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TEE.EEBLY- tUlZETTE. T 1 i t i 3 -I P& qnmi' f imiiiUm ... SO One sqar six month..... .. S 00 Oaqw on I 00 it, , mrcsru b m. j. kvsers. Cesitml TimnSnf Jtgmia. Itbmnl mmtxwtM nd lot hrpr VOL. IX. RALEIGH; N. 0.. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1897- NO. G. AY GAZETTE. (H A V WV II W II N M OMraroac. oa wih . . 1 M KORTU GHOUH S in For 1897 Will be Held in October 18th to 23d, NEGRO COTTON MILL ASSURED Bids for the Building to be Taken--The State's Judicial Appropria tionsRaleigh's Street Railway. I he North Carolina State Fair for 1897 will be held during October, from the 18th to the 23d inclusive, on the State Fair grounds near Raleigh. As is well known, the Fair is held under the auspices of the North Carolina Ag ricultural Society. There was a meet ing of the directors of this organization held in Raleigh, and it was at this meeting that the date for the Fair was decided upon. Col. Benehan Cameron, president, and a number of other mem bers of the board were in attendance. During the session President Cam eron was instructed to appoint commit tees on premiums and for the arrange ments of other details of the Fair; but these are not prepared for publication. In speaking of the Fair, Col. Cameron remarked that the prospects for the suc cess of the event were brighter than ever before and the 1897 Fair promises to eclipse that of any previous year. The dates selected were made'necessary in order to form the chain of dates for similar events in other Statea and will allow the presence here of attractions which could not otherwise have been secured. The special committees to bo appointed by President Cameron will doubtless be made public within the next few days. The Negro Cotton Mill Assured. At a meeting of the directors of tho Coleman Manufacturing Company, held in Concord on last Sat urday, the directors examined all the correspondence and various propo sitions which nave been made to the corporation, and have now decided that the mill will certainly be built. W. C. Coleman tendered his bond as secretary and treasurer in the sum of $10,000, and as it was signed by a large number of the best white citizens, it was at once accepted. The subscriptions already made to the enterprise justifies the directors in empowering their secretary and treas urer to receive additional subscriptions to the capital stock. There was an as sessment of ten per cent, on the stock payable inside of sixty days. The secretary and treasurer was authorized to secure the services of a competent architect, and also to advertise for bids of contractors for the buildings. It is expected that the Southern Railway will construct a switch at an early day for the benefit of the property. ; ' Parties interested in other parts of the town have already offered to do nate a sight for the mill on the line of the new proposed railroad from Con cord to Aberdeen within the limits of the town, and the propositions are being considered. The Special Appropriations. The State Treasurer has completed a list of the special appropriations made by the last Legislature as follows: Western Hospital, 90,600, department for insane, $3,000; Central Hospital, $55,450; Eastern Hospital, $40,000: In stitution for Deaf Mutes and Blind, $23,000; Institution for the blind, $34, 500; State Normal and Industrial Col lege, $12,500: University, $5,000; State line between Tennessee and North Carolina, $300; white Asrricultural and Mechanical College, $5,000; Colored Agricultural and Mechanical College, $5,000; Colored Normal School, $5,000; colored State normal schools, $4,000; extra physicians for Colored Deaf-Mute and Blind Institution, $750; executive mansion, $600; portrait of Vance, $500; purchase of Moore's Creek battleground, $200; Colored Normal and Industriul School at Elizabeth City, $500. Raleigh's Street Railway. An order has been mailed to the Gen eral Electric Company, at Schenectady, N. Y., for eight handsome new street cars. The order was forwarded by Mr, Charles Johnson for the Raleigh Elec tric Company and the cars are to be used in operating the street railway of that city. An order has also been for warded for a 120-horse power dynamo and other machinery needed in the ' re establishment of Raleigh's street car power house. The street car line is to be run on schedule time not later than May 1. It is expected that within the next week work will be commenced upon the new power house and will be pushed with all possible speed to im mediate eomnletion. However. th contract is not yet awarded, nor have the managers of the company determ ined upon the kind of material to be used in its construction. "Wilmington is being terrorized by fire bugs. Besides other recent attempts two were made Sunday. The residence of Mr. Duncan McEachern, on Sev enth, between Orange and Dock streets, was found in flames. The prompt work of the department stopped the blaze. The damage will not amount to more than $100, which is fully covered by in surance. The fire was incendiary be yond a doubt. A little later another fire ala.m was sent in from box 53. This time the fire bug had set fire to the store of James Durham, corner of Ninth and Orange streets. The damage amounted to $200, covered by insur ance. This fire came dangerously near spreadiog to several wooden houses ad joining, but through the work of the firemen and the heavy rain at the time, this was prevented. All the records and journals of the late General Assembly are now in the archives of the State. Chief Clerk E. O. Masten, of the House of Represent atives, has turned over the last docu ments from his side of the house. Speaking of State matters Masten said that the expenses of this department of the House of Representatives was not less than $1,000 less than the expenses of 1895, which, with the saving in- the Senate clerical expenses of $624, gives a total of $1,624 saved by the General Assembly of 1897 over that of 1895. All the work is thoroughly up and in better condition than for many years. Raleteh REVIEW OF TRADE. Larger Purchases for Consumption Cannot Longer Be Delayed. Messrs. R. G. Dun &Co.'s review ol trade for tne past week, issued Satur day, says; "Though steadily increas ing business is still much below its volume in former years of prosperity, and many express disappointment. Yet there is some . gain every week, with more hands at work and more mines in operation, and the sure result, larger purchases for consumption, can not be long delayed. In some branches it is felt already. There is a larger distribution of finished products, and the demand for 'commercial loans has sharply increased, especially in dry goods and the iron and steel branches. "The progress of the iron and steel industry is hindered by uncertainty re garding the cost of lake ore for the com ing year,, though the repeated adjourn ment of producers' meetings is inter preted as evidence that an agreement will he ultimately reached. It is re ported that Norrie ore at $2. 75 will be taken as the basis, which would imply about $2.85 for Mesaba ores, but until the question has been settled many im portant transactions are deferred. While there is no great activity in finished products, the demand steadily in creases. Contracts for several great buildings at Chicago are pending, and for a good many bridges and ottrer rail road works, and the demand for wire nails and for wire does not abate, neither the demand for black sheets re quired in the tin plate manufacture. Although shipments of boots and shoes are almost as large as many previous years, it is announced that one or two of the largest works have closed for want of orders. At the same time many other concerns are taking very large orders, it is claimed, at prices below those generally quoted. No change whatever appears in quotations of leather, this week and the Chicago market for hides fluctuates with a slight change reported downward. While manufacturers of cotton goods are looking forward with much confi dence, the present demand is not equal to expectations, nor has the curtail ment in production of print cloths ac complished the desired change in con dition. The buying of wood, mainly of a speculative character in expectation of new duties, continues remarkably large. Sales at ihe three chief markets for the past week were 10,891,900 pounds. No great increase has yet ap peared in the demand for goods, al though a few more mills have found enough orders to start, perhaps in part anticipating a future demand. The ex pectation of new duties does not influ ence the woolen feoods market as might be expected. "The volume of business indicated by clearing house exchanges is smaller than last year. The average of daily exchanges for the month is 3. 3 per cent, less than last year. "Failures for the week have been 216 in the United States, against 261 last year, and 50 in Canada, against 49 last year." Chicago Grain and Produce. Chicago. Saturday. The leading futures were as follows: Wheat: Open. Close. March 7374 73 . May 7475 74i July 73J 72 Corn: March 23 J 23 May 25 24 July 2626 2o Oats: March 16? 16$ May 17 17 July 18 , 18 Mess Pork : March ... May. 8 95 8 85 July.. 9 07 8 97 Lard : March... ... May 4 30 4 27 July 4 40 4 37 Ribs: March ... May 4 87 4 80 July. 4 90 4 82 Liverpool Cotton Market. Liverpool, Saturday. Futures Closed firm. March 3 5960 March and April 3 5960 April and May. 3 5960 May and June 3 5960 June and July 3 5960 July and August 3 5960 August and September 3 5758 September and October 3 5152 October and November 3 4647 November and December....". 3 45 a December and January 3 4445 January and February Mew York Cotton Futures. New Yobk, Saturday. Cotton quiet. Futures closed steady. Lowest. Closing. March 6 99 6 67 April 7 02 6 02 May 7 05 7 06 June 7 09 7 10 July.. 713 714 August 714 715 September 6 87 6 88 October 6 75 6 76 November 6 77 6 77 Deoember 6 80 6 82 January 6 84 - 6 85 February... .... 6 80 Cleveland Paid Oft. The treasury department at Wash ington closed up its accounts with Mr. Grover Cleveland Saturday. Secre tary Gage signed a warrant in favor of Mr. Cleveland for $277.78, the balance due him on his salary as president, and it was mailed to him at -Princeton, N. J. This balance completes the $200,000 to which Mr. Cleveland was entitled for his four years' services. ' Total Visible Supply. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 3,552,226 bales, of which 3,131,926 bales are American, ' against 3,484,767 and 2,981,567 bales respective ly last year. Receipts of cotton at alt interior towns 33,084. Receipts from the plantations 113,993 bales. Crop in sight, 7,695,522 bales. Death In the Ring. At Philadelphia, Pa., .in a boxing bout Samuel S. Perry struck Edward Gibbons a blow near the heart, and after receiving it began to vomit blood and died soon thereafter. RAINS, Ml H fllS. A Very Serious Situation Along the Mississippi River. NOTHING INSIGHT BUT WATER. Storms and Cyclones Add Terror to the Situation One Hundred Miles . of Country Under Water. Memphis, Tenn., March 19. A fur ther half-inch rise in the Mississippi means the devastation of property and probably a loss of life unequaled in the flood history of this section. The rise is threatened, because rain is still fall ing. Seventeen persons are reported drowned below Curruthersville, Mo. A stretoh of land over 100 miles long, from a point 70 miles north of Memphis to a point 50 miles south of the Tennes see metropolis, is submerged, in places to a depth of 10 feet. The fertile val leys of Tennessee and Arkansas are completely inundated and many lives have been lost and stock drowned. Fencings and dwellings have been swept away, and the inhabitants are destitute and homeless, left to starve or drown by the remorselessly rising tide. Reports from tributary streams show rains and rapidly rising rivers all of which will help to swell the rising waters. The floods now partake of the nature of a deluge. As far as the eye can see nothing but water meets tne gaze. Six hundred people were rescued yes terday on the Arkansas side of the river and taken to Memphis, but there are flooded districts which relief boats can not reach the stricken ones. On island 30, one hundred sufferers and consider able live stock were rescued by the steamer Itasca. Neither man nor beast had tasted food for 24 hours. Human beings and helpless brutes are huddled together awaiting assistance all along the Iron Mountain and Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf tracks. Five hun dred people were forced to flee from the floods in Dyer and Obion counties, Tenn. OVEB 100 HOUSES DAMAGED. Dallas, Tex., March 19. Special telegrams, received this morning, state that northern Texas was swept by a windstorm last night, that at times de veloped the proportions of a cyclone. The worst damage reported so fa. oc curred at Denton, where over 100 houses were struck by the storm and all more or less damaged. It is be lieved that the storm in the vicinity of Denton has caused damage to the ex tent of $100,000. DBOWSED BY UPSETTING "DUO OUT." Gavin Ark., March 9. For many miles the country is flooded, and the water is up on the Iron Mountain track. Hundreds of hands are try ing to keep it back with dirt bags. At every station the negroes are gathering, waiting to be taken away. Many get on the trains and are carried without pay. The list of fatalities is said to be long and probably never will be known. Several lives havebeen lost by the up setting of a "dug out," and many more fatalities are reported. A mountain of household goods is piled up at ev ery stotion. Whites and negroes beg for help from every train crew. Houses along the roads are submerged to the roofs, and cattle are standing in the fields with only their heads above the water. THE MOST SEBIOUS 8IXCE 1882, New Orleans, March 19. A special to the States from Vicksburg, Miss., says the river situation for the next thirty days promises to be more than serious. There is a higher stage at Cairo and Helena, the two main points of observation, than since 1886, and by their reported rain falls in the past twenty-four hours, both will score ex treme high water marks. The pressure is going to be excessive all along the levee lines. It will first appear between Helena and the mouth of the Arkansas. On that reach, levees have been put in front of the White river basin since the last high water, and the effect of this is now to be tested. From there down the levees have been raised and enlarged greatly and ought to hold unless the flood is prolonged. Altogether, it is the most serious situation for the delta since 1882. A dispatch from Anniston, Ala., says a strong wind storm did great damage in this section, but no loss of life is re ported. At Jackson, Miss., and vicinity the storm did great damage to property, but no loss of life is reported at this time. All telegraph wires are down. A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., of March 18, says: The work of rescuing the people in the flooded district is be ing carried on night and day and this morning half a dozen steamers brought to Memphis over 1.000 refugees. The steamboat men tell some harrowing stories of suffering and death. One wo man who was rescued from an Indian mound, 15 (miles west of here, held in her arms a dead infant that had perish ed from cold and hunger. Another fam ily of four when rescued, related that two small children were drowned in sight of their helpless parents. Islands Nos. 40, 36 and 84 in the Mis sissippi river are completely submerged and the inhabitants to the number of about 600 have abandoned their homes. Rain began to fall here yesterday after noon and at noon today there has been no cessation of the downpour. The river now marks 86.9. The levees are standing the strain much better than was expected, but a break is liable to occur at any moment. For Military Service. About 700 Greeks, it is reported, sailed from New York Friday to their native country to be enrolled and equip ped for military service in her behalf in the event she engages in an early war, which is among the probabilities. Refused to Fight Corbett. After the big pugilistio fight at Car son, Nev. , Fitzsimmons refused to fight Corbtt again, and Corbett said he would punch Fitz's head on sight, and the latter replied: "If you do I will kill you." ST. LOUIS' COSTLY FIRE. A Great Dry Goods House Burned. Loss $750,000. Fire broke out in the fourth floor o the building occupied by the Ely Walker Dry Goods company, south west corner of Eighth street and Wash ington avenue, St. Louis, Mo., Mon day evening. The fire department was badly hampered, and it was 15 minutes after the first engine arrived before a stream of water was playing.. A maze of overhead wires had to be cut away, and the street was jammed with the cars of four lines of the Washington avenue tracks. Within half an hour the fire shot up the elevator shaft and all the upper floors were ablaze. The building is seven stories high, and every floor is filled with merchandise. Fireman Smith of Engine Co. 18 fell from the third floor through to the basement and was fatally injured.; Mark Barton, a porter, was overcome with smoke and was .revived with dif ficulty. The east wall fell first carrying down Pipeman Gntuwall of the No. 8 hose tower, Towerman Jerry Mahan and Lineman McCann. Gutuwall was in stantly killed and McCann badly in jured. Mahan clung to the tower and was thrown through a second story win dow across the street, receiving severe cuts. Sections of the wall fell at short intervals for half an houi. A revised list of the killed and in jured is as follows: Killed: George Gutuwall, fireman. Injured: Tower man Jerry Mahan, cut and bruised; Lineman Luke McCann, cut and bruised; Lee Smith, fireman, fatally in jured; Mark Barton, porter, badly shocked ; Mrs. Anna Rice, trampled on and badly injured; Jerry Cahan, hand cut. W. H. Whipple, insurance adjuster, estimates the loss on stock at $750,000, as some of the stock was saved. The Scott, Force and Goodbar Hat Com pany occupy the west half of the block. Damage to their stock by water and smoke $10,000. Loss on building will be $100,000; insured. A Fatal Whirlwind. A whirlwind visited the town of Mingo Junction, O., Saturday night, doing- considerable damage and at tended with fatal results. The wind lifted up the iron roof of the cast house, which collapsed, the tall brick walls, which were held by log chains, falling in. Frank Hobson and Larry Fahey were caught under the falling walls. A force of men was put to work to rescue them and Fahey was taken out dead. Frank Hobson, aged 29 and single, was so seriously crushed that he died three hours afterward. John ' Weikas, a Hungarian, was struck by falling tim bers and bricks and badly crushed. Mississippi Sufferers. Tho valley of the lower Mississippi is a vast inland sea. Death, desolation and distress is spreading from as far north as Bird's Point, Mo. , to the country below Helena, Ark. The heavy rainfall of the past fortnight in the val ley and the subsequent floods are the inimeiate cause of the frightful swelling in the Mississippi in the vicity of Cairo and south of there. The break in the levee near Nodena, Ark. , Saturday has wrought havoc in Mississippi county, which is virtually at the mercy of the raging torrent. Many persons are thought to have perished in the vicin ity. Twenty-five negroes are reported drowned in Bushy Bayou. i Three Murderers Lynched. A special from Ocala, Fla., slats s that three negroes, named Ed Holmes, Jim Miley and Jim Gilmore, were lynched at Blue Springs Station, south east of that place, at 3 o'clock Monday morning, by an armed mob of over 400 men. They confessed the murder of Postmaster" J. M. Barfield and his e'erk, J. R. Turner, at Julletta. The murder was a cold-blood one, the ne groes shooting the two men for the pur pose of robbery. Another negro im plicated in it named Otis Miller, is re ported to have been caught and served in the same way. Cashier Kills Himself. R. L. Lawrence, cashier for a mer chant named Stephenson, at Elberton, Ga. , committed suicide in the Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., Monday. Steph enson says that so far as he knows Law rence's accounts are all right. Receiver Appointed. The Wilmington, Newbern & Norfolk Railroad was placed by Judge Simon ton, of the Circuit Court of .the United. States, at Charleston, Monday, in the hands of a receiver, on application of John D. Bellamy, of Wilmington, at torney for the State Trust Company, of New York, trustee of the mortgage bondholders. H. A. Whiting was named as receiver. The mortgage debt of the company is about one and a quarter millions. Three Men Killed. Five horses on the track ditched the northbound Missouri Pacific passenger train near Ettawattia, Kans,, Monday, and the engineer and firemen were kill ed. T. Meadow, of Atchison,. Kans., a "travelling salesman for the Sims Grocery Company, was badly scalded and had his leg crushed. "He died later. Kush at Baltimore's Custom House. The rush to get goods out of bond at' Baltimore's custom house before the new tariff bill becomes a law and in-, creases the duties -thereon began Mon day. The receipts were $47,713. Nearly all of the withdrawals consisted of to bacco.' Will Hold Over. Postmaster General Gary has made an announcement of interest to Demo cratic postmasters whose terms expire on various dates under the new admin istration. He says he has decided to adhere to the four-year tenure of office policy for postmasters, except in cases where such officials should be removed for cause. - mm hi issi. Extra Session of the Fifty-Fifty Congress Convenes. BRIEF IN RECOMMENDATIONS Session Called to Deal With Deficits and Prevent Same in Future by Passing a Tariff Bill, Washington, March 15. The extra ordinary session of the Fifty-fifth Con gress was opened by reading the Presi dent's proclamation convening it. Sixty eight Senators answered to the roll-call, and the galleries were filled to over flowing, iw.i.r-xy ? V ' Mr. W. A Harris, of Kansas, was sworn in as successor to Mr. Peffer. Aiter appointment of a committee to notify the Presidhnt and the House that the Senate was ready' to begin its du ties, a recess was taken until 2 p.m. Assistant Secretary .Pruden announc ed and presented the message, which was read by the clerk, as follows: To the Congress of the United States: Regretting the necessity which has required me to call you together, I feel that your assembling in extraordinary session is indispensible, because of the condition in which we find the reve nues of the government. It is con ceded that its current expenditures are greater than it3 receipts, and that such a condition has existed for now more than four years. With unlimit ed means at our command, we are pre senting the remarkable spectacle of in creasing our public debt by borrowing money to meet the ordinary outlays in cident upon an economical and prudent administration of the government. An examination of the subject discloses this fact in every detail, and leads in evitably to the conclusion that the rev enue that allows' it is unjustifiable and should be corrected. We find by the reports of the Secre tary of the Treasury that the revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, from all sources were $425,8(,200.22, and the expenditures for all purposes were $415,953,800.50. leaving an excess of receipts over expenditures of $9,914, 453. 60. During that fiscal year $40, 570, -407. 98 were paid upon the public debt, which had been reduced from March 1, 1889, $259,076,890, and the annual inter est charges decreased $11,684,576.60. Thereceipts of the goverment from all sources during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1893, amounted to $461,716,561 and its expenditures to $459,374,887, showing an excess of receipts over ex penditures of $2,341,674. Since that time the receipts of no fiscal year, and but with few exceptions of no more of any fiscal year, have exceeded the ex penditures. The receipts of the gov ernment from all sources, during the fiscal year ending June 39, 1894, were $372,802,498 and its expenditures $442,005,758, leaving a deficit, the first since the resumption of specie pay ments, of $69,803,200. Notwithstand ing there was a decrease of $10,769,128, inthe ordinary expenses of the govern ment as compared with the previous fiscal its income was still not sufficient to provide for its daily necessities and the gold reserve in the Treasury for the redemption of greenbacks was drawn upon to meet them. But this did not suffice, and the government then resorted to loans to replenish the reserve. In February, 1894, $50,000,000 in bonds were issued, and in November following a second issue of $50,000,000 was deemed necessary. The sum of $117,171,795 was realized by the sales of these bonds, but the reserve was stead ily decreased until, on February 8, 1895, a third sale of $62,315,400 in bonds for $56,116,244 was announced to Con gress: The receipts of the government for ihe fiscal year ending J une 30, 1895,, were $390,373,203 and the expenditures $433,178,426. showing a deficit of $42, 805,223. A further loan of $100,000,000 was negotiated by the government in February, 1896, the sale netting $111, 166,240 and swelling the aggregate of bonds issued within three years to 8202,315,400. For the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1896, the revenues of the government from all sources amounted to $409,475,408, while its expenditures were $434,678,654. or an excess of ex penditures over receipts of $25,203,245. In other words, the total receipts for the three fiscal years ending June 30, 1896, were insufficient by $137,811,729 to meet the total expenditures. Nor has this condition since im proved. For the first half of the present fiscal year, the receipts of the government, exclusive of postal reve nues were $157,507,603, and its ex penditures, exclusive of postal service, $195,410,000, or an excess of expen ditures over ' receipts of $37,902, 396. In January of this year ihe re ceipts, exclusive of postal revenues, were $24,37,994 and the expenditures, exclusive of postal service, $30, 239, 38 J a deficit of $5,592,395 for the month. In February of this year the receipts, ex clusive of postal revenues, were $24. 400,997 and the expenditures exclusive of postal service, $28,796,068, a deficit of $4,395,059, or a total deficiency of $180,001,580 for the three years and eight months ending March 1st, 1897. Not only are we without a surplus in the Treasury, but with an increase in the public debt there has been a corres ponding increase in the annual interest charge from $22,893,883 in 1892, the lowest of any year since 1862, to $34, 887,297 in 1896, or n increase of $11, 493,414. It may be urged that even if the revenue of the government had been Sufficient to meet alfits ordinary expenses during the past three years, the gold reserve would have still been insufficient to meet the demands upon it, but be that as it may it is clearly manifest, without denying or confirm ing the correctness of such, a conclu sion that the debt would have been decreased in at least the amount of the deficiency, and business confidence im measurably strengthened throughout the country. Congress should promptly correct the existing conditions. Ample revenues' must be supplied not only for the ordi nary expenses of the government, but for the prompt payment of liberal pen sions and the liquidation of the princi pal' and interest of the public debt In raising revenues, duties should be so levied upon foreign products as to pre serve the home market; so as to protect our own producers; to revive and in crease manufactures; to relieve and en courage agricultnre; increase our do mestio and foreign commerce; to aid and develop mining and building, and to render to labor in every field of use ful occupation the liberal wages and adequate rewards to which skill and In dustry are justly entitled. The neces sity of a tariff law which shall provide ample revenue, need not be further urged. The imperative demand of the hour is the prompt enactment of such a measure and to this object I earnestly recommend that Congress shall make every endeavor. Before other business is transacted, let us first provide suffi cient revenue to faithfully administer the government without the contracting of further debt, or the continued dis turbance of our finances. Signed. Wm. McKixmt. President of the United States. The message occupied the undivided attention of the Senators, and of the audience in tho galleries, but no demon stration fallowed its cJniktt. CHAMPION FITZSIMMONS. He Puts Corbett to Sleep In the Four teenth Round by a Blow Under the Heart. At Carson, . Nevada, Wednesday after two years of doubt and vexatious postponement, the heavyweight cham pionship of the world was decided be yond cavil, when Robert Fitzsimmons sent James J. Corbett helpless to his knees, with a left hand blow under the heart, after one minute and 45 seconds, in the fourteenth round of their battle in the arena. The great contest was won in the simplest manner, and the knockout was tho result of one unwary move on the part of Corbett. The dis patch says that the ex-champion is al most crazed over his defeat, but says that it was a fair fight and that he was not satisfied and would have it over. After the result was declared Fitzsim mon's wife stepped up and kissed the bloody face of her victorious husband. After the big mill there were two side fights, .which resulted: Hawkins put Flaherty out with a left swing in 41 seconds, and Green defeated Smith in the thirteenth round. Large crowds witnessed the fights, and it is impossible to estimate the amount of money that changed hands on the above results. COTTON GKOWERS. Meeting of Their Protective Associa tion in Augusta, Ga. The meeting of the American Cotton Growers' Protective Association at Au gusta, Ga.,.was attended by a very representative body of men. President Hector D. Lane, of Alabama, presided and addressed the convention. An ad dress was also made by ex-Senator Patrick Walsn. Resolutions were adopted urging the farmers to first make the cotton States eelf-supporting, and then the 'area devoted to cotton will yield more profitable than if they Gought to increase the number of bales. While the reduction of the acreage to be planted in cotton for the sole pur pose of reducing the size of the crop may be impracticable, the increase of area planted in food crops must inev itably bring prosperity to the cotton growers, irrespective of the size of the cotton crop. There has never been a time in our history that a movement looking to the increased production of corn, hay, oats, hog- and other food crops was also imiiortant and uoces sary. Short In His Accounts. At Richmond, Va., the board of di rectors of the old Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia make public a de falcation of some $35,000 as the result of the examination of the books of the association by an expert bookkeeier. Mr. F. D. Stegar, the assistant secre tary, in whose account the defalcation occurs, was sent for to explain the mat ter, but did not appear and is said to have left the city. AH the securities of the corporation, which is one of tho oldest and strongest in the State, are intact, the loss being on collections. Nominations Favorably It? ported. The United States Senate committee on foreign relations Wednesday ordered a favorable report to be made on the nominations of John Hay, to be am bassador to Great Britain; Horace Por ter, to be ambassador to France, and Mr. White, present secretary at Lon don, to be secretary of the embassy at London. Cleveland's Outing Ended. . At Cape Charles, Va., Wednesday,. ex-President Cleveland disembarked from the lighthouse tender violet and took the New York express for Prince ton, N. J. Illness of Gen. Hampton. Gen. Wade Hampton, the famous warrior-statesman of South Carolina, is dangerously ill at his apartments in the Metropolitan Hotel, Washington, and his recovery is regarded by some of his friends as doubtful. His health has been failing him for several mon'hs past, and in addition he has suffered greatly from the never-healing wound which followed the amputation of his right leg at the close of the war His vitality has been further taxed recently by a distressing cough, which appears to havo settled upon his lungs. The General is now nearly 80 years of age, and it is feared he has not sufficient re cuperative power to withstand the latest attack upon his already depleted system. Farmers In the Red River Valley are in great distress because they havo no seed wheat for the spring sowing, and 200 of them recently held a meeting; at which they drew up a vigorous appeal to the Minnesota Legislature for aid. This condition of affairs is not due to any lack of foresight on the part of the farmers in the four or five counties in volved, but to the great floods of last, spring, which completely destroyed tho growing crops. If some means are not adopted to assist them in procuring seed grain, hundreds of these farmers will have to allow their lands to lie Idle, and they and their families will suffer even more than at present. 1 i wm. The Gleanings of a Week Told for the Race in Paragraphs. A COLORED BANK FAILS. Ia Need of Great Workers and Great , ThinkersGratifying to Decent People Race Inventors, One of the most peculiar institutions of this country is the average Negro barber shop. It is here that tho al leged peers of Gladstone, Bismark, and Blaine assemble, and, after select ing a comfortable seat immediately pro- , ee! to cn.8s and. dm-urs'tho. iwifti ' 'oltlte dny' wjh"" . Gtc'tkc iud prolixity. These "pneuixXtlo" tires' ' and oratorical steeple-jacks seem to v take fiendish delight in employing Latin phrases and springing words of ten syllables on an unsuspecting pub lic. These rhetorical acrobats some times take desperate chances on the ig norance of their audience and many of them have come to grief by some perti nent inquiry propounded by some hitherto unnoticed Cicero. The barber shop orator stands alone in his glory and is ever ready to impart knowledge to the gaping crowd of ignorant story tellers that revolve around him. May his shadows never grow less! The Col ored American. William L. Washington, of Lexing ton, Ky.,won the annual oratorical con test of Oberlin College students, and another credit mark for the race has been scored. His subject was "Fred erick Douglass," and there were four other contestants, all whites. He will represent the college at the meeting of the Northwestern Oratorical Associa tion, to be held at Ann Arbor, Mich. , in May, This association has as mem bers the following colleges; Ann Ar bor, Northwestern, Chicago, Iowa and Minnesotta. Quite an honor Mr. Wash ington has won for himself. The Ga zette. We stand in neod of great workers and great thinkers. These are the men who make the history of a people. A people are great only to the extent of its great men. Men of this character mark the epochs of great periods in the life of the people. Many of our lead ers suffer becauso of a disposition to cling to customs. We must tear, our selves away from any custom which is at war with right and principle. Vir ginia Baptist. The "jim crow" car bill was aeain defeated in the Legislature of South Carolina. This is very grati fying to decent people. The fight over this question annually in the Legisla ture of that State shows how relentless some people are in that State in their efforts to humiliate and degrade the colored man who has some respect for himself. The Afro-American Presby terian. F. Z. C. Peregrino, editor of the Spectator, of Buffalo, N. Y., has sent a strong letter to Rev. T. Dewitt Tal mage, asking him why in protesting against Armenian outrages he does not alno say a word against the lynching of Negroes in the South. The letter was published in a recent issue of the Buf falo Courier, and has attracted much attention. The Elevator. The great bulk of the Negro iwpula tion.are in the South and will remain here; nevertheless as a people they are distributing themselves well over the country. It is noted that there are now 40,000 of the race residing in lliiladel phia. There are only three more cities in the country with a larger number, namely: Baltimore, Washington and New Orleans. The Lexington Savings Bank, a col ored institution located at Baltimore, Md., has failed, with liabilities of over $16,000. Lawyer E. J. Waring, the president and cashier, has dinapieared. The safe was forced open by experts and only $28.72 found therein. A pro found sensation has been created. Richmond Planet. The Philadelphia society for the edu cation of colored ministers, has missed getting $25,000 bequeathed to it. Mary Jievan's mother lett the money, but the daughter promptly began a fight to have the will annulled, and the courts of Scran ton gave judgment in her fa vor. California Elevator.' The publishing board of the colored Baptists of this conntrv appointed at the national convention field in St. Louis last September has published Sunday periodicals for the first quarter of 1897. This is the first time that colored Bap tist literature has ever been used in col ored Baptist Sunday-schools. Miss Pauline Morrow, of Littig.Tex., has passed the state examination in pharmacy and is the first of our girls to do so. She is a graduate of the phar maceutical department of the Meharry Mecical College, of Nashville, Tenn. t William C. Hill is a oolored sculptor of Washington. In good weather he works at street paring, and persues his art in bad weather. lie has done some fine work as a sculptor. There are 1.C87.B28 male colored chil dren in the United States in schools between the ages of 3 and 21 years. There are also 1,609,499 females of tho same age. The Presbyterian. The Negro building at the Tennessee Centennial will cost $12,000. Discussing the "Business of a Great Factory" in Scrlbner's, P. G. Hubert, Jr., says on the question of small eco nomics versus profits: "A certain gli gantic flour mill of Indianapolla ascrib ed a balance on the right side of thi ledger one year to the fact that ten hoops had been used on Its barrels that year, instead of twelve as in former years. Its margin of profit on a barrel of flour may be seen to have been small enough."
The Gazette [1891-1898] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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