"C 'ifi-EWS ' AND 5 .. U VERS. i 9& Vol. fxiwi RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1888. K(). 1G1 SER Absolutely Pure. 'i - "i Hs rowdeg nevar varies. ;A marvel purity, strength and whol&Bcmeneea. Mr.re ocoromif-al.than ordinary kinds and -sun t be so! in competition, with the n-iltitride of glow test. "shott weight, luni :r j.htijSist powder, sold only in Mr:s: FiOTA'-PUKINO POWDEB GO., 108 Str-.t, How Ycr.k. oH 1. v, . 1 :. & r.'ror?-. and j :'.' r' l. . THE GPtSAT REiULATOR. So hniwrbtllv ii'' me so UMfcl if Biiinnotn l.ivi-r g.Vnii lat r. It hi its ay liit- r.cery l."tt' I., pure. sf'T'.iri r tin 5-. ii takes tin' T-'-fS .( a dovtor iinJ (-'"iti! pn script lo:,. It is f lam-' lly itictH -ine ciiitiliui no dangerous o,u;aiti- s. but purely vi'i-i'fcil'U" ; getit'e iii lit iii !i'i --. : 'of' ear be safely wli.it ai;c. i;iSen to any pfsnn, no matter PEOPLE can tak" Slmmmfii I.iver He of time or diiui'sfrtim tip will tie biiiit upsi'xl liiviu'i motes dhrt slion. Iilt-tslnntes ktiUt.T w 1 1 1 unit loss nee. and the system bited by it. It priv- slok headaelip ana (ire a strung, fun tone to tUe sVst.iui. It has no equal as a prrptntory nitrite I nr., and sain te safety uscu in an.wsieKiiess. nuu-is kmiiuj on vue Bowel and Kiilujyn jaiul corrida tbe action of th I.lvi r. Indortteri tiv nersitrui of the liii?hftt If a cl ild has tb colic It is a mire cure and safe miiru.,. it v, ill ai t-ni.oi e an, iikiu Liir o n lllk (ienuineflias our Z stan in red on front wrapper, prepared only by j. feiu., mnaaeipnia, ra. wootipn & mvs, East Marti'i Street. 3000 yds Doable Width OTS. Sasbtflere, worth 20 cts. 00 Linea Towfia. CTS. 1, 85, 4Q,50Und (jo cts ykrd iLinen Table Cloth. "crs. ,000 yda Oil Cloth for gjable. ! CTS. eae$. 1,000 Kapkius. I r.i'K. tooo pr. MEN'S and GLOVES BOY'S! CLQTH Vorth 40 pis. 5.000 ia C, ntafy Cloth worth 10 Ct. i ? ... cts. HOODS, TOBOGGANS, 0 1,0C0 pnlauudried and Negli geefihirta worth 75"ctB. eta. 0,000 ja'ra Ladies' iI48e, 5, 7, , and Oents' 10 atfd 12c, orth double th money 75c, 81, SI White !.-, SI 4.'and $1 50, Pountei panes. it nPriilays Only ? We will Belall our Remnants 1 ! AT A REDUCTION of sas 3 per c.Nnt. -t ONE PHICE Stookhul Office No 4th CauoM.va IIgmb IXbLKACE ('OllPiNV. KaLEiQU. N. (J. J iuunf 10th, 1888. pfho snnual metit g f ,'h Htockhold- Ot the rtortlf t ar- liia Home taaur- ce Compp.ny 90 lieia at tneir ofhce thin city ou f',0Vv$.l",e 181 aay 01 ibruary, A. V. io ciock m. s emirrrs Hoar. -SKWSOBSt i.VATIOXS TLtfe were 374 deaths from sma'.l poi in Havana in December. District 'Attorney Fellowp, it is une'erfctoed, is pushing matters for the new rial of Jacob Sharp. New, England shoe manufactur ers are ; receiving orders to 6hip promptly', goods which in former sea sons wetei not shipped until February. The annual meeting of the Phila delphia."' Reading Kailroad Com pany was- held Monday. The report showed the road to be in good finan cial condition. The approaching session of Par liament affakeus some aniiety among the Ministers over the "heckirg " they will probably gf t from the mem bers of Parliament. Albert A. Poole, well known in theatrical - circles, was arrested and will have 'to answer Miss Sierra Ne vada Hulphinson for damages in a breach of promise suit. Gen. 'Terry, the Indian Sghter, who haB beeu reported to be seriously ill at the Grand Hotel, New York, is merely suffering from his old com plaint, I'hionic indigestion. A Colored man in Nen Orleans sent a reply to an invitation, in which he "regretted ihe circumstances re pugnant to ttfe acquaintance would prevent his acceptance of the invite." One hundred steam pipe and I oiler fitters vvtnt on 6trike in New York Monday for an advance from 3 to 3.50 pr d ty. . Their places were filled with non-union men. Chee Gong and Fong Long Dick were .sentenced at Portland, Ore., Monday, to har4g February 17. They were convicted of murdering Lee Yick, in the Chinese Theatre,. Novem ber . Mm. Mary Janeops6n thought she had been injured $10,000 by tlanderous words used by detective Q iinlan, of Paterson, N. J., but an unsympathetic jury thought 5 would, heal ier wounds. A fund is being raised at Jack sonville, Fla , to be used in advertis ing tbe aJv'antages of that State as a place of, permanent residence. Gov. Perry has 'contributed $100 to tbe fund, and gives the scheme bis hearty indorsement. During the year ended with the close of last Jurie about 1,700,000,000 cigarettes were pold in this country an enormous increase over the year before. At tLis rate the small boy will disappear from history about January 1, 18S8. A note picked up in a rural post office in Tennessee read : "Dear : The reason 1 didn't laff when you laft at me in the postoffis yesterday was because I had a bile on my face and can't lafF. If I laff she'll bust. But I lo re you, bile or bo bile, laff or no laff." : f. . ; 1 Twenty old. men, all .veterans of tbe Mexican war; met in Chicago Sun day and ; drafted a bill, to - be pre sented" to Congress, to correct faults in tbe present pension law by remov ing the 8-yeara age limit allowing Mexican war veterans who served in the late war $0 rfeceive a pension for service in each of the wars, and by admitting enlisted servants to the pension roll, s . The Augusta i (Ga.) Exposition scheme is making satisfactory head way.; Mr. James Tobin, one of the most enthusiastic projectors of the exposition, and one of the leading business men of Augusta, has been elected president of the company and declares his purpose to make it a financial success and a credit to the State of Georgia, Ex-Senitor Joseph E. McDonald, in an intervie at Indianapolis, said he doubted if a bill reducing the tariff all along tbe line could be gotten through; Congress, but he believed some, sort of compromise matter would, and that it would reduce the ti.x on tobacco and the tariff on eome of the coarser and most necessary ar tides. The whiskey tax, he thought, would not he molested. A Boston woman of brains has invented a new way of making herself useful and making money at the same time. She studies the newspapers, posts herself on what's going on in the world, uBes tbe 'scissors freely, pastes, writes and revises carefully, until she has a condensed digest of the live topics 'of the day. This she reads to a- class of wealthy women, who pay hei(well for furnishing them with information concerning what they ought to be able to talk intelli gently about- 1 The editor of the Sioord and Shitld, of Jackson, Miss., is a perfect gentleman so Miss Dudley, of Can ton, thinke; and rightly, too, for this is what he wrote of her: "Miss Dud ley, of Canton, pasBed through the city W ednesday en route for Birming ham, where she goes to open a ladies' restaurant, i All who ever ate fit Miss Dudley's establishment in this city, where her tolls were a perfect pas sionate poenf, the fried ham a dream of deiight, and the baked goose a glimpse of paradise, will feel Bure that both Buccess and customers will come to her in Birmingham." The repdrt on entomology made by W. B. Atwoojl to the Columbus Hor ticultural So'ciety,: last winter, states that many remedies were employed oa the two described cabbage worms, 1 consisting of alura water of different j degrees of strength, tansy water, to ! m-ifo water, benzine, coal oil emul- ubions or ailtrent strengths, iiam- mond'j slug ifcholMj Cayenne pepper, half a ddzen remedies from England, bewru.1 preparations of tobacco, soap j and pTjretbruru. Nnne proved of any ' alu txcept 't'ue tobacco soaps and ijrt ihruru. J'J'he tobacco soaps pre pared with po'ash were quite efficient, thq value of ivhicU was ascribed to the potash. Pytethrum is recommended ua the beat remedy, being perfectly safe easy of application, and more deadly on the worms than any remedy used. PoWiler of good quality, j mixed with three; times its bulk of j flour, was ffund perfectly effective, ' applied with'a dusting bellows. One j pound, costing fifty cents, was enough 4 to cover an acre if properly handled. I VhdYMU Vfmomt. I jCOXGIjESS. Proceedings, in senate iiorsi: ,ND R. SArLSiURY ON ESTAoLISIIIMi A (' Mljy RATIO OK VA.t ES 1,'KTVftEX biLVCB am) r.iM.n- OTirr.:: ,MA8 BY JV1RK. M ; WAHttiNjiTox, Ja:i; 11. Skn.ui:. Mr. Satihbury intfoliiced a joint resolutioil declaring that nofuither' efi'ort.ca'a' proj)erly! be made bv the! United St-ites to obtain the co-opera- j tiou of 'Europeau goverDmonts iu ! establishing a comiubn ratio of values , between silver 'and- Igold as money. ! Daid cn the table.' j Bills ami resolutions were intro- i dacid anil referred: By Mr. Mm- j derson.to iucr-iano ;J invaii 1 petisioua j to 8 per ; 'iiotith. A bti'.e:xit. tit ac- j company iig tLe ! ill 'kiyn lhat, it will J increa:-'o t'(' p tsionj of 14(,3S3 per? j sons now carried 011 ibc pcusionrolls j attd will increase annual pension p-iy- ments by '$(5.753, 352- j iBy Mr. iliildlcbt rger,-f-r the eret.- j tiqn of a rfublic builtjing at Ne.vpoiti News, !?lu000. ! ;Mr. IIo,.r offered a - resolution, re- j questing, the President to transmit j to '-.Congrej the rr-pft tf the I'acdic j llailroad Ctimmis.-i'it. ' Adopted. i The resolution offured by Air. Halo I 011 the 12:.n of Deeember-for a scleeL ! cohjmitteao examine fully into ibe present cogdi.ion of ttlie civil Kerviee was taken ip, and Mf. Hale addressed tho Seiiiiie-in explanation and advo cacy of if, N He declavtd that his object in offering it was to Fetnire au investi gation with the tiu'eere purpose of bringing before Confess the present actual condition of the, civil service of the country and also the perform anees of certain high and low officials of the government. Mr. Hale charged President Cleveland Jwith insincerity in his, pu'ulis utterance0, in favor of civil ,'servico reform, and accused him of leaving violated all his personal pletjges ani those eipbodied in his party's platform oa tris subject. He quoted froiii a table published last June, showing the sleeping changes that bad already taken place: in all the depn.rJnrents of ihe public ser vice among cflioials- subject to execu tive action, and said he hoped to have in a few day's a further table showing how this conquering march of tbe Democratic-; party in pursuit of office bad J continued down to the" beginning . , of? thfs year. This showing, be sail, was uuexim pled in any other administration in American history. Mr, Hale etiticiEed the Preident's lettersj written duriug thejrecen'c pplitical campaign in New York city, ttiat to El Ward Cooper, in which he said the newspaper clip pings wiiicu had been uut him by Mr.iCooper Aid not amount to enough to rfcise a dOubt. of bi. desire for the success of bdtb the city and State tick ets f the united Demcicracy, aud that read at the: Democratic ratiiication meeting regretting lib (Cleveland's) inability to be presenl, aud express ing the h' pe that every candidate on tbe excellent" ticket of;the united De mocracy might be; triumphautly elected. ; t Passing on io the subject of political assessments, pdr. Hale- quoted from tLe j Washington 1'os't ( .vbich be spoke of as orgab pf the adminis tration) of the first of November last in regard to the collection of contri butions for the New Tork campaign and also a communication in tho Wastington iJfepudu'an describing how -assessments for that campaign were being leVied in tljie government printing offic0. From!' all thio, be said;' something ought now to be plainly seen by every 'man who was not stone blind. The value of tbe cry Of civil 6eivice reform had ceased to bS of any s imatiotf in the minds of the leaders' of the Democratic par ty. !Tho old methods, be said, would prevail. This year the, land would rock with efforts ; on behalf of -Presidential candidates. He affirmed hjs belief and ventured the prediction that no means and no appliances that had been in years pastused by the Democratic party would fail to be resorted .to this year. Intimidation, outrage, .murder, (if needed) would open again the bloody grave iu whiftb would be interred anew the f?e- ballot of the South. 'The thing whictf has been, is the thing which wiil be, and there will be found ho new trjing under the sun.'! The insane and appliances and practices of ibe Democratic party would all be Resorted to in its des perate attempt to retain its hold of the national 1 government. Iu the meantime where would the lade pen Tents be .' .' Mr. Halo's Speech attracted great and fluusual Ittcntionjin the Senate chamber, but-; few of;tbe seats on either side being vacant during its dtlivfcry, whicli occupied about two hour? and a half. At-its conclusion Mr. Butler sejnt to' .the clerk's desk and Bad read Ja circular sent out in 1878; 'by authority of 'j,ho republican Congressioualj committee (of which Mr. Halo wasa member), calling on government eniployaea for political contributipps.'!' Mr. Hle jutitied tLe circular ami said that it directly and explicitly excluded theidea of extort ing: contributions. Tbt B'air educational bill was then takeii up Mr; Coke trpjoko iu opposition. He said 1 it was evident that 'he purpose' of tho fjill was not I alone- to 'ptovideT ononey for1 the support of bcbool, but to follow tho money to its expenditure. It was not opised io stcip:, with handing; tbe BKm'-y ovrr. to Ijhe States and Territories to3je expended in accord ance XviLti thco res-t ecyve plans and school system., but tq assume juris die ion V11 tbe c .million schools of all the States, take bold of ibem, pat ticipato in tht k aduiinistration, and place ; them uigder ibe. supervision of the Secretary of the interior. Since lSS0i bo buid,;lho most marked feature of advancement of the" South was tho growth of heR corumoti schools. They were. today under the '. influence of u public sentiment keenly alive to their importance, and it- was safe tO say t'at s.j far as! illiteracy i:i ilia South curable it is di cr rising under the bonefieial i iflueLce of an improved system of j jblic schools. j Mr Gray, of Delawarejobtained the K.cr for a speech on the'bame mea f io. bjt gave way to Mi Butler, for a motion to adjourn, whi-h was car lied at 4 15 p. m. The adjournment without an .executive session was due io the d- termination of scliue Senators to insist upon a consideration of Mr. Ijamar's nomination in preference to those of Vilas and Dickinson, and the e msequeut prospect of a somewkat prolong, d s'ruggle, which none were anxious to enter upon so Jate in the atei nooii. HOUSE. : The Speaker, as (irst business in order, proceeded to call the commit tees, but no reports f any character were submitted. The Houe then, on motion tf Mr. Mill?, of Texas, went iato committee of ho whole (Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, in the chair) upon the state of the Union for the con sideratiou of the President's message. Mr. Mills offered a resolution refer ring the message to tho committee oa ways and mean3. The resolution was Hgreed to. aud the eommittce having ticn, its actiou waa confirmed by the House. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, offered a resolution gninting the commirtee on Ti ri i tori, s authority to have printed pap"is b aving upon tbe subject of its jurisdiet lo;i. Yariojs amendments were off' red extending the same priv ilege to other comuiittce3 aud ini or der to cut off these amendments, Mr. Springer demanded the previous qijesti-.ni. but tho republicans opposed tire deui :ud and befbg in the majori ty, the demand was not sustained. Odter aiuciidmeuts were then offered, but upon motion of Mr. Randall, of 1'ennsyl v.inijv, the whole subject' was referred Uj the rommitticoa printing. Mr. Randall. from the com mittee on appropriations, re ; orted a resolution calling en .tho Secretary of the Treasury for r- schedule of all claims allowed by accounting officers of the treasury under appropriation?, tbe balances of which have been c-xbausted or carried i-.tp tho ,iur)Ius fund under the pro v:sions of the wl of June 20, 1874. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, in speak ing to the resolution, laid down the general proposition that Congiess should make anticipatory appropria tions for the payment of claims, and Mr, Reed, of Maine, inquired whether Mr. Randall would permit the House to vote upon the proposition to make bach appropriations. Mr.Raudall dis claimed iy power to prevent tho vote being taken, a disclaimer which I1.1I iiitl-i weight with Mr. Reed, who gave it a 3 his experience that the gen tleman from Pennsylvania often had power to prevent. votes being taken. Tho resolution waa adopted and the House went into committee, (Mr. Cox, of New York, in the chair,) oa the Liittlo deficiency bill. Mr. Bijinee, of Missouri, in charge of the bi;!. made a tttatoment in re gard to the failure of the deficiency bill in tbe last pension of the 49tb Congress, owing to ti e fact that it was not laid before the President in time to receive bis signature. At bat time tbe committeo on conference bad agreed upon a report and that report had been substantially followed out in tho pending bill. He hoped that unless there was a case of ex treme urgency presented, no one would attempt to engraft upon the bill any thing which could be post poned until the urgent deficiency bill was reported to the House, which would be in the course of ten days. Mr. Cannon, of Iiliuoip, also stated that the committee on appropriations had taken the conference report of laat . Congress -as the basis of the present measure, and be hoped that it would be passed and passed speed ily, substantially as it wa, thus giv ing to tbe creditors of the government the poor pittance to which they were entitled. The debate upon the bill assumed r. pohticaleharacter, the Republicans assailing the appropriations commit tee of tbe last House for their dila tory action in regard to all appropri ation bills; and the deficiency bill in particular. Mr. Randall was the prin cipal speaker in defence of the last appropriations committee. In refer ence to tbe failure of , last year's de ficiency appropriation bill he stated that it had been due in part to the fact that the House conferees had stood against the payment of the Pa cific R. R. claims. The bill failed be cause these two claims could not be forced through on the back of the Koldicra' claims, and be com mended tho House conferees for their action. Referring to a remark of Mr. Ileijderson'f, he said that be had be come quite used to the frequent scoldings which the committee on ap propriations received, and had be come quite patient under them, but he felt it to bo bis duty to say that tie hsul ii6er known of the committee retarding appropriation bills through uiv iniiitoper motive. It had been j said tlud appropriation bills had been I held buck to prevent tbe considera j tiou of revenue bills. This he denied. the iyason revenue measures had not j been eoii.Jdeied had been that they bad not bal a majcrity of l bo. 1 House in their favor, i TLe cjominittoe on appropriations was not to blame for that. He had made this stidement before but he wished to repeat deliberately that at no time yen hm bis cxper.ence had any lm pri per motive c mt rolled the man? agi ment of an appropriation bill. The prevision of the bill that no part of any appropriation made for the judi ciil ex'peLses of the United States i-h .11 be paid to any civil officer who ha 4 neglected to make his emolument ie urn in such manner as the Attor; 1 0 , General shall direct was stricken out oil a point of order. An amend ment was adopted appropriating 100,0 ) ) for tb! payment of judg ments and awards against the United States on account of damages caused by reason of the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. Without further amendment or committee reference the bill was passed and the House at 4.30 adjourned. ROBBED BY EIGHT ARMED MEN. THE EXPRESS CAP ON Ar MEXICAN CENTKAI TEAIN - SOBODY 1ICRT OTHEB TELEORil'UIC "SEWS. El Pao, r Texas, Sjun. 11 Eight armed men stopped the Mexican Cen tral passenger train last evening 300 miles south of El Paso Rnd robbed the express car. Nobody was hurt. The passengers were not molested. A Srrioni Fire. Chicago, Jan. llAfter the fire men thought the lire at the corner of luauiBuu street ana. tne river was under control this mOrning, a section of the roof caved in and crashed through all the fljojrs: The flames shot downward: and in au instant tbe entire stocks On the first floor were all ablazo. This floor, with its valua ble stocks of silks and cost ly merchandise, ;was gutted, involving a I further loss of upward of $70,000. The firms burnt out of the first iioor were J. H. Grif fith Co., importers of tailors' trim mings; the Nonatume'Worpted Com pany; Nonotuck Silk! Company and the Corticell Spool: Silk Company. An assistant fire marshal places tbe Iofs cn the building and contents at nearly 175,009. The fire is now under control, Tbe total loss by the fire will reach $200,000.The night was intensely cold. The firemen were greatly hampered by heavy coatings of iCe which reu dered their movements slow and it seemed almost hours before they fairly began to work. : A high wind prevailing prevented solid streams of water from reaching above the second floor, and this had considerable to do with the spread of the flames upon the upper floors. After two hours' hard fight, however, the flames were con sidered under control. Several of the firemen were completely over come by the dreadful exposure and were carried into the Gait House to be thawed out. Their garments were covered with ice. several inches thick and were so thick and clumsy as to render movement well nigb impos sible. Trouble Between Labor Organization CincAoo, Jan. 11. The trouble be tween the house-painters and hard wood finishers, which Mr. Barry of the executive board of the K. of L. was sent to Chicago to investigate, is assuming such an acute form that a 6trike is not improbable. The strike would be by one; labor organization against another, the painters wishing to drive the hard wood finishers out of business. The question of nation ality also enters into the fight, inas much aa most of the furniture workers, including the hartlwooi finishers, are Germans or Scandinavians, while the others are Irislu Tbe painters want to do all the hardwood; finishing on buildings aud to confina the members of the hard wood finishers' assembly to furniture work in factories which the painters ore not skilled enough to do. The Louisiana Democrats. Baton. Rouge, La., Jan. 11. The Democratic State Convention met this afternoon ; but tbe credentials committee not being able to report tbe convention took a recess to six o'clock. It met" again at f:20. The chairman stated that the credentials committee could hot report tonight, and the convention adjourned until 10 tomorrow morning. IBBLBT. Thre Daring attempts ail Burglary. Cjr. of the News and ObserTer; Shelby, N. C, Jan. 10. Three daring attemta at burglary were made here last night, only one of which proved successful. About half past eight the residence of Mr. H. B. Quinn, deputy collector of this district was entered, but the burglar was frightened away before he se cured any thing. ' In the yard his tracks could be Been. He had on a new pair of rubber shoes, and wore a number eight shoe. ' About half past eleven the Central Hotel was entered, and the thief, tak ing the lamp from the ball, went di rectly to the porter's room on the third floor. The porter bad that day received, a sum of money and it is supposed the burglar knew thiB. The porter awoke just as the thief had taken bold of bis pants. The thief dropped the l$mp and ran down stairs, escaping in the darkness. All of tbe guests were asleep at the time. Later in the night the sleeping apartment of Capt. John W. Clarke, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, was entered and : about $25 were stolen from the pocket of his pants. Capt. Clarke's watch, which was on the same chair with his test, was not taken. Capt. Clarke's room is on the first floor, jast in the rear o the par lor. The front; door was opened, as is always the Case, and so was the door to the room The author ities have a clue to the burglar and he will probably ba arrested this evening. It is thought that the same man committed alii three) of th3 bur glaries. ; Rev. K. D. Mallory, late principal of the Shelby Female College, left to day for Griffin, Ga", where he will re side in the future. - Mr. Mallory Las many warm friends here 'who greatly regret hia, departure. The annex to the Belmont Cotton Mill has been finished and next week ,000 new spindles will be at woik Mai. a. r. jscnencK, ot the new Cleveland mills, and Mr. E. A. Mor gan, of the Shelby Cotton factory, are now in the north purchasing ma chinery for their respective factories. Messrs. Wilkinson & Fore, the new j proprietors of the Clovelaud Springs, i have paid tbe first installment of the purchase mowry. . lney will come here the last of this week and will at once begin to mak the necessary im provements. ' The Henrietta Mills, in Rutherford county, are computed and nearly all of tbe machinery is in: place. The proprietors expect to commence work about Uftch L T1IR FARMERS in Tlirlr State Convention. Fp'-'fial to The News and Observer. j Gkeessboro. N. C, Jan. 11. Tbe Farmers' State Convention as 1 sembled here today. The first eea j siou was held this morning in Benbow i Hall. A large number of delegates j are already present and numerous : others are expected to arrive. Tbe convention was called to order 1 this morniDg by President Carr. An f address of welcome was delivered I Hon. Frank Caldwell and was by re 1 sponded to by Col. L. L. Polk. A temporary organization was et fected and the election of permanent officers was postponed till tomorrow, when a fuller attendance is expected. The various committees were ap- pointed, anc the delegates enrolled, after which the convention adjourned till 2 30 p. au At the afternoon session an inter esting discussion waa held on the subject of the Agricultural and Me chanical College being established at Raleigh. Interesting talks were made by Messrs. Primrose, of Raleigb, and Barringer, of Charlotte. A resolu tion was unanimously passed favor ing the establishment of the college; als ) a resolution favoring a modifica tion of the North Carolina homestead and exemption laws and opposing foreign immigration. Much interest is being manifested in the convention and a profitable session is expected. A grand concert will be given to night complimentary to the conven tion and Hon. Kemp P. Battle will deliver an address. Spirit of the Ntate Praia. Judge Clark, some of our contem poraries seem to think, has the inside track, at this writing, for the Demo cra'ic gubernatiorial nomination; but Lieut. Gov. Stedman is still on his legs and has a record for long dis tance running. If our own Gilmer should enter the race some chain lightning would have to be used by the nag that boat him Greensboro J' at riot. ' It seems after all that the calico- sex is to be given some privileges in tho University. We learn that Bhe will be permitted to t ake the teacher's course, at least, if the question of admitting her to the full course were under discussion, and if it didn't savor too much of slang, we should be tempted to say, "Lst 'er go Galla gher . H inston .Sentinel. We had the pleasure of the com pany 01 Judge Walter Clark from Goldsboro as far as Ivinston during Christmas week. Judge Clark is a clever, sociable gentleman and an up right, conscientious judge, and is, we thmk, the most available man . we have to run as tho Democratic candi date for Governor. Ha has been and is being prominently spoken of for that place. We would take especial pleasure in supporting a State ticket with his name for Governor. Ain- eton Jree fresa. We democrats have much hard work to do in North Carolina this year, and it is high time we were up and doing. There is more danger of losing North Carolina than New York and Indiana. The North is becoming more democratic while some of the Southern States are becoming , "squeamish" or doubtful boro Jlecorder. We do not pretend to say which of the judges has the better of the ar gument in a legal point of view, but we do say that the intention of tbe local option law was to embrace wine and beer, and that we are heartily glad that the Supreme Court has bo established tbe law. We say further that it would hafe been but dignified and proper for Judge J. H. to have remained silent after the decision. 1'ittsboro Home. A North Carolina Thief Arrested. Norfolk Landmark. Chief of Police Rolland received a telegram from Williamston, N. C, on Sunday, asking him to arrest a Ger man named Rudolph Haverstalk, who had taken passage from Washington, iS. (J. on the Clyde Line steamer Eaola. Oflicer Wilbern was detailed on the case and on the arrival of the steamer Sunday evening found the man secreted in the hold of the ves sel. After his arrest Haverstalk ac knowledged having robbed his employ er, named D. Taylor, the person who sent the telegram mentioned above, and when searched at the station house $417.10 was found on him. A telegram was received saying that a requisition for the prisoner would ar rive with a guard to day. A Murder In Iradeli County. Cliarlolte Chronicle. During the holidays a party of three men went to the house of a widow lady named Mrs. Sarah Bar ker, in Union Grove, Iredell county, and bombarded the residence with rocks... They then fired into the house and left. One of the shots struck the. widow's son, Abe, in the bowels, pro ducing a wound from which death resulted a few days later. The coroner held an inquest last Sunday morning over the young man's body, but the evidence was not sufficient to justify the arrest of any particular individual. Mrs. Barker is a widow lady about 75 years of age, and lived in a small house with her only surviving child ren, a son and daughter, and the family was sustained by the industry of the,son. He was an honest, hard working fellow, and was about 30 years of age. What prompted the outrage is not known. The widow bears a good reputation and, though she was poor, nothing was ever heard against tbe good name of her family A Bleased Tear. Miss Ethel : "And sd really engagt-d to Mr. you are SampsoD, Clara t" Miss Clara (blushinerK ): "Yes it all happened biht t-vtiiiug, Fibel." Miss Ethel : "What a blessing bap yer.r is, dear." - - - . Senator Beck Ke-elcetecl. LocsiviLLE, Ky., Jan. 11. At noon today the two houses of tbe legisla ture of Kentucky in joint session elected Senator Beck for the third I successive term to the United States I Benat. EARTHQUAKE IN THE CANADIAN CAPITAL. CROCKERY FMASnFP LUT NO OT11IB PtMUiE DONE-tTHKR NtWS l;y wini. Ottawa, Jan. of earthquake 11. A sharp shock; was felt' throughout! tbia city anJ surrounding sections shortly before 5 o'clock this morning. Tbe vibration was quite marked and sremed tn be traveling from tbe west. The thock lasted between five and ten, seconds. Crockery was smashed in; I many places. j was reported but no other damage THK SEASON I FLORIDA. The First estibtile Train on the A. C. L Jacksonville. Fla. Jan. 11. The first vestibule Pullman ears arrived from New York last evening on time with about ninety passengers, many of whom proceeded to St. Augustine Tuid were received at the Ponce de, Leon Hotel. All were delight ed with tho spring-like weather here, having passed snow storms as far south as Richmond- The open ing of the hotel to the public has been postponed till tomorrow, on yvhich day tbe sub-tropical exposi tion here will also open. General Ayers, commandant of tbe 23st at St. Augustine, has been quite ill several days. The Loulwtann Democrat New Orleans, Jan. 10. A special to tbe J'iediuK from Baton Roue says: The committee on credentials of the Democratic State nominating Convention is working smoothly and is following pretty nearly the con servative course marked out by the conference committee yesterday morning. The report o.n credentials may be ready. this afternoon. There is now more discussion concerning the other places on the State ticket than there is about tbe head of it, tbe opposition to General Nichoh conced ing that he cannot be defeated. Tne True Secret. How is it about advertising? Haven't the critics got us here Don't we spread ourselves a little too vain gloriously on paper and elsewhere,, and have we not ways of our own which we would not feel free to com mend to others, and which on gener al principles we can hardly commend to ourselves I ask these questions in all honesty, because I want to know. I am myself an advertiser, and I be lieve in advertising, and being a busi ness man as well, I desire, to put my money where it will do the most good. There is one main purpose in adver tising and that is to bring business, but I do not think that any kind of advertising which may bring business is legitimate or even commendable on that account alone. Oae pf the chief advertisers of our specialty either originated or adopted an aphorism which covered his practices and brought him large returns. This is it; "The true secret of advertising is to excita and not satisfy." S. S. Packard before tbe Convention of Business Educators, at Milwaukee, Wis. The Qnall-eatlng flumbmjr. From t;e New Orleans Times-Democrat. A leading New Y'ork physician, well known not only as an able surgeon, but an advanced scient'st, ridicules the idea that it is at all difficult for any one to eat a single or more quail for any given number of days. He says that game of any kind may be eaten as a steady diet just as well as can beef or pork. He cites the fact that sailors eat salt pork a pound a day for a thou sand days and what, he adds, ia worse than sailors' pork? During his active connection with the army in tbe West, many years ago, he ate prairie chicken every day for months, and was glad to get it, and subse quently ate sage hens for a longtime, and did not get sick or become nau seated. He concludes by saying that the mental disturbance caused by the fear of not being able to eat a quail a' day for a given time, on a wager, is all that there is in tbe prevaibng idea in not being able to do it. ! The Deficiency Bill. The deficiency appropriation bill in tbe House of Representatives is one made necessary by the failure of the deficiency bill of last year, mak ing appropriations for deficiencies for 1887 and prior years. The bill appro priates in all the sum of $2,951,303, while the last bill, as agreed upon in conference, carried a total appropria tion of $4,275,023. Among the prin cipal items omitted is one for about a half million dollars on account of postal deficieneiee, and another of $260,000 for the navy that was not included in the revised estimate. One of the largest items of appropriation is $500,000 for repayment to importers of excessive dei osits in customs suits, and another of $101,114 for army transportation. Secretary Lamir has replied to the resolution of tbe Helena (Mont.) Board of Trade concerning ; the min eral lands taken up ly theorthern Pacific, that no patents of; lands re ferred to are. being issued, and the question as to the necessity of non mineral affidavits by the railroad com pany is pending before the depart ment, and no action will be taken until that question is decided, and no patent will be issued within sixty days. Dlaeuaalnic the Dessett, Mr. Waldo (at a dinner party :) "May I pass you the cheese. Miss Brec zv V Miss Breezy (duntily.) "Ihanks, a small bunk, pl-hbt-."' Two Cbiuamen Dan Lee and Phil W ng were formally baptized and admitted to the c .uich on proba tion at tl e Hun8( nil ice- i ethodiat Episcopal cuu.c!:, a Brooklyn, Sua day. No sufferer from any tcrofulous dis eases, who will fairly try Ayer's Sarsa parilla, need despair of a cure. This remedy punree the blood of alL impuri- I rim. Hmtrnva tli carma of icmf ula. and i infuses new life and ?bjor throughout I the physical organtiatioa. eiBiiKvty. .Tie "My davlig, I really b9lieve ny, rheumatism, has wholly disappear ei. She '-O, I am sorry Now we srjall never know when tho weather is;goihg Jo change."-- !'., fu-JO; Bride "Ob, mamma f I've been cruelly betrayed, aud I "wish I were deal." Mother "What's " wrong, Laura?'' Bride --Augustus has de coived nie; he's lr-cn married before. ' Mother -How do yon know '" Bride ' Why, be, bjo h .0 ho knpw that my bilstlo wiHm't a b iso 1 ill mask. ; m i'vst. ; 'First Bread or Blood'-' Patriot "We'll be late to .no starvation mass meeting if we don't hurry." Second firead-or Blood Patriot J-Cau't help it;yl must stop at a drug store. I've run out of medicine.' First Brea.l-or-Blood Patriot "What sort of .nodicino are you taking.?"' Second rJriead or Blood Pa'.riot-"Anti-fat." 1'Hck. VI," said the II id Cold, supercili ously, "am tbe oldest being living. I baye been with meu ever'.since they invaded these regions aad will stay' with them to the end.'",; A gaunt, i'ofery tpectio rose and said: "My child, why so boastful ? You are an tnfUut a r compare d to nie." "'Vbo are you?" "I am tke Jok about tire Boarding House Bat u r."'--XebrasAa j After Cotton Claim. : Seeator Ransom has introduced a bill ; to refund to tho State of North Caro- iina the! net proceeds Of the cotton seized by Treasury ngcuts in various , places in 1SG5 Gi. The total amount, ' seized says the Washington corres pondent of tho Messenger is $4"2, 532;58, besides ore hundred bales Beisied at Charlotte, tho , Amount of whi.ch is not specified. i; To reach the highest standard of health nature demands thu utmost regularity of the bowels, a blight deviation brings many inconvt niences and paves the way to more serious dangers. V ,can recom mend Laxador as the best medicine for the needs of the digestive apparatus. Trie merits pi. Dr. Bull's fiaby Syrup are acknowledged' by all who have ever used; it for the diseases of infancy. Price only, 25 cents a bottle. i-Belva Lockwood thinks if Blaine and'Cleveland are to be renominated so ought; she. The equal rights partv. whieh nominated her in 1884, has merged into tbe industrial reform party-, which will meet in New York, on Washington's birthday. ; The Verdict Vnanlmona. W, D. Suit, Druggist, Bifvpus, Ind., testifies: "I con recommend Electric Bittrs as the very best remedy. Every bottl sold has given relief in every case. One man took six bottles, and was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years' standing."' Abraham Hare, druggist, Beilyille, Ohio, alrirms: "The best-selling medicine I have ever handled in mv 20 yearb' experience is Elctrio Bitters.'' ThousandBof others haveadded their testimony, iio that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Haters do ciijre all diseases of the Liver, KidneyB or Blod. Only a half dollar bottle at Lee, Johnson & Co 's drug-store. Mrs. Annie Weber, of Louisville, was found frozen to death Smiday sitting on a stump at the north gate of National Park. , j i ADVICE TO MOTHERS; Mrs. rWtnslow's Soothing Syrup should lalways be urted wlieu children are cutting trth. It re lieves fhe little sufferer at once, it produces natu ral, quiM sleep by relieving the chililreb from pain, and u UtUe cherub awakes as "bright as a but- Ills very pleasant, to laxtevrsootnes tun bftens tne gums, allays all pal", relieves- wind, if KUiates tne bowers auu is tne est Known iemeJyuor diarrhoea, whether ru tag from teeth UK or otber causes. i'w-uty-ttve ?uta a bottle. l CORNED BEEF. 'i Extra choice briskets, corned to or der about ten days in satt and in' fine - condition. Baltimore 'sausages twice -a week. E. J. Habdln. Fot Sale. A pair of tin Mules. Apply to Jno. Robinson, Gom'r of Agriculture. Raleigh, N. C. - Ol4 newspapers and a lot of Leavy stiff paper for sals at the Nrws atd Observer office asisa . The American sporting ; men re turning to New York from the Kil-rain-Sjniith fight had a Blight unpleas antness on board the steamer in Queeastoyvn harbor. i!!LSr PERFECT M? Its ssperiorexcellence proverJr in mil lions of hojuoe for more than a. quarter of a cerltury. It is used by the" United States Government. Endorsed'; by the heads df the tireat Universities as the the 8trpngt4w, Purest and moat Health ful. Dp. Price's tho only Baking; Powder that does not contain Ammonia; Lime oi Alum. ' Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWLEIi CO. NSW YORK. CBIOAOO. My LOT Si Orders for Picture Frames,-Br:c-a Brack,: Art Novahies, Artist Materials, w indow-shaaes, " nil raper, "joroi3e Pole, jfco., have prpmptattntion. MJ. At VAT( Esf- - s i - . . 1 :4 f'H

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