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VOL. IL NO. 24.
MARION. X C, FRIDAY, O0TOIJKI18. 1897
Pricel Vcr Year, in Advance.
PLACER MINING
IN THE KLONDIKE.
m
rull Description of the Way the Precious Dust Is Taken ofTS
Out of the Earth. W
0
the mining that has been
K 1' mlike country has been
An a-, placer mining. This
i,'.--t and oldest form of
i i- u -n ; 1 1 ! v adopted in new
I;, its crudest form,
n-j i- Miuply the i-king up
,1 .lict fri, i, i the b-d of a
: 1 is supposed to ex
iiiii away of (lie iliit ami
I the slathering of the gold,
i-,- of its weight, sinks to
of ill- pall.
; i i I -. 1-t us follow a )l-OS-
-ti'-Hiu in our Western
aIh i - the complication of
.-ii -i-iiu!i"l does not enter
i i--ti. ii After traveling
i iv weary days l.:i conies
i- lining down some moun
!!,.,' looks "likely," as he
j i ii -t iced eye. Ife stops
t !i- pebbles on tho bot-i-l-
m good many of them
i .'i-:i not in itself an indi-
i 1. i - a good sign, so the
--i ii - away the earth ami
1-itto'ii of the stream to
t .i f .ot or s i, and then
I i .i .l of dirt. The an,
y. is nothing hut a broad,
I of Mroiig sheet irol..
i- tiii-, he puts in enough
o,- tii- panful semi-liquid,
s 11 H filpltl, tWllilllg lllO- I
au-es id,, gold, if there is i
, to the bottom of the pan. j
.r. eland sand are cnrefully
un'il only the heavy resi
ri 1 1i- p.m. This residue
v.iini.i-d to set; how many
ere are ill it. "Colors" is
oners -ive to the particles
if t lu re are any, of gold
n'li at the bottom of the
.t t.i- only
ttoin of the
thing that
pan. Al-
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I Vl-h M. Kl.oNIilKEUS IS FI LL HKF.SS
' itluays th.-re is found with gold a
i ! u-ii -and. which is magnet ic iron
m l from this the gold has to be
it-I if course, if the gold is
v.vet- of any sie this is a simple
-. hut if it is in line dust, as is
'.t'iv t he case, the mercurv pro-
enq, loved,
.tils ihe residue in the pan is
-1 1 1 1 a barrel with some water ami
-"in The gold, w hen it touches
!!. -tiry. forms an amalgam. After
i it it v of gold has been put in the
e! the mercury is taken out,
-. 1 through a buckskin bag, and
! rem, litis in the bag is heated,
-r iti a retort or in some other
until what mercury is left is va---1.
it-id the gold remains, nearly
is p'ae-r mining in its most
t-., t.'i in. but it is slow work, and
(-' arioiis m-'thods were devised
'tteii it whe-e it was ti be carried
any et-ut.
lir-t step in advance in placer
si i Mi
mriMi X RICH CLAIM IN THE KLONDIKE.
--ixx) w-ii- taken from ft piece of Kround 24 by U feet in plane dimeti-
-. It i- officially designated as "No. 2. Below," Bonanza.)
f the "rocker
one of the old
in a while in the :
tin, 1
old house in. iu the conn- i
box about three feet long ,
wide, placed on rockers
A i ai t of the box :
' a i-i
1 'red w ith a niece of heavy sheet the miner has to contend with is the Lociwell and then to Juneau, wnicn
lr . - .. . . i . t - . ... 4U 1 i trmor, .r.li.1 - iiamu it ctill bnlds This Inst cbristen-
1 a -e i a lew indies lielow tne iaci iui uw - - - -- - i
1 1 -"1 i -.nched full of holes about a 1 about all the year, and even in summer ( ing took place inlsl.
tlifc;;,., ,,!:,., ; ,i Th t Imwa only a few inches. This makes ; The next year both placer and i
ere-t of the box slants i it necessary to thaw the ground am- quartz mines were discovered on uoug
i. ....... i i ' ti.-ifltitr n.l this is done by "burn- las Island, about four miles from
t pi.
of woolen hUnkat.
wards the end of the box slats
i i - :
laced across th mercury behind
w,c,n, t cuicn wut gom gets ly ai
The miner sets up his rocker near
the stream and piles his gravel on the
the sheet iron, keeping it wet all the
while and keeping the rocker in motion.
The fine gold and sand sift through to
the ldanket, while nuggets of any sie
remain on the iron. The finer gold
settles on the blanket and the dust is
caught by the mercury behind the
slats. The blanket is frequently rinsed
in a barrel of water with mercury at the
bottom, a id this mercury, together
with that behind the slats, is "roasted''
as in the other method.
But even this method is not used
'..Oil "id'ticillg" is ioS: ible. US if i-i
when the stream has sullieient fail. Ju
sluicing a number of long boxes are
made which lit into each other like a
stovepipe. Across these boxes slats
are placed with mercury behind them,
or sometimes the bottoms are bored full
of holes and mercury placed under
neath. A long line of these boxes is
placed at a considerable slant and the
miner shovels his gravel in at the up
per end, lets the water run down the
sluice and the gold, if in nuggets, sinks
and is held by the slats, or, if line, is
caught by the mercurj". Three times
as much gold can be washed tint in
this way as by a rocker, because three
times as much dirt can be washed.
Ami after the boxes are all done with
they are burned and the ashes washed
for the gold held by the wood.
These, are the various methods of
placer milling and thus they are prac
tised in the Klondike region, hampered
only by the natural conditions tf the
country. Let us now look for a mo
ment at what these conditions compel
the Klondike miner to do.
Let us suppose the gold-hunter has
passed through the difficult journey
and arrived at the gold fields. lie first
goes out and prospects until he finds
a claim where the "colors" iu his pan
encourage him to locate. If he should
happen to be early on a new field he
would probably stake out a claim next
to one that was already paying in the
hope that his would pay, too. A
Klondike claim is supposed to be laid
out o()0 feet long parallel with the
general direction of the creek, and
iWiii feet crossw ise, the idea being to
give each location the width of the
gravel from rim rock to rim rock.
Most of the creeks up there have a
slight fall with wide bottoms. Bed-
rock is anywhere from four to twenty
feet below the surface and pay dirt is j
apt to extend clear down to oeuroca. :
Ut course, tue great uimnuit tuai
To-iiiig."
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Fires are built on the surface and!
the ground thawed a little ways. This ;
is then duor out: Another firn'w built'
I in the h ole, aud this process is con
tinued until bedrock is reached. Then i
fires are built against the side of the ;
shaft, and drifts and tunnels are
thawed out.
All the dirt thus taken out is piled
outside, until the stream opens in the
spring. Then the sluice boxes are Pet
up and the winter's diggings washed
out! Thus a miner is enabled to keen
busy about all the year,
i This method of burning out a shaft
j and tunnels is by no means new, for it
has been carried on for many years in
"a-iii-i me .-iiiioiu nun jjeua
Riv. - rs h. Siberia, where the conditions
e- v similar to those in the K'ou
region. icer mining in Alaska differs from
dik.
1
pla-er mining in warmer climates only
in that the dirt lias to be thawed out,
and tha water for washing can be ob
tained there only a month or two in
each year.
An 1 even when bedrock is reached
it is in many cases tilled with cracks
and seams which are rich in gold and
veil worth the digging out. As to the
atne of explosives in this frozen soil
au.th.iu it ies differ. The Mining and
Scie'ititic Press said recently that they
can b used effectively, while the Miu-iiigau-i
Engineering Journal, in speak
ing of the Siberian niins, where the
co-idi;ioiis are similar, says tUeir effect
is si nply to mat the ground together
harder. For this same reason savs
the 1.; ter journal, the ground cannot
b- (I ; with a pick and shovel until
tiia w ! out.
I ,u -iiber, by the way, in the Klon
dike countiy, lit for sluice boxes, costs
from .- loll to .-?l "it a thousand feet.
So far most of the gold found in
placer mining in the Klondike region
. ....
A sT.rii E BOX.
has been coarse, and many of the nug
gets have been found attached to
quart. This, according to experts,
indicates that the veins from which it
originates are not far distant from the
alluvial deposits. Placer gold is lib
erated by the erosive agencies of ice,
rocks and water from the rock matrix
in which it is held. It is tougher than
the rock which holds it and resists
abrasion better. Drawing an inference
from other regions where placer gold
has been found in large quantities, it
is reasonable to expect that in the
Yukon country rich gold lodes will be
found.
And this brings us to the subject of
quartz mining in Alaska, for the gold
bearing region up there is by no means
(online 1 to the Klondike country. Ac
cording to the recently published
hand-book on "Klondike," written by
L. A. Coolidge, of Washington, there
are iu southeastern Alaska gold mines
which have been worked for the past
twelve years, and which in l'.lo added
over o'-.tWi,0Urt to the gold surplus of
the world. Of this mining region
Juneau is the centre, and its discovery
is shared by Hichard Harris and
Joseph Juneau. In isi) these two
men started out from Sitka it was in
the summer and in August discov
ered gold in a stream which they
named Gold Creek. Later they ex-
plored this stream to its source in a
mountain valley, which they named
Miver bow uasm. men a town site
was established at the mouth of Gold
creeK. wnicu as hi nrst uameu nat
nuur
Later it was changed to
.Juau.
Thee are now the fajnotia
sl
- s ft 1 rSssiaSsS.
Treadwell mines, having been bought
by John Treadwell in li. and. saj s
Mr. Coolidge, "from these enough ore
has been taken out to pay the purchase
money of Alaska and inure." Tlie ore
of these mines average only from
to .?: a ton, hut owing to the enormous
scale on which they are worked an"-1
the low cost of extra-ting the ore
there is a larire profit in working the.".
All around Juneau and, for that in -ter,
all along the Alaskan coast, gold-
AUNF.U TESTINO (ilfAVFL.
bearing quartz is found, and in manj
places is being prolitab'y worked.
There seems to belittle doubt among
mining experts that extensive quart',
mines will be located in this Yukon
country before long. This ill mean
the introduction into that country of
a'l sorts of improved mining machin
ery, rock drills, stamp mills and soon.
Just what method will be employed to
extract the ore from the rock will de
pend on what kind of ore is found. It
may only have to be crushed, and
separated by mercury. It may be re
fractorv ore and have to go through
some one of the various processes now
in usf for separating such ore.
As soon as the mines are found
means of transporting the machinery
will be provided and the mines will be
started. Mines in rock, of course, will
not be delayed bv the weather condi
tions which make placer mining so dif
ficult in that country. Hock doesn't
freeze and the deeper down the mined
go the warmer it will get, so perhap.
this kind of mining will be the pleas
anter of the two.
A MILLION-DOLLAR CLOAK.
II -liet ritmiput in tin" WiM-1.1 nv In
the Nrtlional Md uiii.
What is probably the most costly
cloak in the world m now in the Na
tional Museum, and was once the
property of the Jueeiis of the Hawaiian
Islands in barbar uisdays. This cape,
belonged to the wife of Kehuaskahmi,
one of the most powerful chiefs of the
islands. After the abolition of shivery
rilK CLOAK THAT IS woKTH A MILLTOX.
in 1 S II this chief rebelled and tried to
re-establish the ancient religion. A
bloody battle was fought, the Kingaud
Queen were slain, and the cloak fell
into the hands of the victors, thus be
coming the property of King Kame
haineha III., and by him given to Cap
tain J. H. AulLk, U. S. N.
The foundation of the cape is a net
work of (dona, or native hemp, and to
it are attached by means of line threads
of the same material the feathers of
nalive birds found only on the islands,
the feathers overlapping and forming
a smooth surface. The feathers form
on the outside crescents of red, yellow
and black. The inner lining is with
out quilting and shows the network
and ends of the feathers.
The yellow and black feathers are
obtained from the Oo, or Oho, the yel
low ones being of great value, as the
bird is comparatively rare, shy aud
har 1 to capture. So very rare is the
bird, and so small its stock of feathers,
thiit three yellow ones once sold for a
large sum. From fifty to a hundred
years was the time expended in making
tlris cloak, so that its worth in labor is
e-timated at a million dollars.
The making of these cloaks, which
were once worn by royalty alone, and
regarded as the treasures of the Crown,
was common in the inlands prior to
the coming of the whites. The
precious yellow feathers were exacted
as tribute by the king, the bird being
caught alive with bird lime and then
set free. But it required a great many
years to get enough material to make
the cloak, which is four feet iu length
aud over six feet in width.
Bout. I.lkr IUi; Ha-ki tn.
Curious boats which look like big
baskets are used in l'usiah, the Yen
ice of Turkish Arabia. As a matter of
fact, they are practically iskets, be
ing made of wiekerwork, pia-tered to
keep out the water. They are known
as gophers, and the European who
boards them feels himself to be much
like the three men of Gotham who
went to sea in a bowl. L'ntil compara
tively recent times a boat something
similar in shape aud made w ith the
same material, called coracles, were
used by fishermen on many of the
turbulent streams in Wales. Xoother
form of a boat could hope to survive
the navigation of those streams, and
bumping against bowlders and drop
ping over small cataracts in them did
iheni no material damage.
Since 1S12, the year Queen Victoria
first entered a railway carriage, she
has traveled something" like 2,000,000
miles. This Wats the Prince of Walss
by about 300,000 miles, and the Duke
of Cambridge by nearly 1,000.000
mils
WKKEK BOATS OF TURKISH ARABIA.
mm I IILISMBEHIISI
A Column of Pine Chips Picked Up
For the Fireside.
DISTRIBUTION PEABODY FUND.
Poultry aud S'teep Shipments Mont
gomery to Speak For Kussell-yTh
Oyster Entry Costs.
Mr. Henry Fries, of Salem, is now
building an electric plant on the Yad
kin river that will furnish power for
the mills at Winston. It is the only
plant of the kind in the State, and is
creating much talk among the indus
trial -.u. There is a plant in Anderson,
S. C. , and one in Columbia, U. C. ,
something like this plant will be. Mr.
Fries' plant is thirteen ind a half miles
from town, and when completed will
furnish motive power for the two cotton
mills, the woolen mills, a grain mill, a
planing mill, the city electrio lights,
street cars and lights and the water
works. Contracts for the above power
have been closed. The cost will amount
to over $10U,000. The power will be
2,000 and 2,000 horse power. Before
Christmas the plant will be in opera
tion. The material for the pole line is
already at hand and work will begin at
once. It is a big enterprise and will be
looked forward to with much interest
by the mill people of the State.
The Charlotte Observer says: Tne
Pamlico county costs in the oyster en
try matter are giviug State Treasurer
Worth sleepless nights. There are tiiii
cases, aud the costs aggregate $4,200.
'1 here was judgment in the Superior
Court for this amount, the cases having
been consolidated to save the State fur
ther expense. The solicitor appealed
because the cases were consolidated.
The sheriff and clerk of Pamlico are the
nole parties in interest. Judge Bryan,
in his findings in this case, said the
amount was honestly due. It is claimed
that the solicitor was unable to find any
flaw s, though there were two investiga
tions in the Superior Court. Treasurer
Worth has beeu iuvited to examine the
bills of costs to find fraud, but he has
not done so.
Some weeks ago there was a serious
wreck on the North Carolina Lumber
Company's Kailroad at Tillery. Sev
eral cars were smased, and Engineer
". Barber had his arm badly crushed,
barely escaping with his life. He re
ceived other injuries from which )u
thinks he is permanently injured. Last
week he entered suit againt the com
pany for JJ.'.OOO damages. Hia counsel
are Messrs. W. 11. Uay and David
Bell.
Tom Boyd, a colored train hand on
the Scotland Neck road, fell dead at
Tillery while in the act of taking a
drink of liquor. He had come down on
the freight train from Wei don aud had
jrone into a bar for a drink. The bar
'f ider had ti.rued io get a glass of
wj.Ver for him. and when he turned
around Boyd fell to the floor before
taking the liquor. He expired in a few
minutes.
The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction is informed by Dr. Curry
that North Carolina will receive this
year from the Beabody funds, $2,400 in
scholarships at NashTille and $41,400 in
cash. The latter goes to the Greens
boro Normal and Industrial College and
to the best of the negro normal schools
and to the High Point and Washington
public schools. Last year $8,000 in cash
was allowed.
In the office of the Secretary of State
it is learned that in 17'Jti Tei.chCoxe, of
Pennsylvania, sold to the New York
Specu.ative Land Compauy a quarterof
a million acres of mountain land which
he had entered. This land is in what
is now Polk, Butherford, Cleveland, Mc
Dowell aud Henderson counties. The
New York company has sold it out,
save about one fourth, to farmers, re
serving all mineral rights.
That Murphy is a great shipping
point is clearly demonstrated from the
fact alone that since .he first of Novem
ber Elliott & Wood have shipped over
.-40,000 worth of poultry and eggB.
From the best information we can get
Cherokee and Clay counties have shown
nearly 10,000 sheep this year. Mur
phy Bulletin.
James II. Cutler, of Boston, has pur
chased for Northern capitalists that
part of the old West Asheville and Sul
phur Springs trolley line between the
passenger depot and the sulphur
fpriugs, and will rebuild it. This is
believed to mean that the company will
rebuild the Hotel Belmont, which was
reached by the sulphur springs road.
Governor Russell has selected Judge
Walter A. Montgomery, of the Supreme
Court to make the speech accepting, on
behalf of the State, the portraits of the
three colonels of the Twenty-sixth
North Carolina Begiment, Z. B. Vance,
Henry K. Burgwyn and James II.
Lane.
Ciovernor Russell is invited to open
the Winston Tobacco Association Fair,
November :id, to participate in a pa
rade and be the guest of the Associa
tion. He is also invited to open the
Colored State I air, at Raleigh, Novem
ber 2d.
Secretary of State John Sherman
sends the Governor a lormai invi
tation for the State to make an ex
hibit at the Paris Exposition in 1900,
in accordonce with the act of Con
gress inviting all States to participate.
The Southern Railway people are
making great efforts to discover the
white w oman who gave birth to a child
on a train, near Asheville, and threw it
from a rapidly moving train. Its body
was found.
The Council of State agrees to lease
to Raleigh for seven years its granite
quarry half a mile east of the city. It
was from this quarry that the stone
need in building the capitol was taken.
Oxford had eleven deaths in three
months.
The register of deeds, Mr. J. W.
Chapin, tells us that over $100,000 in
mortgages have been cancelled in this
county in the last thirty days. This
shows that the people are paying their
debt.
Tha surrey of the Durham and Char
lotte railway is in progress at the rate
of a mile a day bet ween Pittsboro and
Haw river, in the direction of Durham.
There is quite a lot of enrmisicg as
to who will be Raleigh's next st
master. J. B. Hill. A. V. Shaffer and
C. T. Bailey are the most prominent
aapiranta.
Can Be Grown in Almost All the
States in the Union.
GOOD RESULTS IN THE SOUTH.
The experimental Growers Can Send
the Seed to tue Experiment Station
t ree.
Secretary Wilson hae seoured an
order from the Postoftice Department
pe'rmitttng the agents of the Agricul
tural Department to attach the Depart
ment frajk to packa.es of beet sugar
6eed to be sent from growers to the ex
periment stations throughout the coun
try for analysis. Last spring the
Agricultural Department sent sugar
beet seed to farmers in tweuty-seveu
States. It is now the iuteutlon'to test
the beets' (riowth in the various locali
ties for saccharine streairth. ami
it is desired that this work shall be
commenced at the experiment ttatious
I nder the arrangements, with the
Postoffice Department, the officials at
the experiment stations will be allowed
to send postal franks to all farmers to
whom they supplied seeds, by the use
of which they can send through the
mails free of cost packages of beets not
exceeding four pounds in weight.
Keturns have been received from
some of the experimental growths, and
Secretary Wilson says that the re-
suits were sucn as to encour
age the l eref that the niear beets
could be successfully grown in almost
all the States of the L'nion. Contrary
to his expectation the best reports hae
been received from the South rather
than the North. Beets grown in Cie
vicinity of Richmond, Va , eivereturos
of from lo to lsj per cent, of saccharine
matter, and from the Pecos alley, iu
ew Mexico of from 18 to 22 per cent
in Europe an average of 13 ier cent, is
considered large. It is Mr. Wilson's
intention to distribute twelve tons oi
Riigar beet seed next spring. HereW.
fore all the seeds distributed by the Do
partment have been proenrtd in Eu
rope. The growers in I'tah have prom
ised three tons this year, aud it is ex
pected that other localities in the
united States will furnish part of the
supply necessary.
HIE CONSTARLKS AUOLISUKI)
iov. KHcrhe Also Uemoves the Met
ropolitan Police From Charleston.
Columbia, S. C (Special.) As he
annouueed a mouth ago he would do
Gov. Ellerbe has issued a proclamation
declaring that from Sept. SCth all po
sitions of .-state constables would be va
cated. At the same time, the metro
politan police commissioners, of
w hich the io ernor is chairman, issued
a proclamation removing the metroo
Han poi.ee from I harleston. I Lis wr
established by Gov. Evans, over tv
years ago. During the campaign1
year iovernt r Mierbe practically pi ic
ised to remove the po.ice. He says he
wished to five ali the cities and townt
an opportunity to enforce the law.
-Mai.y .New Cases.
The report of the yellow feve.
situation, up to the 2.th, sayt
there is a large increase iu the num
ber of new cases in New Orleans, but
the death rate is lower, being 12 pei
cent, aud the officials do not feiit a
wide-spread epidemic. Three n iw cases
and two deaths are reported at Mobile,
Ala. The situation at Kd wards. Miss.,
is distrcssinsr: the mayor has beeu
stricken with fever. At Biloxi, Miss.,
.seventeen new cases and one death are
reported, and two cases and one death
at .Scianton. while at Oceau Springs
there wtrd no cases aud no deaths.
A Locomotive Kxpiodes.
The boiler of a locomotive of the
Northern express on the Northern Cen
tral division of the Pennsylvania Rail
read exploded while running nea
Georgetown, a few miles from 1 1 arris
burg, l a. E. T. .Mitchell, the eu
gineer, was instantly killed John I'.
awley, the tireiuun, was badly scald
ed. lie will dio. Both men wert
hurled many feet All the cars excepi
i he last sleeper were derailed. Noneo
the passengers were injured, but the.,
were considerably shaken up in the
accident.
"Hayseedcr" to He Revived.
A Winston, N. (!., special says S.
Otho Wilson, of the North Carolina
railroad commission, who was turned
down by Governor Russell a few days
ago, was here this week an 1 made a
contract with Stewart Bros., to publish
his japer, "ihe Hayseeder," which
will be revived next week. The dis
patch further says he will publish to
the world the respective "midnight"
plots and conspiracies of Senator But
ler ami Governor Russell before they
got into harness together.
The Crop a Disappointment.
A disappointing rye crop is indicated
by final returns to The American Agri
culturist. Instead of some 23, OOo, UOti
bushels expected from tarlier indica
tions, the crop of the United Mates liir
ures out about 21.uno.onu bushels, one
million more than last year and two
millions less than in and Ui'M.
Ihe increase is mainly in Pennsyl
vania, the W estern crop being quite
disappointing.
Lynched in Broad Daylight.
Thenermwhoassanlted Miss Robrt
in Hancock county, Teun., was hanged
in the court house yard at Howesburg
in broad daylight, by a mob.
Three Killed by Breaking Cable.
At Chicago by the breaking of a wire
cable Charles Wilson, Richard White
and William Hopkins, who were bein
carried up an elevator shaft in the
Northwest land tunnel, dropied a hun
ored feet to the bottom. Wilson was
killed instantly
Game Law Unconstitutional.
Judge Holmes, of the Mecklenburg
i Va. i county court has decided that the
trauie law euacted bv the last Legisla
ture is unconstitutional. 1 he test case
w as brought up on the killing of par
fridges,
A Jailbird Inherits a Fortune.
W. F. Karon, now imprisoned in the
county jail at San Francisco; Cal. ,
charged with embezzlement, has fallen
heir to filn, 000. James Karron, the
prisoner's uncle, who was a prominent
minintr operator in Montana, died last
week in Austin, Iowa, leaving pror-erty
vaiued at 5-500,000 to be equally divided
between his two nephews. One of
these is the prisoner.
Scores the Sheriff.
The coroner's jury in the case of th
TT P. Kt.riO
Martin and his deputies
TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH.
The South.
Savannan, Ga., is to spend $200,000
on her sewerage system.
A Missouri man wants to establish a
cob factory at Salisbury, N. C.
Counterfeit half dollars are floating
around some parts of North Carolina.
It is said Buffalo Bill's Wild West
show will not come through this section
this season.
Mrs. A. W. Fitts, of Lexington. N.
C, has been appointed matron of Eliza
beth College, t harlotte, N. C.
Three men were killed and ten in
jured by a boiler explosion in Ken
tucky. H. C. Benthall has boen appointed
postmaster at Murfreesboro, N. C, a
fourth-class office.
Attendance at the NwhTille (Tnn )
Exposition last week showed something
over 60.000.
The Supreme Ciurt of North Carolina
has recently granted licenses to tifty-
lour lawyers.
Tli TTAmui'i FTnniitinn of the Caro-
linas. which was held at Charlotte, N. C. ,
cleared $1,782.22,
TTtA Natchez (Miss.) board of health
has interdicted the sale or receipt of
New Orleans papers ic that city.
TUnnrnft tha wH-known rnr-eiciau.
died of typhoid at the Riverside Infirm
ary, Charleston, o. u.
Kttsville. the court
atAnsMrratitiAr Km A iannared. and all
efforts to find him have been vain.
Arartvof Savannah. Ga., darkies.
who have reached Liverpool en route
home, gives the usual reports about the
false promises of Liberia.
Fz-StaU Secretary Alexander Dor-
sey, of West Virginia, shot and killed
himself at Moundsville while despond
ent over his business reverses.
Grt W. Vanderbilt. who went to
Europe last March, has returned and
will be in Asheville. N. C, in a lew
days.
Fifteen rnrsona were poisoned bv
eating ice cream at Venus, Texas. Their
condition is critical.
At. AtmlRchicola. Fla.. a white man
Litt.t a riam-n withnnt nm vocation and
came near being lynched by infuriated
negroes.
Praaiilanf At elv inlev and Cabinet have
he An invitml to Iia nresent at the trrand
parade and collision of locomotives at
the Macon (Ga. ) Carnival, which takes
place on the 11th and 12th.
FirA at Flk Park. Mitchell countv.
N. C, destroyed property of the value
of $15,000, on whicn mere was omy
$2,000 insurance.
TVia civil ftarvicA commission has
called off the examinations at various
Southern cities, on account of the yel
low fever scare.
Crazed by poverty and suffering,
Martha Paulson, aged 8.5, of Suflolk,
Va., leaped in front of a railway train
and was fatally mutilated.
T)r A J Phnlna. a wealthy nlanter.
and lately president of the Mississippi
levee board, died at icksonrg. tie
was Grant's surgeon-general .duringthe
siege of Vicksburg.
W. S. Robertson, president of the
Watkins-Cottrell Company, of Rich
mond, Va. , has purchased the business
of the J. E. Dickersou Compauy, the
largest hardware house inAsheviiie,
N. C.
Capt. B. B. Bouldin, for the past two
fears in charge of the revenue office at
.ynchburg, Va.. returns to Greens
boro, N. ( '., to take charge of the office
there again. Col. W. II. Chapman, of
Greensboro, succeeds Capt. Bouldin at
Lynchburg.
The North.
A big malt trust has been formed in
New York.
Neal Dow, the veteran Prohibition
ist, is dying, at Portland, Me.
.Tampa Roreker. an Tfiu-a farmer mur
dered his wife and six children, and
then killed himself.
The grand jury of Ripley county,
Tnd., adjourned without indicting the
Versailles lynchers.
Nine men were fatal ly hurt in a riot
at Girardsville, Pa., the trouble having
sprung up over the Hazel ton riot.
The United Democracy has nominat
ed Henry George for mayor of Greater
New York.
It is settled that the Bostons are the
champions for 1.'8. They already have
a percentage of 704, while Baltimore
cannot hope to get 700.
The State conveition of the Demo
cratic national part)' of Massachusetts
fgold Democrats) met in Boston and
nominated for Governor Dr. William
h-verett.
The drain on the New York banks
for crop money has brought seven of
them below the 25 per cent, reserve re
quirement.
The Booneville stage was held up at
Lkiah, al., by two masked men, and
J. R. Barnett, a passenger, was shot
and killed.
Frank Fedellin, at Detroit, killed his
son and Joseih Stadelmann, and shot
his wife in the right shoulder. Family
troubles tne cause.
In New Yoik a big paper trnst has
been formed for the purpose of the con
solidation of the great mills to control
the output and reduce the expense of
operation.
Miscellaneous.
Bancroft, the magician, who died at
Charleston. S. C. of typhoid fever.
was 31 years old, and was insured for
$.50,000.
November 1st. is set for the date of
the sale of the Union Pacific Railroad
The receipts of this government con
tinue to fall many thousands of dollars
daily below its exiieoditurea.
Emily Roddey has filed a suit of di
vorce through her attorney, Henry
Roney, at Augusta. Ga., alleging cruel
ty and neglect against her husband.
John Roddey, of New York, formerly of
Charlotte, N. C. They were married in
March, 1W.
Foreign.
Spain's cabinet has resigned.
Charles B. Davis, Consul at Florence,
Italy, has resigned to enter business at
New York.
A private dispatch from Rome says
that about forty persons were killed and
many others injured by an earthslideat
the sulphur mines near Girgenti, Italy.
A story comes from Toledo that Prof.
Holmes and Harry I'ollerton have been
captured by bandits in Switzerland and
are being held for ransom.
The Argentine Government has in
vited bids from United Mates architects
for a $4,000,000 railroad station at
Buenos Ayres.
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Weekly Crop Report of the U. S.
Agricultural Department
TOBACCO SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Cotton Ticking Interrupted In nil Sec
tions or the Cotton Relt By Heavy
Uains.
The United States weekly report of
the Agricultural Department for the
past week says: Except on the At
lantio coast, where rains have fallen,
the week has been exceptionally dry,
and npon the mbole very favorable for
maturing and gathc a - crops. LiLo
the preceedi'fr w-,ek however, it has
been very favorable for the cormination
of sown trraiu, as well as for fallow mg
and seeding, which is much delayed
enerally throughout the Central
Kiid estern aud in some of
the Southern states. In Ne
braska, however, a large acreage of
wheat has been sown, much of which is
up aud doing nicely. In the Atlautio
oast Mates, the ccnditions have been
more favorable for fall seeding, and sat
isfactory progress baa beau made. The
frosts of the early part of the week
i roved injurious to late corn iu isirtions
of Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and
ew lork, but farther west no serious
injury is reported, and in some States
uttirg is Hearing coni letion.
Cotton picking has been pushed for
ward rapidly in all .sections of the cot
ton belt; although interrupted some
what in the ( arolinas, eastern Georgia
diid Florida by heavy rains. The crop has
uttered further deterioration in Arkan
as, portions of Mississippi and Louis
ana, and damage from rain in the Car
iiiuas and Florida. As stated in the
ulletiu of the previous week, the bulk
f the crop will be gathered by October
oth.
Iu Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio aud
.'irgiuia late tobacco has beeu terions
.) injured by frosts.
TWO CONVKNTIOXS.
I racy anil W illiams Nominated for
Governors of New York and Masia
cluihetls. Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, formerly
ecietary iu the Navy, has been nomi-
iated by the convention of the regular
epublican organization for mayor of
rester New York. Seth Low, the
lomineo of the Citizens' Union, trot
ess than fifty of the ;MS votes cast,
lis name was received by the delegates
ml spectators with jeers and hisses,
did Jacob Worth, the leader of the op-
osition to Senator Piatt, was cried
iown when he assayed to present Low'a
aine. None of the defeated Low men,
Kiwever, expressed any intention to
olt the regular ticket.
George 1- red Williams, of Dedham.
as been nominated for Governor of
'aachusetts.by the Democratic State
oineution, on a platform that squarely
ndorses that adopted by the national
ouvention at Chicago last summer,
he other nominees are: Lieutenant
overnor, Christopher T. Callahau, of
ilolyoke; Secretary of State, I). ('.
'a-h, of Whitman; Attorney General.
(din A. O'Keefe of I.ynn; Treasurer
.iud Receiver General, '!'. A. W atson, of
oston; Auditor, S. L. Chalifoux, of
' owell.
DK.VI II IIY HI.ACK DAMP.
i- ive Miners Go to Work and Not One
of Them Kcturn.
Five meu met a horrible death from
'black damp." the after accumulation
a fire in the Jeriuin No. 1 mine,
e r Peii'lhaui, Pa. The dead are:
..ae Watkliis, fire boss, .5.5 years old,
aves a wife and one child; William
. tnpkins, c.iii auy mail, 22 years old,
ngle; Joseph Smith. H'.i years
!i. compauy man leaves a wife
id one child; John Gallagher,
mpauv man, 42 years old, leaves
wife and eveii children; W'il
am Franklin, company mau, 20 years
d. Leaves a wife.
The N-w Trust Perfected.
In New York there has been held a
0 eting of representativesof the biggest
taltiug concerns in Ihe United States
r the purpose of perfecting the trust.
1 e new combine will have a capital of
intv million dollars. The reasou for
:ie combine, its promoters state, is to
op the cutting of prices. Nearly all
f the large cities were represented at
ne meeting. 'Ihe trust will virtually
outrol trade in this country.
Itrokrrase l-'Iriiin I'hj- JjJKM) Taa.
At a meeting of the I 'harlotte (N. (J. )
nance committee the question of tax
r brokerage firms came up. The
mmittee agreed to report a 10' tax
n a'l such firms. The question now
h to a meeting of the board, which
, fv the action of the tinanco
:ommittee.
r.xpect Cotton tuo Lower.
The ' harlotte (N. ('.) News says a
' iverpool cotton man who has leen iu
he -outh for a couple of week frankly
ays he expeets cotton to go down to
tot far from -5 cents. It is understood
.hat the mills here are bnymg jtmt
uough cotton for their needs from day
o day, as they expect the price to go
onsidei&bly lower.
Old I.Mdlen Home Horned.
The old ladies' home at New Haven.
oun., has been burned. One woman
.as burned to death, four made insen-
ib'c, and a boy was tossed out of a
vimlow aud caught by a ioliceman on
tie sidewalk.
No Dangt-r In Mulla.
Postmaster Central Gary has author
zed the announcement thut all mails
earing New Orleans in any direction
re thoroughly fnmigated under direct
ions prepared by Surgeon General
Vyman, of the Marine hospital servii tB
nd issued by the second assistant
ostmaster general. There is no
ianger, he added, of yellow fever s
transmission through the New Orlean
mails.
New Dry Docks Proposed
The special board appointed by the
Vary Department recommends the eon -tructioD
of five new dry docks. Amoug
he five are a steel floating dock at New
port New, or a concrete dock at Nor
olk, Va.
To Clear II I Conscience.
A Charlotte (NT. C. ) man has sent to
he revenue office at Asheville 32.20 to
go to the conscience fund, explaining
hat three years ago he used two gallons
f spirits on which the tax had not been
paid.
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