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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN —OF— PIIvE COUNTY, scBscnrmoN, $ 1.00 per annum. 1881) EDG AR L. ROGERS 1889 D-0 NEW QUARTERS, NEW GOODS! - 0 - 0 - Contemplating a move, I made it a point last fall to run my stock down. 1 did this and can now fay m iny customers that in my STOCK OF GOODS WORTH 8:15,000 there is not any old style rubbish or shop-worn goods. 1 don’t boast of owning tho earth, or of control ing the dry goods trade of the continent, hut my past record for KOllBY STYLES and LOW PRICES is my plea for patronage ami leave au intelligent and critical public to make up the verdict in my case. I have en’arged my store to Double the capacity of any other Store la our city—How ocupymg two large stores—and am gratified every day to hear ‘he expressions of even visitor and customer ae to iho BEAUTY and CONVENIENCE of my stores. I have thc good:, 'lie room to display them and the salesmen to arrange and sell them. J Puy everything for iho oasii and get all the inside fiiguree, and take all the discounts allowed tee. and proclaim to tho world that I can sell goods in most instances as cheap as other merchants t an hoy them. J mat afford to waste my time and tax the people’s patience by trying to enumtwato even in part My Array of Attractions for the Spring So, just let that ♦«>»*»♦ in few things 1 have Season. the me say a -INSIDE TRACK- 7,009 mm WINDSORS PRINTS 5 – C CENTS All other merchants have to pay to Mart tiieae goods from any market. C* remember that I Will save you 1 or 2 cents per yard ou Caticoes. 0 ----- 0 - GOOD HI N OLOfEKN®. l have seen red the exclusive control of Struuse – IlroB, and V oorheos, rfJ*er – Hupei's tine clothing. Th se, with my other atlv.uitfiges in the clothiug markets, enable we to offer to the trade i XTRAOHDINAttY INDUCKMKNTS. C^- DRESSCS- —O GOODS. --O My trade iu nil kind.- of fine dress—as well as cheaper—goods is a living evidence ot my power to do and to dare! ASK THE I.XiliK- who cltrrn-- all the Novelties In lircaa Goods und Trim mings ami t will be content to abide their decision. I carry everything, besides goods mentioned Hats Shoes, Trunks, Notions, Donjestics, Umbrellas, Parasols, Et Csetera. -o-o Give roe a chance to show roy goods. Tell THE GLAD TIDINGS OF LOW PRICES! and I will make the small fish swim close to thc shore. YOURS TRULY, EDGAR L. ROGERS, BABNESV1LLE, GEORGIA. j,. jp_Messrs. Lewis 4. Collier and John F. Howard are with me and are ever on tiie lookout for all their friends. PATRONIZE HOME INDOSTRY! Osiorn – Woleott. GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Manufacturers of mm \ \ \ CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS. FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER. Repairing done neatly, substantially and with dispatch. IIo<n«-made wagons war ranted. A car load of Tennessee Wagons Just Received. Best hand made harness always on hand. Wo can suit you. Don’t lose your money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers in Rough and Dressed Lumber, Every kind of House Material constantly on hand, and '-an make anything you want. Manufacturers, also, of ENGINES AND BOILERS SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FARM MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS Carry a full line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine Fixtures. Can make o; repair anything from a Baby’s Cradle to a Locomotive . SHcMmcps Murph.ey s HEADQUARTERS FOR Clarriages, Ernggim as# <N>+ WmA-G-O-N-S ♦c\* 5 000 PLOW-EOES AT BOTTOM PRICES! Barnesville, Ga. Pike Conte Journal 4 VOL. 'I ZEBU LON, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1880. SOUTHERN ITEMS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS' IN THE SO UTH. The cruiser Charleston is to have a present from the city of Charleston, 8. C. The Red Men assembled in council at grand Brunswick, Qa., on Tuesday, and had a time. Cardinal Gibbons visited Atlanta, Ga., and left for his home, Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday. During his stay he was given several receptions. The Supreme Council of the Catholic Knights of America enlivened There at Chatta nooga, Tenn,, on Monday. were over one hundred delegates. The mayor of Fairbura, Ga., denies the report that he pronounced the prohi bition la*'a failure, and declares the fault to be on the part of the officers for not enforcing the law. The trustees of Vanderbilt Universi ty, Nashville, Tenn., have elected Bishop K. K. Hargrove as the successor of the late Bishop H. N. MoTyeire in the presi dency of the board of trust. An accident occurred on the Buena Vista Railroad near Columbus, Ga., in which an engine was mysteriously over turned and Engineer Miller and Fireman Phillips were both very seriously hurt. Rear Admiral Edward Donaldson, United States Navy, aged 78, died at his home in Baltimore, Md., on Monday. His physicians said that old age and liver complaint were the causes. Col. Samuel L. Fowler, president of the projected Reading – Chesapeake of Railroad, died suddenly Wednesday Fowler apoplexy, aged 72 years. Col. owned large tracts of land in the South. Rev. G. W. E. Fisse, Episcopal mis sionary, died at Brunswick, Ga., on Tuesday. All efforts to relations get Mr. lailed. Fisse to give the names of His trunk was searched, but no clew to his home was found. It is thought it is Philadelphia or Baltimore. The Clark University, in Atlanta, Ga., im owns 450 acres of laDd lying in its mediate vicinity which has never been returned for taxation. The comptroller genera! has decided that it is taxable property, and that the state and county taxes must be paid on it. There is a remarkable state of affairs at Lauren burg, N. C. W. R. Terry was recently appointed the appointment postmaster there. offen- It appears that is so sive to the people that they will not send or receive their mail through that office, but they use John’s Hill, a town some distance away as postoffice. At Avondale, Birmingham, Ala., Fil bert Hawkins, colored, took a sharp ax and split his wife’s head wide opeq, while she lay asleep in bed. Four ot five people, sleepiug in adjoining rooms and Hawktn’s mother-in-law, who was asleep and the in the same room, discovered heard no noise until crime was not the next morning. The grand lodge of Odd Fellows, of the hall of Cross Creek lodge. The at* tendance was the largest in the history of tile lodge. The secretary’s report shows an increase of six lodges and five hum died members. There are now forty-six working lodges with fifteen hundred members. The increase during the past year was the greatest on record. ' The monument to dead soldiers of the , four German ,, conpanies . . m the Contain- t i rabt serv.ee in Bethany Wednesday cemetcr ,Charles ton, 8. O., on The mono ment was unveiled by ten little German girls c sdm white while a German band played a German choral. Theded ffiraasr–ors as-atts-ass -jss 1 ' Frank Muse Jackson Bogle , shot , at , ^nd Nashville, Bogle is a contractor, and unloads ber car/*. He was behind with employes’ wages, and Jackson aud other negro threatened to get mouey’s worth out of Bogle’s Jackson advanced towards Bogle with heavy stick in his hand, and the shot him in the forehead, the pistol penetrating his brain and causing death. I he parties are all colored. The sensation in Memphis, Jud^e J. J. Tenn., the impeachment of DuBose, since September, 1888, judge of county criminal court. The cause of impeachment, as recited in a in chancery, is that DuBose was second of James Brizzolari in the duel between Brizzolari and Phelan, just over provision the Arkansas line, in July, 1870. By o in the state law that went into effect in May, 18.0, participation in a duel forever bars the participant from holding public office, In the criminal court of Birmingham, Ala,, on Tuesday, Ben indictment Elgy, colored, pleaded guilty to an eharg ing him with murder in the first degree for the killing of J. W. Meadows, a white man, last January. Elgy is prob t bly the worst and most desperate negro criminal in the country. About three years ago, he murdered and robbed a white woman in Cobb county, Ga., and soon afterwards shot a policeman in him At lanta, Ga., who was trying to arrest for burglary. Mrs. IJenry Thompson, a most beauti ful and popular lady of Chattanooga, Tenn., the wife of the master mechanic of the Chattanooga, Rome and Colum bus shops in Chattanooga, Tenn., met with a tragic death Tuesday by taking, through mistake, an overdose of oil of tansy. She had been feeling very in badly for several days, and persisted drug. Neither taking a dose of the dangerous sho or her husband knowing what amount constituted a dose, she took two teaspionsfuljfrom which she died within two hours in great only agony. This danger ous drug is given in extreme cases of trouble peculiar to women, and four drops is considered a dose. Dr. W. N. Shoemaker, a prominent wa^senf 1 to the state" lunatic asylum! having become suddenly insane from the use of morphine and cocaine. He filled his pockets with pistols and knives, and going on the streets, chased every one be met in doors until he was overpow ered. While alone in his room one night ho in nil e an opining in his nbdomen large enough to insert his hand, and then with a knife removed a tumor, which was almost as large as an egg, from which he suffered for years. Ife then sewed up the wound without assistance, llis recovery was considered as little short of a miracle. The supreme* council of the Catholic Knights of America met at Chattanooga, Tenu., on Tucsdny, every state and ter ritory in which the order exists being represented President except Montana—Supreme of Orleans, presiding. Coleman, The New auditing day was spent in re ceiving and reports of officers and in general discussion of matters to come before the council. The report of the supreme treasurer showed receipts of the general purpose fund of the order from April 23, 1887, to and including hand April 35, 1880, including the balance on Tho membership April asf 1887. to lie *42,131. now numbers 17,872, and there have been during the time 452 deaths. The northern part of Tuskaloosa coun ty, Ala., has for somo time been over run w ith illicit distillers. It is a wild, and rough with country, their along the Warrior river, stills concealed in the caves, tho moonshiners have defied the law, and it ha* been a long time since a revenue officer, ventured in that locality. Made bolder by their success, the moon shiners have recently become a tovror to the law-abiding citizens of tho commu nity . Thursday about fifty of the best citizens of that locality held a mass meeting and adopted resolutions, and then a vigilance committee was orga nized to aid the officers in breaking up tho stills and capturing the moonshiners. The largest crowd that ever gathered in Mount Olivet cemetery, Nashville, Tenn., was attracted there Thursday by the ceremonies incident to tho unveilling of the beautiful monument erected over the Confederate dead. The Confederate Monumental association was srganized about two year* ago for tho avowed pur pose of erecting this monument, and it was unveiled in tire presence of about eight thousand people. Hon. William C. P. Breckenrrdgc, of Kentucky, made the oration of the day. The base of the monument is fifteen feet square, and is composed of ftmrblocks of different sizes. Then comes a die, on which tho shaft rests. The shaft, is surmounted by the figure of a Confederate soldier of white Carrara marble. This was carved in Italy, and weighs nearly 4,000 pounds. The statue is nine feet high, and stands on precisely a granite pedestal, back, and with overcoat on thrown exposing belt, cartridge is box, bayonet and canteen. His gun grounded. Tho soldier wears a soft felt hat, well thrown back, and tho countenance and general appearance of the statue is that of a typical soldier, around the shult is wrapped the Confed The erate flag, showing the thirteen stars. whole monument stands forty-five feet high. BEGGED IN VAIN. Lee Carson, alias Charlio Armstrong, colored, was hanged at Shelby, N. O.,on Monday for burglary. Sometime last y cto be r * Armstrong and his brother en * _ J' 1 ^ Angelina erG ? 10 " 0l { 80 ra * Dean during her absence, and stole A everything she had. In November the two men were m rested for tho murder *hilbeck, and the goods stolen from Mrs. Dean were found in their murder Zl'r and was taken from tho county t0 Z J jai j , on t(d , h(J nillt of Decemhcr ut , J ntil February Armstrong remained in jail u / 28d, when he escaped, He wag re . Br egted April 12, curing the „ itti e of thc C9urt tried, ’ convicted and s^–zxsxd£ geDteu ced to be ,, d for burglary. “ d soon as breakfast was over, he was given a bath and dressed in ids burial clothes, when hig Bpiritua t adviser was admitted and stayed over an hour. Rev, J. E. Ilarbe gon conducted religious exercises, nfte r which Armstrong addressed tho crowd for near i y an hour. He said he had be glln in crime try stealing a quarter from his brother, From this lie descended in deeper murder. crime,hut He had he had never committed stolen from a number of bouses and stores, ha d broken into two freight trains on the Charlotte, Col umbia – Augusta R. R.,and had set fire to several buildings. He did not think he ought to be hung for what he did. Ilis continued downfall was due to gambling and not to and drinking prayed whiskey. five He knelt in prayer for minutes, As the sheriff began pinioning his arms fainted, caused by great excitement intense heat. He quickly recovered, as the black cap was adjusted, be the sheriff long and piteously for his iife, and after the props had been he called the sheriff to him again sheriff and begged told him him to release him. he could do nothing, and Armstrong asked time to repeat the Lord’s Prayer. When the prayer wss he said, “Lord, Jesus, have and at 11:91 the platform was withdrawn and hia body fell four feet “h a *"' ULl - STATESMAN DEAD. Allen Ihorndykc Rice, the newly sudden- ap pointed minister to Russia, died ly at the Fifth avenue hotel, in New York, where tie was a guest. Mr. Rice had been suffering from throat affection for a few days past, but was not sup- his posed to be in any danger. He took bed three or four days ago, suffering from tonsilitis. His tonsils had former ly given him considerable trouble and had been clipped. Dr. Fuller says the glottis swelled suddenly and shut off the breath. Such cases are of very rare oc currence, aud this instance was unlooked for, though every precaution had teen taken. It is thought that Col. Elliott F.j Shepard, editor of the New York Mail and Express, will be appointed ministeii to Russia to succeed Mr. Rice. Col. Shepard will ask for the appointment at at once. AERONAUT KILLED. „ Prof. St. Clair, an aeronaut, , attempt- ,, , !M . Fair Ground park, If 1 ' at .°» Houston, L, ov’^ Texas, j??* Jus grip on the parachute and Jell ® to the earth. He was instant! j OYER THE GLOBE. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. fbance’8 peril—strikes—the western boom —DEATHS OF EMINENT MEN—ACCIDENTS, FIRES AND SUICIDES. An enormous land slide has occurred villages, at Spiessback, Geimany, destroying the forests aud cattle. The strike of the weave s lathe cot ton factories atTiizy, Frame, is ended, mutuil concession having been made. The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating $50,000 for a monument to the lute Gen. John A. Lo gan. Mrs. Mary Lambrccht, a bride of ten days, was run over Wednesday in Yerkes’ Chicago, Ill., and killed by one cable cars. Many arrests were made Wednesday in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, in connection with the discovery of a new plot against the czar. Two Germans were nearly lynched at a socialist meeting in Zurich, Switzer spies. land. They They were arrested. suspected of being were Coningby Disraeli, nephew of the Into Lord Beaconsfield, made his first, public speech day. at the bar In London, Wednes He denounced homo rule. Th» country around Newnan, Ga., was visited Monday with an infant cy clone, accompanied by bail and wind und rain, blowing down trees and fences. the The Chefoo claims riots for damages have i rising out by of been settled Iho Chinese. The English and American (lags have been rehoisted, the Chinese troops saluting them. Thc strike at Dortmund, Germany is ipreading, strikers are assembling at the pits aud parading streets and menacing which employes at the water works supply the districts. The president of tho fruit exchange of Vienna, Ails., announces that iu conse quence of the Jewish boycott, the street market will not be held unless the gov ernment intervenes. The London Standard says, tbo Ulster peers end unionist members of the House of Commons abolish are the pressing office the gov- lord ernment lo of lieutenant of Ireland. A syndicate Thomas of Philadelphia Cochran, capitalists, has headed by pur chased grapahono rights for the world outside of the United States and*, 'anada. The price paid was $500,000. Richard Pigott, the forger suicided of the Par nell letters ami who in Spain, hud his life insured for $5,000 in the English und Scotish Law iife office. The that he committed suicide dries not the 8. F. Anderson, aged fifty, widow, of Nebras- aged ka City, Neb., married a fifty-nine, a few night days ago, and during thc wedding became violently in sano. lie tried to kill her and then made several unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide. The east gable wall of an old high stoop house, on Spring stroot iu New York city, which is being torn down to make room for a big business building, fell on Monday while some men were ot work under it. Two men were killed outright; unother was fatally hurt. Tho license courtof down Philadelphia, I’a., on Tuesday, handed its second in stallment of decisions in cuscs of appli cants for liquor licenses. Only 400 li censes were granted out of 1,800 appli cants, The licenses decreased 4,000 in a year. Frank Ryan and Harry Sadler, two young men arrested upon the chargo of attempting to wreck thofNew York and Chicago limited vestibule train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne – Chicago Road recently, broke down and signed a confession their of guilt crime. Monday, giving the details of An accident occurred at the Michigan Oar Works in Detroit, by which one man lost his life outright and three more were fatally hurt. carload A gang of of laborers were unloading the a holding iron, the when some part of brace load broke and several tons of iron fell on the men, completely burying them. A conspiracy has been discovered among the military officers stationed in St. Petersburg, Russia. A large number of the conspirators have been arrested. In their possession were found papers which proved that they intended to muke an attempt to assassinate the czar. A number of bombs were also found, Employes of the lapweld and buttweld departments of the National Tube Works Co., at McKeesport, Pa., tiled for an ad vancc in wages of ten per ccBt. Two thousand men are rolling out. Employes of the galvanizing and departments also threaten to join employed the strikers. this About fi,000 men are in plant. A disast.ous fire broke out Inured ay in Saint Sanveur, in the house of Mrs. McCann, on Vallier street, in Quebec, Canada, and wooden spread with district great which rapidity through the sur rounds it. The streets burned are por tions of Vallier, Chenel, St. Peter aud Ste Maria. Nearly 500 small houses were destroyed A terrific storm passed over the aarsttza rsa* – blown down The ferry boat Peerless plying . be A, tween Philadelphia, Pa., and Gloucester, J., collided with the Philadelphia <fc Reading Schultze, Railroad ferry boat J. 8. ’Wednesday, m Delaware river, badly injuring five young women passen gers on the Schultze, and carrying away a portion of the latter’s ladies’ cabin. Two of the injured girls will probably die. The families of W. P. Shoretz and W. ?■ Denham in Lake were Trout, spending Bartow the day fish- Fla. mg The twelve-year-old county, son of Denham stole away from the party and went in swimming. be Getting beyond bis depth, began screaming, when Miss Sheretz NUMBER 2G. | went into the water to assist him. The j boy clutched drowned. her frantically and both wore I Ten brigands were hanged in the courtyard of the prison at Sofia, on Wed nesday. They were led separately to the scaffold. Eight were hanged in succession. Eacli man was enveloped in a the bag waist. passed Their overhead and ri aching to longed several minutes. struggles were pro A mob broke through jail, the cordon, surrounding the and the gendarmes had great diffi culty in keeping them away from the scaffold. The steamship Columbia, which has just arrived at Astoria, Oregon, bound ; from San Francisco to Portland, reports the loss of the Oregon Railway and iron Navigation Co’s magnificent side-wheel steamer, Alaskan, which foundered at sea off Cape Blanco while on her way j steamer from Portland fortunately to San carried Francisco. Tho no passen gers, and having when on board only hor officers crew she went down. Five men are reported drowned. Tho theater at Worcester, Mass., burn ed Thursday. Tho tiro apparently started in the roar of the building near the stage. Explosions followed each other in rapid succession, and in a short time the roof fell in. Bay State hotel stands in close proxmity and its H-.ir wall was blistered and was only saved by heroic work by the fireman. “Faust” was and played that night by Lewis Morri son company. Mr. Morrison places his company’s loss at $11,000, including costumes. A dastardly attempt was made Thurs day night to wreck a passenger train 3tt, bound west on the Fitchburg Rail road at Shelbourne Fal is, Mas i. The train leaves that station at 10:54. Shortly be fore this hour the track walker found a pile of ties on the track at a sharp curve. He attempted to remove the obstruction and was vigorously atosusA Fy Bom© kuown persons. If the obstructions had not been discovered, a terrible smash-up, attended with loss of life would have resulted. Meddle Manifee, a laborer nt furnace No. 4 of the Tennessee Coal, Iron – Railroad Co., (Eusley City, Ala., plant) met a terrible death. He went up on the ore elevator, and was engaged in dumping toward some the ore into the receiver. He turned elevator-way, but was overcome with gas and fell just before he reached tho elevator. Instead of land ing on the elevator, tbe ho fell under it und was plunged to ground below, a dis tance of eighty-fivo feet, breaking his neck. A BAPTIST CONVENTION TASS BTIIONG RESOLUTIONS ABOUT DAY OBSERVANCE AND PROHIBITION. Southern There was only ouo session of phis, Tenn., Baptist which Convention at concluded its and adjourned on Tuesday. Dr. W. Hatcher, of Georgia, introduced the lowing adopted: resolution, which, after Sabbath was Union is “Whereas, The national legislation laboring to secure as will allow ployes of the national government day in seven as a day of rest; Resolved, That we fujly sympathize this important object of the Sabbath Union, and request our to promote its work, as far as may practicable.” Tho following offered by Dr. J. II. Scanfill, of were also unanimously adopted: as, The liquor traflio is a most hindrance to the Gospel of Christ and whereas, aggressive enemy traffic to social order; und, this is steadily ing upon all that Christian men and the human heart holds dear; and, whereas, it seeks to destroy the ian Sabbath and annihilate public and public conscience; and, whereas, all Christian bodies should speak out in uncertain tones on this question; there fore, Resolved, by the Southern Convention assembled, that we favor speedy and entire prohibition of liquor this traffic traffic; in that and we oppose all of license its forms for any through which men buy tho right to de stroy human hope and happiness and blight human souls as an offense against Dublic morals, and a sin against God.” COURT-ROOM MURDER. A NASHVILLE MAN KILLS ANOTHER FOB CALLING niM A LfAIt. JJm Tamer and Tom Holton, of Nash v in e> juflgo Tenn., had a lawsuit to be tried, | )u t Quarles, Turner’s lawyer, was no t present, having He been called to the criminal court. had been in the office, however, a few minutes previous. Jus tiee Brown volunteered to go himself to the court-house and see Judge Quarles, This he did, and returned a half hour later with tho information that he would continue the case, since Turner’s lawyers would be unable, on account of other lo gal engagements, to be present. Turner secured E. T. Holman, nud came c into the office with the announcement that he had secured another lawyer, and was ready for trial, but was had told been continued, by Justice Brown that the case and that he was not at liberty to do this, lor the reason that his lawyer was not there at the hour when the case was called. “Yes, he was here,” replied Turner, betraying anger and excitemcnt »•"" – “Y ou are a k s covered Holton, who sank limp, and apparently lifeless, to thc floor. Justice Brown leaped f rom behind his desk and grabbed Turner. As speedily placed as possi pie the wounded man was on a etre t c her, and removed to his home, t,,. d ; cd THE FIR8T ONE, William Kemmiler ol Buffalo, N. Y., who is convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing sentenced of his mistress, “suffei Tillie Zeigler, of dpath was be inflictedt to bj the penally of electricity.’’ to within tho application June 24th. Thi( the week commencing is the first death sentence under the saw PRINTED EVERY —AT— ZEBULON. . - —BY PARRY LEE, A 8PI.ENDIT) ADVERTISING ALLIANCE NEWS. TURPENTINE YIELD. Jeff Lucas, of Dormlny’s mills, Wil cox county, Gn., got 550 gallon*, of ►pirits turpentino out of 50 barrels of arude turpentino and distilled it in two days. CATERPILLARS. Bumpter county, 8. G., is infested with stnull caterpillars which eat tho gum harm. leaves, but do not who seem to do any A gentleman l as observed these insects states that hogs and fish are them. about the only things that wilt eat GOINO TO FIGHT. Tbe Waynesboro, Ga., Farmers’ Al liance has fallen gracefully into line ami has deciffeil to lock arms with their brothers in fighting the bagging trust And, showing that they are in earnest, they have placed their orders for 5,000 yards of cotton bagging. SOUTH UAItOHNA MOVEMENT. A meeting of the business agents of I I banco thirty-two Alliances held of the Farmers’ Al was in the court-house at j j Greenville, S. C. The most important I mutter acted upon by the agents was making a move to establish, iu the city I I of Greenville, a central business bureau ter with of a prices county agent, to arrange the mat- j merchants and ol supplies between the | j farmers. It is intended I that this action shall take effect at as early a day ns possihlc. FABMEltS LISTEN' We clip this extract from the Chicago correspondence to a trade paper: “Oats have improved iu value, owing to an urgent cash and speculative demand. The South lots louyht freely and is still ducing hungry. This has had the effect of re our small stock still fuither, tho reduction being 48,300 bus. for tho week, O c'nlv' JH iff , 1 UR na (ttflfllc in still store. in the There May option, is a large and short unless interest holdf era of contracts can get a fair settlement! foi i we are liuble to see higher prices rule present month. ” HOW TO DO IT. Here is our own state of Maryland, fruitful in hill and stream, but largely undeveloped; possessing all the attri butes of soil and deposit which for high cul ture, with a climate ever her own wanderers bless on their return. Her farming, her dairy interests, her cattle breeding, her mining.hcrmanufacturing, sadly need her fisheries—all her blessings emigration advertising,jt° invite of the better class and the development of her vast opportunities. The coming exposi tion is a strong, searching, entering wedge, and if properly will followed be long with sledge-hammer this blows aniH re membered by tions.as the initial f^HH gentlemen, well wnrtrre hearty support .—Balthnt •/ Allot T FLAX. Prof. Wilicttsf ffie'Assistant Secret^ D. O., of Agriculture, of Washington, has under consideration a letter from Ireland, which he thinks may offer a so lution of the economic problem: wheat “What farms shall take the place of on where it can no longer be raised at a profit?” The writer, who has been fa miliar with flax-growing and linen man ufacturing since 1840, says in his inter esting communication: There are only two establishments weaving—one nt Webster, Mass., and the other ot Apple- and ton, Wis., the latter doing but little, neither weaving anything finer than crash. There is nothing in the climate or Goil conflicting witli the assertion, that just as good flux and lii cn may be pro duced in every stato in the American Union as in any country. > Germany 1.0 1 spins and weaves the finest linen, and sho has no essentially differing things become climate from America, Many successful in America from the facility with which the people take up and adopt any improved processes aud appliances, the aud this may be the salvation of linen industry, of the importance of which there is no question. erica# There farmere is every reason why tho Am should produce 1,000,000 acres of flax for ho til seed and liber, over and above, j what is now produced, which would gi vtj J 12,000,000 fo 15,000,000 bushels of seed, wortli as nnuiv millions of dollars, and 2,500,000 tons of flax straw, worth $50, 000,000, and from which 500,000 tons of flux fiber would he obtained, worth $100,000,000. Once established, Amer ican invention would, as in all other in dustries, soon work up an industry to consume tills material. I wish the Btate experimental farms to grow a small amount in each state, and such private farmers as are disposed to do the same. The flax should lip sown on any good, mellow soil which has been manured the past year, or active chemical fertilizers may be employed to a reasonable extent, Tbe seed should he bowii at thc rate of two and a half bushels on an acre of land, brushed in, aud no further aiteh tiou is needed, excepting that any large weeds may be removed until the flax has “turned” for half its length, when it should he pulled, cured and cared for to keep it bright, in the tame manner as is done with hay. The seed may he taken off by rippling or by roller threshing, and there will he a market for all flax straw thus grown at $20 per ton. The crop should give two and a half tons of straw to an acre, and twelve to fifteen bushels of seed. Tho cost of pulling is in Canada $5 per acre. Prof. Willetts has informed.the sender that tbo subject of bis letter would bo earnestly consid ered by the Department, which would lend its aid to any effort to increase or diversify th« agricultural industries of the country. A PROSPEROUS ORDER. Tho sixteenth annual session of the I supreme began lodge at Indianapolis, of the Knights Ind., of Tues- Hon- ( day. or One hundred delegates were on i j in the UnionA pres ont Tho representing of evety tbo state reporteiB report following balance supreme hand iifl showed the on the various funds: General fund, $32,-1 i 719; widows and orphans’fund membership (benefit.) of tho i $6,174. The total order is 127,000. While the number pU working lodges is 2,501, during the httSm year, death benefits were puid amountiM M to $82,210.