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' -f J~ "v. "" *~" _^r-^^^V^Wp?l? THE WBByT.v^HBlnitTQg'::::: ?:-; W jl AvikMS IS JL ^Jk%0Mm> JL Aia&JSI? -^4, 3&W- WUL -S|k %V S3S1 'JR ' : : . .' -zz==:^^ 1 - - ' , ,* " D~oi?l to Agriculture, Horticulture, DrmmHc Economy, JHStmmd *$ CmrrwU It*** * tk* Da*. ? 4PJ^im i iTHEiiiiii n - - --'??. VOL. XXIII.- NEW SERIES. UNION C, II., SOUTH C AUOl The city of Philadelphia will soon d away with hones for hauling street car< and some new system, i>erhap3 the trol ley, says the Record, will be introduced (Double-decked cars, after the Pullina * matter n, are to be used on the cabli [lines. Clark E. Can-,MiuUtcr to Ooam?rk,li trareling In Russia. He says that what ha truck him most forcibly in tftoOaar's do* mains,next to seeing tho poor people all clod in sheepskins to ward oil tho cold, was the feeling of order aud perfect so* curity that prevails. When you arriro at your hotel," says Mr. Carr, "you are asked for your passport, which is seat out to the Major MeClaughry of thi city you visit, and tho next day it is re ISI^? I ! wtiv 'u Nwutj jrv?u WIU DO carefully looked alter aod th it you will no -be moleeted so loqg as you behave your* | ~ir." __ If the Prioep of Wales persists in hi< reported intention of mairying iiis clul dren into English families, observes tin Ban Francisco Examiner, lie will give his house a new lease ol popularity that i( need*. Albert Victor, the heir prusuiup. . tivc, is to inarry Princess Mary of Tcck, who is practically an English girl. His brother, Prince George, is said to bo en gaged to the daughter of an English Duko. The eldest daughter is the wife of the Duke of Fife, and it is reported that the second daughter is to marry au English nobleman. Tho British nation lues shown a good deal of irritation at the marriage of Queen Victoria's children to thn little. rn,ul?, ~r T avfuivj Wt \JIV>I U1UI1J AU bit J brave old days wheu England was made, Englishmen and Englishwomen were go?d enough for royal blood to mate with, and the English people appear tc believe that the policy is a good ono to day. The New Yotk News remarks: "It is etntod that the estate of the late President Grcvy, of the French Hepublic, is inventoried nt more than a million, in which easo it is much larger than that of auy nou-royal executive who has held ofilce in that country. The preseut President of France,Oarnot, is a poor man, probably as poor as President Ilarrisou. It is a remarkable fact that the chief executives of republics aro seldom men of large property. Iu our own country, Washington, our first President, was a richer man than any of his successors havo been. The two Adamses were men of small means. Jefferson was embarrassed for money, and V Put I " ? juuuison was nine uaner on. Mouroo broke down pecuniarily. Jackson was poor, Van Huron had a small property, and General llarrisou, grandfather of the present incumbent, was in very straighteued circumstances. So were Tyler mid Polk. General Taylor, when chosen Prcsideut, had nothing but his army pay. Filmore's estate, which ha3 lately been settled up at Buffalo, was small, although it was increased after he left office. Pierce and, Buchauan had each a good housj and land at home,but very little income. Lincoln was poor, and bo were Johnson,Grant, Hayes and Garfield?all strugglers for a livelihood. Arthur lived well,but accumulated nothing. Cleveland and Harrison were both t poor when elected. In the whole list ^ there is not a man of wealth." The frequent robberies of trains carrying the United mails by armed highwaymen have, according to the New Yor!? Sun, alarmed the Postofticc "authorities. More startliug than any of the rcceut robberies iu Texas, Colorado, and Wyoin in#, was the "holding up" of a postal conveyance in a street in Chicago recently when registered matt- y?valued at $17UU was stolen. Forty-eight stago coaches transporting letters were attacked duriug the last fiscal year. Until recently the robbing of r stago hearing the mails was a rare occurrence in the Southern States, such depredations being confined alniosl wholly to the wild West, where settle ^ incuts were sparse and outlaws numerous. Within the twelvemonths ended June 30, seventeen coaches were held up and pillaged in the South; twenty-eight ii the West, two in the Middle States, and one in New England. Eight hundred and sixty-eight postolliccs were robbed by burglars during the year. It has bcei discovered that in many cases the gang: of thieves operated under directions fron a chief at headquarters in one big city 01 ? another. New York appears to be tin centre for the business. As a rule, tin robbers attack postoflicos far distant fron Hmir lifiiilinmrli'K where t.liov meet 11 inter tals and divide I ho plunder. Thc^ arc equipped with appliances for break ing into the strongest buildings, fre [> qucntly employing explosives, crackim safes by tho most expert methods, nn< Ih.r (():t-ating to resort to murder on oc not iifca0.rle,l ,v?' ">ruicr that the inspector casions. No w'oi. ^ ^icy |nct ' of tho department, who ' -'rongl Washington a fortnight ago, ht *" ' '* recommended that increased rewards be puoicd for the capture of such criminals. \ N 0 FEBRUARY FANCIES. >t Many Important Happenings That Gel a People Into Print ' The Latest News Notes and Dispatches From the Potomac 1 To the Oulf. yiKQINIA. A national bank is being organised at Waynesboro. . Dinwiddie county ia to spond $100,000 on her public roads. The project of a pork-packing house is being considered at Winchester. I Committees of the Legislature visited the r TW'tftWWWW -Ihg to awluuldatf insurance c?trnj>any by firing his store. '; t Ttao Wiuches'er-flun Cfub' won in the contest with ttio Staunton tiun Club last week. The county jail of Augusta county will be renovated and enlarged at afcost of $10,000. Mayor Bowles, of Clifton Forg , lias ' been reversed by the county court for i the first time iu the course of u term of twenty-three years. Richard J. Owen, who had lived unthe administration of every President, > died in Powhatan county at the advanced i age of 06 years. He was dissipited in early life, but reformed when bl years old and was bapti/.ud by Irs sou, Austin 1 E. Owen, D. I). Petitious are circulating iu Loudon ad I dressed to the General Assembly asking i for a higher license tux. i The Rappahannock Railroad Co. has applied to the legislature for a charter to build a railroad, connecting at Richmond 1 or within 7 miles of that city, by *thc I most practicable route, to deep water at some point on the Rappahannock river or Chesapeake bay. Preliminary survey of the Marion and Rye Valley railroad has beeu completed and construction begun. A shooting scrape took place in Rich Valley Thursday between John L. Whitsell and Doc Bates. The latter had a lock of hair shot off. In the ollicc of the llotel Perkins, at Hinton, R. P. Robertson was handling a revolver, when it went olT, instantly killing an engineer named Snyder, who vuiiiu luviva OIIVII i< nine agu iiuiu nji?cusc, N. Y., ami was joined last week by his wife and Utile girl. A few minutes before the accident he was heard to say : "I'm perfectly happy now that my family arc with me " Robertson did not know the pistol was loaded and is nearly crazed with grief, lie tried to commit suicide afterwards. NOBTH CAROLINA. Durham is to have au ice factory. During Jamrnry there were only 24 deaths in Raleigh. The discovery of gold is reported from Nash county. J. It. Nolan, general manager of the Scacoast Railroad, has tendered his resignation, to take effect March 1st. The French Broad Mineral Co. has been incorporated to deal in minerals and mineral lands in Buncombe county. The capital stock is $100,000. The commissioners of Iredell and Mecklenburg counties both heard testimony Monday and Tuesday aud both again refused to grant license. Robert Phipps was stabbed and almost iustantly killed at a revival meeting near Crumpler, Ashe county, by Emmet Long. The parties were under the influence of li<|Uor. Herman Reck, of Germany, was ordained Sunday by Bishop Uondthulcr of the Moravian church at S.ilem, and left shortly afterward for the Indian Terri torv as missionary to the Chciokeu Indians. A fatal tire occurred in Montgomery countv. Miles Jordan, a fanner living nt Cnglcss Mills woke at midnight ami found his house in (huncs. His wife was on lire and was unconscious. Ifo made desperate elTorls to save her lint to no purpose, and was so terribly burned that ids death occurred. Albemarle Presbytery accepted the resignation of Itev. A. J. MoKelway as pastor of the Smithflcld church, and he goes-to the Fuyctteville church. Rev. J. 8. Watkins' resignation is accepted and hu leaves tiie First l'resbyteriau , church at lialeigh March 1st and goes to Spartanburg A Lumbcrtou special reports that a 1 young mau tore out a nude's tongue. 'I he i animal had become contrary and while , the man was exasperated, he grabbed the t mule's tongue, which protruded, and tore it out. Tho Republican Slate Executive Committee met at Raleigh. There was much discussion as to whether the convention I could nominate candidates for State ollii cent, or elect delegates to the national i convention. It was, by a large majority, decided that it should only elect dele ' gates, and that the nominating enliven I tioa should be held later. April 14tli is , the date and Raleigii the place. Pntnr ft.1.1. ...... I..L-.... t1.? 1 -'..V * HVI X,....... ....o *..r.V-.. ..... ,.vu.l tentiary to servo u sentence of 10 years, having been convicted of committing 1 several burglaries along the Wilmington i and Weldon ruiliond. In bis post-ssiou , was found a lot. of jewelry taken from the store of Goo. I.. Parker at Hocky 1 Mount and a lot of dry goods stolen from t Ed Grady's store at Mount Olive. f SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston's public schools will not ' close this terin until July 15. i Greenville has voted $75,000 for sew 1 cragc bonds. The Fairfax Pavings and l oan Asso,g ciation will change its natne to the People's Hank, Winnsboro. The Spartanburg court house proper y ty was sold Thursday for $15,150, the " Duncan family buying it. 1- result, of tho financial stringency As h ( h?'gc phosphate mining nearly all o. companies of South Carolina hare t ponded operation*. Only those wli employ Italian* are still at work. I Col. Earlc, of Greenville, will not i year cuter the raoj for the Dernocr nomination for Governor. Capt. W. H. Green, the able gent manager of the liicliiuond & Dauv system, is likely to again take up rcsidcuce in Columbia. McCrecrv and Chew, after hav made a thorough inspection of Br river for about fifteen miles above Caual dam, at Columbia, have deci< to put ou a line of small steamers, wit view to promoting river traffic. Governor Tillman appointed 8. Alt man trial justice of Williamsbu also appointed Leonard Williams ex) accountant aud agent to eiamine books of tho auditor and treasure! Union countj and instructed fefaa tw . port m to any hort-jgo or irregularit yield made on on* aero on which tT fertilizer was used were wou by Good Hrothcrs, of ?Uuion, 1st prcmii and IS. Melver Williumstou, of Darli ton, 2nd premium. An eight-inoutbs-old child of T. Wood, living near Pclham, in Spart burg county, was burned to death Mouday night. It had been left near fireplace by its mother and while she i absent it crept into the lire. At Charleston, Tuesday, Collec Johnston gave a check for $10,50(1 Gen. T. A. Hugucnin. mb agent for Southern Construction Co., in paynu for two granite picra of the Cust House Wharf. This is the largest auiot ever paid by a disbursing otlicer at i port of Charleston. The annual State Convention of 1 Young Men's Christian Association v be held in Spartanburg during the lat part of April next, it is expected tl the Rev. Dr. R. J. McBridc, a celebrul Virginia divine, will attend the (?ouv (ion and deliver the annual address. Mrs. Dcmpsey Adams, a widow Is 05 years of age, living in Kdgefi county, wa9 burued to death Tuesd She was in the houso alone, when 1 dress caught. She ran aud covered h self up in bed, thinking by that mci to smother the flames, but she was bu cd so badly before assistance could re: her that she died a few hours aftcrwar OTHER STATES. A rico mill trust has been formed Louisiana. A Savannah disnatcli sava it is lean there that Samuel Spencer, formerly pt ident of the Baltimore and Ohio syste but now in charge of the financial int sis of Drexcl, Morgan &, Co., is book for the presidency of the Richmond a Danville system. The Georgia Stale treasurer has beg the payment of the Confederate wido pension. The tax upon the State, i thorized by the Legislature, entails up the State an annual tax of $300,01 There are 4,000 widows on tho rol The payments will be kept up until I appropriation is exhausted. John J. Brcsliu recently visited an significant town in Tennessee, anil v astonished at the contentment of 1 people. To use his own phrase, he ( not heir the word dollar during whole stay, lie finally asked s^ine people if they stooil in need of nnythit and on their replying that one of th few public buildings would be the bet for a tower he subscribed the sum nee sary to supply the need. The villi has the distinction of possessing an copal elergymau who declined a bish< ric on tho ground that his plain duty with the siTialPvillage parish over wh: he was and is set as rector. COLONIZING THEM IN THE SOU! A Now Orleans Committee Provi< 1 On TTohrom. In Louisiana. Niew Orleans, La., (Special. 1?'J families oi twenty-seveu Russian refuge cosisting of 125 person arrived here fr Now York. A committee of loadi Hebrews meeting them, secured acco im itations for them, and ill And w< for them. The Hebrews of New Orlei organized the committee for the relief Russian refugees about a inoqth ago, u have raised and ure still raising money provide for the refugees. The committee will distribute the migrants in the country parishes as it i find accommodation for them. As s< as all are provided for the committee v miko a requisition on New York for i other party. They Como and Aro ITouaeu. The German-American Coloniznt Society has purchased a large tract land in Florida. Many of those count til with this enterprise are veteran f diers of the Union army, who wish spend the remainder of their days in South. Generals O. O. Howard n Francis Sigel are among the intluenl endorsers of this scheme, which is urn the immediate management of ('apt Francis Irscli, of Holier I'ost, 0 A. New York city. Lieutenant Howard son of the general, has surveyed the i selected for the colony, which is to incorporated as a township and nan Fleming, in turn i of the present gove or of Florida. A handsome park 1 been laid out in the center of the pn crty, and the surrounding land lias hi cut up into ten aero tracts. On this I veterans, their families and descend a w ill settle and make, it is expected, nucleus for a largj (Senium-Amerit colony. An agent will leave New Y< this week to begin the erection of bui ings. Wherever Germans have local in the South they huv.- nourished. ( of their attractive towns, in Ficdnv South Carolina is Wulhnlla, which oc pics a lovely sight a few miles from Blue Itidge mountains. Florida v cordially welcome, this colony and others made up of equally desirable me hers, and so will every other South State. ^ Death of Rev. C- H. Spurgeon, London, [Cablegram.]?A dispa just received from Mcntono annour the dodh of Huv. CUariea II. Spurgeo 11:0o ut eight, Add Two M?r^Hi^^oqe6<<lfc||iu?>1 oad "* the jt ja estimated flta very reliable , sources that this jfeoii Vufiiui* bad 1 a 100,000 acres devot^^J^baeco culture. itt-J *Iki>i tfw h!XNTii|Ti|||1* ?anm>( buy; Men who po?Mia opinion* and a will: > ,v Men wh?? h?*o h >uor. u>on who will not lie: K ir For while the rabble, with their tlutbib worn ereedt ,i Their large profCNloti* and their IlllCr ?lts-<1*. Hie Wiangle In acltixh utrlfe -lo! KroeUotn Wcepe, 111! Wrong rule* the land and waiting Justice sleeps. tig- * ? ? * * Tlio riroct of spraying apple trees with VV. Loudon purple to prevent ravages of the an- co.iliug moth or apple worm is well ilou lust rated by the experience of Lunton, of the Virginia, as staled in a recent issue of vaa Insect Life. Tho work of spraying was undertaken iu Mr. Luptou's orchard, but tor was discontinued when less than onolo thinl of the truce had been sprayed, the From these trees 1,000 biurets of apples L?nt nearly frco from worms were gathered, om while from the remaining two-thirds of lut orchard only 833 barrels of sound the fi iiit were obtained, quite one fifth of tho apples froin the unsprayed trees being the wo,,?y >u>^ nnlit for use. Mr. Lupton .jll estimates that his returns from the orlcr chard would have been increuied $3,500 lia^ bad all the trees beeu sprayed. Led eu." vKRTix.i7.Kus ? . j To the Editor: I expect to plant about four or five acres in cotton; it is old land which has j been subsoilcd and is very sti J and heavy. 0r It lias been in corn fur four consecutive years, is black piue land with clay fouu' dation. Now, I wont to know, what lcj4 kind and quantity of fertilisers aro best jg for it. I would proposo tbiB: Equal parts of 6uplicrphospate and cotton-seed meal put in each furrow (say two hun jn area pounds 10 cacn acre) and bod on that and plant; theu a second working . put, say, one hundred pounds more to the acre. T expect to plant what we c?H cs" here the "Coon or Big Ball" cotton* Ashley, Miss. D. O. Abiilk*. ;ed ?*? ? nd Senator Washburn having introduced a hill taxing all transactions in futures, run ho hus been called upon to del'eud his powh' sition. In response to some inquiries nu. from the Ghumh r of Commerce of Min,ou aeapols, he said: Do. Of course the Board of Trade folks up Is, there occupy the same position as the the Chicago board, they claiming to believe that the bill means the utter demolition : of all trading in futures, but they will ,as 3nd their mistake when the bill formally becomes a law and goes into jj(j effect. 1 was especially surprised at the jjjj. statement made then by President Fnwt yer, of the Sawyer Elevator Company, )<r when he said that not over 10 per cent .of ^J. the sales made on the hoards of trade in j(.,. the country were of the gambling charc~ actcr. I had not the data with me. but l?rc I find in looking the matter up that. a )"is quite uinercut state of affairs exists. No .. board furnishes any data to make a comlav Par'8on from except the New York board, ich wkich is small compared with the Chicago board, but even then the figures are startling. Here is a very interesting ta PU ble that I came across the other day. It shows that during ten days of the summer of 1800 the real and bogus sr.lcc of }es wheat were as foljows: Bales of ac- Option sales tunl wheat, of fictitious Date, 1890. bushels. wheat, bush, rho April 8, 03,000 18,400,000 :cs, April 9, 04,000 2,000,000 om April 12, 1,800 10,080,000 ihg April 14, 0,000 44,000,000 mi- Sept. 3, 8,000 8,000,000 >rk Sept. 4, 32,00 ) 6,400,000 ins Sept. 15, 62,000 7,240,000 of Oct. 22, 12,000 4,000,003 ind Oct. 23. 04.000 3.000.000 to Oct. 24, 35,000 4,6'J0,00J im- Total, 337,800 125,720,000 can The facts are that dining the days J?.n. named, for ccu/n hush' I of wheat sold, v New York mnrket wreckers sold 372 l0~ bushels of fiat grain, and that it would require but thirty-six days for them to sell options equalling in amount an averago ViliCat C?Gj>. An expert, writing on the subject, ion gays: ' It is not unusual for as much fiat ' ?' wheat to be sold in a day as there, is of :ct" actual grain received in a year. For in}?1' stance on the 14th of Anri', 1800, New i to the York spcculatora sold 41,000,000 bushels in(] of tint, wheat, probably more than twice tial as much us reached that city during the der year. While the "offerings" in a single ain day, at either Chicago or New York, are l? ( said to often exceed 300,000,000 hushcls, | a such offerings having the intended effect jj(C of depressing prices. I,e What would wheat have bccu w./l worth had it not been for the hoard of ,n. trade methods? Iius Well, 1 think tlut ever/ bushel would op. be woith 20 cents more to day. een * * Add two more Slates to the National tl e farmers'Alliance and Industrial Union's 1 column. At their recent State meetings the open Alliance of the States of MinI I nesotu and Nebraska voted unanimously . ' | to consolidate with the National Farm^ eis' Alliance and Industrial Union. Such ntl^ action demonstrates tho wisdom and cu* power of conservative methods, and is .,(r conclusive proof that the great Northwest V1 is not afraid of the so-called "Southern a" invasion." The order intlusc two States :lu" have carefully considered the matter cru and, in spite of political trickery and falsehood, have joined their fortunes with the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union. This will do grejit itch since it brings with it all the powices cr and prestige that waits unon n united il at cflort under one central management. Doubtless during the year all reform ng the B?um (torn Kibim, Saturday Introduced bilt to authorise the erect lou of poetoflloei buildings in all places of mora 8a1 than %90Q inhabitants, and in casoa whore the place Is the county seat with less population than 3,000, thocost of the buildings to be uot less than $6,000 nor ? moro than $50,000. In the second Poi stories of the buildings there shall be the public libraries. The Secretary of the dcr Treasury is authorised to issue* United 1 Stales legal tender notes to pay fpr the lilx work done, not exceeding $100,000,000 I per jwr, l,IS' THE TOGHT OFT&E-JONEB BROS. ? Tol luppowd io IttdV ^\>uiuop uyw -4m Selling' Poof Cotton oa High Grade. I Mkmimiis, Tknn.?Tbo publication in the morning newspapers of the disap- tjH. pcnrance of nil the members of the llrin x%jH of Jones Brothers & Co., as well us tho jjm, bookkeeper, loosened many tongues. It umj is ovldcut now Mint it was premeditated W(M and that they havo been preparing for it j for some time. They havo bcou buying low grade cotton, some of it known as ^ "dog tail," and entirely untit for the j spinners' export trade. tjU)| It was shipped to New Orleans. A (,j(j| few weeks ago tho Jones Brothers and j(js Mr. Fleet, special partner, went to New j||ir Orleans, chartered t wo vessels, the Straits xxJj of Gibraltar ami another, slid loaded jl ts them with 15.000 bales of cotton, l)illcd .j.|H as good middling. If low middliug bad . been sent they would have cloarcd #5 a bale 011 the lot, but they bought worso |H,, than low middling in many chscs, and iho whole profit may foot up to#120,0u0. .... It was rumored so strongly before tho _ iTok ouT. Tho' bank to which they .owed #18,000 dcmandu I additional security for their 4| overcheck, ami they mortgaged their residence property and their interest in . R the Newport cotton compr.ss Their ',mi overchecks were given for cotton jnir- ",u chased, but as they drew on the eon- '""1 s'gnces after dhippiug, they got the $ 18,- ,u,s 000 back. To mortgage their property "c in this time of depression was tne best ',:u' way to realize on it. tow W. H. Jones hud an individual no- l,u' count with another bank, and drew ont ul" all his money, nearly $3,000. That ''in night ho and his brother loft, the latter "u being so ill that he hud to be carried to a carriage. Fleet sold his Cottou Ex- ,0' change membership to the bookkeeper, ",u Lindsay, and Lindsay hypothecated it *'ox for $350. Jones' Exchange ineinhership was attached by a creditor. It is now known that the linn's Tupelo, Miss , 'l ' house paper went to protest for $0,000 wus on Friday, and the holder of the note W was here hunting for something to attach. ',fiv So was au attorney for S. Blaisdcll, Jr , t',e Co , of Cliicopce, .Mass., which leads to ',!lL' tiic belief that reclamations are coming l'"1 in from their eastern spinners as well us :l(,< from the other side of the Atlantic. ''Is The chartered steamers sailed on Jan. "' s G and 15, and are duo at Bremen now. The drafts were accepted there, so that ove the hanks nt New Orleans will lose ' nothing Their Bremen correspondents |u'9 are Khinehart ?fc Co. Jones Brothers took all sorts of risks, made factors carry cot- lu<) ton for them a month after the purchase, ..rr-iinvt ili.. riil#.a ..1? ill.. Ilnti.... 1.'v.. I......... Ev. Tlicy arc supposed to bo in Mexico. ? ',cc Railroad Building: in North Carolina. ,j Winston Sai.km, N. C, [Special. |? lie During 1S01 the following railroads were wit built and projected in North Carolina; pas Ashcvillc and Craggy Mountain, com- On picted to Sunset Mountain, distance 2.5 pamiles; end of track Noil'.. Crag_j Mouu- An tsin, distance 3.5; Lower Creek and Lin- col villc Valley, beginning at Lenoir, ending lak at Apex, completed tj miles; Murfrees- ter boro, beginning at that town and ending at Pendleton, 0.5 niiies, completed. The uu Richmond and Danville Company has contracted and built as follows: Yadkin road, beginning at llilcsvillo and ending Th ut Norwood, 20 miles, completed; Nor it Carolina Midland, from Winston to *???l.?..:il.. O* y miloa /./.it. .. I,.l ... I iUUtlvnviiit', . i iuii'.-? iiiuv.^ i,"iu|?r km, and 27 miles, from Mocksvillc to M< ores 1 ville, surveyed ; Murphy branch Western 1,10 North Carolina road from Tomaloa to 'J" Murphy, W 2 miles, completed; Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway, from Chud- ^ol burn to Hub, 12 miles, completed, and from Hub to Lumbcrton, 20 miles, sur- J!W veyed. Wilmington and Weldon, two roads, Fayetteville, south, 21.2a miles ' completed, and licNt^n Rowland and wr Fayetteville, 12 0 miles under construe- a,1< tiou. Rowland, north, 8.7.7 iiiilca com- ^ pletcd, and from Wasliington to Bethel, 25 miles under construction, es| A Jilted Artist's Suicide. vil 8t. Jobei'H, Mo., (Special.J ?At four , o'clock Paul Canon, artist, journalist, 8< a member of half a dozen clubs, and looked " H upon here as a rival to James Whi'comb ' " Riley, walked into Levin's gun store and asked to look at some revolvets Select- 4L< ing n weapon of 38 caliber, Canon in- , ' quired if the price included cartridges. , (lii ltniiiir f nlii I lint if tfliil liit iiiniiouL.J ?"P -* - ?"? -- "v the storekeeper to load it for him. Taking the weapon in his huml, Canon, said: V "Arc you sure this gun will shoot ' 'f straight?" "If it doesn't you needn't pay for it," replied the dealer. ' "It looks like a good weapon," said * ' Canon, "but I'd like to bet you the cigars '\sf I couldn't hit a murk six inc hes away." . " "I'll take you," quickly replied the IC dealer. "All right; here goes," sad Canon, and before the horrified shopkeeper could interfere Canuou had placed it to his temple and sent * bullet through his hisiu. ty On his person was found a uotc ad- wc dressed simply to "Adelaide " It said: Su "Dear Girl: You have wedded |)? wealth and I am wedded to death. Which th is happier? I'aoi.." J a It told tlie whole story. A short thin Ui ago the announcement of his engagement no to one of the most beautiful girls in the Jn city was made. A wealthier suitor had 8t appeared on the scene and she had heart- sa< lesslv jilted him. fr< j{( "A Kentucky paper tells of seven cars lo of corn, each weighing a pound, that gIt grew on one stalk. ba 8?oT I 8oll With His 81ltM?' Tsar Old 800. mnmh'l Deputy Collector Killed While Abusing Hie.Family. . % Iavannau, Oa., [8peci?l. ]?-David tor's too, David, eras acquitted by coroner's jury of responsibility iu tbo kill of his father. The verdict, rnado up after a brief delation, was: )avid Porter caino to his death from a lol.sliot wound; said pistol was disrged while iu the hands of said I)nvid tor, deceased, during u scuttle for its session by his son, David, and his ightcr, l&bjt sud wo consider his tiiw itohy of the miur " i n the night soino one came in the >se, tliu son stated, aud wont down * tlio basement. Thoy thought it win it father, hut ho fnilccl to conic up mi the supper was announced. After I, hearing some ono moving uhout thinking it might he u robber, ho it up stairs ami got 11 revolver from mother's bureau, lie and his ulster ided that it was their father, and light he was a?haiucd of hUcondilou, would not conte up while thev were re. Fearing he might attempt nuta while drunk, he and his sister took sword and the knives out of tiie dinroom, and later looked the doot and it up to the room of their mother, who been u continued invalid for years. : boy went into his room when lie rd his father coming up the stairs, sister went to her room. The father an quarrelling with Ilia mother about locking of the 'dinitur room d<?nj* daughter went into her brogueijl . wanted to relieve her mother of the lie. T1IK HOY'S BTOHY. 1 told her all right," he continued*, a she threw open the door and told i she had locked the dining room, advanced and struck her. I sa>d to i, 'Don't you dare do that again.' lie weied: 'D ?11 you! it's you. isitl" advaueed toward mo to strike me. I the itislol in mv hand 1 minted it .ml iiiin to intimidate liiin. Then I led the trigger as he approached with ifto(l list. I do not know whe'her t bullet btruek him or not. He kept towards mo cursing. lie said, 'That's lii^ht, l)avo; you'll learn to use a pisnext time.' Then he clinched with in my sister's room. While we were vu he had his knee on me. One of hands was around the barrel and k of the pistol, while lie had hold of n the middle. When the second shot i fired, we were in that position. icii the third shot was fired, 1 did not e hold of the pistol. I got hold of pistol then, and told mother to go k to her room as she might get shot, her walked toward the loom. Boon a ward I saw him in the chair with head thrown hack aud the blood on neck. 1 cried out: 'lie is dead,' I ran < ut for a doctor, then I went r ta t lie barracks and guvo myself up." 'ho boy showed no signs of nervous* s or excitement throughout the tellof the story. 11 in mother's tcstiiiv, and that of his sister, a girl eigh a years old, was largely corroborative, milling showed the family life hail :u an unhappy one for some lime past. THK DEAD MAN. I'hc dead man was in his fiftieth year, was a native of Maryland, aud served h credit in the union army. He was .t graud master of the Independent tier of Odd Fellows, of Georgia, aud ,t department commander of the Grand 1 II.. W......I.I;.. II.. ...nu <1...... I.. Ill} i'l lliv I1V|IUUIIV? *?V/ ? IW MV JMIiJf lector of this port. The body was ;cn to Augusta, his old home, for iuincnt * NFESoES iiE WRECKED TRAIN, o Kan in Jail Who Caused Tho Statesvillo Wrock Whoro 20 Lives Woro Lost. Vti.ant.v, Ua., [Special.]?Tho ltichnd A Danville otliciuls arc huppy over : arrest of a man who has confessed it he threw the heavily laden passon train olT tho track of tho Western ilway of North Curolinu in September t near Statesvillo. Twentv lives were t in the wreck. \t first it was thought that tramps had ecked the train so us to rob tho dead, 1 many of tho detectives who went to rk on tho iuyslciy begun on that lino, e railroad offered $10,000 for the ar , of tho wreckers. "Tom" IIuuey,once Marshal of Gaincslo, Ga., went to work on the case, ithout a day's interval, he kept up his trch until ten days ago, when lie ailed John Boyd, a couvict who had uj>od from tho Nortli Carolina peniitiary. Before arresting Boyd the detive Bucceeded in tiudiug where lie d left $1,000 and sonic jewelry which had taken froin persona on the wreck. Through Boyd's fence the detectives :uied a complete itory of the wrecking >rk. in his confession Boyd gave a scription of the too's he used, and told their hiding pluces so accurately tint nicy had no trouble in tiuding them, u days ago Boyd was put in jtil in a ?rth Carolina town. Boyd at first icrted that he did tho work alouo, but 2 officer believes that he had sortie Ip, and is now working on that theory. iban Reciprocity and Uur Jblour Trade. Washington, I). ('.?The reduced duoii American flour imported to Cuba ;nt into effect January 1st, hut. Conl-General Williams tclevpapbs the State apartment that the receipts of Hour at c port of Ifavanna for tire month of nuary last were as follows: From tho ailed States, 52,J? 1 sacks, from Spain, me. The receipts for tho month of nun-y, 181)1, were: From tho United ati-s, 2,720 sacks, fr6m Spain, 38,-$0 cks. The exports of flour to Cuba, >in the ports of iNew York, Mobile and PV West in .Taniiniv 1 Sfl'i amounted 07,478 barrels. Thocxpoits from tlio mc porta in J nonary, 13'JI. were 9,934 rreis AfvllvlUi/AlSI UH*AWUUvAifi .: " ' i The Jew Compares Favorably With the Christian If He Can Be \ ^ Weighed Fairly. 1 Goorge ^H. Wcudliug, iu Now Yhrk There is not a drop o( Jewish blood, in 1 ;?)' my veios. I am not connected with the Jews by tho marriage of any near or distaut kiuKinnn; I owe uo Jew a dollar and uo Jew owes me. I speak from tho vautago ground of absolute independence. It is n sploudid race, splendid in their patience, in tholr love for one another, iu their endurance, in thuir sagacity and \ temperate li .bits, and splendid iu their \ indexible adherence to their Mosaic ' j I)o you want an aristocracy of blood L\ and birtht Tho Jews uro tho purees flooded people and have tho beat eatab*. r-~ ttrtiwY liwcgfour the veto. Not. beau in tho French C nventlon, tim l4at? rick llcnry in tke House of Horgossos, ' ' nor "Saiu" Adams in old Colonial t ays '.*. 5 over ha id a uioro thrilling thing than Disraeli said in tho English Commons in reply to the charge that liu wiw u Jow: "Yen, liunt Jaw! When tho ancestors of tho honorablu ngctlemnn wore brutal savages iu nu unknown isluud initio yrcro priests iu tho Temple!" I)o you seek an aristocracy of talentf Tho great church historian Nunuder was a Jow ; Napoleon's marshals, Foult and Massona, wore Jews; tho brilliant and cynical llciuo wns a Jow, aud?but tho world's roll of soldiers, authors, luuslciaiH, pi inters, po.ls, philosophers and linnucicrs, contain more Hebrew nuinos than 1 could rocito in many hours. Are >ou looking for an aristocracy of wealth/ The combined tluancial power of the Jews in Europe cau prevent tho floating of almost any national loan which ^ in>ui jot j j???f . -*?* -* > - ? -a. * ? j ?. ?. ? - ?? * a"spurious, false Christianity that hates Jews. The mystery of tho incarnation found expression in tho ilcsh and blood of a Jew, and, therefore, iu a senso we worship u Jew. We get our ten commandments - the very foundation of our civilization?through tho Jews. Wo sing Jewish psalms, are uplifted by tho passion and poetry of Jewish prophets, and rely on Jewish biographies for tho only history wo liavo of Christ. Wo get our Pauline theology from n Jew, and we catch our clearest glimpse of tho next world through the sublime apocalyptic visiou of a Jew. Thou forsooth, wo Christians turn about and suoer ul tho Jews! I have considered with teachers of philosophy who spoke slightingly of the v.? Jews un1 vet wuro teaching with enthusiasm ideas which they had absorbed from Muiinonides and Bpino/.it, the two greatest philosophers, omitting Kant, since Plato's days ?both of them Jowh. 1 have heard musicians donounco Jews ?, and then spend days and nights trying to interpret the hruutic* of Rossiui, Meyerbeer and Mcndclsaohu?all Jews. I talked the other day with a gifted actress and heard both her and her husband Hweepingly condemn, confidentially, of course, the whole ihoo of Jews, and yat tint woman would give half her remaining life if she cjuld only reach the heights which the great <|iicon of tragedy, Rachel, trod with such majesty and power?and Rachel was a Jewess. Here in Washington I have heard aspiling polisic hns, when bcyoud the reach of the reporter's pencil, sneer at Jews, and yet it was a Jew who tuado England's epicen Empress of Iudin, and it was a Jew who was for yenrs the adroit and sagacious chairman of the national committee of one of_ our great political parties. The brainiest man in the Southern Confederacy was Judah P. Benjamin, a Jew, and Chase, when managing our national finances in a perilous time owed much of ins success to the constant advice of u New York Jew. That you never au a Jew tramp or a Jew drunkard is a nroverb. that von ncv cr meet a Jew beggar In u commonplace, ami it is a statistical fact tint there are relatively fewer inmates of our hospitals, jails ami other worlthou:;cs furnished by the Jews than any other race contributes. Convert the Jews! Let us tir.st convert our modern Chr stians to genuine Christianity. Suppi'iss the Jews! A s ore of Kussuui Czars cannot do it. Every po >plc on earth have tried it and failed. They have outlived the Tudors and the IMuntagcuets, the Komouotrs, the tyrrnnny of Hpaiii, the dyunsties of France, Charlemagne, Constantine, the IJabyIonian kings and the Egyptian IMiaroahs. It was God's own race for 4.000 yearn, and the awful persecution it has survived for 2,QUO more stamps it .'is a race still bearing some mysterious rotjtiou to the plans of the Eternal. The beauty and lidelity of Jewish women command my hum <ge, and among wealthy ami educated Jews the exquisite refinement of Jewesses, the r culture and high breeding, blended with a sort of Oriental grace and il.giii y, put them among the most .charming women in the world. The belief thai the Jew i.; more dishonest than the Gentile is one-half nonsense and the olhj* half prejudice aud falsehood. . The anti Jewish feeling / which seems to be rising again is uq* christian, inhuman, and un-American. No man can share it who believes in the univcrs:vj fatherhood of Hod and the universal brotherhood of man. It is born of the devil and is devestable. Worth $300,000, ana a Tramp. OoLUMiius, 0 , [Special. 1?The courts h avc been asked to appoint a guardian -? for John Swim, an aged wanderer, who, though worth $300,000, has led the life of a tramp from boyhood. He baa begged the most of what he possesses, and is so miserly that he will not clothe hi.useu propsriy. * L - t 1 I it.. .1 A wii'R ngu XIU WUIUUUU uy iuo nmuside almost frozen to death He owns farms in several counties, and is known nil over the Stnto as tbo "wealthy tramp." He once lived at tho almshouse at Lancaster for a yesr beforo tbo authorities discovered they had been entertaining the richest man in tho county, and oxpel led him. 8\im is 07 years old, but (piitc hah, and h a engaged a lawyer to resist the motion for a guardian. ? Over three hundred thousand orange tr ccs were planted in Mexico last /oar by planters from California.