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VOL. II.
DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1892.
NO. 29.
Times.
IHBEB ' STATES' tfKIrS.
graphic Dispatches From Many
Telegr P Points of Interest.
-Fields of Virgma, North and
Suth Carolina Carefully
8 Gleaned For News.
VIRGINIA.
,v:,,jt(fl for making 'vilr'fied bricks
en tii covered near Roanoke ,
;huau'ioah Valley fair at. Win-
tl,:erWtjnbu' 131C
rc the fr-t of January next the Lynch-
la ;C')'t Mi!ls wiu have 20000 si,in
The Str I'nt:ll Association in session
f RoC,ri i;c Alu n has made arrange-
ntsto ;tt ml the Columbian Dental
CoDjre- a? Chicago in 1893.
Thepi'J- tobacco shipments of Dan
"lefer V'o1 amounted to 524,502
T'ounH i ' l tlie eight months of this
4.:i ."-.'j pounds.
" f.rlv !- red laborers left Roanoke
tfcW-'i .y f' i Pittsburg, where the j
j.ve , ; . i w oik in the iron mills of
tli'tt J -
V;;iiT M a well-known farmer, who
refill"'"' Harper's Ferry, died very
i.j,:?:'v '.f apop'exy last , week. lie
H (S " - .
S,m' i- t i-ns of King George county
lav.- l'-cTi without rain many weeks, and,
fl; a con- j"1 'if all vegetation is with
ering 'I; j':iruhir.g. The corn yield will
i , ; . , .t-i aveiage, and fallowing for
T,(,,t i- :i impossibility.
JtH -M. Levy has one oil painting
in l.i M -ititello mansion which cost
f:;0.("": together, the old home of
Thoiii t- .k-lTtrson i3 now one of the most
f0St!v furiiished in America To keep
the h j-t'-rit al estate in splendid condition
jg Mr. Levy's pride.
NOFTH CAROLINA.
A j l "i h n foit. to build a femile
colU-g- :t Salisbury.
A f tiiirr near Charlotte ha3 started a
squirrel farm and charges hunters sc
much an hour..
Th'- S ate Uuiveraity opened with 2-50
8(u lc ii!,, :iii1 the roll promises to reach
400 timing th'e year.
TLi- farmers of Mecklenburg county
lave this yer gone into the cultivation
of sii.'t" cane quite extensively, and mo:c
ill be grown tlicrd this season than eve
before known since the war. The syrup
s-IIs rt.idily for from forty to sixty cents
per gallon.
OTHER STATE3.
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rioters have been jailed.
The Southern Pacific is preparing to
handle a heavy rice crop along its Louisi
ana division. General Manager Krutt
fichnitt, of that road, states that the crop
tiiis year is the finest ever raised. He
expects to see great results from rice cul
ture iu Texa?, which is now in its incip
ience The executive committee of the Florida
Fruit Exchange hive advised all growers
to hold th ir oranges at $1 50 per box on
the tree for the coming, season.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
C'n Aur.ETON, S. C George W. Mur
r,i j colore 1, was nominated for Congress
iu the erenth district by the Republican
nnmiuati reconvention Thursday.
The Tiii i tl nnitv rnnrrrpssinn.il rnn
vt nt i.in-of the s veoth Georgia district,
met at C'ai tersville. Seaborn Wright was
nminuUd ! acclamation, and the na
tii'iia' iuid Mate . tickets of the Third
parly ndi-ied.
F -trf ;tor nine.", in an interview, in
d 'iiu.l tint tlu- K. publicans of Mississip
pi intend iu whatever aid they can
to the Tli in I pty ticket.
The' Republicans of Sou'h Cart)lina are
talking of nominating for (Jovernor,
Fii'lv Mt lton, one of thu leading Na-
"ial IJvpubli. ans of the Jtate.
M. J. Snivcly, a former resident of
' if iD, W. Va.. is the Democratic lom
in. f,,; Governor iu Washington.
'! h i? J. Cobb was nominated for Con
i:i by the Third arty convention
whiih met at Lyuchburg Va.
( onressman Henry Cabot Lodge has
finn mneed himself as a caudidate for the
I :i ted States Fenatorship in Massachu
setts, to succeed Senator Dawes, who will
it i he at the end of the present term.
It is said that when Don M. Dickin
was at Gray Gabks a few days ago,
!: urged upon Mr. Cleveland the expe
':! in y of inviting Senator Hill to visit
t';vi ."and that Senator Hill has said that
lu- would go should he be invited.
Milwaukee, Wis. At the Democratic
State Convention here, Governor Peck
iiud the entire State ticket were renomi
i ;ited by acclamation.
THEY KILLED THE DOCTOR.
Beputy ShTerifls " Went to Arrest Dr.
Lyon and He Shot at Them.
VVinnemissett,Fla. Dr. D. S. Lyon,
n leading physician of the State, waehot
1 nioriaily wounded by Deputy Shcr
i PerkiDS and Austin at 5 o'clock in
ie afternoon. He was resisting arrest.
f. Lyon, presumably in a fit of tempo
i iy insanity, shot at his wife aid hi
t: teen year-old daughter. A warrant
'as sworn out ngaiust him, and th;
h puties went out to make the arrest.
"W lien Perkins presented the warram
Lyon firei at him, but missed. Ther
IVikbisani Austin returned the fire,
shooting seven times. Only two shot
t'ok effect, one above Lyon's left eye
an 1 lodging in the skull, the other be.
tvveen the eyes and penetrating the brain.
Dr. Mel!e;ta. who was immprliatplv
called to attend the wounded man, says
tnere is uo hope of his recovery.
versifies of Berlin, and of Yale College,
ciass of '56. He is a'so a prominent
Deracuatic politician.
A Plain Farmer for Congress.
Danville, Va. The People's party
eicj a convention at Martinsville and
animated Calvin L. Martin, of Franklin
flinty, for Congress from the fifth dis
Ma,lin is a plain farmer, and he
-ever -before been in politics.
"r; V- n 1S 03 3 ears old a graduate of
'he University of Virginia, the University
of the City of New York, one of the uni
ANOTHER MONEY CROP.
Piff Culture in the South Easy and
Profitable.
Raleigh, N. C The New York papers
ay fresh figs are being snipped to New
York from California. If tbis is so why
can not we here in North Carolina send
them in much better condition. To-day
(July22d) figs are retailing in Raleigh
markets for twecty-five cents per peck
and the crop from tow until frost will be
very large. I am g ing to make an ex
perimental shipment for the benefit of our
growers and believe thrt they can be
shipped in strawberry boxes and crates
just as wcll,or better, than strawberries
are. Figs all over Eastern North Caro
lina can be grown as successfully and ol
as fine quality as anywhere in California,
and if we once get our slow people stirred
up to their interest in the matter, thev
are sure to 'git thre" in lhe end. The
interest in the fig crop is increasing here.
I have distributed in the last three years
over 6, COO fig trees from the North Caro
lina 8 ation of our thirty varieties of the
choicest figa of Italy and the Levant, and
am beginning to see some of the results.
We have ha-J recently San Pearo figs,
which weighed a quarter of a pound each.
These were of the firnt crop, .which is
always large in size of fruit. The?e early
figs set in late autumn and remain dor
mant all winter and swell out in spring
when the winter is not so severe as to in
jure them! Many of them get nipped by
frost and the early crop is never so large
as the later ones. The second r main
crop is now coming on, and is unusually
abundant, end will be until frost
I have suggested to onr growers and
wish to lepeat it here, to take the figs
when ripe, but not too soft, wrap each
in tissue paper and pack snugly in
strawberry boxes, and then pack in crates
not longer than thirty-two in a crafe, and
I am, sure they will reach the northern
cities in good order.
A number of farmers have written to
me for directions for drying figi. I have
found the following the best plan : Take
well-ripened, figs, make a strong lye of
hardwood ashes, dip the figs in the lye,
rinse and wipe dry with a soft cloth,
and dry in any of the cheap, portable
evaporators. When dry pack in boxes
just as figs are packed abroad. A lye
made of washing soda will answer, but
is not so good as wood ashes lye. The
object is to remove the acidity of the
skins. The figs can also be treated in
this way and then instead of drying,
preserve them in the old-fashioned way,
in syrup : Put them up in glass jars with
neat lithograph labels and they will "sell
like hot cakes." Many a southern lady
could make money in this way. A little
ginger root with them is an improvement.
Here is an industry which our Southern
people ought surely todevelope.
I met one of our leading farmers to day,
a mcmber of our Board of Agriculture.
He said that our work here has brought
about a wonderful enthusiasm for the
culture of cow pease in the State, and
that in this section more are being sown
than he ever knew. Formerly from his
station a number of car loads were ship
ped annually to New Orleans for seed,
but . this year they were hard to get at
any price, as the farmers were using
the seed on their own land. I had great
difficulty in getting seed pease wanted
for parties North who are taking aa in
terest in the crop. Here is another open
ing for our Southern folks. Hundreds of
farmers are trying these pease in localities
too far North to ripen them well. They
are fiuding them valuable, and the de
mand will annually increase. Our farmers
should grow them not only for the benefit
of their soil, but for the sale of seed. You
cm not go wrong in this matter. There
will be a; greater demand every year for
this valuable crop and our growers should
be prepared to meet it. At preseut the
balance of the trade is against the South
and many goes away from us northward,
but it is in our power, with the wonder
ful variety of crops we can grow to change
all this, get the balance on our side and
thus make the money stay here. Grow
Eease for sale of seed, grow peae to feed
ogs and stop sending money North for
bacon ; and, finally, grow pease to prepare
your land to grow more of everything
else. All through the upper Piedmont
country of North Carolioa, there is the
finest wheat soil, naturally, in this country,
and the people are attempting to grew
cotton when wheat on pease fallow would
bring thera more money, and would en
able them to keep stock and make man
ure and all the products of the dairy. I
ate to day cheese made at our experiment
station by Prof. Emery, frier than can be
bought to-day in Raleigh at twenty cents
per pound. All of Piedmont N. C, can
make good cheese even if tbey can not
make a market for butter. It will be a
happy day for the hill country when they
quit cotton on most of their lands and go
into wheat, grass, pease and cows.
W. F. Massey.
Personal.
Joseph L. Vandiver, an ex-Confederate
soldier, died in Clarke county, Va.,
last week- He was one of the party that
entered Cumberland, Md , during the
late war and captured Gens. Crook and
Kelley.
Rila Kittridge, an expert microscopic
penman of Belfast, Me , has written sev
eral of Gladstone's speeches upon a single
pos'al card and sent the curiosity to the
Liberal leader.
Four citizens of Winnipeg have left
th it city for a carriage drive to Jackson
ville, Fla., 2,50i') miles. After spending
the winter in Florid they will return by
way of the World's Fair.
Riotous Conduct of Striking- Millers.
Rhinklasdeb, Wis. -Owing to the
riotous conduct of the striking mill hands
here, warrants were sworn out for the
arrest ol 300 men on the charge of riot
ing. A delegation of mill owners have
left for Madison to lay the matter before
the Governor and ask that the militia be
sent here to protect their property. Not
a saw mill is running. The Sheriff is
unable to secure sufficient deputies to
protect the mills. Fifteen hundred men
are out. '
Mrs. John A. Logan is organizing a
woman's league to extend all over the
country for the purpose of raising $1,
OO.Of 0 as an endowment fund for a wo
man department in the $10,000,000
American University of the Methodist
Church to be built at Washipiton.
A. BLOODTHIRSTY VILLAIN
He Seems to Have Reveled In Murder
ing His FeUowmen.
But Meet His Death By Law at Wist
Court House.
Wise C. H., Va. Governor McKin
uey having refused to interfere, Talton
Hall paid the penalty of his innumerable
murders on the scaffo'd here to-day (Fri
day) . The Sheriff took all possible pre
cautions against a threatened res
cue, and a company of State troops
were present to aid the large ferce of
special deputies in preserving order.
Talton Hall's criminal record has pro
bably never been paralleled in the United
States. He is credited with ninety-one
murders, and -while this is probably an
exaggeration there is no doubt that he is
responsible for the death of at least two
score men. He was born in Luther coun
ty, Kentucky, 46 years ago, and grew up
with such desperadoes as John Wright,
who is credited with twenty-seven mur
ders, and the "Doc" Taylor against
whem he is now to bitter.
These men joined Guerilla Morgan's
band when the war broke out, and made
themselves conspicuous for their deeds
of reckless daring. When the war end
ed they returned to Kentucky and inaug
urated a reign of terror in the mountains.
Murders were the daily amusements of
the gang, and although they were fie
quently arrested, the ttrror which they
inspired insured their acquittal when
brought to trial. It was well known
that any juror Avho v ted to convict any
of the desperadoes would be marked by
their friends, and as a consequence they
always escaped.
In this way Hall was acquitted of the
cold blooded murder of Henry Maggard,
in 1866.' He killed Dan Pridemore m
1875, and was acquitted; a cowardly jury
acquitted him of Nat Baker's murder in
1881; and he went free when he murder
ed his brother-in-law, Henry Triplett, in
1882 He killed Henry Houk in 1883,
and was indictid, but no officer dared
arrest him, and in 1885 he killed his
cousin, Mack Hall, and laughed at the
Sheriff who tried to arrest him. Finally
on July 14, 1891, he deliberately mur
dered Chief of Police Hylton, of Norton,
Va.
By this time public sentiment was too
strong for him and he fled the country.
He was captured at Memphis. Tenu ,
however, and brought back for trial.
He was duly tried and convicted. An
appeal to the Supreme Court resulted in
an affirmation of the sentence, and tin
Governor refused to commute it.
The South at the Buffalo Exposition.
Buffalo Courier .
The feature of the fair unquestiouab'y
has been the Southern exhibit. To see
cotton growing in the fields, picked,
ginned, f pun, and woven into cloth as it
is now dono by the most modern machin
ery, by the side of the old looms, "wind
ing blades," hand-picking, and old way
of making -homespun" practiced by our
grand mothers 50 years ago, was truly an
object le -son in progress to the thousands
who daily witnesset this work going in
the Expositioa building.
Another department of this Southern
exhibit interesting to many has been the
turpentine industry as shown in the ex
cavations in the forest tree, "chipping,"
collecting the product and its distillation
into oil and the manufacture of rosi i. A
lar:;e collection of growing plants was iu
exh bits showing- the sugar cane, sweet
potato, peanut, Indian, corn, r'ce and
other staple p-otlucts of;the South, while
in the contribution from Florida were to
be seen i incapples, bananas, oranges,
lemons, figs, and other tropical fruits in
the growiug state. The Florida contri
bution w also accompanied by a pond
oT live alligators, wh le the wild beasts
and game from all States in the South
were shown, including the bear from his
native jungles, the praveyard rabbit, the
scaring cglf, and the meloiious mock
ing bird
In a picture gallery 100 by 110 feet
space in another part of the buildiug
were to be seen pho ographs of Southern
farms, factories, schools, churches, private
residences, banks and public buildings,
scenes at Winter Park, Jacksonville, and
St. Augustine, Florida; Marion, Colum
bia, Aiken, South Carolina; Winston,
Charlotte, and Tokay, and Southern
Pines, in North Carolina; Anniston,
Florence and Birmingham, and many
other places in the Southern State, read
ily recognizable. In this i allery also
could be setn the photographs of Gov
ernors Buckner, of Kentucky; Buchanan,
of Tennessee; Fowle, of Nerth Carolina;
Fleming, of West Virginia; and their
State officers, together with officers from
other Southern States.
But by far the most interesting feature
of this exhibit which attractel most at
tention from our business men was the
collection of hardwoods, ores, minerals,
and phosphate rock The South 6urcly
possesses wonderful resources, and the
percent ge of increase In manufacturing,
mining, railroad building, and passenger
traffic in the last decade as shown by sta
tistics is tiuly gratifying
A Memphis Blackmailing Scheme.
Memphis, Ten:.'. The "upper ten"
of Memphis society is shocked over the
exposure of a bold and partially success
ful attempt to blackmiil James Younge,
a prominent and wealthy cotton factor,
by a newspaper carrier named R. H. King
and h's wife., Younge very recently re
ceived a note from King's wife, who is a
buxom blonde, inviting him to call at her
residence. Younge accepted the invita
tion. W hen he arrived at her residence
YouDge was received by Mrs. King in
her private apartments. A few moments
after h;s arrival King burst open ' the
door and covered the intruder with a
revolver. King demanded $5,000 on the
fpet as a balm for his wounded honor.
Young had no money with him but
King compelled him to sign $5,000 worth
of notes, secured by a mortgage on Mem
phis real estate. Young was then allow
ed to depart. The matter was kept se
cret until yesterday. King negotiated
the notes with a real estate firm, but when
a representative of the firm took the notes
to Younge thay were repudiate!. King
has fled ,
Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, of bi chlonde-of
go'd fame, has sued the London Lancet
for libel.
GOVERNMENTS DECIDED ACTION.
A Circular With Regard to Immigrant
Vessels.
Washington, D. C. President Har
rison arrived in Washington and shortly
after reaching the Executive Mansion,
called a conference of government offi
cers, for consultation as to the cholera
situation. Those present were: The
President, Attorney General Miller, Sec
retary Charles Foster, Assistant Secreta
ry Spaulding, Supervising Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman, of tbe Marine Hospital ser
v'c' and Postmasler-General Wanama
ker. As a lesult of the conference, a
ciicular was issued by the Treasury De
partment as follows:
Treasury Department,
Office of the Supervising Snrgeon Gene
ral United S'ates Marine Hospital Ser
vice. Washington, D C Sept. 1. To col
lectors of customs, medical officers of the
Marine Hospital service, foreign steam
ship companies, State and local board of
health: "
It having been officially declared that
cholera is prevailing in various portions
of Russia, Germany and France and at
certain parts of Great Britain, as well as
Italy, and it having been made to ap
pear that immigrants in large numbers
are coming iuto the United States from
the infected districts aforesaid, and that
they and their personal effects arc liable
to introduce cholera into the United
States, and tha"; vessels conveying them
are thereby a direct menace to the pub
lic health; aud it having been further
shown that the laws of the several States
quarantine detentions may be imposed
upon these vessels a sufficient length of
time to insure against the introduction of
contagious diseases, it is hereby ordered
that do vessel from any foreign port car
rying immigrants shall be admitted to
enter at auy port of the United States
until said ve.sels shall have undergone a
quarantine detention of twenty days (un
less such detention is forbidden by th
laws State or the regulations made there
under) and of such greater number of
diys as may be fixed in each special case
by the State authorities.
This circular is to take immediate ef
fect except in cases of vessels afloat at
this date, which will be made the sub
ject of special consideration upon due
application to the Department.
(Signed) Walter Wyman,
Supervising Surgeon General,
U. S. Marine Hospital Service.
Charles Foster,
Secretary of the Treasury.
A pp v o ved : Benjamin Harrison .
TILLMAN ELECTED.
SouthJ Carolinaa's Present Governor
Carries the Primaries.
Columbia, S. C. Returns are coming
in slowly. The towns are largely in the
majority for the Sheppard or Conservative
ticket; whereas Tillman and his ticket
have their chief strength in the country
districts. Reports coming in from the
towns put Sheppard in the lead.
At the Democratic primaries in this
Chester county Hemphill, for
Congress, carried the county by 400. Till
man, for Governor, 500 majority.
Returns indicate that Tillman has carri
ed Greenville county by from 300 to 500
majority.
The indications are that Tillman will
carry York county by not less than 700
majority. The race between Hemphill
and Strait is so close that it is impossible
to ay who will get the majority. Hemp
hill's friends arc most hopeful.
A feature of the balloting in Columbia
was the refusal of the managers of the
election to allow Judge A B. Haskell to
vote. Col Haskell is the man who led
the independent Democratic movement
against Tillman two years ago. When
asked if he was entitled to vote he replied
that he had been a Demecrat all his life
and had been a member of a club for ten
years. Being asked if he would pledge
himself to abide the result and support
the nominee he replied "I decline to
pledge myself t i abide the result of the
primary and to support the nominees of
the party, such pledging at the primary
elections being against the fundamental
principles of a republican form of govern
ment, against the rights of free men and
in violation of sound Democracy."
A Judge Caught in the Act of Theft.
A special from Brunswick, Ga., says:
Judge William R. Blaine, the Ordinary
of Glynn county, and one of the most
popular men in the State, was caught
stealing money from the safe of Grocer
Michaelso.i. The merchant was absent
from the store at the time. He has lost
nearly $2,000 during the past 6ix months,
aud he set a trap for the thief. A po
liceman was hid in the stor The mer
chant want out, leaving the outer door
open. .Tuige Blaiue walked in soon
after. He went to the safe and took a
handful of silver from the cash drawer.
He was at once taken into custody by the
policeman."
NANCY HANKS AGAIN.
She Breaks Her Own Record to the
Time of 2.05 1-4.
Independence, Ia. Nancy Hanks,
the queen of horsedom, added a shining
star to her crown when she trotted a mile
on the world-famous kite-shaped track at
this place in the ud precedent time of 2:05
1-4, clipping two seconds off her Chicago
mark, made two weeks ago. She looked
well when she came out, and her super
ior condition was easily discoverable.
Receivers for Iron Hall in Virginia.
Richmond, Va. In the Chancery Court
Wm. P. McRae, of Petersburg, and 8. 8.
Patterson, of Richmond, were appointed
receivers for all tbe assets of the Supremo
Bitting of the Order of the Iron Hall and
its local branches in this State. The as
sets of the order consist of funds on de
posit in banks and moneys in the hands
of the officers of the local branches iti
the cities of Richmond, Norfolk and Pe
tersburg sad at other points in the State.
Morley Visits Carnegie.
Lo-sdon, Cablegram. John Morley,
Chief Stcr.tary for Ireland has gone on a
visit to Andrew Carnegie, at the lodge I
at Loch Ranroch, Perthshire, Scotland.
ALLIANCE ANCHORS.
Some Good Reading For the Wide
spread Order.
Emphatic Demands Made by the Not tl
Carolio a Alliance Conven ti on .
Mrs. Mary M. Clardy, Assistant tatt
Lecturer for the Texas Alliance is now
speaking to good audiences in Jseksor
county, 3Iissouri.
The following resolutions were passed
Aug. 10:h, 1892, at Greensboro, N. C, :
Lctotted That we endorse the action of
those members of Congress who use.their
influence to pass the "Anti-option bill."
2. That we hold up the hands of the
Railroad Commission.
3. To secure by legislative enactment
the establishment of a house of correc
tion for young criminals.
4. That the law for collection of agri
cultural statistics for North Carolina be
abolished.
STATE demands.
Whereas, The last General Assem
bly of North Carolina failed to pass a
bill reducing the legal rate of interest to
6 per cent. ; and whereas we endorse the
position of those who used their efforts
and votes to pass such a measure, there
fore. We demand of our General Assembly
at its next session to pass a bill reducing
the legal rate of interest to 6 per cent.
We demand of our General Assembly
at its next session tbe passage of a secret
ballot law, with a provision in said law
that wi 1 secure to voters who cannot
read an opportunity to vote.
Whereas, there are large railroad
properties and interests in this State now
escaping taxation in whole or in part;
and whereas, further, it is in the province
of the General Assembly of North Caro
lina making all property in the State
bear its equal burden of taxation; now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we demand of the
General Assembly of Nonh Carolina to
force, as far as in its rower, all railroad
property and interests thafare now escap
ing taxation, in whole, or in part, to pay
its full and equal share of taxes for the
support of the government of North
Carolina as the property of farmers,
laborers and other citizens are now taxed.
2- That we demand that ro further
franchises or privileges in the way of
amended or extended charters or other
wise be granted any corporation claiming
exemption of taxation, until such corpora
tion or corporations make a complete and
unqualified surrender of any claim exemp
tion from taxation.
Whereas, it is believed by many that
there will be an effort to repeal the
Railroad Comission bill or cripple it by
amendments; therefore
We demand of the next General As
sembly of North Carolina that it shall
sustain the present Railroad Commission
bill, that no amendments lessening or
hampering the power of the Commission
ers shall be passed, and that only amend
ments (if any at all) such as may or will
increase the efficiency of the Comission
and perfect the machinery and details o?
the same, shall be enacted into law
Columbia, S. C. Tillman elected by
30,000 majority. The Tillmanites carry
30 out of 35 counties. The congressionaT
results are: 1st, Brawlcy beats Stokes,
Alliance candidate; 2d, Tillman andTal
bert lead and will run over; 3rd, Lati
mer, Allianceman, beats Johnstone; 4th,
Shell, Allianceman, renomicated over
Johnson ; 5th, Stait, Allianceman, beats
Hemphill ; 6th, McLaurin beats all com
petitors; 7th, Moise beats Heyward, Till
manite.
Of the 35 counties in the State ex-Gov.
Shepard, the candidate of . the Conserva
tives, has carried only 5, with a total
thus far of 24,000. Tillman carries the
other counties with a total vote of 37,
000.
In an interview Consexvative Chairman
Dibble said: "I believe we are de
feated by 15,000 votes. We are Demo
crats and of course expect to abide the
result of the Democratic primary."
The biggest surprise of the campaign
iathe defeat of the brilliant John P.
Hemphill, of Chester, now rcpresenticg
the Fifth district in Congress. It was
thought that he was impregnable in his
district.
WHAT GOOD ROADS WOULD MEAN.
Theywoull make it possible for the
fanner to take advantage promptly of the
highest market, no matter at what season
of the year.
They would save him days and weeks
of time which he wastes eveiy jear wal
lowing through tha disgusting miie of
dirt roads.
They would reduce to a minimum the
wear and tear on wagons and c images.
They would lessen the expense of keep
ing horses in working order and vastly
less horses would be required in the
country to perform the farmer's work.
They would require less expense to
keeD them in repair than do the dirt,
roads.
They would make it easier for a team
to -pull several tons over their tmooth sur
face than to drag a wagon through the
mud.
They would afford ready communica
tion with the outside world at all times
of the year.
They would spare the farmer many
vexations and nervous s' rains.
They would practically shorten the
distance to the local market.
Tbey would increase the demand for
country and suburban property.
They would be free from dirt and dust
in summer and mud and ruts in fail,
winter and sj ring.
They would bring every fanning com
muuity into closer social relatious.
They would make an evening drive a
pleasure icstead of a vexation, as it is
now.
They would do away with the ab:urd
poll tax and supervisor system in p'aces
where it is etill in use
They would be, in short, the best pos
sible investment to the tax payer, if built
and cared for by the National Govern
ment and paid for by a national tax.
All these they would do, unless expe
rience goes for naught. Rural World
Charleston, S. C, is making soundings
to deepen its harbor, to as to admit the
biggest ocean ships.
TWO PUGILISTS IN A ROW.
Corbett and McCaffrey Nearly Comt
to Blows Tha "Chip on tha
Shoulder."
New York, N. Y. James J. Cor
bett. the California pugilist, and Domi
neck McCaffrey, who is now acting as
boxing instructor in the Manhattan Club,
nearly came to blows at the Madison
Square Garden.
McCaffrey came to the garden to ac
cept an offer that has appeared in sever
al papers by which Corbett was to stop
McCaffrey in 4 rounds on September 12,
at the Manhattan Club. Corbett denied
that he had made any such offer, where
upon McCaffrey exclaimed: "Why, it
has been in all the papers," at the same
time tapping Corbett on the arm with a
folded newspaper he was carrying.
"Don't you touch me!" cried Corbett,
excitedly; "keep that paper off of mel"
"Does it hurt you" asked Domineck
sarcastically. At that Corbett made a
move as through to draw back his right
h md for a blow, but his better judment
prevailed and he only remarked: "Don't
try to monkey with me or I'll chuck you
out of that window
"I guess I can protect myself," replied
McCaffrey.
Carbett finally offered to box McCaf
frey four rounds before the Club giving
the largest purse, the man having the
best of it to get the decision and he
would bet the amount of the purse that
he would knock Domineck out. Mc
Caffrey answered that he only intended
to accept Corbett's original proposition
and after a lot of talk it fell through.
Assistance for Dromiini Persons.
Everybody may be called upoa to af
ford assistance to drowning persons
while the doctor is being sent for, and
Professor Laborde's simple method for
restoring breath when all other means
have failed deserve to be universally
known. Our Paris correspondent tells
us that the other day, at a watering
place in Normandy, two bathers, a young
man and a boy, who were unablo to
swim, went out of their depth aud dis
appeared. They were brought on shore
inanimate, and were takeu to tho village.
Two doctors were sent for, but the
young man gave no sign of life, and they
declared he wa3 dead. Mr. Laborde,
who was fishing at half an hour's dis
tance, came up as soon as he heard of
the accident. He examined the body
and found that the extremities were cold
and the heart had stopped. Then tak
ing hold of the root of the toncnie he
drew it violently forward, giving a suc
cession of jerks in order to excite the re
flex action of the breathing apparatus,
which is always extremely senntivc. At
the end of a few minutes a slight hic
cough showed that tho patient was
saved. In addition to the usual restora
tive means, Professor Laborde, ia ex
treme cases, rubs the chest with tosvels
soaked in hot and nearly boiling water,
although the skiu is blistered by this.
London News.
A man of High Birth Dies Alone.
New York, N. Y. Prof. Jean Roc
mer, author, soldier and scholar, vice
president of the College of the City of
Isew York, half-brother of the late Wil
liam II, King of Holland, and at one
time talked of a3 a successor to the
throne, was found dead in his room at
the Curtis House, Lennox, Mass. He was
88 years old. Heart disease was the cause
of deith.
Prof.Roemer was the illegitimate rela
tive of Alexander Paul Frederick Louis
William II, King of the Netherlands,
Prince of Orange Nassau, Grand Duke
of Luxemburg and Duke of Lijnburg,
who died at the Hague, November 23,
1890.
THE CHOLERA RAGING AMOI.G SOLDIERS.
Vienna -Cholera has broken out
violently in the military camp nt Bruck,
in lower Austria, 22 miles southeast of
Vienna. There have already been 08 cases
and 16 deaths. The government is do
ing all it can to conceal the state of affairs
in order not to alarm the public and those
who have relatives in the armv. Tele
grams from Bruck are prohibited and the
facts have come to light in a roundabout
way. At Iemberg,the capital of Austria
Poland, cholera is raging and there are
also epidemics of dyseutery ind diarr
hoea. "No Mormons Need Apply."
Richmond, Va. Pursuant to adjourn
ment a meeting of the citizens of Hanover
county was held at Beaver Dam depot
on Saturday to take into coniideration
ihe "Mormon settlement." It was re
solved thit no Mormonism would.be tol
erated and a committee was appointed to
escort the Mormons to the border of tha
county which was promptly done, and
upon promise of the elders not to return
they were released.
. She Held the Snake in Death.
From the Chicago Times.
Boscobel, Wis. Mrs. Berney, living
about twelve miles north of here, was
picking blackberries, when a large rattle-snake
jumped at her. She caught the
viper around the body, but not close
enough to the head, and she was bitten on
the wrist and arm several times. When
found she was dead, holding to the ser
pent tightly. Her'body was swollen be
yond recognition.
To Help Negroes to Move North.
Bpbisgfuxd, III. The. Afro-American
Migration Company, with headquar
ters at Chicago, was chartered here. Its
object is to promote the migration of tbe
colored people from the Southern to
the Northern and Northwestern States
and maintain an employment bureau for
them.
Jobbery of a Virginia Poatoffice.
Washington, D. C. Chief Postoffice
Inspector Wheeler received a te!egrarn
from the postmaster at Hampton, Va ,
stating that the postoffice there was
robbed Sunday night. The dispatch gave
no particulars, but asked that an inspec
tor be sent there to investigate.
Ih; Louisiaua Lotteiy will remain New
Orleans.
A yearly outlay of twenty millions of
dollars shows America's enterprise ia advertising.
TOE MARKETS OF HAVANA.
UNIQUE SIGHTS IN THE METROP
OLIS OF CUBA.
Produce Carried to Market on Mute
llacU The Hucksters and Their
Wares Milk Dealers.
"7T" MONG the most interesting
sights of a unique and inter
esting city are the markets of
Havana. A visit to them helps
the stranger to the better understanding
of the methods of life not only of the
city people but of the country dwelleri
as well, and shows strikingly the curioui
mixture of races that goes to make up
the population. There are three large
markets, each one occupying a hu e low
stone building plastered on the outside,
the manner in which, most of the build
ings of Havana are constructed, and
constituting a block by itself. Ap
proaching the market during the bmy
hours of the morning: we fiad the streets
on every side almost blocked by heivily
ladened mules, just in from the country,
carrying produce of every sort. The
roads throughout the island are so bvi
that almost all heavy load-', except sunr
cane and the huge casks of sugar and
molasses, are carried in this way.
Panniers made of very coarse b.i arming,
or woveu from straw, or of palm fiber,
are fastened upon either side of the
maie, and then filled with, raeruhaaclis';
until. the mule is almost hidden fro:u
sight. In this way almost every sort of
ruit and vegetable is cirriei, aho
cocoanuts, corn-fodder, live chicken,
live pigs, cans ofmilk an d whatever else
the country may send to supply the
townl Corn-fodder is one of the prin
cipal articles of this commerce, a) it is
almost the only feed that is used for
the horses and cows kept in the city. It
grows all the year through, rarely attains
a height of more thaa four feet, and js
cut when the grain if hardening. Then
it ia tied in bundles and bound on mu'.oi
until nothing but the nose' and tail of
the animal can be seen, and so brought
in to market.
The hucksters and traffickers who
come with the mules are as varied and
curious aa the wares they briug. There
are Cubans and Spaniards of the poorer
class, Indians, Coolie3 and Ganjivos
the native men of the mountains. They
are a ragged, dirty, uncouth lot, shoeless
and hatless, sometimes tramping along
be3ide their loads, and again mounted
upon the very apex of the crowded pan
niers. It may be seen at a glance, not
only from their own poverty-stnekea
look but also from the leanness of their
beasts, that they are wretchedly poor.
A visit to their homes would still further
emphasize this fact, a3 there are fev
poorer habitations known to civilizal
man than the palm-bark cabins of these
Cuban small-farmers. But they are
good-natured and apparently happy. On
arriving at the market they are noisily
busy for an hour unloading their mule
and arranging their warei for sale. Or
anges are poured from the panaier3 into
large, flat baskets, until oue wonders
that they could have held so many. The
baskets, holding perhaps a bushel and a
half, are liftel upou tho head the fa
vorite way here of carrying all burdens
and taken into the market. Then there
are pineapples and plantain? and ban
anas, as plentiful as apples or potatoes
with i at home; these ato all ridicu
lously cheap, a dozen tine oranges for a
dime, a good pineapple for Ive cents, or
the very best for ten, and & maay ban
anas as you care to carry for . a dime.
The potatoes here are quite as fine a
one would see in any Northern market.
There are also those other tropical fruits,
spotas, sapodillas, and some whoso
names I could not easily ascertain, curi
ous looking, many of them with rough
brown coats, all of them swest nni, to a
Northern palate, somewhat insipid In
midwinter there is in the vegetable
booths everything that wc have in mid
summer, new corn, celery, lettuce, oni
ons, tomatoes, artichokes, etc., aud there
are some curious looking messes, ready
cojkeJ, of which tho odor is enough for
us. It goes without saying that there is
dirt everywhere, for these people are not
at all cleanly, when judgecJ from the
American standpoint.
The interior of the market is given up
mainly to the sale ef things eatable. The
outer portions, fronting upon the streets,
are filled with booths of various sorts
where one may buy a thousand things of
little value, and hardly anything of real
worth. Oae may buy poor candies,
flowers mide into gaudy bouquets, Imi
tation jewelry, cheap toys, brilliantly
colored pictures and books with strik
ingly illustrated covers, dccalcomaaia
supplies this seems to b a favorite
decorative art cheap little wooden
statuettes of tbe saints, in fact anything
and everything that is calculated to catch
the eye and the money of the ignorant
and unwary. There is much noise and
chattering wherever two or more are
gathered together, or where even the
smallest commercial transaction is being
conducted. Tae people, though moit
of them are c r eased in rags, show soma
bit of color that helps to enliven the
scene. Old crones, perfect witches in
form and feature, hobble about idling
herbs, charms and lottery tickets. Chi
namen sit stolidly behind counters
whereon are shown delicately carved bits
of ivory and finely worked boxes of
scented woods.
The milk dealer Is about the only
merchant of any sort who cannot be
found ia the market. But be is just
now going along the street outside,
drvinghis herd before him aad stopping
at each door to draw, direct from the
cow, such a supply as may be wanted
Most of the milk used in the city is
procured in this way, and almost at any
hour a herdsman may be seen in the street
driving a half dozen cows or asses be
fore him from house to house. Ameri
can Agriculturist.
Henry W. Grady, oniy son of the la
mented Htnry W. Grady, will enter the
University in Virginia in October.