The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-09-05
INDUSTRIAL AND GENERAL.

The United States exports an ave,
age of 100000 tons of coal per month
Last year Germany imported from
Italy S2,50o,000 worth of grapes fo
G table use.
! 1t is said by the knowing ones thai
the best peaches IN Georgia are pro
, duccd from seedlings and not from
grated and buddcd trees.
The "hcart wood" of tree has
: ceased TO take any part in the vegeta-
= nlc economy Of the tree. Its only use
IS to strengthen the trunk.
The Armenian language at present
III use among the oppressed people is
sa'd to be a>closc approach in construc-
, tlon to the Syriac and Greek.
or the convlcts in the Kansas peni-
lchtlary, seven are women serving
Time Tor murder One has q forty
years sentence, another thirty years.
William a. Anderson, the Demo-
cratlc nominee for Attorney General
IN Virginia, is a Confederate veteran,
and lost leg in the battle of Manassas.
The Peabody (Mass.) Historical So
clcly Is TO erect q monument in that
LOWE TO the memory Of John Proctor,
VINO was executed for witchcrafL in
1862.
a telegram from Ponta Delgada
states that the international mete-
geological observatory in the Azores
was nauguratcd by the King of Portu-
gal on July 10.
IN suit III Baltimore il is alleged
that banks have discounted n million
dollars of worthless paper for Mary
land lumber dealer. He was some-
what Of iinancicr.
Forty millions Of people arc threat
encd with starvation in Russia. be-
cause of crop failure, and it is said that
1t Will be difficult to relieve them tor
want of good roads.
n new kind of tombstone has lately
been introduced in Colorado Springs.
1T IS OF bronze. a lid may be lifted
showing printed matter and Il photo
graph Of the deceased.
The umbrella has taken firm hold
upon the natives of India, or at any
rate upon tho Bcngali. No less than
100000 umbrellas are imported into
the country every year.
Eli Green, of North Jutlson, Ind, is
rapidly turning to stone. A part of
his body is said to be as hard as rock
already, and the physlcians declare
there is no hope for him.
1t is reported that Is per cent of tho
bocr prisoners died in one of the con-
cehlratlon camps in South Africa in
three months. The work of extermi-
nation is proceeding at a rapid rate.
The memoirs begun by The Empress
Eugcnlc soon after the death of the
lrncc Imperial are believed to DO now
practically completed. Her manuscript
has been seen by no eye save her own.
Edward Kimball, who died in Chi
cago the other day, was the man who
first turned the thoughts of Dwight l..
Moody to evanyclistic work. He had
raised church debts to the amount of
$4,000, 900.
Peter 5. McNally will, on next Sum
day, begin his attempt to swim from
Boston to New York. The swimming
distance will be nearly 400 miles. Mr..
McNally expects To make The trin with
in thirty days.
Sir Alexander Condie Stephen, who
has been For many years British minis
ter resident AT Dresden, is about to re-
tire from the diplomatic service, and
has been appointed a green in waiting
to King Edward
1t is worth noting that III the gradu-
allng class at the University of Ver-
mont this year was young woman
who supported herself doing houscwork
through the entire four years. course
and young man who supported HIM
sell by working ut his trade of stone
cutter. The time has not entirely
passed in all the colleges when others
than the wealthy have chance at
education.
Miss Clara Mas, of East Orange,
n. j., is reported from Havana TO be
the third victim of incubation with
yellow fever ny mosquitoes bite. She
was trained nurse, and is said to have
submitted to the mosquito test on three
different occasions without fatal re-
suits. On August 18th she was &C.
cidcntly bitten and developed yellow
fever OF the scverest type.
r. B. Wcddington, Union County.
On. CD farmer, WHO died recently,
was not troubled by the race issue. He
lived in the klndlcst relations with the
negroes and in his will he gave three
tracts Of land to three of his faithful
colorcd servants, leaving money TO
others. The remainder Of his estate,
amounting to 500 acres, be bcqueath-
cd to the Methodist Church.
1t will interest readers of DR.. John
A. Wycth's Life of General Forrest
(llarpCrs) to learn that the constitu-
tional convention of Alabama, which
met in the early part of the summer,
recommended as design for great
seal OF the State the figure of soldier
, in the uniform Of Confederate gene
raj on horse, with young woman
behind him pointing forward the
legend to read, I'll show YOU the
Way.' 1t illustrates the story--told In
DIR. Wycth's book-of Emma Samsor