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ATC m nor li uu THE DISPATCH WHI.aOT TOUt H IF IT H1FFE5S ITS IS THE DISPATCH 05LT ONE DOLLA 1 THE. THE PAPER OF fiiX PEOPLE. JOR THE PEOPLE AND WITH THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED 1882 lJJONGTON, 2s. C. WEDNESDAY, TEBRTJARY 16, 1910. VOL. XXVIII-NO 43 MSP .11 11 O JFIKiE BIGGS WILL COME. Hi Honor Will be Her Monday SStk lid Will Formally Adjoara Feb. raary Term et Cosrt. Monday Sheriff Delap Interviewed Judge J. Crawford Biggs at Salis bury relative to hla duties In connec tldn with the term ot court due Feb. 28th, which baa been cancelled by the county commissioners on account of smallpox; and bis honor stated that be and the solicitor would be here the 28th to transact such business as will come before them, after which the court will be formally adjourned. The sheriff is to notify all jurors and witnesses that they need not at tend upon the court, but, uptti con sultation with the health officer, b need not so Into a district Infected by smallpox to carry out this work.-- -AH defendants who are nnder bond must be here on the 28th to renew and extend their bonds. Should any defendant wish to submit, his' sub mission will be heard and judgment rendered. ' - ' Judge Biggs spent Monday in Sails bury, attending to these matters In Rowan court, and he adjourned - the term Monday afternoon, 'jourt having : heen cancelled there, also, on ac count of smallpox, there being two tases In the county jail and the sheriff and his attendants are air quaran tined. ..-.' " .-. Visitors at the Graded School The graded school management ap preciates very much a visit from any of Its friends and patrons, and urges the neoDle of Uw town to call and see what Is goina on. A record of the vis ltors has oen kept since Christmas, and is as follows: Mesdames Joel Hill, J. T. Hedrlck, C. A. Hunt, Sr., O. W. Montcastle, W. G. Penry, Eu gene Koonts, Z. V. Walser, and Mes dames ' Hyatt, and Porter; Misses Carallle Hunt, Frank Robblns, Treva Shore, Ttfary Campbell and Esther Mc rrarv; Messrs. Blair Hanklns and John , Trice, former students; little Miss Frances Walser, and Leonard Parker and Thomas Hyatt Visitors will alwayv find a cordial welcome from the faculty.. . Miss Stine Popular Nurse. From the Matthews correspondent lot 'The Charlotte Observer: "Miss Willie Stine, the efficient and faith ful nurse who has beeni employed by j the town to nurse the Morris family, will return to her home In Charlotte , to morrow. Miss Stine is a' most ex cellent young lady and has complete- . ly won the hearts of the people here. If a trained nurse is needed in the future she will always be in demand. Her little patient, Mattle Morris, who -has been o IU of meningitis, 1s much bettor, and hopes of her recovery are now entertained." 1 -v (Miss Stlne Is well known in Lex ington, having been here quite often In professional capacity.) ' The Boone Memorial. Rowan county should feel a very keen . interest, (and make substantial manifestation ot it) tn the Boone me morial. . :- i . :' '' , Daniel Boone, the greatest of American trapptsts and "- hunters, whose prswess hss challenged inter est and admiration the world over, was a Rowan citizen, and surely when a call is made upon this county for a small offering by popular subscrip tion to place suitable memorial on the site of his old home this request will not be denied. - The citizens of the county will probably be called upon in a few days to make a contribution and we do not believe they will fail to respond. Salisbury Post Help the Bars! Carriers. ' v A great many of those who enjoy ' the benefits of a dally mail by rural 4 free delivery probably don't appre- elate the services as they should and don't make the life ot the carrier as . easy as they should. Along this line a carrier suggests that the roads be " kept in better condition; that mud holes and washouts be kept filled; that obstructions, such as plows, bug- Kles. trash piles, stumps, wagons, etc be kept from around the mall boxes, as they scare horses; that patrons stamp their letters and postcards and not have carriers do so much licking of stamps. Exchange. ;. Rockwell Man Waylaid sod Atttaeked, John W. Peeler, of Rockwell, man ager of the Rockwell Furniture Com pany, was waylaid and attacked un der cover of darkness one night last week by Jsoob and Richard Brown, but his orles for help brought assis tance so quickly that the Browns rsn off. Hearing that warrants were out for thero they skipped out iney nao a grudge against Peeler on account of some business .matter. Doctor Casght Smallpox. Statesville Landmark: His Iredell acquaintances will be Interested to know that Dr. 3. H. (Shaw) Tount, who was for years a resident ot New Htlrlino- community and practiced medicine in that section, was one of the victims ot the sir all pox at New ton. It Is said that Dr. Tount was doubtful of the genulness of the dis ease and came in contact with It with out being vaccinated. Shepherd Gets M Tears. Solomon Shepherd, the negro who confessed to killing Engineer Holt at Durham in December, 1908, was given SO rears In Oxford court last week. The three brothers of the dead man expressed themselves as satisfied with the verdict Reuben Barbee,- a white man, was at first indicted, and then Shepherd somewhere In the west con fessed that he committed the murder. ' Smallpox at Bed Springs. - Smallpox has speared among the students In the Bouthern Presbyter Ian College at Bed Spring. Every one has ben vaccinated and the pa tients and those exposed to them bare li'Mi mmrantlned. The disease Is in very mild form end it Is said that the r 'mi' inn Is not such as to cause any -.ir:.l. . la Regard te Smallpex. , Saturday Dr. Julian, of Thomas- ville, made a report of the cases ot smallpox tn that town under bis care, putting the number at three Dick Suggs, George Nance and Mrs. Geo. Nance. . The number In the Bap tist orphanage at that time was 18. Dr. Peacock, city physician, reported several eases tn a negro family near Thomaavlle, and stated that one of this family had the disease at Cedar Lodge, Mr. Fleer's place. Reports from the Denton-Cld sec tion. If true. Indicate a bad condition there; but it has not been ascertain ed If the reports be true. The peo ple of the section have been vaccina ted by seores. One report Is that a patient who died Thursday a man had not been burled Friday, owing to the failure to secure any one to do the work. - Saturday night Mr. Andrew Royals died In Thomasvllle of smallpox and paralysis. . He was over 70 years ot age and was In feeble health before smallpox seized him. It is said that In order to cure himself of smallpox he bathed In turpentine and kerosene oil, without results, ot course. little Lexle Cheek, one of the Inmates of the Thomasvllle orphanage, also died during the week, but his death, like that of Mr. Royals, was only a matter ot a short time, anyway, and neither can be laid directly to smallpox. Man Burned to Death. Statesville dispatch, :11th. News came from the northern section of the county of the tragic death of James Lonsford, aged about 40 years, which occurred at his home across the line in Wilkes county. The story of the horrible incident is related thus by a correspondent ot the Land mark: . '' The circumstances leading up to his death was a most sad one. For two weeks prior to bis death he had been drinking too much, and on Mon day night was lying across the hearth', supposed to be asleep, when his clothing caught fire by some means. His screams failed to wane his wife (who was asleep in the same room) but attracted the attention of Andrew Mitchell, who happened to be passing and who rushed into the house and tore the burning clothing from Lonsford. Lonsford, in the meantime, had rolled and scuffled un til he had gotten under one of the beds, which caught- Are. The flesh, from his hips to his ankles, was burned to a crisp, but hla shoes saved his teet from ' being burned. Dr. L. P. Somers attended him, but could, of course, do nothing for he unfor tunate man, who died from trie re sults of. the burns. It is said that Lonsford formerly lived in Statesville. ' Nenr-Beer Saloon. "- ' As was expected by a majority of the people, the near beer saloon la simply another effort to defeat the prohibition law of the state, ratified by a majority of over 45,000. Wedes- boro has had nearly two months ex perience with these "joints," around them about the same crowd that pat ronized the open saloon the Idle im moral and worthless element ot both races, the Identical classes that pro hibition was mainly helping. , When one . of these faces came be fore the mayor on a charge of drunkenness, be almost inva riably denies the charge, claiming that he has only taken a few bottles of near beer. Appearances indicate that the near beer saloon is a cloak that hides a multitude of sins. . How long will the people of this state stand by and ee their expressed wish thus violated? So long-as" a certain ele ment of those who opposed prohibi tion in this state, are called upon to enforce the law, just so long will the law be made a laughing stock in spite ot the fact that good results are evident even under the present sham efforts made to enforce . it Wades- boro An son lan. - ' Presiding Elder Man's Appointments Following are the appointments for Presiding Elder Marr. of the Wine- ton district on bis second round: Centenary, February 20; Spray. February 26-27; Leaksvllle, 27-28; Walnut Cove. Palmyra, March 6-6; Walkertown, March ; Madison, March 11-12; Stoneville, March 13-14; Forsyth, Pine. Grove,. March 19-20; Grace, March 20-21 ; Lewisville, at Lewieville, March 26-27 ;, West End, March 27-28: Farmlngton April 2-3; Advance, at Advance, April 8-4; North Thomasvllle. at Fair Grove. April 9- 10; Thomasvllle, Main street, April 10- 11; Davidson, at Hardlson, April 16-17; Mocksville, April 17-18; Cool eemee, April 17-18; Summerfleld, at Plsgah, April 23-24; Stokesdale, at Carmel, April 24-26; Kernersvllle, April, 27; Burhead, April 28; David son, at Centenary, April 30-May 1; Southside, May 1. , ' V Pardons by the Goremor. . The governor commutes the sen tence of A. B. Long, sent trom Mc Dowell county In 1897 for 30 years for killing a 9-year-old boy. The family of the boy opposed the pardon as did others, saying Long ought to have been banged, and that they believed he had killed a small girl in the same neighborhood; but the judge who im posed sentence started the paroont movement and said- that tha sentence was too much. The man claims the killing was accidental. He will get out therefore, in .three mors years. Robert Gray, serving three years on the roads for larceny in Forsyth,, was pardoned, as was M. B. Buchanan, ot Anson, punished lor retailing. . School Teacher Upheld. When Prof. Francis, principal In the Gaffney, 8. C, ' public schools, thrashed a boy for infraction ot the rules, the loving mother ot the boy had the teacher Indicted for cruelty to animals, and be was tried Thurs day. He offered no evidence, and tbe jury In live minutes returned a ver dict of not guilty, whereupon there was vociferous applause, for the ma jority ot the folks stood with the teacher, knowing that his conviction would mean Irreparable injury to tbe puhlto schools. This was ail Instance where an I other good parent went wrong. v ADOPT QUARANTINE LAW. Lexlnrtea "Aldermen Quarantine Against Ulgk Point, Thomasvllle and Dentoa Account Smallpox. Thursday at a special meeting of the board ot aldermen the following ordinance was adopted: Ordered by the board that no per son who shall be quarantined by the county phy-jician or who shall nave been exposed to smallpox Infection or who shall have been in Thomasvllle, High Point or Denton,' shall come within the corporate limits ot Lexing ton. "And any person who shall do so shall be ftned 10 for each offense or be Imprisoned 30 days or sent to the pesthouse. , .' : The action of the board was Te sented in High Point and Is said to have been resented more or less in Thomasvllle. Mayor Fred N. Tate, ot High Point wrote the following let ter to Major S. W. Finch, of Lexing ton, and published same in the dally papers: " Hon. S. W.' Finch, Mayor, -" ' -.- Lexington, N. C, My dear Sir: , I -am not only surprised but Indig nant to note from a hand bill and also communications in the papers, the ac tion which you and your board of town commissioners huve taken in placing a smallpox quarantine against persons from High Point This action la, not only uncalled for and unnecessary, but It Is ridiculous in the extreme. If you bad taken the slight trouole to call me by 'phone, I would have cheerfully stated the true situation as it exists here. The absolute tacts in the case are these: About six weeks ago we dis covered In an outlaying district nf our city, one case ot smallpox iu a negro family. This case was brought here from u ' neighboring town. Im mediate steps were taken to prevent the spread of the disease, with the result that only one person became in fected from the' above case. We have had other cuses however the majority of which were brought from other towns, aggregating in - all, twenty. These appeared from time to time in different widely separate! portions of the city, and the same were handled so Intelligently by out physicians that it did not even necessitate the estab lishment of a pest . house, aud none exists here today. On account of the prevalence of smallpox in adjacent -and nearby counties, r we took the . precaution about four weeks ago to make a most rigid Investigation among the school children of tho city,, and In order to do this work property, we closed the schools tor three days so that a gen eral revaccination might be bad, with the result that ' not a elusli child In the whole City has had a case of email POX. '.;:' ' There are just three Cases here to day, all of which will be discharged In from three to five days. With no new cases possible from these or pre vious cases. We have rigidly en forced every requirement as to vacci nation, fumigation, etc., with the re sult that the bustnes of the city has not for a single moment been sus pended, neither has there been the slightest apprehension on the part of our citizens, notwithstanding the fact that so many towns in and out of the state have had and are having almost an epidemic of this dread and loth some disease. With these tacts before you, your commissioners must certainly realize the gross injustice done our city, and I am sure that It Is not asking too much, that you immediately call an extra session of your board and re scind your action in so far as High Point is concerned. I also beg that you give the same proper publicity in the newspapers. Respectfully yours, FRED N. TATE, Mayor. Mayor Finch, in reply to . Mayor Tate, immediately addressed the fol lowing letter to him: , Hon. Fred N. Tate, Mayor, High Point N. C, , Dear Sir: , . - Your special delivery letter to hand this. p. m., and I desire to say that I regret very much to know that you are Indignant at the action ot our board la passing a quarantine ordi nance against High Point and I want to assure you that no offense was in tended. . .Last Monday our county board of health requested that we pass some such ordinance. Also our county phy sician. Dr. E. J. Buchanan, recom mended the same. We have had in formation that High Point has been badly Infected with smallpox both within the city limits and just out sidethat churches had been closed, schools suspended, that people were not allowed to congregate ion - the streets, that a keep-moving order had been passed and that special meetings had been held to keep np with the situation. : , . r . With this information before our board and with people coming from High Point dally saying . you had smallpox and knowing that a number of straggling colored people were in the habit of coming from High Point each Saturday night to spend Sunday here, and having the good of our own town at heart and at the sometime having no desire to damage High Point we did pass an ordinance, a copy of which I enclose you. . We stilr disclaim any intention to do your town damage. We only seek our own protection and will be glad to let down the bars just as soon as we are convinced that we run no risk In so doing. - . With highest regards and with best wishes, I am - - " Most truly yours, .a W. .FINCH, Mayor, P. 8. With your permission I could publish this correspondence, or would that be a wise thing? ; tn addition to this letter. Mayor Finch makes the following statement; "On receipt ot Mayor Tate's cele brated Indignation letter, I immediate ly replied as above. Whereupon he proceeded at once to Ignore both my letter and my postscript and make the awful mistake of plunclng Into the papers, conosslnn and aiivcrtlinng to the world that Lii;h Point has s nil- pox and that it- has been so afflicted tor a long while. , We do not feel that It is 'uncalled for, unnecessary or ridiculous' to seek protection against a smallpox epi demic, if an individual contract smallpox or Is even exposed to this dread disease, we all demand that such person be quarantined at ones and we laugh at inch person when he protests that he should have the right to scatter his death-dealing germs all over the country. If this is true as to an individual, then of course - it must apply to -towns and cities. Is it not then, ridiculous and absurd for one community having an Infec tion to get mad or indignant because another community - .vts by legal means to save Itself- affliction? "Lexington has .no 1 smallpox and does not want it and is willing to re sort to any legal measures to keep it out would even risk the indignation of our esteemed friend, the mayor of High Point, if by so doing we might save our town a smallpox epidemic. "A few facts and . I km- through High Point has and h bad smallpox for sometime and the tood mayor of the town so stated over, bis own sig nature, and that alone, Jf it had been published in time, wdti'id have been legal excuse for a (rnrrantine ordi nance. We regret to knew that small pox has broken out anywhere, but It is always best to let the facts be known in Order that the world may know or be on the lookout and be protected from an epidemic, no mat- tor whether it be scs-iet fever, mea sles or smallpox. This is the way to stamp out such contagions. "As to how many ct.ies of smallpox our progressive neighbor has had, we do not know. A communication trom Dr. Stanton says 16; Mayor Tate says 20 in all, and reports are In circula tion that tbej-e have been more. Of course a Bmall discrepancy of this kind amounts to nothing, as one man might get his information from one source and the other from another source. "We have been informed that Pleas Oaks, a white man .and a policeman in High Point, had smallpox. Mr. Oaks is a native of this county and much anxiety was felt on account of bis affliction. - .- I Under the circumstances, we do not feel that our board made any mis take, but we rather think the action was reasonable and that it will no doubt do much to check and stamp out , the dread disease-smallpox. Which has already cost so many lives and so much expenditure of money.'' P. 3. We also have Information that all the smallpox in the neighbor hood of Cld and Denton, in this coun ty, numbering some hundred and fifty or two hundred cases, is due to a visit from a High Point man to that section." . - . , , ,5,-... -.j-; . t.'-. ' Graduating Class Feted, : Thursday night at tbe borne of Prof, and Mrs. P. S. Vann Miss Louise Turnerly was hostess to the graduat ing class of the graded school. About 25 were present to enjoy the delight ful entertainment provided. . A fea ture was the - guessing contest, con sisting of Biblical, geographical, lit erary and historical questions, ar ranged by Prof. Vann in such a man ner as to afford much fun. Carl Pick- ard made the highest score, 46 out of a possible 61. After this delicious re freshments were served.' -In addition to the members of the class the fol lowing were present: Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Wright MtsBes Lois Love, Vera Lee Price, Allte Hutchinson, Victoria Byerly, Mary Trice, Beulah Conrad, Magdalene Yarbrough, Josephine Har- key, Emily Hill, Mary Noble Burk- head; Mr. George Coggtna and Mas ters Zeb Walser and Fltz Smith. Fate of Former Thomasvllle Lady. finnriav nfternnnn Mrs. H Cole. mother o( Mrs. C. A. Pamlin, former ly of Thomasvtle, now of Goldsboro, In some way ignited her clothing and was fatally burned. Mrs. Cole was a helpless paralytic. She had been left alone in her room a moment by Mrs. Pamplin, and while the latter was down stairs, the tragedy was enacted. Mr. Pamplin Is now agent for the Southern at Goldsboro. - He was agent at Thomasvllle. The funeral of Mrs. Cole was conducted from tbe Method ist church by Rev. D. H, Tuttle and the remains were carried to Carthage for burial. - Attorney Holton's Record. , Tbe Winston Journal figures that District Attorney Holton in the 1 years be has held office nas been in strumental 4n making whiskey viola tors disgorge tbe sum of I262.H04.53: and that the sum total of sentences of penitentiary cases is 310 years. 8 months, while jail sencene) reach an aggregate of 280 years, 6 months. During bis term the redoubtable offi cer bas prosecuted some of tiie most powerful whiskey dealers in the state men worth hundreds of .thousands; and he came off victor. It 's perhaps not at all too much to say that no where In the United States Ih there a district attorney with mow nerve, more energy snd more nokticy to get results than Mr. Holton. Uo is cor dially hated by tbi olass lie baa pros ecuted and by un element tn bin own party which has been np aw'-iift him in the courts. In regard tu another terra in office, it ' aid th:it Mr. Hol ton's days are numbered; 11 Is per sistently declared that- Spencer B. Adams will be appointed. Taft U said to have promised Adams. Cbeapest Lhhtf ! the Soath. - The difference In tbe cost of living for tha traveling employes of the de partment of agriculture in the differ ent sections ot the country, has been shown In testimony Just' submitted to the bouse committee on expenditures la tbe department of agriculture by Chief Disbursing Officer Appont ot that department In ths south ths expense for lodg ing and meals as shown by- their sworn expense statements averages between II and $2.60 a day, in the far west 12 and $3.60, In the central west $3.50 to $4.60 and in the east $4 to $6. Washington Dispatch. Dr. Ceekt A telegram from Valdlvla, Chile, Sunday says that Dr. Cook and wife board rd a steamer there for sKme point north. REPORT FROM ORPHANAGE. General Manager Kesler lasses Bnl- ktla ob tbe Smallpex SltsaUoa v at the Iastitation. Last week General Manager M. L. Kesler, of tbe Baptist orphanage at Thomasvllle, issued . the following statement: Last Wednesday evening we learn ed to our surprise and consternation that we had smallpox at the Fleming nursery the last place we eould have expected it We know now how it came. Last fall we received some children- from the town ot Thomasvllle. During the hol idays 1 granted these children the privilege of visiting a relative that lived in town for one day only. It transpires now that there was a case ot smallpox concealed in that house at that time. We were not aware of the fact that there was a case within a hundred miles of us. This family is now nnder shot gun, quarantine, but that does not undo the mischief out here. The first case was so mild that it was taken tor chicken pox, since it was at the nursery among the small children, not thought to be exposed, and then we have had chick en pox several' times within ths last tuw years. But last Wednesday eve ning It was observed that several lit tle girls were running pretty high fe ver and breaking out It was too ev ident with the symptoms and the his tory of the family up town, which was just made known to us at that time, to hesitate for a moment. A man was sent to Greensboro that night for 400 vaccine points. Next day the entire orphanage was vacci nated except a few who were not able to take it They have been, since. There are now sixteen cases.' One teacher, Miss Olive, is among the number. None of the cases are ser ious except one, Lexle Cheek, compli cated with Inflammatory rheumatism. The bulk of them are in one wing of the Fleming nursery. We did not re move them to the Infirmary as they had already Infected the room, and besides, which seems providential Miss Annie Hall who has charge of the Nursery had the. disease some years ago. So she is head nurse of the little hospital of her own. Cases outside the nursery are at the in firmary. We are taking every possible pre caution. Dr. Julian Is doing heroic work. We have bought disinfectants ID the wholesale and are using them every day. Every suspictous garment is cast into a proper solution of bi chloride of mercury, and suspicious rooms fumigated with formaldehyde. Arms are "taking" by hundreds. Those that do not take will receive a second application after the proper time has elansed. - v Everybody .Is taking, cream of tar tar and sulphur Id order that' the blood may be in the best possible con dition. IJght diet has been ordered for all hands. After the flrst out break Is past we are hoping that the remaining task will be only a tnor ough disinfecting of the entire place. This will be no mean undertaking. We might use this calamity for col lection purposes, but we shall do no such ' thing. Necessarily our expenses are very heavy; but we feel sure the people will meet them. Dear friends at your accustomed places of worship and whenever you lift your hearts to the throne make us a part of the bur den of your prayer. - Taft to Wall Street In a speech Saturday night to re- nubltcans at the annual Lincoln day dinner in New Yotk, in which he de fended his party and declared it hail redeemed its platform pledges. Pres ident Taft said, among other things: "If the enforcement of law is not con sistent with the present methods of carrying on business, then It does not speak well for the present meth ods of conducting business ana they must be changed to conform with tbe law." This was in answer to the cry of "panic" by Wall street in view of the' alleged activity of the adminis tration in prosecuting the trusts. Whenever any move Is made toward enforcing law that looks to protecting the people from the robbery of spo cia privilege, special privilege takes reffuge behind the wail of .""panic and too often the government listens and, because it Is cowardly, - lays down and quits. . Those Who Didn't Take Virus Took - . Smallpox. . That vaccination is as necessary in case of smallpox as. water In case of fire, has ben strikingly demonstrated with the family of Mr. J. C. Prim, of Seversville, who has the disease, Mr. Prim broke out several weeks ago and was , Immediately quarantined. He has a wife and five children and all were immediately vaccinated. The virus was Injected In all alike but on ly "took" on two of the children. Now there are five cases of smallpox In ths family, the on4y two to escape being those on whom the vaccination took. Incidentally it should be stated that there are eight cases of smallpox In this one community In Seversville. Charlotte Observer. The Folly of Cotton Oeatraets. Many a farmer last spring sold bis cotton crop at 10 cents and lost from 4 to 6 cents a pound on It Many sold mors than they raised at 10 cents ana were forced to go In the market and ear trom 12 to 15 cents for it to fill contracts or else bond over tbe dif ference In money. Six negroes in An son county contracted to sell their crop to E. P. Liles, white, at 10 cents, and they failed to coma across, so ne sued them last week and recovered $22.60 a bale on 30 bales. They ill probably not contract their cotton this spring. Thirty. Fear New Lawyers. Ths supreme court has licensed $4 new lawyers. Out ot a class of 64 examined by the. court last week 19 failed to pass. Among these were four negroes. The percentage of fail ures is unusually large. Among the successful ones are ths following: H. O. Whltaker and W. B. Hamp ton of Surry; J. W. Vanhoy ot Ire dell; J. R. Stewart Davie county; W, R. Dalton. Rockingham county; W. H. Swift Guilford, and D. B. Todd. Ashe county, Bradtttreet's Report Bradstreet's report for the week is ss follows: Trade still maintains the quiet nn- derton previously noted. Buyers are gathering at Heading markets inJ preparation tor uie upruiug ui lue pring campaign. In the northwest southwest and south and on. the Pa cific reports are still highly optimis tic and liberal buying for spring is noted. Among the leading industries it might be noted that iron and steel are quieter and that higher prices of some kinds of cotton goods repress dealings. In other lines of cotton, however and in woolen goods there Is a good movement In the lumber trade for export southern reports are of satisfactory conditions. Good re ports as to the shoe and rubber goods trade come from the west generally. Repression of railway 'buying of ma terial is reported, based on a desire to see the course ot legislation at Washington. - Business failures in the United States for the week ending with Feb ruary 10 were 249, against 232 last week, and 211 In the like week of 1909. Murderer ef Sevea Dies, Last Friday Howard Little was electrocuted in the Virginia peniten tiary at Richmond for the murder of six people. Last September near Hur ley tn Buchanan county, Va., he slew Mrs. Betsy Justis, George Meadows, her son-in-law, and the latter's wife and his three children, robbed the home of a considerable sum and set the house on fire. Robbery was at once put down as tbe motive for the crime and as Little appeared flush he was suspected, arrested, convicted and sentenced. He Js said to have been one of the handsomest men in Virginia, six feet high and weighing 236 pounds. He was no ordinary criminal, but was a sort of "Dr. Jekyl Mr. Hyde." While a marshal in the revenue service he killed a man and was sentenced to Imprisonment for life but was pardoned. Operator's Negligence and Heroism, An itinerant telegraph operator working "extra" at Albion, 111., one night last week failed to stop a west bound passenger train which . had been ordered to side track at Albion for an eastbound passenger; and re membering almost too late, he rushed after the train and grasped the rail ings of the rear car, only to be hurl ed to the ground most violently. Nev ertheless he got up, bloody as he was, and rushed after the train again, this time sticking to the car till he had smashed a glass in the Pullman door and stopped the trainv which was sidetracked just as the headlight of tbe. eastbound am into, Tiew. .The operator disappeared under cover of darkness without so much as leaving his name or address. Big Proit From One Turkey Egg. Master Howard ParriBb, son ot Wil liam Parrish, ot Cox, Randolph coun ty, found a turkey egg la tbe woods last spring, which be carried home and put under a setting ben. When the hen came off with her brood of chicks he gave the turkey egg, with other eggs, to another ben. At the end of a week, which made the fourth week, the turkey was hatched. " The ben left her best and raised the tur key. The boy sold the turkey for $2.20 and with the money bought pig. He fattened the pig and sold it yesterday to Mr. Frank Delk for $19.20 cash. Mr. Parrish had no tur keys and it was thought that the egg was from a wild turkey. Asheboro Courier. Marked His Eggs. In these strenuous times when eggs are like gold dollars, they must be protected, and a farmer whei lives near this city ran a "marked deck" on a slick thief last week, landing him in Jail for the larceny of eggs. The farmer's hens were working over time with no results, for no matter how loud they cackled there was ap parently nothing doing. Suspicion pointed to a colored boy on the place and an investigation dis closed the fact that the boy was sell ing eggs to a neighborhood merchant, but an egg is an egg and hard to Iden tify. The farmer then marked nis eggs, leaving them in the nest and the balance was easy, for the next sale made by the boy was of the mark ed variety. He was caught with the good and Judge Long will have to decide what shall be done with a tei low who sells Easter eggs when the thermometer is near zero. Mt. Airy Leader. Surry County Bnlldg Decent Home. Mt Airy dispatch, 11th: The new county home for the aged and infirm, as well as those who are unable to help themselves, will be completed In a short time,, which will reflect credit upon Surry county. The usual custom of patching up a few old cab ins for the county s poor and half way feeding and caring for, the helpless is a shame upon the county ana coun ty officers who are guilty of such a thing. Decent : homes and - ample food, raiment and fuel should be provided or nothing at all. '' :-':C; 1M Lost at Sea. Driven from her course by one of the wildest storms that has swept the Mediterranean sea in two score years, the French ship General Chancy crashed full speed on a reef at Minor ca and was totally wrecked. Every passenger on board was lost but one and all tbe crew, making a total ot 156 persons. Several Americans were aboard. ' Charlotte Boy Snlelde. Wilbur Allison, son of Rev. T. X Allison, ot Charlotte, committed sui cide last week In a pork tn Philadel phia, in which city the young man was a law student. His body was found partly in a cave, with conclusive evi dence that he killed himself with chlo roform. He was 22 years ot age. Mrs. Taft's Sew Secretary. Miss Mary D. Spires, a North Car ollnlan, succeeds Miss Alire uieec as social secretary to airs, larv HEWS FBOM EVERYWHERE. Current Events la the United States and the World at Large Briefly Set Fertk. Asheboro town will vote on $50,000 for water and sewerage, and Ashe boro township will vote on bonds for roads March 15th. . Melville W. Fuller, who has served 22 years as chief justice of the Unit ed States supreme court was 77 years old last Friday. The "drys" in Chicago in their fight against the saloons there will spend $100,000 between now and April. when the election comes off. William Weeks, . aged 83, after Sing and other prisons, died last week in Sing Sing. He had outlived all his relatives. . , , . the T. F. Floyd Manufacturing Company will establish a hundred- thousand-dollar cotton mlH at Chap- ' el Hill. Three-fourths of the money has been put up. Friday Thomas A. Edison was 63 years old. He Is Florida at present Saturday was Abraham Lincoln's birthday and was duly observed lo the north and elsewhere. Dr. Gideon M. Van Poole, son of the late Otho Poole and a brother of Dr. C. M. and Irwini Poole, of Row an, has been promoted to major in the medical corps of the government He has seen service as medical at tache in the Philippines. Abraham GlaBsman, aged 19, and Mrs. Anna Soltz, aged 45 and the motber of six children, eloped trom Greenville, Miss., several weeks ago, the woman taking $3,305 of her hus band's money. They were located in New York last week and arrested. Thomas C. Duncan, the Konnapolls jeweler who was mixed up in tbe rob bery or tha Southern railway station and the Southern Express Company's agency at Kannapolls, got two years in prison last week. His accomplice. Agent Cater, has already been sent up for four years. The candidates for postmaster ot ; Durham will run for county offices and the man who polls the most votes will be considered the man who ought to have the poetofflce. As there is no ' chance for a republican in Durham county, the unique scheme will not re sult In an election for any man on the ticket All corporations that do not make report of their net income for the year ending December 31, 1909, by the first of March will ,be liable -to t a levj!.tenJU.t. ;,."i;ije law" " requiring . this Is a federal statute, and is-de signed for the purpose of taxing cor porations. Returns are made to Col lector Geo. H. Brown, Statesville. . Tobacco farmers in Rocklneham have received threatening cards and ' circulars, stating what would be done to them if they did not pool their to bacco and quit selling it in the ware houses. They think that the "night rider" idea si either a Joke or else ' comes from some crank, and do not believe that there is anything serious behind it Thursday moraine at. 1 nVirvV ; man method Intn tha t.iiMMnii ..at..- waw WWQl.JW UUII.O of the Southern station in Salisbury and declared be had been robbed just uoriu oi ine station by a man and woman, the man - holding a gun on him Whilst her larivshin want thrnncrh his pockets. They got all his valua bles but missed his money, which was la an inside pocket J. H. and Asa Fussell. of Dunlin county, charged with keeping a young negro in involuntary servitude, were discharged in the federal court at Wilmington last week. . The negro claimed he owed them $4.40, that he was sick and couldn't: work, that he, was arrested and mado to work out a fine of $10 and costs and pay the men the $4.40 to boot A government bulletin ' says that the beef trust is not entirely respon sible for high prices of meats, that shortage In the supply is largely the cause. Nevertheless the trusts cold storage Warehouses are filled with beef, pork, eggs, chickens and every thing else that there is to eat wait ing for higher prioes still. Tbe prices have gone up in spite of the beet boy cott . . , ..- . --.J The Newport Mills Company, -jot Newport, Tenn., which shipped a car oi x.tuu nags oi snort-weight meal to a Charlotte firm, paid the costs of the libel proceedings Instituted by the federal authorities and gave a bond ot $1,200 to give full weight hereafter.' If a bag of flour is mark ed to weigh 100 pounds and it actual- ly weigh less, the manufacturer Is In- -dlctable. Certain people are asking congress to frame a law that will guarantee more humane treatment of livestock by the railroads. The statement la made that the roads often sidetrack cattle trains to give passsge to more profitable freight that millions ot dollars worth of cattle are taken front the car dead each year, and that the flesh of animals is mistreated in tran sit Is injured for food purposes. About all ths democratic senators and a number bf republican sens- tors will oppose the postal saving bank bill championed by ths repub lican party, and supported by the president and Senator Aldrlch. They think that it Aldrlch Is for it it Is bad, and they claim that the bill Is so framed that It will make tbs employ ment of the vast sums of postal de posits by the monled interests cer tain, , . ,i ; Senator Overman's bill to allow a poor man to prosecute writ - ot er ror and appeals from circuit snd dis trict federal courts to the courts rf appeal, without giving bond or I ' costs in advnnce pn- .1 t' a i. last we-k and will 1 r i house. Heritifnre a r r I i sue in tbe lowr 1 ' ' advance li's . 1 t i be i I t t ! ii i i i i bond i r p i.