Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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END TOWNS. Most Northerly and Southerly Cities in the World. Hammerfest in th? Far North Punta Arenas in the South. Do yon know the names of the two towns that respectively are tfcefnorth ernmost and most southerly ?n the world? They arc Hammer fest, Norway, ami Punta Arenas, Chili. The former is the capital of Fin mark, the extensive proviuce or annex of Norway, whicii forms the ext^smcr. northern portion, of Continental Europe, ami is situated between the Arctic Sea and Russian Lapland. Fin mark has an area of 18,306 square miles, includes Norwegian* ^Lapland and comprises numerous islands, on the northernmost of which is North Cape. It has important fisheries, which gire employment to fhe>?Coaier" part of a population or nearly twenty fire thousand. Hammer fest is on thov Qual-oe (Whale Wand), of which?t chief port, and is sixty musilo west of North Cape. Is horses; arelo i wood and arc painted on the outside. Commuication between its quarters is kept up by boats. The harbor is de fended by a fort. Although situated in such a norther ly latitude, the summer heat is at times oppressive, and even through out the winter the temperature is mild enough for fishing to be carried on. The eun stays two months above itt horizon. The town exports stock fish, whale, seal and fish oil, skins, walrus hides, teeth, copper and feath ers. Its population is about 2100. In its trade Norwegian, Danish. English, German and Russian vessels arc en gaged. Thirty small vessels are sent out early in the spring. to Spizbergen - to take part in the fisheries and wal- [ rus huntings Train and cod liver oil Is manufactured in Haramerfest. Salted fish is the principal export On Fnglenses, or Birds Cape, which protects the harbor on the north, i l stands a column with an inscripto* in Norse and Latin stating that the f??wn was the destination of the expedition for the measurement of the arc of a meridian. It was also the place cho sen by Captain Sabine for the scene of < his pendulum experiments. j j Punta Arenas is Spanish for Sandy Point. It is si mated upon a level plain in the Chilian colony of Ma gellane3 and on the east coast of the Brunswick Peninsula. Back of the town snowcapped mountains rise lo the height of one thousand feet. Its houses are almost all one story and bnilt irregularly. Just out side (be settlements arc fields of moss and low hills whose timber has been burned. Opposite the point, on the other side of the Straits of Magellan, is the island of Terra del Fuego, the Land of Fire, so styled by Magalhaens, its Portuguese discoverer, because of the great number of fires which he ^ ( noticed upon it the first night he ap proached its shores. Punta Arenas was founded in 1843 as a penal settlement and has ever since been known only as sach to those who have read or heard of it. Its unenviable reputation led to its de cline in population until the European steamehip lines adopted the \ route through ?he s trait to the west coast of Sonili America. Then the town was used as a station of call and supply, and iu 1868 Chili sent out 300 immigrants with a Gov ernor to take possession of iL The immigrants brought along with them wood for building purposes, and sup plies to la?t until the land granted them had been cleared and cultivated. Then the sending of convicts there was stoppeti. The military guard was withdrawn daring tlse war with Pctu, am! all the prisoners who consented to join the army got a ticket of leave. From 1868 to 1888 the population of the town increased from two h andrei i to two thousand. The soil is good, coal mines abound and gold and silver are found. The coal mines are worked by a company which pays the Chilian government a small tax for the privilege. A tram way brings to town the coal, which is considered a good "steam" article. Formerly steamers had to go to the Falkland Islands, 500 miles distant, to get their supplie*. Now they find them at Punta Arena?. The crop of potatoes is considerable, cattle thrive, good mushrooms are obtainable in large quantities, and in the various seasons parrots, geese, ducks, snipe, wood, eckers, ibis and other birds are found. < Arenas is the largest town in SouthermWst Chili and the on.; one in the strait ?rom the nearest s^ ?ter ment on the Cfefan coast to the tirsi one on the easterhv6ide is a distance of about four thous?\i miles, and the voyage lasts from fiftfev,, (0 sixteen days, and Punta Ar?n??ig the only stopping place. The population isof ihemosfc^aricd j kind, including cx-convic.p, fugr*^cs of all sorts, cast away saiiors, MeecrvJ ere from the navies of all corintrie?. Chinamen, negroes, Polanders, Irish, English, Italian?, Germans, Russia s, Portuguese, Spaniards, Hebrews?men from a I climes, types of all humanity. Every tongue seems to be spoken aud each language seems to have its interpreter. English largely predomi nates. It is a market for qneer relies, shell*, flying fish, sea lion*' tusks, serpent*' skins, Cape Horn agates, turtle shells, armadillo taiis, in which the Paiagonians carry their war paint ; guanaco, seal and ostrich skins and ? strich rugs. The last named arc iliade from tl?c breasts of yoang os triches, and are of softest down and loveliest plumage. The plumes are plucked from the birds' tails and wings while alive, but to* obtain the rnge the little ostriches are killed and skiuned. Then the breasts are sewed together. Different colors are artis tically blended. The ruge are usev as carriage robes, for the backs of couches or chairs, for panels- in frout of dress skirts and for opera cloaks. ?[New York Herald. '?? '-i ' Veterans with Queer Wounds. There were some veterans with queer records in attendance at tLe rc cetit encampment. Oue of these, known familiarly as Comrade Chase, who served iu a Maine battery during the war,, earned the scare of ' forty eight wouiids received in a single bat tic, that of Gettysburg. Iiis numerous wounds .resulted from the explosion of a spherical case immediately in front of him at that memorable battle. Corporal John Burns, of Ohio, re ceives a pension for a peculiar wound which is described in the pension bureau as "shot in the hip with a bar rel of sugar.7' -.g .Burns, saya the Washington Post, was "on guard duty ?t a sharp railroad carve in Virginia during th? latter part of the war, and was struck iu the bip and disabled by ? barrel of sugar which was thrown suddenly from the rickety car by the momentum at the tum in the road. Another veteran who is present is recorded iu the bu reau as having stopped a canuon ball with his abdomen. He was sitting in tent near headquarters when a spent cannon ball came boundiug along and struck him in the stomach with euffi force to knock him hors de combat, tait not to kiil him. Still another queer ease is that of a Pennsylvani?n veteran. He was ren iered totally deaf by a cannon ball which whizzed by his head in un comfortably close proximity at the battle of Malvcrn Hill. In describing the sensation afterwards he vsaid it felt for an instant as if fifty cyclones had buret loose about his head. The concussion also paralyzed him for several minutes. There is another pensioner who receives a monthly al fovrance from Uncle Sam's till for a iiborse bite of the neck." He was a cavalryman, and claims to have been bitten by a vicious animal while serv ing with Sheridan in his valley ride. The bite resulted in a partial paralysis >? the spine- These are but a few illustrations of the various aud multi tudinous peculiarities of war which were represented at the graud army encampment. The Value of Salt. Tbe victory of antiseptics and the 3is<x)very of the ideal disinfectants, ire considered the great triumphs of modern medicine. They have made hygiene and sanitary measures to pro tect health possible, and they open up new avenue for combating disease ferine. But the great point that io worthy of understanding is that the antiseptic is based upon salt, primari fy*. Salt in some of its forms is then Lhe great disinfectant which nature supplies. '? find it nearly every where, and its value as a health pre servative is just being realized. "We tt?e salt on our meat to flavor it, but really to make it more acceptable to : he stomach, where the meat under goes a remarkable change. Salt on it preven?s souring, and the sudden de velopment in us of disease germs. Simi arly salt in all our food acts as a puriher. Horses and cows never do well unless salt is fed to them occa sionally. Their systems become run iowii and sickly if it is denied to hem. But salt as a purifier of the earth can be carried further than simply as ?tfingred?ent of our food to make it tnore acceptable. It is a mediciuc, a mineral possessing medicinal proper ties o? high order. The mineial waters are generally highly impreg nated with salt, and many of them owe their beneficial results almost ?utirely to this. In hot weather salt drinks are valuable iu keeping oil dis eases. Salt baths introduce the salt into the system through the pores of the skin. In fact, those who take salt baths winter and snmmcr are freer from disea-e than those who dose themselves with drugs. Salt until it becomes nauseating to the taste should be taken internally and externally in the ehapeof baths the year round. D?ring the fall and spring, who the weather is changing, it is especially beneficial.?[Yankee Blade. The Ant-Bear. An effort is to bo made in Cape Col ony, South Africa, to prevent the threatened extermination of that curi ous but useful quadruped, the aard vark, or ant-bear, which is one of the very best friends of the white colo nists, although they have only lately been induced to believe it. Its food is the white ant, which docs enormous mischief to the crops. Against these pests the bear wages ceaseless war fare, digging out their nests and de stroying them in countless numbers. Unfortunately, the natives are espe cially fond of ant-bear meat, which resembles a very good quality of pork, and also hunt it for its hide, which :e N(>rth about $4 in tho markot. Time, uo\ever, is already beginning to work out \g aardvark's revenge. The white atKjs increasing with ominous rapidity, af.( tjie farmers* associations are in a state >f considerable alarm. They arc dema^|,,g protection for the ant-bear, and th.*, iianniese crea ture may yet survive t. f njov a seu80ll of great prosperity and\^(v New ??ou: h Wales had^ ^ [ head of eat tic at the beginning of i??>yl ! year, an inc.ease of 137,000 during j 1891; 490,000 horses, an increase ot ?16,000; 263, W hogs, a de?reaso ol ?31.000. v5 CHILDREN'S COLUMN, tommt's thanksgiving trouble. There's going tobe turkey and duck and ham. And salad and ice-cream and pudding and jam, And oysters and tarts and chicken pie. And custards with frosting piled up high ! Oh dear!?-how I wish ? was big as a man, For I want to eat just ?11 ihat I can, And to think of those tarts aud custards and all, And I?oh dear, Fm so dreadfully small. ?[Youth's Companion. a thanksgiving stoi?t. . "Ruth! Ruth I do wake up I we wiil certainly leave you at home if you arc not ready iu timc.J, Ruth Caldwell sat up in bed and slowly tubbed her eyes. For a mo ment she cjuld not understand what it .ill meant There were her two sisters, Amy aud Bertha, flying around getting dressed, aud it was evidently early, because it was still necessary to have a light. *%0.:l I know," she thought, as she sprang np. Aloud she added, *'Thanksgiving, isn't it? Why 1 for got ! We are going to grandma's, aren't we!"' Amy stood before the mirror comb ing her hair. As Rulli spoke s!ie turned and said, "Well Ruth. You did succeed in getting awake? 1 have shukcu you aud I don't know what I haven?t done to wake you. 1 li - ight you were going to sleep ali day." ?'Well you never mind, I am awake at last Let us see who will be down si airs first." Ruth fairly Hew into her clothes and won the ra^e. Then came an early breakfast At length everyone was ready. They climbed into the wagon, and in a few minu?s were on their way to grandma's. The farmyard gate was open wide, and as they drove in grandma came out on the porch to greet them. Her dear old face was wreathed in smiles as she welcomed her son and his am ily back to the old homestead. Mr. Caldwell attempted to help Mrs. Caide well and the children out of the wagon but before he could help them the girls were out aud on the porch hug" ging and kissing their grandmamma; then away into the house, going through the same performance with their, cousins and uncles and aun ts. In a few minutes Mrs. Caldwell, Sr., came in, followed by her son and da ug'uter. AH of Mr. Caldwcll's brothers and sisters were at the old homestead. They were sitting in the large, old fashioned kitchen, talking and laugh ing, when Ruth said, "Grandma cau we go np in the attic and dress in those cloths that your grandma aud grandpa used to wcar??' "Yes, certainly, my dear," answer ed their grandmother. So with a happy "thank you" they trooped away, up the little attic stairs. In the big garret stood several long trunks, aud with a shout of joy the children ran toward them. In a very short time every one of them stood with open lids, and old silks, brocades, powdered wigs, and various other things were being dragged forth o ..c more into the light of day. The chil drcd arrayed themselves iu these, and, if fifteen minutes later a person had looked into that attic ho would have beheld a scene which dated back a century or two. What fun they had up there. It was about half-past eleven o'clock when the hall door below suddenly* opened. Looking up the older people beheld two figures standing ou the threshold. One was decked out in knee breeche?, powdered wig, fancy waist coat aud buckied slippers. The other wore a pink brocade, powdered hair and high-heeled slippers and carried in one hand a lace handkerchief, yellow with age, which she waved gracefully as she made a pretty little courtesy aud said : "When dinner is ready, will you please call us?" Then she turned and taking the hand of her escort made a low bow and disappeared. ' Amy and Harry did that well," said grandpa. At noon the 4'old folks" marched solemly in aud took their places at the table. For dinner they had pumpkin pic, turkey and all Thanksgiving dishes. That evening they knelt around the fireplace and with ea nest voices, which told of grateful hearts, thanked God for their blessings during the past year. Signs of Coining Age. uDo you know the surest indication of old age?" said a physician recently. ' The surest indications in man," he continued, "moist eye, a dry paini and a shrinkage of the calf of the leg. All of these indications are due to some action of the nerves consequent upon advancing years, in the matter of the eye, the fifth section is inter fered with, and it i* this which causes a flow of water. The dryncss of the palm is produced by an interference with the functions of the body, also due to the action of the nerves, and the skrinkagc of the leg follows from similar causes. In old age, lo?>, you notice some men become more corpulent than in * I the earlier portions of their lives. With drinking men the change is often produced by the quantity of sac charine which thev consuuie with their ink, and with those who do not drink it follows from other physi ological changes. As to the hair be coming gray, it results, in the major ity of cases, from the partial triosing of the hair-ceils and the reduction <>t!| quantity of -natural coloring mat-j terw^idithc closing produces. With women r\^mnevs of the eye does IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS ie Second Session of ie Fiity-secon? Congress Convenes. Daily Routine of Business Transacted in the interest of the People. TTpon ' Speaker Crisp's entering the house, Monday morning, .there were most unusual scenes. The democrats arose and cheered him vociferously, and the republicans joined in. The speaker rap ped for order, b?t the house refused to come to order and continued cheering for some time. It was an evident reas surance of confidence to offset the inten tional or supposed slight given him Sat urday night ia New York, by the reform club's failure to invite him to speak at their banquet. The prevalent opinion is that the speaker's nume was intention ally omitted from the list of orators and that the club meant to discount his po stion as an advocate of tariff reform, thereby strengthening the opposition to his re-election. The attendance in the house Tuesday morning was small, owing in a great measure to the io clemency of the weather. The house adopted a resolu tion directing the committee on ways and means to inquire into and report upon the present condition of the treas ury and the probable future revenues under the existing law. Mr. Cobb. of Missouri, from the com mittee on war claims, reported favorably to the house Wednesday the bill intro duced by Mr. Ferrali, of Virginia, ap propriating $217,236 for the relief of the heirs of the late Mrs. Mary Ann R .ndolph Curtis Lee, of Fairfax county, Ya. The claim was referred to the court of claims fora finding of fact under the "Bowman act" and was returned to the committee. The court found that wood valued at $217,236 had been taken from the Lee estate during the war by Colonel Greene, chief quartermaster of the department of Washington. The house, Thursday, agreed to a res olution for a holiday-recess from Thurs day before Christmas until Wednesday after New Years, and then proceeded to apportion the days before reces3 among its various committee. Saturday was given to the consideration of the Florida claims bill; Monday, suspension day* was not accorded any privilege ; Tuesday was given to the' committee on public lands; Wednesday, to the committee on commerce. The measures called up by the committee on Indian affairs consumed the remainder of the day. Then the house adjourned until Saturday; THE SENATE. The anti?op?on bill was laid before the senate Monday but was informally laid aside to allow discussion on the In dian Territory resolution to be contin ued. Senators Irby (F. A., S. C.) and Warren (Rep., Wyoming,) were in their seats for the first time this session. In the senate, Tuesday, certificates of the electors were presented from Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Illinois and Maine. Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, offered a resolution calling on the civil service commissioners for a succinct statemeli - of the government positions that are m&iue and outside of the civil service rules, the methods of application and examination, the quota of each state filled and vacant, and what positions are open to appointment outside of the civil service rules?the purpose being to procure in a compact form information for the use of those desiring to"*enter the government service. The resolution went over with out action. Mr. Vest's joint resolution for a commission to make an agreement with the five civilized tribes of the In dian Territory for taking lands in sever alty was taken up and several speeches were made. The serate at noon resum ed consideration of the anti-option bill, Mr. George addressing the senate in favor of his subtreasury measure. The famous McGarraban eiaim occu pied the attention of the senate till 2 o'clock, Wednesday when it went over till Thursday. The question was. whether the bill passed last session, re ferring the matter to the court of private land claims, should pass over the presi dent's veto. The remainder of the ses sion was occupied by the anti-option bill. Mr. George, of Mississippi, spoke until adjournment. He denounced business on the New York cotton exchange, as "un hallowed traffic" and its sales of cotton as "sales of phantom bales." In trie senate, Thursday, Mr. George finished his speech on the anti-option bill. Mr. Wash burn made an ineffectu al effort to have the time fixed for taking the vote next week. Tne certificates of election of presidential electior ins Dele ware were presented. Several petitions were presented against the anti-option bill, including one from the New York merchants' exchange. The McGarrahan bill was taken up at 12:45, and Mr. Hun ton resumed his argument in favor of the pBSsage or tne dui over tne veto. Atter a short executive session the senate ad- I journed until Monday. NOTES. The president, Wednesday, presented Christmas gifts to a number of people in the shape of pardons. Senator Stewart has introduced an amendment providing absolute free coin age to Senator Hills silver bill. The ways and means committee now have a big job on their hands in investi gating the exact condition of the treas ury. The president, on Monday, appointed J Charles C. Coles to be associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Col umbia. Postmaster General Wauamaker. on Wednesday,approved the selected color of the international return postal card. It is a bluish gray and the cards are the same size as the domestic card. Amos Cummings has introduced a reso lution demanding investigation of the mailing service, with Mr. Wanamaker as chief witness. It alleges that laws were wantonly violated in sending republican literature below its legitimate rate. The senate has confirmed the nomina tions of Person C. Cheney, of New Hampshire, to be minister of Switzer land; Charles C. Clarke, of Virginia, United States marshal of the eastern dis trict of Virginia; Thomas J. Fiauncr, of Louisiana, to be receiver of public mon eys at Natchitoches. Ths Secate committee on foreign rela tions, Wednesday, further considered the bill by the terms of which the United States guarantees the payment of the in terest on $100,000,000 in bonds to be is sued by the Nicaragua Canal Com pany. Some slight changes, suggested by Chairman Sherman, were agreed to. Mr. Bulloch, of Florida, introduced in the house Tuesday a resolution request ing the secretary of war to ascertain and ' 'he house the present actual con dition <>f harbor improvement at C'um terlai d Sound, Fin., and the entrmcc to Fort Fe.naodina and whether necessity ex'sN for any immediate legislation re gar; lit!ir these point?. The republican senators' caucus met again Thursday morning and further dis cussed the program iu regard to the pros pective senatori*! contests iu the western state-. A resolution was adonti d au th >r:z:ng rhe^chaifniaD, Senator Sherman, to appoint a committee of five senators to tike into consideration the wisdom aud propriety of senatorial interference in these contests. The news of the death of Senator Gib son wrs not received in Washington un til Thursday evening. A meeting of the Lou?8?anna delegation in congress will be held to make arrangements for attending the funeral, which, it is supposed, will bo held in New Orleans. The committee to represent Congress on the occasion will be named by Vice President Morton and Speaker Crisp, and they will go un der an escort of the deputy sergeant-at arms of the senate. Every member of the Senate Commit tee on Inter-State Commerce was present at Wednesday morning's session to listen to the arguments of the railway magnates in favor of the amendments introduced by Senator Cullom to the Inter-State Commerce act. Prec?dent Roberts, of the Pennsylvania, aud Depew, of the New York Central, addressed the committee. Mr.JRoberts said the inter-state law was being violated every day by the ship I pers and manufacturers. Mr. Depew j said there was a general misapprehension 1 in ?he public mind on the subject of the relations of railway companies to one an other on the subject of rates and compe tition, and stated that the profits of the New York Central were not now as great a3 when he entered the service. The cer tificate of the presidential electors for Florida was presented SENATOR GIBSON DIES. A Man Prominent in the Affairs of the State of Louisiana. After a liutferiog but a,>pArently pain less illness, Senator R. L. Gibson died at Hot Springs, Ark., Thursday afternoon; I At the time of bis death he was sur rounded by members of the family and a j numb'r of close fiiends, who wept bit terly when it was seen that the noble hearted mm was dead. Senator Gibson I passed away as though he had merely gone to sleep; There was no strudle, no suffering. He hai been confined to his bed sinc3 the 12th of November, since which time his dedh has been ex ; pected daily. Iu accordance with his wishes, the remains will be buried in Lexington, Ky., beside his wife, who died some yeari ago. Randall Lee Gibson, of New Orleans, was born September 10, 1832, at Spring Hill j near Versailles, Woodford county, Kentucky ; was educated in Lexington, Ky. ; in Terre Bonne Parish, Louisana ; at Yale college\ iu the law department of the Tuiane university of LcuisnDa; de clined the secretaryship of legation of Spain in 1885; was aid to the governor of Louisiana at the commencement of the civil war, and comminded a company, regiment, brigade, and division in the confederate army ; was president of the board of administrators of the Tuiane university of Louisana, was one of the administrators of the Howard memo rial library in ?ew Orleans: was one of the trustees of the Peabcdy educational fucd; a regent of the Smithsonian in stitution; a lawyer and planter; was elected to the forty- third congress from the second congressional district, but was denied admission; was a representa tive in the fourty-fonrtb, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congreises, and was elected to the United States sen ate without opposition as a democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1883, and was re-elected in 1888. His term of ser vice would have expired March 3, 1895. MEXICANS FIGHTING. Bloody Battle Between Revolutionists and Government Troops. A news special of Wednesday from Guerre, Mexico, says : The government telegraph line, which passes through this place, has been repaired, and for the first time a complete official report of the bloody battle near San.Ygnance was sent to military headquarters Tuesday. The invasion of the revolutionists has pro duced intense excitement throughout the Rio Grande border country, both on the United States and Mexican side of the river. The battle took place about fif teen miles from Guerre, and an order for reinforcements was brought in by couri ers while the fight was still in progres?. Major Julian E. Squebel, commander of the garrison, left immediately with a force of 150 soldier-, but when they reached the placu they found that the revolutionists bad crossed the river into the United States, taking with them about twenty prisoners, forty horses and a large amount of ammunition and guns. BATTLING AGAINST ODDS. The Mexican soldiers fought nohiy. They were only forty-five in number, but held their ground and continued to fight as long as there was any possible chance of defeating the invaders. Cap tain Segarar, who was in command of the government troops, led churge after charge against the opposing forces which numbered fully 200 but was outnum bered and was killed by a pistol shot from the leader of the revolution ists, who is thought to be Prudencio Gonziles, formerly a prominent ranch man in Starr county, Texas. General Garcia, commander of this military zone^ with headquarters at Wier, has issued or ders that all troops stationed along the frontier, be on the lookout for bands of revolutionists and sh/>w them no mercy. All revolutionists captured on this side of the border will be dead ones. _ POISONED THE FOOD. Reported Attempt to Exterminate Non Union Workmen at Homestead. The Pittsburg, Pa., Sunday paper: published a startling story of a conspira cy to poison the non-union men at Car negie's steel plant, at Homestead, and as a result it is alleged several persons lost their lives, while scores are suffering from the effect of some poisonous drug. The developments so far made, it is said, im plicate the members of the advisory com mittee, the Aroalgated Association and officers of other labor organizations. .Nine or nvre persons are under ar rest, ostensibly on less serious charges, but really for the purpose of averting suspicion until the others in the alleged conspiracy could be apprehended. It i? stated the chief cook inside the Home stead mills confessed to having placed poison in the food prepared for non union men; th'it he did so at the insti gation of the strikers1 committees, anr thnt he was also under pay from them a well as from the Carnegie company. L he caused death and sickness sufficient to frighten the non union men from the mill and compel the closing of the mill he said he was to receive $5,000. THE NICARAGUA COMMITTEE. Tb?y are in Washington to Look After The Enterprise. A committee appointed at the national Nicaragua convention in New Orleans, composed of Walter Gresham, of Texas, Charies M. Shelley, Alabama; Mr. May bury, of Michigan ; Ed ward F. Cragein, of Illinois; F. J. CMendahl, of Pennsyl vania; and Richard L. Edwards, of New York, made its appearance in Washing ton Thursday to promote the Nicaragua ; canal project in congress. They have drawn up an address to the people of the United States, which has j been mailed to all the delegates to the (convention. They are instructed to ask Louisiana senators aud representatives and others to take measures to give effect to the resolutions passed in New Orleaus in favor of the canal. Mrs. ParnelPs Poverty. A London cablegram says: The bank ruptcy case of the widow of Charles Stewart Paruoll was again in court Thursday for a decision as to whether it was necessary to make public examina tion regarding Mrs. Parnell's assets aud liabilities. The court decided public ex amination unnecessary. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. ?n? News o? ine World Condensed Into Pithy aid Pointed Parappns. Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Benders? A Cincinnati dispath says: The presby tery, by a vote of 31 to 26, suspended Rev. Preserved Smith from the ministry for heresy. ?L M. Tappert, manager of the West ern Union telegraph office St. Mary's, 0., absconded Wednesday with the com pany's last month's receipts. Orders were issued by Secretary Foster, Thursday, directing 30,000 World's fair souvenir coins be shipped from the Phil adelphia mint to Chicago and 10,000 to New York. By an exp'osion of giant powder at Minesville, Pa., Wednesday evening, Thomas Walter and Michael Parrish were killed and Dominick Walter and Mike Marine fatally injured. It is stated in a telegram of Thursday from Little Bock, Ark., that theBlioois Central railroad will soon control the Little Kock and Memphis railroad. The transfer is to be made before January. An Albany, N. Y. dispatch says: Miss Susan B. Anthony, of Rochester, the well known woman suffrage advocate, was. on Monday, appointed manager of the state industrial school by Governor Flower. A London cablgram of Tuesday says: A pauper, named Sheridan, an inmate of the Lambert workhouse, has come into a fortune of ?300,000 by the death of an aunt, Mrs. Blake. Sheridan has two eons, both of whom emigrated to Amer ica years ago. The National Fire Insurance Company, established in 1838, one of the oldest in surance corporations in New York, has decided to liquidate its outstanding risks, which were Wednesday night reinsured in the Commercial Union Assurance Com pany, of London. There is a movement on foot in Indi anapolis to abolish Sunday funerals, j which bids fair to accomplish its purpose. The undertakers hold that there is no good reason why Sunday should be re garded as a funeral day, and the minis ters express the same opinion. The National Brotherhood of Soldiers was incorporated at Indianapolis Mon day. It takes in both ex-union and ex confederate soldiers of democratic faith. Three of the in corporators are ex-union and two ex-confederate soldiers. Its motto is "The War Is Over." Dispatches from Vienna, Austria, state that King Charles, of Roumanie, will abdicate shortly in favor of Crown Prince Ferdinand is reiterated. The king is said to have decided to renounce bis crown immediately after the marriage of the crown prince with Priocess Marie, of Edinburgh. A special London cablegram says: In South Carolina's house of represen tatives, Wednesday, the factory bill pass ed its second reading. It provides that eleven hours shall constitute a day's work, as against thirteen, as heretofore. The law is to go into operation next April. A news special of Wednesday from Madrid, Spain, says: The committee having in charge the preparations for Spanish representation at the Chicago Columbian exposition is organizing a mil itary band, comprising 100 performers, who will give concerts during the entire period of the fair. At the convention of the American Federation of Labor in session at Phila delphia Tues day, a sensational resolution was presented by Delegate Morgan, of Chicago, that the convention join in the plea of the governor of the state of Illi nois for the pardon of Oscar Neele, Sam uel Fielding and Michael Schwab. A special dispatch of Wednesday from Guerra, Mexico, states that there is in tense excitemert through the Rio Grande country over the raid by the revolution ists on the Mexican soldiers. A large force is pursuing the revolutionists, who have crossed into the states. No mercy will be shown to any who are captured. The executive committee of the Amer ican Bimetalic league has decided to vig orously oppose the repeal of the Sherman silver law unless a free coinage law takes its place. Secretary Foster has assured Messrs. Springer and tiolman that thei will be a twenty-million dollar balance it the treasury at the end of present fi> ? year. A dispatch from Reading, Pa,, says: The store of Oscar Stul, of Beaver Creek, Luzerne county, was robbed last May of $15,000 worth of jewelry. On Thurs day last Dr. Herman Weber and wife, of Reading, were arrested and brought in to court. Five hundred dollars' we-rth of the goods were fjund in Weber's posses sion and identified. A meeting of the executive committee of the American Bimetallic League was held in Washington, Wednesday. It is stated the committee passed resolu tions declaring they will determinedly resist the repeal of the act of July, 1890, requiring the purchase of $54,000,000 worth of silver bullion each year, unless the free coinage of silver is at the same time substituted for the present law. A telegram of Monday from Harris burg, Pa., is to the eff ct that Deputy Sheriff Ferrell has applied for a requisi tion on the governor of Kentucky for the delivery of Robert E. Beatty to the Alle gheny county, Pa., authorities. Beatty, is under arrest in Louisville for assault. There is strong evidence at hand to show that he is concerned in poisoning non unionists at the Carnegie works at Home stead. A cable dispatch from Valparaise, Chile, states that the news of the ratification by the states of the protocol relating to claim was received wi*h pleasure in Santiago. It is hoped by the govern ment that the appointment of arbitrators will be left to Mr. Cleveland. The press of Valparaiso and Santiago contain bitter comments on Mr Eagan's return. They hope the government will show him S'jant courtesy. A BALTIMORE BLAZE in Which Nearly 20,000 Bales of Cot ton arc Destroyed. One of the largest ami m? st destruc tive fires that ever visited the waterfront of Baltimore, Md., started shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday moro ing in the mas rive ? tton warehouse of Alexander Brown, at the corner of Bond and Thom as streets, and quickly spread throughout the adjoining five building?. The>ix large buildings were stocked with 17.202 hales of cotton belonging to the lea-ling cotton tinns iu Baltimore and valued at about $850,000. With the ex ception of the c untless bales * >ating in the harbor ibe entire lot will be a total loss. The warehouses arc a complete wreck. The entire damage wdl teach $750.000 and the loss is covered by in tu? ance. The Mafla ?gain. A New Orleans dispatch says: Stephej An to was found near the Convent sta tion, in St. James parish Friday night, desperately wounded. He detailed a stow of how he. with two companions, wire inveigled frcm the French market bv four men. who stabbed to death his friends and left him for dead at Couvent. The bodies of his companions which were found verifird Areto's story. The authorities are certain the crime WW the work of tho Mafia Society. ROBBED THE PASSENGERS* Two Toughs Take Possession of a Train?A Passenger Killed. An attempt was made at Huntington, W. Va., Monday night to rob the east bound Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train. Two men boarded the train at midnight. Both wore belts heavily bur dened with weapons. Just after the train left the depot they put on masks, drew large Colt's revolvers and entered the coach immediately ahead of the sleeper. They ordered all hands up and proceeded to search all the passengers. A PASSENGER KILLED. One of the first was a Mr. Eiser, or Tuck, as other reports say, walking in the aisl?\ He said he had no money and resisted. Instantly one of the men fired two shots into his brain and he fell dy ing. A panic ensued during which trainmen reached the scene and a generai fight began. One of the robbers pulled the bell cord and the train stopped a? Twentieth stieet, where he and his com panion', escaped. A passenger named Fiannegao received a bullet in the foot during the fight. There is no clue ex cept a mask and overcoat dropped by the robbers. A SHOT IN THE DARK. _ Shortly afterwards Burrell Forgey, who lived near the sc -nrt, heard no?9*?S on his pr mises and going to the door was as sailed with revolvir shots, one bullet striking him in the right shoulder,break ing his arm. No attempt was made to rob him and it is supposed the despera does, trying to escape in the dark, were determined to prevent pursuit. FORGEY THE ROBBER. An hour later detectives arrested Bur rell Forgey for the train robbsry. He is the man who said he was shot in the right shoulder after the robbery by prowlers around his house. Forgey cor responds exactly to the description of one of the robbers and has been identi fied by one i f the passengers. THE OTHER ROBBER CAPTURED. Later dispatches state that Chief of Police Turner cleared up the Chesa ipeake and Ohio vest?bulo train robbery and murder Wednesday morning by the arrest of Tom Collins, at Brodrick, just across the river in Ohio. He is charsed with the murder of a German passenger and being a con ted era te of Burrell For gy, who was arrested Tuesday night. Captain Matheson has identified the men. Collins is in jail while Forgy is allowed to remain at his home under guard where he is suffering from his shoulder, Collins has confessed. BRADSTREET'S REPORT Of the Condition of Trade Throughout the Country. Bradstreet's report of business for the past week says: The feitures of the week in the business world include a moderate reduction in the distribution of staples, as is customary this season ; an unusual activity in holiday goods, rel atively greater strength of pig iron west than in the east, news of the financial recuperation of southern merchants this year, an un preceden t cd movement west of eastern manufactured products, heavy bank cleariogs, fewer failures and easy money. Nashville adds to the list a good crop raised at minimum expense, and says bills are being discussed more than usual and that some farmers are holding cotton for higher prices, borrowing money on it and paying their debts. At Birmingham trade is gaining in value. At Richmond, Charleston and Atlanta increased orders .for holiday goods are the features. Sa vaonah says staple goods have advanced 10 to 15 per cent. New Orleans, with colder weather, higher prices for cotton, and active sales of sugar and rice, and reports of a good volume of business. The volume of business at Memphis, Augusta. Little Rock and some other center*, has not equalled the record in former years, but has resulted more fa vorably. Galvest m's jobbers report that country dealers owe them from 50 to 75 less than ? year s go. Dallas says Texas farmers have made good crops, and Fort Worth says that general trade is fair. The eastern centers present few changes. Holiday specialties are moving freely at all the large cities, jobbers finding it difficult to meet the demands in some lines. Staple cottons cont:nue to advance with well sustained demands. Prints are firm at an advance of 1-4 to 12 cent, and prospects fivor a further r'se. Cotton has recorded a net gain of 1-8 of a cent within a week, due to the growth of the belief in a short crop and delayed action on the anti-option bill. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Derelopomenl in the Past week. The industrial situation iu the South for the past week was very gratifying. The change for the better whi h began with the rise in the price of cotton has been felt in all branches of business, and is shown by increased sales, prompt payments ani many inquiries as to fu ture transactions. Coal, iron ana steel con tinue steady, and tbe shortage in many grades of lumber is not fully supplied. A consider able increase in woodworking machinery is shown, twenty-seven having been established during the week. A coal and iron mining com pany with $100.000 capital, $?50,000 electrical company, a $50,000 lumber company, cotton and knitting mills and tobacco factories have also been established. Fifty-three new (industries fwere established during the week, together with eight enlarge ments of m inufactories, and thirteen import ant new buildings. Among the new indusrtries reported are a plow factory at Suffolk, Va., a brewery at Fort Smith, Ark., brick works at Bichmond, Va,, and canning factories at Wa ter Vallev, Misi., Clarksville and Paris, Tena. Chemical works will be built at Houston, Tex as, a $50,000 electric lighting plant at Cald well, Texas, and others at Georgetown, Ky., and Marble Fali Texas; evaporating works at Glasgow Junction, .; flouring mills at Hnntsville, Ala., and Columbia, Ky., and a harness factory at Nashville, Tenn. Ice fac tories will be established at Madison, Ga,, Comanche, Texas, Newport and Newport News, Va., a $100,000 coal and iron mining plan: at Birmingham, Ala., a $50,000 timber company at Louisville, Ky.. and a paper mill ut Wells burg, West Va^ a knitting mill at Huntsville, Ala., a cotton mill ai Americas, Ga,, a tobacco factory at Bristol, Tenn. Twenty-four wood working plants aro reported, araon? them being aw and planing mills at Mobile, Ah., Helena, Ark., Louisville, Chicamauga and Cartersville, Ga., Dillon, Ky., Hotts Camp, Miss., and Ed iston, S. C. Waterworks are to be built at DeLand. Fla., Milledgeville. Ga., Newborn, Tenn., and Mar ble Falls, Tex. The enlargement for the week include a cannery at Millford, .. electr.cal plant at Henderson, N. C, a cotton mi:l at Gibbsonville, N. CL, and tile woiksat Coaldale, Ala. The new buildings include business house s ht -acola, Fla., Augusta, Ga.. Fort Worth, Alv.n and Grapcland, Texas, a $12,000 church, at Cads Ion, Ala., a compress ?t Bir mingh ni, .Ma . a $20,000 court house at Con way, Ark., a $35,000 one a* Carrollton, Ga., and a chool building at Hacke?, Ark.?Trades man (Chat annosa. Ten _ _ WILMINGTON TO LIVERPOOL. A Line of Steamships to Be Engage* for Direct Trade. W. G. Hi ton. agent for Birber & Co., of New York, is in Augusta, Ga., to ar range with the cotton shippers to put on a line from Wilmington, N. C, to Liver pool and Bremen. Arrangements have been made with tbe Sstboard Air-Line for freight rates to Wilmington, the same as the rates to the ports of Charleston and Savannah, thus giving Augusta five competi:ive irts ?Savannah,Charleston, Port Royal, Wilmington and Norfolk Our Income and Expenditure. A Washington special of Wednesday says : The secretary of the treasury's re port estimates the revenues for the pr?s- ? ent fiscal year at $463,836,350, and the! expeodi'un s, at the same per cent, at $461,336,350. The secretary estimates that the total amount available at the close of the present year is over $131, - ooo.oog. j THROUGHOUT THE SOUTE -: .. Hales o? Her Progress ari Prosperity Briefly Epi?omize? And Important Happenings from Bay to Bay Tersely Told. Mrs. Murphy is in jail at Huntsville, Ala., charged with forging. She is the wife of a Tacoma, Wash., merchant from whom she parted recently to begin a sy tematic draft forging business. A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says: Governor Buchanan and Mrs. H. Clay King were in close conversation Wednes day the latter pleading for her husband's pardon. It is the general belief that Governor Buchanan will grant it. A north bound passenger train on the Mobile and Birmingham road struck a boxcar near Whatley, Ala., Monday night. The locomotive made a complete somersault Engineer Peter Bisen was buried in the wreck. He escaped with' slight injuries. Ceremonies incident to the unveiling of a monument to the memory of the dead members of the old Richmond How itzer battalion of artillery took place at Richmond, Va., theater Tuesday after noon. The building was crowded from pit to dome, despite the pouring of the rain. Captain George N. Woodbridge, cashier of the savings bank of Richmond, Va., one of the best known club men in the city, committed suicide Monday morn ing. The cause for the deed is not known, although for several days previous he acted at times in a manner indicative of mental depression. W. B. Dmy, an attorney at law in Norfolk, Va., was found guilty in the United States Court Thursday for mak ing false paper for the procuring of a United States pension and sentenced to one year in jail and $100 fine; When asked by the judge if he had anything to say, he replied no, and threw himself on the mercy of the court. In the South Carolina house of repre sentatives, Monday, a bill was introduc ed to repeal the act incorporating the town of Hamburg, known as North An gusta. This is in -line with the recom mendation in the governor's message, the reason being the numerous disorders that frequently occur Aere on Sundays. The town was chartered in 1827'and be fore the war it did an immense business. A dispatch of Thursday from Hunt ington, Ta., says: A special grand jury will sit Monday in the case of the Chesa - peake and Ohio train robbers. Fogey's missing overcoat, with a bullet hole in the shoulder, was fished from a vault in the rear of his house. This completes the evidence against him, but he' still persists in asserting his innocence, and says Collins is ''talking through his hat" Collins says all the plans were laid at Fogey's house, who promised him half the proceeds. A bill was introduced in the general assembly of South Carolina, Tuesday, making it a misdemeanor for any person to prevent an employe from belonging to any labor organization or political club, or to threaten to discharge him because of his connection with such organization. The penalty is $100 fine or six months' imprisonment It is hinted that this is the outgrowth of the charge by the ad ministration that the corporations during the recent state campaign discharged employes because they were Tilhnanites. A report reached Charleston, S. C, Tuesday that four Itallian miners work ing in the Horse Shoe phosphate mine, near Jacksonboro, were shot ano! killed by a padrone named Andrins, Jack sonboro is eighteen miles from Charles- - ton but lias no telegraphic communica tion. Quite a number of Italian labor ers from New York are engaged at work in the mines and murders are of frequent occurrence. The latest report from Jack sonboro is that an armed band of Ital ians headed by a trial justice, are in pur suit of the slayer. WHAT ANDERSON SAYS Concerning the Much-Talked-of Ban* euet Affair. A New York special says :. E. Ellery Anderson, president of the Reform Club, received Thursday morning from Speaker Crisp,a reply to his letter of two days pre vious. Anderson declined to make the letter's contents public, nor would he say what his recent fetter to ?Ir. Crisp had contained. "Was Mr. Crisp's letter friendly?" "I could net answer that without dis closing its contents, I will say, however, that both Mr. Crisp and I are sat isfied and that the public ought also to be satisfied and allow us some respite from the continual round of inquiries anyway. I think it very unjast to impute to me a deliberate intention of putting a slight upon a guest. I don't see how a gentleman en titled to the designation could be guilty of such a violation of hospitality. And I repeat that Speaker Crisp is satisfied that my conduct at the recent banquet of the Reform Club was not intentionally open to such an imputation." BLAINE IS VERY SICK. Suffering With Lung Disease Which May Prove Fatal. A special of Wednesday from Wash ngton says: James G. Blaine is now on ais death bed. His strength is sapping. The malady from which he has stiff red or so long a time has assumed a form of speedy termination. The disease at tacked his lungs a short time ago and its cause has baffi-d "the skill of his physi cians. The visit of Dr. Jar.eway, of .New York, to Mr. Blainc is indicative of the extreme anxiety of the family. When the fact became known that Mr. Blaine's lungs were succumbing to the ravages of disease plans were laid to convey the distinguished invalid to Pasadena, Cal., in the hope that a mild and soothing climate might enable him to raUy. Mr. Blaine's weakness, however, increased so rapidly that it was deemed unsafe to re move him and the trip to California was abandoned. There is reason to believe / that the ex secretary's death may occur any day. STRICT QUARANTINE. Opinion of New York Physicians in Re gard to Cholera. A Washington special of Wednesday says: The senate committee on immi gration recently addre>sed a series of questions to several prominent physicians of New York, asking their opinion as to the probable appearance of cholera in this countty next year. Replies have been received from a number of them in which they expressed a general unanim ity of opinion of great apprehension that the cholera will become epidemic during the spring and summer of 1893. They believe & rigid quarantine should he adopted and all passenger subjected to close medical examination. Silver Mines Shut Down. A special ot Friday from Denver, Col., aays: Since silver fell to i)0 the mines are constantly closing. Almost every day report is received of some property, large or small, discharging men. Hun dreds of mines are not being worked. Many are small and their output would cut no great figure. But the aggregate of persons thrown out of employment is large enough to exercise a material influ ence on the general condition of trade.