North Carolina Newspapers

Centra 1HE j " . I I ' ' . 1 F ..- i . f i I ' G . K. G-RAXTHA3I, Editor Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance. , VOL. H. , , DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1892 NO I. WHAT TYPHUS FETEE IS. Its Origin, Symptoms, Treatment, and Ratio of Fatality. Typhus fever is called by various names. Spotted fever and jail, fillip, hospital, putrid, or pestilential fever are all the same. It has been dreaded for hundreds of years as au epidemic pesti lence, and is especially dangerous to persons advanced in years. The mor tality in children under fifteen years old tick with typhus is 5 per cent.; in per sons over, fifty years old, the mortality is set at 40 per cent. The average mor tality is H per cent. It has appeared in all parts of the world, but is more' to be dreaded in temperate 01 cold climates. The main predisposing cause of typhus i a low health rate. Where population is dense and sanitary conditions are bad the danger is greatest, and these condi tions obtain not only in crowded cities, but in armies afield, in prisons, and wherever human beings are packed too closely. The belief used to be cur-, rent that such conditions only were neces sary to create the disease, but it is now thought that a specific perm must enter the human system before the disease can de elop. No typhus germ lias ever been actually discovered, although several dis tinguished physicians have believed for the time that the discovery had been made, but the presumption is much against typhus appearing from the be ginning without the entrance of a living organism. The course of typhus covers a period of about fourteen days from inception to crisis, of which the longest stage is that of incubation, from tho inception of the poison into the. system to the fir.-t mani festation of special evidence' of the dis ease. Xo special symptoms mark this singe, except a general lassitude. The invasion of the fever is the second Ft ago, and the symptoms are of rigor and of prolonged chilis combined with dis tressing headache and inability to sleep. High fever soon develops, and the pulse, at first full but afterward feeble, is rapid, tho be lts ranging from 1(M to li.'0 or more. The ln ight of the fever is usually reached about the seventh day, when in favorable cases u-drop of 1 de gree from the maximum (1(.' to ll." de gieesi is often noted. If this subsidence lors not come the case is usually severe. The tongue is brown and dry, the teeth are coate J, and the p itient has no appe tite, but an intense thirst. The bowels arc usually constipated. The third or stage of erruption is marked by the appearance of dark red blotches upon the abdomen, sides, limbs, an l back, nnd sometimes on tho face. This is usually accompanied by a faint mottling of the whole surface. The pa tient's headache .and general discomfort lessen with the appearance of the erup tion, but this is partly chargeable to tho typhus stupor which comes at this point, in which the patient cither lies - oil his back, with n dusky countenance, or is delirious both night and day. The de lirium is generally shown by low mutter ings, but sometimes by maniacal wild ness. The crisis, or favorable change, amies about the fourteenth diy, and is marked by an abrupt fall of temperature, the re turn of moisture to the tongue, and by returning intelligence. The patient is left very weak, but recovery is rapid. The treatment of typhus starts with complete isolation and continual watch ing. Tho main item is good " nursing, but the best possible ventilation nnd cleansing of the sick chamlx r are im ine'diately secondary. Food should bo given with absolute regularity, and the patient should not bo suffered to fall in to too deep a stupor. Individual cases develop special treatment. ('old appli cations and tepid baths are favored by some authorities Alcoholic stimulants are rarely necessary except to prevent collapse. New York Times. Tooth (irowhi So many discoveries have been- made during the past fifty years that people are beginning to eeuso being surprised at man claiming any frcsli power over nature According to a German journal, a Moscow dentist can grow teeth for us. If this enterprising gentleman would only grow painless teeth for us at tho outset, and savo us constant agonies from birth to death, he would not only prove a benefactor to the human race, but to his own peculiar welfare. At present, however, ho confines his at tention to growing new teeth on tho ruins of old ones, which are said to grow as firmly into tho gums as natural ones. Even this advance in dentistry will be good news to those who have to wear false teeth, which insist upon falling in to the lap of the proud owner just as sha wishes to impress upon a rival how cap tivating her row ot white pearls makes her. Hospital. With the other objects, illustrating the character and mode of living of this ancient people, are thousands of skulls. Inspecting them there is much mystery, inasmuch as they represent two entirely opposite types anthropologically. Some of them are round and "bullet shaped," while others have an elongated form be tokening a different race. Scattered thickly among tho remains were pieces of j&w bones, prepared by manufacture in an extraordinary fashion' for which there seems to be no reasonable account ing. Not only the jaws of human beings, but those of "many species of animals were thus treated, the bone being cut through so as to leave tbe alveolar part in a thin Blice holding the row of teeth. The method followed was the same. Evidently the work was done with a saw, which must have been so extremely thin and sharp that the marvel is how savages could have obtained the necessarv tools. Among other curiosities are tools and ornaments made of copper. Some of the objects are of strange forms, the uses of which can hardly be imagined. For ex ample, for what purpose could a hollow metal bird with many perforations be in tended? There are things which look ike small vessels of various shapes also, but likewise with a number of holes in each. " Not a few of these are wonder fully artistio in design, and the same may be said of numerous carvings in soft stone, such as soapstone and ser pentine. One of them, a pipe, represents ,. with exquisite detail a duck riding on a fish. No traces have ever been dis covered of any savages in America who did not smoke tobacco. New York Sun, HARBINGERS OF SPRING. News Notes as Fresh as the Crisp Air. The Most Interesting Event Hap pening in Three States Chronicled Here, VIRGINIA. A Boston expert will train the Univer sity baseball team. Jefferson Phillips will be hanged at Alexandria on March 25. The Texas will be launched early in Ma' from the Norfold navy yard. An anti-wharfage association has been formed hts been formed at Norfolk. Chaurtcey M Depew delivered an ad dress at the Hampton Institute last week. . Senator Hill has been invited to speak at the University on Jefferson's birthday, April 18th. Vice-President Morton has engaged ro.mis and is at the PlirCess Ann Hotel, Norfolk. Plans for Claike 'county's new jail at Ucrryvdle have been p epaied. The cost is to be $9, COO. A Methodist laymen's uoion has be?n organized in Danville for the purpose of vigorous church work. Rev. Iiaylus Cade, of Louisburg, N. C, has been called to the Venable Street Baptist church of Richmond and will ac cept. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Co. has executed agneral mortgage at Rich mond to secure the issue of $70,0C0,000 4$ per cent gold bonds, lately reported as authorized. The Central Trust Co., of New York city, and Henry T. Wick ham, of Hanover county are the trustees. NOBTH CAROLINA. The newly completed Chailotte Ging ham Mills are turnng out cloth rapidly. Many negro families are leaving the vi cinity of Weldon for Chicago. The new Zinzendorf hotel' at Winston is a beauty. The plumbing alone cost $:, 000. During the heavy wind storm last week a Baptist church at Garner, near Ra'eigh, was blown down and demolish ed. Mayor Blanton and Col. J. G Martin have put up the $50 necessary to secure the encampment of the Third and Fourth regiments at Asheville. An election has been ordered in Bertie county upon the question of voting the N. W. and C. It. It. Company , a sub scription. The Supreme Court, after deciding that the branch roads are cot ex empt, intimates that the maiu line of the Wilmington and Weldou railroad is sub ject to taxation. Eighteeu acres of land adjoining the Agricultural and Mechanical College grounds, and in front of the State fair grounds, at Raleigh, has been purchased for the school. Mrs. A. W. Haywood, daughter of Gov. Holt, will perform the ceremony of christening the new U. S. cruiser, "Ral eigh," to be launched at the Norfolk navy yard ou the 31st. The Governor and staff will be present. Judson College, at Henderson ville, was sold under mortgage Monday, and was bought by Jesse R St&mes, of Ashe ville, for 8,1GG, 1 more than the amount of the mortgage. James D. Bridges, the Shelby forger, has written a letter without any signature to a Shelby citizens. He requests people of Shelby to hush talking about him, and says that he would pay all his debts in three years. The letter was mailed from Waihulla, S. C. The Lady mauagers for the World's Fair in North Carolina have assumed the task of rai?iug a fund for a North Caro lina building, and are laboring indus tiiouoly for that end. It is proposed to have a building of Colonial design. The Rarrincrer brothers are in Char lotte. Charles shot and killed Talbeit at Florence, S. C, iu an altercation in which the latter accused him of ruining his daughter. The trial will take place at Florence in May. SOUTH CAROLINA. Kershaw is to have an iron foundry by Rock Hill parties. Tiie Hotel Royal, at Florence., burned Thursday night, the loss being $5,000. A shoe factory plaut at Toccoa, Ga. has been purchased by Abbeville parties and will be moved to Abbeville. The def.ot at Ft Mill was broken into Thursday morning, the safe rolled out and blown to pieces. The burglars s caped with the contents. t A commission for a lmter lia o en issued to the Mason Banking Company, of Oconee county. The capital stock of the company is to be $50,000. A commission was issued to the Mutu al Home Ruildingand Loan Association, of Rock Hill. The capital stock of the company is to be $50,000. The Board of Trade of Columbia has undertaken to see that an exhibit worthy of that State is made at the Chicago ex position. The trustees of the South Carolina In dustrial and Wiathrop Normal College have located the school at Anderson, which offered $75,0 0 and a site Rev. Dr. W. M. Giu-r. president of Erskine Col'ege. has accepted the invita tion to deliver the animal address at the commencement exercises of .the South Carolina Co'.le.e for Women. Mrs. Clark Waring, the president of the Woman's World's Fair Central Club, of Columbia, has issued a circular to the women of the State, giving a great num ber of practical hints as to the manner rf organizing World's Fair clubs and the manner of work. A commission for a charter has been issued for the Carolina Midland and Al liance Ware House and Banking Com pany, of Siegling, Batnwell county. Tbe new company proposes to do a general ware house and banking business, The capita) stock is to be $20,000. .DR. BAKER ACQUITTED. He Was Tried Twice for the Alleg ed Murder of Hi Wife Abingdon, Va. Dr. John A. P. Ba ker, who was charged with poisoning his wife, and convicted last August of mur der in the first degree, was acquitted after a second trial. The large audience in the court room received the verdict with loud cheers. Dr. Baker and Mis. W, R. Gilmer were arrested last May for" the murder of Mrs. Bakr and an attempt to murder Mrs. Gilmer's husband. Ihe two fami lies lived on adjoining farms and were very friendly. Rumors of improper inti macy between the doctor and Sirs. Gil mer were followed by their confessions and withdrawal from the 'church to which they belonged. Mr. Gilmer forgave his wife, for their their childrens' sake, and consented to live with her. Afier her arrest Mrs. Gilmer confessed that Dr. Baker poisoned his wife by giv ing her smill doses of strychnine and phosphoric acid, on the pretense of build ing up her nervous system, and that 6he agreed to get rid of her husband by ad ministering poisons which the doctor was to prescribe as medicine. She said, how ever, that she weakened and failed to carry out her share of the compact. This story she repeated before the Grand Jury and on the witness stand at the first trial. Dr. Baker's deftnee was that the ar senic found in Mrs. Baker's body was in troduced by the embalming process after her death. He denied all of Mrs. Gil mer's statements, and after conviction obtained a new trial, which has just end ed. It was claimed that letters introduc ed against him were forged, and that the animus of the prosecution was shown by a suit for damages of $10,000 brought against Dr. Baker by Gilmer. Mrs. Gilmer was tried three times as accessory to the murder of Mrs. Baker and was acquitted last December. THE BRIDeToF DEATH. Jilted at the Altar, Jennie Lambert Swallowed Poison. Huntington, W. Va. Jennie Lam bert, a highly respected and beautiful young woman, died at her home in Mill Creek from the effects of poison taken purposely. She was to have ma-ried Charles Cope ley last Sunday. The guests arrived, but the bridegroom sent a note saying that he loved another and had fled to escape marriage. Miss Lambert fa'nted and regained in a delirious condition until Friday night. Then she found some poison and swal lowed it. A Btodel Machine. Dubham, N. C. J. D. Goodwin, the inventor, has a complete machine for granulating tobacco for smoking pur poses, and cleaning it from stems and trash of all kinds. One of these michines has been placed in the mammoth factory of W. Duke, Sons & Co., Ducham Branch of the Amer ican Tobacco Company, and it works like a charm. It possesses merit of a high order. One man feeds in the tobaaco leaves and swtepings, and the machine does the res- cleaning it from sticks, nails and all kinds of trash, throwing them out to one side, putting the stems in another place, and sending the pure granulated tobacco down a pipe to any place you desire. It is the most perfect piece of machinery we have seen working in a Ions time, and is destined to work a rev olution among facturers. smoking tobacco inanu- For Starving Russia. N. Y. City. The Northwestern Mil lers Associations, with the railways and the steamship companies and the coal company and the stevedores that have aided, heads the list of contributors with a gift that would amount in money to at least $155,000. - The Philadelphia gift was more than $100,000. The New. York Chamber of Commerce subscription is already more than $30,000. The Red Cross Society will send at least $100,000 before its work is finished. The.i there are many small enterprises, such as the fund that is going direct to Count Tol stoi, ltjs not improbable that when all has been sent, the United States will have contributed at least $500,000 to ward relieving the famine in Russia. The Governors of the Carolinas and the Washington Authorities. Columbia, S. C Last faii John W. Hastie, George Stiggais, Frank Pierce, and Wiiliam Benton, arrested Henry and Monroe Hightower in Chesterfield coun tv. S. C, for violating the revenue law in North Carolina, . .and took them to Monroe, N C, These officers were in dicted for assault and battery and for rit. The Govern r of South Carolina demanded them of the Governor of North Carolina, and the requisition was grant ed. Now the Unit d States, authorities summon the prisoners and officers to ap pear before Judge Dick in Greeuboro, N. C The question of jtate rights is thus involved. A Sinking Fund Scandal. Charleston News and Courier. Columbi a, S. C. It will be somewhat of a surprise to learn that charges of gross irregularity have beeu preferred against Col. James G. Gibbes, agent of the sink ing fund commission for the past three years. While it is n t thought that Col. Gibbes cculd be guilty of intentional wrong, the charges will perhaps cause censiderable difficulty. It appears that Col. Gibbes has been given almost abso lute control of the management of the sinking fund and that the present board has had practically no knowledge of the specific transa tious. What Virginia Owes Uncle Sam. Washington, D. C A statement bas been prepared at the" Treasury Depart ment showing that the State of Virginia is indebted to the United States on the books of the Treasury to the extent of $1,(535,920 for the following bonds: Virginia State stocks, $581,800; interests, $l' 181.50; Chesapeake and Ohio canal oo.T-s, guaranteed by the State of Vir gluift, fl3,C0O interest, $17,020. OUT OF DANGER. Congressman Springer's Physicians Declare Him Convalescent. - 0r list WILLIAM M. SPRINGER. Congressman Springer, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, has been near death's door, but Is now considered practically out of danger. A final consultation of the three attending physicians was held a few days since, and at its conclusion Dr. John A. Vincent, his Illinois physician, who left Washington for home the same night, made the following statement: "Last Sunday and Sunday night the con dition of Mr. Springer was critical in the extreme, so much so that we considered him worse than at any time during his illness. Since then the improvement has been steady, till now his condition is such that we can see no reason why he should not go right along to complete convalescence. Up to this hour he has heid everything gained. Pulse and temperature are normal. That distressing cough has left him. The erysipelas has al most entirely disappeared from his fac?. His appetite is fairly good.. The delirium and coma have been entirely overcome. "But his prostration is so complete that he can scarcely speak above a whisper. The building-up process must necessarily be slow, but with the excellent nursing and skillful treatment of Drs. Curtis aud Verdi, recovery now seems assured." " Says a Richmond Daily. A significant indication of the changes in the ideas and sentiments of the people of the South, and in the material condi tion of things throughout the Southern States, is contained in the incidental re mark of a Richmond newspaper that 'Many hundred young ladies are employ ed in the various factories of Richmond, and the number is daily growing." Many Northern people still hold 'firmly to the belief that the woman who works for her living in the South is looked down upoD and slighted,' and 'hat working girls and women a re. at a great social disadvant age there. ' That may have beea the case at one time, but it is not so now. The item notes the refusd of a license to a barroom in the n ighborhood of one of the factories where the women are em ployed, for the reason that the city was determined to see that the environments of the women were ''such as they have a right to expect." Another interesting item is that statistics show that the South now has 1,200,003 more spindles than it had eleven years ago. ' .Seneca Oil." Fifty years ago the public were of fered as a valuable medicinal substance what was called Seneca oil. This, as is common with many less useful iemdies, was alleged to be au Indian cure lor mauy disorders. Later., it. was recognized as tht' common pelre'cum that soon flowed in" vast juantitics. from Ihe wells and is now a household word. And under its reEned condition, !as kerosene, this oil, as ft useful remedy for certain uses, should cot be made light of, how ever it mayHjc as a combustible for use in the houshold lamps. To the poultry man it is 'invaluable as a preventive against all kinds of injurious vermin, including the destructive gapeworm, which succumbs at once to a few drops poured in tliejoung bud's throat. It frees the horses ironi lice and the sheep and lambs from tick?, and in the garden, as an cmubion made with soapy Mater, it destroys every minute insect that it touches. In the laundry it serves to loosen the diit and stains iro:;i the cloth ing; it is the best thing to clean the gummed connections of machinery and to loosen rusted bolts. And in house hold mediciue it is useful a3 a liniment for bruises aud burns, and as a counter irritant in esses commoa inflammation f intural organs. A Novel Idea. Here is a suggestion for the representa tion of the gold mining interests of North Carolina at the World's Fair, offered by a Salisbury gentleman : "Have four fug ged mules (stuffed or otherwise) vyith the old timcdarkeydiiver mounted,all hitched to one of the old Nissen (prairie schooner) wagons. This wagoa is to be loaded with gilt gold bags, each representing in bulk the amount produced at the respec tive miues in the State, each mine con tributing the cost in proportion as allot ted by our commissioner of agriculture, Hon. John Robinson." Fatal Boiler Explosion Near Raleigh. Raleigh, N. C. About noon thf boiler of an engine used for the purpost of operating a mill eight miles south of here, exploded, killing inantly John Stevenson, aged 18, son of Col. L. D. Stcver.son. a prominent farmer of this county. lie was blown fifty yards and torn to pieces. Another boy was injured. The pressure on the boiler was too great. Death of a Kentucky Congressman. Washikgtos, D. C. Hon. John W. Kendall, Representative in Congress of the tenth Eentncky district, died at his residence in the city at 9:25 o'clock from the effects of two strokes of apoplexy. Mr. Kendall was 58 years of age. Princeton's .Oldest Graduate Dead. Charleston, 8. C, .March 7. J. Berkeley Grumb&U died hare to-day, aged 93 years. Deceased was the oldest liriBg graduate ofrPrfrt&on. C$lth PRETTY POLITICS. The Political Field Growing Very , . Interesting. 8trawa From a Dozen States Bear, ing News of Impor tance. Ex -President Cleveland will be fifty five years of age on the 18th of April. J. A. Robbins will be H. P. Cheat ham's antagonist for the Republican nom ination in the' second North Carolini con gressional district, Cheatham is the only colored Congressman in the Union. He's In It. Washington; D. C Col. L. L. Polk says he will be third paity nominee for Vice-President. Will Accept the Appointment. Washington, D. C Ex-Congressman Judson C. Clements, of Georgia, who has just been appoiuted interstate com raerce'commis8sioner, says he will accept. To Norfh Carolina. Washington, D. C. The committee from Charlotte. N. C, cons'sting of May or Brevard and five leading business men, headed by the entire North Carolina Con gressional delegation met Senator Hill Friday. He accepted the invitation and will certainly de'iver an address in Char lotte on Mecklenburg Independence Day, Mav 20th. Senator Hill in the South. Jackson, Miss., March 15. Senator Oavid H. Hill addressed the Mississippi liCgislaturd to-day by special invitation. He has had invitations to visit many other Southern towns, but has not the time to respond. lie said: "On my return I shall stop off a short time on the 16th at Birmingham, Ala , which is on the route. I shall thengo to Savannah, Ga., to be present at the banquet there ou the l?th, but will bt compelled to decline all the other invi tations I have received. I regret thii very much, but it -would have taken too much time to accept them all, "and I did uot like to discriminate." - : John Griffin Carlisle. Senator Carlisle, by men of both par ties esteemed as a sagacious and well . 'quipped statesman, is a native of the state of Kentucky. He was born ic 1885, received a fair education,- taught chool, read law and was admitted to the bar. Subsequently he entered public life as a member of the stata House of Representatives. He was elected to the State Senate February I860, and in 1869. In 1871 he was elected lieutenant govern or of Kentucky, and served until 1875. He was a member of the Houie of .Repre sentatives at Washington, continuously from the beginning of the Forty-fifth Congress until his- election to the United States Senate in 1890. Senator Carlisle was Speaker of the Forty-eighth and two succeeding Congresses. Fusion in Kansas. Topeka, Kas. At their recent meet ing the Central committees of the Demo cratic and People's parties considered plan for the basis of their proposed com bination this fall. This plan, which i stifl under consideration, is said to be as follows: . The Democrats will support the Peo ple's electoral ticket and will give ther.' the entire state ticket with the exceptioa of the associate justice. The Democrats will indorse the People's congressional nominees in the five districts now repre sented by Alliance congressmen, and ths People's party will indorse Democratio nominees in Mie First and Second dis tricts now represented by Republicans and give the Democrats the congressman-at-large. Indiana Republicans. Indianapolis, Ind. Tomlinson Ha'd presented an animated scene at 11 :30 o'clock1 in the morning when Chairman Goudy called the Republican State con vention to order; then Rev. Dr. Lucas prayed that patriotism and love of coun try should be kept above partisanship. A picture of President Harrison, conceal edbyan American flag, was then exposed to view and the cheering was vociferous. The committee on permanent organiza tion, through W. W. Wilson, of War wick county, reported that Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash, had been chosen by the committee for permanent chairman, and Robert Brown, of Franklin, perma nent secretary .. The rules of the Fifty first Congress, as 'interpreted and ap plied by Thomas B. Reed," were adopt ed to govern . the convention amid ap plause; Mr. Sayre said many pleasant things About the President and was frequently applauded. Delegates to the National Convention were instructed for Harrison. Mrs. Davis Sues the Belford Company. New York Mrs. Jefferson Davis commenced in the United States Circuit Couri against ''Robert Belford and the Belford Company. Mrs. Davis alleges brdch of contract on the defendants' pa t . On March 4, 1890, she contracted with Robert Belford for the sale of her "Memoirs" of her husband. Royalties to the amount of $4,001.17 were due her in September last but are not paid yet, notwithstanding the Belford Company con inued the sale of her book and de fired to transfer the rights of publication to the United States Book Company. 31rs . Davis askes for an annulment of the contract and adequate compensation for ihe breach thereof. to Mark the Confederate and Union lanes. Washington, D. C, An appropria tion of 30,000 for surveying, locating and preserving the line of attack and defense of the Union and Confederate land and naval forces in the operations asrainst Mobile, Ala , in 1804 nnd 1365, I is i arried by ; bill introduced by Senator ' Morgan, ." . . . GOUGED A BABY'S EYES OUT. A Negro Boy, Five Tears, Murders a Sleeping Child. Columbia, S. C Addie Beacham left her her seven-months'-old baby sleeping in her house and in her absence a five-year-old negro boy named Bu3d Harris entered the .house and jabbed a sharp piece of iron into the skull of the child, then gouged its eyes oat and stabbed holes all over its face. The boy murderer was found sitting at the front gate, a picture of innocence, digging holes in the ground with the wtapon. He frankly confessed the deed. The Coroner's jury refused to hold the boy responsible on account of his age. Secretary Buck's Eligibles. Washington, D. C. Secretary Rusk is thinking ser'.ously of establishing a matrimonial bureau in connection with the Agricultural Department. The idea wa3 suggested by a letter he recently re ceived from a man out West, who ex perimented with some of the cucumber seed se-t to him by the Department at the instance of his representative in Con gress. The farmer planted the cucum ber seed and his wife afterward died from eating some of the cucumbers. The farmer in his letter to Secretary Rusk said: "Your blamed cucumbers robbed me of my wife, so instead of sending me cucumber seed this spring send me another wife. I hear there arc a num ber of likely women in your department." Iu reply Secretary Rusk said he had no appropriation from which he could draw money to send a wife to the widower, but suggested that the latter come toWashing ington and pick out one for himself. The Secretary informed his correspond ent that he h s in hie. department "some beautiful maiden?, many sprightly wid oas, and sevc.al w ell seasoned old maids." Bock -Hill Cotton Mills Burned. Rock Hill, 3. C. The Cochran cot ton seed oil mill and fertilizer works were jlestreyed by fire Sunday night. The plant was valued at $6!),000. The Rock Hill Cotton Seed Oil fJompany, from whom the Cochran company leased the plant, lose $35,000 of the above value, besides machinery. The Cochran company lose the stock on hand, valued at $13,000. The latter loss includes 150 barrels of oil, 1,000 tons of sted, thirty bales of lint cotton, 1,000 bales of fibre, twenty-five tons of cake and ten tons of meal. Insurance $52,000. Twenty thousand of tbis is held by the Rock Hill company on the plaut, and $32,000 by the Cochran company on , the j ma chinery and stock. . i The Cochran company is composed of Philadelphia capitalists, who have been operating the mill successfully for two years. The fire origiuated in the eeed warehouse and soon spread to the mun building. Its origbi is uot known but is supposed to have been spontaneous com bustion. It is not yet known whether the mill will be rebuilt. Dragged From His Pulpit. Yon reus, N. Y.-The Rev. Mr. Con way, while attempting to preach Sunday night in this city, was dragged from the platform by the police and put out of the building. Tho police came to the hall at the request of E. O. Carpenter, . who asserted that Conway was about to make a "speech which would cause trouble. When Carpenter ordered Conway to stop he refused, and Roundsman Wood ruff aud two officers then caught hold of Conway, who made a desperate struggle. Much exci cmcnt prevailed, and benches and chairs w re overturned by the spec la tors in rushing for the door. When the preacher had b: en ejected the lights iu the hall were put out. Improvement in Tobacco Caser. Taylorbville, N. C John P. Mill ner, of Brownsville, Va., who is to en gage with parties of this place in the manufacture of tobacco at an early date, has invented and patented an improve ment on a tobacco caser. On his visit to this place a month ago" he spent the day at Statesville. On his return home and visit ed a factory and saw one of Frost's pat ent tobacco casers and the ilea struck him that he could make an improvement. This caser is said to be very superior to anything yet invented. Mr. Millner writes that he has been offered $10,000 for one-third interest in the patent, but refused. He is now in Richmond, Va., arranging with Messrs. Talbott & Sons to manufacture them. 1 To Enlarge Norfolk Navy Yard. Washington, D. C. Ex Representa tive Goode, of Virginia,' appeared before the House committee on naval affairs in support of the bill appropriating $200,- 000 for the purchase of additional lnd opposite the Norfolk navy yard. Mr. Goode cited the reports of various com missions who have examined and recom mended the purchase of this land and urged upon the committee the adviabil- 1 y of doing so.. Republican Candidate for Governor of Tennessee. Ksoxville, Tenn. Arthur Jenkins, president of the Tennessee Coal Com panv, who had quite a hand in the hnnd in the troubles in the Coal Creek and Briceville Mines, is a Candida e for Governor of Tennessee, on the Republi ran ticket. He now has the miners, and al-o Farmers' Alliance with him. He is only 20 yenrs of age and a fighter. O. D. I. Steamers in Collision. New York. The outgoing steamer Eejjeca, for Richmond, and the incom- insr steamer Roanoke, both oi tne Ula Dominion Line, collided in the fog Tt ith -were considerable damaged, but the Seneca proceeded, and the Roanokt went to her does. Injunction in Favor of the Railroads. Charleston, S. C., Judge Simonton in theThited States Court issued an in junction preventing State officials from levying on the property Of the railroad id the State whicn have retu3 d to paj taxes on an increase of asse-sro nt Ever railroad n the SUte ia party to the suit. .FARMERS9 ALLIANCE. Late News of the Order Points. From All Alliance Topics and Bills Introduc ed in the National Legislature. Our Washington Alliance correspond ent furnishes the following news: ' The Honda Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union wants the duty on binding twine, bagging, etc., removed, or a debate thereon extended to them. "The House Agricultural Committee has favorably reported a bill appropriat ing s 150,000 for carrying out the meat inspection law and $10,000 for work at the sugar expeiimental stations. Capt. b. li. Alexander savs of the bt. Louis platform: "ii it on that all true AUianccmen can and uillheartUg tvpport." A Washington correspondent says that the fellows who were going to entrap the farmer members of Congress by wins suppers have given up the job. The hay seeders are too much for them. He fur ther says that the wives of the hayseed Congressmen have not been introduced into Washington seciety. Tbis is a start ling story indeed! . But the hayseeder'a wives should thank ' the Lord that they have not been introduced into Washing ton society. Washington society is a soft name" for the avenue that leads di rect to hades. Progressive Farmer. Remember that the home supplies is the Allinncc pass word for this year. Pay up your dues and get the new pass word. . j , Jay Gould must be a big farmer. The Grange Advocate says he waters a great deal of stock." A GEORGIA MAN WHO MAKES MONEY FARM ING, AND HOW HE DOES IT. The Charleston News and Courier says : Our neighbor, the Augusta Chronicle, tells a story of one of its neighbors, "a successful farmer," which ia full of in struction and encouragement for farmers in South Carolina and afl the cotton States. The successful Georgia farmer is James M. Smith, of Oglethorpe coun ty, who started after the war, on the red hills near Athens, without a dollar and now cultivates one thousand, five hun dred acres, with a full fledged broad- guagc railroad running to different parts oi his farm, and .everything about In keeping'with this innovation. The secret of Mr. Smith s success he is Col. Smith now is contained in the few words of advice he gives his fellow egriculturists, "to raise every thine for man and beast at home." His barns and smokehouses are at home, and, whatever may be the fluctuations of prices of bacon ana corn, etc., in Chicago and bt. Louis, he is safe and independent. Col. Smith is a cotton farmer, like all the rest; but only half of his farm is planted in cotton the other half is planted in field crops lor home consumption. Ihis plan, Col. Smith says, followed year by year, is bound to-be successful in the long run. His cotton, is converted into ready cash, and with an abundance of wheat, corn, oats and hay, as well as potatoes, peas, cabbages, onions, etc., he feeds his wage hand tenants, sells a considerable quanti ty, and still has enough to feed his work ing stock, and his hogs and cattle which afford him further income. Among the details of his farming op erations last year, it is mentioned, Col. Smith raised five thousand bushels of rust proof oats, whica he sold for seed at $1 per bushel, after saving enough for his own and his tenants' use. The aver age yield was thirty bushels per acre. He also raised six thousand bushels of wheat, part of which he sold for $1.25 per bushel. The rest he ground into flour, with which his hands and tenants were supplied. The bran was fed to bis live stock. He raised one hundred and seventy-five bofrs, which averaced one hundred and sixty-five pounds net. He Keeps a herd oi six hundred cattle, among them being a number of lerrister- ed Holsteins. He is now fattening sixty steers, which he will sell the latter part of March, and which bethinks will aver age fifteen hundred pounds gross. He milks seventy five cows, and after amply supplying his plantation sells quantitias of milk and butter and feeds quantities more to the bogs. Col. smith considers oats and wheat a profitable crop when' utilized as he utilizes it. Aside from the value of the grain, the straw and bran are valuable for the stock. Cotton seed hulls and meal in proper proportion, he thinks, are "the rest food for cattle," so there is no excuse for ignoraocc or im providence for any cotton farmer failing to raise cotton profitably. Col, Smith admits that farmers in the South are not very successful, as a rule, but this in most cases is their own fault. He advise them to "raise everything for man and beast at home," to live within their income and abandon the credit "system," and all will go well. If they raise their own supplies they may not "handle" so much money, but they will keep more of what they handle and be better off in the end. This is the testiraoay of a man who plants only half a crop of cotton, and his made an immense fortune by that plan. Farmers who are he itatingjabout cutting dowa their crops one-fiftbmay learnwis dom and gather encouragement from bis lurcess. Old Officers of the Air-Line Sleeted. Be- New York Tbe stockholders of the Atlanta and C harlotte Air Line Railway Company met nnd tc-elected tbe old boa'd of directors'. Eugene Kell was re-elected pre-i lent of the c:np.vy From Arkansas to Liberia. Nctf Yobk. The bark Libeiia sailed Thursday for Liberia with 50 of tho co -ored emigrants from Arkansas, who are sent by the American colonization socie ty. They seemed happy and confident that they were about to enter a land of plenty.