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Ths Kessenger J prints . the . (lews t :i ! H sought aftr by the peo- 1, M'I i"W"ll, Yancey, Bun- . . ;.!", liutlierfonl, Burke nr. 1 "tt:fT counties In Western y rth ( nrulina, and Is thera- -lusoioiiini. 2 job pbihtiitg TO t THE MESSENGER, J uanon. n. i I If Coed Advertising Medium. K''-'" f !irijlshI on application. i AlJrofs. J THE ME3PENQEB. r Marlon, N. O. 5".puJs. Accuracy. 1 I and Oood stock linitublii Keataaa if- Pamphlata, aad any kUt of 2 Printing. MARION. N, C, FRIDAY, JULY 30. 1897. Price $1 Tcr Year, in Advance. 5 ! 1 : iw'vi i hi , . 1 1. rx ii i i i ii ii r oa a & & v av i ! ZZZ ... - ,. iiiu: Rat : for Telegrams, 15 C' -tu For Ten Words. HElorORE IT HAS BEEN 25c. ,,,, n . Will I ndout.telly Ik . ., I,.,-:.. i ! the People of 1 lie V. ('. ) Observer says h i ( Vnunission at its I Knob decided to re i i of tlio State to jmy , and tlio telegraph i 1 messages at a re i, increased thevalua r.: ' i ty in North Caro . . . : ,! usse. -ed .alua n '1 tlio railroad com t.i o In; required to pay y increased return, cheaper t;!f(,'rfth Her- -ion placed the rate for a words or less at 15 lias heretofore been 25 s' t rate i ! r.iiiiinis:,i(iu ih very care t and fair in its decisions. tli; most painstaking in III thei-e subjects ami Wll ni t tliat these two decisions '.. 1 ly the findings of the :. an. I they will undoubted ii !..l by the eule of the pl.l I II i. I M PROSPERITY. II, v.. sit in (he Dingley Hill for the Inon d-ies ol' the South. -i . . in ?!,. ( h.ulotte (N. C.) Ob . i i vi;r. J 1 i ii.-liHC'l looks through his ,..ii!;. u! --i n-t.v!i'i mi l sees nothing i . tit i i ' i ity ni the 1 inglcy tariff bill. H. i a'. :'. 'I tliiit its provisions will :, i :, i i ti.e interest of tho Southern ! ! ! !' ii i,the way bo figures it .jut N. . ;!, ,: 'in- tariff bill is about to bo . :.u ' i : . 1 ' iu , ' :-u s t ho Senator, "I fi ri :.i.- thai tin' country will expori . :: . ;i . .... i it 1 icvival of business in ! r. !i of industry. Uumistak iihii i . ' ' ' . . ' i ' 1 of prosperity are to bo !! e-..-iy hand and while I have in ' iii ! I in every instance iu se iiii: .: i believe to bo adequate .i..t.-. !:! !..i certain industries of tho .-nfii. ii. ii." iiiain. I have gotten what 'ii pe.'i ie have demanded. It is ail ;.l!.. r. i 'act that the South has se- iii. In -le.iter ileu'tce of protection for ii. i i . I ; tii.'r. iii the present law than lia. I.e. -n ii.-. iii..-.l to us in any tariff im u -iii , ! i ,-t. ifui . eiiueteil. Take, for iii-ta:ii ". flu-lumber industry iu North iiii 'iinii an I other Southern States wl.iili witi almost destroyed by the ipeliitluli of the Wilson law. "' nu: to remoteness from tho difl- ril.ntiiu,' points and the ditVerenoe iu tin r.'st of iubor in Canada and the I nit. - I States it w as absolutely impossi-i'l- for the Southern lumbermen to '! I'lliv e.iinpete w it'n his I 'anadian ..ii, . tit. r. So loii as the Wilson law i. in oil. si nit the statute, book it was fol- I, v I' i !ln citietis of our State to at tfin 1 1 to dispose of their lumber. Tho li.'.iitlau provides a two dollar rate i f di,t on lumber, which will utl'ord a n. in l.i t fni the lumber of tho North Cur eiuia tanner , and w ill enmirethe invest- of tltniisiiiids of dollars iu tho in. 1.1 iii lusti v of our .state. " late of duty has been secured on uhi.-i; is entirely satisfactory to tin- plant. -is of the South. This is n .tin -i l'ulii-ti y which has been lau-iisluii- under the operation of tho U'l! -oi. t:u i!t. A diitv .f six cents per pound is e i on lnoiiaite, w hieh will enable lui in. t - of North and South Curo 1,1 "nil" thousands of dollars iu development of the industry. I he bill provides for a most sutis- i t' iv i ale on wool, therchv otter- n:i l'.dii.-emelit to the peoplo of ii..;. -rovMiitr sections. Many it.e in Nmtii Carolina are welt t.d to sheep -lowilie; aU.l tllO 1 ' -i'i.s in the present law- it p,e.sibl,. f. y uur fanners i.-''v i :uu.;e m this business the a-mamv that they will be ! ue a mod profit Kaolin '"ideia MiihVieiit rate of duty to ''!! , I'lHirr, of koalin mines to ' I ''' '' industry, securini; tho iu- i;t . f thousands of dvillurs us a- the employment of our citizens e;:,Mve w aces. Mi.-a and all i ti.n.eiiiN, Hs ns the arioul- -duets of the South, are af- ,' i ia!e of protection. :- '' to the fact that we are a -eiieral revival of manufiu'- - throughout the country tho "ot'ii a i.poits tell of unusual ' I ev,..A vvLel-e. " ' IIVNi.l imim MASI "KKS. Ik Niiinl.er t.,.i t. Same As In 'he l.nsi A.liuinit ration. ' '';;i' ei- if chatiereH made in lle-l .e:.t;.,i . ,,,( ,.!1 .... 1 .... ......... T 1. 1 OU -Ulll i ll ! 1 ' ;. I'ord'iu to tho official ' ' ' "' -totVice iVpartment, ' '' . 1 ' r s'.t.i ilar period the - s .mil:i- the hist .,;,. ......o.., uiiiiei mo v 1l,e chaiicos at tit! offices 1 mi fesu'iiatioiis, i::i5 on ex i t ti.e coiuiiiissions of in- el I l'l.t "ii removals. 7:5 hy th. e bei:'.c raised to tfi ef th '' ' hiss, and I.", on deaths of tii.us'ers Included in the totHl uses .,, v ) i,..,..,., . . . ......m eieuuo 'i eits ,,f io-to!iieoiusivtors. ""lu-t ,Hu Mis j, ver t ((erance-v. V 1 loVl le!.,-,, ! I , tv i,.. ,, , , 1 .!' " ,u'r 10 the fae- 's ..... , leUt,r was I ie.;. . t i '"1'U!n',H'n sent to 't'tV. ,,,'!lsU','s "d fellows, 1, r i , " "mi to account v. r utterances. ..Ml,.. T7;ilhl.orrlo,t. ( mi navel-man. the oldest , V:' .; i" ,ho l"ted States, i:.,l . v . lather lnvor brtt; -et ii i ''"vtnee of North Mm hind. March -J7, 180C. ;'"'"rs Il....OII1ills ARgPeve. stnkln-- miners are beeoini eeorniat m tarir efforts to jet the 1'hm" ":t: ."n'1 tronl.leis feared at iti Kh '"kboue of tho strike oaaurt district is broken. i' l.er a. u ' e w,n vt Omaha in ()c-'-uie a'" i tc,f-til"ony iu tho ease of w frl','t'e "'lolai-ns of civil eervice suaml' i t u)'?n tueir "turn may Utt their he&aM in Waahinaton. -n 't , ,v r I'ru,,'1R'd announces that the tM '"' eations by the Sen- will I,; J- ' u C'lvl1 Service Reform .... c 'osooiltllilie,! u.,;i ll Tl.. NEWS ITEMS. Foutlicrn I'enell Pointers. Mrs. W. J. Cocke, of Asheville, N. C., committed euicide while tempo rarily insane. Kinanuel liich, a prominent Atlanta merchant, committed suicide bycuttin-' his throat. The Inter-Ktato Cottonseed Crushers' Association met at Nashville, Tenn., and organized. The National Conference of State Hoards of Health is to be held at Nash ville, Tenn., in August. Tennessee life insurance agents have organized a State association and elect ed ollicei s. . T. Johnson, a broker of Athens, 'a., committed Ruicide at Spartanburg, S. C. No cause is assigned. Hie erection of a twenty-ton cotton need oil mill will be commenced at I.a vonia, (ia., at once. The Charlotte (X. C.) News is to put in Mertrenthaler type-setting mac'-i-aes and thereby improve their paper. At Martinsville, Va. , Wade Lester, charged with the murder of young Javis, ty poisoning, was acquitted. Four decided cases of smallpox have been sent out of iJirmiiiKham, and sus pect cases irfo being sent to tho pest house. Tho American Warehousemen's As sociation will hold its seventh annual convention at Nashville, Teuu., Oct. '0, L'l and . J. h. r .inn, of Berkeley couuty, South Carolina, committed suicide in Columbia by swallow ing laudanum. He feared sunstroke was the unusual cause of the death. Judge Fox, of Wayne county, Va , has declared unconstitutional the Indi ana law that no convict-made goods from other States can bo sold without a State license. Dispatches received from Talbotton at Atlanta fully confirm the reported lynching near there of Dr. W. L. Kyder, who murdered Miss Hallio Emma Owen, of Talbotton, a year ago. It is said that in tho near future tho I'ullman car company will have large shops erected in Salisbury, X.C., which w ill bo the headquarters for the eastru division of the company. Tho contract for printing the 120th volume of tho North Carolina Supremo Couit Jteports have beeu awarded to tho James I), (ioodo 1'rinting Company, of Richmond, Va., at SJ1M4. Nash Iiros. , of (loldsboro, were tho next low est bidders, S'.Cft. In all there were seven bidders, four from Richmond. There is a trood deal of complaint at this work going out of the State. All Aliout the North. Saginaw, Mich., is in tho throes of a (street car sttike. Three thousand troops were in inter State camp at San Antonio, Texas. Twenty thousand men wore in line in Chicago at the dedication of the monu ment to Con. Logan. Tho Naumbaug, (Mass.) cotton mills, at Salem, have decided to close for a number of weeks, and 2,000 operatives Lave been so n,otiiied. AtChandtVr, O. T., Miss (iraco Allen is under urrest, charged with poisoning Miss 1'hronie Kches and her mother. Jealousy was tho cause. Knglish sparrows iu droves, not to say hordes, have picked all the grain tho wheat stalks iu a lield outside of Wabash, I ml. Tho next conference of tho F.pworth League will bo hold in Indianapolis, I ml. , and tho next session of tho Rat tist Young People's I'nion at IJutt'alo, N. Y. A cloud-burst at Youngstown, ()., flooded tho town and valley washed out tho tracks of the Krie Railroad. It is almost certain that inany people were di owned. Four women and two men were kill ed y an explosion of cartridges iu tho factory of tho Winchester Arms Com pany, nt New Haven, Conn. An over charge of a machine, it is thought, was the cause. Representative Mitchell, of New York, has introduced in the House a bill to es tablish n currency reserve fund for the redemption of I'nited States and Treas ury notes of IS'.mi. The fund shall ag gregate at tho start Sir.O.tKin.Oiio, of which not over $100, 0(H), 000 shall con sist of gold, and the remainder of Uni ted States and Treasury notes. Miscellaneous. A band of Ku Ilux is whipping peo ple in Arkansas. Forest fires have done much damage in California. England is now having the first hot weather of the year. Spain will be asked to pay 875,000 for murdering Dr. Ruiz. Money is said to bo so abundant in London that it can be loaned without difficulty. Statistics show that tho United States control !( per cent of the trade of the Hawaiian Islands. An aeronaut is to fly from the sum mit of Pike's Peak to Colorado Springs. Twenty thousand delegates attended tho F.pworth League at Toronto, Canada. The delegates to the Pan-American congress have concluded their tour of this countrj-. The window glass workers, about (i 050 persons, will again affiliate with the Knights of Labor. Tho Loudon Spectator thinks Debs' movement means a Western Populist for President in 1SK)0. On the 10th Consul General Lee vis ited the jail at Havana, Cuba, and dis tributed money to naturalized Ameri can prisoners. Increased Canadian duties upon im ports have led to extensive smuggling of liquors and the operation of illicit stills. It is reported that ex-President Cleveland will, in November, be form &Uy tendered the office of president of the University of Virginia. Various sections of England have been visited by terrific thunder storms. In the northwestern part of London floods have occurred stopping railway traffic and much damago has been done. Floods have also occurred in Essex, Bir mingham and Warwickshire. Washington Oosslp. It has been decided to send the enr renoy message to Congress as soon as the party leaders in the Senate con eider thVtime opportune. The President has sent to the Senat. the nomination of Terence V. Pow derly, of Pennsylvania, to be Commis ioner General of Immmig ration. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Report of the Proceedings from Iay to Day. SENATE. Jn.Y 10th. The opening session of the Senate was brief ami uneventful. The Harris resolution relating to the Union Pacific railroad was discussed. At ly.'jt) the Senate went into executive cession, remaining behind closed doors until tj o'clock, and then adjourned un til the 17th. Jc-ly 17th. Senator Morgan, of Ala bama, occupied most of the time in the Senate in support of the Harris reso lution relating to the Union Pacific Railroad. He severely arraigned the executive officials connected with the sale of the government interest in the road. Final action on the resolution was not reached. The Senate soon af ter meeting went into executive ses sion. Jcly 10th. The day in the Senate was principally devoted to a discussion of Harris' resolution relating to the I'nion Pacific Railroad. Morgan, of Alabama, concluded his remarks in favor of the resolution, ami Stewart spoke in opposition to it. Thuiton, of Nebraska, was speaking in opposition when, at 5 o'clock, the Sfnatewent into executive session, and shortly thereafter adjourned. July 20th. The indications when the Senate adjourned today, were that a vote would be reached upon the con ference report on tho tariff bill some time doring the week. There may bo a change iu the condition, which will postpone a vote, but it is difficult to seee what could cause it. The op ponent to the bill realize that there is no possibility of preventing the adop tion of the report, and their present purpose is only to secure w hat advan tage they can by exhibiting what they claim are the inconsistencies of the measure. Senators Tillman, Jones, Rutler and Racon made a protest against restoring cotton bagging and ties to the dutiable list. During the day, Tillman, Democrat, of South Car olina, openly threatened a fillibuster until next December, if cotton bagging uud cotton ties were not restored to the free list, but the threat w as regarded as somewhat facetious. Jn.Y 2 1st. The Senate concluded the formal reading of the tariff confer ence report. The debate was spiritless in the main. Allen, of Nebraska, dur ing tho debate reforred to the present coal strike, contrasting it with the promises of prosperity. The strike would be arbitrated, ho said, and arbi trated in but one way namely, in favor of the coal baron ami against the' miner, and if the miner protested he would bu met with tho baton of tho policeman or the bayonet of the tin soldier. Ji ly 22m. - In the Senate, Allison, in charge of the turili' bill, endeavored to have a time fixed for the final rote, but failed. During the discussion of the agricultural schedule, Tillman was drawn into a vehement argument on the benefit of an export bounty on agri cultural products. This the Senator declared with emphasis, was tho most effective means of destroying the iu tire protective system, for if the farmer got on; drop of blood in his mouth he would want to swallow the whole cur cass, and it would end in a scramble, overturning tho whole system. The House joint resolution was passed re questing tho President to make investi gation as to the exclusion of American tobacco from foreign countries v.". der the Regie contract system. Tillmau's resolution for an invest .gation into the changes of senatorial speculation in sugar stock was rejected by the com mittee or contingent expense. The report was couched m decidedly vigor ous language. 'J homas 1!. Turley, who succeeded the late Senator Harris, of Tennessee, was administered the oath of office. HOUSE. Jrt.Y 10th. The House agreed to the partial conference report on the gen eral deficiency appropriation bill, and then concurred in tlio Senate amend ment, fixing the limit to the cost of armor plate for three battleships, now building, at ividO per ton. Davis (Detn,), of Florida, made a strong ap peal to tho House to concur in the 850, 000 appropriation for Cumberland Sound. Fla. , but Mr. Cannon resisted it. The House tlnallj- concurred in the amendment. and at (i::J5 adjourned until the 10th. Jrr.Y 10th. The conference report on the tarift' bill was adopted by tho House shortly after miduight by a vote of le5 t 1H. This eclipses all previous records. The result was accomplished after 12 hours of continuous debate. Rut two speeches were made by the Re publicans, one by Governor Dingley iu opening tho debate, and one bv Mr. sard, Meyer " and Davey, ot Louisiana, and Klemser, of Texas. Tho Populist and silverites did not vote solidly. Messrs. Shafroth, of Colorado; New lands, of Nevado, and Hartmau, of Montana, a silverite, did not vole. The Populists who voted against the report were Messrs. Raker, Rarlow, Rotkin Fowler, Jett, Lewis, Marshall, Martin, Peters, Simpson. Strowd. An analysis of the vote shows that 14 Republicans and 5 Democrats voted for the report, and lot! Democrats and 12 Populists against it. Jt LY 21st. In the House Evans, (Rep., Kj ) from tho committee on ways and means, reported a join reso lution, which was adopted, requesting the President to make such investiga tions as w ill elicit all tho facts in refer ence to the restrictions put upon the Bale of American tobacco in foreign countries, under what is known as the "Itegie" or government edict. It also authorizes tho President to enter iDto negotiations with governments of those countries with a view of obtaining a modification or removal of these re strictions. Clardy (Dem., Ky.) ex plained the necessity of it, saying that a great surplus of tobacco was raised in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, which must rind a foreign market. Swanson, of Virginia, supported the resolution. Jtly 22d. In the House a bill was passed from the committee on Ways and Means to authorize the President to suspend, in part or in w hole, the dis criminating duties imposed on the ves sels of foreign countries w hich imposes similar duties on our vessels. A bill was also rassed creating a civil govern ment in Alaska. An Otlicial Railroad Guide. Watts' Official Railroad Guide, pub lished at Atlanta. Ga. , is out for July. In connection with the handsome ai pearauce. Manager Watts is not onlj giving a chromo of the Tennessee Cen tennial Exposition and the summer re ports, but is now giving to each pur chaser a 81.000 accident insurance pol icy together with one of the most com plete railroad maps of the Southerr States. It is a gem of tyiography auc is comprehensive even to an ordinary traveler, in fact, it is an indisj ensab'i medium of information and ready refer ence to the tourist and traveler. Millions for Harliors. New South Wales has spent $12.MV 000 for harbors in forty years, exclusive of the cost of the port of Sydney, and will spend S1.500,0jO for the same pur. poee this year. L "Cotton Famine" Really a New Thing in North Carolina. RECORD FOR KILLING CONVICTS Oeath From a DreamConvicts to Cut Cord Wood Must Take a Census of the School Children. Si-eaking of the Local Taxation Elec tion Aug. 10, one man says: "Taxes are too high already; I don't want to pay any more taxes." But this man has children and wants to educate them. If he sends them to a public school like we now have, 'die school will last only twelve weeks. He can not educate his children this way. They will never learn much studying twelve weeks and not studying forty weeks. So this man decides to send his boy uud girl to a private school. How much must he pay? He must pay at least five dollars for the boy and five for the girl. This is a tax of ten dollars on him. But if he will vote for local taxation he will get good six months' school for tho boy and girl and for all the boys and girls he has at a cost of $1.80, if his property is listed at 1,000; at a ccst of 85. 30 if his prop erty is listed at 8-5,000; at a cost of forty cents if his property is listed for 8100; at a cost of eighty cents if his property is listed for &500. So you see this local taxation is the poor man's ouly hope of educating his children. The Superintendent of Public In struction sends the following to the county supervisors: "You and 3our county board of education will arrange to have the census of the school chil dren taken accurately some convenient time this fall. This must be done be fore the first Monday in Januarj', 1808, because the apportionment must bo made by the tow nships and per capita. This census w ill lie accepted at this office for tho one required first Monday in June, isjis." He also says to the county supervisers: "The reorganiza tion of tlio public school system ol North Carolina, according to the act ol the last General Assembly, is now com plete. Tho working force of the system consists of the State board of education, the State superintendent of public in struction, the county board of education, the county supervisor, the township committee and the teachers. We must make a success of our efforts to educate the masses in North Carolina. As head of the system for the State, I shall ex pect much of 3'ou. " The Raleigh correspondence of the Charlotte Observer, under date of tho 22nd, says: "A carload of cotton all the way from New York has arrived for one of the mills hero A lot of cotton owned by a lady was sold here yester day at oH cents. A lot of 250 bales, the property of a Mecklenburg farmer, brought tho same figure. A Raleisrh buyer was on board, but did not buy. as it would cost :50 cents per hundred to bring tho cotton here from Char lotte. A 'cotton famin.'is really a new think in North Curoliua. The suffering mill-owners ought to call on the govern ment to 'relieve the pressure' and have cotton sent hero." . - -4s James Hainrick, a young man, died at Iron Station under peculiar circum stances. He was convalescent from an attack of fever. A work train on tho Carolina Central was engaged in load ing and unloading railroad iron in front of his house, and he dreamed that he was lying on the track, unable to move and tho train was about to run over him. The fright brought on heart failure and he died. Greensboro Record. A medal of honor has been awarded to Brevet Col. Andrew McGonnigle, of Asheville, X. C. , who at Cedar Creek, Va , -while acting chief quartermaster of General Sheridan's forces operating in the Shenandoah Valley, was severely w ounded w hile leading a brigade of in fantry on that field, and was commend ed for the greatest gallantry by Gener al Sheridan. At Kings' Mountain a burgular enter ed the residence of Mrs. P. S. Baker, and in his attempt to open the bureau she screamed, and he therefore choked her into insensibility and made his es cape from tho house, but was caught and given a preliminary hearing and sent to jail. A white man, named Fred P. How laud, the supposed iucendiary, whose acts of incendiarism have cost Wil mington more than 100, Ooo, has been found guilty at the recent term of the Criminal Court for that county. Sen tence has not been passed upon yet. In the Superior Court, at Raleigh, Perry Cook, colored, charged with mur dering by strangling, Rose Morgan, his mistress, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary bv Judge Robertson to twenty years at hard labor. Isaac Hohlerfield, an overseer of con victs of the State penitentiary, says that lie has been serving in that capaeity for the past twenty-six years, and in that time he has shot ten convicts and killed seven. Superintendent Smith will hire out most of the convicts, except those on the Wadesboro farm, who will be put to cutting wood; he has a contract now to furnish 3,500 cords of wood. Jt is claimed that the tobacco crop in the western counties will be small. Superintendent Smith, of the peniten tiary, says the Roanoke convict farm w ilfyield this year 125, OCX bushels of corn from 0,noo acres, 5,000 bales of cotton from 5,510 ares, and besides there are 2,000 acres now in field pens. - The farmers' institutes, which are being held in many of the counties, are also in the interest of the Agricultural and Mechanical college. It is now intimated that the Durham and Charlotte railroad mav pass by Chapel Hill. Dr. Curry has sent to Superintendent Mebane 8200 of the Peabody fund for the State Xormal and Industrial Col lege, making 82. 800 given it this j-ear; also 8100 more for the Elizabeth City negro normal school. T. J. Callett and other capitalists, of PhilliDsbnre, Fa., have established at Wilmington a brewery, ice factory and cold storage plant. The capacity is 10, ooO ban els, and work has been begun on the plant. Ab Longery, the negro murderer of Willie Brown, a little white boy in Marion, has been sentenced to thirty yersi n the State's prison. '8 DEBS DISCOURAGED. Some Miners In Favor of Continuing the Mrlke and Others Return to Work. Changes that have an important bear ing upon the coal strike situation in West Virginia have taken place. The State, taken as a whole, is against the 6trike for financial reasons. All strikers have been brought out under pressure of organizers and agitators elsew here than in the Fairmont regions. Debs admits that he is sorelv discouraged. Governor Atkinson thinks the strike w ill becoaie general and hopes the men will win. Trouble, and much of it, seems to be in store at the Allison mine, three miles west of Canonburg, Pa. Six hundred interfering strikers are looked for, and tLe Sheriff and his deputies are ready to meet them. At Farmington, 111., the strikers are beginning to get ugly. They seized a freight train and held it for live hours. At Kenova, W. Va., one hundred ni'V, who have been employed iu grad ing on the double track for the Chesa peake k Ohio Railroad, left for Elkhorn to work in the coal and coke fields, thereby defeating the strike in this State. At Wheeling, W. Va., there is little change in the local coal miuing strike situation. Some of the miners who struck at the Glendale works have re turned to work, rather unexpectedly. About 125 of the 450 miners who are on strike at Collinsville, 111., held a meeting at that place to determine whether they should continue the strike or accept the advance offered them by the operators and return to work. They decided by a vote of S I to4: tg continue the strike. All tho miners in Alubama, except those at Blue Creek, employed by the Tennessee Coal and Iron and Railroad Company have returned to work hav ing compromised with the operators at 37 cents per ton, a reduction of 2J cei.ts. The same scale, it is expected, will be signed up with the Blue Creek miners. At Cincinnati, O., the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen decided to raise funds for the striking miners, but to take no sj-mpathetic action and to remain neutral as an organization. Senator Hanna, of Ohio, expresses great sympathy for the striking miuers in the coal regions of Ohio, Pennsylva nia and West Virginia. He is doing all he can to bring about a Pjeedy settle ment of tho troubles. He says" that tho President has not received a request to act, but would probably decide upon tho matter when it was presented to him. A. & X. C. RAIL,KOAI CASK. Simoiitoii Continues One Injunction and Dissolves Another. The attorneys for Win. 11. Tucker iu his suit against Governor llussell, in tho matter of the Atlantic & Xorth Car olina Railroad, have received Judge Simon ton's decision. Simonton dis solves the injunction as to the first act of the last Legislature regarding this road, but he con tinues tho injunction as to the second act, which repealed the old charter, prescribed a graduated vote for tho irivate stockholders and fixed Ihe -It-te's votes at 350. Under tho lat ter act tho State would enjoy 12,000 votes and the other stockholders (i,000, and the presence of the State proxy would also be necessary to muke a quorum. The State would have abso lute control of tho road. Under tho judge's ruling the act cannot be en forced. AX ALABAMA WAR. Trouble Over the Killing of a Xegro for the Usual Crime. A special to the Birmingham (Ala.) State Herald from Florence, Ala., says: A race war is on at lUverton, Ala., a townjof COO inhabitants, and serious trouble is feared. A negro attempted a criminal assault on Mrs. S.L. Vaughan, au estimable white laity, but was beaten oil', and the neighborhood aroused. . A searching party is said to have caught the fiend and shot him, but this they w ill not admit. After the lynching the whites became incensed and threatened to exterminate the negroes. Both sides are arming, and one white man is seriously injured. M rs. Vaughan is in a delicate condition, and her death is momentarily ex pected. Talmage Loses Ills Pastorate. A Washington special to the Phila delphia (Pa.) Record says owing to dissentions among the members of tho aristocratic First Presbyterian church, Dr. DeWitt Talmage will not return to Washington to take charge of his flock. The majority of the members claim that Dr. Talmage has far from realized their expectations. In fact, the church has less members and is worse off finan cially than ever before. He took the associate pastorate under a contract, which has not netted him a penny this year. Libelous Report. The directors of the Southern Build ing and Loan Association, of Louis ville, Ky. , say that they do not owe Milo Abel, of Macon, Ga., 82,000 or any other sum due and demandable; even if we did, we have in bank over gs.000 with which to pay it. The as sociation is absolutely solvent, and the report sent out is a libel. Mrs. Lease for Governor. Mrs. Mary E. Lease has announced that she would be a candidate for the Populist nomination for governor of Kansas next year. The constitution does not bar women from holding this office. McKInley Gefs the Prize Melon. Wednesday tho largest watermelon grown in the South was presented to 1'resident McKinley. It was grown iu Georgia; weighed seventy-tight iounds and took the prize of $25, offered lev W. X. Mitchell, southern agent of the Baltimore ami Ohio railroad, in a con test participated in by the planters of all the melon-growing States. A Pine Wood Trust. The pine shippers of Virginia have organized with a view of securing bet ter prices for their product. Labor Denounces Powderly. In Xew York the Central Labor Union after a long wrangle adopted the followin?: "Resolved that the apioint ment of T. Y. Powderly as Commis sioner of Immigration is the greatest official insult ever offered by the Fed eral government to organized labor." Killed Her Baby In a Dream. Mrs. Joseph Midkiff, wife of a farmer living near Hamlin, W. Va., dreamed that she was pitching brufh, and taking hold of her infant child lying beside her she unconsciously pitched the lit tle one to the floor. The child died from the effect of its injuries. THE HOME OF BILL NYE. Summer Girl of Mountain Cities in the Land of the Sky. Asheville. X. C July 24. (Special Correspondence.) Xot many miles from this place lived Bill Xye alas, loor William, the people about here knew him well and they have many queer stories which they tell of him and many which the humorist in his perigrination throughout this pic turesque region would telf to them. It was Nye who gave the memorable account of how it was that Vander bilt happened to settle in this rare and rarified section of the South. "George and me worked the combina tion," he said. "We have tastes of the same hue, often a dark brown. I'm long on gray matter; he has the long green. We pitched our tents side by side this proves the greatness of men, to say nothing of tho country round about. " But Nye has passed, and there is no monument save a cottage far up the river. Vanderbilt remaineth, and like old Horace, he has erected a mouumert more euduring than brass. Since the visit of McKinley, when he refused to enter the estate unless an invitation was extended to the corresj.ondents accom panying him, newspaper men have rather risen in the estimation of Hard ing, the surly English sub-manager, and more extended courtesies are shown them. But Biltmore is only an accessory fea ture of this luxurious section. It rep resents the artificial, and looking at it iu this contrasted light with the limit less wealth of nature spread out in its grandest forms, the scene makes a study which is interesting and not soon to be forgotten. Asheville, just at this season, becomes the summer girl of the mountain cities. She gets on a cool shirt-waist, with a jaunty sailor hat and bedecks herself in the refreshing greenery of the season. She looks delightfully cool, and there is an air of comfort and serene satisfac tion in her manner that she can defy the blisteriug heat which wilts her rivals and sends them indoors. Instead of retreating from the sun, Asheville gets out and glories in its glare, for it is tempered by a stiff breeze which comes down from the crown of moun tains around; she goes a golfing, rigs upiu w heeling costume for a spin, gets into tennis paraphernalia, or starts out on a jaunt up the river for a try at mountain trout. Just now Asheville is on the verge of the summer season. For the next three months it will be a gay place gay in a summer way, for the town is always lively anil wears the air of prosperity throughout tho whole year. The popular idea of Asheville is errone ous. 1 had pictured the place as a small mountain city, with two or three big hot-els near by and Biltmore and Fd McKissick in the rear ground. In stead, hero is one of the most metro polital towns in appearance in the South. The people have full enjoy ment of life. The business part of the city is in the bottom of a hugh basin scooped out among the mountains and eliced in two by tho Swannanoa and French H oad. Here ar j mile j of imved streets, put down, bv the way, by the late General Pierce ii. B. Young, who secured the contract some years before ho accepted his foreign appointment. From these radiate driveways which stretch in all directions and penetrate the encircling hills and heights, reach ing far into the mountains. It is on this range of intermediate hills that the residences and resorts have been built and on every protruding knob there is some majestic hotel or houte which gives a good effect to the general scene. The Southern Railway has made a recent change in schedules, which puts in trains from all sections at most con venient hours. The Macon people are taking advan tage of a train w hich leaves that city at 7. lo p. m. and gets to this place at 0.45 a.m. The same train leaves Ash eville at 0 p. m. and arrives in Atlanta at 5. 10 a. in., and in Macon at 8.15 o'c loc k. Arrangements for transiortation be tween Charleston, Savannah and Co lumbia are equally convenient. The train leaving hero at 8.20 a. rn. gets to Charleston at 8 p. m. Drawing room cars have been put on between Jacksonville, Savannah, Ash eville and Cincinnati. The train leav ing here at &05 p. m. arrives in Savan nah at 5 a. in. and at Jacksonville at 0.10 a. m. Leaving Savannah at 11.35 p. m. and Jacksonville at 7, the trip is made to Asheville by 2.45 o'clock in the afternoon. Drawing room cars have been placed on between New York. Philadelphia, Chattanooga, Baltimore, Washington, Salisbury and Nashville. Leaving Asheville at 3.30 p. m. the trip is made to Chattanooga by 11.35 p. m. ; arriving at Nashville at 0.40 a. m. Leaving Asheville at 2. 2 p. m. the trip is made to Washington at 0. 42 a. m. , to Baltimore at 8 a. m., Philadel phia, 12.43 p. in., and New York at 12.52 p. m. Trains 15 and 10 carrj through Pull man drawing cars between Norfolk, Ralehrh, Greensboro, Chattanooga and Nashville. Leaving Asheville at 1.17 a. m., Chattanooga is reached at 7.4 0 a. m. and Nashville at 1::55 p. m. Leaving Asheville at 2.44a. m., the trip is made to Greensboro by 8.30, Norfolk at 5.25 p. m. Trains 3, 5 and 0, between Asheville and Morristown, make connections with trains to and from Memphis, New Orleans aud the South. Double daily trains run on the Murphy branch be tween Ashville aud Bryson City. This change in trains give excellent connection from Asheville with all points. Three trains come in during the day from the West, and three leave in the same direction; three come in and depart from the South, and there are two out and in from the East and North. Just now Asheville is filling up. Crowds are coming in from all sec tions. The season is just on, and will be more brilliant than any of former vears. A Compromise Accepted. Athens, July 1. (By Carle.) It is stated here on reliable authority that the powers have fixed the indemnity to bt paid to Turkey by Greece at .?4,oo,ihm, and have accepted a coinpiouiise giving Turkey a more liberal line of frontier. Turkey and Greece have been left to settle the question of the capitulations between themselves. Senator Tillman to Speak. Senator B. K. Tillman, of South Car olina, has wired his acceptance of an invitation to speak in Mooresville, X. C., on the 2!(th of this month, which ia the day of the Mooresville picnic for the Barium Springs Orphanage. Ihe Senator will prove a drawing card, and one of the largest crowds ever gather el in Mooresville is expected. A Berlin scientist cables over the In formation that he "has discovered the prime caue of bHlduev." Absence of hair, probably. ." ITI C'ONGUKSS ADJOURNS. The Din-Mcy Turin Bill Is Now the Law of the Land. Washington, J uly 20th. (Special. ) The tariff bill passed its iast legislative stage at 3 p. in. Saturday wheu the Senate, by the decisive vote of 40 to 30, agreed to the conference reiort on the bill. The announcement of the result w as greeted with enthusiastic applause by the crowded chamler. This closed the labor for which the Fifty-fifth t'ougress assemble 1 in extraordinary session, and' after stubborn resisteuce, at times threatened a deadlock, the Senate con curred w ith the House in a resolution for the final adjournment of the swsiou at 0 o'clock tonight. The President's message for a currency commission wus received, but the House bill creat ing the commission w as not acted Uhu. The closing day was prolific of a series of momentous scenes, each of which alone w ould have been of extraordinary interest. An analysis of the vote shows that the ulliruiative vote was cast by thirty-seven Republicans, one Demo crat (McEnery), one silver Republican (Jones, of Nevada), and one Populist (Stewart ) The negative vote was cast by 2 Democrats and two Populists (Harris and Turner). Mr. Teller, silver Re publican, and two Populists (Allen and Butler) were present and did not vote. One Populist (Kyle), aud one silver Republican (Pettigrew) wero absent without pairs, which was equivalent to withholding their votas. Although the result was a foregone conclusion, yet this did not abate the eager inter ests attaching to the close of a great contest. Com i limeutary resolutions to the Vice-President, Mr. llobart, were adopted aud at 0 o'clock the final scene was enacted by the formal adjournment of the session. The End In the House. The last session of the House was marked by many interesting events. In addition to the final act of tho Speaker in affixing his signature to the Dingley bill, a bill providing for the creation of a currency commission was crowded through in the closing hours. The House recessed until after the Senate had adopted tho conference re hji t and one minute and thirty-one sec onds after the house reconvened the en grossed bill w as signed and on iti way to the 1'resident. The last step necessary was taken at the White House when the President affixed his signature at 4:04 o'clock with a beautiful mother of pearl-handled peu, which Mr. Dingley requested tho President to use. The President recognized the right of Mr. Dingley, though he laughingly commented on tho diminutive size of the eu. He then appended his signature to the bill, asked the date and wrote ".July 21th, approved" and the bill was an act. TO SUPERSEDE STEAM. New Knitlnnil Kailrosid Kntaltllslica the Superiority of Klertricitjr. The supplanting of the steam locomo tive by electricity has begun. Thr test was made recently on th New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad !e tween Hartford and New Britain, when a hi'avy train was hauled over ten miles in K'.'i minutes with less jolt- THAI IIIIAWN 11Y NEW SIOTOII. ing than attends ordinary steam rail road Journeying. Furthermore, this means a big saving in fuel, as it re quires only half ns much coal to make forty-live miles by elect rieity as would be necessary if steam were employed. The new appliance which will revolu tionize railroading litis Ik-cu exiH-rl-menteil with for three years. It was begun on the Nantasket Reach Road, which was selected liecause It was not believed that electricity was practica ble on any road of any great length, owing to the waste of the current in transmission, which would necessitate pow er houses every few miles. Rut af ter many experiments the New York, New Haven and Hartford eleetrictuiiH discovered that y n heavy rail, that looks like a capital "A" flattened down, and laid on blocks of wood, the elctrl cal current could be transmitted with out any appreciable loss of lower, and at one-fifth the cost of a trolley line. It was this" discovery that caused the New Haven Road to siend so much money on the third rail system from Berlin to Hartford. The third rails are laid Itetween the running rails, and are banded together find connected by copiier wires. They are not fasten.! to the ties, but nre laid on blocks of wood. The running rails are uw-d to carry back the return current. The trolley block consists of a flat cast Iron shoe, 12x4 Inches, and weighing twenty m.uih1s. This he Is run along In the flat top of the third rail, jut as a trolley pule follows an overhead wire. Inside of this Iron shoe a copper wire carries the jower to the motor, which Is in the truck of the cnr. The current used is of 0i0 volts, I') more than In the overhead trolley sys tem, and. although the third rail, which carries the current, Ih exsed. a shock cannot lie gotten from it without touch ing the third rail and on of the running rails at the same time. Even then It would not 1h fatal. The company has fenced In all tVe stations and posted danger notices along the tracks to warn Iedestrians and workmen. The Firat Railroad in America. Gridley Bryant, a civil engineer. In 101, projected the first railroad in the United States. It was built for the pur jiose of carrying granite from the quar ries of Quiucy, Mass., to the nearest tidewater. Its lVngth was four miles, including branches, and Its first cost $.V.oOo. The sleepers were of stone and were laid across the track eight feet apart. Upon rails of .wood, six Inches thick, wrought-lron plates, three Inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick, were spiked. At the crossings stoue rails were used, and as the wooden rails became unserviceable they were replaced by others of stone. Ladles' Home Journal. POPULAR SCIENCE. The trouble with tongue-tied people is that the membrane connecting tho tongue with the lower jaw is too short. The tongue of most serpent is really forked, though this meuiWr seems to le of no particular use to the reptile. The month of the octopus is in the centre of his ludy, and is provided with a beak clostdy resembling that of a parrot. Some moths have no moutii. The insect after attaining a perfect ftage, lives ouly a few hours aud drnvs not take food. There are at least two cases on rec ord of five children at a birth, viz., a woman of Konlgslwrg, September 3, 1874, and the wife of Nelson, a tailor, in Oxford Market, in Octoler, 18(H). In Meiieo are found the "agricul tural ants." A clearing varying from one to thirty feet is made and is used as a playground or exercise yard. At its margin grows the crop," a sort of grass. Breaks in the grass ring give entrance to and exit from the clearing. The seeds of tho grass form the food of the ants. As asbestos comes from the mine it is of a greenish hue and the edges are furred with loose, fillers. The inor nearly white asltestos is the better itf grade. The length of ilVr is also of great importance, tho longest being the most valuable. From the mines tho asbestos is taken to the manufac tories in the United States. Static electricity modifies the human voice seriously, as MM. Mourtier aud Granier report to the Puris Academic de Medicine. A singer sitting ujhu an isolated stool coupled to the nega tive jiole of a static machine was made to breathe the atmosphere, which was electrified by means of a brush elec trode; after a short time the voice be came full and clear, tho quality much more agreeable, and the voice w as Iosh rapidly tired. For some singers a dy namic current of 1500 volts connect ing with the electric chair is the only remedy. One of the schemes for future en gineers to work at will be the sinking of a shaft 12,000 or 15,000 feet into the earth for the purpose of utilizing the central heat of the glolie. It is said that such a depth is by no means impossible, with tho improved ma chinery and advanced methods of the coming engineer. Water at a temjer ature of 200 degrees centigrade, which can, it is said, be obtained from these deep borings, would not only heat houses and public buildings, but would furnish power that could lie utilized for many purjHises. Professor Koehler's experiences of tho effect of formaldehyde in the pre servation of deep-sea fishen are well worthy of the notice of future collec tors. It is well known that the tis sues of many deep-sea fishes are of extreme softness and fragility; by im mersion in spirits sufficiently strong for preservi lion, these tisr.ucn are much contracted, the natural shape of tho fish often being distorted. This is entirely avoided by the use of tho usual forty per cent, formaldehyde, mixed with twenty times its volume of water. The specimens, however, have to bo transferred into spirits after some days, because the formaldehyde lias been observed entirely to destroy black pigment in a very short time. Coulil llritr Wel.oler Mile Oft". Marsh field is noted for having its peoplo live to a green old age, but Mrs. Sally Baker, who is ninety-eight years obi to-day, can claim the dis tinction of being its oldest inhabitant by quite a number of years. She re sides in a pretty farm house on tho Neck road, which has been her home for sixty-one years. The buildings are sprucely painted, the surroundings are trimly kept, ami tho bums indi cate a thrifty farm business. Mrs. Baker was born, in Kingston June 0, 1709, and was the daughter of Oliver and Sally (Muglathlin) Sumpsou good Old Colony stock on loth sides of tho house. Iu April, 1819, Hally Sampson wai married to Captain Otis Baker, f Duxbury, Parson Zephaniuh Willis, of Kingston, performing the ceremony. Captain Baker had been a privateers man in the war of 1812, being then less than twenty-one years old. His w idow now draws a pension, and is the only pensioner of that war now living iu this section. Iu 18-10 Captain Baker and his wife went from Duxbury to Marshfield and established a home, where she has resided ever since. The farm was a mile long, and extended to Green Harlxir River, on the opMisito side of which lay the estates of Daniel Webster. Mrs. Baker used to Bee a great deal of her distinguished neigh bor, for he was always hail fellow well met with the townspeople. Mr. Web ster's voice in particular has im pressed itself on the lady's memory. "Yon could hear him a mile off," she said. The Websters attended the little Congregational Church at South Marshfield, and 1eing of Episcopaliaa "proclivities," were a source of won der to the Pilgrim descendants as they knelt and lwed their heads at public worship. Boston Glole. I'rcullar Freak f m Thunderbolt. A special from Walla Walla, Oregon, says that during an unusual thunder storm Claude Clodiux, seventeen years old, returning from fishing, wa struck by lightning while climbing a fence, knocked senseless and seriously injured, his body being burned iu streaks, as if done by a hot gridiron. A peculiar freak of the electric fluid was that it wrapped the fish-line around the Ijoy's neck in such a way as to choke him, aud it had to he cut to save his life. Tho Iy was found, apparently lifeless, partly paralyzed, w ith his clothes on fire aud blood ooz ing from his mouth, nose and cars. The Jn.lge I Ixl .No Watch. A judge who was holding court here some time ago, being unable to see the city hall clock on account of a tree that stood on the premises of J. ic O. Evans, on Gillespie street, ordered a deputy sheriff to cut the limbs ofthe tree off. The officer obeyed the conrt'n order and in a few minutes a magnifi cent shade tree was transformed into a bare pole. The proprietors were naturally indignant, and only respect for the high office he held saved the judge from prosecution. Fayettsvilla (X. C.) Observer. A
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