North Carolina Newspapers

Oestreieher & Co. Soecia Throusrh a ; vervl vantageous weare of just in possession twenty-seven Fur Collarettes : - Best genuine furs, elec trie seal and astrachan fur All black in col or with fancy silk lin ings. None in the . .... . . ... -. ; lot worth less than $ 5 and $6 Thev are of- fered at , i $0.48 -' r 1 - . ..mi First customersfirst choice. Will vou let this opportunity jpass ? OESTREICHER & CO. 28 South Main Street THE POULTRY: SHOW, THE PREMIUM LIST IS READY NOW Many Entries Anticipated for First Exhibition to be Held in Asheville. r the The premium list for the first show ; held in Asheville, N. C, under, the auspices . of the Inter-State Poultry, Pigeon and . Pet Stock association, is now ready -for the public, writes Secretary Hege, of Raleigh. "We are anticipating la big time and many entries," he says. " "The impression . has gone abroad that ' our president, Mr. . Geo. F. Weston, who is superintendent of ' the Biltmore estate, intends buy img" the finest tfowls in the werld; so as to be sure that Vanderbilt's exhibit wins all- the honors. That la ery wrong, and is calculated to do us ham. I wish to say that Biltmore estate will ghow about 500 tfowls,-but they will be 'for exhibition . only.'. We are es pecially anxious to have northern,, western an!d southern breeders with ua.'- 'K .the (breeders can not come in person," let them send their fowls and we "will care for them properly. ' . , ' ):"; ' JV""'. " -', ' MI't is worth the expenses .of ,a trip! to Asheville to visit (Biltmore estate,' the moat magnincen place in the v United - Stales, whtch cost nearly.; ten millions .'"of dollars. A free pass into same ' is given 'each' poul tryman. " "r" " ' " ' - "'Write for premium' list.' Large prizes,' hundreds of specials. (Low- railroad and hotel rates. " ; j"t '"Henry S. Ball, Shrewsbury; 'Mass!; Dr S. T. Dea," Hodges, S. C; F. E. , Hege, 'Raleigh, N. C., are the Judges. " ,' ' f ' "The pigeon Judge is yet to be selected. ' Tue Hospitality. tJ-VV '." The Washington; Post prints a "irne story," told by a retired army officer. Th occurrence happened in New Mexico.' Col onel X. was making a long march and thfl provision wagons had gone astray, He was hot and. tired and hungry, when he met Major B., who Invited him r homeq presumably to some fort to breakfast.? 4 The major's fortunes were at a low ebb, and when the breakfast was brought on it proved to consist entirely of rice rice cooked in the wonderful southern fashion with every kernel perfect. The hungry guest ate a spoonful. He detests rice. Then he waited for a second course. ; v -: , "Have some rice, colonel," said the ma Jor, whom nothing ever disconcerts, quite as if the rice had but that moment ap peared. - . . "A ' "Nol" snapped the colonel.1',' I'm; a Ken tuckian, sir, and I don't eat rice. : I don't eat rice, sir.' Give me something else. " 4 ' Why, certainly,', colonel, certainly, said the host, "Try some of the mustard. It's very fine, sir; very fine." , ,r MAnECRIED.lAit No. 5 Green - street yes terday by "Squire' J, James, J. M." lmh nd Miss Bonnie V. White. - .Mr. Lamb -1 employe ol tha Southern railway. AT THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE Termination of an Exciting Criminal Case. A Verdict of Murder v , ; Degree. in the First s Annual Session of : . the Eastern Methodists. To be Held in Raleigh Commencing Today. Meeting of the Excutive Committee of the Uni versity Manv Prisone s in Wake County Jail Court to Convene Monday. Raleigh, Nov. 30. (News has reached here of the termination of the one of the most exciting criminal "cases ever tried in Edgecombe court, mast May Fred Keel died from poison administered to him by Ben 'Field, as FieTd says, at the instance of Afford. 'The state's : contention was that f Alford wanted to dispose ol him, and used Field as a tool. IState 'chemist . Withers examined the stomach of Iha deceased and found sufficient .strychnine o cause death. The case was on trial ten days. About one hundred witnesses were examined. Al ford was acquitted and '(Field found guilty o murder in the first degree. The annual session" of the North "Caro lina eastern conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, will convene at Edenton Street M. E. "church; in this, city, to-morrow morning. Already a number of ministers and, 'delegates have arrived in the city, 'and by Wednesday Raleigh will 'be alive with Methodists from all points of 'thestate. -.;--v .'.'. '!llhe executive committee of the Univers ity. oT North Carolina " held a meeting in the governor's ofllce to take into cQiia-der-at'ion - the lease. of .; ihe -Mafiton 'JCarmrwhicir was given to 'the University toy. the late IRev. J. P. Mason and wife as a onemorial to their children.' "The committee- decided to leave the - matter in the hands of Pres Ment Alderman .; and Prof. Gore. . Major James W. Wilson presided at the meeting and the following other members were present : 'Col. ''' T'iomas S. Kenan, Mr. R. H. Qlattle, and Dr. ,R. H. Lewis. (Mr. J. L. Brown, who has been proprie tor of the Park hotel, has retired and Mr. iH. Vi Hilands,' the manager, has charge. There are" now tweniby-one -prisoners in the Wake county. Jail; Just one-third of these are white men, three of them being Federal prisoners, Who will be tried in the United States court which meets here next Monday. r ' . ' . W. S. Barnes, ex-secretary of the state Farmers' Alliance, is starting an egg trade here which he says he will 'make the larg est Jn, the south. "The production of eggs and chickens in North Carolina is immense !but can easily be quadrupled. , f Barnes says pure breeds of fowls are needed; that these produ'ee the largest and best selling eggs. The preferable eggs "are pure white or brown. -Each egg is tested before ship ment. ;-' V'-'- . . - i . ""V" - :--:, THE STATE CAMPAIGN All-Night Session of the State Execu tive Committee. : . . The Gazette had hoped to, give the result of the meeting of the democratic state ex ecutive committee at Raleigh last night, but at 1 o'clock this morning its corre spondent in that city telegraphed that nothing was then to be obtained regarding the proceedings of the meeting, that , the tcommittee would probably not conclude Its session before 3 o'clock. 'As the telegraph office at Raleigh closed soon after 1 o'clock it. was impossible to secure further infor mation for this morning. The Raleigh News and Observer, speak ing of this meeting, said yesterday: - " it ;ls so. rare a thing for the executive committee J to hold a, meeting in , an "off year" that people are speculating about it and wondering if it means anything out of the usual 'run. ; Chairman 'Manly ; says not, (but that it has been called to feel the pulse of the party . and to get ready for next year's fight. . - With the campaign as hot as it is new in an off year, what may we expect in the hot days of next June, July and August. It looks tike another 1876 campaign, with every man on the stump who can talk and every man in the saddle who can ride. : s.v The News and Observer; has been shown a set of resolutions which a member of the committee has prepared, fit .begins .'by congratulating the democratic party upon their success at the poll? in the recent No vember election; i In - sending greeting to William Jennings Briay, - - "the Toremost leader of the democratic; party;' in pledg ing fidelity to . the Ohtcago platform until its principles are enacted into law ; roast ing the fusion adminlstraton; and pledging to restore the government maintained from 1876 to 1894 when successful at the polls. If Col. Paul B. Means should take it into Ms head to introduce resolutions 'declaring Grover iCTevefland to be leader of the party and the gold standard to be the policy of the party, there might be some fun at ther meeting. -..". " ' '- , TO CURB A, COLD IN ONB DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money, if it fail to cure 25c. -Tne genuine has L. B. Q.t each tablet - , 1 v 1 for rant HotelBeley. Also one set of hand -made - double har- I ness t $10.00.-S. H. Chedester. - ; 4 KILLED THE MOTHER BEAR But the Old Lady Saved the Cubs toy - . Her Fight. fPwo sons of Henry ias, who lives jn Swannanoa, yefsterday morning treed three black j bears near Gudger's bridge,' seven miles east of the city.,, As they were fight ing the cubs the olid bear, appeared on the scene and was tilled -while in the defence of her young. Her body was brought to the city and is on exhibition 'at 'the store of Johnston ,& McDowelL; on South Main street; The two cutte made their escape. AT ERMERALDA INN. The latest arrivals . at Esmeralda Inn, Hickory Nut Gap, were: Mrs. Ida J. Williams, Miss M. Ethelyn Harper, Miss Sara E. Johnson, Miss Ruth D. Dean, Asheville, -x. N. C. ; Miss Amy1 ; El. Moore, Kenneth (Square, Pa.; Mrs. -Altee-Wight-man, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.; Miss Minnie B. Woodworth, Syracuse, N. Y. ; . CONFESSED TO (MURDER. Stam'ford, Conn., Nov. 30. James Armi- stead, a mulatto, confessed to the charge of murderous assault upon Henry Otis, of North Greenwich, to-day. His -motive was robbery to save his family from starvation. GEN. ORDDWATTS SU0CES9OR. (Washington, Nov. 30. The president to day decided to appoint Major George H, Harries brigadier general, commanding the TJis'trlct of Columbia in the national guard to succeed the late Gen. Ordway. TJAJDY MHUDAIS DYING. London, Nov. 30. (Lady Millais, widow of the late Sir John Millais, late president 6f the Royal . academy, is dying of cancer of the throat. THE COTTON MARKET FIRM DESPITE THE ENORMOUS PORT RECEIPTS. Indications Already Point to a Large Decrease in the Cotton Acreage Next Season. (Furnished by W. J. Fitzgerald, Corre spondent of W. L. Gailbraith & Co., 'New York.) New York, Nov. 36.-During the past week there has been practically no change in the cotton market, although it has shown surprising firmness, in face 'of the enormous movement, caused by raising the quarantine on the southern 'porta. aast Tuesaay-the port receipts amoontea to 97,v00 bales, which was the " largest quanitity received on any one day on 're- c'ortt, with one exception, October 29,:; '94,' when they aggregated 99,900 bales. These tremendous receipts had practi cally no effect upon values and the failure of the market to respond to such an influ ence apparently justifies the belief that aQl the adverse factors in the situation have been practically disconnected, already, in the current low piice of the staple. In any event the market appears to 'have 'found a resting place for tne present at least, on the basis of almost 5.70 for Janu ary and 5.90 for May. The fact that cotton has declined to a point equal to, or below, the tost of pro duction, continues to attract the atten tion off the ou'tside public, and in view of the fact: that in each of the past fil'ty yeais cotton has not failed to sell at or above 8c per pound, and that or contra values during 'that (period have but twice declined below the current level, the present would appear to offer exceptional opportunity for investment, unless indeed history should fail to repeat itself again this season. It has been pointed out that the price of wool, which has more or less effect upon the value of cotton, is to-day almost 100 per cent, higher . than a year ago, while cotton is almost 50 per cent, lower than It was then. Doubtless the widening- of the difference between the Value of these two articles will have the effect of in creasing to a crtain extent the consump tion of ctfiiton. ; ? lAdvices from all over the cotton produc ing section indicate that : the relatively high price of. wheat will result in consider able land being devoted to that cereal, at the expense of the cotton acreage, : next spring.-'':- . .. ; --. . --vy . Furthermore, we are informed that the cotton growers of Georgia will hold , a con vention in Atlanta on the 14th of Decem ber, with a view to the curtailment of next season's' cotton acreage. :; ' t-''-"::'"',1.'. The above simply reflects the legitimate results of the extreme decline in values through which we have passed. And it is most important. In view df the fact that any material curtailment In acreage next season will ultimately be reflected in a sulbstantlal appreciation In the market value of the staple. tNew York, Nov. 30. In " spite of " enor mous port receipts which broke all records the cotton market was very steady to-day. A decline of one and one-half sixty-fourths in Liverpool this morning caused our mar ket to open one to three points lower.' - The business during the day was of the light est character: and largely confined to ex changes of the different months. 5ort re ceipts were , over 103,000 bales, but - even these enormous figures did not encourage aggressive selling, January opening at 5.69, fluctuated between 5.68 and 5.70 and closed at 5.69 to 5.70 with the tone of the mar ket steady. The Stubbornness- of the mar ket is remarkable. - v 1 . ' - - ' "V RTOKDAN & OG .7- . THE OPENING. " v " WB HOPE THAT "ALL WILL COMB TO IT. WES WOULD CALL ATTENTION TO OUR. STOCK OF STERLING SILVER! NOVELTIES.- ALL IS NEW AND THE PRJOES ARE' 'RIGHT, QUALITY PURE, AJNID IN CHINA AND CUT GLASS . A FJNER DISfPLAY "HAS i NEVER ".BEEN MJADE.H'ERE. r, J. H. XiAW, 35 PATTON AVE. SSmlSKSr: T7r 4 .t. v GOOD established, paying . business ' for - sale. For particulars address iBox , 70S, WEAV ERV1 LLEJ NOTES Death of Ernest Ehringfectonr-Large Poultry Farm. i . ' Weaverville, Nov. 30. Uast night jffllr. Ernest. Ehringfecton; of 'Brooklyn,. N.i died here at the residence of Dr. J, A. Reagan where he had "been boarding! for severaU weeks. - Mr. Ehringfecton was a yoting man about twenty-four years of age, and had been 2 suffering for quite; a while frdim bronchitis and "?r a . - camipjicaltion of troubles; fromwhfch he diedf , As his death was unexpected instructioiiB as' to the dis position of the remains are awaited from his relatives in Brooklyn. ., 4 ; .The immense ahd extensive forest fires oh tha mountains,, hereabouts have been extinguished by recent rains. These fires were more, universal and disastrous than any.; within the memory of the oldest in habitant. The long dry season' unusual in its duration through summer and fall, had ' so dried the fallen- timber and leaves that the forest became inviting fields for the flames. . Mr. Sam C, ; Robinson, formerly of Asheville, is now located here .and is es tablishing a poultry farm that will be one of 'the largest and most attractive in tha south. He . is beginning to purchase hun dreds of hens; Ins Yancey, and ? Madison counties and is of the opinion that jmore suceess comes from .breeding native poul try than importing alleged fine stock, whloh are not so hardy and not accustomed to . a mountain climate, j Mrs. Mildred - Weaver Burnett, now of Del Rio, , Tenn., formerly resident j here, has been visiting friends and relatives hereabouts for a week. Mr. Ben Ellen, of Flat Creek, has re moved to the village and occupies one of the E. F. Vaadiver houses on Main street. ' : I NORTH' STATE NUGGETS. ! The North Carolina Quakers are to es tablish a newspaper at Greensboro. The Nbrth Carolina state Baptist con vention meets at Oxford on December 9. The Raleigh 'News and Obeserver says that -by the first of next year it will have put ih'a perfecting press with a capacity of 5,000 to 6,000 papers per hour. . 'Rev. J. T. Jenkins , of ' Morehead City, has accepted the pastorate of the Waynes vil'le ETaptist church and- becomes one of .the editors of the Western North Carolina Baptist, published in that town. - Cfhairman Fountain, of the populist ex ecutive - committee, says no demand has been made by any committeemen for an early meeting. Mr. Fountain says he does hot know of a desire of any popul'ist to hve the committe meet soon. Otho Wil son ahd ther popuilists who oppose Butler in the committee, have stated the opposite to this. ' ' ' ;" ., ( The grand; Jury has this week found nineteen true hills against certain Salis- Sinry- merchapts J forl selling cigarettes to T : n " i. A number of boys were'"' examined -'by the 4 Jury; recently, and "the nineteen true bills are ttie result of examination. As many as six bills were rfound against one man. The cases will not come up before next court. m .The state labor commis5son,er says that there tare in the northeast counties forty saw mills with band saws which average each 50,000 feet a d'ay. The biggest mill in the state, the Banning, cuts 200,000 feet a day. The commissioner is delighted with the fertility and resources, of that sec tion and says that if. Its people worked as those in the western counties they would be rich. The Ladies' Memorial association of this city has done well to selecting the life and military services of Gen. Clingman as the stibject of the address on the 10th of May next, says a Raleigh correspondent to the Charlotte Observer. All "the manu script of the addresses of this character is on file in the State library, save that of ex-KJongressman - Bunn, which for some reason he has sc far (failed to ffurnish. Much historical and biographical matter of value is in these addresses. The North Carolina Presbyterian Pub lishing company,' of, ICharlo'tte,- has been incorporated by the secretary4of state, .for a period of . thirty years. Its capital sttatok divided into shares, of $100 each, i is to be $4,000, with privilege of increasingjto $100, 000. The business of the company shall be the publication off a : weekly religious newspaper known .as the North ICarolina Presbyterian and also carrying "oiji & gen eral printing and publishing business. The map of North Carolina railways for 1897 has been issued by ; the railway coooa Imission. 1 Xt shows that .there are now rail way Oines in all the counties in the state save eight. There are fourteen routes of the Atlantic Coast Line system, fifteen of the -Southern," twelve offthe Seaboard and thirty ml'scelraneous total, seventy-one. The total mileage Is 3,436. Of one line, the Danville 'and Western, -only) three fourths of a ' mile - is in this state. The longest road is in the Cape Fear and Yad kto ; Valley,; 33lU -mliesi the next longest, the Carolina Central,' 264& miles. , The committees appointed by 'the gen eral conference of the Methodist church, south, and the northern -'Methodist chuTcb to consider the subject of the union of the two churches, have agreed to meet in. joint session in Washington ' city- January ,1L The commititee of. the Southern church is composed of three: bishops, three ministers and three laymen. ; Bishop Granberry ia chairman of the. Southern committee. The other two bishops are Bishop Hargrove, who presides ;-;"kt;tteMethodistrCDaference in Jtateigh thlsTveekV and Bishop Key! One of the three lay .members of the committee is 'Justice Walter Clark, the Supreme court of North. CSarolina.--: U - . . . " Am InoentiTe to Early Rising. . - .. - A good etory Is told of - the Rev. W. L. Watkinsou at Plymouth, Some time ago he was staying with a good lady who was jreamlng. fori, the . good old . times and mourning the degeneracy of . modern Wes leyan ministers. On 'being asked for the grounds- of her jeremiade she said tHat Wesley an ministers of the earlier part of this century rose early in the morning, and that dear Mr. Wesley was ln bis study at 4 o'clock in the morning. "It is not to be .wondered t,'' was- Mr,, Watkinson-'fl dry reply, "W?re Mrs. Watkinson any thing like Mrs. Wesley I should be. up at 2 o'clock.' Westminster Gazette. - ' " BAR ASSOCIATION Business of Importance Transacted at Yesterday's Meeting. The Sar association of Asheville, at its last "meeting transacted some business o importance to the association and the bar generally. The most important feature of the meeting wa!s the adoption of certain fees to be charged for legal services, v The association is composed o"f a large percentage, of the" Asheville lawyers the membership being betw een . thirty and (forty. The schedule of fees adopted "is a private matter with the association and la not made public.; (However there Is no secret of the fact that the minimum fees for certain services were established such as commissions on foreign collections, fees in case of special proceedings, appearances before justices of the peace and police jus tice, nling complaint in any and all ac tions, reducing claims to judgment and filing answers in civil suits. The cons ti tu'tion was so amended as to make the first Saturday in each month the regular day of the meeting of the associa tion. The rule adopted as to charges : for foreign- collections was ordered published by) the issuing of 1,000 circulars for the use of attorneys and litigants. DISTURBING THE PEACE Merritt Ledford and J. W. Wade Be fore Justice Van Gilder. There was quite a congregation yester day afternoon in the office of W. H. Dea ver to witness and take part in the trial of Merritt Ledford and J. W.' Wade, who are under arrest charged with having dis turbed the public peace at an entertain ment in the Johnson school house in Wes$ Asheville Saturday night. George W. Ti-lson represented the de fence. The prosecuting attorney was Assti Solicitor Rogers. , Borne thirty or more witnesses wer present and .both offenders were bound over to court. Wade gave bond. Another warrant was sworn out for Led ford charging him with carrying concealed weapons, and after the examination of several witnesses, he was again bound over to court. PARLOR ENTERTAINMENT At Mrs. E M Merrimon's Tomorrow Evening- The parl'or entertainment recently men tioned in the Gazette, will be given on Thursday evening, December 2, $ : 30 o'clock at the residerice of Mrs. E. M. Merrimon, French Broad avenue, corner Haywood street. - . The ''programs, daintily palnited ih Kin dergarten designSi promise a rare .treat in giving as the reader of the evenlng;3Iiss Hamilton, of. the Asheville .College. The vocalists "will be 3drs. O. C. Hamilton and Mr. (B. Friedman. Miss Evelyn"; Merrimon will be the pianist. The price of admission will be only five cents, and all who attend will be aiding one of Asheville's highest charities,' the free Kindergarten's of the city. M'KENNA THE MAN HE WILL BE JUSTICE FIELD'S I SUCCESSOR. J,udge Nathan Goff of West Virginia. Talked of for the Attorney u - Generalship. Washington, Nov. 30. The president will appoint Attorney-general McKenna to the supreme court to suceeed Justice Field who retires next month. No intimation is given as to, who will be MpKenna's succes sor. The talk of Judge Day becoming attorney-general is a revival' of an old ru mor, which is denied by the assistant sec retary of state himself. ' The president would gladly appoint him, but Judge Day prefers his present place, - The talk of the retirement-of Secretary Sherman is without foundation. The pres ident 'would le glad to appoint Judge Na than Goff, df West Virginia, attorney general. Judge Goff was offered the place before, but could not accept., He is on his way to Washington, and It; is thought he will now accept. ; - v . PROF. ROSSELLS'S LECTURE A Pleasant Evening. With Edgar Allen. - Poe Prof. B. Rossell gave the last of hll series of lectures at : the Y. CM. C. A. hall last evening at 8:30 o'clock. , . The theme for his talk was. "An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe. -He related many interesting facts concerning the author's life and character, and fayored . the audi ence with quite a number of readings from the works of Poe. 'The Raven" was given in full; that together .with the other se lections being illustrated by r means "of stereoptlcon views, . some of which ' were very good. . , : Prof.. Rossell .is formerly .of Asheville, and is now. president of the , Washington Lecture asscdation. . , , , x. : , CHRISTMAS OPENING J. - TO-MORROW, -THURSDAY, , AFTtER NOON AND NIGHT. AILL AIRE ASKED TD COME AND SEE; WHAT THERE IS FOR CCEIRISTMIAJS nAND OTHER. TIMES, NOT TO BUY. WE HAVE NEVER HAD SO CHOICE A STOCK BEFORE, AND PRICES WILL BE POPULAR. ' .' J. H. LAW, 35 PATTON AVE. ' Dr. W. C. Brownson will open an office on, November 18, at No. 60 Patton ave nue, second floor - above ticket office " of Southern railway. . -Office i hours, 2 - to 4 p. m. Telephone, office, . 34.. residence, 114 . 240-13 : .- - ' - " - ' MARTIN THORN -. - v V CONVICTED Jury Eeturns aYerdict of Guilty of Murder. Sentence of Death toliTProhounced i Friday. 7 : The Verdict Reacted After Seven i Ballots. : Crowd Cheered the Announcement of Their Decision. -in Motion for. New'Trial Promptly Denied Law,,;, yer Howe Sheds Some Dramatic Tears Over the Result. Long Island City, N. Y., Nov. 30.-The Thorn jury came .into court at 5:35 o'clock"' ' this afternoon with a verdict of guilty of V ?t murder in the first degree. They were outv : three hours, and nine minutes. Thorn stood ; looking steadily at the jury as tha fatal . words were spoken. . . The jurors were polled and each - an swered "'Yes," as his name was called. -Thorn stared at each man as he uttered his concurrence -with the verdict. No muscle " of his face moved. , ?. Thome's lawyer, Howe, asked the judge - - . . ... to set a day for the argument on a motion for a new trial. -C. "Sentence will be pronounced Friday,"- the court announced. Thprne laughed in hysterically as Howe's motion trial was denied. . for a new .f" The judge said to the jury: "Gentle-;f .. men i't is this court's duty to thank you J.p for the close attention which you have paid " r to this case, apd. fgr your faithful per- V " " 1 ... ..... 1 formance of duty x A i Thorn was remanded back to jail at ,5:46,' ., beJfoie 4he Jury was discharged. . The jury was discharged ' then. -f - v lawyer Howe was ? granted; a five-min- J utes' .conversation with Thorn and then ' burst into tears. Thorn's sister, who wag-,lS in the gallery of the court Toom, wept as the verdict was rendered. Her sobs con tinued long after Thorn was led back td y ' jail. v The jury took seven ballots before arriv- ing at a verdict. The excitement on thev delivery of their decision was tremendous.f Crowds cheered. ' The vote stood on the .' .-V first ballot eight to four for K0 conviction, V:, Four wanted a second degree '.verdict. On ; "r the second ballot the jurors stood eleven to one for conviction of murder In the first degree. ' i St. Andrew's Brotherhoods ; - -. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew met last- ' even'ing at the parish house at Biltmore.- ? There was a large attendance present and" i' the following orders were represented: 'V';' Trinity church, Grace chapel, St. Matthias.,, and All Souls' church. The meeting wajhivj presided over by Rev. R. R. Swope, D.D. ; , .; Judge Thomas AV Jones officiated at the v- piano, and interesting talks ,were made by . to Haywood Parker, Mr. Charles A. Mc- - iNamee ana juage jyiitH. , , fjrs The Low Prices of Silver and the Higher tariff. The fierce competition between -the man- V. ufacturers of Sterling Silver articles dur-'.!'; ing the last few months has; notwlthstand-"" Ihg the higher toriff caused a great de- V cline In the prices of many . articles For , , J.-' ." instance, a haic' brush with solid Sterling i ' Silver 'back that formerly cost $6.00 or $8.00"' can now Jbe bought for $3.25, and the larger, size that formerly cost $12.00 can now be''.h i: bought- for $4.75 to $5,00, Small Sterling J: .',; . Silver ariMes that now sell from 25 to 50 r;t., cents a 'few years ; ago would cost from - $L00.to $L60.. . . - : , v ,r : jTi5ch atkI nnvfiltia that can be bousrht now -for $3.00 or $4.00, and. those that. cost $25.00 and $30.00, formerly cost respective-!v ly from $10.00 to $90.00,' and' .so on aJi ( through the jeweler's line, .." .. ....) ... t .1..-.. v.,-.. 1--- "V reductions, but as the value of gold in an article is much greater' than the value of ; silver inj&roportlon to the making, the. re ductions are not aa great as on silver goods. These great reductions have also; caused many firms to make .Inferior goods, v k and people should be very careful, in mak ing their- selections, to buy of . firms la ? whom they have confidence. . w; ' 'it,