THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. V. NO. 4.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
What Our Lawmakers are doing at the
National Capita. l .
Tuesday— The House spent most of
the day discussing Senate amendments
to the army appropriation bill, and pend
ing discussion on motion to non concur
in $0,000,000 appropriation for heavy
guns and an army gun factory, at 5 p.
m. adjourned.
In the Senate, Mr. Frye, from a select
committee on the Pacific railroads, re*
ported the Union Pacific refunding bill.
The Senate then took up the sundrv
civil appropriation bill, and worked in
dustriously upon it until adjournment,
but did not finish it.
In the House Wednesday Messrs.
Hums, of Mi.ssori; Hooker, of Miss.;
Hutterworth and Tom Reid, of Maine;
Wheeler, of Alabama; Tracy, of New
York, spoke on the Senate amendment
to the army bill and the Senate ainehd
incuts were finally non-concurred in.
Mr. Sayers offered a resolution that
all such appropriations should be placed
on the foitifieatiou bill,
Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, raised a
point of order against the resolution, and
pending a decision the House at 5 p. m.
adjourned.
Senate —Bills were passed as follows:
House bill for improving the mouth of
Brazos River, Texas; House bill for a
public building at Jackson, Mich., ap
propriating $75,000; House bill to
authorize the Kentucky Rock Gas com
pany to lay conduit pipes across the
Ohio and Salt River; Senate bill ap
propriating $125,000 for a public build
ing at Wilkesbarre, Penn.; Senate bill I
appropriating SAO,OOO for a monumental I
column to commemorate the battle of
Princeton, N. J.
The Senate then resumed the consid
eration of the sundry civil appropriation
bill. 'The pending question being the
amendment offered by Mr. Call appro
priating SIO,OOO for the recovery of
property of the late Confederate States
belonging to the government.
Mr. Edmunds opposed it as a useless
waste of money.
Finally, after further discussion Mr.
Call's amendment was laid on the table.
All the amendments were concurred in
and the bill was passed.
Thursday— ln the House, on motion
p( Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina, the
Senate joint resolution was passed au
thorizing the Secretary of War to in
vestigate and report the amount due to
the State of South Carolina for the rent
of the Citadel it* Charleston.
Most of the time was spent in discuss
ing tin* attitude of the jiemccratic and
Republican parties.
The House then went into a commits
tee of the whole on the general defi
ciency hill.
Some progress was made, when Mr
Dockery, of Missouri, brought on a short
tariff debate and the House at 5 after
noon adjourned.
The fisheries treaty was taken up early
in the Senate, and was discussed nearly
up to tin* time of adjournment, at the close
of the morning business. Senator Riddle
berger took the floor in opposition to the
treaty. ( riticizing the,* policy of the
Democ rats, he said the Democratic party
in the Senate proposed to give away the
last v< stage of the l ights of the States to
protect their own interests against Great
Britain and Canada.
Mr Morgan took the floor and said, if
this treaty does not suit us. let us write
one that does suit us, and advise the
President to submit it to Great Britain.
When Mr Morgan concluded, Mr Teller
took the floor, and the treaty then went
over.
The Senate hill passed providing for
an additional Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Wyoming, and after a
brief secret session the Senate at 5:50
adjourned.
Friday Most of the time of the
House* was spent in discussing the item
providing foi the payment of the French
spoliation claims
Mr of Massachusetts, and Mr
Dingh y of Maine, favored the appropri
ation, adjourned.
Mr Ciiliom, in the Senate, offered a
resolution instructing the committee of
the inter state commerce commission to
investigate the question of interference
by Canadian railways with American
commerce.
Mr Mitchell, of Oregon, said that the
subsidized line of British steamers were
bringing Chinese to British America, at
the rate of 4,000 a month, and these
immigrants were pouring down in
stream- to the United States.
Senator Gorman, supporting the reso
lution, declared that it was time that the
United States Seoafors joined hands ir
lespectivc of party, in wrenching the
trade of the United States from aliens.
After further discussion the resolution
was agreed to without division.
The consideration of the fishery treaty
was then resumed, and Mr Teller took
tin floor in opjKwdtion to it.
At the conclusion of Mr Teller’s speech
Mr Value obtained the floor, and the
Senate at 5:20 adjourned till Monday.
Saturday—Neither house of Congress
utr in session to-day, and the Capitol
was almost deserted. .
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The President lut* vetoed the House
bill for the re lief of P. A. Beat her bury.
Mrs Cleveland and Mrs Folsom ar
rived in Washington at 4 o’clock this
Friday afternoon and were driven to the
President's country home at Oakview.
I Senator Platt, of Connecticut, said
j that there was no doubt whatever that
the Senate would consider a tariff bill
this session.
Senators Vance and Ransom are in
the Senate after an absence of several
days in North Carolina. Senator Vance
went first to Morehead City, where Mrs.
Vance has been spending a part of the
summer, and later joined Senator Ran
som at Pitteboro, where they both took
part in the Confederate soldiers’ reunion.
North, East and West.
Grasshoppers are causing terrible rava
ges near Ottawa, Canada.
The paper mills owned by George
Friends at Lockland, Ohio, has been
totally destroyed by fire. Loss $40,000.
The organization of the Southern
railway and steamship association has ex
pired by limitation, and the Southern
Freight pool no longer exists.
Bartley Campbell, the dramatist, who
has for some time been confined in an
asylum for the insane, is dead.
The suicide of Maggie Jones, an in
mate of a house of ill fame, Sunday
night, was the eighth suicide in Birm
ingham, Ala., w ithin four weeks.
The military have been called upon to
quell a small disturbance with some un
ruly Indians on the San Carlos reser
vation.
A young man named Matthew Byrnes
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge into
the East river. He was picked up by a
passing vessel in a dying condition.
Charles alias “Blinky” Morgan, the
principal figure in the Ravcna rescue and
murder of Detective Hulligan, of Cleve
land, was executed at Ohio penetentiary
at Columbus.
At Pittsburg, shortly after 9:30 o'clock
Saturday morning. May Patton, of Johns
-1 town, Pennsylvania, shot and killed
Charles DeKnight, a well-known young
man of Lawrenceville, and then blew h»*r
brains out. The tragedy took place iu
the Metropolitan hotel, corner of Grunt
street and Seventh avenue.
The American Cotton Oil Trust com
pany had its annual meeting iu New
Vork and report showed net earnings of
$2,020,444, which is about 25 per cent
in excess of last year’s business.
The extreme hot weather prevailing in
Arkansas the past week has proven fatal
to out door laborers. Wednesday not
less than four persons at Little Rock
were so overcome by the heat that they
all died before morning
Four thousand laborers, employed on
city streets, of Duluth, Minn, iu clean
ing away the debris of a heavy storm,
struck for an increase in pay from $1.50
to $2 per day, and received their de
mands.
Reports from Bibb county. Ala, state
that the moonshiners are still in the coal
mine drift, strongly guarded by citizens.
George Snyder was the only one killed
on Monday night.
There was another frightful wreck on
the Cincinnati Southern railroad in
Kentucky. This time it was an un
avoidable accident, but resulted in much
damage to the company and the death of
four men.
It is reported on good authority that
Isaac H. Vincent, ex-State treasurer, of
Alabama, who is now serving a sentence
of fifteen years for embezzlement of
$223,000 of the State's money, w ill soon
make a full confession.
Aftc r conferring on details for three
weeks, the officials of the telegraphic
cable companies signed agreements by
w hich the disastrous war of rates between
them is ended. On September Ist the
rates will be advanced to 25 cents per
word.
Saturday night three masked men ap
peared at the house of Conrad Doup,
aged 80 years, a fanner, six miles north
of Dayton, Ohio, and after heating the
old man into insensibility, secured $•!,-
000 in cash. The robbers have not Ven
captured.
Frank Mount, convicted of an at
tempted outrageous assault upon Annie
Rudolph, aged seventeen, and Maggie
Connors, aged ten, at New Brunswick.
N. J., was sentenced to the State |ieui
tentiary for ten and fifteen years, the
terms to run consecutively.
Advices from San Carlos, Arizona,
says: At the sub-agency, Wednesday
night, some shooting was engaged in. It
is feared that serious trouble will termin
ate. Ten Apache* are still missing.
Miles has every company of the troops
in the territory in the best possible con
dition for active campaign. All are
moving to the most available points to
meet quickly any emergency which may
arise.
Turin oil for Trees.
Apropos of the vibrant property ol
wood, have you never heard the grind
ing in the dead, dry trunk of the pine
the gnawing of the minute teeth of the
liorer*? It is like a busy carpenter shop
in full blast. I remember, in a recent
walk in Lion way woods, that such a tree
audibly announced its presence fully
twenty feet iu ad vance of me. Bawd us t
poured out from hundreds of apertures,
and on laying my ear against the trunk
and closing my eyes I seemed to lie in
the midst of a metronolitan bedlam—a
whole city block behind in its contract
and rushed for its finish, w ith hammer?
and planes and chisels in wild echoing
confusion. I could hear the saw* and
auger . gouges, derricks and pulleys, al
most the hurried footfall indeed,every
thing but the profanity of the workmen.
And yet a single one of these disclosed
in h»- hiding place was scarcely target
tbf.»i a biad.— i/«/T*r\.
It seems queer that the man who takaa
Ufa naver has it aftar he takes it.
CHARLOTTE, N. |C., SATURDAY, AUG. IJ, 1888.
RAILROAD NEWS.
Some General Information, New En
terprises, etc.
LEESBURG, LISBON AND PALATE A.
A company has been organized under
this name in Florida to build a road from
Leesburg, Lisbon, and Grahamville to
Paint ka.
TIIK K. T., V. ANDO.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia has awarded the contract for
building 300 flat and coal cars to the
Southern Car Works, of Knoxville, Tenn.
MOBILE, HATTIESBURG AND JACKSON.
The two companies of this name in
Alabama and Mississippi have consoli
dated as the Mobile, Jackson and Kan
sas City, and it is stated that construc
tion will be energetically pushed.
THE RICHMOND AND DANVILLE.
The Richmond aud Danville is report
ed to have contracted with the South
Ballimore Car Works to build 500 cars.
The Wagner car door has been adopted
for the order.
THE PROFITS.
Earnings of Southern roads in May
1888, Gross earnings, $4,022,400; net
earnings, $1,308,032. From Jan
uary Ist to Jifhe Ist, 1888.—Gross earn
ings, $21,083,403; net earnings, $7,305,-
040.
MAYSVILLK AND BIG SANDY.
This road was opened for traffic re
cently from Ashland to Maysville, Ky„
a distance of 82 miles, and track laying
is being rapidly completed to Newpoit,
opposite Cincinnati. The road Connects
at Ashland with the Chesapeake and
Ohio, and at Maysville with the Ken
tucky Central.
ALBEMARLE AND PANTKGO.
Grading is now progressing on this
road from Juniper Lauding south to
wards Pantego, N. C., 20 miles distant,
to which point location Is finishes!. At
Mackey's Ferry, the northern terminus,
freight is transferred by car floats to the
Norfolk Southern at Kdeuton. The
road gives a short route between A'»be
marle and Pamlico sounds.
WIIAT IT TAKES TO FEED A LOCOMOTIVE,
It will perhaps interest some readers
to know how much fuel a locomotive
burns. This of course depends upon the
quality of fuel, work done, speed and
character of the road. On freight trains
an average consumption may la* taken at
about 1 to 1 1-2 pounds of coal consumed
per oar per mile. With passenger trains,
the cars of which are heavier and the
speed higher, the coal consumption is
greater. A freight train of 30 ears, at a
speed of 30 miles |R*r hour, w ould there
fore burn from 000 to 1,350 pounds of
coal per how.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN.
The following changes and appoint
ments to the divisions recently estab
lished have be**n made: K. L. De Barry,
superintendent of Eastern division from
Norfolk to Crewe, headquarters at
Crewe, Va., to succeed N. M. Osborne,
made general agent; J. C. Cassell, su
perintendent of Lynchburg division, from
Crewe to Roanoke, headquarters Roan
oke, Va.; J. A. Hardy, superintendent of
Radford division from Roanoke to Blue
field, headquarters Roanoke, Va.; J. G.
Osborne, superintendent of Western di
vision, from I tad ford to Bristol, inelud
ing Cripple Creek extension, headquart
era at Bad fold; W. L. Keen, division
engineer at Norfolk; N. L. Snowden,
supervisor of Eastern division, with
headquarters at Petersburg; W. 11. Stan
ley, supervisor Lynchburg division, with
headquarters at Radford; B. F. Stanley,
supervisor of the Cripple Creek exten
sion, with headquarters at Hadford.
Forest Fires Raging.
Terrible forest fires are raging over the
country about Ottawa, Ontario, St. Jo
seph, a village of about five hundred in
habitants, six miles from theie. is nearly
surrounded by the flames and is believed
to la* doomed. Owing to the dryness of
the season it is impossible to cheek the
fire. The telegraph announces that for
au area of five miles around Chaugien'
Junction, on the Canadian Pacific rail
way, the tire has Iti'l control, destroying
houses and even* other combustible thing
in its course. The town of Aylema is
also threatened with destruction. The
loss already sustained will aggregate, it
is believed, at least $50,000,000. Manx
families have been compelled to flee for
safety.
lliiman Bntrhery.
A horrible * tragedy was unearthed
shortly la-fore Monday midnight l»v
officers of the Dttplains street Station,
Chicago, tin the* second floor of No.
150 South Sangamon street, lay the
bodies of Henry Hush, a retired saloon
keeper, and his wife. Both were past
middle age. and were looked upon by
their neighlKtrs as a particularly happy
couple. They were last seen Hdurtlay
evening sitting on the front stoop, and
to all appearances as pleasantly disposed
towards each ollur as could I*’ imagined.
Hush had fairly slaughtered his wife
with a but* her knife and afterwards
hanged himself.
Pleasant but Plain.
He—“l mot your cousin yesterday,
Mis* Smith?*’
she—“Oh, did you I We are said to
look very mucVi alike. Did you not And
her tery pleasant;**
He— “Vue, *ho is pleasant but the j
isn't vary pretty.'*—JfjecA.
GENERAL SHERI BAN BKAB.
He Passes Quietly away at Nonquitt, Mass.
Philip 11. Sheridan, General of tin*
Army of the United Stales died Sunday
night at Nonquilt, Mass, lie began to
grow worst* in the afternoon and gradu
ally sank. lie was surrounded by bis
family and physicians.
General Sheridan's illness, which
terminated fatally, began al*out the mid
dle of May. but although hovering be
tween life and death several times since,
he fought as heroically for his life ns In
had for his country. His disease, was
valvular trouble of the heart and is said
to have originated by e\|*osure during
military service. Upon his return from
Chicago, early in May, he complained
of hading unwell and spent but an
hour or so iu his office at Washington
each day.
He rapidly grew worse ami dur.
ing the fort* part of June he
was dePriousand his life was despaired
of, bur he rallied and although suffering
some relapses be step by step tegained
a litt'c hedih. It wa< thought that a
change of air would In-nclit him at d he
was taken to Nonquitt, Maw., when* l.c
enjoyed the si a brve/.is of the New
England toad. But his strength failed
him and he was compelled to succumb
Hundreds of telegrams ami letters of
condolence were received by the sonow
ing family.
A special car transferred the remains
to Washington, D. whore on Satur
day the 11 th of August he was buried in
the Arlington National cemetery. The
funeral services were h Id in St. Mat
thews church at that city and from there
the cortege passed in *o'cmn pomp to
the hero's last resting place.
A Ruined City in Texas.
The surveys at present living made for
the Kansas City, FI Faso and Mexican
Railroad, at a point north latitude 33
degree* and west longitude loti degrees,
have passed along the lava flow which by
the local population is called the
Mo!Dais. It consists of a sea of molten
black glass, agitated at the moment of
cooling in ragged waves of fantastic
shapes. These lava waves or ridges are
from ten to twelve feel high with comb
ing crests. This lava flow is about forty
miles long from northeast to southwest
and from one to ten miles wide. For
miles on all sides the country is the most
deao'atc that can Ik* imagined. It has
been literally burned up. It consists of
fine white ashes to any depth which, so
far, has Ih*cu dug down. To the north
of the lava flow*, and lying in a country
equally desolate and arid, tho surveyors
have come upon the ruins of Gran
tOlivers, known already to the early
Spanish explorers, but which have been
visited by white men less often even than
the mysterious ruins of Falenque in Cen
tral America. Only a fe w people at
Socorro and While Oaks have been at
Gran Gun era, Itccausn it is at present
forty miles from water. The surveyors
found the ruins to Ins of gigantic stone
buildings made in the most substantial
manner and of grand proportions. One
of them was four acres in extent. All
indications around the ruins point to the
existence here at one rime of dense popu
lation. No legend of any kind exists as
to how this great c ity was destroyed or
when it was abandoned. One of the en
gineers attached to the surveying expe
dition advances the theory that Gran
Guivera was in existence and abundant
ly supplied with water at tho time the
terrific volcanic eruption too place. /i
njwintering and Mining Journal*
A Wealth ot Verbenas In Fern.
Once I went to Cape Town to remain
few da\H (ini<l the wife of a Yankee
whalur*. amiiuet Dr. I ivingstoiien route*,
think In* vac on hi* way home from his
os» ttiyagc. lb- was a young man then,
ocl a vciv interr ting one. I spent some
Hue at l.io . anviniand remained a while
n l c-m The* principal thing that ire
ce*mVr al*out the hitter country is its
cedlli of flora I'nce mv husband lay
lown on theground the r, ami I counted
i the wild flower Imd wide h surrounded
bin eighteen varieties of verbena*.—
I arti*
A Gauge for Tea Drinkers.
"One* dose of tea in the tw*enty four
hours is quite su flic lent,” says a Loudon
exchange, ‘ and many people who am at
piescnt troubled with headaches and
luanv of the so-called nervous diseases,
would l»e fai better if they never drank ;
tea at all. Especially should nil avoid I
th-ct very great mistake known as hiuh
tea. Tea and uuat should never lie
taken together, at least as burning the
principal meal. Ih* tannin, an import
ant constituent of the tea, prevents the
digestion of the moat.”
' THE SOUTHLAND.
Virgin In Items.
The Friendship Fire company, of Alex
andria, upon whose rolls appears as a
charter member the name of General
George Washington, on Mondy, 6th inst.
celebrated by a torchlight procession the
fourteenth anniveisary of their organis
seat ion.
Last Sunday night a tire broke out at
Culpepper, consuming a dwelling occu
pied by John Henry, colored, and owned
by C F Clielf & Co.; fully insured.
A lire oecured at Blackstone, a village
«»n the Norfolk and Western railroad,
whic h destroyed the Southern warehouse,
hotel and and a number of other build
ings. The loss is estimated at $30,000;
insurance $12,500, mainly in Richmond
companies. But for a fortunate change
in the* direction cf the wind the town
would have probably been destroyed.
The long drought in the Danville por
tion of the bright tobacco section was
broken by a steady rain. The tobacco
has suffered greatly, but the rain will
revive it, and, with a good season from
this time, a large crop of bright tobacco
may be looked for.
A brilliant german was given at Yel
low Sulphur Springs in honor of Miss
Winnie Davis. Prominent people from
various parts of the country were pres
ent, including Generals j. A. Earley,
G. T. Beauregard and L. L. Lomax.
Tennessee Tuples.
The Governor has received a telegram
from the sheriff of Hayward county, re
questing assistance against an appre
hended attac kof negroes. The Chicka
saw Guards arc* now in readiness to de
part for Brownsville. * *
An enumeration of the population of
the city of Chattanooga was com
pleted and shows a population of 40,072
inside of the corporate limits, and 0,500
iu the suburbs, making a total popula
tion of 47,472, or a gain of 0,000 w ithin
the past year.
Election returns arc coming tn slowly.
Indications are that East Tennessee has
gone* Republican by the usual majority.
Democ rats gain in Middle and We st
Tennessee. A rather light vote was
cast.
FOREIGN NOTES.
Jury trials in cases of anarchists in
Austria and Hungary have been suspend
ed for one year.
The newspapers announce that the
emperor of Germany, emperor of Russia,
»n I emperor of Austra. will meet at
onto point on the Austrian frontier, in
autumn.
The College Gazette confirms the re
port that Btii|M*ror William will meet
Queen Victoria on September 30th,
during the latter’s visit to her daughter,
Empress Frederick, at Radcn.
Japan papers states that a telegram
from Wakamata, Japan, says that the
voic.-mo of Mount Iwabassi suddenly
burst into activity, and in a short time;
til It he houses in 1 wassenura were des
troyed. A telegram received the oth
says that the eruption still continues
with great destruction ami loss of life.
About 100 persons and thirty houses iu
a village c alled Bira were buried under
the* sand and ashes thrown out by the
volcano. Among those buried were
some fifteen visitors at the Hot Springs
in the neighborhood.
The Cotton Movement.
The cotton movement for the week,
with comparisons for tlic same period
last year, was as follows:
Rec eipts at interior towns 4,123 bales
against 1,203 last year.
Shipments 7,000 bales against 2,507
I tales last year.
Stock remaining 3*1,000 bales com
pared with 28,020 bales the same time
iu 1887.
The receipts at ports were 8,211 hales
for the week against 2,581 bales the same
time- last year.
Deliveries from plantations 4,008
bales against 1.207 bales last year.
Total deliveries from plantations since
Se-pte-mlier 15,505,404 bale* against
5,48*1.053 bales for tin* same period last
ye ar, or an imr -ase of 320,441 bales.
Total crop in sight to July 27 3,703,265 (
hales against 0,351,115 bales the* same
time- last year, or au increase of 54 250
Both Officers Shot.
Two deputy sheriffs attempted to ar
rest Fred Conway, a farme r residing
eighteen miles northeast of Conway,
Ark. While Deputy Sheriff Witt was
reading the warrrant to Conwav the lat
ter drew a knife and stabbed the* officer
in the left side. Conway's wife and
two sons then attacked Witt, who drew
his pi'tol and tired at Conway. The
hall struck the- olltci officer. Deputy
She riff Lloyd, in the- bna>l. inflicting a
fatal wound. Witt lell exhausted from j
the* loss of blood, and late advices say |
In- will not Ik* taken alive. The affair
has c re ated great excitement.
A Sulphur Spring Incubator.
Theie are a number of warm sulphur
springs in KUinoic, Cat., and acitizon of i
that town is using them for incubating ,
purpoci lie putsatmpid full of eggs '
in a spring whose temperature! is 102 de- i
gree-, and in three weeks the chicks ;
c ome out. As the temperature of the i
spring eloes not vary, the eggs require
no attention. This beats the patent in- :
cubator ail hoDovr. —Ntio York Tribune. •
"laigow, Scotland, has a system ot
automatic telephone call boxes. There
*io seveutj six of the doxm scattered I
about tho city, and every subscriber has !
a ker to them
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Hovy to Keep Down Flesh.
Plumpness i 3 essential to perfec
beauty. Fat is the opposite of it.
Science informs us that to keep down
flesh sassafras tea, without milk, may bo
taken; likewise cream of tartar, making
a drink by pouring a pint of boiling
water on a teaspoonful of the tartar,
letting it cool and flavoring with lemon
and a little sugar. A draught of this
half an hour before meals is a notable
purifier of the blood, aud an occasional
dose of epsom salts, seltzer aperient or,
congress water may be taken, but always
with the advice of a physician. Ono
c-tfWWtit physician recommends the chew
ing of a grain or two of roasted coffee to,
check abnormal craving for food. Jel
lies of Iceland moss without milk arej
excellent to satisfy the appetite without,
making flesh; so are water cresses : ancl
tender radishes, and all these are amongf
the best purifiers of the blood and pre- 1
ventives of consumption. Scrofufouaj
and delicate girls should be brought un
on these simple but potent relishes,A to-,
gethcr with carrots and parsnips, \ which
last arc the best food for quick ands
[ healthy plumpness. The richness of the
milk of Alderney cows is due to long
feeding on parsnips in the Channel
Islaml, and the finest and fairest children
in some parts of Scotland use it as a
daily food. A carrot poultice is admir
able for softening the face, acting as a
purifier by absorption and mechanically
as a moist application. Thin, dyspeptic
girls, or those with poor appetite, should
be-given twelve drops of acid phosphate
in a small glass of water three times a
day, half an hour before meals, till they
feel hungry ; then feed them on crusty
brown bread and muffins, with a daily
change of the sweet, succulent roots,
besides fruit and meats. It is surprising
how they will tone up. The dose of
phosphate is not to exceed twelve drops,
as a very little is better born than largo
doses, which are apt to produce rush of
blood to the head.— Detroit Free Prets .
Facts About Butter.
A New York dealer who knows
whereof lie speaks said to a Mail a nil b'.x
jine* reporter: “I he annual product of
butter iu the United States is net le-g
than 1,000,000,00(1 pounds per annum.
It is generally admitted that fine-half of
the butter produced isarti dally colored.
If this be so, and if natural high colored
butter is valued at five cents more per
pound than the um-olored article, it fol
lows that the public pay no less than
$25,000,0(H) pc-i annum for an artificial
color, believing it in most cases to be a
natural color and an indication of supe
rior quality, for which they receive no
equivalent. It. is also true that if one
pound of color, which consists of an
natto color, dissolved in cotton seed oil,
is required for HHIO pounds of butter,
there must he not less than half a million
pounds of spurious butter added to the
product of the country in the tliapc ol
cottou seed oil.”
South Uarolina.
Representative Koran. Democrat, says
that he calculates the next house will be
Republican by about ten to fifteen ma
jority.
Miss Fannie Wyatt, an inmate of Bish
op Duncan's family, at Spartanburg,
died Friday. She was a native of Vir
ginia and was almut 77 years old.
(’amp Aoderion. at Greenville, was
finally abandoned Tuesday by the Sumter
Guards, of f’harhfton, who bad lingered
in their tents, when they left for Tryon,
N. CL, till all others had gone.
All the c andidates for Greenville county
offices started out Tuesday morning on a
| tour over the country, to attend to the
! series of meetings appointed by the ex
! ceutive committee There are forty-
I three c-tndidates in the county.
.
A Wider Experience.
Dumley (who has given Featherly a
j cigar front his private box) —“I've
' smoked worse cigars than these, Feath
erly.”
Featherly—“Ye es, Dumley, I s’pose
you have; but you must remember that
you are an older mao than I am.”— li/t