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WASHINGTON, D. C. MOVEMENTS of tue PRESIDEN'I AND HIS AHVJEERS. in**™*™’ *»•"■*• "' n <"*“ »™** OF .STEKL.V FROM THE KATIOXAL CAPITAL. ^rTsot h“>u– z :d f„T e K* l '‘ si ” e83 “ “I'f" * »«*«* The secretary of the treasury on Mon day afternoon accepted $l,4oo,ooO four percents registered halt at 1~8, cents and $100, 000 four and a per registered at 100J-. The bonds purchased Tuesday, by reached the treasury department on the un usually large total of $o,39»_), 000. Tney ■were all four per cent, registered bonds and were bought at 128. The total amount of bonds purchased bv the treasury in the last three days, is nearly eleven millions. For these bonds the lion'dollars. government paid about fourteen mil The treasury surplus was seventy millions ten days ago, but has decreased to about forty-two millions. Receipts . 1 of government from t internal • a , revenue during last mouth were $11,- 48 AOK o, 9 Qr-o ov, showin clinwirio- an an increase increa.e of ot $1,30,,- <S1 307 738, as compared with receipts for July, 1888. This increase was distributed though all ol the sources of revenue except the oleomargarine and bank tax. The acting secretary of war has sus pended the Jacksonville, order transferring Surgeon Porter from Fla., to Jack son Barracks, La. It is probable that he will be permitted indefinitely to remain in in the pres ent station conformity with the desire of the people of Florida, The treasurer of the United States has issued instructions, subject to the con venience of the treasury, to the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, to supply notes and silver certifi cates of small denominations to banks ordering them in sums not less than $1,000. Charles R. Flint, of New York, and Henry C. Davis, of West Virginia, have been appointed delegates on the part of the United States to the congress of American nations, to meet in Wash ington in October next, in the place of ex-Governor Whyte, of Maryland, and J. R. C. Pitkin, of New Orleans. The state department . . , has , been . in ormed by the United States minister to Venezuela of the prevalence of fever at Caracas, which has been erroneously termed yellow fever. It is for the most part confined to a district where the drainage is defective, but if taken in time the disease yields readily to medical treatment, and is in no sense epidemic. The treasury department was recently informed that a large number of Cuban cigar-makers were coming into Key West in violation of the contract labor law. The emigrant agent at Key West was thereupon asked fo ; a statement, and in response he has reported to the depart ment thfit these Cubans are constantly passing States, into and out of the United but that there is no evidence ol the existence of contracts for employ ment, which would make their entry il legal. If an unofficial rumor which has readied the slate department is confirm tL VJH ” r en»°nstranceof iVe a f m0St C rj the Ca Canadians n CffC H C - fc t0 ZZV* ™ °P m er ^ th 10 e “ thu f Ca reve Th ™ e e * °,, t0 k ff f tiat thc stea ™ s f , 1 ; i , degree, if not entirely, by citizens of the United States. This information came to the department incidentally while a quiet inquiry was being made into the truth of the statement that the United fntm«bf' odr C ° ® nS OI He ^ at colonml vessels file nallv ea ing in e 'ring sea. A DAY OF CASUALTIES. EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN ONE DAY ON NORTH CAROLINA RAILROADS. most umucky day for tramps and drunken men ever known in North Carolina. So as reported, eight men 'were on that Curing Jay run the over earlv and killed on railroads. colored, ^un morning Joe Caldwell, kd ed was over and instantly 8. on the Richmond – Danville road, C. Tanner and Robert Haider, both ^jte, aad killed were in the afternoon run over b on thc Air-Line, near Sails «ry- They were lying upon the track and were both crushed to pieces. Tiircc uegroes, whose names could not bo cut 'arned, were found, during the night, to peices on the railroad near High oirit. q’ij C train had passed over them, ut it is believed that they svere mur dered gram says and two placed white on the track. A tele the men were run over n North Carolina railroad urham near u 1 at ed. Monday They night, and terribly ‘ were killed instantly. FAST TIME, A STEAMER makes 2,788 MILES IN FIVE HAYS AND NINETEEN HOURS. The _ a myed steamship at New City of Paris, which “g, has broken York Wednesday morn ng her own best the time record from again, beat- j three hours and Queenstown ! Her aeti, ! fortv-nine minutes. 1 time from Queenstown to San tiL n° i°° Urs k h 8 3ud ht8bi P 'ghteen was five days, nine Wt ( ft Queestown ei minutes. She sLnH fi on last Friday Her run ^ tda T was 432 miles, for the flftWA ?C 498 ’ third 503 fourth 506, and L °-G T he > r ”» from 09 :09 p. in. (same time) O "'as 340 d ? h g btsh ip, Cled wl mi S ioD lea nu 1 he totul distance trav " as 788 miles. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. TK6BKLSAND VALUABLE CARGOES BURKED IN CALIFORNIA WATERS. Dispatches from San Francisco say; e ifs°,'which S S ofC^ stra is 2 W Moud!^ t'“ cento ^ „„ S C e„ e ot A Co., Within add two ^lg\–Z^fZn hours the an(T tents were total loss, building com in the a and the lire had meantime, communicated to the warves and shipping alongside. The American wooden ship Armenia, and the British wooden ship Honowaur, both partially loaded with wheat, were burned fn the water s edge. The rigging of the British ship Kenilworth caught fire, but before any serious damage had occurred bo ber bub ’ she was towed into the s t ream > at< l her hold flooded. She had f cargo of nearly 3,000 tons of wheat on boara, _ which will prove neatly a total ° 8 ?' ac >ditition to the warehouse and wharves, forty freight cars of the bout hern Pacific company, loaded with Rrain, £ were burned. The loss on ” th« ' wart ouse und C()ntent9 is 1 lac ldtxu t ®o(:a *450,000, Ann upon which there T was an esti mated total insurance of \ $104 000 The wliarves were valued t , ^ 6 <> - 0 00, and W(re insurcd for $43 The Armenia was valued at $30,000 The Honowaur was valued at $50 000 The Armenia had 300 tons of wheat valued at $28,400, fully insured. The Honowaur had 200 tons of wheat, valued at $23,000, fully insured. The Kenil worth’s cargo was valued at $9,000, which was also fully insured, ‘ - TERRIBLE CLOUD-BURSTS. north Carolina suffers untold dam AGES—THE LATEST DISASTER. Cloudbursts in North Carolina this year are proving more disastrous than ever known before in the history of the state. 8° far eight have been reported ® mce ^- a y a ° d great damage has en doae ; The latest disaster caused b , ^ c , 0U( I bursts .occurred in Richmond county Monday mght, and the town of l Rockingham, the heaviest on the loss. G. The C. railroad cloud burst sus ai ° 3 bldf a mile above the town right over the Pedee river, and instantly the stream was 6wo llen out of its banks, and went dash - down the town, cairyir.gnearly 1D g U p 0n everything ° before it. Several small cabing 0 the low bottoms were washed away and the ocupants were compaHed l to flee for their lives, Fivc mileg of the c . C . Railroad is washed out completely, and all tele graphic communications are cut off by the terrible floods. The reports at a late hour Monday night says that great dam age has been done the Roberdel, Great Falls, Peedee and Midway cotton mills. Some cotton factories are said to be washed completely away, or so near it that they are totally ruined. It is feared that many people have been drowned No estimate of the loss or iurther psirtic nlars can be learned at present. --— EPIDEMIC AMONG CAT TLE. - A DISEASE SUPPOSED TO BE TEXAS FEVER, RAGING IN SOUTHERN KANSAS. Reliable news of the greatest impor tance to cattlemen in all sections of the United Stales comes from the southern line of Kansas and pasture lands of In dian Territory. There has been for some time * “"■« — that herds of native and Texas cattle which range in the territory were afflicted with the Texas fever. A man named William Johnson has just returned from a trip to Oklahoma, aud passed through the country where the herds are pastured. ij e sa y S that not only are the natives af d j c t ed p u t thorough Texans are dying ^ hundreds in the pastures south of Ar kansas City. The symptoms are exactly the same as the Texas fever but thorough Texans have never been known to die of the disease. He says cattle are being shipped to market from the pastures where carcasses are lying in hundreds and of the same brands considered of those good shipped and that tha y are rough for manners’ stock and everything goes. T hc cattlemen are becoming much alarmed , -, ;h ® raisers 18 the actual belief that the disease is . not ^xas fever, but something even more serious. It is said the managers of thc Kansas City stock yards will take mime Qiate P rev cnt acta the ? n ia shipping . the . matt of f cr > cattle an f ? tr / from to P oints whe re the disease is ragi ng, THEIR NAME IS LEGION. NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS FOR A COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIP. An election is to be held by the trus tees of the College of Charleston, S. C., on September 10, for a professor of mod era languages and an assistant professor $1,000 of mathematics, the salary being The each, without board or lodging. fact was advertised, and ns strange as it may seem, there are not less than one hundred and fifty-eight applicants foi the two positions. Still stranger, they hail from nearly all over the world. New York heads the list with one hundred and twenty-six candidates, South Carolina furnishes six, New Jersey and Massachusetts three each, Germany two, British Columbia two, France one, Washington Territory one. The college is over a century old and is supported by endowments and not students by state rarely oi mumci pal aid. Its roll of. mna over thirty, and it is entirely a day col lege. THE returns of a recent school election .^ Kansas show that 50,000 women voted on schoo i matters, and that a large be proportion of school officers this year are to women. TO MEET IN CHATTANOOGA THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF TOE CUM BERLAND FAVORED BY THE RAILROADS. It is reported from Chattanooga, Teun., that the Merchants’ and Miners’ line of boats have announced a round Providence, trip fare of $30.07 from Boston and via Norfolk and East Ten nessee Road to Chattanooga and return, on the occasion of the meeting of the society of the Army of the Cumberland, in Chattanooga, September 18, 19 and 20. wSSS^StXitlSSSiA to all biigades in Illinois and Indiana, and it was announced Saturday that the Queen and Crescent made the same rate, This has created great consternation in railroad circles, and it is probable that all roads leading into Chattanooga will make the same rate on the occasion of the meeting of the society of the Army of the Cumberland, one of the principal features of which will be the forming of a society of veterans of both armies. Word was received at Chattanooga that the brigade which was commanded by President Harrison will attend the reun ion in a body, and that the president has consented to accompany them, though this has not been officially announced. A PHILANTHROPIST DEAD. HENRY SHAW, THE GREAT PHILANTHROP IST OF ST. LOUIS, DIES. Henry Shaw, the venerable philan thropist and the greatest friend St. Louis ever had, died Saturday morning in that city. With his death, the now 7 world famous botanical gardens become the property of the state of Missouri. An other, and perhaps more valuable gift, Grove was presenting to the city of Tower park, a resort of peculiar beauty, His estate is valued at $250,000, and it is thought the greater part will be left to the city of St. Louis in various bequests, and it is understood the charitable in ititutions of the Episcopal Church will be favored in his will. The only relative in this country besides his sister is * a cousin, Frank B. Bradburv A TRAMP AUCTION. Four tramps, arrested at Moberly, Mo., for vagrancy, were put up at public auction, Monday, from the Cuurt house steps. The sale had been duly adver tised according to law, and there was a large crowd present. The bidding was not very spirited. Two of the tramps went to farmers for $2 a head, aud an other was bid in for 75 cents, The fourth tramp could find uo purchasers, and he returned to jail. The three who were sold must serve their purchasers for four months. The Poorer Classes in Persia. Touching the houses of the people of Persia and their household properties, I once spent a night in the house of a trooper of the Shah. His pay was $50 a year, with rations when on duty. He gave me an excellent dinner in an upper chamber, which was carpeted, and in the niches of the false windows of which rose leaves were piled up for fragrance. I do not mean that the carpet was other than the cheapest, or that the atmos phere was all of $60 rose-leaves, but an Eng lish groom gets a year, more or less, and I doubt if he indulges in carpets and flowers. A few cooking utensils, a brass tray or two, skins in which curds are made and kept, a loom, a sheet of leath er which serves for the floor (table) cloth —these are the articles that furnish the ordinary dwelling. If the householder be a very poor man, he will eat his meat off big flaps of unleavened bread, and will eat, too, that which serves him for a table-cloth and is also the bread which we find on our table cloths. You break off a bit of bread and dip your hand in the dish wherein are curds at any rate, and possibly on feast days kid or fowl.— Nineteenth Century. And now it is a Missouri catfish weighing eighty pounds. A respectable colored woman of ihat State, whose rep utation for veracity is unimpeached, but who has cultivated the habit of tolling fish stories, has something to say about the fish. The other day, while engaged in washing some linen on the banks of a stream that runs through Louisiana, Mo., it occurred to her that, without pausing little in her work, she might have a baited fun hook fishing. Accordingly she a and threw it into the water, tying the shore end of the line to one of her ankles. She caught the big catfish, but, according to a di-patch sent to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, “two mens united stiength was necessary to save the woman from a watery grave, for the fish was rapidly pulling her into the river.” More likely, comments the united New York Tribune, it took “two men’s colored strength,” not to speak of tlie woman’s, to manufacture this pleasing narrative. v The stealing of an umbrella on a clear day is held to be a theft by an Omaha Judge; but the stealing of the same arti cle on a rainy.day is held to be justifiable on the ground of self-defense. We pre sume this decision was rendered in order to protect the court .—Buffalo Express. There are over 800.000 more widows than widowers in England. In France, for every 100 widowers there are 194 widows. These facts lead the West minster Review to treat tlie growing disposition of men to many late in life as a very serious evil J modern seoiety. A Mussulman woman has just died in Mecan Meer, India, credited with 150 years of age. She was blind, deaf, and dumb, and almost inanimate. She died in the house of a grandson, who is over 80 . Vh FOR FARM AND GARDEN. SPONGE THE HORSES SHOULDERS. At that season of the year when farmers’ horses aro put at hard work after a winter of comparative rest their shoulders are very liable to gall. I went some distance to a farmer's to learn wiiy his horses wore never afflict ed in that way, although lie is noted for working his team severely. Pro to abk the i ue3twn - The team Had just returned from the field, and the farmer was engaged at one and Ins man at the other sponging their shoulders with cold water, This is done every time they come into the stable after hard work, and freedom from shoulder abrasions, and consequent comfort of the animals, is the natural result. When farm horses come in from labor, in the spring especially, it may be observed tbat they try to rub first one shoulder and then the other against the stall, The wear at this point causes the ani mals to feci exceedingly uncomfortable, and humane men will not withhold from them the cooling, soothing influ ence of a little cold water. — New York Tribune. MEAL AT PASTURE. Some stockbreeders, especially those who raise fancy steers, aro accustomed to feed the cattle meal when at pasture, If the practice was more universally ob served there w 7 ould be better animals brought to our markets, and the results W0Uld be moro gratifying to the grow ers. Poor grass pastures do not supply the cattle with sufficient nourishment to enable them to fatten quickly, and in many of the old sections of our country very few good pasture lands can be found. Milch cows turned from the solid food of tfiio barn to the thin pas tures of the field demand some meal ra tion along with the gras3. The milk flow may be kept up for a time under the changed circumstances, but a grad ual shrinkage will surely follow. A slight expense in providing the animals with meal will insure a larger flow and be found very profitable. The steers will grow larger in frame and lay on flesh at the same time. The proper meal is ccrnmeal for milch cows that are expected to keep up their flesh as well, cotton-seed meal will increase the milk flow, and for steers and colts that are growing wheat bran is the best.—. Washington Star. C1IAFF. In old times, when grain was threshed with a flail, farmers took special pains to save the chaff. It is more nutritious, and when free from dust, moro palata ble than straw. A certain quantity of chaff was mixed with the grain fed to horses. When machines were intro duced for cutting hay or straw into short lengths they ware called “chaffing machines,” and the cut hay was called “chaffed hay,” or “hay-chaff.” In other words, we cut up our hay, straw and stocks to take the place of chaff. The American threshing machines knock out the grain, clean it and carry straw and chaff together on a ‘ ‘straw carrier” to a straw stack. There is no provision for separating the chaff from the straw. But the more conservative English farmers could not so readily change their practice of feeding, and insisted on having machines that would keep the chaff separate. And they got what they wanted. We do not want such machines here, for the simple reason that not one farm in a thousand has any “chaff house” or place intended for keeping chaff. Nevertheless, it is well know chaff is valuable, so that whenever we have an opportunity of 9ay ing it wo may do so .—American Agriculturist. TURKEYS. If there is any of the feathered tribe I like to raise, it is turkeys, and the Bronze is a favorite of the several varieties. The size lias and will con tinue to , be thc important point to breed for. To accomplish this, bheky, large boned, deep- breasted hens, mated with a young gobbler weighing about thirty pounds, none of the stilted high-up-in the-air birds, but an active, well-made, large-boned bird. The little turks should be fed on hard boiled eggs, occasionally seasoned with pepper, thc first week, gradually changing to other feed, such as soaked bread, scalded meal and shorts, and chopped onions— almost anything for variety; a little at a time and often. But the real great secret in turkey raising is to keep them f ee from wet or dampness. An entire brood have bef|| rendered almost worthless by becoming thoroughly soaked. For several yea^i past, with the use of the followirfj powder, commencing when a month ol a aud fed for several weeks, I have had good results: Powder of cassia bark, tluee parts; ginger, ten parts; gentian, one part; anise one part; carbonate of iron, five parts; mix well, and give for every twenty young turks a teaspoonful twice a day, in the food, If turkeys arc raised by the old ones, and forage a great deal, it is really unnecessary.—. Farm, Field and Stockman. FEEDING CALVES. Farmers have various contrivances f<^r feeding young calves waste milk and whey, but out of tlie many very few are convenient or desirable. As soon as grass has a good start calves designed to be raised for the dairy are generally put into a small enclosure, sometimes a young orchard, near the farm house, there to graze or nibblo at the bark of t ees. Twice or three times a day the hired boy will carry them their ration of diink, thickened with a few handfuls of middlings or oil meal. Sometimes th® liquid is portioned out in a row of buckets standing on the ground, which the calves alternately butt over, aud crowd tsvo heads into one in their greed and haste. Often such an arrangement is supplemented by a long trough stand ing on raised legs, which is twice a day filled to the brim with calf swill, and the young bo vines aro left to wrangle over it. Thc sequel of such methods of feeding is that the strongest and greediest animals will pod out with the bulk of the rations designed for all, and the weakly ones will grow still thinner and more weakly as their scanty feed tells upon their growth. If calves are set apart to raise, their wants must b® bountifully supplied, as they are to form the future dairy herd. In feeding calves it is the height of folly to give their food iu bulk and let them squab ble over the division. They need a cer tain amount of food at regular inter vals, and must take it at leisure and in peace. The following described de vice is both efficacious and practicable. At a convenient corner of the calf pas ture put up some light stanchions simi lar to those in the cow stable, only dwarfed in size. Have them take tho place of the fence as far as they go. Take one broad board or two narrow ones cleated together, and through tho centre of the strip saw circular holes at distances apart corresponding with tho width between stanchions, Tho holes should be of diameter suffieieut to take in a pail or bucket two-thirds of its depth. Fasten this level in front of the stanchions by nailing it to supports at each end and in the middle, At feeding time set a bucket of whey or milk into each hole and the calves will come gamboling up and thrust their heads through the apertures of tho stanchions, where they can be quickly fastened in aud remain separated while eating. By this system it is impossible for one greedy creature, after it has de voured its own portion to got away and rob a slower-eating companion, The rack holds the buckets so firmly in place that the calves can butt them to their hearts’ content without upsetting. Tho stanchion frame and tho rack, being portable, can be stored when not in use. —American Agriculturist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The check rein has been abolished in England by law. Wet spinning of linen yarns was be gun at Belfast, Ireland, in 1839. If you expect tho corn to do its best don’t let it have the weeds for company. It will save time, horse flesh and hay to grind the sickle before going to the field. Poor time to kill weeds when land is constantly saturated so that it cannot be worked. Don’t place a mortgage on the farm. It is mildew and blight to peace and prosperity. When the dinner horn sounds, heed it. Tlie good wife ought to have her hours respected. It will pay a farmer to heed the ad vice of “Poor Richard.” Early to bed and early to rise. It is not too late to plant corn for fodder. Use tho early varieties if you wish the best results. Grass will be very juicy this year if cut early, but that will not reduce th© quality of the hay well cured.