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J N EiVS 1 AND B SERVER XXV. RALElda. N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1SSS. NO. 19. O 3 : ill K.v.ne?v V ,pt 1 01VDER- Absolutely Pure. TMie powder never vanes. A .marvel ! pii iiy strength and wholoscnienesa M.iife ttcoUoniica3,tbAu ordinary kinds and sa$ot be sold in competition with -the ; m Ujtitudo of low t3st, short weight, il lip or phosphate powders, sold only in , Hotal Bakixo Powder Co., 10 Wafi 8t.r6fet, New York, .sild by"vV. C. & A P. Stronach, and . J . Ferrall Co. DARBY'S pi?HVLdriO FLUID i It neer fals to re UASli lieve pain of Burns scams, Bruises o wounds of miv kind. !('Cit)ENTS or Prevents Inflamma tion ami stirp'ir:Uion and r;ipt"ly hea'.s n M'iir. i x - - NeVtr Auiimr Where the Flnla.is ma, i r1 I CLEANSES AND HEALS Obstinate Ulcers, lkrils, Carbuncles, KryslpelasHiul running Sores of every j kind. Jt destroys the disagreeable ; efllviV arising from Cancers, Ab- ; scenes. Ulcers and every kind of : . purulent discharge. Iiave used Darby's Prophylactic Fluid In nos- pitaland private practice for ten years and know ' of nothing better for sloughing, contused and ; laregateu woands. foul and Indolent ulcers And i as aUs!iifeetaiit.'v-J. V- Ububth, Prof. Mobile ; MeitclCoUge. i TORE AT ARGAINS f OOlilCOTT & SOFS, 14 East Martin Street. J? jfcents a y 2,000 yds Shirting Prints. nts a yd,2,000 yds Percales for shirts ai wa-bts. worth 15c cents a pair. boys 400. Gloves, cheap at cents a pair, 800 pairs mens1 all wool Glove! cheap at 45c. cents, $00 lalies' Jerseys A'f ull assortment of ' LIMES' AND MISSES' RUBBERS. 's ! fr fcents. a piir, 1,006 p&im ladies' Hose. : 0-1 ? U - ' 1 eeati a yd, 8.000 yds checked Muslin, H. A GREAT BARGAIN. We Slake Pants ; FROM $1.50 A. PAIR, and guarantee a fit. I Apw lie of White Goods, EMBROIDERIES AND EDGINGS ! A new lot of SCRAP BOOKS at half price. fSOMKlHISW ABOUT SOAP. ,Ve have the largest and be&t cakes of SOAP FOR SC Ivor bought. It weighs i lb and will g uiuUe yoHi r skin soft and keep it from chapping. Til A AIE. 4 - lera lor Picture Frames. Bric-a ,ck. Art No 'allies, Aitit Uatenaiti, L all rnper, tJomise t attentioi a I I , eavlj.g i i I LET fKWl OBgr RVATIOXS A dispatch from Gaboon says that M, de Brazza is returning to France.! -Haytian finances are in a bad way and there are distant hints of a possible revolution. Tho New York Cotton Exchange has rejected a proposal to change the workings of the certificate system. There is a quarrel over the dis tribution of the funds raised for the families of the executed anarchists. Wilkins, the alleged bigamist, of Cleveland, Ohio, is now charged with eight wives, and further returns are looked for. Sam Jones tells the women of Kansas City that lots of wives drive thsir dyspeptic husbands to drink by making ; indigestible biscuits. Who says he don't talk well ? The suit for $10,000 damages brought by J. J. McGarry, in St. Louis, against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, for malicious prosecution growing out of the rail road strike in 1886, has resulted in a verdict of $1,500 for the plaintiff. --J. 3- Clarkaon, of Iowa, member of the Republican national commit tee, and chairman of the sub-committee having in charge the preparation of the preliminaries of the national contention, has called a meeting of tbe latter committee in Chicago, Feb ruary 9th. A wonderful feat in telegraphy between London and Vancouver, B. C, is reported in which a conversa tion was maintained between those points, via the Commercial Cable, a distance of over seven thousand miles, with no more than two minutes delay in transmission. The project of draining the Zuider Sea; Holland, which was conceived some time ago, is in fair progress to a satisfactory commencement, 83 far at least as the preliminary works are concerned- If the undertaking be successfully realized, the number of Dutch provinces will be increased from eleven to twelve. M. & E. Solomon, tobacco deal ers at 85 Maiden Lane, New York, havfi made anassignment,with prefer ences aggregating $61,392. Dull trade and slow collections are given as the principal causes, of the failure. The liabilities are estimated at $350,000, of which about $250,000 is for mer chandise. The assets are about $250, 000. Tbe firm was established in 1852, and always stood high in com mercial rating. Some time since we gave an ac count of the establishment of a novel oyster industry on the Maryland coast. The industry consists in the shipment of oysters in the shell by means of fastening the shells tightly together by means of a patent wire clamp. Oysters so prepared for ship ment are known in the trade as "muz zled oysters." The new business, says the Baltimore Sun, is revolu tionizing the oyster trade, as dealers can now be supplied at a distance with fresh oysters in May which can be carried over until August, if neces sary. The difference between send ing .oysters as ordinary freight and by express, as heretofore, is a large item in itself. A dealer in Kansas City has just secured tbe agency for "muzzled oysters" for the West and Northwest. Although the Abyssinians, who are now gathered in great numbers to resist the advance of the Italian troops, are not all armed, as the New York World asserts in a long and pretentious article, with repeating rifles, about 25,000 of them are pos sessed of breech-loaders. The Inde pende nee -Beige explains the manner in which they obtained these rifles. At the battle of G wora-Gudri, Raa Alula captured 13,000 Remingtons from the Egyptians, and at Godea, 2,500; deserters from Kassola and other Egyptian troops provided him with 3,000 more, and he has pur chased 4,500 from traders. Thus 23, 000 of the rifles in the hands of the Abyssinians are Remingtons. They have also about 1,500 Yetterli rifles, captured from the Italians and 500 Martini carbines. Total 25,000. The number of Italian troops at Mas sowah is said to be 25,000. Sooud Views from Warne. of the News and Observer. Cor, t Fbjemost, N. C, Jan. 26, 1888. We are all with Senator Vance in his recent speech. That is a grand text of his, "Shall money be collected from the people for public purposes or for private ? Shall taxation be enforced for the support of the Gov ernment or for the enrichment of in dividuals r We of this section are making large preparations for a tobacco crop and hope the Raleigh exchange will Bend us some good seed in a few days. The coming campaign will be a hot one, and all who love good, honest government should begin to organize and go to work and keep at it till after the election, in order that Dem ocratic principles may be triumphant again and Democrats be elected. Piter. HURRAH FOR OJTSL.OW. BAILBOaD SUBSCRIPTION CARRIED. New Cerne Journal. Rev. A. J. Marshall arrived from Jacksonville last evening and brings the gratifying news that "Subscrip tion' has been carried in Onslow county by about one hundred and fifty majority of the entire registered vote. 1 The vote.was for a subscrip tion of sixty thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Wilmine ton, Ons low and East Carolina Railroad, one half.to be appropriated to building a road in the direction of New Berne from some point oa New .River and one Lalf to building in the direction I of Wilmington. If Wilmington and New' Berne will now come to the rescue the road between the two citieB will ba assured; the new coast line-; will be a certain ty and New Berne will move forward with other towns. Since writing the above a telegram from It. W. Ward Esq., at -Burgaw states that out pf 1,648 registered votes 935 were cast for subscription, 110 tactfe than newisary to Cirry It. ; CONGRESS. PROCEEDINGS YiTERDAY INT THE HOUSE. 4 BILL FOR PROTECTION' OF FORESTS 05 PUB LIC LANDS BEADINO STRIKE IN QUIRT REFERRED TO INI EU STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Washington, January 27. IIoise- Mr. White, of New York, intro duced a bill for the protection and administration of forests ou public lands. Referred. (It withdraws from survey, sa'.o, entry and disposal the unsurveved public laiidsembracing natural for ests, and all public lauds returned by public surveys as timber lands, and provides for the appointment of a commissioner of forests at a salary of $5,000 a year, and four assistrut commissioners, who shall have con trol of all forest lands owned by the United States. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of forests to classify tbe forest and timber lands, and to determine what portion of those lands shall be permanently re tained in reservation for climatic and other economic or public reasons, and what portion may be disposed of. The lands which are mce valuable for agricultural than timber purposes shall be restored to homestead entry and sale. Cutting, removal or de siruction of any timber on forest lands owned by the United States is made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, but the right is reserved to agriculturists and miners to take the wood for domestic purposes.) On motion of Mr. Burnes, of Mis souri, the Senate amendments to the Little deficiency bill were concurred in. The House then proceeded to con sider private business. The commerce committee has de cided to report back Mr. Anderson's resolution providing for the Con gressional inquiry into the Reading strike with a recommendation that the whole subject be referred to the interstate commerce commission. In committee of the whole the question was raised upon the bill for the relief of Martha Rumbagh that it ws not properly upon the calendar. This is one of the class of bills re ported by the Court of Claims to the Forty-Ninth Congress and brought forward under the provisions of the Bowman act. A long niscussion ensued and the matter was finally referred to the House for determination. f he Speaker pro tern ruled that while the bill was properly upon the calendar, having been placed there by order of the Speaker, sustained by the House, not having been intro duced in the Fiftieth Congress and not having received the consideration of any committee it could not be acted upon favorably by the committee of the whole. -The bill was then referred to the committee on war claims, and the House then at 4 o'clock adjourned until Monday. . An Important Vllt. Washlsotos, D. C, Jan. '2.1. A party of naval officers including En gineer in Chief Melville, hief naval constructer Wilson and chief engin eer DeValin, left Washington this af ternoon for Richmond, Ya , to exam ine the Richmond locomotive and ma chine works in order to ascertain their facilities for building machinery for the use of the navy, particularly thr machinery and boiler for the armed battle ship Texas, building at Nor folk. Senator Butler of South Car olina and Representative Wise of Vir ginia accompanied the parly. The vis it was made upon the invitation of Gov. Lee. Total Net Receipts of Cotton. New York, Jan. 27. The following are the total net receipts of cotton at all ports since September' 1st.: Galveston, 594,114 bales; New York, 45,100 bales; New Orleans, 1,371,222 bales; Boston, 55,868 bales; Mobile, 183,035 bales; Newport News, 78,994 bales; Savannah, 771,288 bales; Phila delphia, 19,381 bales; Charleston, 371,771 bales; West Point, 328,715 bales; Wilmington, 159,4G5 bales; Brunswick, 53,645 bales; Norfolk, 400,640 balesjPort Royal,10,292 bales; Baltimore, 23,785 bales; Peusacola, 16,588 baleB. Total, 4,483,993 baleB. The Catholic Inlrcnllj. Washington, D. C, Jan. 27. Yes terday Bishop Keane, of Richmond, rector of the Catholic University, and Mr. Baldwin, of Baltimore, architect, had a conference with Wm. Forsyth, surveyor of the District.with reference to the location of the university buildings on the Middleton property, near Brooks' station on the B. & O. railroad, about a mile and a half be yond the city limits. The result was that Forsyth was directed to proceed with the levels and grades and fixing the lines for' the foundations, and to have them ready for the commence ment of the excavation for the founda tion in March- This action, it is said, settles the question of the location of the university. Found Dead. Alexandria, Va., Jan. 27. Frod Schultz, an old German citizen, who lived alone about a mile from this city, was found dead near his house this morning by two neighbors. Tho neighbors were attracted by the bark ing of dogs, and ' upon going to the spot found the old man lying on the snow dead with the dogs by his side. It is supposed that he died of heart disease. He lived in the house alone, but has a wife and children living in Washington. m Ire Blockade Uroktn. Baltimobf, Jan. '27. Ice boats t terday broke up ice In tho Patapsco river, and high northwest wind of lat night and today drove it all out into the ChPspeuke bay, leaving navi gation unobstructed. The tempera ture is btiu low, out ice cannot iorm wnue me Qign wina prevails, a large in this port bj tC9 wflfd todap From Washington. jr. of the News and Observer. Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Tho tariff bill which the ways and hieans cr mmittee will present to the JJouse is practically completed. The liree points of diflerence nave Deen he sugar, tobacco and wool tax. Mr. iandall has stubbornly opposed free wool and free Bugar and it has been agreed that there shall be 20 per fent reduction on those articles. het her the tobacco tax shall be re pealed or reduced is left an open iiuestiou uj yet, but the changes, said nieruocr oi tue ways ana meaun fornmittce, favor the ;total repeal. I'be fruit brandy tax is Reduced to 10 fonts. -Lumber, salt, aiid such raw fnaterial." are put on the free list. The Democratic side of tho house has been carefully canvassed, abd no doubt entert: incil about tbe passage of f.io bill in reported by the commi'tee. J"emocra: s are feeling a little jubi int. The policy of he Republicans is "masterly inactivity,'? and they do pot stem to be at alii pleased with I'.ienjselvcs or with their position. The President has had frequent confer ences with members of Congress and te has been urgent for speedy and iarmonious action. The bill may be I'-ported next week. As soon as it is triuted it will be ready for discussion ind consideration- THE HENDERSON BILL. A substitute for the bill introduced w -r -r 1 . it 1 I py 3ir. idoiiderson in tne eariy pan M the session to amend the in ternal revenue laws, wis reported to the Hoiioe jesterday. The substitute ts stronger than the ! original bill. One or two sections are substituted, giving is more 'scope and strength. Jn Mr. Henderson's opinion it will 4ieet all the requirements. He does fot anticipate any great opposition o it from any source. It will be Called up for consideration as soon as ke judiciary committee is called, af ter the bill is printed. ! John Sherman's band. A stra v or two has got adrift indi cating tbat John Sherman is not alto gether hopeless or in despair about the nomination. Congress may elim inate the tariff issue from the cam paign, and in that event Sherman is pelieved to be a stronger candidate fhan Blaine. At any rate the wily bherman is looking after his "fences ' just now. ; j CAMPAIGN LITEBATCBE. j Over 200,000 copies of Sherman's Speech in reply to the President's inessage have been printed for circu lation, and more than a half million Copies of the message have already peen sent out. Over 100,000 copies Were sent to one of the northwestern States alone. Fifty thousand copies of Hale's speech, showing that there had been over forty thousand re in ova's from office under this adminis tration, are being circulated among the mugwumps. This speech has been a source of gratification to Democrats. Jt was not believed by them that so many "rascals" had been turned loose to earn an honest living. It has Lad the effect of stopping some grumbling in that direction. Mr. Hale made the following tabular state ment which was correct ap to the date pf its puohcation, J une 11th, 1887 : 3 rs 12 a w ' 1 Offices. Presidential Postmas-' ters (estimated) 2,000 2,359 Fourth class PostmasJ I ters (estimated)... .. .40,000 52,609 Foreign ministers ....... ((Secretaries of legation. Consuls ! Collectors of customs. . ; purveyors of customs. .; iNaval officers of cus- j torns...- U . n i . . 32 33 1G 21 138 219 100 111 33 33 6 C 34 36 11 13 9 9 84 . 85 8 11 65 70 64 70 22 30 0 9 16 18 16 16 190 224 9 10 51 59 79 83 Appraisers, &u graues. Hup'ntendents of mints and assayers AsnistaLt treasurers at sub-treasuries ; Collectors of internal revenue ': JnBpector. of steam ves sels pislrict attorneys ; Marshal 'rerritoi ial judges : Territorial governors . . .: Pension agents -purveyors general : jlndian inspectors and I special agents jlndian agents . . . Hpccial agents, General j Land Office Total. .42,992 56,134 NOTES. Senalor Ransom has heard from his $500,000 speech in the Senate today. The coiainerce committee authorized ;hirn to report favorably his bill to build a $500,000 lighthouse at Cape Hatteras ; J udga Hoge, tho new District At torney here, married a Warrenton lady, Miss Somerville. Mr. Philip Fore, of Cleveland county, and bride, Miss Christian, of Richmond, are at Willard's, en route North. Mr. Fore is one of the own ers of the Cleveland Springs. The committee on publio buildings and grounds has given Congressman Johnston $100,000 for a public build ,ing at Asheville. The committee made a hard fight today for the spe cial consideration of its bills. 11. Scrlbner's Maqailne for Febrnary 188. Cod tents: Felix Mendelssohn-Bar tholdv. frontisoice ; Mendelssohn's jLetters to Moscneles, from the manu scripts in the possession of Felix Moscht les, I. Bv William F. Apthorp, iwith portraits and reproductions of drawings by Mendelssohn; Ballade of the King's Way, by Andrew Hussey ! Allen; First Harvest, chapters 4 6; Lplitni" ion, by Mrs. James T. Fields; ;T: Men at. Arms, IL (concluded); L v'j h Ways, by Henrietta Christian Wright; N.i'ural Selection, a romance ;of Cue! sea Vdl ge and East Hampton iTowa. II, with illustrations; The 't j it.. ti i -1 i t u r uw auu tue Dai o vy uubeuux. m.shon: Volcanoes, bv N. 8 Staler, of the with U- with iiiU8tiations: The Last Wendell, j tatMtion. 5 THE STORM IN THE NORTHERN AND NORTH EASTERN STATES. THE WORST ESOWN FOR MANY YEARS TBAIS8 BLOCKADED, C. OTHER NEWS BY VflRE. Tboy, N. Y., Jan. 27. The effects of the storm are felt this morniDg with even greater severity than yes terday. The Boston train put of here at 10 o'clock last night ran into the rear end of a freight train a mile west of Williamstown, Mass., at 12.30 o'clock this morning and Conductor P. Cudmore Of the freight was killed. He was in the caboose with three of his brakemen, who were all seriously injured. Brakeman George Wheeler was also killed. A through train from Montreal on the CeDtral Ver mont is fast in the snow-drift at Bur lington. Ithaca, N. Y., Jan. 27. Owing to the snow.all the trains on the Elmira, Corning & Northern at this point are abandoned. The passenger train on this road, due here at 3 27 yester day afternoon, was stuck all night in a snow-bank and did not arrive until 7. 30 th;s morning. The Jennie Yea mans troupe, bound from Utica to Ithaca, were among the passengers. Plymouth, ;N. H, Jan. 27. The weather here is the worst known for many years. Eighteen inches of snow fell during the past twenty-four hours and the thermometer is six de grees below zera with the wind blowing a hurricane. Seven trains are blockaded between Warren, Sum mit and Ashland, and some are with out fuel and water, and .it is impos sible to communicate with any of them. No mails have been received here since Wednesday. Binghampton, N. Y., Jan. 27. All the trains on the Erie road are ' laid out at points east and west of this city. Only one train has arrived from New York in thirty hours and there is small chance of another getting through before tonight. The snow has drifted badly in all directions and the trains are either abandoned or are running "wild". Three D. & L. trains were snowed up at Poco Moun tain, Pa., all night, bnt managed to move at seven o'clock this morning. Trains from the west on this road are also moving very slowly. No trains have arrived from Albany on the D. & L. road since noon yesterday and the blockade is complete. Easton, Pa., Jan. 27. The snow drifted all night and caused a block ade of trains on the Jersey Cen tral railroad six miles long west of Hampton. The trains are now moving. Snow drifts are numerous on all the roads centering here and trains are one to Wo hours late. All the trains on the Bangor & Portland and Lehigh & Lackawanna railroads have been annulled owing to the many deep drifts. Heavy Snow Storm. Biddeford, Me., Jan. 27. The snow blockade is unequalled since 1866. From four o'clock yesterday morning till nine last night no train passed through here. At nine o'clock Jast night seven passenger trains and one freight were blockaded within a mile of this city. On the Western divis ion where the snow is drifted worse but little headway is being made, and the wrecking train did not finish its work at Old Orchard until nine o'clock last night, having spent seven hours in getting the engine and snow-plow on the track. The passen gers of all delayed trains were pro vided with provisions by the railroad company and at Old Orchard they were taken to the hotels where many lady passengers are detained. At midnight it was still snowing. Report of the House Committee on Elec tions. Washington, Jan. 27. The House committee oh elections today dis posed of the Indiana contested elec tion case by ordering a report to the House declaring the seat vacant, on the ground that White (sitting member) is ineligible, while Lowry, contestant, did not have a majority of the votes cast The adoption of tbe re port by the House would necessitate another election in the sixth Indiana district. On the motion to declare Mr. Lowry entitled to the seat every mem ber of the committee except Mr. Houk of Tennessee, who was absent, voted in the negative. The succeeding mo tion to declare that Mr. White is not entitled to the seat was supported by all of the Democrats, while Juessrs. Rowell, Cooper, Lyman, Johnson (of Indiana) and Lodge voted no. The Republicans will present the minority report declaring Mr. White entitled to his seat. Jumped the Track. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 27. On the cable railroad today, a grip car with its accompanying car rilled with pas sengers, was coming down St. An thony hill on Shelby avenue, when the grip man lost control of the car and the grip slipped from the cable. Tbe cars shot down the bill and were only stopped bv running off the track. Fourteen persons were injured, some of them fatally. E. M Sanders, of the Northwestern Fuel Company, was among the fatally in jured. Speaker Carlisle Improving. Washington, Jan. 27. -'-The im provement in Speaker Carlisle's health still continues. This morning he and Mrs. Carlisle and the Speaker's niece, Miss Queen, left this city for Baltimore, where they took a revenuo cutter for FortreeB Monroe. Thev will probably be gone ton days or two weeks. The Chatham Record has assumed a great responsibility : It says: "The champion fish story of the season is told by one of our townsmen, who says that a few days ago, he was rid ing out in the country, and on the bank of a creek he saw a large pike, which is supposed to have been left there by a recent freshet. He picked up the fish and found it to be alive, although a part of its tail had been eaten off, and, upon outting it open, found fa U a Iatg pbrefc. Caldwell Chat. A SHERIFF TO BECOME A PREACF1ER A NEW NEWSPAPER THE NEXT GOVERNOR A TLEA FOB THE CONVENTION TO BE HELD AT CHARLOTTE. " Cr. of the Ne ws ami Observer. Lenoir, N. O, Jan. 25. ' . M. H. Tutth?, sheriff of Caldwell county, has requested a call of the j board of county commissioners to meet on Saturday, 28th inst., to make j final settlement of his official busi- ness ami tender nis resignation as sheriff of the county for the purpose of entering the theological school at Randolph-Macon College to prepare himself for the ministry. He con templates leaving for college soino timo next week if the board accepts his resignation. This course has been expected fcr some time, but the final decision and announcement was made today. As to his probable successor in office, at least half a dozen have intimated that they would be williDg to take the old shoes, but I am not advised, nor does any one know, who the board will elect. The finances of the county are in good condition. The treasurer told me today that if there were any coun ty claims in existence he did not know of them, and had quite a nice fund on hand to meet any that might be ipsued. Tho Watauga Journal, started at Boouo in December, has suspended. Ii is repotted that a syndicate has been formed, with capital sufficient to run a newspaper, and at an early day they propose having a new paper with Thomas Bingham, a former mem ber of the legislature from Watauga county, as the editor. We had sufficient faith in the sig nal service indications to start out with an umbrella when the blue flag was hoisted, but for the past three weeks the reports have failed almost every time. Much has been aid in the papers of North Carolina in regard to the best man for Governor. The Democrats of Caldwell county are of the opinion that Hon. R. F. Armfieid is the man for the position a man that is not a can didate nor has ever sought office but accepts honorable positions when forced upon him. His worth as a statesman is only known by those who are intimately acquainted with him. He is an orator of unusual ability and if he can be our standard bearer in the next campaign, I believe the State will go Democratic by 40, 000 majority. W will make it 1,000 in this county, and there would be no telling what Cleveland and Cataw ba would do, while Iredell would be so far ahead of its usual majority that it would have a just claim as the banner county and would get the flag. We are not preju diced against Kaleigh as the place to hold the next Democratic State Convention, but we do think that it would be of very great advan tage, just for this time, to hold the convention at Charlotte. As a gen eral thing the western part of the State is very poorly represented at the conventions owing to the im mense distance to travel, and the ex pense, and as the majority of the State must come from the west, our people in the west could and would attend a convention at Charlotte, and the sentiments of the people would be better represented. With the rail road facilities oi Charlotte the mem bers of the convention from the east would have no trouble to get there, while the members from the west would be much benefited and would attend in unusual numbers. We beg the committee, just for this one time, to nave convention meet at Char lotte. Relic. TALKING AROUND THE EARTH. Conversation Carried on With Comfort Between London and Vancou ver's Island. From the New York World, Jan. 24. The l'all Mall Gazette of thi6 even ing's issue contains a dispatch headed. "Telegraphing Extraordinary Inter viewing by Cable Across the World." The article begins : "An altogether unprecedented feat in telegraphy was J 1 A 1A ? 1 periormeu last nignt, wuen an inter view took place by cable between our special commissioner, now at Vancou ver, and the editor, at the omces or the Commercial Cable Company. The origin of the interview was a desire by our special commissioner to afford the Old Worid and the New a strik ing manifestation of the extent to which time and space bad been anm hilated by the electrio telegraph and cable. The exact distances traversed by the electric current conveying the messages are as follows : By wire, London to Bristol, spur cable, 140 miles; by spur cable to Waterville, 329 miles; by cable from Waterville, Ireland, to Canso, N. S., 2,750 miles; from Canso to New York and by the Canadian Pacific Railway telegraphic lines to Vancouver, 4,400 miles making a total of 7,619 miles. A conversation was carried on allowing for breaks produced by a storm that interrupted the wires first between Ottawa and Montreal, and then west of Winnipeg consec utively for three hours. The wire out stripped the sun by eight hours, the time being 1 o'clock in the afternoon at Vancouver when it was 9 o'clock at night in London. After a half hour of instructions between the edi tor and the correspondents, the latter said: "I can Bee the Pacifio as I write. In a few days I shall start for a 4,000 mile voyage in another English ship the Parthia over another ocean, yet I am able to talk as quickly and easily as a we were speaking through a tube at Northumberland street at our office." There were more than 7,000 miles of land and water between the two gentlemen. Still, a question was asked and the answer was on its way in the space of four minutes, the dis tance traversed by the swift messen ger being nearly 15,000 miles. , ' Prince William's Birthday. Potsdam, Jan. 27. loday was the 29th anniversary of the birthday of Prince William and he was appointed Maior General and oommandex of the Meond brigade of infantry. HIGH CRIME. AN OLD MAN AND HIS WIFE MURDERED. THE MURDERERS HUNTED DOWN ASD RAP TURED AND STRUNG UP TO TREE AND LKf HANGING. - Sax Andreas, Jan. 27. C.B.Hitch cock, an old citizen, and his wife were murdered Monday night by two Germans named Aushlag and Dyker, and the murderers were hanged by vigilante3 last night. Hitchcock had sold his farm to Aushlag and the deed was acknowledged and the money paid. Wednesday lAush lag and Dyker accompanied Hitchcock and his wife home, and that night murdered the couple and buried them. Their dis appearance awakened the suspicions of the neighbors, who made search, found the bodies, and sufficient evi dence to convince them that Aushlag ana .uyxer had planned everything before hand; so they Btrung them up to a tree ana they were still hanging this evening. Death of Prof. Wm. J. Bingham A telegram has been received: in this city announcing the "ad intelii- Jence of the death of Prof. William . Bingham, which occurred at San Antonio, Texas, last Thursday. His death was very sudden, though lor some time past he had been quitei an invalid, and was in Texas on account of ill health, hoping to be benefited by the climate of that State. I Prof. Bingham was for some time professor of Latin at Davidson Col lege, which position he surrendered on account of failing health. His grandfather, Wm. Bingham, was the founder of Bingham School, an insti tution which has always been recog nized as an honor to the State. His father, the late Col. William Bing ham, known well in this State as the Christian scholar and teacher.was as sociated for many years with $us brother, Maj. Robt. Bingham, as prin cipal of Bingham School. - In the death of Prof. William; J. Bingham there has passed to his re ward one who not only possessed wonderful intellectual endowments rarely to be found in so youthful person, but also better still the char acter of a faithful Christian,who,in his every day life at home or abroad,fully exemplified by his Christian walk the aocume ne proiessea. never was there a more devo ed son or brother. "lhere remaineth a rest on that shining Bhore; The heart aches of lifeara remembered no more; No partings are there our heartstrings to sever; With loved ones and lost ones we rest there forever.' oal Cotton Report. The receipts of, cotton for the past week were some larger than was an ticipated shortage being expected on account of the very bad condition of the roads. A great part of it, however, came by rail. Perhaps not over a third of the amount which would have come in by wagons had the roads been passable, was received in that way. The producers who reached the city by wagons, com plained loudly at what they had ex perienced in the way of mud, delays &c., and the damage caused to their. teams. Some went so far as to say that if it became necessary for them to sell cotton again while the roads remain as they are now, they would take it to the nearest place at which they could dispose of it, even though it were a cross roads-store, and this in the face of their great preference for the Raleigh market 'at all times. In one instance, a farmer actually had to come to the city with less than half the load he started from home with, and return for the other portion of the load which he had thrown off on the way. There has been no change change in prices. The demand has been good, and as is always the case, the Raleigh market has tjffered the highest possible price. 'he cotton report is as follows: Bales Rec'pts. for week ending Jan. 26, 1888. 921 Same week last year. 430 Decrease from last year, 109 Receipts to date from Sep. 1, ! 1887, 28,047 Same time last year, 27,027 Increase over last year, 120 Stock on platform, 477 Stock in store, , 1,700 Shipment for the week, 351 Immigration Department Motes. Communications ana inquiries irom people in other: States who contem plate moving to JNortn Carolina are pouring into tbe immigration office. Commissioner Patncx yesterday re ceived letters from several men of means now residing in the States of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, west Virginia and other states, asking for information as to desirable points rur rocaiuig cotton iactoneam this State. All these men are practi cal cotton workers and are wanting to get established in tbe South before the immense volume of immigration, which will most surely turn this way in the early future, sets in and logins the erection of factories of all kinds in every town and hamlet. Besides being experienced in their business, they have money to invest. ' A letter was also received from Mr. John M. Gallowftv, of Madison, Rockingham county, in this State, offering to fur nish all the money needed for the establishment of a .pulp and paper factory in his town, to any man who understands and will conduct the business. Through the instrumentality of the department, a fruit-canning factory will be established in Littleton with in the next two months. i i When can a man have something and nothinar in his Docket at the same time." When there is a hole in it. If there is a hole in your lungs it can be healed with Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and JUuiiem. ; Last week in EUenton, Mr. Jno. H. 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