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THE NEWS. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. The historical works relating to the American Civil War already exceed 6000 volumes. Efforts are being made ln the courts to have electricity considered as a manufac¬ tured article. Thc cattle industry of the United States represents the immense capital of $ 1 , 200 , 000 , 000 . According to ihe Prairie Farmer “thc Fanners’ Alliance is actively at work in the Vr'est and South fighting obnoxious trusts and other monopolies.” The New York Jleraui statos that “race ind religious prejudices are making po¬ litical conditions in Canada that appear to threaten the disruption or the Domin¬ ion.” The Chilian Government has engaged many railway engineers from this coun¬ try for the building of its new roads— tome 2500 miles in length—from coast cities to the interior parts. A project is being considered for add¬ ing 250,000 acres to the irrigated area in Egypt? the water being taken from a point so high up on the Nile that the canals shall never run dry. Thc Prince of Thurn and Taxis has taken his place among the comparatively limited number of royal patentees. This enterprising potentate has invented yet another method of making paper. Miss E. A. Southworth, who has been made assistant mycologist at Washington, is said to be the first woman to receive an appointment to a scientific post at Wash¬ ington. Her specialty is fungoid growths. As a New York World correspondent, looking from the vantage ground of the Isthmus of Panama itself, sums it up that 20,000 lives and $200,000,000 have been thrown away on the grand DcLes- seps fiasco. Jerusalem seems now to be a rapidly growing city. This i3 due to the great number of Jews who arc flocking there yearly. They notv number 30,000 more than the Moslem and Christian population combined. A shoemaker named John Ryan, oi Joliet, Ill., has won the international prize of $500 offered by a boot and shoe fournal of Boston for the best essay on boot and shoemnking in all its branches. Every Slate in the Union contested foi the prize, also Canada, New Brunswick aud Nova Scotia. Iu Hungary tho whole system of rail¬ ways is to be divided into fourteen zones, and within any such zone all the fares arc to be equal; the rates may bo guessed from the fact that the third-class fare in tho outer zone is four florins for morc- than 500 kilometres—i. c., about $1.G? /or about 320 miles. Thc reduction ot the death rate foi England and Wales from 20.5 to 18.8, which has been effected between 18S1 and 1SS7 by tho progress of sanitary science, means a saving per annum of $38,175,. 000. This, it seems, is thc money ivorth of that amount of human life, at an aver- »gc value of $795 per life. Tho year 18S9 is thc fiftieth anniversary of thc establishment of the penny post in England. It was in 1S39 that a com- mittee,of the House of Commons reported favorably upon Sir Rowland Hill's scheme for the establishment of cheap postage. The bill received a majority of 100 votes and became a law on August 17, 1S39 . _ The death of Sirs. Hayes leaves but five women living whose husbands were at any time Presidents of thc United States. These are Mrs. Tyler,Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Cleve¬ land. There are two other women still alivo who also acted as mistresses of the Presidential mansion—Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson and Mrs. McElroy. The Euglish company who arc work¬ ing the Nacoochee mine in Georgia took out the other day a nugget of gold weigh- SnglSOO pennyweights, and valued at $2500. Not long ago they took one nug¬ get that weighed thirty pennyweights, and another of 507 pennyweights. Such finds as these, muses the New York Sun, are calculated to make a fellow feel rich streaks rim up and down his back. •SB The Oriental Congress which is to take place in Stockholm, in September, will be of unusual interest. Five hundred foreign members have announced their intention to take part iu the proceedings. Deouta- tions. single members from Persia, Arabia, tudui. Egypt, Japan, China, etc., will at¬ tend, and many renowned savants of the l ar East are expected. King Oscar is donomry President. Several fetes will ae given in honor of the strangers. The noted Philadelphia street-car syn¬ dicate, which now owns many street car ones in Chicago and other cities, has just purchased the Citizens' and People's lines of Baltimore, and has its agents out Nil rough the country looking for fresh in¬ fest meats in the same line. The Phila- Aelphia syndicate is composed for the most part of retired politicians. The Company, as it known, cen- 150miles of ctreet runway m iriuu- 1 pkia aiouo. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NUTS FBOH ITZRTWHZKE—ACCIDENTS, STBIXB3, FIRES, ASI> HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST. The Connellsville, Pa., coke strike is spread.ng „ and * ,, the strike , ., will ... , be general , ‘v> ays. Snow storms and rains . prevail through- out Switzerland. Mountain passes are partly blocked. p ctureset with brilliants. Three young men were drowned near San Francisco, Monday, by being washed from a rock by a large wave. Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner in Read- hag, Pa., jail, committed suicide Thurs- day by hanging himself in his cell. Bethlehem, Pa., iron company Thurs- day issued a notice of an increase in wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80 per day. Eight thousand bunches of overripe bananas were seized by the New York board of health Thursday. The fruit was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy lue ‘ • Eleven houses were burned at Fenn- viile, Mich.. Wednesday night, involving a loss of $35,000. A tramp caused the conflagration, and he was arrested and jailed. Gen. Boulanger has issued a declara¬ tion in which he says the accusations against him are infamous slanders, and that he relies on the French people as his sole judge. According to the latest statistics care¬ fully compiled by the board of injury, at Johnstown, ber Pa., Wednesday, the num¬ of lives lost in the devastated district was about six thousand. Chief Postoffice Inspector Rathbone lias been informed of the arrest of George Crawford, mail agent running between Wellston and Cold Spring, Ga., for rob¬ bing a registered pouch of ten letters. Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royce, late of the Willimantic Savings institute, was arrested Thursday in Willimantic, Conn., on a new charge of embezzlement of $15,000 from the institute and making false entries. W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers, doing business at 244 Purchaser street, Boston,have failed. Liabilities $225,000. The cause of the failure is the general condition of the leather business for the past three years. Twenty thousand dollars was paid out by Treasurer Thompson, at Johnstown, Pa., from 12 o’clock till 4 on Friday. Work is in shape to be pushed right along now, and the money will soon be in the hands of the people. The New York Herald says the cotton crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, and that reports of the corn, cotton and wheat crops have been underestimated. Such cotton was never seen, and wheat and oats are up to the average. The French heirs of Stephen Giiard are about to bring suit in Philadelphia for the recovery of $13,000,000 worth of property. They claim that the trustees have violated the provisions of the will. A part of the property in dispute consists of 208,000 acres of land in Louisana. Tw of in thelockedout children,belonging to the wife of one miners,died at Spring Valiev, 111., Tuesday morning.and physi¬ cians whe attended them, pronounced it a clear case of starvation. The mother had but little food in the house, and was unable to provide sufficient nourishment for them. August Beginning August 5tb, and lasting to 12 th, a great encampment of Knights of Pythias w’ili be held at Spring Fountain Park, Ind. It will be com¬ posed of the entire Indiana brigade of uniform rank, including sixty divisions, and many from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. Exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $089,437, of which $163,580 wms in j/old consigned to South America, and $525,851 silver con¬ signed to Europe. Imp u ts of specie for the week amounted to $25,218, of which $11,588 was in gold ancl $13,710 in sil¬ ver. The president left Washington on Tuesday morning on his trip to Bar Har¬ bor, Me., to visit Secretary Blaine, lie was accompanied by Secretaries Windom and Proctor, Private Secretary Halford and also Secretary Tracy. The presi¬ dent expects to return to Washington by the 17th The assessors appointed by Governor Gordon, of Georgia, to estimate the value of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air- Line Railroad, made their report Friday. The road valued their property at $1,625,903. The assessors, however, find it to be worth $1,809,997, a difference of $184,094 in favor of the state. The grand national monument, in honor of the pilgrim*, was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday. The Sons and Daughters of Plymouth were there m great numbers, also visitors from far and near. The dedicatory exercises were carried out by the Masonic grand lodge, according to the ritual of their order, and were very interesting. The debt statement issued at Wash¬ ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in creuse of debt during the month of July to be $1,017,311.51; total interest bear¬ ing debt $S95.391,886 96; total debt of all kinds $1,646,777,309.91; total debt, less available credit, $1,077,663,932 96; legal tender notes outstanding $346,- 681,016; certificates of deposit outs land- iug $17,575,000: gold certificates out- standing $118,541,409; silver certificates $20,557,125; fractional currency $6,916,- 023 4^J t0taI 04311 ln treasury $034,723,- The ice trust at Indianunolis Tnd Which, since the: bugiDniu.tr of the sc* son, has kept wfs prices charJU up to 14U iear, percent more than last hai StoSSbT be hre S T 1, " ed from an hi<ffie? tb th ^S . ,<>rca price* 8 ,di f>n 1,. the dcalers refuscd tc agree ntq-ee to to thr the proposition and withdrew purchi X h rnl e dTr Ct bad ° f previously lake ,Ce sufficient for the whole ’ city, he i. states, soThrt d e nnbl£ e t I !r rly “if Cent »»euefi^of the ^ ? 1 a ° W * C A A d H “P atc ; h f ! rom i? ^ ansaa r e CUtt,DK City, Mo., * exnre*°« „ V 1 . ^, led lt ” rda OUt y nl . Sbb Uuricm, as the Wabash it was I tr i*"*, tuo road a^uts, who com- e 1 >as f eD i^f r ^’i 8t *be ni'izzle »-f On! tw Ir'a i VlR bold up their hands. ’ * e n ! en thiough the pas- hist* “ x-*L >Ut ’ " *“ ,*■ r,le otber.w ith ^his extended arm, kept a In thi b^tr • & ciol/^huT «°i U °j ° °l f ecu,edail ) l >OS!t:0!1 - he d ? b,s haste, and the robbers r ui w had i escaped. The passengeis louud they ad ben relieved of $175 in tu ana two gom wa cue>. A Chicago dispatch says: A terrible epidemic of bloudj flux has appeared at ^ arsaw. It came on last Monday in a light form and resembled dysentery, but on phase, Wednesday it assumed a more serious and now fifteen people have died. Four deaths occurred Thursday and four Friday, dren. the victims being mostly chil¬ One hundred and eighty cases ire now reported. The people are ter¬ ror-stricken and do not know what to make of the scourge. Hamilton, The disease has also appeared at and it is said to ex j 8 t epidemic form at Canton and Kahoka, Mo. The president, on Monday, appointed Julian H. Bingham, of Alabama, and 0 f public moneys, respectively, at Mont- gomery, Ala.; William II. Hart, of Indi- ana, to be third auditor of the treasury; John T. Rankin, of Pennsylvania, to be deputy auditor of the treasury for the post office department; Walter H. John- son » of Georgia^ the to be collector of inter- 'l 31 revenue lor district of Georgia; Eugene A. Webster, of South Carolina, be collector of internal revenue for the district . of South Carolina; Columbus C. Zl?om S \x the 'port WAUantaf°Ga^ John F Pattv c f Louisiana, ’ to be nava officcr of custoins in the dist rict of New Orleans, La . George w Jolly> of Ken . tuck}’, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Kentucky; William Grant, of Kentucky, to be attorney of the United States for the eastern district of Lousiana; Peter A. Williams, of Florida, to be marshal of the United States for the south*, rn district of Florida. RUSHING WATERS. GREAT FRESHET IN VIRGINIA—HOUSES AND STREETS FLOODED—UNTOLD DAMAGE. Reports from Richmond, Va., say that the James river is seventeen feet above the ordinary low water mark, and rising four inches per hour. The wharves at Rocketts are all under water and adja- cent streets, houses and cellars and the gas works are inundated. A number of business houses had to suspend trade aud move their effects in consequence of Schockoe creek backing up water from 'or years. Repo,though- At Fredericksburg the lower portion ol the city is submerged from high water in the Rappahanock, and merchants and citizens are moving their effects to places of safety, At Danville, Thursday morning, there was more water in Dan river than was ever known before. Factories and small dwellings on the river banks were flood- ed, and the loss will be about $15,000, exclusive of the damage to the railroads, Travel, on the Danville and New River road is suspended, lwo bridges and one long trestle have been carried away, and the wires are all down. Carson the Atlantic and Danville track are complete- ly submerged and lnduen from view, Harrisonburg, Va., the rains have been continuous for days, and all the streams are out of their banks. Much damage a££?5=SsSt3 as een one. m. rainy .spe w iu i 8 SDroutiuff Xomv for in the shocks The outlook is fdelphia farmers Renorts from Phil say: Waters in the Schuylkill river Thursday attained the hi'dies t point reached reacnea in in this mis citv ry for iori twenty y years yea , in- wore subL’rgod, bLbou^sflooded the banks and some of the streeis near nver were under water to the depth consul- of be- tween four and five feet, doing erablo damaue. SPOKANE IN ASHES. A YOUNG CITY OF THE NEW STATE OB W ASHINGTON SUCCUMBS TO 'J HE FLAMES. A dispatch to the San Francisco Ex¬ aminer says: Spokane, one of the most prominent of the many new cities in the infant state of Washington, situated on the line of the Northern Pacific Rail¬ road, close to the Coeur de Alone mining region, was visited by a disastrous fire on Monday afternoon, iu which twenty- five business blocks were reduced to ashes. The city has been the site for many large industrial establishments, such as smelters and kindred enter¬ prises. Expensive public edifices had also been recently erected, and the population was easily supporting two prosperous daily papers. The burned district wa 3 in the strip between the Northern Pacific railroad tracks and the Spokane river. This strip was five squares across, and extend¬ ed about seven squares in lencth. It was solidly built up with brick aud stone structures, the cost of which va¬ ried from $25,000 to $125,000. Ten banking houses, five hotels, opera house, and many wholesale establishments, do¬ ing business estimated at half a million dollars each, were situ¬ ated within the district described. The population city of the city w T a 3 about 20,- 000. The possessed an excellent waterworks modeled after the Holly sys¬ tem. with a capacity of 9,000,000 gallons daily. There were no fire engines, but by the system in use five or six good- sized streams of water could be concen¬ trated upon any block ixr the case of lire, 'ilie fire department spread was a volunteer one. The flames with fearful rapidity. The firemen were power iss. Attempts were made to check the fire by blowing buildings , . its . path, ...... but it up in was use. cS9 ‘ A BIG GRAB. ™ oets kich ENLY * ___ There was a big sensation in Wheeling, W kaown'!ha. Va Fridav morning SejbS'kl,1 when it Wam. C Barer bookkeeper yery '“ [ r" S rest * )f ^ f d bank fo ^ embezzling of Wheeling, $27,000 had from been the ar bank. On tliq 10th of April, dipositeS a package containing $27,000 was iu the * U k hy a P l0miaent business mm, end i was placed iu the va tit aV b<3 bus J lwss hours - f tCr tbe bank had closed, the man wh i hid i depos ted the Package went to get u and found ,t missing. Tbe ab- se-nce o, the package was keq»t quiet for n time, being as »t appeared evident that - -me e.nploye had taken it. HiriySey- >ol; \\;s found to be spending money ' lT - v Iec !J- Su>pictou at once rested ou urn aiu ie wa>. arrested. He was taken ‘ justice r& i am charged vrah tUe theft. At first Seybold denied th, a i er f 10 ' 1 *i x uniuation 1 y fiDal %T f ff1? J-«ken em the lo money v uf tlie beybold b< ntv f. has r the been past m - even ye. -I and hs books ba-e always ev L J z. ' ‘rree. tac i » xa..iinauo... Wtiiat ° e tu 1 th^*temntlu«I tem Ptation w&> too strong. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OP importance in the southern states. The fire in Pratt mines, Ala., which had been burning six days, was extin- guished " ' Saturday IV. H, Heyward, one of the richest npd most prominent rice planters of the olden times, day, died at Charleston, S. C., Tues- a«ed %„, seventy-two years Uo The first lot of “anti-trust* cotton ,, •' Pf for the scas o n received in V oldosta, Ga., Saturday It attracted quite a crowd to inspect this new cover- ing which the Fanners’ Alliance has re- solved to use. J. F. Shillis,. who opened a music store in Birmingham, Ala., a few weeks ago, went in debt as deep as he could and skipped. His shop is in the hands of the sheriff under attachments sworn out by numerous creditors. In a row between Andy Baker and Wude Purcell, at M< unt Vernon, Ky., Monday morning, Constable Proctor at¬ fued tempted to arrest Purcell when the latter at Proctor. The ball took effect in the back part of the neck and rauging downward. Proctor fired a shot into Purcell’s bowels. Pioctor is badly wounded and Purcell will die. Saturday night, at Raleigh, N. C., Theodote Couusil, a young man who poisoned his wife with “rough ou rats,” was captured in the woods near Wil- liamstown, Martin county. A large number of men had pursued him ever since the verdict of the coroner’s jury had fixed the murder upon him. He is ' ^ 18 1 nerit S . eutlea b c v° ,u r “* ing uat to he appear is crazy. m- A storm broke over Richmond , Va., on Thursday night, during.which the city railwa y stables, located just without the cuy limits in \\ est End, were struck l y lightning. Ihe building took tire, the 11hu1( ' s spread rapidly, and before aid nyed ] the entire structure was consumed and sixty mu.es and horses were burned «00;i_ *4C,500, aU in foreign aT ; ^ „ ot ^ the Smiths and Slashers, near Pineville, Ky., over a hog worth * 3 . Smith’s home was attacked Saturday last by the Blushers and a volley poured into the house which put holes through the door and broke several windows/ Smith re- taliated by putting a guard, armed with Winchesters, on the Slushers’ road to Flat Lick, the nearest village. Both sides are now well armed aud are watch- ing for each other. At a house on East Lanvale street, Baltimore, Md., a few sharp words and a hastjr use of a revolver and an appa- rentiy happy young couple, husband and wife, were lying dead, each shot directly through the heart. The house was broken in aud there stretched upon the floor were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Dolan. Asi there were powder marks on the man’s shirt and as the pistol was near 1 he belief is becoming very general throu g hout North Carolina that Gover- nor Fo v ' le ' vd l request Dr. Grissom to r ? s if ^ + v superm tendency of the asylum au ludei S b \ Ihe governor has no power to act officially in the matter, uUais but it is 'FfU - ,s> 'T' a m f i thc k-qiest ,\ m the name of the { people ^ of , ho st and for , u „ od of ho ati . tution . dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala,, rc- ports the mysterious death at noon Mon- day of Arthur Fills, superintendent of the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, and son of J. Fitts, a prominent banker. He was seen lust walkiug back and forth on ihe grounds of the mills, and finally disap- peared under an old building. A pistol shot was heard, and an employe louud Fitts lying on the ground with an ugly wound behindAm right car, and the pis- tol with one chamber empty at his feet There is nothing to determine whether it is a case of suicide or murder. A collision occurred ou the Virginia Midland Railroad Sunday morning at Burley’s, Va., fourteen miles north ol Charlottesville, between two freight trains. Fireman Ford A. Fox, of the southbound train, was killed instantly, and Engineer Charles Davis, of the northbound freight, seriously injured, Engineer Ernest Hayes, of the south- bound freight, and Biakeman M. A. Me- Donald, are missing, and are supposed to be under the wreck Fireman Kelly and Biakeman Mculatn, both of Alexandria, are also badly injured. For several days past there have been rumors to the effect that a new ferry line between Charleston and Sullivan’s Island direct was to be started at once. The report was tnat there were parties in Charleston who owned a steamboat cap- oud kind of is Sp* said that in some w< rk. It the owners made a proposition to run the steamer between Charleston and Sulli- van’s Island, making a trip from the city every hour during the day from 7 a. m. till 10.30 p. m., with extra night trips after the last named hour, as occasi n might domand, for the sum of $75 per WLC k. A GREAT EXODUS. rp, . , . , . &.sr , ,, , at Kaliigli, N. C., last April to go to tlit mS an i k°rn itain wi whM at arran aSn tnuius can hcraade uc ruauc ored tokntclL'uighatoncer.uihcsoii’llrecst. -wu'lrereKorV,'Suita eLset J lie committee says thut over 78,000 names of those who will move have been enrolled Lw^t and that tln-v lS,> have «<qved See lu^ to mffir been given them, pmvidtd the commis- sion mi kes a favorable and‘the* report If the conditions ai o fav.-rabb- cr mm, t- tte shall so report, it is ihouaht that at least fifty thousand people will be m wed , ext fall. Louisian,, Tennessee, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and California tea in to lie making pre-jwratjems to incense lie ir colored population at the expense of North Carolina. ____ KILLED BY LIGHTNING - At Catawb*. North Carolina on Mon- night, Mr. J. A. Trollinger had church, accompanied Miss Addle A. Reid from and wffiile together in the parlor a t un Jer storm began, and a str ?ke of .g.» nmg tearing down he chimney, 1 Killed the young lady aud hex unitor. TRADE PROSPECTS. ENCOURAGING REPORTS OF GOOD CROPS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. R. G. Dun & Co.'s review of trade fot thi week ending August 3d, says: “The country begins to feel the stimulus ol good crops. New Spring wheat began t0 arrive at Chicago on the first, ten days e &ri.er than last year. The St. Louis coru confer has no effect, and an abund- r“ ld “ expected and business in all d 'Y is Stmireg. The North- i he r ' el d nt ity, 500 > 000 > 000 bushels of excellent qual- , , and the mills at Minneapolis are ac- t ve with water plenty. St. Paul natu- ; rally repoits an improvement in trade, i and Milwaukee also in all branches. At Omaha the of above the ’ assurance crons average a era e makes makes business business excellent. excellent in In the iron regions a distinct increase in i demand is felt, and orders for one hun- ! dred new locomotives were placed dur- ing the week. The certainty of large traffic also has its effect upon railroad negotiations, which have made progress Trade toward peace. The volume of continues to exceed last year’s, at New York, 12 per cent, and outside 12* per cent., banks. according to clearings through j Exports for July, from New York, appear 1 - 1 * per cent, larger than last year, with imports 5* per cent, larger, and these figures would point to an ex- cess of about 11 , 000,000 imports over exports, and yet large offerings of bills against products to be moved hereafter prevents apprehension, The prospect is better for a decline of 2 § cents in wheat during the week, though corn, oats and cot on for immediate delivery are fiac- nonally higher. Pork products have o per r tno 100 pounds. ll Tl 1 he specula!, Fr ve 20 move- ° C " ta f ’ the*sales^of f ’‘ 00( 0 00 buabels for the week G cor 7 000.000 and of cotton 191 000 stronger' bales j blt C( ,fl; ee j g three-quarters wbb Stde3 Q f 32(5 qqO bags. In oil oiilv 3,700,000 barrels have been sold aud the pr i ce is about one ceut lower ” THEY Y WAN WANT T ALL ALL OF np THEM, eVrJe T,’ v ^ rk ^ V, atur ; .»T 7 11 , n ./V . ollr aL: rp . ■ ‘ .r e H “ n Tif ^ <• u . g property WC addres in 8 .y° Fall u - _ tr ^..... alu I n S’ y° ur vievvs . M f ,°. ^ our 8 ar e " 1I . , / „ n ii ttp'r > oT oc V - on eiu a ? a^-is o mu- ° x n _, yoTthSt . thToiSrS CoS'- nanv of New York has consented to act a s trustee in behalf of both Dirties f^vor' Should the matter meet with vmir able consideration, we will confer with you personally in regard to details. Very respectfully, George F. Mellen, Emerson c. McMillan, H. B. Wilson Committee” The syndicate, which has been formed represents principally foreign and that already the amount subscribed what imed at, and the operations will not b. -onfined to Fall River, but extend to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and the best mills in the country. The Fall R'Yer mills have a capital exceeding $ 20 , 000 , 000 . and an investment probably ot $3 ?’ oo ' ooo .?, r ,h * by i thousands of stnekboldcrs. The di- r to „ fc ,„ few'hundred p!iwer to seU the mills, and, beyond a shares probably Utile stock could bo bought at an,limit like the prevailing prices. ____ THEYOBJECT. _ ucv _. ^ Tl ^ Trv „ 1 * ’ ’ _ rpv ^ The - f i n ChmokS cupied 5ians eastern band of In which live in Jackson, Macon, Graham aud Cherokee counties, *. North Carolilia are greatly excitcd 0 er the fmn0 uncement that Geronimo aud his band of Indians are to be located on a Reservation iu Swain county. The Cherokecs oppose the plan, and the tirnent of the white settlers is strongly opposed to it. Tho people realize that the government has this band on its hands and must do something with it, and these Indians are now, and will be in the future, treated as prisoners of war, with an armed military guard over them, In that case they can’t see the need for quite so much land. There are 425 of the band, 75 being children of school age. From 6,000 to 10,000 acres of land looks li ke a pretty big allotment, the pen pie say. ---~~ SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS, - a wonderful plenty-peaches fif- TEEN CEKT IA! RATE ' The abundance of fruit this vear seems to be general throughout the whole state of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit is actually a “glut” °nto ou the market. loads Farmers ‘bring that they city wagOD of melons for which are nn- able to find a market at any price. Can- taloupes of the finest quality sell for a song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif- teen or twenty cents a dozen. One of afnnmtar cents. In fact ther a is a superabundance ° f 4,1 ^ fr :‘_______ .*■ A COTTON TRUST. -- “““““win misapranAaiHUl AN ENGLISH eritproTU. A formal prooosition * has been made to nnnY il.t, leadi smithern cotton mil's bv 1 a & the purch^ ffit-nstVinone It^vUnU^ . u viivv of couffii«.inn mg mtenets m one ccn cea- r-.it , . scf mills‘haTe'heremfore th t cot ton d od emubined the Tim leU. s of prono 1 are now in hands of various Xis mH hive owners in Cohmibus (i a No been taken but there is no knowing ^ the final result -------------- GIRLS CN A STRIKE. _ Over one bundled young women cm- b’ovcd in ITu sickt r & Co’s., Kt ad ing, Pa.. Hosiery mills, w nt out on a strike Monday cunning. They l ad n meeting »nd resolved not to go back until their grievances were righted. They struck becau-e the firm reduced wages from ou teen to twelve cents per dozen stock- iuga j>nd »nnou <ced th t t e giils would be charged-extra for the use of machine needles, etc. TWINS mysterious sympathy which EXISTS BETWEEN THEM. A Great Antipathy Shown tVwranU All Twins by Somo Sarage* —The Peculiar Customs of the Ishogoo* Few things are more mysterious than the undefinable sympathy which often exists between two beings who came into Therecanbenodouot - . ., world together. _ , the that this sympathy is real, and not the effec t of the imagination, as some have 3ut(T>osed So far as fcseTf is known it does Dot alwa y s develop develop itseir, ana and when y\nen it v. is a ^erstood. P resent lts cause A very K real no ^ affection ^ an N means generally ’ . , bet ^ e ' } a wms to h< ltself the J\ ’.. , , f /’ ® ? w m eaI es - It is no uncommon thing for a twin who bas lost bis or ber counterpart to pnie away, drooping . gradually into tne clutches of the destroyer, whom taking away the other, has deprived life of all its joy. But though intense fondness is no doubt to a great extent the cause of such sad occurrences, the sympathy which twins have for one another shows itself here. With many savage races twins are hurried out of the world immediately they have entered it; others allow them to live, but only under certain conditions, In western Africa, a little below the equator, beteen 10 degrees and 12 degrees cast longitude live a j ar g e tribe called the Ishogo. They have many J £ peculiar customs, but none more so tfaan t e ir treatment of twins and of th, mother who is so unfortunate as to bear , hem . idea seems .. exis , with tncm tbat no woman ought to produce more than a single child at a time, and they seek to rectify the error by giving tneir deities every chance of killing one of the children before they have arrived at the a £ e afc which they ar e considered aide to take care of themselves. This is held to be at about 6 years old; once that age lia* passed, is is thought by these peo- that a proper balance between life ^ plac v hehu marked tv in whichthecvent some manner winch s ap b 11 “ de r ■* '/ “tmguidiaMe from . " ' n ,' 1 hose w r ho have read accounts of Afn- cau travel will probably remember the unanunous testimony which explorers of the dark continent bear to the extraordi- nary loquacity of its natives, Africans talk as they breathe—unceasingly, and ye t the unfortunate mother of twins is forb any ^ but the t ° immedlat f Xcha ?^ e a ^ngle members >vord of with her ^ amd y* She may go into the forest for firewood i and perform the household work necessar y f °r the existence of her- self and her children, but it must be all doQC in strict silence, unless she finds herself near one of her close relatives, The consequence of this jteculiar custom is that the Ishogo woman dreads the event of twins more than anything, ex- than to tell her that she is sure to become the mother of two children at a birth, When the six years of probation have dragged out their weary length, a grand ceremony is held to celebrate the release n f t b( * f bp thron z&T’AX. J^, ° U ? A ^ ‘ '»>> P V *"» ^ ” o Ute Principal street, , and tlio mother re and *.J “tslv n “ d S/ **J e t? stand ‘“Vlf on either •**: "»"?>* ."'p ™" 1 their faces The rest of the »*»lMt»nt. , of the place congre- gate , round about, and at a given signal e women march away from the hut, bn ' ed b ^ tbe twlns > Gie mother clap- , ber bands and capering P\ inend ng beating about, the a lusty tattoo upon a drum and a song appropriate to the the SnrT round ’ Thll of the" 1 ^UaS i 8 ' n ^ S there SSi °- is n a hHS general g ° Q 1 Sli ?. d ™ n to a feat feast, and eating, drinking and daDC1D f [on for the rest of the Ciay ,f nCt a 1 tbfou ^ b the ni gDt. As soon as tbc next da y dawna all restrictions u P on the mother and her offspring are held t0 be rem oved. This ceremony is known as “M’paza,” a word which sig- nifies both tbe twins, and the rite by vir- tue of which they and their mother are admitted to the companionship of their kind. Cases in which one of a pair of twins has felt some disturbing influence at work within him when evil was befalling his other self are numerous. As with all matters of the kind, the instances related are apt to border upon the land of fiction but there are many which are uerfectlv well authenticated. ~ Though twins are usually alike in form and feature this i« DO t invariably the case. The writer knows twin brothers who can scarcely J be *> b-r even » fa mily likeness o lie the vptv y ^xtrprnpTnf ®? ? f da TTT kne exions f aad f. air ' aess ____ * n Lut tho ^ h unlike . bodily, they resera ' ) ie one another mentally to such an f xteat that tbey P assed from‘the bottom , °I Slde ^PP by OI side j e .—London our ?? rea Standard. ^ public scno s The Curfew in New York’s Capital. There is a custom in Albany, N Y 1 h? 1 1 * naif eighth of a second, at 9 each . with Dudley Observatory, and it a stroke ol one at 9 o’clock night ami morning. All the private clocks watches are set by it. anil it is . curious revelation to the theatrical companies | bat v ™ t thereto see nearly everybody in h ‘ Judl .® nce Jul11 out hls ° r hcr watch at apparently a preconcerted moment aud 1<K ‘ k at H ' Tim effect is very novel. Jt Andersou fariy , upset when John they McCullough played there and 3Iary U>~ S^her some yearn ago. McCullough had seen the air-drawn dagger, and he thou S ht the were going to ring thc chestout bells on him. The effect is a?so v 8 r y fl «nny in thc churches. But the same bell also tolls the fire alarm, and, by numbers of strokes, signals the district where the fire is. It is customary on these occasions for the good pastors to remark: “If any one feels called by that warning, there will I.*e no objection to his now withdrawing." and there have been occasions when a number do so .—New Yo ,k Star. Last year the number of visitors to Shakespeare’s birthplace was 16,800. Americans constituting one-fourth of thc numbe u • SUNSHINE LAND. \ They came in sight of a lovely shore, Yellow as gold in the morning light; The sun’s own color at noon it wore, And it faded not at the fall of night; Clear weather or cloudy, ’twas all as on*, The happy hills seemed bathed with the sun; Its secret the sailors could not understand, But they called this country Sunshine Land. What was the secret? A simple thing, I will make you smile when one© you know Touched by the tender finger of spring. A million blossoms were all aglow; Bo many, so many, so many and bright, They covered the hills with a mantle of light; And the wild bee hummed and the glad breezo fanned, Through the honeyed fields of Sunshine Land. If over the sea we two were bound, What port,dear child, would we choose for ours? We would sail, and sail till at last wo found This fairy land of a million flowers. Yet, darling, we’d find, if at home we stayed, Of many small joys our pleasures are made, More near than we think, very close at hand. Lie the golden fields of Sunshine Land. —Edith M. Thomas. P1TII AND POINT. The picnic belle should wear ringlets. Time is money. Some car conductors beat time. The language of a deaf mute is a thing that goes without saying. Wffiat was it the buzz saw? Saw teeth, of course .—New York Netcs. When a man goes to work he generally takes off his coat, but if he is a painter ho puts on one. It may be ^difficult to build war-ships, but it is not so hard to rear-admirals.— New York Netcs. The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time .—Terre Haute Express. A Pullman porter is not necessarily dishonest because he is in the habit of going through the sleepers.— New York News. A tailor being asked if the close of the year made him sad said yes, until the clothes of the year are paid for. —Texas Siftings. “Dorothy, my love, I think you are dreadfully extravagant to buy all those things.” “But, my dear Rufus,” said dearest, “I had them charged.” “I love you well,” the stamp exclaimed, “Dear envelope so true; In fact, it’s evident to all That I am stuck on you.” —New York Sun. Mrs. Jones—“Your baby is very small for its age, don’t you think?” Mrs. Brown—“Yes, the poor darling was fed on milk which was condensed—that’s why the baby is so too. w Clerk—“Mr. Daybook, I would like leave of absence this afternoon to attend the funeral of a cousin.” Mr. Daybook (next morning)—“What was the score, John ?”—New York Sun. A private Broadway detective agency advertises that it will do “pumping.” A private detective agency generally has to get a new “sucker” every time it com¬ mences to pump .—New York News. Tramp—“Thank ye, ma’am, for given’ me the grub, but I kin never eat without a fork.” Farmer’s Wife—“Well, amble along, and you’ll find a fork in the road a little further on .”—New York Tribune. A St. Louis paper declares that no man who claims to be a gentleman, will re¬ verse his cuffs. We are waiting patient¬ ly to see how Chicago will get even for this cruel thrust .—Minneapolis Tribune. Here is the reason Wagner’s scores Are made a nuisanco whoppin’; Folks Handel it as though it was A wood-pile they were Chopin. —Philadelphia Stage. Mrs. Gabble—“What an awfully wor¬ ried, anxious,despairing look Mrs. Good- soul has.” Mrs. Dabble—“Yes, I guess she’s stopped doing her own work and gone to keeping a girl .”—New York Weekly. Of the size of her hand you may judge by her glove; For there is needed no art; But you never can judge the depth of the love Of a maid by the sighs of her heart. “Well, sir, what are your prospects? My daughter cant’t marry a beggar,” “I expect to come into a large fortune, sir.” “Inherited from whom?” ‘ ‘Inherited from my-—er-r—that is to say, from my father-in-law. ’ ’— Time. “I have met this man,” said a lawyer the other day, “in a great many places where I would be ashamed to be seen.” And for a minute he couldn’t understand why everybody laughed so uproariously. —New York Tribune. Nine of this summer’s graduates at Agontz, the aristocratic Philadelphia school were Chicago girls and the class numbered only twenty-one. They all spell “pork” with a “q-u-e” how.— Minneapolis Tribune. Jenny—“Here comes Jack, auntie. I wish you would come down and stay in the room ” Aunty—“Why?” Jenny —“I’m afraid he’s going to propose and I can't trust myself—he looks so poor and so handsome.”— Munsey's Weekly. Johnson—“But can you speedily cir- cuiate thfJ rumor in a roundabout way uJtZ niul ^ • present?” Drummer—“YYm have only ray word for It but (proudly) I am from Chicago, and a Chicago man was never known to tell a lie.” (Merchant dies.)- dotturr and turn,tier. Stranger (in Chicago)—“I don’t see bow you can sleep nights when you know that bloody Jake is roaming around ‘ loose.” Chicago Man—“Jake don’t do „ anybody any harm now. He’s been given a nice position on the police force.”— New } ork Mail and Express. Prehistoric Clams. While workmen were digging on the base ball grounds at the park at Bar Har- bor a few days ago, they came upon a mussel lied atiout three or four feet below the surface. The briny odor from it was «3 strong as it is from those to be seen on the seashore, and down about two feet in the bed thousands of clams were found right side up and in a good state of pre- servatiou. This is certainly a curiosity, a, the park is at least a mile from the nearest salt water. The enthusiastic geologists will find this an excellent place in which to pursue some investigations. — Jkmgor (Jfo.) GmmerciaL