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m ftut Ii Wfaat CommiMtoner Tt tom Sayi About the STATE DISPENSARY, Aup®® *•••••••«• •, •• Oonbraband (Intaatory Feb 29, 1904) Btftl eaUte Merobaadlae In hinds of dlspenMis Feb 29; 1904 IferohandiseCla vsntorj of stock it State dis pensary, Fab 29.1904 ^ospsoded aoooants.. Personal aeo ants doe state for ^jgapty bir- rsls, alcohol, ate.... • moe tWENlY TWO-KILLED 1,472 47 62 800 66 400.568 85 490.036 69 2,896.24 V OOLLIBION ON THB B£ 4- BOARD A1RL1MB. Which U Vonchcd for by Om. Wille ■ i + J Joaes. Accordlnc to the Fiforea the Dlapfnsary Assets Arc Nearly Dooble that of Its Liabilities. . „ Mr. W. O. Tatum, sUte dlspensarj oommlasiooor has glron out the fol lowing statement: \ “Emeutly a nuxber of papers, anc’ J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for at* general, aaserted that the die was Insol Tent: that if It put tn liquidation it oould not pay its debts. At the time this state ment was made I came out in a eaif Mfr^rg a suspension of Judgment anc asserting that the dispensary was per —teeHj solteas. I said I could pro dnes the figures to prats that the dis pensary was amply able to pay eten daiiar it owed. I hate the figures t< more than sustain my contention and will submit them in this statement It took mueh time and lots of'work tc go through the groat massof account* at the state dispensary and prepare * statement showing exactly condition of the institution. 1 not expect the newspapers t* publish all. tbe figures jo their col umns, but 1 invite any oit'sen, par ticularly Mr. Lyon and the editors of tbs papers which q lestioned the solv of the dispensary, to call at the state dispensary and exantre for themselves the books and accounts and so verify the statement X hake 6 830 781 Total aasets 81,012 537.98 LIABILITIES taboo! fund.. . .1 I 619 664.12 Personal accounts doe by stats for supplies, whiskies, wines, beer alcohol, eto i Member Are Two Colored I People From the Towa of SeanettsTille. l dispatch from Balslgh, K. a, s the head-on collision I Buckingham and Hamlet on the Sea- Mi in the d 492 873 86 Total liabilities... "It will be notieid ▼as on imount band at of stock ..81,012 637 98 how llttlb cash tbat time. The was 8890,000 {In board Air Line resulted of 22 persons and the injury of 23 The regular local passenger train was an hour lata and instructions were wired from the train dispatchers of fice hire to hold it there tor an extra freight going west, but for some rea son the order was not delivered. The operator at Booking bam is W. M. Lu ther. The distance between Hamlet and Bocklngham is six miles, and Bn- glreer Bandy of the freight, wLUt/iAUtl vA mvAMJw- WmB wOv\J } VW mmj I ^^^saV>4ifr ■ ■■ n ■ i nmr unybtANt ts^miw w* ilUv tm aivJU axu •ound figures or 8225,000 more than vS poftuned to send forth a naval expod July 21,1906. Of that stoek I?50, 000 wss represented by an aooumula- -ion of bard stock which had not been worked eff since tbe institution began Trainees. This has been worked off luring my administration, and the present stock contains hardly 620, 000 worth of anything exoept fresh salable goods, This alom resents s tremendous improve! eonditlon in the lest two years. "Besides, in the liabilities si Tented in the statement of Feb 1904. there was over 8300 000 oounta past due, some of much hi six months overdue. sondltlon compared to tbe statement 'or the present day ought to be con vincing to any reasonable mind of the improvement of the financial condi tion of the dispensary. "The school fund is not a debt of the dispensary, bat lie profit and lorn \ooount. It is lees understood than my other feature of tbe dispensary. This article is too long to permit me to stretch it farther by adding fin ex- planattonqlLthaschool frmdrT #iIl WHERE IS IT? Ninety-Six Sailors On a Myster* . tons Island That ~ NO ONE CAN LOCATE. Os This istead May he Uvieg Command er tlmrt aid the Crew of the Ueited States Mae-of-War - That Disappeared Loeg Hardly a year pestee tbat the Pretl dent Of the United States is not 1m This here era tbe -figures v give suob an explanation later in eondensed to the point where any mind can grasp them and any memo rv retain them: "On June 1,1906, the state dispen sary owed for wntskey, beer, eto., e total of 1735 886 94. Since June 1. and np to and indudlngJuly 21,1906 there has been paid on the above ao counts a total of 9451,006.61, leaving abalanoiof 1284 881.33. Butofthk balance 8197 388 67 Is not yet due, whlob leaves the amount duo on old aMOuhti 887 492 71, and the stats dispensary had on band at tbe close of business July 21, a cadi balance of 896,618.76, or 89,026 06 more than enough to pay all accounts then due. However, when the now board of dlrootois were restrained by order of the dispensary investigating commit tee from paying old sooounts of the dkpenmry instead of letting tbe die pensary funds lie idle, they discount ed a number of new accounts by this course making an extra prefit for the state of 83.908 32. Of the accounts so discounted, an aggregate of 879, 119 76 would not have been due on or before July 21, and so bad not thorn accounts been discounted the east balance on that day- would hays been 8176,637 52, or 887 146 81 more than aaough toNavapaid ad aoocunta due at that time. "Oft July 21 the State dispensary owed for whiskey, beer, supplies, etc., 8443,226.34, though only 87 492 71 Of chia amount, as stated above, was " ■ tllat date. * Any aeMrtlon that spemary is not solvent and Oould ;pay out every dollar it owes if it -'owes If It owes If it went into 1’qi tion seems ridiculous, when the sets of the institution are compared wiik that total of its debts. THB ACTAL VIQUBBB. “On July 81. the total of Its another article." W1LIX JONB8' STATEMENT. General Wills Jonea also gave oat tbe following statement: "After reading Commissioner Ta turn’s statement, and after having ex amined tba balance sheet qf the books of the institution I say without hasi- lation that I regard tba present con dltlon of tbe fioanoee of the tasUtn tion se In better shape than at any time during tbe last ten years. I wss chairman of tbe board from April 1st, 1896 to April 1st, 1897, and also a member of the board by appointment of Governor Heyward about six mouths in 1903, and I feel that I am thoroughly familiar with the affairs of tbe dlspensary. ,, (Signed) Wiub Johns. 10 PBXVJthT LT1 CHINO. A Negro to Bo Hanged on Board An \ —' .. Greater Boat. A dispatch from Baltimore, Ml., says with the grsasst possible secrecy easily assets of 9900 000 in round fig- made up Of 896,618 76 oath 00 about 8866,000 of stoek in the state and county dispensaries, real ee tale whlob oost 956 360 56, eupplice of bottles, seals, corks, etc., machin ery and offloe supplies. If all of He ameta were sold at fifty oents on tbe doUar they would be ssore than sufll eteut to pay its Indebtedness. In the abort I have given the value of the real estate at Its oost price, hot it must be remembered tbat it was bought before the tremendous boom of reseat years In the price of Colum bia real estate, The opinion of real estate men, architects and tbe oountj auditor of Blohland county is tbat a very conservative estimate of tbe pres eat value of the dispensary real estate would be 8160,000. AcoepUng tbat figure would ssake the dispensary's aieetoa millioa dollars with which k meet debts of less than 8450,000 Far from being insolvent, if tbe die pessary wen closed out it oould pay avtry cent it owes and hundreds of thousands of dollars into the aohool fund, to which it bsa contributed in Ihs test tan yean 11,361,697.65, be tides paying $3,991,326 49 to the towns and counties in tbat same pe riod, a total of 15,343,023 12. "That Is tbe condition of the dis pensary today. The facts given above sustain say ooetanttoa that the dispensary is in batter condition to day than ever before. When I took _ i of the dispensary in March, 1804; tbe dispensary’s condition was by tip* foliowing statement sbruary 29,1904: of ptate dis for quarter ending February William Lse, the negro who has been held in the city Jail under s?atenoe of death for aeeaultlng two women in Somerset county, aome weeks sgo, was on Wednesday placed aboard tbe steamer Governor B M. McLsne of {be Maryland Oyster bavy and started for Somerset county to be executed for hie crime. ~ :—7*~ Lee’s CMS has been .one of great diffl ulty .td the authorities owing to the indignation the crime aroused on eastern shore of Maryland. It been repeatedly declared that the oltisens of that locality will allow tbe negro to be legally executed and threats of burning at the stake have been freely made. After the crime Lee fled to tbe eastern shore of Virginia, sod to protect him from Maryland pursuers he was taken to Nerfoik under guard of Virginia Stats troops, thence bt wee brought back to the city, triad sad oonvlntad prompt- ly. The law gives a convicted mur derer 20 days between the day of con viction and bite execution, period expired Wednesday. On board the Governor MeLane the offioera having Lee in charge took a gallows, ooffln and all other necessary things, and, It Is said that the execu tion will take place on board the steameun soon sa possible after the waters of Somerset county are reach ed. This probably will not be until early Friday morning. It is hoped thus to circumvent those who swore to lynob Lee. three mites from Hamlet, stopped bis train and lumped before the oolllaioo, Toe dead: White. Frank B. Lewis, engineer, Hamlet; H. 8. Byrd, baggage master, Rockingham. Colored: Thomas Hill, fireman; Watt Bogan, porter. Adesboro; Bev. Thomas Jones, Booking bam; Gilbert He Fed den, Hamlet; Handy U»plas end wife, Laurlnburg; G*rt. Harrington’s baby; Niter DuPres, Bennettevllle, 8 O.; Mary Land, Beonettsvtlle, S. O.; Mary Bell and child, Rockingham; Hannibal McNair and child, Laurln burg; George MoLaurln, Hoffman, N. 0; Jane Ramil, Hoffman, M. 0.; Brlnker Bussell, Hoffman; two un known men. Two other unknown men died en route to Charlotte on special train. The white injured are: J.D Bowden of Wilmington, N. 0 , conductor pas senger train; G. S. Birmingham, Booking bam, N. 0 ; S. A. Carter, Rockingham; E. 8. Sandefoie of R-.Ak1iigha.nn, - , .. ; • Tbi colored injured are: George Morgan, Bocklngham, N. 0; Thomas, Laurlnburg, N. 0.. Oscar Lee, Hamlet, N. 0; Gert Hen ton, Hamlet, N. 0.; 0,oar Flowers, Llles- ville, N. O.; Bleb Douglass, Bsnnetts- vlUe, 8. 0.; May Douglass, Bennetts- vlUe, 8. 0.; Ivie Oxlndine, Lumberton, N. 0 ; Frank Soott, ; Jim OJom, Gibson, N. G.; L is!e Bowman, Ham let, M. 0.; Perry Clark, Laurlnburg, N. 0., MannleLee, Hamlet, N. 0 ; Cota via Jackson, Hamlet, M. 0.; Jane Stewart, Laurlnburg; James Stewart, Book!ogham; Carry McNair, Laurln burg; E. A. Radley; Bocklngham; June Radley, Bocklngham. The freight train was an extra and wss southbound from Raleigh to Mon roe. Conductor Hunter is not report ed hurt and Engineer Bundy is vary slightly injured. The mall train was No. 44, running from Charlotte, N. C., to Wilming ton. This train was in charge of Con doctor John D. Bftwcn, formerly of ^alctgb, and a brother of Gapt. J. J. Bowen of the Southern Express oomp here. He wss slightly injured loser Frank Lewis of Hamlet, man Thomas Hill of Hamlet, bag- H. 8. Byrd of Wilming ton and Porter Bogan of Wad ee bora the are w of this ill-fated train were ear and eight oars of the freight were derailed and of them piled upon other oars pieces. Why tbe order waanot given to the passenger tralnal Rocking hem is not known, and will be In vet ligated by the superintendent of the road. It is said tbat the operator at Buckingham is an experienced man and baa been a faith fulandoarei l and careful employe of tbe company for several years. When disaster retched Bsleigh Superintendent Jenks went tely to the soeoe. A, train up and the injured taken to as soon as they oould be gotten tbe wreck. Oasf eta were sent Balslgh and other points to Hamle sad Rooklngton to receive the bodies Of the dead. Itlon to stive tbe most fascinating sea mystery that ever existed—and this one has baffled all Inquiry for nearly half a century. If "Boblnson Orusoe’’ is the most absorbing piece of sea fiction ever written, how mueh more interesting would be the authentic record of ad ventures of no lew than- ninety six Boblnson Cruaoes all oast away on tbe same uncharted Island In the North Pacific forty six years ago. Whenever sea-faring veterans eon- grefiate to exchange experiences and remlnlsornoes the probable fate of this whole ship’s crew of Oiunas is a favorite subject.for speculation. "Aye, aye, Captain," says a gris- xled old second offloer of a tramp steamer, "I remember the Levant as well as If I'd seen her cornin’ np the Bay only yesterday. In those days she was a man o’ war to be proud of. The United States had few stauncher. The whole orew lost, you say. Bill? Not a bit of it. Pitcairn's not the oqIj un charted Island toshow np just In time ) save a shipwrecked orew." "Bight you are, Mate," says the Captain, "and there’s still a patch out In the Pacific south of 20 north lati tude and east of longitude 14C as big ss tbe State of Maine that nobody knows any more about titan they do of the North Pole. Tou all know that’s about where the Levant got osught by the typhoon book In *60.” "That's the Idea, Gsptatn«lf there’s no Island in that pateb, says I, why has*nobody ever run soroes the wooden boll of the old Levant, or any of her floatin’ Jnnk?" thx Tell-tale mainmast. Except her mainmast that strand ed on Kaalualn in tbe Hawaiian*, ” says Bill, making a historical oorreo tion. \ "Tbit stranded spar goes to prove what I’m telTin’ ye," says the old tramp second effloer. Why was noth- bat the mainmast of tin Levant - seen afterwards? Well, I’ll tell ye. The mainmast went overboard when the typoon fast struck her, an’ laid a elear course for Hawaii. But tbe offloers mangged to keep the Le vant’s noee p’lnted sou’ sou'east for Panama till this here undiscovered is land bobbed up, caught her fast on a coral reef an 1 made Holdnion Cruaoes of everybody aboard." Suob, in a nutshell, are the pqpsl billtles—perhaps, even, the poalUlI- —regarding the fate of the offloers orew of the Levant. Commander William E. Hunt, with ninety five offloers and men, started with tbe sloop of-war Levant from Hila, Hawaiian Islands, on Septem ber 18, 1860, bound for PanafflA via tbe California coast. These were the offloers under Commander Hunt: Lieutenants—McB. S. Porter, E 0 Stoat, Colville Jerrett and B ^ Bo- wen. Surgeon*—J. 8. Gilliam and clroomftrenee at the slings wss found near the mast Consul Miller aod W a Parks, Marshall at Hilo, this opinion Baker was tbs pilot who piloted the Levant In and out of HUo harbor, and he had tbe dimensions of her masts and spars.” ACT or OONQRBSS JULY 24. 1861. "Jons 3), 1861, shall be deemed and taken to be the day on which the sloop of war Levant foundered at sea.” This sot of Congress, Implying that the Levant having "foundered," wee irreparably loss with all her orew, fail ed to draw sny curtain of oblivion over the incident Tbe mystery took too deep a hold on the Imagination for it to be allowed to sleep, forgotten. Every nation whose flog floated over the highways of the North Pacific saw Its •hips menaced by the unknown. Here was a vast area of ocean into whlob their ships were liable to be blown by storms which was absolutely unknown, lying well off the beaten track of nat- igation, aod possibly mads hssardons by tbs presence of oharaeterlstle ooral reefs and Island which in tbs Peetfic are generally so low ae not to be vial hie until a ship is almost upon them. The gfeater part of this unknown area still exists. Ills to the south and east of tbe rente from San Fran cisco to Australia, and to the sooth of all the routes from the Hawaiian la lands to Panama and to Callao. Wha len bad explored It only tentatively, noting certain islands, some of which remain mythical to expeditions which mads systematic search for them. The al most absolute eilet os end mya tery about the disappearance of the Levant, especially, se the years rolled on, tbs fact that no trace of tbe wreck appeared, beyond the stranded mammset and yard, inspired every sailing master traversing those waters with a firm belief thaf*tbe Levant had oast her orew upon some land, herself dinging fast upon the rooks whlob caught her, Between 1827 and 1839 this un known region had hew somewhat nar- rowed by enrtau of three British and one American expeditions. All of these expeditions reported indications of shoal water and urged the need of fur ther Investigations. During sixty years, however, no further program was made. In 1899 the Fish Commie- slou steamship Albatross traversed part of tbe doubtful region iad re ported seeing several lowlying telanrts, evidently the same that exist la wha ling Oxe year before the kiss of the Le vant Captain John de Greaves, sailing from Honolulu to Qallao, reported the discovery of an island at longitude 13.6 and nortii latitude 17, whlob wee about fifty feet high and two miles long. This Island was so near the route of the Levant that ir she had reached that neighborhood in the night she might easily have been wrecked udoq It. — Tbe latest effort of the United States Government to dispel the mys tery of the Levant was made in 1903, when President Roosevelt dispatched the Tacoma out on an expedition of discovery. All that the Tacoma did was to narrow tbs unknown region down to an area of about the extent of the State of Maine. It discovered no island where there were viti DENATURE ALCOHOL BURPLUB FRUIM. AND VBGB-| TABLBB AND WASTE BTOVT POWDER TRUST signtof A wnfitiL- Or which were ited. The Taooma negatively diapos- ed of several island theories, bnt not of the possibility of tbs existence of one upon which the aged Robinson Cruaoes of ths Lsvant may now be living. O teof the great characters of fic tion is popularly supposed to be among these castaways—Pailtp Nolan, the pathetic hero of Edward Everett I the 'eubJatiTof fa (ten Be Made late Material far Meat- lay, Lif hting and Knanlaf MagfeML i.L “The passage of the denature aloo- hti bill by Congress at Its recent ses sion is one of the best aod most help ful measures ever gotten through that body. Many persons do not fully un derstand tbe real help that is to come from this bill, but when they team that denatured alcohol can he used for the same purpose that gasoline is, they will understand in a measure the great benefits that we pay reasonably •xpeet to derive from tt,” says Mr. Sigo Meyers, of Savannah, Ga, who has given the matter a great deal of thought and his views on the subject are of more than ordinary interest. "I am reliably Informed that dena lured aloo hoi eanbe produced at a oost of from 6 to 10 oents per gallon, end I know that the processes of mak Ing It are not very difficult, and In fact are in reach of any faraeer of or dinary means. - Tnough every farmer has not sufficient quantities of raw material for making sooh an enter prise profitable yet in eaob neighbor hood there is s plenty of materiel that is wasted every year to make these plants paying from the very start. Denatured ateohol oan be made from any traits, corn and all grain, sugar cane, potatoes, besta and a dot- so other vegetables. "It has ooourad to me that tbe beet thing to do with tbe large surplus fruit and vegetable crops of the state would be to convert them into at hand the fuel for running our tomobllee, oar email power plants, d Instead of burning ooalor wood at high prloe we oan use our cheap and Inexpensive alcohol for cooking and lightning, heating purposes and for many other am. I should not go farther with this interview before ■tattng the fast tiMt denatured alco hol is potoon and oumot be used as a beverage any more ao than gasoline or kerosene—in faet, a very small qusn tity taken lutaroally produoss death; hence it is +■**** no one, no "Batter how religious, oould object to Its man ufaotuxe as it positively cannot be need aea bevenMA "The pernsge of this bill was a di rect throst at the Standard 01, whlob fought tte enactment Into law allot the powerful tanas at its maud. The fbns«sof tbe country were behind the MB and when these homo handed eons of toll gave the word It wanton the statute hooka Denatured jqq n tastta ed to rob the Standard Oil of a good deal of tbe profits it is now making on gasoline. Denatured alcohol will be used in a thousand different .linos of ail^jwfth which chemista and skill ed artisane an favaiiiEr mil with which the general public have' little Idea. Sven I know of only a few uses tt sen be put to, even than tew de monstrate the ifact that lie use will become general la the United in a short time. "I sm of the opinion that It will bt nearly a year before the government will be able ta permit the opening of these plants. In the msentime tbe reel benefits that may be expected from the pamage of this MU win be- Will Be Hit TO MAKE GHEPOWDl Per Its Owa Use, Csegrsss Has Already Mads Appro* prlsdea. May Save Sn fta , New* from WeefalBcton taps that ‘^Trust basting” te beeoming a habit with the government. Tba trust, tbs meat trust, tba all ihaooal trust, tba paper tm grain trust, tbs others have had their livened by the Boorovtit tion; and now it Is time on the powder trust. Taft has salted for the ooastnietion of a plant with Ml initial capacity of 308,080 ] powder annually and 18 la that the mill will bs ta' within a year. At the recent s—ion, thorlxed the building of powder plant as a sort of it hoe been known tor year* powder manofaeturow of tba country were forcing tbe governmnst If pap mors for its powder than it fairly was worth. Intact, tba powtar trait has the i compels it to pay anjr When tba BIHj nlant la in ooezatlon. tbs of powdar will be ~ leflnitansMi Thai that tb# trust will der to retain 11 reduee its prices, dine to meet the uras the ■and to be etilged, in or- rernma If It (of the use of both tin oavy. Already the Mfvp departatanl tan a cooetderable powder ptent al ladtaa Head, Ml, near the tig (un proving grounds. The plant has eeapotetp at About 3,000 pounds a dap- Toe ex pense of ssaonlaetaxing the powitec el the Indian Head mill ii tar tees than was formerly paid tba powtar trust ter Jta product and the taapi has bens toned to redoes Its pries ta 76 cants a pound. Bp taa aarol ex perts, this pries tt eotafderod tpo nigh, although not seriously exoerolve, . ration it te niarded seUhaljr r price of powder to the sup berodnoedtoevinMitr seals a Ooogi It will ii8< oativti or i drive Ihs of hnssiiMM. but simply toi to ""-I*—c-ytA that they: led with a profit ~ itoaqa 8108. i of either thenta William Bradley; Purser, Andrew J. Watson; Master, James G. Musely; First LleutedAut of Hirlnes, P. L. Brownlog; Acting Boatswain, Harri son Edmonstoo; Gunner, Robert 8. Carpenter, John Jarvis; Sail- Charles S. Frost.. official early records of tbs Le- ! vant’s disappearance are brief, but in te resting and significant. Command- ! er J. B. Mongomery, United Statga Ijovb Orssed. At New York alove tortt Italian, Salavtor Dove, ran amuck in West 100th street Wednesday morning and, — \ —— ■ — — — i in trying to shoot his sweetheart sent Lancaster at Panama. The ago and were wrecked on that island, bullets into the bodies of three pedes following arc from Montgomery’s re-1 there to exist for eighteen yean Im ports to Washington from his flag Hale’s "Man Wlthont a Country, whom the author disposed the Levant. Captain Lawless, writing of his orates, ssentloned re ceiving a letter of that miilerpleoe "If yon have found dear Phil No lan, bring him at once to this I will adopt him as my grandfi The groat historioal analogy fok the theory that members of the orew of the Levant are still alive on some unknown Island te tbe sitetanee uf the colony on Pitcairn Island, in- the South Paoifie, these people being de soandants of the ore# of the Bounty, wiiloh mutinied more than a century men! in every section of the country, and when the government to randy opening of throe plants tbero willl of them ready to begin! hnslnsm OomsaiMkmer John W. Terkss of the Intanml Revenne De partitant, hec_ study the methods of handling e plants by other governments. Most, If not all of ths important for eign governments do not tax deoatur- led alcohol, and it totaifi that in Ger many, for powderi lOtthei for both the 36,000,000 govern meat basin pandlture on the part of i, if trust prloai der, of nearly i in imauat I rasp a profit of ta tnaaavy §8 On ~81M88,- faeturer, and that it has dona a gnat deal towards making Germany one of tbe Isadlng manufacturing countries of the world. I look tor It to have I wor * now In propyatioa of of the will be under the inr Beverly W. Dunn of ■ft of N trlans, two of whom were seriously in jured. Dove, who was badly In love with Tharesa Lodtte, beoauw she ac cepted attentions from another man, Wednesday morning he waylaid her and fired shots resulting ss stated above. Alr«ui ot Tuxaway D*m» N. A. Patterson, a brother of Con- gressman jss. A. Patterson, ot Barn well, writes to Governor Heyward from Arden, N. 0., calling attention to what ha considers tbe danger to Anderson end other South Carolina counties from tbe big dam at Lake Poxaway. He says the lake it a con stant menace and that residents below it will some day have a Johnstown flood to go through with. Mr. Pat terson also wishes a commissioner of deeds for Sooth Carolina appotned in Asheville. He says notarial fees then are Just double their amount in this ship waiting in the Bay of Panama: "Nov. 20, 1860—1 have recently re- | oelved letters from William E. Hunt | that the Levant Is now ready and on j Its way to this port." "January 81, 1861—The Saranac and Wyoming will proceed In searob I ot the Levant, to Hilo and Honolulu The unusual length of time stnoe sali- to he V Ranked ^gltaT — President Roosevelt announoes that he te pleased with the campaign plane of the republican congressional ojm- mlttee which met tbe president aad It was decided that a "stand pat” pro gram was the proper one. Messrs. Taft, Shaw, Cannon and Beveridge agreed upon the big guns for the stump. Tbs oommtttas will op en headquarters in N. T. By agree ing ta stand pat on the tariff tion the Prealdent flanka Alliance Dtabanda. Pursuant to a call toroed by State Scoretarr J. B, Neebttt of the South I ing produce* serious apprehension fox Carolina Farmers AUianoe, a meeting her safety." ' "February 13, 1861—No word yet. Hurricane last September dismasted an American dipper, and H. B. M line of battleship Ganges had her sails blown from tbe jar da “A letter from Commander Hunt, dated September 3. I860, stated he would start from Hilo in tan or twelve days. It te now known that he sailed from Hilo September 18, without of purpose to return to this port’’ "February 14, 1881—Commander J. K. Mitohell, of the Wyoming, at Hilo, reports his cruise from Panama No word, except that Hunt intended to take the usual Northern route to via the coast to California, to get the record of his work before DOgtl "June 8, 1861—Thomas Miller, 8. Consol at Hilo, reports a l ashore seventy-five miles from ItiMro, supposed ta be the main matt ot the Levant. Charles Spencer, Iwae Niehote and Ohrtelopher Baksr ex- thit maal of ysQow pine and 18 to ha th9|M-tb* I* vast. Pvt of a tower ytnFftlNtoto in of that organisation was held In Co lombia Wednesday night, there being about 16 present. The alllanes ex change fund having been distributed according to am order of tbe supreme court, the members decided to formal ly disband, thus ending an organisa tion that was at one time one of ths most powerful in the South. Doable sulolde. At Marion, Ohio, 0. G. Johnston, aged 24, was found deed Wednesday. Tan days before Johnston quarreled with his sweetheart, Cora White, the result of which she committed suicide by taking carbolic sold. John ston ateo took carbolic add, and to make the end sure turned on the gas. fora their fate was discovered and made known to tbe world. These Bounty mutlneea for nearly a score of years were genuine Robinson Cruaoes, subsisting wholly upon fish and the other sea food, the birds and animal* aud the fruits whlob the is land afforded. __ —.s — The Levanters were, perhaps, able to save part of the wreck of their ship from which to build huts, and some of the stone, Intending clothing. If these old men are now teothed at all must bs with tbs skins and tea then of birds, or even woven grasses, or per haps the woven fibre of tbe outer husk of the occoanut. It la possible that there were seeds aboard tbe Levant and that thta colony of Orusoes has been able to cultivate the soil u a means of varying their supply ot fish, birds, eggs, turtles and so on. Pjs- the salvage of the ship's ohrono- stiU give than the time meter may EtopeU with White Girl. Henry dayter, the negro In Ohiosgo when he marry a white girl with had eloped from Irvington, Ky., w_ planed la the county JaU at Launvllte for safe keeping. Weed poiirto nut a mob was <»»g Irvington to lynob Otayter. ot dav. As at teaat a soon of them most have bsea men of education, doubtless they have kept diaries whlob contain records of their strange ex perlenoss from dap today. But the mystery of the lost Levant and hli crow, and alto of the gnat un- explored region, ta too tastenittng ter attempts to aelve tt to osan until every square mite of those latitades has been serutinlxad. Evan ten yean from now, if the fatal island la found mueh tbe sasweffeet in the United States, and 1 am certain that no *w tion of country will be benefited ao mueh from the eheap power thus made poatebl* as will the South. "It sup be genecallp underatood but at this time the regular ateohol now in nae te taxed at the rata of tbont 12 a gallon. Under the hjgLjoat pasaed this tax Is entirely removed. 4s I have stated It will admit of the farmer utilising every spare ounce of the fruit shd vegetable produem of his term which under the old law was not permissible, as so tew oould afford to pay the tax to manufacture. In addition the demand lor denatured alcohol at the pries it had to be sold was so iategfloant that ns one oared to maauteoturo It. It is now worth In the open market about 12 60 per galioo. Whan the present bill beeom- es of foroe, say a year booce, it will be •old at retail around 20 oents par gal lon and by the barrel at a mueh small er prlOA I look for a era of industrial activity all through the country, and the man who is going to be the reteptent of eS Diyere* A mstill dispatch to the Herald from Savannah sapA rtsge that will a over ths state, if i •oath was that of Judge Twiggs to M<s Luete 9, They aieaowboth vannah. It toted _, part •gala his wife about •go in August* ysan ago meat. Js _ kata and saoured a i mouths' lady, to Georgia i who bad bi a divorce from his love for .hfs ateiaut of Mi to bar. Nos 1 Ths result was the psrrtegs Gave mu* Jerry Milter a a toi, Tana., upon hard headed farmer, of the country <” in i half savage old men my fi to tall tevlllsatioa the i stow ofths loroof Ihs Levant i of their bog i Fell Overbear*. Walter Ormond; a prorotipsafi law-1 ysr of Atlanta, Ga., fell overborn from the MtnsasOUp off thptitoSt of his return frtoi Mew Tort thfia- He «i I to hie i he int '•'Ste*'*. * -■4 mtl. -