North Carolina Newspapers

Swain County Herald. Published Weekly at Bryson City 3V. C H. A. Hodge, Ed. & Pub Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, would 'make a good immigration agent. - Dur I ing his recent ttay in Europe he per Uuaded 125.000 people to eo to Brazil. The greatest emigration society at present is the Argentine Republic. It will spend this year $5,000,000 to bring emigrants from the north of Europe alone. Ships from England, Holland and France are taking them over in thou sands. The defeat of the bill in the State' As sembly to send John F. Swift and Stephen "VV. White to Washington to represent California in the Chaehang Ping case has caused much comment ac cording to the New York Tribune. The Chinese lobby was out in force, and suc ceeded in defeating the bill by causing it to fail of a constitutional majority. As there are 22,000 coolio certificates which depend upon the decision in this case, and as each certificate i3 worth $200, the coolife importers have much at stake : The sheep industry of Montana, taken at large, was never in more prosperous condition. The clip bids fair to be one of the best and the total product of wool the laigest yet produced. Fully 10,000,000 pounds will be the product of 1883, which, with the present outlook, at twenty cents per pounds, means a small item of revenue. This, added to the $2,000,000 which would represent the value of the increase in the flocks, would make a total oi $4, 000,000 for the sheep industry, of the Territory for 1830. .Next to mining, this is now believed to be the leading enterprise of the Territory. The payment of an insurance policy of five thousand dollars on the life of "Doc" Haggerty, a teamster, who was so thoroughly blown away by the ex plosion of a wagon-load of nitro-glycerine which he was driving, near I'leasant ville, Penn., that not more than a pound of his body was found, is being disputed by the companies interested on the ground that such utter annihilation was impossible, even with so powerful an explosive. They claim that the "re mains" found are no proof that Haggerty is dead. Interesting testimony is being gathered to show that nitro-glycerine has proved at times more of an eraser of human identity than the Pleasantville incident would indicate. The "most recent and mosfr infernal triumph of American ingenuity," the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which re cently made a speed of more than twenty-six knots over a two-mile course, is not a cruiser in the sense that some believe she is intended to be. She is simply a floating gun carriage of high speed and light draught. Her chief function will be that of rapidly convey ing her novel battery to the point where Jt can best be used. But England, the New York Tribune thinks, is not going to allow the United States to take the lead in war projectiles. She is about to build several vessels, each to have a single tur ret for a very big gun capable of crack ing, if not piercing, the aruior of the best protected sea-going iron -clad. An army officer declares in the Wash ington Star that a deserter is a heavy loss to the Government. "I should lay,' he continues, "that, on tho aver ige, each deserter costs the United States $250. No, it is not in the ex pense of catching him or of trying him Or of punishing him, a3 you suggest, but the cost comes from the money which the Government has paid out for him in the May of clothing, feeding, paying, snd training during tho first year of his tervice, for which he gives no return. A loldier.'s of no value to tho Government Until he has been iu the army about a fear, and if he deceits be Tore ho attains this period of utility all that has been Ipent on him is a dead loss, no return whatever being given for the outl.ty. Last year there were nearly 2300 de lerters, a loss of about $325,000 to the United States, for which there is noth ing to show but the spreading of an evil tlflue nee. it ' There has been much controversy, re marks the New York 27ms, in Congress over the names proposed for the Terri tories that want to become States. But whatever the final result,it could hardly be as astonishing as the series proposed In Jefferson's original draft of an ordi nance prepared in 1TS4 fcr- laying out the Northwest Territory. The Territory north of the forty-fifth paral'cl to the Lake of the. Woods was to be tailed Syl vania. The one between forty-four de grees and forty five degree aud west of Lake Michigan was to be Michigania. The one "between Lakes Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, and Eria" was to be known as Chersonesus. The I oris be tween the forty-second and forty-third parallel, "through which the Asseni3ipi br Rock River runs," was to rejoice in the name of Assenisipia. Still another, Including "the fountains of the Musk ingum, the two Miamis of the Ohio Ind other rivers was to have been enti tled Metropotamia. Other names of territories laid out in this ordinauce were Illinoia, which became Illinois, and Saratoga. Then there was to have been relisfpia as well as an Assenisipia and a Polypotamia as well as a Metropotamia. These are the names which the'Wcstha missed, and there is hardly anything - tauite as extraordinary in the re cnt dis cussions in Congress on,' State nomco- . alature ' A BUNA7AY HATCH. Chief Justice Fuller's Daughter Ilax ... :: ficd in Milwaukee. A special from Mil waukee Wis , says: "Miss Pauline Fuller, the fifth daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, ' was married here at the Kirby House by fi juatice of the peace. ' The groom was J Matt Aubery, Jr., of Chicago, and it waaa runaway match. The couple arrived in the city on the ,St. Paul road, and were driven to the Kirby House, and shortly a f ter 9 o'cloc-T the cererao iy wbs per-; formed -I 7 I ' '' Mrs. Aubery, nee Pauline Fuller, is 19 years of age, highly educated, and remarkably handsome. Mr, Aubery is 23 years oid. He in the son of tbe Gen eral Western Agent i of th : Merchants' Dispatch East Freight Line, 3. M. Au bery, Sr., and ha been a resident ' of Chicago since 1876. I As near as can be learned, tbe ac quaintance of the bride and groom be. gan about three years ago, when Justice Fuller resided on Lake Ave me, a short distance from the home o ', young Au bery. ; The young people met of n, and ;the acquaintance soon , ripened into love. This became apparent to jthe Fulleis shortly before they moved to Washing ton, and they strongly opposed it. Since about January i 1; Miss Fuller has been in Chicago visiting friends and it seems the young people had no great difficulty in arranging and Carrying out their plans. j J ; THE CHIEF JUSTICE SURPRISED. Washington, D. C Cnief Justice Fuller was found by a representative of the United Press in the robing room of tbe Supreme Court. He had just donned his robes prepiratory to entering upon the judicial dut;e of the day. He seemed surpi ised and shocked when the dispatch was shown to him. j i He said he bad heard nothing of the matter before He read thefirst part of t le story and then, thanking- his I inforn ant for the information, he retired t the inner room In response to a question put to him as he vanished throug i the door way, he said that nad no .tatement to make. , GBO EDUCATION. A Minist er Creates a Scene in the Baltimore Conference. At the session of the Ba' timore Con ference of the M. E. Churc h, South, at Alexandria, Va., Monday, ! Rev. 'Mr. Wheeler, of Roanoke, opposed the prop osition to raise $200 for Lane Institute, for colored scholars at Jacks on, Tenn. He did not believe in giving money to "good-for-nothing nafcrs. " He de sciibed the colored people o ' Roanoke as Hazy, tiifling niggers,'' ai d said they were fair samples of the whole race. He added that the'orly honorable "nig ger" that can ba found is the old slave. "These young niggers," le declared, "must be made to work, must be taught that they must work to live, and he did not believe in contriouting money to sup port "nigrgers ' in idleness. Mr Wheeler pitched inte the whole colo -ed race and practically declared against the education of colored people, i His sentiments found no echo in the conference. On the contrary ! Mr Wheel er's utterances were opposed and de nounced. Cries of j 'Shame, shame H were uttered by different members. Secretary Armstrong spoke - f the ef forts the church had made tq educate and elevate the colored race, and! he earnestly advocated everything practicable in that Iin3. i The conference emphasized its senti ment by almost unanimously adopting me report oraenng tnat the $200 be raised. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. Harrison and Bis Advisers Rapidly Filling the Remunerative Offices. The President sent the following nom inations to the Senate: fe'mili A, Whit field, of Ohio, to be Second Assistant Postmaster-General ; Abraham D. Hazen, of Pennsylvania, to be Thid Assistant Postmaster-General; John W. Mason, of West Virginia, to Le Cf mmissioner of Internal Revenue; William" jW. Thomas, Jr., of 3Iaine, to be Minister of the United States to Sweden and Norway; Samuel R. Thayer, of Minnesota, to be minister of the United States to the Netherlands; Gharles E Mitchell, of Connecticut, to be 1 Commissioner of Patents: Whitelaw Reid. of New York. to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister rieninoientiary oi tne United States to trance; Julius GoldschmidtJ of Wiscon sin, uorsui-tieneral of the United States at Vienna. Forty-two People Dn irned. The City of Pekin arriving at San Francisco with mail advices from China confirms the report by cabh of the lost of the coasting steamer Remus, among the Philippine Islands on January 80, when 48 out of 169 people on board were drowned. The steamer was taking out relief of soldiers to their various stations in the PLillipine Islands. Sue struck a reef near Point Bilariam, about two days voyage from Manilla, siniing in 35 fathoms of water The gnnboat Argus picked up the s irviving offic rs and pas sengeis. The Remus was a Spanish ves sel. I Coasting fVIthout Snow. Many of the streets of Astoria, Ore gon, are as precipitous as those of our rugged .New England towns, jand furnish ample grades for the prosecution of that old pastime, sliding down hill. Pnow seldom if ever fallsjbut the cli mate is so moist that, at. the freezing point, nights and mornings, k thick coat of white frost covers the planked road ways, which are turned into) extempore toboggan slides. The amusement is so enjoyable that it is kept ui into the small hours of the morning py old and young, the speed attained frequently ex ceeding that of the ordinary railway train Sct4atifie American. ... j Collision in Canada. ATIalifax express on the llnter-Colo-n'al railway came into coUision with a spjeial freight train near Rtmonski sta tion, province of Quebec, Canada. The driver of the express and hlis fireman, 'b.3 conductor of the special and the fireman of the special were killed. Two other train hands were injured, hut not fatally. Both of the engines, baggage cars and two freight cars wefe wrecked. None of the passengers were injured. Mary Anderson Insane. On Sunday a rumor gained! circulation in Philadeluhia. where- Xf Art A)ni1ircnn h ia been ill for several da vp, that she has . i oecome insane, tier brother, however. uenounces the report ta absupd. Mi Audersou's dates at Boston, And n Cajj 1 lorola have been caiellcd . t i . . . ALL OVER THE SOUTH X72R7S 7ZL0I2 SAOXX CXATZ. ' Farmer's Alliance Attire JXotsscf Accidents - Etc, Classified. v KOSTH CABOLIMi. In Charlotte two cotton mills are in operation, both of ; which were Luilt on tbe building and loan association plan, tbe assessment on the shares of one of them being at the rate of 50 cents per week each, and the other 25 cents. A brum S Hewitt, ex-mayor of New York, and his son-in-law, Edward Coop er, also an ex-mayor of the fame city; John II inman, tne great railway mag nate; John C Calhoun. John Martin, and Fred M Taylor, well-known in Wall street, were in Asheville, Tuesday. Paul F Farson, C C Clark, Lee 8 Over man; H B Adams and T L Emery, were appointed by Governor Fowle directors of the peni tentiary. The following were appoint ei by him trustees cf the State Agricultural and Mechanical College: W 8 Primrose, H E Fries, S B Alexan der, Elias Carr and Rufus Bairinger. Negotiations for the sale of the Wil minoton, Onslow and East Carolina rail road has been completed at Raleigh, and a formal transfer of the franchise has been made to Thomas A Mclntyre, of New York, and his associates. A syn dicate of northern capitalists will go to work at once to build and equip the road, and in six months will complete it..: : - .- v- .--. ,-. :-: h- At Ncwberne, while the machinery of the Meadows fertilizer factory was in operation, Superintendent John Vaughan was caucrht in; theTbelt. He was m an instant drawn between the pulley and fraaie of the mill and was comprrssed in a narrow space with such force that the frame of the mill had to be cut away be fore he could be released. : He was ter ribly injured. , The case of F E Patrick, of Richmond, Va , against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company at Charlotte, was de cided in the Superior Court in favor of the defendant. This case ha? been in the courts since 1878. Mr. Patrick owned a cotton compress built on tbe property of the railroad in Charlotte. The railroad authorities ; in 1877 tore away the platform and took possession of the compress. . In March, 1878, Mr Patrick entered suit for $8,000. and the case has just been decided. Patrick kas to bear all costs, v. SOUTH CAROLINA. : Evangelist Pearson began a reries of meetings in Columbia Sunday night. A ttock company is being organized to build a cotton mill on the co-operative plan at Greenwood. The county commissioners of Green ville want plans and specifications for a new county jail to cost $15,000. The Orangeburg Street Railroad Com pany will commence work on their road shortly. Tne barge Florida, from Port Royal, S. C, for Savannah, with 400 tons ot phosphate rock and 50 tons of guano, in tow of tug SophU, sprung a Te ak and had to anchor at Long Ifcland, Ga. A few days later a lighter was alongside, and she was relieved of her cargo. R T Allison, of Yorkville, a mail agent on the Air-Line Railroad, whe .was seriously injured by an accident on the road in November last, has by his attor neys, Cook & Cook, of Atlanta, brought suit against the railroad company, ic tufnable at Atlanta, placing his damage at $30,000. - MANUFACTURES UT SOUTH CAROLINA. I860 SS.931.1M 8,616.000 1,880,USU 18W S5, 400.000 9,809,000 1,54 appear Capital, -Value of Products, -Number of hands, -' Amount of wages.' The progress since 1870 will from the following comparison : 1 ' V. 1870 1880 16SS JWIJ t32.am.uuu 81,975,UU Hands employed, - 8,141 15,828 Capital employed, $5,400,(00 fll0fi,000 Value of products, 9,850, IU) 1678,U00 VIRCilNIA. , Peter Smith, of Eastville, was killed by Jefferson Adair in that place in a dis pute over a game of cards, The Salem Chemical works have been incorporated to manufacture various ckemical compounds.. A lumber trust to keep up the price of Virginia and North Carolina pine has been f oi mtd at Norfolk. The Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemi cal Company huve been incorporated for the manufacture of fertilizers and chem icals. W D Reid, a prominent farmer of Prince William county, was found hanging in his barn near Occoquan Saturday. The cause the suicide is unknown. , t Great excitement prevails in Chancel lorsville over the killing of Mrs. Thomas Love, Friday night, by her husband. Mr. Love is about 50 years of age. and the dead woman was hii second wife. The old Sutherlin tavern in North Danville, which more than a hundred years old, and in old times was the ren dezvou? of politicians, was. burned Sat urday morning. . Silas Thorp, charged With attempt to commit a felony, with intent to kill, was convicted in the County Court at Wil liamsburg and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.- v, i J The Green Foi est Iron and Steel Com pany was organized at Lexington, and a charter of incorporation secured. The object of the company ' is to build a twenty-ton charcoal ; furnace and a seventy-five-ton coke furnace at Buena Vista. The minimum capital is $50,000; maximum $3,0OC,O0Oji Furnace to be built at once. v GBO&GIA. I The contract for elearing. grading, etc., on the Eastern extension of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery railroad, has been awarded. There will be an interstate exhibition of the resources and manufacturing ac complishment of the Southern 8tates in Atlanta, beginning on some day in Oc tober not yet named, j The Gulf House at I Thomas ville was I uurnea tvettnesaaj1 nignc . lne guests escaped. The building was insured for 15.000. and furniture $3,000. This lacks several thousand dollars of. cover ing the loss. The hotel was also a well known railroad eating house. The legal time for cutting turpentine boxes in Georgia expired March 1, and it is now a misdemenror under ihe laws of the State either to cut or cans to be cut, a turpentine box anywhere in. ; Georgia. The time specified in ihg 1 lonalfon box cutting law is from Nov. ! 15 to March I. ! 1 1 ' l : ' f The Cartervilla Furaace Co., the Eto wah Co and the Daisy Coal Go. have been consolidated and incorporated by Jos E Brown and others as" the Etowah Land and Mining Co.. with capital stock of $1,750,000, and privilege of Increasing to $5,00,000. ' ""V-.-TKKHESSEX.. - The proposed Chattanooga Southern railroad will be built, the necessary money having been secured. . " - New York ca pitalists have chartered the (Cumberland Mountain Cral railroad, to start from the Oloeinnati Southern and intersect the Walden's Ridge road, tear Jenks. Horatio M Alger, of Michigan, has purchased several thousand acres of mineral and timber lands near Anderson for $85,000 and wil erect larsre iron and wood working establishments. Michigan parties are prospecting on the Tennessee and Church rivers with the view to purchasing timber. lands, and if they purchase will, it is said, erect a saw mill in Chattanooga with a capacity of of 50,000 feet per day. Fifty iron workers employed by the Lookout Iron Company, at Chattanooga quit work under orders of the Amalga mated Association of Iron and Steel Werkera, on account of the proposed re dnctlen ia wages. : The house of Win Flowers at Hollow Rock, Benton county, was burned and Flowers, his wife and two children, per ished in the flames... Neighbors saw the fire, but arrived too :Tajte;to be of any as sistance. ' Not a single occupant of the house was left to tell how the fire occur red. ;-- ' , ' - Chattanooca will have another nation al bank with a capital of $200,003. Of this amount $50,000 will be taken by the Chattanooga capitalists, s nd the balance, $150,000, will be subscribed for by Eastern parties. All the stock has been placed, and a charter sccu:d. Mr Theodore Richmond will be presi dent, and G R Gaskill. the assistant cashier of the Third National Bank has been tendered the position of cashier. . FLORIDA. , A company has been organized to build a street railway in Tallahassee. The tennis games being played at St. Augustine for the tropical championship are highly interesting. M S Carter & Co, who have received the contract for buildinsr the large bridge across the St. John's river at Jackson ville, have commenced work on the piers. Philadelphia parties have purchased 4.000 acres of land in Orange county, near Lake Hart, and will drain same by cutting a canal from Lake Hart to the Ekoalockhatchie creek. . . A report from Pensacola states 'that Roswell P. Flower, of New York, and other capitalists have purchased for 1,500,000 large tracts of timber land in Western Florid i, which they propose to develop by cutting timber, cltaring up, colonizing, etc. t The Philadelphia base ball club, un der the management of Harry Wright, arrived in Jacksonville and will remain in the State about a month playing with local base ball clubs. Their first game with the Jackson v" lie club resulted in a tie 2 to 2. OTHER STATJS. . Dennison, Tex., is excited over recent discoveries of natural "gs , - A company is being v worked up to build fertilizer works in Geneva, Ala. A 15,000 fplndle cotton mill to cost $200,000, is to be put up at Waco, Texas, this summer. The Pine Mountain, Ky., Iron "and Coal Company have let contracts for building forty new coke ovens at a cost of $10,000. ; At New Orleans, La., the Pine Wood Distillation Co's works were burced. The loss is estimated at $20,000. 1 The insurance is $6,500. J H Van Hoose, mayor of Fayette viile, Ark., is endeavoring to form a company to develop natural gas and pe troleum near that town. Natural gas has been discovered in the counties of Grimes, McLennan, Young, Lavacca, Washington, Grason, Sabine and Hardin, in the state of Texas. A large number of German immi grants entered the State of Kentucky last week and will settle near Milledge ville, Lincoln county, in the vicinity of which there are already two Austrian colonies which hare been very success ful and profitable. Generat McClelland Monument. The monument which marks the grave of General George B. McCIellan is in course of construction at the Quincy Granite Company's Works in Buffalo, N. Y., and is to be ready for unveiling on the coming Decoration fay. The shaft will bo forty-six teet high, at base nine feet six inches square, material being granite, costing $10,000. It is surmounted by a large ball on which rests an eagle. The ball and eagle are six feet high and the eagle is four feet from tip to tip of wing. The following will be the iiscription of one face ot the shaft: , - - : GEORGE BRIXTON IfCCT.'KT.T. A rT : I BO&H IK rKHaSTLVANIA DKC. 3, XM l : dud ur wxw jxrsxt oct. 29, lt : : Commander General of the Annies or the! : United States, Governor of New : : Jereey, : : Erected a a tribota- of respect and : I affection by personal frieoda : The Australasian Wool Product. The wool-producing industry of the Australasian colonies is one which is steadily growing in importance. The total number of sheep in the whole oi these colonies on the 31st of March;" 1888, was yt 452.U38. .Of this number, almost one-half were found in New South Wales. The totals for each colony are as follows: New South Wales. 4v, 065,152; New Zealand, 1,285,561: Queensland, 1VJ 2 V 3 Victoria, 10, 628,983; South Australia, 7,25J.00i; West Australia, 1.U0SVJ44; Tasmania, 1,517,242. The total of 06, 4C2,0C8 com pares with a total of 7?,8S8,710 in 18S5. For purposes of comparison, we may give the number of sheep in some other countries. For the Argentine Republic the figures in 1885 were ?-,10(',CuO; is European Russia, excluding Poland, there were in 1883 estimated to be 4t'. 724,736 theep: in the United States in 1887 the number was 44, '5.? and in 1888 in the I nited Kingdom there were 28.955,240 sheep. Cu'litator. Railroad authorities are getting more than ever in favor of heavier rail sec tions The Michigan Central takes to an righty-pound section, the - ceding to a ninety, while on the lines of the Plant yteraa seventy-pound section replace sjtj-iadrdr NORTH. AND WEST. irEWfJY ITXIIS BY TZLIiaZIAPII, Betas; A Ocndensatlon Cf Tbs Principal Hap pening In XTarent States. " -. The Indiana Legislature has killed the local option bill. - . .'- The Prohibition amendment in New Hftmpshire was defeated by a large ma jority. " . . " ; . . v .. . ' : An epidemic of diphtheria is prevail i"g In Gallitsin, Pa. There have been 50 deaths during the past thirty days.' Lillie Langtry, the actress, was mar ried on Tuesday in New - York and is now Mrs. Frederick Gebhart. - A party consisting of Grover Cleve land, Thomas F Bayard, Don M Dickin son and Wm F Vilas started for a trip to Cuba, Monday. The authorities in Chicago have un earthed a larce combination for illicit distilling with a capacity of some 500 gallons per day. A committee of wine-makers appoint ed to determine how much old wine there is in California reported 12,000, 000 gallons gallons of old wine in- the cellars of the whole State. ; At Pittsburg the 54 inch tubular boil er in the West Point Boiler Wdrks ex plodcd, 'completely wrecking the build ing and killing six men. A number of others were badly in jui ed. : The shut down of the King Philip and the American Linen Mills, at Fall River, Mass., has added over 2,000 to the list of strikers. A mass meeting was held attended by 5,000 strikers. The Connecticut Legislature passed a bill prohibiting the use of tobacco fo smoking by minors under 16 years of age. The bill also makes the delivering of tobacco to a minor a crime as well as as the sale of it. Representatives of the six leading Northern coal companies met in New York City and reduced - the wholesale price of coal 50 cents per ton for stove; 65 cents for chestnut; 40 cents for egg,' and 25 cents for grate. A fatal prize fight occurred at Couer d'Alene City, Idaho Ter., between Jersey Flower, champion ot the Territory, and John Kendall, an alleged pugilist from Chicago. Four rounds were fought, and Kendall was so badly injured that he will die. Flower is under arrest. - r From the edition of Geo P Rowell & Co's, 4 'American Newspaper Directory," to be published April 1st. it appears that tl e newspapers and periodicals of all kinds issued in the United States and Cdntda now number 17,107, show ins: a g&iu f 107 during the last t vtlve month?, and of 7,882 in jten yearp. WASHINGTON CHAT. Rear Admiral John Lee Davis (retired) died in -Washington Tuesday. The funeral of the late Congressman Townshend took place Tuesday from St Matthew's church, and was at ten led by a large number of personal .and polit ical friente of the deceased. ' x John W Noble, Harrison's Secretary of the Interior, is President of the Campbell Real . Estate Company, of El Paso, Tex, which is the owner of nearly ; $1,000,000 in real estate in that city. All deeds of the company to property are signed by Noble. Miss Lillie Burns, who left with - her mother two years ago to reside in Cali fornia, will return to Washington in the spring, prior to her departure for Europe . Miss Lillie is a descendent ef one of the most aristocratic Southern families, be ing a daughter of Capt Owen Burns, of the U S Navy, and a granddaughter of Senator Otway Burns, of North Car olina. The following nominations were sent to tho Senate Thursday by the Presi dent : James S Clarkson, of Iowa, to be first assistant postmaster general, vice A E Stevenson, resigned. Lewis Wolfley, of Tucson, AT, to be governor of Ari zma; John A Kasson, of Iowa, William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, and George H Bates, of Delaware,' to be commissioners to represent the United States at the conference to be held in Berlin, concerning affairs in the Smoan Islands. - President Harrison sent to the Senate tho following nominations: Arthur C. Mellette, of Watertown, ;D. T., to be Governor of Dakota; Luther B Richard son, of Grand Forks, D.T to be Secre tary of Dakota; Cornelius H Hanford, of Washington Territory, to be Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of the Terri tory of Washington; George W Irvin, of Montana, to be M arshal of -the United States for the Territory of Montana; George 8 Batcheier, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Hugh S Thompson, resigned; Albert G Pprter, of Indiana, to be Minister to Italy; John A Enander, of Rlinois, Min ister to Denmark. FOREIGN NEWS In England Charles S Parnell, the Irish leader, has begun a series of suits against the London Time for libel , Lord Tennyson, though long out of danger, makes slow progress towards re covery. Count Yon Berchem, under Secretary of State, will represent Germany in the coming conference in Berlin concerning Samoa. The regents of Servia are opposed to ex-Qucen Natalie's return, while the cabioet are disposed to favor her re turn. The Austrian government has ordered the Danube Navigation Company to bold as many steamers as possible ready for an emergency. The second game between the Ameri can base ball teams was played in Lon don Widnesdiy. There was a large attendance, and the playing was spir ited. The ccore was: AU America, 7; Chicago, 6. Aonnment to the Hambletonlan Sire. The National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders proposes to erect a bronze statue of the great Hambletonian,to cost rot less than $3000, as a memorial to the progenitor of one of the fastest strains of American trotting . horses. The ommittee in charge ot the work is composed of J. C. Howland, Guy Miller and J. W. Gray. Treasurer of the Asso ciation, who also a ts as Treasurer of tho fund. A considerable sum for thi purpose had already been collected b a. Buck, editor of ths Spirit cf t i Timet, . .. sua csumcriA rso: They Are to llaie a Grand Iiux2x Into tne Territory. ; PrjBcrxx, L T., SpeciaL Prairia fires have been raging between here and Ok lahoma station. Fifty square miles of country have been laid waste.-- Cattle will surely suffer, and some are already reported as being burned im the late fireT By the cattlemen these fires are attri buted to the boomers, but the boomers deny the charge, and say are law abid ing citizens. The train over the Santa Fe passed through walls of fire and smoke. Oklahoma Hill spent Friday in Purcell and surrounding country, talk ing to the boomers and formed , them ready, to move at a moment's notice. He. advised them to go into the Oklahoma country as peace abiding citizens and honest settlers, and to start at the same time. The other boomers are fiom Kansas, and the colony from : Omaha with what will come in on the trains. Hill says the country will be .filled to overflowing" in a few days. The settlers are satisfied that if the President fails to issue hiaproclamation in time to raise a crop there will be great suffering on tbe border, asa large percentage of the settlers in the Chickasaw nation have been led to believe the country is open, and they must get on tne lands in time to plow and plant this spring. Oklaho ma Hill cays the cattle men are figuring on the President delaying his proclama tion until until the Cherokee commission is acted upon. It is impossible for the boomers to" do anything in the case of failure, but to. rent land from the In-J ai&ns to i aim, ana wmie tne noDie rea man basks his shins in the sun this sum mer, the cattlemen's cattle roam with Jirofit, the poor white boomer i arming or the Indians, become a worse slave than the Indians before the war. This is the way Hill sizes up the situa tion; and sent tbe following telegram to President Harrison: - "The situation in Oklahoma is critical. It is a Western necessity to have seme action at once in Oklahoma. If the thousands of honest settlers clamoring for admission are deprived - of their right to settlement ti.l too late to make a crop, it will not only be disappoint ment, but will cause actual starvation on the borders.' ' "Very respectfully, . 1 "Harry L. Hill. The threat made by the cattle men has only hastened this determination to go over in Oklahoma A Great Parnell Meeting. A meeting of the citizens of Philadel phia to express confidence in the integ rity and patriotism of Charles Stewart Parnell was held at tbe Academy of Music. The meeting was one of the larg est of the kind ever held in the city. Every inch of space in the large building was occupied, the crowd being estimated at 5,000 prsons, while the doors were closed before 8 o'clock to keep out the crowds clamoring for admission. Mrs. Delia S. Parnell, mother of the Irish pa triot, was greeted with enthusiastic ap- )lau3, as she entered a private box. The arge stage - of the Academy was filled with representatives, "professional men and private citizen. Governor Beaver presided over the meeting, which was addressed by Senator John C. Spoener, of Wisconsin; ex-Goeri:or Curtin, of Pennsylvania; Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadelphia Press; A K McLure, of the Philadelphia Times, and many oth ers. At the conclusion of the speaking a subf eription was started for the Parnell fund, and $3,000 was realized, including $50O each from George W Childs and A J Drexel. Forty Acres and a Cow I Southern agents, moving negro fami lies to Arkansas, are quietly but success fully at work In North Carolina. Their operation are confined thus far to a few counties on railroad lines, near Gold a -boro. The counties are systematically canvassed. Severs! thousand persons have alrealy gone, and indications point to an extensive movement. Many large plantations are almost deserted. Negro drummers are paid five dollars for each family secured. The entire expense of the transportation to Little Rock is paid by the agents. t r WHAT THE KEGROE3 ARB PROMISED. The negroes say they are promised forty acres of land, a bnck house, cow, and a dollar and a half per day for labor, and are told that corn sells for nineteen cents per barrel and meal at one-fourth cent per pound. They know nothing of th-air destination. The removal ia by families. Planters in the counties aft ct ed are greatly embarrassed at the loss of farm hands at the beginning of the plant ins season. The Confederate Soldiers' Home. recretary Oliver Downing, of the New York citizen committee for the aid of the National Confederate Soldiers' Home at Austin, Tex., continues to receive many letters from Union veterans and others who desire to, aid their late oppo nents. Among the communications received is one from Fred Grant, who says: Gen eral Grant's kindly feelings toward the Southern people, though they were once his enemies, is Mrs. Grant's reason for sending enclosed check. She wishes you success in your efforts. Gen. Alfred Pieasanton writes some interesting reminiscences of the war, and highly praises the bravery and gallantry of the Confederates, with whom he bad many a sharp encounVr. Jerked Below by a Shark. During a long residence on the Gulf stream in the Culf of Mexico, says a writer in the If an Francisco Utroni le 1 never knew positively of a case of a man being bitten by a shark, though there were many reports. Asa sample, a man of my acquaintance was sailing one morning in what we called, the outer channel, a famous place for man-eaters. When he jibed the boat without taking In the sheet the boom struck and knocked him overboard. Some one in the lioat jumped to the belm and put her about and threv him an oar. He seized it and was swimming toward the boat, when he threw up his arms and with a scream went down as the ma a ssid as if he had been jerked f mm below. No blood waa reen. nor did the man-eater come np. It certainly looked suspicious, but 1 have seen men go down almost as suddenlr with cramp or fright, Six Hen Drowned. The brig Agnes Bart on was wrecked four miles below Virginia . Beach, on the Virginia coast Thursday night, snd six of her crew of ten men, including the Captain, were drowned. Fierce cle (raged all along tho coast, and she was blown ashore. The brig was bound to Baltimore with a cargo of phosphate.. :iUT PALHTRr ncim AirD rncsucra oy a va?- Arr.Ti csittal slaitt. Ite. Gifts to Han Are Sugar, Starch ; Oil, T7x, TTIne, Resin, andE? !' blo Fruits Rodent Enemlea. The eoecanut tree is indigeoota fa thtf East,.and now "largely ctlii. vated on the ccsjU of India and CejlojT and in the islands of the Eastern Arctu pelago.. There are as many as tweatv million in the . southwest of Cejloa, The palm frequently grows wild in tant and Isolated islands, whither ti. germ has been borne by the sea, tit thick fibrous padding around the tr protecting it frcra the action of tis water.: So; we constantly sea that conl reefs, ai soon as they make their appeu ance above the surface of the water, art taken possession cf by these trees. Th seashore is the home of the pala; U grows quite down to the w&ter'i edge; ; and is in many placet constantly washed by the waves. Thus, aloe j the Brazilian coast for distance of nearly 280 miles, from ti, river San . Francisco to the bar cf M. manguape, these trees extend. We also, however, find them far inland, and at the height of several thousand feet abort the level of the sea. At Bangalore they flourish and produce fruit in abundance at a height of SOOO feet above the sea leveL From a dietetics! and economical point of view, the cocoanut palm is a most valuable plant; sugar, starch, ciL war, wine,, resin, astringent matters tzi edible fruits ars its gifts to man. An alluvial or loamy soil is ths most snitabls for planting it, and to mora than elty plants an acre should be planted to rtt the maximun emount of fruit possibla. Nuts obtainable from trees of fron'tr;a to thirty years old are the best for plant ing. .'There are numerous varieties cf this tree, there being as many as thirty ia Travancore alone. One dwarf variety bears fruit when it ia only two feet in height. Toddy is the-sap of the cocoanut palm, and when-the toddy drawer wishes to get out the sap of the tree, he binds ths cower spathe tightly with fibers of the tree,- and beats it twice a day for three onfdotHva with a short stick. The tq is theiiV sliced, and as soon as ths lap bW-"t-:flow, a veuel, either earthen or made if bamboo, is tied to the spaths to receive the sap. The tpathe is kept bleeding by making a fresh wound ia it each day. The uid, when fresh, has a pleasant taste, and is slightly aperient. When kept for a few hours, it ferments and becomes somewhat intoxicating, and it .may then be distilled into spirits or vinegar. With bakers it takes the place of yeast. The quantity of toddy takes out varies with, the age and locality of the .spathe, but ths average quantity obtained for two cr three weeka ia tnree or four quarts every twenty-four hours. The liquid is also boiled down into a coarse kind of sugar called jaggery, which is either converted Into molasses or reSned before ferments tion sets into white Or brown sugar. In some places the occupation of toddy drawer is a hereditary one. Their mods of work is very simple, but is extremely dangerous. A thocg mado of bullock or buffalo hide, from. 3 to 6 inches in width, and long enough to surround ths tree and body, of the climber, is fastened with a peculiar kind of knot. Ths worker then stretches the thong to its utmost by throwing his whole weight oa it, and draw up his legs. He hasaring of rope of palmyra fibers around his Ja stsps, which allows him to grasp ths tree between bis heeK While hi3 left trad Is pressed against the trunk he tl..ts the thong up the tree with h'.a ribt s.-l draws his body up with it. Cocoanut dsy" is celebrated iu tacit parts of India during -the lull noon cf August. Un that day numbers of nuts are thrown into the sea as an oHericg to thv Hindoo gods. Occasionally ens meets with deformed nuts, consisting cf the husk with sma'l deformed nuts hav ing no kernel inside. The natives at. tribute .this blighting of the fruit to the tree frog, which, by smelling the fiower, can prevent the fruit from coming to maturity. The kernel of the nut is fre quently made into ornaments for ths hair, or necklaces. The rat family is also very destructful to this tree, par ticularly in the I accadhes. It is ex ceedingly difficult to get at these rati, they. make to themselves so many hiding places among the trees. Rat hunts are, however, occasionally got up, and to these all the inhabitants turn out with sticks and poles. While some of ths hunters climb the trees and drive oat tbe rats, the rest surround the trunks and kill the animals as they rush down. On some of these occasions thousands cf rats are killed. The people, being Mo hammedans, cannot be induced to keep doa. Honrnin; In Corea. Mourning in Corea is a most burden, some duty. When a father dies, for in stance, the sons must dress themselves in a suit of sackcloth, with a rope gird Is about the waist. On the head is worn an enormous hat, a':out the size of s rain umbrella, and made of basket work. This hides the whole upper portion ol the body, and for further protection against obtrusion tbe mourner carries s large fan before his face. It was in this disguise that the Jesuits were enabled te enter the country and carry on theii work. They have but recently laid II aside. ' Even the pipo is wrapped with white paper, and white sbo?s sre worn. The mourner is not expected to do any work, but at stated times hehasdotiet to perform at his "aoceator's tomb. All this is very hard for some to bear, as the whole resources of a fairly prosperout family mar thus bo exhausted. In the care of us.-fnt official whom the King cannot , are from duty, the period ol mourning may be shortened by royal de cree. ban Francisco Chronicle. A-Chinese IlinUter Princely Gift. Colonel Fred. Grant showed me the ottsr evening a splendid gift received by his wife from the Chinese llinister. A branch of rare wood, gilded, rises from a bare of plush to the height of twenty-eight inches, and on the twis bright-plumsged birds rest in natural attitudes, while below two ha-ag baskets, one of gold and one ot siirer, contain clusters of Chinese f owers with gold and silver petals and go!d stem. All the mountings of the baskets ai e also of gold. It is a maguiScent specimen of the skill of Chinese artisans, and is val ued at $2000. Keto York Star. . Cetrlbution Blinds a Crael Hester. Id Indiana, not long since, sn ox frfver became enrsged with his oxen be cause they could not pull the hesvy load be piled on Jlis wagon, snd in his anger he beat them brutall r. At last he made a great knot in the end of his whip lash and declared he would '!cnock their eye out. He raised the lash high and brought it down with a 1 his might, but he missed the poor brute's head and truck his own. The knot baried itself in his right ere snd completely destroyed it. The punishment was indeed tern Lie, but it was si just as it was terribl. 'lSc&wrie.