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" The - M axtqn ,: . IMqn. ; A DEHOCBATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTEREST. VOL. V. NO, 21. MAXTON N. C TUESDAY, DEC. 9, 1890. $1.00 A YEAR TOWN DIRECTORY B. F. McLEAN Major. HWMcNATT... I . Commis si oners. J 1 ..,-nVl' X j; ) I..-"-W J. fl-IiKIr.. A , ti K("K. T-wn Marshal. A LODGES. -r i .r HONOR. No. 1,720 meets K1 ! .1 v;d fourth Wednesday's at ?::,o r "m j. h. WEATHERLY, Dic- t';i'rr'r. F. Me LEAN, Reporter. v v c iii" ts every Sunday at 7.30 rM- wM- iLACK' President. .nv"'V GUARDS, WM. BLACK. ('.:..;'. i'"' tirt Thursday nights of ( hi h in' nth :tt 8 I. M. fll EN FRIENDS meet on second ,.., V.urth Monday in each month. : - i- Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W. ivi.aru, Secretary and Treasurer. .vx'ton lodge, knights of j'VTHIVS. meets every Friday night, fi(r't i: r.-t in each month, at H clock. PO!'K-nN COUNTV BIBLE SOCIETY iVi J A Smith, President: K K Proctor. .t Vice I'res ; I)r J U (-'room, 2nd ';' I) Urown. S.-'y: Win Blark. Treas. R?1 i it.-i, ilarv: Kx Ojni. Rv il G Hill, j. j 1, S Tf.wn-ieiKl, 1 P McEocbem, J O C n-)i H M'-K-hf-rn; Auditing Com., E y yiin- U II blocker and B I) Caldwell. K F.C V 1 1 V K ( M M I TT K K. p.-v Jfi li Evans, Rv H G Hill, D D, lv .! S Hin' k, Rov O P Meek, j-, -J KFinlayson, Jos McColIurn, .! p Smith, Duncan McKay, Sr. ' V, Brown, Dr J L McMillan. Ai'DH ISO OMMITTEK. J 1' Smith. I H McNeill, J A Humphrey pi.tn-of n'it mtin; Luniberton, N. C. I";in of next meeting Thursday, May ;ith. nt I !.:'. o'clock a. m. Bitilea aii'l TmtJinv-ntx can le purchased f U'ni. black, Depository, Maxton, C, t c.t. All chnn-h n n1 Rihle Societies in the fntv inviN-1 toivl (legates. Fi i'wnr-l all colln-tions to Wrn Black, lifHnviT. Maxton, N C. (lUKdlLS. PKKSUYTKIMAN, REV. DR. II. G IlIIiL, I't-tor. Services each Sabbath at 1 F. M. Sunday School at 10 A. M. I'i;iv ! mcetini: every Wednesday -! P moon m o clock . METHODIST, REV. .1. W. .lONES !ir. Service-i eaeli Sunday at 11 A.M. Sun-dav 'School at 0 oO A. M. M A SONIC. W.X'HN' I.nlJCE A. V. & A. M. nu-iU M Fiiday night in each month at s r. m. (I EN ERA L DIRECTORY OF Robknon County. Senai'.v. .1. F. Payne. Kt'jtresctitativcs, I T. M. Watson. I). C. Retail. ) E. F. Mcllae. W. P. Moore, Co'imy Conmii.ssione'rs, ( I). Staneil, T. McBryde. j J. S. Oliver, C. ('., C. I. T.wnseiid. bheiilL II. McEa. hen. I u'r Dee Is, J. H. Morrison, Trca.Nurcr. W. W. MeDairmid. j .1. A. McAllister IVvnd ot Education - " J. S. Black, J. S. McQueen. ipt. Pul.. Insti'ii, J. A. McAlister. Croneut Supt. of Health. Dr. F Lis R The American Cultivator believes that 'the Indian problem in the West is set Tlni itself by the rapid decrease in num bers of the red racn. The vices of civ ilization are not the only reason for this .decrease. It is no longer possible to (live by hunting, and only those In dians who take kindly to agriculture and other work can live under the new conditions. A report of tiic outdoor athletic season of lS'.M says it "tho most memorable, from tho point of view of record break ing performances, in the history of Ameri can amateur athletics. Records pre - Viousiy held by Englishmen alone have been coaled by Americans, and world's records have been broken. The records, too, mie by collegians in their cham jv.oaship contests have been greatly im proved.'' TLo Philadelphia jQeeord rery wisely 4'Thoro la nothing vrhich will raorc strongly mark tho record of tho nineteenth century when it shall be writ (tea than the patient research and intelli gence which havo unearthed tho past, mm it Toleo and utterance, and made tjiedall llfe of ancient Greeks, Egyp liaci or'JUbylonians as plain to the peo-r-eof'to-day as are the habits of the nish.uuder Alfred or our own ancei - tors ia the diys of Cotton Mather." OiTiciai figures of the census ecm to how, according to Franl Laltfi TTwWy, toit the cities of Texas arc enjoying th aost general and generous prosperity. The hcrease of population since 18S0 in half down Texas cities, ranges from a5 to 26S per cent. Mississippi appears to hsTe but two cities showing a decided crease, and Alabama has one, Binning kin, with a phenomenal growth of 750 tPr cent, during the past ten yeart. Ot io whole, the showing for Texas ia one t the best that has been made by anj f8, east or west, north or south. Evidently its .prosperity is based upoa a polid foundation SOUTHERN NEWS NOTES The Happenings of a Week Preserv ed and GhronieletL The Field of Virginia, North Carob na, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida Care fully Cultivated; Bead the Be suits. VIRGINIA. V- . Zallas Bos well, chief of a band of gypsies, was shot near Danville by W. C. White. The Insurance war in Danville ; contin ues without any indication of a settle ment. At Edgerton and Brodnax, Brunswick county- thriving businesses arc being done where a year ago only wild woods were to be seen. Superintendent Porter puts the veri fied population of Virginia at 1,665,980, Many changes and corrections were first made before this total was put out. A number of merchants and citizens of Lynchburg petitioned for the revocation of the license of the electric railroad in that city, but the City Attorney : decided that the petition cannot be granted. . James M. Booker, of Lynchburg, and B. W. L. Holt, of Sussex county, were Friday appointed by Governor McKin ney delegates to the Immigration Con vention, which meets in Asheville, N. C. Game in Brunswick county is threaten ed with extermination by Northern brecchdoaders and pot-hunters. I Mrs. Letitia Tyler Seraple has present ed to William and Mary College a num ber of oil paintings of the Tyler family. NORTH CAROLINA. The bears are said to be troubling the farmers dow n in Pasquotauk. Mrs. S. M. Lockhurt, of Weldon, has sold her farm in Northampton county, known as the Hell place, to Senator Matt W. Ransom for $9,500. The cotton-seed mills at F;iycttevilJe were burned Tuesday night. A Second Advcntist preacher in Dur ham is creatine; quite a sensation by preac hing the early coming of Christ. G. S. Melsman, of Rowan county, while crossing the Richmond 'and Danville soad at China Grove was struck by an engine and killed. The annual Clinton Fair opened last week with a large attendance present. Senator Vance and Colonel L. L. Polk were present and delivered addresses. SOUTH CAROLINA. Philip B. Hamer, editor of the Marion Index was married on Wednesday eve ning to Miss Gertrude Kuck, a leading society belle. rflnry T. Peake, formerly connected with the South Carolina railway, is a can didate for railroad commissioner from the lower district. D. E. Keels, county chairman of Sumter county has nominated by instructions from his executive com mittee, H. R. Thomas for railroad com missioner. The Yorkville Enquirer was burned out Saturday morning. The loss is $25, 000. The fire w as of incendiary origin. The dead body of C. Newton Knox, a prominent citizen. of Abbeville- was found under the trestle over Little River on the Georgia, Caioliua and Northern railroad, near Abbeville. Mr. Knox fell from the trestle while trying to walk it. In the Seventh Congressional District contest the Supreme Court has awarded Col. Wm. Elliott the certificate of elec tion over Brayton and Miller. The latter received the highest number of votes but his tickejts bciug improperly printed were thrown out. Hon. 'at Calhoun. Col. J. II. Averill. iiuperintendcnt of the Port Royal and Western Carolina, and other prominent railroad men, spent the Thursday at Port Royal and visited various points of inter est particularly the old fort and Foot Poiut. The steam tug Reliance carried them around. GEORGIA. White Caps-are rampant in the coun ties of Elbert and Madison. Fifty tons of ochre has been shipped from Cartcrsville to Europe. This is saini to be the first shipment of ochre from this country to Europe, and the ' Carters-, ville product is said to lc the best in the country. The following pei-ons of Lumpkin countv have been sentenced in the United States court as follows for violating the revenue laws: Kim Satterfield, nine months and $100; Jess Chester, ix months and $100, and J. M. Porter, two months and $100. John Counot. a Savannah longshore man, fell a distant e of fifteen feet in the hold of thejteamship Pocahontas, and suffered injuries from the fall which proved fatal. At Macon, Judge Spcer gave five moon shiners, who were confined in the Bibb county jail their liberty. Thirty days re mained, to serve, but which they received as a Thanksgiving present from the Judge. j . The boiler of John H. Akers & Co's., SAW mill at Scotland, Worth county, ex ploded Thursday luorniog, killing three men and injuring fourlothcts. The boil er was blown quite a distance. Burglars have been j operating around Gordon. A store was recently entered there and a large safe blown open with powder. The explosion was so loud that ft aroused the whole tjwu, many people friniHng that an earthquake had arrived. The burglars only received four dollars for thai trouble. TBHZ7C3SEB. The Greenville Woolen Mills burned to the ground Tuesday evening and every thing lost. Several adjourning buildings were burned. This is the most destruc tive fire in the history of that city. Loss $150,000; partial insurance. Gen. Thos. Ewing, president of the Atlantic and Danville railroad completed negotiations Wednesday for making Bris tol the western terminus of the road. The town is to subscribe for $100,000 of the stock and the land companies will add $300, 000. Work of locating the line is now in progress. To reduce expenses, the E. T. V. & G. railway company has discharged all the work train crews on the upper end save fDe. The track forces have also been re duced. The Memphis Grand Jury threw out the bill against the President of the City Council for the offense of holding stock in a street railway company. Suit has been brought in the Circuit Court of Putnam county against the Nashville & Knoxville railroad for $50, 000 balance due James Connor, a Pitts burg railroad contractor. The surveys have been completed to the mountain top, and contracts will soon be let for the ex tension of the road to the coal fields. FLORIDA. The steamer Sadie now makes daily trips between Tampa and Manatee. Mrs. Carnegie of Dungcness has sold the yacht Missoe to the state board of health, which will use her on the gulf coast. The Knights of the Golden Eagle are arranging to give an entertainment at the Jacksonville Sub-Tropical, to take plax e some time this month of December. . Tax assessment reform is to be the slo gan in this Florida legislature. The Leon County Farmers' Alliance Fair opened at Tallahassee last week. Splendid exhibits were made and lively interest taken throughout. Saturday was "colored alliance day." The date of the fifth assembly of the South Florida Chatauqua at Mt. Dora has been definitely fixed for the 17th to the 30th of March, 1891. Professor O. M. Crosby, with nothing like $10,000 at his command, has brought fifty actual settlers to Florida during the past two months. OTHER STATES. Chief Inspector Rathborne of the post office department at Washington tele graphed Col. Depress, postmaster at Austin, Texas, dismissing H. B. Kinney, assistant postmaster there, for destroying valuable papers. A Ray ville, La., special says that a fire which broke out there in the ware house of Charles Tinche consumed nearly all the main business block of the town north of the Vicksburg, Shrcveport and Pacific Railroad. J. S. Richardson, of New Orleans, has a farm for which he has refused an En glish syndicate's offer of $22,500,000. It is a cotton plantation, or a series of plan tations, consisting of 49,000 acres, to . cultivate which 9,000 negroes are em ployed . Galveston, rejoicing over the $6,000, 000 given her by the Government for a deep water port, became hilarious, and gave a grand oyster roast on the beach, to which the whole State was invited. When the hungry Texans arrived they were charged 50 cents a head for a ticket to the roast, and now the country news papers arc ''roasting" the Oleander City. Old Pirate Lafittc used to live on that island, and his spirit seems to hover there Senator Gordon Beturns Thanks. Senator-elect John B. Gordon, of Geor gia has given the press the following card of thanks: "Kirlirootl, nctr Atlanta, Ga. To the press and my friends generally through out Georgia and in other States, who so 'aithfully, so earnestly and so unselfishly 'aborcd for my election, and to my friends in the Legislature, both in the Alliance and out, who so heroically and firmly stood bv me in the recent Senatorial con test, and to the thousands of friends in this State and throughout the Union who bv teleirrams. letters, or bv public dem onstration, have signally shown their ( gratification at the result of the recent election, I wish through the public press to return my heartfelt thanks, and m give assurance of my sincere appreciation. This method of making my grateful ac knowledgement seems appropriate, be cause these testimonials are so generous, so spontaneous, and so numerous. John B. Gordon." A Poverty Stricken Congressman. Farmer Jerry Simpson's system of get ting himself elected to Congress in Ne braska was such a glittering success in his own cae that it may be generally adopted by candidates. Mr. Simpson's platform was bastd on the poverty of farmers gen erally and his own poverty in particular. To civc his audience ocular proof that "things w ere not coming to him in car riages' he would take off his shoes to show that he was too poor to wear socks. When the applause would subside he would roll up his trousers to show that likewise drawers were a luxury too rich for his blood. Farmer Simpson waa what is known in the West as a 'rattler on the stump,' and he sailed through tho campaign literally under bare poles, rounding the buoy with 10,000 votes to spare. t Jacob's well, and the plot of ground surrounding it, have been sold by the Turkish Government to the Greek church for 4,000. New York's hippopotamus has a mouth; CTrntgraJaclKi .wide. THE FARMERS ALLIANCE. News Matter For That Popular Organization. How the City Farmer "Succeeds' In Husbandry, Discussed By Ber. Dr. Talxnage, of Brooklyn. Alliance News Notes.) The Dawson, Ga , Journal announce: that the Alliance store i getting ready fot business. A part of the stock has already been received. A $100,000 bagging factory is proposed obe erected at Vicksburg if the citizaos will give the site. About five acres of (jrcand is required. I 4- THE CITY FARMERS. Just at this time of the year there is al w.ys a number of city men w ho get an Itching desire to become farmers not formers foi health or pleasure but farmers for profit. Now farming is a grand o;ru pationi Inn lo the average city business nan who goes into it for profit, it holds -ut nothing but failure. The city farmer, for example, never considers, as does tin; wise nd knowing farmer, that there may be disappointment in crops. He thinks whatever he sows will come up and yield profit Even a stupid turnip knows a city farmei sa soon as it sees biro. Mar fow.fat pe,as fairly rattle in their pods with derision as he passes The fields arc glad to impose upon the novice. Wandering too near the beehive with a book on hon y making, he gets sting ia three places ; his cauliflowers turn out to be cabbages; ihe thunder poils his milk; the grass-but-tar that he dreamed of is rancid; thetaxe eai up his profits; the drought consumes is wrn; the rust gets in his wheat; tho peaches drop off before they ripen; the rot strikes the potatoe?; expecting to surprise his benighfed ( ity friends with a present of o few early vegetables, he accidentally hears that they have had new potatoes and green peas and sweel corn for a fortnight the bajy mare runs away with the box wagoxi; his rustic gate gets out of order, his ahubbery i perpetually needing the hears; it seems almost impossible to kce; the grass out of the serpentine walk; v cow gets in and upsets the vase of flowers-, the Wgs destroy the watermelons and the gardener runs off with the chamber-maid. Everything goes wrong, and farming is i: failure. It always is a failure when a man knows nothing about itjif a man can afford to make a large outlay for his own amusement and the health of his family, let him hasten to his country purchase. But no sensible man yrill 'think to keep a business in town and make a farm financi ally profitable. Talmage, in Ladies Home Joiirnal. WHY BOYS LEAVE the FARM. Some time siDec in an article, in the Cultivator I discussed and advocated the policy of having boys take for permanent vocations, only such business : as their tastes, and adaptation for them. I am positive in the belief that most of the fail ures in life are based upon an injudicious Ardection of the business pursued. Many circljRistances operate to cause mistakes in the choice, and therefore it becomes us to remove all possible hin drances from a fair, open and : unbiased decision, in the matter that is to deter mine the lif-long business of the boys we put upon the world to win a support. Whilst it is truo that every business? should, be considered UDder the drawbacks owccssariUy connected with it, it is also untjrue that any business should be dis carded because of hindrances that are not essentially a part of its evils. j For instance, if any intelligent, ambi tlni boy is allowed to believe, either by individual testimony, or general result, that fanning giving no promises for accu mulation and wealth, what ever may Ik his taste or his inclinations, it will not be an easy matter to jucc him toUtay upon the farm. DemonsfrV.e either by personal results, or illustrated examples that there is money in farming, and he will consider the question a?i a business. Again, because of inconvenience of ar rangeinect, there is a deal of drudgery on a farm. Much of this ran bo avoided. These inconveniences put the business at a disadvantage in the mind iof a farm tr boy. who, sweating under unneces sary loads, determines in hies heart he wil not ffhoore any such pursuit for' lifetime kit vices of burden bearing. 3Iake work csy in the uc of every possible conven iao( e of arrangement about the barn?, and in the field?, so that every effort cx;ended brings n letum. and the 1ky will then sec the busincrfs with many of its objettion cble hindrances removed. Farming, as generally pursued i made v-jy objertion lble rvrauit we do no! poprly prepare fot it IV'My a prater objection still i foujd iu allowing uo oivioYnds from the business to come o lb? boys. A long ftrvicc without p?r-ojiV- result, h we ny iiigtothe fl-ii, and disgusting to cue taste. It will not do to tell the Iwv thst he is le-'oij fv' md clothed, and possibly educated somewhat. To hit mind thij woulJ m-poi to follow a a matter of duty, fed hot so much a matter of service. Be-tide-v, we do not want the service -f our boys as machine wrrk. We want some tpuit, ud ambition a the matter. To get ft we must divide spoils. Fjopeily managed, any farmc- wiU make money by offjSiing some ludu- c men ts to his boys to labo. To a litIe Vlow. tutn over the cWckens to cxie for. aDd give bim part of thepiofiU; to r. Urgei boy, give a piece of ground for a oxi of Lis own. with tho abcokiie costjof o. cJl iu jwoQpcds. To the young man, give a '.bare ia your bvui nssa, and the home w!2 become mora at tractive, he business more mnuneratiTe, and ths pursuit in life judiciously deter niiatd. W. J. Northeo iti&ndktm Cvlti-tctor COLOR LINE IN AMERICA. Prof. Bryce Says Politics are ZXore Powerful than Baca Prejudice. Prof. James Brycc, 31. P., the English political-economist, besides being an in teresting lecturer, is also an engaging alkcr on general topics. Before taking the steamer yesterday for Europe he was asked to express his views upon the race question. The professor pleaded that he was not well enough ac quainted with the conditions surrounding the life of the people in this country to s)cak authoritivcly upon the race prob lem. "I should like very much,'1 said Mr. Brycc, 4 'to read the latest works bearing upoa the subject. Of course I have my impression?, though rather hastily gath ered. For instance it is my impression that if it were not for its political coloring that is to say, the practice of both the Republican and the Democratic parties in making the negro a political issuer that it would not he long before race preju dice would die out. "In my travels through the South it did not seem to me tbat there was a gen uine race antagonism. The people did not seem to bear malice toward each other .nd I was told by a great many white peo ple that the kindliest of feeling existed between the two races. The blacks ap ear to feel as kindly as, their white brothers, and it is mv Itclief that the in tolerance of the whites toward the blacks is one of political growth and not the ex pression of a deep-rooted race prejudice. 'There is no reason why the two races should not live together on terms of good feeling; I have been surrounded all mv life with anti-slavery influences, and any phase of life which may be characterized as such excites my sympathy. But be fore expressing an opinion I must certain ly make myself acquainted wijth the con ditions, and then I shall Ik only too glad to give an opinion which would reflect my maturest judgement on a question which interests at this time the civilized people of the world. "As I see it now I do not find any great obstacle in the way of a happy adjustment of this question, and I feel that the gen ius of the American people will prove their ability to grapple and adjust this purely political question in a manner be fitting the broadest and most liberal inter pretation of their constitution and the highest possible attainment of their civil-, zation. New York Herald. l REMARKABLE CASE. A Widow's Bight Disputed by a Young Man From Abroad. Raleigh, N. C., Dec. A very re markablc case is befooc the United States circuit court here. In 1864 Thomas II. Smith, captain of a blockade running steamer, married Miss Jane Watson at Wilmington, N. C. Recently he died, leaving her real estate there, worth $70, 000. A few months ago George H. Smith, of Bolton, England, appeared as claimant, alleging that Thomas II. Smith was his father, having married his mother prior to the war, and that his mother was liv ing at the time of Smith's marriage to Miss Watson. Attorneys for both aides have been to England at work on the case. The defendent contends that Thomas II. Smith was not the father of George II. Smith, and that if he were the latter was borne out of wedlock. Smith the claimant, arrived here today accompanied by his wife. The case at tracts much attention, -as the defendant is well known in Wilmington. In the Speakership Race. The Hon. Benton 3IcMillin, of Tennes see, who will have the solid backing of the Congrcssianai delegation from that State for the Speakership of the House of Representatives, lias had a romantic career. He was born and educated in Kentucky, worked his passage into Tennessee on a log raft, settled in a backwoods town, twenty miles away from a railroad, prac ticed law there, prospered, and now rep resents a horny-handed, hard-fisted and primitive community of mountaineers, who count him as one of themselves and think him one of the best and ables men in the country. ShouhT hfc be elected Speaker, the Nashville Banner says, the hardy mountaineers wouhi kindle bonfires on the mountain tops and pnd a month in rude festivities over the h'aor accorded to themselves. A Corrupt Priest. A Raleigh. X. C, special says: Ex Priest J. J. Boyle has been heard from again. Not from a monastery in Scot land, as was generally supposed, but from a Catholic tribunal in Rome, Italy, whither he has been summoned to dis prove the charge made against him by the Catholic clergy of the West. Boyle, with his uual brazen ess, had the auda city to write to Bishop Haydn, in this State, to send him a letter of recommen dation in order to prove his good charac ter while in North Carolina. This infor mation was received from Justice Barbee, of Raleigh, s prominent member .of the Catholic church here. Failed for Three ZXillions. Philadelphia. Xov. 29. 'Barker Bros., bankers and brokers of this city, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The firm controls tho Wliai ton Switch Co., and gained world wide reputation some time ago by its Chi nese inter-teUgTsphiog banking scheme. They are also the Philadelphia corres; pendents of tb Barings, the great Lon don banker). They are largely interested in Reading sccuriiies, Oregon Pacific bonds sod B. &. O. car tiusts. The firm held a small lice of deposits. Their lia bilities are said to be about three millioni BEGAEDING BOOMS. The Ample Room For New Towns In The South. The 8tatea of Virginia, Alabama and; Tennessee the Leaders in the Great Southern Movement of Town Building. 4 People who fear that too many new towns are being started forget that in the great mineral belt that stretches from Shen andoah Junction, where the Baltimore fc Ohio and the Shenandoah Valley RaU road cross, to Birmingham, unquestion ably the most remarkable region of Amer ica, if not of the world, there are prac-! tkally no dries, ncrc is a territory 1 about 700 or t00 miles long by 150 to 200 wide, a region capable of supporting with ease a greater population than the 0J,XK)0f 000 that now people the whole country, ' and yet in that vast region of boundless j resources there are scarcely five towns of over 10,003 people. Between Hagcrs-, town and Roanoke, a distance of about; 240 miles, there is not over one town of 5,000 population; at Roanoke we find' about 18,000 and at Salem, adjoining, about 5,000, and then, unless Bristol cjta show 5,000, we must pass several hundred miles more, or from Roanoke to Knoxville, before we find a place of even 5,000. Knokville to Chattanoaga andChatta nooga to Birmingham and we find a terri tory that ought to have and will have towns of over 10,000 population each for every village of 500 that now exists. - Where are the people to come from? ' The South could abnost double its pres ent population from the surplus, of the agricultural districts alone. Until five years ago all of the women and one half of the men in the South were practically j without employment.- With nothing in f their reach except agriculture, there wasj ont work enough for one half of the ! South'smale population, and the large! class of women and girls who in the North support themselves were in the South al-i most wholly idlers of necessity , and not j of choice. The building of towns and! cities is furnishing a place for these pec- pie and drawing the great surplus from , the agricultural districts to the centers of i industry. This alone would furnish pop- i manon to iuu towns oi iu,uoo population each or more. Natural increase will add 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 to the Sduth'a pop ulation in the next ten years. The annual drain of tens of thousands of young men who have heretofore gone west because of ; the lack of employment in the South is, ceasing." There is work at home now for; all, young and old. , But these arc not all the sources from : which the South will draw population fort its new towns. The increase in' the pop-' u'ationof the United States during thej next ten years will be 18,000,000 or 20,' 000;000, or just about the present pop-, ulatjpn of the entire South from Mary hand, to Texas. These fourteen Southern States have a total populations of 19,000,000. The increase in the whole tenjyears will bo 18,000,000 to 20,000,000. Where is this enormous population going? Southward. From New England which formerly sent; its hundreds of millions of capital and its hundreds of thousands of young men to the West to build-up that mighty empire' the tide of men and money has turned to the South; from the great West, from Kansas to Dakota, there is a steady swell ing stream moving Southward. Town building in the South has prac tically jnst started. There are only two -or three States--Virginia, Alabama and Tsnncssce in which there has been any general activity in that line. These States will keep up their good work, and others will rapidly follow their example. JWi faetnrer' Hewtl The Henry George Idea. It is announced, that a colony of about twenty-five Northern farmers have pur chased 3,000 acres of land in Cullanan County, Ala., and will fegin co-operative farming. There is to be a joint stock company, with a capital of $200,000, -limited to 2Q0 shares, and no person can have more than one share. The farm work is to be performed by the share holders themselves and their families, and the profit, to be distributed as dividend. They exjtcct to introduce manufacturing as soon as practicable, as they have a for- ' est of valuable timber and an i ncx ha ta ble amount of coal. The Southern Chautauqua. The choice made at Atlanta by tht trus tecs'ofthe 4 'Asheville Assembly n of the Women's Christian Temje ranee Union from among the several tracts of land of fered last lummcr for its uv? upon which to erect buildings for the '"Southern Chau tauqua"1 is s good one. The tract e(-, twenty acres, accepted from Mr. Otis Mil ler, is in the new town of Sky land, eight miles south of Asheville, N. C, on the Spar-, tanburg and Asheville railroad near several , valuable mineral springs and good hotel, and in the neighborhood of the Vander- ' biit estate. Bflbrta to Capture a Murderer. Jacksonville, Fla.. Dec. 2. A poe of U. 8. official are hunting for R. E. Buford, the murderer of U. S. Deputy Marshall Lost range, and it is thought he will be captured. It is said tbat tho State officials aided the murderer to es cape. U. S. Marshal Weaks received the following Attorney Gen. 31iller: . 4 'You are authorized to incur extraorr dinary expense to arrest and bring Bu ford. the murderer of Lmtrange to trial. Porter Finishes His Count. WxrisrxoToy, D. C Wednesday night . Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Census, presented a statement to the Sec retary of the Interior, girim? the popo- lation of the several States and Territorial of the United States, as finally determined. The verified population of the United State la 1W0 is fixed at 323,250, - .
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