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, t I - ' 4 - 9 A -1 p - ' VOL. XXVI. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY MQRNING, JANUARY 11, 1S86. NO. 54 i M A' A ' 't " " . ,. I -AA- i " i-- i ' ' - . i , - ; News and Observer . royal K;.t Ji : XI Absolutely Pure Tbw powder never; varies. A marvel, of pnrirr, strength and wholeaomenees. Mere economical than ordinary kinds and cannot bt Aid in competition with Um muiUtuds of tow Wist, short weight, alum -or phosphate powders Sold only to cans. Botax. iUtpje fowitic Co 103 Wall Street, New York. "i 8oJd brWCslfi Stroaaca. JBeorn T JStrouach ad J U rerrau ui. A Hppj New Year to everybody u it ; . the greeting we tend to all; from the i ST STORE. I We are going to do all. we can to Bake everybody happy, and If you will do what we intend to do 'and what we tell yon to do you will, master the mttl. ' '" - ' ' j -- - titade of life's ills : Keep oat of debt. ; v . -- i . Till your eropi with a hoe ud be .the owner of every hill of eorn or.oottdn or tobaooo you grow, unless the means of your own to do yoi have otherwise. I. Did you know the credit system took half your labor and made you pay double for all you got! Keeps out of ?, . i ' ;;'( j '. , debt and save every other row i of corn ... - v r ' : ! j ! or ootton, for it takes just that much of ' ;- ' " ! ' i i i jour labor to enjoy the greatest 1 bleas- ; rT, :.;. . : ; j J ing there is in the credit system, for if a ... A." .a;. ' i -t--"i credit crop fails you are sold out and all - - v-w ' r i. you have must go, while you and your family are left destitute. ' ' 1 I Well, theeredit system is i bad sys tem anyway? and the man .who sella merchandise that way is simply :au ob ject of pity, as a rule; because the nuiu- ber who cannot pay and thoaf who will not pay force .him to charge jtueh prices to those who do pay that he s actually ashamed of himself. - I The credit system don't bring very much happiness to anybody; It is all "hope deterred." The KACKifiX STOUE comes to you with the new and better way: with a live cash buBiuess basvd on quick sales and small profits. ' tiix montns of Kacket liftt has done much to develop the advantages; we are able to give you. six months has de v eloped the fact that Racket j values have mastered the field and placed it in the lead of the trade in Raleigh. Six months has decided that it p4j tk have our buyers always in the market, g&th . enng bargains from the slaughter-pen of credit, and six months has decided that our efforts to supply the j people with the greatest value for the least money has met their approval and .tells us in thunder tones the determination ui tae masses to free themselves from the pondage of the credit systeii and that aeaoetorth they will use the ready doi ;iar instead of paying double for their (merchandise. DoYouWishtd Build THIN 07 COCRgX YOU WAJTT A- 'Neat and Practical jDdtign. 'This ean be furnished promptly,: economically ana sausiactoruy oy Gr. Balder ARCHITECT AM It BCLUUt, : With the late Suntiel Sloan), Baleigh, N. 'wuo, on. applkatson, , will prepare plans, levatlona. details, working drawiatrs and tspeeliicauons (or buildlnipt of vtrj duMrtp. ittoa throurttSUt the tttate. Lack box Sitf, iEn m S, BrigK Bduding. dune an XiiHlll CAROLINA 1 ; U HALITES AND 8A5D8TONE8. P. i.iiiehan & Co 409 Kayetteville 5t.r BaleUjh, JJ. (X, ' Are prepared to make oooLmoW om Um Most mobm of Uke Heat Oujuut w any Uaaattnv 'aTfrabae Terms lor kauoijuui ; uiuih bh UtMUred. Uuarriee at lieudenton and Wsdne buro. S. . Amok Ucuiurs tot haadlinsr sm makieuf ouiek snlpmeots to any pointy atthexis i PKEUIORL tr exit f ta sutsk ' 1 f- I CONGRESSIONAL, 1HE SENATE AUAIN WBtSTLINfl VUT1I THE MLYEH PKOBLEM. - Ur Coat TwkM tb taint Vl.w a Washington, Jan. 13 Bsnats.- Senator: Haw ley presided over the Sen ate toiay in the . absence of Senator Sherman. Mr. Ingalls offered the following reso lution,.; which was laid over for the present: I' rwesoivea, inat in iae opiuiou ui vuv Senate, the compulsory coinage of silver dollars directed by the law of February 28th, 1878. should not be suspended until the aggregate reaches the sunr of $500,000,000. Mr. Eustis gave notice that Monday next at 2 o'clock he would cffll up Mr. Beck's silver'resolution with a view of making .s me remarks on it. Mr, Voorhees stated that better to Buit the! convenience of other Sountors, nrMiive nf the neniia of the Henate on I the death of the late . Y ice-President Hendricks until Tuesday, the 26th, in stead of next Wednesday, as originally t proposed. J " 1 he senate proceeded to the consid eration of bills on the calendar. Sev eral bills for private relief having been disposedTof, the bill to admit .Dakota was reached. j Mr. Harrison said it would be impos sible to consider that bill under the five-minute rale, and at his suggestion it went over. He. stated that he would call it up as early as practicable: A joint resolution was' passed direct ing - that copies of the official letter books of the executive department of the State of North Carolina be furnished to said State by the secretary of war. At 2 o'clock Mr. Coke called up Mr. Beck's silver resolution and addressed the Senate on it. , The question of thr suspension of the silver coinage, Mr. Coke said, was one. of such transcendaut importance that the arguments of the President and the secretary of the trea sury on the subject should be consid ered on tbejr intrinsic merits "and should not be influenced by the fact that they were arguments coming from high offi cers of the government. A suspension Mr. Coke regarded as tantamount to a complete stoppage of our silver coinage.; Silver, he said, had not deprecia ted,; but gold had risen in value He showed by statistics that taking ninety leading articles of merchandise, there bad been an average fall of 20 per bent since 1870, while there bad been a fall of only 23 percent in silver bullion. It was therefore an abuse of terms to say that silver had depreciated. Silver constituted one half ihe quantity of all the coin in the world and the stoppage of its coinage wauld deprive the world of one half of its coin t-urr ly and would doable j the purci;.. j-nver of the other half. This iyuiu be u enormous contraction. ; The tight uiinst silver Was a fight again.-1 tuo p. . pie by the banks and boiialioiJirs. It was a fight against labor. Had Andrew Jackson been in the White House at any time since 1878 the silver ques tion would have been settled. He would have extcutedthe laws of the United States and would have taken by the throat any conspiracy airaiuct those laws. The silver standard had no terrors for . Mr. Coke; Germany had bet n a silver-country before it had got so much gold from France.. France was one of the most thrifty nations in the world, and France j had six hundred mil lions, and some said nine hundred mil lions, dollars of silver coin circu lating in harmony with gold, side by side with it, yet the French silver coins were of a finenessj comPare w'ta gld of only fifteen and one-half to one, while our silver 'dollar, was of the fine ness of sixteen to one. Give lis, said Mr. Coke, the same executive vigor and fidelity exercised by the of ficers of the French government in be half of silver, and we will show that we can carry very much more silv r than we now! have. The coinage of silver, Mr. Coke said, should be free, as was the coinage of gold. American silver should be placed on an exact iqu.ility with gold .everywhere, but whether right or wrong as to free coinage, Mr. Coke said we should, insist that ..our government officials should- execute the taws. A bill was introduced by Mr. Col- quitt(to appropriate $100,000 to con tinue the improvement of the Chatta hoochee river In low Columbus, G- A resolution offered by Mr. Ed munds was agreed to, authorizing the secretary of the Senate to pay the bills incurred in the attendance of Senators feet high, so does Johnson grass. Ber nt the fuuertduf the late Vice-Presiaent 1 niuda grass will carry four cattle per acre; Hendricks. At 3 45 p. m., on motion of Mr. Hoar, the Senate went into executive session. At o p. m. the uoors were re opened and the Senate adjourned. liot'ss. Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsylva nia, presented a petition irjtn tne American clay tobacco pipe association, asking that the duty on clay pipes be changed from ad valort. m to specific. Referred. 'Itxtt -moment that Mr. Curtin, Pennsylvania, who had bi-en conferring with friends at bis seat at the end of the main aisle, succeeded in being recog nized by the speaker, he arose and said : "It was your pleasure, sir, to do m the honor to plaeo me first on the list of the committee on banking and currency. 1 did intend to state to this House my reasons for declining that honor, Lut on the advice of many friends and of the sentiment of the public journals the country I ' have .. concluded to offer no reasons of my own as to declining the" position it was your pleasure to give me. I did not need the advico of any man, for my disposition in this, respect was made up from the beginning for reasons of my own which seem to be understood by uiy friends and colleagues on this floor.' 1 do apk thin House to excuse me from the important duty as chairman of the committee to which you have as signed me. The speaker If there be m objec tion the gentleman from Pennsylvania will be excused from duty as chairman of the committee on banking and cur rency, ' Mr. Bland, of Missouri, moved that the House do not excuse the gentleman front Pennsylvania, but this motion re ceived no support and Mr. Curtin was excused; This devolves the chairman ship on Miller, of Texas. On behalf of the cointuitttee on Presi dential laws, Mr. Caldwell, of Tenues see, called up for action the Presidential succession bill, but on a statement by Mr. Cooper, of Ohio, that the minority, report had not been printed, discussion on the Subject was postponed till i to morrow. The House, ou motion of Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, at 1 o'clock :U'aJ0UI'Ii A Ijtrff Fire t Macon, Cteorsjl. ' Macok, Ga , Jan. 13. A fire broke out in Ralston hall at G o'clock early this morning, destroying the old theatre and stores occupied by R-. gers, Wor sham & Co., Home & Phillips, J. Tho mer, Felix Corpul, W. B. .Chapman antHSaniuel Baer. The second story ws occupied as offices. The total loss is $75,000; insurance $37,000. The fire originated in a restaurant. The extreme cold weal her seriously retarded the work of the firemen. The heaviest losers are 'Jco, B. Turpin, the owner of the build ings, $40,000, 'insured for 1S,00U; 'Rogers. Worsham & Co., $13,000; in sured for $7,500. 1 A' Ystrda" Cottou Market at New York. NaW YoRKj Jan. 13. The Post says: The future course of prices would seem to-depend mainly upon the ability of the holders of the present somewhat large: stock to await relief from the good ex-! port demand which must set in sooner or later,; Our mills are well supplied. Future deliveries .opened 12-100 higher, lost the advance and showed at the third call no change from yesterday's closing sales. At the third call only 100 bales May were sold, at 9.60. lOOjjuly 9.80, 100 September 9.65 and 100 September 9.66. Fntures closed steady-. Sheep IIakBdry in the Cotton States Cor. Sheep Breeder. Thinking that maybe an article on the above would interest your readers!, I havo concluded to tell them what 1 know about j raising sheep in the cotton States. ; ! I believe that it is a conceded fact that to handle sheep for profit plenty of cheap land and cheap grass are required, with mild winters and cheap food to put them through the winter. In the cotton States, but more especially in the old States east of the Mississippi river, there are thousands of farms, worn out by cultivating cotton, which, with Bermuda grass ard Japan clover, can be made excellent sheep farms. They can be bought very low in fact so low that one would believe them entirely worth less. But while it is true that these lands are much worn and exhausted, they will produce Bermuda grass, Japan clover and the cow pea; and can, by running sheep on them, be made rich in a few years. Japan clover is a new grass of the .clover family that was started near Charleston, S. C, in 1865, and has spread over the entire cotton States east of the Mississippi and parti ally over the trans-Mississippi States, as I have heard of it as fair west as the Colorado river in Texas. It grows well on all kinds of lands, bears grazing well, stands drouth first-rate, ' and I ac cording to analysis has the same feed value as red clover on all our dry lands which affords good grazing and makes good hay. . But the great advantages the cotton States possess to cheaply handle sheep is cotton seed. I have fed raw cotton seed for twenty-five years, and durine that time I have seen nothing tut good result-". When the seed can be bought for $8 per ton a sheep can be wintered on it for twenty cents;' and the fact that it keeps them in good order, and at lambing the ewes have plenty of milk convinces me that it is good food. I have long been satisfied that there is no country in the United States that can handle all kinds of stock so cheaply as the river bottom lands of the South. The lands will produce from 40 to 100 bushels of corn per acre and four to six tons of hay. Red clover grows six hogs do well, and where they have wood land to run one will keep growing all winter, and then can be put on clover and do well until ready to feed. This can be done with peas much cheaper t'mn . ... Au v .u - it can be done in the North on r a r - ui , corn. Our mild climate enables us to get along with much less grain 'than in the North. In fact we need indfe grain during': August and September than during winter. Hogs now running in ' the woods are fat enough for pork, and 01 t-i u : i w v, uavc uccu oiuuu iaou nuicmuci. Now.vour readers may well ask : "Ifv this is all so, why does the South send .North for bacon, pork, lard, beef, and in fact for all we use?" My answer is: It is all caused by a disease called "cot ton on the brain," for which I know no cure save depletion, and that is fast coming, Experiments which have been made show that flesh can be put on beef cattle during t e winter for two cents per pouna oy ieeaing cotton seea ; yet 11 J 1 . . 1- A but few cattle are fed. We even get beef from the North I CONFIRMATIONS, THE SKIT ATE COHFIftM CTTE . WCBBCROr HOJUKTATIOJIS. nmuf rr.l-K Stlmatci-c Ananir Tltni- We II It hi mo Far. . Washington, D. C, Jan'. 13. The Senate in executive session today con firmed the following noraiiiattous: Jabez L. M.Curry, of Virgiuia, minister to Spain; Charles 1. Scott, of Alabama, minister resident and consul-general to Venezuela; Frederick H. Winston, of Illinois, in inister president and consul general tS Persia;! Pierce M. B. Young, of Georgia, consul-general at St. Peters burg; William C Jordan, receiver of public money; to be U. S. ministers, Geo. V,. N. Lath rop, of Michigan, to Russia; John B. Stallo, of Ohio, to Italy; Chas. Denby, of Indiana, to Italy; Jas. Q. Cheuowith;of Texas, first auditor of the treasury, to be ministers resident and consuls general, Moses A!, Hop kius, of : North "Carolina, to Siberia; John E. W". Thompson, of New i'ork, to Hayti; Wm. A. Seay, of Louisiana, to Bolivia; to be secretaries of legation, John S. Morgan, of South Carolina, to Mexico; Walker Fearn, of Louisiana, to be minister resident and consul general to Roumania, Sorvia and Greece; John E. Bacon, of South Carolina, charge d' affairs to Paraguay and Uraguay, and several hundred promotions and ap pointments in the ariny and navy, post masters and other minor officials in the civil service of the government. - The tola Snap in tut Far West. Waco, Tex., Jan. 13 The storm which swept over Texas last Thursday and has coutiuued with but little abate ment up to the present date is without a parallel in : the bistorv of Texas. intelligence from the cattle regions of the State are of the gloomiest and most depressing character. The loss in cat tle will be great and cannot be -approxi mately estimated until the full extent of the damage inflicted by the inteore cold upon the stock interest is fully . kn n. From the southwest and west news is receiveu ; inai ine cattle were anven against the fences and are rapidly dying from cold. The loss will be unusually heavy. From Batesville in the north west, news comes that grtat prairie fires have occurred , in that section of the country and that the cattle are dying by hundreds from the cold. Carcases, it is stated can be seen far and near strewing the barren prairies and the loss will be enormous, no provision having been made for the care of cattle in those bleak districts which are devoid of everything except grass. The loss to the cattle industry in the Pan Handle will be very reat, although no reliable reports iave been received from that re mote district. All the water-pools and r streams tiuousnout the heavv cattle growing districts of the State are frozen over hard and, adding to the gravity of me situation, a heavy snow storm set in Sunday night, and Texas, from the Sa bine to the Rio Grand j, and from the Red river to the Gulf, is covered to a depth varying rom two inches to one foot of snow Indications this morning point to another fall equally as heavy a that or last night, lhis will completely cover the grass on the ranges, and as no provision has been made for feeding the death-rate among the stock from the cold will reach frightful proportions end entail a loss of millions. a (lrst Vnth of Herroea -to Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 13. The immigration of negroes from North Car olina and South Carolina to th'a State is attracting attention. The new-comers have generally chosen Chicot, lesha and Drew counties, in southern Arkansas, as places of abode. -The negro population is very large in that section, particularly in Desha and Chicot counties, where the republicans have a majority and choose county officers, dividing the offices with the blacks. In the past three months hundreds of negroes have settled in these counties. A gentleman in this city re ceived a letter from Charleston, S; C, stating that the writer, a leading colored man, desired to locate 40 or 50 families, comprising five to eight persons in a family, in this State during January, Other letters from different parts of the Carolinas indicate that at least 1,000 negroes will come to Arkansas between this date and May. Bosened. - Sandv Hook, N. J., Jan. 13. The Stephen Woolsey, towing in a steam boat,: arrived off Sandy Hook this morn ing. ; She was boarded by a life-saving crew and it was ascertained that the boat belonged to the foundered steamer Hylton Castle, and that the captain and eleven men had been picked up off Fire island and were all on board -dung well; some of them, however, were a f little frost-bitten. The Cold in 4 aldwell. Lenoir, N. C. Jan 1 1, 1883. Cor. of the NlCWS ABD Obirrb. Friday at 10 o clock a. ni., snow commenced falling, which continued to , bl . , .! ' lio clock p. m., stoppiug at a depth of : p. m., stopping at a depth ot six inches; .our first snow. Saturday morning the thermometer registered 6, Sunday morning at i o clock a. in., zero, at 10 o'clock p: m., aero; at 7 a. m. Monday 12 beTow aero, and ranged between that point and 10 above zero during the day; at 7 o'clock p. ni., again at xerO; 8 o'clock 1 below; 9, 4? below; 10, 10 below; 11, 12 be- low;! at midnight 14 below. This . morning (Tuesday,) at7Vclock a. nr, 18 below, making it thc-coldcst weather. and ! continuing longer than any we have - Oil since December "30th. 1880. We have heard of noofie having perished with cold,' but many chickens and birds knxtn Kaon 'fmun. - The train on the Cheater & Lenoir raiirod was delayed ten hours Rctxc, ' HASOjrS. Hlnety.-BTInt't Annual Communication of the ttrand Lod offf. r. . SECOND DAV MOBX1NO SESSION. The Grand Lodge 'was called from refreshment to labor ypBterday morning at 10 o'clock. Vacancies on committees were appointed as follows : Jurifpru deuce J. I. Macks, W. E. Murchison, J. B Neathery, J. W. Gidhey and Ji ll. Munson, P. G. M. Orphan asylum W. F. Beasley,' in place ot W. H. Mitchell. Committee No. 2, on sus pensions and expulsions J. P. Sugg and J. B. Redford. On motion the "endowment law,'' as proposed by the committee on that subject at the last an nual communication, and postponed for consideration, was made the special order for thfPafternoon session at 3 o'clock. The! committee to whom was referred the Grand Master's address made a report praising highly that most interesting and able document, and after recommending that certain parts be re ferred to special committees, said : "Your coiiumttee cannot too highly commend the able address of the Grand Master to the attention of the members of this Grand Lodge and to the frater nity at large. Full of learning and wisdom and imbued with the true spirit of our noble institution, it is a docu ment that may be read and studied with much interest and profit, and your com mittee feel that the Grand Lodge was peculiarly fortunate in the, selection of a Grand Master who has been able to govern its affairs with such ability and harmony during the past Masonic year and whose address has furnished them so much information and so many wise thoughts for reflection. Calvin Cox, from committee No. 1, on charters and dispensations, submitted a report recommending that a charter be granted Lonoho lodge, of Hamilton, Martin county. The report of C, H. Robinson, V u. M., contained, a full account of the interesting j proceedings in cident to the dedication of the Washington monumeni, which took place February '21, 1?9D. lhomas Daniels, from committee No. 2, on charters and dispensations, made a report, recom mending that charters be granted Bald Creek and Centre lodges, and that Far mers' lodge and the : lodge at Yadkin Falls be continued under dispensation. Reports from various! committees were made and properly referred. John W. Cotten presented a report of committee for majority and minority on centennial celebration. The majority report of the committee recommended that a proper observance of the centen nial of the Grand Lodge be held at lar boro December 9, 1887. The minority report recommended that the celebration take place at xvaleigh during the next, the 100th annual communication, in Jan uary, 1887.1 On motion this report was made the special order f x the night's session at o o clock. Ihe Grand Lodge was called off until 3 o'clock p. m. At the afternoon session H. A Gudger, J G. W., and John Nichols, Grand Pur suivant, appeared and occupied their stations. Tu' special order for the hour was the "cuu'ia liicnc law. me same naving . I . T , , , f 1 . I been published in the preceedings of the last annual eommuuiution, its reading was dispensed with. J. . Macks moved that it be tho stuse of the Grand Lodge Hhat some endowment plan should be adopted, which did not prevail. On motion, tuo report oi tne committoe en- bodying the proposed plan was laid on the table. W. F. Beasley' introduced the. fol lowing resolution : Res olvcd that the committee on, endowment for the Oxford orphan asylum be continued for another year, and that the Grand Master issue on appeal to the subordinate lodges on the subjct;t.J. A. Leach moved that the words "another yoar be stricken out, which was adopted and the resolutions as amended prevailed. Ihe work m tho entered apprentice's degree was c x emplified bylC. 1. Rice.fi. H. Rountree D. M. Stott and Dudley Peed, Gra d Lecturers, assitied by W. H. and David Rosenthal. The Grand Master appointed A Ijrnursr HA Williams and 11. M. Slrouse on cum mittee No. 1, on suspensions aud-cxpul- Kions, to supply vacancies. uoBimitrcos on fraternal dead, (J rani Secretary's books and reports anil Jo. l on suspen sions and expulsions made repo' ts. At the evening session t!ie special order, it being the report of the coimui'tee on the centennial of the Grand Lodije, was announced. The majority and nJnority, reports were read. The -question re- I curred on the adoption of the minority re-port, and the same qeing itiviied, the tjraud Lodge decided to celebrate its centennial at the city of Raleigh dur iug its in xt annual communication. The following Grand officers were elected for the eimiing masonic year : Fabius H. Busbec, Grand 'Master; Charles 11. Kobinson. Deputy Graud Must or ster; Samuel 11. Smith, Sen- ; ior unu'i cn; aczckkui a. Gudger, .fuiiior Orand V ardon; William K. Anderson, Grand Treasu rer; Donald W. Bain, Grand Secretary. A. 11. A. v li uams was reelected as a director of the Oxford orphan ijsyluui. The Grand Master announced the fol lowing committees: On returns of sub ordinate lodges, No. D. Franklin, 1 S. M. Parish and H.j M. Strouse; No 2, O. R. Scott, J. It. Urpwn and J. R. Watson; No. 3, Lewis Kilpatrick, Wm. Daughtry and T. A. Bingham. On centennial of Grand lodge, John W. Cot- ten, of Tarboro; Tlios S. Kenan, of Wilson; James W. Blackwell, of Dur ham; Eugene S Martin, of Wilming . ton: H. A. liurlorer. ot Aphevillft. I he committee on the orphan asylum made a report, but it was too late to obtain it lor publication. The U rand lodge was called off at 11.30 until this morning at 10 o clock. The following are extracts from Grand Master Busbee's addresp; From the report of the grand secre tary, to whom I am so much indebted for counsel and assistance during the year, you will learn in detail the state of the order. Upon a survev of the whole field, the outlook is decidedly en couraging. .Purged or many drones, the lodges for the most part are in good working condition, and hopeful for the future. Dispensations have been granted for the establishment often new lodges, and several doru ant lodges have been revived. - i Rescued from lives of ; poverty and vice, comfortably clad, fed with whole some food, instructed in useful labor, the orphans in the Oxford asylum are our living evidences of the practical charity of free masonry. It is . the com pletest vindication of the claim of ma sonry to the approbation and support of the good men and women of North Car olina. - Masons of North Carolina, I earnestly pray that you may feel the full weight oi tne resppusiDiiiiy wmcn in is action of the. legislature imposes upon every member of the fraternity. We are made the almoners of the charity of the State; upon us is devolved the obligation of carrying into full effect . the constitu tional obligation resting upon the gen eral assembly "to provide for the es; tablishment of one or more orphan houses" and for the method in which we execute the trust we are responsible to the tax-payers of North Carolina. It is a rare compliment jto entrust duties of this importance to directors who are not, appointed by Sul'e authority. The appropriation is no 1 sufficient nor is it intended to be sufficient to support the asylum. If it were, no Belf-respeting It" 1 .1 ss - mason wouiu administer the tund as a masonic charity. The purpose declared was to enable the authorities of the asy lum to increase the number of inmates, to receive children of younger age and to discharge its inmates at an increased age when their interests would be thereby promoted. And especially is it intended to establish features of indus trial education. The report of the di rectors and accompanying .report of the superiuienaeni snouia receive your care ful scrutiny. No one feels the deficiencies of the asylum more than those 'connected with its management and their unremitting endeavor during the coming year shall be to supply its wants. It is the inten tion of the directors to set on foot a de partment of instruction in plain cookery The girls are also taught plain sewing, and we have added during the year more advanced instruction in dress-n making. Both girls and boys who show aptitude are to be encouraged to learn type-writing, and as soon as our ax rangements can be 'perfected a depart ment of telegraphy will be added. The boys are now taught printing and some -are learning the art of the baker. Farm work is required and it is hoped that we can include practical in struction and practice which will help the hoys to positions as overseers. Gar dening will hereafter receive more at- tention and should De taught as a reg ular branch of instruction. A wood working department and a department of shoemaking are also in contemplation These are not yet all accomplished facts, i . . . . ii .11 dui we trust mat an win soon do. These features, which will add so ma terially to the value of theinstitution, will necessarily increase the expendi tures, and we shall be obliged to rely no lesp than heretofore upon the liberality of the masons of North Carolina. And not upon .masons alone, but upon the whole body of the people, 'the churches, and the benevolent of every class and denomination. . Another Millionaire Dead. New O klkins, Jan. 13. Col. Edmund Richardson, the leading cotton merchant here, the richest man tn the South and the largest cotton planter in the world, was stricken with apoplexy at Jackson. Miss., Monday at midnight, and died be fore assistance could reach him:; He was a native of North Carolina and 'worth from $10,000,000 to $13,000,000, IK was the owner of niucteen cotton pi :it i tions in Lou'sinoa, Arkansas and Xiiis sippi, cohering over 30,000 acres Bnrg-Iars Craek a Safe. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13. -At 2 o'clock this morning' burglars blew open the safe of L. Cohen & CoL, who 'eg le liquor dealers, and got away with two thousand dollars. ' ' Olfl John Snerinan clsttt l. Columbus, Ohio, January 12 The senate and house in joint sessioncat uotn today elected John Sherman to .the United States Senate. . It required 74 votes to elect. Shern.au reoeived 84 votes and Thurman 62. To Wervons and Debilitated Ken. You are alowed a free triai of thirty days of the use of Dr. Dye'e Celebrated Voltaic Belt with Electric Suspensory Appliances, for the speedy relief aud ftermanent cure of Nervous Debility, oss of Vitality and Manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also for many other diseases. Complete restoration to-health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred. Iilustra'ed pamphlet with full information, terms, etc., mailed free, by addressing Voltaic Belt Co., Marshal, Mich. Help the poor. Horsfor'e. Acid Ptinaphato, for holism. Dr. J. S. Hullman, Philadelphia, Pa, says: "It is of Kood service in the troubles arising from alcoholism; and gires satisfaction in mr : r " Celery, when served in style in New ! Terrible Hallway AecMeat. Michigan City, Ind., Jan. 13 A terrible collision occurred on the Balti more & Ohio railroad, near Coburg, la small station "21 miles west of Alida, yesterday, whereby one engineer and three hrcmeh were. killed outright. The trains colliding wero both heavily- loaded freights, the east-bound one-being a double-header, while the westward i was in tow of f a monster locomotive -known as the Camel Back, The train iu charge of this engine should hav6 stopped at Alida for orders; but the en gineer and firemap.it is alleged, were both asleep, and they ran to the crossing, and continued on down the grade to the dreadful calamity which awaited them. Both trains were on a down grade apd rounded the curve at the same time going at a rate of I twenty-five , miles per hour. The result was that the three engines and twenty cars of merchandise and live stock were heaped into ' one- unrecognizable mass. Thia. caught nre &nu burned bercelr .or some . time. The, engineer of the wet-bound trains was found with his head split open from the crown to the neck and his face fell forward upon his breast, while his brains' were scattered about the locality. One fireman became pinned in between two pieces of the wivtk and was suspended by his bead until he was literally roasted to death. The -second fireman wss cut completely in two and the dismembered parts of his body were found some distance apart. The third was badly injured and died after ,8. few hours' suflVring. The other two engi- , neers escaped by jumping. I ' Dr. Bull'sBaby Syrup U the remedy tot the laby. It is jree from laudanum. Price only 25 eents. For hogs Day's Hore Powder Is a necessity it cures swelled necks snu ulcers In the lungs. Th sympathy between the sUntarb and bnun Is thown tbe besdache rmuUing from j indigestion. Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pills . cure such headache. Mrs. Hendricks is living quietly in Indianapolis, engaged in arranging' her huband's papers, which were left in some confusion. 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