North Carolina Newspapers

I Ths Messenger prints . the . Hews t . ..titftit afttrby the peo- ... v). .well, Yancey ,Bun l Kutht-rford, Burka t n . " ' 'unities In Western t , , ( iina, aail la ttera- -mrs oedxu torn- JOB PBINTIHG TO THE MESSENGER, Marion. N. C. Coco B- Advertising Modlum- ":,!f(i1 on application. J I HE mi:ssenoeb. Marlon, N. O. Promptness, Accuracy, Keatate and Oood Stock Guaranteed. 2. -A Letter Heads, Not Heda, BUI He4a, J Envelope, Circular, Cards, Pos- J ters, ramphleta, and any kind of 2 Printing. VOL. IL NO. 22. MARION. N CM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,' 1S7. Price Si Per Year, in Advanc THE SECRET 'rt) I ft lmiro u ho nmy aspire .ii. l none who C4H ni-'t man." . earth '. ..lei his worth, Tie 'ithor than 1 -i i '-t man." within his head r.ret.."l .vi.-lo:n lies v. pi "r two. - ar.'li ';m throjgh i intent thought or The Discontent of Helen. .hi little .'irl ,1ml ii .M.i i. lit Said, T morning, I lligcrili g Ml . Hammond's ml inviiiL' her haul rls oi' l !.!., Airs. mi I. That was in y- a: climont. She w as I, Intellect Mil I. I'lliti li'l I was pleased I' lill'l lii.C IllC. si i n'li mail, not ". " till- i!'ltSf ha I to ilo her own icily had K -j it 1 1 1 "i to lieli hcl.llced v I : i f i -1 1 w it ( hree ih.ii myself. The .'I ! hie. I want-d he lei- oti' lllllollt than came con ami I I. d and explained her regret, at I was so foil.! ii'd haw liked a 1 1 'II. lav house some Ito.tk.s in the li- Mar. Uit. ".She m that she er rordially. i ami t no!; her. I cm- i tn.v i-if. f lirautllul M. r t u 1 1 1 hnn.lr in far liome .11 1 1 I I lil'ollgilt ' iplitt II to I ! v am freipiciitly after day, hut always alwavs liiinging irs Ada. the si.-t. It. was lo. Not rsua Ir.l in v niot r next i Mrs. ier to tn -t-rlass aradriny for a ie herself would hear d A. mid take in v demur niv pa'-ents eon um; her earnestly for her I did. And I wi'iit. there weir few girls hap- t he t w o vears I w as I Mlldied t in v heart's excellent pi-ogres. years i came home iug is. I wt nt t t s. I was IS now, w ith my ideas a lit olid m v posit ion in of the idack servant i i:;ht ami grandeur mt rooms, th.- e!o- t'ne appoint- met my ga.-. lelighted' to see w a ml III. (UH llts and hovNed me that often and sei ill be glad 1. 1 sh on- of ind me l.'i- asrd, li just i ;. Vinelit et disc enough of life; i to make me humble f.'r- I looked at lived in at their plain w ith a secret den?" asked id Ht i. was my answ er. her iiiiiuiries then. od e watched me f in v serious id: '-I am along in db.Jlelen. Villi out to "world. 1 ago that I not know ;.:e tin;, he list1 -end y, : in the 1 r two a I on do n uethat I an keep nt', as I .lid. an i lea v liv mighi t Miml it. 1 and h.iiest-ompa'-ativtdy i- hard, after did not grow li .t it t !i' turiutuiv ln.'iied. Ve? t forced to but for it ar I Ada saying t In ppv. I think, rich, 'like Mrs. .1 n your humble L ai '.-" asked my to he rich, of be Helen help feeling rebuked. when my father came d than usual, he put s and stretched his weary 1 such a busy day, Mary, :"! to get home to you i n. " her tenderlv and took OF POWER. If so. by r:hanne, he takes a stand, Assumes position of ciunnauil. Surprised approval greets bin tlc-a, And you Khali hear from other uiun : "Some wi-hty reason lavs behind An ae.t so foreign to his kind." When things go wrong his moveless state Is credited to scorn of fate ; So softly to himself he s wears, 'lis thought ho murmurs pious prayers, lies so misjudged, his flaws at length Are twisted into points of strength. I'oor humankind awaits command From all it doesn't understand, And he may work his own sweet will Who has the art of keeping .-till. Chicago Journal. little .lolmny on his knee, his fare wearing sue!, Koo.l S11jtli s,(.l look of rest i,u,l contentment. 'Come, " he said niter supper, 'let -in; I We had no piano, but we got our I hyinnbooks ami sang together my 1 father an. I mother ha.l beautiful voices, anil A. la's was a correct ami imish al ulto; an. 1 the music ami the ; words were so sweet ami tender that ; it melted my heart. I thought what if that loving liltlechoir were liroken. And I realized that we were indeed ha;py; that the lines had fallen to us . in pleasant places; that I mvself was 1 naughty and ungrateful to he discon tented. That night my father was taken ill, and I was start led frightened self con.lcmiicd. Especially when I knew that he was Muttering great u r,,i,y that he was very sick ihat thedoc i tor said his illness was a very serious i and dangerous one. I thought, what j if my father should die! : for two or three days his ease was ! doubtful, and what a sad household . was ours! The little ones were taken to the house i!' u Kim neighbor. Mam- ma an 1 Ada and I watched and nursed ; our poor father night and day, not I knowing- w hether h,. would live or j die. i raun.it tell you how I felt, j The house s. cine I so desolate, w it h i pupa lying si. k, an. I when 1 went into : 1 he roo us dow asiaii s I thought how , happy, how contented I should he in tlli-ln-- how cheerful I rotlld lie then how g..Idi :i and sunshiny the wh.de little d v. e ling would seeni it papa j would get well again. And I prayed, i h ; ii It! v and peliiteli 1 1 v, that he m'iglit d1 1 e rcst-.r,-l to iie was. After one sa l and anxious we !. the do 'f ir said he win mending, and ii' e.'-r thelewai a hajiy, glad and gi att fit 1 girl it w as . I went ai.out the house like u new i-reatiire the day he was to rome down stairs, h.-ighteiieil and lirautilied every thing alio.it the rooms to the ltest .f in y aliii:y iiuiig the canary in the sunshine and ma le the place beautiful I with M j ami lit 1 lining geraniums and roses tropes and hanging vines. And I saw that the tire ill the open grate Inn ned clear and bright: that the hearth was rleiui and no speck of dust about, and papa's favorite books lay ready to his hand, a id first of all the great I'.ible, out of whirh I mvself n i 1 yloud a psalm of thanksgiving for him ami all of us that night. I was so ha py that mamma could not but see the change in me, and she took me in her arms and kissed me silently ami, oh, so tenderly. Ami after that I could not ami did not murmur any more. I!ut. instead, I went about, daily making our before despised litile li.nise as pleasant as I could, until I wondered t see how beautil'iil and cheerful and pleasant it rr ally was; wondered, too, that I had never felt it before. lint I knew the reason I had been so -blind was be rause I would not see. Mrs. Miiichnioiit had rome two or three ' !m s w hile papa was ill. She ran;e again, now he was down stairs, and ma le a long ra'l. As she went i away she lingered at the door, "lo you know. Mrs. Hammond," ' she sai l to my mother, '"do you know j how 1 like to come here? L'o yon ; know how pleasant it is here? such a ' home-feeling ronirs over me when I get among you all, m tins little nest, that I almost hate to go away. It looks like a picture in there. And you are all so happy." She looked back into our little sit ting room villi a smile of real pleas ure. And how pleased and happy 1 was. The next week Mrs. Murrhmoiit in vited Ada and me to cine and take te.-t with her and go with her and her hus band to hear a celebrated lecturer in the evening. When Mr. Marchmoiit ra'iie h uiie from the store he brought with him Henrv Marie, one of his I clerks, whom I had seen before, once at the;v house and once at the store, wh' ii 1 went there with a message from Mrs. Mai rhmoiit to her husband. We all took tea and went to the lo-tnrr j t 'gether. And Mrs. M'rhni !it kept I Ada oxer night with her. but I went home after the lecture. Tind Henry went with me as far as my own dixtr. I met him at the Ma'fhuionts" more than oure after, for he was a favorite with Mr. Marchmont.and they invite I him there often, and sometimes we went again, as on the evening I have spoken of. to a lecture or ieading,and he always waited upon me home. Presently he came to see us there. I did not exartiy know why. but I could not help feeling a little earnest- ' ne-s that my father and mother should ! like him. i thought they ought to. l'or m.vsrlt. it ha.l become pleasant to me to' me t him. 1 ha 1 learned to like his gentle smile, the glun.v of hU kind eves, the sound of his voice, that seemed always, somehow, to take a sw. eter tone to me than to others. ! And I was glad when papa and mam- ma both seemeu lo like mm xciv uo.cu i. but we can't be ! and disked him to come again. ami then we are so I ' lie is very sensible, very intelh 'naxe each other and ! gent, verv refined a gentleman, my it home; and-ves, j dear Helen-ves.I like him extremely," !v. I'm sure. Onlv i said mv father. And mamma said she ' thought as lie did, and that it w a .piite pleasant to see Mr. harle oure in u while of an evening. Mi s.Marehmont kissed me one day. "So Henry comes to see you now ?" she said, smiling. 1 blushed T rould not reply. "I wanted to tell you." I answered, "but I did not I did not know ex actly how." She laughed at my stammering con fession and kissed me again. "How did you know he came?" I managed to ask. "He told us last night." she replied. "He wanted us to know and approve, which, of course, we did," she a ided, smiling archly. Nothing more was said at the time; but my cheeks were learning, ami I was so glad to get home and hide my self in my chamber. "He wanted them to know and ap prove." The words repeated them selves over and over in mv ears. What did they mean? What could they mean? There w as only one thing, that my own heart kept telling me again and again, telling me that I knew I knew I had kuown this long while. And I put my fingers on my ears, but I could not keep the sound out. I knew from Lis own lips that night. He came it was a lovely nigh in June, blight with the f ill moonlight and sweet with the brep'h of early summer in our little suburban lanes and asked me to walk with him. I cannot tell how far we went. It w as a long way, and we said not a great deal, I think, all the while, only walked and walked, with my arm in his and his hand holding mine silently and tenderly. It was nearly ten when we got back. Papa ami mamma and the children had ail gone upstairs. And we went in and stood in the little sitting room, with the beautiful moonlight falling all about us. through the windows curtained ami draped with honey suckles and roses. And then Henry, with his arm about me and his face near mine, told me how much he loved me how he wanted me to marry him. "Will you, Helen?" he said. And I was so happy, so glad, that I had no words to give him, and could only hide my fare. lint he knew. Ht; was only a clerk in Mr. Mareh mont's counting room, with a salary that was certainly not a fortune, ami In: could only give me a house as big as this, he sai l; but Mr. Marchim nt said he was to do better soon, and, nieriiiw hile,lo ing each other well and truly, he thought we could get along nicely, if I could be satisfied for his sake. T wasmorethan satisfied; I was glad happy -overjoyed beyond words. I, who had been such a mui inurer so ungrateful and discontented and re pining. lint I had learned a lesion now. I knew that it was not riches a id sta lion.biit true worth ami loving hearts, that male real happiness, after all, ami I welcomed my lover, with his clerk's salary a id the little house no bigger than the one I had lived in all my days, and had nothing left to ask for. We have more money now, to be sure, ami live in a larger house than in those days, and my husband is Mr. Marchmont's partner, instead of his clerk; but the day when I gave my self to Henry w ithout a fortune was the happiest L had ever known, and though we are rich now I haxe know u no happier o:ie since. 1 had uU 1 could ask for that day. I needed noth ing more. GUAINT AND CURIOUS. The skin of the kangaroo, when properly tanned, never cracks. Swords eoual to the best ever made are still produced at Toledo in Spain. A single leaf of the parasol magno lia of Cevlon Milords shade for fifteen or twenty persons. In some of the farming districts of China pigs are lmriic-sed to small wagons ami made to draw them. Handel, the composer, used, when tiaveling, to older dinner for three, or if hungry, for live, in either London or Paris. An ostrich lives about thirty years, and the average annual yield of a bird in captivity is from one to four pounds of plumes. Cesar did not say "Ilet tu, P.rute." I've witnesses of the assassination de posed that he died fighting, but silent, like a wolf. (ireat P.iitain and Ireland contain :S0 banks, the most important being the Pank of I'.itghrnd, which has a capital f .S7:.,ioi,(soo. One of the severest penalties to which criminals in Holland were in aneient times condemned was to be deprived of the use of salt. Attempts have been ma le to produce spider siik. but have failed, the fero cious n.-rure of these insects not per mitting them to live together in com munities. It is computed thnt all of the houses in London and New York could be built of the lava thrown out by Vesu vius since the tirst recorded eruption in A. D. 7S. After a barn had been set afire by lightning at Chaml ersburg, Penn., Williamson LeUher, 12 years old, en tered it, and cut loose three of his father's seven horses and led them safely out. J. I. Taylor, living near Cottage Grove, Oregon, touched a match to scum over a stagnant pool -on his jda-e, and the whole surface of the pool ignited and blazed as a kerosene pond might blaze. liurke Perkins, !4 years old, whose children number twenty-four and whose grandchildren are uncounted, the other day wedded Mrs. Elizabeth biins. 7t! vears old. in the town of Grecjiville. Ohio. I A theologi.al student visited th ! Chicago jail, and there prayed with 1 some of the prisoners. While thu engaged, some of the playful prison ; ers combined business with their de votions and picked the student's pock ets, taking his watch and purse. I Partial paralysis attacked the three- year-old daughter of Mr. 1. P.eese of ! Waitsbnrg, Oregon. A physician dis ; covered that paralysis was caused by a ! sheep tick which ha I taken refuge iu ! the back of the child's neck. When the ' insect was removed the child reeov ; ered. A remarkable locust tree grows ii: ' Mrs. Elizabeth Porter's front yard, at j Glasgow, Ky. At all times, even it the dryest weather, a continual showei j of mi'st or vapor comes from it j branches, and at any hour a showei ! bath can be had by standing under its ; foliage. ! Jackson, Miss., Sept. It!. (Special.) Wonderful Recovery From a Stroke ; The state capital depopulated, its nf I icrhtnino- i business houses closed, its newspapers oi Ligruning. i nhut ofi. .s thj 6itUfttlon here Tbe I disease at Edwards has been pro OLD NORTH STATE CULLINGS. j nounced yellow fever. The State board of health has laid a general embargo Fleas by the Pound Granville's Rich Mines Opening of Elizabeth Col legeA Church Burned. The Wilmington Messenger saya that during a heavy thunder storm at Weldon, little Leslie Parker, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Parker, was struck by lightning, and yet, strange to relate, the child is alive and well. The little bov went on thr front porch during tbe ptorTn to catch some water in a tin cup. There was a blinding flash, followed by a terrific re port as soon as he reached the edge of the porch, and the child fell as if dead. The father ran out andcaught the limp figure in his arms and carried it across the street to Dr. Green's office. It was fully teu minutes before the child show ed the least signs of hie and two hours before the doctor found the least move ment of the pulse. The lightning ap peared to have struck the metal roof and i assed down and forked. One por tion split a post and the other passed into a phutry, shattering the window. Leslie Parker w as struck ou the head. The fluid burned the hair and then passed down behind his ears to his neck, where it tore a gold chain that was around the boy's neck into frag ments and melted several of the links. A black burned streak is all around the child's neck, and there is a blue streak on it's breast which passes down and can be seen on other portions of it's body, looking for all the world as if some one had taken a hot iron and buaued it. The escape from death is the most remarkable one ever known. The eminent geologist, Professor Kerr, many years ago, in making atour of North Carolina, pronounced Gran ville count' one of the richest in tl State in wealth of mines, giving evi dence of untold riches buried beneath its soil. In eastern Granville the very favorable developments that have so far resulted from working the Cheat ham gold mine have surpassed the most sanguine expectations. In northern Granville is situated the well known Gilliss and other copper mines. Half a century ago Gilliss, a geologist of considerable reputation, predicted that a rich remuneration of copper would result from the proper working of these mines. A wealthy Northern syndicate having purchased ami ex pended a large outlay of capital, have already shipped forty car loads of cop per from the Gilliss mine. Capitalists frequent these mines with a view of in vesting. Several hundred laborers are now employed in working the mines. The Charlotte Observer says the gold and copper mines around Oxford ore still being investigated and capitalists are negotiating for the purchase of the valuable lands. An option on the Haai mie gold mine was taken a few days ago for 3:5,800, with a view to sinking shafts and developing the property. The "old Lewis mine-' is also under the consideration of miners, aad will be worked iu the near future. The following is a schedule of the University's football games, which is as yet incomplete: October 2, North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Chapel Hill; October '., Guilford College, at Chapel Hill; Oc tober 12, Richmond College, at Chapel Hill; October 23, Columbia College ID. C), at Chapel Hill; October 30, lr giuia Agricultural College, at Dan ville; November , University of Geor gia, at Atlanta. Novembers, Lniver sity of Virginia, at Richmond. Fleas by the pound is rather a novel way of handling the insects, but it is asserted that 28,000 pounds of bagging, was shipped to Raleigh to a farmer, it was weighed and found correct. Fleas were found in it. The bagging was un rolled and beaten, and then, when it was weighed again, it oul3r weighed 22,2-VJ pouri(ls.so there must have been 5,743$ pounds of fleas in the bagging. How's that for a good one? Charlotte )bserver. Mr. W. D. Alexander, of Croft, was in the city yesterday. His canning factory has not been idle during the present season. In addition to other work, he has canned one ton and a half of blackberries. The goods of this Mecklenburg canning factory are put up in the best style, with lithographed labels, and are in demand by home dealers. Charlotte Observer, 10th. The Greensboro Telegram says that Rev. J. A. li. Fry, a Winston minister, created quite a sensation when he made the statement at the Y. M. C. A. meet iug in that city that he had been in formed that every usher in one of the most influential churches of Winston had been drunk save one. Rapid progress is being made in the work on Elizabeth College building at Charlotte. An additional force of hands has been employed ami the building will be rapidly pushed to completion. The school will be open October 12th. There was a marriage at the peniten tiary last week. The contracting parties were Mr. John Hood, the foreman of the machine shops, and Miss IJertha Hightower, the matron of the laundry. RaTher a strange preference for a place in which to be married. Beulah Methodist church, between Dobson and Mt. Airy has beou burned in the irround. The fire is thougnt to have teen incendiary origin. The hnildimr was a good one, and its loss is keenly felt by the church. This State has just had three candi dates to successfully pass their exami nations for the naval academy at An napolis. Their names areO. F. Cooper, John F. Green and I. Oliver. Oliver Lennon, col., has been ap pointed postmaster at Fair Bluff. It is found that the State fair grounds will not be lighted by electricity during fair week, as it was hoped they would be. The fair begins October l-th. Wilmington Messenger. State Treasurer Worth last week gave a check for S82.400, this being the in terest on the constrnction bonds of the North Carolina Rallraad. The Winiton aldermen have appro priate,! $14,000 with which to run the white and colored graded schools dur ing the coming year. JACKSON, MISS., DEPOPULATED. Its Business Houses Closed ami Its Newspapers Shut Oil. on travel exceptant of the State, by an order promulgated this afternoon ami addressed to all lines of transportation. Travel from infected places is abso lutely barred. The bright side of the situation is that the disease is of a very mild type. The exodus from this vXy, which began iu a small way several days ago, has attained unprecedented proportions. While the State board advises all who can, to leave, the rail loads say they can handle the largest crowds. The most rigid local quaran tine prevails here. 'ountry people are not allow ed to en ILo city, and nnv person found on ine sit'e - :i.".or 'J o'clock will be held to a eliiot account. Hie situation, at New Orleans is more hopeful, although twenty more suspi cious cases have been reported. At Toura there are some 2nd sick peo- jle and the utmost caution is being dis played in order to prevent any possible spread of the disease. Millions of gallons of water have al ready been pumped through the streets, and with the general situation snowing as much improvement and coiilidence is steadily being strengthened. The stormy weather t-iiice Saturday has had the efl'ect of inci easing the number of cases at Ocean Springs. One new case is reported at P.iloxi. It is that of Rev. C. F. Emery, pastor of the Methodist church, making three in his family. Riloxi now haa forty nine cases of sickness. Of these nine teen are yellow fever, six are suspic ious and a diagnosis as to the other thir teen is reserved. There have been no deaths at Riloxi. The postollico departments carefully looking after the fumigating of the mails from the infected districts. Refugees from Southern coast towns are pouring into Atlanta, Ga. Augusta, Ga., and Wilmington N, C:, have both quarantined against all yelloxv fever points. IIOUSK-KKEAKKKS LYNCHED. Five Pay the Penalty at Versailles, Indiana. Five men were hanged at the little town of Versailles, Jnd. They were caught in the act of breaking into a house. The burglars were at once seized by a crowd of angrj' citizens and promptly hanged. The many bur glaries in the neighborhood in the past few weeks have driven the people of the community to frenzy. Their determination to make an ex ample of the offenders who have caused so much trouble was carried out with dispatch. Versailles is the county seat of Rip ley count', and is a town of about a thousand inhabitauts. Those hanged were Lyle Levi, Rert Andrews, Clifford Gordon, William Jenkins and Hiney Shuioff. They are from Milan, Sur mon and surrounding villages. The greatest excitement prevails through out the entire section in which the atlair occurred. This is probably the first time five meu were ever lynched at one time iu this section. Gov. Blount savs the whole power of the State will be used to bring tbe lynchers to justice. Washington an. I Lee's President. At Lexington, Va. , on the loth, ex-Postmaster-General Wilson, and for merly a distinguished member of the IIou6e of Representatives, was installed into office as president of Washington and Lee University. Many distin guished educators were present, and many prsminent men sent letters of reoret. among them being ex-President Cleveland. Mr. Wilson began his re marks by thanking the University and those connected with it for the honor they had given him. He expressed trratitude at the presence of such an audience and gave a short sketch of the University and of its standing amon other nniversities of the South. He laid great stress on the need of educa tion iu political ami governmental science and pointed out that this branch of education had been strongly favored by Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and many other great men. He closed his address with an acknowledgment of the great duty he had before him and tmid a short tri bute to Robert E. Lee. ESCAPED OX HIS OWN (.ALLOWS Edward Flnnnagan, the Notorious Atlanta Murderer Breaks .fail. Atlanta, Ga. , dispatch says Edward C. Flannagan.who murdered three per sous a little over a year ago, was tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged next week, escaped from DeKalb coun ty jail at Decatur on the 15th. He evidently escaped by climbing out of the window of his cell to the gallows ou which Horace S. Perry was hanged last week, which had been left standing to be used in putting Flannagan to death. The Flaunagan trial was one of the most sensational in the annals of the Georgia courts, and ti e murderer w as an example of the decadent criminal. Norton's Majority in Ihe flth District. Charleston, S.C.Sept. 15. (Special. ) In the sixth district second Demo cratic primary Norton's majority, f-o far as heard from, is 312. These figures will not be materially changed by the official returns. Strike to Continue In . Va. "We are going to fight the battle un til every operator in West Virginia recognizes union labor," said W. A. Carney summing up the mining situa tion in West Virginia. The strike will be protracted until the operators in the! State sign the scale. More Troops for Cuba. The government of Spain, is concen trating a force of t,000 troops, destined for Cuba, where they will be sent im- i mediately. Europe's Wheat Storage. Paris Dispatch, New York Sun. M. I Meline, Prime Minister and Minister j of Agriculture, announced to the cabi- j net that the official crop returns showed I that the wheat crop amounted to H,- 54tj,8'.0 hectolitres, as against 11!, 742, 415 hectolitres in W'. The official j estimate of the Italian wheat crop j places the yield at 30, ;oi.'hiO hectolitres, ; as against 51,000,000 last year. j Baltimore In the Lead. In the National Baseball League j gamea Baltimore is in the lead for the I pennant again. Her percentage being 718. . . - , NEWS ITEMS. Southern Pick Ups. Eastern parties have consummated a big land deal in Alabama. Nashville. Tenn., labor men de nounce the nazelton. Pa,, tragedy as a massacre. Greensboro, N. C, Republicans are to have a primary to settle on a post master. Tke Nashville & Knoxville Railway will nsk subscription from the city of Nashville. C. C. Manning, of South Carolina, has been apiointed consul at St. Michaels, Azores. Dr. W. H. Brooks is to build a pri vate hospital iu Greensboro with all the modern equii ments. Henry Demas, a negro politician, has been sworn in as Naval Officer for the Port of Ne- Orleans. Near Slem, Va.. Sally Young is iiii.ruereC. bv Robert Fouts; whiskey ! an 1 jea'.orsly were the cause. A. P. Grace, of Statesville, the court stenographer, has disappeared, and all efforts to find him have beeu vain. Twelve-year-old Vernon Will, of Richmond. Va.. killed Stanford Nel son, colored, aged 1''., in a fist fight. The fourth story of the brew house of the Gerniania Brewery, of Charleston. S. , has been destroyed by hre. 1- ully insured. To keen his father from being w hip ped in a fist fight at Louisville. Ky., Jay AdkiLH. aged 14. fatally stabbed his uncle, Andrew Adams. For wantonly killing a dnck belong iug to a white man, a Statesville (N. C. ) magistrate sent a negro to the chaiu-gaug for thirty days. Charles Yeaner. an employe of the Bell Telephone Company, took hold of live wire while stringing wires, iu Portsmouth, Va., and was killed. A mob near Griffin, Ga., with dogs. caught a negro, Henry Stark, accused of assault, and prepared to bum him. tie declared Irs innocence, was taken to Griffin and proved an alibi. Col. Guv Jack, a wealtv planter near DeKalb, Miss., is on trial for causing the death of Charles T. Stewart, whose life was insured for 000 iu favor of Jack. At Portsmouth, Va., Judge Prentiss granted an injunction restraining T. F. Ryan and associates from votingcertain shares of stock at the cornitiir annual meeting of the Seaboard and Roanoke Air Line Railroad Co npany. Judge Hoke has confirmed the sale of the Brevard and Heuilersonville Bail road, taking it out of the hands of Receiver W. E. Shuford, and transfer ring it to the trustees or creditors who purchased the road some time ago. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, 15th. Al! About the North. Ttt Arkansas a negro woman leaves her five children in her house aud they are burned to death. Rev. (1. F. B. Howard, the notorious United States prisoner from Tennessee, has escaped from the Ohio prison. There is said to be a good prospect for the extension of the ( Hiio River ami Charleston Railroad to the Ohio. in Chicago two crowded trolley cars collided, killing both motormen, and nearly every passenger was injured. Dengue is prevalent in Texas cities and a shotgun quarantine all along the Louisiana border has been ordered by telegmph. The skeleton of a mastodon eighteen feet high was found on Spindler's fium near Waterloo, Ind. One tooth weighs five pounds. The coal miners' strike, as far as the Pittsburg district is concerned, is 01V ami the 22,00 diggers have resumed work at the (15-ceut rate. New York's public schools were re opened ou the 13th with an enrollment of about 225,000 pupils, 10,0'MJ of w hom could not be accommodated. E. B. Andrews, who resigned some time ago as president of Brown Ui iver sitv, Providence, R. I., has withdrawn his resignation and will remain with the university as its president. A Kaufman, Tex., dispatch says the church, also used as a school building, on Spike's prairie, eleven miles east, was stolen bodily and moved ten miles. Residents in the neighborhood are in censed over me matter, und money is being raised to prosecute the thieves, At Springfield, Mass., in the the Michael-Lesna twenty mile birvch race Michael won in fine shape by 15 yards in the record breaking time of 3:11. The former world's record was 2 3-5 seconds lower. At Abbot. Texas, Dr. T. B. Carter. of Kaufman, and ('has. P. Russell, of Abbot, two of tne most prominent men of that section, who had hitherto been friends and business associates, shot and killed each other. A land trans action was the cause. Miscellaneous. The Naval Armor Board will visit the iron-producing sections of the South. Twenty-four people were killed by an explosion in .Mexico. The treaty of jieace between Tnrkey auu iiim- uun Lieeu signed at ( on stantinople. Thousands of jaen are wanted on the Tacihc Hope to harvest the crops, and a dollar a day aad board is bun paid. The contract for supplying postal cards for the next four years has been finally awarded to Albert Daggett, of Washington, D. ( . Floods in the vicinity of Val de Penas, Spain, have destroyed 100 houses, many families have been ruined and a number of people drowned. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal, Canada, has forbidden I riests to ride bicycles on the ground that it is undignified. The first shipment of Texas cotton has been made to Spain. It consisted of 235 bales of Brazos bottom cotton, and was consigned to Barcelona. The museum of the National Exhibi- tion cf Science at ArnLeim, Amster- dam, has been burned. Gustav Pabst, the Milwaukee mil lionaire brewer, was married at Vent mor. Die of Wight, on the 14th, to Mis? Hilda Lemp, of St. Louis. A cablegram from St. Petersburg, Russia, says two steamers, the T&are vitch and Malpitka, collided in the river Volga, near Astrakham, drowning fifty Russians. A ship at Philadelphia has been load ed with eighteen locomotives from tht Baldwin works for the Trans-Sileriat Railway. Retriste the Treasury J. Four' Tillman is,)paring r. l.a Amna At Oo V vaiuaoie wor i ii i nn U,in. tl,.rr.it..l!st.t i! WT RUSE IIP. i . V. P. Clayton Says the Farmers Can Make $30,000,000 a Year. TO COMPETE WITH THE WEST. Save Your Cotton Seed and Make th Experiment, Instead of Selling i hem. A correspondent writes to the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal from Columbia, S. C, as follows: The South will apiear in the field as as a formidable coiujetitor of the West in wool production and millions of dol lars will be added to the annual reve nue of the Southern farmers, if a cru sade inaugurated by Mr. V.1. Clayton, a irominut Se th Carolina agricultnr- ist, is successful. Mr. Clayton wants the planters of this section to raise sheep as au inci-1 dent to the growing of cotton aud he has a jil an for feeding the sheep on cot ton seed by which he figures it out that this can be done cheaply and with im mense profit to the planters. Accord ing to his estimates 330,000.000 a year would be put in the pockets of the Southern cottou growers by this one addition to their productive capacity. Mr. Clayton holds that the conditions confronting the farmers of the South Atlantic States are suoh as to demand a change in their methods or render hopeless the struggle for industrial prosperity, irom a careful considera tion of climate. 6oil. iopulation and in dustrial conditions, he concludes that cottou growing is likely to continue in definitely as the chief agricultural pur suit in all Mutes south oi latitude .Si legrees. excepting Florida. Mr. Clay ton thinks that the men who are carry ing on the cotton culture do not look after the small economies as thuy ought and his sheep-grow iug plan is intended to furnish them a more rational system for utilizing the opjortunities and ad vantages they possess. It has long been known, says Mr. Clavtou. "that cotton seed contain ed valuable animal food aud fertilizer constituents, but those who produce them have beeu slow to appreciate their value and indifferent to the . large an nual waste involved in their failme to use them primarily as stock foot! aud the resultant excrement as a lcrtiuer Cor their lands." The seed from a 500-pound bale of cotton averages 1,000 pounds, consisting of 500 pounds of hull, 350 pounds of meal, aud 150 pouuds oi oil. each a valuable animal food constit uent, but not in proper combination as furnished by nature to supply a healthy ration for any of the domestic auiinah if fed alone. "While the oil is not a fertilizer it is a valuable animal food, estimated by Wolff, a celebrated German authority, at nearly four cents per pound as com pared with corn at sixty cents a bushel. if all the seed is used as a fertilizer the oil is a total loss; ii tne seed arei exchanged with the mills for the meal or sold for cash at current "tea tbe Meal and hulls contained iu his seed. It may be, therefore, slated as a broad proposition that the only way the cotton farmer can secure to himself the full value, potential ami commercial, of hin cotton seed is to feed them to animals on his laud and plough under the droppings, liquids aud solid. "After careful consideration of all the factories involved, sheep have been selected as the best animal machinery for the purposes in view, for the fol lowing reasons: "First, they seem to be capable of consuming to advantage larger quan tities of cottou seed in proiortion to size than any other of our domestic animals. Colonel J. Washington Wutts a veteran sheep raiser, of Laurens county. South Carolina, bears testi mony on this point as follows: "1 have beeu feeding sheep with cot ton seed for over forty years, and have never seen bail effects from over-feeding. While the cows must be confined to short feed or she will eat too much and get sick, the sheep will sutisfy hunger and leave the balauce if over fed. I have fed all winter on them without other feed, but prefer to give them hay, fodder or straw, and when the forage is adder they will eat iiiort cotton seed; they relish cotton seed, and eut them with avidity during w in ter. As to quantity, that in much ow ing to the kind of sheep; of course a large sheep reouires more than a small one. Ours are Merinoes, a small breed. We give each growu sheep as much as you can grasp in one hand, which is about half a pound. They will soon consume this and turn to the forage, which they will eat more leisurely, un til it is consumed or they get enough. when they will lie down until turned out. In this war our sheep are fed four or five months and theu turned out to grass. I know of no cheaper feed for sheep than raw cotton seed, and it is a pity that we have not sheep enough to consume our surplus cotton seed. "Second, the field for a large, profit able increase in their numbers seems to be better than that of any other in dustry now open to Southern farmers The estimated number now in the United States is 37,000,000, while the estimated number necessary to produce the wool consumed by her people is 120.000.000. Of the 37,000,000 now in this country only 4,331,071 are in the eight cotton States named. Texas alone has 2,lill,H01 of this number, while North Carolina, South ( arolica, (.eor gia and Alabama combined have les than 1,pOO,ooo, South Carolina making the miserable exhibit of 70, 0W. If the j coltun farmer9 nmler the' Btem BU gested. compared with the present practice of manuring with whole seed. exchanging with the mills for meal or selling them forca&h Mr. Clayton says: "Four-fifths of th seed from an eiuht million bale crop of cotton would cive 3.2'KI.OOO tons. The manureal value, at the present price of S20 per ton for meal, would be iZ,V,v. This the farmer would receive if he used whole seed as a fertilizer, if Le exchanged with the mills for meal, or sell to them for cash at current rates. he would receive in cash or its rominer- cial equivalent &2,000,000; if fed to 20,000,000 sheep upon his farm he could reasonably calculate upon tbe entire seed from au 8,oo0,000 bale crop. deducting oie-fifth for planting, were fed to sheep at the rate of one pound rer head each day they could be con aumed within a year by less than 20,- ihxi, ir) sheep, ao that the question of over-production need not trouble us for some time to come. "Third sheep return in their excre ment a larger part of the fertilizing matter contained in their food than any other domestic animal, estimated by competent authorities at as high as 'J i percent and in the besi possioje me- '"chanical condition f or uniform distri - . , , ; v i hntinn ki inn boh. AS V Wfl WOU1U L following-returns, to-wit: Ninety, per cent of fertilizing value returned in manure, S2-i.ooi,ki ; sixteen million lambs, S-12.n ,o; eighty million pounds of wool at 15 cents, i 12,000, 000. I'otal $ti4, lrio.ixid or a margin of $41, MO.O'K) over usinggreeuas manure, and -2. ltiO.OOJ as against selling to the miils. "Against the gross profits it would e proper to charge iuterest ou invest ment iu and pasture cure of shep, mt inasmuch as the two latter items .votild consist of such (Mir tion of each as t is not uow utilized to a iv advautage, it is fair to state that the sytem advoca ted would result iu a s.iltutml gain of $30,00:1,000 annually to the cotton farmers of eight States". "When wo reflect tliut such a sum is equal to 12 per cent, on the gross in come from the annual cri. of lint cot ton in recent years, the importance of niving it becomes apparent. It quite likely represents the entire jKissible profits of a mauieth industry, aud if aiiuualy accumulated aud compounded, would soon add inline use wealth to a region where poverty is now a curse, if not a crime- " Mr. Clayton, iu supiut f his con tention tha the Scnth can bo made an ideal sheer ,ii. .section, instances the case of outh Carolina, which pro duces about one tenth of the cotton crop of the eight Ste-,which produce ! t per cent, of the total, and which pos sesses one-teuth the totul number of sheep credited to these eight States for lM). Ohio has an area oils-fourth larger than South Carolina, with laud values rauging about $ ier acre, while in South Carol iu the are about er acre. Ohio is snow bo ind abnut one third of the year, aud all live stock are stubled and fed, while sheet thrive iu the open fields iu this State the yer.r round, browsing on the waste of the fields aud spontaneous grass aud herb age, which everywhere abound; yet South Carolina lias 70,000 sheep, as against Ohio's 2,i0;),O00. .Mr. Clavtou, whose home is at Suct ion, S. C, is earnestly agitating hit new idea, which is already attracting widespread atteutiou among the agri culturists of the South, and it is uot unlikely that practical steps will soon be made to carry it into executiou. THE REICHSTAG. Interest injr Sketch f I'lrrmini'ii Rep resentative Lawmaking Holy. The HiIiticiil complexion of the law making body of the German Empire li as varied as the rainbow. The differ ent parties are so numerous that nt times it is a difficult matter to identify thein. There are XAt members of the Keichtag ami at present they are di vided as follows: oS Conservatives, Imperialists, loo Centrists, 40 National Liberals, II Kadical i'nionlsts ami Riehlerites Radicals. 'S Frclsiiinlge? Volkspartei Uieliterites, 13 Social Ke. formers, 10 Poles, 12 Deutsche Yolks, partei. -is Socialists, ."" Indeitendcnts, including 0 Guclplis, 3 Bavarian jieas ant party and two cats vacant. The hall in which the Reichstag meets does Hot give one the impression if being extraordinarily large, although looking down from the galleries it seems a very deep room. Its acoustic properties, however, would only be ex- (.,1sa)1(. iu ., v,.rv ar; i:,n. The wnlU , ; , ,.ri,.s nrp flir. President',, from the Moor I lie hair Is more distant from thos of the members, and, altogether, this one hall is on a bigger scale than th corre- jMiii.ling halls of Congress. I.Ike so ma n v public hails in t.erman.v, ii is liaracteri.ed by an absence of proMr ventilation. The Genua lis, who are implacable foes to fresh air, do not ap pear to notice this deficiency, which ii.etinii s forces even the most enthu siastic American to depart earlier tiian he would otherwise desire. The President of the Reichstag situ t a table raised above the lloor of tho :oue, iu a high-backed chair, on which he Prussian eagle figures very proinl ,t ntly. .Inst below the President's ta i'e is another .i:e. where several Min sters sit. usually lliose at tin head of the department which is concerned in Ihu question being discussed at the time in the : if Iistag. Williln tlilH charmed circle sit the stenographers. whose work gins down those steps to the outside world. ll the level W ith the President's desk are the desks of the l'.iii.desrath. two rows on either .-hie, lifieeii seats 111 each front row, eight in each second row. making up the forty six In nil. i he ( hancelior or the empire Las the first scat In the front row to the right of the Speaker, facing the House. The arrangements for the seating of t'ne li. piitits are not marked with ex tra agai.ee, aid in comparing them with tlne of the Congressmen In Washington the latter seem immeasur ably grand. In the Reichstag the I . j. -uiiis do not have Individual desks; in nead. a number of them share one long d.h'c. k ! olltoy fashion. Each member Las an individual drawer, ami t hat is s..metlii:ig. Ordit::ir:ly. when there is nothing of moment going on. the sessions of the Reichstag are Ir-rribly uninteresting. The only exeit'ng feature is the neces sary etT'irt t secure admit la nee. To act on.pllsh this you must Ik- on hand before H o'clock of the Morning or tin d.iy lfore you wish to attend, and then wait in line at the B-ieh-tag tick et otliee. Soil etili't s t le- ticket is forth coming and Miinrtiiiicfs ic isn't. The sessions are supiioscd to open at 1 o'clock, but tl.ey Ik gin a In. ut twenty minutes later. The rM'tn fills slowly, and business ppiee.-ds in a rather in formal manner. Tl.e members pay nt. tciition if they are Interested iu what the s iiaker is saying, or chat with their nelghliors or busy themselves with their writing If thev ar not. There is a continual buzzing uiidcrciir rent of conversation, which the speak er of the moment U usually pow rless to drown. Wl ii the President wishes to say something that must be heard lie rings a bell, and the momentary hush which ar!ss allows his voice to le heard. Then the hum begins ;.ga'.n. When a man has n.mething 'if imjiortaiic ! say, he I'stia'.iy tak'-a Li stand al tin top of ;h- steps leading down from tic dais where the President aiil the I'.iindsrath sit, bur many men simply r;p in their scats and speak from the floor. M .... "Is this a healthy portion of He State?" asked a traveler iu Arkansas. "Well, I should say It is. There lia been nobody hung about here In tbi'-e months." Texas K if tings. Whrre Bull, the warKk Cheyenne. e pkkln that he was drunk when he ki.: ed the white settler and precipice- trouble. White Bull ought to h known that it would ! dangerous him to have more than t .. hri-r . time. i i