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SALISBURY,. N. C.
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Entered in tha Pont-OiTice at Salisbury as
ocond-c3a3 matter. .
It is admitted by foreign electrician?
that tlit progress made in the United
States in the utilization of electricity is
f$r it. advance f tl'iat of any other na
tiou
"No man," says a prominent Phila
ieljiLi.'i physician, who is an enthusiastic
-vegetarian, "who eats a pound of man-i-aron:
daily, and' the balance of whose
food it of a kindred nature, will ever
become a drunkard."
The most youthful prisoner in the
penitentiary at Chester, Til., h a lijtle
child who was born there about two
month' ago, her parent being behind
the bar, for arson. When their sentence
expire? she will be nearly a full-grown
woman. -
IASch eiiri. who was se-.rt'out a year
ago by tn Swedish Government to make
an investigation u f-ue Congo Valley in
Africa, with a view of ascertaining what
advantages it offered for colonization,
has returned with a h'ghly favorably re
port. The climate, the soil, the geo
graphical features of the valley arc, iu
. his opinion, all favorable to. the estab-'i-.hti':tit
of colonies.
Tin only census ever made iu China
wa; iL 18 12. According to-the Aanan
ach ilt, Golha for 1880 the population
of C'hi:ia, properly so called, was esti
mated at 40.1,00!), 000, and of the res: of
the Empire, including Mautchuria, Mon
golia, Thibet and (tca,' 28,000,00J in
all, 4 ;.?:":, 000, 000. It is a matter of guess
work. We understand that an oilh-ial
censim is being taken now.
There are white and black Jews it.
Cochin, a State of India, whose -traditions
tatc that they have settled there
since the destruction of the temple-at
Jerusalem. The women of the white
Jews are extremely fair, and their skins
look dazlingly white by contrast with
the bliick and bamboo-colored population
around them. They dress in fantastic
robes, with gray cloths about their heads
nd golden coins about their necks.
On an island in the Penobscot River,
twelve miles above Bangor, Me., lives
the remnant of the once great tribe of
Tarratino Indians. They are civilized,
and most of them prosperous. At a re
cent wedding of two of them the bride
wore a robe of "delicate blue brocade
satin, trimmed with cream Spanish lace
and cream satin ribbons," and one of the
guests were a "peacock-blue surah silk
and satin, with overdress of Oriental
lace."
The use of kangaroo skins for leather
has come rapidly into fashion within a
year or two. and those animals, .which
were once regarded .is a nuisance, in
Australia," r.ro now pri cd and sought
for. ' Porpoise, leather is also a "com
modity largely ' in demand, and 'a- man
or woman wearing a costly pair of shoes
cannot well be sure, nowadays, whether
the material came from the Australian
bush, the Souih i'-'ea:, or the back of a
. Texas steer.
"Lower California," says the Host or "
Journal, "may perhaps pass under the
American Hag at.o distant date.- The
energetic and money-get ting Yankee has
Invaded the sleepy peninsula aud ac
quired millions of acres of Mexican
lands. The natives are alarmed, aud
accuse their government of having be
trayed the national interests by :onces
iions to American corporations, and of
paving the way to a repetition of the
history of the annexation of Texas."
Dyspeptics, whose number is legion in
this country, can now take heart. At a
dinner recently given in this city by
the "New York Farmers," Mr. William
C. Barry, of Rochester, one of the guests
of the evening, said "that fruit should
be a component part of every meal, and
if so used, dyspepsia and indigestion in
all their forms, would, he believed, be
come ills of the past." Remove indiges
tion by so simple a method as this, and
rou will materially diminish the income
f many a doctor in the United States.
To the world ai large, the United
States is a great agricultural natign, its
other activities being somewhat over
shadowed by the products of ifcforiM
and plantations. Yet the mineral statis
tics of last year show' that it is also the
greatest mineral producer in the wotld.
There are other surprises iu Mayor
PowtTs report for 160, as, for instance,
that the pug iron product, was greater
in value than the product of gold and
iilvereombined, and that it even exceeded
the value of bituminous coal. Natural
ga, measured by coal equivalents, ha
reached a value of $10,000,000 pet
annum. Altogether the report of min
eral production, though presenting only
one grotfp of the nation's industries,
show's again what a wonderful country
this is When to such returns the
icultural products and .manufactures
"ded, with a consideration of the
"if;
are au 'ntion facilities required for the
transport jon of siXty million people
accamraoda. nt of id! the produ ts to
and the shipmt t0 understand why we
market, it is easy v -"Treasurj.
have a surplu? in tb
The editor of London Truth is fvl'i of
admiration for certain details of the
American system of government, whir
he arrays as a foil to the French system.
In regard to the seven-year term of the
French President he says that it is too
long, and ought to be reduced to fo jr
years. He says also that in ord.-r t;
avoid trouble the French won d do v. ell
to elect a Yice-Piesidetit to t.iUc :h;'
President's place in emergem-io. T!i:::,
turning to England, he advises it ;o
elect the Ilouseof Commons on the pi in
of the American ""Senate, with souk.
members running from . one term into
another.
"The post of 'city editor" on a London'
paper is different in kmd from thai ;-f
city editor on a New York paper," s:i s ,"; .
Sun. "In London the city e-ij?or is the : .
who looks after the money and ho.e ;
markets, and the finan ial and b:ui!i;;g
or, in other words, he is what would hen
be called the Wall street in:ni. Iu Xe;.t
York the city editor is the mrm who
superintends the reporting of the gencr.-K
news of the city at large. City Edito;
Simpson of-the London Timet, -who re
cently died, left a fortune of over iiul : tt
million dollars; but we have not heard ol
any of the city editors in New York who
enjoy that amount in hard cash."
An important factor in the rapd
progress and -development of this re
public is its free loin from the burden?,
of supporting an iuiiuea e sta.vlinj
army. Even in time of peace-the armie'.:
of the Europ?an nations aggi:;eg.it.
,000,000 ojf men, whicji 5 1 i (use of wai
may be increased to 10.00 , 000 or-il.-00.),
'000.' The military e .pc.idit :rcs f
tiurope in lime of peace amount to b ,hi
$393, 000, 000 to which should be added
the value of the useful products of labor
which the men comprising the armifs
might have produced if occupied ar
useful industries. The annual loss o -c ;
sioned by the -colossal system of land
ing armies and navies of Europe is esti
mated at 2,500. 000, 030, and that the
accumlatcd national debts due to wars
amount to-day to 2 ;, 500, 000, 000.
The Bolivian Government has given"
to an American the exclusive right to
navigate the River Desaguadero by
steam. Lake Titi aca is 12,900 feet
above the sea, and the River Desaguadero
is its only outlet. The river issues from
the southern extremity of the lake, and"
flows through the mountains 180 miles
to Lake Aullogas, which is little lower
than Titicac.i and has no outlet at all.
It appears that the busiucss of working
the ancient mines in that country has
been developed, and it is perhaps tc
bring to market ores from such
mines further in the Andes that the
right to use steam on the Desaguadero h
desired. " The beginning of the river
is a hundred miles or so distant
from the railroad terminus, but little
steamers brought piecemeal over the
mountains have long been running to
Titicaca.
An industrious statistician has been'
workmgat the Congressional Directory
to find out how many Representatives in
the present Congress are natives of each
of. the several States. He discovered that
New York, the Empire State, takes the
lead, fifty-one of her sons, or nearly one
sixth. of the whole number being found
in the list. Pennsylvania is a good
second with thirty-nine Representatives,
but Ohio crowds the Keystone State
closely, for thirty-eight born Buekeyes
are members of this House. r Kentucky
follows with twenty-three, find "the
mother of Stales"' is next with twenty
one. The "Tarheel State" furnishes
nineteen, and Massachusetts can claim
but sixteen. Maine and Vermont each
has nine, New Hampshire six and "Lit
tle Rhody'Mivc. Connecticut, New Jersey
and Delaware each families four. Mary
land has thirteen, while! fourteen were
born in South Carolina. Six natives of
Mississippi are in the list, while West
Virginia furnishes seven.
Artiiicial Slones.
Though the
of artificial
precious stones is now so exactly imita
tive of the genuine article as to render
the judgment even of an expert frequently
at fault, it is claimed that the test of
hardness is still infallible. Thus, the
beautiful French paste, from which such
attractive imitation diamonds are made,
is a kind of glass, with a mixture of oxide
of lead the more of the latter the
brighter the stone, but also the softer,
and this latter is the serious defect. But
by careful selection of the ingredients,
and skill and manipulation, the lustre,
color, fire, and water of the choicest
stones are, to the eyes of the ordinary
purchaser, fully reproduced ; there are a
few delicacies of color that cannot be per
fectly given, depending as they do on
some undiscoverable peculiarities of
molecular arrangement, and not on
chemical composition these, however,
not being apparent to the uninitiated.
M. Sidot, however, a well-known French
chemist, is reported to have nearly re
produced the peculiarities in question
including the dichroism of the sapphire
by means of aepmposition, of which
the base is phosphate of lime ; and other
chemists haife produced rubies and sap
phires having the same composition as
the genuine stones, almost as hard. New
York Sun.
How to Keep Plants in Winter.
A new principle for keeping plant
through the winter without artiiicial
heat wa-; recently shown at Regent Park,
Loudon, with the plants grown in them
last winter. The essence of the inven
tion is that all light and heat shall pre
viously pass through a shallow layer of
water. The water is found to exercise
great control over temperature, protect
ing plauts entirely from frost in winter
and from excessive direct heat in sum
mer. , The application involves no diffi
culty. In the ease of a garden frame, a
sliding "water light" about three inches
deep is made to lit over the frame con
taining the plants; the only difference
from a glass light being that it holds
water and is -always placed in a flat
position. The depth of water generally
kept in the tank is about two inches in
summer and winter, and half the depth
in spring and autuni. V-y hr Sccieuce
Monthly. . ...
WASHINGTON, D. C
FACTS AND FANCIES .ABOUT
MEN AND THINGS
What Oar National Law Makers are Vmmt
-Department! Geslp Mereateata f
President nod Mr. Clerelaaa.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Among the petitions and memorials
presented to the Senate was one (numer
ously signed) from Pennsylvania, asking
such a change of laws as to bar all pau
per immigration; to prevent the landing
of immigrants under contract; to debar
from citizenship all foreigners who owe
allegiance to other powers or govern
ments, and to require twenty-one years
residence before any immigrant cau hold
any public office of trust or emolument.
A bill reported from the committee and
placed on the calendar, authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Mis
sissippi Paver at Natchez. The resolution
offered by Mr. Plumb, some days since,
as to the inefficiency of the postal semce
of the West and South, was taken up for
tliscussion, and Mr. Plumb addressed the
Senate upon it. Mr. Kenna discussed the
President's Message on the Pacific rail
roads. After a brief speech from Mr.
Sherman, in reply to Mr. Kenna, and a
sti 1 briefer one from Mr, Reagan in re
joinder to Mr. Sherman. Mr. Stewart
addressed the Senate briefly in support of
the education bill. The pending ques
tion, the chair announced, was with re
spect to the formation of a select com
mittee for the consideration of the Mes
sage of the President on the report of
the Pacitic railway commission, and that
the mover of the resolution, the Senator
from Massachusetts, (Hoar) would have
been entitled to the chairmanship, l
lie chair was informed by that Sena tut
that under no circumstances would he
accept a place upon that committee
In the House, Mr. Blount, of Georgia,
chairman' of the committee on postoflices
and postroad?, called up for considera
tion the bill amending the statutes so as
to provide that no publications that are
but books or reprints of book, v. bet her
they be issued complete or in pa its,
bound or unbound, or in series or whether
sold by subscription or otherwise, shall
be admitted to the mails ss second-class
matter. The object of the bill, ex
plained Mr. Blount, was to prevent the
evasion of the law which designates
what shall constitute second and third
class mail matter. Under the law. books
must pass through the mails as third -clas
matter, but an abuse had spuing up
and the law had been evaded by pub
lishers issuing books at stated intervals
and passing them through the. mails as
second-class matter, on the ground that
they were periodicals. While the Bible
and educational books had to pay eight
cents a pound, a yellow-covered novel
could go through the mails for one cent
a pound. Mr. Crain from the committee
on Presidential elections, etc.. reported a
joint resolution proposing a constitu
tional amendment providing that Con
gress shall hold its annual meetings on
the first Monday in January; placed on
the House calendar.
In the Senate, Mr. Coke presented a me
morial signed by mercantile men of El
Paso, Texas, representing the extensive
amount of smuggling done between the
border towns of Mexico and those of the
United States, under the Mexican free
zone law, and asking that a reciprocity
treaty be entered into wdth Mexico in or
der to prevent such smuggling. Mr.
Pasco presented a telegram which he had
received from the vice-president of the
Pcnsacola and" Atlanta Railroad compa
ny, stating that that company claimed no
lands except those embraced by the list
approved by the state of Florida. (This
was in contradiction to certain statements
made by Mr. Call.) Mr. Blair's educa
tional bill was taken up, and Mr. Pugh
addressed the Senate in its favor
In the House, the Speaker pro t em. pre
sented a memorial -signed by Mrs. WTaite,
wife of Chief Justice Waite, president of
the Woman's National Relief Association,
praying that pensions be granted to those
engaged in the life-saving service; re
ferred. The House proceeded, iu ac
cordance with previous order, to consid
eration of the report of the committee on
commerce, relative to the proposed in
vestigation of the Reading strike. After
some delay, various propositions were
consolidated into the following resolu
tion, which was adopted without divis
ion: "Resolved, That a special commit
tee of five members be appointed to in
vestigate forthwith the extent, causes and
effect upon the interstate commerce of
the continued failure by the Reading
railroad company to transport such com
merce, and to report to the House, by
bill br otherwise, for consideration at any
time such legislation as is necessary to
secure to the public regular ami com
plete execution by the railroad company
f its obligations to serve as a common
carrier of interstate commerce, and
to investigate the differences
sxisting in the Lehigh and
Schuylkill region of Pennsylvania be
tween corporations mining coal and the
miners; and, further, to investigate all
facts relating to mining corporations and
individual miners of anthracite coal in
connection -therewith, and all facts in
relation to the matter, and report the
same to the house with such recommen
dations as the committee may agree
upon."
GOSSIP.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed Samuel Sternberg to be store
keeper and gauger at Proctor, Ky., and
Peter Howe to be storekeeper in Madison
County, Ky.
The Senate has confirmed J. R. Jordan
as United States marshal for the western
district of Virerinia: T. G. Crawford
receiver of public moneys, Gainesville,
Fla. ; W. A. Fiske, postmaster, Ports
mouth, a.
The judiciary committee reported fa
vorably on the substitute offered bv Mr.
Culberson in place of all bills relating to
polygamy.- The substitute provides that
polygamy shall not exist or be lawful iu
the United States, or anv nlace subject
to their jurisdiction.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
argued before the Senate Committee on
Commerce that thov were on'.v car build
ers, and not common carriers, and that,
therefore, the Inter-State Commerce ac
should not apply to their business, as pro
posed by Senator Cullom.
A communication signed bv ?o mem
bers of Congress, asking for the dismissa
of Statistician Dodge, was received by tin
Commissioner of Agriculture. The
movement is understood to have origin
ateu with, the tobacco growers, who were
aggrieved by the statistician's report las)
Summer.
The Mississippi House of Represents
tives sent a memorial to Congress, protest
ing against the passage of the Senate bill
having for its object the prevention of
the use of cotton-seed oil as a substitute
for hog lard, and proposing to tax lard,
Ux oil, and the privileges of ruanufactur-:
tug and dealing (herein.
Dennis Kearney, the " celebrated Sand
Lots orator of San Francisco, CaL, ad
dressed the House committee on foreign
affairs in advocacy of additional legisla
tion to restrict Chinese immigration. Mr. ,
Kearney exhibited a map snowing the
Chinese district of San Francisco and
said that Chinese to the number of 75,000
now occupied the entire pioneer district
of San Francisco, and had erected a Joss
house close to the leading Catholic church
in the city.
SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS,
INTERESTING
BUSY
NEWS ITEMS
PEOPLE.
FOR
The Social, Religious aud Temperance
. World Projected Enterprise- Mar
riu.ee, Fires, Deaths. Kte.
Sjieaker Carlisle, on account of sick
ness, will not .speak at Atlanta, Ga.
Nashville, Tenn.,is to have a new daily
paper the Democrat with a strong fi
nancial bat-king.
Thirteen colored men. were arrested in
Athensj charged with running "bliad
tigers,' and were each fined 50.
A great ice gorge in the harbor at St.
Louis, Mo., gave way and boats and bar
ges were damaged to the extent of thous
ands of dollars.
Lewis Moore, a negro who was to have
been hung at Georgetown, Ga., received
a respite from Governor Gordon fifteen
minutes before the hour fixed for his exe
cution. News of a peculiar wedding comes
from Taylor, Ga., iu which the interested
parties were an old gentleman aged
eightv-live and a voung ladv nearly
twenty.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
refuses to surrender the Hatfields, for
whom a requisition has been made by the
governor of West Virginia. The courts
must decide the matter.
Tom Ellis, the editor of the Birming
ham, Ala., orarf, who shot Detective
Scarborough a short time since, was him
self shot a few days after bv Detective
Sullivan, and likelv to die.
One hundred laborers employed on the
extension of the railwav from Scotland
Neck. N. C, to Greenville struck, de
manding an increase of wages, which the
out factors refused to allow.
Charles Ackermau, a switchman in the
xtuisville fc Nashville Railroad vards, at
Birmingham. Ala., fell from a moving
tram and was crushed to death. lie was
28 years old and unmarried.
Near Red Springs, Robinson countv.N.
C. Angus A. McNeil, a farmer, was
irown from his buggy and instantly
killed. When found he was under the
buggy, with his neck broken.
Frank Light ford, who. it is alleged,
poisoned six persons at the boarding
house of Hattie Lightford. in Chattanoo
ga. Tenn., was-arrested at South Pitts
burg. One of Liirhtford's victims died.
md another barely escaped death.
Property belonging to the Rover Iron,
orks company, at Roanoke, Ya., was
sold at public auction to Clarence M.
Clark, of Philadelphia, for $2G,000. This
includes a narrow gauge railroad of some
eugth and very valuable iron ore banks.
Six colored and two white convicts,
escaped from the Coalburg mines, at
jirmingham. Ala., by digging out of the
shaft where thev were at work. Thev
dug out on the opposite side of the hill
from the prison, and their escape was not
discovered until night.
Yellowstone Kit came near breaking
lis neck during his shoAV in Montgomery,
Ma. He slipped from a high box where
ic was orating, and full" backwards.
Some gentlemen caught him just in time
to prevent the back of his neck from
striking a heavy iron-barred chest.
Iii accordance with a petition signed
bv the presidents of several commercial
exchanges of New Orleans, La., and
maiiv prominent representative citizens.
7
Gov. NiehV.is issued a call for an immi
gration convention to . meet at that city
M uch 5th, the object being to encourage
immigration to the state.
Twcutv-five of the prominent citizens
of Opelika, Ala., met at the First Na
tional bank to take steps in organizing
cotton lactorv. A committee of five,
consisting of Major A. Barnes, chairman;
IN. P. Kent roe, R. M. Greene, C. J. Sud-
dith and II. B. T. Montgomery, was an-
lointed to canvass the town and report.
The Atlanta, Ga., directory canvass
hows that there are ten chartered and
nivate banks, with an aggregate' capital
of $2,225,000; that there are 140 miles of
st reets and 190 separate streets, 240 miles
of sidewalk. 60 of which are nnveel nnd
curbed. There is 151.000 feet of sewer-
ige. The estimate of the population is
E. Short, railroad agent at Knoxville.
Miss., on the Louisville, New Orleans fc
Texas Railroad, was assassinated. The
assassin fired through a w indow. Short
at the time was engaged in making out
his monthly reports. His daughter, tele
graph operator, and his wife were in the
room with him. His wife was shot in the
back.
The Cromwell line of steamer, Louisi
ana, trom iNew York for New Orlpnns
La., exploded her supply heater when off
the Florida reefs, and came to anchor.
She was towed into Kev West bv tVi
steamer Elmonte. Several" firemen on the
Louisiana were scalded, and one died
The Louisiana will be towed to New Or
leans for repair.
A pair of Mormon elders passed through
Raleigh, N. C, on their way to Davie
county. The Mormon missionaries con
fine their operations to the most ignorant
people in the backwoods and unenlight
ened communities. These latest arrivals
say that quite a number of Mormons will
visit the South, and do there - earnest
work in making converts. Several Mor
mons have been nearly whipped to death
in Western North Carolina.
Charleston, S. C, is rejoicing over the
capture by detectives of the burglars avIio
have been operating there for the past
six months. They were captured in their
den on Meeting street. 'Their names are
Andrew Gibbs and James Johnson, with
a dozen aliases. Both are negroes under
20 years of age. The officers found in
their nest a large assortment of plunder.
which filled up a room of the main po
lice station. One of the burglars made a
confession, and told how thev had rob
bed over fifty houses within the last three
months.
SIIUiE IN ;ltVT BKIT.UN.
A sharp shock of eartuoiiake was Mb
in Scotland. ' It caused no damage.
Shocks were also felt in different parts of
ivigiana. Kepc.rts from Birmmguam.
-o entry ana ,dgbarton. a suburb ot
Birmingham, show that disturbances oc
curred in those places. In Scotland the
shocks were especially marked at- Ding-'
watt, county Kos and at Inverness.
THE BUSY WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHED BY TUB ETEB
PRESEXT NEWSPAPER MAN.
The Karopean Powers Preparing for a
Great Stracce-IrUa AOalr Stormt.
Railroad Accident. Snicldeo. etc.
.- The Hynes carriage factory at Quincy,
111. (the largest in the West), was de
stroyed by fire.
Fifteen hundred cotton operators art
on a strike at Cornwall, Ontario, on ac
count of a reduction in wages.
Archbishop Walsh will lay the founda
tion stone of the National Irish Church
of St. Patrick, at Rome, Italy.
Latest reports from Manitoba indicate
that there has been great loss of life on
the Canadian Pacific owing to snow
slides.
The private bank of W. H. Cutter,
called the "Guelph bank company," sus
pended payment recently at Guelph, On
tario.. . ,
The absorption of the Whitney Arms
Company by the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, of NewT Haven, Conn.,
is believed to be the beginning of a series
of such combinations resulting in a fire
arms trust.
The National Tube Works Company,
of Mdveesport, Pa., 'employing 4,000
men, l ave posted a notice ordering a re
duction of ten per cent, in wages of ali
employes. If the reduction is not ac
cepted the linn will shut down.
The carpenters of Pittsburg, Pa., have
notified employers that on the first of
May they will make a demand, for an ad
vance of ten per cent, in wages, and the
employers say tliat the demand will cause
a suspeusion of business.
Eugene Zimmerman, formerly a direc
tor of- the Fidelity National Bank at
Cincinnati, Ohio, who was in Europe
when he w&i indicted by the United
States grand jury for complicity in the
wrong transactions in that bank, has re
turned. Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin,
Ireland, was released from Tullamore
prison the other day after two months'
confinement. A large crowd was gath
ered in front of the building and greeted
Mr. Sullivan with great enthusiasm, and
he afterwards received addresses from
various delegations.
A man named Fitz Maurice, who re
cently took a farm near Tralee, County
Kerry, Ireland, from which two brothers
had been evicted, was going to market,
when lie was approached by the two
brothers, who shook hands with him, as
if to make sure of his identity, and then
shot him fatally with revolvers.
The limited express west bound on the
Pan Handle railroad, ran into an open
switch at Urbana, Oliio, and collided with
a switch engine. Both engines were
badly wrecked. Frank Brown, engineer,
and Charles M. Alband, fireman of the
passenger locomotive and Frank Shade,
roadmaster, were killed.
Wm. McFarland, one of the oldest
actors in the country, died in the county
jail, at Minneapolis, Minn., where he was
awaiting examination as to his sanity.
Intemperance had made him ! a wreck.
McFarland had supported Macready, the
elder Booth and Forrest, and other noted
stars of a former generation.
About 3,000 men, women and girls,
employed in the shoe manufacturing bus
iness, are locked out in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The manufacturers agreed upon this
course of action. The origin of the
trouble was the keeping back of the
wages of twelve girls in Blocker, Gerstle
fc Co. 's manufactory recently, which the
firm claimed had been paid them im
properly by mistake in estimating their
work.
The incendiary who set fire to the hos
pital for Ruptured and Crippled Children
on forty-second, street and Lexington
avenue, in New York city, has beendis-
covcred in the person of a pretty, mild
mannered little girl of 11 years" named
May Wilson. She has been in the hos
pital nearly three years suffering from a
wry neck. She was about to be sent
home as cured when the terrible
crime
was discovered.
The Assembly" chamber,' in the Capitol
at Albany, N. Y., is about to be vacated.
The authorities have discovered many
serious movements of stone in the grand
arch, all of the main ribs of the vault
split, and many of the stones cracked
ear through. The wdiole ceiling is de
clared to be in a dangerous condition.
The time must come soon, they say, when,
without warning-, the wholo ceiling will
fall, and recommend that the whole As
sembly wing of the capitol be vacated at
once. i
Burglaries have been of almost nightly
occurrence in the western addition, one
of the most fashionable quarters of the
city of San Francisco, Cab, and the resi
dents have appealed to the chief of police
for additional protection. A burglar
entered the house of Chief of Police
Crowley, while he was asleep, and stole
1,500 worth of jewelry from his wife's
room. Mrs. Crowley was aroused iust in
time to see the thief jumping from a front
window.
When the men employed at Glendower
colliery, near Minersville, Pa., came out
from work recently, they were met at the
mouth of the slope by a large crowd of .wo
men from the adjacent Hecksherville val
ley, who besought them to stand by their
striking brethren, and offered, if they
would, "to share their last crust with
them." As an earnest of their o-ood'
faith, the women offered them substantial
contributions, which they had brought
with them, consisting of bread, meat and
potatoes. Little or no attention was paid
to this novel appeal.
Erpress train No. 8, on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, was
thrown from the track by a broken frog,
while passing Steamburg Station, N. Y.
The engine and the first two cars passed
over in safety, but the third coach left
the rails, and dashed into a caboose of
the freight train lying on a side track,
killing Miss Hattie' Abbott, aged seven
teen, Sheffield, 111., a passenger, en route
to Boston, in company with Mrs. Cvra
and Miss Bessie Rattey; George Ellis.
Meadville. Pa., conductor of the freight
train; James Dean, of Meadville, brake
man of the freight train.
IKEA .SPANIARD,
Dispatches from Iluelvra, Spain, states
that the mob of riotous miners, now on
strike, being ordered to disperse, refused
to do so and were fired upon by troops,
and many were killed. The governor
spoke from the balcony of the municipal
building, and tried to restore order, but
the crowd t rowned his voice with shouts
and fired pistol- and threw dynamite
cartridges at the soldiers.
We will say to a thoughtless inquirer
that an old maid is always a young mar
ried woman when she gets married.
OLD UBBY PBISON .
To Bo Remored from Klehatoad, Ya., to
Chlcaco, HI., and Placed KxMHtlea.
A new departure in the line of relic
worship has been taken in Chicago, 111.
Preliminary steps for the formation of a
corporation, whose object is the purchase
and removal to that city of the famous
Ljbby prison, of Richmond, Va.,. were
recently inaugurated there. The history
of the enterprise is best told in the words
of William H. Gray, to whom is due the
credit for its incep'tion: "Last Novem
ber," said he, "when I was traveling
through Eastern Virginia with Judge
Moore, of Toledo, we'met on the road to
Old Point Comfort and Richmond Col.
Barnes, a former officer in the Confede
rate army. In the course of a conversa
tion of the events of the War, reference
was made to the old Libby prison, and it
occurred to me that it would be a good
idea to purchase the building and trans
port it to -Chicago. 1 took Col. Barnes
into my confidence, and asked him to as
certain if the property could be purchased.
Shortly after my return I received a let
ter from Paulings & Rose, real estate
dealers in Richmond, stating that the old
prison was now the property of the
Southern Fertilizer Company, jnd that
it could be purchased for $23,000. At
my request, J. A. Crawford, general su7
pe'rintendent of; the Chicago Towing
Company went to Richmond and looked
over the ground,"- and investigated the
possibility of moving the building. He
returned full of enthusiasm for the enter
prise. Some further correspondence
with the real estate firm mentioned re
sulted in their obtaining forme an option
for thirty days on the property. I have
consulted with architects, and they in
form me it can be taken down, removed
to this city and rebuilt just as it now
stands. We, that is the company, pro
pose to number every brick, stone and
shingle. The building will be taken
down In sections, and the material will
be boxed up and transported by rail" to
Chicago. Ve will carefully draw every
nail that has not rusted away. We will
bring up the mortar to use it as far as
possible in rebuilding. Every beam,
joist, door aud window will lie set in
place. The enterprise will cost about
$200,000. We will surround it with
another building, 200 by 100 feet, with
a glass roof, and on the wall opposite the
rear of the prison wc will have painted a
panoramic view of James river and the
country beyond. I am informed that up
to two years ago, when the property
came into the possession of the Southern
Fertilizer Company, the Richmond au
thorities had to keep a guard around it
to keep off relic hunters, who would
have torn it to peices. I have been in
formed that some of the Richmond peo
ple may'kiek, but it will do tin m no
good." Josiah Cratty, one of the incor
porators in talking of the scheme, said:
"It should be understood that there is no
idea of waving the bloody shirt in this.
It is simply a business speculation for
what there is in it." -
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Several of the Pensacola fishing smacks
have been at sea two weeks, and some
uneasiness is felt regarding their safety.
....Tobacco culture will be tried in
Hamilton county this year.' to some ex
tent. . . .An effort is being made to organ
ize a Teachers' Asssociation in Hamilton
county There are yet 10,000 boxes of
oranges in the vicinity of Orlando, unmarketed.-.
. 1 A DeLand shoe dealer re
cently ordered a pair of No ...J 6 for one
of his customers. .. .Capt. Wm. Archer,
chief of police at the Ponce de Leon, at
St. Augustine, is determined to allow no
bunco steerers or confidence men oh the
hotel grounds. Recently one of. the fra
ternity entered the hotel and was ascend
ing the grand staircase, when' he was
stopped by the watchful official, who
warned him not to repeat his visit
The steamer Cleo. heretofore running be
tween Melbourne and Jupiter Inlet, bus
been withdra wn. The new stern-wheeler,
Georgiana, recently built at Palatka, has
taken her place Capt. W. S. Pitts,
the "Western tourist and Florida's alliga
tor exterminator, made a contract to fur
nish one firm with 18,000 alligator skins,
but, being converted to believe in the
culture of tobacco, has cancelled the con
tract, and now has 100,000 tobacco plants
up and will commence soon to transplant.
... .At the time of the accident to the
train at the St. Mary bridge, some weeks
ago, the Sanford Packing Company lost
a car-load of oranges, which w as going
by express. The Southern Express Com
pany has just settled the damages, some
$800. . . .Gilmore's entire festival
will appear at the Sub-Tropical in
weeks' time. The anvil chorus
band
a few
is a
specialty witli this company,
antee necessary to secure
The guar
this band
was a very heavy one. The state will be
thoroughly billed and special excursions
at a low rate of fare run for the three yravs.
..... The . Volusia county branch f oi the
American Biblical Society is trying to
put a canvasser in the field who will sell
Bibles throughout the county and give to
those who are unable to buy There
are now moro tourists in DeLand than
there have been at any one time for the
last three years The DeLand Rifles
will be rigged out in- new uniforms in
a few days. . . .The headquarters of the
department of Florida G. A. R. has been
established at Jacksonville, Fla., and the
following appointments have been made
by Commander James : Assistant Adju
tant General Samuel W. Fox, Jackson
ville, Fla. ; Assistant Quartermaster
General Charles 31. Ellis, Jacksonville,
Fla. ; Inspector James A. Pine, Eustis,
Fla.; Judge Advocate George W
Lewton, Longwood, Fla... G. II. Car
penter, the alleged forger from New
York, who escaped from the sheriffs of
ficers at Jacksonville, is still at large.
CORNER IN TOBACCO.
Heavy buyers of tobacco report great
excitement in Kentucky. Every availa-,
ble toot of land is being engaged and
people are paying as high as $90 per acre
rent for good fields. A representative of
i New York tobacco firm savs: "Snain
has recently bought 4,000 hogsheads of
lugs in New York, which leaves her
1.000 short of lat year's requirements
with about 18.000 hogsheads for the
wants oi lfsss. tw ork . warehouses
:ire about empty and purchases made at
L.iariv smiu tnis week were lor immediate
shipments." Louisville operators are
making every cllort to get all dark low
grades in a few. hands, and are credited
with the purchase within a week oi
nearly all, the stock in Paducah, Hop
kicsville and Nashville.
CnOLERA IN cniLi.
lhe latest cholera returns from Chili
by cable arc: Valparaiso, 46 cases and
ju deaths; Santiago, 54 cases, 18 deaths
The epidemic extends as far South as
Valdiva. No more cases have appeared
at La Serena. The Peruvian consul at
Panama advises the government that the
authorities at that port will not accept
mails from Chili.
SPRING FABU NOTES.
WJtA T THE SOUTHERN FARMER'S
THOUGHTS ARE TUltNING TO.
Intensive Farm'tag Ibe Order of te Oar
What Progressive Women Are Dolag
Anoat Fo-" Butter, Tobacco. Etc.
GOLDEN "WORDS.
There are many farms in the 1 South
yielding a sctnty living for all con-.
ccrned, where it would be wise to sell
one-half the mules, one-half the plows
and other implements, one-half the land
(or let it rest), dispense with half the
labor, and invest the money saved in fer
tilizers, improved stock' and improved
implements, and such appliances as may
be needed to reduce loss-and waste. The
farmer who confines his best efforts and
skill to a small portion of his farm and
still continues the whole area in cultiva
tion has practically only reduced area
without reducing expenses.- Southern
CoUieator. ' , .
A WOMAN'S WORK.
"I have raised ever so many chickens," .
says a lady iu St. Mary's Parish, La., "and
been very successful. My chicken eggs
alone some months bring me $12 or $15,
and during grinding season I have made
from-$T5"to-$100 easily. My chicken
sales keep my pockets amply supplied
with cash." So mote it be in thousands
of country; homes aii over' our dear old
poverty stricken Southland. We ask
what .able-bodied whj.tejiMtn or able
negro is making as much money planting,
cotton? Echo answers none, and this is
being done with only a lady's spare time.
What is here said of the women of Lou
isiana is also true of the women of many
other Southern States. Exchange.
TOBACCO.
The best so for growing the "Black
Wrapper" is a dark, rich loam. Black
loam is inclined to make dark tobacco.
The manure should lie well rotted, if any
can ( be had. Fresh manure inclines to
fire it up and "head in," and should not
be used. If a fertilizer is used it should
not be put immediately in the hill, it will
do better to scatter it around the hill.
The soil should be broken deep and well
pulverized. If a good freeze comes after I
the first breaking so much the better, it
will clear tlie soil of cut worms.
PKCAN TREKS.
The pecan belongs to the s une genus
with the hickory, and is equally difficult
to transplant. It will not grow from cut
tings, and requires- considerable care to
transplant it. The nub 'should be care
fully gathered from the tree, and buried
under some. loose earth aud trash, so that
they will be kept cool and moist, and
where they will not be disturbed by ver
min. Then plant, them as you would
peach-stones, say in February or March,
or just as they begin to sprout. In other
words, manage about as , peach-stones.
It is better to , plant the nuts just where
you wish the trees to permanently grow.
But if not convenient to do this, cut off
the tap root the next fall, and transplant
again, and so on until ready to set them
permanently, transplanting, or re-sctting
every fall until finally located. The trees,
if well cultivated, will commence to Vx
a few nuts in eight or ten years, and the
yield will rapidly increase annually, as
the trees become larger.
TO MAKE GOOD 11AMS
The Westphalia haras are made as fol
lows: Well rubbed with dry salt and left
to drain twenty-four hours. Take two
quarts of salt; two quarts of bag (rock)
salt; three pounds of brown sugar; one -pound
of saltpetre four ounces of sal.-'
prunelle, and four ounces juniper berries,
well mixed and boiled in six quarts of--water.
The brine is then cooled and
skimmed. The -hams are tlicr i'iv'n'
from the salt and - wy? 'Cry, and the
cold pickleipoTjtf-fiv,er them and rubbed
in. There should be enough brine to
cover the meat. Turn the meat every
second day for three weeks, then take
them out, wipe dry, and a mixture of
ground pepper, salt and brau is thor
oughly rubbed in, filling all cnu 'is and !
openings. They are then smoked v little
every day for three months or mo-( until
completely dry, when they will I l-pand
improve in flavor for years. Pyrolig&e-
ous acid will keep off flies and animaleu
l;e of all kiuds, aud improve the flavor of
the meat.
EGGS AND BUTTEK.
A lady in Water Valley, Miss., write
to a Southern farm journal: "As I wrote
you what I' was doing iu the Summer
with our 'scrub stock,' I will "now tell you
v. hat I have made clear of expenses in
one year. Have sold 1.010 pounds of but
ter, besides what we used at home, at
twenty-live cents per ' kuii1, making
2-4. Also twelve Wollais worth of egg!
and .seven dollars worth of turkeys. Ho
ym see that farmers' wives cau do eorae?
thing to help their husbands if they will
only try. 1 have not" been running a
lairy ,' but simply selling the surplus-
butter from the cows we kept to supply
the family table."
llLACKEERUIES.
The people of North Carolina pay more
attention to the gathering of wild berries,
roots and herbs than the inhabitants or
any other Southern state. During the
last blackberry season a single Tarm in
Greensboro shipped in one day 18,000
pounds of dried blackberries. 1 his is
the kind of work for women and child
ren, as well as the gathering of herbs and
roots, of which we shall soon have somc
tliing practical to give to our fcmal
readers.
THE BIGHT SORT.
The young ladies of Auburn, Ala., have
organized a flourishing cooking club. . Afl
there is an agricultural and mechanical
college at that place, the young men will
know where to hnd domestic wives woes
they gaaduate.
THE CITY MUST PAY.
George H. Clarkson, a Chicago drum
mer who was robbed of $55 in cash, a
revolver, a gold watch worth $150 and a
gold chain worth $80Jhas entered -suit
against the city of Kansas "City, Mo., for
$5,000 damages. His claim is that the
city is responsible for the safety of life
and property of citizens and strangers.
The case ij without precedent.
COTTON KKI'OKT.
The weekly review of the cotton mar
ket, says that thev total receipts havft
reached 90,130 baleiagainst 103,403 bales
last week, 145, 74 f bales the previous
week, and 139,308 bales three week?
since, making the total receipts .since the
1st of September, 1887, 4,480,132 Ixdes,
against 4,340.172 bales for the same
period of 1880-7, showing an increase
since September 1, 1887, of 13,960 bales.
A New England farmer, having been
asked as to the occupation of an individ
ual of considerable political influence,
but no visible means of support, replied,
"Do? Nothing. Go nfh nt i."