A DEMO0RATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS.
VOL. VII. NO. 43
MAXTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1893.
SI.GO A YEAR.
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The London Times calls Captain A.
T. Mahan, of the United States Navy,
"the most distinguished living writer
on naval strategy and the originator
and first exponent of what may be
called the philossphy of naval his
tory." In 1892 the total number of pemmt
employed in and about all the mines oi
the United Kingdom was 721,808, oi
whom 6099 were females, working
above ground. There were 862 acci
dents during the year, occasioning 1034
deaths ; one death for every 679 per
sons employed, as against one for every
668 in the preceding year.
A Mr. Snashall, of Washington,
D. C, has recovered from the M4ro
politan Street Railway Company of
that city $443 as a recompense fct the
loss of the services of his wife, through
an injury that she received in 1888 on
the cars of that company. He is said
to be a wealthy gentleman from Wis
consin, and his wife did the family
washing. Of course her services were
very valuable.
The .Bankers' Monthly avers thai
our banks on the frontiers of Canada,
have, at times, it is said, paid out, or,
technically, put in circulation the bills
of Canada banks that float over for
border purchases and expenses of
travel, etc. On these they are liable
to pay ten per cent, tax to the Federal
Government. The only way our banks
can get rid of them and avoid the tax
is to ship them to Canada, and have re
mittance made to New York for ae
count of the American bank.
The complete statistics show that the
production of beet sugar in the United
States has more than doubled during
the past year, although there has been
no increase in the number of factories.
The total production of the six factories
was 27,083,322 pounds, against a total
of 12,004,838 pounds last year. Ex
periments in growing sugar beets have
been tried in a number of the Western
States, and the success has been so
great that the number of factories will
be increased.
Says the New Yolk Press : The ob
stacle to the general substitution of
aluminum for iron and steel in the arts
has been the high cost of extracting ii
frcn the native clay. This has been
partially overcome by progressive im
provements in the proceed of manufac
ture, but still aluminum remains too
costly to be thought of as a substitute
for the baser metals, no, withstanding
its advantages in other respects. The
reported discovery of extraordinarily
rich deposits of aluminum clay in Ala
bama and Georgia indicates a long step
forward for the white metal. Six coun
ties in these two States are said to be
underlaid with bauxite ore, some of
which has yielded as high as forty-eight
per cent, of pure aluminum. If the
reports from these counties are reliable
the aluminum age is approaching.
An examination of the statistics of
horses, horned cattle, sheep and swine
of the country shows some surprising
things to the American Dairyman.
Placing our population at 65,000,000
we find that there is but one horse for
every four and a small fraction of our
per capita. That there are but a trifle
over three-fourths of horned cattle for
every unit of population, while there
are about two-thirds of a sheep for
every person of the population. From
this we can gather the importance of
the labor of the farmer. Without hit
crops we should soon be on the verge,
of starvation. With this condition con
fronting us, civilization would soon
disappear and man become a barbarian
if he did not descend still lower in the
scale of life. This should teach us thfl
importance and dignity of the farmer!
calling and our absolute dependence on
his labor.
Jie Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette
very sensibly says : "A distinguished
medical gentleman has remarked that
there is a great deal more to be feared
from a cholera scare than from the
ctual cholera. The course of the dis
ease in a country like ours is not nearly
so dreadful as it might appear. Medical
ceience has advanced immensely since
the cholera was last epidemic in the
United States. Sanitary regulation
have progressed very decidedly, eo that
doctors know better how to treat, and
health officers are better advised as to
the means necessary to remove the
superinducing causes of the trouble. It
is undoubtedly true, as stated by our
medical informer, that more is to be
feared from fright than from the dis
ease itself. It is probably a fact that
multitudes of people to-day are waiting
to see whether the cholera will actually
appear in epidemic form in the United
States, and, perhaps, deferring busi
ness arrangements in the meanwhile.
There is more to be feared from this
Btate of feeling than anything else.
eapeeiaUy MJtsaa&s Taiuz&m."
A STATE'S RESOURCES.
Wonderful Mineral Deposits in South
Carolina.
And What is Being Done to Develop
This Great Natural Wealth.
A correspondent at Greenville, S. C. ,
presents an admirable summary of the
mineral resources of South Carolina. We
reproduce it herewith :
While this State leads all the other
Southern States in the number of spindles
now operating, and has, besides, more
cotton factories in course of erection than
any of the others, she is also ahead of all
other Southern States in her mineral re
sources, except, perhaps, Alabama and
Tennesee.
1st. The South Carolina phosphates
have been mined and manufactured ever
since 1867. Up to 1890 there has been
mined of land and river rock, as by last
census report, 5,177,741 long tons.
Upon the river" rock the State gets a
royalty of f 1. per ton, and up to 1890
received $2,198,329. In the same time
741,048 tons have been converted into
over 3.000,000 tons of superphosphates
or into ammoniste fertilizers, the remain
der having been shipped to foreign and
domestic ports. The total value of rock
mined to date of report is $33,000,000,
while the deposits remaining yet to mine
has. been estimated by experts at from
9,000,000 to over 5,000,000,000 tons.
2d. Kaolin has been extensively mined
for over twenty years past, and shipped
to both domestic and foreign ports. No
data is at hand to give an estimate of the
volume of this trade. The kaolin belt
oa the upper tertiary formation extends
entirely across the 8tate from the Savan
nah river at Augusta, Ga. , to Cheraw on
the Pecdee. Richland county alone has
a world's supply for years to come.
Valuable ochres also are to be found with
these deposits ef kaolin. One company
now in upper Richland manufactures
fire brick. Kaolin may al? o be utilized
for the production of aluminum.
8. The marl beds of the tertiary forma
tion have been utilized. ' They are ot
great extent (400 to 600 feet thick), and
will likely in process of time be utilized
for agricultural purposes.
4. The limestone of the Piedmont
region (dolomite), long past used for
building purposes, Six perpetual
kilns are now in operation at Gaffney
City, outputtiog 300 to 40 barrels lime
daily, with constantly increasing demand.
5. Barytes deposits of the finest quality
are worked near Blacksburg. The pro
ducts of these mines were formerly ship
ped East, but lately to Detroit, Mich.
Steps are now being taken to manufac
ture it on the spot.
6th. Granite from unlimited quarries
at Rockton, in Fairfield county, from
which shipments have been make as far
as the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The
granite of South Carolina is of the best
quality and boundless in extent. Enough
of it could be spared to Luild a Chinese
wall around the little State of New
Hampshire.
7th. Gold and silver have been mined
since the year 1800. The United States
census reports show an annual average
production of gold of $50,000; outputs
of silver small. The Morgan mine, near
Gaffney City (argentifereus galena), was
formerly worked for both silver and lead
Attenuated streaks of these ores are found
inside corporate limits of the town of
Blacksburg.
8th. Copper . Both the Mary and the
Bratton mine of York are well defiued
leads of copper pre, and copper ore
doubtless underlies the iron ores of Nan
nies mountain, in York county, This
formation is identical with theDucktown
(Tenn.) formation.
9th. Corundum is now being mined in
York county, where it exists in quan
tities. Crystalline corundum is found in
the vicinity of Laurens C. II , and it here
exists in massive form, the matrix being
the country rock (gneiss).
10th. Feldspar exist? in paving quanti
ties, espacially in Greenville county:
11th. Asbestos is found in Pickens,
Oconee and other counties. On Reid's
mountain, near the White Water river,
the writer examined a lead of this several
feet in thicknes?, but twenty miles from
the nearest railroad.
12th. Mica has been mined extensively
in upper part of the State.
18th. The itaecluniitic formation of
the Piedmont belt may yet supply dia
monds and other precious stones. Along
side of this formation garnets are every
where found.
4th. Millstones are produced from
fhe peculiar granite of Edgt field of the
frest kind, and the tertiary formation
jgords a good supply of burr stone.
15th. Coal does not exist. On the
jfarancab, near Blufftcn, and on the
RTateree. near Acton, scant specimens of
an inferior lignite are met with, but
apparently worthless for any practical
purposes.
16th. Iron ore superior to the best
Scandis and remarkably free from all im
purities has been extensively worked on
the Banks of the Broad river between
Gaffney City and Blacksburg. Over
1,000,000 tons were mined and utilized
here in the past, and from recent ex
plorations these min's show over 20,000,
000 tor in sigh. The iron from these
minea ii peculiar adapted t the making
TEE GBEAT AXXIS ZXdXRE
World's Columbian
of the finest crucible and other steels.
An iron, or rather a 6teel industry, will
soon spring up at thi3 point, and as
Alabama now leads at the South in the
production of iron, so will South Caro
lina then lead in the production of fine
steel and 6teel bases. The best quality of
coke Pocahontas can now be delivered
at these mines at resonable rates. Coke,
ore arid limestone can here be assembled
to make a ton of pig at less cost than can
the si mc be done at any point east of the
Allegheny mountains.
17th Small seams of pyrite have been
opened, and more may yet be found,
which would prove of great value in the
making of sulphuric acid, the acid cham
bers of this State now making from Silic
iin sulphur more acid than is made iD
any other S.uthern State.
18th. Oil may be found by deep boring
on the itacolumitic belt adjoining the
dolomitic limestone, but likely in pock
ets and not in paying quantities. .
19th. Oil stones of best quality are i
King's creek, York county.
20th. Manganese, wh'ch is shipped
from Edgefield and h?s been extensively
exploited near Blacksburg.
COLONEL GEORGE . DAVIS. ;
Director-General of the World's Columbian
Exposition.
THE COLOR LINE AT HARVARD.
A Barber Draws It When Student
Lewis Asks for a Hair Cut.
An Associated Press special from Cam
bridge Mass., says: W.H.Lewis,Rarvards
sturdy centre in last year's fooball eleven,
is a negro, but that fact has not de
tracted in the least from his popularity
in the college. He is a man of fine ad
dress, and is a gentleman. He had an
experience in Mark's barber shop, under
the shadow of the Hasty Pudding Club
building, which has made him, for the
time being, the foremost man in the
college. He entered the barber shop be
tween 6 and . 7 o'clock and waited his
turn to be served. The barber to whose
chair he went declined to do anything
for him. He waited and got into the next
chair. Here he met with another re
fusal. So it went until the shop was
depopulated and every employee hid de
clined to shave him.
The matter did not end with this.
Determined to make a thorough test of
the matte", Mr. Lewis, in company with
Messrs. Walters, Union, and others of
his friends, again called at the shop and
asked for attention. The proprietor re
fused, and gave as an excuse that he at -Bended
to special customers only. The
stery was at once noised about the
college and the action of the
barber was severely criticised . Discrimi
nation on account of color is regarded as
a disgrace at Harvard. The Crimson will
take up Mr. Lewis's case and
make matters very interesting for Mr.
Marks. Mr. Lewis has called on Lawyer
Butler Wilsen to push tin case in the
courts, and suit will be begun at once.
Damages will be fixed at $5,000.
The Legislature will also be called upen
to take action. Either Representative
Meyer or Harris will introduce a bill to
allow persona of color the same rights
in barber shops as they now have in
places of public entertainment. Mr.
Wilson and Mr. Lewis called on Gov.
Rusiell and acquainted him
with the facts in the case. The Governor
expressed himself heartily in sympathy
with the proposed legislation. The case
is likely to make Mr. Lewis more popular
than eyer under the Cambridge elma.
IK MACH1KEBV HAIA.
Exposition.
MUSSULMANS FOR THE SOUTH.
Ex-Consul A. U. Webb's Latest Sen
sation.
New York City. It transpires that
Alexander Russell Webb, the United
States consul, who four years ago em
braced the religion of Mohammed and
who represents the Mohammedans in the
Unitrd States, h;s returned to this
country for other reasons than those he
has already stated. Webb states that a
large number of Mohammedans are plan
cing to emigrate from India to the United
States, and that they will probably form
colonies in several of the Southern States
For some weeks pat Webb has been ia
communication with large property hold
ers South, notably in Georgia and Florida.
He declares that he is acting under
authority jof many of the most prominent
and wealthy Mohammedans in India in
obtaining prices on large tracts of South
em land. He has secured figures on large
strips of land, and has already reported
these prices to a syndicate of Moham
medaas who are from religious and
financial motives interested in the move
ment. "I am in negotiation." he added,
iJwith responsible men for the purchase
of large tracts of land at Jacksonville,
Pensacola and Augusta, and in Aalbama
The sellers understand the purpose to
which the laud will be put and say that
neighbors will probably offer no object
ions whatever. I have so reported to the
svndicate for which I am acting. The
rich men in the movement have already
pledged themselves to assist financially
in the purchase of the land. That is to
say, they will advance money oa long
time notes. Americans will not find the
Mohammedans to be beggars or charity-
seekers, but on the contrary valuable
workmen in many industries. Our plans
have gone sot far as the preparation of
plans for the laying out of the towns and
farui3. I have secured for such purposes
an option of twenty-five thousand acres
in Georgia and on seven or eight other
tracts equally as large.
THE STATE DISPENSARY.
What Governor Tillman is
Accom
plishing.
Columbia, S. C. Tha State dispen
sary received bills of lading for four car
loads of liquor from the Mill Creek Dis
tilling company. lh:s is the company
that has received an order for 1,050 bar
rels of whiskey. It wi 1 be interesting
to know that five carloads of bottled beer
Lsve already been ordered. The lucky
brewers are: Palmetto Brewing Com
pany, of Charleston ; Augusta Brewing
Company, of Augusta ; Anheuser Bush,
Morlein and Crescent, of Aurora, 111.
Each of the orders was for one carload
They will soon be received here and will
then be put up in barrels for distribution
throughout the State
Commis.-ioner Trax'.r. who has been
sick at his home for some time, i3 ex
pected here in a day or tvo. During
his absence Governor Tillman has attend
ed to the entire work of the dispensary
in addition to doing h!s work at the
State House. It has given him a. great
fcal of ex'ra labor, but the Governor
seems to delight in attending to the de
tails of getting the dispensary in opera
tion, and he mast have things done his
way or not at all.
Some idea of the magnitude of the dis
pensary work, as conceived by the au
th'-ritiis, may be had when it is stated
that a crlrad of corks was received
Prices for scaling wax by the thousand
pounds and in carload lots have been
asked for. All orders for flasks that
hive been received up to this time have
corns from Augusta, although an order
has been given to a firm in New York
State.
The Waldenses Arrive.
Salisbury, N. C. Twenty six im
migrants, part of the colony of Wal
Senses from Southern Italy, to settle in
Burke county, arrived here oa a special
Grain behind the regular and passed oa
to Connelly Springs oh the Western
North Carolina road. The special con
listed of one passenger coach and t
oaggage car. Only one Walde nsan cculd
ipeak English.
WHERE THE CHICKEN COT THE AX.
Menagerie Assistant The big ostrich
attempted to swallow a turnip to-day and
choked itself.
ManagerH'ja! Qot it in the neck.
THE BURIAL OF DAVIS.
His Reinterment Takes Place in the
City of Richmond.
The People Turn Out En Masse Along
tne whole Route to Honor Him.
The train bearing the body of Jefferson
Davis, Ex President of the Confederate
States, left New Orleansjn solemn gran
deur and state, attended by escorts from
Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Ala
bama. There were demonstrations all
along the route, via Mobile, Atlanta, Char
lotte and Raleigh.
At the latter place, Tuesday evening
the catafalque lay in state in the State
capitol while the people did homage to
the great chieftain. The state colors were
at half mass on the capitol. The building
was draped in mourning and decorated
with flowers.
Raleigh had provided a handsome
special funeral car. drawn by 6ix black
horses. At the south gate of the capitol
squre stood Governor Carr and Rev. Dr.
M. M. Marshall, the chaplain, with the
Governor's staff in line. These received
the body, which, passing around, entered
at the north gate.
The entery into the building was
through the west doorway. Io the portl
co above were seventy-five ladies and
gentlemen, forming the choir, W. S.
Primrose beine musical director. The
choir sang Pleyel's hymn :
How sleep the brave who sick to rest
By all their country s wishes blessed !
When spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mold,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
Bv forms unseen their dirge is sung.
Toeir honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there.
After prayers and dirges the exercises
ended and there was a steady stream of
people. This was so dense that several
ladies fainted. Old soldiers by scores,
nay by hundreds, passed through. Ladies
and children were in the throng. The
people were kept moving by the double
guard of veterans and military. The
vetetans who marched past the body were
from a dozen States.
While the casket was being replaced
Miss Winnie Davis and Mrs. Hayes, under
escort of Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond
came out on the platform of her private
car and there held an inform il reception
A thousand persons, veterans, ladies and
children, shook hands with these charm
ing ladies, who received them in a grace
MISS WINNIE DAVIS,
The Daughter of the Confederate States
At 3:05 Wednesday morning the funer
al train arrived at Richmond, where it
was gree'ed by thousands of people.The
casket was borne to the door of the Sen
ate chamber in the rotunda of the build
ing and placed in position under the
guard of the Lee camp of Veterans.
Among the throngs who crowded to
see the last of Mr. Davis1 remains, the
most beautiful and notable incident was
about 5.000 public school children pass
ed by the bier.each one dropping flowers
as a tribute of affection until the huge
mats had assumed proportions equal to
several wagon loads.
ON THE WAY TO HOLLYWOOD.
At 3 :30 p. m. the body was removed
to the caisson drawn by six white horses
companioned in black and the line of
march was taken up for Hollywood.
Houses along the line were, almost with
out exception, decorated in black and
white. National, State and Confederate
flag3, the latter predominating, were
either floating to the breeze or worked
in the funeral colors. The streets along
the route, yards and windows of dwel
lings were packed with people. Nothing
of a tumultous or noisy character marked
the day or progress of the cortege, and
yet the scene was a most imposing one;
the whole city seemed to be in mourning.
Flowers were strewn along the route in
front of the catafalque and the sight was
indeed a beautiful one. Women and little
children performed a large part of thi3
feauture of the parade. The bells of the
city tolled while the procession was in
) progress. A number of old Confederate
flags were borne in the procession while
a number of carriages were filled with
flowers.
Arriving at the grave, the military
formed in th3 avenue to the right, over
looking the bluff. The veterans assem
bled in ijie avenue tp tfce left. The La
dies' Auxiliary Camps occupied the sec
tion east of the grave. The family of the
deceased, pall-bearers, escort of honor,
officers and officiating clergymen took
their places around the grave . Other or
ganizations in the procession remained
n their respective positions until the
services were over.
As sion as everything was in readi
ness the Monewall Band of Staunton
played a funeral dirge composed by
Prof. Jacob Rioehart. Rev. Wm. Mun
ford then read a selection from Scrip
ture. Bishop Thompson, of Mississippi.
was to have taken part in the services,
but was unableto come . Rev. Dr. W.
W. Landrum then read the hymn '-How
Firm a Foundation," which was sung by
the assemblage. At the close of the
hjmn, Dr. Moses D. Hodge stepped for
ward and said: "Let us pray," , and
every bead in the vast assemblage
was bowed.
DR . HOSE'S BEAUTIFUL PRAYER.
"O God most high, most holly, most
merciful, with lowly reverence of spirit
and with hearts subdued by the hailowtd
memories of the past and the tender of
flees of the hour, we invoke Tby gracious
presence and benediction.
"Beneath these quiet skies which bend
over us like the hollow of thy sheltering
hand, in Thy good providence we gather
in this consecrated place. Arouod us
rest all that is mortal of patriot sages and
soldiers whose virtue and valor gave lus
tre to our historic annals, and who at the
call of duty, having consecrated their
lives to the toils allotted them, died,
committing their souls to God and thei
memories to us who survive them. By
Thy help, Lord G jd of truth and justice,
we will be faithful to our trust. We will
perpetuate the story of all who, by dis
interested service and heoric sacrifice
struggled to maintain the empire of
ptinciple ia the world, and who with
honor 6tainless and conscience inviolated
fulfilled their task.
"Now numbered ameng the immortal
dead thev still live enshrined in the
rouIs of those who love them all the
more for what they suffered and who
cherisei their memories with undoing de
votion. "Accept our thinks, gracious father,
that we have accomplished the sacred
undertaking of giving to our honored
chief an appropriate resting place among
those who shared wiih him the joys of
victory and the sadness of defeat and
who followed the banner, now forever
furled, with a fortitude which no reverse
could shake and which no disaster could
extinguish.
"Here, on this imperial hill, we have
laid him down bec-ide the river whose
waters sing their perpetual requiem and
amid the flowers which speak of the
resurrection of the just and of the land
where death never withois the affections
which bloom in beauty and fragrance
evermore.
"We look up from the open grave to the
open heaven where Thou dost live and
reign and where all who have died in the
true faith do live and reign with Thee in
glory everlasting.
"In this, the hour of their freshly
awakened sorrow, Father, most tender
and loving, in the plentitude of Thy com
passion, remember and comfort Thine
hand-maiden and all dear to her. Thou
husband to the widow and father to the
fatherless, be Tbou their strength, their
song and their salvation.
"Lord God of Hosts! We beseech Thee
to sustain and cheer the veteran survi
vors of the war, who with ever diminish
ing numbers and with ever increasing
burdens of age and infirmity, await their
final discbarge end final recompense.
"Almighty God, author of peace and
lover of concord, now that the sorrows
and desolations of war have been for so
many years exchanged for the blessings
of peace, may all animosities be buried
in the grave, and may all the inhabitants
of this great land, from North to South
and from East to West, learn more and
more to cherish the relations which unite
them as children of one father and as
citizens of one country.
"May mufual r.-gard for others' inter
ests, happiness and rights become the no
ble law of national life. May freedom
founded on justice and guarded by con
stitutional law, with leligion pure and
undefiled, secure to our whole people a
perpetual heritage of unity, prosperity
and peace, and to God most high, will
we give all honor and glory, evermore,
Amen."
Rev O. S. Barten, of Norfolk, pro
nounced the benediction. Immediately
the casket was lowered into the grsve.
After the bugle signal came taps and the
infantry fired a salute which announced
that the services were over.
The column then moved to Gettysburg
Hill, where the annual memorial services
of the Ladies' Hollywood Association
took place, which consisted of the decor
ation of the graves of 16,000 Confederate
soldieis, after which prayer was offered
and a hymn s'ung.
Philadelphia has a gas plant of its
ewn, and last year netted a revenue oi
ever $1,000,000 in addition to the free
use of Tfhat was needed for public pur
f csea,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest Happenings Condensed
and Printed Here.
South Carolina is th largest producer
of phcphatrs in the worid, lending with
her 600,000 tons; France nn Belgium
next, each 450,000 tons; Florida next,
200,000 tons; Russia, 75,000 tons; Spain
and Germany, 50,000 each ; Dutch Wft
Indies, 20,000; English Wct Indies,
10,000; North Carolina, 7,500; Algoiia.
2,500.
The Mexican Government has begun tr
adopt the policy of taxing income?, hiv
ing levied a tax oa the salaries of all
Government employees and clerks and
employees of corporations and privnto
firms. I is rumored that later in the
year the income tax will be extend' d so
as to take in all persons receiving income
above an amount that will exempt me
chanics and agricultural laborers. In this
way the just complaint that lich people
escape the burden of taxation will be met.
A couppicious figure in the ceremonies
attendant upon the removal of the body
of tfferson Davis to Richmond last
week was Gen. Georgo Wallace Jones,
tho oldest living Ex-United States
Senator. He was a clnf smatc of Davis at
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.,
from 1821 to 182 4, and his comrade in the
Black Hawk war. In 1859 Senator Jonra
was Urgily influential in securing the
appointment of Davis as Secretiny of
War by President Pierce. IT'S also was
the author of the bill separating Wiscon
sin from Michigan Territory, and of that
admitting the State of Iowa to the Union.
He was famous fifty years oj.;o for the
part he had taken as priucipal or 6econi
in "affairs of honor," and was esteemed
the handsomest and politest man in the
National Capitol. Gen. Jones is now in
his 89th year. , . ,
The immigration agent of the NorMk
fc Western Railroad hns purchased a
small farm at Cozeny Pprins, near
Roanoke, V., and proposes establishing
on it EomFermin or Swiss truck frrm-
eis who are expected to arrive before
ong. If the effort Is successful oiher
farms will be pui chased at desirable
localiti's aloDg the line of the railroad.
COL. BEASLEY'S INVENTIONS.
Th Government Has Adopted IIi
Rp gisteriog Locke and Keys.
North Ciiiolina is proud that she pro
duced th? gi eat inventor Catling. She
also produced another inventor who ha4
achieved succc U Col. William F. Ecus
ley, of Oxford. Noith ('arolirja, now re
si ling in the ity of Baltimore, is the in
vcntoi of tha locks that are used to daj
by the government of the United Btates,
where the greatest eecnity is required.
Not o dy has Colonel Beadey origin
ated a devicj which is a good lock, but
he has piovided a greater safeguard than
the st ong' st of b Its the ceitainty of
d tcction Many c ever thieves can pick
a loc', however infiic.te the mechanism,
but few will do so with the ceitainty of
detection and punishment 6tiring them
in tbe face It is an old saw that "figures
never lie," and it would !3 figures that
would confort th? culprit, for all of Col.
Bers'ey's locks are provided with a regis
ter, the state of which changes every
time the lock i', ep?.-ed. With such a
device the o,vn r i 1 note the stte of
the register when he leave the lock, and
if on his return he finds that the register
is changed, it will be obvious that the
lock has b en tnmpcied with during hii
absence ad it only remains to fix the
guilt on thoe who had acccis to it, right
fuMy r otherwise.
The United States Express Company
and the Treasury Department hava
adopted the Beaeley improved lock and
bag, and safe deposit companies are gen
erally adopting his registering safe de
posit lock.
A mussTabout the bazaar.
Virginia Militia Officers Feel that
their Dignity nas been iiouauy
Wounded.
Ricdmokd, Va. The use of tho ar
mory to hold the big Memorial Bazaar
for the benefit of the Confederate museum
and private soldiers' monument will re
sult in the resignation of all of the fi Id
officers of th? 1st Virginia regiment.
The armory, although the proper y cf
the city, was erected for the accommo
dation of lb? 1st regiment. The officers
h(?rti!y supported the entertainment aud
sppr.v d its object, but nscr.tid the
idea of using their qu-it rs without their
content.
Civil Service Law at Asheville.
AtnKViLLtt, N. C Chief of I'oMre
McDowell has resigned to take effect as
eoon as the aldermen see fit to elect his
successor. The new administration has
intimated that it would b glad to re
ceive the res'ghationi of all (he members
of the police force, but it will s tcrcely
get what it want', as the la t I.egisU ure
passed a law allowing the Asheviile po
lice to bold office as lo g a? they give no
cause by their conduct for removal.
Walking on a Trestle.
Richmokd, Va. A special says ti nt
J-mes Brown and Miss Mpry Smo t,
while crossing a trestle on tho Clinch
VaVey extension of the Norfolk and
Weste-n Railway, were overtaken arid
instantly killed by a freight trajo.