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Bender Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's.
$1.00 Per Annum, in Advance.
VOL. II.
DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892
NO 1
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1TISE WORDS.
People who hope are generally peopl e
who help.
: A good way to leara to talk is to first
learn to listen.
Unbelief never tries to pull anyboiy
out of the ditch.
Backsliding seldom happens in tinvi
of trial or adversity.
The best medicine for self-conceit is
to be well introduce! to yourself.
The soldier who never make) any
marches or rights is always dissatisfied.
Throwing stones and bad words at
people are both prompted by the sion
spirit.
i There are two sides to every question,
but every man believes that his side is
'right.
If the earth were covered with flowers
all the year round, the bees would be
come lazy.
Any fool can ask questions, but it
takes somebo ly who knows somethiug to
answer them.
The man who is trying to make the
world better, is willing that it should
become worse.
People who -are wrong in their think
ing are sure to be wrong in their walk
ing and talking.
y If you want to fin I out how much
clear dog there is in a man, liud out how
he treats his wife.
i It won't do a bit of good to white
wash the well curb, so long as there is
poison in the water.
Some people's lives are like warm
water on a hot day. Nice to look at,
but one taste is enough.
There isn't much good in a man who
tries to be good only because his hea l
tells him that he ought to.
A true friend is one who will not say,
'I told you so," every time you take a
wrong step and feel sorry for it after
ward. Every time you find fault with a
neighbor, you are telling somebody that
the man who wears your shoes is not as
good as he ought to be.
Love never takes a sin of any kind in
to the house and shakes hands with it,
and gives it a wricome seat at her table,
because it is a most jkluential charac
ter and highly respectable. Indianapo
lis (lud.) Ham's Horn.
An Ingenious Robber.
. Kuho, the great German naturalist,
informs that in the year 1703 som
monks who kept bees observing thai
they made uuusual noise lifted up th
hive, when an animal flew out, which tc
their great surprise for they at firsl
took it to le a bat proved to be s
death's head hawk moth, aud he re i em
bers that several, some years before, had
been found dead in the bec houses.
Iluber also, in 1804, discovered that ii
made its - way into his hives and those
of his vicinity and robbed them of theii
honey.
i In Africa, we are told, it has the same
propensity, which the Hottentots observ
ing, in order to monopolize the honey ol
.he wild bees, have induced the colonist!
to believe that it inflicts a mortal wrouud.
This moth has the faculty of emitting a
remarkable sound, which Hubcr sup
poses may produce nn effect on the bee
somewhat similar to that produced by tin
voice of their queen. As soon a3 ut
tered, this strikes them motionless, anc
then the moth is enabled to commit witl
impunity much devastation in the midsl
of myriads of armed bands. Cassel'i
Magazine.
Tho Lticqnor Tree.
The juice of the lacquer tree is the
natural varnish upon which depends
the famous lacquer work of the Japanese.
Bpeci-nens of the tree were brought from
Japan sixteen ycirs ago and planted in
the Botanical Garden at Frankfort, Ger
many, where they have flourished and
aave yielded seeds fro n which thrifty
foung trees have sprung. This place
now has thirty-four healthy tree, thirty
feet high aad two feet in circumference
aear the ground. To determine whether
;he juice is affected by its changed con
dition, Professor Reiu has sent samples
to Japanese artists for trial, and is hav
ing comparative analyses made by emi
nent chemists. If the reports arc favor
ible, it is expected that tho lacquer tree
will be quite extensively plautcd in Ger
. many, and that Europeans will be in
structed in the art of lacquering wood
by some skilled worker from Japan.
Scientific American.
Took Her Without Arms.
' One of the strongest cases of lovo and
devotion which has ever taken place in
Ohio was exemplified recently in Kill
buck Township by the marriage of Alwin
Nitsche, a German, aged thirty-two
years, and Miss 1 Lillie M. Lowe, nged
seventeen years. Nitsche was a devoted
lover of Miss Lowe in 1890, when she
was only fifteen fears old, and when she
met with the horrible accident while
driving a mowing machine, in which
she was thrown before the cutter-bar
and both arms were cut off. She lin
gered between life and death for a long
time, but eventually got past danger.
She feared her lover would desert her on
account of her affliction, and this gave
her much uneasiness; but she misjudged
him, as he renewed his vows after she
got her artiflcial arms, . and was more
devoted than ever, and did everything
possible to lighten her suffering. San
Francisco Call.
Flights of Insects.
Dr. Marey, the eminent French physi
ologist, has been studying the flight of
insects by photo-chronopby, tQe aP
paratus used to obtain phoigraphs alio w
ing exposures to be madeNso short as
1-25, 000 of a second. His vbservations
indicate that wings of insects iiXflight by
meeting obliquely the resistance of the
air in to-and-fro movements, - act in a
very similar manner to the scull use I to.
propel boateu New York Witness.
GENERAL STATE NEWS.
Late Happenings of Importance By
Mail and Wire.
The Gist of Three States' Doings,
Carefully Prepared For Our
Busy Readers.
VIRGINIA.
The State debt bill has finally passed
both Houses of the Legislature.
The Farmers' Alliance is organizing a
stock company to establish a fertilizer
factory at Blackstone.
. Black marble is being mined at Fin
castle. Mayer Lehman, of New York, has pur
chased for $146,800 wharves,. docks, etc.,
in Portsmouth, and other property in
Norfolk, from tho Seaboard Cotton Com
press Co.
A bill has been introduced in the leg
islature to incorporate the Virginia Farm
ing Co.
A well is to be sunk at Tazewell C.
II. for petroleum oil.
Dinwiddie county will apply to the
legislature for authority to issue $ 100,
000 of bonds fur the improvements of its
public roads.
The Virginia Mineral Belt Railroad
has applied to the legislature for a char
ter. The road is to run from Danville
through the intervening counties to Fred
ericksburg, and thence to deep water on
the Potomac river.
Gen. Thos. L. Rosser, ex-Confederate
cavalry officer, in an open letter to Con
gressman O'Fcriall, announces himself a
candidate for Congre s iu the seventh
district,' to succeed that gentleman.
The House committee oa finance
agreed to report favorably a bill appro
propriating $35,000 for Virginia's exhib
it at the World's Fair.
J1. Speaker Crisp wa3 at Foi trass Monroe
-from Thursday until Monday nigh. He
has not fully . recovered his strength
since bis recent illness and needs rest and
quiet .
There i3 a rumor in Virginia that
Amelia Hives-Cha'nler is painting a picture
from the lovely model seen in her own
full-sized mirror.
The Grand Lodgo of the Knight's of
Pythias of Virginia met at Leesburg last
Thursday. Two hundred Knights sat
down to the banquet at night.
Colonel Philip T. Woodin, now gov
ernor of the National Soldiers' Home at
Hampton, Va., was the first enlisted
men to enter Faueuil Hall in April, 1861,
in respouso to tho call of President Lin
coln for 75,000 volunteers.
The apple growers of Albemarle conn -ty
have met with heavy losses lately
through the failure of a Liverpool com
mission firm, and, although they eent an
attorney over to look after their interests,
they realized but 40 cents on the dollar
for their last several consignments. The
The famous Albemarle pippins raised in
this vicinty have long been noted for
their rich flavor, aud are a special favor
ite abroad bringing the extreme price
of $1 per dozen. Hardly one man in a
thousand in this country, outside of Vir
ginia, has ever seen one, and what won
der if they bring such a price in foreign
markets? No doubt the now sadder aud
wiser fruit-raisers of this section will
look nearer home for a market for their
juicy apples.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Work on Wilmington's electrical street
car line has commenced.
Asheville has sold $340,000 of 20-year
5 per cent, bunds to Blair & Co., of New
York city.
" The amount of the shortage of Charles
Seagle, the young absconding railroad
and express agent of Madison, is $800.
The merchants' purchase tax has been
declared constitutional by the supreme
court.
Calvin McArtan, sheriff of Harnett,
made a complete State tax settlement,
paying in $4,780.12.
The Department of Agriculture will
make a new collection of the building
stones of the State for exhibition at the
World's Fair.
A littl girl was burned to death near
Charlotte last week while playing in a
field in which her father was burning
brush.
Figures just made up show that Winston-Salem's
plug tobacco output for 1891
was 11,513,127 pounds, against 8,437,
929 pounds for 1890.
The Wilson Short-cut road reduces the
distance north and south via the Atlan
tic Coast Line by CO miles. The direct
through line is now via Wilson and Fay
etteville, leaving Wilmington off.
The State chemist's force have thus far
made analysis of about 65 brands of fer
tilizers. There are four chemists and
three clerks at work.
At Carbonton, Moore county, the rev
enue people made ' another capture of a
moonshine distillery and the operator.
It is developed that the moonshiners put
couceutrated lye in the liquor they make.
A bright future is before Bessemer
City. Last week ground was broken for
a $100,000 cotton factory, a 5C0 room
hotel is to be built shortly, a stove works,
furniture factory, steel works and many
other new iaduslries are booked. Fifty
tons of Bessemer ore are shipped daily.
A Wake county sharper named Rogers
played a trick on a Raleigh lawyer. He
personated Louis Harris, a neighbor., and
giving a land mortgage got $500. When
the money frll due the lawyer sent the
notice and this of course reached the real
Harris. The bonus Harris is iu jail.
Governor Holt has ordered a special
civil term of Bertie Superior Court, to
begin May 9, Judge Brown presiding.
A military company has been formed
at Hocky Mt. and commissions were is
sued to J. L. Arlington, captain: J. D.
Odom, first lieutenaut, and E. L.Douph
tridge, second lieutenant, company D.
assigned to the second regiment.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Judge Kershaw has granted a manda
mus in favor of the phosphate"! compa
nies of South Carolina, ordering the au
ditor of Charleston couny to reduce the
assessed value of land phosphate rock
from $6 to $3 a ton. .
Governor Tillman was asked Thursday
who was his (preference for the Presiden
tial nominee of the Democratic party.
He said that he bad not yet decided, but
that be was not in favor "of Cleveland.
The W. C. T. U. Annual Convention
assembled under the most auspicious cir
cumstances in Columbia last week with
fifty delegates in attendance.
The Secretary cf State ha3 issued com
missions for the charter of the Thomas
Gold Mining Company, with headquar
ters at Spartanburg.
The Sumpter Guards have loaned Col.
A. H. Chisolm, of New "York, "president
of the Southern Society of New York,
one of their most cherished relics of se
cession, viz. : the regimental battle flag
that floated over Fort Sumpter during
the bombardment.
Dr. Wm. St. Clair Symmers, a young
physician formerly of Columbia, but now
studyiug under Dr. Pasteur, of the' Pas
teur Institute of Paris, France, has dis
covered a "new chroraogenic micro-organism,
found in the vesicles of herpes
Iabrales bacillus viridiaus." which will
no doubt bring him success and fame in
the new field open to him. Dr. Sym
mers was graduated with first honors
from tlie universities of Abeideen and
Edinburgh, and will soon end his studies
in Paris.
Bamberg has given finely located prop
erty, amounting in vaJu'c to $5,000, and
an additional subscription of $10,000, to
WolTord College, for the purpose of es
tablishing and fitting a school there. Led
by eight or ten influential citizens, the
entire community joined in the work
with great unanimity. The building
will be begun soon, and it is hoped they
will be ready for use next fall. Banberg
never made a better investment, . or one
that will make richer returns. WolTord
Co'lege has adopted the wise policy of
csUbl ishing fitting schools iu different
sections of the State as feeders to the
College. The great need of the State is
high grade preparatory schools. The de
mand for higher education is fully met
in the colleges alreadv established.
GREAT FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.
The Heaviest in Ten Years Loss, a
million and a Quarter.
New Orleans, La. The most disas
trous fire of a decade swept New Orleans
Wednesday night. More than $2,000,
000 worth of property is in ruins. At
10.30 tho alarm was sounded for a fire
that was discovered in the immense dry
goods house of A. S. Schwartz, on Canal
street. By the time the firemen arrived
the flames were bursting through the roof.
The Schwartz budding was doomed and
all efforts were directed to saving adjoin
ing buildings. At one time tho fire
seemed to be under control, and confined
entirely to the building in which it start
ed, but the flames burst through into the
piano house of P. Werlein-,- and then
across to Bourbon street. Runkle's dry
goods house was next, and was soon a
roaring furnace. Ungcr's beer garden
and the variety theatre ndjoiuing Han
kie's were swept away as if a tinder box.
The Bourbon street entrance of Holmes'
large dry goods store caught fire aud was
&io soon iu ruins. Krcuger's dry gooda
house on Canal street burned next a
total loss. The loss on stock, as near as
can be estimated, are as follows:
A. S. Schwartz, dry goods, $500,000;
P. Werlwin, pianos and musical instru
ments, $30,000; Cluverius, drugs, $8,
200; Huukle, dry goods, $75,000; Unger,
beer garden, stock aud building, $32,
000 ; -H. D. S. Holmes, dry goods, $25,
000; Kuehn, dry goods, 75,000; Hoffman
Bros., $18,000; Leopold Levy, carpets
and matting, $50,000; Kreuger, dry
goods, $30,000; B. Fellmau, dry goods,
$200,000.
The total loss will exceed $1,250,000,
insurance covered mostly by foreign
companies. Local companies will lose
about $2CO,000. Thousands of people
visited the scene next day. Bourbon
street is so blocked with debris that travel
is impeded. Street cars canuot pass.
IN THE BRITISH HOUSE.
The Government's Irish Bill De
rided. A London cab'egram says: In the
House of Commons Under Secretary
Lowther, of the Foreign Office, replying
to Mr. Jennings, M. P., said the recip
rocity conference between the United
States and Canada at Washington had
been of an informal character, and that
it had not been brought officially to the
notice of the British Government.
Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Treas
ury, introduced the Irish local govern
ment bill, and it was explained by him
as follows:
It establishes districts a3 well as coun
ty councils, with functions solely admin
istrative, (dies of "Oh, Oh ") Graud
juries as heretofore would perform judi
cial or qutsi judicial functions. (Re
newed cries or dissent an laughter among
the Liberals and Nationalists ) The
couueils would have powers in sanitary
matters, etc., aud could appoint mem
Lers on lunatic asylum boards, the Vice
roy appointing :m equal number. (Pe
nsive laughter among the Itish members.)
Municipal boroughs would be separate
from the councils for administrative pur
posts. Bobbed Him of His Little All.
N. Y. City, Special. "Charles Frank
lin, ex-convict, and three "confederates
assaulted aud robbed Thomas Quiidan in
Mott street on the night of the 7th inst,
and robbed him of his little, all a collar
button and two keys. They then ran
away. Franklin was arrested, and he
pleaded guilty in the General Sessions
before Judge Martiue of robbery in ihe
first degree. Judge Marline sentenced
him to State prison for eleven years and
six months.-
Sanford-Sanford.
Sanford, Fla. The Hon. John San
ford, member of Congress from the Sara
toga district, in New York, and Miss
Ethel Sanford. daughter of the late Gen.
II. S. Sanford, were married in the Epis
copal church by the Right Rev. H. B.
Whipple, Bishop of Minnesota.
FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
"Raise Something to Sell" From An
other Standpoint
"Oh, ItWfculA bo Fun to See a Con
gressman CompeUed to 'Raise
Something to Sell'
Besides Votes."
Washington, D. C. The National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union
has petitioned Congress to remove all
duty from cotton manufactures; and the
Angora goat breeders of California want
the Government to negotiate with Tur
key for a flock of these famous animals.
The Turks refu c to export them, and our
Western friends seek the interposition of
Uncle Sam. Senator Gibson, of Louis
iana, has introduced a bill creating a
commission to" inquire in the present "low
price of agricultural products especially
cotton and suggest a remedy.
RAXEiGn, N. C. The representatives
of the county Alliances in this congres
sional district who met hero -elected Eu
gene C. Beddingfield, of Wake, to repre
sent the distiict at the great convention
at St. Louis, iu which the farmers' and la
borers' unions are to participate.. .
Washington, D. C. The Department
of Agriculture has now in press Farmers'
Bulletin No. 5, which treats in brief and
practical manner of smut, in oats and
wheat especially, and of the means which
should be adopted by farmers in prepar
ing the seed so as to avoid injury to the
crop from this cause. In order to avail
themselves of the suggestions therein
contained, farmers will want to receive
this bulletin without any delay, and:
special urgency will be used to get it out
promptly. In the meantime applicants
should send iu their names and addresses
and the bulletin will be mailed to .them
immediatelv on its issue. .
Washington, D. C. Mr. Ot"s, of Kan
sas, an Alliance member, has introduced
a bill to authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to have two billions dollars of
paper money duly printed iu denomina
tions ranging from $1 to $503. each bill
being absolute money and not in the form
of a promise, to be full h gal tender for
both public and private debts and inter
changeable at pur with any other kiad of
lawful money of the United States. It
shall be known as the National Union
Loan Fund, and placed n the United
States Treasury, subject to the order of
the Govenors of the different States of
the Union. Any State can draw cn this
fund by paying 1 per cent, intcicst per
year, aud the State can loan io its citizeus
on security at a rate of interest not to ex
ceed 3 per cent, per annum. All drafts
made upon the fund shall be made by
the Governor aud Secretary of . the State,
with the great seal of the State attached,
and in conformity with the laws of the
State and a full statement of the account
of the State with the National Union
Loan Fund, verified by the Treasurer of
the Sta'e, shall be rendered semi-annually
to the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States, aud the interest dus paid.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall honor
all drafts made upon the fund
to the extent of 50 per cent,
of the assessed value of the real es
tate in the State; and it shall be the duty
of tho Secretary of the Treasury
to render an- annual report .to
Congress of the condition of the fund and
the net revenue derived therefrom by the
United States'.
"raise somethino to sell.'?
In their complaints of hard times ani
their petitions for legislative iclief the
farmers ays often met with tho advice,
"raise somethimr to sell." This advice
a
come3 of course, in most instances, from
those who never "aise anything them
selves, (unless it is the devil) but who,
. j i i i. . v. : . . 1 1 i a.
gooa, Kinu souis never imun. uuw it
sounds, so great is their interest in the
farmer's welfare. We row rise to ask
the question, who raises more than the
farmers of the Un-ted States? If the
nmmint raised was ;m index to prosperi
ty the farmers would not only be the
wealthiest class in this nation but of the
world. They not only raise enough for
the sixty-three millions of pi ople in this
count! y, but export more food than any
other nation in the world. If wealth
produced remained in the hands of the
producers the farmer's name would be
Eli, with a big E. Suppose we apply a
a little of this advice to some of those
who give it. Take the professional poli
tician for instauce. Let us all agree to
have him raise "something to sell." Tell
him he will be better off and "nearer to
that station in life to which it has pleased
God to call him." Let us be generous
and charitable aud help him to "retire to
the secluded shades of private life" by
finding a substitute to take the burden
some and houorous duties of office from
his shoulders. Poor fellow, he has been
a martyr long enough.
Then let us take the poor preacher at a
salary of $-25,000 a year. Advise him to
"raise more to sell." Put him where he
can raise it. for "is not a dollar a day
enough to buy bread? Water costs noth
ing aud' a luau that cannot live on bread
and water is not fit to live. A family
may live, laugh, love and be happy that
eats bread in the noruing with good wa
ter, and water and good bread -at noon,
and water and bread at n'ght." Let him
mix a little sweat and brawn at a dollar
a day, with his cogitations on the best
road to Heaven. It won't hurt him. It'll
do him good. It may tan him a little
and make warts on the inside of his hands.
but it will make him better acquainted
with the environments which surround
the men who "raise something to sell;'
besides God has ordained thit "in the
sweat of his face he shall eat his bread,"
and if he eats a "dollar a day's" worth,
at the low price it brings at the farm, it
xcill make him sweat. "Next let us take
the Congressman the fellow that don't
want any sub-Treasury and land loan
schemes. Give the poor fellow a chance
to "raise something to selL" Give him
the chance in the same manner that Jerry
Simpson and Ben.Clovcr and ethers kind
ly gve their opponents. Let them se.
how much of that five thousand dollar
salary they can make in a year by "rai3
ing to sell" such things as grow on the
farm. Poor devils, they would dream o.
nights of introducing a bill to colouize
the grasshoppers or supfu ess chinch bugs.
They would call lustily in their sleep for
the committee's report of the bill for Gov
ernment Building of Mississippi River
Sprays to Water the Farms in the Missis
sippi Valley; or for the appointment of r.
committee to examine in the price of
American wheat in Liverpool with cct
of transportation, etc. Oh, it would b
fun to see a Congrsesman compelled to
"Taise something to sell" besides vote3.
But the very wealthy! What shall we
say of them? What has Jay Gould had
to sell that he can count his wealth by
millions? Did he raise it? Suppose we
apply this advice to him! Go out upon
the farm, Jay, and raise "something to
sell." Suppose he ate nothing, his clothei
never wore out and he never paid anj.
taxes. How long would it take him to
accumulate a hundred md'ion dollars?
But what of the editor, the "able edi
tor" who says 4 'there seems to be but one
remedy, a class of land-owners on one
hand, and of tenant farmers on the oth
er." Come out and bask in the sum
mer's sun while the-heat is 100 in the
shade. This is a hoc. Take this row of
cotton now and work along the side of
me.' .We're "raising something to sell" at
six cents a pound. If our crops are not.
destroyed by breachy stock, or are not
too late or too early, or blown down by
wind, or devoured by bugs, or stung by
flies, or eaten by worms, or carried away
by birds, or dug up by gophers or moles,
or pulled up by crows, or dr!cd up by the
sun, or drowned out by rain, or rotted in
the field or stack, or heated in the crib,
or eaten by weevils, or they don't all run
to weed or vine or straw or smut or cob,
or the rust destroy them, we can mako
just thit ty-seven and a half cents a day,
and with that and what we've got and
what we haven't g t and whit we can do
without, we may be able to pay the inter
est on the mortgage and barely squeeze
through. Oh yes,.-we're "raising some
thing to sell" ;to the fellows who get
rich, somehow, after they buy it; and
come to think these are the pesky fellows
who are constanly adv;,ing us to "raise
more to sell." Well, about the next
thing we raise will be'something to buy
with," money. -"We'll kind o averagf
things up a little.
THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.
A Convention - Held' and a Ticket
Nominated, in Louisiana.
Alexandria, La: The State conven
tion of the People's party of Louisiana
met with 171 delegates present. The
following State ticket was nominated:
For governor, G. W. Bruce; Lieutenant
governor, J. J. Mills; secretary of State,
D. M. McStrovick; treasurer, John Ma
honey; auditor, John Hendricks; super
intendent of education, J. D. Patton;
attorney general, Judge Wade Haugh.
A State executive committee was ap
pointed and the convention adjourned..
The Lumber Men in New Orleans.
New Oklkaks, .La. The Southern
Lumber Manufacturers' Association ad
journed tine die, after an all day'ssession.
Resolutions were adopted against the
evils of selling by face measure, preva
lent in Alabaraa'aud Georgia. The di
directors were constituted-as permanent
price list. The committee with power
to change the prices only change in
grades of star rift sawed flooring.
A memorial to Congress was . adopted
asking for additional ports on the Gulfj
coast. The various vice-presidents were
appointed a committee to solicit sub
scriptions for the yellow pine exhibit at
the World's Fair. Kausas City was
named as the next place of meting. B.
B. White, -..of 3Iissouri, was re-elected
president ; Gee. S. Lacey, of Louisiana,
vice-president, and M. F. McLeod, of
Missouri, treasur. r.
Hope it tWill Succeed.
It has been rumored in cotton circles
for some weeks that John II. Inman has
formed a very strong financial combina
tion to bull cotton. A dispatch from
Liverpool to the New .York Journal of
Finance eays:
It is stated here upon the authority of
one of the most important traders that
the new syndicate organized in New
York to protect the cotten market has
over $15,000,000 at its back, of which
G, 000,000 is subscribed here and hi Lon
don. Wentworth, of the ILondoh Colo
nial Bank, is said to" represent large Lon
don interests in the deal. - The .manage
ment will, however, be vested exclusive
ly in John H. Inman of New York.
A Preacher Whips an Editor.
Raleigh, N. - C, Special. News
reached here of a fight between an editor
and a. preacher at Tarboro. Two well
known clergymen of Reeky Mount, near
here, had an acrimonious discussion oa
infant baptism. a3 a result of which blows
passed. J. C. Powell, editor of the Tar
boro Southerner, published an account of
it. One of the reverend gentlemen, Mr.
Love, of the Baptist church at Rocky
Mount, went to Tarboro," and there met
editor Powell. He nsked for a correc
tion, which was emphatically refused,
whereupon the preacher and the editor
came to blows. The editor wa3 knocked
down and badly used.
An English View of the American
. Free Silver Agitation.
A London cablegram says: Tht Times
hs a long article on" the Bland silver
bill. The writer says : "Although elec
ti onetring tactics have helped it, that it
will become a law is improbable. The
United States must eventually choose
between the gold and silver standards,
but the time is not favorable now. The
argument that the bill will attract gold
and raise the" pries of cotton and grain
may suffice fur the Southern and Western
farmers, but it is too flimsy to affect the
North
$10,000 for Pensacola. - -"
Washington, D.' C.Thtf Senate
pissed a bill appropriating $10,000 fo?
the improvement of ther rosd to the na
tional cemetsry near Pensacola, Fla.
Ken e wed Confidence in Southern
Investments.
The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti
more, in its issue of February 20, says:
"There are many signs of a revival of
confidence in Southern investments, and
among them are the proposed reorganisa
tion by the foremost financiers of the
country of the Richmond & West Toint
Terminal, the large amount of money
lately furnished for extensions of the
Norfolk & Western Railroad, the great
improvements involving an expenditure
of some millions of dollars by the Chesa
peake & Ohio, and the consummation of
financial plans for carrying out many de
velopment enterprises. Tho troubles,
due in part to low-price cotton, in part
to the natural effects of such a world
wido panic as we had last year, are now
6een to be, as the Manufacturers' Record
has steadily claimed, only of a temporary
character, and while severe for a time,
they in no way destroy the solid founda
tion of wealth bised on the South's in
comparable natural resources. They may
nave retarded the development of these
resources for a while, but they have only
served to show the dangers to be avoid
ed, and the result will be a more conser
vative and more solid foundation for the
great industrial activities of the future.
Among the new entei prises reported for
the week are important railroad exten-sions-
and improvements and mining and
manufacturing companies that cover a
wide rango of industry. In West Vir
ginia a $500,000 coal mining company
and a $1,000,000 oil and gas company
have been incorporated, also two lumber
compauies, one of $100,000 and one of
$30,009 capital stock, respectively; Bir
mingham, Ala., has a $15,000 company
to manufacture wheelbarrows; Hunting
ton, Ark , a $50,000 improvement com
pany; at Llano, Texas, a $50,003 or $60,
000 iron bridge is to bo built; Dallas has
a $30,000 improvement company; Flori
da has a $500,00) lumber company and a
$150,000 phosph.te company; in Tennes
see a new furnace has just gone into
blast ; Mobile has organized a company
to build a drydock; Augusta, Ga., a
$250,000 woodwork machinery company ;
a large rolling mill is to be moved from
New Jersey to Baltimore aud a plate
mill added; Queen City, Texas, has in
corporated a $400,000 .iron company;
Spartanburg, 8 C, a $100,000 mining
company; Knoxvillc. Tenn., a $250,000
construction and bridge company; Tex
as, a $1,000,000 mining company and a
$30,000 mill and gin company, etc."
Georgia, Carolina and Northern.
A press dispatch from Atlanta, says:
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern
railroad has been completed to within
.two miles of Atlanta Trains are leing
run to a point twenty-two miles from
Atlanta, and it is expected to complete
and open the road by the middle of
March. This road is intended as a link
in the Seaboard Air Line, composed of
the lines controlled by the Seaboard and
Roanoke and the Raleigh and Gaston
Railroad Companys. The company was
organized in 1886 te build a standard
gauge railroad from Monroe, N. C, to
Atlanta, Ga , 280 miles. Work was
commenced on the northern end of the
line, and it was opened to Chester, S, C,
a distance of forty-five miles, in October,
1888. On July 1, 1889, there were is
sued $5,360,003 first mortgage 5 per
cent, forty-year $1 000 gould coupon
bonds, which have become very popular
amoug investors, especially in Baltimore,
being considered among the safest rail
road bonds that can be obtained. The
Mercantile Tni:t and Deposit Company,
of Baltimore, is the trustee named in the
mortgage and interest on the bonds is
made payable at the Trust Company's
office The Seaboard Air Line is com
posed of Six railroads, which form a rail
road system whose northern terminus is
at Portsmouth, Va., where connection is
made with the steamers ot the Baltimore
Steam Packet Company and the Old Do
minion Steamship Company, and whose
southern terminus wil' be Atlanta, Ga.,
as soon as the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern is completed. Through trains
will be run between these points via
Charlotte.
Committee Program Mapped Out.
Washington, D. U- It is announced
that the intention of the Ways and Means
Committee is to call up tho tariff ques
tion in the House early next week. This
program would to, some ex'ent defer the
consideration of the silver question. The
silver bill, canuot be taken up and got
out of the way in advance
of that time. The announcement
of the purpose to call up the tariff ques
tion about jthe first of March, was mado
in the Ways and Means Committee at a
brief session of the full committee. An
agreement was reached amoug the mem
bers of the Committee that the minority
should have until a week from Saturday
to prepare their reports againse the three
bills, wool, binding twine, and bagging
measures, heretofoie ordered favorably
repotted to the House by a party vote.
Chairman Springer then announced
that it was intended to call up one of the
three bills on Monday following the sub
miio1! of the report to the House. No
objection was manifest d upon the part
of the Republicans to the course.
A Noted Case Settled.
Des Moines, Iowa The Hyde-Hope-well
case, involving the civil rights of a
colored man, has been settled in favor of
the defendent Hopewell. The court
held that Hopewell Jiad the right to ie
fuse to serve Hyde in his restaurant and
that the fact that the latter being a col
ored man. did not enter into the case. In
other words the restaurant business is a
private one, like a grocery or a dry goods
store, and it differs from an inn and the
proprie'or may sell or not to any one
who eaters his store.
Tho Briceville Mines to B Co
Operative.
Kxoxviixe, Tenn., Special. The
mines of the Tennessee Mining Company
in Briceville will be worked upon the
co-operat've plan. . The details have been
agreed upon and incorporated in an
amended charter, which has been filed.
The miners are allowed to take stock and
have taken $10,000. Each subscriber
will have twenty monthji in which to pay
for $100. The company will erect resi
dences and allow the 'miners to buy on
liberal ten
SELECT SIFTING.
A clock made in 1671 is still in gotag
order. . x
Chinese military drums are made of
wood.
There is a singing grove near Ham
burg. Conn.
A hunter in Maine claims to have a -cat
that will stalk grouse.
London (England) policemen used to
wear swallow-tailed coats.
The Burmese, Karens, Hungere and
Khans use lead and silver in bullion for
cuirency. '
A little Philadelphia boy has a pet
rabbit which, he has trained to draw a
small wagon. -
Four pounds of gold have been col
lected from the soot of the chimney of
the Royal Mint in Berlin, Germany.
. A St. Louis (Mo.) woman has opened
an office for the cure of 1 afflicted minds,
cranks, fanatics, bigots and agnostics."
There is in Buffalo, N. Y., one line
of street cars, on which a car crosses
fifty four railroad tracks in making' ono
round trip. "
A ricochet shot from the new maga
zine rifle adopted in England broke a
cottage window four miles distant from
the firing point.
There is a strong flow of natural gas
in the Ventura River. When lightel,it
is said, the flames extend over a spaco
eight feet wide.
In a Philadelphia col J-storago house,
an English hare has been kept frozen for
fourteen months and is still apparently iu
good condition.
Recently between Tewkesbury aad
Cheltenham, in England, in three min
utes, 700 words were sent to a newspa-
per office and correctly received over a
telephone wire.
At Dresden, Germany, they arc bak- ;
ing an American corn bread that is find
ing much favor and is much cheaper thin
their ordinary bread. A pound costs a '
trifle over three cents. (-
The typewriter is fast superseding the
pea in telegraphy. Opsrators are learn. '
ing to handle the typewriter everywhere,
and new hands are not employed unless
they are experts at the machine."
The Mormon Temple in Salt Lako
City, Utah, is built in the forn of an
ellipse, and, although it is of enormous
dimensions, it is so well constructed '
with regaid to acoustics that a person
standing .in tho focus at ono end can
carry on a conversation iu a whisper "ith
any one in tho focus at tho other encr.
There wero blooded dogs in early
Egypt, and highly "prized. Their names
were carved on monuments which still
remain. One of the n, his name show
ing his foreign origin, was called Abai-;
karou, a faithful transcription of the
word abaikour, by which the hunting
dog is-designated inmauy of the Berber
dialects.
A classic account of the distribution
of wheat over the primeval world shows
that Ceres, having taught her favorite,
Triptolemus, the art of agriculture and
the science of brcadmaking, gave him -her
chariot, a celestial vehicle, and that
in it he traveled night and day distribut
ing this valuable grain among all nations
of the earth. ,
Many a huntsman through a long lifo
has chased the fox with enthusiastic
ardor who would be surprised to
know that in the very tip of his tail or .
brush 13 a little bunch of hairs twenty
five or thirty in number, which gives
forth to the despairing and almost van
quished beast the refreshing and stimu
lating odor of violets.
The very fine collection of postage
stamps bequeathed to tho trustees of the
British Museum by the late Mr. Tapling,
Member of Parliament, contains about
200,000 stamps, and its value is esti
mated at $300,000. Its late owner was
occupied for over twenty years in its
formation. It is without doubt the finest
collection in the world.
In Dikio, in Adenmouah, in Logone
and elsewhere small cotton strips are tho
regular currency. In Bjgirari these
strips are so small that from seventy to
150 of them would have to be pieced
together to make a shirt. In Dar
foor the gray, coarse shirting circu
lates as money, and in Tio at, in upper
Egypt, this material is dyed dark or blue
and then cut into pieces of three yards
length. "
UabltA of Salmon.
In their journey up tho streams tho'
first run of fish push on rapidly to tho
upper pools and headwaters, 100 miles
or more.unless prevented by insurmount
able falls, with which most of the Lab
rador Etreams arc well provided. Here
fish have been caught sixty miles above
the estuary before one has been taken in
tidal water. Some of the former remain
in the lower pools and are joined by
others as the run progresses. Why is
this? Have the fish any remembrance of
where they spent their youthful, days,
and remain there while others jhiss theint
It is now received as an uidoubtcl fact
that every fish knowg its own river, but
I go further than that, and think every
fish ha3 a particular place in the river
where it wishes to remain. Were all the
salmon in the Rcseigouche to push ou U
its headwaters, would not the greater,,
portion of the river be barren? Tlie tur
moil of spawning time on the restricted
spawn bedf, the turning over of the newly
laid ova, could only end in m holesale de
struction. Even under present condition!
I am fcatisfied not over ten per cent, of
the eggsdtposited naturally ever come to
life.
As to the speed with which they travel
at times I caught two salmon with partly
digested caplin io tuem quite recog
nizable, and these fish were caught sixty
miles above where the caplia is known
to come. American Angler.
Dr. Koch's lymph, according t flil
results of the experiments communicated
to the last roest ng of the Berlin (Gcr
manv) Society for Internal Medicine,
seems to have "proved un trust woity, even
as a means of diagnosis for tuberculosis.
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