THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. V. NO. 7.
THB
Charlotte Messenger
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Address,
W.:c. SMITH Charlotte NC
We are to have, says the New Orleans
Picayune, a tobacco and cigar exhibi
tion, with all the tobacco and cigar
making machinery invented during the
pa3t two years, and specimens of all
styles of pipes produced since 178?.
There will be a machine from France
that makes, sorts, counts and packs
cigarettes without a hand being placed
on them.
The New Tork Telegram is authority
for this: “The Fire Marshal of Boston
says he has it from sworn evidence that
there exist in Boston men who make a
business of setting fires for other people,
who have actually adopted incendiarism
as a profession, charging for their ser
vices a commission on the amount of in
surance received.”
Truly the world moves, philosophizes
the New York Giaphie, and even Lo, the
poor Indian, moves right a'ong with it.
The Cherokee Indian Coitncilftwhich has
been in session for a week past at Tahle
quah in the Territory, is dickering with
gigantic stock companies who offer from
$150,000 to $200,000 per annum for the
grazing privileges in a portion of the
Cherokee reservation. The progenitors
•of these very Cherokees would have sold
•vice ns much land outright for fifty
irrels of whisky and a cartload of mis
erable muskets.
A British medical journal calls atten
tion to an electric prostration recently
discussed at a meeting of the Paris Sur
gical Society. It was the case of work
men at Creusot, where au electric fur
nace ia used for quickly melting metals.
The men suffer greatly from the effects
of the intense light, which exceeds a
hundred thousand caudle power. After
one or two hours the workers have a
painful sensation in the throat, face, and
temples, while the skin becomes copper
red in hue, and an eye irritation lasts 48
hours, the discharge of tears being co
pious. After live days the skin peels
off. All these effects are produced by
light alone, no heat being felt. Dark
colored glass mitigates the effects some
what. but do not entirely prevent them.
fsixty two of the Indian students who
have spent five or more years at the Car
lisle Indian School at (arlislie, Penn.,
were sent to their homes in the West a
few weeks ago. Some went to Montana,
some to Idaho, others to Arizona, New
Mexico, Indian Territory, Nebraska and
Dakota, representing fifteen different
Indian agencies. Tb s party of Indian
youth was the brightest crowd of boys
and girla ever sent out by the Carlisle
Sr hold. In fact, so much confidence
was placed in them that they were al
lowed lo return to their Western homes
w.tbout an escort, something never be
fore done in the history of the school.
The party cousisted of thirty-fl7e large
boys, six small ones and twenty one
girls Some of them were very gled to
return to their relatives, from whom they
have been aeparated so long, but others
appreciated the fact that there ie no sst
vstion for them from the Indian ways
when once brought in contact with them
again at the r homes,and much preferred |
to remain in the East. The demand of
the parents, of course, overthrows lbs
desire of the young Indians, and the
Government, living up te Its obl'galion
to return a'l students at the expiration
of their time, sends them beck.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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IN THB HOUSE AND SENATE.
What Our Lawmakers are doing at ths
National Capita.'.
Tuesday.—' The treaty between Great
Britian and the United States negotiated
last winter by Stcretary Bayard and
Messrs Angel I and Putnam on the one
side and by Messrs Chamberlain, Tupper
and West on the other side, for the pur
pose of settling the troubles that had
arisen between Canadians and citizens of
the United States engaged in iisliing in
the waters off the Cauadian and New
England coast, was rejected by the
• United States Senate after an earnest
party discussion lasting nearly two
months. The vote was a strict parly
one—27 against 30—- the Dtmocrats vot
ing for ratilicatioD, while the ltepublicaus
voted solidly against ratification. Senator
Voorbees was out of the chamber when
the vote was taken, or the figures would
have stood 28 to 30.
W ednksday —House.—Mr. Townsend,
of Illinois, presented the conference re
port, the army appropriation bill. When
the bill passed the House it carried $24,-
028,000. The Senate increased it to
$31,531,000. and in conference this sum
had been reduced to $29,381,000. The
increase was chiefly tine to the Senate
amendments providing for a gun factory
at Watertown Arsenal, N. Y., and for
the purchase of* steel for heavy guns.
Further consideration was postponed
until to-morrow.
The Navy bill was then taken up, and
provides for three unarmored and one
armored cruisers and three gun boats.
The House at 5 p. in. adjourned.
Senate—The bill granting a pension
of $3,500 a year to the widow of General
Sheridan was reported and placed on the
calendar.
Mr. Chandler called up the resolution
relating to fraud and violence in the late
Louisiana election. Pending the con-!
elusion of Mr. Chandler’s speich, the
Senate, at 5:15 p. m. adjourned.
Thursday —The feature in the House
to-day was the reading of the President's
Message on the fisheries.
The army appropriation bill was
thoroughly ditcussed. and then Mr.
Wilson of Minnesota, offered the follow
ing bill, which was referred to the com
mittce on Foreign affairs. “Au act to
empower the President more effectually
to carry out the purpose of an act to
authorize the President to protect and
defend the rights of American fishing
vessels. American fishermen, American
trading and other vessels in certain cases
and for other purposes.” The House
then adjourned.
In the Senate as soon as the Presi
dent’s Message, on the fisheries question,
was received, Mr. Edmunds moved an
adjournment until to-morrow at noon.
Friday —The message from the Presi
dent on the subject of the rejection of
the fisheries treaty was laid before the
Senate, and was read in full.
Mr. Sherman moved that it be printed
and referred to the committee on foreign
relations.
Senator Edmunds spoke at length on
the message and was followed by Senator
Hoar, both criticising the President.
Senator Morgan spoke in defense of the
message.
The conference rqiort on the bill for
a custom house and appraisers warehouse
in New York city was presented and
adopted, the Senate at 5:40 adjourned
until Monday.
North, East and West.
It is stated that a SIOO,OOO stock eom
panv has been formed to build a tolling
mill at Cartersville, Ga.
The Monongahela and Ybughioghcny
rivers, in Pennsylvania, are rising fifteen
inches an hour. In all towns along the
rivers hundreds of houses are Hooded,
compelling the families to vacate, and a
number of buildings have been swept
sway.
At Hichmond, Vs., the James Biver
Valley Immigration Society has been or
ganized, with Randolph Harrison ns
president, to encourage immigration, the
establishment of manufacturers, etc. The
capital stock is to be not less than $5,000
oor more than $50,000.
A Duel in Virginia .
A report from Leo county, Virginia,
says a duel ft) the death took place be
tween Morgan Burke and Nathan Ed
wards. A fiii’il list) existed between
them far several mouths. They met in
the road and drawing their pistols sim
ultaneously comnimetd firing on each
other. Several sliota were ext hanged
one of which passed through Barker's
abdomen causing instant death. His op
ponent rteuivsd several wounds which
are fatal.
Mr. Blaine's California Trip.
Mr. Blaine said that he would start tin
a transcontinental stumping tour one
week after the Maine election. He will
leave all arrangements in the hands of
the National committee, and will proba
bly apeak on the Pacific eoaat the last
week of the campaign. All the speech
es, with one exception, will be short, for
his strengtli will not permit him to tin
i dertake the task of a long aeries of two
bours open-air speeches.
That unsightly excrescence commonly
celled e wart can be removed by touch
ing it eeveral times a day with castor oil.
Thiel* the simplest known remedy.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1888.
THE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION.
What ths Farmers Bid in Baleigh.
The following resolution was adopted:
Whereas, Diversified agriculture is the
true theory for successful farming, and
Whereas, Diversified agriculture is
dependent on diversified manufacture
for its development;
Resolved, That it should be the policy
of the Southern farmers to encourage
manufacturing enterprises,
The committee on legislation an
nounced the following resolutton:
Whereas, Combinations have been
made and are being made by corpora
tions ami individuals so that many
articles of general use by the people of
the United States arc increased licyond
their fair market value, and thus all con
sumers arc (axed to add to the wealth of
these great combinations and capitalists,
and thus keeping large numbers of our
fellow citizens in poverty; therefore
Resolved, That wc call on ottr rep
resentatives in Congress assembled to use
all the power given them by their con
stituents, and the law to destroy their
existence and power to prevent thm
formation or such trusts and combina
tions.
Resolved, That wc endorse the action
of Senator Began, of Texas, for timely
action in introducing a bill looking to
the breaking up of all trusts and the
punishment of those engaged in them.
Resolved, That Congress is hereby
incmoralized to immediately repeal the
tax upon jute and jute bagging with a
view to defeat the combination of capi
talists known as the bagging trust.
The report of the special committee
on bagging trusts was announced ready
to report. The committee read its re
port as follows:
Y r our committee to whom was referred
the bagging question and trust companies
generally beg leave to endorse the action
of the Mt. Holly Fair Association, and
the action of the State Farmer* 1 Alliance.
They recommend further that our repre
sentatives in Congress use their best
efforts to place jute and jute bagging on
the free list.
The report of the committee was
adopted.
A resolution recommending the repeal
of the present system of National bank
ing laws oppression to the farmer was
adopted.
The following resolution recommend
ing the fostering of sheep industry was
adopted:
Resolved, That this convention
recommend to the legislators of these
Southern States that laws be enacted to
protect and encourage the sheep indus
try in the following respect, to wit: to
reimburse owners of sheep for those
killed by dogs.
Heavy Floods.
Heavy rains have fallen all over Mis
sissippi Louisiania, Tennessee and Arkan
sas, during the past three days. AH
streams have overflowed and flooded val
uable farming lands. The telegraph
wires between Memphis and New Or
leans have been prostrated, and only
very meager news can be obtained.
A local storm of unusual severity
swept over Coffceville, Miss., doing con
siderable dam: ge, and very serious dam
age was sustained by the .cotton crops.
Reports coming in show that the rams
have been general and disastrous iu
their nature. Last week a drouth was
threatened in many localities, but new
floods are feared and more serious ihjury
will follow.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany reports all wires down leading to
New Orieans, which city is cut off from
any telegraphic communication with
Memphis.
In the vicinity of Vicksburg and
Y’azoo valley the rainfall has been un
precedented, and serious injury to cotton
aud corn has resulted.
Durham Destroyed.
Last Monday night fire broke out at
Durham, N. C., in an unoccupied to
bacco factory of E 11. Pogue. The
local tire department had disbandoned
Saturday night, in consequence of a dis
pute with the town authorities. A high
wind was blowing, and the fire spread
rapidly. After destroying Pogue’s fac
tory the tire next burned another old
tobacco factory, occupied by W. Y r .
Whited. It next swept awßy two to
bacco houses owned by Robert Jones
and William Osborne, "in which wets
three hundred thousand pounds of leaf
tobacco, owned by Jones and Osborne.
Afterburning several , small buildings,
the fire destroyed Dr. Johnston’s livery
stables and residence. In all twelve
buildings were burned. It is the belief
that the tire was of incendiary origin.
The loss is about $40,000.
Fugitive Murderers.
Governor Scales, of North Carolina,
received a telegram from Wadeaboro,
the county scat of Anson county, which
informed him of the escape of all the
prisoners in the jail there. They over
powered jailer when he went to give
them cupper, and took away his revolver.
The hue and cry was raised and a num
licr of citizens turned out in pursuit.
The prisoner who hail the revolver faced
the pursuers defiantly and dared them to
advance. They did so, and he shot two
of them, one mortally. All the fugitives
then made their escape. The Governor
will offer a liberal reward for them, par
ticularly for John Morton, the man who
fired the shuts.
Fifty cents’ worth us land in I.enols
county. N. C.. hat sir sad y occasioned
S2O of costs In a suit ovar n variation of
eighteen inches in to old boundary line.
Political News.
Lockport, N. Y., has raised a Belva
Lockwood pole, the only one in the
country.
The Republican Congresaional conven
tion of the lstDist. N. C., has nominated
Mr. Eiisha O. White, of Belvidere, for
Congress.
On Friday last the declaration of the
Magnetic iron and steel manufacturing
company, at Black’s was filed in the of
fice of the Scoretary of State, and a
commission was issued. The capital
stock proposed is SIO,OOO, nnd the com
pany will have the privilege of increasing
it to SIOO,OOO.
The National Democratic Committee
has issued an address, printed in Span
ish, to the Cuban citizens of the United
States. It sets forth that during the
Cuban struggles for independence the
Republican party was in power and that
it manifested a criminal indifference
with regard to the progress and result of
the popular uprising.
Dr. I). W. H. Harrison, a homeopath
ic physician of Baton Rouge, La., will
be the Republican candidate for Con
gress in the Sixth Louisiana District,
now represented by Representative
Robertson. Dr. Harrison is a first cousin
of the Republican nominee for President.
World’s Convention, Y. M. V. A.
At Stockholm, Sweden, a second
farewell Y. M. C. A, meeting was held
Monday. The address was delivered by
the Bishop of Visbey, and replies were
made by Mr. It. C. Morse, of New York,
and delegates from Great Britain,
France, Germany, Russia, Spain and
Italy.
The King and Queen, his Royal High
ness the Crown Prince, and other mem
bers of the royal family have not only
shown their deep interest in the work
the associations are doing for young
men by their liberal subscriptions to
ward meeting the expenses of the con
vention but they invited all the delegates
to a reception at the royal palace of
Drolingham, where recently the Em
peror of Germany and his suite were so
hansomly entertained. The royal pal
ace is six miles from the city. At 11
o’clock the delegates left on three steam
ers provided for the occasion. The vis
itors enjoyed a ramble about the palace
and elegant grounds of the royal gardens,
and at 3 o’clock luncheon was served.
In the absence of the King, who was
in Christiana,the Crown Prince presided
and welcomed his guests, expressing
his pleasure at meeting them at the
palace, and his interest in the work they
are doing. The Rev. Gustave Toppel,
of Geneva, spoke for the conference.
At 4 o’clock the party returned to the
city much pleased with their reception
by royalty. Delegates were at the Con
vention from every quarter of the globe.
Shark Fishin; Around New York.
Fishing for shark is not considered a
very great sport, but nevertheless there
are a dozen or more men in New Y ork
harbor who are not adverse to angling
lor sharks. A big hook with a small
chain attached is used for catching
sharks. A piece of pork or other meat
serves for baid. A stout hemp line it
attached to the chain, the end of the lint
being made fast to the boat. YVhen I
shark is hooked he comes to the turfact
of the water as gently as a sunfish. It
is only when he gets close to the boat
that the fight beg ns. The fishermen
keep pulling him in and letting him out
again until he is tired out Then thej
watch their than e, and when his head
is lifted out of the water by a pull of th<
line they club him to death, 8 ometime)
they row ashore and beach them. Thi
biggest shark caught in these waters it
long time was beached at Rossville. b. L,
last week. It was a species of ground
shark, and measured 81 feet. It wai
caught by Francis I- ndicott of Gating,
Hitrry C. Jones, and the boatkeeper, Ed
ward Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald hooked
him, ths other two fishermen disdaining
to indulge in such sport. YVhen thej
found out what a big catch he had made,
however, they were as eager as he was tt
capture it. It dragged tne anchor, and
so they hauled the anchor in and took t<
tile oars to prevent the shark from run
ning off with them. In its struggles it
Lit off a piece of one of the oars. Mr.
I'ndicntt says he has fished and hunted
for years, b it never had anything us ex
citing as that encounter. After thej
cad killed it they cut its heart out. Thi
heart continued to beat for fully a min
tro afterward. The aharks found here
shouts are not dnngeroua, being by m
means as large or ferocious as the man
enters of southern wate:a. —Alta Yuri
Sun.
A Curious Instrument,
It Is a curious thing that the Italian
ocarina, or earth-flute, has not r oeived
more attention from music lovers in this
country. Os course it is sold in the stores
here, and you occasionally hear it in a
minstrel show, but not one man in*a hun
dred knows anything about it I have
beard it played io Italy, and the music
from a quartette of the instruments it ex
qttis te. Its tango i§ limited, but the
quality of its tone when skillfully played
is pure and queer. It has a pastoral
flavor, reminding one of piping shep
hertls, and a classical environment. The
ocarina ia very simple. In shape it is
something like a pear or a small gourd.
It is made of baked clay. Ita range it
about twelve notes. No instrument can
be more eaeily learned, for it always plays
itself when one has mastered the scale,
and there are no keys nor sny alaborate
fngering to embarra-s one. Tt* North
Italian peasants use it constantly in the
l eld, and »hen you hear one of their
peculiar melodtea from a practiced quar
tette you wonder such simple mean* can
produce m beaut.ful a result Qnicagt
Jfeiet, _. . _______
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
One pound of mercury converted into
fulminate ia sufficient to charge fifty
thousand percussion caps.
Nashville, TenD., has a canning fac
tory that is turning out ten thousand
cans of fruit and vegetables every day in
the week.
YVell-supported is said to be the theory
that many deaths were caused by suffora
tion in last winter’s blizzard in the
Northwest.
The fabric known as Chinese gra-s
--cloth is made from tho fiber of nettles.
The cloth i- peculiarly glossy and trans
parent, and, a: belting for machinery,
hns double the strength of leather.
Two German experimenters find that
the illuminating power of naphtha gas
is reduced one-half by twenty per cent,
of air. The mixture becomes explosive
when it contains from about live to
eighteen volume) of nir to one of gas.
A Milltown (Me.) mechanic lias in
vented a log sawing apparatus which has
an upward as well as a downward mo
tion. The scheme has not been fully
tested yet, but, if succ ssful, will be a
great time-saving invention to lumber
dealers.
Portable electric lights, arranged to
hang on a button of one’s coat, ami with
a parabolic reflector lo concentrate the
light, with storage batteries weighing
one aud a half pounds each, are made to
enable persons to read in railroad cars
by night.
An excellent new use for the telephone
is proposed in the infectious wards of
the French hespitab, so as to enable the
sick people isolated in their sufferings to
have the comfort of hearing their rela
tives’ voices without any risk of convey
ing infection by an interview.
YVhile the most rapid cannon shots
scarcely attain a velocity of GOO yards a
second, over 1500 knots per hour, mete
orites are known to penetrare the air
with a velocity of 40,000 or even 10,000
yards per second, a velocity which raises
the air at once to a temperature of 4000
to 6090 centrigrade.
The new mill of the Holyoke (Mass.)
Envelope Company is nearly completed.
The boilers have a capacity of 200 horse
power. There are sixty-four envelope
machines, with a producing capacity of
about 3,000,000 envelopes a day, where
the greatest amount of work turned out
in one day was 1,830,000 envelopes. The
building has 900 water sprinklers and
eighteen stands of pipe, together with a
huge water tank holding 6000 gallons.
The force equivalent to the working
steam engines represents in the United
States 7,500,000 horse power, in Eng
land 7,000,000 horse power, in Germany
4,500,000, in France 3,000,000, in
Austria! 1,500,000. In these the mo
tive power of the locomotives is not in
cluded, whose number in all the world
amounts to 105,000, and represents a
total of 3,000,000 horse power. Adding
this amount to the other figures we ob
tain the total of 46,000,000 horse power.
The British consul at Ningpo, China,
calls the attention of British manufactur
ers to spinning machines used in his
district that were imported from Japan,
and which he thinks will eventually be
adopted in cotton producing countries.
The advantages claimed for them, as
compared with the method of spinning
used in America, are that the staple is
less in ured and that the seeds are better
clianeij. This is attained by drawing
the cotton between straight steel edges
or knives, instead of using saws.
Instead of using solid iron plates or
massive walla of wood and iron for war
ships, it is proposed to use a new mate
rial known as woodite. This is an
elastic material not unlike india rubber,
bat unlike that material, it is not sticky,
aud resists oils and heat. It is a com
pound caoutchouc, and was patented a
few years ago. Ex perimen ts at Dartford
in 1886 gave promise of great things, for
the hale made in the woodite by the
passage of a shot closed up at once, not
even allowing a drop of water to go in.
Two torpedo catchers are now building
at Klbing. and the inner skin of these
vessels is formed of a layer of woodite
two and a half inches thick.
The Diamond Wouldn’t Polish.
A remarkable diamond was exhibited
at a recent meeting of the New Y'ork
Academy of Sciences by Mr. George F.
Ku»t2. it was a compound of multiple
crystal, containing a large number of
twinnings. It is of the class, termed
“extreme durate" by the French. It
bad been cut into the goneral shape of a
brilliant, and its main face or table was
then placed on the polishing wheel in
tho establishment of Tiffany * Co. It
was kept them for 100 days, the wheel
revolving at the rate of 2800 revolutions
per minute. The diamond was held
upon the rotating surface at a distance
of about fifteen inches from the center.
Based on these figures, a calculation
shows that the surface passed over by tho
diamond amounted to 75,000 miles, ot
nearly three times the circumference of
the earth Y’et it was all futile, as the
stone would not acquire a polish. The
ordinary weight placed on a diamond,
while on the wheel, ia from two and a
quarter pounds to two and a half pounds.
This was increased by four pounds and
eight pounds without offect, and finally
forty pounds was used. The w heel was
badly damaged, the demand plowing
into it and throwing scintillations in all
directions. Tho diamond, even under
these conditions, could not be given a
commercial polish, and the wheel kail to
be replaced.— Iron.
Foreign Notes.
The Pope ia snfferiog from rheuma
tism. He was able however to giro
audidnee to eevaral Cardinals Sunday.
General Boulanger has been elected to
the Chamber of Deputies in the depart
ment of Chareote and Nord, Franco, by
majorities respectively 19,0*0 sad #,#Bs.
Tens, $1.50 Her Annum. Single Cony 5 cents.
THE VWIN STATES.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Walter Alvis Thompson, who during
the war with Mexico was color sergeant
of Jeff Davis’ regiment, the Mississippi
Rifles, died at his home near Hillsboro,
N. C. His age was 78.
There was a terrific storm at Raleigh
Sunday night. The wind blew a gale,'
the rain fell in torrents and the electric
display was biilliant and fearful.
Two prisoners broke jail at Pittsboro
Friday night. Their names are Mack
Mikeu and William Minter. One of them
had been carried there from Alamance a
few days before to escape lynching. He
was in jail on the charge of rape
Dixie Edwards, white, went to the
house of Ben Glasgow, colow.l, in Vanee
county, calling him to the do ,r shot him
with a shotgun, breaking bis legs. The
negro had incurred Edward’s displeasure
because he held information against him
that would probably couvict him of vio
lation of the revenue laws. Edwards
has fled. One of Glasgow’s legs will
have to be amputated.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The openirg of the 3C’s road to Rock
llill whs celebrated by the people of that
town on Thur d ay, an cx
cuision train was run from Charleston to
Rock Hill.
Both* Horse Tsills.
A well known wigmaker was standing
at Broad and Walnut streets talking to a
Philadelphia Times reporter as a stylish
barouche passed.
“Do you see that team?” said the wig.
maker. “Well, do you see what beauti
ful flowing tails they’ve got? They’re
bogu*.”
The little wigmaker laughed aloud
and then said: “I made these tails. I
make tails for a good many stylish
hotses. You know that a horse w ithout
a handsome tail isn't handsome at all.
He may have a beautiful mane and bold
his head high and step and prance, and
bite his bit, showing all the traits of a
full-blooded animal, but if he hasn’t got
a long flow ing tail, all the other char
acteristics go io nothing.
“There a:c a great many stylish step
pe: 8 driven in the park every dsiy that
have false tails that sweep the ground.
The horses get accustomed to false tails
just as a man becomes an ustome 1 to
weariog a wig. Tho false tails are
fastened on to the horse’s own tad so
nicely that you can't detect the decep
tion. The tails don’t have to be removed
at night when the horse is put in his
stall. The bogus tails can be washed
and brushed and combed on the horse
just as well as off of him.
“The bogus tails coat from $lO to sls.
I generally furnish a pair for $23. They
w ill Inst as long as th horse. I buy
dead horses’ tnils and manes just as I
buy hum in hair. The practice of shock
ing horses* tails is shocking.” Here thn
little wigmaker laughed violently at lIS9
joke and then continued: “The practice
is dying out; but a tail will never jt,.ow
in like it was before it was cut short.
The way to cultivate a horse's tail is to
clip it about an inch once a month ”
Autumn’s Sere and Yellow Leaf.
A botanist thus describes in the Chi
cago Herall how the leaves change the r
co:or in autumn. He ridicules the belief
that frost has anything to do with it:
“The green matter in the tissue of a leaf
is composed of two colors—red and blue.
When the sap ceases to flow in the au
tumn, and the natural growth of the
tree ceases, oxidation of the tissues takes
place. Under certain conditions the
green of the leaf tnrns red: under differ
ent conditions it takes on a yellow or
biown tint. This difference in color is
due to the difference in combination of
the original constituents of the green
tissue, and to the varying conditions of
climate, exposure and soil. A dry, cold
climate produce* more brilliant foliage
than one that is damp and warm. This
is the reason that our Atm rican autumns
are so much more gorgeous than those of
England.”
Negroes Mobbed.
News is received of the killing of two
negroes by a mob at Sylvarcn jail in
Smith county, Miss., last Friday night.
Four negroes were undei arrest for kill
ing a white man named Lee. The n:ob
broke into the jail but were unable to
get into the cage where the accused ne
groes were confined, so they thrust their
guns through the bars and shot two of
them to death.
Yellow Fever Cases.
Jacksonville, Fla., August 27.—Four
new cases up to noon but no deaths. At
a meeting of the sanitary association
protests was made regarding the board of
health’s action yesterday in refusing to
give the names of the new cases, and it ia
saiti the board will promptly recede from
its disciissiou at to-day's meeting.
Attempted Jail Uefery.ll
Baturdav two negroes were lodged in
jail at Fayetteville, N. C , charged with
an assault on a young white lady Mont
day night. The jailer discovered three
stjuads of negroes around the jail armed
with guns, pistols, dirks, etc- *He sent
for help and the few citizens on the
streets at that hour, 1:30 o’clock, and
the |K)lice went to his assistance. The
negroes fled but three were captured and
lodged in the prison.
Shallow things arTcapablo only of the
mystery of darkntss. The ino-fc genuine
and prolouud things you may bring
forth into the fullest light, and let tlw
sunshine bitter them through aud
ton*