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DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1892
NO . 49
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BRITISH COLUMBIA.
An Undeveloped Territory of Vast
' Extent.
llr'dish Columbia is of immense size.
Tt is as extrusive as the combination of
New England, tho Middlo States and
Mnr I.ufd, tho Virginias. the Carolinas.
ami Georgia., le.iviu.cj Delaware out. ; It
is larger than Texas, Colorado, Massa
husetts and X ew Hampshire joined to
gether. Yet it lias been all but over
looked by man, and may be .-aid to be an
empire with cnlv one wa:oii road, and
that is but a blind artery halting in the
middle of tho country. But whoever
folio .v.-? this necessarily luc-Miipletu survey
.f what man lias found that region to be.
and of what his yet puny hands have
drawn from it, will dismiss the opular
and .natural suspicion that it is a wilder
ness worthy ot it present fate. Until
the n l:o!e crl'b h handed with steel rails
aud '. ie-ds to the plow. w will continue
fo regard whatever ie'on lies bevond
ur doors a w.i.-te !aml. and to fancy
that every lino of latitude has its
wn unvarying climatic characteristics.
'1 lu re is an opulent civilization in what
we once was taught was "the Great Am
erican Desert,'' and far up at Edmonton,
on the Peace River, farming ilourishes
despite the fact 1 hit it is where our
school-books he;it d a zone of perpetual
snow. Farther along we shall study a
country crossed by the sumo parallels of
latitude (hat dissect inhospitable Labra
dor, and we shrill discos ei that as great a
. difference exi.-ts between the Iwo shoies
'of tho continent on that zone as that
whii h distinguishes Califoruia from Mas
sachusetts. Upon the c.ast of this neg
leeted corner ,f (be world we shall sec
that a climate like that of England is
pr luted, as England's is, by a warm
current m the sea; in the southern half
d the interior wo shall di.-eovi r valleys
as inviting as those, in our New England;
and far north, at Fort Simpson, just be
low the down-reaching claw of our Alas
ka, we hall liud such a climate as llali
lax enjoys.
Jritili Columbia has a length of eight
hundred miles, ami n rages four hun
dred miles in w idth. To w noev er crosses
tli uiniry it seems the ?cene of a ast
', fh dist urbnnco, o-. er which n o mtains
'ar.- scattered without M'ui. In fact,
I wcv er. t!ie Cordillera belt is thnv di-
i i- il into four ranjres. the Rockies fori
br the ea;-tern boundary, then the do
Kairie. then tiie Coast Kauire. and, last
i .-ill. that partially submerged chain
wh-'s-- upraise. I parts from Vancouver
.and I he other mountainous islands near
the mainland in the Facitic. . A vast val-
ey "flanks the southwestern side of the
b'oeky Mountains, accompanying them
f i':! whi le they leave our Northwestern
Shttes in a wide straight furrow for a
iisiam e of seven hundred .miles.: Har
pers Magazine.
Brunei and Tapestry.
Brussels and tapestry carpets are so
similar in appearance that they might
readily be rezarde I. on a casual consid
eration, a-- fabrics f the same structure.
But when the principles on which " tho
pattern is obtained in the respeethe ar
ticles an- examined, it is at once exideiit
that there is practically no actual resem
blance; for while in the Brussels the
design is purely a woven effect, in tho
tape.-trv it is merely a print, says tho
Upholsterer.
The weaving of luus-els affords some
3- h iraeteiistic features for investigation.
I lie pile warp, for instance, instead of
iMiiiiiiiir oft", ordinary yarn - beams, is
woiju i on bobbins o- miniature beams,
tlc 1 in frames or a huge creel stationed
behind the loom. Each color requires
what is technically called a separate
fra -
A :i tram - Brus-els is a carpet with
th's number of colors succeeding each
other in the same line of fabric. The
ia. i an r in which the arious colors are
:itio!!e 1 - in other words, in which they
are concealed from or Wrought into view
is an important factor in t he manufacture
lhis article. t hi examining a Brussels
i arpet it will bo observed that tho indi-
idu;J tine ids forming tho pile seem
cither to be composed of several colors
r to be substituted by yarns of other
shades, according to the section or pat
ti in being formed. For instance, in the
s uae line of the design, looking at tho
fabric lengthwise, apparently in tho
.-ame thread, as many as from three to
ti colors, such as blaik, green, drab,
scarlet and b!ue. forai the pile in suc
' ession. If these elfeets are not due to
a Aaricgalcd yarn, they result from the
employment of five distinct threads, each
of which is so controlled that it only. ap
pears in the pile when assisting to de-
lop the design.
Totvbtaina three-frame pattern com
posed. :iy. of black, scarlet aud olive, at
least three separate weaves are necessary
one f r each shade. Thus the weave
ii-ed in forming the shed in the warp for
the black pile is so arranged as to dc
press the scarlet and olive, while that for
tJ' ing the scarlet pile conceals the black
eie threads, and. lastly, that for
oj. icing the olive pile bides the black
and e;tr!et ends; so that, by an appro
priate application of these respective
r;ms to the design, the colors are
hi'.ucrht up in the figure v. here required.
Florida 'Sink-Holes."
Florida, in great part, rests 'upon
limestone formation that is easily dis
integrated when wet tor a considerable
time, and, hence, through a large por
tion of the State subterraneous eaves and
caverns abound, formed by the wearing
nway of the rock by subterraneous
streams. The laud has sunk in a num
ber of places where this rock has been
thus perforated and has become unable
to support the upper surface of sand
which generally overlies the lock. In
this way these depressions or 'sink-holes'
as they are termed are formed. So nu
merous are these sink-holes becoming,
that in some instances the upper surface
is iu danger "of serious disturbance.
Three miles south of Gainesville, on a
tract of only one hundred acres, there
are no less than fifty of these "sink
holes,:' gome of them "200 feet diameter
at the surface and fifty feet deep, while
iione are less than twenty feet wide and
ten deep. Most of the springs, when
traced at the openings, are found to have
w'ide channels through the limestone
rock. The Independent.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest Happenings in Virginia
And The Carolinas.
Many Mishaps, Newsy Notes, Tele
graphic Ticks, Town Talk, Rural
Becords, Rapidly Reviewed
VIRGINIA.
A crematory is to be built in Norfolk.
Burglars are still operating in Roan
oke. Gen. Lee'a birthday was observed
throughout Virginia.
Fire destroyed about f 60,000 worth of
property in Norfolk Thursdiy.
James Lyles and Margaret Lashley
were hanged in Danville, Friday, for
murder.
An appropriation of $100,000 is to be
asked for the improvement of the Appo
mattox. Mill owners of Smyth county have
been indicted for failure to erect fish
ladders in the streams.
The question of removing the county
seat of Prince William county from
Brcntsville to Manassas will soon be sub
mitted to the voters of that county.
A full supply of ice of an excellent
quality is being harvested in the Valley
and Southwestern Virginia.
Johu Pinkard and Delia Nichols, young
lovers of Franklin county, both com
mitted suicide last week because the pa
rents objected to the match.
Pre-ident Mallett, of the University of
Virginia, has been elected president of
the Chemical Association of America.
The Clifton Forge Woolen Mills, of
Clifton Forge, sold last week to the
Fries Breslin Co., of Camden, N. J., 50,
000 pounds of yarns for use iu the manu
facture of Smyrna rugs.
The Richmond State says that the
Chesapeake fc Ohio railroad" will spend
at least' $:j.000,000 in improvements in
and around Richmond and Newport
News this year.
A millionaire of New York city, Dos
Passos, has just completed the purchase
of nearly 5,000 acres of land, extending
on the Potomac from Bonum's creek to
Yocomico river, and embracing contigu
ous lands of about twenty owners, at a
cost of $40,000 to $ 50,000.
The Radford Pipe "Works has made a
contract to furnish the citv of Baltimore
with 23,000,000 worth of water pipe
made at its new works just completed.
Thus one new enterprises after another
is starting up ia the South, and out of
the hitherto unused raw materials of tho
sections wealth is being treated.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Gen Lee's birthday was observed
throughout the State.
M. T. Norris & Co., one of the most
extensive wholesale grocery and cotton
firms of Raleigh have assigned.
Caroline Shinp, a 19-year old colored
woman was hanged at Dallas Friday for
murdering her child.
The Grimsley-Abernethy kissing case
came up in the Greene Superior court
and was dismissed.
Two hundred and fifty hogsheads of
tobacco were sold at Wiuston last week.
Tho3. A. Edison will again locate iu
Charlotte for several months shortly to
prosecute his new process of disintegra
ting gold quartz.
Pcnnsylvaniu capita' ists have leased
some fine iron ore lands in Granville
county and are now opening the same
successfully.
The State Commissioner of Agriculture
states that a deluge of letters are now
being received at his office from Northern
and Western people who arc inquiring
about the South, and North Carolina iu
particular with a view of settling here.
Mrs. Nancy Chamberlaiu, in attempt
ing to cross a swollen creek on a foot log
in Stokes county with au infant in her
arms lost her balance aud fell ' iuto the
stream. The child was drowned, while
the mother was barely rescued.
While two small children named New
son of Forsyth county were playing with
a powder-horn they put a match to it,
aud the explosion fatally injured them.
The North Carolina Smelting Co., of
New Jersey, has been incorporated re
cently with a capital stock of $1,000,000
and purchased the works of the North
Carolina Smelting Co , of North Carolina
at Thomasville.
The railroad commission has announced
that it would be yovernened by the In
terstate Commerce law on. the subject of
free passes in this State and that no of
ficials would be allowed to use them.
The Executive Committee of the State
S. S. Association issues its call for its
llth annual convention to be held in
New Berne, on the 29lh,. oOth and 31st
days of March next. The convention
will be attended by "Wm Reynolds, of
Peoria. III., late president of the Inter
national S. S. Association, the most
prominent Sunday School Convention
worker in the country, and H. M. Ham
illj Superintendent of Normal Work, of
(he Illinois S. S. ''Association.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
, A wheelbarrow factory is to be started
at Charleston.
The insurance companies have all pai 1
up their policies on Converse College,
Spartanburg.
Northern capitalists have purchased
the Vanderhorit and the Commercial
wharf properties at Charleston.
Over a dozen head cattle floated down
the Congaree .during the recent flood.
The celebrated Meadowbrook hounds.
31 iu number, arrived in Aiken a few
days since, where they Mill be wintered
arid hunted.
Columbia's canal deeds have been de
livered to the purchasers.
At a meeting of the insurance man of
the Carolinas in Columbia, W. J. Rod
dy, of Rock Hill, was elected president
The Palmetto Brewing Co. will re
build its brewery burned at Charleston
the other day. The loss was $100,000.
Governor Tillman and Secretary of
State Tindall were detained at Greenville
last week several days by the floods, af
ter attending a meeting of the
Clemson College trustees at Pendleton.
The question has been submitted
whether a rtotary public can ride on a
free pass, as he i? a State officer that i;,
holding an office under commission from
the State.
The Sumter National Bank and the
Bank of Sumter have each paid a quar
terly dividend of 4 . per cent.
Mrs. Henry Dunn, wife of a respecta
ble farmer near Greenville left three
small children Tuesday and eloped with
Jno. C. Cape, a well known saw mill
man of Oconee couutv. going to Atlan
ta. A farmer of B-irnwell county writes to
the News and Courier asking for informa
tion in regard to the planting and culti
vating of broom corn, how it is prepared
for market, the profit, etc.
A new plan brought forward for the
reorganize ion of the South Carolina Rail
way Co provides for an assessment of IV
per cent on the in omo bonds and stock,
for which new second lrtoitgnge per
cent. 20-year gold bonds, new first pre
ferred aud.iommon stocks will be issued.
No mortgage can be placed ahead of iht
new first preferred unlesss it i included'
The present first mortgage bonds will be
paid off if arrangements can be made'
The reorganization committee reserve;
the light in such case to substi'ute
therefor a consolidated nit untgage a'
5 per cent., to be limited in amount Ve
to $7,000,000, the existing tits! and sec
ond mortgage bonds to be paid off in
cash, principal and interest. Holders of
securities of this company have been re
quested to deposit same with the New
York Security fc Trust Co. oi or hcf ji
February S.
OTHER STATES.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Slandaxd state
that a regular steamship line is to be es
tablished between that city und Liver
pool, fr the purpose of shipping orang s
direct to England. It is believed that an
extensive business can be developed a
ve:v reasonable view of the matter, cou
sideling the superiority of Florida t".
Mediterranean oranges.
There was quite a heavy fall of snow
iu Mobile, Ala., last Thursday, aa ever,
of great rarity and of equally great inter
est to the inhabitants. It was the fin?
now in five years and the iif th in 7
years About half an inch oi snow fell,
and the landscape had an appearance
which the Mobile people re mainly fa
mijiar with only in pictures. The last
suow storm there was in 1886,' when
three-quarters of au inch fell. On Dec.
20, 1876, 3 inches of snow fell, the
heaviest snow 5 term ever known there.
The storm previous to that was in Jan
uary, 1851, and the one beforo that on
Feb. 10.- 18i3, when the mercury got
down to 5 degrees above zeio. and there
was cood sleighiug in the streets of Mo
bile. There have been three sleet orhab
storms iu addition to the wintry visita
tions mentioned above.
It 1ns been reported that the peanut
crop is in fair condition. It will be
about C-j per cent, of last year's crop,
which was about the largest ever gtov.ii,
5,000,000 bushels being harvested. But
the peanut growers are far from being
happy. The present pi ice at first hands
varies Irom If to ;5 cents. That is
below the cost of production.' aud grow
ers want 4 to 5 cents Peanuts (jrnw ia
a few counties in southeastern Virginia,
middle Tennessee and North t'iroliaa,
and the crop is uncertain mid expensive
There is a National Peanut Union which
is urging sundry measures to piotect the
growers, one of which is the advice of
the Farmers' Alliance, to hold their pro
duce and not let speculators gobble ail
th profits.
A HEARTRENDING SCENE.
A Midnight Fire That Results in Ter
rible Loss of Life and Property.
Indianapolis, Ine , Special. One
of the most horrible midnight fires tht
has ever occurred in this city, started in
an old annex of the Indiana Surgical In
stitute iu the niirlit at 12.30 b'clock.
There was a small space between the
main builuing and the annex which
served as a flue for the stiff breeze that
fed the angry flames. "When the firemen
arrived at the scene of the conflagration,
the windows of the main building were
filled v. ith the inmates of the institute.
Thceiiejof the crippled and helpless
were heard from all sides. By this time
the main building had caught fire and
the flames were gradually laeping over
to where the inmates were. Their cries
became more pitiful as the flames leaped
higher and would brush their faces as
they would pass from window to win
dow Iookini; in vain for some way to es
cape Ladders were raised and ropes
were swun out in time to save most of
the 500 who dwelt within. The build
ing i- almost 'ccmpletely consumed aud
so far 20 bodiss have been dragged from
the ruius and 30 moie are burned beyond
hope of recovery. The scene around the
institute indeed heartrer-diug and beyond
description Bodies burned to a crisp
are being taken out without the slightest
hope of recognition.
The Way Out.
Much has been said of the expediency
of restricting the acreage the South puts
in cottou, with a view to a
reduced crop and an increased price.
A better idea, according to Admiral Am
men, is to opeu facilities via the Nicara
gua Canal, for supplying Japan and
China with cottoD. and thus increase the
demand for cotton at fair prices. The
Japanese and Chinese use vast quantities
of cottou goods. They sre beginning to
manufactuie. and if they get Southern
cotton via the ithmus at lower prices than
they now pay they would go into the cot
ton manufacturing on a greatly increased
scale. At present they get it over the
Canadian Pacific Railway or via the Suez
Cnnal. That is out of the w ay and ex
pensive. What is wanted ,is a diiect
route that would increase the Oriental
demand. "With such a demand well de
veloped, the question for the South would
be cot how to raise less cotton, lutl how
to rise more.
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ALLIANCE INFORMATION.-
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Congressman Alexander After The
Bulls and Bears.
He Wants to Stop All Dealing in
Futures and a Bill to Check it in
Introduced in Congress.
Washington, D.-C. Representative
S. B. Alexander (late president of the N".
C. Farmers' Alliance) introduced in the
House a-bill relating to ''gambling it
agricultural products." This gambling,
according to the bill, is defined ' to bs
a contract to sell for future delivery corn,
wheat, oats, rye, barley, etc., the con
tractor or seller not being the owner or
agent of the wner- a, the time of the
maKing oi tne contract.
The bill excludes from the mails any
letters, postal cards or circulars concern"
ing gambling in agricultural products,
and checks, drafts, bills and money or
ders for use for such purpose.
It also excludes from the mai!?.' news
papers, circulars, pamphlets or -publication
of any kind containing advertise'
ments, telegraphic reports or other ar.ti
cles giving quotations of any market' re'
lating to gambling ia agricultural pro
ducts. "
k A tax of $2 per word is levied on eacb
interstate telegraph or telephone message
used in the act of gambling f referred to
in the act.
It is estimated that each year 'the cot
tou exchange sells five times' the total
value of the cotton crop, and on the pe
t: oleum exchange the amount sold in a
single year has equaled fifty times the to
tal output. With such reckless gambling
in the products of toil, what can .supply
and demand have to do with the p:ice
the producer receives?
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SIMPSON AND THE TIIIUD PARTY.
A Southern member of Congress who in
the past has been -,uite prominent in the
Farmers' Alliance is not apparently fa
vorably impressed with the Alliance
members from Kansas. In conversation
with a correspondent this member sail:
"These Northern Alliance men have no
sort of comprehension of the negro ques
tmen and of its importance in cur section.
Thej- look upon the vote of a negro as of
as much value as that of a while man
In fact their notion is that the only dif
ference is the color; that its just the dif
ference between a white horse anda black
one.''
Mil. SIMPSON TALKS.
Your correspondent met Hon. Jerry
Simpson, of Kansas, soon after the con
ver-ation above quoted.
''Our party," he said, '-regards the
negro as a man entitled to all the right?
and privileges cf any other citizen. We
think he makes a mistake in adhering to
the Republ can party blindly as a sort ot
traditionary obligation. We think he
should be governed in poli ical action by
his convictions aud hit rest ? and not .by
predjudice, aud that his interests would
be best promoted by uniting with our
party. We shall appeal to the negro for
his support on the pround of sound rea
son, as I've said, in behalf of the promo
tion of his own interests.'
"But. will you seek to obtain th? negro
vote iu any manuer tending to consoli
date against the whites?"' asked your cor
respondent.
"We shall appal to whiles 'and. blacks
for support, and shall net, of course, re
ject i eciuiU from cither. We 'hope to
obtain suppoit from both races, but if
we cau divide the negro vote we believe
that would open the way to breaking the
solid South." .-
Capt. S. B. Alexander has also intro
duced the following bill :
Be it cnactcJ ly the itautte and House bj
Iifj'rti'nlitt'ves of the United States of
America in Lyrets assembled, That the
Postmaster-General is authorized and di:'
reeled to have prepared suitable stamps
of the denomination of five cents, ten
cents, twenty-five' cents, fifty cent:, ont
dollar, and three dollars, aud said stampv
thall be known as "redeemable stamps."
Skc. 2. That the Postmaster-General
shall cause the said "redeemable stamps"
to be kept for sale at all postoflices of
the United States, and shall ha.ve them
iedeemcd at fell money order pOctoffiees.
and not more than one ceut shall bs
charged as premium for each fraction of
a dollar-or each dollar's woith of stambs
sold.
Sec 3. That the redeemable stamp
authorized by this act shall be deemad
money of the United States, and all laws
relating to counterfeiting the'money of
the L nited States shall apply to thm.
Skc 4. That the Postmaster-General
ehall prescribe all rub.s and regulations
necessary to carry out he rovisions of
this act.
Sec. ') That one million dollars, or
so much t'ner )f as may be necessary, i
hereby appropriated out of auy money in
the United States Treasury not othcr:
wise appropriated, to carry out the pio
visions cf this act.
Montt Gives Amicable Assurance.
New York Citv. The Herald's spec
ial Valparaiso despatch says that Presi
dent Montt told an official high in the
Chili iu stivice Tuesday that there was
nt th? subtest donbt but whst all mat
tus at present in dispute between the
Uui'cd states and Chili would be amica
bly M-ttWi 'Vlhiu a short time.
Th; "h;l:ar. worships Esmeralda, Iluas
cir au 1 C. cM-iu?, ind two .torpedo
b-j.its. have vtik-d on 9 practice cruise.
The sb:pp are indeimauned. On their
so ithtru ctuise ih-y will endeavor to ob
tain icerink. The sentiment of all
classes of the Chilian pccple is in favor
of amicab'e icl.itioi.s with the United
States.
Paintings Presented Congress.
.Washington. D. C At 2 o'clock the
portraits of ex-Speakers Galusha A. Grow
and Samuel J. Raudall. painted for the
State of Pennsylvania, were presented to
the House by Representative C. M. Stone.
Spjeches were made by Representatives
Wright, McAleer aud Brosius, of
Pennsylvania: Holman, cf Indiana, and
Henderson, of Iowa, after which the por
traits wer? formally accepted.
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Indicate Increased Investments of
Capital in the South.
The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti
more. January 23, iu reviewing the in
ydustrial progress of the South, says:
'The general indications all point to
increased investments of outride capital
in the South. This is illustrated by the
heavy investments reported in this week's
Ma nufacturers' Record. The North Ala
bama Improvement Co. of Huntsville,
Ala., ha3 sold its entire property to the
Northwestern Laud Association, an or
ganization composed largely of Dakota
capitalists. The property includes the
large Huntsriile Hotel, an extensive busi
ness block, the Monte Sano Hotel and
about 1,800 acres of land, the aggregate
value being said to be ever $6,000,000,
although, of course, the price paid was
nothiug like so large as this. An English
syndicate is now negotiating for the
property of the New Rome Land Co., at
Kome, Ga. ; the Crawfish Springs Land
Co., which is building a town near Chat
tanooga, constructing a railroad and
opening coal mines, has just raised $600,
0)0 in New York for prosecuting its
work; New England capitalists will prob
ably soon close deals now pending for
some very large investments at Chatta
nooga; the American Association, Limi
ted, of Middlesborough, has raised $750,
000 for continuing its work of develop
ment, and the new president has arrived
from 'England to take charge of the com
pany's operations; as announced last
week, Mr. A. A. Arthur and his associates
have organized a $12,500,000 town and
development company to operate in East
Tennessee; 85,000 acres of coal, timber
and iron land in Virginia and West Vir
ginia have been purchased for develop
ment, the price being reported as $350,
000; a $1,000,000 has been organized to
develop large pyrites properties in tho
Carolinas and to erect sulphuric acid
works at Blacksburg, S. C. : another
company with a capital stock of $100,000
has also been organized to operate in the
same line in York county, S. C ; in the
same State a $500,000 phosphate mining
and manufacturing company is being or
ganized; a $600,000 cottouseed-oil com
pany has been incorporated in Alabama;
a $187,500 phosphate company in At
lanta to operate in Florida; a $100,000
barrel manufacturing company at Balti
more; a $50,000 lumber company at
Louisville, Ky. ; a $10,000 tobacco com
pany at Georgetown, Ky. ; a $50,000 ter-ra-cotta
company in West Virginia, etc.
These are signs of fhe times. They in
dicate that money is again coming South
for investment, aud that the develop
ment of the mineral and timber resources
of this section is in the near future to go
on more rapidly than before. The low
price of cotton may depress the business
interests dependent upon that staple, but
the investment of capital in timber and
mineral properties by Northern and for
eign capitalists is going to be verv heavy
"in 1802.
HISTORY OF A RAILROAD.
Philadelphia Built it and Norfolk Cap
tured it and Will Utilize it.
Philadelphia, Pa. It is reported
on good authority that the Norfolk aud
Western Railroad has leased the Lynch
burg and Durham and that the latter
would soou be operated by the Norfelk
nrd Western. The terms of the lease
could not be learned, but it was stated
that the deal was practically concluded.
The Lynchburg and Durham Railroad is
largely the result of Philadelphia enter
prise It is 114 miles long and extends
from Lynchburg, Va., to Durham, N. C.
It was chartered February 12, 1886, and
was completed September 18, 1890. A
number of the stockholders are Philadcl
phians. The president ia W. C. Hous
ton, of this city. The road runs through
a nourishing country, and will, no doubt,
form a valuable feeder of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad. The latter will
reach it by building a connection of
about one mile at Lynchburg.
Cleveland in the South.
Ex-President Grover Claveland is
spending a few days at Orange Island,
New Iberia, La., the winter residence of
Toe Jefferson,- tho actor. The plantation
is beautifully situated in the Saddle Riv
er. The house is one of the old manors,
lemodeled and luxuriously furnished by
the actor. Its conservatories abound in
tr pical fruits and flowers. Artificial
ponds teem with trout and black bass,
bake Simonette near by affords the finest
ilshiug, while one has to step but a few
yards from Jefferson's fireside to find
wild fowl in abundance. Luxuriant
groves containing thousands of trees of
the mandarin and Brazilian varieties sur
round the house. Fullv one hundred
pecan and the same number of orange
t ces .yield succulent crops yearly. In
the pastures are the finest specimens of
llolsteins, while in the 9tables are a num
ber of the fleetest roadsters of the South.
The apartment of which Mr. Jefferson is
proudest, and fin which he en
tertains Mr. Cleve'aad, is the Japanese
ro ni. It is of marvellous beauty, and
visitors come from miles about to gaze
upon the gorgeous furnishings The ac
tor is said to have invited a number of
distinguished Southerners at Orange
Island.
Negro Judges.
Two negroes have attained to Judge
ships in British colonies. One, Joseph
Renner Maxwell, is chief judicial officer
at the Gambia, in Africa, and oddly
enough he has written a work upon the
negro question in which he speaks with
apparent horror of the most striking out
ward peculiarities of his race, and urges
as the method of elevating the negro of
.the future y miscegenation with other
races. The other negTO judge is Sir W.
C. Reeves, Chief Justice of Barbadoes, in
the. West Indies. He presides over the
Supreme CourJ, and there are in the island
seven police magistrates of subordinate
jurisdiction.
Gov. Boies in the Race.
Des Moines, Ia., Special. It is an
nounced that from thi time forth Gov.
Boies will openly take thefitld as a Pres
idential candidate.
STANFORD LAND SCHEME.
The California Senator Supported'
By Peffer, of Kansas.
The Bill to Supply the National
Want of a Sound Circula
ting Medium Discussed. .
Washington, D. C , Special. After
routine business and at the close of the
morning hour, Mr. Stanford addressed
the Senate in support of his bill to pro
vide the government with means suffi
cient to supply the national want of a
a sound circulating medium, through the
instrumentality of the Land Loan Bu
reau. Iu criticism of the adverse report made
on a similar bill, by the Committeemen
Finance of last Congress, he said in part:
"The bill under consideration practical
ly provides for the direct issue of money
upon a material unlimited quantity, its
value based upon a standard or measure
ment, which may be so many grains of
gold or silver, or any convenient com
modity, nd the good fith and credit of
a civilized nation of 65,000,000 of peo
ple with a per capita power of produc
tion unequa,led by any other country in
the world. A comparison between this
country of ours today, and France, un
der Louis the Fifteenth in 1792, when
she was fightiDg united Europe, or be
tween us now and the Colonists and the
struggling for the ascendance, or be
tween this country and the Argentine
Republic, seems absurd.
Yet the committee's chief arguments
are based upon such comparisons. The
committee in its allusion to the laws of,
the Mississippi s:hcme does not fully de
scribe that stupendous bubble.
It states that an immense amount of
paper was issued but omits to mention
the security upon which the i;suc was
made. The security was stock in the
Mississippi Trading Company, a com
pany that was to acquire vast tracts of
land in the Mississippi Valley trade with
the Indians and work supposed gold, sil
ver and copper mines along the river
mines that had no existence All this was
in 1717, before the English titles had becu
extinguished before Daniel Boone had
gone imo Kentucky, it is the comparison
of a shadow to a substance. The Argen
tine Republ'c of Cedillas is anothei
scheme to which the committee compares
this bill. The two propositions are rad
ically dissimilar. The great object
which the bill now under consideration
eeks to attain is the increase of money
ia circulation. The Argentine of Cedu
las provided no increase of money. In
this bill it is proposed that the govern
ment receive two per cent, interest on
the mortgage it issued directly in the
Argentine, the government guaranteed
interest on the 'bonds issued by the
bink in return for the mortgage on the
lands. Moreover, the Argentine lands
were not assessed at their value prior to
the passage of the Cedulas enactment but
on a fresh assessment, made after the
enactment. The consequence was a
fraud.
Mr. Stanford controverted the report
of the Finance committee that "the cir
culating value of a paper currency can
only be maintahied by its convertability
iuto specie at the will of the holder."
- He contended thit the real value of
money lies in its ability to pay debts,
qualify balances and serve as the ex
change for commodities, and that it is
the best money which will do this di
rectly, and not by first converting it into
another kind of money of an unequal
quantity and then using that money in
the settlement of obligations.
In conclusion he said: "The loaning
of money on real estate need excite no
alarm or be thought a new or strange
thing. It is being dona now by banks in
every State in the Union. This bill
merely suggests that the government
shall do directly what has so long been
done indirectly, that it shall fulfill its
obligations, by furnishing the people at a
low rate of interest, with that which is
indispensible to their property and hap
piness money the best medium of ex
change.'' Mr. Peffer addressed the Senate in fa
vor of the bill. Mr. Peffer spoke for
Eea.ly two hours upon the benefits which
w.ould fljw . from the adoption of the
measure, iri-'fartn mortgages releasied,
farm debts jeaucclled, and a constant free
circulation of money maintained by the
reloaning of principal and interests as
fast as payment was made to the govern
ment. By these means the rate of inter
est would become uniform in all parts cf
the country; the people would have the
control of "their financial interests, and
money would be known no mcie, for
ever. At the close of Mr. Peffer's remarks,
Mr. Stanford'3 bill was ag&in laid on the
table.
DEATH OF JUSTICE BRADLEY.
Well Known in Connection With the
Electoral Commission in 1877.
Washington, D. C, Special. Asso
ciate Justice f the United Sta rs Su
preme Court, Joseph P. Bradley, of New
Jees?y, died in tlrs city, Friday morn
ing, at 6:15 o'clock.
The deceased jurist was one of the
"majority" in the celebrated legl im
broglio of the presidential raodidatf.s
Tilden -Hayes. Mr. Ib idky wa a rc
publican, and always boked upon as a
strcug paitian.
Duke's Munificent Donation.
A special from Duiham, N. C , ttates
that at the meetiug of the trustees of
Trinity College, Washington Duke offer
ed to increase his donation of $83,000 to
the coikg to $100,000 ash and proper
ty valued at $20 00'.', upon condition
that the Methodic church of Noith Car
olina should ra se au additional endow
ment of $30,000 nd equip the main
building. This generous offer was at
once accepted. 'Ibis th? largest dona
tion given to the cause of education by a
southem man siote the war.
TwcTthing3 a woman always 'jumps at
A conclusion and a mouse.
SENATORS RE-ELECTED.
Gorman, George and Walthall Be
gintNew Terms.
Annapolis, Md. Hon. Arthur P.
Gorman was re-elected Tuesday United
States Senator to succeed himself.
After the election a ballot was then
taken for scrorid senator. " He will be
resident of the eastern shore. Twenty
four votes were cast iu the tenate, and
were distributed among nine candidates.
Ex Governor Jackson had three votes.
Senator Gibson who was appointed
United States senator by Governor Jack
son, was not named on the first ballot.
The house of delegates distiibuted its
eighty-six votes among twelve candi
dates. Jackson got fourteen votes and
Gibson seven. Governor Brown was
given two votes in the senate and nine
in the house. After the first ballot the
senate went into executive session.
Jackson, Miss. The house ballotted
for United States senators at noon, re
su'ldng as follows:
"For successor to J. O. George: J. L.
Alcorn, 1; Barksdale, 40; George, 77.
For successor to E. C. Walthall:
Hooker, 3; Clark Lewis, 18; Walthall,
99. The senate confirmed this result.
A Fine Game l'reserve.
c
The Rev. N. M. Jurney, of Lecsville,
N. C, has associated a number of geu
tlemen with him, and they have estab
lished in Cartaret County one of the
finest game preserves in North Carolina
The gentlemen who own the preserve aro
only worth $18,000,000 in the liggregate.
They have purchased S0O0 acres of J-ind,
apd have posted it, to be med exclusivc
lyior their own hunting. This lirge
tract of land is a vast forest, and it con
tains the finest fresh water pond in tho
State. This pond is three miles hm.au I
from a hundred yards to a half 'mile in
width, and abounds in fish. In tho for
est there is an abundance of deer, wiid
turkeys, wild ducks, wildcats, quail,
squirrels, etc. Forty-fivo deer were
killed on this tract aloue last scisou.
Mr. B. X. Duke, of Durham, N. C, i
President of the company. The company
is erecting a handsome lode to o3t
$ ?000,and will stock tbeir preservo wOi
game of all kinds. They will also so'
grass, peas and grain for tho benefit f
deer, turkeys, quail, etc. Sew O.-lei-n
Times-Democrat. '
Giants' Bones Unearthed.
Tradition tells us that somewhere along
a ridge in the southern part of this
county, there lies buried "twenty mule
loads of gold." Tais treasure is sup
posed t ) have been placed in some iso
lated spot by the early inhabitants of the
land possibly the mound builders. A
week ago some one in meandering about
a cave which is formed by an over-cliff
of this ridge, accidentally found a coiiJ,
upon which could only be distinguished
the letters "A. I).'' This exciting his
curiosity, and knowing of the traditional
treasures, led him to make further ex
ploits. Securing a pick he began dig
ging and soou unearthed the skeleton of
a human body, w hich was described to
our informant as being extremely large.
The jaw-bone was large enough to place
over tho jaw of an ordinary man, 1 and
the arm-bone was over two inches longer
than of men above the medium size.
Not being satisfied with this find, dig
ging was continued until the second,
third and fourth skeleton was unearthed,
which equalled in size the first one dis
covered. Ntw Florence (Mo.) Leader. .
Tircaty Dined OCT One Potato.
George. W. Scott has brought into the
Telephone office a half-dozen of tho
largest sweet potatoes ever r ii'-.ed, per
haps, in the country. They are '-new .
issue," stud the six weighed filty
pounds. The largest one w;n given by
the editor to a family in winch there
were eighteen members the husband
and wifo and sixteen children all ot
whom were great lovers of potatoes.
Sunday they decided to have it for
dinner.
It was fried a part of it at least and
was amp. ly enough'fer all the family, be
sides married daughter and her
husbind who were spending the day
there. The remainder of the mammoth
potato was made up into potato pono
and furnished dcsseit nouh for I'm
whole crowd and to upare. I'aldejuih
Indian Territory) Tephoa.
Hunt of a Bice Trust.
New Orleans, La E. V. Douglas
and others representing parties in New
York and Chicago, are in the city for the
purpose of purchasing the rice mills,
some fourteen in number, and forming a
rice trust. They have had conferences
with the millers, and it is generally be
lieved that the majority are willing to
-ell, the only point at isue being the
juice. The deal involves about one
million dollars.
Mrs, Stonewall" Jackson.
Richmond, Va. Mrs. "Stonewall''
Jackson, who is'rcpoited to be seiiouily
indisposed, arrived in the city yesterday
and went at once to St.- Luke's hospital, :
where she will be tteated by Dr. Hunter;
McGuiie. There is nothing especially
alarming ia the illness of Mrs. Jackson
and under skillful treatment of the ie
nowued pbythjia-u she will doubtless soon
be fully 'lestored.
Two Thousand People 8ick.
Columbus! Ini.. special Elde
Sweeney, cf ' the Chiistian Chinch, an
nounces that 230 of its 700 members ara
on sick beds. There are 2,000 cases of
grip and other sickness in the city, or
one fifth of the entire population. Un
dei takers have brought help from ad
joining towns to k?ejup with their bust
nes. . The Pope Has the Grip.
A cablegram from Rome says: it has
just been announced that the Pope u
suffering from an attack of the influenza.
The report has created considerable ap
piehension owing to the extreme age cf
his holiness, but Dr. Cecarelli, his private
physician, says that there is no imme
diate cause for anxiety.