North Carolina Newspapers

i i VOL. I. ' -A"- " '"' '- '''' r.;.:Q- " OB A S T) r . - - P! U i.A W Ff)R n - -SALISBURY.- N. tV-.. .;IraC-i all the Courts. Ccllecr --s -emruited to me -will recei ve ThIi0- KLUTT2. ATTORXEY-AT-LAW, .vALIBURY,N.a '! . CO'i,. - l AT LA W. -AUSBL'RY. X.O. 1 .Uik-cnw.s a,l IVobato- lSiiin. ' a PnacfilH- c'jI I ! 4rnf.rrrnsK"'Prl.riisriiff'. ' 7- xH, i. 'T 10 ino , nrm attention " win in r-jceive nromta -.. .. r:-i rilYSICIAX k 8LmiE0N, 8A MSlinrtV (ffcrs-hrs professional f-cryiccs to . .thi citizens of'Salibtrury twd vidnitr. ' Lr(i ,, .. ,. ' J I ! ef-Offieo over WollsIru store, UT. VERNON HOlfcL. SAT.ISIY.Q.-' , Located near the depot, m Saiirt. bury. V'ell fuSmhed throughout, ias and water i.n every room.' Large sa-np!- rooms. .Convenient to tho business inion at'Uie citVi Table sapprrcl nit h nde bebt o! eVery t king. Polito ..ivy a5tcriiirfi.'ieifaht8.i Ivery care . Uk-n; ji n-lhe, 'cmforl or our'pieftts' KespccfluU'r, ' . IVA . REKGRSrWriori WIllffV TE EYE, ' " 'rrfiITiRQA' -NEW BARptfR, :s (5 opened -,ou t- i n -jif$&tfah ifiyle sere ryot xu gel ,jaited ort-ln tbe aiey. 6tv;.es Linir 4Forn b ' J j ! -i vraixlinr- ' 3.-- 3. . .- v: t T -J fL i . :s " t ruTi nic d or s childreps "bair juiij,, vijtrbg. w:itd npou -al-ShcyC' no j t KrofaVlji eTf Jlesi d eij cW-l f ,vcquii cd . ! pride myselef 5ti iriy Hair Is ! tin,; as I batvobacl a -'ioug. experience in the business. 'Gentlemen wjlijind lioibmg but nrsl-tiass workman at jny Rbop. Sharp raizors aidlclean .to-wels. I -intend to run 'a : white ;ids sk 'r!in everv pariiciiTar. : I .Jvil-rafctMlvi--McTRXNT Jtf:t . J"! . - ;r -, s a li sm, n y; n c, : , ; OtTiTK bis profofioiial "eeTvlces to ; tho citizens of.tbis atrd uvrounding i oonihiumlios. All xalls 7pipmply attended, ""day or night. - '; May be t'ound-at mv office, or the Drug store of Dr. J. II. EnriiKSj'-: Itespcetfully, . t, V. B,'Coi;Ncru,M..I. EOfSce in the Ilcili. 3uildiji, '2nd floor, front1 -room. V ' Ttis (ompoiiml of -herbs that have donjr been held in hrgliest esteiinby fcho' "most enVi-fbteneil phyrciaiis. . Lth wof the past and present -.rjjaturip.s The manner in which- this ;eotrHtid is made ?eenis to. have, imparted to each inpredientf a peculiar eflica'v "aa an Alterntivo, I3Iol-pUri-fier and Tonio. The -. diseases .in wbicU it bus bten nsed .with.' -happi-'.t an..' iriftst astmiisliitic: . resttltS, are: Scrcsfula, S3.-plxIli&, Bcse-m-isL. iMiv or t bronic),and Olvrcxi-t I'Z. SpLff-tr 21 ices For tbe"?-r obsti note anu larire(nis : diseases it 'ln'is fctaod at fbe head of lall femeuies. -Jn -deetl, i! :s conridenttydeclared to.he. a pCilc Curb for beni. - -; .MauufatiiVed by, MILLS Atti. : :'j .i; "v - ; kvtisBrfcvi N, C i - ." r. -'. i' ? Salisbury -Bottling J R PRANNOCK, PRO PR1ETOR, ? : t - Iauufaclurer of j- 4 ,'' e jATe Soda Water & SarsaparPa. ' ri Mvttlel Etc? ' di.Spcciiiltyi ' ' - JuiCmt-llOkJ''Ci'" bplue-Miid hrs cfe &i'afiJBu" - Vn.so Jeartii; ifcK f Oie bxt 'jua1i4Jnd oan sell! au- qoaStitis LMthhrrc?:a!e or retail. Oidei3 by mail recgi- promp' atfentftn;!i Address all or ders t ivJ-. R. Brsmitnc k. :r;ay v:..VT - SALiiBCRyN. C.' ' . 2 ' t . : . - -- . . . . . . rJI h e B uf ord', l li ARLOTTE, N. C: 1 he ino5t handsomely furnished and co rplte botelln the State. Heated by rteani throughout.' Electric light and bsl'fs, Biir and Bi'liard Rooms'. Barber tv, r-, -:id every convenience for com for t Sample Rooms on first floor WM. JOHNSTON, , - P.M. MILIJER, , - Proprietor.-. " y v . ; i.ird-v.Mi;, O Uo jMami'jof. M A 1 1 " - - - - ' i ------ - f - - -T 7. W HI .V T M -V "B r 4 l r Wtal Our Lawmakers Vre icipg at the : . " - National Capita, - '? 13EEbAf . the treaty belveen Greai BilUato and the United States seo-oi iat-d Ut, winter J)J: StcretaryyBayard and 3Iessrs Angell and Putnam-ion the oHe West oB the other side; foV thf ?ur- pose of sctfhn-: the troubles ihzt hA r.Dgiana coast, -was rejected Ly th- months. .;The Vote vaS a' strict party one 27 against 20 the Di mograts vot' ing for ratification, while the Republicans vot -d solidly against ratification. Senator-. Vcorhees was out cf the chamber lvhe'p. i tne vote wap taken, or the figures would nave 5toca.-i2.ta isU WEDEbDAv IIorsE. Mr. Tewnaend, or lianois, presented tte conference .xe- P6rt' arm appropriation bill. " When the bill passed the House it carried $24,- fSS.OOO. The Senate increased it. to foi,-joi,uuj, acu la conierence tins sum had It.-n reduce J to $29,331,000. The. increase -was chiefly due to the Senate -rimendments: pimiding for a rrun factory at Water-town Arsenal, 'X. Y., and for the purchase of sti-el for heavy guns. Further consideration was postponed until to-morrow. ' The Xavy bill wa3 then taken up, and provides' for three uharmored and sone armored cruisers and three gun toils. The House at 5 p. m. adjourned. . Skvxtz. The bill granting a pension of $3,500 a year to the widow of General Sheridan was reported and pljcecl on the calender. t - , 'Mr. Chandler called up the.' resolution relating to fraud and violence in the late Loui8:anavelectloa,.' Pending the cpn clusion of Mr. Chandlers spetch, the Senate, at 5:15 p. m. adjoumel. , 01 AA1 3 ... Thceeday The feature in the Hops: to-day';was the reading of the President's' Message onthe, fisjjerh-s." . - .. . : "Th-jarfliy -1ippl3pfiiti6tfc L bill was thofotrtrtiiy- -ducasiedV.'and then Mr. WiTgon of Jlirmesota; otTetd the follow ing bill,-which was, referred to the, corn, "mittee pnlrg.'arfiai1i-c?.ii. .-act ':tft mpbwer "the-Pi-tsldent .more , effectually to carry u6 the . purpose; of act Jto authorize'tho 'President - to pri3tect 'iahd defend the rigbt-6f ''Am;!i!oah'''fishijg'' vessels. iAmerfeaif CshermWik : American ; trading and other' vesslsnri'tertaitlftiUea j and : foj v&er;9rrrfp? i (ur Bujauiutii. - 'f ; 1 In the 8ek ate as soon as; the1 Presi nenfff Message, on the fisheries' question,'! was receive dolrv. Enmttnds moyecl an adjournment until to-morrow Taf. n.oon, FftiDAY The message from i he Presi dent on the subject of the -rejection of the fisheries treaty was laid : before the Senate, and was read in full, 'j - : 3Ir. Sherman moved that it be printed and referred to the committee cn foreign relations. ' - - , Sejatoi sEdtnyndpoke at length on tnc message ana wastcllowed by Senator Hoar, both criticising the President. Senatcjt'ilorgan spoke in defanse ,of tlie message. " , , ' j The conference fepctt on the bill for a custom house and appraisers warehouse in New York city. Was presented and adopted, the' Senate :!at-".!:40 adjourned until Monday. 5 . 1 : North, East and West. - It is stated that a $100,000 stock coin j panv has been formed to-build -a--lolling mill at Cartersville.'Ga. . - . The Monocgahela and Youghiogheny J rivers, m I ennsylyami. are rising fifteen inches an. hour, Jrj all towns along- the rivers hundreds of housta are Hooded, compelling. the families to vacate, and a number .o buildings ,hsvc been swept away. - ' , ' At Richmond. Ya.. the Jamrs River Valley Immigration Society has been or ganized, with Randolph Harrison as )resident, to encourage immigration, tnc pstablishmept of manufacturers, etc. The capital s.Ujck is to be not less than $5,000 nor more than $30,000. . . A' Bit el in Virginia ; ' , A report from Lee county, Virginia, says a duel 'to the' death took place be tween Morgnn Burke and Nathan Ed wards. A fucd had existed between them for several months. They met in the road and drawing their pistols simultaneously-commenced firing' oui each other. Several shots' were, exchanged) ena of which passed through Burker'n abdomen causing infant death. His op ponent received several wpunds . which) arc fatal. " - f ' " Mr. Blaine's California Trip. - i Mr. Blaine said that he wdnld start On a transcontinental; stumping tout one week after the Maine election. He will leave all arrangements in the hands' of, the-Natiorral committee, and will proliaj bly spak on the) -Pacific coast the last wek-ef -trHemprgn. X thrr speccli es, with. one. exception, wilf tehort, for! his strengUuwiil not permit him tp un-l dertakelthe task f a longsricslof two- : Negroes Mobbed. - . ;- Newa is received of the killing" of two negroes by. a 'mob at 'Sylvaren' jail in Smith county,' Mi-53., last Friday Jiighk; Four negroes' were under arrest, for kilt-' ing a white man named. LeeT' The n.cb broke into the jail but were unable to get into the cage where the accused ne groes were confined, so they thrust their guns through the bars and shot two , of them to death. "'''-. :- "' ' - 1 Fifty cents' worth of land in Lenois , oat.tv, V v.. has already occasioned i of cost in r? siit over a variation of WASHINGTON t - ytlwcp yanadians and iriztDT6TtTrofDs- a wwni-ea C5tates engaged in fishin- in artlcfes of iue waters otf the CnnA,n n,i .- I thr I"n IT teea iuche, iu an old bo indarv liuo. S: !! .jir-i , : " " - : ' ; -r-.,.;i , t . : 11 .i:rf 1 Whetcas, Diversified agriculture is the true theory for successful farming, ard t Whereas, , Divorsified . agriculture is aent r0D diversified manufacture lui ii j ueveiopment; Resolved, That it should be the policy of the bouthern farmers to ehcouratre maDuf.acturins enterprises, 1 11 K 1 f ! Whereat ' been I made and arc bH mJ,i w I" nd -individuals so lhar inanv gueral use by the people of itetl States Are - increased beyond tneir ISir market value, and thus alL cxm.I ffl55?at tflrntjinati-onsi and capittUstg" I and thus keepln'r larrre numbers of our Hfellow citirzeBg-in poverty? therefore itesoiveo, that we call on our-rep- Mesuptatives in Coogress assembled to use au tne power given them by their con Etituents, and the law to destrov thpir I existence and power to prevent the formation. or such trusts and. combina tions, Resolved. That we endorse the action fcf Senator Regan,; of Texs, for timely action in introducing a bill looking' to the breaking up" of all trusts and the punishment of those engaged in them. Resolved, ' That Congress is hereby memoralized-to immediately repeal, the tflkuponiute and jutcv bagging with a view to defeat the combination of capi talists known as tbe bagging trust. The report of the special committee cn bagging trusts was announced ready to report. The committee read its re port as follows : f Your -committee to whom was referred the bagging question and trust companies generally beg leave to endorse the action of ; the Mt. Holly Fair Association, and the action of the State Farmw1 Alliance. They recommend further that our repre seatatives in Congress ' use their best efforts to place jute at?4 jute bagging on the free list. ! The report of the committee was adopted. ' - ; - .. . , A Resolution recommending the repeal lof thepreeent system of- National bank ing laws oppression to the farmer was qdopred. ' : ' The f8llowing resolution recommend ing the fosterinc: of sheep c industry was adopted: i . ' ; -fResolved, That this ; convention feconwnend to the legislators of these Southern States that laws be enacted to protect and encourage the, sheep indus- : try in the following respect, to wit : to reimburse ownep cf sheep for those k'illcd.fry doge. ' - " .... ,.. .... n-r-. ivyjT " " Heavy Floods. I- Heavv rains have fallen all over MJs- j5is3ippi LonisiaDia, Tennessee and Arkan--teas ,-'dirrDg-: the past" three - days. All streams have overflowed and flooded val , uable fatmipg ,lajids.. , The, telegraph wires between Memphis and New Or leans have been prostrated, and only very meager news can be obtained. A local storm; of unusual severity swept over Coffeeville, Miss., doing con siderable dam ge, land very serious dam age was su&taiued by the cotton crops. Reports coming in shov that the rains have been general and disastrious in their nature. Last week a drouth was threatened in many-localities, but nop?' floods are feared and more serious ihjury will.lollQw, , . ... ;. The Western Union -Telegraph com pany reports all wires "down leading to New Orieans, which city is cut off from any .telegraphic communication : with Memphis. In the vicinity of Vicksburg and Yazoo valley the rainfall has been un precedented, and serious injury to cotton and corn has resulted. Durham Destroyed. Last Monday , night' fire broke out at Durham, N. C, in an unoccupied to bacco factory of E. II. Pogue. The local fire department had disbandoned Saturday night, ii consequence of a dis pute with the towin authorities. A high wind was blowing, and the fire spread rapidly. After destroying rogue's fac tory the fire next burned another old tobacco factory, j occupied by W. Y. Whited. It next swept away two to bacco houses owned by Robert Jones and William Osborne, in which were three hundred thousand pounds of leaf tobacco, owned by JoDes and Osborne. After burning several t small buildings, the fire destroyed Drl Johnston's livery stables and residence. In all twelve buildings were burned. It is the belief that the lire was of incendiary The loss is about $10,000. origin. Fugitlte Murderers. Governor Scales, of ; North Carolina, received a telegram from Wadcsborp. the county seat of Anson county, which informed "him of ' the escape of all the prisoners hi the j til there. They over powered jailer when hej went t give them supper, and took away his revolver. The hue and cry was raised and a num ber of citizens 'turned out in pursuit. The prisoner who had the revolver faced the pursuers'defiantly and dared them to advance. They did so, and he shot two of them, one mortally. All the fugitives then made their escape. The Governor will offer a, liberal reward for them, par ticularly for John Morton, the man who fired the shots. .; Attempted Jail Delivery. ..-. Saturdav two negroes were lodged in jail at Fayetteville, N. C , charged with ah assault on a young white lady ,Mon-j day night. The jailer discovered ' three squads of negroes around the jail armed with guns, pistols, dirks, etc. He. sent for help and the few citizen8r;on thd streeis at that hour, 1:30 oVlpck, and the police went to his assistance. The negroes fled but three were captured and lodged in the prison. That unsightly excrescence commonly called, a wart can be removed by touch- Tins? it several times a dav with castor oil. This is the simplest known remedy. country .j. : ...j The Repubacan Congresfiiofial conven- tf-SS: N- C-'ha inated Mr. Exuha Oi White, of Belvidere, for Congress. ,. . ''-.-! I I - On Fridij list the declaration of the Magnetic ifon and steel manufactnrincr company it Black's was filed in the of fice of : thi ; Seoreta.rr of State, . and. yf 6u9C a'capital SMy'tnurorasFfrw xui nnn. . j r-c- i Xaftdnal Den, nas issued So dddress. -nrinf . c - LL fthy to tbe-Oiban citizens r,f th T'; Sf; 'ptrrtT .w la power and that it manifested a criminal indifference with regard to the progress and result of the popular uprising. ! Dr. D. W. H. Harrisofl, a homeopath ic physician of Baton Rouge, La., will be the Republican candidate for Con gress in the Sixth Louisiana Uistrlct, now represented by Representative Robertson. Dr. Harrison is a first cousin of the Republican nominee for President. World's Convention, T.'M. C. A. At Stockholm, Sweden, a second farewell Y. M. C. A, meeting was held Monday. The address was deUvered by the Bishop of Visbey, and replies were made by Mr. R. C. Mcrse, of New York, and delegates from Great Britain, France, German v, Russia, Spain and Italy. ) ' ; The King and Queen, his Royal High ness the Crown Prince, and other mem bers of the royal family have not only shown their deep interest in the work the associations are doing for youDg men by their liberal subscriptions to ward meeting the expenses of the con venticn but they invited all the delegates to a reception 'at ; ,the royal palace of Drolingham, where recently. ,the Em- Eeror of Germany'jand his suite were so ansomly entertained. The royal pal ace is six; miles from the city. At 11 o'elockthe delegates left on three steam ers provided for the occasion. . The vis itors enjoyed a ramble about the palace and elegant grounds of the royal gardens, and at'3 o'clock luncheon was .served. In the absence of the King, , who was in Christiana ,the Crown Prince presided and welcomed his guests, expressing his -pleasure at meeting them at the palace, jand his interest in the work they are doing. The 'Rev. Gustave Toppel, of Geneva, spoke for the conference. . At 4 o'cloclrthe party returned to the civy rnuch pleased, vrith their reception rftitjr. z ueietratea were at the .Cod- vtintion, from every gyarter of the ..glofce. Shark FisMn; Aronnd New lork. Fishing for shark is not 'considered a verV ereat snort but nevertheless there - - 'are'a- dozen or more rhch .in ew Yort harbor who are not adverse -to -angling tor 6harks. A big hook with a small chain attached is used for catching sharks.) A p'eco of pork or other meat serves, for baid. A stout hemp line it attached to the chain, the end of the lin being made fast to theloat. When s shark is hooked he comes to the Eurfac of the water as gently as a sunfish. B , iaccly when he getselose stc fhe'boat that thfttpghit- txegtD8i Jne nsnerm$ih keep pulling himjin.Afd; lettjnghbji out again until he is tired out. Then. ,tbej watch their chance, and when his head is lifted out of the watet by a pull of th line they club him to death. Sometimei they row ashore and beach them. Tho biggest shark cajught in these waters in long time was beached atRossville, S. L, last week. It was a species of grouno shark, and measured i feet. It was caught by Francis Endicott of Outing, Harry C. Jones, and the boatkeeper, Ed ward !Fit7gerald. Fitzgerald hooked him, the other two fishermen disdaining to indulge in such sport. When thej found out what a big catch he had made, however, they were as eager as he waste capture it. It dragged the anchor, ane t,o they hauled the anchor in and took t the oars to prevent the shark from run ning off with them. In its struggles it bit off a piece of one of the oars. Mr. Endicott says he has fished and hunted for years, but never had anything as ex citing as that encounter. After thej ead killed it they cut its heart out. Tin heart continued to beat for fully a min- uc afterwardl The sharks found here abouts are not danererous. beinsr by nc means as large or ferocious as the man eaters of southern wate;s. New Yori Sim. A Curions Instrument. a ciiiaii4 thing that the Italian It is carina, or earth-flute, has not received more attention from music lovers in this country. Of course it is sold in the stores here, and you occasionally hear it in a minstrel show, but not one man in'a hun dred knows, anything about it. I have heard it played in Italy, and the music from a quartette of the instruments is ex- . .. - - 1 A. . 1 4 quis te. Its lango is urniieu., dui iiie quality f its tone when skillfully played is pure and ' queer. It has a pastoral flavor, reminding one of piping shep herds, and a classical environment. " The ocarina is very simple. In shape it;!! something like a pear or a small gourd It is made of bakedclayiH Ita range is aOOUb IWvlVB UWlC5.v,yu wsuuiucuv yt be more easily learned, for it always plavs itself when one has. mastered the scale, and there are nkyso lay; elaborate Italian peasants use ifconsfantlj in tbe Meld, and when- you hear- one of, their neculiar melodies from m practiced quar tette you wonder su(bmiple jtoeans can produce so beiutifutsvdt.;-iCAjcao Mies. V ' t r"' ; s '. , - Three Mascrillie FollJeK . i ' ThewrW6fdtor(ite3se de -i-- used tri remark- that there wehr. three follie3 ol men vshich, alwayg 'Amazed "herj the first, climbing trees to shake fruit, when it ihfj waited long cnongh the fruit would fall of itself. The second was going to the war to kill one another, when if they only waited they would die naturally. Tha third was to run after women, when if they only refused f torn doing so the women wpuld run after them. Patin Figaro, l SCIENTIFIC AxD INDI STRIAL. fSfff f 5S?!?l onyjerted fate fnlmiiiate Js Bufficienfto charge -Bfty thousand percussion caps iZiS? ?f turnitig-out ten thousand SrweeU 8 egCtabIeSetery da? iQ w 611 -8UPPorted " ?aid to be the theory that many deaths were caused by suffoca tjon in ! last winter's blizzard inX Aor.thwest. i .. The fabric. 4nAnn . .. . . -? " " peculia 1 , , - '''s n acmnerv.. has double the strength of leather. ikJTi G.crman experimenters find that f!J lumJnatwM Power of naphtha gas wJell-itMthAJbw, twent Deteut., eighteen volumes of air to one of gai. A j Milltown (Me.) mechanic ha9 in vented a log-sawing apparatus which has an upward as well as a downward mo tion. The scheme hai r.ot been "fully tested yet, but, if succ ssful, will be a great time-saving invention to lumber dealers. , - Kui. sua. n.: tVltlnr. fn- Portable electric lights, arranged to hang on a button of one's coat, aod with a parabolic' reflector, to "concentrate the light, 1 with ttorage batteries weighing one and a half pounds each, are made to enable persons to read in railroad cars by night.' ! An excellent new use (f or the telephone is proposed in the infections wards of the French hespitalc, so as to enable the sick people isolated in their sufferings to have : the comfort cf hearing their rela tives voices without any risk of convey ing infection by an interview. While the most rapid cannon shots scarcely attain alvelocity of 600 yards a second, over 1500 knots per hour, mete orites are known to penetrare the a:r with a velocity of 40,000 or even C0.0OJ yards per second, a velocity which raise3 the air at once to a temperature of 4000 to 60 J0 centrigrade. The hew mill of the Holyoke (Mass.) Envelope Company is nearly completed. The boilers have a capacity of 20J horse power. There are sixty-four envelope machines, with a producing capacity of about 2, 000, 000; envelopes a day, where the greatest amount of work turned out .in one day was 1830,000 envelopes. The building has ..9 j;P water sprinklers and eighteen stands of pipe, together with a huge w-iter tank holding 6000 gallons. The force equivalent to the working ' steam engines represents in the tmted State3 7,500,00 ); horse power, in " Eng land 7,000,000 horse power, in Germany 4,500,000, in France 8,030,000, in Austria 1,500,000. In these the mo tive power of the locomotives is not in cluded, whose number in all the world amounts to 105,030, and represents a total-off 3 000,000 horsepower. ' Adding tain the total of 46,00 J,.00ft horse powen" The British cqo.suI at ; l&ngpa,: China, calls the attention of British nianufac.tur. ers tq spinning ; machines iised in.h" district that were rhiportcd f fhm' 'japan, and which he thinks will eventually be adopted in cotton producing countries. The advantages claimed for them, as compared with the method of spinning used in America are that the staple is less in ured and that the seeds are better cleaned. This is' attained by drawing the cotton between stiaight steel edges or knives, instead of using saws. ;j - Instead of ' nsing' solid iron plates or massive walls of. wood and iron for. war chips, it is proposed ti use a new'mat-e-; rial known as -woodite; . .This' is an elastic material not uubke india rubber, but unlike that material, it is not sticky, and resists oils and heat. It is a com pound caoutchouc, and was patented a few years ago. Experiments at Dartford in 183l gave promise of great th;ngs, for the hole made .in the woodite by the passage of a shot closed up at once, not even allowing adrop of water to go in. Two torpedo catchers are now building at Elbing, and jthe inner skin of these vessels is formed of a layer 4of wooditt two and a ha'f inches thick. The Diamond Wouldn't Tolish. A remarkable ! diamond was exhibited at a recent meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences by Mr. George F. Y'Z"tZ. It was a compound of multiple crystal, contateing a large number of twinningsl It is of Hhe class, termed "extreme d urate", by the French. It had been cut into the general shape of a brilliant, and its main face or table wai then ; placed oh the polishing wheel in the establishment of Tiffany & Co. It was kept there for 100 days, the wheel revolving at the rate of 2809 revolutions per minute. The ;aiamona was neia upon the rotating surface at a distance of about fifteen Inches from the center. Based on these - figures, a calculation shows that the surface passed over by the diamond amounted! to" 75,000 miles, or nearly three times the circumference of the earth. Yet it was all futile, as the stone would not - acquire a polish.. . The ordinary weight placed on a diamond, while on the wheel, is trom-.two arid a quarter pounds, to..tw.Q and a half pounds. This was increased by four, pvjfnjdjf and eight pounds without efftfcl.ifldfiBally forty ponnds.was, used. Th wheel was badly ' damaged, the. dJamandr;plqwiOg into it and throwing scintillations in alls directions. The,; diamond, e Yen ; under 4 these conditions; could not: ' he ."given commercial polisn; and thewheel had tf be replac'ed.-flvf " , T- t An 01dTime Kerosene. Liini p. Ari Auburn lady treasures among. her curiosities the first ; kerosene - latSp-hal into the town of Buckfieldlt ! is rather a dilapidated lamp;'4aowi-t)flt , has burned every night lor tne last tnirty years inlhe lady's kitchen, - JJuckBeia never had a bigger sensationrthan 'when this lamp came into town. -lt'was thirty i two years ago one dark: winter night.-' .The lamp and two gaUons dLkerosegO J Oli cost o. I ne nignt wis nisiori-s.; illuminator was first' lighted all the. as Chinesfi rr'cci I tcresLamons thow wtutdi fthaiber. rJ r.ftnhXmUv of rly e!o?sv nnrl rg-eatcat portion nf th HinrrL JJ neighbors thought the house was on fir6rc-caP and they rusnea to tne rescue Ajm buckets of sour milk. The? first Back field lamp illuminated the front parlor qf one of the old mansions of Buckleld from six to nine-thirty in the evenings of ninety days before the first two quarts of oil gave out. To kerosene men t This is a straight tip. .cwistij (MeA Journal - I HOME ; OF THE DIAMONDS, THE OREATT MINES RUNNINO IN v SOUTH AFRICA. A Description "of the De Beers Mine tli.e Scene of a Recent Terrible isaaer. - R.Ift:Bee" Mi? Chaster in the --" ican aiamond fields, bv which t-venty-four whites and two hundred perinea, nas awakened fresh in obtalned from. the m.nc? of gouth Yt St? i cn were discovered near dr, Um-1?67by eomc tch chil i VrF ' m ne3 are sitated in Griqua rS.:11'0; ? Part of CaPe Colony, are at anj efevaffS above the sea level, thfc heat is excessive during t,he summer months when the work is principally arried on. According to the first report of the terrible calamity it was-that "the' De Beers Coal Mine at Kimberley" .had caught fire. The manifest error in re gard to (the character of the mine was not corrected in subsequent dispatches, but the jcause of the -fatal fire was ex-' plained jn this way : "While the shafts were being changed the hauling wire broke and the skip rushed down the shaft with frightful rapidity. The oil lamps were broken, and the blasting fluid quickly ignited the wooden casing of the shaft. Flames in creat volumes shot up the shaft, completely preventing The mine was soon filled with egress smoke, and tha lights carried by the miners were rendered useless. The panic stricken natives and whites, in their efforts to escj5e, became massed together in the.galleries and were suffocated to deatlu j t Y iThe Superintendent of the De Beers Mine is Gardener ir. Williams, of Oak land, Cal. He went to South Africa on his-second trip in the latter part of 188U. He 13 airegular conespoodent of George F. Kunz, Tiffany fe Co.'s gem expert and niinera'ogist. A Timos, reporter" talked jwith Mr. Kunz and obtained from him some interesting facts about the De Beers Mines. - ' - The mine covers 13k acres or 610 claims, each 31. feet square witha road way ofi 15 feet between each claim. The' mines (were, originally worked in indi vidually claims, 3143 in number, each 31 feet square with a roadway 74 feet wide between each pi ir of cjaims. These small claims are now consolidated into about 90 large companies and private firms, having! a gross capital of nearly $30,000,-000.- There are four' large mines, a' I within! a radius of a milcand a halL. The celebrated Kimberley cavers, 74 acre?. Thirtv-ltfcree million carats (overBi tonaj of diamonds have already' . "beet taVcen. out, valued in trie rough at 45,000,000, and; after cutting at uo.000,000. The absorption of thetmaller by the larger companies is constantly goirg on, and it is propbised to consolidate all the com yjanfer jinto one. -Ten thou-and natives, each, tajeiving XI a week, are employed in the !mine3 under., the supervision of 1200 European overseers. The enormous sum of) over 1,000,00) is annually ex pended for labor: This mammoth investment of European capital jwould have been more profitable to the shareholders were it not for the thievishness of the native diggers, who. instigated by the viciou3 whites that congregate on the field, at one time stole and disposed of lroin. pnedjltn to- ae- fourth or the entire held. , rtuQre im-proveA-rhethods of shrveillance', recently introduced, . have . diminished this loss. None but authorized agents are permitted to purchase or possess rough dialnonjdf-, and a large detective force is on the alert to prevent any.inlnngement of the rules. A lecord is now) kept of every diamond found. The thieves have been caught making chickens swallow UiamonuS ill iu imuc, uuu a poBt-iioi- tem held on one of the natives who died suddenly revealed the fact that his death was caused by a tfO-carat diamond which he had swallowed. i , According to the latest official reports there were employed in the De - Beers Mine JuO l whites and 2T58 natives. Of the latter 300 were hired from the Govern ment at a cost of 58 per annum. For merly the natives were allowed to leave the mines, but owing to the fraudulent traffic 'carried on 200 of them were last year compounded. They practically lived in the! mines, and were better off than those who had their freedom. The old system cf open workings has been to a ' g"reat Jexteut abandoned for the shaft and underground plan. Under the original method the excavations were carried on to a depth of 500 feet. There were many accidents owing to the falling shale or reef. A rock shaft is completed to a depth of 841 feet and taps low levels. : During last year over 21,621 feet of main tunnel were driven. There is one shaft of 791 feet, another of 477 feet, and a third of 125 feet. As many as 18 tribes of natives have been represented in the mines Some of the. natives have been known to tramp a thousand miles to get Last year 890,000 loads of "bluestul' were hauled out of the mines, and 850, V0 i loads yielded 07,732 carats of dia-mp-ddsor which the company received 9t)j14s.-:6d..1 The a tual ex- leaving a prone ne is capi- -pound share. FrrW .Hentpmler f. 1882. to December ofyi8i,7, the De - Beers Mine yielded :)40)t.jarats, -valued ati3,4oO.:-J:, aa erageTqf per carat. . -Th Th!s in- J cludii erythin taken fi om the mine. . r-Ofj -beginmng; ol tne enterprise u vn1morlrced'4'J0 carat per load, b the ut has$UertyJcl was 8-10 carat per fTatej'oWsrorg lhe mine at the rate of -o-O gays' "pet "hour and at tbe rnte of 3 25 :tlUm8. .from the rock shaft. TheW ireriffe -bwashyfg machines in nchiaTO Tnie r'fa'' than the Kantl -or- ey e, 1 1- is .so accural e t ha t a cltamond the sizte'bf a. vi'xi Jaead cannot -tow ler&uuhts. ShatlowihidgVare capable only of the mystery of darkceiv-he mo-t gen .i it and -pr6rouhd thiogs you may briny forth into the-follest light, and Itt the surishiue b-atter th?ra through and throuih,' .. ' - I ' ' -: ' jpcndifure was 41-18p. "if, SW)I.897. The De Beers Mi taUd3v2,500,620 in ten - : ' r ' - THE TWIN STATIS. i . , A . : OBTH CAUDLfxA. Walter Alvis Thompson, who durine the war with Mexico was color sergeant of Jeff Dayis' regiment, , the Mississippi Rifles, died at his home near Hillshoro N C. His age was 7S. There was a terrific dnvm t i?i-;:. Sunday night The wind blew a gale. the rain fell in torrents and the elertric display was brilliant and fearful. Two prisoneraubroke jail " at Pittsboro r naay niirht. Thrir Mikcn and William Minter; One of them had been carried 'there from Alamance a few days before to escape lynching. He was in jail on the charge of rape , Dixe Edwards, white, went to the house of BeaiJlasgow, colored, in Yanee because he beitl luiai1i,A.. job-u. ut 7. that would probably convict him' .of vio lation of the revenue laws. Edwards has fled. One of Glasgow's legs will have to be amputated. r liOUTH CAROLINA. -The opening of the 3C's road to Rock Hill wB celebrated by the people of that town on Thursday, an ex cui6ion train was run from Charleston to Rock Hill. . '". , Bo? us Horse Tails. A well known wigmaker wa3 standing at Broad and AVaTnut streets talking to a Philadelphia Times reporter as a stylish barouche passed. "Do you see that team?" said the wig- , maker. "Well, do you see what beauti ful flowing tails they've, got? They're bogus." The little wigmaker laughed aloud and then said : "I made these tails. I make- tails for. a good many stylish horses. You know tliat a horse without a handsome tail isn't handsome at all. He may have a beautiful mane and hold his head. high and step and prance, and - bite hi3 bit, showing all the traits of a full-blooded animal, but if he hasn t 'got a long flowing tail,' all the otheThar act eristics go lor nothing. "There are a great many stylish step pers driven in the park every day. that have false tails that sweep the ground. The horses get accustomed to false tails just as a man becomes accustomed to wearing a wig. Tho false tails are fastened on to the horse's own tail so nicely that you can't deject the decep tion. The tails don't have to be removed at night when the hor.se ' is put in his stall. The bogus tails cau be- wasned and brushed and .-combed on the tiOra-i iust a -Well a o5 of Uim. . JiIIQ DOguS laiis cost, ituui -piu.i-u iri.i. . I'penerally futn wh a ixiir for $35. They -will last Ws long a'try.. horse. lbuy dvttdvhom' ato mn. jnt ja " buy humirt hair. Thejiractice of-shpek-iDg horses' tails is thockingl" Here the little wiermaker laughed violently at hia joke and then continued "The ptactice lsayingoui; dui. i wui never grow in like it was before it was cut short. The way to cultivate & horse's tail Js to clin.it about an inclionce a month" Tnre Water as a Tonic. A thin, tall man got up early the other morning at the nith Avenue notei anu cormujr downstairs oraereu t . i two glasses nf water at the liau d refreshment counter. The trained bartender Emiled, but handed but two large glasses full of piiecold water. The man smoked ! his lips and. said it was a healthful drink before breakfast, and one that he recom mended.' : ' ' " 1 ,i 'You look thin, sir?' ' ' "Ye?, I do, but if I had not drunk. cold water before breakfast I might have been in my grave long ago. I am a phy sician, or rather was one before I retked, and have made a study of liquids. Water, drunk freely before meals, has a very beneficial result, for it washes away the mucous .secreted during the intervals of repose. The membrane thuselean'sed is in much better condition to receive food and convert it into soluble com pounds. In the morning the accumula tion of mucous is specially marked when the gastric walls are covered with a thick, tenacious layer. Now food entering the stomach at this time will become cov ered with this tenacious coating, which for a time protects it from the action -of Agastric ferments aud so retards digestion. Your man with a tubular contracted stomach, with its puckered mucous lin ing and viscid contents, a normal condi- tion in the morning before breakfast, is not suitable to receive food. A glass of water washes out tho stomach, gives tone, and prcpaies the alimentary canal for the morning meal." New York Mail and Exvre. -. -. !' ' B- Autumn's Sere and Yellow Leaf. A botanist thus describes1 in the Chi cago Herali how the! leaves change their color in autumn. He ridicules the belief that frost has anything to do with it : '.'The green matter in the tissue of a leaf is composed of two colors red and blue. When the sap ceases to flow in the au tumn, and the natural-growth, of the tree ceases, oxidatiou of the tissues take? place--- Under certain 'conditions the green of the leaf tnrns red; under differ critr conditions it takes on a yellow or brown tint. - This ditference in color is doe to the difference ia combination .of" the-, original constituents of the green, tissue, and to the varying conditions of climate, exposure and soil. A dry, coM climate produces more brilliant foliage than one tnatis aamp anu warm, is the reason that our American autumns ate so much more gorgeous than those of England.". . . ., Yellow Fever Cases. . Jacksonville, Fla., August 27. Four new cases up to noon but no deaths. At a meeting of the . sanitary association protests was made regarding the board of health's action yesterday in refusing to give the names of the. new cafios, and it is said the board will "Promptly recede from its discussion at to-day's meeting. - Foreign .Notes." The Pope is suffering . from rheuma tism. He was able however, to give audidncc to several Cardinals Sunday. General Boulanger has;been elected to the Chamber of Deputies, in the depart ment of Charcntc and Nord, France, by uxaiorities reapcctively 15,060 and 3, 5S3, 1 - -4.' 1