North Carolina Newspapers

7 1 A G. K. GRANTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar tbo Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. , .. $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance. Gen 1HE VOL. I. VIRGINIA AND CAROLINA BILLS. A Number of Them Introduced. Strength of the States' Militia. Washington, I). C., Special.l Rep rcsentativc Grady, of North Carolina, in trodtircd his bill providing for a general i eduction of salaries of . Federal officials. Among other provisions it proposes to reduce the salary of the Preside tit of the United Statc3 after March 4, 1893 to $2"i,()00 a year. Mr. Grady also introduced a bill to amend the Interstate Commerce act so as to prohibit citizens of xne State from ex tort in usurious interest from citizens of :. not her State. Mr. Grady says that re-i-eutly an agent of a New York money lender loaned a farmer of North Carolina friQO t 3 per cent, interest, and that the transaction was so conducted that the f :nner who gave the note for $200 got only $157 in money. He wants to break up this system if he can do it by Federal ct'.isl'rtiou. Mr. Branch introduced a bill to appro priate $7,000 for improving a tributary of the Pamlico river. lie also introduced a bill to increase the jurisdiction of Federal courts in tre gard to questions of dispute between American sailors. and officers of vessels. Mr. Brauch says that under the existing law, when sailors are discharged by offi cers of vessels at a port of destination the sailors have no recourse, even when in justice is done them; that even when the sailor is unjustly discharged cr otherwise treated he has no recourse. The bill proposes to confer jurisdiction upon Federal courts of all such questions in volving less than $100. . VIRGINIA BILLS. Representative Epes introduced the following bills: To rep.al the limitations on the coin age of silver bullion and to fully restore the silver dollar to its former use and power. To repeal all internal revenue taxes on brandies distilled from fruits and to re fund the proper rebate. To repeal all internal revenue taxes on tobacco in all its forms and providing lor re bat ft on uubroken packages. To appropriate $100,000 for the con tinued improvement of the Appomattox river; $2), 000 for the construction of a roadway from Petersburg to Poplar Grove National cemftery; to appropriate $3-1,000 for a public building at Farm ville. ! Representative Wise appeared before the River and Harbor Committee and made argument in behalf of liberal ap propriations for the James river and othor navigable streams in hii district. iTIiESOTU OF TrlllE MILITIA. In accordance with law, the Secretary of Congress the annual r ' laut-Geueral. showin: h requirement ol War transmitted to eport of the Adju- the strength of the militia of the different States. The document contaius the following figures: Virginia Generals, 1 'general stall, 8. Cavalry: Officers, regimental, field and btalT, 11 ; company officers, 18; uon-com-missioned, GO; musicians, 7; privates, 237. Total cavalry, 280. Artillery: Regimental field and staff officers, 7; rompany officers, 17; non-commissioned, 50; inusicia'iS, 2; privates, 240. Total artillery, 2'JS. Infantry: Regimeutal, field and staff officers, 4.S; company offi cers, 130; non-t ommissioucd, 40Si musi cians, 1)2 ; -privates, 1,4 Gf. Total infau iry, 2,020. Number of men available for military duiy unorganised, 220,000. jVorlt Carolina Generals, 2; general staff, 28; eavalry officers, 3; uou-com-uiissiuin-d officers, 11; musieiaus, 2; pri vates, 21; total calvary, 37. Artillery Ollieers: Regimeutal, field and stall, 5; company officers, b; non comm'ssioued, 111; musicians, 2; privates, 07; total artil lery officers and men, 101. Infantry: Regimental,' field and staff. 30; company olfieer.-i, t0; non-commissioned, 205; mu sicians, 110 privates, 878; total infantry, 1,283.-- Number of men available lor military duty unorgaui.ed. 235,000. WHISKEY AND THE PISTOL A Brutal Murder Results From a Drunken Quarrel in Darlington. -Darlington, S. C, Special. A druuken quarrel hd a tragie and fatal en ling near h re. Ilcury Jones and George Moody were in town and both had been driuking too wuch. Some words passed between them asto which was the best man physically. Shortly nfterwards they parted and no one thought the affair would go auy further. Jones left town with his wife and when two miles in the country was over taken by Moody aud two of his friends. Moody immediately renewed tho quarrel and Mrs. Joscs prevented her husband, from get'ing out of the buggy. Just at this juncture Moody approached the bug gy and held Mrs. Jones's hands, restrain ing her from the interference she attemp ted to make, at the same moment shoot ing Jonei with a pistol. The ball hit .lones slightly over the right eye, enter ing the froutil bone and piercing the braiu. t Dr. A. T. Band, was immediately sum moned, and when he saw the sle,ad man said that death was ius'antaueou). Both were white men Jones about 45 years, and Moody about 30. Moody lived in this county, Jones in Florence county. The murderer fled at once, and :s nof known where ho is present. 'A' Sensation in Eastern North Caro lina. Jamesville, N. C. Civil. Engineer R. K. Montague, of the Atlantic Coast Line, was caught robbing the pockets of Capt. Blake, Saturday night, at Wash ington, N.C. He confessed to the Ho tel Nicholspn robbery of $900, two gold watches and two diamond pins, just two weeks ago, besides several petty thefts at ether times. lis stood high in this sec lion and the discovery and confession have caused a great sensation. Sentenced for Libelling Quay. Beaver, Pa., Special. Messrs. Porter jand Mellon, of the Daily Star, were sentenced this afternoon to pay the costs of prosecution, a fine of $600, aud undergo imprisonment in the county jail fur six months for libels uttered against Senator M. S. quay. 0 FEBRUARY FANCIES. Many. Important Happenings That Get People Into Print. Tho Latest News Notes and Dis patches From the Potomac To tho Gulf. VIRGINIA. A national bank is being organized at "Waynesboro. Dinwlddiecouuty is to spend $100,000 on her public roads. The project of a pork-packing house is being considered at Winchester. Committees of the Legislature visited the colored lunatic . asylum at Peters burg, which contains 720 patients. II. B. Laskey, a jeweler of Roanoke, has ben arrested, charged with attempt ing to swindle an insurance company by firing his store. The Winchester Gun Club won in the contest with the Staunton Gun Club last week. The county jail of Augusta county will be renovated and enlarged at a cost of $10,000. Mayor Bowles, of Clifton Forg-, has been reversed by the county court for the first time in the course of a term of twenty-three years. Richard J. Owen, who had lived un file administration of every President, died in Powhatan county at the advanced age of 96 years. He was dissipited in early life, but reformed when 81 years old and was baptized by his son, Austin E. Owen, D. D. - Petitions arc circulating in Loudon ad dressed to the General Assembly asking for a higher license tax. The Rappahannock Railroad Co has applied to the legislature for a charter to build a railroad, connecting at Richmond or within 7 milc3 of that city, by the most practicable route, to deep water at some point on the Rappahannock river or Chesapeake bay. r Preliminary survey of the Marion and Rye Valley railroad has been completed and construction begun. A shooting scrape took place in Rich Valley Thursday between Johu L. Whit sell aud Doc Bates. The latter had a lock of hair shot off. In the office of the Hotel Perkins, at Hinton, It. P. Robertson was handling a revolver, when it went off, instantly killing an engineer named Snyder, who came there a short time ago from Syra cuse, N. Y., and was joined last week by his wife and little girl. A few minutes before the accident he was heard to say : "Pin perfectly happy now that my fami ly are with me " Robertson did not know the pistol was loaded aud is nearly crazed with grief, lie tried to commit suicide afterwards. NOBTH CAROLINA. Durham is to have an ice factory. Dining January there were only 24 deaths in Raleigh. The discovery of gold i3 reported from Nash couuty. J. R. Nolan, general manager of the Seacoast Railrcad, has tendered his resig nation, to take effect March 1st. The French Broad Mineral Co. has been incorporated to deal in minerals nd mineral lands in Buncombe county. The capital stock is $100,000. The commissioners of Iredell and Mecklenburg couuties both heard testi mony Mouday and Tuesday and both again refused to grant license. Robert Phipps was stabbed and almost instantly killed at a revival meeting near Crumpler, Ashe county, by Emmet Long. The parties were under the influ ence of liquor. Herman Beck, of Germany, was or dained Sunday by Bishop Rondthaler of the Moravian church at Silem, aud left shortly afterward for the Indian Terri tory as missionary to the Cherokee In- "ndiaus. A fatal fire accurred in Montgomery county. Miles Jordan, a farmer liviug at Caglcss Mills woke at midnight aud found his house in flames. His wife was op fire aud was unconscious. He made desperate efforts to save her but to no purpose, and was so terribly burned that his death occurred. Albemarle Presbytery accepted the resignation of Rev. A. J. McKelway as pastor of the Smithfield church, and he goes to the Fayetteville church. Rev. J.S. Watkius' "resignation is accepted and he leaves the First Presbyterian church at Ra'eigh March 1st and goe3 to Spartanburg. A Lumberton special reports that a young man tore out a mule's tongue. The auimal had become contrary and while the man was exasperated, he grabbed the mule's tongue, which protruded, aud tore it out. The Republican State Executive Com mittee met at Raleigh. There was much discussion ns to whether the convention could nominate candidates for State offi cers, or elect delegates to the national convention. It was, by a large majority, - decided that it should only elect dele gates, and that the nominating conven tion should be held later. April 14th is the date and Raleigh the place. One Peter Cobb was taken to the peni tentiary to serve a sentence of 10 years, having been convicted of committing several burglaries along the Wilmington and Weldon rail oad. la his posession was found a lot of jewelry takeu from the store of Geo. L. Parker at Rocky Mount and a lot of dry oods stolen from Ed Gradj's store at Mount Olive. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston's public schools will not close this term until July 13. Greenville has voted $75,000 ?or sew erage bonds. The Fairfax Savings and Loan Asso ciation will change its name to the Peo ple's Bank, Winnsboro. The Spartanburg court house proper ty was sold Tnursday for $15,150, the Duncan family buying it. As a result of the financial stringency nearly all of the large phosphate mining DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, companies of South .Carolina have sus pended operations. ' Only those which employ Italians are still at work. Col. Earle, of Greenville, will not this year enter the racj for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Capt. W. n. Green, the able general manager of the Richmond & Danville system, is likely to again take up his residence iu Columbia. McCrtcry aud Chew, after having made a thorough inspection of Broad river for about fifteen miles above the Canal dam, at Columbia, have decided to put on a line of small steamers, with a view to promoting river traffic. Governor Tillman appointed S. L. Altman trial justice of Williamsburg, also appointed Leonard Williams expert accountant aud agent to examine the books of the auditor and treasurer of Union county and instructed him to re port es to any shortage or irregularities. The premiums offered by the Colum bia Phosphate Company for the largest yield made on one aero on which their fertilizer wa3 used were won by the Good Bro'hers, of Union, 1st premium, and E. Mclver Williamston, of Darling ton, 2nd premium. An eight-months-old child of T. W. Wood, living near Pelham, in Spartan burg county, was burned, to death on Monday night. It had been left near the fireplace by its mother and while she was absent it crept into the fire. At Charleston, Tuesday, Collector Johnston gave a check for $10,500 to Gen. T. A. Huguenin. as agent for the Southern Construction Co., in paynient for two granite piers of the Custom House Wharf. This is the largest amount ever paid by a disbursing officer at the port of Charleston. The annual State Convention of the ' Young Men's Christian Association will be held in Spartanburg during the latter part of April 'next. It is expected that the Re'v.'Dr. R. J. McBride. a celebrated Virginia divine, will attend the Conven tion and deliver the annual address. Mrs. Dcmpsey Adams, a widow lady 65 years of age, living in Edgefield county, was burned to death Tuesday. She was in the house alone, when her dress caught. She ran and covered her self up in bed, thinking by that means to smother the flames, but she was burn ed so badly before assistance could reach her thatshe died a few hours afterwards. OTHER STATES. A rice mill trust has been formed in Louisiana. t I A Savannah dispatch says it is learned there that Samuel Spencer, formerly pres ident of the Baltimore and Ohio system, but now in charge of -the financial inter ists of Drcxcl, Morgan & Co., is booked for the presidency of the Richmond and Danville system. The Georgia State treasurer has begun the payment of the Confederate widows' pension. The tax upon the State, au-; thorized by the Legislature, entails upon fhe State au annual tax of $300,000 There arc 4,000 widows ou the rolls. -The paymetts will be kept up until .the appropriation is exhausted. John J. Bresliu recently visited an in significant town iu Tennessee, and was astonished at the contentment of the people. To use his own phrase, he did not hejr the word dollar during his whole stay. He finally asked some of people if they stood in need of anything,, and on their replying that one of their few public buildings would be the better for a tower he subscribed the sum neces sary to supply the need. The village has the distinction of possessing an Epis copal clergyman who declined a bishop ric on the ground that his plain duty lay with the small village parish over which he was and is set as rector. COLONIZING THEM IN THE SOUTH. A New Orleans Committee Provides For 126 Russian Hebrews In Louisiana. New Orleans, La., Special .1 The families of twenty-seven Russian refugees, cosisting of 125 person arrived here from Now York. A committee of leading Hebrews meeting them, secured accom mcdations for them, and will find work for them . Tho Hebrews of New Orleans organized the committee for the relief of Russian refugees about a mohth ago, and have raised and are still raising money to provide for the refugees. The committee will distribute the im migrants in the country parishes as it can fiud accommodation for them. As soon as all are provided for the committee wil 1 m'.ke a requisition on New York for an other party. They Come and Are Pleased. The German-American Colonization Society has purchased a large tract of lind in Florida. Many of those connect ed with this enterprise are veteran sol diers of the Union army, who wish to spend the remainder of their days in the South.. Generals O. O. Howard and Francis Sigel arc among the influential endorsers of this scheme, which is under the immediate management of Captain Francis Irsch, of Kolter Post, G. A. R., New York city. Lieutenant Howard, a son of the general, has surveyed the site selected for the colony, which is to be incorporated as a township aud named Fleming, in honor of the present govern or cf Florida. A handsome park has been laid out in the center of the prop erty, aud the surrounding land has been cut up into ten acre tracts. On this- the veterans, their families aud descendants will settle and make, it is expected, the nucleus for a large German-American colony. An agent will leave New Yoik this week to begin the erection of build ings. Wherever Gennaus have located in the South they have flourished. One of their attractive towns in Piedmont South Carolina is Walhallu, which occu pies a lovely sight a few miles from the Blue Ridge mountains. Florida will cordially welcome this colony and all others made upcf equally desirable mem bers, aud so will every other Southern State. Death of Rev. C. H. Spurge on, London, Cablegram. A dispatcli just received from Mentone announces the deith of Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon at 11:05 at night. " -... ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. Dealing In Futures Discussed By Senator Washburn. Add Two More States to The National Farmers' Alliance and In dustrial Union. It is estimated from very reliable sources that this season Virginia had 100,000 acres devoted to tobacco culture. GOD OIVE US MEN I rr BY OLIVER WISD'U HOLMES. Ood Kiva us men! A time Uke this demands Great hearts, strong minds, true faith and willing bands. Men whom the lust of oftloe does not kill; Men whom the spoils of oftlc cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who nave honor, men who will not lie; For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creedf Their larjce professions and their llttte deeds. Wrangle In selosh strire lo! Freedom weeps, Wron rules the laud and walUng justice sleeps. . The.effect of spraying apple trees, with London purple to prevent ravages of the codling moth or apple worm is well il lustrated by the experience of Lupton, of Virginia, as stated in a recent issue of Insect Life. The work of spraying was undertaken in Mr. Lupton's orchard, but was discontinued when less than . one third of the trees had been sprayed. From these trees 1,000 barrels of apples nearly free from worms were gathered, while from the remaiuing two-thirds of the orchard only 833 barrels of sound fruit were obtained, quite one-fifth of the apples from the unsprayed trees being wormy and unfit for use. Mr. Lupton estimates that his returns from the or chard would have been increased $2,500 had all the trees been sprayed. FERTILIZERS FOR COTTON. To the Editor: I expect to plant about four or five acres in cotton; it is old land which has be.en subsoiled and is very stiff and heavy. It has been in corn for four consecutive years, is black pine land with clay foun dation. Now, I want to know, what kind and quantity of fertilizers are best for it. I would propose this : Equal parts of supherphospate and cotton-seed meal put in each furrow (say two bun died pounds to each acre) and bed on that and plant;- then a second working put, say, one hundred pounds more to the acre. I expect to plant what we call here the "Coeu or Big Ball" cotton. Ashley. Miss. . D. G. Ashley. Senator "Washburn having introduced a bill taxing all transactions iu futures, he has been called upon to defend his po sition. In response to some inquiries from the Chamber of Commerce of Min neapolis, he said : Of course the Board of Trade folks up there occupy the same position as the Chicago board, they claiming to believe that the bill means the utter demolition of all trading in futures, bnt they will And their mistake when , the bill formally becomes a law and goes into effect. I was especially surprised at the statement made then by President; law yer," of the Sawyer Flevator Company, when he said that not over 10 per cent . of the sales made on the boards of trade iu the country were of the gambling char acter. I had not the data with rae. but I find in looking the matter up that a quite different state of affairs exists. No board furnjshes any data to make a com parison from except the New York board, which is snia'l compared with the Chica go board, but even then the figures are startling. Here is a very interesting ta ble that I came across the other day. It shows that during ten days of the sum mer of 1850 the real aud bogU3 sales of wheat were as 'follow: Sales of ac- Option sales tual wheat, of fictitious Date, 1890. bushels. wheat, buBh. April 8, G3,C00 18,400,000 April 9, 54,000 2,000,000 ApriU2, . 1,800 10,080,000 April 14, 0,000 44,000,000 Sept. 3, ' 8,000 8,000,000 Sept. 4, 32,00) 6,400,000 Sept. 15, , G2,000 7,210,000 Oct.'22, 12,000 4,000,003 Oct. 23, Oct. 24, 04.000 35,000 3,000,000 4,6C0,00) Total, . 337,800 125,720,000 ' The facts are that during the days named, for ecn bush 1 of wheat sold, New Ycrk market wreckers sold 372 bushels of fiat grain, and that it would require but thirty-six days for. them to sell options equalling in amount an aver ago wheat crop. An expert, writing on the subject, says: 4'It is not unusual for as much fiat wheat to be sold iu a day as there is of actual grain received in a year. For in stance on the 14th of April, 1S90, Nev York speculators soid 44,000,000 bushels of fiat wheat, probably more than twice as much as reached that city duriog the year. While the "offerings" in a single dav, at,cither Chicago or New York, are said to often exceed 300,000,000 bushels, such offerings having the intended effect of depressing pi ices. "What would wheat have been worth had it not been for the board of trade methods? Well, I think that every bushel would be "worth 20 cents more to day. JS-. Add two more States to the National farmer' Alliance and Industrial Union's column. At their recent State meetings the open Alliance of the States of Min nesota and Nebraska voted unanimously to consolidate with the National Farm 'eis' Alliance and Industrial Union. Such action .demonstrates the wisdom and power of conservative methods, and is conclusive proof that the great Northwest is not afraid of the so-called "Southern invasion." The order in these two States have carefully considered the matter and, in. spite of political trickery and falsehood, hive joined their fortunes with the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union. This will do great eood. since it brings with it all the pow er and prestige that waits upon a united enort under one central management. Doubtless during the year all reform ag FEBRUARY 11, 1892 ricultural organizations will be consoli dated into one. TO MULTIPLY PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Washington, D. C. I&presentative Davis, a Farmers' Alliance , jneuiber of the House from -Kansas, Saturday intro duced a bill to authorize the erection of postoffice buildings in all places of more than 3,000 inhabitants,' and in cases where the place is the county seat with less population than 3,000, the cost of the buildings to be not less.than f 6,000 nor more than $50,000. In the second stories of the builtlings '" there shall be, public libraries. The - Secretary of the Treasury is authorized., to issue United States legal tender notes to pay for the work done, not exceeding $100,000,000 per year. THE FLIGHT OF TflE JONES BROS. Supposed to Have Made $120,000 by Selling Poor Cotton as High Grade. . Memphis, Tens. The publication in the morning newspapers of the disap penrance of all the members -of the firm of Jones Brothers & Co., as well as the bookkeeper, loosened many tongues. It is evident now that it was premeditated and that they have been preparing for it for some time. They have been bjiying low grade cotton, soine of "it '"known as "dog tail," and entirely -unfit -for the spinners' export trade. It was shipped to New Orleans. A few veeks ago the Jones Brothers and" Mr Fleet, special partner -went' to New Orleans, chartered two. vessels, the Straits ui uiuiniiui miu uiioiuwj, . auu loauuu them with 15.000 bales of "cotton, billed as good middling. If low middling ha"d been sent they would have cleared f 5 a bale on the lot, but they ' bought, worse than low middling in lnarlycases, and the whole profit may foot up to $120,000. It was rumored so strongly before the flight that they had done this that local creditors were warned to look out. The bank to which they .owed $18,000 de mandel additional security ' for fheir. overcheck, and they mortgaged ' their residence property and their interest in the Newport cotton compress.. Their overchjcks were given for cotton pur chases, but as they drew on- the con-" s'gnees after shipping, they got the"$18, 000 bae'e. To mortgage their property in mis ume oi uepression was . tne 'Dest way to realize on it. -.'i - W. K. Jones, had' an individual ac count with another bank,?arid drew out all his money,, nearly $3,000. That night ho and his brother left,, the - latter being so ill that he had to be carried to. a carriage. Fleet sold . his Cotton Ex change membership, to the bookkeeper," Lindsay, and Lindsay hypothecated it for $350. Jones' Exchange membership was attached by a creditor. It is now known that the firm's Tupelo, Miss , house paper went to protest for $9,000 on Friday, and the holder of'the note was here hunting for something to attach; So was an attorney for S. Blaisdell, Jr., Co , of Chicopee, Mass., which leads to the belief that reclamations aro coining in from their eastern spinners a3 yvell as from the other side of the Atlantic! The chartered steamers sailed on Jan. G and 15, and are due at .Bremen now. The drafts were accepted there, so that the banks at New Orleans will lose nothing. Their Bremen correspondents are Hhinchart & Co. Jones Brothers took .til sorts of risks, made factors carry cot: ton for theni a month after the purchasej ;tgaiust the rules of the Cotton Exchange." Tney are supposed to be in Mexico. r Kailroad Building in North Carolina. Winston-Salem, N. C , Special. During lb'Jl tne following ranroaus were built and projected in North Carolina; Asheville and Craggy Mountain, com pleted to Sunset Mountain, distancs 2.5 miles; end of track North Craggy Moun tain distance 3.5: Lower Creek and Lin- ville Valley, beginning at Lenoir, ending ' at Apex, completed b miles; juiurrees boro, beginning at that town and eudiug at Pendleton, 6.5 miles,' cempleted. The Richmond and Danville Company has contracted and built as follows : Yadkiu- ro.id. bernnninfr at Bilesville and ending. at Norwood, 23 miles,' completed ; Norih Carolina Midland, irom Winston to Mocksville, 25.7 raile3 miles, completed, and 27 miles, from Mocksville to Mcores ville, surveyed; Murphy branch-Western" North Carolina road from lomatca.to Murphy, 9 2 miles, completed; Wilming ton, Chadbourn and Conway, from Chad burn to Hub, 12 miles, completed,- and from Hub to Lumberton, 20 miles, sur veyed. Wilmington and Weldon, two roads, Fayetteville, south, 21.25 miles completed, and between Rowland and Fayetteville, 12 6 miles under construc tion. Rowland, north, 8.75 miles com pleted, and from Washington to Bethel, 25 miles under construction. A Jilted Artist's Suicide. St. Joseph, Mo., Special. At four o'clock Paul Canon, artist, journalist,, member of half a dozen clubs, and looked upon here as a rival to James Whi'cornb Riley, walked into Levin's gun store and asked to look at some revolvcis. Selct iug a weapon of 38 caliber, Canon in quired if the price included cartridges. On being told that it did he icquested the storekeeper to load it for him. Tak ing the weapon in his hand. Canon, said : "Are you sure this gun will shoot straight?" "If it doesn't you needn't pay for it," replied the dealer. "It "looks like a good weapon," paid Canon, 4 'but I'd like to bet you the cigars I couldn't hit a mark six inches away." "I'll take you," quickly replied the dealer. "All right; here goes," sa'd Canon, and before the horrified shopkeeper couhl interfere Cannon had placed it to his tem ple and sent a bullet through his brain. On his person was found a note .ad dressed simply to "Adelaide " It nid-. "Dear Girl: You have wedded wealth and I am wedded to death. Which is happier? Pacx." It told the whole 6tory. A short lim4 ago the announcement of his engagement to one of the most beautiful girls in the city was made. A wealthier suitor had appeared on the scene and she had heart lessly jilted him. Over three hundred thousand oranga tr ccs were planted in Meiiof last year by planters frcm California. , SHOT TO DEATH In a Scuffle With His Sixteen Year Old Son. Savannah's Deputy Collector Killed While Abusing Hia Family. Savannah,. Ga., Special. David Porter's son, David, was acquitted by the coroner's jury of responsibility in the death of his father. The verdict, made up after a brief de liberation, was: David Porter came to his death from a pistol shot wound; said pistol was dis charged while in the hands of 6aid David Porter, deceased, during a scuffle for its possession by his son, David, and his daughter, Reby, and we consider his death accidental. , TUB STOKY OF TUE CRIME. In the night some one came in the house, the son stated, and went down into the basement. They thought it was their father, but he failed to come up when the supper was announced. After that, - hearing some one moving about and thinkiug it 'might be a robber, he went up stairs and got a revolver from his mother's bureau. He and his sister decided that it was their father, and thought he was ashamed of his condition, and would not" come up while they were there, r earing he might attempt sui cide while drunk, be and his sister took his sword aud the knives out of the din ing room, and later' locked the door aud went up to the room of their mother, who. ,1ms been a continued invalid for years. The boy went into his room when he heard his father coming up the stairs. Hia'sister went to her room. The father began "quarrelling, with the mother about the locking of the dining room door. The daughter went into her brother's room. and asked him to back her up, as she wanted to relieve her mother of the bl'arnc. ' the boy's story. "I told her all right," he continued; then she threw open the door and told him she had locked tho dining room. He advanced'and struck her. I said to him, . 'Don't you dare do that again.' He answered: 'D n you! it's you, isitf' lie advanced toward me to strike me. I had "the pistol in' my hand. I pointed it toward him to intimidate him. I hen 1 nulled the triinrcr as he approached with uplifted fist. I do not know whefher that bullet struck him or not. He kept on towards me cursing. He said, 'That s nil riirht, Dave; you'll learn to use a pis tol next time.' Then he clinched with ine iu mv.sister's room. While we were down he had his knee on me. One of niy hand3 was around the barrel and stock of the pistol, while he had hold of it in the middle. AVhen the second shot was fired, we were in that position. When the third shot was fired, I did not . hay e. bold of the pistol. I got hold of the pistol then, and told mother to go back to her room as she might get snot. Fattier walked toward the room. Soon afterward I saw him in the chair with "his head thrown back and the blood on his neck.---I cried out: 'He is dead,' and ran 4.ut- for a doctor, then I went over to the barracks aud gave myself up." The boy showed no signs of nervous- : ne.ss or excitement throughout the tell ing of, the story. His mother's testi mony, and that of his sister, a girl eigh teeh years old, was largely corroborative. Evervthing i showed the family life had been an unhappy one for some time past. . THE DEAD MAN. The dead man was in his fiftieth year. He was a uative of Maryland, and served with credit in the union armv. He was past grand master of the. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Georgia, and pa-t department commander of the Grand Array of the Republic. He wa3 deputy collector of this port. The body was takeu to Augusta, his old home, for in terment CONFESSES HE WRECKED TRAIN. The Man' in Jail Who Caused The - Statesville Wreck Where 20 Lives Were Lost, Atlanta, Ga., f Special.l The Rich mond & Danville officials are happy over the arrest of a man who ha? confessed that he threw the heavily laden passen ger train oil the track of the Western Railway of North Carolina in September last near Statesville. Twenty lives were lost in the wreck. At first it was thought that tramps had wrecked the tram so as to rob the dead, and many of the detectives who went to work. on the mystery began on mat line. The railroad offered $10,000 for the ar est of the wreckers. i , '.'Tom" Haney,once Marshal of Gaines ville, Ga., wept to work on the case, Without a day's interval, he kept up his search "until ten davs ago, when he ai- restedohn Boyd, a convict who had escaped from:the North Carolina peni tentiary. Before arresting lioyd the de tective succeeded in finding where he had left $1,600 and some jewelry which he had taken from persons on the wreck. Through Boyd's fence the detectives secured a Complete tlory of the wrecking work. In his confession Boyd gave a description of the too'.s he used, and told -o'f their hiding places so accurately that JIaoey had no trouble in finding them Ten days ago Boyd was put in jiil in a North Carolina town. Boyd at first asserted that he did the work alone, but the officer believes that he had some help, and is now working on that theory. Cuban - Reciprocity and Our Flour - - -. .... Trade. ' WAsniNGiox. D. C The reduced du- ty'oa American flour imported to Cuba .Went into effect -January 1st, last. Consul-General Williams telcirraphs the State Department that the isceipts of flour at the port 61 lldvanna tor tne monin oi January last were as follows: From the United States. 52.371 sacks, from Spain, none. The receipts for the month of Janua-y, 1801, were: From the united States, 2,720 'sacks, from Spain, 33,490 sacks. The exports cf flour to Cuba, from the ports of New York, Mobile and Kev West in Jamiaiv. 1802. amounted to 07.478 barrels. The exports from the same ports in January, were v,so barrel. NO . 51 ANTI-JUDAISM UN-AMERICAN. The Jew Compares Favorably With the Christian If lie Can no Weighed Fairly. George R. Wendliug, in New York Herald. There is not a drop of Jewish blood in my veins. 1 am not connecieu wuu iue Jews by thp marriage of any near or dis tant kinsman; I owe no Jew a dollar ana no Jew" owes me. I sneak from the van tage ground of absolute independence.' It is a splendid race, splendid in their patience, in their love for one another, in their endurance, in their sagacity and temperate hbiU, and ipienaiu in mcir inflexible adherence to their Mosaic ideals. Do you want an aristocracy of blood and birth? Tho Jews are the purest blooded people and havo the best cstab lishcd descent in tho world. Not Mira beau in the French C nvcutjon, nor Pat rick Henry in tao House of Burgesses, , nor "Sam" Adams in old Colonial ays ever said a more thrilling thing than Disraeli said in the English iJommons in reply to the charge that he was a Jew: "Yes, I am a Jew! When the ancestors of the honorable ngctleman were brutal savages in an unknown island mine wero prieBts iu the Temple !" Do you seek an aristocracy of talent? Tho great church historian Neahdcr was a Jew ; Napoleon a marshals, touit ana Masscna, wore Jews; the. brilliant and cynical Heine was a Jew, and but the world's roll of soldiers, authors, musi cian", pi inters, potts, philosophers and financiers, contain more Hebrew names than I could recite in many hours. Are xou.looking for an aristocracy of wealth? The combiucd financial power of the Jews in Europe can prevent tho floating of almost any national loan which may be put upon the markets oi the world. It is a spurious, false Christianity that hates Jews. The mystery of the incarna tion found expression in tho flesh and blood of a Jew, and, therefore, in a sense we worship a Jew. We get our ten com mandmentsthe very foundation of our civilization through the Jews. Wo eiujr Jewish psalms, are uplifted by tho passion and poetry of . Jewish prophets, and rely ' on Jewish biographies for tho only history wo have of Christ. We get our Pauline theology from a Jew, nud we catch our clearest glimpse of the next world through the sublime apocalyptic vision of a Jew. Then forsooth, we Christians turn about and sneer at the JCW81 I have considered with teachers of philosophy who spoke slightingly of the Jews and yet were teaching with enthu siasm ideas which they had ' absorbed from Maimonides and Spiuoza, the two greatest philosophers, omitting Kant, since Plato's days both of them Jews. I have heard musicians denounce Jews and then spend days and nights trying to interpret the beauties of Rossini,. Meyer beer and Mendelssohn all Jews. I talked the other day with a gifted actress and heard both her and her. hus band swecpingly condemn, confidential ly, of course, tho whole race of Jews, and yet that woman would give half her . remaining life if she- cjuld only reach the heights which the great queen of tragedy, Rachel, trod with such majesty and power aud Rachel was a Jewess. Here in v ashingtou I have heard as piring poliaic'ans, when beyond the reach of the reporter's pencil, sneer at Jews, and yet it was a Jew who made England's queen Empress of India, and it was a Jew who was for years the adroit and sagacious chairman of the national committee of one of our great political parties. The brainiest man in tho South ern Confederacy was Judah P. Benjamin," . a Jew, and Chase, when managing our national finances in a perilous tune owed much of his success to the constant ad vice of a New York Jew. That you never s'.e a Jew tramp or a Jew drunkard is a proverb, that you nev er meet a Jew beggar in a commonplace, and it is a statistical fact tint there are relatively fewer inmates of our hospital. . jails and other workhouses furnished by the Jews than any other race contributes. Convert the Jews! Let us u if. t con vert our modern Chr'stians to genuine Christianity, bupprcss the Jews! A score of Russian Czars cannot do it. Every people on earth have tried it and failed. They have outlived the Tudors and the Plantagcuets, the Romanoffs, tho tyrranny of Spain, the dynastic'3 of trance, Charlemagne, Constantmc, the Babylonian kings and the Egyptian Pha- roahs. It was Uod'a jowu race for 4.000 year., end the awful persecution -it has survived for 2,000 more stamps it as a race Etui bearing r.omo mysterious rela tion to the plans of the Eternal. The beauty aud fidelity of Jewish women command my horn ige, and among wealthy and educated Jcn-a the exquisite refine ment of Jewesses, the'r culture and high breeding, blended with a sort of Oriental grace and digni y, put them among the most charming women in tho world. The belief that tho Jew is more dis-v honest than the Gentile is one- half non sense and the olios half prejudice and fulseaood. Tha anti Jewish feeling which seeuv to b rising again is un christian, iuhuman and un-American. No man can share it who believes in the universal fatherhood of God and the uni versal brotherhood oc man. It is born of the devil and is detestable. Worth $300,000, and a Tramp. Colcmbtjs, O, Special. The courts have been asked to appoint a guardian for John Swim, an aged wanderer, who, though worth $300,000, has led the life of a tramp from boyhood. He has beg ged the most of what he possesses, and is eo miserly that be will not clothe himself propsrly A week ago he was found by the road side almost frozen to death lie owns farms in several counties, and i3 known all over the State as the "wealthy tramp." He once lived at the almshouse at Lan caster for a year before the authorises discovered they had been entertaining the richest man in the county, and ex pelled him. Sim is 97 years old, but quite hal, and h i engaged a lawjer to resist the motion for a guardian. There are'a'jout 230,000 letter-borea in Euiopc.