THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. IV. NO. 33.
THE
Charlotte Messenger
IS PUBLISHED
livery Saturday,
AT
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Ir. tho Interests of the Colored People
of the Country.
.Able ami well-known writers will contrib
Ute t.i its columns from different rmrts of the
coiintrv. nisi it will rontain thejatest Gen
eral News of the day.
Tin: Mkssengkr is a first-class newspaper
and Bill not allow personal abuse in its col
umns. It is not sectarian or partisan, but
inde|<endent —dealing fairly by all. It re
serves the right to criticise the shortcomings
es all public otlicials— commending the
worthy, and recommending for election such
men as in it* opinion ore best suited to serve
the interests of the people.
It is intended to supply the long felt need
7 11 i-ewspaper to mlvis-ate the rights and
defend the inter-sts of the Negro-American,
especially in the Piedmont section of the
Carolina*.
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W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC,
HUMOR OF THE HAY.
Sign for a money lender—Lucre lierel
Gentlemen learnin" the cornet should
•iiploy private footers.
An awkward waiter frequently play*
the deuce with the tray. —Hotel Mail.
Miss Columbia was the first girl to gel
a Now .Jersey. —Pittsburg Chronicle.
The pen is a mighty engine, and i!
sometimes runs away with the engineer.
Chicago Time*.
The barber’s Is a strange profession.
You seldom see one that is not at th<
head. — Statesman.
Says the New Haven Nears: “A foot
rule—wear overshoes.” We should cal]
that a two-foot rule.— Non'istown 11 raid.
When Dakota becomes a State it will
doubtless adopt as its coat-of-arins ao
cur-tnulT couchant aud a shiver rampant.
- (trophic.
To bashful correspondent—The firsl
thing for you to do is to poi> the question,
the second to question the pop. — Bur
lington Free Press.
Whi n Grecian athletes sought the field*
And nobly fell, in bravery utter,
They brought them home upon their shield—
They bring them home now on a shutter.
—Detroit Free frets.
We don't know whether to believe thf
story that Mr. Howells replied to apersoc
who asked for a list of the best hundred
books: “I have not written a hundred
books.”— Life.
A girl who weighs 120 pounds and hai
$30,000 in her own r ght, no matter how
homely, unattractive or cross-tempered
she may be, is worth her weight in gold.
Hoston Courier.
The Iloston Transcript knows of an
erudite clergymen who spoke of the un
fortunate woman of Sodom ao “Lot’s
lady who was transformed into a mono
lith of chloride of sodium.”
Th«*ir chaste salut*-* are not m *pliu*ed
When women kiss a friend or brother;
But of life’s honey what a waste
Th**re is when women kiss each other.
—Hoston Courier.
Deacon Jones (to minister) —*‘The col
lection this morning, Mr. Goodman, ww
gratify ingly large.” Minister—“ Yes,
deacon, I noticed quite a number ol
strangers among the congregation.”—
Hjmh'/i .
Husband (groaning)-- “The rheuma
tism in my leg is coming on again.”
Wife (with sympathy)- “ Qh, I am so
sorry, John. I wanted to do some shop*
ping today, and that is a sure sign ol
rain.”— Kjtocli.
A lover who addressed a love scented
letter to the object of bis affections, ask
ing the young lady to become his partuei
through life, inscribed oil one corner ol
the cnvolo|H\ “Sealed proposals.” Thf
result was he was awarded the contract.
A not** from a rural |M>stotfice in Ten
nesse*.- reads: “Dear——; The reason
I did n't iatf when you last at me in thf
Post Offis yesterday was because I had a
bile on my and kan’t luff. If I lafl
she ’ll bust. Hut I love you, bile or no
bile, luff or no lats.”
The way some lovers cough and hem.
And Hccrn to lom> their breath, aha!
You'd In* in*-burnt to pity them.
Thinking their trouble is the asthma.
Tie* way sons- maidefi*<*oiigh and hem,
You’«l think (heir trouble is Ilia oathraa;
But 'tis not that which *!*•*•* Ail them.
They’re only troubled with the “ ‘ask ma!"
— (Jointall's Bun.
Nothing Serious. —Miss Clara (to
Feathcrlv, who is making an evening
call) —“poor little Bobby swallowed a
penny Hr day,and we’ve all been so much
worried about it.” Feathcrly (somewhat
at a loss for Words of oncourgement)—
“Oh, I—er—wouldn't worry, Miss Clara;
* penny is not much.”— ifarptr't Bmsar.
WASHINGTON
GOSSIP FROM*UNCLE SAKS* CAP
ITOL
What sir Bnny I.aw Maker* are Dalai.
C'ancresnlanal and Other News.
The President has nominated Jabez C.
Street, of Alabama, to lie receiver of pub
lic moneys at Huntsville, Ala.
Representative Perry has received sev
eral communications from fourth-class
postmasters, inquiring what his position
is oil the proposition to increase the pay
pf fourth-class postmasters. He states
that he is heartily in sympathy with the
postmasters and cordially endorses all
they claim in their petitition to Congress
which has been fully set forth in this
correspondence.
The internal revenue reduction bill has
been completed by the Democratic mem
bers of the committee on ways and
means, and is now being printed. It
will belaid before the full committee in
a few days. The Randall tariff bill is
nearing completion and will lx? made
public in a day or two.
Col. Elliott has introduced a bill to
extend for on** year the time for the re
demption of the school farms in Beaufort
county, 8. C., still held by the United
States. He has been notified by the
postmaster general that his request for
daily mail (Sunday excepted) from Sum
ter to Bishopville has lieen granted and
the change will go into effect from the
16th instaut. A new post office has
been established at Tomotly, Beaufort
county S. C., with C. C. Gregorie, post
master.
Representative Elliott has given con
siderable attention to the subject of im
proving the inland navigation of South
Carolina, and states that he will be glad
to have any suggestions bearing upon
this question from all persons who are
interested in having the inland naviga
tion along the coast of South Carolina
improved. Os course surveys will have
to be authorized by the Government lie
fore any provision can lx* made for fu
ture work.
An Inhuman Murder.
A special to the Greenville, S. C.,
Daily News from Pickens. S. C\, says
that news has just reached that point of
a horrible murder in that county. Tom
Alexander, a very well to do white man,
living in the Crow Creek section of the
county, quarrelled with his wife aliout
putting wood on the fire. The wife stmek
at Alexander with a stick of wood, where
upon he seized an axe and dealt her a
blow behind the car. After the woman
had fallen he cut her throat from ear to
ear with the same bloody axe. Alexan
der was a witness lx*forc the coroner's
jury, and testified that he killed his wife,
but did so in self-defence. Dr. Earle,
who examined him, expressed theopinion
that bodily affliction had made Alexan
der of unsound min 1.
The Bridge Burned.
The bridge across the Pee Dee river,
at a point near Florence, S. C., on the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad was burned the other morning.
The bridge was a fine structure, and its
destruction is a severe loss to the com
pany. Until it can lx; replaced, trains
from Wilmington must go to Wadesboro,
N. C., and thence reach Florence byway
of Cheraw and Darlington. This increas
es the distance between Wilmington and
Columbia by about a hundred miles, but
it is expected that there will be little de
rangement of Schedules and no interrup
tion of travel. The Wilmington, Colum
bia and Augusta is the best equip|>ed
and best arranged railroad that operates
in South Carolina.
A Cyclone in Louisiana.
A special from Opelousas, La., says:
A cyclone lias just jmssed over the south
ern |x»rtion of this parish. Dwellings
were blown to pieces of Chapman Guide?,
Mr. Prevost, Valentine Lavergins. Mr.
Marcote an*l Louis Bourgeois. Chapman
Guidey and his son each had an arm
broken The youngest child of Valen
tine Lavergins was killed. Three broth
ers, who were keeping a store, lost their
houses, and their goods were m attered
for miles. All the members of the fam
ily of Louis Bourgeois were injured.
About a dozen dwellings and as many
more outbuildings were demolished, aud
in every case the inmates were injured
and the household effect* destroyed. The
path of the storm was three hundred
yards wide.
Frozen Fish.
Frozen fish are imported into Mar
seilles by a society formed for the pur
pose. A steamer lately brought there
some thirty-six tons of frozen fish in its
hold, the temperature of which ha*l been
kept at about freezing point by means of
a machine evaporating sulphuric a-id.
The fish are caught witn the net in va
rioue parts of the Mediterranean and At
lantic. After arrival they are dispatched
by night in a cold chamber. Experiment
has shown that fish can lx; kept seven or
eight mouths at low tem|«ratuie with
out the least * hang*;. Chicago HeralL
A Lake Hulling Hot.
Lake Hotokakahi, New Zealand, is
Inclosed by steep, lonely mountains, the
volcanic deposit covering which looked
iust like half melted, dirty, slushy snow.
It is a rather significant fact in thermal
activity that two or three years ago this
lake rose to nearly the boiling point.
This was considered a most remarkable
phenomenon, as the lake was always
cold before. It afterward regained its
normal state. —.See Francisco Chronicle
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1888.
HE DREW ON SIGHT. ’
THE DARING EXPLOIT OF A
BANK ROBBER.
He Grab* nt a Pile nf Mnney si4 Ran*. In
the Chase After Ilia* Twa Mr a Are
Fatally Shat-Briar Pre«ae4 the
Yilliaa Canaiitn Seirldr.
A masked man. named Kimlxtll, enter
fared the Bradford I*a., national bank
with a revolver in his hand, and when
midway between the paying teller’s and
discount clerk's desk, nimbly jumiied
over the high glass partition and made a
grab for the money on the cashier's desk.
The suddenness of the affair paralyzed
the clerks, but Cashier Tomlinson rushed
from his private office and seized the
robber. As he did so he received a ball
from the revolver iu the hands of the
villian. over his left hip, going clean
through him and coming out of the
right. He dropped and the robber es
caped at the front door with the money
and ran down a side street . The report
of the revolver attracted a crowd and a
number of citizens started in pursuit and
Kunliall ran some distance, when he
turned on his pursuers and shot A. L.
Bleieh. a butcher, in the alxlomen, in
flicting a dangerous wound. He then
placed the revolver to his own head and
tired. The ball entered at the temple
and killed him instantly. The stolen
money was found in an inside pocket of
a rubber coat, which he wore. Tomlin
som an*l Bleieh are fatally hurt and can
live but a few hours. Kimball was about
twenty-eight years old and was formerly
an employee of a pnxlncing firm. He
was recently injured on the Erie road
near Stairlmrg. in an accident, from
which he is said to have received several
hundred dollars damages, since which
time he has been drinking heavily. He
was formerly a resil estate agent in Gar
den City. Kansas, where his wife died,
leaving two girls. The whole city is
greatly excited over the tragic affair.
Tomlinson has a wife and child and is
held in great esteem.
The Cradle of the Blizzard.
Where is the blizzard's cradle—its
home?
The Arctic regions. The papers talk
about a blizzard having started from
Manitoba, but that is not its home—its
starting |n>iut. Manitoba is only its half
way house.
" Why do blizzards come byway of
Manitoba, and make themselves most felt
upon the west side of the Mississippi
river? Why do we never hear of blizzards
in Canada, New England and the Middle
States?”
Because the taurentian range of moun
tains stretches westward from Labrador
along the southern line of British America
miles, skirting the north side of
Superior, ac.d tapering out in north
eastern Minnesota, furnishing a pro
tecting wall of solid rock 4,000 feet nigh
against blizzards for all the region south
of it. Geologists tell us that this range
is formed of the oldest silurian or sedi
mentary rock to be found upon the
glol>e v and that it extends 30,000 feet
below the surface.
From northeastern Minnesota to the
Rocky Mountains is an open treeless
plateau—a great doorway one thousand
miles wide, through which the ire king
rushes. From that line southward is, in
in the main, the same treeless prairie all
the way to the Gulf of Mexico, forming
west of the Mississippi river the royal
to'hoggan slide, 3,000 miles long, upon
which his ice crowned majesty, (he
blizzard, sweeps in all his jeweled robes
to swoon in the arms of the tropical sun.
The Texas norther is only the frayed
fringes of the blizzard king's mantle as
he whirls past. — Atlanta Constitution.
Knew Its Mistress's Rin;.
It requires quick hearing, sharp ob
servation, and a good memory to know
always a frien i*s peculiar ring of the
house l?cll, although there is, no doubt,
an individuality hi tlx t a- in every other
human act. Not to be able to do this,
is not. however, a proof of dullness in
child or man: but when done by a cat is
worth noting. A lady in Boylston
street in Boston liad a cat which for
years always left its rug and went down
the stairs to the front door, when its
mistress rang, to m**et her, if the doors
of the rooms were o|x*n: but it took no
notice whatever of the ring of anylnxly
else. Our Dumb Animals.
A Twelve llijV Nap.
The daughter of Captain of Police
Thomas, who is subject to a peculiar af
l section that causes her to go into long
! awoke yesterday morning after
a sleep that had been unbroken for
twelve days, during which time she lias
partaken of no nourishment. When
she awoke her mind was bright, but she
had no recoil* ction of events during her
i sleep. She enjoyed a hearty meal, lis
tened to th** news of the |M»vt two weeks,
1 and finally fell to reading letters that
had lieen awaiting her awakening. With
a letter still in her hand and in the mi 1-
dle of a remark, she again suddenly fell
asleep. —Sin Francisco Co rouble.
Cigars for a Royal Baby.
The baby King of Spain received as a
i New Year’s gift from Havana, Cuba, a
: large chest tilled with the finest cigars.
I They were thought to be of chocolate, as
! they should have been for so small a speci
men of royalty, but they were found to
be nal substantial rolls of weed of tho
most exquisite kind. Tho letter from
the donor said: “These cigars arc made
of wteds such as will grow not more than
once every twenty years. let them bo
preserved, therefore, when King Alfonso
XIII. will mske liis first attempt at
smoking, which ought not to tie mads
more unpleasant to him by having to
•took* so inferior sort of tobacco.*’
A COTTON PANIC
THREE BROKERS BROKEN BY
THE FALL IN THE STAPLE.
Several Large Opernior* Snld to be Km
barraoned—The effect of the Reaction
from the Scare abont a Short Crop
The Price Drop* Thirty Pointn.
Geo. T. Dixon, of No. 2 Stone street,
N. V. Kiug and J. H. Garrison, sill cot
ton brokers in New York, have failed.
The failures of the three brokers were an
nounced Indore the close of the days bus
iness, and several large operators are said
to be embarrassed. Prices at the close
are 30 to 35 points below closing prices
on Saturday. Transactions were very
large, being four times those of an aver
age days trading.
King told a reporter that his suspen
sion was only temporary and that his lia
bilities were about $20,000. lie added
that his failure was very unexpected and
was due to heavy customers’ failure to
respond to his margin calls. King has
been in business since 1872, is captain in
the 22nd regiment and is something of a
social lion.
Garrison's failure is likewise attributed
to .*i customer’s inability or unwillingness
to promptly increase his margin. From
an excellent authority on the Exchange
floor it was learned that both Garrison
and King have been operating very ex-g
tensively for a certain big Southern coun
try operator.
It is stated on the same authority that
when the revulsion came, on the an
nouncejuent that the supposedly small
crop was in reality very large, the South
ern operator failed to send remittances to
cover his contracts. Garrison s*ys lie
cannot state the amount of his liabilities,
but lie thinks they are covered by his sig
nets. He has been in business since 1880,
and expects to soon get on his feet and
resume.
Dixon's failure was a general surprise.
He is chairman of the membership com
mittee of the exchange, and was looked
upon as a wealthy broker. The amount
of his liabilities could not be learned,
but it is believed, like Garrison’s to be
smaller than that of King.
John 11. Inman, said to be tin* largest
dealer in the country, was on the Ex
change floor the greater part of the day,
but declined being interviewed
Roll Bros, successors to the Old East
Indian Company, who controlled most of
the export trade, had a representative on
the floor during the excitement, but he,
too, refused to talk.
Various theories as to the cause of the
excitement were advanced and generally
discussed. Some held that the Mills tar
iff bill, which places substitutes for cot
ton on the free list, was responsible.
Others thought a recent publication,
which placed the present and prospective
stock at a low figure and thereby consid
erably affected the market, had suddenly
lieen proven erroneous As a matter of
fact it recently appeared that the stock
was greatly in excess of all expectations.
A Railroad Wreck.
A special from Somerset, Ky., says:
“A frightful collision occurred on the
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pa
cific Railroad at Pine Knot, Ky., which
resulted in killing one man, fatally in
juring another aud seriously wounding
others, besides considerable damage to
the railroad. The blame is placed on
Conductor Taylor and Engineer Murray,
of freight No. 20, who, it seems, at
tempted to run from Sti:tc Line to Pine
Knot ahead of time. Conductor Green
Porch had orders to run’to the State Line
regard lesr of 20 on freight No. 15.
When No. 20 was within a mile of Pine
Knot, Porch's train flashed from beyond
the curve and went crashing into him be
fore the men of cither train had time to
jump. The engines were shattered into
fragments. On the rebound ten cam
toppled over the embankment and were
shattered into splinters. Taylor is a
new man, and came here highly recom
mended. Porch is from this place,
and is one of the liest conductors on the
road.”
A History of Columbia, S. (!.
Dr. I). I*. Robbins has leceived the
proofs of alKuit eighty pages of his “His
torical ami Descriptive Sketch of Co
lumbia,” and the remainder of the pam
phlet will soon Ik* ready. It is a publi
cation containing much matter of interest
and value, and cannot fail to go good to
the city.
It will perhaps surprise Columbians as
well as outsiders to learn from Dr. Rob
bins* book that Columbia employs over
1,000 persons, and has a million ami a
half-of capital invested in manufactures,
producing two and a quarter million
dollars worth of manufactured products.
Dr. Robbins finds that Columbia’s whole
sale trade aggregates two millions and
the retrail trade much more, while her
I cotton merchants handled here and else
where from sixty to seventy-five thousand
bales of cotton, valued at from two ami a
half to three million dollars.
Esmonde In Charleston.
Thomas Henry Oration Esmonds and
Secretary Hutton, of the Irish National
league <»f America, spoke in Charleston,
S. C\, ami were given an enthusiastic re
| reption. IlilM-rni.il hall was packed
from the rostrum to the door, represen
tatives of every class in the community
uniting to do honor to Ireland’s advo
cate. The address of Mr. Esmondc was
a plain and practical statement of the
needs of Ireland at the present hour and
a seating denunciation of the ministerial
jiolicy of the British government. The
address was enthusiastically applauded.
After the speaking Messrs. Estnonde and
Hutton were entertained at a dinner nt
the Charleston hotel.
RECALLING THE HARK HAYS OF ’til.
A Romantic Southern Htory from Life Be
fore and Hincc (lie War.
A Hampton, Ga., letter says: In 1861
there lived in Henry county, near Sandy
Ridge postofficc, an old lady named
Swann, and with her a grand-daughter,
Elaine Marston, aged sixteen. Adjoin
ing was a plantation of Judge Miller, the
wealthy father of young Harry, the
sweetheart of Elaine. Harry was two
years her senior, and when the order for
all of Georgia’s sons between the ages of
eighteen and fifty years to go to the front
came he began preparations. On part
ing with his sweetheart he promised to
return and make her his bride. For
a while letters came. Suddenly they
ceased, and then came one written by a
friend, telling of the capture of young
Harry. Months of anxiety followed, and
then came the news of his death, brought
by Rome “exchanges” from the prison in
which he was confined. The grief of
Elaine was terrible, but in a few years
the image of Harry was but a dim
shadow, and the girl had developed into
a handsome, charming woman.
On December 26, 1860, eight yea’s
after the departure of her boy lover,
Elaine became the wife of one of Henry
county’s most respected citizens.
Last week a man in the guise of an old
tramp passed through Hampton. He
beheld the face of his once promised
bride, bright and happy with the love of
a devoted husband, bright and interest
ing children and the many comforts of a
beautiful country homo. Returning here
he took the ears for his home in the far
West, not as a tramp, however, but stout
and hearty, and with only a few silvery
hairs upon his temples. lie told of the
false report of the marriage of Elaine,
which nearly drove him crazy; of his
wonderful business success in California,
and last of the report that was brought
across the continent that Elaine did not
marry till 1869, and was now a widow.
The latter part of the story he did not
know to be false until he begged bread
at her door. He says he will never visit
Georgia again: that his people are dead,
his heart's love withered, and nothing
remains for him but to spend the remain
der of his life as best he can.
An Adventure In Patagonia.
Tommy Riordan, seaman of the steamer
Ban Pedro, is one of ten men lost by the
ship Balaklava during a terrible storm
off the coast of Patagonia last summer.
He tells the following story of his expe
rience: “The Balaklava encountered
very stormy weather before my compan
ions and myself were washed overboard.
The sea had been running high for sev
eral days, but the day of the disaster it
was running in long, heavy and power
ful swells, which, had they been higher,
would have washed the vessel into kind
ling wood. It was growing dark and it
was thought advisable to take in sail.
Just as we were about to execute the
command a heavy sea washed over our
vessel. I saw it coming, but it was too
late to get out of danger, and I went
down in the trough of the sea and must
have been slightly stunned, for I don’t
know how it Happened. When I came
to I was holding on to a portion of this
mast with all the strength there was in
me. It is impossible for me to ielate
what I suffered in that cold water.
“I floated on the piece of wreck for
two days and then I lost all conscious
ness. It is queer how I was washed
ashore, but I was llung up by the surf on
the only decent portion of coast liue
there is in Patagonia. When I regained
consciousness a band of the most hid
eous looking beings I ever saw were
dancing around me. The men were
giants in size and I could not tell
whether they were cannibals or not. As
1 opened my eyes I tried to remember
where I was ami what had happened.
Shouts of joy were uttered by ail, and
two big bucks raised me up and carried
me with ease a long distance into the in
terior of a miserable country to their
camping ground.
“I was well guarded, and a council
was held to see what should be done
with me. I imagined all the most horri
ble deaths and determined to escape, and
1 Uiil that night, i still retained a little
clasp-knife that all sailors wear, but it
was impossible for me to get at it until
my hands were liberated. <ln guard were
two big men who watched me closely,
while others slept by the fire. 1 kept
working my hands until they were free.
One guard sat dowu aud began to nod,
and the other walked back and forth.
When his hack was turned I severed the
cords which bound my feet ami then I
was free for action. The snoring of the
sleeping sentinel became louder and
hxuicr, and at last I felt satisfied that he
was fast asleep. The next instant I was
on my feet and creeping up slowly be
hind the other guard.
“ My left hand was on his throat, and
with my right I pluuged my knife into
his breast, and he fell over, a dead In
dian. without struggle *»r uttering a cry.
It was a terrible experience, but I at last
lead led a place up the coast that gave
some evidence of civilization, ami this
inspired me to fresh efforts. 1 don't
know how 1 lived. I caught some lisli,
and these kept life in me. 1 at last sighted
u canoe, and hailing it, the Chilian
master took ine up the coast, where 1 was
put a boar*l a small sailing vessel to
C’hiloo Island. The British bark Valda
via took me up tho coast to Chili, aud
others have brought mo here.”
The Adventists in the United States
have 91 churches, 107 ministers, 11,000
communicants; Second Adventists—sß3
churches, 501 ministers, tin,soo commu*
nit-ants; Seventh Day Adventists—79B
churches, 213 ministers, 23,111 commu
nicants; t0ta1—1,472 churches, 821 min
isters, 97,711 communicants.
There arc arc forty-five fcnaalo law
yers in tbs United States.
Terns. $1.50 w Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Newt* Collected by Wire and Mall From
All l*artn of Dixie.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The report of the superintendent of
public instruction shows that last year no
less than $635,000 was expended on pub
lic education in North Carolina, 30 per
cent going to the colored race.
A railway from Henderson, on the
Raleigh and Eastern road, through Nish
county to the Wilmington and Weldon
road is an assured fact.
Miss M. E. Bowden, who sued A. B.
Bailes in Mecklenburg county for s!(>.-
000 damages for slander, has been award
ed $1,500. The judge took occasion to
compliment the jury upon the verdict.
Delegates are being appointed from
some fifteen counties to attend a meeting
at Charlotte on the 15th to take some
steps for building a railway from Char
lotte to Weldon.
At Hillsboro, as the jailer opened the
door of one of the cells to feed the pris
oners, two of the latter sprang on him.
They struck him several blows on the
head which knocked him down, then
dragged him into a cell and locked him
in. They took tne keys from him, and
opening another cell, released another
prison. AH three then fled, taking the
keys with them. The jailer who, by this
time was on his feet, fired at them as they
ran. A hue and cry was raised, the citi
zens turned out ami caught one of the
men named Hopkins.
The commissioner of agriculture will
next Monday begin a new series of farm
er’s institutes. He will organize the far
mers that day at Smithfield. He will
then visit the fish, oyster and game fair
at Newherne, and organize them there,
and will then go to Lenoir and Wayne
counties. In each county lie will ar
range for an experiment farm. The fol
lowing week he will devote in the same
manner to the remainder of the counties
east of the Wilmington and Weldon rail
way.
News has been received at Raleigh of
the drowning of three white men in the
Sci.ppernong river, Chowan County.
Their boat capsized as they were going
to their nets. Another man, named Hat
field, got his boat ashore, but just as he
reached it, dropped dead from exhaus
tion.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Scott Young, a white man about thirty
years old, was knocked from the railroad
track and killed one mile below Starr, a
station on the Savannah Valley Road, by
a passenger train. The unfortunate man
was deaf, and of course did not hear the
warning whistle.
A ten year old son of John Crews, of
Anderson county, had his arm broken in
two places while playing about his fath
er’s cotton seed crusher.
Seventy-five thousand dollars were
spent last year in erecting new buildings
in Florence.
Charles 1). Miller, of Florence, \\..a won
by competitive examination the West
Point cadetship controlled by Congress
man Dargan.
One of Japan's Curiosities.
In the Espamt del Kioto, Japan, isi a
great bell, which swings in a huge
wooden tower. The bell is a large
bronze cup, with nearly perpendicular
sides and a flat crown, and it is sounded
by bringing a big beam against tbe rim.
It needs twelve natives to ring it. It
used to be rung once a year, but may
now be beard twice or thrice a month.
It is eighteen feet high, nine a half
inches thick, nine feet in diameter, and
weighs about seventy-four tons. It was
cast in 1633, rim upward, and the gold
that entered into its composition is esti
mated about 1,500 pounds. Tho tone of
the bell is described ns magnificent, and
when struck with the open hand the
vibration may be heard a hundred yards
off.
A “ Cat Home.”
One of the most unique of Philadel
phia's institutions is the Refuge for Lost
and Suffering Animals, more commonly
called the “Cat Home,” at No. 1242
Lombard street. The “refuge” does an
extensive business in providing easy
mortuary honors for old, decrepit and
vagrant felines, who are daily despatched
by the futnes of charcoal. This wan (has
been supplied by the generous gift ol
$70,000 by the late Mrs. R. W. Ryerss,
who bequeathed that amount to establish
nn infirmary for animals, which is en
tirely distinct from the refuge.”
A Lost Substitute.
He got aboard the train at Larch
mont, sat down in tho forward end of
I the smoker, and began to talk in a voice
that woke up the rear brakenian, lour
:ars behind.
“Just been over to ‘Execution Rock*
duckin’,” he howled. “Had a bad acci
dent there, yesterday. The steam fog
horn broke down ”
“How did the authorities happen to al-
I low you to leave in such an emergency?”
! asked the meek mail with big biceps in
the seat back of him. Tid-litis.
Force of Habit
Ilostes* (at an evening entortainmont)
—Oh, Mr. De Hobson, where can I
find young Mr. Biuy? Wo want him to
complete a set.”
Mr. De Hobson—“l saw him only a
moment ago, Mrs. Browne, down stairs,
i at the free lunch coun—er—that is —at
; the banquet tabic. May I have tha
j pleasure of fetching hims ” — Epoch*