmers is worse than that of our farmers, ten to one. The State is covered with mort gages from one end to the other. That has been denied in congress and else where, but it’s the truth. I talked to 300 or 400 people, iudiscriminately, and the condition there is truly pitiable. “They have what is called a writ of as sistance, taken out immediately after a mortgage is foreclosed. It is nothing more nor less than tho Irish writ of evic tion; and the law gives the holder of the mortgage a terrible leverage on the ten ant. Absolutely, there is one tract in the western part of the State, nine miles wide by thirty-five long, where every single land-holder has been evicted—every sin gle one, and evicted on mighty short no tice—and the two or three land associa tions holding the mortgages have formed a great syndicate in Topeka to cultivate that land themselves. They have sowed that great tract of land in wheat. “As their condition has been worse than ours, so much greater has been tho energy and enthusiasm with which they have gone into this movement for relief. Men, women and children share alike in the enthusiasm. “The people’s ticket includes all the laboring organizations. Even the ne groes are moving with the other elements, having a negro candidate for State auditor on the people’s ticket. “Another remarkable factor in the movement is the citizens’ alliance. It is made up of people not eligible to mem bership in the Farmers’ Alliance—doc tors, lawyers, merchants and others, who sympathize with the farmers'movement— and numbers now 16,000 members, and by the election in November that number will reach 25,000. They have adopted the alliance platform in toto, and arc co operating heartily. "One thing strange to mo was the part taken by women generally in politics. They seem to know as much about public affairs as tho men, and help carry the elections with their speaking and writing. “Another thing I noticed was this: I dwelt upon the idea that the interests of the South and the West, as a farming people, were identical; that they hail great common interests at stake, and that they must work together to get relief. “Whenever that sentiment was ad vanced, and in whatever shape, it was cheered to the echo. Their response to it was general. Those people arc desperate, and they are breaking the party lines and massing iu one irresistible movement for relief.” IMPORTANT RAILWAY PROJECT. Tho Richmond Terminal to Secure a Line from Norfolk to the West. A special from Winston, N. C., says: It is stated on good authority that the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company will secure a through trunk line from Nor folk via Raleigh and Bristol to Cincinna ti. Monday Colonel A. B. Andrews, 2nd Vice-President of the R. & D., attended by Superintendent R. R. Bridgers and Majors Wiley and llinshaw, prominent stockholders, went up the Wilkcsboro brunch to inspect. All returned save Vice-President Andrews, who went by private conveyance through the several routes proposed in the extension of the Wilkcsboro branch over the mountains into Tennessee. The Richmond Termi nal jointly owns the road already built from Norfolk to Stanhope, Nash county, N. C., with the Atlantic Coast Line. From the latter place the Richmond & Danville Company will build 30 miles to Raleigh to connect with their lino to \\ ilkesboro. When the latter place and Bristol arc connected they will only need connection between Bristol and Cincin nati, and will get that by the extension of the South Atlantic & Ohio road, now building, which is owned by the Rich mond Terminal officials. This will put the Pocohontas coalfields nearer the sea- coast, and will bring the famous Cran berry iron mines in proximity with the world, and lie a through line to the West. All tin's comes from officers of the road and can be relied upon. Disappearance of a River. The town of Saratow, in the southeast of Russia, has just sustained a serious Joss; it has lost a river—the river Volga. The water of tho river has for some time past been deserting the right arm of the stream upon which Saratow is built, and flowing exclusively in the left arm, which is about a mile and a quartos distant from tho town. The formes bed of the stream is now qnite dry, and is used as a road to convey the passengers and goods which arrive by the steamer to the town. It has been decided that it is necessary to connect the town with the left arm of the stream by a bridge, the construction of which will cost about $250,000.— London Qrafjijk. — -- ---- Nominated After Balloting 5 Weeks. Wii.i.iamsport, Pa., Nov. 4.—The Republican Congressional conference of Ihe sixteenth district after balloting five weeks, early in the morning succeeded in nominating A. C. Hopkins of Lockha- ven, Clinton county, a prominent lum berman. The Democratic congressional conference met here immediately after the close of the Republican conference, and nominated Mortimer F. Elliott, of Tioga county, who was congressman at large in 1882. RAPID DEVELOPMENT. The Great Southwest Region of Virginia. The rapid development of this beautiful section of Virginia iaasourceof gratifica tion and cncouragemint to all other por tions of the South. The beautiful and flourshing cities which have sprung up as if by magic, from Bdford City out to the Tennessee line along the route of the Norfolk & Western Railroad and itsgreat branch lines, exhibit a wonderful spectacle of thrift, progressivencss and energy. For this great awakening much is due to the splendid management of the Norfolk A Western Railroad in the influence it has exerted to bring capital into Virginia to develop the untold mineral wealth of the ci a in try through which the road runs, and ox a consequence to build up cities great and small. Commenting on this remarkable devel opment the Petersburg Index-Appeal, has a most excellent article. It calls attention to the fact that the people once arous ed to a consciousness of the wealth which nature has lavished on them, and to the possibilities of their section, speedily proved themselves no laggards in the race for material progress and prosperity. They proclaimed their advantages far and near, and invited immigration and capital to exploit the yield that lay almost upon the surface of the earth. Roth came in a steady streamand found employment profitable beyond their most sanguine ex pectations. Cities sprang up in a night, and grew in lustihood with the day. In dustrial enterprises dotted the hillsides and valleys, and the busy hum of machin- '■ry broke the solitude that had so long reigned in Appalachia. Land owners suffering with probverbial land-poverty suddenly found themselves rich without an effort, and speculators, buying on the top of a rising market, made fortunes by the rctardicss and never-ceasing advance in values. As the storehouse of exhaustless min eral resources, its uninterrupted prosperi ty, asserts the Index-Appeal, is assured indefinitely, The supply of coal and hem atites and fossil ores in close proximity to each other, uud the easy access which the section has to magnetites so slow in phos phorus us to be adapted to the manufac ture of Bessemer steel, foreordain the Southwest as a formidable rival of Penn sylvania iu the near future. Besides these, the largest zinc works in the South are in the Southwest at Pulaski, and tho largest lead works in the South are in Wythe county. Copper and manganese arc found in abundance, and we greatly mistake the enterprise of the age if the tariff does pot give an impulse to the mining of tin to be found all through those mountains. But the wealth of the Southwest, is not restricted to her mineral resources; nor have we in the foregoing enumerated ouc-half of these minerals. Blue grass is indigenous to this section, and the vast areas of superior grazing lands afford a source of wealth in cattle-raising no less inexliaustahlc than her mineral resources, and not second to them in value. To the industrious and thrifty man with a little capital here is a fortune in the nat ural increase of stock if managed with discretion and energy. Every new city and every new furnace in the Southwest adds to the profit of farming and stock- raising iu that section, and to this is the further possibility that every man's farm may hold a fortune for him beneath its surface. The pen sketch of the Index-Appeal is not exaggerated. To the people of Nor folk, the development of the Southwest is a source of intense satisfaction, for aside from the ties of friendship which hind them strongly together, they recog nize that the growth and prosperity of Southwest Virginia must tend to the growth and development of Virginia's great seaport.—Norfolk Virginian. woolfolIT hanged. After Three Years of Technical De lays, Comes Justice. At Perry, Ga., Tom Woolfolk was hanged Wednesday afternoon for the murder on Aug. ‘fith, 1887, of ('apt. Bichard F. Woolfolk, Sr., his wife, Mat- tie Woolfolk, their children, Richard F., Jr., aged 20; Susan Pearl, 17; Annie, 10; Rosebud, 7; Charlie, 5; Mattie, 18 months, and Mrs. Temple West, 84; all were killed by blows on the head with an axe. Not a blow was struck except on the heads of the victims, and they were found in their night garments where they were struck down, and blood and brains from the crushed skulls had run out until the room was a sea of gore. A short handle axe with blood and hair whs found in the hallway of the house. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Woolfolk and their infant lay iu the same bed, and across the three corpses, the body of the eldest daughter, u recent graduate of Wesleyan College, had been thrown. In other rooms the bodies of the other vic tims were found, and evidences of a ter rible struggle were to be seen. Thos. G. Woolfolk, the only surviving member of the family was arrested. He protested his innocence. When brought mto the room where the bodies lay, lic- exhihited no surprise. Woolfolk nar rowly escaped lynching. The coroner’s jury held Woolfolk nccouutable for the crime. Blood was fouud on his body and ou his underclothing. The garments he had worn on the day of the murder were found soaked in blood iuun old well. Woolfolk's trial lasted ten days. An sttompt was made to show that the crime was committed by a negro desperado, but the jury fouud Woolfolk guilty after lie iug out twenty minutes. Woolfolk wiis sentenced to be hanged ou February 10, 188, but the Supreme Court of the State granted him a new trial. After mauy impediments had been overcome, Woolfolk was sentenced to b< hanged August 16, 1889, but, legal tech nicalities were again interposed. On October 1, 1889 he was re-sentenced to lie hanged OctolxT 29, 1890. Woolfolk’s motive for the crime was r. desire to obtain possession of his father's property, which he feared would go to his father's second wife uad her children. An Heireaa Marries a Coachman. Binomamiton, Ky., Nov. 4.—Misa Lizzie Phelps, a society belle, who lives near this rlty, was married Wednesday to William Slattery tho family coachman. Miss Phelps, who is one of the throe sis ters is alwnt 27 years old, Is a niece of tto late Judge Sherman I). Phelps, and is worth $100,000. 75 LIVES LOST AT SEA. A Spanish Steamer Sunk Off Bam- gat by a Schooner. Only Throe Officers and Eight of One Crew Saved, and No Trace of tho Other Vessel, Containing 60 or 70 Persons. Nr.w York, Nov. 4.—On the arrival of the steamer Humboldt here from Brazil she reports that she picked up sonic of the crew of the Spanish steamer Vizcaya, which left New York the day before and which was sunk off Barncgat by an un known vessel, a schooner with which she was in collision only one day out from New York. The Humboldt reports that the schoon er was also sunk, but nothing is known of her captain and crew. The Tlumboldt rescued three officers and eight of the crew of the steamer, and it is supposed that the rest of the crew and the passen gers, some sixty or seventy persons, were lost. The Humboldt sighted the wreck of the Vizcaya early in the morning. Sev eral persons were clinging to the rigging. The chief officer, second officer, engineer, surgeon and eight of the crew were res cued. They say that the collision oc curred at night, and that both vessels sank a few moments after striking. The captain of the steamer was lost, as were also the four passengers and a part of the crew, 61 persons in all. The passengers were a Cuban millionaire, his wife and two children. Nothing has been heard of the captain and crew of the schooner, and it is sup posed that they wore all lost. The steam er Vizcaya belonged to the Spanish line plying between New York and Havana. O. T. Cunhill was the name of her cap tain. Of the schooner’s crew it is thought that all were lost but five, who got off in the schooner’s boat, so that the total num ber drowued mav 1)« over 75. BEAUTIFUL BANNERS. The South Carolina and Georgia Ban ners for the W. C. T. U. Convention. On the 14th of November, 1890, will bo held at Atlanta, Ga., the National Con vention of the Women’s Christian Tem perance Union, which will be attended by delegates not only from the United States but from Canada, England, Germany, France and other countries of Europe. The Union was invited to meet in Atlan ta by the Governor, Legislature, editors of the press and the citizens generally, and it is expected that at least five hun dred representatives will be in attendance. Each State will be represented by its own delegation, bringing a suitable and em blematic banner with appropriate mottoes. Those for South Carolina and Georgia are the handiwork of Miss Lizzie Chapin, of Charleston, S. C., and show exquisite taste and skill. With her it has been a la bor of love (by direct inher- itauce) to work in this glorious cause. The South Carolina banner is made of the finest and heaviest blue silk, about four by three feet in size, surrounded by a deep gold fringe. Upon it is beautifully paint ed the palmetto. Above it in gold letters arc the words: “South Carolina W. C. T. U.,” and below it the motto: “Dum spiro spero, 1882.” The flower emblem is the jasmine, indicating the sentiment: “We cover gnarled and scarred trunks with our foliage, and shed beauty and perfume in lonely and desolate places.” The banner of the Georgia Society is about the same size as that of South Caro lina. It is made of heavy white satin, up on which is painted the coat of arms of the State, surmounted by the letters W. C. T. U. of Georgia, in gold, and the motto: “Suavitcr in modo fortitcr, in rc, 1882.” Upoi] one side clambers the Cherokee rose w ith its thorns, signifying “Prohibition,” on the other the cotton plant, Georgia's great staple. An Alpena (Mich.) woman wheeled her dead baby to a photographer’s, car ried thfl body up-eMiia and had its pio- North Carolina Native Grasses. The flora of North Carolina includes about 130 species of grasses. Among these there are several perennial grasses of a very promising character. Tire botanist of tho Experiment Station has recently made a collection of seeds ami roots of the grasses growing in the eastern section of (ire State ami also secured samples of their forage sufficient for chemical analysis. These seeds and roots w'i 1 be planted ou the Ex periment Farm, and we hope by cultiva tion and careful selection to so improve the quality of some of them as to make them worthy of a place in the best meadows and past ures. The'Experiment Station is always glad to receive specimens of promising native grasses and to furnish information con cerning their value. The grass questions is a very important one to North Carolina fanners. The Station has been experi menting with grasses for sonic years, and is now prepared to suggest information concerning tire best cultivated grasses, and to indicate what species are must suit able for particular soils. Farmers will be thereby saved from the loss which may be caused by planting certain species upon unsuitable soils.—G>;viM McCarthy, N. C. Erperimcnt Station. A Camel’s Reservoir. Admiral D. D. Porter, who once went to North Africa to secure camels for in troduction into America, gives some in teresting points about tho value of those ugly but useful animals. He says: “In their campaigns against Algiers the French were surprised to see their camels although reduced to skeletons, making forcer! marches with their loads. Mules in their condition could not have carried even their saddles. “A camel's flesh Is us good as beef. You can hardly tell one meat from the other. Camel's milk is very good, as I can testify, because I used it in my cof fee. “A camel generally drinks once in three days, and, besides his four stomachs, he carries a sort of reservoir in which ho Stores water. I have been told that even ten days after the death of a camel this reservoir can be opened an( j ten or fifteen pints of clear, drinkable water taken from it." Holland's King Deposed. A cablegram from The Hague, says: The Netherlands parliament by a vote of 199 to 5 declared King William QI, of Holland to he iiv pable of longer exer cising the governing power. The rate ot mortality in England ror the year 1888 was one passenger killed In 6,9-19,336 and one passenger injured 4«W>VW>22p,U24 carried. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Development for One Week Only. The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tradesman in its weekly report of the industrial devel opment of the South for the week, reports 39 new industries, 5 new banks, 5 rail road companies, 3 electric lines and 4 street railways. Among tiie lending in dustries organized during the week, as re ported to the Tradesman, are the follow ing: A development company at Florence, Ala., with a paid up capital of $500,000; i eold storage company at Roanoke, Va., wilha capital of $50,000; development <_ at Tallahassee, Fla., with a cap ital of $50,000; a large brewery, cold stor- age and ice manufacturing company has I" on organized at Middlcsborough, Ky., with a capital of $300,000. A distillery " ill be erected nt Greenville, Ala., and brick and terracotta works at Staunton, Va.; also brick works at Jasper, Tenn.; a cnuuiug factory will be established at Sa vannah, Ga.; car works, with a capital of $500,000, will be erected at Beaumont, Tex.; a large cotton factory, with a capi tal of $150,000, will be erected at M in- ston, N. C., and one will also be erected o Guyton, Ga.; a cotton gin will lie • veted at Starke, Fla., and a large eleva tor company will erect elevators at Mem phis, Tenn.; an electric light plant will In 1 established at Baton Rouge, La.; foun dry and machine simps, with a capital of $300,000, will he erected at Radford, Va.; large engine works will be built at Roan oke, Va.; furnaces will be erected at Rusk, Tex., and Grand Rivers, Ky.; iron and pipe works, with a capital of $100,- 000, will bo erected at Bessemer, Ala.; one will also be erected at Pell City, Ala. Mines will be opened by companies at Chattanooga, Tenn., Mcadesvillc, S. C\, Covington, Ky., Ccdarvillo, Gn., and Nottingham, AJa. A company lias been organized to develop oil wells at Wheel ing, W. Va.; large saw mill will be erect ed at Greenwood, Miss.; and shoe factories at Jasper, Tenn., and Piedmont, Ala.; spool and shuttle factory will be erected at Cleveland, Tenn.; a large company has been incorporated and will erect a tobac co factory at Petersburg, Va.; tho Beaver Tube Co., with a capital of one million, has been incorporated at Wheeling, W. Va.; woodworking plants will be estab lished at Luray, Va., Luvernc, Ala., and Vicksburg, Miss. Large store buildings will be erected at Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas; a hotel to cost $50,000 will be erected at Warren- ton, Va., and one to cost $160,000 will he erected at Staunton, Va. Bunks have been incorporated at Dar- danelle, Ark.; Savannah, Ga.; Florence, 8. C.; Bristol and Johnson City, Tenn. Charters for railroads were applied for from Summerville, Texas, to Georgetown, Texas. A company has been organized at Wytheville, Va., to build the Virginia A- Kentucky Railroad, and a company at Knoxville, Tenn., will construct a num ber of new lines. Charter for a company has been asked for at l ittle Rock, Ark., to build a road from Magnolia, Ark., to an excellent pinery,* the capital being $250,000. Electric railways will he built at Beaumont, Texas; Knoxville, Tenn., and Macon, Ga. Street railways will tie built at Lynchburg, Va.; Austin, Texas; Cedartowu, Ga., and Opelika, Ala. SELECT SIFTINGS. Tho Invcntress of Lacc. In the churchyard of Aunaberg, near an old lime tree, there is carved iu relief upon a chaste marble tombstone an angel placing a crown upon a woman’s head, while beneath is inscribed: . ‘ Hero Vie’ BARBARA' TJ'i’TMAN, ‘hej’; :14th of January, 1575, whoso inventiou; ;of luco In the year 1531 made her the: ibenefactress of the Hart/. Mountains. ; ; An active mind, a skillful hand, ; ;Brings blessings down on tho Father-: I land. $ This Barbara Uttman, who introduced pillow lace into Germany, was bom in tho year 1514 iu the small town of Elter- dan, which derives its name from her family. Her parents, burghers of Nurem berg, had removed to the Saxon Havtr, Mountains for tho purpose of working some mines. Hero Barbara Etlerdan married a rich master miner named Christopher Uttman, of Annubcrg. Tho Protestant tradition says that Barbara Uttman “learned” lace making from a native of Brabant, whom the cruelties of the Duke of Alva had driven from his country. But as the Duke of Alva did not go to the Netherlands until 1567,and as Barbara Uttman was teaching lace at her school in 1561, this report must bo taken out of the domain ot fact. At all events while wo know that Barbara Utt man did not invent lace, since it ante dates any record wo have and is as old as the hills, one might say, to her we must give the boner of not only introducing pillow lace into Germany but of improv ing, renewing and fashioning new stitches and making new combinations— uniting with a fresh beauty the compos ite laces of other countries.—JVcia lorl; Herald, A Wonderful Mountain. Almost in the geographical eeater of Wyoming is a mountain of solid hematite iron ore, with 600 foot of it above ground, more than a mile wide, and over two miles in length. Besides tho iron, tiie mountain contains a lied of lignite coal large euouglr to warm tiie entire world for a century, a dozen dried up lakes of soda, where the soda is deposited to a depth of over 300 feet, some of tlsj lakes being over 600 acres iu extent. In a mountain adjoining there is a petroleum basin larger than those of 1’cunsyivauia and West Virginia combined. Out ot some of the springs pure rectified coal oil is trickling at the rate of twenty to thirty barrels per dav. A wonderful country, indeed.—Chiciyo Tinas. A New Town on Paper. Pktehkiii’iio, Va.. Nov. 3. -A syndi cate of capitalists from Washington" D. C., Roanoke and Petersburg, represent ing a capital of over one million dollars, has purchased several hundred acres of laud in Chesterfield county, just across tiie river from Petersburg, and will build a new town. A good dtsd of this land is on the river flats, where mills and factories of all kinds are to he erected. Tiie new town will connected with Pe tersburg by a handsome bridge over the Appomattox river, and a line of electri cal cars. A new kind of lance has been infix* duced into the German cavalry regi ments. Its peculiarity lies in the factl tint it is constructed wholly of etool, tho necessary lightness being secured by makiuttthe shatt hollow. Women are longer lived than men. Major Andre was executed October 2, 1780. Iu cities moro female than male chil dren are born. An average reader gets through 400 words a minute. I» India 21,000 persons and 53,000 -.-rTtl# «ro killed annually by snakes and •rib* ieasts. Sixty voyages around Cape Horn is the remarkable record of Captain Holmes, of Mystic, Conn. In Buenos Ayres the police alone have tho right of whistling on tire streets. Any other person whistling is at once ar rested. The side-arms used liy infantry, and called the bayonets, are thus denominated because they were first made at Bayonne, iu France: In 1686 any one absent from church on Sunday was lined one shilling. An act for restraining amusements ou Sunday was passed in 1625. The CaUforniaquail is said to be larger than tiie common pigeon, of a dark shite color with white stripes under the eyes and one the length of the back. The male bird is ornamented with a topknot. His royal highness the Prince of Wales is a direct descendant of King Alfred, being the thirty-third great-grandson. Thu. the English throne has remained in the same family for over ouo thousand years. Acadia, the name of the region now included in tiie provinces of Nova Scotia and Now Brunswick, had been settled by the France about one hundred years when the English conquered it iu 1710, during (jueca Anne's war. It was not until 1784 that the perma nent settlement and occupancy of Upper Canada began. In that year about tea thousand persons were placed along the northern shores of the River St. Law rence, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. A fruit farm in Palatka, Fla. f sells for a nickel all the cocoanuts that a person can take away in his pockets. Several, who thought they saw a good thing in this, tried it and lost their nickel. Tho nuts had the shells on, and would not go in any pocket. Years ago iu Japan there was a coin called tho monseng, which was worth only about one two-hundred and twenty- fourths of a penny. It was an iron piece. In England we have had a piece worth uo more than a quarter of a farthing, and a very pretty piece it is. A piece of one- tiiird of a farthing was also minted iu tho reign of George IV. and William IV. If in good condition it is now worth is shilling as a curiosity. Congressman Allen’s One Lie. This is Private John Allen’s latest; cloak room story: “You know I never told but one lie iu. my life,” said tho Mississippi Congress- 1 ' man. “That cured me. It was back im 1S62, a day or two after tho second bat-i tie of Manassas. I was a small, bare footed soldier boy, about fifteen years old, marching with Lee’s army toward Maryland. My feet became so sore from irarching over the rocks that I had to fall out of line, and became separated from my command, and consequently from all commissary stores ou which I could draw. The country had been so often raided by both armies that it was difficult to get anything to eat. I was very hungry,and thought I should starve, when I suddenly spied a house away from tiie road which -a'Ciuod to have been missed by the sol diers. Tbu family was just sitting down to a good dinner, and at my special re quest they invited me in. I do not re member ever to have enjoyed a dinner so much, and, not knowing when I could get anything more, I tried myself and ato a very big dinner. In fact, I took on shout three days’ rations. I left this house and had gone about half a mile; when 1 saw some nice-looking ladies going toward a hospital witli a covered; basket. I was sure they had something for the si< k soldiers, and while I did not feel that T could eat anything moro then, l thought I had better make soma pro- '.■jsious for the future, and that I might get something to take along in my haver sack. I was small for my age, and a i :ii her hard-looking specimen. You would never have supposed I would have devel oped into the specimen of manly beauty you now seo before you. I approached these kind-hearted ladies, and, putting on my hungriest uud most pitiful look, ■aid: “Ladies, can you tell mo where a poop soldier boy, who has not had a mouthful to eat for three days, can get something to keep him from starving. “You should have seen the look of sympathy ou their faces as they said) ‘We must not let this poor boy starve,} and opening tiieir baskets, in which thcy| had two pitchers of gruel, they begau to; feed me ou gruel out of a spoou. Now,; when I was a child they used to feed mo ou gruel when I was sick, and I disliked! it above all things eatable, but, haring told myr'kry about the hunger, I had toj cat it. .Tell, I novrf was so punished for u story as I vus by having to cat that gruel ou my ditner. But, I have often thought that maybe it was a fortunate thing for Oe. It broke mo Irom telling stories. ( have never told one since.”—e Fcji Vorl> Sun. Largest Bouse iu the World. Paris is noted, among other things, for the huge tenements iu which the working classes are huddled together and whloli are popularly styled barracks; but not one ot them attains the gigantic dimen sions of “Frihaus," situated in Wiedcii, a suburb of Vienna. Thisiinmtnse block hastbirtceu court yards uud thirty one staircases. It contains 1500 rooms ; ud gives shelter to 2112 persons bclon; mg to all grades of society. A special post man is assigned to this building for tiie distribution of the letters, on which you have to be careful to put the Chris iau name uud surname of the addrcsrcc, tiie number of the yard, the stairs am. the apartment if you wish them to icaeli! icir destination.—Isjndon 7\l-Dits. Cuba Wants a Treaty. The State Department at Washington, D. (’.. lias received a copy of a petition recently forwarded by the tobacco grow ers and cigar manufacturers of Cuba to the Spanish government urging a rec.i- pi . l ily treaty betw^pn Cuba uud tho Lulled States.