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PALEM0N JOHN, Editor and Proprietor. Devoted to the Interests of the City, the County and the District! TERMS $1.50 a Year, in Advance. VOLUME XXI. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1889. NUMBER 25. . VJI S 'BY III II : II wmmi in ii ;i ii u i :i a ib ii t m m w - The Argentine Republic s immigra- 1 tion for this year will reach 370,000. This is too many to be properly as'simi- j lated and the soulhern republic is likely to have a very grave questioa to settle ! in a few years. In Great Britain the quantity of coal dust remaining unemployed annually is calculated at 28,003,000 tons. Vari ous method? have been attempted to convert it into cakes, but the operation is not sufficiently remunerative. . An Eiffel tower is to be erected in London. It is to be 1250 feet high. Two thousand Cvo hundred dollars is offered as a prize for tho best design for the proposed tower, and half that amount for tho second best design. Tho competition U open to the wond. The city of Cologne, in Germany, is to hold next year an International "War Exhibition, consisting of all articles appertaining to war or necessary for tho use of nn army. It is the intention of the promoters to make the show of an international character a? far as pos sible. Tho King of Portugal, who lately died, was something of a scholar and a literary man, having written poetry of his own and translated several of Shakespeare's plays into Portuguese. Whatever may have been tho merit of this work its royal author ha left be hind hi in a reputation for simplicity and modesty of life too rarely met with in reigning families. Hi was an amia ble aud a-deservedly popular monarch. At - llerria i -Spring, .Mich. Horace Sebring, the hardened , young criminal who nearly succeeded in poisoning all the members of his f-nnily, not except ing hh father and mother, in order to secure a paltry i's! ate and get 'married, was sentenced to twenty -live . 3'cars in the State prison. He himself explained to the jury how he put the deadly drug into the (eakett'.c and refused t& ca'.l a doctor to the ai I of his' tori m od rota tive, who were only saved by the time ly appearance of .neighboring friends. It is seldom that a- woman has tho couraga and pertinacity to come half around the globe to sic.iie the .punish ment of a man who has deceived her, but this is what the. Australian woman has done who h responsible, for the ar rest of the cx-convict, Julius Mailhouse, at Chicago. The follow ."" let t a w.fe in the lake city, went to Australia, married this womin ami then decampjd with $3,750 belonging to her fa'hc".- lie re turned to Chicago aud was enjoying his plunder with his fi "st wifj when his fair nemesis cam; down upon him. The case .a so clear that the clever swindler cannot escape Stale prison, Which he richly deserves. A-railway mail clerk rather got the best of the Government, recently. lie had been lire 1, along with a number of others, but, instead of giving up his . annual pass, which he held as an employe of the Government, he traveled all over the country "on it, aud it was two -weeks-before lie gave it up.. Bj fore he turned up after his extended jaunt, several Postofliec Inspectors were put on his " trail and the authorities everywhere were notified to watch for him, but just m the Inspectors were ready to nab him he turne I up at tho General Superintend jut's officer, gave up the pas and renuctvd his account so that the Government -could not molest him. . ' It is estimated that as many as one thousand fatuities are destitute in North Western Minnesota and Western Dakota on 'account of failure of crops through drouth. An appeal has been made to the brotherly good wdl'of the people through the Union for such aid in money or pro out visions as will enable those sufferers Oh the bleak frontier to get through tho Wint'T. Trie settlers in those far Western regions, observes the New York Daily iS'ctcs, are more dependent upon nature's bounty than tho inhabit-ant; of the older roiir.nuuitie'?, for they have to live, for the m;t pirt, on the fruits of. the earth that themselves produo out of their labor and its fertility. When the crops fail them they Iiavj few re sources elsewhere, aud it ii for the re lief of a population thus famine- stricken that thj generosity of their fellow- coun trymen is invoke I. " M. E ffel has already opened commu nication with people in New York city regarding the erection of a tower at the proposed world's fair there, simitar to the one buiit by him at Paris. Tho' Paris tower, he says, has given him new ideas on constructions of this kindf and he is confident that a tower can be carried up to a height of 1500, or cveu 2000 feet, without any architectural difficulties. Judging by this expansion of M.-Edlel's ideas, there is no limit to the height of toWcr building. The Chicago Herald thinks if a tower 1000 feet high shows that it is an ea?y mat ter to build one 2000 feet high, the lat ter would seem I necessarily to demon strate the feasibility of running one up to a height of 4000 feet, and so on un til the man in the moon miht be a guest at Eiffel-tower lunoh parties. Ap parently, all that the French architect requires to realize the dream of the builders of tho tower of B.ibel is enough world's fairg to fcriag him out. i THANKSOIVINO. Upon the frozen, fruitless ground, Above a treasure he had found, ' A robin sang; Suck rapture swelled his tender throat Tbe dull air quivered with his note; The silence rang " With melody so high and long He seemed "to be incarnate song; He seemed to thirst , So tame he was as I drew near ----That all the heavens and earth should hear The grateful burst. No alderman at turtle feast Nor hungry man o'er smoking beast Such bliss could know; No parching traveler on the sand. Discovering water near at hand. More joy could show. No juicy fruit nor dainties ripe Had thus attuned his little pipe To thank the Lord; 'Twas but a bunch of withered lerries Or unnutritious, starveling cherries Tbatspread his board! That robin's rapturous merriment Exposed man's selfish discontent In its true feature; That day a sermon rare and good Was preached in aisle of somber wood By feathered creature. And often when I bow my head In thankfulness for bounties spread And look on high, I walk once more as in my youth And hear again in very truth That robin's cry. Irving Browne. ' THANKSGIVING. ITTLE Kate Weaver walked wearily through the rich light of a November sunset w ith a basket of chest nuts on her arm. She had been gathering them,' with the as sistance of Dick Burns, the blacksmith's boy, for the morrow evening, for every thing eatable or drinkable which was con sidered "good" would be pressed into service through the hours of the Thanks giving now so near at hand. Throughout the year the inhabitants of'Ilushtop were, as a general thing, plaiu livers, but on Thanksgiving Days they stuffed themselves as they did their poultry. And so Kate Weaver hoped to sell her nuts. -At home her home there was to be no Thanksgiving Day kept. That is, re garding it as a feast. Kate had a vague hope that if the nuts sold well she would have a "cup of tea and some baker's gingernuts for supper." But, after all, almost every one had nuts already, so the sale was slow. A pint to a greedy child three cents' worth an old woman," who lived by herself in almost as poor a little house as that Kate lived in and here it was sunset, and not nuts enough to pay for the labor yet sold. It would have been better to have gone out sewing. Kate was worn and weary and always timid; she shrank from approaching the loor of the "hotel" dubbed thus by the 'landlord. Jt was "the tavern" elsewhere. But the remembrance of" her sick sister's pinched, paleface arose before her. The tea and the baker's cake .-and the little bowl of arrowroot would do her so much good. She put her face in at the open door and said timidly: "Chestnuts, sir?" I. I: And a man in a blue jacket, who stood at the bar, turned. - "Nuts, eh?" 'he cried. "Well, I'm your man. How much are they, lass?" 'Kate answered the price by the pint. "Hang pints!" said the man. "I'll take the whole mess. Steer this way, my lass, and pitch your brisket full over board into this handkercher, and there's two dollars for you." "They are not worth that much, sir," said Kate. "Botherl" said the man. "Why, a marine wouldn't take change from a lass like you, Thanksgivin' eve. Keep it, Lord love ye. Only I'd like a buss from them red lips into the bargain." Kate retreated hastily. The man was plainly tipsy, and she was a little afraid. But she was thankful in spite of all. At her pooi seamstress work she earned so little the money seemed a great deal. It was a perfect Godsend to her. She hur ried along the street to the grocer's and walked in aa a new-made millionaire might. "A quarter of green tea and a pound of sugar," she said with an air, wonder ing whether a pound of ham would be an extravagance. "And a paper of ar rowroot if you please." . The grocer took the small order with a nod and answered: "In a minute," and Kate looked about her. The shop glistened with its Thanksgiving dressing up. The tea-caddies, with their gilt mandarines, the Chinese ladies, were splendid objects. - The gas was turned on in every burner. Pyramids of apples, clusters of raisins and piles of almonds decked the window, and for the first time in a long while sho was absolutely to have a 6hare in the good tilings on ex hibition. " She felt almost happy. Who knew but a "streak of luck" might come, and she should be rich some day. The clerk was ready for her now. lie put her tea in white paper, her sugar in brown and dabbed the paper of arrow root on the counter with a "there you are." "Anything more, miss?" he asked, and Kate, growing quite extravagant, said: " 4 Yes, a candle and two of these large apples.'" Then she proffered her two dollar bill. The young fellow looked at it and whistled. "This is your little game, said. "'Twon't do with us. eh?" he If you warn't a gal, I'd call the poUce. try it agin, I warn you?" Don't "Try what what is it?" asked Kate, j trembling. "As if you didn't know it was coun terfeit," cried the man. "Come, don't play innocent. There's the door. Why, a blind man couldn't be took in by that thing." He tossed the bill, all crumpled up, to ward her and took away her purchases. Kate understood what was the matter. "I did not know it was -bad. It was given to me in payment for some nuts," said Kate. "The man will change it, I am sure." "You'd better try," said the clerk, sneeringly, and Kate ran out of the store and back to the tavern, but the. man was gone. Only the landlord was there. He sympathized. "I'm sorry," he said. "I wdsh I'd had a look at it. Poor thing. It's too bad. He's a regular rascal, I've no doubt. You ought to be careful about bills. There's a lot Of bad ones going." And with this end to her day's work and evening's work, Kate crept back to her sick sister and the wretched meal of dry bread. "Not even Thanksgiving could bring any good to her," she thought, and she could not sleep, but sat with her face pressed against the glass, thinking of the past and of the future. The last was dark, but she had been happy once very hap py. They had had a home and she had been its pet, its best beloved.- : She had worn pretty dresses, and had never Known the want of any luxury. And then, too, in those bright days of her seventeenth year, she had had a lover. Still, through all her , poverty 'she had kept his ring on her finger, and his mem ory at her heart. Poor Charlie Nichols ! He was drowned at sea on that first voy age for the ship was never heard of from the time it left the dock. He was dead, and so were all the rest mother and father, and boy brother only her sick sister and herself were left upon the earth. The tears fell fast upon her clasped hands. 'Thanksgiving I How could they give thanks?" She was only twenty now, yet life was quite over. .Nothing could ever come to her but woe. Even the humble feast she had hoped for so, little as it was, had been snatched from their lips. Oh, the cruel man ! the cruel man ! did he know how poor they were? And at last, ill with weeping, she crept into the wretched bed and slept. And, perhaps because she was hungry, she dreamt all night of Thanksgiving feasts and merry-making, and music and dancinsr. and smiling faces and love greetings. And out of it she awoke to the cou ciousness of her misery. 'Thanksgiving Day. Oh, Carrie, what have we to be thankful for?" she asked. . But the sick girl answered, humbly "A great deal, if we will only try to think so. God is cood to us all. How many are worse off than we?" Kate shook her head. She could not feel that this was so. And she heard the church bells ring, with thoughts she would not have put into words for the world despairing, wretched, almost wicked thoughts. Why should God give all good to others and so much woe to them? At the same hour a sailor tumbled out of his berth on board the steamship Rising Wave, and rolled into the Cap tain' presence a speedily as possible. I'd like to go ashore this morning, Cappen," he said. "You were ashore," said the Captain, "yesterday." "I know it," said the sailor, "But, ye see, I cheated a girl out of $2, and I ain't easy in my mind. That is how 'twas, Cappen. I'd been drinking too much " "Leave you alone for that," said the Captain. "That's the truth," said the sailor, "and I was in a tavern along with Sam and Bill, and two more mates, when in came a gal with nuts. , It bought 'em, and by accident, Cappen, I gave her a bad bill. Where I board they gave it to me, and won't take it back. I found out arter I was aboard that I'd give it to the gal, and I can't sail leaving a thief's name ashore." ' The Captain smiled and gave Tom leave to go. And so it chanced that, as people were going home to dinner from church, and Kate was hiding her head beside the empty hearth, a knock came at the door, and opening it, she saw a sailor. "You're the lass!" he cried.. "Yes. your the lass. 1 asked for ye at the tavern, and they sent me here. I didn't mean to cheat ye. I hope you and the other young women know that. Here's a good bill, and I'll burn the other to save mistakes, for there's no gettin' it oil on them that gave it." Then he stared at the empty fire-place. "This ain't Thanksgivin' fixin's," he said to himself. "I'm afraid they're in want." And then his eye went roving around the room and- lit upon a tiny daguerreo type upon a shelf- "Is that one of you, miss?" he asked. "Yes, I see it is and might I be bold cnomm to asfc your namef J.aint im pudence I've a reason." Kate gave her name. "It's the same," said the man. "See here, miss, do you know Captain Nichols Captain Charles Nichols that went to sea before the mast four years ago?" Kate screamed and clasped her hands. "I see you do," he said, "and I've got news to tea mm tnat n mane ms neart lad. He's been searching for you for months. In every town we've been in, he s looked lor you up ana aown, ana high and low, and I've helped him, and m m -m m 1 1 .1 only yesterday he says to me : j "'Tom, it's no use. I'll never find her. She's dead or married and lost to me forever.' 1 "Aud the tears were in the- Cappen's eyes when he said so. Don't keel over, miss. Have a drop out o' my flask. I say, young lady in the arm-chair, what shall I do with her?" And Tom was in a, dilemma,, for Kate had fainted. , ' But it was joy and not grief that over came her, for she knew that her Thanks giving Day had dawned at last. Amd before the actual aay was over Kate was clasped in her lover's arms.and Carrie had felt a brother's kiss upon her lips, and cot ouly had the greatest grief and trial of Kate's life happiness ended with her lover's return, but want and poverty were over for them forever. And in the care and comfort of her sister's married home, roses returned to Carrie's cheeks, and two happier women are not to be found under1 the sun. "Let us congratulate ourselves that we . are still here." How the Day Was Established. Mrs- Sarah J. Hale, who was for many , years editor of Godey'i Ladie? 'Book, is credited with the establishment of the National Thanksgiving day. She began as far back as 1841, writing to the Gover nors of the States, urging them to issue Thanksgiving proclamations, until in 1859 the day was observed in all the States but two. President Lincoln is sued the first National Thanksgiving pro clamation after the fall of Vicksburg, the day set apart being August 6, 1S63. Since that time the Presidents have ap pointed the last Thursday of November as the National Thanksgiving Day. - A Shrewd Butcher. "Here, Jack," said the butcher to his ,jy, "take this leg of mutton around to old Jones's ; and be sure to carry it in a covered basket, so that . the neighbors won't know that they haven't a turkey for Thanksgiving." THE THANKSGIVING TURKEY. How dear to my heart are tho scenes of my childhood, when fond recollection ; presents them to view; ' 't The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, j And every loved spot which my infancy knew; . j , Che hay rack, the plow and the ld fashioned cutter; ' '. . The lambs that were full of -their frolic and The warm flowing milk and the good bread Jtnrl butter; And -.Ten ie tat turkey that sat in the tree; i The young, tender turkey, the good, fat turkey, j ' The Thanksgiving turkey that sat in the ". tree. I That Thanksgiving turkey I hailed as a trea sure, j or always in fall when returned from the '. school, ) I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure. All roasted and seasoned, of stuffing so full. How gladly I saw it with eyes that were glowing! How pleasant at home on the farm then to ':- be! ,';' - -,' . To feast on the cock that in summer was crowing, ' And e'en the fat turkey that sat in the -- tree; . . The young, tender turkey, the good, fat turkey, , j The" Thanksgiving, turkey that sat in the tree. 1 j ' ' How sweet at the family board to receive it, When words of good cheer and affection were said, i Not a feast with a monarch could tempt mo to leave it, j ; . 'The grandest that riches and fashion can spread. - i .'. And now, far removed from that loved habi tation A feeling of sadness' arises in me, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation. And sighs for the turkey that sat in the tree, The young, , tender turkey, the good, fat - turkey. The Thanksgiving turkey that sat in the tree. CHARITY'S THANKS. LL the wiseacres said after Charity Chipman's father died that she would have to hire a man to run the farm. She thought differently, and having taken charge of everything I a" herself, found at the end of a year a nice little profit to her account in the bank. The day before Thanksgiving she was driving into town with a load of turkeys and pumpkins and new-laid eggs, to sup ply her regular customers for the great yearly feast-day. She was thinking, a the cart jogged along, that she would have to eat her turkey alone on the mor row, and somehow the thought was not a pleasant one. Her reflections were broken by the sight of a lonely woman trudging along the road, jiist ahead of her. "Going to Hartsdale,?" she asked, as she came up. "I'll give you a ride if you're bound that way.". "Oh, thank you," said the stranger, who was young and pretty-looking. "I had walked five miles, and was beginning to get tired." "Going to town to spend Thanks giving !" asked Miss Charity, helping the young woman in the cart. "I am going there to look for work. I have no friends' to spend Thanksgiving with," said the other, sadly. "That's too bad," exclaimed Miss Char ity then "Just hold the pony a. min ute while I deliver this stuff to my cus tomer." And so Miss Charity bobbed in and out, stopping for a little to talk with this or that matron, pulling a bunch of gaudy chrysanthemums from under the wagon seat for a little lame child in a tenement house and slyly leaving a plump chicken for the consumptive seamstress, who could not afford to order one, until the golden-haired girl alighted at the street corner. "There's an . intelligence office near here, ma'am." said she, "where I maybe able to hear of work. I am much obliged to you for the ride." And she dropped an artless little cour tesy and went Her way. Miss Charity looked after her. ' I like that little daisy-like face," said she. "If I'd known who she was and been quite certain that she wasn't a tramp I should have been almost tempted; to ask her to come and live with me ! I need some one, young and active, about the place, and . But here's Mrs. Tiili drum's where the barrel of apples is or dered for." Mrs. Tillidrvrm proffered a fen-dollar bill in payment for the apples; Miss Charity Chiprnan put her hand in her pocket to make change. I Vx Why, it's gone!" she ejaculated. -What's gone?" said Mrs. Tillidrum. Iy pocketbook!" screamed Mi's r u Charity. "And that ungrateful tramp has rewarded my kindness by robbing me! j might ha' known just how it would be!"Jl She went ; straight to the intelligence office. The girl whom she had described had been there, but was gone, leaving no address. '! ' , - . ' .. -; . i , -"It's like looking for a needle in a bottle of hay,"; said Miss Charity. And she left the J description at the police sta tion and went home in great disgust. "My old !red: leather pocketbook, that was father," said Miss Charity Chip man, with tears in her eyes,; "and twentyr five dollars and sixty cents in it, in good hard money it's enough to put one out of all conceit with human nature 1 And she with such an innocent little face, too, and eyes as blue as a baby's! Well, I never shall believe in what the physiog nomists say again !"' "v It was Thanksgiving Eve, and Miss Charity Chiprnan was sitting dejectedly before the fire. -of blazing pine logs niedi tating upon her loss. Neither intelli gence officejnor police station had been able to render any account of the old red pocketbook ( and its contents. "I declare," said Miss Charity, "it just spoils my Thanksgiving !" til;-1 iti When alii of a sudden,- there came a knock at the door and there,' wrapped in a faded brown shawl, with her golden hair blown all about her face, stood the girl with the blue eyes, who had ridden at Miss Charity's side during the frosty November sunrise. ? "Bless my soul!" cried Miss Charity, recoiling, j 1 . "Yes," said the girl, smiling, "it is I. And I've brought back your pocketbook. I found it jying on the curbstone oppo site that liouse where you stopped with the bunch of flowers. I was returning from the intelligence office when I saw it lying among the dead leaves and I knew you must; have dropped it when you jumped out. And I've . been inquiring everywhere for you and have only just, found you. Here's the pocketbook, and if you'll please count the money, I think you;il find it all right." ' Mechanically Miss Charity Chiprnan numbered over the contents of the old receptacle. I Not a copper cent was gone. "Yes,'? said she, ''it's all right. Stop a minute, child where are you going?" "Back to 'the city, ma'am," said the gitl, wrapping the faded shawl closer around her, for the twilight blast was keen. "; . "Have you got a place !" .' Not yet; ma'am, but; there's a cheap lodging house for working women; where I can get a jrery good bed and bowl of soup for fifteen cents, and" "You can't go there," said Miss Charity.': I.' ' V-V ?''..; "Ma'am?" said the startled girl. "Look liere, child,'' said Miss Charity, ' 'You're all ; alone in the world. ' So am I. Stay here- with me. I'll give you good w-ages and a comfortable home. For there's something in your face that I like.",- 1 j." ' : :" "j ' " "Do you j really mean it, ma'am?" said the girl, looking around! in a fluttered manner at the bright fire and the cheerful rug carpet, jwith its stripes of red and blue, and the rows of glistening crockery on the. shelf ; By way ojf answer Miss Charity drew her gently ih, closed the door and kissed her cheek.' j , , "Two loiie women together," said she. "Surely we, can manage to get along!" And Miss Charity Chipinan ate her Thanksgiving dinner on the morrow with the blue-eyed stranger sitting opposite the blue-eyed stranger who lived with her and wa3 a comfort to her until the ii day of her death 1 And both! of them kept Thanksgiving in their heajrts ! The Day After Thanksgiving. Mrs. Gobbler ."Thesje look like the remains of my old man." Ah Informal Repast. "I suppiose," said Mrs'. .Brown, "you would like jme to wear a pew dress at this Thanksgiving dinner ; you are going to give?" :)(.; ; , f , V . "Can't afford it," growled old Brown. "As long as you have the turkey well dressed you will pass muster.' Don't count your turkey before it fs carved, forlit may go back on you. . . " TALMAGE'S NEW CHUBCH. Plans Approved for an Edifice to Scat . COOO Teople, TheBoard of -Trustees of Dr. T. PoWitt Talmase's Tabernacle, in Bnxiklyn, has ap proved plans for the now ciliflee to replace that in Sehennerhoru street rweutly burned. Work has bevn commenced, and it will he finished bv September 1 next. It will cost f i.o,o.. " ; The plans provide for a building that will 6eat 5XK itcrsons. It will cover the entire TUE NEW TABEllNACLK. I dot of ground at the northeast corner of Clinton and (ireene avenues, extending back to Waverley avenue, 118 feet by 2M. The church will le built of Connecticut granite with trimmings of Lake Superior brown stone. , The -corner tower will bealtK feet high. The interior will be in the .shape of a large amphitheatre, semi-circular, with . two gal leries. There will ho 'no slops except those leading to the galleries. AH the floors . will .slope toward tite rost rum. There will be' a lecture-room-on the Waverley avenue side, with class-rooms-'on each side of tho main auditorium.- There will be two largo reception-rooms for the "especial .benefit of stran gers.'; The roof will bo "opeu-tnnlK'red," with tho heams in plain sight. . THE LABOR WORLD. There are twenty-ono liakers' unions in London.- The miners of Streator, 111., elected J. J. Geraghty Mayor (if that place. Kabi. Doxhavkn made a speech in London recently sympathizing with the -labor move ment. A rmANcn of the Knights of Lalwr has been formed by the ropeniakers of Belfast, Ireland. All the surface railroads in New York city have large "extra'' lists of men who aro waiting for work. Samuel Haldeman, formerly President of the International Typographical Union, died recently in Washington. The restoration of the bobtail cars in In dianapolis has thrown 140 conductors out of work and people 'are boycotting them. The Melbourne (Australia) Omnibus Com pany recently divided $17,500 among its em ployes for faithful services during the last fis cal year. AT Charleston, S. C, the Cotton Mills Com pany are having quite a number of cottages built for tho accommodation of the officers and operatives. . , London bakers threaten to strike unless their day bo reduced from twelve hours to ten and their pay increased. There are 1 3, 500 oaKers in ijontlon. It is projxjsed to erect labor halls in Boston ana bt. Louis. 1 ho unions of the latter city have been promised a site on condition that they maintain a reading room. The Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors contributed $18,000 for the family of a Cin cinnati colleague who was arrested on what they considered a false charge. .The Central Federation of Labor of Al bany, N. Y., will ask the Legislature to change tho Fassett Prison Lalor law. They say it affords workingmen little or no relief. The associated charities of Minneapolis have requested the Board of Education, tho Superintendent of Public Instruction and tho labor organizations of the city to join hands in preventing child labor. Of the coke supplies in the United States, last year amounting to 8,527,.r)((0 tons, and valued at $15,000,000, Pennsylvania furnished hv f.iT thrt. lnrcrt-. rw-irtion tln rtimAlluvtll.a region alono producing nearly 5,000,000 tons. The Rev. Gilbert Delamatyr, who repre sented the Labor party of Indiana in Con gress from 1879 to 1881, and who afterward took an activo part in labor matters in Denver, Col., is now pastor of a church in Ohio. At Helmsville, a manufacturing village of Lancaster, England, there is a lady who j ire sides at all the labor meetings and has organ ized the operatives. Her name is Eva Hum boldt, and she is a pretty and spirited "irunette. , The Sugar Trust has shut down all its Boston relineries except one, and hundreds of men have been discharged. Those who aro working get work ten hours a day and aver age 5'J.iJj. a week, formerly they got flu and $1:2 a week, working twelve hours a day. All the sandstone from which grindstones are made is practically furnished by Ohio and Michigan, the product in 1H88 amounting to 41.000 long tons, worth F2S1.800, against 37, 400 tons in 18S7, worth $Hjm, the price varying from fl.50 to $10 per ton at the quarries before being finished into grind stones. The first statue erected in this country to a workingman will soon be unveiled in Sacra mento. It is in honor of E. J. Stevens, late master mechanic of the Southern Pacific, who had for years been in charge of im mense railroad shops in Sacramento. The funds for the monument were contributed entirely by workingmen. , NEWSY GLEANINGS. ; Mrs. Caroline Donovan has given $100, 000 to John Hopkins University. General STOCKMARR,a Waterloo veteran, is deadi at the age of ninety-six. It is estimated that th Egyptian cotton .crop will yield over 3,000,000 bales. The estimated population of Utah is 230, 000, an increase of 801 000 in ten years time. The lower house of the Iowa Legislature is a tie fifty Republicans and fifty Democrats. Not less than 75,000 Michigan farmers have joined the Patrons of Husbandry since last May. The Servian Government has arranged with the Vienna Landerbank for a loan of $5,000,000. The St. Louis World's Fair Finance Com mittee claims to have pledged subscriptions to the amount of $4,000,000. The most interesting exhibition in Europe next year will . be the loan exhibition of tapestry at the Austrian Museum." In Germany the 350th anniversary otthe introduction of the Protestant religion among the German speaking peoples has been cele brated. A company has been formed In. London for the purpose of carrying live stock, dressed beef and hogs direct from Galveston, Texas, to London. The Canadian fishing season has ended, and before another opens the modus vivendi between Canada and the United States will have expired. Three new ironclads will, as soon as pos sible, be in Italy's fleet of 14,000 tons and 30,000-horse power. Vessels, armor, guns and all are to be made in Italy. By the death of a brother in Providence, R. 14 Austine Steers, an inmate of the Sol diers' Home in Chelsea, Mass., has fallen heir o 338.000 in cash and real estatet . i '' . A remarkable revival began in the peni tentiary at Kingston, Ontario. Between eighty and 100 of the loading burglars, for gers, counterfeiters, pickpockets, etc., wert converted. Hunter and Crossley. the Cana dian evangelists, conducted the meetings. ARMY . DESERTEBS. , v. Tho Annual Iioport or Mojor-Gencra! Schoflcld. The annual report of Major-General Scho field, commanding the army, to the Secre tary of War, has born made public; Ho pays efpecial attention to the desertion ques tion. Ho says: . "The causes of discontent which lend to desertion f nun the army are numerous. They have, Wvn sought diligently for jlars, anil many of them have Ixxni' reinowdj i Hone of t beni arc probably Wyoud thonchot any remedy. One of theso is tho natnrally dis coiited lisosition of tho men who aro led by that fouling alone to sx;k cluuigefroiu th monotony of bread winning in any civil pur suit, 13' entering the supposed iess arduous sorrier of the United Stat". When nch men liiiil that soldiers, no Kiss tluau Civilians, must work, their feeliug of dinevntenlrvtnrns and lhiy resort to tho only nwans by which they can inako another change. These men rarely desert when eu gagodln an active eamjaifju, however great tho hardships and privation or severe the discipline may bo. ' It is the ordinary laUu and routine of military dutii which inspirit them with discontent: MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Davk Wambold, the old time minstrel, is dead. He.vuy Irvtno i contemplating a trip to Australia. A. C. OunteR is preparing his novel, "Mr. Potter of Texas," for th stage. Patti. it is said, is not creating the same sensation as at her .hist visit in Iondon, thre lieing ujioccupitM spaces in the hall at her last two erfonnaiioes. Wr. S. Uii.kert is enraged over a decision of two English Juclges which ermlt th manager of a music hull to introduce in his place verses from his "Les Brigands." . . . "The Prince and I'avpkr," the new play which has been written for little Klsin Les lie, is to lo produced at th Park Theatro in Philadelphia during Christmas week. Tin: Cambridge Theatre, in Iondoti, now almost completed,, is' to lie the scenn of tho production of (S.r Arthur Sullivan's long-talked-of grand oHra, for which Julian Sturgis has agreed to supply tho libretto. "Thk Caxdidat;," which Justin Mcl'ar-. thy wrote, and wjrich was played in New York city for the first time bv i'dr. Wjndhani and his Criterion Theatre Company the other night, is a very witty and amusing jwrform anee. W. 11. Crane is said to have achieved an emphatic success in his new piny, "The Sena tor." liy tho late 1. 1. Lloyd and Kydiiey Ro senfcld, which recently received its Amoriciui christt uing at the Olympic Theatre, St. Louis. VlCTORlEN Sakdou and Juls Massenet ure engaged on a new opera for the Grand Opera, ' Paris. Sardou, who is" recognised as tho leading dramatist of Franco, is writing th libretto, while Massenet is setting the word to music. Madame Arnoldson RossitiNfi. Kigued a contract with M. Strakosch at Monfreux, Switzerland, for fifty presentations in Amer ica. She will receive $.-.. MVl, and M. Stra kosch will pay all the travelling expenses of a suite of eight iersons An American amateur recently offered 512.000 to the municipality of Geneva for tho violin of Paganini, which is religiously pre served in thn Hty tuuunm a memento of the gifted musician. The instrument was made in Cremona in 1701). I Mrs. Kendal always appropriates to her-, self the first twenty dollars taken in at any theatre where she plays. She changes tint money into gold, and this, with her share oft the receipts also changed into glittering coin ; -r is sent over to England for sate keeping. j Bronson Howard thinks that "Shenan doah" is to be his most profitable play. It is being played simultaneously in three cities New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Mr. Bronson has an -interest in t he productions, which may bring him a greater profit than the royalties which ho has usually receive, I for the use of his plays. The Turkish ambassador in Paris lias pro tested to the French Government against the production of De Bonder's play of "Mahomet-," founded upon the life and adventures of the founder of Islam, which -has Ix-en ac cepted by the Theatro .Franchise. He has Only succeeded in obtaining thw assurance that no disrespect shall bo shown to. Maho met's memory. A paragraph printed oil the programing Of the Union Square Theatre, New York, snys that tho third act of 'Helim'' enables Clara Morris "to bring into play her miigmii cent iKjwersof portraying inf-;ise suHVrmg." This is the whole motive of the pin e, which m only le gratifying to the most morbid imagination. H is literally a case of trying to exact pleasure from pain. . , I Thrrk is considerable literary tal nt in the theatrical profession. No sooner lias Fanny Rice announced the publication of her Ixiok, 'People 1 Have Met on the .stage, ii.au lauctpt Marsden ioiiows suit ny ueraiung he near completion of a folio of letters to l alUl '.Miss JVliroians .;ioaK." inner .ctressos aro alxmt to follow suit, and lieroro long there may Iks a wholesome desertion from th stage to the r.nnks of lit' raturc. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. George Bancroft is thi oldest living graduate of Harvard. Kino Carlos I., of Portugal, is anxious to modernize his country. Bismarck has attended but two operatic performances in twenty-four years. Henry Fieldino Dickens, third son of the novelist, is a very guccessf ul lawyer in (England. Roba Bonhedr. the famous artist, says that she has pain ted her best pictures since i she was fifty. ' ! John G. Whittier says ho expects to live to see the age of 100 years, though he is not anxious to do so. Secretary Proctor, since biking up his residence in Wanhinsrton. has earned -the title hf "The Silent Man." Mr. Gladstone has written a naDer on P"he Impregnable Rock of Holy .Scripture," be published next year. Ex-United StatesTreasurer Spinner is engaged upon a book on American finance. -He is eighty-eight years old. MlSS LINCOLN, daughter of Minister to England Robert Lincoln, has become the ac knowledged belle in London. General Joe Johnston is President of i the Aztec Club, a societv com nosed of officers who were in the Mexican War. Secretary Blaine has written for a forthcoming number of a popular magazine a paper for "young politicians." Emperor William, of German v. is the first reigning monarch who has visited Con stantinople since the fifteenth century. THE President when he takes his evening stroll about Washington is said to wear the best overcoat and the worst hat in the city. THE Comte de Paris. nretnifor to iha throne of France, being an exile, was unablu to attend the funeral of the King of Por tugal. SAXUEL EDISON. the father of the inventor is a well-preserved man of eiehtv-six. who lives in a modest house at Fort Gratiot. Mich. ; ' David . Dennison Cone, who was for a time General Grant's private secretary, wa locked np in Washington recently, a raving maniac. Colonel Cassics m. Rnnmyw wh o vu killed in Lexington, Ky., could have had the Russian mission after Mr. Rice's death had he desired it. THE Prince of Wales h said to be suffering from Bright's disease. It is reported that the extension of his trip to Egypt was recom mended by his physicians. Parnell. the Irish leader, was once a member of Magdalene College, Cambridge, but took offense at being disciplined, and lot; early in the course. Count Von Moltke has determined to iss the winter in Italy, its milder climata ine more beneficial to his health than that of North Germany. President Carncv, of France, watches things cloaely, but does not work; He says It is not a President's business to drudge in his office like a clerk,
The North Carolinian (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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