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SANFORD, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1891 NO.45 SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JUNE 19, 1891 29. "The next day John seeth Jesus com fcijg unto him ” The following verses indi cate that the events of the two days in cluded in this lesson took place after the bap tism of Jesus, the record of which is found in Matt, iii., 18-17; Mark i., 9-11; Luke iii., 21, 22. The next day may refer to the first day after His baptism. "Behold the Lamb of Gcd, which taketh away the sins of the world.” The Father had testified by an audible voice from heaven, ani by the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, that this was His beloved Son, and. now John points Him frfcfciaieoneto whdto h« a he came to bear wit ' ness. The Lamb of God would remind them of the daily burnt offerings and of the pass over lajnbs which had been offered day by day and year by year in all thepast history of the nation (Nurn. xxvUi.,3; Ex. xii., 8). 80. “This is He of whom I said, after me cometh a man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.” This he had said when they sent to ask him if He was the Christ or Elijah or the prophet (verses 19-27). When a little later word was brought to John that all men were following Jesus, he only reiter ated his testimony exalting Jesus, and said that he was filled with ioy (chapter iii., 26 29) that it should be so. John did not preach himself, He did not point people to himself* he could say with Paul, “Wo preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus’s sake (II Cor. iv., 5). 81. "And I knew Him not.” It seems most strange that these two, whose births were foretold by Gabriel, aud who were so iden tified in public work, should not have met as boys or ftpen until they met at Jordan. This, however, may not bo here implied,. It would seem from Matt, iii., 14, that in some sense John knew Him even before the spirit de . scended upon Him. Inasmuch as this gos pel was written to prove that He is the Bon of God (xx., 81), It may be that it was as Son of God he knew Him not till after the bap tism. 82. “And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him.” Not as a tongue of fire does He come, to Jesus, for tbere is no purifying or consuming necessary here as there was in the disciples at Pente cost; but as a pure and gentle dove does Ho come to Him who was holy, harmless, unde nted and separate from sinners. 83. "Ancf I knew Him not; but He that sent me to baptize^ with water, the same said unto me.1’ As witnesses unto Christ we must bo much away from the world and go forth in the power of God, aud as sent by Him to make ready a people for His Second Coming, now so near at hand. 38. "And 1 saw and bare record that this is the Bon of God.” The word "son” in Scripture does not necessarily signify in feriority or difference of nature, and some times not that at all, but rather likeness or sameness of nature or quality^ the closest possible resemblance. The Son of God be came the Son of Man that sons of men might become sons of God. If we have re ceived Him we are now the children of God, but not until we shall see Him shall we be fully like Him, and not until we appear with Him shall it be manifest what ft is to be a son of God (John 1., 12; I John ill., 2; Rom. viii.. 28). . . 36. “Again the next day aiier ouimra™ and twn of his disciples." John continue# his wort quietly and faithfully. He doea not atop because Jesus has now been bap tized and entered upon His public work. Ho received commandment from the Father to preach and baptize, and had not yet receive! word to stop. When we or® WhoUr subject to God He will clearly show U*when4ogo and when to stay, when to speak rod when to stop. as} He dirsotedj “And looking upon Jesus walked.” The eyes of the threeare directedj to Him. John looking upotf ’Hlm/for him self directs the others to look upon Him. It is only as we see Him for ourselves that we can point others to Him^ and. we can only point them to what we ourselves seedn Him. 37. “And the two disciples heart Him speak, and they followed Jesus.” Bee the benefit of personal work; the statement in verse 29 was probably a general declaration to the multitude, but here is a private and personal statement to two individuals, and the result is that both follow Jesus. Observe how it came about, and do thou likewise. 'John knew Jesus for Himself; he spoke of Him to these men; he was a witness unto Jesus, and the men became occupied with Jesus and followed Him. John did not tell them what they ought to do, nor did he talk of himself or his own work, but he spake of Jesus and pointed Him out, and that was enough. no .Tacn* tnrnad and raw t.hpm fol lowing, and saith unto them, What seek ye? How quietly and orderly it all conies about, the calling of these first two disciples? What a small and unlikely beginning 1 Think of these two hesitatingly and wonderingly walking after Jesus, and think of the mil lions who now run after Hina. Despise not the day of small things. 30. * ‘He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where He dwelt, and abode with Him that day, for it wp about the tenth hour.” “Him that cometh t o .Via t will in no wise cast out” (John vi., 37b However unworthly or however feebly } hey coma, if any one will only come they will be welcomed, if ~JQbn reckons time tne same ns in chanter xix., 14, then the tenth hour wquW be’ten in the forenoon, so they would have a good part of the day with Jesits. 40. “One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him. was Andrew, Si mon Teter’s brother.” The other, we sup pose, w^s John himself, inasmuch as he, be ing the writer of this Gospel, would not be likely to mention his own name; and it it only in the latter part of the Gospel that he speaks of himself as “That disciple whom Jesus loved” (xiii., 88; xix.,20; xx., 2; xxi.,7. 20.) As to Audrew, although he was one or the first to come to Jesus, and he first to bring another, yet we do not know muoh about him as an apostle. His name signifies “manly,” and he shows himself an outspok en, fearless, manly man. 41. “He first fludoth his own brother Si lt may be that he thought of God** question to Cain, “Where is thy brother?1* but whether or not, be did well to seek first his own brother. The first question for the sinner ia, “Where art though?” and when found and saved the next should be, “Where is thy brother?” tGmi. iii., 9; iv., 9.) “We have found the Messiah, which ia being interpreted, the Christ.” The word “Messiah” is only found four times in Our English Bible; here uud in Chapter iy., 25, lu the New Testament, uud in Dan., ix., 25, 26, hi the Old Testament but the Hebrew word Is often used iu the original, and is generally translated “Anointed;” sometimes with reterence to Christ directly, and some times with reference to Israel or some priest or. king as types of Christ. 42. “Andhe brought him to Jesus.” The very thing for him to do, and the only tliiug fcq do, with our friends and our enemies, our Joys and our sorrows, and all that concerns “Thouart Simon, the son of Jona; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, by inter pretation, a stone.” Thus said Jesus os Ha looked upon him, beholding him as he then was, and. also as he would be when a truly converted and spirit-filled man. Now, as hornof the flesh, he is Simon," son of Jona, but when born from above he shall be Peter, or a rock, one of the foundation stones of the Church of Christ,. Jesus Himself being chief corner stone and top stoue (Eph. ii., 20; Rev, xxi., 14; Zech. iv., —Lesson Helper. The influenaa has broken out in Cairo, Egypt, and ia especially fatal to the n* *PSUMATEK GOSSIP. These Lato News Notes Wv'Il Re fresh Yeti. - A Digest of all the Principal H>v> pening in Our Galaxy of Bouthem States; r ~ VIRGINIA. A 50-barrel roller process flouring mill is being built at Covington. A charter was granted in Lynchburg to the Southern Eli ctrie Company. The City Point Land Improvement Company have bought 5,000 acres of land in Prince George county for $200, 000. An eight-year-old son of Dr. E. P. WagmoB, of Staunton, shot and killed an infant in its cradle Wednesday. At Lexington “Stonewall” Jackson’s, body was removed Thursday morning ) from the grave where it had rested since 1804, and quietly placed in the vault built for it, over which the monument is at once to be erected. Two new summer schools are to be in stituted at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, this year, the schools of medicine and modern languages. Each of the new schools is under the guidance of a competent faculty, and will no doubt be as successful as the older schools, those of law, engineering, etc. Several hundred students are expected to be in attendance all the summer. The earnings of the Lynchburg and Durham Railroad for Hay, 1890, as com pared with June, 1891,showed an increase of just 100 per cent, at the meeting in Lynchburg last week. At this meeting the restriction requiring the president and vice-presidents to be residents ol Virginia or North Carolina was removed, and W. C. Houston, of Philadelphia, was elected president to succeed P. J Otey. Messrs. Otev and J. 8, Cart were elected vice-presidents, and a board ol 15 directors was chosen. The board of directors were instructed to consider the construction of an extension from Dur ham south to connect with the Raleigh and Gaston railroad. TlORTH CAROLINA. The Forsyth Savings Bank, of Wins ston, has declared an extra dividend of 2} per cent. One more cotton mill for Concord— this being the sixth. It is proposed to start with $75,000, $50,000 of which is already subscribed. The North Carolina penitentiary is not jnly self-supporting but is every month paying something into the State Treas ury. James M. Moring, ex-Speaker of the House of Representative* (1879), died at his home in Pittsboro Thursday, Forty-seven carrier pigeons were re leased at Winston, Saturday, for their home in Newark, N. J. J Notices are being sent to each of tiro 1,539 soldier pensioners to attend the en campment at Wrightsville, July 29-Aug ust 4. It is roughly estimated that half the number will attend. If so it will be a notable gathering. The seat made vacant in the directory of the C. F. & Y. V. railroad by the death Of Col. Gray, has been filled by the ac tion of the board in electing “R. Percy Gray a director. At the same meeting Dr. W. A. Lash, of Waluut Cove, was chosen president of the company, and R Percy Gray was continued in the posi tion of assistant president. The merchants of the State have con tribuedtoa fund and have employed Hon. George Davis and Mr. Rouutiee, of AVilmurgton, who have brought suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, be fore Judge Seymour, to test the constitu tionality of the merchant’s purchase vax. SOUTH CAROLINA. $100 was raised at Greenwood for the Jefferson Davis Monument fund. Gen. Huguenin says there will be no summer encampment of state troops. St. John's Day was celebrated by a picnic at Orangeburg by the Free Masons. An estimate that is considered a fair one by rice men, places this year's crop in South Carolina at 1,000,000 bushels. Governor Tillman delivered an ad dress on Wednesday last to the pupils of Cedar Springs Institute for the Deaf and Blind It was very eloquent and im pressive, says the News and Courier. The State Board of Canvassers mot at Columbia and disposed of the Probate Judge contest by deciding in favor of the contestant, Green, who had a majority on the face of the return. Coosaw settlement aad the surround ing'islands were visited Monday after noon with a very severe blow, and the numerous truck farms on the island were severely damaged. Hail fell with the rain, and the lightning was so blinding and incessant that the heavens bad the appoarance of being ablaze with elec tricity. TJ£N N JSBBJSJS. At Silver G-ove, Putnam county, James Mitchell and Oscar Plunkett shot and killed each oilier'Sunday. , Tripoli has bee 1 found underneath the "white oak slashes’’ of Lawrenceburg, Tips substance is used as a polishing powder, and de.ives its name from the North Af Can counii y in which It was first discovered and utilized for polishing stones and metals. - A company has been oga lized to ndno and marked the Law renceburg tripoli, James Late Alien, author of the two famous stories, “Sister Dolorosa’ and “Flu.0 aid V'ol’n,” dclive ed the annu al adders at Vmderbllt University, at NirhvVo, du-insr which he arid; “M.l. Siowo nrglit have been a g el'er syh'vor If she had held ii mind that the Mayflower sailed from I ho land'ng of (lie PJIaiiihs to the the purchase or a ca-go of flaves on he shores of A Lira. Slav ery !s not ilio c. !mc of the Sou h, but of die whole Union. The responsibility lay in part on the Syuth, iti pan on England, in jiart on the whole nation and in part on the older countriea. Later genera i Ions in tho South were no more bittma hlo for slavery than a man is for a heredi tary disease.” / x~ The separate coach bill passed by the Legislature of Tennessee Is now in effect and applies lo *11 railroads in tip) State. Under the provisions of the bill vrbite passengers will be admitted into- the coaches set apart for the blacks only in case the remainder of the train is over crowded. The Nashville and Chattanoo ga Railroad will ran a coach exclusively for colored people at the front of the train, in which no smoking will be al lowed, and it will be equal to the other ^Toaches~ftr appointments and oomforti The second coach may be used for smok ing. If there is no objection from the passengers, otherwise no smoking will be dlowed except inj Pullman cars. The Louisville and Nasnville system will use partitioned coaches for white and color ed passengers. GEORGIA. , Watermelon shipments arc now being made from Southwest Georgia at the rate of nearly one hundred carloads per day, md in a few days the shipments will tie mnch heavier. It is expected that the Grady Memori *1 Hospital in Atlanta will be completed by the first of next December. 80 far $80,000 has been subscribed. Mrs. Priscilla Scroggins of Gainesville, lias 1,153 descendants, as follows: 12 children, 103 grandchildren, 635 great grandchildren, 402 great great-grand children. She Is 104 years old At the Georgia - Press Association meeting recently held Editor Bankston, of the Ringgold New South, made, a strong address denunciatory of the Alli ance, and undertook to get a resolution through the ^meeting in line with his rema&s. The stingiest man in Georgia lives in Wilcox county. He has been married .lcven years, and during that time has only bought one sack of flour and one 75 oent calico dress. He lives at home, and the spinning wheel is still at work in his house. It is all right if a man wants to live this way, but to to put a woman where she can’t talk about the styles and never knows the pleasure of wearing a new hat is Coo cruel. It is not generally known that there is a colony of Syrians in Macon, yet such is the fact. They are all tradesmen, deal ers in fruit, etc. For some time they congregated at a little fruit stall on 4th street, near Cherry, but are now scatter ed in various places around the city. When at home they wear the fez and some other parts of Oriental costume, but when at business they don ordinary clothing and appear as American citizens. FLORIDA. At Albion, there are 600 colored la borers working in the phosphate mines. An immense deposit of yellow ochre has been unearthed near Gainesville, on the property of Dr. T. F. Thomas. Robert J. Mathies, of Tropic, Brevard county, is setting out* 50,000 pineapple slips this season, pineapples have not yet been grown extensively in Florida. II. Turnbull, of Afonticello, is Flori da’s commissioner for the World’a Expo sition at Chicago. The main line of the proposed Arcadia, Lakeland & Gulf Railroad, recently ■men tioned, is from Lakeland via Arcadia to Boca Grande pass, with branches to the Manatee river from Arcadia. W, P. Nceld, of Pinellas, exhibited during the ^convention of the traveling Fruit Men’s Association in Tampa,'a number of oranges which have at the end where the stem is conuectcd with the fruit, a raised 5-pointcd star. The oranges exhibited were much admired and Mr Neeld was offered a big prize for a car-load of that variety. Neill Mitchell, of Jacksonville, has re cently returned from Berlin, where li° was present when Prof. Koch announced to the world his discovery of lymph. Dr„ Mitchell cays that since the subsidence of the feeling against Koch, aroused by the failure of his . discovery to prove a pana cea, physicians have been treating tuber culosis with the lymph in a conservative way, and have found that it does all that Dr. Koch ever claimed for it. At least it has attained a success in curing cases of the disease that no other medicine or method has attained. OTHER STATES. The opponents of the Louisiana Lot tery are arranging to make a vigorous campaign against the constitutional amendments to be voted on in that State, which were framed iu the interest of the lottery company. W. G. M. Thomas, son of a: prominent lawyer at Sheffield, Ala., listened to an amusing story told him by a friend and then laughed so h*rd that he actual ly broke one of his ribs. One of the prettiest women in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky is Mias Nanette McDowell, the great grand daughter of Henry Clay. She is a slight and graceful wohian, with auburn hair, and a perfect oval face, a little pale and serious. She lives with her father in the old6lay homestead of Ashland, one of the most beautiful and romantic places in all Kentucky. THE TriKEE O’S. A Scheme Which May I/ft the Road Out, of Trouble. Philadelphia, Pa., [Special.]—Those in this city who are interested in the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago rail road, have about completed arrange ments for a re-organization of the road, and it is to be so far completed that it will be enabled to earn interest upon its bonds. It is proposed to take the road out of the hands of the receiver and com plete a large portion of it. Thoje direct ly interested in the road’s future some time ago prepared a plan of re-organiza tion ahd submitted it to the creditor*.' Engineers were sent to Tennessee, ana other states through which tMe road is to run, am) the reports they brought back were so encouraging that a general agreement to the plan of rwpr ganfzation was agreed to. Dvfring the week just passed nearly every creditor has affixed his signature. Only a few tmall ones have not signed, and these are expectod to come within the next day or so. As soon ss this is done, application will be made to hand the property over to the stockholder*. The engineer’s ex amination resulted in ascertaining the fact that if between |600,000 and $700, 000 is expended on the road pt once, it •can be so far completed that interest may be earned upon all bonds that have beeo Issued, ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. The Sub-Treasury Scheme By Private Capital. Kansas Alliancemen Will Establish a Series of Banke, the Checks of Which Will Pa» aa Money. Great interest attaches to the attempt of the alliaDcemen in Kansas to put their sub-treasury plan into operation by means of private capital. When it becomes the effort of private enterprise no one can gainsay the pro priety of the effort^ and the only ques tion which remains is that of business success. , V A telegram from Abilene, Kan., gives an interesting outline of the plan. The following is the substance of it: “After a week’s consultation the state committee has formulated a plan, origin ated by J. C. Hopkins, of the New York Economic Club, and who was a promi nent figure at the Cincinnati convention, whicn practically places the sub-treasury scheme of the National Farmers’ Alliance in the hands of private capitalists in alli ance ranks. Mr. Hopkins has been in Kansas for a week and is with members of the executive committee in Reno coun ty endeavoring to induce well-to-do alli ancemen at Hutchinson to put the plan into immediate operation The executive committee has given the plan its endorse ment and every county alliance is being urged to adopt the scheme. ‘ ‘The plan is to establish a bank in each county in the state under the direc tion of the local alliance exchange. The capital Btock is to be furnished by private subscription as in other banks, except that so far as possible the subscribers are to be members of the alliance. In con nection with each bank an ■ elevator or storehouse is to be built. A farmer may then dump his grain into the elevator, receiving for it a check for 80 per cent, of the market value of the grain deposit ed By paying a smalt per centage for storage and insurance he will be allowed to keep his grain in such depository until such a time as ho may d^ein best to place it upon the markat. Com, wheat., rye, oats, tobacco, cotton, Silt, castor beans or any imperishable faitn product, the price of which is not liable to too great fluctuations, is to bl received at the de positories, and deposit checks issued on 80 per cent, of its value. EXPECT TO FOUND STATE BANKS. “The amount of grain deposited in this way must not exceed the amount of capi tal stock in the bank. If the bank has $500,000 subscribed, only that much val ue of grain can be deposited, and the checks issued will be only $400,000. As soon as the capital stock of a bank is sub scribed 20 per cent must be paid in. Of this one-half must be deposited in the home bank to take up checks offered there, and the balance deposited in Chi cago or New York. The projectors expect to found state banks in each state as soon as possible, having them under control of the state alliance. * ‘The checks to be issued by the sub treasury banks are peculiarly devised, and are printed 'in high colors Some hjve already been printed, and the alli ance officers think it will be utterly im possible to counterfeit, or, at least, hard er than a national bank note. Each de positor Receives one of these highly col ored check books, with the checks made out in small amounts, not exceeding 80 per cent, of the value of his grain or other product deposited. These are made pay able in gold or silver at any of the alli ance banks, and it is intended that they shall circulate as money. They are first made out in the name of the depositor, and afterwards endorsed by him and made payable to bearer. 4 ‘ Said one of the executive committee ro the correspondent for The Herald: ‘ ‘These checks will pass current among our people when it becomes known that the collateral behind them is absolutely safe, and they will be accepted in gener al transactions the same as banknotes. There is, of course, uo way to make a man accept these checks, but neither is there to make him take a bank note, but he is always glad to get one. It is better than the sub-treasury scheme, as it will be op erated by private capital, and we can get the thing into operation at once. It is bound to increase our circulation, and there is an abundance of eastern capital y eady to take hold as soon as we get it started The other banks will probably oppose it because it will do away with tbcfr hign rare 01 interest. J RIPE FOR THE SCHEME. “The fanners of central Kansas are be iug approached first with the matter be cause t lie r have so much wheat in pros pect. Bkl'vet will commence in a few days, and tile indications ere for an im mense ci on. The result will be that the farmers will have plenty of grain to de ^nosil. The innocent farmers take hold of the th'og nntlnisiastioally and believe That they see in it a ‘way out' of all dif. flcuIOies—a better one than 1 per cent, government loans on real estate.” ******* The open Alliance' of Wiseonein held i‘*> annual session last week at La Crosse, resident Polk, by invitation, was pres ell snd made a speech to the body and one to the public. He was accompanied by Hon. Jere Simpson, of Kansas, who also addressed the people. The Alliance adopted a resolution unanimously recom mending the consolidation of the State Alliance with the N. F. A. & I. V, .and submitted the matter to a vote of the Sub-Alliances of the State to be taken be fore the first day of September. If the action of the State body be ratified by 1 wo-thirds of the Sub-Alliances, then the State will be represented at our Supreme Council. There is little doubt that this will.)re done. President Polk was most kindly and cordially received and found a warm ! ate. ual feeling among these woilhv people. And thus the groat cause of the pcojrle goes forward. Killed in a Bear Fit. Frankfort, Germany, [Cablegram.] _Last evening a servant girl visited the Zoological gardens, and unseen by any oiie, took off her clothiug and jumped into the bear’s pit. Her mangled body , was found in the pit this morning. OUT IN ARKANSAS. Octave Thanet Catches the Fro yin* cioliems In TTse There. 0( rural life in Arkansas, Ootave T>a net, in her paper in the July AtMhtie, “Plantation Life in Arkansas,'' sprites:— -The women hare a hard life, working in* the fields and in the house; tf^ey age early, and die when, under happier chances, they would would be in their prime. Thus it happens that so many men hare three, or four, or fire wires, “without,” as one honest fellow said,, “never fighting with none of ’em.” “I kep’ ’em all decent, an’ I buried ’em all in a store coffin,” said he. An old planter, alludiog to an unhealthy region, said, “Why, right down there I buried two or three wives, and four children, and a heap of niggers!" They are very fond of their children and kind to them; unwisely kind,-per haps, ns we Americans are inclined to be. To all the other hardships of a woman's life here is added her mourning for her 'little children; for the careless life bears hard on them, especially in overflow seasons. Sometimes we are reminded of this in a homely yet affecting way, as yes erday, when, in I uying some chick ens and asking for more, the little mer chant said: “They ain’t no more, only but one old rooster; and we don’t aim I o sell him, ’cause my little brother that died, he always claims:#* him, and maw snid she never would*sell him I” A queer expression (which is neverthe less a common one here), used by a poor mother whotp little girl was burned to death, sticks in my memory: “It ben ten years, now, but I ain’t got satisfied with ityit.” And a poor man, who clung desper ately to a wretched mortgaged little farm in the swamp, exfibse# himself for unwisdom that even hh could see by the plea that his two d[eiad cSldren wi re buried there, and “Uf Wofiiio, she hated. terribly to have thenl die, ago she cayn’t git satisfied fo leaver,’eta, nohow 1” “What a life!" our Northern friends say. Yet it is' a little vmh huge amel iorations. In this country, every one has the climate, to begin With. There are only two months ihyhe year when we can be said to have cold weather; and even through those months are scattered lovely days of frut;e, filled with sunshine. Neither need we pay for our mild win ters with hot summers. There are but two months that are really uucomforta i uiy warm iw more man a iew monins ai | a time. These are August and Septem- ! her. They tell us that the nights are cool then; but I receive this statement with a degree of apathy, because I never was in any climate so torrid that I did not hear it* or that two blankets did not. make a handsome figure in the story. We sleep under two blankets, like the dwellers in St. Augustine, Nice, Algiers, and I dare say all the citizens of the OQuator that respect themselves. SCHOOL MATTERS IN RALEIGH. Meetings in the Interest of Two State Institutions. Raleigh, N. C,, [Special.]—The ex ecutive committee of the board of trus tees of the Agricultural and Mechanical college met and elected Charles B. Park, of Raleigh^ as assistant instructor in the mechanical department. Plans for two additional dormitories were agreed upon. The board of trustees of the colored I Agricultural and Mechanical college also ] mot and elected W H. Price, president, ( and John 8. Leaiy, secretary. It was decided to advertise for the most ad vantageous proposals for the location ol the college, bias to be raftde not later . than August 26th. S. McD. Tate, W. B. McKay, Charles 8. Moore and John 9. Leary, were appointed the executive committee to confer with the committee of the white college and make arrange ments for conducting the colored college here provisionally for a period not to exceed one year until the college is regularly established. The college cannot by law be permanently connected w th any existing institution. It was agreed by the committee to equip the colored college out of the first ap propriation under the Merrill a£t, work to be done in teaching for the provisional session by teachers from the white col lege. THE PRODUCTION OF RAINFALL. Experimenting by Sending Explo aivee to the Clouds. Washington, D. C , [Special.]—The last agricultural appropriation act contain ed an appropriation of $7,000 to be used ill experiments in the production of rain fall. The department is about to em bark in these experiments.' having pre pared to test practically the theory that heavy explosions cause rainfall. Last evoning a preliminary trial was made and a balloon sent up in the northern suburbs exploded with great violence amid the clouds. Whether the subsequent down pour of rain later in the evening was caused b.’ the explosion remains to bedetermined, and the department will try the experi ment on a large scale again to test the efficacy of this means of breaking summer droughts POISONED ON BLACKBERRY PIE j Ah Entire Family Prostrated—A , Decidedly Unique and Pecu liar Experience., Anniston, Ala., [Special ]—'The fam ily <jf J. It. Reynolds, who lives in Tal ‘ ladego county, was poisoned by eating blackberry pie. The berries had been gathered the day previone and left over night in a tin | bui kct. They had soured before being prepared for the pie. An hour after eating them every mem ber of the family, five or six in number, was writhing in pain. A physician was called in, and after hard work succeeded in relieving the suffering and deadening the effect of the poison. Two or three of the members are still in a critical con dition, but will probably recover. Harvard College was foamed in 163(5, Yale in 1701. William and Mary, of Virginia, wfts chattered in J692, THE TWO CAROLINA^. A Joint Celebration at Red-, Springs in August, The farmers of North Carolina, at Red Springs, are anxious to get up a joint celebration early in August with the yeomanry of South Carolina. —ft-ia-stateeLJULthe letter of invitation, whjoh has been accepted^ byGovernor Tillman, tbah a great crowd of South Carolinians is - expected to attend, the rendezvous being only thirty miles north of Bennettsville. An excursion over the Charleston, Sum'er and Northern could ,|>e easily and profitably run, perhaps in conjunction with the opening up of the link of the Charleston, S.Umter arid Northern from Darlington to Bennette ville, connection being there made with the Cape Fear and Yadkin Yalley Rail road and of course with the Roanoke Southern and the great tobacco markets of Virginia and North Carolina. The following letter of the committee will be read with interest by the farmer*: Red Sprigs, N. C.—The Hon. B. R. Tillman—^Dear Sir: The annual Fair of Lumber River Industrial and Live Stock Association and Veteian Soldiers’ Re union will be held at this place August 12-15. Thursday 18th, Governor Holt, of this State, will formally open the Fair, and address the people. Saturday, the 15th, Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, will address the veterans. Friday, the 14th, “Farmers’ day,” we have have been instructed f.o request you to be present aDd address the immense audience which always assembles, upon the great economic and financial ques tions of the day, especially as^affecting the tillers of the soil Last year Governor Vance delivered this address and was listened to with profound attention. You will have an audience of from five 1 o eight thousand "people. This is tha only summer fair held in this State. Thousands of people will be here fioin your grand old State. Our people arq eager to see and hear the “Farmer Governors” of iho twin Ca”o iinas. We have the hono?, etc., Jesse H. McLean. Committee: Hamilton Me Mil'an, J. P. Smith. AN ANTI-GIRL SOCIETY. College Students Bind Themselves to Study More and Flirt Less. Washington, Pa., [Specif.]—An an si-girl society has been fornjed among the leading students of Washington and Jef ferson College. The object of the socie ”iy is to devise some plan by which more attention will be given to college studies and not so much to the seminary young ladies. The members, upon initiation, take a vow that they will not call upon any young jvoraan more than once a week. If this obligation should be broken, the mem ber must present a satisfactory excuse or be expelled from the society. It iff hop ed by the professors of the college that the society may be a success. Th© “ Tanaee Lock-Picker.” A. C. Hobbs, the Superintendent of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, Conn., is eighty years ot age and forty years ago revolutionized lock manufacturing by showing that the most expensive locks then in use could be picked in an hour or two. His success in this line for wagers won for him the appellation of the ‘‘Yankee Lock-Pick er.” In 1851 he went to the World’s Fair in London, where he picked a Bra - mah lock, a duplicate of the one on the Bank of England vault, for a purse of $1000.—Bouton 7'tan script. Farnel*' and Mrs. Maried. London. [Cablegram 1—There appears tc be no longer doubt that Parnell and m.-9 O’Shea were married Thursday and that he and his bride started for parts unknown immediately after the marriage at Btcyniug The registrar of that place, together with books used to record marriages, has apparently vanish ed Tfc ie believed that the icgisttar has been bribed to hide himself and to keep books concealed for the present. Mrs. Davis7 Final Answer. Nkw York, [Special.]—It was staged hat a delegation from Jackson, Miss., contemplated calling upon Mrs. Jefferson Davis, at the New York hotel, here, with regard to the disp9sition of her JrUsbana’s emains Mrs. Davis knows of no such delegation except through the newspa pers and said she gave her final answer uesday last to the delegation which called upon her from Richmond, Ya. Assistant Bishop of Louisiana. • New Orleans, [Special.]—The Rev. Dswis Sessums of Christ Episcopal Church, | of this city was const crated Wednesday Assistant Bishop of Louisiana, Bishops Tuttle, of Missouri, Quintard, of Ten nessee, and Ga'lcher, of Louisiana, be ing the consecratprs, and Bishops Gar rett, of western Texas, and Watson, of cast Carolina, presenters. Bishop Ses Sums is the sop in-law of the present Bishop of Louisiana, Bishop GAlleher. George Washington knew the value ol newspaper advertising. In a reproduc tion in a fac smile of its first’nuipber, printed 118 years ago. the Baltimore by the father of his count >y announcing that he had bought 10,000 acres of land * which he divided into homesteads and was ready to place upon the market. George was a great man, but he had an eye to business. The best coffee that is exported from Mexico is raised by a colony of Confed erate refugees yelmusettled in Cordona, in the State of Yeia \3rua, at the end of the war. They have devoted all their atten tion to this industry, and it has proven very piofitable to them. Beecher in Bronze. Brooklyn, N. Y., [Special.]—The un veiling of the bronze * statue of Henry Ward Beecher, in the City Hall park, pcciprcd WptUcstl&v evening. * - THE LOW PRICES OP COTTON. Effect on the Market of the Present ' Crop Prospects. Atlakta, Ga., [Special.]—S months ago S. 14. Inman, of the fitL ... ... S. M. Inman & Co,, whose long experi ence, big business and close connection with the great market? enable tiim\J -peak with much:. Weight on the cotton1 subject, pointed out t]>e great danger o'"1 over-production, it appears now tba the effort to reduce the acreage did no succeed to the <“ ' ‘ ■* ‘ ed, and the t o reuuce ine acreage uia nos the extent that wqp aMicipat^' j situation is anything bit en couraging. “The situation is unprecedented in the history of ton trade,” said Mil Anion receptly. American crop, which was beljeved 1 many conservative people in thab—’ ning of the year to be not $♦§* 7,6< bales, promises to turn &jt beady i 800 bates. That is, about 8,760,0.0 will be sold off the plantation? apd __ into sight, while there w\ll probably bo from 100,000 to 200,090 hide/which Will never leave the plantation tkis'spason on' account of the low prices. Hone?, it’ looks nqw as if the yielded this fibp, gathered between September 1, 18JI0, nnd August 31, 1891, if it could all be counted, would be somewhefe Between 8,800,000, and 9,000,000 bales. Notv take the increase of the Ameri can crop—say 8,800,000 bales, against t, 300,000 bales last year, giving ah in r i ease of 1,500,00b hales—and deduct the 300,000 bales shortage in the crop of India, and you have an increase in the • world’s supply for this year of probably, 1,200,000 bales. While there will be a large increase in consumption, it will be nothing like sufficient to absorb this enormous increase. Nearly all the evi dence points to the fact that the acreage ' n cotton this year year is approximately the same as last year. While there has been some trouble with the crop in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, the balance of tfip cotton-raising States are doing very well, and unless some disaster occurs, we will have another reasonably larg? crop. ' XV 19 IUV 1CUI VI uuv Vfrpt ■ nugv v< u|ir g. __ which is at predent depressing priced uore than the byrdgn of the col ton that ^ lias beep made during the past year, be ause if the world V£jre assured that the ^JesSpsi As to the futyrfe of the mar^et, it np-.j pears to me about this way, that if wo! make another crop in anywise ap|iroji iting the sjze of tne omi just grown, 1 we may look for a year Of the lowest prices which hay? etfer prevailed. You see, we are on untrodden gi'otnid.” FOUR GIRLS OF SPIRIT. They Severely Trounce a Fellow for Saying a Mean Thing. Memphis, Tenet., [Special.]—The lit tle village of Bartlett, twelve mil es from Memphis, has not yet ceased discuss ihg .1 sensational scene that occurred there on Thursday evening, in which four of the leading belles, with long switches in their hands, administered to a well known young man a severe chastisement for certain reports said to have emanated • ; from him. The young man in the cash is Robert Yates, who lives at Bartlett, and until a short time ago was employed by the Ten nessee Paper Company, of Memphis. Ilis parents are of the highest respecta biiity, and he has stood high both at Hartlett and Memphis^ The ypubg la dies who covered themseves with glory are Misses Hanspn, (daughter of Judge Hansom, formerly of Shelly c&unty) Lil lie Smith, Josie Smith/ and Maine King. I hey are ^pretty and bright. It had copie to the ears of thp ladies that young Yates had made a statement to the efEect that he could successfully assail the virtue of any lady jn Bartletf, with the exception of two or three. This remark was reported to have been made in the presence or some boys, who convened it to the ladies. The four ■ girls concerned delerigjuiQd to take ihe matter of punishment in their own hands without consultation with ther male rola- ? lives, and they laid a plan to encompass the desired end. Yates came to Memphis on Thursday, .ud was due to return to BdftlStt in the evening about 5 o’clock. The girls were In waiting for him when he alighted from the train, each armed with a stout switch. He had not proceeded far from the depot when they surrounded him. One seized him, while the others belabor^ ed him with their switches. He tore away from his captors, biifc v^as seized again before he had gone but a few steps by a boj\ who held him until the girls ban given him a' tcrriblo tbrnubing. Thev grasped their switches by the slender end aud laid the heav^ end on , his face, arms and back, until he cried for mercy. The girls were there for punitive, not cautionary, purposes, and they did not desist until they had ac complished their object. The scene was; witnessed by half the population of Bart lett. A Wisconsin Murderer Conferees. : Richland Ckktbe, Wb., [Special ]— Irwin Fowler, of Viola, has confessed that he had a hand in the emitter of old Uucbcn Orokc, his wife and two grand children, in Mny,- 1888, for which An-1 drew Qrandstaff was lynched throe d«ye afterward. It is reported Suit Fowl implicates Jeff Bowker umf'llirdnlc Elijah Corrjr, Who were under suspie at the time of the muder. Great ex citement existed iu the vicinity when tbo diabolical crime was committed, nud in cohseiiucuco of of Fowler’s* confession further violence may result Ozburn Respited For 30 Bi Atlanta, Oa , [Special | - Gov. eru this morning respited till as. for 30 days, which will postpone edition until the 23lh day of Ju respite is granted on account of critical physical condit’oii sod quest of the jury which cat y special eummoD8 of the sheriff, question of the sanity of thcjprh Ozbuvn killed Joint Bradley known grocciy incrchcol ’s about * yeer sgo,
The Sanford Express (Sanford, N.C.)
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