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Min mmmmmmmmm SANFORD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1891 The beat date attainable gives the Republic of Columbia a population of >,540,000. . ' An English penny-in-the-slot machine company has been mulcted in damaget by the viotim of a machine that didn’t ■work. __ Thirty-two out of the 102 counties in Illinois have actually decreased in popu lation during the last ten years. ' “Adirondack” Murray, who is plead ing for the preservation of American for ests from the rostrum, does not regard the lumberman, but rather She sportsman who idly builds destructive fires, as the chief destroyer. Major-General 0. 0. Howard has un dertaken mission work in New York since he was stationed at Governor’s Island in command of the United States troops, (fecording to the Chicago Tima. He and his son have been teaching Bible classes in a miserable room over a stable In Elizabeth street. He is now trying to buy a deserted ch\jroh in Ghrystie street for the use of the school and for services for adults. The General contributes $1000, and asks the Christian public to help him raise the balance, about $17, 000. 7 ' The new Anti-Kidnaping League's National Committee recently issued in New York an address to the public stating that many sane persons hare been proved in court lately to be illegally im prisoned in lunatic asylums, and that inch imprisonment is easily indicted without trial and hard to escape from. They say that rich people whose property is coveted and persons whose spouses wish to get rid of them, are specially ‘liable to kidnaping. The committee asks all who know of such cases add all who feel themselves in danger of such incarceration to write to the Secretary, JflssO. C. Lathrop. ' Hypnotism is likely, in the opinio* of.thfi New York Mail and Express,la play an important part in the homicidal tragedies in the near future. The in evitable plea of insanity is in bad odor and has lost its effect with the average jury. Hypnotism combines the elements of novelty and mystery and has the ad vantage of exonerating the hypnotic in strument of crime on the ground of irresponsibility when under the dominat kng influence of a superior will, while it leaves the subject entirely rational and responsible when not in the hypnotio state. This plea is destined to complicate our criminal jurisprudence, and involve the administration of justice in most serious difficulties. If the hypnotised agent* of orime are irresponsible, and at [the same time arc perfectly rational and honorable, the only .parties who can be held for such crimes are those who us* for criminal purposes this uncanny power. Dr. Liegeois, professor of tho medical college of Nanoy, testified in the trial of the Paris stranglers, to the effect that not only Was Gabrielle Bompard, the famous accomplice, an unconscious accessory of the crime committed, but that in his opiuion there were from four to fivo persons in every' hundred who were similarly susceptible to hypnotio influence. _ j. Chief Justice Bleckley, of Georgia, In deciding that -the Antioch Baptist Church at Atlanta must ue nuiu lu pay the salary o* the preaoher, says: “If tny debt ought to be paid, it is one con tracted for the health of souls, for p-Jpus ministrations and holy service. If any class of debtors ought to pay, as a mat ter of moral as well as legal duty, the good people of a Christian Church arc that class. No church can have any higher obligation resting upon it than that of being just. The study of justice for more than forty years has impressed me with the supreme importance of this grand and noble virtue. Borne of the virtues are in the nature of moral lux uries, but this is an absolute necessity bf social life. It is the hog and, hominy, the baoon and beans of morality, pub lio and private. It is the exact virtue, being mathematical in its nature. Meroy, pity, oharity, gratitude, generosity, magnanimity, etc., are the liberal vir tues. They flourish partly on voluntary jconcesslous made by the exact virtue, but they have no right to extort from it any unwilling concessions. A man cannot give in charity, or pity, hospital ity or magnanimity, the smallest part of what is necessary to enable him to sat isfy the demands of juttice. The law grants exemptions of property to fam ilies, but none to corporations or collec tive bodies, lay or ecclesiastical. These must pay (heir legal debts it they can. All-their property, legal and equitable, is subject. We think s oourt may woll constrain this ohurch to do justice. It is certainly an energetic measure to sell the (hutch to pay the preacher,' nor would it be allowable to do so if other batons of satisfying the debts were within J# ' THE NORTH CAROLINA GIRLS. An Appropriation of $20,000 for a Female Industrial School. A petition has been presented to the North Carolina Legislature during iti present session praying for an appropria tion of 120,000 to aid in the establish ment of an “Industrial Bchool for the “White Oiris of North Carolina.” This is a very trifling sunt, as the Wilming ton Messenger observes, “for 1,500,000 people to give to the cause of woman— to the safety and happiness, and com fort, and usefulness, of hundreds of the white girls of Carolina from year tc year and from generation to genera tion.” We have little doubt that the Legislature will make the desired grant, and that the school will be established. Certainly the State could not And a bet ter investment, nor one that would pay larger and handsomer returns. The movement is under the direction of the King’s Daughters, who are circu lating petitions throughout the State for Signatures, and who will doubtless go to Raleigh with so many Of the intelli gent and. patriotic people of the State be ind them that, even if it should be so disposed, the Legislature will not dare to refuse their reasonable 'request! The number of illiterates in-North Carolina is positively disgraceful. According to the census of 1880, of persons 10 yeans of age and upward 38.2 per cent, were returned as unable to write. Of the 52,019 white females, from 15 to 20 years of age, both inclusive, who were- returned by the cen sus enumerators, 15,219 or 28.9 per cent. were uuuuie 10 write, ana or tne ssio,3ou white females of 21 years of age and up ward, 72,017 or 33.4 per cent were uua ble to write. More than one third of the white women and girls in North Caroli ' na, one of the richest and most flourish ing-States in the Suuth, cannot write their names, and very nearly as many are unable to read the language which they speak. Surely, something should be done by the State for the education of the' future wives and mothers of the State, who are to give character to the citizenship of the generations yet to be. In their present most praiseworthy un dertaking, as we are told by our Wil mington contemporary, the King’s Daugh ters “are moved by a profound apprecia tion of the necessity of doing something through the State for the benefit of that class of white girls who are unprovided for and have -no way of obtaining a place or ‘occupation whereby they may ‘earn an honest living.”* We are rejoiced to know that North Carolina is keeping step with her sister Southern States in their efforts to ame liorate the condition of the women of the South, who arc so largely dependent in this practical age upon their own ex ertions for the means of making a living. In his inaugural address Governor. Till man directed attention to this important subject, and, with the co-operation of the State, we have no doubt that his re commendations will assume practical shape and that it will net be long before South Carolina makes ample provision for the education in ‘ ‘the practical arti and sciences” of its daughters, as it has already made provision for the education of her sons. The experiment of indus trial training schools for women has been made in Mississippi aud Georgia with the best results, and what has been accomplished in these States can be ac complished with even greater satisfac tion in the two Carolinas. J In Mississippi and Georgia the location of the industrial schools was left open by the Legislature to the corapetion of rival towns and cities. The Mississippi Col lege was established at Columbus because Columbus, with a population of six thousand, many of whom were colored, gave $90,000 to secure the location of the^chool at that place. Qf this amount $50,000 was represented by suitable build ings and grounds, and $40,000 was con tributed in cash. In Georgia the little town of Milledgeville entered the lists against the burgeoning city of Atlanta, and secured the establishment of the Geor gia Industrial and Technological Insti tute for women within its limits. To ac obmplish this end Milledgeville, with a population of four thousand, subscribed $10,000 in cash ai%d made a loan of $12, 000 to the State to aid it in pushing for ward the work of -construction. What twu UiCUIgltl ll»VO UOUU 11 this direction the two Carolines can do. The need for industrial schools is even more. urgent in the last named States than in the former, and when the public mind shall be fully aroused upon the subject we have no fear as to the ulti mate result Our girls ought to be educated, aud educated in the most practical way. North Carolina is moving on ihe right line, and we shall be much disappointed if the “Farmers' Legislature of 1891" do not lake a practical view of the question and extend.the aid for which the King’s daughters pray.—Charleston News and Courier. STRUCK HEV. SAM JONES. A Texas Mayor Assaults the Evange list and Gets the Worst of It. Sam Jones is now at Palestine, Texas. He denounced Mayor Ward last year.’ The Mayor was not home at the time, but this year he laid for Jones. Friday as he was leaving Palestine Ward struck him with his cane. Jones jerked the cane away and boat the Mayor over the .head and face. Ward tried to draw a pistol, but was prevented- Jones' Geor-. gia grit pulled him through all right. The news of the encounter soon spread throughout Palestine. After a hasty meeting of citizens, handbills were issued calling a mass-meeting for the purpose of condemning the attack of the Mayor. The act of Mayor Ward is generally de nounced, while there is an element averse to attacks upon private characters such as are occasionally made by Bam Jones in his pulpit zeal. Mayor Ward was subsequently arrested and placed under bonds of aggravated assault and for carrying a pistol. The mayor avows his right to carry weapons, and deolarcs that ho had. no intention of carrying his resentment further than can ing the evangelist. The Bultan has made Professor Koch a first-class member of the Osmanish Order of Turkey, SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Happenings of Impottance A Week. Dwellers in City and Country Get a Write-Up Here Free of Charge, and Ho Questions Asked. ; ; VIRGINIA. A (raw town is soon to be built in frinee George county. The-dwelling house of John J. Russell, a wealthy resident of Petersburg, took Are Monday and before the flames could be extinguished, Russell, who was (■sleep, was suffocated to death. Contracts for the construction of the Danville And East Tennessee Railroad^ ISO miles from Danville, in this State, to Bristol, Tenn., have been awarded to the . Inter-State Construction Company, of New York. Work began under contract Thursday. - The proposition to remove the body of Mr. Davis from New Orleans to Richmond for permanent burial has been revived. Mayor EllySon, of Richmond, j will con sult Mrs. Davis in regard to the matter upon his approaching visit to New York, and it is honed that she wilt consent that her husband shall find a resting place in the old Confederate capital. No other city in the South can offer so appropriate a place of sepulchre for the sacred dust of the greatest of Presidents. NORTH CAROLINA. An act to incorporate the North Caro lina Society for prevention of cruelty to children and animals was passed by the Legislature Friday. Charlotte had a $100,000 fire last week. The Belmont hotel and the Wilson Drug Company building were burned. Many county Alliances are instructing members of the Legislature to vote for a bill increasing the school tax from 12 1-2 to 25 cents on the $100 valuation Of property* Large droves of mules from Kentucky and Tennesssee are being brought to Ral eigh and Charlotte, and find ready sales at good prices. Bills passed the Legislature prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors, and amending the Constitution so as to elect the District Solicitors by a vote of the whole State. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Episcopal churches of Charleston have organized a Church Guild. The bank of- Georgetown has been granted a charter, petitioners being A. A. Springs and others. Capital slock $50, - 000. At the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion county convention, which will be held at Edgefield on February 28 and March 1 and 2, ex-Govemor J. C. Shep pard will make the opening address. The ball team of the South Carolina University has organized for the season and sends a challenge so all whom it may concern to contest for the State cham pionship in a series of three games during the Columbia Centennial festival. The executive committee of the State Grange met at Wright’s Hotel, Columbia, Master of the Grange Thompson in the chair. All of the committe, with one ex ception, were present. The general af fairs and prospects of the Grange were thoroughly discussed, and it was deter mined that the executive cemmittee shall issue an address to the patrons through out the State, urging organization and reorganization. There arc already well organized branches in Kershaw, Chester, Oconee, Florence, Marion, Abbeville and Anderson. All of these branches have been in existence since 1872, and have well sustained the honor, credit and use fulness of the organization. The com mittee also discussed the recommenda tion made to the last Legislature that the State! should establish at the Peni tentiary a manufactory for bags and bag ging from the available fibres of the State and from jute. GEORGIA. Gen. R. S. Henderson, a prominent Confederate officer, died in Atlanta Thursday. nan rue couury omcers eiecteci iu Lumpkin county arc Alliancemcu. A pitiful sight on the streets of Co lumbus recently was a boy 9 years old in a beastly state of intoxication. He was arrested, but the Black Maria had to be summoned in order to convey him to the lock-up. He raved and nursed fearfully while being carried there. The oldest colored woman in Georgia died in Rockdale on Wednesday morning lost. She was one hundred and five years old.-. ..—- .... - ._ Mrs. Berry was found in her room at Columbus late Tuesday night with her throat cut from ear to ear. The murderer is believed to be Mrs. Berry’s husband. The couple, had been living apart, but on Monday they were apparently reconciled. Berry is missing. Brunswick will have some very im portant meetings of associations, encamp ments and conventions during the next three months. They are: The state con vention of the YoHng Men’s Christian Association, from February 20th to 23d; the annual convention of the Georgia Teachers’ Association, from April 23th to May 1st; the annual encampment of the grund lodge of Knights of Pythias of Georgia, to begin on May-19th and con tinue for a week. These are all meetings of great importance to the people of the State generally. TENNESSEE. A newspaper reporter on the American, At Nashville, committed suicide Thurs day evening at the Capital City. A special from Dunlap says that light ning struck the livery stable of J. R. Huddlestoa at that place, killing three horses. Gen. Whitthorne, of Tenftssee, is one of the many Congressmen who will re tire to private life on March 4. He says, though, that at his age—nearly seveq^y —and after, twenty years’ service Wash ington, he is glad to doff the harness. Dr. C. 0. Lancaster, one of the leading physicians of Fast Tennesseoa nd a mem ber of the faculty of the Tennessee Mcd College, M blood poisoning, a lew day* ago He performed an operation bn a lady haring gangrenous wavnd and received the poison through exceedingly slight abrasion under a Unger nail. ‘ - ~ I FLORIDA Pasco county ha* a genuine coffee tree on exhibition at the Ocala Semi-Tropical Bxpositon. The eleventh annual assembly of ine Florida Chautauqua opened at De Funiuk Springs Wednesday- The exercises will continue six weeks, with a progamme rich in music," literature and art. Edward Bosenquest,'son of a wealthy London banker, was bitten on the leg by a rattlesnake near Dayton Sunday, while hunting, and is beyond hope of recovery. Surveys of the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound ■ railroad has' reached Pensacola and grading is to be commenc ed the middle of March. ALAJ3AMA Thc race war in A labama seems to be a very small affair. The killed are re duced from sixteen to one. . A biography of the celebrated South Carolinian and. adopted Alabamian, Wil liam L. Yancey, is one of the promised books. Col. John W. Dubose, of Bir mingham, Ala , is writing it. The dead and mangled body of a man was found at a railroad crossing in the heart of Birmingham Friday night. He has been identified as a harness maker named King, who got on sprees. The Southern Exposition will open at Montgomery on October 28, and close November 11. Capt. H. G. Bibb has been elected president. Preparations are being made to make the exposition the greatest fair ever held in Alabama. WOULDN’T ACCEPT NOBLE’S PLAN. State. Gov. the same po :to Qov. Mo ving you some tters in this The Governors of Virginia and Ger gia Disagree With the Secretary of the Interior. Richmond, Va., Feb 9.—Secretary Noble has insisted that thje money appro priated under an act passed at the pres ent session of Congress for the support of agricultural and mechanical colleges should be divided equally between the white and colored institutions. Gov. McKiftney took issue with him on this point, and hold tlat this money should be distributed in Accordance with the school laws of th Northen, of Georgia, to< sition, and sent this lei Kinney on January 31: “I enclose a clippiug g what the condition of State touching ‘the appropriation made by the Federal Government for the en dowment and support af dplleges for the benefit of agriculture and {he mechanical arts. Secretary Noble ia demanding a distribution of the funds between the vvhites and the negroes not contemplated in my opinion, in the bill as ‘equitable and just.’ Until he aligns stronger rea sons for his conclusions than hes’ has yet presented it is my purpose to insist upon the terms of the act of the General As sembly of this State giving onc-third to the negro collego and two-thirds to the State College for the whites. This di vision is based upon our school popula tion. I will be glad to have you give me the conditions in your State and the course you have pursued in this matter." Secretary Noble expressed the desire that the same rule should be adopted in the distribution of this fund in Virginia as in Georgia, Gov. McKinney maintain ed that equitable division did not mean equal division of the money between the colored normal school at Hampton and the Blacksburg College. As is the case in Georgia, the Virginia school law gives the whites two-thiids and the col ored ones one-third of tie school fund, and Gov. McKinney went so far as to give Mr. Noble to understand that upon no other condition would hee accept Vir ginia’s share of the appropriation. The Secretary has forwarded he money here, and it has been divided letween the two colleges in the ratio named in the State laws. _ SETTLED AT LAST. The Official Annountement of the Change in the Richmond & Dan vuiv jmuii vau. The following official circulars settle the question of the long rumored promo tion of Mr. AY. H. Greei to the 'position of general manager of the Richmond and Danville road, and thi resignation of General Manager Peytor Randolph: Richmond & Danvilie R. R. Co., 1 Office of the President, > 80 Broadway, New York. ) OENERAI. OtDER. Mr. W. H. Green has been elsctad gen eral manager of this company, with office at Washington, D. Q., taking effect Feb ruary 1,-1891, vice Mr Peyton Randolph, elected third vice-president. He is charged with the direction of the operations of the transportation depart ment in. all its branches, and will report to the first vice-president. John H. Inman,. Jan. 81, 1891. President. Riohmond & Danville R. R. Co., 1 Office of General Manager, > ■ f Washington, D. C. ) GENERAL ORDER, NO. 43. The office of general superintendent and assistant general manager is hereby abolished, aud all reports heretofore made to that fiffice will hereafter be sect direct to tliis office. W. H: Ghebn, Feb. 2, 1891. Genoral Manager. The Cotton Crop Movement New Orleans, Feb. 10.—The cotton crop movement to February 1 shows: Port, receipts for live months 5,278,005 bales, against 4,954,151 Inst year; net overland to mill6 795,700, against 187, 240; interior stocks iu excess of Septem ber 1,’487,382. against 800,982; South ern mill takings, exclusive of consump tion at outports, 308,255, against 801, 829; crop in sight Feb. 1, 6,814,408, against 8,392,202 last year and 5,760,750 year before last; crop brought into sight for . January, 961,094, against 766,989 last year, and 783,895 the year before. The last coiiqmn-nns for the previous year embrace ull corrections attached to the proper periods, instead of adding tlii.ni in lumps later in the season. THE FARMERS’ SENATOR. -- ! j A Sketch of the Man Who Defeated Ingalls. - The New Senator is a Six-Footer of Slender Build—Ingalls Takes His Defeat in Good Humor. WILLIAM PFKFTEB. Topeka, Kansas, February 8.—Sena tor Ingalls takes his defeat philosophi cally. He remained in his room at the hotel while the ballot was taken, accom panied by three or four friefuds, and when the news of his defeat came to him he gave no evidence of disappointment or feeling, but took it as a matter of course. He had tq push his way through » big, ciowd as he entered the Copeland dining room shortly after 10 o’clock. He held his head erect and there was a sug gestion of a sarcastic smile on his face. Everybody within sight wanted to get a look at him to see iiow he took his de feat and a few shook hands with him and attempted to hurriedly express their re gret. He simply acknowledged their re grets by a nod apd a “Thank you.” it didn’t spoil his AFPETITE. Gen. and Mrs. Humphreys sat just a-* cross the table from him, while Kugeuo F. Ware sat at his left. lie ordered a dinner which suggested a good appetite and likewise encouraged one, and he ate it with evident relish, talking cheerfully and almost incessantly to his friends. The large dining room was crowded and every one paid more or less attention to the distinguished Senator. In fact all eyes seemed to be directed toward the table at which he sat, and a large crowd pushed and jostled around the dining room to get a glimpse of him. He seem ed not to pay the slightest attention to any one except those at his table, being oblivious to the fact that a hundred pairs of eyes were constantly upon him. He was at dinner an hour and when he left the dining room fori his room he again had tn press bis way through a crowd.. Senator Ingalls’ friends, all appeal • ances, take bis defeat much more to heart than he does. Senator Buchan, chairman of the Republican Central Committee, who has been closer to him in this fight than auybody else, and who has had charge of the Campaign, is the picture of dispair. He has stood by his chief with unquestioned loyalty and devotion. NOT SURPRISED. Senator Ingalls conceded his defeat to night. He did not conceal his disap pSintment, but he said the result was not wholly unexpected to him. Nearly a year ago he expressed a doubt of liis re-election. The old Kansan delega liou in Congress at that time began to show' signs of disintegration. Congress man Thomas Ryan was made minister <o Mexico; then Congressman Peters an flounced his determination not to be a candidate again; then Congressman Tur ner wTas defeated for re-nomina^ion. Congressman Anderson was also dafeat ed in the nominating Convention, and Ingalls said the Convention was like a row of bricks, one being pushed over the others were likely to follow. He seems to be personally gratified at the choice of Pfoffer and extended his con gratulations today. I REPUBLICAN HOPES. uepuDiicans generally are well satis fied with Judge Pfeiffer, whom they have looked upon as the best of the several Alliance aspirants. It is thought he will affiliate with the Republicans in the Senate in all matters not directly antag onistic to the interest of the farmers and laboring classes of the country. His record as a,soldier helped him to tri umph over his competitors, and he will be an advocate of the veterans in all leg islation affecting them. One objection urged against him by his Alliance oppo nents was his age aud physical infirmi ty. Some of the members who at first opposed him feared that he might not like to serve his eutire term, in which event a republican Governor would un doubtedly appoint Ingalls to succeed him. A SELF-MADE MAN. William Alfred Pfeffer lias lived n life of toil aud hardship very similar to that of Lincoln and Garfield before they came into public uotice. He has met all the common vicissitudes that beset the human family, such as poverty, poor crops, unfortunate investments and im paired health. He ha^ been a ^pioneer farmer, a pedagogue, a soldier, a lawyer, a legislator, a lecturer and an editor. Mr. Pfeffer was born in Cumberland County, Pa., on September 10, 1831, his parents being farm people of small means. The locality offered limited advantages for education and training, and young Pfeffer had no opportunity for advancement except such as he could make for himself. lie attended the little neighborhood school in the winter months between the age of 7 and . 17. He was a close student and reader, and at the age of 15 had a teachers certifi cate, and was given charge of a district school at $16 a month, from which he paid for liis board and clothing and saved something for books and papers. He taught school for several winters and worked on the farm in the summer, and employed every spare hour in reading. At 16 he possesed a miscellaneous libra ry of one hundred1 volumes, was a ready debater, and some of his communications , had been published by the anti-slavery | and temperance press. AS A HOOSIER FARMER. He married in December, 18$2, and removed to St. Joseph County, Ind., where he bought a small tract of timber land and began to clear it for a farm. He was not successful in the undertak ing, and in 1859, he went to Southwest Missouri and purchased a farm in Morgan. County. Then the war trouble came on, and, as he had expressed strong Union sentiments, it became prudent for him to make another move—this time to Warren County, 111., where he rented a farm, put in a general crop, and in August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company F, of the 83d regiment, Illinois Infantry. in the army. Private Pfeffer was commissioned as second lieutenant, and was subsequently made depot quartermaster in the engineer department at Nashville, handling the supplies for the military divisions of Mississippi under General Sherman. He served without sick leave or furlough Until June 20, 1865. when he was honor ably discharged. A Such leisure as came to him in the army lie had devoted to study, and after his discharge he opened a law office in Clarksville, Tenn. He secured a number of important cases growing out of the war, and prosecuted them successfully. In the work of re-establishing peace and good will in the South he tobk issue with the extreme radicalism of Governor Brownlow and labored for the organiza tion of a Conservative-Union party in harmony with the National Republican parry. Alter a tour years residence at Clarksville he grew tired of the social and political condition, and sacrificing his property there, he removed to Wilson county, Kan., in 1870. There he located a claim and again engaged in agriculture. He also established a newspaper and opened a law office at the county seat. He was in the legislature of 1874 as Sen ator frortt Wilson and Montgomery coun ties. He met with financial reverses iu-1875, and changed his location to Coffeyville, Montgomery county, where he started the Coffeyville Journal and abandoned his law practice on account of failing health. He was a Republican Presiden tial elector in 1880, and gave up party politics w ith the election of Garfield and removed to Topeka in 1881, and subsequently accepted the editorship o! the Kansas Farmer, and became special editorial writer for the Topeka Daily Capital. Mr. Pfefferhas been a prominent cham pion of the interests of the farmers for many* years, and was thcif principal spokesman in the successful campaign of 1890. He is a strong Prohibitionist, but has always acted with the Republic can party. He is a member of the Pro testant Episcopal church and is a Mastei Mason and a Kuight of Labor. He fa vofis, Jree coinage and endorses the de mands of the St. Louis platform, upon HIS principal Uu«/bj 1.. «.tiv - bv the Government of north and south railroads in the west, and the loaning o.r money by the Government to the farmers at a low rate of interest. His article in the Forum on the “Defensive Movement of Farmers” gave him the general favor of the farmers. He is the author of “Pfeffers Tariff Manual,” which was con sidered a good Republican campaign document in 1888. He ajso published another pamphlet in 1880 under the title of “The Way Out,” which embodied his peculiar ideas of government loans to farmers. Judge Pfeffer is six feet in height, oi slender build, wears a full black beard and in general appearance is plain ana unpretontious. Ho is slow and methodi cal iD manner, but in addressing an au dience he talks rapidly, earnestly, per sistently and diffusively. As the representative of the Alliance, his whole effort will be devoted to secur ing a more abundant circulation of money and cheaper rates of transportation. Judge Pfeffer lives quietly and com fortably in a small cottage on Fillmorcf street in Topeka. His tastes are domes tic and studious, and his home life is de void "of display or fashion. He has a wife and four children—two girls and two boys—the latter beiug practical printers working in this city. AS A JOURNALI8T. HIS HOBBEEB. FOUGHT TO THE LAST. A Mad Stallion and a Jack rah, in Mercer, Fight a Terrible Battle. Lexington, Ky., Feb. 10.—A battle to the death took place in Mercer coun ty, between a valuable saddle stallion and a jackass, belonging to William Thomas, a stock raiser. A few days ago a mad dog bit Thom as’s little boy and the stallion. The horse went mad, and knocking down the door of the jack’s stable commenced biting him. The jack retaliated, aud for fifteen minutes they fought, using their teeth, heels aud fore feet. Finally the jack tore the stallion’s left ear with his teeth and the stallion then bit a piece from the jack’s neck. This seem ed to make the jack more ferocious than ever, and grabbing the lower part of the ■stallion’s neck in his teeth, he tore out his wind-pipe. But the high-mettled stallion did not give up, and before fall ing he kicked the Jack’s left hind leg, breaking it just below the hock. He then fell dead. The pack uttered a long, loud bray and wentiuto his stable. He was covered with blood aud wounded unto death, so that his masted killed him to put him out of his misery. The boy was taken to a madstoue. The stone stuck three times, and he shows no signs of madness. It is believ cd he will recover. A Rocking Stone. Rev. Charles E. McGowan, of Mont* vide, writes to the New London (Conn.) Day: “I found a new ‘rocker’ on the southwestern slope of Houghton’s Mount ain iu Moutville, not a mile from the railroad station. Weighing a ton at least, it may be roqked with one hand easily. To most people it . does not seem very strange that a large fock is balanced bo nicely that it will rock. But the student knows that these rockers are fe w and far between and are eloquent of prehistoric time. It is a genuine boulder.” The Empress of tastes as well as her husband. THE LAfeOR WORLD. 1 Thfb b ia a of Milan. The South has 1,6J4,33S splndlera. Chicaqo, I]!., has SO,000 unemployed. Dbnvrr, Col., boasts loo manufactories. Four thousand strikes occurred in- IS90. ^ The Iron Moulders' Union pay *100 at New York has a Hebrew Federation of Labor. Brooklyn <N. Y.) furniture hands work nine hours. There are about 75,000 female typewriter® in this country. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has 00,000 members. * Sheep butchers at th^ Chicago (111.) Stock Yards are on strike. The strikers on all Scotch railways have returned to work at last. Armour, the great Chicago (III.) pork packer employs 0000 men. Another outbreak of strikes in English shipping circles is threatened. Eight-hour demonstrations will be held in every part of Portugal May 1. There are 100,000 miners in the anthra cite coal regions of Pennsylvania. Girl delegates have been admitted to the Central Union of San Francisco, Cal. The Fur-skin Dressers’ Assembly is being reorganised. It died three years ago. Balfour’s light railways in Ireland have given work to 7412 unskilled laborers. Of the 3000 striking cigarmakers at Ham bur/, Germany, not one deserted the union. At Cologne, Germany, 1300 idle men will be employed by the city at eighteen pend* a day. lfiE Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill making eight hours a day’s work, except farm labor. A brewers’ union at San Francisco, Cal., has nearly doubled waged and reduced hours almost half. Of the 17,000,000 wage earners in this country, 7,000,000, or forty four per cent.,are engaged in farming. Stenographers and typewriters can be had in bunches at $4 a week. Cooks at $30 a month cannot be found -to supply the de-< mand. The laborers working at the salt works in the Government of Kursk, Russia, receive twelve cents for twelve hours* hard work— one cent per hour. C. G. Conn, horn manufacturer, of Elk hart, Ind., has determined to divide seventy two per cent, of his profits for the year m January, 1892, among his employes. Frederick H. Fisher,a railway engineer who died in Chicago, 111., recently, had befcn in active service for over thirty years, and during that time never had an accident. TriE Federation of Labor has decided to eschew politics, maintaining that labor or ganizations which went into statesmanship have waned in influence and membership. The New York factory inspector recoin-'"" mends that women under twenty-one and youths of eighteen in mercantile houses be limited to sixty hours a week, and the pre vention of overcrowding. The dwellings for workmen which the German Government proposes to build in north B&lin will cost $1000 each. They will be purchasable on terms equal to a deposit . of $75 and weekly payments of $1.25. Many labor organizations have of late ap pointed press secretaries, whose duties con sist in furnishing correct reports t6 the newspapers, all other members being for bidden to talk to reporters or write to edi tors^ about the business of their organizar PBOMINEHT PEOPLE. The Pope is confined to his bed with a cold. Senator Carlisle is now fifty-five years old. Vice-President Morton indulges a weak ness for ham sandwiches. James E. Murdoch is probably the oldest American actor; he will soon be eighty years old. Mougel Bey. who originated the idea of darning the Nile for purposes of irrigation, is dead. It is said that Chauneey Depew, the famous New York after-dinner speaker, has 600 namesakes. Senator-eleot Peffkr, of Kansas, is paid to be taller and even more slender than Senator Ingalls. The remains of Miss Emma Abbott will not be cremated, her mother strongly object ing to this method. Lieutenant Schwatka, of Arctic fame, will be a cripple for life as a result of his re cent accident at Mason City, Iowa. * King Milan will soon return to Belgrade to assert his rights under the constitution as father of King Alexander, of Serves. * General Miles is referred to affection ately by his old soldiers as “Paddy Miles,” though he has no Irish blood in his veins. Rider Haggard, tho novelist, came up for membership in the Society of Antiquaries in London, England, recently,but was pitilessly blackmailed. . There is a lemaie revolutionist m uapau who is described as young, pretty and wealthy, but who is burdened with thj name Kageamer Hiddo. J. R. McKee, son-in-law of President Harrison, has arranged^ to settle with his family in Boston, Mass., having established a business connection there with an electric company. Berry Wall, the ex-king of the dudes, is making a success as a hard-working life insur ance and domestic man. The transformation of this young gentleman is as striking as that of Oscar Ir ilde. Queen Victoria’s experiment with the sitting-still mode of prolonging life is 8*id to be encouraging so far as she has gone. The process is a simple one. When her Majesty feels like taking a walk she doesn’t do it. • W. Clark Russell, whoso sea stories have such remarkable, dash, brefcrAuesa and out-of-door freedom, has long beeu a hope less and well-nigh helpless invalid, chained to an indoor existence m an inland town. American Hors®, the Ogallala Chief, is known as the Daniel Dougherty of the Sioux tribes. He is the most eloquent, slnrar tongued aborigine on the continent. He is. naturally a man of groat influence among the Indians. The fortune of the richest Californian, Senator Leland Stanford, is estimated now at $60,000,000. He is a native of Hew York: and was a lawyer in a Wisconsin village be- " fore he went west in I860 with the other Argonauts. BlGNOR Ckispi, the deposed Bismarck of Italy, is a Sicilian by birth. His tall figure and snow-white moustache have made him one'of the most striking individualities in the Chamber of Deputies. He has been an ndefatigable worker. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is one of the few Congressional orators who preserve the “town meeting attitudes.” He is simple in his language,old-fashioned in his manners, and there are but few flights of fancy or figures of speech in his speeches. The Preacher Made Whisky. Nashville, Tbnn., February 0. cral Deputy Collector Spurrier capiuroci au illicit distillery at the residence of Rev! Berry Bridges, a Presbyt preacher, near FliDtvitle, Lincoln c ~ which Mrs. Bridges explained tbo had been operating in making a whiskv for his own use. The still * , crude affair, but capable of making a Ion a day, and was locked in a cellar, dcr the smoke house.
The Sanford Express (Sanford, N.C.)
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