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-" .. - ! ' THE OLD NORTH STATE FQRETER.
Francis Murphy, -who hss been labor
ing in the temperance field for twelve
years, estimate that J 4,000,000 person
hare signed the pledge under his crn
sadei, and that of these eighty-fire per
cent! hare remained faithful to their
TOWS.
1.
OUR LEGISLATORS
DOINGS IN CONGRESS
The Cincinnati Fn i'iir r asserts that
Presidents of the Un'rfed States do not
like extraordinary 'fceeniocs. of Congress
at the' opening of their Administrations.
It forces the burden on '.them too quick
ly, before they ase fairly seated in the
-saddle.
Senate and House Convene
Holiday Recess,
Wedxesdat. House
only seventy-five members in
The new law re'atin to Presidential
elections fixes'; the second TJonday in
January as tl e diy mi w'.A?;h the electors
shall meet to cas- their ballots for Presi
dent. Another change requires the
Governors of the States to forward, to the
.Secretary of State at "Washington the
vote cast lor each elector certified to by
the State Board of Canvassers.
German thrift reaches from the peasant
to the. Prince. The petty ruler of the
principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, who
has amassed immense wealth by his mon
opolies and enterprises, runs a cheese
manufactory in Mecklenburg. He is
stated to'-have the advantage over his
competitors of being able to send his
cakes of cheese throcgh the imperial
mails postage free. '
c
After the
There were
attendance
when Speaker Carlisle called the Ilbuse
to order at noon. ! j
Oh mction of Hr, While, of New
York, a bill was passed pro riding that
the om mission by the sender to place
the lawful postage on a letter bearing a
special delivery stamp, shall not hinder
r delay the transmission ard delivery
thereof, but the lawful postage shall be
collected on delivery.
The House devoted most bf ,the day
to the consideration j of thd I river and
harbor bU. j
The billj being taken up
V ' ' " -
waenumtqi increasing me ap
lor bavanpah harbrr from
$200,-000 was rejected.' .
At 4 :2Q the House ad journel
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
hfr. Crisp's
iropriation
$20,000 to
!
t. .
Senate. Nearly all the Senators were
Rumors of war arc ngairi-cropping up
in Europe. The five great powers have
12,000, uo:j of armed men re.idy at a
moment's notice to-fly at one another's
throats. And there is absolutely nothing
to fight for there i.s no great principle
involved: The whole thinjr would as
sume a ludicrous aspect, were it not so
very sad and feriou-i. And th's, ex
claims the h'piclt is nineteen in. century
civilization!
present at 'the session to-d
tariff bill' was continued, the
ing on Vest's amendment to
duty on cotton thread, yarn warps, etc,
1: ora iu cents per poundi to 3
aa valorem. Tne bill went
out a vote. 1
A message from the President
gard.tothe treaty with Chi nla was re
ceived 'and
journed .
laid on the ta
y and the
debate be-
reduce the
per cent.
over with
in re-
ble. Ad-
of
ringer.
he House
an amend-
Tlie military driu has been introduced
in the Middle Georgia Military aiid Ag
ricultural College for the physical de
velopment of the female students. The
young ladies have been formed into a
company, and are taught military move
ments. , They recently marched to the
Methodist Churt h to attend the services,
occupying seats in one corair,. while the
young men, who .also marched thithery
occupied feiwin the. oihiHite corner.
The defendants in the cae of Pobert
Johnson against E. V. Miller, better
known as the "Jones county calf case,"
have perfected an appeal to the Supreme
Court from the decision of tho September
term of the District Court in Waterloo,
Iowa. This will be the fifth time that
this cas has been to the Supreme Court,
and if a new trial is granted, it wHl bo
the sevehth trial of the case since 1877,
when thie case was- begun,' The calves
were originally worth $43, but they have
already cost the parties to the litigation
20,000, and no one knows when the
cad will be reached.
At the time of the recent revolution in
Salvador President Zaldivar was very
short of troop. Jie had a friendly ally
in the commandante of Costa Rica, who
sent some of his subalterns out in quest
of soldiers in aid of Z aldivar. These
men went forth in the interior of Costa
Pica, and lassoed fifty peons and
brought them to the commandante, who
sent them forward to Zaldivar, with the
following note: "My Dear Mr. Presi-dent-J
. herewith send you fifty volun
teers, and if you will kindly send the
lopes back, I w,ill send yoii gome more."
Washington has loit another diplomat,
observes tho New York CWwrriV A,l
trrt.Mr. Mr. Pak, tho Corcan minister
'has taken a long and cad fare-well of tho
President, and started for Corea byway
of Chicago, where he will stop and see
the sights of that giddy town. 3Ir. Pak
took three of the Coreans with him, but
left two or three behind to see that
Secretary Bayard does not recklessly
jeopard diplomatic relations with Corea.
Mr. Pak's health was bad. He wearied
of American food, and longed for 'some
pickled' snakes, which could, not be had
outside the Corean peninsula. We shall
liver Bee Pak again.
Thursday. House Mr Spl
Illinois, to-aav introduced in
a joint resolution proposing
ment to the Constitution. IciDrovides
for the election of the President and
Vice-President by a direct vcte of the
people, and for the term of six years.
It makes the President ! ineligible for a
second term, and extends the j term of
members of Congress to three 3 ears, the
term to expire December 31. I ; also pro
vides that each session of Congress shall
begin on the first Wednesday in ?ach
Jear- .' ' ' I , ' t ' '
Senate The presiding, officer of the
Senate stated that he had examined the.
President's message of yesterday in refer-
. - m
ence to the convention with CAina, and
found that it related and was! sunnle-
mental to matters which had! already
been made public. j
1 he message was thereupon read, laid
on the table, anu prdered printed.
ine oenate atia:20 resumed Consider
ation of the Tariff bill, the pending ques
tion being on Vest's amendmeit'tn the
paragraph 313, to change theTdutv on
cotton thread, yarn, warps, &c,f valued
at .not exceeding 20 cents per ; pound,
from 10 cents per pound to 35 tier cent.
ad valorem. i ii -
Vance proceeded to cive statistics of
the production and consumption. of cot
ton, showing the enormous increase
within the last twenty years. lie said
that since 1806 the "increase a id con
sumption of cotton in the Northejrn mills
had been nearlv 300 Tier rent.-l ' nnil in
Southern mills over COO per cent. This
latter result, he said, was not onlV aston
ishing, but was to him particularlv trrsti-
fying. He declared that the Senkte sub
stitute was a step backward in the direc
lion 01 tne dark ages, and that
case of duties on cotton the
would amount to at least a half
dollars. . . . '
. At tne close of Vance's SDeeclk a vote
was lajcen on vests amendment
was rejected yeas 20: nays 24.
Vance moved to amend para"ra
(.cotton clotn not bleached, dydd, col
ored stained, painted or printed") by
tsuuBiiiuring 40 per cent, ad valotem in--
stead of 3 12 and 4 1-2 cents perl
vmu, anu ne argued in; favor
amendment, but it was rejected "18
Vance moved to amend
Notes of New Factories and Mills
Started in Oar Southland
Her Exportation.
A soap factory is talked of in Rock
nni, s. c. . . . . - -j' j rs
A phosphate mine has been opened in
3Iount Holly, S. C.
Creosoting works are. reported to be
established in Salem, 8. C.
H. P. Morriss has established a sassa
fras oil mill in Amherst, Va.
E. H. Cody, of Cincinnati. O.. will
start paint works in Emerson, Gal The
capacity will lx 20 tons daily.
The Arkansas Development Company,
of St. Louis, Mo., will develop manga
nese ore lands in Folk county, Ark.
E H. Coates, manager of the Macon
(G.) Oil and Fertilizer Co. 's works
contemplates enlrgiW ditni at a cost
of J 125,000. .
The German bark Joachim Christian,
from Ftettin, at Charleston, S. C, re
ports f prung a leak and had a hundred
tens of kainit pumped out at sea.
m J- W. Lehman and others have organ- j
ized the Southern Druer Comoonv. of i
New Orleans, capital stock $25,000, to
manufacture and sell drugs, etc. Mr.
Lehman is manager.
The British steamer Sunbeam, from
Coosaw, S. C, for the United Kingdom,
with a full cargo of phosphate rock, put
into Halifax short of coal and in want
of repairs. She had encountered vcr
he avy weather, during which she lost
boats and sails and received considera
ble damage about deck.
Tr.e British brig James Mason, at Wil
mington, N. C, for Fleetwood, was dis
covered to be on fire. The fire was soon
gotten under control, when ! it was de
cided to tow the brig to the raihoad
shoals, where she was pumped full of
water and sunk. The brig had com
pleted taking in her cargo of rosin (2,
787 bbls). ,A survey directed that the 1
vessel' be pumped out . and floated and
the cargo discharged for further exam
ALL OVER THE SOUTH
FJJOIX EACH STATE.
SOUTH CAROLINA. I
. Governor Richardson has refused to
gn the bill passed by the legislature
--tpxing trie Clemson bequest and ap
propriating three thousand dollars for
the beginning of an agricultural college.
1 nis de eats the measure for the present
untu 1 urtner action by the legisla-
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsyl
vania, who is wintering in Beaufort
county in th:s state, with Senator Butler
ana Congressman Elliott, has become so
pleased with the climate and hunting and
fishing, that he is now negotiating lor
the purchase cf a sea island plantation,
where he proposes to establish a win! er.
home. Senator Cameron is especially de
lighted with the bass and drum fishiDe.
Ham lt- . , f- .-. . . .
m. ijnai., it is doc unuReiy tnat a num-
in the
schedule
million
and it
ph 318
Nature's Clocks. ;
The naturalist. Thorneau. said that f
he were placed in the fields after a Hip
Van Winkle sleep of unknown length,
he could tell the exact day of the year
by the flowers around him. Other close
observers of nature have claimed the
same. , Before mechanical clocks were
common it was an ordinarv habit to read
the time of day in the flowers. Every
oiossom nas its precise Hour for unfold
ing its petals and for shutting them,
a 1 . . m ....
Aitnougn tne light and temperature
euect ineae movements, mere is always
a strong effort made by fche plant to keep
its allotted time. Day flowers that are
imprisoned in darkness still follow their
usual out door habits. Most flowers open
at sunrise and close'at sunset, but there is
no hour of the twenty-four when, some
blossoms do not awaken, and there is
none when some do not begin to sleep.
This motion is generally gradual, but
morning rlowers open rapidly, and after
noon flowers close Tery rapidly. ; Lin
nieus, trie tather of modern botany, con
structed a flower clock which would tell
the hours. The following list of open
ing times is taken from his arrangement,
and has been corroborated by other
authorities: , 1
3
4
5
6
square
of his
to 22.
same para
ph cot
I cents
v cent.
!''
red to
r
th 319
i and
cotton
cjliissifi-
ceat ad
Estimating tne total
praph by reducing the rate on su
ton ciotn wneu valued at over la
per square yard from 45 to 40 pe
ad valorem; -rejected, 'IT: to 25.
jno lurtner mendment was offd
paragraph 318.
' Vance moved to amend paragra
oy striKing out rates 3 1-2, 5 1
6 3 4 cenfs per square yard on
cloth not bleached according to
cation, and inserting. 40 ner
valorem; rejected" by same vote
i-ugn proceeded to address the Senate
in a set speech on the subject of tariff.
rneu ne nao concluded. Vance, iioved
u:uu jmrarapn azu, rtlatifaff to
stockiDgs, by reducing the rate frbm 35
10 av per cent, ad valorem, and ksked
ior ine yeas and nays. 1
aij i -m r ?
Aioncn appealed to Vance not lo de
mand tne yeas and nays, as ther i was
probably no tpuorum present, and as he
wished to get through the cotton sched
ule to day ; but ance would nod !
wni, as ue aid not want the dottcn
scneduio hnished to-day.
ineoenato tnen. havinc riicnnaUl rt
. r- '
a. rn. Purple Convolvulus,
a. m. Flor de Nott
a. m. Goat's-Beyd. !
a. m. Yellow Poppy,
a. m. Spotted Caffl-Eurl
ber of Pennsvlvanians will follow' his ex
ample, and purchase winter homes on the
sea coast of South Carolina, j
James Sistrunk, and John and Sam
Green, three desperate negroes, attempt
ed on Tuesday night to rob and murder
the family of J E Birt. a planter in,Barn-
weii county. After robbino- the smok
house and store room,;Sistrunk entered
the bed room of Miss Lenora Birt, aged
17, and attempted to assault her. Her
screams alarmed her father, who went to
her aid, and was knocked down several
times by Sistrunk. Mr Birt and his
daughter clung to the negro, however,
and the three fell down the stairs to
gether. Here two large fox hounds came
to the Birt's assistance, and tore the flesh
from Sistrunk's legs. He tried to escape
but was too badly injured to do so. He
was taken to jail, where he confessed that
he and his companions plotted to murder
the entire Birt family, and then fire the
house.
VIRGINIA. j
Dr J L 31 Curry, it is said, will proba
bly be the next democratic candidate for
governer of Virginia.
;AC Lewis, United States commis
sioner, has brought suit against the Dan
ville Register for five thousand dollars
damages for criticising some of hi offi
cial acts.
. The body of George Wrey, formerly
porter of the Hotel Warwick, at New -!
port JNews, was found in the water near
there Thursday. He had been missing
since Tuesday. It is supposed he com
mitted suicide.
The publication of the Richmond Dailv
Whig has been discontinued, its good
will, including subscription" list and un
expired advertisements, having been
transferred to the Daily Times, of that
city. The Whig was one of the oldest J
papers in the State.
FLORIDA.
Governor Fleming was inaugurated at
Tallahassee January 8th. ISx-Gov Perry
will return to private, life.
A Tampa, Fla. citizen makes the charge
that the: funds sent for the relief of the
yellow fever sufferers are being misap
propriated. It is alleged that a part of
the $500,000 raised is being devoted to
the improvement of Jacksonville streets.
Governor Perry has appointed Colonel
W D Chipley, of Pensacola, HonA B
Mason, of Jacksonville, and n.mtjnn
James E Ingraham, of Sanford. commis
sioners irom trie state of Florida at the
Paris exposition from May to Oetober
iayo.
THE IRISH.
Th.T r firtlv Stirred Up OTer the
Evictions in Donegal.
The resumption of the evictions in the
a . mY TV - - I
G weed ore district in uounty j-onegi,
Ireland, with increased brutality on the
part of the bailiffs and police has, to-
. . . . . .).. :
rrKthor with outratreous teoiem.es im-
nosed unon Messrs Harrington and Fin
negan, aroused the people of the Catholic
portion of Ireland to intense muignauuu
which promises in some localities to lead
to bloodshed.
Never in the history of evictions for
- M - A.
the non-parment of rent, riss ine resist
ance of the Irish tenants to the enforce
ment of the writs issued against them
under th law. hevn so determined as
now, and never nave tne Tinuicuvruos
of the landlords and the zc-'al of the
bailiffs, and police been so conspicuous
ly manifest .
That the government lias resolved upon
a wider and more rigid application 01
the Coercion act than Heretofore, 11 is
everywhere apparent: and the amount of
suffering in Ireland dunnr the next few-
months must be largely increased. With
a determination born of the desperation
which this obvious fact and the conse
quent hopeless outlook, the peasantry are
resortin? to everv ooasible means to
thwart the nlans of their enemies, which
the scenes enacted in County Donegal,
abundantly attest; and the fight will be
and bitter one. ,
INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
A NEW TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
The Substitute for Jute Baxiv
Manufacture Described.
At a small torn -North Carolina,
nown as Cronley, and ak.ut J Z
miles from Wilmington, is . located th.
p.neCber industry-the only establish
hshment of the kind in lhe w ,
Whose busy brain and .,uiok :
discerned textile possibilities in ning f
Uage is quite unknown, hut hr
- v... 1 i . -nc
mini ii" i'ccu .'uijr waste
verted into various article
comfort but of commercial
C EN ERA L.N EVTS
A Meridian, Miss., special says Cut
ererylhing is quiet at WahaUk, and
that there is no truth in the report about
the late killing of negroes at that place.
A fellow In south Teiat who was
! eavigit m a bUxzsrd, killed his horte,
; pulled out the entrails and crawled Lata
, the dead arimal for shelter and manath.
t lie stayed there thn data and devoured
I about oae fourth of the Lor p.
a long
' Jay Gonial Orchids.
Gould's fad. as vou mav know.
orcnids, of wnlch he nai supero spec
imens, worth fabulous sums, it is taiil
his greenhouses at lrvington cost more
than his residence there. The house
itself is of marble, and is of the Gothic
order of architecture. With the excep
tion of a picture gallery all the rooms are
comparatively small. Jt is a comfortable
house, but not fine in the sense which is
usually applied to the country seats of
millionaires. Cyrus Field, Mayor Hewitt,
Secretary Whitney, Charles A. Dana,
and a dozen other rich New York
citizens, have costlier residences than
Jay Gould.
- Since the time when Mr. Gould's
greenhouses . were partly destroyed by
fire they have been entirely reconstruct
ed, at a cost of nearly $20i, 000. They
1 A A 1.1 . .
may a 1 most oe termea pamces or glass,
so elabcrately are they finished. The
iron pipes alone cost $15,000, while the
aiaineu giaBs eiecorations cost twice as
much more. The head gardener, who
has nine assistants, has been in Jay
Gould's employment for nineteen years.
He resides in an $8000 house. The
greenhouses occupy about nine acres of
ground.
The gardeners are kept busy, in cut-
ting flowers which are sent all oyer"the
country as' presents to the milJio'nnaire's
wealthy friends. There is much care
observed ih Iheir transportation, as
though thef were of much more value.
Boston Glolk.
matter con
TH't only of
imnnrltnr.
Pinus Australis is 'the vari. tv L
otherwise as pitch,, long-Ieavi snd field
uiuc. . nunc iuc icVtS avemf
lengtn iourtecn incnes, those m
twenty-seven inches ha
m. inc nra, asu is a n
here, is gatheted mostly bv women nnd
children from trees, 'thrown for
wood, timber, or for the leavts alone
Mule powtr is promJneut ia transiK)rt-
mg tne straw to tne factory, hoists arc
never seen, oxen rarely. Fifteen cents
per 100 pounds is paid for the straw
which is stored in a hure shed '
s we enter the first of three l irrr
buildings, we. see a huge tank btin-'
filled with the straw: to this is aided
caustic toda, in ouantitv remilated .v"
the qualitv of fiber desired less l.ein'r
required for the coarse than for the
finer grades. For twelve hours the mass
j, J is cooked by steam from pipes passing
through the tank or boiler. Then it is
passed through the rubber, a machine
which cleanses it entirely from all soda.
pulp, etc., leaving clean fiber only. Fol
lowing this is the work of the wringer
breaker and carder; and if the fiber is
to be manufactured on the premises, it
is run through the rover; whatever its
destination, it is passed throuch the
dryer. The product now awaits orders
from the spinning room or, if for ship
ment, from the baling press. Machinery
is used for all handlincr of material.
from the wagon which brings it from
the woods to the car takiotr it from the
factory door.
Commercially, the fiber is "nice
wool," of which ; five errades are nro-
duced. The three coarser are in demand
for mattresses and eenerai upholstering
bemg elastic, durable and exempt from
insect ravages. 1 he finest crrade is verv
soft and is marked ''surgeons' packing."
This is meeting with marked' favor from
the medical profession, as being spe
cially adapted to its designated purpose.
From the erode S is SDun varus of dir.
' a
The marruge tf Miss Gertrude Br
rct: and Mr Josph Andetsoa. Miss
Mary Anderson's brother, ws tolemn
ued at the Cathedral in Boston t U:8i
, Thursday, Archbishop Williams
oflir iating. j. . , ,
Fred Douglass delivered an r'drrss
on the wronirs of the n-
ne-uuring j n Phtla lelphia of th O.d lVansvlvanU
1,u""" oocieiy t,r ttie crletratioQ or
the first quarter of a century of c manci
pation. -
Tha United States Treasury vault in
Balti-nore was robbed of 1 1,200. The
money was in Mirer dollars and when '
the low KM discovered. Dr. ilt. W.
Bishop, the Assktaot Unitd Sure
Treasury ia charge, promptly maJa
good the amount.
in
The Richmond A Danville- Railroad
will hereafter issue what is known as
ministers' permits, which will entitle
the holder to htlf rat. Applications
for said permits to be made through the
company's agents.
Bnsiness failures during the last seven
days number for the United States 859;
Canada, 23. Total, 3s7, as against 239
la?t week, and 27U the corresponding
week of last year Failures are usually
numerous at this season of the year for
a variety of rt aso'ns, but S87 in ona
week is probably the highest number
ever recorded in this country ia that pe
riod of 'time.
There has lately been completed at
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
shops in New Albany a novel postal csi,
which will be put into service in a few
days. It is built of plates of sttel,
lined with asbestos, and is trussed the
entire length of the car. The floors are
of steel, as are the platforms a .
and thete is no wood whatever a 1;
car except in the trucks. PuSi
be 20 per cent lighter' potit
cars, and to be perfectly t:y"
Colic and
Curiosities yTe Throat ami
The last issue fjthing else fails.
IS CRIME CONTAGIOUS!
6.30 a. iu. Sow Thistle.
7 a. m. Water Lilies.
7.30 a. m. Venus' Looking Glass.
8 a m. Scarlet Pimpernel,
a 30 a. m. Nolan a.
9 a. m. Mariagold.
9.30 a. m. Red Rundwort.
10
11
12
2
' 4
5
6
7
3 1-3 pages of the bills today
jourueu at o p. m.
ad-
yearlv mortality Fktdat House. Mr Dunn, a
of the world to be 35.000.0oo w fin ' kansas, called up the Nicaraura
mat not iar iromo,uou,000 die annually
from consumption, or about one-seventh
ef the total number of deaths. . This as
tonishing mortality has led to very care
ful studies and examinations in the hope
nat some means of alleviating the dread
-scoursge could be discovered. While
much progress has been made in this di.
rection, it must, be confessed that medi
cal tcience knows n assure means of pre
vention 1 or any reasonably certain
methods of cure when once contracted.
Historically, consumption has always ex
isted, so far as our information goes.
Hippocrates (4GQ-377 R c). was prob.
ably the first to clearly describe the dis
ease. -It is, as Professor Hirsch, an
authority, says, emphatically a disease
of all times, all countries, and all races.
.N6 climate, no latitude, no occupation,
no combination of favoring cr,,m.
sUnces, forms an infallible safeguard
against the onset of tuberculosis, -however
such conditions may. mitigate its
ravages and retard iu progress. -Like
typhoid fcer, phthisU dogs the steps of
man wherever he may be found, aad
claims iU victims among every ae. claa,
aadract,'? -. 1.
S ....:
. - . -': M 1. .
Ar-
rrinsl
bill. An amendment offered by M Ba
ker (III ) reserving to the United States
right, at any time, to purchase the t
- Tw L.lt 111
ivj.v.i.cvi. iue oiii linen
the
canal.
was
passed; ye, 157: navs. 34
The House, at 4 o'clock, adjournld.
J hft Spvitp vocvivma n n . : i a' .
- - . a- a uiui IV'USIUCI HLIOU OI 1
the tariff bill And the stockin
graph was. passed over. Jlr Vahce's
amendment lo reduce the rate on 12am-
ourg edging to 40 per cent, ad valorem
aa rejected, me bill was thed laid
aside. 1
On motion cf Mr Aldriclij the Sdnate
uies were so amended as to include,
uiwug me persons entitled to the ririv-
ClAn r it j . . K l
U1 ue noor, tne President and
V ice ITesident-elect. j
After a - brief Executive session.
-Senate adjourned. j
a. 111. tiz Mario.'d.
a. m.T-Lady Eleven-O'clock. j
m. Blue Passion-Flower. '
p. m Pink Pimpernel,
p. m. Lady of the Night
p. m. Nigut-b ooming Catchfly.
P- nx Murvol of Peru (Four O'clock.-P-
m. White Evenine ; LvchnL
(iiht-b!ooming Cereus).
Harper's Young People.
Dengue Fever.
During the last yellow-fever pestilence
in the South, there was renortfd n nut.
! break in one place of den true, or what ia
commonly known - in this country as
"breakbone fever."
Dengue .pronounced den-ga is char
acterized by severe pains in the joints,
back, neck, temples and eyes, by severe
prostration, and a 7sh somewhat re
sembling that of scarlet fever- .Most of
the bodily organs may be more or less
affected. The patient may have felt i
well up to the first moment Of attack,
and his first symptom may have been a
pain in a single joint of his finger; which
soon extends to other joints and bones.
After bne or two days there is general
ly a remission from "two to fmr days,
when the fever returns. This, atlesgth
graduallysubsid.es, but leaves the pat ent
weak and in much piin, and recovery
to health is slow. It is a self-limiting
disease, with a tendency of itself to a
favorable termination. In some cases it
is exceedingly mild; in some it may be
exceedingly severe and fatal. It is
probably due to microbes,and, like other
diseases having a smilar cause, tends to
become epidemic, and may have an ex-
TENNESSEK.
The association of American Agricul
tural colleges and experimental stations
is holding its annual convention in
Knoxville, at the University of Ten
nessee, v T
The Stonefort Paper Company have
filed a bill in the Chancery court asking
for the appointment of a' receiver for
the Daily American Newspaper Com
pany, abd have the same wouncj up as
insolvent, and to collect a judgment re
cently obtained for about $18,000.
GEORGIA.
The cotton seed oil mill at Elberton
is making about 5,000 gallons of oil per
day.
J. J. Woll, a prominent young farmer
of Terrell county, was murdered by a
man named Johnaon with vhnm ua
quarreled at a rural dance.
"... .
oome children, while popping fire
crackers, at Plattsburg, set fire to nine
teen bales of cotton owned by Mr. L.
Potter. Loss. $500.
Two More Horrible Murders in Great
Britain.
English newspapers at present teem
with accounts ef fiendish murders. At
South Perchton, in Somersetshire, a girl
ten years of age, named Davy, was out
raged and then murdered. Her mother
found the girl's dead body in a ditch
witif the -head almost severe! from the
trunk, and the body shockingly mu
tilated, after the style of "Jack the Rip
per's" method. The deed is supposed to
have been committed by a tramp. No
one has yet been arrested for the crime.
At Glasgow, Scotland, John Steven
son, a yyung fellow about 19 years of
age, enticeel a prostitute . named Mc
Kenzie, into -a drk court and stabbed
her in the neck and abdomen. There
was apparently no motive whatever for
tne ded but an insane freak.' Steven
son was arrested and a bloody knife was
found in his pocket The only motive
one - can suggest for the commission of
such atrocitiesj is that the mrsons re
sponsible for them have been inflamed
by reading about the Whitechapel fiend,
auu attempt 10 imitate nim.
I U IfkJ
J2eniousilI
tnlplv with niaa rt tfrw
portrait of the old LtTemu:
tacles is remarkablvAru-d. 1 '
by the London JfJurnal frcmV?h
trated prospectus by Messrs. Heiden.
ind Hoffmann, of Berlin, printed 1 3
fierr Gustav Pothe of Grandenz. Jt
ibout the neatest thing of itt kir i.
MMMAm II lA I. . '
tioi iccu. tiers lb im ;
RAILROAD NEWS.
I tensive spread. It is native to India
J and some other Eastern countries, but is
who'Iv unknown in England. - It has
f revailed as an epidemic in the West
ndies, South Amerca and the Gulf
States of the United States. Its pre
valence seemes dependent on some un
determined atmospheric conditions, but.
An Ingenious Poison Bottle Stopper.
An ingenious stopper has lately been,
patented for use in bottles containing
poisons. The stopper is made of india
rubber, and is surmounted by a per
forated ball of india rubber brightly
colored eo as to render it distinctive in
the light, and containing a bell which
rattles when the bottle is moved, thus
drawing attention to the character of
the contents, even though it be im
possible to see the labeL Such a warning
stopper would have rendered impossible
many of the a cidents which have from
time to time taken place, notably one a
few months ago, when a distisfulahed
surgeon lest his life owin to a mistake
as to a bottle containing poisonous medi
cine. Casstlfi Family Jfaoarina
Raiding Liquor Establishments.
BpRLncGTox, Iowa. An important
move for the enforcement of the prohib-
norj iaw going on. The sheriff made
a raid on a wholesale liquor establish
ment ia uui city and seized about 200
The grading and track laying on the
Roanoke & Southern is now about com
pleted from Winston. N. C, north to
Walnut Cove, a distance of eighteen
miles, on the Cape Fear & Yadkin Val
ley. Griffin & Gordon, of Yorkville,
N. C, have the contract for this sec
tion. On the line from Martinsville,
Va., south to the North Carolina
line, .about seven miles of grading has
been done. This is the heaviest part of
the line. The contract for building the
line from the stale line to Walnut Cove
will be -let immediately by the Virginia
and North Carolina Construction Com
pany, of which T. H. Fries, of Salem,
N. C.t is president. '
The report of the operations of the
railroads in South Carolina for October
was recently completed bv the milrr . 1
commission. There are . twenty seven
lines of road in the state. The total
earnings for the month were $825,508,
against $776, 102 for the correspondin:,'
monin 01 lss. and the tnjniw onr, .
17ft ttdn -r- t r . "
' -'-c'-t in vJCTOOcr last
year. Eighteen of the roads thow an
increase in earnings aggregating $01,
229, and five a decrease segregating
119,497, a net increase of $41,732.
rviuis in w ' 'nr-tir rf i I T T -Tt tal. r,
1 v-aipcts, not eiegant, to De sure, but hon-
es.1, comiortabie looking floor coverings,
invitiag hard service, and with a sug
gestion of the wide outdoors in, the bal
samic odor which all the rough expe
rience of manufacturing has not driven
out.
In the incipieucy of this peculiar in
dustry the production of floor covering
was the objective point of the origi
nators of it. but bein?r nl SO fn crtkrrtii in
the manufacture of fertilizers, they also
set about evolving from the pine wool a
fabric which would resist the chemical
action so destructive to every material
heretofore used as packing for phos
phates, etc. j
The mills have lately been manufact
uring pine fibre into bagging ts a substi
tute ior jute bagging, heretofore the
only covering used for cotton. The jute
-Ki," trust ieo tnem to experiment.
cAceueut results, ior the pine
bagging ttanda all , the tests and is be
ne vea ro be even superior to that made
from jute, and bid. fair .to supercede it
altogether on account f"th smn
01 production.
I'aLotu Territory.
In view of the' a'most certain admis
sion and possible division of Dakota, the
enormous size of that U-rritorv should be
more generally known than it is. Da
kota is about four times the size of Ohio.
anil ia f . . .
auu 18 eullfl in iru . w-.-
ijr? m iT, nnrMre, 3Iassachu
setta, Ithmle Island, Connecticut, New
jersey, Delaware, anc South Carolina
combined. Counting ,o. i, a
I , , & MMUMMAM 11UC OUU
kbranches tly ta.iHaj. m;ieilge of Dakota
exceeds 4.500, while the fact that the
"7pers i number 352 is a significant
proof that the community is tenanted by
wideawake and enterprising people.
HaK ig,ready Provided witn electric
light. The gold-and cbal-mining and
agricultural interests are too well known
o require descrintion Wlfl,
tion of six hundred thnn...
f ..... 1 , "- -""
-i-v., nawruowi teems by no
unreasonable.
I
means
Perhaps few r eonle would truett thai
tne caricature herewith depicted spells a
man's name. The double ('our sh in the
cranium forms an E; the noe Atrnsa
Warning the Aldermen.
, White Cans' Lav Iw-
rLi fl.' 1 S fo:i:,w'fiK letter has been
received by every Alderman who voted
for an elevat d road -
Chicago and Coedr
Caps. For purity in politic. d h,.
OIVaw ?Dd uPPionof vice.
Cut of death's head and rro. iw,
"Death to Anarchy. De.th ZrZx.J
oii. Death to lvii " TT " wu"
like most epidemics, it follows lines of J?"'9 of ey and 100 cases of wine.
. COTTON HIGHER.
the
Washington Gossip.
riAn T it ti: - 1 . 11
MAUL. ,w iiuics vr. oiaioe arnvea nere on
the limited express Thursdav afterrloon
1 t j . . . ht.i .
wvuijsiucu oy rvepreseniaiive llliam
waiter Phelps. j
travel and social intercourse.
It seems to be well established that
every eprtlemic of dengue has been car
ried directly from place to place. Its
course, and the means by which it has
made its journeys, are usually capable
of being accurately traced.
ine notei uuncan saloon was also sub
ject to a call from the sheriff. Mayor
Duncan is proprietor of this hoteL
Tnese raids have caused a great sensa
tion among the liquor acd saloon men
and it is the general belief that a num-
Der 01 tnem contemplate removing be
yond the limits of the State.
The national window rlass maniifar-1
' aasociatinn will me -t vachi.. ""OUS errors
v aZ - " . tr I Assam nl
M - ii " j I 1 r -
turers1
. T
iu, u. -inesdav.
me gre-en bottle manufacturers meet, and
on xnursday the flint sflass manufackur
cm . - T),. o . a . ... ... I
- oe-nate tariu Dill will come up.
uc itTifion aesired will ue present
w wo '-nn; cvmmittee.
Ceylon Tern.
Ceylon began its career as a tea-growing
country under favorable circum
stances. All the mythical hallucination
about tea cultivation has exploded, and
the disastrous experience- of India nre-
A 1 M 1 1 - . .
iron 1 ailing into any
at the outstart. Several
enters settled in the island
and brought with them a knowledge of
tea cultivation and , manufacture: so
that, when this is taken into considera
tion, the success which has attended
Ceylon is not so much to be wondered
at after alL mfoi Qrocr.
Carload's.
As a general rule, the following con
stitutes an ordinary carload: 20,000
pounds or 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime,
fcOof flour, 60 of whisky, 200 sacks of
flour, 0 cords of Lard wood, 7 cords ol
soft wood. It to 20 head of cattle, TA) to
00 nead 01 nogs, go to mo head ef sheep,
;J0 bushels f wheat. ZOO ot corn, 6sS
of oats, 40-j f barley, 3C0 of apples,
S30 of Irish potatoes. 3-56 of sweet Vi.t-
toes, 1000 buthela of bran. Stroagercars
arc jo w built to earrr mnrH
loads. '
A Good Feeling in New York The
Bears Off.
Hubbard, Price & Co., of New York
City, say: 'Cables from Liverpool re
porting an advance there of : alxut two
points, induced better feeling here acd
encotrragea a buying movement, under
the influence of which several points
were gained: during the first hour.
Those who supplied the demand thus
crested, seem to have been partiec who
oaugni on ine recent break, and were
glad of an opportunity to Uke their
profits. Some disappointment was felt
by the bears, however, later in the day
wheit light receipts at the interior towns
were reported, and their efforts to de
press the market by further sales while
they offered some resistance were not
sufficient to prevent the market from
closing at about the best figures of the
day.w 1
"'' Sir. liewwe.
m luiciuirt tee Doodlerm
You
C; the upper lip aa O; the m'roth aa II
( articu'arly dUtinct): and the double
chin an N L CORN. This ual :ue
tijeature is taVcn fre m the T p n.A ivJ
ytllr&rer. the editor cf mhl h fsIJel,
however, todecifh.fr the ia;tal E.
ZCl : am """J6 cot yet doted
Cooni T 1 10Ur the
Council -has., been closely watched.
Take warning, therefore, ere it be too
ate, cow jou vote in the future or the
shall attend to Tour case.
Cm",CACO ACoOE Cocktt Wnrra
A BRAVE WOMAN
Ke venue
nuo voiceri witn a
food Aim The Husband Eacape.
T;wA:cri"r"a te, .ur-
. -Tt r . 1 orgeMowery,
, m?ash5a," in Gilmir
SSY'? rajI The officers
wl,? 0ft ,& do"' when Mowery's
wife, who is aq excellent shot, begin
TLg J? v 'DP"ing tbvm to
take refuge behind the stump f tree
in the vard. Sh hm i . :
- . f t-um sis tutrix
uncomfortable petion for an hour,
their heads. Her husband in the mean
timeetespcd from the back part of the
A Mississippi Teadetta.
punishment! j Jifnet Coleman ha-1 a difficulty with
Charles sod vt imsra ijy auout am
possession of a firm, ami the quarrel
ended in a regular pitch battle between
the parties, with double barrelled shot'
guns, ia which Frank Coleman sal
Charles Daly wete iartantly kitted.
After the guns were emptied the kurrl
vors engaged ech other in a hmnd-V
hand conflict, in which James Coim
wis wounded on the hesd anl William
Daly badly wounded in the thigh. T
sisters of Daly's, who had appeared oi
the scene, were aho stgttly wousdl
Officers took charge of the wounded.
All of the parties were prooiceat citi
zens of Choctaw county.
Tte Skater.
JCew tbe skar pr.T!t-r. "
Wboa tas frcat-UJoad pood
! - . alar,
. Dons tha Ul i n
Se kow swif t h th4 avl aiel
WaatSaenUbr A psaak tur
Bav4 feat stlS any stick
Trot kua ap tb lajte. .
Wi.Xo Ff Fret
God never created a nobler thleg uoaf
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