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THE MONROE ADVERTISER,
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNT!.
BY McGINTY dt CABANIBB.
Mrs. Elizabeth f'arroll, of Warren,
Ind.. claims to have been born in Penn
sylvania m 1774. Her husband was a
soldier in the war of I*l2. There if
good reason to think that Mrs. f'arroll is
really 113 years o and. a!th ugh she is as
Mtive as a woman of sixty.
A Western judge ha* derided that a
stockman occupying the public domain
asac&ttle range a- ouires no right to the
same that will enable him to prevent
other stockmen from turning loose cattle
on the range, even though the lirst oc
cupant has developed the water on the
range and has it fully stocked.
The Time* of India ays that a general
order is about to be issued by the com
mander in-chief directing that cavalry,
like infantry, shall henceforth cheer
when charging. It is suggested that
when colonels give out their commands
on other makers, soldiers might also be
permitted to express their approval by a
“hear.’ hear I”
The world's coal supply seems to be
Increasing rather than aimiiiishir". A
vein of coal sixteen feet thick has just
been found at Whitewood, Dakota,
twelve feet below the surface, and sev
enty feet beneath that auother vein more
than three times as thick has been dis
covered. The coal is said to be as good
as any in the country.
The English Board of Trade has madi
a report, in which it allege* that the
number of paupers in the country now
•re only 24.7 to the 1,000, while in I*7o
there were forty to the 1,000, and that
the total number ha- fallen from ;hKi,OoQ
to 007,000, while the po nation has
increased by 5,700,u00. In London, it
is alleged, there are now only twenty-one
paupers to 1,000 inhabitants.
A Chicago clothing manufacturer says
that he is o liged to pay particular at
tention to the hip pockets which he puts
in trousers destined tor the Y\ ©stern
trade. His Kansas and lowa customers
demand a pocket capable o holding a
quart flask, but for the far West trade
the pocket is made deep and narrow,
with an unusually strong lining, so that
pistol will lit snugly iu it.
Michael ( ahul, of Ban Francisco, is
■well known in Washington. As far back
as 1X76 he sent his application for a
patent for his rain-making invention to
the patent office, and as often as the law
required renewed his caveat by paying
$lO. The drawing which accompanied
the application was a marvel. It repre
sented the rising moon and the setting
sun, a balloon, a man smoking a pipe
and a huge rain-storm. When Cahill
finally weut to Washington it did not
take long for the officials to confirm their
previous impression that he was a crank.
lAt the same time they guard his crazy
ideas with great care and treat the whole
matter with amusing seriousness, because
he has not legally abandoned his absurd
claim. Commissioner Hall is particularly
inclined not to allow Cahill to be made
sport of by the papers. “You may laugh
at me, ’ he said, “but I have no doubt
that the time will come when man will be
able to bring rain out of the sky whenever
he desires to do so.”
another citvn
The entire plant of Wm. Washburn A
Sons, of St. I.ouis, Mo., dealers iu aval
stores, including a large oil warehouse
and the entire interests of the Iron
Mountain Warehouse and Tank Com
pany, was sold to the Waters Pierce Com
pany, which is the local branch of the
Standard Oil Company. Washburn A
Sons ran a tank line into Alabama and
Mississippi and practically controlled the
turpentine product of those states. The
price paid for this plant is not known,
hut it is supposed to i*e pretty lanre rs it
disposed of the last competitor of iho
Standard Oil Company, and give* them
control of all the tanka ire in St Louis
and leaves them without any formidable
competitor in the turpentine trade the
South.
STKWttE ACCIDENT.
An orderly of Rossville hospital. New
i ork, was instructed to move a patient,
named diaries MeClane, fiom the second
floor of the hospital to the third, wht re
the doctors were about to perform an
operation on Met lan*'. The orderlv raised
the e evator to the second floor and went
for the patient. Having placed McCiane
on a folding cot. the orderly moved him
to the shaft, re-opened the door, and
without looking to see if the elevator was
there, rolled the cot forward. During
the orderly's absence to prepare tin
patient, the elevator had been sent up h
story, and McClaue was precipitated
through the shaft clear down the cellar,
sad was killed.
CONN EC TIC IT CITIZENS YISITINU
Two Pullman hotel parlor ears left
Hartford, Conn., with forty-one excur
sionists to various Southern cities for a
ten days' trip. The party i- composed of
New England capitalists and business
men. The trip is under the auspices of
the Evening Pont Southern Bure u of
Hartford, and the party travels by v : ,yof
the Virginia. Tennessee and Georgia Air
Line, Kennesaw route. The route lies
through ten states
HI**SOCHI I* HAPPY.
The excitement over the gold discov-.
*l7 in the Prospect well at Appleton
City, Mo., has not abated in the .east.
The strata in \\ hieh the gold is found is
thought to be fr >m seven to nine feet
through. One day's washings have re
sulted in the finding of better specimens
ihan ever, and the local chemists, all who
hT Man them, pronounce them go id.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH. GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1888.—EIGHT PAGES.
WASHINGTON, D, C.
FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT
Men and things.
tVHI Ow Nattasal Law .llaktn are Doing
—Dooartmaoial Gossip— .Movement* of
President and Mrs. Cleveland.
fIONGRESSIONAI.
In the Senate, among petitions and me
morials presented and referred, were sev
eral from all parts of the country in fa
vor rd prohibition in the District of Col
umbia: also, for a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the manufacture, sale
or reansportation of alcoholic liquors; for
un international copyright Inw; Tor the
issue of fractional ciiVrencv supplemental
to silver oefos and for use ‘in the mails,
and against legislation adverse to send
ing reprints of novels through the mails
at second-class rates. Mr. Hoar, from
the select committee on the celebration
of the centennial of the Constitution, re
ported a joint resolution providing (“in
addition to such other celebration asmav
hereafter be provided for ’) that the
Houses of Congress shall meet in the hall
of the House of Representatives; that
“ ie chief justice of the United States
s.iall deliver an oration, and that the
i resident of the United States, justices
ot tiw Supreme Court, members of the
cabinet, executives of the several
states and territories, and such
other persons as may hereafter be deter
mined upon, shall be invited to attend. Af
!h a long discussion the resolution was
amended by striking out the introductory
“entencefas quoted), and was then adopted.
-Ir. Sawyer called up, and the Senate
passed, the bill to amend the postal laws
’° that newspapers now sent free of post
age to persons residing within the county
of publication, maj be sent to persons
' other counties when they receive
them at post-officer within the county of
publication .. Bills were introduced by
Mr. Candler, of Georgia, for refunding
l nited States four per cent bonds into
2 | Per bonds. By Mr. Henderson,
<‘l North Curolitm, to divide the surplus
money in the treasury on the first of July,
IBHB. among the several states and terri
toiies, to tie used in aid of common
schools Also to repeal the tax on notes
of state banks used in circulation. At
the conclusion of the call of states,
Speaker Carlisle entered the chamber and
assumed the gavel amid loud applause
from both sides of the House. The House
resumed consideration of the Lowry-
W hite contested election case from Indi
ana, and the sitting member (White) "was
declared entitled to the seat.
the petitions and memorials
presented to the Senate was one (numer
ously signed) from Pennsylvania, asking
such a change of laws as to bar all pau
per immigration; to prevent the landing
of immigrants under contract; to debar
from citizenship all foreigners who owe
Allegiance to other powers or govern
ments, and to require twenty-one years
residence before any immigrant can hold
any public office of trust or emolument.
A bill reported from the committee and
placed on the calendar, authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Mis
sissippi River at Natchez. The resolution
offered by Mr. Plumb, some days since,
as to the inefficiency of the postal service
of the YY est and South, was taken up for
discussion, and Mr. Plumb addressed the
Senate upon it. Mr. Kenna discussed the
President s Message on the Pacific rail
roads, After a brief speech from Air.
Sherman, in reply to Mr. Kenna, and a
sti 1 briefer ene from Mr. Reagan in re
joinder to Mr. Sherman. Mr. Stewart
addressed the Senate briefly in support of
*he education bill. The pending Ques
tion, the chair announced, was with re
spect to the formation of a select com
mittee for the consideration of the Mes
sage of the President on the report of
the Pacific railway commission, and that
the mover of the resolution, the Senator
from Massachusetts, (Hoar) would have
been entitled to the chairmanship, but
■he chair was informed by that Senator
that under no circumstances would he
accept a place upon that committee
In the House, Mr. Blount, of Georgia,
chairman of the committee on postofiices
and | Hist road-, called up for considera
tion the bill amending the statutes so as
to provide that no publications that are
but books or reprints of books, whether
they be issued complete or in parts,
bound or unbound, or in series or whether
sold by subscription or otherwise, shall
be admitted to the mails as second-class
matter. The object of the bill, ex
plained Mr. Blount, was to prevent the
evasion of the law which designate*
what shall constitute second and "third
class mail matter. Under the law, books
must pass through the mads as third
da-s matter, but an abuse had sp.ung up
and the law had been evaded by pub
lishers issuing books at stated intervals
and passing them through the mails as
second-class matter, on the ground that
they were periodicals. While the Bible
and educational books had to pav eigh
cents a pound, a yellow-covered novel
could go through the mails for oue cent
a pound. Air. Crain from the committee
on Presidential elections, etc., reported a
joint resolution proposing a constitu
tional amendment providing that Con
gress shall hold its annual meetings i r.
the first Monday in January; placed ;
the House calendar.
GOSSIP.
The judiciary committee reported fa
vorably on the substitute offered by Mr
Culberson in place of all bills relating re
polygamy. The substitute provide* tir
polygamy hall not exist or be htwfui i
the United States, or any place subjt-c:
to their jurisdiction.
The Pullman Palace Car Com pan
argued before the Senate Committee
Commerce that they were only cat re. if;
(• -. and not common carriers, and that,
therefore, the Inter-State Commerce act
should not apply to their business, as pro
posed by Senator Cullom.
A communication signed by 88 mem
bers of Congress, asking for the dismissal
of Statistician Dodge, was received by the
Commissioner of Agriculture. The
movement is understood t>> have origin
ated with the tobacco growers, who were
aggrieved by the statistician's report last
Summer.
Deuni* Kearney, the celebrated Sand
Lot* orator of San Francisco, Cal., ad
dressed the House committee on foreign
affairs in advocacy of additional legisla
tion to re>triet Chinese immigration. Air.
Kearney exhibited a map showing the
Chinese district *i Sun Francisco and
said that Chinese to the number of 75.1)00
now occur.ied the entire pioneer district
of San Francisco, and had erected a Joss
house close to the leading Catholic church
in th city.
Further investigation shows that Abra
ham Isaacs, the Poii-h -Jew, who went
into the YYhite House with a loaded re
volver to collect $4.800 from the Presi
dent and was arrested with the weapon
in hi* iK.ssession. is a crank of a very
dangerous character. He says the gov
ernment owes him money. When ar
rested he ws* exclaiming: “I will kill
him.l will kill him!" The fellow appeared
to be crazy, and announced his determi
nation of putting a bulb t into Mr. Cleve
land if hi* claims were not promptly set
tled. He had in his possession, when
taken to the station. S2OO. He says he
is forty-nine years old, and that he has
been robbed of thousands of dollars by
United States officials. He ears he has
lived in Ban’a Fe. N. if., and" has been
in the city three years. He refers to all
United States officials as swindlers, rob
bers and thieves, and says that he cannot
get justice.
OLD LIBBY PRISON
To Be Removed from Richmond, Vn., to
Chicago, til., and Placed on Exhibition.
Anew departure in the line of relic
worship has been taken in Chicago, 111.
Preliminary steps for the formation of a
corporation, whose object is the purchase
mu removal to that city of the famous
Libby prison, of Richmond, Va., were
recently inaugurated there. The history
f the enterprise is best told in the words
of William H. Gray, to whom is due the
credit for its inception: “Last Novem
ber,” said he, “when I was traveling
through Eastern Virginia with Judge
Yloore, of Toledo, we met on the road to
Old Point Comfort and Richmond Col.
Barnes, a former officer in the Confede
rate army. In the course of a conversa
tion of the events of the War, reference
was made to the old Libby prison, and it
occurred to me that it would be a good
idea to purchase the building and trans
port it to Chicago. I took Col. Barnes
into my confidence, and asked him to as
certain if the property could be purchased.
Shortly after my return I received a let
ter from Paulings & Rose, real estate
dealers in Richmond, stating that the old
prison was now the property of the
Southern Fertilizer Company, and that
it could be purchased for $23,000. At
my request, J. A. Crawford, general su
perintendent of the Chicago Towing
Company went to Richmond "and looked
over the ground, and investigated the
possibility of moving the building. He
returned full of enthusiasm for the enter
prise. Some further correspondence
with the real estate firm mentioned re
sulted in their obtaining for me an option
for thirty days on the property. I have
consulted with architects, and they in
form me it can be taken down, removed
to this city and rebuilt just as it now
stands. Y\ r e. that is the company, pro
pose to number every brick, stone and
shingle. The building will be taken
down in sections, and the material will
be boxed up and transported by rail to
Chicago. YVe will carefully draw every
nail that has not rusted away. We will
bring up the mortar to use it as far as
possible iu rebuilding. Every beam,
joist, door and window will be set in
place. The enterprise will cost about
$200,000. YY r e will surround it with
another building, 200 by 100 feet, with
a glass roof, and on the wall opposite the
rear of the prison we will have painted a
panoramic view of James river and the
country beyond. lam informed that up
to two years ago, when the property
came into the possession of the Southern
Fertilizer Company, the Richmond au
thorities had to keep a guard around it
to keep off relic hunters, who would
have torn it to peices. 1 have been in
formed that some of the Richmond peo
ple may kick, but it will do th m no
good.” Josiah Cratty, one of the incor
porators in talking of the scheme, said:
1 ‘lt should be understood that there is no
idea of waving the bloody shirt in this.
It is simply a business speculation for
what there is in it. ”
iNiICSTIUAb NO IKS.
The following statistics from the offi
cial reports, shows the growth of the cot
ton and woolen industry in the Southern
states in the past seven years. The in
crease in mills in the South during that
period was eighty-five, or 51 per cent.;
of spindles, 654,026, or 116 per cent. ; of
looms, 15,734, or 29 per cent. The in
crease in each of the Southern states
separately in the past seven years, was as
follows: Alabama—Mills increased 18
per cent.; spindles, 18 per cent.; looms,
70 per cent. Georgia—Mills, 37 percent.;
spindles, 90 per cent.; looms, 81 per
cent. Missi-sippi—Miils, 25 per cent.;
spindles, 155 per cent.; looms, 109 per
cent. Maryland—Mills, 16 per cent.;
spindles, 35 percent.; looms, 14 percent.
North Carolina—Mills, 61 per cent ;
spindles, 139 per cent.; looms, 226 per
cent. South Carolina—Mills, 107 per
cent ; largest percentage of increase;
spindles, 181 per cent.; looms, 195 per
cent. Tennessee—Mills, 75 per cent.;
spindles, 188 per cent., the largest in
crease; looms, 185 per cent. Virginia-*
Miils, 50 percent.; spindles, 35 per cent.;
looms, 27 per cent. North Carolina has
to-day 80 cotton mills, against 49 in 1860.
S uth Carolina, 29 against 14 iu 1880.
Tenne-see, 28, against 16 in 1880. Geor
gia, 55 against 40 in 1880. Virginia, 12
against 3in 1880. Alabama, 19 against
16 in 1880. Arkansas has added oue mill
since 1880; Kentucky one; Louisiana
one; Mississippi two, and Maryland three
The totai number of mills in the South
to-day is 249, and consumption of raw
cotton iu 1886 and 1887 was 401.452
bales, against 316,062 in 1884-85.
CORNER IN TOBACCO.
Heavy buyers of tobacco report great
excitement in Kentucky. Every availa
ble foot of land is being engaged and
people are* paying as high as S9O per acre
rent for good fields. A representative of
a New York tobacco firm says: “Spain
has recently bon ht 4.000 hogsheads of
lugs in New York, which leaves her
1,000 shore of last year’s requirements
with about 13,000 hogsh ads for the
wants of 1888. New York warehouses
are about empty and purchases made at
Clark's mill this week were for imme*diate
shipments." Louisville operators are
making every effort to get ii dark low
grades in a few hands, and are credited
with the purchase within a week of
nearly all the stock iu Paducah. Hop
kiusville ad Nashville.
IN EASY SPANIARDS.
Dispatches from Huelvra, Spain, states
that the mob of riotous miners, now on
-trike, being ordered to disperse, refused
to do so and were fired upon by troops,
and many were killed. The governor
spoke front the balcony of the municipal
building, and tried to restore order, but
the crowd dt owned his voice with shouts
and fired pistols’ and threw dynamite
cartridges at the soldiers.
•iHtKK IN GREVT BRITAIN.
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt
in Scotland. It caused no damage,
shocks wer also felt in different art-of
England. Rep rets from Birmi; erham.
Coventry and Edgbarton. suburb of
Birmingham, show that disturbances oc
curred in those places. In Scotland the
thocks *re especially marked at Ding
tvail, cou t.v Robs, and at Invemeaa.
SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS,
interesting news items fob
dusf people.
Tlir Social, Religion* and Tcmneranca
'Vo r i,i_p ro j, ctP d Enterprise#— Mar
riages. Fires. Deaths. Ktc.
Nashville, Tenm.is to have anew daily
paper—the Democrat —with a strong fi
nancial backing. •
The Council of Atlanta. Ga., repealed
the “black-listing” ordinance, and are
granting liquor licenses by the wholesale.
Lewis Moore, a negro who was to have
been hung at Georgetown, Ga.. received
a respite from Governor Gordon fifteen
minutes before the hour fixed for his exe
cution.
News of a peculiar wedding comes
from Taylor, Ga., in which the interested
parties were an old gentleman aged
eighty-five and a young lady nearly
twenty.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
refuses to surrender the Hatfields, for
whom a requisition has been made by the
Governor of West Virginia. The courts
must decide the matter.
Tom Ellis, the editor of the Birming
ham, Ala., Harriet , who shot Detective
Scarborough a short time since, was him
self shot a few days after by Detective
Sullivan, and likely to die.
Near Red Springs, Robinson county,N.
C.. Angus A. McNeil, a farmer, was
thrown from his buggy and instantly
killed. YYhen found he was under the
buggy, with his neck broken.
Frank Lightford, who, it is alleged,
poisoned six persons at the boarding
house of Hattie Lightford, in Chattanoo
ga, Tenn., was arrested at South Pitts
burg. One of Lightford’s victims died,
and another barely escaped death.
Property belonging to the Rover Iron
Works company, at Roanoke, Va., was
sold at public auction to Clarence M.
Clark, of Philadelphia, for $26,000. 'l'his
includes a narrow gauge railroad of some
length and very valuable iron ore banks.
The committee of citizens appointed to
co-operate with the ladies in deviring
plans and means for the establishment of
a home for orphan boys in Columbus,
Ga., met, and the question was fully dis
cussed and sub-committees were appoint
ed to solicit subscriptions for the home.
John Blackmore heads the list wiih
SI,OOO.
The Crumwell line of steamer, Louisi
ana, from New York for New Orleans,
La., exploded her supply heater when off
the Florida reefs, and came to anchor.
Bhe was towed into Key West by the
steamer Elmonte. Several firemen on the
Louisiana were scalded, and one died.
The Louisiana will be towed to New Or
leans for repair.
A pair of Mormon elders passed through
Raleigh, N. C., on their way to Davie
county. The Mormon missionaries con
fine their operations to the most ignorant
people in the backwoods and unenlight
ened communities. These latest arrivals
say that quite a number of Mormons will
visit the South, and do there earnest
work in making converts. Several [Mor
mons have been nearly whipped to death
iu Western North Carolina.
Charleston, S. C., is rejoicing over the
capture by detectives of the burglars who
have been operating there for the past
six months. They were captured in their
den on Meeting street. Their names are
Andrew Gib! sand James Johnson, with
a dozen aliases.,^Both are negroes under
20 years of officers found in
their nest 4 of plunder,
which filled up a room of the main po
lice station. One of the burglars made a
confession, and told how they had rob
bed over fifty houses within the last three
months.
B. A. Ross, a farmer living near Glassy
Mountain, S. C., was shot and instantly
killed by some unknown party. Ross had
been sick, and was lying in front of the
fire, waiting for his wife to rearrange his
bed. When she had finished she called
to him to come, that his bed was ready.
Just as Ross had gotten up and was in
the act of crossing the room, he was fired
upon by someone outside of the house.
Throwing up both hands and exclaiming
“Lord, have* mercy on me, ” Ross fell
dead on the floor. Ross is said to have
been a “spy” by some of his neighbors,
who are illicit distillers.
MISCEGLNEKATION.
A Young German in New York City Wed* a
Colored Woman*
The East side of New York city was
stirred up very much on account of the
celebration of the nuptials of Arto Shou
vitch, a young German of the pronounced
blonde type, to Belle Jackson, a buxom
las of most ebony hue. The mar
riage ceremony was celebrated at Kra
mer's hall, 66 Essex street, which
adjoins the celebrated Silver Dol
lar Saloon kept by ex-Assemblyman
Charles Smith. The guests arrived at
the hall about 9:30, and were received
with astonishment by mine host Kiamer,
who had made all the arrangements for
the celebration with the groom; he natur
ally supposing the bride to be some rosy
ch eked German lass, and had never
stopped to question her antecedents.
Great was his surprise, when, instead of a
crowd of solid Germans and their wives,
a company of dusky gentlemen and their
ladies appeared, dressed in the latest
style. In the midst of them came Mr.
Shonvitch, and leaning on his arm was a
large colored girl. Bhe wore the usuai
orange blossoms, and a veil covered her
face. After everything had been ex
plained to Mr. Kramer, he joined heartily
in the laugh that arose at his surprise.
The festivities began with a inarch, and
then came dancing. While the company
were in the midst of it a scene occurred
which was not on the bill of fare. It was
the appearance of a poor, decrepit old
woman i . the barroom. Bhe was crying
bitterly; she was the mother of the
groom. She beg„ed piteously to be al
lowed :o see him and his wife. Sh was
brought iu by a rear way, and was shown
the bride through a window. At the
sight of her the old woman fainted aw y.
Alt. r being revived she begged her son to
come away with her. He refused to have
anything to say 7 to her, and she was car
ried out. In the midst of the excitement
a bur y German insisted od forcing his
way into the hal . lie was hatless and
coat less. He claimed to be the foster
father of tim groom, and threaten! and to
shout not only the bride but every person
in the hall who could not vouch for her be
ing white. The excitement was now in
tense, and loud were the imprecations
heaped on the head of the intruder. He
made a dash at the bride. The woman
fainted, the colored men yelled, and all
through the ha 1 v u could hear murmurs
of ••(Jut him,” “Blit his wizen.” At last
the man was ejected from the hall, quiet
was finally restored, the festivities ter
minated peacefully, and Mr. and Mrs
Schonvitch left on their wedding tour.
THE BUSY WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHED BT THE EVER
PRESENT NEWSPAPER HAS.
Tlie European Powers Preparing f°r *
Great Mrmrgie—lrish ASairs—morms*
Railroad Accidents. Buirides, etc.
Fifteen hundred cotton operators are
on a strike at Cornwall, Ontario, on ac
count of a reduction iu wages.
The absorption of the Whitney Arms
Company by the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, of New Haven, Conn.,
is believed to be the beginning of a series
of such combinations resulting in a fire
arms trust.
Cutting is again fast and furious in
western freight rates at Chicago, and
nobody knows what rates actually arc.
for they hardly have time to become sta
tionary before anew cut is made. All
western roads are involved.
A special from Seward. Nebraska, says
that Miss Etta Sliattuck, the school teach
er who whs so severely frozen during the
recent blizzard, died. The Omaha /!<>
fund for her benefit, amounting to $3,570,
will probably be turned over to her pa
rents.
Burglaries have been of almost nightly
occurrence in the western addition, one
of the most fashionable quarters of the
city of San Francisco, Cal., and the resi
dents have appealed to the chief of police
for additional protection. A burglar
entered the house of Chief of Police
Crowley, while he was asleep, and stole
$1,500 worth of jewelry from his wife's
room. Mrs. Crowley was aroused just in
time to see the thiet jumping from a front
window,
The Assembly chamber, in the Capitol
at Albany, N. Y., is about to be vacated.
The authorities have discovered many
serious movements of stone in the g* and
arch, all of the main ribs of the vault
split, and many of the stones cracked
clear through. The whole ceiling is de
clared to be in a dangerous condition.
The time must come soon, they sav, when,
without warning, the whole ceiling will
fall, and recommend that the whole As
sembly wing of the capital be vacated at
once.
Express train No. 8, on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, was
thrown from the track by a broken frog,
while passing S eamburg Station, N. Y.
The engine and the first two cars passed
over iu safety, but the third coach left
the rails, and dashed into a caboose of
the freight train lying on a side track,
killing Miss Hattie Abbott, aged seven
teen, Sheffield, 111., a passenger, en route
to Boston, in company with Mrs. Cyra
and Miss Bessie Battey; George Ellis,
Meadville, Pa., conductor of the freight
train; James Dean, of Meadville, brake
man of the freight train.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Several of the Pensacola fishing smacks
have been at sea two weeks, and some
uneasiness is felt regarding their safety.
....Tobacco culture will be tried in
Hamilton county this year to some ex
tent. .. An effort is being made to organ
ize a Teachers’ Asssoci ition in Hamilton
county... .There arc yet 10,000 boxes of
oranges in the vicinity of Orlani*), un
marketed A DeLand shoe dealer re
cently ordered a pair of No. 16 for one
of his customers.... Capt. Wm. Archer,
chief of police at the Ponce de Leon, at
St. Augustine, is determined to allow no
bunco st.eerers or confidence men on the
hotel grounds. Recently oue of the fra
ternity entered the hotel and was ascend
ing the grand staircase, when he was
stopped bv the watchful official, who
warned him not to repeat his visit....
The steamer Clco. here’ofore running be
tween Melbourne and Jupiter Inlet, Ires
been The new stern-wheeler,
Georgiana, recently built at Palatka, lias
taken her place.... Capt. W. S Pitts,
the Western tourist and Florida’s alliga
tor exterminator, made a contract to fur
nish one firm with 18,000 alligator skins,
but, being converted to believe in the
culture of tobacco, has cancelled the con
tract, and now has 100,000 tobacco plants
up and will commence soon to transplant.
... .At the time of the accident to the
train at the St. Mary bridge, some weeks
ago, the Sanford Packing Company lost
a car-load of oranges, which was going
by express. The Southern Express Com
pany has just settled the damages, some
$800... .Gilmore’s entire festival band
will appear at the Sub-Tropical in a few
weeks’ time. The anvil chorus is a
specialty with this company. The guar
antee necessary to secure this band
was a very heavy one. The state will be
thoroughly billed and special excursions
at a low rate of fare run for the three days.
....The Volusia county branch of the
American Biblical Society is trying to
put a canvasser in the field who will sell
Bibles throughout the county and give to
thoe who are unable to buy There
are now more tourists in DeLand than
there have been at any one time for the
last three years.... The DeLand Rifles
will be rigged out in new uniforms in
a few days .. The headquarters of the
department of Florida G. A. R. has been
established at Jacksonville, Fla., and the
following appointments have been made
by Commander James: Assistant Adju
tant General —Samuel YY. Fox, Jackson
ville, Fla.; Assistant Quartermaster
General—Charles M. Ellis Jack-onville,
Fla.: Inspector—James A. Pine, Eustis,
Fla.; Judge Advocate—George W.
Lewton, Longwood, Fla . G. H. Car
penter, the alleged forger from New
York, who escaped from tin* sheriff’s of
ficers at Jacksonville, is still at large.
NORTH CAROLINA ITEM**.
A survey of the railroad route from
Morganton to Cranberry i- being rapidly
prosecuted. The survey from Shelby to
Morganton is completed. This line of
road is known as the Southern aid
Western Air-Line.... The liabilities of
Jackson & Shaw, general merch nts, of
Car harge, who assigned recently, are
slightly above their assets. They will
pr bably be able to resume business
The Episcopal convocation of Charlotte
met a* Windsor on the 7th. Trier were
twenty-six counties in this convocation
... YYalter Bristow, the one-armed mar.,
of Palmyra. Halifax Cos., who killed J. H.
Hemmit, has been acquitted on proof
that it was justifiable homicide... .Offi
cers of the general staff and command
ants of the va ious regiments of the
state guard met at Raleigh, ad had a
long conference with Governor Scales.
It was decided by* the Governor to fur
nish all troops with overcoats, and twelve
hundred will be immediately requisi
tioned for. It was also decided to issue
cloth for uniform* to the companies as
rapidly as needed . Rev. Dr. Charles
T. Bailey, editor of the Biblical Recorder
of Raleigh, bought from Rev. Joseph E.
Carter, the Wetter,. Baptist, a weeklv
newspaper published at Asheville.... Ra
leigh has complete i the payment of
SB,OOO subscribed to the State Agricultu
ral and Mechanical College, that sum
having been a bonus given to secure its
location there.
SPRING FARM NOTES,
WHATTHE SOUTHERN FARMER’S
THOUGHTS ARE TURNING TO.
Intensive Fannin* the O dfr of ih>* Day-
What Progress!vp Women Are Doing—
About Egg*. Butler. Tobacco. Etc.
GOLDEN WORDS.
There are many farms in the South
yielding a scanty living for all con
cerned, where it would be wise to sell
one-half the mules, one-half the plows
and other implements, one-half the land
(or let it rest), dispense with half the
labor, and invest the money saved in fer
tilizers. improved stock and improved
implements, and such appliances as may
be needed to reduce loss and waste. 1 lie
farmer who confines his best efforts and
skill to a small portion of his farm and
still continues the whole area in cultiva
tion has practically only reduced area
wi hout reducing expenses. — Southern
Cultivator.
A woman's work.
“I have raised ever so many chickens,”
says a lady in St. Mary’s Parish, La., “and
been very successful. My chicken eggs
alone some months bring me sl2 or sl3,
an I during grinding season I have made
from $75 to SIOO easily. My chicken
sales keep my pockets amply supplied
with cash.” So mote it be in thousand*
of country homes all over our de ,r old
poverty stricken Southland. We ask
what able-bodied white man or able
negro is making as much money planting
cottou? Echo answers none, ami thi* is
being done with only a lady’s spare time.
YVhat is here said of the women of Lou
isiana is also true of the women of many
other Southern States. — Exchange.
TOBACCO.
The best soil for growing the “Black
Wrapper’’ is a dark, rich loam. Black
loam is inclined to make dark tobacco.
The manure should be well rotted, if any
can be had. Fresh manure inclines to
fire it up and “head in,” and should not
be used. If a fertilizer is used it should
not be put immediately in the hill, it will
do better to scatter it around the hill.
The soil should be broken deep and well
pulverized. If a good fre zc comes after
the first breaking so much the better, il
will clear the soil of cut worms,
PECAN TREEB.
The pecan belongs to the same genus
with the hickory, and is equally difficult
to transplant. It will not grow from cut.
tings, and requires considerable cure to
transplant it. The nuts should be care
fully gathered from the tree, and buried
under some lo* se earth and trash, so that
they will be kept cool and moist, iintj
where they will not be disturbed by ver
min. Then plant them as you would
peach-stones, say in February or March,
or just as they begin to sprout. In other
words, manage about as peach-stones.
It is bc.ttcr to plant tlie nuts just where
you wish Ihe trees to permanent y grow.
But if not convenient to do this, cut off
the tap root the next fall, and tr nsplunt
again, and so on until ready to set them
permanently, transplan ing, or re-setting
every fall until finally located. The trees,
if well cultivated, will commence to bear
a few nuts in eight or ten years, and the
yield will rapidly increase annually, as
the trees become larger.
TO MAKE GOOD HAMS
The Westphalia hams are made as fol
lows; Well nibbed with dry salt and left
to drain twenty-four hours. Take two
quarts of salt; two quarts of bag (rock)
salt; three pounds of brown sugar; one
pound of saltpetre four ounces of sal
prunclle, and four ounces juniper berries,
well mixed and boiled iu six quart* of
water. The brine is then cooled and
skimmed. The hams are then taken
from the salt and wiped dry, and the
cold pickle poured over them and rubbed
in. There should be enough brine to
cover the meat. Turn the meat every
second day for three weeks, th< n take
them out, wipe dry, and a mixture of
ground pepper, salt and bran is thor
oughly rubbed in, filing all cracks and
openings. They are then smoked a little
every day for three months or more, until
completely dry, when they will keep and
improve in flavor for years. Pyroligne
ous acid will keep off flies and animalcu
le of all kinds, and improve the flavor of
the meat.
EGGS AND BUTTER.
A lady in Water Valley, Miss., writes
to a Southern farm journal: “A* I wrote
you what I was doing in the Summer
with our ‘scrub stock,’l will now tell you
what I have made clear of expenses in
one year. Have sold 1,016 pounds of but
ter, besides what we used at home, at
twenty-five cents per pound, making
$254. Also twelve dollars worth of eggs
and seven dollars worth of turkeys. So
you see that farmers' wives can do some
thing to help their husbands if they will
only try. I have not been running a
•dairy,’ but simply selling the surplus
butter from the cows we kept to supply
the family tahle.”
BLACKBERRIES.
The people of North Carolina pay more
attend* a to the gathering of wild berries,
roots and herbs than the inhabitants of
any other Southern state. During the
last blackberry season a single farm in
Greensboro shipped in one day 18,000
pounds of dried blackberries. This is
the kind of work for women and child
ren. as well a* the gathering of herbs and
roots, of which we shall soon have some
thing practical to give to our female
readers.
THE RIGHT SORT.
The young ladies of Auburn, Ala., have
organized a flourishing cooking club. As
there is an agricultural and mechanical
college at that place, the young men will
know where to find domestic wives when
they gaaduate.
GHilll.lSn.
Intense excitement and great indigna
tion exists at Fayetteville, Tenn., over a
remarkable series of outrages there, cul
minating in an un-heard-of piece of
ghoulish work, followed by the arrest of
the offender. YYithin the past two weeks
a number of barns have been burned in
the county, and there has been general
watchfulness for the in' end! ry. Horses
have been stolen and smoke-houses
lobb'-d, but the greatest indignation was
excited when some gang ol scoundrels
went to Unity Church graveyard and un
turned and threw down nearly every
monument it contained. Some of them
were dragged to other parts of the
churchyard, and many broken. A re
ward was at once offered for the villains,
and the detectives we tto work. Asa re
sult of their investigation John YVright, a
resident of that neighborhood, has been
arrested and jailed, after confessing all
the deeds in court. YY'hen arrested he
was mounted on a stolen horse and h*d
a quantity of meat he had stolen f.om
bis father's smoke-house, after breaking
into it. As soon as told why he was
wanted he acknowledged everything,
and later made afnll conff-ssion in court.
It is believed several others are implica
ted, and officers are hunting them down.
HIS ANSWER.
*YYhat Is mv thought like!’ Like a stream,
Whose unseen course the eye may trace
Through barren lands, by tender beam
Of leaf and bud, and shining gleam
Of trees that fill the happy space.
4 What is my thought like 7 ” Like a rose;
Deep chalice where the wild Ihv sips;
Whose radiant heart doth space enclose
Where waiting love may find repose.
YY'ith kiss of perfume on its lips.
•What is mv thought likef’ Like a bird
That in the glooming soars and sings:
SY'hose voice, like some soft spoken word
Through gloom of sin and sorrow heard.
Lifts up the soul upon its wings.
•What is my thought like:” Like a face
That symbols all things fair and true;
Whose lines both soul and sense do grace,
YYiiose eyes do glad the darkest place.
Whose lips bring life—ray swevt. like you?
— Mart] E. Blake, in Bos’.on Courier.
Pllil AM) POINT.
A Bad Sign—An illegal signature.
Failure In the Yarn Trade—Writing
ansucccssful no.els. — < mth-i B<e.
Wool men do not necessarily have a
sheepish appearance. — Pitt.l g ( I
icle.
“Large bodies move Jowly.’’ Eu*y
bodies are not large bodas.—/Wo
Courier.
Nobody should be hungry on Cliri-t
--mas; it is not that kind of a hollow day.
— Merchant- Traveler.
A doctor who speaks only one lan
guage may yet understand a great many
tongues. C rial ion JlegUf r.
Strawberries are sl2 a quart. There
ought to be gold in quartz of this kind
for the producer. —Lost ax Bul'e’in.
“I’mgetting iu some line work now.”
remarked the Judge, as he began to <1 >-
pose of the criminal eases. —IJJr ■> Free
Pres.
Many a young man u votes more
thought to the choice of a lic.-ktie than
the choice of a profession —B n iingio i
Free Prets.
De Smith—“ Well, Travis, how art
yout” Travis —‘‘Oh I’m robust. How
are you.'” De Smith—“Flaiu bust.'
—Burlington Free Peer*.
Out in Cincinnati they refuse abso
lutely to take any stock whatever in th
faith cure, because it won’t work on
hams. —Somerville Journal.
“How are collections to-day?” a*ked
man of a bill collector. “. low, \cr. 7
slow: can’t even collect my thoughts,”
was the reply. —Pi t< urj (' ronl .
The average club man cares very little
about music. If he can only stri to the
key of the door with reasonable accuracy
he is content. — Bur. ington Frei Pee.it.
While man toils upward with his load
His speed is not in* lva-vd.
But. when he sti i ies th.. downward road.
Then everything is greased.
—Oil Citu B’izznrd.
The London Txroel tells “how lo lie
when asleep.” Il'it \vi 1 tea h -ome peo
ple how io keep from ly ng when awake
it will do a public .sere ice. —De r it Tree
Prcx .
The young man who rcc'tcs “Oh, the
Snow,” should go out YVest and take a
look at a genuine bli/. ard. He will
probably know more and recite less. —
Mi reliant - 7ra e'er.
“What’s bothering you, Smyth? You
look unusually gloomy.” * It's all a
bill, Robinson. What shall I tlo wrh
it.” “Do with it? Bend it to Congress.”
— New IF vet Neat.
Delinquent—“l think, boy, that in
presenting this bill so often you are caus
ing me undue annoyance.” Loy “Oat
ain’t undue, sir. De boss says it's over
due.”—New York S in.
Guest—(suspiciously eyeing the flat
tened pillow arul the crump ed sheets)—
“Look here, landlord, this bed ha* been
slept in.” Landlord (triumphantly)—
“That’s what it's fur.” —Du date.
“Bliall I pass the b :t‘er, Mr. McC’hun
kerson V' inquired the new boarder.
“Thanks,” replied the experien ed
boarder, “you may head it in tills direc
tion, and let it come.” —Chicago I rimne.
The ways of the giddy young people
Extend to some things inuat**.
For the gravy is s*ift on the whiskers
And the miller dead gone on the grate,
YY’hiie th • rly gets stuck on the butu-r,
And the potato mashed on the date.
—Oi Cilu B izzard.
Mrs. Fumpsey—“Our Bessie is the
brightest little child you ever saw. She
picks up everything she hears.” Mrs.
Popinjay —“Something like our YY illie.
lie picks up everything lie sees.”—Bur
lington Fe e Press.
A portion of the City of Virginia,
Nev., is said to be 4 an animated mass of
rising and falling earth.” In most
Western cities land simply rises;
it never falls, if we may believe the
reports of land boomers, who pay 1.000
for a piece of land one day and raise it
*.o $5,000 the next. —A rri toon Herald.
THE IDEAL AND THE REAL.
They say that nothing's real,
That everything is seeming—
The world is but ideal
And life is only dreaming.
But when a man falls down the stairway.
And tries to think naught has come o’er im.
That fellow’s surely in a fair way
To strain this thinkerorum.
Detroit Free Press.
A New Invention in Calico Printing.
A correspondent writes: “The ‘simul
taneous’ process of color printing prom
ises to entirely revolutionize some classes
of calico, velvet and velveteen printing,
and also the printing of advertisements
in colors. The novel character of the
‘simultaneous’ proce-s wili be at once
understood when I mention that bv it,
if required, l,o<re shades could lie printed
off at one impression. lu-tead of using
engraved roller* as in or .inary calico
printing, or stones as in the case of col
ored ad vert isements he designs of pic
tures arc* built up’ in a case of solid
colors specially prepare and, somewhat a.ter
the style of mosaic work. A portion is
then cut < r sliced off about aainthin
thickness, and this wrapped round a
cylinder, and the composition has only
to be kept moist and any number of im
pressions can be printed oil on call o,
velvet or velvet, en, the colors being
thoroughly ‘fast.' '—MeranCde Gazette.
The Conjugal Thermometer.
YVhen the honevmoon is over and acquaint
ance moils t ie lover to a sense of sober
fitness ani the sea my-s de i real:
When the glow has left tne fever and he
turns an unbeliever, how he wonders as
he ponders on the fi a:ity of ideal!
he sees it is the fashion for the willing
heat of pas don to benumb to temper
fr.g;d m posse*>sion'B heedless sight.
his ardor terms a question of his
powers of digestion, or which of them
retiring shall put oat the vexing lignt.
hen the Benedict lies thinking, with his
peepers slyly blinking at his i/etter half,
who shivers w:tb an unproductive ire.
iscerns throng.! cough, ani snee.ing,
with the mercury at ireezing. tuat af
fection ali depends on who cons-ructa
the kitchen fire.
—BaLy Spring* Mi**., R^orixm