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Ttry ' . ; . r - , r t THE WEEKLY GAZETTE. A WEEKLY NEWSPAPEB FDELianED BT jtYES H. YOU NO, Editor and Prop. A. J. ROGERS and J. D. PAIR General Traveling Agents. AZEUE Kates or Advert One square, one Insertloi 50 One square, one month. J 1 CO One square, two mouths ,. 3 00 One square, three montfts 9 Oco Bonn r ! mAntha ft 60 00 Ono square, one year 9 00 C3LJberal contracts mads for larger -aTerxjsementa, VOL. IX. . RALEIGH; N. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1897 NO. 34. I : r - . -i--r S2S&53 I JL JLJLJJi tj A 1 Ty I i ru. 5 zzrrz - k K con X II They Arc Advised to be Conserva tive and to HOLD DOWN PRODUCTION. I he Price of Cotton Will be Higher ami Contracts Should Only be Blade on uvh Basis. A letter of which the following is a i : i'V was mailed from the headquarters f t the Southern Cotton Spinners' Asso 1 1. tion in. Charlotte, to every cotton !. : 1 iu the South: 'he Cotton Milling Industry of the Smith: At a recent meeting of the board of (. :;v;"t nor s of the Southern Cotton Spin '.uiV Association, convened at Char lotte, N. C, for the purpose of consid- riiiir tho present conditions, the fol io v. nig resolutions were adopted: First. Whereas, The present slight n'hancc of mill products point to some i:ttlc margins, we deem it advisable to 'i:40 upon all manufacturers the im ; vitiince of conservatism in their oper ations and would respectfully caution v aiust the effort on our part to over produce products by running extra time or increased night work, and to ccially urge tho maintenance of pri cv as at present; hold firm for ad vances, and avoid concessions toward inductions. "We have not, even now, a yvA margin on our products, and it hould be remembered that we are just emerging from a depression under v. Lich we have operated for more than v year, and this should admonish us to s tand a unit against falling into such a i ii'uniitoua condition again. The price of cotton will bo higher and contracts s-hould only bo made on such a basis. Jd. We appeal to all manufacturers of cotton of the South to stand firm. We feel that iu this appeal we are ad vocating only tho common interest of a causo in which our entire section of country is most deeply interested, as respects botb capital and labor. "d. Wo hope that this? appeal and admonition will tend to at least attract attention enough to cause those to whom it is made to earnestly consider the situation, and do what may seem best to promote our mutual intesests. By order of board of governors. SorTHEBN CoTTOS SriXXER.5' ASSOCIA TION, .T. T. Axthoxy, President. CtEo. B. Hiss, Sec'y and Treas. Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 20, '07. SUM MA BY OF YISLLOW FEVER. 1 licre Have Been 082 Cases and GO Ocatlid-Difl'crcnt Cities Infected. A r-ummary of the progress of the yellow f M-er epidemic up to the close of tho d.-y. the 30th, made in the office of the surgeon general of the Marine Hos pital Service, gives a total of 582 cases and 00 deaths in the entire country, d's tr.buted by cities and towns as follows: i-'dwards, Miss., 211 caes and 6 deaths; '( w Orleans, 213 cases and 24 deaths; I'iloxi, Miss,, YSo cases and T deaths, 't'oi ile, Ala., up to tho night of the ' th. cases and 8 deaths; Scranton, ,'i . . , :yt cacs and 3 deaths; Ocean i.:--ii:gs, .Miss., 23 cases and 6 deaths; I'arizley, Miss, 10 cases and 4 deaths; ' Hi., 4 cases; Atlanta, Ga. , ;;i-villo, Ky., Terkinton, Miss., and I ' .nimont. Tex., 1 case each, the cases nr Louisville and Beaumont proving fa tal. !i:ULin IN MI DDL IS TENNESSEE No Rain for Seven "Weeks Crops Are StiflVrlng Greatly. Farmers, especially in middle Ten-Ee;-ee counties, ere confronted with a very seriou3 aud disastrous drought, i here has been no rain for seven weeks, uater i very scarce and eupplies have faded in many localities for the first iiiiM' in twenty-five years. "Vegetation - badly injured, pastures ruined and wife crops almost failures. ADOPTED THE GOLD STANDARD. J In' Plan Agree;! Upon By tho Mer ' liants of Blticfields, Nicaragua. News has reached the State Depart ment that the merchants in Bluefields, Nicaragua, have adopted the ecld f taudard. Prices will be given in silver tor goods sold for cash, but in the case of fiodit transactions, every charge is to be in gold and either gold or its equivalent will be exacted at the tim9 '1' payment. Tlc North Atlantic Squadron. Hampton roads is again to be the Newport of the South this year. Seo r ;ta:y Eoosovelt of the Navy Depart ment thinks that this is an ideal anchor-::-o for war vessels iu the fall and win ter months, and consequently the North Atlantic Squadron is making itself at homo off Old Point Comfort This year ji'M squadron will be larger than ever ' "fore, and will include a number of ' nclo Sam's largest battle ships, first f.Hss cruisers and smaller vessels, tho fleet attracts much attention by all passengers down the ' he?aiieake. The steamers of the old 'ay June on their way North passes it J'lt after dark, and the illumination of ho various warships form a brilliant M t'otado not soon to be forgotten. -' any piiflsenirers on the steamer Vir ginia which reaches Old Point Comfort "n he way from Richmond to Baltimore r,t i '::() o'clock in the evening remain on deck purposely to view the scene. Tammany Ticket Nominated. 1 Xew York Democratic city con- )'"; resident of the council, Jacob '"iTert,.rr., of Manhattan. W0.m.n ArcNotEIiRible. Vv'Tc.1 womon were drawn as jurors ' ' I that they are not eligible to serve . u m c,outitution, which stipu Ut rnals electgr? ebaU b. jnrorg. ;,:'uuu nominated tnese candidates for ?;fr! fjf heater New York; Mayor, I ,?? ,V- VanWyck, of Manhattan! fOi'jptroller. Bird H. Colr. nf TtrAnt. TOLD IN PARAGRAPH. The South. Geo. "W. Keed has been appointed postmaster at Biltmore. N. C. Savannan, Ga., is to spend 200,000 on her sewerage system. Counterfeit half dollars are floating around some parts of North Carolina. It is said Buffalo Bill's Wild West show will not come through this eection this season. Three men were killed and ten in jured by a boiler explosion in Ken tucky. Attendance at the Nashville (Tenn. ) Exposition last week showed something over 60,000. The Snpreme Court of North Carolina has recently granted licenses to fifty four lawyers. The "Woman's Exposition of the Caro lines, which was held at Charlotte, N.C., cleared 1,782.22. The Natchez (Miss.) board of health has interdicted the sale or receipt of New Orleans papers in that city. A. P. Grace, of State3ville, the court stenographer, has disappeared, and all efforts to find him have been vain. A party of Savannah, Ga., darkies, who have reached Liverpool eu route home, gives the usual reports about the false promises of Liberia. Ex-State Secretary Alexander Dor eey, of West Virginia. 6hot and killed himself at Moundsvillo while despond ent over his business reverses. Geo. W. Vanderbilt, who went to Europe last March, has returned and will be in Asheville, N. C, in a few days. Fifteen persons wero poisoned by eating ice cream at Venus, Texas. Their condition is critical. At Apalachicola, Fla., a white man killed a negro without provocation and came near being lj-nched by infuriated negroes. President McKinley and Cabinet have been invited to be present at the grand parade and collision of locomotives at the Macon (Ga.) Carnival, which take3 place on the 11th and 12th. Fire at Elk Park, Mitchell county, N. C, destroyed property of the value of $15,000, on which there was only 82,500 insurance. The civil service commission has called off the examinations at various Southern cities, on account of the jel low fever scare. Crazed by poverty and suffering, Martha Paulson, aged 35. of Suflolk, Va. , leaped in front of a railway train and was fatally mutilated. Dr. A. J. Phelps, a wealthv planter, and lately president of the Mississippi levee board, died at Vicksburg. He was Grant's surgeon-generalduringthe siege of Vicksburg. W. S. Bobertson, president of the Watkins-Cottrell Company, of Rich mond, Va., has purchased the business of the J. E. Dickersou Company, the largest hardware house in ABheville, N. C. Capt. B. B. Bouldin. for the past tro years in charge of tho revenue office at Lynchburg, Va., returns to Greens boro, N. C. , to take charge of the office there again. Col. W. H. Chapman, of Greensboro, succeeds Capt. Bouldin at Lynchburg. The North. A big malt trust has been formed in New Yoi:. George H. Lewis, the millionair coal operator, died suddenly iu Buffalo, N. Y. James Boreker, an Iowa farmer, mur dered his wife and six children, and then killed himself. The grand jury of Bipley county, Ind., adjourned without indicting the Versailles lynchers. Nine men were fatally hurt in a riot at Girardsville, Pa. , the trouble having sprung up over the Hazelton riot. The United Democracy has nominat ed Henry George for mayor of Greater New York. It is settled that the Bostons are the champions for 18C8. They already have a percentage of 704, while Baltimore cannot hope to get 700. The State convention of the Demo cratic national party of Massachusetts (gold Democrats) met in Boston and nominated for Governor Dr. William Everett. The Booneville stage was held up at Ukiah, Cal. , by two masked men, and J. R. Barnett, a passenger, was 6hot and killed. Frank Fedellin, at Detroit, killed his son and Joseph btadelmann, and shot his wife in the right shoulder. Family troubles the cause. In New York a big paper trust has been formed for the purpose of the con solidation of the great mills to control the output and reduce the expenses of operation. Miscellaneous. Bancroft, the magician, who died at Charleston, 8. C. , of typhoid fover, was 81 years old, and was insured for $50,000. November 1st. is set for the date of the sale of the Union Pacifio Railroad. The receipts of this government con tinue to fall many thousands of dollars daily below its expenditures. Emily Roddey has filed a suit of di vorce through her attorney, Henry Roney, at Augusta, Ga., alleging cruel ty and neglect against her husband, John Roddey, of New York, formerly of Charlotte, N. C. They were married in March, 1888. Foreign. Spain's cabinet has resigned. Charles B. Davis, Consul at Florence, Italy, has resigned to enter business at New York. A story comes from Toledo that Prof. Holmes and Harry Tollcrton have been captured by bandits in Switzerland and are being held for ransom. The Argentine Government has in vited bids from United States architects for a $4, 000, 000 railroad station at Buenos Ayres. corn iil By ist. Weekly Crop Report of the U. S. Agricultural Department TOBACCO SERIOUSLY INJURED. Cotton Picking Interrupted In all Sec tions of tho Cotton Belt By Heavy Bains. The United States weekly report of the Agricultural Department for the past week Bays: Except on the At lantic coast, where rains have fallen, the week has been exceptionally dry, and upon the whole very favorable for maturing and gathering crops. Like the proceeding weeks, however, it lm been very favorable for the germination of sown grain, as well as for fallowing and seeding, which is much delayed generally throughout the Central and Western and in some of the Southern States. In Ne braska, however, a large acreage of wheat has been sown, much of which is up and doing nicely. In the Atlantic Coast States, the conditions have been more favorable for fall seeding, and sat isfactory progress has been made. The irosts of the early part of the week proved injurious to late corn in portions of Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and N ov- York, but farther west no serious injury is reported, and in some States cutting is nearing comi letion. Colto'h picking has been pushed for ward rapidly in all sections of the cot ton belt; although interrupted some what in the Carolinas, eastern Georgia and Florida by heavy rains. The crop has suffered further deterioration inArkan sas, portions of Mississippi and Louis iana, and damage from rain in the Car olinas and Florida. As stated in the bulletin of tho previous week, the bulk of tho crop will be gathered by October 15th. In Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia late tobacco has been serious ly injured by frosts. TWO CONVENTIONS. Tracy and Williams Nominated for Governors of New York and Massa chusetts. Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, formerly Secretary in tho Navy, has beeu nomi nated by tho convention of the regular Republican organization for mayor of Greater New York. Seth Low, the nomineo of the Citizens Union, got less than fifty of the 843 votes cast. His name was received by the delegates anu spectators with jeers and hisses, and Jacob Worth, the leader of the op position to Senator Piatt, was cried down when ho assayed to present Low's name. None of the defeated Low men, however, expressed any intention to bolt the regular ticket. George Fred Williams, of Dedham. bas been nominated for Governor of Massachusetts, by the Democratic State convention, on a platform that squarely endorses that adopted bv tho national convention at Chicago "last summer, lhe other nominees are: Lieutenant Governor, Christopher T. Callahan, of Holyoke; Secretary of State, D. C. .asb, of Whitman; Attorney General, John A. O'Kecfe of Lvnn; Treasurer and Receiver General, i'.A. Watson, of Boston; Auditor, . L. Chalifoux, of Lowell. DEATH BY BLACK DA3IP. Five Miners Go to Work and Not One of Them Returns. Five men met a horrible death from ' black damp," the after-accumulation of a fire in the Jermin No. 1 mine, ; e r Rendham, Pa. The dead are: Isaac W'atkins, fire boss, 55 years old, loaves a wife and one child; William Tompkins, company man, 22 3'earsold, single; Joseph Smith. 33 years old. company man leaves a wife and one child; John Gallagher, company man, 42 years old, leaves a wife and seven children; Wil liam Franklin, company man, 23 years old. Leaves a wife. The New Trust "erfected. In New York there has been held a meeting of representatives of the biggest malting concerns in the United States for the purpose of perfecting the trust. Tho new combine will have a capital of thirty million dollars. The reason for the combine, its promoters state, is to stop the cutting of prices. Nearly all of the large cities were represented at the moeting. The trust will virtually control trade in this country. Brokerage Firms Pay $100 Tax. At a meeting of the Charlotte (N. C.) finance committee the question of tax ing brokerage firms came up. The committee agreed to report a 8100 tax on all such firms. The question now goes to a meeting of tho board, which will ratify the action of the finance committee. Expect Cotton to Go Lower. The Charlotte (N. C.) News says a Liverpool cotton man who has been in the South for a couple of week frankly says he expects cotton to go down to not far from 5 cents. It is understood that the mills here are buying just enough cotton for their needs from day to day, as they expect the price to go considerably lower. Old Ladles' Home Burned. The old ladies' home at New Haven, Conn., has been burned. One woman was burned to death, four made insen sible, and a boy was tossed out of a window and caught by a policeman on the sidewalk. No Danger In Malls. Postmaster General Gary has author ized tho announcement that all mails leaving New Orleans in any direction are thoroughly fumigated under direct tions prepared by Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine hospital service' and issued by the second assistant postmaster general. There is no danger, he added, of yellow fever's transmission through tho New Orleann mails, - THE W ORLD OF TRADE. The Past Week Marked by the In creased Activity in Wool, Etc Bradstreet's Commercial Report for the past week says in part: General trade is marked by the increased activ ity in wool, hides, iron and steel, and their manufactured products, but busi ness in the quarantined districts re mains at a standstill, and at all except few northwestern distribution centers in spring wheat States, where business is relatively most active, there is a check to the demand for dry goods, hats and clothing. Favorable reports come from a region extending from Knoxville to St. Paul and from Omaha to Millwaukee. The tendency is to increase the probable yield of cotton. The price movement shows a long list of unchanged, quotations including various iron ana steel ataples, woof, hides, print cloths, lumber, nails, pork, beef, coffee and sugar. Increases are confined to a nominal advanoe for anthracite coal, 25 cents for Bessemer pig iron, fractional gain for leaf to bacco, naval stores, butter, lard and another advance for woolen goods. Po tatoes have reacted from the extremely high prices at the West, and cotton is off further. Lead is lower, as are corn, oats and flour, in sympathy with wheat, which dropped 2 cents on Brad street's reported increase of nearly 10,000,040 bushels in the world's visible stocks. The total number of business failures m the United States for nine months by Bradstreet's is 9,833, a decrease of 13 per cent, from the corresponding total last year, but 0 per cent, more than in 18D4 and 11 per cent, fewer than in the corresnondincr neriod of 1R Thin year's failing corporations, firms and muiviuuais report $1 18,434 liabilities, a total of 30 per cent, smaller than one year ago, about 6 per cent, larger than in nine months of 18i5 and of 1834, and 64 per cent, less than in the corresponding period of 18S)3. The rate of failures in propor tion to the number in business is de creasing. With reference to liabilities tho fallincr off is Business failures throughout the Do minion of Canada amounted to 1,015 for tho past nine months, a falling off as compared with lust vpnr nf isn less than 10 per cent. Total liabilities are u,ooo', ooo this year, against 12, 219,000 last year. WHEAT FR03I KANSAS. Train Loads of It Is Being Shipped From Charleston. Last week a trainload of wheat ar rived in Charleston S. C, over the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad from Kansas City, and was at once stored in the grain elevator of the South Carolina and Georgia road. General Traffic Manager Emerson's trip out West was anything but a fail ure. It was a success, and as the re sult of his visit over 100,000 bushels of grain are now en route from Kansas City to this port. This immense ship ment will be closely followed by an other equally as large. The facilities for exporting grain to foreign ports are equal to those of any Southern port and were brought about through tho efforts of Traffic Man agor Emerson of the South Carolina and Georgia road. The elevator is a first-class one and in construction is modern, as it disposes ofgraiu in small er and thinner bulk than many North ern elevators. A vessel can receive a cargo of 200,000 bushels without shift ing its position, which is a great ad vantage in handling a shipment. UNDER DEATH SENTENCE. Two Condemned to Die In N. C. for Burglary, Captured. A special from Red Lodge, Montana, says Sheriff Dun has arrested L. M. Moore and Charles Rich. The men are wanted at Marshall, N. C, where they are under sentence to be hanged for burglary, a capital offense in that State if committed after midnight. The names above given are assumed ones. The men are brothers named George and William Cody. George Cody savs ho and his brother are innocent of tho crime charged. Ho says: 4,Ve were convicted and sentenced to be hanged Oct. 4, 1804. We carried the case up to the Supreme Court, and while waiting for its decision were induced to leave the jail from which murderers had dis covered means of escaping. Wo wan dered to Old Mexico and California, and finally came here about a year ego. Trying Gov. Atkinson's Wife. The trial of the wife of Governor At kinson, of West Virginia, began at Glennville, W. Va., after Judge Bliz zard had overruled a demurrer to the indictment. The charge is forging the name of her late husband, Judge D. C. Camden, to certain receipts. The pros ecution is being pushed by the heirs of judge Camden, the indictment being found shortly before her marriage to Governor Atkinson. The Governor ap peared iu court with his wife, and it is said that conviction and sentence do not alarm the defendant, as she will rely on her husband for a full par don. The Yellow Fever Situation. The reports from the yellow fever district, up to the 2d, says: At New Orleans there were twenty-three new cases of j'ellow fever and four deaths; the disease is spreading all over the city; at Edwards there were nineteen new cases and one death; at Mobile there was one case only and one death; new cases are reported in other Ala bama towns; at Biloxi the yellow fever is becoming more malignant. Cotton Mill Resumes. TheFarmumsville, Mass., cotton mil has started upon full time after a shut down of about one year. The mill is the principal industry in the village, giving employment to about 200 hands. Death of Mh. Lewis Glnter. Major Lowis G inter, head of tho firm of Allen & Ginter, branch of the Ameri. cau Tobacco Company, died at his home, Westbrook, near Richmond, Va. Aged 73 years. A CULTURED POETESS. The Whining Class is a Drawback to Advancement, NOTES FROM AMONG OUR RACE. Save Part of What You Earn-Tech-nlcal Education-Be Not Discour aged. McDonald Furman, in a communica tion to Columbia (S. C.) Register, has the following to say of Carolina's cul tured poetess, Mary Weston Fordham, of Charleston: The Negro literature of South Carolina is almost an unexplored field, but it is one not unworthy of study to the literary student, and a pamphlet of real interest might be written about it Perhaps some day some colored person of this State willl compile 6uch a pamphlet. Among tho colored writers of Carolina is a poetess Mary Weston Fordham, of Charleston. I have never seen her, but have some slight knowledge of her writincra Fnr several years she has been engaged in writing and has published several poems. This colored woman is a na tive of our State, outside of which, so I learn, she has never been. Some of your readers may remember seeing the Atlanta exposition ode written by her and dedicated to Booker T. Washing ton, who is justly distinguished as be ing the leading educator of his race in the United States. The following verses from that poem breathe of a broad and patriotic spirit; had shebeen a white woman she could not have al luded more tenderly to the soldiers of the "Lost Cause": "Cooqp. comrades from the east, the west, Come bridge the chasm. It is best. Come- warm hearts of the sunny south And clasp hands with the mighty north. Rise Afric's sons and chant for Joy Good will to all without alloy: Tho night of grief has passed away On Orient gleams a brighter day. "Say ye that wore the blue, how Jweet That thus in sympathy wi meet, Our brothers who the gray did love And martyrs to their cause did provo. Say once for all and once again That blood no more shall flow in vain. Say peace shall brood o'er this fair land And hearts for aye be joined with hand." The American Medical Association of Colored Presbyterians, of which Dr. R. F. Boyd, of Nashville, Ten., is president, will hold it& annual meeting on the 15 ond 16, at Nashville. The meeting at this season of the year will give those in attendance an opportunity to visit the Tennessee centennial, now in progress. Tho list of nnnAri frnm which the program will be made up contains tho names of about 100 of the most prominent colored physicians in tho United States. They will bear upon almost every branch of the medi cal profession, and will prove a source of much interest to the medicai frater nitv. Dr. J. 13. Goldn. of AllorrhAnv is the only Afro-American physician .Hsu jmiueujuie vicinity wnose name is on the tirocrftm. and Ha will read a paper on "TIia trn Vpm physician. "The Tittsburg Press. We regard that class of Negroes who are continually whining about what the white folks wont let the Negro do, al ways complaining for the want of a chance, as a hindrance to race advance ment. The Negro must make well of his present opportunities. He must cease throwing his money away on use less frolics and carousals. The white people claim, and justly, that the Negro laborer does not need as much money as a white'one; because the Negro will spend what he earns foolishly, while the white laborer will wisely save something of his earnings, be it ever so little. Tho Light. The opening exercises of the Agri cultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, W. H. Couucill, President, were held last week at Huntsville, Tenn., and the number -ot students en rolled exceeds largely the number of last year. Many improvements have been made in the methods of instruc tion. - To the mechanical department have been added a steam printing plant. a foundry, a saw mill and a machine shop. Agriculture, mechanic art and domestic science will receive a large share of attention during the coming year. -i- The Negroes of Williamson county, Tennessee, Franklin county site, ac cordmding to the county commission ers report who collected the Exhibit for the Negro department of thto Tennes see, pay taxes on $.506,606 worth of property. This is owned by 414 indi viduals and is classified as 9.22J acres of farming land and 138 town lots situ ated in the town of Franklin. Several are very successful. Indianapolis .freeman. Colored men, be not discouraged. Look a while on the bright side and keep up your spirits. The work of se curing equality before the law cannot be done in a day. It must be the work of years. The "Dallas Express. Learn to save a part of what you earn. Live within your means and try to deny yourself of many things which your fancy makes you think you need, and you may accomplish something in life. The Recorder. The Emancipation Proclamation was a "measure of war." No party can claim the honor of freeing the Negro. It was the hand of God. There is no structural difference be tween the Negro and the Caucasian. They are both human chips off the same block. Their sins differ in degree, not in origin or kind. The New South. A feeble press is no better than no press at all. The people respect strength and character in those delegate ed to speak for them. Colored American. N. C. CROP BULLETIN. A Touch of Frost In the Mountains Without Any Damage. The week ending Monday.Sept. 2Tth, 18.'7, was decidedly lowar ia tempera ture, especially on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, which were cold and cloudy with brisk northwest winds and rain. Pain occurred on three days but averaged less than one inch for the State, and though of some benefit to turnips and late potatoes came too late for any other crops. Neither was there sufficient rain to fill water courses or wells. At somo poiuts where the rainfall was heaviest a little fall plowing and seeding was dene at the end of the week, but at most points but little could be done. The last three days of the week were warm and drv. and tho drought cannot bo considered broken yet. A touch of frost occurred in tho mountains without any damage Cotton is about all matured, and up land all open. The rainfall wa3 cf no value, while the high wind did some damage by blowing out lint. A further deterioration of tho crop took place during tho week, and there is no doubt that the government report for September will show a great decline. Picking, interrupted for two daj'S by the raiD, has since progressed very rapidly. Late corn did well iu east ern counties, elsewhere on account of drought it dried emmature; is being gathered. Tobacco is nearly all housed aud cured. Sweet potatoes and peanuts were badly damaged by drought; dig ging peanuts is progressing now. Late Irish potatoes were helped a lit tle by the lain, and turnips, though looking bad, have started growth since the 6howers. Early sown rye seems to bo making a start, but most fall seeds are noarly a failure. Much rebreaking of wheat land had to bo done and all fall work is being de layed. Largo quantities of rough food, fodder and hay have been saved in good condition. Trees have begun to thd their leaves. BIRTHPLACE OF AN ACTOR. Hay Rouse Where Sol Smith Russell First Saw the Llsht. In a little side street that ends abruptly at the foot of the bluff that overlooks the town of Brunswick, Mo., stands a modest looking old-fashioned frame house. It has the narrow eaves and th low upper story that distin guished the style of architecture that prevailed in Missouri before the war. Old residents of Brunswick point It out to strangers as the house in which Sol Smith Russell was born. On account of this close association with the earlier days of the dlstin- niPTUPLAClJ OF SOL SMITH KUSSELT.. guished actor, this plain-faced old "story and a half house" Is the most famous of the landmarks of tho quaint, old-fa shloued town. Oddly enough, the house In which the gentle character artist was born does not mark the spot of ground which was his natal place. No house does for that matter, as tho lazy, alluvium laden waters of tho Grand River drowses over the place where this and many another building stood as a part of Bruuswlck when it was famous for the amount of tobacco and tho number of "niggers" sold tkt.ro every year. The town was originally built on tha left bank of the Missouri River, aud among the first residences of the town was tho Russell homestead, f-o local tradition runs. There were no rail roads then, but packet boats mado regular calls. Then the river became restless and rolled over against tho town and tore away its foundations. Nearly all of tho buildings were saved from the capricious Hood by tho energetic efforts of the house mover. Among the structures rescued was the Russell home. Along with the rest of Hie town, it was moved back to the foot of the bluff. When the town had got itself cuddled up Iu a safe place tho river turned to the right and flowed over Into Saline Countj leaving Bruns wick five miles Inland. A few years later, however, tho Grand River crept Into the old bed of the Missouri, and It has been dozing there ever since, ex cepting when tho raius come in tho Fprlngtime to wake Its current. It Is not. related in Brunswick that Sol Pmith Russell has ever exhibited his art there since he became famous, or that he has In late years revisited his ancestral home. A heavy footed man who Is a hostler in a livery stable Uvea in tho house now. Lynched in Broad Daylight. The negrD who assaulted Miss Roberts in Hancock county, Tenn., was hanged ia the court house yard at Howesburg, in broad daylight, by a mob. Three Killed by Breaking Cable. AtCh icago by the breaking of a wire cable Charles Wilson, Richard White and William Hopkins, who were being carried up an elevator shaft in the Northwest land tunnel, dropped a hun dred feet to tho bottom. Wilson was killed instantly. o Game Law Unconstitutional. Judge Holmes, of tho Mecklenburg (Va.) county court has decided that the game law enacted by tho last Legisla ture ie unconstitutional. The test case was brought up on tho kilb'ng of vr tridges. '"Thank you," tald the lady to ihs man who gave her his seat in the street car. "You surprise me," replied tne man. "How do you mean?" "By that I thank you.' " She smiled. "I couldn't have surprised you more than you surprised me by offering me your seat" The stand-off was thus com pletedDetroit Free Press. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Turnip FUrori in Milk. VThen cowj accidentally get into n turnip patch, or other vegetables that impart a bad flavor to the milk, it can be made as good ns ever for cream and butter making if it is heated to a tem perature of 140 degrees. This is best dono by placing the vessel ia water whic'-i is quickly brought to a slightly higher temperature. All the odor passes off at this temperature, as it is very volatile. In cooliucr, tho cream will rise to the surface. It also makes the butter come moro quick1y than' from milk not heated. 7s o Raking! After Harvests. i Under old methods of harvesting tho steel rake was a very imporfant adjunct, to secure scattered grain. Yet even irt those days good farmers did not find those rakiags very valuable, as they, were always stained and often nearly, realy to sprout by alternate wet aud dry weather. Tho new harvesters leavo noraijngf, and as what would otherwise ba wasted is thus saved for market, it makes a material addition to tho crop. We know farmers who used to thresh the takings separately and grind them for hog feed rather than mix the stained with tho markctablo 5 rain. 1 Alfalfa Replacing Corn. j It is notlikely that alfalfa, tho clover which has succeeded so well iu Cali fornia will ever become plentiful in tho' East. Our wet winters will rot tho roots or at least decrease their vigor. On' very dry, sandy or gravelly soil it might succeed here. But it seems to be especially adapted to hot and dry climates, and heaoo its success in tho arid regions of tho fur West. As its root often goes several feet deep it is likely to change the character of tho climate, for wherover alfalfa roots have gone water will also go. The alfalfa retains its greenness during the severest droughts. Of course it must bo all tho time evaporating moisture, and this also will have somo effect in changing tho climate. Ilenco in localities too dry for corn, alfalfa is taking its place as a feed for all kinds of stock. It is at tho same time fitting the soil for growing corn and other crops. Boston Cultivator. Delayed Hatching of Exjft. " '" Threa weeks is the time usually al lowed for a hen to sit before her eggs are hatohed. Bat ia spring, when tho fowls are in good health and tho eggs make tho most vigorous chicks, hatch ing will generally begin on tho tweri-' tieth day, and by the twenty-first tho entire brood may be out. Eggs kcp two or three weeks bafore being sot will not hatch beforo the twenty-first day. Late in the season twenty-two or oven twenty-threo days may pass before all the eggs will hatch. If left longer than this it is probable that tho chick has dial in tho shell. It is very easy after the twentieth day of lilting to know whether tho 03? contains a live chick, a,s its pecking may bo heard against tho shell. ' Moisten tin egg shell with quito warm water, but do not take that which ha3 been boiled. It had better be sprayed on the cgj, which should afterwards be wiped dry and placed under tho hen. Tho water sprayed on supplies the chick with some air, and it also softens tho shell for it to peck at. Tho egg is porous. If it were n-t, chicks would alwiya dia in tho shel.. When an cgj breaks in the nest, all the other eggs should bo washed in tepid water and rubbed dry, so as to remove tho albumen from tho broken cjg. As this albumen closes rao pores of tho shell it quickly smothers and kills all tho chicks they contain. It may do this if it is on tho shell only a very short lima. Ameri can Cultivator. Will Beca Destroy rnpc? There is a great differcuco of opin ion among well informed fruit grow ers, wribs Professor J. Troop, of Iu diaua, as to whether tho honey beo actually destroys ripe grapes without any asaistance. In order to secro reliiblo data on this question, jiAa careful observations were made tuiring the pa3t season. A Worden grapevino was selected, and when tho fruit was ripo all defective berries aud surplus leaves were removed, so ai to allow tho bees free movement and give them every facility for wor.3. A colony of Italian bees was then placed closo to tho vine, and both vino and hivo en closed wit1 mosquito netting, giving the bees about 300 cubic feet of spaca in which to work. At first they did not take kindly to the confinement, but after tho first few diys did not seem to mind it. They were kept confined with the grape3 just throo weeks, aud during this time they wero not allowed to get any other food ex cept what they already had in the hive. At tho end of the three weeks they were removed and tho grapes carefully examined, but it could not be discovered that a single grapo had been injured. The natural inference is, that if tho bees could not be iu duced to eat tho gropes when kept in close confinement with them, they aro not liable to do much iujury when at liberty to sesk the food thoy like best. It is well known that certain wasps will cut tha skin of grapes, and I have always held to the opinion that the wasp was ths culprit which opens the door for the bees to enter. This opinion has been confirmed the past season, when two species of the genus Polistes, or social wasps, were seen to light on th grapes and with their sharp jaws tear open the skin and suck tho juice. After which the honey bees would usually finish the work. In fact, it would be a very stupid bee that would not avail ibelf of such an opportunity. In Austria tho government owns and operates the railways. You can rid from Vienna, the capital, 750 miles in a luxurious corridor express car for 31.90. In America tho coat would not bd less than $22. CO. 1 , 1 ,1
The Gazette [1891-1898] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Oct. 9, 1897, edition 1
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