North Carolina Newspapers

: I f . - j TOT Y g&gf - t. i'iTTfK. Prnnrietora. " ' i i ' ! ... I rnvNBAM a -' 'PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO TIIAT WHICn 13 GOOD." $1.00 Per Year In Adv4 rce. DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1895. NO. 29. I : : ! -- n i - VOL, v. 'cotton for a HUNDRED YEARS ,,KirKS AM) FLUCTUATIONS. I UK HULL.ETIN .. 'rrii iiinirai wrpuniuciiioflowi 1 A O 1 II"1" . Ihit Fri''"- nv,5 eeu uower Ih.i'i Sw and ' That! Supply K'gulates Them. "the prices of cotton for . .. h th Department of Agri ... ! in '-ourse of preparation for mm- i.ued Thursday. The 1 lx-'ins and ends with two ....riant events in the history t ;r. : t he introduction of Whit n )) and the production of . r i. the; world has ever seen, i 1 lowest average prices of t i: United States, the exports to :n the. supply and consump- :! I .states, Great Britain and :-.r--"' arc givn for each year, . !u-f causfs that; have led to f iii ia prices from year to year, it'i a M-ries of tables in which -1 i. n. '- !t.fi;ii in i ngures are presented the .' mis numerous data relating to - from time to time in the mi I consumption of eottoniu '. r. i-n countries. These are so t - present a brief historical n -.li-production and consump- I'iiite-1 States during tho past tables show that prices of !; t I .ecu so low during the past , . were .luring the decade from i. t ..f the Department has been to ule iiii a valuable work of refer !ie prodm'tion, consumjtion and !t .:i and other numerous facts if . for all who are interested :t .ii planting or in the cotton i . th" conditions of the market in the decade from 1840 to 1850, - ivs: '. . ill- largest crop ever made up to ii. I the largest aeeumulation of witnessed in Liverpool, caused t he lowest average for ten years. l e-inning of the heavy aceu f r-t...-ks in Europe during the ir. w hich led to ah extraordi- - in prices." , i:: I' ! i n . ('.'i.-tv !. :i- ' '!. -' ; .V- ! 1 t i:l -f-rrin: I;- i.n.-e ier pound in New Ynrt wa-s i:j 7-8 cents, in 1850, and the nt-, in IS42 and 1845. Shepper iiii l lling in that year as low as "I:. ntinues the bulletin, "mid- r.-.tton reached as low as 4 1-2 i N v. Orleans, and there is on file in ; :.n :.n -i,t of Agriculture a letter show i i i ir. nu'o count', Alabama, planter i- y.ir 17 hales of cotton in Mobile at ':.t-. The price currents of the day i 1 1 Mm- t.. fair cottonin New Orleans '. :i i w ;i- 3-8 cents, and in Mobile ii. - ir. ! 1-14 cents per pound." ' t to the lustrum ended with i -iiown that the highest price per hi I i i N -w York was 10 5-8 cents in 1891, t 5 9-1' cents, the present year, the Huctuation in prices shows J" it amounted to 18 cents ner I I !i A t- i i -!: 'in I -:ST to 12 1-2 cents; in 1865 to 1.21; a I-.". t ... 1. 17. ami in 18Sfi to only .86 of 4 iU the .-ti:allet on record. w.s'niN; ro iKTji'Krf. AVtil Ordcrril to Panama. Reform in ! ( 'iMisuIar Service. . ! ii c S un inav have n little sum ir - ,.n his htui.ls, if the threat ''I :r;liiti(rii Eetialot auil Co 1'--:i!-ih materializes. Under! a treat v ' -it.'i ti.- 1-ittcr country the United in s li tlie light to maintain free ' :ni;; i! ;, at ion in the Panama Rnil- e 1 1, u. ioss the isthtiins, if ; ColoinLi i ' and the New! York ofli '!. the I'annina llailroatt have ap i to tins government to protect r.i eoiH'itv. wtueli thev H'lv 14 in r "ii iu-i'omit of tlie labor t .ni l, , j,.. isthmus, regardless of ji.v the threatened invasion of Co- -I:; i.;:i t.v . ior shall ' turn out '"T' t ir v llerlieit has ordered a ves 1 -i : .: in to look out for and pro 'vt Am, tie:ui interests. j lie a,-i-iige memory is short. When 'r.ttiv Oluey made public his in e:.!i. ii to try to reform the United '''t. s consular service and to have c,'!lMi!s -Ieeted because of their fit - tor t lie position, and not their ' -' t -. - -1 1 "pull," few people remem i t!,;,t a determined effoit in that n rut ,,;, W;ls lmili0 thirty odd years v" 1 v S.crt'tary Seward, and that lV ur. . iliu ss of the politicians for rtroie,.,. t.,UIS0,j jts failure. 'Such is J.fl" 1 " l- li'wn by the records of the te ,1 paitment. Secretary Seward's J1, 1 :k to educate tbe men to be ap 1' 1 consuls in the work they were ,' Alter getting tho necessary u: r "":"!ml legislation he appointed :' 1 :. lit young men consular clerks, s:-:'!!l'-' :u-h of them to duty in the ' "t :,ti important European con- ;'-lt''- Hefore his retirement from '"i'o h t lie satisfaction of seeing v.H-ii: men full-fledged United ' t onsuls. He thought the re- ;,r!!iw..!ii,i be continued, but it wasn't. '-r' repealed the law providing r o:,- ilar training, and the politi-i!:- -aver stopped until the! last one trilinfl consuls was turned " ct oiVice to make room for a man JtUa political "pull." May Secretary ii,. v 1,. more guccessful in his at 1 1 . reform the service. ! the service. A TRAIN 1IKL.D UP. linteil 1,'nltliprc Un Thflr Wnrlt Kxpeditiously. ' js train on the Lake Shore and s .'uthern Railroad, was held up by I raeu Wednesday midnight, at a i i 'e in the woods known as Eeece I twvea Archibald and Striker, Ohio, ''ia stops there to let 'the eastern " pi-s. The latterB train was ap : when the rolteryttook place. The - " re mounted and rode out of the 'vi:i. h are dense and , close to the :i UK-tor Darlmg. who was stand ir lie of the coaches, was ordered II -iie point of a revolver. Admission ,, prv.s car wa obtained by the same 'I the messen;er was forced to ' ' -afe. The amount reported to have ' -ned ty them is said to be 3.000, 1- t-elieved that a much larger sum i . No attempt was made to molest : -rers. miuiyof whom knew nothing - arrenoe. When the thieves had ' :he contents of the safe they rod LX ::; 1 r ... i-r r- r t- .. . : .... .4' - V. :i . I,- - !':. . 1 THE GREAT TE DAYS' DEBATE Between the Author of CoIn Fi nancial School" una Ex-CongreM-man Roswell G. Horr. The Horr-narvey silver-gold debate Tues hV e?ered on it ei-th round. Mr. Harvey 2 i1 a v-dication of the importance of ne debate, which he said rested upon five historical reasons: j LFir.st' for two hundrel years prior to ine demonetization of silver in 1873, silver was seeking the mints of the world for coin age into money. Second, for two hundred years prior to 187M th betweon the commercial and the legal ratio of 13 to 1. During the 22 years since 1S73 -: however, the two ratios had bet.aratel wide- iril- 1 H irum 10 to I to about 32 to 1. Ihird, for 333 years prior to 1873 the quan tity ratio Ixtween silver and gold ranged from 56 of silver to 1 of gold to 4 of silver to 1 of gold, but notwithstanding this wide variation the commercial ratio hnd clung tenaciousiy to the le;al ratio. Fourth, the price of silver in the London market as was in gold, up to 1873. was practieaily steadv, while, since that dat, silver had declined from CO pence pi romrato 28.7 nenco per ounce. Fifth, that this violent fluctuation from the price 0r silver has tcen going on f ince its demonetization and is going on to day, j : Mr. Horr did not reply directly to his op ponent but took up Mrj Harvey's statement of yesterday tbnt but lone error had been found in his wort, saying that there were myriads of mistntements. not in express statements of f;v ts, but by faise Implication whiv;h any m ia of souv would repudiate on sight. At this point Mr. Horr created some derision at the expense of Harvey by saying that ho did not deny that hi3 opponent be lieved all he had written. As a matter of fact, it was impossible for him to tell what a man in Mr. Hurvey's state of mind might lm capaM j of believing. The statement in Coin's Financial School" that every ounce of silver produced up to the present time had cost jtho producers two dollars an outico was sputed by Mr. Horr. If the mine-owners had been producingsilver at this cost and selling it as they had been doing at from $1.20 to $1.57 aa oune thev had lost by the transaction during thn last three years some two hundred and thirty-six million of dollars. j The next poin t of attack was the statement on page 53 of Harvey's book that the people, of this country are annually paying to Eng land $200,000,000 interest on national and private bonds. Mr. Hoir denied this pro position flatly, and challenged any one to produce evidence that the indebtedness of the people of this country to all the nations of Europe involved anything like such an' amount of interest. Harvey then took his opponent to task for skipping about the boiok to And substance for his remarks instead if confining himself to the regular order of proceeding as agreed upon, and said that he would not be diverted from his original plan by such tactics. I I After a day's rest for the participants, the Horr-Harvey debate was resumed Saturday afternoon at Chicago. '"I wish to say," began Mr. Hirvey. "that I have not in the progress of this debate yet made any charge, against the integrity o; the American people, but I do not intend that those who are cor rupt in high places -hali escape criticism by throwiug around them as a cloak the integ rity of the American people."- from !i l1nn(raiAn-il !?-.. -.i-.l (Ahnt. 4K.'f ..... 1. .uf.... - vi- vvV OIHl llICb Mr. Hooper, of MassafhiLsett. ruoTd to dif- nonQft with ih rnriiHintr thu cuKcfifnf l.ill demonetizing silve-. "nerewas an attempt," said Mr. Harvey, "to legislate or the lite- oioou 01 a nation witnout reaaing tne lull. jj.r. norr ilIJ neioro u urgan nis opening statement for the day h4 wanted to protest against something Mr. j Harvey had said about him hin; dav hefor vpcterrt.iv nir Harvey had then stated that' whenever Sir. Horr did not replj to his arguments he would take it for granted he could not re ply. "I will lay down this rule for M. Har- ev s guidance, said tne irold advocate. "I don'J admit anything he savs is true unless I come riirh; ovit and sav sc. I want to sav another thing. The other day I quoted something from -Coin's IFinaueial School,' tnd Afr. Hfirvev refused to I.acL- TViir,' unin' his assertions. Now 1 submit to you, what are we going tv do in a case of this? If Mr. Harvey won't t ack up 'Coin' who will? This is an instance where the boy is father of tno man. If it had not been for young 'Coia' we would have had no Mr. Harvey. At r ITori' thiri riai-ntd Minlf r.. ft HalAneA of Mr. Hooper's action in regard to the bill OI 1873. ! Tt nntr Afr TT fi r" v4i turn nr-oln onrl he continued reading frotii the Congressional T .J . 4 U , r ikA U:i... 1' Xw ir..MJp ho, 4 cfiiH (h 1.111 rr.u.l changes in the existing coinage laws. Short ly afterward within the hour the bii! was passea witnont Demg rea.ii Air. iiarvey now w-tit lnt tiiA n ft t hictrtrir of thft Kill Sir ator Sherinao, he alleged, had made frequent citations from the record? in nroof ol his . ertionsf made repeatedly almost to accele rate action on the bill when the mattar was n rst brought up in tne benate, ana to con vince the other Senators that the bill was r :.... i. .. .. .....1 uuevi uu 11 I'Vl aou nuakdci, auo 1110 ac . not give over an hour altogether to its eon- siaeration, "ana in inese imngs, continuea . 1 . .1 i 1 me spea-er. --ne suceeeaeu. been made in the passage of the bill, either in the Senate or the Hous. and defied Mr. TT A. J t . 1 . . t. - narvey iu iruuaio uy jrooi mat lucro was anything hidden about the bill. At Monaaya session of tne tiorr-nnrvey Iwr-r'i'il lel.ate. at Chicago, there wer just 53 peisons present when Mr. Horr re opeued the discussion, for the llrst time ince the beginning ol tne aeuate reading from manuscript. During the nineteenth .... . ..... 1 1 1 , . ceuturv an tne great countries nau io'i-i a goid' standard, he assorted, but had not discirded silver. However, none of them had opened their mints to the Tree coinage of silver. Then he dipped into the history in Fiance and was still talking about it when interrupted by the bell. Mr. Harvey saw ne nau nan iimnv n-4urT5 ...i intn ti record the utterances 01 iDiralls. Blackburn and others on the subject . . . . 1. 1 : I . . . 1 n m K 01 nnance. nui o-ms i "1UUCT1 n-i"v. cf words at his disiosal he could not prom ise to do so. However, he would probably mention them in his 2,500 word summary at the end or his part 01 tne uei ie. au h.i.h. on Senator Morrill followed. -He was not very careful of the truth," said Mr. Harvey when he stated that no silver dollars had been coined for many yean prior to 1873.' Copies of the mint reports for several years previous to 1873 were here submitted, show ing that several millions of dollars in silver had been coined in those periods. Now," said the author of Coin, "if Sena tor Morrill could not tell the truth in one par ticular. I have a right to j assume that he could not tell it in any." Mr Horr warmly defended Senator Mor rill. He said: "When Senator Morrill made the assertion that there had been no silver coined for many years prior to 1873. he did ti-on liturallv He meant IIOL LUC U IU v-. " ...... j- --- that by comparison to the amount of goia coined there had been practically none coin ed and that is true. Mr. Harvey admits that he made one bad misstatement in his boot. According to his method of argument I have a right to assume that he i wrong in everything.'- I - v Mr. Harvey turned to the discussion of bi metallism, taking cp first that branch of it , relating to unlimited coinage, and went into j the history of the matter among other nations. J .. TT It makes no difference." said Mr. tlorr, what the history of unlimited coinage is. Jt is admitted on every hand that all nations havo now closed their minta to silver and that Is the main point." I Th discussion of bi-me tallism wa? coc tinued throughout the afternoon, Th Horr-Haivey debate, at Chicago, on Thursday was marked by a more than usu ally sharp encounter. Mr. Horr called his opponent's attention to a statement which he had made in his criticism upon Senator Morgan, wherein he staged that the silver dollars of 412 1-2 grains were largely coined previous the demoneti zation of silver in 1873 and after the passage of the law of 1873, making subsidiary coin age of less value than its seignorage. There fore he inferred that Senator Morgan was mistaken in stating that none of the 412 1-2 dollars had been coined from silver mined in this country. Mr. Harvey says that the old dollars of 412 1-2 grains were coined for the people of Nevada and California notwith standing that at that time the bullion was worth more uncoined than coined. Mr. Horr then denied that these dollars were coined from silver mined in this country and sent to the mint for that purpose. Congress had provided that foreign coin should be received by the government at a certain fixed value, and further that such coins should not be again put into circulation but should be re coined at the mint. The report of the direc tor of the mint showed that over five mill ions dollars in silver had thus accumulated, having been found in the gold during the process of assaying it. At this point, Harvey challenged Horr's statement, saying that ho bad not brought his authorities with him and therefore his arguments were entitled to no standing in the debate. He then handed Mr. Horr a statement of the director of the mint, which he said reported that during the year 1870, 412.4C2 silver dollars had been coined at Carson City. Mr. Harvey again called his opponent to task for not confining his remarks to the order of debate originally agreed upon, and said that he would not be diverted from this order. He then entered upon a discussion of primary and credit money, saying that an over-issue of credit money caused a drain upon the primary money for redemption purpose's. An example of :his had just been witnessed in this country in the issue of bonds by tho i resent administration for the purpose of maintaining the gold reserve. Mr. Harvey sail he had received a letter within the last few days from a large New York manufacturer, in which the writer stated that all the money tho bank sent him to pay off his men was in silver certificates. Mr. Horr took his opponent to task for making a mistake in his figures by 400,000 regarding the amount of silver dollars coined in 1870 at the Carson City mint, and asserted that the mint report, from which the silver champion had quoted, had sustained Mr. Horr's proposition. Mr. Horr added: "Up to this moment, Mr. Harvey has not said one word upon the real question in debate. He has not successfully controverted a single statement of mine. He has nowhere proven any art of bribery or the influence of money ia a single step la'ien during the progress of the b.ll through Congress. He or no one else will, because there was none.' SALISBURY'S DOUBLE HANGING Th Story of th Crimea for Whlcq They Forfeited Their Lives. The two negroes, Whit Ferrand and Ander son Brown, who were sentenced to be hang ed at the last tenn.of the Superior Court foi the murder last February of Deputy Sheriff H. C. Owen near Cleveland, N. C, were publicly executed shortly before noon on Thursday at Salisbury. An immense crowd, estimated between 5,000 and 10,000 people, witnessed the hanging. - At 11:45 Sheriff Monroe bade the prisoners good bye, and with two blows of the axe severed the rope which held the scaffold. Their necks were broken by the fall, and death ensued with scarcely a struggle. The bodies of the men were turned over to their relative. That of Ferrand will be taken to the upper part of the county, near his home, for burrial; that of Brown will be buried near Salisbury in a small plot pur chased by his relatives for that purpose. THE CHIMES. The crimes for which the men paid the death penalty to-day, were as follows: On February the 20th, Whit Ferrand shot and instantly killed Deputy Sheriff H. C. Owen, near Cleveland, this county. The crime was one of the most cold-blooded murders ever committed in Rowan county. On the pre vious night, Ferrand, who was a desperate character, and a party of negro accomplices, had been disturbing the neighborhood near Cleveland," and a still belonging to Mr. Hutchison had been broken into during the night. of which offence Ferrand and his party were charged. E. A. Barber, Esq.. issued a warrant for their arrest. Deputy Owen de putized Messrs. MacHellardand J. F. Martin to assist in the arrest, and accompanied by Mr. Barber, they started to find the negroes. Three of the negroes were arrested with out trouble and were taken back to Cleve land bv Mr. Barber. Some time during the day Mr. Pink Webb, who had joined in the pursuit, ran on Ferrand in a broom-sedge. He advanced towaros Mr. Webb as though he intended giving himself up, but when near enough jumped on him and wrenched his gun from him, and shot him in the wrist with a pistol. Ii then allowed Mr. Webb to leave, keeping his gun and pistol. Later Mr. Hellard and another officer rah upon Fer rand hiding behind a tree. He snapped his gun at them, when they fired upon him, one load taking effect in his face. Mr. Owen pome time afterwards came up and stopped ,the firing. He called to Yerrand to surren der but he refused with an oath. Finally he agreed to give up if they would not shoot at him any more. Mr. Owen then advanced on him and when in a few feet of the negro the latter raised his gun and fired, the ball entering Mr. Owen's breast at the top vest button. He clasped his taad on the wound and advanced on Ferrand but fell in the act and expired immediately. Ferrand struck at Mr. Owen with his gun as he fell and then jumped on him. At this juncture he was caught and held by the other officers. The news of the murder of Mr. Owen soon spread over the country and Ferrand was in danger of lynching. He was finally slipped through the country to Lexington where he was kept several weeks until public anger had subsided. He was tried and convicted last court and to-day paid the just penalty of his crime. On Saturday morning. March 2nd, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'eiock. Anderson Brown visited the house of Mollie Kobe-ts, his mistress, and walking into her room with a few words shot her while she was in bed. The woman was fatally shot but lingered several days before expiring. He was arrest ed for the crime and on learning the next day that she still lived he said if they would let him out long enough to complete the job he would be willing to be hung. For the murder of this woman he was tried and sentenced to be hanged to-day, forfeiting his life on the gallows. The double execution was the first one at Salisbury in sixty years. London's Juvenile Horror. Robert and Nathaniel Coembs, agvi re ipectivt-ly 13 and 11 years, who murdered their raoth?r about three weeks ago by stabbing br while she was a!eep. and lived ten days ia tho house with her de:-om posing lody. were arraignei in the Police Court at Loudon. The police authorities iiouneeJ that they would not charge the youuger brother with participation ia the critre, but would oi!l him as a witness. Nathaniel was then placed in the witness box. and told of his brother's having bought tbe dagger with which the' killing was done. He did not see his mother killed, but heard her groan, and went into the room and 1ooh1 at her while she was dying. Hi? brother admitted to him that it was he who had tilled her. The magistrate committed the eider brother. Robert, and the half-witted man. Fox, who was arrested with the boys, for trial oa tbe charge ot murder, and helj N&th.a.Tjel as a wilmess, LATEST HEWS IN BRIEF. GLEANINGS FR03I MANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. Newsy Southern Notes. Philip Norman Nicholas, the murdrer of Wilkinson and Mills, by drowning them, was hanged in the Uanrico county, Ta., court yard Thursday. James Breed en was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Mitchell, of Sevier county, near Sevierville, Tenn. Breeden was resist ing arrest and started to shoot the deputy sheriff, It was finally decided that Dallas, Tex., is to be the scene ot the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight. The match will take place in the Dallas Athletic Arena on the morning of October 31st next. Abe Small, the negro arrested at Baltimore a week ago charged with the murder in Savannah, Ga., of Policeman Neve, con fessed the crime and was taken to Savannah for trial. Neve was trying to arrest the negro when he drew a revolver, and shot the officer dead. Three of a quartet of negroes who broke jail in Fernandina. Fla., Monday were sur prised late Thursday night in the scrub of Amelia beach by posses commanded by threo sheriffs. They refused to halt and were fired upon, when they ran straight for the ocean and plunged in. No trace except a trail of blood on the beach and three hats has been found of any of them. In Louisiana it is proposed to insert a clause in the new Constitution which will disfranchise the majority of the negroes of the State by requiring that all voters must pay taxes upon at least two hundred dollars. As a majority of the coiored citizens in Lou isiana do not pay taxes it is evident that they would not have much to say in the govern ment of tho State if such an amendmcn; should prevail. Weekly Cotton Statistics. Total sales of the week 54,000, American 51,000; trade takings, including forwarded from shipside 52,000; actual export 8,000; total import 24,000, Americon 11,000; total stock 1.445,000, American 1,131,000: total afloat 47,000, American 31.000; speculators took 400, exporters took 1,400. Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities. The Y. M. C. A. building at Washington, D. C, was burned on Wednesday, together with all its contents. Loss $25,000. Dynamite instantly killed three men and seriously injured a fourth on the drainage canal Chicago on Tuesday. The accident was caused by a premature explosion during the process of tamping. The dead are: Wm. Kelly, of Marquette, Mich, Thos. Soaker, of Chicago. Joseph Smith, resi dence unknown. The injured is Matthew Healy, thirty years old, severe scalp wounds. 4 The Silver Movement. ' At Tor tl and, Oregon, twenty replies have been received from the chairmen of county Democratic committees in -the.. State by the tiWirotf,r r 'f W vtv --ntr I l-vimuln., -., reply to the circular letter asking their views as to the policy of calling a State convention to pass upon the silver question. Most of the replies are ambiguous aud not fully ex pressive of tho desired opinion. The chair man of Multonomah County, the largest in Oregon, is opposed to the convention pro posed. Foreign. The race for tho Machell plate at Gat Wick, London, was won by the American horse Banquet. The Saltan has granted amnesty to the Armenian political prisoners unless they are aiso charged with common law offences. At Toronto, Ont., tho coroner's jury on Thursday rendered a verdict of murder against Holmes, who is charged with the killing of the Tietzcl girls. With all the constituencies save two heard from .at London, the new House will consist of 333 Conservatives, 70 Liberal Unionists. 164 Liberais, 65 anti-rarnellites and 12 Tar nellites. Labor. The Buffalo, N. Y., Furnace Company has increased 1 he wages of its 500 employes 20 per cent. The works are running night and day. The Glastobury Knitting Company, at Manchester Green, Conn., has notified its employes that, beginning Aug. 5, the 10 per cent, reduction in wages, made in 1894, will be restored. Crime. Henry Rolin, a young farmer living near Manchester. Iowa, Sunday night in a fit of insanity, shot and killed his brother. At Columbus, O., William Taylor was exe-f cr.ted in the state prison Thursday midnight for the murder and robbery of an old farmer. Miscellaneous. According to tbe latest returns of the India-i office there are 21S.253 Indians in tho Uuited Statrs exclusive of Alaska. One hun dred and thirty-three thousand four hun dred and seventeen of these are living on reservations, DS.032 of whom support them selves. The total self-supporting Indians is 21-.000. - . SUN FLOWERS. Something that will Interest a Good Many People. The cultivation of sun ilowers for their seeds, which are feed to the poultry, is said wo be on the increase in Pennsylvania, the ountry of fine farms ami economical, pros perous farmers. As long ago as 1?26 the following notiee of the value of the sun lower appeared in a Charleston publication: Native Oil Finer, sweeter oil no country :aa supply than what we can, with little '.rouble and expense, prepare for ourselves. The tali, annual sun flower will prove this, .a seeds bruised and pressed yield an oil as nveet and as fine as that we import from Florence. From a bushel Of this seed a gallon of oil may be drawn and with this ad rantage, that it can be obtained at any time, quite soft, bland and fresh. The seed also nd mass that remain, after the expression of the oil, are of excellent use to feed and fodder hogs, poultry, etc. ut besides all these oses, the growing plant is of eminent service, it having been proved that near twenty times 13 much pure depelojristicated air is exhaled from one plant in twenty-four hours, in light and clear weather, as a man respires in a vitiated and impure state in that space of time. Hence the inhabitants of close, ill lired and unwholesome places should be dili gent in its cultivation. Strung L'p by a Mob. At Steelville, Mo.. Kimball Greene, witb his two brothers and his father, was tried for the murder and cremation of David Kildebrand, a neighbor. Kimball got a neparate trial recently and w.as acquitted, Thursday night a mob of twenty men wenl to his house, dragged him to a tree and strung him up, leaving him for dead. As hit -hands were tree, he managed to cut himsel! down with a pocketknife. Hewenttotowr next morning and secun-d warrants for twe of the mob whom he recognized. Jiis peek and body show rough treatment. THE COM3IERCIAL REPORTS. Improved Crop Prospects. A Gener ally Favorable Outlook. Bradstreet's report for last week, says: The most striking features of the business rFek are the influences of improved crop prospects and the continued large demands for iron and steel, with one of the largest makers in the market as a buyer of Bessemer pig. Most of the commercial and industrial features of the preceding week are retained. The volume of trade has not varied materi ally, but in instances is larger than at a cor responding period last year. Trade in al most all linc3 Is fairly active for the season and the general tendency of mercantile col lections is toward greater ease. Commer cial travelers are being sent ont in all leading lines and reports from those now on the road appear to meet expectations. Among larger Eastern cities no striking changes in the condition of trade are reported, with the exception of an improvement in industrial lines, and in tbe lake trade at Buffalo, and a rather smaller volume of business reported ,frem Baltimore. Pittsburg iron furnacesare sold months ahead, and at Philadelphia the strike among textile workers remain unset tled. Central Western cities, among them Cleveland. Detroit. Cincinnati and Louis ville, report the usual volume of mid-summer business with perhaps more activity relatively at Louisville, where the question of suspending the production of whiskey ia being discussed. Textile works have a better outlook with larger demand, both for cotton and woolen goods, a shade advance in print-cloths, and in most bleached goods, and a more powerful market for light weight woolens which, if Scarcely advanced beyond last year's.prices, are on the whole, selling better. 1 The feature of the week at the South is rather more satisfactory by reports from Memphis, Chattanooga, Augusta and Gal veston, where orders have been received in some instances in excess of expectations, and the volume of business is larger than at the corresponding period last year. At such points as Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans, no material change is reported as compared with a week ago, and the like is true at Birmingham. Atlanta reports rather less doing in dry goods, notions, groceries, but that the outlook for trade this fall is good. The volume of business ha3 fallen off at Jacksonville. The most disturbing Influ ence in Louisiana is the withholding of pay ments of the sugar bounty. Total number of business failures in the United States this week as reported to Brad street's is 237. Last week the total was 214. In the week a year ago it was 237. A GREAT RICE CROP. A 10,000,000 Bushel Yield The Largest Crop Ever Raised In America. The last circular from Dan Talmage's Sona has this to say about the coming rice crop: We hand herewith present condition ol and prospect for the rice crop In respective States. It cannot as yet be said to be assured as contingencies may arise which would cur tail promised outcome. If, however, there should be a continuation of previous favor able circumstances, will give a result fract ionally in excess of 1892. Estimated yield 10,000,000 bushels treble amount grown prior to tho war and bouble that of any year since: Nobth Cabolina. Under the contrary conditions crop got a iate and poor start. Plant has made fine growth past month and promise now better than expected. Estimated .yi-l A nfln.oiMi ? 11 ... j- xv.. 1 South Cabolixa. Along the Cooper, Ashepoo, Combahee and Ponpon rivers every circumstance conductive to the prosperity of the plant. Acreage larger than last year and a finer crop, both as to quantity and quality, confidently looked for. Further north," Pee-Dee, Santee, Waccmaw and Black rivers, chances much less favorable. Fields under water during almost entire month of March, April and May. Only by use of powerful steam pumps could any land be drained sufficiently to be seeded earily. Few having such facilities, planting generally delayed until June and with limited time, work performed in a crude imperfect man ner. Some fearing blight by early frost decided not to plant at all; the result in latter section will be two-thirds average. Estimated yield 850,000 bushels. Georgia. Conditions fine; well advanced considering late start. Only doubt expressed is in regard to the fate of May rice,and there is more than usual, when the birds strike it in September. Estimated yield 450,000 bushels. Louisiana. River crop promising and will greatly exceed last year. Under heavy and almost continuous rains the past month; plantations, abandoned as too expensive to work or because ready to die, have come to life again with unexampled vigor. The stock is good, tall and heading heavily, but grass rank and product will be more seedy on the average than ever before. Texas, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi Good progress, but tho first named only of commercial prominence. Estimated yield 503,000 bushels. SOUTHERN PROGRESSION. Large Increase In Railroad Traffic, Especially in Coal and Iron Regions. . Reports to the Manufacturers' Record show i largo increase in the traffic of Southern railroads, and especially those in the coal and iron regions. The Alabama Car Asso ciation reports, having handled nearly 21,000 cars in; June against 12,003 in June ot last year. The improvement in railroad affairs is bringing to the front a large number of railroad extensions of existing systems and also quite a number of short lines, which a-o being organized in many parts of the South, every State being represented. The number of cotton mills organized for the past week is even larger than usual and includes two mills to cost $200,000 each at Greensboro, N. C, and two more being worked up at the same place, but not yet de finitely assured; a 200.000 mill at Lumber ton. N. C. ; a $ rOO.OOO mill at Toeeoa, Ga.: an increase of capital of over $200,000 for the enlargement of a Tennessee mill; a SGO.OOO mill company at Salisbury. N. C; a new miil in Alabama; a -t 50,000 mill at Athens, Ga.; a large knitting mill at Newport News, Va., to turn out 200 dozen rarmens a day; a pro-jet-ted mill to cost flOO.OOO in Texas, and a number of enlargements of established mill at different points. Other important events for the week include the letting of bids for contracts for extensive wharves; docks and piers for the Southern Railway at Norfolk; a 100,000 sewer pipe company in Texas; contract for nine miles of belt railroad and grain eleva tors and cotton compresses at New Orleans; a $300,000 cigar and tobacco company in Florida, and a number of miscellaneous en terprises in different parts of the South. The English Elections. According to the latest returns at hand aeither of the parties have In the latent En glish elections scored any noteworthy ad vantage. The Unionists still maintain their lead, or nearly so. over their opponents and it is believed will do so until tbe final closing of the polls. The total returns show the ejection of 323 Conservaties, 65 Unionists, 15? Liberals. 62 Anti-ParneUites and 10 Far nellites. The net Unionist gain is 82. givig the Government a present abiolute majority of 16J- A Double Murder. A special from West Palr.i Beach, F'a.,say3: Sam Lew'3, at Lemon City, thot snd killed Joh F. Higsmith, ex -tax collector of Dade couTty, and George A. Dav.s, Higsmith's newphew. on Thursday. Lewis had been insulted in a drunken row the night before. L-rwis fled to the wooUf , V9Wi?S he WOUii nc; be takea alive. NORTH STATE CULLINGS. TAR HEEL DOINGS IN MANY SEC i TIONS. Four New i Mills In Greensboro. The Revolution Cotton Mill Com pany and the j Proximity Manufactur ing Company are the names of two big enterprises just incorporated at Greensboro. The capital stock of oach company is $200,000, all of which has been paid in. . j Two more mill projects have been formed in that city andjwill probably be incorporated this week.- I A Cannery In Lexington. j, The Prosperity Press and Reporter, says: Mr. Gi, C. Shiry, who fives' beyond the river in Lexington county, is preparing to run a cannery a( his place this season. This is a step in! the' right direction. One of onr greatest needs is diversified industries td get ns out of the despotic clutches of King Cotton. i " h A Resort for Northern Invalids. James W. Tufts, of Boston, who recently purchased 5,000 acres ol land near Southern Pines, Mpore county,is erecting a village as a winter resort for northern invalids. A con tract has been made for fifty houses and a casino td be ready by October 1st. A street railway is contemplated from Southern; Pines to the property. H Caterpillars in Large Numbers Caterpillars have made their appear ance in Cumberland and Robtlson counties in mjriads and are eating aud killing the leaves on the oak trees. In this same section two years ago cater pillars were ro numerous that fievpial times they crawled on the tracks of j the Carolina Central railway and Blon;ne'7 trains. ' ' - Another Cotton M1H. Contracts have been made for the delivery of. material at Concord for an other cotton mill, the third under way there. Material is also being deliver ed at Durham for an addition to the Erwin cotton mills, work on which be gins Monday. I This will now employ 500 persons and when completed wilJ employ 1,000. I i . General Return of. Prosperity Marshal Carroll 6ays there is a gen eral return of, prosperity in Ntirth .fjsrolina. an instance ot wnich was the fact that "when lightning struck a iTavne county ploughman last week, tdS DOor 'ieiiOTT. mt- m irstmvdr braeches. had S500 in trrcenback on his person . ; The Review says tho ReidsvilJe Bag ;lictory was sold by the receiver, A. :H. Motlev. Jr..! at auction a week ago Old was bought by Mr. A. Sharp, 'Riindleman, for $1,000. The mac of in- ery and equipments originally about $12,000. j CObt TThAtecaps met with a eharp repulse the other night in Caldwell couuty. They "went to James JenWnsV hoiise and called him out. He instantly ap peared with a gua and fired into the mob, badly wounding Columbus J ones. The mob fled, j The increase in the assessed value of railroad property in this State Wratifying. There are 3,017 miles! is of line. The Atlantic Coast Line has 717, the Southern 1,063, the Seaboard Air Line 665, and miscellaneous roads 1,172 miles. f Assessment of the railways in North Carolina was completed at Raleigh. The total is $24,500,000, the incrcise 'over last year being $523,000. Thdre are 3,900, miles, and the increase dur ing the year ended Juno 1 was 42 miles. j j The $60,000 stock for the new spin ning mill to be built at Salisbury, has now nearly all been subscribed, ahd several hundred j thousand bricks haVe been purchased for the building. It will be pushed through rapidly. j ' Two revenue deputies made a rail twelve miles of j "Weldon, on the Roa noke river, where they destroyed a 1 A gallon illicit brandy distillery and 1 hogsheads of jpumace of apples, peaches and blackberries . I 3he Mayo Mills is a corporation lately organized at Winston-Salem, N. 0. The company wilt build a mill of 15, 000 spindles at Mayo's Falls, on the Roanoke Southern. j It is said that Arthur Tucker, the iboy who shot a captured convict while -handcuffed in Montgomery county, has 'fled to Cuba and joined the insurgent. Hop culture is a success in this State. Before the war hops were trrown for borne' use. They ripen in August. j Nearly all of the capital stock to mttnn factorv to! be located in Lum be r ton, has been subscribed. The Alabama Populists. The executive committee of the Populist party in Alabama met in Birmingham on Thursday. Capt. j Kolb, the Eev. Sam Adam, State Senator Goodwin. Frank Baltzell and many other leaders of tne party were in attendance. CoL D. S. Troy. jo!. Montgomery, was present as an invited guest and delivered a speech, which was vocifer ously applauded. Among other things he said that, in his opinion, the right o! self government in Alabama could only be re store 1 through the Populist pirty. j Th'J report of the committee on resolutions as adopted claims that the executive com mittee has no power to commit the party to a policy that contemplates fusion with any other political organization; that the candi date of the People's party for Governor should be an avowed Populist and untainted with the financial vagaries of John Sherman and Grover Cleveland. They are cordially invited to co-operate with the Populists, and it ia hinted that minor places on the ticket may be given them. : Both wings of the party appear to be satisfied with the resolutions. The "Clara Mere" Is what they c li'ii pond at the Atlanta Exposition It is 3 3 t ' uatel that water has to be pumpe 1 into ii, and they are filling it now. CORN THE BEST CROP. Wheat a Good Average. O ' Cotton Growing Too Fas Some Sections. ; Is Fair, iu lhe reports ot correspon. ents o e Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin for the past week ! indicate! on Ihi (whole a favorable week, thou gh more than usual reports are received ot idamage by dryness and local 1 1 1 : 1.' stormsj a large iiuiuuci ui cuuuues ad good ahowers, In somo places drought is beginning to prevail, though bo grea damage ia reported ! aa yet. train, hail and wind storms occ Friday in several counties iu ' Yiolcn sirred on be cen itral and eastern districts. Cii ring to-f bacco is progressing with goo , res 11 It sJ (The fall crop of potatoes is being planted. Melons are coming i h slowly and seem to be late and poor. 1 In tho central district tho weathef ;Was favorable, except as to th 0 distil .bution of rainfall. Some points havtl received no rain in several w eeks, at others the ground is too wet o plow The majority of counties h: vo hat beneficial rains. Heavy local fains with hail and wind damaged crops to some extent on Friday at places i it jGuilford, Durham, Vance, (Jhatham Anson. ltocKioenani ana vtn&u count ties. In the South cotton is growing too fast, and is making pleuty bf weedi nearly everywhere. Tobacco and curing is going on now in is iitieJ this sec tion also. The crop has suffered from dryness in some sections. Urn ear ing very nicely; some com phiihta ttil Di ll I of damage by chiuch bugs A crop of corn will bo gather. il froni shetid lowlands if there aro no Crosh Wheat threshing continues Mcloif crops poor, l'armers are nuit-inng un their work rapidly. In the eastern district, the v.: cek was warm, with plenty of sunshine nnd ou the whole favorable for crops, as is usual at this season, tho though rain fal was unevenly distributed. A t many places it is very dry. though ho ren damage results as yet.. HeavV rain and wind storms Fridav injured crops esoeciallv tobacco, at 1 armvil Titt county, and Nashville, Mash bounty Cotton getting plenty of weed 3 in fact reported as growing too fas 1 in tho south, but blossoms and squares nro short; lice seem to bo disappearing in many sections. Tobacco hue; jutting and curing going on with exce lent ref suits. Fall crorm of Irish potatoes be ing planted. Melons coming in, and shipments begun. River ricft held well worked and rice promising!. Much complaint of hog cholera. j In the western district raiu lsbegin ning to be needed m many AoCftliucn but crops have not suffered greatly aDy where vet. Where showers have 00 progress. Reports on corn injlicute a i most favorable outlook. . tott proving; it is blooming freely n is imr ! in tow field: but the cotton crop is ubt near lv so promising as corn. Reports o whe.t rnnfirra last week's statement that wheat is turning out a god 1 averj- age yield from the threshing u: achimi Oats generally reported to uc a gooil average crop, i ruit pieimiiu nnd 0 fine quality. Rye is being hatvcsteO Two Children Burned to Dentil. At N.irwleh. 'S. " th Coa'rik'ationna mi rt.rn.v 'oeeunie-. i bv II'"'. William If S -udder and family, consisting 'of "is wiff :md spveu children, wan totnlly deployed bjr lire. The children, who I occupied a liac r..rm worn hist retirinc when coal eii in 4 ehimnev" exploded and instantly the hou;sf M:i7.p All the children es'-aj.e-l wit tho exception of Claris. and Maty, hot 4 bodies being uurnea to a enxp. An Un!ortnnal3 Slmllaritf. narry Hipwell, a bellboy iib a Sti Louis hotel, has had trouble tlkrong! the fellow that looked like hirn Thd other fellow was named Powers. He is so much like Hipwell, cy.en to a ba tooth in his month, that the two wcr often mistaken for each other whil4 thev were both employed iu the same place. Powers went to Chicago where he took llipwcll s name, am got employment in a hotel. Pretty soon a guest was robbed, and ifoweia disappeared. The -smar t Chicnbro dc tectives learned that "Hipwell w4 in St. Lonis. and they catherod hini in and took him to Chicago, where he was put to no little trouble in piovin; that he was not the person wan ,ed. New Orleans Picayune. ! The South Park Commissioners of Chicago have decided not to removd the row of trees along urand boulc vard to make room for a bridlepath nntil the trrowth of the other trees along the grass plot requires their re moval. This decision is a victory f ojj: the citizens of the district aorainst equestrians. AND ABSOLUT-LYj Thefast SEWhSff ! , MACHINE MADE SAVE MONEY rE OH OUR DEALERS can melt you machine, cheaper thair T" Set elMWhere. The HEW HOJIB U our beat, bat we make teper ottter Illsrt Ami Foil Nickel Plated Sewiae Mael-lnea for $1 5.00 and np Call on our a.ent or jvrlto ufc Wo ant your trade. -3d If rice- trm Hi ,ure aean-t will win. vr"I have it. We ldI produce a BETTEtt naehlne for $50.00, or a better 20. Sewlnc S-acnine for 20.0O tban yon can buy from aa, or onr Arent. J- tut?. F.w im are SEW1KG MS, CHIBE COJ . v n rr. TLrw. u fcU a-a-tc-1- ATr,u, GAINET & JOKDAJT, Dunn, S. C. s-3Sfe