% n IS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION —THAT— JOURNAL ADVERTfSEMENTS Pii YI BUT AN sclained Certain The JQURHAl - LEADS A WEEKLY PAPER THAT REACHES THE HOMES WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. VOL. I. NO. 10. ELKIN, N. C., TPIURSDA Y, FEBRUARY 10,1898. IN PRICE, IN NEWS, IN CIRCULATION, IN ADVERTISING, IN LIVE ISSUES, : HSf UP-TO-DATE PRICE 2 CENTJ?. I JOURNALISM. SITUATION, |^upt«d in tlie ^ States, report for Irt: “Severe ||d by high bas been a Jible influ- fd distribu- rorthern and Thave felt the ^severely. In I of business a iie season is re- ^with special ac- I and steel trades * In the bast the d?3- Jfoods and wool has fnd the movement of ^interfered with, but the fton goods situation is, if ythe .l\fiddlo 1 War Department Has Been Peti' tioned for Troops in Klondike. THREE HUNDRED ASKED FOR. Two and Fifty Tliousand People Stalked for the Gold Fields During the Present Yeai:. Skaguay, AJaska, via Seattle, AVash., (Special).—A petition has been circula ted here and at Dyea, asking the War Department t^ se^i^^ilO troops here, FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Vrocccdin-vR of Both th© Senate and House DayUy Day. THE SENATE. 30th Day.—The SenAlo passed two’of the general approwifttion biUs—ihat for the army carrying §28,148,492, and that for'the legislative, judicial and ex ecutive departments carrying ^31,.058,- 520—were i^assed, the latter consistiug of 121 pages, occupyini^ the attention of the Senate during the greater part of the session, Tillman prt^F.ented the cre dentials of John M. McLajrin, as a Sen ator from South Carolina to fill the uu- expired term of the late Senator Eai'ie, the term ending 4, 1903. The oath of office was administered to Me- Laurin by the Vice }'rcf»ident. 8lsr Day.—In tho {^enat-a Senator Platt, of Connect^f>* .*•»» XO 00 8 15 12 2«