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: VOL. XXIIL-'-NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTII CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1892. NUMBER 3(i.
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v>nnsaa oas about doubled its railway'j |
mileage in ten years. '
There is what the New York Commercial
Advertiser calls "an excellent rule'
at Harvard University which prohibits
any student from participating in athletic
sports unless he maintains a certain
etanding in his Btudies.
What is now North Berwick, Mo., was
Renown as Dougbty's Falls thirty years
ago. A postal clerk says that occasionally
letters are even now addressod to
Doughty's Falls, and that he has had
one such in his hands within the last
month.
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Twenty* million dollars is the estimated
worth of flax products imported
into this country last year, and our farmers
are said, records tho New York
World, to have destroyed 1,070,000 tons
of flaxstraw.
P 'i'be great question in Paris, learns the
Boston Transcript, is whether she shau
hold a World's Fair in 1900. It is
agreed that the Champs de Mars, and
such buildings as survive from the great
shows of 1869, 1878 and 18.89 shall not
be used.
A joint committee of the two houses
of the English Parliament has reported
?lectricity a suitable and efficient source
of motive power, and reccomended that
electric railway construction bo encouraged
throughout England.
It is curious," muses the Boston
Transcript, "how one invention renders
a previous invention useless. Since the
coming in of the electric cars, the patent
switches which were turned by the horses
have become inoperative and the railway
company has gone back to first principles?that
is to say, to a man with a
switch-hook."
The Chicago Herald is astonished that
although the United States is a country
possessing immense timber traots, it appears
that it imported wood and wood
products to the value of $21,772,185 in
1891- ,o
exported/almiler Articles
V, 11
T raX' "itogl^h writer telU an amusing
&. story of a couatry house whore n regular
n^V daily routine is observed, and where no
H^tehenoe is given ono of breaking the
monotony. It is of a nw?n who wanted
L" stay in a country-house, thinking it
V' "' would giro him thcgHB^Aunity of propoling
to a gill wit^^morn ho had been
in lore for a long time. His visit was
to last a fortuight, but tho last evening
came without his having had one
chance of being alouc with her during
the whole time. As he sat at dinner
(of courao he was at the opposite end of
the table to where she was), he felt tho
time was fast passing away, and in a few
1_ L- 2 _ tl
iiuurft Liu wuuiu uu uiu^ci uu in tuu ?iiau
(house with hor. When the ladies wout
to the drawiag-room, he would hAve to
sit oa in the dining-room. Ilis host
might allow hiin to look in at the drawiag-room
for a few minutes that evening,
but after that his presence would be required
in the billiard-room In uiter
desperation he took up the mouu card,
and on it wrote: "Will you marry
ine!" He doubled it up, telling the
butler to give it to the lady in question.
He did so. She read it, and, with the
perfect sangfroid born only of the nineteenth
century, said: "Tell the gentleman,
'Yes.'"
The Boston Brimmer School had this
year an exhibition of what is known as
the Swedish "sloyd" work?"sloyd"
signifying both to plan and to execute.
The work was first taught in Lho North
Bonnet Street Industrial School in 1888,
and consists in copying on paper and then
,in actual chaterial any model put before
'the pupil. In 18S9 Oustaf Lirsson
.went to the school aud modified the
series of models to tit American ideas,
the models previously used having been
I Swedish entirely. In Sweden the plan
seems to have been for the pupil to construct
his object directly fro.n the ?lot
without making a working drawing," and
the improvements in tho direction of designs
were added by Mr. Larsson at a
later period. According to tho report
of the Boston Supe^wtendent of Schools,
there are now abouHwoOO pupils in that
city receiving shop instruction, mostly
in wood-wot king. There are six shops
for Instruction in wood-working by
aUKaw 4k* fllak Dmalan anamma
v,,u?| uwjouwu ui aiuhibu vjovvuwi
The boys art* said to consider tho "aloyd"
work as much a part of their regular
course as any other study. The entire
course in the work of the put year included
the construction of about thirtyfive
models, ranging from the simple
whittling of a wedge to the complex
making of a cabinet baring a drawer
and a door with carred panels. This
work is divided, for the grammar
schools, into a three years' course, takjog
about 900 hours
PRETTY POLITICS.
Interesting Events [From All Over
The Field.
Nominations For Congress and State
Tickets Made at a Lively
Bate.
A convention of Ohio Democratic colored
men will l>e heldjtt Akron on September
15-16.
Lynciibuko, Va.?The Democratic
nominating convention for the Sixth District
nominated Hon. Paul C. Edmunds
for re-election by acclamation.
At Richmond, Va., the Third party
district met and nominated Walter E.
Grant for Congress.
At Martinsville, Va., the Democratic
ConirreBsionnl eimvenfinti VSfrh
nominated Claude A .Swauson of Pittsylvania
county.
Km.kioii, N. C.?John 8. Henderson
was renominated for Congress by acclamation
by Democrats of the 8evcntl? District.
Prank Koonce is nominated for
Congress by the Third party in the Third
District.
The number of voters registered in
Mississippi and entitled to take part in
the November election is about 80,000,
of whorn 9,000 are negroes. It is estimated
that 94 per ceut. of the negroes
failed to register.
Col. W. C. P. Hrcckcnridge has been
officially declar. d the Democratic nomi
nee for Cmgre s from Ashland district
in Kentucky, no candidate having appeared
against him.
Senator Hale stated in an interview
that Mr. Hlainc will, if physically able,
deliver two or three speeches during the
eampiign in Maine; otherwise he will
express his views in a letter.
The Washington Democratic State
convention at Olympia nominated II. J.
mivelly of Yakima, for Governor; J. K
Monday for Congress; H. C. Wi son for
Lieutenant Governor, and B. K. Ilanna
vnd II. W. Blinker for the Supreme
bench.
During the session of the Kentucky
Legislature a Senator said that any man
vho said the journal was incorrect iflied
('rum the tip of his lying tongue to the
'u\l Inm Af hie Klaolr It
,./%%uul vi mo umvn, unuo'iiiMU^ uunu,
uid that he wns astonished that the 8enitc
would tolerate such a member who
came into the Senate "bleary eyed and
incnpabld of comprehending the business
before it." . When he was called to orlor
ho "disclaimed any intention of being
personal."
Au Electric Hat Polisher.
The electric hat polisher is the latest
ma oration in the field of applied electricity.
In thgjower corridor of the
thia process. The operation is as simple
as it ia^ffectiva. The hat is slipped
orer a clutch, which holds it firmly, and
the clutoh is attached to the end of the
shaft of A small Jootor. The current is
switched on, and as the hat spins'around
at tho rate of 2000 revolutions a minute,
a brush moistened with benzine, or soino
more mysterious fluid, is. applied. .After
this cleansing strips of silk or plush tako
the brush, and the hat is polished off.
Ironing is rendered unnecessary, as
the heat developed by the friction
against the rapidly moving surface answers
every purpose of a heated iron.
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iiuw uui) jo iiiuwu UUI6 buveu over in? Old
method, but the results are said to be
superior. Bilk, derby or straw bats are
renovated with equal success.?New
York Advertiser.
Unique Way of Catohlug Seal*
Mr. Dyer, who livos on a small islan I
near Seven Hundred Acre Island, Islesborough,
Me., has a unique way of
catching seal. He takes a pole seven
feet in length, to which are attached a
number of common coltish hooks with
lanyards several feet in height. The
hooks aro baited with a herring. This
contrivauce is anchored and buoyed, the
hooks being just below the surface. The
Beats in swallowing the herring become
hooked and are caught. Mr. Dyer has
taken a large uuinber in this manner.?
New York Post.
Shot By His Mistress.
Ci.ifton Forob, Va.? Rucker Booze,
a young man from Buchanan, Va., who
has beep here for the past few weeks in
the employ of the Withrow Lumber
Company, was accidently shot and fatally
wounded by a pistol in the hands of
Carrie Moore, his mulatto mistress, while
they were in a vacant house about 11
o'clock last night. Booze is of good
family. He will die. The woman baa J
not been arrested.
Two Roads Didn't Sign.
Atlanta,Ga.?The Southern Steamship
and railway Association adjourned after
uenrly all the roads of Virginia, the Carolinns,
Tennessee, Georgia and Florida
signing, the Cincinnati Southern and the
Alabama Great Southern having failed to
sign the agreement. Major Fink has
seven days in which to make up his mind
The impress on among the members is
that there will he a bitter boycott of
these roads unless Major Fink gives in.
Used Her Dress to Take Her Life.
Nkw York, N. Y.?Mary Burns, aged
!), of 42 Christie street, was arrested on
the Bowery last night for being drunk
x d disorderly. She was locked up in
the station house and this morning was
found dead. She had torn hfr dress into
di cds and hanged hertelf to the bars of
the window.
A Mountain Cava Hospital.
MKumie, T*Ntf.?A special from Coal
Creek asys n mountaineer nrrived there
biingiug inforinat'on of the discovery of
n hopital in the mountains a few miles
from Coal Creek which the miners have
improvised ioto a cave. He says he saw
21 dead bodies there and a large number
wounded.
MacRae Associate Justice.
Rai.kioii, N. C.?Gov. Holt has appointed
Jnmes C. Mcllae, of Fayetteville
10 be Associate Justice of the Supreme
court, to till the vacancy caused by the
death of Judge David Davia.
ALLIANCE READING.
President Butler's Annual Message
To the North Carolina State Alliance
in Session at Oreensboro.
To the N. C. FarmerState Alliance:
Bukturen:?One year ago you placed
your banner in my hands. You placed
me in the front of the N. C. division c.l
the great national army of reformers
It wa3 a position of tremoudous responsibility
and I trust I felt in a largo degree
the gravity of the situation. It w:u
at a time when the organization was entci
ing the most critical period of its cxis
tcuce. a time when we and our principle)
were to be subjected to the suprcmcs
crucial test The year has been a storinj
one. Everyday, Sundays cxclu led,. th<
fire of the enemy hns been poured upoi
us with merciless force and in an un
scrupulous manner. The money powci
has left no stone unturned to crush tlx
movcuieut and down the cry of the weal
for mercy and the dcinaud of freciuau fo<
ju ttce.
Today we me t again. Let us set
what has been accomplished; what tin
present status of the organization is, ant
what is our duty in the future. Even
reform movement has its various stages ol
growing and development. Many ol
those movements sooner or later reach
the stage of disintegration and decay
This has been the cn?c when the onus
has been slight or local or temporary o
when the people failed to find the trin
cause for a real wrong, and therefor
could not apply the true remedy. Th
cause of the present movement is dce|
rooted and wide spread. It is one tha
in a large degree affects alike every lahorc
and wealth producer of the whole country
A portion of those suffering from th
blighting effects of some great influcno
caused them to orgauize to study tb<
situation. They formed themselves iut<
a great vigilance committee to search foi
the cause, a cause that made them poorc
while each worked harder created more
weal'h, a cause that has made poor tin
people whose labor has made their couu
try rich. Since this class of men nut
this condition existed in every tpiarlei
of the country, the organization sooi
spread over the whole country. Fo
years the cause or rather the causes havi
been simultaneously scnrchcd for am
studied from Maine to California am
from the lakes to the gulf. The cause
or part of the causes were found. Tin
whole organization agreed on them. The
public gcuerally agreed that the cvi
causes existed. We then appealed t<
the law makers of the country for a rem
cdy. Great sympathy was exprcssci
for o?r condition, but no remedy wn
offered. The organization then farm u I
atcd its own remedies for each causa am
appeuled to the law makers to give u
'they should -givo tliost* demanded' o
bofnething better. That was fair." Fo
if the wrongs exist, if unjust and opprcs
sivc laws are on the stAtuto books/it *i
tk? ...... i? ?i "V
muvj wi uui urn inuncis iu givu II
relief-, to give us ottr remedy or a bcttc
'one. Up to date the demands of lh<
people have been ignored, while ever;
rcqust of the monopoly corporations ant
the money power has been promptl;
agreed to. We have just realized tlin
the organization enne too late foi justici
to be gotten by petition. * *
TilK KAliKIGII CONKEUBNCB.
On April 17th I called a conference v
the Alliance of the State through on
representative froui each county. I di<
it in the iutercsts of our principles am
the cause of reform. While nt times dur
iog the year many of us (though u uni
in thought) have differed in judgement
as to methods, yet today the orgntlizatioi
is practically n unit iu action as well a
thought. I believe that the guidance o
a divine hand has turned what at time
seemed to be mistakes, into blessings
Our seeming errors have proved to be tin
csseuce of wis lorn, for by what method
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count wc nnvc nave uccu stronger thai
wc are today ? Therefore let us at al
times have that chaiiiy of opinion fo
each brother, for wc may honestly differ
that we have a right to expect from eacl
other brother.
DEATH OK COL. POLK.
During the year the organization. Na
tional as well as State, has suffered an ir
reparable loss, and each member ha*s fcl
a sore bereavement by the untimely deatl
of our great and beloved leader, t'ol. L
L. Folk. We have never known a pure
man, nor has any organization ever beei
blessed with a more ardent, devoted am
loyal leader, yet his charity toward thos
who differed with him in opinion, am
his spirit of fairness toward those win
opposed him was almost supcrhuinau
If is great work and hia magnificent ex
ample lives after him. and is today ai
inspiration to every informer to have tin
courage of his convictions and to carrj
| on the work for humanity so iminriU
niui heroically begun. Let us Ixiild j
fitting inouuni' nt to his memory, hut his
greatest monument will be the place h<
holds in the hearts of his people. Let
his last words ever he the motto of the
hour, "Do your duty "
Dr. Talmage As a Dion.
Birmingham, Eng.?Dr. Talmage Sun
day addressed the largest assembly evei
gathered in Bitmingham. The towi
nail was crammed with an audience o
8,000 persons, aud outside there hoverrc
CO,0)0 more people, whom Dr. Talmag<
addressed from his carriage after the services
in the hull.
On hia way back to his hotel Dr. Tal
mage was informed that 10,000 persons
were still waiting on the other side ol
tho town hall to near him. He immedi
attly turned and briefly addressed them.
and the immense crowd, estimated ai
20,000, sang "Prnise God, from whom
nil blessings flow." The main doors ol
the hotel had to bo bolted against tlx
surging crowd, which ran ahead of the
doctor's carringe.
Ran Away With Hi* Mother-in-Law,
Bai.km, Va. ?A citizen of this plac<
has been placed in a curious predicamenl
by the nction of his son in law. Th<
latter, who lives with his father-in law
aud works nt the mines of the Salem
Furnaaco Company, returned home a few
nights ago and eloped with his motherin
law. The father-in-law has ins ituted
a suit for divorce on the ground of desertion.
THREE STATES' BRIEFS
Telegraphic Dispatches From Man
Points of Interest.
The Fields of Virgina, North an
South Carolina Carefully
Cleaned For News.
I VIRGINIA.
There ore about 1,000 miucrs out on
strike at Pocahontas at present.
The national archery tournament begi
at Old Point Comfort Thursday, at
nearly all the clubs in the United Stat
i,,,../. ?-?- .
i???v c|iit-9ui!uiiivo jirtseni.
, Col. John M. Brockcnbrough died
t his residence in Bichmond. Ho was I
years of age and a native of flichtnor
county, lie c<im/nanded^f^^40Hkyi
, giflirt regiment in thewir
burg.
r Mrs Ye, wife of the Corean secretar;
> lius not been well for some months pas
5 ami will leave Washington September 51
i for a visit to her home in Corea, to whi<
country she will be accompanied by Mi
? Davis, of Abingdon, Va., who will go
f a missionary. I hey w ill sail Septemb
I 17th from San Fiancisco.
A fa'al and singular accident occurr*
t on hoard the train a'tcr it left Quanta
for Frederi- kshurg Saturday evening, I
i which a colored woman had her net
broken She was on her w ay fr. in Was!
r ington to her home, uear Brooke statio
r After the train left Quantico she n
e tempted to pass through the rar, whi
v by a sudden lurch of the train she w
t thrown viol ntly against the back of oi
p the st its and her neck broken.
I NOPTH CAROLINA:
t The resilience o f Sheriff R. D. Rc
at Ashcboro was burned Tuesday.
The Rowan County Fair will be be
^ in Salisbury October 4-7..
j (?uy Maxwell, aged 23, wns drownt
t in Lake Forsyth at Charlotte, Friday,
i Ayotugindy, Miss Kate Pat*er, w
. killed by lightning at Farmer's Turnoc
> Brunswick county.
The aggregate valuation of the pro
I city in Forsyth county, as shown by tl
i taxlistcrs, is $7,579,318. The proper
i held by the white citizens is rated
i $7,450,593, aud the colored people
e $122,725.
' Dr. Kemp P. Battle, of the State U
' ivcrsity, has accepted an invitation
- deliver the historical address atRaleigl
r centeoninl celebration on October 19t
- His subject as assigned l?y the cemmitt
' will 1?s "The Fiist Hundred Years
> Raleigh."
^ The. convention of oyster growers w
held at Oerncoke last week jBksoluiiQ
were adopted and ordcrctLj^HjA?rjttrat
, ? d to the .Lcgi.daturd^iM^HBHHgQ]
the ovsteiamu were ohji|j^^BMBB|?
wjJ^JOTve \)vv f
CSH^Kn ehapleT^ni^^H H
almvi Three
now has nieiidteisi^B^BbnBHHH[
meetings arc vc^*
j. falling on the tlooHllti^nct!^ etc. Thi
v young men of that sectTOi have been ?
I daincd ministers of this church.
y SOUTH CAROLINA:
' Charleston lias giinrnatiiypd against t'
Lieut. CoimiwucUfc^jML W. Ithod
has lieeii (irdcivrT'feife^^^^^&iio nnn.l ci
' lion at l'ort RuyalT^P^Hfe
The acreage oi^sci ismHEcotton in t
, Statu is 1 vi lu 15 ffcr-'ccnlBuaS thau li
t A littlu boy bama^ijohn Meldow w
s drowned in Udtonntl Lwe at Chariest*
n" Thursday.
s Fairfield county fair will bo held
f Winnsboio October 27-28. The llic
? laud fair will open at Columbia on No
18.
B The Quo getown Rice Mill has recent
8 put < leven Knglcburg rice hullers iu i
11 mill at a cost of #1,000. The dcrcnge
I rice is increasing.
r OTHER STATES.
i A coroner's jury at Nashville, Tenr
investigated the killing of J H, Taylc
a horse thief, and returned a verdict th
Sheriff Hill was justified in killing t
man.
^ A man at Macon, On., has a$10 no
, of the State of North Carolina, print
1 in 1788 While he is rather proud of 1
r treasure as a curiosity he cannot help ci
^ culating the compound interest he h
j lost by the money lying there uncmp'.oyc
|) "" "
i Mrs. Tom Woolfolk Remarried.
5 Macon, Qa.?Mr>. Georgia By
Woolfolk, the widow of Tom Woolfol
was married to George Lamb, super!
1 tendent of a barrel factory here. Wo<
3 folk's crime ia well kuojvn. Five yet
' ago he killed nine members of his o*
family in order to gain possession of tl
1 family estate. For three years he w
' in prison awaiting the final dispoeitii
of his case by the courts. During th
time his wife kept up the appearance
constancy, but dressed flashily and b
hnvod in a questionable mnnncr. Get
gic Byrd's marriage to Tom Woolfo
was a runaway a flair, and the ccremoi
was performed or a moving train whi
1 it was passing through the princip
1 cemetery of th: city of Macon She 1)
f frequently ascribed her ill luck to t!
' fact that she was married in a grav
} yard.
Gea. Prince Oommit* Suicide.
Loudon cablegram: It is now d<
' initoly known that the American ac
tlcman who committed suicide on Frid
at Mai ley's Hotel was Rrigndicr-Genei
1 Henry Prince, aged 82, a tetired ortk
1 of the American atu.7. Gen. Prin
1 left a letter addressed to "All n
friends," in which he a.?id that death w
a relief which physicians ought to brii
about when a man's life becomes was'
by nature. At the inquest a verdict
"icmporary iussnity" was dcliveic
i (Icn Priiu-c had shot himself with
t revolver and wan f?.und dead. Ho
> supposed to have become despondent i
' account of old age and lameness.
The Strike Ended.
j Buffalo, N. Y.?-The awitchmei
trike ia officially declared off. Effecti
at midnight.
J. JUMPING FOR LIFE.
y The Big: Hotel at White Sulpliu
Springs Destroyed
Ashkvii.i.k, N. C ?The Bcluion
Hotel, at White Sulphur Springs, tiv
miles from the city, was destroyed nt mid
night by a tire which broke out iu tin
laundry and spread with great rapidity
There were nearly 200 guests in th
a house at the time, many of them jumpci
from the windows. Mig. I)r. Von Ruck
m of Ashevillc, was badly injured, am
j died Thursday morning. Charles (Jreen
c of New Orleans, had a leg d'slocnted
Clerk Heuderson also had a leg dislocat
ed, and a colored uursc a leg broken. 1
few others were slightly bruised, but nou
^ seriorfsly hurt. A:l the guests lost tliei
baggage and some of them other person
sl belongings. A good many diamoud
and a good deal of money were lost ii
the fire, numbers of those in the buildinj
f, escaping only in their night clothes. Tin
it, guests,made their way, as best tncy could
th to Ashcville, where they were made com
jh forlable.
88 The hotel property was owned by f
as corporation and leased to Dr. Von. Ruck
er The building was erected at a cost ol
$65, 000 and there was insurance of 22,
d 500 on it.
jy It Wan A Mean Trick.
That was a mean trick played on
"* Southern stranger in a Vino street saloo
?- the other eveuing,says a writer in the Cir
cinnati Times Star. The said stranger tloai
3n ed in and opening the aperture in tlie fat
BS of the knot ou which he carried his hi
Qc and perfumed locks, ordered a glass <
ale. Hit dudish appearance and air <
ineffable wisdom attracted the attentic
of a well known ward politician, win
slipping a chunk of ice from the lemoi
Id adc he was sipping, hastily deposited
bright silver dollar on it. Keeping tl
>(j dollar on ice out of eight lie engaged i
conversation with the (Southern genth
man and finally led the talk to the coir
age of silver. "And do you know,
? said the W. P., "that the dollars coine
in the North are colder than those struc
p- off at New Orleans?" "No." replied tli
lit 8. G. "Well, it's a fact. Look there,
ty and the cold and carefully dried dolh
at was placed in tho Southerner's sweat
at palm, where it felt like a chunk of ic<
A look of wouder passed over his faci
n and all ho sould say was: "Ily luekers
to ain't that strange?" Then commenced
r's dicker, which resulted in a brand no
h $2 bill being given for the cohl dolla
cc and the Southern Gentleman dep&rtu
of happy as a boy at the circus. Laughh
long and loud tilled the saloon ns soon i
his locklcts vanished, and "Well, hoys,
?211 axetnimed the nolitician: "I'll havo 1
>r
Former Enemies Meet.
[From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.]
. Nevada, Mo.? The four days' cnriunj
e meat of the Vernon county ex-Vuio
eoldiers closed at Fnirhaven Spring'.
Ifs Au affecting incident occurred in tl
-a- aftornoon. A big showman who had h
show at 8chell City drove out with h
he circus baud and asked permission 1
ist come into the grounds. It was accordc
him, and, after favoring us with sou
M music, he took the speakers' s and an
u made a fine speech. lie said he was n
' ex Union spy, and among other incideni
of his perilous career as such told aboi
? having been cipturcd by the enemy cigl
miles Dclow Richmond. He was hangi
'* by them, but, fortunately, a Confcdcrn
Major came up and ordered him to I
ly cut down. lie si ill bears the senrs of tl
its wounds made by the rope, and exhibitc
in them to the crowd, lie stated tin
the Confediate Major, wh'se name wi
Crittenden, was accompanied by a privu
wh ? cut the rope at the Major's order
' 1 nnrl nrivatii Innl- ?linr?n nf liim ot>
'a't hid him in a swamp, where he Jived o
I frogs till he got back into the Union line:
He had no sooner made the st.dcmci
then Unc!e Dick Robinson sprang upe
'*e the stand nnd seized the speaker's hand
It transpired that Uncle Dick was tl
118 man who cut the rope, and the way tlio
two men fell upon each other's necks at
"s embraced brought tears to every eye tb
witnessed the scene.
Clever Ruse of a Cashier.
rd
k Coal Cheek, Ai.a.?A bold nttcmg
in' to rob (he cashier of Coal Creek Miuii:
Company whs made, and one of the rol
Irs bcrs was killed.
vn For a month past the company hi
|ie been expecting such an cilort, and Casl
M ier MountcAstle was prepared for i
Sam Clang, Hill Jones and Fred Stone
iat were the men who made the attack.
cf It was the pay day of the conrpan;
0_ Mr. Mouutcastle had been told the a
)r. tempi wouia oe made to too unit, ami i
Ik had a bogus package sent instead of tl
,y money expected by express. This pacl
[|e age was labeled $4,00). Foon after tl
ia| train left, and when the cashier was su|
posed to be fixing his pay-ro I, the thn
he rushed in on him, put a pi tol at h
e. head and ordered hint to open the safe.
At this, officers who were secreted i
the strong room closed in on the robber
ordering them to throw up their hand
but the robbers opened fire. Clang w
,( ki'led, but the others escaped.
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JJ Was Afraid He'd Be Elected.
:cr Jackson, Mirs. ?The Rev. J. I
ce Gambrell, the Baptist minister who wi
ay aoine weeks since nominated forCongre
as in this district by the Topic's parly, hi
ag withdiawn He gives the strange reas<
ed that he thinks he will l?c elected if he r
of mains a candidate He says he cann
d. afford to give up his church and go
n Congnas, and that his former ci.ndidai
is was for the purpose of assisting in tl
oo reform movement. His reason is tl
theme of much diverse criticism.
Firet Frost in New Hampshire.
i's Concord, N H Aug. 22.? The fir
ve frost of the season preva led in this v
cinity this morning.
THK DREAD CHOLERA.
r U. S. Government Precautions to r
Prevent its Coming Here.
t
c People Dying By the Thousands in
Germany. Persia and
2 Russia.
? Washington, D. C.?The State I')ei
p'li tinent received further advices rc'ativc
, to the cholera, of a very disquieting miI
turo. The vice consul general at Teheran,
, Mr. Fox, son of a prominent newspaper
man at Washington, I). C., says the esti
mated deaths in Persia are 35,000 ; 5,000
^ in Meschcd, 12,000 in Tabriz, 8,000 in
e Teheran nnd 10,000 in other places. His
r appeals for assistance to the American
i- hosoital in Teheran have already been
s made public.
i The consul at JIainbcrg telegraphs that
; the auth ritics of that city admit that
c Asiatic cholera has bceu prevalent there
, siucc August 18th, und that up to August
23d there were 291 cases and 75
deaths. Nevertheless, the fact of the exv
istcnce of cholera there was denied, up
to August 23d, just as it is now also dcf
nicd at Havre. The attempt to suppress
accurate information occasious much uucasincES
to health otliccvs here.
tub dread pestilence in hamburg.
Hamburg, Germany.?One hundred
II and sixty-nine bodies of cholera victims
n arc awaiting burial in this city. So great
J" is the terror caused by the cholera that
1 it is difficult to get men for the work of
^ burying the dead aud many assistants of
l*. undertakers have deserted their places.
'[ Business is prostrate aud shipping is go"
iug to other ports.
III So serious is the panic that Russian
immigrants now in the city find it dilHll"
culty to procure food, as everybody tries
a to avoid them.
le At Altcna the army surgeons have been
11 ordered by their superiors to assist the
s" civilian doctors in earing for the cholera
'* victims.
tj ANTWERP IN A 8TATR OK TERROR.
k Antwerp, IIoi.i,and.?The excitement
,0 in this city over the outbreak of cholera
" is increasing. There little doubt that the
n- diiease was brought here by vessels from
y eastern (Europe. The first victims were
3_ dock laborers. They were taken to the
f hospitals, where the doctors stated that?
it was ordinary cholera nud tint nothing
was to be dreaded from it. The disease,
w however Stecud aud the public became
r alorqaed, ^Thoflrnt victims died almost
immediately after entering the hospital
2r and the appearance of the bodies showed
M the disease to be Asiatic cholera.
" LONDON MOVING AOAINST THK CHOLKHA
London.?The health committee df Ihe
h* mooksltuility held a meeting to consider
from Hamburg has entered fit Gravesebd
bringing several cases of tine plague.
Two women on the steamer have diod
from the cholera and auothcr victim, a
man, is iinproviug. The news oausos
great consternation at Gravcsend. .
?- Paris.? At Havre forty-eight fresh
n cases of cholera and 21 deaths are reunited.
!e IttTSSlAN TKADE CUT OFF.
js Koniosueiui.?The government hns or
Q dercd the suspension of nil traffic on the
Hussiun fiontier except at. Eydtkunicn
and Prostkcn. A multitude of intending
(j emigrants have been stopped at points on
the frontier and driven back to Kussia.
in
1S KEAItFltl. CIIOI.EUA MOUTALITY IN HCSSIA.
it Sr. I'ETEUsnt'Uo,?Thursday, accordit
ing to the official returns, there were
d 0,322 new cases of cholera against 5,670
te 011 Wednesday. Yesterday there were
>e 2,977 deaths reported against 2,743 for
ic Wednesday. In St. Petersburg there
d were reported 103 now cases and 24
[it deaths.
,s STEAMSHIP VOYAGES AFFECTED.
London. ?The Hamburg -American
steamship Columbia will not proceed to
1 Hamburg She is unloading here and
^ll will start for New York on Saturday
S-. The steamship Normandie, of the same
1 line, will not be allowed to land, it is
,n said, although she declined to take 011
board 400 emigrants who applied for pas,c
sage,
sc ?
lt In Andiana Scamp in South Carolina.
Kockvim.b, Im> ? Jus. 11. Morrow, a
well-known horse jockey of Washington,
was arrested and lodged in jail here eharged
with producing abortion upon a woman
at Columbia, S. some manlhs
? ago and from which it is reported she
died. A letter was received by the ana8
thoritics here some weeks ago to keep n
Ij lookout for him, as ho hid been indicted
t lor the offense at Columbia. The Souih
Carolina authorities have been notified
hv tl ll'Or|lll>h
v - "O' i ?
?' To Invite Senator Hill to Topeka.
ie | From the KausasCity Times. |
K. Topkka, Kan.?The Kansas Dcmoeratic
Flambeau Club of Topeka at a nKct1C
ing voted to invite Senator David If Hill
,v of New York to visit Topeka this fall and
[.0 bj their guest For this purpose the
js following conunitle > on invitation was
appointed with orders to report at the
in next regular meeting: .lodge John
s Mar in, Mayor U L. Cofran, C. K. I lot g'
liday, Jr. Eugene I lagan, F.ugene Wolfe,
f S U. Isenhait, the Ho i M llcery, Rankin
Masou, John Mileham, and A. J.
Arnold.
Believed to Have Been 125 Year* Old.
I, Thomasvii.i.b.?The oldest woman in
Georgia died at the poorhousc on Sulks
day morning. It will sound like fiction
in af Jit A Aunt Cla??..u ?? *
M vm\m a ngi;, OUI ail I
)n her acquaintances and her old mastere.
say that her age wan 125. Aunt Peggy
nt did not date events from the civil war,
t0 an many do, hut from the Kcvolution,
,y Aunt Peggy had outlived all her chip
1C dren except one, and there were quite a
t,e number of them. 'I he one living is in
her 97th year.
Killed With a Shot Gun.
at O'iKiccnnit, Ga. ?Bub Crittenden was
i. alio- and ki led by Frank Brown just
above Ogcechee Brown used a shot guD.
A ROMAN BULL.
riie Pope Dismisses Cardinal Ruggiero
in Disgrace.
All Germany's Sons Must Learn the
Art of War. Says Emperor
William.
Romk, Itai.y. ? Gicat excitement lias
been caused by 'be dismissal of t'aidinal
Ruggiero, Prefect ??f Financial A lVa:rs of
the Proj Uganda,nud who has been looked
upon as the probable successor of Pope
Leo XUL It is said that the Pope himself
ordered Ruegiero's dismissal, being
convinced, as a result of inquiry, that
Ruggiero, and not Monsignor Folehi,
was the really guilty patty in connection
with the inisiuvcstnicnt*,' to use a mild
term, for which Mocsignor Folehi was
diunis ed from the I'a pa I service about a
year ago. The dismissal of Folehi was
brought about, it is said, by Cardinal
Ruggiero Folehi was Vice-Chamberlain
to tlie Pope, ami bad control of the Papal
unds. It was alleged that, in the w inter
. I 1800 HI, Monsignor Folehi, suppoitcd
by Prince Ihioncompagni an t IJaion
l,a/./.aroui, resolved, in order to save the
15 mco di Roma, in which the Vatican
held 10,000 out of 1 i.OoO shales, beside,
other securities, to cstabl sh first in Pari ;
and London, and afterward in Rome.
Merlin and New York, a syndicate of
Catholic bankr., with tin object of nbso
biug the financial societies of Rome
tht were known to be in a disastrous
condition, and to it store them to vitality,
while at the same time raising the value
of the depreciated securities. Above all
they wanted to save the Kanco di Roma,
intending,as they eventually did, eutirelv
to reconstruct it. The scandal arising
out of the affair has already been made
public. Later investigations appear to
have*exonerated Folehi and implicated
Ruggicro. There is great excitement in
church circles, and it is generally l>e
icvcd that a tremendous scandal is
awaiting disclosure.
Berlin, Germany.?It is announced
semi-officially that the Emperor's speech
at the Emperor Fran Josef's banquet has
been misquoted and distorted, and that
the declaration that lie has been credited
with making against Caprivi's military
bill was only a conditional one What
the Emperor really said was that the
German people could not expect to have
the service-term reduced to two years mi
less they were willing to pay for it. The
numerical increase of the army, in accoidnnce
with the two-year service pl-m,
must be accompanied by inr-<w ? of impropriations,
otherwise the :cncy ot
army would be impaired. It R. woplc
refuse to.grant such- an iucrcase ti-' Em- ^
peror's preference was for an nriny of the
ipVetout size, rutin r thin for one of inoro
yet with luferioj equipment aud dia HsL
' \ ?
this Ctly at O.Sfl&tonday night an ijj
foil in torro'nts o?6r /bur hoius, filling cellars
and lower floors of businwr. house" ^
on CainpbeH and Salenj av,vor-.>r. a?oi Me- 3*
sou, Jmersnh, llomv ,u
streets. Doors were burst open, windows
crushed in by limiting debris and goods
washed away. The loss in goods damaired
will reach $100,000. Many buildings
are seriously damaged by the mid<
rmining of foundations.
Barney Smith in trying to cross Salem
aveuue stepped into an excavation for a
sewer and was drowned. Policeman
Pnob Inci 1 i i o f/\ .tinrr tlmio mul f. II Sit itit<)
was pulled out insensible. It is said
that other people have been drowned,
but the report cannot be verified. Men
and horses travelling the flooded streets
were compelled to swim.
The electric light station was flooded.
The electric cars are not running, and it
will be a week before lights and power
for the operation of machiucry in many
establishments can be supplied.
The storm was coofiucI principally to
Roanoke. Six miles westward there was
only a sprinkle. Farme s two miles
South of the city were ploughing, and
north and east the rainfall was very light.
Fnnnjr Things About the Face.
The average human nose is badly out
of line, and it is this fact that usually
lends its peculiar piquaucy to the face.
A medical writer says that there are anatomical
reasons why a slight deviation
from a true centre line maybe expected.
If be is correct in his deductions, the
nost? which Is squarely set between the
two eyes is, after all, the abnormal one.
German and American doctors in Japan
have succeeded in discovering a surgical
process by which the Japanese characteristic
eye cau be reliever) of its slaut and
be made to look like the European optic.
The Japs are having their visual organs
operated upon by the wholesale, which
removes one of their national characteristics,
as they have their natioiwl
dress.
Boon, i/ this thing goes on, wo shall
have changes in the style of wearing
laces, and the paper will quote the latest
flaode in noses as wall as ays. Jitw
York World.
Big Fire in Norfolk.
Norfolk, Va.?Fire broke out at 7
o'clock in (he carriage manufactory of A.
Wrenn & Son on Union street and destroyed
all the work shops together with
the shops of the agricultural implement
house of Wrenn, Whitchurst & Co. adjoining.
The entire fire department
w .s in service and after hours hard work
subdued the flames. The loss is estimated
at |20,000.
Richmond's Chamber ot Commerce.
Richmond, Va.?The corner-stone of
tho chamber of committee was laid in due
Masonic form at 5 o'clock. The grand
lodge of Masons a* 5:30 proceeded to the
a to, corner Main and Ninth streets, the
Knights Templar acting as escorts. The
address was delivered by Colonel John
11. Purcell in behalf of the chamber.
To Prison for Hugging Girls.
Nyaok, N. Y ? Ju-tice Matthews of
this place *ent John Lamrkc of Brooklyn
to Hockland county jail for two months
for hugging girls on the street.
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