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Lxr a ix Wmo Mtb No NsarM Fob Txa Ficmr, JfJiiPasr. VOL. 09. DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1888. NO 13 NEW YORK LETTER. INTEUKSTNG ITEMS PICKED Those Giddy GlrlsProgrewi of the campaign; M T War SraStoate Letter la Ux Diuf Bkooiuki Nk Yowt, Bepl.17. Rlnet the Ohio yong lady of Baby Bunting" memory succeeded la legally runlet, ing Million lire code merchant Ar buncle out of some f 50,000, as balm for her wounded heart, that aort of 'thins ba got to be somewhat" fash ionable. Almost every day our ayia ttii a are tortored with aume new instance of ft poor girl who haa loved a rich man not wisely, but too well, und is endeavoring to take a few Ihon tanda from hia bank account by way of making things e tea, , There never was a place on earth perhaps where the breach of promiae industry thriv ed ao vigorously a here. Thia time it is pretty litis Mast E. Munay, of Brooklyn, win I jidng Millionaire grocer Norford, of Bridegepoit, Con iieticut She ask for ft modest I V), 01)0, one thou-and of which is for cer tain Jewell of hers which she allege be has basely retained, and the tnfl ing balance of 149,103, to patch up her lacerated alP-ciious. A not her Brooklyn - girl ho baa succeeded in etmg herself very ruucb talked aUilieMia Kent Shi- w very well to do, and up in so cial scale. A yolce of remarkable purity and ft tal' bt f r tuimtnicry have been indulged to the exteot uf liringiu g ier ani rrpotatiia a a figure in fashionable aui venr h -a-tricala. It stem that tow that Mia Knit had another propensity which, when tudulgg- f by ordinary folk, is bt known aa stalling; though, of course, wh. a ladie of rank eogtge in lbs butim-si pool form 4 requires that it he called kleptomania. At all events, the ) ouug Udr abstracted some jewel of Uige vatee from thi tray of a Brooklyn ieweW who at shoeing her the good, Site was de tected, arrrsted and locked aa At lat th agency rfchoiog man to lead the Democratic fore la this Ktate i over. . After all tha blowing and ; bowling . and mud-aHnging gainst Governor Ilill, not on of the hundred I of delegates to tht lata Con venlion opposed bis re-nomination. Tha nngmumj of course am ,, woe fully disappointed and predict all aorta of aril thiogt; but they liJ the avuethlne, threo years ao when 1M1 H-at ft Trf popular oppouent, Coigns man Darenport r The atitude of the two Democrat ic organisations ou the local oftirer i like that of two tchool-bovs with chips in their shoulder spotting for ft fiitlit, end yet ft little? nervout about striking the firat blow. Tbochsuce ff tlitdr hating tip and pulling to g-ther, are ceruinly sot great, ao far aa appearance go. Tha present eigoi in I eil that Mayor Hewitt will be rennminated by tha Count Dem ocracy and indorsed , by ft Citizen's niotetni nt, which is only ft mask for the Ik-publican vote. This combina tion ol rt would prov Invinoi .-. - - There Is atill soma discussion over the MitiiM episode. While Demo crary has liul to show for tha tlec tion, tho leaIers do not feel dis couragnl. At the Nation! Head quarters Jttie potitira alalemmt was made that tha National Com mittre pat no fanda in the State while a large amount of boodle wo wanted mi it from lli enemy's strong bos Kvei Hipp, the managers asy, Mr. Blaine was unahla to gain anything over the election four years ' There u plenty of good !e l lleadipiatters wot th progress of tha fight In tlie rd battlegrounds. 1'anyfsithlstoba pjt in human "tUrn'Mif, ladiana'e Cflren elector tal voir will be fonnd in the right pisno. la New Jersey, C Hmnctwut and New York alto the fiicht ie pro greasing ta the entire aalisfacUon of the Deni'icratla captains. Fkakc K. Vacouas. TIi Blaine Hlet-tion, PoRTt.!!, Sept. 10. Forty towns ie lb publican vote or .o.rn; Otmocratlo 12,200 ; Prohibition 671 1 scatteriog 337. The same towns In ssvit ft Rcnuhlican vote of 13. o9 S Ormocrau 5 In hibition 744lratlerlnff h Itrnublican tlu- rality 4,o:7, aKalnat 45L llrpulli on gain l,G0a. If r. Prj an tTbit bead, one of the old landmaiks of Halifax I cou.itr, dud at hia borne, hear the loan of lla'ifai. tfondav aflernoon, In tho tlghty fourth year of hie aje. AT LKXINOrON. iOPOB t-OWtB A HO DOCKkf IN JOIST ' ' ' DKBiTE. ' " .., Spteul to Vt aa OtMrr. LExtmTov, N. C, Sept. 15. Judge Powle came In to-day, escort fd by the finest horseback and baggy procession fver aceo here, r The Ke publiem, with long preparation, bad a spotted crowd of may be more than half aa many. The town was crouds cdso that the candidates bad to speak frem the court boose step in therein to thousands of interested people. - Col. Dockery made a ducking, dodging paach. lie aasd that neither the Governor nor the Leulature bad anything to do with the tariff or rev en ue, yet be spoke only of national questions. Jodie Fowle arraiirned llm and bia party in a most manterly ana taking way, in ft vote making speech, lie not only answered eve ry argument of Col. Dockery but held him up moat succeaxfully as a ridiculous poser for the farmers vote. Judge Fowle drew that Alliance res olution on bina again and CoL Dock ery .aid it surprised bim, bat Judge rowle showed that be should not be surprised, that the farmers wereop postd to bigb tariff. , borne floe flow. ers were presented to Judge Fowle or tne ladjca. and to onet'lt ueo. M. Bulls, Esq, brought forwarl some green corn and preaeuted to the farmers candidate, but Judge iowle said if George Balla (an attorney) and Dockery tbougbt tney could fool the people of Davidson they were greeuer than the corn. (Immense applause) Col. Dockery in bis re- j under :oke with a drag, frowning and winking hi eyea long and lieav i' j as he pullel through bis eentfto cea. Judge Fowle met his "negro in the woud pile with overwhelming argument and closed with a tuost ele gant appeal for personal libeity and oon.Utuiional righta that chained the atteutiou of all listeners. It waa a gala day for old Davidson, end we are sure of a complete victory bare la November. At the clow, crowds flocked about Judge Fowle to shake bim by the band, while the whole mats cheered for more than flltan minutes after bis speech, for Fowle, the nest Governor of North Caroli na. It ia universally admitted that Judge Fowle soured ft complete vie tory. - t, J i The F rennet no tlie Kaat. aM(k HwOlirwf. Norfolk advice are to the. effect that the freshet ia tha rivers in east em North Carolina ia subsiding alow m t.u 1. a ly. ureal namage sas retunen on the lowland farms along the Roanoke, Not to wit. Black water and other riv era, the cotton and corn crops being submerged and deatroyed, and live stock, barne and outhonaes. cut lum ber. eord-wood. bridges, ft aces, &c , swept away br the Dooda, wlucb have never oeiore oeen equany awastrous. The rise in te iianoke river was thlrtv-eeveii feet higher than ever known before ftnd overflowed the low countrr three miles from its banks. The rreiU'-t 'lrncuon to me iar mere ie on t)it river. Many aweu inge were mi emerged and swept ftway with the barns and outhouses. Crop aw fifteen feet under water. Many fine plantations are utterly ruined, and it i estimated that the tots by floods this sea win here will reach II 000,000. A Collision on the Virginia Slid ittna, Charlotte Camay. TLe fint through train from the North to arrive in this city since last Monday at noon, came In at 3 o clock this morning, lie trouble was caused bv a collision between a pttsrnger a. . . a 1 . I and a rreigni wain on me t irgima Midland road, at 2 o clock Monday afieraooa. ; The collision occurtd near Culpepcr, and from what can be learned, was a serious siuir. auc engineer i toe paaveogcr uain, James CroQn. wa klllwtl. and the fireman of the freisht train was so badlv wonuded that he cannot re cover. None of the passengers were hnrt. The collision is said to have been the result ol a misunderstand ing of train orders Both en iues and several cars wre broken to pieces ftnd the track was very badly ul (eluded. T Fever at lleiidersonville. CaARl.tirroii, S. C Sept 14. Mavor llryan received a dispatch frrm Dr. Allan! Mcminger, at lieu deramville, N. CI to-d.iy, njmg that yellow lever had broken out among the Jacksonville rrfigcs at that place. A strict quarantine will be eaiabiisu ed here against UendersottvLlle. The New Drummer's 5,000 Miln Check.' .; ;' 4 ." Chirlotte Chronicle. vM ' ' " The Traveler's Protective Associa tion, which Is composed of the bulk of drummer of the United States, and which ia largely represented in Char lotte, is Btill hammering away for re form in railroad travel. Considerable success has attended the efforts of the Aesociation, begun on the first of last January, to secure a 15,000 mile book for tlOO, good for one parson, and for passage over all the railroads in the country. This 5,000 mile book was Issued on the 18th of last June, and is good over the following roads: fiake Shore A Michigan Southern ; Cleveland, Colombia, Cincinnati & Indianapolis; Cleveland & Canton ; Cleveland, Lorain St r Wheeling;: Chautauqua Lake; Columbus, Hock ing Yalley A , Toledo ; Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Cincinnati; In- i dianapolia, Bt Louis & Chicago; Cincinnati, Wabash A Michigan, Dunkirk. Allegheny Valley A F.tis burg; Flint A Peri Marquette; Fort Wayne, Cincinnati A Louisville and White Water; Indianapolis A St. Louis; Lake Erie and Western; Louis ville, New Albany A Chicago: Miohi gan Central; New York, Chlcaso A St . luis, (Nickle Plite); New York. Lake E ie A Weslerro; New Yoik,J A O., between Cleveland and Youngs town, Pittaburg & Lake Erie; Toledo & Uhio Central: Toledo. Ann Arbor A North Michigan; Toledo, Colum bus & southern; Toledo, rtoria & Western; Valley; Wabash; Western New York a ad Pennsylvania. lue following railroads are Issuing one and two thousand mileage books, at 2 cent per mile: Chesapeake A Quia, Richmond A Alleghany, Bulti more a Ubio and toe Fennsylvania. This work has all been accomplished by the determined Worts of the Trareler' Protective Association. On Saturday, September 2'Jth, there will be a special meeting of this association held. AH traveling men are invited to attend tbi meeting. Ongiual Observation. Onae (V.J Obwrrer. You cannot peraerve your tempi r by getting into a stew. lue tl rues are so bard Uiat en the fish are going erary, that Is, iu seine. It must be plessant to be ft ruroir. for a rumor is always gaining cur- rcn.t7 . . . some men are to mo iett that it actually makes tbembluib to tell the naked truth. The darkey's hour ia just before lay, when he cornea and carries your chickens away. Tlie "flower of the family" la cne- rally found in a sealskin sarque, wearing bags and bustle. I be tall season is npon us. An Orange young man fell into a cattle guard bucday night wuile trying to eicape the clutches of the ever vigi Und watch-oog at the borne ol nis best girl. The young rnau'a panta loons need receipting. State Oiuliulugs. High Fwint wilt soon have electric lights. TheTarboro Y. M. C. A., baa monthly reception.' -A china factory will be started at 8tn ford. Caswell will have a rail road election on tie 30th. Ku lus H. Page, of Raleigh, died Sunday night aged 70 year. Wili Marie? and U. II. Smith, both aged about 17; engaged in a row at New Garden Sunday. Marlev was killed. Hmith is in jail. The Yadkin river is said to be a! i teen feet almve the usual tide. The Fayette ville Journal bus been abown a dou ble acuppernoiig grape of largo di meosions.- -The two lUleigh grade! icboola (white) have opened with ft total enrollment ol 802. TI.e Frist Baptist Church of Baleigb has unanimously tendered a call to Ilev. Dr. John if. Frost, of rielma, Ala , to become pastor of the church. It is understood that Dr. Frost will undoubtedly accept the call. - Alach in Few Word. aUtStlpkla Bift-tO. Men- with the tipper part oflbeir bodies stripped at work , with molten iron are not the men who get the bentflt of the tsson the American consumer. Men witli the lower part of their bodies stripied at play with their toet in tho sauds of French and d.glish watering placea are the fol low who get all the benefit. Capt. Jnov Ia Holmes, a well known former resident of Wilming. ton, was thrown from bis carriage, in a lunawav, in Polk county Tnesdny, and instantly killed. i kni Chits of labor. ; A Rhode Inlander LoctiirfH in ' Durham. : ' Hon. John O'Keele, from tho State of Rhode Island, lectured in Stokes Hall last night; on the objects and aims of the Knights of Labor in Amer ica. "- Mr. 0Keefe was greeted by a fair audience, the larger namber being compjsed of colored men and some womeu among them. He was intro duced by Mr. D- C. Mangura, who said that amid the clash of political armies arrayed in the present fight (or supremacy, it was a pleasure to listen to a man who would speak up on a higher and nobler object. Mr. O'Kede is not an orator. But he talks in a plain straightforward, practical manner. UU lecture was interspersed with a great many "now then's" and Mono's" which we Uke it ia customary with Rbod Islanders, and ti very noticeable to we ''Tar heels. . ' i His rem irks were confined princb- to the objects of American night of Labor organiz ition, and the demanda the organization nuke in elevating, educating and improv ing American workmen. It was to foster a greater respect for man than for dollars, and foe. the morals as well as what he possessed. lie enu merated at length the Knight of La bor platform that nil lawa not bear ing equally cn capital and labor alike should be removed; laborers protect ed from daoger while employed; a demand for weekly payments as a much better system than monthly or longer .accouu s; opposition to the contract aytem; prohibition of the employment of children under 15 j ears of age in factories, workshops and miuee; opposition to the hireing out of convicts; the Natioua! banking system; and the necoosit of the Government owning . the : railroads, the telegraph wins and the tele phones. Upon these subject- be pro duced dispassionate arguments, and handled them in a lucid manner fiora his stand i.L He was listened to patiently for quite two hours, and closed with an appeal to the Knights ol Labor to do their duty, and asking those not members of the order not to. misapprehend the tntaion of the K ol lh ana misconstrue tneir mo live which were for improvement of men an 1 the communities in which they lived and labored- 'the entireties. Effort are being made to have the uext P.m-Anglicin Conference held in the Unitid-Statea. Thi ia the sug gestion of the American liishops. Baptists have long had a strong following in Jamaica. Ana now tney appear to be gaining ground in Cubt. Lnl yer there were 800 baptisms in that Island and 8,000 applications for baptism. i Fit terafn ' reunion discussion floes on notwithstanding the (Torts to gnore the subject Evidently the1 anient reunionist on both aides are determined not to let the matter rest. Bishop Williams, of Conneticut, nrnsidincr ISiahon of thrt Protestant Kiii.c,nal Church iu the United States, has just completed the term of .1 IT- n : I v vniri in lus EiiimMkrrT. iib m nr.Uinoil deacon Sei.tember 2. 1SSS : ftilvancpil to the nrtesthood in 1841 : consecrated Assistant Bishop in 1851; 1 .L . J .U - t" 1 11 II anil.en ine ueaiu oi uuuuji.urvwuiiii in 1(8 , became Uisbop. Sonit State rrvsit Opinions. People are mighty queer. They find this and that fault wuh a paper; but the instant the carrier mUais them whew -CharhUe Chronicle. Looking at $11 the evidences, pro and con, as now presented, the elec tion of Cleveland and Tburman is ab' solutely iTt."-Ktwbef JournnaL This year North Carolina needs no third party tn her political contest, and the leaden are untrue to them selves and the State to persist in the movcmenUCAarfcte Qhervr, Patti struck ft bonanza in Buenci Ayrea. She tang twentv.live nights a little bit and the gross receipts were 1370,873, which is something more than tn industrious Jkorth Car' olina editor would receive for about 3V.0 year hard work. Who wouldn't sing . Wilmington Star. , A colored woman by the name of Harriet Pnlroer, was killed vest-rdar, one mile from Ilalclgb, by theeas'eru bfldnd R. A D. nsssenger trutn. She was walking on the side of the track and as the engine approached got on the track and was atrtick before breaks could be whistled down. IN STATE ROUNDS.'' Movements lit which Tar Heels are IntereHtcd. The dnmaze done by ' the freshets in Caswell county is now estimated at $200,000. ... . ; . . Edward Small, aged ten yearn, fell from the railway wharf at Elizabeth City Saturday and was drowned. Concord Standard ; .Twelve hun dred and thirty chickens have been shipped from thia market during the week to Richmond. There ii a great frestet prevail ce in the Pee Dee river, and a large area of the best farminzland iscomoletelv ... . n covered wittr water. A v ast amount! of cotton aud corn is threatened with entire destruction, r w5 s, , Hickory Press ; The mansgers of the Hickory fair offered 850 in gold to the couple getting married but having had two applications at the same time there will be a donble wedding on Thursday the 20th, (to day.) Charlotte Chronicle : It wai learn ed last night that a number of ths citizens of iV.ver strickeu Jacksonville. have accepted the invitation of the people of Hendersonville, thii Statu, and will refuge there. It is expected that a special refuge train with 230 people on board, will n-ach Hender sonville to morrow. Nowbern Journal: Mr. Will Cook, while boring a well at Bell's errv. last week, brought tin fmm a depth of 70 feet a tooth, which was pronounced by the doctor at that placa to be human. No one re:uem ber the burial of any person of late years at such a depth, so perhaps it is the remains of an antedeluvain, or may ba the well borer struck the grave of an antipode. Lenoir Topic : Mr. J. W. Cannon. who has a lease on the Fleming gold mine, owned by Mr. P. Shutf Kincaid, near Hartland. showed us yesterday. a very large nugget of grdd, weighing 77 pennyweights, which he lately dug up. it is the largest piece 61 gold that we ever saw and Mr. Cannon h.is been offered $G1.60 (80 cent- per dwt ) for it, but as it is such a large lump, he thinks that he ought to receive more der dwt for it than is paid for grain gou. , Wilmington Ifattcnv-rt Mrs. J H. Thees, who resides on Dock street. between Seventh and Eighth, had a thrilling adventure yesterday. While leaning on the euruiug or a well in her yard in conversation with a neighbor, she imagined she felt the th.ng move. She at ones drew back and had hardly gotten out of the way when the whole top of the well caved in, miking a yawning pit that would have swallowed her op but for ber getting away. The Charlotte Chronic of yester day gave an account of a queer acci dent. A yonng mm, Wm. Lowe wai working on the third floor in the fin bhing department of the Furniture factory. A large fragment of a bursted block bead crushed through the floor, and struck bim on the leg. His leg was severed just above the ankle, the ankle and foot being h-ld merely by a piece of skin, and hia knee was crushed and split open. It wai amputated. Raleigh yeie-Oherver : The lat est news from Col. Holt is that his physician thinks he is -ome better, thouen we very much regret to learn that he is still unable to leave bis b u and is sutfering very great pain. 1 .. If -It , 7 m n. m is addiv miner, oaugnter oi ivey. Willis Li. Miller, formerly a resident of tbis State, will shortly sail for Japan, a a missionary. Rev. Mr. Miller, when a young man. was res ident of tbis city, and for many years was ft member of the Presbyterian ministry or this otate. GoKlsboro Arqu : The news comes to us of a murder in a bar room in Princeton, about 12 miles from this eity, In Johnston county, Saturday afternoon. Stephen Howell tilled Wm. Lane by unking bim several blows over the bead with a hickory club. Both men are white. Lan lingered until Sunday night, when he died. It is stid that the murderer's at'ack was made on a man name Bridcers, growing out of a law feud, when Lane interposed, giving Bridg et's an opportunity to escape, where npon Howcl turned upon Lane and felled bim to the floor and struck him several heavy blows after he lay un conscious at his feet, Howell then made olf, and up to tbis writing bad not been apprehended. , .BULLETS FLYINCJ. .A SUNDAY SHOOTING AF FAIK1N flipCKLENHUUU. ThA Republican Nominee for Slier lit' Shot by a Keuilllcuii Candidate- for Township Constable. Charlotte Obranlcla, Mr. M. A. Dunlin, the Ccpublican nominee for Sheriff of Mecklenburg souuty, lies at bis tome in Clear Creek township with two bullet wound in his body. Tho party who hot him is Mr. W. Sherman Flow, a Republican candidate for constable of Clear Creek township. The affair occurred last Sunda,on the plantation of Mr. Dulin; hut nothing was kniwn of it in town until j-ejt-rday morning, when the news was brought here by some of tbe wounded man's neighbors. Jas. Hagler is a brother-in-law to Dunlin, and rents a house on Dulin'a farm. Sunday afternoon Flow went to Hagler' home and sent bim out to bunt up Ihilin. linger soon returned with Oulin; and entered bis house, leaving Flow and Dulin alone outside. Shortly afterwards he b ard them quarreling, and heard the lie passed, but doe not know by which ol the two men. Almost immediately there Hfter h ) heard three pintol shots, and on going out, found that Dulin was b t. Flow qu ckly disappeared. Duliu whs cankd to bis home where he was attended by Dr. J. C. Black. The physicinn found that one bullet had entered Dunlin's left side, and bad lodged iu his back, after ranging twelve incite A second bul.et had entered the lower right side ol his abdomen; and after a range of nine inches, had lodged in his back. Both bullets were cut fn-ni Dunlin's back by the doctor. Dut lin's wounds are serious, but not necessa rily fatal. Tbeaffdr g:ewout of a qu.rrel over politics; and Duliu ay that Flow attacked him because he had said he would not vote for Flow. 'When we got to disputing about the matter," Mr. Dulin is reported to have stated. "Flow gave me a shove and then pulled out his pistol and began snouting at me. One of the sliots rxiised me. J closed in on him after I was shot, land knocked him down; and then I beat him until I had to desist upon account of weak net caus.'d by the ioss of blood. When I released him. he ran off.. I think that in the melee I bit one of bis fins. gers nearly on"" The utt iir stirred np tbe people nt Clear C'eek, and parties of cititers spent Monday in searching for Flow. tueir synipi'hes appeared t ie stiongly with Dulin. Flow's w lure about were unknown at lost accounts. The Itai nit and Crops. The corn crop on the Neuse liver bo:(o ns is rcpoitcd to be a total failure. Notwithstanding the drought of summer and tbe late c mtinued rains and disastrous fl ods there will be more than an average crop to gather in thia section. StilUbury Truth. Farmer are busy cutting and har vesting their tobacco crops. Some plantations are succeeding in giving a g'Kid odor to theii curing, though the msjo ity of the barns so far housed do not come up to the usual standard of Granville g-Hxl. Xtto of Oxford. The recent rains have done much damage to tbectops. Low ground corn on ra :ny of the strea-ns have lteen flooded sua much of it com plete! r spoiled. Deep river an 1 the Cape Fear inundated the low places. ruiniog the lute corn. Uotton has taken the second growth. Sanford Erprm. Tbe eiocssive ransit is thought wili prove very damaging to crop. Tobacco has been much injured, cot ton is rotting in tha bolls, is badly soib d and otherwise damaged, and peas are sprouting in the hull In some csef. The winds have blown corn down and torn tobacco leave hi some extent' Altogether the outlook fr the average farmer his been far more gloomy during the past ten days. HendiTSoH (Jold Isnf. Horace L. Spice, an insurance broker of Baltimore, was arrested in Charlotte Wednesday, by the Sheriff of Mecklenburg, cbaiged with ad justing the late Ms of the Charlotte Compress Coropaoy, which was in sured by companies not authorized to do business in thi State, Mr. Spic acting as their representative.
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