1. no .Jtti. Mew IS ! f IV.V-1 I AND Obser VER VOL. XX VII. RALEIGH, N. C. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST li 1886. NO. 66. Absolutely Pure. fhia powder nover Tar lei. A. marvel of UTtty, strength ami w5(l,oii.f nen. More eonomioal than ordinary kinds and c&uiot be Id In oompetitloTi with tbe multitude of low cat, abort wetght, alum or phosphate powdera -lo only In cans. Royal Bakdtq Powna 103 Wail Street, New York. iotd byW C A. B Strooach, George T 1 rruch tad T l FemN Co. WO.H1E W Wac4h rsaawe atrsacts, r was ufw ft-aa laBnalUaa aeUr t thdr mi, abasl try ; nl II II U THE 0E5TT0HIC visas wl FirllM th JBld, Ktlmala.tr U Appetite, Streaatbena thaAIascles and M rrea ia out, thocohl liTinratM. Man im anapiaxion, ana bum Uh akin Boen. haadcha, or ' to. m-cdaca ootipatioo H Mia. Kusabxtx Baxbs, 74 PanraU At. HJhrso- doaaaot blaakaa aha tta-ai mm frmm It Fanral raa. Wifc. aan. asdar date of Das. Btth. 1884: I hava Mad BraraB In Bitan. and it haa ham an thaa a doctor to ma. harm cored me of tba walcaaaa latins baa is Ufa. A too eared ma of Lr ar Oomplaw4 and now my sompiarica to clear and asad. .. Bataba barn baaaftoial iomjchildiro." -Afs. Loom O. Bbmdok. East Lockport, H.Y.. taya: 1 baa auSarad ontold mi ry from fiiiinU Oamplafota, aad eonld obtaia tabaf fraa Hi.. axeaf BrowaSi Iron Btttan." - Oinlna haa ihrrrii Trade Mark and traawd red lmso aawcappar. Take as stheT. Madaoolyby B1MWI (MIMICAL OCX. MAXTlMOaUC, MB, STORE ffe hare tbe pleasure to announce a new . departure; the loeatbn of an agent in New fork, for tbe purchase and selection of our wfc in order to enable us to quote lower price thaa other bouses which buy on long tfm and ask big prices in these days of panlo nd bard times. Our agents an instructed to watcb eery failure, U, look alter every house en the verge of bankruptcy and with cash in hand, to to buy in the lump, or in lots, every class of merchandise that we can get at less than value, so that we can mark in plain fig' vies on our bargains prices that have not been named or quoted in this market or any ether, Thus we are fighting against the old, rotten credit system; for. money, tor reputation. and fn the neonle. This is the music and these are the prices that crowd our store, while other merchants sleep on their counters, tnAiirninir ihedavof disaster and ruin await- Ibst all who buy on long time; who pay big prices and sell at figures which no people can afford to pay. T A Our stock will be replenished thi week .Htk unu inKlnu of Umbrellas; jQosiery of all descriptions; great bargains in Paper and Envelopes of all descriptions; ladies' and gen- n.mon'i ghoes: full assorment of Table Oil Cloths. nwiAT BARGAINS IN GENTLE MEN'S SHIRTS, At 78 cent, worth l; Knit Undershirts at 4 eents, worth 60c We invite an early and repeated visit and In spection. Our stock will be replenished every IW day. BeapectluUy sutuitted to the cash trad NEWS OBSERVATIONS. In Persian theatres the female parts are still played by boys. The expenses of Mr. Gould's yacht, the Atalanta, are $216 per day. In New York now they sell scrap beef at three cents a pound, and the Sun says it is wholesome. We are in danger of beooming a race of blockheads. Hats are now being manufactured from wood pulp. Gov. Thompson, assistant secretary of the treasury, performed his first offi cial act by discharging a clerk who be haved badly on an excursion last' Sun day. The Atlanta Constitution states that Gen. Gordon's gubernatorial cam paign did not cost over $4,000, all told, and offers to prove it by an inspect ion of documents. Of this sum Gen. Gor don contributed three-fourths and all was, legitimately expended for printing, telegrams, transportation, etc. The cost of transporting one passenger or one ton per mile haa practically re mained the same on all roads in 'Great Britain during the past twenty years. On New York roans the cost has de creased 51 per cent, and on Pennsylva nia roads 76 per cent within that time. Five hundred and fifty American loco motives on the Pennsylvania railroad do as much work as 2,476 engines on the London and Northwestern railroad. How many hundreds of millions of dollars, asks Edward Gordon Clark, now lie in the safety-vaults of the chief American cities, lonfing at an interest of 2 to 4 per cent, because it is safer for "money to loaf than to be out at work ? Pat an annual tx of 2 per cent on these loafing hoards, and see how active tbej would become, in order to save them selves. Ihey would rush out into th hands of enterprise and labor. In spite of the crusade carried on by elderly men of conservative ideas, the fsct remains that cigarette smoking is on the increase. During the labt fiscal year 1,310,556,212 cigarettes were consumed in this country an increase of 252,212,112 over the previous year. And Tn. proportion as the cigarette is consumed so is the email boy. Cigar ettes may not greatly injure a full- grown man, but they stunt the urchin and the dude. Mr. Thr mas Nelson Page, author of "MarBe Chap," "Uno' Edinburgh Drownin'," "Meh Lady" and other sketches, was married Wednesday to Miss Annie Seddon Bruce,' daughter of Mr. Charles Brace, of "Staunton Hill," .Charlotte county, Virginia, and niece of the late James A. Seddon, Confeder ate secretary of war. The wedding took place at the residence of the bride, and Mr. and Mrs. Page left immediately afterward for New! York, whence they will sail for Europe on the Cunarder Umbria Saturday, July 31. A new prohibition dodge is re ported from - Huston '. Several cases of eggs were tipped i a a trucx Dy an acci dent on Irtuioi i Street Uu picking up the eggs from ht i-treet they were foUnd to be inaJf ui p icelaw, and in stead of containing the legitimate pro ducts of the barnyard fowl they were all filled with whifeky, each egg holding a good t quire drink. " As one of the spectators expressed it, the 1 quor was put in through a hole in the big end and the hole stopped by cement cloth, which was chalked to resemble tbe nat ural color. The" driver of the team said he was taking them from a liquor dealer at tbe north end to tbe Provi dence depot. . The cases were marked to hotels at .Newport and JXarragansett Pier i 11. I. There were six cases, of forty-nine dozens each. Mr. Powderly, the great head of the Kbiffhts of Labor, mtets lots of cranks. He eaid-to a reporter a day or two ago : "A rank anarchist onoe un folded to me a scheme for blowing up ail the cities of the United States and putting an end to civilisation. I paid HO attention to him, and then he began telegraphing to me. That wouldn't do, and ha came to see me and talked to me for a long time, x inally 1 asked him whether he had a home. He said he hadn't. I asked him if he had it in his heart to destroy the homes of those who did! have them, and. wanted to know if he would refuse one if somebody would offer it to him. He said he didn't know that he would. And that, proceeded Mr.i Powderly, reflectively, "is, in my opinion, the prime cause of the anarohist doctrines. Men become soured and jealoua of what they have been unable 10 net ior meuiseiYco. ivu ueui-k ic- son with anarchists, because they are not reasonable. They do . t know exactly what they do want, but just have an insane desire to destroy and mar every thing that belongs to other people The editor of the Forest and Farm Lits tho nail squarely on the head When he says : "Many of our State papers are urging our farmers to improve their stock. What we want first is to im prove our farming. We , want grasses for meadows and pastures ; barns, sheds and , more care given to animals than they now receive ; then get improved stock, but first be in a aondition to take oaro of it. Ten years on an upland farm in the central part of tho State has tau&ht us that grasses of every kind used for forage and pasture do as well here as in any part of the United States, and when the Bame strict attention is . l i ii i i . given to siooz oi any ana an kinds it can be raised acre cheaper than at tbe north and of equal quality. CONGRESSIONAL. TUB UOVSZREPKOVeSTHE COM HI T 1EE OF COS FERE7I Car, Charging- It with Doing; I binfa it Onght 'mot to have !. 4OlV LNEY PUBSKLL 00., N. JO Et Mtfta font. Husband and wife are playing cards: jtWife "Let us play for something." Husband "Well, what shall it be?" Wife "Let us play for a new silk dress. If you lose, 1 11 pick out the dress, and if I lose you can pick it out; but it mustn't oost less thaa $100." From the German. . Washington, July 31. Sknatk The Senate took up Mr. Hoar's resolu tion (from the library coriimitte) for the appointment of a committee to en- Suire into the expediency of, and plan or celebrating the hundredth aniver sary of the constitution and the four hundreth of the discovery of America. The resolution wan modified (at the sug gestion of Mr. Hawley) so as to direct a committee of seven, of whom one shall be the presiding officer of the Senate, to "consider the expediency of properly celebrating at the capital of the repub lic these two illustrious anniversaries land if the said oelcbration be deemed expedient shall report on the method, cost and general plan thereof, at the next session of fJongrcFs," and was adopted; yeas 41, pays 12. lhe select commr.tco on the prODOsed Celebration of tho 100th anniversary of ne constitution (in iy) and the 400th of the discovery of Americafin 1892Was announced. It coDfists of Messrs. Sher man, Hoar, Seweil, Hawley, Voorhees. Gorman and Eustis. The conference committee on tho "sur plus" resolutions was ako announced as Messrs. Allison, Aldrichand Beck. The Senate took up the House bill to amend the law as to 'he mode of pack ing and selling cut tobacco and Mr. Bu8tis addressed the Senate in faver of the bill. Mr. Aldrich moved its rc- coiriiuittal to the committee on finance, as it was charged that the bill would open toe door to great frauds s Mr Palmer presented rem onstrat ions of large tobac co bouses in the District atinst it Mr. Beck favored its recommittal, so that the committee might give hearings n xt session to represeutives the of trade The bill was recommitted. The Senate then at 2 40 went into secret session. At 6 30 the doors were reopened and the Senate adjourned. DOUSE. The House as the regular order of business resumed tbo consideration of the conference report upon the river and harbor bill, and an accompanying ex planatory statement was read. Mr. Hatch, rising to a point of order. aent to the clerk's desk and had read the instructions given the conference committee by the House relative to the Hennepin, sturgeon bay. 1 Potomac flats and other clauses of the river and harbor appropriation bill. The point of order he made was that the ; report of the conference committee was in direct violation of every single instruction by the House, and thereforo was not in order and should not be rccoivd. If this report were received no confidence could hereafter be placed in the confer ence committee. Since the first dav of the first Congress no such record had ever been made by tLe conference com mittee. It stood alone, without a sin gle precedent. It had no precedent, and he trusted it would never have an imitation. He held that the House con ferees were bound in honor by the in structions of tbe Houso and could not exceed those instructions. Mr. Blanchard, of Louisiana, one'ofthe conferees, resented Mr. Hatch's impu tation on the hunor of the conferees. The House had said thai the conferees should insist upon disagreement to certain amendments and they had insisted and used every persuasion and every honor able means to carry out the instruc tions of tbe House. It was only when the majority of the House conferees saw that the bill was about to bo lost. involving a loss of millions of dollars to the government, that they recoded from their disagreement, with certain important modifications. lhe speaker said that while under the recent practice the House might in struct its conferees, it might afterwards desire to reverse that instruction. This might be done upon the conferees' re port and as the effect of the pending re port was to bring the matter again be fore, the House for its action, he was of the opinion that the point of order was not well taken. Mr. Hatch raised a question of con sideration against the report, but the House by a vote of 111 to 24 decided to consider it. Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, fa member of the conference committee) said that he had declined to sign the report be cause he honestly believed that if it were ratified by the House it would be not only the end of the bill but the end of every river and harbor bill in the future. He appealed to every friend ot rivers and harbors to vote down this conference report. It that were done before sunset today there would be another report free from ob jectionable features. The House then yeas 10a, nays ldo, refused to agree to the report of the conference committee and : upon motion of Mr. Willis the House further insisted upon its disagree ment to the Senate amendment and a further oonferenoe was ordered. Mr. Randall, from the committee on appropriations, reported a joint resolu tion extending until the 10th of August the provisions of the joint resolution providing temporarily tor the expendi tures of the government. He asked for immediate consideration, but Mr. His oock, of New York, objected, and it was referred to committee of the whale. The speaker announced the appoint ment of Messrs. Reagan, Crisp and Weaver, of Nebraska, as conferees on the inter-State commerce bill; also the ap pointment of Messrs. Willis, Blanehard, and Henderson, of Illinois, as confer ees on the river and harbor bill. Mr. Blanchard asked that under the circomstanoee the Hou would excuse him frem acting as conferee. His col league, Mr. Henderson, also desired to be excused. The gentlemen were ex cused, and Mesars. .Willis, Glover and Markham were appointed conferees. On motion of 'Mr. Morrison the Sen ate amendment to the the surplus joint resolution was non-concurred in, and a oonferenoe ordered. The speaker appointed Messrs. Mor rison, Breckinridge, of Kentuoky, and Hiscock as conferees. Mr. Forney, of Alabama, from the committee on appropriations, reported back the fortification appropriation bill with Senate amendments, with the re commendation that all amendments be non-concurred in. I Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, moved that the House reeede from its disagree mcnt to the amendment establishing a Stlant at Frankfort arsenal, Philadelphia ending action, the House, at 5 o'clock, adjourned. The Durham IR'UfateM. Special Dispatch to the News and Observer. Dueham, N. C , July 51. The congressional delegation ap pointed by the convention held today was uninstructed, though it is solid for Graham. The judicial delegation is divided. MHhins;ton News. Washington, July 31. The Presi dent today nominated Nathaniel II. R. Dawson, of Alabama, to be commis sioner of education, and Alexander B. Upshur, of Tennessee, to be assistant commissioner of Indian affairs. The Senate today confirmed the nom ination of Upshur and rejected the nomination of Matthews, a colored man of Albany, N. Y. to be recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. It is estimated at the treasury depart ment that the public debt statement to be issued Monday will show a de crease for the month of July of about $8,600,000. Cwttoin Crop tlHrta. UOR1 NEWS FKOM'qKOROIA AND 8. 0. Augus8a, Ga., July 31. The Au gusta Chronicle tomorrow will publish replies received by Messrs. Pope & Fleming from counties in Georgia and South Carolina tributary to the Augusta market, lhe general tenor of the re plies is that the cotton, crop is not as good as last year,; but with good sea sons an average crop is assured. The condition of the crop is Buch as to cause fear, should a drought occur, , whioh ould cause shedding. Later replies are more favorable than the early ones. A marked improvement is shown since the dry weather set tn. !A DISASTER. A SADTEKMIMATIOH OfA YATCUIIO PABiT- Thai VmmI Cwpaizaa aad 1 Lot. laujr Llin are) Sandt Hook, July 31. The names of those lost by the capsizing of the schooner yacht Sarah Craig in a thun derstorm last night were Mrs. T. H. Stevens and her two daughters, Miss Mamie jj Stevens and Mrs. Askin; two sisters, Miss Emma 'and Miss Bessie Merritt; Miss Maude Retten and Mr. Chester! Clark. The saved are S. W. Jordan,1 Alfred Potter,! Frank W. Hall, W. S. i Buckley, all of Philadelphia; Capt. Edward Ruland, mate; Charles Furgusdn, steward; Louis Bowman, Sam. Jones and William Paris. Naw SYork, July 31. Another ac count ot the yachting accident at Sandy Hook is as follows : Last evening at a few minutes before 6 o'clock the schooner yacht Sarah Craig, of Phila delphia, was standing in towards Sandy Hook, all her sails set and she appeared to be4trying to gain shelter before a storm which was threatening, broke. She had on board a pleasure party consisting of eleven ladies and gentlemen, who were enjoying a sail roun 1 from the Quaker city to this city. The sky gradually became overcast and the captain took in some of her sail. When she was abreast of the hook the rain began to fall fast and the ladies on board retired to the cabins , while the gentlemen set to work with the sails and the yacht quickly made headway and rounded the point: of the hook, standing towards the horse-shoe. Sud denly, when wearing the governmont dock, a thunder squall burst with terri ble violence. The lightning played about the rigging of the schooner and the waves, lashed into perfect fury by the large hailstones falling, ; dashed over the decks While those stationed at the point of the hook watched the dim outline of tbo yacht through the mist, she suddenly disappeared from sight, she had capsized, but so thick were the rain and mist that nobody knew it until the storm had passed off. . The tug boat Ooean King left the city early in the afternoon, and at about 6 o'clock she was off tho hook She saw the capsized yacht and steering towards her saw sev eral of the party clinging to her. They were taken off and landed at the rail road dock. Mrs. Stevens' body was recovered last night. At toon the cap sisred boat was towed to the government deck, and the other bodies; were taken. out. Th Wsih Of tn Flames. Spbjsqfuld, Mass , July 31. A fire broke out in No. 2 mill of the Indian Orchardmills company at about 3 30 clock this morning, and the entu mill, which was 3&0 feet long and four stories high, is in rums. J he vs Ah are flat except at the east end The flames were confined to the. mill building. Had there been a breeze nothing could have saved the buildings surrounding the mill. The cause of the fire is not definitely known, but is supposed to have been an explosion of gas. The watchman h d visited the spot where it broke out only two minutes before, and when the alarm was given the flames were well under way. The mill fur nished amployed for about 300 bands. The loss is estimated at $30,000. A Schooner Capalsod. Hiqhland, N. J., July 31. Intelli gence was received here that tbe schooner yacht Sarah Craig, from Phila delphia with a pleasure party, was upset near the government dock at Sandy Hook during a storm last evening. Six ladies and a young man were drowned. The body of one person was recovered; the others are supposed to be in the cabin of the yacht. Nine men were found clinging to the rigging after she had capsized, and were rescued by a tug. Haw York Cotton (future. Naw York, July XI. Green & Co.'s report on cotton futurep says: With the Liverpool market closed, and the re ports of trading limited, so far as busi ness went, the inclination appeared to be favorable for the support of August, and the reflection from this held the other months, with the close nominally steady, at about the average of last evening's figures. At the best; how ever, operations were only lojal, and the market has amounted to little for the day. Made an Aaalfc-nmant. Baltimore, July 31. Wm. J. Hooper & Son, seme and cordage manufactur ers, made an assignment to-day to T. M. Lanahan and James A. Gray, for tho benefit of their creditors. The trustee's bond has not been filed. Estimated ai sets $500,000; liabilities not yet known. Bank Ntatmnt. Nkw York, July 31. The weekly statement of the associated banks is as follows: Reserve increase, $1,491,475; loans increase, 523,400; BpecfB in crease, xrod.zuu: legai tenners ac- crease, $1,961,900; deposits decrease 81.108.900; circulation, increase, $36, 400. The banks now hold $12,878,725 in excess of the 2b per cent, rule A MUrsdy BHuri) Alqieks, July 81 Two French rob officers of the army stationed here be came involved in a quarrel and challeng ed to fight a duel. The weapons chosen were sabres. The head of one of the combatants was cleft in twain. A Destructive Firs. London, July 31. The shoe factory of Stead. Simpson & Co., at .Leicester is destroyed by fire. Loss $250,000. Fifteen hundred persons are thrown out of employment. Won than Editor Cnttinar's Cass. If the story sent from Galveston Fri day night proves true, the shooting of Frtrei.eco Rssurr s a naturalized Ameri can cuizc-D. by older of chief of police Mndragon,,of Piedras Negras, Mexico, was a most outrageous proceeding. The charge of horse-stealing is said to have been trumped up by Mondragon in order to secure possession of Basures, who had won the affections of a woman of whom Mondragon was 1 enamored. While Rasures was living in Mexico Mondra gon sent two men to assassinate him, but Rasures j badly disabled his assail ants and escaped to Eagle Pass, Mexico. Mondragon then made the charge of horse stealing against Rasures. with the result already known. Prominent, citizens of Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass declare that Rasures was an upright, honorable man. When taken to Piedras Negras Rasures wrote a pa thetic letten to United states consul Lynn, declaring that he was: an Ameri can citizen, iguiltless of transgression of the law. FT his letter was not de ivered to the consul until ten hours after Rasures had , been shot bv order of chief Mondragon. Consul Lynn has telegraphed the tacts of the case to secretary Bayard, at the same time informing the state department that the reported outrages to American citizens on the Rio Grande and in Mexico were toot exaggerated! but true, and suggesting vigorous action on the part of the general government for their protection. 1 tie Independent, Charlotte ChroSicle. When two or more men act in con cert, they compose or form a party. The human mind is so constituted that men must differ, and the only way to be a "no party man" is to hide one's self in . A ' .1 a. a a cave, stine thought, lose interest in haman action: becomes a nolitical corpse from inir tion a vacuum which all nature abhors! When a man says he is of no party, he simply misun l. rstands his own position. If one leaves the democratic oj- republican parties and votes for a so-called independent, he at once joins another party, and becomes, ipso facto, a party man. It is evident that all men must belong to some party, even to the independent voter. When a candidate proclaims himself an inde pendent he docs not understand the commonest impulse of the human heart or he is a charlatan, a demagogue or a cheat, and he outrages the common sense mankind. The common minds under stand the independent candidate to be a trickster ; that he is endeavoring to trade upon the ignoranoe and prejudice of the unthinking a creature so far from de serving the support of independent votes ought to meet the contempt of every man oi intelligence. 4- The menhaden eaten at Beaufort the past week has been in excess, the Re cord says, of any week since the season opened; o.UOO.OOO or more were can tured. The factories has been overrun wiw nan- me present prospects are that this will be the most profitable sea son ever mown there. Reports of Beaufort county crops are MUM aa aiUl f999f Pharaoh's Haas In Tahpanhss. Ten or even twenty centuries before Greece, the instructor of the modern world, had emerged from barbarism, Egypt had reached an advanced stage of civilization, had developed a complex social and political organization, had built great cities and had adorned them with works of art,- Every discover) of the explorers of our time that throws fresh light upon the life and history of the ancient Egyptians possesses conse quently, a strong fascination for reflec tive minds. Epecial interest attaches, however, to tho discoveries just made by Mr. Flinders Petrie, an English man, in exploring the mound Tel-De-fenneli, in the northeastern corner of the Delta, inasmuch as they bear upon a grou of problems which connect Egypt i't only with Greece, but al o with Babylon and Judea. Students of the Bible will Lot underestimate thr value of an exploration which has laid bare the ruins of a palace in which Jere miah residod and prophesied, , in whioh Pharaoh-Hophra defended, and whioh the avenging Nebuchadnezzar, it is be lieved, captured and burned to th ground Psamrrt-ticbus I built a strong hold or castle on the Pelusian branch of the Nile ab ut the year 666 B C, and in its vicinity settled the Car i an and Ionian merci nxie8 who had helped him to the throne, to serve as a bulwark against invader? entering Egypt from the direction of Judea. This castle, whioh the king built for his Greek mercenaries, and as a residenoe for himself, Egyptologists identify with the "Pelusiao Daphnse" as Greek wri ters, the Tahpanhes of the Bible and the Tel-Defenneh of the modern Arabs. At present the castle is a mass of ruins, but beneath its debris Mr. Petrie ha found, besides curious evidenoes of the history and domestic arrangements ot an early Egptisn palace, relics which recall vividly an interesting episode oi Jewish history In the ten chapters ot Jeremiah, from 37 to 47. Jeremiah de scribes the events that followed the de struction of Jerusalem by Nebuchad nezzar. When the King of Babylon had taken KingZ'-dekiah prisoner, had muti lated and bound him, and had carried the bulk of the Jewish people to Baby lon, he left behind him under a . Chal dean governor and garrison a "rtm nant," consisting mainly of the poorest clas, with wbtm were a fe ' prominent men who had e ther es caped or made terms with tho Chal deans. Great social disorder . followed the withdrawal of Nebuchadnezzar army. "Ishmacl, of the seed royal,'' attacked the Chaldaean governor, killed him, and endeavored to remove "all the residue of the people that were ii. Mizpah, even the King's daughters," into the country of tho Ammonites. The rebel was not, however, permanently successful. He in his turn was attacked and vanquished, and all his prisoners were taken from him by "Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the foroes that were with him." A nice question then arose for the victors to decide. Should they put a bold face on the matter and claim to have done what they did in behalf of King Nebu chadnezzar and against his enemies, or should they fly, taking the captives with them, to the land of the Pharaoh, King Zedekiah's old ally? Jeremiah, who had attaohed himself to the Chaldean garrison in the belief that further resis tance to Nebnchadiu zzr was hopeless, and who distrusted the ability of Egypt to extend efficient help, lifted up hie voice with energy against the proposed flight to Egypt. But his protest wat unheeded. The princesses, the captains and himself with them, were taken across the frontier, where (B C. 685) they were hospitably received by Pha- roah Hophra, and installed by him in what Jeremiah calls "Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes." The prophet persisted, however, in his pessimistic viewar anu taking great stones and burying them in the paved area of Pharoah's house, he predicted that Nebuchadnezzar, pursu ing the fugitives, would come to tb. it place, would spread his pavilion on that very spot, and would destroy those wb gave tatui shelter. It is an interesting fact that Mr. Petrie has found the ver pavement of which Jeremiah speaks an area of connnu"ii brickwork nst- iijj; on bhti'I, shout 1UU feet by 00 feet, l ing tho e-jirmc.; ai thi east corner." Beneath tho brickwork pieces of stone were found, but that these were the stones buried by Jeremiah the explorei is not prepared to affirm lo what ex tent Jeremiah's prediction was justified by the event it is difficult to determine, though the balance of the evidence tends to sustain the correctness of his unfavorable anticipations We know that Nebuohadni zzar did invade Egypt, and that, according to extant Chaldean records, he conquered, while the Egyp tian records declare he was defeated. It. is not unreasonable to assume that t he- Babylonians, successful at first, cap tured and burned "Pharaoh's house at Tahpanhes," but afterwards when the Egyptian King bad had tune to gather his army and advance to the frontier, they wero driven back. It is certaiu that the xisting ruins bear full evi dence of tho assault of a ruthless enemy. A Match and a Hatch. 4 Providence Jour as I. She lit my cigar ; t We were parting 'twas late, Tet I Mtlll lingered on. How I Meat the kind fate Which inclined her to light my cigar. As she lit my cigar I saw ia her eyes Something dearer than friendship ; And this sweet surprise Made a match as she lit my cigar. the the V 14 1 I' i Work is progressing finely on Randleman branch railroad. If weather favors it will be completed about the 1st of December, thai Courier says. The yearly meeting of Friends' or Quakers will be held at High Point next From Ashovllle. TBI CONTEMPT CASK ANOTHER INPKPCND : ENT CANDIDATE. Special Dispatch to the News and Observer. Ashsvilli, N. C , July 31. In the contempt case, the court found the defendants, Messrs. Furman, Stone and Cameron, guilty and imposed a fine of $300. An appeal was taken to the su preme court, which meets two weeks hence. W. H. Malone, in a card published in the Advance, announces himself an independent candidate for Congress in the ninth district. ; Bids for the water-works bonds closed today. ! Dsath of m Prointnsnt Clllsan viils. t Ash- Special Dispatch to the News ako Observer. Ashxyilli, July 31. Mr. Bacchus J. Smith died here to day, aged 82. With the exception of Burgess S. Gaither, Esq , he was the only surviving member of tho constitu tional oonvention of 1835. Solid for tskWiuer. Special DiHpatch to the Stws and Ohsehvkr. Elizabeth City, July 31. The Elizabeth City primary is solid and instructed for Skinner. front 9fr. tt'omaek. lorrefrpoudence of Th l ks ami Obskuvkr, Pittsboro, N. C, July 30. In your issue of the 29th I see a com plimentary note m reference to myself coupled with the statement that I was a candidate for the senate from this dis trict. Oar convention has not been held, and for personal reasons I have de clined to allow my name to go before it. Please correct the statement. With thanks for your kindly notice, I am, re spectfully, : T. B. WOMACK. IhrM TannaT Initial ars. Beauf ort Record. Parties from Swansb'oro, Onslow eounty, report the murder of a little boy in that county a few days ago : by his school-mates The particulars so far as received are to the effect that two boys ud a little girl, the children of Isaac and Wallace Lewis, while on their way from school became engaged in a dif ficulty with a little afflicted boy, and p tunced upon him with clubs and rocks and had almost beaten the life out of him when a girl came along and rescued him. Next morning the little follow was dead. The girl who saw the dif ficulty went over and related the story to the parents of the dead child. Upon examination it was found that the body was badly bruised and several bones broken. The three murderers were ar rested and are now in Jacksonville jail. Ay, by Sit. Paul, Black aad Bins. Nym Ci inkle's Correspondence. 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