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WASHncjTON, Feb. 28. Schatk.
The resolution offered last week by
Sir. Hoar to continue the investiga
tion of last session into certain events
alleged to have taken place in Texas
(in the petition of Stephen Hack
worth and others) was reported back
from the committee on contingent
expanses and agreed to.
Among the bills introduced and
referred to committees was the fol
lowing :
By Mr. Sherman, authorizing the
issue of circulating notes to national
banks to the par value of bonds de
posited therefor.
On motion of Mr. Euatis, the Sen
ate bill for the purchase of a site and
the erection of a building for a post
office, United States court and other
government uses in New Orleans (not
to exceed in oost $1,200,000) was
taken from the calendar and passed.
fhe Senate then resumed the con
sideration of the bill granting pen
sions to ex-soldiers and sailors who
are incapacitated for the perform
ance of manual labor, and providing
for pensious to the dependent rela
tives of deceased soldiers and bailors,
the question being on the adoption of
Mr. Call's amendment, making the
bill apply also to those who served
in the war with Mexico, or for thirty
days in any of the Indian wars. The
amendment was agreed to.
ftlr. Blair offered a resolution
changing the phraseology of the
second section, and in explaining it
he said that the construction given in
the debate yesterday to the word
incapacitated" would make the bill
one of the most far reaching of any
pension bill yet passed, inasmuch as
he minimum pension for the slight
est incapacity would be $12 per
month. He did not believe that with
that construction given to it the bill
would ever cross successfully, the
wide waste lying between the Se ate
and the statute books. He thought
the Senate had better hesitate before
nserting in tbe Jbill the provisions for
the Indian and other wars, and should
provide in it exclusively for ex
soldiers of the war of the rebellion.
Mr. Manderson appealed to the
Senate to pass the bill as it had been
formulated by the pension committee
of tbe Grand Army of the Republic.
He would be glad to see the bill
passed in the nature of a service pen
sion bill, but he did not think it well
to encumber the pending bill with
that idea. i
Mr- Davis, who has charge of the
bill, coincided with Mr. Manderson
in the opinion that all of the amend
ments adopted yesterday should be
struck out and the bill left as reported
unanimously from the committee on
pensions. It had been prepared, he
said, by a committee representing
100,000 members of the Grand Army
of the Republic, who knew the wants
to be remedied and the needs to be
supplied. They had said, "We will
be content with this; we ask no more
or the present: we trust to the future
for the future relief to which we are
entitled." .
Mr. Plumb intimated that there
was something oi a "juggle con
cealed in the bill. The effort seemed
to be to get op the bill not to meet
the wishes of Uongress but to meet
the wishes of somebody else. He
repeated his belief that the G. A. R.
did not endorse the bill as it stood;
but whether it did or not he was in
the Senate to legislate and to con
sider what was due to ex soldiers of
the Union and to an enlightened pub
lic opinion. In conclusion he called
on the Democratic members of the
committee , on pensions to express
their views as to the bill.
Mr. Faulker, member of the com
mittee, said that after a care
ful analysis and examination
of the bill he had given it his support
in the committee, and would give it
his support in the Senate unless the
amendments now in it were retained
If these amendments were retained
be would vote against the passage of
the bill, tie declared that if the bill
passed with the amendment of the
Senator from Hansas.stnking out the
word "totally before the word ,"in
capacitated", the annual pension list
would exceed one hundred and hfty
millions. If the bill was defeated,
the responsibility would not rest on
the Democratic Bide of the chamber
It would rest on those Senators who
had put the amendments in the bill
with the certain knowledge of its being
vetoed, and who had done it with
their eyes open and with the under
standing, that not only consistency
but the conscious sentiment of duty,
even although an election was coming
on this year, would require the same
to be done now as was done last ses
sion with a like bill.
Mr. Plumb asked Mr. Faulkner
whether under the bill as reported by
the committee a person who could
perform any manual labor would be
entitled to its benents t
Mr. Faulkner replied in the nega
tive. ,
Mr. Plumb inquired whether there
would be any grading ol pensions
under the bill T
Mr. Faulkner again replied in the
negative.
Mr. Plumb asked whether he be
lieved -the President would veto the
bill!
The presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls)
here interfered, and said that it had
been always held to a breach of order
to refer in debate to tbe action of the
executive.
Mr. Plumb expressed his regret
that the chair had not thought so
when the Senator from West Virginia
was speaking.
ilie presiding omcer: "j.ne cnair
had intended before this to say and
does tcke occasion now to say that it
hab never been held to be in order in
debate in the Senate to refer to the
opinion: of the Executive or to the
action of the Executive -as an argu
Bort for or against pending legisla
tion."
. Mr. Faulkner said that he had no
opinion whatever on the subject and
had expressed none.
Mr. Plumb said that he had under
stood the Senator from West Virginia
to say tt at consistency, if not prin
ciple, even if there was perhaps an
election pending (whatever be might
have meant by that), would require
the bill to be vetoed, and that there
had been an effort to get a bill which
the President would sign, otherwise
the bill never would have got a vote
on the other side of the chamber,
"and to that complexion had it come
at last." The Republican side of the
chamber had been told that it was to
take the responsibility of legisla
tion that might not meet the views of
the President. If that was not a
complete subordination of the legis
lative to ' the executive authority he
did not see how it could be made any
more bo. If the Senate was willing
to put itself in that attitude he had
no objection. He proposed to discuss
the question on its merits, not con
sidering what the President might
think about it. The President was
in regard to the bill in its present
stage a private citizen no more, no
less. His opinion nJsrht be rood or
might be bad, but he could only ex
press it in the way provided by the
Constitution and the laws; at all events,
Senators were not to put themselves
prone on their fronts and ask the
President in advance whether he was
goiDg to sign an act.
Mr. Teller protested against the
Sec ate being threatened with
an Executive veto. He had never
heard of such a thing before in
the Senate, and he hoped he would
never hear it again. It seemed to
him to be a great degradation to the
Senate for a Senator to stand up and
say that he proposed to be governed
in his vote by what tbe Executive
thought or felt or wanted.
Mr. Beck hoped the Senator from
Colorado would tell the Senate what
he thought of the speech of the Sen
ator from Nebraska (Manderson) as
to the action of the G. A. R. bene
ficiaries under the bill, as to what their
lodges and posts had determined that
the Senate should do and how far
that was legitimate. The Senator
from Nebraska told the Senate that
the action of the committee on pen
sions in reporting the bill had grown
out of the action of the G AR,
which was to be itself a beneficiary
under tbe bill.
Mr. Blackburn said he depreciated
the violation of the very proper rule
which prohibited a Senator cr Repre
sentative from undertaking to in
fluence legislative action by any
reference to the presumed course of
the Executive. He had heard that
the rule had been violated by
three Senators, Davis, Manderson and
Blair. These Senators had all said
that the bill had to be framed and
fashioned to avoid a veto message at
the hands of the Executive. He did
not know what authority they had for
the statement, but he did know that
there was but one politicalTorganiza-
tion in tbe country today which was in
perfect morching order ready to take
the field with knapsacks packed and
all things ready. It was the G. A. R.,
which represented tbe only efficiently
organized political system on the con
tinent today. The Senator from Ne-
braska,who so ably supported tbe bill,
had told the Senate and the country
that the bill was a demand made by
the G. A- R. and had protested sub
stantially against any material amend'
ment of it because that organization
had formulated what! Not its peti
tion to an American Congress, bnt its
demand on an American Congress for
legislation, in which (as nis colleague
bad said) it was itself to be a benenci
ary. If the Senator from Nebraska
was to be accepted as au
thority, the bill was not a petition,
but a demand sent to Congress
by a great and well organized and
perfectly systematized political
agency that proposed to remove the
trouble which enables both Houses
to do away with revenue bills and
tariff revisions and the abolition of
internal revenue taxation and to dis
pose 6f the Treasury surplus by such
bulB as this, and tnat was to be the
only practical solution to be offered
by the Republican party for the finan
cial difficulties in which the country
was involved! He denied that the
Senators from Minnesota, Nebraska,
or New Hampshire or any other Sen
ator had any right or authority to
charge or to intimate that the Presi
dent had made up his mind to veto
the bill if it went to him in one
shape or in another shape.
After some remarks by Messrs.
Manderson and Blair, Mr. Blackburn
went on to say that it was not to be
wondered at if those Senators in their
zeal should undertake to warn the
super-loyal of the land against the
disloyal policy of the loyal executive.
If those Senators were unwilling to
submit tbe bill for the determination
of an American Congress, but insisted
that it should go through in stereo
typed form (after a Procrustean fash
ion) because the G. A. R. so decreed
it, and if they meant to dispose of the
surplus in the treasury in that way
and no other, they should be frank
enough to face the issue and go to the
country upon it. -
After further debate by Messrs.
Teller, Hoar, Blackburn, Blair and
Manderson, the bill went over with
out action and the Senate proceeded
to executive business, and at 5 p. m.
adjourned.
HOTJSK.
Mr. Gaines, from the committee on
war claims, reported the bill authoriz
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to
settle the claims of certain States
and tbe city of Baltimore growing
out of the money expended for mili
tary purposes during the war of 1812.
Committee of the whole.
In tbe morning hour the House re
sumed in commit ee of the whole the
consideration of the bill for tho or
ganization of tbe teriitory of Okla
homa. Mr. Barnes, of Georgia, gave notice
that he would at the proper time offer
a substitute for for the appointment
of a commission to negotiate with the
Indian .territory with a view to open
ing up a portion of the territory lying
west of the 98 ih meridian of longi
tude to white settlement. He said
it was with regret that he found him
self compelled to oppose the report
which had been made by the majority
of the committee on Territories, bvt
the pending bill was subject to such
serious objections that he could not
conscientiously give it his approval. He
stated the history of the legislation
pertaining to the Indian Territory
from the time it was acquired from
the French, in 1803, and he qaoted
from the treaty stipulations with the
Cherokee Indians to show that the
land known as the Cherokee outlet
was held under the same patent
as the seven million acres east
of the 98th meridian 'of longitude.
He contended that the Cherokees
held their lands by an absolute fee
simple title, while the Creeks, Semi
noles, Choctaws and Chickasaws
held theirs by a qualified fee, the
qualification being contained in the
treaty condition limiting the fee as
long as they continued as cations.
Good faith required the government
to observe the terms of the treaties.
It was said that the Indians were
mere wards of the nation, and that
guardian could not treat with them,
but the old Roman law required that a
when a superior treated with an un-
ferior the superior should ob
serve faith such as a mother observ
ed to her nursing child. The com
mittee's bill proposed to orsrbaize a
territory to be composed of No
Man's Land and so much) of
Indian Territory as was not actually
occupied by the five cmuzd tribes. In
so far as No Man's Land was concerned
the bill was all right, but if fairly
carried out its provisions were im
practicable as to the rest of the Ter
ritory. The Territory proposed to be con
structed had no fixed or definite limit.
It ought to be called an India rubber
territory.
Mr. Warner, of Missouri, suggested
that if the gentleman's substitute were
adopted one small tribe of 100 In
dians could block up the whole Terri
tory. Mr. Barnes replied that the differ
ence between the bill and the substi
tute was that the former proposed to
organize the Territory and then nego
tiate with the Indians, while the latter
provided that negotiations should
be had and that no treaty
rights should be violated. The sub
stitute would give a Territory
which had no vague and uncertain
bounds, while the honor of the gov
ernment would remain unsullied. The
moment the committee bill passed
there would be a rush of white men
to Indian Territory and collision
and irritation would ensue. It was a
bill which meant war to the Indians
and an extinction of peace in Indian
Territory.
When the morning hour expired
the committee rose without action.
The House then went into com
mittee of the whole, Mr. McMillin, of
Tennessee, in the chair, on the pub
lic buildings measures.
The four hundred thousand dollars
appropriation for Omaha (reduced
from $500,000) w& passed.
Mr. Bland opposed the next bill, a
$50,000 appropriation for Bar
Harbor, Maine, which brought Mr.
Miiliken to bis feet in defence of
the bill. Mr. Bland said for tie last
few days the gentleman from Maine
had been running around like a cock
roach on a kitchen floor, and now his
excitement was explained by the ap
pearance of this Bar Harbor bill.
Mr. Miiliken thought that the gen
tleman from Missouri (Mr. Bland)
was like the old woman who borrowed
a kettle for forty years. Then she
got a new one of her own and de
clared she would neither borrow nor
lend. The gentleman had got $146,-
000 for a building at his little town
of Jefferson City, which was neither
so large nor so important as Bar
Harbor, and now he did not want any-
other man to have a public building.
The - appropriation was reduced to
$25,000 and the bill was agreed to.
ihe next bill called up was that
for the erection of an appraisers'
building in the citv ot New York. The
bill contains alternative propositions
for the purchase of a site and the
erection of appraisers' stores at a cost
limited to a million and a half dollars,
and for the purchase of a single site
suitable for the erection of a com
bined custom-house and apprais
ers stores, or two sites con
venient to each other and suita
ble for a custom-house and apprais
ers' Btores detached from each other
The cost of such site or sites is limit
ed to a million and a half dollars.
The bill was advocated by Messrs.
Dibble, of South Carolina, and Cox,
of New York, who explained the ne
cessity of the accommodations for the
public business provided in the bill
and said that the proceeds of the sale
of the present custom-house property
on Wall street, estimated to be worth
three millions of dollars, would de
fray all the expense of the new build
inga, was better adapted to the con
templated uses and in a more con
venient locality. The bill was agreed
to unanimously.
Bills were also agreed to increasing
to $300,000 the limit of the cost of
the building at Charleston, S. C-; ap
propriating $100,000 for an inter-
State building at Texarkana
and $100,000 for a building
at Columbus, Gi, and appropriating
S125,UUU for the purchase ol aaai
tional ground at Indianapolis, Ind
In speaking to one of these measures
Mr. Kennedy, of Ohio, arraigned the
Democratic party in the House for
failure to redeem its pledges of
economy, tariff reform and care for
veteran soldiers, and asserted that
the : November election would visit
defeat upon their heads.
Mr. Dibble considered that the
issues which divided the two political
parties was of a graver and more
serious nature than the erection of
buildings for the convenience of the
public business and thought that
both sides of the House, whatever
might be their differences on party
questions should consider business
propositions without getting into a
political controversy.
Billstwere also agreed to for the
erection of a public building at Bay
City, Michigan, at an ultimate cost of
$150,000, and appropriating $400,000
for a building at Milwaukee.
The committee having risen, the
House ratified its action and also
1 passed the two bills coming over from
Saturday increasing the limit of the
appropriation for a building at Chat
tanooga and providing for the pur
chase of a site at Buffalo.
Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, re
ported back adversely the resolution
offered this morning by Mr. Ander
son, of Iowa, calling on the public
printer for the cause of his failure to
comply with the order of the House
for 10,000 copies ol tbe reports of the
Pacific Railroad Commission. Mr.
Richardson stated that no such order
had ever been made. The House had
passed a. concurrent resolution or
dering the printing which still slept
in the Senate committee on printing.
The resolution was laid on the ta
ble and the House, at 5.15, adjourned.
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W ith PrabaMy Fatal Reawlt.
By Telegraph to the Newt and Observer.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 28. A dispatch
from Rock Island, 111., says: Passen
ger train No. 1 on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul railroad last
evening Was run into by a freight on
the Mendota branch of the Chicago,
Burlington ft Quincy at East
Clinton, ; a mile south of Ful
ton : Junction. The Milwaukee
engine aid mail and express cars
were all demolished and the baggage
cartas turned over. P. P. Wilhelm
of this city, American Express route
agent, was probably fatally injured
and Thomas Morrison was seriously
hurt. Both were on the Mil
waukee train. In the "Q." en
gine ; cab were the engineer,
fireman, conductor and Roadmaster
Zeigrist. ; The latter is reported fa
tally hurt; The cars were piled up
all over the track and the telegraph
wires were all broken. The blame
for the accident is laid on the "Q "
engineer, a green hand who lost con
trol of his engine and did not stop
at the crossing.
SEW HERNS TO ONSLO .t COUNTY.
riBST DIET D5 THB PROPOSED IfEW LINK-
Special to the News and Observer,
NiwBcSnk,N. C, Feb. 28 Ground
was broken todav bv the East Caro
lina Land and Railway Company on
their proposed road from New Berne
to Onslow county. The first dirt was
thrown by President Bryan, of the A.
& N. C. Railroad, who is also a direc
tor in the new company.
A COUNTY GOES WE r
IS MICHIGAN AS AGAINST TWENTY -EIGHT
THAT ABB DBY.
By TeleKiaDh to the News and Observer.
Ubtkoit, J?eb. ao t wenty eight
counties in Michigan have voted for
prohibition under the local option
law. The first county to go "wet" is
Washtenaw, which voted yesterday
by a majority of 1,550 against prohi
bition. I
Ibenui'i Bill on the Snrplwa.
By Telegraph to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. C-, Februarv 28.
The Senate committee on finance has
ordered a favorable report on Sena
tor Sherman's bill for the investment
of certain funds in the treasury. The
bill has been amended and is now as
follows :
"Be it enoctod by tht SenoU and
House Sf Representative of the
United States of America in Congress
assemmtdi That the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized and
directed from time to time to invest
not exceeding 80 per centum of the
fund held in the treasury for the re
demption of the notes of na
tional banks 'failed' or 'in liquida
tion,' and reducing the circulation
by the purchase in open market of
any bonds of the United States bear
ing interest. That whenever the
money on hand to the credit of said
fund shall; fall below 20 per cent of
the fund deposited the Secretary of
the Treasury is hereby authorized
and directed from time to time to sell
in open market any portion of the
bonds purchased for said fund as may
be necessary in his opinion to enable
him to pay as presented any notes of
national banks for the redemption of
which ' said fund is held, the pur
pose of this section being to maintain
in the treasury for such redemption
not less than 20 per centum and not
exceeding 30 per centum of the money
deposited.
a THEATRE BU.1NED.
THE UNION SQUABE OF NBW TOBX CITY.
By Telegraph to the News and observer.
New Yobk, Feb. 28. The Union
Square Thea're with all its contents
was destroyed by fire this afternoon.
The Morton House, adjoining on two
sides, was badly damaged, and tbe
Star Theatre was in imminent danger
for some time, but it received no dam
age except to its interior decorations
from smoke. Two upper stories of
the Morton House were damaged by
fire and, water, and the fur
niture in the lower stories
suffered considerably from water
and smoke. The loss to the Morton
House is about $20,000. Insured.
The loss On the Union Square Thea-
tree Is estimated at $125,000 and on
costumes belonging to the "Henriet
ta" company $5,000. Five firemen
were injured by falling timbers but
not fatally. The Henrietta company
had finished rehearsal only a few min
utes before the nre broke out.
ITat tier Rudder.
By Telegraph to the News and Observer.
New Yobk, Feb. 27. The steamer
Brooklyn City, from Bristol and
Swansea, which arrived this morning
reports the Belgian steamer Hermann,
which sailed from this port for Ant
werp last Sunday morning, returned
with the loss of her rudder Her
Bister steamer, the John Breydel,
from Antwerp via Boston, has her in
tow.
Later -The Hermann, in tow of the
John Breydel, arrived off Sandy
Hook light-ship at 10.40 o'clock this
morning.
Arrested for Bigamy.
By Telegraph to the News and Observer.
Lynciibubq, Va., Feb. 28. The dep
uty sheriff of Halifax county passed
through here today on his way to
Bedford county with James Vassar
charged with bigamy. Vassar has
wile number one and family in Bed
ford county, number two in the west
ern States, and was on the eve of
marrying number three when he was
arrested. He is fifty years of age and
unprepossessing.
The C. B. at . Strlka.
By telegr.iph to the News and Observer.
Pittsbubg,; Feb. 28. Agents of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy sys
tem, it appears, have been successful
in securing ia number of engineers
and firemen in the east. This morn
ing a car ioaa oi nity men passed
through the City en route to Chicago
to take the: places of the strikers.
The party was in charge of a well
dressed man who refused to give his
name, but admit'ed that the men
were going to Chicago to work on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
R. R. As far as he knew they were
not Knights of Labor, although mem
bers of that organization might be
found in the party. A report
that a number of engineers
would arrive from New York
on their way west was circulated last
night, and when the train came in
this morning a delegation of the
Brotherhood was on hand to greet
them, but no attempt was made to
molest the new men or interfere with
them in any manne. A train left for
Chicago at at 7.45 thio morning and
will arrive in that city tonight.
A member of the executive board of
the Knights of Labor is in the city.
When asked concerning the publish
ed report that the Reading Railroad
Knights are going to Chicago to take
the places of the striking members of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, he said "There is no foun
dation for this report. Notwithstand
ing the fact that the mem
bers of the Engineers' Broth
erhood are 'scabbing' in the places
of Knight of Labor strikers the
Reading Knights have never done as
charged by the Brotherhood and have
not thought of doingj&o now. Every
time, however, that the Brotherhood
has had a chance they have 'scabbed'
on the Knights, notably in the South
west and Reading strikes."
Chicago, Feb. 28. An attempt was
made to disable the engine drawing
tne unicago, .Burlington and Uuincy
fast mail which left the union depot
at 310 this morning. When the
train stopped, at Burlington crossing
a coupling pin was placed on the
plates that guide the piston-rod in
the cylinder. When an attempt was
made to start the engine again it
would not move. The difficulty was
soon discovered and the obstruction
removed. Had the piston-rod
been drawn out at full length
the coupling pin would have been
driven through the cylinder head and
i he engine disabled. The bulletin
board at the union depot this morn
ing said for the Chicago, Burlington
& Uumcr: Duo 6.30. depart 830,
abandoned; due 6 50 a. m., two hours
late. Two suburban trains from
Downer's Grote came in at 6.30 and
7.20 and two went out at 6.30 and
7 30 o'clock. At 7 o'clock this morning
there were a dozen men at the com
pany s office awaiting the arrival of
Superintendent Hodges. They were
very reticent as to where they came
irom or wnat tneir experience as en
gineers might be. Assistant General
Manager Williams was at his office at
7 o'clock waiting o learn from tbe
trains which were started at different
points along the road. Yesterday the
fast mail which left Chicago at
three o'clock in the afternoon
had not been heard from up to
8 o'clock. It is thought the train is
proceeding oa its journey to Council
Bluffs without interruption, as had
mere been any delay the company
would have been notihed of the fact
All was quiet around tbe Burlington
yards early this morning and from
VanBuren to 12th street there was but
little to do. At 7 o'clock the Downer's
Grove accommodation train, 15 min
utes late,pulled into the Union depot
The Downer's Grove train was fol-
owed 15yrhinutes later by another
train from the same surburb. The last
train was crowded with suburbanites.
Robbed and Tata Murdered.
By Telegraph to the News and Observer.
Norfolk, Va., Feb., 28. Edgar
Harney, a newspaper and periodical
vender on the Norfolk & Southern
Railroad, was found dead in the street
of Berkeley at an early hour this
morning, me evidence is convinc
ing that he had been robbed and
murdered. He was a young man of
good breeding and fine education,
but of dissipated habitB. He
claimed to be a kinsman of the late
W. W. Corcoran, of Washington.
Nominations Confirmed.
By Telegraph to the News and Observer.
Washington, Feb. 28--The Senate
has confirmed the nomination of F.
J. Moreno to be U. S. Marshal for the
Southern district of Florida: Com
modore Gherardi to be rear admiral
and a large number of naval and mil
itary promotions, and Ella Lewis,
postmaster, Gallatin, Tenn.
Klnc John and Rasa-lnla.
By Telegraph to the News and Observer,
RoMr, reb. za An official dis
patch from Massowah says King
John with Has a lula and a large
army is advancing upon Ihe Italians,
and that the advance guard arrived
at Asmara on the 25th inst to pre
pare quarters for King John.
A Donbl Lynching.
Cairo, 111 , Feb. 28. Last right at
Clinton, Ky., Sam Price, a white mans
and Beu t9ams, colored, wno shot a
farmer named Jackson, who caught
Reams in the act of robbing his hen
roost Saturday night, were taken out
of jail by a mob of fifty masked men
and hanged.
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Agriculture In California.
From Uie Omaha, World.
Southei n California Agent: "There,
sir, look over into that field. Did you
ever see a uiau plough so easily as
that t" .
Eastern Farmer : "By gum ! The
plough does seem to go easy, don't it?
The man eeen.8 to enjoy it.
"Ye8,eir; keeps jumping and dancing
alontr like a boy: just see bis heels
fly-"
"Looks a good deal like a jig, I
mu-t say."
Little Boy, (native :) "Pop ain't
dancin': he's try in' ter keep outen the
way o' the terantulas an' ratlesnakes
wot he turns up."
Mr. W- P. Cotchett, of Wilming-
i ton, was in town yesterday.
A HORROR.
EXPLOSION OF A STEAMER.
OUT OF SIXTY thbex pebsoks kot one
ESCAPES IKJUBY, MORE OB LESS SE
RIOUS ELEVEN UND18COVEKD ,
BODIES.
By Telegraph to the News and Observer,
Vallejo, California, Feb.?, 28.
Eight of the men killed by the steamer
Julia explosion yesterday had wives
and families, and five more were sin
gle. Searchers are still trying to find
more missing men. Mrs. Ferryen,
wife of a gunner at the Mare Island
navy yard, seems to have- been
the only woman on board.
She was badly scalded about the
head and arms. Tbe list of -undiscovered
bodies is now thought to
number eleven. It is supposed that,
exclusive of the crew, there were 52
passengers on board, making 63 in
all, and not a single one escaped with
out injury more or less serious;
(As the ferry steamer Julia, plying
between South Vallejo and Vallejo
Sta ion was about to start from South
Vallejo Monday morning she blew np.
She had about seventy persona on
board. A majority of the passengers
were below deck, as it was cold and
foggy. Those on deck were all
blown overboard. Some were: killed
by being dashed against the wharf,
and others were drowned. The ves
sel took fire almost immediately
and burned to tho water's
edge and tbe hulk sank. A large
cargo of petroleum which stood on
the whaif caught fire and the flames
spread rapidly. The fire companies
were unable to accomplish anything
owing to the tide being out, and fif
teen minutes after the explosion six
hundred feet of wharf , the freight depot
and the telegraph office were burning.
When the tide came in they managed
to get a supply of water, and at noon
had the fire under control.
It was believed that between thirty
and forty lives were lost.)
Partridge RoMtlns;.
Cor. of the News and Observer.
Monbob, N. G, Feb. 27th.
In answer to the inquiry of the
"Chapel Hill ex-sportsman" in your
issue ol the zth inst, I will state
that I have frequently known part
ridgea to roost in trees, when fright
eueu lruui uibjx rousting place just
at dusk. It generally occurs-where
j r l i" i'. ' a
the birds have frequently been dis
turbed about dusk and is more likely
to occur in wet weather. 1 have,
when hunting, roused them jast be
fore dark, when sometimes they
would all alight in one tree.
Again they would go to several
trees, generally "oia neia pines or
cedars, where they would remain
from fright until morning. I don't
think, however, that they 'settle
themselves for a good winter nap,
I or tney invariably wnistie early in
tbe morning, before nying to the
ground, as if they wero separated and
frightened, and when thty do' fly to
the ground they run arouud in a con
fused mani.er, frightened aud whist
ling. T. M. Brown.
Tho Neac 'Governor.
Cor. of the News and Observer. !
Littleton, N.C , Feb. 21, 1888.
"The survival of the futoai"j:in po
litical as in natural uffairs often leads
the "slate-makers," a-t well &a the
mass of voters, to select for kalers
"the old war horsos", often tried in
battle, but it frequently happens that
the scars and wounds of former
frays unfit them for the field. That we
have talent of the kind that is Inborn
to blush unseen" and that tbe people
long to have the office of Governor,
as in times long ago, seek a man who
will not himself, nor allow bis friends
to scramble- for the place, are propo
sitions patent to the disinterested
observer. Such a man would- come
to the "people with freshness and
freedom from intrigue and thousands
of honest voters, often repelled by
the4 standard politician, of any 'party,
would flock to his support as to a
leader and their champion. A man
must be sought for and all the quali
fications necessary to fit him for the
place must be possessed in the fullest
form.
We suggest one man of the kind,
hoping not to offend his modesty,
but with full faith that the eloquence
of his tongue, the purity of his char
acter and the magnetism of his per
son would attract as many voters as
any leader that can be selected. in the
State the Hon. Thomas W. Mason
of Northampton County.
A Few of the Faithful.
Collector Magone, of New. York,
has made sure that of ' 150,-
000 pounds of opium ; taken
from bond duly free, ostensi
bly for shipment to Havana, only 20,
000 pounds were landed at that port.
The duty on tbe 130,000 pounds un
accounted for would have been $1,-
300,000. The withdrawals were made
by about fifteen firms of New'. York
city.
Pablle Leetur.
Rev. W. P. Williams, State lec
turer for the Knights of Honor, de
livered a lecture at Briggs Hall last
evening to a large and appreciative
audience. The lecture was elOauent
and forcible and was delivered in a
striking and able maxner.
An
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Why is an avaricious man like one
with a short memory V He is always for
getting, but the wise parent never for
gets Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullein, the croup preventive
ard cough and consumption cure.
Tw-.nty five and a half bbls; N. C.
roe beriing, packed expressly for fam
ily use, at W. C. & A B. btronach s.
One hundred packages Luke Erie
white fish, 10, 40, 80 and 100 lb pack
ages, at Baltimore prices to jobbing
trade, at W. C & A. B. Stronaeh's.
Forty bbls genuine early rose seed
potatoes today, Feb. 29th, at W. C.
St A. B. btronach e. '
Fine Butter. Bouauet and Alder-
ney Creamery, Gilt Edge Goshen and
choice dairy butter at New; York
! prices, at W. 0. St A. B. Stronaoh'f.
clnt-rro at Hsath.
The following notice of tbe cele
brated minstrel troupe that will ap
dear here tomorrow night is taken
taken from the Charleston Acta and
Courier of a recent date:
"Mclntyre & Heath's Minstrels
opened their engagement last night
at the Academy of Music. They will
be remembered as the clever combi
nation who 'inaugurated' the season
of amusement of 188G. They ate
therefore well-known, and made their
bow 'again last night to a fairly large
audience.'
"Messrs. Heath & Mclntyre are, it
is true, a great deal of the play, "but
they have with them some special
artists of high rank. The latest
original song and dance, the 'Society
Fishing Party,' introduced nearly the
whole force, Meters. Mclntyre, Heath,
Buckley, Sherman, Btattie, Mcrris,
Hogan and Bryan. Among the spe
cialists are Chas. E. Cooper, xjiopbo
nist, Geyer and Hardin, clowns, and
little Ah Sid, 'the smallest acrobat in
the world.' The performance con
cludes with a very ridioulous bur
Ie que of the novel 'She.' "
Young wive 3 who have old hubai
will be glad to know that a New Yor 3
offers to cure snoring for ten dollars- . "
Dr. Bull s Cough Syrup will curr . J
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For neuralela. rheumatism, cout.
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Price 25 cento a bottle.
Today, Feb, 29th, 0 bbls ext. a
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Minister McLane gave a dinner .
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