Union.
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A DEMOCRATIC JOCBNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTEREST.
VOL. III. NO. 44.
MAXTON. N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1889.
$1.00 A YEAR
TOWN DIRECTORY.
B. F. McLE AN Mayor.
ENOCH BURNS,
J. LEACH,
J. D. JOWERS;
W. J. CURRIE,;
't
I
Commit
sioners.
J. P. SMITH, Town Marsh!.
LOltttES.
KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No 1,720 meets
on second and fourth Wednesday's at
7.80 P. M. J. B. WEATHERLY, Dic
tetorr B. F. McLEAN, Reporter.
FRIENDS OF TEIPEHANCE Council
meets on Tuesdays after second and
fourth Sunday at 7.30 P. M. A. McL.
MORRISON, President.
T. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.80
P. M. WM. BLACK, President.
MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK.
Captain, meets first Thursday nights of
each month at $ P. M.
CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on second
and fourth Monday in each month.
Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W.
Parham, Secretary and Treasurer.
SILVER STAR BAND, W. S. NICK
ERSON Leader, meets each Monday
and Thursday at 8 P. M .
MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIYS, meet every Friday night,
xcept tirst in each month, at 8 o'clock.
ROBESON COU-NTY BIBLE SOCIETY
HMcEacbem, President.
W W MeDiormld,' lrt Vice- President.
Dr J D Crooni, '4ad Vica President
A D Brown, Secretary.
Wm Black, Treasurer and Depository.
EXECUTIVE ;ofMITTEE.
He v Joseph Evans, Kev H (i Hili, D D,
Rev J 8 Mack, ! Kev ) P Meeks,
Rev J F Finlavsiii.j Joa McCollurn,
J P Smith, i Duncan McKay, Sr.
N B Brown, ; Dr J L McMillan.
ATDITINd COMMITTEE.
J P Smith, D H MpJieill, J A Humphrey
Place of next meeting Lumberton, N. C.
Time of next irteeting Thursday, May
30th, 1889, at 1 1 :30 o'clock a, m .
Bibles and Testaments can be purchased
of Wm. Black, Depository, Maxton, N. C,
at cost
All churches and Bible Societies In the
county invited to stnd delegates.
Forward all coUW?tious to Wm Black,
Treasurer, Maxton, N U.
churches.
presbyterian rev. dr. h. g-
HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath
at 11 A. M. . Sunday School at 10 A.
M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday
afternoon at 5 o'clock .
i-
. METHODIST, RKV. W. S. HALES.
Pastor. Service Wcoml Sunday at 4
P. 31., and fourth at 11 A. M. Sun-
day School at 9 M)A. M.
MAXTON LITFiRARY SOCIETY
meets every Friday eve in Kg at o'clock.
MASONIC.
MAXTON LODGp A. F. & A. M.
meets 1st Friday niiht in each I
month at S r
M.
GENERAL DIRECTORY OF
ROUESON C'OUXTY.
Senator. Jl. E. Purqell.
Representatives, t Hamilton McMillan.',
l). ( Regan.
) J. L McLean
County CVmiuessiijers, j" J H McKacheu
j W J Regan,
j D A Buie.
0. S. C.,X- B. ToWnsend.
Sheriff, H. McEachjm.
Tax Collector, R. O. Pitman.
Reg'r Deeds, S. W. Bennett.
Treasurer, W. W. JcDairinid.
) Rev. J. S. Ivey,
Board of Education v J. S. Black,
) J. S. McQueen.
Supt. Pub. Instr'n, jJ. A. McAlister
Ooroner& Supt. of Health, Dr. RF Lewis
. Russia is willing tb spend $90,000,000
fin a new navy. j
Twelve years ago the Modoc Indians
were uncivilized heathens. Now they
they are a community of industrious
fanners, with half tWr number profess
lag Christians. It dost the United State9
Government $l,$48,jD00 to care for 2200
batata Indians seven years while they
were savages. After they were. Chris
tianized it cost, for seven years, $120,
BOO, a savin of $1,28,000.
It is generally predicted that Oklahoma
will be Settled up with phenomenal rapid
ity. The Oklahoma Yalley is one of the
finest in the United Slates, with an abund
ance of timber and an altitude of 1600 feet
above the sea. If acy cattlemen are ill
advised enough to remain in the Territory,
observes the New York T ribune they may
expect short shrift frc m the boomers, who
will have many old scores to settle.
The occasions upon which anyoody re
ceives the Knighthood of the Order of
the Bath in his ninety-first yszx are ex
tremely rare. Mr.- now Sir Edin
Chad wick, who attained the age of nine
j In January last, has earned this dis
tinction, His first article appeared in the
'Westminster Review in 1828, more than
sixty years ago. His! whpie life seems to
have been passed on j committees, coun
cils, congresses, commissions and confer
ences in connection with the English So-
Ml Science .Association. .-- .x
NORTH AND WEST.
HEWSY ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH.
Being A Cksdaixation of the PrinriDalHan
pe lings in Different States
A 7RX2GHT train ran into a burning bridge
as Cattawiasi, Penn., and broke through into
the ravine, making a terrible wreck and kill
ing Engineer Bcmsinea, Fireman Jonas Bus
sail and Brakeman James Indine. The loss
was about S7U,ooo.
1 A OT78HZB oil well was discovered at Le
jgronyfll, Fm. - It Ihrew o4Hl3 feet i the
Cr, and was running at the rate of 700 bar
Wlsaday. ; HX plant of the Harlem (N. Y.) Electric
lighting Company was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of nearly $150,000.
I Fo&xsr fires swept an area of about 2000
'acres surrounding Millville, N. J., destroying
ftarrv?, crops and much valuable timber. The
loss was estimated at 1 50,000.
liver Pexbv Lewis, aged twenty-one
fears, of New York city, drowned himself
while clad iA his dress suit in Central Park
reservoir. He had recently undertaken the
Support of his mother and sisters, and shama
and distress at his failure are thought to have
been his motive. Before drowning himself'
he had fixed the day and hour of his funeral,
and sSRt out notices to friends asking them to
tttendit. :
Jakes Covxer and James Harris were
killed near Homer. Mich., Ly a premature
xplosion of dynamite While blasting stumps
George M. McNeil, formerly of Iowa,
employed on the Oak Levee, at Baton Rouge,
La., and two colored women, Coliy Norton
and Fr ankie Romero, were drowned by the
upsetting of a skiff in which they were
attempting to cross the river.
A collision occurred between two freight
trains a mile south of Glen Mary, Tenn.
Prakeman Taylor, Condjictor Hinelineand
Engineer Rusk were crushed to death.
IVo others were slightly injured.
The Secretary of the Treasury lias ap
pointed Daniel A. Grosvenor, of Ohio, to be
chief of a division of the First Comptroller's
office. Ha is a brother of Representative
Grosvenor.
Sir Edward Malet, the British Ambas-
sador at Berlin; Afr. Scott, the British
Minister at Berne, and Mr. Crowe, the com
mercial attache of the, British Embassy at
Paris, have been appointed Royal Commis
sioners to represent England at the Samoan
Conference.
Mr. Pendletox, the United States- Minis
ter to Germany, will take no part in the con
ference in Samoan affairs. He presented his
tetters of recall to the Emperor William, and
Immediately left Berlin.
Messrs. Kassox, Bates and Phelps, the
American Commissioners to the Samoan
Conference left London for Berlin.
King Charles of Roumania officially an
nounced that his nephew, Prince Ferdinand,
had been selected as heir to the throne of
Roumania.
MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIC.
Magoix Mitchell has a new play.
Adslatdb: Ristori was born in Italy in
1881.
, ROBEBT ELSJtEBE has proven an unex
pected success in Boston. (
Mrs. Potter, the society actress, hts
bought a farm on Long Island.
Tkr Bijou Theatre, at Melbourne, Austra
lia, has been destroyed by fire.
GEORGIS DREW-BaBBYUORE has signed
with "W. H. Crane for next season.
Among salaried actresses Ellen Terry
drffws the biggest pay t300 a week
THERE are thirty-four regularly appointed
opera companies traveling on the road
Adelaide Moore, the English tragedi
enne, is preparing for her American tour
The current theatrical seasons in Berlin
and Vienna has been unusually successf ul.
A ifCslCAL' entertainment for the benefit
of the Home for Dogs, in London, netted
$2500.
Clay M. Greene has written a new play
of New England life called 'Blackberry
Farm.".
(X Goodwin, the comedian, will be
under the management of James C. Duff
sext season.
THX leading New York society ladies pro
pose to erect a monument to the memory of
Lester Wallack.
The late Duchess of Cambridge used to pay
Signer Tosti $1500 a year to entertain her
witn musttr an hour every day.
THXSJt will fee six or seven comic opera
companies bidding for the patronage of New
York thedtergoersthis summer.
Catherine Sinclair, widow of the trage
dian Edwin Forrest, is seventy-two years old
and a resident ot New York city.
Manager J. M. Hill, of New York, has
discoVeftd a neW dramatic luminary in
Gladys Orme, a pretty fifteen-jW-old girL
MRS. HArtSTOXXS-rS-THZ-ST3tA.CH. who
will be with ..Farepaugh's circus next sum
mer, is described as the Langtry of the Sioux
tribe.
Sioaroa No Vara, the well-known basso,
has been engaged to support Patti daring
her operatic tour of the United States next
winter.
TYaCHTEL, the French tenor, has been cele
brating his Jubilee at the age of sixty five.
He says that he has sung "Le Postilion de
Longxuneau 1000 times.
Edwin Booth made his reappearance at
Cleveland. He gave not the slightest indica
tion of physical deterioration and in atrtion,
as well as speech, recalled the strength of his
beet davs.
Joacbdc, the great Tiolinist, has returned
to Germany after a brilliant season in Lon
don carrying the sjx-thocwnd-doUar Btradi
rarius Tiolin recently presented to him by
his Britiah admirers.
Charles YT. Dttrast, of New York, who
managed Estelk Oayton's theatrical tours
and who three years ago Inherited $550,000,
claimed in court the other day that his sole
oossesslonaoonsistof a watch and-ring given
toSmby Miss Caayton, and Tamed at H50.
There ii a great florry in the Socth
west over the alleged dlscoTery of da
tujnTgai tt Fort Snith, Ark. r
PS0GBES3 OF THE SOUTH.
The Ifimlloiu Story u Told by Bankers
in the Various States.
The Manufacturer? Record published
special reports from leading bankers all
over the South as to the condition of
business in their vicinity, stating thai
the Tiews of bankers; were secured be
cause they are the best possible authority
on the financial position of their feet ion.
The Record says:
In the North there is complaint of,
dullness . In the South an activity never
before equalled is reeu ia every line of
industry; people are not only hopeful
but enthusiastic. The steady; progre
7 of late years has brought about a season
of prosperity which has infused new life
alive and at work. Drones are at a dis
count, energy Jand enterprise are cease
less, tireless vim and push are now the
controlling factors in the South. The
reports cf bankers scattered from Vir
ginia to Texas, without exception, tell
of the great improvement in business, of
activity in trade and manufactures, and
the enthusiasm which pervades all classes
of citizens, farmers and business men
alike.
. This is probably the most uniformly
favorable summary of the condition of
business in an area as great as the South
could ever have been made. In giving
some of the reasons for this prosperity
the Record says that during the last two
years it has reported the organization in
the South of upwards of 10,C60 new in
dustrial, establishments, covering "every
line of manufacturing and mining, from
making pins to building locomotives,
and the building of nearly 6.000 miles of
railroad and the production of the largest
crops ever raised in this section, which
yielded fairly good profits to the farmer.
During these two years the South
raised over fourteen million bales of cot
ton, over one billion bushels of corn,
nearly one hundred million bushels of
wheat and one hundred and sixty million
bushel of oates. The total value of these
and other agricultural products reaching
an aggregate of upwards of $1,600,000,
000, or an average of f8OO,0O0,P00 a
year.
The character of the reports from
bankers is shown in the following from
a few of them.
The First National Bank, of Florence,
Ala., reports; ''Business is on a sound
financial basi9 and activity unprecedent
ed in this section, with money easy.
Thirty or forty new factories have been
located here in the last few months."
The First National Bank, of Athens,
Tenn. says that section was never before
half so prosperous nor the outlook half
so Hattering.
The Planters' Bank, of Danville, Va.
reports : : 'The prospects are more prom
ising than ever before."
The First National Bank, of Fort
Worth, Texas, reports' "An era of un
precedented prosperity," and adds'that
the farmers are jubilant over the crop
prospects."
The First National Bank, of Salisbury.
N. G., speaking for all that section, says:
"A better outlook than for twenty years
and the people are united, and enthusias
tic." First National Bank, of Rome, Oa:
"lluaiaeas very active and increasing and
people full of hope and enthusiasm."
Lehman, Durr & Co., bankers, Mont
gomery, Ala: "Not a single mercantile
failure for a year and everything bright
and promising."
Warren Daposit Bank, Cllasgow, Ky:
'New era of prosperity."
First National Bank, of Roek Hill, S.
C : "Brighter than for ten years."
First National Bank, Vicksburg-. Miss:
"Going ahead with marked rapidity."
First National Bank. South Pit tsburg,
Tann. "Satisfactory to the most san
guine. '
His Beloved Charlotte Gone.
Mr. O. W. Cramer, of Abbeville coun
ty, S. C, publishes the following unique
advertisement In the Abbeville Medium:
On Feb. 5 my beloved wife Charlotte,
after an absence of eighteen months, re
turned to her home and conjugal duties.
She was welcome J with joy, for I fond
ly thought that my troubles were o?er
and I could spend the rest of my days in
the fear of God, in a home blest with
content and domestic love. The second
day after her homecoming she went to
town ou a shopping excursion, and
made such purchases as she desired, for
my purse was open to her. Bat no one
knows the trouble I see. About the 1st
of March she made some objection to an
imaginary will she said I had made, in
which she wa pot provided for. I calm
ly reasoned with her that everything had
been arranged by law' for her comfort
and security after my death ; but al I
said fell upon unwilling ears, and my
kind intentions were rejected by a per
verse temper. On March 2, she was off
again, taking her departure as suddenly
as she made her appearance nearly a
month before. Why she left I do not
know. She had a good home, my purse
was open to her, and I treated her kind
ly. I do know, however, that she went
off in the buggy of a young married
man, who has as much as he can do to
take care of his own family It Is a
strange attachment, for she is many
years his senior. My object in publish
ing this is to say that if then is any law
to punish one for "alienating a wife's af
fections." this young man shall feel its
weight. Also to let the public know
that she has a good borne when she re
turns to her wifely duties, that I will not
be responsible for any of her contracts
when away from home, and that I have
always treated her as an honorable man
and law-abiding citizen should treat his
wire. Gzo. W. Ckaxxr.
The btloVed Charlotte and the young
married man have not yet returned, -
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
HEWS FB01I EA0H STATE
FtjmerV Alliance Actrre-Notes of Acci
dent, Eta, dasjified.
The world's visible supply of cotton is
2,281,484 bales. ,
; The West Tennessee Hospital at Boli
Ter is about completed.
Works will be built in Chattanooga
Teuttv to manufacture dynamite. .
- j B Fortune fcas been: appointed rrst J
master st Shelby. ?N. C.
Information Jias reached Asheville, N.
C. of the death of Mrs S B Steele, of
Kentucky, mother of Mrs Senator Vance.
The Westmoreland Ca lis ay a Tonic
Company has been organized at Green
Yille, S. C.
The winners at the Memphis races
Saturday were Cassandra, Lulie B, Kee
Veens, and Strideaway. .
The date for the Cabarrus county (N
C) fair has been set for October 1st,' 2J.
3d and 4th,
Robert
S Houston, newly appointed
po&im&oier at mrmingnam, Ala, isa na
tive of Iredell county, N. C. j
Robert P Willis and Samuel Hal ford
have been sentenced to be hanged at
Rutherfprdton on May 27, for burglary.
The South Carolina Press Association
adjourned Thursday evening, after an
interesting session. j
Armour & Co., the great meat packers
of Chicago, will establish a branch pack
ing factory at Knorville, Tenn.
Postmaster-General Wannamaker al
lowed the postmasters at Savannah and
. A . i . . a
Atlanta to close their offices on
20 Confederate memorial day.
An agreement has been affected that
will preve.nt any collision between Ten
nessee and Virginia officers on account of
the undetermined location of the State
line.
The Congaree Construction Company
have contracted to build the Columbia,
Newberry & Laurens railroad froni its
present terminus near Little Mountain to
Newberrv, a distance of 20 miles.
Ccesar Frszier, colored, was hauged at
Charleston on Friday, for the murder of
A Oldenburg, white on February 9.
The condemned man professed the Cath
olic faith before going to tho scaffold.
Col A G Sharp, of Tennessee, formerly
Chief Postmaster Inspector, has bocn ap
pointed Chief Inspector of the Atlanta,
Ga. division, to succeed W W Simpson;
resigned.
Pat Hunt, under sentence of death at
Paris, Ky., for killing James Abnee, put
on a most brazen appearance during the
trial and smiled when the verdic t was
read. He left the court house escorted
by three officers and smoking a cigar.
A Texas railroad has sent its agents to
Oklahoma to induce those who cannot
get land there to come to Texas. The
railroad offers good land on easy terms,
and has 7,000,000 acres to sell, while all
Oklahoma contains only 1,800,000.
Texas hopes to get 20,000 emigrants
from the overflow.
Carter Colquitt, son of Wm II Colquitt
of Atlanta, Ga., died in Utica, N. j Y.
Tuesday, where be had been taken to a
hospital for treatment. He graduated at
Emory College last fall and was a bril
liant young man. He developed brain
fever which his physician in Atlanta at
tributed to excessive cigarette smoking.
Ah Entire Family Gone.
A horrible crime wa3 reported from
Macon county, N. C. W P Wood, an in
dustrious farmer, lived in the country at
least five miles from any neighbors. His
family consisted of his wife, three sons,
and two daughters. Three of the child
ren were grown, and the other two were
aged 12 and 14 years. Wood had saved
some $700, and had always kept his
money in an old trunk. It was generally
known among his neighbors that he had
this amount of money in his house, and
at one time burglars attempted to break
in and et it, but he frightened them
away with his gun. On Mondsy last
Wood was called away from home on
business. i
When he returned he was horrified to
find his house in ashes. A short distance
from the ruins he fotynd .three axes and
two bowie knives, all stained with blood,
and the old trunk in which he had kept
his money . The trunk wss broken open
end its contents were gone. Among the
ashes charred bones were found, showing
that the entire family had been murdered
before the house was fired. There are
no clues to the murderers.
i
An American Girl Harries a Clansman, J
Charley June, a twenty-two year-old
Chinaman, and a good-looking Ameri
can girl, 20 years old, were married at
Boston, Mass. When the' clergyman
asked the groom, "Will you take this
woman to be your wedded wife.7 Char
ley seemed confused.
"The answer is, "I will,- prompt 1
the clergyman. '
Still the Chinaman opened not his
mouth. The bride, who was evidently
beginning to fear that he had changed
his mind, broke in:
Say yes or no, one or the other."
Then Charlsy replied in vary good
English, "I will"
After the ceremony wsj concluded the
clergyman advanced toward the bride,
saying, "Mrs. June, I congratulate you,"
and the bride dropped Into, a chair ex
claiming, as she. drew along breath,
Hit. June.
FARMS AiND FARMERS.
A TALK
WITH NAT
M0
BLEMEN.
Dr. W. L. Jones, of Georgia, Ad rises Far
men to Eaise Their Own PorkJ
4uw tuai Q9 apinioi a genuiee econ
omy u abrou in tne una, let us not
forget that it is as important tk raise
hog" as it is to raise "homlar." Pc
sibly every farmer has not made wovis
iou far this, may net have the animals
necessary to do5 It. In that war let
him buy a few shoats. An snimal six
weeis or two months old, will - it prop
eriy pushed, mske 200 pounds of nork
by next December. But It mukl lie
pushed, matters must not be fcfi.fp hap
hazards and chance. One must look
ahead and provide. One pf the best
things for younjr hogs is milk butter
milk or skim milk. This .in connection
with a little bran, shorts, or meall will
push pigs very rapidly.;. But! they
ought to hare a pasture or lot io run
on ; clover is best, bermuda is good. .In
the absence of these, native grasses and
weeds will help. Inclose a little 'Discs
for the pics, let it have a shade and. if
possible, running water; but this is not
essential. In its absence, they most be
supplied daily with fresh clean watsr,
with slats nailed across, so they cannot
wallow in it and defile it; wallowing
troughs are desirable in hot weather.
Keep salt and charcoal always within
reach under some shelter; occasi jnaily
f ive a little sulphur and keros no in
ood. This will ward of cholera, i
But crops should be planted
for supplementing milk and
,We discuss the matter in the
one starting right now, and v
made no previous preparation,
aration had been made, a patch
once
iiture.
t;ht Of
tj had
' prep-
burr
clover (where red clover does Ihot grow
well) would have been ready, and a
f atch of winter oats soon would be.
n the absence of these, one might plant
some crops that will come in as quickly
as possible. At first, reliance must be
had on garden vegetables. Six ' weeks
leans, squashes, garden peas, cabbage,
etc. A special planting of these might
be made for the hogs. A crop of whip
perwill peas may be started the last of
April. One of early amber cane plant
ed at once (get Northern grown seed for
this, that it may mature early ) A patch
of early corn (Adam's extra early); will
furnish roasting ears in June. It ts al
most too late to plant Irish potatoes, but
these when cooked make excellent hoaf
feed. Most of the vegetables naraeu
above should be cooked For pigs. Span
ish ground peas and sweet potatoes should
be planted for latter p irt of summer and
autumn, and successive plantings of
corn made, to furnish roasting ears
through the summer. One who has not
tried it, will be surprised to see how
much hog food can bs obtained at small
cost, by the exercise of a little energy
and foresight. Wc have not been In the
habit of doing these things, but it is
time we were getting into such habits.
Let us get out of the old ruts a little.
THE NORTH HAS A BA0E PROBLEM.
Bishop Newman says it is Between Amen
can Born and Foreign Born.
Bishop John P Newman of Omaha,
Xeb., has written an ope a letter on the
Southern question, which is attracting
widespread attention. Referring I to
his speech at the Virginia Conference he
says: j
"You have the raee question to settle
as to the whites and blacks ; we have the
race question to settle as to the Ameri
can born and the foreign born . With
you it is a question with your own peo
ple; with us it is the North against! all
Europe. You have the easieriask. The
South has not been overrun by foreign
ers indifferent to our institutions. : This
is what I meant by the 'purest American
blood was to be founa In the 8ouih
and that becsose of this 'it might be that
the South would have to march forth in
defence of our dearest institutionOj I
have been saying this in tilt' North for
the past twenty yeaTs on many public oc
casions. "In all my tour in the South I -poke
words of peace and unity, and since my
return North I have spoken like. words
to President Harrison and to our states
men. It wss a joy to me that I found
the young men in Florida, In the Caro
liuas, in Georgia, in Virginia, loyaljto
the Union of the fathers. I fogies ted to
the Administration to put men in office
in tbeXuth of high repute, who will
promote Southern prosperity, intelli
gence, and religion ."
Cungreaszaaji OaW Plan
Congiessmaa Oates, of Alsba&a, who
is one of the leading democrats in public
life, propose an original method of
dealing with contected election cafes in
the next Congress. Cot Oates's iroposi
tion is for the democratic caucu. to ap
point a committee to consider tt. various
contests that at to come up. In his
opinion that committee should -ismine
the facts in the case, and whenever they
find that the demecrat has no right to
the certificate he should be so informed
and his case abandoned.
Advance ia OottoarCsoth ia Gasada.
At a meeting of the Gray cotton menu-
fact ore rs at Montreal, Canada, it was de
cided, ia view of the great advance ia
price of raw cotton; to advance the price
of cotton doth from one to two cents
per pound. Shipnsats to China - are
till going on. Nearly fSO.OCO worth
was shipped, thither darinsr" the nasi
A rwure menus. ,
SC1XNTIFIC AND INUrSTRlAL.
. -
Fifteen cubic, foot 'of- gs wHI fiive as
much heat as one pound of bIr:minottt
coaL . ' e ., y
Hard-working Parisians average sensi
bly less in suture than their wealthy
neignbors. ' '&
A German chemist condemns boracic ,
add as an ineffectivo and poisonous food 7
preservative. . '
The latest , use of photography Is to ;
make a cannon ball take a picture cf iU
own wabbling " " ' , - v
Ice crumbles under saw and chisel, tut
is said to be more capable than , wood of f
being smoothed and shaped Cy the plane.-
A Dresden manufacturer has, produced
thread from the cemmoa nettle so Has:
that sixty miles of it only ; weighs twu
and one-half; pound. - -
It has been noted at several of the lead
ing natural! gas wells that the minimum .
and maximum of pressure corresponds tb ?
the ebb and flow of the tides.
The taw is largely used now instead of
the axe in bringing down the giant red- -woods
in California. The tree is sawed
partly through; and then is forced otti
by wedges.
By means of the bisulphide process,
now used for paper pulp, a foreign
chanic has succeeded in pisparing wood
fibre that may be spun and woven ifito
coarse cloths. ,
Dr. Lintner, the entomologist,; ssyt
that insects destroy $300,000,t)00 worth
each year, and that a single insect caused ;
a loss of $15,000,000 a year In the . State
of New York. ' . '; :- - -
Seamless boiler tubes are now made
from solid ingots of metal by a process
that twists and stretches the fibres, and
is said to make a tube much stronger than
the ordinary ones. s
The common use of kerosene as a pre
ventive of corrosion in boilers is not with
out its danger, as gas arising from it may
accumulate and explode upon Ending an
opportunity to escape to a light.
A photographic reflecting telescope
has been presented to Dunsink Observe
tory having a mirror by With of fifteen '
inch aperture. It win be employed in ,
furthering the study of star psrillsx.
Carriage manufacturers are predicting
that in the not distant future wooden
wheels will be done away with, and steel
wheels substituted on account of th la- ,
creasing pcarcity of lumber for wheels.
Soapstone is made into -tubs, sinks,
stoves and so, and the waste is ground
into powder that is used for paint, and .
as an indestructible wall covering as well
as an adulterant to rubber for overshoes.
The new circular cloth so highly !
commend as a preventive of colds, is made
of either wool, cotton orsilk, so Woven.
to inclose cells in which the air is warmed,
while the vapors of the body readily pass ;
off through them. ;.;p; ,
An English elect ncian bas invented si
material that he calls "alterion," for thai
prevention of corrosion in boilers. The)
interior of the boiler is coated with the
msterial, and from time to time electrical
currents are sent through it.
Kanaff, the new Russian textile, is
soft, elastic, silky and immensely strong.
It takes all colored readily, and is easily
made into all manner of stuffs, but espe
cially adapted to bagging rt'pe and cord'
age, as it is very cheaply prod ucd.
Professor ITaddon, of Dublin, declares
that a species of fish of Torres Straits, ,
breathes largely through its tail fin.
Though living much out of water, it was
hot affected by prolonged submersion, hut ,
soon died when its tail had been rarxriihsd,
The process of manufacturing India ink
has been a secret with the Cnlnese for
many centuries, but a firm of English
chemists claim to have discovered a pro
cess of, treating camphor with sulpbufid
acid that produces a pigment identical
with India ink.
There is a small fortune waiting for the
man who can discover some process of
making the veneer used in making fruit
baskets flexible without the use of steam
or hot water, and thereby save the manu
facturers the time now wasted ia thi dry
ing of the material.
Workers in hardware and cutlery will
be glad to hear of a new solvent for tvxt
which is said to be very effective. Aj
piece of rusty iron is immersed id a sat" .
urated solution of chloride ot tia fc?
twenty-four hours. - It may then be rinsed
first in water and afterward in ammonia,
when it will be found that the rust ks4
entirely disappeared
A New Spy.
It is an interesting f set, which rsih
the telephone furnishes a simple i
readv means of intercetttinar secret ids
grtphk dispatches wiibonttheksowls2j
of the operators. All that is necacyy li
to run a wire parallel with the telesrspli
tine for a short distance, when the cur -4
rents induced in this wire aithiiaexagg li
lent reproduce jfce signals in the tttrphes t J
The plan is attended by one diflenlryj
which is that the signals would become 9
confused medley of sounds c7 tilsjptditl
were transmitted simultaneously - fresi
both ends of the line. This matter has
sttrsxted the attention of the Antrim
Government. Trenton (If. J.) Avxrtezti
TargeTs AHiasces in Tcrgn Larfa
What a commotion It would occasioa
in some of the United States It ths
Orange or Farmer' Alliance should call
a .general convention shortly before a
Nations! or SUte election, to arrange fur
a farmer's ticket 1 Tet thai Is whit tt
Victoria, Australia, Farmer Protective
Association did in February. nV;-