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SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB \v ; .. • r-A MAT 10. 1801. 1. “Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me, and behold a basket of summer fruit.” In our last leeeon we,heard Jehovah remind ing Israel of the many ways in which He had sought to win them back to Himself. In chapter y., 4, 6, 14, 15, they are repeatedly entreated to seek Him ana live. Then they are warned of the day of the lord and Its termers, yet they conspire against the prophet Amos and refnse to hear his words (vii., 10-18). Now, in a vision, the nation is shown to the prophet as a basket of ripe fruit, ready to be consumed; they will not be warned and therefore judgement must come. Observe the title of God in this verse—it is not Je* hovah Elohim (Righteous Creator), but Adon&i Jehovah (the Possessor who is Righteous) and is used about twenty times in this prophecy. Lord or God in capitals Is always Jehovah; but Lord in'smallletters, beginning with a capital L, is Adonai. He speaks to them through Amos as their owner or possessor (see Amos iii., ~ * to His own pj * * (see Amos iii. ,2) having a right property; but He is also a right jor. This title is first found in Gen. xv., 2. 2. “Then said the Lord unto me. The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again, pass by them any more.” Similar words are found in chapter vii., 8, and in ” k. vii., 2, 8. Long and patiently He forbears, and loving seeks in every way to ' " ' ~ '* *i ilhcrn win them back, but there is a point 1 mercy stops and judgment must fall. 3. “Ana the songs bf the temple shall be howling in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies in every place; they mall cast them forth with silence.” In Isa. xiii., Wk and in many other plaoes howling is as sociated with the Day of the Lord, and the expression “in thaflgflay” found in this versa and in verses ninenlftd thirteen also signifies the Day of the Lord (Isa, ii., 11, 12). The great Day of the Lord is yet future, ami is everywhere associated with judgment the ungodly and deliverance for the ft___ remnant (see Isa. xxxiV., 8; xxxv., 4; Ladii., 4). But the approaching judgment In the days of. Amos was a foreshadowing of the, Great Day yet future. The silent burial of the dead Indicates the horrors of the siege and of war, or it may be enlightened by such words as these: “Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: tor the day of the Lord is at hand; for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, He bath bid His guests’” (Zeph. i., 7). 4. “Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fait” They were panting for the goods of the poor, that they might fail out of the land. They are described in Prov. xxx., 14, as “a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from %mong men.” 5. ‘‘Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sab bath that we may set forth wheat?” They outwardly kept these daye religiously, but all the time their hearts were longing for the business of the morrow. “Making the ephah small, and the{shekel great, and fasifying the balances by deceit.” Not only were market days better to them than Sabbaths, but they were full of deceit even in business, giving their purchasers short weight and taking from them more than was due. Not scrupling to cheat God out of His appointed worship, they found no difficulty in cheating their fellow man. 6. “That we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.” Compelling the needy to sell themselves as slaves and eat re fuse corn. They sold the righteous for silver and the poor for apairof shoes (chap, ii., ft. They had no heartxor God or His commands or His poor. 7. “TneLord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.” “He will remember their in iquity and visit their sins.” “The sin of Vildan is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond” (Hos. yiif., 18; Jer. xvii., 1). It may be that a great portion of the sufferings of the lost will be the re membrance of their sins which might have been forgiven. 8. “Shall not the lp.nd tremble for this, and everyone mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall rise up wholly as a flood, and it shall be cast out and drpwned by the flood of Egypt.” This shaking world would be great and sore, but nothing when compared with the great shaking Of heaven, earth, sea, dry land and all nations in the day of the Lord (Hag. ii., 6-7; Heb. xii., 26). The mourning also would be great, but see the greater mourning of that day which shall precede Israel’s national conversion (Zech. xii., 10. to xiii., 1. ©• “And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and 1 will darken the earth in the clear day.” Sun, moon and stars, winds and clouds are all obedient to Him, and in that day there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; the earth shall quake, the heavens shah trem ble, the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw then* - shining ; tho~ sun shall be turned into darkness au i the moon into blood before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come (Luke xxi., 35; Jjbel ii., 10,31; Rev. vi., 12). > j tO'. “Au'T I will turn your feasts into mourning, and nil your songs into lainenta but by ©very word that 9 mouth of the Lord doth won. me mourning, lamentation, sacK oloth, baldness and bitterness of this verse all in ticate the great judgment that would overtake them because of their sinr. 11. “Behold; the days come, saith the Lord God, that 1 will send a famine in the laud; got a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, at of bearing the words of the LordMul titudes in our ^day would not worry much over that kind of a famine. It was just so in Israel; “They mocked the messeugereof God and despised His words, and misued His Prophets.” “They despised the law qt the Lord and have not keep'His commandments” III Chron. mvi., 16; Amos it, 4). Broad for the body was all they oared for, although they had been taught that “man doth not \|ve by bread alone. buf proceedeth out of the l man live,” and that it was their life to set their hearts unto His words (Deut. viil., 3, fcxxii., 48,41). 13. “And the; shall wander from sea to sea. Ad from the north even to the east; they mall ran to and fro to seek the word of the 1 Lord, and shall not find it." Blessings lost are apt to be prl^td when it is too late. Let us who have the word of God ask ourselves how much we prize it. If you had no Bible, and could hot get one in your town, knowing what It is. how far would you go to get one? Two-thirds of the people on earth are suffer (naf and dying without the word of God. What do you cere I What are you doing to give them the bread of life? Do you pray for your pastor that he may give you living bread, or are you Rati ailed with stones instead of bread? 'is, I 14. “They that swear by the sin of Sa maria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, livath; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even (hey shall fall, and never rise up again." In Deut. isT., 81. the golden calf which Aaron made is called Israel's sin. The oalves of Jeroboam at Dan and Bethel were also Israel's sin, and are here called the sin of Samaria. While there is a great and glorious future for Israel as a nation, all individuals who sin against God and die impenitent, whether Jews or Gentiles, shall surely perish. The only way to have life ' “os, real life consisting of forgiveness of sin 1 fellowship with God, and be able to look 1 with Joy to the future, is to be In ‘ “ ' i Him, and turning '* giu) jjj SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Southern Men And Measures Paragraphed. Newsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphic Dispatches Prom Many Points | In Our Own and Adjoin ing States. VIRGINIA. The Farmers’ Alliance of Albemarle county is rapidly growing. The North Side viaduct, at Richmond, connecting the city with Chestnut Hill, was opened with great ceremony. The criminals in the Ajnhemt jSjlhavC been takeu to Lynchburg for safe keep ing. Four thieves were arrested near Dap ville, Thursday, all charged with arton, theft, and poisoning. Final arrangements have been made for .the erection of the glSas works plant at Buena Vista. The Virginia Pyrites Mining Co. hss been incorporated with a capital stock'of $100,000 to develop pyrite mines in Louisa county, manufacture sulphuric | acid, soda, etc. } Sutherland & Ashworth have purchas ed the Swan coal land of 100,000 acres in Wise and Dickinson counties, and will develop same. Dr. E. H. Smith died at Richmond, Wednesday night. He was known throughout the south as the surgeon of Chimborazo hospital there, during the war. He was consul to Naples under the administration of Presidents Garfield and Arthur. NORTH CAROLINA. In 1800 Charlotte contained 65 free persons and 59 slaves. It had a court -house and a jail:— In 1702 Wilmington had about 1,100 inhabitants, according to Gen. George Washington’s diary or itinerary. Ground was broken at Winston Wed nesday for the now $100,000 hotel to be erected there. It is reported that Baltimore, Md., Sa lem, Va., and other capitalists have pur chased several hundred acres of land in North Winston as site for the construc tion of a Bessemer steel plant. Dr. John F. Crowell, president of Trinity College, was married Thursday, April 30, at Woodbury, New Jersey, to Mbs Carrie U. Pascoe. Jas. H. South gate, of Durham, was groomsman. The machine shops of the Kaleigh & Gaston Railroad Co. will be moved from Raleigh to some point farther south, it being intended to consolidate the shops with those of the Carolina Central Rail road at some convenient point. SOUTH CAROLINA: The Savings bank of Barnwell, capital $85,000, has been organized. The Central Hotel, which was burned a few weeks ago at Florence, is Ming rebuilt. The. South Carolina Rpjlww authori ties have placed the tug Lila op the Copp er River for the accommodation of truck farmers on the islands ana mat$j&nd. Another tug is run on the Ashley fiiver. McCormicb, Abbeville county, owes its name to Cyrus H. McCormmk, the famous inventor of agricultural machine^, who, after he'acqmired his fortune, bought in 1868 a gold mine and 1,300 acres of land where now this town stands. The gardens of Magnolia, up the Ashley river, near Charleston, are justly famous as one of the most charming resorts in the world. These gardens are visited by thousands of people. There can be seen the finest collections of flowers in the world, the chief attraction being the gorgeous Azaleas. The number of applicants for admis sion to Clemson College is increasing very rapidly. Secretary Tindal received a letter in which the information is given that the roll is now 410. TENNESSEE. Knoxville will vote on June 16 wheth er to issue $800,000 bonds for sewerage and streets. John Cruze, a prosperous farmer living near Knoxville, was instantly killed by lightning Thursday. Perry Durham, of Franklin county,has had in the last five years, 12 illicit dis tilleries destroyed by the government. Though arrested he has always Escaped. Wednesday he was convicted and sen tenced to prison at Columbus, Ohio. The state board of dental examiners, provided for in the act regulating lie practice of dentistry, was appointed by Governor Buchanan, as follows: Dr. J. Y. Crawford, Nashville, three-year term; Dr. B. B. Lee, Nashville, two years; Dr. J. L. Newborn, Memphis, three years; Dr. T. W. Arlington, Memphis, one year; Dr. T. A. Shotwell, Rogersville, one year; Dr. 8. B. Cook, CJ-3,---vo years. Two bridges in Shelby county,one over Loosa Hatchio river near Memphis at |5,359, the otheron Livermore avenue, in the suburbs of Memphis, at $1,535. GEORGIA. David Kcmpner, manager of the Na tional Hotel, Atlanta, is dead, in that city. Ho was also a musician of ability. Colonel L. F. Livingston is just from Oglethorpe county, where a big meeting of Alliancemen has been held. A new theatre is being built on Edge wood Avenue, Atlanta. 1,400 will be the seating capacity. Wiley Miller, a freight conductor, fell under the oars near Cochran, and was in stantly killed. t; - The singing convention of northwest Georgjn will meet in LaFayette on Satur day before tlje third Sunday in May, and will hold a two days’ session. " v The Sumter County Alliance Co-oper ative Afe&iciatjaa is reported as to erect a fertilizer factory. • • . FLORIDA. Between Lake Harris and Lake Min nehaha, there are .about fifteen hundred acres of ver^ fine tomatoes, from which shipments are being made daily. Tbe Rev. H. C. Column, of Louisville, Ky., was at Brooksville Saturday lectur - ■» Free Masons on “Masonry in Griffin & Brice will build a railroad from Lakeland to the Alalia phosphate fields. The Methodists are preparing to erect a $15,000 church at Tallahassee. The Polk County Alliance will, estab lish a bank at Tampa. The St. Augustine Guards hare re ceived word, indirectly, that Governor Chiming has decided to call a slate en campment of the Florida state troops in July, and that the north beach has been decided upon ns the place of rendezvous. Last .year an effort was made to have a state encampment, but the governor de cided against it, as there were no funds. OTHER STATES. Jit his speech at Birmingham, Presi dent Hurrison remarked to the South generally: “!You have produced three fourths of the. cotton crop of the world, but, as yet you are spinning in the South only 8 per cent, of it. Why not, with the help we will give you in New England and the North, spin all of it!" THE POSTAL SUBSIDY ACT. Entablishing of Steamship Lines Between Southern Forts and South America. Washington, D. &, [Special.]—For some time representatives of commercial organizations ot New Orleans, Galveston and St. Louis have been conferring with Postmaster-General Wanamaker and oth er postal officers with the view of estab lishing lines of vessels to ply between New Orleans and Galveston and South and Central American ports. Ex-Governcr Warmouth, representing New Orleans and Galveston, has con ducted the principal negotiations, and he took advantage of Wanamaker’s trip South with the President to urge the matter. The acting Postmaster-General has received advices from Wanamaker showing that the negotiations have reached what may be regarded as a favor able termination. Wanamaker in the first place gave as surances that the administration was specially anxious to aid the South in de veloping commerce with South and Cen- j tral America, as the nearness of Southern ' ports to the proposed new field of com merce render's them the natural trade centres for our Southern neighbors. He added that if the companies of steam ers could be established from Southern ports to Southern and Central America on terms to, compete with projected steamship lines from the East, wen con tracts would be made wijh the South. The represen&tives of SputherU commer cial bodies claim that they can establish lines with advantage over Eastern lilies, and they are gratified with the assurances that the South will be given a fair show. Death of Major Peyton Randolph. • Washington, D. C., [Special.]—Ma- , ^jor Peyton Randolph, an old citizen ofj 'Richmond, and who has many friends and relatives in that city, died at his residence on Iowa circle, Thursday. He had been suffering for months with heart disease, and since February was confled to his house. As is usual with heart trouble, Major Randolph’s condi tion fluctuated. At times he seem to rally and his family grew hopeful, but these recuperative symptoms would be followed by sinking spells. Major Randolph suffered a severe at tack of grip about a year ago, and that seemed to aggravate his heart trouble. He remained at his post of duty as third vice-president of the Richmond and Dan ville system despite his illness until the 1st of February. For a month prior to his death the condition of Major Ran dolph had caused his family serious alarm. His death was quiet and peaceful. He was conscious until with in a few moments of his death. When the summons came he was surroufided by his family, Mrs. Randolph and five daughters. Money in ‘ 'Sang." One of the queer industries of the country, about which very little is known outside the custom house, is the cultiva tion of ginseng. It is found in the mountain regions of Georgia, North Car olina, Alabama and Tennessee in# abun dance, and only the roots, of the plant are used. These are dug up in the fall of the year by mountaineers, and it is pope larly known throughout these regions as 1 ‘sang, ” the prefix ‘ ‘gin” being discarded absolutely, and the last syllable pro nounced as if it were spelled with an “a.” The roots are dried and sold to the near est storekeeper, and are eventually col lected In large quantities, sent to Cali fornia and thence aro shipped to China. The Chinese attach wonderful medicinal properties to this article, which has an abominable odor and a vilainoua taste, and they place an especial value upon roots which has fantastic shapes.- A gin seng root bearing a fancied resemblance to a human shape is worth its weight in gold in China. Pensioning Confederate Widow*. Atlahta, Ga., [Special.]—In provid ing a pension of ope hundred dollars for widows of soldiers who died in the Con federate service or from wounds received or disease contracted therein, the General Assembly of Georgia estimates that somo six-hundred beneficiaries would be found in the State, but up to this time the ap plications are about double that number. As the law requires that the widow shall have been married while her husband was in the service and shall have remain ed unmarried since his death, the num ber of applications proves either much fidelity to the memory of the departed or suen a destruction of male marriage able material by the war as to lender impracticable a second choice, perhaps A Fireman galled by an Electric Wire. Chattanooga, Tenn. , [Specie!.]—A large crowd gathered at the coiner of Ninth and Georgia nveiifie, to witness the Fire Department put out a small blare in the European Hotel. , Charles Werner, head hoseman of the Lookout Fire Department, was at the top of the long ladder near a third story win J Ho touched, a live slecbaa#' ’' ROSENTHAL ANXIOUS TO BUY, And Afterward -Repented of Hie Haste in .the Hatter. Gheehvlllb, 8. C., [Special.]—A transaction aod subsequent events con nected with it have been the cause of considerable comment in commercial cir cles here. It appears that L. Rosenthal, a wealthy retired Hebrew merchant, who has recently removed here from Raleigh, N. C., enter ed the store of H. End el, and in an apparently ijestiug manner of fered Mr. Endel a certain amount for his stock of goods, lease jof store and good will. Mr. Endel rjepKed, saying he would take a certain sum, which Mr. Rosenthal, much to its surprise, accept ed. and they went back to Mr. Endel's office, where the sale was completed by Mr. Rosenthal giving Mr. Endel checks for the amount, receiving a bill of sale, the entire trransaction being in the pres ence of witnesses. A few hours after this took place Mr. Endel was surprised to receive a visit from Mr. Rosenthal, who requested him to cancel the trade and return the checks, giving as his rea son that he did not care to go into busi ness again. This Mr. Endel declined to do, whereupon Mr. Rosenthal insisted that the trade be declared off, und, Mr. Endel further declining, notified him that he would stop the payment of his checks. When the bank opened the following morning Mr. Endel presented the checks. Payment was refused. The case is now in the hands of the attorneys, and the public, with considerable curi osity, is awaiting the course of events. RICHMOND'S TREASURY ROBBED. The Mayor Makes an Incriminating Report. Richmond, Va., [Special.]—The may or has submitted to a joint session of the council his report of the investigation he lias made of the offices of treasurer and auditor. He says E. Buford Grimes, who is under indictment, is-guilty of frauds committed through several years, that he has used every conceivable means to manipulate thfe records to rob the city. Ilia shortage, so far as discovered, is about $2,6Qp, but the mayor thinks further investigation will add to this shortage. He criticises severely the loose manner in which the auditor and treasurer have conducted their depart ments, saying they have completely ig nored all ordinances respecting their offices. _ A MODEL FARMER. He Works on the Intensive Plan and Out-Strips His Brother Farmers. Kastman, Ga., [Special.]—Last year /ohn H. Hargrove, excelled the Becond best fanner in the cdunty in the number of bales per aero on his entire cotton srop. And this year he proposes to re duce his number of acres to less than half of what it was last year, so that he slone, in person, can cultivate it, and still obtain a like yield of cotton. Ha expects to apply seventy-fivo bushels nW cotton seed and 800 pounds of guano in the drill per acre at planting, and in July feed 300 pounds more of gpano to the growing plants. Mr. Hargrove’s lands are already in a high state of cul tivation, and, with good seasons and the excellent tillage he will give it, we may look for fine results. The Terrible Experience of Young _ Ken. Grebn villi', S. C., [Special.] A party of young men trom this city went up the Carolina, Knoxville & Western railroad on a hand car. While going down a steep grade they lost control of the car, and it b gain increasing speed until it was running at the rate of forty.miles an hour. They were nearing a high trestle, and fearirg it might jump the track, all of-the party, except one, named James Henderson, leaped down an embank ment, and escaped with only a few bruises, Henderson prepared to leap, hung his foot over too far, when it caught between the crossties and jerked him off. He fell on the rail just in front of the car, and the wheels on one side passed across his body. He was serious ly injured and will die. tnniliii t Bellamy Booking Back* ward. Normon, O. T., April 29.—Georg* Bellamy, a young druggist of this place, is noted for his joking proclivities. Yes terday evening he jokingly proposed marriage to Miss Emma, daughter of Dr. J. S. Cannbn. She jokingly consented, and County Judge F. P. Case happened in and was invited to perform the cere mony, which he did in regulation style in the presence of several witnesses. Upon returning to his office, the Judge made the record of the marriage. This morning, when yoiiing Bellamy learned of the Judge’s action, he made haste to explain to his Honor' that it was all a joke, out was cooly informed that law did not recognise jokes; that the law had been complied with, and that he was legally married. _ Wants to Oome South. The Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in addition to their refrigerator business, manufacture portable houses. The company contem plates the removal of the portable house building branch of their business to some point in the South where iron, lumber and cotton cloth can be had at low coat. It iuvitcs correspondence on the subject. Received Her Money and Fainted. Washington, D. Cm [Special.]—EliX. uhoth Mulvorhill, of Frederick county, Va., fainted in the Treasury Department just after she signed her receipt for $4, S45.17 and received a draft for the same. The money was due her under the Bow man act for property destroyed by the Federal army during the war, and claim ha^^eemnenmng for vests. the A Suicide in Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala., [Special.]—Mrs. 3. M. Goldstein, about thirty years old, md the wife of a merchant, took sixty grains of morphine, and died in a few tours. General despondency is assigned * MEXICO HONORS HARRISON. Our Sister Republic Unites W.tll Texas in Greeting the President. El Paso, Tex., [Special ]—Mexico joined the United States Tuesday in do ing honor to President Harrison. The train arrived at EL Paso ,-after'#a run of 600 miles from San Antonio. t^ A part of the route lay along the pic turesque Rio Grande, and the ^President spent several hours on the rear platform of the observation car admiring the scen ery. As the train ran through the sec tion, Mexican men, women and children, came out from queer-looking huts and gazed with wonder at thetrain A large encampment of Mexican railroad labor ers cheered as the train went by. A short stop was made at Del Rio, Vanver de countv, where nearly the whole popu lation ol the little town turned out to welcome the Chief Executive. The sta tion building was fairly covered with wreaths of roses, and bouquet after bo quet was handed to the Presidential par ty by persons in thejerowd until the platform of the observation car was deep in sweet-smelling flowers. Two little girls presented the President with a large basket of roses, and the public school children presented a writeen address. The President made a few remarks and Mr. Wanamaker and Mr. Rusk also spoke Tsleta El Paso, which the inhabitants claim is the oldest town in the United States, had a brass-band with Mexican musicians to greet the President. When the train halted there at 9:30 o’clock this morning, Mexicans and Indians crowded about the car and nearly all shook the President’s band. The train arrived at Ei Paso on time. Governor Carrillo, of the Mexican State of Chihuahua; Mexican custom officers of the border, General McCook, of the. United States, and prominent citizens met the President at the train. A detachment of the Fifth Infantry and band, a number of Mexican officers with a military band and local organiza tions formed a procession to the court house, where the speaking took place. At many of the street corners were ban ners in Spanish and English bearing the words, “Reciprocity with Mexico.” General A. L. Mallory made the ad dress of welcome at the courthouse. Governor Cariiio also spoke in behalf of President Diaz, and several others mado speeches welcoming the President to the Lone Star State. The President made a brief response and was heartily applauded. Mrs. Harrison and a number of ladies of the party visited Juarez, on the Mexi can side of the river, where a salute was fired by Mexican artillery. A salute was also fired on the American side. A Home For .ranters: Colorado Springs, Col., [Special.] — Ground was broken here for the national hotne for aged and indigent printers. The home is the outcome of a donation of $10,000 by George Wiu= Childs and A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, to the inter national typographical union. Subscrip tions from printers of the United States have increased this fund sufficiently to warrant the Union in erecting a building at a cost of $50,000. The land upon which the home is being built consists of 80 acres and was donated tq the print ers by A. A. McGooney and & F. Mar tin, of this city. The structure will be 40 by 150 feet, three stories tyigh, with a 90 foot tower on each end. Red sand stone quarried in the mountain of this vicinity will be used in the construction of the home. Ill Fate of An Armenian Girl; A London cablegram says: Consider able excitemeut prevails on the Armenian frontier/ owing to the fate of an Armenian girl named Mirkirtitoh, who escaped from a Turkish harem at Riia, and got as far as the Russian frontier, where she was captured, aud, it is said, carried back to Riza and murdered. The girl had been kidnapped two years before from her house in Russian Armen ia, and sold to a wealthy Moslcmalrisa. When the story became known to the refugee Armenians on the Russian side of the border, they were, with difficulty* restrained from crossing the frontier to invade Turkish Armenia. Cheerful on the Scaffold. Cbaulottesvili.k, Va., [Special.]— William Muscoe, alias William T. Jordon, the negro who murdered Policeman Soorge F. Seal in this city on Dec. 31, 1888, was hanged in the jail yard here Tuesday morning. He made a full con fession. He distributed - money and trinkets to the women prisoners, and re quested that his body be sent to his pa rents in Lynchburg. He joined in the singing on the scaffold. Saurian Degeneracy. A Rhode Island paper says: The aver age Florida crocodile brought North by the tourists is seren inches in length, and he has sea room enough in a cigar box. Wo look at the little cuss, and then, thinking of his ancestors whom we saw pictured in the geography of our boy hood days, carrying off an ox in his jaws, we conclude that the Augustan age for crocodiles, is past. No Teeth, No Goapel. Wavnbsboro, Ga.—A novel petition is being circulated here by a negro preacher, who lives a few miles out in the country. It is an appeal for money to purchase a set of false teeth. He was greeted with laughter wherever he ap peared, but nothing daunted, he is still going the rounds with his petition. He ■■ ■ - iSr? says he can't preach the Gos] teeth. i without Settlement of the Virginia Debt. ' London, Eno., [Cablegram.,]—The ne gotiations between Mr. Ellis, of the American committee on the Virginia debt, and Messrs. Lubbock, Lidderdale and Dauiell, constituting the Euglish ad visory board, have resulted in negotia tions for a settlement of the debt based upon the plan of November, 1890, rec ommended by Messrs. Cleveland, Bayard, Phelps, and others. Bkhi.if, Y« * TIME TO AWAKEN. 4 Wail of Distress From New Hamp v shire. The Sreen Mountain State Is Visit ed by ‘ ‘Sockless Jerry” Simp son, Who Preaches Alli ance Doctrines. Mancaebter, N. H., [Special.']—'Tli* Weekly Budget says; Hon. Jerry Simp son, of Kansas, visited our State las week. Precious little welcome did he fet from the newspapers of the State he message that he bore was not suited to their tastes. Byt he set the people to thinking, and scores of those who heard him went away saying under their breath, “Jerry is right.” The past week has seen events that confirmed those people in their belief. The Supreme Court 04, New Hampshire, .responding to the queries of the Legislature, has issued the dictum, almost in so many words, that the railroads have succeeded in defraud ing the State of its interest in the Con cord railroad. The Legislature of 1889, as was generall) understood, contemplai^ ed no such result. Not an advocate of those bills by which railroad consolida tion, stock watering to large amounts, and a revival of old and dead stock were permitted, ever dared to suggest that the people were surrendering any rights they possessed in passing the act of 1889. But the court has said that they did it. That right which so sagacious a man as Austin Corbin was ready to pay $500,000 for it in 1889 and which he considered ! worth $1000,000, this year the court ii. effect declares has been waived, given away, utterly lost. And how? With an understanding of what\ was being done? No! But through subterfuge and chica nary. The act of 1889 pretended to se cure the people- injthcirrights, but the court does not hold that it did so. On the contrary, it coolly informs the people, by implication but not set words, that the reservation of rights in that statute was a delusion and a snare, void and of no effect. The act of the court in that re gard has been followed up by another in the same direction—the issuing of an injunction by J-udge Blodgett preventing he laying of the rails on the old road from North Weare to Henniker. This last act of railroad arrogance is he last straw to break the back of the long suff ering patience of the people of New Hampshire. It is a reassertiou in an ag gravated form of the Vanderbilt creed, “The* people be d-d.” And if the neojfle do not resent it they deserve just (fThat fate and nothing better. The Knights of Labor were organized !ik Srirt® for one purpose, the secur of a ten-hour law. Wlien that was secured its members ceased from its la bors. Is it not time, men and brethren. 1 hat the people rose in their might and demanded some things for themselves? Let the record of the Legislature of 1891 answer. Its first business almost was to pass, absolutely without amendment, bills injecting millions of dollars of new stock into two railroad corporations and presenting to their fortiyiate stockholders gifts of millions of dollars which must eventually come out of the people’s pock ets. It has followed it up by voting down in the Senate the only measure in the interest of the poor man that the House could be induced to pass, viz: the bill allowing th^, poor man’s five dollars to buy an equal proportion of transporta tion over its lines with the rich man’s twenty dollars. The same Senate is re lied upon to thwart the will of the people in the matter of the construction' of th Weare-Henniker road as authorized by the House of Representatives. The exactions and extortions of the railroads of Kansas were at the bottom of the Farmers’ Alli ance movement in that State. Have the farmers and citizens of New Hampshire less manhood than they? Tattoo Harks Won’t Come Oat. It has often been claimed that tattoo marks may be removed by pricking over them goat’s milk. This* is a mistaken idea. ChemiBts and others have for years experimented with various prepa rations in the hope of discovering some | agent to wholly remove India ink marks from the human skin. Nothing, how ever, has as yet been found that will re move a portion even of the objectionable marks, unless, possibly, tho attempt be made immediately following the tattoo* iag process.—Boston Bulletin. The Bucket Brigade. An ingenious system of keeping fire buckets ready for use, and at the same time obviating the necessity of having the buckets exposed, is the invention of an Englishman. The apparatus consists of a tank filled with water, and in it arc arranged the buckets, which ara all un der water. In an emergency it is ic possible to withdraw a bucket unless i 'contains water.—Philadelphia Jtecord. Hangs An Agent of a Bird House Himself. j New Orleans, La., [Special.]—Chas. Bernbs, a German, 82 yearn old, from New York City, hanged himself toa bed post in, his room over William Bartel’s bird store ou Chartress street. He came here from New York with a consignment of birds, and ever since his arrival has acted as though he was slightly dement ed. A Tragedy in the Churchyard. Lake Charles, La., [Special.]—At Dry. Creek church, as the people were congregating for religious services, an al tercation took place between E. Miller and Dr. W. A. Sigler, in which Ilr. Sig ler was shot and instantly killed by Mil ler. The cause of tho trouble is not known. The murderer was arrested. Raid on Kentucky Bourbon. Louisville, Kt.—Revenue agent Haw kins and a posse has returned from a moonshine raid through Letcher, Lestie and Laurel counties. They made a five hundred mile trip, captured and destroy ed six stills together with 100 gallons of whiskey, 1000 gallons of high, and 500 gallons of low wines. FifteCu moon shin era were wrested, SELECT SITTINGS. Chicago his Chinese bakeries, Ithaca, Wis., breeds Bt. Benin Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, Ind., thirteen years old, but weighs pounds. Indian elephants cannot Uve in Central Africa, the homeof a larger and ) hardy species. ' The past has been, it is said, with i ^exception, the foggyist winter for twenty f years in London. Mrs. Stanley, wife of the explorer, is a direct descendant—the seventh in T" —from Oliver Cromwell, ■ ’ 3 A man at Athens, da., owns i uity, in the form of a water 1 hewn out of the solid rook. The Japanese administer the oath ' cutting the witness’s finger and Inking blood to seal the swear. Dr. Elliott Coues, late of the Smith sonian Institution, estimates that 1000 legitimate words are coined annually. The most watery county in the United, States is Monroe County, Fla. It is chiefly composed of small islands, or keys. The new war ship of the English navy, the Royal Sovereign, was constructed in seventeen months, which is said to be the ' best time on record for such work. -'ij The poundmaster of Oakland, Cal., sold for #12 at an estray auction an un claimed horse. The animal was.subse quently identified as a $4000 thorough-, bred trotter, A Missouri man recently went before the Legislature of that State advocatin the introduction and passage of a bill compelling the keepers of railroad res taurants to date their pies. In certain parts of Africa crickets are said to constitute an artitle of commerce. People rear them, feed them in confine ment and sell them. The natives are very fond of their music, thinking that it induces sleep. Superstitions regard ing the cricket’s chirp are very varied. , .Some believe that it is ominous of sorrow and evil, while others consider it to 1)0 a harbinger of joy. The fate of Lizzie Bond, of Anderson, Ind., shows that a woman is not Safe even after she has stepped on one side of the track and permitted a train of oars to pass her. Miss Bond stepped off the track, but the suction of the train that thundered past her drew her dress under the rear car, which, catching upon an iron bar, dragged her fifty yards or more, dashing her brains out upon the, cross ties. m Capture of a Counterfeiter. Washington, D. C., [Special.]—The chief of the secretjaerrice bureau of the treasury department has information of the capture of “Dean, the counterfeiter ot Wiusted county, Alabama.” Moulds for making coins were found in his pos session. n KEEP YOUR EYE OH DILWORTH "THE CITY OF AYEHUES.” A Suburban Town Site of 450 Acres, forming the South-, orn Corporate Limits CHARLOTTE, N. C. The Queen City of the State. A Boulevard 100 feet wide, gives a 3 mile drive around DILWORTB,. and its avenues, running at right angles, are 60 feet wide, constnusted with a view to sanitary advantages, for sewerage with water facilities. Over one hundred thousand dollars_ has already been spent on this pro perty and many more thousands will be expended in the near future. The property contains the beautiful LATTA Park of 90 acres, a lovely feature of which is Forsyth lake, nearly 1200 feet long. Taken alto gether, this is the prettiest resort of its character in the “Dixie” country. At LATTA Park there are now tn course of construction, and Will be completed by August 1, 1891, a pa vilion designed by the celebrated Norrman, “the architect of beauti ful designs,' ’ together with a keepers lodge, unique tn character and a conservatory after the English pat tern, at a cost for the buildings and furnishings of over 913,000, together with other attractive features, now being arranged for by the Charlotte Consolidated Com. Co. MAY SO, 31, S3, 1891, a number of valuable in the immediate vicinity turesque places above Terms of sale : One-fourth ance in 1, 2 and 8 years. 1 tor to Charlotte on that day, present also at the regular celebration of jfotieimira Minim d This mi day is a fMitu* of 1 Queen City, sod is well i-' Minutest section of our Burchuser of a tot, or ] 10 return of the ooet of* hotels and a large finely equipped e passengers orer Cl decorated in their The company will offer at public sale on the premises on
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