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VOL. XXIII." NEW SEfilES. UNION'(', II., SOUTH CARPI INA'IT>' 12.1892. NUMBER 7 jj
The city of Philadelphia will soon do I FEBRUARY FANCIES. I conipaniq^of Smith Carolina have sua- I a t l t t atnn
away with horses for haulinr. >tn>?i ? >?
e
i&ad some new system, perhaps the troljley,
says the Record, will bo introduced.
(Double-decked curs, after the Pullman
* pattern, are to be used on the cable
{lines.
' Otark E. Carv.Mluistor to Denmark,Is
traveling In Russia. lie says that what has
* struok him most forcibly in tfioCUar's do.
mains,next to seolag tho poor pooplo all
clad in shoopskins to ward of! tho cold,
was tho feeling of order aud porfoot as*
curity that prevail*. "Whon you arrivo
at your hotel," says Mr. Oarr, "you aro
asked for your passport, which is seat
out to tho Major MeOlaughry of the
city you visit, and tho next day it ia re
the city ^ou wlU be carefully
looted after aod thit you will not
be molested so loug as you bohavo your*
>V
^ ? .'' if the Prinop of Wales persists in his
;V reported intention of mairylng his children
into English families, observes the
$ Ban Francisco Examiner, he will giro his
house a new leaso of popularity that it
needs. Albert Victor, the heir prusuinp.
tire, is to ranrry Princess Mnrv of Took,
who is practically an English girl. His
brother, Prince Qeorgc, is said to bo engaged
to the daughter of nu English
Duko. The eldest daughter is the wife
r. of the Duke of Fife, and it is reported
that the second daughter is to marry an
English nobleman. The British nation
has shown a good deal of irritation at the
marriage of Queen Victoria's children to
the littlo royalty of Germany. In thi
brave old days when England was made,
Englishmen and Englishwomen were
go"d enough for royal blood to inato
with, and the English people appear to
believe that the policy is a good one today.
' The New Yotk News remarks: "It is
stalod that the estate of the lato President
Grovy, of the Freuch Republic,
is inventoried at more thau a
million, in wuiuu c?*u it I? much larger
than that of any nou-royal executivo
who has held office in that country.
ine present president ol France,Carnot,
is a poor man, probably as poor as President
Harrison. It is a reinarkablo fact
that the chief executives of republics aro
seldom men of large property. In our
own country, Washington, our first
President, was a richer man than any of
his successors havo been. The two
Adamses wero men of small means. Jcfferson
was embarrassed for money, and
Madison was littlo better off. Mouroo
broke down pecuniarily. Jackson was
poor, Van Buren had a small property,
and General Harrlsou, grandfather of the
present incumbent, was in very straightened
circumstances. 80 wero Tyler and
Polk. Goneral Taylor, when chosen
President, had nothing but his army
pay. rumores estate, wuicu Jias lately
been nettled up at Buffalo, was smalt,
although It wa3 increased after lie left
office. Pierce and. Bachanao hid each
a good house and land at home,but very
little income. Lincoln was poor, and
ao wore Johnson,Grant, Hayes and Garfield?all
stragglers for a livelihood.
Arthur lived well,but accumulated nothing.
Cleveland and Harrison were both
f poor when elected. In the whole list
there is not a man of wealth."
The frequont robberies of trains carry,
ing the United mails by armed highwayoven
have, according to the Now Yorh
Sun, alarmed the PostofHco authorities.
More startling than any of the recent robberies
in Texa9, Colorado, and Wyoming,
was tbo "holding up" of a postal
conveyance in a street in Chicago recently
when registered matter valued at $1700
was stolen. Forty-eight stago coachet
transporting letters were attacked during
the last fiscal year. Until recently the
robbing of a stage bearing the mails was
- a raro occurrence in tho Southern States,
such depredations being confined almost
wholly to the wild West, where settlemcnts
were sparse and outlaws numerous.
Within the twelvemonths ended Juno
30, soventeen coaches were held up and
pillaged in the South; twenty-eight in
the West, two in tho Middle States, and
one in New Euglnnd. Eight hundred
anil aivtv-nirrht. nnafiifBrnt worn rnhkul
?v ? r? ? "
by burglars during the year. It has been
discovered that in many cases the gangs
of thieves operated under directions from
a chief at headquarters in ono big city or
another. Mew York appears to bo tho
centre for the business. As a rule, the
robbers attack postofftens far distant front
their headquarters, whore they meet at
-r intervals and divide I ho plunder. They
are equipped with appliances for breaking
into the strongest buildings, fre
p|U~~ quentij employing explosives, cracking
J^^safeeby the most export methods, and
to resort to murder on occmIowTn^^^^
inapocton
of the deportment, "wi^P thoj met In
Washington a fortnight ago,' <?jongly
offered fot the capture of s?|ch criminals.
Many Important Happenings That Get
People Into Print.
The Latest News Notes and Dispatches
From the Potomac
To the Gulf.
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yiKGINIA.
A national hank is being organized at
Waynesboro. .
Dinwiddio county is to spend $100,000
on her public roads.
The project of a pork-packing houso
is being considered at Winchester.
Committoes of the LegWlaturo visited
the colored lunatio asylum at Petersburg,
which couUitis 7S>0 patients.
ffftijp to swluafc .nrf insurance cWpany uy
Tho Winches' cr-Gun Otub* won in the
contest Willi the Staunton tiun Club last
week.
The county jail of Augusta county will
be reuovatcd and enlarged at a cost of
$10,000.
Mayor Bowles, of Clifton Forg?, lias
been reversed by the county court for
the first time in the course of a term of
twenty-three years.
Richard J. Owen, who had lived untho
administration of every President,
died in Powhatan county at the advanced
age of 00 years, lie was dissipitcd in
early life, but reformed when bl years
old and was baptized by his sou, Austin
E. Owen, D. I).
Petitious arc circulating in Loudon nd
dressed to the Oenerai Assembly asking
for a higher license tux.
Tho Rappahannock Railroad Co. lias
applied to the legislature for a charter to
build a railroad, connecting at Richmond
or within 7 miles of that city, by *tlrc
moat practicable route, to deep water at
some point on tho Rappahauuock river
or Chesapeake bay.
Preliminary survey of the Marion nnd
Rye Valley railroad has been completed
aud construction begun.
A shootiug scrape took placo in Rich
Valley Thursday between John L. Whitsell
aud Doc Bates. The latter had a
lock of huir shot off.
In the ofTicc of the Hotel Perkins, at
Hinton, R. P. Robertson was handling n
revolver, when it went ptf, instantly
killing un engineer named Snyder, who
came there a short time ago from (Syracuse,
N. Y., and was joined last week by
his wife and little girl. A few minutes
before the accident ho was heard to suv :
Tin perfectly liappy now that my family
arc with ?ne " Robcrtaou did not
know the pistol was loaded and ia nearly
crazed with grief. lie tried to commit
auicide afterwards.
NOBTH CAROLINA.
Durham is to have uu ice factory.
Duriug January there wero only 24
deaths in Raleigh.
The discovery of gold is reported from
Nash couuty.
J. It. Nolan, gcucral manager of the
Seaconst ltuilrcud, has tendered his resignation,
to take effect March 1st.
The French llroad Mineral Co. has
bccu incorporated to deal in miucrnlw
mid mineral lands in Ruucombe couuty.
The capital stock is $100,000.
The commissioners of Iredell und
Mecklenburg couuties both heard testimony
Monday und Tuesday and both
ugain refused to grant license.
Robert Phipps was stabbed and almost
inatiinHv killnrl nt. u rot/ivul mop^inrv noav
Crumplcr, Ashe county, by Emjnet
Long. Tho parties were under the influence
of liquor.
Herman Keck, of Germany, was ordained
Sunday by Bishop ltoudthaler of
the Moravian church at S.iIcm, and left
shortly afterward for tho Indian Terri
tory ns missionary to tho Cherokee Indiaus.
A fatal Are occurred in Montgomery
county. Miles Jordan, a farmer living
at Cnglcs8 Mills woke at midnight and
found his house in flaiues. His wife was
on tiro and wus unconscious. IIo made
desperate elTorts to save her but to no
purpose, and was so terribly burned that
bis death occurred.
Albemarle Presbytery accepted the
resignation of Rev. A. J. McKclway as
pastor of the Smithflckl church, nud he
goes to tho Faycttcvillo church. Rev.
J. S. Watkius' resignation is accepted
and he leaves the First 1'resbytcriau
church at Raleigh March 1st and goes to
Spartanburg.
A Lumbcrton special reports that a
voiiikar inmi torn out > iiiiiIh'u Iniwnm 1 tin
J o w . ..V
animal had become contrary and while
the mm was exasperated, he grabbed the
mule's tongue, which protruded, aud
toro it out.
Tho Republican State Executive Committee
met at Raleigh. There was much
discussion ns to whether the convention
could nominate candidates for fc'tatc officers,
or elect delegates t > the national
convention. It was, by a large uinjoritv,
decided that it should only elect dele
gates, aud that tho nominating convention
should be held later. Ajiril 14th is
tho date and Raleigh tho place.
One Peter Cobb was taken to tho penitentiary
to serve a sentence of 16 years,
having been convicted of committing
several burglaries along the Wilmington
aud Weldon railroad. In his posession
was found a lot of jewelry taken from
the store of Geo. L. Parker at Rocky
Mount and a lot of dry goods stolen from
Ed Grady's storo at Mount Olive.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston's publio schools will not
close this term until July 15.
Greenville has voted $75,000 ?or sewerage
bonds.
Tho Fairfax Savings and Loan Association
frill change its name to the People's
Bank, Winnsboro.
* The Spartanburg court house property
was sold Thursday for $15,150, the
Duncan family buying it.
I * result of the financial stringency
nearly kw-e jho large phosphate mining
pcuucu operations. Only those which
employ Italians ure still at work.
Col. Earle, of Greenville, will not this
year cuter the raci for tho Democratic
nomination for Governor.
Capt. W. H. Green, the able general
manager of the Iticlnuond & Danville
system, is likely to again tako up his
rcsideuco in Columbia.
McCrecry and Chow, aficr having
made a thorough i napcction of Broad
river for about fifteen miles above the
Canal dam, at Columbia, have decided
to put on a line of small steamers, with a
view to promoting river traffic.
Governor Tillman appointed 8. L.
Altman trial justice of Williamsburg,
also appointed Lconnrd Williams expert
accountant aud agent to oiamino the
books of tho auditor and treasurer ot
Uuion county and instructed him to report
as to any ahortigo or irregularitioa.
Th'o p^gmiygieoffgtcd Jay Colum-.
biH "PIlosj&ato .$otn pany Tbr the largest
yield wade on one. acre on which their
fertilizer was used were wou by the
Good Brothers, of ?Union, 1st premium,
and E. Mclvcr Williamston, of Darlington,
2nd premium.
An ciglvt-months old child of T. W.
Wood, liviug near Pclham, in Spartanburg
couuty, was burucd to death on
Monday night. It had been left near the
fireplace by its mother and while she was
nlicnnf a a-_ * -
-wwvuw av WIV|lb 1UIU IUC IITC.
Afc Charleston, Tuesday, Collector
Johnston gave a check for $10,500 to
Ceu. T. A. llugucnin. as agent for the
Southern Construction Co., in payment
for two grauite piers of the Custom
House Wharf. This is the largest nuiouut
ever paid by a ^ "tuning otlieer at the
port of Charleston;
The annual State Convention of the
Young Men's Christian Association will
l>c held iu Spartanburg during the latter
part of April next. It is expected that
the Rev. Dr. It. J. McBride, a celebrated
Virginia divine, will attend the Convention
and deliver the annual address.
Mrs. Dcmpsey Adams, a widow lady
(15 years of age, living in Edgefield
county, was burned to death Tuesday.
Sho was in tho house alone, when her
dress caught. She ran aud covered herself
up in bed, thinking by that means
to smother the flames, but she was burned
so badly before assistance could reach
her thai she died a fow hours afterwards.
OTHER STATES.
A rice mill trust has been formed in
Louisiana.
A Savannah dispatch says it is learned
there that Samuel Spencer, formerly president
uf the Baltiliioiv uud Ouiu ayStCUl,
but now in charge of the financial iutcr
sts of Drexcl, Morgan & Co., is booked
for tho presidency of the Richmond and
Danville system.
The (jleorma State treasurer has hp?mn
the payment of the Confederate widows'
pcusion. The tax upon the State, authorized
by the Legislature, entails upon
the Statu an nnnuul tax of $300,000.
There are 4,000 widows on the rolls.
The payments will be kept up until the
appropriation is exhausted.
Johu J. 13 reel iu recently visited an in
signitiraut town iu Tennessee, and was
astonished at tho contentment of the
people. To use his own phrase, he did
not heir the word dollar duriug his
whole stay, lie finally asked s<jjne of
people if they stood iu need of anything,
and 011 their replying that one of their
few public buildings would be the better
for a tower he subscribed the sum necessary
to supply the need. The village
has the distinction of possessing an Episcopal
clergymnu who declined a bishopric
on tho ground that his plain duty lay
with the smalP village parish over'which
he was and is set as rector.
COLONIZING THEM IN THE SOUTH,
A New Orleans Committee Provides
For 126 Russian Hebrews
In Louisiana.
New Orleans, La., [Special.]?'The
families of twenty-seven Russian refugees,
cosistingof 125 person arrived here from
Now York. A conimitteo of leading
Hebrews meeting them, secured accomincdations
for them, and jvill find work
for tliein. The Hebrews of New Orleans
organized the committee for the relief of
Russian refugees about a moqth ago, and
have raised aud are still raising money to
provide for the refugees.
The committee will distribute the immigrants
in the country parishes as it can
find accommodation for them. As soon
as all are provided for the committee will
miko a requisition on New York for another
party.
They Come and Are Pleased.
The German-American Colonization
Society has purchased a largo tract of
land in Florida. Many of those conncctcd
with this enterprise aro veteran soldiers
of the Uniou army, who wish to
spend the remainder of their days in the
Uouth. Generals O. O. Howard and
Francis Bigcl aro uinong the influential
endorsers of this scheme, which is under *
the immediate management of Captain
Francis Irsch, of Koltcr Post, G. A. R.,
New York city. Lieutenant Howard, a
sou of the general, has surveyed the site
selected for the colony, which is to be
incorporated ns n township and nniued
Fleming, in honor of the present governor
of Florida. A handsome park has
been laid out in the center of the property,
and the surrounding land has been
rut mt into ten :iern tracts Oil this tlin
veterans, their families uud descendants
will nettle and make, it is expected, the
nucleus for a large German Amerionn
colony. An agent will leave New York
this week to begin the erection of buildingn.
Wherever Germans have located
in the South thoy have flourished. One
of their attractive towns, in Piedmont
South Carolina is Wnlhalla, which occuBios
a lovely sight a few miles from the
lue Kidge mountains. Florida will
cordially welcome this colony and all
others made up of equally desirable members,
and so will every other Southern
State.
9Mth of Bow. O. H. Spurge on,
London, [Cablegram. ]?A dispatch
just received from Mentone announces
tho derth of Rot. Charles H, Spurgeon ?t
11:0$ at night,
fy|j
iuuuiaiiL/JCi ^iJMBBpnOKWF.''
Dealing In Futu^flpHscussed By
Senator VpSnbflrn.
Add Two More Sta^a to The National
Farmers' A^itoyra and ^tn- |
duatrialjrbnion.
It is estimated fom very reliable
sources that this smsou Virginia had
100,000 acres devoledfo^baCCG culture.
aon oiv^-?N i
BT OLIV'BH IIOIJtES.
Men who pOMCM opinion* ami a will;
Mvn who ham hinor. won who wiy not tlo;
for while Uio rnbble. will* their thiroib worn rrcedi
Their larm profcmiloii* im<1 their little deed*.
Wrangle In aelflsh nlrlfo-lo! Krvclotn weeps.
Wrong rules the land and waltlnK Justice sleeps.
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The effect of spraying apple trees with
Loudon purple to prevent ravages of the
codling moth or apple worm is well illustrated
by the experience of Lupton, of
Virginia, as stated in a recent issue of
Iuacct Lifo. Tlio work of spraying was
undertaken in Mr. Luptou's orchard, but
was discontinued when less than onethird
of the trees had been sprayed.
From these trees 1,000 barrels of apples
uvhmj iivu iruiu worms were gathered,
while from the remaining two-thirds of
the orchnrd only 833 barrels of sound
fruit were obtained, quite one lifth of tho
apples froin tho unsprnyed trees being
wormy and unlit for Use. Mr. Lupton
estimates that his returns from the orchard
would have been iucreaicd $3,500
bad all tho trees been sprayed.
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fkrt1l.izhi13 lojl cotxon.
To the Editor:
I expect to plant about four or five
acres in cotton; it is old land which has
been subsoilcd and is very sti J and heavy.
It hns been in corn for four consecutive
years, is black pine land with clay foundation.
Now, I wont to know, what
kind and quantity of fertilizers arc best
for ii. I would propose this: Equal
parts of suphcrphospate and cotton-seed
meal put in each furrow (say two liun
dred pounds to each acre) and bed on
that and plant; then a second working
put, say, one hundred pounds more to
the acre. I expect to plant w hat wo call
here the "Coen or llig Ball" cotton*
Ashley, Miss. D. O. Abiilky.
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Senator Washburn having introduced
a bill taxing all transactions in futures,
he has been called upon to defend his position.
In response to some inquiries
from the Chamb r of Commerce of Minaenpol's,
he said:
Of course the Board of Trade folks up
there occupy the same position as the
Chicago board, thoy claiming to believe
that the bill means the utter demolition
of all trading in futures, bnt they will
find their mistake when the
bill formally becomes a law and goes into
effect. I was especially surprised at the
statement made then by President Sawyer,
of the Bawyer Elevator Company,
when he said that not over 10 per cent.of
the sales made on the boards of trade in
the couutry were of the gambling character.
I had not the data with ino. but
I find in looking the matter up that. a
quite different state of affairs exists. No
board furnishes any data to make n comparison
from except the New York board,
which is small compared with the Chicago
board, but even then the figures are
startling. Hero is a very interesting ta
ble that I came across the other day. It
shows that during ten days of the summer
of 1890 the real and bogus sales of
wheat were as follows:
Bales of ac~ Option sales
tual wheat, of fictitious
Date, 1890. bushels. wheat, bush.
April 8, 03,000 18,400,000
April 9, 54,000 2,000,000
April 12, 1,800 10,080,000
April 14, 0,000 44,000,000
Sept. 3, 8,000 8,000,000
Sept. 4, 32,001) 6,400,000
Sept. 15, 02,000 7,240,000
Oct. 22, 12,000 4,000,000
Oct. 23, 04.000 3.000,000
Oct. 24, 35,000 4,6'J0,00 >
Total, 337,800 125.720.000
The facts are that during the days
named, for czJu bushel of wheat sold,
New York market wreckers sold 372
bushels of flat grain, and that it would
require but thirty-six days for them to
sell options equalling in amount an averftgo
wheat crop.
An expert, writing on the subject, |
says: ' It is not unusual for as much flat
vvhoat to be sold in a day as there, is of
actual grain received in a year. For instance
on the 14th of Apri', 1800, New
York speculator.) sold 4-1,000,000 bushels
of flat wheat, probably more than twice
as much as reached that city during the
year. Whilo the "offerings" in a single
day. at cither Chicago or New York, are
said to often exceed 300,000,000 bushels,
such offerings having the intended effect
of depressing prices.
What would wheat liav'a been
worth had it not been for the hoard of
trade methods?
Well, I think lint every bushel would
be woith 20 cents more to day.
* * >$. + +.
Add two more Slates to the National
farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union's
column. At their recent State meetings
the open Alliance of the State* of Minnasota
and Nebraska voted unanimously
to consolidate with the National Farm*
ra' Alliance and Industrial Union. Such
action demonstrates tho wisdom and
power of couscrvntivo methods, and is
conclusive proof that tho great Northwest
is not afraid of the so-callod "Southern
invasion." The order icthtse two States
have carefully considered the matter
and, in spite of political trickery and
falsehood, have joined their fortunes
with the National Fanners' Alliance and
Industrial Union. Thia will do great
good, since it brings with it all the power
and prestige that vraita upon a united
effort under ono central management.
PodbHwJ# during the jeex all reform ng
' mtfszsrT-WL"
TO MTI.ttPLY FOBLIO HtJILDtHOS.
WxinmoroN, D. O.?Representative
Davis, a Farmers' Alliance member of
the Houso from Kansas, Saturday introduced
a bill to authorize the erection of
postofflco buildings in all places of more
than ?,000 inhabitants, and iu cases
whore the place is the county seat with
less population than 3,000, the cost of t!hc
buildings to be uot less than $0,000 nor
nioro than $50,000. In the second
stories of tho buildings tbcrc shall be
public libraries. The Secretary of the
Treasury is authorized to issue United
States legal tender notes to pay for tho
work done, not exceeding $100,000,000
per year.
THE FLIGHT OF THE JON ES BROS.
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Supposed to ftava TSfail- frvsOiOOO t>y 1Selling
Poof Cotton as
High Grade.
Memphis, Tknn.?The publication in
the morning newspapers of the disappearance
of all the members of the linn
of Jones Brothers & Co., as well as tho ,
bookkeeper, loosened many tongues. It
is evident now tfiat it was premeditated
and that they have been preparing for it i
for some time. They have been buying
low grade cotton, some of it known ns ,
'dog tail," atul entirely unlit for the
spinners' export trado.
It was shipped to New Orleans. A
few weeks ago the Jones Brother* mid
Mr. Fleet, special partner, went to New
Orleans, chartered two vessels, the Straits
of Gibraltar and another, and loaded
them with 15.000 bales of cotton, billed i
us good middling. If low middling had ,
been sent they would have cleared #5 a
bale on the lot, but they bought worse ,
than low middling in many cases, and
the whole profit may foot up to$120,01)0. .
It was rumored so strongly before tho
flight thut thev i?...i ?--- -w' ' - i
creOTiors were warned to look out. I ho |
bank to which they .owed #18,000 dcmandei
additional security for their
ovorcheck, and they mortgaged their
residence property and their interest in
the Newport cotton compress Their
ovcrchecks were given for cotton purchases,
but as they drew 011 the cons
gnees after shipping, they got the #18,- 1
000 back. To mortgage their property
in this time of depression was the best
way to realize 011 it.
W. It. Jones had an individual account
with another bauk, aud drew out
all las money, nearly f0,000. That
night he and his brother left, the lutter
being so ill that he had to be carried to
a carriage. Fleet sold his Cottou Exchange
membership to tho bookkeeper,
Lindsay, and Lindsay hypothecated it
for #850. Jones' Exchange membership
was attached by a creditor. It is now
known that the linn's Tupelo, Miss ,
house paper went to protest for #0,000
on Friday, and the holder of the note
was here hunting for something to attach.
So was uu attorney for S. Bluisdell, Jr ,
Co , of Chieopce, Mass., whieli leads to
the belief that reclamations are comiug
in from their eastern spinners as well as
from the other side of the Atlantic.
Tho chartered steamers sailed on Jan.
G and 15, aud arc due at Bremen now.
The drafts were accepted there, so that
the banks at New Orleans will lose
nothing Their Bremen correspondents
arc lthinehart & Co. Jones Brothers took
all sorts of risks, made factors carry cotton
for them a month after the purchase,
against the rules of the Cotton Exchange.
They arc supposed to be in Mexico.
Railroad Building in North Carolina.
Winston Salem, N. C, [Special.] ?
During 1891 the following railroads were
built and projected in North Carolina;
Ashcvillc and Craggy Mountain, com
piuteu to tunsci Mountain, oisinnce
miles; end of track North Craggy Mountain,
distance 3.5; Lower Creek and Linville
Vallej, beginning at Lenoir, ending
at Apex, completed 0 miles; Murfroesboro,
beginning at tlmt town and ending
at Pendleton, 6.5 miles, completed. The
Richmond and Danville Company has
contracted aud built as follows: Yadkin
road, beginning at Bilesvillo and ending
at Norwood, 23 miles, completed ; Norih
Carolina Midland, from Winston to
Mocksville, 25.7 miles miles, completed,
and 27 miles, from Mocksville to Mi ores
ville, surveyed ; Murphy branch Western
North Carolina road from Tomntca to
Murphy, H 2 miles, completed; Wilmington,
Chadbourn and Couway, from Chadburn
to Hub, 12 miles, completed, and
from Hub to Lumbcrton, 20 miles, surveyed.
Wilmington and Wchlon, two
roads, Fayetteville, south, 21.25 miles
completed, and bel>we<ju Rowland and
Fayettovillc, 12 6 miles under construction.
Rowland, north, 8.75 miles com
picicu, ami iroin wasiiwgiou 10 ocuici,
25 miles under construction.
A Jilted Artist's Buicido.
8t. Joseph, Mo., [Special.] ?At four
o'clock Paul Canon, artist, journalist,
member of half a dozen clubs, aud looked
upon hero ns a rival to James Wlii'eomb
Kiley, walked into Lcviu's gun store and
asked to look at soino revolveis Selecting
a weapon of 38 caliber, Canon inquired
if the price included cartridges.
On being told that it did lie teqnested
the storekeeper to load it for him. Taking
the weapon in his hand, Canon, said:
"Are you sure this gun will shoot
straight?"
"If it doesn't you needn't pay for it,"
replied the denier.
"It looks like a good weapon," said
Canon, "but I'd like to bet you the cigars
I couldn't hit a mark six inches away."
"I'll take you," quickly replied the
dealer.
"All right; hero goes," sa d Cnnon,
and beforo the horrified shopkeeper could
interfere Cannon had placed it to his temple
aud sent a bullet through his brain.
On his person was found a noto addressed
simply to "Adelaide " It said:
"Dear Girl: You havo wedded
wealth and I am wedded to death. Which
is happier? Paul."
It told the whole story. A short time
ago the announcement of his engagement
to one of the most beautiful girls in the
city was made. A wealthier suitor bad
appeared on the scene and she had heartleasly
jilted him.
A Kentucky paper tells of seven ears
of corn, each weighing a pound, that
grewj>a one stalk, ? .
SHOT "TO* DEATH
> X - 'V
In a Scuffle With His SixteenYear
Old Son.
Savannah's Deputy Collector Killed
While Abusing His.Family.
Savannah, Ga., [Special. ]?David
Porter's son, David, wns acquitted by
the coroner's jury of responsibility iu the
death of his father.
The verdict, made up after a brief deliberation
was:
David Porter cntuo to his death from a
pistol.shot wound; said pistol was discharged
while in the hands of said David
Porter, deceased, during a scuflle for its
possession by his son, David, nud his |
d lighter, llcby, aud wc consider his j
tiir 6tohy ok tiie crime.
Iii the night some one came in the
house the son stated, and went down
into the basement. They thought it was
their father, but he failed to come up
when the supper was announced. After
that, hearing soino one moving about
and thinking it might be a robber, he
went up stairs and got a revolver from
his mother's bureau. He and bis sister
decided that it was tlieir father, and
thought lie was ashamed of hiscomlit on,
and would not come up while they were
there. Fearing lie might attempt suicide
while drunk, lie and his sister took
his sword and the knives out of the dining
room, and later locked the door and
went up to the room of their mother, who
has been a couth mod iiivnli.l f..r
I be bov went into his room when he
beard his father coming up the stairs.
His sister went to her room. The father
began quarrelling with ths mother about
the lockiAg of the 'diuiu^r -xuuuri door
The daughter went into her brother's
" . - iia
die wanted to relieve her uiother of the
blame.
THE HOY'S STOHY.
"I told her all right," he continued',
then she threw open the door and told
liiin she had locked the dining room,
lie advauced and struck her. I sa>d to
liiin, 'Don't you dare do that again.' lie
answered: 'D?n you! it's you. is it#"
lie advanced toward sue to strike me. 1
bad the pistol iu my hand. 1 pointed it
toward him to intimidate him. Then I
pulled the trigger as he approached with
uplifted list. I do uot know whe'lier
that bullet struck him or not. He kept
ou towards mo cursing. lie said, 'That's
all light, Dave; you'll learn to use a pistol
next time.' Then lie clinched with
me in my sister's room. While we were
down he had his knee 011 me. One of
my hands was around the barrel and
st<>ck of the pistol, while he had hold of
it in the middle. When the second shot
was fired. we were in that position.
When tlio third shot was filed, 1 did not
have hold of the pistol. I g*>t hold of
the pistol then, and told mother to go
back to her room as she might get shot.
Father walked toward the room. 80011
afterward I saw liiiu iu tho chair with
his head thrown hack and the blood on
his neck. I cried out: 'He is dead,'
and ran < ut for a doctor, then I went
over t.j the barracks and gave myself up."
The boy showed 110 signs of nervousness
or excitement throughout the telling
of the story, llis mother's testimony,
nud that of his sister, a girl eighteen
years old, was largely corroborative.
Everything showed the family life had
been an unhappy one for some lime past.
TUB DEAD MAN.
The dead man was in his fiftieth year.
He was a native of Maryland, aud served
with credit in the union army, lie was
past grand master of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Georgia, and
past department commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He was deputy
collector of this port. The body was
taken to Augusta, ins oia home, lor interment.
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CONFESSES HE WRECKED TRAIN.
Tho Man in Jail Who Caused The
Statesville Wreck Whoro 20
Lives Woro Lost.
Atlanta, Ga., (Special, j?The Richmond
A Danville olliciuls arc happy over
the arrest of a man who ha* confessed
that he threw the hcuvily laden passongcr
train off tho track of tho Western
Railway of North Carolina in September
last near Statesville. Twenty lives were
lost in the wreck.
At first it was thought that tramps had
wrecked the train so as to rob tho dead,
and mauy of the detectives who went to
w ork on the mystery began on that liuo.
The railroad offered $10,000 for the ar
est of tho wreckers.
"Tom" lIauey,once Marshal of Gainesville,
Ga., went to work on the case.
Without a day's interval, he kept up his
search until ten days ago, wheu he nirestod
John Boyd, a couvict who had
cicaped from tho North Carolina peni
tentiary. Beioro arresting lloyd the de
Jective succeeded in tiuding where lie
had left $1,000 and some jewelry wliict
lie had taken from persons on the wreck
Through Boyd's fence the detective)
secured a complete story 01 me wrecKinj
work, lu his col Boyd gave i
desc ription of tb" used, and tolc
of their hiding; accurately thai
Money had no trouble"m tiuding them
Ten days ago Boyd was put in j?il in i
North Carolina town. Boyd at first
asserted that-ho did the work alouo, but
the otlicer believes that he had soitic
help, and is uow working on that theory,
Cuban Reciprocity and Our Floui
Trade.
Washington, 1). C.?The reduced du
ty on American flour imported to Cubi
went into effect January 1st, last. Con
sul-General Williams telegraphs thcStati
Department that the receipts of flour a
the port of Ifuvanna for the mouth ol
January last were, as follows: From th<
United States, 52,371 sacks, from Snain
none. The receipts for the month o
Janua y, 1801, were: From tho II niter
States, 2,720 sacks, frOm Spain, 38,4-JK
sacks. Tho exports of flour to Cuba
from the ports of New York, Mobile nnc
Key West in Januaiy, 1802, amountcc
to 07,478 barrels. The cxpoits from tin
same ports in Jannary, 1891. wcro 9,334
barrels
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' ANTI-JUDAISM UN-AMERICAN. W
The Jew Compares Favorably With V j
the Christian If He Can Be \ ?|
Weighed Fairly. J
George It. Weudliug, iu New York V
Herald.] " y
There is not a drop of Jewish blood, in
my veius. I nm not connected with tho a?;Jews
by the marriage of any near or distaut
Kinsman; I owe uo Jew a dollar and
no Jew owes me. I speak froin the vautago
ground of absolute independence. J?
It is a splendid race, splendid in their -ja
patience, in their love for one another, m ^
iu their endurance, in their sagacity and
temperate h bits, aud splendid iu their X y
indexible adherence to their Mosaic
ideals.
Do you want an aristocracy of blood
and birth? The Jews are the purest CMS
blooded people and liavo the best estab- -r.r^
4hrtn?d-dCTcetiriu the world. Not Mirn- beau
in the Frcuch C nvcution, ftor Patrick
Ilcnry in t'no House of Burgesses,
nor "Sam" Adams in old Colonial < ays
ever said a more thrilling thing than
Disraeli said in tho English Commons in
reply to the charge that he was a Jew:
"Yes, lam a Jew! When the ancestors
of tho honorable ngctleman wore brutal
savages iu an unknown isluud tniuo .were
priests iu tho Temple!"
Do you seek au uristocrncv of talent?
Tho groat church historian Ncamler was
a Jew; Napoleon's marshals, Foult and
Mansenn, were Jews; the Inilliant and
cynical Heine was a Jew, auil?but the
world's roll of soldiers, authors, musician',
|>i inters, po.ts, philosophers and
financiers, contain more Hebrew names
than 1 could recite in many hours.
Are ion looking for an aristocracy of
wealth? The combined financial power
of the Jews iu Europe can prevent tho
| Uoatiug of almost any national loan which
r^'Ytlsa*spurious, false Christianity that
hates Jews. The mystery of the incarnation
found expression in the llcsli and
blood of a Jew, and, therefore, iu a sense
we worship a Jew. We get our ten commandments
- the very foundation of our
civilization?through tho Jews. We
sing Jewish psalms, arc uplifted by tho
passion and poetry of Jewish prophets,
and rely on Jewish biographies for the
only history we have of Christ. We get
our Pauline theology from a Jew, and
we catch our clearest glimpse of the next
world through the suhlimo apocalyptic
visiou of a Jew. Thou forsooth, we
Christians turn about and sneer at the
Jews!
I have considered with teachers of
philosophy who spjke slightingly of the
Jews and yet were teaching with enthusiasm
ideas which they had absorbed
from Mnimonidcs aud Spinoza, the two
greatest philosophers, omitting Kant,
since Plato's days?both of theni Jews.
1 have heard musicians denounce Jews
aud then spend days and nights trying to
interpret the beauties of Rossiui, Meyerbeer
and Mendclssohu?all Jews.
I talked the other day with a gifted
actress and heard both her and her husband
swecpingly condemn, confidentially.
of course, tho whole raco of Jews,
nud yet that womau would give half lier
remaining life if she could only reach
the heights which the great queen of
tragedy, Rachel, trod with bucli majesty
Sand power?and Rachel was a Jewess.
Here iu Washington I have heard aspiring
polisic'aus, when beyond tho
reach of the reporter's pencil, sneer at
Jews, and yet it was a Jew who made
England's queen Empress of India, and
it was u Jew who was for years the adroit
and sagacious chairman of the nntionnl
committee of one of_ our great political
parties. The brainiest man in the Southern
Confederacy was Judalt P. Ecnjamin,
a Jew, and Chase, when managing our
national finances in a perilous time owed
much of his success to the constant advice
of a New York Jew.
That you ucver so a Jew tramp or a
Jew druukard is a proverb, that, you never
meet a Jew beggar in a commonplace, -?t
aud it is a statistical fact tint there are
relatively fewer inmates of our hospitals,
jails and other work homes furnished by
the Jews than any other race contributes.
Convert the Jews! Let us first convert
our modern Chr'stians to gcuuiuo
Christianity. Suppress the Jews! A
score of Russian Czars cannot do it.
Every pe >ple on earth have tried it ami
failed. They have outlived the Tudors
and the Plantageucts, the KomnuotTs, the
tyrranny of Spain, the dynasties of
France, Charlemagne, Constantinc, the
i Dabylonian kings and the Egyptian Pharoahs.
It was Cod's own race for 4.000
I J ?nrl ll.n owful t ltaa
survived for 2,Out) more stamps it as a
race still bearing some mysterious relation
to the plans of ti c Eternal. The
beauty and fidelity of Jewish women
command my horn '.go, and among wealthy
and educated Jews the exquisite refinement
of Jewesses, the r culture and high
i breeding, blended with a sort of Oriental
grace and digni y, put them among the
I most .charming women in the world.
The belief that the Jew is more dis.
honest than the Gentile is one-half lioni
sense and the othur half prejudice aud
falsehood. The anti Jewish feeling
^ which seems to ha rising again is unt
christian, inhuman, and un-American,
i No man can share it who believes in the
1 universal fatherhood of God and the unit
versa 1 brotherhood or man. It is boru
of the devil and is devestuble.
Worth $300,000, and a Tramp.
t Comjmbos, O , [8pecial l?The courts
hsvn lx>?n mIcmI to annoint a mis-Jinn v.
for John Swim, an aged wande. ir, who,
though worth $300,000, has led the life
? of a tramp from boyhood. lie has begged
the most of what he possesses, and
is so miserly that he will not cloths
himself properly.
A wtek ago ho was found by the roadj,
side almost frozen to death He owns
j farms in several counties, and is known
. all over the State as the "wealthy tramp."
He onee lived at tho almshouse ut Lancaster
for a year beforo the authorities
I discovered they had been entertaining
the richest man in tho county, and exj
pel led him. 8\im is 07 years old, but
, quite hal*, and h s engaged a lawjer to
( resist the motion for n guardian. k
Over three hundred thousand orunga
I tr ccs were planted in Mexico last /oar by
planters from California.