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2 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