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I J U"w inereasiiur oircuiation; -i -w inc Lancer v:: PAPER Pablicliotlin 4Mb W w HP 0 17 f. o C Lyin between tho Roanoke nnl ?: ' rio rivers, embracing the three r.url of Hertford, .Northampton ami II rti JOHN V,HlCICCf .rZcSItor and Proprietor. DEVOTED" TO THE INTEREST OF HERTFORD AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. AD V E R T ISIKG 11 E D I V "v.;. ... :;-' j .T'.V 2' -r. fSRates Reasonable. - GI.CO Por Annum VOL. V. MURFREESBORO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1889. NO. 7. 5 i Mm SBWRO "? -r- i TO HSRTFORDCOUrjTY. " "AREA 340 SQUARE MILES. i P O P U L AT ION 11.843. ; .WHITJJ 5,121; COLORED 6.722, TljEiixroRD. Cojjnty rvm formed in 17.0- from Ohnw in,B?rHe and North nmptorf counties. ..It-yras named in com plime.nt.to the Marquis of Hertford, an " English nobleman, a friend .of liberty, no elder brpther of Lord Conway, who, in 17 j, moved in the House of Lord the repeal of the Stamp Act. , Hf-i tford I.a a name of Sat on origin and sfni5-"s the 'Rbd Ford.'Vt' r - V : JTi - WtxTojr.. the county-scat, was VSet; -a Her thcWrnns family; it is situated I. 'ilmites ; north-east rom Raleiirh, on the Chowan river, and has a population of about 500. 2- :r' ":'2 : 7;-'.- a '' k Surface -2Levc and sand yt soil ?ood; watered by the Meherrin and Chowan rivers. ? " -': : ' ' : '2 2 SlrqJss Cotton, corn, naval stores and fish. Doing near the Norfolk market, trucking is also profitable. .. - - -Br ; Fruil- App 5V peaches, pears, melons ' Bcuppernong jr;ipcs, stud thesmall fruits. TimJvrs Juniper, cypress, pine, oak, ash.'L the. gums and the usiud eastern . growth. 'V .rs 7. -x - : ; Post 'OVrrcES Anncta, Bethlehem, Como, HarrcllsvillciLotta, Maplvton,, Menoln, Murfreesboro, Ridd icksville, St. Jchn, Tunis, IJnion, Wfnton. .I ' ; , Cou.NtY OrriOEns- Superior Court Clerk; IV D. Doone; Sheriff and Treas urer, J. S. Mitchell; Register of Deed y V. L. Daniel ; Surveyor, J. W. Jcssup; Coroner, J. J, Pmvis; Standard Keeper, John M. Jones. v f ; CoMMrsioNKUS J.,N. tlarrtllj chair man, J. D. Iiiddick, J, P. Freeman, J. F. Ncwsome, and W. E. Cu liens. At torney for County, 15. 15. . Winborne. - I5oard of Education G. A. Brett, IX. I Thomas, and J. 31. "Wynu., Supt. Public Schoolf. Georpe Cow per. ? TOWNSIlffS Al MAGtrrilATKS. - - IManey's Nkck S. D. Winb irne, J. D. Riddick, E. G. Sears, L. F. Lte and II. T. Brett. IVIiTRfcjtKEsnoRo - W. T. Browne, II. C, 3Maddiey, C. Vinson, L. AV. Uol fe, ' J. T. Chitty, A. ,31. Darden, and Oris . Paikcr. ;" . ; ' St. Jon ns G. W. Beverly, G. A. 11 own, II. D. Godwiti, E. II. Joyner, C.-W. Mitchell, C. W. Parker, and'L. 11. Tyler. 1 ! Winton J. L. Anderson, J. B. Cham s blec, J.fB. Hare, A. I. Parker, W. II. Jernigan, J. F. Newsome, G. II. Mitchell and ltobt. Uollomon. ,HAiinrcT.T-svit.T,K Sv M. Aumaek, J. P. JIowcll, J. 31. Jones, C. N. Prudcn and - AY. I). Scnll. ' Law Firms 3Iurfreesboro, AVinborne & Bro., and D. A. Barnes; Wiitton, p. B. Picot, G. r. Cowpcr and J. E. Vann. SurKRtou Coo kts 3lects sixth. 3Ion 6ay after the iirst 3Ionday in March and September, and sixteenth Monday after .first Monday in March. J. II. Blount, Solicitor IxFKUion Courts Meets on the 4th Monday in February, and the second Monday in August. Judges, D. A. Barnes, H. C. Maddrcy, and G. AV. . Beverly. -B. 15 . Winborne, Solicitor. i. Notary Public L. W. Rolf e, and B. L. C. AVard, 3Iurf rccsboro ; P. B. Picot, AVinton ; AY. D. Scull, Harrells- Tille. Incorporated Towns 3Iurfrcesboro, iAVinton and Harrellsville. , Practicing Physicians- J. T. El clridge, W. G. Freeman, Murfreesboro; T. I. Burbage, Como; J. T. Shubrick, ,A. IL Askew, II urellsville; J. II. Slitchell, J. W. Tayloe, R. H. Gary, lUnion; S. S. Daniel, Winton. i Incorpokated Companiks Tloarj3ke and Albemarle Agricultural Fair, Mur- : f rcesboro ; B. B. Winborno, Presideut ; ' 111 L. C. Ward, Treasurer ; W. II. Spencer 'Secretary. ' . - .'. United Telegraph Company. Line from Winton via Murfreesboro to Boy Ikins, Va. J. 31. Wynn, President. IhCoTXEGES Chowan Baptise Female Prstitutc, 3Iurfreesboro, J. B. Brewer, President. AVcsldyan Female College, 3Iurfrecs iboro, E. E. Parham, President. ; Bankers Ward & Co:, 3Iurf rcesboro. County Farmers' Alliaijce --Meets in the Court House, at Winton. once every month. T. E. Vann. President ; A. Brown. Secretary; J. F. Newsome, Business Agent ; W. T. Brown, Treasurer, i Steamboat Lines Steamer Chotoan Capt; Withy, from Franklin, Va., via Winton to Edenton and Plymouth, three times a week. V . Steamer Lota, Capt. J. R. Williams "Via" Winton to Murfreesboro- arriving at J-furfrecsboro; Tuesdays, Tbtirsdays and Saturdays; leaving 3Iondajs, Wednes days and Fridays. steamer Pohatcong Capt. A. -Jj. Jones, from 3Iurfreesboro to Montrose and return, daily. . Railroad Th e Norfolk and Carolna, R. R , from Norfolk, Va., via Tunistoi Tarboro and Raleigh. District Officers Judge, Geo. n. Brown, Jr. , Beaufort Co. Congressman, T. G. Skinner, Perquimans -Co. ; State S-nators, W. -P. Shaw. Hertford Co., and J.fK. Abbott, Camden Co. ; Repre sentative for Hertford, J.. L. Anderson. , ' j ; town op muhfrkesorob. Marfrjcsboro is situated ; in the north western part of the County, at the head rf, navigation on ths 3Ieherrin River, and "a a population of .1,200." It "was in ,rPorated in 1737, and named in honor l Williain ; Murfree, a Revolutionary - ncro and patriot, who resided here. Mayor-b.B., Winborne. .Commissi nei;s E. C. AVorrell, G. W. ?'lm3 C. T. Vaughan, J. L. - Harrell, 'W f!;d;TJ M' --AVynn; 2tl Ward, nonstable. J. E. Evans. . . . - CHURCH DIRECTOnv . - ; METnonisT--Se rvices fifflrv Ritnrtav ,ng at 11 o'clock 4 iJrtsA T- and, at numt at J " ",vv,v-. rayer-rneetinr ever? Wed w'J 1?JZ.J;'- J. Moorman, inernoon"" I 'Sunday 5un,iLTrSViCeS evCrv i and 3d-: SUnuaVS. mnrninr. J ' ; - , . unaays, morning and ni ght. m ght. Prayea ht. Rev.l School jr " may mornino. J. B. Breweir. M-:eriiitendent iv. a. N. Skinaer, Rector. THE SOUTH WIND. ; Over the fl3ll3,:Vher the dew was rrct. i Over a meadow vith daisies set,- ? Shaking the pearls in the spider's The soft south wind came stealing, It was full of the scent of the sweet wild rose; And it lingered along, where the streamlet flows, v. ' - Till it made the forget-me-notsj eyes enclose And started the blue-bells pealing. ! Under the measureless blue ofjhe sky. Drifting the silvery cloudlets by. Drinking the dew-brimmed flower-cups dry. The warm, south wind was blowing." -It was sweet with the breath of a thousand springs; And it sang to tho grasses, as ever it sings, With a sound like the moving of myriad wings, Oqe whrof wild flowery growing'. -. Over the flelds, in the evening glow, Stirring the treas, as the sun sank low, v l ? Swaying the meadow-grass to and fro, J! A. breeze from the south came creeping? --It rocked the birds in their drowsy nest; It cradled the blue-eyed grass to rest; And its good-night kisses were softly pressed On pale wild roses sleeping. And only the stars and the fireflies knew How the south wind murmured the whole night through,? In scented fields where the clover grew I AndjBoft yrpit4 tnistsjwerq breathing. For it stole away, when the night was spent, And none could follow the way it went; ' But the wild flowers knw what the Svind's song meant, As they waked to its last low breathing. Charles B. Going, in St. 2Nicholas. HEE LAST CARPET. The clothes-line, stretched from the June apple-tree to the mulberry-trce, and on to the great ox -heart cherry-tree in Mrs. Gideon! Huff's back-yard; had for several days flaunted strips of bright green, orange yellow and dark crimson cotton, newly dyed. On 3Ionday ' there " appeared several yards of pale blue, and on Tuesday a strip of bright red. When Mrs. Huff hung the , last, strip on the 'line, she stepped back with5 her bare, round, red arms akimbo nodded her pink sunbon neted head to and fro in an approving manner, and said; i ? ; "Well, I've hadgood luck with eVry single piece. If I'd made the aniline dye a leetle mite darker, it'd mebbe looked better along with the green an' yeller in the twisted stripe I callate on having, but it'll look mighty purty as 'tis. I must git my logwood an' copperas f eddy for the rest of my rags, an git em all ready for the rag-sewin' Friday, for they've got to go to the weaver a-Sattaday." Mrs. HufE's rag carpets had taken the first premium at jthe county fair every autumn for three'years, and she was lay ing her plans again this year to capture the blue ribbon and the five-dollar prize. She had a way of getting up 'twisted stripes," and coloring and warping the chain, that no one could imitate. . Her neighbors often j said that they, would rather have one of Harriet Huff's striped rag carpets than a two-ply ingrain. She made a great point of having her rags cut very fine, and sometimes lay awake at night planning something lie w in the way of "hitan'miss fillinV! V 44 She cuts up our duds fer carpet rags 'fore we've half worn 'era oat," said 3Ir. Gideon Huff, a little irritably. "AVhen a woman gits to makin' rag carpet3, a man's red flannins ain't safe a minute, unless he puts 'em in the bank in his own name, an' my blue overalls gin'rally go into a ball of, carpet rags 'fore I've wore 'em a dozen times.',' . The carpet 'Mre.-f Huff was now making was to eclipse all of her former efforts. She had actually dreamed of something new in twisted stripes, and had risen in the middle of the night to make fast and safe the dream-sent idea by winding the colors in the right, order around a strip of pasteboard. Then she went back to bed, saying to herself: "Now if T could only dream of some thing new in fillin'I" But such a dream did not come, al though she was a great dreamer, and stoutly maintained that she often 'dreamed out things," and that her dreams came true. Being thus a firm be liever in dreams, she occasionally even invited dreams by overloading her stom ach at night, p "If I eat an ordinary light supper," she said, '1 don't dream much ; but if I eat pickles and cheese and cake, and a lot of stuff of that kind, I dream a sight," which was no doubt true. She "made a rag-sewin' " that week to finish up her hit-and-miss rags, but the rags for that wonderful stripe were all to be sewed with her own hands. Eight or ten of j her neighbors came to the ,,rag-sewin" Each of them brought her needle and thimble, and sewed car pet rags and laughed and gossiped in the most agreeable way all the afternoon, and in the evening their husbands came to supper. i Not even tothese ladies did 3Irs. Huff disclose the pattern of her "dreamed out" stripe, although she informed them that they could confidently expect td see such a rag carpet as they'd never before seen, when the fair opened two weeks later. :: - J: - : - -. ', Her household duties occupied her time more than usual at that season of the year, so that she could sew only at night and each night she sat u" until very late sewing on the -green and crimson, and yellow and blue and black and white rags for the stripe in her carpet. '. It was after midnight on Friday when the last ball, was sewed and wound and weighed, and ready to go to the weaver's on the morrow. "The stripe can't be improved on I jest know," said 3Irs. Huff",as she putthe rags away in stout grain bags, and tied ? them up. ' But I can't decide', just how to have the colors in the ;hain warped,' or whether to have the. light and dark rags all mixed up, or sep'rate in ;. the hit-an'-miss. : I do wonder if I" can't dream it out, to-night t lm all tired out and I dream best when I'm that way. Mebbe if I eat a big piece of gooseberry pie and a piece of cheese 'fore I go to bed, I'll dream eomething uncommon. I read the other day of a great poet who wrote half a poem, and couldn't finish itv to .roitr hirri, and he went.to bed and dreamed the other half all out plain as day, and got up tn his nightgown and finished up, I'm sure if a person .could dream out a fine poem, I'd ought to be able to dream out a com mon rag carpet pattern.' ' Thus reasoning to herself, Mrs. Huff nte her. pie , and cheese and went to bed, and, being very tired, " soon dropped "asleep. She was sleeping heavily when her hus band called her in the morning. Her first words; when she arose "Were : Well, Mt didn't -do' any good. I dl'C dream anything about that carpet, although I did dream of forty other things. I must hurry tip my work, and have. Gideon take rue and the rags over .to the ATidow AVatt's, and see myself that she understands just ,how that car pet's got to be, wove.'H ! But when, two hours later, she went into 5 her little - sewing room' to get her rags and chain, they were not to be found. y h 2'A- ' C "Gideon," she called to her husband, who-was putting the horses to the light wagon in the barn -yard, "have you car ried them rags out to the wagon?" - "No," called back Mr. Huff; "I aint seen your old rags.: I'll be glad when I have seen the last o 'em, nnd you've done a-settin3.up o "nights a-puddlin' over 'em, and undermindin' your consti tution and your health." M S ! O Well ; they aint here," said" Mrs! Huff, "and I left them here last night, all ready to be carried out. Hanner, 'ev you seen them rajs?" . No," replied Hannah, the, hired girl, MI aint seen a solitary thing of ''em." That's queer, ".said Mrs. Hufff irrita- bly. "They never, tuk legs and walked off of their own accord. Sam, I don't s'pose you're seen anything of my rags?" Sam, the farm hand, happened to pass the open window at that moment. , 4 Yotir rags, Mis' Huff? What rags?" "AVhy, my carpet rags." . "Didn't know you had .any," replied Sam, briefly, as he went unconcernedly on his way. '. ; " .-. . ; Then began an active search for the rags. Mr. Huff was called in, and so singular was the disappearance of v such bulky articles, that he joined in the search with considerable interest." 4 "It's the queerest thing 1" said Mrsk Huff) for the fifteenth time, as she looked into ; places in which the bags of fags could not possibly , i be. "It's . my opinion," she said at last," "that some body has stolen those lags. They must have done it! They never got away alone ; any one with common-sense knows that." - No trace of a thief COuld be found, but one coilld easily have 2 come and gone without the family knowing it, as the doors and windows were seldom fastened. In fact, some of them had been left wide open the night before to admit the col air at tho close of a hot day. After an hour of unavailing search Mrs.. Huff dropped wearily into a chair, and said, in a choking voice, "Well, they're gone, and gone for good, and so's my chance of getting the prize at the fair next week; s Somebody must have stole 'diBi t reckon now that Calisty Horn will get the premium with her car pet." 'Well, well, what if she does?" said Mr. Huff, consolingly. "You've had it three years hand runnin', and you'd ought to give somebody else a chance, anyhow." - : - . ' "They all have just as good a chance at I've had," replied Mrs. i Hafl, "And ; the premium " aint nothing at ; all compared to the '. loss of that carpet that I had callated sure on putting down in the -settin'-room this fall."; : " " ' 2 2 2 2 2 : The rags were not found in the days that intervened before the fair, and Mrs. Calisty Horn's carpet did get the first preminm. t : "And such a looking carpet asitwas," said Mrs. Huff, somewhat spitefully. "The rags was half an inch wide, and she'd got too much copperas in her color ing, and the stripe was nothing to' com pare to what mine would have been." Her loss and defeat weighed heavily on Mrs. Huff, and she lay awake a long time thinking the whole matter over after she had gone to bed, when she came home from the fair. Sometime after midnight Mr. Huff awoke to find himself alone in bed,and as he opened his eyes he fancied he saw some one pass the door leading into the hall, " v H '' ; ; ; .. ? "Harriet," he called, "is that you?'' There was no reply "I wonder," he said, ;"if. that woman has got up in the dead of night to begin on another carpet. She shan't do it! Harriet; what are you doing? You sick?" - ;; . ; ; ' ' Still Harriet did not answer. Mr. Huff arose, wrapped a quilt around him, lighted a candle and started out to investigate- As he stepped into the hall he heard a noise as of some one moving around in an unused attic room above him, a room had not been entered for weeks, which was now died with all the odds and ends of things that will collect in a house as the yeara go on, and which a great many people save, under the im pression . :- usually a delusi on , that they will sometime "come handy. " Among 4he useless rubbish stowed away in Farmer Huff's attic "was the frame of an old carpet loom on which Mrs. Huff had woven many a carpet in,her younger days ; but years had passed.ince the "loom had been in use. The moon light streaming in through a Avindow showed Mr. Huff that the attic f doox was opened, but there was no other light in the room. "Harriet Huff!" he cried, "what in creation air you doing up .4here at this time 6' night? Hunting some more tor mented bid rags! 5 Come(right back to bed! You'll get your death o' cold roamin' round at night!" t She took no notice of hisquerulous re marks, but - he heard no raore sounds in the attic. But he was too much troubled to let the matter rest as it was, .and accord in crly mounted the stairs" and entered the attic "room. There he saw something that caused him to open both eyes and mouth with amazement, At the old loora sat irrs. Huff in her nisrht clothes. In one hand she helf u old wooden shuttle, while with the otjier she fumbled around in a grain bag ifrill of carpet rag balls leaning against a j-ifct of thr loom Drawing forth a ball of the 'hit-an'-miss rags she slowly began wind ing it on the" shuttle, which she then passed to and fro through an imaginary warp. The reed and batten bars were gone, but Mis. Huff went slowly through the motions of using them. The amazed 31r.vHuffV once noticed that her eyes were closedVnd hH. belief that she had become a "srk, staring, loonytic, changed into Tthe mora agreea ble thought that she. was simpiysound asleep. His eyes rested on the tfSgsing carpet' rags, and he mentally ejaculaled: ru .''Brought 'cm up heriserself Jti jtfer sleep two weeks agoi by Jinks ! What's goin to become of her if she goes to makin' carpets ; both when she's asleep and awake? , Her intelleckshel reason will give-way. That's what'll happen to her! No born woman could stand it, and it'll be mighty hard on all of us. She shan't make nary nother carpet! Til buy body bristles for every room in the house; first ! Harriet Diany Hufft wake up and git to bed where you b'long!" r Mrs. Huff did not waken, and Mr. Huff hesitated before speaking again : "They say," he sain to himself, "that it-sin t safe to wake up sleep-walkers or somnambulances suddenly. Mebbe she'd have a fit if I woke her, though she don't come of a fitty family." I'll" just see what she does." i A moment later Mrs. Huff slowly left the loom, and, with eyes still closed, shut the attic door behind her, walked down staii-s, and returned quietly to her bed. "It beats all," said Mr. Huff, as he quietly lay down beside her, ? 'but she shan't meddle with carpet rags no more, she shan't IT r In the morning she said while dress ing: "I dreamed 'bout I weaving me a carpet at my old loom last night. I've had sev'ral such dreams lately." "Hev?" queried Mr. Huff, dryly. "That reminds me that I want to show -you something in the old loom room. Come right up!" ."Wait till after breakfast." "No, I've got more time now." "There you air, Harriet Huff," said Mr. Huff, dramatically, ias he threw open the attic door, and waved his hands toward the bag of rags ; h Gideon Huff !" she said, as she sank down on an old hair-covered trunk, with her hands upraised. - ; liTU tT..) : t i "X. u sity vjrn icuu xiuii ii x was vvju, he replied; then he went on solemtilyi occasionally shaking his finger tdwara her. "Harriet "Diany. Huff, I ain't got much to say to you, but what I do say is solemn and pertickler, and T mean it; You've made your last rag carpet ! -Your intelleckshel reason is givin' 'way under the strain of it, to say ; nothin' of our dud3 bein' cut up 'fore they're half wore out, and you in a stiddy pickle and stew over your dotorin' and. twisted stripes You drug them rags up here In your sleep, and las' night I kctched you up here goin through weavin motions in youf slecpi Your mental brain powers is" becoming exhausted Over carpet r'a"gs" j and you've got to give 'em up for good and all, premiums or no premiums." So Mrs. Huff, greatly shocked when told of her performances, did give up all rag carpet making, although the beauti ful twisted stripe of her visions and dreams became a reality as soon as the rags could be carried to the Widow Watts. ' . . . . Dream-provoking food at midnight was also wisely given up in obedience to Mr. Huff's demand that his wife should do nothing to impair her "intelleckshel reason." This is a true story, and the reader can draw the moral from it. Youth'' a Com panion, t Tin Mines of the Black Hills. The tin in its raw state is black, and is called black cassiterite. This black tin is imbedded in gigantic rock or mica schist. It also appears in crystals some times, and frequently is distributed ; through the rock in such small particles as to be mere black specks, almost im perceptible to the naked eye. The whole country in whichtm is found is vol canic. The earth is broken and thrown up by pressure from underneath. Ages ago it was a seething cauldron. The" mountain of Harney's Peak does not it self contain tin, but nearly every hill . - . ' .. . Mil. ? .-..fit. around it for miles and miles is niiea wun the precious metal. The black lumps were the terror of the miners when they sought for the gold sparsely; scattered through that region, and they cursed the "iron," as they called it; but now they are searching for the very lumps which they, once cast away as worthless. There are mica beds, but the black iron so impreg nated them that they were thought to be worthless; now the more iron in the mica the better. . The most careful estimates show the Black Hills tin to be very valuable, and equal in quality t to the best tin of Europe. If . all the rock' is taken and broken at the mill the yield -in percent age is low; but if the rock is picked, as it I usually is, .it is . very high. Hand samples for exhibition contain twenty five and even - fifty per cent, of black tin. New York Tribune. - - . Ughtnlng Melts a Girl's Hat Kim. J. C Abernathy, who resides several miles east of Dennison, Texas, f; had a thrilling experience at his house on a re cent night during & severe storm. "There are three' cedar trees growing in the front yard near! the house," he says. The largest of the three was struck by light ning,1 when a ball of fire seemed to dance before the window. The lightning went from the top of the roojf and ripped up the. shingles. It then , descended to the ceiling in the front room and tore the clock , into pieces. Standing near 2 the clock was a sewingimachine. The light ning melted I the Targe wheel, and after this performance lit melted the metalic rim which encircled a girl's hat. The fluid then went tShnough, the floor, burn ing a large hole. J .Irs. Shernll, who wa fitting in ancrfier Jroom, was prostrated by the shock. THE NEWS. A mm calling himself Tascott, the mur Jerer of tin Chici'o millionaire, has turned jp in Bu(Tlo, N. Y. The convicts of the Tennes- penitentiary hv been leasM to the Tenn?sse coal and Iron Company for 1100,000 pernnnuTi. A mormon emigrant nln was wrecked on the Norfok Tsnd Yert rn Hailroad near; Lynchburg, Va.. and fif teen persons in jnred. Incendiaries have iestroyel f 0,0j0 worth of farmer's property uesr Ohidesvill , W. Va. President Hr rison has the appointment during his term Df nine brigadier general.- -A committee ar the Oraul Army of the Republic has In-vestigato-J the management of tha Paciflo const branch of the National Soldiers Home Ht Santa , Monica, Californi-j, and reported th? insti'ufion in a bad condition. Two af the notorious Hatfield "gang have been convicted of murder at Pikesvill. Ky., and sentenced to - life imprisonment. Walter S. Ciropbell, of Youqgstown. N. Y., suc cessfully passod through the Niagara Whirl pool Rapi ls. Two children were killed by lightning in a Sunday School at Columbia City. Ind- Lu her Wallace shot bis sweet heart and himself in a hotel at California Mo. Several firemen were killed by fall ing wals In Louisville, Ky. Timothy CTBrien, a res dent of New Durham, N. J., was killed by his brother Morris during a quarrel. A mail agent named Texton was arrested in Pittsburg for robbing the maiJs. Negotiations for the settlement of the sti i'xe at the works of the Columbia Iron Company, in Lancaster, Pa. are off.- Thomas Culliman, of New York, committed suiciVle on the eve of 'his marriage. itilr lard Jones, a druggist, of ; Clayton, Ind.. fatally stabbed a Baptist minister named Smith.- In Sparta, III., John McCuIly, a young tough, shot and killed William Crossin, a const lble, who interfered in a fijht -A statue of General Grant was an- veiled with imposing ceremonies in Fort Leavenworth, Ks. - -Maria Larai, an Ital ian woman, was struck by a train in Chicago and became a mother prematurely from the shock. The mother is dying, and the child is dead. Captain Koss, the noted Indian fighter of Texas, is dying. Charles Pen dleton shot and mortally wounded his fatber-in-law, CoL Wm. B. Goodwin, near Fred- ricksburg, Va, Roger C. Brandt, of Charleston, S- C, committed suicide. : The German ship Geestemunde, from Stet tin for Philadelphia, went ashore on Absecon Beach, and is a total wreck. The crew were Saved.- -JamS Cal3han, a fireman on a freight train, was kille l in a collision at Loch Laird, Va. The white granite ware manu facturers of Pittsburg and vicinity have formed a protective association. -Mrs. George H..Dun?ford, of Reading, Pa., swol lowed hef falsa teeth while laughing, and died in terrible spasm?. Many Cases Of Texas fever are among the cattle in Bethany and Huntingdon, Pa., Two negroes were killvd a-:d several fatally injured in a fiht in Mercer county, AV. Va. Waterloo, a bttle summer resort on the Delaware Bay, is reported to have been washed away. The Ecnc Oner Hen fy Withington, from Baltimore for Boston, went ashore at Lewes, but all hanc!s were saved. John Davis, when re fused lodging3 at the housa of Andrew Sav age, at Stafford, Mo., shot and killed Miss Savage. -The funeral of Congressman Cox took plac'6 from the F'irst Presbyterian Church, New York city, and was attended by many distinguished statesmen and citi zens. -Joseph Mi-tz, an Italian, while clean ing an awning in New York city, touched an electric wire and was instantly killad. There were 170 busine-s fai'ures in the United States and 2.' in Canada the past week. J Uti ge W. Milo Olin died at Augusta, Ga. , in his seventy-sixth year.--An accommoda tion rain from Baltimore on the E<itnore and Potomac Railroad collided with a freight train at the navy yard tunnel, Washington, and the engineer of the accommodation was killed and a numb r of passengers hurt. Five hundred miners in the Clarion and Clear Run collieries, Pennsylvania, are on strike. By the explosion of a boiler In a sasb fac tory at Oakland, CaL, four men were killed anl several others hurt.- The Michigan peach crop is sorfc -The pork crop of the Western states equals that of last year. The Burton building, in Chicago, destroyed by fire. Loss C40,0.0. Two negro mur derers were taken from jail and lynched near Morgantown, IT. C- The town of Shoat Lake, Manitoba, destroyed by fire. Thomas Lewis, colors !, while trimming a strip in an edging miChine of a saw mill at Wilming ton, N. C, was struck in the side, shot through the rollers, and instantly killed. John Black, a farmer, of St. Louis county, Mo., was waylaidby footpUs and killed. - i Half a mile of earth over mines near Plymouth, Pa., has caved in, but no lives are reported lest.- A baud of so-called White Regulators at Lafayette, La., attacked tfrecibin of an old colore 1 man who fired upon them. They then flogged him and his daughter and murdered them. A number of other colored men in the vicinity were whippe 1. -An immense derrick at a quarry near Hunmelstown, Pa., broke and two men were seriously .injured. Four hundred miners employed at Morris Ridge colliery, near Mount Carmel, Pa., struck to compel the cparatorsto observe the Ssml-monthly Pay law and reduce the price of powder. The EncampsnenWBons of Veterans has gained 13.630 members during the past year. The hotel at B,'n Air, a summer resort on the Richmond nnd Danville Railroad, near Rich mond, Va.. was destroyed by fire. Loss $3 030; partially insured. The Master Car and Locomotive Painters Association met in Chicago. In a collision on the Nickel Plate ro;d near Miller' City, Ohio, two lo comotives and fifteen car were demolished. j. L. Patterson, a mine superintendent Doggett, Cala., was knocked off his horse and robbed of $5,000. -The Bell Telephone Com pany has increased its capital stock from $1,000,000 to f 12,500,00a f-Thomas Carroll, ged twenty-six, died in Philadelphia from b?ing struck on the head by a poker by John Barra, an Italian ragpicker. There was no trouble in the Cabinet because of Com missioner Tanner' retirement nor was the resignation demanded. Various names have been mentioned in connection with the commissionership, among other that of ex Conzrrssman Warner, of Missouri. a. Hafner, aged twenty nine yean, a steerage passenger on the North German Lloyd steam er Elder, from Bremen for New York, jump ed overboard in mldocean. One hundred and fifty Mormons arrived at New York from Europe and proceeded to Utah TRADE REVM : Tho Volume of Business done Shows a Decrease. Money Stringency Iu r Iho Al Krption of Cash by 6tnck Spco . alation IlcportH from Trado Centres Grain and Staples. Special telegrams to firatlslreeVii indicate tht the storms of the North Atlantic coast. a well as unfavorable weather in Missouri and Nebraska, have bad an appreciable effect on th distribution of general merchandise. In other res pec's no particular changes are reported. " Relatively the greatest activity isjatl to l at Cbicaeo, Omaha, St. Joseph ami New Orleans. Alerciniile collections are variatl. Co!ton is moving freely in Liou "sini, hat the sugir rron there Is back ward. Eiriy freshets in Nebraska have ditit vry littl damaste to tha Indian corn crop there. tTattle and ho-s ire dull and heavy. Silmoti are firmer at San Fran cis owing to, tht decline in the Alaska catch. Gross earnings of Vll railroads for Aunut show a a ain of 10.4 per c nt over their ag gregate earnings in the same month last year; but '21 road out or the whole number show decreases. 8tock speculation is dull and subject to ri-uctionary tsndencies, the weather diminishing part cipation, and threatened railroid disturbances creating apprehension, though the undertone of the market continues strong and confident. Bonds are dull nnd firm. Money at New York is firmer on n drain of funds to the South nnd deer -ofe-d bond acceptances. Call loans a e 4 per cenU Foreign Exchange is hisfh and firm. Wh?at showed an early advance of 5c on unfavorable reports as to gratia ot naw V inter, unexp?cted afcsori'ion of new wheat by millers and others before reaching lead ing storage points and liberal orders from millers and su ppers lor new Spring, but de clined later losing former advance anl clos ing hay. 'Iho Government crop rejort was construed unrivorably. Indian corn was relatively weaker on unsettlinz weather reports and heavy receipts. Exports this week or wheit ( nd flour , es wneai) agiru- cnte l,4-ybra bnshelf, against 1,91)7,21'.) bushels last wrek and 2, Tut), 435 bushels in thu like week of IBS. The total exports July I to date are 20,405,324 bushels, against 2:1,827. 0.1 bushels last year. Dry goods jobbers at New York and Bos ton rep rt trade interfered with by stormy weather. the volume or busins-ss done nece. sarily sbows adeereose, but the season's trade is well nh ad of la.st year in lead in? lines. At first haads a steady, moderate de mand i3 reported, with prices firmly held for both cottoa and woolen goo 1st. Print cloth stocks, however, are growing, and prices, wbiUi unco tngt d, nre weak. ISew York jobbers is a prominent feiture. Tbera is some improvement in woolen clothing. Raw wool sal-rs are restricted by slowness of manufacturers to take hold, but holders manifest a more oonfl lent tone. The new domestic clip is moving freely. ' Raw cotton isslower'of sale at unchanged prices. The Governing crop report u ra earded as bullish. September delivery has udvanced on exhaustion of lecal stock and sympathy with Liverpoo'. An increasing inter, st in raw sugar is cause! by a bett-r demand for refined nnd stronger Europeati cable advices. The gain is credited to legitimate trade influences. Pric?s of refiaed are well maintained. Coffee price3 bavo been stimulated by crop ani weather conditio: s ot primary sources, as well as "by unusually heavy consumption in Europe du-ing August The specu ative advance is 7 10c. , The business failures during the last sven days number for the Uni;el States 170 and for Canada 23. For the corresponning week of last year the "figures were 1UJ in the United States and 27 in Canada. FIREMEN MEET DEATH. Burled tTndcr P'allln "Walls at a Louisville Fira. The large building occupied by Bamber' ger, Bloom & Co., one of the three largest wholesale dry goods and notions bouses in Louisville, Ky., was completely destroyed by fire. Four firemen were c?rtainlycaught by the falling walls and killed, and two more are reported Under the debris. They were work ing close up In the rear, when the rear walls ell. and they were crushed beneath, rour have been taken out dreadfully mangled. Bamberger, t-loom & Co.'s buildings fronts on Main street, between Sixth and Seventh. The alarm struck at 11 :10 o'clock P. M. and in ten minutes flam?s were bursting from the windows -en the third floor. Five minutes later part of the roof fell. The fire depart ment was out in full forc promptly, and ten minutes after the first alarm half-a dozen streams were playing on the burning build ing; but it was clear that nothing could save it, and the hose were turned upon the Ijouis ville Hotel, two doors away. That buil din was smoking, and it was a sharp half-hour's light to make its safety reasonably eure. 1 he guests of th .Louisville, as wjll as or rfeelbach's Hotel, at the corner of the block, poured out. A number, mostly frightened servants, were taken from the second and third stories in the reir.by mea-;s of ladders, l'hey joined at once the crowd of sightseers. Arbich gathered in half an hour to tna num ber of 10,0 0. - I he fire originate I In Bamberger, liloom cc Co.' cellar, and Watchman McOrath, who .urned in the alarm, says the whole cellar was azlow when he discovered it. An ex- j losion occurred soon after and a fireman, just arrived, "was knocked over by it, but not jurr. A cons rvative estimate or the loss on stock is 1750,0 0. The insurance is heavy, ind will about cover ihs loss. The building wasa double six story, owned by thj firm. in i valued at $75,000. Alter. The five firemen whose bodies have een recovered from the fire ar Captain Ed. iSirly. Sam Stacklighter, Jim Monohad, EJ. IVhe-ler and Pat Foley.. , The insurance on th property destroyed is 'aced in sums of from f 10.000 to 5 U).m , d s .rlbutel among nearly all thi companies epresented bera DOUBLE LYNCHING. Two Alleged Slnrdcrers Taken From Jail and Hanged. Franklin Stack, white, held for the mur der of Robert Parker, and David Boone, col ored, held for the iriurder of Ed. Holmer, were taken from jail at M org ant an, N. C, at two o'clock in the morning by a party of one hundri and fifty masked men and hanged to the railroad bridge .within the corporate Iim'ts. Jailer Ward roadj a de termined res stance, but was overpowered and the doois of the cells were broken down by force. After the lynchers had secured the pris oner they look tha rope from the publio welt cni bur rial off wtt their men to the briige which spans the railroad track at a height of about fifty feet. Manardie Dal, citizsu of the town who was on the streets at the time the lyncher! passed through, was seizjd bf the escort nud carried with them to - the execution. He report that Stack died protesting his lnnoceuce. It is understood that Boone conietsed his guilt. There is intense feeling here over the mat ter, and Jai er Ward has sworn a warrant bet ore Mayor Rol ertson charging W. W. McUalliard, J jhn McGalliard and Steve Duckworth with being the leaders of the lynching party. The matter will be tuorougtdy invis igated and the perpetra tors wul uj Leal lor trial at the next term of tna Barks County Superior Court DISASTERS AND CASUALTY:. Mr. nnd Mrs. John G inning wrre!rtv.-;! at Baltimore by the unstt lug of t u ir I u The boiler in the cm! mine at r-rt- r , Rhotle Island, exploded, Tli t ti ;Sn Mr v s killed. John and Elwan! r.roclier n l C'l u' Bluhme were drowned In Like .Mi ' . . while fij-hmg. Two children of DivilGuy Ft fr t . n barn at Blue Springs. Nt-Lrask i. nti I u i ' : in the Luildiitgr Tiejr hvio p! ijin : ; . matches. A traia on the ' Pennsylvania llni'.r struck a waon and killel two (t, , ' . were driving across the track, nar K'.'n it . ' , N-.-w Jers-ij. J. T. RoUnson, of Long l; 5. n ! ' tain William Short, of CKui Citw, ! land, were drowned at the latter ; : i l -the capsizing of a surf t o it. The roof of Ihe casting hoti", nt ' -art Iron Compiny's work, at Shiron, l-v fell in, injuring lour rnn, ono vt th . :: Au- tin Morfurd, fatally. Large numbers of hogs arj djiiijx ' disiiise resembling cb!er in th country arcund llackettstowu, N. J. Una farir.t r 1. s losi 2) and has others sick. Thefl oisin Mexichave caa-eln 1 f several lives at Tetecain.ii the Stale of Mum los. The iuundation at Tini,)ico is incn n iug, and many of the pxp! ; nre dotttut-. The town of Flscolu'u, in t!io S:at- f Ilidaliro, Mexico, has been entirely ib-strortd by flxSds. Telegraphic comniUMlo it t -n throughout the Stato of Hidalgo is iutti rupted, Frank .Havens. 3 years of nge, !rcj ; I dead in Councils Bluffs, I nva. A 't i s r tern examination sboel that h-ait " ru on the right side, and hi death was cai -1 by a rupture on that organ. William Bonnett and Miss Carri- !!rn . of Baltimore, were run oyer nud kilit d by a train ou the Phlla lelphit, Wilmington r.u I Baltimore Railroad, near Perry mans, . ! !. Samuel C. Showaltor, aged CO ytar.-, v ! untartly submitted to an inj-w.:tion it t', Mixir of life" at Day Ion, Ono, three r-.-k ao, to obtain relief from rheumatism. 1 o I loioning and gangrene set in, un 1 1? ' -1 after horrible suffering. Reports from pointsin Kansas ind MiM i ri show that a light frot prevjile t thruu h out the northern pe r s of t)Hs Stato. T." da mo go to corn crop is repor.ei. Te e rt i-i from Plattmouth, Nebraska, and DikIo t.V li tre, Minnescl3, report damage to tuscer'j cro, by the frosts. Hugh Perry, an electric light lineman H Buffalo, Now York, cauzht hold of a live wire while working on a pole. He fell to n cri ss bar and hung there lu the wire1?, una! l- to save himself, and giving eviimco of rx treme suiTering. Perry was olivs when t-kt :s down, bus speechhss. He died a few mi nut ? i after reaching ths boap t 1 Horace A. Stratton, a member of n ! - r hunting party in Sullivan county, New Yor k, was accidoutly killed by Henry Fo'int-.in, one of his companions. It is thought a lv i ; caught the hammer of Fountain's gun. A. C-Staley, President of the Staley Wool len Mdls in South Bend, Indiana, was poi Ti ed by morphine given him by adruv;ljr. f. r quinine. He is 72 years of are, ssi'ialh' lorts to bring Mm out cf th Ktupor pr'v. duced by tha drug have fo far been unat .:,. ing. James Cabeen was killed nnd Wjnfi ! 1 Scott, it is feared, fatally injured by I m : k'KCkod from the top of a train whic'i w i pissing under a bridge near Ch l.jrntLf, Oaio. They were meml.ers of tiie Kni;;5,t4 ; Iranhce, of Athens, and were tn their w.-iy with the other members of the company to Columbus, to give an exhibition on tba l a r Grounds. A gravel train on the McIIecsport en I Bdle Vernon Railroad struck n cow r ir Webster Station, Pa. Soveral cars wero !. railed and demolished. One mm n iut ! Robert Carney was instantly kiilod. llii tvo brothers, Charles and Samuel, were s.riously injured, the latter thought fo 1 fat iby. The men were all miners, and wero riding on the cars. Divain A. Henry, Superintendent cf de struction for the Et River Electric Li,;!it Conpiny, ot New York, was killed nt Um company's works by receiving a sriock from a 1000-volt current. Honry hadgonwt ' the switchboard aid mounted a ladier to Vm some wires that were out of order. Ha in cautiously placed his hand on a live wire iin i fell to the ground dead. He was o.ily years of age. The limited train from the East wai minutes late in arriving at PitUb irg,thr s ; ! one of the most singular accidents wti t have happened since the vestibule train Lu been started. Between 'Philadelphia t Harrisburg the roofs of the two forward coaches caught fire through the fri'.ti -which woro off the rubber casing and fzoith steel plates red hot. The fire was easily ox tinguished at Harrisburg, but the fact to r being so easily originated has set th rnilro :s I people thinking of a new way to obvi.it t such accidents. Reports from North Dakota and port;: j of Minnesota have been received ttdSio . f u heavy storm. Grand Forks says a te r r t ! electrical and wind storm prevailed witL- i an erea of 100 miles of that city. T! r:-; li po!es between there and Far;o were Liywu down and comaiunication interrupted. T. damage in the neighborhood is thought to i- heavy. The weather is now wintry in natur--, and it is feared considerable damagg will rt eult. IN THE FAR NORTH. Stories of Starvation Amonyr Indians Because of a Lack of Snow. A terrible tale of suffering in the far Nurt'i Is told t-y the Rev. E. H. B!aclr, a Cburtlj f England missionary near Fort Simpson. v. Lo has Just arrivel in Winnipeg, Martitc,!: . Last Winter was a very hard one for tho In dians, owing to the absence of rein lcer ixi. I the impossibility of bunting moo33 euc-ci -fully in the absence of much snow. Ti n p r sons succumbed at Fort Wrigley. I'r. V.c'i fears that the mortality during ttecvr-;!; -winter will also te greatunless there coi: -n a heavy fall of soow. Provis.ons gavo .. nt the lort last Win'er in the beginri.t : f January. Fiour is dear enough atnny tim-, the regular pricj being 131 a bag at Fuit Wriglev, white it is $-17 a bug at Fort Simp son. But Mr. Black'says be voul-i Liv given f2J0a bag last Winter if be could I - purchased some and have given tlie 1 i i a share. Tbed:6tress in that district w:n ter rible. He had to leave to avoid storvati u. At Fort Liard seven died from ttarvat; j last AV inter. THE EARTH QUAKES. Sharp Shock at 1Yilkcslarrc-.Ii , Surface Gives Away. : People in Wilkcsbarre, Pa., were con , ! ably agitated by a sharp shock of cart; ; i : which occurred at 815 o'clock. Buii there, in Ashley, Kingston, P.ttston en 1 s rounding country, trembled for -;ver. 1 t onds vigorously enough to ratt!j c: iV r- and crockery, and in tome cases to thr to the Coor. A woman residing oa Fra street was thrown from her chair. messagesaro pouring in from nil jnrt K f t county, inquiring for particulars at t t damage done. So far as cafi t o 1 ear l f no property has been damaged or p r injured. ..." At about the time the shoe " ff.. Wiikesbarre, an extensivecav.-m to S( at Plymouth, three miles frt.in here. At 1, in the evening it is reported fro.n F r t five acres or more of the D law nre : . son mice surface bad gone down. . no one at work at the time. lUol .' the hour preyen'-S further frt.:.. .
Murfreesboro Index (Murfreesboro, N.C.)
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