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rm 0 ENfRA 1MB O. IVY, Editor and Publisher. Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. 1.00 Per Annum, in Advance.- VOL. I. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1891 1 ' 9 ; NO. 40 ' THANKSGIVING. pr ii'i i-; -garnered .;; -!! -'' 1 '-- oVf'loW i ; i t ! i - liru-i-J an 1 ' ty 11(1 arc . u ,n - ! (rllliiv? bIiW. ;.. , i! ii'viiii-er . r-.iv. tie wh'-at to blight 'j ; -.!in--iv!,4 i- ti ? ".'atiier ". i il l- !' el '! iay and night. " , ; fc.-tik-rve is near u ii'l of ar is heart! 1 .. J in tie- s!i-.;'::r.r.s It'll, Av i - i titicc li'-s th ? sword. T: i.r. nn'i n i ri-iit m-ivily 'I'. - ::-Ni!.l- s--e.ii to say, I i i t--' ' i f';" ev.-ry bi-.'ssiii sent ii i - T'i fKiviii' I) ty IV !; have Ion lieen parted, i,- .j.-nr ol I Iiouiest'e -d seek. T'. t "i ! -atir.s tint are past, A?i t f tli" future speak. -Ail ! !!" ' ! iiiof, with hearts' aglow Th- v -.V-H'T. rouii'l the boar.i, t And rv in '!' i t, fervently, 'fkank'sivitr:; to th'j Lord!' ' " - .. ' -:ii-!i!i'- i put to flight I h- v. re'i-lie-l ;' r may feast Or ! i :ii-. that tli-'v sc!.!o n touch ': thi- .lay at least. An 1 '-i lii f'-!'ri iiiliistvll M iv t.i-t-- f .iainty fare . ' J . i i-, ,t"'-.')!i-' .Shout His praise Tii t'-!i-.,ivi:i every wli -r'! Francis S. Smith. ym.Ks;mx(; mnuiLAi! :: i.' butter, two o" sugar, three o' f,.ia'n f"'ir cms" -soliloquized Auut 1 1- Il.uber, as she tnuasureil out the i i i r - ii- :i!s lor the children's favorite tii; ik'-. -S-.em- like that rule is like h v t ' pn.-try, it runs oil so glib; but, niv! it ai.i't notion' to the way the rakes ut nil ' :iH( i the children gets a holt of tlu-tn. 1,'iV now, how many tinsful ili 1 I I;iUi- 1 ut Christmas? Six, as I'm a livin' wciii ui. an afore night their faces w:i ;'a k ted do., :: with, 4Oh, Aunt llrj-! ', liiTc tin re ii'i more patties?' as doleful if iIm y hadn't had one apiece. It il'-s In it lio.v much children can lii-M, an' ii"t hev an explo-ion. Now, I ?.it ia! ! have enough this c.r, but I li'im's 1 lav. line i;ooil tiling, that ri;!i '- -me t: n.- blue, like in iio caii kii. -a" em light's a fe- Iheroae time a'T li.it - i I am a!e another, like .some rules. "iiuii-. i iike loiks so-uetiaie ?, an not to 1 1-tru ti I ; they're all nice a: pinieky mat ! tv. 1, '. a:i next time yo see 'e:u t!.i way the hueiie, an' you've ir-'t ! i-t ;e pi i-nte-l with e:n all over i';iin. Ti.at W iiio.v Jenkins, n,.v, she's ti,;it-.i;; -ve!l, Marion; here you are at l ei, m.' riiit a I I am to see you, li ii ' 'i e;ee!el you wouhl be, Aunt Ilep ei.i 1 i,H u! 1 have ljei-n here earlier, W r : it -iv ciUUB last llfllt Hil l I COUlJ I I iHit i am a!;ham;ki kvvuvtuixs'. A !.riU'it-f:vv 1 i'Ml :a I e.ilere I an I ;( t'l'Mie: '"if ! a wrappings as it per ft' ;ly 1.. ...... lx the fariii-hoie, a;t:i ' vU '.!. siir.' ni" h it we'eouie. She was "'f:.. -! !:! I;. i-;!,t a:il a graceful buil . "; rf.n-i w tv ;i very p!eaein:x one, tii JSLr'i ."i-l .-.i it,' the charm was one couhl M:;na!v. i-u i mice, w liether ia the In-lit. ex;.i!ive eyes the warm, syui i :i; ..I'.-tn s.inle. ur t!ie winning e.ire--bat a. .ill rvcr.U it was there, if HnutAlm; v,.Jsi aiu!VsK ami Marku v" 'A :- '.;h.;m.) -ni, with the !''"' ' "; a ... a - w.ir.n frteu-Jship to I '!M -r !!.;:;, y.M;. 1 oivi. I Irv yi,,;;s eatue anil stopped !.?''' l U ! ' r ' W'atertowntosncna .'r ,"::'v':'-: w:'! she explained. ', V!';'-' :"" l" too ut knew . i t ... i i-.i--, au.l I can o there an-''-i- tisnc." - :a.i ;1;v.-: chilJ, you needn't a-5-1 !,,r " Aunt" Ilepsie turned '!,::' '; ' ;,! frmn her baking. 'I Is '.! !.",:n,i SU?,K' onc to help me ii' ,Hle t'L-e wouldn't have ' v,M'T'i it, auntie ?' The ir II : ' .'i l 'ai l h,,r i,ri.,-ut head on the .-.ir woman's sh , :! i( ,-. "Aud then, ,K'. .i :::iik,':v:ii- i.'t ..p.-ite the same Vany.-.u.reel-e but here." - .:'.' I:,fi-". tn:.ly can fill your . rvu " '""f other;, smoothed tne fii.'IIV I, ...1. ' - . -'"v i'ek h tir caressing r. you ; Vr :t :y any own darter, I couldn't set 1," ,ni-1'-' tluh overspreai the soft I,f ,. U:,v"t heard anything froai .i:iveye.., Marion T' aent;,., rot a word," she gj.-l. i " ' Just a year a jo to-day, antl 11 suslik, ten ' J ;;W-hat was it, child, that set him ( " Jis.cl Mr. Barber geutlv. "1' Oil" u ... - - . K'u wanted me to h lear it vou'd tell Hi.' k n;'. Aunt ilepsie, didn't you l." V 'f Tiltf "irl TJL, ' ''-r J' 'd with a t',j f ut"a,'',u,'-'at- 'd supposed of f.),' '; t,, lthe had toM vo i th'j wh-d.' i", :i story, ur I should have spokeu o' . 'word, deine. lie only came ' ' his fH jo ali while and set, to s' .- PA fP v v-.' tell me that he Avas going, and t'aat all wooiea were flirts and deceivers. I thought for awhile that you had mit tened him, but I've put two and tvo to gether since and changed my mind." "Why, you know, auntie, I w in timate with Dolly Jenkings about that time" There, I knowed that tormented widder Lad somethinir or other to do with it," interrupted Mrs. Barber enereti eairy. "And she kept telling me of the at tentions which Jack was paying her on the sly, and intimating more than she realiy said, until at last I taxed Jack with it, and you know how quick Jack is, auntie V "Yes, ready to go o'f the handle at a minute's waruiu' an' theu too proud to own that hei in the wrong." "And he wouldn't give me a word of satisfaction a3 to whether she had told the truth or not, only that if I had com menced distrusting him so soon we might as well part first as last, with other speeches which cut deeper still. Oh, it was so hard, Aunt Hespie, when I loved him sm. He accused me of being jeal ous, but it was not so. I only thought it best if he rtally cared for her, to have the matter settled riyhtly before it was j i.. i ! "My poor little girl; and that widder." with detestation in every tone, "she's been after him thieker'n mush ever since she took od her mournin. an' all her grievance is that he would have nothing to say to her." " Vc. I know that, now that it is too late. Aunt 1 iespie, but there's no use cry ing for spilt milk," a bright tear trem bled on the loug eyelashes, "and I will try and not spoil my Thanksgiving with tear.' For the next few hours the discussing of the measuring, weighing and beating predoir iuated in the large kitchen and spicy oi"or. rilled each nook and cranny, ;euetrating to the dining-room, anil even io the parlor beyond. "Seems sorter useless to make pumpkin pies when Jack ain't here to eat eiu," remarked Aunt llespic disconsolately, "'pears like there never was a boy lovef pumpkin pies like he does." IVrliaps that young minister who i visiting Horac3 will eat Jack's share," ugcsted Marion. "Ministers usually jhave a pretty fair appetite for good Ihrigs, I've noticed." "I s'pose now Horace will be anxious to show oil his relations in pretty good ityle t his '-oilege lrlen l,"rejoi:ie I Aunt llepie, rillectively. "When he toit fce he was cominir. he said, laughiujj; like 'I've been bragging on your cook ing, auntie, and I want to show Sammy Holland what a real Thanksgiving in the country Ls like.'" At length the cooking was all done, the big turkey dressed nud ready for stulUng, and the r.vs and rows of pies 1 and rich, plummy cakes, the pan of Joughuut-s and the heaping platter of cup cakes and another of ja.u tarts sug gested a large gathering on the morrow. In Jack's room alone, no preparation was to be made, for Auut Ilepsie would use the room for no one but its owner; but Marion went in there with a lonely J'ctliug in her heart, the song dying upon her lips as she did so. She lingered about the little dressing table, absently pushing in the puis which spelled "Jack upon his pin-cu-hion,aud thinking of him witli such longing tint JacK. could not have re mained anry with her could he have seen her huugrv eyes. . nr.'."' 'f.'sA'l'.-'A mm twin' 7 i 71 J P "COMIi Ki'-'K TO ME! Suddenly a thought came to her she would prepare Ja's room, too, as if he were coming with the rest, and wit.i nimble fingers she dusted and arranged everything in the best possible order, pinning a spray of dried ferns and sumac upon the window curtains that the close ness might be dispelled by the clear, kceu air of a perfect November day. The window opened out upon the broad verandah, and Jack had often climbed its supports and gone to his room and to bed without awakening the family, when at home. She would have been his wife now, had he not iroue oil in such hasty, un reasonable anjer. and she sank on her knees by the bedside when all was done. "Oh, Jack, come back. Come back to me," her heart cried out, and if spirit voitei can become audible to each other, Jack's spirit must have heard the earnest appeal wherever he was. The house began to till with a merry crowd of relatives at au early hour on the morrow, for a Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt Hepsie's was a treat to young and old. Mr3. Barber herself looked careworn and old. "I guess I was too tired to sleep well last night," she said, aa she basted the turkey,"for I keptturnin' an' twistin'all night long, an I dreamed o' burglars an Injuns, an' along toward mornin' I de clare if I didn't imagine some one sneakm' around the house. I was too tired to get up an' see, an' I dropped o2 to sleep again, an't must been a dream with the rest on't, for there's nothing mising,'su; the silver spoon3 sot right on the diuincr room table." "It" anvone had come in for ulundei they would have looked for silver lirst of all, so you must have been dreaming, auntie," replied Marion, smiling. "Cat what shall we do with the children until dinner's ready?"' "Send them upstairs to play," sai ' Aunt Hepsey. "Here comes your Cousin Horace and his friend, and a proper, fine young man he looks, too." j A moment later and Marion was mak ing her company bow to the young clergyman and as she carried his overcoat and hat into the hallway, she gave the children permission to go into the chambers. "And please don't be .rude or noisy," she said, warningly, "for Auut Hepsey has a headache this morning." "We won t. We'll be still as mice,'' said one of the flock, confidently as if it were a possible state o? things at a family merrymaking. The young minister was just explaining the difference between a spiritual and a merely intellectual belief in Scripture, when a frightened trio of children came scrambling down the stairs. 'Oh, Aurt Ilepsie, there's a burglar in Jack's ioom; there is, and he's asleep on the bed." "A burglar. Oh, my sua I Then I wasn't a dreaming after all." Mrs. Barber was setting the table, an-i she fairly turned pale with nervous excite ment. ' Don't get frightened, auntie, I'll go up and rout them out. Give me the poker," and Horace started up the stairs hurriedly, with his formidable weapon. "And I, too." Uncle Drake, a jolly old fellow of immense avoirdunois. caught up the ionirs. "I'll ninch him while Horace belabors him." It is needless to say they were fol lowed by an excited retinue of specta tors, at a safe distance, however, for there was no telling what the presumably savage intruder might do when alar.ned. "Perhaps he s armed," suggested the young minister, nervously. He had pro vided himself with an umbrella, as he brought up the rear. The burglar must have . been jn a Bound slumber not to have heard the con fusion of whistiering voices at the door, but there was no sound within the cham ber until Horace opened the door and peered cautiously in, the p"ker in hand m defensive readiness. "Jack Barber, you vidian, if you haven't been up to your old tricks of climbing in the window." Horace's voice came floating down the stairway in a peal of surprised laughter. "Jack I My Jack! Weill never," cried Aunt Ilepsie, pushing her way rough the crowd and rushing up the itairs. "rERIIArS 1IES AHMEO. Marion, at the first sound of JacVs name, had divine I in a moment just what had occurred, that Jack had come on' the early morfping train, nud not wish ing to arouse the family, had crept up to liis room window in the mo nlight, and as she had o obligingly left it open, had found no trouble in getting in ipuie'.ly, and trembliug and blushing, she re 'cated to the kitchen to think it over, and compose herself for the meeting with him. - They had parted in anger, and she carce'y knew how to receive him now. Last night iu hci loueliue.ss and grief she wouid nave lushed iuto his arms and have shown sill her delight aud desire to undo the past; this morning she was more self-reliant, aud she wisely re solved that a little of the concession at least must come from JacL-, since he had left Ler so cavalierly and so unkindly without just cause. 5ae was standing there still, balancing the fork with which she had just turnel the turkey, idly ia her hand, when an arm stole round her waist and Jack's voice, very humble and loving, whispered in her ear: 4 Will my Marion forgive and forget?'' All her pride vanished at once under the spell of the dear, familiar vcice, and turning, she shed happy tears of re joicing on her lover's shoulder. "And why haven't you written to me. Jack:" she asked reproachfully, after a few moments of happy converse. "I did, Marion. I wrote you a lon Icticr asking your forgiveness for the miserable part I had taken in that wretched quarrel, but I never, received a word in reply, and of course 1 supposed you were angrv and unforgiving towards me." "How could I answer it dear Jack, when I never received it; no, not one line from you in all this weary year." "If I could only have known it, bu not hearing made me so angry that 1 determined that you or no one else should know where I was, or anything about me. "You foolish, hot-tempered Jack," said Marion, softly, "but how did you chauce to come borne, dear?" "I could not keep away," said Jack simply. "As Thanksgiving drew near, the attraction towards the old horns be came too strong to be resisted, an i now that I have you again, I'm not going to let you go, and I propose that we be married this very day. I'll go for & minister directly after dinner, and we'll make ita Thauksgiviug worth remem bering." "Well, as fcr thit, there's no use o' stirli rin'ou: of the house for a minister." Auntf l Ilepsie had come ia to look after her ne-i ? glected dinner, and stood regarding there with a beaming face. , ."Young Mr. HoUi land is ii minister, and I don't doubt buti that he'd be glad to iave a ceremony, to? sorter get in pnetite on, you know.'fi "All the better; welll be married before dinner then, and have a wedding dinner! as well as a Thanksgiving feast. Just let me brush up my hair a bit while Mar? ; ion takes off her kitcien apron. j! The great brown turkey wai an interest ing witness of a surprisingly impromptu ceremony a half hour later. The guests were not informed of what was going on until they were all gathered around thi table in their several places. AuntHepl sie. at the head in her best cap, and Jack and Marion at her right, Mr. Holland' coming next. He officiated in a partic- ularly happy manner for a comparative amatjur, and never had a jollier Thanks-I giving dinner been sen el in the old farm! house thin upon this occasion, ruad(f memorable by the presence of a burglar ij the house, and the subsequent ringing 6 wedding bells. Ladies' World, -4 A VICTORY FOR THE BANKS. Comptroller Qeneral Ellerbe OveJ ruled by Judge Hudson: ' ; Newberry, B. C, Special. Th banks are on top now. Judge Hudson de cided that the Comptroller General (fi ordering the auditor to increase the iej turus of banks acted without the authori ty of law, and his act is therefore illega) ami nugatory. .. i j The case came up on a petition for writ of mandamus by the Newberry Na tional Bank to compel the county audi tor to chauue his tax list and tax dunli-i cate and to reduce the assessment to th; returns as made by the president of th bank. The petition was granted and thi clerk of the Court was ordered 'to fortjv with issue the writ. The bank was rci- rcscuted by J. F. J. Caldwell, and Assistant Attorney General Townsend represented the auditor- lne oauK returned us stock at pais. Tins return was accepted bv the town ship board of assessors and the county board of equalization. The market value of the stock is about $G0 on the sharie aboye par. The Comptroller General et dcred the auditor to change the returjji and place the stock on tw duplicate for taxation at its mafr. ket value, thereby increasing the return of the bank about $80,000. 1 7 Uuder this decision the auditor is quired to correct his tax duplicate so to restore the original valuation of the Dronerty and make the corresnondincr r duction in the tax payable by the banlif The case will go to the Supreme Courjj The Court of Common Pleas adjournal sine die aud Judge Hudson left forhom PTfiuTTMn i?nr rmroDTrrrk-D v a iuiiaiixu a uic imvuiiuiii. Virginia and Tennessee at War Over; n fttrin nf Tprritnrv. -'f i! j. . K.noxville, Tesn., Special. & number of prominent lawyers of Virginia and Tennessee are en route to Cumber- lanu uap, i enn. - ; s Their mission is an important one to Tennessee and Virginia. They go to the place named, where they will spend several days in taking depositions iu the suit of Virginia vs. iennessee, now pending iu the supretne count ol the United Mates. The states have been in dispute for several years over a slice of territory alorg their border line, from Kentucky to NoFth Caroliua. Virginia claims this territory and is suing to recover it. The territory in' dispute amounts to between eight huji drcd and one thousand square milev, being about eight miles deep and sonje one hundred and fifty miles long, jf Virginia should win, she will get nearly one-halt of six counties, including tile prosperous one of Bristol, the town ht Cumberland Gap, the big Louisville a nd Nashville railroad tunnel, several mi'f,s of Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louis ville railroad and the East Tennessejy Virginia and ueorgia railroad. The country involved is ncn m min eral, timber and coal, and the Old Do minion is fighting hard to gain it. It His expected that the case will be heard nejft March or April, lennessce resists on the ground that a line which has stood undis turbed since 1802 should not be disturbed now. Virginia claims that she has nevr acquiesced iu the line and that the mqjt ter has always been in dispute. ' On this lerritor, in imestian it lis thought there are about 35,000 souls. ; If taken from Tennessee it would not affefct the state politically, nor would it alTgct Virginia materially, a3 the votes are abput evenly divided between the democrats and the republicans. ii CO OPERATIVE STORES. The Alliance Going Into Buaines On a Large Scale. j i ' Aberdeen, S. D., Special. It is learned through Alonio Wardell and Gek. C. Crose, the heads of two divisions pi Alliance work in the Northwest, that the business department of the Alliancejjn twenty-two States has united with busi ness nien of New York city and formed a company similar in its plan to the cee4 bratcd Rochdale system in England, to the co-operative store of Utah.. The organization is called the. National Comj panv, and has large means. f : It is the aim of the new organiza tion," said Mr. Crose, "to buy out a mer chant in every trade centre of importance, stock him up with everything he wants in the line of general goods demanded by the farmers and make him local maijar g'er of the concern. We have options from business men in forty-one towns in South Dakota, and work pushed along." is still bemg Edward 1. Searlys is. to present to the ;owa f Methuec, Mass., a statue'of 3e3i.-r.il George Washington, designed Dy Taom is Ball. The head of the statue i I which is of bronze, will stand about if iy feet from the ground. Dser are reporeJ to be exceedingly numerous in the eastern and northern parts of Maine. . li ' i UTUMN WHISPERINGS. Tell It Not That Our Southland Is Prosy. "We Will Tell You About Many Im- portant Happenings That Have Occurred During- a Week. VIRGINIA. David Morrison, the defaulting clerk of Scott county, has been arrested. The combination of lumber dealers which was recently formed in Norfolk to control the output of North Carolina dressed pine lumber has advanced prices nlty cents per thousand. The Norfolk, Albemarle and Atlantic railroad is to be changed from narrow to broad guage. The State debt commission and the Olcott committee of New York, the lat ter representing the holders of Virginia bonds, who were in conference at Rich mond several days upon a plan of settle ment, have come to an agreement and the Virginia debt question is settled at last. The rush of coal and grain to Newport News is beyond the power of the Chesa peake & Ohio Railroad to handle. Eigh teen hundred carloads of grain have, it for shipment to said, been engaged Europe via that port. Judge Thomas T. Bouldin, of Kevs- ville, died Friday. He was born the 24th of March, 1813. He died in the same house, the same room and on the same bed in which he was born. At a meeting of the Town Couucil of Salem, the overseer of the poor reported that six inmates of the town poor house, although chronic sufferers, were as well as could be expected, and that the cost of feeding them was $1.'J3 per head per month, an average of about five and a half cents a d?y per head. There is some probability of there be ing a three-cornered tight in the election Of a successor in Congress to the late Gen. AV. II. F. Lee. The solution of the problem seems to rest in the attitude of the Alliance men. O. K. Lnpham, of Chicago, who has large business interests iu Staunton, has recently proposed to the Augusta county farmers a plan for makine beet suirar. He agrees to add the necessary plint to his present establishment at a cost of j ),000, and the farmers of Augusta un- dertiketo grow 1,500 acres "of suirar beets, for which they are to be paid $3.50 to $1 per ton at the factory. The New River Mineral Company, of Ivanhoe, has opened a promising ore bed about two miles south of Austinville. They will build a tramway to connect with the Norfolk and Western railroad . NORTH CAROLINA. A few flakes of snow have fallen at Asheville. A barrel factory is being built at New Berne. Two men were arrested in Shelby last week for making counterfeit money. Roswell Smith, president and founder of the Century Magazine Company is at Asheville. j The Stale Temperance Convention at Raleigh was addressed by Bishop Gal loway of. the M. E. Church, South. Revenue officers have received news of a seizure at Bradshaw's, in Orange coun ty, of an illicit distillery owned by James Powell. At Greensboro the citizens and Far mers Alliance arc organizing a $10,000 stock company for the. purpose of estab lishing co-operative tobacco factory. W. G. Le Due, receiver, xvill declare another dividend of 20 per cent., Dec. 1, to the depositors of the defunct People's rsational Bank of r ayctteville. W. F. Beasley, president of the Ox ford and Coast Line Railroad, expects the right of way will be secured by Dec, 1, and construction will then commence. At Chapel Hill on Friday Trinity Col lege and the University played foot ball score 6 to 4 in favcr of Trinity. Oxford and Henderson have joined the State Choral Association and will partici pate iu the Musi-; Festival iu Charlotte iu May. The Presbyterian Orphan Asylum at Barium Springs, Mecklenburg county, burned Thursday. The fire originated from a defective flue. The children all escaped unhurt, aud are being cared for in Statesvillc SOUTH CAROLINA. Lemon squeeze parties are being given in Charleston. j. II. Burckhalter will soon place au engineering corps on the route of the railroad he contemplates building from Ersley to Pickens C. H. Efforts arc being made for the organi zation of a $30,000 tbk company for the purpose of establishing a cas'itt and furnitura factory at Branchville. The Berkeley Phosphate Co. proposes rebuilding its phosphate works, reported last week as burned at Ashley Junction. Orangeburg is making great prepara tions for her Confederate Fair to begin Dec. 10. A baby show has been added to the programme. The Childs prohibition bill which willbe presented to the next Legislature, prom ises to make one of the severest fights of the session. Both the prohibition and anti-prohibition factious are working quietly and vigorously in the interest of their sides. The crown sheet of an engine on the railroad blew out at Cana in the night, scalding and knocking out of the cab Fiicman Robert Allen, about 21 years of age. He was attended by a physician at Greenwood, but died a horrible death. Rev. J. A. B. Scherer, the nw mis sionary of the Southern Lutherans to Ja pan, was ordained Sunday to the holy ministry in St. John's Lutheran Church, Charleston, the Lutheran congrega tions of the citv uniting in the service, conducted bv Rev. W. C. Schaeffer, of Newberry, the president of the Synod of South Carolina. Treasurer Bates has submitted his an nual report to the Legis'ature. He calls es pecial attention "to the fact that the State owes a large floating debt, estimated at $271,690.07 of past due interest alone, be- sides unpaid appropriations as set forth above, and to the further fact that the so called 'treasury reserve fund' is practically myth, representing for the most part debts and not credits of the States." No secret has possibly been guarded with more jealously than the bids of the various counties fot the Girls' Industrial College. It is reported the figures of the two highest are Greenville, $126,500; An derson, 125,000, both being cash olf .rs. OTHEB STATES. The Florida orange crop is now being shipped to New York and other locali ties. The yield of the State this "year was over 3,000,000 loxes, and an average box holds 150 oranges. About half of the crop will be sent by rail to the Western States. Chicago is a great consumer of the Florida orange and also of the California orange. The papers of New Orleans arc prophe sying that their port will become the greatest shipping port of the country within the next ten years, great er even than New York. They say that the produceis in the Northern States, west of the Ohio River, and the Southern .States, west of the Alabama River, have fouud out that they can ship grain, ton and pork to Europe New Orleans more cheaply from any other port. A few cot from than davs ago a committee of the Kansas Millers' Association visited New Orleans to make arrangements for exporting Kansas flour to foreign countries by way of tint port at the rate of 10,000,000 barrels a year. DIRECT FOREIGN TRADE. The. South' s General Advancement Broadening Out. The Manufacture r's Record, of . Balti more, of November 21, in reviewing the the industrial progress of the South, says : "The broadening out of Southern ad vancement is illustrated this week in the omcial announcement of the inaugura tion of the four regular European steam ship lines from Newport News the lirst regular Hues from any point south of Bal timore which must mark the beginning of an ever increasing foreign trade. It is not simply intended that these steamers shall take outward cargoes, but that the import business shall be 'worked up 'with a view to brinsincr in foreign rroods for Western distribution Arrangements have already been made for loading about twenty steamers on these four lines bef.ire the end of the year, and heavy contracts have been made for the ship ment of western products grcin, flour, provisions, etc. the practical inaugura tion of these lines, .through the efforts of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, will necessary force other Southern railroad systems reaching the. "Atlantic and Gulf ports to take steps to secure the es tablishment of foreign steamship lines Thus, while the low price of cotton af fects for the time being the business in terests of the South, there is a steidy ad vancement in general development tha will add great Ly to the volume of trade aud traffic and to the prosperity of this whole section. The past week has been only a moderately active one in the au guration of new enterprises, but the out look is very promising for a steady, solid growth. Among some of the more im portant enterprises reported in this week's issue of the Manufacturer's Record are the buildiug of a thousand new coke ovens, the construction of a new railroad into au undeveloped timber section, and the proposed erection of large lumber miils and the sale of a tract of timber land for $5O,C00 cash, all iu West Vir ginia; a $100,000 chemical and drug manufacturing company at Monroe, La. ; a furniture factory at Athens, Ga. ; a $129,000 sale of phosphate land, in Florida, and several new phosphate com panies in the same State; a $100,000 vi trified brick company at Cibverport, Ky. ; a woodenware factory at Bristol, Tenn. : vin $80,000 furniture factory company at l'exarkana, Ark. ; a $10,C00 tobacco fac tory company at Morristown, Tenn.; a 200,000 canal company in Florida; a $35,000 canning company at New Berne, Nr. C, ;a $750,000, phosphate company at Atlanta, Ga. ; a$l, 000,000 lumber com pany in Pitt county, N. C; a $125,000 -manufacturing company at Baltimore, Md. ; a $25,000 improvement company in Hale county, Texas; a $50,000 fish-hand ling company at Galveston, Texas; a $300,000 oil apd gas company, a $250, 000 improvement and construction com pany, a $56,000 coal and coke company, all in West Virginia; a $25,000 water company at Lonaconing, Md. ; a $50,00.) cottonseed-oil company at New Orleans, La., etc. Annual Report of damson College. Columbia, S. C , Special. The an nual report of the Clemson College trustees . . . .i i . . .. . .. .i lias ueen sent to ine primer, v'"-'1"" Tillman, Secretary of State Tindal, and J. E. Wanamaker attended a recent meeting of the trustees. The number of applicants for admission by counties is as follows: Abbeville 89, Aiken 16, Anderson 57, Barnwell 49, Beaufort 1, Berkeley 10, Charleston 9, Chester 23. Chesterfield 5, Clarendon 18, Colleton 9, Darlington 25, Edgefield 52, Fairfield, 15, Florence 3, Georgetown 7, Greinville 44, Hampton 22, Horry 2, Kershaw 7, Lancaster 14, Laurens 38, Lexington, 5, Marion 14, Newberrv 38, Oconee 32, Orangeburg 73, Pickens 35, Richland 14, Spartanburg 14. Sumter, 32jUnion 9, Williamsburg, 13, York 5, unclassified 71. The following resolution wa; passed: Resolved, That if upon the opening day of the session more applicants report than can be accommodated in tne dormi tories the number admitted from each county shall be in the proportion of five to each member ol the House irom saia county; that in event enough applicants shall not report to fill out the county ouota then the vacancies shall be given to the counties being in excess, preference lcing given to those who apply first: Provided, however, when applicants from a county are in excess, of its quota the fitness of the aDDlicant for collegiate work on examination will govern. Tlii financial exhibit shows a balance of $3,707 on hand; receipts 121,158, in luding $25 813 from bast year; disburse ments, $103,127 on College, $11,224 on chemical analysis, etc. It will require about $65,000 to finish the College. ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. The People's Party Makes a Propo sition. . They Come Before the Alliance Con vention With Offers For Coalition. Indiahapolis, Inp., Special. The national executive committee of the Peo ple's party has formulated a proposition for a unioii with the Alliance which may be presented to the supreme council at any time. The proposal is based upon the absolnte necessity of political action to accomplish the uniform purposes of all the industrial interests of the country; that the AU'auce as a non partisan body canfiot enforce its demands, and that only by the co operative union of all parties and organizations can the reform legisla tion be tad. 'lhe business presented to the supremo couucil this morning was the report of the committee which was appoiuted to confer with the anti 8ub-trtaury execu tive committee, headed by W. S. McAl lister, Dr. Icoruans and Joseph Gates. The result of this confeteuce was an agreement to hear the protest from Dr. Yeomans. This was the first matter ta-" ken up ibis mcjrning after the report of the committee was received. The su preme council excluded all not delegates, including Jerry Simpson and other lights. Sentinels were placed on duty aud every precaution takeu against the spirit of the debate leaking out. THE CONSOLIDATION TROPOtilTION. It has developed that the consolidation proposition of the People's patty execu tive committee was sent to the Alliance and F. 31. B. A. meetings aud commit-, tees of three from each were appointed. The committees met with a committee from the People's party at the Hotel En glish and an informal conference was held, over which representative Taube neck, (d Illinois, presided. The de mands of the three organizations were discussed as to whither they could bo placed on a common footing as they would have to be. Taubeneck says .the F. M. B A. is heartily iu favor of the third party consolidation, which he thinks is bound to occur iu a few days. Who compose the committee is not known, but Taubeneck is' representing the radical People's party, being cha-r-m in of the national committee, the radi ;il clement of th i M. II. A., of which he is a leading'meinher. The ultimatum of the Alliance to the anti-sub-treasury people is that the or ganization will not recede from its ad herence to the Ocala demand on this iuet"on. The anti-sub-treasury men, i McAllister says, will at onco form a new a liance. Another objection which they i have to the Alliance is to the Govern ment ownership of railroads. A GENERAL CONFERENCE. Thursday morning xvas held the most impoitant meeting that has occurred in ceumction wun me Alliance convention. This was the-gathcriug of the executive committee of the Confederated Industrial Uni .n, composed of the Farmers' Alli ance, the F. M. B. A., the Knights of Labor," Citizens' Alliance, Workingmen's League, Patrons of Husbandry, and kin- lied organizations,-to consult about call- .. .. .i ing a convention oi an tnesc organia- thuis on February 2nd. The committee decided that this convention, looking to unity in legislative demands and politi cal action, shall be held at some point in the central St: t s. The fixing of a place of meeting was considered at length, and it was then decided to leave the c hoosing of a city to Messrs. Terrell, 'laubeneck id Baumgarten. The committee was instructed to choose from the following cities: Indianapolis, Louisville, St. PauI, Chicago, Cincinnati and Springfield 11. This committee will visit each of the cities designated and will eelcct the one that offers to do most for the meeting. The committee is to report ltj selection within the next twenty days. The Industrial Union is to have two delegates from each confederated organi zation and one delegate from each ten thousand votes cast by the People's, party. This will make a deb-gatiou of about six hundred and fifty. AN IMPORTANT GATHERING. "This gathering Tk ill be the moSt inn portai-t that Ins ever -assembled in the United t'tatt-s," said ( hairman Terrell, of the executive committee. "There will be-t-ighttcn or twenty crgamzatious rep resented. It will not be a meeting for political purposes. The union will de- clare its principles and then the political patty that adopts a platform which con forms inwst nearly to our declaration of principles will get our votes." At the secret session of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association the following officers w re elected : . President, S. 8. Gauze, of Iowa; vice president, W. A. Bartlett, of We-Jst Virginia; secretary, John P. S'ille, of Illinois,. It was voted to increase the per capita tax fr m 1 to 8 cents. Thi.s'will increas? the receipts of the national treasury largely and the sur plus v. ill be used in pushing the1, the F. M- B. A. unorganized territtry. A reso lution indorsing the mb-treasury plank of the Alliance was favorably received but not voted upon. A joint coinmittea committee of the two organizations is at work "and it is probable that a joint plat form will be adopted. President Polk was unanimous! - re- elected and J. II. Louk, of South D;- , kota, was.chosen vice-president of the Farmer' A'dianci and Indiiitrial Union. J. ILTurnerwas re elected secrttary-treasu'er and J. F. Will its, of Kansas, national lecturer. Milan Is to Have $400,000 a Year. A Vienna cablegram says: The cgrce ment between ex-King Milan, of Set via, and the Regency, has bi eu made public. Milan, wh had a reversionary interest in the throne, in the event of anything hap pening to his 'son, Kier Alexander, re nounces all his rights, including his rights to interfere with the edu ation of Alexander, for the sum of 2,000,000 francs a year. This amount is more thau the whole civil list of the Jtingdom for the support of royalty has heretofore been, and it is believed the e wi l be a serious protest in the Skupchioa. ?! I I if