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e. A .q'h ftv.i 1 ! & ' Pi ill 7. ' 11 -Lli-. w JJ-JX. SJJL lii ZJ , ... VOLUME IV. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1889. NUMBER 17. THK NATIONAL, CAPITAL. RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. WASHINGTON NEWS. TIIE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ma us commit kt ii'ioi'.r A I'KIXIOUS RASCAL. THE CMABEOCfIj f 1 r Death af Coos;reaennan Barns, of MlaaourtActloa of the fleax ale and Hon, lite. By Tclegrapk to the Cltiun. , Washington, D. C, Jan. 24.-House , The entire delegation from Missouri, to gether with Speaker Carlisle, Mr. Ran- dull, and the other member of the ap propriation! committee, met in the room " of the House committee to-day at eleven o'clock, a. m., to take auitable action uKn the death of Representative James N. Burns, of Missouri. The announce ment of hit death, wai read, and the us ual resolutions of regret were offered. A elect committee to arrange the detain of funeral and act at eacort, was ap pointed. Governor Long and Congress man Dockery, of Missouri, delivered eu logistic addresses, after which the House, as a mark of respect, at 12.10 o'clock, p. m., adjourned. Mr. Bnrna represented the St. Joseph district, and died at W Il ia rd's hotel; at 12.40 this morning. ' of paralysis. v Senatb. Several bills had been re ported from committees, when a message was revived from the House, announcing the 'death of Congressman Burns, of Missiuri, and the appointment of a e lect committee, Senator Cockerill, of Mis souri, moved the concurrence of the Sen ate in the House message, and on motioa of Senator Vest, the Senate adjourned as a murk of respect, to the memory of the deceased, at 12.35 p. m. The remains of Mr. Bums were taken to St.Joseph at 7.40o'dock last evening. THK MOONSHINERS. Amhuxcade a Party mf Revenue Of-ttcein-A Marshal Wounded, and a Moonshiner Caught By TcleRrMSti to the Cltiwn. -Chahlkston, S. C:, Jan. 24: A spe cial to the Sews and Courier says that illicit distilling in northwestern South Carolina is increasing rapidly; and Hie moonshiners, who, for some ycursmeekly submitted to arrest, now offer a fierce re- sistunce. Yesterday a raiding party of five revenue officers were tired upon by a body of thirty moonshiners, but tlie fire wiis not returned, as noliody was hurt. ,. Alnjut day-lilit yesterday jthe same rev enue officers were ambuscaded and again fired upon on their way' home. They re turned the fire and charged the moon- . .Deputy, marshal ,Jliglitower was wounded in the affray, and one moon shiner was captured. Iturglars 0m rating in Virginia. W Br TeleaTaiih to the Citiien. ' a Danville, Va., January 24. A gang of professional burglars has been operating in Martinsville, the county s.at of Henry county. The clerk's office was cracked, and $175 in cash, one six hundred dollar certificate on the Henry County Bank, r' and tickets of deposit for $2,000 were stolen. The people are much alarmed, " and the excitement is at fever heat. Skipped by he" Light of the Mooa By Telegraph to the Citiien. CaTTLETTSBUEO, Ky., January 84. Sheriff J 8. Kibben, of Boyd county, Ky., made an assignment last night, and left home before daylight this morning. He is said to be short in his accounts to the amount of fourteen thousand dollars. , . A Heavy Drop In Gaano. . By Telegraph to the Citiien: Savannah, Ga., January, J4. The ocean steamship wharves and freight sheds oollapsed to-day and pre cipitated two thousand tons of guano into the water. No one was at work on toe wharvea, and there ia supposed to be no lives lost. The estimated loss to the company is $40,000, Cotton Report Yeaterday. . . By Teleirraph to the Citfirn. ,. NKW.VonK.Jun. ?4, Hubbard, Price s SpCo., in their cotCon circular torday say; To-day's cotton market has afford ed but few new features of interest." De Bpjte hcNmantity of cotton coming to hand the market hag shown considerable steadiness and some good buying bus been noticeable, By lite Neck. By Telegraph to the Cltjnu. Charlottesville, Va., Jan. 28. Wm. Musco, who murdered jioliceinan Scut, on Dccemlier 31st last, was convicted to day of murder in the first degree, and Judge Duke sentenced hiin to be 'hanged on March 16th. Jurymen are Scarce In Got haw By Teleirapli t the Citiien. New York, Jan. 24. tip to recess to day -f wo hundred and sixty-six talesmen had been examined, without securing u iingle jimr for he trial ot boodle alder matlCleanr. .-yi" ' , . ! ' prpaalan (Hllciala Renin n. fly Telegraph to the Citlsea. liKKLiN, Jan, .24,-Gcn,. Ton 8chclleri. Hon, tne iiustian wininer ui n r, uu j)r. on HchclBng, Imperial Minister of Justice, have resigned. ThoWeatner. By Telegraph to the Citiien. Washington, D. C, January 24. Por North Carolina Rain; nearly sta tionary temperature; variable winds, generally northerly. ... Nearly fifty thousand pounds of leaf tobacco were sold at the warehouses in ; the city yesterday. Prices high; quality medium. A NrXIIU) MURDERER AND RA PIST IN THKH.tK DM OK A MOB, Who showed to II I in Hucb Mercy as He Had Hhowa A Horrible Affair la Cumberland County. Special Telegram to the Citiien. I . Chablottb, N. C, Jan. 24. News of a terrible crime which has had few parallels in history, ia received to-night from Cum berland county, near Payetfeville THK CRIMINAL. ' . Vesterday about noon, a negro by the name of William Brewington, who is a very desperate character, was strolling about Wade's stution, on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad, planning devilment in his heart. HIS VICTIM. In the little village lived an aged lady by the name of Miss Charity McAllister, and with ber lived her nephew Alexander McAllister, and a young lady relative. as soon as the negro had his plan per fected and when no man was near the bouse, be entered with an axe concealed under bis coat. This be secretly lad down before any one observed liim. HIS CKIMK. The crime which he contemplated "ar rying out was of the most diabolical and fiendish nature. He had been told that Miss McAllister had in the house four hun dred dollars, and this he first pro8cd to put in his pocket, even if murder was necessary to do it. Next he projiosed to commit an outrage upon the )erson of the young lady and flee. THE WAV TUB CRIME WAS COMMITTED. Without making a signal he walked, through one room and closed the door behind him, leaving his axe in a conven ient place. " He then, when face to face with Miss McAllister and Hi young lady, said: "Young lady, stand still; don't attempt to leave or give any alarm; if you do, in stant death Will follow." ' He then grabbed Miss McAllister by the hands and commanded her to give him the key to her trunk, but she scream ed and the negro tearing her screams would be heard, dragged her to the room floor whre he had lett his axe, and, tak ing it in his hands, scattered her brains upon the floor. ,i ; ' The young lady, who was compelled to stand by H)dt!l ofthi, iiiinudt- and while they both lay upotT the" floor, he ransacked the - house; - but found no money. He then walked up to the young lady and was in the act of committing an out rage when footsteps were leard, and he ran out throngh the back yard to the woods. ' .', his ki.icht. It was the old lady's nephew coming, and when he opened the door no more ghastly sight ever fell upon his eyes, Through the window hecaughtaglimpse of the negro, fast running into the woods, He, then, without waiting one moment, and with gun in hand, started in pursuit. OVERTAKEN AND MIDDI.KO WITH HCI.LETS, ' Soon the news of the fearful tragedy spread, and in a few minutes more than a dozen indignant citizens with their blood boiling and well-armed, were on the fiend's track. He was headed off in about two hours, and without allowing him one moment's time, his body was riddled, with bullets. MR. rRYl'l AMENDMENTS. The Senate committee on commerce to- day authorized Mr. rrye to report a number of the proposed amendments to the sundry civil appropriations bill for the establishment of additional light houses. The principal amendments are as follows ; - . .. v A steam tender for the first light-house district, $85,000 the tender to be built in an American ship-yard; the purchase of additional land tor the site of the Portsmouth, (Vn-I light-house depart ment, $10,000; Park Point light-station, (N, C.I $20,000; Hillsboro river inlet, ( Pla.l $1)0,000, . HEAVV FQU IN N8W YORK, Surface and Klevated - Railway . Travel Ureatly Retarded-Col. Union III the North, and East Rivera, By. Telegraph to the CitUcu, New York, Jan. 24. Thiscitv and the North and Enst Rivers were this morn ing enveloped in a heavy fog, and persons on their way down town experienced a delay, averaging twenty minutes, oi both surface And elevated railroads, Elevated trains had to move with the greatest caution, it being impossible to discern objects half way between the Stations.' ' On tlie North and Bast Rivers navign lion was difficult and, qttendeu; witi no little dunger. the steam launch plying between Governor's Jsland and the Bat tery ran into the nnne ferry boat in the middle of the river. The passengers were badly scared, but none were injured, and neither of the craft sustained nuy damage. The Pulton Perry boat which left Brooklyn at 8 o'clock had not got more than twenty yards from her dock when she received a broadside blow tram a small steamer whkhenused herto vibrate from stein to stern. The alarmed pas sengers had scarcely recovered from this shock, when the ferry boat struck a barge, which was being towed up the river, damage resulted from either mishap. No Charlotte Chronicle'. The President I has notified Hon. R. P. Waring, of this city, of his appointment on the commit Jet to examine the weight and fineness of all the bullion coined in all the mints of the I'nited Slate during the past year. Toe Virginia Delegation Arrlvee Nine Slatea Behind la Their Electoral Retnrna. - By Telegraph to the Cititrn. WAshinc.ton, Jan. 24. The delegation from Petersburg, Va., beaded by Representative-elect Venable, which arrived here last night to urge the passage orthe Cowles' internal revenue bill, was nttbe Capitol this morning, expecting to make an argument before the appropriations committee. Their programme was interfered with bv the adjournment of the committee as 'mark of resect to the memory of Rep resentative Burns, but the members of the delegation improved their opportuni ty by pressing their viewa upon the Representatives individually, upon the floor of the House. They hope to be heard by the appropriations committee to-morrow. The members of .the delegation were armed with a memoriuldrawn up by the Lynchburg, (Va.,) Chamber of Com merce, and addressed to like organiza tions in other Virginia towns, urging them to co-operate in the effort t' secure favorable action by Congress upon the bill. Copies of this memorial were pre sented to many Senators and Represent atives by the delegation to supplement their individual efforts. - TANDY ELECTORAL RETURNS. Electoral messengers from nine States have not, as yet, arrived at the Capitol and delivered the vote of the electoral colleges of their States to president pro tein Ingalls of the Senate. The law re quires tbut messengers shall deliver an envelope, containing the result of the voting qf . electors in their respective Slates, not later than the last Monday in January. This will lie next Monday, the 28th inst. . L, . : Returns have l)een received from all the States by mail, but this does not comply with the provisions of the law, which iinjierutively mitiires that messengers shall oresent their communications to the president of the Senate by the date above named. Each envelope shall bear on its face tlie names of ; he electors, and its contents superscribed, in accordance with section 139, of the Revised Stat utes. The States whose messengers wuT be delinquent Unless they arrive bv Monday next, are California, Colorado, Florida, OrcgoiwTientucKyTameTIWcHflllkH. Nevada and Texas. The bond offerings to-day "aggregateil $11,500; accepted $6,000 r four-and-a- halfsatlOO. DOVM IT MEAN WART TheSsmoan troablefcBlsmarck's Orsran on he Subject Dlplo- aaaHc Circle In Com s motion. By Telegraph to the Citizen. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 24.-The Honolulu Bulletin, of the 15th inst., reaching here .yesterday by steumer, prints what purports to be a circular just sent out by the German officers at Samoa, regarding the late disturbances there, ia general. The circular denies that the Germans on the Island have oppressed or mistreated the natives,' and re-nffirms the statement that the late battle in which twenty-two Germans were killed. was led by an American newspaper cor respondent. Bkklin, Jan. ,24. The North (tcrman dinette, Prince Bismarck's organ, denies the existence of any treaty precluding an European power from acquiring or seeking to acquire Ascendency in Samoa The (mtcttt further says, the treatv provides that Samoa shall concede to each treaty power equal rights with .- any other power. - but no treaty regarding the neutrality or independence of Samoa exists Jiet ween 'iermany and the United States. LonPon, Jan. 24. The article in the North German Maartterelatlve to treaties regarding Samoa has caused somewhat of a commotion in official circles here. By some persons it Is regarded as a de liberate defiance to the Washington gov erumcnt, The Cotton Market. By Telegraph to the Cltitcn. Liverpo il, lanuary 24. Noon. Oit- Lton, steady; fair demand. American in id ling, 5'jl. bales; 10.000 oaten; simula tion and export, 1,000; receipts. 20,000; American, 19,000, Futuressteudy; Amer ican middling, low middling clause, Jan. 5 ,13-Ga 32-C4d.; March; April, 28-04a 29-64d.; May, June, 5 29-A4d.; June,tily, 5 30-64d ;July, August, 5 31-4a 32-64d.; August, September, 5 30-64d. 2 P. M. American good middling 5, middling 5, low middling 5 5-16; good ordinary, 5 3-1 G, ordinury 5 1-10; sales of the dov included 8100 American. Jan. S 32-64, seller: Jan. Feb. 5 30-64, seller: Feb. March 5 29-64, seller; March April S 2tM4, seller: May June 6 29-titt, seller; Ian lulv, 6 30-64. seller; lulv Auirust B 31-64, seller; August fcpt. 5 29-64 sellerj future duMv 4 P. M. Ian. 3 32-64. seller, tan. Feb, 3 29-64 value; Feb. March G 29-64, seller; March April 5 2H.64, seller; April May 5 2H-64 seller; May June 5 29-64 seller, Jane July 5 29-64, buyers; July August 5 3(M4, buyers, August M-pt. s Z9-t4, seller, future closed dull. Nkw1 Xonk, Jan. 24. Cotton net re ceipts, 1205;gross,4176. Futurcsclosed quite steady; sales, 89,200 bales. Jan. 9.50a. tt; ten., .&a. v; March, u.eya 70; April. 9.81: May 8.91; June, 100a.l; July 1 .009; Aug.. 1 .014a. IS; Sept.. 9.78 a.H0; t)ct., .ou. b. An entertainment for the benefit of Pisgab Lodge, No. 32, K.ofP., will be given at Opera Hall, in this city, at an early date. Aiherifle js one of the; fifty -five citfc In America hat t" an electric treet car system; and the only one In tlie Union that will have a general freight system. ' A - - ril'iCKEDlNOS OK BOTH HOUSES YK81KKDAY THE' PKNHION REHOIil'TION ABOPTK.D. The County Govertaenl Question 1 aided by a Part) Vote, As Waa , Alan the Bill Allowing the Kli-ctlon of County Offloere lly the People. " ." Imperial Telegram to the Cltleo Raleioh, Jan. 24. In the Senate to day, bills were introduced to give magis trates power to dispose of mortgage property under IS; to amend the ohar ter of Murphy; to incorporate the Mil ton and Yanoevville railroad, and to drain swamp lands in Henderson ooun ty. ; :'' The following resolution was paaaed: To appoint a joint select . committee n peusions. Bills to allow Henderson oounty to build a jail; im punish resistance to po lice officers; to relieve grand juror of the different counties from coming Into open court, except incase where death i the penalty . . : . ... . jr. " Resolution to appoint a special joint select coramitte on roads, (three from Senate and five from House) ; bill , to protect telegrams and letter, by mak ing it a misdemeanor to make kno w n their contents; to reimburse the pur chasers of certifiuatee,on account of the building of the Tuckaseegee road, in Jackson oounty. BOUSE FBOCKEDINU. T : j In the House, the finance committee reported Unfavorably upon the bill to make an appropriation to the Colored Orphan Asylum of North Carolina - The bill for the protection of sheep husbandry was sent in with an unfav orable report, and was tabled. Under the call for resolutions, "Hr." Amis, of Granville, republican, intro duced a bill attacking the present sys tem of county goverment He endeav oured to secure a . suspension of the rules, so that the resolution oould go upon the calendar, to be called, up at any time. The Sou declined by a party vote, to suspend the rules. ; -' Mr. Baird, of Buncombe, offered a resolution in regard to public printing. which went to the oommittee. Among the bills introduced were the following ; , To Incorporate the Bank ef Gommwee, at Raleigh; to make ten hour a day' work; to nnabla school districts to tup plement their school fund by assess ments: to incorporate the town of Franklin Macon oounty BAl'OOM SKATED. , The committee on privileges and elections, after considering the case fully, decided to give the seat In the Wake county contested election case to L. D. Baucom, democrat, whoee seat was contested by L. M. Oreen, republican?. 7"" A resolution to raise a joint select committee on pension legislation came over from the Senate. The House adopted the resolution, whioh provide for a oommittee of three on the part of the Senate, and five on the. part of the House. .The committee will prepare a bill soveriug all matter in connection with pen sions to disabled soldier and widows of soldier. The bill providing for the working of public road by taxation, was tabled without any debate, ... : .. . A MESSAGE FB0M THE. OOVEBNOB. A message was read from Governor Fowls transmitting several hundred copies of the "Educational History of North Carolina! .by Prof. Charles Lee bniith, and '"Education in the South," by Rev. A. D Mayo. The bill passed Its second reading. allowing the rudiment of agriculture to be taught in the public schools, at the discretion of the Superintendent Public Instruction. The bill also passed incorporating the "Bank of Rocky Mount The bill amending the Code so that county commissioners shall be elected directly by tb!e people,waa tabled. The following committees were an nounoed: House branch pension com mittee, Messrs. Sutton. - McCubbins, Cherry, Hoi man, Phillips, Hamrick and Cooper, House branch committee on Printing Messrs.' Dougbtoti,- McUlll, Stevens, Reagan, and Holman. UnfTMMM t iad. " " Bf Telegraph to the Citiien. OiURUurroN, W. Va., January, 14. The Senate and House met in joint . as sembly at noon, and balloted for Uni ted States Senator, with the following result: Ooff,88; Kenna, 17 LSV L. Wilson. 10 ; Gates, I ; O W. Wilson, I balance scattering. There were 87 Vote oast ; necessary to ohoioe 44 . Bealanger at the Battens of By Telegraph to the Citiien., It. Panis, Ian. 24. A duel was fought to day by M. Concidet, member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Department of Crens, and M. Chabroville, editor of newspaper. The lutter was wounded The duct was the result of a quarrel growing out of the candidacy of Bou langer. Chance of Natne, Tb,e bill to change the name of the "Wests rn Oarolina (Savings Bank," to tbvWatrn North Oarolina Bank,' ha passed the Hons. - t 'v . No . deed were recorded, or marriage license granted by the register of deeds yesterday. r The Mjraterloaa Death of a Prom inent citlsea or M aeon-H la , Bo4jr Found In a Carp Pond. A private letter received in thucityi yesterday from a gentleman residing at r ankhn. Macon county, contained news of a very .mysterious death, which oc curred on Saturday, near that place. The body of Mr. James Crawford, a highly respected and prominent citiien of Macon, was discovered ia a carp-pond, at about one o'clock In the evening. The body was lying face downward, and in a small lxat floating in the pond, was! found the hat andeont of the deceased. Mr. Crawford, it ia said, left his resi dence at abont eight o'clock in the mornings and said that he was going to Pranklip on business, and would soon return. He did not return, and a search was at once instituted, with the sequel as above stated. Tlie general impression" prevails in and around Franklin that Crawford com mitted suicide, though no justifiable rea sons cun be shown to cuuse the commis sion of the rush act, except that of tem porary aoerration. i he iieceaseo was for many year register of deeds for Mu- con; was a metBljer of the boards of edu cation and finance of the same county, and was also a prominent memlx-r of the Methodist church. The coroner's inquest had not been held at the time the letter was writtci and consequently no additional light has been thrown npon a deed as horrible in its coiumissionrJM it was. uncalled for and unpardonable. - A MAMMOTH OKDER, An Anhevllle Wrm Receive a UPorty Thonaand Dollar Order JV.Frn a Mew fork Firm, One of the largest, if not the largest, rders ever given to a firm in North Caro lina, is tbut now beuiif tilled bv Averv & Brwin, proprietors of the Ashcville Furni ture Factory, this city. This mammoth order was given by a wholesale furniture company in New York city, and the oods ordered consist of bed-room and other suits, bureaus and wardrobe. The contract calls for the entire filling of the order within six months from its date, and the Furniture Factory, turns out about two thousand bureaus per2 moifth." ' The suite ore divided -into-1 wa-slaaaes two hundred and four hundred lots. These suits are of 6a!," and are shipped in ratio equal to that of the bureaus. Mr. Avery, senior member of the firm, told a Citmcb representative yesterday that the price the firm obtained in New York for the tame class of goods, were a great, deal better than those obtained lsewhere. On February 1st.; large increase, both in machinery and capital will lie added to the business of Messrs. Avery & Erwin, and when this is dons, Aniieville will have the largest and best euifed furniture manufactory in the whole South. At Washington, March 6th. Superintendent of the city schools, Prof. P. P. Claxton informs the Citi zen that the department of Superin tendence of the National Education Association of the United State, will meet in Washington, D. C, com mencing on Wednesday, March 6th, and continuing until 8th. It is ex pected that reduced railroad rates will be given to those attending the session. The Shooting on Cane Creek. Later and more accurate information about the shooting on Cane Creek, show that Inquire flarren's le; was not broken and amputated, ' as . re ported yeatenlay, but only severely wounded in the rlesh just above the knee.' The sufferer is now doing well. The Blair ManufaclarliiK Co. the firm oi W. A. Hluir & Co., doing a gencrul, furniture business, at No. 37 Patton Avenue, has been dissolved, and new. company, to be known as the Rlair Manufacturing Co., has been form ed. Increased capital and business I'acilitie have been added to the strength of tlie new company. Pcmonal. Miss MLouise BowenofLTanewull, Va., niece of General Joseph E. John ston, and siWr of ex-Congressman Bowen, of the ninth Virginia district, is at the nwannanoa ; as is also her sister, Mrs. J. M. Greener. (Mate News. .. W. C- Ktroiuu h ha been elected presi dent of the Kalcigh Savings Bank. - Bishop Lyman has arrived in Kuleigh from Europe, He is in fine health-. The State convention of the Knights of Labor met at Coldsboro, Wednesday. There was a considerable fall of snow in the northwestern section of the State in the early part of the week. At Mt. Airy it was six to eight inches deep. Governor Fowte has respited Bud An derson, of Goldshoro, until the 22nd of February. Anderson murdered a man named Porter in a most cold blooded manner Inst summer, nnd for that crime was ander sentence to be hanged next Friday, The respite is granted for good reasons, Kalcigh correspondent Durham Plant The scaffolding around the spire of the Central Methodist church ha been torn away 'and the latter In all its graceful beauty ,'stnnds revealed, In the early pring, when it is dedicated, there will be interesting ceremonies. ' JoM'pli A. Moore (lets away With Ik.mooo of the Conimc . tic tit Mutual Life Insur ance (!o'. FiindH. Bjr Telexraiih to the Citiien. Haktfohu, Conn., Jan. 24. Jacob L. Oreen, president of the Connecticut Mu tual Lite Insurance Co., of this city, made the following announcement thi evening ; "It has just been discovered that the financial corresimndent of this company at Indianapolis, after sixteen years of service, during which be has had tlie un limited confidence of all directors and officers, and of their predecessors, is a dcfuulter. ' ' For the past week his accounts have been under investigation and the defal cation has been found: the extreme aruount being about $500,000." ne nns restored to the company Jirop- erty which may reduce the uctual loss to $400,000. The amount of the loss will ' s not in any degree, affect the company' solvency, nor even jnterfere with its reg ular dividends. ' t r The past year h is been very prosper ous, and in spite of this unexpected loss the coinpuuy will make a lieavy gain in assets,' pay larger dividends than last year, and probably increase its already large surplus. It forthcoming annual statement will show assets of the most solid character, mounting to fifty-seven millions of dot lars, with a surplus of about five million two hundred and lifty thousand dollars." The agent is Jos. A. Moore, a leading eitizen of Indianapolis, about fifty-five rears old, und who has hithertoocenpied a high position in that community. He has been speculating. Mr.Q!et'lj WOS juti'i vitwed uii the sub. ject this eveiiiug, and said: "This steal eons!stS..othree parts; principally of loans paid to him by bor rowers, to be remitted ip 'the company; interest paid to him for same purpose, and rents collected by him on real estate inhisenre. The theft of the principal and interest lie concealed in part by more or less frequent payments of interest on loans so taken, and in part by the most ingenious and consistent set ies pf false hoods in response to frequent and careful inquiries by the company, he representing these borrowers as being in financial difficulty, anxious to struggle on and pay their debt and sa ve-tlieir- property- from foreclosure, .ancL.cpnfidentlthat they could do it with ' leniency on the company's part; and promising that they would muke payments whenever possible. ,(. The payments ofjntcrest made by him on loans he had filken were represented, of course, as coming from the borrowers themselves with the circumstancial ele ments of their condition and prospects, well calculated to excite the sympathy and make the company hopeful of a sat isfactory ' conclusion!" He ' continually represented himself as carefully watching these people and doing all in hit power to aid them to worry through. HON. Rl'Fl'H V. HOADF.N. A Well-Known and Highly Re spected Citizen of Charlotte I.ylnic at Death'a Door. From a private telegram received last night, information is conveyed that the Hon. Rufus Yancey McAden, of Charlotte, well-known iu this city, and throughout the State, waa not expected to live until morning Mr McAden is one of the foremost men in North Carolina, both in busi ness circles and in politics In 1H6R, he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, defeat ing for that high office Col. R. H Cowan, of Wilmington.. He discharged the duties of that office, in those high party times, so as to receive the appro bation of every member of the House, bis rtecinlonH of parliamentary ques tions baviug never been appaaled from. Gov Swain, the late President of the University of North Carolina, on visit ing the House, said: "I have not seen such a Speaker since the days of Ed ward Stanley." Iu 1H(J7, whilst living in Graham, he was elected 'President of the - First National Bank of Charlotte, having ex perience in such matters, by reason of having "beeiT before-khd during"the war, president of a bank in Graham, He moved to Charlotte in October, 1867, and took charge of the bank to which he had been elected President. He then retired from the practice of law and active participation in politics. In 1NU8, he became associated with Col. A. 8. Buford. in the construction of the Air Line Railroad from Char lotto to Atlanta, Col. Buford being President and he Vioe President. He waa th originator of the present Spar tanburg & Asheville Railroad Com pany, having organized the company It waa chiefly by his energy, ability money and credit, that thia important line of railroad was fltihlly finished. In 1881 he turned hi attention to manufacturing, erecting in Gaston county one of the largest and best ap pointed cotton factories in the State, giving employment to nearlr five hun dred hands. He is at present President of the First National Bank, of Charlotte, President of the Spartanburg, Union and Col urn bia Railroad, the Asheville & Spartan burg Railroad Company, the Falls of Neuse Manufacturing Company and the McAden Cotton Mills. Owing to the mnd and rain yesterday, work on the seweraire system was suspended until toduy.i NasicsofPapiu WtoM fete aorta uiaThcna Credit Laat Meatfe. Th following Is a list oi those Dunila in th city schools (white), whoa re port 'for the last school month was eith er 'good' or 'excellent' for aaah Mud; 'good'' in deportment, and who were neither tardy or absent durina-th month : ; " "' 4 i Orange Street School Myra Cun ningham, John Baker, Victor Whit lock, Bertha Johnson, Fannia Cmber- berly, Lottie Patterson, Sallia Smith, Maggie Stockton, Joe Sevier. Charlie June, Mary Bailey, May Baird, Min nie Freeman, Mary Sevier, Eva Branch, ' Ray Whitlock, Albert Bummer, Franci Oudger, Quy Rankin, May Jonas, Eu gene Carroll, Fred Miller, Franoi Smith, RenalJeil.Oraci Neil, OraoU Rankin, Minnie FiUpatriok, Kufo FU patrkk, Thomas Cook, May Baird. Ma v Jones, Maggie Clayton, UUl, nHw. noias.uoanie ltipatrlck,WUUa Young, Arthur Nichols, Janiea Whitlock, Owen Smith .Herman Qudger .Ralph Holllng worth, Willie Lynch, Walter "Lynch, Hilton Panland, Mamla Harenar, 8tel U White, My rti Burnett, Liaai Baird, Vernie Ball. , ,f : , , Academy Street School-Julia At kinson, Carrie Rollins, Oracle 8oott, Flora Levy, Nellie Cumminga, Vannla Jones, Eddie Dukes, Charlotte Atkin son, John Baker, Harry Bod, Joseph Reynold, Dottie Atklneon, Carrie Da vis, Walter Lakey, Hester Cowaaw Jaa. Killian, Annie Lee, Lawrence Chad. ter, Frank Davis, Mary Hutchinson, OttoKUHan - , r - New Machinery, El. - ' The Craliam Shoe Co!, arc now' put ting In a lot of new .machinery . and are otherwise increasing their facilitie for the manufacture of shoe. This i one of the mast enterprising firm in th cky. All work will hereafter be made by the latest and most approved machinery at this factory, and a large force of travel ing salesmen will be employed. ' . I,, ; ' -r y ' , , ' aeraona to Bar , - -, la the Senate, on Wednesday Senator Lusk'a bill to prevent .the keeping of screens, blinds and other obstractioa hi bar-room doors, failed to pass, upon a call for the aye and noes 13 ayes, 31 Charlotte's Female Physician, TKrom the State Chronicle! " Dr. Annie Laurie Alexander ha been practicing medicine here since May, 1887. She is a regular graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania of Philadelphia. That school ia of the "reg ular" Allopathic profession. Dr. Alexander took a three year' course in the college, and then peot a vear in a hospital. :' The doctor is the daughter of J. B. Al exander, 'one1 of the o1detL and moat - highly respected citisenaof Mecklenburg county. The family of Alexander b) on of the oldest in North Carolina, 40 lb branches with lofty pride trace their his tory back to a signer of the Mecklenburg . Declaration of Independence. The Doctor says that for the first six month after her locating hi Charlotte, the prejudice againat a woman physician was such a to.almost discourage her. After she had secured the practice of a few families, however, site saw her war tear; and from that day to thi she ha found her practice steadily increasing. ' ' The doctor confine her practice, to women and childreg. Her experience ia that she ha been able to rescue suffering women who are naturally repugnant to the fullest confidence to male physician. Outside of this tact, women Are lea sen- sitive in tlie presence of one of their arxj They arc less nervous, and are therefore able to give more accurate deacriptiao f their sufferings than they can oft time to male doctor. Girl and young ladie especially feel freer in consulting a wo man physician. Beside a woman can nore readily comprehend the sunVrfng of a sister than can a man. Children,' especially very young one, yield more readily to the caressing enquiries of a vomna than they do to "growed up In the matter of professional courtesy Dr. Alexander has frequently called' into consultation male doctor- tmi a s hit has never bail the courtesy imprecated. She has been' solicited, however, jto be come a member of the Charlotte Acad emy of Medicine. She ia a .member of the State Medical Society", When she passed , her examination before the State Board at Durham, for license to "practice in North Carolina, - there were a hundred mule applicants, and she waa cosaplt raentcd on having passed the beat exam ination, Dr. Alexander plica the surgical knife with the nerve and precision of an army surgeon, and she take a scientific delight in surgerr that i remarkable. So far she delights in a completely successful record in all her surgical operations, , . , , , All Ahoat the Cltr. Regular meeting of the City Council, at the Mayor's office this evening, at eight o'clock"" ". ;'" 1 The meeting of the "Y's" wilt b held at Johnston' hall, thi evening, begin ning at four o'clock. ! , ;. King Katakuaof the Sandwich Islands, hus reduced his army to a brasa band of sixty-fir piece. Sack a force might be very instrumental in repelling an enemy. Major Stewart, of Tex, has been In Boston for the past three months making collection in- aid of the Conff derate Soldiers' Home. Hehasobtained S2,2U0 in the Hub,
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