VOL. XXII.
WELDON, N. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891.
NO. 24.
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CORSETS CO UPINSMOKE-
f'.ORES OF WOMEN TAKE Til EM OFF AT
A REVIVAL MEET! NO IN CANADA.
A few weeks no, a dipath from
Kingston, Out., says, tlm Free Methodists
! . gan a scries of revival meeting in
Sydenham, and made many converts.
Women seemed particularly auxious to
1)8 gathered into the fold. As the num
ber of converts increased the excitement
grew, and the meetings, which were held
in the town hall, grew so noisy that coin
plaint was made to the authorities, and
hf yovivnlistit were notified uu Tuesday
'' -xt they would have to hold their meet-
"js elsewhere.
Nothing daunted they left the place,
"ter putting out scouts to advise their
iends where the meeting was to be held,
,fid adjourned to a large vacant lot in
the edge of town. Here they were ad
dressed by J. F. Fraiser, a revivalist,
ho sailed into the prevailing mode of
female dress, and said women are born
jeautiful and die misshapen because of
. ine wearing of corsets. Fraiser is an
earnest and powerful speaker, and his
. words created great excitement among
the women present.
"Throw off the accursed invention,"
ho cried, "throw it off and go to God as
you left Him! Burn them rather than
burn yourselves iu everlasting fire!"
J. his suggesting struck a responsive
chord, and he had hardly ceased speak
ing when an enthusiast piled up material
for a bonfire and applied a match. It
wag a weird scene the dusky evening,
the crowd of religious enthusiasts, quiv
eriug with excitement, surrounding a
tire which shot up long tougues of flame.
"Burn them!" hysterically cried i
feminine voice iu the crowd; and, push
ing and panting, a young woman of
twenty-five forced her way to the centre
near the bonfire. She was tugging at her
dress. There was a sudden gleam of
white shoulders iu the firelight and she
flung her corset into the flames saying
she would die as God had made her and
not as she had made herself.
Her example was conti 'ious; and in
less than half an hour not a woman in
the crowd wore a corset, and nothing re
mained in the blaze but a mass of gro
tesquely twisted corset steels, amid which
the flames playfully flickered. The ex
citement was so great and the nervous
strain so intense that several women grew
faint, but they had burned their corsets
and were happy. The Free Methodists
consider the revival a great success, and
talk of carrying the war into the States.
CO-OPERATION WITH FARMERS
A plan of co-operation with farmers of
the State has been instituted by which the
benefits of N. C. Agricultural Expert
moot Station are brought more directly
before their attention. All of the sub
alliances in North Caroliua (numbering
nearly 2,300) have been requested to
form "Experimental Committees," tb
chairman of which is to be in constant
communication with the Station Press
Bulletins, as well as regular and speciu
bulletins and reports of progress of the
Station, are sent to these committees, and
the matters contained in them are dis
cussed. A question-box is also used, in
which any member can deposit any
question. After discussion by tho meet
ing, headed by tho Experiment Com
inittec, the questions, if desired, can be
submitted to the Experiment Station for
answer. These questions may be em
braced under any division of agriculture
Every Grange in the State has also been
asked to adopt the plan. From the
number of Experimental Committees
which are beraz formed, and the interest
being expressed, the plan will doubtless
prove an unbounded success, it is
gratifying to note that the recent meet
ing of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance
at Morchead passed a resolution endors-
ing the above plan ot Experimental Lorn
inittees formulated by the N. C. Expert
uicnt station.
As soon as vou discover any falling of
the hair or isiavoei- always use Hall
Hair lieuewer to tone up the secretion
iud prevent baiducssur grayue&s.
SOUTHERN EXPOSITION.
REV. THOMAS DIXON TO OFFER THE
PRAYER ATTtIB Ol'ENINO NOTES OF
THE PROdRESS,
A reporter spent on hour at tho Expo
sition grounds yesterday and after a look
through the big building, assured Mr.
din T Patrick of his belief that every
thing wili not bo ready by October 1st.
But Mr. Patrick says the State exhibit
ill be in place by that time. He does
not know whether all county exhibits will
or not. On the 15th the work of ar
ranging the State exhibit began. Mr.
'atrick was asked when the building
will be painted and he assured the repor
ter that would be done before the open
ing. The exterior of the building is cer
tainly very unattractive now. Mr. Pat
rick was also asked as to the mode of il-
umination of the building and grounds
at night. Re replied that they would
not be kept open at night, and that al
though every electric light company in
the country had been corresponded with
not one would inako a proposition. The
reporter who had happy recollections of
the delightful nights at the State Expo
sition of 1884, expressed his great regret
that this exposition would not be availa
ble to the public at night just the time
when many would desire to see it. Mr.
Patrick also spoke of the danger from
fire at night.
As has been stated, the exposition
opens October 1. The opening prayer
will be offered by Rev. Thomas Dixon,
of New York. Ad address will be deliv
ered that day by Mr. Octavius Cohen,
editor of the Charleston, South Carolina,
World, his subject being "The Real New
South."
Ten of tho States will havo exhibits.
Florida has a spaoa 200x15 feet, Ken-
tuckylWxla; the others 40x15. In the
east court a pavilion has been specially
prepared for the horticultural exhibit,
which will be in charge of Prof. Massey,
of the Agricultural Collet. Florida
will send fresh flowers and fruits every
week during the exposition.
People who come here from the North
and West will like to see a turpentine
distillery aud a eottou gin and press. All
these will be in operation in the machinery
annex.
The negroes have all tho ground floor
of the grand stand building for their dis
tinctive exhibit. ' Mr. Patrick was asked
if they would fill it. He said they would,
and that they had applied for an addition
to it, fifty by oue hundrd feet in Bize.
The size of the preseut building is fifty
by two hundred and fifty.
There are to be races every day during
the exposition. There will be two weeks
of racing for good purses. Letters have
been received from Allianccmen in far
away Wisconsin, stating that they will bo
here. The number of persons formerly
residents of this State who will come will
be Tery large. Of course tho railway
fare is so low, (only a cent a mile, Mr.
Patrick states) that it is a capital oppor
tunity for them to revisit -their old
homes.
Information has been received lure
that Sou,th Carolina troops, from Colum
bia, will be present. The exposition is
certainly well advertised in other States.
Five Luuii are now at work puttiiug up
bills and lithographs, all iu a radius of
150 miles. Raleigh will iu a few days
bo billed.
At 21 a Youno Man Thinks That
he'll never marry.
That his father knows very little.
That the world needs remodeling.
That money can be picked up iu the
streets.
That he's tho person to attend to tho
relliode.ing.
That he has absorbed all ths knowl
edge of the world.
That the world is a huge play-ground.
LADIKD
Xoe&inp a tontn. or dillilrcii who ivant build
m.u" i!K tunulil lako
liitowjs's uiu.v ui'ri'K.i'3.
It li pletwnt to ta'io, Hires Malaria, Indt
tettiou, lilliuusucu aud liver CowplaiuU.
A FAST ENCINE.
MASTER MECHANIC RICHARDS DESIGNS
A NEW LOCOMOTIVE WILL HAVE
FOUR CYLINDERS.
"If the new engine I am about to have
constructed is not capable of making one
hundred mites an hour I'll give her away
to the first person I meet."
. This astounding statement was made
yesterday by Mr. Jackson Richards, the
master mechanic of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad, who was exhibiting to
a party of deeply interested persons the
drawings for a locomotive which, if suc
cessful, is almost sure to revolutionize the
construction of the high speed locomotives
of the future. Mr. Richards, who is re
cognized all over the United States as
having no peer in knowledge concerning
locomotives and railroad machinery, has
been working on his latest invention for
the past ten years, and a few, days ago
the drawings were completed and the
patent was applied for.
The new invention will enable agigan
tic stride to be taken in the matter of
high speed locomotives, and, if the new
flyer is as successful as experts predict
she will be, it is more than likely that
the time between Philadelphia and New
York will bo made io less than an hour.
A specimen engine will be built for ex
hibition at the World's Fair, and th
trial trip will be made between here and
that city.
In outward appearance the new loco
motive will not differ materially from
the speedy engines now used on the Phil
adelphia aud Reading railioad between
this city aud New York. I'lie peculiari
ty of construction lies in the fact that
instead of the two cylinders, as used at
present, there will be four. One cylinder
will be located on each side of the loco-
motive frame as at preseut, and the other
two will be cast in what is known as the
cylinder saddle. The inside pair of cylin
ders are to be in one piece, and will lie
on an angle. The outside cylinders are
to be horizontal as at present. The four
cylinders will entirely overcome what is
known to engineers as the dead center,
and the engine will be perfectly balanced
without any counter-balance in the wheels,
This latter improvement will, to a largo
degree, do away with tho vecious pound
iug which has proven so destructive to
modern road-beds. The perfect balancing
of the eogino will bo largely duo to the
working of the two cylinders so near her
centre, and those same cylinders, working
as they do, from such a central point of
vantage will help out in the matter of
speed to a great degree.
According to the experts who uav
examined the drawings, the valve motion
is perfect. There wi'l be four valves
one to each cylinder and they will be
operated by two links, the same as now
used for two cylinders. The engine is
designed to be built on the Wooton tire
box, the same as ie now used on th
famous "206," which made a mile in the
remarkable time of 30; 4 5 seconds
August 27. The ordinary speed of the
destined world beater will be eighty-five
miles an hour. Philadelphia Record
CONSUMPTION CUltED.
An old physician, retired from prac
tice, having had placed io his bauds by
an hast India missionary the toruiul
of a simple vegetable remedy for tho
speedy and permanent cure of Consump
tion, Brouchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and
all throat and Lung Affections, alw)
positive and radical cure for Nervous De
bility and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderlul curative pow
crs in thousand of cases, has felt it his
uuty to make it known to his sufferiu
fellows. Actuated by this motive and
desire to relieve human suffering, I will
send free of charge, to all who desire it
this recipe, in German, French or English
with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, naming this paper. W.
Noycs, 820 Powers' Block, Rochester, N,
Y. apr dO ly.
Many Person are broken
down from overwork or household caret.
Itcowu'd Iron Bitters Rebulidithe
rstem, aids digestion, rcmovoi exees of til,
PRESIDENT BUTLER
AGAIN EXPRESSES HIMSELF ON
THE
THIRD PARTY QUESTION.
President Butler, of the State Alli
ance, gave your correspondent a special
interview to day regarding tho "Third
any matter, lie said: "lho 1 hird
arty caunot necessarily be said to bo on
its feet in North Carolina. If you go
nto the country and talk to good men
they will tell you that if it is necessary,
and nothing else will do, they will favor
the Third party, A great many good
men will say this, but it merely expresses
their desire for relief and the necessity
for such relief, .hey lost to the lead-
ers for support. They trust them. It
all means that if these leaders were to
ay that there were no other means of re-
lief they would go with them and embark
in this Third party enterprise. No die-
tatorial leadership can bring this about,
These people must see the need of the
Third party themselves. In addition to
this they must have the assurance of the
men upon whom they depend. In other
words, if they were sat down upon and
could get uo relief they would resort to
these extreme measures. The necessity
for such measures can only result from
indiscreet action. If the movement were
started it would astonished you to know
how many peoplo would go into it. But
to start it, both sides, those in and those
out of the Alliance, would bo to blame.
I have no apprehension of the Third
party in .onn iarouna, oecause tne lorm-
P.V i . 111 .1 I. 1
anon oi mat parry wouia oo i ne result only croscopists, lor it is more steady and ro
of bad management by the Alliance and liable than any other, bright daylight not
of an extreme position taken by the order, excepted. The one trouble thus far has
I do not believe it will take such a posi.
tion or that those outside of the order
will he governed by prejudice. Some
persons claim that the Third party may
be formed by people who are opposed to
the Alliance and forming what they
might call a straight Democratic party,
but I have no idea of any such thing,
There is too much patriotism in the
State, and the Alliance will give no rat-
ional cause for any such movement.
Mr Hnflor mntrtin froni.rj nf Alll.
liance plans. The presidents of the State
Alliance from the National council and
this is now working on a new sub-treas
ury bill which will bo prepared ready for
Bubmi-iMon to Congress, "lue Al.i.iuce,
he says, ''is lighting tor victory; victory
in tho best, easiest and safest way. It is
not going further than tho resolutions
regarding the sub-treasury plan. It
means little more than the mere increase
of the volume of the currency. What
the Alliance is pledged to and will stand
by is a larger volume of currency and a
flexible one. It that can be accomplish
ed without tho warehouse scheme, so
much the better. The State bank system
is popular in North Carolina, but not
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elsewhere. In the ineetii)rs of thn noun-
cil the president of the Alliance of this
State has voted for that plan, but the
other presidents opposed it and the north-
wet will neyereonsent to it. as a nat-
ional organization we can never get it, and
therefore we have abandoned it.
A YOUNG LADY OUTRAGED.
THE 8COUNDREL SKINNED ALIVE AND
CUT TO PIECES.
The Picayune'sShreveport, La , special
says; i he news was received hero to
day of a most heinous outnge committed
ou the person of a youug lady school
teacher near Arcadia.
nil I 1 l .t
ine scnooi was two mucs irom tne
young lady s home, and the other alter
noon, alter schojl was dismissed, she
started to walk homo. In a lonely place
she was set upon by a burly negro, wl,0
. i v 4 .u i l i
nrain'Ril her into thn wnnds ncinr hv and
. : ? i i i
tied her to a tree, where she was kept for
, ' r
two uuys.
Tho annrpViinff nurfv fnlin.l hnr tliora
on the evening of the second day, when
she told them the story with the request
. u: i i 1 1 .. .
...u Ue,r , , ue.u uu.u auuo
roltirn I hidfnnv nt1 urn! in n ahuri
while the uejjro made his appearance and
beiug skinned alive and literally cut to
pieces. His body was left io tho woods
for the buzzards to disnosa of.
Hood s Sarsaparilla is in favor with all
classes !. m-H) i uooiuiues economy and
strength.
100 Djscs Ouo Dollar.
RARE MINERALS.
NORTH CAROLINA IS THE STATE FOR
THEM.
North Carolina is the State of all oth
ers for rare minerals. The preface of
Bulletin 74 of the United States Geolo-
gical Durvey says mat since ISM "a
goodly number of species has been added
to the lists," and that minerals formerly
supposed to be rare are now found abun
dantly and have acquired commercial
importance- "For example, in response
' " industrial demand, North Carolina
has supplied zircon and menagitc by the
ton, and samaiskite by the hundred
weight, and the output can be increased
almost indefinitely. The State has also
contributed to science several new speci'
mens as yet not found elsewhere, and
some of these, notably among the vermi
eulites, are significant for the light they
shed upon other associated minerals."
The commercial demand referred to
comes from the manufacturers of the
Wclsbach light. This invention consists
in saturating a fine film of silk with
solution of these minerals. This
placed over the flame of a common Ar-
gand lamp, the heat from which destroys
the silk, but leaves tho mineral work
intact. The peculiar quality of these
minerals is that they absorb certain of
the colored rays, and give a pure, bright,
light, like that of the sun. Since the
Wellsbach lamp has been introduced in
London it has displaced all other illumi
nators tor the use ot chemists and nn
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been that the film would not bear trans-
portation, but recently the manufacturers
think they have overcome this by in-
casing it in solidfied petroleum. When
the film, thus protected is put in position.
the flame quickly burns away the coating
as well as the silk. Should this prove to
be practicable, then the demand for these
minerals wil' draw heavily on North
Carolina's great supply.
TIK9I rbHIALfc fcNUINfcER
SHE RUNS A WEST VIRGINIA TRAIN
AND IS A PRETTY OIRL.
A dispatch from Clarksburg, W. Va
says: 1 he Cairo and lianawho Valley
Railroad, a narrow line connecting with
the Baltimore and Ohio at Cairo, in this
State, claims the distinction of employing
the only female railroad engineer in the
United States. The lady's name is Miss
Ida Hewitt. She is the daughter of Col,
Hewitt, one of the principal stockholders
of ti,c roa(i. Miss Idi, who is a very
. . p i i i- i. i
beautiful and accomplished young woman
1 Jo
under twentv vears of Ze has alwaJs
been fond of looking at machinery. She
has spent a large portion of her lime io
,u i,ima nf .b mr.on Sk fi,iu
became a machinist of no mean ability,
when she undertook the task of running
an engine on the road, and her success
was so great that she is now regularly
employed in that capacity, and makes
her daily run with as much regularity
as a veteran engineer. Her engine
said to be a model of ncatuess and clean
liness, and sho rarely misses makin
schudule time It is understood that sho
j,M Mtei ,0 run eni?ine at tl,p
WorIJ., Fair MIt . c,(i
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No pcrson BouM travei without box
of Aycr 8 Pills. As a safe and speedy
reaiedy lor constipation and all irregular-
Ht's of the stomach and bowels, they
have no equal, and being ski tu y sugar-
. 1 . ' p. .J n
I coated, are pleasa
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ta n their virtues
ant to take, and long
It U saiJ t,,at deaf PeuPle
seasick
D() m,t , fc
8t-rot',s
Yo" cannot k"-100 Ptki
medicines you use. W hen
,,10f"' punncr, he sure you g
Sarsiiparilla, and no nthrr It wi
glo wuh, punty.'and
oiz! evfry
It makes
I nf blood iu ,uur body
weak uroog.
THE CREAT STAPLE.
THE COTTON CROP OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR 181)0-91 RECEIPTS AND
EXPORTS FROM VARIOUS PORTS.
The cotton crop of the United States
for the year ending with the close of
August, 1891, amounts to 8,bOJ,oa7
bales, to that time was the largest over
grown, by 1,341, 275 bales.
The foreign exports show that ot an
excess of 878,382 bales over last year to
i'oreigu ports Great Britain has taken
479,330, France 86,302 and the contin-
nt. etc., 312,090.
Among the foreign shipments during
he year have been 4,494 bales from New
York to Japan.
SOUTHERN COTTON CONSUMPTION.
The principal train in consumption has
been in Georgia and North and South
Carolina. In the two latter a large
number of the old mills have increased
their spindles, and nearly all the spindles
in those States have been busily engaged.
The returns from Georgia lust season
showed seventy mills, including four
burnt aud one changed to woolen, leaving
sixty five. This season's returns show
sixty-one mills, an apparent reduction
of four. This difference is due to three
mills having been merged into other con
cerns, and one reported new last year,
but which thus far has not been built.
Of the sixty-one mills fifty-five have
been in active operation and six idle.
A comparison ot 00,000 new splindles
reported in Georgia last year shows, that
while they consumed last season 13,597
bales many of them not having run full
time this season they consumed 22,519
bales. This gain however, has been part
ly offset by reduction in several of the
larger mills, which complained of enforc
ed idleness of part of their machinery on
accouot of scarcity of labor. Reduction
to finer counts of yarns has also, in a de
gree, reduced the consumption of some of
the mills.
North Carolina shows the heaviest in
crease io spindles, though the largest
gain in quantity of cotton consumed has
been in South Carolina.
The total consumption of the Soutk
for the twelve months ending August
31, 1891, has been 504,(164 bales,
against 546,894 last year, making a gain
of 57,767 bales, of 10.56 per cent. This
is a handsome showing, considered in ad
dition to the material gain of last year.
As a matter ot tact, there are several
States whose consumption now amounts
to as much as thnt of the entire South a
little over ten years ago.
Calculated in pounds, the Southern
mills have used up during the past year
the equivalent of 572,671 bales of last
season's weight.
The following tables show totals of mills,
looms, spindles and consumption by States.
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS 1890 91
Bales
Consume!
Spindles. 1891.
Mills.
27
5
61
6
4
11
O!
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
122,058
19.525
467,039
48.750
54,500
60,568
17,500
462,961
446,525
154,506
63,996
101,919
39,145
610
153,818
15,536
13,660
15,162
1,528
140,508
164,957
30,508
6,522
23,707
N.Carolina, 120
S. Carolina, 51
Ten u esse,
Texas,
Virginia,
31
6
15
Total,
339 1,989,845
604,661
1 he following were the receipts at
ports in North Carolina for the year end
ing September 1:
1891. 1890.
Wilmington, 1S9.32G 134,916
Newbern, 25,744 6,355
Washington, 41,776 21,768
Morchead City, etc. 2,045 W
Total, 558,890 163
The following are the net receipt
aud exports of bales of cotton
American ports during tho year
September 1: , t
Receipts
New Orleans, 2,077,7 '
Galveston, 1,0" "
Mobile and
Ponsacoln,
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