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C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, The fountain head of TTestis Chicago. Anarchy in the I f J The new public library building fa Boston is designed to accommodate the nott complete collection of books in the L'nitediStatca. It will have shelf room for 2,000;000 volumei. The French chemist who discovered sleomargcrine has now invented a pro ease for treating steel by which steel bronze and tell metal can be made at fabulously low prices. A new phrase was invented by Lord fompton, n Kad:cal peer, who was re cently a Parliamentary candidate in Lon loo. "Three rooms and a at" was, he tald, the existing standard of comfort for the working classes. SELECT SIFTIXGS. Writing was puzzling to savages. 1801. were early used by the xgypt- - ! - Chief, discovered an ft pad- Indiana was inoluded in Ohio til locks ians. Morosco, a Cossack Kamt'cbatlca in 16-0. Lu Cange mentioned locks locks as early ss 1331. The people of the United States about lOu, 000,000 lead pencils year. Lock & Key were long familiar names over tne door or a Hardware store Louisville, Ky. , j - Crooked and Straight are the or a pair of cleryi.4a in charge! cngmncnurcn. There Is a dosr at Sevmour. Ind ALL OVER THE SOUTH NEWS FB02X EACH STAT3L use every in names of-an . The yearly income of the great Kim berly diamond mines in South Africa is $20,000,000, and besides this it is esti- timated that fully $10, 000, 000 f worth of will look at a clock and then pit his paw on me exact hour as marked on a car a. The number three was the perfect number of the Pythagoreans, whp said it represented the besnnninc middle and end. ' , .. rri i m . .1 i n numoer nine, besides Dei as re- natives who work in the mines. mysterious properties, intensified its being the product ot! three three. j Insurance companies flcrure on SO many erist mills rend nlanin who KOBTD CAROLINA. Matt "W. Hansom is his own successor in the TJ. S. Senate. The Durham Fanner's Alliance Ware- J house Company have made arrangements to ouua a targe looacco warehouse. The Democratic caucus has elected Josephua Daniels, State Printer. Mr. Daniels received 98 votes; S A Ashe, 19. A Convention of Confederate pension ers of this State was held in Raleigh with two hundred veterans in attendance. They met to petition the Legislature to increase pension appropriations. The convention was addressed by the Hon J S Carr, president of the convention, the Hon TCt uller and Governor Fowl. At Wade, neatf Fayetteville, occurred a most brutal murder. George Brewing ton (col.) entered the house of Mis Charity McAllister, a most estimable lady of about 80 years of age, and brutally murdered her. Her kinsman. Alex. Me. WASHINGTON, D. C. garded as a luck one la noseIpr1 of i Allister. enterics: at the time, discovered m a , I . . - i . ... 4 t Yiirr anl ckf V. I 1 J 1 1.!. A. 1 . ! irom j- mij. ujiu ucou iu ilia Uiit&S. A I times about K mills MTetolcs er-ry jr by the being destroyed by fire each yefr, and There is still much speculation as to the proper pronunciation of the term Volapuk." Charles E. Sprague, of New York City, one of the foremost jtudents of the universal language in this jountry, pronounces the word as if it ere written "Vole -ah peak." The fact that the city population of U U country had increased from four per re U. for the whole in 1800 to twelve Snd ahnlf percent, in 1S50, end twenty iwoand a half per cent, in 1WS0, was atade the basis for gloomy rojibecies o1" disease, poverty, and anarchy.' just Modern Greece, with its 2.200,000 in habitants, is very largely a k'tDgdom of agriculturists. Much more than half its population is engaged in the task of forcing a living ftom the rugged, moun tainous and barren land. Nearly tea per cent, of the people are shepherds.. As ruoro uie stafaiers. msny last year thev hit the numhd exactly. - - -Lvery French bank has a photograph 01 every employe, and in the case of the n ore responsible ones tJiev a-e under the surveillance of private detectives most of me iime. ( From recent archlogical disc veries it appears that the Komans, at the height ofrtheir civilization and splendcr, had no system of street lighting. S"( ; trace of anything of the kind has be in dis covered, j j An engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence, attested to be correct on August 2. lS-O, by Charles Carroli, of Maryland, one of the signers, has been iound behind the shelves 3 a the New York Citv Hall Library. ! it took James Bailev, an Iowd over eighty-three days to get the the tar off of him after receiving of tax and feathers. It was rubbed ror having married his second w days after the death of the first. . Two reputable doctors of Tren T V j ' a., usvd uiHue an examination o iam King, the physical monatrosi nnea in the county mil there, an surprised to find that the reports man, last of b tioat in fe two n JN. Will- !f? ty con- d i were If the The programine of tho newly-organ-lld political .prtrty of Japan is thus ftescribwd:. The reduction of the land tax; the abol'ition of crvtralization in the administration ; the introduction of the volunteer system into the army, and tho revision of tho existing treaties, with a view of putting Japan on an squal footing with other powers in in tctnatioual intercourse. correct. gourd paving Bherilf from been han- nd be- bourds i A strange story comes from Baltimore. The lasttimo Cardinal GibbbnsFoceived a pass over tho Laltimorc and Ohio Railroad he was astonished to read that It permitted Cardinal Gibbons and tif ta ride without cost over tho lines of the corporation. The handwriting waa Hobert Oarrett'a. The Cardinal went to the Bait 'more office of tho company to call attention to tho mistake That was (he first time anybody suspected Mr. Garrett's mtrntal intlrmity. A movement is on foot looking to the passage of an net by Congress, if other inadequate, that will re- persons on the Treasury man's condition were about King is said to have two hearts, afadribs tnat move up and down. The largest and most fruitful vine yet on record is reported as been grown by Frank liurton on Jiu - .Maxwell's place, a few mile Ogiethorpe, Ga. From it has gamereu i6h water gourds, with dies averaging eighteen inche-, i sides these were fifteen or twenty broken before they were ripe. A landslide occurrd on Cumberland .Mountain, near Bend's Hill, Wl whica materially changed the ance of the locality. Between twenty five and thirty acres of land, : xeavily timbered, slid from the j tide f the mountain so as to lie across the vulle? at the bottom. A dam was formed And a lake from ten to twenty-tive dee j and Lalf a mile long resulted. Among the curiosities in the rdomi of the Delaware Historical Society in Wil mington is a p jBce of tie first tiiece of calico manufactured in this country About one hundred years ago Archibald Hamilton Rowen, an Irish refugee, set tled on the banks of the Brandy wine o J A A. 1 tl.il . . T nuu Bianeu m nine mm, where be made calicoes. When ti e troubles of Ireland quioiea ne rem-nea to b i nativft country and lived quietly on his testate. young girl was also injured by Brewing- A. T T 1 . ion. iae is supposea to cave been tem porarily iDsane. The coroner's jury ex onerattd McAllister. . . SOUTH CAROLINA, i United States Senator Bufler has re ceived so many application for carden Tad ower seed that to facilitate an equal aistnuution pi his quota ol seed he has directed the entire quantity to be si nt to A P Butler, commissioner pf agriculture of South Carolina. " v The Farmers' Alliance of South Caro lina, met in Chesterfield and resolved nrit to pay present prices for commercial fer-"i tiuzers and to use fifty per cent, less than last year, because of their expressed be lief that the manufacturers here organ ized a comcination and advanced prices without cause. Mr John S Scott, of Mars Bluff, in Marion county, who is well known as one of the most successful cotton plant ers In the State, has sailed from New York fer Moscow, ; Russia. When he reaches Russia Mr Scott will go to the district of Caucasus, ona of the southern provinces of Russia, where he will enter upon the discharge ef his duties, super intending and instructing the natives in the cultivation of cotton, which is plant ed there in large quantities. J ; Illicit distilling in northwestern South Carolina is increasing rapidly, and moou- shiners who for some years meekly sub mitted to arrest now make fierce resist ance. On I uesdav a raiding party of five revenue officers in the mountains were fired on by a body of thirty men, but the fire was not returned as nobody washurt. About daylight the same revenue officers were ambuscaded on their way home. They returned the fire and charged on the moonshiners. Dep uty Marshal Hightower was wounded in the affray and one moonshiner was oap-tured. Lorraine, Germany, arrived oa Sunday by tk steamer La Champagne in 3ew Xork, and were detaimed for an alleged breach of the law prohibiting the im portation of contract laborers. It was shown that they had violated no law and the whole party at oacst took passage oa the steamer Seminola which arrived at Jacksonville Saturday. The emigrants came here to work oa the tobacco plant tion of Straits Storm. GKCriLGIA. Phosphate beds about 5 miles from Knoxville, Ga., have been purchased by a stock company who will develop It. Among new enterprises we find : Tneodore Farrell and others have in corporated the Rome iGa) Glass Manu lecturing Co. . ,Oapit;; .ock $150,090. The Macon Construction Co., of Macon, and the Americas Investment Co., of Americas. Ga.. will build a cotto seed oil mill and fertiliser factor? i Cordele. 1 Ga. The latter comoanv have lust In creased capital stock 4100,009. ; " An effort Is being made to establish a paper mill in Newaaa. At the citiaens' meeting Messrs Geo Jones, S W Murray, and R H Hardaway were appointed a committee to solicit subscription!. Sev eral parties has subtcribsd. The amount required is $10,000. HOUSE AND SENArE. Orn national Law-Maker Deliberate 1 on Measures for the Publlo Good, THE TOBACCO MARKET. Financial Standing of the Weed in Three States. Richmond, Va. The general market this week has been active, with early sales of divers lots of old, from the commonest fillers to finest wrappers in brigbts. Meanwhile rhave had large loose breaks with justYJjat warm soft spell that brings it into mtfftket. Prices, however, have ruled low, Vith 8 3-4 cts the best price paid this weei, S0c hundred the lowest. Considerabftv'vC tobacco, loose, packed in hotrateiA has been shipped from here to factorieVftnd other places. Prices on old brights are'2rm- measures are quire all tho persons on the pay rolls of the Government to be actual residents and citizens o'f this country. The movement has its orgia from the fact that a considerable number of those carried on the pension list have crone to Europe and taken up permanent abodes Since the allowance of their claims. An extra expense is entailed by the State Department in making oit and forward in drafts to thse pensioners. There has been some agitation in the American prosi. especially -in., the. rail? road joornals, of the nuisaneo of ,card playing in sleepers. The Ilaificai Agt has called upon the" railroad.' to combino to put down or limit n practice which adds to thediscumfort of the large ma jority of the traveling public. Xow it brings- the news that 1 ussia has gone ahead of us in that detail of civilization, the i;uss:an Minister of Railways having issued an order that'ijn future. all passen gers who play cards on tra ns will be jttdiclousW rur?i'il.' Mrs. Annie W. Ryerss, who. d?ed in Philadelphia in 1S83, bequeated the sum of $30,000 to prqvido a hospital for ill, aged and Injured animals. She a!so di rected that the sum of $ 10,000 be placed with a safety deport company and the interest therefrom used for the support ef the institution. She appointed a President and ofticers to run the concern, and buildings are now Vein? erected with a view to carrying out her wishes. . it is to be called "The Ryerss Infirmary for Dumb Animals," and it is to be operated in connection with the Pennsyl vabin Pn1t fn v . r w - J w uo A ICfCUUUU Vi I Cruelty to Animals. The officers have toeen having a number of conferences as a4. . vt now tne will should be carried out. Whether cats and other animals will be admitted has not yet been decided. - It has leen agreed, however, that first -of all horses of carters and teamsters r -and others too poor to feed and shelter their stock should be received and cared r, It it said that there Is not another jlajtitttUfiaiAtiswprid, Dlssectlug an Elephant. The carcass of Big Chief, Adani Fore- paugh's elephant that had recently to be miiea. win oe aistected at the U niver eity of Pennsylvania. It will take three months to cut the car ass up, anc it will be fully two years before a report of the observations will be made by the statfof surgeons who are to conduct the opera tions. , i if a m . ' L a gang oi woramea were ousiiy en gaged after the execution in gatt ng the body from the street in front of E iologi cal itall to the rear of the macj.at.ng building, and, although the dbtjince is but 150 feet, it was long after dar c when it was landed upon a floor of planks which had been laid for its reception. Carpenters then began to buildjalarge frame about the carcass, and when tins was completed tackle was suspended from a big cros bar and the body raised into the air, hanging from ropes and a sling. It was necessary to do this in order that the process of embalming might be carried on successfully. When the dead elephant ww raised in the air a ahed wai ; built over It. i j . i A number of barrels of embalming fluid were poured into the carcass! The, heat of the lltih was so intense tht t large quantities of the fluid were abjerbed, and In order to prevent the flesh from mortifying it was necessary tc I thor oughly saturate it. i j 'lhe dissection of this portion of the anatomy will be most interesting, as there exists an idea that the brute was insane, or attic ted with what is known in tnaia as "must." the symptoms of which are irascibility of temper ind ex treme vioiousneaa. Setc York ( Cioi AeL9rttr. Drink Made From tne svara The kava-root of the- Socie South Sea Islands is the bais of toiicatiug drink of those resions men and girls are employed to ca root, and when well laasiieatdd mixed with saliva, it is eieetrtf oowis,-. mixea with coca-juic4,' ieii to lerment. Koth natives and of the lower classes are verv fon uc nanves use it as some amooa wine, unaer tne idea that it them alon " ia oot. I v and the in- Wo- ew he acd into acd white 1 of it I us do II help undertakings. important Ivp tUr SScUnce hfanthlt.' imi mere are nrp 200 000 lepers in British 4ndia, X ma! iority of whom hare places in i ams houses and asylums, the others roeWng over the countxv and auhai.tfnn. in nussia, eating and drinking tak up no small part of a man's existence. TENNK8SEK. A Scotch-Irish Congress will assemble at Columbia, Tenn. on May 5th. The Nastiville Iron, Steel and Char coal Company has made an assignment. Assets $450,000; liabilities $170,000. At Nashville, Tenn. a meeting of mil lersof Southern Indiana, Kentucky, Ten nessee and States South of Ten T1AA9PA was held; a daily output of 13.000 barrels being represented. An organization was formed to be called the Southern Millers' Association. Robert Day, aged twenty years, a high ly respected ana prominent young man of Rock wood, was fatally shot near that place. He was" at the home of John Martin, when an unknown party knocked at the door. When Day went to the door he was shot in the right eye and face. There is no clew to the guilty party. ;. The Tennessee River Convention met in Knoxville, delegates being ? present from all the Ea&t Tennessee counties. Tomlinson Fort, of Hamilton county, was elected president. The object of the convention is to memorialize Congress to make an appropriation of half a million dollars to iemove obstructions in the lennessee river between Knoxville and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, VIRGINIA. : A $50,000 stock com pan v is beinsr ot. gauued to start a paint faetory in Lynch- wurg, v u. .Professional robbers racked the safe in the clerk's office at Martinsville, Va., stealing $175 in cash and $800 in securi ties. The people are much alarmed. A Winchester, Va. dispatch says that fine inches of snow, the first of the season, are resting upon the fields of the valley and farmers are well pleased. William Muse who murdered police man Sesl on December 31st last at Char lotttsville, Va . was convicted of murder in the turst degree, and was senteneed to be hanged on .March 16. Roaxoke, Va. Much excitement pre vails here owing to the reports of rioting among the miners in the West Virginia coal region. A fight occurred between the Pocahontas and elk horn miners, in "uituurc wane men ana two negroes were killed and several wounded. The conflict was brought about by the Poca hontas miners again suspending work and going to Elkhorn to induce a num ber of miners who had returned to work to strike. A refusal precipitated the fight. It is believed that the militia will be ordered out. j The Sears Construction Construction Company of Chattanooga, Tenn., have taken the contract to build a standard gauge railroad from Roanoke, Va., via iNew Castle. Craig county, to Eajjle Rock, on the Richmond Jb Alleghany railroad, ia Eotetourt county, a distance of 49 miles. The road which will nit tlimimh one of the finest mineral sections in Vir ginia is to be completed by 1890. Iron, manganese, slate and marble sre found along the routein the greatest abundance and on Catawba creek there is coaj. FLORIDA. Senator Quay, from Pennsylvania, is now in Florida. r ; A colony of 120 persons from Alsace- er, and wrappers are beina worke down to a small stock in fine leaf, while medium and good are in good supply. Good dark mahoganies are in demand. West Virginia brights are active; whith salts up to 70c, while cutters still sell at 20 to 50 cents. The best celor seen this year has been on West Virginia tobacco. While it has a greater proportionate spread man the JNorth Carolina crop, the cutters are very fine in color and texture also. Clabhsville, Tenn. Tobacco has not yet commenced coming in freely. Sales for the week are 219 hhds, show ing only a moderate sprinkling of new tobacco. There was rather more pres sure than usual on old leaf, and conse quently prioes were more uniformly full, wriilo old lugs remained unchanged. Tho stocks of old tobacco are so nearly exhausted, and havsA been so thorough ly picked over, thatnot much remains of decided character and usefulness, and soon we shall have littlo of it lef t ex cept damaged and superannuated house keepers. A good deal of the new tobac co that has appeared so far shows a con -siderable mixture of green and house burnt, indicating a general carelessness and indifference in the assorting. Hkkdkrsok, K C. We have had a good season and reoiepts were full. i Motoat HotrsE Under the call of States filibustering began again, severs members introducing bills for reference and insisting upon having them read in full, which occupied the day. BsaiATE The rice schedule of the tariff bill was tsken up and discussed, but was finally laid aside without action, and the wool and woolen schedule was considered until a recess at 6 o'clock. The night session was slimly attended. Senator Vance recited a humorous pas toral'? commencing: "Our Mary ha a little lsrab, And her heart was most intent To make its wool beyoud its worth, ! Bring fifty-six per cent." i Tuesday The House went into a committee of the whole on the river and Harbor appropriation, but pending fur ther action an adjournment was made, i Sesatb Among the various memor ials presented was a ludicrous one pre senud by Senator Vest, signed by a number of dt ntibts, asking that a bounty of one dollar per tooth extracted be al lowed to American dentists 'in order to encourage honest industry, lower the cost to patients and encourage the immi gration of dentists from other parts of the world, thereby making a better mar ket for agricultural and other products of this country." . Laid on tbe table. Senator Plumb moved to insert an ad ditional paragraph in the tariff bill creat ing end establishing ia the treasury de partment a commission to be known as the customs commission. Agreed to without a division . An amendment reported from the Stance committee to paragraph 257 as to oranges, lemons and limes was agreed to yeas 89, nays 7. It increases the raUs per package, according to capacity, from 10, 20 and 40 cents, to 13, 25 and CO cenrsfiairom o cents every additional cubio feetTiOvents. The date fiiPTfll' hII lii i1 " into effect was changed from February wuiy i, iocs. There being no further amendments offered, the vote was taken first on agree ing to the substitutes and then on the passage of the bill. Both votes were identical yeas 82 nays0. ' Senate at 8 p. m. adjourned. Wedxesday The House immediately upon the reading of the Journal went Into committee of the whole, Mr Dock ery, of Missouri, in the chair, on the sun dry civil appropriation bill and disoussed it the entire day, but without reaching any vote whatever the House ndjourned. Senate On motion of Senator Hoar tne concurrent resolution for me electoral vote was passed. - The House bill for the relief of the State National Bank of New Orleans, formerly the Louisiana State Bank, a taken up and passed. SCIENTIFIC AND IDClTBUU Vermont factories turn out a.v f no wsho vols per year, and :ew n.'i shire and Maine send the cruxes A ?" i.oetLooo. a" up te THE GENERAL NEWS- A Hartford (Conn. beltiB v reduced a leather belt, double mMw 1 8 feet long, 5 feet wide and half i Inch thick. One pound of paint win cover about four square yards of aurfaee, first coat and about six square yards for each ad' ditional coat. A test of bagging-made from fiber cb tslced from jine leaves seems to es tablish the fact that a substitute of great valne has been found for ute. The scheme of filling bombs -u asphyxiating gas, so that the enemy will lie down quietly and go to sleep on both aides after a short shower of bombs is said to be the best that has jet been offered in military science. Lightning produces chemical changes in the atmosphere, by converting a por tion of the two gaes oxygen and nitro gen, of which it is principally composed, into nitr.c acid. This acts very power fully in destroying the exhalations wh eh arise from putrid vegetable and animal matters. A German electrician has devised an ingenious scheme for the regulation of dynamos. The field magnet cores in stead of being solid, rre made of tubes, in which a solid core Ts inserted. Th.s core can be withdrawn by hand or auto matically, and the strength of current thus regulsted. A Birmingham (Ala.) steel company recently shipped some of their steel to a ra.or company in Massachusetts, the latter making it into razors and sending Lack word that the steel was equal n every respect to the best Eng ish cru cible steel. Other tests, it is claimed, proved equally satisfactory as to the quality of the steeL A new scheme of utilizing the saw dust of the Ottawa River in Canada, for the purpose of fuel is proposed. It is claimed thit by a system of grinding the refuge into a uniform fineness, mixing it with tbe refuge gas tar from the gas houseand compressing the substance intoytake", a fuel can be made in every w a superior to soft coal for open fires. tringa discussion of the "lightning- on ' at the last meeting of the JL was stated that rdlrrr From Ail SouroeNorth, East, and West. The town grows 1W ? S,lnr Oklahoma, haj wxuea days. ''wv u Fr?, dispatch says that caught in North UiS l Elcctoral ColWe of Texas It Is new etimttd that tV Cron of 1 fix ,mi i. T-1:11" 061 - AAA LSS9 .rm I a - iU probably reach 7t,lW, Mown aM(i Q?0 bales. fiva MrterS, fortuaauly St Joseph's convent, at Locuit fUn Penn, was burnM , '.l.01, r Mother Mro C.U forming the communitv escaped unhurt. ' - A man in - PhiU.uivi. . S3 . ,tlrd . pin of Fimount Park to u enty -nine yt art and . tight moatis in the penitentiary. 6 fi,ttdr,t"n in,'o, enrage ! by a fight with another dravmtn, mh, il d knocked him d n on rroIT York daring tLe 0,000 let t of vello same ouanlirv t)i. to Ntw pine, about the jear, acl w r-viou WW.""1 "CeeJin ot -U and Iadi recoaiss counting taken up and Thttrsday A sombre pall hung over the Houss of Representatives" when it met this mornlncr. Th dk of h i.t Daies xascea an aay jrriday. Fricca were uurnes as drp-d in black weu sustainea on all eolory stock, while f na large wreath of calla lillles adorned roa quer British where agencie? a T-. - T iu democratic Majority of the "ua -jris.aiure lias rttusel to as e 41,... i : .. .uu, unugiD'r me qut.oa ai to hxhr he was ever Lieut, n.nt Governor beiors the Courts. a hgil evnditure thtt sUry paU to ?x-Lieutenant Guv-rr.or HubrrUin r common grades were some easier. Wn look for fair breaks now. as the planters have been stripping the past two days. FOREIGN ITEMS. An earthquake, accompanied by a vi olent gale, has occurred at Athen, Mega ro and Arachova, Greece. it. Chaplain Milburn offered up a prayer for the dead Congressman and his wid owed wife and fatherless children. As a mark of respect the Hi use then adjourned, after passing resolutions of sorrow. The remains of Mr. Burnss, accompan ied by the Congressional delegation, left la a special car over th Vnnin.;. T"! a HnnnioVi a 1 1 . , uu.cmuicui, ubs issue a a i nim. cfr T , vr J " decree granting amnesty to ail press and if St-.JosePMo. There were pouucai onenaera and to soldiers who I Zi j- mewm- took part fn the rislnir in MadHd n accompanied tie remains is . 1 1 ii it i mm h - i.n m r rwmt r i , vui.via cot. iciier aia Coke; Represenutives Mansur, Stone of Missouri, Wate, Sayes, Bynum, Hender son of Iowa, and MorrilL Ssxat: 1886. A special mission, appointed bv the Sultan of Morocco, to congratulate'Em peror William of Germany on his acces sion to the throne, has started for Ber lin . The mission bears valuable eats. pres- M Goblet, French minUter of foreign affairs, has telegraphed to M Wadding ton, French ambassador to England, in structing him to ask Lord Salisbury for n eipwaiuoa oi tne seizure by Great Britain of two of the Tongway Islands. Advices from West Alrica say that eleven native policemen, headed by a British officer, came in conflict with a party of Waboys at Sulymah, and kill ed 181 of the enemy with a Maxim gun. and that the rest of the party fled in dismay. Mrs Phelps, vrifs of the United States Minister to the Court of St James was the recipient Tuesday of a beautiful bracelet, presented by Lady Salisbury and Lady Roeberry, on which is inscrib ed: "PresenttKl to Mrs Phelps on her leaving England, as a token affectiora's regard, from some of her English friends. January 22, 1889." Washington Aotea. A delegation from the Tobaoo Cr tolironAS bl-icss eaL thAi itf ordinary cases eeruoxr-r-.. curity can be obtained, at much less ex pens, with iron. The question whethc the rods reallv a lorded any security was not considered. An English electrHsn has invented a material which he calls alterion for the prevention or corrosion in boilers. The interior is quoted with this and currents of electricity are passed through tha boiler snd from time to time reversed. The formation of scale is prevented by a layer of hydrogen gas, which is deposited upon the inner surface of the boiler. The reversed currents reforms the hydrogen into pure water, a thin layer of pure water being thus kept all around the boiler. A chimney 182 feet high settled until Its top was three feet two inches out of the perpendicular. Thia t works ot Matthews & Bona, in loucesW shire, England. A course of bricks was UKsn out for five-eighth, nf th oir re ference and replaced by a course, one and hve-eighths inches less in height. As fast as the out was made the new course was laid and iron wedges were driven in above it. When all was m place, the wedges were driven out, and the ch m ney came back to within an inch or two of the perpendicular. Parasitlo fishes extremely small be ings, shaped like an eel have been recognized only for a ra!tli .r, meC Pecie &ave Leen distin guished in different seas and ocens. 1 hey usually attach themselves to some hollow part of the bod es of marine animals, preferably entering the resnira toty cav.ties of sUr-fl.h. They have even been found ia the interior of th ucua oi peari ovstera. 0 About 2.000 farmer and othtrs I terested in tabacco raMn mst at Broc erville, the countv sent of Brae' county, Ky,.Mondav, to irgaafce sr ' raising a-crop in the buritv district UlLe of the cron ut ing the 1887 crop. . .... capital stock of $100.0.0, divided Into 4,000 shares, has Utn luimt-d. Tbe ob jects of the society is to t btaUUh C.tho lie colonies in th- South, enjnie la manufacturing, miuing. lumbria .ioct raising, &c Larre tracts c.f suitabls land will b secure 1 in Northern Oecr jria and Alabama aijd the c ij.ittl stock may possibly be increased to oue million dollars. The colored reiple of Virginia, Soath Carolina and Georgia, ard oiher Souta em states will mi d a deleyatioo to visit Gen H aim sen to present thsir views of Southern questions. The dtlsgatioa is tobeheadei bv. John M Lngston, of Virginia. It will be in Indianapolis by the 1st of February. It is said that the delegation will be compsed of none but representatives of the race in ths Sjuth. Thaw An. w, n . . . , .. . . I .1 - - . . Aiier uie aaoption or resolu-1 "J".1-"0 ,n,B; w th which thev asso- change of Petersburg, Vs.. headed Congressman-elect Venable, arrived Wed nesday evening. Representative Burnes, of Missouri was stricken with paralysis while on the floor of the House Wednesdsy a i tern con and died shortly before 1 o'clock Thurs-' day morning. Col W L Trenholm, the Comptroller of Currency, who is from South Carol in. has accepted the position of President of me anencaa oureij vompaiiy of 2few lorr, ana wui assume the duties of that position alter At area 4th, next. ine oenate committee on ' claims anthonxed a lavorabie report upon Sena tor Pascos bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to settle and pay the claim of the State of Florida on account of expenditures made in suppressing In dian hostlhties, amounting to f 222 0C0. President " Cleveland and Secretary Whitney have each given $23 and Col Lament f 10 tathe fund being raised by Savannah newspaper men for the family of the late Edwin Martin, who died dur ing the Jacksonville yellow fever epi demic . . uons ottered by Mr. Cckrell, expresaine sorrow at the death of Represeneative xjuruca, lue Denate, on motion of Mr vest, as a mark of respect to the d eased, at 12:33 adjourned. FarDAT. The Hocss to-day took up -v4j viti Appropriation DHL and aciea on several amendments. An evening session was devoted to the onsiaeration of privet nt-naion hliU ThsScsATK to-dav taurl th P.n.L. the Military Academy and tbe District of voiumoia appropriauon bills. sir jvinson m vrd that the Senate in ai on lis ami n Jmenta to the tariff bill ta sk ior a cunference with the Iloua-r on ine Dill. Agreed to. Mr Sherman's anti-trust bill was taken up ana amcussed. Several amendment. were proposed, among others one by Mr iiruui, propoinir 10 engrait upon ue measure his "gold and silver certificxte bill." Tbe bill as amended was ordered printed. uumur oi miscellaneous measures ana thlrtv private teniion hi its m m a " Vlfc passta, and at 4:43 p. m. after a brief xeeuuve session, the Senate adjourned. Fate of a Phosphate TesseL ine three-masted schooner rerjortd sunk off Cape Hatteras proved to be the Aiue n cnesier, vi rtw York, laden with phosphate rock and bound from Charleston, S C, to Barren Island. N Y. Of her crew Capt Thomas icrersolL MAie .ktiMy me coos ana two seamen were drowned. The second mate, John Christmas, aad Seaman John Roach and i Anaerson were rescued from the ris uif ius 'Cstci oy uapc w is ealton, jr, or the schooner J c. Kelsey. The rescued men were put on board the lvel eey, bound for Kew York. lutavene, ior ttiey do not live "u 4 "Roa the minute organ lams which the sea water brings to their cavit es, so ih.t they are reaUy com mensals rather than rarsaites. Eiploslreaess of Petroleum. Since the recent explosion of a petra leum vessel in Calais uraac. h!Tl. eiperiments have been made to dr te.mme what proportion of pet.oleu will form explosive com.ounda I. mixing ordinary illumiaat.rg gas wits air It is found that one part oftastl eight of a.r gi es the met violent ex tie portions of petroleum nearly th, same observation is made. With oiu part petroleum vapor to live of air noes- .wvB U1WO. With w .v. .:r Ik.,. ,. . fUI . . 7. - . . " "P'won. aad with nine parts a verv rkrtmt n . . k 1 - . iiiu tweiTe narta or ir vioieai. put with a t... barta it tMvmiM f.wi j . . t v r one jT ,7 WB7 ci air there Is or diaarily no eiploaion.-.Amtr December DIsastsrs. December 8d Advices received from Peru report 187 men, women and child ren killed by the indiscriminate firing of the troops durlDjr the pruirreti of a not at La Pcza. December 8th The -heHff of Eirmlo. ham. Ala. fiis i into a moradradc'DrV! ti. jfui vtuu iue inieniicn or fyecMag a murderer confined therein, killing nlae persons and wr unding 80. gives the total n imber of deaths to date from yellow fever in Jacksonville, FLa. as 412. and i f cases 4.70-5 December 24ih- Fift n persons lost their livis by the bumiog of a ooaa manufactory at Nev mint-r, Germany. ,DemKrr 17 Adic-of Leavy storms ihj th- Depattment of Pyrrnees, Italy, floodicg villages and caUtiog great los of li.. She Elop4 with the Coach man a a aaughter of Paul Van drr upenntendeat of Aatonla fciik Miils ivtm. ciooea on KumIit t .v , ' . 3 urr .nir a cocnman, v ULam Sillers, Af irr ineir marriage tbe couple returned to mt v an cler K&rH v . j miieu imm w bu rtsidmM f.. nowever, rtfused to admit mem, ana tney went to SiUera lodging "er mti still remain r- v-. j r- . l vri tT ir Sj,e n aiutr Kd poaition in the sxlk mill. Pv. TaotMr, tb ItiMtiug man. las a ehaV J "snanu of tne. tcr UWl WBiWT to m-ct tt. tbv to hava a!l and he to Lava oo.'j acr. aim fa a fastis: tba lxroor tLr mi trmdrinklnj la the St, ABrasrtn moatar cl ail mlarhlaf; tba rooc of m apnea; oi tkm, Ida wnirlwtnd ot tba train, tba overthrow of tha sccsa, the lampaac oz ua toosM, tbe ruin of tha tody, tha shame of life, the ataia of hoocatv and John ITanattsker s G nests. Mrs Harrison and Mrs Mtr and daoabwrof President eltct II.rH soa. accompauied by John Wanamaktr. amveu in rnUaUelpbia Saturday, where several dss will be srjent at v makers ras denee, sfurmhicb Mrs Har- r.son and aaarfttr will lait N. v...ir citv, as the" firuesu of Vie-PrH. elect Morton. The Emperor Wil'l.'- ia Austria and Italv is aaid I T Covarsd With Tar aad Vlorvusly SSskai. 8 m ?hermn. a-J 47, hj board rd at C:arx King s houe in Tiverton, R I, aid uo mark d attention to Mrs King to suit tbe Iw of the r. Ihbors, and last Friday about t-ecty men called Sherman out of the h -uw. diubod him liberally airh tar, t:i tin t-i pjb ostU ha droppeJ n i tnal him r,S with a -ri4 s of i-ruu kicltt airman ra ur.til he rech d the g' Loosa where ie s?st1 '-tl l" culd e the tar cfl. He wid net ret jra to Tiverton. PISBtS STd PISBOS. A pisno tuner who says that puses frequently deteriorate Ucaue they are allowed to become too dry. precnoe this remedy "eep a growias: piaat la the room, and so lor a your i last thrives your p ao ogll to, or elae there's aomathiDjr wrocif wsth it Just try it. and ee how in ch m- f water you'll hara tn put in tbe tott pot ia the room where yoir plsot it haa ia any other room, .i me people keen s huge vase or urn with a oi".o sponge tn it, unr or uodar the p ana, snd keep It moitcel jut ss a clraf dealer keeps hi. ttk. They knpUJ p all the time the fire are on." Caased a Tex Twe Dsys. A tax hound belonsrisr to Cap Mark Percy, ef fax's Head, near ar PorJiAm. chattd a fox lor xmn amjm. The dog wa aea la puruit of the tox aeeral times duriag the two aays. aad his deep bayiag wa. freanevly bssrd. Fiaally the fox tired out a d fa 1 oa the ground exteita. ic - that he had not soft.e.eet streejth lslt to rht the fox. sat duwn near h a sad wauhedhim. Jstb i eccuitwa u and the hound were fouod by a man wfc lived near, and the fox was sa that tha msa easily killed hia wUi ft dih. Levitt U-'a) JnrTAL
The Carolina Banner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 8, 1889, edition 1
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