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HERALD
VOL. IV. NO. 18.
DARLINGTON, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1894.
•By Turbeville & Williams.
TUB JOKER’S BUDGET.
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JtSTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
HI* Father Knew*•Vary Careful-.
A New Name--In Daubt--0*|Mr-
tunity--Th# Retort Ceurteeua--A
Case in Point, Eto., Eta.
HI9 FATHER KNEW.
Teacher—What makes the earth
go round, Tommy?
Tommy—Pleaae’m father says bad
whisky will do It.—[Raymond's
jloBtlily.
I >' HA . VERY CABEEDL.
Father (to son, who is leaning over
gallery railing): “Take care, Johnny,
and don’t fall. It’ll cost youadollar
more in the orchestra.”—[Hallo.
A NEW NAME.
He (coyly)—I have my suspicions
about you.
Hhe<sonsibiy>—.That’s tfte firsttime
I ever heard arms called “suspic
ions.”—[Raymond’s Monthly.
IN DOUBT.
•‘Wha^sthe matter, Tom?”
“I’m in trouble. I don’t know
whether I ought to die while I am
young and become an angel or wait
an’ grow [o be a in an an’ have a
mustache and side whiskers !”—[Life.
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OPPORTUNITY.
Flora—I have just found a dollar
and am hesitating whether to give it
to The [Mssionary Society or buy
some ribbon for dear little Fido.
Ffapk—Ah, I see; undecided
whether to “point a moral or adorn a
tail.”—[Truth..
THE' RETORT COURTEOUS.
First Man (to man Who has just
bumped against him)—"Blithering
idiot!”
Second M/iu: ■. ‘,‘And my name is
Jones.”—[Hallo,
A CASE IN POINT.
He—Do you think a woman can be
bought; with mopey?
Shfei-i-I do not. v Look at Mary
Jones. Mr. Harduppe offered her
$1,000, all he had,, to marry him, and
she refused and married Mt. Rox, the
millionaire, for love.—[New York
Press.
THE ACTION SUITED CO THE WORD.
“I feel,” said the young man, with
enthuaiaam, “«aif a great career were
—were fairly yawning for me.” ^ s
“Please excuse me, Tdr. Spbon-
amore,” replied_.the artless young
woman behind her fan, “but that
word js Just as catching, you know,
as if you had yawned yourself.”—
[Chicago Tribune.
that
the
He’s a messenger
■ IMPOSSIBLE.
Spatts—I’m very sorry for i
boy.' '• YoUr scolding cut him to
quick. ,
Bloobumper—That’s - impossible.
He hars no quick
boy!—[Truth.
MUCH DRAWN.
’.A .
First Artist—Your model seems fa
tigued. Her features are very much
.drawn.^ ,
’Second Artist—Yes, they are. I’re
drawn them at least twenty times,
-trying to get a good portrait.—[Bos
ton Traveller.
- .. 1 INGENIOUS IDEA.
;/ [lusty Rhodes—It is quite a low
temperature when your uncle gets
belkfedi “ : •
William—What’s up now!
.’iJii'sty;Blibaes—Nothing, only I’re
entered ' in about' a dozen champion
. qifail-oating contests,—[New York
World.
' " . -IT WOULD HARDLY DO.
-I ’ . ;
Fiwt [yiiack—IJere is a letter It
would hardly do for us to publish.
A man writes: “I have just taken
the first bottle of. yqiir medicine”—
Second Quack—Well?
First Quack—There it breaks off
shorthand is. signed,In another hand
writing, “per executor.”—[Tidbit*.
NO TIME TO LOSE.
• * ‘ r •
..Glevcrton—Miss Twilling rejected
me f tbc,'oHier night, but she let me
kiss her before we. parted.
Dashaway (reflecting)—I guess IT1
go .around to-night and propose my-
'M!J.tr[Judge. , •
MAKING THOROUGH WORK OP IT.
“My' son,” said - Mr. Spriggins,
proudly, “is a very thorough young
•“ mam ’- He ain’t..goin’ to go throu^
college lilte-friost-boys does. He just
.. wrote jiqme that he’s goin’ to take
* hia freshman year over agin, |o there
won’t be no question abput his know-
ln’ what he oughter know.”—[Har
per’s Bazsr-
' EMBLEMATIC.
An urchin with a puzzled look
v Unto hfs father said,
“Why is it, qpondll the coins
They stamp a woman’s head?”
The father thought a moment, then
He gave him this reply:
“My child, they say that money
talks,
I think that must be why.”
—[Judge.
WOULD HAVE THE PUN AFTERWARD.
_ . ' His mother—-Tommy, if you fight
with little Willie Walters to-day, I
. shall put.you to bed for two hours.
Tommy—Put me to bed now, Ma.
—{Chicago Record.
A SMALL LOSS.
Maude—Doesn’t Ethel feel shocked
at the news that that nobleman to
whom aha was engaged was a swin
dling adventurer?
JeannotljP—No; she says ho waa
only a baronet anyway.—[Chicago
Rocord.
JUSTIFIED.
“I actually do believe that Mrs.
Jibson thinks more of her dog than
she does of her children.”
“Well, if you lived next door to
the Jibson young ones, as I do, you
wouldn’t blame her much.”—[Indi
anapolis Journal.;
THE BOYS WERE POSTED.
Teacher <to members of her class)
—“Having enumerated the principal
poets, orators and statesmen, I will
now ask you to give me the names of
three men famous for their science.”
Half a dozen voices (all answering
at once)—“Corbett, Mitchell and
Sullivan. ”—[Judge.
A TIMELY WARNING.
The poet, with a sprig of lilies-of-
the-valley in his button-hole, tripped
lightly into the dim and dingy den of
the prosaic editor. That worthy in
dividual looked up to sec what balmy
breath had blown it in.
“I have,” twittered the visitor, “a
pretty poem to spring.”
“Well,” replied the editor, with a
deep, low growl, “don’t spring it
here! Ta, ta.”—fHallo.
WHERE ATHLETES ARE BRED.
The Tourist from Boston—Isn’t
it wonderful how these Alpine guides
leap from rock to rock, sure-footed
and alert as gazelles?
The Tourist from Chicago—Of
course it’s wonderful. They’ve never
had any practice among the grip cars
at Madison and La Salle streets.—
[Chicago Record.
HER ONLY LONGING.
Mrs. Norris—Since I have been
married I have had only one wish
un gratified.
Mr. Morris—And what is that, my
dear?
Mrs. Norris—That I were single
again.—[Life.
LOW ESTIMATE.
New Society Bud.—Lord Cholmod-
ley handed me his card to-day and ft
had the initials T. M. engraved on
Mid-left hand corner, and I have been
racking my brain all afternoon tqfind
out what they meant.”
Initiated Society Girl (laughing)—
You see, the Lord Is a singly man,
and has come over hero to negotiate
a foreign settlement, and T. M. is
simply a business notice.—Terms
Moderate.—[Hallo.
WHY HE REFUSED.
immes—I. heard that Tom refused
* ffoe£ situation, although he has.
been dht of a job six months.
George—Well he had a good reason
to.- •
James—How’s.that? *
George—Twaa to be clerk in a
powder mill, and he said he had a
wife, and wanted occasionally to be
out of reachof an explosion.—[Ray
mond’s Monthly.
THE PLACE FOR'HIM TO SING.
Give us the man who sings at bis
work!
He’s happy from day to day;
But he pleases best from I he E’ist te
* the West,
When he sings ten miles away !
—[Atlanta Constitution.
EFFECTS ITS PURPOSE.
Clerk—Don’t you want to make
some change in your advertisement?
Merchant—No, thanks, I make
change out of it in sufficient quanti
ties to suit me.—[Detroit Free Press.
SPRING.
Softly now the hills respire,
Suns and stars serenely shine;
While the poet strings his lyre,
And the liar strings his line.
—[Atlanta Constitution.
There are signs throughout the
weather
That the time is coming when
The man who saw a bluebird
Will be boring us again.
—[Indianapolis Journal.
We’ll rejoice at the coming of radiant
spring,
Too grateful by aught to be vexed.
We’ll welcome whatever she chooses
to bring—
E’en the poet who makes her his
text.
—[Washington Star.
. MILESTONES TO FAME.
Muggy—Hinks, the artist, is getting
up in the world.
Bruggy—How do you know?
MugSy—You know that room of
hia he used to call an office?
Bruggy—Yes.
Mu ggy—A year ago he began to
call it a “studio.”
Bruggy—Yes,
Muggy—Well, now he calls it an
“atelier.”—[Chicago Record.
HE MEANT WELL.
“It was hateful of you to throw
that drowning man a mere shingle,”
said Mrs. Willibud to her husband
after the catastrophe.
“It was all I had to throw him,”
said Willibud. “It must have com
forted him anyhow. If a drowning
man will clutch at a straw, just think
of the inspiring qualities of a whole
shingle.”
A Sinfcatlew Far Agriculturists.
Bulgarian peksants have given up
grain growing to a great extent and
are raising roses. Attar of roses is
now worth from $10 to $15 for eight
teaspoonfuls. It seems that Bulgar
ian farmers could give points about
changing their products to some ag
riculturists of the eastern part of the
United States, who cont inue to pro
duce Small quantities of wheat in
competition with the west, instead of
paying nr.ore attention to dairying
and to tiie production of articles for
which all the cities furnish a profitable
market.—[Rochester Herald.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIR^
. CHICKEN WITH TOMATO.
Fry the chicken a little brown.
Then put it into a hot dish. ?onr
into the pan in which the chicken was
fried one pint of boiling water, half
an onion chopped fine with a sprig of
parsley, two tomatoes, half a table-
spoonful of butter and half a tabls-
spoonfnl pf flonr. Let it stew for fif
teen minutes. ’ Turn it wpdft Che
chicken and serve.—New York Herald.
SWEET POTATO I BOQCETTER.
For sixteen croquettes taka the fol
lowing ingredients: 'One eap (medi
um size) hot milk, fonr large table-
spoonfuls butter, one level. table-
spoonful salt, fonr eggs, two to be need
for b lazing; one quart of mashed and
sieved potatoes and one pint bread
crumbs. Add the buter and hot milk
to the potatoes. When cool add the
eggs, the whites and yolks beaten
separately. Bi at until the mixture is
light and smooth. Then shape as de
sired, glaze with egg, erntnb, and im
merse in deep bath of smoking hot
drippings. Use the frying basket.
When richly browned drain on brown
paper, then arrange on platter with a
garnish of green. —New York Tele
gram. .
PUMPKIN PIE.
Pare and out the pumpkin in pieces*'
about one inch square, put them into
a stewpan with just enough water t*.
keep them from horning; stew slowly
till tender (about half an hour), then
press through a colander. To every
half-pint of pumpkin add a piece of
butter the size of a walnut and a quar
ter teaspoonful of salt; mix and let it
stand till cold. When cold put one pint
of this pumpkin into a large bowl, add to
it one pint of milk, half a teaspoonful of
ground cinnamon and one teaspoohful
of ground ginger; mix all well togeth
er and sweeten to taste. Beat four
eggs until light, then add them to the
mixtnre. Line four deep pie dishes
with good, plain paste, fill them with
this mixture and bake in a quick oven
for abont thirty minn^ss,—New Yotk
Journal.
A CHOICB BRAN SOUP.
i
One of the best of the puree soups
is made from black tourtle beans and
stock. It is choice enough for any
dinner, though, as it it quite nutri
tions, it would not be as suitable as a
clear soup for a dinner of many
courses. Pick overapint of the beans
end soak them twelve hours in cold
water. The next morning drain and
cover with three pints of boiling water.
Cook slowly until the beans are ten
der. Drain the beans, press them
through a fine wire sieve. Heat three
pints of beef stock, add the beans, and
stir thoroughly. Heat to a boiling
point, season to taste with salt and
pepper. Garnish the soup with slices
of lemon. Hard-boiled eggs are also
excellent in this soup. Cat them iu
thin slices and use with the sliced
lemon. Have your soup plates hot.—
New York Advertiser.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Keep a dish of water on the back of
a tight stove to purify the air.
A clean apron worn while hanging
the clothes helps to keep them clean.
A teaspoonful of ammonia to one
teaenpful of water for cleaning jew
elry.
Place a strip of wood back of the
door where the knob hits the paper iu
opening.
Before laying a carpet wash the
floor with turpentine to prevent buf
falo bugs.
Powdered pipe clay, mixed with
water, will remove oil stains from
wall paper.
In bottling pickles or catsup boil
the corks, and while hot you can press
them in the bottles, and when cold
they are sealed tightly.
Kid gloves for ordinary wear are
painted; only the bright opera tints,
such as fashionable ladies wear to
match their colored dresses, are dyed.
Vinegar and salt will clean the
black crust off sheet iron frying pans,
but they should be thoroughly scoured
afterward with sand soap or any good
scouring soap.
II snelves an I floors of closets are
wiped with hot water with cayenuu
pepper and afterward sprinkled. with
borax and alum, roaches and other
vermin are kept at bay.
When the fat’s in the tire it is uevsr
wise to throw water upon it. If fat in
a kettle boils over and there are ashes
convenient to throw on the blaze, it is
the surest, safest way to put it out.
A simple plan of disinfecting rooms
consists in putting a saucerful of salt
in the middle of the room sad pour
ing on it a dram or two of sulphuric
acid. The fumes that arise do the
work of disinfection.
Silver cracker jars with separate re
ceptacles for different kinds of bis
cuits and crackers are a novelty. An
other new effect in table silver are the
wooden breud platters set in broad
rims of worked silver. A silver bread
knife goes with them.
The chimney of a lamp should never
be touched with water. A few drops of
alcohol, or even paraffine oil, will re
move the dimmed, smoky effect, and
make the chimney as bright as possi
ble when it is polished with a soft
flannel or chamois skin.
To clean hair brushes quickly anil
easily, take a dessert spoonful of
hartshorn to a quart of cold water in a
wash band basin. Dip in the hair of
the brushes, and rub them together
until clean. Then rinse well witli
cold water, rub dry with a towel anil
Maud uin ieht at an ouen window.
COTTON FERTILIZERS.
FARMERS AMD PLANTERS WASTE THEM
, FERTILIZERS.
The Qvettmn Sheold Studied- What the
Land and the Crop Meeds. *
An article-Vm fertilizers for cotton,
compiled by Dnv& kf. McBryde, Pres
ident of Virgiaiif'Agrictnral and Me
chanical College *^)d Director of Vir
ginia Agricultural Experiment Station,
from accounts of .experiments carried
on under his direction for several
years on the farina of the South Caro-"
lina experiment stations, has just been
published by the United States De
partment of Agricultural ae “Far
mers' “Bulletin No. 14^” and is well
worthy of careful study by -every !*••'
telligent cotton farmer.
In the introduction to his article
Dr. McBrydc briefly explains its pur
pose and scope as 'follows: We have
reason to believe from extended ob
servation and experience in the field
that hundreds of thousands of dollars
are annually wasted by farmers in the
lavish and injudicious applications of
fertilize on cotton. In sofls abound
ing in potash, potassic fertilizers, such
as kainit, muriate of potash, etc., are
often unnecessarily applied to a cost
amounting to $4 or $5 per acre. It is
especially timely at this season, when
the farmers are about to plant their
crops for the year, to discuss the
manurial requirements of cotton, and
to give in condensed form the results
of careful and long continued experi
ments bearing directly upon this
question. The subject is so broad as
to require sub-division. It will,there
fore, be discussed under the following
heads: Does cotton require potash,
phosphoric acid and nitrogen? If so,
in what amounts and in what forms?
Does it need lime? Will copperas
prevent its rusting? At what time or
times should nitrate of soda be applied?
How should the. fertilizer be applied?
These questions are considered very
fully, and are answered by statements
of results of the numerous careful ex
periments made by Dr. McBryde in
working out the problems which be
presents. The pamphlet numbers
thirty pages, and we cannot undertake
to give even a synopsis of it here. It
may suffice, however, to afford an idea
of the character of the work to quote
a few of points. In order to determine
what proportions of the several ele
ments named were most effective in
combination for fertilizing purposes,
Dr. McBryde made and employed a
number of combinations, in which the
relative quantity of each element .was
widely varied. For instance, in * one
series of experiments different amounts
of potash were used with full aud con
stant doses of phosphoric acid and
nitrogen; in another series different
amounts of acid were used with full
and constant doses of potash and ni
trogen, and so on. Among the results
noted were the following: A double
dose of potash,with afull dose of phos
phoric acid and nitrogen, gave only
nine pounds more of cotton per acre
than a full dose; aud the full dose only
twenty-four pounds more than a half
dose. Double doses of phosphoric
acid in comhination, it was found, can
can be advantageously employed.
The half dose of nitrogen gave ex
actly the same yield as the double dose.
As compared with the quarter dose,
the half dose did not show an increase
sufficient to make up for its additional
dose.
The results of this series of experi
ments taken together show that a crop
of cotton yielding 800 pounds of lint
per acre “requires double the full or
theoretical amount of phosphoric acid,
but only about one-fourth to one-half
the full amounts of potash and ni
trogen.”
The next series proceeded on the
plan of doubling two of the three con
stituents of the combination, while the
third was increased or diminished.
“Double doses of nitrogen and potash
gave almost exactly the same results
as the full or single dose of nitrogen.”
“Doubling both gave no better returns
than doubling only the phosphoric
acid.” Double doses of all three ele
ments gave an increase of only twf
pounds.
The value of the pamphlet can be
judged in part by the farmer from these
bare bints of its contents, which we
have taken almost at random. The
closing pages are devoted to a state
ment of “conclusions” drawn from all
the experiments, and a chapter of
“practical applications," of the con
clusions in the shape of varied for
mulas and instructions for mixing dif
ferent fertilizing elements in right
proportions, so as to avoid waste.
The bulletin is invaluable to cotton
farmers and can be had free of cost by
application to the Secretary of Agri
culture, Washington, D. C.
A German Commits Suicide in Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, S: C.—Julius F. Her-
rit, a German, is dying iu the Central
Hotel from a dose of laudanum and
strychnine administered by his own
hand. He left a note saying that he
had taken his life because of his wife's
infidelity, giving the names of thirty
of his wife’s paramours. This is the
third time recently that he has at
tempted to end his life. The doctors
say he will be successful in this bis last
attempt.
All Want to be Covernor.
The three pronounced aspirants for
the Democratic nomination for Gover
nor of Alabama are Congressman Oates,
Captain <1. F. Johnston, of Birming
ham, and Mayor Rich, of Mobile—all
of whom are actively cnuYassiug,though
in different sections of the State, and
each seema to have a strong following.
Up to last Saturday Colonel Oates had
visited use-third of the State.
CHARLESTON HARBOR.
By the End of the Tear the Channel Will Af
ford 25 Feet of Water.
Charleston, 8. 0.—Captain Freder-
irk V. Abbott, United States engineer
iu charge of the jetty improvements in
Charleston harbor, has completed a
new survey of file approaches to Char
leston harbor, which shows a marked
deepening of the ship rhannel from
deep water outside to deep water in
side the bay. By survey of last De
cember there jvas a shoal of 1,000 feet
in width at the inner end of the chan
nel and this shoal has been narrowed
to about 20 feet. In December there
was-a clear channel of 20 feet and 6 in
ches, and iu the new survey there is a
clear channel of. 22 feet and 4 inches.
ThC scffiut of the channel is consid
erable ind the w irk of deepening the
ehauuel is going on steadily and con
stantly. The official survey shows that
there has betoi a net gain of nearly two
feet in the. depth of the jetty ship chan
nel in throe months. It is safe to say
that by the end of the year-ships draw
ing 25 feet can come into Charleston
harbor at high tide with several inches
of water to spare under their keels.
A Rude Moonshine Still.
[Greensboro, N. C., Daily Record, j
Mr. Samuel Kirkpatrick of the reve
ille force has captured a curiosity in
he shape of a blockade still. He was.
■ n Randolph county, not far from Jn-
ian, when he ran across it. The outfit
s origins], if nothing more. It con--
<ists of a rough box, resembling a pig
rough, about three or four feet long,
n this trough is the “worm," whichris
nade by joining pieces of elderwood
ogether. These pieces, or the worm,
hen obnncct with a “cap,” which, is
icthing but a hjg wooden spigot iu-
f rted into a wooden lid or top, which
las placed over air ordinary dinner
ot of iron. Into this U^e mash was
ilaced, a fire started under it, the heat
>f course eausing it to run up through
the cap and down the worm. It was
dated beside a branch, and kept full
<f water to keep the "worm” Tiom
mruing up. The first process, of
■ourse, brought'“low wines,” which
vere then put back and distilled over
igain when the pure raw liquor came
orth. Mr. Kirkpatrick brought the
thing home with him and has it at the
office here. It is a.small affair aud
easily carried under one’s arm.
First Baptist Paper.
[Greenville, S. C., Baptist Courier.')
We were asked a few days ago the
name and date of the fiist Baptist news-
paper published in .South Carolina.
The first Of which ve nave any knowl
edge was called “The Southern Baptist
arid General Intelligencer.” The first
number hears date, “Saturday after
noon, January 4,188#” and was print
ed by James S. Burgee in Broad street,
Charleston. The Rgv. William Henry
Brisbane was editor, and it was pub
lished weekly'. Brother W. G. Whil-
den, of Greenville, has in his posses
sion the files ©f the papqr for the first
year, 1836,'bound in one volume. It
was a sixteen-page paper, two columns
to the page. The pages are about ton
inches long and six wide. The volume
contains 823 pages, with a complete
index. The subscription price was,
“In advance for a single subscriber,
$3; payments protracted six months,
$3 .50; payments protracted over six
months, $4."
CRISP APP0IH TE0 SEHA TOR. HE 0ECLIHES
Gas. Northcn Wants Him to Take Port .in
the Tariff Discussion in the Senate.
Atlanta, Ga.—Governor Northen
lias appointed Speaker Charles F. Crisp
to succeed the late Senator Alfred H.
Colquitt. Not a word has passed be
tween the Governor and the Speaker,
and the, latter’s name had not even
been presented formally to the Gover
nor. In a message wired the Speaker,
the Governor asks him to resign his
seat in Congress at once and qualify
as Senator, so that he can take part in
the tariff discussion which comes up
next week.
The Governor was considered a can
didate for fhe Senate himself. He
says that be feels iu his duty to appoint
the Georgian w ho can do the country
the fereatrst service and he considers
Speaker Crisp that man.
Sp -aker Crisp telegraphed back his
refusal.
Making White Brick in Virginia.
An important addition to Virginia’s
industries is the manufacture of a fine
quality white brick made from a de
posit of white clay, while most bricks
are, it is said, made white by artificial
means. These brick burn very hard
and make a very nttraetive appearance.
They are being used in the new and
magnificent Jefferson Hotel, of Rich
mond. They are not affected by the
weather, it is said, and hence do not
Jiscolor. An order for them has been
received for use in tne construction oi
a store on Broadway, New York. It
is one of the interesting signs of the
times to find Virginia brick being
shipped to New York for a big Broad
way building.
Colonies to Settle South.
Baltimore, Md. —Ths Manufacturers’
Record in itsweekly review says,among
other things: The extent of the im
migration movement is shown by re
ports which indicate a steady increase
in the eouthward trend of population.
Land in lots of 10,000 acres and up
ward is beingpurchasedin North Caro
lina, Florida, Georgia and other States
for colonies of guttlers.
Flans havobeen approved in Lon
don for a great Ferria wheel alter tho
Chicago pattern! It is to cost a quar
ter of a million dolla^H ami will bn
known ns thu “(ligantio Wheel and
Itacigatiim Tower.”.
PITHY NEWS ITEMS
At Georgetown, S. C., the construc
tion of a water works system is talked of.
The Newberry, 8. C., city council
has ordered a survey for a system of
water works. Supply will probably
be obtained from artesian wells.
A 30-barrel roller flour mill is being
built at Cedar Falls, S. C.
Tho Union, S. C., Cotton Mill Co.
has increased its capital stock to $125,-
000.
Lexington, N. C., is to lie light*d
by electricity.
A company has organized at Fnrm-
ville, Va., to Imild water works.
. The recently discovered gold deposit
near Keysville, Va., may bo eutcusive-
ly developed iu the near future.
A wheelbarrow factory will be estab
lished at Charleston, S. C., a capital 'if
$20,000 having been subscribed for the
purpose. A hand broom factory will
also be started.
John M. Wilhelm contemplat ‘s
erecting another distillery, tube bicnted
at Elmwood, N. C., near (be South
Carolina fine.
The Farmers’ Manufacturing Co.
contemplates starting a fruit package
factory in Newberne, N. C.
Wesley Burnette will rebuild his
burned saw and grist mill at Oswego,
N. C.
Contract has iiecu let t 1 > (!. F. Mayo,
of Pikeville, Ky., for building the pro
posed courthouse nt Clintwood, Va ,
which is to cost $8700.
‘ A new hall is to be built at Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington, Va.
Local people are interested in a plan
to build a railroad from Bessemer City,
N. C. to Cronse’s Station, connecting
the Richmond A- Danville and Carolina
Central roads.
The project of buildings railroad
line from Charlotte, N. C.,to the Egypt
coal fields is being agitated.
Charlotte, N. C. parties arc consid
ering a plan to buildn belt road togive
factories in the suburbs a rail connec
tion with the Carolina Central and
'Richmond Jk Danville roads.
A $150,000 company has been char
tered to develop the gold mines dis
covered at Tabscott, Va.
L. C. Hough and others have incor-
ated the Kershaw Building and Loan
Association, at Kershaw, S. C., with
$50,000 capital.
The Homestead Building and Loan
Association has decided to increase its
capital stock to $300,000.
The South Boston (Va.) Building
and Loan Association has declared a
semi-annual dividend of (> per cent.
It is reported that the Keystone
Mining A Mfg. Co. will develop the
Jones gold mine in Randolph county,
N. d., and erect a plant to mill from
100 to 200 tons of ore per day.
The Allen A Bnyden Co. has iice.u
incorporated to deal in mining prop
erties, water powers, etc., at Salisbury,
N. C. R. M. Eames is president; Vic
tor H. Boyden, vice-president, and
Geo. Allen, of Raleigh, secretary and
treasurer. +
C. A. Whitaker will establish a saw
mill at University Station, N. O., and
is nowerecting building for same. Will
also manufacture bandies.
The Virginia Clothing Co. has been
organized and granted a charter for
the purpose of manufacturing clothing
at Buena Vista, Va., using principally
cloth from the Buena Vista Cassimere
Mills.
The Enterprise Gold Mining Co.,
incorporated under New Jersey laws,
will operate the old Martin gold mine
near Smyrna, S. C. Will also prospect
for iron pyrites in Bethel township.
J. G. McNulty is president and mana
ger of the company.
South Carolina has in operation and
practically ready for operation 18,034
cotton looms, against 12,544 for Geor
gia and 13,3()(i for North Carolina.
John W. Woods, the leader of the
Alleghany county. North Carolina,
lynchers, for whom Governor Carr lias
offered a reward, has n wise ami nine
children. It is said that he is hiding
in the mountains of Tennessee.
—Some of the mills in Cumberland
county, N. C., are now running nights
in order to keep up with orders.
— The Camden Cotton Mills. Camden,
8. C., has its building and teuement-
honses all completed, and efforts will
shortly be made to make financial ar
rangements for putting in the equip
ment of machinery. It is proposed to
put in 12,000 spindles and 350 looms.
The machinery has not yet been or
dered.
—A company has been formed of
principally Morgantou, N. C., men to
build a cotton mill miles north of
that town. It will be known as the
Hunting Creek Cotton Mill. They have
available 300 horse power, but will on
ly develop for the present 150 horse
power, sufficient to operate 2000 spin
dles. The brick is made and all ready
to commence building. L. A. Bristol
is managing it.
President Cleveland has sent the
Washington Young Men’s Christian
Association a $100 check, to help raise
its debt.
The great whale killed at Cape Look
out, N. C., is expected to yield 1,000
pounds of “bo»o" and 100 gallons of
oil.
The contest over the will of the lalt
Daniel Hand, the philanthropist, of
Now Haven, Conn., who died in 1891,
leaving about $500,000 to the Ameri
can Missionary Association, has ended
by tho contorianti) withdrawing their
A MODERN ENOCH ARDEN.
A Husband Lost for Sixteen Tears Turns Up
Again--His Wife Married to Another Man.
[Wadesboro, N. C., Mcsscnger-Iutel. ]
During the year 1875 John Powell
married Miss Georgia Ann Bailey,
daughter of Mr. Anbury Bailey, who
lives near Wadesboro. Powell and bis
wife lived together for three or four
years, when suddenly, without warning,
the man disappeared. For ten years
after Powell’s disappearance his wife
remained true to him, but us nothing
was heard from him during all that
time she resumed nor maiden name and
married again. In 1889 she married
Jas. A. Dixon and lias since lived hap
pily with him, bearing him several
children. But the peace ami quietude
of Dixon’s home was rudely broken in
upon last week when Powell, the recre
ant husband, suddenly appeared on the
Kccene.
Powell claims that he has been iu
Alabama ever since lie first left Anson,
l(i years ago, but, so far ns we have
heard, he does not offer any excuse for
his peculiar actions He claims that
he did not know that bis wife had mar
ried again until h" was in half a mile
of her homo, when onoof her neighbors
gave him the information. Reappears
to be very much disappointed and says
that lie came back niter Ins wife, an bo
wish 'd to take lier to Alabama with
him.
Powell visitedthe office of the register
of deeds last Friday to look up the
record of his own marriage and also
Hint of Dixon, both of which he found
duly recorded. During his visit to tllo
office he requested Mr. Benton., iu a
very serious niuuucr to please ti ll him
whose wife the woman in controversy
was anyhow, ns lie wanted the matter
settled. He said Hint Dixon was wil
ling to give her up, lint that Mrs.
Powell, or Mrs. Dixon, as the case
may be, had a very decided predilection
for Dixon, and up to that time lie had
:uft been able to induce her to return
>vitli him to his Alabama home. Mr.
Benton was not able to suggest a way
mt of the dilemma, anil the last news
,ve have of the matter the woman was
still Mrs. Dixon
Extracting Fruit Juices.
The diffusion process of extracting
juice from fruits is gaining ground.
It has long been applied in France in
the extraction of beet-root juice foi
sug..r, and it is now used in making
cider without a eider mill or a cider
press. In crushing and pressing the
apples the pure fruit juice is not ob
tained, for much albuminoid matter
is extracted with it from the colls. Tn
the new process the juice is washed
out from sliced fruit with cold water.
Warm water acts more quieklv, but
the result is not nearly so savory. The
water passes from one compartment
iilled with fruit to another, and the
process is so arranged that in eacli it
meets fresher fruit than in• the last, so
that it leaves .saturated ■with juice, or.
Tether, it and the juice'"change places,
so that nearly pure juico issues from
the machine. The results are said te
hi satisfactory in the highest degree.
—New York Advertiser.
The Heir Money 0 djrS: ■
ThePostoffiee Department lin'a iNriied
the new money orders, w hich were au
thorized by the act of Congress, ap
proved January 27. Tho design is the
neatest ever issued l»v the department.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
The Senate.
G4tii Pat. —Tho Senate aljonmod out "t
respaet to the memory of Senator f'oejuUr,
of Georgia, after a very-hrief session. '
63th Pay. -The funeral ceremonies of the
late Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, took place
in tho Senate Chamber at 90'ciOck n, in., oc
cupying on'y three-quarters of an hour, af-'
ter which tho Senate adjourned. ■'*' •
C'Jth Day.—The Chinese treaty was favor
ably reported by the Foreign Committee.
The Senate adnp' "1 n resolution asking fiec-
retary Smith whether the sugar refineries
cos plied with the law. -—A resdlution hbro-
gati ig the Claytou-Eulwer treaty was intro
duced.
S7th Pay.—The McGarraban hill ’was
passed without a division. —The House-
joint resolution appropriating "fltkOOO ad
ditional to carry out the pvpvisions of tho
Chinese Exclusion act was passed.——Tho
S-mute reconsidered the vote by which it
agreed to the resolution offered by Mr. Fryo
calling on the Secretary of War for informa
tion as to the employment and .discharge °f
men employed on public improvements for
political reasons., .... I
. The. House.
82i> Pay.—Tho House voted ap expression
ot its regret nt tho death of ■ Kossuth,
the Hungarian patriot, and instructed tho
Speaker to ' communicate to. the family
of the deceased tho respectful sympathy
of the House. The Military'’Acad
emy Appropriation 'bill was...passed.- —
The House then disposed of tho Whatley-
Cobh contest from tho Fiftlr Alabama Dis
trict, confirming Cobb's title to his seat.—•
Bills were also passed protecting the Bed.
Cross Society in tho use of its insignia, and
appropriating ">10,000 for tljo, furthr*
enforcement of tho 'Geary ’ Chines*
Exclusion aud Uegif|npjaA. .. not.—'
Mr. Patterson, after one attempt to bluster al
quorum, agreed to let fhe Joy,O'Neill eae#
go over, The evening,was devotM to thd
considef’iuron of pension fnatlbrs.A
83i> Day. The Houss.cotfsidered the Post-
office Appropriation bill, but dTnl' not 'dispose
of it. An amendment setting asi"je,;?20.000
for free delivery experiments in rural dis
tricts was adopted ; also one directing th»
Postmaster-General to report to the nex9
Congress such measures as may tie deemed
practicable for extending the mail service to
rural districts and their probable bbst, and
another authorising the rental, or purchase
of stamp-cancelling machines.
84th Day.—The House received the report
oi Secretary Herbert -."On the* htmor-piat.'
frauds at Carnegie's. After' passing some
bills of minor Importance, •‘upon the an
nouncement of Senator Cqlqqttvs death, the
House at 1 p. ni. adjourned.' ‘ a'"!'
83th Day.-The House spent ghf day fili
bustering over the attempt of the Elections
Committee to bring up the O'Nejll-doy con
test.
8tir:i Day.—The House adnpted'a rule pro
viding for .tho dispusal of two contested
election cases, but the Bepitbllcans pre
vented llniii action on either ,hy u filibuster.
— Mr. Bryan argued in support of his rose-
lutit u tortho popular election .of Senators.
87th Day.—A veto of tho Bland, seignior
age Idll was received from theVrWtflent. -
The House fought all day over tho O'Neill-
Joy contested ejection case and the proceed
ings were turbulent. -• , •