fProperltj of
3fhe C‘J::r!'ii''‘on County
3Cistor : ca! Society
DARUNGTON
VOL. I.
.5
DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1890.
NO. 20.
The New York Telegram laments that
'•‘in these days of smokeless powder and
email-calibre rifles, the militia of New
A orlc StAte are drilling and shooting
•with ft/blunderbuss which throws a pro
jectile, iinlf an inch in diameter.”
The curator of the Brooklyn (N. Y.)
institute told a reporter the other day
that one beautiful butterfly in the col
lection of the institute is rained
-$1000, that sum haring
oaid for • duplicate.
at
recently been
The Chicago SertM recalls the fact
•that not many years ago the abandoned
timber lands in Aroostook County,Maine,
away up near the British prorince, were
almost worthless for agricultural pur
poses. Later on Swedes and other in
dustrious foreigners mored in, and now,
declares the Herald. Aroostook County
is tho greatest potato-growing county in
New England.
SOUTHERN NEWS NOTES.
The Happenings of a Week Preserr-
ed and Chronicled.
Tb j Fields of Virginia, North Caroli-
aa, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia and Florida Care*
fullyJCultivated; Read
the Remits.
“Many New Yorkers, doubtless, have
’Leen puszled to account for the fact that
'we have an East and a North River, in-
Htead of an East and a West River,” ob
serves the New York Tribune. “The
â–  explanation is found in the circumstance
that the Hudson was originally called tho
North River to distinguish it from the
Delaware, which was popularly known as
the ‘South River’ among the early colon
ists. While the latter designation has
become obsolete, the former is still in
current use, although there is no reason
why this should be so. It is no harder
to say ‘Hudson’ than ‘North,’ and it is
certainly more beautiful and appro
priate.^
Thg Chicago Herald wonders what is
^htre about the figures five feet eight
inches that is so attractive to policemen?
Did you ever notice, it asks, the descrip
tion of a drowned man who was not just
that tali? Maybe you have, but just no
tice and see if the vast majority of them
do not conform to that rule, and also are
reported ns wearing congress gaiters.
Whether men measuring five feet eight
.inches high and wearing congress gaitera
are more prone to drowning than others,
so far as is known, has not been deter
mined, but it is an odd suggestion which
comes to the mind of man; who constant-
ly watch such cases.
The herd of buffaloes that the Govern
ment has preserved at the Yellowstone
National Park as almost the last speci
mens of the noble species have got loose
and wanaered away. News of their es
cape has been sent out in every direc
tion, and an expedition has started in
pursuit. But up to recent date nothing
had been heard as to their whereabouts
and their recovery ia doubtful. They
are likely to be picked off by settlers
and hunters, who can get almost a
fabulous price for their skins. As the
herd comprised the only known buffa
loes in a wild state their loss is a seri
ous one and their slaughter would al
most complete the extinction of a once
countless rac%
During a convereatloh due nay re
cently, Congressman Flower, of New
York city, casually remarked that he
represented the richest district, in the
country. “More than that,” said he,
“my district, the Twelfth, is richer than
any State in the Union except New York
and Pennsylvania. It is richer than Mss
sachussetts, or Illinois, or Ohio, or Cali
fornia.’^ Of course, says the New York
Ptar. Mr. Flower’s little observation set
everybody to discussing, and it was ac
knowledged to be true. The Twelfth
Congressional District extends from East
Fortieth street to East Eighty-sixth st reet
and from the East River to Seventh ave-
- IrBC. I" 'ive the Vanderbilts, the
RockfeUerfi^-Iay Gould, Russell Sage, D.
O. Mills, and, in fact, almost all the very
rich persons in the city except the As-
tors, who live in the Eleventh Assembly
District. The united possessions of the.
residents of the Twelfth Congressional
District must be more than $4,000,000,-
000. Illinois is valued at about $3,000, -
000,000, and Ohio and Massachusetts at
a billion and a half.
gays the New York Timet: There are
always difficulties io the selection of
judges at the fairs. An exhibitor, of
course, is disqualified unless he has the
unselfish disregard of his own interests
to withdraw bis animals from competi
tion, which is too much to expect, in
view of the fact that his stock is show*
for business purpose*. A prominent
breeder is also excluded.because he is in
terested in the stock of his breding, and
few outsiders have the confidence of the
exhibitors because they lack the requisite
expert knowledge. The selection of pro
fessional judges who are properly com
pensated for their services an 1 have the
requisite knowledge would stem to re
move the difficulty, as they could act at
several fain in the same capacity and
would be quite diainterested. Thk
method has been found satisfactory at the
English exhibitions, and would doubtless
be so here. It would not, perhaps, pra-
vent disappointment on the part of some
of the exhibiton, who might be apt to
protest against the decisions, but that
difficulty might be met by the selection
of a jury of the exhibiton who should
decide any questions raised by a disap
pointed party on the basis of the scale
cf points. The matter is one of sufficient
importance to be met and disposed ol
4JL0* (or aU.
VIRGINIA.
More than $1,900,000 of outside capital
been invested in Norfolk during the past
month.
A vein of coal, thought to be of good
quality, has been discovered on the farm
of Richard Sweeney, in FaUqUiet.
Work has been commenced on tha
Morgan College (colored), in West
Lynchburg.
General Thomas A. Rosser is seribusly
ill at his home near Charlottesville.
Henry M. Meyer, proprietor of the
Palais Royal dry goods store, at Rich
mond made an assignment Wednesday.
Liabilities $70,000; assets unknown.
A blind man named Charles Ethridge
fell out of a second-story window of a
boarding house on Main street in Norfolk
while under the influence of liquor and
broke three of his ribs. He died.
It is rumored that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has purchased land*
in Lynnhaven bay for the purpose of
erecting extensive tesminal facilities on
them. EynnhaVeh bay is two hours
nearer Cape Charles than Norfolk, and by
running a ferry aeross from the cape to
the bay insteail of . Norfolk,, that much
time would be saved. The- CSarfestog,
Wilmington and Norfolk railroad, now
under construction, it is believed, will be
built by Pennsylvania road money.
A joint stock company has been started
to build a belt line railroad from Glasgow
to the Natural Bridge, Lexington, Buena
Vista, and other cities of Rockbridge,
back to Glasgow.
The Rivermost Land Company of
Lynchburg has resolved to give twenty
acres of land and $1,000,000 iu money
and non-assessible stock for a female col
lege.
Work was commenced on the new Ma
sonic Temple at Glasgow, jcj-Governo;
Lee throwing the first spade of dirt. Ma
jor A. R. Courtney, of Richmond, pres
ident of the Temple Association, was
master of ceremonies. A large numbci
of citizens, Masons and others, were
present. Great enthusiasm prevailed.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh and Durham are being con
nected with telephone wire*.
A stock company purchased one thous
and acres of land in and around.the new
town of Gordon, near Wilkesboro, Thurs
day. These land* will be divided up in
to lots, with a view of establishing a big
town in Wilkes.
The following postmasters in North
Carolina were appointed at Washington
Tuesday: J. Whrtty, at Jasper, Craven
County; 8. B. Koech, at Old Sparta,
Edgecombe county; 8. A. Clause, at
Smith Grove, Davie county.
The superintendent of the Silver Val
ley mines, in .Davidson county, reports
the finding of the richest deposit of silver
ore ever found in the south, a large vein
of carbonate of lead carrying 70 to 100
ounces of silver and 30 per cent, of lead
to a ton of the ore.
Mr. Franklin, a Methodist preacher of
Rowan county, was instantly killed Sun
day night while on his ,way to fill an ap
pointment, by a mule’s running away,
and throwing .him out of his buggy,
against a stump, which broke hi* neck.
A syndicate composed of Lynn, Ma s.,
and Kansas City capitalists, has secured
175,000 acre<of .land in ' Madison and
Yancey counties, which they propose to
develop at once. The land is heavily
timbered and contains mammoth deposits
of iron ore and some mica.
Governor Fowle appointed State Sena •
tors-elect H. C. Green and.Z. V. Walser
as members of the State Returning Board,
which meets at Raleigh, Nov. 27th, to-
canvass the election returns of the State.
The Governor of the State, Attorney-
General amt Secretary flf Jthq State are
also ex-officio members of the jlosp d.
While the ‘'white ribbon ttain,” com
posed of six Pullman cars, and rootain-
ing.135 or 140 delegates to the National
Convention of the W. C. T. U.. at Atlan
ta was stopping for a half hour in Char
lotte Thursday, in some way, one of the
Dumber discovered Mrs. Stonewall Jack
son’s residence, and in a few minutes the
whole party were at Mrt. Jackson's fence
or in the yard getting leaves or sprigs of
the bushes as souvenirs of Stonewall Jack-
son’s wife’* home. Several who had their
kodaks along took pictures of Mrs. Jack
son’s home, and a general request was
made to see her, but sfte was too unwell
to present herself.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A State fire insurance company is be-
Newberry railioads to the West Shore
Terminal were signed at Charleston, and
receiver Chamberlain, of the South Caro
lina railway, went to New York to close
up the business. Before leaving he took
occasion to say he did not believe that
the Louisville and Nashville road was be
hind the deal. He was rather of tho
opinion that the East Shore Terminal
would seek connection with the west via
Augusta or through the Chicago, Cincin-
natti and Charleston road.
TENNESSEE.
Knoxville has an ordinance requiring
the vaccination of all school children
which is rigidly enforced.
The S. A. & O. machine, shops at
Bristol, Tenn., with all their coDtenta,
were destroyed by fire Thursday night
Vice President Bates estimates the loss at
$10,000.
Hon. H. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, is
spoken of as the probable successor of
Secretary B. F. Tracy in the event of his
transfer to the Supreme Court. Mr. Evans
is Congressman from the third district,
ana it is claimed that very intimate rela
tions exist between him and the Chief Ex
ecutive.
Gov. Taylor commuted the sentence of
death in the case of Dan Heeler to life im
prisonment. Beeler was convicted of
murder in Granger County, and was to
have been hanged November 20- at Knox
ville. He was only twenty years old at
the time.
The Memphis Appeal has purchased the
Avalanche and the consolidation is known
as the Appeal-Avalanche, Congressman
James Pheutn, proprietor of the Avalanche
having retired on account of protracted
ill health.
The interstate commerce commission is
in session.in, Chattanooga, hearing argu
ments in a suit brought against railways
by the Chattanooga board of trade.
Coi. J. W. Barrow, United States chief
engineer in charge of the Tennessee River
improvements, Monday formally dec’arcd
the Mussel Shoa's Canal open for com
merce. The steamboat R. T. Coles then
passed through the canal with a cargo of
frieght from Evansvi le, Ind., and Padu
cah, Ky., for Chattanooga. It marks a
new era in the developement of the Ten
nessee valley.
GEORGIA.
u-ipuui i imes, ana jonn lempte uraves.
of Georgia, made speeches.
.Toe Jackson one of Rube Burrow's old
gang jumped from the parapet to the
ground floor of the Mississippi peniten
tary Monday, and was killed. It was
suicide.
At a dance in Avondale, Ala., Nathan
Terry and Washington Brown qilarrelled
about a girl. Brown told Terry not to
dance with the girl again, blit the latter
did not heed the warning. White he
was waltzing with her Brown walked up
and shot him twice through the body, In
flicting wounds from which he died
shortly afterwards.
The stock holders of tho Huntsville,
Ala., new million dollar cotton factory
organized a few days ago. T. B. Dallas
is to be business manager and the w. rk
begins on erecting buildings Jan. 1.
A fire in the afterhold of the steamship
Buenaventura in dock at New Orleans
caused damage by water and fire to about
HOC bales of cotton. The steamer was
oading for Liverpool and had on board
3,200 bales, most of which was slightly
damaged by water.
Four members of the late Mississippi
Convention were so much opposed to the
new Constitution that they refused to put
their names to the instrument.
The Ennis cotton compress has mani
pulated 30,000 bales of the Texas staple
'hus fur thia anftsrtn
ALLIANCE PRECINTCS.
The Order Furnishes a Great Deal
News For This Column.
of
A Fair Florida Woman Bends Her
Yard-Stick of Thirty-Six Inches
Advocating Many Pending
Political Measures.
CLAIMS OF THE ALLIANCE.
insurance company
Ing organized in Greenville with head
quarters there and with agencies in all
towns, $100,000 has already been sub
scribed.
The present has been a remarkable
year in the fertilizer business. 'Theship
ments to points within the State ns well
as neighboring States lias been larger
than usual, in. fact .up to the 1st of Oc
tober they were larger than for any pre
vious twelve months.
The State Fai* at Columbia was unqs-.
Aially'iDtetesting. ' A new exhibit in
chinery Hsll was the Breeden cotton
stock cutter, exhibited by its inventor,
W. M. Breeden, of Beuncttsville. The
flower erln!>it, especially the chrysanthe
mums, were the linest ever in Columbia.
Specinl designs in chrysanthemums elic
ited delighted comment. One by an un
named exhibitox was a big picture on an
easd, painted wholly iirtho colors of na
ture. It represented the cqat of arms of
Smith Carolina, witli atl its minute de
tails, beautifully worked in chrysanthe
mums. ■ • ■
A 12 mile railroad is te be built to con
nect Lowndcsville in Abbeville county
with theG., C. AN.
The regular course at the ' Charleston
Medical College is now well under way.
There are some fifty students in atten
dance. The lectures take place daily,
each lasting about one hour. The dis
secting classes meet in the afternoon and
are iu session about two hours.
All persons arrested for alleged election
frauds in Hampton county hkVe been dis
charged by the United States commis-
sione.
The contracts for the sale of the Barn
well and Blackwell and the Alston and
The National Grange of America began
their annual convention in the State Cap
itol building at Atlanta Wednesday to
continue itt session ten days. Mayor
Glenn delivered the address of welcome
in behalf of the l ity and Governor North-
cn in behalf of the State of Georgia.
A grand celebration is to be held in
Milledgville at the laying of the corner
stone of the Girl’s Industrial Union. The
legislature is invited and many of the
most prominent members will make
speeches.
Arrangements to begin work on the
mammoth hotel on Cumlterland Mind,
near Brunswick are being made. The
hotel and improvements will accommo
date 1,000 guests. Judge Dupont Guerry
is at the head of the Company.
Govenor Gordan sent in his valedictory
message to the Georgia Legislature on
Saturday, tfter which his successor, the
Hon. William J. Northen, was sworn in.
The Centnl Railroad of Georgia has
scooped the Cl jttanooga, Rome, and Co
lumbus. Prosn’entJ. 1). Williamson, of
the latter will be retained as general
traffic manager.
Judge Samurl Lumpkin was elected
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the State at the joint session of the
legislature on Monday. The following
were elected to other circuits: Associate
chief justice, Samuel Lumpkin; Judge
James tf. Gueiry, Pataula circuit; Judge
A. L. Miller, Macon circuit; Judge N. S.
Hutchins, western circuit; Judge H. C.
Konev, Augusta (f euit; Judge J. W.
Maddox, lt< me circuit; Judge C. J.
Welborn. northeastern cirruit, Judge
Roger Gainl le. middle circuit; Judge
Hansell, sm them circuit; Solicitor gen
eral, Thomas Kfison; Solic itor general,
Howard Thomson, northeastern circuit.
Dr. Bmn icr of Savannah went to Bruns
wick to in /estigate the rumors of yellow
fever in tbs latter place. Me says there
are some ctscs of malarial fever in Bruns
wick, but they present no symptoms of
yellow fc> er.
The Telfair Confederate Veterans’As
sociation met at Jacksonville on Saturday,
the 15th >f November.
It is sa d that for more than fifty year*
£355, w itch was originally intended to
beapplitd to the education of slaves in 1
Georgia, has been lying in the Bank of
Scot land
FLORIDA.
The National Alliance and Industrial
Union wi 1 convene at Ocala, on Decem
ber 2nd. The Louisville and Nashville
railroad w.ll transport delegates free up
on ail lines of its system to River Juno
lidu and return.
Way Lee, who is > distant relation of
the Emperor of China and one of the
most gentlemanly of Mongolians, says
the Jacksonville Times-Union has opened
up a very handsome restaurant next to the
Times Union building.
J. M. Fowne of Kissimmee and a party
of northern capitalists will build a large
ice factory ami cold storage warehouse at
Tampa.
T. A. Melter purchased 5,000 sweet
oranges and placed them on Colcord’a
wharf, foot of Ocean street, for free dis
tribution. The only proviso was that
the eater shoidd quarter the fruit and
place tire irecl in. & barrel of alcohol stand.-
' 1 ■L •“av ’ A A rxArt sx'Mnavaa
President Polk Says it Ha* Elected
Thirty-eight Congressmen.
L. L. Polk, president of the National
Farmers Allirnce, is very jubilant over
the result of elections. In the course of
an interview hr said:
“The Democrats and Republicans are
claiming everything just now, but when
they come to sift the chaff fom the wheat
they will find that the Farmers’ Alliance
had something to do with electing a fair
proportion of the good men who willhave
seats in the next Congress. Up to the
present time it is a certainty that Con
gress will contain thirty-eight straight-
out Alliance men, and there arc twelve or
fifteen more who are pledged tons. These
men arc from.the South and Northwest—
the two sections in which most of our work
was done. The Alliance in Nebraska
Minnesota and Iowa is not our organiza
tion, and has not amalgamated with us,
but it made the same fight and will join
us this winter. Our Alliance co-operated
with them; we will co-operate with any
farmera’ association, and in a little while
have a grip on the situation in almost
every ebrner of the land.
“We are here to stay. This great reform
movement will not cease until it has im
pressed itself indelibly in the nation’* his
tory. Financial reform is the necessity of
the hour, and it mnst come. The press and
the voice of the stump
SOMEWHAT VISIONARY.
Iha
Scheme of Mr. Gilpin to Bridge
Behring Straits.
speaker were Our
only assistants. . The Alhanee had no cam- , ~ ,
paign fund, no boodle. If we had hau '(poikab.y-more)^ and it to easy
money we would not have used it. The
virtue and patriotism of the people are
the things foappeal to. Our methoo* were
fair and square, sad the whole world could
see what we were doing. The principles on
which the Alliance is founded are solid
and correct; we must succeed. The fight
was no small affair. The extremists of
both parties attacked us bitterly and gave
no inch of ground. In the South it was
the Democrat* who opposed us. In the
North our most vigorous antagonist were
Republicans.”—N. Y. Times.
SOUTH CAROLINA CONVICTS.
They Will Till l!he Soil on the Newly
Purchased State Farm.
At a called meeting of the State Peniten-
lary board held at Columbia a proposition
from Col. T. J. Lipscomb was consider
ed. Col. Lipscomb sought to engage 150
convicts for five years, with the privilege
of increasing the number and time to 300
and ten years, the bands to be employed
in agricultural labor on the Taylor plan
tation, in Lexington county, near Colum
bia.
The b >ard declined to accept the term*
proposed. Then the question of the pur
chase of a State farm for the employment
of convict labor came up as it has done
monthly for the last ten months. The
long deadlock as to the choice of a farm
was broken by Governor Richardson, who
had heretofore held out for the Taylor
plantation, and now with Messrs. Ander
son, Brooker and Sanders voted for tha
PeSaussure place in Sumter county on
the Wateree River; Messrs. Sarratt and
Uuignard bolding to the Taylor plare a*
best. The PeSaussure place contains
nearly 3,(M)0 seres. It is purchased for
twenty-five thousand dollars. The ap
propriation for the purchase of a farm
was $40,000.
RAILROAD MOVEMENTS.
â– fay Png nsnf.- Abont 4(000 of ibe oranges
‘ were eaten by the surrounding crowd,
and Mr. Melter got a goodly amount of
work dque for nothing. The peeling
will be shipped to-England to be used
for medicinal purposes.—Jacksonville
Timc^ Union.
An Important project is about to be
placed under way in Florida. It is the
ronstrurtion of a canal across .the State,
uniting the Atlantic with the Gulf of
Mexico. The route selected is understood
to be from St. Augustine through St.
John’s county to St. John’s river, which
it will strike at or near Federal F«»nt:
crossing the river to Sauble, it then take-
i southwesterly direction to Cedar Key,
passing through Orange lake, which it is
proposed making a great central point,
and locate along the shores commercial
and industrial enterprises. The length
of the ennal is stated as 117 miles, with
a depth of 28 feet and a surface of from
200 to 250 feet. The company having
tho stork in hand is the Florida Ocean A
Gulf Canal Co., and is said to bo able
timUeiaHy k>c«*ry oitt its ptanA-.. .
OTHER STATES.
Monday was Editors’ Pay at tlie South
ern exposition, at Montgomery, Ala.,
and Colon*! A K AtuUura of Tha PhlU-
- New Lines Projected in the South At
lantic States.
Augusta, Ga., ant Chattanooga, Tenn.,
are probably to be joined together by a
long-hoped-for direct line, Vo be eriled
the Augusta & Chat.anooga Railroad.
This proposed road will run from Angus
ta to Gainesville, and thence across North
Georgia to Chattanooga. It is said that
this enterprise has for backers a wealthy
syndicate which is building a line from
( hicago to Chattanooga. Should this
belief lie well founded, then a new line
• >( communication between the metropolis
of the Northwest and tho South Atlantic
ports is something to be expeeted in flic
early future, that will iuure to the ad
vantage of the entire region through
which it is to pass.
Nasuvim.b aj>d Knoxvim.b.—Twen
ty-one miles of track have been laid fron
Cnney Fork river to Cookvillo, Tenn., mi
the extension of this line from Cookville
to Nemo, 55 miles; A. Vandevort, goner
at manager, Lebanon, Tenn.
Skaiioard and Roanokk.—Tlie annu
il report, presented at a meeting held oi.
October 21st, showed that the receipts
were $1181,019.44, and the operating ex
peases, $452,582.27. The company ex
peels to have its southern extension* iutc
Atlanta in nine mouths.
In 1880 there were in the United States
570,000 tenant farmers.
The Tennessee Importing company has
just imported from Spain twenty-two
jacks.
An Alliance school will be established
: n Dublin, Texas, in the near future.
Alliance men in Floyd county, Ga.,
expect to erect three Alliance stores this
fall.
New Mexico is credited with 2,000,000
head of cattle and 31,000,000 head of
sheep.
It is estimated that sparrows annually
consume 10,000,000 bushels of wheat in
France.
A charter has licen granted to the Pet
erslmrg Alliance Exchange, to do business
at Petersburg, Va.
Tlie Washington Gazelle learns that an
Alliance store will be started in Washing-
km county at an early date.
The Farmers’ League is systematically
organizing tlie State of Massachusetts.
At a recent sale in Iowa seven Red Poll
ed bulls sold at an average figure of $153.
leu females at an average of $201.50.
The Farmers’ Exchange of Oconee, iu
Orange county, Fla., is to start off with
$8,000 capital. D. O. Maguire is presi
dent and George P. Brannon, secretary.
The New York State Alliance has adop
ted tlie Sub Treasury plan, and declares
that the force bill shall never be saddled
upon the South if the farmera of that
State can prevent it.
This item appears in the “Eastanullec
Notes” of the l arnesville, Ga., Enterj/rix:
The Liberty Hill Alliance has just com
pleted a substantial hall near tlie Baptist
church at that place.
According to the Department of Agri
culture the imports of goat skius and
gout hair last year amounted to $8,000.
000.
The Farmers’ Alliance, of Montgomery
county, Ky., are making an effort to form
a company to build a $50,000 tobacco
warehouse and establish weekly sales.
The Michigan State Alliance Exchange
will be organized at an early day. The
State Executive Board will hold a meet
ing in a few days and select a business
agent.
It is time for cattlemen to take bearings
for future guidance. It must be borne in
mifid that the dressed beef men can carry
in their refrigerators fifteen days’ supply
j ', and it ia easy for them
to step out and break the masket when
they please. But they-cannot go out for
thirty days, and a short supply for thirty
days will change the market.— Wettern
Exchange.
President W. E. H. Searcy, of the Far
mers’ Banking Company, of Griffin, Ga.,
is appealing to the Alliance men of the
Btau to take $40,000 worth of stock iu
the bank, it already having $83,000 cap
ital.
ARicWand, Ga., correspondent writes
that the Alliances are wielding a power
ful influence toward the advancement ot
the town. They have a warehouse of
their own and store house rented, and
will build a store uear their warehouse at
an early date.
A correspondent of Watkinsvillo, Ga.
in discussing the delay in getting cotton
bagging, offers this plan as a remedy
"The only way out for the Farmers’ Al
liance is to manufacture our own cottoe
bagging. Do not depend on such as can
be monopolized and have us waiting ur-
til October or November for bagging
The Alliance is an organization not to Ik
trifled with.”
*.«•**•
AW ALLIANCE WOMAN'S YARD STICK.
Mrs. E. M. King, of Banana, Fla.,
sends the following “Alliance woman’s
yard stick or thirty-six inches, good meas
ure, sure not to Ik 1 adopted until the farm
era have more insight, more self reliance,
more determination, and less party spirit;
nor until women have tbeit fair share of
political power.”
PreamMe.—Whereas the farmers are
tho hardest workers in the nation, the
producers of the food, and of the raw
material for the clothing of the nation;
the largest tax payers, and numerically
the strongest body of voters in the nation;
they demand and have a right to demand
the following measures:
1. Passage of a bill emliodying the
principles and Intentions of the sub-treas
ury bill.
2. Abolition of the “spoils system."
3. Extension of civil ser vice retorin.
4. Decrease or abolition of payment it-
legislators.
5. Gambling and drinking in a-.y and
every house of legislation to be strictR
prohibited.
6. Tariff reform.
7. Protection for every industry, or
none at all.
8. No industry to Jiesubsidized oi !
“bounties” giveu it at the expense of
tax payers.
9. Equal taxation, whether din e
Indirect.
10. Equal sulfis;
of sex.
11. An eRucationnl
12. The Australian
13. A “campaign
Juneau, Alaska, November 10.—Tie
project of ex-Oovcrnor Gilpin, of Colora
do, to build a line of railway through thi
(vilds of Alaska to Cape Prince of Wales
to conucct with the Russian railway sys
tem through Siberia, thus linking the old
and the new worlds with a railroad, is a
feasible one, and the future will see it no
eompiished. But there is a giant obsta
ele in the way of oue unbroken line con
necting the two hemispheres, and that is
Behring straits. Mr. Gilpin's proposi
tion is to bridge these straits, which is all
well enough in theory, but quite a differ
ent thing in practice. At considerable
exjiense ‘he straits can undoubtedly be
bndged. an island lies about midwai
between ti American and Asiatic shores.
The dislaiiv is cot great and the water is
â– hallow, tht government charts showing
the greatest . 'epth to lie only thirty-two
fathoms. Bu could a bridge be built
high enough to allow huge icebergs to
pass under it, and with strength to with
stand the great ice floes that are yearly
swept down through the straits from the
Arctic ocean? The current is sweeping
through the narrow straits from one grea
sea to another very swift and strong, and
great icebergs would be borne against
the bridge, its piers and abutments with
a force that neither steel nor mason work
would stand against.
Captain Emery, of the United States
ship Thetis, stated that the only practi
cable means of crossing these straits at
all seasons of the year is by tunneling un
der them.
THE BIG TOBACCO SCHEME.
The Warehouses of Cincinnati
Louisville United. ;
and
Louisville, Ky.', Nov. 11.—Incorpora
tion papers for the tobacco company which
embraces nearly all the lending warehouses
in this city and Cincinnati, and of which
much has already been published, were
filed to-day. Its business embraces the
storing and selling of leaf tobacco and
everything that usually belongs to ware
housing.
The capital stock is $4,000,000, one-half
S referred. The preferred stock is to have
ividends of 8 per cent, per annum out of
the earnings, but nothing more. The
corporation may issue $1,000,000 in
bonds. The principal places of business
are Louisville and Cincinnati, and the di
rectory, which holds till January, in
cludes the best warehousemen in the two
cities. It is claimed by the incorporators
that the organization will be of great ben
efit to tobacco growers. There will be
fewer agents, and the agents’ pay, they
assert, comes flualjy Irom the grower.
The organization will control nine-tenths
of the leaf tohaiVo trade in tbra region.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
SHOT AFTER THE RACE.
Dawson Killed by the Brothers of the
Woman He Had Married and
Deserted.
Says an Associated press dispatch
from Columbus, Ga: T. O. Dawson drove
a horse in the “gentlemen’s trotting race”
at tlie Chattahoochee Valley Exposition
Tuesday. There were probably 15,000
persons on the grounds.
Immediately after the race Dawson
drove into the open space iu the rear of
the judges’ stand. In a few seconds the
crowd was startled by the report of a pis
tol shot and the sight of Dawson run
ning, pursued by three men who were
tiring at him. Dawson was seen trying
to get his pistol from his pocket as he
run, and as soon as he secured the weap
on he turned his pursuers and returned
the tire. Dawson fell ami died in a few
minutes.
The three men. Pick Howard and Rob
ert Howard, brothers, and their brother-
in-law, J units Bickerstatf weje arrested.
Four (flkpA had . hit Dawson. The
cause cW' shooting was s family trou
ble, having m.-nied and deserted
a sister orlhe brothers Howard.
Dawson Jw(is the son of the Hon. W. O.
Dawson, a wealthy resident of Eufaula,
Ala. The Howards belong to one of the
oldest and most respectable families in
Georgia.
Making War on the Editor.
Maryville, Mo., Nov. 10.—In August
die first, issue of the Maryville Daily Ad-
riy/ite appeared devoted to Democraey and
temperance, and vigorously opposing the
saloons. Ou Sept. 19 notices were posted
on the show windows of the principal
business housos, warning Frank Griffin,
editor of the Adcocate to go slow, or
something serious would result. He paid
no attention to them, but proceeded to
publish a redhot political paper. The
entire Democratic ticket was elected in
this county, which incensed his enemies,
who believed that he was instrufcental iu
carrying the election. Yesterday morn
ing between 4 and 5 o’clock some person
entered the Advocate composing rooms
and destroyed and carried away the
weekly forms consisting of twenty-four
columns of display and body type, gal
leys, sticks, and newspaper headings.
Fortunately for the Advocate, the daily
forms were in the press rooms and were
saved. The daily appeared this morning
as usual, and contained an offer of $500
for the arrest and conviction of the per
petrators of the outrage.
FIGHTING THE SALOONS.
The Governors of Three States Called
Upon.
legal, each Slat
tion expenses.
14. All official
and Senators, in 1
people.
without distiiiciioti
test for all votcis.
ballot system,
iind” to he Him If il-*
t defray its own c'vc-
iu> hiding Uiesid. at
elected directly In
Nashville, TenD.,—|6pecial.]—Gov-
• rnnr Taylor has received from the peo
ple of (JuMilx'i'lund Gap, Tenn., a map,
showing the location of sixteen saloons
within about one mile of that town, two
of them licing in Kentucky and fourteen
of them in Virginia, Also, locating the
spots adjacent thereto where fifteen men
have been shot within the past few
months. None of the saloons are on this
side of the line, but five of the murders
have occurred in Tennessee. The peo
pie of that section ha»e decided to pre
scot the factr to the governors of Ken
tucky, Tennessee anil Virginia, and ask
their co-operation in improving the situa
tion, which they attribute to the presence
av,>oof the saloons.
" 1 New York’* Monkey Population.
Fifteen new monkeys have boon re
ceived at the Central .Park menage ria
Ten are of the rhesus species, hardy' and
lively. Above all they are impudent.
An authority says; "For coQlimpudence
and audacity these monkeys are far ahead
of any other of the monkey family,"
.They are native to Contincutial India,
where they steal grain m the boldest
manner, enter houses and abstract, there
The Summit of KUInia-nJaro.
The ascent to the summit of Kilima
njaro, the highest .mountain in Africa,
was accomplished by Mr. Hans Meyer in
October, 1889. Tho base of tile Jce-cap
of Kibo was reached at'18,270 feet
above the sea.' Tho' upper part- of this
ascent was ckfremoly tcfllsome as the sur
face of the ice U4ca'rae increasingly cor
roded, taking the form which Gussfeldt,
on Aconcagua, in Chili, called nievs
peniteute; honeycombed to a depth of
over six feet, in the form.of rills, teeth,
fissures and pinnacles. The travelers fre
quently broke through as far as fh^ir
breasts, with an alarmingly rapid dimin
ution of their strength. Reaching the
summit of the ridge, they found the pre
cipitous walls of a gigautice crater yawn
ing beneath them, with the loftiest ele
vations in the shape of three, pinnacles ris
ing above the ice on its,.southern brim.
These they calmly and", systematically
climbed one after the other. The cen
tral pinnacle reaqlYed a height of about
19,700 feet, overtopping’’the others by
fifty of sixty ftet. Dr. ifeycr was tho
first to tread this peak, and planted the
German Hag upon it,christening it Kaiser
Wilhelm’s Peek. • The diameter of the
crater measured about 8300 feet, and its
depth was about 800 feet. In the south
ern portion the walls of lava were of an
ash-gray or reddish-brown color, and
wore free from ice; in its northern half
the ice sloped downward from the upper
brim of the crater iu terraces, forming
blue and white galleries of varying
steepness. A rounded cone ot eruption,
compose^ of brown ashes and lava, rose
in tht: IltiYshera portion of the crater to a
height of about 500 feet, which was part
ly- covered by the more than usually
thick sheet of ice extending from tlm
northern brim of the crater. The larger
orater opened westward in a wide cleft,
through wuioi* «.i— melting water ran
off, and the ice lying upon tno won..-
part of the crater and the inner walls is
sued in the form of a glacier'.—ityiritre
Science Monthly.
Has Only One' Inhabitant.
The township of Skiddaw, Cumber
land, in all probability stands unique in
the United Kingdom as a township of
bne house, says the London Daily Hews,
and the solitarjf male adiilt inhabitant is
deprived of bis vote because of tho fact
that there are no overseers to make out
a voters’ list, and no church or public
building on which to publish one, if
made.
On several occasions unsuccessful
claims have been made for an. occupier’s
vote before the revising barrister at Kes
wick, and this year one of the registra
tion agents served a notice of claim upon
the assistant overseer of the adjoining
township of Underskiddaw; but that of
ficial declined to have anything to do
with it, on the ground that he could not
saddle his township with the duty and
expense of another.
The tenant of the house is the shep
herd of Skiddaw forest —a forest without
a tree.
The Bishop's Assignments.
The board.of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in session at Washing
ton. D. C., completed the assignments of
bishops for holding annual conferences
JiHfing tlie nGxt half-year,^s follows: Mis
sissippi,' Moss I?oint, January 7th, Bishop
Newman; Georgia, Demurest, January
15th, Bishop Andrews; Florida, St. John s
River, Lawif'V. January' 15th. Bishop
Warren;’Alabama,'Eilwardsville, January
32nd, Bishop Andrews; upper Mississip
pi, Unity Springs, February 5th, Bishop
Andrews; Florida,, Gainesville, .January
>2nd, Bishop Warren; central Alabama,
Marion, Jami&fy 29th,' BisKbp Andrews;
Savannah conference, Macon, Ga., Janu-
iry 29fh. Bishop Warren; South Carolina,
Greenville; February5th, Bishop Warren;
Virginia conference, Roneevelt, W. Va.,
February 25th, Bishop Joyce.
What is known as Dutch gold is •
combination of copper and zinc.
Nearsightedness is overrunning the
French people as much as tha Germans.
Dr. Hammond says that thin soles are
tho worst propagators of disease among
women.
Sawdust is being compressed and used
for gun wads in England, and seems to
enhance penetration and pattern.
A largo number of the carriages in
cities are now supplied with rubber tires
to prevent jolting and deafening clatter.
Uranium was unknown a century ago,
but a lode bus been found in a mine in
Cornwall, England. It sells for $12,000
a ton.
It is said that a solution of chloral hy
drate of a strength of five grains to tlie
ounce of water will clear tho hair of
dandruff.
About 859 species of birds are now
known to make North America their
home, and representatives of eighty-two
additional species rind their way to this
continent from other countries.
“A good many people spoil the effect
of a good night’s rest by the ridiculously
heavy bedclothes they use,” says the Lon
don Hospital. “Beit clothes should be
like body clothing, light and warm.”
Tho are about 1390 paper-mills in
Europe, and ’ of these 300 were built last
year. The daily product of pulp and
paper is almost 7300 tons, ami the chief
material'used is wood, although jute is
in-demand.
Cordite containing fifty per cent, of
gun cotton, forty-eight per cent, of
nitro-glyceriuo and two per cent, of
castor oil has shown very satisfactory re
sults at tho Springfield (Mas*.). Armory
for use with small arm-.
The United States Navy Department
is collecting samples of nickel ore from
all sources of supply from this and other
countries, and with tho design'of using
tho material for armor plate will invite
proposals from all mine owners.’
An electrical company of Antwerp has
despatched by the last stcamei which
sailed for the Congo, iu Africa, all tho 1
material accessary for the installation of 1
the first telephone line which is to bo
placed along the Congo railway.
A novel leech jar has been brought out,
in Germany, the innovation consisting of
a vertical partition dividing the vessel
into two equal compartments, to be filled
respectively with pure water and with
moist peat, so that the inhabitants may
change their abode at.'pleasure.
The cracking of the knot at the end
of a’ whip is simply the conclusion of’
the air produced by its rapid move-i
ment. Tlie effect, differs with the ma-
terial uftnd for t1\p whin-lush, linoaysa
some textures present a much greater re
sistance to the air than others. ,
William J. Chamberlain, an inventor,,
of Norwich, Conn., has patented an air.
gun with a pressure behind tho projectile
«* t xno to 2000 pounds. It also explodes
hydrogen to give » hundreds
of atmospheres. It sends a shot uuvo.
and further, Mr. Chamberlain says, than
any other weapon.
It is said a good cement for joining,
parts of apparatuses, etc., permanently,
solid and waterproof, and which rcsista
heat, oils and acids, is made by mixing
concentrated sirupona glycerine with
finely powdered litharge to a thick, vis
cid paste, which is applied like gypsum.
Glass, metal and wood can bo cemented'
together by it.
WISE WORDS.
A Rice Mill Trust.
An Ancient Egyptian Scythe.
' An F,gyptinuscythe,recently unearthed,
is exhibited among the antiquities in the
private muaeiRu of Flinders Petrie in
London. The-shaft pf the instrument is
wood, supporting a row oi flint saws,
which are. securely cemented into it.
This discovery will set at rest the specu
lations which have been made as to bow
the crops of flic land wetro -gathered iu
the flint and early copper age. It has
Neglected opportunities never return.
Success never comes without a ipecial
invitation.
If you want to be great don’t tell the
birds about it.
The wisest men have uevor in any ago
been host men.
It isn’t hwtd to be anything. It is tho
seeming It * thst is hard.
Earthquakes to both men and conti
nents always come suddenly.
Many people who are ravens at home
pass for doves away fr/O home.
All that “mossbacki - are good for i*
to show that moss can grow on anything.
When a man begins to injure you, be
gin to be kind to him, and he will have
to quit first.
There are people who feed the same
kind of a fire iu weaving titles that oth
ers do in wearing diamonds. .
Don’t worry about the opinions of
other people. Live so that you will al
ways have a good opinion of yourself.
One reason why many people always
have such great burdens, is because they
are not standing in tlie right place to
lift much.
If you go through tlie world with a
long face you will some day find out
that your life has been more of a curse
than a blessing.
You must know where you are sowing
and how you are sowing, if you earn
enough about the matter to want (■« get
your seed liaek."—Indianapolis {Inti.)
Bam'* Horn.
This Man’s Candidates Were Elected.
m
An Archduke Misaing.
Count Knlnnky, Austrian Minister of
■’orrigu Affairs, has just forwarded a cir-
ular dispatch to ail the Austrian enn
uis in America, requesting them to use
heir utmost endeavors to hunt out the
Arch Puke Johann, who is now called
“aptain John Orth. He has not been
â– card of for nearly four months, since he
efMffimle'Vt'iff(Tbn July 11th lust for Val-
iiiraiso in his ship, the Huuet Margretlie.
t lias since been ascertained that heavy
tnrmx were raj
ihio left,
.ing when the Arch Duke's
Trusts seem to lie contagious. The ia
test now spoken of is a Rice Mill Trust.
The matter is now I icing considered by
rice mill owners, and it could hardly bo
expected that they would say anything
about it just now. Anyway a prominent
Charleston rice merelmut said that tb*
trust was not among the impossibilities
and could be looked for. Whether it
will include all the mills is not known.
There are in the South at present about
twenty-six rice mills. Of these sixteen
are iu New Orleans, three iu Savannah,
three in Charleston, one each in Wilming
ton, Goldsboro, and Washington, N. 0.
A number of the mills in New Orleans,
it ia understood, are now controlled by a
syndicate. It is probably this same cor
poration which wishes to extend it* hold
ings.
In < omluHning the vanity of women, men
complain of the lire that they themselves
have kindlwi.
fronTTuythlng they haiipen to fancy and T lon'K been suspected Jhat'such.an instru-
can carry off easily, ami oven, steal hats
of the people as they pass under the
trees. They will amuse the visitors at tho
park.
Two of the others are Suotymandabeya
from West Africa. These are blue-back,
with white eyelids, and the7 look like,
half-tint chimney-sweeps. They aro
great acrobats. Two bonnet nionkeys
from India arc among tho oolleetfon.
They get their name from the bonnet
like appearance of the hair on top of
their heads. It is parted exactly iu tha-
iniddle and gives the monkey a dudish
appearance. One mate pig-talo monkey
from India completes the list.—jVzkj Ti rk
Neut.
A Georgia farmer has bought only
fifty-five cents worth of meat diiciug
twenty-five year* of housekeeping.
William H. Fishhook will oppose J.
II. Jones fur United States Senator from
Atkantas.
ment its Mr. Uetrie’bas brought to light
was med,- but .there vyas no direct evi
dence... _ . .if ••
The South- Carolina Alliance Bank.
The special .'committee of the stock
holders wf tlie -Shite-Alliance Exchange
niet.iq-Colnnibia,. S l.’., to consider the
matter.of csUblWiiiio a. State Allianee
bank in Uolumbiil., ’tlie oonrtuitco, after
discussing she qitMVin fullv'" agreed to
recommend that :thi> ebtftcr of ific Ex
chung- lx* so ujc Mde 1 by tin* Legislature
that’ th.'. KxiMiaagv' U empowered to sub
scribe a portion cl i,i qii(a 1-1 o tlie cre
ation of a bulk. T'.i'i will* doubtless- be
'il rte, and an .Mii.incc bank, in Columbia
may lie cdnsitlxiv-d’n <’ ‘ ta’iitv.
A Brazilian squadron will shortly ar
rive at New York, bringing a medal apd
IfUcr -*>£ tlfitiikatp President Harrison
for bis prompt recognition of the new re-
public. Orders have been issued to give
the squadron a reception.
y*>-
ft'
•pwrajja MOW *'>)Wl'll." , «) R ." n K Mil.
-Ark., offers to pay i '
each .bale of entti-
ittou baj^.diig find bough'
A firni'iit Searcy,
cuts picniiiim on
wrapped in
»y them.
The Alliance of l.umpki::county is pre
paring to bail I ustob it Uulihmcga, G#,
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