North Carolina Newspapers

;ViT A Aft tie m wugii prints . the, News kq.I is sought attar by tba peo j ii of JIoIowell, Yancey, Bun foHibf, Iiutherford, Burke ::,! other counties In Western .North Carolina, and U taara L ro a Cood Advertising Medium. lint furnished on application. AJJress, THE 1IE3SESOEB, Ilarlon, N. 0. -BIND 01DXES r03 JOB PRINTING 5 TO THE MESSENGER, Marion, M. C. J . . Frorar.tnets, Accuracy, Neatnaaa and Good Stock Guaranteed. Letter Ileada, Note Hrailf , Bui Heads, Envelop, Circular, Cards, Poa- J tera. Pamphlets, and any kind cl 5 Printiinc. J MARION. N C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ID. 1807. Priced 1 Per Year, in Advance. H rzi - . T7VNT -r-r -v-.-v ..xv " " ' I JUDGE DICK THREATENED. He tv ivves An Anonymous Letter Abusing Him FOR REDUCING THE BOND! " j, .ii, mi in 5 the Trial of t: e j I National Hank Officials of ...... -.id to the Charlotte (X. C.) . ;a lp'iii At-hevilie says: Judge I received a long anonymous , : i t.M'.hitig abuse and threats of ! .i his action iu reducing the . .,. ., . .....t.iiumg tbe cases of Breese, I I u. 1 1. i ii. :. I J i :kersou, the indicted I ;, : 'ti"i.al bank officers. The - ui.ki:" w m correspondent said: my ( Lu t:'H brother, this is iMtkt f m ;;ci...v- in -ur country i- jU'.t w hat is going to hau . , ' j if you dou t before ,..;ri' 1 leuch in Asheville raise , ;. i. 1..I1 an I Bet u t, pee ml term of . .;( : ;t .-j-rciiy trial, you will be a . i-niiic by your leniency to . . j i. k referred t.j the letter in a: ing tiiut if counsel lor tho do- uim'iivw any t-pirit such as the ;,. ,:i h 'iiu, Ihore would better be , cl vcuuf. District Attorney H .ii, ii ui l tlio court did right in con i : ..;.g the cai-es. "1 had the sugges-i.i- added, "from the Comptrol .... , : i.i- ( tiueiicy at W ashiiigtoii that i f-i should be continued to the ..r. ; in. J his was made by the t , !.., r , !. r ii..u the suggestion from i.;t!ik ollictrs that they would .ii,. Iv the Ueposltors. i in k then toid counsel for the th.it if at any time there was oi violeuce they i-hould sur .. i i i.i- (li'temlaiits to the ollicers of "., i I tatt-s and the whole jiower ,r. , Muiient would bulged for t..i :; i n:crtioli. ..t lilt CmiKrcMt Mpi-Ih. n .-liiiigtoii ecial hays: In order !,, ...; ! it-ces aiioiiitmeuts, no action i-- tal.eii, it is said, in North Caro h: .i i...dtei until Congress meets. It in. !,, n!iv nettled that )'. C. Duncan i i r iii',oint'd collector of theeasteru ::- iii t, and that some new man, w hoso !.. lui-nt iniied in that cuniicction, w ill I. H,. i. ihted district attorney. : i e 1 -ick's early leiiiemeut is cou- . :i! v expected here, and either ( aid. !i. r. Validate Justice Douglas or i .. bu in t, it is mil, will Hiicceed i, ,., A.-- itiiiit Attorney (iencral fioyd r :!iil-r: ti ud. will not be au apidi- i i f i i he place. i.U. IIAMITOX'S I.AST KKl'OKT. UN iew mi tho Ciiio:. Pacific Matter a: d erniiieiit Ownership, i t-ii Wade ILimpton, xvho has just i ri ii Kiiceceded by iencral l.ongstrett , , i iiiiiuhsioiier of railroads, bus sub i ;"i'l to the Jter:.T c; artmeut Jiis i- i. it fur the past liscal year, lie says t...it the 3 ear l ei'ched the low water ' n!. of railway construction. During :. ear tliirty-four companies with .' I ; miles ot roads, pas-od into the i.:i'ls of 1 1 io courts, and fifty-eight ' ';.! s. previously placed in receiver's '.h: N. weie sold at foreclosure. A 1'n lv iiiipi'oxement in ltilme.d earn i i- during tlie tirst six months of the ,ni :,t year is noted, an improvement i inn. -ulai I v hi parent in the bond-aided I ;i tie i adroads. 1 he outlook in tiie West generally, h : the past year, is reported very en- ura.:iiig. (ieueral Hampton, though l:-i'oi:u;inir any attempt to criticise the . in-.,- (,f the government in the bnion I'u 'ii' matter, says he always has be .i, til that a settlement more advant i. .-i.iis to the government could bo ob t.i in 1 if all the companies, particularly tii' I ii mi and Central I'acilic, could i.. i i-L-otia'.ed with at the same time :.t"iu-h a commission, to bo appointed '. the I resident and possibly a'.l in the ii 'i.i- way. than by selling at different t ..t s and on a dillerent basis, (ioveru i ii ft ownership, or operation unilti t eM.iiieiit supervision, he mivs, '11 l e io t only a doubtful, but a .i.ii i-. ' oils experiment, which probably :! i n suit disastrously to thegoveru- Xl.ii i lcd i:i h l-io-i's Den. 1 1'ii-ton, Arthur C. Standrnssy and tlifc W'ibetg were married iu a f lions at the "zoo, ' in the pros- . f .'i, ( hi people. I'our clergymen 'in-pared to successfully- olliciate a c the lions devoured them. A : tette of giant liou tameis guarded f'.i-r.-e beasts xhi! Jlev. Geo. Ur. of Ohio, tied the knot. An Advance in Wages. i.e emploves at the Audrew 15ro& .pany's blast furnace, at Youngs :.. o. . have been given notice of a r cent, iiihauce in wanes, to go e:'.ei-t Ioc. 1. It is understood '.l.ei blast furnace companies will s Uaiico tho wages of their em- miald the sehool Trni-hor. 'is Allen, a school teacher of I'.l.m l, Hickory county. Mo., kept t".s after school. They way a:..l assaulted him wilh stones : at d. fractiu ing his skull, which ''i l in his death. Killed in l liurcli. ..n Hickman, the mod notorious :.v in the two Yiigiuias, was shot Ki .e l while kueoiiiu' in prayer at i.ii i h I esule his j ri j eetive bride. toi.owers. whoxvoreiu church, all ,:l' '" the authorities afier their .i-i was shot. l p 'lntiiieius by the President. Dip I'rcsident has appointed Dxvight appraiser ol merchandise in the '.:--ri,-t of Jamia. 11a : Kbi-pha A. U i. l,ter. i- 'tor of internal revenue ' tLe di triet of South Carolina. Held for .Murder. - At!aita, Ga., L. Steineau aud ' t members of the firm of Steineau, ;.:-Key dealers, hare been arrested, 1 with the murder ot Toliceman '.er whi!e he was endeavoring to m i the store from supposed burg- They tried to rob the firm's 6ale. Pire In an Asylum. ' tegi-o section of the Georgia In-,:-e Asylum, at Milledseville. has t urned. All tho 703 oecnnants taken cut safely. The loss is 1 Tbe management of the uginirea ' ' xv itli 50 per ceut inuraac ! iteutiary report that tho institution I xBd.e a profit Uiie yeajr of S3-1, 11 TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH. Tlie South. A negro colony has been formed near Decatur, Ala. Mr. Joseph Wylie, of Chester, S. C, lias presented Erskine College with 540,000. Morganton, X. C, votes bonds to the uuiount of $20,000 to tbe Shelby railroad. Tbe line San Marco hotel, at St. Augustine, Fla , has leeu burned by fl,.l.,,.. T .,.. J J ljU"?w".""" Louisville. K v.. receutlv Buttered a 8150,000 fire in tho wholesale district. Covered by insurance. The annual conference of the Meth odist Protestant church will bo held at High I'oint. X. C. on the t4th A bale of cotton the first was raised in McDowell countv, North Carolina, near Dysartsville, this year. Charlotte Observer. At Charlotte. X. C Heurv Stafford. colored, was crushed to death at the Ada cotton mill by a falling w all caving in ou him. The "Cau't (let Away Club" of Xov folk, Va. , lias mode a donation cf ?800 to the yelloxv fever sufferers at .tlobile and IJiloxi. At the Jacksonville, I'la. , bicycle meet Tom Cool er won in the two pro fessional events; liald was second, (-'toper's time was 2:H. The Middlesboro Foundry and Ma chine Works at Middlesboro, Ky., lias been burned I-oss, ,00,000; insurance, held iu London, $!"', 000. At public auction, in Atlanta, (la., a few clays ago, a lot fronting fixty feet on Decatur street was sold for fij0,000, being g 1,00(5 a front foot. The firm of J. II. Heid .V Co., of Macon, ia., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are about .-SiO.Oou; assets not known. One hundred and forty-eight bales of cotton were tet ou lire at Tort Mill, S. ('., it is supposed by a small boy and a cigarette. About forty were damaged; seventy-five were insured. At (loldsboro, X. C, Sam Wright, whose real name was Wiley Vaughn, the nesrru who murdered Mr. W. A. Carr, was hanged privately iu the jail, lie Confessed to three murders in all. The postofiice at Mocksville, X. C, has been blow n open by thieves and robbed of ;M0- half that amount iu money, and the other half in stamps. 1 he thieves rode oil' ou a hand car and cut the telegraph wires. Wilmington, X. C. , has just organ ized a paid tire department modeled after that of Atlanta, which is one of the best in the South. An Atlanta fire man will go to Wilmington to tiain the members of the new department. At Ripley-, W. Va. , Johu F. Morgan, xvho murdered Mrs. Alice Green and her two grown children, James and .Matilda, was indicted for the crime, tried and found guilty, aud sentenced in four days. Ho said he killed them in self-defense. The North. On the 10th I'ly mouth church, Brook lyn, celebrated the semi centenary' of Henry Ward lieecher's ordination as its pastor. The Central Coal, Coke and Lumber Company's plant at Texarkaun, Texas, has been destroyed by lire; loss 100, OiU. John ( !. Koerner has beeu caught after stealing H-s hordes and bug gies from the i-trects of Indianapo lis, Ind. Organized labor of Chicago, 111., de mands that .SI,'-. 0,000 worth of stone cutting for Chicago's postotlico be done in that city. At Philadelphia, T'a. , Charles Ger bach, a mad cigar-maker, shot his father-in-law aud the latter's sou, and then killed himself. Judge (irosscup, of Chicago, has held the World's Columbian F.xpositiou Co. responsible for the 7.i,000 losses to tho French exhibitors bv reason of fire. The beet sugar manufacturers of Ne braska have usked Assistant Secretary Howell for a hearing beforo he gives his decision ou tho countervailing duty on Dutch nigar. At Carson City. Xe-. . iu revenge for au alleged wrong to his sister, J ulian Guinan, aged Hi years shot and killed Charles .(ones, I'nited States district attorney. Guiuan surrendered himself at the slientl's oilice. At Cleveland, Ohio, J. J. Shipherd has been arrested on a charge of em bezzling nearly $200,000 from F. D. ISohinsou and a receiver has been asked for his lirm, which is alleged to be in solvent aud owing 2,000,000. F.ichard W. Merrick, John A. Mer rick and F.ugene Lindsay, Federal Court clerks in Philadelphia, have beeu arrested on charge of issuing fraudu lent naturalization papers at 17 a head. A court of inquiry has been ordered to convene at tho New York Navy Yard to ascertain the causes of thegroundiug of the I'nited States tutboat Nina, ott the Southern coast. A baud of missionaries eounected with the Powery Mission, in Xew York, have Ftarted out on foot to tro to the Klondike from San Francisco. They wiil hold services aud take up collec tions en route, and will conduct a res cue mission, aud do a little mining ou their ow u hook. They expect to reach San Fraucisco March 15. 31 lcc!laucoiis. Fx-l'nited States Senator Xatbau Fellows is dead. At Hot Springs, Ark., three people were were burned to death. Twenty-seven steamers are under charter at Philadelphia to load grain for Lurope. A stringent immigration bill is ex pected to be passed by Congress this winter. Senators Cniay aud Vest are at St I.neie, l'la , xvhere they x ill remain un til Congress convenes. The name of G rover Cleveland's sou is to be Kichard Polsom Cleveland, in honor of Mrs. Cleveland's father. Fdouard Marie Fmest Deldenez, the well-known composer of operasaud bal lads, died in Paris, aged t0 years. At Washington, D. C, Col. Achillea de Vecchi died from tbe effects of eating toadstools, which he bought for niush- rooms. Consul General Lee has returned to Cuba. When Judge Van Wyck becomes niavor of Greater Xew York he will re move from office all the present city officials. The lust crop reaped by St. Louis capitalists from a coffee plantation they are working in Mexico is a .i0,000 libel suit The Ohio Xational Bank, at Wash ington, D. C, wid voluntarily liqui date and reorganize as a savings insti tution. Denver Col., has Imposed a $1,000 tax ou dealers in cigarettes. Blanco Opens Up All the Fields to Agriculture. ORDERS SUGAR GRINDERS To He Protected by Military Forces. Suggest That the Authorities Help Pay the Taxes. Havana, Cuba, (Py Cable, Captain General Plauco has issued a circular announcing that he has decided to fur nish all the protection necessary to bring about a resumption of general planting, harvesting aud reconstruction throughout the country, especially in the ease of the sugar ciop. He further decrees that all authorities of the island are to lend unconditional support to tho loprietors of farms in the efforts of the latter to gather their crops and teud their cattle. The civil authorities are instructed to encoui ago to the utmost those xvho are appreht n-.ive of grinding sugar cane, and to offer them assurances aud the necessary military forces to protect them and their property. Tho regions xvhere agriculture is more ex tended will be specially provided for by ml the authorities of all ranks, 'iho latter are authorized to assist eveu those who are behiud in their taxes, aud to do their utmost to mcreaso the com mercial facilities of the planters. All war meaiures are abrogated in regard to agricultural implements, machinery, etc. , aud the right of the railroads to charge 'i;J per ceut. on all freight car ried is also done away with. The goxerumeut ollicials throughout the islaud are instructed to l'aithfudy t omply wilh these instructions aud they are notified that if they sno'.v themselves deserving they xviil be rewarded in ac cordance with the degree of zeal they have manifested in pushing the w ork of bringing about a 'reconstruction" of the island of Cuba. .Marshal Plane, lias ubrogated tho orders of his predecessor as to the de -Btructiou of the fields and huts of the insurgents, lie has also cancelled tho prohibitions by which the Spanish sol diery have been prevented from camp ing in the towns. Tho nexv orders di rect that the so.diers shall be provided with blankets aud water-proof coats, and that when iu campthey shall always be sheltered as far as possible from tho rains aud dexv. Xo fewer thau :i-',(M: sick soldiers are noxv in the hospitals of the island. On the 11th the steamer lsla de i'anay, which left Huvaumi tor Spain, earned sixty-eight oilicors and 000 sick soldiers. TIIK XATIONAI, r.RAXGK. Virginia Kuled Wut on Ac "oiiiit i.-l" a Paucity of Subordinate Grouse;-. At the meeting of the Natioual Grunge at Ilarribburg, Pa. , some minor reports were submitted, aud the report of the committee on credentials was adopted. Virginia was ruled out ou tho ground that there are not enough subordinate graugers iu that State to eutitlo it to representation in tho national body. '1 he State masters ma ie encouraging reports. A public reception was hold at tho opera house in honor of the visiting grangers. Governor llastiugsdelivered au address of welcome. Among the other speakers xvere: H. O. Devries, of Maryland; J. II. Prighnui aud Sarah Pai-d, of Minnesota, and S. L. Wilson, of Mississippi. WOULIVS LAHGKST CANNON. It Weighs 1-0 Tons and Sends a Projectile Sixteen Miles. The Philadelphia Times says: The largest gun exer built iu the world is uoxv beiug coustructed at the Bethle hem Iron Works. The enormous piece of ordnance xvill weigh when com pleted 120 tons. It xvill exceed by six tons' xveight the monster gun which Krupp, of Germany, exhibited at the World's Fair iu Chicago, and in length it will be nearly five feet longer than the German gun. The monster weapon is being fabri -cated uuder the orders of the ar De partment. It is the biggest order ever given to any establishment iu the world. Free linportat Ion of Cattle Into Cuba. Vice-Consul Springer has sent to the Htate Department the Governor Gener al's decree permitting from the loth inst. the importation of nil horned cattle iuto the island of Cuba, freo of import of oth-r duties, i he decree xvill remain in force until January lt,th inst. The actual importation of cattle at this time is 1,000 head per xveok. A Prohibition I.axv I nconbt itut lonal. The criminal court of appeals of Tex as has declared that the cold storage law passe ! by the last legislature is unconstitutional. The law- prohibtedtho storing of any intoxicating liquors fur others in local option district, or taking orders for liquors for others, the pen alty for its violation beiug a line of 100 to ..',0() dollars and 100 day in jail. The laxv effectually prohibited beer clubs in prohibition towns. Dedication Postponed. Owing to the yellow fever the dedica tion of the Mary Stearns Agricultural hall, an addition to the Alabama Xor mal Institute at Tuseegee, has been lostponed till the 3oih. Governor Johnson and Dr. Curry xvill attend. Kinbezzler Caught In Petersburg. Frederick Fisher, alias Pinkcy Fish er, xvho is wanted iu Xexv York on the charge of embezzling 10,000 from Alexander Cllniau, of the Morris Park race course, was arrested in Peters burg. Va. He had beeu iu that city about a week aud represented himself as a liquor merchant, though as far as known he did not attempt to do any business. He went under the name of J. Bantu. He confessed to having taken the money, but sid he ha.l squandered it all. surgical and Gynecological Officers. The Southern Surgical and Gyneo logical Association, which has beeu in session a. St. Louis, Mo., elected tho followiug officers for the ensuing year: President, Btcbard Douglass, of Xash ville. Tenu. ; vice-presidents, H. 11. Mudd, of St. Louis; J. A. Goggans, of Alabama; secretary, W. E. B. Davis; of Birmingham, Ala ; treasurer. A. M. Catt'.edge. of Louisville; council, L. M. Tiffany, of Baltimore; George Ben Johnson, of Richmond, Va ; Lewis S. McMurty. of Louisville: Geo. O. En cieiiian.f f Boston; Ernest S. Lewis, of New Orleans. ro gi;t wages. Massachusetts Mills Will Have t Have a Decided deduction or Shut Down. A Fall Piiver dispatch says: It is announced here that all hut one or possibly two cotton manufacturing cor porations have signed an agreement to abide by the recommendations of a special committee of the Manufactur ers' Association, which La3 been ap I ointed to take some steps for an im-pz-ovement in the condition of the local cotton industry. It is expected that a shut doxvu or a decided reduction of wages will be advised. Some manufacturers are opposed to a shut down, urging that it will uot im prove affairs. 1'hey point out that Fall Paver no longer controls the markets, and that it xvould simply allow mills in other States to meet the improved de mand by running over-time. This is particularly possible in the South, and the only remedy is believed to be in securing a national law govern ing hours ot labor. Sojie of tho advocates of a cut-down who iiro represented ou the committee favor a cut, beginning with the treas urer, which will apply to every em l'loye. TIIK WKATHF.K FOK NOVE.MBEK Weather Proohet Irl K. Hicks Make His Predictions. Weather Prophet Hicks makes the following forast for this mouth: "The month enters warm, with re turn o; storm conditions and rain, turning to sleet and snow far north, storm period, at tho close of xvhich will tianspire over much of the country from 1st to 3d. It will be much coole'r about o'd to (1th, after w hich it will grow warmer, aud regular low barom eter leading tc active storms, will pass over the continent from 7th to Hh. 15a romater xviil rise, aud cold northerly gales xvill follow behind the low atmos phere area. Dangerous disturbances about the seas and lakts xvill be natural at time and at other periods of the month. The loth aud 14th cnuiprise a reactionary center of higher tempera ture, low pressure aud storms. The 18th to .1st is a regular storm period, at the close of which expect change to much colder. The center at a critical conjunc tion of 2 ith to 2Uth, inclusive, is a reac tionary storm cause. Gale, blizzards and cold wave folloxving. Mouth ends w ith storm brexviug." ALL L A ISO It A V FliCT K D Hy Decision of Supreme Court of Arkansas. The Supremo Court of Arkansas has handed down a decision which is of tho greatest interest to the public in general as xvell as to tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers iu particular. It is well kuowu that locomotive en gineers aro all employed under a con nect by which seniority of service gives priority of right to employment, so that xvheu slackness of business de mands that one or more engineers shall be discharged, the last en gineer employed shall be the first dis missed. One of tho senior engineers having beeu discharged ho brought suit on the ground that ho xvas discharged without cause and in violation of his contract of employment, it was conceded that his contract wave him the right to quit at pleasure and tho court denied his right to recover on the ground that no con tract can be valid that gix'es only one party tho right to terminate it. The court holds that the right to re scind or terminate a contract must be mutual. The decision is far-reaching, affecting, as it does, organized labor of all classes working under contract agreements. CHIXF.S iT'mIN'EUS To TaUe Place of Strikers Iu Northern Illinois. The Chicago Times-Herald eays; Chinese coal miners are to take the ulace of Americans iu the northern Illi. uois district. An attempt will be made to break the strike that exists and 800 skilled Celestials have beeu picked for tho work. They will all bear arms, lix-e iu- ido agatliug gun equipped stockade and be body guarded by 100 former Chicago policemen. Au p.geut of the Chineso Six Com panies was iu charge last week aud made a contract xvith the General Wil mington Coal company to deliver the Si to Chinamen at the mines of the Wil-miugtou-Braidxvood district. The firat consignment of 200 xvill arrive next Tuesday and the others will be on hand as soon as provisions can be made to take care of them. Arrangements for an additional 1,000 Chinese miners have been made conditional on the suc cess of tho tirst venture. Elaborate preparations . have beeu completed to take care of the first 800 Chiuaniea and to give them ample pro tection. AGAINST FOOIIIALL. Tiie Rill Passes t ie House of the Georgia Legislature. representative Cole's football bill, prohibiting match or prize games of football or games of football where ad mission fees are charged, came up in the ieorgia house with a favorable report from the general judiciary committee, with au amendment striking out 'games of like character. " This was adopted and the bill passed w ithout dis cussion by a vote of !)l to 3. Hooth-Tucker's Colony. A Denver (Col. ) Dispatch says: Com miinder Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army, hss signed a contract for 4,000 acres of land at Holly, Col. He is now iu Nexv York, raising money to make the first payment upon it. Will Restore Walls Old Fort. Major Mac Slurry, commanding the First Artillery at Fort Barrancas, has been instructed by General Wilson, the chief of engineers, to restore the walls of old Fort Saa Carlos, near Barrancas, Fla. This is the oldest and most interest ing old fortress in the United States. It was originally built by the Spaniards and was several times captured by the American army under General Jackson in 1S21. It will now probably be sup plied with vnid-n'i- Gold Standard for China. According to a special from Shanghai, the Emperor of China and the board of revenue haxe approved a memorial pre sented in favor of establishing a gold standard aud prohibiting the export cf pold. It is doubtful, however, whether this w ill have any practical result. A ISook on the Pen. Sam Ha leu, who recently returned to Salisbury from the penitentiary at Bft ieigli. is cut in a card in the Winston iNTlM Bepublican complaining of the treatment accorded the prisoners. He will shortly write a book in which the cruelty of the guards will be "ex- Gcrernor Daniel Russell's First Thanksgiving Proclamation. A LARGE GRAPHITE MINE. LifeCertiucatea for Teneh-ers Second Crop of Grreu Pease Winston to Have Another Tobacco Fair. The follow ing is Governor Kussell's Tiianksgiviug proclamation "The signal and abuudant blessiugs of the Sovereign Ruler of Nations throughout the year now closing de clare the liberty and impose the duty of setting apart a special day far praise and thanksgiving. ''In addition to His many mercies ou: State has been spared strikes, dis-a-ittis, contagiv,U3 and internal striles; uur people have beeu U!essedwith boun tiful b irvests, many of them with peaceful and hapy homes, and Tnev have been vouchsafed progress in the promotiod of edueatiou and tho full preservation of tbeir religious freedom, aud, to some extent, tho retention of their civil and political liberties, as citizous of the republic. "Therefore 1, Daniel L. Russell, Governor of the State of North Caro lina, iu conformity to a time-honored custom, do designate anil appoint lhursuay, the 2Jth day of November. IS'.)?, as a day of public tiianksgiviug, and 1 do exhort all good citizens to as semble ou that day aivuud their fire sides or at their usual place of xvoi ship aud there reui2mbertho 'Giver of every good and perfect gilt,' aud render unto liini their praise aud grutitude for 'His goodness aud mercy,' xvhich 'eudureth forever.' and beseech of Him au over flight aud guidaucH that xvill enable us to be more worthy of the manifold blessijgs already enjoyed aud of those xvhica, through Ilia loving kiudness He hath in store for us; not forgetting the poor and tho needy, tho sick ami tho afffKted, and those who may be op-P'-essed or deprived of equal ooportuni t .es by such of their fellow-men as may oo iu possession of privileges and pre rogatives that are not consistent w ith the faudamentat principles of free gov ernment, and are bauctioned by the laxvs of Gorl. "Done at our city of Baleigh, ou this the Utli day of November, in tho year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ami ninety-seven, and iu the oue hun dred and txveuty-t-evenlh year of our American indeiiideneo "Daniel L. Kisskll. "By the Governor: "JoeE. Alexandek. "Prix-ate Secretary." Another tobacco fair xvill bo held iu Winston next fall. This wa3 the au thentic and unanimous decision of the Tobacco Pair Association at its meeting. The treasurer's report of last week's fair showed receipts l,,.ii4.25 aud dis bursements !,.;!. 4 4. The iiermaueucy "f the fair xvas considered and it xvas decided that next year's fair should de termine that. An election of officers vas goue into, resulting iu the unani mous re-election of tho following: President, Col. A. B. Gorrell; secretary, Col. G. E. Webb; tieasurer, T. L. aughn; executive committee: G. A. Follin, chairman; F. A. Coleman, W. 3. Carter. W. U. l'eynohbj, M. D. 'Jniley. The execnti-e committee was enlarged to seven and S. E. Alien aud .s. E. Fries were elected to complete the committee. The North Carolina State board of public school examiners has decided upon the folloxx-ing form for life certifi cates for teachers: has passed the examination prescribed by this board and in testi gjony thereof this first grade life cer tificate is granted. is therefore entitled, without further examination to teach iu the public schools in any ccunty iu accordance xvith section X, chapter 105. laxvs of 1!7." (Signed bv ;b.e State Superintendent and htate board of examiners. ) There is to bo quite a change iu the uniforms of the Mate guard; the trous ers to be dark blue, like the coat; tho dress coat to be done axvav xvith and the blouse lengthened tw o inches to replace i; all-metal buttons to be no longer used, but buttons of horn, covered y a flap, to take their place; the helmet to be abolished aud the present foiage cap. stiffened and with a pom pen, to bo used for full dress occasious. The new drill regulations for the manual of arms will jo issued the State guard Decem ber 1st. The Ashoville Gazette says that a fine graphite mine has beeu discovered in dcDowell county xvhich contaius 10, AI0.000 tous easily accessible. Twenty million pounds of graphite is used in the United States annually, over 111, W0.000 being imported. A compnuv vill soon develop it. Themine is within ivo miles of the Western Xorth Caro ina llnilroad. The trucking section immediately ro-und Nexvbern is a remarkably liue ou3. Last spring it missed the freeze. Now the truckers are shipping the second crop of greeu pease. There is a tine second crop of Irish potatoes. It is expected that about 0,ouo barrels of these will be shipped aud prices are high. Shipments of greeu pease have, strange to nay. continued for three weeks. W. H. Dearer, of Asheville, who was convicted of embezzlement as a magis trate, gets a position as a ganger in'the revenue service. There aro now 4:i0 pitients in the in sane asylum in Raleigh. The i ercent age of cares to admission is as large as ever in the history of the asvluui. Much progress iu all lines is being made. The grounds were never so a tractive. They are beiug reseeded in grass. This year 2), 000 barrels of pork will he put up. or four-fifths of all re quired for twelve months. The farm and garden have yielded heavilv. A very large crop of oats is sown On December 1st the Raleigh News and Obeerver will begin publication of its evening edition. Of the 212 gold mines iu the State 44 are now reported to be in active op eration. Stanley county leads in pro duction. It is ascertained that the ac actual weight of the biggest nugget ever found in the State, known as the Reed nugget, actually weighed C4 pounds troy. It was weighed bv avcrdur-ois xveight. There is a movement for the estab lishment of a State textile school. A j jf 'i '"cu ,lu press tnc matter. wmc.uu llu an cotton nun I owners and editors in North Carolina : It will urge the Legislature to make the appropriation. Charlotte Obf&rrer IHE CROP CONDITIONS. Government Report on Corn, To bacco, Potatoes and Hay. ALL SHORT EXCEPT HAY. Favorable Conditions lorthe Soxving of th Full Crops From Most Part of Lurope. The November report of the statisti cian of the Department of Agriculture gives 23.7 bushels as tho average yield per acre of corn, according to the pre liminary returns of the department's correspondents. The corresponding pielimiuary estimate last year was 2T.li bushels, and that of 105 was 20.0 bush els. The average yield iu the principal corn States is as folloxvs: New York 3'i.5, Pennsjlvcniu "'.. '.,io J52.5, In diaua i'W.O, Illinois :il.o; Jowa 20.1); Missouri 25.0, hausas 10.0, Nebraska 20.0. 'I he average per cent, of quality is Uti. 8, as compared xvith 04.7 iu No vember of last year. 'I he average yield per aero of tobaccc is (54'i pounds against 070 pounds pci acre last year, and 74 5 i omuls in 1;i.j. The estimated average yield i er acre of potatoes is (51.0 bushels, as coin pared x ith Sti. b" bushels last year, aud Km. 7 bushels in November, ijr. The aver nge per cent, of quality is SI. :, against iu November last, nud 'M. iu November iu l'.1.. Tho average yield of hay is 1.42 ton per acre, against au average of I.vl ton per aero tor the last lilteeu years, iu point of qnality tho average is !)2.f per cent, as compared xvith. 02.0 pel ceut. iu November, ls;ni, and 01. pet cent, iu 180". Favorable conditions for thesoxviug ol the fall crops are ronorted from mosl parts of Europe, and the condition ol the crops so tar as town is likewise fa vorable. The opinion is freely expressed that au increased area has beeu soxvu it wheat, ihe crop reports from indie continue favorable, and on the whole this is true as to those from Argentiix and Australia, but in all these countries the harvest is too remote to permit 11113- .very confident prediction as tc the final outcome. In tho case of Ar gentiue, it may prove that more dam age has beeu done by the locusts and the Hiring frosts thau is yet apparent. There is nothing to indicate that the w heat shortage in Europo is any lesf than has been supposed, while the croi of Manitoba is now reported to bemiu-L beloxv the oiliciul estimate issued it August. DKCIDKD IN CALDWF.LL'S FAVOIi Judge Coble Decides the liailroa Commission Act C011.stlt11tlon.il. A special to the Charlotte (X. C Observer from Statesvillc, says: Aftci the exceed iugly able arguments of tin distinguished counsel employed in th care of Caldwell vs. Wilson, Judge Coble rendered his decision in favor o the plaintiff, L. C. Caldwell. The judgment of tho court xvas embrace.' under three heads, viz.: 1st. i hat the act of the Legislature crertiug tho rail way commission ond ghiug t ie Gov ernor power to remove, etc. , wsn con stif u'lonai ; 2d. 'I ho court refused t submit the issues presented to a jury fi j trial; sd. 'ihe court tiuds 0:1 tno lssut presented in favor of the plaintiff, L. C. Caldwell, as above stated. Maj. Wilson's counsel made a motiot for a nexv trial, which being overruled, they appealed to tho Supreme Court. Mr. Caldwell naturally feels gratified ai his first victory in this cause. 'I he opin iou is that the whole matter restsouthe constitutionality of the railroad com mission. NF.WItOLD KILLS A PKKACIIKK. iloody Deed of a South Carolina Con stable FleI to Kara pi Lynching. A special from Columbia, S. C. , says Detective W. H. Newbold, of the State force, looking after violators of the whiskey law. shot and killed Rev. J. M. Turner, a Baptist preacher. Turnet was in a buggy, driving to this citv. aud xvas commanded by thede'.e-ctive tc halt. Ho did not stop promptly, 11,10 xvas shot. The detective has lied tc escape beiug lynched. Industrial School Hurried. Information fro.i; Charleston, S. C, says fire destroyed the Frederick Dent ing Industrial School at Maryville. S. C. The school xvas established by a Xorthern philanthropist for the ad vancement cf the colored raro. iliiatn White, a negro, xvho xvas assisting in the efforts to get the fire under control, xvas probably fataliy injured by falling timbers. The school' xvas insured for about 2,0oi.i. It xviil be rebuilt. Perished In the Flames. At Charlotte, X. C. Mr. S. M. Da vidsou, ngod about 50 years, xvas burned to death at his borne ou North Pine street. He was iilono in the house when the fearful accident occurred. Ihc cause of the fire is unknown, but it is thought that he in some way upset the lamp and itextJodcd; or that he had fallen asleep ou the bed xxith a lighted cigar iu hismouth and that it had fallen ou the bed, setting it on fire. His aged father xvas painfully burned also, and he doesn't know his sou i-j dead. Mr. Davidson xvas a school teacher by I rofession. THE IxMGIIJXM LAISOK Will Cut u Figure in the Next National Campaign. Chairman of the Press Committee Chamberlain of the Knights of Labor bays that the Knight" of i abc.i xvill cut a big figure in the next National elcc tio. "vVe are growing all the time," (raid he, "and e intend to vote ngains politicians w ho are in politics for olSice. We want men in office xho will Letter the condition of tho laboring man and who aie right on the economic ques tions. ' The Trial Begun. At Rockingham, X. C, the trial of Evans, colored, the alleged abf-ailant of Miss Lillie Cole, has begun. 'I he pris oner is being guarded by the Maxton Guards. The people are willing to ac cord him afair trial. Father und ou In Prison for Life. Benjamin Xuna and Roy Nunn, father aud son, have teen sentenced to life imprisonment in the State peniten tiary, at Jackson, Mich. Their cri.no was the murder of Curtis Wright, 11KADTKEKI'S HEPOHT. Farmers Favored and Demand From Interior Store Keepers Stimulated. Bradstreet's commercial report for the past week says: Killing frosts South, the raising of quarantine embargoes at nearly all States invaded by yellow fe ver, the resumption of traffic and a prospective revival in demand for staple merchandise constitute the trade fea tures cf the week. Raius in central Western and Western States, followed by co'd-.T weather, have favored farmers and stimulated de mand from interior store-keejiers. This has had a favorable effect at Louisville, St. Louis and Kansas City. Job bers in Northxvesiern States are await ing seasonable weather to Ftimulato the movement of heavy dry goods aud winter clothing. Features at larger I'acilic coast cities are contiued to sales of merchandise rud provisions ior the Klondike, and the heavy foreign in crease iu the geueral merchandise movement. New England centres re port that orders from the West exceed those from the South or East. Lead ing manufacturing industries continue fairly xvell employed. While thfre bus been a moi.i-i.o ".eaction in iron auu steel, furnaces aud niids continue xvell employed aud the outlook for higher quotations next year is unchanged. In addition to loxver prices for South ern and Bessemer pig, and for steel billets, epiotatious for naval stores, wools, e-opper. coffee, pork, flour, oat and wheat are lower; while those for cotton, print cloths, sugar and beef aro unchanged, aud for Indian corn, lead and lard are a shade higher. Exports of wheat Hour inclnded, from both coasts of the I'nited States and from Montreal this week, aggre gate 5,075,21 bushels, compared with o,0il,4Jl bushels last week. 'lhere are 223 business failures re ported throughout tho United States this week, compared xvith 21H last week a year ago; 2t;) two years ago; 241 three yeais ago, and as compared xvith 5533 in the first week of November, 1903. TIIE FEVMIt DYING OCT. The New Orleans Situation Much lletter. Husiness N'oxv improving. There is a big improvement in the yellow fever situation at Xexv Orleans, 'ihe number of cases is comparatively small aud the record of fatalities is con siderably lighter. Many recovering from the disease are reported, and the people are convinced that the backbone of the fever has been broken aud in a very short time the plaguo will be ex terminated altogether. Business is im proving. Total cases of fever to date, l,72t); total deaths, 22; cases uuder treatment. 585. Epidemic Will Soon Be Over. Although some jtortions of the coun try along the Gulf of Mexico have been visited by disease, physicians agree, that the first heavy frost will without doubt kill the germs of the disease aud that the epidemic will be over in a few weeks. Apparently it has not affected the tide of travel to the South, aud al ready many tourists from Xew Eng land aud other sections of the country aro at Old l'oiut Comfort, Virginia Peach aud places iu Carclinas. Tho inecca of Xew England people South ern Pines aud 1'iuehurst promises to have the greatest winter population in the history of this resort. 'I ho Old Bay Lino, xvhich is the principal water route for Northern travelers ou Chsa peako Bay to Old I'oint, Virgiuia Beach aud the other resorts, is carry iug largo numbers of passengers, aud staterooms have to lie reserved iu ad vance oxving to tho crowded condition of the boats. General Weyler to be Court Martlaled Tho Spanish government, as a result of the deliberations of the ministers over the utterances of General Woyler, the former captain general of Cuba, has come to the decision to try him by court martial, uo matter where he laads, if he confirms the accuracy of the press reports of his utterauces. The com manding officers at all tho ports of the Spanish kingdom have been instructed to demand of Geueral Weyler the moment he can be communicated with, the exact terms of the speech which he delivered ifi reply to the manifestation at Havanca upon the occasion of his embarkation for Spain. Winter Schedules for Southern Travel A meeting of the officers of the Penn sylvania road, Richmond, Fredericks burg and Potomac railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio railway. Southern railway, Atlantic Coast Lino, Florida East Coast railway, Florida Central aud Peninsula railroad and Plant system was held iu Washington, D. C, for the purpose of considering schedu'es f t the winter season to the South, 'i here was little or uo change made in the sche lules as uow in effect. Ihe question of extra I Iorida service during the winter reason was the principal point of discussion. FI ft y Thousand New Pensioners. Tho first annual report of the com missioner of pensions, H. Clay Evans, to the secretary of the interior, Las been made pubi c. There were added to the lolls during the year AO. 101 nexv pensioners. The amount disbursed for pensions by the pension agents during the years wa3 130,040,717. 200,000 Squure Feet of Space. Maj. Moses P. Handy, special com missioner from the United States to the I'aris Exposition, which is to bo held in 1100, Las returned. He has secured two hundred thousand square feet of space in the buildings, all the American exhibitors wanted. TOM DIXOV.S CIIOIK STKICK. The ir Leader Was 11 V nl on and 1 hy Didn't Like Loxv. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., tie noted Xew York preacher; Laa been in Xoith Carolina for the last week. He Lad trouble in his church last Sunday morning when Le returned to the city. The chorus choir of the People's Church, of which Le is p'tor, consist ing of about forty singers, refuse I to sing Sunday out of sympathy with Prof. Agramonte, their leader, be cause the pastor on last Sunday advecated the election of Seth Low for mayor. Prof. Arga lnonte is a Cuban and a' member of the junta. His son Las been iu a Spanisu prison ou the island of Cuba for two years. The Cubans fay that Seth Low was opposed to any intervention of this country in Cuban affairs aud has Mood against the cause of Cuban liberty since l tbe outbreak of the last war. .Mr. Uixon, j in his rerinon eaid that Le sympathized with Prot. Agramonte and Lad advo cated tie voting f&r Low last Sunday ' only because he stood the best chance for election against Tammaua. He was I oprosed to Low ptrona)ly. Drought an3 Yellow Fever Mate rially Affected It. THE ATTENDANCE BY WEEKS. The T; ree Days of the Confederate Ke-l'nlon Did Not Hrlng Such a Large Attendance. While the attendance at the Tennes see Ceuteunial exposition did uot leach the figure of 2,000,00 that was pre dicted for it, still, considering the hot. dry summer, xvheu the daily atteud- auce averaged only 7.000 to 8,000 and ' the yellow fever scare that prevailed j during the two mouths that were ex- pectcd to make tho exposition a suc ' ces, aud which unavoidably reduced 'he attend;-.-. bv JM.r . 10 l:,(M( ho resm: ;cmt huble. Had there been no drought and 110 xelloxv fever scoro the cherished object of the Cen ten mat company would undoubtedly beeu attained and that was to accumu late a fund sutiic:e:-.t to purchase the site of tho exposition and give it to Nashville for a public paik. But even as it is, the company succeeded in so luanagii g affairs thai it xv ill be able to pay every dollar of iudchtcdiie;;i. I'.xeu this looked doubtful some weeks back, but the rush of the last x ek was un expectedly great aud the receipts placed the conn any 1:1 a so!eht condi tion. No financial report bus yet lieeu prepared und im official reioi t as to at tendance lia-i vet been ma !c, but tho daily records of the admissions depart ment, unofficially added, show the at -tendance by weeks to be m follows: Sat urdny, M a v 1 20, 3 1 7 Week ending "Max s 4l,.io: Meek ending .Mii'v 1. 41, .VP) Week eudiug May 22 41,151 Week ending May 2 ) 4V1.. Weekending .tune l'.i, 1 :t Week ending June 12 7,livi3 Week e n ting June 10 .'o,o31 Week ending June 20 10d,43; Week ending July 3 iV,H37 Week ending July It) 37,70 Week ending J uly 17 .'tti.S.W Week ending July 21 i,7Vi Week ending July ;:i .'!, h.1 Woek ending August 7 5'.ii,31(; Week eudii.g August 14 .V2,V04 Week ending August 21 42,417 M eek ending August 2 S4 1 Woek ending September 4 1 5,772 Week ending September IL... S2,."10 Week ending September is .'.3.S72 M eek ending Sei teiuber 2") ii l,M2.) M eek ending October 2 .Vl.O.M M eek ending October 0 !'i,203 M eek euding ( Jctober Hi 72,03. M'eek ending October 23 K)7,!i;:ii Week ending V.ober 30. .... P.)",3i7 Total 1,ti2,:ti)1 No record xvas kept of the many thousands t,f soldieis aud people iu car riages who participated iu parades and xvere passed through tho carriage gate, aud for sumo unexplained reasou uo record wits kept of admissions through the terminal station the first two weeks of the exposition. How many these would foot up is problematical and at tempts to fsiimuto xvould lie guess xvork. The yellow fove-r not only fright ened away nmny noitheiu people, bilt made it impossible for many Southern people to attend. Starting out xvith 2',;;17 on the open ing day, this figure xvni not lassed until Juuc 1 Ith, when President Me Kinley visited the exposition. This was Ohio hiy and there xvere 2V213 people on the grounds. Tho three days of the Confederate reunion did not bring outaslargean attendance as was antici pated, being only ID, 13-1, 2,342 and 2't, V.iO. Ou Nashville Jay, September 11th, there xvere 4 1,-ViS, the greatest day of the exposition iipto that time. Ou Nebraska day, October Mb, when Hon. William Jennings Bryan spoke, theto were:5", 002 people prceiit. Director general's day brought out :;3,4 i'.i. The secoud children s day, October 23d, had 2:,331 in attendance, but it remained for October 2sth, John W. Thomas day, to bring out a crowd more than double that of any previous day. there being S!i,7tS2 admissions ou that day. On the lust day of the xposiiion also there was a splendid attendance, -ll.'JOO, the second best of thu season. While tiio exposition company can not buy tho Kite for a park, they have ordered that the Parthenon, the history building and the bringus be left intsct. and ai public sentiment Mrongly favors establishing a public park 011 the bite, there is but little doubt that the grounds xvill be pui chased by the city or by means of privatu mbscriptioi.s, and the company xvill donate all the improvements, "including the vo buildings mo-ntioi.c l. l.OOO Car Loads Produce. The produce, the proouce,: Tho sup ply teams almost inexhaustible. Ship ments were larger last week than ever before. It is estimated that Mt. Airy will t-Lip this season nearly l.OiM) car loads, or more than lo locomotives could pull if the train was all coupled together. 1 hei e ai e twenty live liriim in tins place engaged in buying and shipping produce, and i-xvry man is bu-y homo 'if them about three fourths xvorLed to death. Mt. Airy IN. C. j News. Munitions for Ki-) Wei-t. A special to the Jacksonville, iFla.) Times-UiiK'n und Citizens, from Tam pa, says: Nino carload of munitions passed through here for lty West. It in reported that the New York Herald chartered the steamer Tarpon, but it is believed that the boat has really beii chartered bv thu fi'.ibu tc-r-. What It Cost 1111 Wyck to He Mayor. It co't Mayor-elect Robert A. Van Wyck jut 7", t be e lected. j his snorn statement file. I in tho county clerk's office his -aiupaiga exjnFes were itemized as fo.lows: To J. P. Pott, for i-tationery, i-tumps and steno graphic wrk, .; to William Kuotz. i'A for photographs, and to the "Xa donal Intel'.ig'"i'--er," ?:,0. 7 , for news paper DOtiCfi War Left OieOree-k Destitute. The Britikh Minister to Greece, E. H. Egerton, is distributing clotting l the destitute. Euroj e and America wi.l be aoke 1 t'j iai-e SlOO.O-to with wLich to relieve the di'tic-v. in Greece. Hopes fi Continue Uusiue-s. It is learned that tLe asset of fil arger Bros., the larpe tobacc-j firm which failed ot Mt. Airy, X. C, wi-l bo SloVWO n l liabilit.es 8A0'. I Le firm Lei es to make r ettleiatn and con tinue business, if Lot, 300 people will be thrown out of t-wployioent. (