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library :V VOL. VI SANFORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1892. SABBATH SCHOOL INTBBJJATIOKAI* . LESSON FOB mn se, isos. \ “Qlre the kingr Thy judgment*. O Sod, and Thy righteousness unto the king’s sod.’’ A psalm penned by a king, dedicated to a king and concerning the King of Kings. Sol omon was a type of Christ in wisdom and in the peace and prosperity of his kingdom. No man can be a type of Christ as to His character, butonly as to office. Christ is King and King’s Son, divine and human, and all judgment 13 given to Him (John v., 22). 9. "He shall judge thy people with righte ousness, and thy poor with judgment.” Compare In. ad., 4, 5; xxxii.. 1, 17. When Jesus shall be made King: over all the e^th. the righteous branch of David reigning and prospering, executing judgment and justice open the earth, in the days of Israels res to-' ration, then shall all, without exception, enjoy the full benefits of equitable judgment ?^0pri8bteOU*IleS8 tZech’ Xlv*» iFer* x*Ui-* 8. **The mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hills by righteous— ness.” Compare Isa. xl., 4. 5; It., 12. Peace and righteousness shall abound, and things that formerly brought terror hud dismay shall be subdued and be employed in the service of the king. :J 4. “He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy,and shall break in pieces the oppressor.” Coo* . trast the oppression of the poor in Amos iin 8; Vi, 11, and the time of tne kingdom when the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace (Ps. xxxvii., 11 ; Math. v.. 6). 5. ‘‘They 8Ball fear Thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all genera- . toons.” In Jer. xxxi., 85, b0; xxxiii., 30, 21, the references are very plain to the restora tion of Israel and her continuance as a na tion while sun and moon endure. Some day we may see a reference to this also in Gen. L, 14; in the fact that the lights in the firmament were appointed for signs. 6. “Ho shall come down like rain upon thp mown grass, as showers that water the eajrth.” Compare II Sam. xxiii., 4; Hosea.._ vii, 8, and notice in each passage. the reference to the morning—the morning without clouds, the morning when He will help Israel (Fa. xlvi., 6, margin). All Gospel blessing now is but a foretaste of tbe fulness of blessing when Jesus shall come to the church as the Morning Star and to Israel as the Sun of Righteousness (Rev. xxii., 10, M«l. iy..S». . ■ 7. "in ms days snail tne ngnteous nourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.” He will be the true Melchizedek. who will be both King of Righteousness and King of Peace. The Saviour teaches us that in this present world, instead of-flourishing, we must expect hatred and persecution and trial; and so also teach the apostles by the Spirit (John xv., 18-20; xvi., I, 2; Jas. 1, 12- Rev. ii., 10; II Tim. iii., Pi), i 8. “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.** Solomon’s kingdom embraced all the land of promise (I Kings iv., 21, 24); the true Bon of David shall have dominion over all the earth (Dan. vii., 13,14; Rev. xi.f 15; Nuin. xiv., 21; Isa. xi., 9; Hab. ii , 14). His body, the church, • shall reign with Him (Rev. iii., 21: v., 9, 10). 9. “They that dwell in the wilderness sdiall bow before Him, and His enemies shall lick the dust.** It is only at His second coming in power and glory that He shall smite His enemies, when He shall 'return bringing His saints with Him (l These, iii., 13; Col. iii., 4; Zech. xiv., 14; Rev. xix„ 11, 15). There can be no kingdom till the King returns (Luke xir., 11, 15). - i 10. “The kings of Tarshish and the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and 8eba shall offer [gifts.’* The most distant and most opulent seem to be represented here, while the previous verse suggests the most uncivilized. The,visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon and of the wise men of the east to the child Jesus are suggestive of the time when the glory of the Lord—haviug risen upon Israel the Gentiles shall come to her light and kings to the brightness of her ris ing (Isa, lx.. 1-3). i 11, “Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him; all nations shall serve Him.” Com pare Ps. Ixxxvi., 9. That this shall be When He is King of the Jews is evident from Isa. lx., 12. where it is written that the na tion and Kingdom that will not serve ^ Thee (Israel, see context) shall perish. It is the [literal Israel, truly converted, that is to [blossom and bud and fill the fac£ of the earth with fruit lisa. xxvi., 6). 12 “For He shall deliver the needy when lie crieth; the poor also and him that hath no helper.” Compare Isa. xli., 17. 18. All His relief, both physical and spiritual, which He brought to the poor and needy when He was here in humiliation, was but a sample of the fullness of blessing that shall be when the kingdom comes I , 18. “He shall spare tne poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy,’* See Jer. xxxix., 10;. Zeph. iii., 12, as a fore shadowing of these good times. The rich control things now, but it shall not be m the days of His kingdom. There is very little encouragement for the poor and needy in the churches to-day, but such have not the spirit of Christ. } 14. “He shall redeem their soul from de ceit violence, and precious shall their Iblood be in His sight.” They may Jay down their lives for His sake, but He will receive 1 their souls and in duo time redeem their bodies. Deceit and violence shall end when \ lft. “And He shall lire, and to liim shall be given of the gold of Sheba; prayer also ■hall be made for Him continually, and daily ■hall He be praised," He was dead, but is ■live forevermore (Rev. i., 18). The church ■earns to have hard work to raise money to cany on her work, but in kingdom day* wealth shall pour in from all quarters (Isa. >lx, & 11 R V.) IV e may be said to pray for Hi m when we pray for His members. 18. “There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains, the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.’* There shall be great results from apparently small causes. “A little one shall become a thousand, and a srpall one a strong nation; I the Lord will hasten It in hi* time (Isa lx., 22). » 17. ‘\Hi* name shall endure forever; His Aame shall be continued as long as the sun, und the men shall be blessed in Him; all •nations shall call Him blessed.** The great est name on earth; the sweetest name in (heaven. Bee the power and blessedness of • - Acts iii., 16; 48. _ _ id, the God of Israel who only doeth wondrous things.* Une has wisely said that this verse and the next calls for adoration, not exposition. {Compare Ex. xv., 11; Jer. x., 6, 7, 10. 10r**And blessed be His glorious name forever, and let the whole earth be flb«d Hrith His glory. Amen and amen.” The five books of the Psalter end with xii., 18; httii., 10; lxxxtx., 52; cvi., 48; cl , 6. It is Worth while to compare the close of each book. Whan this nsalm shall be fulfilled .•hen David shall hare no more occasion to The promises that the whole earth be iUled with HI* gloiy «*. found In tun. xlv., 21; Isa. XL, 9; Hab, i!., 14. ► should inspire us to work mightily to It.—Lesson Helper. peaven. dm me power sna du (His name in such passages aa A< 10, 12, 80; ix., 15, 16; x* 48. • 18. * ‘Blessed be the Lord God, Prof. Joynen at Waahinfrton and lee. taxmoTOH, Va..—The Washington find Iae Univeraity commencement was hold In the University chapel. Prof. Edward B. Joynet, an old ana eminent scholar of Nashville, Ten.., a former professor at the University, snd now " a professor In tha South Carolina College at Columbia, delivered the annual aadresa before tb* lityary aocUtlea. The vat -, ft the oyatera cooaumea 10 lion.:.: i.:.. MWut *8,00u,ovy. - to Relieve depression. i Plan For Converting Land Into Bankable Security. Edward Atkinson, the Boston Politi cal Economist, Weaves a New i Scheme For Getting Money. The following interesting communica tion from Edward Atkinson to the Man ufacturers’ Record presents a novel plan for increasing the value of real estate as security for loans; Bostok, 'Miss. Editor Manufacturer!' Record: I observe ihat an article which I lately wrote in the Century .magazine upon the Torrens system of registering land titles has attracted the attention of Geoeral Alexander and -other of my Southern friends, f may venturis Lto call attention to a matter whereby, land may be con verted into a security on which money can be borrowed from banks snd bank ers without the necessity of making a conveyance of the land as security for each loan. It is a plan which has not yet be eu adopted, and to which there may be objections unknown to me, but in all but one respect the suggestions that I make are a part of the common practice in many places, especially in Philadelphia and Baltimore. What I suggest is this: The conveyance of land by the ordi nary method is by registry of deed, un der the guarantee of a title insurance company and on condition of the pay ment of a ground rent without any promise to pay a principal lump sum se” cured in part by mortgage in the usuil way. I do not promise perpetual ground rents, but ground rents terminable at the option of the buyer or lessee on given notice, not terminable at the option of the seller or lessor. It is the common practice, notably in Philadelphia, to sell and convey land subject to a terminable rent unaer an insured title to capaDle men, who, being in good health, also get their lives insured for an amount equal to the valuation of the land. The lessees then join a building soeiety^and thus procure the means for building a house on the leased lot, becoming ulti? mately their own landlords by paying up their assessments in the building society and by ultimately compounding the rent by payment at a valuation in one sum either-in installments or in one payment The plan which I suggest „ is to add one single element to this method, name ly, that the obligation to pay rent upon the land should be represented by what may be called rent or rental certificates, to be registered at the office of the title insurance company, containing provisions both in the conveyance and in the rental certificate that on a given notice at a cer: tain period in advance of a payment of rent at such office of registry the lessee of the land may become entitled to purchase each or all of these lent certificates uy depositing at such office of registry a given sum of money for each certificate. Example: Let it be assumed that John Brown buys ©r lease® from James Brown a lot of land of which the valuation is $1,000, upon which he builds a house valued at $2,000. The ground rent is to be $60 a year. This rent is represented by ten registered certificates of rent, each of $6 per annum, provision being made that at any period three months in ad vance of any part of the rent becoming due, John Smith may file a written no tice at the registry that, on the payment, of $100, togethej* withtbe rent then due, he desires to become the owner by pur chase of rent certificate No. 1, and so on through Nos. 2, 3 up to 10. When he has purchased all the lent certificates at $100 each he will have become his own landlord. These rent certificates consti tute a lien upon the laud as good.to him, John Smith, ns they are to the original holder, and he need not cancel them. Or let us suppose that John Smith, be ing the owner of land free of encum brance, upon which his house stands and which constitutes his farm, executes rent certificates recorded upon that farm with a trust company, title insured, and him himself becomes the possessor of such certificates, would doi these become the first lien upon the land, not as a mort gage, but as a lien, subject to foreclosure if the rent is not paid. Would not these transferable rent certificates then become available to be deposited with banks, bankers or trust companies as security for temporary loans frori season to season? I am not a lawyer and cannot tell what technical difficulties there may be in the way, but this seems to me to be the easi est way, under our present form of regie try of title by deed, to put land into a form in which it can be assigned as se curity for temporary loans without going through an examination of title, and without the executioh pf papers of con veyance and mortgage each time that a loan is made. In presenting this subject, permit me to call attention to the fact that th6 craze for more depreciated money in the form of depreciated silver coin or for govern ment paper or for government loans, has about run its short and dangerous coutse The South, of all sections of this country, being dependent upon the sale of its ex cess of product for foreign export, has a greater interest in maintaining the present standard of value on thy unit of a gold dollar than any other section of this country. Its lack has not been want of tnonev. but want of credit—want of bank ing lnstitut'ons, ana want ot lacmues for borrowing money even an good secur ity, ' ■The South, of all sectiouS *f this country, can least afford the discredit of debased silver, and also possesses the surest control over the geld of the, world, if it chooses to maintain the standard of value. It, therefore, seems probable that the movement which is now being made for taking the tax offithe circulation of State hanks, supplirAeptedby methods Which may render it easy to borrow true money of the best kind on the best kind •f security, will presently pi ice the South ern States again on the road to progress and to greater and preater development. In ia with this end in view that I pre sent these somewhat crude suggestions for teadily converting land into a bankable security on which loans may be negotiat ed, payable in standard coin of the l est kind; tbnt is to say. In Coin which is wofib as much uftof If i* mdted as it purports to be worth in the coin itself. That is the only kind of coined money that is good. Our present silver dollars are bad money because they do not meet this condition. They are wbrth but seventy cents after they are melted. Yours truly, ( Edward ATkiNSON. NOW COMES THE JUNE RISE. The Hisaissipi Levees Are Orumb^ ling Away. New Orleans, La.—The river Mon* day morning reached the highest point known here for the past 45 years, and in consequence New Orleans is to-day, lit erally speaking, an island. Crevasses above, crevasses below, the raging river in frout and the rapidly rising Lake Pontchartrain in the rear, have hemmed the city in and traffic on three roads has been suspended. At midnight the gauge read 18 feet above high water mark. People who knew well what this rise meant hoped that by morning there would be a decline, but whev daybreak came and the gauge was scanned old timers were staggered when they read 18 2 10. At six o’clock the first break was re ported. It happened at Belmont place, ubout twenty mile? above the city on the yi*'Mssipi Valley road; 75 feet of the ^ gftve way at jone clip and the water A 'jiin an hour’s time had dug a channel twelve feet deep. The Valley tracks .were quicklv under two feet of water and all traffotfus stopped. Following ticflely >o the reports from Belmont came Ah**: news of three breaks eleven miles beloV 'he city, all within one mile of each other. The first break occured at Stoney’s near where a crevasse^ occurtd a mouth ago but notf closed. It I started at a fifty foot race, but widened, so rapidly that by noon it was one hundred [ feet wide and ten feet deep and i£ll breaking. The second break was At Villere’s plantation, a half mile a#ay. Fifty feet was its width. Two hours af terwood the levee gave way. The third break is at the Merrick place, a mile below Villere. It was twenty feet wide and hopes are entertained of closing it. Th* three crevasses have tied up the Southern Railroad, which runs from the city to the Gulf. r*iim ly nao ine engineers reeov [‘It'll from this .disastrous news when a tele phone message was received from Wag gaman, thirteen miles up on the other' side of the river, stating that the entirf levee at that point, several hundred yard( in length, had toppfed ioto the rushing waters. The Texas and Pacific trains are just behind the levee and the, swish of the water washed the tracks up for a considerable distance. The Texas and Pacific people have shut down on traffic The last break to occur was at the €111' py Prospect plantation on the VaBoj road a few miles below Belmont. It if twenty-five feet deep and five wide and will assist in widening the Belmont bfm|i and also worry the Valley officials. .fM of these crevasses following so closed on each other have occasioned considerable alarm throughout the city. BLAINE AMD THE SENATE. Talk iu Maine of Electing Him the Scat Occupied by Mr. Hale. Augusta, Mb.—The question as to whether Mr. Blaine’s political career is ended has begun to attract the serious at tention of his most devoted friends in this State, and it has been discussed by many of his townsmen who do not want lo see him retired from public life. Next winter the Maine Legislature will elect a United States Senator in place of Eugene Ilale, who will have held that office for twelve years. Mr. Blaine’s name is be ing mentioned for the place, and it is said that a movement will be started in his int rest. Sfr. Hale is a candidate for rc election, and his plans have long been laid to get it. In Maine they have a cus tom of returning men to both branches of the Legislature for a second term. _Two years ago Mr. Hale started his Senatorial tight for securing the election of men committed to his re-election. These men w ill be returned this winter with others, who will be pledged to the Ellsworth statesman’s support. If Mr. Blaine shbuld consent to bo a candidate, Mr. Hale would have an advantage over him at the but. Mr. Blaine is ignsrant of the talk. He would undoubtedly hare the influence and support ot Tom Reed and Captain Boutelle. Dingley would naturally grav itate to Blaine, but he would do nothing to intperil his chances for Frye's place in 189S. A fight between Blaine and Hale woiild shake up the Republican party in Maine. It is not unlikely that Gov. Burleigh would jump into the arena as a candidate. Mr. Blaine's friends are in earnest in this matter. At the coming Portland Convention, when the Republi cans nominate their candidate for Gov ernor;-it is said that a resolution-will be presented recommending Mr. Blaine for Mr Halo's place. _ —-Mil An Opera House Manager in Trouble, Ashkviijje, N. C.—A telegram was sent from here to Roanoke, Va., t,o arrest Edwin M. Spencer, of Asheville, on five warrants, charging him with obtaining niouey under false pretenses. Spencer left here Sunday with the Balfe Opera Company, of which be was manager. Saturduy night before he bad his personal checks cashed and gave checks toseveral hotels in payment of bills of the company. When the checks were presented Mon day it was found that Spencer had no money in the bank, and his creditors decided on his artist. The total amount is about 1850. Spencer wastfianager of Grand Opera House here and until Sun day vyas proprietor of the Ifornieg Ga zette ™—. Restricting the Turpentine Output. Savannah, Ga. --The committee from the sub-associations of the General Tur pentine Operators Association of Geor gia, Florida and Alabama met the factors in private session here, and decided that, in^vlew of the present prices being so low that operations were conducted at a loss, e-ch operator should reduce the working of trie yearlings and aid boxes at ieast 8 per cent. They -believe that this will soon have the desired effect on the receipts and a beneficial result on price*. THE ALLIANCE TICKET. ' Talk of Nominating- Senator Stewart of Nevada for President,- . Omaha, Neb.—The newi of the.deafh of L. L. Polk, President of the Farmers’ Alliance, was received with man; man ifestations of regret among the party lead era It seemed assured that Folk would be either first or second at the Omaha Convention. It was apparently generally understood that the independent nom inees shonld be selected with a view to concentrate the West and South, as the latter section should receive the seemid place. * To day a new plan developed which seems to meet with much favor among the leaders of the new party in this sec tion. It is proposed to nominate United States Senator William H. StewaitA of Nevada for President and Thomas. E. Watsen, Representative in Ooagresadrom Georgia, for Tice President. It is now said that Gen. Weaver, who has baenunost prominently mentioned for the first,place, B strongly inclined to favor thi* ticket. SELECT 8IFTINGB. ' Few criminals of any kind' live to be old men. Plants grow faster between 4 and ft A. M. that at any*other time during the day. The Ohio River,’which is very nearly 1000 miles long, hae a mean descent of only 5lj inches to the.mile. Cawker City, Ran., has adapted an ordinance requiring'1 every owner of chickens to keep them on his premises. Sau Francisco has an earthquake-proof hotel. It is constructed of iron, and in the form of two hollow squares, one within the other, arranged so.as to brace each other. The arrivals in this country from Swe den, Norway arid Denmark are next in importance to those of Great Britain and Germany, and exceed by oae-fourth those from Ireland. In Burmah it is rather a suspicious thing to give money for a charitable ob ject. It is supposed to mean that the donor has been very wicked, and is de sirous to make amends. , The original manuscript, of the “Book of Mormon” is now in one of the banks at Richmond, Ray County, Mo., in cus tody of J. D. Whitner, a strajght and non-poly gamous Mormon. A red bird died at the advanced ago of twenty-three years iu Z inesviUe, Ohio, the other day. It had become so feeble that it could not mount its perch in its cage, but it sang until a year ago. A tree was cut m the Puget Sound (Washington) forest the other day fro n which seven cuts were taken without a knot, their combined length being 179 feet. The tree seated feet.— Mrs. Sanders and rtive daughters, of Henderson County, Tennessee, have feet which are marvels for size. Mrs. Sanders wears number fifteen shoes and the youngest daughter number twelve. The average sized loot of this wonderful six is number fourteen. Professor Lors, the Greek rifle shot, is attracting much attention by his feat of shooting a glas* uall from his own head. The tries is performed by shooting at the trigger of a rifle held in a frame, with the muzzle sighted at a glass balF“" dangling by a string directly over the markmau's head. A costly wardroberis owned by one of the Chinese Ministers, whose m&guiticent and varied toilettes navne driven the so ciety belles wild with envy. Trie celestial dignitary qever-appeafe at publio entertainments twice in the same costume, and his silk and satin, garments are valued at $150,000. Many readers will be much surprised to learn that at tne battle of Leipsic the Russians brought into the Held numbers of Baskir Tartars who were armed only with bows and arrows. So we read in General Marbot’s memoirs, written by himself and lately published. The Gen-' eral was himself wounded by an arrow in the battle. A Maryland farmer adopts this method i of ridding his premises of English spar | ruwi* Whenever they get too plentiful he equips each man on the farm with a flat board, and they all proceed after dark with lanterns to the bird-roost. The sparrows fly toward the light, and: as they cotue within reach the man with the boards knock them down by the score. Charles G. Leland traces the origin of the saying in reference to a small place, •‘there is not room enough to swing * cat,” to a superstition current in Tran sylvania. In this country, it is said, if a cat runs away, when recovered aha must be swung three times around to at tach her to the dwelling. The ,same is done with a stolen cat by a thief if. he would retain it. Hade Them Face the Musle. This story about General Custer is picked up by the Buffalo Courier: The gallant cavalryman believed in having martial music on all possible occasions. He would have th» band out at 5 o’clock iu the morning and the last thing ip the evening. One day when the narrator's regiment had just come into camp Gen eral Custer ordered the band out. The men were tired aud reported that "they had lost £he mouthpieces to their instru ments. “Very well,” said the General, j “yoq may take pickaxes and shovels aud help repair the roads. You may find the missing mouthpieces while you are work ing.” It is unneaiasary to state that the band played soup after. / Chain-Gang for Charleston. Chaulkston, S. 0*—Aft a special meet ing ot the city council the chain-gang bill was rat fled and beeame an ordinance. The following*compose the board of com missioners who will have the matter ia charge: Alderman j. D. Murphy and A. A. Kroeg and Messrs. Benj. Mclnnts, Jr. CMs4«u p&ilUjM aa4 Hewj SaU. THREW A BOTTLE IN THE YARD, Tor that Reason Mr. Sullivan Killed Mr. Gilreath. Greenville;, 8. C.—J. M. Sullivan, a native of tbit* place and a son-in-law of the late John W. Stokes, shot and killed He man G. Gilreath, a m. mber of the City Council and a prominent citizen. The killing occured on. the southweste rn Corner of Mairi and t offee streets, and was witnesfed by many persons The cause which led up to the murder were oi a trivial character. Mr. Gilreath was a member of the Bun combe 8treet Methodist Church. He was in the garden of the parsonage with the pastor, the Rev. J. Thomas Pate; Mr. Gilreath’s coachman was doing some ploughing for the minister. While walking around on the fre.dily ploughed ground Mr. Gilreath kicked up an old bottle and carelessly tossed it in to the next jard, owned by Sullivau’s mother-in-law, and where Sullivan resides with his wife and three children. This act of Mr. Gilreath caused the killiog. The men met Monday and Mr. Sullivan bec*rae ab mve,~and, it is said, told Gilreath to “fix himsdf,” that “the gage is down and will stay down be tween us.” They met again in the morning, and Sullivan told Gilreath he was no gentle man. Gilreath repl:ed with the same expression. Sullivan told him to go away, and the Alderman, being a peacea ble man, turned to walkaway.^ Sullivan followed him, and.' as he was about to stop in his buggy, shot him in the ba« k, and fired again before Gilreath fell to the ground. Both balls took effect, the last one in the heitfl, and the first in the body. ]; Gilreath never spoke again. He was j* half brother of . Major Wi W. Gilreath, and a first cousin of the Sheriff. Sulli van is well connected, but once got into a difficulty with liis father and shot him. He is in jail, and will be closely guard ed. He is about 5') years old. Gilreath was 40 years old and was well to do. BLOODSHED IN EDGEFIELD. Result of the Actions of a “Whits Cap” lp>b. Edgefield, 6. C.—About 12 o’clock Monday night several white men went to a negro house in town where several negroeu were, and knocked at the door. One of the white men, John E. Paul, pushed open the door, and as he was en t-.ring the room he was shot and killed by one of the inmates. One of the negro, s has been arrested and a posse are looking for the others: This is the legitimate result of the actions of a mob calliiig themselves “White Caps.” J. LYNCHING TIIHEATENED. Charleston, 8. C.—About 10:30 [ o’clock Tuesday gighty Coveruor Tillxnau I received the followiug telegram: Edgefield, 8. <p. —Uov. B. R. Till man : There are threats of lynchihg Henry Griffin, who killed John E. Paul. The friends of Paul live here, and it-will require a guard, possibly until eourt, to prevent it. It will be best to move him to some other j iil. W, S. Oozts,Sheriff. The Governor replied, instructing" Sheriff Outzs to protect the prisoner at all hazards Greenville, S. . C.—The coroner’s jury, investigating the killing of II. G. Gilreath by J. Mims Sullivan, this morn ing rendered a verdict of felonious and willful murder. Seme of the jurous de sired to express the verdict in stronger works. ' BETT1E THOMAS-LEWIS CASE. An Important Suit by Which a Mu latatto Woman Receives a Fortune. A special from Wytheville, Va., says: The famous Bet tic Thomas-Lewis case was decided in the Court of Appeal*, Judge Leake’s decision in favor of the defendant being sustained. Judge Lacy dissented. The ^opinion was delivered by Judge Fauntleroy and was fully con curred in by three of the other judges. The estate is valued at $225,000, and it is said that Bettio Lewis will receive about $90,000 as her share after the ex penses of the trial have been paid. Each Of the lawyers will receive $10,000 with the exception of Mr. Edgar AllaD, whose portion, it is said, will be $50,000. Nearly $18,000 goes to tfie heirs-at-law. Hattie Lewis is a mulatto and is the ille getimate daughter of the late Ms. W. A. Thomas, who was a well known resident of Richmond. The case has been in the courts since the spring of 1890 and has attracted great interest throughout the entire country. A Receiver for the Railroad. A special from Atlanta, Ga.. says: ‘‘Upon the petition of AV. P. Clyde, T. G. Maden and W. A. Goadly, filed in the Circuit Court of the Unite 1 States for the eastern district of Virginia, Judge Bond has appointed F. W. Huidekoper and Rcubea Foster, of Baltimore, receivers of the Richmond^ Danville Railroad Com pany, and all its leased and operated lines of rail and steamboats. Mr. Huidekoper is new in Atlanta and has received pos session from President Oakrnan. Orders will be immediately issued appointing the same operating officers now m control. This movement has been taken in an ticipation of possible adverse action by Judge Speer, upon the Georgia Central petition now before him, for the protec tion of the property in the iutereit of all s curity hold* rs.’' Orders have been issued by ihe receiv ers forfAhe transfer of the offices of tho company from Atlanta, tcT*’Washington , where the head quarters will be re-estab fished. The operation of ihe Tarious lines of this great system wilt continue, at le .at for the present, without change and to . he.general public the c mdition of re cidrerebip will make no difference. ■f Socklsaa Jerry Benominated. WlCKital Kas.—Jerry Bimpeon wee re Dominated for Congress here by accla mation by People’s party copyeB’ tt®9, • '/;* v v-Jwr.: AT HOME AND ABROAD. Telegrams and News of Importance From Everywhere. Some Remarkable Events Happen ing Within and Without —the State 1 Father Mollinge<-, the faith cure priest, died at Pittsburg at 1:50 p. m. Wednes day. A horse breeders* association will be formed at Raleigh, N. C., on August 18. William Walter Phelps is now talked of for Secretary of State. The U»ah delegation to Chicago is com posed entirely of Gentiles ( Congressman Stackhouse of South Cor olina was the eight Representative in the present (52d) Congress to die. * Eigh'een persons were prostrated by^ heat in New York city Monday, and four died. The British House of Commons has added $50,000 to the fund for England’s exhibit at the World’s Fair, Chicago — $300,000 altogether. Ex Congressman Jesse J. Yeates," of the first district&of North Caro ina, is very sick in Washington of Bright’s dis ease and is not expected no liVe. A very rc nark able marriage occurred near Allendale, in Barnwell couuty, S. C.. one day last week. A man 87 years old mairied a little girl 14 years old :i t An anthracite coal mine which has been worked in Peak Creek mountains, near Pula8ki,Va., for several years, has recently developed a vein twelve feet thick. •The House has passed a bill t© declare Indian children citizens when they reach the age of twenty-one, provided they have had t. n years of industrial training. The Kansas People’s party State con vention met at Wichita, Thutsday, and nominated L. :D Wtl'.iug for Governor. Mrs Lease succeeded in getting a woman’s suffrage plank in the platform.. One hundred South Carolina teachers will attend the annual meetings of the Southern and National Educational As sociations which meet yi Atlanta and Saratoga Springs, respectively. Hackburn & Willett, of New Berne, N. O., have thus far shipped 10,000 barrels of cabbage this season and have 6,000 barrels more to ship. Their gross sate of cabbage alone from their farm will amount to $40,000. The daily mortality from cholera at Meshed, Persia, is now 400. The strict est sanitary regulations have? been estab lished, aud the Ameer threatens to be head anyone who does not comply with them. The Newberry Cotton Mills at New berry,S. C ,earned last year $4 per spindle, the largest earnings with one exception among the mills of the State. A reserve fund is being accumulated with a view to doubling the capacity of the mill. The Russian government has approved the proposal of Baron Hirsch providing for the immigration from Russia of 3,500.000 within the next twenty-five years The exodus for 1892 has been limited to 25,000, but the number will ba increased annually. Elias Carr, candidate for Governor; R A Doughton, candidate for Lieutenant Governor; ex-Cougressman W. R. Cox and II. A Gudger, of Asheville, will par ticipate in i he St. John's Day exercises at the Oxford, N. C .Orphan Asylum and all of them excepting Mr. Carr will make speeches. James H. Woodrow, son of Dr. James Woodrow, apd proprietor of the Presby terian Publishing House in Columbia, S. C . died last Saturday of typhoid fever. He was thirty-two years of age and leaves a widow aud two children. Senator Ransom had first one son and then another for private secretary in Washington. The second one looks so. much like the first that most people fail to discover the substitution. The Sena tor’s oldest son is now practicing law in .Asheville, N. C. The following are widows,living in the South, of Revolutionary soldiers: Mary Brown, Knoxville, Tenu. j Nancy t loud, St. Paul* Va.; Nancy Jones, Jonesboro, Tend; Rebecca Mayo, Newberu, Ya. ; Nancy Rains, Carter Furnace, Teun ; Meridy Smith, Newman, Ga.; Mary Snead, Parksley, Va. They all draw pensions. An offer to fiuish a room in the Vir ginia State building has been received from the North Carolina Pine Lumber Co., of Norfolk. It is the desire of the company to liuish the room iu an artistic mtumer for tjhe purpose of displaying the beauty aud skill with which North Caro lina piue can be used in various kinds of trimmings. John Smith, a prosperous farmer living eight miles east of Anniston, Ala., was stung to death by bees Monday. He was having a swanu of bees when the limb on which they had swarmed broke, falling upon them In a moment he was c .vcr ed with the oees and stung so badly that he died within a few hours, despite all the efforts of two physicians who ^ere called in to attend him. & — -- New Enterprises in the South. The summary of new enterprises or ganized during the past week, as given in the current isaueof the Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore, shows the follow ing among the more important items: A $25,000 cotton compress company at Birmingham, Ala ; a $5,000 tool com pany at Pensacola. Fla. ; a $1,000,000 electric light and railway company at Tampa, Fla ; a $50,000 electric light company at Rome, G*.; a $50,000 saw mill company at Louisville, Ky. ; a $15, 000'grain null company at Richmond, Ky.. $500,000 lumber mill company at ftew Orleans, La.; a $40,000 asphalt works company at Washington, D. C-; a 400,000 brick and terra cotta company at Columbia, S. C.; a $250,000 machine manufacturing company »t Harriraan, Tenn.; a $500,000 abottoir company at Dallas, Texas; a $100,000 nursery com pany at Fort Worth, .Texas; a $50 000 compress company to build at Mineola, Texas; a $10,000 dairy company at Alex andria, Va. ; a $50,000 brake manufactur ing company at Charlottesville, Va., and a $25,000 tanner? company at Llano. Tuu. . . LOOKS LIVELY] FOR OMAHA. V$: jCh© Third Party Convention May be More Than She Can Chamber. Omaha, Nkb.—V. O. Strickler, who rV has'been deputized for the present in the place of A. E. Taubentcker, president of, the national executive committ e of the People’s Party, is preparing for the con vention to be held here July 24. He said: “The people of Omaha must do some active hustling in the next three weeks, or there is ^rief in s’ore for us. We have secured accommodations for a ';-> little over- 6,000 people, and there will be 10,000 here from this State alone, • • j- i “Every State will send big delegations, and Kansas and Iowa will pour immense ciowds in upon us. Mr. Wilkins, chair man of the. State committee,, says4hafc they will have ninety two delegations, and will bring air army of sightseers. They wanjt to arrange fqr^tL small hotel for their exclusive use. “Indiana is in the same fix. A gen tleman was here last week from Jerry Simpson's district in Kansas, and engag ed fifty rooms at the hotels for visitors Jrom that congressional district alone. 'This convention will bringTrom 30,000 to 50,000 people, to Omaha, and they must be provided for.” _, Railroad Earnings in South Carolina. Yorkville (8. C.) Enquirer ] Secretary Bartlett has* prepared the March statement of the railroad earnings in this state. The report is not at all en couraging, as the past nine months show up a decrease of 1409,912.14 as compared -• ith the nine months of the previous year. As compared with the same month of last year, the earning for March, as applying to the roads of this section, are is follows: Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, $66,714.09,a decrease of $2,289.92; Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago, $14, 280.06, an increase of $922 62; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, $53,054.28, a die crease of $13,862.20; Cheraw and Chester, $1,400.32, a de rease of $278 87; Chester and Lenoir, $2,269.73, a decrease of $278.' 87; Georgia, Carolina and Northern, $14,551.91, an increase of $2,528 27. The total earnings of all the roads in the State for Che month was $731,074.70, and the total decrease, as compared with the same month of last year, $73,415.9 >. Probable Cabinet Changes. Bac/tim >rf, Md.—One of the mo• l prominent Republicans in the chjy has received a communication from President Harrison which speaks in glowing terms of General Felix* Agnus1 services to the administration during the past four years. The gentleman who received this letter said: “The President finds it nec essary to.place a Southern man in his cabinet. It is an expedient and wise move, but there is no one close enough to the President in the South to be creat ed Secretary of State. The final arrange ment will be found to be that (Secretary Tncy will be given the portfolio of Stj^te; Secretary Elkins will be put in charge of the Navy Department, and Geneial Ag nus will be created Secretary of War.” Two ’Possums for the ^President. From the Washington Star.] Some time ago President Harrison ex pressed a wish to Uncle Jerry Rusk for two good ’possums as soon as frost set in, and this morning two fine young ’pos sums were received at the White House. These were delivered by Adams Express Company, and w'ere in a box marked: “To the President Two citizens of Maryland—Mr. Protection aud Mr. Rec iprocity—with the compliments of John R. Rowlett, 1,411 N street, northwest.” Each of t-lio animals had a red,~white and blue ribbon round h s neck, one marked •‘protection” and the other “reciprocity.” Healing the Breach in Louisiana. Baton Rouge, La.—Two conference committoes of the divided Louisiana Democrats have reached a mutually satis factory agreement providing far an amalgamation of the two factions of the party and the sending of a single Demo cratic delegation, umnstructi d, to Chica go. The Foster faction has beemreeog nized as the head of the party iu the State. Upinstructed delegates at large to the Chicago convention were elected. * Five Drowned. New Orleans, La.—A ferry boat crossing Bayou La Fourche at Napoleon - villo Monday night overturned and pre cipitated the twelve persons on board into the water. . It was so dark that it j was impossible to., give the men any as sistance and five of the twelve persons were drowned. They were Edward Schneider, Jacob Nardilly, an unknown Italian, Robert Atkins and a negfo — name unknown. A Murdefc Followed by a Lynching. Sedro, Wash.—A report of the brutal murder of' the foreman of the Smith Brothers camp by four Italians, followed by the lynchiog of the murderer4, was brought here. John A. Nelson was the victim. The white men at the camp, numbering about 60, became so enraged that they seized the Italians ahd lynched them — Attempted Suicide. Asheville, N. C.—Mrs. Betsy Cham bers, living in Haywood country, attempt ed suicide by cutting^her throat with * . razor. Three ugly gasnes were made id her throat, exposing but note severing the jugular vein. Physiciaus say she will die from nervous prostration if the wound does net kill her. The reason given is that she couldn't sleep at ni&hts and didn’t feel well. The would-be suicide is §0 years old. . .£ V~ Crawford Be-nominated. Asheville, N. (\—The Democratic convention of the ninth congressional district met at Waynesville. J. 1>. Mur phy, 0/ Asheville, w s chairmau. All A the counties except Clay were represent- V cd. W. T. Crawford was uuauimously re nominated for Congnss and Locke Craig, of Asheville, was chosen for pics •le itiil eleetor. The State platf rm was adopted. The convention was very hiU* monious. Tt Is said the street preacher? in Lon* don are merely a "blia i” t » have era f 4s - > eoiiept to give pickpocket# opportU4iuee.