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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 .:
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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.
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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.