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The AXTON A DEHOCBATIC JO UBNAX TUB PEOPLE AND THEIR INTEREST. VOL. V. NO. 20. MAXTON. N. 0., TUESDAY, DEC. 2, 1890. 81.00" A YEAR, m Union. TOWN DIRECTORY B. F. JMJCAS M.yor. HWMcXATT V -y - HYi:Nr. J sioners. LODGES. rvrr UT T HONOR, No. 1,720 meets K i i - a fourth Wednesday's at -V,V"m "1 B- WEATHERLY. Dic - 'j; y. M LEAN, Reporter. . M r A. m-N every Sunday at 7.30 u.vruV ;i ARDS. W.M. BLACK. J-W.-th S P. 31. CHo-EN FRIENDS meet on second ; f ...t'i .M 'fidav in cacn moiiin. h a. Chi f Counselor; S. W. j..". v crt-tiry and Treasurer. fViiili ;!.- every rnuay nigiu, , ;;( h month, at 8 A lock. r . ; i '. ,n ( ,'1. 1 1 IHUli n-llil 1 ' ' . . . n T T ft a. i . t , -1. r-ifitt: r- is. rrocior. . , I)- .1 I) Croon). 2nd V ' r , j . s-i-'v Wm IM-fk. Trass. '..!,'... Ex Com. Rev il O Hill. , ...... I i. ! chorr. .1 ( I i, .," if M i. h it) : Auditing Com., K B I Caldwell. f V , ! ' " I -''MMITTKE. ,., , . .. h . u-, Kv H O Hill, D D, ! - ';,.,, !;. R'-v I' Meeks, .',. ; ! ! i.iw n. ' s McCollurn, j j j,, Duncan McKay, Sr. j; i',.. v.: . 1 r J L McMillttii. v. :,: i!.vi; ommittkk. j !-! H M -Nt iil, J A Humphrey-.-..( ii-xt iii'-. tin'- Lumbertvon, N. C. I .. .. if Text i:i--t inK Thursday, May "t.. .'i ! ! .'' i i.t'f'fu'k a. in. j; ji-l y.-tam-'iits can be purchased ,,f r ', ;,-M..;tory, Max-tin, N. C, AM . hui ' - ixn l Bihlp S.M-ieties in the cii.t v j :: v it. .1 tu-ju l delegates. y, ,-.ir 1 nil clU-cti 'tis to Wra Black, 'pa-irH. Mutn. N (.'. r IIIK(MES. I'J:Kl;VTERiAN, RvEV. DR. H. G" HILL, !'.!-!'-r. Services each Sabbath .-it 4 I'. M. .Sunday School at 1C A. . I'rMVci iik t i r i every Wednesday iftcrn- !! at i o'clock . JIETIIoDIsr. REV. .1. W. JONES !'a-t,,i. Services etch Sunday at 11 A. M. Min-vl.iv School at 1) 30 A. M. .ViASOMf. VIAXTnN I.nl.MlE A. F. & A. M. i.M ts 1st Fihlav night in each ai"ii:h a s r. m. (.j:ni:i:al directory of iI'llhoN ('(M'NTY. St:,al r. .1. V. Payne. M ..;: s.-iititti es T.- I. Watson. I). C. Regan. E. F. Mellae. W. P. Moore, t' ' 1 "in inissiojirt!:. ). Stancil. T. McRrvde. .' .E S. Oliver, C S ( . (' !',. Townseiid. hf i:T. II. .McE.H-hen. !- '- II. .Morrison. T;. .ti.:-. i. W. V. McDairniid. i .1. A. McAllister I'-v i I! !: ni. n J. S. Rlack, .1. S. McQueen. P::;.. Inst,-;,. . . MeAlister. C, rli:i, rvv s.ipt. of Health. Dr. F Li R T;'.'' rii1 r.A.l capital of the world is jtiai..;- 1 at -rJ'.'.OMD.UDil.OOO. A" reoent arti. '.o r firadslreet't givw fo:uo snrjr2sing statisticj of the com inerct of the ijrjit lakes. During 234 Uivs of navigation last year tonnage lussed thiouu'h th Detroit River to tha a-.r. voit (t-lo,:-.) mi d tons more than th' t '..ir.es :iu 1 o'a nran-?s of all the sea- i:. t'ao I'nitod States, and 3,000, t ::- iu.ro than the combined foreign aaa ec-iwlse sLipj.ia of Liverpool and Lnud..;i. This does not include traffic Wf.vee-1 Lake; Superior and Michigan or Ltkfs Kr u;i 1 "tar:o. or local traffic W:w;ca r t of th. sC l.kcs. The growth "i k.:u l.uaduu;'c:i t, lakes has been very nursed ia th, last fc-,v years. In 1S'' 7 th',n' v,vr" thirty-one boats built, v-taiod at ?i.U74,00O; and, in 18S9-90 th r irv tif.ix built. luedat7,- i n-ndoney .oeiag, as else- r;'- ? :d ir-.u and t..i , A t:i kl fler-trioal authority of - states -.lVy. alluding to the 4l: :.irt which electricity is des- ' 1:1 t:i'' uaval warfare of the " V' ' Su-' :: v- 1 ojuiparko.n of the art ' "" "v in 'arfarv at its present - ' '";it I'rt'vailing rive years ago Sv "UA ' 1 J:'i';aratively insigniticant -a:: ti-i? com- t be a matter of ; ' ::u;ortauoe. He takes this as a a!so of the tendency in r; ire to accomnlish a desirable an t:: 1 '.v ..... u.vtive mean, no matter " ,v L -'U . s or exien?ive. If a ship is I 'fJ :l!o a .-:ht she must whip. A lost u a national regret forever. So a.ins are coming to be the fore samples of the application of c:eace to practical tkings. Science is COniiQg more into our lives, but ia no trnent of life is it making more Pgre than iu warfare, and in TOfare U braach 01 science is making mow rJrgeJcitricity SOUTHERN NEWS NOTES. The Happenings of a Week Preserv ed and Chronicled The Fields of Virginia, North Caroli na, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida Care fully Cultivated; Bead the Results. VIRGINIA. ; Diptheria is prevailing in Smyth coud ty. j Jordan Buc ks waa fehot by Hub Rose, Bear Iron Gate, Saturday night. Rose em-aped. Both colored. A Progressive Endowmeut League, a home plan insurance order, hfc been oi gauized iu Petersburg. " Every warehouse in Danville is full of tobacco aud good prices are i being real ized. Capitalists have ' been exploring in Smyth county, ami the celebrated Charles Taylor farm in Rich Valley ha been sold for $50,000. The Iron Gate rolling-mill has just been sold to the Sta.dard Steel Works, of Richmond. Peter Francis, of Petersburg, who re cently invented an alarm locki lias received a diploma and medal from the Pari.siai Invent iou Academy. I Mr. Ell i jali Harlow, a well-to-do farm er aged 50, who liven near Bigley's store Appomattox county, passed through Lynchburg Thursday in search of his six months wife, who had eloped with George Kent a younger man aod $400 of Harlow's money. The various land companiqs oj Salem, are acting in concert in their efforts t locate planK They have put aside a fund of $500,000 to be used Jin subscrip tions to the stock of new enterprises at Salem. Mi. George Allen has just re turned from a trip through! the North west in the iuttiest of thw movement. His work among the manufacturers ii, that region may lead to thel transfer of. several large plants to Salem. A grand tournament took! place neai , Williamsburg, which was lairgcly attend ed. It was followed by drowning the Queen of Love and Beauty, j etc., and a banquet at night. Captain Norton, formeily of Alexan dria, who has been engaged fin making a non-sinkable life-boat, proposes to cross the oceau on his craft, which is a fifty eight foot steamboat. Virginia is to have her Bessemer, for a new town bearing that name has been located on James river at its confluence with Craig creek, at the juuctiou of the Craig Valley Railroad with the James River branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio. One hotel to cost $25,000 has been commenced, and the Bessemer Buildiug & Loan Association will erect another at a cost of $10,0001 This com pany has also bought a hundred lots, and will expend $25,000 in buildings other than the hotel. Various new industries are in contemplation, and some re al ready uuder contract. NORTH CAROLINA. The next legislature of N0rth Caroline, will be composed" of 103 Alliance mem bers. This number 103 jwas obtained from Secretary of the State Alliance, Mr. Beddington. j The Southern Iuter-State: Immigration Convention will convene at lAsheville, N. C, on December 17, aud continue in ses sion for two days. The Convention is intended to be a conference between the Governors and commissioners of immigra tion of all the Southeru States. The Con vention will be an important one, as the subjects to be discussed; will include cvevthing'that pertains to the advance ment of the South, its resources, its in ducements for the investment of capital aud the increase of the population by im migration. John Kennedy, recently, convicted in the United States court of opening and making way with registered packages in the Wilmington postofiice.jhas been sent to the penitentary at Columbus, Ohio. His sentence is thirteen months. The Rev. Junius T. Iairis, superin tendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum died last week at Durham.! A syndicate of Philadelphia capital ists have purchased the tine brownstoue qiuvne" iu Moore county. The report of the manager of the Wil mington and Weldon lailroad shows the net receipts of the road iu ;the past year to have been $669,716; of j the 'Wilming ton, Columbia and Augusta railroad, $196,835. i ; Govetuor Fowle sent out invitations to the President, members of his Cabinet, aud United Slates Congressmen to attend the Southern Iuter-State Immigration Convention to be held at Asbcville De cember 17th. Work of the construe tiou of the Ral eigh street railway has beguu. A lively campaign for Speaker and clerkships, of the next Legislature has ahead? oeen inaugurated.! Henderson ville is to have a telephone system. Work will conamence on the new project at onto. j Col. E. W. Graham lias opened up a canning factory in Durham, near the Lynchburg and Durham depot. SOUTH CAROLINA. It is auoouhced that.' Capt, Tillman will be inaugurated Governor on the Thursday of the second week of this ses sion of the Legislature December A. The Richmond and Danville is cutting down expenses at its shop in Columbia and about forty of the men have been 1 discharged, It is said that ifmihr tedo tions in the force have been made at the other railroad shops of the system. The stock holders of the Charlotte, Col umbia and Augusta railroad will hold their annual meeting in Columbia on Dec. 3, and that the Columbia & Green ville road at tbeisame place Dec. 4. The Rev. Dr. Robert Wilson, rector of St. Luke's Church, has been selected to deliver the address this year Ixjfore St. Andrew's Society of Charleston. It is 4fd that n formal oration has not been delivered before thb Sscietv since the war. The total amount interest paid on the public debt of the State during the past fiscal year was $382,229.36. The State Treasurer's teport shows the amount re ceived by him from the Clemson bequest and the proceeds of the Malone escheated estate to be $18,933.85. There it a big sensation iu Sumpter fi nancial circles. Robert Mayes, of Mayes vllle. who has been buying cotton this season for Sprunt & Sons, Wilmington, N. C. went to Sumpter on Saturday last md drew $7,000 from both of the banks, for which he gave drafts of Spruut & Sons, and disappeared fromliis home cm Saturday night and has left for parts un known and has not been seen or heard of since. It is not known whether the banks or Sprunt & Sons will lose the money. If the banks should lose it. however, the loss will not hurt them. The Pharmaceutical Association of South Caroliua held its annual meeting Tuesday, at the Freuudschaftsbund Hall. Charleston. There were about thirty representative pharmacists from all parts of the State at the meeting. A. W. Eckel of that city was elected the new presi dent. The News and Courier Bureau learm that the total vote of the State for Gov ernor in the recent election was about 74,000, Capt. Tillman having received over 59.000 and Judge Haskell nearly 15. 000. The president of the Thornwell Orphan age, at Clinton. Laurens county, appeal to lenevolent people everywhere fot 'Thanksgiving offerings" for the support and comfort of the hundred fatherless and motherless little ones unher his care. These little ones, it is explained, come from many States, aud are depended up on the voluntary contributions of strang eis for the means of their education. an". maintenance. TENNESSEE. 4 Houston Lamb, with his father and sev eral boys were out opossum hunting a few nights since in Davidson coun y. They reed about eight o'clock and cut a limb from the tree which in falling struck Lamb on the head. He died iu a few minutes'. A head-end collision of freight engines on the Alabama Great Southern is re ported from Cottondale. The Tuscaloo sa operator failed to deliver an imporant ordei for side-tracking, and the north and south-bound trains came together with a crash, demolishing both engines I and wrecking several cars. The traiu raeu saved their lives by jumping from the train. John Robinson and A. W. Ilasf-cll. Chatanooga stonecutters, quarreled about tools. The lie wirs passed, and Robin son drew back, as though to strike Has bell. The latter was too quick for him aud knocked Robinson down with a mal lett. Robinson died at noon from con cussiou of the brain, and Hassell is lock ed in jail charged with murder. A special to the American from Hunt ington tells of a terrible double niurdei which oc curred near that town on Satur day, and in which Constable High Ros and his nephew, Jim Ross, were boti shot to death by it farmer uamedV'addis. in connection with au account due to a:: attorney, incurrred by Waddis in defend ing him from a charge of assault with at tempt to kill some time since. Waddis gave himself up, and is now in jail at Huntingdon. A Gallatin special says : R. T. Mead ows, of Bledsoe, having Mdd his farm and stock was seated by the fire talking to his wife of their contemplated trip to Texas, whither they were going to make their future home. M. Mead ows pulled his money from his pocket, which was in large bills, and proceeded to count it. When he had laid down his last bill on the hearth, some one opened the door and a gust of wini can ned his money all into the tire. Befoie Meadows could rescue any of his curren cy it was in ashes. He had converted all his possessions iuto cash, and in a twin kle all was lost. A congress of toljacco growers met in Clarksville, Wednesday. Novemler 26, the co ogres being composed of dele gates from the various funnel's organiza tions of the disiri. t aud its object to dis cuss the interest of tola-co growers of uTcnucssee aud Kentucky. On the same day there was abx held a tobacco fair and quite a snug sum given in premiums. There were two separate exhibitions, one for Tennessee, the other for Kentucky. No entry fee was charged as the move was simply to work up an interest in tLc tolacco growing industry. GEORGIA. The Episcopalians of Athens wili erect a new edifice. Two circus men, Norman McNeil and Charles Annan, arc in jail at Tennillc. They are charged with complicity in the recent safe-blowing at Gordon. Rack BealL who was known rr- thc wbite man's nigger, " of Wilkinson coun ty, on account of bis faithfulness to the Democratic party, is dead. He was uni versally liked and respe ted. Who can ieit hU appeal of a Georgi editor: One dollat-it don't mean much to you Who make so much and thrive; Put twill help to pull an editor through With a Um:j of tweaty-fiTe, x- ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Foreign Notes of Real Interest. Europe Epitomized. f3Iarie Van Zandt wilt receive $1,000 a night for a tour through all the great cit ies of Russia. A society has revealed itself in England called the "Proportionate Giving Union. M The members give a fixed part of their income to charitable works. During the last academical year at Cambridge 1,024 students matriculated and 1,540 degrees were conferred, both being the largest numbers on record. The submarine war boat has led to the flying of balloons from war ships. A balloon hovering over a ship can detect every movement of a submarine boat coming to the attack. The Stundists are making such prog ress in their propaganda throughout Rus sia that the Archbishop of Odessa has called a council to. devise means for counteracting them. The city gas works of Berlin brought $1,150,000 clear profit into the treasury during the last financial year, despite the unusually heavy expenditures for new gas houses and conductors. The Prince of Wales's intimacy with Baron Hirsch is regarded at several Eu ropean courts as a serious scandal. There is talk of a joint letter of protest from several of his foreign relatives. Zadkiel's almanac for 1891, just out, reports: "As Jupiter is now culmina ting (by direction,) the elevation of the Pri ncc of Wales, either to the regency or the throne, is now close at hand." Moltke received on his birthday 2.099 congratulatory telegrams. They came from every continent and every big city in the world. An extra force of men was put on duty at the Berlin postal tele egraph office to receive and deliver them. Upon the rumor that thVienna brew ers had formed an alliance to raise the price of beer, a member of the Town Council moved that the municipality should erect a communal brewery, "in order to protect the Viennese from un scrupulous speculation." A London gentleman recounts a some what surprising experience in endeavor ing to engage a coachman. Three ap plicants were found suitable, but refused the place because the family did not use livery. Two suits of clothes a year were to be furnished; but it was livery or nothing. TW Richard Wagner Monument Com mittee in Leipsic has accepted the de sign submitted by Prof. Schafer, of Ber lin, and has received permission from tbe city authorities to erect the statue on the Old Theatre Place, a few steps from Wagner's old home "on the Bruhl." The figure will cost $13,000. Lsst summer's excursionists to Iceland say the geysers, which have been among the greatest attractions of the island, are gradually losing their force. Eruptions at the Great Geyser do not occur now oftener than about once in ten days. The region around the geysers is particularly uninviting and only a very enthusiastic sightseer is willing to spend more than a couple of days at this desolate spot. Hence, as it is quite uncertain when the geyser will display its might, very few of those who visit the region see it in ac tivity. AMERICAN HARVESTER CO. A Reorganization of the Great Chi cago McCormick Reaper Con corn Forced by the De moralization of Bus iness. There was organized in Chicago, III., durincr the past fe. days one of the larg est corporations in its line in the world. The charter was filed in Springfield. The name of the new company is the Ameri can Harvester Company, for the manu facture of harvesting machinery, with a capital of $35,000,000. The directors of the new compauy will lie C. H. McCor mick, William Deering, Walter A. Wood, Lewis Miller, A. L. Conger and Gen. A. S. Bushnell. The purpose of the new company is the construction of harvesting machines. The present demoralization of business necessitated the formation of the new company. There is no intention to raise the prices of the machines, which will be manufactured at several works. Mc Cormick is to be president. Wood vice president and Deering chairman of the board of directors. To Be Raised to Nobility. A cablegram from Berlin, . Germany, says: As a reward for his fervi ces in the interests of the medical science and the discovery of the cure of consumption by inoculation tbe emperor will conf era title of nobility uKn Pro fessor Koch, The professor states that the government must prepare lvmph used in the cure of tuberculosis. The German Medical Weekly will contain an article signed by Drs. Rergmann, Fraentzel and William Lesly and Maff Surgeon MochL in which they declare, after experiments in many different cases, they arc prepared to fully endorse Professor Koch's state ment regarding his remedy. A Cheap Faxo Granted. Jacksonville, Fla., Special. The Southern passenger association announces a rate of one lowest first-class limited fare for the round trip to Ocals, Fla., and re turn, for delagates and the general public, on the occasion of the meeting of the National Farmers' Al iance and Industrial union, on December 2nd. A request for a like concession has been sent to all lines in its territory, members of the associa tion," and to all ronnectioni and trunk lines north of the Ohio riTC?, with ererj prospect cfruccesa. x . t OUR TENANT FARMERS. They Exceed the Number In All Great Britain 'and Ireland. Dr. W. L. Jones, of the Southern Cultivator, Discusses Butter Mak ing, and Shows How We Hay All Eat Good Butter. Major C. W. DuPrce of Henry county, manager of the Alliance warehouse st Hampton. Ga., which he runs as success fully as he carries on hU own extensive farming operations. The Alliance warehouse at Ashburn, Ga., on the Georgia and Florida railroad, U reported to be doing s good business aud the Alliances in Worth county all flourishing. AMERICA'S TE5AXT FARMERS. Rec entry a writer in the Xorth American Iiteittc made the startling statement that the Uuited States is the large-t tenant farmer nation in the world. Of the 7,500, 000 adults engaged in agriculture less than one-third are fanners, half of that third are so heavily mortgaged that the iuterest they must pay to avoid foreclosure is equal to the gal ing rent. The number of the tenant farmers in ihe various States are given and we shall give a few samples from the list : New York, 39,872 Pennsylvania, 45,825 Maryland, 18,537 Virginia, 34,898 North Carolina, 52,728 South Carolina, 47'219 Georgia, 62,175 West Virginia, 12,0(Xf Ohio, 49,283 Indiana, 40,050 Illinois, 80,244 Michigan, 15,411 Iowa, 45,174 Missouri, 58,862 Nebraska, 11,491 Kentucky, 44,027 Kansas, 22,951 Tennessee, 57,296 Mississippi, 41,558 Aikansas, 211,180 Texas, 06,465 Here are twenty-one of our leading States with more tenant farmers than England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. BUTTER. In our southern towns and cities there is an urgent demand for good butter. The Jersey dairies cannot supply the de mand. There is, piobably, very nearly enough butter made in the country to do it, but the quality of the larger portion is exceedingly poor, unsuitcd to the taste of those who appreciate good butter, and are wHling to pay. for it. Such butter does not command much more than half the price of a good article, and except for cooking purposes, could hardly find sale at any price. The reason is that milk cows are fed so largely on cotton seed. This is certainly the cheapest cat tle food we have, and in the shape of cot ton seed meal may be very advantageous ly used for fattening cattle for 'market. Probably the cheapest beef possible can be made by feeding a mixture of cotton seed meal and cotton seed hulls, and nothing else. But neither the whole seed nor the meal can be used, except in lim ited quantity, in the production of a really good article of butter. Common experience tells us that the butter from cows fed on cotton seed is white, sticky and deficient in flavor. Some experiments made at the Texas Experimental station throw addiaioual light on the matter. Seven cows were fed on a ration of equal parts by weight of cob and corn meal, whole oats and bran with ensilage ahel sorghum, peavines and mixed hay what would be termed an excellent ration. The butter made from them when tested had an average melting point of 95.33 de greci Fah., and au average of 14.41 per cent of volatile acids. Four of these cows were subsequently fed on cotton seed meal and hulls exclusively, and the but ter they produced gave an averaoe of 105.44 degrees for its inelting'point, and an average of 10.15 per cent- of volatile acids. Tliat is. the ration of cotton seed meal raised the melting point of the but ter from 95.33 to 105.44, an increase of a little over ten degrees, and reduced the volatile acids from 14.41 per cent to 10.15 jkt c ent, or over 4 per cent. Butter is made up in part of solid fats, like that which predominates in tallow, and partly of liquid fats or oil. Cotton seed or its meal increase the quantity of the solid fats in it. giving it a tallowy appearance. What are teimcd alove the volatile acids :c tbe things that impart to butter its pleasant flavor. Cotton seed reduces de cidedly the quantity of these iu butter, and lowers its flavor makes, in other words, a bard, tallowy, Savories butter. The butter made from feeding on cotton seed meal was submitted, to experts, without indicating iu history or origin, and was graded by them. The scale for best butter was: Flavor 45, grain or tex ture 30. and firmness or body 25, making a total of 100. The cotton seed meal butter was graded a follows: FlatorSO. 98, grain or texture, 1H .J, and body or firm less, 21.27, or in all, 70.6S le than three-fourths as good as first quality of butter. Cotton seed meal also makes a white butter, deficient in color. It ne cessitates a higher temperature for churn ing. "Whilst 54 degrees is s good average temperature to churn when other rations are used, it must be raisek to 74, or ten degrees higher, when cream from cotton f cod fed cows b churned, in order to make tbe butter come the usual time. These fscts are worthy of careful consideration. Of course other things effect the quality of butter, but a cotton seed . ration, per haps, does more to injure the quality of butter sold by our fanners than any other one thinjr. Dr.' W. L. Jones. Tl 7-, - -V - s: v.. - r ; YIELD OF THE CR0P3, Ths Yield of Cotton About ths Cam as This Tims Last Tear, Sot There is a Failing Off in .other Crops. Cotton returns for November to ths Department of Agriculture tt Washing ton, D. C. are county estimates of tho yield per acre. The consolidation. : considering areas with ratio of yield, with the correction of obvious errors, makes the average yield 1ST jKiunds of lint per acre." It is about the same as the yield last year, and better than tlte returns of yield List November, which were exceeded by the . results of v final investigation. Some of the return report killing frosts, which did not cx tend to s large area on the southern sido of the cotton lclt; Much will, therefore, depend on the weather of Decem ber, not only in perfecting the", growth, but in saving the crop. Should the season continue favorable and the views of corrtoudenU prove conserva tive, the result may be slightly larger than here indicated. The quality of lint has been deteriorated by excessive rains and injured by discoloration. The es- h' mates of yields by States arc as fullowi; : Virginia, 168 pounds; North Carolina, -182; South Carolina, 175; Georgia, 165; Florida, 108; Alabama, 160; 3Iissisippi, 200; Louisiaua, 238; Texas, 190; Ar kansas. 225 ; Tennessee, 191. THE YIELD OP OTItER CROPS. .ember returns to the Dcjwutment of Agriculture of the rates of yield per acre make the average for corn, 19.9 bushels; potatoes, 57.5 bushels; buckwheat, 14.5 bushels; hay, 1.20 tons; tobacco, 718 pounds. The corn crop makes the smallest yield reported, excepting only that of 1881, which was 18.6 bushels. That of 1887 ' was 20. 1 bushels. It is 83 per cent, of the average of the last ten years, a period which included four unusually poor years, and only 73 per cent, of lastyear's crop. The decline of the last decade is not due to the impairment of fertility, but to unfavorable meteorological influences. The highest rates are in New England ft usual. The average rate of yield of po tatoes is 57.5 bushels. The condition of the crop in October was lower than in any reported previous crop, except in 1887, being 61.7 against 61.5. Vhen -the rate of yield was 56.9 bushels per acre it imports a scarcity and warrants high prices. Low rates of yield of the princi pal States are as follows : New York, 62 bushels; Pennsylvania, 68; Michigan, 58; Ohio, 46; Indiana, 37; Illinois, 30; Iowa, 48; Jlissouri, 39; Kan sas, 28 ; Nebraska, 27; Minnesota, C8, A CRANK AFTER CLEVELAND. He Shoots a Young Lady and Says He Will Kill the Ex-President. A telegram from New York city say: John T. Davis Sunday night shot Miss Gladys Price, organist of the Mariner church, as she was leaving the church af ter the service. Davis was arrested and proved to be a dangerous crunk, if fiot an absolute lunatic. He asserted that Miss Price was his wife; that she was btiug pursued by G rover Cleveland, and that he intended to kill Mr. Cleveland. Miss Price liad never snokeu to Davis in her life, and knew nothing of him ex cept that he sometimes attended the Ma riners' church. Davis was arraign ed in court and remanded to await the result of Miss Price's injuries. Ha rambled in his talk, and repeated hU statement that it was his intention to have shot ex-President Cleveland. 3Iis Price wil probably recover, although sh was shot through tbe body. Gould Oains a Victory. The Gould party have regained control of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. At a meeting of the directors of that coin qanv in N. Y. city the resignations of Edward Lauterbach, C. M. McChce and Oliver H. Payne were received, and George Gould, Jay Gould and Russell Sage were elected in their place. Then, J. 1J. Houston resigned the office of president and was succeeded by George J. Gould, who immediately offered s resolution that Houston lie elected vice president and general manager This resolution waf carried without dient. The Illiterate Cannot Vote. Under Mississippi's new Constitution, which lias already gone into effect with out Wing submitted to the people, it is calculated that the numbers of white vo ers in the State will.be reduced from 118, Ouu to 107,000. and the negro vote from 189,000 to G6.000, by the operations of the clauses restricting the right of siif frae to those s hocin read any sectioi of 'be Constitution, or who shall be able to understand the ame when it i read to them or give a reasonable interpretation thereof. Aspires to ths T7. S. Senatorsfeip. CoL Ellison S. Kcitt, of Newberry coun ty, ill be a candidate for the V- 3. Sen ate fiom South Catolina to succeed Gen Wade Hampton. Mr. Keitt b aa ex racmbcr of the legislature and was a prominent sapjortcr of TfUman In the f cent campaign. It is understood that j endorses ihe fub-Trcafury bill sad alfc ance demand. Ths Color Line in Rhode Island. J Pcotidesce, IL L, November 24. Hiss Henrietta D. L Tcft obtained a verdict of $2,4Sinst the Erenin Telegram. Hiss Tuft was assaulted by! a nrgrees, who mistook her for -another person, and thd Telegran beaded Its ac count of the a&fr, A colored woman' assaulted her white . rlraL fccaee ths I snit. ' ;
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