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WEEKLY. S-aocessor -to "tlx T-n cLe:x:. r VOLUME 1. GREENVILLE- JV- C JANUARY 11, 1804, NUMBER 1 KING'S JOTTINGS. There are rumors of another bond issue. Wall street must still be on top. The Bluetields dispute of fifty years standing has at last been satisfactorily adjusted. Won der if it will stay adjusted 1 The President and Senator Hill have been dining together. Something's up, or their hopes and prospects are down. Train robberies seem to be getting common to no one . part of the country. It also seems to be at times a paying busi ness. 'After a Cabinet meeting the President had no 'special mes sage to transmit to Congress. Is the Cabinet getting control of the old man '( -Long term, short term short term, long term one term, both terms ao term at all sems to be agitating the wiley Republi cans. Let 'm agitate. Nebraska seems to have had a s am lynching, and Bartlett Scott a defaulting county treas urer seems to have been the lucky victim, whereby he may savelis $70, WO bondsmen. Representative Breckenridge goes about lecturing to very audiences while his son and law-partner.don their war paint afresh at home.. Miss Pollard is yet to be heard from. Whiecaprers and moonshir ers of Murray county, Ga.. re cently attended a mass meeting and strongly favored their own reformation and a discontinu ance of their unlawful business. Georgia is growing better. AH do not seem to be lovely in the fusion camp, if reports be true, and who will succeed Sen atoi s . Jarvis and Ransom is a 'much disputed question That They will have successors is be yond dispute. .- . ' ' Marion Butler, the would, or will, be Senator intimates that free silver is a tle'usion and not worth the snap of his finder if secured- But he cares the cnap of all his ringers for that Sena torial plum. The Florida fruit growers are mad v.ith the weather bureau for not forestalling the cold speil that recently ruined the fruit on the trees. The weather is a prime topic and indispen sibe course of complaint for people who never saw Florida. AT? ew York Police Captain who accepted four baskets of peaches as a bribe for a sidewalk privilege has been sentenced to the penitentiary for three years and nine months and fined $KH)0. Had he received a few thousand in cash, he might have emulated Ca?sars wife. BIG AEMIES IN BATTLE- THE GREATEST NUMBER ENGAGED IN MODERN TIMES WA.S AT LEIPS1C IN 1813 AT THE BATTLE OF NATIONS. 4 Without doubt of all the battles recorded in modern hSiory, the longest and sternest, as well as the one in which most men were engag ed, was the memorable battle of Leip sic, October 16, 18, 19, 1813, called by the Germans the battle of the nations, says the Brooklyn Eagle. The number of troops engaged is variously stated by different writers at from 136,000 to 190,000 on the side of Napoleon 1., and from 230, 000 to 290,000 on that of the allies under Prince Schwartz e n b u r g, Blucher and Bernadotte. In this awful battle the slain on both sides amounted to 80,000. and thousands o!' the wounded lay for days around the city. In the battle of Koniggrarz. or Sadowa, July 3, 1866, fought during the "Seven weeks' war," the allied Austrian and Saxon troops engaged amounted to about 200,000 men, vvhilv the Prus sians, under their kit.g. mustered in round numbers 260,000 combatants. The total loss ot the .Austrian, etc., amounted to about 40,000 men. while that of the Prussians whs 10,000. f we go back to the melee of ancient dayp, we find it stated that at the one fought at Tours in 73-, between-the Franks and the Saracens, from 350, 000 to' 375,000 men were kiUed on the field. This would, of course, mean that many more men were en gaged thcffl at Leipsie. In a battle mentioned in Chronicles II., between Asa, Ki. g of Judak and Rerah, King of Ethiopia, we are lold thai the former had, an army of a thou sand thousand, or 1,OJO,()00. Canon Rawlinson ohserves that this state meut dofs not xceed the numbers of other oriental armies. Darius Codonmunus brought into the field a force of 1,040,000 .i-.ei: near Arbtla, where he was finally defeated by Alexander the Great 331 B. C. Xerxes, too, PrulVssor Rawlinson savs, crossed info Greece wiih eei- j tainly above 1,000,000 combatants. I and Aitaxerxes Miiemou collected i 1,260,000 men to meet the at'ack ol j the younger Cyrus. JUDGE CLARK jT SHARPSBUBCt- HE DIDN'T KNOW AS MITH AS HE DOES NOW AND NEARLY LOST HIS LIFE. Judge Walter Clark, of the Sharps-' burg committee, had a singular es cape in this battle. A smooth fact d giilish looking stripling of 15 or 16, he was an .adjutant of Coi M. W. ll.t n so iii's, regiment and of course therefoie a mounted officer. When the Confederate lines to the left of the Dunkard church were broken his regiment was thrown in to stop the in-pouring flood ot blue coats. Theopposing lines of battle came together with a crash ike a clap of thunder and as suddenly. Every other mounted officer of course immediately dismounted, leaving Ins horse to gallop to the rear. It being the first time our voung adjutant had been so sudden ly brought into action, and not gee ing the others dismount, he thought it his duty to stick on his horse and he stuck. In a moment more, when the smoke lifted, the enemy's line of battle. Ivinir down nor fiftv I r m . . -vw m j yards off, seeing him alone mounted would have taken him for a general officer and he would have been swept out the addle by a huudred bullets. He was very popular in the regiment and a kuid-hearted veteran close by with more vigor than res pect for .Ins rank promptly jerked him off his horse, saying, "get down, you d d little fool.' At that second a inin,nie ball whizzing over the just emptied saddle struck the back of his left hanu which was still grasping the pommel, leaving a slight sear which he still wears. There were thousands of narrow escapes that day, some escaping only to fall in another battle, and the others surviving the war. The friends of Gen. Andrson, Col. Terry and Gen. Branch and others, wbll he survivors still live, could easily have small monuments put up, in expensive but commemorative, to m.u k the spot where each of these brave officers fell. It is proper to say the committee served without compensation and paid their own expenses. They vis ited the battlefield as they and their comrmles did 32 years ago, at the coHini.t d of their State and from patriotic motives. TH3 TEXTILE MILLS. Eemarkable Increaso In Their Nnm bar ITorth Carolina Third In the Year. The, semi-annual review of mill construction throughout the country shows that in the first six months of the year 1991 the number of new mills was 116, a wonderful showing, considering the condition of the bus ness world. 'Since the middle of the year the construction of no le.-s than 147 textile plants has been nmhrtaken. The record for the year is -62 uew mill?, asag.tinst 27!) in the corresponding vcar ol 1S93 and 3 ) for 1892. The new mills commenced dur ing the first and second halves of the year 194 are as follows : Woolen, first six months 17; second six mouths, 2S ; Cotton. 43 and 5 ; knitting, 31 and 38 ; silk, 13 and 8; felt, 2 and 1; miscellaneous, 10 and 14. The Southern States make a good shoeing in the number of -new mills undertaken during the latter por tion of the year. However, New Vorjc and Pennsylvania led with 21 each to their credit. Next comes Noipth Carolina with 16, then South Carolina with 14. The ieord by States for the whole is a fo.lows : New York, 38 ; Penn sylvania, 23; Georgia, 19;" Massa chusetts, 15 ; Maine, 11 Yirgii.ii and Rhode Inland 8 each Texas and t 'onnect'cut, 7 each; the remainder being divided among the other States. glades'of Florida along the Atlantic Coast, and has an area of 5,G0O square miles and a total population of less than 900. Cherry county, Nebraska, in the extreme "northeast part of the State, with the Snae river dividing it in half, has an area of 5,668 miles. Threw North ern counties of Minnesota lying south of Manitoba and west of Lake Superior, Beltrami, Itesca ami St. Louis, have respectively 5,040, 5,430 and 5,860 square mil s. The last county includes the important city of DuluAh, but the first has a popu lation of only 300, and the second onlv of 750. The population of Du luth is 35,000. The two counties of Idaho, iiing- iiatn, containing the lava fields, and Idaho, south of the Nez Percea Res ervation, contain more than 10,000 squnre miles each. Two counties in Texas, Pecos and El Paso, have more than 5,000 square miles. Pe cos, which is the extreme west of the State, on the Rio Grande, has 6,700. Kl PapOj which adjoins it, on the Rio Grande, has 9,750. One county of Colorado, Arapahoe, has an area of 5.220 square miles, but is still more notable from the fact tkat it has a population of 150,000, includ ing the city of Denver. Routt county, in the same State, has an area of 6,(00 square miles. On the Pacific Slope, counties, like tiees and fruits, are of gigantic Bize. Six counties of Oregon, three countiaa of Nevada and seven counties ol Cali lomia have moiv than 5,000 square miles, The largest of all in the United States is the county of San liarnardiuo, on the East of Los Angeles. Its area is 21,000 square milts, nearlv halftliH size of New I York State, and 5,000 miles larger ; tlian New Jersey, Delaware, Con, i nectieut ami Rhode Island coni ; bined. The Liar's Club- Big Counties. East of the Rocky Mountains there are only twelve counties in the United States containing more than 5,000 square miles. Not one of thesi is in New York State, the largest county of which, St. Law rence, covers oi.ly 2,900 square miles. One ot the twelve is Aris took, the forest coanty of Northern Maine. Another is Dade county, Florida, which includes the ever- Amphibius fish are the "Kansas Nebraska compromise" of the droughty 1894. The leader of a band of catfish, was seen to flop his way from a nearby dry stream up a high blurt' and scan with anxious eye the far horizon. Presently dis cerning the r.iver enine of a mo-re promising stream he signaled his follower?, and soon they were :;11 flapping across the prairie at 2.37 miles an hour. Farmers' boys picked up stragglers by the basket ful, but the mait. body reached the distant stream in about four hcurs leaving a broad and well-defined ti ail of down-trodden grass and ruined wheat behind them. Ordinary hens die rapidly in Manitoba", Dut fanner of that re gion has won the formal thanks of the local government and the grat itude of his neighbors bv introdu cing -a breed of fur-beanug chiefc eus which sport ic ice water and cackle briskly in the n.idat of al most eternal snow. This was ac complished by skin-grafting & se lected cock and hen with rabbit skin, half an inch at the time. The process was painful, but succeeded admirably. Eggs of the new breed veil readily at $1.73 a dozen and are hatched out by ordinary hens, who invariably die of fright from per ceiving the strange apjearaiic of their offspring. New York lie corder.
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