Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE 7 (Property of . cJnc -Ua A nylon (Aountg (Historical So society DARLINGTON VOL. I DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1!), \m. NO. 10. The President of the Mormon Church himself admits that the dajs of polygamy are numbered. The Supreme Court of Minnesota is re ported to have lately rendered a de cision declaring that “bank checks arc not cash, and do not possess legal value as money until cashed.” , The Xanufactureri’- Jtearri- claims dhat “the agricultural possibilities of the (South are greater than those of the bal- ance of the country all combined, based on the aggregate values and on actual profits to producers." | A Bostonunan who was determined <to get at the root of the matter has discov- ered, announces the Detroit Free Prm. that only one man in 800 ever had his umbrella stolen, and that only one in 1000 ever leaves one behind him any where. The average man only has six umbrellas in a life-time. In the suit brought by Merriam ft Co. against a number of publishers to keep them from publishing the Wobstcr'a Un abridged Dictionary of 1847, Justice Miller, of Bt. Louis, Mo., declared that as a copyright was granted only forforty- two years, the book belongs to the people iand not to those to whom the copyrigh. was granted. The Indianapolis (Ind.) Him a Horn. says: “An erratic old gentleman in New York recently went hence and left a largo fortune to bo expended in teach ing people to eat with their forks. Had he left one-half of the su n to provide something for them to practice on, his memory as a benefactor would have lasted longer.” A St. Louis man who has just returned from the mines of Mexico says that at least 100 Americans are murdered in the mountains every year, and as they are mostly laborers their disappearance cre ates no demand from their friends on this side for au official investigation. Ho further alleges that the possession of $10 in gold is enough to make au American « victim of the knife. Lawyer Simon Stevens says that when he sold the Mariposa grant for General Fremont the latter realised $1,237,500. He urged the General to put $600,000 into a trust fund. “Ho was at first in clined to listen to me, but Mrs. Fremont was full of ideas that it could be invested by him in speculation, where it would yield him untold millions, aud she car ried the day.” Great preparations are being made in Australia for the forthcoming Austra lasian Federation Convention, in which all the Australian colonies of Great Brit ain will be represented, and the meeting of which will be the first step toward a national organization that is intended to Include all those colonics in one power ful union represented in a federal par liament. iv M said that more tobacco and alco holic liquors were used during the last three months than ever before in this country. Such, at least, is the report ot the Internal Revenue Department, which shows, according to an estimate made by the New York JVshjs, an increase in rev enue from these articles for the months of July and August of over one million and three-quarter dollars, compared with the same period last year. In reference to alcohol, it may be remarked that there has been greater activity than usual in the manufacture of articles of which i' Is an ingredient. v 'While tea has taken the place of cot fee on the Ceylon plantations, there does not appear to be any likelihood, notes the Tmel-Demoernt, of a falling off, in the world’s production of the fragrant berry. Coffee plantations arc being cultivated in Central and South Ar.’ericaend in Mexico, while there are millions of acres in Brazil suitable for coffee which are not yet un der cultivation. The abolition of slave labor in that country and the establish ment of new political conditions are favor able to an expansion of industry; and fig ures which arc given by the Amerionn Oroeer show that while the Ceylon cof fee crop has fallen off, that of Brazil h increased over 100 per cent. What strikes the pilgrim from other lands (writes a Philadelphia Freu cor respondent) is the predominance of wo men in Boston. Women everywhere— in the restaurants, behind the lunch- counters, in the shops, in the offices, women seem to be doing nil the work. Foreigners from New York or Chicago, ignorant of the customs of the country, sometimes make an effort to lie pleasant with these young ladies. Th ■ result is always disastrous to the fo;v: ;uer. I was much amused at the attempt of one of these “foreigners," just m mtioned, to bestow a small fee upon one of these young women. She drew herself up with all the hauteur of family pride—for no doubt her name was Winthrop, or Adams, or Hancock, or Winslow—and then she remarked: “Excuse me, sir; we are liberally rewarded for our services by the corporate lessees of the place, and, conse quently, the offer of any gratuity is en tirely a supererogatory act.” Then, turning to small boy, she murmured: “Johnny, accept the gentleman's nickel. We keep him for that purpose, in ordet not to offend those who may he Unugcn tiu jJ&fttOD.? 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. Contracts for sixty buildings were awarded in Glasgow Thursday. Alfred Madison, of King William, was accidentally shot and killed a few days ago. A large dish factory is being built in Oourtland, Southampton county. The Lynchburg colored people arc mov ing actively toward building the proposed colored college in that city. It is reported that the late Mr. Lekies, of Norfolk, has left a bequest of $10,000 to Uandolph-Mucon College. The Seaboard Land and Investment Company, of Norfolk, lias been chartered with a capital of $100,000. The trustees of an estate left by a Con necticut lady to charitable institutions, proposes to donate $5,000 to the “Home for the Sick" at Petersburg, provided an other $5,000 is raised by the citizens. Gen. M. La Rue Harrison, who died at his home near Ft. Myer, Va., last week, was, by date of commission, the oldest inspector of the Postoffice Department, having been placed in charge of money order inspections soon after the establish ment of the system. He commanded the First Arkansas Cavalry. Sale of 100 lots of the West-End Land Improvement Company took place Thurs day at Petersburg. The Virginia Steel, Iron and Slate Co. is the name of a corporation recently or- f anized to develop the mineral wealth of ,000 acres of land in and around How- ardsville, a station on the line of the James River division of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. There they propose to create a manufacturing center to be called Logan City. In connection with this site they are arranging the purchase of from 10,000 to 20,000 acres mineral and timber lands, containing valuable deposits of manganese, slate, marble, building stones, marketable days and other minerals. The capital stock is $2,000,000. NORTH CAROLINA. Gov. Fowle has accepted an invitation to preside at meetings in Philadelphia at which Dillon and O'Brien will make speeches. J. W. Hodges was appointed postmas ter at Ramboca. Fully 10,000 people flocked to Char lotte to see Barnum’s circus, which showed there last week. It was estimated the largest crowd in that city for years. Af ter showing in Danville, Va., the circus disbanded for the season. Evangelist Fife has just closed his meet ings at Mt. Holly, after wonderful suc cess, resulting in large numbers of con versions. About 40 joined the Methodist church, 40 the Presbyterian, 36 the Bap tist and 10 the Lutheran. The grading of the Egypt Railroad, a nine miles feeder of the Seaboard Air Line System in North Carolina, lias boon com pleted, and the rails are to he laid at once. This road is to extend from the Egypt coal mine to a point on the trunk line some three miles from the town of San ford, at which place the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Hoad crosses the Seaboard Air Line. The corner-stone laying of the new main building of Trinity College took place on the campus of the college’s new site at Durham, Nov. 11. The ceremo nies were under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina. A Masonic address was delivered by Hon. II. B. Vance, of Asheville, and au cdueation- al address was delivered by ex-Gov. Tims. J. Jarvis, of Greenville. SOUTH CAROLINA. The annual Conference of the M. E. Church, meets at Anderson on November 25 and continues in session until Decem ber 3. The next Convention of the 2d district of South Carolina of the Young Men’s Christian Convention will be held at George's Station, on the Soutli Carolina Railway, from November 21 to 23. Governor-elect Ben Tillman visited Augusta last week and before making his departure, the Captain visited the finest merenant tailor shop in the city and had a handsome suit ordered, which he will wear at the inaugural ceremonies. Ik ■ech Island, 8. 0., mar Augusta was again visited by a destructive fire Wed nesday morning. The gin house, ma chinery. twelve bales of cotton and eight hundred bushels of cotton seed of E. H. Atkinson were all consumed. The origin of the tire is unknown ami it could not have been ignited by sparks for the gin nery is operated by water power. At kinson’s loss amounis to about $3,000 and he only had $100 insurance ou the enlire building. Ceremonies of the completion of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad to Abbeville was given Thursday. A barbecue was served to live thousand people, ami speeches made by Sen. Butler, Judge Cothran, (‘apt. L. W. Perrin and Congressman Hemphill. At night a Imn- quet was served, and numerous .speeches made. On Friday night a grand ball wiis given, the town being gaily ly decorated. Among the prominent people present were Senator Butler. Con gressman Hemphill, Col. D. Cardwell, Mays Cleveland and others. At the annual iiiccting of the Columbia Club a night or two ago the following offi cers were elected: President. Dr. T. T. Moore; vice president, D. H. Crawford; secretary and treasurer, H. P. Green, Jr.; executive committee, |)r. W. C. Fisher, chairman, J. S. Dunn. Dr. Lewis <). Wood, J. II. Davis and F. Vanbenthuy- son. Only a small election row is reported from Cartersville in which one Lucas and Cooper Mims. Tillnmnites, and A. B. Haynie and 1). L. Smith, Ilaskellites par ticipated. Mims is severely hurt in the head. If pistols hail not failed to fire .Smith and Mims would have been killed. Uayiiic was cut in the side. ‘Bumpty Rat al hh Julius Williams, alias ties,” who recently distinguished himself by “robbing" a lady of her purse in Wentworth street, Charleston, died at the county jail in that city. Shortly af ter his incarceration lie became ill with pm umonia, and although he received the Ix'sl of medical attention, his end ciuiid •tiler considerable pain. TENNESSEE. Wm. Ragio, an Italian barber, shot and fatally wounded G. C. Terry, a prominent Nashville manufacturer, for not extending the debt he owed Mr. Terry. Frank Wilby, of Memphis, through his attorneys, Gantt <fc Patterson, filed suit in the Circuit Court to recover $20,000 dam ages from the Memphis & Charleston and the East Tennessee, Virginia ft Georgia Railroad Companies for injuries received while in the employ of that company as billing clerk. Gen. J. B. Palmer, of Murfreesboro, a gallant ex-Confederato soldier and bril liant lawyer, died very suddenly at his home a few days ago. A great shock to the community. A special train, consisting of seven sleepers, a coach and baggage car arrived in Chattanooga Friday, having aboard 150 railroad conductors and their families. They were on their return trip after an excursion through Georgia and Florida, they having left Chattanooga at the close of the convention at that city. They spent a few hours shaking hands with friends, and then the party broke up. Thos. Perkins, an inmate of the Nash ville asylum, killed George Rains, another inmate, the other morning, while they were quarreling over the possession of a piece of bread. Both were negroes and confined to the lunatic department. The Scqunchec Coal & Iron Co. is rap idly developing its new town of Scqua chec, Tenn. It is already recognized as a postoffice by the U. S. authorities, and several important industries to employ a large mimlitr of operatives have been lo rated and others are under negotiation. Those secured are the Sequachce Agricul tiirnl Works, capital stock $100,006, work ou buildings to commence at once; the Sequaeheo .Manufacturing Co., with the same capital stock, organized to manufac ture sewing machines and a large line of knitting machinery, has machinery on the ground undjlic factory will soon be com pleted ; a furniture factory, also capital ized at $100,000, to begin operations some time in December and employ from 100 to 125 men, and a planing mill now in course of erection. The development company is managed by Eastern parties, and inis a capital of $1,000,000. GEORGIA. The exports from Brunswick durin; the month of October amounted to nearlt $1,500,000. The Nortli Georgia conference of th* African Methodist Episcopal Church met in Cartersville, Bishop W. J. Gaines pre siding. The North Georgia and Alabama exposition began at Rome a few days ago. The agricultural display is splendid. The mineral exhibit ami manufacturing pro ducts arc extensive. Aside from tim ex hibits, the horse racing was magnificent. Macon will surely have a $1,000,000 car works within a very short time, says the Atlanta Constitution. About $50,000 of stock has been taken by workingmen of Macon. Thos. II. Morgan, of Greensboro, Is said to be the oldest printer iu the State. He lias finished serving 50 years at the case and still gets up a good “string.” The floral fair of the Atlanta Horticul tural Society was a gorgeous display of all kinds of chrysanthemums, etc. It was held in (he rotunda of the new State cap ita! from Thursday to Saturday, inclusive, and many of the cities of the State sent their beauteous prize flowers. Application will be made to the next legislature of Georgia for au act to amend the prohibition law of Hart county and provide a “system to establish an agent m the county of Hart for the purpose of selling liquor for medicinal purposes only, and for other purposes.” A colored boy was driving a wagon loaded with four bales of cotton from BhitTton to Bhikeiv and regaling himself by smoking cigarettes. The cotton caught fire, and the test of the tale is left for the reader to cipher out. “Speaker Crisp” is the toast of the Georgia newspaper. The county treasurer of Taylor county says that at the next term of Taylor su perior court the county will he out of debt, with a surplus of $4,000 in the treasury. Gwinnett, Clark and Oconee counties have each had a murder committed with in their limits during the last week. FLORIDA. Key West is overrun with peddlers. Lake City will soon have a hosiery fac tory. A very rich bed of phosphate has been discovered on the Bla< kwatcr river, about 0 miles from Sorrento on govern ment land. A Hi feel hole was sunk aud solid phosphate found. At the Pensacola quarantine station, last week, a shark that measured twelve leet in length was caught. The monster had seven rows of the teeth, and was es timated in weight at 700 pounds, lie had a ship’s bucket in his stomach. The town council of Lakeland has granted a franchise for the establishment of an electric light plant and iec factory at Hint place. There was a joint debate at the city hall in Tallahassee Saturday, in which all the speakers were colored. Jesse Deuuis, Ed. Roberts, Richard tiarl and O. W. Mc Call spoke for the democracy, and W. B. Carr. Boh Smith, J. W. Jefferson and William Pells for the republicans. There is every prospect of a heavy run of fish along the Florida coast throughout the coming fall. The cause that tends to this belief is the immense schools of mul let, Spanish mackerel, groupers, and bass, which at present are being met with along the Florida reefs. Florida fishermen say that the present run exceeds anything they have ever seen in summer mouths. An incorporation lias been formed iu England called the Florida Phosphate company (limited), with a capital of $1,- 000,000 and lands acquired in Polk, Hills- borough and ReSoto counties. The first operations will he commenced on section i, township 31, range 21, seven miles northwest of Ft. Meade. OTHER STATES. The report of the committee on levees of the Constitutional Convention of Mis sissippi has been adopted by that laxly, tmong the most important sections is ouc granting full power to the levee outhier!;:'-: to appropriate private property whenever aud wherever needed for their work, all damages to Um owners to lie settled by a board of m -i-s-mrut. J. 8. Richardson, of New Orleans, i> undoubtedly the largest cotton planter in this country. He owns 40,000 acres of fine alluvial land iu LouisDnu aud Missis sippi and cultivated 20,000 in cotton this year, much of which, it is claimed, will viclil two IiuIms to tlix ai.ro ttoaiitoa Ida planting air. Kicnnmson is tne neaa of a large wholesale house in New Orleans and largely interested in the cotton oil mill at Vicksburg and the faotory at Wesson, where two thousand operatives arc cm ployed. Ex-Gov. Edward A. O’Neal died at his home in Florence, Ala., Friday morning. (Jen. O'Neal served with distinction in the Army of Northern Virginia, and was wounded at the battle of Seven Pines. WHO VOTEsTIN LONDON. Householders, Landowners and Some Women Are Enfranchised. London's new government rests upon a franchise so popular that practically n body who would caio to vote is excluded,' says the Century. In the first place all householders arc enfranchised, and this includes every man who rents a place for his family, even if it be only a small room in the garret or the cellar of a tenement house. It also includes those who live within fifteen miles of the metropolis, but own or occupy inetro|K>litan quarters for any purpose worth a certain very limited rental. Owners of freehold property in London, no matter where they live, it British subjects, are entitled to vote. Widows and unmarried women who an householders, occupiers or owners of property are also authorized to vote foi county councilors. The principal basis of the franchise is the household, and the chief disqualified lions are receipt of public alms and fnilun to pay rates that have fallen due. An.' resident of the metropolis or vicinity who is entitled to vote is eligible to election. Furthermore, any British subject who owns land in London, or who is possessed of a limited awuuut of property, n mat ter wln.-re ne lives, may ha chosen a coun cillor of the county of London. The fact of residence in one district docs not dis qualify, either in law or in the popnlai judgment, for candidacy iu another dis trict. AN ALABAMA FEUD. AMONG THE ALLIANCES. What the Organization is Doing Throughout the Country. A Warehouse on Every Farm Advo cated By A Prominent Georgian at the La Grange Con vention. One Man Hilled and More Bloodshed Expected. A press dispatch from Birmingham. Ala., says: A feud which has been crew ing for some time near Crosswcll, St. Clair county, broke out Saturday in earn est. Two prominent families are involv ed, and many lives will probably be loot before it is ended, Fohso and Powell Hancock aud George Nurghoir had been gunning for each other for some time. Saturday morning Fonso Hancock fired two shots at Nargholr and missed him. Powell Hancock went to Narghoir’s house and they opened fire at each other. At the fourth shot Hancock fell dead. His luothor and friends are now hunting ifar- ghoir with the intention of shooting him down nt sight. Friends have also rallied around Narghoir, and a bloody fight is expected if the two parties come together. The principals in the affair arc proini- nent men in their neighborhood and have many friends. London Dock Laborers Angry. London, November 11.—-A scheme, sub mitted to the directors of the dock com panies, provides for the establishment of the piece-work system, to take the place of the agreement under which the men have been working for a year past and which has expired. The men generally do not. favor the new scheme aud much discontent exists among them. Although most of the men are working, (tending a decision on the directors’ proposition, it is feared the strike will lx> inaugurated any moment. Early this morning Messrs. Fillett ami Mann, lalxir lenders, visited the various dock gates aqd exhorted the men not to quit work. Their advice was followed iu must eioes and the men re sumed work, (hough in numerous in stances a sullen disposition was shown by the laborers. Eight hundred men em ployed on the Royal. Victoria and Albert dis ks refused to acquiesce in the decision of the leaders and went on strike. MURDER AT A WEDDING. One Italian Fatally Stabbed by An other in Glasgow. A cablegram from Glasgow, Scotland, says: A terrible murder occurred at a wed ding, when a young Italian named Law rence Lonni, a confectioner, was married to Margaret Powell. There was a party in the evening in celebration o{ the event, when a number of the Italiaus entered the house during the progress of the festivi ties and, although they had not been In vited, they refused to leave and were ejected by the other Italians and Scotch who were the invited guests. In the street one of the invaders, either Luigi Marco or Lurito Palembo, stablxxl Audro Luciano. Andro's wife witnessed the murder from the window of the house in which all the wedding guests were assem bled. She screamed as she saw her hus band fall and immediately fainted away. Another Italian was also dangerously stabbed in the ronflict. Luigi Marro was arrested and Ids hands were found to be covered with blood, but Lurito Palcmbc succeeded iu making bis escape. Three Children Drowned. A press dispatch says: Three ehildren of Hector Green, colored—a girl of fifteen years, a hoy of six and a baby—wera drowned near Wilmington. Green war removing his family to a boat, and when within twenty feet of destination the baby jumped from the arms of the girl. In at tempting to catch tiie baby the girl fell overboard, but caught hold of the boat Her father attempted tn eaten the child as it came to the surface, tn Ms ex cl to rrent he capsized the boat to ton feet of water, nod iiH three children Were drow ned. Owing to tlx: early hour thefe was nobody to oner usslstnnco. With Masonic Honor*. The rorner-stouo of the new Federal building at Greenville, B. O., vas laid Thursday with Masonic honors, Grand Master Divvcr and other prominent Ma sons being present. The silver trowel used by the Grand Master was used by | Gen. LuFayetto in 1H25 to lay the cornor- I stone of the DeKnlh momimeut at (Jam den, and was made for him for tint pur pose. It contains an inscription to that effect, and the hamlic in docomtod with a silk ribbon tied on bv Gen. LaFuyctte. In the evening a grand banquet was given by the Masons nt the Mansion House. They Killed Each Other. At Kingston, Tenn., John M. Wester, Jr., town marshal, was shot by James Ed wards, whom the marshal was trying to arrest, and \ .'ester in turn shot Edwards. Both men died in an hour from tltcil' wounds. The Alliance Exchange, Henrietta, Texas, is giving satisfaction. The F'arincrs’Alliance will build a large flouring mill at Graham, Texas. The Alliance store of Glascock county, Ga., is doing a flourishing business. West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylva nia, Michigan and New Mexico are the latest Alliance States. The Alliance is educating the masses, which makes the politicians tremble with fear.—Lasso. Hon. R. II. Jackson, the first presi dent of the Georgia State Alliance, will represent Heard county in the next House of Representatives. The Alliances in Brown county are bulking their cotton at Brownwood, and when they can’t get satisfactory bids, ship it to Galveston, says the Southern Mercury. The AUmbm estl.m yard at Austin, uador (he management of S. C. Gem n- berg, is kept busy, and is the means of bringing much cotton to the city.—South ern Mercury. Houston county, (Ga.) Alliance is op posed to speculating in farm product "futures,” and will appeal to the General Assembly to legislate on the evil, and al so repeal the crop lien law. Improvements have lx:cn made iu the Griffin, Ga., Alliance warehouse lately, and everybody about the establishment is happy. The office has been enlarged and also the sampre room, which facilitates the handling of cotton very matyially. The Haw-Creek Alliance, in Forsyth county, Ga., deserves special praise for the aid they extended to a worthy old lady and her two daughters who were about to ho evicted. The Alliance pro cured for them a more comfortable house and gave them provisions. T^e Farmers’ Alliance of Kansas, which now numbers over 145,000 members, have organized a mercantile department, and propose to handle their own grain and live stock. They have appointed agents who will handle their shipments in the markets of Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis, by which transaction the farmer will savo the commission which he usu ally pays the mifldle man.—Texas Labor Union. The State Farmers’ Alliance, of Flori da, in annual session at Monticcllo, has adopted the following resolution: liesoforsl. That this order is not wedded nor allied to any political party, and has no room <>!» its platform for partisan politics or partisan politicians. Florida’s representa tives in the National Legislature were also called upon to vote for u bill abolish ing the national banking system and sub stituting for it issues of legal tender treas ury notes. Also to support the sub-treas ury bill or something better. ****** Among the excellent things said nt the fanners’ convention, at LuUrangc, Ga., wc find the following in an address deliv ered by Mr. A. M. Walker: My word for it. the most urgent need pf the agricultural classes of the Smith is for each and every farmer to establish his own warehouse. This he cau and must do. First, by living within his means. Secondly, by diversifying his crops and raising everything on the farm as far as he can, that is neecssary for home con sumption, and make the farm self-sus taining by making one acre produce as ranch or mors than lie now gets from five acres, thereby reducing expenses and in creasing profits. Thirdly, by raising stock of all kinds. Goats, sheep, hogs, mules, horses sud cattle. I phicc these in the order of their value, as I consider it to the farmer. This wc can do by util izing ns pastures our lauds that are now tenanted out at nu annual loss and ex pense, to say nothing of the depreciation of these tenanted lands frem washing and want of proper management. If this policy were adopted and pursued our people would soon reach that degree of independence where they neither need nor desire aid from the federal govern ment, but could bold their cotton and other produce until prices suited them. I desire to impress the great importance of improving our live stock. It does not tost any more to raise a blooded horse, o» a cow that will yield from two to live pounds of butter, and six to ten gallons of milk per clay. Hum it does to raise common scrub. 1 regard the cow as the best paying investment in the country; especially so, with so many advantages in her favor. TRAGEDY AT A CIRCUS. The Manager Mangled by a Horse in Presence of the Czar. A cablegram from St. Petersburg says: In the course of a circus performance here, which was iitieuded by the Cznrand some members of the Imperial family, oneof the trained horses suddenly and viciously attacked M. Ginizelli. the mana ger of the oil CHS. The manager was knocked down, bitten, and trampled up. on by the maddened aniiiial, which, in full view of the audience, mangled him in a horrible manner. The IViir ami his par ty abruptly left the building. The audi ence stampeded, and the periorinaneewas terminated. A Shooting Affray. Lmi.F. Rock, Auk.. [ Special). Infor mation has been received at Republican headquarters of a row at Fine Bluff, at which a deputy sheriff shot a policeman. An indiscriminate exchange of shots be tween the Republicans ami Democrats followed, in which two other perlies were wounded. All is now quiet, with a fav orable OU*k- 'k for the ItepuhlicatlJ. Robbery of a Guono Agent. At Riverdalo, Ga., on Saturday night, John R. McCollough, agent for an Atlan ta guano house, was roboed of $1,0 11 in money and $7,IXM) in botes. He had them la a satchel in the room where he was sleeping. Burglars broke the lock and secured the booty. The satchel and notes were found laler, but no trace of tiie thieves. Yes, Cotton Is King. Tiie cotton crop, says tiie Memphis Ap peal, is tremendous, as the reports from the various exchanges demonstrate. There is some complaint as to quality, but there is every reason why the people should re joice. Memphis will be greatly benefited. OUR POPULATION. We Exceed Sixty-two Millions in Hie United States. W.vsiiiNoroN-, I). (’. |Special].—The Census Office shows the population of the United Slates as shown by the first count of persons and familh .exelu-ivcof white persons in the Indian Territory, Indians on reservations and in Alaska, to be ti2.- 480,540. These figures may be slightly changed by later and more exact compila tions, but such changes will not be ma terial. In 1880 the population was 50,155,783. The increase of the population in the ten years intervening was 12,321.757, ami the per cent, of increase was 21.57. In 1870 the population was stated as 38,558.371. ' th LEAVES. The leaves, so brilliant before they were yiust, How changed they seem when they cover our (Und! Silently fallen with pathos of tears, How like they are to the vanishing years! What precious, consoling thoughts they in spire. In hearts now as still as a broken lyre! Under the leaves and, though sadly laid there. With a trust as sweet as an infant's prayer. Under the leaves and the shadowing trees. Their requiem sung by tie: moaning breeze, Under the leaves and the moon’s tender light. Under th'* stars of the jewels l night. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. As in 1181), (few York stilt he els tie-list and is followed bv Fennsvlvaiiia. Ohio Under the leaves and the sim’s splendid ray, and Illinois have exchanged places. The population of Virginia is plaeeil at 1,<>J8,!M I, an increase of l.!ii,3)(i during the past ten years; that of North Car dina ise since 18S0 of arc two states ipulation dining 1,617,3-10, 217,5!»l). Vermont and Nevada that show a decrease in p the decade BUD McCOY ASSASSINATED. The Kentucky Desperado Killed— Struck by 18 Bullets. A telegram from Elkhorn, W. Va., say- : Bud McCoy, the leader of the notoriou McCoy gang, was killed near Tcnny Camp, Logan county, Va., on the Ohii extension of the Norfolk ft Western Rail road, Friday evening, by a man named Dempsey of the Hatfield gang. Eighteen bullets were found in his body. Oilier parties are supposed to have assisted in the killing. McCoy had collected coa siderable money from Contractor Tcnny- and was returning to liis home on Pete. Creek. Although an old grudge rathe- than plunder prompted the killing, tin- country is wild with excitement, and it i believed that Dempsey and his associate will be found and the death of Met o_ avenged. McCoy is known to have Idileu eight men, but he lias always escaped punishment. Engraving by Gunpowder. Shooting a candle through a two incr, roli-i planie without disturbing it in the least is being outdone by dynamite, which is so quick iu its action that a tender green leaf can be compressed in to tho hardest steel before it lias time to flatten. One of the experiments of the United States torpedo works was to place some leaves between two heavy, fiat pieces of iron, set them on a firm founda tion and see what gun-cotton would do in forcing the iron pieces together. I he reaction was so great from just being ex ploded iu the open air that one of the iron pieces was driven down upon the other quick/ enough. to (--itch an exact and complete Impression of the leaves before they could escape. It is also a singular fact that the gun-cotton should sink deep into the iron when it exp’, aits, showing tile points of the leltei -. stamped into the cartridges. This novel nu-t tiod of engraving by gunpowder ,s one cf tne wonders of this century.—-luo 1 efatimoi. Betligorent Councilman. City Countilmcn A. B. (Juigon and A. J. Phillips, of Richmond, Va., were ar rested Tuesday morning upon a charge of being about to commit a breach of peace by lighting a duel or otherwise. Justice Cratiilicld, after hearing the testimony, dismissed the case. The parties had a hot altercation in the council chamber in tiie morning, whieii was resumed on tlu street, when the lie was passed. Two Presbyterian Evangelists for Ga The Presbyterian church, of Georgia, has two eminent and aide evangelists in the Stale field now. Be-ides Rev. Dr. Mack, who was elected last spring. Rev. Dr. Bachman, of Tennessee, has leeently been elected, and has consented to accept tho offer. Prophetic sign of eternal day, Under the leaves and the dear summer flow ers, Fragrant with memory of happy hours. Beneath the autumnal and storm-swept sky, Yet peacefully resting where pansies lie, Under the leaves and the white, vestal snow. Emblems of pureness the angels know. i Under the leaves and tho blossoms of spring, There awaiting our risen King, I Under the leaves and the sweet song of birds, ! Can love bo lost that was deeper than words? O'er the sad, dead leaves, oh, do not grieve long, I But breathe a prayer that shall blend into song; For under tho leaves, though tho mortal lie, How grand is the soul on high! There, through eternity's cycles untold. The lovo that was true shall never grow cold, And there, at last, by the beautiful stream. May our love and life be like a sweet dream. —T/ie Interior. HUMOR OF TIIE DAY. Virrini” Joking Coal in Southwest One of flu-finest veinso. lokilig coa 1 vet di .covered lias recently licc.i found in Southwest Virgil.i.i. measuring twenty two feet iu thickness, with two feet oi date. It belong* to the celebrated Flat i’op or Tocahontns ficid, wiiieit lias been loped in tin la-t C. V .11'. partially d Russia’s Persecution of tho Jews. A cablegram from St. Petersburg says: Geueral Gro.-sser lias issued orders t. the police, comma.idiog ligidadhereiue to the letter of the anti-Jewish law, and saying that they must comp. ! lamilic o! Jews expelled from the Em|.ue, or trails ferred from one part of it to another, to accompany them. Austin Corbin’s Boar CoTiny. Austin Corbin, ex President of tiie Reading Railroad Company, has imported a number of wild boars and sows from the Black Forest of Germany and turned them out to pasture iu ids own forest of i y ou 21,000 notes iu New Hampshire, where * be has had such wild iramo to hunt as , caribou, elk, mcose and deer, but uoth- Noah’s arc—The rainbow. Each addition to one’s kindred is a relative gain. A fiery temper gives adverse criticism a warm reception. The cat has nine lives, and spends them all in vocal culture. One way of getting along in this world is to walk.—Detroit Free Vress. There wasn’t enougli of the Swiss revo lution to go round.—L’tttshurg Chronicle- Ttlejr.iph. The crab may not be as good eating as the lobster, but it does very well ou a pinch.—Elmira Unxette. Ted—“Fm going to run him a race for Dolly’s hand.” Ned—“Then it will be a sack race for one of you.”—The Week's Sport. She—“Why doesn’t Mr. Mullins go out into society more?” He—-‘Because society is always out itself wheu Mullins begins calling.” “Well,” said the baseball captain, “our cake is all dough?” “How do you account for it?" “Wc haven’t a good batter. ”—Mansey's Weekly. Fred—“What is the matter? You look positively ill.” Tom—“Negatively ill, you mean, isn’t it? My best girl has said no to m —Munieg's Weekly. The oldest inhabitant is an interesting personage; but lie doesn’t make half as much noise iu ids iunne Hate locality as Hie youngest inhabitant does.—I'nck. Tho man who thinks ho knows it all Upon his noso may take n fall: Bat he who sometimes isia doubt. May liilT that weakness helps him out. —Peck. Politeness generally pays. A gentle man who gave up his seat to a lady un an elevated train, afterward found out that she had been robbed while occupy ing it.—Puck. We are rather at a loss to know why sunlight is so ofteu described as “gold en.” The “silver” moon is accounted for by coming in quarters aud halves.— JJerkshirc Ncirs. “How long has your daughter been practicing ou the piano?” “To he exact she began one month before our neigh bor went crazy, ain't he's been iu the asylum a year.”—Figaro. The Obliging Peddler—“If you don’t stop talking to me about your wares I will whistle for my dog.” “1 have some most excellent whistles, sir; just try one j or these.”—Flieyendc Lilaettcr. Jones—“I don’t think you ought to go around saying that Robinson is tho 1 biggest cowardalive.” Brown—“Why, he shows in everyway he’s afraid of me.” Joues—“So? Well, your justifiable.” ; Landlady—“Mr. McGinnis, may I ask ! what you are trying to find in that cream pitcher?” Boarder—“i am trying, Mrs. Irons, to rescue an unfortunate il vf rom a watery grave.”—Chicago Tribune. Grocer—“What’s that about thcdozei ! eggs you bought this morning?" Browr —“They were all bad except one, and | I’ve called to see how much extra 1 owe ! for the good one.”—At to Fork Sun. Willie took bis father A mill at Alpena, Mich., makes good manillu paper from pulp of tamarack. An Iowa court hits decided that a meteor belongs to the person on whose land it falls. Montana claims to have the largest and. finest jasper quarries in tho world, re cently discovered. A new gun iias boon perfected by Signor Guidolli, of Lucca, which will fire sixty- four shots a minute. For every fifteen yards we descend into Urn earth the temperature increases about ieu degrees Fahrenheit. Tho fastest ship in tho French nav w eow bus a speed of 12.68 knots per iwur without engine straiu. An Italian savant claims that in- ipcting a current of electricity through ?dlk delays its souring for several days. A new system of ventilation, never be fore used on ocean steamships, is to be a factor of the two new vessels now being constructed for the transatlantic service of the Cunard Line. A rich bed of coal has been discovered in the Russian Araoor province of Siberia, on Usuri River. The quality of the de posit is said to be equal to that of tho best English product. It is tho opinion of noted specialists on diseases of the nose, throat and lungs that one baby in every three has a growth in the nose that obstructs respiratiou. It . is due to covering up the head. One of the steel saws at tho Washing- I ton Gun Foundry recently cut through a i piece of guu-carriago metal four inches iu widtli by five inches in thickness in twenty minutes. The saw is of English ; make. Two chemists are experimenting at Freeport, Peuu., with the view of pro- dueiug carbon points for electric lighting from natural gas. It is said that by burning the gas in a specially prepared! furnace pure carbon is obtained, but as fc'. at a cost too great for practical pur*i pose*. A twenty-two-iuch iron pipe which was recently exhumed after being buried, iu the earth tor fourteen years, at Lassen,- Cal., cmne out as good as new. Tha pipe was coated with asphaltum when it- was put into tho ground. This may be taken as a good test of the preservative virtues of asphaltum. An old sea captain's argument is re-, called at the completion of the race be tween the steamships City of New York and Teutonic. His was the view that the City of New Y’ork would win the eastward passage and the Teutonic the westward, because the vessels are evenly matched, and one is better adapted to English aud the other to American The Buffalo (N. Y.) fire deportment has lately received a novel fire engine which has excited much interest in that city. The earriugo is constructed en tirely of papier inache, all tho different parts o? the body, wheels, poles aud tho rest being finished in the hist possible manner. While the durability and powers of resistance possessed by this 1 mao-rial are fully as great as those of woo l the weight is, of course, much i less. i A new machine has been designed for the excavation of sewer trenches. Tho , niatcrial iu this system of excavation is ! handled but once, and the operation is continuous, a liuo of loaded buckets I pacing out and a line of empty ones ro- ; nirning to be filled at the same time, i Ordinary excavating machines require lli” empty buckets to be returned over the same line over which the fail ones are sent out, and it is claimed that for this reason the new machine cau work more rapidly aud cheaply. The six-inch ordnance rifle which suc- J.-d in demolishing the British armor plate at Annapolis is capable of hurling a projectile through 10 j inches of wrought i iron placed 1000 yards from the muzzle of the gun. The power of the eight- inch guu is 16 3-10 inches, same dis tance, and of the ten-inch guu twenty- one inches, same distance. The twelve- inch projectile will pierce twenty-eight inches at a distance of 3000 yards. Tim thirteen-inch guns, which will be (no il for the battle ships, are capable o' razor an 1 his shaving cup To shave hims-.-if la.-t w The doctor charged a tiv -. ga he. op In little Wiili :’s cheek. emavke 1 ibcseweltlit JIT. VCK FOIiF.ST WTI.n l!OAIt. lug to test the- metal of the hunter. The m-mber of Mr. Corbin’s boar colony that depicted herewith is not full grown, ic stands 2 feet high in front and IS nehes iu the rear. He is 3 feet long. His bristles stand out on ids body like quills. Their color is a mixture of dirty yellow and dark brown. Tim eyes are large mid dark brown, and the snout is as black ns coal. This i tim llrsl iittempf to introduce the wild boars of Germany into this country, nnd is undertaken in tiie spirit of a .sp.irtsmnn who, now that Hie pautin-r has beennio scarce and the bear almost extinct in Urn America a forests, (busts for game that will he worth the hunting. Workmen have M-ilicd to a dcoth of nearly one thousand o-m iomdr.-d lectio.- water at Calvary C >t>r,c, \Yis., ami have uot yet becu rewardod. “Humph,” remark*; 1 a young man, “my cigar has gone out.” ‘-Weil, that settles it,” replied his room unto. “I was womb ring which ot us it be, myself or the cigar.’—Washington Poet. “This bell," said a well meaning sex ton, wheu showingthe iii-liry of an in (creating village clnireU to a party of visitors, “is only rang in ease of a visit from the lord bishop of the diocese, a lire, n Hood, or any other such calami ties, 1 '- London Figaro. Travers—“How much arc tlu-so trousers!’ Tailor—“Twenty dollars sir.” 1'raver:—“A.id you say you re quire a deposit from strangers!” Tailor —“Yes, sir." Travers (warmly)—“Al ready 1 ft el myself growing intimato with you. 1 ’—AYw i'or!. San. Briggs— “I want to g-*. some soiled neckties.” A*i -:n hed t'l-irk—‘-Soiled neckties, N,| ? Soiled, did you say i” Briggs—To i*' what. W.icn you call upon a girl ft. it- times a week and she’s unking a e.azy quilt, yon will under stand thutaiu.au lias got lo Imv necktie* u* job-lot prices or suspend payment. — Clothier iiod F-:, eieo'e. vide demolishing the heaviest armor. Tiaile in Cast-Off Teeth. A medical statistician estimates tha? the citizens of the United States are car rying gold to the value of $500,1)00 iq Hie recesses of what ought to be their teeth. There are no people ou the fare of the globe who have such bad teeth nnd who speed so much money upon them as tho Aint-i iean*. No doubt tho habit ot hurried feeding and the wholesale con sumption of sweet dishes have assisted much toward this end. But is it not a mistake to suppos--, us says the mudiiid stati-tieian, that false teeth set in go‘d are buried when their owner shuffles oil this mortal coil? If this is the custom i". America, it is not so iu England, or w'.:;j I the numerous advertisements offering ta to buy old artificial teeth? The old te- tti are not bought to use again, as sums nervous people luncy, but simply for tat sake of the gold.—Popular Procider. A company of Russian and Belgian cap italists, with several million dollars capl- ta'i "id engage in cotton planting in Ccn- ! Hal Asia. Laiicin? Abscesses Without Fain. The pain caused by opening small a'a scesscs is almost always intense, for a few j moments at least, ami many people ua‘- urally shrink from the surgeon's kn'uo i and prefer to hear with the trouble-ocas visitations until they open themselves. Ik cannot lie generally known that by tlio use of a spray it is possible to so deaden sensibility over limited areas that sura i operations ns laming boils, enlarged glands, felons and the like can be dono almost, if not quite, painlessly. A spray | which is most effective is composed of ten |mr!s of chloroform, fifteen parts of sulpiiuric ctiici-ami one part of lueutb-d. This produces local iintesihesia iit ab'-.it 1 one minute, and the same lasts for l or live minutes.—Fall Liver (M-iau.j iut • old. There are fifteen millionaires in Hr* 8n: itt of the United States, the r.chest ; nt the n nil being Lcktiid Stanford, of - C.d liiriiin. In the House there are only four or five men who are rated a* worn: I a minion apicct A tortoise has been known to liVO the age id 107. ta