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The Oi ENTKAX A G. K. GRANTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar tbe Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. 1.00 Per Annum, in Advance. VOL. II. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N, C, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1892 NO. 11. llMES, 1 INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE Julian Ralph Tells Hon the Bel Man Spells. Make a letter A with your hands, and lock the ends of your fingers t that is a tepee or tent. Keep your hands in that position and bend them down so that your fingers point away from you ; that's a house and a very good one too, because It shows how the logs are interlocked at the corners of the sort of houses one sees on the fi on tier. If you want to say you saw something, point to your eyes. To say you heard something, point to your ears. To say you slept, or are sleep, put up one hand, with the palm side toward your head, and bend your head as if you were going to lay it on that hand. To say that you saw some one who was beautiful, put your face between the thumb and lingers of ono hand, and draw your hand softly down from jour forehead to your chin. A faint smirk or smile made at the same time greatly helps this sign. If the beauty you tell about was a woman, make U-lieve take hold or a mass of hair on the right side of jour head arid follow it down past the shoulder with your hand,, as you see women do when they dress their hair. These signs for s'eeing, hearing,sleep, beauty and woman are exactly the same as thosi used by George L. Fox, the fa mous clown, when he played Humpty Dumpty. I have no doubt that liri maldi, the great English clowu, also u.-ed them, for they are the natural motions for expressing those terms. Did you ever notice how the paws of small animals are curled in when they are dead ? That is the sign foi " died " or "dead." Hold one hand out with the lingers bent toward the thumb to make the sign. But if you would sny some one was killed, hold kut a list with the knuckles away from lou, and move the wrist slowly so as to force tho knuckles down as if the person was struck down. To tell abouj a child, hold your hand as fat from the ground as its head would reach.1 Put a linger up to either side or the head to say "cow" ; to say " deer," put up all your fingers like branching horns, Rut another way to tell about a deer is to imitate his loping with one of your hands. To tell of a snake, wiggle one finger in the air as a snake would move on the ground. That sign is the name for two tribes of Indians. The sign for a tfioux is to -make believe cut 3our throat with one linger ; for a Black foot, point to your foot: for a Blood, wire your ringers across your mouth; for a white man, rub your hand across . your forehead to show liow white our foreheads are; for a Piegan, rub one cheek. The sign for water is to make a scoop of your hand and put it to your mouth as you would if you were drink ing at a stream. To" tell of a lake make that sign and spread out jour hands to cover a big space. To tell of a river make the water sign, and then trace the meadering course of a - river with your ringer. But the sign for whisky is made by doubling up one li?t and drinking out of the top of it as if it wero a bottle. If you da that and make believe to stir up your brains with one finger, or reel a little, you will describe a tipsy manr Nearly all signs in the language aio made with the right hand. The sign for a field or-prairie is the same as that for a lake, but it is fol lowed by the grass sign instead of that for water. The sign for walking is a splendid one. Hold your hand down, shut up two fingers and the thumb, mid then make the two fin- f;ers which are free go forward and ackward like the legs of a person walking. The sign to indicate fear "he was afraid or "I am fright ened "is to put your right hand on your heart, and then move that hand up to your throat, as if your heart had left j'our " breast and goue into your throat. If you want to ask a man to tr.ulo with you just eross the fore fingers of both hands like a letter X. It is a eui ious thing that tho sign language keeps on growing.even now thai the Indians aie nearly all shut up . on reservations and do not often meet either strange white men or member? of other tribes. Two recent additions . lire signs for a railroad and for a match. To tell about a match you laise one knee and draw a finger rapid ly alon r that le. To speak of a railroad you make -believe turn a crank with one hand, then your arm will look like the side bar oi piston rod of a locomotive. Housekeeping in London. Au American taking a house in Lon don will learn that she will have to keep more servants in the old country than iu the new. These servant a ari! trained, and one who is willing to engage to do .many things is usually willing to tako such" a position because she is incompe tent 'in everything. A small family there would keep a .cook, a chambermaid and a waitress. T he washing, would be put out, and a charwoman would be called in onco a week to help with ihe cleaning and clear ing up. A very good cook can be had for $100 a year, a chambermaid for $G0, and a smart waitress for $80. Tho charwoman will be paid two shillings,-or fifty cents a day, and given hex beer and food. The washing for such a family will cost from $:1 to $4 a week. In America such a family would have two women one a cook who would also wash an I iion, and ano'.h-r as chamber maid anJ waitress. Tl.o servants we have here do more, but they do it more roughly, and are totally deficient in that silent subservience which makes-the trained English domes tic perform the usual honsehold duties with automatic celerity. Generally you have a geater number of servants there than here. There the servants do not expect to eat just what is provided for the family. Not at all. When the marketing is done, special things are bought for the servants, and they have a table for their own, the meals being served at a differ ent hour, and the quality of the food very much less in cost. They eat very littlo meat, most of it salt; the cheapest kind -of fish, and then they have potatoes and greens and puddings with treacle, and they are proided with beer, unless in engaging servants it is stipulated that the engagement is "without beer." w(oodllousekeeping. ALLIANCE COLUMN. We Furnish Some Mighty Interest ing News. Senator Kyle Introduces a Bill iz Congress For a -'Composite Dol lar" Based on Farm Products. not Mien longer. BY DR. HOrOHTOS. How Ions! how long, my countryman. ! hall despot lm drat; The people through ths dust before onr country's glorious flafc? How Inner shall those whom we employ to serve ns Ag&loxt the interests or all in city, nation. State? How lon.n! how long, shall knavery, with arrogance succeed In grludlng with oppressive hand our citizens in need.' How long! how long, thai! we remain contented, pa tient, meek. While pnblic servants fall to grant the remedies we eek ? How long! how long, .hall mildness mark the tern per of our plan. While vested rljhn eucroa'-h upon the holy rights of man? How long shall wealth created by proline labor's hand Be wrutiii f rom many bv the few who claim to own the land? Not long! not long, fo:- now I hear the rising of the storm. And on the I orlzon I fee its hand shaped, cloud like frm. Not long! not long, for like a bolt from Great Jeho vah's hand We'll smite as Gideon smote of old the heathen in the land. Not lonsr! not long, shall despots rob a people brave and free. And hooii. from Maine to Oregon will sound the Jubilee. A graduated income tax went into ef fect iu Germany a, the beginning of this year, ft is about the same as that de manded by- the Alliance, except that it begins by taxing smaller incomes than the American fanner would think proper. When the farmer learns learns that the poorly paid city laborer make but a poor demand for farm products, and the citjr laborer learns that the farmer selling his products for less than the price of production, makes but a poor demand for the products of the shop an t factory, then they will conic together for mutual ben tit. . The monopoly of money is the worst and most vicious kind of monopoly. So long as the national banks shall have the power to control the currency money will be a monopoly in their hands and be a means to opprssand rob. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Senator PefTer has secured the passage of a resolution thai the Secretary of State ascertain through our consuls to what exteut e'ectricity is used abroad for the propulsion of farm machinery. Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, by request introduced the most remarkable financial bill of the session providingfor the establishment of a'composite dollar. v The chief clause of the bill enacted that the composite dollar should be established in the following manner: ''Designate so much of wheat, rye, oats, corn, barley, bean, potatoes, cotton, wool, butter, cheese, eggs, flour, sugar, lard, pork, beef, tobacco, salt, leather, hemp, lime, cement, cotton-seed, meal, hay, brick, lead, pigiron, coal and copper as shall be conveniently near to one dollars' worth of each iu the New York market, so arrang iug quantities that the sum total of the vahie of thirty articles shall be thirty dollars, and that one-thirtieth of the sum total of the articles designated shall be termed the composite dollars of the United States." Further provisions enact that an accurate monthly average record should be kept of the daily price ofthtse articles, and that it should be lawful for any person or corporation to engage to receive or deliver composite dollars on this security. There is now an organization of the Farmers' Alliance in every county in North Carolina. The lat county to come in contains the spot where Virginia Dare was born the first white child born in America. The name given the sub al liance was "Virginia Dare." T When the farmers owned this country 40 yearsago they controlled its legislation and rendered every class of business profitable. In 189J when they own only 20 per cent, of the wea'th of the country and every branch of the government has parsed out -of their hands paralysis of business of every character has followed, and it has become difficult for many to even obtain subsistence in a land of "p'enty. Farmers, remember that the reins of government have simply passed out of your hands, but not beyond your control if you make up your minds to influence their management or regain control of them. Isn't your situation a sufficient commentary on the wrongs you have endured, or do you wish to be furth er enslaved ere you wake up. Verily "a little more sJeep; a little more slumber, and your poverty cometh as au armed man." Will you sleep on and lose your heritage; Southern Farm, (founded by Henry W. Grady.) The Indian who, told by the white man that feathers made a -oft bed, took one and, after layiug on it a'l night, got up and said -'white man heap big liar," would make a fit companion to the man who de clares the reform movement is a failure because Jerry Simpson has not brought financial prosperity to the country, says the Iowa Farmers' Tribune. GKEAT TROSPEBITY. Georgia is the empire State of the South. Texas is a powerful competitor for the bauner. What is the situation? Destitution in both town and country. In both States within the past ten days 'relief committees" have been organ ized. Right in Atlanta, where money is supposed to be plenty, where 'pros perity" is sung by every editor, there is great destitution. What docs this all mean? Simply that the few arc drain ing the many. This is the beginning; what shall the end be? Unless the con ditions are quickly . (hanged, revolu'ion will follow. There is no alternative Hut still we hope that there is a way out. The Texas call for relief says 15.000 or 20,000 are starving, while the re mainder of the population barely have a sufficiency of food for present needs. "Great prosperity" indeed. Progressive Farmer. SMACKS OF SLAVERY. Vagrant Negroes Sold on the Block in Missouri. Fayette, Mo. Thi3 town is again on the verge of a race war, because of a vagrant sale of negroes which took place here yesterday. About a month ago a good deal of excitement was caused by the sale of three vagrant negroes. Yes terday the feeling was intensified by the public sale on the block of three men and one woman, because they could offer no visible means of support. Hen ry Thompson, AVm. Miller and John Wilkins were the men. All are healthy negroe?, who have never before been arrested on any charge. The woman was a god looking mullatto, Mary Whiteside. She was accused of va grancy. The colored people were brought into the public square at 1 1 o'clock and a great crowd of both colors gathered. The white! made fun of the poor victims, and hc blacks freely expressed their displeasure at the scene, that so cruelly brought to their minds the days of actual slaveryi The woman was put up first. She brought $10 for the sisty days work that the county fiued her. The men sold for $10, $12, and $13, respectively, being taken by reliable farmers hereabouts. The woman will work in a good family in town. The negroes declare that this must stoji or that the whites be sold with the negroes. The sale took place on a block Sheriff Crygier officiating. Growth in a Week. A glance at the new industries of the South for the past week, as nottd in the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record of April 29th, shows continued activity in the or ganization of industrial and development companies. The following are some of the most important: A $1,000,000 phos phate development company at Trenton, Fla. ; a $2"), 000 builders' supply company at St. Augustine, Fla. ; a $100,000 land company at Atlanta, Ga:, a $25,000 knit ting mill compauy nt Cordelia, Ga.; a $100,000 mining ami, milling company, and a $20v),0j0 wheel manufacturing compauy at Covington Ky.; a $100,000 iron fence manufacturing company at Louisville, Ky.; a $100,000 land com piny at Magnolia, MUs ; a $.00,0.)0 cot ton mill company at Durham, N. O. ; a $15,000 candy manufacturing company, and a $10,000 cotton mill company at Columbia, S. C. ; a $2,000,000 iron cora- pany at Bristol, Tenn.; a $100,000 stove foundry company at Knoxville, Tenn. ; a $300,000 mill and elevator company at Cameron, Texas; a $100,000 hat company at Dallas, Texas; a $30,000 mining and oil company at Laredo, Tex. ; a 40J ton cotton-seei oil mill at Sherman, Texas; a $30,000 electric light and power com pany at Wichita Falls, Texas; a $50,000 manufacturing company at Norfolk, Va. ; a $100,000 ferry company at Mason, W. Va. ; a $100,000 land company at Golds boro, N. C. ; a $100,000 machine tool compauy at Moudsville, W. Va. ; a 200 barrel roller process flour mill at, Chill i cothe, Texas. ; a $500,000 abattoir and refrigerating company at Wheeling, W. Va.; a $10,000 manufacturing company at Austin, Texas. ; a $100,000 cotton oii company at Dallas, Texas; a $1-0,000 water power company at New Braunfels, Texas; and a $50,000 cotton-seed oil mill company at Itasca, Texas; Sarah Randolph. Authoress and JEd ucator, Passes Away. Baltimore, Md., Miss Sarah N. Ran doiph, who for many months past has been seriously ill at her residence in this city, died Monday. Miss Randolph was a native of Albermar'e county, Virginia, where her father, Uol. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, resided on his plantation, "Edge Hill." She was a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson . At the close of the war Miss Randolph and an elder sister opened a girls' board ing school at "Edge Hill," which gained a wide reputation, particularly through the South. "Afterwards, for a number of years, Miss Randolph was principal of Patapsco Institute, Elliott City, Mary land. Miss Randolph was wt-11 known in the literary world, having been the author of "A Life of Stonewall Jackson for Chil dren" and "The Domestic Life of Thomas JeffersoL," besides ruuierous articles and open letter? in the Nation. i j The Craps. ' Washington, D. C The Department of Agriculture has issued a report show ing the condition of the wheat crop on the first day of April. It is claimed in this that the average conditioa of the crop in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Kansas, the principle winter wh-iat States, is twenty points lower than on April 1st of last year, or 77 against 97.3. In New York it is 97, Pennsyl vania 84, and in the States from Delaware to North Carolina it varies from 79 to 96, 90 to 93 in the Southern belt, and higl on the Pacific. A Dishonest Postmaster. Ashevili.e, N. C. Mr. Buckner, post master of Grautville, Madison couDty, was arrested Saturday evening for steal ing registered letters from the mails, and was brought htre and put in jail. Fot some time past registered money passing through his office has been missing, and suspicion pointed to him as the thief. An inspector has been looking up the case for several weeks and Saturday even ing caught him. So far as learned; he does not deny his guilt. foreign Notes of Real Interest. . So far the Hessian famine has cost the Imperial Treasury 300,000,000 rubles. It is a curious but certain fact that last winter's scourge of influenza in EDgland was almost confined to well to-do people. The jockey who wou in the largest field ever known to the Euglish turf, Goater, has just died. He rode Joe Miller in the Chester Cup in 1852, when forty-three horses faced the starter. THREE STATES' BRIEFS. A Condensation of the Principal Happenings. The News Gleaned From All Sources and Prepared For Our Busy Peoble. VIRGINIA. Pamplin city has been denied liquor license. Two white women have been indicted for horse-stealing in Nelson county. Ex-Governor -Taylor, of Tennesse, is lecturing and fiddling in Southwest Vir ginia. The residents on Franklin and Grace streets, Richmond, with one accord, vig orously oppose electric street bghts b ing put on those streets. They say. that it will destroy the privacy of their h mes in the evening. A new wharf is being built at Chatter ton, King C-eorge county, on the Poto mac, and will be completed about June 1st. A wharf has long been needed there and it will be made a large shipping point. , , A company is actively at work mining manganiferous o:e at Cotipaxi, and ex pect very soon to work the vein on a larger scale. Senator Barbour, of Virginia, intro duced a biil in the U. S. Senate appro priating $1,000 to mark the birthplace of James Madison, the fourth President of the United State-. General A. P. II ill whose monument will be unveiled in Vi ginia in M y, was one of the bravest fighters in the Con federacy. He was Lee's trusted lieutenant. The approaches to Chincoteague Island, the Virginia gunning and fishing resort, are so shallow that it is sometimes neces sary for passengers upon the little steam r that plys across Chincoteague Sound to be carried ashore on men's backs. This service was once very satisfactorily per formed by one stout fe low for a party consisting of ex-Secretary Bayard cx-Con-grcssman Martin, and several other Del awareans weighing considerably more than 20) pounds each Mr. Bajard was interested to learn that he who came to the rescue was a pens"oner of the civil war, but a little astonished at the infor mation that the man drew his pension o i the score of a weak back. NOBTH CAROLINA. Miss Inez Sikes, a 17 year old girl, of Char'otte was seized by a uiflian the other night who cut lr r hair (-IT. At Henderson, last week was perfected the organizulor. of a joint stock company to be known as the "Union .Tobacco Works," for the manufacture of smoking tobacco, with an authorized capital of $50.(00. Jake Hartzell, of Locust Level, was killed several days since by the bursting of the mill rock at his grist mill. Apiece of the rock struck him in tin head kill ing him instantly. Raleigh is to have a new $50,000 citv hall. The merchants of Winston-Salem have gone into permanent organization for pro tection from bad debtors. The Commissioner of Agriculture says that the value of the tobacco crop for the scasou of 1890 '91 (July to Julv) was about $10,000,000 ; of cottoh $15,000, 000 ; of corn about the same as cotton. Greensboro Female College has 220 pupils enrolled, this being the largest number since the war. The commence ment sermon will hi preached by Rev. D. Sledd, of Norfolk, and Hon. II. A. Gud g"er, of Ashevillc, will deliver the literary address before the societies. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston's floral fair has opened. The work of rebuilding the Charleston Citadel has been completed. Barnwell county now has a h'dgc fence company, the capital stock. $16,000, be ing all subscribed. The South Carolina Bar Association met at Charleston, Friday 'I he annual supper was spread at the Chaileston Ho tel The corner stone of FfuTnteVs new Ma sonic Temple was laid last week with impressive ceremonies A banquet was held at night at which over 300 Masons were present. The South Carolina Press As-ociation will meet in the citv of Anderson on Wednesday, July C,' 1892, at 8 o'oclock p. m. . The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail road Co. is reported as making financial arrangements for the cxtensiou of its road from Bcnncttsville to C. lumbia The big pumps and the water wheel of Columbia's new city water works have been at work for several days pumping the water that is being used throughout the city. Thirty strokes of the piston of the pump will supply 4,000,OOJ gallons of water per day, and it is very easy work therefore to give the 3,000,000 gallons necessary to supply the city. The finest private collection of i el ks of this kind in the South, if not in America, is that of Dr. Babcock, of Ches ter, who has many thousands of most rare specimens, to the getting t. gether of which he has given the greater part of a life-time. Dr. Babcock has ie fused a number of tempting offeis from the Smithsonian Institute and ther !ike institutions, and positively declines to part with his treasures. . The Day of Best. Richmond, Va At a recent meeting n the Drug Clerks' Association of Rich mond, it was resolved to appeal to the proprietors and people for a proper iec ognition of the religious rights and priv ileges of the drug clerk as to Sunday duty. Our New Minister to France. Washington, D. C. The President sent to the Senate the' nomination of T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to France. BIG WATER IMPROVEMENTS. Surveys of Southern Rivers and Harbors. Tbe bill making the annual appropri ations for river and harbor improvements which has been reported in the House b the committee on rivers and harbors, di lects the Secret ar of War to have pre liminary examinations made with a view to needed improvements at the following loialities: FLORIDA. Harbor at Canaveral. GEORGIA. Savannah river, between Spirit Island and the point whe e the Charleston & Savannah Railway crosses said river. NORTH CAROLINA. For breakwater to protect town of Beaufort, Potohunk river. SOUTH CAROLINA. Lynch rivei. TENNESSEE. Sequatchie river. Harbor at Memphis including lemoval of bar forming oppo site the upper part of city and bank pro tection along the city front. Emory nvci from its mouth to Harrim in. VIRGINIA. Milford Haven, bar at miuth. Mo rattico creek, obstruction at mouth Little Wiconvco river, obstruction at mouth. Harbor of Petersburg and Ap pomattox river, for diversion of waters to old north channel above the city. The President on Civil Service Re form. . Washington, D. C In reply to a let ter fiom Mr Foulke, of Indiana, dated December 20, 1891, asking why he did uot extend the civil service rules to the postoffices and custom houses having less than fifty employees, President Harrison wrote as follows on December 21, 1891: ;4IIon. Wm Dudley Foulke. Richmond, Ind. My Dear Sir: I have your letter of December 20: I have not time this morning to discuss at any length the question which you present or to attempt any re statement of what I have attempt ed to do in the promotion of civil service reform movements since I have been here. My thought was that the first thing to do was to satisfy the country that the law was being faithfully and impartially administered as to those offices already classified. I think a good deal has been accomplished in that direction and there has been an important extension "of the classified service. The subject presented by you, as well as some oth r suggested movements, has been having, and will hav', my consideration, but lam not now prepared to announce my programme. Very t uly yours, Benjamin Harrison." Political Points. John S. Leary, a prominent colored man of North Carolina, is quoted as say ing that the time has come for the negroes to divide politically. As ex-Governor John P. St. John de c'ares absolutely and emphatically that he will not accept a nomination to the presidency, the Prohibition party will have to look elsewhere for a caudidate W. Jennings Demorest, of New York, is the most probable caudidate. Lieut Gov. Haiie has consented to b the Massachusetts Republican nominee for Governor if he is wanted next fall. This practically puts an end to spceu-a lion us to the Republican . candidate against Gov. Russell. Lieut. Gov. Haile is the most popular Repub ican now in office. . Birds That Practice Surgery. From the New Orleans Times Democrat. Some interesting observations relating to the surgical treatment of wounds by birds were recently brought by M. Fatio before the Physical . Society of Geneva. According to the Medical Record, he quoted the case of a snipe which he had often observed engaged in repairing dam ages. With its beak and feathers it makes a very creditable dressing, apply ing plasters to bleeding wounds, and even securing a broken limb by means of a stout ligature. On one occasion he killed a snipe which had on the chest a large dressing composed of down taken from other parts of the body, and securely fixed to the wound by the coagulated blood. Twice he had brought home snipe with interwoven leathers strapped on the aits of fracture of one or other limb. Convicts Cruelly Beaten. Vicksburo, Miss. Indisputable proof of cruelty to convicts has finally beeicliscovered. W. II. Fosselman, of Woodville, who, with 100 other convicts, was lea-cd to Brit Lee, of Washington county, was frightfully beaten by a negro by order of an o erseer an1 narrowly es caped deith. Others of the same squad were almost killed. Manager Jenkins, of the State prison, and R G. Walt, in ehargc of the convicts, have been ordered before the State boaid of control. Walt will be indicUd and Jenkins severely dealt with. May Remove to Baltimore. Baltimore, Md. Grand Secretary Jones, of the Maryland Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, says that that the members of the Supreme Grand Lodge were in cor respondence with a view to the removal of the headquarters of the order from Columbus, Ohio, to this city. The plans are to erect a suitab'e home for the Su preme Lodge, which it is believed will be located on Saratoga str et, where an op tion on property has been secured. A Sad Accident. Windsor, N. C. Friday afternoon, Mrs. Alphonzo C. Measles and her baby, about one year old, were killed by a tree falling on them. Airs. Measles was in the woods raking up dirt for manure, and had left her baby lying near a tree. The tree c aught on fire, and when she saw it it was nearly burned down. She ran as fast as she could, but be fore she could rescue the child tbe tree fell on both. To Grow Boots and Overshoes. - Secretary Rusk proposes to have a plan tation of rubber trees in tbe everglades OI Florida. Albany Journal. THE SOUTH PREPARING. Interesting Exhibits To Be at the World's Fair. Made The Ladies Are Actively at Work, and With United Efforts Re sults "Will Be Surprising. The first entertainment of the Little Girls' World's Fair C ub. of Columbia. S. C, ws held at the Agriculturjl Hall, Tuesday eYen:ng, and they uetted $23. . -. rw R, 8. Mo -ire, of Newbernc, N. C, claims to have fragments of the chain which restrainedColumbus when he was iu pr son, and he intends to exhibit tluin at the World's Fair. John C. Calhoun, of New York, says he has pieces of the house in San Domingo in which Colum bus was imprisoned, and he has a simihi desire. Gen. A. W. Gilchrist, who addressed a letter to the members of the Florida legisliture in regard to an extra session to make an appropriation for the World's Fair fund, has received several encour aging replies from prominent members, sta'ing in each case that the gentleman addressed would be willing to make a trip to Tallahassee to attend an extra session of the Legislature without any milcge or per diem from the State, and that $50,000 or $10 ,000 would be voted for as an appropriation The State board of World's Fair com missioners of West Virginia have decided 1 1 make the West Virgini State building at the Columbian Exposition character istic. Mrs. Lynch and Miss Jackson, the State's representatives on the board of lady managers, are doing efficient work Mrs Lynch has pcrpared a lecture concern ing the aims and objects of the big show, the woman's department particularly, and is delivering it in every schoolhouse in the State. It is s'ated that the gems for North Carolina's exhibition at Chicago arc being cut, and that some splendid specimens are Inking prepared by the lapidary. Besides tnc great mineral wealth of North Carolina in coal, different ores and the piecious metals, gold and silver, all the varieties of gems and precious stones are found in the State. A splendid exhibit of these was made at Boston ten years ago, when were shown the twelve stones mentioned in the Book of Revelation, all polished and from North Carolina mines t is appropriatoly suggested that thos iH'autiful gems ought to be at Chicago, tastefully arranged in a glass case with the passage from the New Testament fit tingly printed and framed above them. The agricultural committee of the Wo .nan's Central .Star World's Fair Club, of Columbia, S. C, has sent the following pctitron to S crcary Holloway, of the btatc Agricultural and Mechanical Socio ty: The department of agriculture of i he Woman's World's Fair Central Club asks that the State society will encourage the efforts of the Women by adding to the premium list a premium for the best samples offered by women, of rice, wheat, rye, oats and other grains, and grapes, f be put in bundles eight inches in diam ter, eich contestant furnishing two bundles, half of the samples received to be entered for pr miums at the Columbian Exposi tion and the others to be used in decor ating the space allotted to South Carolina in the World's Fair building at Chicago t Mrs. Gorge W. Kidder, of Wilming ton, N C, one of the North Carolina lady managers of the Woi Id's Fair, has ad ircssed a letter setting forth for the in formation of the ladies of the State the necessity and importance of pushing for ward the p'an of raising fl 0,000 by pop a'ar subscription for the State building. The first colony made in America was olante 1 on the shores of North Carolina, an the firrt white child lom on the American continent, Virginia Dare, saw ihc light there. Mrs. Gotten, of the State ooard, proposes that a memorial "of this fact be placed within the women's build ing or iu the State bMilding, the memo rial to be a wood carving or other artistic work, and to be in part the work of wo man's hands. A Gold Craze Strikes Virginia. Richmond Va The old gold fie lds vhich before the war were worked in partial manner and then suspended, have resumed operation by the aid of Noi th em capital for both milling and washing and are ' panning out" equal 'o the best Western mines, yielding from $10 to $100 per ton. The excitement just now is du t the rich "washing " Some of the diggers secure as high, as $130 a day and none less than $10 In Fluvanna and Gooch land counties, some of the nuggets found weighed nearly two ounc s. A .few of the farmers have stopp-d plowing and offered their places for sale at four times their price of ten days ago. flow, Where's the Well of Whiskey GaxsT Falls, Mox The richest mineral ever found in this HUte is re. ported from Neihart, in the Little Belt and assays from $12,000 to $20,000 a ton. Renorts of rich discoveries of cold con- i - ' a tinue to come from the Little Rockies southeast of Chinook. A ton of surface or float ores from these mines yielded over $600 in bunion. A stream of water cominir from the Geld Bug mine is said to cure the taste for liquor, and has beei named the Bichloride of Gold Springs Southern Unitarian Conference. Charleston 8. C., The Southern Unitarian Conference closed its session after the following officers were elected : President, John T. Dixon, Atlanta, Ga ; Vice-Presidents Hon. F. G' Bromberg, Mobile, Charles H. Couledge, Chattanooga, and Her. I.eo. L Chaney, Atlanta; Sec retary and Treawirer, A T. " Welch, f hsiicstou. The Conference was address ed bv Mrs. B. Ward Dix. of Brooklyn, president of the Woman's National Alliance. SELECT SIFTINGS. Good harp-players are scarce. An eight-year-old Maine boy can re peat forty chapters of the Bible. The annual crop of English walnuts in (Southern California reaches 1,500,000 pounds. Three million mutton carcases were 'shipped from New-Zealand to England last year. Mollusks dwell in shells of all shapes nd colors. The costly royal purple of the ancients came from one of these shells. x Milledgeville, Ga. , hai a lunatic whose years correspond with his weight. Ilia age is fifty-two, and he weighs fifty-two pounds. Hackney coaches were forbidden dur ing the reign of Charle n., on the ground that they destroyed tho King's highway. A cocoon of a well fed silk worm will often yield a thread 1000 yards long, and one has been produced which con tained 1295 yards. The lowest temperature ever registered by the thermometer in England was at Kelso in 1879, when the mercury fell to sixteen below zero. , The first daily newspaper appeared in 1702. The first newspaper printed in the United States was published iu Bos ton in September 25, 1790. A locomotive on the Reading Road in Pennsylvania recently made a mile ia thirty-nine add one-fourth seconds, draw ing four passenger coaches. A Philadelphian has educated a house fly to respond to a prolonged "buz-z-z," . which brings it from it cranny any time of day for its supply of sugar. For every mother killed, an infant seal dies also; for it is a peculiarity of the species that no mother will nurse any infant' but its own, and will let the de serted seal pups die. Seeing & runaway horso dragging a little boy by the feet long tho road, a nervy Hastings (Neb.) girl took a hasty aim with a rifle she had with her and killed the horse, thu3 saving the boy's life. ' A Germaritown (Pean.) jeweler and watchmaker has a curiosity in the shape of a Plymouth Rock hen that has been surprising her owner and some of the neighbors for some time past by laying eggs of varied patterns. ,Her latest ef fort was "one that closely resemble a grub, even to the form of the head. It is about, three inches in length aud of perfectly white color. What a "Flat Wheel" Is. Two commercial travelers bound fof Chicago were amicably chatting togethei in a train recently when one of them sud denly ceased talking and appeared to be listening intently to something. Then we jumped up, exclaiming excitedly, "I hasn't mistaken; it is a flat wheel, sure. Old man, I am going to stop oil at the next station." "You must be crazy," faid his companion. "The next stop is Lonelyhurst, and consists of a station and a water-tank. What's the matter with you, anyway?" "There is nothing the matter with me," was the reply, "but a good deal with one of the wheels of this car. It has become fiat." "And what is a flat wheel?" "Well, it is a wheel which has become worn in Dne spot. Sometimes the brake becomes so tightly set, that a wheel slips along on the rail instead of revolving. Of course the friction on the rail soon wears it away at the point of contact. . Maybe it isn't worn away the first time; but when ever the brake is set that spot is very apt to be arrested by the rail, and so it soon becomes so much worn that when the wheel revolves it makes a pat-pat-pat 4ound. When that stage is reached then ook out for danger. The wheel no longer runs true, but pounds, and is likely any moment to break and ditch the train. There is such a wheel on this car. ann though it is evidently not yet much worn and may get through to Chi cago all right- I don't propose to take any chances. I know Lonelyhursc isn t much of a place, but even if it has only a water tank, I prefer it to a car with a flat wheel." Arid iui spite of the ridicule of his companion, he actually got off. at Lonelyhur't, where he waited for the next through train. The commercial traveler may have ex aggerated the dangerous character of a flat wheel, but it is a fact that wheels do occasionally become thus worn, and that when discovered they are taken off and sent to the foundry, to be recast. Even if they were not dangerous, they would be takeu off, since it is evident that they must seriously impede the progress of the train, besides annoying the passengers by their thumping noise. New York Tri bune. ' Brother Editors right. OxFonD, Ala. A fight between two editors has created a sensation here. The participants were brothers, Ben and Tom Gwynn at the head of the Voice and Nighthawk, respectively. The Nighthawk is for Cleveland for Presi dent, and Governor Jones for the head of the State ticket. The brothers en gaged in a rough and tumble fight, but friends interfered before either could draw a weapon. Isn't Thinking of a Watery Grave. Wueelino, W. Va. Jennie Sutton, who jumped into the river about three weeks ago, and who was supposed to have been drowned, has, it is said, been seen by a railroad man, who claims that she is livincr ag the wife of a leading citi zen of Bellaire, Ohio, who left his wife four weeks ago, and went down the river, where he is said to have located with Miss Sutton. Senators Hesitate. Fba'nkfoht, Ky , This was the busiest day for several weeks in tbe Senate. A' resolution prohibiting chewing tobacco in the Senate chamber was adopted, and a motion to reconsider was entered.