North Carolina Newspapers

vol. m. SALISBURY. N. C. ' THURSD ARUERS' ALLIANCE HOTES. -eN THE M"i AND I T 8 MEMBERS VtrT rm twv - , THIS, GREAT ORGAXIZATIOJT. i,lGISLA TIOX, NOTES, ETC r j The lagging manufactured from cottor talk fibre promises to be, well received bj armers, warehousemen and manufactur es. . West Virginia' State Alliance will hi organized at Charleston, Kanawha Coun yr August 13, by President Barbec oJ Virginia, assisted bv National Secrets. w. ii. lurner. T TT rr. ' . J liCt no man let upon his Alliance r enthusiasm on account of the warfare jtxtween the great Alliance and the poli- icians. It had to come and it has come. Jut brave men will not flinch. Xs!ated Jaat the Alliance '--co-anna. tv.ii ii..i.i; 1 - so v a" ju i uuiuing couniv, 'a-Vi-ora a paid up stock of only $485 how an account of sales from Februarv Hlh. Wft t Aut r,T io -Tin- an,:.. ertainly a wonderful. record.' . ' ... Join the Alliance and hcln to field ihf lattles which are springing up daily,try- ug iorum me agricultural interests of the country. In union there is strength hnd a thousand men in this Wo more good by far than rive hundred: -Mineral J'osc. Mill they come. North Dakota ha tpplied for a State charter, South Dakota has ratified the action of its executive committee at St. Louis last 'December mdiWiscousin has .-voted - to co'nsnlid.itP with the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, "Who next? Xatimnl XKconomiit. ' - , The silver bill, as amended bv the; sen- r.le, is a great vjctorv for the Fnrmcift' Alliance, and shows that the influence: ol t-iiat order, exerted through its legisla tive committee, is beincr felt. Mcinhprs hi congress have recently voted for prac- icai irey coinage mat a lew years age wouia have voted amist it. AVmna) Tcoiwmht. benator Vance, of N rth Carolina, who lintroduccd the Termers' Alli:iTirf. Knh. treasury bill in the senate, has come out lat footed in a letter, statiuer that he is kigainst the bill. The letter was written fat the request of President Polk, of the Lii:ance. lie says while he is not on- pesed to the purpose of the bill, he can- Ittot support it as it is. ihe followinrr is from the Fnmu-rJ HI lance (Chattanooga. Tenu.): "I'av io attention to circulars and documents f any should reach you a skin? -farmers p organize leagues under a. parent or ganization in Massachusetts. The author M 'IRIS RThemo tj iho pditni. v... ..: iuiliwui jiuptT.Vt'HJCU UaS DCCU tlTUlo- tO wwj inv finance. The Proaressiee ttirmsr ' 7T?Mif.rl, -v -) says; "The Alliance Rally at Greens' ro on the 24th and 25th of Julr. nmm. s to be one nf the Grandest nvpnta ir. e history of our order : in this -.. Statu Prominent speakers., from this and " wia oe jjresent., The rail ds will g,ve very low , rafrs so ihnt pie can come from-jfdinanceat com atiycly a small expense. " ' ' ' "-. ' : . ' . : : . ..-v. ciV7if iuicksbur?, Va.), a sturdv duty oJ f-iy larmer and wasre-worker through' tme country to make a the Alliance movement special study as much so as uucal parties, and . see which of the t;ce organizations is . advocating mes es that .are of the most vital interest c e people crenerallv. Ti.o ui:J?s,t tc b only faVor measures 'forTh7nT tw, while the Ali inco il I moneV ncc ill nfnn li m.nVind nlike. I.vctv mau elicves in coual rights to all should 1- 1 i ....... n fctudy this matter ana act w ;h i . The ' CuitrasUm (Clinton, X. C!.,) says: "Oates of Alabama, and Carlisle, ol Kentucky, are both out in long a; tides on the sub-treasury plan. Each admit that the farmer is greatly depressed ami oppressed bv unjust laws, yet they say that the nib-treasury plan w ill not do TViPi- finim to be statesmen, and as sucli it would have been morc becxmiing in them to have used, the same time r and energy they have expended, m cruicising iivs wm,. in amending itj or framing a -better -one ' with the same object. .; If they, as .states, men in the halls of Congres?, , had, done ut vintv nmtcctinir' the larmers' mter- " - JL r - . rseei off that they got. CStS. or iavuc ..ii -iniHe then tne suo-trcasury oiu wotttd never have been necessary. What are they going to do about it ? Are they going to sitsidle and not only do nothing for the farmer's relief, but even cuticle tne measures wa are forced to offer for ovustlves?" .- pOS'T NEGLECT YOUR MEETINGS. Hon. Martin V. Calvin, chairman oS the Georgia State Alliance, writes s timely letter to the . Southcm Alhanci Farmer, on the. importance , of prompt and regular attendance on Alliance meet ings. Mp. CaMn says The object had inview, at this time, is to; say a ; word or two on the question of attendance upon Alliance meetings. The thought came to me white visiting a thriving lodge in this couf'JT I wondered it tnerc were an lodges in the state whose meetings are flimly attended because of the crops or the warm weather. The meeting to which I refer was held at 3 o'clock p. m. and the brethren and sisters came trudg ing up through Hie heay, ;oylul 01 coun tenance and overflowing with zeal for the cause. That's their manner of doing twice a month. We are in the midst of the busy season, but we cannot afford to lose a meeting of the Alliance except for providential cause. Aw' .,ff nvr.r,fn twlYfi Jl mOUth de- voted to Alliance work vill prove an in vestment of inestimable value to every member of the order. Not a member can be spared from a meeting not one. No member can miss a meeting of the Alliance without sustaining a poesitiv loss. I am satisfied that we need at our regu lar meetings more talk of the good of the nrn V - (r- j nt il,... i . . ui ( l ii i order than is usually indulged in. So far, we have had but an inkling of the benefits which will flow into every coun try home through the Alliance agency. We are grappling great questions and at tempting the solution of difficult prob lems. This is right, but wc should not neglect a single opportunity to develop in their fullness theinnep.wnri-in;nf wrucr; ior, :WitlHut these, our efforts j ... -o La TGRAPH AND CABLE. THE .hi MM ART OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON DENSED FROM NEWS7 DISPATCHEi from usae sam's domain and what TIIE CABLE -BRINGS. Treasury balance: Coin, $122,035,758: currency, $0,942,652. . The entire bu siness portion of Pullman, H ashington, was burned Friday after noon. Superintendent of census. Porter, esti mated the total population of the United States at 64,500,000. The superintendent of the census has decided tojrdc-r a recount of twenty-foui disfiijts in Kansas City. ' C A. Blcssinsr 'manufflcturpr nf nlnmli. mpr materials at Philadelphia, wss burned c ' .j. out Friday. Loss $100,000. .. The;popuiation of-Albany, N. the census is 02.4G8, an ificrease o Troy has a population of 60,587, cre ase of 3,840. Y., bv 1,5(55". an iu- supervisor VVadhne, of the census bu reau, gives an official estimate of the pop ulation nf ItM,f--.,i 1Tt.t. -..I.:..!. 4-y toi, an increase of 75,0 JO. A dispatch from Ottawa, (hit Thcbiil which passed the last session to punish government officials for disclosing government secrets avus official Sv pro" claimjwl Wednesdav" f sivs: A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, savs the cholera is incre ising at Gandiaj Knero, Suera, and other village-. The prefect of Valencia is going to' Gandia to assist th.) doctors of that town. A dispatch from Joil t, 111., s;iys: The 8 o'clook' Chicago-bound passenger traiu on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad was wncked here Fridav morn ing and four people were, killed. "I The earnings of the East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia railroad during the first .week in 'June amounted to $123, 241.!),. as compared with $i)s,098 Jor the corresponding time in last year, j At. London, on rndav, Mr. Bi sented in the house of , jjjLk . 1 1 1 Vi, ; i no- commons a Deti- tion from 15,000 inhabitants ofj' New foundland asking parliament 'or n remedy to the grievances of the Xcw found land fishermen. j Supervisor of Census Davis savs the population of San Francisco is 800,000. The Chinese population is 2 i 000, fan Ja crease of 2,000 since lfiOO. PrnhnhU 10,000 more Chinese, who are regular in habitant of San Francisco in the" winter, are now at work m the country. I Three more bodies of women ( were .found at JohnstoAvn, Pa., on Friday; all of tc. being in the river just Ubove Stone ; bfiic, where a gi eat mass of wreckage lay. last smmer. They j were under the wtfler u aT and all wpro iu a i air s?tnfrfi prcservatft n . C ... ; - was identified . vniy one n5ivj rV'nnf frnnT iuge, 8, 500", ton coast lineiwf T,? nose construction was authiZed by the naval aDnronrinfjnr. - ,:akj i- - ixr-t - J" imcu UV tUU- gress a lew davs ano. .The ves.l ro oOSt, eXflllsivA nf , nrminnrnf ' ban $4,000,000 each. : ' " j ; Iernatz Dourtez "arid Robert Jj. W.il la op who plead guilty to the theft of $58,000 worth of bonds from the vaults of Wm. Wallace, proprietor of Wallace's Moiithly,' and uncle Of young Wallace, werai sen- tencjed at New York-' Wednesday, each to foi in co urlfi svwmn-ip cvrffiuu'i ,av a. years WltU. rd work. A dispatch from Paris, 1 .i.ii says Th French press aumii tnai neirotiaiiona between Lieutenant Wise, representative of the liquidation of the Panama Canal eomanv. and the Colombian g government for an extension of the Panama o,,.t n mennintinn of WOl'k OU the canal canal have collapsed, and that the hopes of .the bondholders have ended. The grand jury at Chicago, on piday, voted against finding any indictment in t .,w. strrpt "L" road, boodle matter, in which the names of M. C. McDonald, Joseph C. Maekhv cx-Alderman Monear aid ex-Alderman Wallner have, been free ly handled; h ;;-intimatei that thef yitat testimony; was suppressed by a liberal usc'of money. " v ; j ; r A keg containing fifty pounds 01 pow der exploded in August Smith's ;grocery store, at Industry, near Scatthaven, Pa., Saturday evening, completely wrecking tlie building and injuring seven children, four of them fatally. The explosion was ,nTc,l bv a.snark.-from a fit c cracker. -i,;p1i pvn'odod r.rcmaturclv in the hands .,lfr,,a Smith. ,lr.. ared Ifourtecn aiect yj i 1 7 years During the celebration at Uttawa.ivan a, Friday, at which 10,000 persons were prc'sent, it was reported that an ?gent for a Kansas -brewing company was about to start an original package house, '5The ex ercises were suspended long, enough r to A-.nAn-- in tmmpa&urcd terms.: the sale VlVJiiVliV, " . : nf liniiAr nnd beer in in original iiiirtaffps.' and favoring measures that would prevent, such sale. MEXICAN DIRT. THE BIOGESf ;i.AND TRADE IN THE HISTORY TITF. AMERICAN CONTItr. Information was received at pan Anto nio, Texas, on Friday, of the consumma tion of the biggest land trade in the his tory of the American continent. Ihe panics to the contract were John Han cock of Austin, and Robert Summerhn, of San Antonio, ou one side, acting foi nn-ncrt fill d. representatives of an Hcii nii.l Tlolland syndicate. The land lies all in one body in the state of y Arvi'n -crithin easv dia- nf ihn "Mexican Central railroad, and comprises between hve anjd six mill ion of acres and 75,000 heal of cattle. The terms are private. - up I I .V-jr DIISU I ' in mi i i I THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. fKOCEEDIKGS OF. THE HOUSE AND SENATE " BRIEFED DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OU COMMON COHNTRT. xrmcs. T he house, on Wednesday. consideration of the federal V resumed the pending qucstioniection bill, amendment offeredbeicg on the of Virginia, rcojgP by Mr. Tucker, circuit court, .airincr the iude of the toAi$SOciated with thf flint riot fed 'dSS upon applications for su pervisors of elections. Rejected. After a lengthy debate the bill was ordered en grossed and read for the third time. Two hours, were consumed in the reading of the bill. The question then recurred on its passage. As the call was in progress the greatest interest was manifested on both sides of the house. The bill was passed yeas 155, nays' 149. The house then, at 9:25, adjourned. In the Senatey on Wednesday,' Mr. Hii- cock called up his motion to reconsider the vote by which the senate on Tuesday refused to recede from the amendments to the legislative .-appropriation bill in reference to the pay of senators7 clerks and sessional committee, clerks, 'i he mo- tiotf was agreed to veas, 26; navs, 21 iiitj question rectr.red whether the senate should recede from its amendments Agreed to 82 to 16. The legislative bill now goes to tne president for his, signa ture. The senate then proceeded to the consideration or tne two senate bills re ported from the committee on commerce, lu pmce ni American mercnant marine engaged in foreign trade tipou an equal- uy wun tnat ot other nations, and to provide for an ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce. 31 r. Frye said that he hoped to have the senate act Thursday on both bills, as he intended to call up the river and harbor bill on' Monday.-. After a short executive session the senate at 5:10 adjourned. In the senate on Friday Mr. Allison moved that the adjournment be tiil Mon day, which was agreed' to. At 2 o'clock "unfinished business" was taken tip, it being two postal and ship subsidy bills. Mr. Vest continued his argument against the bills. The conference report on the agricul-tural appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. The senate, it -4 :50, adjourned till Monday. 2COTES. . The president signed the Idaho bill or Thursday, and the new state will be added to the flag. The president, on Thursday, nominated Adam E. King, of , Mary'and, for United States consul-gcncrjiLntJris. Tiie superirrt evident of the census ' hai authorized n recount in five clivfncts oi iinncapolis, Minn., la regard 4o whfciLl iiiL-iu jo ciiarges oi irauct in increasing lUClllllIUj. A telegram was received nt the navy department from Rear Admiral Walker, saying that the squadron of evolution sailed from Rio de Janeiro Saturday for New York. It will touch- at Pen nambuco and St. Thomas, and it is ex pected th reach New York about the first of August. Repubiican.members of the conference xviuumux uuiiiie snver uui werj in ses- won oaturaay vbt reached no conclusion. it me indention to holt conference,, bui the d were .both.;, abt. ; The ,:principalri4w tion discusseffi was whether l ton np- ounces or thatiH.SOO.OOO wnrfh :'iC. -I,,.. .1,1 i: ' i i ' .1 ?ii. sjiuuiu ue purchased monthlv. Another uTi'ivnlKnrc r.r ' silver bill was held Friday 4 the . ' " i (J .Ji- 1 l nl P fiVfli ing one hour and a halfV On, 'ast members, sav'thc "tim ,x-00 Jhc --Thur inagenerdS.T the hnancial situation, and that no xL J. and pressed my parficu!:;' fore 1i 1 I IVY 'It tuitiw.igfffe9Pft.ntii 1 1 .urn k J r luu aiorninsr. The northern democratic i, t,Ac nf rnreseutatives have issue in appeal to tne country in regard to tht lection bill, now pending in congress. The measure is alluded to as "cxtraon.li- narv, dangerous ar.l revolvity?nary,' a "r.ui elv partisan measure, intenueu pu- 1 . 1 marily to control elections for congress in all the states, and to intimidHte, hounu, obstruct and harass, by political persecu tion in unfriendly hands, adverse ma jorities in the cities of the norths 11 "creates an army of spies, v and "prosti.v tutcs the judiciary." The appeal con- , eludes in a rall to true patriots, regardless Df litical amliation, to protest, through public- meetings,-or otherwise, against this consolidation of government, there are, so far, thirty - signatures to the ap peal. There was a dead calm in both houses of congress Friday, after the storm of rr,A.ir - Tndpfd. there were so few members Of tllC nOUSe pitasl-Ufc 11101, xv could do no business and adjourned over until Monday. The senate aiu iikb wisc. ..The democrats of both houses were discussing nothing during ius y u.,4. fatnrpc nf the' force bill, and its prospects of passing the senate at this L;L. The bill,, the democrats siv is a thousand times worse III' 4w "fmrft bill" killed in. the j '-DO w v rfforts of the late R-imuel i! Randall. It will simply place rnfire south unctcr - ,v. nnnr the rules 01 re- reinforced UlDUCaU lLVivi .i .-uA.v. f , T coats vath , burni- hed nn T 1" TI ' - It T I 1 i ! I t ILl IIIIUJ ... , -11 hn-nnpt' The next cant on tne uiu m be made in the senate, lncre nre mau senators who do not believe tue -senate will ever take up the bui tor senous consideration. Among them arc sn republicans, but they are the men wuu appose the measure. Notwithstanding this talk, the chances are that the bid will come up. KEMMLER ONCE MORE. THE SENTENCE OF DEA 1 II 1-assuj . i u-i I1IM FOR TnE THIRD TIMS. A Buffalo, X. Y.. dispatch says: W il liam' Kemmlcr was, on Tr.ursdav, foi the third time, sentenced to de ith. Judge Childs ordered that his previous sentence he carried into effect at Auburn prisoD during the week of August 4th. T I iraailtJ A BIG DEMONST NATION OF THB FARMERS ORGANIZATIONS IX' OTHER An Emporia 2 ... EMPORIA, KANSAS. j iVr -n.Aiinui.-e anu omer Jtmareu or jj.tonstrations on the 4tb, ever held liere. There VITUS A.: lArnooucinn II M"m uuiicti m on nt trio mnni.. luug aau au,wuu people in attendance. Aft Klir-H tnrnnnt tl.- t ' - viiiic jciruiers was ever witnessed in this part of the state. The speakers were L. L. Polk, president of me national Alliance; R. Beaumont, and other prominent members. NEWS OF THE SOUTH. BRIEF NOTES E8TINQ OF AN INTER NATURE. PITHY ITEMS FKOMj KWXi POIVT MS, THH SOCTilEr.N STATES THAT WIXI. ENTER TAIN THE READEK A0CIDE5T8, FLOODS, ETC. I FIUES, Mayor Polygon, o Richmond, Va., left that citv on Fridav for T .onrlrtnp sa a rllo. gate to the peace conference. Official census figures give Chatta nooga, Tenn., and suburbs 48,500, in stead of 45,000 as has been anftOiined. Census Supervisor Goves estimated th popoulation of Knoxville, Tenn,, at 83, U0O. The city had 9,693 in 1880, sho-n'- mga gam of 23,867 in ten years. If aVjt .uv, ouuuius u ere auueu, xn population vvouia oe iully 45,000. The beard of trade of Paris, Texa app inttd sis enumerators to take j cens of the city, being satisfied tf t me icaeral census is imperfect. Aust too, ig greatly disappointed, and'.clai 5,000 more people than the census shol es. The official census c: unt of the lead i cities id Texas discloses the followi agures, approximately: . Dall-s, S9,3(H); San Antonio. flOO- l 35,000; Ft. ' Worth,. 31.000: Holis- Ion, 22,000; Waco, 2 l,000; Austin, 16,- 500. The Louisville Southern railroad ft Louisville, Ivy., to a connection with Jincinnati Southern, has been leasee neiast ienn?see. Virginia and G( ia. This give it a northern outlet h o Cincinnati and lLouisville, wh:c necessary to complete its system: A big furniture van, containing a jl iwuuiy one young ioiks returning P ciucon tr.e iarm ol Frank Akin 'V 1 I S r. -T-. T ' - I 1 - TT- iiuw iiouisviuc, at., was s ya northboun'd exj.ivss at Preston crossing ot the Louisville Southe road Friday evening and three of its jauts were killed and others injured t he following have been elected Dhiccrs of the North Carolina Te: assembly for next! vear: Pr? harlcs D. Mclver;; first vice-pres Lugn j)iarson: secrctarv and tn immJ officcrs,of the iical association "YeT Preh Alexander; vice-presidents, C. B, uenson and E. Kellev. L. L. Hobbs; secretary, A dispatch" from Lexington, Va., says: About o o'clock Friday morning, at Buena Vista three miners were instantly killed. The men -assembled about the shaft of the mine, and four men entered the cage' -for the purpose of decending, when rritho tit warning, the car fell a dig-, tinceUf 140 feet to the bottom of thi shaft. Efi Painter,! John Montgomery and Lapp's Sneed were instantly killed. Flrmj rjlnrionoj?E.nf flip- pn,,7, is Still alive anAconscious.. 1 Leaf bAacco sales in the Danville, Va., market dpr June amo anted to 1, 380, 870 poyndsjgi decrease of 2,768,700 pounds a, compired with j June of last year. Sales for nine months of . the tobacco year, commencing October 1st, were 21, 335,102 pounds, an increase of 33,939 pounds -compared with the same period .of the last tobacco year, ine average t ". - -'.-J'xl 1! 4. LS . .'k. '-nflR, riCC PvHIU tne UiL uiuu uiuuma ui iliu bacco year, as compared with last year, w ah increase Of $7.76 pe; hundred pounds. h nt Krida- savs : A rAi-iVirr nf rPTlOl'tS from various couumr mip'-j elinwin" the condition of the- cott i crop " " C l.X T1,n un to the tn 01 ports tVint from nveito six per less cotton has been plajuted than lasc year. TV The condition is abd.ut lorty-iour pyr cem better than last vear. 1 lie crop is two or three weeks earlier. The weather has been all that could be desired. The crop Jo ilnon rill dclfear-of crass, labor; being 4-5 Vl-CM r W . ' -; - . abundant. . :'-'kHv'; :' -'.? TRADE hREPORT. iiusrsm review won WEEK ;bsded :sat- The weekly review of trade by R. G. Dunn & Co. says: With the beginning of the new fiscal year we have heavy dis bursements and easier money, better crop prospects and continuance of a largei trade for the season than has been seen in any previous year. The volume of trade shown bv clearing house returns at all cities outside of 'cw York is 14.1 per cent larger than last year for the month oi June a- d 13.0 per cent larger for the hall Thft last veek or two have wit- " j rtiinr iirroncp the extreme noi weather having depressed trade at mahy western points, uik;muis.'w"'-"" Mm nf Tiriinr lemsiation is now 1)11 IllXVIUUk vi - o - - o - ... 1- 1 1 J . earnings thus fat for Juno show a jjam 'of about r-t oier last vear, but these ?how less gain for the latter man ior -xut ----- - . .. - , first half of the month. Ihe iron raue is more stead v, but rather dull. Reports from the south are very favorable us tc trrowing cotton J and in Texas the esti mated vield is L the largest on record, anvprnment reports make the decrease in circulation of all) kinds ol money in juuc less than 2,0q0,00?t but for the year past the increase has been 4ii,utU,ouu. For the nrst time uiu pui,utui, cash on hand, falls below fi.uw,uw, but appropriations of 8167.000,000 for pensions during the new fiscal year render . i i it less HKciy that the surplus will oe troublesome. Business failures occurring during the wcet number for the United States 181. and for Canada y, as corn- pared with 202 of last year. the corresponding week SUBSCRIBE NOW. Haty vfrom ,Utwo wfruck s Itrect il I rail- d tccu- rf is the - ao t ners sil lient. I I 4 dent, eaigurer, T K I ItClas- "r .... ' : Qat AT LINE. S IX GRAY IN THAT- GRAND RALLY. The first ention of the United Con- federate Ve rans' association met ir Chattanooga ihursdav, Gov. John B. Gordon presian. ine city was gay 3 decorated in honv of the convention, all the public buildings and leading busi ness houses being profusely adoraed with tiie stars and stripes. Out of the tens o! thousands of flags that were fluttering in the breezes, not a half dozen flags except the stars and stripes wereseen. All the decorations conducted, Iv the executive committee were in national coivs only. Ex-confcderitc ' veterans came vn on every train, and thousands participated in the meeting. An address of welcome was delivered by Hon. Mr. Wheeler, an ex-Confederate soldier, and was respond ed to by O'encral John B. Gordon. The question of organizing the Sons of Con federate eterans was referred to the committee and probably will be reported favorably. A memorial from the Wo man's Jefferson Davis Monument associa tion of New Orlean, asking co-operation, was pre cnted and several hundred dol lars were subscribed.- The following of ficers were elected: General in chief, Geacral JohnB. Gordon; lieutenant gen eral, iu. Jvirby bmitu, ot lennessee, lieu tenant general trans-Mississippi depart- ot, general V. L: Cabel, of Texas. e convention then adjourned. The Fourth of July exercises of the reunion took the form of a monster par ade. Ten ; thousand veterans were in line, together Avith three regiments of Tennessee State Guards encamp d near the cityr and several military companies from other southern cities. Fifty thou sand people witnessed the parade. In all the line not a single confederate flag was displayed, but every com mind ear ned national colors. Brass l ands passed up hc streets playing national airs and "Dixie," "Bonnie Blue Flag," and the war tunes on both sides, and ch- ers greeted every air. The best of good hu mor prevailed, and not a single incide. it occurred to mar the pleasure of the occa sion. The programme arranged for Sat urday was a visit to the Chieka mauga battlefield, where there was a great picnic and speeches were made by ex:federal and confederate soldiers. Gen eral John T. Welder, ex-federal presi dent cf Chickamauga Memorial associa tion, made the principal speech, which was well received. There were several thousand people present. "The cxcrcis'es took jilace on Snodgrasst hill, which was valiantly held by General George II. Thomas and won for him the sobriquet "Rock of Chickamauga." , Lookout was illuminated at night. Altogether the grand reunion was a huge success. The time and place for the next meeting was referred to the general commanding and staff. BY WOOD. A Baf652jo ;us Custom Which Prevails in A Parts of Africa. . . . i in a letter two the African News the lie v. B. P. Keifc art, one of Bishot) Tay- lor's missionaries in Africa, describes the efforts he and his rethren arc making to abolish the barbar JUS customs of the people. One of which they cling that of administer- to most tenaciously, i mg tne poison ot sas v ood to any person suspected of bewitel mg anyone. 1 ne native doctor is the authority on tne subject, and wh e indicates as tne isrnpf witchcraft is person guilty of pn compelldd to swallo the deadly potion. Mr. Ivephart says : sas wood custom had yas not going to' yield We thought the passed, but Satan without a struts ,.e. habbath morning vd the family went to- last a little boy di the devil doctor r . according tp custom. 1 the devil told him 1 ne devil-doctor sa that one man and wo women '-witched octor selected them the : clilid. Devil bed throuah by six and tney were o'clock Monday -nin2C. They had re dgtefetfe, till' m W ceivcd th reach town. 11 Pj COUl'l UU nomine ight. - Th-p Jhwoin- ninf Tir--v irtims.'i -aT-hng.prp;;flf women, in the tipyies of sas wood, driven nror tbo town & soldier armed with k great club, crying, out: "You bad 1. . .1 I'HU.nn I'ill n-f"rV- mail, VOU UUU v. uimu , ju v-. v.. j bodv." Each victim wasv ioaowcu uy relative disputing the soldier, saying: (iThpr .nrp not bad : thev did not kill any- . . fii 1 1 - . r 11 1 body.; The sas P8 test of their innocence or guilt, If they vomit up the poison, then tney are muu- cent. s.w rnnld do nothimr but .wait results, so we hastened to our chapej and called the church together around the altar and poured out our hearts to God. Let me say, to the praise of His name, our prayers were answered. By 3 p. m. all three of the victims were safe. We went to the kinf and requested a sas wood palaver the next dav, which he granteci. iuiuaj wc met in front of the king's house. The king sent for the chiefs, and many of the people were present. We said: 'How foolish and wicked it is for you to listen to an old lying devil, and murder each other! Death is natural and all must die iYu HTmointed time from God comes. u.Here you rhaye nearly; kiUea three nersons who were innocent, as your tc&t proved. ' Though the devil said they i were gumv, - - 1 - nftr nnd devil UOtu uars. what I vvrv-.. do you say?"' They answered: 4 'The devil and'the doctor are deceiving us ; we thank you for bringing the truth. There shall be no more sas wood. It ends hers.' Fishing "With Pitchforks. TTprr is a fish story from the Gridlcv (Cul ) Herald that has more or less foundation in fact : There is so much sur face water on the adobe lands that all the sloughs are full, and large numbers of canfare running up them from the tule bottom of Sutter County. Residents of t ; nv n wpII n manv of the ranchers in the district mentioned, have great Miort, almcst daily, catching the fish. Instead of hooks, lines, poles and bait, pitchforks are used, the fishers walking alon the banks of the sloughs, or wad- in" wnere pos-iuie, auutt-ouug Those caught are the largest carp ever seen in thisvicinity,some of them weigh in r as much as fifteen pounds. VZTtf A irrPTIVQ VmJ s cMs r THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. DOMESTIC THE AB&AKGEMEXTS WHITE HOUSE. AT The China and Table Cutlery The Cooks and the Kitchens A Com plete Laundry Table Linen . After breakfast, which always occurs exactly at 8:30, Mrs. Harrison sees the steward, McKim, and gives him the or ders for the day, says Miss Gnmdy in the' New York World. This means that she tells him whether there are to bequests and whether she wishes any changes made in the decorations of the private dining room. He arranges the entire menu, for the dav, does the marketing and oversees the servants. Unless it is the houseeleaning season that is all the time Mrs. Harrison gives to her kitchen, but you may be sure she has just as much interest in everything going well as a young matron when giving her first din ner, and she says that the only difference between her cares now and when she was a private citizen is that she does not need to worry over tne preparations for enter- taininjr. - ' She has introduced numberless changes which give a home-like air to the private dininsr-room. One of these is to 'have the table for breakfast and luncheon spread with napkins instead of with one large cloth. It gives the table, which is a large round affair of very light oak, a dainty, effect. .Every dish has a pretty doily and in the centre there is always a bowl of flowers. I wonder if this country has any idea where its' china is kept. There isn't a gentleman's house in the land that has not better accommodations. There it is all the elegant' ware which the former mistress of the White House gathered with so much pride and in the face of so. many growls from the Congressional Appropriation Committees which sup plied the money tucked, crammed and jammed into an unfinished closet which would hardly kennel two mastiffs. No wonder that so much of it is broken and nicked that each succeeding mistres3 of the White House almost- sheds tears over the ruin "of the thing mo3t dear to a wo man's heart, rare china. Until President Arthur's day there was not even this closet all the valuable china being stored in the basement but he had this closet cut from the little hallway by the ele vator. There are two rows of shelves about three feet deep, and there the three sets which belong to the service are kept, one-third of them being on the floor. Mrs. .' Harrison says that, of the 1000 pieces, made at so great an expense in the Hayes Administration, there are not more than four hundred left. Wo men all over the land know how it is not to have enough silver knives and forks' to go round, and they have, all felt the anguish of seeing the most dlstin guished guest get the plated one by. mis take. But who would dream that the White House would not have enough knives and forks to go around, and yet it is true. Every time fifty people set down to a state dinner there two of them take their bouillon from plated spoons, their terrapin from plated forks and cut the fillet of beef with plated knives. It is a horrible thought, - but there are only four dozen genuine silver, knives, forks and spoons in the butler's pantry, aad by the most skilful ingenuity they cannot be made to do duty for fifty people There is one set of knives and forks in the sideboard which has a history, for it cost a President, his re-election. These are the gold knives and forks which Van Buren added, and when the people learned that the public moneys were being taken to put gold spoons in Presidents' mouths they promptly defeated him. Now, the truth of the matter is that they are not gold at all, and the people were hasty in their judgment. They are solid silver washed with gold, and it was only a few years ago in President Arthur's day that thev began to weaT off, and disclnse they are still used on state Thfiv are small, fme-bladed occasions, and much ji;wto thun rnnsp rnmuiouiv iu use I - ' ' ' " hMICf T in this day. Many of the larger pieces of silver elate back to Madison's day, al though no memoranda have been kept, and ft is hard to tell when things were purchased. '.' The busiest place in the whole Execu tive Mansion is in the basement, over rive jjiansiou. 10 xix w.w.uivu., which Dolly Johnson, the colored cook Jnotlvv is a tall: fine-lobktnc oresides: - Dolly v is a tall, hne woman, light of color and probably not much over thirty. President Harrison secured her a short time ago from Ken- tir nnd- from all accounts, Uouy knows how to suit a f residential appetite much better than the former cook, Mrae. Pelouard, whose fanciful French cooking was not at all to the plain American taste. Mary Robinson makes the pies, hakes the bread and fries the cruders, and is the assistant of Mistress Dolly Tnlinson. who confines her ambitions to brewing souds and -basting meats two can tret uo a dinner that wouia put 0- x . . , Phillipini, NicoUni ana an ine omer fcl 0.000 chefs to the test. . Delmonico . , .... .-.I... T f . - t has no more juicy meats tnan uoiiy uraw from Her; oven, anu v auuci unv nhef cannot nut up a better pastry than Mary. They both wear tidy dresses oi " A . - i 1 Dutchblue cauco ana uig unC iiy thft cover them from head to iooi, nai - A. 1 A neither of them wear caps, as the last 3U""3-estion of livery is unallowable at the White House There are two kitchens in which Doliy Johnson can carry out her -dream of cookery, one under the private dining ronm and of the same size and the other under the serving-room and butler's pan try. The first is used when a state din- ner is under way, and m tne secona tne preparations for each day are made. The kitchens are as neat as. a pair of pin?, but 1-v.PTr hiven't the appointments of the kitchens that are now added to five thou- tnA dollar houses, and one cannot help - - wishing that the people who do so adore the quaint, historic White House would get a peep into these dark, illy furnished rooms. The upper floors of the quaint, historic White House are bad enough, but the basement would be condemned by even a modern building inspector. Across the hall from the kitchen is the the sl furnisi from the large deskj marketing in 1 enter the deposit. comes in about 11 set, where everything in tne way of meats and vegetables are bought for the White House, enters these purchases and each month draws up a summary of, the month's ex pendituies, which I have heard are of a size to make an- ordinary man whistle "Razzlo Dazzle," with all the mournful intonations of that pathetic song. The walls of the steward's room are lined with closets which -can be put under lock and key, for he has charge of every valuable in the White House and has to give a pretty sum as bail for their safekeeping. , Beyond the steward's room are the sleeping rooms and on the opposite side the big furnace: room, while at the extreme end of tne hall is a billiard room where a President and his opponent frequently chalk the cue. ' But the laundry that is worth seeing, for a cleaner room cannot be imagined. It is large and light and-off one corner is a little carpeted ironing room. - There is an old-fashioned New England fireplace there which was built in the wall as far back as the time when Abigail Adams came down from Boston and wrote back such gruesome accounts of the "barn like".East Room, which she could put to no better use than to dry her clothes. This ireplace is still used for heating the boiler for the Monday's wash, which oc curs as regularly here as in tha family of any orderly citizen. It is formed of hard baked piaster and looks .as though it would easily stand another century. A large laundry stove stands in the middle of the room covered by two terraces of "flats" which the three white women Johanna, Mary and Miss Grass keep changing the live-long day. They are tidy, pleasant-faced women, and can out do Ah Sing in the polishing business. There are thirteen regular house servants, although eight or nine more are cm ployed about the grounds and conserva tories. .- . -" ' There is still another room where one can get an idea of -Mrs. Harrison's house keeping. It is the linen closet on the second floor. -The linen was formerly kept in the damp closets in the steward's , room, but Mrs. Harrison noticed oneday that there could be a closet amply large made behind the elevator and she had the space walled in, shelves built, and now the White -House has a matchless linen closet. It is under the care of Josephine, Mrs. Harrison's maid, and a whiff of it is like a breath from a meadow in May," for it is kept so clean and sweet. Everything is initialled with UJ. S." in white linen; although one set of napkins has the initials in white, with a faint line of red. The napkins are all a yard square and of the finest damask. Mrs. Harrison ha3 added to tne stock siuce she has been in the White House, and there is one set of dinner linen that was used at the first state dinner that is as fine and soft as silk. Japan's Staple Crop. BAc is the staple vcrop of Japanese farmers, large and "small, andftoaita-oI two varieties. The most popular is similar to that produced in or Southern v ' States: The plants are started in hot y -beds, and when the seedlings are five to L six inches high, along in May, they- are y transplanted into fields which have been : - ; flooded- by- irrigation .or otherwise most .'-', ; of the time ; since he haryejtin previous cro Vn Octbber; .tm4 Noveniber f After the plowing, which is ; done ia-tfie; primitive style characteristic of that re-s 7 ffion, ,the plants, are -put in'.tufl. '? several plants about six inches apart, aad the natives wade about in the water and - V mild in setting them out. The fields are, hoed every two weeks.. The grain is cut . , with a sickle,V made " into bundles miit left to' dry in th- fieldsVX &Whea; dricil i J m.. ;a tiir-PTipd 1iv flail?.' senaratett. - -- from tln' " : ' ' pounding duction )I1 cf modern g J-ue i puB 'ao; sjnoo. rice culture?tfD sv qnoqu aq ajojaiaq-j ijm ing industry, -? .f1m(r3J n able wealth to the natiou.r U ing, as now, raised almost wnoily for home consumption. American Agrkul- turht. '"':'..-.-' ,'.'"'.'. Manv well authenticated stories of ;.theV - finding of live toads and; frogs in solid, : rock are on record, ana tnai suco iuiuS are possible was demonstrated here on Thursday afternoon, when a workman engaged in Varley & Svenu s un f nortn 01 me cnjr, ui r-" - larse piece of iock, wnicn uuu uu blasted out, and a frog hopped out ot a pocket in the centre of the stone. yx course, the occurrencecicj.,- mendous sensation among taa wommen, and operations at the quarry, were ior . the time suspended, ana uie movcuicuw , ot the frog were watched with" great in terest. -The animal "was somewhat smaller , than the ordinary frog and was periectiy ; tUU maw - j ' o - wnitc it, eves vere unusually large ana brillhint. but the frog was apparent . , whpw the mouth should have 1 V tt 1UU w - " - . wa9 j a lipe ani oa tho fpct there was a dark, horny substance 3Ir. Everill at once took charge ot ine curiosity and put it iu a tin can, but the frog died yesterday morning. He brought it downtown and it was examined -with interest by a large number of pcoplerand it was afterward presented to the mu seum, where it will be preserved in al cohol. Salt LaU Herald. : - ' & An Old Confederate Shoe. The editor of the Greensboro (Ga.) Her aid-Journal has an old Confederate sho manufactured for the Government I - cern i i-l.AfA.h woi- annriH I hp m " sole- h fully three-quarters of on inch thick and is 'made of poplar wood, evi-; dently shaped with a hatcaet .or drawing knife. The upper is attached to the sole, with a strip of rawhide, running entirely, around the shoe, the leather being held to the sole with large carpet tacki. The upper is of rough cowhide, dressed only I on the inside. 4&infa Contiilution. --."jl''-tT -- .t.-- i f