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.1 Myrtle Wax Candle*. A very interesting matter has been re ferred to the South Carolina University on the strength of of a note •'written to the New York World by Mrs. Kato Lee >. Ferguson, of Greenville, Miss., who was once a resident of Charleston. This let ter; will be of interest to the society peo ple of Columbia. It is as follows: “As I see by the papers that fashiona ble people are using candles at dinner, I 'wonder that they do not seek those made of myrtle wax. During the war iny mother-in-law, near Charleston, B. C., ■made them. It was our only light, and a very beautiful one. All the time while burning they throw out the most deli cious odor. In color they are pale green ■end their flame looks pink. The bushes of myrtle grow all through the lower part of the State, and tho candles ate wade from the little green berry. Noth ing is sweeter than these lights while burning. The dear old during hall, with its heavy curtains, bright wood tires, before which circles the horseshoe table covered with heavy damask and crowned with cut glass, amid which wtand many silver candelabra full of these sweet lights comes to me as I write, and no table could be more perfect. Would I could ever burn them. Those who are rich could get, them made by making the proper inquiries in Carolina.1' A Columbia corr espondent remember* the myrtle candle of the ante-bellum pe riod. Myrtle groves ars plentiful in the lowlands of the Ashley and Cooper, and there is a dwarf variety that grows in the pine barren lands. The berry is covered with a whitish oleaginous stuff which floats iu boiling water, by which itis de tached from the berry. The description of the candle, the odor, etc., is exact. The suggestion is a good one. The ma terial used in the war emergency might b« used to great advantage by some en terprising capitalist. uoioroa foopie ana tne world's Fair. Washington, D. C.—[Special.]—Rep resentative Candler of Massachusetts, i*. tredueefl 1b the House, by request, a bill providing-ifchat in the building to bo erected by the Government for Its exhib its at the World’s Columbian Exposition space shall be allotted to the colored peo ple of the United States to exhibit work* of art, field products, live stock, inven tions, manufactures and other articles raised, fabricated, purchased or owned by colored people. The space so allotted to the colored people and the exhibits there in shall be under the direction aad con trol of the Board of directols of tlic Col ored World's Fair Association of Amer ica, an institution incorporated under this laws of the States of Alabama and Geor gia. The said Board of Directors shall be entirely under the control and subject 'to the orders of World’s Columbian Com mission and the Director-General thereof, and to such rules and regulations as they may from time to time make. A sum not exceeding $200,000 is appropriated for the purpose of paying the expenses of the transportation, care, and custpdy of the exhibits made by the colored peo ple, and the return of the same, and fqj the expenses of the Board of Directors of the Colored World's Fair Association, Two Prospectively Important JSvents. The Gould-Inman combination in the South puts the strong Kansas City, Mem phis-* Birmingham on the defensive and will probably result in a triple alliance which will unite that company, the Ma con lines, including the Macon & Bir mingham, Macon * Atlantic and Georgia Southern, and the Seaboard Air Line sys tem. Should these arrangements be per fected, they will be of great benefit to the prospective seaport city of Colleton, Calvin S. Brice, who has been in the South with n party of capitalists, Baid the other day: "(We have two Southern ports —Brunswick and Mobile—and we expect to establish lines of steamers from them to ports ia Central aud South America and Mexico. Weave looking over the' South with reference to a supply of coal for these lines.” THEIR CHILD WIVES. The Bengalese Protest Against the I.aw Increasing the Minimum Age of Consent. Calcutta,, India, [Cablegram.]—At 'an open air meeting held hero 50,000 Bengalese protested against the govern ment’s bill introduced January 10th, in the legislative council, to protect child wives l>y increasing the minimum age. of girls consenting from ten to twelve years, at which age they are to be given in mar riage. Heads of leading families and a (Dumber of rajahs and pundits were pres ent. The Bengalese oppose the change, contending that the Hindoo scriptures authorize that marriage be consummated before twelve years of age. REV. SAM P. JONES’ HEALTH, He Writes to a Texas Friend That He Is Physically Broken Down. A sprecial from Sherman, Tex., says: A letter has been received by a prominent Methodist of this city, from Rev. Sam P. Jones, the Georgia evangelist. The letter was in reply to an expression of approval of Mr. Jones’s part in the recent clinching match in Palestine. The writer is very despondent, and as sures his Texas friend that ho is now a physical wreck, and never hopes to re gain perfect health. The arduous labors of the past few years have brought him Suddenly face to face with a physical collapse, which he dreads. There is much sympathy expressed foi Mr, Joues here. A Confederate Monument in Chicago. At a special meeting of the committee on ceremonies hf the World’s Columbian ■ Exhibition at Chicago, a grand project from the United Confederate Veterans of the United States was considered. The members bf that organization, through Lee Francis, say that It is the wish of South that feelings of loyalty be more firmly established by having a great Con federate reunion in connection with the Grand Army of the Republic at the ded icatory exercises. At the same time it is proposed to erect a costly monument iu honor of the 0,000 Confederate dead lying in Oakwood Cemetery. The idea is favorably received by the committee. MARCH A LIVELY MONTH. Strong Breezes Waft These Mews Notes To Us. From Many Points in the Progressive Southland, Interesting We Are Sure. VIRGINIA. Dr. Francis Drake, of Leesburg, died Wednesday in his ninety-fourth year. A young white man named Arwood was killed by a train near Petersburg Thurs day.-., A party of Massachusetts capitalists embracing many members yf the the Leg islature of that State .visited Alexandria Friday. Col. A. S. Buford, President of the Virginia State Agricultural and Mechani cal .Society, Thursday appointed Major A. K. Venable as Secretary of the Society, and he has accepted the position. The Farmers’ Alliance of Pittsylvania county will establish k cigarette factory in opposition to fce American Tobacco Company. J. M. McLaughlin has received the ap pointment as postmaster at Lynchburg. A party of men digging on Day street at Roanoke Thursday found a film re sembling oil on the water. The depth was seven feet. The smell of gas soon became so strong that the men were forc ed to the surface for fresh air. A lump of dirt from the pool has a greasy ap pearance and smells strong of petroleum. This is taken us an evidence of petroleum or natural gas, or both. The mortuary report for Norfolk dur ing January is most gratifying, showing only fifty deaths during that period. Eighteen of thik number were over sixty years of age, while two wero over ninety. The Masons will build a handsome Ma sonic temple in Wytheville this summer. The building will contain two large store rooms, a town hall and a Masonic ball. Earnings of the Norfolk and Western for the third week in February, 1891. $157,180; 1890, $145,488; increase, $11. 598. Throe weeks in February, 1891, $436,630; 1890, $428,719; increase, $7, NORTH CAROLINA. Capt. W. Poldarn has been unanimous ly recommend by the Wilmington pub lic as a suitable man for railroad com missioner. Mrs. Lathan, wife of Ex-Congressman, L, C. Lathan, of Pitt county, is dead. Mrs. Lathan was a Miss Montero of Vir finia and niece of wife of Governor arvis. Raleigh offers $5,000 for the retention of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and Thomasville 100 acres of land. These places are the only bidden so far. Harriet EcKesson, a colored woman living on John’s river whose husband was in tho Federal army, drew $1500 back pension last week. A part of this she immediately invested in real estate near Morganton. The soliciton’ salary bill has been de feated in the Legislature and the State’s attorneys will hereafter be paid as here tofore, by four dollars contributed by each person convicted, or by two dollars by the county in each case where the four dollars cannot be made out of the convict. The Charlotte Consolidated Construc tion Company has given out the contract for making brick and building a hand some pavilion in their new park, and awarded the contract for the power sta tion and entire electrical t equipment for their electrical railroad to the Edison company. "* The Legislature has at last located the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Louisburg, that town having offered $6,500 in cash and lands stated to be worth $10,000 and the necessary build ings. The college is to remain at Shaw University here until the buildsngs at Louisburg are ready lor occupancy. SOUTH CAROLINA. The report is verified that Chew & Co., of New York, are in treaty to place a $1,200,000 mill on the “Island,” near the southern terminus of the Columbia Canal. Secretary of the State Tindal appointed Jas. M. Cooper, of Sumter, as assistant agent of public lands. The appointment was confirmed by the commission. In the Circuit Court at Charleston Wednesday an order was signed, appoint ing Ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlain per manent receiver for the. Three C’s Road, which will now be operated in connec tion with the South Carolina Railway, of which Gov. Chamberlain is also receiver. W. J. Redding, of Ohmicafain, has pur chased the Anderson granite quarries in Fairfield county for $24,610 and wiU de velop them. The executive committee of the State Teachers’ Association, of which Prof. D. B: Johnson is chairman, is now consider ing the time and place for the next annu al meeting of the Association. In the United States court at Charles tonjudgment was rendered in favor of P. P. Dicketson, of New York, for $6 - 768 against the York township, in York county. The suit was brought to force the payment of the coupons of bonds is sued in aid of the Charleston, Cinclnatti and Chicago railroad. . A '» Columbia last Friday found tm live cat packed in a crate of crockery 'ithat he was opening, The crockery was shipped from New Jersey eleven days previous. Miss Ella Davidson, of Yorkvllle, has ottered herself as a foreign missionary. ana ane may do sent oy ner. cnurcn to ja pan at an early day. A special from Greenville eaya: Sher iff Griffith early, Tuesday moraine cap tured Little Bill Howard, a picturesque mountain character, Who escaped jail last November in his wife’s clothes. Howard was convicted here last summer of the murder of Ben Ross, in the mountains of this county, in February, 1888, and was sentenced to hang. GEORGIA. The town of Wadley boasts six artesian wells. Two bales of cotton were sold In Ban dersville last week at 1 cent and H cents per pound, respectively. But it was cot ton of a very inferior grade. Truck handlers around Savannah say that the crop this year promises to be itn usually fine, but that it is much smaller than last year’s crop. Papers in a $1,000 damage suit were served against the Central road at Ameri cus Wednesday. F. A. Johnson, who was put off the train at that place several weeks ago, wapts that amount. The new Merchants’ and Farmers’ Bank was organized at Quitman Wednes day. The jail at Crawfordsville is without an occupant. It is a new jail, and there is a repugnance on the part of offenders to be the first tenant. Claude Hampton Leach, as neat friend of his daughter, Margaret L. Leach, has filed a suit for $15,000 against the city of Atlanta on account of injuries received by the chiidjn falling on a pile of Bewerpip ing- \ W. F. Burge, town marshal of Alpha retta, went to Atlanta last Tuesday anti remained until Saturday. Saturday night the council made a case against him for going away and neglecting his duty with out leave, and imposed on him a fine of $5. Mr. Burge then made a case against Mr. G. D. Rucker, one of the councilmen for neglect of duty as a member of the committee on streets. He evidently wants to even up with them. The high water in the rivers around Rome has done some damage in the coun try districts. Sunday morning a sawmill floated down the Oostanaula and was caught by two colored fishermen. Dur ing the day a part of the ginhouse came down, and with it a lot of seed cotton. This was also rescued by the same men. TENNESSEE. The Lookout Mountain Guards, a new military company, waB mustered at Chat tanooga Saturday night by the election of officers, J, P. Tyfite, captain; Roster and Berryman, lieutenants. There are even 100 members. A bill was passed by the Legislature last week making it a felony to burn cot ton or other agricultural products. C. E. James, J. R. Whitman, H. H. Webster and others have chartered the Chattanooga, Kentucky & Chicago Rail road Co. to build a railroad from Chatta nooga to Bowling Green, Ky. The state encampment of the grand army of the Republic, convened at John son City last week and was well repre sented, about sixty regiments being rep resented. In both houses of the Legislature bills were introduced to compel manufactur ing and mining corporations to settle with employees at regular intervals. It is learned that the E. T. V. & G. railroad company will double track their system from Knoxville to Morristown, from Knoxville to Coal Creek, and from Ooltewah to Chattanooga. Also that an extension will be built from Rogersvillc Junction to Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The extension to Big Stone Gap will pass through a country rich in mineral re sources and it will quickly become a rich feeder to the system. Citizens and taxpayers of Memphis, says the Appeal-Avalanche, look with open-eyed amazement at the miserable street cars going up and down the streets and ask one another when will the relief and assistance promised come. Probably when the railroad magnates get things “fixed” to suit themselves. Not before. FLORIDA. The Early Bird Phosphate Co., atllun ellon, will at once develop phosphate mines. Florida needs more stringent fish and game laws, says the Jacksonville Times Union. If the wholesale destruction goes on as at present, the state will cease to be a sportsman's paradise inside of two years. Three’years ago H. F. Nuckols pur chased the Boykin grbve, near Micanopy, ofF. G. Sam [won for $3,500. Monday Mr. Nuckolls sold this grove to Mrs. A. F. Miller for $0,000. During the time that Mr. Nuckols owned the grove it paid expenses and a net profit besides. O. K. Paxton, convicted of conspiracy in the White Springs postoffice case, was sentenced at Jacksonville Wednesday to pay a fine of $1,000 and costs. Amotion for a new trial was overruled. The trial of the alloged conspirators was postponed. John O. Matthews, of Citra, has sold his one. jrundred acre orange grove on Orange Lake to Charles W. White for $184,000. This is the third large sale of productive groves on the lake this season, and second in importance to the purchase of the James A. Harris grove by Colgate, Hya and others. The Kirinosn was a splendid success. It was the grandest spectacular production ever presented > in Jacksonville. The queen of the Kirmess wras followed by twenty-four Egyptian attendants iu white dresses trimmed with gold. They car ried ostrich tips and waved them grace fully over the fair queen's head. £ OTHER STATES: The Tombigbee river is on a “tear," and the whole country for many miles on each side of the river is flooded. Hugh Mackay is incorporating a $100, 000 stock company for the purpose of erecting a tannery at El Paso, Texas. The South Oan Produce Tea. A special from Baltimore, Md., says: When, under the administration of Pres ident Hayes, General Le Due, Commis sioner of Agriculture, made his enthusi astic, expensive, but, as it proved, abor tive endeavor to produce on Southern soil teas equal to those brought from Asiatic countries, so much ridicule ac companied his efforts and followed his failure that none of his successors in of fice have cared to givo this matter any con sideration. Meanwhile, Owen A. Gillet, of the tea house of Martin Gillet & Go., Baltimore, with a valuable experience de rived from a life-long training in the tea business bas been making the subject a study and says that “some sections of the Buuth can easily become tea producers, and there is reason to hope thut before many years tea may become one of its an nually profitable crops." Intensive Has Gome to Be a Burning Question. George W. Truitt Says it is the Salva vation of the Country—Lack of Xiabor Makes it a Necessity. George W. Truitt, is a successful Geor gia farmer on the intensive plan, as ev erybody knows who has been to tho Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta for the last year or so. I>aat fall he and Mrs. Truitt carried off several thonsands dol lars in prizes for (their displays—Mr. Truitt in the products of the farm and Mrs. Truitt in a multitude of exhibits of the housewife’s skill The picturesque plantation cabin, sur rounded by a real cotton patch, which attracted so migth attention at the pre vious exposition, wrf Mr. Truitt’s con ceit. The point of this article is the renais sance of 1 intensive farming. A dozen years ago it was much talked of, and the Hon. Fnrris Furman, its apostle, stirred up a great deal of enthusiasm for the new culture. Since then the idea has been quietly but steadily growing. Each year has raised up some new advocate of the system and in some counties it has been extensively adopted. The scarcity of labor has now made in tensive farming a pressing question. It has almost come to be a necessity. The migration of the negroes within the last two years has, in many instances, left the planters with a large crop in the Held and nobody to harvest it. This has caused loss and has forced the owners of land to consider means of culture with fewer hands. Happily it has been found, and fouud to be much more profitable than the old way. Mr. Truitt says it wjll be the salvation of the country, and hfe has come to the conclusion through experi ence. Mr. Truitt gives a description of the method which, in his pointed words, “brings contentment and happiness.” Here is what he says: “There is no question in the minds of observing people that we are drifting to the small farm. In fact, Qur labor is so disorganized and unreliable that the day of profit on the plantation is gone, except in rare instances where the oWner is a man of exceptionable executive ability, aud has reduced all his operations down to the most economic business system. By hard work and constant, unremit ting attention to details, 1 have succeed ed in bringing average poor land up to where it averages a bale to the acre. Of course some land produces more than other. On eighty acres of my individual crop last year I made 104 bales, averag ing 470 pounds'per bale. On seventy aercs my tenants made forty-six bales, or on 150 acres of land 150 bales of cotton. This is a plain statement of a simple fact. As to how I do this: “First, I break about one-half of my land with a two horse plow, alternating each year, plowing very deep. The oth er half I bed with square-pointed scoot ers. “I lay off my rows four feet wide, run ning a scooter in front and a Johnson wing the opposite direction in same fur row. In that furrow I place the cotton seed for fertilizer as early after Christmas as possible, forty bushels to the acre. About the 10th or 16th of March I put on top of these seed 400 pounds of acid per acre. I find the heavy rains wash tile sand into the furrows and mix it thoroughly with the seed, which is very beneficial. Then bed flat yith square pointed scooters. When the cotton seed cannot be had, I use 500 pounds of gos sypium per acre just before planting. On my thirsty land I run a subsoil plow over the fertilizer, in order to mix it thorough ly with the soil. “On my bottom land I put 1,000 pounds of fertilizer per acre, in the drill and two list furrows, and mix it well with the soil. With the planting seed I put .250 pounds additional. From the 11th of May to the 20th of June I broad cast 750 pounds per acre ahead of the Clows. On bottom land I use a mould oard, making the beds a little higher than on the upland. “Before planting I run a Thomas har row across the beds ahead of the planter, which destroys the early grass and make: the land fresh andlevel. With a Brooks’ planter I put in two bushels of seed per acre to insure a good stand, using 100 pounds of fertilizer with seed on upland. “As soon as cotton on upland begins to break the crust in coming up, I start my harrows, running them obliquely across the first time, and afterwards, di rectly across the harrow rows. Then fol low with an eighteen-inch scrape and short scooter, running shallow. Then start the hoes, every hand carrying a three-foot stick to measure the distance between hills on all up lands. I plow this once every twelve days, using, after the first time, a twenty-four-inoh scrape, very flat, plowing up to the first of Au gust. “On my bottom land I make the rows five feet apart, and bring the stand down to four feet betweeu hills by taking a twen ty-four-ineh scrape and running two fur rows across the rows, leaving a belt of three inches to form the stand. This en ables me to plow both ways, leaving but little work to the hoes. This is better than dropping in the check and insures a better stand. “I find that from the 20th of March to the 10th of April is the best time to plant cotton. “I nave unproved my seed irom year to year from the best sJaHcs, until now my cotton is at least 100 per cent, better than it was eight years ago when I began improving it. use my stable .manure by itself to avoid hauliug heavy compost loads. *j*X do pot know that I could improve m that plan, even reducing my opera tions to one-fourth the land I now culti vate. I do know that a man can make twenty acres pay big money by building it up for all it is worth by fertil ising with peas in the spring and -rye iu the fall—turned under and not .cut" at all —I follow tho next yen with cotton. As an example of this, three years ago I had a tenant who made twelte bales on twen ty acres of land. The following year that laud was sowed in 4eas in the spring and rye in the fall, and last year it made twenty bales of cotton. “To get the best results from twenty acres In cotton, starting with ordinary, worn out farm land, the first thing to be done is to thoroughly terrace the land, in order than there mpy-he no waste from washing. The terraces must be made strong a;id on a level. When so made they will not be any trouble after the second year; then prepare and fertilize as above Deep plowing in the preparation of land is essential. After the plant is. up, of course the shallower the cultiva tion the better. About the 80th of July the cotton should all be topped, as that makes it mature earlier and often saves much damage from the catterpillar. Most people wait too late to top their cotton and consequently fail to get the real ben efit from the operation. “The salvation of this country rests on the intensive system of fanning, small acreage, high fertilization and thorough and rapid working of the crop means profit to the farmer, whereas the old sys tem means ajcojitinue4 strupgb- ami a miserable hand-to-mouth existence. The one system brings contentment and hap piness, the other only trial, hardship and discontent.” Geo. W. Truitt. THE CONFESSSION OP FAITH. A Statement Regarding: the Recent Work of the Revision Committee. Columbus, Ohio, March 4.—Dr. W. B. Moore, Secretary of the Presbyterian General Assembly’s committee on the re vision of the Confession of Faith, which held its second session at Washington, Feb. 16, says: “The same method was pursued as at the sessions in Allegheny, so that the en tire confession was revised and attention given to the answers of the Presbyteries on each chapter and section designated by them. The work done and tentative ly adopted at Allegheny was passed in review and confirmed, or changed as deemed best. The committee thus revis ed Chapters I.-XVI. The remaining chapters were taken up at these sessions and changes tentatively made were finally adopted as the mature judgment of the committee. The changes, eliminations, or additions are chiefly in Chapter I., 5, Chapter III., 3, 4, 5, 6; Chapter IV., 1; Chapter VI., 4; Chapter VII., 3, 4, 5, 6; Chapter X., 2, 3, 4} Chapter XI., 1-3; Chapter XIV., 1; Chapter XVI., 7; Chap ter XXI., 4; Chapter XXIXT., 3;, Chapter XXIV., 3; Chapter XXV., 6; Chapter XXIX. , 2^ and Chapter XXX., 2. “The general desire expressed by the Presbyteries in their answer to the over tures, ‘for a more explicit statement of the love of God for the world,’ ‘for the sufficiency of the atonement and free offer of salvation to all men,’ ‘for a recognition of the Church’s duty to evangelize the world,’ ‘for a statement of individual re sponsibility for salvation,’ and ‘for a ful ler statement respecting the person and WOrk of the Holy Spirit,’ the committee sought to meet by tne preparation of two new chapters, one, ‘of the work of the Holy Spirit,’ to follow Chapter VHI., ‘of Christ the mediator,’ the other, ‘of the universal offer of the Gospel,’ to follow Chapter IX., ‘of the free will.’ “These chapters meet most of the sug gestions in tbte answers of the Presbyter ies, and make many of the changes asked for in other chapters unnecessary. Its conclusions were reached with harmony, and its report will be neither of a majori ty nor a minority, but of the Revision Committee. The question of publishing its report before the time of the meeting of the next Assembly, which was left to the discretion of the committee, was fully considered. It was unanimously agreed ‘that we do not print any part of our re port prior to the meeting of the next As sembly,’ with the suggestion that the work of the committee be referred to the presbyteries for their consideration, but not as an overture for final action; that the presbyteries be requested to take up the report of the committee at their full meetings, carefully consider it, suggest any changes that they may deem desira ble, and forward the same to the Secre tary of the Revision Committee by Dec. 1, 1891; that the committee subsequently act upon these suggestions of the presby teries and make final renort to the Assem bly of 1898.’* THE POPE DISPLEASED With the Last Nominations of Bish ops In the United States. A cablegram from Rome says: The pope has informed the propaganda that he is exceedingly displeased with the last nominations for bishops made? by the United States .and sent here for the approval of his holiuess. This explains the delay in making the appointments, which, according to previous announce ment, were to be made on Thursday, February 12th. The pope was to have • held a consistory on that day, when he was to have created two cardinals, Mon signor Piavi, patriarch of Jerusalem, and Monsignor Sepimicci,. prelate of Tou- I louse, who have recently been residents of Rome. Upon the same occasion his holiness was to have appointed some Brazilian and some American bishops. Upon the , representation made by some of the I American Bishops as to the sad religious J condition of the Italian immigrants who landed in the United States, the propagan da, which is making an exhaustive study of the question under the pope’s order, has issued a pastoral letter addressed to the Italian bishops upon this subject. The letter states that the pope is greatly ) shocked at learning of the neglect which the immigrants are subjected to, and an nounces that his holiness is resolved to take enirgetic measures to remedy this evil. Direct Tax Bill Passed; Washington, D. C. [Special. ]—Tho direct tax bill which passed the house by a vote of 172 to 101, appropriates $17, 000,000. The Southern States under the bill will receive the following sums Alabama, $22,ft20; Arkansas $154,701 Georgia, $117,982; Kentucky, $608,041 Louisian, $385,886; Mississippi, $113, 394; North Carolina, $377,454; South Carolina, $222,396; Tennessee, $392,004;, Virginia, $442,408; West Virginia, $181, 306. -?- , i | One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founder of Methodism. A Statue to the Theologian Un» veiled in London, England. The centenary of John Wesley’s death was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies by Methodist churches generally throughout Europe and America, and the life and work of the apostle of Methodism were eulogized by the ministers in their sermons. In London, England, a statue erected in his honor was unveiled, in the presence of a large number of people, in front of the City Road Chapel, the headquarters of the Wesleyans. The Rev. Frederick William Farrar, Archdeacon of Westminster, took part in the ceremonies attending the unveil ing of the 6tatue, and afterward, with Sir Robert N. Fowler, one of the members of a meeting in the City Road Chapel, ex tolling the virtues of Wesley. Arch deacon Farrar delivered a long and elo quent eulogy of John Wesley, in the course of which he said that he regretted, as a Churchman, that the Church, 100 years ago, had not the wisdom to assimilate with the mighty enthusiasm which gave momentum to the Wesleyan movement. It seemed, said the Archdeacon, shocking and dis graceful in Christians, bound by a com mon Christianity, to treat each other with mutual coldness. John Wesley himself, he added, set an example of splendid tolerance. The Archdeacon, in conclusion, reminded the congregation of the words of William Penn, that the humble, meek, merciful and just are all of one religion, and will so recognize one another when in another world, with the mask off,_ _ ___ In New York City a number of clergy* men connected with tiie Methodist churches assembled at the Methodist Book Concern to celebrate the one hundredth anni versary in an appropriate manner.. Rev. Dr. S. Parsons presided at the meeting, which opened with prayer at 11 o’clock, the hour that John Wesley expired. Rev. Dr. John Atkinson, of Jersey City, de livered an address, after which Rev. Dr. George Lansing Taylor re$d a poem on the death of Wesley. Rev. Dr. Edwin Wilson, of the Reformed Episcopal Church, pre sented an autograph letter written by the reformer in 1770. Tn Boston, Mass., services in commemora tion of the one hundredth anniversarv of the famous theologian and revivalist," were held in Wesleyan Hall. The exercises were under the auspices of the Methodist preachers’ meeting, Rev. W. N. Brodbeck, D. D., presiding. After devotional exercises Rev. H. C. Sheldon, D. D., of the Boston University School of Theology, and Dr. Daniel Steele addressed the gathering on Wesley’s life and work. In Philadelphia, Penn., the 100th anniver sary was celebrated by an experience meet ing of the Methodist ministers of the city. There were a large number of ministers and laymen present at the meeting, and the anniversary of the death of the great founder of their church was marked by most interest ing services. John Wesley’s Career. John Wesley, the founder of the Metho dist Church, was bora at Epsworth, in Eng land, June 17, 1703; graduated at Oxford with distinction; became a deacon in 1735, a Fellow of Lincoln’s College in 1736, and was ordained a priest of the Church of Eugland in 1738. He became deeply im pressed with the necessity for changes and reforms in religious matters, and at Ox ford associated with his brother and others who from their devotion were termed in derision, “Methodists” and the “Godly Club.” John Wesley adopted habits of great austerity, and studied and fasted to such an extent that he seriously injured his health. In 1735 he went with his brother, Charles Wesley, to Georgia as a missionary to the Indians. During the voyage he became ac quainted with a number of Moravians with whom he subsequently co operated. Returning to Europe, he visited Count. Zinzendorf at Herruhut in 1738, but, owing to some difference, sepa. rated from the Moravians in 1740. Prior to this he had commenced preaching in the open air, and at Bristol, England, had laid the foundation of the Msthodist Church. JOHN- WESLEY. addressed A «o. 1 inmupauon ocneme. Richmond, Va., [Special.]—A novel plan that has several promising feature'* has been devised for attracting first-clasr immigrants to Virginia. Judge Charles Grattan and Capt. H. L. Hoover, of Staunton, authors^bf this plan, propose to organize a stock company of $10,000, 000 capital, divided into 100.000 shares of par value of $100. Of this 97,000 shares shall be land stock; that is, it shall be issued to land owners of the State a* par in full payment for property to be deeded to the company, the price for which shall be its Value as assessed in 1890. This wouldVeave 3,000 shares to be sold for cash, payable in monthly in stallments of 4 per cent, per share. This would furnish ready cash for advertising and all other expenses of the corpora tion. The land thus held shall not be sold at less than double its assessed val uation in 1890. In case of sale the com pany shall pay to the original owner three fourths of the money received from the sale, less 5 per cent, thereon, upon his surrender of the stock representing it. The underlying idea of this original plan is to make an organized offer to bring buyers from a distance to settle in Virginia, and to afford the farmers of the State a chance to dispose of their su perabundant acres at as high a pried as ft is possible to get for them under ex isting circumstances. Foster Enters Upon His Duties. Washington, D. C., [Special.]—Sec retary Cliarloa Foster arrived, at the Treasury department Thursday morning and entered upon his duties as secretary of treasury. He received the chiefs of diyision and spent the day in receiving friends who palled to extend their con gratulations. ■ Secretary Foster took the oath of office Wednesday evening at the executive mansion. - r , ....'■yx* | NEWSY GLEANINGS. Africa sends us hidee. London has 5,700,000 people. Uncle Bam needs 1900 sailors. Disastrous floods prevail in Arisons. ? The new German loan is very popular. Oregon has 400,000.000,000 feet of timber. One mile of railroad was laid la Iowa in 1890. London is about to be lighted by elec tricity. There are in New Orleans, La., about 500 Chinamen. Statistics show that the birth rate in the United States is declining. It has been proposed that Alaska have an agricultural experiment station. Ten deposits in the sayings banks of Canada declined $3,200,000 last year. Dresden, Germany, is to have an apart ment house to accommodate 600 families. Half a million cattle were exported to England from the United States last year. Chicago has been selected as the plaoe for the next meeting of the National Farmenf Alliance. > Alarm is felt in Massachusetts over the ‘custom of sprinkling trees and plants with Paris green. Missouri taxpayers supplied $7000 worth of tobacco last year to convicts in the State penitentiary. A fierce war is waging between the qui nine manufacturers of the United States and Europe. The peach growers of Western Maryland announce unusually fair prospects for - a good crop so far. In Philadelphia the courts are fining the fortune tellers $50 each and sending them to jail for thirty days. Gossip in Philadelphia places the R9V. Dr. McVickar’s fee for tho Asfcor-Wiliiug wedding at $10,000. During the recent fire at the Czar’s palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, he personally directed the firemen. New York capitalists have a scheme to turn the culm banks of the Pennsylvania coal regions into gas. Chicago’s World’s Pair directory vot©3 to abandon the lake front as a site for a por tion of the exhibition. The exports of mutton during 1890 were over 3.000,000 carcasses, being about fifteen times greater than 1883. In 1890, 3556 new Methodist churches were established in the South, an average of one church in every nineteen hours. There are twenty-six monarchies and twenty-five republics in the civilized world to-day. Sixteen republics are in South America. The new census of manufactures shows that there are 1800 more manufacturers in San Francisco, Cal., than there were ten years ago. The military guard of honor at General Sherman’s grave in St. Louis, Mo., will be kept on duty for six months. The tempor ary guard will be replaced by a troop of cavalry. A sentinel will be kept over the grave until the troop is finally relieved, when the grave will be left in the guardianship of the cemetery authorities. THE LAB0B W0BLD. Our mines employ 300,000. A Scotch strike cost $3,000,000. Colored miners are increasing. Germany had 1131 strikes in 1890. San Francisco has a girl bootblack. New York marble cutters now work eight St . Paul (Minn.) clerks have called a mass meeting. The labor struggles are entering another acute stage. The floods threw 80,000 out of work at Pittsburg, Penn. North Carolina will have a State Female Industrial School. The Connelisville coke strikers lost $227, 500 in wages in ten days. Ohio retailers want a law allowing ten per cent, of a debtor's wages. May 1 will be marked by eight-hour de monstrations throughout Europe. ,, Fresh strikes have broken out in Belgian coal mines in the province of Hainant. There is a great scarcity of stenographers in Savannah, Ga., and a constant demand for them. Ten mills have shut down in Blackburn, England, stopping 10,000 looms and throwing 3000 weavers out of work. The Railroad Coal Operators’ Association, in Pittsburg, Penn., demanded a reduction of ten per cent, in miners’ wages. Miners want ten per cent, advance. The labor organizations of Toronto are making it hot for the city authorities,^ who have been discovered to have distributed light-weight bread to the recipients of pub lic charity. One million and a half men work in the coal mine8 of the world. Of these England has 535,000; United States, 800,000: Ger many, 285,000; Belgium. 100,000; France, 90,000; Austria, 100,000; Russia, 44,000. The world’s miners of metal number 4 000,000. A ukase'has just been issued by the Czar of Russia forbidding the employment of Austrian workmen in Russia either in agri cultural districts or in factories. Laborers of Austrian nationality are conducted to the Austrian frontier every day in hundreds. THE Japanese cannot do so muqh work as the Chinese, but they are more easily man aged, and they do not have the same desire to enter into business and thus come into competition with the natives of the foreign country. In Hawaii they have been found.. better laborers than Portuguese or Chinese. Although the average quantity of coal mined by the individual miner of Maryland at 785 tons per year is larger than the quan tity mined by the man in Alabama 600 tons, the Maryland man’s pay is smaller than tfiat of his brother in Alabama, the wages in the latter Htate being ninety-four cents per ton against fifty-nine cents in Maryland. Of the $65,718,105 representing the output of coal in 1889 in this country the 125,299 minors, foremen, superintendents and en gineers received as their wages $39,152,194. making the average for the miners about $1 ner day. The coal barons pocketed onlv $20,406,041. These are the figures given out by Commissioner Porter, the census This Fellow’* Sine Found Him Out. 3 8a v*ra ah, Gav [Special.]—After l twenty year* continued swindling, by - which he hae managed to defraud Arms in Georgia and other etatea of amount* aggregating $80,06, A. J. Dickaon, of Merchon, ia now on trial in the United States court for uaing mails for fraudu lent purposes. According to the testi muut he would sendjor a small bill of goods and refer to flotitloua Anna at Her chon, Where he served as postmaster. When letters of inquiry came, he would answer them, giving himself first-claw business rating. The Ant bill he would pay as bait, then he would order another lot of F goods for which the money saver
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