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The Supreme Court of North Carolina
holds that a railroad company becomes
liable for punitive damages in wilfully
failing to stop for passengers at a regular
station and cannot eseape liability on the
ground that there was not sufllcieat
room in the train if it appealed that by
reasonable diligeuco it might have provided
oaten cars.
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1 The northwest provinces of Canada
have made bountiful provision for the
education of the multitudes of people
who are expected to some day occupy
this now somewhat lonesome expanse of
territory. Sackotchewan has set apart
3,648,000 acres of land for the maintonanoe
of ptblic schools, Aminlbota
8,040,000, and Alberta 3,200,000.
j Says the Atlanta Constitution: "Humor
has its fashions. The funny men of the
past generation do not please the read^
(era of to-3ay. Mark Twain realizes this,
* and he is trying to strike a new vein.
The Danbury Netot man. Bill Nye, Eli
Perkins and a ho3t of others have found
their popularity waning, and tSby.are
working hard to adapt themselves to the
change in public tasto. Taeir failure is
inevitable. Toe average humsrist has
only one cireer. When the public drop
him ho is at the end of his row.'*
' The Chicago News says: "The reign
of terror inaugurated by bandits known as
train-robbers is increasing in extent
and flagranoy. These outlaws invariably
1 ^ select some lonely spot in the country for
their depredations. It does not follow
.that a rural police force could always present
train robberies, but there can be no
idoubt that its effect would be to lessen
the boldness of American banditti. A
.rural police patrol, especially in sparsely
eettled districts, would seem to bo a necessity
of the times. It is not often that
jtraio robbers become so bold as to select
a point near a large city for their tiendish
work. That an express train only an
hour out of Chicago on the St. Paul road
lhas been held up by bandits pro763 how
dsriug this class of criminals is becoming.
They must be checked in the interest of
?i --1 y ^ 4'ae trailing public. If a
system of mounted rural police should be
y' generally adopted we would also soon
'Hear tKo last of outrages by" wHIlemaps
and their allied outlaws."
In au address lately delivered in Albuquerque,
Governor Prince says that iu
New Mexico the improved systems of irrigation,
on which they have to depend
for the multiplication of thoir area of
useful land, are advancing rapidly. In
the northeast the Springer system, with
fifty miles of ditches and five reservoirs,
covers 22,000 acres; and the Vcrmejo
system, with lifty-sevcu miles of ditches
and ten reservoirs, supplies 30,000 acres.
In the northwest there are 290 miles of
ditch completed and forty in process of
construction, giving fertility to 24,000
acres. In the southeast the Pecos Valley
Bjstcin, already largely completed, about
fifty miles of main ditch and 120 of later*
als being in operation, with its great dam
1140 feet long and 270 feet wide at the
nnd its lake -even miles in length,
will soon supply almost 200,000 acres of
land with the necessary ivrigation. And
in the southwest the works along the
Miinbres are solving a new problem, aud
will supply a section of wonderful fertil'
ity with water repiisite for successful
cultivation.
Pittsburg, Penn., is stirred up over
revelations of the depravity of the Chinese
secret society T'ian ti, which has
been persecutiug a Christianized Chinaman
nftmcd Ye Tang. In theethic9 of
the society the conversion of aChiuaman
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to Christianity is a heinous'sin, and he i9
thereafter a marked man, especiulfy if
he should proselytize in the cause of his
new creed. The Ilev. E. It. Donehoo,
a missionary among the Chinese in Pittsburg,
says that for a long time the T'ianti
Society has been trying to drive tho
convert Ye Tang out of tho city or plot
him into pp?ou. The bitter thay have
now sticcce.de 1 m doing. The unfortunate
Ye Tang was charge I with obtain.
ing money uuder the false pretence of securing
licenses to conduct "business" for
his Cuicesc friends. These friends filled
the court room on the day of the trial,
and, according to tho Kov. Mr. Donehoo,
they lied with such apt consistency
that there was nothing more for the magistrate
to do but sentence Ye Tang to
four months* imprisonment. A previous
charge inado against Ye Tang, which
fell through, was that he conspired to
kill several of his wealthy countrymen
and decamp with their property.
"Heathen Cbinainen," says Mr. Donehoo,
commenting on the woes of Ye
\ Tang, " have no reg ird for theii oaths
before civil courts. They observe only
those of their own societies and religions.
I nave worke 1 long among them,
and can safe y say I would not believe
them under oath. ]VVe Americans cannot
reai'Z" the intense hatred felt against
6urh men as Ye Tang, and the extent to
which their enemies will go to secure reyen#*."'
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THF. KEY OF CHRISTMAS LANE
W bo has ih? key of the Christmas Land?
Where the bonfire sninea,
And the holly twines;
Carollers sing?a merry band?
And stars are bright o'er that fair strand?
Wbo has the key of Christmas Land?
Light are the hearts in Christmas Land;
In each group you meet
There are faces sweet.
Bosoms young and guileless are there,
And brows not yet wrinkled with care?
Who has the key of Christmas Land?
Dear baby hearts in Christmas Land,
We want to be near.
And join in yoor cheer
When the tree with its strange fruit bends.
And yon wait for what Santa aaada?
Who has the key of Christmas Land?
Lore baa the key of Christmas Land,
Oh * come, Cherub Love;
With wings like the dove,
Spread over hearts thy light of peace,
cww i or ii&rvoat lull Of increase?
Open the gates of Christmas Land.
Open the gates of Christmas Land;
There is mpch to do
And the days are few.
Bid all men set Charity free;
By thy grace, let us see there be
None of God's poor in Christinas Land.
? William Lule.
A MAlf CHRISTMAS
BY E. PniLLIP8 OPPENHEIM.
If there is one thing more than another
when a bachelor commences to doubt
whether his state of single blessedness is
the most desirable form of existence it is
it Christmas time. The joys of the seasou
are essentially domestic joys; and
every one i9 either looking forward to
convivial meetings with a circle of relations
and friends or a happy reunion
with his own family. At such a time a
middle-aged bachelor with no relations
(eels rather out of it.
Now, although I must plead guilty to
ten years of bachelorhood, I never was
one of the misanthropical type. I was
single (observe the post tense) not from
principle, but merely from force of circumstances,
and I was never addicted to
shutting myself up with my books and a
cat, and growling cynical remarks at the
pleasure seeking world. On the contrary,
I am of a somewhat jovial dUposition,
and was always fond of society.
Christmas time I liknd on?r./S ?? ?
country house, and could turn my uiind
to charades, dancing, romping with the
villagers or children, conjuring and
many other accomplishments. In fact,
I may say with tine modesty that I once
hfnt -iuj aitt OWtilMa Vjr * ujub Lrj |
hostess as an "extremely useful sort of
man."
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711 Am 1 ?
'WITH MY BACK TOWARD THE ENGINE.'
The idea of spending Christmas in any
olitary rooms, with only my landlady
and her domestic to talk to was a contingency
which I had cever contemplated
for a moment; but last year I
was very nearly brought faco to face
with it. I generally had at least two or
three invitations to select from, and
chore the one where I should be likely
to uieet the most interesting set of
people; but on this occasion ray usual
invitations did not arrive. The Ilarwooda,
with whom I had spent the
Christmas before, had lost a child, and
were in mourning; the Houldens were
wintering at Nice (Mrs. Houlden was
delicate) and at lIouglitoD Orange both
the girls were married, and the Christmas
house parties were things of the
past. These were my stock invitation;
and as I recollected others among my
circle of acquaintances to whom something
or other had happened siuce last i
year it slowly dawned upon me that if
I desired to avoid a Christmas in London
I had better make arrangements to
remove myselt eitner to a nonnera uydropnthic
establishment which I had
occasionally honored with my presence,
o to a Brighton hotel, where I was sure
of falling in with some pleasant company.
Just as I had arrived at this
melancholy decision, however, a letter
arrived which afforded me the greatest
satisfaction. It was an invitation to
spend a week or two with my old friend,
Fred Halleton, at his place in Leicestershire;
and with the vivid recollection
before me of a pleasant Christmas spent
at Gaulby Hall some three years ago, 1
loat no time in penning a cordial assent
to the welcome invitation. A few days
later beheld me, followed by a porter
carrying my various impediments, on the
platform of Bt. P^ncras, prepared to
make my journey down to Leicester by
the half-past three Manchester and Livtx^ool
express. The Pullman wa<
crowded with a pack of noisy selioo!I
ooys, so I eschewed it an l selected an
empty first-claw carriage. I took possession
of my favorite corner seat, with
my back to the engine, and wrapping
my leg round my knees and unfolding
i newspaper glided away from tbe city
of smoke in a remarkably good humor,
partly inspired, no doubt, by a capital
lunch, and partly by pleasurable antici
pations of my forthcoming visit.
Fred met me at Leicester station, and
I saw with regret that he was looking
ale and ill and much thinner than when
[had seen him laat. Hs teemed pleased
to tee me, however, end greeted me
warmly.
Daring our drive to Gaul by I hasarded
e few remarks, with a view to ascertaining
what sort of a party there was collected
at the Hall, but 1 got nothing definite
out of him. He was quite unlike
his old self, and I came to the conclusion
that be must be ill. As we drove up tho
avenue I leaned out the window -c gaze
at the fine old intrusion, atul !t struck me
at once as lookiug cold aud uninviting,
while the grounds were certainly very
much neglected. Something seemed
wrotg all round, and I began to feel almost
sorry I had come. We overtook
Mrs. Hallston at the hall door, just returned
from a walk. Sho war as gracious
and as pleasant as she had ever been to
me, but I fancied that I could detect la
| 01 ine 111 being which scorned to era* |
| around her.
We all three entered together, and the
moment we passed through the door I
felt conviuced that my expectations of a
jolly Christmas party were doomed to disappointment.
There a ere no decorations
about, only one doleful looking servant
and apparently nothing stirring. I felt
sure something was wrong, but at ar\y
rate I cousoled myself with the reflection
that I had lost little by coming, as it had
been a cboico between here and the
hotel. But, all tho same, I did not feel
particularly cheerful as I followed the i
doleful looking servant upstairs, along
wide corridors, across passages, upstairs i
again, and then down a long corridor,
until at last wo reached my room in tho i
west wing.
My surmises were correct. When I
descended, after prolonged and careful
toilette, my host was lounging about in !
a shooting jacket and he and bis wife <
were the only occupants of the room. I i
was the only guest.
"I've something very Berious to say to
jou, Neillson," he iaid slowly (Neillson
ib my name). "I'm going to make a
confidant of you, if I inay, old inau." i
I bowed my head and listened.
"You haven't noticed anything particular
about my wife, I don't suppose,
have you?" he asked, with a searching i
giance.
I admitted I had thought her strangely
silent, and apparently having some
anxiety weighing upon her mind.
lie laughed, a phort unpleasant laugh,
and leaned over to ine confidentially.
"I rely upon your discretion, you
know, Neillson. I wouldn't have it
known for the world; but my wife is
mad."
"Mad!'' I stared at him iucralulously.
"Yes, mad," he repented impatiently.
herself to it. The doctor whom I have
consulted advised me to send her to i
private asylum, but I haven't the heart
to do it. She's perfectly harmless, you
know; but, of course, it's au awful trial
to me."
I stammered out an expression of sympathy.
To tell the truth,I scarcely kue.v
what to suy. I was bewildered at this
paiuful explanation of the gloom which
reigned over the house. Presently Fred
closed his eyes and left rao to digest this
strange Him unwe.eome piece 01 news. j
I am naturally somewhat selfish, ami be- i
fore very long my sympathy was diverted i
iu some measure from my host to tny- i
self. It occurred to me tha; it was by i
no means a pleasant prospect to he a t
guest in a house the mistress ol which i
was mad. It was not altogether kind o'. i
Fred to invite me, I thought, under the i
circumstances, without some explana j
tion of his wife's 6tate. I began to fee! i
quite ar injured man. I was quite tire I
of my own company, ami Fred was fast ]
asleep. So I opened the door softly ?t?i ,
made my way down to the hall. As 1 (
passed au opeu door Mrs. llailaton up ]
pcared and beckoned me in. 1 had no ;
alteruativc but to obey her invitutiou.
"I'M POINC, TO CIICCK HER DOWN'."
"Mr. Nfcillsin," she said, in an agi
tated tone, "as you are going to stop
here for a day or two, there is something
connected with this household
which you ought to know. Has my
ausbanU tola you anytmngf
f bowed and toltl her gravely that I
knew all, and that she had my profouodest
sympathy.
She sighed.
"Perhaps you are surprise! that I
should ask whether Fred ha1 told vou,"
she said, turning a little away from me.
"It seems arrange, doesn't it, that one
should be mad and be conscious of it?
It only comes on in fits, and they are
terrible.
9he shuddered, and so, to tell the
truth, did I.
"Such a phase of madness is probably
not incurable," I ventured to suggest
timidlv.
'Incurable! of course it is not incurable,"
she answered, vehemently.
I edged a little toward the door. 1
had no experience in talking with lunatics,
and felt anything but comfortable
in my present position. Mrs. Hallaton
was beginning to look very excited and
dangerous.
"Of course if you are frightens!, Mr.
Xeillsou," sh:- said a little contemptuously,
"you guu iea7$ u? whenever you
pi?ee. The? flu do no* one on often,
bat they are anything tat pi?nt
thing* to witness when tfcy do com*
on." /
"I should imagine a?,** I Leented, deToatiy
hoping a ft was not Jthen pending.
Soon I managed u make my
adieu, and with a aigh oflrtlief found
myself onoe more in the nil. I mide
my way to Burdett's room, but he had
gone to bed, and ?eing it las nearly 11
o'clock, I decided to go tj bed, and,
preceded by a (I ]could nerer
hare found the fa**** * mounted
again the widc^** the threaded the
numerous pa, \ **?e ^ Ned to my
room. It wWPf y^widt corridor,
on ait >ere six
"That is the mamsr'i room, sir," he
re| lied; sod the onf at the bottom end
is KVc. Hallaton's. j Ho one else sleeps
in this part of the npues. The servants'
rooms are all in thejaorth W'ng-M
I am generally abb to sleep at whatever
hour I retire; but it was early, and
the fire looked tempting; so, instead of
immediately undressing, I changed my
coat for a smoking jacket, and, lighting
a pipe, made myself comfortable in an
easy chair. Soon I heard Mrs. Hallaton's
light footsteps ascend tho stairs, and the
door of her room open and close, and a
little while afterward Frod halted outaide
my door to bid me a cheery good*
uight, and thon entered the room opposite.
How long I sat there I cannot tell, for
I fell into a heavy doze, and when I
woko up with a sudden start it was with
the unesy consciousnessJhat something
unusual had awakedbd me. 1 sprang tc
my feet and looked fearfully around.
The flickering flames of my tire, almost
burned out, wero still sufficient to show
ik.i I * ? '?
uo win, uu one naa eniereu cne room.;
but while I stood there with strained
senses I heard a sound which niudo my
blood run cold within me; aud, although
I am no coward, I shivered with fear.
It was the half-muftlcd shriek of a womao
in a?ony,&ud it came from Mrs. Hallaton's
room. For a moment I was powerless
to move; then I hastily unlocked my
ioor, and, hurrying down the corridor,
knocked at hers. There was no answor.
[ tried the handle; it was locked; but,
listcniug for a moment, I could hear the
icuud of a woman gasping for breath.
[ rushed back along tho corridor to
Fred's room. The door was closed, bu'
iolocked, and I threw it open.
"Fred!" I cried; but Fred was not
:hcre, nor had the JMdbeen slopt on
he room was wbafr^^R^d to bo a
lole in the wall, bnt when I stood
>eforo it I saw at once that it was a
lecrct passage running parallel with the
:orroidor. Looking down it, I could
;ee a light at the other end, and knowng
it must lead iuto Mrs. Hallaton's
oom, I caught up the candle aud bondng
almost double half rau, half crept
dong it, until I reached its othci
extremity and foun 1 myself in Mrs. Halaton's
room. I stood upright and
glanced half eagerly, half fearfully
sround. The rooun was empty, but the
window directly opposite to me was open,
ind as my eyes fell upon it I stood pet ified
with a dull sickening horror, and
the candle dropped with a crash from
ny nerveless fingers. There was a
miniature balcony outside the window,
ind on this stood Fred Hailaton, hold!
I U.L
injj in nu cmurnuu, wuiua was uurtaiuijr
aot of love, the fainting form of hia
wife. The inoon Vas eHiningfull on hia
face, ghostly and demoniacal, with the
'aging fire of the madman iu hia eyes
and the imbecile grin of the lunatic on
hia thin lips. In a moment the truth
tlashed upon me, and as I stood there
gaping and horror struck he saw me and
burst into a fit of wild laughter.
"Ha, ha, ha! You Neillson? Whata
joke! See what a glorious view of the
grounds! Come and bend over, man;
don't be afraid. Does the height make
you dizzy? It's made her;" and ho
motioned to the insensible figure of his
wife, whom he still held clasped in his
arms. "Do you know what I am going
to do with her? I'm going to chuck her
down there," and he pointed to the garden
below. "A mad woman is of no
use to anyone. Come and lend me a
hand."
Mechanically I rushed to the balcony
and strove to wrench from his encircling
gi??n the fainting ~ifo. Like
a flash his imbecila^rin vanished and
his eye3 filled with a malignant fury as
he let go his grasp of his wife and sprang
at me like a tiger cat. It was in vain
that I wrestled with" him. His long
arms were around mo and held me as if
I were in a vice. I tried to shout for
help, but my toDgue cleaved to the roof
of mv mouth, and a faint gurgling was
all the sound I could command. Nearer
and nearer we drew to the parapet's
edge, until at last I could see the lawn
below, studded with flowerbeds like the
pattern of some fancy work; for Qaulby
Hall was built high, and we were on the
th'.rrt story. I felt bis hot breath in my
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"WITH HER MTTI.K e*ST? IN JafK*."
face, aqcl caught -Jris diabolic#I look of
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triumph ?u ho slowly forced me backward
against the outside rail, which
creaked and swerved with uiy weight,
and then my struggling feet scorned to
|?art with the earth, as with a wild yell
of:
"Leicester! Leicester!** I opened my
eves and snt up with a start. The paper
had slipped from my tiugers, and the
traiu was slowly steaming into Leicester
station, and there, standing upon the
platform, smiling and robust, looking
the very picture of health, was Fred
Haltaton.
That Christmas party at Oaulby Hall
was the most eujoyablo I was evor at,
and the people (the house was crammed
full of visitors) the most entertaining and
agreeable I ever met. There was one
visit so much in my life as I "did that
one, nor a ride so much as one afternoon
when Miss l'ratison and I, aftor a capital
run, rodo home together with her little
hand in iniue and our horses very close
together. Next Christmas, if Alice
doesn't object, 1 mean to havo a jolly
little house party of my own.
THE~ BROADENING OUT
Of Southern Development.-vBigna of
Improvement Everywhere.
The Manufacturers' Record, of Haitimore,
of December 19, in reviewing tho
industrial progress of the South, save:
"The signs of a general improvement
in industrial development and in large
investment operations throughout the
South noted in the Inst issue of the
Manufacturers1 Record are eveu more noticeable
this week, notwithstanding the
near approach of tho holiday reasou,
when business mcufgonerally wait for the
next year before going into new enterprises.
There is a decided revival in the
projection ??f new mining, manufacturing
and railroad enterpises, and, despite the
very low price of ? otton, the general outlook
in the South is daily growing better,
though collections in mercantile lines
may for a while continue slow. A general
survey of the field shows that good
progress is being made towards securing
the full $800,001) required for the proposed
steel works near Birmingham,
while oue or two other steel enterprises
arc in a fair way to secure the requistto
capital. Important coal-mining enterprises
arc coming to the front in Texas,
and, while one company reported last
week is putting in a plant to mine 1,000
tous per day, another company with a
capital stock of $100,000 is preparing for
active work. The opcuing up of coal
mines in Texas will uivc a great impetus
n... u.,.. .. " n-1 ?? -*
Uic ?nun; Dlltll". I'i.XUJIIMVl!. IHIirOHH
work is being poshed, amf the opening
the Ohio river marks the beginning of
another era in the Mouth's foreign commerce
and domestic trade as will bring
into operation another through line to
the West and open the way for pushing
Virginia and West Virginia coal into territory
now controlled by Pennsylvania
coal. At Norfolk this road will at once
commence the construction of very lurgc
machine shops, and additional piers and
warehouses for the shipping trade. The
building of a road from Itoauokc through
Pincastle to Clifton Forge, which is to
he pushed, w ill connect the two great
systems, the Norfolk ?fc Western and the
Che pcukviV Ohio, and open, in couneclicet
ion with other lines, a direct route
between Pittsburg and the South. In
cvciy direction such signs as these tell of
the rapid advance which the South is
in iking. The fac t is also emphasized by
the report of industiial enterprises mentioned
in this week's is?ue of the Manufacturers
Record. Among some of the
in rc important ones are the near com
pletion of large tinplate works at llalti ".iOS'fc
to make i,oou boxes a weeK. anct ot
the cotton-tie and rolling mill at Denison,
I'exns, giving that State cotton-tie mills;
the organization of a bridgc-huihling
company at Anniston, Ala. ; a $250,000
coal mining company at Parish, Ala ; a
$15,000 lumber cotnpiny at Perdue Hill,
Ala.; a 000,000 phosphate company a
$5 to,000 phosphate company and a $10,
U00 phosphate company in Florida, large
phosphate works in the same State to be
tiilt by a Georgia company; a $10,000
elevator-building company. Atlanta, and
the removal from the west to Chattanooga
of a similar company; a $12,000 lime
a id fertilizer company, Augusta, Oa.; a
c uial coal company, Maysville, Ky.; a
$500,000 fuel-gas company at Newport,
Ky.; a $25 000 tool-manufacturing company
at Baltimore, Md.; a $100,000 mining
company a*, Chattanooga, Tenn.; a
$50,000 coal-mining company at Dallas,
Texas; a $535,000 contract for extension
oi vvaier works at Fort Woitb, Texas.;
a $50,000 lumber company at Leggett.
Texas; the sale of 80,000 r.cres of timber
lan 1 in Texas; a $50,000 ice-fuctory company
at San Antonio, Texas; a $25,000
lumber company at Newsoms, Va.; a
$35,000 woodworking company at Had
ford, Va. : a $50,000 shoe-factory company
at Charleston, W. Va. ; a $10,000
ron-manufacturing company at Huntington,
W Va ; a $50,000 glass-works
company at Kanawha City, W. Vu.; a
$200,t OO cod-iuiuiug company at Fort
Smith, Ark. ; removal of hardware works
from New Jersey to Martinsburg, W.
Va , eic." '
V Peculiar Chatham County Case.
U.'.LKion, N. C , [Special.J?Several
years ago in Chatham county M It.
Weathers, a prominent citizen, fell dead
in his yard on the day appointed for his
second marriage. Dr. Stone, the family
physician, WoS iu love with Vallie,
Weathers' pretty daughter. Nei^hbois
suspected that the doctor poisoned
Weathers and charged criminal intimacy
l? tween the physician and Mies Vallie.
A year alter the fathers oeath the doctor
and Misa Vallie were convicted of
idu'itery, and the man wa9 sentenced to
the penitentiary. He was pardoned on a
plea of ill health after three month's incarceration
and left the 8tate. Last
week he returned to Chatham, an 1 on
ieuviog carried Miss Weathers with him
to parts unknown. He leaves a family
of thirteen in destitution.
A new naptha spring of immense capacity
was recently opened in Bikort,
Russia, if it continues with the sams
powers as at present, it will tie the richest
naptha fountain in the world.
DECEMBER DOINGS.
The Latest News From a Trio *
States.
Interesting News Item* From Man
Points in Our Own and
Neighboring States.
VIRGINIA.
A girl died in Chesterfield who hi
eaten nothing for five weeks.
A deputy United States marshal
chared with murder in Smith county.
The Piedmont Hotel in Louisa wi
*PlaI'll
{ngton county, putin jail, but escaped.
Two hundred sod fifteen people at tl
shone of the Richmond & Danville Kai
roan in Mauchcater were discharged la
week.
Congressman Win. B. Wilson has hoc
elected president of Richmond Co'leg
A convention of the postmasters <
Chsrlnll. n?in*? V.-1.1 ~* u ?111 1,1
- - ? no i.iuvi nw Plllll II V 111
tlw object being to secure increased pi
for fourth-class postmasters.
Tho first annual session of the otn
Temperanco Convention met at Rich mot;
last Tuesday. The Hon. John B Ms
sey was elected chairman. Mayor Klysi
addressed tho body.
City Councilman M. T. Page, of R?cl
inond, was arrested Tliursday for er
gaging in a turkey rafile. Ho was tr
ing his luck in a crowd win n a polic
nrau ordered the crowd to desist. P?(
declined and was arrested.
Never Ircfore was there such an Od
Felloas' lodge as that instituted iu No
folk last week. The now nrganizatio
hus a charter membership of 310 au
promises to grow even larger.
A special from Roanoke says: T1
Norfolk & Western has nrd' red 13,0(
tons of steel rails to be used in the cm
struct ion of tho Ohio division. Tc
thousand tons arc to be furnished by t!
Pittsburg steel works nud 3,000 tons 1
Sparrow Point, Md. Tho Roanoke an
Southern have driven the last spike
the completion ot their road.
At the session of the (irnnd Lndj
in Richmond Grand Master J llowai
Wayt, of Staunton, declining to serve
second term, Win. II. Pleasants, of II<
litis Institute, was elected grand mast
of Masons of Virginia; Mann Page, i
Prince George, was elected deputy grni
master; J 1'. Fitzgerald, of Farmvil
grand senior warden; A. R. Courtne
( grand junior warden;_ W. T. Alle
grtuiu treasurer; W. B. Isaacs, grai
secretary; F. A. Heed, Alexandria, grai
MWfVo. i "grant? jtftnW dVK&r T'
NORTH CAROLINA
Gov. Holt gave h:s first reception
the Governor's Mansion, Thursday.
A company Itus been organised to buil
a $75,000 hotel In Winston.
Forly-flvo of the employers of the Hu
eigh A Gaston shops, at Italcigli, wci
dropped last week.
A N. Y. company has purchased tl
bed of the Uwharrie river and will died;
it for gold with the latest improved tn
ehincry.
The Mecklenburg county commiasio:
eis have decided ?g>inst nil nppliihd
for whiskey license nnd Chailotte will 1
' dry" next year.
The Wilniiugton, Chadhourne ar
Conway Kuilroad has hecn purchased I
the Atlantic Coast Line. Warren G. I
liott becomes president and J. K. Ken
general manager.
The various orders of King's Daughtc
of IUIcigh have inaugurated a moveme
C c. tuhlinh a home toi nguu and intir
ladies there.
Hev. H. O Burton, I) I)., for ov
fifty years a member of the Noith Car
linn Conference, died at his home nc
Littleton, Thursday morning, in his 71)1
year. He leaves several sons, anioi
whom arc Hob it (). Burton, a distin
liulwwl I .ivuor ill Wnl<.i.rl.
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Burton, a member of tlie Ashcville bar.
Advance notes of the returns of pro
ci ty in the State for the current year sn
that the total of all property, includir
valua'-on of railw ys, is |2.:??,0"?2,':0
This shows an increase in the valuntii
of railways alone this year over last ye
of nine millions.
Shelby has a mechanical prodigy in tl
person of young Lector Eskridge, t
torn teen-ycarolct son of Webb Kskridg
tlie well-known machinest Youug Es
ridge can unlock any safe in town in tt
minutes without knowing the combin
tioo He was subjected to several t
vere tests this week and was victorio
in every instance He is also nn eip<
telegraph operator.
Wilmington is greatly excited over tl
arrest of Jno. Davis, prominent in chur
affairs and principal promoter of the e
gant new Fifth fttreet .Methodist chur<
on the charge of false pretense to
amount approximating 1100,000. Mil
of the in >ney was church funds. W
ows, orphans and laborers have suffer
at his hands. Claims of $00,000 are
ready in the lawyers' hands for colli
tion, and Davis is in custody of the sb
iff.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The new County Government biil fni
to pass the Legislature.
A national Imuk has been organized
Anderson, capital stock $100,010.
The massive stone wharf and pie>
the Custom House in Charleston hi
been completed.
Barrooms are not profitable in Ab
vine. That, of F. C. Perry was clo
last week under mortgage of $1100.
A new social club has been ?rgani
in Charleston known as the Button CI
They have handsome quarters on K
street.
The executive committee of the bo
of trustees of Clemson College at a m
ing in Greenville informally agreed t
they will not attempt to open the Coll
at the time fixed if the Legislature d
not pass the apprnpri <tion of $05,000
the institution
Hie Legislative commi'tee repoi
fnvorabjy on jojpt r??olutio;i to j?;oi
\J iUDfift Oi.
for the erection of marble headstones
over the nr?ni of Dm South Caroline
dead at Franklin, Va.
Of Rom A Smith, president of the Charleston
Poultry and Pet Stock Association,
ia enthusiastic over tho prospects of the
succcm of tho exhibition to bo given by
the Association next month.
The Legislative committee on Federal
relations reported favorably joint resoluto
permit the French Cable Company to
land ita lines at some point on the coast
of this Stato.
Tho Duke de Litta is in Charleston
and will remain two or three months. He
ia one of tho direct defendants of the
' seven distinguiched Dukes of Milan, and
arrived in Now York from Italy in Octo*s
ber, sinco which time he has been trav"^ar^MTtobacco?"^^^Il^man^e^tF*"
ie of the Tobacco Journal aaya: 'The 1^9
i. tie tobacco colony around Florence hasy
.4 irrAwn ?nlill? 1
nt .. . .,jmx. .J . ? no* v owu VUO luimwu T
grown there come In direct competition
on the wnre house floora with the tobacco
grown in North Carolina and Virginia,
' and I Iihvo pioudly aeon the Palmetto
" State pioduct lead all othoia in high
pru rv
' T I ho South Carolina Legislature has
boon a>k< d for a eht'ter for the Norfolk,
t? Wilmington anil Charleston llailroad
l(* This compuny has been acting under a
" North Carolina char er, and now needa
>n another to further ita plana. It is reported
that his road ia to he built from
h- Norfolk to Kinst.n, N. C , from which
l- place the main division will continue
y- down the coast to Charleston, while ane
other will be built to Camden and Colum
;e bin.
llnth Capitular and Cryptie Masonry
d are making rapid progress, and covertl
r- now councils llavo ncontly hssn instllii. ?...
11 ted hi the Stato The Grand Royal Arch
d Chsptor and Gr.iud , Council both meet
in Charleston on tho aecond Tuesday its
l0 February.
)0 Sloan Ogleaby, colored, and Belle
a- llugdins, white, convicted of arso t and
a sentenced to 15 years imprison met, in
ic 1HH5, were pardoned by the Qovernor
?y Tho pardon of llelle Iludgins was mainly
d oh ained through a lady of Columbia;
in OTHER STATES.
A bill has been introduced in Concrete
^ pioviding for tho appropriation of #10,1
000,i 0 i for tho improvement of the Mis,K
s ssippi river.
cr The planter* <>r Decatur and other
,f counties of Southern Georgia have found
l(j that they can raise tobacco of fine quality
e of the Cuba cigar-leaf variety, and are
' preparing to add that to their uaual
n, crop*. X
id ? Jg
-?nr BUUAB ItlOH!. ?>The
House, After a Short Session,
1,1 Adjourns Until Saturday.
, Washington, I). C., |Special.]?In
his opening prayer the chaplain of the
house invoked divine protection of the
1- Mouse against the assaults of the insidure
oils disease now p rvading the laud.
The speaker announced the appoint?e
i"^* tha coiuniittee on rulea as fob
lows:
h The speaker fchnirman), Messrs.
Millin, Catchiugs, Reed, and Rnrrowa.
Mr. borrows, of Michigan, presented
,'s tlie report of the board of visitors to the
)C military "academy. Referred to ^the comniittce
on military affairs when appointed.
Mr. Gates, of Alabama, offered a resolotion
providing for the apooiutmeut of
>y n standing committee ou oroer of bus!'
ncss, to consist of fifteen members, of
y which the speaker a' all be ex-officio
chairman
rs Mr Burtiuc, of Nevada, who has beeo
ut absent < n account of illness, appeared et
| the liar of the House aud took* the oath
J of ofiic \ ^ _
cr Mr Taylor, of Tennessee, rising, Mid
o- that it was his mournful duty to announce
nr the death of his fr>n?l and r.illeague,
lh Hon. Leonids* C. Hook, who died sad
iff denl v from accidents! poisoning at Ma
g- home in Knoxville in May last He paid
J. a tribute to his collcacue.
Tlie House then, hi n mark of resyoct
p. to the memoiy of the deceased, adjourned
until Saturday.
" As nothing ran ho done in the House
,, until after Holidays the major number of
Southein Congressmen left for their
ar homes.
Iteprosentative McCh llan, of Indiana,
gays Governor Gary will he a candidate
I10 for vice president in the Democratic conhe
vent ion, with a solid delegation at his
c, back.
k- 8euat t Call, of Florida, wants Cube
vn to 1 >0f ome a tepuhlic. He hsa introduce^
lft 1 a resolution in the Senate to that effect.
,e The President sent to the Senafe Tne
us nomination ? f Stephen B. Elkins, of
?it West Virginia, tr? he Secretary of War,
vice Hedtild Proctoi resigned.
fie
ch TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.
'e* ?_?
h. Reports of the ravages of influenza in
an various parts of Europe are constantly
ich received.
An order has been issued ordering all
e<' telegraphers on the Pacific system of the
ft'" Southern Pacific road to strike.
?C*
er John P. Richardson, one of the largest
nud best known cotton planters in
in the South, died at Dallas, La.
The new tariff bill introduced in the
lod chamber of deputies in Lisbon is strongly
protectionist in character.
at Tho Portsca Island Building Society, of
London, has suspended. The estiuisted
at securities hel l by the society amount in
?ve value to ?700,000. m .
The Russian minister of war has cum*
be- moncd nil the chiefs of the general staff
sed to attend a council to make a new disposition
of Russian forces.
The amount of silver offered for sals
ub. to the treasury department Tuesday was
iDg 726,000 ounces, and the amount pur* \
chafed 250,000 ounces at 95 cents
l(ird The steamer Advance, which has areet
rived in New York from 8outh Amo lea,
hat repot ts tha* on November 29th C. 11.
Nelson, quartermaster, died of yellow
oos fever and was buried at sea.
for The steamer Herbert, of Chattanooga,
from St. T.ouis, was sunk at Florence,
.tefl Ala , after having successfully pa se4
,}d? through Muscle &ho*Js jaoa).
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