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K J ,7 ' ' hi sjfe f1 O n fi o W4! A BSHOSStATJO J OUBNAL- THE PEOPLE AWD THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VII. NO. 331 MAXTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1893. 01. OD A YEAR. V" li 1 M4 ! ii 11 it 1 1 Mil ti 11 J DIES FERRY DEAD. The Eminent French Statesman Passes Away Very Suddenly. 0m jrJLES rRB"f". Jules Ferry, the newly-elected President of the French Senate, died suddenly- at Paris a few days ago. The naws oE his de mise was a great shock, as few knew that ha had been ill. Jules Ferry was born at Saint Die, in the Vosges, on April 5, 1833, and became a mem ber of the bar in Paris in 1851. He was prominent among the young lawyers who offered constant opposition to Napoleon III. and was condemned at the famous trial of the Thirteen in 1S64. In 1869 Ferry was elected to the Corps Lagislatif and took his eeat among the members of the Left. He was one of the few deputies who voted against the declaration oi war against Prus sia, and was one of the members of the Gov ernmeutofthe National Defence in 1870. After the resignation of Marshal McMahon in 1879 President Grevy made M. Ferry Minister of Public Instruction. It was as such that Ferry brought forward his famous bill to keep the Jesuits from teach ing or managing schools. In 1S80 the Prime Minister, M.Da Freycinct, authorized an insertion in Ferry's bill of the clause leveled against the religious orders. This led to the expulsion o the J esuits from " France and the resignation of three Cab inet minis ters. The Ministry was upset on September ly, 18S0. Ferry's ministry was upset by the attacks upon the Tunis expedition. After the fall of Falliere's ministry Ferry once more formed a Cabinet, whose principal policy was the colonial expansion of France, embodied in the invasion of Tonquin. Ferry was overthrown by a vote of the Chambers in 1584 and only reappeared in public life when elected Presiden t of the Senate. THE EXCHANGE OF COURTESIES. The Grand Army of the Republic Fur nishes a Ward in the Richmond Soldiers' Home. Richmond, Va. A large delegation of the Washington committee, which had in charge the arrangements for the late encampment of theirand Army of the Republic at that point, came down to Richmond for the purpose of presenting their acknowledgements to Lee Post, of the Confederate Veterans, of this city, for the hospitality and courtesy extended by the members oi that poit to the veterans of the Grand Army who visited the battlefield about Richmond. The executive committee in "Washing ton, acting in the i ame of the Grand Army, although without specific author ity from that organization, determined to procure and present some suitable testimonial to the Lee Po t. A sptch 1 committee therefore vi ited Richmond some we.ks silica to asceitain what, in their judgm- ut. would be the most ap propriate testimonial. Upon finding that the Lee Post was Lively interested in the support of the Confederate Home and that this was not as yet entirely, furnished an entire ward of this hospital thems- lvts, whi h they have done,- pro viding its beds and all bedding and fur niture pertaining to etch and the general iumituie f the ward as well, and this was formally presented to the veterans of Lee P st Wednesday nisdit. mmmm - jilli Bi' f'IM .... . tilt k I tr - hx n 1 !v ' , ' ' ... ir DTXIRNEWS. The Beloved South Gleaned and Epitomized. All the News and Occurences Printed Hera in Condensed Form. A family at Newton, N. C, has sixteen dogs. Tarboro, N. C, is tc have and artesian well water supply. Richmond county, N. C, jail contains nineteen prisoners, several held on mur der charges. Fifty-two people have lately gone in a party from Burke county, N. C , to Kan sas. " Three men are soon.to leave Asheville, N. C-, in a boat on their way to the World's Fair. The boat is ready. 300 applications are on file of young men -who wish to attend Clemson College, Ft. Hill, S. C, on its opening. The manufacture of bogus Confederate money is an established industry in Van Buren, Missouri. The city of Vicksburg, Miss., will un veil a splendid monument to the "Confed erate dead. . "Work has begun on the new $500,000 cotton mill at Columbia, C. It is lo cated on the canal. Business at the Charleston, S. C, Cus tom House is dull only eight dollars were collected last week. "Willis "Watson, who broke out of the jail at Kinston, N. C, through the roof, Sunday night of last week, has not been heard from since. Sumter, S. C. , is to have a fine hotel and opera house. The first is projected by General Moies, which guarantees its success. John Shull, a brakeman on the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina railway, was accidently killed Monday near Valley Forge. Hamlet, ' N. C , has its industries. Since the Cotton Compress shut down, a 20 acre chicken farm gives impetus to the development of the resources. The municipal election in Laurens, 8 . C, took place Tuesday and excited great interest, a very large vote being cast. I. W. Sinkins was elected mayor. Chester, Spartanburg and Columbia are aspirants for the location of the South Carolioa Girls' Normal and Industrial School, with the chances in favor of the latter . Ninety-two of the students of David son Cellege, N. C. , are working two hours a day on a dam for a lake there, on which they will place some handsome boats. A charter was issued to the Carolina Manufacturing and Reduction Comdany of Blacksburg, S. C, with a capital of $1,000,000. The purpose of the company is to do a general mining business. ' Mrs. Helena Bray ton, of the South Carolina board of women managers of the "World's Fair, is organizing a band of negroes to sing plantation melodies at the exposition. Georgia began paying pensions Wednes day to 3,200 veterans and widows. The latter will get $60 a year, and the veter ans will be paid according to a sliding scale. A prize of $1,000 will be awarded the best drilled company at the international competitive drill between the national guard of the several States during the naval'rendezvous in April, 1893, in the city of Norfolk, Va. At Hampton, Va., Friday night Captain James Shelby, a well known horse dealer was shot in the neck and killed in True blood's saloon while trying to get a pis tol from Richard Trueblood, the propri etor of the place. The Grand Camp of Virginia. Confed erate Veterans, has been invited to meet in Portsmouth on the 18th of May, on which occasion the annual Memorial Day exercises will take place, and the bronze statues on the Confederate monument on Court street will be unveiled.. John MeRose,aged eighty-two, the old est citizen of Dickinson county, Tenn., was married to his young and pretty neigh bor, Mis3 GiceraReece, at the residence of the bride. Mr. Rose is the father of nine teen children by a former marriage, all of whom are married. The Charleston News and Courier's Co lumbia correspondent says : It seem3 to be pretty generally understood id political circles that Ex-Congressman George D. Tillman will be a factor in the next Guber natorial contest. The Chances are alto gether favorable to. his. becoming a candi date for Governor. The yellow jasmine will soon be in bloom at its northern limit, possibly 250 miles south of New York. ' It is the mar vel and charm of the far Southern spring, and it is said to be well authenticated that the pollen of the blossom has blown from Georgia into Virginia days before .the "plant ..had bloomed in the latter State. N.' T. Sun. A Wilkes county baby, now five weeks old, weighs only 2 pounds. , . A jealous girl in Richmond, Va. , stab bed her lover with a hat pin and married him on his death bed, as -was supposed, but these is a fair chance of his recovery. There is a letter held , for postage at the Lake Maitland, Fla., postomce be cause the writer put on a Florida fertili zer inspection stamp in place of the rew Columbian postage stamp, which is about the same size and color. A Hairbreadth Escaps. A bad accident which was one of the narrowest escapes from instant death pos sible, happened at -Vandemore, Plamico county, N. C, on Saturday. As Mr. Morrissey's son, Coolidje, abdut 15 years of age, was cutting wood, his little broth er ran under the axe as it was descending and received the blow on the top of his head. The axe glanced and cut out a piece of the skull bone one and one-half inches square so that the pulsation of the brain could be discerned. Dr. G. S. Att more, of Stonewall, attended to. the wound. The piece of bone was left out, but the cut portion of the scalp was placed in post ion again and three days after the accident Lr. AM more pronounc ed his little patient in a fair way to per fect recovery, h y.outhfulness being in favor of such a result. "WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?" Moody Endorses a Check for $40O and Presents It to the Y. II. C. A. Charlotte, N. C That Evangelist Moody i3 a great man, great with power from on H gh, all acknowledge; but an occurrence took place here at the close of the great revival meetings conducted by him, wh:ch made even the best look at him aghast and wonder "what manner of man is this?" The finance committee called at Mr. Moody's room after the last service at the Auditorium, and presented Mm with a purse of $700, $200 of which was for Miss Tyson. The amount for Mr. Moody was in two checks, one for $400, the other for $100. When Mr. Hanna handed them to Mr. Moody he glanced at them and taking his pen wrote his name across the back of one of the checks, and handed it back to Mr. Hanna, saying, "There's my subscription to your Young Men's Christian Association." Mr. Hanna and all began expressing their thanks, when suddenly Mr. Hanna gave a btart of sur prise and said, "Mr. Moody, you've made a mistake ; . you endorsed the wrong check; thi is the $400 check." "No, no, I didn't make a mistake," said he, in his quick, off-hand, but kindly .way; "this one is enough to pay my expenses," pointing to the $100 check. The committee was too dumbfounded to speak. This is the most remarkable occurrence that ever happened here. It brings ud & little incident that occurred in Mr. Moody's room just after he came here. At several of the evangelistic meetings held" here a public opportunity was given to the people to make up a purse for the evangelist. Some members of the com mittee at these meetings went up to Mr. Moodj 's room to sound him and see if he would permit them to take up a public collection. They told him that they did not wish to offend his s nse of propriety and wanted to know if he objected to an opportunity being given to the people to make a contribution. "What!" said Mr. Moody, "for me?" "Yes," was the reply. "No," said Mr. Meody, "I could not think of such a thing. I would rather driuk water out of the brooks." PETTICOATS NO PROTECTION. Georgia's Woman Moonshiner Goes to Jail Just Like a Man. Atlanta, Ga. A woman moonshiner, Mrs. Malinda Turner, was arrested Sat urday morning and brought before Unit ed States Comimssioner Gaston in default of a $300 bond. Mrs. Turner acknowl edged her guilt and throughout the trial was very defiant, refusing to make any attempt at giving bail and ignoring the fact that she couid be sworn in her own behalf. She is the mother of John and Will Turner, notorious moonshiners in White County. - Mrs Turner has been making illicit whiskey for over eight years,, and it ia said she makes the best quality. The two boys, John and Will, are both out on bail bow charged with illicit distilling. Mrs. Turner appears to be about 50 years old and talks in a whisper. "Don't keer if I go ter jail er "not," said she to a reporter. "Look like ter me folks won't let yer 'lone long .'noiigh to get off them doubiins. I reckin I bin makin' whiskey nigh enter a month right in the same place. Officer comes 'long Saturday moruin' last and walks into the still jes 'bout dawn break. 'I up and tol' him the whole outlay were my own, and said to him that I didn't bleeve the Judge ud do nothin' wi' me no how, 'case I wuz a woman. Whole outlay's plum ruint now, so 'taint no use to make any bond. "Jes soon as I gi's out I'm going to make more wh'skey moonshine good, too. Jesaess, en j'ou know yourself 'taint jio kind er way ter make jis a drop er two. "Did I sell any? I didn't give none away." Mrs. Turner was taken to jail. THEY DIVORCE THEMSELVES. A Brother of Bishop Haygood and His Wife Publish a Card Announc ing the Fact. Atlanta, Ga The following card has been made public : The undersigned have this "ay dis solved their relation as man and wife. Neither claims nor believes any cause for divorce against the other, either upon Scriptural or legal grounds. Haviog gradually discovered what we did not know at the time of our marriage, that we did not and do not have that degree of mutuil love essential to a happy union and feeling that time widens rather than heels the breach, we believe it our duty to dissolve our marriage relations We will in the future regard ourselves as neither husband nor wife the one to the other, and neither .will interfere nor be responsible for the othjr . Signed in duplicate at Atlanta, Ga., this 26th day of January, 1803. Mart H. Haygood, Wix A. Haygood William A. Haygood is a brother of Bishop Atticus g". Haygood of the Meth odist Episcopal Church South, and is a leading church and society man. CARLISLE'S""PR0P0SITI0N. Provide for the Issue of Currency by Banks Under State Charters. Washington, D. C The Star says that Secretary Carlisle expects to have ready te submit some financial proposi tions by the time Congress meets, which will form the basis of agreement between Congress and the executive on the vexed financial problem . Gentlemen who have talked with him on the subject say that he has a plan pretty well outlined in his mind, which wiil involve a complete re organization of our financial system. It is said that it will include the repeal of the law compelling the purchase of silver by the government and will pro vide for the deficiency of currency by providing for the repeal of the State bank tax and the issue of currency by banks under State charters, under the general government, the security for the currency provided for under the laws of the States, requiring the approval of the government. A Costly Stock Farm; Nashville, Tenn. Richard Croker, of New York, lias purchased a half in terest in the famous Bellemeade Stock Farm for $250,000 cash. Oold-Minning- in the South. BY C. B . WARRAND. Many years before the discovery of the California gold fields gold-mining in the western part of Georgia and North and 6outh Carolina had been an established industry. With slave labor gold-mining in the South paid well, but since the war a number of spasmodic efforts which have been made to operate the mines as a rule resulted in failures. In the eatly days of mining a shaft was sunk at some convenient spot on a vein, the ore was roastednearby,and was then carted, often for miles, to a water power. Five dollars per ton of recover able gold was the minimum limit at which these mines paid. The pyrites or gold-bearing sulphurets were considered worthless and were allowed to go to wasfe. As a rule the quantity of ore taken out of amine iras insiguificant,and a vast amount of gold 6till exists which can today be profitably recovered. Gold mining property can be bought very cheap almost at a nominal figure. Some time ago I visited one of the most interesting and valuable of the gold-bearing quartz districts, lying at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains en the banks of Broad river, rear Smith's Ford, in Yoik county, South Carolina. Within a radius of less than two miles I have been nineteen veins of quartz which, without exception, contain more or less gold, generally in paying quanti ties. The veinsall run parallel from the northeast to the southwest, varyiug from two to thiity feet in thickness. I have followed one of these veins by the drift rock and croppings for five miles. The drift rock indicated by pit marks that it had contained at one time gold pyrites. These veins are almost perpendicular; the bottom of none has ever been reached, and it is currently repotted that the deeper the shaft wa3 sunk the better the quality of the ore became. Probably the best of these mines, as well as the smallest and most compact, is the 40 acre tract known as the old Smith mine. It has five distinct veins running through the whole length of the property, 440 yards, and far beyond cn adjoining land3. The veins will vary from three to five feet in thickness, though only two of them have ever been mined. The Jef frey vein had a shaft sunk 100 ftrt and had a drainage tunnel. The Smith vein had two shafts of 150 feet and a tunnel All of these have caved in to a great ex tent. When the Smith vein was in good order it exposed the vein to a depth of 150 feet and a length of 125 feet, with an average width of three feet. To form some idea of the quantity of goid locked in one of these veins, I calculated that a space of 150 by 125 by three feet con tains 54,750 cubic feet, and as it takes about thirteen cubic feet of quartz ore to weigh one ton, the- space exposed con tained 4562 tons. The mine, with slave labor, produced $7.00 of free gold per ton; the pyrites or'gold-bearing sulphur ets thrown away J could not be less thsn two thiids of the free go'.d, or $4.63 per ton, or a total contents ef $11 66 of gold per ton. Hence a total of over $50,000 ot gold is locked up in this small space. The length expose! was less than one tenth of the whole vein, and the depth can probably be tiipled or even quad rupled. It is quite within the range of possibility, even of probability, that this one vein alone has $2,000,000 of gold treasured aay, and this 40-acre tract has five such veins, apparently all alike. About one and ot e-half milts from the Siith mine is the Magnolia mine, which is on a much larger tract, conta'ning ninety-six acres. Th s mine has ten dis tinct veins, varying in thickness from two to thirty feet. The largest, the Magnolia vein, is thirty feet wide and expased to a height of 150 feet; another vein U ten feet wide. One hundred samples taken promiscuously from as many differ nt places on this vein assayed $4 .37 of gold per ton. Some of the smai'er vein3 as sayed as high as J 152 of gold per ton. Close to these mines aid still two more smaller mines, the Rabit and the Trucker. Each has two veins of two feet thickness, A splendid water-power, could be easily obtained about halt way between the Smith mine and the Magnolia mine. The climate in tha Southern gold-mining district is excellent, neither too cold nor too warm, and perfectly healthy. Labor)is abundant and cheap ; an able bodied men can easily be hired for sev enty five cents or one dollar per day, Fuel is also cheap and abundant, cord wood can be had for $1.50 per cord de livered. The time is near at hand when all these mines will be worked . Gold mining South never will be in the nature of a bonanza, but with the help of mod ern methods and machinery it will be come a safe and remunerative industry. Beginning of Rice Culture in South Carolina. The introduction of rice growing into South Carolina nearly 200 years ago was by something very like an accident. Thomas Landgrave Smith, before coming to this country, had paid some attention to rice culture, and on settling in South Carolina had become impressed with the idea that the climate and low-lying lands of 'hat region were well adapted for rice-growing. In the year 1694 a small vessel from Madagascar put into Charles ton harbor in distress. It turned out that there was in the cook's keeping a small quantity of rice, and this fell into the hands of Landgrave Smith, who planted it in a low, mo st portion of his garden. The plant grew and ripened in a manner that wa3 most encouraging. Mr. Smith distributed the seed among his neighbors, and eventually rice became the staple product of the colony. At first the rice was cultivated on the high land and on little spots of low ground. The low ground was soon found pref erable, and the inland swamps were cleared to extend the culture of the plant As the fields, in the process of time, became too grassy and stubborn, they were abandoned for new clearings, and so on until at length the superior adop tion of the tide-lands and the great facilities for irrigation afforded by their location was discovered. For thesa the inland plantations were gradually abandoned-Hot Money Enough to Go Around; Washington, D. 0. Secretary Carlisle dismissed ten temporary clerks employed in the second auditor's of3ce. The re daction ef force was rendered necessary by the. exhaustion of the appropriation, BISSELL'S P0ST0FFICE POL ICY. Offensive Partisanship will Not Ne- essarily Constitute Cuuse for Re -moval. Washington, D. C.-Toa prominent Western Congressman, who talked with Postmaster General Bissell concerning his policy as to removals, tne latter said: "It is not the intention of the admin istration to remove any postmasters until their term of ofh e has expired, except for Eeriou8 cause." "Will offensive partisanship be accept able cause?" was asked. "I don't say it will not," said Mr. Bis sell, "but every case will hive to stand on its own merits, and it will have to be a grave case before a removal is made. The fact that a postmaster ha taken in terest in the work of his party will not, I think, be considered sufficient cause; but, as I have said before, every case must stand by itself. Complaints of in competency, nglect of business or tb solute misuse of position will certainly receive attent'on." He also suggested that the recommendation of members of Congress, would not, ptr se, give it preference over others. The Po toiaster General added that the depaitment had promulgated a general rule, under which postoffices would not be given to keepers of stores. Mr. Bissell said that he did not mean that the rule should apply to small villages in distant. States, where, unless some storekeeptr would handle the mail, no one could be induced to accept the office; hut he did most emphatically intend to refusi to appoint any postmas ters, presidential or otherwi-e, who would not give their personal attention to the business of hindling the mail and who simply desired to secure the office as an advertisement for their business. COTTON MILL BLOWN UP. One Man Killed and Many Injured Shock Felt Six Miles Away. Fokest City, N. C. A terrible cat astrophe took place here Monday morn ing at 7 o'clock. The boiler of the Florence Cotton Mills exploied, dealing death and disas ter broadcast. The boiler, engine and piping were totally demo ished, some of the piping and fragments of the boiler and machinery flyiog hundreds of yards in every d rection. Bricks and timbers were 1 brown high in the air and fell on and damaged nearly every house in the neighborhood, and the windows in the mill were shattered and the water works and machinery damaged. The boiler and engine rooms are in ruins. A second boiler, weighing several tons, was thrown some thii ty yards. The windows in many houses in town were completely shattered. The operatives had just gone t3 wi rk when the explosion took place, and those that were not killed or injured were ter ribly stunted. People in te neighbor hood wire thrown to tha ground by the shock. Homer Harrill, fireman, was killed in stantly. The sufferers are : Julius Dean, dangerously hurt; Ollie Rabb, seriously iojured by falling timbers; I. L. Sanders, engineer, injured internally, considered dangerously . Several others were slight ly hurt by falling bricks and timbers W. P. Hurt, superintendent, was pa u fully though nos seriously hurt by the falling of the roof in the engine room The shock was felt at Ru'herfordton, six miles distant, the people there think ing it was Jin earthquake. The windows of Dr. Harris' house of that place, were shattered. Crowds of people are here viewing the ruins. EGYPTIAN COTTON SEED. An Effort Will be Made to Introduce tha Product in this Country. Washington, D. C The Egyptian cotton Eeed purchased by Secretaiy Ru6k through the United States Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, has been - received at the Department of Agriculture. The purpose of this importation of seed as set forth in Mr. Rusk's last report as Sec retary of Agriculture, is to undertake, with the co-operation of the experiment stations in the cotton States, experiments with a view to producing cotton of home growth which may serve as an efficient substitute for the Egyptian, of which, during the last fisral year, more than $3,000,000 worth was imported into this country, an increase of 15 per cent, over the previous year, and of consideiably more than 100 per cent, over the year ending 1890. The cotton seed received at the Depa tment consists of two of the best known Egyptian varieties, the "Afifi" and the" "Bamiah." The dis tr,bu"ioj will be made to the experiment stations in the cotton States, and also throu.h the senators for those States to planters whom they may recommend as persons well qualified and willing to give the Egyptian seed a careful trial. A report on the cmditions of the soil and clima'e and methods of cultivation of the Egyptian cotton is being prepared for the Department under the direction of cur Consul-General in Egypt. The James City Tenants Will Pay Kent and Remain. Raletgh, N. C. James A. Bryan, of Newberne, having sued for and received the right to the possession of the lands on which James City,opposite Newberne, is located, on the other side of Trent river, where several thousand negroes live who took posse sion during the war, attempted a few days ago to have some occupants ejected. Such resistance was made thai, the sheriff desisted from ex ecuting the writ. A large number, however, have been paying rents to Mr. Bryan and the resistance was chiefly in stigate.! by some white storekeepers. It is said that a peaceable settlement will be made by the payment of nominal rents. No collision is now anticipated. Colored Laborers at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa. About 250 negroes from the South arrived at Brinton Sta tion Tuesday afternoon. Colored labor ers will be given the first chance by the Carnegie Company at all its works in preference tj foreigners who apply for work. James GalcT, general manager of the plant, expccls nearly 1,000 others in a month. This will mean that as soon as possible all Slavs will be dismissed. There are about 3,000 foreigners altogether. STRAWBERRY BLONDES. The Latest Fad in Railroading--A Royal CrimsoD Train and its Equipment. The Charleston News and Courier says-. The custom among ra'hoads lines of having tome pet traiu upon which they bestowed unusuil attention and favor is becoming more aud more popular each year. The "Nancy Hanks" of the Georgia Central, the "F.st Flying Vir ginian" of the Chesapeake and Ohio Road, the iRoyal Blue Line" of the Baltimore and Ohio and the "West In dian Mail" of the Atlantic Coast Line are instances of the popularity of this fad. The Baltimore and Ohia Road cow an nounces that it will operate a "Royal Crimson Line" beteen Baltimore and Chicago. The Railway Review, speak ing of the announcement in a humorous manner, says: "The train will be paint ed a bright crimson from the nose of the cowcatcher clear back to the bumpers en the hindmost coach, A redheaded fire man will shovel coal for a redheaded engineer, who will receive his orders from a red-headed conductor, and will answer the signals of a red headed brake man, and special rates will be made to red headed passengers." It is further noted by the Review that this will be the only train in the world that will be strictly in favor of the color line, and the Heview is inclined to think that the en terprising general passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio will be responsible for some "red-headed" passenger agent3 as well as passengers. Remunerative Farming. A correspondent of the Charleston, S. C, News and Courier writes to that pa per from Ninety-Six as folbwa: "There are a great many farmers throughout the State who seem to think that there is no ready money in anything except cotton. Now", in order to relieve those who are laboring under this impression, I deeire to call their attention to the various crops produced last year by I1. P. Jalphin, a prosperous farmer of our town. The lands cultivated are ths old Cambride lands within a mile of this place. Mr. G tlphin has just furnished me with the followiug statement, and therefore it can be relied upon as correct. He 6ays ha produced last year with three mule s the fo'lowi ig crops: On 4o acres, 8oo bUBhelg at 65 cents SWo And Sooo bundles of fodder, estimated loo On so acree. 25 bales of cotton at $'!. per bale 875 On 75 acres, 17oo busheU of oats at 50 cents 85o 8n 23 acres, I0oo bales of clover bay at 75 cent s 12oo n 5 acres, loo bales of pea -viae hay ai 50 cents iko Grand total f o. all erep S7 "It will be seen from the above table that the clover crop is far more valuable than either of the other crops. He re aliz .d nearly twice as much from twenty five acres in clover as he did from fifty acres in cotton, besides thtre is very lit tle expense attached to its production. Ev ry farmer should have his barn filled with clover hay. It is an excellent feed for all stock, especially cattle. Milk cows thrive on it. It increases the flow of milk and produces beautiful rich yel low butter. Mr. GalDhin has fattened a' d killed s;veral fine hogs, and sajs that he has plenty of this valuable and indispensable article of food to supply him this year. "I did not ascertain from Mr. Galphin the amount of his expenses incurred in producing these crops, but it would be safe to sy he cleared over and above ex penses at least $1,000 to the mule, which mutt be admitted by all as very fine farming. If every farmer would adopt Mr. Galphin's plan we would have no use for the Alliance nor the Ocala plat form, the sub treasury bill or nothing of the kit d, but would be a happy, inde pendent people, and the cry of oppres sion and hird t'mcs would be a thing of the past. I simply give thin, hoping that it may prove beneficial to some poor farmers at least who have been sticking to their cotton idol in neglect of all other cro, s. "Just before mailing this Mr. Galphin ask dmeto add, in addition to the above crops, that be midc thirty bushels of bar ey and 100 gillons of sorghum." Edison's Great Works Flooded. Schenectady, N. Y- In the night the ice in Ih i Mohawk River, west of the city, broke up and formed an immense gorge against the Fitchburg Rulroad bride, three miles from here. The water overflowed the bnks. flooding Edison's park tud that part of the city occupied by ihe Westinghouse Company and the general electric works The first floors of the Edison general electric wo'ks, which aggregate sixteen acres, are under water to the depth of thes feet; both plants have shut down and four thousand men are laid off. All the exhibits which the Edison Company were prepirin. for the World's Fair are par ia'lv de-troyed by water, as ia also most of" the stock on the first floor. The loss is estimated at over half a million A Farmer's Disagreeable Ride; Grand Island, Neb. A farmer living est of Grand Island had a narrow escape. Whi'e going home his horses became un manageable arid threw him and son out. The boy fell at the side of the road. The man's leg was caught in one of the hind whe.H of the wagon. He held on to the spokes with his hands and with head downward slid the wheel for over a mile, when the horses were stopped by run ning through a barb wire fence. Floyd Sprague, a neighbor, saw the accident, ami when the team stopped helped the plucky farmer out. He is reported as getting a!"ng nicely. Death of an African Bishop. Washington, D. C -Bishop Brosn of the Africau Methodist Episcopal Church, died here at noon, aged 15. I'e had been ill for sjirii time and his deith was n.t unexpected' bishop Brown was eminent iu he Church and wai greatly resp cted and esteemed. Green B. Steps Down and Out. Washington. D, C. The Secrrtry of the In'erior accepted the resignation of Green B. Raum ai commissioner of Pensions and his designated Deputy Commissioner Andrew Davidson to take charge of that office until the appoint ment by the President of Raum's successor. FAMILY UUIjXED AL1YK. A Dreadl'ul Fire at Rutherl'ordtoii, North Carolim. A Wife and Two Children Pi'iiah in the Flames. RUTUEHKOKTO.v, N. t Tint limi: nt Thoni s Dixon was Iminol t Ihr muiid Welne day niht. Mr. Divif wito and two children weie Inline 1 t ilcitli. '1 he story is one of urpusMii smlm-v, and i s detaiu are t iillii:ici t o wiing t!m hearts of all with pity. Mr. Dixon i- a hardware meich nr h -re and a!.-' travel ing salesman for the hardware h usu of Cottie 1, Watkiu i ct Co, of ltii hmoiid, Va. lie located in Huthci fonllon years ago and built a very huii'lsomi: home. There his wifij and three (liil'ln-n lived while he whs away u busiue s. Tho house was loc ted on a hill on tlr; out skirts of the town and wai one of the prettiest residences of that mountain sec tion. The fire occurred at 8 oVlm-l; . Mis. Dixon was preparing the children 1 i hed, ami was silting ly a table with the baby in her uinis. ihe I 'lib y was playing with some article on the table and at ' i i . t dly kuocked over u kcr seno lamp. Tin; lamp exploded, thiowing blii.ing oil ail Hbout the room. In an instnut tin- ( lot h ing of Mrs. Dixou, m well as lhat of her children, was ablaze, i-le pii ked ii two of the little oues ami thro, ia,' them upon the bed, endeavored t smother the hie by wispping tho b d Ho'.hing around them All this time, the devuted mother wis beinir burned by the Maine. lii,t en veloped her own clothing Her oldest child, aged six yearn, da.-lie 1 a pitcher of wat r up 'ii her mother m n J tied Ir i:i !h; house. Just at that time a in man appeared and dragged Mif. Dixon from the house, theinteiior of which was a solid blaze. The hoimc, wi h the li'.th: ones in the bed, was burned to the g ound. Mr. Dixon was absent in Shelby mi business an-l kicw nothing of the dread ful fate of his household until la o in the night. Then he hastened to Rutherford ton and reached there at 1 o'clock in the morning, in time to see his wife give her expiiing gasp. Ihe Hg'3 of the child en burned were 2 and 4 jears respectively. Thu three bodies were takcu to Clmilotte, N. (;., and intened in Elmwood cemetery in two graves, one for the mother and the other for her children. COTTON MILL OWNERS PROTEST Against the Reduction of Hours ot Labor.--The bouth Gaining on the North. A Boston dispatch Tuesday .says: At a hearing bef"re the labor Cinmitter of the Legislature iepresentativc: of the cotton mills at Chicopee, Fall ltivcr, Lowell and Taunton remonstrated against the reduction of the hours of lab or in manufacturing companies to 5 1 per week, claiming they cannot stand th compel i -tion of mills in other States and England. The treasurer of the Massachusetts mills, at Lowell, and the Whittenton mills, at Taunton, said he was absolutely di iven from the .State, and that ho is going South to build a mill in order to hold his export trade, tlis goods, ho i-aid, can be made much cheaper in tho South on the indical machine. The South is gaini g rupidly on the North, though he d d in t believe the foulh would destroy Northern business. GENERAL NEWS. The Pith and Point of Daily Occur rences. The Solvation Army will b.dld a mag nificent barracks on a lot in New Yoik costing $2'.0,1'00. SiV(.n colored c -n verts were baptized io a creek in Atchison, Kan., a week ago through a ho'e cut in several inches of ice. Fx-Secretary of the Navy Tracey made his first appearance as a practicing law yer befo e the Supreme Court on Tues day. The Princess Kaiaulani made a visit to the White House, and was charmed with the ' first lidy of the land," saving after wards that Mrs. Cleveland was the first woman the had tver fallen in love with. Denver, Colorado, proposes to irrigate 300,000 acres in its ssetion of the State, and, to comn.e .ce with, will dig a canal costing $1,000,000. Grovsr Cleveland Bridgers. Mr. Cleveland has only one name-ake old enough to hold office, and that young man is Grover Cleveland Biidgcrs, of Halifax County, North Carolina, 21 years of ge. Some twenty-four years ago the young man's uncle, Col. Martin, went to Bnfftlo to receive treatment at a hospital md met Grover Cleveland, an obscure young Itwyer. C d. Martin thought Cleveland was the "smartest'' man he had ever seen, and wmt back and had his sistei's child named for him, saying at the time that "Grover Cleveland will be President of the United States someday " Grover Cleveland Bridget, it is under stood, will ask for a fourth class po-tof-fice in his rounty, urging his claims that he wrs the fir?t child to b'- named fr Grover Cleveland. A Negro MOD Avenges a Crime. Memphis, Tenn. Rufus Haywood, a tolored planter, was assassinated by Lee Walton, a notorious negro desperado, Sunday night, at Villayuma, Mis. After robbing his victim, Walton fled, but was run down by bloodhounds and captured Monday morning. He was taken to Villayuma, where he was being guarded by the sheriff until the arrival of the train for Rollin Fork, the county s"fit. Just before the train arrived, a mob of 500 negroes overpowered the sheriff and took the murderer tt the s?enc of his crime, where he was hanged to a liuib and his body filled with burets. j The Han "Who Dot isn't Drink Mr- Cleveland Looking for Him. A prominent New York Democ a". is reported as follows in the liar ford Courant: "Thoe who constantly ec him, and who have been consulted fre quently as to the forthcoming change? in all the depaitm nls of the pubn - ser vice, sy that the firs'" question wnun Mr. Cleveland i ow asked s to any person proposed to him for public i-h-cs is -C'es he diink? n
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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