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THE GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1 886 , OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. THE CASE OF CONGRESSMAN REID. t Staff Correspondence of the Messcneer.l Washington, D. C, December 21. In the flood of talk this week about new movements for a reduction of the, peoples revenues, I am strongly in clined to quote Mr. Turner, 5 Geor gia, and quit the subject until some thing definite is presented. Mr. Turner says, as several' other Con gressmen have said to me, that he does not think anything at all will be done by the present Congress to re duce the surplus. But he thinks that the pressure on the next Congress will be- tremendous. The Randallites hold a conference to-night to decide what their action shall be. The Republican programme is understood to be the following: After Christmas a bill looking to the total abolition of the tobacco tax, imported rpirits used in the industrial arts free of duty, and perhaps a reduction of twenty per cent, on sugar. Nothing has been de cided upon by the North Carolina Virginia committees appointed to consult and formulate measures on the modification of internal taxes. It is the intention to wait until it can be ascertained whether a majority ot the House can be induced to support a measure before -ne is offered for con sideration. By a vote of 00 to 105 the House on yesterdav refused to pass Mr. His cock'sbill fixing the duties on im ported Sumatra tobacco at 75 cents. Messrs. Bennett, Cowles, Cox, Green, Henderson, Jonnstou, and Skinner voted "No' Judge Bennett introduced a bill under the call of States yesterday, which authorizes the Secretary of War to issue rations, and appropriates out of the Treasury $100,000 for the relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Great Pee Dee in North Caro lina. Mr. Johnston introduced a resolu tion with instructions to the Commit tee on Ways and Means to report a bill to repeal the, internal revenue laws. Gen. Cox introduced a resolution to set apart January G, as a day to con sider the bill repealing the Tenure of Office Act. This bill has passed the Senate. Pension or relief bills were intro duced by Messrs. Bennett, Johnston and Cowles. A resolution providing for adjourn ment for holiday recess on the 22d until the 4th of January, was intro duced yesterday by Mr. Morrison, and referred to the Committee on Rules. It was reported favorably, and adopted by both Houses to-day. There are indications that the Ran dall men will decide upon something to urge on Congress in the-way of revenue reform. Having done all the misehier they could, they pretend that they are in favor of tariff reform. They hold a conference to-night. Mr. Wilkins (Ohio), from the Com ' mittee on Banking and Currency, re ported back the Weaver resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treas ury for the following information: First. Whether any portion of the money appropriated by the sundry civil bill of last year has been ex- fended in issuing Treasury notes of arge denomination in lieu of notes of small denomination cancelled or de stroyed ? Sefiond. How many, if any, one dollar and two dollar notes have been cancelled and destroyed since the passage of the act, by what au thority they wero destroyed and what sum was expended in their destruc tion. Third. How many of such notes were mutilated, and whether notes of like denomination were issued in their stead ? The resolution was adopted. The New York Democratic mem bers gave Mr. Abram S. Hewitt a farewell dinner Saturday night. The Senate has passed a bill to in corporate the Windsor Hotel Com pany of this city, who propose to begin business with a capital of $2,000,000, divided into shares of $100. It is intended to make the shares $100 each. The hotel building will be started in two years and completed in five. It is said'that Recorder Matthews'1 compensation will not net more than $5,000 a year. The popular idea is that the Recorder of Deeds of this District receives about $20,000 emolu ments. Mathews was renominated to-day. The District authorities have found an old ordinance of Buchanan s time which requires the streets east and west of LaFayette square now called 1GJ and 15J streets to be labelled on the lamp posts Jackson and Madison . streets. The change will be made. Patrick Henry's great grand son, a cripple named William A. Card well, was arraigned yesterday for the twenty-second time since 1877, on the charge of disorderly conduct. Several Congressmen here interfered recently in his behalf. He was fined $5, or sentenced to thirty days confinement, and his former bond forfeited. John West's trial has been fixed for January 17. Arrivals in two days : Maj. A. J. Galloway, Mr. James S. Battle, Mr. Thomas W. Strange, of Wilmington; Mr. Lucius Green, of Durham; Col. A. B. Andrews, of the R. & D. and W. N. C. Railroads; Lex Lanier, of Oxford, via Bethel Academy, Va. Thebetrothal of Miss Martha Rosen thal, of Alexandria, and Mr. Jonas CEttinger, of Wilson, is announced. All hope that Mr. Reid would re . turn and straighten out matters has fcbout been abandoned. It is said that he enquired about the different routes to Canada wnen ne was last seen in town, two weeks or more ago, stating to the hotel clerk who gave him the information that friends of his on a bridal tour would be here soon, and that thev were going to visit Canada durimr the honey moon. While here he did not show himself to any of his friends. In New York he spoke to Gov. Jaryis of his intention to leaye North Carolina forever on account of his defeat last fall, and that he was entertaining propositions for entering on learal business in N ew i ork and the far West, with preference for the latter because the hew York partner ship did not offer a, criminal as well as civil practice, -and he desired both. The North Carolina members of Con gress have desired to learn his where abouts so that they might write to him and urge upon him to return. There has been a report that the people of his district would petition - the House for his expulsion. This rumor also gtatedthat Maj. J. T. Morehead, of jGlreensboro, would bei elected to fill the vacancy if one was declared; There is thought to be this difficulty i It is a short session, and unless the pressure should come at once' and be irresistible, no investigation would be undertaken. The affair has created a fgreat scandal, but there is as yet no crime power, and all rests on published rumors, which are, however, weU vouched for. This may prevent ex pulsion if the attempt be made to effect it. Everybody regards the affair as lamentable. Indignation4s beginning to take the place of com passion, as evidence of astounding duplicity accumulates. Mr. -Reid was not only warmly admired by most North Carolinians who have fre quented Washington; he was regarded by many old members and corres pondents one of the most promising men at the capital. He was active in the transaction of business, accommo dating to friends and associates, cour teous to all, and was never suspected of any form or shade of wrong doing whatever. What could have induced such a fine young man to compromise himself and entdr a course of folly, not to say criminality, is utterly inex plicable. Great sympathy is expressed for members of his family whose sufferings on his behalf must be in tense. C. W. H. GEN. COLSTON'S FAST. He Explains the Nature ot" liis Disease ami the Remedy Adopted. Gen. R. E. Colston writes to the Star in regard to his own case, which was made the subject of a paragraph recently, describing him as fasting in order to reduce his flesh. He says that he has suffered for years from the consequences of an insolution re sulting from long exposure to the ter rible temperature of the Soudau de serts. It produced a paralysis of his lower limbs attributed by his physicians to a lesion of the spinal marrow. Re cently he found his powers locomotion diminishing and his weight increasing. He consulted a physician, and his theory that while the organs were resting from the labor of digestion na ture would eliminate morbid secre tions, Gen. Colston writes, seemed reasonable. When the physician spoke of fasting ten days Gen. Colston thought he would suffer torments and would never be able to stand it, for he has, he says, a fair appetite and enjoys his food with great relish. To his wonder, he writes, he found that he experienced no sufferings and had no craving for food, though the day he wrote was the 2Gth of his fast. He has lost 27 pounds and would have lost more if he could have exercised freely, but he has lost very little of his strength, which was already much impaired when he began. In the last few days he has walked two or three times as much as usual and feels the better for it. Some rheumatic pains, which added to his trouble, have, he says, subsided. The chronic pain and weakness in his back and lumbar region still continues. He hopes, however, that the decrease in his weight will enable him to carry it with less difficulty. Experiencing neither suffering nor inconvenience from fasting, he intends to continue it sometime longer. It has not been, he says, almost a fast, but an entire abstinence from all food. The liquid, of which three teaspoonfuls per day have allayed all the cravings of hunger, contains no milk, but is a weak and almost tasteless solution in wine. THE NEW SOUTH. Congressman Kelly's Views of Its Progress Since the War. Baltimore, December 22. Con of Phila-Manufac- gressman Win. v. Jvelley, delphia, contributes to the turer's Record the results of his obser vations during the recent journey through the South. After referring to the destitution in which the war left the Southern States he adds : "The progress in wealth, in the means of individual comfort and pro ductive power, has been marvelous, and the change wrought from then until now in the immense development of the coal and iron ore of these States and the increase in number and ex tent of industrial centres may justly be regarded as the work of Titans. The systems of railroads that now traverse' the South are as perfect in the construction of road bed, track and bridges and in passenger cars and the means provided for the trans portation of freight as those of the North. Lateral roads branch from them into such valleys as are known to be specially rich, not in iron alone, but in other minerals, some of which are found in such profusion and juxtaposition as to seem to defy geologic laws as elsewhere illustrated. 'Prior to the war," Judge Kelly writes "the South neither had, nor desired to have great cities. It is also true that her statesmen preferred that their workshops should be in foreign lands and the ships that exported their products and brought them commodities in exchange should be built and owned by foreigners. In this respect the contrast is most strik ing." ' A Valuable Medical Treatise. The edition for 1887 of the sterling Me dical Annual, known as Hostetter's Al manac, is now ready, and may be obtained free of cost, of druggists and general country dealers in all parts of the United States, Mexico, and indeed in every civi lized portion of the Western Hemisphere. This Almanac has been issued regularly at the commencement of every year for over one-fifth of a century. It combines, with the soundest practical advice for the preservation and restoration of health, a large amount of interesting and amusing light reading, and the calendar, astronom ical calculations, chronological items, &c, are prepared with great care, and will be found entirely accurate. The issue of Hostetter's Almanac for 1887 will proba bly be the largest edition of a medical work ever published in any country. The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter & Co. Pitts burgh, Pa., on receipt of a two cent stamp, will forward a copy by mail to any person who cannot procure one in his neighbor hood. As many as 1,000 quaking of the earth a day have been registered in New Zealand. He is Now Learning How to Refine Sugar. In a pleasant chat with Mr. Adolph L. Beltran son or K. Beltran," Esq., commission merchant on Decator street, the fortunate hoWer of one fifth of Ticket No. 94,552, winning $75,000 in the November drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery, stated that -he is a native of New Orleans, and is in the Laboratory of the Plan ters' Sugar Kefinery. learning the business, and that the sudden accumulation of wealth will In no way affect his resolution to master his adopted profession. New Orleans, (LaJ MISS TURLINGTON. The Iead Body of Found. the Lady Haleigh News-Observer. Cary, N. C, Dec. 24, '86. The body of Miss Turlington was found this evening about 2 o'clock at a point about one mile and a quarter west of Cary, near the residence of Mr. Wiley Boughcombe. The body was found by a negro man named Frank Marsh, in a piece of woods about one quarter of a mile south of the lorth Carolina railroad, and about, the same distance from the county road leading from Raleigh to Durham. It was found lying on its back, with hands crossed on the breast and one bullet shot through the head; The body was found about one hundred yards from a path leading out of the main road, and it seems that the murderer made no effort to cover up the body. It seems that the larger number of the searching party were near Morrisville. A messenger has been dispatched to notify the searching party that Miss Turlington's body has been found. Marsh was not searching for the body when he found it. He had started over to Mr. Boughcomb's on business. G. W. Guess. A special tram of two coaches left the city yesterday morning at 9 o'elock for the scene of the search for the body of Miss Lizzie Turlington, car rying eighty-four gentlemen, among them Chief of Police Heartt, Messrs. Spier Whitaker, A. H. Temple, Jno. E. Rav, Thos. G. Jenkins and F. A. Olds. The train arrived at Cary at 9:30 o'clock, from where the party proceeded to a point within one and a half miles of Morrisville and commenced a thorough search of the country for a width of three miles and extended it to a point three miles beyond Morris ville, going over the entire territory in which all reports seemed to indicate that the murder had taken place. The greatest interest was manifested by every one on the ground and all were pretty thoroughly convinced that the body of Miss Turlington was in the vicinity. The hunt was prosecuted without cessation, and some evidence of the proximity of the body was thought to have been found or the discovery of a lady's handkerchief having a red border and being badly torn. This handkerchief was found in an open field a mile west of Morrisville on the Chapel Hill road. The hunt was then continued until a special messenger arrived at Morrisville from Cary and announced that the dead body of Miss Turlington had been dis covered near that place. The search ing party were at that time scattered all over the immediate territory around Morrisville and to call them together to make the fearful announce ment, the bells of all the churches in the village were tolled. After hear ing the announcement, the party at once proceeded to the place at which the body was discovered. This point is about one mile west of Cary on the main road leading to Morrisville, and is not more than one hundred yards to the left of the rdad. By this point the Ndrth Carolina railroad and the county road runs parallel, being not more than twenty-five yards apart. The Raleigh & Augusta Air Line rail road runs parallel to these two roads for three-fourths f a mile from Cary, being to the south of them and about a quarter of a mile distant. Between these two railroads, and three-fourths of a mile west of Cary in a wood, is the exact spot where the body was found. The place is by no means isolated, houses being m sight in two directions, and it is a matter of the greatest surprise that the spot should be chosen for the commission of such a horrible crime. It appears that Bingham had driven over the road and through Morrisville, as before stated, going through that village at about 12 o'clock m., and that he had taken a by-road to the left of the main road, one mile beyond that place, making a circle continually to the left until he reached the main road near Cary a second time, then turned from the left of the main road again going about forty yards into the woods when he stopped and tied his horse. This fact was ascertained by the marks mads by the horse in stamping his fore feet. The hat and reticule of Miss Turlington were hanging on the bough of an oak tree at that point. Signs seem to indicate that the young lady had jumped from the buggy and tried to escape. It is presumed that Bingham shot at her as she ran, missed her and then jumped from the buggy, pursued and overtook her, dealt her some violent blows on her left cheek, knocking her senseless and then shot her through the head. The pistol was evidently very close to her head when fired, her face and her hair being badly scorched by the powder. Right here were two old rails between which was a large bloodstain. From here she was dragged for about fifty yards further into the woods, as was evi denced from the particles of fur from her cloak, having been caught by the twigs and brush between the spot and the place she was found. THE BODY AS DISCOVERED. When found the cuff on her right arm was pulled down over her hand and was stained with blood, indicat ing that she had thrown her hand to her head when the fatal shot was fired. Her muff was near her left side. There were four rings on her fingers and a necklace around her neck. Her clothing had not been torn and was in good order. A part of her hair had fallen down and had apparently been pushed into the coil by some one after she had been killed. She seemed to have been carefully laid out, being on her back, her hands carefully placed upon her breast and lying upon a slight incline, the head being on the higher portion and towards the north. It would seem from the careful arrangement of the body that the maddened and frenzied lover after having committed the hor rible crime realized his inexpressible inhumanity and had as a last and forever lasting farewell to the woman he loved best on earth, bestowed every tender caress and token of loye upon her that was left in his power. The coroner went up to Cary last night to view the remains It is un derstood on crood authority that the body will be brought here to-morrow on the 8:45 train and that the inquest will be held here at 10 o'clock. 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