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$1.00 Per Annum, irr Advance
VOL. II.
DUNN, HAJRNETT CO., N. C.J THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1892.
NO. 40.
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THE GREAT MOSQUE.
JIIXCA'S SANCTUARY FOR MO
HAMMED'S followers.
1 -f;,. fourt Will Contain 35,000 Peo
,;!. -It Is Frequented by Worshipers
lhi and Night. .' . - ;
T : absque has been so of tea do
.'..and rebuilt and repaired that it
few traces oi remote antiquity.
11. -.vi-ture as it stands was mostly
1 ; th-j seventeenth century, but re
I - i. -.-.e been made down to our day.
- i oliject was simply to enclose the
. J i. the s-ize of the court has been
i !. 1 in the successive rebildings. The
, ,,,- .!!- lias nineteen gates, placed at ir
r. -;!'( r 1 Stances, but as some of the
, i : - 'l ive three arches, the number of
,'::- is thirty-nine. The principal
, ' . are the Bab-es iSalam (gate of
I i. by which every pilgrim makes
i; 'T-t entrance; Bab-el-Neby, by
v ; Mohammed used to enter,
u . through Avhich the bodies of
a 1 are carried that prayers may be
... i them, and the Bab-el-Omra,
?! ..h which it is necessary to pass in
, . i. ; to ii;y before pei forming the rite
a MMira, or the Little Pilgrimage, to'a
;-. plice three miles outside the city.
A - Lett's have no doors, the mosque
p a at all times, ihe exterior is
: ; ; vcl with seven mine-rets of the com-
:.. : .Moslem style. The entrances to
?.. - are from the houses, -which touch
?! in' -que on all sides, and from some
, t !;;- houses windowit are opened in
?.- a all of enclosure eo that pilgrims
m-r in them can pray at home in
- 'Jit of the Krviba. It is said that the
, .i t 't the mosque vt ill hold 35,000
r, . but it is never lull, even in the
I -w-w T 1 .....
tcin: ct the mat, ana a belief is cur-
i nt that it never oould be filled
i . a:iy number of pilgrims either
!!: wor.-hippers would be individually
ihninished in size or the court would be
miraculously enlarged for the occasion.
Th mosque is never deserted, and day
a:i 1 night presents scenes of animation
1 1 ! : -i i! turesqueness. I urough its open
n itrs citizens, burden-bearers, and traf
fickers constantly pass fiom one part of
t'ie city to the other, At sunset, one of
iii hours of prayer, when great numbers
a s mble, spread their carpets, and per
form their devotions, the sight of 7,0C0
nr'.lMtO persons beudint'- in joint pros-
trations in the waning light is awe-in
spiring. Later, when the lamps are
lighted, the devotees, lank outside of
rank circling round the Kaaba, racing.
crowding, ejaculating, the metowefs
!"udly. reciting the prayers, idlers dam
ning and chatting, and boys running
hither and thither and shouting,
give the court the rppearance of a
place oi amusement. Jvery hour of the
dav people are seen under the colonnades
reading the Koran. Indians and negroes
spread their mats and pass the whole
period of their .Mecca visit there, being
allowed to bathe, eat, and sleep, but not
to cook in the court. Men come there to
lounge in the cool shade at noon and to
itlk business. Poor Hadjis, diseased
and deformed, lie about among the pil-
ilar in the midst of their miserable bag-
g.ig Public schools are held for young
i hildren. Learned men deliver lectures;
ul mas recite the Koran. At the gates
f-it st-ribes with inkstands and paper for
writing letters and contracts-, and pro
ducing amulets and love charms. "Wind
ing sheets (for many Hadjis buy at
Mecca the shrouds in which they
ui-h to be buried) and other linen
wahed iu the holy well Zem-zem
hang di ving between the pillars. In the
k oi are are manv small stone basins filled
a ith water for the use of the pigeons
which gather there, and by these basins
Arab public women sit in order to ex
hibit themselves and maice appointments
with visitors, and for a pretence sell corn
to feed the birds. Burckhardt says that
the holv kaaba is often the scene of in-
decencies practised with impunity, and
calling forth usually onlv a laugh from
the spectators. At the end of the Hadj
ihe mosque presents a pad appearance;
the fatigues of the pilgrimage, the un
healthy lodgings, the bad water and
food, cause great mortality, and the
court is tilled w ith the bodies of the dead
and those in the last stages of emaciation
who are borne there in order to be
prink led, when dying, with the waters
of Zem zcra. Harper s Magazine
How Iron is Made In Africa.
The Balubans, as the natives of the
Muansanvomma district of Central Africa
are styled, enjoy an excellent local repu
tation as ironworkers. They find their
crude material in the form. of bog iron
ore on the surface of the land. It rarely
happens that digging to an appreciable
depth i necessary Their smelting fur
naces, which are constructed of clay, are
from six to ten feet high, from forty to
eixty inches in diameter at th base, and
conical in shape. The. ore is tipped
into the furnace from above: the char
coal, on the other hand, is introduced into
basin-like side openings, which also re
ceive a continuous airblast; while the
iron and slag are removed from the bot
tom of the furnace about every eight or
twelve hours, according to the degree
of heat obtained. The force is a cir
cular building some sixteen feet in diam
eter, with a pointed roof and open sides.
At a distance it might be taken for a park
bandstand. In the centre of this hut is the
fire, which is maintained in constant activ
ity bv means of a unique pair of bellows,
which merit a special description. They
consist of a bloci of wood, generally
twenty inches long, hollowed out, and
fitted with a funnel-head made of clay.
At the lower end are two orifices, over
which skins are stretched. Motion "is
imparted to the instrument by the action
of two small rods. The hammer is of
solid iron: the tongs are marvels of sim
plicity, to wit, a bent palm branch. An
iron wedge driven into a timber bole
serves as an anvil. The recollections of
the Bilubans carry them back to the time
when they rought metals with stone
tool. Some'of the natives are compara
tively artistic workers. Very fine axes,
tastefully iuhin wlih copper, are pro
duced strikes among these swarthy ar
tificers are comparatively rare occurrences,
owing to the fact that the malcontents
invariably have their heads lopped off
end their skins placed on one 6ide for
patching, o.-, in case of need, entirely re
covering tliv aforesaid curious bellows.
Boston Transcript. v
THAN KSGI VINO.
With quickened heart and with bended
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Bless the bounty that never ends.
The treat, sweet rift of lif ifc unf.
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Hope to the living and rest to the dead;
For the boundless wealth of good it spends
Be thanksgiving sung an! 'said,
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most ior me Diessmg or home and
friends.
The pale years wane and falter.
And melt away like snow.
But on its holy altar
Love's fires unchanging glow 5
To dear, familiar places,
Lured by its gentle light,
Come back the dear, dead faces
Out of the awful night.
Beeide it, on Thanksgiving,
The kindly feast is spread.
And old, lost hopes are living;
And old, fond words are said;
Said by the long-stilled voices, 1
Hear.I by the heart alone,
And memory rejoices ,
In the sweet undertone.
Though years the head may whiten,
x ne heart shall not grow gray;
Young thought that thrill and brighten
Possess the smiling day.
To all our best and dearest
A loving cup we fill.
To friends that are the nearest.
To love Time cannot kill.
The hearth's alight, and the feast is spread.
Blest be the love that never ends.
For the hope of the living, the rest of the
dead,
Be thanksgiving sung and said,
And most for the gift of home and friends.
New York Sun.
A Thanksgiving Surorise.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
' T WM d0S6
01 a Drier autumn
day ; the last level
beams of the saf-rou-tinted
sunset
were
peeping
y.tli rnnirh t.h
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piate giass u&ae
great -EJiyuiu ave
nue store, and
K"ittv Kaason.
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rzfT- - - tortured with a
splitting headache and wearied with the
incessant buzz of questioning voices,
pressed both hands over her forehead
and a3ked herself :
"Will six o'clock never come? Will
these people never go?" -
The floor superintendent came up.
"Miss Kasson," said he sharply,
what ails you to-day? I have heard
more than one complaint. Is it simple
inattention? or don't you care whether
you retain your position here or not?"
Kitty looked piteously up.
"3Iy head aches sol" said she. "But
I didn't known. What can I do, please?"
"Here's a lady asking for mode-colored
gloves, and you've taken out the
box of blacks," said Mr. Irwin, impa
tiently. "Really this won't do!"
"Kitty murmured a wore" or two of
apology, substituted the mode-color for
the blacks, and set herself to be as at
tentive as possible.
Headache or no headache, it behooved
her to give satisfaction. She had not
only herself to support, but the ailing
mother, whose board she paid at a
cousin's farmhouse in the Connecticut
Valley. To her every dollar meant its
full worth, and when she saw girl cus
tomers of her own age scattering the
contents of their purses with reckless
disregard, she could but wonder.
But when the crowd of shoppers had
ebbed and flowed itself away, and the
much-betumbled and becrumpled stock
wis replaced in boxes and on shelves,
and the girls were departing, Kitty came
to Mr. Irwin's desk.
"Well?" he said impatiently, biting
the handle of his pen, as he glanced up
from the big book before him.
"Mr. Irwin," faltered Kitty, "I
haven't had any vacation this year. Can j
have a week at Thanksgiving?
Mr. Irwin frowned.
",. "You had the chance in August," said
he. "No, we can t spare jou at 1 Hants
giving, Miss Kasson. Three of the girls
in your department have been ahead of
you in securing that time, and, as you
mmt know, we are extra busy at this
time of year."
"I couldn't go in August," said Kitty.
She did not like to tell the supenn
tendent that she had lent her salary for
the month of August to poor Mary Sin
clair, to pay for a sea-coast trip for her
consumptive sister, that the sister had
died at Ocean Beach, and that Mary Sin
clair had never been able to repay the
indebtedness.
How true it is that "it is the poor who
are good to the poor !
"Couldn't I possibly '
"No, you couldn't 1" said Mr Irwin,
and turned to his big books ai if the case
were closed.
Kittie Kasson went quietly home to
the solitary hall bedroom that she shared
with a hollow-eyed stitcher in a corset
factory, whose cough kept her awake
half the night.
Thev made themselves a cup of fabu-
m
lously weak tea, and nibbled at bread
and butter, with a pan of clams, which
Tt , A
1 III vhfl LLI IV -rV.iS
Mist Skerrctt had coeked over a neigh,
bor's stove, to give some relish to it.
They sat with shavrts around them, and
eft the door into the hall open, in hopes
hat some current o warmth from the
down stairs rooms might set their way.
"Oh, here's a letter for you, which Td
nearly forgotten!" said Miss Skerrett.
It got slipped under the bread plate.
Kitty opened it and read it eagerly.
Then her head dropped on her hands ;
she burst into tears.
'No bad news, I hope I" said Mias
Skerrett, who was mending the worsted
gloves which had so often been mended
before.
"No," said Kitty. "Nothing but
what I might have expected. The old
home is sold to somebody from the
West!"
"But it hasn't been really yours for a
ong while, has it?" said Miss Skerrett.
'"Well, nol" Kitty admitted. "But
as long as Squire Tafi owned it, there
was some chance of our buying it back.
When I first came to New ('York, you
know, Sarah, I was-sure I could sell the
novel I had written, and rebuild the fam
ily fortunes. I fancied it was only a
matter of a year or two. Now I know
what nonsense it was. No matter. I'm
young, and tolerably strong. But it'll
come hard on mother poor mother !
who has kept hoping all her lifetime for
things that never came. I've srot to
write .to her, now, that I can't be at
home for Thanksgiving. They won't
spare me!"
Miss Skerrett shrugged htr thin shoul
ders. 1
"Well, "said she,"what you haven't
got you can't miss. I never had a
Thanksgiving!"
Kitty did not not answer. She was
thinking of the red November sun, the
aromatic scent of dead leaves, the sound
of church bells chiming across the frosty
fields, the smell of burning beech logs
on the old stone heartb.
And all that night long, when poor
Miss Skerrett slept and coughed by turns,
Kitty Kasson lay awake and thought
abcut Thanksgiving.
She was unusually quiet and dejected
the next daj.
Mr. Irwin frowned a little.
"We want our girls to ; be spry and
smiling," said he. "The "customers
don't like to see a death's-head -and-
bones behincT the counter!" '
So Kitty tried to look cheerful, while
all the time she was asking herself :
"How could Abiram Taft break his
promise to me? How could he let his
father sell the old home, when he told
me I should have the refusal ot it? Of
course, I couldn't buy it ; but the blow
wouldn't have eome so sudden if I had
known beforehand."
Miss Skerrett was full of a new plan
when Kitty cime home that night.
"Kitty," said she, "you felt bad about
lesing your Thanksgiving. Let's have
a little one of our own, A . chicken
won't cost much poultry is always
cheap if you wait until the night before
Thanksgiving. And Mrs. Daley will let
us cook it in her oven, and we could
have a few roast chestnuts and two red
apples, and a cranberry tart from the
baker's. It won't cost ' so much if we
join together.
"Off, HERE'S A LETTER FOR TOU.n
"But it wouldn't be a real Thanksgiv
ing," said Kitty, shaking her head, with
a sad smile.
Just then the letter carrier's whistle
sounded in the hall below.
- Dow flew Kitty, and returned with
another letter, directed this time in Mrs.
Copley's stiff handwriting.
KiMj turned pale.
"Open it, Sarah," said she. "I can't.
Either mother's sick or or she's dead !"
"Neither one nor the other," said
Sarah Ekerrett, who had made haste to
break the seal. "Shall I read it to you?"
"Dear Kittt: Come to Thanksgiving
this year, and bring your mend Miss
SVprrett. Do not fail. It is to be a sur-
prise to your mother. So no more at
present. r rom your counu,
DKBOR4.H COPLKT."
Kitty grew rel and white.
"Oh, but I can't 1" she.
"Oh I but you murfl"' said MJaaStr.J
rett. ' y
"What will Mr. -Irwin-say? 0
'What be pleases. Oh, Kittx,' tre axe
such slaves all our life long, do let us
have one free moment and riskthe con- 3
sequences!"
The dimples came intoKittyVcheek
"We will!" said she.
It was a stormy sunset that brooded,
in its red magnificence, over the valley
that night; but Thansgidng isoae of
the few things that stormy "weather can
not spoil; and as Kitty and Mis Sker
rett stepped of the train, a .gust otf sweet
scented air came up from the pine
glens, the leaves rustled under foot, and
the red barns in the distance seemed as
if it were but yesterday thatishe had left
them.
Mrs. Copley was at the station, rubi
cund and short-breathed as ever.
"There's a waggin' back o the freight-
house, "said she. "Wait a spell, girls,
till the train's gone by. The hoss, he's
skeery of the cars."
"But what do we want of 'a wagon?"
said Kitty. "It isn't a quarter of a mile
to your house, Cousin Deb."
"We ain't a-going there!" said Mrs.
Copley. "Your ma, she's moved."
"Moved! Oh, Deb, I know I haven't
been able to be very regular in the pay-
ments of late," said Kitty, a sudden suf
focation coming into her throat, "but
surely surely you haven't let them take
her to the town house?"
"Wal, I guess not?" said Mrs. Cop-
ey. "uet into tne waggin. You 11
see!"
Abiram Taft was driving. Kitty
viewed him sternly, scarcely returning
his nod.
"You are not vexed with me, Kitty?"
said he.
"You have broken your word," said
sleinalow voice, while Mrs. Copiey
pointed out the various places of interest
to Sarah Skerrett. "You did it out of
spite, because because I wouldn't mar
ry you.
"I may be a pretty mean man, Kitty, n
said he, "but I ain't as mean as all that.
Get up, Bonny;" with a lash across the
old red horse's fat back.
And they drove along in silence
until
" BTOP! " CRIED KITTT.
"Stop!" cried Kitty. "Here's the
old home. Stop, Abiram, and let me
have one look at it. And there are
lights in the window I Look, Sarah
there's the window where I used to peep
out winter nights and watch for Santa
Clau3's coming. There's the big flat
stone where we used to play jack-straws,
and the apple tree, where the red gills
flowers grew. And, oh, Sarah! am I
dreaming? There's mother coming out
to the gate to meet me, just as she al
ways did. Drive on, Abiram! I I
think my brain must be going."
"I guess we won't drive on," said
Abiram Taft, alighting and deliberately
tying the sorrel horse tot the .post.
"Tour brain's all right, kitty. It Is
your mother; and you be comin' home
again, just like you always did. The
house's your mother's, Kitty ; I deeded
it to her, I bought it of father with the
profits I made in that , Western ranch
affair. I never felt quite satisfied about
that foreclosure business, and this is what
I call restitution money."
"But," cried Kitty, "the old furni
ture the dear, tall clock and the high
topped chairs ."
"I managed all that," said Abiram,
simply. "I sort o phnned to hare it
all dovetailed in by Thanksgiving Day.
You see, Kitty, I know right well you
don't love me; but, for all that, no one
can stop me from loving you and work
ing to make you happy. I couldn't no
how stand the idea of your bein' shut
up in that big city store like a bird in a
cage, lio in, ivitiy. uon 1 you see your
mother waitin' for you?"
"But but you'll come and spend
Thanksgiving Day with us to-morrow,
Abiram?" faltered Kitty, still lingering
out under the lilac bushes, although her
hand was tisrhtlv clasped in her
o
mother's.
"Do yon want m Kitty?"
"Yes, I dor
"Then I'll come!
Back to the old hearth ran Kitty. The
familiar cricket still chirped between
its stones; the kettle sang the same
sleepy tune over rhe fire.
"Oh, mother, mother," she gasped,
"how happy 1 a n! Oa, hov can we ever
pay Abiraaa Taft back ?"'
The little, black-ro je I widow smiled
as she took a pan of hot biscuit out of
the oven and set the steaming teapot
farther back on the stove.
"There's only one way, daughter, that
I know of,", said she. "You're sneered
at honest Abiram and laughed at him all
these years, but now "
MRS. COPLEY PREPARING THE TURKEY.
Now," said Sarah Skerrett, turning
Kitty around so that she could look
full into her eyes "now she loves him.
I can see it in her eyes. Ah, Mrs. Kas
son, time has taught her more lessons
than one !"
And Mrs. Copley, singeing the pin-
feathers ofl! a fat young turkey in the
back kitchen, mused to herself.
"Well, I shouldn't wonder -if that
tangle came straight arter all. Me and
Copley got engaged , on Thanksgiving
Day. It always was a lucky time."
Five Grains of Corn.
The pleasant custom of beginning a
Thanksgiving feast by laying five ker
nels of corn upon the plate ot each per
son at the table, in commemoration of
the time when the Pilgrim founders of
New England had but five grains of corn
each day to eat, serves, so far as it is ob
served, a double purpose.
It must, in the first place, render th
mere physical enjoyment of a festival
keener to perceive the plain contrast be
tween the fare of those hard days of the
past and the plenty of the present. A
little nibble at the hard kernels of corn,
with a momentary attempt to fancy that
this is all one is to have, gives an added
zest to roast turkey, cranberry sauce,
mince and pumpkin pies and things of
that sort.
But the custom may also bring to mind
the real meaning of the Thanksgiving
festival.
It expresses the conviction that Afflic
tion, adversity, privation are merely
trials of our character, as a nation and as
individuals. Sometimes it happens that
a Thanksgiving seems almost inappro
priate. There has been great personal
loss, or some public calamity; a pesti
lence may have carried off thousands, or
the times have been hard for the people.
But these things are the five grains
of corn upon the plate ; all may be sure
that the account will be much more
than righted; that our debt will be much
greater than all our thanks can pay, our
table more beautifully spread than we
deserve. Youth's Compauion.
1 No Respect for Age.
'"Is there any portion of the fowl you
prefer, Major?" asks the sutler's wife,
bandly.
"The left wing, if you please."
"The left wins?"
"Yes, J retorted the Major, gazing
dubiously at the platter. "I believe it
is always good military tactics to bring
the left wing of a veteran corps into ac
tion first!"
No Neck In His. J,
The Minister "Well, my liltle man,
what are you thankful for to-day ?"
Bobby "That the Thanksgivin' din
ner s mos ready."
Somebody has said that if Pasteur
were paid a royalty on all the money he
has saved to the commercial world he
would be the richest man on earth.
A Clond on the Horizon.
VEMBER
! 1892.NQ
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DIXIE JyiEWS.
The Sunny South Gleaned and Expito
mized.
All the News and Occurences Printed
. Here is Condensed From.
Charleston, S, C, has another savings
bank the Commercial.
The mayor of Lynchburg, Va., Hon.
Robert D. Yancey 'was married Thursday
night to Miss Rosa Faulkner.
In the Virginia Supreme Court of Ap
peals at Richmond, B. Larey Hoge was
admitted to practice in the court.
The new trunk factory to be built at
Petersburg, Vs., will be quite a large
affair. With the most moiern machin
ery. The Hebrews of Charleston and Sum
ter, S. C, are each preparing to build a
synagogue. One will also be built al
Charlotte, N. C, next year.
Work on the Ocmulgee river is being
pushed forward rapidly, and within a
short time the channel will be clear from
Macon, Ga , to the sea. Congress ap
propriated $25,009 for this work last
session.
The Atlantic Coast Line aie -.making
extensive improvements in its terminal
facilities at Columbia, S. C. It intends
putting in additional ride-track to reach
industries heretofore shut off from such
a convenience. f
Wm. Mi'ler, who killed Jack Wilfoug
in Iredell County, N. C, on the 1st, was
convicted of murder in Iredell Superior
Court this week, and sentenced, to be
hanged in January, but appealed to the
Suprer erne Court.
It is reported that a company is being
organized to purchase 20,0j0 acres of
land in Craig valley, Va. This land wil;
be divided into ten plantations for th
cultivation of such products as the soil it
best adapted to. A large tract will b
set apart for sheep and stock raising
The location will be near the town 01
Craig City and New Castle.
The Association of Southern Canners.
representing the States of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Ken
tucky, was organized at Savannah Tues
day. A re-olution was passed which will
be sent to every canner in the South for
signature, protesting against the duty on
tin and demanding its repeal.
It is reported that a large cave, equt!
in size and beauty to that in Luray, ha
been" discovered near Harrisonburg, Va
The discovery was made while blasting
for rock. Thus far twenty-four roonii
have been found and further exploration
will, it is thought, open many more.
People from all the neighboring towns
are gathering at the plac3 and collec tinp
specimens of stalactites, some of wh id
are remarkable beautiful.
THE INTER STATE COMMISSION.
A Dscision on Long.and Short Hauls,
Washington, D. The inter-state
commerce commission an nounced its de
cision of the case brought by the Georgia
railroad commission against the Cin
cinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
Railway Company, thi Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, and other
railroads and steamship lines, seven cases
in all, involing rates for longer and short
er hauls from Cincinnati and other Ohio
river points, and from . New
other nor.h Atlantic ports to
sou hern territory.
York and
points in
Amougother points the commission
holds that the fact of a receivership for
a defendant carrier subsequent to com
plaint sh ' uld not interfere with the pro
gress of a proceeding brought merely for
the purpose of railway regulation. The
phrase ''common control, management or
arraugem nt for continuous carriage or
6hipment,'? in the. first section of the "act
to regulate commerce," was intended to
cover all inter ttate traffic carried through
over all rail or port water and port rail
lines.
The competition of ma kets on differ
ent lines for the sale of ommodities at a
given point served by both lines does
not create circumsta ces snd conditions
which tha carriers can take into ac ount
in determining forjthcinselves,in the first
instance, whi ther they are justified in
charging more for shorter than for longer
distances over their line.
Two ces were dismissed, and the
others defendants are ordered to cease
and desist from charging more to short
er than to longer distance points men
tioned in the complaints or file applica
tions for relief under the proviso clause
of the fourth section add show cause
thereon, within a time specifiedT
Commissioners or tne Virginia Sink
ing Fund.
Richmond, Va. A meeting of the
commissioners of the sinking fund was
held and the President was instructed to
advertise that the bond holders' commit
tee, having surrendered to the SUte the
old obligations held by them, the com
missioners are now ready to receive on
deposit for verification, classification and
exchange, under the terms of the act of
the Legislature approved February 20,
'91, such old bligations of the Stats a&
may be presented to them.
The rate of exchange cannot be stated
nor the new bond issued for the old ob
ligatio s, wbi h may be eurrendeted,
until the rate of d-tnhution of the ntw
bonds issued to the bondholder commit
tee is adjusted by the coi-missiooers ap
pointed for that purpose.
All obiigitions must be presented at
the office of the Second Auditor ei'her i
person or by 6ome iti-jions-ible gent not
connected with any of th departments
of the State, o i'n.ls wM be received
after December 31 s next
Sad Drowning.
Lkxikgton," Va. News has just reach
ed here of the drowning of Gardner
Draio, a young farmer of this county,
near Co'lierstjwn. He bad been attend
ing a corn husking, and having imbibed
freely of hard cider lay down on the
roadside near a pond to sleep. On being
aroused by his companions a litt'e later,
iuraped suddenly to his feet and sprang
over a fence into the pond. He was
drowned ljcfore be fccould be rescued.
He wii twentv-two year old, atd be
longed to a very well known family in
his town.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
What is Being Done Towards Repre
senting the South at Chicago.
TENNESSEE.
The schooner Mary, built by Captain
Bettes at Clifton, on the Clinch river, to
carry a floating exhibit from Tennessee,
has arrived in Chicago. It is loaded
With products of East Tennessee, includ
ing gold, silver, copper, zinc, fifteen
kinds of marble, onyx and relics "from
Tennessee battlefields. The route was
down the Tennessee river to the Mississip-
pi. then up to the Illinois, and thence
through the canal, making in all a voy
age of 2,000 miles.
BOCTH CAROLINA.
One of the most interesting of the -curios
to be sent from Columbia, 8. C;
to the World's Fair will be a photograph
which is said to be the first taken in Am
erica. It is the picture oK- Major J. G.
Gibbes, and was taken December 15,
1854, when this gentleman had just re
turned from Paris, where Daguerre had
just discovered his process of photo
graphy. It is panted on the cor.ner of an
old yellow sheet of writing paper and
while somewhat indistinct, the likeness
can be plainly perceived. The Women's
Central World's Fair C lub has secured
niauy interesting Indian relics and other .
curios which they will send."
FLORIDA. r
Florida's State Luilding at Jackson
Irk, Chicago, is new under construction
and work on it is progressing well. Foun
da ions are finished and the frame work
for the walls is being put up. Since it
is to be a reproduction of Fort Marion at
St Augustine, its unique architectures
and historical associations have caused
it to attract as much attention as any
other State building on the graunds.
Commissioner Jackson will endeavor to
obtain at the coming Pensacola Tobacco
Fair some good exhibits of Florida grown
tobacco for the Columbian Exposition.
, By request of the Horticultural De
partment, Mr. Plant is forwarding from
1 he Tampa Bay Hotel gardens a carload
of choice pi aiits, and next spring will
Fend a larger number. These, with those
already nceived or expected from the
Pouce de Leon gardens, will make a very
beautiful display.
Mrs. Ellen Call Long, whose efforts to
introduce silk culture in Florida have
been untiring, has had made from silk
produced in Florida an elegant American
ll-ig, and has presented the 6ame to Mss
Totter Palmer, the head of the woman's
department of the World's Fair.
KENTUCKY.
The appropriation made by the legisla
ture for a Kentucky exhibit is not yet
.;vailab'e for the purpose intended,
owing to a constitutional point being
niised as to its legality. The commis
sione s at last advices had not determined
what coursj to take, and will probably
await the action of the courts,-
' LOU1SIAJJA. j
The picture of Acadian life in Louis-
i na will form a prominent part in the
btatc 8 exhibit. At tne last meeting ot
the Woman's Auxiliary, Mrs. Paul Leeds,
delegate from New Iberia, said she hoped
to have the pleasant life of the A cad inns
well depict'.d in Chicago. One of the
rojms iu the State building will be set
apnrt for this exhibit, and fitted out iu
simple fashion like the homes of the
peasants, furnished . with looms and
wheels, cards and cotton, the repreecnta
tion being completed by the woman
weavers plying the shuttle. Part of the
room will be converted into, a boudoir
decorated with fabrics woven on the
lom, and other articles for use and orna
ment will be thown. Mrs. Preston John -sonhopcs
to get Lerm'ssion to use parts
of Charles Dudley Warner's articles on
the Acadians, writteu in 1887,-and wants
to have these, together with parts of
Evangeline and a sketch' of the Acadiaus,
bound in cloth woren by these people
and ornamented by their artists.
The creole kitchen department will be
in the hands of a stock company and
appchr as an annex to the Louisiana
building. The contract for the construe- .
tion of the State building has been let nt
a cost of $14,500. The World's Fair
Association has decided to have the
grounds about the building beautifutly
laid out and embellished with all the
plants and trees and shrubs typical of
Louisiana. The structure will be a frame
ene, and represents an old style planta
tion house, with the lower stury cement
ed and trnamentid in characteristic
style. Tall columns, broid galleries and
tiny panes of glass will form distinctive
features of the famous mansions of days
gene by.
SWITZER SURRENDERS,
Additional Particulars of the Laurens
.Homicide.
LtuRENs. S. C Switzer, the slayer
of L'heek, surrendered and was lodged
in jail Wednesday evening. When the
fight commenced Cheek had Switzer
1 ressed against a fence, and Cheek bad
a knife Switzer caught Cheek's hand
and it was then that Cheek promised to
go off and let Switzer alone. Cheek
walked off, turned and threatened to kill
Switzer, wh threw a brick, striking
Swi zer on the back of the head and
kuocking h'm down. Then Cheik par
tially a se, and Switzer hit him two or
three times with a hatchet. Switzer
helped' to carry thj wounded man into
the house, and did what he cenld for his
relief.
The doctors testified that the blow in
the back of the bead, made probably
with the brick, would have caused death.
Mr3 Switzer Cheek's sister, swore
that Cheek had j abuted Switzer before,
and at one time had drawn a gun oi
him in their house. These facts were
substmtia'ly sworn to on the coroner's
ioquest
Burning of Shenandoah College.
Stachto, Va. The, Shenandoah
Normal College at Basic City, Va , which
was burned, together with nearly all its
contents, was a large three-story frame
s'ructure. The property was leased by
Prof. G. W. Hoenshel who had a flour
ishing school attended by about 100
male and female students. All escaped
in safety, though many lost their effects.
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