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DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1892.
NO. 24.
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' A.t the beginning of tho pr3?3it C2-.
turv there were in the Unite 1 State3 nvi
.-millionaires. Now there are more that
-7000. How many will there be fifty
;jears hence?
The United State? is makiag iapid
strides in accumulating wealth. The
revised census figures give the wealth of
the Nation a? $63,648,000,000, or about
$1000 each for every man, woman and
child. Population ha3 about doubled
fince 1830, and bo has the per capita
"wealth, which was then only $514. The
wealth of Great Britain is estimited at
50,000,000,000. Uncle Sam is ahead
in the race4 and yet he has only com
menced the real development of his vast
resources. Within twenty-five years,
predicts the Boston Cultivator, New
Y ork City will be the money centre ol
the world, a position now held by Lon
don. In the past, asserts fae Century Ma?a
jine, good reasons have rendered it im
possible to make the weather service of
vf;ry great value to the far. nor. In tiia
main its work has been the preparati a
iff the familiar prediction, which iuve
iheen made for large a re an. At prese it
he area -f leeted are sin jle States. Ti3
prediction are made by au officer in
Washington . to whom observations are
reported from a large number of stations
situated in various parts of the coantry.
He glances over these reports, noting tha
places where rain ha3 fallen, and the net
work of temperature and barometic
pressure, sees how the con litioo have
been changing since the lajt prediction!
were made; and, perhaps with scarcely
ime to weigh the reasons for his conclu
sions, makes np his predictions in re;i i
to the weather of the immediate future.
He can give but a very smali amount of
time perhaps two minutes to each
State. The work of forcc-jstin t'i's
weather must be dividei, and, in addi
tion to the general predictions from
Washington, we must have local predic
tions prepared by officers in charge of
small districts. Such officers have already
been appoiuted by the Secretary of Agri
culture, and their number will djubtlcja
b. increased when the uefulu's of their
work is shown. This, however, can not
be fully demonstrated until, by the cheap
ening of telegraph and telephone service,
and by the extension of free mail deliv
ery, effective meaus are found for carry
ing the predictions to the farmer in lime
for his use. The present work of thg
local observers is of service in perfecting
their methods, and their forecasts are of
.preat usefulness to the farmers who can
be reached ; but their full value can never
be realized until it is possible to put
them promptly into the hands of all tho
farmers who can use them.
' "While it is true," states George TC.
Knapp, of New Jersey, in the American
Agriculturist, "that nearly all incorpora
ted towns have laws compelling the build
ing of sidewalks, and regulating their
width, material, etc., hit not as evident
that the necessity for some sidewalk in
the country is sufficiently great to war
rant the agitation of the subject? I
would not, for a moment, advocate any
law which would compel the building
and maintenance of plank, flag, or even
gravel walks in the country, but a well
defined path or sidewalk might be had
without in jury to any one. It is true
that the average pathmaster would be of
little Ge in carrying out a plan of this
nature, but certainly it is possible to so
construct a law that the parsimonious
man can be made to fall in with his more
j public spirited fellow citizens. I remem-
ber well a New York farm I worked some
years ago which had a frontage of nearly
. rive hundred feet on the road. At an
expense of less than ten dollars in labor
a path four feet wide was constructed
along that whole front. The work con
sisted simply in marking out, by means
of lines, the required width, using an
edge cutter to loosen the sod next to the
line?, and a horse, with a light plow, to
loosen up the earth and sod between the
lines; the iron scraper was then brought
into play, and the work of making a
path was done, with the exception of the
trimming up, which was performd with
a hoe. Near New York many of the
towns are so close together that there is
practically no division line which is to
be seen by the casual observer. In most
cases these are macadamized roads run
ning the whole distance through to the
city. Certainly there is nothing which
will prevent the path I speak of being
constructed at the side of 6uch a road. In
some places it is done, and the expense
is so small and the improvement so great
that, from a pecuniary standpoint solely,
it has been considered a good invest
ment. Public spirit is all very well in
its place, but we all know that it is pos
sible for three or four close-fisted men in
a town to prevent improvements which
ire plainly for the good of the whole
'ommunity. Some way of converting
fiese short-sighted people is what we
want. Gravel paths are used in Ohio,
and coarsely sifted coal ashes make an
excellent covering (or sidewalks,"
GENERAL NEWS BRIEFS.
Short Items of Interest From Here,
There and Everywhere.
Telegraphic Dispatches and Culling
Embracing a Comprehensive
News Summary.
Senator Colquitt of Georgia is seriously
ill at Washington.
There are now five colored lunatics in
the city jail at Danville. Va.
Fire destroyed Miller's planing mill
at Alma, Robeson county N. C. LossflO,
000. The Homestead (Pa.)Mills, of Carnegie
Phipps & Co., arc again running, manned
with non-union men.
Charles C. Poske, a wc'l known Balti
more traveling man died of sun stroke at
Richmond. Va., Tuesday.
The Third party convention of the
tenth district of Georgia has re nominat
ed Tom Watson for Congress.
The Normal College building at Gra
ham, Alamance county N. C, was burn
ed with all its contents last Friday night.
It is probable that ex-Senator Mahonc
of Va., will be appointed permanent re
ceiver of the Richmond Terminal at a sal
ary of 3,000 per year.
The U. S. Senate has reported favor
ably on the purchase for $70,000 of the
Temple Farm at Yorktown, Va., where
Lord Coruwallis surrendered.
Tuesday was the hottest day Philadel
phia has had, save one, in fifty years.
The temperature, 1C0 8, was ibe highest
of the country. Nine deaths resulted
from the heat and there were many pros
trations. Letters of incorporation are being got
ten up f ji "the Ocean View Hotel Com
a ." with the object of building a first
a -s hotel on the suif side of Bogue
Huik's, opposite Morehead City, N. C.
The builiing is to cost $150,000.
A desperate fight occulted at Flat Rock,
near Somerset, Ky , Wednesday after
noon, between Deputy Shciiff Sellers and
Johu Coffey, in which both were killed.
Sellers attempted to arrest Coffey on a
charge of adultery, when the trouble be
gan. A Wilmingtou, Del., lawyer has reciv
ed a draft fur $800 from Berne-Switzerland,
which was the amouut of the in
demnity paid by the Canton of Berue for
he false imprisonment for five days of
five Americans who had been arrested as
pickpockets
The campaign was opened in the Valley
of Virginia at Luiay Monday. Colonel
Alexauder, of Winchester, spoke, an
nouncing himself a candidate for Congress
in opposition to Colonel O'Ferrall. The
1 epic's party also organized, and will
have a candidate for Congress in that
district.
Two Roanoke College students from
Mexico. Emilio Robert Garza and Ang 1
Vetez, are spending the summer in Sab in
Va. Another young man from Tampico,
Mexico, is expected to arrive soon to en
ter college in the fall. It is alsi probable
that a number of students from Con a
will be among the foreigners at Roanoke
College next session
The appeal made by merchants of the
South to turn the stream of immigration
down here is having its effect in Eng
land and Scotland, a large number of
immigrants arriving at New York on the
steamer Gallia. The Gallia started Wed
nesday for South Carolina and other
Southera States.
Both ti e pumps at the Staunton, Va. ,
city water-works are in such, a bad state
of repair that they will not work. The
reservoir is empty and with the thennoni
eter at DH the town is without water.
The springs in the suburbs are the soie
supply. It will be several days probably
before the famine will end and the pumj s
get to work again.
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, has
been defeated in the Democratic prima
ries iu that State in the canvass for the
gubernatorial nominal i -n by Judge Pe
ter Turuey, but declares that he will uot
enter the field as an Alliance or inde
pendent candidate, and will do all in his
power to hold Tennessee in'linc for both
the national and State tickets.
The board of trustees of the Union
Theological Seminary, at Hampdcn-Sid-ncy,
Virginia, at a meeting Wednesday
elected Rev. Dr. Peyton If. Hgc, of
Wilmington, North (jorolina. to the va
caut chair of the English Bible and pas
toral theology in the seminary. It has
not yet been learned whether or not he
will accept.
The Dismal Swamp Canal. whioi cost
$1,500,000. and which was sold recently
at public auction for f 10.100.was author
ized to be constructed by the General
Assembly of Virgiuia December 1, 1787.
The canal is 2o miles lon:r, and connects
the watcis of Elizabeth river in Virginia
with the Pasquotank river in North
Carolina. It is In-lived that the canal
is destined to play an important rave in
suppl ing the city of Norfolk u itli drink
able water.
The President has issued a proclama
tion requesting the observance of October
21 as a general holiday in honor of the
four hundredth anniversary of the dis
rovery of America.
The recent British elections have . cost
$12,500,000. Every shilling hts to be
accounted for in sworn statemeut. Cor
rupt ii of voters has bacn tendered al
most impossible by the stringency of the
reformed elections legislation,
Tha contract for the foundation, stone
and rndck work, etc.. of the publi : build
ing at Tidlihassee, Fla., was awaded to
a Chicago firm at $12,723
Weaver Opens His Campaign.
Denver, Coi, Gen. Weaver, the
People's party candidate for President,
made his opening a blress at a crowded
n'ceting iu Coliseum Hall. An overflow
meeting was also held, which was ad
dress-d by Mrs. M. E. Lease,the women's
reformer Irom Kansas. ;Gen. We ver re
ceived upon ascending 'the platform
silver pen. B. Clark Wheeler, who pre
sented the pen, said that Gen. Weaver,
when elected, could sign the Free Coinage
bill with it. Gen. Weaver's address was
enthusiastically received.
THE STATUE OF COLUMBUS.
An Italian War Vessel to Convey the
Steamer Which is to Bring it
to This City,
Washington, D. C The Department
of State made public a pleasant exchange
of courtesies between President Harrison
and King Humbert, of Italy. Under
date of the 18th inst the Secretary of the
Navy addressed a letter to the Secretary
of State, advising him that he had learn
ed unofficially that the steamer bearing
the statue of Columbus, a gift of the
Italian-Americans of the city of New
York, was likely to be accompanied by a
vessel of war of the kingdom of Italy,
and thst the visit would concur with the
Columbus celebration to take place in
October next under the auspices of the
city of New York. The Secretary of the
Navy expiessed the cordial satisfaction
of the Navy Dep irtment at this intelli
gence, and gave assurance that the Ital
ian vessel of war would receive a cordial
welcome worthy of such au honored visi
tor. The letter of the Secretary of the Navy
having been sent to the Italian Minister
in this city, on the 21st
inst, the Minister, Baron Fava, informed
the Secretary of State that the royal
cruiser Bausan had been designated for
this mission, and would be at New York'
at the beginning of October. In view of
this notification, President Harrison sent
the following telegram to his Majesty
King Humbert:
Wasiunotox. July 21.
Hi MiJaty Humbert .. King of It'ilv. Pome:
The offer to wirl an Italian rralwr to participate
In crn nionles at New Yom !ti October affords m
occasion toexpress t your Majesty my eratlflcatl -n
t this signal tribute to the long and steadfast friend
ship of Italy and the Ulte l States.
BE5JAMIK TJAP.RISOK.
To this telegram King Humbert re
sponded as follows:
Mqsza ItovA?. Castle, July 23, 1893.
Benjamin Unrriton. t-rrxi-'ent ofthr. L'nitrd State:
In the solemnization of the glorious remembrance?,
my will was that by Its participation mv Government
minht attest the sound friendsMp which binds Italy
to the great people of the 'nlt'd States ! thank
you for having so nobly received this, my t entiment-
HtMBEHT.
LEE CHARLES WANTS A DIVORCE.
His Wife is the Prettiest Girl in Chi
natown, But He Says She is
Unfaithful.
New York, N. Y. Lee Charles,
otherwise known as Lee Norn, head of
the Sang Chang Tea and Grocery Com
pany, of 28 Mott stieet, has one of the
prettiest girls in Chinatown for a wife.
Lawyer McLaughlin has instituted pro
ceedings for divorce on behalf of the
wealthy merchant aaainst Mrs. Charles.
Airs. Charles' moher was a negress and
her father a Chinaman. She was born
and brought up in the Chinese quarter,
but has always held herself aloof from
the other women in the neighborhood .
She speaks excellent English, h s a fair
education, and a slight knowledge of
her father's " language. When she mar
ried Lee Ch -tries everybody in the dis
trict said that she was a lucky girl, and
for a time she was very happy. But she
quarreled with her husband, and the
quarrel was never made up. The quarrel
was over the atteution paid Mrs Charles
by Uug Toy, who also lives at 28 Mott
street The relations between the two
became so well known that Charles sec
his friend Lee Toy to watch them. On
Sunday night Lee Toy discovered 3Irs.
Charles and Ung Toy together. He
summoned the husband. Lee Charles
called Policeman Corcoran and had his
wife ami Ung Toy arrested.
When they were arraigned at the
Tombs Court the room was crowded vith
Chinamen, all of whom were intensely,
interested in the proceedings Mrs.
Charlcs wanted to make a charge of at
tempted assault against Ung Toy, but
the Justice refuse 1 to sllow it, and took
a charge of disorderly conduct against
both. In the hfternoon a leugthy exam
ination was held, at the conclusi n of
which Ung Toy was sent to the island
for six mouths and the woman was dis
charged. The Industrial South.
Although the usual midsummer dull
ness is at hand, repoits from the South
show no cessatioT in the number and di
versity in new iudusrial enterprise? or
ganized. Iu the list of new enterpiisee
for the week ending July 29, the Balti
more Manufacturers' Hccord mentions
the following as some of the more im
portant items: A $25,000 silver plating
company at Baltimore, Md ; a $12."i,000
water works and 1 ght company at Mon
roe, La.; a f 30, 000 oil and fertilizer com
pany at Milledgeville, Ga. ; a $45,000
cotton seed refining and manufacturing
company at New Orleans, La.; a $10,000
lumber manufacturing company at Rome,
Ga. ; a $40,000 cotton and woolen mill
company at Marble Falls, Texas; a $60,
000 ice, water and power company at Yoa
kum, Texas; a $20,000 ice manufacturing
company at Brinkley, Ark. ; a $25,000
publishing company at Baltimore, Md. : a
$50,000 grain milling compauy at Whit
acre, Va. : a $200,000 phosphate com
pany at Richmond, Va. ; a $300,000 wa
ter works and sewerage company at
Natchez, Miss. ; a $500,000 construction
company at Wheeling, W. Va. ; a $15,
000 manufacturing company at Harriman,
Tenn. ; a $60,000 ice. li .lit and water
works company at OrangTex-e; a $10,
000 cigarette machine company at Phil
ippi, W. Va. ; a $25,000 construction
company at Southport. N. C : a $300,
000 oil ard gas development company at
Rchmond, Va. : n $20.0 "0 bed spring
manufacturing company tt I)all v, Texas ;a
$30,000 flour mill at Dtta nr. Texas; a
$15,000deve!opmcnt company at I'ocky
Mount N. ('..and a $20,000 inanufa-.tur
ing company at Vicnlwm. Tvt.
A Whole Wisconsin Town in Ashes. !
Ikon Rivkb, Wu. The entire busi
ness district, with the exception of one
or to buildings, of thetown.is in ashes.
Fifteen hundred people are without shel
ter, a d in many cases without food.
Little is left of what twenty-four hours
ago was one of the most prosperous mill
towns The total property loss aggre
gates $20, 000. with very little insurance.
Troops Leaving1 for Home.
Homestead, Pa. More troops left
Homestead for home. The fourth re
giment, four companies of the Tenth and
Batterv "C" departed this morning while
the Twelfth, Eighth and, Ninth left later
in the day.
DONALDSON IS PRESIDENT.
Chosen By the S. C. State Alliance on
2nd Ballot. .
Columbia, S C. The State Alliance
met in annual session here. The follow
ing gentlemen were placed in nomination
for Piesident. Mr. Sligh's candidacy
being a complete surprise: Senator W.
D. Evans, of Malboro; Hon. M. L Don
aldson, of Greenville; W. J. Bowden, of
the Cotton Plant; Col. D K. Norris, of
Abbeville, and J. A Sligh. of Newberry.
Mr. Donald-on w-s nominated by a
handsome majority on the second ballot.
The new president of the Alliance was
born in Greenville county forty-eight
years ago. He fought in the war in
Hugh Aiken's Hxth Cavalry, Butler's
biigade, as a lieutenant inCapt. Joe Sul
livan's company, and made a gallant sol-dit-r.
After the war he settled in Green
ville, where he went to farming and has
made a great success of it. He appeared
in the political arena in the fill of 1884,
when he was fent toHhe Legislature. He
served two terms and then succeeded
Governor Mauldin in the iScnate, which
position he still holds. In December,
1889, when the State Alliaure Exchange
was established, he was placed in charge,
and he rau the exchange successfully un
til he resigued last year, when the Ex
change was moved to this city. The
general opinion among" the Alliancemen
seems to be that they have got the best
man for president.
The following ars the other officers
elected :
Vice Pi esident- W. D. Evans, Ben
uettsville. Seen ta- y J. W. Reid, Reidsville.
Treasure: - F. Y. Taylor, Mt. C Jghlan.
Chapla n -Rev. James Douglass,
Blackstock.
Steward E. B. Taylor. Aiken.
Doorkeeper - J. V. Kennedy, Sandy
Grove.
Assistant Doorkeeper A. R. Walker,
Fair Bluff.
Sergeant at-arms - J. E. Jarnegan, Co
lumbia.
Lecturer and organizer John R. Jef
fi it s, Star farm.
Ex cutive committee T. P. Mitchell,
Woodward; S. T. D. Lancaster, Glenn
Springs; and E. R. Walters, Orange
burg. Judiciary committee W. N. Elder,
Guthriesviile: D. K. Nonis, Abbeville;
and J. L. Keitt, Newberry.
As far as can be acenained the lectur
ers in all the iiatii:ts were all re-elected.
V0T YET OUT OF DANGER.
Manager FricJl of the Homestead
Works a Suffering Man;
Pittsburg, Pa. Chairman H. C
Frick, who was shot four times in his
office Saturday by Alex. Berkman, a
Homestead sympathizer, is mentally
bright and active, but he has much pain
from the pistol wounds and the cut from
Berkman's knife.
The ball which passed around the neck
almost grazed the spinal . cord . That
which passed out on the side almost touch
ed the spine. , The upper cut on the right
side should have penetrated the lung but
for the edge of the ninth rib, and half an
inch more deep would have carried the
large lower cut into the abdominal cavity.
It wa3 regarded as astounding that thii
should be true of so many wounds.
Dr. Litchfield has profound admiration
for the self control and courage of his
patient. He says there was scarcely any
result from what the medical men call
"shock," no sudden fall of temperature
or cold sweat. 1 his is what the doctor
said to ca'lers during the afternoon:
"Mr. Frick i doing well. There is
danger from the secondary effect of the
wounds and there will be for a week. He
has so far digested his "food well and is
doing well and haveBtrong hopes he will
recover."
The order, signed by Mr. Frick and
ftosted at the Homestead works this morn
ng, to the effect that men returning to
work wou'd be insured against removal,
and which was given in Jthe United Press
dispatches of last night, is regarded as
the final peace offering of the firm to the
strikers. In this connection a repre
sentative of the firm makes an important
Ktatement. "Even if Mr. Frick should
die," he said, "the policy of the manage
ment in the present crisis will be strictly
adhered to. The statement that Mr.
Carnegie is not in full accord with Mr.
Frick, in the course the latter has pur
imed of late, is absolutely and unqual
ifiedly untrue. "
RICHMOND TERMINAL.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Endeavoring-
to Secure Control.
New YoRk, N. Y. The Richrxoud
Terminal advisory commit ee of seven
met and authorized Chairman Strong to
appoint commit tets of three to represent
the 0 and 5 ) cr cent, bondholder', re
spectively. These will confer with the
advisory committee a-s to the action to be
takeu regardiug the default which will
be made on the interest of the bond.
It is repotted that the Pennsylvania
Railroad is endeavoring to get control of
the Richmond Terminal system by offer8
of a traffic alliaucc.
THE TORRID WAVE.
No Lt-TJp in the Oppressively Hot
Weather.
RitHMo.Mi. Va. (.'lnrlts C. Toske, a
diummer for a Baltimore- fancy goods
house, died suddenly Wednesday after
noon from ihe effe ts of the unprece
dented ht weatht-r. Two other cases
of sunstroke resulted John Larus. an
acrobat of the Sargent and Kidder cir
cus, and W. H. Frayser, a street car
driver. Both are expected to recover.
Since -t Saturday the theiinemeter has
not betu below 04 degrees,' and has fre
quently registered ino
New Yhk, N. Y. The weather
throughout the New England and
Middle States today continued oppres
sively ht. Msny i-rostrations were re
ported. Factor and mills shut down
oa account of the hot wtather.
Nearly 400 bear were killed in Mains
during the year ending in May.
THE SOUTH BOUND ROAD.
Its Lease to the Florida Central
Consummated.
Savasnah. Ga. The lease of the
South Bound railroad to the Florida
Central and Peninsular road was consum
mated today. The rental amounts to about
$100,000 per annum. The link to unite
the South Bound, which runs from Co
lumbia, S. C, to Savannah, and the
Florida Central and Peninsular, which
terminates at Jacksonville, will be built
at once. The lease places the eecurities
of the South Bound at par. The nego
tiations have been in progress some
months.
Expensive Chessmen.,
The New York Home Journal describes
a remarkable eet of chessmen that have
just been finished by a down East me
chanic. The pieces are made of 6ilver
and bronze, and the psriod of costurao
and equipment is A. D. 1191, all the
characters being histarical and contem
porary, and strictly accurate in jvery de.
tail of heraldic blazonry and costume.
The knights are in chain mail armor,
with shield, ax, sword and dagger.
Their fur coats have each the individual
blazon of the wearer. The queens wear
royal robes and carry sceptera. The
bishops are in church vestmeuts and
carry cross and crozier.' The pawns are
men at-arras in a kneeling posture, with
spear, bilihook and knife. The white
men are English, the black French. The
English King and Queen are Richard I.
and his Berengaria. The bishops aro
Herbert Walter, Archbishop of Canter
bury, and William Longchamp3, Bishop
of Ely; and the knights are the Earl of
Salisbury and the Baron of Worcester.
The castle is .Anglo-Norma:;, and is a
perfectly accurate representation of
feu lal architeciure. The French King
and Queen are Philip and Iogeborg, his
Danish spouse, the bishop3 being Da
Dreux and De Sully, of Bcauvais and
Paris. The knights are also well-known
men of the twelfth century, laud tho
castle is Franco-Norman. Thr: srct has
taken upwards of six years to make.
Animal Wisdom.
We are all familiar enough with ex
amples of intelligence in cats and dogs,
but of these stories we do not easily tire.
Here are some facts from a corre
spondent :
In moving to a new place of residence
we found on the premises a large cat
which had been left there by a former
occupant. She was not of the real
domestic kind, but lived principally in
thejbarn, occasionally venturing into tho
house to obtain her food. Oj" oue
occasion, much to the surprise of my
wife, she came up to her and mcved
several times, turning each time toward
the door leading to the barn. Tliis she
repeated until Mrs. N. was induced by
curiosity to follow her, when she led the
way to a barrel half full of straw, up the
sidf of which she climbed, all the time
mewing and looking at imy wife, aud
there were five kittens, cold and dead.
Mrs. N. remarked: "They are cold and
dead, pussy," and the cat went away
satisfied.
She would sometimes scratch the
children, and we were fearful she would
seriously injure them, and one day I said
in her presence that "I would shoot
her." She was missing for abo.it six
weeks, and of course I had then "oi oif
the notion." Forest and Stream.
The "Jigger."
The terror of blackberry pickers in the
South is the cheagre, popularly pro
nounced "jigger." Probably no one has
ever seen a cheagre save under a micro
scope, and certainly he is usually invisi
ble to his victims, but he can inflict more
discomfort than the mosquito, or than
any one of a dozen noxious insects twice
bis size. The cheagre comes like a thief,
in the night. No one is conscious of his
coming, and often his presence is not
detected for hours after his arrival, but
in due time he makes himself known. The
victim is seized with an intolerable itch
ing in a dozen spots at once, and scratch
ing affords only temporary relief.. Pimples
rise over the itching spots, and are soon
scran ed raw by the cheagre's tortured
victim. Meanwhile the invisible enemy
keeps on burrowing, and the itching con
tinue often for days together. When
it ceases, the victim has the unpleasant
conscio usness that all is over probably
because the cheagre has died somewhere
beneath the pimple.
Democratic Candidate.
Parkersburo, W. Va., The State
Democratic convention was in session un
til au early hout in the morning balloting
for a gubernatorial candidate. Shortly after
midnight there was a stampede for Col.
W. A.McCorkle.of Cbarleston,and on the
second ballot the counties began tochange
their votes for him. In the midst of much
cheering and enthusisam a motion was
made to make the nomiuatiou unanimous,
and it was done. McCorkle wa3 sent for
and accepted the nomination in a brief
speech, after which the convention ad
journed until 9 a. m.
Belief for Southern Flood Sufferers.
Washington, D. C The House
committee on appropriations ordered a
favorable report on a bill appropriating
$50,000 for the relief of the Southern
flood suffereis. The money appropriated
is to be expended under the direction of
th ? Secretary of War and the governors
sf the State i:i wnich it may be expended.
ML Bishop's Bemi-Centennial.
Winston, N C. Bishop Rondthaler,
of the Southera province, and pastor of
the Moravian church of Salem, celebrated
his fiftieth anniversary Sunday. In the -afterooon
a congregational love feast was
erved in the church when the bishop was
made the recipient of pe&ents aui'-uut-
ng in cost to ort-r $4fK It was a mem-
irabte occasion
The Agricultural School Fund.
Washington, D. C. The President
has approved the bill to direct the Sec
retary of the Treasury to pay over certain
money to the State of South Carob.na for
the support of the college for the ben tit
of agriculture; also, the act to construct
a bridge across the Savannah river,
OUR ALLIANCE COLUMN.
Fery Interesting Notes, Articles, ana
Clippings From all Sources.
The essence of slavery ts unrequited
toil, and it is of no consequence whether
the force which robs him of the fruits
of his toil be applied directly or iudi
rectly, the man who labors in the produc
tion of wealth of which others are the
principal beneficiaries, i ; A slave Ex
change. Seguin Enterprise (Tex ) booms an in
come tax as f Hows : A tax upon large
Incomes is needed to relieve tte neces
saries of 1 fe, so the taxes that eow exis
uot only enchance cost of living, but give
opportunity for monopo'y and oppre sion
It is the fairest of al tnx-8 and the oue
best tending to relieve pressure where
pressure is least easily lorne. Reveuue
should be drawn from wealth, not wa t
Representative Baker (People's party),
of Kansas, ha introduced a bill into the
House proposing a reduction iu the sal
aries of government officials receiving
more than $1,000 per year. By1 the bill
the president's salary is fixed at $2."i,000:
the Vice-Presideut's at $5,000 : the cabiuet
officers at $6,000; chief justice of the Su
prome Court $7,000 ;thc associate justices.
$6,500; Speaker of the House, $5,000,
and United States Senators and Repies
entatives, $3,000.
Washington, D. C There is
just 23 farmer statesmen in thi
Congress. Of these, Holman is running
a farm of three or four-huudred acrts in
Indiana; Morrell has a little Vermont
"garden" of 65 acres; Casey of Nor. h Da
kota has control of 300,000 acres in his
State, and owns pretty much all of it
himself; Vance owns seviral thousands
of acres of timber land in the old North
State ; and George of Mississippi is a heavy
cotton planter. M'st of the Kansas men
are agriculturally inclined. Jerry Simp
sou owns 1,000 acres, and works i too,
when at home; Baker, Davie, and Otis
are all in sympathy and close touch with
the farmer ; and Fiston is au avowed
hayseed.
POLK rrtAA TTJND.
The ladies assembled at Omaha dui li.
i he national People's party convention,
organized a ladies' auxiliary for the pur
pose of assisting the Polk Memorial As
sociation.
Mrs. Ben Terrell, of Seguin, Texas. i
piesident, and has appointed one vice
piesident in each S'ate, as follows:
Alabama Mrs. Gaither.
Louisiana Mrs. Clajton.
Flodda Mrs. A. P. Baskins.
North Carolina Mrs. W. W. Worth.
Georgia Miss Lizzie Peake.
Missouri Mrs Dr. Neff.
Tennessee Mrs. J. H. McDowell.
Iowa Mrs. Goodrich.
Nebraska Mrs. Gen. Van Wyck.
Minnesota Mrs. Dr. Fish.
.Mississippi Mrs. Eva M. Valash.
California Mrs. Nye.
Connecticut Mrs. Crumsby.
District Columbia Mrs. Crandall.
Kansas Mrs. Fannie Vickery..
South Dakota Mrs. Loucks.
North Dakota and Washington Mrs.
Muir.
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Some time ago a writer in the Nortl
American Review made the statemect
that the United States is the largest ten
ant farmer nation in the world. Here h
a list of the tenant farmers in some of
the States as given by the writer:
New York 39,87i
Pennsylvania 45,825
Maryland 13, 53";
Virginia 34,898
North Carolina 62,726
Georgia 62,175
West Virginia , 12,000
Ohio 48,283
Indians 40,050
Illinois 80,244
Michigan 15,411
Iowa ?-. 7?
Missouri 58,862
Nebraska 1149 J
Kentucky 44,02".
Kaunas 22,951
Tennessee 57.29G
Mississippi 41,558
Arkansas 26,13C
Texas 55,465
Total I -808,072
Here are 21 of our lea-ling S'ates with
more teant farmers t!u:i England, Ire
land, Scotlaud and Wall o.
There is something awe in&piiinglj
prophetic in the beau if til words of Col.
L. L Polk, July 4, 1890: "I am stand
ing now just bchk-d the curtain, and ic
full glow of the coming sunet. Behind
me are the shadows on the track, before
me lies the dark valley and the river
Wheu I mingle with the dark' waters
want to cast one lingering look upoi a
country whose government i of th; peo
ple, for the p-op!e. and by the people V
t V
Senator Mander-on ha1 iur duccd t
bill in Congress to create a mitioiiil high
wav commi"ion, to cnit of two Sena
tors, five '(epresentat ivrs. the Secret arie
of war, agricultuie.and iuttrioMh postmaster-general,
the Htt-)i iicy-gencial, and
an associate member from each Slate and
Territory. Mc. ting are t In- licid ir
Washington during the M--iui f Con
gress, in Chicago during tin A'orld'i
Fair, and at such other place, id time!
as the majority may elct. Th com
mission is to investigate the need of the
c-mntry in regard to the highway? nd
r. t to Congress.
STATE ALLIANCE MEETINGS
fast as State secretaries repnTt the
nr.i and p'ace of the next regu'ar annual
ire? tin of the State Alliance, it will be
ded t- 'his list:
Tennessee. Nashville. Augnt 16:
Texas. Austin, Augut 16.
Indiana, Indianapolis. November 17.
Kentucky, Owensboro, November 8.
Ciumbii, S. C, July 17.
Virginia. Richmond, August 17.
Louisiana, Monroe, August 2.
California Sncramento, October 3-
Georgia, Gainesville, August 17.
Urtle Rock. Ark-- August 18
icississippi, orarKTiiie, August as.
Monroe, La., August 10.
North Carolina, Greensboro, August 9.
West Virginia, Clarksburg, August 10.
Willismsport, Ps,. October 25.
Arizona Onyx.
Arizona onyx is fast gainin? a repul
tion in the East, and the clay is not far
distant when most of the onx used in
the United States will come from this
Territory. The great bed of this pre
cious store in Ysvapai and Maricopa
Counties alone, when sufficiently devel
oped, will supply a greater part of the
demand. Even now from two to five
car leads are shipped from the Yavapai
beds, and arrangements are being tuada
to increase the output. The Yavapai
onyx beds, owned by W. O. O'Neil and
partners, are probably the most extensiv
mines of the kind known, being almost
a solid body one mile by one mile and a
halt in extent. At present about, forty
men arc engaged in taking out the stone
that is being shipped to Chicago, Nev
York, Cincinnati and other Eastern cit
ies, where it is worked into table tops,
etc. Probably the largest slab of onyx
ever taken out in one piece was dug out,
of the O'Neil ledge, it being 23x10 feet
and twenty-six inches thick. The Jtone
from this claim is very fine grain and
takes a much higher polish than the cel
ebrated onyx of Mexico, and it contains
colors that were exhausted many years
ago in the Mexican miue?. Then, too.
the mines of that country river turned
out pieces larger than five or six feet
square.' So far as developed the Cave
Creek onyx beds do not seem to be as
large as the Yavapai beds, though the
etoce is as fine, but even as they are,
they will produce large amounts and in
blocks of very satisfactory size. J. B.
Dougherty, of New York, is doing a
great deal of development work, and as
soon as the road is completed, which
will be in a few days, he will put teams
to hauling and leading in onto the cars
at Phenix for shipment to New York. -Phenix
Gazette.
Wonders or Climate Changes.
The changes of terrestrial climate have
been many and various. Myrtles and
tree ferns once flourished in Greenland;
coral insects built on the shores of Mel
ville Island ; nautiluses sailed over what
must then have been the tepid seas about
Spitzbergen. But with the lapse of ages
the scene changed and worse than arctic
rigors spread into regions now enjoying
temperate climate, possibly not for the
first time. The Permian was certainly
an inclement age, according to the Edin
burgh Review, and its inclemency seems
even to have reached the point of glacia
tion in the west of England and Ireland,
yet it was preceded and succeeded by a
long prevalence of tropical conditions.
These assuredly reigned without inter
ruption in north temperate and polar
region throughout the vast expanse of
tertiary time. Palms and cycads then
sprang up in the room of oaks and
beeches in England ; turtles and croco
diles haunted English rivers and estu
aries; lions, elephants and hyenas roamed
at large over the English dry land.
In Switzerland a mean temperature
equal to that of North Africa at the
present time is shown by its fossil flora
to have prevailed during the miocene or
middle tertiary epoch. Antrhopoid apss
lived in -Germany and France, fig and
cinnamon trees flourished at Dantzic; in
Greenland, up to seventy degrees 6f lati
tude, magnolias bloomed and vines
ripened their fruit, while in Spitzbergen
and even in Grinnell Land, within little
more than eight degrees of the pole, the
swamp cypresses and walnuts, cedars,
limes, planes and poplars grew freely,
water lilies covered over standing pools
and irises lifted their tall heads by the
margins of streams and rivers.
Tea Chest Lend.
O ie of the industries in connection
with the tea, tiade is the collection ot
the lead with which tea-chests are linel.
China has been noted for mmy centuries
!or purity of its lead, and fhi tea-c'iest
lead, as it is called, is regarded as tha
linest in existence. There are many uses
fcr it ; it is found very valuable in in iktnz
the best kind of solder. No machinery
is employed in the production of this
beet lead ; every sheet is made by hand
in the most primitive fashion. A large,
brick is provided, the size of the sheet of
lead to be made, and is cove red with two1
or three sheets of paper. On these the
molten lead is poured, and another brick
is placed on tne top, which flattens ths
lead out the required size and thickness.
The sheets are then soldered together to
the size of the interior of the tea chest;
.he taa is packed in, and the top sheet is
.astcoed in place. - The workmen are
very expert, and ttey tura out an im
mense number of sheets in the course of
day, and, where labor U so cheap, at a
price much less than if the article were
produced byamchinery. Btou Tran
script. Dirdseye Yiw oLPsrasruay.
Paraguay has 430,000 people on her
91,970 square miles of territory. Large
numbers of uncolonized Indians are net
counted. The country is rich in vegeta
tion, but only 160,000 acres undeT
cultivation-. Am': i . the notii';' pro
ducts ; .c a!groba anH 'quebr .bo for
tanning, and algorabeda, indigrr and
annotto for dyei og. Thre is an abund
ance of resins, copa', fcum elastic, drug
plant, ba!am. Beside cotton, Para
guay produces textile nd fibrous plants
like ramie, jute and paim. To? foreign
trade is about 5.00(,of0 a year, but the
Ln-led Stages gets very little t it. The
principal export are tobacco, hiie, lum
!er and oraDge3. Paraguay has no ea
port. Her products go out by the Para
guay and Panama River'. St. Louis
G.oLe-Democrat.
There i nothing ia the wori 1 more
aggravating to a man with a secret than
to meet people who haye no curiosity.
Atchison Giobe.