North Carolina Newspapers

THE WEEKLY GAZETTE THE WEEKLY GAZETTE. Bates of Advertising. A WEEKLY NEW8PAPZB nrausHiD bt JAMES H. YOUNG, Editor and Prop. A. J. ROGERS and J. D. PAIR General Trayelmg Agents. One Square, one Insertion $ 60 One square, one month. ...... , 1 00 One square, two months. ....... i 00 One square, three months ..... I 60 One square, six months........ 6 00 One square, one year 0 00 tSTLiberal contracts made for larger arenisementa. 1 VOL. IX. pUilMlSI CIRCULARS A Magistrate Convicted of Com pqonding a, Felony. OLD NORTH STATE CULLINGS. Big Revenues Soldier Pays an Old "War Debt Making Money Out of Poultry, The railroad commission on the 27th issued the following circular: . From and after the 1st day of Sep tember, 1897, the Western, Union Tele graph Company "shall hot charge or collect more than 15 cents for trans mitting any message of ten words or mnder, exclusive of date, address and signature, bVween any two points with- ) m tne limits of this State on its lines, ; nor more than one cent for each, addi L tiop.alword. ' , Whenever a message is sent over two I or more telegraph lines owned, con trolled and operated by separate and disjunct corporations or individuals, the .. ..y2?nt rate shall not exceed 80 cents for , ach message of ten body words or less, exclusive of date, address and signa i tore, between any two points within . the limits of this State and one cent for . ach additional word. Effective Sep ' rember 1st. 1 Telegraph companies other than the Western Union Telegraph Company : 'ehalL be allowed to charge and collect 20 cents for a message of ten body words or under, exclusive of date, ad dress and signature, between any two ' -points within the limits of this State, on their respective lines and not more . than one cent for each additional word. ; Effective September 1, 1897. The following figures give some idea . of the great volume of business done m the Asheville office of the internal revenue. The statement covers from . -July 1, 1896, to June 80, '97: ikists 29,853 48 ' Spirits 581,23144 Cigars and cigarettes 4,848 80 ' Snuff : . . . 601 86 Tobaftco 1,055,873 89 Special tax ... 15,059 01 Total $1,687,592 48 The amounts by months follows: : Jttly, 1896 $121,172 28 August, 1896 128,460 38 iSeptember, 1896 152,414 83 October, 1898 147,283 83 November, 1896 135,668 01 " December, 1896 161,211 25 A .January, 1897 166,003 07 - March, 1897 .'.77. . .'" l4C'0lT? r April, 1507. . . 120.881 93 . May, 1?97 131,657 95 Juno, 1897 136,424 52 Total $1,687, 592 48 The collections at the various offices ft'or the year were: "Winston .$380,114 60 IStatesville 469,330 91 Asheville 216,070 61 Mt. Airy 122,066 86 F. E. Hege. chief of the poultry de 1 partment of the State Experiment Sta ; : tian, is arousing much interest in "fowl rnlture," in the State. He says the chickens and eggs produced are now worth more in cash than any agricul tural product The raising of chickens . for the Northern markets is a profitable and growing industry. In one' day re cently 40,000 chickens were shipped dtom two points to the Northern mark m ets. Several county poultry associ ations have lately been formed and the Buncombe Association has just been incorporated. Poultry fairs are to be held at Shelby, Asheville and Char lotte In the Superior Court at Concord, D. -M. Widenhouse and M. M. Furr, both of No. 9 township, Cabarrus county, have been convicted of. compounding a felony. Mr. Furr is one of the Populist magistrates. . He. has been deposed from office of justice of the peace and is to bo deprived of any office of honor or public trust in the State of North Caro lina and to pay a fine of $50 and the costs. Mr. Widenhouse was fined $20 and the costs. Both have been given notice of appeal. Never in the history of Cabarrus has such ' charges been brought against her officers. Charlotte Observer. During the war Jesse Soatherly, a Confederate soldier from Montgomery county, saved the life of a New York soldier who was wounded. The woods tad caught fire and the Federal sol dier called for help. Snatherly took him to a safe distance and provided him with water. He has sent Snatherly $800. . The railway commission increases the valuation of all the divisions of the Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line; it decreases the valuation of the Atlantic and Danville; the others remain the same; the in crease on l ail way s, 'Steamboat and tel egraph lines is about $3,000,000. While Deputy Revenue Collector Hill and a posse were making a raid on moonshiners in Lenoir county they were fired on by ambushed moon shin - ers. F. T. Harper was hit by four buckshot and seriously injured. Arrests will follow. The moonshiners are known. The still was destroyed. It is said that under the new law no pictures or coupons can be put in cigarette boxes or in smoking tobacco packages and the statement is made that this will throw a lot of people out employment. The truck crop fn the eastern part of the State has proven very remunerative this season, and the Goldsboro Argus says that along the line of railroad be tween that place and Wilmington large quantities of strawberry plants are be' ing planted. The "gold fever" has spread from Stanley county into Rowan. Some good finds are being made. " Representative Linney has introduc ed a bill to reduce the tax on distilled spirits to 70 cents per gallon. . JOHN P NOVELL MAD. Fonnde of Famous Company Suc cumbs to Paralysis. The venerable John P. Lovell, founder the arms company bearing his natte; a com pany known all over the we?.d, has just died at his surtmer Some. Cottage City. Mass. He suffered a pajajytiij snogk from which it Was hopei fgf attfee h6 tfould re cover, but a vigCYottS Qoaltjtutlon was not a match for the encroachments of advanc ing years. John Prince Lovell was born in East Braintree 6n July 22, 1820, and was therefore ia' his ?8th year. lie was aQ. oI rolling stiiiie gath- er moflSv far he tried , several trades, before finally Sattllng down to guasffilthlng, at which he became one oi the most expert and finished workmen in th world. He apprenticed himself to A.B. Fair banks, a Boston guasmltn. Who In 1840 gave Mr. Lovell a half interest in the business. Mr. Fairbanks died the following JWar. Mr. Lovell took another partner, but in 1844 bought out the latter. He later addnd sport ing goods ot all descriptions to his stock.and the company has steadly grown to its present mammoth proportions, Mr. Lovel! success fully weathered every panic, never failed and never was sued. As his sons became of age to enter business they were taken into the firm. Mr. Lovell Was connected with nutnberlw secret and charitable Organizations. He was the first man to buy a ticket on the South Shore (later the Old Colony) railroad when it was buill, and had been a continuous ticket holder ever since. He has long been the only survivor of the original ticket holders. Mr. Lovell, at the completion of his 60 years in business, was given a golden business jubilee anniversary which was one of the notable events, of East Weymouth where he has lived for more than half a century. Mr. Lovell leaves a widow and five sons, three of whoa are members ot the company. ALASKA'S GOLD FlELDi. The Government Sends an Expert to Slake an Examination. Expert Samuel O. Dunham, of the Federal Bureau of Labor, at Washing- IcB.gy July 31st for the gold belt 61 Alaska, beie he will-make an inve-s- tigation and report in time for the pro i'ected spring migrations. Mr. Dun tarn is well equipped for the work, hav" ing spent much time in the mining camps of the West, and for eleven years he has been one of a corps of experts of. the Labor Bureau, engaged in the in vestigation of special promblems. He has been instructed by Commission er of Labor Wright to make a critical inquiry into the opportunities for busi ness, for investment of capital, employ ment of labor, wages, cost of living, climate, best means of reaching the gold fields, and kindred subjects. He will go direct to San Francisco and will sail from there Angus i 9th, taking the Juneau overland route, and reaching the Klondike about the middle of Sep tember. He will watch the winter and early spring work, and is expected to send material for a special report, which, it is hoped, will be published about March. A Bank Quits Business. The First National bank of Ashe ville, N. C, has closed its doors owing to the inability to collect, and the stringency of the times, iind will go into voluntary liquidation. The last statement, made on May 14th, showed loans and discounts amounting to $308, -267.94; overdrafts $10,323.23; deposits $76,859.85:capital stock $100,000; sur plus $20,000. The three other banks in the city are doing business as usual. No run has been attempted, and there is no excitement. Flanagan Found Guilty. At Decatur, Ga. , Edwin Flanagan was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Nancy Allen and Miss Ruth Slack on the evening of the 31st of last Decem ber, and immediately sentenced by Judge Candler to bo hanged Wednes day, August 25th. 7 News Notes. f The next annual prison congress will meet in Austin, .Tex. , October 16-20. ' On account of the stoppage of the coinage of silver, thirty-two men have been discharged from the San Francisco mint. There is a movement on foot in Char leston, S. C, to erect a monument to Major Bobert Anderson,- of Fort Sum ter fame. James P. Law, of South Carolina, has been reinstated in the Supervising Architect's office as chief of the tech nical division, at Washington. - Senator John W. Daniel gives as his opinion that the democratic convention at Boanoke will indorse the Chicago platform as a whole and emphasize the free silver plank. He thinks the party will carry the State by an increased majority. At Montgomery, Ala., fire destroyed the roundhouse of the Western rail road. There were sixteen first-class engines disabled. The damage cannot be stated, but it will amount to thous ands of dollars. A New University. At Providence, B. I. , Dr. E. Benja min Andrews who recently, resigned the presidency of Brown University, has accepted the presidency cf a new uni versity to be founded by John Brisben Walker, and to be known as the Cos mopolitan university. It is to be mod eled after the Chatauqua school and will be conducted by correspondence. Near Talladega, Ala., a I oy shoots and kills . his brother. ta 14-year-old 8- year-old th late johi p. lovell. RALEIGH, N. L Dun's Explanation of the Shutting Down of Big Cotton Mills. ' COAL AND IRON DIFFICULTIES General improvement tteported The Foreign Demand for Wheat and the Advance In Price. B. O. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Beview of Trade for the week ending July 31st, Baj'Wi.Piepatches from almbst every Northern city bfc importance,' report without exception, improvement in business, and from Detroit to Seattle and Portland splendid crop prospects. The task of adjusting the business and industries of the country to condition created by a new tariff law has pro gressed witk gratifying rftpidity and ease. Even, the increasing strength of striking coal miners probably forwards the adoption of the uniformity plan, which promises to remove most of the causes of such struggles. Some con fusion is caused by events seemingly contradictory by closing of large cotton mills whett many bther wbrks are start ingt and by a decline in some prices when others are advancing, but the balance is unmistakably on the right side. The most important events since the passage of the flew tariff, which wai generally anticipated a week ago, has been the marked increase in foreign de mand and advanoe prioe for wheat, which has risen 4 cents during the week, with Western receipts for the first time exceediog last year'B, with Western railroads besieged for cars, and with Atlantic exports of 1,718,739 bushels of flour included for the week, and 6,351,178 bushels m fottr weeks, against 6,917,865 last year with heavy contracts for shipment, exceeding 1200;000 bushels on a single day. Liv erpool reports a shipment from Amer ica to Northern Bohemia and French markets. Excited speculative sales have little influence. The fact that corn exports exceed last f ear, although the prioe has advanced o 82.87 cents, is further proof that for eign demands are not subsantial. With crop news still favorable,, producers may probably realize something like $80, 000, 000 more than lastyear on wheat, which means a great difference in pur chases by agricultural States. Corn also advanced 1. 25 cents and cotton a sixteenth, though reports as to yield are good. The industrial sky is partly clouded by coal and iron difficulties, and by the closing of some large cotton mills. Hav 'ng run for months far ahead of consum ing demand, on cotton bought at com paratively high prices, the mills see ahead a large crop and cheap cotton, and it is but the rational way to halt the production and clear off accumulated stocks, at the season when vacations are common and begin the new year on its own basis. The woolen manufacturers answer wholesomely and moderatly to the new tariff conditions, and while the opening of light weights below abont $1 in cost has met a very encouraging demand, the advance in prices asked is not large. Delay in the iron industry is partly because a steady rising demand does not yet raise prices. In some products prices are a shade lower notwithstand ing a larger demand, owing to competi tion between works, but Bessemer is a shade higher. In structural work, plates,- sheets and bars for the enor mous operations of agricultural imple ment works, the demand increases, as it also does for rolling stock owing to the abundance of crops. The failures for the week have been 236 in the United States, against 281 last year, and 28 in Canada,- against 40 lastyear. DINGLEY VERSUS WILSON. A Comparison of the New Tariff Law With the Old. The comparison of, the present tariff law with the Wilson Act authorized by Congress has been completed. It was made by Chas. H. Evans, who has been engaged in the preparation of all the tariff bills with which Congress has dealt since 1872. -The comparison is made in rates expressed in ad valorem terms between the present law and the Wilson law. The statement places the average duty rate under the new law at 54.66 per cent, ad valorem, as against an average of 40. 10 under the Wilson law, the average being figured upon the basis of values in 1896. The statement shows the following increases in percentages: Chemicals from 28,53 to 80.67; wools and woolens from 47.62 to 86.54; silks from 46.96 to 582.41; earthenware and glassware 85 to 52.47; metals 83.11 to 49.24; sugar 40.94 to 74. 16; tobacco 109.06 to 121.90; agri cultural products 22.44 to 88.42; spirits, etc., 61.54 to 68.88; cotton manufactur ers 42.75 to 52.83. Some of the increases expected in revenue are as follows: Chemicals from $5,619,239 to $8,423,084; earthen and glassware from $8, 006, 839 to $12, 303, -148; metals from $18,196,416 to $17,487, 482;w0ods from $605,749 to $2,439,536; sugar from $29,910,703 to $54,207,642; agricultural products from $7,727,614 to $14,587,600. These estimates are based upon the supposition that the value and volume of imports will remain the same. Preacher Sentenced to Penitentiary. W. M. Dnbges, a Baptist preacher, Mason and politician, at Macon, Ga., was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary Tor embezzling of school funds. "-Taken to Raleigh for Safety. At Kittrell, N. C, a negro named George Bodie made a criminal assault upon a Miss Cartlett, white, 18-years-old, and had to be taken to Baleigh for safety. In the meantime the Governor was telegraphed as follows: "Terrible rape on white woman has been com mitted. Negro is in jail. Will you or der special term of court upon request of commissioners and petition from citi zens?" Governor Russell at once or dered a special term of court 'to begin August 16th, Judge Brown to preside. EI C.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7. I8!7 BUYING COTTON IN NEW YORK. Cotton Sent From the South Being Shipped Back to Southern Mills. Mr. A. P. Rhyne, the Mt. Holly (N. C. ) cotton manufacturer, was in Char lotte last week and in an interview with a NeWB reporter said his mill H trorfc irig coUbh that was shipped from Geor gia to New YOrk, and is now shipped from New York back td North Cftrolina. , A great many of the North Carolina mills are now buying their cotton in the New York market, and the Goldsboro (N. C.) mill last week had shipped to them from New York cotton that was last fall sold on the Goldsboro market; it still had the Goldsboro tag on it after traveling to New. York and back. It cosU fabW Only ten bents ttt ship from Galveston to New York and ten cents from New York to Norfolk. The rate war between the ocean steamship lines has so demoralized rates that one can ship from Galveston to New York via Norfolk to Charlotte for less than half the cost of shipping from Galres ton to Charlotte direct THE VIRGINIA PdPULtSTS. One Nomination Made Five Men to Fix Up the Balance of the Ticket. At the Populist State convention as sembled at Roanake, ,Va., Major Gaines withdrew from the race for the nomination of Lieutenant Governor, and Capt. Edmund R. Cocke was nom inated by acclamation. Capt. Cocke accepted the honor and thanked the convention for conferring it upon him. It was decided to make rid further nominations for the other t,wo places on the State ticket, but to ex pedite matters a committee, consisting of General James G. Shield, of Fau quier, chairman; J. Haskin Hobson, Dr. T. W. Evans, of Campbell; Sena tor W. It. Hale, of Franklin, and W. H. Graverly, of Henry, was appointed with full power to add or to take from as deemed best. In short their duties are to look after the interests of the party, in case the Democratio conven tion decides to endorse their candidate. There was a hot speech by General Field. The convention adjourned sine die. AMERICANS IN CUBAN PRISONS. Consul General Lee Gives State De partment Their Names. Consul General Lee has informed the State Department at Washington that in the event of the release of the Amer ican, Louis Smelian, now confined in jail at Havana, there will remain of American citizens imprisoned in Cuba in addition to the five Competitor pris oners, only the following: Manuel Feenandez,- confined in Fott Cabanas; Rafael Fernandez Y. Diaz, at Sagua La Giande; Julio Thomas Sainz and Frank Agramont, at Santiago. All of these prisoners are charged with rebellion with arms in hand ana are held subject to the ordinary milita ry jurisdiction. Tha United States consul at Mapzaniilo has cabled the secretary of State a contradiction of the story that Albert Slnsser, an American, has been captured by Spanish troops and taken to that place. TRADE AS VIEWED BY JOBBERS. 27 States Indicate an Increase In the Volume of Business. . The Wholesale Grocer, of Chicago, 111., published answers from jobbers ail over the country, to questions re garding trade. The replies were from jobbers in twenty-seren .States and fifty per cent, show an increase in the volume of business for the first half of 1897, as compared with the same period last year; 80 per cent, report the vol ume about the same, and 20 per cent, note a decrease. The anestion of definite improvement In conditions was answered affirmatively by 10 per oent. Sectionally, 64 per cent, of the jobbers in the Southern Ststes, 65 in the East ern, 70 from the Western, and 95 per cent, from the Central States, said "yes" to the question. "A PREACHER'S PROPIIEOY. West Virginia Minister Says God Sent Prosperity Is Coming. Rev. Chas. Ghiselin, a Presbyterian minister at Shepardstown, W. Va. , has published an open letter to the farmers of this oountry prophesying that wheat is soon to go to $1 a bushel, and urges them to form a combination among themselves, helping to tide eaoh other over until this propesy is realized. He says prosperity has come as a gift from God, and not from any political party or measure. He bases his prediction on the 75, 000.000 bushels supply and the appar ent Eastern demand. He figures a profit to the United States of $200,000,- 000 on tne crop. THE COMING ISSUE. Senator Butler Says It Is Government Ownership of Monopolies. ( A special to the Wilmington, N. C., Messenger from Raleigh: Populist National Chairman Marion Butler says in a signed editorial: "Public owner ship of national monopolies is the com ing issue. Conditions are daily creat ing stronger public sentiment in every quarter of the oountry for this solution of the gravest problem before the American people. The greatest issue oi modern times is now sonar el v drawn. This and the money question will be the two overshadowing issues in the campaign of 1600." New Civil Service Regulation. President McKinley has promulgated an amendment to the civil service rules providing that there shall be no re movals, from positions subject to com petitive examination except for just cause in writing, to which the accused has had opportunity to make defence. This also includes all within classified service and all employees of the cus toms house office, one employee in each internal revenue district to act as cash ier or chief deputy or assistant collec tor, all nbjeet to competitive exanjto Hon. - ; jr .. ' - : '" - Mill of iiss. Review of the Legislation of the Session Just Closed. rociR APPROPRIATION BILLS. New Provisions Adided tit interest and Importance Cost of Armor" Platc--The Arbitration Treaty Defeated. The" extraordinary session of Con- gresSj just elosed was called by Presi dent McKinlby two days after he took the oath of office on the steps of the Capiti-w It met .in pursuance to his proclamation at noon "March 13. ..The special message transmitted by him to both Houses on the opening day was brief. It explained the deficiencies in the revenues, reviewed the boild issues of the last administration and urged CnnTTfrBS nrnmTitlv to correct the exist ing condition by passing a tariff bill that would supply ample revenues 7v the support of the government and the liquidation of the public debt. No other subject of legislation was mentioned in the message and the tariff bill was the all-absbtbiiig feature of the session. , The Republican1 uiembers of the ways and means committee of the preceding . House had been at work throughout the short session, which ended March 4j giving hearings and preparing the bill which was to be submitted at the extra session. Three days after the session opened the tariff bill was re ported to the House by the ways and means committee, and thirteen days later, on March 31, it passed the House. It went to the Senate, was referred to the committee on hnance, and tne re publican members of that committee Spent a month and three days in its consideration and in preparing its amendments, which were Submitted to the Senate on May 4. Its considera tion was begun in the Senate on May 7, and exactly two months later, July 7, it passed the Senate with 872 amend ments. The bill then went to conference, trViar nffArktAn riatrn' nttTtfr&ti tin .Ttllir 17 ft complete agreement was reached by which the Senate proceeded from 118 amendments and the House from 511. The others (243 ill number) were compromised. The conference' report was adopted by the House July 19 at the conclusion of twelve hours of con tinuous debate. The report was taken up to the Senate July 20 and adopted on Saturday, tne 24th. Congress did not devote its attention entirely to the tariff thotigh it did sub- ordiisate everything else td this one measure. The four appropriation bills which failed on March 4th last in them selves would have compelled President McKinley to call Congress in extra ses sion, even if the necessity of a revision of the tariff had not existed. Those ap propriation bills were the sundry civil, the agricultural, the Indian and the general deficiency. These bills were introduced and passed by the House in the identioal form in which they exist ed at the time of their failure of enact ment into law at the preceding Con gress, but they were amended in some important particulars by the Senate, and when they finally became laws con tained more or less new legislation of interest and importance. The general deficiency carried a pro vision accepting the invitation to take part in the Paris exposition in 1900, and appropriated $25,000 to defray prelimi nary expenses and appropriated $150, 000 for a new immigrant station at New York to replace the one destroyed by fire. By far the most important piece of new legislation in the bill, however, was that limiting the cost of armor plate for the three new battleships to $300 per ton. In case the Secretary of the Navy should find it impossible to make contracts for armor within the price fixed, he was authorized by this provision to take steps to establish a government armor factory of suffi cient capacity to make the armor. In executing this, authority he must pre pare a description and plans and speci fications of the land, buildings and ma chinery suitable for the factory, adver tise for proposals and report to Con gress at its next session. In the Indian bill, after a severe struggle in both Houses, the question of sectarian schools was settled by the following declaration of the policy of the government:. "That the Secretary of tho Interior may make contracts with contract schools, apportioning aS near as maybe the amount so contracted for among schools of various denominations, for the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal year 1898, but shall only make such contracts at places where nou seotarian schools cannot be provided for such Indian children and to an amount not exceeding 40 per centum of the amount so used for the fiscal year 1895." . The question of opening to entry tne rich gilsonite deposit in the Uncom pahgre reservation in Utah was also compromised by opening such agricul tural lands as have not been allotted to the Uncompahgre Indians on April 1, 1898, to entry, but reserving to the United States title in all lands contain ing gilsonite, asphalt or other like sub stances. In the sundry civil bill the most im portant new provision was that sus pending the Order of President Cleve land setting aside about 21,000,000 as forest reservations. The law also in cludes a general scheme of legislation for the government and protection of the forest reservations of the country. The Republican leaders of the House decided at the opening of the session to pursue a policy of inaction in order to throw the responsibility for delaying the tariff bill upon the Senate, and therefore, the committees were not an nounced until the close of the session, and only urgent matters were consid ered." Fifty thousand dollars were ap propriated for the relief of American citizens in Cuba at the solicitation of the President; $200,000 was appropri ated for the relief of the Mississippi flood sufferers; a resolution was passed authoring the Secretary of the Navy to transport supplies contributed for the relief of the poor and famishing in India, 'and $50,000 were appropriated for the entertainment and" expenses of the delegates to the universal postal convention, who ml fn this city. The only extensive pieces Cl funeral legislation encted by this Congrebfl, except the tariff bill, ere be laws to prevent collisions at sea and to pe In force regulations to prevent collisions upon certain harbors, rivers and inland waters of the United States, and the bill authorizing the President to sus pend discriminating duties on foreign vessels and commerces The Senate, not being confined as to the scope of its legislation, dealt with a number of important subjects both in pd out of exeoutive session. One of tnese, which attracted world-wide at tention, was the general arbitra tion treaty negotiated by President Cleveland with Great Britain. After exhaustive consideration, despite the great pressure brought to bear upon the Senate by religious and commercial bodies throughout the oountry, the Senate rejected the treaty. The Ha waiian treaty of annexation negotiated by President McKinley, was still nn aoted ppon when Congress adjourned. In open session, atter much debate, the Senate passed the Cuban belliger ency resolution, a bankruptcy bill, in cluding both voluntary and involunta ry features, and the "free homes" bill. But none of these important question! received consideration in the lious. CROPS NEEDING UAIN. North Carolina's Crop Bulletin For Week Ending Aug. 2d. The week ending August 2d, 1897, has ge'nef illy been favorable. Showers ocourred the first days of the week, followed by warm, dry, sunny weather which will not prove injurious if proper seasons occur in early August. Crops are beginning to tided rain again, and in a few counties, which feceived leaat rainfall last week, are begintiitfg to suffer now. In general crop conditions are now excellent; in some counties es pecially fine. Though cotton is shed ding some I be damage so far is insig hificent. The early eorn eTop is made. Crop prospects at present throughout the State could hardly be better. Eastebv District Rains continued over Monday and Tuesday (27th), after which drv. warm weather st in. with abundant sunshine, which continued to the end of the week. The weather was favorable, but is now getting too dry Over many Counties. Crops are doing very well, mostly laid by and work done. Some early cord is being dam aged by dry weather, but most oi the crop is made, with some fodder nearly ready fof strippinr. Late corn needs rain, but still 160IH gTeen and promis ing. In some htutioaa farmers eay prospects are for the finest corn crops in three or four years. Cotton is doing well; about all hilled; some shedding teported on light lands. Tobacco cur ing ftill blast, with excellent results; peanuts doing w-ell: sweet- potatoes promise a fiue yield. Farmers are planting turnips and rutabegafl, some Of whih are up. CrxTBAi. Dx-stkmt. The pat week was dry and very warni. Though show ers occurred on Monday and Tutftday. the ground has been pretty well dried out, so that rain is beginning to be heeded, especially for turnips. Farmers are about done" laying by crops which are in good condition. Cotton is fruit ing well, and generally holding square, though there are a few more reports of shedding this Week than last. A black beetle seems to be doing some damage by cutting oft forms. Early planted corn promising and about made. Early patches of fodder -are being pulled in the south. Late corn still small, but early fairly well. Crop will probably be short, but in some counties is reported best for many years. Tobacco improved since the rains; some danger by flea bugs; crops will be short on account of diminished acreage. Sweet potatoes fine. Peas making rapid growth; water melons plentiful. Breaking land for wheat and oats continues. Turnips still being planted. Wkstehv Distbict. Light rains oc curred the first of the week followed by warmer dry weather with abundance of sunshine. The nights have been a lit tle cool in the mountain sections. The weather has been favorable and the crops continue to do well. . Crops are about laid by in south and east portion. In many counties crops are reported to be in exceptionally good condition; in a few, - Catawba especially, cotton and corn are beginning to suffer for rain. Bottom corn is doing very well, upland not so well. Cotton is growing, shed ding very little and is nearly laid by. Large crops of peas have been planted in stubble laud, are np and fine. Tur nip seed being sown. Much hay was put op the latter part of the week in the west. INTERNAL !RKVENUK RECEIPTS. Report of the Commissioner Shows Decrease From the Previous Year. The preliminary report of the Com missioner of Internal Revenue for the year ended June 30, 1897, shows that the total receipts during the period were $146,619,508, a decrease as com pared with the previous year of $211, 106. The receipts for the several sources of revenue, with the increase or , decrease, as compared with the fiscal year 1896, are stated as fol lows: Spirits $82,008,558, an in crease of $1,8:18,487; tobacco $3,710,297; a decrease of $1.831 ; fermented liquors $32,472,162, a decrease of $1,312,073; oleomargarine $1,034,129, a decrease of $185,802; filled cheese $18,992 (law not in force in 1896); miscellaneous $357, 283, a decrease of $69,829. Banks and bankers $85, a decroase of $49. The amount of withdrawals for consump tion during the last year is given as follows: Fruit brandy 1,146,131 gallons, a decrease of 294,679; whiskey 68,833. 245 gallons, an increase of 1,793,335; beer, porter and all 24,423,094 barrels, a decrease of 1,403,004. Number of cigars and cheroots weighing over 8 pounds per 1,000, 4,083,169,097; number of cigarettes, 4,153,252,470, an increase of 109,453,723, tobacco, chewing and smoking, 260, 784,812 pounds, an increase of 7,087, 567; oleomargarine, 42,534,550 pounds, a decrease of 5,089,214. The States from which the larger col lections were made during the year are given as follows: Illinois, $32,115,922; New York, $18,420, 766; Kentucky, ?15, 657,957; Ohio, $12,748,888; Pennsylva nia, $11,446,317; Indiana, $"-,54S4,363; Missouri, $7,864,662; , Maryland, $5, 454,795, . NO. 25. JEWS IN PALESTINE. Scheme for an Independent State te Favored By Hebrews. A cablegram from London says the represents Uvea of the Baron Hirsch charities' ftfemtofake very seriously the scheme of Dr. Theodore Hertzl, of Vienna, for the formation of an inde pendent Jewish State in Palestine. H is said that the Hebrews are organizing in alV parts of the world. The Doctor intends first to send are exploring 'expedition to thoroughly Overhaultbe land from end to end, and to establish telephones, telegraph and other modern - scientific conveniences before opening the territory to general settlement. To obtain sovereignty over Palestine, he says, will be easy, as the Turks will be glad io let it go. He points to hi decoration to the Turkish government as etidence that he thinks favorably ot his schema, If Turkey should refufi to crivrf PalAatina tin. liA HAYS lllO Otto man empire will disintegrate, aud then rtJfwioU company can outair l aies line when the powers divide npTntkipk territory. If it proves impossible to get i aie tine he will turn to Argentina. To confer on this point a cougre will be held at Bastle on the 29th. Tha Doctor says there is no doubt that tliii congress will be the redeemer of tho Hebrews. There is no intention to fnlinw nnriolintirt linen. Ha TroiOKOf a limited monarchy like that of Great untain. The capital of the Jewish company is to be $250,000,000. NO SEIZURES TO BE MADE. The Order About Coupons or Article . Attached to Smoking Tobacco, Cigarettes, Etc., Modified. A modification of the recent circular of instructions to collectors of interna! revenue has been made. These in structions declare that all packages of smoking tobacco, fine cut, chewing to bacco, or cigarettes, containing articles, prohibited by section 10 of the new tariff set, or having such articles at tached or connected therewith, or ad vertising any promice or offer or gift, reward or prize, contrary to the pro visions of the new act, are subject to seizure - The new order directs that all viola tions of this section of the act be re ported to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, but no seizure shall be made without specific instructions from him. Some question has arisen as to the pow er of the department in the premises'. The contention is made that Congress has no power to fix by law regulation, governing the packing of articles sub ject to internal revenue, unless in somo May the power or convenience of the government in the collection is affected ; also that this provision is in restraint of trade, and interfere with legitimate business. Until the department has determined the question no seizures will be made under this provision of the RACE WAR IN TEXAS. Two Ne grots Killed and a Number of Others Shot at a Stone Quary. A squad of negroes who had been working on the Kansas City, Houston and Galveston railroad, near West Lake, La., were recently transferred to the stone quary near Thornbeck, Texas. Whites of the neighborhood objected to the negroes being employed in the quarry and a pitched battle oc curred between the whites and negroes. Two of the negroes were mortally wounded, and several others were less seriously shot. Knives, guns and pis tols were used in the melee. TROUSER-MAKKHS .STRIKE. Three Thousand Walk Out In New York. In New York three thousand trouser raakers have struck to enforce the in crease of piece-work prices, so as to en able them to earn about $10 weekly each. The week's work is fifty-nino hours. Nearly all the etnkers are mem bers of Pants-Makers' Union No. 1. Since last fall the prices for making trousers have been reduced so that the operators who work steadily every day make only about $9 a week. They claim that they cannot support thorn selves and families on this pittance. BAD CROP NEWS. The Kansas Corn Crop Blasted by Hot Winds Nqt Over Haifa Crop. A special to the Topeka (Kans. ) Capi tol from every oorn producing counly in the State show that this year's Kan sas crop of corn will not be over 50 per cent, of last year's. Hot winds have withered the product in the sonthern half of the State, and few fields will average over fifteen bushels to the acre. In the southern portion, except in the far east, there will be no corn. In the northern belt, north of the Kansas river, though needing rain, corn has not bliown the least sign of drought, and will make a full crop if relief comes within a week. No hot winds have blown there. FOUGHT IN A CHURCH. The Pastor Said It Was a Church and Community of Mars. There was almost a riot in the Mem orial Methodist Protestant Church at Camden, N. J., caused by Tastor I'ef titt declaring that, "there are liars in this church, and the whole community is a set of liars," to which Trustee Mor gan took exception, rising to protest. Another trustee started .to put Morgan out, and Morgan howed fight. The prompt interference of others prevented a serious riot. Collapse of Boom Properly. . A special telegram from Florence, Ala., to the St. Louis Tost-Dispatch, says : All the property of the Florenco Land, Mining and Manufacturing Company, and the Florence Education al and Development Company, has been sold at auction to N. C Ltling, agent for creditors, for $00,000. The property was once thought to be worth 3,000,000, and was bought np by the Iland company prior to the boom of 1888.