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VOL. XXII.
WELD ON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1802.
43
LEND A HAND.
AND AID IN SHOWING NORTH CAROLINA
RESOURCES.
NEW WARFARE. HANGING BY MACHINERY
U It EAT IS SCIENCE, AND EDISON IS ITS
I'llOl'IIET.
Yesterday the Statu board of agriculture
issued tins following:
The btard of agriculture has under
taken to make an exhibit of the resources
of the State of North Carolina lit the
Columbian Exposition, and has appointed
the World's Fair Executive Committee
to carry out this purpose. This Committee
appeals to the citizens of the State to give
them a cordial support, and to aid them
in furnishing an exhibit that will be
illustrative of the State's resources of every
kind. We confidently expect that North
P irolina will be able to sustain herself in
high competition with the rest of the world.
V.wrv country in the world ami every
State in the Union is expected to
participate at this display of the world's
resources and progress in every department
ofhu.nau effort. It will give some idea
of the extent of this Exposition when it is
remembered that 750 acres, more than a
rreat plantation, is embraced in the
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grounds, and thatlSO acres will becovered
with the necessary buildings. These
buildings will be filled with every conceiv
able product of nature and art, auuj North
Carolina can and will respond to what is
expeeted of her. In order that our State
may take her proper plac-e at this great
Exposition, the board intends to make col
lections in the following departments:
Agriculture Foods awl food products,
etc. Horticulture Fruits, wines, and
ardu products, etc. Live Stock Domes
tic and wild animals. Mines, Mining and
Metallurgy Minerals, building and
monumental stones. Forestry Timbers
and other forestry products. Fine Arts-
Painting, decorations, etc. Ethuology
Indian relies, and specimens illustrating
the progressof labor audiuvention. Liberal
Arts Education, engineering, etc. Man
ufacturesFish and Fisheries Fish
products and appliances for catching fish.
All correspondence to be sent to T. k.
Bruner, Commissioner in charge of ex
hibits and Secretary of the Committee, at
Raleigh. W. F. Green, chairman; J. F.
Payne, A. Leazar, W. E. Stevens, S. L.
Patterson, committee.
STRANGE CONTRIVANCE BY WHICH 1)11.
GRAVES MAY DIE.
THE OLDEST IN THE STATE.
THE DEATH OP MRS. REBECCA BROWN,
AGED 103.
Weduesday night the death occured of
Mrs. Rebecca Brown, relict of the late
John Brown, formerly of Smithville and
latterly of Wilmington, and grandmother
of Capt. John G. Rankin aud Messrs.
R. B. Rankin and N. B. Rankin of this
city. The venerable lady passed away
at the residence of Mr. N. II. Sprunt,
whose wife is a granddaughter ot the
deceased. Mrs. Brown was undoubtedly
the most aged person of whom there is
any authenticated record in North Car
olina She was born October 25th, 1783,
and at the time of her death was con
sjquently of the very advanced age of 103
years, 2 months and 2U days. Iter maid
en namn was Rebecca Swain, aud her
birthplace was Charleston, S. C. She
was twice married, her first husband
being Lieutenant Peters, of the United
Btates Navy, aud her second liusbaud
being Mr. John Brown, of Smithville.
The last marriage took place in Wilming
ton at the fcsideiice of Capt. Mcllhennv,
father of Col. T. C. Mcllhennv, and from
this marriage issued the descendents named
above and hereinafter mentioned. Wil
mington Messenger.
If this country goes to war with Chili
it is possible that Thomas A. Edisou,the
world-renowned inventor, will take a hand
in the racket, and in that event there
will be some developments that will as
tonish mankind in general, aud paralyze
the Chilians in particular.
In an interview with a New York
World reporter, the other day, Mr. Edi
son said that electricity would soon play
a bigger part in warfare than powder and
dynamite. With only twenty-five men
the iuveutor says that he can make a foit
impregnable. His idea is to place in each
fort an alternating machine of 20,000
volts capacity. One wire would be
grounded. A man would govern a
stream of water of about four hundred
pounds pressure to the square inch, with
which the 20,000 volts alternating cur
rent would be connected. By turning
this stream of water on the enemy as
they advanced it would mow them down.
Every man touched by the water would
complete the circuit, get the full force of
the alternating current, and never know
what had happened to him. Men trying
to take the fort by assault, though they
numbered tens of thousands, would be
cut down without a chance to escape.
They might waik around the fort, but
they could never take it. By modifying
the current, the defenders of the fort
coeld merely stuu their enemies, and
then pick up a gross of stupefied and
limp generals and colouels to hold for
ransom, "virile the others could be left to
reeover, or to be killed by another current.
Mr. Edison says that all this is no
guess work. He got his idea some years
ago, when wires loaded with heavy elee
trie charges were put up in the cities
He believed then that firemen might re
ceive deadly shocks from the electricity
ruaniug down streams of water crossing
the wires. He tried an experiment on a
cat, and both he and the cat found out
that the theory was a dead sure thing.
Of course it would bo easier to equip
our forts in this way for defense against
foreign invaders, but Mr. Edison is
satisfied that he can also utilize electricity
in an offensive war in which we are the
invaders of a foreign country. Give him
a tittle time, and he will fix up a number
of electrical machines that will double
up the "shoestring republic," and per
haps leave it a desert.
MOW MANY CARDS?
ANOTHER WONDER.
AN INCIDENT Ol' LOW LIFE IN AN IDA- ELECTRIC SIGNALS FLASHED FROM Si 11 1 1 AS VIEWED BY A RALEIGH COnUM-
ta ittt. WITITflT-T WIRES. fc.MUt 1 1 1 r. nA.iin.i"
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STATE POLITICS
Since Dr. Graves has arrived at Canon
City, Col., the chamber in which the
death penalty is inflicted has been ex
amined and the terrible nnd novel ma
chine the invention of a Colorado man
which has not yet failed in its awful
purpose, was inspected and found in per
fect coudiiiuii. The instrument is the
only one in the world, aud is in a stone
buiiding a short distance back of the cell
rooms, within the penitentiary walls.
Entering the front room you notice a
noose hanging f rom the ten-foot ceiling.
The rope runs to the rear room over a
set of pulleys and is fastened to a pig of
iron weighing 500 pounds. The pig
rests on a collapsing shelf, which is kept
in place by a trip lever, on which hangs a
receptacle holding fifty-six pounds of
water. In the bottom of the vessel is a
plug, which is attached to a chain.
The chain passes down through the
floor, around a pulley, and is hooked on
to a rod which stands upright uuder a
raised portion of the floor of the execution-room.
This surface is kept from
touching the rod by means of four spiral
springs. On the wall of the room is a
white disc, on which is a red mark, and a
black hand points downward. When
the man condemned to die steps under
the eeose his weight forces the raised
floor surface down the rod, which gives
the chain a pull, aud the plug drops 'out
of the water receptacle. This starts the
flow of water, and at tho same instant the
black hand on the disc on the wall travels
upward. When it readies the red mark
the witnesses know that tho water vessel
is empty, aud the tr.p lever, fifty pounds
lighter, is forced upward by a spring, the
heavy weight drops, and the murderer
bangs in the air. All this is done silently,
aot a creak or a snap is heard. I his
machine has never yet failed to break a
man's neck.
0.
.PROM THE PHONOGRAPH.
HOW A MAN FELT WHEN HE HEARD
HIS WORDS REPEATED.
IUSION IN THE NORTHWEST.
You Can Rely
Upon Hood's Sareaparilhi as a positive
remedy for every form of scrofula, salt
rneuiu, uoils, and all otlier diseases caused
by impure blood. It eradicates every
impurity and at the same time tones aud
vitalizes tho whole system.
Constipation, and all troubles with the
dilative organs and the liver, arc cured
by Hood's Pills. Unequalled as a dinner
pill.
The rumors of a combination between
tho Democratic party and the Farmers'
Alliasce in the Northwestern States are
made so specifically and persistently that
some credence must be given to the state
ments. The plan, it is claimed, has been
arranged by the Hill, Brice and Gorman
svndieite which appears now to be dicta
tin" the methods of the Democratic party.
It includes the nomination of ex Gov
Hill or Senator Gorman for the head of
the Democratic ticket.
According to f he plan a fusion is to
cj
bo made between the Democrats and Al-
lianeetnen in Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Kan
sas. Tho Democrats are to be given the
presidential electors in these States and
the majority of the Congressmen as their
aharo, while the Farmers' Alliance is to
content itself with the governors and the
legislatures As these six States are
counted upon to give Republican major
ities next November, defeat iu all or
most of them would undoubtedly result
in a Democratic victory. Such a move,
if successful, would turu the strongest
.;., P tho Uenublican party and per
mit "the Demoeratic army to reach the
camp of its oppouent. rnuaaeipnia
Press.
Salt sprinkled among packed clothin;
hi a moth preventive.
Anwtier thisQueHtlou.
Why do so many people we see around
us seem to prefer to suffer and be made
niiai.r:ilile bv Indigestion, Constipation,
Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Coming up
of the food, Yellow skin, when for 75c.
we will sell theui&hiloh's Vitalizer, guar
anteed to cure them. Sold by W. M.
Cuueu.
iUp town there is a phonograph, and
the man who is running it is a Jiotel
owner, says the Lewiston Journal. He
had a caller Tuesday whose "daudei"
was up. The room was full of people
4 -
and the caller had an iusane desire to
give his man a "piece of his mind." He
did so. Ha berated him up hill and
down. He didu t leave him, as he ex
pressed it, in any kind of shape. All
the time the object of the attack had on
the counter by his side the phonograph,
in action, ouly the caller didn t know it.
When he had finished the Lewiston man
said:
"Are you done?"
'Yes I am done," was the reply.
"Just one moment," wastherejuinder;
"I want yoa tj hear what you said " and
the merciless pbouograph was reversed
aud the record pronounced through the
machine so that he could hear it.
A blush overspread the caller's face.
He listened in wonder and surprise. As
oaths and epithets flowed out of the ma
chine, the exact reproduction ot his own
vituperation, he uwved away, aud when
all was done a man more sheepish and
ashamed could not be found. Said he,
after a moment's thought, taming to the
Lewiston man, "I have had a valuable
lesson. No uiau who would talk like
that ia public has any right to bn con
sidered. I want you to pull that reoord,
as you call it, off from that machiue and
give it to me. I'll pay tor it.
It was done, and the caller stood by
the counter uttering apologies and whit
tling into pieces the wax cylinder that
ceutaiued his remarks.
A little blood stood beside a gambling
table long ago in an Idaho mining town
and addressed this trembling word to one
of the players, says a writer in the De
troit Free Press.
The fal her was a rough man, with
great, sinewy hands, a grizzled face aud
thin, merciless lips.
But his eyes how vicious and utterly
lost the light that flashed from their
reddish ball.-!
"Say, pop, when you going home?"
Again the timid voice came to the
rough man and he laid down his cards
and turned around. The boy knew the
light that blaz;d from those eyes only
too well, and he drew back and huddled
himself together in a piteous but mute
appeal for merjy.
"What's that to you, you young whelp?
Git out o' here, now, an' don't you waste
a minit or I'il be the death o' you. Are
you goin'?"
Slowly, sadlv, the little fellow turned
and walked to the saloon door. Then
he paused to look back, and found those
vicious red eyes still fixed upon him, and
the voice came to his ears:
What you stoppin' fur? Git I"
And gulping down a sob that was
rising in his throat tho boy passed
through the door.
For another hour the players silently
played their cards, and the rough man
said as he took the pack in his hands:
"How many cards, Pete?"
But before Pete could reply there came
the quivering words :
"Pod. hain't you mos doner
The rough man cried out an oath and
turned. Ho did not say a word, but he
drew back his great sinewy fist to strike
the shivering child.
"Holdup, Ike Baker!" cried Pete,
leaning across the table and catching the
raised arm; don't you hit'im."
There wasdevilishncss in the red eyes,
and had he struck it would have been
a blow to kill.
For a moment not a sound was heard
and then came a noise of a scuffle from
an adjoining table.
"Gle Copper is having it out with Big
Jerry," volunteered a bystander.
A moment later a pistol shot was
heard ono shot was all a shot that laid
the little boy with trembling voice low
on the saloon floor. A higher power had
made of Big Jerry an instrument in con
summating a merciful deed.
"Good God, Ike," cried Pete, "liig
Jerry has killed yer boy!"
. . . n 1
iNot tho quiver oi a inuscie, ui -shadow
of expression crossed the rough
man's stolid face. He cast one glance of
his vicious red eye toward the little, life
less heap on the floor, then drawing a
revolver he turned it upon Big Jerry and
bhot him dead where he was standing.
"Blood for blood," he muttered, catch
ing up the pack once more with his
sinewy hands. "How many cards did
you say, Pete?"
Thomas A. Edison has perfected and
patented another wonderful electrical in
vention. It is one that is intended not
only to further the interests of commerce
but to protect human life at sea. It is,
in substance, a system by which tele
graphic communication can be carried on
between ships at sea, between ships and
the shore, and between distant points on
laud. The most remarkable part of it all
is that this intercommunication can be
maintained absolutely without the use of
wires or cables.
Here is one of the ways in which the
invention will work. Suppose all the
ships that sail tho seas are fitted with
the proper apparatus. An ocean gre; -houtid
the City of Paris, say breaks
her shaft and there are fears that she
may sink if assistance cannot be summon
ed quickly. Not a sail is in sight, not
a sign of smoke on the hoiison. An op
erator skilled in the transmission of Morse
chatacters manipulates a key located, for
instance, in the chartrootn. Away down
below the horison is another ship, so far
distant that not even her topmasts are
visible. The Morse signals arc trans
mitted to the other ship and answered
The disabled ship gives her position and
the other speeds to her aid.
The other ship might be a small bark
or brig proceeding under sail and incapa
ble of rendering aid. In such a case
the bark or brig would work her signals
which would be caught up by any ship
within a radius of say thirty miles. Then
they might reach another sailing ship,
also too small and too far away to give
the assistance required, but she in turn
would begin signaling, covering another
radius of 30 miles. The signals might pass
along to half a dozen ships before they
reached one large enough to aid so big a
vessel as the city of Paris. Wrhen they
did reach one, however, she would go to
the disabled vessel's assistance. The
word of cheer would be passed back from
ship to ship until it reached the oity of
Paris again.
The principle involved is that of in
duction. Naturally, ouly those who have
given some little study to electricity will
understand clearly just how and why
these results are obtained.
DOES PROHIBITION PROHIBIT!
NO ENOCH FOR HIM.
FIRST HUSBAND TURNED UP AND HE
WANTED A HUN.
Don't experiment with your health.
You may be sure of the quality of your
medicine, even if you have to take much
of your food upon trust. Ask your drug
p. Avnr'a .-..Manari" . and no other.
It is the standard blood puiiucf, the most
effective and economical.
"Say, Secretary," said a wild-eyed i"
dividual as he entered thi JI'"' r
"kiu I git a permit to c'
Is your life iujeop
genial secretary.
'in where1''
"Are yo,v
secretary
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not 'zict
see I ma
first husl
now it pe,
in Dakota,
a marryin' i
my ol' 'oouia.
here to trim m,
me that he's n
wha'ever that ineau
all things, hadn't you
n -rmit to carry a moskii.
1 Fie J Press.
Read this from the Charlotte News
and then say whether it does or not: For
several days past carpenters have been
engaged in remodeling the interior of the
saloon formerly kept by MeCorkle& Co.,
on the corner of vjhurch and 1 rade streets
The room is partitioned into two sections.
The front section is being fitted up as a
drug store. Along the wall in the rear
section is a liue of boxes, each one num
bered and locked, and in front of the row
of boxes is a counter. If any ono is
curious to kuow what purpose these boxes
are meant to serve, he will only have to
wait around a short time in the club room
lie may see something like,tjr
will walk up to the coui
over his key, reqii"sti,t .
open his panic"1 ' '
and inside, is
Chairman Chambers Smith has issued
a call for a meeting of tho Democratic
Slate Executive Committee, to bo held in
tins city on March 2, at which time a
date will be fixed for the holding of the
next Democratic State Convention, lhat
convention will be ono of the most impor
tant and the most largely attended one
ever held in North Carolina, and is look
ed forward to with a great deal of interest
and no little anxiety.
Until recently the indications all point
ed to tfie organization of a Farmers' Al
liance third party in this State, but the
Farmers' Alliance people have concluded
so far as State politics are concerned, to
make their fight inside the Democratic
organization. Instead of nominating a
separate ticket they will curry all the
county conventions they can under the
Democratic call, send their delegates to
the regular Democratic State convention"
and endeavor to control that body and
nominate candidates to suit themselves.
In this effort they stand a very fair
show of success, if they areas fortunate
as they were two years ago in capturing
county conventions, for in 1890
the Farmers' Alliance delegates to the
district conventions dictated the nomina
tion of five of the nine present Congress;
men. viz.. Branch of the First district
Grady, of the Third; Williams, of the
Fifth; Alexander; of the Sixth, and
Crawford, of the Ninth, and ame very
near defeating the popular Col. Cowles,
of the Eighth district, for re-nomination.
It is and has been for ?ome time a mat
ter of common report lhat President Polk
is anxious to secure the gubeiLatorU
nomination, but it is extremely doubtful
whether he could obtain it even it the
Alliance element controlled the convention
Gov. Thomas M. Holt, the present
executive, desires to succeed, and stands
a fair chance of doing so, though it is not
likely that he will be the Alliance candi
date in the convention. He is not a
member of that orgainization, though one
of the largest farmers and manufacturers
in the State. A man once elected to the
governorship in this State cannot succeed
himself, but this does not apply to tov.
Holt, he having succeeded to the office
ast spring on the death of Gov. Fowle.
Col. Julian S. Carr, the president and
chief owner of the b' g tobacco works at
Durham, a millionaire, an extremely pop
ular and verv able gentleman, and the
greatest philanthropist iu the State, is
prominently mentioned in connection
with the office, though he has made and
is making no efforts to secure it. He
may get the nomination, however, if he
wants it.
Statu Auditor Sanderlin is very anxious
for the place and basin ny admirers. He
will rely chiefly on tPe Alliance aeiegaies
for whatever strength he may develop in
the convention. There are several lesser
lights in view.
Rheumatism was so bad that
Irv;V Savannah. coo' ' r
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