The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, February 11, 1891, Image 1

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THE DARLINGTON HE R ALD. VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1891. NO. 23. f Bo»ton Trarueript aver* that •'young men in Connecticut are leaving te farms for the cities in droves.” * According to the Baltimore Manufac turer? Record, the assessed value of Southern property increased in value to the extent of $270,000,000 during the tyear of 1890. A man was recently sent to prison in New York City because he could not furnish $500 bonds to keep the peace. As there was no one to furnish it for tim this was practically imprisonment |for life, so after a couple of months the imau’was called up and discharged. The Boston Cultivator thinks it strange that “though Germany is opposed to the Importation of American pork, she admits our beef. Recent shipments of dressed beef to Hamburg were well re- ceived, and sold at remunerative prices. It was pronounced much superior to the Australian beef. The masses in Ger many demand cheaper meat. They will welcome shipments of American beef, and before long will force the Govern ment to admit our pork.” THE NORTH CAROLINA GIRLS. An Appropriation of $20,000 for u Female Industrial School. In the record of railroad accidents it is apparent, observes the New Orleans Picayune, that several have been due to the inefficiency of some of the telegraph operators employed. At its last session the Georgia Legislature took the matter up, mainly at the request of the Macon Division Order of Railway Telegraphers, passed a law providing that in the future all railway telegraph operators must be not less than eighteen years of age before they can accept such positions, and, furthermore, they must pass an examina tion as to capability before the chief train dispatcher of the road upon which em ployment is sought. A delegation of Ten nessee operators will present and push a similar measure before the Legislature of that State. They claim that the passage of these bills means the disappearance of the boy operator and a corresponding decrease in the number of accidents re- eulting from the employing of inefficient, immature and inexperienced railroad telegraphers. It would be well, it is contended by the promoters, if not only Tennessee, but every State should adopt such a law. ' Hypnotism is likely, in the opinion Ofthe New York Mail and Exprets,to play an important part in the homicidal tragedies in the near future. The in evitable plea of insanity is in bad odor and has lost its effect with the averaga ljury. Hypnotism combines the elements jof novelty and mystery anil has the ad vantage of exonerating the hypnotic in- letrument of crime on the ground ol iirrcsponsibihty when under the dominat- ling influence of a superior will, while It jleaves the subject entirely rational and iresponsiblo when not in the hypnotic state. This plea is destined to complicate ‘our criminal jurisprudence, and involve jthe administration of justice in most ■serious difficulties. If the hypnotized agents of crime arc irresponsible, and at |tbo same time arc perfectly rational and honorable, tho only parties who caa be held for such crimes arc those who use jfor criminal purposes this uncanny ipowcr. Dr. Liegcois, professor of tho medical college of Nancy, testified in tho trial of the Paris stranglers, to the effect (that not only was Gabrielle Bompard, the famous accomplice, an unconscious accessory of tho crime committed, but that in his opinion there were from four to five persona in every hundred who jwerc similarly susceptible to hypnotic ;iuflucucu. A petition has been presented to thi North Carolina Legislature during it: present session praying for an appropria tion of $20,000 to aid in tho establish ment of an “Industrial School for the “White Girls of North Carolina.” This is a very trifling sum, as the Wilming ton Messenger observes, “for 1,500,000 people to give to the cause of woman — to the safety and happiness, and com fort, and usefulness, of hundreds of the white girls of Carolina from year to year and from generation to genera tion.” We have little doubt that the Legislature will make the desired grant, and that the school will be established. Certainly the State could not And a bet ter investment, nor one that would pay larger and handsomer returns. The movement is Under the direction of the King's Daughters, who are circu lating petitions throughout the Slate for signatures, and who' will doubtless go to Raleigh with so many of the intelli gent and patriotic people of the State be hind them that, even if it should be so disposed, the Legislature will not dare to refuse their reasonable request. The number of i (literates in North Carolina is positively disgraceful. According to the census of 1880, of persons 10 years Of age and upward 38.2 per cent, were relumed as unable to write. Of the 52,619 white females, from 15 to 2l> years of age, both inclusive, who were returned by the cen sus enumerators, 15,219 or 28.9 per cent, were unable to write, and of the 215,350 white females of 21 years of age and up ward, 72,017 or 33.4 per cent were una ble to write. More than one third of the white women and girls in North Caroli na, one of the richest and'most flourish ing States in the South, cannot write their names, and very nearly as many are unable to read the language which they speak. Surely, something should be done by the State for the education of the future wives and mothers of tire State, who are to give character to tl-c citizenship of the generations yet to be. In their present most praiseworthy un dertaking, as we arc told by our ' Wil mington contemporary, the King’s Daugh ters ‘ ‘arc moved by a profound apprecia tion of the necessity of doing something through the State for the benefit of that class of white girls who arc unprovided for and have no way of obtaining a place or ‘occupation whereby they may ‘earn an honest living.’” We arc rejoiced to know that North Carolina is keeping step with her sister Southern States in their efforts to ame liorate the condition of the women ol the South, who arc so largely di pendent in this prarlieal age upon their own ex ertions for the means of making a living. In las inaugural address Governor Till man directed attention to this important uibject, and, with the co-operation of the State, we have no doubt lhat his rc- comincnd<it ; ous will assume practical shape and that it will not be long before South Cnroliua makes ample provis’on for the education in “the practical arts and sciences” of its daughters, as it lias already made provision for the education of her sons. The experiment of indus trial training schools for women has been made in Mississippi and Georgia with the best results, and what has been accomplished in these States can be ac complished with even greater satisfac tion in the two Carolinas. In Mississippi and Georgia the location of the industrial schools was left open by the Legislature to the compotion of rival towns mid cities. The Mississippi Col lege was established at Columbus because Columbus, with a population of six thousand, many of whom were colored, gave $90,000 to secure the location of die school at that place. Of this amount $50,000 was represented bv suitable build mgs and grounds, and $40,000 was eon tributed in cash. In Georgia the little town of Milledgeville entered the lists against the burgeoning city of Atlanta and secured the establishment of the Geor gia Industrial and Technological Insti tute for women within its limits. To ac complish this end Milledgeville, with a population of four thousand, subscribed $10,000 in rash and made a loan of $12.- ooo (othe Slate to aid it in pushing for ward the work of construction. What Mississippi and Georgia have done ii this direction the two Carolinas can do. The need for industrial schools is even more urgent in the last named States than in the former, and when the public mind shall be fully aroused upon the subject we have no'fear as to the ulti mate result. Our girls ought to be educated, aud educated in the most practical way. North Carolina is moving on the right dne, and we shall be much disappointed if the “Farmers' Legislature of 1891” do not take a practical view of the question and extend the aid for which the King’s daughters pray.—Charleston News and Courier. ] Chief Justice Bleckley, of Georgia, tn deciding that the Antioch Baptist Church at Atlanta must be sold to pay the salary of the preacher, says: “If any debt ought to be paid, it is one con tracted for the health of souls, for p^ius tain ist rat ions and holy service. If any (class of debtors ought to pay, as a mat ter of moral as well as legal duty, the good people of a Christian Church are that class. No church can have any higher obligation resting upon it than that of being just. The study of justice for more than forty years has impressed nje with the supreme importance of this grand and noble virtue. Sorao of the virtues are in the nature of moral lux- juries, but this is an absolute necessity of socialiifc. It is the hog and hominy, the bacon and beans of morality, pub lic and private. It is the exact virtue, S eing mathematical in its nature. Mercy, tty, charity, gratitude, generosity, lagnanimity, etc., are the liberal vir tues. They flourish partly on voluntary 'concessions made by the exact virtue, Ibnt they have no right to extort from it any unwilling concessions. A man cannot give in charity, or pity, ho-pital- ity or magnanimity, tho smallest part of what is necessary to enable him to sat isfy the demands of justice. The law grants exemptions of property tr> fam ilies, but none to corporations or collec- jtive bodies, lay or ecclesiastical. These 'must pay their legal debts if they can. 'All their property, legal and equitable, is subject. We think a court may well constrain this church to do justice. It Shell, ofonde aud dark,is brought for ts certainly an energetic measure to sell 7"® ° nce “ ore . in co “ l ' e ’ toiiet bru,h <* . * . , »o« fancy hairpins. The wavy mass of the church to pay the preacher, nor j h air must bo retained in some way, and would it be allowable to do so if othet jewels are not always admissible, while a paeans of satisfying the debts were withia ] pretty blonde Vtell pin can get up with FOUGHT TO THE LAST. A Mad Stallion and a Jackass, in Mercer, Fight a Ter rible Battle. Lexingtox, Kv., Feb. 10.-A battle to the death took place in Mercer coun ty, between a valuable saddle stallion and a jackass, belonging to William Thomas, a stock raiser. A few days ago a mad dog bit Thom as's little boy and the stallion. The horse went mad, and knocking down the door of the jack’s stable commeuced biting him. The jack retaliated, and for fifteen minutes they fought, using their teeth, heels aud fore feet. Finally the jack tore the stallion's left car with ins teeth and the stallion then bit a piece from the jack’s neck. This seem ed to make the jack more ferocious than ever, and grabbing the lower part of the Stallion’s neck in ids teeth, he tore out his wind-pipe. But the high-mettled stallion did not give up, and before fall ing he kicked the .lack’s left hind leg, breaking it just below the hock. He then fell dead. The jack uttered a long, loud bray and went iuto his stable. He was covered with blood anil wounded unto death, so that his master killed him to put him out of his misery. The Iwy was taken to t mudstone. The stone stuck three times, and he shows no signs of madness. It is heliev cd be will recover. SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Happenings of Importance For A Week. fsacb. you in tho morning and accompany you to the intimate dinner at night. Dwellers in City and Country Get a Write-Up Here Free of Charge, and No Questions Asked. VIRGINIA. A new town is soon to he built in Prince George county. The dwelling house of John .1. Russell, a wealthy resident of Petersburg, took fire Monday and before the flames could be extinguished, Russell, who was asleep, was suffocated to death. Contracts for the constructioti of the Danville and East Tennessee Rail road J150 miles from Danville, in (his State, (o Bristol, Tenn., have been awarded to the Inter-State Construction Company, of New York. Work began under contract Thursday. The proposition to remove the body of Sir. Davis from New Orleans to Richmond for permanent burial has been revived. Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond, will ron- sult Mrs. Davis in regard to the matter upon his approaching visit to Now York, and it is hoped that she will consent that her husband shall fiiid a resting place in tlil[■ old Confederate rapihtl. No other city in the South can offer sri appropriate a place of sepulchre for tho sacred dust of the greatest of Presidents. NORTH CAROLINA. An act to incorporate the North Caro lina Society for prevention (if cruelty to children and animals was passed by the legislature Friday. Charlotte had a $100,000 tire last week. The Belmont hotel and the Wilson Drug Company building were burned. Many county Alliances are instructing meudrers of the Legislature to vote for a bill increasing the school tax from 12 1-2 to 25 cents on the $100 valuation of property. Large droves of mules from Kentucky and Tenncsssce are being brought to Ral eigh aud Charlotte, and find ready sales at good prices. Bills passed the Legislature prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to. minors, and amending the Constitution so as to elect the District Solicitors by a vote of the whole State. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Episcopal churches of Charleston have organized a Church Guild, The hank of Georgetown has been g ranted a charter, petitioners being A. A. ^prings aud others. Capital slock $50,- At the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion county convention, which will he held at Edgefield on February 28 and March 1 and 2, ex-Govcrnor J. C. Shep pard will make the. opening address. The ball team of the South Carolina University lias organized for the season and sends a challenge so all whom it may concern to contest for the State chain pionship in a series of three games during the Columbia Centennial festival. The executive committee of the State Grai g.' met at Wright's Hotel, Columbia, Master of the Grange Thompson in the chair. All of the committc, with one ex ception, were present. The general af fairs and prospects of the Grange were thoroughly discussed, aud it was deter mined that the executive ccmmittec shall issue au address to the patrons through out the State, urging organization and reorganization. There arc already well organized branches in Kershaw, Chester, Oconee, Florence, Marion, Abbeville and Anderson. AU of these branches have been in existence since 1872, and have well sustained the honor, credit aud use fulness of the organizaticn. The com mittee also discussed the recommenda tion made to the last Legislature that the State should establish at the Peni tentiary a manufactory for hags and hug ging from the available Hines of the State and from jute. GEORGIA. Gen. It. S. Henderson, a prominent Confederate officer, died in Atlanta Thursday, Half the county officers elected iu Lumpkin county are Allianccmcu. A pitiful sight ou the streets of Co lumbus rerent ly was a boy 9 years old iu a beastly state of intoxication. He was arrested, hut the Black Maria had to he summoned in order to convey him to the lock-up. He raved and cursed fearfully while being carried there. The oldest colored woman in Georgia died in Rockdale on Wednesday morning last. She was one hundred ami five years old. Mrs. Berry wax found in her room at Columbus late Tuesday night with her throat cut from ear to ear. The murderer is believed to be Mrs. Berry’s husband. The couple had been living apart, but ou Monday they were apparently reconciled. Berry is missing. Brunswick will have some very im portant mecti' gs of associations, encamp ments and conventions during the next three mouths. They are: The state con vention of the Young Men’s Christian Association, from February 20th to 23d; the annual convention of the Georgia Teachers’ Association, from April 28th to May 1st; the annual encampment o( the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias of Georgia, to begin on May 19th and con tinue for a week. These are all m etiugs of great importance to the |>eople of the State generally. TENNESSEE. A newspaper reporter on the American, at Nashville, committed suicide Thurs day evening at the Capital City. A special from Dunlap says that light ning struck the livery stable of ,1. R. Huddlestoa at that place, killing three horses. Gen. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, is one of the many Congressmen who w ill re tire to private life on March 4. He says, though, that at his age—nearly seventy --and after twenty years’service at Wash ington, he is glad to doff the harness. Dr. C. C. Lancaster, one of the leading physicians of East Tennessee* nd a mein her of the faeuliy of the Tennessee Med ical College, died Tuesday night of blood poisoning, a few days ago he performed an operation on a lady having gangrenous wound and received the |Hiisou through an exceedingly slight abrasion under a finger nail. FLORIDA. Pasco county has a genuine coffee tren on exhibition at the Ocala Semi-Tropical Expositon. The eleventh annual assembly of ine Florida Chautauqua opened at De Funiak Springs Wednesday The exercises will’ continue six weeks, with a proganime- rich iu music, literature and art. Edward Bosenqurst, son of a wealthy; London banker, was bitten on the leg by 1 a rattlesnake near Dayton Sunday, while hunting, and is heyond hope of recovery. Surveys of the Mexican Gulf, Pacific aud Puget Sound railroad has reached Pensacola and grading is to be commenc- • ed the middle of March. ALABAMA. The race war in Alabama seems to be a very small affair. The killed are re duced from sixteen to one. A liiogrnpity of the Ceiehritied Sdllth Carolinian and adopted Alabamian. Wil liam L. Yancey, is one ijf the Jirontised. books. Col. John W. Dubose, of Bir mingham, Ala , is writing it. The dead and mangled body of a man was found at a railroad crossing in the heart of Birmingham Friday night. Ik has been identified as a harness maker named King, who got on sprees. The Southern Exposition will open at Montgomery on Octolrer 28, and close November 11. Cspt. H. G. Bibb has been elected president. Preparations arc being made to make the exposition the greatest fair ever held in Alabama. WOULDN'T ACCEPT NOBLE’S PLAN. THE DEADLY PARALLEL COLUMNS Look on Thia Picture, Gentle Reader, Then en That. IN THE WEST AND I IN THE SOUTH. NORTHWEST. Indian wars. A reign of peace. Farmers being Everybody prosper- scalped, j o«s and happy. People fleeing from Farmers yearly be- their homes. | coming Irettcr off. The deadly blizzard. Sunshine. Five successive crop Five successive good failures. j crops, increasing I vcarly. Want and starvation. Plenty. A hopeless loud of Practically free ol debt. The Governors of Virginia and Ger- gia Disagree With the Secretary of the Interior. Richmond, Va., Feb, 9. —Secretary Noble has insisted that the money appro priated under an art passed at the pres ent session of Congress for the support of agricultural and mechanical colleges should he divided equally betwecu the white and colored institutions. Gov. McKinney took issue with him on this point, and hold that this money should lie distributed iu accordance with the school laws of this State. Gov. Northen, of Georgia, took the same po sition, and sent this letter to Gov. Mc Kinney on January 31: "I enclose a clipping giving you some what llie condition of matters in this State touching the appropriation made by the F’cderal Government for the en dowment ami support af colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanical arts. Secretary Noble is demanding a distribution of the funds between the whites and the negroes not contemplated in my opinion, in the bill as ‘equitable and just.’ Until he assigns stronger rea sons for his conclusions than he has yet presented it is my purpose to insist upon l lie terms of the aet of the General As sembly of (his State giving one-third to the negro college and two-thirds to the State College for the whites. This di vision is based upon our school popula tion. I will be glad to have you give mo the conditions in your State and the course you have pursued in this matter.’’ Secretary Noble expressed the desire that (lie same rule should he adopted in the distribution of this fund in Virginia as in Georgia, Gov. McKinney maintain ed that equitable division did not mean equal division of the money between the colored normal school at Hampton and the Blacksburg College. As is tin case in Georgia, the, Virginia school law- gives the whites two-thirds and the col ored ones one-third of the school fund, and Gov. McKinney went so far as to give Mr. Noble to understand that upon no other condition would he accept Vir ginia's share of the appropriation. Tin Secretary has forwarded the money here, and it has been divided between the two colleges in the ratio named iu the State laws. STRUCK REV. SAM JONES. A Texas Mayor Assaults tho Evange list and Gets the Worst of It. Sam Jones is now at Palestine, Texas. He denounced Mayor Ward last year. The Mayor was not home at the time, but this year he laid for Jones. Friday as he was leaving Palestine Ward struck him with his cane. Jones jerked the cane away and beat the Mayor over the head and face. Ward tried to draw a pistol, hut was prevented. Jones’ Geor gia grit pulled him through all right. The news of the encounter soon spread throughout Palestine. After a hasty meeting of citizens, handbills were issued calling a mass-meeting for the purpose of condemning the attack of the Mayor. The act of Mayor Ward is generally de nounced, while there is au element averse to attacks upon private characters such as are occasionally made by Sam Jones in ids pulpit zeal. Mayor Ward was subsequently arrested aud placed under bonds of aggravated assault and for carrying a pistol. The mayor avows his right tn carry weapons, and declares that he had no intention of carrying his resentment further than enu- ing the evangelist. FEEDING THE STARVING. The Poor of England’s Capital Being Fed Each Day. London Cablegram, Feb. 10.—Chari table committees for the relief of the aw ful destitution in London are going about their business in a rather peculiar fashion after an investigation of various rases of the alleged poverty, the inquiry iu each ease being prolouged so as to give the victim a fair chance to die of stai vation.releif wasat length distributed. But for fear that two much benevolence might he followed by disastrous results, the relief was carefully regulated, bread lieing distributed the first day, then soup the next day, and coal the third day. Why the articles could not all have hoen given the first day is not explained. At a large meeting of unemployed labor ers on Tower Hill, a speaker declared that they did not want to stop any shops unless it was actually necessary to do so; hut that they were determined to obtain work, if not by fair means then by foul. A Rooking Stone. 1 Rev. Charles E. McGowan, of Mont- ville, writes to tho New London (Conn.) Day: “I found a new ‘rocker’ on tho southwestern slope of Houghton’s Mount ain in Montville, not a mile from tho railroad station. Weighing a ton at least, jt may bo rocked with one hand easily. To most people it does not seem very strange that a large rock is balanced so nicely that it will rock. But the student knows that these rockers are few and far between aud are eloquent of prehistoric time. It is a genuine boulder.” Footpads are becoming hold and auda cious in London at night, some going eg far as tgj'Uyld up” cabs.. Western "l products: ] Low- Wheat and | prices corn j No homo markets, and remote from I lie great centers. Burned up ti v e months and frozen up seven. Out door work only four or five months of the year. Treeless expanses of sand-h ills a n < sage brush. debt. f Crviit-Uf.rn products; Cotton, sugar, rice, t o - bacco, fi bres. High wheat, prices -[ corn, oats for j fruits of nearly all kinds, all, vegeta bles with out cud, fish and oysters iu unlimited supply. Home markets aud near to great cen ters. An equable climate, a reliable and well distributed rain fall. Out door work all the year round. Rich valleys paral leled by moun tains of coal, iron and timber. A heterogeneous pop' A ho mogencous illation. | population. Furnaces going out Old furnaces run- of blast. Nothing to build on. Railroads cutting rates for what lit tie business lucre is. A dismal future. ning full capacity; new ones going into blast; new mines being open ed. Tremendous indus trial intetests building up. Now railroads build ing; railroads overtaxed with traffic. A splendid destiny. 6ETTLED AT LAST. The Official Announcement of the Change in the Richmond & Dan ville Railroad. The following official circulars settle the questiou of the long rumored promo tion of Mr. W. 11. Green to the position of general manager of tho Richmond and Danville road, and the resignation of General Manager Peyton Randolph: Richmond & Danvii.le R. R. Co., Okkice ok the President, 80 Broadway, New York. CENERAI. ORDER. Mr. W. II. Green has been elected gen cral manager of this company, with oflva at Washington, 1). (!., taking effect Feb ruary 1, 1891, vice Mr. Peytou Randolph, elected third vice-president. He is charged w ith the direction of tin operations of the transportation depart ment in all its branches, aud will report to the first vice-president. John H. Inman, Jan. 31, 1891. President. Richmond & Danville R. R. Co., 1 Okkice ok Gknkhal Manager, ^ Washington, D. C. \ GENERAL ORDER, NO. 43. The office of general superintendent and assistant general manager is herehv abolished, and all reports heretofore made to that office w ill hereafter he sent direct to this office. W. H. Green, Feb. 2, 1891. General Manager. Petitioned the Court to be Hanged. Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 11.—The Couuly Court of Preston county was as tonished the other day when James Car- roll, a prominent although illiterate, far mer, presented a petition signed by 250 of his acquaintances and friends, pray ing that he be hanged, and the Court speedily appoint a day for the event. It turned out after an investigation that Carroll was a road surveyor aud desired to resign. He asked Dr. James A. Cox to draw up a paper to that effect. Cox is a wag, and knowing that Carroll could not read, he drew a petition asking that lie he hanged, and awaited curiously to see how many people would sign it with out knowii g what they were doing. About 150 signed it without reading it. The remainder “caught on" and al lowed the paper to go its rounds. The Cotton Crop Movement. New Orleans, Feb. 10.—The cotton crop movement to February 1 shows; Port receipts for five months 5,278,065 hales, against 4,954,151 last year; net overland to mills 795,706, against 137,- 240; interior stocks iu excess of Septem ber 1, 437,382. against 300,982; South ern mill takings, exclusive of consump tion at outporls, 303,255, against 301,- 829; crop in sight FYb. 1, 6,814,408, against 6,292,202 last year and 5,766,750 year before last; crop brought into sight for January, 961,064, against 766.989 last year, and 762,895 the year before. The last comparisons for the previous year embrace all corrections attached to the proper periods, instead of adding them iu lumps later in the season. The Preacher Made Whisky. Nashville, Tenn., February 9.—Gen eral Deputy Collector Spurrier raptured an illicit distillery at the residence of Rev. Berry Bridges, a Presbyterian preacher, near Flinlvillc, Lincoln county, which Mrs. Bridges explained the doctor had he .ii operating in making a little whisky for his own use. The still was a crude affair, hut callable ol making a gal lon a day, and was locked in a cellar, un der the smoke house. A Plague of Crows. The English School Board has caused a plague uf crows in northern Norfolk, so say tho farmers, who in these days of compulsory education cannot obtain enough hoys to scare the crows. Mechan ical scarcra arc no use—the old birds are much too knowing to Imi deceived by such devices,and they enjoy a really good time amongst tho farmers’ ricks and crops.—Chicago Pott. THE FARMERS’ SENATOR. A Sketch of the Man Who Defeated Ingalls. The Hew Senator is a Six-Footer of Slender Build—Ingalls Takes His Defeat in Good Humor. wlLliAV frxrTER. Topeka, Kansas. February 8.—Sena tor Ingalls takes his defeat philosophi cally. He remained iu his room fit (life hotel while the ballot was taken, accom panied by three or four friends, and when the news of his defeat came to him he gave no evidence of disappointment or feeling, but took it ns a matter of course. He had tn push his way through a big crowd as he entered the Copeland dining room shortly after 10 o’clock, lie held his head erect aud there was a sug gestion of a sarcastic smile on ins face. Kvcrybody within sight wanted to get a look at him to see how he took his de feat and a few shook hands with him and attempted to hurriedly express their re gret. He simply acknowledged their re grets by a nod and a “Tliauk you.” IT didn’t spoil his appetite. Gen. and Mrs. Humphreys sat just a- cross the table from him, while Kugcne F. Ware sat at his left. He ordered a dinner which suggested a good appetite and likewise encouraged one, and he ale it with evident relish, talking cheerfully ami almost incessantly to his friends. The large dining room was crowded ami every one paid more or less attention to the distinguished Senator. In fact all eyes seemed to be directed toward the tabic at which he sat, and a large crowd pushed and jostled mound the diiiing room to get a glimpse of him. He seem ed not to pay the slightest attention In any one except those at his table, being oblivious to the fact that a hundred pairs of eyes were constantly upon him. He was at dinner an hour find when lie left the dining room for his room lie again had to press Ids way through a crowd. Souator Ingalls' friends, to all appeal ances, take his defeat much more to heart limn he docs.- Senator Buchan, chairman of the Republican Central Committee, who has been closer to liim in this fight than anybody else, and who has had charge of the Campaign, is the picture of dispuir. He nns stood by his chief with unquestioned loyalty and devotion. not surprised. Senator Ingalls conceded his defeat to night. He did not conceal his disap pointnient, but he said the result was not wholly unexpected to him. Nearly a year ago lie expressed a doubt of hi- re-cleetlou. The old Kansan delega lion in Congress at that time began to show signs of disintegration. Congress- iiian Thomas Ryan was made minister to Mexico; then Congressman Peters an nounced his determination not to lie a candidate again; then Congressman Tur ner was defeated for re-nomination. Congressman Anderson was also dafeal ed in the nominating Convention, and Ingalls said the Convention was like a row of bricks, one being pushed over the others were likely to follow. He seems to be personally gratified at the choice of Pfoffcr and extended his con gratulations today. REi’UIJLICAN HOPES. Republicans generally arc well satis fied with Judge PfclTer, whom they have looked upon as the best of the several Alliance aspirants. It is thought he will affiliate with the Republicans in the Semite in all matters not directly antag onistic to the interest of the farmers and j laboring classes of the country. His record as a soldier helped him to tri umph over his competitors, and he will he an advocate of the veterans in all leg islution affecting them. One objection uiged against him by his Alliance oppo nents was his age and physical infirmi ty. Some of the members who at first opposed him feared that ho might not like to serve his entire term, iu which event a republican Governor would un doubtedly appoint Ingalls to succeed him. a kelk-madb man. Willium Alfred I’feffcr has lived a life of toil and hardship very similar to lhat of Lincoln and Garfield lie foie they came into public notice. He has imi all the common vicissitudes that beset die hiiinnn family, such as poverty, poor crops, unfortunate investments and im paired health. He has been a pioneer funner, a pedagogue, a soldier, a law yer, a legislator, a lecturer and an editor. Mr. Pfetfcr was horn iu (.'luiilicrinud County, Pa., ou September 10, 1831. ins parents being farm people of small means. The locality offered limited advantages for education aud training, and young Pfcffcr had no opportunity for advancement except siirli as he could make fnt himself, lie attended the little neighborhood school in llie winter months between the age of 7 and 17. He waa a closo sludeut and reader, and at the age of 15 had a teachers certifi cate, nnd was given charge of a district school at $16 a month, from which he paid for his board iinil clothing and saved something for books ami papers. Hr taught school for several winters and worked on trie farm in the summer, and employed every spare hour in reading. At 19 he posscsed a miscellaneous libra ry of one hundred vnl'iiii"s, was a ready debater, and some of bis i oiiiniiinli ntious had been published by Iheanti-slawry and temperance press. AS A lloosllat KAKMKn. He married in December, 1852. and removed to St. Joseph Couuty, lud., where he bought a small tract of timber land and begun to clear it for a farm. He was not since-slid in the umb ilak- ing, and in 1859, lie went to Southwest Missouri and purchased a farm in Morgan County. Then the war trouble came on, aud, as lie bud expressed strong Union sentiments, ft became prudent for him to make another rrtove—this time to Warren County, III., where he tented a farm, pur in a general crop, and in August, 1862. h< enlisted as a private in Company F, "f the 83d regiment, Illinois Infantry. IN THE ARMY. Private Pfcffcr w as commissioned as second lieutenant, and was sulrsetpientlv made depot quartermaster in the engineer department at Nashville, handling tin supplies for the military divisions of Mississippi under General Slunnan. He served without sick leave or fm lough until June 26. 186.'i. w hen he was litUHii- nbly discharged. Such leisure as came to him in The army lie had devoted to study, and afte' r bis discharge he opened a law oflice in Clarksville, Tenn. He secured a number Of important Cases growing out of the War, and prosecuted them successfully, fn the work of re-establishing peace ami good will in the South he took issue with the extreme radicalism of Governor Brownlow and labored for the organiza tion of a Conservative-Union party in harmony with the National Republican parly. After a foyr year's residence at Clark-ville he grew tired of the social and political condition, and sacrificing his property there, he removed to Wilson county, Kan., in 1870. There he located a claim and again engaged in agriculture. He also established a newspaper and opened a law oflice at the county seal. He was iu the legislature of 1874 as Sen ator from Wilsou and Montgomery coun ties. As A Jhl'kNAtJfiT. He met with financial reverses in 187.-,, and changed his location to Coffcvville. Montgomery county, where he startec the Coffeyville Journal and abandoned his law practice on account of failing health. He was a Republican Presidcn tial elector in 1880, and gave up paily politics with the election of Garfield and removed to Topeka in 1881, am; subsequently accepted the editorship o‘ the Kansas F’arnier, and became special editorial writer for the Topeka Daily Capital. HIS HOBBIES. Mr. Pfefferliaa been a prominent cham pion of the interests of the farmers foi many years, and was their principal spokesman in the successful campaign of 18t)0. He is a strong Prohibitioni-t. but has always acted with the Republi can party. He is a member of the Pro testant Kpisconal church and is a Mastei Mason and a Knight of Labor. He fa vors free coinage and endorses the de mands of the tjt. Louis platform, upon which the People's party was founded. His principal hobby is the construction by the Government of north aud south railroads in the west, and the loaning of money by the Government to the farmers at a low rate of interest. His article in the Forum on the ‘’Defensive Movement of Farmers” gave him the general favor of the fanners. He is the author of ■I’b'ffers Tariff Manual," which was con sidered a good Republican campaign document in 1888. He also published another pamphlet in 1889 under the title of • The Way Out,” which embodied Ids peculiar ideas of government loans Lo fanners. Judge Pfcffcr is six feet In height, of slender build, wears a full black heard and in general appearance is plain and unpretentious. He'is slow and method) e.d in mamier, but in addressing an au dience he talks rapidly, earnestly, pc; si-tent ly and diffusively. A- the representative of the Alliance, Ids whole effort will be devoted lo secur ing a more abundant circulation of money and cheaper rates of transportation. Judge Pfeifer lives quietly and cont rol tahly in a small cottage on Fillmore street in Topeka. His tastes are domes tic and studious, and Ids home life is de void of display or fashion. He has a wife and four children—two girls and two boys—the latter being practical printers working iu this rity. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The 1’ope is confined to his bed with a cold. Senator Carlisle is now fifty-five years old. Vick I’resident Morton indulges a weak- ne-> for hum sandwiches. James E. Murdoch is probably tho oldest American actor; he will soon be eighty years old. Mouuel Bky. who originated the idea of (boning the Nile for purposes of irrigation, is dead. It is said that Chauucey Depew, the famous Now York after-dinner sneaker, has 600 namesakes. Sknator-kleot Prefer, of Kansas is said to lie taller and even more slender than Beuator Ingalls. The remains of Mias Kmraa Abbott will not lie cremated, her mother strongly objeet- ing to this method. Lieutenant Schwatka, of Arctic fame, will he a cripple for life as a result of his re cent meident at Mason City, Iowa. King Milan will soon return to Belgrade to assert his rights under the constitution as father of King Alexander, of Servia. i» General Milks is referred to affection ately by his old soldiers as “Paddy Miles,” though he has no Irish blood in his veins. Rider Haggard, the novelist, came up for membership in the Society of Antiquaries in London, England, recently.but was pitilessly blackmailed. There is a female revolutionist in Japan who is described as young, pretty and wealthy, but who is burdened with the name Kageamer Hiddo. J. U. McKee son-in-law of President Harrison, has arranged to settle with his family tn Boston, Mass., having established a business connection there with an electric company. Berry Wall, the ex-kingof the dudes, is making a success as a hard-working life insur- anee and domestic man. The transformation of this young gentleman is as striking as that of tl-ear Wilde. Queen Victoria's experiment with tho sitting-still mode of prolonging life is said to be encouraging so far as she has gone. The process is a simple one. When her Majesty feels like taking a walk she doesn’t do It. W. Clark Russell, whose sea stories have snea remarkable dash, breeziuess and out-of-door freedom, has long boon a hope less and well-nigh helpless invalid, chained to an indoor existence In an inland town. American Horse, the Ogallala Chief, is known as the Daniel Dougherty of tho Hioux trib*s. He is the most eloquent, silver- tongue 1 aborigine on the continent. He is naturally a man of grout influence among the Indians. The fortune of the richest Californian, Heuator Leland .Stanford, is estimated now at 850,000,01X1. Ho is a native of New York ami was a lawyer in a Wisconsin village be fore be went west in 1850 with the other Argonauts. Signor Crispi. the deposed Bismarck of Holy, is a Sioilian by birth. His tail ttguro and snow-white moustache have made him one of the most striking individualities in the Chamber of Deputies. He has been au ndefatigohle worker. Senator Komi nds, of Vermont, is one of the few Congressional orators who preserve the “town meeting attitudes.” Ho is simple iu tils language,oM fashioned in his manners, und there are but few flijlit* of fancy or figures of speech in tils speeches. THE LABOR WORLD. There is a dearth of sailors. The South has 1,624,335 spindlers. Chicago, 111., has20,000 unemployed. Denver, Col., boasts 100 manufactories. Fock thousand strikes occurred In 1890. The Iron Moulders’ Union pay $100 at death. New York has a Hebrew Federation of Labor. Brooklyn (N. Y.) furniture hands work nine hours. There are about 75,000 female typewriters iu this country. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers ha? 60,000 members. Sheep butchers at tho Chicago (111.) {Stock Yards are on strike. The strikers on all Scotch railways have returned to work at last. Armour, the great Chicago (III.) pork- pneker employs 6000 men. Another outbreak of strikes in English shipping circles is threatened. Eight-hour demonstrations will be held in every mrt of Portugal May 1. There are 100,000 miners in the anthra cite coal regions of Pennsylvania. UiRL delegates have been admitted to tho Central Union of SSan Francisco, Cal. The Fur-skin Dressers’ Assembly is being reorganized. It died three years ago. Dat.kour’s light railways in Ireland have given work to 7412 unskilled laborers. <>,1 lie 3000 striking cigarumkers at Ham- bur < ‘ennany, not one deserted the union. ATOIogne, Germany, 1300 idle men will bo employed by tho city at eighteen penes- a dny. i in: Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill making eight hours a day’s work, except farm labor. A brewers’ union at San Francisco, Cal., has nearly doubled waged and reduced hour* almost half. Of tho 17,000,000 wage earners in this country, 7 ( <MX),000, or forty four per cent.,are engaged in farming. Stenographers and typewriters can be had in bunches at$l a week. Cooks at $30 a month cannot be found to supply the de mand. The laborers working at the salt works in the Government of Kursk, Russia, receive twelve cents for twelve hours’hard work— one cent per hour. C. G. Conn, horn manufacturer, of Elk hart, Ind., has determined to divide seventy two per cent, of his profits for the year in January, 1802, among his employes. Frederick H. Fisher,a railway engineer who died in Chicago, III., recently, had been in active service lor over thirty years, and during that time never had an accident. The Federation of Labor has decided to eschew politics, maintaining that labor or ganizations which went into statesmanship have waned iu influence and membership. The New York factory inspector recom mends that women under twentv-one and youths of eighteen in mercantile houses bo limit 'd to sixty hours a week, and the pre vention of overcrowding. The dwellings for workmen which the German Government proposes to build in north Berlin will cost $1000 each. They will be purchasable on terms equal to a deposit; of $75 and weekly payments of $1.25. Many labor organizations have of late ap pointed press secretaries, whose duties con sist in furnishing correct reports to the newspapers, all other members being for bidden to talk to reporters or write to edi tors about tho business of their organiza tions. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The Servian cabinet has resigned. Illinois leads in railway mileage. A census is being taken in Austria. The lire loss of 1800 was $108,(KG,COO. Japan uses Philadelphia car-wheels. The African slave trade is reviving. Breweries are starting up in Mexico. A canned fruit trust has bsen formed. Florida has a Colored State Seminary. London, England, has 5,700,000 inhabi tants. M assacres in tho Caroline Islands con tinue. Gold at Buenos Ayres, Argentine, is at 225 premium. Cholera is becoming a terrible scourge in Turkey. Peking, China, is suffering from a severe epidemic of influenza. Two new and rich gold fields have been discovered in Australia. It is estimated that tho recent Scotch strike cost over $3,000,000. The United States Government wants 1200 men to serve as sailors. F. A. Mann, of Mindcn, Neb., in a fit of passion, sawed oil' a cow’s leg. Great destitution exists among the far mers in Decatur County, Kau. During tho past six years Minnesota has paid *18,834 for wolf bounties. There will be seven natives of Y'ennonfc in the next United States Senate. (.'hearer transportation for peaches will probably reduce the prices next, season. A woman was recently gored to death by a bull at a cattle show in Paris. France. A rich find of gold is reported from tho northern part of Duvall County, Texas. Over $3(K),(M)0 worth of vessels owned in Philft'elphi.i, Penn., were lost nt sea during the past year. San Francisco (Cal.) police are destroy ing the joss houses of tho Chinese highbind ers in that city. It is said that $15,005,000 will be needed by tho Directors for carrying on the World’s Fair at Chicago, 111. The waste of money in Africa is mentioned as the chief cause back of Italian Prime Minister Orispi’s fall. A Minneapolis (Minn.) minister dropped dead in his pulpit after preaching a sermon on “Is Life Worth Living-''’ Major Wissmann 1ms sent to Bmperor William, of Germany, his resignation as Commissioner in East Africa. The estimate of tho wb ^* cro,. ’ j It. Farmers’ Alliance is over 10,000,00) bushels less than the Government e stimate. Coal mines and factories in Central illi nois have been compelled to shut down be cause of the long continued drouth. The present debt of Chicago, 111., is about $13,000,000. She lias undertaken an addi tional $5,000,000 for the World’s Fair. The cold weather has created as much destitution and suffering iu England as the failure of the potato crop has in Ireland. Anew machine is in operation in Chi cago, 111., that may revolutionize the cor dage manufacture and cheapen binding twme. The Treasury Department has rendered an opinion holding that live animals are not cntirliMl to ware-housing and transportation privileges. \ % a p|H‘ftl for aid has been sent out by the citizens of Lincoln County, Nebraska, claim ing that500 families are suffering for the ne cessities of life. The report of tho Iowa State Mine Jn- sneetors shows that tho coal output iu tho •Slate in 1MJ0 was 7,04u,820 tons, an increase over 188'J of 320,084 tons. Three artillerymen were killed in Berlin, Germany, by tho premature discharge of a gun while a salute was l>oing fired in honor of tho Emperor William’s thirty-second birthday. Toe months of December and January were unusually disastrous to tho Gloucesb V (Mass.) fishing Hoot. Eight vessels of a total tonnage of 81,249 tons have been wrecked or lost in the two months. The Treasurer of Tehama County, Cali fornia, paid out $795.40 for scalps in P - comber. There were five lions, 108 coyotes, sixty-three wild cate, 1953 rabbits, fiffy-three coons, ten bears and two eagles. The Sultan 1ms made Professor Koch n first-class member of the Osmanish Order of Turkey.