G. K. GEAHTHAM, Editor
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TjlF SOUTHERN J JURIST DEAD.
Chief Justice. Fuller Announces th
w - -..vv I in nqi .
Washington, D. C!. When the United
.,-. Supreme Cor met as usual at
uiv. v"" "-u luuacui Justices
f,::iv and Brown) draped in mourning,
s.,'m told the story! th it between the
(.d . nnmcnt of the ;ourt and its reas
on linir. there had passed awav one of
- members.
T
mi
jrSTICE L. b- C LAMAR.
The death of Ju3tce Lamar was not
t: r iisirj to his Associates, for they had
r. ii'--cl when he left the city for the
S'i'tth that in all probability he would not
his sent on'the bench; yet it was
!i: xpe ted, and a stjock to them, for the
1 '( news they hid ffom him was to the
! t that he was improving and getting
ui'-i'i; quite well. f
The liar and audience quarters of the
( uit -.v ore rilled when the justices filed
i:.t th ir places and the court opened.
hi of Justice Fuller announced Justice
l.i!tiar"s d-.ath in a few words, saving:
(' ngiin becomes rriy melancholy "duty
f . irinouncethe death of a member of
this court Justice liamar died at Macon,
; i , Tuesday evening at 8:5 ) o'clock.
N' Lu-iutsi will tje transacted. The
art will adjourn until Monday next."
j The court crier at j once declared the
r in t aijuu ned ijhe justices, with a
!i v exceptions, attended the funeral of
.Ju-tice La am. I
Interfering With Uncle Sam.
Charleston, S. C. In the United
States Court Judge JSimonton, on motion
of Joseph H; GanahT, counsel for H.. M.
Comer, receiver of $he Central Railroad
f i Georgh, issued !an order requiring
Sheriff Nance, of Abbeville county, to
th-jw cause why he should not be com
mitted for contempt; and also an order
forbidding him from interfering with the
property of the Porj Rojal and Western
Carolina Railroad, which is leased and
operated by the Georgia Central, or ar
resting or interfering with its conductors
or trainmen. T
The suit grows dut of the arrest at
Greenwood on Saturday last, by Sheriff
Nance, of two trains of the Port Royal
r- ii 1 for taxes due j State and county.
The trains escaped from the sheriff, who
threatened to airestj the first train that
parcel GreenAvood again.
X tice of the ordjr of court was tele
graphed to Nance.
SO. CAROLINA' rUlLROAD SUITS.
Ihey are Dismissed in the TJ. H.
Supreme Court for Want of
Jurisdiction.
Washington, - Ej. C The United
S ates Supreme Couj-t has dismissed for
w;tit of jurisdiction with direction to
th United Statei Circuit Court for the
i strict of South '"afolina to do likewise
1 . 1 . J 1 Tk-T J 1 a. T.-.i1
- fiiiH orount nv t
he Northeastern Rail
way C.-mpanv ant
Central Railway Com
panv, airaiuit Wal
er et als, to enjoin
from the collection
on railroads by the
thf -j co.iuty officers
o! t!;e tax imposed
Stale. '- -
The taxes were .State, county ano
C.y. tax s Th Tillmin board of
f'l'iilia'ion assessbd railroad property
and it is claimed that this i3 unconstitu
tional. The questi&n at issue has stirred
up the railroad companies of the State,
a-;d has b:e i made j a political isue ai
we'l iat At tn the two wings of the .South
( a!uii'a Democracy.
It is held that jurisdiction cannot be
made to attach by combining various
f t-nis of tax in a mimber of counties,
an 1 th.i; swelling tpe 'total amount in
volved to above $3.j)00, the amount nec
e u v to take the dasa into the Federal
(' mt. The meritsjof the cise were not
no into. The opinion was g'.ven by
J'ltic e Brown. , i'
THE SOUTHERN FAST MAIL.
i
Th? Item Restore and the R. & I.
to Carry! the Mail.
Washington, d C The ppstoffice
oommittee reconsidered its decision at
the last me ting anil added $196,684.22
fr special fastlnai facilities, but chang
f d the route so as to run from Springfield,
"Massachusetts, via . Washington and
Atlar.ti to New Orljeass, instead of by
th? c ast Line to . iTarapa, Florida, as
h-i-. tofoiv. It is sate,d that the Coast
Lias did not rsk ai extension of the fa
f lit.ts. The transfer of the fast mail ad
vantages to AtlanJa and Charlotte is
'arcely dtie to Col.jA. B. Andrews,of the
r odmbat Air Linej
Senator Senna Died Poor.
Washington, D. C. It has just be
force evident that the late Senator Kenna.
l West Virginia, died a very poor
ttw. He left his widow in almost des
titute circumstanced, his long illness
nd its attendant Expenses having con--fumed
what little money he had .saved
f'oin his salary.- - la order to provide for
tte w idow and her large family the West
Virginia delfgatic;n in Congress met and
united in a strongjplea to President-elect
Heveland,-asking jhim to appoint Mfs.
K?cna pos mistresk at Charleston, W.
v , as soon as jhe enters the White
House Th salary of the office is about
As Senator Kenna was one of the very
few Cleveland met in the United States
Senate it is thought probable that Mr.
Cleveland will make the aunointment.
WI VIVJ. vf
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THE N. C LEGISLATURE.
What They are Doing In the General
Assembly.
Bills Upon Bills All Intended for th
Good of North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C 16th day. Senate.
The bill to encourage the killing of
panthers, wildcats, etc., in the counties
of Buncombe, Yancey and Mitchell
passed its third reading. The bill rela
tive to the drainage of the lowlands in
Rowan and Davidson passed its third
reading. The bill to give justices of the
paace jurisdiction in cases of cruelty to
animah passed its second reading. The
bill to prevent bodies of men, known as
detectives, from "going armed in this
State, after considerable discussion,
passed it3 third reading.
House. Bills were introduced: To
reduce tax on marriage licenses to $1 ; to
require we ter furnished through water
works, for drinking purposes, to be fil
tered ; to prohibit the sale of liquor in
Lincoln county ; to prohibit justices of
the peace from holding office more than
two terms; to make 6 per cent, the legal
rate of interest; to make the defilement
of a church a misdemeanor ; to amend
the constitution by abolishing the home
stead. The bill to exempt Vance, Robe
son and Anson counties from the opera
tions of the opossum law was taken up
and passed. The bill repealing the act
allowing surveyors' fees for laying off a
homestead passed.
Raleigh, N. C 17th day. Bills
were introduced in the Senate: To re
peal an act prohibiting the sale of liquor
in Gaston county; to establish State
banks of issue. The bill in lelation to
the running of daily trains on railroads,
passed its thiid reading, with a slight
amendment. The bill to pay solicitors
an annual salary was tabled.
In the House: The bill to allow the
people of Buncombe to vote for a judge
and solicitor of the Criminal Court was
defeated. Monroe's chatter was amend
ed. The bill to create an additional
cause of divorce came up and with an
unfavorable- repott. It was promptly
tabled. The Buncombe county road act,
based on the Mecklenbuigact, passed its
readings. Mr. Vance's bill to forbid
the shooting of live pigeons from traps
came up with an unfavorable report
and was killed. The bill to repeal
the law as to the sa'e of seed cotton
in Mecklenburg was unanimously passed.
The bill to create degrees of murder
was taken up with a favorable report. It
provides for two degrees. It provides:
Sec. 1. All murder which shall be perpe
trated by means of j olson, lying in wait,
imprisonment, starving, torture, or by
any other kind of willful, delibeiate and
premeditated killing, or which shall be
committed ia the perpetration or at
tempt to perpetrate any arson, rape,
robbery, burglary or other felony, shall
be deemed to be murder in the first de
gree ind shall be punished with death.
Sec. 2. ' All other kinds of murders shall
be deemed murder in the second degree
and shall be punished with imprisonment
not less than four months in the county
jail nor more than three years in the
penitentiary. Sec. 3. Nothing in this act
shall be construed to require any altera
tion or modification of the existing from
of indictment for murder, but the jury
shall determine whether the crime is
murder in the first or second degree, and
if the prisoner confesses his guilt the
court shall ascertain the crime by the ver
dict of a jury, upon examination of the
testimony, and render judgment accord
ingly. Sec. 4. This act shall not apply
to any crime committed prior to its rati
fication. The bill was then set for
Thursday at noon. It is of great im
portance and will pass.
Raleigh, N. C 18th day. A peti
tion was introduced in the Senate that
county commissioners shall not issue oi
recommend liquor license unless by a
vote of the majority of the people. Bills
were introduced to establish a Reforma
tory School ; to incorporate the Durham
& Charlotte Railroad Company. The
bill to amend the election law was tabled.
In the House bills were introduced to
change the dividing line between Lin
coln and Cleveland counties; to submit
t3 the people of Stokes county the ques
tion of the sal, of liquor; to require that
in cases of assignment?, a sworn state
ment of the cash value of property be
filed with the clerk of the court, and also
a sworn statement that the amounts as
stated in ths preferences are justly al
lowed. There was a bill to incorporate
the town of Kelford, in Bertie, which
caused a good deal of merriment. On
motion of the member from Bertie it was
tabled. Then a bill to incorporate Rox
abel in that county came up and the
member found that it was the Kelford
bill he wanted to pass, so it was taken
from the table and the Roxabel bill took
iti place there. The town cf Inander,
in Buncombe county,, was granted a
charter, but the commissioners of the
c. unty weie forbidden to give it author
ity tissue liqu r licenses. The charter
ofthst .waof Waxhaw. in Union county,
granted in 1889, was repealed. The bill
to amend the charter of the Raleigh &
Western Railway came up as a special
o;dtr. Mr. Adams asked its recommit
tal to the committee on internal improve
ments, in order tbat certain gentlemen
interested in the bill could be heard.
Another special order was then taken up,
this being the bill to create two degrees
of murder! This passed its second and
tMrd reading. The bill to require pub
lic officials of the counties to be in all
ca"s responsible for funds lost when de
posited in bank-, and repealing the act
wh'ch rel'eved them from responsibility
in case of the failure of a bank in which
such funds are deposited, passed its sec
ond and third readings. The bill to al
low minufacturers to sell liquor made on
prem ses by the quart failed to pass The
bill to restore the right to give and re
ceive railway pa was taken up with
an adverse report. An effort to table it
faded end it was recommitted. It is
said most of the Senators and members
of the House favor it.
Raleigh, N. y-19th day. In the
Senate several petitions were presented
aeamst the sale of liquor in certain lo
calities Among the bills reported from
SimUteetwatthe bill to abolish he
bureau of labor statistics, upon which
the committee reported fworablj . The
following bills and resolutions .were U-
DUNN,
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troduced: To cover the sale of contin
gent interest on real estate; to establish
a Criminal Court in the thirteenth judi
cial district ; to prevent the desecration
of the Sabbath by the running of rail
road trains; to punish the sale of deadly
weapons to minors. The bill .allowing
the county of Rutherford to levy a tax
for jail purposes passed its third reading.
The bill for the relief of money borrow
ers was taken up. Amendments to ex
clude the couotiej of New Hanover,
Buncombe and Brunswick were offered.
Thev were rejected. An amendment
that the bill shall not apply to subsist
ing contracts, was adopted. The substi
tute of the Senator from Guilford, with
the amendment regarding contracts at
tached, on a call of the ayes and nays,
passed second reading: ayes 25, nays 25,
the Lieutenant Governor casting the vote
in the affirmative. Adjourned.
In the House principal bills idtredced
were as follows: To amend The Code
in regard to dower under execution sales,
providing that the widow shall be en
titled to dower on lands sold under exe
cution; to require the listing of dogs as
property; to provide for the education
of teachers, by providing in each of the
nine distiicts of the State a normal de
partment in connection .with a' high
school; to allow Stokes county to vote on
the question of county government; to
amend the State guard act so that the
annual appropriation for encampments
shall be onlj 2,500, and providing that
only one-half the companies shall go into
camp annually; to enceurage the raising
of improved horses and other stock: At
noon the House took up the special or
der, the contested election case of W.
W. Long Demociat, against J. H.
Wright, colored, Republican, from War
ren county.
Raleigh, N. C 20th day. The onbj
matter of-impoitance occuring in the
Senate was the discussion of the "dog
law" for the promation of sheep hus
bandry. The bill failed to pass its sec
ond reading ayes 20, noes 27. At 1 :3C
the Senate went into executive sessicn.
R W. WhartoD, of Beaufort county.was
c .nfirmed as a trustee of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College.
Few bills were introduced in the
House, those of public importance being
as follows: to forbid the employment
of operatives in cotton and woolen mills
between the house of 10 p. m. and 6 a.
m., er for over 11 hours any day, un
der penalty of $10 to $50 fine and
5 to 30 days' imprisonment; to in
crease the annual appropriut on for
the colored orphan asylum at Oxford
from $1,000 to $2,000; to change the
name of Fannie Heath to Kate Williams
Shackelford ; to provide for the improve
ment of the public roads of the State by
the use of convict labor; dividing the
State into nine districts, an equal num
ber of convicts (serving terms of under
10 years) to be assigned to each district,
a superintendent of convicts for each
district to be appointed by the peniten
tiary authorities; work to be done in
proportion to the State tax paid by each
county; county commissioners to have
power to des goate the roads to be work-
ed; a tax upn property to De also levied
for the purpose of aiding: in the said im
provements. To allow 25 cents to be paid
by the counties for hak scales; to
amend the charter of BausDury by mate
inc the liauor license tax $500 a year
A resolution wa3 introduced ra sing a
joint special committee of two Senators
and three Representatives to investigate
the matter of Noith Carolina's participat
ing in the monument at Richmond, Va.,
tothe memory of the C-nfederate sol
diers and sailers.
Raleigh, N. C 21et day. Senate.
A bill to establish a State motto was in
troduced. The bill for the lelief of
money-borrowers (the interest bill) came
up on its third reading and passed by a
vote of 24 to 20. It gives 6 per cent,
conditionally. The Senate passed a res
olution of lespect for Mr. Blaine.
House : The committee on judiciary,
to which was referred the bill to restore
to railroads the right to issue free
passes, made a unanimous report against
the bill. Bills introduced were: To
lirnvide a system for working and keep
ing in I repairs the public roads. This
was ordered printed, it proviaes mai
for every f 60 raised Dy a county Dy tax
ation for road purposes the State shall
furnish an able bodied convict and pay
one-half the expenses of workiDg said
convict. It Drovides that a county shall
not have less'than 20 convicts, as it does
not pay to work a . smaller 6quaa. it
further" nrovides that several counties
may, if they desire, join in raising this
tax and in working the roaas, ana aiso
in purchasing machinery; to provide for
a display of North Carolina's resources
at the World's Fair and to mate an ap
propriation thervfor;to amend The Code
regarding divorce, by making three
TPr,' absence constitute a cause; to in
corporate the Carolina Real Estate and
Improvement uompany ana toe urns oi
Nnrth Carolina, both of Lumbarton.
There are wild animals of a dangerous
rhAi-Hrtcr in the" western counties; a bill
passed allowing a bounty of $5 for the
calp3 of panthers, wolves, etc., in four
counties. After pas; ins resolutions 61
re pect for Mr. Blaine the House ad
journed. The Newspaper "Ad." Does the Bus
iness.
From the Lewiston Evening Journal.
A neat illustration of the value of sa
gacious advertising was given at the Port
land Young Men's Christian Association
meeting Sunday, when General Secretarj
McDonald stated that he held some cur
iositv to know what method of advertising
reached the most people. He had cir
culated thousands of little dodgers, giv
ing notice of the meeting, and he asked
those who had seen them, and had been
moved to come through that means, to
rise. The hall was packed as full as it
could hold, and of the entire number
about fifteen arose. Then Mr. McDonald
asked all who had read the notices in the
newspapers, and had been influenced by
them, to rise, and the crowa rose in
body. :
Cleveland Bides the Goat.
New Yobk. President-elect Cleveland
was initiated into the Sigma Chi college
fraternity. A badge of the fraternity
was presented to him. It was accepted
and worn by the President-elect with an
interest worthy of the enthusiasm of, an
undergraduate.
HART CO., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1893.
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HE DIED PEACEFULLY..!
Blaine's Long Sickness Is Ended "at
Last.
And He Has Passed Over That
Biver of Death.
Darit
Washington, D. C. James G. Blainei
died at 11 o'clock Friday morning. He
passed a restless 'night and in the morh-f
ing was very weak. Shortly before . 8
o'clock a change for the worse occuredjf
and both physicians were hastily sum-U
moned and rem ined at his bedside until
he died. ;
JAMES G. BLALYE. i
His death was quiet and peaceful anfi;
he retainei his'consciousness until a fej;
minutes before death.
His whole family, Miss Dodge and the
trained nurses -were at hi3 bedside. j
Dr. Hyatt said that Mr. Blaine's deatlji
was due to sheer exhaustion. He wasj
unwilling to make any statemeat regard;-!
ing the exact disease of Mr. Blaine unt,i
he had received the consent of the familj.f
The news of Mr. Blaine's death spread'
like wild-fire. Crowds gathered on. th6
corners and visitors flocked to the housHj
Dr. Hamlin, who wa9 passing tfe
house at the time the announcement f
death was made, at once entered and rif
maired with th? family some time. jj
Word was sent to the President immf--diately
after hif death. At 11:25 Priffl-,
dent Hariison, accompanied by Private
Secretary Hal ford and Lieut.. ;Parkftrj'
walked over to the Blaine mansijn. Tfte
President showed marked sjgns of grjeli
Postmaster General Wanamaker followed
the President. : - t I
To a reporterDr. Johnston said : !
wa3 called Friday msrning to the Blarfie.
residence about-v9:30 o'clock' and fouid
Mr. Blaine in aT very exhausted! condif
tion. He had grown weaker during te
early morning hours; and about 8:0.
o'clock the nurse observed that his breath
ing was more difficult and his pulse more
feeble than it t id been. Dr. Hyatt wjis
also sent for and arrived there about0
o'clock After my arrival . Mr.! Blaise
continued to grow weaker very rapidly,
his pulse becoming more feeble. Jlfc
died at 11 o'clock. He was perfectly
conscious up to; within a few moments
of his death, arid recognized all those
aroundjiini. He died without suffering.
The President had been warned of Mr.
Blaine's approaching end, through prcss
bulletins which informed him that &t.
Blaine could not live through the df-jf.
A few minutes ?ater he received the i'n
nouncemeut of :his death. The cabiit
was immediately notified. Secretary
Foster, of the State Department," was at
home prepaiiug to leave town when (he
was notified by telephone of the ex-Secretary's
death. He postponed his tip
and ordered the State Department tojbss
c osed. ', t i V
The President issued a proclamation
announcing the death of Mr. Blaine ajad
oirecting that on the day of the funeral
all the executive departments at WaSh
ineton should he closed: that on all 'the
public buildings throughout the United
States the national flag be displayed,! at
half mast, and that for thirty days Jlhe
Department of State be draped in mourn
ing. ; j-i
The funeral took place . Monday fcjfje
noon at Washington, where the dciad
statesman was interred, temporarily, 4tMs
said. The attendance upon the servjjees
included all the omcials of the Govern
ment and everybody ot note in the cipi-
tal The crowcts were overwneiming
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A PALACE BURNED.
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The $700,000, Casino at St. Augus
tin Destroyed.
Jacksonville, Fla. A special from
St. Augustine says : A fire, which start
ei at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, " in
the Casino building, axjoining the Hctel
Alcazar, raged tstiibbornly for about 75ve
hours, but was confined to that structure,
which was badly gut ed. The loss vHll
probably reach $103,000. j j
The fire was caused by a servant prill
ing down a pas fixture while attempting
to lig it it. lne names spead rapidly
around the northwest and south part bf
the top floor and soon communicatee! o
the ball room on the second floor. There
they were kept in check by the opening
in the wall which leads to the Turkish
b.ths. : I- i!?
The principal damage by fire is tothe
ball room, sleeping apartments and wall
room roof, but. the whole structure?', is
deluged with water, and it will take two
months to repair damages. I "f'j
Ths sruest3 in the Hotel Alcazar f 'ad
joining were. aroused but there wi"j j
T-ori fur ttior 5w that thp firn rnri
l""-" , -- .r
not penetrate the massive concrete wUs,
so they returned again to the; building,
and breakfast was served as usual to 2 )0.
gutsts.
While the fire was raging at ita wclrst,
about 4 o'clock, assistance was asked
from Jacksonville, and Chief Hansy cijrme
over on a special train with a steam ;6re
ensine. four men and 1,000 feet of his
but the fire wai under control when? he
reached here I
The Casino was built in 1897 by H..W.
Fhgler, at a cost of $700.000. ;
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Alliance Men Oppose State Bazka.
Waco, Tex. The district Fa'rcjers
Allisnce of the Seventh Congressipna
district adopted resolutions opposingHhe
State Bank bit! now before the Legislature
and urging Senators and Representatives
o vote against its passage as a measure
utterly inimical to the interests of f the
farmers. . I . l'
DIXIE NEWS.
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The Beloved South Gleaned
Epitomized.
and
All the News and Occurences Printed
Here in Condensed Form.
The taking of testimony in Tom Wat
son's contest of the congressional elec
tion in the tenth Georgia district began
in Augusta Wednesday.
A new Loan & Savings bank is to be
established at Charlotte, N. C.
The citizens of Hampton, Va., are
very much excited by the discovery of a
Lplot to burn the town .
It is reported from Russell county.
Va., that a child froze to death in hi3
mother's arm's during the cold snap.
The Carolina Mfg. Co., of Barnwell,
S. C, has been incorporated to manufac
ture textile fabrics ;capital stock $100,000.
Gov. Cam of N. C , has appointed
Oliver P. Mears judge of the Criminal
Court for New Hanover and Mecklen
burg counties.
The friends of Colonel O Ferral', Con
gressman from the seventh Virginia dis
trict, are pushing his gubernatorial can
didacy, and an organization has been ef
fected for the purpose.
W. L. Campbell, city treasurer of
Charleston, S. C, for 22 years, died at
his residence in Summerville, S. C.,aged
62 years. He served through the late
war as captain in the Confederate army
and was oue of the most popular and
highly esteemed office s .
Anew railroad compiny has been
chartered by the North Carolina Legis
lature to build a railroad from Durham
to Charlotte.
J.' M. Hyams, the fellow who faked
he story of the Bakefsville, N. C,. lynch
ing riot, has fled from Johnson City,
Tenn., leaving an unpaid board bill.
Nancy Garrison, a negress living at
Holly Springs, Miss , has the longest hair
robably of any woman in the world,
he is about sixty years old. Her hair
she wears in three plaits. The side plaits
just touch the floor, while the plait be
hind drags two iett nine inch'.s on the
floor and measures eight feet in length.
It is a tilver sable in color, and she wears
it coiled up on her head.
Edward Gibson, son of a farmer living
near Cascade, Pittsylvania county, re
ceived a slight wound in the knee several
days ago with an axe. The wound was
not regarded as at all dangerous, but the
boy sojn developed a genuine case of
lockjaw and died from its effects.
In the matter of new cotton mills
erected in 1892 Massachusetts leads with
nineteen, while North Carolina is second
on the list with sixte"en. South Carolina
follows with eleven. This is more than
half, there being only seventy-three miles
erected in the whole Union.
Sam Milling, colored, was arraigned
Saturday! morning before 'Squire Max
well, of Charlotte, N. C, charged with
bigamy. Sam, it seems, has a wife in
Wiunsboro.S. C., one in Georgia' and two
or three more scattered around down
South. He was brought to time by Ma
mie White.
A lot of revenue officials from Greens
boro went up to Wilkes county last week
and made one of the biergests hauls for
two days work evtr recorded in the an
nals of raiding, at leistin thi3 part of the
country. Thirteen distilleriesjin full blast
were captured, with eight copper stills
and 13,000 gallons of beer, but if they
causht any of the men engaged in the
nefarious business we have yet to hear
of it.
A bill has been introduced in the Ala
bama legislature requiring railroad offi
cials to instruct conductors ou trains of
their resDective roads to report all casual
ties or accidents immediately after h&p-
pening to the nearest telegraph operator.
The operator is to at once telegraph the
particulars to the nearest newspaper pub
lication. A penalty is attached for fail
ure to comply with this law.
J. H. Freeman, of Americus, Ga. , has
purchased a 50-acre tract of . land near
that city, and is stocking it with poul
try and planting fruit trees. It is his in
tention to raise fine fruits and poultry
and to give some at'ention to the dairy
business. Already he has several hun
dred chickens and eight well bred Jersey
cows. Nearly 5,000 fruit trees, peach,
plum, app'e and pear, 400 grape vines
and 12,000 itrawberry plants, besides
numerous vegetables, have been planted
this month.
Not in Love w ith Dakota.
Washington Post 1
Repiesentativc Catchings, of Missis
sippi, f aid the other daj : "I used to be
interertcd in a Dakota wheat farm. It
is a creat country in the spiiug and
summer. The days are so long that I
have shot prairie chickens at 9 p m. It
is easy to sit in the front yard and read
a newspaper at 8:30 in th; eveuing It
is bright daylight t 3 a. m But in the
winter it is tei r.nc l he horses were
kept from freezing in the stabl- s only by
banking manure half way up the side of
the l.uildiog. They get ral ft in there.
The hostler Jived a hundred yards away
There was a stout rope stretched "from
his house to the stable door. He could
never else have found his way in the
blinding storm. That country is so far
north that the mers all run that way,
owing, maybe, to the curve of the earth.
The land of the neecy cotton, the sugar
cane that is nearly black in its richness,
the glowing sunsets, the soft winds, and
the scent of the magnolia blossom upon
the air for me. No more Dakota.
A Turkish Girl for Saie in Indiana
From the Indianapolis Journal.
TinoN. Ind A eaug of Turks, twen
ty-three in number, are camping in the
centre of a large wooas ner js.empi.on,
in the western part of thU county. Their
outfit consists of several horses, dogs
one monkey, and five beats They chi fly
live by begging from the m lghbors.
Among them is a g:rl, 17 years old. whom
thej are offering to sen. l n price asked
is $250. "
Destructive Fire at Winston.
Wisstox, N. C. Another destructive
fir occured here. The Tise block, in
which was the Snetd Furniture Company,
and in which teveral other firms were
tloiner business, was destroyed. The loss
is estimated at $100,000.
VIRGINIA VS. TENNESSEE.
A Big Legal Battle Between the Two
Precipitated..
Suit for One Thousand Square Miles
Instituted bd Mr. Kufus A. Ay era
A Humorous Side.
Bristol, Tenji. (Special.) Virginia
and Tennessee are preparing- to fi ht a
great battle which has been brewing for
years.
A few months ago Hon. Rufus A.
Ayers filed a bill in the Supreme Court
of the United St i tea to extend the south
ern boundary of Virginia eight miles into
Tennessee. A subpoena was issued for
the Attorney-General and Governor of
Tennessee to appear and answer, which
they did. The casa will some up in the
Supreme Court in February or March and
will attract national attention.
The territory in dispute amounts to
about 1,000 square miles, being ab ut 8
miles deep and 150 miles in length. If
Virgiuia should win this suifshewiu get
one-half of six counties, including the
towns of Bristol and Cumberland Gap,
the big Louisville and Nashville railroad
tunnel at Cumberland Gap, several miles
of the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and
Louisville railroad, and part of the great
East Tennesse, Virginia and Gtorgia
road. The couutry involved is rich in
mineral, timber and coal.
On the temtory in dispute it is esti
mated that there are about 40,000 inhabi
tants. If taken from Tenne s.e it would
not seriously affect that State politically,
but would give the Democrats a bigger
majority, as the voteis in this territory
are largely Republican.
By giving up the disputed territory the
entire northern boundary, from White
Top Mountain to the Cumberland river,
would be a straight line.
The present litigation is something over
three years old, and staited in Bristol,
when the Bristol, Tenn., Water Works
Company started to lay pipe on the east
side of Main street. The Bristol, Va.,
Water works Company enjoined them in
the chancery court, and thii suit has gone
the gamut of all the, courts to the court
of last resort.
Years ago the people of Bris'ol agree I
on the centre of Main street as the State
line for the sake of convenience In the
water works suit Virginia claimed that all
of Bristol was on her side of the line,
while Tennessee claimed that the State
line was really the east.rn line of Main
street. This is the point they expect to
establish :n the United States Supreme
Court.
The records in the case would fill sev
eral bound volumes of ordinary size, an i
include hundred of depositions tiken at
Bristol and along the line all the wiy to
Cumberland Gjp, copies of surveys made
at different tinus, and reports of the sev
eral commission appointed . to establish
the dispu ed boundary at different times.
The records contain much valuable his
torical matter which has never appeared
in print.
Going back to the beginning, there
was a controversy between Virginia and
North Carolina regarding the line be
tween Virginia and the temtory belong
ing to North Carolina now embraced in
the State of Tennessee. In 1783 a com
mission was appointed to establish the
boundary, starting on the Atlantic coast.
When they reached White Top Mountiin
that bold sentinel of the Alleghanies
which can be seen a hundred miles in
any direction, upon whose summit the
three States of Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee corner, they disjgreed as
to the line westward. Two lines were
run from the White Top to Cumberland
Gap, only three miles apart. One survey,
conducted by the Virginia commissioners,
was callea the Worth survey. The' North
Carolina su:vey was known as Hender
son's, and was made by General Hender
son, who at one time had a harter for
nearly all the territory now included in
the State of Kentucky, and in whose
honor the city of Henderson was named.
Neither survey was ever adopttd, and the
strip of disputed territory soon became
kno-vn as t-No Man's Lnd, ' and was
the rendezvous of thieves, murderer.Jind
criminals of every description. These
outlaws came from both side3 of the strip,
and when a mau committed a crime
within reasonable distance he made a
i .i .i
DieaK in mat direction, wnere ne was
positively, secure from officers of either
State.
lhe co .airion ot aiiairs was the cause
of 'a bit' cr controversy between William
B'ount, first Governor of Tennessee, and
the Governor of Virginia. They "fit
and b!" a? the saying goes, over the
matter from the time Tennessee became a
State in l'i96 until 1802, when they finally
agreed to pp.'int commissioners from
each State to settle the bouadary. These
commissioners agreed on a compromise
equwijstant between the Worth and
Henderson lines, which has ever since
been recognized by both States The
people 6n either side work their roads
and pay taxes up to this line. - It is sup
posed to be a straight line, but it i3 not.
The law required the engineers to run
absolutely due west from the1 White Top
to the Cumberland mountains, but owing
to the dtni y of the forests and to other
natural obstacles there are several oflse's
the most valuable of which ii in Denton's
valley in Hancock county.and in Powell's
valley, near Cumberland Gap.
Th.re was no trouble about the line
any more until along in the '50's, when
the country had bed me mo e thickly set
tled. Confusion then arose as to the
proper location of the boundary, because
of the dc6tructioa by fire and otherwise
of marked trees
In 1858 both States agreed on a joint
commission, with power to appoint engi
neers to run out and remark the compio-
mise line of 1803. Thi Virginia commis
sioners were Leonidas Baugh and James
Black, of Abingdon, and Tennessee was
represented by General Milligan, of
Greenville, and Colonel George R. Mc
Clelland, of Sullivan county. A careful
survey was made and exhaustive rep rt?
of the same submitted to the respective:
Governors. The commissioners reported
that they bad found no difficulty with
the o'd line, and that it was cor.ect ac
cording to the compromise.
Governor Wise, of Virginii, recom
mended t' e rejection of the report, which
the Legislature proceeded to do. His
objection was I aed on the fact that the
engineers commenced their survey at the
basj of White Top Mountain, instead of
going to the top. Tennessee never acted
NO. 50
on the report, and so matters existed un
til the suits were instituted at Bristol
three years 8 go.. .
If the Commonwealth of Virginia gains
this famous suit much that is novel and
makes romances for Bristo.1 will be knock
ed out. The magnificent new court-house
and city hall will be useless, and the
beautiful new school building will have
to be converted into a church . The mu
nicipal officers will be forced back tr
their former professions. Father Bur
roughs, who'has married more than three
hundred runaway couples from Virginia
in the past two years, will bava to move .
to some small village near the line and
that is not the worst of it. Thvse three
hundred couples he has married will be
unmarried, as the ceremony was per
formed in Virginia.
A very old lady who has resided on th
Tennessee side all her life was grieving
over the danger of Bristol going into
Virginia. "I wouldn't mind it is much,"
she said, "if it wasn't that the Virginia
climate is so much more severe thau the
Tennessee climate. Then, ! would hav
to give up my good limestone water."
Every one knows that when a mar
commits a crime in Tennessee he can run
rver into Virginia and ,avoid arrest until
a requisition is obtained from the Gov
ernor. The officers of Bristol. Tenn..
pursued a colored man for a crime he had
committed. He escaped into Virginia,
where the officers of the Commonwealth
tried to arrest him for a robbery on their
side. He ran back towards Tennessee,
but about the time he reached Main strec
thi thought struck him that he wai
wanted on that side." He stopped in the
middle of Main' street, put one foot "in
Virginia and one in Tenness:e, white ox
each 6ide stood two or three policemen.
He defied arrest, and they left him stand
ing there. .
THE SPLIT IN THE ALLIANCE.
Tillman of Tennessee Issues a Mani
festo A New Organization to be
Formed on a Strictly Non
partisan Basis.
Memphis, Tenn. The next issue oi
the Nati nal Economist will contain a
manifesto from a faction of the Farm
ers' Alliance appealing to members, in
the order to repudiate the acts of the late
Memphis convention, by forming a new
orgmization on a strictly non-partisan
basis The manifesto is signed by J F.
Tillman, of Tennessee, who, along with
his office, was "abolished," -as far as the
Alliance is concerned, at the Memphis
convention. Mr. Tillman denouuce3 the
men who now control the Alliance, and
reviews the origin and growth of' the or
der,' pointing out its original purposes,
which he declares were in accord with
the principles of the Democratic party
and which he, as a life long Democrat,
undertook to carry out and impress upon
its membeis. ,
Referring to'and defining the aciion of
the late national campaign, in which he
is charged with treason to the Alliance
by sending out,; under his official signa
ture, numerous documents appealing to
the Alliance t3 be tru? to the Democratic
teachings upon which it was founded, he
says: "I conceived it a duty devolving
upon me, both as gen ral manager and
director of the lecture bureau of the Al
liance, and as an humble member of the
Democratic paity to contiibute to the
success'of a cause common to the inter
ests of both. Thit the literature sent
out under my s'gnature aided the Demo
cratic party and contributed alike to the
defeat of the Republican and Third par
ties, I have no doubt, and freely admit
in fact, such were my desires, because
the Third p'rty in my State aud other
Southern States was a lying with the Re
publicans in its efforts to defeat Demo
craeic principlcj."
A call will b3 issued in a few days for
a convention of the seceding faction,
which will meet in Memphis or Atlant
some time during Apt il. .
A Great Divine Passes Away.
Boston, Mats. Bishop Phillip? Brooks
died at 6 30 Monday morning of heart
failure, brought on by a a fic of cugh
icg. His death was entirely unexpected.
'FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
27th DaT.-Mr. Woloott mad a speech
attacking the new Columbian postage
stamps r-The Antl-Optioa bill wai after
ward taken up andl dltcuwsi for ao hour.
28th Dat. Th Senate took up the Anti
Option bill, and Mr. George continued his
argument in favor of 'his substitute. Hs
was followed by Messrs. Washburn and
Chandler. At the close of Mr. Chandler's
speech the bill went over without action
The Cherokee Outlet bill, which had come
over from the Mouie, was taken up for con
sideration. -
29th Dat. The Senate adjourned for th?
day as a mark of respect to the lat A -"date
J ustice Latnar.
35th IHY.--?u hur or the session was
tsffen up in routine matters, none of then
entitled to be regarded as of much public
internet A bill was Sotroduced to in
crease the nfvy by tw-mty-on ves3?t.
3ist Dat. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill
to give a pension of 50 a month to the widow
ot Elisha Kent Kvie, the Arctic explorer
Mr. Gorman IntroJucela Jriat resolu
tion authorising the Swretriej of War and
TJavv to lend ensigns, flsgp, etc.. (exespt bat
tle flags) for decoration of the World's Fair
buildings, and it was pasjel- The Anti
Option Dili was debited.
32v Day. Following roll all the death of
James G. Blaine was announced by Mr.
Frye, who also moved the adoption ot a
series of resolutions. After this was done
the Senate adjourned out of respect.
In the Hoose.
30th Da v. Mr. Cummingi withdrew ths
Fort Greene Monument bill The Senats
bill abolishing post traderships wai jyisvs 1
The Diplomatic and Consular Appro
priation bill was reported The floor was
then accorded to the Comnitte on Com
merce, and the Quarantine bill was cillel
up and discussed until adjournment.
81st Dat. TbeQaarantioe bill was passed
after a stormy, debate Ths Saadry Civil
Appropriation bill wai discussed.
32d Day. The House refussi to a;ra ti
motion to tike up the Sundry Civil bill,
the fijht against it being mide by ths
friends of ths Bankruptcy blu. Thi vote
stood: Yeas, 1C7; nays, 137 Asa marior
respect to the memory ot the late Justics
Lamar the House then adjournei.
33d Dat. Ths day was cohramed In fili
bustering against the Torry Bankruptcy
bill.
34th Dat. The Sundry Civil bill was dis
cussed The Legislative, Executive and
35th Dat. Immediately after the asssm
blage the death of James G. Blaine was an
nounced. Appropriate resolutions of re
spect were adopted and then the House adjourned.