ijT IS NOT A MAT I £R OF OPINION I ■ -THAT— jOORHUL ADVERTiSEMENTS Pil.'H-! BUT AN Ascertained Certain The A WEEKLY PAPER TiiAT REACHES THE H0‘"?E3 WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. VOL. I. NO. 7. ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 189S. l^HICE 2 CENTS. JOORNAL "'^LEAOS liS' PRICE, IN NEWS, IN CIRCULATION. IN ADVERTISING, IN LIVE ISSUES, IN UP-TO-DATE JOURNALISM. The Georgia Philosopher Says Its “Non’Possum” for Him. WHICH MEANS NOT ABLE.” He Talks oCtho Nownan Exippor and of the Cuban and Hawaiian Quoi- tions-'-IIia Ruminations. “ ’Posmim” seoma to bo the slogan of State polities. It is among the first Latin words I ovor leavnod to deolina, and means, “lam able.” As s iilthy K7rsc:::tI I iuw beor. invited tr. tiio fisast I sliDUtdr hav«- replied non ’possuia. I caa eat crow, Vdtirot"'i5o33um. A buzzard would be B3 palatable, for one is a day scavenger and the other hunts for carrion by sight. Kot long ago Mr. Hale told ms oi Rising Fawn that his boy caught three on three sucoessiva nights by «ettiu" his steal trap on a dead hog in the woods, and ?>Ir. Young told me yesterday that the lastouohis dog tped 'tvas in the carcass of adeadhorse. Now, if a 'possum is kept up in a coop or pen for a mouth and fed on decent food, his oily ca:oas3 might be fitten for a scala wag or a huugry darky. Col. Candler in his letter siiigs II10 praises and the cily jnioes of the north Georgia ’possum, but turns up hia nose at the piny woods breed. The difi'erence is that dead dogs and hogs and mtiles are faw and far' between in tiie piney woods, and the 'possums can’t get enough carrion to get fat. But ’possum is jufit now the political fad, and si politician will eat anything |ot ofiico except crow. They don’t Hlra that. JJi-. Miller used to say that he could eat crow, but he didn’t hanker after it. We ooilege boys used to hara ’possum suf.pers away in the night, but Hansel, who furnished them, kept tiiem up and stallfed them. Tha chief satisfaction, howeTer, was la breaking the rules and dodging the tirof^ssovs and tutors. Jim AVarren and Chess Ho%vard used to give mid- Eight suppers and pull up the ’possum and tators in a basket by a ropa and take it in at a third-story window. Well, the nation has got a slogan, too. Cuba and .Hawaii arc still on deck Es shuttlecocks, and the game is long and uncertain. Cuba is a fruit that i« about ripe, and ought to bo pulled be fore it rots on tho ti'os; but^^ Hawaii in as green aa a gourd. Cuba is 400 miiea Song, and is nearby and should be viur- chaaad, just like wa bought Florida from Spam; birt Hawaii is 2,030 miles from our Faeific coast, and oil the islaad:^ r -!f togeiher bava n.nt as much area aa a i-.lu^-ls coWty in Texas. 'Ihey fay w3 want it for a eoaling station. We have it now for that, and can keep it during peace; but it would take all our little navy to hold it durhig war. It looks verj' like the whole plot of an nexation is a j'er.sonal job for a few men. They are trying to alarm us with the threat tha; if we do not annex it England will. I don’t reckon England wants it verv’oad. In case of a great war ii would taka a good part of her navy to hokl it, and tue game is not worth the candle. Our poor little navy won't justify us in annexing anything, and we can’t hurry up any more battle ships under the'Diugley tarifi and the pension frauds. England has 15 battleships, SI cruiaera, (i gunboats, ,’iG torpedo boats end 8 v.'ar steamers—in all 118 keels. Ths United States has 8 battleships, 18 cruisers, lo gunboats, 8 mouitors and tori’.edo boats—in all 50 keels. How is that for war? Japan has more war keels afloat than the United States, and is now the acknowledged mistress of the Pecifio ocean. But ws can beat them all iu brag and bluster jingoism. Vv'e are vary like the averaga young man who lives on his father’s reputa tion. Wo go back a century or so and bank on tha Constitution and tha Wasp in the days of Paul Jones and Decatur. 'J'hose wero glorious victories, but we were fighting on the defensive then, and our great leaders, botli on land and sea, were Southern men—Paul Jones was from Virginia and Decatur was from Maryland and old John Adams dident like either of them. But almost everything that concerns Congress now is political jobbai'y—and the pension frauds will go on. They grow bigger and biggor as tha years roll on. 'The fifty thousand pension laW' yer's up North must bo kept fat, and they are organized and know how to control Congressmen. Ten dollars from e.ich one will pltrr'.e half a million in W'ashington ■ nd that will . jmrchase fifty votes at $10,000 a vote. They de fy ConimissioDar Evans and all his ef forts to purga the rolls will be in vain. Wickedness in high places still pre vails, and the wonder is that the na tion survives its corruption. I heard Boma preachers discussing it on the T.'jilroad and one said tha wickedness •was so great it was a wonder that tha Tjord didn’t destroy tlie capital and all ihe great cities. But an old Irish fireacher said; “xvosir; no sir!, the Lord :.vouldn’t have destroyed Sodom if there •iad been ten good men there, and I am are that there are at least fifty iu At-, lanta and nearly as many in Washington and Now York.” No, sir, the cities are safe for some time to come, but it is well enough to keep your eye on a place in the country, la 1841 Thomas H. Benton made a gieal .speeeu m the Uiiuetl ciiatea oun- ate in which he opposed tho grant of $35,000 to President Harrison’s widow and said: “A new page has been opened in tha book of our expenditures and this new departure taken which leads to the bottoml6.?s gulf of pensions and gratuities,” Verily he spoke like a prophet, for §3,000,000,000 hava ol- readv be^ r?id and there aro now oa the rolls nearly a million pensioner.'i and Commissione? Evp.ns finds 303,OOJ additional pending applicAtions. _Good gracious, how we did fight. John C. Calhoun said in one of his speeches: “A power has risen up in the govern ment that is greater than tho people. It consists of many interests combined in one mass and held together by tho cohesive power of public plunder.” 80 all this stealage is no new thing and it wonldent mnttor very much if it concerned tho North only, but wo down South hava to pay a big part^ of it and get nothing back. Thg. we he: ” -eoEfi chas' prettj^ spirit: years agi ChristmaS:SlBP55^2--^oO^ sign. They tell an5^w5fe3"'an(l laugh more and have more little parties. Wo wore' at one last night—my wife and I, and there was no sicrn of poverty or distress; no ’possum and tators; no politics. Six teen of us safe around tho festive board and commemorated the thirty-eighth marriage anniversary of Major Calhoun and hia wife, two ecod peoplo, a good father and mother, a good husband and wife, good friends and neighbors, and wo were waited on by their ehildron— good children who had never brought shame or grief to their parents. This is the biggest and best thing I know of. And we had wifc and anecdote and connndrnms all mixod up with oyster soup and turke.v and “eat coteras. ” I asked Judge Aiken what kin ho v.’as to his sister’s husband’s mother-in-law and he gave it up in despair. I heat that he pondered over it all tha way homo and away in the night eried out: “Eureka! Eureka!” Then Mayor Gilbert put the. Boventeen elephant problem at me and I gottsngled up and then I asked him how a groundsqnirroi dug his hole in the ground without leaving any dirt around the top and it scared him, but his wife came to his relief and answered it. Men baven’l got very much of that kind of sense ina I always depend upon my wii’o. i don’t like to str.ain my mind.—Bill irp ill ,iii.l!anta (Qa.) Constitution. Some Items Copied by Rev. R- P. Smith From an Old BUNCOMBICO, ACCOUNT BOOK. In tho Old Times !t Took a Week’s Work to Buy a Bushel of Salt—How Po You Like tiio Times Kovv? BOOK collecting. Prizes Occasionally Diacovcrecl by In- defatisablo Bibliopliilcs. The thrilling adventures of book-col- lectors continue to bs told, and perhap l even to be believed, but they certain!;) have now an ancient and obsoleseeiit air. These wonderful prizes which book lover used to picU up on tho I'arls quais must bo very mysteriously con cealed in these days to escape the eye.- of emissaries of the bookworm. Book! priced at a shilling, and worth £100, d; not grow any longer ’on every c.",ta- logue. So the de-ar old stories of the ex citement of the chase, the cunning ap proach, the assumed ladiffereace, the crafty closing on the quarry, and at last the flushed and triumphant oscapc with the rare book, will probably not amuso our children as they did out grandfathers. But there still undoubtedly remains what Miss Anna Blackwell, writing iu Chamber’s Journal, calls the “Provi dence of Book Hunters.” Rare coin- lidences, lucky accidents, novr ana then an astonishing find, do still occasion ally occur in tho world of the book-col- lectors. Thus, a curious reader lately ran upon Richardson’s st.atenient that ;n his youth he wrote something la the style of “Tommy Potts.” Leslie Ste phen, a great authority on the eigh teenth century, had never heard of Tommy Potts. Just at that moment a bookseller’s catalogue came out with record of “The Ballad of Tommy Potts” (about 1700-1715). In a rare “Life of Eichard III.” In a library one sheet was misslag. The librarian de plored this to a chance cSiller; who in- etantly produced his own copy with the sheet in duplicate. These are the lat ter-day miracles of book-collecting. Writing on this theme, Andrew Lang tells the following: “The bibliophile Jacob bought Louis XIV.'s ‘Tartutte,’ red morocco, royal arms, and all, from a booksisUer’s wife, for a couple of francs. He then gave it to a friend, when, behold! the poor husband arrives, asking for the vol ume, or for a proper price, perhaps £150. The new owner would not gciy, or restore, and let; him be a ■n’arnfn.g example. Such bargains as this are not honest. Yet, when an English col lector purchased, for three shillln.gs, a set of first editions of Alfred de 5Ius Bet from a lady bookseller, and then of fered to raise the price, tire seller sr.id: ‘No; we like our customers to get .a bar gain now and then.’ This wa.s the chivalry of book selling. An Alabama man has sued for 310,- 000 damages for libel, basing his clalin on the woi'dlng of a -tombstone inscrip tion. This is carrjdng a gi'ave subject too far; a majority of tombstone epi taphs are libelous, and evcryono knows it. pODS IlSTED TRUE, WOOD’S SEEDS are spedafly gfOV>rn and selected to meet tlie needs and requirements o: Southern Growers, Wood's Ifescfiptive Catalogue is most valu able and helpful in giving cultural directions and valuable information about all seeds specially adapted to the South. VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS, Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats and all Qardeo and Farm Seeds. Write for Descriptive Catalogue. Ma iled ftea. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, = = RICHMOND, VA. THH LAREEST SEED HOliSi !H THE SOUTH. The Gastonia(N. 0.) Gazcita, of a reoea t date, says; Peopla talk of the good old days of long ago -when times were bet ter and moiie.y v.-asn’t tighd. How .ko to hava a do&e of old Jiay are indicated in the prices LW from an old aocojantJjRfi ipP*4^go in J^ivstajiabe couiity, Having an opportunity recently, r^ev. E. P. Smith copied some items' from 6uch a book in kind remembrance of his home papei'. The old book ia nov; owned by Mr. S. W. Davidson, of Swaiinanoa Valley, Buncombe county. It might have been kept by a black- eraith who ran a store or by a merchant who also ran a smithy. Here are eome items copied iinder date of March, 17^*8 -■nearly 100 years ago: DEBITS. To 16 pounds sugar 00 To 3 bushels salt S 00 To 1 gallon whiskey 75 To 1 ii’on wedge 50 To laying plow 50 To 1 i>air shoe soles 50 To one-half yard muslin 87^ To 1 pound powder 1 OO’ To 10 pounds of nails. 2 00 To 1 quire paper 87 To 15 pounds sugar and G pounds coffeo 0 00 CBEMI3. By 8 days’ work S7| By 1 bushel corn .50’ By 79 pounds beef at 8 cts S 87 By 1 week’s work 8 00 Sec that 16 pounds of sugar for ^4.00? And a bushel of salt for 01. SO? How do you like it? The price of muslin was but o’sig’at—none was then maQufao- tured in this country, perhaps all im ported. Powder at”a dollar a pound was too high to burn at Christmas. A' 20 cents a pound people couldn’t afford to hit many nails on the head. And people must have had something im portant to write and wanted to writo it mighty bad when they paid 87 cents a quire for paper. In other items the con trast with today is not so mark-^ ed, but iu the old times when it took a week’s work to buy a bushel of salt (ho contrast is strong enough to made a body faint. He who in those days could earn the salt that went in his bread ought not to have been counted a lazy follow. VICTOIS OF THF TORNADO. 43 People Killed at, Fort Smith—150 Houses Blo-wn Down. The latest from Fort Smith, Ark., shows a total of forty-three lives lost in the tornado which swept through that city. Not less than seventy others are injured, a large number of whom arc seriously hurt, and several are esrected to die. Tha full extent of the storm may bo comprehended from the fact that thirty-five miles northeast of the oity a quantity of tin roof from Garri son avenue building was found. Ladies of the city are at work distri buting food and clothing to ..the needy. The relief committee, composed of the prominent business men find difflcultv in housinc- the suffersrs. One hundx-ed and fifty buildings were demolished. Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas, Little Bock, and other cities have wired readi ness to lend aid if necessary. A census of tho dead, injured and property loss is being taken. The number of dead will not exceed fifty. Organized War on Hanna. A Columbus, O., special of tho 18th says: Leaders on both sides are still here, preparing for another fight. The opposition to Hanna was defeated in his election, but it proposes to fight now against hia being seated for the long term. His enemies say they have no) the time to interfere on the short term, but they will press the bribery charges, as such charges were pressed on Henry B. Payne, fourteen year* ago, to the United States Senate. Subpoenas have been issued for Senator Hanna, Maioi 15ick, W. D. Hollenbeck, H. H. I3o.vce and others to appear before tho Senate committee. Libel suits have been brought against several Kepublican pa pers for damages in connection with the ’uribery charges, notably one by T. C. Campbell, for §100,000 against the Ohio State Journal. Jlissifsippi for Intervention in Cuba. The Mississippi Legislature adopted unanimously a rousing Cuban resol'u- tion offered by Senator Hardy. After reciting the fact that 00,000" persons have Been starved to death in the jirovince of Santa Clara since January last, and that it is the policy of Spain to exterminate the “Queen of the An- tilles,” it demands that the United States government shall at once inter vene, ‘ ‘peaceably if it can, forcibly if it must,” Keduced tho Bill. Tho supervisors of Queen’s county, (N. y.) struck the items of ®8o6.1.5 for wine, 8328.40 for cigars and $33.40 for billiards from the hotel bill of the Thorn jurors. The net sum of the bill was reduced from §2,049 to Killed His S-weetlieart and Himself. At Hurlock, Dorchester, Md., a negro named Coleman shot and killed his sweetheart, a girl named Matthews, and badly wounded her companion, named Hughes. Coleman then went home and killed himself. Jealousy was the cause. Sloro Lesislation. The PostofSce Department will re commend to Congie>s legislation pro viding that postoffico clerks bo required to give bond to the government and not ) to the postmaster. FiFTY^FiFTH CONGRESS. Proceedings of Buth th- Senate and House Day By Say. THE SENATE. 14th Dat.—In the Senate a bill was favorably reported from the Indian committee, prohibiting r.'si'road com panies from Chargingmor= ihsn 3 cents a mile for passenge?s this’.igh ]ndian Territory. A resolution w:i? introdn'ced looking to the Alteration of the water used in the eily of Washinferon having be_en oEferad and referrad to tha Dis trict of Columbia Committee, Mr. Hale, cf itfaine, eaid that in no part of tha United States was there a city whose , citizens were so abused and imposed upon as to the water supply as are tho ‘ citizens of Washiii.^rfcoa. “We are con fronted with bad, ifoal water,” aaid he, “so filthy, indeed, as to it .dan gerous to dritife r.iid _ bo.th.“_^ ' ji into executi/e session to consider the Ha- annexation treaty. _15th Day. —Except for a few minutes given to a controversy over same minor I'ostofijce confirmations, the entire time of the executive session of the Senate was consumed by Beaator Davis, of Minnesota, in a speech iu support of Hawaiian annexation. Mr. Davis is chairman oi tha Senate cowmittea on foreign relations, and hia speech was generally accepted as the semi-official utterance of the majority of tire com mittee. Ho spoke for about two hours, and when the Senate adjourned he had not finished. ICiH Dax.—Senator Davis completed his speech in the executive session of tha Senate on the Hawaiian treaty, and was followed by Senator Allen, of Ne braska, who spoke in opposition. Mr. Davis’ speech was devoted largely to a presentation of the stategio features of ann’osation. He displs.ved a chart in front of the presiding offioer’c platform, showing the location of Hawaii relative to this country and Asia. One of the points brouglit out with considerable elaboration was the probable effect on the Nicaraguan canal of the oooupatiou of the islands by some foreign power. Chandler introduced a resolution re questing o list of the ofBcers of tho army be furnished the Senate. 17th Day. —In the Senate the pension appropriation bill was placed on the calendar. A resolution asking tho President for information about tho protection of Americans in Cuba, was read by Senator Cannon. The eulogies in memory of the late Senator Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, was postponed until after the election of a Senator ’oy the Legislature of Tennessee. No great progress was made with the Hawaiian annexation treaty. 18th Dat. —In the Senate Hoar, of Massachusetts, presented the following joint resolution, which was referred to committee on privileges and elections: “That the followinK srtlele be proposed to the Legislatures pf tl)9 severfi' as an amendment to tho eonstii.atlp.- ’(S^palted eiate.-: "llfe'c6ra"“0r^0fiictJ0£ ■ i’.asldent and of thoPifty-e!xthCon,i{reBBt.lii.: continue until the 30th day ot April, in the year 1901, at noon. The Senators whose ex%tl- g term would otherwise expire on tha -Ith day o{ March, In the year 1890 or thereafter, fhall continue in offleo unti! noon on the 30ih day of April anoeeedlng eaoh expiration, and the SOlh day of April at noon shall t^Ol-eaft^r bo subsiitated for the 4th day cf Jlnreli, as the eomn-encement and termination of the offl- clfil term of the president. Vice Pre.' ing I06. One of the most im portant amendments adopted pro vided for the inspection of Ixorse meat for export purposes in the same way that the meat of cattle and othei ani mals is now inspected. There was a other edition of the famous “Horse Book” to cost S105,000. Chairman Wadsworth and members of the appro priation committee, resisted it, but it was carried over their hea Is by a nar row margin in committee of the whole. Williams, of Mississippi, (Dem.) made an extended speech iu favor of a postal savings bank system. 20th Day. —The House spent most of the day filibustering against the claim of the Methodist Publishing House, South, at Nashville, Teun., §288,000 for the seizure and use of the property dur ing ths war. It was agreed that 75,000 copies of the “House Book” be printed. It was also agreed to have 40,000 copies of ii map of Alaska printed, showing tha most feasible routes to the gold fields. Any debate whatever on Cuba was side tracked altogether. 31st DAY.—The House took up the consideration of tha army appropria tion bill. The bill, Chairman Hall, of the military committee, explained, carried $28,185,900, or $1,089,751 less than the estimates, §56,746 in excess of the law for the current yeai’. The increase in tho pay of the army was due to tha fact that the army was nearer its maximum strength thaa heretofore. A new provision in the bill required the payment of troops by the paymaster in prison. The general Cobato on tha bill was desultory, and was not confined to the subject matter dealt with by the bill. Mr. Henry, Democrat, of Texas, took occasion to denounce Secretary Gage’s funding scheme. Mr. Terry, Democrat, of Arkansas, made soma re marks about the protective tarifi, and Mr. Gaines, Democrat, of Tennessee, some on the claim of the publishing house of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, South. ROW IN AUGUSTA’S COUNCIL. Figlit Between an Aldorman and /le Fire Chief. At the rs.'i.'iioa of tho Augusta, Gs., oity council, on the 8th for the olectiou of city officers for the ensuing term, the fight between the Walsh and Kerr factions was resumed with all its V.ugilistic features. The Kerritas have a majority of five and proceeded to amputate the heads of those officers who supported ex-^^enator Walsh in the municipal campaign. When the fire department was reach ed, tho presence of Chief Koulette was necessary, and pending his arrival a re cess was taken. During this recess. County Jailer Collins and Councilman Lougee became involved in a difficulty. Loiigee attempted to strike Collins, -nho landed a blowonLougee’s jaw. Lougee reached for his gun, but peacemakers inteifered and quiet was restored.- reeling is running high among the citizens, and the action of the Kerrites is denounced on all sides. Sloney to Succeed George, The Democratic caucus of the Mississ ippi Legislaturfe has nominated Hon. H. D. Money as United States Senator to succeed the late Senator George. —— TORNADO IN KKNTUCKY. Great Damage Done in tho Town of Jlorganfield. A tornado struck the town ofMorgan- field; Ky., unroofing tha old Methodist church and parsonage, totally demol ishing tho large two story brick hard ware grocery store of H. L. Hart & Bro., the city hall and J. M. Jean’A produce store. The Crown roller mills building was considerably damaged and the smokestack was- blown down. The front of A. Waren’s jewelry store was blown in and a number of small buildings were unroofed and chimneys blown down. Mr. Harvey Sellers, the city marshal, who was iu the police oflic-e at the time, was instantly kiiled by the falling wall. The loss to Hart Bros, alono will exceed $20; 000, with no Buslineli Inaugurated. At Columbus, O., on the 10th Gover nor Bushnell was inaugurated for his second term. Although the city was crowded with adherents of bothl3ush- nell and Hanna, there was no collision between the opposing factions. A num ber of delegations called on tho Gover nor during tho forenoon and expressed confidence in him. The inaugural pa rade was not equal to that of other years. It took it but tv/enty minutes to pass the grand stand. Tho ihaugural address of Governor Bushnell W‘is ehrivt Notes From Washington. It is proposed to require mates of in land ateamera to be licensed. The Canadian government will tax all miuera’ supplies not purchased ia Canada. Tha postoilioe receipts last month showed an increase of $301,924 over De cember, 1869. No warships will be sent to Havanna at present to protect American inter ests, as General Lee has informed tha State Department that thera ia no cause for apprehension. Mrs. rre Pink—I am amazed, sir, th.it you should propose to my daughter. Why, she has only just left boarding Bchoo!, .'’.nd you have not known her a week: y’oung Man—True, madam: but I have, known you for some time, and evei^body says your dauguter takes after ydu. ^ TOID m A PARAGRAPH. Tlje South. Mormons are making their appear ance in North Carolina in great num ber.'). 1 here is a movement to change tha capital of 'ilabama from Montgomery to Birmingham. . The orange crop of Southern Cali fornia, now being harvested, is in prime condition. Tha Citizens’ Exchange Bank has been organized in Hiohmond, Va,, with a capital stock of $i0j,000. Judge Dick, of North Carolina, has gone to tha Johns Hopkins Hospital, at Baltimore, for treatment. Goyernor Taylor, of Tennessee, has announced himself as a candidate for election to the United States Senate. “a biil must sacure licanso to sell wines and liquors. Mr. J. J. Newman, of Salisbury, N. C., is making eiforts to organize a Eowan county settlers’ association. Tho car “CSty of Charlotte” was slightly damaged at Marion, N. 0., by a shifting fi’eight car on the side track. Thieves entsred Morris’ etore, .4.1ex- ander, N. 0., rolled tho safe out of the building, and broke it open, stealing S76 in cash and several checks. - The president has named Owen L. W. Smith, of North Carolina, to be minister resident and consul general of i tho United States to Liberia. Tho Isbell Corundum Company has been organized at Asheville, N. C., with f250,000 capital stock, to mine the Clay county mineral, tvvoaty miles from Murphy. There is a movement on foot to em brace in one national park tho battle fields of Fredericksburg, Chauoellors- viile, tho Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House, Va., embracing 6,500 acres. At Huntington, W, Va., Carter ShiSetta has been arrested for passing^ old city orders which mysteriously dis appeared from the vaults at the city hall. Fifteen thousand dollars worth have been paid a second time. Shiffletto says he came by tha orders honestly. The aggregate amount of the missing orders is §140,000. Tlio North. Fifteen persons were injured in a rear-end collision on the Long Island Eailroad, in New York. The Inland and Iron Forge Company of Chicago has started, giving employ ment to 500 men. By a gas explosion atDaleville, Ind., the tile factory of B. F. Lefter was de stroyed and John Einker killed. The site of a prehistoric village has been discovered near Massillon, O., and evidences of cremation found. Ad'al E. Sifeveneon, former rica- President of tho United Statou, has accept-od the position of Western coun sel of the North American Trust Com pany of New York, with a membership in tho board of directors. Mrs. Augusta Nack, jointly charged, with Martin Thorn, with the murder of Wm. Guldensuppe, a bath rubber, at W^oodsida, L. L, 'n June cf last year, has been sentenced to fifteen years in the State prison at Auburn, N."Y. Gn February 1st 114 looms in the Manchester (N. H.,) Cotton Mills will be stopped for an indefinite time. Tha cause assigned ia the falling off in the demand for irintgoods. There willalso be a reduction of about 10 par cent, in wages, aCfecting about 80 jier cent, of the employes, on January 24th. Mlscclianeous. Corbett ofiers Fitzsimmons $85,000 for a fight to a finish. John Lincoln, of Bo1s!k)W, Mo., a second cousin of Abraham fjincoln, has asked for a pension. Secretary Long' has asked Congress for an increase of 1,000 enlisted men in the navy end 700 apprentices. The Mexican Congress hna concluded a long teim contract with the Western Union Telegraph Company. The whole story of the Indian upris ing in tha Indian Territory is a fake, says the Associated Press. The body of the murdered, W. H. T. Durrant, was cremated at the crema tory of Keynolds and Van Nuys, at Al- dena, Cal. A delegation called on Chairman Diu,gley in the interest of legislation reducing tha internal revenue tax on distilled spirits. The deaths from the plague at Bom bay during tha past week numbered 430. There were 1,397 deaths during the same period from all causes. The estate of the late George M. Pull man, from an inventory filed in court a^iiioags?., 'vas estiaiatetH^^ ' , 10,000 ra E'tuOKi and ’conds and ^2,- 000,000 in real estate. The central Cuban relief committee of New York, recently made a large shipment on a Ward Line steamer, consigned to Consul-General Lee, con sisting of 80,203 separate packages and in addition 500,000 grains of quinine. Eev. Dr. John S. Zahm succeeds tho late Dr. Corby as i)rovincial of tho Catholic Order of the Holy Cross in this country 0 Es-Presideat Cleveland, owing to press of business, has resigned the posi tion of trustee of the N*ew Jersey His torical Society, but v.’iU continue to be a member of the society. The Atlantic Coast Line’s New York anjd Florida special flyer waa put in service, for the eleventh season, on the 17th. It is the fastest train running between New York and Florida. Washington Jottings, The superintendent of engraving and printing at Washington denies that the counterfeit silver certificates were made from the government plate or from an impression taken therefrom. The PostolBce Department has decid ed that postmasters cannot be required to cash pension checks. ■ EobertP. Porter has declined a ten der of the euperintendency of the next census, and Henry Gannett, of Wash- i iagton, D. C., may get it. j The nomination of E. C. Duncan fcr ; collector of internal revenue of North ; Carolina, has been confirmed by tho i United States Senate. ' The United States Senate has con- I firmed tha nomination of Thomas C. I Fullar, of North Carolina, to be judge I of the Com't of Pyivate Irftnd Claimfl. Greensboro to Winston-Salem and Wilkesboi'o. Schedule in Ei'-'e.t OJtober Eastorii Time. Lv. Groensboro Pomona GuiUonl CollegG Fr’.endship K^rnersvilio Winston-Salem Alsp.aui;h S.:iihania Eiirai E.ill Xobaeccjvllio n -niinha Sboals Sih'am Kockford Orntohlleld ' Ko. If5 S Kolo ii ,',0 11 lit 8 .- y a 9 CO a m 9 13 a ra *.i .vO a ill JO 00 a m 10 10 a m 10 Mam 10 S± a m 10 45 a in 10 C3 a m n 25 n m n 42 r, m )1 67 a ra 4, 1807. MixecJ. No. 357. E:;. Sub. 3 40 p m' 1 57 p m 2 12 p in 2 3o n 111 2 5 -i p m 3 12 p m 8 36 p m £3 p ra 4 80 p m U v'3 p JQ ' liondft Ilcariog Paver Quarry Ai*. Wilkofsboro 12 37 p m 12 0 p m 12 ^7 p m 110 p m C 35 p in 7 02 p m 7 22 p ra • 7 £0 p m Eastern Time Lv. Wilke^boro Quarry Koaring Ehx^r Honda Elkin Burch Crutchficld Roekiord SilORm Shoals Donnaha TobaccoviUe Rural Hali Bethania Alspaugh Winstou-Salem Keruersvillo Friendship Guilford CoJIege Pomona Ar. Greensboro 110. Noto 2 05 p m 2 38 p m 2 23 p m 2 33 p m 2 5) p la 8 10 p m 8 (1 p ra 8 36 p m 8 63 p in 4 C3 p m 4 18 p m 4 31 p m 4 43 p m 4 55 p m 5 On p Ki 5 20 5) m 5 42 p m 5 fC p m G 08 p m 6 10 p m 6 20 p m ■ No. lc(>. See Noto 8 00 a m 8 .SO a m 8 55 a m 9 24 a ra 10 (0 a ra 10 SO a in 10 5u a m 11 4 3 a ni 12 25 p m 12 50 p m 1 35 pm 2 03 p ra 2 35 p m 3 05 p ra 8 24 p m 8 45 p ra Nos. 105 and 110—Baily between WJostou- Salera, and daily except Sunday Ictweon Wmston-Salem and Wilkcsboro. Note.—No. 157 will leave Wla£ton>Bal6ra M )ndays. Wtduss.lays ai.d rrldnys. No. 150 will leave WitUesboro XaRSdaya, Thursdays and Saturdays. FAME WITH A FIDDLE, XrinmpU of a Yonng American Girl; in Europe^s Musicc.1 World. \ Though only 17 years old, Miss Leo-' nora Jackson has scored a great tnusi-i cal success In Europe and has accom-j plished something no ^^irl hailing from; this country has ever equaled. This Is; thewinuingof the "Mendelsschn stipcn- dium," a prize coveted by violinists all over the world. Miss Jaclison's father , is a banker of Mud Springs, Cal. She. is a protege of Mrs. Grover Cleveland.' by whom she was sent to Berlin to' study her favorite instruiuent under Joachim, lleprcsentaiiveb ^ vom a scora of countries annually . trlve ioi' the sti-, pendiuni. This year artists from all the great European cities and from va rious sections of this country were among the contestants. When Miss L^m. I f » ! If I 'Ill Ir MTSS T.EOa-or.-V JACKSOS'. Jackson was declared the winner Dr. .Toachlm went Into transports of de* light, embracing his favorite pupil in the jjresence of a host of people. Since then she has performed at the Royal Opera House of the German capital in a special performance before tire Em press and the court. Subsequently sho appeared at many important concerts in Berlin and in some of the provincial towns of Germany. 3Vhen sho played In May within or-. chestra accompaniment at the Anlialt- ish musical festival In Kothen, under the court conductor, August IClughaedt, she was then and there engaged for two orchestra conccrts .it Dessau next winter. A little later on she will ful fill her successive engagements in va rious orchestral concerts at Vienna, Leipsic, Munich and Hamburg. Wher ever Miss Jackson has appeared sl-o has sustained her fast growing reputa tion as a talented orchestral soloist. In London Miss Jackson has lately played for Dr. Richter with marked success, and also at JXr. Henschel's. That eminent artist callcd the young American “ a genius—one not found iu thousands.” Coach It^iiTTs I'liror.Kli a ISriflge. A day coach on westbound train Ko. 86, of the Western of Alabama rail road, want_ through Cubahatchia bridge, 21 miles east of Montgomery, Ala. Two persons, the conductor and flagman, wero seriously injured, and eighteen passengers received bruises or other injuries, nono of which are serious. I I Crazed by Hi-r Son’s Crime. Mrs. Christina Gentry, tho mother oi James G. Gentry tho actor who two years ago shot and killed his sweetheart, Madge York, in Philadelphia, and is now servin.sr a life term for his crime, died at Eichmoml, Ya. Mrs. Gentry waa (iO years old and enjoyed good health up to the time of the awful crima of her only son. This crazed her with grief, and she had been siniiing stead ily since. ■■ ^