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frj) >:j. Raising Meat. Mr. H. F. Hortoo, of Bullock's Creel Township, was in the Enquirer offici 'esterday. Mr. Hortoo is one of the far ners that a reporter of the Enquire ailed on last summer with a view t( letting some information as to the mos accessful way to manage a farm. Hi lakes pood croDS of corn, cotton, whea Iind oats, and is one of those farmer vho believes in living at home. Knowng, as we do, that he does not believe ir >uying anything that can be raised al tome, and that not a pound of Westerr neat comes on his place, we took occa ion to ask him some questions aboui aising meat "Yes, sir," said Mr. Horton, "I have ilways raised my own meat, and I conider that I have made money by it. Oi oune, I do not raise meat to sel 1 to mj roppers, but I insist, as far as possible, Ethey shall raise it for themselves.' Veil, how is it?" he was asked t there are so many farmers whc a that they cannot afford to raise to feed to hogs ?" Tou can't do it. They are correct r as that is concerned," replied Mr on. "Bat then you do^not .want to your hogs on corn altogether. It ie xpensive, and I don't believe thej anywhere?that is, altogether." 'hen how do yon manage?" >h, there are several ways. The fact ere are so many ways in which it be done, that it is difficult to tell h is the best way; but the idea ol >g a hog altogether on corn is as ih aa feeding a dog on fried chicken. ''I raise my hoes in a pasture and feed firy little corn except in the fall when I Vfuat to fatten; and if they havo been IBtnaged properly there is very little fattcniQg to do. All a hog wants is a good range in the woods. During a month'or two in the winter you feed him a little corn. As the season advances, lie gets more and more able to take care of himself. Along during the latter part of June, you can turn him in on the Btabble, and if you will sow peas at intervals so as to have a crop along from July until frost, you will have your bogs provided for all summer. When frost AAiHAfl vaii nan turn fKom inln a naalnro WUU4V>C| J VU l/IIU IUIU VIJOUI 1 U IV/ C* |/MkUIV in the woods, where they can get plenty of acorns, and these will keep them in expfllent condition. ,fA few weoks before I get ready to |i)ly my bogs, I tarn them into a email Ipt?never into a close pen, because tbey do not do so well?and feed them corn. Daring the whole year, it does not take more than from six to ten bushels of Cora for a hog that will net 350 to 400 pounds. . "Then you think it pays to raise your own meal?" Mr. Horton was asked. "Of course I do. I don't know how much it really cost, bat I would not be willing to bay my meat even if I bad a guarantee of this Western stuff, at four cents a pound. I am satisfied tbat my meat does not cost me tbat mucb, and I would not be surprised at its costing a great deal less." "The fact is," continued Mr. Horton, "raising as I do only enough meat for my own consumption, the time and expense given to my hogs is scarcely worth considering. But judging from my own experience, I am satisfied that if proper attention were given to the matter, it would be found almost anybody Mn rilm mpof pheanar than thov ran bay it."? Yorkvillc Enquirer. ? 9 m ? When the importer sells to the merchant he adds the tariff, and when the retail merchant sells to you he adds the tariff. There is no dispnting this position, and unless the present iniquitous tariff is wiped out and taxation otherwise equalled between the different gectionB of country we may as well ceasc trying to get a larger circulation per cap Ita in the South. If we had $1,000 pei r?nita wa rnnld nnt knen it. rk nur nonaion ?*" r ?i ? -? r grabbing and tariff robbing friends in the North and East would soon get everj cent of it through these refined methods of stealing.?Hampton Guardian, ? A lot has been purchased in Asheyllle, N. 0., for 15,000 on which a Colorec Young Men's Christian Association build ing, to cost $25,000, is to be erected The money to purchase the lot was secured in the North. Mr. George Van derbilt, who is building a palace neai Asheville, will famish the brick to b< used ta constructing the building, anc his mother will furnish the money ti complete the woA. ? A Raleigh, N. C., special says tha a wealthy northern man, who last yea visited Rocky Mount, and was showi many courtesies by O. W. Harris, a well known citizen, fell dead on Monday. Hi will has bean opened, and it is foun< that he bequeathed Harris $100,000 fo courtesies shown, the sum to be paid ii United States currency. Harris left t< get the money. ? A French lady who died recentl; at the Convent of the Siateis of Hopf at Pau, at the age of ninety-one, has be queathed $20,000 to the Academy of Sci ence, to be given to any person of what soever nationality, who may, within tei years, have found the means of commo nicating from another world, planet, o tar, and of receiving a reply from it. Fishes In Winter. j We have beard of toads which have been imprisoned in a eolid rock for centuries and which were found alive when their abidiog place was cleft open. , This reminds me of thiogs I have observed about certain fishes in Winter and I think will be interesting to the young i folks. A large number of fishes, some 1 of them living in deep ponds, brooks, or out in the silent nooks of the sea, will remain for four, five, or even six months ( . in the same position without eating or so < much as moving fin or]tail. ' T- TT iuK . TT a t C h f T V II D? , 1U IUC UVtViUiuvuv & IDU ? ^ der the management of Mr. Wilmont. j I had much opportunity to ?tudy certain fishes in Winter, for they could be clearly'seen through the glass sides of the f tank?. Id one tank, .bout a third of tbe way up from the botton., were half a dozen German carp, all facing the direction \ from which the water flowed. I noticed their positions about Christmas and saw ' them again twice in January and two or ' three times in March, and in all that ) * time not one of them-had changed their positions or moved fin or tail. Mr. Willmont told me this was quite usual among the fishes. He permitted me to raise the cover of the tank and poke a couple of them with my stick ; and each one made a slow, lazy movement, and re lapsed into stillness, just aDove ine * carp, in the same tank, was an eel about ' three feet long. When I first saw it in ' December it was curved like a perfect 8, . and all through the Winter it preserved that shape without, as far as Mr Will? mott knew, once moriig Put a . frog into ? tank at tbe beginning <>1 Wiuter, then place a small piece of wood in tbe tank ; the frog will g*t upon the wood, with hi* eye* looking *tr*igbt up, ?nd never no much ax move until the weather begins to get watm in tbe Spring; he will then begin to jump about and look .for something to eat. But tbe strangest ca?e of hib mation that I know has been related to me by Dr. Ferguson, the Pathologist of New y? York HosDital. In one of the Mnall c tanks belonging to the bocpital museum j a carp of a particular description bad been placed. One very cold night the ? water wbere the fish was kept waH frozen t through and the fish imbedded in it. ? The care-taker took the ice from * the ^ vessel and placed it on top of an wib- i barrel where rubbish was put away, till j one day the hot Spring buh melted;the e ice down to the place where the fi?h was J frozen. Some attachee of the hospital f then was surprised to notico a fi*h wig- 1 gling in a piece of ice. The carp, had t survived his imprisonment, passed the ? period of hibernation, and resumed his r old activity.?Harper's Young People ? m Womeu Never See a Joke. "BrowD, do you know why you are like a d inkey ?" "Like a donkey 7 echoed Brown, , opening wide his eyes. "No, I don't." * "Do you give it up?" 1 "I do." J "Because your better half in stubborn t ness." a "That's not bad. Ha ! ha! I'll give c that to my wife when I get home." "Mrs. Brown," he asked, as he sat ? down to supper, "do you know why I t bo much like a donkey ?" t He waited a moment, expecting his ? wife to give it up. She looked at him somewhat commisseratingly aa she answered : ^ "I suppose because you were born so." ( ?Boston Beacon. i I ^ Things Worth Remembering, 1 It is well to rememberThat every promise, is a debt. 1 That the average man about town is a huge bore. 1 That it's no disgrace to be poor, but mighty inconvenient. r That children hear more than grown 1 folks give them credit for. > That the man who smokes cigarettes ' is not necessarily brainless. That the poetry of a girl's feet usually do not mate with the prosaic hoof of her - father. 1 That the girl of the period knows more than her grandmother?for her . grandmother?is dea<T?Music and - Drama. r ? There is a post at the corner of the 9 public square in Fairmount, Mo., which ] gets a bolt of lightning from nearly evej ry thunder storm that comes aloDg. Three men, five horses and twenty or thirty t sheep have been electrocuted at the spot, r ? "What did you do the first time you i got into battle ?" said a young lady to an - old soldier. "Of course you didn't ran ?" s "Oh, no, I didn't ruD, miss; not at all. j 1 But if I had been going for a doctor, and r you had seen me you would have thought i somebody was awful sick." j ? CouDtry Editor?Thank tbe Lord, to-morrow'B Sunday. Visitor?You rest 1 f on that day, I Buppoae? "Yee; all we ( have to do ia cut wood, light the fire, milk the cows, dress the children, clean the cistern and praise the Lord." ? Sixty cents a year is what EdUon i predicts will be the cost of heating acd i- lighting a house when electricity has fulr ly shown its power. But we'd be glad to have it come in our time. Every Fourth Row fn Com. To the Editor of the. News and Courier: Heartily in favor as I am of the proposed reduction of the area of cottoncultivatlon, I see some difficulties In tho way that have rot been suggested. To cut down the cotton crop to ten or twelve acres to tho plough would be to reduce that crop by fully one-half and necessitate the planting of the remaining land either In corn or small grain, fencing it in pastures or allowing it to go out 01 cultivation. Doubtless the lattor plan would prove a blessing to thousands of acres now cultivated, which are too poor to pay for the work. Y?t as the tax collector will come around, and store accounts and interest an mortgages must be paid, it*would not be convenient iu every instance. It is a well established fact that negroes jo a verv largo share of the farm labor In this and other cotton States, and it is as well known that as a corn, wheat and oat Farmer the negro is not a dazzling success. The negro can and does make the most rt the cotton, but, the nemo does not, ind apparently cannot, make grain, rherel'ore, if tho one half of our present cotton area was planted iu grain and depended on negro labor for cultivation it would almost certainly prove more unproductive than at present. To cut down the area in cotton to the plough and not attempt to sow the remainder in grain, ana at the same time x> keep our farms in profitable cultivation, would require an immense increase in the aboring population, as it is clear that it would take twice as many ploughs and plough hands to work a given area in :rops of say twelve or fifteen acres, as in :rops 01 twenty iour iu luirty uureu nuu be additional expense would, in case of ailure from bad seasons, for instance, irove disastrous. This brings mo to the luggestion I have to make. Two 5 ears ago I was conversing with i Mr. Tnrpin, member of Congress from >ne of the western districts of Alabama, vho, by the way, was unseated directly ifter by Torn Reed's Congress, then in Washington. Knowing him to be a large )lanter in his section, I asked him how le did about corn for his hands and stock, tie replied that, up to the*laHt six or sevm years, he had annually spent a large )art of the profits of bis "cotton crop for :om for stock and meal for hands. Then le cropped on the share system, and, laving to furnish feed for the stook, and o buy it, he found it a very poor pavng business. That the negroes would iot mnke corn when plantea in separate ields or patches, but he had DOticed that vhen a stray stalk came up among the sotton and was allowed to stand, It always jrew well. So he positively forbade the ilniUing by his croppers of any separate :orn fields, and forced the planting of svery fourth row of land prepared and fertilized for cotton in corn. This was vorked exactly as if all planted in cotton, md the result was that, since the adoption >f this simple regulation, he had not >ought a grain of corn on either of his hree large plantations. * The plan is simple, easily understood ind easily followed, and strikes me as jeine the very best and most practicable hat I have ever heard of to reduce the iotton area and increase and secure the rield of corn. He told me that he plantsd the corn at the same time and worked t with the samo tools and in the same vaV as his cotton, hoeing and ploughing t through and through, and the yield (very year was not only satisfactory, but lurprising, and that as a matter of fact it md not reduced tho yield of cotton by >ne-fourth, as tho corn rows gave ventiation to and chance to spread to the colon rows adjoining. I intend adopting or rying this plan in the future, and recoranend it to the serious consideration of ny brother farmers W. R. Davih. ? "Tlitre are one hundred thousand )ickpocfeei? in Jj-maon, ana eacu (me or been know* hu American (be moment >e ?eeB them," said Barrrtt Si-aton, a poicc sergeant attached to the famous Scotland Yitrd D"ie?:?ive headquarters, fhen at the Pnlmer Houh- yesterday. 'The rendezvous of the thief-trainer* and beir pupils are the dsrk thoroughfares if St. Giles and Whiter Impel and along he wharves of the Thames They are here by the thoii'arids, women and girls, is well > men and boy* They are well irganized, have societies nud a continent fund. Whtn one of their number ;ets into our hands this sum is drawn ipou to help the culprit out. Some of he best legnl talent in London is someimes called upon to defend one of tbe ;anr. It is a shame tbat such a condition if affairs exists, but we cannot help it."? Chicago Tribune. ? Dr. L. B. Clifton, tbe scientist' old bis friends something yesterday that istonished them. By means of a microcope of high magnifying power be bas Utnntar) noniliar nam a If a [hit. infanta japer money. It is found nowhere ?lse, md, though it is invisible to tbe unaslisted eye, the small creature ^Mltiplies it a surprising rate and is very numerals Dr. Clifton counted 3,000 of them >n an old five dollar bill. He said the money parasite is an acarus, and closely related to the spider family. Its appear ince is by no mQans handsome. In ihape it is oblong and fUt, aud baa four :Iumsy legs and a sharp bill. It is never known to leave the paper on which it lives and never becomes a parasite on the buman body.?Macon Telegraph. ? The Alliance farmers of Kansas bave not taken the advice that was given to repudiate their mortgage indebtedneM t>ut are paying it up rt fast as they can get the money for their crops. The sta* :istics recently collected on the subject ire encouraging to all holders of farm mortgages, and pleasing to everybody who believes in the honesty and honor if the farmers of tbe country. It is a sound policy that the Kansas farmers Eire pursuing in this respect, and it will redound to their advantage at once and hereafter. ? As a measure to suppress the oleomargarine trade, the internal revenue tax imposed on the product in 1887 has been a marked failure. Receipts from this source were 40 per cent larger in the. last fiscal year than in 1890, showing a great expansion of production. It is the opinion of tbe Government officers that the product is steadily winning its way into public favor, not in the dvguise of butfer, but for just what it is. ? An Amerlcus, Ga., negro has been supplying dressed rats to the people of the city as squirrels. Indignation does not express th?? feelings of the negro's customers after learning what meat they have eaten. ? The Free MethodiBts of Elon couuty, Kansas, have adopted resolutions declaring the teachings of the Farmers' Alliauce contrary to the welfare of Christianity and calculated to destroy good government in this country. ? The people who need your prayers most are thoae you don't like. f Southern Industrial Progress. Baltimore, September 24.?Tho Manufacturer's liecord of this week contains its quarterly review of tho industrial progress of tho South, showing that, notwithstanding the usual dullness of tho su tumor and the lato financial stringency, there has been a steady ana sona aavancement. Reviewing the progress of that section since January, the Rccord says: "The most trying period which the industrial growth of the South has ever encountered, and doubtless the most trying that it will over havo to face, has been that covered by tbe last nine or ten months. It would have been natural for a rapidly developing section like the South, where thousands of now enterprises were being organized, or were under construction, to have felt the effect of financial troubles far more seriously than any other section, but such has not been the case. Of course, many enterprises just getting under way when the panic came have been halted, and some have been abandoned, but this has been mainly in the line of development and town companies. The manufacturing enterprises in operation have gono along steadily. Banking anu general business operations, though somewhat restricted in volume, have stood the financial strain remarkably well. Despite tho extreme depression in iron, Southern furnaces have generally been running to their full capacity and making some profit; cotton mills have been busy, and in nearly eve-" ry line of manufacturing there has been a steady, substantial gain, even through the great monetary stringency. The way in which the South has stood the strain has surprised tbe financial world, and has material!v"strengthened theconfidence of the capitalists of the North in the great future of this section. "The panic is passing away; the whole country is entering upon a period of unprecedented prosperity, and in all human probability the next two years will be the most active in industrial advancement in the history of ourcountry. In this great activity and prosperity the South will undoubtedly Bhare. Its vast resources will command the attention of capital; new furnaces and steel works will be built, new cotton mills established, new mines opened, many miles of railroad built, and in every branch of its trade and industry new activity will be felt. "During the lastnine mouths the South has continued to establish new manufacturingfenterprises, and In that time 2,742 new concerns have been organized, the list being as follows: Iron Turnacefi, 6; machine shops and foundries, 72; agricultural implement factories, 12; dour mills, 40; cotton mills, 58; Airniture factories, 38; gas works, 20; water works, 77; carriage and-wagon factories, 20; electric light plants, 124; mining and guarrying enterprises, 413; wood work factories, 372; ice factories, 58; canning factories, 48; stove foundries, 6 ; brick works, 120; iron and steel works, rolling mills, etc., 40; cotton compresses, 18; cottonseed oil mills, 28; miscellaneous enterprises 883?total 2,742. Sho Lorcd Him in Poverty. ATLANTA, nopi. LI.?xvicuuru nuiuig, a poor German, nettled near Anstell some time ago. He was an honest, hard-working farm laborer, and won the respect and confidence of all who knew him. Ho received but little attention from the women in the settlement. But there was one poor girl, Miss O'Shiolds, who was always kind to the stranger, and their friendship soon ripened into love. As both were very poor, matrimony was not thought of. A few months ago a letter with a foreign stamp arrived at the Anstell postoffice, directed to Richard Hornlg. It announced to him the death of his father in Geanany, and that ho was sole heir to 3,000,w0 marks. Mr. Hornig visited Germany, and bad no trouble in getting his Ibrtune, and returned to Anstell last week. Of course this change in his condition made a marked change in the reception accorded him. But his heart was still true to the little woman who had been his friend when be was a poor stranger, and he made her his wife to-day. MissO'Shields was taken from the cotton field and arrayed in silk and fine lin en and surrounded by all the luxuries tbat wealth could buy. Her husband says that be intends to Bend her to the best schools in the old world to fit her for her new life. When asked why he did not narry an educated girl, Mr. Hornig replied tbat such showed hira no attention when they thought him a penniless stranger, and ne would always feel, should he marry one of them, that his wife wanted him for his money. He knew the bride he had selected truly loved him, and this, he said, he desired above all else. Ten Men to be Hanged. Laurens, S. C., September 25.?The most death dealing sentence in the legal annals of this State, except in cases of TunnrrooMnn. wuh nnssnd at Laurens to-dav. ten negro men being sentenced to 6e hanged for the murder of another negro. The charge was conspiracy and murder. Some months ago Jim Young, Monroe Young, Allen Young, Henderson Young, Tom Atkinson, John Atkinson, Lige Atkinson, John Adams. Perry Adams and Jack Williams, having some cause of quarrel againBt Thornton Nance, also colored, arranged a plan to take his life and carried it out successfully. At this term of the Laurens Court thoy were all tried together for the crime, and all convicted. A motion was made for a new trial and refused, and Judge Hudson sentenced the whole ten to be hanged on October 23 next. At the same term of Court Ike Kinard, colored, was convicted of the murder of Samuel G. Oxner. a white man, and was sentencod to be nanged on Ootober 16, this making eleven negroes sentenced to death at these bloody assizes.?Special to New* and Oeurier. No Danger In North Carolina. Washington, September 23.?Senator Ramson fears that the interview with him yesterday, being expressed very briefly and omittingentiroly somethings that he said, may be misconstrued and provo misleading, so he adds to it tonight, and says tuero is no danger whatever from a third party movement in North Carolina; that the largo majority of Farmers' Alliancemen and the strongest and most influential of their leaders are patriots and Democrats. Ho thinks a few of the demagogues among the Alliance arc trying to keep up this agitation in order to advance their personal fortunes, but beyond this the movement amounts to nothing. Ho is confident that the farmers throughout tiio State can be depended on to vote the Democratic ticket with absolute confidence. ? Russell Barnes, a West Virginia man now 40 years old, is a freak in the way of slow intellectual development. Until lutoly he has beien regarded from infancy as an Imbecile, but his development has gone on slowly, and now he exhibits tho apitudeof a schoolboy and betrays a love for study. Prof. Morris, who is much interested in the case, says that Darnes in reality possesses a fine mind. Tho theory is advanced that the length of his life will correspond to that of his childhood, and that ho may see as many years as Mothusaleh. The Lat?st Woman's Crnze. Topicka, Kansas., September 25. Shortly after tlio election in this Stato lc fall Miss Fannie McCormick, the Peopl< party candidate for superintendent ^UUIIV; lllOblUVtlUii, VIViUiai WU 114 I* that if the farmers' wives had been pro erly organized the Allianco would ha elected its entire ticket. Yesterday t charter of the National Woman's A1 ance, with Miss Fannio McCormick as: president, was filed with the Secretary State. The incorporators Include t wives of each of the Alliance Congres men and Senator Peffer's wifo heads tl list. The organization is national and vice-president is named for every State the Union. Lectnrors will bo sent in tho field to establish Sub-Alliances operate with the Farmers' Alliance. Tl object of the association is to establish bureau for the education of women < economical, social and political questior and to make and develop a better sta mentally and financially with the full ai unconditional use of the ballot. Death of Gov, Perrj't" Widow. Gkkenvillk, S. C., September 25. Mrs. Elizabeth Francis Perry, widow Ex-Governor B. F. Perry, died here t day from blood poisoning, caused by carbuncle which came onner neck abo ten days ago. Mrs. Perry was born Charleston on October 28,1818, and was daughter of Hext. and S. B. McCa Her father was a prominent lawyer. H mother was a sister*of Robert "i.. Hayn She was educated in New Havenn, Com and married Governor Perry on April 1 1837. Since her husband's death she had pr nnrarl nrul harl nrlnkflri snvflrnl volumes Lis life. She was a woman of brilliai attainments and noble Christian chara ter. She leaves four children. A Road Congress will be held in Atla ta on the 29th of October. It will 1 composed of delegates from "all the Soutl em States, each State being allowed twii as many delegates as it has represent tives in the lower House of Congress. T1 object iB to devise practical methods fi improving the public roads of the Sout The Republicans in Ohio have bet making the main issue between them ar the Democrats in the present campaig the free silver plank in the Democrat platform. With this as the issue the seem to worst the Democrats consider bly. But Gov. Campbell and his frien< are making a brave effortto hold the wi! Republicans to the true issue?the tar: question. On this subject the Demoora throw their enemies into hopeless confi sion. The cities of St. Louis, Mo., Louipvill Ky., Springfield, 111., Memphis, Teni and others in that general section felt sharp earthquake shock on Saturdf nigbt at about 11 o'clock. A good deal crockery and glassware was demolishe but no great damage was done. A ms in St. Louis is reported to have be< shaken off the stool on which he was si ting. Many people in Terre Haute, Inc were nauseated by the uudulations. T1 shocks lasted from only one to four se onds. Mayor J. A. Henneman, of Spartai burg, was shot by a negro on last Sabba evening and died in a few minutes ther after. The mayor was walking past negro house in the city and hoard tl negro and his wife quarreling. He star ed into tho house to command the peac and when he entered the yard the neg ordered him out and started back into h house as if to get a weapon of somo kin Tho mayor followed him into tho liou and a scuffle ensued. Directly they bo rolled into the yard, and the nogro, ha ing gotten possession of the mayor's pi tol, shot him before he could rise to h feet. Tho negro surrendered himse There was talk of lynching him. V hope he will livo to stand his trial, for 1 will hardly escape his just punishment the gallows. President Polk has returned from h Kansas trip. He was asked what trut there was in the assertion made by pe sons who claimed to have heard him, th he had made apologies to Kansas aud ences for having fought for the cause of L and Jackson, and had hoped to aid ai ahof. MiAflrmmvin snmnwav. Hfirnnliet 'It is abaolutely and unqualifiedly fal in every particular. * * * I have ne er utterea a sentiment in a Northern Sta I would not willingly repeat in ar Sontbern State." If President Polk wou procure a few affidavits from responsib men who heard his speoches denyir that he made the statements accredited him he would nail the accusation as "a 1 out of the whole cloth." Likewise, if b accuser would furnish affidavits suosta tiatlng his charges, the preponderance evidence would be in his favor. As tl matter stands, it is simply a question veracity between accuser and accuse One party or the other can certainly pr duce affidavits that will bear out tl truthfulness of the accusation or the d nial, and until this is done the matt cannot be settled to the satisfaction everybody. We hope to see affidavi from one side or the other, as each mi is as worthy of belief as the other, so f as we know. President Polk has not d nied that ho was an advocate of third pa tyism in his speeches in Kansas. ? A dispatch from Gutbrio, 0. T., say A Government inspector just in from tl Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian reserv tion tells of a largo number of stran, deaths among the members of the tribes. For nearly a week they have bei holding a grand dance on the Washi river. They dance all night and durii the day feaat on melons both green ai ripe. During the past two days near 100 of the Indians have fallen unconscioi daring the dance and fully half of the have died. Scores of others are vci sick. The dance was started by the In<] ans to appease the evil spirit and dri' away a malarftl fever which has be( prevalent among the tribes all suramc causing the death of several hundred them." ? An ingenious Philadelphia!), wl was formerly an Australian, has patent* a shoe with ventilated soles. The valv in the shoe are made on the same print pie as the tricuspid valves of the heai which allow air to enter freely, but clo tightly against anything in fluid fori These shoes, the inventor claims, a good in more senses than in one. X only will they keep the feot cool, ho say but they will also prevent corns, and w romove the objectionable odor causcd the same time.?Philadelphia Ilccoril. ? A short while ago we happened see a queer thing In the shape of a peti fied rabbit. Ho, had run into a hole escape, probably, from pursuit and b coming wedged in had to remain. Son property in the soil had changed him in solid stone, but loft erory hair unrullli and natural as to color. Ho seemed natural that wo could hardly rosist ti temptation to shy a atone, or to whoop l the uogs and have a chase.?Crawfonisvi DeinocraU. ? Saylcs J. Howcn, who, in Gram time, was mayor of Washington, ai wealthy and powerful besides, is now | mossongor in the oflice of the chief clo: i of the treasury department with a sala of$G0 a month. His doclino furnishes | striking illustration of the vicissitudes public life at the Capital. All Sorls of Pnrngrnph?. ? ?1 Connecticut's tobacco crop is worth tst thirty million dollars. 5 3. ? Rhode Island, the smallest State, has the largest population to the square mile, p. ? Dakota courts are furnishing all tho vo divorces sought by unhappy couples in u. tlm 'Rash. LIU li- ? Tho Queen of Italy has a $7,000 dress, its No wonder government expenses have of been curtailed. lie ? When Charles Tunnison was killed ,s" by lightening at Warron, O., beneath a 110 tree, on his chest was- photographed tho .a imago of a branch of a tree. i" ? Tho latest is from a Lex imjton jury of inquest, whoso verdict was that "tho I man come to his death by what was the ? matter with him before he died." Next. )n ? Commissioner Raum boasts that he iS) is adding 100,000 pensioners to the pension , tto list every year. Raum is a daisy. As a id pansioner tho Confederate armies were not a circumstanco to him. ? A Now York hotel-keeper is exhibiting a box of twenty-ftve cigars which havo been sent him by a Havana maker _ as a sample of what tho I'rinco of Wales Df smokes. They are seven inches long and 0_ cost ?1,800 a thousand. a ?A resident of Ansonia, Conn., declares ut that it always rains there on tho 25th of in Jul}'. lie says that his family has kept i a a record of the weather for 100 years and 11. in all that time there hasn't linen n .Tniw er 25th on which it did not rain. e- ? George Holmes, of Cincinnati, is tho Jm owner of a peculiar diamond. In tho V, morning it is a beautiful sky bine, at noon is perfectly white, and at 6 o'clock e* in the evening it begins to turn black, ?j and after sunset it is like a piece of coal. " ? At the great re-union of the Smith family in New Jersey one of tho oldest womoii present summed up her estimato of tho difference between the old times Hr and tho new one in these words, "Therp >e were more trees then and folks were hon!? ester." co _ There is an average of nine murders a" a week in this country committed by drunken men, and to be directly traced , to whiskey. Yet with this fearful record n* ?and it is only ono count in the indictsn ment?there are people who say: "Do ?d not agitato prohibition!" >.n ? Smokeless powder having proven a . j success, and smokeless locomotives being a near probability, the inventive geni?' us should now turn his attention to the creation of a smokeless cigarette, which if JX. successful, would cause all womanhood if not mankind to rise up and call him 18 blessed. ? The Georgia Legislature has passed, by a decided vote, a bill fixing the State e> license to ?ell liquor at ?200. An amendment fixintr the licensn at Slflfi wo? a down, as was also an amendment to oxompt manufacturers of spirituous or malt 91 liquors who sell in original packages of a? not less than ten gallons. ill ;n ?The sporting citizens of Houston, 't. Texas, to the number of 5,000 turned out | a few days ago to witness a goat race, j'e There were sixty-three entries, big books c. wero made on the event, and hundreds of pools were sold. The mayor and other city and county officials ofticiatcdas start|v ers and judges. Some of the goats made ^ 200 yards in 32 seconds in harness. a ?ASpartanburg, S. C., special says:' ig D. R. Swetzer, a prominent citizen of this county, met with a painful accident. He e was suffering with inllamation of tlie eyes and filled an eyeglass with what ho supis posed to bo an eyewash and asked his wife to drop it in his eyes. Sho did so Be and it proyed to bo carbolic acid. He tb may never recover the use of his eyes, v- ? According to a Government regulas tion no freight trains are to bo dispatched is on Sundays and holidays in Belgium ir. alter October 2D next. The regulation lo went into partial operation last June, but io it was only to be operative at the discre? tion of the railroad authorities. The idea was to make the innovation gradual, but is after October 20 a rigid adherence to it th will be exacted. Railroad employees are r_ the objects of the Government's solicitude at In this matter. li- ? Ex-Senator Norwood, of Georgia, ee has formed a new sub-treasury bill, which id he proposes to lay before the Alliance. 1: He says he has metall the objections that se were urged against the old hill, and that v- ilia measure wui aiunu ino closest anaiyte sis by the ablest constitutional lawyers of >y the country. lie will not yet make pubId lie the dei**Us of his scheme. He has le gone to Washington to lay it before Polk )g and Macune. *? ? A novel cure lor nervous diseases is }e being practiced in Worishofen, JJavaria. 113 The treatment istheoutcoine of thestudy n" of an old priest,* and consists chiefly in spraying water over the body in various tl?. places, dressing at once without drying and brisk walking immediately after" ward. The diet is carefully attended to O" and thousands have been cured of ner"? vous troubles which had defied allprevi?" ou-5 physicians. ? Mr. ICliphas.Stokes, living near San:tg tee, lost a mule last week by its being stung to death by bees. Mr. Stokes'son ar was plowing with the mule near two beo 0. gums when the mulo struck the gums [r_ and brought the angry bees about him. He ran until exhausted, and suffering excruciating pain in overy part of his bodj', he fell. lie was taken to the stable and g; died that night in great agonj*. The boy he only received two or three stings.? Union a- Times. ge ? The Iudians 011 the Sisseton reservase tion, North Dakota, wore paid lor their an land some time ago, and one old buck inta vested three or four hundred dollars of ig l)is money in a hearse, which somo livid ery stable keeper made him bolievo was ly just the thing for a family carriage. Tho as old fellow had two big bellied ponies, and m it was a comical sight to see him driving ry about perched on the seat of that liearso li- and his squaw and papooses squatting info side. ? A very large tree, one of the largost 0f in California, tho country of big trees, ** was discovered near Arlington, Snohomish County, a lew days ago. It is a co:o dar and measures sixty-eight feet in fired cumferencc. Around tho knotty roots es tho tree measures ninety-nine feet, 'i-' About ses'cnty-llv.j feet from Use ground rt it forks into four immense branches, and so just below the forks is a big knot hole, n. Five men climbed into the Iiolo and exre plorcd the interior of the tree. It was ot found to be a meie shell, and about fors, ty-fivo feet down it would afford standing ill room for forty men. Tho treo isstiii at green, and a remarkable feature is said to be that it is barked 011 the iirside and to outside alike. ? It is fortunato that animosity is rai cly carried to tho extent manifested by n c* Urooklvn man toward his son. Tho L}? Eagle says that Edward Smith, sixteen years old, is dying of consumption in tho , homo of a poor widow in that city. Ilis j50 dying request is that his father would see 110 and forgive him. His father is Peter II. .Smith, who lives at .>7 Lawrence street and is a cooper. From -Mr. Smith's .story hss son Eddie has been a bad boy since lie was L's four years old, at which time his mother id died. Mr. Smith said he would never seo a or forgive the boy, and would not extend t'k a hand to him if he was dying in agutter. ry He also asserts that ho will not contribute ? a a cent to bury him. The boy has had tho | of last rites of the church and will not livo i _