A DEMOCRATIC JOUKNaL-THE PEOPLE AND THEIB IXTEBEST.
'VOL. IV. NO. 48.
MAX TON. N. C. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1890.
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According to the official report, the
cow .reaches 3000.
Jr is said that an able beggar with a
good et UP can make 10 a day on the
streets of New York.
Tii" coast-line oT "Alaska" excceUl&at
0fthe United States, and its territory is
t,-ual in extent to the portion of the
? ; nited States a3t of the Mississippi
The latest fad of the famous manufac
turei, food reformer and: politico-economist
of Boston, Edward Atkinson, is the
production of new, cheap and whole
some food from such cereals as oat and
torn meal, raw wheat, barley and rye.
TV material is cleaned, steam cooked
iad pressed into blocks. Out of these
he proposes to make dishes that will en
able a man to live well at a cost of a dime
a dy. He has also invented a number
of cookers, wherewith a housekeeper can
prepare the daily dishes of a family at an
t ;xjf;nse,for fuel of three or four cents a
dav.
Betting, according to a correspondent,
has become a real mania, which ravages
ili.? European lower classes. "Race-course
agencies have established themselves
everywhere, Paris swarms with them,
they exist at the wine dealers, and at the
tobacco and grocery back-shops. Before
Iodlj the bootblacks will establish racing
agencies in the open air. The misfortune
ii that all of them prosper. Clerks 'and
workmen take their savings to these shops
to try their luck, and those poor crea
tures, absolutely ignorant of what con
cerns sports, who for the greater part
have uever seen a race-course, lose by that
stupid gambling fever all that they man
age to put aside. It is, under another
name, the lottery that plague of Italy.
It i? high time that something should be
done to put a stop to those agencies
vjhich drain the poor man's money."
TOWN DIRECTORY.
B. F. Mi LEAN Mayor.
H W McNATT
0. II. HMH'KEK,
W. S. BYKNES,
W. J. CCRRIE,
C'ommis
liowrs.
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A J Bl.'KCK, Town Marshal.
LODGES.
KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No. l,720ineets
on second and fourth Wednesday's at
7.MP. M. J. Ii. WEATHERLY, Dic
tatorr B. F. McLEAN, Reporter.
Y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.30
P. M. WM. BLACK President.
MAXTON GUARDS. WM. BLACK.
Captain, meets first Thursday nights of
each month at 8 P. M.
CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on second
and fourth Monday in each month.
Arizus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W.
I'avham, Secretary and Treasurer.
MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIYS. meets every Friday night,
'V' cpt first in each mouth, at 8 o'clock.
KOIiKSON COUNT V BIBLE SOCIETY
Ktv J A Smith, President; E K Proctor,
Jr.. 1st Y.cc Pres. ; Dr J D Croom, ?nd V
i' A I) Brown. ttec'v; Vm Blok. Treas.
an l 1 V sitai v ; Ex Coin. Rev H O HiU.
I !'. L S Tnwnsend, l P McEccbera, J O
V-uri, II McEoehun; Auditing Com., K
F M.-l'.ae.O II Blocker and B DCaldwtll.
F.XKCl.TtVK COMMITTEE.
Kv Joseph Evans, Rev H G Hill. D D,
J S Black, Kev O P Meeks,
Kcv .1 F Finlaysou. Jos MeCollurn,
.! P Smith, Duncan McKay, Sr.
N B Brown, Dr J L McMillan.
Al OITINU COMMITTEE.
' Smith. I) H Mieill, J A Huniphrev'
l"avot next meeting--LuinbertOD, N. C.
Iinie ,:f ,-ext meetinp Thursday, May
Kith. lw, at n..M 0'ciock a. in.
HihJes and 7'estaments can le purchased
l,f Win. Black. Petitory. Maxton, N. C,
AH churches and Bible Societies in the
untv iiiTitfl t.xvnil 11pirits
Forward all collections to Wiu Black,
aurer, Maxton, N C.
CHURCHES.
PRESBYTERIAN, REV. DR. H. G
HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath
st 4 P. M. Sunday School at 10 A.
M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday
" itieruoon at 5 o'clock .
Methodist, rev. j. w. jones
Ptor. Services each Sunday at 11
A. M. Sun-4av School at 9 :U) A. M.
MASONIC.
MAXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M.
fcieets 1st Friday night in each
QX'uth at 8 r. M.
GENERAL DIRECTORY OK
Robeson County.
ndtor. J. F. Pavne. -Kpres-utatives,
( T. M. Watson.
D. C. Regan.
) E. "ff. McKae.
j W. P. 3Ioore,
commissioners, -1. otancu,
I T. McBryde.
r j J. S. Oliver,
C. C. B. Townsend.
Jff. II. McEachen.
?r Deeds. .1. H. Morrison.
lr,urer, W. W. McDairmid.
p j J. A. McAllister
i or Education V " J. S. Black,
c,. .j. o. jicvueen.
ll- Pub. iDtr'n, J, A. McAlister.
Co
rferi Supt. of Health, Dr. F Lis R
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NEWS SUMMARY.
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FBOtf ALL 0VEB THE B0UTHLAHD.
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Accidents. Calamities Pia&sa&t 5ewi and
Hot f Industry.
VIRGINIA.
Ciifton Ford is making rapid itrides
ia industrial enterprise.!
The dummy line between Roanoke
and Salem is a certainty..
A large number of men wre dis
charged from the navy yard.
Robert L Willis was found guilty of
cutting a man named Clayton at DuQ
ville. '
Another Land and Improvement Com
pany ha'j been formed at South Po
ton. I
Farmers in SfSiioc at LyDehbuig pro
test against any change; in the public
school booke . ,
John Phillips w.is sentenced to be
hanged August 13tb for the murder oi
Capt. Overoy.
Members of the Suburban Prese Asso
ciation, of New England, vrere enter
tained at Virginia Beach.
Two colored brakesmen were serious
ly injured, and eighteen or twenty coal
cars were wrecked cn the New River
division of the Norfolk and Wtsttr
Railroad. ;
The trial of Lee Eattes. the youiig
white man charged with maliciously cui
ting David A. Still, was concluded in
the Hustsngs Court room at Danville
with a virdict of guilty,!! and the DUDish
ment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
This is the second whitemau sent to th i
penitentiary this weak for cutting pec
pie while under the inrlueace of whis
key.
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The sceme of a railroad from Smith
field to Noifolk Is being agitated con
iiderably now by local ! pipers. There
ia no doubt but what it will pay a good
dividend to investors, j The charter is
alraady obtained . I
NORTH CAROLINA.
Much excitement exhists in Caswell
county about incendiaryj fires.
Danial Whit was convicted of counter
feiting at Raleigh, j
Revenue (Officer Kirkpatrick, who wa
shot by a negro, is hopelessly blind.
Esseck Headen, a laborer, was crush
ed under a clay bank at Greensboro.
The steam tug Gernini, of New York,
was burned pn Pamlico Sound, and the
crew narrowly escaped death.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of
citizens of Wadesboro, was held in the
Courthouse, and resolutions was unani
mously adopted pledgirg Wadesboro
township to subscribe $40, oOO to the new
Roanoke and Southern road.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has accepted
an invitation to spend a month with Mrs
McGuire, at her oountry residence near
Richmond, Later Mrs,!; Jackson will
spend several weeks at Lexington, Va.,
as has been her habit for years.
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J. D. Small, of Silisbury, has been
awarded the contract, to erect the new
National bank building at that place.
The town of Statesville has received a
proposition from parties to build water
works, to be ieonducted on the rental
system ! )
Mr David jj. Ttlfairj of New York
city, representing a mining syndicate,
has arrived injCharlottejand will estab
lish headquartjers there tor treating gold,
silver aotl copper oresj He claims to
have a success! ul system and expects to
do business onj a large scale.
Strenuous tjfforts areji- being made t(
secure the commutation !of the death sen
tence of Avery Battle, the fifteen-yeai
old boy who asgasitiated his fathtr
Clinton. Governor Fowle was notirieu
that a petition, inumerouiUy signed, would
be presented to him asking commuta
tion. -
The alumni o ChapellHill Universitv
covered themselves all pvtr with glory
in raising $30,000 to establish a chair of
history at the University.
As usual that prince of libeM-ty, Ju
han S. Carr, was in the lead with hi
subscript, $10,000. This miu's proJi
gality of genciosity is an honor to all
North Carolina. Out of his abundance,
he gives e ef where, u1 with a liberal
ity thtt surpasses, the higbeit cblihti.ns
of churity . i
lhose others doubtless gave as much
aa they could afford ; and all honor is
due them.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Efforti are being made to organize a
cotton seed oil uiillaod fertilizer factory
at Gaffney City.
The Glendale mill is to be enlarged
and instead of 0000 spindles, Messrs
Conversed Co.. propose; to start 15000 to
humming in a short time.
John C, Griffin, a prominent planter
and mill owner of Pickens county, was
stabbed to death by DaVid S. Siephena,
one of hi mill hands, at Pickens court
house. Mr. Griffin had jast returned
from Fort Hill, where he had secured a
contract for sawing lumber for the Clem
son college, and had recently removed
his mill to that place. He was met on
the itreet by Stephens, who called him
aside to have a short conversation. He
was seen by several bystanders to strike
Mr. Giffin.and then ranjoff. Mr. Griffin,
died in about two hours. The knife
blade penetrated nearly to hi heart, and
the physicians say his death was caused
from hemorrhage. j
An iron mine is being developed at
Rock Hill.
Georgetown is to have an ice factor
that will cost $10,000.
th Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Co.,
Biacksburg, has declared a dividend.
A charter has just been issued to the
Carolina Loan and Investment Company,
of Columbia, James Woodiow was elect
ed prssident and Allen Joces secretary
and treasurer. The directors are: James
Woodrow, R. W. Shand, Wiiie Joces,
J. L. Mimoaugn and G. L- Baker.
Sani Gaili&rd, a colored convict from
Williamsburg County, escaped from the
Columbia Canal detail. He had been
convicted of housebreaking ar,d larceny
and sentenced to two yesrs' imprisonment,
which wouid have expired next NovfQ
bvr, A crowd of drunken negroes had a big
row at Mount Zion Church, near Guth
riesville, a few miles south of Yorkville.
The row grew out of an old feud bctweea
town and country, which is a recurrence
of each annual "big rateting." Beyond
a few broken head, scratches and cut?,
no serious consequences resulted this
tear About six eaxs ago, io one of
these nhts, one cegro was killed and
four others more or less seriously wound
ed. GEORGIA.
The MacOn and Dublin railroad is in
j a fair way to be rapidly constructed.
ur. Morse, the head man of this enter
prise, awded the con'ract for th? iirst
five miles out of Macon.
Fort Valley is making an effort for
'jecuring Waterworks. They hope to
get the supply of water from the llow
t artesian wells. R. J. Edenfield, of
Waynesboro, has been employed to bore"
the well at so much a foot. As soon 8
ihe liaibor f r making the derrick
placed on the ground Mr. Edenfield, will
otgm.WGlk.
Paul Biack, the son of Captain John
Jiack, of Rome, hss been appointed to
- responsible and lucrative position in
he signal service bureau at Washington.
While there he will pnecute the btudy
nf law at the Georgetown university.
It is rumored that the main line of
be Savannah, Americas and Mont
joinery road will not run by Lumpkin,
ut will be built northwest from Ruh
sand to the Hannahatchee then down the
valley of that creek on t the river. The
ame report says that a branch road will
oe run from Lumpkin to Richland.
Sand Bar Ferry, th famous duellicg
-round on the Carolina Bide of the
Savannah River, near Beech Island, six
m les below Augusta, ha3 been sold.
Mr. William Butler purchased it to
other with about 250 cares of land from
.Mr. J. O. Lamar, of Beech Island. The
(jrice i kept a secret between the buyer
icd sel'er.
Mr. Butler has been paid for his land
u the Carolina Heights, which he sold to
hi North Augusta Land Company, and
with a part of that money he purchased
the historical field of honor, which he
will convert into a farm. Mr. Butlei
will not live on hi9 new place, but will
remain on his haudsome farm on
Schultz's Hill, in Hamburg. The gun
i e s will have to find another field now
to kill their game.
TENNESSEE.
A duel on horseback at Brevensviile
Sunday resulted in the death of Thomes
J Herbert, a wealthy young farmer.
lames Boyd, the 20-year old son of Dis
trict Attorney, D. R. Boyd, did the kill
ing. The piir quarreled over a hog,
which belonged to a relative of Herbert's
and which strayed into Boyd's yard and
was shot Boyd strurk young Herbert
and the latter armed himself and gave
chae Bith men were well mounted
and a running right wa3 kept up for two
miles. When both revolvers were empty
Herbert fell from hh saddle dead.
Bob Lindsay, United States Marshal,
shot and killed Kilts, a distiller in Camp
bell county. Lindsay wished a ga'Iun
of whiskey, and Kilts told him that he
could not sell les thau ten gallons under
his license. Lindsiygot mad and abus
ed Kilts The distiller's 14-year oU
son thought his fatter in danger and
threw a rock at Lindsjy. Lindsay at
tempted to shoot Kilts, but his party
took his pistol from t im They lft,
and when a mile away Lindsay asked for
his pistol, saying he would do no harm.
He got he pistols-, wheeled his horse,
and rode back to Kilu's house. The Ut
ter saw him comio and locked the door.
but Lindsay broke it down and sh.t
Kilts twice, killing him instantly. He
then attempted to shoot the boy, but
missed him and hit a little girl, but did
not seriously wound her. It is report
ed that Lindsiy's party arrested him
and krave him oyer to the Sheriff. Lind-
j gay is a desperate character, having mur
dered a prominent citizen ot Campbell
county rive years ago and escaped be
cause of lack of evidence, claiming self
defence, and there were no witnesses.
There wa great rejoicing at Johnson
City, Tenn , last week when ground
was broken for the Johnson City and
Carolina Railroad. This makes John
son City's fifth road.
Bristol is to have a plaat for the man
ufacture of novelties.
A Freak of Fashion.
A freak of fashion that attracted much
attention a year or so ago was the red,
blue and yellow barred shirt of the
heavy swell". One of the peculiarities of
this style was to wear a white linen
collar. Thus the poor dude at first re
ceived the sympathies of his astonished
and unitiated frieuds, who imagined that
he could not positively find in the wide,
wide world, a collar to match the out
landish style of shirt he had chosen to
put on his back. This shirt was made
more impressive by being worn with a
low cut vest, thus giving the grid-iron
bosom full opportunity to loom up after
the style of Sing Sing prison bars. D
troti Frt Pro.
FLIGHT OF A.BANF'Q13HIE&
HaTakds With him. Another Man's Wi:e
and $10,000 Stolen Money.
Frank W. Mclivaic, casLier oi tu
Sulphur Deposit Bink, frylpfcur, Ky., is
missing, ana so is Mrs. Hatrie YYdtkia?.
wfeof John Watkina, the leading hotel
keeper of Sulphur. About f 10,000 o:
the bbcks fandj, it is bellred are gone
to. Eipert accountants from Louisville
nd Cincinnati are at work upon thi
took s, but have a yet mide no' report,
axd other bank officials are uncommun
Citive. Mcllvain and the woman have
ixjt. been seen for four days. Both be
long to excellent families and moved it:
rue b i . society. Mcllvain is married
.ni hiifathir h Pres'dent of the bank
The youug man was made cashier wte--carcely
past his majority, and made cn
excellent ornciil.
Mrs. Watkias is quite a young wouin:
out she and thu yousg cashier did not
acquainted until a few month
ago. They weie greatly pleased with
eich other, and Mcllvain soon begn to
visit her frequently. His attentions be
came so marked that finally her husband
taxed her with her guilt and drove btr
from home. Four d"ays later she got on
the train for Louisville, saying she was
sroiaer thre to d iv a visit. On the same
train was Mcllvain, and they w.-re seen
by mutual friends. Mrs. Watkms cried
atid said she wished she had never seen
Mcllvain, and he also aud he regretted
having met her. He promised to leave
her in the city and return to Sulphur,
but h? never did, and they have not been
s?en tince. Detectives have been out at
vojk on the case, but no trace of either
Das bten discvered.
There is one native American question
omitted from the census enumerators'
list. It is "WheiVd you get that hat?'1
00 ON TING THE 00TT0N 0E0P.
statistics Furnished by the New Orle&rno
I xchange,
The New Orlears Cotton Exchange
issued a statement embracing thirty
nine weeks of the season, from Septem
ber 1 to May 30, inclushe, of this and
last year, showing that 7,079,615 bales
of the crop of 1889-90 have come into
sight at port3, overland points of cross
ing and leandicg Southern interior cen
tres, taking by the Southern mills. Up
to this time last season the amount
brought into sight was 6,805,112 bales,
or say 98.08 per cent, of the entile
crop.
The statement shows that there weio
brought into sight after May 30 last
season 33,178 tales. It indicates that
of the supply for the season 2,127,592
bales have been taken by the Americar
and Canadian mills, inc-udins 429,581
bales South of the Potomac, and 4,725
040 bales have been exported to foreig:;
points. It also showB that the Northern
mill takings and Canada overland are
32,96:) bi;es a head of the corresponding
thirty nine weeks or ia-t yar and that
excess in foreiga exports for the season
is 220,537 Between the 1st and the
30th of May, inclusive, this season's
stocks at American ports and tweiny
nine landing Southern interior markets
have derrased 17 910 bales aaiBst a de
crease during the same period l.bst year
of U2,334, and are iow 111,2?S bales
lets than tney were this i oe last year.
B'nai BMth.
Richmond, Va. At the convention
of the Grand Lodge of the Independen
Order B'nai B ritb, a resolution
presented relative to the admission
women as members of the order.
The Centennial Committee was ar.
pointd by President Loyenstein. The
members of the executive committee an 3
the judges of the court of appeals were
theu elected.
The Convention decided to meel i -1345
in Cincinnati.
Th? committee on semi-centennial i.
ported a3 follows: that the celebration
wiil be held October 23, 1893. Th-
committee recommended that th.; o:ci
sion be celebrated in all subordinate
lodt. and also that a committee of five
with the addition of the president o;
the executive committee and of ther.on
ventioD be appointed to make arrange
ments for a suitable observance in Xe
York city, each district to be entitleu
to one delegate, their eipenses shall be
paid out of an appropriation of f 1.-5X'
to he made for the purpase. This repot
was adopted.
A Huge Waterspout.
A special to the Xonpariel from i
Missouri valley reports the almost tota?
destruction of the Tillage of LoreUnd
eight miles below thkt point by a hu
wstsrspout. Lot eland is located
Beyer valley in a gulley. A ttiriiu
stirm, amounting to a cloudburst, pasec
over the valley, breaking about n roiit
above town, sweeping down the ur e
and leaving hardly a house in town. Th
loss oi life, as far as his been heard from
includes Anna Sayles, an aged lady, and
son. There are others wbos ntrce arc
sow unknown. Oe family was taken
off the tree tops the nut momioff, hert
they had been swept by the flood. One
of the family was swept away and
drowned. Search fur the misfiog bodies
issj far unsuccessful.
Austin Corbin's wedding present to an
old friend in Philadelphia was the use
his magnificently appointed private cai
for a trip to Mexico. The car was pro
Tided with everything needful, including
a corps of servant.
A good many hosiery mills are pro
jected in the Southern States.
INDIAN ARROW POISONS
RATTLESNAKE VENOM IS THTSIR
UNIVERSAL BASS.
The Plate Tests its Efficacy on Htm
celt. While the Cngallant Apache
Tries it on His Squaw.
('The rattlesnake venom tht is the
base of bath the Apache and the Piute
arrow poisoning." says Oliver II. Patton,
who was for many years a ranchman on
the Southwestern plains, "is provided
by that most hideous and deadly of its
kind, the bloating rattlesnake of the
Staked Plain. It is so hide oa. and it
death-dealing ijualiti' o sure, that it i
a terror even to an Apache Indian, and it
there is one thing th&t is worss than a
rattlesnake in the opinion of plainsmen
and settler it i an Apiche Indian. The
Piutes, although, a more cowardly g&ug
than the Apaches, hold this rattlesnake
in less horror, but they give it plenty of
room. The Piutes draw cn the snake for
their poison affer the reptiieis dead. The
Apaches, in spite of their fear of the
snake, make it contribute' it venom to
them while it is alive.
'The rattlesnake of the Staked Piains
grows to a length of six feet, and attains
a girth of ten inches at the thickest part.
They have tremendous sets of rattles. I
saw one once that was oyer five feet long
and had twenty-three rattles in it, and I
heard of a snake being killed that had a
string of twenty-seven rattles. The head
of the Staked Plains rattler is an enor
mous triangular thing, often live inches
long from the thin neck to the blunt
nose, and three inches wide, measuring
from base to base of the jawbone. This
snake has fangs an inch and is fre
quently ntted with two sets. The poison
sacs at the base of these fangs are as big
as a hazel nut. The snake is a bright
yellow in color, and is distinguished by
much the same markings that character
ize the rattlesnake oC this State and
Pennsylvania. The Staked Plains rattle
snake is a dreadful enough customer any
day in the year, but during August takes
on the fulness of its frightfulness, both
in appearance and in conduct. About
the middle of August, when the weather
is insufferably hot, this snake becomes
bloated from some cause until it is a third
larger than its normal size. Its appear
ance is as if the snake had been blown up
like a bladder, or charged with gas like
a balloon. This rattler is always sluggish
and slow in its movements, and, bike all
of its kind, usually makes an effort to get
out of the way of intruders, but in
August it simply lies still in bloated re
pulsiveness, and it will not move for
anything, being ready at all times to
strike at everything that comes near it.
As near as you can get at it, this rattle
snake at this time of the year i3 simply
a swollen reservoir of venom, and its bite
will then send even an Apache Indian to
the happy hunting grounds, and quicJtly
at that.
"A Piute Indian who wants to lay in a
stock of poison for his. arrows kills, at
this time of year, enough of thee rattle
snakes for his purpose. He cuts off their
heads and takes them to his lodge. He
places in one of the rude earthen vessels
that are among the Piute household ef
fects ten or a dozen of these snake heids.
To them he adds perhaps a pint of taran
tula killers, a a the big Texan or Mexican
wasp is called, or, rather, he puts the ab
domen ot the wasp in with the snake
heads. This wasp has a sting that injects
a poison subtle enough almost instantly
to kill a tarantula, which is itself about
as poisonous a member cf the animal
kingdom as one wouldcare to meet with.
The poison of the tarantula killer is in
the lower abdomen of the insect, and it
is this the Piute brave mixes with hi
rattlesnake heads. He then pours ia a
pint of water, seals the lid of the veasel
on with moist clay, and places the vessel
in a pit where he has made a bed of red
hot coals, and, besides that, builds a
blazing fire on top of it. This fire is kept
burning nercely for several hours, when
it is swept away, and the Indian digs his
vessel out of the coals. With a long
pole he knocks the lid off, and does cot
venture near the pet until the steam that
arises from it as soon as the lid is taken
off entirely ceases to appear. The
Piutes say that to inhale the smallest
quantity of that steam would be instant
death. Whether that is true or not I am
not able to say, as I never aw it put to
the test. After the fiery ordeal to which
tne snatce heads are put is over, a brown
ish residuum remains in the bottom of
the kettle. That is certainly the double
quintessence of poison, if it action on
human blood, or, at least, Indian blood,
is any indication. The Piute always testa
this poison before trusting bis arrows to
it. He cuts a gash in the fleshy part of
his leg and draws the blood, which be
lets trickle down his leg. When the red
stream has run down six or seven inchea
he dips a stick in the poison and touches
it to the lower end of the bloody streak.
If the poison is all right it actually burns
the blood almost like hot iron touched
to waur, and rapidly runs up the trick
ling stream. The Indian han his knife
ready and scrapes the poisoned blood off
dry. If it was permitted to reach the
wound it would be all up with the Piute.
The arrows are dipped into this poison,
and the Indian feels that whatever such
an arrow hits had much better not hare
been born.
'The Apache Indian collects hi poison
in a much simpler way. Dreading the
Staked Plain rattlesnakes as he does, he
nererthelesA make it his business to go
among them at the very time they are
the most deadly, lyinir in bloated hide-
oosaess all through that dreadful
try, to gather this venom for his arrows.
He does thi by placing the liver or
heart of a deer, freshly torn from a Tic
tim sometime not yet dead, in front of
a snake, within easy striking distance.
The snake protests against the present
of the object, and quickly icks u fangs
into it again and again. lu a few seconds
the heart, ur liver, mil take oo a pur
plish bkek hue, quickly does this
poison affect it. When the ludiau think
the receptaclv has drawn alt the venotu
from the snake head, it l removed and
hung up in th suu. i l?ft there
until it is almost ridr to drop to; pieces
from putridity. If the Apache fe els like
testing the deadly qualities ot this fright
ful object, he runs a ftkk into the poi
soned heart, cilia h: quaTv. uiid make
her gssh her inn a the Piute docs his
arm. As the blood runs trout the wound'
the poisoned stick if touched to jit. If
the vetom is a; tiv?. the blooil will
coagulate aua turu bLick. and change to
a dry powder. The iqu-w ha til look
cut for her own saiety iu v. ij.innj away
the poiks befits ' t reaches the wound,
for the brave walk away to tcep his
arrows in :b? ui.-uaeu h;rt t oou a
he sees the vcnuUi sacttuu ou his squaw s
blood.: After he- bas sbbed his arrow
heads into the j,umd and poii -.:i-charged
heart cr live. :btT ni: iv-udy Ki
jYlsw Yvrk . ' -
Profits of the Paris Exposition.
M. Kcymarck has counnuuichtadj to the
Paris Chamber of Commerce a table of
the profits which hcciued to Frauco by
tb recent Pari? exhibition. The de
posits ul the Hank uf France were $15,
OUO.000 in excei of ihe normal total.
Between May and the clou of the exhi
bition 600,000 Kuglth and Auiericau
tourists arrived . the Americans had leU
ters of credit and cheques , for which they
obtained gold amounting to $70,01)0000,
and there were 1,500,000 other loreigu
visitors. Deposits in private baulks rose
by a sum of' $16,500,000. The failway
companies increased their uiur1 Income
from passengers' traffic by $l,.pO,000.
The Seine Kiver steamers gained $1 5,000.
What wtgocettes and other wheeled ve
hicles earned eem incredible. M..Ney
mirck knows the owner of wagonette
which did thirty-thief double journeys m
day, conveying at each journey eight
persons at twenty cent? apiece, thus tak
ing about $lO0aday. IonJvn Sryndard.
Silver Coinage in China.
fhe Chinese Government is contempla
ting a revolution in the coinage lot that
country, which is now of copper, ranging,
in value from about a mill toacoid worth
about twenty cents in face value, without
either gold or silver coins. Bars olf gold
and silver bullion,' however, are iised in
commerce, and the Mexican silver idollr
circulates extensively in the seaboard
cities. It is now proposed by the Chi
nese Government to make silver a ijnoney
metal and to issue a series that will cor
respond somewhat to our dollar?", halves,
quarters aud dimes. The coinage will be
uniform throughout the vast Empire,
with its 430,000.000 population at least
six and a half times that of the lljnited
States. This will ojen a uew markjet for
the silver of the world, and ought to
make silver inirher iu unctr aim nut in re-
c a 4
establishing it old-time ratio with i gold.
Tohdo Blade.
A Violin Sold for $10,000j
Ten thousund dollar is now the high
est recorded price for violin. The Alard
Stradivarius hn passed from France to
England for that sum, to go into the col
lection of a Scotchmau. It i dated X716.
It is described in the catalogue of the
South Kensington exhibition of 1872 a
the only one iu a condition of perfect
preservation. It was bought ia 170 by
an Italian amateur. Count Cozio di SaU
bue, after whoie cath it was purchased
iu 1824 by a famous collector, Luigi
Taiisio. TarUio hid it away, refnsijigto
let any oneee it, till hi death ih t&54.
A year later it wart purchased by V""
laume. It condition of prrsrvaitioij led
to the belief that it Lad scarcely been
played upon during the whole 150 yeart
of its existent'. Vtiillaume left it on) hi
death to hi Hin-ic-Uw, Alard. who has
just sold it
The Heihld Gang. j
Cijaklestox, W. Va. J. W. Napier,
of Pike county, Kentucky, known along
Big Sindy as "Kentucky Bill,, ha1
created a big sensation is Logsn county,
among the Hatfield bjr going before
Justice Atkics, and swearing out war
rants for Anse, Cap, Jonse and Elliot
Hatfield, Thorns Mitchel, Frank Ellis
and Clayton Bihop, charging them with
having murdered Dave Strattoo at
Browstown on the ni.ht of May 17th
last. Strattoo w one of the SlcKoy
leaders It teem the object in swear
ing out the warrants i to secure State
aid in the arrest of the .Hatfield, after
which it will be tavier to turn them over
to the Kentucky utritle, who would
only be too glad to put them under Joek
aad key. ..
Irish 31o.
This fdible, or rather drinkable sab
stance is gathered around Cape Cod, in
MasaachusetU. It i combed off the
rocks beneath the tea. and carefully
carried to the shore where it is dried in
the sun. packed in Wreb, and sent to
th brewer to form an important element
in beer, and vr malt. ThU ea farm- ,
ing yields 75,000 annually.- and as an
fencing or minting? are required, and
the land, it should be ouiie an
independent kind of industry. Tkt MlU
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