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VOL.IL NO. 20.
MARION. N C, Fill DAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 187.
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ONKKSSIO.NS OK JIKUMAN XACK
1 Wo Husband of the Woman In the
uI(l'HHuppe Murdi-r 'ase.
Id ev York ou the District At
torney Olcott ma le rublicaremarkahle
itiit.-tiient from Ilf-rinan Xack, husband
A .MrH. Augusta Nack, who, with Mar
:m 'flioMif, in oharsjed with the niurd'jr
f Win. (iuhlensupi.e.
In the Matement Xack Ravs tht his
wife Las been killing children for a num-"'i-
"f years. j0 ive, tuB -q Cttreer
A himself ai.d Li wifo during their
narne.l lifo, from lsvi; to the time Le
IthL-r, in Uetober, ly.v,. Xnekivs
that l,i8 w:f(. iiiadeaivin through il
''!'al "i ei utiniis invol vintr t!ie luur.l.-r
'f -hiio.-e:i. Ho .sai.l tiat bho whs ii
0 eall.-l midwife, but that sho never
a i: !om;i.
'-tone time. Xack Mates that there
' -i i n i:h n. any as Mx d.'ad children j.re
' i ..d m hoi:,(! kind of cj.irits in bottles
' 1 ;"M , their h. ,.-.e. lie also
t-ot ,.. n.u'- h rni two to
."' ' 1 cw ry v.u., lor a period
! from eight to ten years. Xack
ui-th. r aMog.-s tha his wife wan assist
I in all the details by a number of
, i.ys!r:.uis. ile drags in undertakers'
i-imea, ehai '-ing nil of them, both phy
:"';:ns a'ld undertakers, with com
hr.ty with his wife. Jle (-ays they
r.t,A h. riii n.akiugwav with the bodies
d Hie ehih Ireli.
-Nhirk further alleges that many of
the ehildrcn were born dead, tlio result
t . ;is. Nark's illegal business. The
st at m 1 1 cut of Xack whs secured from
liim thiouuih the j.er.-i-tent etrorts of
W-istuiit District Attorney Mitchell.
ii i:m y.irs i;oi kkpoiit.
I'M iI Yield V.iis K,7oS,000 Hales,
Aaint !),:;1, (. in '.",
'erretai j- Hester's annual report
hows reeeipts of cotton at all United
States ports for the year of ('.,M'.".,10J
a;ai:,st ,. ,t.ii hist year; over
h.'i l '.';n, ! ajainst, S7;, -Jij.-i ; Southern
"iisumpti'.ii ta!;o'i direct, ti,:!
1 'uinsl j; . (lU i:i -g the cotton crop
i' t!io 1'niteii Sm os for 1S:m;-i7 amount
t- T..;."'U hales, a- iinst 7,j.-,t,:m; last
ear ai.d :,"i;!, .:,! the year before. Alto
- t ! er t h.- I' outheru nulls took 1,01'-!,-
il hull's, an iie rease of lli.unii.
'.'r. Hester i.iak. s the actual cotlun
crop ! i't xus. including Indian terri
toiy '.',.' ! .!. i I is report tu the crop,
f the iiii.'M nt Stales is given as fol
lows; ,i ii, 'aroiina, r.ii(l,(ii(li; South
I 'mi oiiiia, miiihi; Ceor tritt. l.-'iniLOUii:
Ala'o.i!
h--ls
, '..'.'.'lot!; 1-ioi'ida, r.o.HUO;
i. ;,i an: l.oiiisiana, .Yr5,
a . oi i.'i.hi; Tennessee, D.iO,-..-'".
Total crop !-
N oi t ii ( M olina above includes K'eli
'uck v a:.d "Virgnna: 1 enr.ie ' ineliides
i.iahoina: ...iisouri ineindes Kuiims
:.l i tah; i'e is includes Indian Ter
t .t. rv.
i:(ii.i oi'" sjo.nok.
i'o Ii'i"crv("l iii the ( onfeilcrate
r.Iii-i iiin at ImiioiuI.
At a recent meeting of the Confeder
.'!c ?.!ci; orial Liteiiirv Soi,:et'.- in iii.'h
iii'.n 1, it v.'iis ivsihol t.) jiress
!'i rwiii'd th' v. oik of registering the
names of C'otitVdt rate sol. hers and sail-i"!'-.
in : "r.il; of h iii-.r," to be present
rd in the ojii'i'dcrate .'museum fond!
I'!ue lo s.ii:e. The books arc now
oiiriT uin! it is urged that ail those
w iio f.a l an iiite'e- t in this work shi.il
MMid ,;i the name and lank of their
friend-; and eonirado.; promptly, w.th
such laci.tioii of tlieir rcord as they
luav .'.'em proper, laid a ; tar as pos.-i-!ce
a i ri hell 1 1-port of the various co:n
n and - to hich they were attached
tic n.i.ues ef not only e! those who
o ! for their country in the hope of
'rtoi v, but also of those who learned
tlieiiot le; s heroic lesson ( f living for
her in I !:.' hour of defeat.
Add'css idi eoiamunicatioiis to Mrs.
lames N. I unhip. Chairman .Memorial
Committee. ;;'; Crace stuet, I'.ich
mon.h a.
, ai'im:!) m ( him-: iokcoki ix
.V Jiirer Trailr Hrtueen a Sewiiis Ia-
liim" .;:i'nt .wi'l an I e.ertakcr.
1'he .('lee; est tl ado yet i . aid of wns
mti.ie ii! C!;:alott... N. ( ., according to
tiie News, btiweeu a sewing machine
ie'i! and n;i undertaker. The aseut
bantered lie uudei'taker for a trade,
'i he mi !. rt.iker tohi him he had noth
IMl," to sw up except eollili';. Tlio agent
( ro o . e 1 t lust he swap u co'iin lor a
-ew in:: 'machine, and the trade was then
coir n eimate. i.
! he o;;ng man who got the coffin
has som. t' ing of an elephant on las
iiamts as he does not expect to have any
i ei sonal H'P for it for some years to
..me. i -ut he has about concluded to
M-ttle the matter by radiing the cotlin
'if.
no mokk oxsiai;m:s.
r.iici i
il! Ai.clish This Fea-
1 ii re on October 1 .
A Columbia. S. ('., special of the 2d
avs when reporters gathered in his
oii.'e todiiv. on their daily rounds,
ioveinor llllerbe. without preface, im-ii-.i':ti.''l
in a dozen words that on Ccto
er 1st he would remove the Mate con
stables from the towns in the State, i t
s supposed the cost of the constables is
iieiea-on fi r t h is ad ion. Ilegivesuo
thcr season. 1 he towns will bo e
vrtod to enforce the dispensary law-.
few constables w ill l o en. ployed in
i mote rural districts, (iovernor 111
erbe said ho made the announcement
.low so that the constables could look
.cat for other jobs.
A Lady's Clammy Necklace.
During the eampmeeting which
r-'esod at Catania, (in., a young lady
ai attendance had quite a thrilling ex
perience She was sleeping in a tent
iii.l one night was awakened by feeling
something -'aid and clammy on her
neck. he art.se and made a thorough
scat c'u of the tent but discovered noth
;g. The next morning a rattlesnake
was killed at the e.lge id the tent and
a is supposed that it was this that had
urn
iod the voting ladv.
W ill Meet in Philadelphia
The Xew llngland Cotton Manufae
tiaers" Association, which meets this
ear in connection with the Southern
textile Association, has decided to hold
its annual meeting this autumn in Phil
adelphia It wiil convene ia theaudi
iviiiim of the Philadelphia Textile'
--ohooh probably October -Mb. and 5!'t u.
next, although the plans ate not yet
oin ie'.e. Ih" l iectaig will bring to
, i.!ur many of the billing mauufac
Uiei "1 the last and the South,
ad;,' a number of Southern manufa..'
ii.ei s n o mem' ei s of both associa
lons. Charlotte iN". C.J Observbr.
Bradstrcct Reports a Continuance of
the General Expansion of Prices.
LARGEST AUGUST TRADE YET.
Heavy Kxports The Warm Weather
lias Asmiri 'I tin- oi ii Crop NUin
l.i rof Itusin. ss Failures.
Jand-treet's commercial revi"v for
the week ending Saturday. Sept. )h',.
i-uys: 1 he previous activity in all line--ef
tiade is maintained. 'I here is a bet
ter tone to the demand f i om jobbers,
mid the volume ,f Lu-;;. , in wool,
leather, elothin-, hats, g-oceri.-s a id
light haul ware has ii. .-vviised. T'':ei e is
a better re-1 ue.-1 for woolen and cotton
L'oods. jewelry and rubber goods, tnbrics
and shoes. S me wholesale merc'muits
at Western centres report the largest
volume of August trade on record.
J here has been an increased eonsump
lion of cotton by Southern mills.
ostei n iron aim steel mills h ive or
ders to keep them busy until .iatiuarv
1. In the Central-Western State-, the
bituminous coal strike has had a fur
ther depressing elleet on the genera!
industrial situation. At the North w et
fiomo commercial houses have had to
work overtime to meet the demand for
goods, and the warm v.eatli' r is re
ported to have praettea'ly assured the
Indian corn crop. On the i' aeilh' coast
wheat exports have been checked bv
inability to secure crews for vessels.
Mercantile collections have improved
in Kunie sections.
I-ast week's general and unprece
dented expansion of prices for :-':'ples
is continued, wool, cotton and woolen
fabrics, hides, leather, white pine lum
ber, sashes and doors, iron and steel
bars, billets and rods. w iremiiK l.arl ed
wire and Southern foundry iron, wheat,
corn, lard and sugar having advanced,
and higher ju ices being expected for
boots and shoes, l ower prices are re
corded for cotton, w heat Hour and cof
fee, while those for oats, pork, print
cloths, petroleum am! coal are un
changed. This week's export of wheat M'our in
cluded as wheat) are the h;rgef w ilh
two exceptions- the second week of
September and the fourth week in Ac
gusi, is;.!. 'J he total i shipments amount
to li,'.'i;s(-J.; hush, -Is, against 1 h'.i'.-i.':
bushels last week; !'..;. bushels
last year; tkvKiti.'-i:,! in !"-;;: :k !i7,:;'hi
bushels in lis'.U.aml I. '.'J;',utia bushels in
1S!C. The shipment of corn is also
large, aggregating :;,!.. u.;t l.u.hois
this week, aguin.'t' 'Ja -4'-. hushe's
last week; '.'..V.'l.ojr. bushels hist year;
1,4lla,:!;u bushels in ls.1.1; lir.oiii
bushels in ls.i;, and I'd .'.'-d'. is;. !u Is in
ls'.l:!.
1 here are 1'. business f.tilures re
ported through the I "nited States t'uis
week, against J!u last week. -'i in tht
week one j'ear ago, 1M two yc;iv a.',
'u7 tliree years ago, anil in contrasted
with ::!! in the iike week of Is ';;. i lu ri
are :' busine; s i- dm es re; .' a .! f-.-in
the Canadian i .'ominion this v, ,
week the total was :!., and a war
I. a-1
Dun ,v Co. 's report says licit failures
in August IS17, were e 11 p"r .via
less iii number than in August I '.'':. I nil
in amount of b. ,1.11.1 .e- . .-re 1 p.;. c.-nt.
less; duly and Al!gii'-t show low. t
average of lial ilities pei- f.iih;,.; titan
for any .piarter in tiie ia-t t wetay three
years; the improve;. u lit eb'ads It
nearly every important blanch ol
business.
TKl.MiS OF (.)!.! SKKKIiKN
Two Thousand IJIoekadc.l liy lmpos
sibie r.ags.
A Seattle, V.'ash., dispatch of the :th
says ui i efforts to break the blockade at
Skaguay have failed utterly. Advices
received by the steamer llosalie, which
left Skaguay Monday last arrived
hero today, state that when the trail
was i p. 11 ed Monday morning '.'.
ouu men and horses were striving tu
get over. Soon the path was in at.al
condition as it was before being re
paired. W hen the road had been cordu
royed over the miry phues, the logs
slipped out and the horses went tloun
derilig in the mil e, many id tnem never
to emerge. Hundreds of those at Ska
guay have given up ail hope of getting
through this winter ami will stay tiii
February at the foot of the p-.ss. Hun
dreds are coming back fi'oai the trails,
stopping at Skaguay or .hmeau for the
winter. A few more adventurer .s will
try to go over u i.eu the iirst freeze
covers the bogs with ice.
l-ind of the Coal Strike.
A Columbus. ()., dispiteh says the
end of the great miners' strike is in
bight. The national exectutive board
of the Tinted Mine Workers have
agreed to recommend to the miners a
proposition to the i'ittsl.urg Operators
for a straight price of m cents a ton. to
continue in force until the end of the
year.
A Pittsburg dispnioh also says the
mine operator's committee have return
ed from Columbus. Chairman FliieU
bnrg says that the conference between
the miners and operate.rs was a very
amicable one. lie said; "We leei
very sanguine that an acceptance of our
li.-.-oeut offer will reach us from Mr.
Dolan shortly, and are convinced that
every mine in the district will make a
start e.u Meuidav the Inth. "
Case Dismissed.
The suit of th Edwards, of South
Carolina against Trinity Church to ie
oover a large tract of land in New York
city is dismissed by the court.
A Wordy War in Virginia.
A wordv war has been opened in Vir
ginia. Senator 1 'atiiel has sent a letter
to the l.vnchlmrg News, in which he
replied at length ta Ooveruor ( i'er
rall's recent interview in the Y'a-d,i.ig-toll
Post, in which the Senator was ac
cused of inconsistency and other sins
more or loss mild.
Accepts the Nomination.
President Seth Low. of Columbia
l"niversity,has accepted the nomination
of the citizens I'nion for mayor ef
( ireater Xew York.
sl'KOFLATION !.N PS IN SlTClPF..
Lumberman's Fortune Lost in S'.igar
and Other Mocks.
George W. Parrott, Jr., eon of Pres
ident tieorge W. Parrott. of the lVrc.tt
Lumber Company, and himself one ef
the best-known ami m. st prog. a. eat
business men of Atlanta, (ia , commit
ted, suicide by shooting himself in tin
head wi'h a revolver.
Heavy losses m speculation in fu.-ar
and other stocks-, amounting to -..-..e
iiii,y...i, had dissipate. I his lurttii.e ai.d
induced his self destruction.
NEWS ITEMS.
Southern I'ick I'ps.
iXytheville, Ya , reports having felt
a distinct earthquake hhoek on the-!th.
An annual trade review places the
1 Texas cotton crop for the season of
is.;n;-:7 at V, 177,0,' bales.
J The fi rtilizmg works of Allison Jr
Addison, in lliehmond. has been ie
, shoved bv tire.
I . "
j 1 v. o deputy marshals were killed and
i two were seriously wounded by moon
' t-liau-i's in 1 'oj.e county, Ya.
1 At llntlln, X. ('., nine miles from
Keidsville, the depot of the Southern
! I'i-a'wiiy was struck by lightning and
j totally consumed its contents.
I A kettle supposed to have belonged
! to 1 lanul lioone has been dug up by a
j farmer near J'.ristol, Tenu.
I A boy, 14 years old. in llichpond
j vicinity i Ky. j, committed suicide by
i hanging himself. Jle was alllicted wi h
i ; ;mu! foul.le. ;
A violent rain and windstorm struck
W allace's Show at Koanoke, Ya. , dam
aging it to the extent of several thous
and dollars.
dames (Jolightly, of Carper's Valley,
near lliehmond, Va , was taken from
his bed by a band of men and severely
whipped. It is charged that he mal
treated his wife.
A company has been formed in Xew
York for building a ship canal acrosa
Florida connecting the Atlantic with
the gulf; it will be of sufficient size for
the largest vessels.
The plant of the Vine Hill Lumber
Company, at Vine Hill, Autauga coun
ty, Alabama, has been burned, together
with ad joining buildings and alargo lot
of lumber. Loss St."), (too; insurance un
known. In Kaleigh, N. ('., the Sunday sale
of cigars, fruits, iced drinks, mineral
waters, etc., has been stopped, and now
there is talk of stopping the sale of
milk and the publishing of a Sunday
new spa per and its delivery.
In Charleston, S. ('., Kobert VA
wards, colored committed an assault on
liattie Yanderhost, an S-year-old negro
girl. The assault was made at the girl's
home while the mother of the child was
upstairs rocking her baby to sleep. The
screams of the child attracted the
molher's attention, and running down
stairs, discovered Jldwards who had ac
complished his purpose and was making
his escape. When arrested he admit
ted his crime.
All About the North.
Texas whiteeaps have begun to give
warning to the editors in that State.
A Chinese and a coal black negress
were married at theJelfersonville (I ml. )
iretna Oreeu.
Atdlenwood Springs, Colo., an ex-phc-ion
of coal dust occurs in a mine;
tvclve bodies have been taken out.
Pemott's big umbrella and bicycle
handle factory, Cherry Lane, West
bi ighton, L. J., has been burned.
The Colorado Kepublicans hold a
State convention and nominate a free
silv er man for supreme court justic : th.
silver llepublieans also nominate him.
The Pennsylvania Democrats en
dorsed the Chicago platform in strong
t.rms; liniritv will resist being re
tired. ( haries A. Norton, cashier of the
l.ank of Durand, ut Kockford, 111., lias
disappeared with his pockets tilled
with booille.
Fusion lias been accomplished in
Nebraska by the silver llepublieans.
Populists and Democrats putting up a
ticket.
President "MeKinley made a speech
to a crowd of 7-"i,0;a or lao.oao people
on the Ohio State Fair grounds at Co
lumbus, Sept iid.
A mass meeting of citizens of Pales
tale and Anderson counties. Texas,
adopted resolutions against omnibus
si l ike resolutions.
The First National P.auk of Greens
burg, I ml. , has failed. It has a capital
Mia k of Kio,imio and on duly ti-ltli the
deposits v ere S bono.
Wisconsin's law requiring goods
made in prisons in other States and
sold in Wisconsin to be labelled, has
been declared unconstitutional.
At Stafford Springs, Conn., :jO0
pounds of dynamite, stored in a cellar,
explode1,, wrecking the buileliug and
shaking the whole village. Nobody
was injured.
Wesley .iohnson, a negro, was hang
ed by a mob near Mooresville. Fails
county, Texa-i. He was identified by
his victim, a white woman.
The American amateur 100-mile bi
cycle record wus broken at Cleveland,
Ohio, by .las. C. Miller, who rode luO
miles on a quarter-mile track, in
4 :-..j. S.
Miscellaneous.
it is estimateel that Xew York alone
has sent ,.,(!tM.,W0 to the South to help
luu' c the crops.
Tlio stock of provisions at Dawson
City is said to be already becoming
low. and starvation for many is inev
itable. The Zionist Congress, at J'asie,
Switzerland, unanimously adopted a
programme for re-establishing the He
brew in I alestiue.
Assistant Secretary of State Adee has
gone to Ilurope for a two months' va
cation, which he will speuel bicycling
through Fiance.
( ne of the negroes appointed to the
naval academy fails to appear at time of
appointment for his examination and so
forfeits his appointment; the other is
now- undergoing examination.
A letter mail to the Klondike will be
established under tho reciprocal ar
rangement on September 11th, letters
to be forwardeel oue-e a month.
A young Chicagoau is said to have
discovered how to telegraph to anl
from moving trains.
The American Wire Nail Company,
at Anderson, I ml., announces a slight
cut in wages and refuses to recognize
labor organizations.
I he ( iti ais' Colonization Soc iety of
San Frnneisce. with the Salvation
Armv. is considering the purchase
of ""a acres in Monterey county. Cal.
Willard's Hotel, one of the historical
hostelries of Washington. J . C. . his
bee-ii closed by a Fuited States marshal
as the result of the failure of the lessee
to pay the rent.
John 11. P.aird, formerly a well know n
citizen of Atlanta, (ia. , and at one
time Adjutant-General of the State,
was drowned in the ( hesapeake and
olao canal near Washington. D. C.
The negro who outraged and murder
ed a white woman in Coffee county, Al
abama, some weeks ago. has been cap
tuied and is in jail at Ozark: the sherill
savs he will not allow him to be
j lynched.
Foreign Corporations Withdrawing
Their Money From the State.
OLD NORTH STATE CULLINGS.
The Winston Fair Stewart Bros.
Claim to be Public Printers To lie
adjust Freight Kates.
A Raleigh special says the action of
the Supreme Court in regard to build
ing and loan associations, etc., is keep
ing money out of the State. A letter
fays that money is not being invested
for this reason: that the holders would
be glad to lend it, but that the Supreme
Courtis so bitterly hostile to all for
eign corporations that companies are
withdrawing from the State as rapidly
as they can call in loans. They say they
regret this, because they look upon
Narth Carolina as a State in which tLey
could make very favorable loans, pro
vided the courts would view contracts
as binding upon borrowers.
At Kaleigh ou the 1st a hearing was
held in the afternoon in the matter of
the uiiswers of lhiilway Commissioners
.James W. Wilson and. Otho Wilson to
(Joveruor Russell's charges against
them, which, he says, were based upon
information. These chrrges are that J.
W. Wilson, jointly with Yiee-Fiesideut
Andrews, of the Southern Hallway,
owns the hotel at Round Knob, w hich is
a railway eating house, and that Otho
Wilson leases and operates it. P.oth the
Wilsons riled absolute denials. These
were read to (iovernor Russell. John
D. Sha w, counsel for the Seaboard Air
Line, represented ,1. W. Wilson, and
argued that section 1 of the act creating
the commission, under which seetion
the Governor had acted in citing the
commissioners to show cause why they
should not be suspended, was unconsti
tutional, because a later act made the
commission a court. He also paid that
the commissioners had a property right
in their oflioes. He said the commission
had been charged with corruption, ami
could not bo removed save as judges
may bo removed, that is, by impeach
ment. (iovernor Itussell took the answers
and said ho would consider them and
arguments of counsel. it is the ex
pressed belief of maii3r persons that he
hail maele up his mind to remove.
M. I. Stewart, of Stewart .Tiros., late
public printers, have presented bills
against the State for Si'.,711. Jle says
the State ovvs as much more, and that
Stewart Jlros. consider themselve the
public printers, because no others have
been elected and qualified. Ho adds
that th council of the State was in in
decent haste to oust his linn. He makes
a statement to the effect that Auditor
Ayer said to him at Winston that it
had been agreed to give out the public
printing in Raleigh and that the per
sons yetting it would take the Cauca
sian iV.t-uator Jaitiar's paper) press ami
use it and euablo that paper to be is
sued at much less cost than ever be
fore. Stewart says he maele no propo
sition ami that Ayer told him the thing
which hurt his feelings tnofit was that
some one had said thut there was ci.onu
for him personally if tho printing was
put back at Raleigh. Wilmington
Messenger.
Mr. M. 11. YYilkinson, the well
known hard-wood dealer, of Asheville,
who recently purchased the Cheesebor
ough tract, of 4,000 acres, upon tho
North Fork has begun tho erection at
Swaauanoa of a dry-kiln and planing
mill with a daily capacity of lo.O'iO feet.
The logs will be sawed on tho slope of
the Black Mountain, and it will require
the constant service of fifteen teams to
transport tho lumber for the planing
mill. It is estimated that tho Maud of
hardwood timber on ths property will
furnish three or four years sawing,
eluritiir which period a great eleul of
ready cash will be set afloat. This is
the tract which it was erroneously
stated had been acquired bv Vander
bilt. Winston's comintr tobacco fair, it ap
pears, is to bo much larger than attirst
anticipated. Tho committee have de
cided to devoto tho entire first week in
November to fairs. Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday will be set apart
as exhibition days. Tho leaf tobacco
exhibit will be in the Star warehouse
and general exhibits at the Farmers'.
The Piedmont warehouse was set apart
for taking care of the tobacco farmers,
while Brown's will be used for amuse
ments, such as speakiugs, concerts,
etc. The committee have also decided
to bold a stock fair, (iovernor Russell
will be invited to open the fair with an
address.
William H. Walker, of Henderson, a
clerk of the internal revenue office in
Raleigh, has received from Spain a
letter saying a lady there had left .!")(),
(Kid; that this would be given to him if
he would care for a young girl, Kinily
Walker, an orphan. Her photograph
was sent. A correspondence followed
and a copy of the will, with many seals
and affidavits was also sent. Then Mr.
Walker was notified to send S4au in
order that Emily might be brought to
this county by a priest who was in
charge- of iter. Now it is ascertained
that a gang in Spain worked, or tried
to work, this "racket. " At least some
persons in the State have receiveel
similar letters.
The ivilroad commission announces
that on the K.th it will take up the mat
ter of re adjusting freight rates on cot
ton, the object being to have a uniform
rate.
The charlotte Medical and Surgical
Institute opened its doors for the re
ception of patients on the 1st. Mis
May Williams, a native of this State,
but" who has been living in Baltimore,
i Md. , for six years, has arrived and
j taken charge as heael nurse.
i
Arrangements have been made in
j Raleigh to form a division of the
League oi wie .American neeimeu
with 2'a members.
The Science Hall at Guilford Col
lege will be .-.".mpleted by Nov. 1st.
The annual State convention of th
Luther League, of the Lutheran
1 church will be held in St. John's Lu-
i theran church at Salisbury on Nov. VnL
! and 1 1th. Rev. C. L. T. Fisher, ol
! Charlotte, will deliver an address.
It is arranged that Randall's prour
; of portraits of the Twenty-sixth Nortfc
i Carolina Regiment's three colonels,
j Vance. Burgwvn and Lace, shall b(
i presented to the State at the fan
! ground dm ing the State Fair. Lane i-
to be present.
The drought has cut crops short it
Halifax county.
GOVKRSMKNT CKOI KEI'OKT.
Cotton Has Not Made Favorable
Progress Lute Corn Improved.
A brief synopsis of the Government
:rop reiort, issued for the week ending
Kag. 31 st, says: In the lake region and
Sew Englaud, the week has been too
jool, and in the States of the central
valleys too dry for the best results. In
the middle and South Atlantic and
fiulf States, andgeueraly through the
Rocky mountains and Pacific coast re
gions, the week has been favorable.
Early corn is maturing raindiy in
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and
South Dakota, but it has made slow
progress iu Illinois, ludh na, Michi
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and
the late crop generally needs warmth
and moisture. In Ohio, early ce.ru is
maturing nicely, and will be ready to
cut in about two weeks. Cutting is
becoming general in Kansas. In Ken-tuck-,
Tennessee and Arkansas tho
crop promises to be very short owing to
the drought. Asa result of generous
rains of the previous week late corn in
the Gulf States has been geuerallv i:a
proved. While the general absence of rain in
the Southern States has been very fa
vorable for cotton picking, which is be
soming general over the southern por
tions of tho cotton belt, the crop has
not made favorable progress, although
doing well in some sections. 1 n Georgia,
Mississippi, Virginia and portions of
North Carolina, cotton is generally do
ing well, but in other portions of the
cotton region complaint of rust, shed
ding and insects continue, though
somewhat less numerous than iu the
preceding week. In Texas, recent
rains have improved late cotton and
has starteel the top crop, but moro rain
is needed. In central and southern
Texas tho crop is well aelvanced, but
over the northern part of the State
it is from two to three weeks late.
Tobacco ha3 not improved iu Ken -luckj,
where the outlook is less en
couraging than previously reported.
Cutting continues iu the principal to
bacco States, ami except in Tennessee,
Kentucky and New England tho late
crop is generally good.
N tTkTF: l"f oVac atk.
Miners Who Will Not Work Must
Leave t lie Company's Houses.
A special from Knoxvi'.le, Tenn., says
miners are working in the Jellico dis
trict, notwithstanding the operators
and the leailers of the miners bav
been unable to arrive at any agreement.
Miners occupying company houses re
fusing to work will receive notice to
vacate immediately. This plan is m ro
re". lily effective in Tennessee than ou
t Kentucky side, th lty days' notice
be.ug required in Keutiu-Kv.
Local operators are confident that la
borers will be greatly surprised at the
largo number of union men w ho will be
working in a few days.
TO AII TIIU STlUKr.ItS.
The Central Labor Council of Cincin
nati, composed of all the representa
tives of labor unions in that city, adopt
ed resolutions approving tho course of
the St. Louis labor conference in set
ting aside tho earnings of September
iid for the assistance of striking
miners.
M c L A U It I N 1 S i M A J ( ) i t IT T (71 ; O W I N i
Hot UK vans and Irby Illume it on Till
man. Columbia, S. C. , Sept. -'.- -(Special.)
Full returns of the election for United
States Senator come iu with exasperat
ing slowness, but these only go to in
crease MeLaurin's majority. The latest
reports show MeLaurin's majority to
bo ll.Stio on a total'vote reported of :'.,
L'OO. Evans has tf,' and Irby 4,7;;s.
The total vote cast may not exceed -!,-000,
and MeLaurin's majority will be in
creased. Evans conceded his defeat and blam
ed Tillman for confusing tho iyids of
the voters as to MeLaurin's position on
the tariff.
Irby, who is at his home in Laurens,
declared that Tillman had lied to him
and mado threats of personal violence
if they should meet.
ni'KIKD A II'3aI) pkddlkic
A Confession Made in the Hope ol
Suving a Fiend's N'eek.
At Charleston, W Va., Christopher
Slack, now serving a term in the peni
tentiary for burglary, confesses that
about two years ago he and about a
half-dozen others met a peddler, John
Wiseman, on the road and killed him
for his mcney, getting in all 'S in cash
and other valuables.
They burned the flesh off the bones
and then buried them. Slack made
the confession under tho impression
that the murder was about to get out
and he would be hung. He turned
State's evidence to save himself. Offi
cers have gone up the river to arrest
the persons named by Slack as accom
plices. KOCGH OX HATS IN TIKI W KLL.
Thirteen People Poisoned, Three
Dead and Kight More Will Like
ly Die.
A special to the Lonsvillo Post from
Paelucah, Ky. , sa3-s: Thirteen mem
bers of the family of If3nry Miller, and
people living on his farm, near .Metrop
olis, 111., have been poisoned and three
are dead. The suffering of the other
victims is said to be terrible to w itness.
It is thought that at least eight of them
will die. The names of none of the
victims are given. A hired girl, who
is insane through a packuze of rough
on rats in the well, iler name could
not be learned, but 6he has been arrest
ed and admits her crane.
National Flowers.
National flowers have been adopted
in various countries as follow s: ireece,
violet; Canada, sugar maple; Egypt,
lotus; Englaud, rone: France, fleur-de-lis;
Germanv, corn th-wer; Ireland,
shamrock; Italy, lily; Prussia, linden;
Saxony, mignonette; Scotland, thistle;
Sjmin, pomegranaie: Wales, leek.
He Paid the Penalty.
The negro, George Pro he. convicted
of criminal assault upon Miss Oatlett.
near Kittrell, N. C, was hanged at
Henderson. There were no unusual
circumstances.
Georgia's Leased Convicts.
If the eight hundre 1 misdemeanor
convicts now illegally employed ia
private camps are not immediately
turned over to the State, in order that
the sentences imj-o e 1 in ay be legally
enforceil (iovernor Atkaiwon will at
once institute contempt proceedings
against the judges of the respective cir
cuits for failure to see that the renalties
imposed were not leg . !v enforced. The
law of Georgia f a ' i - i.-a-mg the
convicts to iiatr parti.-", and thi
ste,) of the (iovernor m a:; to transfer
all thus illegallv p'a. e 1 in tiie various
county jails.
llfSlKlllHfHL
li;:mi. '.j;h al r.u rsr.i taiunx; ;
IMJIANS AMI WHITEN.
INTERMaRRliiGESKORE FREQUENT j
i
I
The Ke.l Man, TIkmirIi f.plni: Kapldly j
lleiimatr.l. I. Well I'Ued unit j
llnpi'V W tthul. j
Not long ago some writer from the
ost told us that white people were
Jtarrying Indian girls more frequently
than ever before. 'Indeed." ho said,
"the dusky maidens seem to j refer
the pale faces to their uw n race and
coh.r."
Thla pvovi kes r:e to write a letter
a'.out Indians for the special pleasure
and benefit of our young people. Boys
iiml girls like to read about them, I
know, but most of the stories that ap
pear are more romantic than true.
During the war our brigade camped
one night on the Chirkahonnny river,
about thirty miles below Richmond,
and we were shown th very stone on
which Captain John Smith laid his
head for Powhattun's club when
the beautiful Pocahontas rushed
wildly in tho circle and threw her
self upon his bosom and saved his life.
About the stone I have my doubts, but
it is historically true that Powhattan
lived there, and that his daughter, a
lovely lass of fourteen, did save John
Smith's life, as he iu his letter to the
queen of England says, "at the minute
of my execution she hazarded the
l.cnting out of her own brains to save
mine." She afterwards married John
Rolfo, with her father's consent, and
from that union came the Randolphs
i f Virginia, and a little strain of that
same Pocahontas blood l!ov s in my
wife's veins, and she is proud of it,
and loves to tell the story to her nu
merous and lovely offspring. That
little strain isn't bigger than a cam
bric needle, but it has never lost its
strength. She would make a right
good Pocahontas now if anybody that
she lovnd was in danger. In fact, sh
has some Indian traits still lingering
in her bosom, and should have been
named Indiana when she whs chris
tened. But it seems that ever since IVcu
hontas inarri.d a while man the In
di.in maidens of all the civilized ti ibes
have been willing to do Ihe tano.
thing. It is well known that the
daughters of the Creeks and Chero
kees iu Georgia always said yes when
a good-looking white man proposed
marriage; but such unions were not
hasty nor deceitful; they had to be in
earnest and from honorable inotivis.
If an Indian maid was betrayed by a
designing white man. he could hardly
escape for the whole tiibe became
avengers of blood. Her virtue was
her dearest ornament, and if she lost
it the third linger of her left h ind was
dismembered at the second joint, and
that left her shame always visible.
Now it seems to bo settled by tho
na n of science that tlio I udian belong.,
to the Oaucassia'i or white race, or
else lie is aboriginal and is a rare of
his own. He is neither Mongolian,
?.la!ay nor negro. He w a- first found
lit re on this eont ineni, just in the
negro was lirst found in Africa. As
the elephant was found in Asia, the
kangaroo in Australia and the l.'.umi
iu Peru, so the Indian may be a native
of the manor born, for geologists say
that this continent is the oldest bv
several thousand years. Rut where
ho came from or how he got here is a
question too deep for me. The exist-
nee of Aztecs in M.-xiro is still an uu
rolved problem, and who v.iro the
mound builders is a matter of doubt
and speculation. One thing, however,
seems certain, that the rare is doomed
to extinction. The command "be
fruitful and multiply" does not belong
to them. According to the Fn it ed S'at.-s
census reports, in ls.";i there were in
the I "nited States and toritories In.
7'.4; in IHHI. :; !f. PJ.1 : in ls7a. 1! 1 .1. 7 1 ! :
in lsso, :;0i',r.4; in lrm. glvi"".
Of these .,SoT, are ehi-sed as civil
ized. 'The Cherokc and Creeks w ere
sent from Georgia to the Indian Ter
ritory about sixty y. ars ago. The
former then numbered nea- !.".bii;
they number less than that now. What
is the matter v.itu th.a.i? Tin y have
line lands, both for pasturage and cul
tivation, and the bounty of the
eminent would nearly sut'oo.t ili. ii.
They have good framed ho.p e t . !r .
in and have as good school!,,, use ,v;d
churches as our country peo.'.- have
in (ieorgia. They are classed a - ' il-iz-d,
and dress j'-a t !i!.e whi'- f..''..s.
and cook and cat a-t i:oui ishh,.. f.. ,d
as we do. What is the matte ? I
asked one of their educated i.,a.i -. ;-.
"God knows," said he. I mii,v!ei
with their j eople and talked w ith t n -i.
They did tif.t seem to be svli-rdi--tress..,l
about anything. It win i t
that the children ."lied befoj-f mat' li'v.
but that th- mature died ta-t.-r than
children were born C take th. ir
places. The exception t- t'ni-'
of the race seemed to b. in the fa ,,;a. ,
w here white men had in-r;..:! ! ii d " , t f i
Indian maidens. The o- iii.h ; v..-ic
prolific of children v.l.o v..:.- h.-ai'hv
and handsome, and always bred after
the mother, having h'-r cinnamon
color, her straight bhe-k hair and high
chek bones. There is no apparent
mixture of blood as that whi'-h appears
ia the mulatto who is the half breed of
whites and bla-tks. But these Indian
tyj.es weaken iu succeeding genera
tions of quadroons and octoroons, atel
if ver the tribes are rived from ex
tinction, it will be by this increasing
s.!fia!gamatiou nith tla- white rare.
IhiSa unions d J.ut -.-em to hoek
the sentiment of mankind as do the
union -f whites w ith negroes. Even
rscar college -.re i-d ra-t be t.orror
stricken at the discovery f an octo
roon am ng her p..pii. Indian stu
dents may be found in many of our
colleges and are not i eject- 1 at hotels
c,r boarding hoti-es or theaters or
churches or on lailroads. In some of
the tribe, as in the Creeks and Cher
okees, their features, their beauty and
their traits of character approximate
tho Anglo-Saxon. Schoolcraft, who is
liie highest authority, says their feat
u es are i eg '.'a--, their expression no
ble; tru v a-.- t i -itiiin and stoical to
the !a-t d-gt'-e, cunning and watchful,
persevering in the pursuit and ie-
vengerai iu the destruction of their
enemies, hospitable and grateful for
favors, ftclo-c observer of natural phe
nomena, his temperament poetic ami
imagination, and his simple eloqtience
of great dignity and beauty of expres
sion. Many . f the women are really
handsome, and their skin is thinner,
softer and smoother than is the white
vace's.
Bondir.ot was a very handsome, im
pressive man even iu his old age. I
met him at Fort Smith some years
Ago. He was ed.:. ;;'od at Princeton.
He was a Cherokee and was born in
Vann's vailev. near R .me. His mother
was buried on a hill that overlooks
Cave Spring. When I ut a lad he was
taken watt wah th-- t. i! e iu 1S:17. Not
long after that he was sent to Phila
delphia to school and was adopted by
llbas Boudaiot, a wealthy philanthro
pist, and took his mi ne. While, he
lived h" stood high as a learned aud
eloquent advocate, ami was the agent
ntid an.bn-s:. i.,r . f ihe tribe, iu all
matters c. ".n.otcd with tho United
tutes poveiniiient. But now these
tribes do not have to scud their chil
dren so far away to gt't an education.
What our .overmnetit .loos is always
well done, anil handsome school houses
are found n'l over the territories. In
1S77 the b"iiry of educuting them
was o'guni eii and JO.tiilil appro
priated. In Jsmi it was increas
ed to 7".T0: in lss.1 t,, ?'l;l-.,00(,
and in J so-! ;,A f I .:n-. ,. ".tts. I reekou it
is two or thre millions by this time.
And besides this large amount, the
different, religious Mei..'ies of the
United States give hug ly to the
onus, tho Roiiii.li Catholic church
giving near iiaf a million annually
and having charge if i.i..re schools
than nil t1 th. r ilcnoiuinations put
tosa ther. Then, a -.iiu. just think t.f
the hmd they have got liid acres to
each Lead of a family, sd acres to each
child if Ve.irs old and 10 to tlu.so
younger. Just think of all the old and
decrepit ones being supported by tho
go vi rnmriit and all the yming oncsed
ucntcd fr. e. Why, if would seem that
with all this friilein.ilisiu and private
benefactions a i hihi is fortunate to bo
born an Indian. The wards of the na
tion, whether red or b'a -k, are having
a good time.
There was an old snug that was sung
by a lazy vagabond, and it said:
Oil. I W l-fl I W ILS II LT.M'S.1
All forlorn, nil forlorn;
Oh. 1 wish I .is H goose,
bating e.irn!
But now the song for our thousands
of tramps to sing is:
"Oh, I w i ,,li I w.n an linlhtn."
It used to be that in our college
text-! ks that population increased
in proportion to the comforts of life
that the comuioti people eiijoyeel. This
theory fits the southern negro pretty
well, for they continue to multiply
like rabbits, iii spite of all the ha-bari-ty
that tin- Boston Transcript r. -ciises
us of, but it does not fit the Indian,
lior ib.es ii fa the average Boston fami
ly, that never has n.oi e than t wo child
ren ail wi'iiblu't have any, but for
soiiieb ..:y to i iherit the estate. But
the I le ; oi d, ( 'ott'i. , Ti nes knocks the
black out, and goes further in defense
of the south than our own papers and
and preachers. Verily 1 here are many
men of m. iiiy minds.- Bu.n Am in
Atlanta ( 'oust il ut j..n.
A WISE COLORADO HORSE.
1'oiuts birds with tlif Ciicrrlritf Ac
. ur.n-y ef u I'iij;,
S. uator ( org.- Ch.ilioon, of Coloi a
!, ei.oo.s ,e once owned a pointing
horse that was as reliable as a point
ing dog. all hollgli (lie horse (minted
tub rniM Fa: lioitsE.
by sigiit iiirlead of l.y se nt. It seems
lfi.it in the fall, iu driving .'bout the
woods, he carries a gun iu his buggy
10 shoot siicii partridges as lie may
eon .' across. The lirst lime he shot
over l,is horse the iinimal was badly
friglacin ib and instead of running sim
ply sat back in the breed, lug. crouch
ing near the ground ou his hind quar
ters, and trembled at tic noise of tlio
explosion. This iM-'-ame a lial.lt, until
now. no longer frlghiet.. d at Ihe sunnd
of the gun. lie :i pp'-.a 1o Im on the
wat-li for birds and often discovert
one before bin master s.-c If, and at
once its bad: !n Ihe brc-elilng and
comes to a dead stand-till until Sena
tor Chahoon sboots, ulr'l Ihe horse re
sumes his normal upright position and
gl.' S Oil till he sees atioti.er i.ird.
Stove Adapted lor Hot Weather.
Professor William M. Walts, of Still
Pond, has a novelty iu tin- form of a
eoi.l stove. Th'- stove Is for Use III the
heated months of summer for reducing
tempi r.a m e. j'it as stoves heated .y
tire nr.- used to raise th tcmpcralM""
in winter. I'.y the Use of salt, a small
jinil tiiy of ire and a patented cheio
lej'l the .ao-t in!ei;s.. degree of cold i
s-ci;;c.. So gn at is tie- cold that It Is
as dangerous to touch this cold stove
'.hen in . -jrf-ra t ion us it vvoiihl Ih to
place the band on a lire stove ut a high
h gr. f heat. '1 be skin Is instantly
tal. ti off and painful injuries are the
i. -pit the slightest contact. Fro
l : Watts state- th;.( during the hot-
! t at her t 11"' t el i peril t nr.- of a rii'in
11 ay lc run ilow n and made j h a , ant by
tie' II " ef t!.i liovcl "Uvlce. ''"lie ) W
j;,. I-- v., l'i Ol -eo . rod by a college
I. of the te: ei;. r of the Still pond
. booh Tii. . .ei of operating the stove
Is very slight.- ("in stertow n Trafisci l;.f.
Stopping a Leak In a itoat.
In the narrative of Ids Jounwy K
Burnuh. Captain GUI. U. Ik. in-iI-nt
ally gives tome wraps of information
that may I"" fouad practically Useful.
Ia o;;e of hl-s storh-s, says Hanr'i
Iloim-1 Table, I,- d.-srri!- the way lu
which a h-ak was stopjMsl In a Junli
wh'j.-ii met with a mishap while salllna
up th" Yang tz- riv.-r. The s,k:picr ol
the twit was an old lady, a widow,
whom the Captain, with in-klusj lack
.f gallantry, deslgtiateil JezebeL Het
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