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DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, J ULY 21, 1892.
NO. 22 .
Times.
XII K BODY AXI ITS IIEATTH.
Vu i: ok Limk Water. At the
. in-.:- of summer, it i well to call at
: i-iuii to ihi' value of lime wafer. This
. -implf remedy for many summer evils
tV household, and is easily prepared;
t; it i- often forgotten. A teaspoonful
l: n; water added to a glass of milk
r. rt the tendency which milk has to
. : !! it.-in forming a hard, indigestible
.. .. For flit- reason it is frequently
:; -n-d by- physicians to 1m- added to the
. -iaix bottle of children in summer. It
; .lul for ringing oui nursery bottles;
i .t- a mild disinfectant, it is one of
! . -.tb-t we have. To prepare it, place
i;i-r of unslaked lime in a widemouth-
I in and till it pure cold water,
i !i drugyUt use filtered water for this
u jiovf. Lime makes what the chemist
a vihiratcd solution in water, and
tj li i' foie thre is: no danger of putting
' i iiiih Ii lint' in the water. The water
ill take up onlyrso much lime. When
h' water ha only stood a few hours it
. i l have alorlx-d all the lime it is cap-.It-
of receiving. It may then In drained
:1 a. id more water ad. led till tlie lime is
'.-orbed. If von are inclined to acidity
!!' the stomach in tin- 'summer, it is a
; i d plan to add a little lime water to
the water that you drink.
Activity ok tuk Bi u.v.--I)isregard-yi'j;
states of excitement. . which do not
c.iine within the. sivpe of the iptesliou,
the brain o;i healthy man or woman
living a intplcand natural life would le
most activelTs" soon as the pros-ess of
awakening is iiite complete. Hut as the
d amis of civilization gradually abro
gate the proci s; s of n it ure, the period
of highest intellectual activity will vary
u conlini- to the condition of the indi
' Mual mode of life. The brain of the
literary man or the journalist is, as a rule,
most active at night, although a study of
"the lives f -the most celebrated writers
V.ill. it should In- added, '.disclose a wide
variety of jHriod and method of work.
Again, the highest capacities of some
brains are only developed during the
time that the mind is on the lordcr-land
between .sleeping and waking. It is then
that the brain, shut off, as it were, from
the confusing influences of the external
world, seems to cenccutrate its energies
upon its stored-up impressions, to review
them with marvelous accuracy and scope
of vision, and to recombiue into new
shapes and projects for the future with a
clearness and originality unknown in
actual waking life. This faculty is, how-caci-j
almost entirely confined to the high
er orders of intellect.
Vkiemin as Disicask Factors. For
tunately for mankind, the rat is already
. detested a member of the animal king
dom, says the Philadelphia 1 ress; that
the malign and morbific influences which
are laid at its door by Dr. S. E. Weber,
of Lancaster, in a paper read before the
Keystone Veterinary Medical Society of
Philadelphia, w ill add little to its evil
.record as far as the avenge layman is
concerned. Hut Dr. "Weber's investiga
tions into the diseases of nits and rats as
disease-spreaders are no ordinary investi
gations and his.-, discoveries no small
thing. While his work in what is com
paratively a virgin field, at least in this
country, has aroused the greatest iuterest
among, scientists, it is of no less interest
to every one, since, like the poor of old,
the rjits we have ever with us. They are
our unrecognized domestic animals.
Unpleasant in their life, often doubly
unpleasant in their death, the rats iu their
ordinary .state find every man's baud in
stinctively raised agaiust them; but when
lookeiLj$Mn as potent factors in the
spread of contagion, as living sources of
infection,, whereby consumption, diph
theria, skin diseases and other hideous
afflictions are more thau brought to our
doors, the rat becomes the very ersonifi
catior of all that iscftorrible iu vermin,
and gangrened vermin at that ! Through
the diseased rat, as the doctor points out,
disease readies mauby at least three por
tals the cat, the dog, and cattle. Iu the
last case the disease may come from the
infee'ed meat or the poisoned milk.
Thenc three indirect aveuues are consid
erably added to when the possibility
of-diret-contagiou in our houses becomes
an evident factor in the case. The rat is
iio epicure u nice about his habitation.
It is subject to those parasitic and germ
diseases to which the human economy are
especially susceptible, and hence should
be the object of a war of extermination.
In these days of scientific sanitation
the part that the rat plays as a refuse de
stroyer is small indeed. rautitall its
' due on this score, if half of what the
doctor suggests of its evil potencies be
true, the Wnorld were well rid of it, large
tend small and all its kindred. The war
fare should be conducted in such a way
as not to bring on new, while avoiding
special, evils. Just how large a jM'rcent
age of vermin are disease-ridden and con
taminate our food supply., or infect our
household pets, or spread contagion
through the, Jvbuse, . ran be left for the
doctors. to.-decide; but it is wefl that the
public should know that the rat is moro
than a mere desjHjiler of pa u tries and
terrifier of women that its destruction
is imperative. The .shibboleth of medi
cal scheme to-day is the word "preven
tion." Here is "a 'new. field. By limit
ing the rat population we limit an agent
of the disease-producing germ, and so
protect mankind from one source of
affliction. Samson fire-brand foxes in
the wheat-fields, were no more danger
ous than swarms of disease-bearing ro
dents are 'to'rXuman beings. Extermina
tion should, be the order of the day.
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HIS NIGHTMARE.
I First . Tramp Say, Bill, yer look all
broke up; yer must have slept too long.
1 Second Tramp Yer see, I dreamt I
was workin', and I was afraid to wake up'
for fear it might be true. Cloak Jour
nal. IN BAD HUMOR.
My Phyllis met me at the door,
A look of woe her features wore;
Said she, "I think you'd best go back,
For pa has stepped on a carpet tack.1
TO BE SURE.
He Yes, every night before going to
bed I write down my thoughts.
oe lou use ablank book, dont
you ? f Judse
A "petrified canoe is said to be the latest fin4
vi yoniing.
I . , , ; .
OUJl ALLIANCE COLUMN.
Mries Suggested on Hearing of the
Death of Col. Polk.
Some Center Shots and Clippings
For Allianceruen and Others
to Ponder Oyer.
Hlp. Ixrd. for the Godly man o-anb; lb faiih
' t all (com aui.iU)( Hie cbluLeu of iu-n mil-
Wheu Ihe threat law giver iuen1ril
Mount Ntx. hU ll'e to r sign
U 'W m wtre the Cauaau-buuitil peopltf
To enter ami U-avr hltu U-IiIikL.
l-on aiil Ulitt-r ttif dayauf the mourning,
ur of aorriw aud anipilnh l bey hd
Tlwir leader he'd (wen and tto-ir KaMor.
Hlnce from bondage Iu Knt they'd fled.
Now how Mlia.ll we c-rom the liold Jordan.
With now to show us I lie- war.
And who Khali now ord r our ltt!e
They moaned In dlfctritMt in dlinay.
But Uod tbe iMH-t-mKioii apooluted
And tb man with ili IU b-rt -With
a will wnk-h tbe lieav-n irHM-rted
AroHe for the unnnMied tit.
With tha people he crontnl ibv dark water
And atormed the great Jerk-no;
The towerliiK walU lowu came tumbling
When the bostit their war Mart did blow.
And t 'itoaan, the U mi given Canaan.
Wa flear of each ungodly lie
KIuk Auaklm Klant-t dmi powerful
Mnrrendered or died in tbe light.
Fortune untiled ou tbe brave tbe desert
Ke Jolted and liUwimed at the ne;
Hie promlwM all were fulfilled, when
The people had conquered their foe.
The patriot, the statesmen our chieftain
So loved, no esteemed by the Kod,
So exalted In earthly position.
Is called to bis higher reward
Sad tears from their hidden recesses
Klow freely from many an eye;
'TIs we!l we should mourn wben the faithful
The lutef ul drop from us to die.
But tears must not linger, O brother.
Up and doing our order must be;
Ask heaven to direct all our efforts
Till through the dark mystery we see.
Hay the spirit of fatal that's departed
Baptize unto Its wisdom and power
A brother beloved of tbe Order
To hold in this perilous hour
To lead on the boats In their marches
The rest of the wilderness throagb.
To walk with tnem over the Jordan
The war to begin of a new
To storm every enemy's castle
They're built up with silver and gold- -With
silver and gold most lllgotten
Which tbe bard tolling millions should hold
Be strong, be strong, worthy brothers;
lie strong In the might of thy power,
Ood strengthen the weak, the wavering.
Who halt wben the battle cloud i lower.
The Ood whom we tust He will bless us,
lie fought for His people of old:
Tbe auspicious dav needed lengthening.
Too rant It- machinery roUed.
Stand mtiU, sun and moon on Ulbeon.
The leader Invincible cries
The lights In the heavens obey, till
The last cursed Amorite dies.
r,arkewo.d. N. C A. H- P.
CENTER SHOTS.
Whoever controls the volume of money
cf any country is absolute master of all in
dustry and commerce. James A. Gar
field. Liberty cannot loDg endure in any coun
try where the tendeucy of legislation is
to concentrate wealth in the hands of tt
few. Daniel Webster.
That prices will fall or rise as the vol
ume of money be increased or diminished
is a law as uualterable as any law of na
ture. Professor Walker.
If the whole volume of money in circu
lation was doubled, price would double.
If it was increased one-fourth prices
would rise one fourth. John 8ti!ut
Mill.
A, decreasing volume of money and fall
ing pricej have been and are more fruit
ful of human nvsery than war, pestiiem e
and famine. They have wrought uu rc
injustice than all the bad laws ever enact
ed. United States Money Commission.
If a government contracted a debt with
a certain amount of money in circulation
and then contracted the money volume
before the debt was paid, it is the most
heinous crime a government Cuidd com
mit against the people. Abraham bin
coin. The government ouht not to delegate
this power (of issuing money) if it could.
It is too great a power to be trusted to
any banking business whatever. The
people are not safe when such a company
has such a power. The temptation is too
great, the opportunity too easy, to put
up and down, to bring the whole com
munity on its knees to the Neptnnes, who
preside over the flux and reflux of paper
money. Stocks are their plaything with
which they gamble with as little secrecy
and less morality then common gamblers.
Thomas II. Benton.
The ill paid drudge owes society n
thanks.
Every glutton has for his complement
some one who is starving.
Think of thh: every dollar of taxes is
paid our of the net earnings of the tax
payer. Marshall (III.) Acorn : The money pow
er is preparing to fasten the chains of
slavery upon tbe common people.
Uonzalci (Texas) Signal: There can
le no such thiug as money without the
fiat" of the government.
Mountains of wealth and valleys ot
wretchedness lower the mountains and
the valleys disappear.
lie or she who honestly eiforms ihe
humblest necessary work, is as much en
titled to the comforts of life as the Presi
dent himself.
There should uot be nn idle man iu
America while our public ioad are as
poor as at present, and Congress has pow
er to issue raonej .
Anarchy is dangerous; so is small pox.
Neither exist without a cause. The wise
man will remove the cause and prevent
. the danger. '
Protection protects f American labor
does it? And nation id statistics show
tbat American laborers earn au average
of 96 cents per day. Come off.
Debt should le reckoned in work,
and it should tnke no more days of work
to pay a debt than it would hare taken
to pay it when the ebt was contracted.
There is au era rushing this way, in
which the mau who hitn-ns on the ignor
ance, weakness nul pinions of mankind,
will not wear the unnile of respectabil
ity. SILVER AND WHEAT.
The Fanner-" Rcem-d. f Mwoice, Ind.;
gives the following facts and figures show
ing the relation existing bet-- ee the price
of sdver and wheat:
There always has bren a close relation
. between silver bullion and the market
value of whei t und other staple farm
produc s, as the nxenge piice of these
product will show -
In 1872 before silver was demonetize!
by Congress, silvei bullion was wtrth
f I 32 and wheat $1.27 per bushel.
In 1891 ' th- average price of silver
bullion was 1H) cents and wheat 80 cents.
If the cry of a dishonest dollar -ba$ any
foundation, the farmer has equally good
cause, from the affinity of the two prod
ucts, to cry dishonest price for ft bushel
of wheat.
IS THE ALLIANCE DYING
Raleioh, N. C Secretary Barnes
savs more ordcis for application blanks
have been sent to his office for the pa t
thirty days then for the whole twelve
months pre.eding. One sub-fecrttari
writes: We have 29 initiations for next
m 'eting and other applications pending.
Let the brethren Jx;stir themselvts, and
let each one work for the cause as he
never has before. Stand by the Constitu
tion .f your Order, and see that it is not
overridden in your lodge room.
THE COLORED POPULATION.
late of Increase of Persons of Afri
can Descent Only 13.51 Per Cent. "
Washixot. n. D. C The census offici
n last Thnr.-dny issued a bulletii
n ihe sulij-ft of the colored
population of the Cubed Stats in 1890.
The b lllt tin shows that the colored pop
ulation as returned under the census ol
1800 is 7,n:5s,:i,;). of this number,
7,470,040 are pers ns of African descent,
107,475 are Chinese, 2, 0:'.l Japanese, and
5M,M00 o vilized Indians.
Considering persons of African desceut
it is wen that there his leen an iucreac
during the iiecade fiwuT880 to 1890 ol
889,247, or 13 i1 per rent , as against an
increase dining the decade fr -m 1870 to
1880 of 1,700.784 or M.h: ucr cent. Thtr-
bulletin stys: 'The abnormal increase ol
the colon-d population of the South dur
ing the decade ending in 1880 led to the
popular belief that the negro was in
creasing ut a much greater rate than the
white population. Tin? present census
hass'.iown, ho vever, that the high rate
of Increase in tho colored population, as
.shown by the census ot 18S0, was appar
ent only, and was due to the imperfect
enumeration of 18?0 in the Southern
States."
There ha.? been an iu rease in the num
ber of Chinese in the L'nited States dur
ing the decade from 18S0 to 1890 of only
2,010, 1.94 per cent - the number re
turned iu I8811 hcing 10.",4(., and the
number returned in 1890 being 107,475.
The Chinese increased G8.88 per, cent,
from 1870 to 1880. and 80.91 per cent,
from 18150 to 1870
In 1880 the Japanese in the United
States numbered only 148, while in 1890
they numbered 2,029. Iu 1870 there were
only 55 Japanese returned under tbat
census
The civilized Indians have decreased
during the past ten 3 ears 7.001, or 11.45
percent , the number returned in 1880
being 00,407 as agaiust 58,8-jO returned
CHARLESTON POSTMASTERSHIP.
The Nomination of the Colored Doctor
Withdrawn.
Washington, D. C. The President
has sent to the Senate the fo'lowing mes
sage: "I withdraw the nomination which
was sent to the Senate ou the 30th of
June, 1892, of William D. Crum, to be
postmaster at Charleston, S. C. "
Mr. Crum was a delegate at large to
the Minneapolis convention. The SouMi
Carolina delegation wss instructed for
President Harris .11, but w hen the delega
tion reached Minneapolis Mr. ("rum was
considered doubtful, and it is said did
not declare himself for Mr. Harrison un
til the postimutership of Charleston was
promised him. After the convention the
nomination of Mr. Crum was sent to the
Senate and referred to the committee on
post offices and post roads. Meetings were
held iu Charleston protesting against the
confirmation of Mr. Crum, and the dele
gation from South Carolina opposed it be
fore the committee aud proved st-ong
enough to authorize the President to
withdraw it, much to the satisfaction of
the delegation. Mr. Crum is a colored
physician.
Industrial Development,.
Among the mere impoi taut enterprises
organized in the South during, the past
week, as noted by the Manufacturers'
Ilecord of July 15. are the following: A
$15,000 electric lirht company at Kis
simmee, Fla ; a $250,000 machine com
pany at New Orleans, La. ; a :5,000 cotton-seed
oil company at Rust Point, La. ;
ah $80,000 transfer com pauy at Baltimore,
Md ; a $10,000 canning factory company
at Winchester, Va. ; a $100,000 manufac
turing company at Louisville, Ky. ; a $10, -000
electric company at Louisville, Ky. ;
a $12,000 woodworking company at Dur
ham, H. C. ; a $20,000? commcrciil com
pany at Fernaudina, Fla. ; a $10,000 real
estate company at Roanoke, Va. ;a $125, -000
mining and milling company at New
port, Ky.; a $100,000 laud and
improvement company at Baltimore,
Md. ; a $25,000 pearl button man
ufacturing company at Newpoit, Ky. ; a
$100,0)0 brick and tile manufacturing
company at Charlotte, N. C; a $100,
000 ice, water and lighting company at
Klburne. Texas; a $25,000 gas and" oil
company at New Martinsville, W. Va. ;
a $100,004) co-ton mill, cotton-seed oil
mill ami electric light company at Gaflney,
S. C, and a $10,000 par king company
ut Mrnn, Georui-
May Have an Alliance Candidate.
Cotxmcia. S. C. It is not improb
able that a new turn may U' givcu to the
gubernatorial contest by the entrance of
a distinctively Alliance candidate in the
arena. It is ascertained that for some time
prominent Allianceman have been at
work on Seanator W. I). Evans, of Marl
boro, to appear a.s their champion. Sen
ator Evans is a candidate for the con
gressional vacancy caused by the death
of Col. Stackhouse, and it is said that
the fact that the administration has es
poused the candidacy of James Norton
and thus rendered him the more liable to
defeat, induced him to turn a willing
ear to the gubernatorial candidacy idea.
Senator Evans was in the city
and he states that he is not a candidate.
Other sources of information develop the
fact that leading Tillmanites prevailed
upon him not to oppose Governor Till
man, but it is by no means certain that
Evans and those behind him have relin
quished their plans.
fHE LATEST
L NEWS
rnnu
Witt
I'
.Prof II I). Strode, President of Clem
son College. Fort Hill, S. C, hts re
signed, said to be ;from !a quarrel with
Governor Tillman. His successor will b
W. Christie Benet.
Columbia," S. C, is to have a big
Labor Day the first Monday in Septeoi
b : The Republicans of the 5th N. C. Con
gressional district have nominated Ihos.
fettle, of lleidsville,-for Congress W.
P. Bynum, of Giensboro, was nomina'tc
for Presidential fclecjtor.
The Paris Gauloisaays that Prof. Louii
PMsteur's illness will almost certain!)
prove fatal. The distinguished scient s
is suffering from the disease so prevalen1
iu Paris ami which, the authorities cal
cholerine, but which-is declared by roan
experts to be genuine cholera.
Ig alius Donnelly has been named a
the People's Party candidate for Gov
er"nor of Minnesota.
The French are leaving Cauada an
settling in the United States, say ng the;
an earn a better living here.
Ex-Senator Mahone, of Virginia, i
Irving to se 1 to the U. S. Government
fo'r $250,000, a building site iu Wash
ington, D. C, for a new Gove nn.en
Printing office.
EXPLOSION ON LAKE GENEVA.
Twenty-six Killed and Thirty Oth
ers Injured.
Berne, Switzerland. A fright fu1
explosion, occurred on Lake Geneva. The
steamer Mont Blanc wns carrying a con
siderable load of passengers, including a
number of tourists, on th-? lake, when'
the boiler exploded, killed many and
wounding a number of others.
The scene is said to hive been the most
terrible ever wi nessed on Lake Geneva
The excursionists we e quie ly eujoyiug
the beauties of the scene, the weather be
ing delightful and the water placid,
when the explosion occurred, and in an
icsiant the scene of quiet pleasure was
converted into a spectacle of horror and
death.
Not less then tweuty-six ersous were
killed instantly by the jagged iron, pieces
of which swept the boat like grape and
canist.r. About thirty were iuju id, and
their screams and cries of agony could
be hpard across the lake.
Other vessels went to the rescue, and
the injured and those who .had cscsped
injury were rescued from drowning in the
shattered steamer. No Americans, it ap
pears, were amouj; uV dicad or injured.
AN ATROCIOUS MURDER.
The Victim's Skull Fractured and His
Throat Cut From Ear to Ear.
Charleston, S. C 'I he body of J.
M. Shykes, who was murdered near Green
Pond, on the Charleston Mid Savannah
Railroad, was brought to t h Heston
about 2 o'clock. J. Abraham the friend
of the dece .sed, who ieported the crime
to the authorities says it was oue of the
most atrocious murders ever committed
in the State; and, in addition to having
his head fractured, his throat was cut
from ear to ear.
As was at first supposed, robbery is
Sroven to have been the motive. It was
iscovered that the crime was committed
by Jeffrey Meyers. He was pursued by
Eosse of c -nstables, but evaded 1 apture
y swimming the Ashepoo river. They
are hot on his trail ami will probably
capture him soon
The Boycott Will Be Used.
Homestead, Pa. In discussing the
situation, Hugh O'Donnell said: 'We
will fight this strike out on legitimate
line 4. Many people think we iutend en
deavoring to maintain our position, by
lawless means. Such never was our in
tention. The. workman's only effective
weapon, the boycott, will be employed,
and we w ill endeavor to strike a blow at
Carnegie's every industry. I'll guarantee
theie will be no harm offered non-nniou
men coming here, but I cannot offer th;
same protection guarantee to Pink 1 ton ,
for cverv man, woman and child iu
Homestead goes wild at the mention of
one
Negroes Going to Homestead.
Richmond Times,
Messrs. S. T. Moorman & Co., ol
Lynchburg, have forwarded another car
load of colored men to Pittsburg, by way
of the Chesapeake & Ohio. They were
gathered up on the lice of that road be
tween Lynchburg and Richmond A d
though the men profess not to know he
work they had engaged to jM ifonn, it is
surmised that their destination is Home
stead. Pa., and that they re intemle. I to
have a part iu the solution of the l.-ilor
tr ubles at that place. 1 heir resence
there may cause a reuewal of the disturb
ances which have made the Carnegie
mills so notorious.
Toughs for Homestead.
Pittsburg, Pa. A siK-cial to
he
Leader from Cincinnati sajs it is known
to be a fact that a local detective agency
has for several days been gathering ineu
for Homestead. Since Sunday 280 men
have been secured and every one is now
in Pittsburg or its immediate vicinity.
The last lot left Wednesday night. The
men are stout, brawny fellows, but aie
toughs. Scarcely any of them know a
thing about mill work. They were hiied
t vsies ranging frorn $3 to $".
No Sunday Opening.
Washington, D. C, The Senate !
passed a bill requiring the closing ol tin
World's Columbian Expo itiou of "the
first day of the w ek, commonly called
Sunday." Mr Peffer m .vcd further
amendment: 'The sale of iu toxical i
liquors on the said ex oitioo grounds
shall be prohibited except fo: medicinal,
mechanical and scientific purpose,"
a hich was carried 25 to 2&
TO FBEE SD.YER.
The Bill Is Killed in the House of
Representatives.
The Vote Was Teas 36, the Nays
15t--Mr. McKeighan Sat
Down Upon.
Washington. D. C-House j Not
Mnce the silver bill was under considera
tion last April, has the House of Repre
sentatives contained so many members as
were p eseut this in. ruing. Even before
the House assembled there was largely
more than a quorum resent, aud the
members were engaged in discussing he
probable resu't of the silver battle. A I
though the d-iy was hot, the attendance
in the galleries was conspicuously large
A number of private pension bills which
had been considered in eommitb e of the
whole last night were passed, after which
Mr. Catcnings, Democrat, of Mississippi,
called up the resolution from the com
mittee on rules, setting apart to day aud
tomorrow for the-consideration of tbe
silver bill, and demanded the previom
question on its adoption.
Mr. Reed, Repub ican, of Maine,
claimed ihat he had a right to move to
lay the resolution on the table before the
previ us (juestiou was put
The Speaker s -id the gentleman from
Maine could uot take the gentleman from
Mississippi off the floor and could only
obtain it if the latt r should yield to him.
Mr. t atchiutrs inquired if he had a
had a right to portion out his time.
The Speaker replied affirmatively, Mr.
Catchings having yielded to Mr. Blaud,
Democrat, of Missouri, the discussion
began.
Mr. Bartine, of Nevada, followed, sup
posing ths bid.
Mr. Clarksou threw a bombshell iuto
frte silver camp by opposing the passing
of the bill. Eveu if it passed here the
President would veto it, he said, and this
would be giving th-111 a club with whiih
to injure the I) mocratic party.
Mr. Forma 11. Democra , of Illinois, fol
lowed with a similar speech.
Mr. Patterson, Democrat, of Tennes.se ,
also surprised the free silver men In
speaking against the bill.
Mr. Catchings: I now yield to the
gentleman from Maine.
Mr. Reed made a lengthy speech, gen
erally criticising the Democratic party,
and threw a great deal of wit and sar
casm into it, causing roars of laughter on
both side the House.
Mr. P.erce, Democrat, of Tennessee,
aud Mr. Culberson, Democrat, of Texas,
suppor.cd the bill.
The yeas and nays were called for by
Mr Tra ey. The House was in compara-tve-quitt,
the members leaving their
seats after voting, and before the roll call
had proceeded very far it was evident
that the resolution was dead. Before the
vole was announced Mr. Livingston,
Democrat, of Georgia, moved to adjourn,
but the speaker gave the result of the
vote and then inquired: ''Does the gen
tleman from Georgia move to adjourn ?"
"Not now," was the reply.
The vote resulted: Yeas 136, nays 154.
Upon the announcement of the vote,
Mr. McKeighan, Democrat, of Nebraska,
a member of the coinage committee and
a pronounced free silvir advocate, claim
ed recognition from the chair. lie stood
in the main aisle and plainly showed his
chagrin.
Speaker Crisp asked : "For what pur
pose does the gentleman rise?"
"To make a motion."
The Speaker: "The gentleman will
state it "
Mr. McKeighan: "I move to adjourn,
if Wrall street"
But before he could conclude the sen
tence his voice was drowned with cries
of "rats," and other unseemly invectives.
The Speaker rapped him to order with
his gavel.
Thus ended tbe attempt to pass the
silver bill, which promised to be more of
n c-jutest, and the House proceeded with
the consideration of the conference re
. .rt a private claim bill.
DID HE SHOOT HIS BROTHER?
An A tempt at Murder from Ambush
Which May Result in Fratricide.
M autos, S. C -About, ten days ago
A. G Amnions, one of the most promi
1 ent planters of Marion county, was shot
by some unku wn person in ambush 011
ihe roadside
The shooting was at night, and no on
was picsent but the a.ilant ami his v c
tint The weapon used was a doub e
barrelled shotgun. . I'oth barrels wer
discharged. At the second fire Mr. Am
nions fell, severely wounded He cou'd
not tell who shot him andaid he had 110
personal enemy. He reasoned he must
have been mi taken for another. A few
t'avs after the shooting circumstances de
veloped which pointed strongly to Mr.
Amnion's brother, E. R Amnions, as the
assailant. He was arrested, cbaged
wi h the crime, but was released 011 bail.
This morning it was kscertained that the
conoition of the wounded man was very
eii ical, and the broiher was snr endered
:o the authorities. He is now iu iail
Gold Coins in a Duck's Gizzard.
From the Atlanta Consti utio.
lii.AKET.Y, Ga. I noticed the olhe
day a Pekin duck that was moping alum
and m-ikiug strange motions with it
head. I decided from its actions that i
had some foreign s ibstance in its diyes
tive organs and would consequently die
I therefore resolved to make an exaraina
tion and see what it was On opening
the duck I found, to my surpr se !
pieces of gold and a cartridge huP. '1 1
g Id pieces were too badly worn to te.
of whit denomination the were, but
thiuk they must have leeii on dob
pieces The cartridge hull was It wo.
away and gone except the bead
jfirst Bale of the New Crop.
Galvestoh, Tex. A special dis
patch from Houston says: "The first
bale of this year's cotton crop, consign d
to the Houton Cotton Exchange, reach
ed here and was classed by the committee
as seven-e ghths strict middling and one
eighth strict low middling.
THE OIL CRAZE RECALLED
ROMANCE OP THE VALIdSY OF OIL
CHEEK IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The First Discoveries and Wonderful
Development Scenes ot a Quarter
of a Century Ago.
OIL CREEK, which brought such
dire calamity to Pennsylvanians
living . within the valley
through which it finds its way
to the Alleghany River, has a strange,
eventful history. A little more than
one-quarter of a century ago people
were.rushing there on the tide of wild
excitement and speculation, making and
losing fortunes in a single day. Cities
rose as if by magic, progressing for a
time, then gradually disappearing, until,
like Babylon, not a vestige of the towns
remain. These tcities" were the civic
wonders of the world, and a story of
the rise and fall of many of the towns
along 'the "creek" would read like a ro
mance ot Jules Verne or a tale of the
Arabian Nights.
Titusville was the fountain head of
operation in the early oil excitement. At
the time of drilling the Colonel Drake
well, the first artesian oil well ever bored
iuto the ground, Titusville was a strag?
gling village of fifty to seventy build
ings with a population of less than three
hundred people. Previous to 1849 or
1850 all the oil which had been gathered
from the oil springs found along Oil
Creek was offered to the people as pos
sessing medicinal qualities, aud a drug-,
gist by the name of Biers, residing in
Pittsburg, prepared this oil in bottles
ornamented with -lithographed wrappers
representing the good Samaritan turning
out the oil to the invalids of humanity.
The first oil gathered on the "Creek',
sold ai high as $1 to $1.50 per gallon.
Titusville subsequently began to increase
in importance. In.. 1870 its population
was 10,000, and byJ 1874 it probably
contained a population of over 13,000.
The decline of the o.l field on Oil
Creek did not materially affect Titus
ville, though it now contains but about
8000.
Sunday, August 25th, 1859, oil was
discoveied in the Drake well. From
that time commenced the development
of the oil territory along Oil Creek, the
richest oil producing section that the
world hai' ever known. The news of
"striking oil" at the Drake well spread
with great speed through all sectious of
the country. Companies were organ
ized, and people from far and near be
au gathering aboit the section, leasing
land or buying it, whichever they could
do, until between Titusville and Oil
City the valley wa3 'dotted with thou
sands of derricks.
In the early development of the oil
industry the fluid wa found within 145
to 175 feet of the surface, but it was
not until 1863 or thereabouts that the
"third sand" developments had been
discovered. Oa the' Staexpole farin,next
below the Drake well, Orange Noble be
gan drilling a well early in 1860. At
that period the "spring-pole" was used
to drive the drill, and this process was
usually termed "kicking down" a well.
The Stackpole farm had been secured on
a lease, the stipulation being that the
le3see should at once begin operations,
testing the territory to a depth of 134 feet.
The well reached this depth late in 1860
with no show of oil, and was shortly
after abandoned. The property could
have been purchased for far less than
the expense of putting down the 'well.
In 1863 oil had been found in .' large
quantities in tho "third sand" strata,
and Mr. Noble in connection with
Gearge B. Delemater, again took up the
abandoned enterprise, and sthc well was
drilled to a depth of 452 feet, at which
depth the oil rock was reached. A
"crevice" was discovered ten or twelve
inches in depth. The owners had some
trouble in securing tubing, but in due
time is was received, in a roundabout
way, and after a few minutes' pumping,
the weli begsn flowing oil and water,
throwing a stream higher than the der
rick. Mr. Noble despatched men on
horseback down the Creek to notify boat
men that they could have oil at $2 per
barrel. The following day one hundred
boats lay in Oil Creek near tbe well, be
ing filled with oil from a tank connected
with the well. Fifty men were em
ployed day and night constructing seven
and eight hundred barrel tanks. AU
the tanks that could be secured in the
vicinity were being fllleJ. In the first
twenty-four hours nearly three thousand
barrels of oil were tken from the well
and the average was over two thousand
barrels daily for over ten months 1 Du
ring the first year nearly one million bar
rels were secured from this well, aver
aging $4 per barrel, and even the first
month's shipments quoted 61,300 bar
rels, with 15,000 bin-els stored in the
tanks and one-half as much more wasted.
It is pretty safe to say that the Noble
well produced iu the first month of ita
history almost one-half million barrels
of oil. From the time of the Noble
well's inception oil tom from $4 up to
$10, then to $12. eve j so ne of the pro
duct of this wonderful well yielding the
owners $13 per bin t!.
At one time in the '60"s t'ie valley of
on Crfk. between Tituville and Oil
City, a distance of eighteen miles, must
have contained i population of nearly
seventy Mousaud people people of all
castes and conditions of life. Petroleum
Centre assumed tbe proportions of a city.
Vith its tioatiug population it mut
have often held within its confines more
than twelve thousand people. It knew
no night of rest, although it contained
move than fifty hotels. Osrer one hun
dred Uriukiog and gambling dens pros
pered. The present population ot Pe
troleum Centre is probably les? than one
uundred and fifty.
Below Petroleum Centre wa the fa
mous Widow ilcCIintock or Steele farm.
Ira. McCiintock was burned to death
rhile attempting to kindle a lire wib
rude oil. Tbe farm fell to ner adopted
on, Jo'jn W. Steele, afterard known
iroughout tiie country a "Coal Oil
.. . . .1 f lL
Ionnny. At oue tune mis una a weaiui
vas almost fabulous. Thousands of
barrels of oil were being produced from
the farm. Well3 were located upon if
ilowing from six hundred to one thou
sand barrels of oil daily. At about this
t ime crude oil was bringing from $3 to
$10 a barrel, and Steele's royalties were
enormous. It has been said that his in
come was at one time $5 a minute 1
This, without doubt, was an exaggera
tion. But at least his income amounted
to thousands of dollars each week. Ho
became a profligate spendthrift, lie
would purchase a hotel in order to turn
some guest out of a favorite room which
he wished to occupy. He presented a
cab-driver in Philadelphia with a hand
some carriage and a splendid team. But
the McCiintock wells began to decline.
One after another went dry. The prop
erty passed out of the hands of Steele.
His income ceased. Again he found
himself poorer than when oil was found
upon his land. "Coal Oil Johnny" sub
sequently rifted to Nebraska, where ha
became, I believe, an agent for a reaper
company.
The amount of o!l produced in the Oil
Creek Territory will never be known.
Iu ten years more than 60, 000, 000
barrels must have been taken from the
valley. Thousands upon thousands of
barrels were wasted in one way and
another. If in ten years the amount of
oil produced, on an average, f4 perDar
rel and the average of 1862 to 1870
was was $4.30 we should have a grand
total of over $200,000,000 as the valuo
of the entire production for a field which
produces very little oil, and which has
been so recently devastated, causing so
great a loss to life and property. Boston
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LAW AND ORDER AT HOMESTEAD
The Militia Arrived. Peace Again.
Homcstkad, Pa. Law and order have
been once more established in Idomestead.
It is martial law and Major General SnotV
den is dictator.
The advisory committee of the Amal
gamated Association called on General
bnowden, atCrintou, during the night
and told him of the decision reached at
the mass meeting of strikers yesterday,
to receive the militia with bands and ho
sannahs. Gen. Showdeu said he did not
want anT demonstration and refused in
formation as to the time his division
would arrive in Homestead. The lodges
'of workingmen that expected to form in
to bodies aud give formal wclcomijto the
militirywere not called iuto service.
Some were disappointed, many were not.
Between 9 and 10 o'clock a boy rushed
down the main street in Homestead to
wards the railroad station and shouted
to th people that the soldiers had ar
rived. The people rushed from 'their
places of business towards tho hills near
the Carnegie Works. Women and chil
dren flew to doorways and looked with
frightened glances up anddown thestreets
The warning of Burgess McLuckio in
his proclamation for women and children
to keep .indoors failed of its purpose,
aud petticoats fluttered in the wind, the
wearers keeping pace with the throng
hurrying in the direction indicated by the
sound of mart ill music.
Up the big hill overlooking the town
and adjacent to the Carnegie plant, the
wearied, tired militi.imen toiled in the
broiling sun to the places assigned them.
The regiment marched into the borough
bands playing and flags flying; but there
was no cheering. Lints of pickets guard
ed the approaches to the mills. ' A pro?
vost guard took possession of the borough
itself. The pickets of the workingmen
had disappeared, and recognized law and
order reigned.
At no time while the troops were as
sembling was there any attempt nt re
sentment on the part of the workingmen.
Some of them objected to being stopped
by guards on the roads leading to the
Carnegie Works. It was the County
road, they said, and no damned soldiers
could block it. Their friends drew
them away and a disturbmce was .avert
ed. Such is Homestead to day. Strang
ers parade the streets feeling secure in
the presence of troops. These outsiders
who knew the danger that threatened
them during the uncertain days of last
week breathe freer. The workingmen
did not express their feelings. They are
divided in sentiment as to the militia, but
on one poiot they are firm if any more
Pinkerion men are brought to watch the
Carneffie Works there will be bloodshed.
How to Preserve a Piano.
"In spite of all the efforts of tha
makers,", said a piano tuner recently, "I
do not believe there is one piano in oaa
hundred that, with ordinary parlor use.
will stand in tune more than two months.
An unskilful musical ear, it is true, wilt
fail to detect any important discord in a
piano for six months, or perhars longer;
but no cultivated ear can tolerate ths
discordant notes that the best piano will
in9istupon giving out after two months
of use.
"When you think once that the steel
wires and iron frames of a piano are al
ternately contracting and expanding
under the variations of the surrounding
atmosphere, giving a constant movement
of the wires and a consequent change in
the pitch and tone of . tno . instrument,
the impossibility of a piano maintaining
a perfect tone for any length of tima.
must be at once apparent, and if you
will but reflect on the surprising fact
that the tension of the strings of a
piano causes a strain on the body of th.
in itrumeat equal to the weight of 100,
000 pounds, you will doubtless agree
with me that piano tbat will remain in
perfect tune for a year is an instrument
that must necessarily be of extreme
ranty, if not impossible to make.
"A piano, good, bad or indifferent,
when new, should be tuned once I
month. The longer an inttramect re
mains uctuaed the lower its pitch "of
tone becomes; an 1 when it is desired to
have the piano drawn to concert pitch
the strain cn the body of the instru
ment is greatly increased, so much, in
fact, that the case is liable to yietd
gradually, necessitating a second
tuning within a week, or two weeks at
the furthered. It is a common errur
among non-professional piano players to
think a piano should remain in tune at
least a year. Professional know bet
ter." New York Prea
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