North Carolina Newspapers

- . - f rr -" - ' - - " 1 mm , ; ; 1 ' : ; DEVOTED TO THE ADYAXCEXEyT OF RElDSniLE J.V0 THE STATE AT LARGE. . or,. xtii. REIDSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, iS88. NUMBER 22. Piecfmont Air-Line Route. SifhrnH AVDanvllfe Railroad; cMcle in Elect June 2( 1888 Run by 75 Meridian TimP DAILY. NO. W... ISO. 52 r ; 1215am 4 30pm v 7 2flan 6 57pm , i0 4SaJd , 942pm .Y!pm 5 10a m rVfl'-Jfini-rr,-' rx tVH. l,:rtfrn.;r f,r rhirh'tiofevfllo. .tvlAri'-hburg, ' v Richmond, T.7 f!'!rkeviI, '310pm 3 30 s in 5 17 p ra "4 2ra m - r tvhiv!i 5 5i5pm 505am Ly I,-ir; vi;?, S. S 50 p m 8 05 a m rO:f-r)-b' re, 10 35 p m 9 42 a m f iM'-boro, T.y'KaHgh, T.v Pwhatn,- f.v Ht,'hbf.rSj ir 'ire- -bors 2 40pm soop m ' " 04 m -5 20pm ? 87 pro 85 p m lo p m 145 am 3TJ am -4 Mara 7 40 a m f. v Kulem Hj 1 p m S .'SO am 11 T5pm t JClaip f 10 1 a m UtSara .r I-itiiteiV'll, Ar Aibc-viJl, v. 1 51 am 7 2 am: 0 15 a m I 13 12 p m . 4 :SS p m 6 la p m T v HallbLury f.vC"nco'(l,. 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Trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buffet ?!;efK ? bttw wii Atluuta and New York. )n Trains b'i and J Vi, Pullman Buffet sleep 3twmi Wa-bington and Montgomery, 'VaiMiigton and Augusta. Pullman sleeper between Rfchmond and Grwnsboro. Pnll na n tlwper bet wn Greensboro and Raleigh. Pullman Parlor, Car between-Salisbury and fTnoxville. . Cnrough tickets on sale at prindpal sta- o:iatoH points. For rates and iuformn ' 'ou apvly toenv agent of th company, cr " Jan. L. TAYLOK, Gen '1 Pass. Agent. b;: IJAAf, TraP.k Manager. Washington. D. C. ? fV Pom. Piv-. Pai-s. Agent, mcDmona, a. A. Tlhx, piv. Pans. Ag t, Raleigh, N. C. Cape Fear S Yaifin Valley Railroad C"0?TEN'SED &CHICLE V(V ! ' t T'ring effect 5.00a. m , Monday, Aug. IS, 68 THAf.NS MOVIAQ NORTH. . .Vo. 1 , Passenger & Freight & I'vq Benin&ville 'i rive Jfa.vton ' a--e Maiton Arnrn Fayftfeil)e f "an Favtttevil.? iriv. Sanford r-Me fianfonl A-rnve Kreenshrro TJ n e (ireensboro I f,iV( German! on mm. vccomof.at n 6 00 atn., ' 1 15 p. m , 705 '! ; 715 f 15 a.n. 1! 15 ' It 27 ; " ; 2 ?5 urn 3 0:j p.ni S 10 ;SS5 '. 7 15 " a .m I 40 p.m .-(0 .', 7 25 " 10 15 am 2 am , -IfD pm ! 515 p.m .1 flru,r.iW' No ! .lirinrr nb'niTensborpI- i! TRAINS MOVrN o sot' TH. No. 2 Passenger Freight s Mail Accotnodat'n f -v Mr. A i v . f a c fit-i rnintn 'JrffiiMKiro" i-v Orp'nsboro Ar :vp.i3an ord -T' it p Snfrnl A Tiro Favrtterill I.".TFv.t-iile A:nvp..Tat ,n ''"Muxton rnvrUennetsiiJle 5 15 a. m. H15 a.m. 5 20 o m u 25 " 10 15 a m." 1 35 p. m. 1,55 " 401 . t 15 " f. 1H " 6 35 . 7 60 ; " 5 40 p.m. 7 5 a.m. 3 00 p.m. 2 St) " 5 50 ' f 2.5 a.m 9 50 " 10 15 " 12 15 p.m. No 'J breakfast at German ton No. 2 dinner at Sanford. "TOnY branch', treight a sd accomodt'n. Trains Moving .North. .M!!boro 7 30 a. m. yn'.eGroeiisbra-o P00 Trains Moving fjotitn. r U reenfiloro p . m iL ao t Juiu-tion 4 30 " J .riv Miiiboro 5 15 : arir sn-1 Mail Trains run daily fx Tts'imay... , . v fj1111 nnl Arotnmodation Train runs v.ile to Giveusboro 011 Tuesdays, t eJnw lays and rVidiys. - . i ,.;J(5j,-t...ry ranchj. rua dajlj . E. KYLE, General Vassenger Agent, n-iHi Suprrintcndent. tVThn -Vw York .Vol. and tprc$$ says ; ' ''ho piison statistics recently given that iho proport:oa of the foreign 0 ,VQ0 kccxme. prhouers is nearly ; 5tal of- the native born but that ,,H )"d of the foreign born for ;r in-. r a the directum - of im 1 ' : ix .ior that jn d shonesty b m V - nna wturda?F. awl irom iTreens . 1 to lajottTile on Mon-lay, . Wednfg A;7n'' I KViriays;' from Greensboro to Mt ri , ' ' "ys. 1 hurndav and Saturdays WASHINGTON, D C. IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. What 0t tAWBiker are dclDg at the - National Capital, TtEEDAY. The trtatj between Great Biitian and the United Stales negotiated last ' -n juteti by Secretary Bayard and iltssis Angejl and Putnam on the 6nc aide and Jay ilessrs Chambetlain, Tupet and West w the other side, for the jtur pose of settling the troubles that had arisen between Canadians and citizens of the Uniied States engaged in fiahinjrj in the waters off the Canadian and New England coast, was rejected by the United States Benate. after, aa earnest party discussion lasting ; nearly two months. The vote was a strict party one 27 against S0-the Dt mocrat3 Tof ing for ratification, whilejthe Republicans vot.d sQlidly against ratification. Senator Vcbrhecs was out of the -chamber when the vote was taken, or-the figures would have Etocd 28 to 30. , Wednesday Hottee. Mr. Townsend, of Illinois, presented ti e conference re port, tbearmyappropriationljill. When the bill passed the House it carried $24, C28,QCQ. The Senate increased it to $31;53i,t)03. and in jconfercncc this Bum had b'e?n reduced to $29,331,000. - The increase was chiefly due to the Senate arocndttfrits providing for a cua factory at Watertcwn 'Arsenal, X." Y.; and; for thepurchase of tteel for heavy guns. Further- consideration -was postponed until to-morrow. --1 - - - The ITavy bill was then taken up, and provides for three unarmored and one armored, cruiters and three gun boats. The- Houseat 5 p. m. adjourned. 1 ! 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. Tending the con clusion of Mr. Chandler's speech, the Senate, at 5:15 p. m. adjourned. 1 ; Thcp.sday The feature in the HOU33 to-day was the reading of the President's Message on the riihei it-s. Tho army appropriation bill was thoroughly ditcuseed. and then Mr. Wilson of Minnesota, offered the follow ing bill, which was referred to the com mittee on Foreign afiairs. 'An act to empower the President more effectually to carry, out the purpose of an act to iT-fei-f anri authorize the President to ' protect . and defend the rights of Ameiioan fishiDg vessels. American fishermen. American trading and other vessels in certain eases ana lor otner -urpose?. ine llcusc then adjourned. In the SeNate as soon as the Presi dent's Message, on the fisheries question-; was received, Mr. Edmunds morel 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 Senates Hoar,, both criticising the President Senator 3Iurgan spoke in defense of the message. " " , The conference report on the bill for a custom house and appraisers warehouse in New York city wa,3 presented and adopted, the Senate at 5:40 adjourned until Monday. . North, East and West. 'It is stated that a $100,000 stock com pany has beCjU formed to build a rolling mill at Cartersville. Go. The Mohongahela and You'ghiogheny rivers, in Pennsylvania, are rising fifteen inches an homv In all towns along the livers hundreds of houses arc flooded, compelling the families to vacate, and a number of buildings- have been swept away. - At Richmond, Va., the James River Valley Immigration Society has been or ganized. t: with; "Randolph Harrison as president, to encburage immigration, the establishment of manufacturers, etc. The capital stock is to be not less thaji $5,000' nor more than f oO.OOO. A Duel in Virginia . ; A report from Lee county, Virginia, says a duel to the death took place be tween Morgan Burke ; and Nathan -Edwards. A fued had existed between them for several months. They met in the road and drawing their pistols sim ultaneously commenced firing on each pther. Several shots were exchanged one of which . passed through Uurker's abdomen causing instant death. His op ponentlj received several -wounds which are fatal. Mr. Blaine's California Trip. Mr. Blaine said that he would start cm 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 speak on the Pacific coast the last week of the campaign. All the speech es, with .one exception, will be short, for his strength will not permit him1- to un dertake the task of a long series of twe bours opeu-air speeches. 1 wNegroe Mobbed. 1 News is received of the killing of two ih nt Svlvarcn inil in Smith county, Miss., last Friday night. ) Four negroes were under arrest for kill- ing a white man named Lee. The rtcb 1 broke into the jail but were unable to et into the cage where the accused bc i t'roes were confined, so they thrust their ; guns through the bars and shot two ol j hem to death. . .'' ' , t ;- . " " . i Fifty orTu' worth of land in Lends i',i.-,!itr v n has aireauj wi-mwucu viifcwt in a su.t over a vanawon m n w t w luccu Inchc iu a 1 old boundary lioe. Tbii U thi lioplat kaowa itmadj. THE AGBICCLTUBAL CONVENTION. What t!i9 Fanners Did la Batrijrlj. 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 le 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 and individuals so that many articles of general use by the people of the United States are increased beyond their fair market value, and thus all con sumers are taxed 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 we call on our rep resentatives in Congress assembled to use all the power given them by their con stituents, and the law to destroy their I existence and power to prevent the formation or such trusts and combina tions. Itceolved, That we endorse the action of Senator Regan, of Tex6, 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 memoralized to immediately, repeal the tax upon jute and jute bagging with a view to defeat the combination cf 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: Your committee to whom wa3 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 Farm' 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 cf the committee was adopted. A resolution recommending the repeal Uef t.he preeent system of National bank ing laws oppression to tho farmer was adopted. The following resolution Tecommcnd ing the fostering of sheep industry was adopted. . . v Resolved( That this convention recommend to the- legislators of these Southern States that laws be enacted to protect and encourage the sheen indus- trv n following respect, to wit: to I reimburse owners ef sheep for those killed by dogs. Heavy Floods. Heavy rains have fallen all over Mis sissippi Lcuisiania, Tennessee and Arkan sas, during the past three days. All streams have overflowed and flooded val uable F 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 . Coffeeville, Miss., doing con siderable damage, and very serious dam age was sustained by the cotton crops. Reports coming in show that the rains have been general and disastrious in .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 Orleans, which city is cut off from any telegraphic communication with Memphis. In the vicinity of Vicksburg and Yazoo valley the rainfall has been un precedented, and serious injury to cotton and corn has resulted. Durham Destroyed. Last Monday night fire broke out at Duiham. N. C. in an unoccupied tc- I K . C T" TT T ... TU- x fire deltm(nt had disband oned , Sjltnrf,n niAf :r rnnMUtnpl nf ft fi;s. 1 j - ' i "- - . . pute with the town authorities. A ijigu wind w'as blowing, and the fire spread rapidly. After destroying Togucs fac tory the tire next burned another old '.obacco factory, occupied by Vf, Y. Whited. Tt next swept away two to bacco houses owned by Robert Jones and William Osborne, in which were three hundred thousand pounds of leaf tobacco, owned by Joces 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 fire was of incendiary origin. The loss is about $40,000. Fugitive Murderers. .... Governor Scales, of North Carolina, received a telegram from AVadesboro, the county scat of Anson county, which informed "him of the escape of all the prisoners in the jail there. Theyi over lowered jailer when he went to give them su pper, and too k a way his re vol ver . The hue and cry was raised and a num ber of citizens turned out in pursuit. The prisoner who had 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 cscajc. The Governor will offer a literal reward for them, par ticularly for John Morton, the man who fired the shots. Atlemntctl JailJUcliiery. Saturday two negroes were lodged in jail at Fayctteville, N. C, charged with an assault on a young white lady Mon day niht. The jailer discovered three pouads of negroes around the jail armed with guns, pistols, irks, etc lie sent for help and the few citizens on the streets at that hour, 1 :30 o'clock, . and the police went to his assistance. The negroes Bed but three were captured and lodged in the prison. - i That unsightly excrescence commonly called a wart can be removed by touch m I 1 1 . .1 . A.. a- ! , Political. Km. Lockport, N..T., has raised a Beiva Lockwoocj pole the bnry cn6 ' ia ' the country, 4 - . : -" ' ; ; The Republican Congressional conven tion of the IstDist. IT. C has nominated BIr, Elishi p. White, of Belvidere, for Congress. On Friday. last the declaration of the Magnetic'irori and steel manufacturing company, at BlackVwas filed in the! of fice ofthe Seoretaty of States and a commission Was issued. The capital, stcck proposed is $10,000, and the rdm pany will have the privilege of increasing it to $100,000. : , 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 t iuauuebieu a cnmioai .mamerenco with regard to the progress and result of the popular uprising. , r Dr. D. W. H Harrison, a homeopath ic physician of Baton Rouge, La.V will be the Republican candidate for Con gress in the Sixth Louisiana District, now represented by Representative Robertson. Dr. Harrison ig afirst cousin of the Republican nominee for President. World s Convention, T. M. C, 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 relies were made by Mr. R. 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 young1 men by their liberal cubscriptions to ward meeting the expenses of the con vention but they invited all the delegates to a reception at the royal palace of Drolingham, wher& 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 viW 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. - Gustavo Toppel, of Geneva, spoke for the conference. At 4 o'clock the party returned to the cily much pleased with their reception by royalty.- Delegates were at the Con vention from every quarter of the globe. Shark Fish in? Around New York. Fishing for shark is not considered a very great sport, but nevertheless there are a dozen or more men in Kew York harbor who are not adverse to angling tor sharks. A big hook with a small chain attached is used for catchiog sharks. A p'ece of pork or other meal serves for baid. A stout hemp line U attached to the chain, the end of the lint being made fast to the boat. When a shark is hooked he comes to the surfac of the water as gently as a sunSsh. . 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 chanre, and when his head ia lifted out of the water by a pull of th line they club him to death., t'ometimei they row ashore and beach them. Thi biggest shark caught in these waters it long time was beached atRossville, S, I., last week. It was a species of ground shark, and measured ti feet. It wai caught by Francis Fndicott of Outing, Harry C. Jones,1 and the boatkeeper, Ed ward Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald hooked him, the other two fishermen disdaining to indulge in such sport. When thej found out what a big catch he" had made, however, they were as eagei as he was t capture it. It dragged tnflf anihor, ahe so they hauled the anchor ia and tooktc the oars to jreyent the shark from run ning off with them. In its struggles il bit off a piece of one of the oars. Mr. Uudicott says he has fished and hunted for years, but never had anything as ex citing as that encounter. After thej ead killed it they cut its heart out. Th heart continued to beat for fully a min u4c afterward. The sharks found here abouts are not dangerous, being by nc menus as large or ferocious as the man eaters of southern wate;s. At TbrJ Mi. A Cnrions Instrument. It is a curious thing that the Italian ocarina, or earth-flute, has not r:ceived more attention from music lovers in this country. Of course it is sola m the stores j here, and you occasionally hear it in a minstrel show, bat not one man in'ahun- dred knows anything about it.. I Lave heard it played in Italy, and the music from a quartette of the instruments it ex quis.te. Its lange is limited, but ihe quality of its tone when skillfully played is pure and queer. It has a pastoral flavor, reminding one of piping shep herds, and a classical environment. The ocarina is very simple- In shape it is something like a pear or a small gourd. It is made of baked clay. Its range is about twelve notes. No instrument can be more easily learned, for it always plays itself when one has mastered the seal, and there are no keys nor any elaborate fingering to embarrass one. Tee North Italian peasants use it constantly in the fcld, and when you hear one of their peculiar melodies from a practiced quar tette you wonder such simple means can produce so beautiful a result. Chicago Xeitu ' Three Masenllot Follta. The wise old Com t esse de used, tc remark that there were three follies oi men which always amazed her: the first, climbing trees to shake fruity when if they waited long enough the Irnjt would fall of iUelf. ' Tho secoid was oing to the war to kill one another, when if they only waited they wonld die naturally. The third wis to run. after women, when if they only refused from doing o tho women would run after them. ftirii Ft fire. '" -' -" I SCIENTIFIC AS D INDUSTRIAL. Oiie pound of mercury tenrerfed! inM fulminate ia sufficient to charge, fifty thousand percussion caps. Nashville, Tenn., has a caroling fac tory that ia turning out ten thousand cans of fruit and vegetables every day in the week. - ' Well-supported is ttiid to be the theory that many deaths were caused by suffoca tion inJ last winferV blizzard in the Northwest.:- ' The fabric ;kri$wn as Chinese grass cloth is made from the fiber of nettles. The cloth h peculiarly glossy nd trans parent, and. a belting for iraehinery, has. double the strength of leather. Two German' experimenters find that the il uminatiog power of naphtha gas is reduced one-half by twenty per cent of. air. The mixture become explosive tvben it; eoatains from about rive to eighteen vo'umej, of air to one ef ga. A Milltown (Sle.) mechanic has in vented a log-sawing appara tus which has an upward as weU, a downward mo tion. rTbe 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'-acoat, and with a parabolic reEetor-to concentrate the light,' with ' ttorage batteries weighing one and a half pounds each, are made to enable persons to read in railroad cars by night. An excellent new use for the telephone i proposed in the infectious wards of the French hespitalveo as to enable the sick people isolated in their sufferings td have the comfort of hearing their rela tives', voices without any risk of convey ing infection by an interview. 'While the ''most ; rapid cannon shots scarcely attain a. velocity of 60O jards'a second, 'over .1500 knots per hour, mete: orites are known to penetrare the a'r .with a velocity of. 40,000 or even tO.OO) yards per second, a velocity which raises the air at once to a temperature of 4000 Ao 60J0 ccntrigrade. The new mill of the, Holyoke CMaisr) Envelope Company is nearly completed! The boilers have a capacity of 200 horse power. there. are sixty-rour envelope machines. With producing capacity of about 3,000,000 . envelopes a day, where the greatest amount of work turned out in one day was 1,850,000 envelopes. The build mg has 9 JO water sprinklers and eighteen stands of pipe, together with a huge water tank holding ,0000 gallons. The force equivalent to the working steam engines represents in the United States 7, 500, 00 J herse power, in Eng land 7,000,000 horse power, in Germany 4,500,000, in France 3,000,000, in Austria 1,500,0.00. In these the mo tive power of the locomotive? is not in cluded, whose number in all the world amounts to 105,000, aid represents a total of 3,000,000 horse power. Adding this amount to the other figures we ob tain the total of 46, 00?, 000 horsepower. 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. The1 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 cleaned. 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 walls of wood and iron for war ships," it is proposed tT me a new mate-; rial known as woodite. This is an elastic material not unlike india rubber, but unlike that material, it is not sticky, and resists oils and heat.,' It is a com pound caoutchouc, and was patented a fewyearsago. Experiments at Dartford in 1836 gave promise of great things, for the hole made in the woodite by the passage of a shot closed up at once, not even allowing" drop of Water to go in. Two torpedo catchers are now building at Elbing, and the Inner skin of these vessels is formed of a layer of woodits two and a half inches thick. The Diamond Wouldn't Polish. A remarkable diamond was exhibited at a recent meeting of the New York Academy of Pciences by Mr. George F. K'l-tZ. it was a compound of multiple crystal, containing a large iiumbtlr of twinnings. ..' It is of the class, termed "extreme durate' by , the' French. It had. been cut into the general shape of a brilliant, and its main face or table wai then placed on the pol'a iing wheel in the establishment of Tiffany & Co. It was kept there for 100 days, the wheel revolving at the rate of 2b00 revolutions per minute. Ine diamona was neia 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 the diamond amounted to 75,000 miles, of nearly three times the circumference of the earth. Tet it was all futi'e. asthe stone would not acquire a polish. The ordinary weight placed on a diamond, while on the wheel, is from two and a quarter pounds to two and a half pounds. This was increased by four pounds and eight pounds without effect, and finally forty pounds was used. The wheel was badly -damaged, the diamand plowing into it and throwing scintillations in all directiontr The diamond, even under these conditions, could not be given a commercial polish, and the wheel had 10 be replaced. Iron. An Oid-Tine Kerosene Lamp. An Auburn lady treasures among her curiosities the first kerosene lamp that ever came into the town ol Buckfield. It is rather a dilapidated lamp now, but has burned every night for the last tfcirtr years in the lady's kitchen. Buckf eld never had a bigger sensation than when . this lamp came into town. It was thirty two years ago one dark winter night. The lamp and two gallons of kerosene oil cost $5- The night this historical illuminator was first lighted all the neighbors thought the house was on fire and? thej rushed to the rescue with buckets of sour milk. The rst Buck field lamp illuminated the front parlor of one of the old mansions of Buck!! eld from six to nine-thirty in the evening 6f ninety days before the first two quarts of oil gave out. To kerosene men; Tfeii it a ftraig&t tip Zfif feft HOME OF THE DIAMONDS. THE ORE AT MINES RTJHNWQ TS 60X7TH AFRICA. X Description of the Oe Peere Mines the Scene of Recent Terrible Disasters The De Beers Mine disaster in the, South African diamond fields, by which twenty-four whites and two hundred natives perished, has awakened fresh in- ' ferest smong those who deal in the mot valuable of precious stone. Byjfar the gi eat est portioaf of ,the diamonds now obtained come from the mines of South Afrka, which were 'discovered, near llopetown in 1F67 by some Dutch; chil dren. The nvnes are situated in Griqua land West, now 11 part of Cape Colony, about six hundred and forty miles north cast of Cape Town and fic hundred f miles from the sea coast- Although they are at an elevation of nearly 4000 feet above the sea level, the heat is excessive during the summer mouths when the work is principally arried on. According to the first report of the terrible calamity it was that : "the De Beers Coal ' Mine at Kimbcrley" had caught fire. The manifest . error .in re gard to the character" ef the mine was not corrected in subsequent dispaUb.es, but the. cause of the Jatal fire was ex plained in this way: "While the (hafts were , beipg changed the hauling wire broke and the skip rushed down the shaft with . frightful rapidrty. The oil lamps were broken, and the blasting fluid quickly ignited the wooden casing of the shaft. Flames in great volumes ehqjt up the shaft, completely preventing egress. The mine was soon filled with smoke, and the lights carried by, the miners were rendered useless. The panic stricken native and whites, in their efforts to escape, became massed together in the galleries and were suffocated to death, - The Superintendent of the De Beers M'ne is Gardener F. Will'ams, of Oak land. Cal. He went to South Africa on hiB second trip in tho latter part of I88tJ. He is a regular correspondent of George F. Kunz, Tiffany & Co.'s gem expert and minera'ogist. A Tim reporter talked with Mr. Kuaz and obtained from him some interesting facts about tho De Beers Mine?. ' The mine covers 13$ acres Of 610 claims, each 31 feet square with a road way of 15 feet between each claim. The mines were originally worked in indi vidually claims, tfl4'J in number, each :tl feet square with a roadway 7i feet wide between each pi ir of claims. These small cla:ms are now consolidated into about BO larjre companies and private firms, having a gross capital of nearly $"0,000, 000. There are four large minesr-'aM within a radius of a mile and a half. The celebrated Kimberley covers 7 acres. Thirty-three million carats (over 6$ tons) of diamonds have already been taken out, valued in the rough at 45,000,003, and, after cutting, at 00,000,000. The absorption of tne smaller by the larger companies is constantly goiog on.and it is proposed to consolidate all the com panies into one. Ten thousand natives, each receiving,l a week, are employed in the mines under the supervision of 1200 European overseers." The enormotls 6um of over 1,000,00) is annually ex pended for labor. This mammoth investment of European capital would have been Jnore profitable to the shareholders were it not for the thievishness of the native diggers, who, instigated by the vicious whites, that Congregate on the field, at one time stole and disposed of from one-fifth .to one fourth of the entire field. More im proved methods of surveillance, recently introduced, . have diminished this loss. None but authorised agents are permitted to purchase oi poss es3 rough diamond?, and a large dttcctive force is on the alert to prevent any infringement of the rules. - A record is now kept of every diamond found. Thethievd have been caught making chickens swallow diamonds in the mine, and a post-mortem held on one of the natives who died suddenly revca'ed the fact that his death was caused by a 60 carat diamond which he had swallowed. According to the latest official reports there were employed in the De Beers Mine 394 whites and 2739 natives. Of the latter 300 were hired from the Govern ment at a cost of 58 per annum. For merly the natives were allowed to leave the mines, but owing to the fraudulent traffic carried on 2200 of them were last year compounded. They practically lived in the mines, and were better off than those who had their freedom. The old system of open workings has been to a great exteut abandoned for the shaft and underground plan. Vnder the original method the excavations were tarried on to a depth ol oOOIcet. I here were many accidents owing to the falling shale or reef. A rock shaft is completed to a depth of 841 feet and taps low, levels. During last year over 21,021 feet of main tunnel were driven. There is one shaft of 7bl feet, another of 477 feet, and a third of 125 feet. As many as 18 tribes of natives have been represented in tbs mines. ' Some of the natives have been known to tramp a thousand miles to get work. ' Last year 8M),00 loads of "blue t,tuf"r were hauled out of the mines, and h.50,1 0 1 loads yielded i7! 732 1 carats of dia monds, for which the company received 954,08? Hs. 0d. The a tual ex penditure was 41 Ha, leaving a profit cf 5t8,f597. The L'e Beers Mine is capi talized at 2,o00.6C0 in tea-pound shares. From September 1, to December 31, 1837, the De Keera Mine yielded 544.015 carats, valued at 3,43.4P-, ao average of t d. per carat. This in cludes everything taken f.om the mine. In the beginning of the enterpti the mine produced 4-10 carat per load, but last year the yield was h-10 carat er load, a significant increase. Water r ows from the mine at the rate of 5500 gallons per hour and at the rate of 1CO0 gallons from the rock fbafL There arc nine biy washing machine in use, wh'ch arc more reliable than the hand or eje. It is m accurate that a diamond the sue of a pin head cannot c cape. Xe a York Ti t ct. Shallow things are capable only of the mystery of darkness. The rat gen die and profound . things you mat bring forth into the falit light, and let th fsaWna better thrru thrcujli tc.d lltronx-v. i L.THEj- XWTWtBTAIlltx NORTH CAUCUS A. Walter AlvisThcmpsc-n, who during the war with Mexico waa color sergeant of Jell Davis' regiment, thJeHlississippi Rifles, died at his home rx-ar Hitlsboro, Jf, C, His age was 78., There was a terrific ttoim at Raleigh. Sunday night The wind blew gale, the rain fell in torrents and the electric display was brilliant and fearful. Two prisoners broke jail at r.t tsbor Friday bight. Their names are Mack Miken and William Mintcr. One vf them had been carried there from AUownce a few days before to escape lynching. H w as in jail on the charge of rape" Dixie Edwards, white, went to the house of Ben Glasgow,' colored,1 iu Vance, county, calling him to the dor shot him w ith a shotcun. brtakloir his lec. Th 1 negro had incurred EdniniVdispltasuTei because ho held information again him that would Probably cemvict him hi vio lation of the revenuft laws. Edwards has fled. One bf Glasgow's leg will have to be amputated. aonn t'AKot.iNs. , The opening of the 3Cs toad o Rock Hill was celebrated by the j eople of that town ou : Thunday, an e cuision train was run frro Charleston to Rock Hill. Bo;us Horse TaiK A well known wigmakcr was standing at Broad and Walnut streets talking to a Philadelphia Timtt reporter s av stylish barouche passed. ' "Do you see that teams" taid the wig. maker. "Well, do you. sec what beauti ful flowing tails they've got? They're bogus." The little wigmaker laughed sloud and then ssid : "I madethe?e tails. I make tails for a good many stylish hones. You know thut a horse without a handsome tail isn't handsome at sll. He may have a beautiful mane snd hold his head high and tep and prance, and bite hi bit. showing all the traits of 1 full-blooded animal, but if he hasn't got a long flowing tail, U the other char acteristics go lor nothing. "There a-e a great many stylish step pers driven ia the park every day that have false tails that itween the ground. Tbe horses get accustomed to false tails just as a man becomes, 'aceustomed to wearing a wig. The false tail are) fastened on to the borse'i own ta'l 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 iu hu stall. The bogus tails can be washed and brushed and combed on the horse just as well as oltf h'in. "The bogus tails cost from $10 to $15. I generally furnish a pair for $25. They will last as long as th j horse. H I bay dead horses' tails and manes just as I buv human hair. The practice of shock ing horse' tails is shocking." Here the little wigmaker laughed violently at his joke snd then continued : "The practice is dying out; but a tail will never grow in like it was before.it was, cut khoTt. The way to cultivate a horse's tail il to ciin it about an inch once a month " rnre Water as n Tonic. A thin, tall man got up early tho other morning at the fifth Avenue Hotel and coming downstairs ordeied two glasses cf water at the Hand icfrcdiment counter. The trained b irtender trailed, but handed out two large glasses full of pure void wster. Thi man smacked his 1 lips md said it was a healthful drink l-efore breakfast, snd one tht he recom mended. "You look thin, sir!" "Yv, I do, but if I had not drunk co"d v rater before breakfast I might have been in my grave long ago. I am aphy---sician, or rather was one before I retired and have made a study of liquids. Water, drunk freely before meals, has a very beneficial result, for it wubciaway the mucous secreted during the intervals of repose. The membrane thus cleansed is in much better condition to roceive t food and -convert it into soluble com pounds. In the morning the accamula, tion of mucous is special marked whettr the gastric walls are covered with a thick, tenacious layer. Now food entering tho stomach St this time wU-4?ate - -ered with th's tenacious coating which for a time protects it from the action of. gastric ferments and so retards digestion. Your - man with a tubuUr contracted stomach, with-its puckered mucous lin ing and viscid content, a normal condi tion in the morning before breakfast, is not suitable to reeeive food. A glass of water washes out the stomach, gives tone, and prrpaies the alimestaty canal for the morning meah" Xeio York Mad and ExyrM. Autumn's Sere and Yellow Leaf. A botanist thus describes in the Chi cago JJrrallhow the leaves change their co:or in autumn, lie ridicule the belief that frost has anything to do with it "Tbe gTecn matter in the tissue of a leaf is composed of two colors red and blue. When the sap ceases to flow in the au tnmn, and the natural growth of tiis tree ceases, oxidation of the tissues tke place. Under certain conditions the green of tbe I?af tnrn red: under differ ent conditions it lake on a yellow or brown tint This difference ia color is due to the difference inrombination of the origins! constituents of the green tissue, and to the raryiog conditions of climate, exposure and soil. A dry, coM climate prodnces'more brilliant foliage than one that is dsmp and warm. This is the reason tnat oar American autumn are ao much more gorgeous tbsn those of England. - Tellew Fever Cases. Jacksonville, FU. August 27. Four new cases up to noon but no deaths. At a mectine of the sanitary association protests was made regarding th board of health's action yetcrday in refusing to give the names "of the new cascx,and il h raid the board will promptly recede from its dlsctission at to-day meeting." c Foreign Note. f r t - The Pope ia suffering from rheuma tism. He was able however to ;rive audidnce to several Cardinals Sunday. General Bouknger has been elected V the Chamber of Deputies In the depart mcnt cf Ckarcntc and Nerd, Francey by j najcritica reipcctlTcly 13,0fi0 aad e,CS3.