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if hc Carolina B anncr. kv l)e Carolina Caimt ADYxaTmxa Rates. r. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. HENRY T. KINO Editor. WW fcee. 1 tim. 2tim 1 m.- Siua. Govx 4 0 Oj 7-w 10 j 7 Tmi :o) 1-Jui I Sou Ji V -ii .ii J in l My Hn. 9 in. 8 in. sin. in. Cm. 11 in. 2 In. 73 f 35 1 75 SOU 3 50 550 Vou 1 - 2 u a ti XJ 7 im 4 5tf -, M lUTE.i OF SUB3CBIFTI0S I One copy, one year, " six months, ' ' three month, $1 M 71 44 THE OLD NOBTII STATE FORETEE." "Entered at the PostofiBce at Tarboro, N. C, as second-class matter. VOL. I I Nq 15. TARBORO, N C.v FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1889. 5 Cents Per Copy. w iny -,, 4.Jwr 12 . l5iJ S.-.0 (.) it) i.HQ i I he countries Detween I exas and Cate Horn contain about 65,000,000 people, and their territory is about twice as large as ours. hays the Chicago Newt : "The ladies, of the White House bare been gifted with sensible names, worthy of imita tion in American families. Martha, Mary, Abigail. Eliza, Elizabeth Mar garet, Sarah, Jane, Harriet, Dorothy, Julia, I.etitia, EmiJy, Angelica, Louis, Lucy, Frances and Caroline are all good, womanly names." There was no u?c in allowing Adam, the former, to starve himself to death in Macon, according to the Atlanta Contti-tu'h-i. In Xew York when a prisoner tries that sort of thing they tie his hands behind him, pry open his mouth, intro duce a spoonful of liquid food and hit his throat a gentle tap. His muscles "jiasmo lically relax, his ' throat opens, nd the food is swallowed. This method lever fails. There i-i a cradle in New York, ac cording to ths Detroit Free Preu, that a rocked over 19,000 babies. It be an to rock nineteen years ago, "when he Sisters of Charity started a littll .nndling hospital on Twelfth street, ew York, with f in the treasury. i.ter Irene was at the head of it, as she !s stiil, k wonderful, frail little woman, ivhose gi nius nni devotioR will alwayi ie remembered by those who bare ones eheJd her amonj the babies whom she as. aved and succored. J Kcprcsentative Kilgore, of Texas, the Teat objector, lost h's rote during the at diy of the Fiftieth Congress on the ,'solution giving the House employes a onth's extra prjy. He was being shaved the cloak room when the resolution ime up and aked the barber to hasten is work so that he might record his iegativc, but the "artist" held him until he applause of the beneficiaries told that he resoluion had been adopted. The larber was interested to the extent of o0 and had a substanial object in the Delilah like expedient. f A co operative creamery in the United States is doing a big business, declares the American Agritu'turut, if it utilizer the milk or cream of 2000 cows. Little benrna; k has over 200 such factories that each work up the milk of 5000 to J 6000 cows. The whole milk system, I with separation of the cream by the cen- trifuge, is universally adopted. The J tost of producing uiilk varies from seventy-five cents to $1 per 100 pounds; I 0000 pounds cf milk in one year is much Jabovc the average yield per cow; from I twenty-live to thirty pounds of milk are required to make a pound of butter, and about thirteen pounds or one of f cheese. Colonel J. T. North, who is known as 'the Nitrate King," or "South Ameri can Monte Cristo," is dazzling London by the magnificence of his entertaining, the cost of a fancy-dress ball which he recently gave being estimated at $75,- O00. And yet the Colonel (hia title is new, and wa? acquired through becom ing the head of a volunteer regiment) was thirty years ago a workman in an implement factory at Leeds. He was sent to South America to put up ma chinery for his employers, obtained con trol of vast nitrate beds by gojment concession, and made his millions.' He now lives at a beautiful country place in Kent, England, and is at the head of many money-making ventures. An enterprising ruler is Msidl, the ruler of Sanga, an African province, facetiously observes the Atlanta Chntti tut ion. His is a great kingdom and he is evidently a wise man. The advance of civilization has doubtless furnished to Ssnda some Canada where its boodle al- dermeo can o, for Msidi eyes all officer I with suspicion. He is evidently a gen- ius. Finding himself the happy posses- sor of a vast domain and 500 wives, he has divided the country into districts and ! has placed one of his consorts as rulel I over each. The amount of her pin I money depends upon the amount of revenue she turns into the national I treasury, and no doubt she takes pains to see mat every suoject pays his trib ute. I '1 he correct number of stars on the Cnhed States flag to-day ia thirty -eight, I ind thirty-eight asserts the New York I Timei it will remain until at least the fourthUyof July, 1SDO. North and f South Dakota, Montana, and Washing- ton have not yet been admitted as States rato th? Union, and consequently, they ire not yet entitled to representation on ,jhe flag. They have only been author ized by law to prepare for admission. Their peoples have first to elect dele gates to constitutional conventions, rhese conventions must prepare State Constitution?, and these Constitutions must be. submitted, in October, to the rote of the people, and State officers sleeted. If the Constitutions are then ratified by the popular vote, the Presi dent is required to issue a proclamation innouncing the fact, and then, and then only, will North and South - Dakota, Montana, and Washington become States of the Union. The four stars, hovTr, will not e added to the flag until the fourth day of July next succeeding, such being the provision of the general itatutes of the United States. ALL OVER THE HEWS FE0M EACH SOUTH' i - TATE, to a of Acci- Fanner. Alliance Active-He denta, Eta, Gh SOUTH CAROLINA. The State Convention of he Young Men's Christian Association c nvened at Greenville Thursday. 1 j Judson Pee pies, -who was si ot by John Clay at Barnwell on April 4, died San day. A coroner's jury was impaneled, and the verdict was that he ame to his death by a shot discharged fr am a pistol in the hands of John Clay. j .1 It is stated that a syndicat has been formed with the view of pur chasing all all the undeveloped phosphate lands in South Carolina. Three or four tracts of about 900 acres each, have bsen sold re cently to the combination atj from $60, 000 to $70,000 each. Lower South Carolina is said to contain t iousands of acres of phosphate beds . 1 A meeting of the stockholders of the Charleston Newt and Courier company unanimously elected Major 3 C Hemp hill manager, to fill the vacancy occa sioned by the death of Capt. F. W. Dawson, who was murdered March 12. It is not probable that there will be any further change in the staff of the paper, at least for some time to come. ! "West Keeler, colored, one of the con victs received at the j penitentiary from urecnvuie county, made a break for liberty while working on the canal and was shot by the guard . He had . been convicted of larceny of live stock, and only had one year to serve. The bullet entered the left hip from the rear and made its exit through the right groin. The penitentiary physician j entertains very little hope of nis recovery. The Governor has pardoned Randolph Cook, convicted at the September, 1888, term of court, for Marlborough county of cow' stealing, and sentenced to im prisonment in the penitentiary for one year. The pardon was strongly recom mended by Senator McCalli Col Knox Livingston and other prominent citizens of Marlborough county, and endorsed by the Judge and Solicitor, for the rea son that there is ground fo - the belief that Cook was only guilty i f receiving the stolen property, acd has ll ready been sufficiently punished.' At Leesville the marsha arrested a drunken Irishman and put him in the guard house for safe keepirg. During the night the guard house wjts consumed by fire and the poor unfortunate was roasted alive. The origin of the fire is a mysfery, but it is thought that when the man awoke and found himself con fined he attempted to burn Ms way out. ne is saia to nave been a tea win or ma- ' chine repairer, and his name is supposed . . ... r. 10 do jonn uoyie. ,'ine verdict of the coroner's jury was in accordance with the above facts. 1 - ! VIRGINIA. ' ' . 1. ' A dimculty arose between Cockey amarr ana Bernard DonnellV at Alexan dria, and they settled the puattsr with a pitched battle, Marquis ofiQueensberry rules. 'Squire Cotts. of the town, then settled the sluggers by arresting thein and fining them $15.00 each. Mrs Maria Grasty, wife Of Philip L Gresty, a prominent merchant of Dan ville, took an overdose Wednesday night and was of chloral pound on the floor, in the middle of hfer room, the next morning, where she died during me nigm The sales of revenue stamps at the Danville Custom House for manufac tured tobacco in March were $47,042.67, which is an increase over February sales of $3,005.92. Sales for Vfarch, 1888 were $28,793.20. The incr, ase ia March this year over the same month last vcar is $18,248.56. . . Further reports of damage by the re cent storm show that the loss of oyster vessels on both bay and seaside is much larger than at first supposed, and the loss of life correspondingly greater. Three more bodies were , washed ashore near Cape Charles, one of which was that of Uapt Channock, of Eastville. The Virginia and Kentucky Railroad jo., u o fierce or wyt&eville, presi dent, previously reported i win Duiid a 3 a. . railroad to the Kentucky oiaie nne, a distance of 200 miles, via Stuatt, Wythe- ville and Tazewell C. H Six tunnels will be constructed averagi ng 1,000 feet each. The survey will commence in Mav J C Wrenshall, of Danville, is chief engineer. .1 ... i A fatal wreck occurred on the York River branch of the Richn ond and Dan ville railroad, about two i miles above West Point. The heavy rains of Satur day washed out a culvert and a part of the dam becween the tank pond and the river, and an engine and seven freight cars plunged into the washjut Two men. wiuicu ur&Keman and toe 11 reman, a young jnan named DurviiL were buried uuuer ine cars and killed, named Lynch, was terribl The engineer. scalded, but managed to crawl out. FLORIDA. The Interstate Militarv Demonstration opened in Jacksonville aus piciously. It is reported that a cigar factory employing 200 hands wi be removed from New York to TampsL - ! - it The St. John's and Indian River Canal i . r . sua.. hclu uoat company! nas been or ganized to build a canal ' from the Sr John's river, at or near Lake Harny, to me inaian nver near Aurahtia. The dis tance is about eleven miles, and the es timated cost is about $1,000,000. There is considerable interest in the State over the proposition to' elect Sena tor Call's successor by the Legislature now assembled. Senator! Call's term ex pires on March 4, 189U While the pres ent Legislature ia the last to meet be fore then, another Legislature will be elected in November, 1890, and there will be thirty days interim between Jthe end of Senate r Call's and the regular lamnea i of the Legislature elected in ' TENNESSEE. ) - John L. Hudlburg has been appointed Eistmaster at Knoxville by President arrison. Saturday a negro man stopped with a well known negro farmer of De Kalb county and stayed until Monday morn ing. The farmer saw that his neck was badly skinned and swollen and the ne gro on being questioned closely con fessed that he was Mack Francis who bad been hanged Friday at Lebanon, Tenn. His heart had continued to beat for twenty minutes after hanging when physicians pronounced him dead. Rela tives took charge of the body and, it is skid, resuscitated him. A girl aged 18 years committed suieide at Nashville under distressing circum stances. She had been reclaimed from evil way by the Woman' Christian Union. She was importuned by a man named Hodges to leave a pleasant home in which she had been placed. Hodges seemed to have a wonderful influence over her, and so, sajing that she would rather die than live the life he wanted her to lead, she fired a tistol shot into her heart. The affair created a genuine sensation. Senator Jesse W. Sparks superintended a bonfire on the rapitol grounds at Nash ville. The Senator had his coat off and stirred up a mass of burning papers with a ten foot pole. Thirty-one million dollars worth of bonds and two hundred thousand dollars of old Torbett issue were curling up in the smoke before the eyes of an interested little group. The bonds were of the denomination of fifty dollars, five hundred and One thousand dollars. They had been printed incom pliance with the famous one hundred and three act, to settle the State debt, but the act was declared unconstitution al by the Supreme court, and since then the bonds have been packed in the base ment of the capitol in sixteen large boxes. Twenty-eight plates from which they were printed were also mutilated and sold. This was done by orders of the Legislature. i GEORGIA. The Farmer's Alliance will build a cotton seed oil mill at Madison. The Americus and Montgomery Rail road Company will extend their road to Savannah if $50,000 is gubscribed by the citizens. The offei will be accepted. Atlanta's street railways have been consolidated and are now owned by a stock company of ten of the richest citi zens. Gen James Longstrcet's mansion at Gainesville was destroyed by fire Tues day. All his war relics and souvenirs were consumed. OTHER STATES. The Farmers' Alliance of Alabama proposes to join hands with the Alliance of Georgia in its right against the jute bagging trust. Tney will use i cotton cloth as a covering for their cotton. The Meade County Natural Gas Co. has been incorporated in Kentucky. The authorized capital stock is $1,000, 000. Several more gas companies have also been formed with $1,000,000 capi tal. ' . . NORTH CAROLINA. The negro exodus is more active than heretofore.' Every train carries hundreds away. ; The North Carolina Farmers' Alli ance, representing seventy thousand farmers, will bovcott the Cotton Bagging Trust. Lane & alalnate, of Washington D. C, were the lowest bidders for the masonry work on the area walls of the postoffice at Charlotte . Their bid was $15, 990, which was accepted . In Swain County a 'white man named Sparks was instantly kilUd. He was rolling logs on a flat ear when the tackle gave way and the hook was thrown vio lently against his face, tearing away one side of it, and fracturing his skull, from which death instantly resulted. . Joseph A Creech, of Raleigh, writes to Mayor Gran t of New York, saying he has a fortune of considerable amount awaiting any relative of one H. Nott. deceased, and who is supposed to have beeu in business in that city in 1884, The inspection' of truck farms in New berne section shows that peas and pota toes are not damaged so much by cold as by wind. BuView peas are seriously damaged, but on light lands beans have been-literally uncovered and left bare in some instances. Seed are actually scat tered about the ground. The signal service telegraph cable crossing Oiregan Inlet, was swept away during the recent storm. Telegraphic communications with Cape Hattetas is thus cut off till a new cable shall have been laidf The schooner Lollie, Capt Sharp, is ashore near Kitty Hawk, and will probably be a total losj. The crew was saved. There is quite a lively railway war in progress in Durham. It grows out of a long standing enmity between the Rich mond and Danville and the Seaboard read. The Richmond and Danville have a line right through town. The author ities gave the right of way to the Dur ham and Northern railway, which is run by the Seaboard system. ( This created feeling on part of the friends of the Richmond and Eanville.; A large force began the work of Uying the track of the Durham and Northern road through the town alongside of the 'track of the pichmond and Danville roid. They had laid the track a distanco of four squares when they were arrested by deputy sheriffs, and notice was given that an injunction had' ten applied for. Pine Straw Versus Jute. I Negotiations have just been concluded between the Acme Manufacturing Com pany, of Wilmington, N. C; and out a'de capitalists for the immediate erec tion throughout the pine region of the South of factories for manufacturing pine straw bagging for cotton, and the projectors claim these factories will not be run in the Interest cf any trust, but on business principles for legitimate profits. It is believed by thoae who fairly tested pine straw bagging last season that it will prove a formidable rival of jute baggiag. i session 890. COTTON CULTURE. MISTAKES LH FEBTTLIZIHQ. Where Farmers Err in the Use of Phos phates. Pork at 3 Gents. The ordinary yield of cotton is not sufficient to pay the grower his expenses and the common wages of a laborer. The census reports give the average yield per acre in Georgia as 137 pounds; South Carolina, 140 pounds; Alabama, 180 pounds; and the highest in Louisi ana, 220 pounds. As a bale of 450 pounds per acre is not oscommon with ood farmers, and the best culture pro uces 1,000 pounds, Jt is trident that th lowest yield "must, Jw much . below the average Indeed many' fields pro duce no more than fifty pounds per acre, and some wretched patches may be found, without going far to find them, upon which as little as fifteen to twenty-fivs pounds per acre only is crown. What a vste of labor and of land,and of pos sible wealth to the community 1 Cotton is a crop that exhaust the land and requires a rich soil or a well manured one to yield its best, and its beat, as yet, no one knows; but 1,500 Eounds of lint per acre has been crown y a well known farmer in Georgia. It requires nitt ogen and phosphoric acid, but it gets only the latter, which alone is useless for the crop as food would be to a man without water. Plants must have every element they require, or they cannot grow, and the rule among the cotton planters Is to use "phosphate" only. This results in a starved crop and loss of labor. It ha3 bten found that stable cr yard manure, or such compost in which this forms a art, w the best food for the cotton plant, and the be3t place to put this food is in the rows where the seed is planted. A good compost is made of pen or yard manure, black soil from the woods, or a swamp, or from ditches, with cotton seed and phosphate. Only the cheapest fertili zers can be used for this crop, on ac count of its low price, and the cheapest is made at home. Southern farmers waste millions of dollars worth of ma nure every year by turning their cattle out in the woods and leaving their hogs to run on the roads Pork could be made in the South for three cents a pound by feeding corn, sweet potatoes, peas and bran, but millions of pounds are purchased at ten to fifteen cents a Eound. And all the manure which the ogs would make if kept up and fed would be worth as much for the cotton crop as all the "phosphate" which is bought. - To produce profitable crops of cotton a thorough change is needed. Long ago Southern farmers were told of the benefits of diversified crops ; of growing clover, grass, peas and other fodder crops and breeding stock and making manure; and now we urge a better culture of the leading Southern crop, not that twice as much cotton may be grown on one-third of the land at a third of the cost for the culture, and the spare land be into corn, peas, millet and clover, and then the clover turned un der for cotton. A rotation of crops is indispensable for profitable culture of the soil, and under this system an ex cellent rotation would come in. One fn ".Viliai a afl on1 ; i the South says he is not going to stop uniu ne grows nve bales of cotton to the acre. He has grown three bales and will grow five beyond a doubt, and we dare say he will not stop trying for more, even then. THE REIGN OF LIQUOR Which Has Opened Up in the Capital of Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., did not have a fire Wednesday nor a riot, but strangers who did not understand the situation thought that Hades was to pay. The trouble, or rather the occasion, for there was no trouble, was the opening of the first saloon after the two years reign of pro hibition. It was known that the city authorities would grant license to he" Lawrence house, and a crowd gath ered in front of the saloon, pressing and squeezing each other in the manner of voters, waiting for the polls to open. All sorts, kinds, and conditions of the city's population were anxiously wait ing to TAKE SUGAB IN TETKIR'N. Finally the proprietor telephoned from the' city hall : . "It Is all right, Pete, let her go." The doors swung open and scores of men who hadn't had a drink on the square, open and above board style, for two long, dreary and desolate vears, faced the counter and named their "piren "with the alacrity of men who held win ning lottery tickets." THE GOOD JTEWS SPREAD ! Like a prairie on fire, and the thirsty dropped work and speedily betook themselves to the spot where the lager flowed and the red liquor bnbbled. The colored people especially regarded it as a new emancipation and the dawning of a new era, and were on hand to the ex tent that their cash would allow. Nearly everything was full and the only apparent danger was that the saloon keepers, who have just PAID $2,000 LICE2CSE, i Will start gunning for the blind tigers which have "on the quiet," dispensed the vilest liquors extant since th town has been dry. Four licenses at $2,000 j "civ grauica, ine amount equally divid ed between the state and the city. Ex-Ha jor of Gtiarleston Goes to Alabama Wm A- Coorteniy, Ex-Mayor of Charleston, and one of South Carolina's moat distinguished citizens, has been elected president of the Bessemer Land Company, and will in future reside at Bessemer, Ala. Mr Courtenay is one of the trustees of the Peabody fund, and was Mayor of Charleston for eight years, including the memorable earthquake pt-ri-riod, when he became known to the whole country. He is a valuable acquisition to the rapidly developiesr mineral districts I of Alabama. ! IT STILL CONTINUES. The Industrial Development Throughout the South Still in Progress. Among other enterprises reported by the Manufacturer's Record for the week are a $200,000 coal and coke company at Birmingham; rolling mill and pottery works at Fort Payne ; the purchase of 300,000 acres of Alabama coal land by New England capitalists; $1,0C0,000 coal and mining company in Arkansas; six cotton seed oil mills, thiee of them to be very large, oue at Baton Rouge, La., one at Charlotte, N. C, and one at Houston, Texas ; a $1,500,000 furniture factory company at AshevUIe, N. C. ; a $15,000 furniture company at Lenoir, N. C. ; a 5.000 spindle cotton mill at Con cord, N C, where a $300,000 cotton fac tory and a $1,000,000 cotton bag factory were reported last -week; a cotton mill at Laurens, & C." In every part of the South this -remarkable activity is seen, and every day adds to the list of enter prises which are destined to aid so im measurably to the wealth of this whole section. V predict fur the Xao South an era of prosperity which shall eclipse any which lias ever been achieted in any other taction of our great country so remarkable for its succei&cs in that 7n," sajs Hon. Henry B. Pierce, Sicretary of State of Massa chusetts. PROMINENT PEOPLE The Duchess of Cambridge is dead. The Prince of Wales wears green kids. The Queen of Greece is a clever artist. Kx-Kinq Milan wears a steel undershirt. The Princess of Wales is forty-four years old. John G. WinmEn, the poet, is eighty four. The Queen Dowager of Bavaria is dying ol dropsy. Tax Empress of Austria suffers from in somnia. The Duke of Westminster is worth $80, 000,000. Cardinal Manning's health is daily im proving. - Ex-Senator Warner Miller is worts $5,000,000. - Armour, the Chicago butcher, is "worth $23,000,000. Evangelist Moodt is conducting a revival in Chicago. Senator Berry, of Missouri, began life as a plowboy. General Rcssell A. Alger, of Detroit, is worth $5,000,000. The freedom of Edinburgh has been ten dered to Mr. Parnell. Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is rated as high as $20,000,000. Lieutenant-Governor Chase, of Indiana, hi conducting revival meetings in Covington, Neal Dow, the Prohibitionist, has been appointed a Commissioner for Maine to tkxm Paris Exposition. It is said that Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New York city, receives an offer of marriage nearly every day in the year. Allen Thorndiki Rice, Minister to Rus sia, was kidnapped at the tender ago of eight years and carried off to Europe. United States Senator Stanford and Mrs. Stanford, and Justice and Mrs. Field will presently set out for Alaska. The Right Honorable William Henry Smith, First ''Lord of the Treasury, is about to be raised to the British peerage. Ex-President Cleveland caught a ninety-four pound tarpon in LaconhatcheeCreek, In the Indian River region of Florida. Ex-Attornev-General Garland has hung out hia shingle, and will spend the rest of his days in Washington practicing law. Colonel Washburn, the new Minister to Switzerland, is not only said to be the hand somest man in Massachusetts, but he is some thing of a poet as well. The widow of General Grant will accom pany her son, Colorel F. D. Grant, to Aus tria, when he goesTfrere as United States Minister. General William S. Harney, the fa-f mous Indian fighter, is living at Jackson ville, Fla... and possesses good health, al though eighty-nine years old. Misses Hattie Blaine, Florence Win dom, Miss Miller and Miss Proctor will be the cabinet families' contribution to the Washington debutantes next winter. One of the most successful lawyers at At lanta, Ga., is Charles H. J. Taylor, a colored: man, who began life as a bootblack. He for merly practised law in Boston. Corporal Tanner, the new Commissioner of Pensions, entered the Union army when only seventeen years old. He lost both ot his legs at the second battle of Bull Run. Senator Berry, of Arkansas, was a sol dier in the Confederate army at the tender age of sixteen. He lost a leg at Shiloh, and: after the war became a school teacher in Carroll County, Ark. Governor Biggs, of Delaware, owns a dozen peach farms, is heavily interested in sereral railroads, and is the possessor ol wealth in other forms. He does not show this in his dress, however, for he wears a swallow-tail coat, low-cut vest, and wide, trousers, all of the style of forty years ago, while a high white hat covers his head. A Centenarian Dead. M. Michel Eugene CherreuL the distin guished French chemist, has just died in Paris at the age of 103. He was born at Angers, August 31, 17b6. He was educated in the schools of that place. In 1910 be was ap pointed a professor of chemistry in the Lycee Charlemagne. He was awarded in 1823 a prise of $2400 for an eneay of animal oils. He succeeded his old matter Vauquelin in the chair of chemistry at the Museum of Natural History in 1S10. Ho was made commander of the LtgKn of Honor in lti. He was the author of many works on scientific snbjecta. In 18fe6 the centenary of his birth was cele brated in Paris. Almost to the last ho was a devoted stu dent, and Lis intellect and memory were both nninapaired by advancing years. His vitality was amazing, and be betrayed the liveliest interest in all current affairs of the day. His daily life was one of extreme sim plicity and rigid regularity. Of late years be was only out of bed for a few hours daily, but this w only a matter of precaatiacL He pursued his rtodlee in his bedroom, and re ceived bis friends, with whom be discussed chemistry and colors, with vmfning nlrris tica. It may be interesting to know that he never drank, never mnken, and . never ate fish or drank milk except when mixed with other food. Hi regular diet was of strong; or caueta, ana canoe. Portsmouth Island Submerged. During the recent gale Portsmouth, a narrow island near Ocracoke Inlet, N. C, was snbmergtd. drowning cattle, sheep and hogs. The water rote to many feet I n't he houses, and there was frreai de struction of property. The inhabitants took to the housetops, remaining there until the storm was over. Great suffer ing was experienced, but no lives were lost. NORTH AND WEST. NEWSY ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH. Being A Condensation of tie Princioa Hc peainga in Different States 1i"x-ral Charles Kkvuih - . ' vitAHAH, of .the United States Army, died of paeu moma, at meiaura nuuw. laKewood. N. J aged sixty-five. The Conshohockea Worsted Company, of Philadelphia, has made an assignment The company operates three mills and the monthly pay-roil amounted to about $35,000 Liabilities $900,000. Mrs. Rummage, of PitUtou, Pena., over coma by grief, committed suicide by jump ing into a reservoir. Her son committed sui- ride a year ago, and her husband was. killed by lightning last September. CHARLES F. Hatch, President of the Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railway Company, and P. E. Lockwood, a real estate dealer and capitalist, formerly of New York, both committed suicide in Minneapolis, Minn. The Governor of South Carolina has granted a full pardon to two colored lynchers convicted of murder, his ground being that they had simply followed the example of white men, who had never been punished. David Lindsay, a farmer over sixty years old, living near Ann Arbor, Mich., shot and killed his adult son in a drunken quarrel. Gtrs Sunderland, a colored boy, living at Mosely, S. C, was left by bis mother to take care of a younger brother, and getting tired of the job, put a' rope around the baby 's neck and hung it to the rafter of the house. The child was dead when found. A cyclone 6wcpt over Montgomery, County, Ala. Two men were instantly killed by lightning and several others were shocked and seriously injured. Houses were blown down and damage done to young corn and cotton crops. A terrible forest fire in Patrick County, Va., swept everything before it. One man, six torses, a large number of hogs and cattle, and about 200 dwellings and tobacco barns were consumed. Many poor people are left in a destitute condition. Attorney-General Miller presented to the Supreme Court the resolutions of the Bar on the death of Justice Matthews and made an appropriate speech, to which Chief Justice Fuller replied, an-i the resolutions were spread upon the records. Rear Admiral William Rogers Tay lor, United States Navy, retired, died in Washington. He was born at Newport, R. I., November 7, 1811, and entered the navy as a midshipman in 1838. The Chinese Minister gave a gorgeous spread at Washington to the Cabinet and a host of high officials. A magnificent display of roses was one of the features of the banquet. President Harrison, accompanied by Mrs. Harrison and her guest. Miss Murphy, of Minneapolis, and Secretaries Blaine and Windom, went down the Potomac for a day's ride on the lighthouse tender Holly. The little vessel sttamed for a distance of about forty miles, and then returned to the wharf, which vras reached about six o'clock. Before leaving the President received the Chicago and All America baseball clubs in the East Room. John Albert Bright, the candidate of the Liberal Unionists, was elected to succeed his father, the late John Bright, as represen tative of Birmingham in Parliaments Mr. Bright received 5610 votes, against 2560 votes for William C Beale, the Oladstonian candi date. Gabriel DcmoXt, the late leader in the Riel rebellion in the Northwest Territory, has arrived again on the scene of the 1885 I battles, and is addressin meetings of half-breeds, urging them to press their grievances upon the Canadian Government. Ar Ruatan, Jamaica, West Indies, the Rev. Henry Hobson, bis wife and her companion, a young girl, all natives of Jamaica, were murdered by Joseph Bures. Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, laid before the House the budget for the coming financial year. It shows a deficit of $10,000,000. This Mr. Goschen pro poses to fill up by an increase of the death duties and a slight increase in the duty on beer. Cocnt Hcrbebt Bisxarcx and Councilor Exanel win be German delegates to the S&moaz) Conferenc!. There has been marked decadence in the stove industry at Albany, and it is likely that the business will leave that city entirely. A QCEXR drowning accident is reported at Fish kill Landing. The youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. McCalL a boy four years old, reached down to get a drink of water tram a tub and fell in. Two mtnotes later his life less body was drawn from the tub by his aunt. The child apparently did not make a ctrugglc. Locra L. Robbtxh, of Nyack, has been ap pointed Superintendent of the ip Ware house at New York city. Mr. Robbins was recommended by Senator Hiscock. He is one of Xyack's oldest and most favorably known rewidenta, being for nany years a member of the Produce Exchange there. GovxaxoB Hill has signed Mr. Hamil ton's bilL giving the consent of the State of New York to the purchase by the United States of land in New York city for the pur pose of an appraiser's warehouse and other awi George BLnsrxnr, proprietor of th Courier ot Buffalo, has been Lodkrted for libel on complaint of Penitentiary Sopsrin tendent Stickney. The following postmasters wre appointed in New York State: Acre, John 8. Aides; Arena, Daniel A, Fletcher; Argnvilla, Har vey Ikilinger; Carlisle, Peter W. Becker; East Windham, Anable Butts; Esperanca, Avery Braxee; Factoryrille, D. H. Eaton; Howe's Cave, Charles H Ramsey; Banter's Land, Frances E. Snyder; Hyndsvilla, Clark P. Bouton; Jefferson, Charles B. HobUH;' Lexington, Ed. Palmer; Somsoit, Thomas H Fen-neon: Tannerrrille. William. B. Elba. A expknMoo of gas occurreJ.in the Grant Tunnel mine at Nanttcoke, Phnn., causing the instant death of Charles. Hogas, a fire boas, and Evan Maddte, ponqnmner. t. NEWS WINN0WIN Important Happeaiag QU-eJ Late Disjaulfi Trosi Elkson HatfMd, ajmim ealUl FOlia Mounts, one of the participants in the Hat-fieU-McCoy feud. Who t, in th Pik. County Jail in Kentucky, ha mad confk, to State Attorney Fth, -I was present," he said, -nd participate in the murder of the thivo McCoy The brother, were taken from a in Lopan County. W. Va , wfaer tbcv had been guarded for a dsv and m?ht, iwi brought over to the Tug Mivr, m hch pv rates A est Virginia and Kentucky "About fifty feet from the nver Crretr tied them to a paw-paw buh and huns a Ua te.ov"' their heads. Bad Anse HatlUKl th-a saidtothem: 'Bon, if you have an t i-- i.. rnaf with your Maker vou had better oW, 5" -f 1 nd RndoiP- bean prs vuu, t.a . farmer did not Howr,UsforetbeThd tune to finish their pravcrs John l!atnk! shot Farmer dad. Anse tb.n rave h order to fire, and shot as ho gave th- m on! killing Talbot, and then emptvinr th- contents of . his revolver into th dead body. Alexander Maer f.r-t and killed Randolph McCoy. The others fal lowed suit, and all the bodios were riddied ith ballets. After the bo vs were kiJd Wall Hatfield administered an oath to all cf u binding us to take the life of th flrt ho divulged th name of any who were alnn.- '' Captain Hatfield said that h aivl T.mi Wallace shot Jeff McCoy after ho ha 1 es caped from them. The prisoner al jrat the particulars of the brutal murder of Allv phare and Calvin McCoy, In which he t-.mk part. Nine of the Hatfield fai-tiu, on n Sunday night in January, 1nh, mftx-d the river into Kentutkv undr the command of Jim Vance. "They sur rounded the McCoy homestead, lired t;, house and killed the girl as she stoud in t in door begging for her life. Can and Jou Hatfield both asserted that they killed Calvin McCoy, and bragged about it. The World's Conference or Mormonx The World's Conference of Latter Day Saints, which has been held at St Josepli, Mo., was the largest as-embly of Moruii representatives ever held in this country. The preliminary proceedings were atteuUed by over 500 delegates. No regular proceed ings were held on the first day but informal gatherings discussed various matter to be considered during tho week. There are ovr 1000 ot them i.j the city, England having a stronger rej.i e entation than any other foreign country ex cept Canada. Australia had eight repre sentatives. Much -interest i manifevted lu the affairs of the Mbrmon Church in IJtan . The Statehood claims of the Territory v. ill be put in shaje for presentatitin U Cousr. at Washington. A communication from I'm Mormon General Conference in w-.j.n nt Salt Lake arrived by mail and wu reni The report of the church recorder v.iotv that there are over 'Jrt,()(K members of th church, a gain of 14S5 in th la-ft y: There were 1165 removal! mi l expuNioa. Elder G. T. Griffith reiortd thht miir aries in Virginia had met vigorous opKs' tiou, and had been threatened with jm r violence on account of the erroneous belief, that the Latter Day Saints were poly gam ls,U. How Natives HaiTHsetl Stanley! Henry M, Stanley ' letter to the Royal ( jrraphical Society was read at a meUuir of that body in London. The letter -ousi-t- mainly of a repetition of what baa already been published. He describe at length tim various devices by which the native endeavored to prevent the ad vance of the -pedition. One of them tai to dig shallow pits across the path of the column and liii them with skewers, which were Mtly cov ered with leaves. The Bkewers pierced the feet of Stanley' men, inflicting wounds that in many cav developed into gangrenous sore Tho men who were lamed in this manner fr k-J-dom of further service. Mr. Stanley calla tb native "cunnui rogues," and says that for pun- of ex tortion they always pretended that th coun try was suffering from a fafiim-. The '-friend lies," h saya, withheld information, but the native wh were captured by th pedition im parted all they 4knew. Mr .Stanley b-hve that the lake he discovered in 170 M';j;r U the Congo. ' " A Town in Ashe. Almost the entire, town of SmitLfU. i i Johnston County, N. C, con.wrnl Lv fire. The only buildings which remain in ine are the County Court House and jad sr.d a Tew dwellings. Every store in the town am 1 many dwelling were .burned. The fir originated about 1 o'clock r. h. tvd n t hours the town wat in ahe The wind was raging at a terrific rats and the flames swept over the town like a burr. cane. There was no flr d"partraent Vj nt.: the flames and the peopl were yw-w- to resist the devouring ' total loss U estimated at upward ' J100,000. Much of the property rn Imur-i The fire originated in the carriage f actor of S. R. J. R. Morgan. It origin w though:. : - have been accidental. , - Hamburg's Horror, f The body of a boy named Ht-uat found at an early boor In the iwvn'uz ' ' a road near Hamburg. Germany. Tiv iy throat had been cut and hut aMwi.-i ripped open and his entrails removed Tbf body was otherwise fchorkingly m-Ail. It bad evidently laid in the road throughout the night. , . S Immediately upon the hjcovry or a. murder parties of hussars wen -t out to scour the surrounding country. Oue of tb parties surprised the murderer, bat hi u deeded In effecting bis escape. 1 ALVatb Strnle In 3fld-Strcam f r u.rv.u mnA Jr.hn Ht haA lrr. Government employe working on the luv-r Improvement Gwnmfcwoo. uarreied m a fTTi.il gidff in the mvili of tn nvr opposite St, LouU. Mo. The rhnched. and a terriUe itruggle foikr- McDonald proved the nvm terf uL a l finally threw Schneidtr headlong mu t. river. McDonald rower! a&hore, and nl Schneider to drown. yr A Tornado In the Northwest. Word has b-n rvM at I? tornado that struck a settktrst on l u" Lake, Northwest Territory. It pf reth' thirty yard wide throosh the Uu.T. tirtnz tree up by the root. twrmJ WHitSrns were tiown down, and k carried fifty yards. T'ZIZLT ported. Prsirte fires rwtpt a larje area north of Rcgma. A nrmarkable freight wrtck otcurrl c:i the Cairo Short Uc two frwa ville. 111., the other momtng- A ira-l train was running toward Ueiievili. Tt tr- was clear ahtad, U sttddrtdr. aav warning, the road -bl t-gan W wax, al the engmer &nd fireman Uvt tt-m. rapidly droppus bew th urf cf .a orrottnding crmtry, Tfcry )V ' few IrflMi The engin lfn, 1 down a distance of ten ft '- 5, , wreck f oUowed. Tl wff L' . were nirmiM -j , . aouo a the tnzhti trammea rvuii rw r SSwnts, th?y leari that over Marsh i tal tarn-, . Jr" bad caved it. Along the tratk f r a jt 10O tmit the road bad unk from .'tt t- Sa feet. Two brJt-a. to "t with the wreck, were Tioesiy hurt. A French cook in ew lo k has dc- -:.A m nv diih cerfumed e 3
The Carolina Banner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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