Publishers: Hubbard Roth. J. F. HENDREN BDITOB. $1.00 A YEAR in Advance. VOL. II. ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPT 6,1894. NO. 47. ^ The Italian Government has (Jeter. IJninerl to banish all convicted anarch- 'ists to an island in the Red Sea, where ^ome are already confined. ^ AftWrift'^ives this eountryfliBf%1j}Wi l&eoii in dealing with waste lands,' declares the New York Dispatoh.| Prizes are given to, farmers to en courage them to recover waste lands Bnd lay thera down as pasturage, and ^Iso to erect &ielters or stables for' cows in high altitudes. The import ance of this may be seen from the statement that one quarter of the total fodder required for cattle and horses in the Empire i« derived from Alpine districts. Some such policy might be tried with excellent results through out the waste places in tho HigUUuJs, ELKi Mi CO. iJIfilJ mm COTTON YARNS, WARPS, TWniES, KNITTING COTTONS, &C,, ELKil^. n. c. m. J. M. BEEGE ELKIN, N. C.— PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office at residenas J.F. 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A llaiin, president of the Ijiternational Migra tion Society, states thnt a contract has been ('l')sed wilh an African f-teamshiiJ comjtany for tlie tr.-iusportntion of 5,000 coioiUhtH._aniiur.lly to Liberia. 'Ihe society proposes Tor a certnin'fetip- uhited price to fnrnii h trnusi'ortation and three moutlis’ jjriivii-ions to the colonists. Ho says that the govern ment of Liberia iiroi'oses, in order to encourage the settlement of territory, to give to e.ach colonist 25 acres of laud and the necessary im]'lements with which to cultivate it. The headquarters of this socie ty will be here, as will also the general purchasing offices. Mr. McMullen says the first steamer will leave Philadelphia in October aud will touch the Atlantic coast as far as New Orleans. From there it will go direct to Liberia, touching at Havana, Cuba. A WINSTON TRAGEOr. A Negro Kills a White Man. The Homicide Justifiable. Winston, N. C.—Edward C. Bryan, one of the managers of Griffith & Bo hannon’s tobacco factory, met his death Friday night. The verdict of the coronor’s jury Saturday was that the deceased came to his death by a gun shot, fired by the hand of Adam Morris, in defense of his person and home. Morris was given liis gun and set free. The gist of the evidence by all witnesses was that Bryan had been drinking and was rather “wild.” He went to old man Morris’ house and demanded admittance, -n’hich was repeatedly refused. The demands were made in a very insolent and abu sive manner. He declared that he would burst open the door and kill Morris with a yard paling which he car ried in his hand. Bryan did break open the door, rushed into the i‘oom and received the fatal shot. SOUTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENTS. A Democratic Ticket to Be Put Out Against ihe Tillmanites and Butler Candidates to Be Run in Every County. Columbia, S. C.—At a meeting of General Butler’s friends, held in this city, it was determined to rnn an inde pendent Democratic ticket against the regular Democracy which is known as the Tillmanites. Legislative tickets fa vorable to Butler will be nominated in every county, and it is probable that a convention will be held to nominate a full State ticket from Governor dois'n. This action is arousing much bitter ness, and the Democratic executive committee, of which Senator Irby is chairman, has been called to meet on Tuesday next to consider the political situation. When the Independent con vention will be called has not been decided. Eepublicans will take ad vantage of the divided Democracy and run candidates in most of the congres sional districts. Vi.imonils and JJIaiiioud-Ciillini!', In the rough—that is, just as tho stone has been w'ftshed out of the clay, and broken loose from the ore—a dia mond presents tl)o appearance of a crystal pebble, somewhat pointed at each end. It usually appears to ba of a brownish hue, but now and again a ray of light will seem to leap from tho very heart of the stone. From this rough form of the gem the diamond- cutter decides what the shape of the finished jewel is to be. Tho crs’stal- line shape of the diamond is that of an octahedron, although tho stone is found sometimes as a rhombic dode cahedron, , triakisoctahedron, or hexakisoctahedron, bnt it is al ways jn accordance with the cubic Bys'iem. It should be the aim of the diamond cutter to pre serve this octahedral character of the gem. To-accomplish this, the rough stone is first split, or chipped. The operation is a most difllcult one, re quiring an insight into the character of each individual stone. T'here are hardly two gems that can be treated in a precisely similar manner. Every diamond has a thorough individuality, and must be treated acctjrdingly, iti order to obtain the best results. The “splitting” is accomplished by fixing the gem in a block of cement, after ■which the angles must bo split otT in accordance with the direction of the crystallization. Flaws are also taken out in this operation, ani the diamond given its future shape. The majority of diamonds are found in tho East Indies, on the plateau of Dekhan, in Brzil, on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra ; also in the Ural, and Australia. AVithin recent years very productive diamond-mines have been put into operation in southeast' ern Africa, the Transvaal. The diamonds most highly prized are the Indian and Brazilian stones; they are generally of the purest white, tlie most comijlete transparency “water,” and the most hrilliant “iire.”—Home «nd Couutry. A 20 Per Cent. Damage to Cotton in the Valley of the Mississippi. A special from Natchez, Miss., says: Parties who have just returned from a trip through north Louisiana over the New Orleans & Northwestern Eailroad aud through the southern tier of coun ties along the line of the Houston Central, Arkansas & Northern Eailroad, report that the cotton crop in those sections has been damaged fully 20 ])er cent, by blight, rust; shedding, etc., caused by the excessive and continuous rains. The outlook is not nearly so bright as it was two weeks ago. Gen. N. P. Banks died Saturday rooring at AValtham, Mass, AN ICE CREAM FACTORY MAKING THE COOI,ING OOMPOUND BY MACHINEKY. Things That Are Mixed Up for It and IIoAv They Are Treated—Ice Cream Bricks. ICE CEEA'M is manufactured from a combination of milk, pure cream and gelatine, flavored with different extracts, such as vanilla, .lemon, strawberry, etc., the in gredients being first mixed up to gether and placed in circular metal vessels or runners which revolve around inside of circular wooden tubs, the runners being surrounded by a quantity of cracked ice and rook salt. Each runner is furnished with a beater having a number of blades which revolve around on the inside, beating up the material, the ice and rook salt causing it to thicken and form itself into ice cream. Some manufacturers use eggs, corn starch, etc., and boil the ingredients before freezing. The first process is the mixing to gether of the ingredients. About ten quarts of jiure cream, ten quarts of milk and about eight pounds of granulated sugar are first niixed to gether. If the ice cream is to be flavored with strawberry, about six to eight drops of pure red coloring and one-quarter pint of essence of straw berry are added. A quantity of gelatine dissolved in about a quart of warm water is then added to this, bringing the solution up to about twenty-four quarts iu bulk. It is then run through a strainer or fine sieve into the runner. The runners are made of copper, the inside of which is coated with tin, which, after about four weeks’ con stant running, has to be renewed, tha coating of tin being worn off by tha working of the beater. The runners are about twenty-three inches in height and about one foot in diameter, and hold about forty quarts. The wooden tubs in which they revolve are two feet four inches in height and are about twenty inches in diameter on the in side, leaving a space of about four inches for the ice around the runner. Attached to the top of the cover of the runner and perpendicular shaft of the beater, which revolves in a socket at the top of the grinding machine, are two gearing wheels, which are geared to another attached to the shafting of the machine. When the machine is iu motion the beater, oontainiiig ten Ij inch iron blades, and the runner revolve around iu different directions, making about fifty-five revolutions per minute. As soon as the rfiachine is set in motion, a small “' quantity of ice and rook salt i^-adaed, which is re newed every few moments until the tub is filled, taking in all about twen ty-five pounds of ice. The beating operation takes about twelve minutes, the salt and ice gradually freezing tha twenty-four quarts solution, while tha gelatine swells or raises the material up to forty quarts. The grinding operation is completed when the ice cream shows or adheres to the glass windows in the cover of the runner. The wooden tub with the runner of cream is then rolled to one side and another is put in its place to pass through the same operation. The ice cream is then taken from the run ners and put into cans ranging from one to ten gallons each and packed into ice and rock ealt for delivery, which is ready in about two or threa hours’ time. The machine for breaking up ioa consists of a revolving cylinder four teen inches iu diameter and twenty inches in length, riveted to which ara nine conical-shaped wrought iron teeth about five inches iu length, which, when the machine is in motion, pass between a number of other teeth connected to the framework of the machine. The cakes of ice, which weigh about fifty pounds each, are first broken into two pieces and placed iu the machine. The teeth of the re volving cylinder, which makes about 120 revolut.'.ons per minute, crash through the ice, breaking it uji into small pieces at the rata o£ a ton in every twenty minutes. Ice cream bricks are made by pack ing the cream into metal forms. The.se forms have a top aud bottom cover. The ice cream is first put into these brick shaped forms and a strip of paper placed between the cream and each cover, which holds them firmly in place, aud then they are packed away in salt .and ice aud frozen for about three hours. They are then taken out and the forms dipped into a pail of warm water, which losens the cream from the sides. The top and bott-jin covers, after being- wiped with a cloth, are then taken oti, the attendant al lowing the loosened brick of cream to slip out of the form on to a strip of white paper immediately covering it, aud placing it into a pasteboard box and packed in ice again for delivery. Neapolitan bricks of ice cream are made by placing one layer of cream over another, such as vanilla, choco. late, strawberrs', etc. A great many metal forms axe made of composition of lead and zinc, representing animals, fruits, vegetables, etc., the ice cream being packed into the forms and frozen in the same manner as the brick.s. Porty-quart cans of milk cost whole sale about $1,12 per can, pure cream about seventeen cents per quart, and ice about $3 per ton. Two machines, ■jrith three runners, can turn out from 1500 to 2000 quarts of ice cream per day.—New York News. 50 People Burned Alive. Terrible forest fires have been pre vailing in Wisconsin and hundreds of people have been rendered homeless. The towns of Mission Creek and Hinck- ly were utterly destroyed, 5() people being burned to death at the latter place. BILL ARP’S LETTER. THE A. p. A. IS AFTER HIM WITH A SHARP STICK. All On Account of Some Remarks that William Made. Northern rh on. But it 18 a waafe of time to make any more war upon the A. P. As—the dog is dead. Tliousands who were drawn in are drawing; Qufc aliov r the north and *wiihin a year you will hardly find a man who ever belonged to it. Ilepublican Fcheniers havi? got hold of the order ev^Tywliere and i’s true chaiactor hns cropped out o:irly. It won’t last as Ion,' as the alliance and ought n >t, for tho alliance had good iu- (entions in its infancy and but for its goin? in to politics would have done a great deal of good. It was ^mothercd by demagogues. And now comes tijo onc-third p:irty with Ocala and Omaha phitforms that demand the railway and tehi- graph and a subtreasury that will build a pumpkiu barn in evei y naborliood. It is nob even a skleshow to Hny party, but is a w.jod’s ct’lt—a mulo colt at that-'—with no pride of an cestry But it can bo rid and goes along right gently until bucking time comes. A farmer who j 'ins tho (>ne-third parfy, expecting to get sdmyihmg. is I'Ue Judge A driilge’s man who wa< driving a cow and lur young calf hom^^, and they got niixed up witti some other cattle in the road and the calf mis'ook an old steer for its mother and ran off with him. The fellei* r.in hiinseU" nearly to death trying to soperate them, bn^ h couldent. 80 ho stopped an 1 used bad lauKUtgc and wound up with “Go it you darned liitle fool—go it—but you’ll find out what’a wiiaf when suck ng time comeg.” The leader of ihc'sc Rccror, oa h-bound politi cal o: ganiz itions ara af ler (dfic ■ or money, and 8om-j lew of them get ih. They ride in on tho mule atid th?n take tho bridle off and turn him out to make liis own living. Bishop Ilaygood, wlioni th; south honorH for his spotless integri ty of character and his f arless publication of tho truih as ho secB it, says “l.iberty dies by the organiz'Viion of oaih-bound socieies. Such oilh-Loand leagues not only make men elaves bnt they nniko them .chiJdren--wards without rifjht to think--8!ave8‘'without rij-ht to choose. A man is forced oftei^tTm s to do what ho does not ^Yish to do and is frozen oat if ho refuses obedience.'’ Tl:erc is corruption enough and soni) to sharo in Ihe cdd parlies, bnt there is no s crocy--ni gags, no grips nor oatbs. Wekn(»w j ist what Uiey are doing and can kick and abu-icand uvt n donotinctftf we want to, and the force of public opinion so in h-s its effect. We have bvM n abining tho nalional democracy awfully of late, bu' after a'l, there i.i no other party that a S' uthein man can go to. If we really advocate tui'ilf r. form, a lavilt for revenue only, a tariff that will cheap n the no essaries of lift*, we arc I bliKO.l to be dcmocratr<. The issue i-i made at last. It is i;ow pio!ecli"n or no protection. I li! infant in-chemo and I’ll vote for yours ivs iho bargain at Wasliington—and so the n'oney goes. State extravagance is not much barter. There is many a scheme being planned already to prey upon oar state treasury and more pension bills will be introduced and more educational facilities askewn tho brakes as hard as pos sible- That is our right. Itwa» tho right of the privates during the war to complain at their ofticers, but they wouldn’t let any outsiders do it; 00 we don’t want any advice from the one- Ih’i'd party or the republicans or the American Pr'/tictivd As socia Kill iU'C.'ii d ni »tic f'il- nres or denmera’ii' eoir ip inn. It is he only party tliat the sun'h can trns'. jitnl if wc can’t reform it fr im the in-nd.? it cat,’. !)■! done, from Ihe out. Secc-i-i >n do..’.. [My. Old Father Time is a guo 1 doct.T. I fed ni(5ro hoiieful of oui'pai ty than I d d a month ago. All tliat a m'O ha< to do to Jii ep him a demcjciat i^ to l(■oka^ the 1 adi'is if the olhcr parlies and realthiir piperi. I'ut the great npubllcan pirfy that feeds and fa^t in pens ons and protection ai d patronage and paieinalism^and all tho olhor }>’s i* ihe parry to bo lought. The others aio -ide- hows and we have to tako I hem liky tak n,>5 the m as es. They are a sort of vaccination tha’ keept us from cllchinj' the smallpox and ko they do some g« o«l in lhat way. Itis all well cnoiigM to st r the boys np occa- sionaly—to err bar and nee the boy .•< load up their guns—'oiing th'* tire bell inthcd-adof nighta-ta tra nitig to the firemen. But wo have htd this onc-tlrrd pany j-bont long rno\igh. Tiio noveltv has worn off and we will have a funeral b fore I ng and bury it; and drop a tear to its memory. 80 mote it be. —Bn L Anp in Atlanta Oons'dtuti -n. Tobacco ripe^ Jttatle vt Siioiv. I In the snowy regioas of the Hinia- ’ lavas, it is said, little smoking fnuaels are made in tho frozen snow', at th.) I end of -which is placed eoma tobacc >, ' along with a jDieca of cbiu- coal, while to the other the moiintaiu- 1 eers place their mouths, lying Hat ou I their stomaclis, and inliale the smo'ic. A South Alricati Home. A typical Southern Africa house hold described by Olive Schreiner had an English father, a half Dutch mother with a French name, a Scotch governess, a Zulu cook, a Hottentou housemaid- and a Kaf&J-’ stable boy, while the little girl who waited on' the table was a Basuto.—New York Advertiser. Jtis considered iinlncky in Ireland to view a funeral procession while th^^ t>eii(*lder is under au umbffella* . )