VOL. VI SAN*<$RD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892 SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATONAL LESSON 70S ; FIBKUARY 28.1802. 11. ‘'And it came to pang, that when the •army of the Chaldeans was broken up from 'Jerusalem lor fear of Pharaoh's army.” We jarenowin the reign of Zedeklab, son ol 'Josiab, the last of the kings of Judah. He, lllke the three who preceded him, would not listen to the words of Jehovah, although at times he seemed inclined to do differently, as ,we shall see, and even asked the prophet to pray for him and for the people; verses 1-8. 'But the end was now near; the city is be sieged* and God is about to give “The dearly beloved of His soul” into the hands of her enemies (chapter xii., t). There is, however, a little respite, for Pharaoh's army comes forth oht of Egypt, and the Chaldeans de part from Jerusalem (verses 5, 10). .12. “Then Jeremiah went’forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin 7—--- ~ KUO nuu wi XMJUJUIIllU to separate himself thence in the midst of ,tte people.” The Revised Version save, ‘To receive 111. portion there.” Anathotb, In the land of Benjamin, was hie home '(chapter 1., 1). He had been a faithful wit neee for God in the holy city, and bia testi mony had been rejected, It was most nat jural that he should desire to take advantage jol this lull in the siege to retire if possible to Hie quiet, of bis own town, i 18. “And when he was in the gate of Ben jamin a captain of the ward took Jeremiah, [the prophet, saying, Thou fullest away to {he Chaldeans.” That the righteous should (be falsely accused, persecuted and e/en slain by the unrighteous seems a strange Ahing to many. It troubled David and 'Asaph and even Jeremiah himself. See the experiences of the first two in Ps. xxxvii tend lxxiii. In Jar. xil., 1, we find the prophet talking with God after this fashion. I know, O Lord, that Thou art righteous. Vmf nrkvr. rln flia tnlalriwl __.1 l - iUDuoaiuuwouiiau, lb IB ItUSe, UUO lie harkened not to him; so Irijah took Jere miah and brought him to the princes.1’ If * the prbphet saw only Iriiah he would natur ally be greatly provoked, but if he saw the hand of God he would be quiet. When Job lost his family and his property through the malice of Satan he said, “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job i.. 31). • * 15. “Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him, and put him In prison.” Jesus forewarned His apostles that thus would they be treated and worse, ..but that they must not be offended (Math, a., 28; John xvi, 1, 2; Acta v., 18, 40; xvi., 83). And from the glory He sent word to one of the churches that the devil would cast .some of them in to prisoD, and that they would have tribulation ten foays, but they must be faithful even though slain for Him (Rev. H., 10). —16. “When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and had remained there many days.” Blessed is the man that endureth trial (Jas. i., 12), We cannot endure what does not continue, and yet that is just what we are apt to wonder at, that a trial should continue instead of being quickly removed to answer to prayer. Consider Paul’s prayer and testimony to II Cor. xii., 8-10, and re member the same grace is yours. * 17. “Then Zedekiah, the king, sent and took him out, and the king asked him se cretly to his house and said. Is there any word from the Lord?" This was one of those secret interviews which the king had with the prophet, apparently willing to do right, but really afraid of his own people. 18, “Moreover, Jeremiah said unto King Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee?” In somewhat similar form, Paul the prisoner, appealed to Festus (Acts xxv., 11). Both Jeremldh and Paul had only spoken, the words and done the works of Jehovah, and that was just what Jesus did, and for that they crucified Him. The way of God being contrary to man’s way provokes the evil that is in man and stirs, up his wicked heart. “The carnal or natural- mind is' enmity against God.” \? 19. “Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land " There were false pro phets who taught the people that the king of Babylon would not come against the city, and that what he had already taken he would restore.in two years (chapter xxviii., 3-4), but they were lying prophets, and their words were vain words. ' 20. “Therefore, hear now, I pray thee, O my Lord the King, cause me not to turn to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.” While w6 are not to fear death, but rejoice “todie to gain,” and “to depart is to be with Christ” (Phil. i.f 21, 23), >., wj, yet we are not to throw away our lives unnecessarily, but take all possible care of our mortal bod ies, which are temples of the Holy Ghost, aiming only to glorify God in life or death (Phil/!., 30). ~Ztr ltThen Zedekia&, the king, commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into tho court of the prisotrand that they should give him daily a piece of bread. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.” Al though after this he was for a short time to . a most filthy dungeon, from which he was 'delivered by Ebed-Melech, the Ethiopian, with ropes and rotten rags, yet the court of the prison was his lodging, and there he was when the city was taken (chapter xxxviii., 12, 13, 28). There the captain of the guard of the Babylonian array found him, and by command of the king did well by him. Bit chapters xxxix., 11, 12; xl., 4, 5. So God kept His promise to Jeremiah (chapter i., 19). and delivered him, thougl imahy a . time they sought bli Wff. 8o ' will He keep His worr1 always,and we may unwaveringly trust Him and rely upon Him. See, also, His promises to Ebed-Meleeh in chapter xxxix., 16-18,and remember that the same God makes equally great promsies to all who put their trust in 1 Him. In reference to Daniel it is written, “Bo Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, be cause he believed in his God.” For the same reason his three friends walked in the midst of the fire unhurt (Dan. vL 23; iii25). Re» lying upon the same God, Paul could say: “3 know whom I have believed, and am per suaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.” “I was delivered out of the mouth of the lioni and the Lard shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto tha heavenly kingdom” (if Tim. i, 12; iv., 17, 18), All who go forth In the name of the Lord, at His oommand, to do His bidding, may sure , ly rely upon these words, “They that war against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught,for I, the Lord thy God, will bold thy right hand. Baying, Fear not, I will help thee” (Isa. xlf.. 12, 18) .—Lemon Helper. - A Human Wonder. ‘Zerah Colburn, who was bora in Ver mont in 1804 and died In 1840 ut the . age ot thirty-six,'was, without doubt, the most gifted natural mathematician the world has ever known. He was 5 taken to London when only eight yfears old, and while thero was examined by all the great mathematicians of England. At one of these examinations he raised the number eight to the sixteenth power, and in naming the last result, which OOnsisted of fifteen figures, he was right ia every one. On being asked the square root of 106^989, he answered 327 before ; the old gray-haifed philosopher ques tinner had time to put it down. He was next asked how many minutes, there were in forty-eight years and instantly replied 28,228,800, and five seconds later gave the astonished savants the ex act number of seconds, w9t. Louis lie Public, . - - C Zr—- -- - „_—,.< a 2 *V -w.i Jpi.-:«• y\ GENERAL STATE NEWS. Late Happenings of Importance By Mail and Wire. >-. The 0H»t of Three State*’ Doing*, Carefully Prepared For Our j Bu*y Header*. viaonriA. The State debt bill has finally passed both Houses of the Legislature. The Fanners’ Alliance is organizing * stock company to establish a fertilizer factory, at Blaekstone.— Black marble is being mined at Fin castle. Mayer Lehman, of New York, has pur chased for (140,800 wharves, docks, etc., in Portsmouth, and other property in Norfolk, from the Seaboard Cotton Com press Co, ? A bill has been introduced in the leg islature to incorporate the Virginia Farm ing Co. A well is to be sunk at Tazewell C. H. for petroleum oil. Dinwiddie county will apply to the leg'sluture for authority' to issue (100, 000 of bonds for the improvements of its public roads. The Virginia Mineral Belt jtallroad has applied to the legislature for a char ter. The road is to run from Danville through the intervening counties to Fred ericksburg, and thence to deep water on the Potomac river. wen. inoa. u itosser, ex-uomeaerate cavalry officer, in an open letter to Con gressman O’Ferrall, announces himself a candidate for Congre-s in the seventh district, to succeed that gentleman. * The House committee on finance agreed to report favorably a bill appro propriating $35,000 for Virginia's exhib it at the World’s Fair. Bpeake? Crisp was at Fortrass Monroe from Thursday until Monday nigh*. He has not fully recovered his strength since his recent illness and needs rest and quiet.. : • * . J There is a rumor in Virginia that Amelia Rives-Chanler is painting a picture from the lovely model seen in her own full-sized mirror. The Grand Lodge of the Knight’s of Pythias of Virginia met at Leesburg last Thursday. Two hundred Knights sat down to the banquet at night. Colonel Philip T. Woodin, now gov ernor of the National Soldiers’ Home at Hampton, Va., was the first enlisted men to enter Faneuil Hall in April, 1861, in response to the call of President Lin coln for 75,000 volunteers. The apple growers of Albemarle coun - 4y have met with heavy losses lately through the failure of a Liverpool com mission %m, and, although they sent an attorney over (to look after their interests, they realized but 40 cents on the dollar for their last several consignments. The The famous Albemarle pippins raised in •this vicinty havo loug been noted for their rich flavor, and are a special favor ite abroad—bringing the extreme price of $1 per dozen. Hardly one man in £ thousand in this country, outside of Vir ginia, has ever seen one, and what won- ’ der if they bring such a price in foreign markets? No doubt the now sadder and wiser fruit-raisers of this section will look nearer home for a market for their juicy apples. NORTH CAROLINA. tVork on Wilmington’s electrical street car line has commenced. Asheville has sold $340,000 of 20-year : 5 per cent, bends to Blair & Co., of New York city. The amount of the shortage of Charles Seagle, the young absconding railroad and express agent of Madison, is $800. The merchants’ purchase tax has been court. Calvin McArtan, sheriff of Harnett, made a complete State tax settlement, paying in $4,780.12. The Department of Agriculture will make a new collection of the building stones of the State for exhibition at the World’s Fair. A littl girl was burned to death near Charlotte last week while playing in a field in which her father was burning brush. Figures just made up show that Wins ton-Salem’s plug tobacco output for 1801 was 11,513,127 pounds, against 8,437, 929 pounds for 1890. The* Wilson Short-cut roa& reduces the distance north and south via the Atlan tic Coast Line by 60 miles. The direct through line is uow via Wilson and Fay etteville, leaving Wilmington off. . f Toe State chemist’s force have thus far made analyse-of about 65 brands of fer tilizers. There are four chemists and three clerks at work. At Oarbonton, Moore county, the rev enue people made nnother capture of a moonshine distillery and the operator. It is developed that the moonshiners put concentrated lye in the liquor they make, A bright future is before ^Bessemer City. Last week ground was broken for a (100,000 cotton factory, a 560 room hotel is to be built shortly, a stove works, furniture factory, steel works atad many other new industries are booked. Fifty tons of Bessemer ore are shipped daily. A Wake county sharper named Rogers played a trick on a Raleigh lawyer. He personated Louis Harris, a neighbor, and giving a land mortgage got |500. When the money fell due the lawyer sent the notice and this of course reached the real Harris,. The bogus Harris it in jail. Governor Holt has ordered a special civil term of Bertie Superior Court, to begin May 9, Judge Brown presiding.. A military company has been formed at Rocky Mt. and commissions were is sued to J. L- Arlington, captain: J, D. Odom, first liOutonant, and £. L. Hough, tridge, second lieutenant, ^ompany D, assigned to the second regiment. BOOTH CAROLINA. Judge Kershaw has granted a manda mus in favor of tho phosphate“'compa uitii of South Carolina, ordering tho au ditor of Charleston county to reduce the assessed valuo of land phosphate rock from $8 to $3 a ton.— * - .L__' Governot Tillman was asked Thursday who was hia {preference for the Presiden tial nominee of the Democratic party. He said that he had not yet decided, but that lie was not in favor of Cleveland. The W. C. T. U. Annual Convention assembled under the most auspicious cir cumstances in Columbia last week with fifty delegates in attendance* The Secretary of State has issued com missions for the charter of the Thomas Gold Mining Company, with headquar ters at Spartanburg. The Sumpter Guards have loaned Col. A. R._Chis£ilmr otifew “y_0rkc president of the Southern Society of New York, one of their most cherished relics of se cession, viz.: the regimental battle # flag that floated over Fort Sumpter during the bombardment. / Dr* Wm. St. Clair 6y miners, a young physiciau formerly of Columbia, but now studying under Dr. Pasteur, of the Pas teur Institute of Paris, France, has dis covered a “new chromogenic micro or ganism, found iu the vesicles of herpes labrales bacillus viridiaus,” which will no doubt bring him success and fame in the new field open do him. Dr. Sym tners was graduated . with first honors from the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and will soon end his studies in Paris. v - Bamberg has given finely located prop erty, amounting in value to $5,000, and an additional subscription of $10,000, to Wofford College, for the purpose of es tablishing and fitting a school there. Led by eight or ten influential citizens, the entire community joined in the work with great unanimity. The building will be begun soon, ana it is hoped they will be ready for use next fall. Banberg never made a better investment, or one that will make richer returns. Wofford Co’lege has adopted the wise policy of establishing fitting schools in different sections of the State as feeders to the College. The great need of the State is high grade preparatory schools. The de mand for higher education is fully met in the colleges already established. GREAT FIRE IlTNEW "ORLEANS. Tbo Heaviest in Ten Years—Loss, a Million and a Quarter. Nuw Orleans, La.—The most disas trous fire of a decade swept New Orleans Wednesday night. More than $2,000, 000 worth of property is in ruins. At 10130 the alarm was sounded for a fire that was discovered in the immense dry goods house of A- S. Schwartz, on Canal street. By the time 1 he firemen arrived the flames were bursting through the roof. The Schwartz bu'lding was doomed and all efforts were directed to Baviug adjoin ing buildings. At one time the fire seemed to be under coutrol, and confined entiroly to tho building in which it start ed, but the flames burst through iuto the piano house of P. Werlein, and then across to Bourbon street. ltunkle’s dry goods house was uext, and was soon a roaring furnace. Unger’s beer garden and the variety theatre adjoiuiug Jtun kle’s w,erc swept.away ns if a tinder'box. The Bourbon street entrance of Holmes’ large dry goods store caught fire and was also soon in ruins. Kreuger’s dry goods house on Canal street burned next—a total loss. The loss on stock, as near as can be estimated, are as follows: A. 8. Schwartz, dry goods, $500,000; P. Werlein, pianos and musical instru ments, $30,000; Cluvcrius, drugs, $8, 200; Runklc, dry goods, $75,000; Unger, beer garden, stock and building, $32, 000; R. D. 8. Iloltnes, dry goods, $25,= 000; Kuehn, dry goods, 75,000; Hoffman Bros., $18,000; Leopold .Levy, carpets and matting, $50,000; Kveuger, dry goods, $30,000; B. Felimau, dry goods. $200,000. The total loss will exceed $1,250,000, insurance covered mostly by foreign companies. Local companies will lose about $2CO,00(b THousauda of people visited the scene next day. .Bourbon Street is so blocked with debris that travel is impeded. Street cars canuot pass. IN THE BRITISH HOUSE. The Government's Irish Bill De rided. A London cablegram says: In the Houso of Commons Under Secretary Lowther, of the Foreign Office, replying to Mr. Jennings, M. P., said the recip rocity conference between the United states anti Canada at Washington had been of an informal character, and that it bad not been brought officially to the notice of the British Government. Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Treas nry, introduced the Irish local govern ment bill, and it was explained by him as follows: It establishes districts as well as coun ty councils, with functions solely admin istrative. (Cries of “Oh, Oh ”) Grand juries aa heretofore would perform judi cfkl or quasi judicial functions. (Re newed cries or dissent an laughter among the Liberals and Nationalists) The couucils would have powers in sanitary matters, etc., and could appoint mem bers on luuatic asylum boards, the Vice roy appointing an equal number. (De risive laughter among the Irish members.) Municipal boroughs , would be separate from the fcouucils for administrative pur poses. V Subbad Him of His Little All. N. Y.'City, [Special.] —(SBnrlea Frank lin, ex-convict, and three confederates assaulted and robbed Thomas Quinlan 1b Mott street on the night of the 7th iust., pod robbed hiarof his little all—a. collar, button and two keys. The; then ran away. Franklin was (arrested, and he pleaded guilt; in the General Sessions before Judge Martina of robbery in tl)e first degreo. Judge Marline aentenced him to State prison for eleven years and' six months, —-_• Sanford-Banford. Sanford, Fla,—The Hon. John San ford, member of Congress from the Sara toga district, in New York, land Miss Ethel Sanfordj daughter of the late Gen. It S. Sanford, were married in the Epis copal church by the Right Rev. H. B. Whipple, Bishop of MiqpMoU, FARMERS’ ALLIANCE. "Raise Something to Sell” From An other Standpoint. ‘ ‘Oh, It Would be Fun to See a Con gressman Compelled to ‘Raise Something to Sell’ ^ Besides Votes,” Washington, D. C,—The National Partners’ Alliance and Industrial Union has petitioned Congress to remove all duty from cotton manufactures; and the Angora goat breeders of California want the Government id negotiate with"^ Tur key for a flock of these famous animals. The Turks refuse to dot port them, and our Western friends seek the interposition of Uncle 8am. Senator Gibson, of Louis iana, has introduced a bill creating a commission to inquire in the present low price of agricultural products—especially cotton—and suggest a remedy. _ • V:>. ****** Raleigh, N. C.—The representatives of the county Alliances in this congres sional district who met hero elected Eu gene C. Beddingfield, of Wake, to repre sent the distiict at the great convention at St.Louis, in which the farmers’ and la borers’ unions are to participate. Washington, D. C.—The Department of Agriculture has uow in press Farmers’ Bulletin No. 5, which treats in brie! and practical manner of smut, in oats and wheat especially, and of the means which Bhould be adopted by farmers in prepar ing the seed so as to avoid injury to the crop from this cause. In order to avail themselves of the suggestions therein contained, farmers will want to receive this bulletin without„ any delay, and special urgency will be used to get it out promptly. In the meantime applicants should send iu their names and addresses and the bulletin will be mailed to them immediately on its issue. Washington, D. C.—Mr. Ot?s, of Kan sas, an Alliance member, has introduced a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to have two-billions dollars of paper money duly prints# it* 'denomina tions ranging from $1 to $H00j each bill being absolute money and not in the form of a promise, to be full legal tender for both public and private debts and inter changeable at par with aoy other kind of lawful money of the United States. It shall be known as the National Union Loan Fund, and placed in the United States Treasury, subject to the order of the Govenors of the different States of the Union. Any State can draw on this fund by paying 1 per cent, intciest per year, and the. State can loan to its citizens on security at a rate of interest not to ex ceed 3 per cent, per annum. AH drafts made upon the fund shall be made by the, Governor and Secretary of the State, with the great seal of the State attached, and in conformity with the laws of the State and a full statement of the account of the State with the National Union Loan Fund, verified by the Treasurer of the State, shall be rendered semi-annual ly to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, aud the interest duo paid. The Secretary of the Treasury shall honor all drafts made upon the fund * to the extent of 50 per cent, of the assessed value of the real es tate in the State, and it shall be the duty of tho Secretary of the Treasury to render^ an annual report to Congress of the condition of the fund and the net revenue derived therefrom by the United States. * * * * % * “RAISE SOMETHING TO SELL.” In their complaints of hard times and their petitions for legislative lelief the farmers aw often met with the advice, “raise something to sell.’* This advice comes of course, iu most instances, from those who never “raise anything them selves, (unless it is the devil) but who, good, kind souls never think how it sounds, sd great is their interest in the farmer’s welfare. We row rise to ask the question, who raises more than the farmers of the United States? If the amount raised was an index to prosperi ty the farmers would not only be the wealthiest class iu this nation but of the world. They not only raise enough for the sixty-three millions of p. ople in this country, but export more food thau any other nation in the world. If wealth produced remained in the hands of tho producers the farmer’s name would be Eli, with a big E. Suppose we apply a a little of this advice to some of those who give it. Take the professional poli tician for instance. Let us all agree to have him raise “something to sell.” Tell : him he will be better off and “nearer to ! that station in life to which it has pleased God to call him.” Let us be generous and charitable and help him to “retire to tbo secluded Bhndcs of private life” by finding a substitute to take the burden some and hdnorous duties of office from bis shoulders. Poor fellow, he has been a martyr long enough. , Then let us take the poor preacher at a salary of (25,000 a yenr. Advise him to “raise move to sell." Put him where he can raise it, for “is not a dollar a day enough to buy bread? Water costa noth ing and a man that cannot dive on bread and water is not fit to live. A family may live, laugh, love and be happy that eats bread in the morning with good wa ter, and water and good bread at noon, and water and bread at n:ght.” Let him mix a little sweat and brawn at a dollar a day, with his cogitations on the best road to Heaven. It Won't hurt him. It’ll do him good. It may tan him a little and makewarts on the inside of his hands, but it will make him better acquainted with the environments which surround the men who “raiso something to sell;" besides God has ordained that “in tho sweat of his face ho shall cat his bread," and if ho oats a “dollar a day’s” worth, at the tow prico it brings at the farm, it mill make him sweat. Next lot us tako the Congressman— the fellow that don't want any sub-Treasury and land loan schemes. Give the poor fellow a chance to "raiSo something to sell." Give him the chance in the same manner that Jeiry Simpson and Bog C|owr#od others kind ly gave their opponents.; Let them sc* how much of that five jthousand dollar salary they can. make in a year by “rais ing ioseir’SuchthiaggJ as gr$w. on ttu* farm. Poor devils, they would dream o» nights of introducing a bill to colonize the grasshoppers or suppress chinch bugs. They would call lustily in their sleep for the committee’s report of the bill for Gov-,, ernment Building of Mississippi River Sprays to Water the Farms in the Missis sippi Valley ; or for the appointment of n committee to examine in the price of American wheat in Liverpool with co>-t of transportation, etc. Oh, it would b' fun to see a Congrsesman compelled to “raise something to sell” besides votes. But the very wealthy! What shall w« ! say of them? What has Jay Gould had to sell that he can count lus wealth by millions? Did he raise it? Suppose W0 apply this advice to him! Go out upon the farm, Jay, and raise “something to aelL” Suppose he ate nothing, his cloths# never wore out and he never paid any taxes. How long would it take him tc accumulate a hundred mil'ion dollars? But what of the editor, the “able edi tor” who says “there Beems to he but one remedy, a class of land-owners on one hand, and of tenant farmers on the oth er.” Come out and bask in the sum mer’s sun while the heat is 100 in the shade. This is a hoe. Take this row of cotton now and work along the side of me. We’re “raising something to sell” at 6ix cents a pound. If our crops are not _ destroyed by breachy stock, or are not too late or too early, or blown down by wind, or devoured by bugs, or st ing by flies, or eaten by worms, or carried away by birds, or dug up by gophers or moles, or pulled up by crows, or dried up by the sun, or drowned out by rain, or rotted in the field or stack, or heated in the crib, or eaten by weevils, or they don’t all run to weed or vine or straw or smut or cob, or the rust destroy them, we can make just thirty-seven and a half cents a day, and with that and what we’ve got and what we haven’t g t and wh^t we can do without, we may be able to pay the inter est on the mortgage and barely squeeze through. Oh yes, we’re “raising some thing to seli”— to the fellows who get rich, somehow, after they buy it; and come tothiok these are the pesky fellows who are constanly adv’°ing us to “raise 1 more to sell.” Wejl, about the next thing we raise will be “something to buy with,”—money. We’ll kiud o’ averagt things up a little. THE PEOPLE’S PARTY. A Convention Held and a Ticket Nominated in Louisiana. Alexandria, La.—The State conven tion of the People’s party of Louisiana met with 171 delegates present,. The following State ^ ticket was nominated: For governor, O. W. Bruce ; Lieutenant governor, J. J. Mills; secretary of State, D. M. McStrovlck; treasurer, John Ma honey; auditor, John Hendricks; super intendent of education, “J. D. Patton; attorney general, Judge Wade Haugh. A 8tate executive committee was ap pointed and the convention adjourned. The Lumber Men in New Orleans. New Orleans, La.—The Southern Lumber Manufacturers’" Association ad journed sine die after au all day’s session. Resolutions were adopted against the evils of selling by face measure, preva lent in Alabama and Georgia. The di directors were constituted as permanent price list. The committee with power to. Change the prices only change in grades of star rift saw ed flooring. A memorial to Congress was adopted asking for additional ports ou the Gulf coast. The various vice-presidents were appointed a committee to solicit sub scriptions for the yellow pine exhibit at the World’s Fair. Kausas City was named as the next place of meeting. B. B. White, of Missouri, was re-elected president; Gee. S. Lacey, of Louisiana, vice-president, and M. F. McLeod, of 1 Hope it Will, Succeed. It has been rumored iu cotton circles for some weeks that' John H. Inman has formed a very strong financial combina tion to bull cotton. A dispatch from Liverpool to the New York Journal of Finance says: It is stated here upon the authority of one of the most important traders that the new syndicate organized in New York to protect the cotton market has over $15,000,000 at its back, of which $6,000,000 is subscribed here and in Lon don. Wentworth, of the London Colo nial Bank, is said to represent large Lon don interests in the deal. The manage ment will, however, be vested exclusive ly in John II. Inman of New York. A Preacher Whips an Editor. Raleigh, N. C., [Special.]—News reached here of a fight between an editor and a preacher at Tarboro. Two well known clergymen of Rocky Mount, near here, had an acrimonious discussion on infaut baptism, as a result of which blows passed. J. C. Powell, editor of the Tar boro Southerner, published an account of it. One of the reverend gentlemen, Mr. Love, of the Baptist church at Rocky Mouut, went to Tarboro, and there met editor Powell, lie asked for a correc tion, which was emphatically refused, whereupon the preacher aud the editor Came to blows. The editor was knocked down and badly used/ ' ' Aa English View of the American _Free Silver Agitation. * A London cablegram says: Tht Times hit a long article on the Bland silver bill." The writer says: “Although elec tioneering tactica have helped it, that it will becomo a.lavv Is improbable. The United mate* must eventually -choose between the gold and silver standards, but the time is not favorable new. Tho argument that the bill will attract gold and raiso the price of cotton and grain may suffice for the Southern and Western farmers, but it ia t oo ' flimsy to affect the - North ” - ^4—^ $10,000 foT Pcm&col&t Washihotoh, >0>-»C.—The ' Senate pissed a bill appropriating 1)10,000 for tho improvement of the road to the na tional cemetery near PcpibcoI#.. Fla. Renewed Confidence in Southern . ^ Investment*. * The Manufacturers1 Record, of Bait! more, m its -issue-&f Takntasy — r “Thore are manysigus of a revival of confidence in BoutherA investments, and , among them are the proposed reorgAttlza*-1 tion by the foremost financiers of the country of the Richmond & West Point ^Terminal, the large amount of money lately furnished fqr extensions of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, the great improvements involving an expenditure of some millions of dollars by the Chesa peake & Ohio, and the consummation of financial plans for carrying ouf many de velopment enterprises. The ^roubles, due in part to low-price cotton, iuvpnrt to the natural effects of such a world jyide panic as we had last year, are now seen to be7 as tho Manufacturers’ Record has steadily c'oimed, only of a temporary character, and while severe for a time, they in no way destroy the solid founda tion of wealth based on the South’s in comparable natural resources. They may have retarded Jhc development of these resources for a while, but they have only served to show the dangers to be avoid ed, and the result wiMPbe a more conser vative and more solid foundation for the great industrial activities of the future. Among the new enterprises reported for the week are important railroad exten sions and improvements and mining and manufacturing companies that covcna wide range of industry. In West Vir ginia _a $500,000 coal mining company and a $1,000,000 oil and gas company-" have been incorporated, also two lumber compauies, one of $100,000 and one of $30,000 capital stock, respectively; Bir mingham, Ala., has a $15,000 company to manufacture wheelbarrows; Hunting ton, Ark , a $50,000 improvement com pany; at Llano, Texas, a $50,000 or $60, 000 iron bridge is to be built; Dallas has a $30,000 improvement company; Flori da has a $500,00') lumber company and a $150,000 phosphite company; in Tennes see a new furnace has just gone into blast; Mobile has organized a company to build a drydock; Augusta, Ga., a $250,000 woodwork machinery company; a large rolling mill is to be moved from New Jersey to Baltimore and a plate mill added; Queen City, Texas, has in corporated a $400,000 iron company; Spartanburg, SC., a $100,000 mining company; Knoxville. Tenn., a $250,000 construction and bridge company ; Tex as, a $1,000,000 mining company and a $30,000 mill and gin company, etc.” A press dispatch from Atlanta, says: The Georgia. Carolina and Northern railroad has been completed to within two miles of Atlanta Trains are l eing run to a point twenty-two miles from Atlanta, and it is expected to complete and open the road by the middle of March. This road is intended as a link in the Seaboard Air Line, composed of the lines controlled by the Seaboard and Iioanoke and . the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Companys. The company was organized in 1886 te build a standard gauge railroad from Monroe, N. C., to Atlanta,.-, Ga , 280 miles. Work was commenced on the northern end of the line, and it was opened to Chester, S, C., & distance of forty-five rail^s, in October, 1888. On July 1, 1889, there were is sued $5,360,00) first mortgage 5 per cent, forty-year $1 000 gould coupon bonds, which have become very popular amoug investors, especially in Baltimore, being considered among tbe safest rail road bonds that can be obtained. The Mercantile Trut and Deposit Company, of Baltimore, is the trustee named in the mortgage and interest on the bonds is made payable at the Trust Company’s office The Seaboard Air Lino is com posed of six railroads, which form a rail road system whose northern terminus is at Portsmouth, Va., where connection is made with the steamers ot the Baltimore Steam Packet Company and tbe Old Do minion’Steamship Company, and whose southern termiuu* wil’ be Atlanta, Ga., as soon as the Georgia, Carolina and Northern is completed. Through trains w illboTun bet ween these—points via Charlotte. Committee Program Happed Out. Wa'iungton, D. C.—It is announced that the iutention of the Ways and Means Committee is to call up the tariff ques tion ip the House early next week. This program would to some exteut defer the consideration of the-silver question. The silver bill, cannot be taken up and got out of the way in advance of that time. The announcement of the purpose to call up the tariff ques tion about the first of March, was made in the Ways and Means Committee at a brief session of the full committee. An agreement was reached amoug the mem bers of the Committee that tho minority should have until a week from Saturday to prepare their reports agaiuee the three bills, wool, binding twine, and bagging measures, heretofore ordered favorably repoited to the’House by a party vote. (Chairman Springer then annouuced that it was intended to call up oue of the three bills on Mond.ny followiug tho sub mission of the reports to the House. No objection was manifest d upon the part of the Republicans to the course. A Noted Case Settled. Des Moines, Iowa —The Ilyde-Hope wcll case, involving the civil rights of a colored man, has been settled in favor of tho defendent Hopewell. The court held that Hopewell had the right to re fuse to serve Hyde in his restaurant and that the fact that the latter being a col ored innn, did not enter into the case. In ether words tho- restaurant-business is a private one, like a grocery or a dry gopds store, and it differs from an inn and the proprie or may sell or" not do any one, .who eatery his store. The Briceville Mines to Be Go* ' Operative. Knoxville, Tunis., fSpecial.]—The mines of tho Tennessee Mining Company TiTBriceVillo wilUm -worked npo* the co-operative plan. The details have been agreed upop, end incorporated in an amended charter, which lias been filed. The minors are allowed to take stock and hnvc taken $10,000. Each subscriber will have twenty months in which to pay for $100. The company will erect resi dences add allow the miners to buy on liberal terae. - - - * SELECT SIFTINGS. ingoing Chinese military drums are wood. V ■ v , There la a singing grove hear Ham burg, Conn. ' : - *-i A hunter in Maine claims to have a cat that will stalk grouse. . , London (England) policemen used to wear swallow-ailed coats. The Burmese, Karens, Hungers and Khans use lead and silver in bullion for currency. _ , A little Philadelphia boy has a pet rabbit which he has traiued to draw a small wagon. , ; ' Four. pounds of " gold have beerr cal- - lected from the soot of the chimney of the Royal Mint in Berlin, Germany. \ A St. Louis (Mo.) woman has opened - an office for the cure of “afflicted minds, cranks, fanatics, bigots and agnostics.” There is in Buffalo, N. Y., one line of streetcars on which a car crosses fifty four railroad tracks in making one round tr ip. A ricochet shot from the new maga zine rifle adopted in England broke a. cottage window four milea distant from f the firing point. There is a strong flow of natural gas in the Ventura River. When lighted,it . is said, the flames extend ~over~s spacer^— eight ieet wide. In a Philadelphia cold-storage house, an English bare has been kept frozen for '. fourteen months and is still apparently in, good condition. Recently between Tewkesbury and Cheltenham, in England, in three min-; utftS- 700 words were sent to a newana per office and correctly received over a telephone wire. At Dresden, Germany, they are bak ing an American corn bread that is find- ■ ing much favor and is much cheaper than their ordinary bread. A pound costs, a i trifle over three cents. * The typewriter is fast superseding the • pen in telegraphy. Operators are learn-1 ing to handle the typewriter everywhere,; and new hands are not employed unless they are experts at the “machine.” The Mormon Temple in Salt Lako City, Utah, is built in the form of an ellipse, and, although it is of enormous dimensions, it is so well constructed! with regaid to acoustics that a person standing in the focus at one end can carry'oft a conversation in a whisper »"ith any one in the focus at the other ena. There were blooded dogs in early Egyp|, add highly prized. Their names were carved on monuments which still j remain. One of them, his name show-] ing his foreign origin, was called Abai- J karou, a faithful transcription of thej word abaikour, by which the hunting; dog is designated in many of the Berber,' * dialects. \ A classic account of the distribution - J' of wheat over the primeval world shows A that Ceres, having taught her favorite, Triptolemus, tfie art of agriculture and^ the science of breadmaking, gave him her chariot, a celestial vehicle, and that L~ in it he traveled night and daydistribut- j - ing this valuable grain among all nations of the earth. j Many a huntsman through a long life has chased the fox with enthusiastic ] ardor who would be surprised to know that in the very tip of his tail or, brush is a little bunch of hairs twertty- J five or thirty iir number, which gives, forth to the despairing and almost van*; quished beast the refreshing and stimu lating odor of violets. The very fine collection of postage stamps bequeathed to the trustees of the British Museum by the late Mr. Tapi ing, Member of Parliament, contains about 200,000 stamps, and its value is esti mated at $300,000. Its late owner was occupied for over twenty years in its formation. It is without doubt the finest collection in the world. In Dikio, in Adenmouah, in Logone and elsewhere small cottou strips are the regular currency. In Bagirari these strips are so small that from seventy to 150 of them would have to be pieced together to make a shirt. In Dar foor the gray, coarse shirting circu lates as money, and ih Tiout, in upper Egypt, this material is dyed dark or blue and then cut into pieces of three yards* length. • -! 1 v Habifai of Salmon. In their journey up the streams the first run of fish push on rapidly to the upper pools and headwnters, 100 miles or more,unless prevented by insurmount able falls, with which most of the Lab. rador streams are well provided. Hera fish have been caught sixty miles above the estuary before oue has been taken in tidal water. Some of the former remain ' in the lower pools apd are joined by - others as the run progresses. Why is this? Have the fish any remembrance of where they spent their youthful days, . and remain there while others pass them! It is now received as an undoubted fuet that every fish knows ils own river, but I go further than that, and think every o fiahhaa a particular place in the river where it wishes to remain. Were all the salmon in the licsoigouche to push on -to - its headwaters, would not the greater portion of the river be barren? The tur moil of spawning time on tho restricted ’ spawn beds, the turning over of the newly laid ova, could only end in wholesale dsn „ structionj Even under preseut conditions I am satisfied not over tec per cent, of - the eggs dt posited naturally evor coma to ‘ life. ; - ■. * ■— Iks to the speed with which they travel at times I caught two salmon with partly : digested caplin in them quite recog nizable, and these fish were caught sixty mites above where the caplin is knows — to come.—American Angler. 1 Dr. Koch's lymph, according to lb* results of the experiments communicated to.the last meeting of the Berlin (Gor many) Society for Internal Medicine, scorns to Have proved untrustwoaty, evoo m » means »f diagnosis (or lub«roulot{*