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NO. 42
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v A which will be 250 tons
. von are floating through ice
-i tii - ocean you 30 very slowly.
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; ;''. nto of two miles a day.
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trib'j tiri 1 about 40J but
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1:. i i, tii-; ' upper saddle -tree, or seat,
t-t ttiti. t:tc S i er, to relieve the ruler from
oh -i t'll j ilting. The springs are Cone
r-iru. , working within -each other, are
i.f t.-tiiH-M-d steel, so as to work freely
nil. r, vt I the motion of the horse may
l.r.n; ti.e weight of the rider.
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t.-iiiu-nt-i his found a new use. Por.aorly
.this li.iir-wa- of. little Vitlu:'. By a new
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iii, i:i!i' which at the same ti no cl-'iavi
it, ;t 1 i it is t!i -:i bileJ and seat tj thi
f:i. t ,ry, where it is utilized in mikiag
tl'itii "all wool" an la yard wid3.
A sixty-seven-ton gua on board the
British ai.nored vessel Howe has de
vi.! 1 a defect in the inner tu' 3 similar
t' tint recently found in one of the big
the English ironclad Auson, the
tl-i-itji 'of the Channel Spiviroa. Til 3
A-hnirilty is greatly exercise 1 over tli3
Tv--vrAMiscovevic ot defects in British
1 a a'o-: j'r.i'e oavcrsion of tar into
;v ' in ti. v !e e lecte l without leiving
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ronsi-'T in ii.jectiug a soriy ot tir by
ni'-:ui-i ot 'a Ivorting jet suppliel with
'ip:-! :i-atc 1 si.j.ini mtj a re l-hot retort
halt tilled with coke. Tne gas ha- a high
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f .pc:i-ive enriching material.
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ori i-iiji has Ujju greitly overbite 1.
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li i i tin' ;.. fro u rjrroiion d)ei not,
it 1- s ii l,"v.-oe i four per cent, in tweuty
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Mft.iiii. - M rs wiiich are subjected to
a ) - -i! ti .it meat bjforo leiving th-3
,v"- ":'e thoroughly to be relied on for
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". l'olar night will be hence-.
. 'ie iu arable te the 2000 'inhab
i llammeifest, in Norway, the
r::u:-si village of Europe. Electric
1 I c-c-n introduced into" every
ia ti:i- hamlet. The power is
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v-lt-f trie liirht. The lonir nisrht bes-ins
H -i:niiu-rsteiu cn November 18 and
lt u:nl January 23, so that the ar
v 1 i- lil iminatioa will be of service for
;X -IX d IVS. On thf nthnr hand it
p'-Kticaliy useless and unneces
n .May If. to Julv 26, durins
:i time the sun never ceases to shine.
i!-i;ntvu-rstein lies in north latitude 70
r-..:5 minutes IS seconds. - At 67
"i --'-"i minutes, north latitude, the
-est night lasts one month; at 69
: ' V",1 ,ninutes it lasts two months,
: t -5 degree 40 minutes, thr
The rolar night is shortened
tsu- ,VM;r day is lengthened by the
;'Ult:"uo; Mt. The inhabitants of
i.an-m. r-tnn. ja fact, have no real night
i' m -:i Mau-h 30 and September 12.
McSwlney'-s Gni.
Near Ilorn Head, Countv Donegal,
v '. ' ere ls a hole in the rocks called
I,.wlneJ Sgua. Itis on the seacoa5t
r"'' to have connection with a
w-rn. When the nortn winds blows
J'-'i the sea is at half flood, the wind and
'waves enter the cavern and send up
ot water fom the t iOAheit
.rnore than 100 feet. The -;etsof
aier are accompanied bv explosions
a:eh my be heard for mile
. 1 ae W001 anrt manure fortne keep ol
' " sheeP a4 raiay flockraisters attest,
Suu the lanb, r all xtu.
a.ner c.-ns i;..-'. ..n -1
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fet a per cent, of Drofit?
DECEMBER DOINGS.
Thef Latest News From a Trio of
States.
Interesting News Items From Many
Points in Our Own and
Neighboring States. .
VIRGINIA.
The Lynchburg shoe factory has been
sold to a local syndicate.
A bakiDg powder factory is one of
Portsmouth's new industries.
A monument has been erected to the
Confederate dead at Newport News.
Fifty students were before the mayor
of Lexington Thursday charged with
singing on the street.
Arrangements are being made to es
tablish a steamship line between New
port News and Glasgow.
Colonel Colyar, one of the counsel in
the State line controversy, thinks Ten
nessee will win the suit.
An effort is to be made in Greene
county to pipe crude oil to tide water if
found in paying quantities.
The Richmond camps of Confederate
veterans are making preparations to
properly celebrate Gen. Hobt. E. Lee's
birthday on Jan. 10.
The census of Newport News has been
completed bp the Board of Trade, and
the population of this live young city is
5.618.
Virginia has supplied a good many
bishops to other States. There are Bish
ops Wilmer, of Alabama; Peterkin, of
West Virginia; Dudley, of Kentucky,
besides Bishop Williams, of Japan.
Some unknow person sent Julius ,Lie
beit, of Petersburg, a water fowl of
a species unknown. In body it is the
size and shape of a Ptkin duck, dark
gray in color, web footed and with a bill
shaped like a crane's, though somewhat
shorter. On the box containing the
stranger wa3 written: '".Wheu I am
thiisty give mo water; when I am hungry
give me fresh fish.'
Some of the Capitol officials think an
effort will be made at this session of the
Legislature to largely increase the ap
propriation for pensions for disabled
Confederate soldiers. That made by the
last Legislature was $S5,000, exclusive
of the $10,000 for the Confederate Sol
diers' Home. An effort was made last
year to put the figures at 150,000, but
in the then financial condition of the
Commonwealth the advocate of the in
crease was induced not to press it.
NORTH CAROLINA.
An English syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase of the asbestos mining
property near Morganton.
In the military contest at Wilmington,
last week, the Hornet's Riflemen, of
Charlotte, carried off the first prize, $100.
In the United States Court, in Raleigh,
Jesse Goodwin, a jqung mechanic, was
convicted of counterfeiting, and sentenc
ed to two years at hard labor in the pen
itentiary at Albany.
Rev. J. H. Barrett and ex-Rev. J. T.
Ball, the parties concerned in the pugi
listic encounter at Raleigh, in which
Ball felled Barrett to the ground with a
stick, were before his Honor Mayor
Badger, and the evidence showing that
it Wbs purely nu assault on the part of
Ball he was bound over to court in the
sum of of $200 and Barrett was discharg
ed. Christopher Stephens, a leading farmer
of Richland, Onslow county, died Sun
day. He commenced life a poor youth,
purchased a $25,000 farmand prospered
until at the dale of his death he owned
11,000 acres of land.
It is reported ia Savannah that the
South Bound Railroad will be extended
to Charlotte, N. C, where it would form
a junction with the Seaboard Air Line
system, thus creating a new route be
tween the iSioith and the South. Itis
also, it is said, intended that a connec
tion shall be made by which the South
Bound can reach the Roanoke & South
ern Road, which would make a direct
line from Savannah to Winston, Roanoke
and all the country reached by the Nor
folk & Western and the Shenandoah
Valley Railroads.
The noted Pickering-Wheeler land
suit, in Stokes county, is being prepared
for trial. Surveyors are now at work on
the la-ids iu both Stokes and Surry
counties. The land includes the proper
ty of many citizens, and it is thought
that it will require at least three months
to complete the survey. The property
holdeis are making a vigorous fight fo-'
their rights and the su t promises to be
one of the livlelest. aud most complicat
ed suit ever brought before the American
courts.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
An oyster canning factoiy is being
built at Beaufort.
J. II. Agnew, the Supt. of the South
Carolina railway has resigned.
An Alliance Publishing Co. has been
formed with headquarters in Columbia.
The Stono Phosphate Co , of Char
leston, has been incorporated with a capi
tal stock of $200,000.
The General Assembly last welk elec
ted Attorney-General Y. J. Pope asso
ciate justice of the supreme court.
The Presbyterian congregation of
Spartanbutg has extended a call to Dr.
Watkins. of Raleigh, N. C. They offer
$1,800 and a parsonage worth $300 a
year. Greenville has also called Dr.
Watkins .
The Columbia Water Power Co. will
erect a $500,000 cotton mill; work on
same will soon be commenced. '
The Charleston Water Works Co. has
contracted for the sinking of an artesian
well on Nassau street at a cost of about
$50,000.
Among the new bills introduced in the
Legislature is one to create Tillman coun
ty aud a bill to make Good Friday a legil
holiday.
A bill passed it third reading in the
Leg shture which restricts the n.oitir igt
given on cr ps to the ear in whici th
crop is raised. The object of the biil is
to prevent the giving of indefinite liens
on crops.
The f-lection ot Attorney-General Pope
to tho bench makes the Attorney-Generalship
vacant. Assistant Attorney
General Townsend is a candidate to rill
the place. It is said, though not on
their authority, that Speaker Jonee, J.
W. MecLaurin. Ernest Gary and John
Gary Evans have been requested by
friends to enter the race.
OTHER STATES.
The pecan crop in Texas is very large
this year, and the nuts are of fine quality.
In Atlanta there is a etrong movement
in favor of the founding of a State re
formatory for juvenile criminals.
One night lat week, when a black
man and his sou were asleep in their cabin
under a tree ou a 3Iissisoippi plantation
ou the banks of the Sunflower River, the
tree fell,' crashed through the cabin's
roof, and killed both of them.'
It has been decided by a Florida court
that dentists practising in that State do
not need a diploma, aud many of the
dental operators there are rejoicing that
they can now pull, fill, or polish the
people's teeth at their own sweet will.
Friday of list week was 4 -Arbor
Day"' iu Georgia, and a' holiday for
the children in alhthe public schools of
the State. In the schools the teachers
read appropriate passages from the
Scriptures, after which the children
sang "My Country,' Tis of Thee." Dur
ing the day tens of thousauds'of trees
were planted by the youngteri iu the
public highways, the town , lawns or
parks, and the school and church grounds.
The case of two colored Baptist- pi each
ers w ho have entered suit against the city
of Portsmouth for 100,000 each, be
cause they, in 1S35, were ejected from
the ladies' cabin of the Berkeley ferry
steamer, is being tried in the United
States court, Norfolk.
SKIPPED WITH $10,0011.
A County Treasurer Proves False to
His Trust.
Eliz abet Atovn,N.C, Special. J.M.
Benson, treasurer of Bladen county, has
absconded with $0,000 of the county's
money. Uenson lias lor several years
held the position of treasurer of his coun
ty, and for the past two years has been
largely engaged in the mercantile busi
ness at Elizabethtowu. His store has
been headquarters for the Alliance of
Bladen county.
Several davs ago it was learned that
Benson wa3 short in his accounts, and in
consequence of the rumors that -were
afloat the county commissioners called a
meetinsr. Benson was to appear before
that body for a thorough investigation
of his accounts. The commissioners met
according to agreement, but found out
soon afterwards that Benson had skipped
during the night. It is thought by many
that the money that the county
will lose will be a comparatively
small amount, when taking into consid
eration the sum that he is due the farm
ers of Hladen county. As he has always
been highly respected and above suspi
cion, the farmers would put whatever
.1 ...1 iri x l"
money mat inev cuu not not neeu in -111s
hamls, he payiug them goo 1 interest, but
svldoni paving the principal. In: this
way quite a large sum must have been iu
his hands at the time of his departure.
There seems to be little doubt but what
Benson has appropiiited at least $10,000
of other people s money to the exclusive
benefit of hhnself. Much excitement
exists over his sudden disappearance, but
those mo.;t interested have not the least
idea in which - direction Benson has
pitched his tent. Tekirrams have been
sent in every direction for the apprehen
sion of the fleeing treasurer, but nothiug
has been heard. -
TO SEPARATE THE RACES.
The Governor of Virginia Recom
mends That Railroads be Re
quired to Have Separate
Cars and Waiting
Rooms.
Richmond, Va. The Legislature con
vened Wednesday, in ins annual mcs
Fjtre the Governor savs: "There is a
very general demand for separate coaches
aud separate waiting rooms at'passenger
stations for the two laces throughout
Virhinia and the South.' I would advise
the enactment, of a statute requiring
every railroad company to provide sepa
rate coaches for the accommodation of
white and colored passengers and sepa
rate accommodations at passenger sta
tions, all of equal convenience. When
the travel on a road is not f umcient to
require two coaches a single coach fehould
be so dmaed by partitions as to secure
separate accommodations. The law'should
be enforced by suitable penalties. ihe
Govercor also receinmeids legislation
providing for the adequate representation
of the State at the Chicago Fair. The
State debt question and the ov.-ter inter
est will be considered later bv the Gov
ernor in a special message.
EXTERMINATION OF SPARROWS
The Bounty of Two Cents for Each
Causes Hundreds to be Killed.
Chicaoo, III., Special Under the
new law which went mto effect Decern
bc-r last, giving a bounty of 2 cents for
the head of each English sparrow killed1
in the Srate, the slaughter of the little
birds has been inaugurated with vigor.
The sparrow man in the county clerk's
othce took in 1,5.2 heads yesterday.
One mau came in in the morning with
197 heads. Several objections have been
raised to the method of "exterminating
the pests, ihe most notable being that of
the presidtnt of the Illinois Humane So
ciety. 'The law is educationsllv
vicious,'' he says. '-It sets a lot of child
len to woik t-j devise the destruction of
innocent living creatures. I don't care
so much for the sparrows, though that is
bad enough, but no one who has the in
terests of the coming generation at heart
can fail to view wit a alarm this new
method of educating children to take
pleasure in destruction and murder
Moreover, it causes gret danger to life
md property to arm children for this in
human warfare. The exteimination
onght to be in the hands of officials des
ignated for the purpose. I am consid
ering some plan by wnich to enjoin the
city clerk from paying the bounty."
HE TALKS TOO MUCH.
Emperor William's Remarks to the
Recruits. ;
A cablegram from Berlin, say9 : The
Freisinnige Zeitung asserts that Emperor
llhams speech made a week ago on
the occasion of the administration of the
oath of allegiance to the recruits of the
guard really contained the following: J
"Kecruit3, you have before the priest
and altar sworn fealty to me. ' You are
too young to understand the true mean-!
ing cf the words in which you have
sworn; but be diligent in following the
instructions which will be given you.
You have, my children, sworn allegiance,
that means that you have given your-;
selves to me, body and soul. You have
only one enemy. That ii mynemy. In
the present socialistic agitation, I may or
der you, which God forbid, to 6hoot
down your relatives, your brothers, even
your, parents, and you must obey without
a murmur. '
WRECKERS DREW THE SPIKES.:
Six Cars and a Locomotive Plunge. off
The Track and Into a Swamp:
Charleston, S. C. A south-bound
passenger train on the South Carolina
Railway, with 200 passengers on board,
wa3 wrecked 20 miles north of this city.
The fireman, named Parks, was buried
under the tender and crushed to death,.
Baggage Master Anderson, Express Mes
senger ruerson, ana tnree passengers
were seriously injured. The train was
made up of the locomotive, four coaches,
a Pullman, and a baggage car. All were
thrown down a thirty-foot embankment
into a swamp, and all except the Pullman
were badly wrecked. .'
The disaster was deliberately and skilk
fully planned by train wreckers. One
or tne nsn-uars loining tne rails were-
loosened, the bolts having been drawn:!
The fish-bar and a wrench wefe used- tor
remove the bolts. All evidence points-i
to the fact that it was the work of an ex-
perienced railroad hand. . -
The South's Steady Progress.
The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti-;
ore, of December 5, in reviewing 'the
industrial progress of the South, says:- .
"The general growth of the boutn
goes on with no material change; but,
taking a look over the whole held, ' it
will be seen that the progress wmcn is
made is of the most substantial character,1
and that it will add vastly to the wealth,
and progress of this section. The indus-
trial growth is being supplemented by a
most astonishing rate of increase in for
eign trade from Norfolk, Newport News,
Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans' and
Galveston. One after another of the
great manufacturing plants that have
been under construction for the last 12 or
15 months are being completed and going
into operation. The iron-pipe work's at ;
Radford, Va ,.vill commence work about
December 15 with some 400 hands; a
new furnace has just blown in at New
Birhimgham, Texas, making the third;
one there; the furnace company at Jef:j
ferson, Texas, will build a cotton-tie and I
rolling mill; work has been commenced
on the construction of a 1,000,000-bushplj
grain elevator at Galveston, Texas, and
another of 5000,000 bushels capacity. will;
probably be built; a company lias been!
organized in London with a . reported,
capital of $5,000,000 to purchase ancl de
velop large mineral and timber propertie
in the South; a $100,000 company ha
purchased 8, COO acres of coal land ift;
West Virginia, and will develop on a
large scale; a factory to make 'fertilizer
out of basic-steel slag is being built 19
Chattanooga. Among other enterprise!
repoited for the week are a $30,000 com-
Dies company at inomasvine, via. ;
j m 1 "11 1 -. .
100,000 compress company at Montgom-
,.-.- i-v y-v -v 1 I t J i....
ry, Ala. ;a $"4b,uuu eieciricjngni nuu uuut
nil company in Texas; a $10,UUU pnos-.
phate company iu Florida; a $50,000 ice-
factor j and machine-shop company an
De Land, Fla. ; a $50,000 mining conv
panv at Salisbury. N. C. ; water works at
at Milledgeville,"Ga. ; a $50,000 ice and
electric-light company at Velasco, Texas;
$50,000 iime works at Chattanooga;
Tenu. ; a $100,000 engine and machinery
company at New Orleans; a $100,000
fertilizer company at Baltimore, etc." I j
The Stevens Murder. ;
Raleigii, N. C, Special, The pub
lication by the State Chronicle of the
mystery concerning the murder of
'Chicken Stevens, and its clearing up.
bv the deathbed confession of Dr. Felix,
Roan, a prominent physician 01 casweu,
has created much comment here. Judge
Tourgee, it will be remembered, intro
duced this murder in the "Fool's Er
rand, t
. s
Superstition of the Sea
One of Machias's old sea Captains,
while en route to the We3t Indies, had
been becalmed for several day3 off Hat
teras; he had prayed for wind, he had
sworn for wind, bat the wind came not.
I At last he thought he would try another
scheme, so he kissed a silver twenty-nve-cent
piece and threw it as far as he could
out upon the sea. In a short time the
wind blew a gale, and it drove his vessel
to the coa3t of Africa. Leicuton (Me,
Journal.
'it
Wasn't Funny For Bill Kye.
Jackson, Miss., Special. At
the
opera house last night, just after the cur
tain rose for the Bill Nye-Burbank com
bination entertainment, Nye fell out 'of
the back door of the opera house, a dis
tance of 15 feet, landing on a pile of
lumber. He was so badly kurt tnat he
could not appear and the audience was
dismissed. 1 j
Hernandez Captured.
El Paso, Texas, Special. Francis
co Hernandez, who robbed the paymas
ter of the 11th batilion of the Mexican
army in Chihuahua, Mexico, and kilted
a policeman in escaping, has been cap
tured here and extradited. He will be
shot.
A Colored Waiter Shot.
Ashkville, ii. C. Special. Jaines
Hayes, a colored waiter employed at ;the
Kenilworth Inn, was shot by a colored
woman, Roxie Hemphill, and dangerous
ly wounded. Hayes and the woman
were returning from a "Cakewalk", j ;
OUR ALLIANCE COLUMN.
The
Farmers Discuss the Railroads
In Missouri.
Eight Crisp Reasons
Alliance is Here
"What
For."
the
In the National Farmers' Congress at
Sedalia, Mo., Congressman John T.
Heard, of Missouri, delivered an address
on railway transportation, which, he said,
was a subject of supreme importance to
the farmer.
One of the solutions was found in
State railway commissions. Missouri
had been among the first of the States to
deal with the question that way, and
3Iissouri's experience showed that the
method had been successful. Another
method of controlling a railroad corpora
tion in the interests of the people was
'through the national railway commission.
Some professed to believe that a railroad
should be placed under Government man
agement. Government, railroading, he
believed, would be a gigantic failure. In
the first place the Government would
have to buy the railroads, and that would
cost $10,000,000,000. That would be
impossible and impracticable, because
there was in circulation onlv $1,500,000,
.00. ,11. C. Brown, of Georgia, endorsed
everything that he had heard said.
Georgia, he said, had tried State owner
ship of railways. Georgia owned the
Western and Atlantic Railway. Under
State control the rates were high, the
service was bad and deficits were extra
ordinary. The State found that it had
been too expensive to run its own railway,
and the line was leased to private indi
viduals. Under private control the road
charged cheaper rates, gave better ser
vice, paid a rental of $3,000 a month and
made money for the lessees.
Resolutions were introduced recom
mending tint the President of the Uni
ted States and United States Senators be
elected by a direct popular vote; demand
ing an extension of the signal service re
ports issued by the agricultural depart
ment; requesting the Federal Govern
ment to aid the State in the irrigation
of arid lands". The resolutions were all
adopted with the exception of the latter,
which the Congress defeated by 44 to 17.
A resolution asking Congress to im
prove the harbor of Savannah was loudly
applauded and unanimously adopted.
The committee on finance presented a
report requesting the various State Leg
islatures to make appropriations for the
expenses of State delegations to future
congresses of this character in order that
each State may have full and proper rep
resentation. The report was adopted.
The administration of the department
of agriculture by Secretary Rusk was
highly commended in the resolution.
The following additional resolutions
were also adopted: Requesting the Sec
reiary of Agriculture to increase the num
ber of representatives in foreign countries
to push the work of introducing Ameri
can corn as food, believing that marked
success in that direction attained already
is warranted for such a request, and re
questing Congress to appropriate suf
ficiently to cover the expenses of this in
creased representation abroad; demand
ing a systematic and thorough improve
ment by the Federal Government of the
waterways and harbors of the United
States; requesting the extension of the
delivefy of the mails among farmers; de
manding, the 'control of all trust and mo
nopolies, so that they shall work no
harm to the people.
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WHAT TIIE ALI.IAJiCE IS HERE FOR.
The Alliance is seeking to make the
rich man pay his propoition of the
taxes.
It is seeking to pay up the bouds
that have almost ruined the people and
nation.
It is seeking to forthwith reduce the
salaries of officials to an equal of other
salaries and prices.
It is seeking to break up the specula
tor's corner in grain and pork.
It is seeking to make it possible for a
poor man to get money as cheap as a
banker can get it.
It is seeking to have the government
issue all money in sufficient quantity to
do the business of the country.
It is seeking;, to watch the Congress
from the people's side for the next 25
years.
It seeks to make a profit in fanning
and industry and not in money-lending.
It attacks th'e giant monopoly and it
intends to follow him to his overthrow.
Vindicator.;"
The Raleigh Progressive Farmer says
'That the growth of the Alliance has
been too rapid to keep track of during
the p:ist month.'
'Ti.ere has been a net increase of 400
members in the Alliance iu Oklahoma,
.62 Sub-Alliances have been formed in
North Dakota with a net increase of 2,000
members, Iowa is said to be 'doing some
glorious, aggressive and successful work'
with 9,G00 new members of the Order,
14 counties have been organized in Cali
fornia, an increase of 1,000 members is
reported from South Dakota, West Vir
ginia is credited with 10,000 new mem
bers, and of Ohio it is said that 'the
Buckeye State heads the list' with 13
new counties org-nized with 170 Sub-Alliances
and an increased membership of
10.C00 Mississippi is credited with a
net increase in membership of over 1,000
since December 1. 1S90, and the growth
of the Order in Louisiana is put down at
500 members. The following statement
is made in regard to the situation in
South Carolina:
'Twentv two new Sub-Alliances have
beta established; with about 1,000 new
members, but a loss of nearly as many
hive been sustained. This is the on'y
State recently heard from in which an
increase inf'membership is not reported."
Jay Gould says he "can buy the vote
of a farmer member of the legislature for
the price of a bull calf." Again he says,
'I can hire one-half the farmers of the
"sited States to shoot the other half to
death."
Upon four and one-half acres of land a
colored planter near Fort Gaines, Ga.,
rai?ed five bales of cotton this Year, ne
finds it profitable to raise cotton at five
cents a pound, and his name is Henry
Johnston. He is shrewd enough to hold
his crop for a rise in the market.
Oil from American corn is being used
by German soap manufacturers. The
farmers of this country have not only to
feed Europe but to wash Europe's face.
Grandson of Jefferson Davis.
JEFFERSON IIAYES DA VI 8,
Jefferson Addison Hayes, of Mississip
pi, has been made Jefferson Hayes Davis,
by act of the legislature. The president
of the Southern Confederacy had sons,
but they left no male issue. His daugh-,
ter Margaret married a Mr. Hayes, and
when it became certain that no male Da
vis was to remain, they had the name of
their first-born changed. Young Jeffer
son Davis is a bright and healthy boy,
with many of the characteristics of his
grandfather and namesake.
KEEP OLD COLLETON INTACT.
A Mass Meeting in Waterloo to
Protest Against Division.
Waterloo, S. C, Special. News has
just reached here that in addition to the
effort to form Tillman county out of Col
leton and Berkeley, making St. George's
the county seat, another effort is on foot
to form a second new county from other
portions of Colleton and Berkeley, mak
ing Summerville the county seat; and
still auother effort to hitch the two up
per townships of Colleton, Braxton and
Warren on to Hampton. At the 6ame
time we hear that many portions of Col
leton sought to be detached are violently
opposed to this division.
A meeting was held here Thursday and
Capt. C. C. Tracy sent as a delegate to
Columbia to protest against this dis
memberment of "Old Colleton." Petitions
are being rapidly circulated, and on
Monday, salesday, a large meeting was
held and a large delegation sent to the
Capital. It is generally understood that our
entire delegation from- Colleton, in both
the Senate and the Iloue, stands pledged
against any d vii(.n of the county,
and we will be greatly surprised if these
pledges are not fulfilled.
PICKED UP THE WRONG JAR.
Mr. Anderson Intended to Take Qui
nine But Got Morphine by Mistake.
Greenville, S. C, Special. W. B.
Anderson, a young man of Cedar Grove,
Laurcn3 county, South Caroliua, died
suddenly on Monday night last from the
effects of a dose of morphine he had tak
en through mist' ke. He had leen feel
ing unwell for'feveial days, and after
rising that morning thought he would
take a dose of quinine. He s?cured a
jar which he supposed contained the qui
nine, but which proved to be morphine.
After taking it he started on a journey,
but had only gone about half a mile
when he felt so sick he was compelled to'
stop at the residence of Dr. John A.
Westmoreland The doctor soon discov
ed the cause of his illness and used every
means in his power to relieve him, but
after lingering unconscious nntilS o'clock
that night Anderson died
GEN. ROWLEY'S SON EMBEZZLES.
Once Chief of Police in New Orleans.
He is Now a Fugitive From
Justice.
Nnw Orleans, La , Special. The
police here are looking for Richard B.
Rowley, formerly chief of police of th s
city, and at the time of his disappear
ance cashier of the New Orleans Co
operative Banking Association I Row
ley has been missing several day, but
that fact was kept secret until Tuesday
night, when it was announced tht he
had disappeared with all the cash of the
bank. Rowley is a son of Gen . Rowley,
of Mississippi, was chief of police of
Ne Orleans, from 1660 to 1864 and had
held many political end commercial po
sitions. He was a grand chancellor of
the Kn:ghts of Pythias, and it has been
d'scovered that he is shoit with them
also. He is married, of good habits and
the police are aitoge. her unable to ex
plain his embezzlement.
National Debt Statement.
Washiisotow, D. C, Special The
debt statement sho s a net decrease in
the interest bearing aod non interest
bearing bonded debt during November
was $2,570,139.50: aa aggregate of debt
bearing no interest. $337,433,340.35;
aggregate of certificates and treasury
notes offset by cash in treasury,! 569,221,
709; aggregate of debt, including certifi
cates and treasury notes, $1,546,061,
695,61 ; gg"egate cash ia treasury, $748,
356,750.15; net cash balance, exclusive
cf gold reserve, $39,125,917.96. Pacific
railroad bonds are not included in the
above statement.
BOMBS AND DEATH.
Russel Sage's Office Wrecked by
Dynamite.
Four Persons, Including the Bomb
Thrower, Blown to Atoms.
New York City, Special. At 12:15
o'clock in the afternoon a poorly dressed
miu, carrying a brown" satchel, entered
the otficc of RusscljSage at 71 and 73
Broadway and demjanded a private inter
view with Sage. ")V. R. Laidlaw, Sage's
clerk, told him that Sage was busy and
could not be seen. The man persisted
and continued to talk in a loud tone.
Sage was in an inner office and came to
see what was the matter. He asked the
maa what w?& wanted. The man said :
"I demand a private interview with you."
Sage replied that it would be impossible
for him to see -the mau then, but he
might do so later in the day. The man
continued to demand a private interview,
then and there, and Sage ordered him to
leave the office.
On this the man dropped a leather bag
and a j explosion, which shook the entire
hie k, instautly followed. Sage was
thrown across the room and stunned.
Laidlaw. who had turned away and
was standing within a few feet of the
two, was also thrown across the office
an I had one leg badly larcerated
Iu Sage's otfire at the time of the ex
p'osiou were Col. J. J. Slocuin, F. C
Osburn, D. W. Osburn, F. C. Menzies
and B. C. Norton. Norton was badly hurt
and was taken in an ambulance to St.
Vincent's Hospital, where he died.
Pieces of several bodies were picked up
u the second floor of a building near
the scene of the explosion and placed in
(he fire department life-saving net.
Humors are life a3 to the number of
persons killed, but as far as can be learned
only fvur are lost. One of the pieces of
bodies picked up was dead with face in
tact. Itis that of; a youg man with
brown hair, growing thickly upon his .
head. As both Menzies ami C. W. Os
,burn are missing" it is supposed they
compose a portion of the tangled heap.
Among the fragments of bodies found
was a leg which the police think was that
of a woman. Sage's woman typewriter is
reported among the killed.
The injured people were at once re
moved to a drug store opposite and at
tenledto. There it was found that
Sage's injuries were not serious, but very
extensive and painful. Sage was able to
converse.
He said the man with th. hand-bag
was a total stranger to him. He insisted
upon presenting Sage with his card, but
l.e declined to accept it. Sage was com
pletely covered with grime and dust and
his clothing was blown into tatters and
his hands, face and clothing were cover
ed with blood. Sage's injuries mainly
cousist of a cut and bruise upon his fore
head, while his face and hands were fill
ed with small cuts as if he had received
a volley of gravel stones from a shot-gun.
Both fire and ambulance calls were at
once sent otit and a few. minutes after the
explosion the building was surrounded
by fire engines, ambulances and police
men. The news spread through Wall
street, and, in fact, all over town and
ev ery street in the neighborhood was soon
thronged with thousands of excited men.
The wildest rumors prevailed that the
number of killed and wounded reported
was upward of j a hundred.' The police
captain immediately took charge of the
police arrangements and the search for
the dead and wounded began. The
three rooms, No. 35 and two adjoining
were totally wrecked. All that remain
ed unimpaired in the office of Sage was
his desk and office chuir. The windows
on the Rector street side of building were
blown out, and those oa the other side
sha'teicd. It . is said that the name of
the bomb thrower is Lord. The safe in
Sage'd office was broken open arid sccur
iti:s were scattered over the building and
streets.
When the dynamiter entered Sage's of
fice he handed the clerk n card which
boie name II . D. Wilson. When the po
lice examined ' the wic ked office there
was found just inside of the door of the
central office the trunk of a man, in n
state that rendered recognition nearly
impossible, ..head having been Revered
from body. Pointed reddi.sU beard, 'gave
appearance of an educated mau, which
w as enhance 1 by brown cur Is of hair and
hetvy mustache that adorned upper lip.
This is the only person killed outright so
far as known ana the body is 'supposed
to be that of th: dynamiter.
An investigation proceeds and it ap
pears that Wilson had a companion when
he entered the building and inquired for
Sage's office. Late in the afternoon the
firemen found among the debris a lejj
which was thought, to be that of a wo
man. If it is or not has not been learned
but Russfll Sage never did cmploy-a wo-,
man typewriter, and as this fact is well
established the supposition is that if the
leg is that 6f a woman's it is all that is
left of one of his "put and call'" custom
ers, who ws in the office at the time.
Pays to Grow Vegetables.
The South furnishes the North with a
large percentage of its daily food and
table delicacies. Besides fiih, oysters
and sea fowl in their season, it forwards
many kinds of fruits and vegetables.
Just now New Orleans is supplying egg
plant that retail at 50 cents each, while
Norfolk's truck farmers are' shipp'ng
green peas that command CO cents a peck,
also butter and string beans that retail
at 20 cents a quart. These last three ar
ticles illustrate the favorable .climatic
conditions that have made th truck
f aimers of Norfolk prosperous. Begin
ning shipments of garden ttuflbefcis the
frst 3 out of Northern soil, they fcetp
up a succession through the spring and
summer, winding up their season by
shipping iate in the fall second crops of
beans and per.f ,
" The Cashier is Still Missing.
WiLiUSGToN, N. C, Special. J No
further news has been heard as to the
whereabouts of Cashier Bowden, of the
smashed First National Bank here His
hastilv leaving at the time when he was
to meet Bank Examiner A Men leads
many to expect a sensation. Some are.
now expressing the belief that he will
not return. The bank examiser, when
asked for information, compresses his
lips,-shakes his head and says nothing.
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