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Miss Eieanor Ca'houn, grandnicce of John C. Caluouo, is making some stir as an actress in Paris. Gen. Manager Aveiill of the Charleston, Sumter Northora railroad bas resigned to take charge of the Port Royal & Augusta and Port Royal A Western Carolina roads. % The board to distribute the fund ap propriatcd by the Legislature for arti appncatioes ' Capt. E. C. Mva't, who trill be remembered as one of the oldest and best pilots in Charleston, died in Columbia Wednesday. Ho was well known beforo the war tnd during its progress was a daring blockade-runner. Rufus Sandcr^nd Rufus Mooro had a fight in Barnwell Wednesday. Sanders used a knife and Moore a pistol. Sanders wns shot dead aod Mooro will probably die from the cuccia of a cut on the temple Sanders' young daughter, 17 years eVfl, gave birth to ? child and Moore was reported to be iia father. Sanders started out to kill Moore and met his death. ^ _ ^ ..... a ^ >e yufuse forr Street >* J t* ^ogo'lne street department of Caarleston, S. C., made an ex peri sect of laying out a portion of the roadv way of Spring street with the cinders of ^pyrites. This experiment, which was attempted on a very small scale, proved a great success, and now the department is repeating the operation in Archdale street between Queen and Clifford streets. The cinden are obtained from the phosphate works adjacont to Charleston, *&d when mixed properly form a chemical compound that is hard and durable. The roadway in Spring street that was laid oat in pyrites cindcts have proved a k grt&', suecess, and it is anticipated that the hew venture will prove the satno. ^ Several layers of the cinders are required in laying the roadbed, and when it is properly stamped down the cinders foim k bard, compact mass that is nearly f> m IfWting as rock.?Charleston News and Courier. Stole $100,000 in Panaiou, Washington, D. O.?Bj order of tb Pension Department, W. R. Drewry, a attorney of Norfolk, Va., has been at res'cJ for wholesale pension frauds. ] is alleged that he has secured 100 illegt pensions for clients. The steals wil probably aggregate $ 100,000. The fraud ulent pensioners will be dropped froi the rolls. fj ..10 Of it in |^' . vAertion i, 'nrod his h<a r * The States government, the n?- _ ^lloSnl commission, the Missouri board ^ a?d~ bther 8itv% luve monej io the ^ !K?axrs'?"J2; s iQMipBd** Fair ground* and has al - ^ ways doiio a good 'busiaew; y( The troubles of the bink people wM j begin when foreigners from the Midway jj Plsisance Tillages, wh > speak little or no English and have excitable natures, learn ^ of tho suspension. The bank ha*a good' deal of their money in hrge and aniaU ^ National^nk Examiner." ^ " ?" di CLEVELAND'S SUMMER HOME. A Delightful Surprise Prepared for 1 the President by His Wife. 1 Washington, D. C.?It is Iho inten* Hon of the President and Mrs. Cleveland to take possession of their summer home ^ near Red Top during the present week. ^ Mrs. Cleveland has exercised exclusive ^ jurisdiction in furnishing and fitting up the house, and it is stated that she has a arranged everything with a view to giv- y in^ her husband a delightful surpiisc. c Bo has not been permitted to enter the ^ house since the property was secured and turned over to Mrs. Cleveland. At her n request tho President has refrained from ^ making any suggestions about it, and j, t > ??.j i~ i,/.. ? SUV J1I0 L'VVU |JCI 1U UICU lu VAVIVIOC UV1 j own sweet will . aocur*noiiir^5no has raado frequent t visits to the uuu*c, and wheu accothpan- ^ ied by her husband he has usually re- j maincd in the carriage while she catered ^ to give such directions aii were needed to ^ carry out her ideas. t Those whp have been permitted to get j a glimpse of the interior of the Presi- t dent's suburban homo say that Mrs. t Cleveland has displaced cxauislte taste r in all the arrangements, and that the new place is oven more attractive than tho ( cottage at Red Top which the Clevelands occupied four years ago. It is possible that the pr'^eqt cool weather may delay ] the ProsidvOPs family in leaving tho , White Hoiisa until next week, but the ( tako possession, for be is debarred frotn inspecting it until every detail is complete. Mrs. Cleveland proposes that when everything is in readiness she will take the President in her carriage some afternoon after the official cares of the day have been put aside and drive out to the new home. Steward St. Clair will have ready just such a dinner as the President onjoys, and it is possible that a few personal friends may be invited to shire the hespiiaiity of the occasion. NORTH CAROLINA SQUIBS. Newsy Gleanings from Cherokee to Currituck. ?1 _a i 1 a ine caterpillar piague nas reacneu Cumberland and the trees are being by them stripped of their foliage. The State Medical Society in session at Raleigh last week elected Dr. W. H. H. Cobb of Goldsboro, President. Senator Vance has returned to his Black Mountain home, 1 'Gombroon." 0 Warren county has tin smartest hog. n During the forest Arcs last week tho hog ' saw the flames approaching her bed of lt straw, in which was her young brood. She rooted out a hole Dear the bed, de" posited the pigs in it,and then laid down ' over them. The fire passed over, singing n the hair of the old porker, but tho little < squealers were safe. piattorm than any ol silver, I bill now in preparation, and will c? it. I in with much organized backing. ss OMiVMBti, tS. (XVRu Memorial SBa SKSSSjBOtiW the l}ero64 of tbe I<oak Cause tumble usually he* a- grand uamorii Lebratieo, Mid to-dajtwag bo ixbfp mb. Nature bad done her tart, provfd g choice flower* to abuadaaoe, ud th Idles' Memorial' eeoclatioa made i atUI effort to haadaoaaefr decorate el c)^Confcd^oi^t? grmrwrose; He gave a most graphic and lc resting account of tba one hundre ?ya' battle from Daltoo to Atlanta. HE CONTEMPLATED ACREABl be Cotton Report to the Dep&rtmei Agriculture. Washington, D. O.?The cotton r ort to the Department of Agricultu ar May relates to the progress of cott< lanting and tho^contemplated acreag The proportion of proposed bread lready planted on the 1st of May w 5.8 per cent, which approaches ve losoly to the area usually planted at th ate, which is estimated at 80 per cen Tho returned estimates for several Stat ro as follows: Virginia, 71; North Car ina,85; South Carolina, 90; Georgia, 9 'lorida, 92; Alabama, 98; Mississippi, 8 .ouisiana, 87; Texas, 81j^ Arkansas. ' hat planting is wsll up to the average o time. The only States that are behii n planting are Virginia, where t lelay is caused by the cold and bac vard spring;Texas, caused by the ? ensive drought and backward spring ai Arkansas and Tennessee, where the e ensive rainfall and cold weather i arded operations. In some distriots c< esnondents roport drought, while /tuvioj luc returns snow t&e retard! :auso3 to be frost and excessive rain. The germination hss been slow and I growth of the plant backward. So indications have been given as to 1 ^uteuiplated acreage as compared W that of last year, winch was consid ably below the average for a aeries years,|butgdicy are of uncertain^charac and therefore it is impossible to base t satisfactory predictions thereon and figures relating thereto ate only gi to indicate what correspondent beli to be the intention as to the acreage. The reported increase aversges 18 ] cent. The percentage by States are follows: Virginia, 128; North Carol! 110; South Carolina, 100; Georgia, 1 Florida, 110; Alabama, 102; Hisaissij 98; Louisiana, 98; Texas, 100; Arkam 98; Tennessee, 100; There will be less replanting tl usual, owiug to the great scarcity seod. An estimate of the acreage will made on the first of June as usual. Two Educators at War, Raleigh, N. C.?A serious conl vcrsy has been precipitated betw Colonel E. G. Harrell, of this city, edi of the North Cerolioa Teacher, and P feasor Charles D. Mclver, president the fitate Normal and Industrial 8ch for girls at Grdsnsboro. Harrell has p Ushed an article, chat-giog that McT mokes moro money out of the lostitut than the law allows, and making ot grave charges. Professor Mclver is n here for the purpose of making a re; to Colonel Harrell, which, it is said, t we very withering one. Md?iun snstm hYtter th< ;hei of tbc ?tltc bont^8' recently >ssu< ?me 'location W88 *be nt had not been voted upon by th J* im Ik* Old flb CtoMpoake ^ Vttltine ?utry i* Httermlftshermen ^Jbd fl#?t hare d, U*Tiog es Xn on the H* p7 parent* 50 iprH|W * 'W ' cent, to the L~h*T? , *>,000, j to run , >< |800 , ?g?ged c i and c for the which r ills in t >tner known c the^folonial a tare is the h urea at the tl imbers; and * literary or o a t was found pbell county came there is >rtable. The w clothes, with 8t a the migh ? bo teifnflF? L II ?t sbo would 0C * Officer Haddock Attfraked by Frienda fi '* of a Prisoner in^Ria Custody. 84 d Jackson, Miss.?Deputy Unitod States p Marshall Reddock arrived at EllUville, o haviog in custody cigpt prisoners recent- n E. ly indicted by the Federal court, now in c session, for timber depredations, Red (3 ** dock's faco was fcarf^By bruised, and hi t has two ribs knockectnMo one. This war o 0 \ re done, he says, by frieyWkof the pAoocra o )n A inob of fifty sot uponW> the streets > of Ellfsville, but the *J uiarsbnl and f ^ sheriff came to his Jclief, and perhaps a saved his life. The Jf ?r W08 reported t to Judgo Niles, of ttell1edcral Court, aud t ^ he sent Rcddock ba/N to.Ellisville for j witnesses, with a vioJf to sifting the out- 1 rsges to tho bottom. iTbis affair, follow- ] ing so close on tho J^?ak A Cap outrage, is rcgnX^ll possible aid to j| officials will render l ia puuishing tho ^ the Federal as Reception to SfeAetary Herbert. , id A New Yorkf dftpatoh wodnesday , ho lays: The rooms k>f the Southern Society, ( :k- on west Twenty-afth Street, were handix* somely decorated witlk flags this evening ] ud in honor of Secretary! Herbert, of the , ix- Navy, to whom a recelption was tendered , o- by the members of thf society. The rc- ( >r- ception began at A o'clock and lasted for | in three hours. Among i the guests were , ng Rear Admira'a GherArdi, Walker and , Benham and the chieif officers of all naval ( the vossels in port, Amef:nan id foreign me consuls in New York,rGenoral Schofleld, i ;he General O. O. Howard, General John ith Newton, (General Daniel Sickles, and er- hundreds of others prominent in various of wv Iks of life. General Rogor A. Pryor iter received the guests. my the Southern Girl's Debut in Boston, ven Boston, Mass.?Miss Maud Hoffman, eve a Southern girl by birtb, but who has for the past year made herself popular >er by her readings and ryffittions at swell as functions on Back tf^Bmadc her debut na, Monday Dight on thBtfgular stage, play* 98; ing Juliet to Miss Annie Clarke's Romeo >pi, at the Grand Opera House. The audi* tas, ence was composed of the leaders of society in this city ar4 her reception ban was something of whir \ any artist might of well be proud. I be ? An Insane South O&rolinian. Washington, D. C.?Hamilton 8 Sauuders, of Sumter, South Carolina, appeared in Washington six weeks ago 'ro* seeking appointmeut as minister to Mexeen ico. Ho was soon discovered to bo insane and was sent home. He reappeared ro~ here Wednesday and sought admittance to the White House <in the evening. i nursuay nc cams oacK ana was rccogu ?>ijsed and was taken in charge by officers. He will be again sent to Sotlth Carolina. her A Mile in 32?3 ow Buffalo, N. Y.?'Ip4 ' P'y tral's new engine, No. t)/ WSHEfl eill chaster ssd this ci'y, ,ccndrl!inw wm' Crd ?t Brown. ; validiiy 2 o'clock Tuesday morning by a n 2d. The from thit place. The lynchiog party jw issue composed of the sime men who hao o people. Turley at Bedford, f: ft; J 1 - NOTICS TO OFFICE SEEKERS. The President Obliged to Decline Personal Interviews After this Date. Washington, D. C.?The followinf am boon issued by the President for pub lice ti on: Exccutitk Mansion, Xsj 8,1898. It has become apparent, after tire months' experience, that the rules hereto ore promulgated regulating interview* rithjhe President have wholly failed in heir operation. The time which under hose rules was set apart for the reception \>f Senators and R ^preventatives hss iwwm. .kma.1 l? ? * " J m mm MWUW vuvilXIJ ipQQt ID UStCOtOg to lpplications for office, which havo beojt ?Ib!t of remembrance. A due regard for public duty, which ' rauat be neglected if present conditions continue, aud an obaorvanco of the limi- ' tations placed upon human endurance, oblige tno to declino from and afior thU ' date all personal interviews with those j locking appointments to offico except as j I, on my own motion, may especially inrite them. The samo considerations t nakc it impossible for rao to receive those t vho merely desiro to pay their respects, ixccpt on the days and during the hours ^ spec'ally dcs'gntited for tint purpose. I earnestly request Sonntoro ? J Jtaji. osen'atlvee to eld me in securing for Q) hem unintcrrup'cd interviews by delining to introduce their constituents . nd frffcnds when visiting tho Executive ^ lansiou during ths hours designstod for heir reception. Applicants for offico rilll ODly prejudice their prospects by jpeated importuuity aud by rctnnining t Washington to await results. Grovek Cleveland. 1' -mm~? ol Virginians Swindled. 1,1 Buijkkville, Va ?Tho town of Burke- so illo is in a state of cxcitemont over the pi bolesalo swiudliug of a man who ropro- m mted himself as C. II. Dixon, agent for of jo Southern Building ?m1 T.r>o? ? o 41 DO J' ation. of Knoxvillc, Tcnn. Ho first ea jpoarod hero about two weeks ago, and fo *mcd to be a perfect gentleman, and 01 lorning, wkeu a telegram was received -om tho home offico. It seems that the P( samp had the assurance to seat tho. ap- ct lications and mail them in the presence ai f some of tho insured, taking good heed ei ot to send tho cash, though. Upon recipt of theTO applications the homo of- si ice scut at once a telegram to W. P. Bos- b ick. cue of tho victims, notifying him h f the fraud, an J offering u reward b f one bun J red dollars for bis arr.st. n Vbcn looked for the ''gent" had left or parts uuknown. Dixon is apparently bout twenty-seven years old, five feet en inches iu height, heavy set, rod h noustaclie, black bair and light com- g >)exion. Among Lbo victims are tho J disscs O-ibo ncs, $203; the South Sido a remalo Iuslitute, $70; W. P. fiostick, Josyol^ JBradshn w. $21; Mrs. R. M. I Movement of Southern Fruit. At the meeting of Georgia fruit growers nud representatives of various rail? oids, held at Fort Valley, Ga., last week, :ach railroad made liberal offers to secure [he fruit business for tho year. The Louisville & Nashville road Las bad a largo number of improved refrigerator ind ventilated cars constructed for this fradc, and offer3 tlicm without other ihargc than the refrigeration necessary to*insurc tho safe arrival of the fruit. Ry [irs arrangement shippers would save aenrly $40.00 per car over the rates in force last year. The East Tennessee Virginia & Georgia road offers tho same ' inducements for the Eastern market. The ! Richmond & Danville road offers refrigerator cars, but with a charge of $90.00 per additional freight. Tho Atlantic Coast Line, in connection with the Central road, offois quick transportation, but will not furnish refrigerator cars. It is likely that the Seaboard Air Line will come forward with an offer for some of the Eastern business. Disquiet in Brazil. The Charleston, S C.,News & Courier prints tho following cablegram, capping it with tho heading, 'The South Carolina of BrazilVienna.?Private advices teceivcd here from Brazil indicate that the rebellion in Rio Grande Do Sul is mora serious than tho Government is wj^pg to admit. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says that a financial crisis pre* vails in that city. Both the insurgents and tho Government are claming tho vict)iy in tho battle fought on Saturday, near Urguayana, in Rio Grande Do Sul. Better Not Insure a Husband. Newpoiit, Ky.?The Kentucky Court of Appeals has just handed down a decision of great moment to insurance companies. Tho court decides that a policy rr. . taken out by a wife on the life of her husband without his knowledge cannot bo collected in case of death, as an insurance contract is a pcsonal contract. that where a iBMWfcaHB*-. 0 *? .- ? rob ;he suspension o. was it Churubusco, Ind , capital $25,000, < ged >osita $80,000, and the Citizens' Bi it Kempton, Ind. | REINTERMENT OF MR DAVIS, ' Til* Old Confederate Capital Prepares for a loltmn Oburraao* of Ik* Occasion. Ricum >md, Va --At a meeting of th< executive o mouttee ol the Jefferson Darin Monument Association, further detain were agreed on io refereuco to tho reintormeot of Mr. Davie's remains io this city, as follows: It was decided to request the Got* era ore of States through which tho fua oral train possess between here and Now Orleans to accompany the cortege to this city and act as honorary "pallbearers; public school children are requested to par the birr at tja UenOataa* netyhThq str<iTT garlands of flowtrs thereon. Citis?ns along the route of the procession to Hollywood Cemetery are requested to draj>c their -esidonees au 1 places of businoss in black in* white. Provision was made foe the itteudaoce of Robert Brown, of Mis ssippl, and James R. Jonee, of Raleigh, *. C., both colored servants of President )avis during the war. The escort from New Orleans will bo ken charge of by n cnmmittco of cnertninmcnt of veterans and qu rtcrcd t ono of the hotels. Governor Mellon* y will me t tho tr-in at the border ne of Virginia. Ho will also havo the npuvi n .. ... .., f tho remains. A great many prominont ooplo th'oughout tho country hive nnifled ?h?ir io'ention of Icing hero on I ., 31. Want Higher Rates. The South Carolina railway companKa e iabaring with the railway commisoners of tha State to advance tho rates ' freight. They claim that with tho oxting schedule they cannot pay expenses id interest, saying nothing of making a oflt. According to a statement aub* itted to the commission, the 2,035 miles road in the State earned on an avcrago 1,000 per mile in 1802. The average rnioge of railwaya in the United States r the same period were over $0,500, or or twice as much as those of the 8tatc. rnsea. The companies ask for an in ease of 10 per cent, on cotton aud other ticlea In proportion. The commission, s have the matter under consideration. tKa AitAiiiiin of tftxfttiou is still un* sttled, and, although Governor Tillman as demanded that the txa be paid and as refused to submit the qu stion to nritration, no payments have as yet been inde. Mr. Blount Formally Appointed. Washington, D. C. ?Tit j President lis Appointed James U. Blount, of Gcoris, Envoy Extraordinary and Miuistcr 'lcnipotcntiury to tbo Uawaiiuu Islands, ucceediog John L. Stevens, resigned. The fact tlfat Mr. Blount would be rantfcircd from the post of special com> ili?y*oT"am?exTng TfirtaWa^itotHr< o the United States to the position of itinistor was announced in these dislatches, and since the nnuounceiu nt was nade it liss come to be understood that ,ho change was decided on at the Cabinet necting Tuesday. A report from Mi. 3isunt, mailed in Ilmoiulu during the ast week in April Catttu to Secretary jh'csham Tuesday in iruing, and was taken by him to the Cabinet meeting. 3wing to the confidential charnei/?r of ihe report its contents arc kept secret, but it is presumed that it contained such information that tho President deternsiasd to lose no time in conuni sioning a sew Minister to succeed Mr. Stevens. The salary of the posit i in is $7,500. Railway Assessment. Columbia, 8. C.?The railroid board nt odimli/.ution met and made nssc smcnts for tbo year. No material chaogo was made, Although in some instances there were slight reductions. The railroads were notified to appear June 1st and enter protests they might wish to muko. It is not known whether they //ill do anything besides simply trust to tho decision of the courts. New $000,000 Bank at Tayetteville, FayettkviLLB, N. C.?The Co-Opcialive Bank of North Carolina, with an authorized capital of $500,000, with headquarters in this city, opened its doors to the business public here. Jno. P. Collin is president, Hon. Geo. W. Snnderlin ice president and II. C. Bnow cashier. The corporation was chattered by a special act of the last General Assembly. Negroes Try to Lynch a Negro. Charleston, 8. C.?Edward Smith (colored) committed an outrage on Emma Donna, also colored, at Ten-Mile Hill on Monday last. The man was arrested and taken to Summerville, where he is now in jail. An attempt was made by a score of negroes to lynch him, but the mob was driven off by the white officers, who had him in charge - Mr. Gladstone bos otierca too place 01 ?^laureate 01 England, made vacant "^ w^ft^rd.Tennyson, to Arl . > v ie- . - S | was drowned m | bathing. p, TUfi NEWS IN BRIEF. 1 The Latest Happening* Condensed , >#S and Printed Hera. Patriotic Tenocssocan*, inspired by 1 tie j . Tom Cieburoo, of N ashville, aro en* deavoring to raise a fuu d of f1,000 to capcel a mortgage of that mnount on tho lsteGcn. Kirby Smith's homo at Sowanco. Gen Smith eras ncvor oven weil-ta do tlimucialiy aod his estato is barely sutfi- > ?$ cicnt to support his family. Uo was too honest to cngago iu any of tho monetary "schemes" that might havo incroasod his hara of tho world's goods after the oloso ^ of tho war, and in later years his salary as a professor, though what was oonfor bank* deposits. Tho prohibition towu of Portland,Me., uses $70,000 worth of liquor every year fiu ItMnnlirtiitl mit m.ot..-'?' H B ?-??H??ivni purposes." Oou.J. B. Weaver proposes to cstab lish an ''independent school of political T scleuco" nt I)cs .Moines, Iowa, with sercn professors. In view of tho success attending the ' experiments in tobucco-rniaiog at the Calhoun experiment station in Louisiana, a land and tobocco company __ Ins been organised at Monroe, La , for tho puriMfgo tracts of land of forty and sixty acres and settling inmigrants upon it to miso tobacco, which will bo handled by tho company. Tho farms will be sold at a nominal price. At the meeting of the company 1200 acres of laud and f T,V) cash were subscribed for stock. White Caps Sentenced. A Urookhnvcn, Miss., special sayB: Tho Whlto Caps pleaded guilty and were ootenced to two years in the penitentiary. Tboro was a most nlTecting see no in tho Court. Tho prisoners broke down completely and wept and begged tho Judgo to show them as much m. tcy as he could. Tho wife of one of tho White Cspt held a small baby up to the Judge, and bogand business resumed. isfled with the result of to-day's work, tho cit'ecus living iu tho couutry having returned to their homes. Everything is quiet and no more daftger in feared. THE THIRD IN TWO WEEKS. Another Lynclung --Alio laasi in Laurens County. Col. u Mill A, 8. C'.--Tiio third lynching in the Btato in two weeks took place four miles from Laurens Wednesday uftcrnoon at 5 o'clock. I by wood Hniksdalo, a young negro, Mouday niternoou as* Baulted the ulcveu-year-old daughter of Capt. Wham, a well to do farmer. Barks* dale was captuied Wednesday and quiet* ly lynched liy live hundred men. IIo g&Tifcft;; luiMMnhMl 'ififffela. Tho black cup was put over his head, tho tope put around his nock, he was put ro u buggy aud the vehicle pulled from uu* ' . der him. Oarlylo Harris Electrocutod. Bt^io Sino, N. Y.?A 11.ig was raised on the prison at 12:43 Monday showing thatCarlylc Harris ihc wife murderer had been c'octioeu'cd. Doctors Irvine uu Duniula conducted an autopsy, which was begun ten minutes after the electro* cution was over. It was completed at 2 o'clock. The result slow3 tli.it tho body was well nourished and heiithy. Thoro were signs of a slight burning ou the inside of tho calf of the right leg but none on the temple. Dr. Daniels said the electrocution was the most successful of tho sovcu which die has wit* Qcssed. "Harris died without pain," said the doctor, "and I do not sec how bis execution could have bccu bettered from a humane standpoint." ?? The Reserve Again Intact. Washington, J>. C.?The gold re servo, which has for the past two wfck? been below the limit, was Tuesday made intact again by the West. Secretary Carlisle accepted the gold offered from St. Louis, to the amount of $2,000,000, which, with the gold ia tho Treasury, makes the total $100,190,000, or $190,000 free gold. A Ruling Relating to Cherokee*. Washington, D. C.?Secretary Smith lias decided that uccL;r tho act of Congress appropriating $20,000 for tho removal of the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina nud elsewhere to thu Cherokeo Nation, no allowance can be made, except upon certificate from tho proper authorities of tho Nation, that tho removal 1 has actually taken place and tho Indian'.' 1 admitted to citizenship. The Caps Hatteras Light-House. Washington, D. C.?Capt. Evans, of the light-house board, is having machinery built to make a marine hnricjj I off Cape Hatteras, N. C., with the view of localizing foundation for a new lighthouse to bo erected there. *