THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. IV. NO. 2.9
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W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC,
During the year ending with the close
of last June, we arc informed that about
1,700,000,000 cigarettes were sold in thi?
country—an enormous increase over th<
year before. At this rate, says the New
York Star , the small boy will disapjieai
from history about January 1, 1808.
The New York Mail and Krprr&g says
that “the shipment of Florida oranges to
Europe, which was attempted for the
first time this whiter, has resulted most
satisfactorily. About 1,000 boxes of the
fruit were sent over during November
and December, when the markets of Eng
land and Scotland are almost entirely
without oranges, as the Spanish and
Italian fruit was not yet ripe. The
prices obtained were such that after all
the transportation charges and commis
sions were paid, the net returns to the
growers exceeded those on the same
grades of oranges sold in this city. The
fruit became very popular on the other
side, as it is much sweeter than any Eu
ropean oranges.’*
J. Hatch, the best engraver in the
government bureau of engraving and
printing in Washington, lias resigned
owing to the small salary, and has taken a
place with the Western Hank Note Com
pany of Chicago at a high salary. lie
is a young man, and one of the best en
gravers in the I'nitcd States. The
Washington Star says of him: “Hatch
was discovered by George B. McCartee, 1
the late chief of the bureau, in the little
town of Salem, N. Y., where he was
acting as a jeweler's apprentice. He
brought him to Washington and assigned
him to an engraver’s table at a nominal
salary, the first apprentice who was ever
employe ! in this division of the bureau.
One of Mr. Hatch’s early tasks was to
make a reduced copy of a portrait of
Bryant, which Charles Burt had then
recently engraved for a memorial of the
poet’s works, and for which he had l>ecn |
paid a very large stun. It was one of
Burt’s best elTorts, and no finer specimen |
of the engraver’s art could have been |
found as ‘copy.’ Young Hatch suc
ceeded in producing a portrait of Bry
ant, that f«»r art skill amazed every one.
Mr. Burt, who lived in Brooklyn, and
rarely came to Washington, was dis
pleased when he first saw the picture,
but when he met the young engraver his
displeasure was lost in astonishment.
From that time, about ten years ago,
young Hatch has remained in the bureau,
ind every year has brought with it for
him new aehievcinenta and increased !
com|M*nsatiou. Recent specimens of his |
work arc portraits of Garfield on the |
new |5 national currency note and of j
Grant on the $5 silver certificate, and as ;
showing his versatility of talent he de- i
•igned and engraved fbe ‘picture work *
on the back of the s'» silver certificate,
as well as other work of a similar char
acter on notes lately issued by the Treas*
ary.”
REV. I)R. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Text: “And then was a man tn Maon t
whose possessions were in Carmel: and the
man was very great , and he had three t hour
sand sheep and a thousand goats." —l Sam
uel, xxv., 2.
My text introduces us to a drunken bloat
of large property. Before the day of Rafety
deposits and government bonds and national
banks peoplehad their investments, iu flocks
and herds, and this man, Nabal, of the text,
had much of his possession in live stock.
He came also of a distinguished family and
had glorious Caleb for an an« > estor. Hut this
descendant was n sneak, a churl, a sot and a
fool. One instance to illustrate: It was a
wool raising country, and at the time of
shearing a great feast was prepared for the
shearers; and David and his warriors, who
had in other days saved from destruction
the threshing floors of Nabal, sent to him
asking, in this time of plenty, for some bread
for their starving men. Ami Nabal cried
out: “Who is David?” As though an Eng
lishman had said: “Who is Wellington?” or
a German should say: “Who is VonMoltke?”
or au American should sav: “Who is Wash
ington:” Nothing did Nabal give to the
starving men, and that night the scoundrel
lay dead drunk at home, ami the Bible gives
us a full length picture of him sprawling and
maudlin and hoi (oloss.
Now that was tho man whom Abigail, the
lovely and gracious and good woman, mar
ried—a tuberose planted beside a thistle, a
palm branch twined into a wreath of deadly
nightshade. Surely that was uot one of the
matches made in heaven. We throw up our
hands in horror at that wedding. How did
she ever consent to link her destinies w ith
such a creature! Well, she no doubt thought
that it would be au honor to bo associated
with an aristocratic family, and no one can
despise a great name. Beside this, wealth
would come, and with it chains of gold and
mansions lighted by swinging lamps of
aromatic oil, and resounding with the cheer
of banqueters sea tail at tables laden with
wines from the richest vineyards, and fruits
from ripest orchards, and nuts threshed from
foreign woods, and meats smoking In platters
of gold, set on by slaves in bright uniform.
Before she plighted her troth with this dissi
pated man she sometimes said to herself;
“How can I endure him? To bo associated
for life with such a debauche 1 cannot and
will uot!” But then again she said to her
self* “It is time I was married, and this is a
'*■ world to deiiend on, and perhaps I
tdo worse aed may bo i will rrmir/s q
man out of him, and marriage is a lot
tery anyhow.” Ami when one day this reji
resentative of a great house presented himself
in a parenthesis of sobriety and with an
assume! geniality and gallantry of manner,
and with promises of fidelity and kindness
and self-abnegation, a June morning smiled
on a march squall, and the great souled
woman surrendered her happiness to the
keeping of this infamous son of fortune
whose possessions were in Carmel; and the
man was very great, and he had three thou
sand sheep and a thousand goats.
Behold here a domestic tragedy repeated
every hour of every day all over Christen
dom—marriage for worldly success without
regard to character. Bo Marie Jeanne
I’hlipon, tho daughter of tho bumble en
graver of Baris, liecnmo tho famous Mine.
Holaml o? history, the vivacious and brill
iant girl united with the cold, formal, mo
notonous man, liecause be came of an affluent
family of Amiens and had lordly blood in
his veins. The day when through political
revolution this patriotic woman was led to
the scaffold around which lay piles of human
heads that had fallen from tho ax, and she
said to an aged man whom she had comforted
as ihoy ascended the scaffold: “Go first that
you may not witness my death,” an- 1 then
undaunted took her turn to die—that day
was to her only the last act of tho tragedy of
which her uncongenial marriage day was the
first
Good and genial character in a man, the
very first requisite for a woman’s happy mar
riage. Mistake me not as deprecative of
worldly prosperities. There is a religious
cant that would seem to represent poverty as
a virtue and wealth as a crime. 1 can take
vou through a thousand mansions where God
is as inu« h worshiped as he ever was in a
cabin. The gospel inculcates the virtues which
tend toward wealth. In the millennium we will
all dwell in palaces,and ride in chariots,and
sit at sumptuous banquets, and sleep under
rich embroideries, and live 400 or 500 years
for, if according to the Bible, in those times
a child shall die 100 years old, the average- of
human life will Is? at least five centuries. The
whole tendency of sin is toward poverty, and
the whole tendency of righteousness is toward
wealth. Godliness is profitable for the life
that now is as well as for that which is to
come. No inventory can bo made of the
picture galleries consecrated to God, and of
sculpture, and of libraries, and pillared mag-
I nificence, and of parks, and fountains and
gardens in the ownership of good men and
women. The two most lordly residences in
which I was ever a guest had morning and
evening prayers, all the employes present,
and all day long there was an air of cheerful
oietv in the conversation and Iwhavior. 1 xml
Kadstock carried tho gospel to tho Russian
nobility. Lord Cavan and Lord ( aims siient
their vaction in evangelistic service. Jxird
Congleton became missionary to Bagdad.
And the Christ who was born iu an eastern
raravansary has again and again lived in a
palace.
It is a grand thing to have plenty of
money, and horses that don’t compel you to
take the dust of every lumbering and lazy
vehicle; and books of history that give you
a glimpse of all tho past; and shelves of
poetry to which you may go and ask Milton
or Tennyson or Bpencer or Tom Moore or
Koliert Burns to step down and spend an
evening with you; and other shelves to
which you may go while you feel disgusted
with the shams of the world, and ask Thack
eray to express your chagrin, or Charier
Dickens to excise the I'ccksnilflaniKm, or
Thomas Carlyle to thunder your indignation;
or the shelves where the old gospel writers
stand ready to warn and cheer us wbi'e they
alien doors into that city which is so bright
le noonday sun is abolished as useless. There
is no virtue in owning a horse that takes four
minutes to go a mile, if you can ow n one
that can go in a little over two minutes and
a half; no virtue in running into the teeth
of a northeast wind with thin ap|>arel,
If you can afford furs; no virtue in
lieing poor when you can honestly bo rich.
Tliere am names of men and women that 1
have only to mention and they suggest not |
only wealth but religion and generosiiy and I
philanthropy, such as Ann* Lawrence, James
J**niiox, I'et T Cooper, William K. D'xlgo, j
Khaftediury, Bii«« Wolf and Mrs, As tor. i
A recent letter says that of fifty leading !
business men in one of our Eastern cities
and of the fifty leading business men
of one of our western cities thre** fourth* of
them are < 'hristiaus. Tho fact is t Ini about
all the brain And the lm*in*«* genius is on
the side of religion. Infidelity is incipient in
sanity. Ail infidel* are crank* Many of
them talk brightly, but you soon find that in
their mental machinery tliere is a scrow
loose. W hen they are not lecturing against
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1888
Christianity they are sitting ia barrooms
squirting tobacco juice, and when they get
mad swear tfM the place is sulphurous. They
only talk to keep their courage up and ai<
best will feel like the infidel who begged to
bo buried wpth his Christian wife and
daughter, and when asked why he wanted
suenburiui replied* “If there be a resurrec
tion of the good, as some folks say there will
be, my Christian wife and daughter will
somehow get me up and take me along with
them.”
Mon may pretend to despise religion, but
they are rank hypocrates. The sea captain
was right when lie came up to the village on
thr sea coast, and insisted on paying s'lo to
the chuscli although he <li«l not attend him
self- Wheu asked his reason, he said that
ho had beeh in the habit of carrying cargoes
of masters and clams from that place, ana he
found sindb that church was built the people
were more honest than they used to bo, for
before the church was built he often fouud the
load when he came to count it a thousand
clams short. Yes. Godliness is profitable
for both worlds. Most of the great, honest,
permanent worldly successes are by those
who reverence Hod and the Bible But what
Ido say is that if a man have nothing but
social position and financial resources, a
woman who puts her happiness by marriage
in his hand re-enacts tne folly of Abigail
when she accepted disagreeable Nabal.
“whose possessions were in Carmel; and tho
man whs very great, and he had three thou
sand sheep, awl one thousand goats.”
If there l»e good inoral character accom
panied by affluent circumstances, 1 congratu
late you. If not, let the morning lark tly
clear of tho Rocky Mountain eagle. Tho sae
-ifleo of woman on the altar of social and
financiul expectation is cruel andstu|iendous.
I sketch you a scene you havo more than
once witnessed. A comfortable homo with
nothing more than ordinary surroundings,
but an attractive daughter carefully ami
Christianly reared. From tho outside world
conies In a man with nothing but money.un
less you count profanity and selfishness and
fondness for champagne and general Beck-
Ices ness as part of Ins poss -ssion. Ho has bis
coat collar turned up when there is no chill
in the air hut because it gives him an air of
abandon, and eyeglass, not liecause he is near
sighted but becauso it gives a classical ap
pearance, and with an attire somewhat loud,
a cane thick enough to be the club of Hercules
and clutched at the middle, his conversation
interlarded with French phrases inaccurately
pronounced, and a sweep of manner indicat
that he was not horn lib* iv.iu*
terrestrially landed. By arts learned of the
devil he insinuates himself into the affec
tions of tin* daughter of that Christian home.
All the kindred congratulate her on the al
moatfuspernntnral prospects. Reports come in
tha™he young man is fast in his habits, that
he has broken several young hearts, ami that
ho is mean and selfish and cruel. But all
this is covered up with Ihe fact that; lie has
several houses in his own name, and has
large dfyesits at tho bank, and moßp than
all, has a father worth many hundred thou
sand dollars, ami very feeble in health, und
may any day drop off, and this is the only
son, and a round dollar held close to one’s
eye is large enough to shut out a great desert,
and how much more will several bushels or
dollars shut out.
The marriage day comes and goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough, and the
orange blossoms fragrant enough, and the
benediction solemn enough, and the wedding
march stirring enough. And the audience
shed teal’s of symriathetic gladness, supposing
that tUb craft containing the two has sailed
off on a pla' id lake, although God knows
that they are launched on a Dead Sea, its
waters brackish with tears and ghastly with
ghastly faces of despair floating to the surface
and then going down. There they are, the
newljunarried pair in their new home. Jfe
turns out to lie a tyrant. Her will is noth
ing, his will everything. Lavish of money
for his own pleasure, he begrudges her the
penniekhe pinches out into her trembling
palm. Vlnstead of the kind words she left
behind in her former home, now there are
complaints and fault findings and curses. He
is the master and she the slave. The worst
villain on earth is the man who. having
captiiMcd a woman from her father’s home
and after the oath of the marriage altar has
l»eon pronounced, says, by his manner if not
in words: “i have vou now in my power.
What can you do? My arm is stronger than
yours. My voice is louder than yours. My
fortune is greater than yours. My name fs
mightier than vours. Now crouch before me
like h dog. Now crawl away from me like a
reptile. YtJu are nothing but a woman, any
how. Down, you miserable wretch!” Can
Imlls of moasie, can long lines of Etruscan
bronze, or statnary by Palmer and Bowers
a*id Crawford and Chantry and Canova,can
galleries rich from the pencil of Bierstadt
and Church and Kenset and Cole and Crop
sey, couM flutes played on bv an Ole Bull
or pianos fingered by a Gottscfialk, or solos
warbled by a .Sonntag, could wardrolies like
that of a Marie Antoinette, could jewels like
thoso of a Eugenie make a wife in such a
Domitauionship happy!
!mi>risoued in v-castle! Her gold bracelets
are tho chains of a lifelong servitude. There
is a sword, over her every feast,, not like that
of Damocles, staying suspended, but drop
ping through her Inceratcu heart. Her ward
robe is full of shrouds fur deaths which she
daily, and she is buried alive, though
huried under gorgeous upholstery. There is
one word that Sounds under the arches and
rolls along tho corridors, and weeps in the
falling fountains, ami echoes iu the shutting
of every door, and groans in every note of
itringci ami wind instrument: “Woe!
Woe!” The oxen and sheep in olden times
brought to the temple of Jupiter to be sacri
ficed usol to bo covered with ribbons and
flowers, ribbons on the horns ami flowers on
the neck. But tho floral and ribboned decora
tions did not make tho stab of the butcher’s
knife less (loathful, and nil the chandeliers
you bong over swen a woman, and all the
rolieri with which you enwrap her, and all
the ribbons with which you adorn her, and
all tho bewitching charms with which you
emhnnk h*c footsteps are the ribbons and
flowers of a horrible butchery.
As to show how wretched a goo-1 woman
may U: in splendid surroundings,we have two
recent illustration*, two ducal places in
Great Britain. They are the focus of the
best things that are,possible .‘u art, in litera
ture, hi architecture—the a' cumulation of
other estates, until their wealth is beyond
calculation and their grandeur beyond de
scription. One of the castle* has a cabinet
set with gems that cost $2.. r ioh,noj l and the
walls of it bloom with Rembrandt* and
Clarifies and Poussins and Guido* and Raph
aels. nml there are Southdown flocks in
summer grazing on its lawns and Arab steeds
S trancing at tho doorway* on the “first open
lay at the kennel*. "From the one castle the
duchess has removed with her children be
cau*e‘,slfe can no longer endure the orgies
of her husband, the duke, nml in the
other castle the duchess remain* con
fronted by insults and abomination* in the
presence of which 1 do not think God or do
cent society requires a good woman to re
main. Ale* for those dural country scats!
They on a large wale illustrate what on a
smaller scale may lie seen iu many places,
tliai without moral character in a husband
all tho accessories of wealth are to a wife’a
soul tanteflaatlon and mockery. When Abi
gail find* Nabal, her husband. Ix»nstly drunk,
a* she cornea home from internsling for hi*
fortune ami file, it was no alleviation that
tie* old brute had pnaaiwiions in < 'arinel, and
“was very great, nml hail three thou*and
•beef), and a thousand goats,” and lie the
worst goat among Item. The animal in hit
mri 'irc wd/ed the adtrl in ita mouth and ran
an with It
Before things are right in this world gen
teel villains are to l>e expurgated. Instead
of lieing welcomed into respectable society
because of the amount of stars and garters
and medals and estates they represent, they
ought to be fumigated two or three years be
fore they are allowed without peril to them
selves to put their hand on the door knob of
a moral house. The time has come when a
masculine estray will lie as repugnant to good
society as a feminine estray, and no coat of
arms or family emblazonry or epaulet can
pass a Lothario unchallenged among the
sanctities of home life. By what law of God
or common sense is an Absalom better than a
Delilah, a Don Juan better than a Messalina?
The brush that mints the one black must
paint tho other black. But what a spectacle
it was when last sununer much of “watering
place” society went wild with enthusiasm
#ver an unclean foreign dignitary, whose
Dame in both hemispheres is a synonym for
profligacy, and princesses of American society
worn all parts of the land had him ride in
their carriages ami sit at their tables, though
they knew him to l>e a portable lazaretto, a
charnel house of inori.l putrefaction, his
breath a typhoid, hi) foot that of a Satyr,
and his touch death. H <ro is an evil that
men cannot stop but women may. Keep all
such out of your parlors, ha ze no recognition
for them iu tho street, and no more think of
allying your life and destiny with theirs than
“gales from Araby” would consent to pass
the honeymoon with an Egyptian plague.
All that money or social position a bad man
brings to a woman in marriage is a splendid
despair, a gilded horror, a brilliant agony, a
prolonged death, and the longer the marital
union lasts the more evident will lie tho fact
that she might better never have been horn.
Yet you and I have In-on at brilliant weddings,
where, before the feast was over, the bride
groom’s tongue was thick,and his eyes glassy,
nml his step a stagger as he clicked glasses
with jolly comrades, ail going with lightning
limited express train to the fatal crash over
the embankment of a ruined life and a lost
eternity.
Woman, join not your right hand with
such aright hand, Accept from such a one
no jewel for finger or ear lest the sparkle of
lirecious stone turn out to bo tho eye of a
msilisk, nml let not the ring come on the
finger of your right band lest that ring turn
out to Ite one link erf a chain that shall hind
you in never ending captivity. In the name
of God and heaven and home, in the name of
all time and all eternity I forbid the bansl
t’onseqt not to join one of tho many regi
ments of women who havo married for
worldly success without regard to moral
character.
If you are ambitious, oh woman, for noble
affiancing, why not marry a King? And to
that honor you are invited by the monarch
of heaven and earth, and this day a voice
from the skies sounds forth: “As the bride
groom rejoieeth over the bride so shall thy
God rejoice over thee.” Let Him put upon
thee tin ring of his royal marriage. H ‘re is
an honor worth reaching after. By repent*
am e and faith you may come into a marriage
with the emperor of universal dominion, and
you may lie an empress unto God forever,
and reign with him in palaces that the cen
turies cannot crumble nor cannonades de
molish.
High worldly marriage is not necessary for
woman, or marriage of any kind in order to
your happiness. Celibacy hns been honored
by the best lieing that ever lived and hi*
greatest apostle, Christ and l’aul. What
higher-honor could singlo life on earth have!
But what you need, oh woman, is to lie affi
anced forever and forever, and tho bands ol
that marriage 1 am this moment hero and
now ready to publish. Let the angels c*
, heaven bend from their galleries of light tc
1 witness while I pronounce you one—a loving
God and a forgiven soul. One of the most
stirring passages in history with which I am
acquainted tells us how Cleopatra, tho exiled
queen of Egypt, won the sympathies of Julius
Caesar, the conqueror, untd lie became the
bridegroom and she the bride. Driven from
her throne, she sailed away on the Mediter
ranean sea in a storm, and when the large
ship anchored she put out with one womanly
friend in a small boat until she arrived at
Alexandria, where was Caesar, the great gen
eral. Kuo wing that she would not be i>er*
mitted to law] or pass the guards on the way
to Caesar’* palace, she laid upon the bottom
of tho boat some shawls and scarfs and rich
ly dyed upholstery, and then lay down upon
them, and ter friend wrapped her in them
and she was admitted ashore ill this wrap
ping of goods, which was announced as a
present for Caesar. This bundle was permit
ted to pass the guards of the gates of the
{Nilace and was put down at the feet of the
ioman General- When the bundle was un
rolled there rose before Ca'sar one whose
courage and Iw.uty and brilliancy are the
astonishment of the ages. This exiled queen
of Egypt told the story of her sorrows, and
he promised her that she should got back her
throne in Egypt and take the throne of wifely
dominion in his own heart. Afterward they
made a triumphal tour in a barge -that the
pictures of many art ga.iorios have called
“Cleopatra's Barge”’ and that barge was cov
ered with silken awning, and it* deck was
soft with luxuriant carpets, and the oars
were silver tipped, and tho prow was gold
mounted, and tho air was redolent with the
gpicery of tropical gardens and resonant
with the muiic that made the night glad as
the day. You may rejoice.oh wonmn.thatyou
are not a Cleopatra, and that tho one to
whom you may lie affianced had none of tho
sin* of Cassar, the conqueror. But it suggests
to mo how you, a soul exiled from happiness
and |ieace, may find your way to the feet of
the conqueror of earth and skv. 'though it
may lie a dark night of spiritual ogitation|iu
which you put out, into the harbor ot peace
you may sail, and when all tho wrappings of
fear and doubt and sin shall be removed you
will lie found nt the feet of Him who will nut
vou on a throne to lie acknowledged as His
in the day when all the silver trumpet* of
the sky shall proclaim:' 4 ’Behold tlio bride
groom coinetb, and in a barge of light you
*ail with him the river whoso source is the
foot of the throne and who*e mouth is at the
sea of glass mingled with fire.
A Mysterious Shooting.
Near Glass Mountain S. (’., Benjamin
A. Ross, who lias been a noted character
iu his time in all the mountainous section
of that county, was shot and killed in
his own house. Ross had liceii sick dur
ing the day and was lying on a pallet lie
fore the lire waiting for his lied to lie
prepared for him. It was early in the
night. At last Boss arose and started
across the floor to the Imm I, when the
crack of a rifle broke the quiet of the
night and the sick man fell dead on the
floor pierced with a bullet. The deadly
shot hud liern fired through the window
by some unknown assassin outside, who
fledjeuving no trace of his identity.
Forged Checks.
Home shajicr is perjietrating extensive
forgeries on the firm of Edwards A
Broughton, printers and binders, of Ral
eigh, N. Cheeks with the name of
the firm, forged, have been received at
the linn’s bank from Wadesboro, llills-
Ixiio and other places. The operations
are of such a nature as to lead to the be
lief that other forgeries will be discover
ed. All business firms are warned not to
receive these checks.
THE BURGLARS CAUGHT
And a Reign of Terror In Charleston, 8.
C., Ended.
The whole city of Charleston, 8. C., is
rejoicing over the capture by detectives
of the burglars who have been operating
there for the past six months. They
were captured at their den on Meeting
street. Their names are Andrew Gibbs
and James Johnson, with a dozen aliases.
Both arc negroes under twenty years of
age. There can be no doubt that these
two crooks are the ones who have terror
ized the entire city for several months,
for the detectives found in their nest a
large assortment of plunder, which tilled
up a room at the main police station.
The news of the arrest was bulletined
early in the morning, and the station
house was crowded all day by victims in
search of missing articles. One of the
burglars made a confession and told how
they had robbed over fifty houses within
the last three months.
Indian Outrages.
Nogales, A. T., Special. —The prefect
of the Guay mas district has informed the
State officials of Sonora that he has in
formation of further trouble from the
Yaqiii Indians, and at a point where it
was thought there was no danger. The
people in the vicinity of Punta del Agua
iiave appealed for aid, stating that a
hand of desperate Indians, numbering
fifty or more, have arrived there and are
devastating ranches and running off all
the cattle and horses. General Guerra,
who has been following the Indians in
another portion of the State, and is now
at San Marcial with his command, has
been ordered to proceed to Punta del
Agua with all possible haste. He is in
structed at once upon his arrival to call
for reinforcements, should he deem it
necessary. The opinion that many ban
dits have joined the Yaquis prevail in
official circles.
North CaraliiiA State Guard.
Officers of the general staff and com
mandants of the various regiments of the
state guard met at Raleigh and had a
long conference with Governor Scales. It
was decided by the governor to furnish
all troops with overcoats, and twelve
hundred will be immediately requisition
ed for. It was also decided to issue cloth
for uniforms to the companies as rapid
as needed. This latter issue will be at
once made to four companies whose uni
forms are reported unserviceable- It was
also decided to hold an encampment
some time between the middle of July
and the middle of August, at a point on
or near the coast. The location and ex
act date of the encampment were not set
tled, but will soon be announced. Mhe
adjutant-general and regimental officer*
have left for Wilmington ty look at
camping points in that vicinity.
At Her Post of Duty.
The editor of the Southern Christian
Advocate, of Columbia, 8. C., has re
ceived a letter from Piracicaba, Brazil,
announcing the death, at her post of
duty in that city, of Mrs. Wolfing, wife
of Rev. J. W. Wolfing, of the South
Carolina Conference, who left that State
less than a year ago to reinforce the
Methodist Missions in Brazil. Mrs. Well
ing was sick for twelve days with ma
larial fever, and, a heavy hemorrhage
coming on, she sank quickly and passed
away in half an hour, on December 27th.
The news of her death will he a great
shock to hundreds of loving friends
throughout this State and Georgia.
The Body Found.
While a party of laborers were work
ing on a public road in Alexander county.
N. C., they unearthed a skeleton. Their
picks first unearthed the skull a foot be
neath the surface. They soon had the
entire skeleton out. It was in a sitting
posture, the knees being drawn up close
to the chin. It is that of a colored man
who mysteriously disappeared from Tay
lorsville twenty years ago. At the time
he disappeared he was known to have
hail S4OO in gold and silver in his pos
session, and it was always thought he
had been murdered, his money secured
and his body disposed of in some mys
terious manner.
Jealousy the Cause.
In Wilkes county N. C., Joseph Green
shot Martin Triplett with a rifle, causing
death iu forth-eight hours. The men
were on good terms for some months be
fore this fatal affray, which occurred on
account of Triplett’s alleged intimacy
with Green’s wife. Triplett went into
Green’s yard and the latter, taking his
rifle, shot him in the alxlomcn. Green
has, with his wife, made his escape and
cannot Ik? found. Whiskey and jealousy
were the cause of this bad affair.
Cut Hi* Fathers Throat.
At Greenville, N. (’., John Page was
assaulted by his seventeen-year-old son,
and the latter cut his father’s throat,
causing very severe injury. The lad had
an infectious disease. The father had
ordered the son not to visit him until
well. The bov disot»eyed, whereupon
the’father rebuked him. This infuriated
the young fiend, and he instantly sprang
at his father and cut his throat and threw
him down, and would have killed him
had not his mother and sister interposed.
North Carolina’s New College.
Raleigh lias completed the payment of
eight thousand dollars subscribed to the
State Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege, that sum having been a bonus giv
en to secure its location there. Work on
the college will begin in thirty days.
Great quantities of material are being
hauled to its site. i
Terms. $1.50 per Annin. Single Copy 5 cents.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
New* Collected by Wire and Mall From
All Part* of Dixie.
There are now 21J students nt Wake
Forest N. C. College,
Another national hank is to lie es
tablished at Salisbury, N. C.
Simon Elias, clothing merchant at
Florence, S. C., has failed, liabilities
$10,000; assets $3,000.
The latest estimate is that 1,800 bales
of cotton were burned in the fire at
Charleston, S. C.
The old war between the ports of
Newport News and Norfolk, Va., has
been received at Washington.
Revenue officers in Alabama captured
several stills, 10,000 gallons of wiskey
and seven moonshiners.
W. K. Gilkerson, a prominent dry
goods merchant of Laurens, S. C., has *
failed, liabilities $5,878; nominal assets
$13,731.
James Hudson's residence, in Rowan
county, N. C., was burned a few nights
ago, with all its contents. Loss, $1,500,
with no insurance.
A Republican State Convention has *
been called to meet in Jackson, Miss., on
February Oth, to elect delegates to the
National Convention.
Winstead & McGowan, hardware deal
ers, at Greenville. S. C., have made an
assignment. Liabilities, $5,000; assets
said to be SB,OOO.
The firm of Jackson & Shaw, at Car
thage, N. C., also made an assignment
for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities
and assets tire not stated.
Rev. Dr. J. T. Wheat, of Salisbury, N.
C., one of the most venerable Episcopal
clergymen in the State, died at his home
at Salisbury. He was the father-in-law
of Hon. Frank E. Shober, ex-congress
man from the seventh district.
Counterfeit money is becoming so
numerous in Laurens county, S. C., as to
suggest the idea that the factory is not
faraway. The coin appears as bright as
a pin, and is a clever imitation.
Near Longview, Texas, a passenger
train on the Texas and Pacific Railroad
was derailed by a defective; switc h. The
engineer was killed and three trainmen
fatally injured.
Walter Bristow, the one-armed man,
who this week at Palmyra, Halifax
county, killed J. 11. Heminit, has been
acquitted on plain proof that it was jus
tifiable homicide.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, re
fuses to surrender the Hatfields, for
whom a requisition has been made; by
the Governor of West Viiginia. The
courts must decide the matter.
A serious stabbing affray occurred at
Sandy Flat, near Greenville, S. C., at a
party given in the neighborhood. Sam
Lynn, while recklessly handling an open
knife, stabbed Charlie Collins, seriously
wounding him under the arm.
At Danville, Va., the amount of leaf
tobacco sold from warehouses in January
was 2,700.000 pounds. For the first
four months of the tobacco year the sales
were 10,700,000 pounds, as against
5,500,000 pounds for the same time last
year.
The two men charged with being con
cerned in the Pinkens, S. C., lynching,
were granted bail in the sum of $2,000
each. Richard Kemp, who was convict
ed at the term of the Court, made his es
cape from the jail at Abbeville. He has
not yet been caught.
Fire broke out at Williainston, Martin
county, N. C., in the recently finished
residence of S. H. Newberry. The large
frame livery stable caught tire fro at the
residence, and l»oth were entirely con
sumed. The Masonic hall and other
property near by sustained some damage.
Newberry’s loss is $3,000. Insurance
$1,300.
Miss Alice Savage, of Hamilton, N. C.,
was so badly burned that her recovery is
hopeless. Her dress is supposed to have
caught fire before retiring, thereby set
ting tire to her-self and the lied. Her
father, mother and brother-in-law were
painfully burned in extinguishing the
flames.
Two miles from Makelyville, in Hyde
county, N. C., a man namedLupton kept
a barroom and grocery. In the morning
his store was found in ashes with his
charred remains in the midst. He is sup
posed to have been murdered, robbed and
store set on tire. There is no ctue to
the murderer.
North, East and West.
A fire at Seattle, W. T., destroyed two
sawmills. Loss, $25,000.
Colonel Mapleson, opera manager, has
l»een declared a bankrupt in London.
The employees of the Bessemer Steel
Works at Troy, have returned to word.
There are twenty-one iron furnaces idle
in Pennsylvania in consequence of the
strike.
Earnest Brockoff, 13 years of age, died
of hydrophobia in Chicago. He was bit
ten by a dog early in January.
Arguments in the trial of Hopkins, of
the Fidelity bank, were concluded in
Cincinnati, and after the judge's charge,
the case waa turned over to the jury.
A tire at Brown’s Valley, Main., the
town that was blockaded by the bliz
zard, caused a loss of $18,000; only
partly insured.
At Cornwall, tint., fifteen hundred
cotton operative* are on a strike against
a reduction of wages.
A band of strolling gypsies, arrested
at Providence, R. 1., a day or two ago,
were found to have $9,000 in gold tied
up in rags with them.