Swain County Herald.
Published Weekly at
BRYSON CITY,
N. C.
N. MEWBY. Ed. and Prop
Only one county (Washoe) in Neyads
shows an increase in population over th
figures of the census ten years ago.
r " According to" the latest etatistiealher
are 100,000 insane persons in the United
States a ratio of one to every 550 Lv
habitant,".
More women in proportion to popula
tion are employed in industrial occupa
tion in England than in any other Euro
pean country. Twelve per cent, of the
industrial clashes are females.
The King of Italy wants to bo Emper
or, too, and thinks of making himself
"Emperor of Erythrca and Eastern
Africa," on the strength of his pro
tectorate of Abyssinia and eome colonies
on the Red Sea.
Between 1887 and 1890 the six great
powers of Europe spent 3,902,005,635
on their navies, as follows: France,
1,270,514, 205; Russia, $813,591,935;
Great Britain, 018,933,380; Germany,
007,599,815; Austria, $337,971,000;
and Italy, $313,395,270.
j Professor Wiggins, the notorious Ca
nadian uif teorolgiit, advances another
novel theory. lie allges that tornadoes
and kindred storms are generated by the
efforts of accumulated electricity in the
clouds to release itself. It is his belief,;
therefore, that tornadoes will not prevail
in any locality with a considerable net
work of overhead wires, for these wires
will give the electricity a smooth and
easy vent. It is to be feared, the Troy
Timet suggests, tho professor is working
in the interests of the electric service
companies. Else he would take account
of the municipal storms of which over
head wires arc, so frequently tho cause.
Compared with theso what would an oc
casional tornado be?
THE SOUTH EPITO
The quantity of meat thrown overboard
Into tho Atlantic is very great, says an
English paper. Out of 185 cargoes of
animals sent to British ports in one year
from Canada, consisting of Gl,092 head
of cattle, 61,382 sheep and seventy-five
pigs, f58 cattle, 1170 sheep and one pig
were consigned to the deep during the
voyage.- Of the 433 cargoes imported
from the United States into Great Britain,
comprising 138,661 head of cattle, 30,
317 sheep and seventeen pigs, 1570 of
the first und 857 of tho second class of
this live stoek was thrown overboard dur-
Ingtlro voyage, thui numbering 485G
mnals which were pitched into tho sea
'for the jcar. . - .
There is nothing to bo surpflsod at in
tho story that an establishment has been
discovered in Paris where imitations of
the pictures of tho great French painter
Courbet aro turned out by wholesale. It
has been the fortune of all the French
masters, says tho New York Star, to at
tract the attention of tho forgers, and
without doubt thero are to-day in the
galleries of the world more spurious than
genuine works of Corot, Daubigny, Diaz,
Courbet and Jacque, not to mention auy
others. Most of tho pictures are as ex
cellent, as works of art, as masters could
paint, only they are not tho real thing.
There seems to bo no way of preventing
these frauds, but tho picture business all
over tho world is being seriously dis
credited and damaged thereby.
And, Grouped Here Under
Divisions, ' -H
.-
MIZBD.
If
Proper
Will h -Found the Late News of Uur
Home Section, and Important
Happening From the j Poto
mac to Alabama."
VIRGINIA.
Rev. Dr. Moses D. Hoge, of, Richmpnd
was thrown ten feet from) horseback
Thursday morn ins. He was very much
hurt but will preach as usual Sunday
James B. Tavlor. a confectioned
Staunton, died from an overdose of
mide of potaslu j
Robert Keen, anecro citizen of Crook-
town, near Danville, cleaned out
town Saturday. lie wa3 arrested,
got away. j
The historic Jameson house, at
pepper, has been sold for $3,000.
So far orders have been triven in
of
pro-
the
but
I
Cul-
I
ad
vance for eighteen thousand j Sniithneld
'The Chicago Tribunals led to make
some comparisons between tho salaries
paid to the American and the British
judges. There is a wide disparity. Tho
Lord Chancellor of Eu'gland gets $50,
000 per annum while in office, and when
he goes out with his party ho gets $20,
000 per annum. The Irish Lord Chan
cellor gets $40,000 in and $20,000 per
annum on going out. Three Lords of Ap
peal Supremo Court Judges are paid
$30,000 per annum. ,. The Lord Chief
Justice receives $10,000; the Master of
the Rclls, chief of the chancery division,
$30,000; the other Chaucery Judges,
$25,0C0 each. The Queen's Bench Judges
are paid $25,000 each. Tho county
judges get salaries ranging ffom $8000
to $20,000. The Irish judges are paid
$17,000 to $25,000 per anuum, or more
than three times the salaries of our Su
premo Court judges.
hams, and curers will not be able to
plv the demand. f
Petersburg Lodge, No. 15, A. F,
M., will present the Masonic Orphan's
Home of Virginia with a! handsome
clock.
A freight train became derailed orl
Virginia Midland road near Alexandria,
in Culpepper
wrecking ten
county.
freight
It resulted
cars and ki
feup-
L A.
the
in
ling
Brakemen 8. C.Shacklett and Edward
Tribble.
Ed ward Johnson, who is servirir a
term of three-and-a-half years in the pen
itentiary for housebreaking in Page
countv. was pardoned Indav by Gov
ernor McKinney. - Dr. ' John W. Nash,
the surgeon at the penitentiary, recom
mended Executive clemency inasmurin as
Johnson is hopelessly ill with consump
tion.
i
The Dominion National Bank of Bris
tol, has made application to the Comp
troller of the Currency for authority to be
gin business.
The bady of an unknown dead white
man was found on the Norfolk and West
ern railroadncar Wavcrly. j
NORTH CAROLINA.
.
Free delivery service has been ordered
for Durham and Greensboro, on the 1st of
November. j
During September, 2,952 bales oi cot
ton were sold in Wadesboro,' against 690
balc3 in beptember, 1889.
Last Saturday afternoon, Allman I Bos-
worth, living near Norwood Stanly coun
ty, was instantly killed bv! having his
head caught by the lever of a caneTmill.
lie was about 75 years old
iULU-
Gwyn
! just
Peck
The Ladies of tlie Raleigh i Confederate
Memorial Association are to have a
ing match for the benefit of the Soldiers'
Home. 1
Steve Jacobs a noted Croatan Indian
outlaw, was hanged for murder at
berton Friday. I .
G. W. Pack has sold to W. B.
14o acres oi land in ununn s cove,
east of Ashville for $10,000. Mr.
purchased the land from J. W. Jeanneret,
in January of this year for $5,094.
Durham District convention of trie Y.
M. C. A. meets at Henderson on October
30th.
Sam Jones has closed his series of jneet-
ings at Wilmington. Collections ujunng
the meetings amounted to $4,000. I Half
the amount was presented to Mr. Jones,
and the other half was applied t
"Wilmington tabernacle fund. Mr.
has agreed to appear in iWiluii
again next year. I
There ( was a llarge crowd at Oxford
from both Virginia and North Caro
lina at i the drawing of the lots bf the
Land and Improvement Company.!! The
event of the dr.y Hvas the drawing t f the
famous Grandy f mansion. JMr. C eorge
Richardson, of Farm ville, Va., drew the
lucky number, and ; got the mansion.
which is valued at seven or
sand dollars. 1
fish. :
y Loyd,
&tnc
ones
lgton
SOUTH; CAROLINA.
!.
eight
thou-
rneet-
w
The death of a man near Syracuse, N
Y.t from the sting of a bee is regarded
by physicians as one of the most remark
able cases oa record. Ho was stung on
tho nose by an ordinary honey bee, from
One of his own hives, and died within
ten minutes. The stiug of a bee appears
to have previously affected him in a most
singular manucr. Thirty-two years ago,
he nearly died from tho cllects of a sting,
and as a result of his illness at that time
his pulso never thereafter beat faster than
forty-fire pulsations in a minute. Men
and even horses have been stung to death
, by large swarms of bees, but this is be
lieved to be the first case in which a man
has died from the sting of a single bee.
The little busy bee, which improves each
shining hour and gathers honey ail tho
day from every fragrant fwer, must oc
casionally gather some rank and deadly
vegetable poison with its honey, or else,
believes tho Chicago Herald, there are
certain people who should beware of the
bee as they would shun a mad dog or a
rattlesnakes,
the
Co.,
rolina
N.
B.
has
Capt.
i for
bales
go of
from
hourn-
rinity
v af-
Evangelist Fife began a series of
mgs in Blacksburg on Oct. 10
A state commission was issued tjo
Mead Phosphate Miuing and Mf'
of Mcadville, Berkeley county.
The senior chiss of the South C:
University held a meeting fat Columbia
and elected anmuil olHcers: President, F.
C. "Withers, Fairfield; Vice P
Meliryde, Richland ; sec y and tied
n. Harvin, Clarendon. '
The Limestone Springs Lime Con
Spartanburg County, capital $10,000
been incorporated. j j
The Spanish steamship, Pedro,
Bonet, was cleared nt Charlestc
Liverpool on Wednesday with tyj0T
of cotton. This is the largest car
cotton that has ever been cleared
the port of Charleston. j
Heury D. Howren. the brilliant
atist-cvangchst was buried from T
church, Charleston, last Wednesd
ternoon. Mrs. ('apt. F. W.SDawso
a boquet of flowers placed on the
together with other beautiful
tributes. j
. A dead man had leou found jus
siue t he Columbia city limits on the
nah Railroad. On examination
found to Ik? the body of a tramp
jsenncu. lie was ' probably cut
knife, death resulting from a terrib
in the side. A companion, who w;
with him, has since beeu found aiJd
mits doing the killing, but savs 1
done in self-defence. !
Tpon the recommendation of the
of directors of the Penitentiary, th
eruoi took action on the following
Alfred bingleton, convicted at tlul
term 1875, for Charleston Countv.
glary and larceny in five cases, aud Senten
ced by Judge. Heed to thirty years in the
I emtentiary. Sentence commuted th date
u recti Burch, convicted at the March
term 1ST8, for Darlington Countv. ofl arson.
and sentenced by Judge Aldrich tc twen
ty years in prison. Pardoned Sol. Rabb,
convicted at March terra 1882. for Union
County, of obstructing a railroa , and
sentenced by Judge Pressley to terj years'
imprisonment. 1'artlonea. j I :
TENNESSEE.
Henry Smith, giving his home is New
York was arrested at Nashville for fnssinir
i had
offin,
floral
I
! out-
fa van
was
named
Uh a
i i
e gasn
s seen
ad-
t was
board
Gov-
cases :
.Tune
f bur-
convict labor. The miners employed by
the company went out on a strike some
time since and considerable trouble has
resulted. Fifty convicts were sent from
the main prison at Nashville to the'
mines. . ; ; : .
Two burglaries were committed at
Johnson City last Tuesday night. Toney
& Brown, clothiers lost $300 ( worth of
goods, and a $200 horse was taken from
Martin's Livery stable. The thieves es
caped. II'-
A distressing accident occurred at
Brownsville. Harold 3IcDcrmott, age 15,
was practicing with a small target gun,
when he accidently shot it offj the ball
striking the jaw of his little sister Floy
standing near, the ball going j 'upward".
The victim lingered for several days" be
fore dying. 1 1
In the County Court at Chattanooga,
the committee appointed to confer with
the National Park Commissioncirs, report
ed as follows: "The Governnient.of the
United States proposes to construct aud
keep"in repair two highway approaches
to the Chickamauga National Military
Park, namely, the Missionary Crest road,
from Sherman" Heights to Kossyille Gap,
and the road crossing Lookout Mountain,
now known as the Hooker road, thence
bv the present county'road via the iron
bridge across Lookout Creek to Rossville
Gap." The report was approved.
GEORGIA.
Louis Brown, quartermaster of tlic
steamship Nacoochee, fell overboard at
the steamers pier in SavanDah Monday,
and was drowned. i
A Liberty county farmer raises pears
to fatten his hogs upon. j ; .
Jas. Atkins, a lawyer and prominent
Republican politician, was found dead in
his office at Savannah. He was formerly
United States district attorney for the
Eastern district of Georgia, collector of
customs for Savannah and for years has
been a holder of Federal officesj in Geor
gia. He died from heart disease.
J. S. Bailey, of the firm of Hillard &
Bailey, large lumber dealers in Southeast
Georgia, was killed on the Satilla River,
Camden county, Tuesday mhrht bv one
of his clerks named Patterson.
Nearly thirteen million shad;have been
planted in the, open waters of Georgia
duringthe lasttwo years. TheS rivers of
Georgia are said to be the best in the
country for the propagation of
A white wemau named Bee
who was serving a term of ninety days in
the Washington county jail, made her es
cape lalst Sunday night. The sheriff al
lowed 'her, the freedom of the grounds,
which she took advantage of land made
her escape while the bheriif was at
church- i
Over a week ago a firm of contractors
in Lawrencevillc furnished a negro a mule
and sent him off to hunt up hands for a
railroad. When the negro got to Duluth
he sold the mule and skipped he coun-
try. U; ,
Manager Glover, of Glover's opera
house, Amcricus, is threatened with a
lawsuit for damages for permitting an
amateur company to present "The Little
Tycoon' which proved to be a
righted play. , j
Miss "Anna C. Safford, who recently
died at boochow, China, was
of Grecnsboroogh, Ga. Miss Si!
connected with the Southern
nan mission in . lima, where
special work among the women.
OTHER STATES. !i
William Packard, who lives j near Bay
minette, in Baldwin County, Ala, is the
smallest man in America. lie is 21 years
of age and weighs only 49 pounds. He
is three feet high and perfectly formed.
I Isaac Frazier, a negro, 98 years old,
died at Montgomery, Ala, Saturday.
Some eight or ten years ago Isaac, who
had worm glasses for many ; years and
was then complaining of his defective
vision, received what was called his
second sight and was able to see almost as
ever, although up to his death he occa
sionally used glasses. After having pass
ed his 95th year the old! man was mar
ried. . ' . I - , M : i
Micanopy, Fla., is nowjsviiliout a saloon.
The only one in the place wlis closed up
last week. - i
The Deaf, Dumb and Blind State Asy
lum opened at St. Augusfine last week.
The Sun' 8 Cotton Review.
The New York Sun says : Cotton fu
tures opened two to three points decline
(Wednesday) closing quie"t r.t four to five
points decline from yesterday's closing
prices. Liverpool disappointed the bulls
this morning, and southej-n reports i gen
erally advised clearing - weather at the
south. Only at a few points;! had rain
fallen in the previous twenty-four hours,
and nowhere heavily. A selliug move
ment to realize profits
by room traders.
The lowest prices of the jday were
reached before noon. Then for- two hours
the market was very dull, with hardly any
change in prices. Iu the last hdlf hour,
when the crop movement for the day had
been bulletined, both at the ports and
principal interior towns, showing a mate, i
al falling off from the corresponding date
of last year; "there was a slight jjmd partial
recovery, but the demand appeared to be
nothing more than a little covering.
"WELCOME LOCOMOTIVES !
copy-
a native
afford was
Presbyte-
she did
was at once begun
suit of clothing, and $13 in changL An
other $o0 check had been caslJed by
Smith with Walter Keith. ! Smith! at the
custody hjad his
time he was taken into
pockets full of checks.
The third annual session' of the Baptist
Educational, Missionary, j and Sunday
school convention of Tennessee, cobvened
in the Knoxville Mt. Ziou (colored) Bap
tist caurcn new it. u. Yandavell
in the chair. !
The owners of the -Etna coal
near Chattanooga, haye decided
for
D. D
mines
Antidote for n, Bee's Stin?. -
A correspondent Of tho Leeds (EngM
land) Mercury writes: As beekeepers,'
experienced and inexperienced, are uoW
operating on "their stocks stings will fre
quently bo received. Ono of the most
Bimple and effective antidoes I am ac
quainted with is to poison a piece of
washing soda and rub the stung part with
it. If this is done at once it will re
move the pain and prevent1 swelling.
Whenever I go to do anything to tho
bees, I invariably put a piece of soda in
my waiscoat pocket. 1
. Ilosquitoos Dislike Tetrolenm.
"Wherever you find petroleum yotl
w Dn't find mosquitoes," said an oil coun
try man. "The infernal insects: can't stand
the smell of the grease, and wherever oil
wells arc plenty there is no call for mos
quito bars. Over and over again l'vf
seen mosquitoes leave a new oil field ai
soon as a well flows. Whether petro
leum applied to the face and hands will
drive off . mosquitoes I don't know
But one of the few compensations of th
driller is that he's seldom troubled bj
i caosquiioes.
The South's Progression In Railroad
Building Reviewed,
lysis
e
the
Showing That She Sas Ire ad the Cottfl
try in Number of Miles Construct
! ed, In the Front Ranks For
I Railway Earningrs, And a
Bright Future Prospect.
AlLROADS are
advance guard
ivilization.This
saying has
had so many il
lustrations that
it has become
proverbial. In
our Southland
was built tho
first railroad of
JSS. America to use
si( am, Lue txi"
Carolina rail-
roA.d in March.
1831, having put to practical use their
two new steam engines,, "Uest J?nena
and "West Point." ; But little was ac
complished, however, in, opening up new
sections of the fertile North America ly
ing between the Potomac and Rio Grande
rivers, until the Southern States began to
recover from the civil war. Even .then
the progress in railroad and industrial
developcment was slow and uncertain, for
our future prosperity and settled state of
internal affairs was by no means assured.
Time, that assuager of all troubles, vast,
but latent,mineral arid agricultural wealths
and a salubrious climate, together with
a determiuat'ion of the people to overcome
tremendous difficulties,) paved the way
for the successful introduction of outside
capital and up-building the South. Her
we again find the Railroads leading th
advance guard. I
Considered from a revenue standpoint
the great trunk lines demanded first atten
tion, and were of absorbing interest.- They
were the great money-earners, and their
securities were oftcnest spoken of and
purchased for investment.
From a speculative point of considera
tion the transcontinental lines -were first
sighted. They wfre gigantic enterprises
tliat challenged attention. The boldness
of their conception thej problem of their
completion, the uncertainty of their profit
able operation, the; political atmosphere
surrounding them, their varying fortunes at
the hands of successive Congresses, all lent
fascination. There were speculations, and
so drew the thought of the speculative.
But a change has come. Gradually,
almost imperceptibly, it progressed. Lit
tle by little the smail lines of the South
, were amalgamated and extended. Systems
grew in geographical extent and financial
importance. New industries contributed
additional traffic, and for some years past
the South has lead the rest of the country
in the extent of its new railroad con-"
struction. We note inj the Railroad Age
a summary of said construction in the U.
S. in the first nine months of 1890, which
shows that 3,782 miles: of new road were
built in 39 states. Georgia leads with 323
miles, North Carolina third with 22G
miles, and the other Southern states close-;
ly following. j
But the roads ot the South have not
only taken to themselves greater import-j
ance physically, but they have also come
up to a higher level, in! the amount of
their earnings. For j
Southern systems.have;
markable progress in gross earnings, and
in a table of comparative earnings for
August last, as compiled by the Financial
Chronicle, a Southern system holds second
place among the iarge gainers, and out of
the list of 20 companies reporting the
greatest increase, nine are located in the
South. . :
Furthermore the strides made by South
ern railroads in the past few years may
safely be taken as an index of what the
future will reveal. The impetus which
has been imparted will carry railroad in
terests forward with greater power in the
future, and tne mipoi
roads in every respect
to a degree hitherto unknown
We append a few late news notes con
cerning railroads building and projected.
j .i
The 3 C's road af tcjr its reported trou
bles and the reports as to its finances, is
now to come all right, and the great coal
hauling line is to be cjompletedata much
earlier day than the most sanguine had
hoped for. . The syndicate of English
capitalists who furnished the original $6,
000,000 of capital with which the road has
.been built thus far, having made arrange
ments with Berkeley Bros., the New York
financiers, for the immediate placing of
: another $G, 000, 000, and the road is now
to be rushed through with the greatest
rapidity possible.1 This is good news to
every one in this section of the country
and another winter will not pass before
Columbia and Charleston, S. C, can re
ceive coal direct from Tennessee.
. The East Tennessee, Virginia arid Geor
gia is said to be seriously contemplating
the building of a line from Bristol to Dan
ville, Va.- There is already a road exten
ding west from Danville to Bristol, 75
miles in length. This would only require
the building of 113 miles to reach Bristol,
the distance from Bristol to Danville be
ing 1S3 miles. From Danville to Norfolk
a distance of 190 miles, there is already a
road, the Atlantic and Danville, owned
by the Richmond and Danville. So by
this new route the distance from Bristol
to Norfolk would bo jOTS-mik's. against
408 miles by the Norfolk and Western
via Lynchburg. From Danville to Lynch
burg, via the Richmond and Danville, is
66 miles. Tnc distance from Bristol to
Lynchburg, t via Danville, Would be 254
miles, against 204 by the ; Norfolk aud
cstern. j i
"
By a contract ! executed between the
Virginia and North Carolina Construction
Company and the Roanoke Development
and Guarantee Company, it is provided
that within thirty dnVs of the delivery of
the right of wayl into Roanoke City by
the latter company, the construction com
pany is to begin at Roanoke and construct
the tir.c cf the Roanoke and Southern
Railroad no n:evt the portion already loca
ted by the railroad company, and that the
company's car shops are to be located at
Roanoke. The southern tetniinus will be
I either Charlotte or i Monroe, North Car-
oiina i ine contract nroviaes iuai
months past the
been showing
re-1
tance of Southern
will be recognized
May Attend a Higher CongTess.
Capt. W. J. Rogers, Democratic nomi
nee for Congress in the seciond North
Carolina district, has published a cam
resigning his candidacy, in consequence
of continued ill health. He has been
very ill for five Greeks, and recently ha
to uwj llPf at this point of death!
Roanoke is to be the
nro
northern terminus of
the road. Two six months' notes for $30-
of the construction Company in favor of
the Development and Guarantee Compa
ny, and are to be discounted by the Mer
cantile Trust and Deposit Company, of
Baltimore. The notes are secured by
$150,000 in first mortgage bonds of the
Roanoke and Southern Railroad Compa
ny, and are endorsed by wealthy men of
Roanoke, whose names represent overf4,
000,000 in propertyj
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad was
sold atRoanoke, Va, last week at public
auction to Louis Fitzgerald, representing
the Norfolk & Western. The price paid
was $7,100,000.
The Virginia and Kentucky railroad
has been organized at Wytheville, Va.
Tracklayers are now at work on tte
Macon & Birmingham railroad, and it is
thought the track will be laid to L
Grange, Ga., within the month.
The Tallahassee & Northern Railroad
Co., contemplates building a railroad
from Tallahassee to Thomas ville, Ga , con
necting with the Georgia Southern &
Florida Railroad.
The Cnarleston, Sumter & Northern
is constructing its northern extension to
Bennettsville, S. C, via Darlington. The
grading has leen completed along the
entire route, and the work on the trestles
and on the steel bride across the Pee Dee
river is being pushed with expedition.
All the lines of the Carolina Southern
road have been located, and work has
been commenced at Cheraw, 8. C.j which
will be ita northern terminus. It is pro
jected to be built almost in an air line to
Savannah, Ga., and thence by connecting
lines enter Jacksonville, Fla. The object
of its construction is to secure as direct
line as possible from the North to Florida.
C. S. Doiilttisc.
Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 11, 1890.
NEWS FOE ALLIANCEMEN.
Late News From the Field Demanding
Careful TerasaL
A Special From Alabama Explaining
The Practical "Working of That
$35 Being Advanced on Every
Bale of Alliance Cotton.
RUBE BURROWS KILLED.
The Noted Outlaw and Murderer
Himself Dies by Violence.
A special from Birmingham, Ala., says:
Rube Burrows was shot aud killed in
Linden jail early Tuesday morning by a
deputy sheriff while trying to escape.
Burrows complained of hunger and
was given his wallet in which was fo6M.
Therefrom he -pulled forth two pistols
and captured his captors, making them
release him from jail. He woke up J.
W. Carter, a colored duputy, who had
his money and rifle, and demanded the
return thereof, when Carter opened fire
and five shots were interchanged, Carter
being shot in the shoulder and Burrows
in the abdomen. Burrows died almost
instantly.
The desperado had been trapped by a
detective named McGiven and carried to
Linden county court house, where he met
his death in the above manner.
Gen. Xiongstreet at Knoxville.
A reception was tendered Gen. Long
street at the residence of A. J. Albers,
Main street, Knoxville, Tenn.
About 8 o'clock the Louisville band
started from Gay street, and followed by
an immense concourse of veterans, most
ly cx-con federates, marched to Mr. Al
bers. After the band had rendered
"Dixie" in excellent manner, the vete
rans filed into the beautiful residence.
Standing in the hallway, jusi inside
the door, was the old war , hOrse. With a
hearty hand shake he greeted every one
who passed through, notwithstanding
the general is considerably bothered with,
rheumatism in his right arm. He stood
the trial very well, however, apparently
suffering no fatigue from his exertion, for
he grasped the hand of the last comrade
with as strong a clasp, and with as much
dignity, as he did the first, Several old
colored men also came in and shook
hands writh him.
On the following day the address of
Gen. Longstreet was read by Hon. Ed. An
gier, of Atlanta, to the assembled ex
confederate ' and ex-union veterans. ; It
was received with applause. Other nota
ble men also orated, and altogether the
meeting of the grey and blue at Kndxt
ville! was an event to be remembered
pleasantly by all who attended.
Favorable to Greater Education.
The Governor-elect of Georgia. Mri
Northen, has always manifested grat
interest in educational matters, and the
Georgians hope that during his term 'as!
Governor he may be able to carry out
some; of his projects for providing better
schools, and more . numerous, for the'
farming sections of the State. Says the,
Macon Telegraph : Residence on a farm:
in Georgia should not entail a penalty so;
severe as the loss of an education to the4
farmer's children, if farming is to contin-f
ue to be a respectable and profitable bus? 1
mess.- in many parts oi weorgia mar.
penalty does run against the man who;
lives , on a-farm away from the schools!
which the towns and cities have estab4
lished, and this fact has had much to do
with ! the drift of population away from
the country. " I
NorthCarolina's Banner County. 1
The increase in the taxable property in
Mcckjenbuag county,! N. C, in which!
Cliarlptte lies, is remarkable. In 1870'
the county issued $300,009 in bonds,
and took $200,000 stock in the Charlotte
and Atlanta Air Line Railroad and $100,-!
000 stock in the Atlantic, Tennessee and?
Ohio-Railroad. At that time the aggre
gate proicrty in the county was oulyj
$1,093,000; in 1880 it had increased to'
$.5,904,610,
grand total
and in 1890 lit
of $0,115,780.
sums up a
Again, in
1890 there was but $151,500 railroad
property in. the county for taxation
whereas in 1890 there is $627,686 railroad
property on which the county gets taxes.
Hakes Them Welsh Ileary. i
Sam Davis, editor of the Carson Ap
peal, was in town a few days agoJ
There were several small fish exposed ;
at tho Truckea Hotel, and Davis picked
one up.
'Pretty light," he remarked; "wont
weigh over half a pound.
He was told that was about ita heft.
'Pretty light," he continued; 'fish of
that size over in Carson River fre
quently weigh two or two and a half
pounds."
Noticing a smile of disbelief on the face
of the bystanders, he went on:
'You know thero are some of the big
quartz mills on the Carson. In amalga
mating they use lota of quicksilver, and
lots of it is wasted. It runs off into
the river, and the stream is full Of it.
The fish of course absorb this quick
silver, and it make3 them heavy out of
proportion to their size," Truckea I-'
publican.
j TheTlate Jefferson TJa vis, while Secre
tary of War under the United States
jGovernment, recommended the intro
duction of camels for use oa the great
plains. The suggeetion was carried out
end there are still some half-wild camelj
iaJim&w.
The Mississippi Clod Hopper is working
hard for an Alliance cotton warehouse at
Kosinsko, Miss.
The Pacific Union, of California, says
that an Alliance boom has struck that
State and is going like a prairie fire.
The Alliance people of Jackson, Banks,
Madison and Franklin counties, Ga
will establish an oil mill arfij guano fac
tory at Harmony Grove.
When the Atlanta, Bl., Fair Association
awarded prizes to farmers who had killed
the greatest number of rats, j there were
20,948 tails presented, and a man who
had killed 4,300 rats took first money.
A few days ago at Garfield, Dakota, 4
car loads of sacks were unloaded for the
Farmers Alliance. At a conservative es
timate, the farmers have saved fully $1,
505 on the transacaion.
About 100 delegates met at Pioneer
Hall, in Lansing, Mich., Sept.! 17th, and
organized a State Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union. Everything passed off
harmoniously. The order will be vigor
ously pushed; an addition of 100,000
members is expected during the coming
year. 1 ht following officers were Chosen :
A. El Cole, of Fowlervillej was elected
president; T. C. Anthony, of Marengo,
vice president; JohnD. Carlton of Di
mondale, treasurer; Luther Ripley, of
Port Hope, State lecturer; Mrs. Emma
Moore, of Felta, chaplain.
j
TTTE $35 ADVAKCE TER BALE IN ALABAMA.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
says: General Manager Gaither, of the
Alliance Exchange, in this city, is pro
ceeding in a painstaking and methodical
way to advance the farmers money on
their cotton in Alabama. What success
he will meet with remains to be seen.'
One thing is certain, he is in dead earnest
about this matter, and is displaying ex
traordinary energy, shrewdness and sa
gacity in an uudertaking of such gigantic
proportions. He has the money no
matter where he got it to advance to the
farmers $35 per bale on 500,000 bales,
and all he asks is that the farmers hold
their cotton for his agent. In this week's
issueof the Alliance Herald, which appear
ed on the streets to-ilay,is published an
important notice addressed to the ' 'alliance
warehousmen," to eacn ana every county
alliance, to each jind every nub-alliance,
and to each and every idivindual alliance
man throughout the length and breadth of
Alabama, Signed by-John B. Harris who
has recently been made manager j of the
cotton department of the exchange. Mr.
Harris states that lie is daily receiving
"more letters than he can answer from far
mers desiring advances- on cotton, and
adds: ' ;
4'I wish to say to all at the same time
that when you have cotton to sell, get in
lots of 100 "to 1,000 bales, and while you
arc bulking it, place it where i there is . a
railroad station agent, and tell this sta
tion agent to write to lus general freight
agent and give you tire j through J freight
rate ou the ' cotton from that particular
staitou to Liverpool, and when you have
this rale, then 1 can tell you how much I
can pay you on the middling basis. I will
pay for cotton through the nearest bank."
Everybody here, outside of the Alliance
is wondering where the money comes
from. j
t
Tine NortTn Carolina state fair.
You should attend the State Fair aud
see Business Agent Worth's Department
on the grounds, and be convinced a mil
liondollars can be saved in 1891. . -Any
farmer will acknowledge! this when ho
yisits the business1 agent's department and
examine what is being done, ji ,
! It is of inuchimportanblcj to every farm
er in Nortli Carolina, whether he be an
Alliance man or not, to ! visit the Stato
Fair, see the exhibit of j Business Agent
Worth, and they will be more than con
vinced that the Alliance is doing a great
work for the farmers of this State. In
tne purchase of farm supplies many thou
sands of dollars was saved the past year,
and with money in hand ! the farmers cau
this year save more than a million dollars
in buying for cash through the business
agency. ! . i j r
I ' ' ' '' M r '
Mr. Worth will jhave a full line of 6am-
Sles and prices to farmers.! j He will have
eadquarters in the main j building on the
Fair grounds from Oct. 13th to 18th, and
farmers attending jthe fair should hunt up
headquarters of the Alliance and they will
sec how the Alliance is doing practical
work for the farmers. j ! .
: With a good crop and cheapest railroad
excursions, every farmer in thej State will
find it money well invested to attend the
Fair at least one day, and. by all means let
your boys go with you, so they may see
the new machinery and field crops. It
will do them good and be I ! of service to
them in after years. Farmers make their
children discontented with farm life by
keeping them home all the time, and rs
soon as they get large enough they leave
the farm. Carry your boys to the State
Fair and let them see that it is an honor
to be a good farmer. They will more than
make up what you j spend for them! before
the year is passed by Working harder.
Progressive fanners and Alliance mien will
go to the fair and carry their boys.1
Besides the real value in dollars to the
farmers, they ought to take a little rest
aed enjoy thcxnsclve, and no better place
and time presents itself than the State
Fair of 1890.-" A j Working Farmer" in
Raleigh. N. C. Progressive Fanner.
Too Small for Headine-s.
The New York shoemakers have de
cided that shoes must advance. J
Wiley Jones, a colored j man, owns and
controls a street car system in Pine Bluff
Missouri. j I'M : I '
Thc first picking of the Egyptian cot
ten crop has been finished. The quality
of the cotton is reported to be very good.
Joseph Jonasscn lias been acquitted of
insulting the Ernieror of Germany.;
The Fastest Boat In! the TTorld.
' : : i i , U
The torpedo boat Adler, constructed
in Germany for tho Russian Black Sea
fleet, is described by the Russian papers
as the fastest war Vessel afloat, having
attained daring ita trip a speed of 26.55
knots. The boat is 150 feet long and
leventeen feet broad, with a displacement
of 150 tons. Three gunboats, one of
which tho Narghen is finished, are
being constructed la German shipyards
for the Esltic feet, and these will be al
most as fast steamers as tho Adler. Sci-
SKIPPED THEIR
The Irish Hcxe Rulers, Dul j
O'Brien Flee to AmeticT !
Dublin, Oct. 10. The ens .
Crown against William O'Fu. 0f
John Dillon, charged with coSD i
in inciting tenants cot to
was again called in tU mid '
court at Tipperary this mornio?
Mesci-s. O'Brien and Dillon 1. v
erto been present at all hearing l" '
this morning when the court t 1 '
they did not put in their atm251 !
Both defendants are members li
luiuinuirc a jijvjui tvu iij, my
of Irish iNation&hts held ii
r riuav. 10 visit iVineric.i tnr
of soliciting aid t.r v ..Pt-
, 4UC national
if ts, and a rumor is current ;bat tiT
have forfeited their bail of l WOrxm
iu the cons-piracy case, and that W
mailed yesterday from QueenstoXn t7
he United States. l5
LATER THE KUMOIi CvNKIRSed
Much excitement prevailed inTirit
ary when it became known that 0'BrW
and Dillon had abandoned their d
fense, and left the place. Confir!T
tion of the rumor that thev kave
tne country nas ceen received. Tv,-"
h-' confer
for tha 1
is no confirmation, however, of th
port that they sailed from Queenstoi
vesterday for the United btati. n,;
information thus far received iho, !
that they did not leave by ordinv '
channels of passage. Their bail escheat
ed, and will be paid by the KaUoij
League.
IS THE BOND RESPONSIBLE?
All the other defendants whow
jointly charged with conspiracy
Dillon and O'Brien, were present h
court. Mr. Ronan, prosecutor for th
Crown, announced the absence of Dil
lon and O'Brien, and asked the Court
append to their bail bond the uaualc?.
tiheate of non-appearance.
Mr. Healy of counsel for defendant,
submitted an argument that the enrt
ties on the bail donds had f ulilld tbt-ir
obligaticns when O'Brien and Dillon ap.
peared in court on the first trial. Th
Crown, he s.aid, had eubstqueutij
amended the particulate of lhecharj,
aud therefore the bail given for thed
fendants no longer held gowu.
MR. HEALY OVERRULED.
After listening to nTguments on th;
point, the Court announced that in it
opinion tho charges against the- defend
ants, although they bad been amended
by the Crown, were substantially tho
same; it therefore granted Mr. lionanj
request, and the Court's certificate of
non-appearanco was nttacheJ to th
bail bonds of Dillon and 015rien.
Adjournment was then taken to en
ftblo tho Crown to consider what ster
BhouM he taken. Warrants were Uue4
for the arrest of Dillon and O'Brien.
HOW THEY ESCAPED.
London, 10. The Star says that Mea
gre. Dillon and O'Brien, went to Havre
via Waterford, Wednesday, and eaile4
from Havre for New York.
Henry Ward Ileeclier's Widow.
Irs. Eunice Beecher, widow of ths
great pastor of Plymouth Church, Brook
lyn, is living diagonally across the way
frofia-the church her husband's elo uenco
made famous. Her residence is a neat,
tastfbful, well-kept house, where iu every
nook and corner is some reminder ?f ths
great dead. Over her desk in the front
parlor where she writes is a life-ciza
picture of Mr. Beecher taken ovr thirty
years ago, and in whatever directum the
eye turns, cast, west, nortli or south,
from the walls of theso rooms louk down
life-size pictures of him in familiar atti
tudes iu which he is remembered.
Flowers and birds arc features also. Tho
windows aro bright with blossoms, and
the small yard is a bower of bloom.
Boxes supported by brackets arouud the
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m. mm
MBS. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
fence are filled with plants in blossom,
and these brighten up the whole place.
Mrs. Beecher is by no mcan.s a gloomy
woman; there 13 no black or mourning
visible. Women 'many years younper
might covet the (delicate bloom still on
her cheeks and the cheery li.ht iu her
eyes and the pleasant words with which
she greet3 her friends. Only in moments
of depression j from physical eulTcnEg,
with moist eye?, she has been heard to
say: "I do sd niis Mr- Beecher." - One
of his views on death had been as he ex
pressed it: "If you have lot com
panions, children, friends, you have rot
lost them. They followed the ot.
They went through the. airy channels
unknown and unsearchable, and they
with the Lord ; and you aro t5
Him, too." j ,
, Perhaps it U this and kindred tuou;'-
that enable her to hold her way K--rt n',!y
as she does, tliatj leave with her .a spirit
so bright, so sweetly sympathetic,
thepeople ofPIymoath Ch'irc'n r-ari
her with reverential affection xi ''all v.il
is left them of 3Ir. Beecher' Chlo'P
To the Memory of Her IIu baud.
Mrs. Alma Ajvcia hxs pn-'-nt'.-d to
Trinity College, at Dm ham, N. '., i''
acres of valuable Lu l in Johnt in c.ii
ty, with the pri c.-Js of the s.i!e of v.'u-' '
the A vera lucinothd building i-i t f,:
ci-ected iu meijiory f her hit; li'i-h:i-'.'i.
Willis II. AverU. Ti.i U the fifth b; -t-ing
thus giveh, &rl ut it a 'H-iri tv
school is to lx tHt tbl: h;d. 'IV: ',rh' r
four buildings givea to tliU I
Southern MttliodHt ' University -'.'' h
main building'- technological buil j..
science building uud library.
In portions of tho uas'irveyt 1
tory at the foot of Mount Biker aj
Mount Tacomaj ther'J are hundrtor
trees that measure C50 fec-t ia .5it'"
Some of their trunks measure thirty :
in circttuilerence. !,
lnlndia7uri "till within the jt
years, the tievote-1 wife ascended ti.e
funeral pyre of her dead husbari'l a'i 1
was incinerated by tho same flaaic tt
reduced her loved one to ash' s.
The Indians Of .South DlkOU are Eurely
dying out. Throat and lan.? trouble,
brought on by the severe winters and tw:
"efforts to "make the ledums change their