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T fj IT IS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION I —THAT— JOURNAL tOVERTiSEMENTS PAY! BUT AN Ascertained Certain A WEEKLY PAPER THAT REACHES tAe .iOMES WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. VOL. I. NO. 6. ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1898. PRICE 2 CENT8. THE - JOURNAL - LEADS IN PRICE, ’ IN NEWS, IN CIRCULATION, IN ADVERTISING, IN LIVE ISSUES, IN UP-TO-DATE JOURNALISM. E The Strange Will of an Aged New Yorker and Officerof the Church. CHRISTIANITY, SO < CALLED, He Says, Is Not the Kcllglon ot ChrIsf:-.-it Puts an Unknown, Imag inary Bciiis in tlie Place of Nature. One of the most remarkable wills ever filed in the office of the surrogate that r.f Henrv ^Tovg- aouseT^W^ offered for probate on the 4th. In spite of the fact that Jlr. Xabor was president and treasurer of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian church, ill the openine; clauses of h:’fl will he denounces all reliarion as shaw, and as having its origin in superstition. He requested that no services be held over his body and that he be cremated. Mr. Taber died on Ohristmas eve, at the age of 73 years. Two children, Sid ney Kichmond Taber and Mary Taber, survive the testator, and to them the entire estate, valued at over $1,000,000, is feiveu absolutely. The will is in the hand-writing of the testator, and con tains the following: “Believing that all religions, including Ch.i*istianity, are superstitions; tliat the basic doctrines of the^ Christian religion, the fall of man, is utterly and absolutely false, and that its opposite, the rise of man from the lower orders, is a scientitio fact; that beliefs in (so-called) miraeles are hallucinations of the brain, and without existence; that the chief char- acteristic'of what is termed ‘the Vv'ord of God’ are injustice, cruelty, untruth fulness and obscenity; tliat the ef fect of orthodox Christian teachings is to encourage ignorance, selfishness, narrow mindedness, acrimoriousness, intolerance, wrong and mental slavery; that Christianity, so-called, is not the religion of Christ; that it supplants ethical culture and true morality with meaningless theology and unbelievable dogmos; that it puts an unknown (and probably unknowable) imaginary be ing in the place of nature; that it gives a name of personality to evil—an equally unknown an imaginary being; that it so works upon the credulity of its adherents as to invito in them a fear of that most horrible of doctrines, eternal punishment, (T say, believing all these) I, in ail kindness and in all earnestness, request that over my re mains there be no religious services of any kind, nature, or flesoription what ever. also request that my bodj^ be cremated at Fresh Pond or other*^ cre- ji^torvi aad that mv ashes be I left tlfere. i ' f ' GOLD OK FOUR STATKS Cliarlotle Oilioe Assayed $24:8,580 ot tlie ^Ictal DurJxif? the Past Y«ear, Tt would seem from the figures gpven by the assay ufiice located in Charlotte, N, C., saj's the Newi5, that gold ' mining in'<he South for the past year has been a profitable business. From the States of North Carolina, S'outh Carolina, Georgia and Alabama the bullion gold that has passed through this office reaches the enor mous? sum of $247,237. Included in this bullion was silver to the amount of 31,349, making a‘total o£ j?;248,580. In addition to this, old jewelry to the amount of 319 haa been bought and foreign coins io the amount of $114. Making the grand total of $S51,- G20.73. ^ Of course it will- be understood that this does not cover the entire amount of gold taken from the earth in the four States named above. Several of the mines in Iheso States do not ship their gold to this office, therefore it would be a difficult matter to ascertain Ihe exact amount of the South’s output of gold. King’s 3Iountaln*CoaI. King’s Mounlain, N. C., people are somewhat agitated over the receut dis covery of coal near that place, and unless experts are very much mistaken, they will be i)idependent of the coal mines of other States. An anal^-sis of samples f:ent to a government expert f hows 05 per cent, carbon. He pro nounces it a fine sample of anthracite coal. The monitor Amphitrite has arrived at Port lioyal, S. C., and will be used as a gunnery practice ship. A Crazy Plan’s Awful Deed. A Bristol, Tenn., special totheNash- vjlle (Tenn.) Ba.gner, says: “In a fit ^ insanitj^ AlS-ander Carter, a white citizen of Greenville, killed his wife and 13-year-old daughter, Montie, Avhile they slept, and ^hen shot and killed himself. Carter brained his wife and daughter with an a-se. He is said to have been mentally unbalanced for sometime.” When Shakspeare w’rote^: *'Farew'eI5 the neighing steed,” he was not think ing of the displacing bicycle, but hia prophetic spirit could not better have foretold the decision of many an en thusiastic wheelman. DOWN, DOWN TIiKY GO. I'he Promised Keduction of Wages Takes Kllect. At Fall Kiver, Mass., on the 3d, the new wage schedule, 111-0 per cent, be low that of the past three years, went into efiect in the mills of that cit3\ At Salem, in the plant of the Naumkeag steam cotton mills tlie reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages went into oflect also. About 1,300 emploj^es are af fected. Operatives in the Amoskeag corpora tion, at Manchester, N. ,H., began work on a 10 I’er cent, reduction iu wages. At the Star and Armory ]ui!la the reduction Avill not go into efiect un til the 10th. Notices of reduction of wages wa^^ sent to the cotton mills of fhoGoddard, Icni^'lxto, Lipi>itts Liiiil. those orerat-Kl by the smaller corporations in Khodt* Island and have been posted or will V>e in a day or two. The operatives will offer no resistance to the reduction in this State. ihe agents of all the cotton mills in Lewiston and AxTburn, Mo., have re ceived directions to make a general re duction in Avages on and after the 17th. Notices in accordance Avith these in structions have been posted. Thitre Will Bo Some Hcsistancc. The weavers of New Bedford, Mass., mean to make a stand no less decided than the spinners, and the operativeR are almost unanimous in favor of a firm resistance to the proposed reduction ot wages, and at the same time a strike against the fining system, A deputa- tion has been ai)pointed to go to Fall River for a conference with the Fail Kiver otficials. The committee will en deavor to secure the }>ledge of the Fail Eiver unions to .strike as soon as the New Bedford strike begins. It was- voted also to send out communications to all centres of the textile trade in Iht; North soliciting financial support and proposing the sameaction as that which the committee ■will suggest to the Fail Kiver help. No Cut in the South. The cotton mills in the South will not cut wages as has been stated. Col, D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. 0., i the best authority on the^Southern mill situation has given out the following signed statement: “The trouble in New England is dut to a depressed condition of the cottoi^ manufacturing interests of the United States more than to Southern competi tion. “While the South has some advan tages, so also has New England some very material advantages, as, for exam ple, capital, varied expeiience, exten sive knowledge, much skill, etc. Thorc- is no occasion for fretful controversy between N.ew England and the South. There is great need at this time for tht two sections to co-operate for the]>etter* manufacturing interests \ of both sections, “One of the chief advantages the Southern mills have is that the owners know how, and are content to, live on leas money. The real competition now is whether the United States on the one hand or England and Germany shall furnish the world with cotton goods. In this competition New Eng land and the South must work together and it will require the best efforts of both to extend our trade to where the markets will take our goods. “An improvement in our domestic trade can, in my opinion, be made by proper reform in our currency system. Our foreigen trade can be extended by laws fostering American shipping. Until trade is improved by these or other means there is no chance to raise in Southern cotton mills. When these improvements are accomplished there will be ami)le room for wages to the operatives and fair profits to the owijor? in Southern and Northern cottoii iuills alike. ’’ In the last thirty years 500,000 di vorces have been granted iu the United States. For the nineteen yeai*s, from 1SG7 to 188G, statistics show that the divorce high-water mark belongs to those who have been married four years. Beginning with the one-year married pepple, the total is, roundly, 15.000. For the four years married, the .total mounts up nearly double—27,000. Then it slides ofC. But until the figures for those who haA’^e been married nine years are reached, the one-year figure Is not touched. It decreases steadily until the tw’'euty-3'ear married number 4.000. Those Avho have been married twenty-one years are lumped ■with those Avho have been married a longer time, and still find it necessary to dis solve the bonds that unite, and the lenormous tot{U of 25,060 is reached. Ev idently compatibility need not increase ■as the years fly by. In this.class, how ever, a reversal of “endu’*uncb” iigures is shown, for the average duration of married life for the husbands is 47.47. while for the wives it is only 2G.70. W’hile, divorce aside, the average du ration of married life is from tAven-ty- two to twenty-six years, the average duration of maiTied life to the divorced is only 9.17 years, being 0.27 for the wife and 8.07 for the husband. Thia difference between husband and Avifo suggests that the w^eaker sex really is the stronger in bearing the woes of the married. WOODS AND TRUE. WOOD’S SEEDS are specially grown and selected to meet the needs and requirements of Southern Growers, Wood^s Descriptive Catalc^ue is most valu able and helpful in giving cultural directions and valuable information about all seeds specially adapted to the South, VEQETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS, Qrass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats and all Garden and Farm Seeds. Write for Descriptive Catalogue. Mailed free. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - - RICHMOND, VA. THE LARGEST SEED HOUSE IN THE SOUTH, V'> I. Relates Some Tough Experiences on Christmas Day. SMART BOY WITH TIN HORN. Horrified Him While on a Train at Vicksburg--Tlie Dearth of Drinking Water Causes Distress. It was a long race and a hard one—a race against time and Santa Claus, for r had promised to be at home on Christ mas eve to prieside at the Christmas' tree, but I failed, I Aivas 800 miles uway in Texas and could have made it, but our train Avas belated and did not con nect, and I had to spend a long, long weary day in Shreveport. There is only one train a day from there to Me ridian, and I was sick and lonesome and longed for the rest and comfort of home and kindred. Eight days iu Texas and never saAv the sun. It rained or it sleeted every day. But they told me they had a sun sometimes and in vited me come back in August. Everything was out of joint. All my travel, from town to town was by night in broken doses, for the trains were never on time and I had to sit up and nod in cold depots from one to three hours at almost every de parture, and at the very laet, when my hopes -were buoyant and I was home ward bound, I went to the depot at Nacagooches at 3 o’clock in a cold rainy night and the train never got there until 0, I knew then that we would be left, but the conductor said they would wait for us. He Avas a hilarous individ ual. A friend introduced me to him as Bill Arp. “Bill Avho!” said he. “Bill Arp, you have read after him, Ireckon.” *‘Yes,” said he, “I have, and he don’t cut no figure with me.” Of course I was mortified. He passed on, j^ut came back in a minute and said to my friend, ‘ ‘I don’t take any stock in these infidels. I-wasent raised that Avay. I believe there is a heaven and a hell and Bob Ingersoll nor Bill Arp can’t fool me about it. ” My friend was mortified and aaid: “What has Bill Arp got to do with Bob Ingersoll?” “Well,” &=aid the con ductor, “I’ve been told that they are the same man, and they don’t cut any figure with me. ” He hurried on aud told another man that he reckoned I was Bob Ingersoll, for if I wasent I would have hit him, for said he, ‘ ‘I would hit any man Avho called me Bob Ingersoll. ” Of course I was not calm and sereue, for Avhile going from Vicksburg to MonVoe on my outward trip a man askeiH^me where I preachec^^nd preaSers going to the synod and he supposed I Avas one of them. And again I Avas mistaken for a preacher at Jacksonville by the ^rber. I gave him a quarter and he w’as about to hand me back 15 cents and said, “You are a preacher, ain’t you?” “No,” said I, ‘ ‘what made you think I was a preacher?” “You look like one,’* said he, aud he took back the nickel. So you see I W’as comforting myself on m3' reverend appearance, when all of a sudden I was openly snubbed for being an infidel. But my greatest misfortune in losing ft day Avas in having to travel on Christ mas eve and night. All along the line the boys Avere on a spree and by the time we reached Vicksburg Mr. Chap man, the conductor, was tired out. He is a patient, considerate man and I sympathized Avith his efforts to keep the peace. We parted company at yickbburg and he remarked that it was tli^ hardest day’s work he had had in yeltfs, SBen came the tug of war. Christmas eve and night at Vicksburg and on to Meridian Avas pandemonium. The ne groes SAvarmed in at both ends of the car—at least a hundred, and nearly all were drunk and had bottles and Jugs without number. They were from the neighboring country and had been “away doAvn to Vicksburg town” to get supplies for Christmas. About a dozen of "us found ourselves suddenly penned in the middle of the car by the odorifer ous compound and resolved to make a break for liberty and fresh air. One big bold man said ho would make a way and we must folloAV, and we did. We seized our grips and got out some how. The next car Avas full, too, and so we skipped round to the ladies’ car and took refuge aud standing room onlv, for it was crowded to overflowing ■witK women and children and Christ mas doings of all kinds. Doll carriages and boys’ wagons and boxes and paper Backs and toys and tin horns and bas kets full of all sorts of tricks and presents. One whole seat Avas occupied Avith an express w^qn and it was . full of bananas. Small boys were tooting horns all along the line—toot! toott—toot! toot! “Stop that, Bob,” said a fond parent, stop it!” Bob stopped a moment, till the lon^ parent resumed his conversation with a friend. Then he began, Icrn^ and soft, but soon got louder and loud er. “Bob I told you to stop that racket, if you don’t I aviII throw that hox^n out of the Avindow. ” Bob stopped about tAvo minutes and Avhispered to his mother that thp window wasent up. She, too, Avas talking to a friend. Toot! toot!” I heard the horn—a kind of pianissimo staccato, but it soon swelled into a tumultuoBo furissimo fortissimo, when suddenly the fond parent seizedit aud stuck it in his overcoat pocket. They got off at'the next station and their seats Avere taken before I could say Jack Eobinson. By and by enough had got off for me to get a corner next to a hot stove. It was close by the wa ter tank, but there w’as no water. It was empty Avhen we left Vicksburg and stayed empty. Every minute or two «ome woman or child or man came and Avorked on that faucet in A’ain. Then the men took the top off and reached down for Avater, but found none. The porter passed through and his attention was called to it, but he made no sign and broirght no water. Children began to cry for it, and I Avould have given half a dollar for a bucket full for them, but the train wouldn’t stop long enougrh at a station for me to step out and buy it. It was raining outside. “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. ” Somebody blundered on that train. Some of ihe passengers Avere from Texas, going east to vis^ their feindred, traveling on the hal^ rate excursion, an^J tAey were disgusted. ? This is worse thaijj Texas, they said. ! We were due inlMeridian at 9 o’clock and got there at 1 weary night tc r, will ever travel days. I was half had to keep on andl the bureau had mJ been at home I w''.( Avhere I am now. nigger Bob, Avho chaiugang, and S}i;i but jes’ tAVo laws y bide by ’em. Onei It was a long, long, t and is the last time I j , Christmas holi- ‘ ^all the time, but he appointments me. If I had d have gone to bed t reminds me of ray *eut two years in the “Dey hain’t got tir and you must you must do a full day’s work ef you ip well. The oder is, you must be well. ! Heap times I imag- iae I was sick, audvl w’ould have been •ick ef I had beeu home, but de boss say I wasent sick and de boss knows.” But I met lots qf good people in ev ery town and thU\v didn’t seem at. all prostrated rice of cotton, loi almoJy!^!^^^^^c-r ha.^ buuch of cattjj^ind thiHSeaXj>y that from fifty to five hrnfled hei'Pl^and they have no guano deBs to paj". Peaches are coming to theBrout very ra;ndly in eastern Texas as Mjommercial product. I never saw fineiBorchards or more of them than those awund Henderson aud Jacksonville. AlBihat region is about on a parallel withBj^vannah ami Bruns- Avick, but is as cold as Atlanta aud Griffin. The lin 3 of equal heat is a very crooked one forme. I read that ihe Avinters in th< State of Washington are not as cold as ^ours and the boys go barefooted all the year round. Hender son pleased me very much, for the streets are sand} aud the rain makes no rnud aud the 1 ^ople filled the long hall from from tc rear. Nacodoches is perhaps the oldest liv ing toAvn in Texal^ and one of the best. oAvns, like Jefferson, ^d. This town was ^of Indians. So Avas ssissippi, and both ■inct. Jjike the Aztecs, :)assing away. There rt right on the corner are. It Avas built by holies for a mission hundred years ago aud relic of the ages. It There are older but they are d named for a trib^ Natchez, in M tribes are noAV ex the red men are is an old stone fc of the public squ the Spanish-Cat house about tAvo is preserved as a has no doors or vio^iow’s to the ground floor aud the ent ranee is by a ladder to a Avindow or opening some ten feet from the grouncjl. AVhat an earnest, ere those followers of U3 Lovola Avho pene- •ness of all countries to ages to their faith. Avas the home of Tom Ochiltree ia.^’gone days—the Beau Brummel of 'wierica. He practiced law here for a "while iu partnership with his father, and xhe sign Avas over the door “Tom Ociijiltree and Father.” I Avould like to er.Jlarge upon the attrac tions of this grcpitig city and the good people I met, ai[idl Avould make special and grateful mention of Mr. Mims and Mr. Schjnidt, w/io are two of nature’s noblemen, botiiiiii Avalk and conversa tion. I wish Ufat the world Avas full of such men. Tht>’ were kind to mein zealous people aa the Saint Ignat trated the wildei convert even saA This little citj •fo 1 P*a1\ur( Avas told after doches had ir. an exceptional On reachin no train madl ours save the and I just get aboard a this time wo who came by going east, to Georgia to s sat up and talk >vov give n.*e j had! t there that Nacog- feuch citizens and Avas efiued community. Ileridian I found,that f-lose connection Avith |bama Great Southern, 10 to buy a ticket and for Chattanooga. By d a big lot of Texans iliw Orleans and Avere |i.iy of them ^oing Ud the holidays. We [•;through the night, and by sunrise jiad reached that won derful city called Fort Payne, the strangest city I ever saAv. Tom Hpod once Avrote a ^loem about a haunted house that almc et scares you to read it, but here are ^^ a thousand haunted houses, all abo’i,doned and forlorn, and they all look hahnted. J AV'ouIdnt walk among them ii the night. Some of them are fine money and th^ Queen Anne guests and not ( AvindoAvs. Thei abandoned foi shops and mnmi: no horses in the “O’er all these fear, A sense of my^. And said as plai: The place is h “No human fi: come; No face look* open casei houses and cost much iff a hotel of fine ku’chitecture Avith no ven a curtain to the e are unfurnished or ndries and machine 10th livery stables Avith in. hung a shadow and a ^tery the spirit daunted, 1 as w'hisper in the ear, xunted. ure stirred to go or id forth from shut or bent; No chimney smc ked; there was no sign of home to basement. From parapet “No dog was at small; No pigeon on creature; No cat demurely Not one dome. This is the cht Ihe South, but, money, and ’ th' .aga.iusin^j In due timca' for the Alaba.-H ways on time, an] miles in nine ho road to travel oi| was hungry, for breakfast. Wh* anticipated so; Christmas, but little card “Lun Baid “Consomul meant soup, and] W'aiter thought ,I| me a.little beef t- tured to taste it ?] w'as, but it was tj ever tasteu, and somm, cousomm the consomm, th, today,” said I. cup. ‘Oi’m not me some spring*' fond of spring cl| it was, I think, spring rooster fn] Maryland, That’i “A la My Marf Eandall could h: seen that parody poem— “The despots ] My Marylandl But I called fod and refreshed me to Bukofshers an| more luncheons 1 Luncheon is Gerl slight repast beti Avas luncheon v4 Christmas day, fti I asked for a rl 'Change my shirt. I and that cost me I the threshold, great or he roof, no household dozing on the wall— itic feature. ” ^ Impion boom to.wn of I it w'as all Northern 8 fight was yankee Durrant Dies on the Gallows for the Murder of Blanche Lamont. DECLARED HE WAS INNOCENT. In Jjoulsiana, Richlands, a Notorious Character, Confessed That He Had Murdered Niue Men Since 1884. At Sau Quentin, Cal., on the 7th, Williazn Henry Theodore Durrant died on the galloAvs for the murder oJ Blanch I.amont H,« gave such an ex hibition of coolness and nerve as has seldom been seen under similar circum stances. Hopeful almost to the very last minute that somethin'^ or someone would intert'en© to save him, he w'alk- ed to tht3 scaffold and made a speech, protesting his innocence as calmly and with as distinct enunciation as if he had been addressing au assemblage of friends upon some ordinary topic of the day. His face Avas pale, his eyes were rad, but his voice Avas firm and he stood as solidly as a rock while he proclaimed his innocence and professed forgiveness to those Avho, he said, had hounded him to death. He spoke as follow.s: “I desire to say that although lam an innocent man, innocent of every crime that has been charged against me, I bear no animosity towards those Avho prosecuted me, not even the press of Sau Francisco, which hounded me to the grave. If any man thinks I am go ing to spring a sensation, I am not, ex cept it is a sensation that I am an inno cent man brought to the grave by my persecutors. But I forgive them all. They Avill get their justice from the great God Avho is master of us all, aud there I also expect to get justice—that is the justice of an innocent mau. Whether or not the perpetrators of the crime of which I am charged are discovered, it Avill make no difier- ence to mel noAv, but I say this day A\'ill be a shame to the great State of Cali fornia. I forgive everybody who has persecuted me, an innocent mau whose hands have never been stained with blood, and I go to meet my God with forgiveness for all men. ” There Avas not a hitch or accident to mar the plans of Warden Hale in carry ing out the sentence of the laAv. The neck Avas broken by the fall of five feet, and fifteen minutes later themurderer’s body Avas cut doAvn and placed in a coffin. Notwithstanding that the crime for Avhich Durrant today paid the penalty Avas committed in April, 1895, and Dur rant Avas convicted and sentenced to be hanged February 21, 189jj|||^^^g^yers' to postpone the execution until today. Durrant Avas sentenced three times, Friday, June 11, 1897, was the second day named on Avhich he Avas to die, but by taking the case to the highest State court, and finally to the Supreme Court of the United States he obtained a re prieve. TAvice the case was carried be fore the highest court in the land and strong pressure Avas also brought to bear on Governor Budd to commute the sentence. Three Hanged in liouisiana. Three murderers died on the scaffold at Hahnville, a small town in St. Charles parish, Louisiana. Louis Bich- ardS) alias Pierre, alias Creole, by the latter name being notorious, Avas one of the trio. Together with George Wash ington aud Foxli Morris, he Avas sen tenced to death for murdering and rob bing a JeAvish peddler named Louie Zeigler, last June, on the Ellington plantation, near Hahnville. Creole confessed, implicating ihe other two and with the assistauce of his stAtameut, the authorities obtained con clusive evidence of their guilt. Creole also confessed that since 1884 he had murdered at least nine men and one colored Avoman on various plantations, and that not for a single one Avas he ever arrested. His victims Avere prin cipally Ituliaus and Jews w'ho made a living by peddling among plantation negroes. Close investigation revealed that his coufeasion Avas entirely correct and it cleared numerous murder mys teries of years ago. The Right Man Hanged. A special to the St. Louis, (Mo.) Post- Dispatch from Bainbrid^e, Ga., says: Simon Hopkins, colored, Avas hanged here at 11:80 today. He made a confes sion to the effect that he inveigled a friend named Harris into a swamp and killed him. Another Innocent Man Hanged. John O’Neil, Jr., was hanged in the Franklin county, (Miss.) jail for the ^ ''ra. Hattie E. — try 8th TOID IN ^PARAGRAPH. The South, Atlanta, Ga,, last year used $2,000,- 000 in building. Fire at Washington, Ga., destroyed $60,000 Avorth of property. Insurance, ^$40,000. A mob lynched James Jones, colored, near Macon, Miss., for setting fire to the house of a Avoman. Thirty-six buildings in Farmyille, Va., haA'e been burned, causing a loss of $150,000; insurance §49,000. E. H. Miller, a prominent tobacco manufacturer at Danville, Va., has made an assignment; liabilities $50,- aoo. The President has named Owen L. W. Smith, of North Carolina, to be minister resident and consul general of the United States to Liberia. The Virgiii Cotton M7II, atKrifiters- ville, is running day and night. ^ A number of new factory houses are being built.—Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. The Lynchites or sanctified band who appear to have settled at South port, N. C., are sending their mission aries into adjoining territory. Trouble is locked for. GoA’ernor Tyler of Virginia, has an nounced the appointment of Col. Wm. Naile, of Culpeper, to be Adjutant General of the State, to succeed General Charles Anderson. Governor Charles A. Culberson, of Texas, has announced himself a candi date for the United States Senate to succeed Roger Q. Mills, whose term Avill expire this year. At Eusselv’ille, Ky., two boys named Eobert Evans and George Duncan, be came involved in a quarrel, which re- Bulled in Evans stabbing Duncan to death Avith a pocket-knife. Green Fennell and his wife, living near Jasper, Fla., left their two chil dren, aged 2 andO years, at home alone. The clothes of the youngar taking fire, the older went to the rescue and both were burned to death. At Asheville, N. C., several boys were in a room fooling with a pistol. One of the boys. Wainscot, started to show his reA-oIver to W'illie Hampton, and Avhile extracting a cartridge froni it one shell exploded, the bullet striking Hampton in the eye and killing him instantl3^ At Huntington, W, Va., Carter Shifflette has beeu arrested for passing old city orders Avhich mysteriously dis appeared from the vaults at the city hail. Fifteen thousand dollars A\*orth have been paid a second time. Shifflette says he came by the orders honestly. The aggregate amount of the missing orders is ^140,000. The biggest fire in the history of Commerce, Texas, occurred on the 8d, I in which the entire east side of the toAvn Avas swept aw’ay. The fire broke j out in the Presley building at midnight ! and spread I’ai^^dJv^The postoffice, h I DJim b^'Jlof stores were consumed. rLoss, §100,- 000. The Confederate veterans of Meck- lenbuj-g county, North Carolina, have begun prepariions for the 20th of May celebration at Charlotte, that occasion being the dedication of the monument to the signers of the Declaration of In dependence. The Charlotte Typo graphical Union, composed of about forty members, will be represented in the parade, as well as other organiza tions and societies. The North. A Avhipping post for the correction of bad boys has been setup in Evansville, Ind. The Maryland Eepublican has split, and there Avill be no fusion with Demo crats. Business organizations throughout the countr}^ will hold anational conven tion at Buffalo, N. Y., on Jaji 13, The Ncav York Legislature proposes to regulate the practice of mesmerism and hypnotism in that State. At Jamestown, N. Y., 100 men have j been thrown out of AN'ork by the burn- ! ing of the Straight Manufacturing j Company’s plant. ! W’’m. C. Oakley, of Chicago, has J been appointed by" Comptroller DaAves national bank examiner to succeed Jos. Talbert, resigned. Mrs. Nellie Peterkin, of New l^’ork, has been convicted at Boston, Mass., of manslaughter for causing the death of Mrs. Catherine F. Murphy. W’m. T. Buckley, Avho, until Jan. ]»t, was a member of the dry goods firm of Dunham, Buckley & Co., of Ncav York, committed suicide by shooting himself in a boathouse adjoining his residence, Adlai E, Stevenson, former Vice- President of the United States, has accepted the position of Western coun sel of the North American Trust Com pany of NeAV York, with a membership in the board of directors. THROUGHOUT NORTH CAROLINA THE SHIBT FACrOBY. Penitentiary Chapel W’ill Be Used as the West Wing is Not Fitted Up. At the penitentiary it is learned that for the present the chapel Avill be used as the shirt factory, as only fifty con victs are to be employed in that work, aud as the big west Aving is not f up. It will cost considerable to fit it u' as there are no floors and no windoAs There are now less than 175 convicts i the penitentiary. luside the big AA"a. 25,000 cabbage plants have been set ouj The old log houses, which Avero tn first quarters for couAncts and now us^ for stables, ought to bo^^rn down, as they are both nr.^xi«Tl.i^^Kd fl. foi:9tant^ menace to the permal™^ Part of the old quartey^'^^^^Tr: >?ued years ago. One of the pri<^oV.> it^osities is a negress who calls herself the Queen of Sheba and devotes her entire time to cursing. And such cursing! No sailor can surpass her. She is in the de? art- ment for the female criminal insane. In that for the male criminal insauo are some as dangerous men as there are in the State. The hands of one are kept chained all the Avhile, otherAvise he would surely kill. He is a double mur derer.—Charlotte Observer. Whiskey Causes a Murder in W^ilkes. Particulars have beeu received at Winston of a brutal mxirder iu Wilkes county. William Morg*au and John Waters, while intoxicated, sto’pipd at. the home of Eich W^elil^^iS. Waters tried to get Morgan a,nd Avhen they reached the. door Morgan drew his knife \aud disemboAveled Waters, causing d^th in a few hours. Morgan is in jail andVears that ho v/ill be lynched. He adnws his guilt and asks for time to prepar® for death. Ho is 55 years old aud has dv wife and four children. He has'been the peniten tiary tAvice for stealing. yVaters is years old and left a family.^ XewMove iu R. R. Commission Matter There has been made a new Wove iu the railroad commission matfeer. At torney Eobert O. Burton has seWed on Commissioners CaldAvell and X’Wrsou notice to appear on the 17th before the United States Supreme Court, A^hen. a motion will be made to attach them for contempt of that court in violating its supersedeas and to compel them fo restore J. W. Wilson and S. Otho Wil*-' son to the office of railroad commis* sioners aud aleo to restore to the Wil sons the rooms, books and papers of the office. The contention is that Caldwell and Pearson took forcible pos session after the supersedeas Avas granted aud in defiance of it. To Tnvalidj'.tc tho lioncls. An acSou iuiU 'B^en brought^ia Tv dkea county to invalidate the bonds which it issued a feAV years ago in behalf of the construction of the Northwestern North Carolina Eailroad from Winston to Wilksboro. Judge Avery has secured from Judge Timberlake an order re straining the treasurer of Wilkes from paying the interest or any part of the principal of these bonds until a hearing can be had before Judge Starbuck on a motion to cause the treasurer to show cause Avhy he should not be enjoined until the case is determined by the courts.—Ealeigh New's and ObserA^er. Oxford Orphan Asylum Matters. The executive committee of the Ox ford Orphan Asylum met at Durham. During the past year $21,000 was con tributed and expended; 211 orphans Avas cared for; provision is made for re ceiving sixteen more at once; steps are taken for building four cottages for girls, each to accommodate 80; four cottages for boys are completed and accepted; arrangements are madb to change ihe editorial conduct of the paper, the Orphans’ Friend, and secure an editor. About Kxamiiiing Teachers. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction writes a letter to county supervisors and boards of education, designed to remedy the practice of ex amining teachers at any time. The laAV requires examinations on certain days. But some.teachers go at any time, not wishing to face a public examination but Avishing a private one. This is a costly matter as, of course, the super visor has to be paid for such work. Fertilizer Bulletin Discontinued^ By special agreement betAveen the Agricultural Department and the expe riment station the publication of the analysis of the official samples of fer tilizers Avill be made exclusively by the Department of Agriculture, and in con- sequence the fertilizer analysis bulle- iRfine<]_bv the Le bil
The Journal (Elkin, N.C.)
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Jan. 13, 1898, edition 1
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