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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.
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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.
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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.
Miss Neilson Nelson, who recently
made a successful fall of eight feet
in the "Potion Scene" before a Belect
oommittee of society athleteB and receiv
ed a testimonial for her tragic skill, was
isked at tho close of the magnificent
spectacle if a life of such toil in view
and such intense application to her art
did not make her blue.
She threw her head back with the
grace of an angel, and in tones that will
never be forgotten said :
"Blue 1 Yes, by St. Paul, black and
blue!"
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