North Carolina Newspapers

The Central Times. . 4 i "KTGRAyTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar the Thipgs that'are Caegar'B, Unto God, God's. $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance ; ' 1 " 1 ' XT V OV 1 VOL. II. ALLIANCE AUGURS. The Present, Past and Future of the F. A. & L U. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1892. THE MECCA PILGRIMAGE.! . . l g ' i I . ! . . 1 1 New Southern QUITE ABLE IN THEIR AGE. THREE STATES' BRIEFS. Connecticut Farmers of 80 and 90 Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Swallow POLITICAL PILLS. Now Enterprise. Sundry Happenings, An Alliance Poem, and Other Matters of Interest. President Loueks was called home in Sfuth Dakota Fiiday from Washington, D. C, by a telegram conveying the sad news of the death of his oldest rod. It is ner-dless to s iv that in thi their hour of -distress. Brother Loucks and family have th; sincere sympathy of the frater nity everywhere. polk's work jcst begun. BY T. B. Km HERS. WEST T1HOIS'. VIipii Ftirhshe wind of hfaven. Whf ii Tails the eTcnlnff dew. When boK Mfuis almitst rtrlven Anil !t from human view; Tlin staii'l we i-tlll and wonder, Nor waiting, wnndi-r long. For In thet-cholnjc thinder Vi-"ll hear the gleeful n(r. That rtKht attain shall triumph, Tht justh-e shall he rtimo, And then will sound the seraph. Tls Polk's work Just begun. We'll listen lonf? In silence Enraptured, filled with joy. With hated breath and stillness. As stands a timid U iy; We'll catch it to the echo. As echo will iiFolonir Beyond the ciljrhty shadow, Ne'er Ktlrred by human song; Ah1 angels In the chorus Will cry aloud, " well done:" And brlcht will le the glories Of Polk's work just begun. Tl God that hides the vision r rom mortal eyes so far. And laughs at human wisdom That thinks to know a star; tut He is God, our Father. And hears his rhiUlren cry. In mercy tries to 1 ait them When for the right they try; ThoiiKh be the effort humble. In (mnoranee begun, Still rand will be the coming fit Polk's work just begun. "Reporter (Kansas) sizes conditions up carefully in this way. Puck once had a picture of a king, a bishop, a sold er and a laborer. The king with utstretched sceptre, sid: "I rule all ;" the piiest with his prayer book said: ' I pray for all; ' the soldier with his rifle said: "1 fight for all," and the laborer, in the nrdst of all the different kiuds of tools and ruach'n fry, saia; pay for all. " Goodland Republic (Kansas) lets on the light: Manager Frick. of the C r negie iron mills, has an income derivu from that institution of $200,000 an nually. 1 he entire pay roll of 3,800 workman only amounts to f 2, 400, 000 an nually. It would seem that this condi tion of affaiis would justify a cut of wages. The average wages of the work men are $52 a month, while the manager makes $166,606,66 in the same period. Knights of Labor Journal (Pennsyl vania) says: The 12,394 business failures in the United States last year an increase of 1,700 over 1890 are not so much aa indication of exceptional stringency in the money market as of the tendency to ward tone ntraf i:i in commercial matters. Thebig capitalists are eating up the smaller ones, and, whether the times arc good or bad, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the small tr. der or manu facturer to cht. Production and distri bntion arj yetting into fewer hands, and it is for those whj suffer by the process to fray whether they wish their lot and that of I heir children to be the condition f wage-sUvcs to a handful of plutocrats or partners i a national system of in dnstri tl organization. There is no alternative. A TVarbliii? Girl. A lady writing in the British Medical Journal says that she receutly heard a young girl of fourteen ye-.irs "whistle,'' as her people called it, but "warble" it really was, for she kept her mouth slightly open, and the lips merely trembled, thi notes being formed iu the throat, the centre of it working as a bird's does when singing, aDd the souuds produced were exictly liice tbo?e of blackbirds and thrushes. She warbled several airs to pienoforte accompaniments faultlessly and most beautifully modulated, and so powerful were the notes that her yran l mother, who was excessively deaf, could catch every one without the slightest effort in auother room, a little distance off. In the same room some notes were deafening when she poured them out at the foite parrs. She had been self- taught, entirely from ".vbistlmg to ner dog and sitting in the window "warble" to the birds. longer the Hens Converse The simian tongue is no only language if "dumb" animals which is being studied by inquiring mankind.' M. Prevo du Haudray has gone a step further than Professor Gamier, and has carried science iuto the hencoop. His manner of ascertaining whether the barn door fowl clucks in a tongue understood by all its kind consists in placing a phono graph tiret into one henhouse where the family are at home. When the long suffering receiver has been cackled into for half an hour it is taken away and caused to repeat all the gossip in a neigh boring hencoop. The results of the ex periment are said to be marvelous, and the Academic des Sciences is awaiting a cture on the subject with the greatest Merest. Pall Mall Gazette. Strange Properties oT Caen Stone. A wonderful quarry of caen stone has been " recently discovered near Carters ville, Ga. This is considered among the most desirable of all building materials artd co nmands a very high price in the market. When first quarried it .yery soft and may be cut or carved with a knife or any ordinary tool or may be turned in a lathe. It grows exceedingly hard upon exposure to the air for a time i v.;a .nalitir indefinitely. It Who Can Still Hake the Hay Fly. Hartford, Conn. A stranger, strol ling along Bloomfield avenue at Windsor recently, saw an exhib tion of old-fash ioned haying that surprised and amusea him. Two hale and gallant old gentle men in a smooth open lot by the roadside were swinging the scythe like sixty, but they were a good deal older than that and the stranger was sure of it. Accosting a Windsor wayfarer, he pointed to the hayfield and inquired: "Who are the smart old men over there and how old are they?'7 "Wall," replied the Windsor man, "they are the boss hayers about here. One is Mr. Prentice of Court street, and he's 84 last March; and the other is his neighbor, Mr. Langdon of Maple avenue, and he was 84 'bout two months rgo Hay it yet? Wall. Course they kern't hay it as they med ler forty years ago, but you kin baok on it tbeie ain't no voung fellows 'round here that wants to buckle onter a snath and foller 'em all day now, lookin' just as they do this min u'e. Yer hear me." As genuine old-style Connecticut "hayers" Me3sr9. La'ngdon and Prentice have quite a requtatioo all about Windsor ; they have the old-fashioned, easy swing ing" style with the scythe, and the swing ing, gliding, swift gait that modern mowers kuow is monstrous hard to keep u, with all d ty. The old men are no' only neighbors, but life-long friends, and ihey were mowing the Friebie lot in Windsor at the time the stranger saw them on account of a mutual resolution to "try he old scythe" and see whether they had fvrgotten the way to swing it yet. There's nothing very wonderful, how ev r, about rugged old fellows doin men's work all d ty on Connecticut farms Ih re are lot3 of them in the Land ot Steady Habits. There are many octogen aiiius and a few nc.nugenarians who H bor all dy all the year around, and there are others just as vigorous, whom, how ever, only the exigencies of the haying season bring to the front among Connec ticut toilers. There is Ephrai- Newell of Ellington, in lofty Tollaivd county for instance, who became 8 years old one day leeently, and celebrated the event bv taking down the old Newel cradle and crad ing just oue acre of t-tou-rye in the forenoon of the day. S id one of his neighbors, speaking of the old man's vigor: "Why, he not only cut the cleanest clip oi" all the men who workeo with him i-i that field, but he cradh d right around men who are not more thin one-half his age. It was a boiling hot dav, too " It is'a fact that the best rye cradler in New London county is a man over So years old, and he is as straight as m a row, 6 feet 2 inches tall, and with the full, plump muscles of a man of 40 In the same county is Francis Brown, of Norwich, who is SO years old, and who a week ago cradled an acre of rye ou his farm near that city. Gilbert Chandler, of Putnam, Windham county, recently celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birthday, andlhe day before that in cident he shingled one roof of his houe alon$. Then there is Deacon Benjamin Brown, of Brooklyn village, in the same county, who. his neighbors think, is rather too frisky; he is 85 years old, and his friends say he is a regular boy yet. He takes chances that would appall some of the modern dude3 of 18 or 20. So he got vuj away with the other day, driving in his usual reckless style, and got "hove out," the Brooklyn folks put it. He fell on a heap of stone3. and was bruised about his side aud shoulders Most men would have been done up by the acci dent, but the Deacon wa3 at work about his farm a day or two later. But old Mr. Lyman Tolles, of Tolles Station,-Tcrryville, is perhaps the niftiest old boy in the State. He is over 90 years old, and ws hay in' it every day this week in the hot open fields of his farm, where the temperature over-topped the number of his years by more than 10 degrees. He is strong aud tough as sole leather, and steps about as briskly as a boy. At Plainville is Michael Culleo, who rides a bicycle like the wind, but he is young, of c . ipso, being only 71. He goes to and from his business daily on his wheel, and ordinary riders are not anxious to tackle him for a running bout. In the same town is Mrs. William New- ton, who rides a horse aany, ana ner hardihool and ambition are worth not rng, because she is 78. At the village of South Killingly is Mr. Schuyler, 83, who has got the measles, and the joke of it is he has all there are in Connecticut. Therefore he would like to know how he got them. He's got 'em mild, however. Points of Interest. and Assimilate Quickly. Them ncposnro annual cebemony OF THE MO H AHMED AN WORLD. The Fields of Virginia, North South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For News. and convention in refused to put VIRGINIA. Miss Zoe Gay ton, the famous pedes -tiian, stopped a dav in Charlottesville, on her way from New York to Sau Fran cisco. Soott Brown and Tom Dabney (colored) have I een arrested in Cai tersville lor burn ing the tobacco house and horses of A. T. Moon. The case was worked up by a coloied detective named Rowe from Rich mond A debtor in Madison county turned over as his only property a gold watch bearing the name of "Extra Billy Smith and the date 1830. Extra Billy, who died not long since, wasome the manager of a stage line between Washington and points in Virgiuia, but later Governor of that State, Congressman, and Major Gen eral in the Confederate army. Extra Billy's watch, though it has run for at least sixty two years, etill keeps good time. The Republican State session at Atlanta, Ga., out a State ticket. Representative W. A, Branch was re nominated by the Demotrats at Edenton, N. C, from the first congressional district by acclamation. William J. White, who have just been nominated for Congress by the Republi- Hordesof Pilgrims on Their Way to the "Holy City" Scenes ot Desti-; tat Ion and Death. HE pilgrimage to Mecca which occurs every year in the holy month which the Moham med an callRamadam is, from a T rati criona m well as a samtarv point oi cans of the Twenntieth Ohio district, has TjeWf ODe Df the problems with which tha made a million our, oi cnewing gum. civilized world will eventually nave ro An old colored mn and former Repub- deai. Every year it adds new fuel to the lican, J. R. Ramey, of Winston, has an- fanaticism that seeks by the conquest of nouncedhimialf an independent candidate . the interior of the African continent to for rVmcrrfMts-in the Kirrrtn . U. cuscnci. i n.i.i.in tft - trade, and it is a He has already opened his campign and is making interesting speeches. He says that he is a candidate regardless of con ventions, race or color. "My first and rinr.int nUnk."he savs. "declares in favor of the Government paying all the cx-slaveo who were twenty-one years old when Lincoln made hi emancipatioD proclamation $1,000 a year each for services rendered during the war." He declares that the Government justly owes this debt to the slaves and the South and that the demand is in accord with Lin coln's nroclamation made in 1863. He in- .... . r ai I r . A f Colonel W. P. Smith, chieiciern oi mo i 5ists that everybody snouio voie ior mm, to onsl retains this O ualitv indefinitely. takes a high polish, becoming consider. .ku Arwr nrlor the nrocess and show in4 a slightly mottled surface of a brown color. Demorest's Weekly. rich Train Conductor "All aboard. Hurry up, mis, if you are going by this train. Little Girl "Just a minute, till 1 nurnrna." Conductor 4 Junip aboard; .I'll attend to that." Oakland Echoes. Clay King's Sentence Commuted. MGMrnis, Ten n. Governor Buchaium in Nashville commuted to imprisoment for life the sentence of Colonel H. Clay Kiug, who was to have been hanged Friday for the murder of David II Poston on March 15th last on a public street in this city . Unusual preesure was brought to b ar upon the Governor during the past few davs. Petitions signed by thousands I torn Tennessee and Kentucky reached the Chief Executive. Delegations from military and civic societies besieged him, and the wife and daughter of the con demned man, and the wives and daugh ters of other prominent citizens made personal appeals. Senator Harris and other leading politicians made several call upon him, and finally succeeded in .eeur'ii"' me ae reu cuiumumnuu. Ti... Uriv .ni'r h. Hrd the news with but litt'e interest He had been indulging in 6timulauts of late aud seemed indiffei ent to what was transpiring. The people of Memphis are very indignant over the action of the Governor. A plan was formed to lynch Col. King, but he was spirited away to Nashville by the Sheriff. Gov. Buchanan was burned in effigy. A Committee With "Barls of Money. Nkw York, N. Y. The advisory nmmittee of the Republican national committee is said to have been practicsl i Wide d unon. Among those selected. it is said, are: B F. Joac. rf Pittsburg; Hamilton Diston, or Philadelphia; Nl son W. Aldricb. Rhode Island; Phile tus Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and Geo. M. Pullman, of Illionis. All five men are immensely wealthy. . ; nirpct.Tax Commission and com missioncr for the City of Richmond and Henrico county has issued a circular letter to the several treasurers and commission pra distrihntinor the district tax fund, in forming them that the amount to be paid to a claimant showing himself entitled under the law is only the net tax paid and the amount noted as excess when any excess appears to have been collected. The amount noted as interest, penalties and costs are not to be paid out, as they h:ive not yet been refunded to the State by the Federal Government. NOBTH CAROLINA. Aunt Winnie Finley and aunt Nan Parks, both colored, 6f Wilkes county, are respectively 114 and 113 years old. At the Stat Pharmaceuticul Associa tion meeting at Raleigh they decided lo meet next vear at Winston. H. R. Chcara, of Plymouth, was elected Presi dent. Auditor Sanderlin has appointed to succeed Mr. Boushell as his chief clerk T. Falmer Jerroan, Jr., now ex ecutive clerk to the Governor. Mr. Jer man will le succeeded in the Governor's office by W. W. Vass, Jr., of Kileigh., The summary of the crop report for August is completed by the Department of Agriculture, and the showing made is a bad one. The per centage of condition of cotton is given as 70, and the per cent, of damage as compared with the report a month ago is given as 24 per cent. ; corn, condition 86 percent, f damage, 2H; tnhar.no. condition 841: damage 201. The condition of the other crops covered by the returns is as follows: Rice 85, turnips 92, peauuts 82J, sweet potatoes 90, late cabbage 90, late Irish potatoes 87, grapes 82, peaches 46, apples 52. Last year at this date the condition of corn was 91 1. cotton 73, tobacco 87, rice 16, peanuts 90. SOUTH CAROLINA. Tax returns from 25 counties show about the same amount of personal prop erty as last year. Philip Hicks, an escaped convict burg lir from the pententiary, was caught near Charleston Wednesday. Green Rice, colored, 14 years old, was accidentally shot and killed in Union county by his cousin, while they were playing with a gun. At Columbia, in the county courthouse Miss Addison, a niece of T. S Cavender, created quite a scene by slapping severely in the face Lawyer Bausket, who was trying to get possession of a little colored boy. " The parents of the boy had put him under the guardianship of Miss Ad dison, and thcu wanted him back. The railroad commission in issuing its June report of the earnings of the roads of the State, as it marked the close of the railroad year, also gave a statement show ing that the net decrease in the total earn ings for the twelve months, ending June 30, 1892, as compared with the corres ponding mouths ot 1890 and 1891 to be the sura of 667,173,76. Judge Joseph J. Davis Dead. Raleigh. N. C Associate Justice Joseph J. Davis, of the Supreme Court, died Monday night at his home at Louis burg. The flags on the capital were half masted. The entrance to the Su preme Court building, the door to the court reom and the chair in which Judge Davis sat were draped in mourning. His death was not unexpected. For two or three years, since his first attack of pa ralysis, he had been very feeble and had been able to do very little work. During the two last term3 he was not on the bench. Six weeks ago he was taken to Morehead City in the hope that the air would benefit him, but retuned unim proved. He was greatly esteemed, as a gallant captain in Gen. "Scales' brigade, as the representative five years of thi3 congressional district and as a justice of thc'coutt since 1886. Hi3 funeral was held Tuesday morning at Lomsburg, and will be sttended by- the membe.s and officers cf the court and several State officers. h. wnulf) hrincr rules of monev to the South. With great emphasis the old colored man says : "If you give the Dem ociats their part of the votes, theRepub licacs their part, and the Third party their part, and then give me all the men on the fence, I think I can be elected." Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic nomi nee for Vice-President, will speak at Raleigh,Fayetteville, Wilmington, Golds boro, Charlotte and Asheville, on the dates of August 31. September 1, 2, 8, 5, 6 and 7, respectively. AMONG THE PHILISTINES. A Godly Young Man's Experience at ABbury Park. Asbcrt Park. N. J. Henry O. Wil liams, State Secretary of the Y. M. C A. of Richmond, Va , left his check calling fr fton wm Mi of iewelrv in the bath house while he went in bathing. When he returned he found that some one had entered the bath room during his absence and stolen the check. The thieves had learned his name from cards in his pecket and signed it to the order for the en velope. They t hen delivered the check and secured the valuables. A Murderer Dies in His Cell. Abhevillb. N. C Wm. M. Shelton, on trial at Marshall, Madison county, for the murder of Grant Tweed, died in his cell in the Marshall jail Saturday night of heart disease. When court adjourned at 6 o'clock Shelton said he was ill, and after return ing to the jail his wife was summoned. His suffering grew rapidly worse until 11 o'clock, when he died. The crime with which Shelton was charged was ev idently cold-blooded murder. Sunday, June 19th of this year, Shel ton surprised young Tweed, against whom he had a grudge, and shot him through the neck, killing him instantly. Shelton escaped, but was captured in Greenville, Tenu , nd extradited. Hs was 55 years old and a United 8tites pensioner. A Cincinnati Tobacco Combine. PiwrtKN ati. O. The tobacco ware housemen here have for a long time been trying to accomplish a comb-nation un der a single management. They have ac complished their object by obtaining the signatures of the following six great houses to the agreement, cainely: The Bodman, the Cincinnati-the Globe, the Morris, the Jliammi and theAValkcr. All the houses will be under the direction of an executive board, but otherwise they will preserve their individuality. Their capital stock is $2,500,000. They wdl secure a charter under the laws of New Jctsov means of infection by which is dissemi nated that most deadly of epidemic scourges, the cholera. The faithful in all parts of the Mohammedan world sus tain it.and the two principal Mussulman rulers the Khedive of Egypt and the Sultan of Turkey lend it countenance . in order to maintain their authority over their subjects and their moral supremacy among the followers of the prophet in general. The Khedive sends annually, with imposing ceremony, a consecrated carpet, and the Sultan a quantity of valuable presents, accompanied by a magnificent cortege. Access to the holy city is easier than In former times. Mecca is sixty-five miles from Jeddah on the Red Sea, and is most easily approached by this route. The Mohammedans of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the north of Egypt go to Jeddah by steamer when they can fTnWl it ' or find their way to the Red Sea by caravan. Those from the cases of the Sahara, from the Soudan, or the interior of Africa follow generally the caravan routes to Suakim, Massowah or other ports on the western shore of the Red Sea, whence they cross to Jeddah in dhows. The Mohammedans from India come by the French, English or German steamers that connect Europe with, the far East, bringing the germs of the chelera in their filthy garments. There are four other principal routes be sides that of Jeddah which are entirely overland. These lead from Yemen in Southwestern Arabia, lrom Nejd on the Persian Gulf, from Persia and' from the north of Syria. The Persian route passes to the north 'f Nejd. The gifts of the Sultan start from Damascus and pass south through Palestine into Arabia, where the caravan has the protection of several subsidized tribes. To this caravan are generally joined the Kurds, Turks, Albanians and Syrians. The Yemen caravan sets out from the city of Sana. The pilgrims of means travel with camels or horses and go well provided for the journey, but there are always with the caravans a great number of per : sons in such a state of destitution that they are obliged to live entirely by alms given by their fellow travelers with more or less willingness while their own stores last. These poor wretches are tne most fanatic believers. Even under the most favorable circumstances their bones strew the desert for the entire length ot the route. An unbeliever who had the audacity to unite himself to a caravan would be detected and assassinated long before reaching Mecca, unless like Bur ton, he were thoroughly acquainted with the language of some Mohammedan country and with Mohammedan customs and religious rites. When the multitudes brought by all these caravans have con verged at Mecca.a city badly provisioned, whose water, naturally bad, is polluted by the presence of such filty horde3 sub jected to no sanitary regulations, where the heat during the Ramadam month is always intolerable, the misery ia inde scribable and the mortality excessive . : J A ko.lthir evan in seasons cuusiucicu uc"uj- A glance at the list of new enterprises organized or established in the South during the past week, shows continued activity. Among those mentioned by the Manufacturers' Record in its issue of Aumst 12, the following are the more important: A $500,000 sugar planting and manufacturing company at Plaque mine, La.; a $10,000 lumber company at Arkansas City, Ark.; a $30,000 spoke manufacturing company at Union City, Tenn ; a 300,000 bushel grain elevator at Southport, La. ; a $7,000 canning com pany at Memphis, Tenn. ; a $10,000 can norr ramnanv at Sharon. Tenn. ; a $10,- C00 manufacturing company at Hender r,n Kv a ttO.000 water works com pany at Newnan, Ga. ; a $5,000 canning company at Gardis, Miss. ; a $300,000 barb wire and nail works company at Kanawha Citv. W. Va. : two $2,000,000 coal companies at Beattsville, Ky ; a $50, - 000 refining company at Louisville, Ky. ; a $100,000 distilling" company at Balti more, Md. ; a $30,000 cottonseed oil com pany at Rockwall. Tex ; a $30,000 can ning company at Barstow, Texas; a $20, 000 steam laundry company at New Or leans La. ; a $350,000 paper mill com pany at Louisville, Hy., ana a fow.uut publishing company at Baltimore, Md. iTHE CANARY-BIRD TRADE. iA HOUSE rNDUSTBY OF NEEDY GERMAN PEASANTS. Jersey Cows. The Jersey cow ia not as popular now as she was a few years ago, but there is no reason why she should not be. They nmiir o-reat attention, but it is wonder ful what a yield of butter can be ob tained. The first cow that produced 500 pounds of butter in one year was considered a marvel. Bisson's Belle, in Tennessee, was the champion cow in the world until this year. Her record was 1028 pounds and fifteen ounces of mar ketable butter in one year. General Sam Moore and Mr. Mathews, of Hunts ville, Ala., now own the champion but ' ter maker of the world. "Siqual's Lilly Flag" is the registered name of this fa mous Jersey, and her record from June 1,1891, to June 1, 1892, is 10,954 pounds of milk, and 1047 pounds and three-quarters of an ounce of good but ;ter. The test was officially made, on be half of the American Jersey Cattle Club. Atlanta Constitution. Poor FamUlea Kaiee the Feathered ' Singers In Their Ilomes This Country Buys the M ost Canaries. i .. i. iV, UK more man a ceuiury mo business of raising canaries has rendered bare existence a pos sibility to many poor people in uermany. rmj jrr "- already grown to such dimensions that it became necessary to seek a foreign outlet for the trade. About 1850 the German dealers began making shipments to New York, and finally they turned their attention chiefly to the United States, the demand from this side of the water having become very great. Dur ing the last year canary birds were third in monev value among the articles exported to the United States from Hanover. ' The breeding of canary birds in Ger many is mainly a house industry of poor and needy people. Their proat is, of course, small; but to the poor, who can hardly earn daily bread, their bird cages are like little savings banks, from which they can draw at regular intervals a trifle'; that, added to their other earning, enables them to make ends meet. , The canary bird industry, without making any serious claim upon the peasant's time or care, cheers his home and brings him a modest profit. Having in the summer raisod a brood of young birds, he awaits with anxiety the visit of the dealer in the autumn, which will' place in his hands money to help him through the winter. The principal seat of the industry was formerly the Hartz Mountains, where the pcor mountaineers, engaged chiefly in mining and lumbering, were in great need. Almost every family bad in the sitting-room, in the bed-room, or in gar- ret a breeding place lor Diras. in vuo summer the food necessary for the birds was easily obtainable, and before the winter came the dealer had purchased them, lifter the Ilartz Mountains be-; came more frequented by visitors desir ous of improving their health in the pure air, the poverty of the mountainecis was diminuhed, and the canary bird indus try fell off more and more. At present only fine singers are bred in tha Hartz, and for these the dealer must pay a high price. The industry was then transferred to Eichsfelde, in the province of Han over, where there are many poor weav ers. Nearly all of these are now en gaged in the breeding of the cheaper varieties of canary birds. The industry OTiflta in the noorer districts The Cotton Crop. Those of tl?c Southern cotton planters who. a half year ago, were anxious to bring about a general reduction of the cotton product, in order to raise the price of the staple in the market, have seen their object gained in an unpleasant way through the destructive forces of nature. The extent of the reduction is shown in the reports of the Department of Agri culture containing the facts gather d in nil tVio r-orfnn-OTOWinrr States. The pro duct has been reduced by heavy floods in Hesse, in the great Lunenburg Moor, in .f ? tKo Smith hv an excessive v,,ta nf Vptnhalia. ana araonx of rainfall or weather otherwise uniavoraoie in many parts, and by other causes not under the control of the planters There fears last spring that cotton wouia out thn About Saxony. are raised every were ho an unnrofitable crop this year, those fears have been dispelled by agen cies that have brought grief to many planters. Centennial ot Buncombe. Asheville, N. C. Buncombe is a hundred years old and people. have been celebrating the centennial in great shape. The Legislature. in. 1792 established the county by cutting off from Burke and Rutherford the whole western section oi the State, comprising what is now Macon, Yancey, Henderson, Madison, Jackson, Clay, Transylvania, Swain and . Graham. The celebration was 'addressed by Attorney General David-on, a native of Buncombe, Hon Kemp P. Battle, Col. V. S. Lusk, Hon. R B. Vance. Col. J. D. Cameron and Col. A T. Davidson. There was a trades display in the after noon, showing the resources of the county. In the tournament f. E. Sevier, who When the cholera prevails Mecca is sim- rode at Charlotte, won first prize. Several niv a rharnel-house. and wnat passes is hundred Lonietieiate veterans went into ... Poisoned by Canned Corned Beef. Philadelphia, Pa. Ten persons Miffeicd in agony and narrowly escaped drath bv reason of eating canned corned beef. In fact, in one case it is still un certain that the termination will not be f;i al In all the cases the victims were attacked bv convulsive cramps,nausea and paius of limbs aud head, all symptoms being distiuctlv those of metalic poison ing All had 'eaten canned corned beef ofa packing company of Chicago, pur chased at a near by store. N. C. State Alliance Meeting. Greensboro, N. C -At a late houi The Democracy of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga. The State Democratic convention was called to order at noonby AV. Y. Atkinson, chairman of the State committee. Pleasant A. Stovall was un a .imouslv elected temporary chairman. After completion of the temporary organ ization, W Y. Atkinson was elected permanent chairman by virtue of which he continue ex-officio cbiirman of the State committee for the next two years. The following State ticket wa nomi nated: For Governor, W. J. Nor.hen: for Sec ttarv of State, Gen. Phil Cook: for Comptroller. Gen. W. A Wright; for Treasuier, R. M Hurdman; for Comrais sioner of Acr. culture K. T Nesbitt, and for Attorn-r General. T. M Tinell. An electoral ticket pledged to Cleveland a d stovpnvvi was also nlcei in the Slate Alliance went into tne election of officers Marion Butler, president, T.' tf. LoDg, of Buncombe county, vice president and W. . S. Barnes, State treasurer and secretary were re e'ected. Dr C. Tompson, of Onslow, was elected .-'late lecturer instead of Mr. Bell. Door keeper, Mr. Henry, of Macon county; :issistant dooikeeper, H. E. King, of On slo v; chaplain, Rev. John Ammond, of Madison county ; sergeant at-arms, J. S Holt, of Alamance. Mr. Hicklin's Ghastly Find. Rkmbcro. S. C Friday afternoon Mr. James Hicklin was startled to find a human skull on the back of his fish pond, a few miles from town. He immediately began a search, and on draining the pond found human bones, which, coupled with ccitain facts, led him to believe a foul murder had been committed. He imme diately telegraphed Coroner Evans. The .iH nf thi inouest is not vet known. w.vpr. it is believed that it is the re mains of a negro boy who very suddenly diiwnneared some ii months ago. the field The summer exodus has left only one c .binet officer at Washington to represent the power and dignity of this great government. The Sea Gives Up Its Dead. Charleston, S. C. The body of Na poleon Ladson, one of the eight negroes who were drowned, was washed ashore on Sullivan's Island. The mouth and ear were partially destroyed by fishes, othei wic the body was in a cood state of preservation This is the filth bo ly re covered. P.irties were ou dragging the bottom 'l the htrbor, but to no effect ; all they ob ained was a pair of pant with 96 cents in the pocket only known to the Christian wona Dy the chance reports of mo e intelligent pilgrims which find their way into the European papers. When all the rites and ceremonies ex acted of every faithful pilgrim have been conscientiously performed at the holy city those who have not suc cumbed to heat, fatigue or disease turn their faces homeward, carrying with them usually the germs of some disagree able or dangerous disorder, and in variably in their hearts a more ferocious hatred of the infidel. In Persia thU fanaticism finds vent in revolts directed .rrainof thft Khfth wtlO 13 aCCLLSeU OI aaiuov ' v i being too favorable to the Christians, in Turkey in a general opposition to foreign Influence, in Algeria in threatened in surrection against the authority of the French, in the Soudan in the main tenance of the slave trade. It i3 on this traffic that Christianity and Moham medanism will finally have to join i33ue. It is only Mohammedanism that main tains slavery. Its strongholds are in Morocco and Arabic, to supply wbose harems Tippu Tib and ofher traders of Arab descent, or natives converted by the Mohammedan invasion, make their razzias and decimate the African tribe?. This question of interest renders the problems arising from the relations ot Christianity to the followers of Mo hammed much more difficult of solution. The Mecca pilgrimage bids fair to play its part this year as usual in spreading the cholera, which has appeared ia violent epidemic form in several loctlities in India and Central Asia. Saa FrancUco Chronicle. flow to Store Table Silver. Silversmiths now counsel their patrons to keep fine table silver in Canton flan nel rather than in wool. The explana tion is that the w xlen flannels hitherto commonly err-'oyed for this purpose are treated. ie course of their pro duction, wit aulphur, and enough of the latter clini, to the flaanel to tarnish the metal when it is kept in flannel bags. Boston Transcript. camp foi thie d-iys. announc-Western completed Ohio Extension of Norfolk Western Huntingdon, W. Va It is ?d that the great Norfolk & Ohio river extension will be October 1st, when through trains will be run from Norfolk Va , to Columbus O . and Chicago. T.ie extension runs through the wildest part of the State for over 200 miles, and strikes the Ohio river at Ka nawha, W. Va. This country is richer in natural wealth than any other patt of 'West Vir ginia, coal, iron and timber being found fn abundance. There are 20 tunnels ii this exteusion. This road passes throug the homes of the Hatfields, the notoriou-outlaws. The Five Money Washington, D. Commissioners, C. The names of the five commissioners who are -to repre sent the United States at the coming in ternational monetary conference are offi cially announced. "They., are: Senator Wm" B. Allison, of Iowa; Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada; Conres-sman Jas B. Me' rearv, of Kentucky i Ex Comp troller H. W. Cr.nnon. of New York, and Gen Francis A. Walker, of Mas a chusetts. With the exception of Mr. McCrcarv. these names Lave all been among those discussed for the appointment A Bridegroom's Grief; Chattanooga, Tkkn. Saturday Geo. McCallie, a young white boy, well con nected, was married, and inside of ten hours after his marriage he was arrested for stealing the suit of clothes in which he was married. He pretests innocence, although he was caught with the suit on Sudetic Mountains in 250.000 canarv birds i year in Germany. First in importance is the market of. the United States, which takes in round numbers 100,000 birds per annum. Next is the English market, which takes about 50,000 per annum. Then come Brazil, Chile, the Argentine Republic and Aus tralia. To these countries salesmen are sent with canary birds every year. The rest, especially the finer Hartz birds, are sold in Germany, where more weight is given to fineness of song and where higher prices can be obtained than any where else. The average price for ordi nary canary birds is from sixty to eighty cents for males. Hence the canary bird industry adds about 1,000,000 marks per year to Germany's National wealth, and this amount goes chiefly into the hands of the poorest clssa- The growth of this industry is due to two causes: The German bird dealers have always been very enterprising, and the canary birds raised in Germany are said to sing better than any others. 'While very beautiful birds are raised in England, in song they are surpassed by ithe German canaries. German dealers 'claim that canary birds bred from ira 'ported parents in the United States are poor singers, owing to the warmth of i our climate. About two-thirds of the 100,000 canary birds exported annually from Germany to the United States are im ported by a Geiman resident of New i York. At lirauniage, in iuc hum, ' man has a factory which is capable of ! turning out every day the material for (one thousand bird cazea. Tiie material I is given out to the peasants, who make ithe cages at home. The birds are ' shipped to New York, via Bremen, ac 'companied by attendants. Each at ! tendant has under his care about 1000 I birds, each in its wooden cage. As each bird must be fed and cared,, for regular ity, the attendants are kept busily en ! ployed. Oue of these attendants has ! already crossed the ocean more than a ! hundred times in charge of birds. There 'are thirty such employes. The New York house disposes of tbese bird? the (finest amorg them being the Andreas iberger Hartz canaries in Ne .r Orleans, Charleston, San FrancUco, and other American cities, as well a in Canada. Moreover, buyers are sent throughout the United States to obtain Amticau birds and animals, and also to Mexico tand Cuba for parrots. These are brought to Germany by the canary attendants .upon their return. In this raant"?.- thi same perw? n-m tn'ly i irts iolo 'Jer many fro .-e Uuited bmt'e VKut j.U9 Virv.nia cardinal birds, 3iJuO nonpareil?, 2000 indigo bird, and 3 N uv; birds. Boston Transcript. People's Party in Georgia. Savannah, Ga. W. R. Kemp, of Enianual county, was nominated for Con gress by the People's party of the fiit congressional district. The Republicans are trying to form a coali'i a wiih the Third party. There was one negro de legate io the convention. "I felt so chen during the cere-nonv," confessed the bridle to her deuit :tim I. "Why, my dear?" "Beciuse pa gave me awav." DLroit Fieft Prau. South Carolina's First New Cotton. Charleston, S C. The first bale of the ew crop of South .Carolina cotton was received he-re Friday. It come from Barnwell count and weighed 420 pounds. It is four days later than the first bale last year. cin Snake Cooked With Cabbage. Lexington, Ky.-J. H. McIotitVj family of four ano the colored c-ok, of Buena Vista, aU nbb.v. e for dinner and died shortly aftwal..- Vpou invest -calioo. it w.s louwd thut'i a pel -nous Kike had been cooked with the cabbage. The fali 'in the price of silver i reusing great uneasiness in financial and busm circles at Calcutta, and a panic is feared lulln, Bronson! Yon look hot. How iid you -et in that condition?" "Open ing a car window tocool oiL" Harper Bazar. - r