North Carolina Newspapers

-I ! .r,H"- 'Hi 3 I VEiR 1 a "S i i( A LEIGH, N. C, SI'S DAY. MORNING, JANUARY I. 1S8S NO. 1531 The Mews i ; Absolutely Pure hi powder never varies. A marvfci s tflbuf ity,; strength and wholeeemones. ! M6re 4woiomic3j;than ordinary kinds ami ? :agnot be sold in competition with 4jhe .niatlttto.de of low test, short weight 1 4 ! lira oi phosphate powders, sold only; lis S'aOB. .- ttOXAL. UAHJISU tu i'r.u w ? WftTl Sfiet. New York. J JjFwrtU 6. Co- IT3.E GREAT REGULATOR ',. 4 mrdU-ine 1 " linlT!tly i used as RlmShnlW l.llTPr KttLU- . ? Ul45 It wcjn its Way fllMK. CT'ry p-j Bur' sttrim mi rit. It , fcikeil tho ularp if a doctvr Bud wstly pre rrirtjip'. Hlsalam- Hut. linrt-lv rurtiLliU! I s I I n 1 1 nir t.s . 1 11 V LV 4 ill"- :s Iw p m 3 i ? '. ftciilt Ln its art km am Can tie jlafoly fciveh to any' person. ! uo mattfj ; Mruatjtm. i 'I. I FORKING PEOPLE ' ;n tTfikJ? Siminons l.lvr EcpulaKrt-without U$ at M (lanirrr from exposure, and the systetai; it Wlll-Sr built .itip aid iiivlBnrHted by It. It pni 5 mt4 dtKrntkni. llstpHlfs sick iH'aaacue anijj' a gjve Strmi (ulltmie tn I Me ystm. It has npi etiia!x'u prpiory nirfllrlnr, and can bf. 'i nafi'lins.'d itimiv ulckwss. It aetHuently on tli? ; Bnwi Hid Kidiieya and correct actim ft , the lve. ImlorstHt by persons t the hivftieift i tShaiSfter and eminence as ITh HET Family Merflcincji ' Hl twchUd hal the colic It Is a sure cure an safii ron.oflv S It wilt rfutnTf. strenL'th to the ,ove-i worked athe and relieve the Wife from lovfl ' sftiriiV lieatHthe, dyspepsia, crtnstipatlon and . lwe W. -Oenalne has Z stamp in red on front i -w6ripper, pri-pared only by i jf -rJii. Zill.t & CO, IMilladelph ia. Pa, pace i r AS 8 : f I 4 n i I ii I 1 fflflieir buyer turned from Mew York, open 1 1; great Ill V rgaiu on I I; I NOTICE. " Tllanual toeetfng of the stockhold rs She . Kalig'a National Bank of Sor'Ih. (Jfaolirta. n4 of the National Bank t irViW will be )ield at their banking tonm fe Ualeighi.iN. on Tuesday, jniiril0th,d8at 10 a. m. and 1 p. m rASlWiC lively. : ' . t . ' : Chas. H. Bex,vum IPll S lH3 .5. ; : tEHATOR VAStK , ---- : '? jlUK. KEMARX8 AT THE BASKET OF THE I HAHLEM, (N. V.) UCMOCBATIC CtCB I THCK&D AY NIGHT. , j I Senator Zebulon V. Vanctcf iCorth Carolina, was neiJb anuOnticeJ ito BDeak to the toast 6f "The Uniftti of .the States, Indivisible Forever." He Spoke, to it in a way that provoked a 'great deal of enthusiasm. This Mras "what he said : ; ; I " 'The Union fortver In select ing me to respond. to this sentiment, pir. President, I hope the Committee pn .speaking was not influenced by Bie Supposition that I might be pecul iarly qualified to speak thereon be cause ol having tried both aides ;kf ihat question. And yet I "must cdn- Jfess i; locks most suspiciously tKat Svay. But however that may be I lake pleasure in assuring those gen tlemen that, if such was their iuteu ion, they1 have found in me, in the Jatiguage of an old constituent. -fA knaa who shirks no responsibility and shrinks fiom no refreshments.' I am iuito willing to respond, and with all ny heart, to the santiment ; of ever j as ting union between these Ameri Ican States. Such is the ucanmous sentiment not only of the people of my State, but of all thoye who so lately were in arms against it. Of the pniou itself we never complained. The Uniou never did us any harni. from it, as properly understood, we hever received anything but bless ings. t Administered according to it jerius, compromises and limitations, contained in the scripture of its founders, there was to U3 nothing in ifbe bandiwerk of our fathers more revered and loved than the American Pniou. It was the fitting climax of their patriotic labor whereby the in? dividual weakness of infant States; Separate and discordant, was trans? fwraed into that gigantic strength oi fho whole, which makes us the won'; Jer of the world, and which, best o all, comes to protect, against al comers, each separate State in tho guardianship of the inestimable treas ures of liberty granted and guaran-5 teed to their citizens. These things we all recognize as the proper pur4 ptoses anJ results of the Federal; Union, and for those things we loved ii and love it still. It was only when' a'majority, in the name of the whole! Union, undertook, as we thought, to injure and oppress the minority, that'n i J J 11 j J i 3 wj3 reoioieu. uveu wea we uiu not, hate the Union as it tfeas and aa it should be, but only the unjust and ufjfratemal and unlawful uses which w$re being made of its forms by its j. irresponsible majority, -ow that the causes wluuji iiiuuceu uuu tuieuateu u have passed away, no matter how on by what means we have recognized the inevitable and resumed Xhat an- j cient lo ve of onion and fraternity which httte, slaughter of our sons and the i desolation of our homes had only served to' suspend just enough to indt destroy. So far as I am Author -4zd to speak for jthem, I beg you to ibelievej Sir. President and my fellow aaraoerais, tost mere are in tn:s broad land no men more devoted to tha. union of these States for a) 1 the beneficent purposes- of its formation aslset out in the Constitution, than &re the people from whom I ; come. iThey beUeve, as I believe, in 'an iu- disoJuule union oi states, xney oe liere, as I believe, that the surett Wy to make that Union perpetual i8 to make the observance of its terms ind conditions. perjfetual. They be jieye, as I believe, that he is riot the peat friend of the Union who is Joudest in its praise and is forever polling it under hia tongue; but he who most sacredly regards the terms eomoromisidfir concessions and fra ternal feeling by which it was formed ni out of which it grew. To doubt fcbif is to doubt that truth and jus tice are essential to the honorable I character of individuals or of nations J f- "1 At ,i i i i i - T-k " a : p "AS ail roaas ieaa to xvome, ana as ; ill streams flow towards the sea, so ! ill that is good and salutary and : fceneficent in the principles of human liberty tends towards democracy. jhe democratic party, therefore, ; which believes in a strict construction 6f the instrument which defines and Ifmits the rights of the States and pedple and the powers of the common government, is the'best and surest friend of the Union, and as such we Commend it to the favor of the Amer ican people! i j j lA. union of the American States, based upon perfect equality of its ifaembers, defined and recognized Rights, justice, mutual regard and a ift-aternal concern of each for the common welfare of all, should and 'will last so lone as these virtues guide and control American citizens! i 3 'JPardon me for the single sugges jtob as I close that we have not yet attained to that desirable and perfect jui-fon. Whose fault it may be I will np here Bay, but the fact remains tfeai one portion of these States con tinues to claim the right to interfere k t,he domestic affairs of another in kyays most illegal and offensive. So 4n as this continues real union caa hpt come and cannot be looked for: It has been so far the steady adher ence to principle by the democracy Of the North, and their readiness to ettiend the benefits oi the Union to their Southern brethren that has bfought tho Union sentiment thus nar to supremacy. Be it your glori ous miEsion to complete this noblest vfiork of iai,riotipm. '. if!: L jttcluuontl aud Danville lhaiiCi jjThe pew directory of the Richmond and Danville'dystem have announced ttjei following thanges in the officers 61 ; that companj: W. i. Turner, treasurer, has resigned, and John W. Itall, assistant treasurer, appointed id lis place: Mr. James T. Vorthing tdii has been made general counsel in thel place of Judire Hunter H. Mar- sliaii who has occupied that place for rhahy years; Mr. W. S. Desassore, as yiBant counsel, has been succeeded by Mr. John N. Staples, formerly of GfferiBboro,,N. C. The law depart- meat of the company nas been or 4irM back to Washington. 'jjiB Secretary of ihe Treasury has. ottph!nted William Strain to be store keeper and gOg At BlUIOOro, TXV. BLIZZARDS. I: 'Sfc'UW-bTORJJS AD C0L1 ;JVE1TIJ-:U G ENEIIALLV t.d.w .' i.t.- ; west 1 THE fltHf.K CT TiiE 1AV VtSTEP. l'OKTH I'ROM Tit" XOr-TII OTlltR TEI.KHl:A' HIC XL St: r.u-i.. D.'C. 81. Only points north of the. international bouudary and iju 3IoiitanaN' reported tempera t urea below z.ro la-t, night. It was stiil nowiug at St. l'aul at miduight but ite fury of the storm lid abated. All the triins into St. Pauvero vuc to fcj'tSr hours lat-. Sioux l'all?. Dak., reports traiiiH bitdlv dtlaytid. Huron, Dak reports the si u. ling cut of a re lief tr5iin to meet UK) Cliicago mail, stuck' at Arlington. At Brainard'sv Minn;), tho hnow s driftin bally. Ryiary snow machines have lioric capital s.ervice ou t'.ie Northern 1'ac. ShaKee, ifinn., sati all north and south; roads are bkekaded. All Northbrn Pacific freight trains east of the Missouri river Tore abandoned jehterday. Chicago, Dec. 31. The blizzard that howled into this city yeb'erday afternoon drove alrupt everybody ell" the streets aad nearly blockaded iraflLc; thioughout the city. The s tree u-; cars struggled along a, 1 ng intervals early id tLe evenicg The mails were nearly all from t'oar to five houl a, behind tie. Th streets were deserted at 10 o'cUvl:. At that lio-lithe intensity of thes'orm was almost unprecedented in tl.i-i locality. Th.f wind j shifted into the eatt and was blow. tig at the lato of UO iniles per hour Suburban trains wtre a1 so great ly'delayed and at-uuejimo com pletely.j blocled by drifts at "1.3th street.." : '"; A Bi)( lillzxaicl. DcBtjyuE, Ia., pec. :ll. - Another blizzard, has been rjiging here for the past 2t hours. All freight trains are abandoned and patfcnger trains are working along with double engines and snow plow?, and are making very little progress. TLe situation is woise than duriDg the- recent storm. Tho prefeent one extends clear across the Stat', and is more violeni beyond Fort Do'dgo than on this side. South; ern trains are expected to arrive without.losing. much time. The niT cury is bove zero. Terrible Weather at Sea. QrEEKSTOWN, Dec. 31. The 6teamer Lord Geugh, from Philadelphia, De cember 3.5th, for Liverpool, airived here at p. m. today. She experi enced terrible weather on the pas sage. Passengers were not allowed on the i upper deck. The hatches were battened down, but despite this precaution, a quantity of water penetrated below the steerage from tthe seas-Bhippfd by the 6teamer. To add to the miseries of the voyage, the oil gave put and at night every thing I Iwaj in:dnrkrrgsi. All the coal '! "i ' ine etarboaFd bunkers Vas consumed and the tfteamer when she arrived hid ia heavy list to port. . A UeaTy Snow Storm. I Davekoet, Ia , Dec 31. A heavy snow Ktfiim h;ts . bren rag in j for Itwelve hours. Over twelve inches of bow hasifallen Freight trains have ibeen geqe'aUy abandone I ana pas senger tifatcs go forth with double Jocomotives. ; : Trains Bloefcea by Snow. i Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 31 A blizzard which set in yesterday morn- ing is su raging anu a iu iiil - I - 1- UUU till UO ryiix bvui -m. u i n i iMt . . Ihroughihe country is-slight, but has i i rArtrnr i n a arrw Tail ' I '. drifted Kadly. Trains on all roaJs J,hroughaiit the northwest are more or less delayed and on some roads ravel ha been abandoned. . Cold Weather In Vcrinoiil. Montpexier, Vt., December 31. A told wave reached this Bection early hi evenijpg. This morning the follow ingtempf ratures are reported: at Barre 80 lielowero, Calais 22 below, East Calais SOJbelow, Hardwick 3,1 below, Marthfiei 24 beiow, Montpelier 32 below, Moretown 30 below, Plainfi&ld SO below,' v" est Randolph 28 below jtnd fStOWO below. . . - ' - - r ' Lotui by Fin. '. Niw Orleans, Deo. 31. A special dispatch h to the Picayune from Houma i$ys : The estimated loss by thursday'Js fire is $150,000; insurance $100,000.;', Maiyr of the famlies turned out did not even save their wearing apparel. knowing In felauutou. k Staunton, 3 a , Deo. 31. It has been snowing nere nearly all toe morning) 2nd the indications arc that rr, win reacu a coutiuerauie uepiu. r ' Total VUlble Supply of Cotton. New Yobk, Dec. 31. The total visi ble supply" of cotton for the world is 3,085,l5Qjlales, of which 2,C52,870 bales are 'American; against 3,225,8(11 bales and82t,3Gl bales respectively last year, Receipts of cotton for tho week iron all interior towns, 'Jo,:) t u bales; receipts from plantations, 179,- U23 bales.? Crop in sight r,()-12,02x. Shoe Factory Binned. BosTONJ.Mass., Doc. 31 A, fire in Joneb' shoe fact ry.at Strafford burn etl tho budding to the ground with all its contents, lucltld.ng Uie niachiu ej-y and bt'ock. The total is given at fi:om $75,1)00 to 5585,000; insurance $35,000: !It is doubtful if the linn will rebuild. -The town has no fire department, and the fire was handled by all &t! bodied citizens, who f rmed a bucket brigade. The. loss of the factory; in" a severe blow to the tdvvn Tlte P-iy roll wai $7'-,i0d per yi-ar ' Attothtr Cadtlrr Minn . Rochester, N. Y , December 31. Assistant Cjahier Wm. N- Smith, of the Germaw American bank, of w hich Secretaryf State Cook is president, ii $7,000 bljort in his cah and has decamped- - His bond in the Guaran tee Company of New Yorkjs good for $5,000, Smith had a) ways L een ro I gar ded is honest and faithful. He - f - , 8 a wife '"and threa children here. urorMblT in Canida ir Ashctillr Potufice Holiber Arrete4 -ra l Gfllu Montf Hrco-rere.l. .cia In i ! . aixl ('ipu rvi r, i Ahuemu.e, Dec. 31. D ; Marshal Hatcpton brought j ei, if.-lv e fiom Morristoti today i Le 1 o oioek tia'is an i lojgeanim i 'ii i til t,- a--v;.i;. a preliminary u '.ji.,!.oie U- S. (' turuishiouer Sur i:x" Friday, uu a charge of ro t,- a riel miuary nearing aimey. robbing .He pobtoiiae. Aoout six nunureu l )iiars of the f tolen mouey was re j.)veiel. The 1 1 yeiir hi going out in rain I'ul sl et Mi ( llnS lu Shelby. ti) I'cia! ti'tlie News and Observer. Shelby, N. C , Dec. 31 (kmer 1 penu'v Geo. W. Means, Deputy Collector II. B. Quinn aud live aisintaqls arrested eight, men charged -with illicit distilling in the South n.omiitainH' this morning and destreye 1 live distilleries and over H'-ven th'isaad galloon of beer. It is extremely co'd and sleeting here ;.t this hour. -- hhm .paH.- Irlru lion of a t'400,000 Church. MiLw.vt'KEB, Dac. 31. The Emanuel Presbyterian church, one of the iiiieot edifices in the city, was totally dafitroyed by fire at an early hour :Lis morning. Nothing bnt the bare stote Widls are left. The loss is $100, C00; insurance .85:000. The build ing was erected in 1873 at a cost cf 200,000 The organ was valued at 13,000. A fierce blizzard was rag ing at the time and it was with the greatest difficulty that the lire engines reached the scene. No casualties occurred. "The 'Mcrsiah" was given in the chinch iar-l' evening before a large aud.eueo and it is believed that the (i. e was caused by overtaxing one of il.e furnace io order to heat the building. A policeman discovered ila nts bursting from one of the win do. vs fchciily after 3:30 and gave the ii'arm promptly, bat the fire had evi dently bi en barning for hours and tlie bjii.fing wr.a soon a mass of jl.-iiues fiom bottom to top of the tall structuie. Tl.H entire city was bril Jiaiitly i iuujiiiaied, the northern por tion being enveloped iu a shower of parts anu nreo-anas. me Duiiamg tu' -ed of gray rock-faced si-Tie. ltd foim was quadrilateral r:n!i transept and tower on either sid". The largest tower rose 147 feet from tLe sidewalk, terminating j without a spire, as did the smaller I tower, which xooe 100 foot. Besides J the leagnirjcer.t orgau the church con : tained a iiun.ber of costly stained : glata windows and a massive and j tjlaboraitly carved pulpit. j ' The Knights In the Strike ! ; PniLAiiFxrui v, Pa , Dec. 31. The action taken by the local assemblies of the K of L last night endorsing the order of the Reading convention for a genei il strike of the Reading rail road employees did not material !y eilcct the business of the Reading . , r-i . . ... . lo. tojiv. l l:e nieu uij not quit work with the al tei cte ulif;Mt"ljiiiJ t?iey rcTusc-t poiut ty which the lend- tjEFYo sfriS pretoung to renounce allegiance to the K. of L. The most notable in : htauce of cbedienco to the order of the 1 K. of L. was at the freight de- pot at Willow Street wharf. ; where f-cveral hundred freight hand i lefs and laborers refused thi$ morn- ing to continue work. The retire j njtnt of this large force delayed tho j business for a time, but inhe course ' cf a few hours the company had gathered a large uuiulxr of non union f men fro;a vaiious points and put ; thun to work, aud tho work of load- 1UH lrjtr and unloading ticignt at the de- bt wft ,)Iocee(3ea with. The block ade wa.; soon cleared up and the offi cials reported everything moving sat isfactory. What Rniils Drilrei. ! Vienna, Dec. 31. The Neut JWie I'esse publishes a letter from St. Petersburg whch says that Russia only desires an unreserved return to tho Berlin treaty and that the whole of Europe shall declare that every thing that has happened in Bulgaria pitice Pi iuce Alexander left that coun try is illegal. Russia, however, will make no sacrifice to restore the legal status there. - - aaaW .aaw- Bank Statement. New York, December 31. The following is the weekly statement of the associate.! banks : Reserve de crease, ni,zw. loans increase (5,130,500; specie increase, $806, 500; leL'al tenders increase, $594, COO ; deposits increase, $7,153,700; circulation increase, $10,700. The banks now hold $8,559,150 in excess of the 25 per cent rule. Danville Tobacco Market. Danville, Va., Dec. 31 The total ataoimt of leaf tobacco sold in this nil: ket for the month of December was two million seven hundred thou sand pounds, and for the three nrbntliB ending today, eight million pouuJfL Another Sinaahn p. Chattanoooa, Dec. 31. The North anil South cannon ball trains on the Cincinnati Southern railroad collided tolay at 1 p. m. at Summit, Ky. about twenty miles north of the Ten nessee and Kentucky State line. Eleven persons, including eight pas sengers, are known to Lave been killed outright, and many injured. The names of thei killed and injure! have not yet been! learned. A UEaelteloi'upper. The term "miseries of bachelor" appears not to bej applicable to Ral eigh bachelors particularly to some of them. One of the most enjoyable affairs of tho holidays was a bachelor supper given lust night by Mr. J. Jv Holding, of t lie i:lleigh bar, to a nuni hsr of ft'ieudH in li is apartments in the Bagley building. The spread was as well chosen and arranged as is usually seeD, and the entertainer showed at once the t fficient qualities of both a ho6t and hostess. The do liciounncsc of the coffee and tea made by the host himself in the presence of his Tguestf, and the ease and grace with which he presided were wonders, at which they marveled. The episode was; thoroughly pleasant and enjoya ble.: . : 1 1. A COLLISION 'ITH SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE ON THE !t. Y., TEX.Va 4 OHIO K R. I AP. TlCCLAKS OF THE ACCIDENT i OTHER SEWS BY WIRE. Chicago, December 31. The night "express for Milwaukee that left Chi cago at 10 30 last night over the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, smash ed into a freight train at Sliermer vilie, I1L, during a blinding snow storm. The engine and mail car of the passenger train were derailed, to gether with several freight cars, mak ing a bad wreck and gi -ing the pas sengers a severe shaking up. No lives were lost, but engineer Little is hurt seriously, and the fireman is probably fatally hurt. Pittsburg, Pa. December 31. A passenger train on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad ran into a double header freight train near Meadville, Pa., this morniDg, and was totally wrecked. It is reported that a great many lives were lost. iNew York, December 31. A dis patch from Meadville, Pa., regarding the accident on the New York, Penn sylvania and Ohio railroad says: The entire passenger train is a wreck, and forty persons are reported killed. All the physicians in the city and sev eral hundred citizens have gone to the scene ot the disaster by a special train. Both engineers were killed, one pas senger was killed and about fifteen were seriously njured. The cars are all piled up and it isimnossibie to tell how many were injured. The Pull man Bleeper did not leave the track and the passengers in them were not injured. Luckily the cars did not take fire. The first reports sent out were sauch exaggerated. The rail road officials are very reticent about giving details. PriTSBUEo, Pa., Dec. 31. Particu ars of the railroad accident at Mead ville are still meagre. The accident, it is said, was not as bad as reported. It happened at early hour this morn ing. The limited express was run ning at a high rate of speed when it collided with a double-header freight tram. ice express was totallv wrecked. Ths two engineers and one passenger were killed outright, and 15 to 20 passengers were seriouslv injured. The accident happened three miles from Meadvillo. A dispatch from Titusville gives the following particulars: The accident took place at 9 50 ibis morning, on the main line of the N. Y-, Penn'a and Ohio, about three miles west of Meadville, near Tracy's cut, between train No. 8, lim ited express, from Chicago and Cin cinnati to New York and west bound freight train No. 25. The fast Chicago express on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio rail- road, consisting of two sleepers and five day coaches, collided with freight an3 "sTxtr cars, three miles west of this city at 8 o'clock this morning. Five persons were killed outright, among whom was one passenger. Thirteen others were wounded, nine of them fatally. The following are the names of the killed, so far as as certained: Wm. George, engineer, and Humes, fireman, of the leading freight engine; E. P. Swan and Arthur Irwin, engineer and fireman of the Chicago express. Both trains present a terrible scene of destruc tion.! Snow Storm and Train Wrecked. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 13. The snow and wind storm of last night anti-today has been the most exten sive storm that nas occurred in this section in two years. At day-light many of the streets were almost im passable anl traffic was conducted with great difficulty. Trains on all the roads are from two to three hours late. Freight trains were generally side-tracked during the night and the j crews directed to keep the tracks open; for" regular passenger trains. Six inches of snow fell all over the southern part of Wisconsin and as far north as Green Bay and St. Ven- point In the extreme northern part of the State the fall was somewhat heavier. The wind drifted the snow badly. During the storm the 7 o'clock St. Paul fast mail from Chi cago collided with a standing train at the New Union depot, demolishing the engine and wrecking two sleep ers somewhat. Nobody was hurt. : a Cattle Train Wrecked. Konts, Ind., Dec. 31. Another disastrous wreck occurred on the line of the Chicago and Atlanta R. R. six miles from this place, near the cross ing of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad and the Chicago and IbdianaJJCoal railroad, at Wilder s, Ind., by a collision of two sections of a fast stock train going east. The engineer of the rear section was unable to Bee the first section on ac count of a blinding snow storm, and hi3 engine went crashing into the rear car, demolishing the engine and cabooBe. One car of cattle was de stroyed. The cattle were burned. The rear brakeman was burned to a crisp. . The other train bands had a narrow escape. I 'Another Fatal Collision. Butte, Montana, Dec. 31. A col lision Occurred yesterday on the Utah & Northern Railway near the city oi Dillon,: Mont , which resulted in the killing ; of fireman Patrick and the serious injury of engineer John Sweeny. Many coal cars were com pletely wrecked. The usual treatment of catarrh is very unsatisfactory, as thousands of de spairing patients can testify. On this point a trustworthy medical writer Bays: ' Proper local treatment is positively necessary to success, but many, if not most ot, the remedies in general use by physicians, aff drd bat temporary benefit. A cure certainly cannot be expected from ; snuffs, powdrrs, douches and washes." Ely b Cream Balm is a remedy which combines the important requi sites of; quick action, specific curative power with perfect safety and pleasant nejs to the patient. Mr. Geo. O. Wallace, a member of the advertising firm of N. W. Ayer & Son died on December 28th tilt- Washington IVotcs. WAsnix-iTo.N, Deo .'11. The receipts of the government from all sources during the present month were $'2'V C23,2So. and tho expenditures 510,- 410,082, leaving a net gain of receipts over expenditures of 518,924,1503.' Out oi tuis net gain, Lowever, must ba paid about 83,500,000 for interest on the public debt, which will leave the actual surplus for December 15, 424,003. The public debt wa3 also reduced during the month to the amount of $15,250,000. For the en tire calendar year of 1887 the debt was diminished by $117,010,000, the largest reductions being made in June and November when the payments on that account aggregated $10,852,000 and $16,833,000 respectively. The President has determined that he will not appoint a delegate to the medical congress to be held at Lima. Peru, next week. All the executive departments closed at noon today and will not open again for business until Tues day morning.. Owing to the prevalence cf a dis ease of an epidemic character which nas attacked the hogs in Denmark, the government of Norway and Sweden has established a3 quarantine against the importation of Danish hog products. The treasury depart ment has been informed that being thus deprived of their principal market the Danish hog raisers will endeavor to find a market in the United States and the department has taken steps to prevent the impor tation of diseased hogs from Den mark. CouslcrnatloH In Naval Circles. Washington, D. C, Dec. 31. Naval circles have been thrown into a state of consternation by recent reports from California relative to the discov ery of grave defects in the steel in tended to be used in the construction of the cruiser Charleston, now being built in that State. While an attempt was being made recently to bend slightly some heavy eight-inch steel deck beams several of them snapped in pieces under the strain of the hydraulic jack to the great astonish ment of the construction officers. The steel was from the east and had been thoroughly tested according to the sevare requirements of the steel board, standing successfully all of the tests as to tension, elasticity, etc. Much of this steel has already been used in the construction of other cruisers and gun-boats now building and the alarming feature of the acci dent at the California ship-yard is that it it casts grave doubts on the strength of the other material that has already been built into ships and may fail unexpectedly at a critical mo men1. the situation at reading. Up to noon today there were no signs of a strike on the Reading R. R. in this city. The company's car and machine shops, which employ Ln their several departments 800 men, have not been as busy as now for ten years. Heretoforje in the winter tame employees retained were reduced to eight hours a day, Now every man has ten hours work and many make overtime. Several Knights of Latfor assemblies of this city held a meeting and the sentiment of the meeting was that a Btrike would be ill-timed and nothing gained thereby. Foreign Kent. London, Dec. 31. There is much excitement in Kildysare, Ireland, over the threats made against persons who aid boycotted people. Tradesmen, bakers and merchants have been noti fiied that they will be blown to death if they furnish supplies to the police. ot. xetersbubo, Uecember 31. The Czar of Russia has sanctioned the publishing of the alleged forged docu ments sent to him relative to Ger many's attitude towards Russia and they will be published in Berlin. This decision is regarded as a very favora ble symptom of the political situa tion. The Imperial sanction has been given to the establishment of a third class provision depot at Rowno, in addition to a previously established second class magazine there. Persons in .. political circles here are astonishedat the continuously repeated press reports of Russia's intention to cross the frontier of Austria or Germany, or both frontiers. The official inter course of Russia with Austria is friendly, while thatj with Germany leaves nothing to be desired. The Czar has no idea of occupying Bul garia, but is resolved not to recog nize the present fttate of affairs. If no change occurs in the government of that country, the Bulgarian ques tion will remain for Russia an open one. The Czar disapproves of and refuses to become responsible for the replacing of Brince Ferdinand by a Russian relative. Russia does not desire to make Bulgaria a Russian province, as Roumania separates Bulgaria- from Russia. Taking every thing into consideration the Russian people do not believe that war will occur, but they do not expect a speedy settlement of the Bulgarian question. The recent military movements were taken solely for the purpose of as suring the safety of the frontier and in consequence of the unfriendly character of the antecedent declara tions as to Austria's policy. Barrowed garments seldom fit well, nor do lngns lemedies cure successful ly. The mri.cure for coughs and colds is Dr. Bull a Cough Syrup. Why sit doubled up like an old man, my boy? What's rheumatism? Take the Good the godaprovida thee, and send twenty-five cents around the cornw for a bottle of Salvation Oil and you'll ride your bicycle to-m"rrow. i George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, gave hi printers $10,000 as a Christ mas gift. 1 have been troubled with catanhf the head and throat for five years. Three years ago I commenced the use of Ely's Cream Balm, and from the grst applica tion I was relieved. The aerse of smell, which had been lost, was restored. I have found the Balm the only satisfacto ry remedy for catarrh, and it baa accom plished a cure iu my case. H. L. Meyer, Waverly, N. Y. EU' Cream Balm cured me of ca tarh and restored my sense of smell. For cold in head it works like magic E, H. Sherwood, Bankr, Elizabeth, N. Y. ) THE SI KIKE. ORDERS TO STRIKE NOT OBEY- ED WITH L VORITY ci rut kmilovkhs or the revdixo rail- Rt'Ajv FLAT r.EFlSAL IN SOE IN- T NCES WORK rROGRE83INO s SATISFACTORILY ) f HXU.' j NEWS BT WIRE. j Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 31. Nearly ono thousand men employed in and around the extensivo freight depot of the Rdading railroad at Willow street went dut on strike this morning and the wdrk of handling freight is con sequently badly crippled. This ac tion of! the men was in pursuance of a decision of the various local -assemblies of Knights of Labor last even ing to jsupport the order of the Read ing convention. The men who went out Wrire employed as conductors and brakeuen on the Wilio w street shifting crews and in handling freight and in other fcapacitiea at the depot. At the general offices of the company,on Fourth! street, no information regard ing the; situation could be obtained this mbming, the officials stating that they had nothing for publica tion. Everything was reported as working smoothly at the depots at Ninth and Green streets and at Six teenth land Pennsylvania Avenue. At Pott Richmond the non-union men who took the places of strikers several Bays ago were at work but the force is a comparatively small one and nothing like the usual amohnt of coal is neing handled there by the company. About 900 coal -handlers were formerly employed at thef Port Richmond wharves while it is estima ted that; not over 150 are now5 em ployed. t I AT TAMAyCA. TamaLjua, Pa , Dec. 31. Some eighty men were hired this morning and sent; to Port Richmond and other places. 1 The officials in this city say that thetroublcs on the road in this vicinity are over; that they expect to cope successfully with the men at Port Ridhmond and other points in Philadelphia, but that the greatest danger it from a coal strike. ; another Strike. ; Boston Dec. 31. All the employees of the Union Glass Works of Somer- ville, 165; in number, finished up their work thi4 morning and left, refusing to acceptj the manufacturers' list of rules forsthe coming year. i a i. . Heary Snow In Virginia. Lynchsurg, Va., Dec. 31. Snow and sleetjhave been falling in this vi cinity all jday. Reports of the heav iest snowrstorm for years come from south west Virginia. ' f -i MSSSEICKKS OF HOPE. Memb:n mud Contribution for -the YVeek Ending December 30U, 1887. ; Ala. i.......;...r;.--;: r !t v.ji..'. ti : 30 Rufus T. 1 Lenoir, AOjUaMU vat- ley, N. jC ! 50 Sallie Lenoir, Yadkin Valley, ; N. C.j i 50 Walter Lenoir Spicer, Yadkin Valley, N. C ; 28 Kate Anderson Burr, Morgan ton, N. jC 15 Leila Burt, Morganton, N. C. . 15 Julia Dewjey, Charlotte, if. C. . 10 Guion De?vey, Charlotte, N. C. 10 Nina Dewey, Charlotte, N. C. . ; 10 Frank Defey, Chaalotte, N. C, : 10 Charles Dewey, Charlotte, N.C. : 08 Harriet Jarratt, Yadkin Coun ty, N. Q ! 25 Elizabeth Gibson, Concord, N. C, (2d offering). 50 William Gjibson, Concord, N. C.,t2d Offering) : 10 Richard Gibson, Concord, N. C, (2d offering) , 10 Jennie Gibson, Concord. N. C, (2d"offering) . 05 Total.! .$ 3 36 Amount contributed .... .$10 21 Enlisted! members, 37. Happy New Year to you all,; my dear children! and I hope it will be the happiest of all the years that you have known. Christmas has come and gone with all its pleasures and gaiety; and now with the new year we take up anew the work and duties of every-day life. Just now mv dutv lies in writing o my chickabiddies and the first let ter 1 4.ake p (which according tof my old rule is jthe first that came) is from Alabama, where a little transplanted Tarheel lives in the bustling city of Birmingham, tone says: "I did niot know .anything about the poor little sick child that sleeps in a cot until my grandmama . in North Carojina wrote me about it; and I have been working for it by dust ing Aunt Mary's machine and table it her. I am bo little I can't ' do much, but X el so sorry for the poor little child and maybe my money can tret her some nice oranges or a pretty iirtiirn hnnik. I send six nickels to you. We 4sed to live in ftorth Car olina too, but now we only go back in the summer time I send you a kiss and thf little girl one too, and I hope Santa Claus will- go to jsee her " -j - Thanks for the kisses, - little Min nie. I took jmine right away. I am very glad yu are going to work for the poor little sick child. All these pennies tha you send to me you will find in the King's Treasury some day, where the! moth and the rust tateth not, nor thieves break through and steal. I hope Santa Claus went to see the little girl, mid all the pther little children, sick or well. Yu wrote a very sweet little letter, I tbif k. The next j letter came from those delightful tFcu t Penan :u" people, from whom jwe used to hear so often. 'Tour tatd to my boy Jtufus came while I W88 away on a visit to my bid home. I am so glad to think that the Memorial Got endowment fund will be completed. I have always felt mortified that it was not at once. Rufus says I must write you lor him, because I can write so much faster than! he can. He sends you bis lof e, and to would 81- iUft. Sho and! at Davenport S allio and Rufus i tho co!, and aunt ia ike Mar. G wvn rend iVJ.- cjkdj f ... i H. ih semi i i'S.v t- Sprcer".! l;'tl lul, Walter Lenoir )-KTi--. a ta?iuov r .of the Mpaaricr.r ; , La:i i li ii not t .v mo;: ths old yet. ith tuanv grd wlsh- XoJ bless yOu. ( s vours Kivin.i-' ,- lam very glad to Lave a letter from you again, d Vr m-idara, but I am a little .lisco:i,!iicd to find out ; howjast children grow up in four years. Am I, to understand that I am to accept brother Spicer as a substi- , tute for my Mary Gwyn? Never fear, the cot will be endowed; the children will see to that. Gives my love to Rufua and Sillie. and ask them not to be in such a hurry to grow up. I can't posiblyisparo every body. Then my lttlo cousins from Char lotte say : ''Aunt Beckie and dear cousin, we were so glad to see your letter in tjio News and Observer papa sent ustoday from Raleigh. It has been so 16ng since we have heard anything from you. You are not for gotten by us, aud we are glad to send you ten centa from' each of ub for Xmas. Sister is 'most a grown lady' now, and at school in Philadel phia. Mamma will send the paper to her with" your letter. Guion is a great big boy; I am not small for 10, years, and Nia most as large. Frank ie i in pantsj going to school, and our' baby boy, Charles, three years old, the 'big man' of tho house. We are going to Raleigh to live the flrit of the year and you will hear from us agaiiu. Mamma sends you bo much love. Your loving cousin " I am just ai glad to hoar from you, my dear little cousins, as yon are to see my letters agaiu. The money was 2 cents Bhort of being 50 centp, so I took advan tage of Charlie being too little to read figures and credited him with' only 8 cents. 5How you little folks grow! I am glad to hoar about jou all. "Sister" isla long way from homo. How glad she will be to come back. I hope you wilt find your new home a very happy one. Give my love" to every one of the children, and. dear "Mamma" too. I The next letter came from the bonny west too, but I am not allowed to print it, whick always vexes me, for the letters are so very nice. Katie's and Leila's maniina have read the let ter to them every week when the News and Observer came, and they are very much Interested in the poor little sick girl who they think is in the cot, so they: each send ten cents of their Christfnas money, and they both havo hens, that are laying, and they' sell tho fergs to their grand mother, and intend to send all the money to the cot- Kate is not quite seven and Leila'; is not yet four. So you see they are very young soldiers ana win deserve great create u tney prove faithful in tho resolution they ave formed to surrender all their egg money to the cot. for it will ne cessitate a great chhJ of self denial, ioY Dig cries n6 nave'lBarneavnal most of life is sivuist uo. Ine last J?Uer of all came from the faithful Gttbsona, whose mamma Bays: "I enclose a little Christmas .offering for the cot froji my four 'Messen gers' and their cousin Harriet Jar ratt who ia withHhtm now. She was on your roll before, I think. Her home is in Yadkin county. With the very best wishes from them and my self for both you and the cot at this most blessed season, I am most cor dially, your friend ." An, Madam, you Gibsons are good to tie to and nj mistake ! Your lit tle flock is so faith'ful and like good" soldiers they always "toe the mark." Yes, Harriet belongs to me, and I have or rather I had another little Gibson cousin in the band before. I thank you very much for all your good wishes, and hope that you all enjoyed the dear Christmas-tide very thoroughly. I am not writing at home as I was suddenly called away by sickness and so I do not get toy .mail this week as I would do at home, and will do next week, so if any one else has written they must.be patient until next week, when I hope 1 -will do better, and write under less . disadvantage than I do now. So, -with love and best wishes for all, I am, yours faithfully, Aunt Beckie. All contributions for "The Bishop Atkinson Memorial Cot" in St. John's Hospital, Raleigh, should be sent to Miss Rebecca C fmeron care Dr. Wil liam Cameron, Hillsboro, North Car olina. The Crown Prince Better. London, December 31. In an inter view today Dr. McKenzie stated he was greatly pleased with thw improvement in the condition of the Crown Prince Frederick Willifm- Dr. McKenzie said he had never admitted that the disease from which the Crown Prince is Buffering is cancer. PURE Its superior exoetienoe proven in mil lions of homes fcr wore than Quartet of a century. 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