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It 13 esthmta.l that fully two-thirds of the whole amount of public money held" by the Londou banks doe? not bo-ir ju tcrest. There is a lighthouse to everjfou; teen niles of coast iu England, to every thirty-four miles iu Ireland aud to every thirty-nine miles in Scotland. . eetaol'powerTe tan attraction than the spoils of office in some places iu 3Iisso;:ri. The Mavor of t Sweet Spring, ia that St -i.-. , salary of ioO a year. The Austrian Emperor, in order u -knowledge a singula;- display of loyalty, nrceptc d th-j sum of five Horins, equal to hbout two doUars, which had been be queathed to his majesty by a poor peas ant, recently deceased in the Austrian province of (Ja-.v.ioU. Th( u--'y ir:xv:r,: ,V:;5 r.-siu U-lc 1 .u: diy at U.ulhi,', for pe:: i ration into iron plate.. The projectile penetrated through six teen plates of the best llange irou, making j-ixlecu inches. This is three plates more iliau tliiujajernetrated before. The Auicrieau Farmer says thVf Eng. land is pre-c-mitiea tty the leading cheese country of Europe, importing about seventy per cent, of the whole amount Kuporte l by the d'uTerent countries. The English of our day is considered by a high authority almost perfect, alike lor the purpose of the orator, th-j philoso pher, the lecturer :vvl the poet. The purest English is said to be' spoken ia Lincolnshire. In Eielefried, Germany, there is a farm of 100 acres under cultivation, the oper ators being men and women who are or have been sufferers from epilepsy. All classes of farm work are attended to by these people, and it has been found that the frequency of attacks of fits of epU lepsy has been greatly lessened by tha effects of the work. There were at the end of ISO! ll.jo patient3 at th.a .nstu ti'tica. Henry M. Stnby, in one of his speeches white standing for a seat in the British Parliament, said: "Though of British birth and pareutage, I have spent the greater part of my life in travel aud exploration in foreign lan Is, and when I returned two years ago to live in Eng land I was a naturalized citizen of the United States, but in all my wanderings I have seen no power so great and so be neficent as the British E noire, and I feel that my birthright of English citiz3nship was a privilege which I could no longer forego. I therefore resumed the alle giance of my birth and resolved thai; if ever I could serve England again iu any .way there should ba no Lanier to over borne. 3Iy one mastering desire is for 'the maintenance, thesprevd, the dignity, the usefulness o- the British Empire.'' Widespread pub lie interest is being aroused on the subject of improving th public highways of our country. Col onel Albert A. Pope, of Boston, has given a great impetus to the question by publishing in pamphlet form "A Me morial to Congress on the Subject of a Comprehensive Exhibit of Iliads, Their Construction and Maintenance at the "World's Columbian Exposition."' The Memorial contains letters from Presideut Harrison, memoirs, of the Cabinet and a large number of other prominent men iu every section of the country, all hignly comm. endatory of the movement for the improvement of public roads throughout the United States. Be sides these letters extracts are giv en from editorial articles favoring road reform in leading papers all over the Union. These extracts shov tha: thi jr ess every where is ia lin3 with the laulable ef forts to improve and maintain public roads all over the land. The editor of a Xev York weekly paper ha 5 offered to pay Professor Schi nparelli's exoeases to this country and back in order to give the distinguished scientist an opportunity to peep at Mars through the great Lick telescope in California. It is generally agreed, re marks the Chicago Herald, that the most important of the professor's discoveries have been co-tinned by the recent ob servations of other astronomers. The strange thing about it is that Schianar clti lias been able to see more with a telescope of a certain size thm others hare distinguished with larger instru ments. Th's wili be popularly explained bv savin- thi: he has very bright eyes. The v.rofessir himself says that he has been observing that one planet for many years, and that one's eyes derive greater distinguishing power by becoming ac customed to the light of a particular star. Whichever theory is true, if Schi cparelli comes to look through the Lick telescope he ouht to be able, under .'av.rible con U:ion, to tell us something te.v ab.-ut the surface of Mars. POLITICAL WORLD. Candidates, Conventions, Nomina tions. Elections. All the News ofmical Movementa of the Four Parties. Full returns from Vermont give Ful eft fGfnor39,100r Smalley. em.) l!)..g(j; Allen (Pro.- 1 fi.-.n j! ler CD fi!G:-,T".)Veits was nominated wc,UUIU ,nUcff .Jcrsev Demo cratic convent r,n u -., cmr ciui,:.!.. . yeunesaay. m accen it : ii 111 he Wnot to yield 3 haVC iDduced hira The Massachusetts Republican State convention at Boston nominated by aC! chmution for Governor, Lieut Gov. Lie. The Democrats of the Second Virginia district at Norfolk nominated for Con! SSI?" nwT of Charfesaly county. The nominee is a son of tx- & The Democratic Congressional Con vention of the Ninth dis rict atBirmiC nam Ala., nominated Lewis TurnTa on the first ballot. urpin AM.AI E. STEVEXSOX. Hon. Adiii 11. Stevenson spoke to i t'-'ge a'id c:iT his- week V- Ashevilk, lbd.-ii.di, Ciiarh.fi- and Winston. COLUMBIA CANAL IN A TANGLE The State's Sale of the Canal and tht Probablj Results. Columbia, S. C The State of Souti Carolina speut years of time and thousand of money t uiid Dg a canal around the fall at Columbia. The primary object was, we belUve, to improve aud extend navigation. Subsequently plans were changed, am' inee the war the purpose ha beeu tt develop a water power aud conduce u. development of manufacture Stv eral years ago the Mate grew tired of tla u:. del taking and Sold out to the city ; Columbia. About year ago the city svki out to one Eretus Flood and asociat s. of New ( ngland, the entire canal, fran chises, privileges and immunities But when Flout and his asscc'ates had purchased the canal and settled for it. they soon found that all available mii, sites Wtic owned by 'ocat parties. Amongst the responsibilities of 1 he own ers of the canal was a statute c mpe lint; its extension to Granby. Tho;-e luca. partus who own the land bit ween th present terminus of canal and it p.r t'osed lower terminus Lave l)i on threat ening to bring suit to compel the owners to extend the canal through their laid to Granby as required by law. hut sud denly it is fouud out that the State for metlv owned all the land from the head of the canal to Granby; that the State never sold these Uuds but simph soli a usufruc interest in them till needed foi canal purp-ss-es. The present owners avei their readiue; s to tomple e ihe canal to Granby. but demand that they now need the land, the title in fee simple for which comes to them with their purchase of the canal with ''all rights, privileges, itu munities. etc.'' A week ago the local land company felt that they had the canal owners bot tied up. At this writing the canal own ers have the whip handle, if their alle gations are true, aud the prosr-cc-t of a big lawsuit is substituted lor Columbia's irumedia'c prospect of one or more large cotton factories. North Carolina Schools. Raleigh, N. C. The annual report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction was made public. The re ceipts were $7? j.4 j0; the expenditures $701.0'. 0. O: the latter, f 39l.0u0 were for wh'te tuition and $59 000 for the school houses ; jl'.l4. 000 for the colored tuition and -.21.000 for the school houses. The receipts are the largest on record, being $G1.000 greater th.m last year. The reports show that there are 30,000 white and :2 12.000 colored chil ireu of school age: total. oOs.000 'lhe value of school property is .$?9J.O0O, and 0.90 schools were in operation. Build Canning1 Factories. While the past season has not been al together favorable for the farmers and cauners in Botetourt county, Va., the latter have fouud a stronger demand and readier sale for their output than was ex pected. Altogether over 50,000 cases of canned corn, tomatoes and okra will be made in the county by some forurteen canners. This industry seems to have take:: a good hold wherever tried :nd should l-cC'-me m .-re general. It is a Ie!:-.it to the iner and to the town "Guilty, But Drunk." Nashville, Tenx. The tae of Jo seph Smith a;:d J. II. Lockhart. shcuilT and deputy shevitT of Warren county Ala., dr: u-ed with the larceny of f2.00 worth of diamonds from a New York drummer, while in Nashvilie were 'T.oil ed" in the criminal court. The Occid ents admitted their guilt, but said the robbery was committe 1 while they were in a drunken frenzy. Director Leech, of Washington, has or deied from the Philadelphia Mint, in addition to large orders of small coins, y-oy 00 new half dollars for circulation 1 . A'nshincton during the veterans' en . : ;;!"; t." Treasurer Xebocker ii also prep:uf;l withUrgeffrderj of small nste. ST "' CHOLERA IN NEW YOEK. The Dreaded Disease Within The Citadel. A Number Dead and More Stricken. Precautionary Measures Taken. New York City -Five deaths in this city from Asiatic cholera wee an nounced by the Board of Health. This is the list of those known to have died of Asiatic cholera: THE DEAD. Name. Age. Charles Mc.Vvoy 35 William VYiegmau 5-2 Sophia Wiegman 03 Minnie Levinger 1$ Charlotte B--ck 31 DfLD. Sept. 0 Sept. 10 Sept 1 1 Sent. 11 Sept. Each has been reported by the attend ing physician as suspicious, but no no tice was given out until the nature of the disease had been definitely determined by a bacteriological examination, which delayed announcement of the nresence of cholera. In but one case is the?c a clue to the possible origin of ;h; dise.is.: Four Hungarian immigrant- who arrived from Antwerp on the Frics'and on Aug. 29 lived for several days in the house where Minnie Levinger died on Sunday. None of the Friesland's passengers were ill, but the vts-el was disinfected and detained about forty hours. The city authorities express confidence that they will be able to keep the disease from spreading, and the announcement of it.s presence in the city does not seem to have created public alarm. The health inspectors have reported another case of cholera. The victim, Mary Connoly, 10 years old, residing at 092 Second avnue, has been removed to the St. John's Guild Floating Hospital at the foot of East 10th street. Two sus pected cases were found in Brooklyn. A young German girl, whose name could not be learned, residing at 50 State street, was one, and Simon Co inski. of North Ninth street Williamsburg, the other. The German girl died in Ii few hours. She had beea in this country since last February. A DESPERADO KILLED. In Resisting Arrest He Is ShotDown. Expires as the Sheriff is in the Act of Handcuffing- Him. Norfolk, Va. Saturday night Dep uty Sheriff. T. J. Jackson, of Norfolk county, was called upon to raid the gambling house on Western Branch. One of the varties made his escape, but was recognized on the road the following morning by Jackson and placed under arrest, but resisted and srruck the officer a powerful blow on the left cheek, stun ning him for the instant. The negr -, who was a desperate man, ran away, and as soon as Jackson recovered he fired at the escaping man three times. The ne fro ran about seventy-rive yards and hid ehind a stack of fodder, where he w.s overhauled by Jackson. He claimed to have been shot, but the officer Dot be Heliog him put a pair of handcuffs on him, who almost immediately fell to the erouod and expired. .Turkman notified the authorities A corouer's iurv heard the evidence and brought in a vordirt in accordance with the facts stated. It is reported that the deput sheriff will be anesieu. THE CLYDE FACTION IN CONTROL. The Richmond and West Point Ter minal's Status Fixed. IhcHMOXD, Va. W.P. Clyde and those in sympathy with him are now in full control of the Richmond and West Point Teiminal Railroad and Warehouse Com pany. At the general meeting of the stock holders the ticket proposed by what is known as the "Calhoun faction'' was de feated as were also resolutions which Mr. Pat Calhoun trb.d to have passed. Ever since the meeting held here was called there have beeu two committees tt work receiving proxies. Theoje headed by Wjii. E. trouvr represented the Clyde people and that of which Alex E.t Oir was chairman represented the ''Calhoun faction' To-day the supporter af Clyde controlled 400,122 shares' of stock, while the other side had only about 175,00'J shares to vote. The meeting was called to order in the Times Building at noon bv W. G. Oak- man, receiver of the company, and im mediately adjourned to the Exchange Hotel. W. P. clvde was made ch ifr-" man. The inspectors of the election reported the following gentlemen had received the vote of 4u0. 122 shares of stock voted and they were declared elected directors: Wm. E. Strong, Geo. F. Stone, Wm. P. Clyde, J. C. McBean, Alex S. VanNest, Thomas F. Ryan. Geo. Blagden, C. A. Law, R. G. Erwin, W. II. Goadly, Jno. N. Hutchin son, Jos. Bryan, Edward Pfickard, Jno. A. Rutherfurd, R. S. Hayes, G. J. Gold, Thos. Manson, Jr., and Chas. McGbee. This was the ticket put up bv the Clyde faction. The names of the j er sons on the Calhoun ticket were Dot given out. They received the votes of about 175,000 shares. The meeting adjourned to the 26th of October. A Suarrel Wifrk Fatal Besulta. Winstk, X. C. Tke particulars of a fatal shooting ?erape in Stckes caunty reuched here. oSirge Hall and Art .i;ith, sob of Jim Smith, had a quarrel over a pistol which Smith had. Hah took it away from Smith, who then went home and reported the trouble to his ..tth.er, who armed himself and followe !i; three miles and shot him in the back f ti e neck, the ball coming out undtT ii ch:n, killing him. Smith is sti l ut .iige. A Freight Train Kills Them Both. Lynchbcrg, Va. Frank Martin, of Lynchburg, and Joseph VanCleves, of LexingtOD, Va., beth in the employ of Wm. Snead & Co., contractors of this citv. were struck and insta: tlv killed bv freight train near Greenwav, a station on the C. & O. railroad. The rem aici of the unfortunate men were brought here. THREE STATES' BRIEFS. Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points of Interest. The Fields of Virgina, North and South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For News. VIRGINIA. A rat flooded theotiieo of the People's Bank at Charlottesville and drowned it self by gnawing a hole in a lead w ater pipe. Thirteen Syrian immigrants, holding first class tickets for Sulfolk, Va., via Norfolk, were stopped at Cape Charles and turned back to New York whence they came. A carload of Norton's Virgiuia and Ives wine, nearly o.UUJ gallons, was ship ped last week from Charlottesville to New York by the Monticel o Wine Compiiiy. Dr. Taylor, who was sentenced in Wise county to death for murdering the Mullius family, has been takeu to Lynch burg to avoid lynching. A rule has been granted by the Court of Appeals against the town council of West Point, to show cause why they are not in contempt in refusing to assess property of the Richmond k Danville Railroad Company at that point.. Bees are reported to be dying in Char lotte county for want of blossoms, result iug from the severe drought. A. B. Clay, of Chesterfield county, has oa hij farm a stalk of corn fifteen feet three iuches high. He is going to stud it to the State Exposition. It is the tallest stalk of corn ever rsised in that county. IOBTII CAROLINA. Hon. Donald MacRae, of Wilmington, died Thursday at Lenoir. He va. . director of the North Carolina and Wii lington and Weldon railroads. Winston's fifth tobacco warehou-c w.. . opened. Revenue officers have seized a big gov ernment distillery iu Yadkin county, owned by A. E. Shore. It was for avio la'ion of the law. The plant is announc ed to be sold. Gov. Holt was absent from Raleil during the Stevenson reception, attend ingthc burial at Reiisville of Mr.-, Williamson, his wife's sister. Raleigh ladies gave a f stival las; v ek to aid the Confederate momimeut u.d raised $G0O. Mrs. Virginia Madison has been j din ia Tarboro on the charge of kil ing th . new-born child of her daughter, Ro?a. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston has quarantined airainr New York . Two terrific cyclones passed through Newberry county list week, destroying much property. Tiieo. D. Jervey, a veteran merchant aad prominent man, of Charleston, died i i-twcek. The rlags of the city wer lowered to half-mast as a mark of mourn "'ng. In the second Democratic primary ol the Second Congressional district Tafbcrt. (Alliance) defeated Tillman. Attorney General McLauriii is proceed hig against several phosphate companh for selling fertilizers, analysis of which by the State, showed to be one-half sand A Sumter company is the first on the list The Creosote Lumber & Construction Co . of Fernandia, Fla., is engaged on an order for creootiug 000,000 feet of vcl low pine and G0,00j feet of oak, to" b used iu the construction of the g-vun ment drydock at Port Royal, S. C. OTHER STATES. Montgomery, Ala. Thomas II Watts, exGovernor of Alabama, and At torney General in the Confederate cabinet died here at :3 o'clock Friday morni ; after several weeks ill cess. THE NAVYCLAIMS HIGH HONORS. Lieutenant Peary Discovers Independence-He Travels 1, 300 Miles, Inland--L0BS of Mr. VerhofT. Washington D. C. Lieutenant Peary, who with his party arrived at St. Johns, N. F., from the Arctic regions, after an absence of 12 mouths, has telegraphed the Navy Department from St. Johns that the United States Navy claims the highest discoveri 'S on the e st coast of Greenland Independence Bay, 82 de gress N . latitude, 34 degrees W. longit ude, discoveredJJuly 4, 1S92. Greenland Ice Cape ends south of Victoria Inlet. St. John, N. F . The steamer Kite arrives here from Mclormack harbor af ter 12 mor.thr in :he Arctic regions bring ing with her Lieutenant Peary, with his wife and party. All are safe and weP, with one exception. Lieuteaunt Peary made a stage journey with dogs of thir tee i hundred miles over the interior ice, which he found available, lie was out 0J days and returned all right, August 4. He made important discoveries, con firming his theory. Mr. Verhorl, the meteorlegist of the raity, went on a two days' geological trip to a neighboring settlement Fail ing to return at the end of that time, the pm-ty staitfd after him, but found m trace of tarn. For six days, the entire party se-trched for him. On the sixth tiay they found some minerals placed by Yeihoff on a rack and traces of his foot steps to a large, wicked lookirjg glacier, anu here all signs of him were lost. No signs of the missing man were found and they were forced to believe that he had me his fate in one of the numerous c-!-vasses. The expedition was a sreat success Among Lieutenant Peary's dis overi s. w.i iir,e of a yreat bay, latitude, 81.37, ;";. fitude 41. opening out eas and north-t-:;t, w hich he named Independence Bay. in honor rf the day, July 4, and the n-i: lilacier flowing north into it Acad emy Glacier. A Birth in Royal Life. Bemi.in'. Gekmaxy Th-German Em i ress gave nirth to a u i i'nter. tuc firt daughter born to the iMj eiiii Tiie child was born in the palace' f Poisdam. The Italie rf Rome announr en that Mr Portfr. the United State Mister to Italy, baa resigned, BILL ARFS" LETTER. Once Again tie Plilosoptier Writes of tie Lone Star State AND TELLS OF THE MANY AND VARIED ADVANTAGES OF THAT GREAT AND GROWING COUNTRY. My dear old friend Randall, of the Aa,-n l Herald, chidt-a me fVr tveu hintinsr tha; if I i was young I would go to Texas. He left iii good old Mate when he was young, but loves her none the les,aud hi- heart weut back t In r when he tuned his harp and sang, "My Mary laud." And so it is itu tiie Georgians in Tex s. i.I s i it is with tho-e from every Southern T;, wh-t now make np the Hipulatioit of i.e w : i . ud plans. Stat- pride is a sponger ti tna.i .u; ,h;uk, and the love of our birtliplae aii-l ;i.e ac nes of our chUdho d grow utrouvi-i with adra -.cing years. "The Exile of Km' and "lhe Old Oaken liucke;" will nev. r e- to hud aa tch.j in oar hearts. A go d, iu ;h er'.y woman who keeps a drummers' hotel in a Texas town heard some ot th s ciuzan talk.n t me about the wonderful State, and aft i they hid left us, she looked around ciut.ousix and almost whispered, "Major, thu is indeed great Stale and people are coining to it fiu::i everywhere, but toniehow I have never felt con icntedhvre since my husband died. My hear: is awav back in dear old G. i rgia, and )t any body back there i-. doing reasonably well I would aavis.- them to tay uspec.aLy the ukir ried women. Young ineu can c nie and marry :h e Texas girls and we. tic down and that i .1-gh" iiiesv widows' hotels m Texas towns are ai ni t universal and are the outgrowth ot the l: ir.umeiV longings f r a home or something li .e a home. They are not on the public cquaiv. out nri cosy cottages a ht;le way out. auU they have been built onto as the patronage inert ucs. lhe widow is motherly and her mrls are s.s terly and everything i:: in at aud i.ice. The di ummers come and go with every train, tiiey are a bright, well-mannered ciass. 1 luund a good little hotel at "Ulaukct" that had aw ry novel sign "Cooking is not a lost art iu ii.i house and a bed means rect." Tnere is uo d.s -ouut on the tabie fare in Tixas. it is g od ivi rywhere. The drummers make it good, l'iit-y demand it. When people are away oft t r ni home and feel homesick or have the blues, they attach more imp atance to nourishing the htoimch. for there is the seat of the emotion a id the affections. Solomon tells us of bowel of mercy bowels of compassion. A good din iii r will comfort a lonesome man more than a seimoii or a whole book of philosophy. The mystery to me about Texas is the sharp, straight, well-defined dividing line be tween the prairie land and the timber. No'h ing will grow high upon the plains. The soil is ricli and deep ; it produces irom tixty to one hundred bushels of oats and fifty bushels of corn and twenty-five buhels of wheat and 1 ,nO0 p unds of cotton to the acre. It brings w( rll of grass without seeding, and yet you can't make a tree grow thirty feet high" except the j ecaus in the pecan region. You can travel 2' hi nr.lt a on a stretch and not see a tree tweitv feet high. Ever and anon a mesquite orchard c mes in sight, and it looks exactly like an abandoned peach orchard on poor land, or you will see on some rising, rocky hill a scattering growth of black jacks that look like an old ap ple orchard. The trees spread out, but won't grow talL The fruit trees all spread out, and even the LeConte pear, which is naturally a tall and cone-shaped tree, loses its shape. My friends, the Wright brothers, who moved from Rome years ago to Fort Worth and have gotten rich, &T0 experimenting with all sorts of trees for shade around their beautiful homes. They have got th? lombardy poplats, which, in old Georgia, run up and almost kiss the sky, but they will never reach thirty feet in Texas. They sent away off and got elms and water oaks', but they will stop stubbornly at their pn sent height. Nevertheless, there is an abundance of one-story shade all around the houses, and the umbrella China spreads wider and its foliage is more dense than I ever saw it t l.-e where. Texas corn does not grow higher tiian a man's head. The ears hang low and heavy. Fodder is never pu'.lod. Texas cotton is a!out waist-high and full of fruit. Texas wheat and oats are short-stemmed, and even Texas ponies are short-legged. The tallest growth I taw of anything was the ears of a Texas rabbit I saw in the beautiful city of Cle burne. A friend took me out to drive and said he wanted me to Bee a splendid grove where they were going to make a park. "Now jen't that perfectly lovely?" said he. I bowed assent, of course, but I couldn't help thinking what a failure it was compared with the magnificent oaks that adorn the lawn in front of my Georgia home. The country around Cleburne, Waco and Ilillsboro 1b the richest and most lovely of any I found in my limited travels. It is gently un dulating and the soil somewhat waxy, "it is thickly settled and in a high state of "cultiva tion, prodacing easily one hundred bushe s of oats, a bale of cotton aDd thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. Thousands of tons of hay are harvested and it sells for $6 a ton. Wheat is 60 cents, oats 20 cents and corn 25 cen's a bushel. Of course the farmers complain of these prices, and I saw a Third Party paper which had in large type, "Oats at l-05 a bushel iu Atlanta, Ga., and only 20 cents here. The railroads get the rest." Of course this was not true, but it was poli tics, and politics, they say, is h 1. It makes me sick and sad this war upon rail roads by the demagogues of the country. I can not understand it. But few i f them mai.e any money down South more than half of them are in the hands of receivers. If looks like there is a conspiracy between unscrupulous lawyers and ofSee-secking editors and prejudiced juries to ruin thern. and they are doing it. I'aiiroads are a necessity, and they carry civilization wherever they go. If they were to 6top mu lling for a week it would " i-hoek and paralyz the commerce of the country. Any ot it busi ness can s'op at wilt, but not ri roads. Tht fiat is. "You shall run and you shall carry at our prioe, whether you. can afford it or not." Now I am not going t encourage our young mn to go to Texas, but I am couetiaiiird tc say that there aie many young men win are no account a' horn- who would d some thing away a whcie there were no kiu'lred tc Kan upon. The bridge would be burned behind them and they would go o work. I here is an other class who are billing to work but can'f find the woik to do. They ought to go s.me wher?. Every town in Georgia ha9 its ovei fl iw Eighteen young men of Cartersrille have gone to Atlanta and are just scratching alocg foi .-nough i o pay for boaid and clothes. Ther will be eighteen more next year. If they wer :o get out to some new town like Colem'an oi Dw lin or lirownwood or San Angelo they could io to work. The work might not please th m. nit if they meant business they would soon find -omething that would. When the Wright broth rs left Rome a few year ago they were not nach ncoount, but they got to Fort" Worth an? burned the bridge behind them, and have sao -reeled, and at last they have got the old folki h-re arxl their marriel si.-ter, and they an happy. CoL J. L Wright, their father, our old solicitor, looks like he has taken on a new leas of life. He has built him a comfortable hous within easy reach of his children, and all h lacks now is a few shade trees. I wish that I could give htm one or two of mine- There art sixty-four in my lawn, and if I had Aladdin'r lamp I could move them ani sell them for $50C apiece in Fort Worth. Cut then they hava the gentle Texas breeze that is ever blowing, not blowing ei'her, but breatbiDg on you by day aim lauump you oy mgnt. i rouni it every where and it is k uuivcr-al that they don't think about it nor talk about it. The wati problem seems to have been solved pretty gen erally over the State, for they sink artesian wells at sin all cost. They bring up pure water near :he -urface and the pucup or the windmill does the rest. Everywhere you go yoa will see the wini wheels turning. I found no running streams, such as we have here, but every farm has a sink somewhere that holds water lik a jng, or it has a bayou that winds along for milf i end furnishes a supply for many farmen and wash-holes for "their boysT Around Wac for a ra lins of 100 miles is called th lie t n.au's country, f.r a poor man cn't bay i. or lent, aud it taes three or four homes to "-Vi''c plows, iu can air? out, thou?o, foi gei. Far;hrr Writ, la th BrowowvJ ia ct&d the poor cua'a coo&trj, w) the soil is easier and one horse or mule is tol erated, though yon generally see two to a plow. They are turning land now all over Texaa. I got an idea of the immigration at Stephensrille when I sat in the office of Mr. Lee Young anJ saw him make out seven deeds or leases in about an hour for that number of settlers. He rep resented a large tract of land, and was selling on three years' time for eighty-acre faraia. The purchaser risked nothing but his improvements in case he concluded to change bis base. There were no trees to cut down, no grubbing, no new ground, no barns to build nobody builds barns. The climate is so mild that the stock stays out of doors and eats grass all winter. The corn is stacked until ready to be shucked and shelled for market. Tbe'hay is baled in the fields ; even the mowers and reapers take the weather. When I was a boy I went to school with Overton Young, but he went west when he was about twenty and I lost sight of him. Forty five years have passed since then, and the other day while I was in Dublin a man called to see nv and t-aid he was the son of an old friend of mine, who went to school with me for many years. I looked at him hard and thonghtfullv and sai 1 : "You look like Overton Young." "1 am his son," he said : What a curious mys tery is memory. How s range that those linea ments have beea resting asleep for years and years and so suddenly come to life in the face of his son. 1 he father long wnce dead and here are his ohildreu at home in Texas and married and are respected and prosperous. He accompanied me to Stephensville, where I dom iciled under his ro.f and several times caught myself calling him Overton but his name is Lee Bob Lee, of course. On my return I came from Dallas to Txar kana and when I reached the timber I saw signs of Georgians all along the route. I saw goober patches and tall corn with the fodder pulled and old fields grown up iu pine thickets and here and there a guily. Texarkana is the gate way for Tennes.-ee and North Carolina and North Georgia. There I took the Iron Moun tain route for Memphis, a route I had never traveled, and I liked iu The chair cars recline and are as good as a sleeper and you wake up in .Memphis with au lumr to hpare for the next train homeward. The Memphis and Charlekton has greatly improved since I was over it last. It lias better cars ad makes b- tier time, but the old Western and Atlantic always makes me happy when I board it at ChUtan n.ga home ward bound. Farewell. Texas till I come again. We are banking on the Lone Star as a refuge for our numerous offspring, but I am not going to move no. not as long aa Randall stays. Bill Arp, in Sunnv South. PE0MINENT PEOPLE. Cari. Scbcrz is an adept at the piano. Frederick Douglass plays the fiddle. Gladstone is the only Englishman who has held the office of Premier four times. The Turkish Sultan's daughters take a daily music lesson from their father, who is an accomplished pianist. M. E. Galladat, of Holden, Mo., is proud of the fact that he is the lineal de scendant of the original Mother Goose. A Democratic nominee for Congress in Texas, Judge Pascal, has a moustache thae measures sixteen inches from end to end. Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, has held office for nine years, having been appointed in 1883 by Grover Cleve land. The Queen Regent of Spain refuses to touch a penny of the $100,000 a year to w hich, as the widow of the late King, she is entitled. Bismarck used to spell his name without the c. The present spelling does away with monetary significace of the names Bis-mark two mark. The mother of Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, of Poughkeepsie, H. Y., is the only arriv ing child of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat. Rev. Dr. Milbcrn, the blind preacher and ex-Chaplain of the House of Repre sentatives, has completed a work on the early history of the Mississippi Valley. Mrs. A. E. N. Robertson, of Muscogee, Indian Territory, has been made a doctor of philosophy by the University of Ohio for translating the New Testament out of the Greek into the language of the Creek In dian?. John I. Blair, the railroad magnate, whose first sale was a muskrat skin, and who now is a very many millionaire, re cently celebrated his ninetieth birthday at his home at Blairstown, N. J. His most recent enterprise is the Wall fltreet banking bouse of Blair & Co. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Brnxo frosts have occurred in Kansas. The North Dakota wheat crop is short. The indications are for a short crop of apples. There are 16,000,000 cows in the United States. The Indian population of Arizona is given cu: as 35. 777. P.toPAOATios of fresh water fish will be tria in Texa?. The bors-fly is injuring dairy cattle in New York JS'ate. O.ve dollar American money is worth $1.58 in Mexican mon?y." Texas fever is reported among the cattle of the Indian Territory. The boll worm has greatly injured the cotton in many parts of Texa?. Evergetic .-.ct'on for th prsventioa o cho'.era wai taken in rnny cities. The n:w Naval War College has been formally opene i at Newport. R, I. The s'ui.ni..' its of melons and peaches fro-ij South Carolina are prodigious. James Stew art. a pauper in the poor Lousi.Ht B-Ka-t, Ir-lanl. die! a few days ajo. Ten t jou-and do'lars in United States L:i!i an i coin was found in his clothes. Tiie Io? Mnrtet of Pari-. Amou the queer institutions of Pari?, of whoe existence the ordinary Ameri can visitor with all his zeal for explora tion has no notion is the D05 Market which is held every Sunday in a eornei 'of the Marche aux G'hevaux. ItisaduU authorized market that brings into the exchequer of the city an annual sum equivalent to $'500. This, says a corre spondent, proves that a reat deal of business is done bv the sale of dogs in the course of the year. A Ux of fifteen centimes is levied upon the head of eaoh animal that is brought to market. Tht number of entries averages 14,000 an mt ally, but the exhibition is $aid to haVJ injuriously affected the dog business, fo there was a marked decrease last year. The market is also said to have suffered from the competition of those who sel: dogs in the streets and take Ia-g families of them every Sunday into tht Champs-EI jsees and the Bois de Bou logne under the pretext that they need air and exercise, but really in hope of legotiating their sale. New York Tr: buoe. ' Louis Kossuth wrH be ninety years old next Saturday, and all Hungary prepares to do him honor. An tx cuts ion of mem ber of the British Parliament to his home was plauned bt ha been given m. in deference to the wishes o! Eos futh's sod, who layi lucb a dwaonitrt tioa would hutn tU pttrict'i t
The Goldsboro Headlight (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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