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Swain .County Herald. Published Weekly at Bryson Clty H. A. Hodge, Ed. & Pub While Thoma3 A. Edison wa? experi menting recently a mass of chemicals exploded in his face, singeing his eye brows and nearly putting out his eyes. If Mr... Edison had lost his sight, in the opinion of the Atlanta Cowtitn'-ion, , it would have set the clock of science back half a century. . .- Australia in apparently in need ot spinster immigration, and the want might easily Le supplied from several, different quarters if judicious arrange ments were made. It is reported that in the colony of Jueeasland there are so few unmarried women that their life ih made a burden by proposals of marriage The two Argentine universities, under the patronage of the Government, are among the best in South Amer.ca, and According to the Ma, I and Kcpre, they tank with Vale and Harvard in curricu and standard of education. The public school system also is under the patronage of the .ovemment under a compulsory education law, and includes all grades from the kindergarten to the normal school. There are thirty col leges and normal schools for the 'higher education of men and women in the re public, and 272'J public schools. The large immigration of Japanese to Hawaii is said, by the San Francisco CJiTonide.Xo have benefitted several dis tricts in Japan which were formerly overcrowded. Now here is a den:and for laborers and the excessive land rent als have been reduced. Oa ths Hawaiian islands, howeer, the effect of thi3 im migration has been to throw the Portu guese out of .employment, and no less than 2000 of these people on the Island of Hilo are making arrangements to re move to "Washington Territory, a3 they are threatened with starvation in theii present quarters. g Medical Classics, a journal pablished in New York, cautions people against the quinine habit. It mentions a gallant soldier who shattered his nervou3 system by the use of .the" drug until he was afraid to cross the street alone. Another case is sadder still. A lady took sixty grains of quinine at one dose. Whether she was cured or not is not stated, but she went totally blind, and will remain so for .life. Probably there is no medi cine so universally used in this part of the country. People prescribe it for themselves as a tonic aid to break up colds. All this is wrong. Let the doc - it is apparent that tue - - j... trade." or"at all events to the money derived therefrom, is not as bitter among the aristocracy of Kngland as it once was, or as they WO u Id willingly have the outside world believe. The Duchess of Hamilton has recently established a dairy for supplying the market with a good quality of butter. Lady Sh&Jtet Grey has an establishment, at Bourne mouth for the sale of butter, egga, etc., and a number of other titled irv.sonages are said to be on the point of engaging ip trade of one kind or another. Evi dently the chicken-ranch stage of pjrowth has but recently been reached in England. That all the world loves a lover has recently been proved in a growing1 town of Texas. Two colored men fought. They were rivals in lov3.' One killed the other. The murderer was janitor of a building in which lived a number of lawyers. Eighteen of them with hearts tou:hed volunteered their services. .They presented themselves in a body at the prison, but the jailer, thinking lie was assaulted by a mob, i'ed and hid himself and his key. He was with difficulty calmed and made to understand the situa tion. But here, alas! the story ends. We are not yet informed whether all the eighteenjawyers succeeded in clearing the prisoner or whether he still languishes and mourns. ' A gentlernau just returned from Indian Territory makes a curious contribution to the Harrison family history! He saw at Fort Reno, in the relic collection of Indian Agent Dyer, a silver pipe in scribed; "Presented by Maior-General Harri son, U. S. A., on behalf of the United State?, to the Shawanoese tribe of Indians, 1814."' The Shawanoe?e have long been extinct, and the pipe wa3 given to JIajor Dyer several years ago by Tom Blackhoof, their last descendant. This particular pipe is, bowl and stem, of solid silver. The bowl is elaborately chased, and on one side contains a pic ture of an Indian and a soldier shaking hands, the militarymau in the full re gimentals of three-quarters of a century ago. '.': - - The Pennsylvania. Uailroad, after giv iag a year's trial of iron tie?, Ins aban doaedj their use. The chief reason for doing' so is that the iron ties have not the elasticity necessary for the "giving" of the i-ails. On a roadbed oPtoroken stone, such as the Pennsylvania road has, this has been lound to mate the riding hard and unpleasant to tne passengers, "end has also greatly increased the wear ancttear on locomotives and rolling sto.k. ; The iron t moreover, cost about three . times as much ss the best wooden one?, and as long as the latter are to be hid they will doubtless continue in general use. When the forests become exhausted, ays the New York Graphic i will ba absolutely necessary to have recourse to metal ties, but in ths meantime wood appeirs to be the most suitable material for many reasons. EST. NEWSY ITEM3 BY TELEQEAPH. . - j Being A Condensation of the P: inddal Han . penings in Different St itei Rcs3iA has 133 vessels. An ice trust Is the latest Florida has fresh pineapples. Vrokocsd peace reigns in Samoa. Is America there are .500,000 Jews. Ivduisvillk is to have natural! Frogs' le?s cost fifty cent3 a bound. Bostos eats fifty tons of candy a day. Chicago receipts of hogs are increasing, eteht vessels. The United States has ninety rt-tnPFAv iron nrostects continue favor JJVJ A . . Thk number of priest3 in this country is 811S. j- Mcrders are decidedly on tie increase in Paris. lit Germany there are one million, surplus women. I A foreign steel rail syndicate ii being formed. i " A strong current of emigration to Chile is noted. I ' In all there are 7000 miles or pipelines in the world. j Louisiana strawberries urd in the New. streets with 1 York market. Cincinnati is paving its Georgia granite. i The zouave uniform is to be the French army., j J abandoned in ( The brewerv combination in this country .has not succeeded. i Macd S., queen of the trottiAg turf, is now fifteen years of age. j The annual production of 2000 million gallons. j maineral oil is The Hessian fly 13 .destroying the wheat crop in central Illinois.' Gah wells are being stru bk along the Rocky Mountains' slope. Farmers are paying high nrices for seed wheat in the Northwest A boom is on in the City bf Mexico and prices of real estate are high. I- . Indiana have All the election cases in been quashed by J udge v oods.l j It costs two cents per car par mile to run electric cars m Isew i ork city , In five years there has beenlcoined in gold $103,7:5,000, silver $263,052,000 One thousand locomotives and steamers are now operated by petroleum English and German bankers are gobbling up gold territory in bouth Africa No Russian ''liable to militjary servicers permitted to leave that countrv now. Flo hid A has sent 2,000.000 young orange trees tj California since last Ssdptember. The Indiana Legislature refuses to allow natural gas to be piped out of the State. An Australian experimentj i of shipping oranges to London proved vertr successtul. There will be about ninety vacancies this year at the United States Navp.1 Academy. TVrr.Txri the last seven vearfc Atlanta, Ga. has uut nearlv $1,000,000 in her streets anc i sewers. ; ; The SpirituaMsts of Boston ; recently cele brated the torty-nrst anmver spiritualism. j Nearly two hundred thousand barrels of apples are lying unsold in the northern part I - of .New York. i Alabama grot the tirst Postmaster ap- pointed in the Southern State: under the new administration. Trotting begins to be recognized in Eng land. A track -for it is to be out of Liverpool. j A newspaper trust is beiig organized in England. Newspaper men aria ordering sup plies trout abroad. The Chinese are getting ready to build650 miles of railroad, 5n locomotives, 150 coaches 4 .i n , I '. "1 I Ts r . - All A Trt O 1 " Q - make. Mr. Keely. of motor fame, announces t.li a t. he has found tho missing liik necessary to iiki.-s.l- uiu Moratory resonator ana etneral generative evaporator a success. A. G. Spaldijtg, of ChicagA, and his party or, oaseDaii players who left San Francisco last fall arrived in New Yor Tl 0- tour around the world Tsun Ttintj Xt n.- Vi, u.L r , " j., iuc uiutKt nsn nouse in Boston, are financially embarrassed Their liabilities are' placed at 5200, was part owner of the steamfer Haytien Re public, which was seized at Hayti. The troubles at Hayti are said to lave had much to do with the firm's trouble. -' Downs & Finch, shirt ma lufacturers of New York city, with large fact ories at James burg, Bordentown and High stown, N. J., regarded as the leading firm L i the business in the Unitsd States, have fail ;d for $500,000. At Frankfort, Ind., William Pray shot and killed his wife, and then shot h imself through the head, inflicting a mortal w aund'. At a revival meeting at Ca houn, Ky., J "W. White, Sheriff of -the con lty, confessed that thirteen years ago he stele 81000 from the county. He made restitut ion at once. Commodore Benhasi has ta ken command of the navy yard at Mare Islai d, Cal." . Thomas "Washngtox f ourt 3en years old, I was put off an engine near Charleston, W. A a. He returned and struck ..Engineer Spriggles on the head with a "piJhfp handle, knocking him down, and th n tathimt6 death. The President has appointed Joel B. Er- hardt Collector at the Port bf IXew York. Colonel Erhardl was the Republican candi date for Mayor of New York last November, and is a prominent paity leader in the Me tropolis, i Coenelius Van Cott was appointed Past master of the city of New 'S'ork by Vka President. Mr. Van Cott is a ! state Senator, and like Colonel Erhardt has een for "years a Republican leader in New 1 "ork city poli- tics. j . r . A parcel post convention between the United States and the j Iewar i Islands, has been signed by Postmaster-G sieral Wana- maker.- . ;, ! ! " ' '.- SCHTTTLER Dvbyxx has been appointed chief clerk of the Patent Office, j He Is f orty two years of age and was bon i in New Jer sey. . - ' - z - j - - - ' The SecretBTj cf tha Navy has formally accepted the grmbonl Yorktow a. Tirs GOOO tnsks ol ivory wh ch the Afri-can-'exploTPTS Slanrey and Em JTBey areTe ported to" have with them, i re valued--at $6oo,ooo. v :- - j sr' "j. . ; -A.nefhew of Guzman Blancc . ex-President of Venezuela, who committed ocgery to the amount of.23,0U0, has beer ! arrested in Mexico while trying to escape" io the United States. 4 A Sxw Peruvian Ministry ha been formed, with Pedro Alejandrino de Sol: x as Premier. " ; v i - New railroads are projected every day. Among the recent announcements nro a 2: mile road from Springfield to Hannibal, Mo -a 210 mile road from Waco. Texas, to Shreve-- port, La., and a sixty mile roa-; from Cole tnan. Texas, to Albany, Texis. Railroad buildins is looking ua j . j Tbials ofthe pneumatic dynamite guns aboard the new cruiser Vesu-vans Jernpnstrate that tttejr can fire more than five shots each in ten minutes, as required by c ntract. ' i j Tha Illinois W. C-T. TJ.. thr3ugh Super tntendent Ada H. Kepley. is making an especial "Tort to Interest our f reign-speak-inj; peopTe in tonipcran.e. The most promi nent method employed is tha distribution of temperance literature in various janzuaj JiORTH AND ) MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ' SCOTT'S "llarmion" has been dramatized. German opera is to be produced in Boston. Mrs. Crabtp.ee (Lottas mother) is worth 4 $800,000. ' . . ; .-- v,-r a t.ui- of Aleena. XEKNHAJilJ x 19 , " .Tinrth Africa- I Emma Abbott, the opera singer, was born .In Peoria, 111. I ' The Buffalo Bui Wild West will open in Paris May 15. It is said that there are 1200 actors out of employment in this country. Del Pcente, the tenor, is to be with the patti Opera Company this fall. M : Josef Hofmantn, the boy pianist, will re turn to America next November. : Mke. Albant will head an Italian opera company in this country next season. ) Adelaide Moore, the English tragedienne, is to return to this country next season.- i Pauline Lucca is concertizmg in Austria prior to her proposed departure for this coun try. L- Ernest Gye promises us a season of Ital- r- L A mariran -rit-ITna UOIIIIA last opera i tu i.v r- and chorus. I Victoria Vokxs, 'the handsomest of the Vokes Sisters, will tour the United States next season. . Clara Morris: the emotional actress, was taken- ill in St. Louis recently by an abcess on each hip. ; A floating Russian theatre and hotel is successfully touring the shore towns of tbe Volga Paver. ANOTHER American singer. Miss Jeanne no., moiiA a saieeess on the concert platform of Berlin. Margaret Mather, the actress, has made arrangements for a twelve weeks' tour of the West this summer. The ''Passion Play1' will be given at Ober ammergau in the autumn of 1S90. The text and music nave oeen re isu. ' John DUFF.'lessee of the New York Stand ard Theatre and an old-time theatrical man ager, died recently of paralysis. Miss Mary Anderson has sailed for Eng land She was raucn improvea in neann anu will probably resume ner nmti irau iuui m October. Fanny Davenport, the actress, who was at one time very obese, has reduced her weight from 215 pounds to 108 by the system of Banting. In . Japanese theatres females are not allowed to act with men, consequently the Ophelias, Juliets and Perditas are played by men with shrill falsetto voices. Maurel, the baritone, is to receive $100, 000 for forty performances in Buenos Aryes, while Patti is to be paid $180,000 for singing thirty times in South America. Harriet Muir. an ex-English actress and a fine-looking young woman, was lately ar rested in London for attempting to enlist as a private soldic-r in the British army. SiGNOR Massini. the famous tenor, at his recent benefit in St. Petersburg, Russia, re ceived so many presents that twenty-four servants were needed to carry them from the cpera house to his hotel Catelin, a once popular French tenor and a pensioner of the Societe des Artistes, and notl nf Into for his saualid poverty, was lately discovered dad in his miserable garret in Paris, uver $ixiu was lounu u uiopr .. ...... f .1 T- lice hidden in his wretched mattress. Village? Farm Houses and Live Stock Des troyed. ; ' A dispatch from Scotland, Dakota, says: Another terrible prairie fire swept over tha country south of Scotland during the after noon, and its p ith was marked by the smould ering embers ot" many hemes: Avery high wind prevailed all day, and with the grass as dry ? as tinders the terrific ; force of the fire is beyond description. I At three o'clock word was brought to town that the prairie was afire north of West Town, and immfiflintelv a hundred men started in f IiYiT!!nK,'t" a iYit-i "SrovT-h's farm. twO" miles north, all his barns, dairies and' cattle sheds were one blazm? mass, and the efforts of the crowd were' directed to savins; his residence and beating the fire out tht wouil in a short time have swept down upnn the town. Brown's residence was saved, but all his household goods that had been carried out by family were burned. One mile north of Brown's tha lire burned Henry Haelfry out ot every possession.- His house, barns and stock were consumed, and he barely escaped with his family. Across from Ragelfry lived D. R. Tom linson' a prosperous ' farmer, ' and everything about his plse6,; except his housa was swept-- antv. Five houses and several heid of .live stock were among his losses. His wife was at home alona when the fire began, and could do nothin? to save the property. By evening the fire in the west had. been exting-.vshed. but it is stili rainojinth southeast. The town of Olivet, the county seat of Hutchinson County, eight miles north, is reported to be more than half burned up. The bridges on the railroad : west of the town were burned. The loss for the two days were fully $50,00). Almost the entire .-population of " Beaver Creek, Minn., about thirty miles east of Sioux Fa lls, wevo aroused by the .flames and turned out to fiht theni, buOjaotbeforo they had consumed considerable property. " The telegraph wires running into Minnesota from Sioux Falls have been burned out and communication practically cut off. At Rapid City, Dakota, tlje flamesf.were driven before a sixty-five mile gale, destroy iug three houses in their course. In one of these was Mn. E. G. Bailey, Eloise Madison, and a ina servant named Aston. This party abandoned tha bumine house and ran through the prairie lire. Mrs. Bailey and the man escaped with s ight burns, but Miss Madison's clothing was ignited and burned from her body, inliicting- fatal injuries. Se.veral; building? in tha neighborhood of Blunt were destroyed, J. L Richardson los ing 500 sheep and many other farmers their homes. At Desmet 10,000 damage was done. ' The fires exren ie i over an area of nearly fifty miles and were confined almost entirely within the Territory. The damage will amount to nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. Leola, the county seat -of McPherson County, thirty-five miles north of Aberdeen, was destroyed by the prairie fire during the whirlwind. The tire came from the West, and was not noticed until it struck the town on account of the terrible stcrm. Sixty dwellings and business ; houses - were burned, entailing a loss of $150,00O. "he only .buildings remaining are the ourt houe. two store? and six dwellings. 'C. W. Old and Thomas Wardell f ,re terribly and fatally burned. Leola ir an interior town with no railroads or telegfaph and fur ther particulars cannot be obtained. Per sons who drove acros3 the country to West-' port, the nearest railaoad station, say thai the snrroundinz country is nearly de vastated. Hundreds of farmhouses are in' sbes ana the bones of burned animils are lying about ithe road. v. The Senates Work Summarized. Of the 3 j0 nominations sent to tha sonata oanns me special session oy president Harri- Marat Kalstead to be Minister to Germany. . Isadora S. Loventbal to e Postmaster at Modesto, Cal. - j The following remained unacted upon and therefore died at tha end of the session: William H. Whiteman to bs Associate Jus tice of the Territory of Ne-w ilexico. lid win 1. Kursheedt to be Marshal for the Eastern District-of Louisiana. Postmasters Kittrell O. Hal.Iers at Minot, Dak.; Carl C. Crippenat Eustis, 7a.; Burt C Drake at Gainesville, Fla.; Robert P Bebout at Itushville, Ind. ; George K. Nk-ho'-son at Ness City. Kan.; Samuel C Moore at Findlay, Ohio. - - President Hairison.-comiaaens were contained in 2Si messages, rjarin tha ciareson of the Senate at the lv'nnino nr President Cleveland's term "he sen to the Capitol 418 messages Eighteen of his nomi- J nations laiiea to receive confirmation, but there wero no rejections. At the last session of Congress during Hayes's Administration the Senate failed to act on 106 of his nomi nations, and rejectei three an nneqaaled record. COXGRESS3AX ClJFTOX R. BKECKIXRmr.P of the Second Arkansas District ha i-o- redistnet the State until after the question of. I wvnuciuuuuier me nrcraerea jonii JF unu ouumj ner mvsrceraiiiOD. wu Clayton comes no in Congress. ricr-J.vrnaL April Thanksgiving. A hundred years have passed since the Government which our forefathers founded was formally organized. At noon, on the 80th day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, in the city of New York, and in the presence of an assemblage of the heroic men whose patriotic devotion h?A led the colonies to victory and independe , George Washington took the oath of offioa as Chief Magistrate of the newborn Republic. This impressive act was preceded at nine o'clock in t he morning, in all the churches of the city, by prayer lor God's blessing on the Government and its first President. The centennial of this illustrious event in our history has been declared a general holi day by act of Congress, to the end that the people of the whole country may join in com memorative exercises appropriate to the day. In order that the joy of the occasion may be associated with a deep thankfulness in the minds of the people for all our blessings in the pasfe, and a devour supplication to God for their gracious continuance in the future, the representatives of the religious creeds, both Christian and Hebrew, have memorial ized the Government to designate an hour for prayer ana uiaivisi"is v" "jl- Now, the jfore, I, Benjamin Jdarrisori, President of the United States of America, in response to this pious and reasonable re quest, dp recommend that on Tuesday, April 30 at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, the people of the entire country repair to their respective places of divine worship to implore the favor of God that the blessings of liberty, prosperity and peace may abide with us as a people, and that His hand may lead us in the paths of righteousness and good deeds. hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to bo affixed. Done ; in the city of Washington this fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of tbe independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth. Benjamin Harrison. ! By the President. James G.' Blame, Secre tary 01 Qtate. Stanley and Einin. ! Advices received at Brussels, Belgium, from Stanley Falls state that Arabs who have arrived there report that Henry M. Stanley and Emin Pasha were heard from in Febru ary. They were then marching toward -Zanzibar, with several thousand men, women nrt children. Thev also had 6000 tusks of ivoi-y. The Arabs who brought news of Rtanlev and Emin arrived at Stanley Falls in Februarv. Thev claimed to have seen Stan ley several months before that time. This report, says the Kew York Post seems to be a confirmation of the rumor," pablished recently, that Stanley was on his way to the East Coast, and it would also indicate that he had safely rejoined Emin according to the. plan mentioned in the letter just published, and that the latter had determined finally to return to civilization with all the men, women and children attached to his com mand. This would apparently fulfil the main object of Stanley's expedition, although thero is a political side to it yet to be explained. Three Eailway Tragedies. A collision occurred on the Northern Pa cific, near Helena, Montana, by which three passengers were killed and three wounded. The east bound passenger train leaving He lena ran into a double header freight train standing on the side track, wrecking three engines and piling them in a promiscuous mass on the track. Of the killed only one was identified, Charlie Green, a fireman, whose home is in Balti more. The injured were Harry Conger, A. K North, mail agents, and Joseph Jackson. Tha station agent is blamed for hot closing the switch, knowing that the passenger train was due. Two yard engines in the Chestnut street yards of the Omaha Road collided at St. Paul, Minn., and two meu were instantly killed, two others fatally injured and three more badly injured. Fergus Flanagan, the yard master, and an unknown parson supposed to be a young man named Funk, were killed instantly. James Davidson and Wiljiam TJtz,were fatally in jured. , . . : ' . . ' fl A f reialtt train eax - &Z2Zec. St ixyua. irBriiiM. 7 "v a. w tfff-snns. 5UU- posed to be tramps. Amphibions Youngsters at Alien. As six sturdy Arab boatmen rowed us ashore, writes Thomas Stevens to the New lotk. World from Aden, Arabia, there came swarming about our larger craft a lieet of tiny cockle-shell boats. Tkcie boats are little bigger than' the half-shell of the annual prize pumpkin at Topeka or Indianapolis, and each is paddled by a slim young Somali boy, who sits in the botton. These young sters are the famous divers of AdeD,who gain a livehood by diving for coins tossed into the sai by steamship -passengers curious to witness their perform ances. Toss a sixpence carelessly into the sea, and as it touches the water "flop, flop, flop" go from three to a doz.en of those diminutive divers-head-foremost after it. Before you can count six they are back into their boats, the iucky.one grinning a broad grin as he disjjlays the -coin preriaratory to stowing it away in his cheek. These youth3 seem strangely like hu man fro 2 s, built chiefly of arms and less. as they flop into the, water and clamber witn astonishing case ba?k into their tiny crait. Everybody wonders why the sharks, which are numerous here, don't gobble up these daring young amphibians. One of them would just about make a good mouthful for a Red Sea shark. Strange to say, they are never molested. A one-legged Somali of forty or so is pointed out to the tour ist on the streets as a former diver and a victim of Mr. Shark's voracity but he is the. only case of the kind known to the city. Some say the boys are too quick for the sharks, and that the latter, hav ing found it out years ago. no longer pay any attention "to them. Others, as sert that, like the crocodiles and the buf faloes of the Indus, theomali boys and the sharks get along so well together that they actually ftaternize at times, and that the former have been known -i to dive iiudera shark-ami pat--hinvf a miliarlyon the stomach. However all this may be, the littl black fellows are quite fearless, and accidents from sharks are singularly rare.- , Ingenious Convicts. ; 'The Detroit police have in their pos Btssioh a number of remarkable articles, the workmanship of convicts. Among them are six oil paintings by Ben Moyler, a forger; a finely - carved bone tooth pick, the work of Al Little, a well known crook cut With a jack-knife; c colored image of a red wing bhnkbird in tight, also carved by Little from s meat lonc; avery graceful mirror frame, the work. of Con Kane, another notori ous crook; a work box composed of 300C pieces of wcod, made by Clarkson, forger, and a curious bottle, containing a minature tree, on whose branches sit -gayly colored birds. This tree was made in pieces by a famous crook named roe Coveycau. with a broken-bladed jacft-knife and a piece of wire and pul together inside the bpttle. Detroit JS'ews tA Son? Cuises It Comber's Dath composer 3 ueaiu I ne old song, "Ever of Thee," one of the most, ponular of its tim .nd etilt jBdmired for its beauty, was by Foley Kail, of whom it is related that, having disposed of tbesongto a publisher he was subsequently rednced . to the neces sity of singing and selling the same -in a cheaply-printed form in. the streets of London. For thus interfering with the" business of the publisher, who owned the (copyright, the destitute composer was arres tea and placed in prison, where he ALL OVER THE SOUTH NEWS FROM EACH STATE. Parmer's Alliance Active-Notes of Acci ' dents, Eta, Classified. SOUTH CAROLINA. The IlamptoD County Teacher's Asso ciation held an interesting session at Vamville. The Camden, Chester and Gaffney Railroad Comnanv has been organized, to build the Chester and Camden Road. Mr. L A. Coulter, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of North and South Carolina, is doing good work at Walter boro, aiding the Association. Governor Richardson has made a requisition on Gov Fowle,of North Caro lina, for David Cash and Richard Ward, negroes, who stand charged with bur glary committed in York county, S. C. They will be taken at once to the latter place for trial. Dr Andrew Simonds, of Charleston, has taken the whole issue of $20,000 of 6 per cent bonds issued by the new county oi Florence lor tue purpose oi building .a Court-house and jail at Florence. The Cheraw ana unester Railroad Company will, it is reported. change their road from narrow to stan- dard gauge ana extena it iromw oune ty HUh. At Yorkville, Charlf s Colston, John C. Feister, and Charles McMauus, an colortd were tried for the murder. of W. C. Abernathy, ' white. Colston and Feast er were convicted and McManus was acquitted. Jackson Barnett, col ored, pleaded guilty of attempting to raps Abernathy's aaugnter. ine jeu kins Rifles are, on guard at the jail, but lynching is not feared as the people are satisfied with the verdict. Mosks Johnson, the negro driver for Dr. McDow, and who wa9 presented by the coroner's jury as an accessory to the murder of Oapt F. W. Damson, at Charleston, was taken before Judge Withckspoon on a writ of habeas corpus. The Court directed his release on bail in the sum of $1,500. The jury brought him in as accessory before the fact, jut the foreman subsequently publisher a card, stating that the jury meant acces sory after the fact. McDow is stilt in jail. FLORIDA. A company has been organized to con nect tho St. John's River, at or near Lake Harney, by canal with Indian River to the St. John's. Jacksonville is full of colored people from all narts of the South, cheap excur sions having brought them jn by the thousands Fred Dousrlas lectured to them at the Exposition. More real estate is now changing hands at Tampa than at any time for the past two years, and the prospect-is that there will be a good demand during the entire summer. From indications, judging from the blossoms, the next crop of oranges on the Halifax will be at least 50 per cent larsrer than this season, and prices will be satisfactory to tho.e who hold their fruit. until February and Mnrch. A bill levying one mill for immigra tion purposes will be offered to the r i ; .i i ii..Lriu .tho .cAfflte rjress. will uacK it up,, ine rress oirrtTtnhrnt- --or. Angustine having voted to that effect. The idea is to establish an immigration bureau, and the tax will be used to sup- pert it. Groyer Cleveland and party fished for tarpon at Ju peter Inlet, Fla. Many bites, but no fish-was firmly hooked until Mrs H B Plant secured one gamy monster. She played him until she was exhausted, then called on Mr. Cleveland for assist ance. After forlv minutes' playing the tarpon was landed. It weighed ninety- four pounds and war a mngnificentspeci men of the silver king, the only one se cured during their stay. GEORGIA. ' ? Negotiations are an foot for the estab lishment of a college in Tallapoosa at an early day. The work on the Rome rolling mills, in West Rome, is progressing quite rap idly. ' .-- A fleet of square rigged vessels has been chartered - for Brunswick, some thirty in all, besides the various schoon ers and other coa9t wise craft. .A severe hailstorm passed oyer Eaton ton last Sunday, night. . As a cyclone was looked for, pits were in demand, and many hid themselves away during its prevalence. The post office at Sandersville was en tered by burglars Tuesday night, the safe blown open and seven.! hundred dollars taken. Sandersville is .' .much alarmed, apprehending a repetion of the robber's visit. A man named John Winningham,- wno has been living for some time, near Lodi, eloped last Tuesday night with a young widow named Araminta Beck. It is -supposed that they have ..gone .to Gadiraen, Ala., where Winninghain has a brother living. Winningham has a wife and six children at Anniston. Ala,,- wbo are saiu-io oq in esi.uuie circum stances. Mrt Adeline. Lengley, mother i th ynansr womaDj if deeply distressed over the affair. . TENNESSEE. The Rangum Root Mtdicine Company, of Nashville, assigned on Friday. A free bridge is to be buiU across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga at a cost, of f200,000. , . ' " Sheriff Greenlee,. of Granger- county, was shot and instantly lyL'ed Tuesday Lnight while attempting to arrest John Wolfbargen, an escaped convict fiom the penitentiary. The peo ;le of the vlctnty are greatly excited over the kiliing. At." Knoxville, the box, keg and, w hcerbarrdw factory of D U Samuel & Son was destroyed by fire Wednesday: Loss $ 20, 000 : ho Insurance. -"- . The Legislature finally passed the Doritcn election bill, which embraces the Australian system of voting. It also passed a registration bill. The Senate by a strict partv vote, pas- off ,a 1 seu ins un masing an intercnansre fifth concessional districts, so as to i imke the third district Democratic. i A collision between freight . trains oc carred at Brown's Cross Road?; ;thrce miles from ; Nashville on the Nashville and , Decatur Railroad. Both engines and sixteen cars were iota lv irTvkr1 . and tamest C Greerx and M L Ebv. brakemen were killed. Aloert Finch, fireman, was severely hurt. The collis ion was caused by a misundcrstandiEg of orders. VIRQ1H1A At - Staunton, Becile & Hamrick'a large furniture store and factory was burned. I Snipe shooting at Virginia Beach at this time is very popular, and the sportsmen are having a Insurant time killing these seasonable birds. Having obtained consent of the Gov ernor, the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues have conferred the rank of brevet major on Capt James W Gilmer, who recently resigned the command of that company. Mr Mann, of Appomattox, charged with killing the colored man, Leftwich, a few davs aero near Lvnchburg, was tried and acquitted. It appeared that the nt trro robbea ana tneu io kill Mann, ard not Mann the negro, norket book with SlO.f.0 in Mann's in was found in Leftwich's pocket . NORTH CAROLINA. Raleigh reports 221 deaths for the year ending the 23th of February,- and 1,196 arrests. A fund of $400 has been raised in Salisbury for the purpose of advertising that town. Senator Vance, who is at his home, Gombroon, near Black Mountain, says that, though suffering from nervousness, he is being very much improved by rest and the mountain air. Mayor Thompson, of Raleigh, gives notice that on "May 6th the people will vote on the issue of $100,000 for im provement bonda, of which $25,000 will be lor streets ana tne remamuer ior a sewerage system. Fifteen new iron bridges are being built between Chorlotte and Richmond. The Richmona and Danville yet ha3 a few wooden bridges on its line, but all of these have to go, and iron bridges have been ordered to take their place. The negro Republicans of Kinston and vicinity aie holding daily prayer meetings and pray that the hands of the President may be laid upon them ana that their services may be required by the Government. Governor Fowle has issued a death warrant for the execution of Eli Ward, a negro burglar, at Jackson, Northamp ton county, May 30. Ward is a despe rado of the first class. He set fire to the jail recently and is now irf jail at Hali fax. His execution will be public and will be the fourth duiing the present year. . The State State Sunday-School Con vention at Charlotte adjourned Thurs day. Wilmington was 'f elected as the place for the meeting o$ the convention next year. The convention elected eight delegates to the Interoational or World's Sunday-School Convention, which meets in London, England, this summer. Major Finger, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has perfected a plan to carry out the act tf the last Legis lature, which atolisbef all the white normal schools, and provides that the sum set apart for them sliall be expended for teachers' iristitutcij Major Finger s.iys tht these instituttS will begin July 1st next, and that inla yeiir from that date they will have beeiheld in each of the ninety-six counties iff the State for a term of at least one wctk each. They will cost ten thousand bllars, of which the counties will pay falf. The State appropriates four thus.'Vid, and a thou sand comes from the Pedbody fund. Only .North Carolina teschersivill be employed to conduct these institutes. ' -jKy Uuutu 3WreiaTTL- -. Frederick Taylor, Lahker of New York, who acepmpani" Messrs. Cooper, Hewitt and Inman on j'their recent trip south, gives his impreaion of that sec tion to the Manufacturers' Record. Mr. Taylor states that the S)uth was a reve lation to him. 'Tt seeins to me," said Mr Taylor, -"t-at we traveled through a continuous and unbrokin strain cf what has been aptly termed the music of pro gress. The whir of ; the spindle, the uzz of the saw. the rohr of the furnace ard the throb of the locomotive." ' I To the young men. of the South Mr. Taylor accords high praise for the work which they are doing.anj to the ''eager; earnest, restless, drivrncj energy which seems to fill them." 'The South," says Mr. Taylor, ''to my mlhl, is only; ribw on the threshold of - ip boom." It has every possible; advantage everything that God can give. The'new South has been built upi by indomitable energy and by the hard work of the South ern people th( msejves.''. And he adds: "To any young man. to-day, of pluck and grit, with the world before him and; his futtre to make, I' should say, go outh, young-man; go south." ' A Oneer Occupation. . An odd industry practised in this city ls that of making- paste in large quanti ties. It is done by an old couple each of whom is nearly eighty years of age, and they live in the very heart of the most bustling business portion of the town. The old man was a bookbinder, and it wa3 while in this business that he learned the secret of preparing the ex cellent article that provides him a liveli hood in his declining years. ' . Up three flights of stairs, with quaint little carved banisters hardly more than an inch in diameter, are the rooms in which they live and ply their trade. Everything is as clean as a pin, and when you have made your purchase and seen it transferred from the- huge cauldron which hangs over. the fire, and that might do duty as a "property" in the witche3 scene in "Macbeth" the compound is so clean -and sweet that It looks positively inviting. "Who buys it?" ' . Why, the paper hangers are the larg est buyers, and they recogni?e its excel lence to such an extent that the old couple live very comfortably on the profits of their odd business PlUadel phia Prest. Fighting the Jute Bagging Trust The Georgia State Farmer' Alliance met Thursday to take some action" to ward fighting the jute bagging trust. The result-was the adoption of -n-reubru - tion that every bale of cotton made I r A t T r . , J vwiaucc men in ueorgia BDait; PC. Cov ered by cotton cloth instead of jute bag ging. This action affects nearly 100, COO farmers, and will probably 'result in the establishment of many new cotton factories in the State. A Phenomenal Well. There is" a phenomenon about a well ?n faTO1 hear Eongview. Texas. whi,h . Texas, which Ptilosoj-ihy. mree feet deen. Tt is R-irl fc tt,- " -.1 - . LU1I L V - " "itt, aanng; tne years 35i would go dry whenever ihe wind tie' from the north, but when the wind blew fr m the south it ''afforded an ibuadance of water. It has been known ury in iwo nour t m mA 1 1 " aon Iimf- Since the year '85 it has never railecL a fiyt 'Applemargarine,M an imitation of ap pie butter, has ben introduced. SOUTHERN FARMING; THE USE OF THE HAEEOW. A Talk by Dr. W. L. Jones, of Georgia, for the Farmer. A more extended use of the harrow has been urged upon the Southern farm ers. But we are so impressed with the importance of the matter that we take the liberty ot calling attention to it aain. The present is an auspicious tune to do so, because spring rains and winds pack and crust the land so much. Tn winter the freezes keep the soil mil- I low in summer the earth absorbs water so readily the soil does not run together much, in spring the subsoil is too wc-t to permit a rapid downward movement of water, freezes no longer loosen the sur face oil and crust forming reaches U maximum. Crusts retard the germatiou of seeds by cutting of the air from them, and young plants find difficulty in forcing their way through them to the surface. Every farmer of any experience appre ciates this. Sometimes he finds his land as hard and intractable as it was before it was broken, and yet he cannot take the time now to break it all over pgain. The result is the practice of plowing crops the first time with scooters and other deep running plows, virtually breaking the land, when cultivation, not Dre&King, idouki t iimuujeci nun This is a very slow process and throws the farmer far behind. Rapid cultiva tion in the early stages of crops is all im portant, but it is often impracticible Under the conditions described. The free use of the harrow, we think the so--lution of the dithculty. A two-horse harrrow will go over six or eight acres a day. This meets tKe trouble on the score of time. - If run as soon after a rain as the ground is in order, it will not only prevent tne iormaiion oi a crusi, but by retaining moisture in the soil will keep it mellow and poft. That is, it prolongs that condition of the soil which prevails soon after a rainfall. The har row should be run over land frequortly between the breaking and p anting, and indeed after the planting, if impacting rains inake it needful. In the North aud in Europe, where the soil is much better filled with humus, from grass and grain crops, and is there- CC w ' . . . .I.I.U li an it- l J tt- ! 1 1 1 11 J t lir. lOlU IllOiC i 1 Quia liiuu A o ...... ...7, ,. harrow is used very extensively in the preparation of land. Harrowing is con sidered quite n important as plowing and the harrow follows the plow as a matter of course1. The idea is that the work of fining and mellowing the soil can bo done with more case, und more cheaply before anything is growing on the land than it can be done afterward.. The glowing crop is in the way of such work. The importance of the -'harrow for such work i9 shown by the wonder ful improvr meut8 made in this imple ment of late years. In addition to tins old spike tooth, in almost endless varie ty, we have the' Acme, the Disc, the Cuttaway, the Shares and the Spring Tooth, each claiming its peculiar titneii for spccial'kinds of work and sill good. The greatest drawback to their more ex tended use, bating the lack of appiecia- i-.n nn i Vi o nart.'ni nnr- f:l rmi-r in th(' ' jT 1. m.'u .-a.w ' 1 . " ' . ..... - - - - - - , - high priee at which most of them hie sold the manufacturers having to pny a heavy royalty to tha jiitentces. Uut even .at the present hi;U prices it would pay our f irmers to use them much more extensively than thev do. W. L. J. Licorice Culture. Large quantities of licorice are annu ally infported into the 1'nited Statei. and there is no doubt that the- soil and climate of Florida are well suited to its production. But there are many , other crops more likely to engage the atten tion of cultivators of the soil at present. Btill, it is well to learn something of this. Licorice is propagated liko horse radish by means of root slips, which are removed from the main root. The soil must be well fertilized and thoroughly broken to the deptn of three feet to attain the best results. Th:s great depth is necessary to -encourage the roots" to grow downward to escape the intense heat not only of one but several hot sum mers, as it takes three or four years to protect the roots for market, duiing which time the plant must receive con stant and careful cultivation with the prong hoe. - If weakened and checked in growth by insufficient preparation of the soil, want of manure or careless culture, the plant are liable to the attack of the red spider, to their serious if not fatal injury. - ' '. -' Lay off the rows two feet apart, and, after cutting the root slips into. sections Of five or six inches, plant them in vertical holes made with a .dibble six teen inches apart, observing to thrust them several inches below the surface and cover them. As the growing season closes each autumn, and tho leaves turn yellow, the stems should ba cut down and removed, and a liberal coating of manure given as a top dressing. Apply well-decayed barnyard manure composed with rich hammock (top; soi!. If the plants have been well cared for the roots may be large enough in three years to harvest for market, though four years is not uncommon, Harvesting is quite a tedious job, and on account of the depth two octhree feet has. to be done with a spade. ' When dug the side roots, used f6r( propagation, are cut off and the main' roots are washed, driedud tied in con venient sized bundle. Florida Agri culturist. j Logging by Steam. Forest Commissioner Theodore B. Eaa selin has introduced logging by steam into the woods of Lewis County, New York. He has huitt ctaam in";t. v, is capable of carrying l.,C0'j feet of iugs, equivalent to the loads of fifteen teams of horsei. The contrivance re sembles a box car. The motive power is furnished by a boiler seven feet high and weighing four tons, and two engine of 800-horse power each. There are four drive wheels weighing two torii each, ana an -arrangement by which the ex haust steam, condensed into water, falls continually before the runners of the sleigh, turning the snow into ice. The machine coats $8000, but is expected to be a profitable investment on account of the saying in cost of teams and meu- , The SIjfht-Seer Headache., "The sight-seer's headache" U the name given to an a llictio.i from which frequenters of picture galleries and mu seums suffer. It is a result in part of the effort of the mind consequent upon leng-continued observation, and partly of the t muscular strain involved in that work; but is chieflj, produced in suf 'fererf W&v-are burdeaed with catalogue T-bj the frequent,movenent of the ey from the book to the Object, at the in cessantly repeated readjustments of ths focnj'of vision which are made necesary in looking now at one, now at the other. Popular JScicr MynlMy. . 1 - - . f - r
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