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DUNN, HARNETT CO.vN. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1891
NO. U
VOL. I.
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DECEMBER DOLXGS.
The Latest News From a Trio of
States.
Int!"3fingr Newg Items From Many
Points ia Our Own and
Neighboring States.
VIRGINIA.
Summon is to have an electric street
car line.
Th G.aFi i Lodge of Masons meets in
Kichiuoud Dec. 15.
A rniii in Tucker county is looking for
$2".0) i gold he sys he threw in the
( beat river years ago
Rev. II. M. Wharton, of Baltimore,
lias been conducting an enthusiastic re
vival at Lynchburg.
F.icJc;irMg; county has applied to the
lMaturc fur authority to issue $60,000
boii-N :o buikl a courthouse at Lexing
ton. riult iinorf parties have secured con
tra N frorn the Norfolk fe Western Rail-r-ti-l
(' for J't bridges between Radford
an, O.li. about 50 miles.
Appi Crews and Ed Lewis,tvo colored
nu n had a quarrel at Roanoke. Crews
-ii'it Lewis, in the left breast, and he died
two horns later. The murderer was capture-.
A corps of engineers have commenced
fiirvring a line of railroad from Lexing
ton to Glasgow, a distance of 15 miles.
This line is believed to be part of the
-l.rojeeted Pittsburg & Virginia railroad
of which Hon. Fitzhugh Lee is president.
Oil John S. Mosby, the Confederate
c;iv;ilrvunn, is vigoous and in good
health. His hair is white, but his build
awl. weight are not more than medium.
He docs not wear a beard, but his slouch
hat indicat. s the Southerner.
Lee Ilctlin, who his been in Warren
ion j.iil for two weeks, charged with the
lnunler -f Mrs. Kines and her children
ia Fauquier county, was taken to Alexan
dra for s:fe keeping, violence being
feareil if he remained in Warrenton. To
nC i.t tte reporter he confessed having
committed the murder to secure some
jnoii! y, and the next morning set fire to
the hmme to conceal Irs crime.
A report has been published that work
will shortly be commenced o i the build
ing of five new steamships ut the New
port News ship yard. The report is
doubtless true, as the two ships uow
hull-ling will soon be. launched, and the
yard is lwiug extensively enlarged to
niak-; room for additional shipways.
This is destined to be one of the most
import ait ship yards in the world, as it
is now, so goxl authorities claim, the
t most perfect and the best equipped.
NORTH CAROLINA-
Wi'mfngtou has a ncwlv formed chess
chi.
The -lo,ed people of Statesville have
ciguiied a building and loan association.
Ctov. Molt and private sccretary,Telfair
spent Thanksgiving at II iw River, where
the Governor has a in st charming home.
The Kalundar Kirmess at fharlotte,
for the benefit of the Queen City Guards
last week, passed off with greas eclat and
finaii- ial success.
T The city of Greensboro offer for sale the
'$::, o.o of bonds issued for the Girls'
ftoimal School.
A fjo.oo,) bi:i'!d;:ig will be erected in
the suburbs of Coin o:l for the White
Hall Pit -bvtcrlau Seminary.
Michie.n u;.i!ists have invested in
Jacks,. h n.tiiv o: nudum mines and com
mence! developing them.
The city (ou:ieU (f Newberne has
granted a franchise to build and equip an
rKtri.a! street railroad to William C
Claike. of Wakefield,-It. I.
Iredell county will hold an election to
consider the ubs i iption d $00,000 "to
hie c-ipiul k of the Statesvilb Air
Luie llaibua,, (- 'I liis conipanv pro-poM-s
iMildia-J-t railroad from Spartan
hu.g. S c . via Stalesville to Mt. Airy.
M. (I. Goodman, a Gernnu Jew, aed
44 (-mml'.ttd suicide by hanging h?m
wjf o a tr. e in O.ikdale remoter", Wil
- inmgton. Coodma.-i came to Wiliniii"--toutwonu.uus
ngo f.om Germany,
wingjHjj w,ti, i3;in j,is wife and fo,,,.-!.
aren. llomoickiiess is the oulv cause
assigned for the act.
George H. wy!de, the bigamist, who
Reaped while en route to Greensboro,
as recar.t-.ued about live miles from
arhHin uhil, CI)1(1 in try (a fc
h shM k rTi hai;dea b
the fciri-,ff r i,lllh;im WheQ toM thnt
-Which:;;:"" Uyed,
duIrn,W(inb0anuctin- ht Charlotte
!u ; s hrtma9 o'y. of the
Pt !i. graded school teachers of the
o & lnt;Uivcs of the faculties
Not in r m ln;vt',Mty and the State
o.nul College for women State Super-
:Uul P"Went Winston
h be ,,sent. Th object of the meet?
State" lrm0te Public educatioa ia the
SOUTH CAROLINA.
at Cot C!-red 'lks m!u1e tate fair
et tolumbia quite a .uecess.
Some snow fell last Week between
Greenville and Paris Mountain
A cane mill has been buiU at nr
property of 1 tn . T race course"
!fation of Sou i7..-:V,:LUA?PV C
air im;,.j: me vorm
Is
memoriln;; 5 committee of five 1
to
Mn luc legislature to make a
chSZ aPFTroPriation, Gen. M. C. Butler,
""nan; J. A. Enslow, W.M. Rodgers,
M. Rucker and D. K. Norris. .
r.L,r-th r8t J" South
JJpttn Annual Confertnee of the Metfc-
"gthis week in Darlington, Bishop
yranberrv. from v;-?,,; tI
It
"ae jocth session.
, u,;ir is about tn hv . Ki i
suit
n n i., the heirs of Geu. Sumpter to
r-,n,V"tV l1' city property on which
' tne court house, city hall and
many storehouses, the ground of which
was "deeded to Sumpter county' for 99
years, which expires in 1892.
Actiug on Gen. Farley's suggestions
the military officers of the state assembled
in Columbii Friday night, and adopted
his idea of establishing a military insur
ance feature with the aid of the legisla
ture. ; Prof. John G. Clinkscales, who has been
doing institute, work in various parts of
the State during the summer and fall,
has been appointed to the position of
clerk in the office of the Superintendent
of Education to fill the vacancy made by
the removal of W. J. Thackstou fro m the
State.
Lock wood. Green & Co., of Boston,
Mass., are preparing plans for a $500,000
co' ton mill to be erected by the Colum
bia Water Power Co.; said mill to be
called the Aretas Blood Mill, have about
25,000 spindles with full outfit of looms,
and use a vvater-power of about 1,500
horse-power.
OTHER STATES.
O. W. Morgm, of Mirion, Ala., was
killed-accidentally -while examining an
old pistol.
The exchanges of Memphis held a meet
ing and passed resolutions requesting the
ouuty court to hpproprite $20,000 tow
ard a fund for the proper representation
of tve S ate of Tennessee at the world's
fair.
It is learned that the Piedmont Expo
sition Company lost about $2,"200 on the
Exposition which has just closed in At
lanta, Ga. The officials claim that the
i'.i 1.000 paid for the King Solomon show
is what broke the camel's back.
The deeds of property in Odessa, Tex.,
provided against the sale of liquor, and
that the property should revert to the
towu company in case of a violation of
the clause, but in one deed the clause
was omitted and the purchaser of the lot
is selling so much liquor that only an in
junction can stop him.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith leaves his univer
sity chiir in the Tennessee mountains to
mix now and then with bis old frieuds at
Nashville. He has become a patriarch in
appearance, with gray hair and a long,
rlowiug white beard. But there is no
sign of physical breaking in him, for his
eyes are bright and he walks with a firm
step and erect carriage. No other man
in Tennessee is more generally honored.
The school for the boys of the Apache
tribe, at Mount Vernon barracks in Ala
bama, is a success. The Apache boys
here are taught to speak the Engl sh
language and give up the ways of sav
agery; they wear white duck trousers and
coats; they even surrender the glory of
their trib:-, which is their black hair, and
mi;hc of them are said to be anxious to
"make money."
THE NOTICE ON THE DOOR
Which The Depositors Stand Around
And Head.
The following notice was posted on
the doors of the First National Bank at
Wilmington, N. C, last Wednesday
morning:
, "In consequence of the stringency in
financial affairs and their inability to
meet further demands, the directors of
this bank have decided in the interest of
all concerned to suspend busin ss until
further notice."
The officers arc in the bank, every
entrance to which is closed, and it is im
possible now. to get any statement as to
the condition of affairs. The capita!
stock is $250,000. 'I he last published
statement shows a deposit of $-105,000.
An employee of the bank who is familiar
with its siffairs expressed his opinion
to an Associated Press reporter that the
depositors would sutler no loss. Large
crowds gathered around the bank discuss
ing the situation, but the excitement is of
a subdued chara ter and everything is
comparatively quiet. The Bank of New
Hanover and the Wila.ington Savingsand
Trust Company are not affected by the
suspension.
The board of directors have given to
the pr ss the following official statement
concerning the suspended First National
Band. The causes which led to suspen
sion have existed a long while Its capi
tal was impaired by heavy losses several
years ago, as is generally understood
from the fact that nodivi tends have been
declared since 1837. The directorrs
hoped that by careful management the
earnings of the bank would be sufficient
in n few years to cover these old losses,
but slow collections in consequence of t e
general ringencj' prevailing iu our sec
tion this fall, have c m pel led them to
abandon this hope and close the bank to
protect dep"sitorj, as well as stockhohl
ers, against further risk. Notwithstand
ing the shrinkage in many securities on
account of the general depression of busi
ness, it is hoped that the resources of the
bank, under prudent handling, will yield
more than enough to p .y ihe depositors
in full.
BURNED TO DEATH.
And the Crime Was the Result of
a Conspiracy.
Raleigh, N. C, Special. News
from Wilkes county states that a terrible
crime was committed there. An aban
doned woman twenty years old, named
C .nthia Hoffman, camped out with Co
lumbus Dancy, her brother io-law. They
fell asleep, and when she awakened her
clothes were on fire.
She raa sever d hundred yards to a
house, but was horribly burned and died
Tu'sday night.
The coroner held an inquest, and the
verdict of the jury was that the woman
came to her death at the hands of assas
sins, a conspiracy having been formed to
kill her by Columbus Dancy and Rhett
Dancy. It appeared in evidence that
these men had threatened to kill her.
Lum got her out that night, bhe caught
on fire some distance from the fire, the
leaves being buraed between her sd
the fire, and Lum would not attempt to
put out tne ilre alter it caught her dress.
The colony of Sierra Leone b 103
years old, yet there is no machinery there
except the sewing machine. The popu
lation is upwards of 50,000, and not a
saw-mill nor any other kind of mill in
ODeration.
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
A Guilford
Man On
Better"
"Something
Than Any Substitute Offered for the
Sub-Treasury Plan for Obtaining-
Ioans Upon Land.
Be it enacted by the Congress ef the
United States, that whenever any corpo
ration, duly chartered by the State . in
which the corporation is to have its prin
cipal place of business, shall deposit with
the Treasurer of the United States its
bond or bonds bearing 2 per cent, inter
est for a sum not less than $50,000, se
cured by mortgages upon land, said mort
gages not exceeding one-hilf the value
ef the land covered by the same as assess
ed for taxes; taid bond or bonds being
duly authenticated and deposited as
aforesaid together with the mortgages se
curing the same as collaterals. Then and
in that event the Treasurer of the United
States shall issue, to the corporation so
complying, interconvertable bonds bear
ing 2 per cent, interest payable semi
annually in the currency of the United
States. Provided that said bonds at the
option of the owner thereof when presen
ted at the Treasury of the United States
shall be exchanged at par for United
States Treasury notes, which shall be le
gal tender and receivable for dues, public
or private, except for those upon imports
into the United States. Provided how
ever in no case shall the Treasurer of the
United States issue bonds as aforesaid to
any corporation presenting securities as
collaterals which are based upon laud
which is owned by any person or persons
not citizens of the United States nor upon
land in excess of 1,000 acres the property
of one individual or corporation.
In presenting the foregoing plan for
distributing money from the Treasury of
the United States among the masses, the
writer would modestly claim for it supe
riority over any substitute he has seen of
fered for the Sub-Treasury plan. A se
rious objection to the plan proposed by
ex-Senator Norwood and others, ' 'to make
the distribution through the agency of
the States," arises from the fact that the
funds would be used for partisan
ends even if distributed through a system
of State banks.
Any financial measure to be acceptable
should be constitutional, equitable and
practicable. Granting for the sake of
argument (what the writer docs not be
lieve) "that the United Statis Govern
ment is prohibited by the Constitution
from making loans direct to individuals,"
no man could bring that as an objection
to the plan suggested. The practicability
of the government basing its credit upon
a few acres of land scattered here and
there may be called in question, but if
the number of acres be increased to thous
ands and the same be bonded for 50 per
cent, of their value as assessed for taxes,
can any sane man deny to land so situa
ted its recognition as available capital, or
is there a statesman living, with the con
gressional precedents before him, who
will say that lands so circumstanced is
not an acceptable basis for a government
loan? The pian is equitable, not disturb
ing or encroiching upon the rights of
others and is no more "class legislation"
nor "paternalism" than that- recommen
ded by the National Bankers' Association
of depositing corporation bonds cf cities
and railroids with the Treasurer of the
United States as security, upon which
the government shall loan its credit to
the corporation depositing them, in or
der to lloat their bauk paper currency,
but is a great deal safer, because cities
may be burned down or pass under the mu
nicipal control of factions who may loot
their treasuries and destroy the value of
its real estate, thus rendering the bonds
worthless, but land can neither be burned
up or made away with, which constitutes
it the very safest basis for securing loans.
As to the practicability and availabili
ty of the plan the writer would submit
that no sensible mau doubts the safety of
laud security, but objects to it because of
its want of availability, being properly
hedged about by the statutory enactments
of the States in which it lies, it is a secu
rity which cannot be readily realized
upon, hence with the trading-world it is
in disrepute as such. This objectionable
feature is at once eliminated by the fore
going plau. As an illustration say indi
viduals A. B. C. D. E. and others" desire
to organize a stock company for banking,
merchandising, manufacturing or enga
ging iu anv other industrial enterprise,
with a capital of $100,100, Now A, and
Bs wealth consists in money and they
subscribe to amount of $5,000 and pay
iu the cash.but C.D.E. and other's wealth
consists in land which in the aggregate
amounts to $50,000 at one ha'f the value
as assessed for taxation, upon which basis
they severally moitgage their land to the
company in payment for their respective
subscriptions and like A. and B. receive
their certificates of stock. ine company
desiring to convert all of its assets into
money executes its bond for an' amount
equal to the sum of said mortgages and
deposits the bond and mortgages as col
lateral security with the Treasurer of the
United Staes"and receives in lieu thereof
United States interconvertible bonds which
are
exchanged for Treasury notes thus
making the entire cap tal of the company
available, and C. D. and F. capitalize
their lands into dividend-beariog assets.
The plan is self-adjusting or inflexible,
for whenever a corporation at a certain
season of the year did not need its funds
it would be possessed of two ways of re
lieving itself of the redundency, either
by loaning the surplus at a low rate of in
terest to its stockholders upon their cer
tificates of stock as collaterals (many of
them being farmers would be likely to
to need money to carry on their farming
operations about the time of the year a
surplus began to accumulate). Uril no
other safe investment was open to the
companv it could return the surplus t
the Treasurer of the United -tes and
receive an inconvertible bond which
stops the payment of interest. The inter
tesrerfebla bond bearing the same inter
est (3 per cent.) as the corporation bonds
deposited by the company. This p'an
would afford protection to the people
against trusts or monopolies, which owe
their existence to the scarcity of availa
ble funds oi the part of producers and
consumers by enabling them to organize
co-operative associations for manufactu
ring or exporting their farm products and
thus fight trust with trust withthis di'SerVst ";
end lniew. Private trusts ignoring the
laws of supply and demand are operated
by a few individuals solely to enrich them
selves. Co-onerativR associations should
exist for tho purpose of making ka !equ:t-
uie uisiriDUUon oi Denenis uciween tne
producer, consumer and manufacturer. J
Courting for it the fullest discussion,
tha writer modestly submits his plan to
stand or fall upon its merits.
Guilford College, N. C. J. B. Smith. t
AKOTHER Fl.kX FOll IIET.IEF;
Mr. Editor: The cotton crop is being
gathered, and the prices are. so small that
the faces of the farmers have a sad, dis
turbed look. When o-e meets another
the first questiou, after the usual friendly
salutations is, how are your crops, and
the common reply is, very good, but the
starvation prices of cotton makes rrie
sad, aud if the gooil merchant that
advanced to me can't carry me over, I
shall have to let him take mv home, and
the reply is, I am in in your cond'tion,
and life is but little p'easure tome. .1
sometimes wish I had never been born.
I have worked so hard this year and So
hopefully, for my trops responded so
cheerfully for eve-y stroke of labor that I
gave it, and is there no remedy for us?
and the reply is, none, unhssthc Nation
al Government, through the earnest so
licitation of the Alliance, will come to
our rescue. The reply is, that will not
be done, for the majority of our repre
sentatives are directly oppesed to our re
medial plans. But, Mr. Editor, I, for
one, believe tlie needful remedy can be
gotten at our next National General As
sembly within thirty days after its con
vention. The Alliance is a national or
ganization and therefore has its adher
ents in every State in th's grand Union,
and suppose President Polk was to cdliv
national convention of the Alliance and
that convention was to select twenty of
its members from each State, send them
to Washington City and there let them
organize themselves into a congress or
convention, as one may please to term it,'
elect a president, select their committees,
formulate their plans, draft their resolu
tions, get themselves in working condi
tion, and then say. North, whit -is necd4
ful for 3 our reform; it is thus, let this
answer be, you can have it. The West!
the same, the East the same, and when iit
comes to our southland just afford us the
opportunity of holding our cotton for;
two crops this crop and one more.)
Draw such a bill as the different sections
require, take it in a body to the Presi-
dtnt of the Senate and demand a vote
upon it by that body. They are bur ser
vants and wH likely obey, and then take
it to the House of llepresentatives and
demand the same; say to them we want
it as an experiment and if it does not
answer our requirements we will come in
two or four jears and ask a repeal. Ex-I
tremc or severe eases needs strong reme-j
dies, aud if it ca-i't be accomplished,
without it, demand the passage of a stay
law for two years with the proviso that
the interest of the individual indebted
ness shall be paid. Th; creditor might;
say, "why that would ruin me." I
think not. Let his debtor deposit his
cotton with him as his collateral security ;
and the security could be extended from
one to another in such a manner that the
wheels of business would not be clogged;'
in the least ; and if the government would
inflate the currency to a liberal and legit
imate limit, the wheels of prosperity!
would begin to roll and before the cxpif-j
ation of the first twelve months cottbh
would command satisfactory prices nnll
other products the same, and we woulil
then have a prosperous and happy liatioy,
AVe 'all know that the price of cotton'js
not regulated by supply and dennud, fjr
there is one billiou live huudrcd anl
twenty-five million of people in thjs
world, and only four billions of pounds',
of cottou made per year, which is rtfjt
quite 2 pounds per capita, saying noth
ing of what is manufactured into rop,
canvas, cotton bagging and many othq-ri
modes of manufacture. So you see, Mh!;
Editor, that it cannot be supply and d-
mand. . Farmer; !;;
j ;
President L. F. Livingston, of- Geor
gia, lost his whiskers in Louisiana. 'lie
tells how he escaped without further
damage in an interview in the Atlanta
Constitution: 1; .
After a long drive through
some of the laurel swamps we reached
a little village. I was tired and weary,1
and felt ill at ease. Seeing the familiar
6triped sign of a barber shop, I entered,
threw myself into a chair, directing the
barber to give me a shave, and to trihi
my whiskers Under the soothing touh
of his hand I became drowsy and fU
asleep. You may imagine my surprise
when I arose from the chair, and lookieg
into the mirror, saw a perfect reproduc
tion of my friend, ex-Governor .Boy ntonr
of Griffin. I put my hand to, my chin,
but it was no illusion it was as bare
as ever it was iu my callow days. "There
was nothing to do but to retire in dis
gust and trust to time for a reparation of
the damage. I am afraid to go . home,1
however, until some sign of a beard re
appears. ' :
Alliancemen are warned not to trust
the bad men who have joined the A Hi-:
ance for selfish purposes. "We take t ;e
occasion te warn them against the lad
men who would like to join the Alliance
but who cannot, ueware oi mem.
A poor man in Missouri stole two ot
three hams. He went to the penitentiary
for five vears. The Treasurer of the State
stole $36,000 from the State Treasury.
He went to the penitentiary for two
years. Moral: If you want a short sen
tence, steal a large amount. j; -
In the lumber season just closed in
Minnesota the "cut" for the vear was
447,713,252 feet, 207,231,000 shingles,
and 97.697,600 lath. This beats the
record of last year by 103,138,890 feet
of lumber, 45,103,500 shingles, and 17,
400,250 lath. V f
Too Much Boast Beef. -
Dallas, Texas, SpeciaLl The entire
plant of the Dallas Dressed Beef and
Packing Company was consumedby fire,
in the night. Loss, $200,000.; insurance
51,000. .
OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC DEFENCES
The Need of Protecting the Coast Line
From Cape Hatteras To Key West.
Washixgtox, D. C, Special One
of the most noticeable recommendations
in the report of Gen. O. O. Howard, as
commander of .the Department of the
Atlantic, is that Tybee Boads and Port
Royal Sound should be defended by
works on Hilton Head and Tybee, Perry,
and St. Helena islands. With these
would be joined, of course, ubmarine
mines, and the navy in due time might
furnish torpedo boats. -
Important steps have been taken for
the protection of the Atlantic coast from
Portland down to Norfolk, and new bat
teries at some of the more important
points have been begun for the reception
of guns and mortars now under construc
tion. But from Fort Monroe to Key
West the seaboaid is at present defence
less. There is not even a coast garrison
between the former poict and Fcrnan
diua, so that in this respect the condition
of the coast is worse than before the civil
war.
If we look at the Bermudas, where
England has a strongly fortified naval
station and rendezvous, we find that the
distance thence to Wilmington is 674
miles; to Charleston, 772 miles; to Savan
nah, 884 miles; to St. Augustine, 869
"miles. North of) Wilmington the dis
tance from the Bermudas to the coast of
North Carolina even diminishes. Keep
ing in view the high speed now given
to war vessels, it is evident that a hostile
squadron, secretly assembling at the Ber
mudas, which are connected by telegraph
withHalifax, but by no direct cable with
the United States, could appear off our
South Atlantic ports after a comparative
1 y short run. - Coaling at the Bermudas,
it would have an ample supply left for
operations on our coast.
It must be kept iu mind tint we really
are not separated by the broad ocean from
the nearest possible European enemy, but
only by a few hundred miles intervening
between onr ports and such stations as
Halifax and the Bermudas, or the various
West India islands in foreigu posession.
The recommendotion of Gen. Howard in
regard to fortifying the coasts of the
Carolinas, Georgia, aud Florida is there
fore based on palpable facts. Tybee
island is at the mouth of the Savannah,
and works there would protect the river
and the city. Broad River and Port
Royal Sound, a little to the North,
always regarded as waters of importance,
as shown by the Hilton Head expedition
early in the civil war, become additional
ly so from the new dry dock now under
construction there, while the naval sta
tion is sure to grow in value from its sit
uation.
The Fortifications Board of 1885 picked
out on this coast, between Fort Monroe
and the Gulf, for defence by permanent
works, hey e t, Charleston, Savannah,
WllmingtOll, and Cumberland Ouuucl, iu
that order of relative importance. Gen.
Howard is said to have been struck by
the expediency of manning Fort Jeffer
son at the Dry Tortugas and Fort Taylor
at Key West, now only in charge of ser
geants as property keepers. Long ago
tites for two martello towers at Key West
were selected. The fortifications pro
posed for Key We3t are a turret contain
ing two 16-inch guns, ten 12-inch guns
in barbette batteries, thirty-two 12-inch
mortar?, six torpedo boats, and a quanti
ty of submerine mines. The total ap
propriation estimated for this point was
$3,406,500; for Charleston, $2,244,500;
for Savannah, $2,244,000; for Wilming
ton, $1,942,000; for Cumberland Sound,
$630,000. It should be said, however,
that some of these ports on the Southern
coast be partly defended against a hostile
Bquadrou by the interposition af obstruc
tions in the channels, so that in this res
pect their wants are not so urgent as
those of more important harbors on the
North Atlantic coast.
An. interesting proposal is that which
is to be made by a South Carolina Con
gresmau at the coming session for placing
a garrison in Charleston harbor at Fort
Moultrie. The proposition is a reminder
that for many years this important har
bor, the scene of great military and naval
operations both in the Revolutionary and
civil war, ha3 been without the services
of a single company of artillerymen. No
doubt this lack will be supplied when
there are modern guns to spare for it if
not sooner, since Charleston is placed first
in ordef of importance by the Fortifica
tions Board among the points south of
Fort Monroe until Key West is reached
DISPLEASED WITH THE TERMS.
The London Stock Exchange Repudi
ates the Virginia Debt
Settlement.
New Voiik Cirr. A. special cnblo
from London says: "The Virginia set
tlement is repudiated by the Stock Ex
change, and it is believed that the bond
holders will not convert their holdings."
On the same subject another London
cable says: "The dealers in Virginia
funded bonds are on a considerably res
tricted scale at present, pending tha ar
rival by mail cf full details of the pro
posed compromise. Most holders of cer
tificates here are urging the bankers to
insistupou better terms. They refuse
to believe that the advisory committee
could have given the Olcott committee
plenary power to sign away the rights of
the bondholders."
As the Oicolt Committee had absolute
ly control of 85 per cent, of the bonds
before they began negotiations, this tar
dy London flurry does not seem to fore
bode any special danger to the agree
ment reached last week.
A FIGHT BETWEEN GOATS,
At Which an Accident Occurred in
Which 12 Persons Were Killed.
Sax Aktosio, Tex., Special. J. R.
Coleman, an American, engaged in busi
ness in Guyantona. 3Iex., brings particu
lars of an accident which took place in
that city, resulting in the killing o
twelve people and serious injury to nine
others. Several hundred people had as
sembled in the ball fighting arena to wit
ness a fight between two goats, when part
of the ampitheaier gave way. Heavy
timbers fell on the crowd, crushing men
and wpmen
A RUSH AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE.
Great Destruction of Sheets, Eye
glasses, and Feminine Apparel.
Weixeslkt, Mass., Special. J There
was a "rush'' at Wellesley Female Col
lege between the freshmen and sopho
mores which furnished jilenty of excite
ment while it lasted, and caused a boon
in the hairpin trade at the local dry
goods stores.
As soon as the freshmen' had elected
their Chairman, Miss Helen James, the
President of the sophomores, as is the
custom, tapped at the door and present
ed a hugh bunch of white flowers to the
class. Upon her exit a few members of
the sophomore clas serenaded the fresh
men. Meanwhile the majority of the
'94s had visited the rooms of the absent
freshmen, whence, dressed in sheets and
pillow-cases, they crept silently up the
stairs and crouched behind the serenad
es. The music over, the freshmen, now
grown suspicious, made a rush to close
the door from the inside, which had been
partly opened to hear the music. At
the same time the sophomores tried to
force their way in. A lively scramble
ensued. Finally the tophomorcs got in.
They were warmly, welcomed by the
freshmen, who, not knowing- the sheets
were their own, quickly destroyed them,
wondering, perhaps, why the sophomores
made so weak a defence.
Order was finally restored, but not un
til a great wreckage of gowns, eyeglasses,
tortois-shell hairpins, and fcheets had
been made.
THE "MANLY ART" IN COLUMBIA.
A. E. Gonzales Attacks a Newspaper
Correspondent.
Columbia, S. C, Special. Another
personal encounter, following on the
heels of last night's fights occurred today
in the statehou.se.
This time it was between A. E. Gon
zales, general agent of The State, and M.
F. Tighe, correspondent of the Charles
ton News and Courier. .
Gonz lies approached Tighe and, pro
ducing a copy of the News and Courier,
read therefrom a portion of Tighe's ac
count of the fights, which he denounced
as a lie.
Upon repeating it, Tighe struck him.
Gonzales responded by hitting Tighe
uuder the left eye, cutting a gash, which
bled profusely. The two men then
clinched and rolled over on the floor,
Gonzales being on top. Both men fough
"gamely" for several minutes. Finally,
when they had both got up, Tighe said:
"You arc. my physical superior, but I'll
fight you in any way a gentleman ought
to fight, and I challenge you now."
Gonzales replied that Tighe could get
all the fight he wanted out of him in any
wav he dceI-eJ. -,
i he row occurred just outside the door
of the hall of the house of representa
tives, whilst that body was in session,
ami many members rushed out to the
secue. Shortly thereafter Representative
Burns brought the affair to the attention
of the house, but action was postponed.
Mads a Dash for Liberty.
Asheville, N. C, Special. Three
county convicts, who made a dash for
liberty, were fired upon by the guards
and one killed The entire force was
woi king the public road, seven miles
west of Asheville, under Superinlendent
While. White found it necessary during
the afternoon, to visit the city, leaving
the gang in charge of the guard two
young white men. They were armed
with breech-loading shot-guns. Three
of the gaug John Boston, Jim Sales, and
Wilson Murthee, all negroes were
wheeling dirt to the road, where young
Harbin, oue of the guards, stood. Sud
denly dropping their tools, the three
convicts ran. Harbin, taken by surprise,
was slow to fire. When he did John
Boston dropped with a bullet through hi?
brain. Harbin. ' attempted to
fire again, but his gun snapped.! II 13
compauion, running up, fired upon the
remaining men, dangeiously wounding
Sales. Murthee escaped unhurt, it is
thought. Boston is the negro who at
tempted to murder a colored woman heie
last summer, and Murthee, while in jail,
the assailant of Superintendent White
Lieut. Gotti Weds a Bonaparte.
A cablegram from Rome says: Lieut.
Gotti, of the Italian . army, was married
to the Princess Marie Leonie Eugenie
Bathilda Caroline Jeanne Julie Zenaidc
Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Napoleon
CbarUs Bonaparte and descendant of
Lucien Bonaparte, a brother of the great
Napoleon.. The wedding was honored
bv the presence of Italian royalty, and
the officiating priest was Cardinal Lucie x
Bonaparte, who is both a Prince of the
Church and a temporal Prince and head
of the branch of the Bonapartes to which
the bride belongs.. Prince Napoleon
Chm!?. fa-her of the bride, is consider
ed rich iu Italy, though he would not
cut much of a figure in London or New
York. He made the bridegroom happy
by the assurance of $5,000 a year to lake
care of his wife with. There was a 'arge
gathering of Italian nobility. The pres
ents included gifts from Kng Humbert
and Queen Marguerite. It is the purpose
of the King to bestow upon Lieut. Gotti
a title of nobility, so as to bring him
nearer In rank to his bride.
Confed. in The North.
The number of Ex-Confederates in the
Northern States is so great that Gen.
Gordon, the commander of f the United
Confederate Veteran,hat deemed it advis
able to organize the Order in two difis
ions. One division is to have its head
quarters in New York, the other in
Chicago, with subordinate camps where
ever it may appear advisable. The exist
ing organizations will thus be consoli
dated into the divisions, according to
Gen. Gordon's order, with the camps
affiliated to either the one or the other
division, according to their locality.
The object of the "organization is purely
benevolent. It is "to assist poor Ex
Confederate soldiers, and to have the
care of the graves in cemeteries where
Confederates are buried.' The last is
not the least of the duties of the organi
zation, for large numbers of Confederate
prisoners died on Johnston's Island, at
Camp Mitchell, at Fort Delaware and
other places North and West.
AMONG THE SEMIN0LES.
The Pathetic Tale They Tell of th
First Whiie Missionary.
Down on the border of the vast wil
derness of waving marsh and lagoon
eucirled islands which from the Ever
glades of Florida (3 the Seminole Indian
village of Tallafagesse, half hidden in
the green hammock. Here Chief Tom
. Tiger and his band pursue the even tenor
of domestic life with their consorts and
offspring a somewhat lazy existence
enlivened by much hunting and fishing,
the only visible means of support
Among themselves these Seminoles are
extremely loquacious, but the stranger
has small chance of hearing any of hcir
stories and traditions unless introduced
by some accepted "heap good white
man."
So, although I had heard vaguely of a
white saint who had been worshiped by
the forefathers of Osceola three hun
dred years ago, I could not for a. long
time find any authority in the pcrsou of
an Indian narrator.
At last the tale was told me by old
Wauksemicco, the patriachal chief who
was murdered a year ago. We were in
a hunting camp on the St. Lucie river
one balmy January night. The flaring
light wood fire threw out ia weirdly
trembling relief the dark background of
palmetto aud moss-draped inaguclia
trees, their trunks entwined with tropi
cal creepers, in the rear, a" stretch of
Hashing phosphorescent river; the forms
of ihe braves sprawling around the tire,
die half-score of lank battle-scarred bear
dogs skulking without the circle, end
the deer aud alligator skins stretched on
drying frames gave a vived local color to
the narration.
The full moon, rising jellow and warm
i a the heavy air, over a cypress swamp,
seemed to awaken sleeping memories iu
the breast of the wrinkled old Seminole.
Without my urging he began speaking in
a gutteral .monotone, very difficult lo fol
low. In a mixture of Seminole and En
glish, he unfolded the story which I have
tried to outline.
The wonderful visitation took place
:hree centuries ago, when the fort - and
few coquina horses of St. Augustine form
ed the only town in the forest-covered
peninsula. With a colony from Minorca
there came a young Spanish priest.
Nothing of his history has survived the
effacing touch of the years. Without
hesitation, as with a mission plainly re
vealed, he commenced the fearfully peril
ous pilgrimage down tjie east coast
among the scattered Indian villages.
Although Spaniard and Seminole were
constantly warring, the missionary went
unbanned by canoes and on foot, south
to the Great Marshes and west to the
His holy zeal and devotion won for him
9 mingling of reverent love and fear from
die Indians, who thus received the strange
'CW story of lto Ravinr fit mmm as a inc-
sagc from the Great Spirit. For many
ears this herald of the cross toiled on,
preaching in the palmetto-thatched vil
lage huts, and healing the sick in a won
derful manner.
At the last when all had come to love
iiim, and his body wa bent with cruel
sufferings of a score of years' denial, the
Gieat Spirit took him to Himself.
While attempting to cross the wide
Vidian river iu the face of a furious
norther." to minister to a dying con
vert, hfs light canoe was overturned.
Aud thus he Jied, alone with his God
and the storm.
On the top of a swelling mound, over
shadowing the broad lagoon, stands a
group of trees, as stately oue hundred
years ago a3 now. Through their branch
es the ocean breezes breathe, and they
whisper softly and sigh together as do all
pine trees.
But on the night of full moons in each
month a strange thing happens.
Whether the surface of the blue water U
-wept into dancing ripples by the night
wind, or whether it 1 calm and still,
through the pine boughs there sweeps a
mighty rushing wind, and they toss and
mo.'ia with a wailing and sadac. whic
makes weep whoever may hear. This i
the spirit of the "Indian Father," the
messenger from the beyond, who returns
to, earth to watch "over his beloved
Seminole?, and he mourns because the
rare is so swiftly vanishing.
Such in brief is thi j tradition, which
although enveloped in a miit and haze of
superstition, nevertheless stands out a
bright and holy picture from the dark
ness of its times. Ram-h I). Pam'k.
He Hunt With Cats.
Cliailes Walcott, a well known biuU
ness gentlemen of Indianapolis and a
splendid rifle shot, has two cat which"
retrieve small game better thai the best
trained dog. One is a tifcer striped, hall
Maltese cat, and the other is a cat ol
blac c, white ind gray. Mr Walcott als
has a thoroughly trainei retriever, and
the cats and dog are inseparable com
panions, -r-
Wiienever Mr. Walcott makes his ap
pearance with his ride the cats set up 1
series of yowls, and wheo the rifle ii
sighted, for in jta nee at a sparrow, th
cata will crouch m eager expectation,
lashing their sides with their taiU and
carefully watching every movement of
the fated bird. If the bird lodge among
the branches in its fall, like a flub, the
cats spring Up the tree, and they will
take great riks in reaching the limbs tc
which it clings.
Mr. Walcitt is very fond of household
pets. The fiwt named cat came to him
a stranger, and by that name she is
known. Toe mother cat wai accidentally
taught to retrieve. Waile Mr, Walcot
was ia feeble health and confined to hu
premise? he amused himself by shooting
sparrows, whicu weregivea to Stranger
to eat. In thii way she cam's t foll
him whenever she saw the g.i 1. Su
will follow a wounJel birl fm tre3 t J
tree, and from houve to home, for black
a war, aad she said joa fail in rstrievinj
it.
The other cat is one of her progear,
and he caught the retrieving c inta-rioa
from her. Both are excellent humeri.
Mr. Walcott is firmly of the belief that
if cats are properly . trained they wil!
make better retrievers thaa the fines4
das. ye'Ji York Journal.
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