North Carolina Newspapers

Central JL HE G. K. GEAXTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. . . -. V i 11 " ! I. i . I i- $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance. VOL. II. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1892 NO 9. SELECT SIFTINGS: The first steel pea was made in 1830. The first steel plate was discoveiel ia 1830. Johnny Simmons, a ten-year-old boy of Shasta County, California, 6hot and killed an enormous wild cat at 10') yards range. A convict in the Ohio Penitentiary wd3 pardoned the other day, but did not want to leave and had to be put out of prison. The first coach in Scotland was brought thither in 1561, when Queen Mary came from France. It belonged to Alexander Lord Seaton. An elephant's digestive functions are very rapid, and the animal therefore re quires daily a large amount of fodder 600 pounds at least. The largest grapevine in the United States is at Santa Barbara.Cal. It is twelve iuches iu diameter, and the annual pro duct is often four ton3. The manufacture of porcelain was in troduced into the Province of Hezin, Japaa, from China in 1513, and Ilezin ware still bears Chinese marks. California has many fine lake3. The most noted are Tahoe, twenty-five miles long, and Clear Lake, twenty-six miles long. Both support steamers. Missouri is the first zinc-producing State of the country. .The NaUou's total production was 231,503 tons last year, and 93,131 tons came flora Missouri. A curious relic of old Roman life found Tecently at Lanuirum (Porto Portese), and now stored in the British Museum, is a thin slab of stone that was anciently a circus poster. Tulare, Cab, will send a tree to Wash ington, I). C, for exhibition. It is eighty-seven feet, nine inches in circum ference at the base and sixty-five feet through at a. height of six feet above the ground. A stranger entered the Newton (Kan.) Postoffice, one day the other week, and, buying a lot of postage stamps, asked permission to stamp all letters that the office was holding for postage. His re quest was granted. San Diego, Cab, will give its regular boarders in the county jail employment in picking oakum. It is hoped that this innovation of labor will tend to decrease the number of tramps who get their liv ing at the county's expense. The telephone company of Glasgow, Scotland, has completely fitted up an elaborate telephonic arrangement ia Woodsidc Church, whereby the sub scribers are enabled to hear tho entire service with the utmost distinction and case. Farmer Frank Lusk, of Kingman County, Kansa3,.ha3 a bird dog which goes to meet the south-bouu l train six days in the week, and catches a daily paper which the trainmen, by arrange ment, throw out to him, and' returns with it to Mr. Lusk's residence. Rev. Mr. Sweet, the joung Methodist minister at Russell, Iowa, was the othei day stricken with apparent total blind ness. He preached his usual sermon in the morning, but that afternoon, whilo filling a couutry appointment, his sight grew so dim he could see nothing and he had to be driven home. John Dawson, of Swan Creek, Iowa, while sawing a cut from a large jack-oak tree, fully twenty feel fiotu tho butt, found in a small hollow a frog. The frog on being released hopped a short distance away and then fell over dead. There is no knowing how long the frog was in the tree, but it must have been many years. There are about 600C varieties of post age stamps now used by the different na tions of the world The Museum of the Berlin (Germany) Postoffice alone con tains a collection of between 4000 and 50Q0 different specimens of these little colored pasters. Half of this number are European stamps the remainder divided among America, Asia, Africa - and Aus tralia. The Fisheries of Lake Superior. At little Port Arthur alone the figures of tho fishing industry for the markel are astonishing. In 18S8 the fishermen there caught 500,000 pounds of whit fish, 360,000 pounds of lake trout, 43, 000 pounds of sturgeon, 90,000 pounds of pickerel, and 30,000 pounds of othei fish, or more thin a million pounds in all. . They did this with an investment of $3800 in boats and $10,0 J J in gill and pound nets. This yield nearly al,' went to a Chicago packing company, anJ it is in tho main Chicago and Cleveland capital that is controlling the lako's fish , enea: The white fish is, In tho opinion of most gourmets, the most delicious fish known to Americans. The lak trout are mere food. I am told that they are rather related to the char than to the salmon. They are peculiar to oui inland waters. They average five to ten pounds in weight,and yet grjw to weigh 120 pouuds; but whatever their weigh! be, it is a mere pressure of hard drj flesb, calculated only to appease hunger. --Harper's Magazine. . " 1 . The Lion After Death The mott superb of fur rugs are made from the skin of the lion When the lion is five yeais old his mane has at tained its full growth and he is then ready to be sacrificed at the alter of civilization. Next in beauty comes the tiger. The graceful, catlike neck and sleek,' glossy skin make a truly effectiv rug indeed, many prefer it to the Hob skin. The bears, and especially the grizzlies, are very popular The white polar bear is arranged in a very realistic manner, with his great mouth open and formidable claws projecting grimly from the soft fur All these animals are dis played with one-quarter, one-half and full heads that i-, raised and stuffed in theee shapes The last style is the hand' somest, of course, and the most desirable rugrareithe animal shapes with the hea-' ranged" as in life. Pittbur Di HARBINGERS OF SPRING. News Note as Fresh as the Crisp Air. The Most Interesting: Event Hap- pening in Three States Chronicled Here. VIRGINIA. A bank ba3 been organized i& Buike ville. Gen. Peyton "Wise is an applicant for a position on the Civil Service Commis sion. In the Graham court-martial case at Richmond the defendant was sentenced to a 3-years' suspension. Gov. McKinney appointed C. C. Talia ferro, of Roanoke, a member of the board of visitors of the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in place of Judge Asa Dupuy, who resigned after he had been elected judge of the circuit court. Miss Ella Rives died at Charlottes ville last week", aged 55. She was an aunt of Araelie Rives, the authoress, and a daughter of the lateWilliam C. Rives, minister to France and United States Senator. There is an engiuecr named Moore on the Richmond end Danville road running between Lynchburg and Alexandria who has been in the employ of the same road for thirty years, and has never lost a day from work. He has niadc on airgieate of 112,000 miles on one engine, averag ing 5,000 per . mouth. He is still at work on the Richmond and Danville and in as good health as he ever was. - The Beoitely Marble Development Co., a corporation owning 186 acres of marble land near Fincastle has fully organized, ordered outfit of machinery and will soon commence quarrying. The company has in prospect black and hx varieties of va riegated marble and lithographing stone. Col. A. S. Buford was elected presi dent, and Capt. T. C. Morton, secretary of the Virginia World's Fair Managers. An executive committee was appointed consisting of J. II. Figgatt, A. S. Bu furd M. Glennan, H. J. Jordan hnd M. Brennaman. Hon. John L Hurt was authorized to take such steps as may be deemed necessary to secure contributions from the railroads of the State to the World s Fair fund. NOFTH CAROLINA. Iredell county alliance has adopted the St. Louis platform. Heuderson shipped 59 car-loads, or 820 hogsheads of tobacco to manufactuiers last week. The New Berne Journal estimates the loss to truck farmers iu that section bv the cold snap at $100,000. The Day says the Oxford electric ligh1 plant is offered to the town for $5,CO0 40 per cent, of its cost. It is reported that A. C. Shuford, the Alliance lecturer of the seventh congress ional district, will be a candidate for Congress. The Democratic congressional nomi nating convention for the third district has been called to meet at Clinton July 20th. The citizeus of Greensboro have held a meeting and appointed committees to raise funds for the sufferers from the famine in Russia. Last Thursday Bcnjamiu Henderson, the neerro postmaster at Fayetteville re ceived his commission from the President, and Monday he took charge of the office. litv. C. M. Payne, of Concord, will preach the commencement sermon before the young ladies of Peace Institute at the Raleigh Presbyteiian church on Sunday morning, May 29th. SOUTH CAROLINA. Cabbage and other truck produce are beginning to be shipped North in con siderable quantities from Charleston. South Carolina has received her direct tax refund, $221,1711. A Sumter special says: The twenty eight precincts heard from so far give o? delegates for Sheppard and 44 for Till man. The political news from Lancas'.er county repoit that the Democratic clubs sent solid Tillman delegations to the county convention The Farmers' Bank of Abbeville, a majority of whose stockholders are Al liancemen, made over tO per c nt. du ring the year just euded. Great preparations are beng made for the floral fair hich will open on the 28th at Charleston, and which is confi dently expected will be on a larger scale and with greater varieties of flowers thai' ever before. The Hugueuot Society, which is com posed of some 200 members of the de scendants of those who fled to this, col ony after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, will have their anuiversary cel ebration on the 23rd. The day will be spent iu picnic fashion at Otranto, Charleston. The most letiific hail storm ever known in the State, occurred at Ben ettsville last week. The hail stoues were two inches in diameter and fell to a depth of six inches. Birds, chickens and hogs were killed, and many glasses broken. Men and horses were knocked down, fruit, vegetables and cotton com pletely cut down. Incalculable injury was done in the country. In'erest in the estate of Robert Ed wards, which involves about $32,000,000 of property in Wall . street. New York city, which was mentioned about a year ago, has been revived. The heirs in South Carolina are Mrs. S. A. Chisholm, of Columbia, T. II. Stokes and Mrs. Wesley Gilbert of Greenville, Judge I. Wickliffe, of Walhalla, Mrs. M. E. Hook, of Florence, W. F. Edwards and R. F. Peek, of Spartanburg. - For David Bennett Hill. Lynchbikc;, Va. The Henry county, Va., Democratic covention cltcted dele gates to the State convention, :snd in structed them for Hill. This is the it-con d county to act in Virginia, the first being Henrico Beth delegation ate fur UilL HARRISON REPULSES QUAY. A Declaration That He May Decline to Be a Candidate. Wa shington, D. C. There will be no reconciliation between Senator Quay and President Harrison, and, as a result, Mr. Harrison may eventully not be a candidate for renomination. A few days ago Con gressmen Bingham, O'Neill, and Rey burn, accompanied by Postmaster-Gener-al Wanamaker, called upon the President to urge him to forget the past and to re ceive Quay. This was with the idea that the Pennsylvania Republican Convention, to be held ou April 20, would declare for Harrison and to assure him of the sixty -four delegates from that State to Minne apolis. The surprise of the delegation was great when the President turned to Mr. Wanamaker and said : "The less you have to do with Mr. Quay the better it will be for yourself. He is no; a fit man to associate with." Then the President said that he was not so certain about accepting the renom ination, unless he was assured that the party was harmonious, and that it would stand together on all questions. He Baid he saw here and there evi dences of dissatisfaction, and that he preferred to stand aside rather than to place himself in the power of Mr. Quay and some other men who had attempted to dictate terms for renomination. The President told the Congressmen that he would not place the patronage of Penn sylvania in Quay's hands, because the men Quay had recommended to him were no better than himself and were not fit to hold office. The President said that if it depended upon Quay whether he should get the Pennsylvania delegation, then he would not get it. Mr. Wauamaker talked in his most persuasive manner, but it was of no avail, and the President warned the Postmas-.ter-General to keep away from Quay. When this was told the Senator he was angered. He immediately began to discuss with his fellow Senators the availability of Blaine 'as a Presidential candidate, and the boom in the interest of the Secretary last week is due to Quay's work. The men who were pres ent at the interview with President Har rison say that, unless Quay, Piatt, Clark son, and the rest are solid for him, Mr. Harrison will decline the nomination Up to this time Quay has refused to tell his most intimate friends who is his Presidential choice. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN Of the North Carolina Experiment Station, For the Week Ending Saturday, April 9, 1892. Raleigh, N. C The reports of correspondents of the weekly weather crop bulletin for the week ending, Saturday, April 9th, 1892, show that very favorable weather condi tions have prevailed since the beginning' of April. The first three months of the year have been cold and wet, and spring commenced very late, which has delayed farming operations somewhat. The late spring has I ecu favorable to the fruit crops. The average dates of planting arid har vesting crop arc as follows: a. Preparation of soil generally com pleted by end of March b. Cotton planted from April 1st, to April 30th, harvested September to Jan uary. . Tobacco transplanted April loth to May :J0th, harvested August to Octo ber. d. Corn planted about April 1st, har vested in Sept ruber. c. Wheat and rye planted October to December, harvested June 1st Oats plantel October 10th, harvested June 15th. FIVE DAYS OUT OF THE WORLD. Columbus, Miss., Flooded and at Least J20 Persons Drowned. Birmingham, Ai.a After five days of absolute isolation for the world, com munication with Columbus, Miss., was restored by wire. Although it is working badly enough, news has come to show a tragic state of affairs. The river has risen nearly three feet higher than ever before, and the whole couutry is undct water. More than tacuty people have been drowned, as ar as heard from, and it is feared that the list will grow cuormously when the wide territory flooded can all heard lrom. In one case a colon d family of nine persons were drowned. They took a pig in the boat with them The pig jumped out of the boat, aud one of the women grabbed for it and overtumed the boat. Five hundred persons in the town are being fed by charity. An appeal has already been drawn up to the Govern ment for help. FROM THE THIRD STORY. A South Carolina Lady Commits Su icide in New York. New York Mrs. Mary Lee, a resident of South Carolina, aged twenty-two years, committed suicide to-day by throwing herself from the third story of the private medical institute, No. 151 East Thirty-fourth street, where she had been an inmate three months. About a week ago Mrs. Lee gave birth to a child, her health being so poor subse quently that her life was despaired of. Feeling (ousiderably better however, she was left alone for a short time, du ring which she atose and leaped to her instant death Carolina Marble to the Front. Murphy, N. C The combining of the Southern marble interests is becom ing an assured fact. All the quarries be tween Marrietta, Ga , and this place, though owned by half a dozen different corporations, are really controlled by the Southern Marble Company. Agents of the combine are pushing through toNan tahala, this State, and into the marble sections of Tennessee The country people, not knowing the value of their property, are parting with it readily. ALLIANCE COLUMN. The Great Farmer's Cause Hoving Steadily Forward. Bright and Interesting News For the Order From All Oyer These United States. Tnere are now in operation fifty-five agricultural experimental stations in the country ail but nine of which are sup ported by the general Government, at s cost last year of $680,000. A novel plan is being operated in the Dakotas. Each sub-Alliance is asked to prepare and seed a certain number of acres of land to wheat. This is to be an offering for the spread of Alliince pjinci ples, by selling the whe.it a d expend ing the proceeds for that object. It is said that hundreds of acres will be used in that manner, and great good is expect ed from the experiment. Such methods disclose an earnestness that should know neither opposition nor discouragement, and should lead a nation or a people out of the dark shadows of distress into the blight sunshine of prosperity. The Alliance Farmer, (Homer, La.), says: '-The President's salary is $50, -000 a year. Twenty years ago 30,000 bushels of wheat would have paid it; now it takes more than 60,000 bushels. Twenty years ago 500 bales of cotton would have paid it ; now. it takes 1,700 bales to get $50,000. The annual salary of Congressmen is $5,000 Twenty years ago 50 bales of cotton would have paid it; now it will take about 177 bales, and yet Congress seems resolved to re duce the currency, demonetize silver, and keep up the salaries. This Is is a very hopeful view of the promised reform, and a desire that justice be done the people is conspicuously prominent in Congrcs fional movements." The Herald, (Myrtle Springs, Texas) sajs: The Alliance i; educating the peo ple. It has turned out already some of the most wonderful speakers in Texas, men who but for the Alliance training would have delved and dug with lusty limbs unhonored, and died in poverty and ignorance, unsung. Now many a farmer lad can discuss economical questions with senators and representa tives; and hundreds of farmers are far better posted and more capable of at taining practical results than are their congressmen. The politician that now counts on fooling the people, at least the Alliauce portion of the people, reckons without his host. All'snce men, boyg and women, too, have cut their wisdom teeth. The Alliance demands are on the right side of every great question now forging to the front iu politics. Is not that suf ficient justification for making them? Does anyone suppose there would beany stir in the great and dirty rol of politics on those ques ions if the farmers had taken the advice of the politicians and stayed between plow handles? Not a bit of it, but these weathercocks up at Washington feel ths wind blowing. Secretary Foster says increase the currency. He heard that from the Alliauce. Secretary Rusk says do something for the farmers. He heard that in the Grange. Speaker Crisp says finances shall have full consideration. He heard that from 80,000 Georgia farm farmers. Senator Turpie says United States senators must ' be elected by the p. ople. He read that in our platform. President Harrison says the gerrymander is a dangerous menace to free government. He has read the plank about equal just ice to all. There is not a popular demand but that the Alliance is on the right. Unionist, (Henderson, Ky,) REMEMBER YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. The Alliance is now on trial before the bar of public judgimnt and every indi vidual member is i esponsible for the faith ful discharge of the particular task as signed him The responsibility is a com mon one and rests upon all alike. The great work that is going on may not come before your view every day, and your sub-A lliance may not be all that you would have it be, but stand to your colors. Re sults may not be reached as fast as you had expected, but stick to your crowd. Your leaders may not be as brilliant nor as aggressive' as you would wish them, but abide your time and continue to struggle. Kevolutions utver go back ward ; if you hold up you are left. Noth ing human was ever perfect, and never will be, but stick to your order and be steadfast to the end. It may require per sonal sicrifice of opinion, but that is but a daily occurrence in life. It may demand inconvenience, but stick "together. Don't give up the ship. ' STATE ALLIANCE MEETING IN WISCONSIN. Eau Clairk, Wis The Winsconsin State Alliance h-s just closed an inter esting two day's le sion at Eau Claire. A good attendance aud much enthusiasm. The following ate the officers. All re elected: President. C. M. Butt, Viroqua. Vice President, P. L. Scritsmier, Bloomer. Secretary-frca?., N. E. Moody, Viro qua. ' Executive Committee consists of Pres ident, Vice-Piesident and Secretary Treasury. Delegates to Supreme Council ; C. M. Butt, P. E. Newell, and P. L. Scrits mier. . Alternates: N. E. Moodr, John Elmf and W. F. Donohue. Aid Degree adopted and placed in charge Secretary 3Ioody, and II. A. Van Dolsem, of Eau Claire, as general State organizer for the Degree, will go into the field at once and push the work vig orously. Bro. Geo. Cross presented the Nation al Union plan and it was adopted. Bob Schilling gave a grand speech in the ar mory last nfght to a large audience on the identity of interests of farmers and lalmrers in ihe city. The indications are all favorable for ladfeal political change in Wfjcootio this year. The . Alliance is a unit on oui demands, and will vote as they talk. Organization will be pushed actively and continuou-ly. St Louis demands in dorsed unanimously. A resolution ask ing the State legislature to grant the elec tion franchise to women was unanimous ly adopted. Also one favoring passage of anti op tion bill. Winsconsin is all right. W. Warpall. THE SUB-TREASURY IX FRANCE. Rohdeaux, France, Oct. 13, 91. Afr. II L. Loutka: Dear Sm: In reply to jour letter ol enquiry, will say the Bank of France has almost since its establishment, early ir the present century, loaned money on no i perishable products, such as wheat, corn, wine, spirits, metals, etc., provided such securities wtre deposited in reliable warehouse1, or warehouses designated by the directors of the Bank of France. Receipts were of cot r e taken for the same, and these become negotiable just as are warehouse receipts in Ameiica. The amounts loa.ied upon products of this description was usually equal to about two thirds of its appraised value and the rate of interest charged for the loan was 3 per cent. The same rate is applicable at the present time. Horace G. Knowles, Consul. BENE FACT RE Ss" OF HER RACE. Noble Work of a Young Colored Woman Born a Slave. Manassas, Va. The colored people of Prince William county have undertak en to establish what is said to be the first industrial school in the land for colored youths under colored auspices. A pros--pectus says: "The object is to give in struction in the ordinary English branches and tho industrial arts to the colored people living in a region of Vir ginia not yet recovered from the devasta tion of the late war." The leading spirit in the movement is Miss Jennie Dean, of Manassas, a young Colored woman, who has quite a remark able history. Miss Dean was born a slave, but has accompl'shed much,' not withstand ng the disadvantages under which she began life. She was gradu ated from the public schools in this city, was converted, and then, goiDg to the mountains of Virginia, began mission work among the colored people, prose cuting hjer labors under great difficulties. She has four large Sunday schools iu the mountains, in connection with which she conducts sewing schools. She has raised money with which to build churches and chapels, and her success in the work has led the people of Manassas to call upon her to raise the money to build the indus trial school. "Premiums for Tobacco Display. The following is a list of the tobacco premiums offered by the Virginia State Agricultural and Mechanical Society at i s second Exposition: Manufactured Tobaccos-Best exhibit of cigars, first prize, mclal; secondj di ploma. Best exhibit of smoking tobac-c-' first prize, medal; second, diploma. Hest exhibit of chewing tobacco, first prize, mcda' ; second, diploma Best ex hibit of cigarettes (Virginia made), first prize, medal; second, diploma. Best ex hibit of cheroots (Virginia made), first prize, medal ; second, diploma. Leaf Tobacco Best sample of dark continental tobacco, first prize, $25; sec ond, $10. Best sample dark stemming to bacco, first prize, $25; second, $10. Best sample of bright stemming tobacco, first prize, $20; second, $10. Best sample of Italian tobacco, first prize, $20; second, $10. Best sample f French tobacco, first prize, $20; second, $10. Best sam pie of bright w rappers, first prize, $25; second, $10. Best sample of bright cut ters, first prize, $25; second, $10. B-.st sample of bright fillers, first prize $20; second, $10. Best simple of bright smokers, first priz, $20; second, $10 Best sample of sun-cured fillers, first prize, $20; secon i, $10. Best sun-cured cured wrappers, first prize, $25; second. $10. Best sample of dark shipping bigs first prize, $20; second, $10. Best sam ple of dark manufacturing lugs, first prize, $20; second, $10. Best gencr.l exhibit of dark tobaccos, first prize medal; second, diploma. Best general exhibit of bright tobaccos, first prize, medal ; second, diploma, Best general exhibit of sun cured tobaccos, first prize, medal ; second, diploma. Best general exhibit of all tobaccos, first prize, medal: second, diploma N. C. "Republican Convention. Raleigh, N. C Jas. II. Young (col ored) was made temporary chairman of the Repub ican State Convention last Thucsday. Chairman Eaves said in his opening speech that the pirty was now on the edge of vie ory. In the western part of the State the Democratic part was torn all to pieces. He believed the white Alliancemen, whom he eulogiz ed, would join with the Republicans in procuring local self-government. He believed that if the Republicans stood to gether this year they would cc a victory. He said he agreed "with Butler, of the State Alliance, that there was a cris:s in politics, and called on all the counties to harmonize all intercs's and work together as Republicans to stand to th ir principles and not give up a plank in their platform, national or State. The Republicans most drop all such say ings as"this county or that,county i run by niggers." "He asked that they drop the word 'nigger"' for five years. He said he honestly lelive 1 th Alliance was ear nest in its fforts and if the Dfcmoc;rat'c party did not yield the Alliance would give it trouble The committee on credentials was out may hours settling three county contests. The I'rady men got in from Mecklenburg and the Scurlock roea from Cumberland. V. S. Lusk, of Buncombe, was made pe roanent chairman. The delegates to the National nominat ing convention were elected H. P. Cheatham, by acclamation. E. A. White, J. C. Pritchard and J. C. Dancy. Elec tors nt large were chosen: Spencer Blackbrn, of Ashe, and C. M. Bernard, of Greenville J. B. Eaves and V. S. Lusk were no ni nated for hairman of the Sta'e com miitec. Elves wa elected, receivjng 107 .y-tta, against hU opponent's 50. DANCE OF THE HUNTERS. A CEREMONIAL OF THE PEASANT INDIANS OF MEXICO. A Propitiatory Performance Before a. lenso Thronar of Spectators All the Performers Are Masked. 1 yilESE church dances may be seen in various forms in many parts of Mexico, even in front of one church in the national capi. tal itself, where it is considerably modern ized. The dances before a church are said to be performed by peasant Indians in accordance with vows made for suc cess in their undertakings, as in their ;rops for the year, their herds, and the like. Arrived at the church, we found tho various transactions at their height in the jrard. Vociferous beggars were sending up their appeals for charity in all direc tions; and there were readers of ballads and religious broadsides illustrating the qualities of their wares to wondering listeners, simple-faced and illiterate In dians. The church -yard was abo fiKcd with itinerant venders of various wares, which purchasers were critically examining and bargaining for. Before the church, between the en trance and the great arche 1 gateway, we found a dense throng assembled to wit ness the dancing there. In these swarthy faced, cotton-clad Indiau peasants of Mexico there was the same manner of gazing, the same look of absorbsd amuse ment, that one might encounter along the Broadway curb-stones at the passing of a great processiou. It was the Baile de los Cazadores tho Dance of the Hunters that day. All the performers were masked. Thero were several men dressed in hunting garb and airae l with guns. These men had long and ragged beards and exaggerate l noses. It was a sort of pantomime repre senting the hunting and killing of vari. ous animals, the parts of which wer.j taken by boys. One of these carried on his Bhoulders a huge head representing a lear, an! another a deer, while one bore a stuffed weasel, or something resembling that aoima', on top of his head. While the hunters were stalking their game, some clown-Iikc figures, strikingly resembling toe 'ne wes" and coyamaches" of the Zuni acred dances in their grotesque masks, afforde 1 amusement to the spectators by their comments and aoticsr Instea I of the bare painted bodies of the Z'tui per formers, however, these character wo:o lose garments, some of them white and painted with small crescents and stnrs, and rings that evidently stxxl for thy sun; the attire of .others was yellow, dabbled with red. Most likely these were survivals ft3 old pagan dance characters representing mythological beings of air and fire. Finally one of the hunter took aim; bang! went his gun, and, amid general excitement, the tail of some animal a fox, I believe was flung into the ring. That ended the performance for tbc timebeiug. People now canepuriag out of the church, and the bind ap peared, playing loudly as it walked out backward, succeeded by a company of pilgrims walking iu the same way. So it was kept up all the afternoon. The band would inarch off into a sido street not far from the church, whence it would return at the lr:ad f a frestl iQ Btalment of pilgrims, each holding a lighted candlo in one hand and a stiff in" the othe'. Wheu they had disap peared within the church, the dancers would advance from behind the edifice and repeat their performance. ilarper'a Magazine. A Good Poe'iCl-Knife. The costliest pocket-knives, manufac tured for sale ate retailed at a store in New York City, which sejls nothing but knives- There are 1500 differeot kind on exhibition in the window, ranging in prbe from five cents to $25. The $25 knife is the costliest known.' Tue out side plates of its handle are solid gold, and it contains two small blades" only, a nail file and a miniature piir of scissora. There is a little hook in the handle by which it may 1)3 attache 1 t i the watcS chain. The sales of t :e $23 knife are very slow. The largest knife in America is sup psd to be in Ciucinnuti. It his fifty six blades and a chest of toils ia itself, containing almost anything from a.tooth pick to a cigar punch, from a pair of scissors to a hindsa-. It is for sale at $500 an 1 weighs thirteen poun Is. The largest kuife ever knowj was made by Jonathan .Crookes, a workman or Joseph Rolgers in Sheffield. It had 1821 blades. St. Louis Republic. The Republican National Convention. Minnepolis, Minn. The sub com mittee of the National Repub'ican Com mittee has practically finished its labor here. The committeemen were accorded an informal reception at the hcadfpuar tcrs of the local committee by a commit tee of ladies. The matter of the distri bution of tickets has been settled to the satisfaction of everybody. After a suffi cient number have been taken out for the delegates, the alternates and their friends, and for the press, the remaining tickets will be turned over to the local commit tee to dispose of as it sees fit. These will go in large part to the contributors to the guaranty fund. The tickets will be good for three days. Went Had on TriaL Glasgow, Kt. Henry Ragland, col ored, was p!a-ed on trial Saturday for car breaking. He was .one of many col ored men iuduccd 'to go to work on a railroad in Ac Adirondack!, where he claims a brother was murdered, and he was brutally b:atc-n. Ragland had scarce ly pleaded to the charge when he began to foam and bark. His yells v ere horrible. He attempted to bite the judge and others, and caused a panic in the court room. He was not tried and will die soon. Ragland, it was subsequently learned, was bitten by a rabid dog last August, Southern Progress in a Single Wk. The weekly recorcL of new enterp ie estiblished in the South, as showu by the Manufacturers Record of Baltimore iu its issue of April 15, contains the fol lowing important items: "A $300,000 lumber company at West lake, La. ; a $100,0 K) oil refining company at New Orleans, La; a $100,000 phoshate guano company at Blacksbur, S C. ; a $00,000 manufacturing company at At lanta, Ga. ; a $100,000 lumlcr company at Evans, Ark. ; a $100,000 food con serving company at Wheeling W. Va. ; a $150,000 hominy mill at Henderson, Ky. ; a $40,000 lumber company at Tex arkana. Ark. ; a $100,0CO manufacturing company at Richmond, Va ; a $250,000 mining and smelting company t Bal timore, Md.;a $100,000 distilling com pany a Lexington, Ky; a $ 4 0, 000 cotton mill compaoy at Bamberg, 5. C. ; a $1,000,000 miuing and manufaituiing company at Oilmer, Texas; a $125,000 phosphate company at Floial City, Fla. ; a $150,000 coal and coke company at Frecmans, W. Va. ; a $150,000 ice and brewing company at Houstou, Ti.fis;a $50,000 clothing factory at Dm ham, N. C. ; a $100,000 cotton oil company at New Orleans, Ia. ; a $25,000 quarrying -company at Eureka Spiings, Ark.; a $50,000 hardwa e company at Macon,: Ga; a $100,00!) sysp manufacturing com pany at Savannah, Ga. ; an $80,000 man-': ufacturing company at Lexinton, Ky. ; a $100,000 oil company at Newport, Ky. ; . a $50,001 electric company at Austin, Texas; a $100,000 oil company and a $250,000 stor.e company at Roanoke, Va. ; and a $100,000 coil and coke com pany in McDowell Co., W. Va." Electricity for Health. The value of electricity in hastening the growth and maturity of certain vegetable forms, and in bringing out the vivid colors of flower, promises to be supplemented by a valu3 mire directly useful to humanity. When Pasteur pro- posed to bring young animals up on sterilized railk and fool he openei the way to the idea that the water supply of cities could ba improved, and ba made perfectly harmless, by applying the death-dealing agency of electricity ; to millions of injurious germs floating in it. The sterilizition of water sources by means of electricity may be far In the future, but the fact that the- work Is practicilly demonstrable is sufficient to show that great advances have been made ia tho direction of solving the question of water supplies in cities. Not jess importaut is the agent in destroying life in the sewers of the cities, and in the great mass of garbage aad waste which scatters around every city whole cordons of threatening diseases. An other peculiarity of the powerful agent is that it has results upon tho general health of people similar to those of the sun. In crowded quarters of the cities where the suclight is seldom admitted, electric light is far more conducive to , health than any other mode of lighting. It is still a mooted queition whether it cannot be made to force growth in tho individual as it does in ths plants and flowers of the hothouses where the light is appliel night and day. Yankefl Blade. PastearizeJ Milk. All methods of sterilization that art in use in this country have the disad vantage of giving to the milk the tast which is peculiar to boiled milk, and also of rendering it less easily absorbed by the body. In Franco and German a method has been adopted which ac complishcs the purpose without injuring the taste of the milk. Machines are it use in Paris and somo other cities whicl will heat great quantities of milk to i temperature of about 155 degrees for i few minute?, and then cool it rapidly t a low temperature. Tho method hai been called the pasteurization' of railk. It does not kill all the bacteria, but il docs destroy so many of them that il greatly increases the keeping propcrtiet of the milk. Moreover, it almost en tirely destroys tho danger from disease germs In milk, since nearly all formi likely to occur in railk arc killed by thw temperature. The advantage of thii method is thatv the temperature ol 15J degrees does no.t give to the mitk ; tzV""" taste of boiled milk, which most peoplt find unpleasant, and docs not. render th milk difficult of digestion. fopula Science Monthly. Great Bridge at Memphis Completed. Memphis, Tenn. At 10 o'ebek iron beams closed up the gap in the big canti lever bridge at this point, and the States of Arkansas and Tennessee were joined. The celebration of the opening takes place in the early part, of May, and the United States war ship Concord will steam up the river and take part in the celebration . The bridge cost $3, 000. WO, and, including the trestle work, is. about three miles long. It belongs to the com pany operating the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad. How a Spider Kan? the Rell.' . A correspondent of the Geneva (Switz erland) Tribune relates that his family were disturbed one evening by a myteri ous ringing of the electric bells all over the house Investigating the caue, the writer found that a large spider had es tablished itself at a point where tbc ell and the electric ligbt wires ran close to one auotber, with one leg on either wire, thus cstab'ishing a connection. Ueepln; Tree. Tlie "literature of "weeping trees" is " enormous, much of it being plaialy mythical, but there is a large bsis of fact upon which in st of these marvelous stories rest. 3Uoy travelers have de scribed the famous "rain tree" of Padradoca, ' fsle of Ferro, the most DOtabh; accounts of it appearin g in Peter Martyr Indie OccidenUle" aad Ramusio's f HU. delle Indie." Jo'm Cockburn, 1735, describes a tree at Vera Pas, Central America, from which pure water continually dripped from every 'eaf and branch. St. Louis Republic. Afltlle boy wa cbpke1 to death h Springfield, Ohio, a few days &$o, bj f piece of bread and butter.