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THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1891. NO. 25. ' *‘It 'will not be long at the present rate of progress,” believes the Washington Star, until the oyster will have joined the buffalo ia the happy banting grounds” A wealthy Canadian is traveling about Sic country with a mission. That mis- non is to save shoe leather to the world. He insists that if everybody would chver 1 jhree inches snore at every Step the sav ing in boots and shoes in America alone would be^27,000,000 per year. In two years, states the 8t. Louis Re- public, the original patents of the Bell Telephone Company on the art of trans mitting the human voice over wires by electricity, will expire. Then anybody who chooses can make and use a tele phone without let or hindrance. ’ At the recent convention of street-ca> men in St. Louis, Mo., it was shown by ■statistics, avers the New York World, that after fifteen fares have been rung up on an ordinary horse car all the re mainder of the money taken in for that trip is profit for the company. Within the past thirty years, estimates "the Atlanta Conutit’/fion, the population wf our cities and towns has increased 251 per cent., from 5,000,000 to 13,000,000, while the rural population has increased less than one-third as rapidly, or about seventy per cent. The United States opened this yeat ■with 167,255 miles of railway in opera tion—enough, boasts the Cincinnati En quirer, to go around the globa seven times, and enough to reach more than two thirds of the way to the moon. If it ■were all in a continuous line, and in ab solutely perfect condition, it would take our fastest express train six months to run over it. The late Emm i Abbott came 1 the largest fortune ever amassed on the operatic stage in this country, and yet the New York Commercial-Adrtr’iter thinks that site probably never gave a performance which was attractive to edu cated music lovers; while many of her methods were distinctly disagreeable to all whoso standards of music were high. With regard to Germany, who can wonder, asks the St. Louis Republic, at the increase there of socialism in view ing facta like these: In Saxony 73.51 per cent, of the population have an in come of less thin $200 a year; and of this number 45.49 per cent., are wretchedly poor, having an income of less than $125 per annum. The middle class embraces 23.47. Even these have lesa than $820 a year. Only 0.60 pos- aes* over $2400 per annum. SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Captain S. 8. Leach, of the Missis- •ippi River Commission, says that it has been estimated by skillful engineers that $10,000,000 would pay for a levee sys tem on the Mississippi River, that, if properly watched and maintained, would lie safe against flood. The cost ol maintenace to nation and State he esti mated at less than $1,000,000 per an num. The effect of such a system, he said, would be to revolutionize the car rying trade of the river, and redeem 30,. 000 square miles of the finest agricultural land. The announcement that the Duke of Mecklcnburg-Schwerin wanted Prince Bismarck for President of his Council of State was sufficient to prompt Em peror William to abandon a pleasure trip to Cannes. Now comes the news that the people of Bavaria decidedly object to a review of their army by the German Emperor, although that army is an in tegral part of the defense of the Empire. On the horizon of Germany signs are abundant, observes the St. Louis Star- Sayingt, that the Bismarckian fabric of Confederated States under Imperial rule is not so solid as it was on a certain day in March, 1890, when its founder was asked to step down and out. The Chicago Timc$ asserts that Stick- ncy, a noted railroad capitalist, said to a gathering of the stockholders and bond manipulators of railroads that met the other day in New York City: “You are all gentlemen here. In your private ca pacity as such I would trust any ol you with my watch, and I would believe the word of any of you, but in your capacity as railroad presidents! would not believe one of you on oath, and I would not trust one of you with my watch.” “The extent of the influence of irri gating enterprises on the future of Cali fornia agriculture may be inferred,” opines the San Franciso Chronicle, “from the magnitude of so ne of the oompanies formed to build duns and pnpply water. The Bear Va lny Irriga tion Company, which has hem incor porated with a capital stock of $1,000,- 000, when its new dam, which is In tended to supplement the one already built, Is completed,will be able to supply water to a district containing 510,000 acres of the choicest fruit land In southern California. The number of engineering works of this character is in creasing so rapidly In this State that we may fairly assume that California in o very few years will rival India in her facilities for irrigation.” Happenings of Importance F6r A Week. Dwellers in City and Country Got a Write-Up Sere Free of Charge, and No Questions Asked. VIRGINIA Lexington ll5s secured a large plant for the manufacture, of edge tools. The plant to be erected will cost $3‘i0,000, and will give employment to 300 men. Everyone in business circles is predict ing an unprecedented “boom" for Staun ton as soon as the weather will permit the building of factories, shops, houses for bands, etc. Colonel Llewellyn Hoxton, associate principal of the Diocesan High School for boys, of the PwtcstArtt Episcopal Church of Virginia, At Alexandria, fell dead at the breakfast (able Thursday. The Hon. A. II. H. Stewart, ex-sccre- tary of the interior in President Kilmorc’s cabinet and a member of the Peabody educational board, is critically ill at Staunton and is expected to die at any time. Col. Richard F. Beirnr, formerly edit or of the Richun nd State, died at his home in Ashland Monday night. During the ttrt five weeks of its opera tion the Buena Vista icon furnace has shipped 1.506 toils of pig iron to various Northern points. A temperance crusade has started at South Boston. The pastors of the Bap tist. Methodist and Presbyterian church es arc at the head of the movement. NORTH CAROLINA. Ten weeks free tuition, beginning March 15th. will be given by the State University to teachers. Write to Pttsi dent Battle for particular'. Tlie directors of the Atlantic and North <'arolina railroad have applied to the leg islature to so amend the charter as to ex tend from Goldsboro to Charlotte. Raleigh has raised $16,000 for the In ter State Exposition, and it will be held in that city next fall. Every county in the Slate should help Raleigh to make this an affair worthy the State. Cant. T. T. Smith, agent at the Rich mono and Danville freight depot in Charlotte, says that three times as much cotton has been handled at the depot, up to the present time, this season, as was handled during all of last season, line of the Charlotte compresses has com pressed so far 88.000 hales, against 59, 000 the same date of last year. The Me- Fadden press m the junction has handled about 60,0 0. Everyone connected with the State Department of Agriculture is very busy just now sending oilt lags for fertilizer bags; 100.000 tags have been shipped during the week. It will take 500,000 tags to supply the demand this season. Tlie house of representative* passed the railroad commission bill, it is the bill with a few slight amendments, that passed thesenate It provides for three commissioners to he elected by the Gen eral Assembly, and they are given the power to ti\ and regulate freight and passenger rates, to regulate telegraph and express companies, and to prevent all discriminations. SOUTH CAROLINA. The South-Bound railroad is 1 icing graded from Columbia to Grahams, 47 miles. C H. Blanker, of Charleston, has se emed a patent and is now having his “Improved removable sidings for beds” manufactured. .1. B. Williams, who murdered Majoi W. A. Williams at Greenville on Friday night, and has since been a fugitive from justice, was captured near Waynesville, N. and brought back to Greenville. ', A reward of $800 was offered for his capture. •1. L. Withers has resigned his place in the agricultural department of South Carolina He did not desire to work un der the Tillman administration, by which he has been retained as clerk of the board of trustees of the department of agricul ture. At the last session of the Legislature the Kansas City, Bitniingham, Macon, Foot Point Railway system obtained pet mission to enter tiiis State. The road is an air line from Kansas City to Foot Point. A eonr-truetion company, with John Temple Graves as general man Rgcr, has already, it is said, began opera tions on the South Carolina section of the road, whii h will imi through Colleton and Hampton counties. Tin- company, it is reported, lias bought largely ol land near Foot Point. GEORGIA. There is no abatement to the building boom in southwest Georgia. And every day ushers in new enterprises in the progressive towns. In the oyster-opening contest in Bums •vjek recently, Editor Whitmire came within six oysters of winning the first prize. He has since decided that ’he pen is mightier than the oyster knife. A special from Savannah says that the steamer Katie, plying between Augusta and Savannah on tlie Savannah River, sank about fifteen miles above the latter city. The cargo was mostly fertilizers. The ripping of a seam was the cause. The Augusta bureau of the Southern Inter States’ Immigration Bureau was or ganized Thursday. All the money need ed to pi or lire a $500 charter for » city with a population of 50,000 has been raised and the local bureau will com mence work at once. Milton is decided the best county in the Blue Ridge circuit, in many respects. Court remained in session, last week, on l.V two and a half days, and only one man was convicted of crime. The conn ty is out, of debt, its bridges and public buildings are all in very good condition, and there is about $3,000 in the treasury. Mercer University is fortunate. A west Georgia gentleman promises to give the uuivr rsity $75,000, a lady adds $25,000, so rumor has it, ami other ample dona tions arc said to be in sight. TENNESSEE. Two sons of Circuit Court Clerk Dsl Ion. of Smith county, were drowned near C'aithago Monday while riding in tlie back waters. Their bodies were recov ered That E. A. Collins, of Milan, has sold to Eastern parties since Jan. t. $10,000 worth of Ik/isck horn and hr d on Ilia farm carries n lesson to W.-st 'i’enm ssce fui'llll'l’s. Ttlc hev. $. W. Kramer, the boy preacher, is reported critically ill at Bris tol, and it is thought by those near, him *hat his mind is affected—probably a case of softening of the twain. A peculiar discovery w as made at Stone Fort, near Chattanooga, just as men •vcrc hewing asunder s large piece of rock. It was found that a crevice divi 1 •:d II, ihc aperture, however, narrowed down until it became solid toward the iiottom. When the men broke it asun der, within the bosom of the rock was found a petrified reptile resembling very much the shape and build of alligator. A special election for mayor of Nash ' ille to fill the varancy caused by the • esignation of C. P. McCarver, was held Tuesday. A little over three thousand voters, or less than one-third of the vot ing population, were registered, and of these only 543 voted. Win. Litterer, tie- Democratic nominee, had no opposition, and received 528 votes. Contract for the construction of the Danville and East Tennessee Hailro.td has been awarded to the Interstate Con- -ttnotion Co., of New York, which has sublet the first division of 20 miles to James F. Edwards & Co., of New York. FLORIDA. De Land will begin the (Tertian of a handsome public sc hool building in a few days. The Jac ksonville Street Railway Co., has applied to the city council for au thority to operate its hues by electric ity. The United States census bureau an nounees the population of Florida by counties and races as follows: Whites. 224,610; colored, 166,678; Indians, 16S; Chinese, 101; Japanese, 14; total, 391. 422. The Florida Sugar Manufacturing Co. works at St. Cloud, has amended its charter im reasing its capita! stock from $275,000 to $1,000,600. JOilci ft each, a considerable sketch of land in Florida, bounded on the cast by the ocean and on the west by Lake Worth, lues been purchased by a syndi cate of New Yorkers consisting of Samuel Barton, a tousiu of the Vanderbilts, and a well known metropolitan broker, Fred eric- W. Vanderbilt, Commodore Van Santvoerd,-H. Walter Webb and Chaun- •ry M. Depew. who are to build » hotel c osting several hundred thousand dollais, construct an iron pier and make other improvements. To a reporter Mr. Depcw said: “I have not seen it. but from Mr. Barton’s anil Commode re Van Sant voord’s description it is the one idea! spot on this globe " OTHER STATES. At Montgomery the Senate has passed i bill appropriating $30,000 to represent Alabama .it the World’s fair. James S. Richardson, the great cotton planter, denies the report that he is en gaged to Miss Winnie Davis. He says that he has not seen her in three months end that he is not correspondence with 1 er. He is a gieat friend of the Davis Umily, and is iinich annoyed that such a report should get into c in illation. The Troy Fertilizer Manufacturing Co., of Troy, Ala., has declsred an 18 percent, dividend on ils capital of $150,- 000. Digest of Now Fertilizer Laws. The following digest of the new fer tilizer laws just passed by the North Carolina General Assemby will be of gen oral interest. The law- substitutes a ton nage charge instead of the privilege tax on the brand. Manufacturers oi others must now pay a tonnage charge of 25 cents per ton on all fertilizers and fertilizing materiels. Tags must lie procured from the Commission er of Agriculture to lie attached to every bag before shipment to agents, dealers, or consumers in thii State. It is a misdemeanor and a fine of $iu for each bag, for an agent nr dealer to offer for sale any such fertilizer or fertilizing materials not properly tagged, or a con sumcr to remove it, or a railroad agent to deliver it. Fertilizers which now- have a license to sell (secured last year) w ill not be required to pay the charge or to lie tagged mitii expiration of thcii licenses. All others on sale must be ragged properly at onee. Goods kept ovci from last season must be tagged to represent this fael, and all dealers are re qnired to report the amount on hand at the close of the fiscal year on Nov. tilth. No fertilizer can he sold with a ((intent less than 8 percent, of available phosphoric acid, 2 per cent, of ammonia and 1 per cent, of potash, Kainit, rot Ion seed meal, for fertilizing purposes, and other fertiliz ng materials must now In inspected ' zed, and possible adulteration so prevented.—H. B. Battle, Experiment Stathm^laleiedi. Georgia Gold. CiivtTAMioux, Tknn., Keh. 18.—Gold w as discovered in Gilmer county, Ga , is early as 1835, hut on account of the lack of capital and energy of the inhali itants. and their ignorance as to the abundance of precious metals in the i e'liity, the development of the mineral wealth of the State was delayed til! this late day. Gilmer county is almost in its infancy in tlie developmi nt of its pre ( ions metals, y.t it lias been known ever *-i(i( e the white man came into this conn try that it had some very rich gold mines. Among the most noted gold is the "White Path" mine, from which it is estimated $500,000 of gold has been taken from the placer alone. The Car tecay mine is known as one of the richest in the South. Our oldest citizens es’i mate that between $200,000 and $3f0 000 have been taken from its placers. In 1885 some pra- rii il miners opened up the vein upon this property and exposed about 15 feet of the vein that assayed $22,000 per ton. Another assay made within the last veil shows it worth $19,500. Georgia Agriculturalists. Savannah, Ga., [Special 1. - The Geer gin State Agricultural Society held its spring meeting here. Governor Northcn, the retiring president of tlie society, pre sided and installed Hie officers elect, in eluding.!. II Waddell ns incoming pics ident. About two hundred and fifty del egates were pie.-cut. Reports and speech es were made on agricultural topics. Governor Northcn held a public recep tion and reviewed the troops which pu- mded in his honor. The convention on Thursday was given an excursion to Tybee. Patti Sued For $35,000. A St. Petersburg Cablegarasays: The Russian impresario who engaged 51 me Patti for the St. Petersburg concerts will sue the diva for $25,000 damages for breach of contract, Mine Patti having refused to appear unless her advance money was deposited with her bankers WAtTERSON T9 HILL. An Extraordinary Letter, which is Said to have had an Extra ordinary Effect The Baltimore Sun published last Wed resday a letter written by Henry Wattci- r -on to Governor Hill, which the Sun says was probably instrumental in bringing ibout the meeting of Governor Hill and x-President Cleveland and also on Hill taking the New York Senatorship. Wat •erson's letter was prompted solely by his xvn convictions and without the least consultation with any one. It is as fbl- lows: Lot’isvn.tE, November 21, 1891. —Mv Dear Sir: I take leave to address you ,hi« letter as one of some millions of Demorrats who hare never sought or held office, and w-ho could not be in duced to do so, but who are deeply con ceroed in party welfare and who believe you to hold the key to it. Outside of the State of New York their i: a wa II nigh unanimous demand among ’he rank and file of Demorrats for tin- nomination of .Cleveland. This is too drong for party leaders and managers to esis 1 . 1 think I have some influence in Kentucky, hut on that point I should In overwhelmed ill the State Convcnvention. If you should come to the National Convention with a New York delegation solid against it. you would be overwhelm od. You arc powerless to prevent it. But you can defeat tlie election of the tirket. There are Democrats in every part of (lie l : nion who believe you did this in I8XN. I know that to be false. 1 know exactly what happened, and 1 have stead ily dofende I you in public and in pii vate But it will rling to you as long as you live, even as the bargain, intrigue and corruption sloty clung to Clay, and xvill meet yorl in every National Convcn tion, if it he not dissipated by some in t on your part great enough to blot it out. In default of this, if you have any hope of the Presidency it will defeat that. Mv judgment is dear that, if you could reconcile it with your judgment and feel ing to make peace with Cleveland and to take the delegation to the National Con vi n'ion in 1892 to put him in nomination, xeu will save the party and place yonrsdf upon an elevation you can never attain if you fail to do it. You would be re ecivrd by the country with enthusiasm, be accepted at once as a Warwick, and I do not see how you could he kept out of the sm cession. On the other hand, even If you succeed ed in defeating the nomination of Clcve land, you will stand upon sinister and dangerous ground with a stormy future before you. , . These are plain words, and I have no relations with you which give me tlie right to offer you counsel. They may be disagreeable words, and I have no de sire to obtrude upon your privacy. But they are true words, and I claim the right of a Democrat who has some knowledge of the country nt large, and ha 5 given some proof of intelligent devotion to party interests, to ignore eeremony and to semi them to you. In conclusion let me say that 1 shall, in any (vent, he glad to know you better, au'l that, meanwhile, I am most sineeie ly your friend, Henrt Watterson. To the Hon. David B. Hill. HILL GETS HAMPTON’S SEAT. Apparently He is Getting Ready to Occupy It On March 5. A speeial'frnm Washington, D. C.. says: When David B. Hill of New Y’ork takes his seat in the United States Sen ate on March the 5 next lie will find him self amid (^uite pleasant surroundings. His desk will he situated between that of Senator Daniel of Virginia on tlie left and that of Senator Colquitt of Georgia on the right. Senatorial desks are as signed on the principle of first come first served, (-apt. Isaac Bassett, the white haired old Asristnnt Sergeant at- Arms, who has been an employee of the Senate for neatly sixty years, keeps a little red book in which he makes note of the requests of Senators to get possession eeilain seats when vacated. Thus, soon as a Senator is defeated for lection a colleague enters name in the red book, and vacated chair is assigned to him according ly. Yesterday Capt. Bassett re- reived a letter from Kcnetor elect Hill requesting as desirable a seat ns pos sible. The old gentleman thereupon consulted his list of application*. lie found it possible to assign to Mr. Hill the desk now occupied by Senator Wade Hampton of South Carolina, and so it happens that a Nexv Y’ork Senator will find himself on the 5th of March seated la-tween those handsome and wliiskel- less statesmen, tlie Hon. John Warwick Daniel and Alfred Holt Colquitt. The chair has been occupied for twelve years by the one-legged veteran, Wade Hampton of South Carolina, who xvns defeated by the Alliance candidate, Mr. Irby. The desk to which Senator Hill has thus been assigned is the outer row of tlie Democratic side, but is centrally located and in direct line with the eye of the President pro tempore. Immedi ately in front of this desk is that, oren- pied by the leader of the Democrat*. Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland. It is regarded as a very desirable location, and Mr. Hill, tiring a new Senator, may congratulate himself on having had the foresight to secure it. Cut Off His Quens For a Bride. A Lansing, Mich., special says: A narriage license wa* issued to day to Sam Lee, a Chinaman and proprietor of a ’aundiy here, and Maggie Korhlei. an hidt maiden, young and pretty. The •narriage erremony performed was with the full consent of the bride's parents and friends, and tlie brother of the bride toad up with hei. A large crowd stood ihont the bride’s home, where the mar riage look place invited gue-ls to the nmultcr of 150 being present. Sam is a popular fellow, has a snug sum in the batik, and runs the bigjest laundry in the capital 1 ity. Tin- pair did not go on a hut se, up housekeeping in a house Sam had liought and furnish ed Thee was nothing peculiar iihmit ;he courtship, except that Sam had to cut off his queue in obedience to his bride's wishes. MEN OF MAES. of John P. Lovell, of Boston —Fifty Years in Business. JOHN P. LOVELL. The go!d«» anniversary ot the businest career of Mr. John 1’. Lovell, one of BOxSton’» Most widely known business men, was ap propriately celebrated in that city recently. (Speaking of Mr. Lovell’s career, which mightVell “point a moral an 1 adorn a tale,” the Turf, Field and Farm says: “John P. L ivell was born in East Brain free. Mass.. July 2T», 1820. At the age of eleven he left school and went to work in a rotten factory. One year later his mother opened a boarding house in Boston and John had another year of Fchcoling. With this scant equipment, but with an indomitable determination to succeed in life, the boy of thirteen entered into the arena of life’t battle. , t “The years that followed witnessed the lad making a noble fight against the dis advantages with which he was surrounded. After an eventful life in various lines of trade, he settled down to the gunsmith business in the employ of A. B. Fairbanks, to whom he became* apprenticed nt a weekly salary of $2, with Y25 yearly allowance for clothe?, and n rais« of fifty cents per wpek anti $10 per year additional clothing allow- anc 1 for each succeeding year until the age of twenty-one. “''ho qualities which in later years do ▼aioped tlie man of large enterprise and un swerving integrity took firm root in the gun smith boy, and Mr. Fairchild was so grati fied with his success that, when John was twenty years of age, the old gentleman voluntarily took him in as a partner with onc- half interest. At this time John had not a dollar in the world. “Thus, fifty years ago, wib formed the firm which to-day is represented by the great house of John P. Lovell Arms Co., whose business radiates throughout the world. “Jo! m's profit for the first year was $700. In Ikf! Mr. Fairohild died and Leonard Grover entering, the firm became Grover & Lovell. In 1841 John P. Lovell bought out his p*rt nor's share and with renewed zeal pushed his business toward the high mark of suc cess which he had set before himself in his ▼outh. As the vears sped by, his name and fame traveled from city to city. Through the ranks of the sporting goods dealers of Amei lea he hewed his way from the lowest to the highest place of success, until with honest in ido he felt his feet securely planted on the nigh, ground to w hich in boyhood days, when t ioor and unknown, hisambition had aspired, lis family had grown up around him in the intervening years, and he now beheld his sous, developed into men ready to assist him in his old age to carry to a further success the enterprise begun years before. “In 1874 the business was removed to the present spacious buildings in Boston which arc lor ated in the business centre of the city. “Here daily may be seen John P. Lovell,no longer the young man whose steps are elastic in the pursuit of lofty ambitions, but John F Live!I the man of years, who has trodden life's pathway through both the bitter and the * vect, and has emerged from its shadows and contests, a man of success both in the development of wealth and of character.” THE STATUS 0* THE STAPLE. Report of tti« United States Agricul tural Department on the Size of the Crop, the Amount Still on Plantations and Pro. poition of Seed to Lint. Wish i noton, ft. | Special J.—The cotton ri-turna of the department of aj»ri vulture for Fehruary report the estimated product compare'l xvi'h last year, the proportion sent from plantations and the yield of lint to seed. a* The xl.iiitc. xvcic prill fi’ in boiling re opening i n (idly in tli ■ ,-nrly autumn ins DS to n\ til’ enpatitv 'f pi< l cis and the leave u ilt”» , X|.”„ ,f . ’ till- weather, Fun Ahead in Minneapolis. A press dispatch from Minneapolis, Minn., «hvs: Arrangements have been made for a joint debate the last of March between Ignatius Donnelly and Boh fn gc-rsoll, Donnelly to defend the crypto- Siam, niul Ingersoll to uphold the Shnkesiieanaiu cud of the controversy. which xxa nr.u.’ially moist There is consequt idly -s-neral complaint or discol oration and to some extent in jury of the fibre from the same < no c. An unusual amount of (rash ivns oat lined xvith the cotton that xvns tlnr exposed The consolidation of county estimate.* ns returned by the repoiter*. makes ft) per rent, of the product of last year. The Staleaveiaj;eK arc r- follows: North Carolina, xihich had a very small nop last year, tin-. Smith Carolina, 100, Geor gia, tn.5; l-’lai-ida 95; Mahama, 104: Mississippi. In:t; l.oiiisitna, 95; Texas. 108; Arkaieos 102; Tennessee, 1(0. Some conc.pendents tlaim that there has been an cnized t ffoit to bold hack the delivery of t'n ■ crop in the hope of betler pri'( i ttliers report its rapid marketing to o,-i the benefit of the higher rates of the ope ning of the season. It is possible that tin - - causes were both op erative. One (arly in the season, the other later, ( ounli raeting the early move ment. Tlie propoitioiis sent from plantations are thus reported: Xcath Carolina. 86 percent: South Caiolina, 85; Georgia, 85; Florida. 90; Alabama. 86; Mississip pi. 86; Louisiana. 90; Te xas. 89; Arkan sas, 85; Tennessee, 85. General averages 8 7. Tlie proportion of ported nt 32 to 33 pe- results be ing in the A in Louisiana ami Te-x: Appropriation For the World’* Fair. A Raleigh e enn-sponelent writes: Col. Tilers. Keojdi, of fee World's Fair com- mission. is hue ami is devoting himself to the work of see-tiring a complete rep- re-ntatioii of North Carolina at the great exposition. The- le gislature is elisposed to art liberally in tin- matter and tee avail itself of what is ueieloeilitcelly North Cnr- (ilina's giei'-' t opportunity. It will he aske-el to appropriate $50,000. ft jg thought tin* sum is n asonablc and prop- cr One of tin plans is to have' a North Carolina b'eil'ling at Chicago, in which the materials will he- the beautiful build ing stone s ami the choice woods of the State anil in thi-i to place every article which is enu'tieiateil in th" census re- turns. Norih Carolina is the only State in all the Union which e'an do this. Fe-r sti-T neck, sore throat, pains in the <;he.«', n good remedy is to rub some oil or - iM-line into the skin, then cover ev.'li a pi.--e of colton wn'Ming, the shin - i ic ur'vord.im'l wear till the dis- C I'xjti’it is gone. liiet to seed is re cent . the’ better antic i oast States, farmers And silver. A Determined Effort to Influence Congress. The Council of State Preeidente of t*"i National Farmers Alliance Adopts a Resolution Demanding the Prompt Report of the Silver Bill. Wasthnoton, D. C. Feb. 16. -The pres idents of the State organizations of the National Fanners' Alliance met here, the purpose being to formulate certain meas ures to be presented to Congress and to msip out some feasible plan for disseiffi- hatlng thf’ fittaStfir* «f file rnttnei! for educational purposes. The meeting was called to order xvith President Polk in the chair, representatives of the follow ing States being present: Virginia, Man- land, South Carolina, North Carolina, Fennessee, Mississippi. Kansas and Penn sylvania and several other States. The only business transacted in the morning was the appointment of a (oni mittefe on Silver legislation. At the ex-e-n ing session this ((Jniniift‘ , e- submitted the following report: Resolved. That we regaril it as a high 'luty enjoined upon Congress by the('o"ii stitution to provide for the unlimited coinage e>f both the precious metals, gold and silver, to (he end that the people of the several State’s may lie provided xvith a circulating medium. We express otn surprise and indignation that this duty lias been so long delayed and neglected, contrary, as xve believe, not only to the duty we have mentioned, but the best in terests of the masses of our people, xvh'i are suffering the pangs of poverty and stagnation of business caused by the want of a sufficient Hrtulatlng medium. We believe and charge that such delay and neglect has been occasioned by nil undue influence in our governmental pal icics by those whose interests it is to con tract the currency and subserve fhe uiii- nopolies and money lenders. We therefore urge upon Congre ss tin’ demand heretofore murte by the Nationid Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union for free and unlimited coinage of silx-e r upon the same terms and conditions Unit gold is noxv coined. We express our e-ae nest condemnation of the exercise of ar bitrary power xvhirh prevented the fair consideration of the free coinage hill at the last session of Congress, and in this connection we gix’e expression to tin- hope that the free coinage trill which passed the Senate during the pleeient ses sion and is now being considered in the committee qn coinage, xveights and meas ures of the House, shall not be suppressed, but shall be speedily reported back in the House and enacted iuto laxv. With prop er respect and deference to our Repre sentatives on the committee in the House xve say that any efforts to unduly delay the rep'-rt on that bill so as to prevent action thereon by the House in the fexv remainin'’ days of this Congress will mer it. and xx’il! receix-e, still further condeni nation by the farmers and laborer* of this country. We have xvaited many years for the simple justice of having both pre cions metals restored to free coinage, and hereby declare our determination to press the fight on thi*line until this relief is ac corded to the laboring and producing masses of our nation, and to hold respon sible the men, irrespective of parly, who obstruct in any way tlie legislatix-e euam inent of this just measure so strongly de- mauded by the laboring classes of all parties. The report is signed by J. H. McDon ald, Tennessee, chairman; U. 8. Hall, M. D.; Frank McGrath, Kansas, T. 8 Adams, Louisiana; Martin Page, Virgin ia; W. 8. McAllister, Mississippi. The Council xvill endeavor to obtain a hearing before the House committee ou coinage, and, if this is accorded it, tlie upon of the committee on silx'er Icgisla tion xvill lie presented. The committee ou legislative eleinnnels has under consiel- eration the sub-treasury proposition ami the land loan plan. There is a strong sentiment in the Council that tin House committee on ways and means shouhl r- port to the Rouse the sub treasury bill, so that there may be a discussion Hf its provisions. ’I here are a numbers of members of the Council hoxvever, xvlio are opposed to the idea. Tlie press i-ommitt e consists of Messrs. M( Powe ll, Suavely, Halt anil Keumore. Th Council then adjourned. * *8 ■* * * ¥ Heretofore it h-as seemed an impossi bility to get stained e-otton white without injuring it. A process to accomplish litis has recently been distovoice] by J. J. Williams, a successful faredernt Ellenton, 8 C. He packs his seed cotton in lay ers Over each layer he sprinkles water with a pine top, and after doing this leaves it for nearly three days. The stained and blue oottou. when taken out is clean and white and the staple as good as ever. Tlie cotton when paekeel in this man ner generates heat, ivbich removes the stains, and the farmer is saved the differ ence in price bctxveen the stained and white cotton, besides gaining one pound in eight in ginning. The beat generated in the packing kills the germ in the seed, l/it the oil in them i« not injured, and they are saleable’ to the oil milla. Mr. Williams has found this process successful, and he w ill be glad to nnsxvcr any inquiries concerning it! As the best evidences of its value it may be stated that this year he sold hie entire crop a* first-class e otton. JERRY SIMPSON NOT SOCKLESS The Alliance Statesman Denounce* the Accusation a* a Vile Slander. Congressman elect Jerry S mpson ar rived in Kansas City yesterday. “They say that I don’t wear any socks,” said the nexv Congressman. “That is a big lie and :i vile slander. 1 wear ns good socks as any other gentleman in Kansas. My xvife is a careful little body, and she in sists upon keeping me supplied xvith socks that would do even for a ‘Prince Hal,’ and she don’t let any holes get in ’em, either. She knits the ’hoses’ her self, and xvhen the holes eome out she darns ’em in a fashion that would do ereilit to tlie first Indy in the land. If you don’t believe that 1 wear sacks just look here." And pulling up » trouser leg of coarse broxvn stuff, similar to that worn by nine ty nine farmei.s out of a hundred, he dis played a calf of genuine proportions and a pair of stockings made out of common yarn, the regular blue and gray, the fa vorite with the fanners’ wix’es, who have discovered that the coarser the yam the fewer the stitches. Kansas Citv Times. It coits sixty-four cents to run a train a mile in England. gen. w-xr. r. sherman DEAD.—Peace be to his ashes. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS MEET. Two Hundred of Them, Repreaeriit- ing Lending Journals in Various OHtn*. The annual convention of ths Atneri- ean Newspaper Publishers' Association was held last week in the large Hoffman House, Nexv Y’ork City. President Jas. \Y. Scott of the Chicago Herald presid ed. About two hundred pitblishers were pieseut. Among them xvere: A-’cIph N PL och$, th* Times, ChattanooRa, Temt. N. r Fell, “mflli.'l, Uoe, C. F.. Kenned}'. <uet>Jand Plalndealer. Arthurs. Fcnusc.Fverit^g Rcpfirtar,Woonsocket, n I J- J. Jordon, the Truth. Scranfrtrt, PM. U.H. t'ampe, rhronlele-Tclegratm, Pittjbura. K D. t’onger, Telearam Herald. Grand Pflphft*, Mleb Frederick Driscoll Pioneer Press. St. Paul. H. Theodore Elly son. Dispatch, Richmond, vii, R. W. Patterson, Jr. Chicago Tribune. I*. L. Morgan, Boston Post. T K Mlsoh, San Francisco, cal George B Hlrsch. Ohio state Journal, columbus, O v .t unlford. Youngstown. Ohio W J Richards, News. Indianapolis, Ind T R Hayes, star. W« shlngton. D c - Charles m Knapp, st Louis Republic W IJ Matthews, do moot at & chronicle, noehestor Fred 1’ Hall. Journal. Jamestown N Y Mllti ii a McRae. Cincinnati Post D K I Ingane, Telegram. Providence. R I J M Young, st i.ouls chronicle A W* I.augnlln. Evening Express. Portland, mo J A Butler Buffalo News Walwte r? setrdder. Newark News J 1> Lorents, Q/tlvfVoit.News n m Kellogg Brooklyn citlzerf F H Wood 4, Boston Herald vr c Bryant. Brooklyn Times Victor F Lawson. Chicago Dally sews k ■* rushing. Boston Tvpotheta* W E A Whitting. A L Kowle. Boston Herald Francis Atwater, DaRy Journal, Meriden conn H f Gunnison. Brooklyr* Eagje F waUower. Independence, H^rfHdmrg, Pa Ah’Vnnder eralg. New Haven Not*? T, swift, Jr. Minneapolis Jonrna 1 1 hom iiy H Fv»ns. sen Francisco chronicle w H M-if. Fit taburg Times John H Lindsay. Albany Express R Holtzs, Toronto Telegram Arthur Jenkins, Syracuse Kerala A LIFE RACE FOR A TROPHY, Gen. Jackton’s Cup Will Go to the Laet Survivor of the Old Pal metto Guard. Col. J. J. Martin is one of th“ twenty survivors of the old I’alnietto Regiment, South Carolina, who are running a life race for a' hisfork- frophv Just after the xvnr of fRI2 the Indies of Srarfh Carolina presented Gen. Jackson xvith li beautiful and costly cup Indicative of their appre ciation of the bravery and gallantry dis played by him at the battle of New Or leans. When General Jackson died his will ordered the cup to be given to the ! bravest soldier from South Carolina in the next xvnr which should occur. The c\:p xvas ca-efully put away in the State archives at Columbia to await the out come of the next war. The next xvnr xvas the Mexican war. South Carolina sent out tlie Palmetto Regiment. 1,100 strong. It foitght in many battles, and only 3U0 of the 1,100 came bark. Then the question as to who should have Jackson's cup arose. The Legislature appoiciid a commission to decide the matter. The commission could reach no conclusion. Every mem ber of the regiment had fought xvcll. No one had run axvay or showed tlie slight est eowardiee, and it was impossible- to axvard the trophy. Thereupon tha Leg islature decided that the cup should go to the last survivor of 30*. There are only 20 left, and it is the especial am bition of each to outlive the others so ns to possess the trophy. EXGOVERNOR GORDON ROBBED Pickpocket* Relieve Him of n Roll of Money and His Railroad Ticket. When rx-Governor Gordon, of Georgia, .mixed at tlie Pennsylvania railroad sta tion, in Jersey City, bound south, Wed nesday afternoon, he found that his pock et tiad been picked, and lie bad neithcf railroad ticket nor money to buy any xvith. Besides his ticket, he had lost $148. His grand hailing sign of distress brought him relief at the ticket office, and after putting the matter in the hands of detectives, the governor continued on his journey xvithont delai'. Race Changes. Professor George Barbour, in his xvork on the resources of Florida, describes the strange race of bipeds which isola tion and abnormal climatic influences have developed on the border of the tropics, in the next neighborhool of en terprising Yankee-like communities. But it is not possible that those com munities, too, will by and by experience the influenco of n xvinterless climatei Thus far their energy lias been sustained by a constant influx of Northern immi grants, but that influx will cease after the population of the North and South has reached the equilibrium of its dis tribution, and the “cracker" of the hum mocks will then come to form the type of a new race. Strange metamorphoses hax’e happened in Southern Europe, and only the incontrovertible testimony of historical records ran persvade an eth nologist to recognize the present in habitants of Sicily as the direct descend ants of athletic Grecian colonists and of the heroic Normans who followed Robert Goiscard across the Strait of Messina.—■ Eeio Yorl- Voice. The Annoying Hang Nall. A small and almost imperceptible bang- nail often involves the owner of the hand wbieh bears it in an endless amount of annoyance and vexation. It is the gener al rule that the nails that are the least at tended are better than those that arc cor- tinually doctored. Manicure treatment onee a week is about right. The man who cuts a hang nail in nine cases out of ten lays the way for a much more vigor ous successor. Satisfactory results are almost always obtained by adopting the habit of pushing the skin back from the nail after washing the hands. The dry end of the towel should be taken, and the skin pre«sed book wherever it overrun* the nail. This breaks the adhesiveness to the nail and makes hang-nails im possible. Where the skin is allowed to grow fast to the nail trouble invariably results, because the nail in growing out pulls the skin with it, and when it break* from the tension the hang nail is formed. —,Y( ic Tori Journul. NEWSY GLEANINGS. China has one railroad. Jamaica’s exhibition is open. Iowa is spreading its beet sugar. ^ VolaTCK is spoken by 5,000,000. The Arkansas treasury is empty. '■ Maine’s first iron ship is finished. Wyoming had two failures in 1890. y Germany will hold on to Damaraland. \ Congress costs the people $30,000 a day. \ Troops have left Suakim to occupy TokarA A great many pleasure tourists are in 1 Egypt. Influenza has appeared in the Italian 1 Riviera. Chicago, 111., is to have a great coal 1 •ntrepot. During last year 350 medicines were patented. There are now 30,000 Protestant Christian in Mexico. A meershai'M mine has been discovere-.t in Florida. Tiii.- Farmers’ Alliance in Kansas has lift newspapers Italian export* for 1890 show a decrease' of $15,000,000. There were 'F40 suicides in the United fctate* last year. Fifteen members of the present Congress havediedin office. Thk Government of Chili has prohibited the export of nitrates. The Kingdom of Siam, Asia, proposes to create e National bank. Cun.! 1ms seven war vessels in course of •oustruction in Eur»>p Pittsburg, Pe.uri., is talking of a $25,000,- CtN) ship canal to Lake Erie, The North Carolina Legislature has fixed the interest rate at six per cent. There are OtHM applications for the Koch lymph on file in rWlin, Germany The Stat? of Texas has *77<5,838 in tha treasury after paying every claim. Florida is sai l to have more visitors this winter than before for many years. The soda founUin men have formed a combine wit h a capital stock of $3,750,000. The C iiift.rnii Legi D iture has appro-* priale l ?^0d,000 for World’s Fair purposes. The Melbourne (Australia) international exhibition has e!o 1 with a deficit of $1,199,'* 000. J jif German navy will have thirty-seven more in imtivo service this year than last. Fes.vh railways have reduced second ac<i third class p i^oneer tares twenty and thirty per cent. The t c-ino u>ed in the United States post- offices to tie up Ifor the mail costs * $7‘J,HH0 a year. <’Hiva is trying to raison loan of ooo Mi in i »f gold at nmety-five, interest fouf • and a half per o'*nt. Two thoim s N'Ti boomers aro hiding iu eaves in th * Che ”lo>o Strip. Soldiers have been ordered to eject them. The plant at in Africans on the Porta- guc.-“ island of St. Thomas, in the Gulf of Guinea, have .''.gain revolted. An apparently endless supply of sapphires is reported to have been discovered at With- ersfield, on the Ctntral Railway, Queens land. A woman died in the workhouse at Alver- str'lie, England, recently, at the age of ninely-six. who had been a pauper during th » whole df her life. It has been discover**! that Patsy who was hanged at Clinton, 111., In 1881 for the murder or Aaron Good fellow, of Bloom ington, was innocent. » Brakrman Ward, of Albany, Ga., was, kill 'd while ilirting with two girls from the top of the train. He backed off the car and was mangled to death. W. A Walters, who entered the Mis souri Pacific Hospital in 8t. Louis, January 21, a consumptive, has just been dischared cured by Koch’s lymph The census bureau of Florida has announced the population by counties and races as fol lows: Whites,224,4fi1 -colored, lf»b, 378; Indians, 138; Chinese, 101; Japanese, 14; total, 39i,- 422. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Bkablator was nn errand boy. F Ur. Koch, tlie consumptive curer, is fa Egypt. The Sultan of Zanzibar will shortly visit Berlin, Germany. v The Emperor of Germany now smokes a dozen cigars a day. , Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is in pov erty at eighty-four. Ex-Kino Milan, ofServia, now calls him self the Duke of Pavoio. The death of Meissonier removes the fore most French artist of the day. Premier Rudini, of Italy, says peace caa only be secured by continuing the Triple Al liance. Ex President Cleveland has accepted an honorary membership in the Society of Old Friends President Diaz, of Mexico, is said to be broken down in health and to be preparing for a trip to Europe. Mr. Phelfs, the American Minister in Berlin, Germany, is said to receive marked attention from the Kaiser. Colonel Maufarlane, who was Kala-- kaua h chamberlain, says the King left an •state worth about $100,000. Explorer Stanley says that Edison, the electrician, has the most wonderful pair of eyes that he ha ; ever seen in a human heal. James PartoN, the historian, wears well. Though about entering his seventieth year he regularly spends about six hours a day at his desk. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, is said to b * the only man who has ever had tha audacity to smoke .a pipe within the sacr>i confines of the United States Senate. John Foord, late editor of Harper's adviser New „ - . , for hi- health. I he O'Sh.aunessy brother.- - , the Tennessee millionaires, t !aim d’’> nt from the kings of ancieni frelan I T;,<>ir lortui!" has b *en ac quired almost entirely through investmente in real estate. Nine < 'ongr - ste* n- < ’iinmiinis.Fnrqnh^r, De Hawn, Fjtiunn, O’Domi**]!, M^ore, Cans- I trough, Wy« Uhnni an! Cr.ai of S'ctm Island-stai.. i»«t »• I’.r .wn, of Now York, and l!rnsU,< mian “devils.'’ tKHN rooRD, lam editor of Harper Weekly, has gone to Europe as chief ndvisi and secretary t » Mr Pulitzer, of the Ne York lEo»•/</, who E leaving this country f* printers’ ripKUAL Jiiax B .XMVTOW New York, has been voted by the Board of Trustees a salary of $10,000 per annum as consulting engineer of thf Chicago (lll.i Drainage Ship (anal. ( hkf Engineer \\ or then was voted an equal salary. Colonel F. Jl. Hain, General Manverof the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company of New York, draws a salary of $25,0,10*a year. When he began his business career in a small Pennsvivjniu village his wages w we fifty cents a day. The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, Va., who gained celebrity by his ‘Sun d i-movo’* lecture, doesn't !**t bi« -alary move. His congregation has several times tendered him nn inert .asc, but hede«*!nra 1 that Suha month isampl* lor his needs ami lie declines to ac cept more. John D Rotkkffi.lkr. the Standard Ofi King, is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, and his face shows the heavy linesnnd prominent nose that arccliaracteri.'xticof that ancestry. He is a quiet, retiring man, wholly unassum ing in dress and manner, and always sp aks in low. well modulated tones. His homo life is noted for its simplicity. General Count Alfred von Rthlief- fkn, who succeeded General von Wnldersee as chief of the general staff of the German nr my, is regarded ns one of the most able officers on that staff, t ’mint von Waldersee, the retiring olbef of the general staff, took formal leave of the staff attaches in Berlin In a speech, in which he showed deep emo tion, he said “The Emperor has ordered me elsewhere A soldier obeys orders without asking reasons.’’