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GOLDSEOllO, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1897.
VOL. X. NO. 48.
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' AKl 0- INFIDELS.
ie on t lu-ir familir
station.
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cinv one
Nome J'Ooj
-uiiii' love their rank and
le.it lext f all is he who lov,
A iii,'n.li,I reputation.
One Mushin- nKii-l, oh, bashful youth.
It you wouM have .salvation, '
lu'iiirniber that the road to it
U through your reputation.
Von may le ru h, you niav be rlvut
t'ii may have education, "
ltit u hat areihese if vou have not
W itli them a reputation?
One may lose his dearest friend
And hae no tood or ration
l'.ut then, this loss is trilling to
I ho loss of reputation.
Three things to me are verv dear
( v ealth, title and vocation,
l'.ut ihe-e are little moles beside
My mountain reputation.
1 like the earth, the sea, the skv,
All things of (lod's creation," '
lint give, oh give me lir.-t of all
A spotless reputation.
Jamks II. Haukisox.
Zealous Labor.
'oun;' people of cheer-
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l'cwiirtls for
I lie vtui'.e to
fu.nos and zeui in the service of
their employer had a striking illus
tration in the early career of the late
IVank MeLauhlin, publisher of the
Times of Philadelphia. It is a story
from real life that should be read by
every ambitious boy, for it tells how
a great printer got his start in life.
Nearly fifty years ago Frank Mc
Laughlin was an expert compositor
in a job printing office, of which his
elder brother was assistant foreman.
One day at the noon hour when the
foremen were all awav and the com-
positors were eating their dinners,
J i Abraham I larker, a broker, father
of Vt'harbm 1 larker, entered the of
fice and asked to have fifty slips of
the stock market printed at once.
Yo'.ing McLaughlin stepped forward
and cheerfullv vo
sence of the foreman to hav
The (Joorgia Philosopher Hearts What
They Write in 'cm York Papers.
These modern agnostics, skeptics,
atheists and infidels are having a
lively time in the New York papers.
The columns are open to them and it
keeps our Christian and God-fearing
people busy in replying to their as
saults upon the Iiible and Christain
ity. Xo two of them seem to have
the same faith or to be fighting
under the same general, but they
are all engaged in storming the cita
del, some on one side and some on
another and with different weapons
of warfare. They are pull-downers
instead of build-uppers. One set as
saults the miracles and seem to have
a special spite at Jonah and the
whale. Another set denounce Jeph
thah for sacrificing his daughter and
denounces God for permitting it.
They are eipuall' indignant, against
David for having Josiah slain and
against Samuel for ordering Saul to
slay the women and children and cat
tle of the Amalekites. They declare
that all these stories are fakes, or, if
true, that God is a brute for allowing
such outrages.
Some believe in the Xew Testa
ment, but not in the old, while oth
ers ridicule the miraculous conception
of the virgin Mary and pronounces it
a woman's trick to hide her shame.
Some write form a medical standpoint
and assert that man is by no means a
perfect creation physically, but
could be improved on in many par
ticularsfor instance, the calf of
the leg should have been in front
and there should have been one eye
in the back of the head and the elbow
ire f' Qqp-i
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m leered in Hie nb
, , i louit should nave nat a oae. action,
the i J , , , , . ,
... . , ! so thai a man eouid scralen ins back
wonc oone. Luttmg the copvmtoi , , ,
, , , . , 1 and a woman button her dress or
two ta:;es. he ai,ed a fencuv work-1 . , . ,
. , . . ,, , ., ; fa-ten her skirt more convcnientiv.
man to set one Lake, but the :atter;
., , , t , , r ilhev declare that a perfect man
gri;:ni.;ed about tne loss of tanner j , , , , , A ... ,
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wi:n i i ;c c a usn ana uv nue
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1
Tr-glf.in took both takes, and in a
very short time had the job com
pleted by his own unaided work.
Mr. F.arker had remained in the of
f.ce reading a paper and noting what
occurred.
Th next day he sent for Mr. Mc
Laughlin and offered to pay him ?."no
a month if he would print daily a
,toek l;t for his use. The pay was
extravagant, but Mr. Ikirker said
that the list would be worth that to
him if set quickly and accurately,
and lie wanted Mr. McLaughlin to do
it because of the cheerful zeal he had
exhibited in doin-r the first iob. The
arrangement was for one month on- j
iv. but it was extended to a year, ,
and with the capital thus acquired
Mr. McLaughlin founded a great ,
prii.ti; g house, in which his brother
became a partner. They prospered
exceeding! v, a .id more than twenty
years ago t'ouaJed the Times. Mr. .
McLaughlin possessed may qualities
i that helped to make him a successful !
j bu-iness; man, but he might have had j
I few opportunities to use them if he j
j had not ;it an opportune time exhib- j
j ited cheerful zeal in the service of his i
em plover. History does not record j
'what became of the grumbler who;
i would not permit his dinner hour to j
j bo invaded by any emergency, but j
j he is probably still setting type. j
j It does not, of course, follow that
' all young people who follow Mr. Mc-
Lnughlin's example in being courte
i ous. cheerful anal zealous will meet
I -;ib bis success. Manv good and
faithful workers fall to obtain un
usual rewards, but it is only those
who deserve to succeed who are in
position when the time comes to ob
tain advancement. Promotion or the
opportunity to better one's condition
comes in various ways to those who
work cheerfully and zealously, al
wavs doing the best they can to
s rvo their employer's interests. In
! and swim like a fish and
bird. Shakespeare, they say, was
j only indulging in a little ta!fy when
i he wrote "what a piece of work is
j mam. How noble in season; how in
! finite in faculties; in form and mov
I ing: how express and admirable: in
1 action how like an angel; in appre
' hension how like a god!"
! Some of these writers talk about
sacred and divine things with the
j most shocking contempt and intimate
; that nobody but cowards and luna-
tics believe in them. They would
' make Voltaire and Tom Payne as
! hamed of themselves. Now, if a man
i has doubts about the miracles or the
1 divinity of Christ and is really seelc
1 ing after the truth and expresses
himself in language that shows re-
spect for the faith of his fellow-men,
it is all right : but we are too help
less to be vain or conceited. If I
knew where I came from or where I
was o-oiii" or what would be niv fu
ture state, or if I could prolong my
existence or could foresee the calami-
a musical note that can be heard
half a mile on a still and quiet night.
And their sense of hearing is so won
derfully acute! For what child has
not tiptoed to the tree and touched
it ever so gently and closed the or
chestra. Dr. Holmes calls the katy
dids "this testy little dogmatist,"
for they never tiro of saying "katy
did" and "katy didn't."
Rut about this improved man and
woman that these skeptics would
make if they could. Sometimes a
man does fall over a wheel-barrow
in the night and bruise his shins, and
I remember we'd how many hard
licks we boys got when we played
shinny at the old school -house on top
of the hill, but the sores got well
and no bones were broken. If the
calf was in front the bruise would be
as bad and it would make a man's
pants bag at the calf instead of the
knee, and a woman's calf when riding
a bike would look awful! About that
third eye in the back of the head, it
would very much interfere with our
sleeping position and give no room
for a woman's back hair and utterly
paralyze her devotions in church. If
we are to have a third eye the optical
nerves and muscles should be so ar
ranged that when the two in front
are open the one in the rear should
be shut, and vice versa. Put this
third eye would of course necessitate
a larger cerebellum to hold the ma
chinery, and that would give a man
the big head. As to a double-jointed
elbow for scratching purposes, I've
no particular objections, though on
a pinch a man can do like Sidney
Smiths pig's: lie can rub up
against a post or the edge of a door
and get relief. As to that Manchaus-
en business of sunning and swimming
and flving, it is follv to discuss. Man
has no need of such powers, and if he
had four legs like a horse and fins
like a fish and wings like a bird lie
wouldn't be a man. but a sort of
quadruplex amphibious acrolie, too
smart for this world and not got d
j enough for the next.
The News From Everywhere (Jathered
and Condensed.
Xew York factors are selling
baled cotton to North Carolina mills.
A destructive hail, wind and rain
storm visited Huntington, W. Ya.,
and vicinity, Wednesday.
An accidental fire destroyed the
Peoria (Til.) Grape Sugar Works, on
Saturday. Loss, $000,000,
A large stone fell on George Heck
ford at a slate quarry at Pen Argyl,
Pa., Saturday, killing him instantly.
Earthquake vibrations from east
to west startled the residents of Sa
ratoga, N. Y., early Sunday morn
ing. Excitement prevails in Seattle,
Wash., and San Franeiseo over gold
discoveries in British territory near
Alaska.
Three persons were thrown from
a carriage near Chesapeake City,
Md., Sunday, and Miss Laura Logue
was killed.
The explosion of a gasoline stove
burned to death Mrs. Jane Wright
at her home in Alexandria, Ya., on
Monday night.
At Pittsboro, Miss., Tuesday night,
Jim Sellers, "a negro murderer, was
taken from the county jail and shot
to death by a mob.
A lightning bolt struck a barn at
East Liverpool, O., Thursday, and
killed Wiliam E. Stewart, who had
taken refuge there.
At Columbia, S. C, Monday night,
the 17-months-o!d child 'of Calvin
Olair pulled a lamp into its lap and
was burned to death.
Domestic trouble induced Mrs. An
nie Kneipp, aged 21, of Brooklyn, X.
Y.. to poison herself with carbolic
acid, Thursday night.
A freight train on the Omaha road,
upon reaching Tekemah, Saturday,
was taken possession of by tramps
and several trains were blocked.
Burglars entered the residence of
ation these modern thinkers have grt
up. They can't tool the old folks,
but I fear they do demoralize some of
the young'. Young man, stop and
think before you desert the faith of
the fathers. It is safe to say that
such great and good men as Calvin
and Luther and Knox and Westley
and Whitfield and Sir Tsaae Xewton
and Addison and Pope and hundreds
of others who lived and died in the
faith were not mistaken. Wait un
til the agnostics and skeptics all
agree on a religion tluit will give
'comfort in adversity and peace in
the hour and article of death. Xo,
: don't wait, for they have had time
enough and offered nothing'.
! Bin, A hi.
A Welti to Voiui'j
We fear that there
.Men.
, a growin;
ical men who have studied the anato
mv of Ihe human body this complex
Good gracious! what a world if Chaties Tammany, at Wilkcsbarre,
new theories about man and the crt - Pa., Sunday night, and after stupef-
hig the inmates with ether stole 400.
Seven were fatally injured by the
giving way of a scaffold in front of a
row of new buildings at Xorth and
Fulton avenues, Baltimore, on Monday.
Anxiety over her search for a miss
ing friend near Fiskill, X. Y., led to
the violent insanity of Miss Seiina
Lawson on a railway train, on Sun
day. While remodeling Bowdoin College
at Brunswick, Me., a "chamber of
horrors," supposed to have been once
used for hazing, was unearthed, Fri-
! day,
j The Casino summer theatre at Pa
I ducah. Ky., was burned on Friday
j night. About lotl persons were in-
jured and three children are report
! ed missing.
In the factory of the American Bis
cuit Company, in Xew York, Wed
nesday, 700 barrels of Hour were des
troyed by fire and l,!ii0 barrels in
jured by water.
For crimiually assaulting a three-year-old
girl, James Gray, colored,
was taken from the officers near
Goldville, S. C, by a mob, Tuesday
night, and strung up.
An explosion occurred in the load
ing department of the armory of the
Winchester Arms Company, at Xew
Haven, Conn., Friday, in which sev
en persons were killed.
Xear Bridgeport, Conn., Wednes
day night, Marcus G. Xichols, an
old and wealthy farmer, was shot and
killed by masked burglars and his
sister seriously wounded.
A cloud-burst at Youngstown, O,.
Friday, Hooded the town and valle'
and washed out the railroad tracks.
Henry Myers was killed by light
ning. It is almost certain that many
people were drowned.
While at a hotel at Magnetic
ties 'of life and prevent them, 1 could impression among our young men
afford to strut around and play Sir; that it is more honorable to keep
Oracle. But I feel my helplessness books or stand behind the counter
more and more every day. and like a and sell goods than it is to plow;
child in trouble I want to go to my j that there is more honor in reading
father. Whether there be a God or ; law than there is in hammering on an
not. all the good people I have ever ; anvil in a blacksmith shop: that the
known tr read about believed there man who wears blue overalls and
is, and it is disrespect to them to j works in a machine shop occupies a
take His name in vain. Addison says j lower position in the world than the
that Sir Robert Boyle, who was the man who wears a white shirt and
greatest naturalist that England ev- ! patent leather shoes every day.
er produced, had the most profound I This a very great blunder and has,
veneration for the Supreme Being we fear, turned the heads of a great
and never mentioned the name of ! many young men. Xo doubt good
God without a pause a visible stop . plow boys have been spoiled by
i in his discourse. j young men imagining that it was
I Xo well-bred man is ever profane J more honorable to practice law or sell
i o- sneaks the name of God irrever-; goods than to turn over soil or shove
i entlv. I cannot understand how med
the plane. The blame is not always
on the young man either, parents
are often at fault in this matter.
and wonderful machine should ever I hoy let it out early in the lite ot the
L skontieal about God's existence, j children that William and John must
'WO-
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"c hi .-.- a bnlf. J
who attempts to
the amount of his labor by
s sure to err to the disad
of his employer and is oblig-
r about iroui .-n"p o
getting settled in the
f promotion. He is always at
oot of the list a new-comer,
so, the man to whom work is a
'cry and whose thoughts are
constantly employed on ins p.easuie.s
cannot give that attention to his la
bor which is essential to the produc-
,,f ibo best results. Such a man
The
nva-ur
his pay
vautngi
ed to wand
shop, nevei'
1 i n e
the
So'
dru
ge; but as it keeper or some calling for which
'"...' ,1... ' 1,.,,, tl... I,,T 1t..1!w onfWtnrl
raising oi mv arm or u,c "-m -'-- ".
1. il,; im-.ii is n o-ro:iter
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Writing of the famous Hoke C.
VEITCD, D. S.
the dull sea-on they are tne preler-; j knew 110W my will, which is im- j select easy places in the world, lliey
retl workmen, selected to stay, while j mal(r5ai controls my muscles, which j must not have the drudgery of farm
the careless, shiftless grumblers are are mat(!r-Uii) and make me extend j Hfo, and must avoid the hard work
set adrift: when vacancies occur in j J ia(lll or ,uy foot or close my , of the mechanic. It is a profession,
the higher offices their zeal recom- j ; , niv niouth, I might ! a situation as a salesman or book-
mends them for promotion,and when ( boast of a lin;0 know
t lev engage iii onsen ss on ....... , .i raising ot mv
their csiabiisticu reputation , . , .
them work. j Iuiracle than Jonah living three days
workman who attempts to j . ,vl,-,le's bell v. Every seed
, , ,. i" ,ni-no i iinivor Sec rest murder case the murder of
tuai gel minaic.s nuii .
w f i mii-ncle to me. Sometimes I
-,,.,,1,.r if 1 find a n ass that
.. :r.. ,!; m,. eonld T soo ' quarter of a century ago, with the
the embryo oak in a little acorn;
could I see the orange tree in the
seed of the fruit. All nature is full
of miracles. Winding up the canes
in front of my veranda are madeira
vines that climb one way and
hop
way and jasmine
both ways. Every plant has its own
i ,. o iliov- :ire nnehanyeable.
T.wiUwitn the beasts and birds and ! ruthlessly cast into a shallow hole
Financial and Oiiiiiiercial.
Xew York, July 20, 1S!7.
Special Correspondence.
Business during the past week has
been of fair seasonable volume; but
there has been no general activity.
Improvement is developing,however,
as rapidly as could be expected at
this stage of the season, and the rea
sons for its continuance are stronger
now than thej' have been at any pre
vious time this 3'ear. The harvests
are progressing satisfactorih', and
the still ungathered crops are in
promising condition. There is a good
foreign demand for American bread
stuffs and provisions, and the big
crops are likely to command fair
prices. The great coal strike is ap
parently nearing settlement. Tariff
uncertainty has been already practi
cally eliminated from the situation.
The disposition shown in Adminis
tration circles to take stops in the
direction of Currency Reform L also
reassuring to the business world.
There is practical assurance of relief
from tariff tinkering; of at least no
retrogression in governmental finan
cial policy, even if all the results de
sired by sound money interests be
not. in hopeful prospect, and there is
the reasonable certainty of agricul
tural abundance and an adequate
outlet for the surplus production.
These features of the business situa
tion afford ample warrant for the
prevalent hopefulness concerning the
future. Substantial results of the
improved conditions may be develop
ed slowly, but they are pretty sure
to come. Business failures during
the last week, according to 11. G.
Dun & Co., numbered 227 in the
United States and 2S in Canada,
against 2S1 in this country and 20 in
Canada during the corresponding
week last -ear.
Cotton speculation has been hesi
tating and uncertain pending a clear
er discernment of the crop prospects;
but the fear of the effect of drought
has been modified by rains in some
sections where most needed, and
prices have receded 1-lCofa cent per
pound. The indications point to a
large crop yield; but the drought in
the Southwest has not been fully
broken, and bearish interests are not
aggressive. The movement of the
old crop is very light, and there is
only a moderate new business doing
for export or for home consumption.
The cotton goods trade still lacks ac
tivity. There is a fair demand for
quick deliveries, and buyers occasion
ally show more interest in prepara
tion for future wants; but sellers are
reluctant to accept spot prices for
goods to be made for later delivery,
and buyers are generally unwilling
to pay more. The market as a whole
is steadier, but without material
change, and the teudency among the
mills is rather in the direction of fur
ther curtailment than toward an in
crease of production. The wool trade
is less i etive; but prices are strong
er. The holding interest is more in
different about realizing except at
further advances, which lessen the
incentive to speculation. The move
ment to add the proposed tariff to
the domestic price has already been
nearly two-thirds accomplished, and
there is so much wool accumulated
ahead of requirements that conser
vative operators anticipate consider
able delay in establishing the balance
of the expected advance.
There was a continued strong up
ward tendency in the wheat markets
until Thursday, when the advance
was checked. Since Wednesday prices
have receded 3 to 3i cents from the
highest figures of the month; but
current quotations are still generally
I to li cents higher than tbey were
a week ago, and average about 7
cents above the level at which the
new crop year opened. The rise was
due to active foreign buying, which
was confirmatory of recent reports
of crop shortages in Russia, France
and other countries, and induced
bullish speculation in all grain cen
tres. Besides the large sales for ex-
Springs, O., Henri' Hayes dreamed
Tuesday night that the place was on I port, another strengthening factor
his wife and child by Sec rest which
, , l.n,-,.n,l in Ilm-l-n PAnntv no-irlv n
WOUitt i ' ' ' ""'"v- ' ""V
details of which most people in this
section are more than less familiar,
the Monroe Journal says:
"One thing singular in regard to
this is that the remains of the moth
er and child, though dead more than
vines tnat cnmo me omei p
vines that climb Ilau 'stiau out aai. n seems w uv
the fate to which they have been
doomed. When murdered they were
... ;::- boetbi'
1'v:-; et
from whence they were dragged by
rs and wild animals. Then taken
pioyet
.f r....rd.
'L i
watches the clock for quitting tune
and wastes a considerable part of
each dav in getting' ready to leave on . : ts aiKi j aim0s,t envy them
ii ,. tnst int Such behavior does not ., i,nr,v bmornnco of death and , U0X
.,-ss unnoticed. The foreman or em- j " future s(ate. Hundreds of katy-; court, they were bandied about
ts a: most msensiuiv tl ouis nro sinking in the grove wline l ; " " . J
write. The males are making' music
...1 4.,, Tl...
tnu in nis liiniu iil-u,..., i unmusical mates, imi-i
into two
and ."alou
ture of their little bodies is a miracle,
for ibo utmost ingenuity of a mail
could not make one
drums mat nnj ovaua ..un. . , , . . , ... .,
sounding boards and the tiny frets ! be (rownp(i an,v he who is born to
on their wings that scrape each oth- j go unburied will never sleep peace
er with unconceivable rapidity makes i fully in a grave."
insensibly a
mowledge of the character oi ms
d in las mind he divides tnem
classes the one reliable ! .j si;J, o;i an(j tj0 happy for three
the other indifferent and nnti.s anci die. The form and struc-
Advancemen t comes
out rust worthy.
only to the first class. This lesson
eannot be too strongly urged upon
young people. The illustration drawn
from"the experience of Mr. McLaugh
lin may serve to impress it upon the
minds' of the young more forcibly
than a moral essay.
vears till the last trial of Secrest in
lSOa, after which what few scraps
that remained of them were sent to
the clerk of the court in Monroe to
be turned over to relatives. They
have never been taken from his of-
Tlie two little 'co' ant toa.VT lie therein a small
f ! rough box under a table. only he
fire. He leaped from a fourth-story
window and received injuries from
which he died soon after.
Four men were killed and several
others wounded by an explosion in
the hold of a steamer while lying at
her wharf at Bridgeport, Conn., on
Thursday. The disaster is thought
to have been caused by ignition of
naptha vapor.
A masked mob lynched Dr. W. L.
Ryder near Talbotton, Ga., Monday
night, for the murder of his sweet
heart last spring. His trial was
twice postponed and this enraged
the people so that they took him
from the officers and hung him.
Fire destroyed the Jennison Park
Hotel, on Mattawa Lake, near Hol
land, Mich., Saturday night, causing
a 150,000' loss, with no insurance.
Mrs. Frank Dean, of Cincinnati, O.,
lost several thousand dollars' worth
of diamonds. There were several
narrow escapes.
During a thunder-storm at Giles
Park, Pa.j Sunday, Mrs. Horace
Xoble, a prominent woman of Erie,
Pa., was instantly killed by a flash
of lightning. She was sitting in the
parlor with some companions when
the house was struck. Xone of the
others were hurt.
was the delay in the shipments of
new wheat to market centres, conse
quent upon the late harvest, interior
expectations of higher prices and a
good demand from mills in the win
ter wheat districts. The partial re
action in prices within a day or two
is attributable to freer offerings of
new wheat and a little slackening in
the new demand for export. The
crop of winter wheat is large and of
excellent quality, and there are indi
cations of a bij yield of spring wheat.
It is - natural, therefore, that after
the considerable advance in prices
already established there should be
a halt in the upward movement of
the markets. Speculators have been
taking profits, and the promise of
large supplies has encouraged bear
ish operations at the advance.
Corn has also been in good foreign
demand; but there is so much of this
cereal in the county, and crop pros
pects have been. so noticeably im
proved in recent weeks, that the ac-
tice trade has had little effect as a j
stimulant to prices. The latter are
firm, however, and generally I to i
rf o oont rmr Viihfl biirVipr thnn tbfw !
were a week ago. Yalues of hog
products have ruled a shade higher,
owing to a smaller movement of hogs j
to packing centres and continued ac
tivity in the export trade.
A Suinniarj of Current Events for the
Past Seven Dajs.
Greenville has twenty lawyers and
fifteen doctors.
Arch Kearson, aged 57, of Vance
county, fell from his barn, Friday,
and broke his neck.
Miss Lillie Black was arrested at
Henrietta, Rutherford county, Sat
urday, charged with infanticide.
In the criminal court at Wilming
ton last week, eleven out of eighteen
of the grand jurors were colored
men.
A twelve-year-old son of Daniel
McCorquodale was drowned in Black
river, Cumberland county, Tuesday,
while bathing.
The President on Friday sent in
the name of W. S. Clanton to be as
sayer and melter to the United States
assay of lice at Charlotte.
Wesley Smith, a notorious negro
of Surry county, was taken out of
bed on Wednesday night by about
fifteen negroes and severely whip
ped with sticks and pistols.
Some unknown person attempted
to blow up the residence of Job Thig
pen at Greensboro, Thursday night,
by placing' a dynamite bomb beneath,
but fortunately it was discovered in
time.
While in a fit of temporary de
spondency, Mrs. Minnie L. Cocke,
aged 25, wife of ex-Mayor William J.
Cocke, committed suicide at her
home in Asheville, on Monday, by
shooting herself through her temple.
Is seems to be settled that Claude
M. Beanard, of Greenville, solicitor
of the first district, will be United
States district attorney of the east
ern district, now held by Charles I
Aycock, which office pays 4,000 per
annum.
The telegraph operators of the
Seaboard Air Line between Char
lotte and l'ortsmouth are to nave a
telegraph tournament. The operator
sending the most words in one min
ute, for five minutes, will be award
eJ a gold medal.
A freight train of the Seaboard
i Air Line was wrecked near Weldon,
Saturday morning. Fourteen box
cars were knocked into kindling
wood and piled up in all directions.
Several brakemen had narrow es
capes from death.
William II. Deaton, aged 23, of
Concord, committed suicide, Friday,
by shooting himself in the head with
a pistol. He left a note to his mother
saying that he could not control his
carnal appetite and therefore deter
mined to take his own life.
Asheville aldermen have passed an
oridnance prohibiting the serving of
free lunches in the saloons of that
city. The arguments used in favor
of the ordinance were that the free
lunch was an inducement for young
people to drink, and it sometimes
kept business away from the restau
rants. The Railroad Commission has re
duced the toll on telegraphic mes
sages to and from points within the
State from 25 cents to 15 cents for
ten words, to go into effect Septem
ber 1st. Thej' increased the total
valuation of railroad property in the
State about three million dollars over
what it was in lSW.
Judge Simonton has made the in
junction permanent against Governor
Russell and the president and direc
tors of the A. it X. C. Railway, a-
gainst carrying out the provisions of
the act which took away all power
from the private stockholders and
rendered the presence of the State
prox' necessary to make a quorum.
Early Wedneday morning a negro
entered the bedroom of Mrs. Philip
S. Baker, of King's Mountain He
had an axe which he used in attempt
ing to open the bureau drawers The
noise aroused Mrs. Baker and the ne
gro caught her and choked her into
insensibility. She sci earned when he
seized her and aroused the household
The negro fled, leaving the axe. Wil
Ham Smarr, colored, has been arrest
ed on suspicion. If he is the right
man there may be a lynching.
The family of John W. BiggerstatT,
of Sunshine, Rutherford count', has
recently been sorely afilieted. On
July 1st, his daughter, Miss Delia
BiggerstatT. died. On the 17th, his
wife died, and the next day, another
daughter, Mrs. John Gettys, follow
ed. Last Moii-aav, his only son died.
All died of typhoid fever. The only
members of the family left are Mr.
BiggerstatT and one daughter, Mrs.
B. V. Babington, of Mt. Holly, and
Mr. BiggerstatT is very ill with the
same disease.
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m ill
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