North Carolina Newspapers

I -toJX. JJ- Times. Centrai A G. K. GRANTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance A HE VOL. II. ALLIANCE COLUMN. Information aiid Reading and Gleaned. CiU i Naws' Pertaining' to t Widespread Ord. in, the Land. cat . in the Farmer's Alliance and Indus t;iji I'nion. It is the laborer's hope, the p-r man's friend, the great educator, h- foremost missionary for good. It trive you principles worth support it ;in teach you the" brotherhood of m m and the fatherhood of God. 1 He- Farmers A! iance are fighting :. : Congressional districts in western York and pushing forward a vig . ;- Eastern campaign in all the East f ' r-r stes. Something is bound to drop s n in the very strongholds of pluto-cr;-j. Wait and watch. MORTGAGE FIGURES. T-clcsnres siuce 18G0 have bten !,n -.-4 15 000,000 i-:o 2-.0) ooo. $51.000, 00. j-n -fC;3?000,00 If 'hi? is prosperity, make the most ofi t rR ESIDENT LOUCKS IN GEORGIA. IJj . -i i-:it II. L. Loucks, of the Farm -..." A:ii:icc and Industrial Uni n. wlu. hi- !" en for some weeks campaigning in Tev.!:-.-ee, writes the na'ional organ: I htvehad good meetings here. Bio. M ' ivel! is m:ikiDg a great campaign. :.!: 1 " io lli-t will surprise the machine' i"; November 8 If all the State is cq"'i i'i f nlhusins.Ti to the counties whcie 1 h'i' in en, we will cany the State." I h lec tured in Georgia, as follows: IHm-rviHe, Cinch couny, Scptemb s 1"; Biinbridge, Decatur county, Sip ! -rihi r JO; Albany, Dougherty co irtv. S'l" mi.x.'i 21; Americus, Sum t-r ;.!!!y, September 22; Fort Valley, Il' u-ton county, September 23. Brundidge Primary Alliance: By tea '!uKn the members of the Brurvdidgf Piimary Alliance determi red to hob" th'-ir cotton and keep it off the markc' ..til October 1, and longer if possib'e ::n! in the meantime the price should fi'l v:i nee sufficiently to justify them in ellin, and ask all planters to cooper ate with them. Accordingly the secretin- was instructed to request all reform pnpers throughout the cotton States to publish same. ArtKNSAs. State Alliance Contention -Lis of officers foi 1802 '93: President D. E. Farker, Bsrkada, Drew coanty. Vice President W. F. Dowell, Fay- ettevillc, Washington county. Seer, tary L II. Moore, Alston, Chism Searcy, Franklin county. Treasurer Dr. G. villr, Logan county. Lecturer Homer Wh te county. Kidwell, Pi i ace, Thu Virginia State Alliance, at Rich mond, passed resolutions of condolence upon the death of the late Col. L. L. Polk. Also the Floyd County Union. "Jenigh. Also the annual Alliance mrvting of the Territorial Loge, in "rouneij convened August 9, 1862, at ( hetotah, Indian Territory. They have been forwarded to the widow of deceased. LABOR S PROTEST. T;v I . TT Tl VT AD TT T" 1TTT ' 'T' IT TMf TT " MATE ORGAN F. A- AND I. U., TENN. Fiom all over the country comes the linking protest of free labor against the im pi. si i ions of organized capita'. Each Avcek we are called upon to chronicle the f h ts oncerning a dash between organ ized capital on the one hand and organ ize.1 l b;r on the other. The relations between these necessary fact -n in Ameri can development arc being strained to the utmost. This is no go ;d onieo to aggipgated wealth Down in Tenucssee the past few weeks have witnessed a most serious conflict-. The State has a system by which the convicts are leased to a private ruining compmy. 1 his company has practical contiol of the vast coal fields of cast I enmssee. ana with the convic's rs a club over the head of free labor," it has intini dated the free miners unt 1 they weie driven to the desperation rf an opeu revolt against law and order. Governor Buchanan had but one duty to perform to quell the insurrection; this he did promptly, though it cost the lives of many men. The feeling in Tennessee is running high. Because the People's party has assumed a boTd stand for free labor the Democracy of Tennessee has rushed in a deal of complaint agaiust Governor Buchanau for what is called 'sympathy for the miners." This pro test is not within the bounds of medifi- cation. It is the most vindictive de nunciation of modern demagogucry; its result will be to widen the breach be tween labor and capital, and to hurry on the time when our country willst-nd ap palled at the irrepressible conflict wi hm her borders. it is not our purpose to encourage strife. God knows it is earning of its own accord too 'rapidly. It is still fur ther from our purpose to uphold mon opolistic greed and avarice. The pat riot of to day should labor to brine about a serious, sober though in the minds of American voters. Shall we be content with present eondiuons politically? ihen we may expect protests, outbreak)?, riots, bloodshed and war. It is the pre pent conditions which fathered the strife between labor and captl. and under the present condition it will grow nio-e bitter. Capital will grow more strong and labor more weak. Let us counse serious thought. The concentration o - eal h is a standing menace to our free institutions. Will the Americon voter Hicer trifle with his country's welfare? Will ignorance fo ever close his eves an' prejudice seal his lips? Must we fa'e a terrible conflict or shall American sov ri.n,git in judgment on the ques ;"n? It is folly to hope that tither old ! arty will consider a change of affair. i o avert civil strife the People's party ' it be allowed to adjust the differences. THREE STATES' BRIEFS. Telegraphic Dispatches From Many romis oi interest. The Fields of Vireina. Worth tvn d South Carolina Carefully Gleaned Tor News. VIRGINIA. Jefferson Anderson, of Danville, who was horribly lacerated bv a circular saw. still survive, in spite of his injuries. It is said that 30.000 dcooIb visited Mt. Vernon Wednesday. Every steam boat that could be broucht into reouisi- on was on the line. and. ca ried their full complement. Th pages at Alexandria. Justice Camper, of Roanoke, was in great triburation Monday, for, during a rriai, some thiet made oH wi h the Bible on which he usually swears witnesses. Cnpt. Lancelot Partlow, of Spotsyl vania county, is ninety thr e years of age and is still in vigorous 1 eilth. He was one of the escorts to General Lafayette from the Wilderness Tavern to Fredericksburg in 1824. Mrs Isabella G. Lee died of heart and lung t oubles Monday at her home in Loudoun . She was the widow of Rich ard Henry Lee, who." was a cousin of Gen. Robert E Lee. Mh. Le& was the daughter of William Hunter Wilson. The old McLain House, at Appomat tox, the scene of Lee's surrender to Grant, has been purchased by Northern parties, who propose to tear down the building and reconstruct and put it on exhibition at Chicago. M is3 Lalla Harrison, of Lecsbunr. London-county, has been selected as the most beautiful woman in the State to represent it as one of the original thir teen States at the Columbian Exposition. NOBTH CAROLINA. The Oxford Orphnn Asylum has re ceived application for the admittance of an infant girl eight months old. The application hai to be rejected. Orton's circus was lately at Wilkes- boro and a certain Wilkes man was fleeced by the sharpers who are always along. When the man's wife found it out she gave him a genteel thrashing and made him promise not to go anywhere any more without some one along to take care of him. The Silver Valley mines, in Davidson county, are being pushed to great suc cess. About seventy-five hands are now employed, and thty are mining from ten to sixteen tons of solid ore per day. Another new enterprise for Wilming ton is the Standard Veneer Packairc Company, which has been put in opera tion within the past two weeks. It is for the manufacture of grape baskets, and turns out 15,000 per day. It will also manufacture barrels, berry crates aud all other goods made of veneer. Jlrs. Catherine William?, a widow lady living in Bladen county, committed suicide Monday. She tied her hands together and liid down in a canal of wa cr about six inches deep. She was found in that position. It is" supposed she was icsane. Another suicide is Jim Meadows, a citizen of Wilmington. He went home drunk, beat his wife and then drank a large quantify of laudanum, which ended hii life in a few hours ia spite of the efforts of physicians to revive him. He was driver for the hook and ladder com pany and was a young man. A "Virginia Dare Association" is being organized by the ladies of the State to aid representing North Carolina at the World's Fair. SOUTH CAROLINA. Darlington has open a market for the sale of leaf tobacco, and the tobacco farmers are realizing good prices there and at Florence. The royalties collected from phoiphate producers by the State of South Carolina for the month of August are as follows -F. W. Wagecer & Co., f t98.48; Coosaw Mining Co., $5,916.85; Oak Point Min ing Co., $1,166.49; Beaufort Phosphate Co., 110,203.90; Farmers' Mining Co., $8,805.78; Carolina Mining Co, $6,752.50, and Sea Island Chemical Co., ,$(J,899 00. As the royalty is one dollar per ton, the total output for August was 40,994 Ions. The Charleston. Su. nter and Northern Railroad Company has completed its ex tension frm BeDnettsville, 8. C, to Gib son, N. C , Jopcuiog up quite an ex tensive field for business. As soon as the branch is inspected by the State railiOid commission traffic will begin. At Charleston the Southern Fibre Co. has organize! by tli3 election of C. F. Pankin. president,-and Thomas J. Price, s.crctary and treasurer. The concern intends to establish a plant for preparing Sjuthern mo s by a new decor icUioa proces. A compmy has bcn chartered nt Dar lington for the puipse of building a $100,000 tobacco factory, OTHER STATES. Government employes are on a strike at New Orleans to enforce toe new eight hour law, which the officials, as usual are trying to disregard. A shipment of two hundred bales of cotton was recently made from San An tonio, Texa?, to Yokohama. Japan. We Have Been Entsrtaining a King-. Nashville, Tesn. A young negro, who has spent four, years at the Central Tennessee College in this city, has been called to a throne in Africa. His name is Momolu Massaquai, aud he came from Vey country, a region of interior Africa, adjoining Liberia. He was converted same years ago to Christianity by Mrs. Mary Brierly, tn English missionary, and though her influence and that of Bishop Penick. of Louisville, was brought to this country and put at school. He re ceived the news to dy that his father. King Balah, had been killed in war and he is called to reign in his stead. A Mountain Murder. Raleigh, N. C The Governor has received a telegram informing him that Matthew W. Rector, a deputized po lireman, was murdered at Marshall, Madison county, by Alonza West, whom Hector was endeavoring to arrest for dis orderly conduct. DUNN, HARNETT CO., UNION VETERANS AT RICHMOND. They Receive Ho3pitalities on All Sides and Lee Camp Keeps Open House. Richmond, VA.--The second day of the Grand Army of the Republic visit here was spent very pi asantly. There are many ladies with the soldiers and they are gaily bedecked with medals, badges, etc. Every incoming tran from the north brings a delegttion cf Grand Army of the Republic Veterans and 4,000 are now in the city. The streets are crowded with ex-soldiers and upm every corner can beseenhtppy groups of men, some of whom wore the blue and others who were clothe 1 in gray. Reminiscences of the times that tried men's souU and wrung burning tears" from the brave worn n of the land are discussed in per fect friendliness and the past strife is forgotten in cordial and friendly greet ings Phil Kearney Post's heal quarters are open for the reception of the visitors. Ice water, lemonade and infounation are furnished free. Lee Camp is keeping open house and two large lunch tables are spread with good cheer and comfort for 5,000 people. They are doing all in their power f t the pleasure and enter tainment of the men whom they so fiercely fought over a quarter of a cen tury ago. The Grand Army Republic people are greatly pleased with what Lee Camp is doing for them, and sy they will spread the Camp's praises through out the land. Many of the visitors made excursions to the battle gaounds, despite the bad weather. Members of lye Camp and Phil Kearney Post are pilotingjthe old veterans and showing them every attention. Large numbers went down to Seven Pines, many visited Petersburg, while others went over to Bslle Isle and Manchester. Cctton Manufacturing. Alfred B. Shepperson, of the New Cotton Exchange, has published l "statement of the American cotton crop of '91-'9V as compiled by him. Mr. Shepperson argues that while the crop for the past year was the largest "comoiercial crop on record, the actual cotton yield was probably 600,000 less than the year previous. He bases this upon the fact that a very large quantity of old cotton, held over from 1890-91, was marketed during the year just closed. This view of the matter is valuable in making estimates on the present crop, based upon a comparison with the con dition of that of '91 -'92 at the cones ponding period last year. The portion of the stater eut, how ever, which is of grca'er ii tercst to u, is that giyiog the consumption of cotton by the mills in the Southern S ates. Four years ago, in 1888-89. the South ern cotton mills consumed 479.781 bales, in 1890 91, 612,892 and for the year just clos d, 684,367. In the first year named .sou h Carolina's consumption was 132, ;J19 bales and last year it was 185,367, au increase of 15,000 bales over the consumption of the previous year. Georgia come3 seeoud on the list with 167,713 bales utilized bv her mills last year, an increase 13,000 for the year. North Carolina isth'id, her mills having used 157,609 bales of cotton, a gain of 20,000 bales over 1S90 91. These three States show an increase of 48,000 bales cor.sumcd, as compared with the year before . The report of Henry G. ITester, of the ew Orleans Cotton Exchange, upoa the eamc subject has also been re ceived. 'I he tno great authorities are wonderfully close together in their fig ures, and for the first time Ihey agree in naming South Carolina, as the greatest cotton manufacluiing State of the South Mr. Hester's figures indicate ai in crease in the consumption of the two Carolinas and Georgia of 61,00 ) bales over that of 1890 91, which is more fa vorable to this section than Mr. Shep person's report, but all evidence goes to show that theie is general prosperity in the cotton spinning business in the outh, and that we arc making wonder ful strides in the manufacturing industry Last year the mills of the remainder of this country and Canada manufactured lets than four and a half times the quan tity of cotton consumed in the States of So-ith Carolina, Georgia and North Car olina. Io ten years more these wi'd be the cotton manuf ictu ing Statei of the Un ion. Mr. Davia'a Monument. Richmond, Va. The conferences be tween the representatives of the Davis Monument Association of Virginia and the committee of the United, Confeder ate Veterans removed most of the obsta cles that have hitherto prevented the desired progress in the matter of raising funds to erect in or near this city a mon ument to commemorate 'Iloa . Jeffersoa Davis's service?, sacrificies, r.nd 6ufler ings. lu view of the fact that Richmond wa the capital of the Confederacy and that Mrs. Davis has expressed the wish that it should be selected both as the permanent burial place of her husband and as the spot for the monument, the veterans' committee, who were clothed with ample powers, in substance agreed that their organization would throw all of its iufluerce and it is very weighty in favor of Richrrond. The permanent burial and monument are to be here. The funds collected for this purpose by the United Confederate Veterans will be sent to Richmond, and we understand a like course will be pur sued bv tbe Southern Press Association. Mr. Davis will have a suitable monu ment. It will be erected in Richmond, by the people of all the Southern States. Other plans arc to be fused into the plan of the Virginia Association, which will at once set to work to chooee a de sign and site and to lay the corner-stone. Itwasr solved that Monroe Park be chosen as site for the proposed monu ment. Mitchell a Bluffer and Bully. New York, N. Y. James Corbett, in speaking of Charley Mitchell, character ized him as a binder and bully, and of fered to post a forfeit of $,000 for a fight at the conc'usion of his engage ments, a period of a year. - N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1892. POLITICAL WORLD. Candidates, Conventions, Nomina tions, Elections. AU the News of Political Movements of the FOur Parties. Hon. William Dickey was sent to the Maine Legislature in 1842, and they are sending him there yet. He was re-elected at the recent election. He is eighty one years old. J. J. Mcintosh, Democrat candidate for Congress in the Sixth Nebraska dis trict, has withdrawn, finding that he is not a citizen. Ex-Cofgressman Crapo and Congress nan Henry Cabot- Lodge are the an nounced "Republican candidates for United Stat-.s Senator fiom Massachu setts to succeed II. L Dawes. Hon. W. M. Fishback, Governor-elect of Arkansas, will make Democratic spe(che3 in New Yo:k and Tennessee. Republican convention at Staunton, Va., has nominated W. C. FrankliD, of Ap pomatt -x, for Congress. It is reported that Mr. Blaine may de cide to enter the Senate instead of Mr. Hale, whose successor is to be chosen by the Legisl.turo elected in Maine this week. Hale is a candidate for re-election. There are but 190 colored voters in North Dakota. There a e 15,000 in the city of Baltimore. Babimore has an are of thirty-two square- miles; North Dikota has an area of 70,000 square miles. The total vote for President in 1884 was 10,048,561. In 1888 it was 11,388, 038. This year the ratio of increase will be greater on account of the addition of six new States, and the vote of these added tc the normal growth in popula' tion in ten years will give a total of, probabiy, 14,0u0,000. When William Henry Harrison, the grandfather of Benjamin, ran for Presi dent in 1836, he received 41,281 votes in Indiana. Hi3 grandson received in the same State in 1888, 263,361. When Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, in 1860, he received 1,865,913 votes in the thirty two States which then constituted the Union. In the Presidential election of 1883 the total vote of New York State was 1,320,109. New York's total this vear will not be very far from the entire vote cast for Mr. Lincoln in the whole United States thirty-two years ago. The Presidential election falls this year on November 8. The electors chosen m the several States are to meet on Mon day, January 9, to declare the result in each. It will be transmitted to Wash inir'on by a special messenger in each ca e, and announced by Congress on the second Wednesday in February. ' he House of Representatives canvasses the electoral vote for President and the United States Senate canvasses the elec toral vote for Vice-President. The Federal census of 1890 returned the adult white male population of the United States at 16,940,311. Deducting the aliens, of whom theie are more than a million, and the electors resident in the Territories, the total number of qualified electois was 15,533,313. Fully 10 pe cent, of these, for a variety of causes, do not vote. This would give as the prob able total of the vote cast for President 14, 010,000, the same result as is derived V bv comparison with previous elections The banner Sate for Cleveland in 1868 was Texas, which gave him 146,000 ma iority. Hanison had, so to speak, two banner States Kansas, which gave him 80,159, and Pennsylvania, which gave him 79,458 majority. This year there are four parties in Texas and three in Kansas, and Weaver is likely to poll a crood vote in each. Pennsylvania, in which the fijjht is a ttraight one between the two parti c3 and without complica- tions from the outside, is iiKeiy to xe p at the head of the column for the Repub licans, while Mississippi, under the term of the new Registry law, will probably give the largest majority for the Demo cracy. The two States in which the colored voters absolutely predominate in number are South Carolina and Mississippi. In South Carolina there arc 102,000 white voters and 132,000 colored voters. In Mississippi there are 120,000 white voters and 150.000 colored voters a colored majority of 30,000 in each State. Louis iana has more white than colored voters, but it has, on the other hand, more c lored voters native born thn white voters native born. These are the figures: Colored voters, 119,000; white voters (native born, 106,000; foreign born white voters, 25,000. The latter hold the balance of power, numerically. a?.d this is the cnlv State in the Uniou where this condition of things prevails From Indian Territory in Wagons. Newtox, N. (". About 12 o'clock Monday tVo covered wagons came into Newto.i containing nineteen persons. One could see at a glance that they were immigrants. I hey proved to be F. I. Stirewaldt and family and Peter Fox and Sylvanus Moore, his sons-in-law, and their families. They had come all the way from the Indian Territory in their wagons, and were on their way just eight weeks. They 1- ft Alexander ounty last March to try to better their circumstances in the Southwest. They rented a large far-n on the Arkansas river and planted 125 acres in corn. The floods overflowed their crops; all of them took the chills aud the outlook became so gloomy that they packed up what effects thev could haul and started on their long1 journey back to North Caro lina. At IJudsonia, Arkansas, Mrs. Moore died of a congestive chill and was buried in tlfe Baptist church yard at that place. All' of them are very much en feeb'ed by chills, wbich clung to them thro.ighout their jueocy, and one of the children is row critically ill. A Greenville Juvenile Priz9 Fight. Greenville, S. C. Two twelve year old boys of this c.ty fought sevei rounds in the loft of a sUblc for three dollars a side. One was knocked out in the seventh round by a blow on the no3c which brought blood. There were sev eral other fights in the same party. The boyshadaring and gloves. Pugilism is the rage here now. Industrial Development in the South. The new Southern industries mention ed in the Manufacturers' Record of Bal timore, in its issue of September23, indi cate a marked increase in the establi-h-ment of new enterprises in tha South. come of the more important items are summarized below : the Columbia Barb Wire and Nail Co., in which Indianapolis parties are chiefly intersted, intends build ing a large plant at Kanawha City, W. Va. The Towles Manufacturing Co. has beeD incorporated in Baltimore with a capital of $15 000, for the purposj of manufacturing underwear, 'the Roan oke Mineral Wool Co. will double iti plaflt at Roanoke, Va. Cobb & Erwin, of Athens, Ga., intend to build a cotton mill, and have chartered 135.000 com pany for the purpose. The Standard Cotton Mills, of Rock Hill, S C., hve decided to increase their capital bv $30,- 0C0. John Cudahv, of Chicago, is the chief mover in a conc?rn that wi I build a $500,000 abattoir and packing house at Nashville, Teun. The Galveston Fruit Co , has been chartered and will manu facture candies, canned goods, etc., at Galveston, Tex. J. F. Baxter, of Nash ville, is organiz:ng a company to erect a $15,000 cement plant at Chettanooga. A $10,000 company at Knoxville, Ttnn., will manufacture a patent house-door letter box. Capitalists of Meridian, Mics., are to build a cotton compress in their city. The Omaha & South Texas Land Co., arranges for the erection of a $350,000 car works plant at Houston Heights, Tex. A $25,000 stock com pany incorporated at Pewee Valley, Ky., intends manuiaccmog wines ana Drana- A f A " .1 S . J les. lhe Wens liranch Loal U, oi West Virginia, has been chartered for mining purpose with a "capital stock of $100,000. A company has been foimed to build a $10,000 ro'lermillat Quitman, Ark. The Keystone Mills have been chartered at Evans, Ark., to operate a saw mdl, with a capital stock of $20,000. James McCoy, of Harriman, Tenn., Ins commenced the erection of a muck bar mill. A $10,000 e'ectric company has been chartered at Darlington, S. C. P. B. Farmer will invest $10,000 in'a saw and flouring mill at Hinggold, Va. The Dar lington (S. C ) Tobacco Co. has charter ed tor manuiactuntiif purpose, witn a capital eUck of $10,000. Philad l- phians have decided to erect at Newport, Tenn . a tannery that wiil employ 200 nion TVi fir.i-nmnrfir.11 Ti jaj v it . Aug uviuuiuiiiivi i'i f-t v with a capital stock of $200,000 has ob tained a charter at Baltimore, Md. Joint Letter of Acceptance of Weaver and Field. Peksacola, Fl a. Generals James B. Weaver and James G. Field, the Peo pie's party candidates for President a d Vice-President, have issued their joint letter of acceptance of nominatious which is addressed to the public. Thev sav thev have visited fifteen States in the Northwest and South on their political tcu s and hive not said that "the people a-e in poverty, their substances arc being devoured by mo nooolics. trusts. pools ana inoncv sharks M - r a A strong plea is mads ?r a free bal lot and a fair count, and recent election methods in Alabama are complained of. they claim that Captain Kolb was elected Governor of Alabama by 40,000 majority but counted out. Thev also assert that the People's party was cheated in the Arkansas election. The candidstes say in conclusion a v "After an experiment of many years it is apparent that neither the Kepublicau nartv nor the Democratic party tan or will accomplish the much dcs red re form to -wit, the restoration of the bal lot on a fair and honest basis in the States of the Union The People's party alone can secure the desired end If the people of the whole country who desire honest elections and the repeal of c'ass laws will ralh to the support of the great industrial movement and place the vartv in power under whose banner the white people of the South are now marshaling themselves, this vexed ques tion will be settled forever. It is certain that the neoplc of the South will not X 1 join the ranks of the Republican party It is equally ccitain that the Republicans will not unite with he Democratic party The PeoDle s uartv afl r.:s the only so lution of these important matters. n An Old Confederate Flag Returned. Shelby. N. C. Amidst a t-..ult of applause from at least a thousand spec tators the silken banner belonging to the Cleveland Guards was leturced to its o:ij;ical owners by a committee of five, rep-esenting the city of Boston, to whom it had beeu given i y'the Ninth Massa chusetts Infxntry. who captured it at Hanover Courthouse. Va., May 29, 1862. The flag was presented to the Cleveland Guards, the first corapauy that enlisted from Cleveland couutv. by the ladies of Shelby, and was carried by that organ ization aout a year betore it was cip- turod. After the war it was given to the city of.Bstorj by the company which c:it tured it, and was kept until recently, whin, by the resolution of the board o: aldermen and common council, was ordered to be returned to its original owners, and the mavorwas authorized to appoint a delegatiou to deliver the flag. The delegati u consisted of Alderman John H- Sullivan, who represented the miyor; Alderman Thomas F. Keenan, piesident of the common council; David F. Brry, Assistant Clerk John T. Priest and Mr. George H. McLcd. They were met at Charlette by the committee, and on their arrival here were escorted by a military company to the Shelby Hotel, where a banquet was served at nigl The presentation exercises v. ere held in the courthouse, which was beautifully decorated with bunting and flowers. So Only Is Left. Montgomery, Ala Since the death of Governor Watt3, there i3 but one sur viving member of Mr. Davis' cabinet. Hon. John II. Reagan, of Texas, who war Postmaster General of the Confed erate States. He is still hale and hearty. After serrinff in the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, he is now one of the railroad commissioners nf Texas. If the tim-j had allowed him tr rpfteh Mont2omrv. he would no doubt be here t attend the funeral of his beloved friend and colleague. THE REALM OF FASHION WHAT TO WEAR AND MAKE IT. HOW tTOST Lone Waist Qo!nic Out Th Smplra Gown to Be tha Fashionable Attire for Autumn; 1 LENDER figures, long .waists and long arms, superbly set off with the enormous puffs which have done duty as sleeves this season, will, if rumor proves true, disappear from the domain of Queen Fashion ere many moons. ' This rumor is to the effect that the short-waisted Em pire gown wiil be the only wear this fall and next winter. Iu the initial illus ration is pictured a very pretty costume for an afternoon or reception, made up in a marbled foulard, richly garnitured with Irish ecru guipure forming, a plastron on in front. The belt is composed of two broad ribbons hooked together. The lower sleeves are also of the guipure. The skirt is finished with a ruche at the bottom. In this partic ular material the changeable colors were gray and salmon, and the marbled mark ings white. 7, ' iir -ii-a.77 A PRETTY TALL COSTCME., With the very first cool breath of autumn air our thoughts will very naturally turn te the subject of headgear, for nothing goes so quickly out of fashion as a hat. Hence it may be advisable to have a word to pay right here of the coming style in hats. Dur ing October it is quite likely that the cloth felts will be very modish, especially in oft shades of light brown and tan. The shapes FOR EARLY FALL. will run to toques and English country haH. Therj will be nothing very new about theM hrst comers, for they will be esrentiaMy rcun 1 hatf, qualified to bridge over the THE LITTLE MAIPE5 S VKZS. collar and lower sleeve are ofthe ecru em broidered. The puffed sleeves are of the blue. The blouse buttons on the left pidt, its folds being held in place by the belt The evening gown shown in this ' picture is a pretty end of the seaon creation. It is a foulard of soft ivory, over which are scatter ed flowerets as blue as corn flowers. Th lace yoke is set around with a deep lace flounce, and the belt is fashioned from a bias of amber-colored velvet. The sWv have brackets of the velvet and lace cuff. The bottom of the skirt is garnitared with three narrow pleatings of the material Iai 1 on as indicated. Fan and hoes match. i inn 1111 NO. 32. The illustration depicts a lovely gown for early fall of silver grayJbcngaline with em broidered muslin plastron, framed with an edging of jet to hide the line of union with the bengaline. The sleeves are finished with ribbon at the elbow, anl the lower sleeves are of the muslin. Ribbon belt and skirt are finished with a narrow ruffle of the mat rial. Visitors to the summer resorts this season jrmt lxMrm neen armor wim rrA o"iy r,T the costumes worn by maidens cf 12 and 11. The illustration depicts such a child's dress It is compoeed of dark blue and eeru linen. At the bottom of the skirt there is a deep baud of blue material. The, yoke, .belt. A PRETTY IVEIflNG GOWy. supplemental season with nothing original or fantastic about them. In addition to these cloth felts, we shall have the lvte summer hat in black and pearl grjy straw, trimmed with velvet banda or loops, and set off with ostrich tips. The picture shows a pretty fall costnm". The overskirt is of embroidered ecru batiste, and the under of mauve eilk. The former has two insertions and a border of IrNh guipure. At the waist the.e is a ribbon belting in the over dress. The coraa at the top has a crossed fichu of plain batiste. The epaulets are of embroidered batiste, the bell sleeves plain, and the caffs in guipure. She Shot Him. Mabiow, S. C Woodruff, a young man formerly of Rocky Mount, N. C, for two or three years a icsidcnt of Marion county, was shot in J.hc head by Miss Ella Smith, a woman of ill repute, here Wednesday night and died in tho morning. Woodruff, it seems, charged Miss Smith with circulating some dam aging report about his wife, who wa3 a niece of hcra. and demauded a statement which Miss Smith refused to give, where upon they grappled and fell to the floor. Two persons present caught Woodruff, when Miss Smith, being partially releas ed, drew a pistol and shot Woodruff in the biick of the head a he was rising from the 'floor. He never moved or tpoke after falling. Deceased leaves a wife and child. I. O. O. F. Define "Good Moral Char acter." Portland, Ore. One of the most important things done by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of -Odd Fellows was the adoption, by a vote of 120 to 25, of a resolution declaring it expedient to re move the headquarters from Columbus to Baltimore. Another matter entitled to mention was the indefinite postponement of consideration of a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the lodge that a per son otherwise qualified who is engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors i3 not of such "good moral character" as con templated by section 2, article 16, of the Legislature, and therefore not eligible to membership of a subordinate lodge. A Fatal Accident in Wilkes. Winston. N. C Particulars of a sad and fatal'accident in Wilkes county reach ed here. In Union - township, Roddies river, the seven-year-old son of John Milams shot and killed his little sister two years of age The children wero alone at the time; htDce it is not deriu itely known how the accident occurred. There was a small shotgun lying on the bed. The father was away from home, while the mother and another child were out in the garden picking, beacs. Th m ther heird the report of the gun acd ran immediately into thehouse. The child was dead, the entire load having struck under the jaw and ranged upward. The mother is almost frantic. The Cotton Crop-. -A Lower Condition than i n Any September Since 1883. Washington, D. C. The statistician's report submitted to the Department of Agricultute indicates a lower condition of the cotton crop than in any September since 1883. The average is 76 8, against 82.7 last year and 85.5 in 1890. The decline since August 1 exceeds 5 points. The State averages are: Virginia 75, North Carolina 76, South Carolina 77, Georgia 79, Florida 66, Alabama 82, Mississippi 82, Louisiana 76, Texa.? 81, Arkansas 76, Tennessee, 79. A Political Deal in Wisconsin. Docolas, Wis. Among the condition of the People's party fusion proposition adopted by their convention is this: The State Democratic nomine s for presidential electors are to be withdrawn nhd Weaver electors elected by the Pop - -ulists. In consideration of this conces sion the Populists endorse the Democratic Stite nominees for Governor, members of Congress and Supreme judge. A Slanderoua Preacher Cowhided. New Orleans, La. Dr. A. E Brldger,- pastor of the Congregational church at Jeanings, w as cowhided Sunday by D. E. M. Burke, who acted for the male po't:on of 'he congregation for uttering pwecping condemnations of the charac ters of the women of the t'.wn gcrcr nily. Dr. Bridgerdid not flinch under the punishment. Pledged to Cleveland. CVf.uMBiA, sJ Cf-The State Demo cat ie convention met here with 316 de I ;:atc, 261 lxing Tillman's inDjority, sTraihtouts numbering 264. Cleveland i r sidential delegates were chosen, and harmony reigned.