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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES t
VOL. VI.
It is claimed that we import ever
$1,500,000 worth of eggs annually.
Claus Spreckels’s new sugar refinery re
centlv opened for work in Philadelphia,
cost $3,000,000 and more.
The 3d of November was a day of
prayer for rain throughout South Africa.
At Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, the
services were hardly over when a heavy
rain set in and continued the whole after
uoou and evening.
One of the most remarkable manifes
tations of modern times is the alarm as
to the possible spread of leprosy in civil
ized countries. This alarm has begun
to show itself in England more especially,
and to some extent has been expressed
by physicians of our own country.
It is believed that the largest farm un
der cultivation in this country belongs to
Colonel John W. Bookwalter, of Ohio.
The farm is on the Nebraska line south
of Beatrice, and the Kansas City, Wyan
dotte and Northwestern road runs through
it. It contains nearly 13,000 acres, cov
ering twenty square mile3, all under ex
cellent state of cultivation.
The United States set the great ex
ample iu the eighteenth century of re
publican government by organized action
of the people. France, following the
genius of Latin civilization and the cir
cumstances of her peculiar environment,
showed the world how to make republics
by coup d’etat. If the French and
Brazilian way is found on trial to be as
effective for those nations as ours has
been for us, says the Washington Star,
the world can afford to be satisfied with
out instituting odious comparisons.
The latest and most unique invention
is a macb^e for buttering bread, It is
used in connection with a patent bread
cutter, and is intended for use in prisons,
workhouses and other reformatory in
stitutions. There is a cylindrical-shaped
brush, which is fed with butter and lays
a thin layer on the bread as it conics
from the cutter. The machine can be
worked by hand, steam or electricity,
and has a capacity of cutting and butter
ing 730 loaves of bread an hour, The
saving of butter and of bread and the de
crease in the quantity of crumbs is said
to be very large.
An eminent scientist has evolved the
theory that water as an element to extin
guish tires in large and high buildings is
a failure. He claims that when combus
tion evolves a certain intense degree of
heat the water thrown upon the flames
emits a powerful volume of hydrogen
which tuns with frightful fury. This
scientist sets up the theory that these
fires must lie treated in a different man
ner, and expresses the belief that gas will
be the successful weapon with which to
fight fire at some future day. Gas has
been quite extensively experimented with,
and it has been effective in close rooms,
but in the open air the gas evaporates
and soon loses its strength.
There is widespread dissatisfaction
among the working people of Germany,
according j. to the , Airman , Cultivator, ,, ,
over the laws excluding importation of
foreign meats. These laws are ostencibly
for the 1 preservation of the public 1 health
by excluding meat from diseased ani
mals, but this thin disguise does not
deceive the peonle as to the real purpose
'
of tne exclusion. . In T many places under
these laws meat has been made so dear
that it is inaccessible to workingmen.
The large landed proprietors profit by
these laws, but they result in so much
popular dissatisfaction, which finds ex
pression by emigration to this country,
that the Government cannot much longei
resist the inevitable necessity of changing
them.
Chauncey M. Depew, the distinguished
railroad president and after-dinner orator,
before the Philatethean Society of Yussar
College, said : “In Europe there is mani
fest to every intelligent visitor the donri.
nant power of some commanding intellect.
Bismarck rules the fortunes of Germany,
and all Europe, r in truth, but not more
truly than tbe rreat minds of other , lands , ,
control the feelings and the thoughts of
their people, and of the stranger that visits
them. It is when one goes to Scotland
especially . that he realizes most this ,. power
of thought over men and things, for tbe
whcle land seems to be filled with the
presence of three men—Scott, Knox and
Burns. Everywhere one meets with
something that reminds him of them, the
scenes they described, the places where
BLACKSHEAR. GA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30. 1890.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST COX
GRESS IS DOIXG.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The Senate on Wednesday resumed con
sideration of the hill that was discussed
Tuesday to require the superintendent of of
the census to ascertain w hat percentage
people own their farms, the number of
farms under mortgage and the amount
thereof. Discussion was kept up for near
ly two hours, going largely over the ques
tions of the tariff, of silver, of over pro
duction, and of steamship subsidies. The
bill was recommitted to the census com
mittee. 'The senate then took up the cal
endar. The Blair educational bill having
been reached, Mr. Blair demanded its
reading in full, and the secretary proceed
ed to read it. After some discussion it
was arranged, by unanimous consent, that
the bill be postponed till Monday week,
and be then “unfinished business.”
By a strict party vote, the house elec
tions committee on Wednesday decided to
report in favor of unseating Jackson,
democratic representative from West Vir
ginia, declaring Smith, republican This is con- of
testant, entitled to a seat. first
the seventeen contested election cases
which the committee has which disposed of, and
it was the first one upon argument
was heard.
The senate, in secret session Wednesday,
resolved to make public the spring, San oa i which treaty
negotiated already in lieen Berlin published, last and the
has pro
tocols, showing the result of each day’s
meeting of the commissioners. In trans
mitting the treaty to the senate on Janu
ary 0th, the president says: “I am
pleased to find in this geneal act an hon
orable, just and equal settlement of the
questions which have arisen during the
past few years between the three powers
having treaty relations with and rights in
in the Samoan islands.”
Judge Stewart’s federal prison Wednesday bill wu*
under discussion nearly all of
in the house. Amendment after amend
ment was, however, offered and the bill
was not voted upon. Judge Stewart
made the opening speech, lie said five
presidents and two attorney generals had
recommended such prisons, lie stated
the cost of keeping prisoners under the
present system to be $400,000 annualy,
which is the interest on $10,000,000 at
four per cent. That his bill only ' required
an outlay of $1,000,000, and that the
prisoners would probability, be self-supporting, Then Hit
bill will, in all pass.
the president and attorney general, have decide or sec
retary of the interior, will to
upon the locations. St. Louis, Louisville,
Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, and
other cities south of the thirty-ninth de
gree will contest for the Southern one.
The ways and means committee has fi
nally begun the preparation of a tariff
bill working upon the lines of the senate
bill of the last congress. The lumbei
and wood sections of that bill were
adopted'entire with the exception and chair of the
clause relating to rattan number caries, of
which had been attacked by a
persons before the committee, and has
consequently been held up for future ac
tion. T#ie schedule senate bill, covering
books and paper, was also adopted. This
action is preliminary and ail the sched
ules adopted will be subject to revision
when the hill is completed.
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, offered a resolu
tion increasing the membership of the
world’s fair committee from nine to thir
teen, and providing that the committee
shall have jurisdiction over all questions
relating to the fair except that as to lo
cation. The location is to be determined
as follows: On one day the representa
tives of competing cities shall present
their claims, and on the following day
the members shall vote their choice of lo
cation. Referred to the committee on
rules.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal on Saturday, the house went into
committee of the whole, on the customs
administrative bill M| , MeK inley of
fered the following as an additional see
lion : Any merchandise bonded deposited warehouse in any
public or private may
be withdrawn for consumption within
three years f rom the dab! of the original
importation on the payment of duties and
'barges to which it might be subject by
law at the time of such withdrawal; pro
vided, that nothing herein shall effect or
impair existing provisions of the law in
regard to the disposal provided of perishable oi
explosive articles; .and further,
that this section shall exported not apply to any
article which has been from the
United States and re-imported.
NOTES.
The comptroller of currency has au
thorized the first national bank of Besse
mer, Ala., to begin business with a capi
tal of $50,000.
The senate committee on naval affairs
held a meeting Friday, at which, aftei
considerable discussion, the committee
decided upon the policy which will gov
ern it (luring this congress in the work of
building up the navy. This is, in brief,
that great line-of-battle ships like the
English Ben Bow should lx- constructed at
««*• Ma i°. rit V “ d minority reports will
-
be submitted to the senate,
Va)enta Brazilian minister at Wash
jngton, on Friday, received the following
cablegram from Buy Barbosa, Brazilian
minister of finance, dated Rio Janeiro,
January 24th: “Capital for a great na
tional banking institution, to be known
as the national bank of the United States
of Brazil, was subscnbpd to-day within
four hours. Tlie capital is $100,000,000.”
Yaienta regards this as a crucial test of
the confidence of the people in the stabil
ity and permanency of the new republic.
A delegation of colored men from A'ir
ginia, were before the house committee on
the election of president and vice-presi
dent Saturday, to talk about the opera
tions of election laws in Virginia. They
formed a committee appointed by a con
vention of colored people held in Rich
mond, December 17th last, to present this
matter to congress. The address con
tained some statistics concerning said alleged
election frauds and outrages to have
been perpetrated in the state of Virginia
in the last election, and earnestly appeals
to the lawmakers of the nation to
change the existing national election law
that it shall be no longer in the power of
any registrar or other election olHcer to
disfranchise arbitrarily any voter to whom
. ■ given the right ot ballot by the consti
tution of this country, and to remedy the
wrongs and evils, which they complain oi in
by reducing representation accorded
the house of representatives to that ex
tent in which suffrage in the southern
states, and especially in Virginia, is prac
tically denied and suppressed.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
There has been a great storm of wind
and rain in southern England.
The hostility of the German press to
the Samoan treaty is still outspoken.
Sixteen miners’ families were evicted
at Walston and Adrian Pa., Friday.
Influenza has been Quebec so legislature prevalent, that among
members of the n<
serious work has been done in the houst
so far this season.
Dispatches of Friday say: A terrific
storm is raging all over Central Austra
lia. There has been a heavy snow fall in
Bohemia.
The four story brick block, Nos, 65 to
101, Bristol street, Boston, Mass., owned
by the heirs of William F. Paul, was
gutted by fire early Thursday morning.
Loss is estimated at $100,900.
The publication of the Samoan treaty in
Berlin has led to its denunciation by the
German press of both parties, Dis
patches received at Washington say that
radical and conservative papers alike, call
it a “German retreat.’’
The little town of Utica, III., number
ing 2.000 people, which was so nearly
wiped visited out by by terrible tire last conflagration summer, was Tuesday uguin
a
morning. Nearly all of tne business part
of the town was completely wiped out.
At a Portoguese meeting, held at Rio
Janiero, Brazil, on Tuesday, it was re
solved to suspend business with the Eng
lish people, and to send a telegram to
Lisbon, stating that members of the col
ony there are prepared native to make any sac
rifice for their country.
The non-partisan Woman’s Christian
Temperance union at Cleveland, ()., on
Thursday affected organization National and
adopted the name of G. the Phinncy, of Crusa- Ohio,
ders. Mrs. Allen
was elected president, and Mrs. Walker,
of Minnesota, vice-president.
H. M. Jackson, former paying who teller ot
the sub-treasury at New York, run
away with $10,000, and who pleaded
guilty to the charge of embezzlement a
few days ago, was on Thursday sentenced
to six years’ imprisonment, tine in Erie $10,000, county
penitentiary, and embezzled. to pay a of
the amount he
At a meeting of the dealers in cham- India
rubber connected with the London
ber of commerce, on Tuesday, it was re
solved to memorialize the nmrquis of Sal
isbury against the monopoly established
by the Para government and the export
duty it has imposed. It has transpired
that sixty firms have already petitioned
the government on this subject.
Adam Forepaugh, Thursday the veteran circus
manager, died night at Phila
delphia, Pa., at the age of Hixty-eight.
Mr. Forepaugh many years ago embarked
in the circus business, in which he was
very successful, getting together the most
extensive circus and menagerie, with
which he amassed a fortune which is esti
mated at more than a million dollars.
News comes from Flathead lake in
Montana, that a band of thirteen Indians
attempted to cross the lake near what is
known as Wild Horse island, on Sunday
afternoon, where the channel is narrow,
and apparently the ice is of sufficient
thickness to sustain the weight of a hu
man being. Five of them broke through
the ice Hnd, with their ponies, were
drowned.
B. P. Hutchinson, known as “Old
Hutch,” board of trade speculator, of
Chicago, has been victimized by his set
tling clerk, acting in collusion with a
clerk of W. P. Dickinson <fc Co., another
firm, whose office is on the same floor with
Hutchinson. Rumor places the amount
variously from $35,000 to $40,000.
Diekinson was also robbed by his clerk,
placed at $<,000. Both clerks have gone
to Canaria.
HERR MOST IN CUSTODY,
-
the well-known ANARCHIST again in
THE HANDS OF THE POLICE.
A New A ork dispatch says: Herr John
Most, anarchist, whose conviction and
sentence to one year in the penitentiary
was affirmed Friday by the general term
d the supreme court, was arrested on
Saturday by detectives from the central
office. He wa« captured a* he was leav
ing the house of Mrs. Ida Hoffman, who
was on his bond, pending the decision of
the general term. Most was convicted of
using language intending to incite a riot,
while making a speech at a meeting of
:he anarchists held in November, 1887, to
denounce the hanging of the Chicago an
archists. His counsel will ask that he be
»d mi tied to bail pending the appeal.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THK SOUTH.
lENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARK HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and dixon’s link.
A fire in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday
night, $130,750. caused a loss in round figures of
Tlie trial of Mrs. Cora May Scales Mor
ris begun at Wentworth. N. t\, Friday.
Mrs. Morris is charged with having
caused the death of her husband bv ehlo
loform, August 19, 1889.
The libel suit over the grave of Mary,
the mother of Washington, at Fredericks
hurt, Va., happily terminated by the de
fendant* iu the suit making a gift of tlie
property the monument association.
It is reported that gold has been found
in large and paying quantities on the
farm of Mr. Burrell Higginbotham, near
Chulafiuee, Cleburne county, Ala., and
that he has been offered in rash, $50,000
for his farm.”
The Mississippi house of representetives
in session at Jackson, spent, two hours
Thursday vention discussing a bill calling a con
to make a new constitution.
The race problem is the bone of conten
tion.
The executive committee of the Charles
ton, 8. C., chamber of commerce on Sat
urday adopted resolutions indorsing the
tonnage bounty bill, now before congress,
to encourage the building of American
ships.
Thirteen distilleries of T. J. McGibben,
at Louisville, Ivy., who was buried on
Saturday, have shut down, McGiliben
appointed no administrator, charge. and there
was nobody to take About 300
men were thrown out of work.
The Atlantic and Danville railroad,
from Norfol k to Danville, Va., was form
ally opened Thursday by special excur
sions from points along the line to Dau
ville. The road is 307 miles long, and
gives Danville a direct route to the sea
board.
The principal labor agent at work in
since North Carolina is quoted has as removed saying from that
September he
North Carolina 19,900 negroes, and says
that 35,000 is a reason able estimate of
the number who have left North Carolina
in the past thirteen months.
The committee Commercial appointed club, by the called Nash
ville, Tenn, Friday, on
.Governor Taylor mid urged tliat
in case he called an extra session, to in
clude in the call tho subject of double
taxation. Governor Taylor accorded the
committee a patient decided hearing, and prom
ised that in ease lie to call an ex
tra session he would include the subject.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. ('., suys:
Last week E. C. Henderson, Day, of Pennsylvania,
was married at N. C., to a
lady from Mississippi, who had advertised
for a husband, the two having agreed to
meet nt Raleigh. It was a brief court
ship, and the honeymoon has come Oxford, to a
startling end. Day went over to
and has been arrested there on a charge
of forgery committed in Clarksville, Vu.
The legislature of Kouth Carolina bus
enacted a law that hereafter no allowance
shall he made for breakage or draft on
cotton, and whenever it is agreed be
tween buyer and seller to deduct the tare
on cotton bales, it shall with he sixteen yards pounds of
on bales covered seven
standard cotton bugging and Hix ties, and
twenty-four pounds on hales covered with
seven yards standard jute bagging and
six iron ties.
R. M. Long, a Guyaudotte county,
Ky., constable, was murdered and his
wife desperately wounded Monday night
by a band of ruffians who broke into their
house. Friends of the murdered man
believe that a gang of desperadoes, “moonshin- against
whom he had warrants for
ing,” committed the deed. Others be
lieve that it is merely a continuation of
the llattield-MeCoy fued, as the victim
was related to the former family. Mrs.
Long's wounds are believed to be mortal.
A GREAT RACE.
CIRCLING THE GLOBE IN SEVENTY TWO
DAYS AND SIX HOURS.
East November the New York World
and the Cosmopolitan Magazine, of the
some city, each sent out one of their ludy
correspondents for a tour trip around the
world. Besides ls-ing a in the inter
est of the papers named, it was in reality
a race between the two young ladies, and
the time of starting and their progress
over the world has been minutely noted
from the day of their embarkation. Miss
Nellie Bly represented Bisland the the Cosmopolitan World, and
Mrs. Kate
Magazine. Miss Bly reached New York
Saturday at 3.40 p. in., being just 72
days, six hours and eleven minutes in eir
cling the globe, thus breaking all previous
records. Mjss Hly’s trip from San Fran
cisco to New York was most exciting and
attracted wide-spread attention. Ail along
the route she was received with regular
ovations, and given every attention.
At New York Miss Bly received a most
royal welcome. The moment of her arrival
was heralded over the city by the firing
of cannon and large delegation* of citizens
congregated at. the station to meet her.
Iu fact, all New York accorded a grand
ovation to the plucky young lady who,
done and unattended, accomplished record the
marvelous feat of breaking the for
f^t traveling.
Miss Bisland, at lad accounts, was still
-,n the ocean, homeward Gawd,
Iy Vienna, recently, a thief seized a
bag from a Dry in tin- street. The boy
was the son of an hospital porter, and
the bag cant on‘-d a human head, in
tended for examination. The thief, uv
doubt, m.d a surprise.
TRADE REVIEW.
COLDER WKV1T1KR MAKES THK CONDITION
OK BUSINESS MOKE KA Vi.RARIJS.
R. Cl. Dunn & Co.'s review of trade
for the week ending Jan. 35th, says:
Business h is a decidedly more favorable
appearance. Colder weather bus brought
a general increase of activity and im
provement iu collections. The heavy dis
bursement by the treasury for bonds have
brought easier money markets, and sev
eral troublesome labor controversies have
been adjusted. The prevailing sickness,
though seriously interrupting trade and
industry in many quartern, is distinctly
abating at the east, The official stute
meut of the iron and steel association is
particularly gratifying, because it shows
that contrary to the general impression,
untold socks in the hands of makers, and
the warrant company did not increase
during 1881), but actually decreased 16,-
300 tons. The production was 7,064,535
tons against 6,489,738 in the previous
year. Adding imports the total con
sumption of pig iron iu this country will
probably prove to have been about
7,750,000 tons against 6,688. 741 in 1888.
A gain of more than a million Ions in the
year over the largest consumption ever
previously known, fairly explains the
advancing precedented prices in the face of the un
production.
THK WOOLEN BUSINESS,
lias been little improved for all grades by
the colder weather and fairly active for
cheaper cassimors and woolens. worsted, with
some gain in heavier Cotton
goods move fairly at firm prices, lmt the
rise in material begins to cause some dis
turbance. Speculation in cotton has marked
up the price half a cent with sales for the
week of 1,100,000 hales and receipts for
the week slightly fall behind, while ex
ports slightly exceed last year’s. Except
in cotton the speculative markets show no
unhealthy activity, though money here
has been decidedly easier. The decrease
of $4,000,000 in cash held by the trees
ury, and the rate for money on call has
declined to 3J per cent. Foreign ex
change is also a shade lower at. -1.86, and
increasing gold reserves at tho banks id
England and France give more confi
dence. In the foreign trade, some im
provement is observed in exports at New
York, which fall only six per cent, below
last year’s for January thus far, while the.
decrease in imports is seventeen Imve per cent. de
But. (lie exports of wheat been
cidodly small since the recent rise, and
flour shipments are light, while even corn
exports appear to fall behind those of last
year. Reports from other cities are gen
erally more satisfactory for the week.
Most reports note an improvement in
weather and iu trade. Business failures
occurring throughout the country United in tin
last week, number for the HI ales,
205; Canada, 43; total, 338; against 330
last week.
A SOCIALI8T MEETING.
RESOLUTIONS CASHED DECLARING THEIR
I'OLICY ANTAGONIZING lIERlt MOST.
At a meeting of socialists in Waverlv
hall, Chicago, on Sunday, resolutions
were adopted, calling attention to the
declaration of the socialist leader, Herr
Rebel, in the German reichstag, on Sat
urday. The statement of Rebel was thut
the disappearance of anarchism from
Germany was due to the efforts of the so
cialists, and the government had inter
ested itself in efforts to support an
archist movement for the purpose
confounding its action and declarations
with socialism, and thus discrediting the
latter, and that Herr Most’s Friehcrt was
the product of tho secret police.
The resolutions concluded as follows:
“We hereby emphasize the necessity of
socialists in the United Staten giving heed
to this declaration of the policy mid prir i
ciplcs of German socialism; that in this
country dynamite agitation lias ad- no
justification whatever, and its
vocates the Most* anil the DeLiims
should be recognized ami treated as agents
of despotism, and not as reformers, and
antagonism between socialism and their
reactionary agitation be kept as well de
fined and aggressive as in Germany.”
CONVENTION OF M1NERS
IMPORTANT I IIANOKHIN THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS.
'rile United Mine Workers’ convent ior,
held its session Friday and Saturday, at
Columbus, Ohio. The final report of tin
committee on constitution was made, and
the constitution adopted us a whole, 'flu
revisions of the articles are : Coal fields
are to be divided into divisions, or dis
tricts, and a state union maybe organized
when more than one division exists, The
following officers were elected: Presi
dent. John K. Kao, Pennsylvania; vice
President, W. H. Turner. Ohio; score
tary. trea-urer. Robert Wit horn, Ohio:
auditor, J. if. Kennedy. Indiana! execu
tive board Patrick McBride, Pennsylva
riia: William S<-olfe, Illinois; K. F. War
ren, colored. Ohio: John Kane. Indiana:
w c. Webb, Kentucky. Resolution*
were reporfed and adopted favoring the
immediate enactment for the abolition of
the company store system; that the safety
of the miner i- of highest importance,
and that the most improved msehinerv
should be used for the protection of life
therefore indorsing the >h; w mac hine,
recommending it* adoption in all mini s of
the country.
What is sai 1 to l>e tl e largest organ
ill tin- «oi Id is building at the Itix s volt
organ works in New A ork city for tin
Auditorium building, Chicago. It will
l»e operat-d by electricity. Electric
motors are now used churches for in pumping New York the
organ in eight month hors
city at a cost of $10 per per -
power. 'I he water motor consumed too
much water, and the gas engine was too
noisy.
NO IT
SNOWED IN.
A SNOW BLOCKADE IN’ THK WEST—TRAIN!)
HEMMED IN' AND WIRES DOWN.
A dispatch of Monday blockade from in the Chicago
says: The snow west
nml northwest is one of the most com
plete on record. Not only lias travel be
come impossible on western divisions of
the Central and Northern Pacific, but tho
Telegraph companies arc equal sufferers,
and every through wire is down
on both of these routes. Washing
ton communication and Oregon are shut off
from with the entire
world, with the exception of one little between zig
zag wire that still ticks feebly
San Francisco and Portland. The “V in
tern Union repairers the are snowed up at
half u dozen places in west and there is
little prospect of renewed communication
until the roads have mastered the dements.
snowed Monday night eight west boundit ruins were
in, and the prospect of the road
being opeued iu snowplows the next forty-eight
hours is poor, as cannot work
through tho inadequate. freezing ice and the force of
shovelera is
A TOBACCO COMBINE - ,
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION FILED FOR
A HUGE CONSOLIDATION.
Tuesday Articles of the incorporation wero filed
in secretary of state’s office
by the American Tobacco company,
which, at Trenton, N. J., is to consolidate
a number of companies. The capital stock
is fixed ut $35,900,000. The number of
shares is 490,000. Of said stock $15,
000,000 is divided into 400,000 shares ol
$50 each, which shall be general or com
mon stock, and $10,009,000 is divided
into 100,000 shares of $100 each, which
shall ferred be prefefred shall stock, and holder said pre
stock entitle tho to re
ceive each year a dividend of eight per
cent, payable half yearly, before any
dividend is set. apart, for common stock,
or so much of the eight per cent., ns tho
profits justify. The amount with which
the company will begin business is $10,
000, divided into 309 shares.
SEABOARD FARMERS
ORGANI/.E IN ALLIANCE AND ELECT A
11 LL ql OTA OR OFFICERS.
The Seaboard Fanners’ Alliance was
organized at Charleston, H. ('., Saturday.
The following officers were installed:
President, W. G. Henson; vice-presi
dent, John S. llorbeck; secretary,
E. Roehe; treasurer, S. O.
Ilensog; lecturer, E. I,. Rivers;
assistant lecturer: II. 11. Lee, doorkeeper,
•I. II Ligon; assistant doorkeeper, 'I', G.
Hamlin; sergeant-at-arms, Handy Bee;
business agent, E. T. Legure. The farm
ers on its roll are 11 lose on I lie sea islands
and on \x lint is known as I lie neck. They
raise sea island cotton nml truck.
A CEMETERY BATTLE.
lll.OODV FIGHT BETWEEN TWO WARRING
CHUIK It FACTIONS.
A Wilkcslmrrc, Pa., dispatch says: A
bloody riot took place between the two
warring factions of the Polish church at
Plymouth, Monday evening. The Luther
ans faction endeavored to bury one of
their number in me cemetery. The Poles
resisted and a fierce buttle took place, in
which pistols, stones and dubs were used.
During the shooting thirty rjeu were
prostrated by wound;.
own on Seed Distribution.
Representative Enloo, of Tennessee,
has announced bis jut -ntiou of endeav
oring to put a stop t > tin- distribution
of seeds by the Agricultural Depart
ment. The mix:ii cause of bin objection
to the present )tract co is p rhups its
questionable constitutionality, but there
is no doubt that some unfortunate little
cxjieriences of his own linvo l ad some
thing to do with iiis do ire t> have tho
luw repealed. Dur ug his canvass for
re-election to tho present Hons-- Mr.
Enloo was speaking and isdiied ut a <: umtiy the town
in his district, ou out
skirts of the crowd of auditors one man
who would not laugh at hia jokes nor
appreciate his good points.
Wondering what Le had done to of
fend this particular rous'itu lit, Mr. En
loe soon got an opportunity discontente of sneaking individ
personally w ith the l
ual. Greeting him familiarly, the Con
gift-small i ske I him v. hut made him look
soglum. Already the cobli o son the pari
of the constituent was I eginniug to thaw
out, an I lie rospon h <1:
“H< e here, you sent me some sec Is,
didn’t you!”
“Cab! “Vo-,” replied the Congressman. not:”
age seels, were they con
tinui d the rnan.
“Yes,” was tlie r ply.
“Well, this (producing a fi:.c large
het d of cauliflower from under his coat;,
this is the ell-fired sort of cabbage that
came tip from them seeds. Now, that’s
a pretty way to treat me, who've always
supported you for every office you evci
run for, ain’t it.' 1 ’
Mr Enloo tried to soothe his constitu
ent’s rulfle 1 feelings by laying the blame
on the Department ot institution Agriculture,
which, he mid, was an not
d> serving of unlimited confidence in its
selection ot reeds, tut he is afraid that
his representations . cue of no avail, for
he didn’t get that ir an s vi t ‘, an 1 l.e
wants to get even with tne Dcqairtinent.
—[Pittsburg Dispatch.
WHY IT WAS HEALTHY.
“Is this house healthy!” sai.l the
prospective tenant to the real estate
man.
“ Healthy ' welt, I should say.”
“ You speak vcy positively.”
“Yes, 1 have a right to. The last
family in it had the smallpox from the
father to the youngest baby, and not
one of them die 1.”—..Merchant Tray
eler.