Mi? '1 1 If: p. s -.6:8 ft r '. -I---. ' - 'i' ' -I New Observer Oli XXVI. HALEIGH. N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 18S8. NO. 31. 'I 1 1 I II II II A i I H Ii nWaan f i jLi aUn jmmA t !: ' t- V-"- " 'Iff AND U-.v: 1 Absolutely Pure- ! i Ifhis powder never varies. ' A marvt af purity, strength ud wholMcmenM Kara eoonomicd,tbB ordinary kinds and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, lam or phosphate powders, told only in ana, ROTA.L Baxwo PownsB Co., IOC Wall Street, Hew York. old by W. C. ft A. B. Stronach. and J B Ferrall ft On. WOOIAMT .:;&.lDS. 1 5 4 East Martin Street, i' I : .' S fa f I -ir' ' : -la .... -.IS ... '3S SEW ARRIVALS Purchased by our lew IJYork Buyer. 1 ft a if a- Krs leoies ss Dum iMngoia at Shoes, t $2.84, worth fe.OO . C. 1 ' ft . . TV 1 Ja 60 do n unlaundried reinforced shirts, all sisen, 60 cents each. Ladies Sailors, 5 cenU each 50 silk umbrellas, $1.75 eaoh. R! ibboa in all widths and colors. 'new lot of tin and glassware. 5 100 vest front black cheap at 1,75. 8 - : '1. Jerseys, $1.48, 9 all colors a pair. LiVVv and sbaaes. 10 cents Ait immense bargain. I Ingham apron checks, 74 cents a yard. I lot of whits handkerchief, 10 cents V adozeh. , frhe largert and bet cake cake of toilet J. soa?in the world for 5 cents a cake. 3Q0 proven corsets 60 csnU, worth 75. new line of laces and trimmings. EDWARD FASNACH, aixxran, . o. lOUTAHE and CUSTER DIAIOJDM ' i $ . ; ;" Jold Jewelry, Oold and Silver Watch Oorhsim's (Sterling 8ilverware,Bogers - : plated lilrer ware, any size and 1 ; weight of plain 18 karat En : gagemnt rings oonatan t j . ly iq stock. Badges f J and Medals made U s order.. (jiff Optical O Department Embraces an endless variety of lenses Oonce enables us to ooir-t almoet any irrat, of refraction in Myopia (nearsightj, Hypermetropia (far sight). Presbyopia 'oldsight). Asthenopia (weak sight) an. sHHng prompt ralieMrom that distrea Ug ; ieadache which often accompanies imperfect visls. . I OUR ARTIFICIAL . -I 1- ' Human Eyes dietsW having a broken wm 0PTIC1 Col. Waddell Addressat ttelbr Special tq the News and Observer. SheIby, N. C, Aug. 2 Cdi- Wact dell addressed the Cod federate Yete ran Aoaociation here today. Ilia peech was abort but was a .Iplesdid effort. JjThe immense crowd Iras fn tbnsiasttc over bis olcqucnt- tribute to ibe Confederate soldiers. iis fine reputation as an orator was fflJy cub-' Umed. U ; A MOWPMEBT TO BE KBECtd. Orer fifteen hundred people at tended the annual reunionlof the Cleveland County Veterans' ,Bsocia tion. Hon. A. U Waddell addressed the crowd in a brilliant speech, por traying1 Southern valor and borrow. Tbo asBOciation "resolved to rect a monumeht in court square ii mem ory of deceased comrades. J. W. Gidrey waa elected president; H. 1). Lee ancl tV. J. Palmer, vice presidents; W. H. MJlletv secrbtary; T. j). Lati more, treasurer. The next meeting will be held August next. Tonight Col. Waddell addressed the Democratic club and was enthusi astically ireoeived. A large dumber of strangers were present. Clevelauu- county is fully aroused and wll give a handsofaae Democratic majoruy. : i iLEIlKDER. !! I The OeinocraUc Conntv Cou vcitlon. Cor. bt the'Sews rind observer. 'I TiYLOBSf 1LLE, N. ii., Aug. 1 '88. i Superior Court for Alaxandr was to have commenced here Monday, but Judge Gilmer, being sick, did not arrive, and Judge Graves, wfio was assigned t to hold the court, did net arive until yesterday afternoon. So we had the Democratic county con vention Jlonday, which put opt the following: ticket : For the legislature, ; U. P. Matheson, Esq ; BhtrifT, t Capt. A. iA. x Hilli register of 3eels, John L. Gaultney; treasurer, pr. C. ; B. M. Garjierj Burveyor, W. E. SVhite; coroner, : 'John S- Reese. No better ticket could have been selected and it will b elected. Col. . F. 1 Armfield was then called fof hud ! n-ade one lof his best speeches J AM ter be finished, without asking Ffqr a ; division of time, R. Z Linney, one of the new issue dI patriots got up and ; undertook to speak until night and' would, we; suppose, had providence not interposed a shower of rami The speaking was in the grove and he did ! not get to speak more than twa and a; half honraL Judge Fowle and:; Maj.. Finger were; here yesterday.S The' Judge had a large crowd to sptak to and made bus of the finest spleches ever neard; here. Maj. Finger made one of the 'finest arguments showing why one should continue to vote the Democratic ticket and let the , third partv alone and not trive the JState - government oyer to the Republicans.! Alter theed gentlemen concludea wr. J. F. Marnli Of Hickory was galled for and gaVe the rrohib:tionists some splendid advice, he being one! him-1 self. Wib 'the ticket nominated Monday and the torch-light pooesf sion to meet . Judge Fowle at : fcightt we think there are yet tome 'pemcM crats left in AJaxander. I , I r ' 'h , Atiic. f 'H -I riXDtlT'S IWPUL. DalfOER.. A GEOLOGIST PSED1CTE THAT THE? TOW J VflXIi SK BLOW5 1. J A dispatch "from Cincinnati' says: Dr. Ernest Weissenbauer, professor of geology in Heidelberg University, Germany, is here for a rest alter i visit of ecientifio inspection to the natural gai wells at Findlay,,Ohia He says he! found the vastness of the gas-well cavity under Findlay greatly underestimated, and that underneath the town at great depths lay a mighty cavern filled with highly-inflamtnable, gas under tremendous pressure: lie connected -: some very delicate tele phones witn steel rods sunk into, the earth through'the shaft of thef well to a distance below it He head the boiling of the rocks plainly, accom panied by crackling sounds. A deli: cate heat instrument was theri con nected, and after careful calculations he found that t a distance of only one mile beneath the great gas cavity a fire was raging at a temperature of nearly 3,500 degrees. ? So astonished was he at this dis covery that he was not disposed to believe that it could be so. Again and again b observed, - alwaysr with the same results. Not satisfied; with making the.; observations at one poirt he took several within a radius;; of 3 miles and his first observations were completely confirmed, lie sayf that about 1,200 feet below the city of Findlay lies an immense cavern, be-' side which the Mammoth Cave shriKks into smallrjess. It is several ;mUes long, and in some places more': than half a mile deep. ; This is crowded full of gas. Which is under a pressure almost inconceivable. Then oihe several strata of rock, perhaps & mue in thickness, and then this great in ternal fire. ! i He says he discovered sometbiog of the nature of the st rata that lies between the gas cavity and the .fires. It is at first solid rock, impervious aad firm; beneath this lies a treat mass of soft and crumbling stone, badly formed and full cf fissures then another layer oi considerable thick ness, equal to the first layer in hard ness and solidity. The last of these layers, which lies directly ove the fires, is melting away. About 10 miles from Findlay, on either side, it is of great thickness, but as the town is neared it thins.- The furnace beneath is disintegrating it, and ever leesefa- ing the barrier between itself and the well. From Ibe tremendous cracking, which is to be heard by means of the sound instrument, it is almost certain that the disintegration is going on with great rapidity, and the professor seems to think an early catas not only possible but ptobable. Horrible-Death Prom an Accident. AsheviUe Citlren. ; On Saturday Mr. Thrower Higir)B started from his home in Yanqey to Asheville, having with him bis little son Parhatn. Mr. H., was driving a four horse wagon loaded with produce, and the little fellow sat in the wigon. The wagon weeel rah into a rut,f h&h threw the little boy out, the fheel passing over his body, tie nere:y spoke, saying "I am killed," and died at once. He was about 12 years of ge. Ur -If CdNGRESS. PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY IN SENATE AND HOUSE. THE FlSITEBItS TREATY AGAIN MR. BID- DLEBEEiOEK ON HIS YJCBY MUCH SID DES HrQH P0B8 OTHIB NEWS. BjrTelenraph to -tie Newi and Obserrer . Wianiitoro, Aug- 2 Sesiti. The presiding officer announced tlx appointment of the select commit!. under Mr. Hoar's resolution, m i commerce and business between li -United States and Canada, a folio rn: Senators Hoar, Allison, Hale, D !pli. Pugh, Eqstis and Blodgett, A conference committee was or Ji r ed on the Naval appropropria ion bill, and Senators Hale, Farwetl and Beck were appointed conferees on the part of the Senate. Among the bills reported from com mittee and placed on the calendar was the following : House bill grant ing right bt way to the Birmingham and Mobile Railway Company through tho Fort; Morgan military reserva tion, i Mr. Beck moved to proceed to the consideration of bills on the calendar in regular order. I Mr. Sherman moved to proceed to the consideration of the fisheries treaty in open executive session.: The latter motion was agreed to, yeas 24, nays 22, (a strict party vote) and the fisheries treaty was taken up, the question being on Mr. Morgan s motion to postpone its further con sideration till December nexr. Mr. Riddlebergr said that the vote just taken had settled conclusively the only question that could posisbly be in controversy from this time on in reference to the treaty, and that was that the Republican party of this country was opposed to ratification of the treaty and that the Democrat ic party was in f a or of it. It was being considered as a party question on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and it was proper to consider it as such on this Bide. When he offered the resolution some months ago to consider the tieaty in open session he bad in ma hands docu ments whioh gave him the right to judge that this Was a representative English or pro-Englisn government. He did not propose to discuss ; the treaty in its details.. He proposed to tiing it to the attention of the ? en- ate as a question which concerned the people of this country outside of catching and curing fish. If it; in volved that question only he would defer to the wishes of representa tives of the eastern section in both houses. It concerned not only rthe people of the whole Atlantic coast, but also the people on the coast of Chesapeake bay, because Judge Levy Woodbury; a Democratic jurist of acknowledged eminence, had given ii as his opinion that, tmderthe 12th article of the treaty, Canadian fisher men would have the right to partici pate in all coast, bay, sound and river fisheries of the States; and that Congress, or the United Stales, would be precluded from passing any laws on the subject without eon- sent of the British government. He (Mr. Biddleberger) would be fril ling to risk; the whole case on that one opinion. And so the Democratic Dartv in the Sena'e proposed to (five away the last vestige of the right of the States to protect their interests against Great "Britain and against Canadian fishermen. Mr. Morgan proceeded to address the Senate. The remarks which ' he proposed to submit were, he said, in reference to the phase of the case covered by his Opinion of the Senate treaty. It was properly autheati cated and lawful and valid, and the time, had' not passed for lie crotiation on the subject of fisheries The country was already advised by the action of a caucus of the Repub lican party . that the treaty was doomed to defeat and the purpose of his resolution was to save to the gov eminent of the United States as good an attitude as possible alter toe re jection of the treaty, li he were opJ posed to the treaty and believed it to be a sacrifice ox the honor and infer ests of the people of the United States, he would nevertheless insist on the adoption off his resolution for the purpose of disembarrassing the fu tu re diplomatic or other relations of the United States and Great Britain, and providing the ; means by which the two governments could get in ac cord. He could not conceive of a more unfortunate situation than lor the government of the 'United States to make the declaration (as proposed in the majority report of the com mittee on foreign; relations): first, that the fisheries relations of the two countries were not a fit subject for negotiation, and secondly, that the time for negotiation bad passed, tie did not believe in either of these statements. The country would re ceive such a declaration with very serious doubt. He desired by a vote of the Senate to free : the question from any such unnecessary embar rassment as that- If it was desired to reject the treaty soltdo, without attempting to improve it or to reform it by amendments, ; let it be so jte lected, but let that rejection be ac companied with the declaration (made necessary by the. majority report) that the time for negotiation bad not .passed, and that the subject was a proper one for negotiation, it was very important that there should be negotiations on the subject of tbe great fisheries of the Northwest. If the declaration proposed by the ma-' jerity of the committee on fore gn, relations were made by the Senate, i what reply could Great Britain be expected to make in regard to those Northwestern fisheries which it was now so necessary should be regulated by the treaty agreements T ; Proceeding to discuss the question in detail, Mr. Morgan was so fre quently interrupted by Republican Senators that the discussion became a colloquial debate between Messrs. Morcan, Hoar. Teller and -Evarts. Mr. Teller obtained the floor and the Senate resumed legislative business After the passage of. a tew raimpdr- I tent bills on the calendar- and a bsief 1 executive session the Senate ad journed. HOUSE. On motion of Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina, the Senate resolution was passed authorizing the Secre'ary of War to investigate and report the amount due to the State of South Carolina for rent of the Citadel in Charleston. The Senate amendments ' to the House bill providing for an apprais ers' warehouse in New Yoi k city were noq-concurre 1 in and a conference was ordered. Mr. Outhwaite, of O do, made an effort to aeoure consideration of the Senate bill to enable the Executive Department to participiU in the Columbus (Ohio) Expomt'on, but a demand for the regular order made by Mr. Oates, of Alabam ., upciat d as an objection. The Senate amendments to h. army appropriation bill were tten corirurr- d in and a conference or It red. The House then went into commit tee of the whole on th ddcievcy appropriation bill. Mr. Hovey, of Indiana, cffnied a formal amendment in order to get lb floor and reply to the Bpeecli of Mr. Mstson, of Indiana, prmted in tLe Congressional Record f Sunday last, upon the subject of peDsionn, which speech, Mr. Hovey said, ha 1 not bnbii delivered in the House. Mr. Hovey s speech started a long debate upon tho question, "Which of the political parties had been most liberal in its dealings with the Boldiers of the late war ? " In reolv to Mr. Uovev's claim that the Republican party alone was enti tled to credit in this respect, Mr. McKinney, of New Hampshire, said that during (he three years the pres ent administration had been in power the Union soldiers had received greater consideration than they had ever received in a like period during the years of Republican administra tion. Every intelligent man knew that to be tine, but for party pur poses the itepubiicans naa per verted lac's and sent broadcast the assertion that the present admin istration, and the party which sup ported it were the enemy of the Union sold er. During the last three years of V Republican administration tbe total number of pension claims issued was 191,221. During the three years of Democratic administration these claims numbered 359,454. The Re publican administration in three years disbursed $18,393,000. In three years the Democratic adminis tration disbursed $21,399,000. This did not indicate that the soldiers had suffered under the Democratic admin istration. He then defended ' the President from the charge of being an enemy of the soldier. He had during his term of office signed 1,204 private bill, as against 1,524 signed by all the Republican Presidents, from Lincoln to Arthur. He had sighed bills carrying general pension legislation which applied to 144,360 persons, and he had vetoed otfly the dependent pension bill, and in tnat veto he was sustained by the soldiers themselves He (McKinney) miin- tained that President Cleveland had really been much more considerate of the rights of the soldier than had Congress. He did not believe that these pension bills were thoroughly examined by the committees. A Re publican Representative . had con fessed to him that President Cleve land was right in nine cases out of ten; when he vetoed the private pen sion bills. The President had not been unmindful of the claims of sol diers. Sixteen out of seventeen pen sion agents appointed by him were soldiers and he had signed bills for the; retirement of very many of the war generals. So'diers had been re moved from oEice,Republican soldiers, but' their places had been filled with Democratic soldiers. Mr. McKinney then declared that no rebel rlsgs had been returned except by Republi cans and referred in that connection to Adjutant General Drum whose let ter to the President on the subject he proposed to have printed in the Kecord. Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan, reply ing to Mr. McKinney asserted that every pensioner on the rolls was there bv 'virtue of Republican legislation ana that not a name naa been aaaea by (he Democratic party except those persons whose names had been re n.a. ml 111 stored to the rolls after partici pation in rebellion against the gov ernment. . All pension legislation with that single exception was of i Republican origin. Touching on the subject of battle flags, Mr Cutcheon criticised the President's action in issuing an order for their ro turn, and declared that tbe President had, been forced to rescind it by the voice of the great loyal North, which had -come thundering down upon him like, a cyclone. He (Cutcheon) had never heard that anybody in the late Confederacy had asked for the return of tpose nags. The Confedrates had defended their flags with courage and blood and life, and when the nag went down those who had fought un der it accepted the situation and never asked for the return of their flags. A flag meant something. The' flag that floated over the Speaker's desk meant something It meant home, order, law and liber ty ; i it meant children and km dred. That was what those who fol lowed it fought for. What did the the other flag mean t It meant the doctrine of secession, and the men who' had followed it sai2 that that doctrine was dead. It meant that those who supported it were against the constitution. Were they against it no? If the flags bad been returned, what would have been done with them t It was better that they should rot and be moth eaten in the attics of the War Department building j than be returned to the hands of the men who had bravely borne them. They could never mean again what ; they had once meant, and the Republican party did not propose that these svmbols of disunion and war upon the constitution should ever go back into the hands of those who I bore them on the battle-field. ; The consideration of the bill -was then resumed and for some time ran smoothly until Mr. Dockery of i Mis souri precipitated!, brief tariff de- be, to by a few remarks on the subject of the surplus. During its progress Mr. Bynum of Indiana, ,said that he was not violating any of the confiden ces of the committee room in stating that when the Mills bill was being consdered in the committee, a gen tleman from Pennsylvania (Kefley) had made a motion to repeal the en tire tobacco tax. On that motion Messrs. Kelley and Reed voted in the affirmative. Messrs. McKinley, Urowne and Burrows voted against it. He cited this as showing that the majority of the Republicans, as rep resented in the committee, were not in fvor of the repeal of the tobacco tax. Mr. Dingley declared that if the tobacco provision of the Mills bill had been put into a separate bill it could have been passed at any time. Mr. Compton, of Maryland, as a representative of a tobacco growing district, announced his readiness to meet the issue squarely in his district in support of the Milln bill. Pending further debate the com mittee rose, and the House, at five o'clock, adjourned. Kll 1NVE8TIOATI5Q THE MAS8ACBE OF A SHER IFF A5D HIS FIVE DFrCTIS.8. Bt Telegraph to the News nd Observer. Chicago, Aug 2 A dispatch from i'oneka, Kansas, says Attorney Gen eral Bradford returned last night from Stevens county where he went to investigate the massacre of Sheriff tJross and his hve deputies. He ex amined a large number of people in different towns and all the eye witness es of the affair. The testimony is unani mous tnat dross and ms party ar rived at the camp tired and worn out; that they asked permission of the haymakers to lie down and rest; and that they were sleeping and appro- nending no danger wnen tney were suddenly surrounded by Robinson and h'B men and shot down without having any chance to defend them selves. All three of theBe witnesses say that not one shot was fired by sheriff uross or any one of his men. General Bradford has gathered a large amount of testimony which he will submit to the Governor. General Myers found that no troops were needed and so the mission oi tbe two officials is ended for the present. Business is reported to be at a stand still at Hngotown and Woodsdale. Everybody is armed and ready for an attack-and waiting to hear from Gov. Martin. The Governor has appointed a new . sheriff for Stevens county in place of the one killed and both towns have submitted a name from their respective plac a to Gen. Brad ford. But it is not likely that either one will be appointed as that will not facilitate peace. Robinson, who shot the nve men, is reported as taking things coolly. Feral" iltwi. By Cable to the-Wews and Observer- Berlin, Aug. 2. The Cologue Ga zette confirms the report that Em peror William will meet Queen Vic o ria on September 30, during the lat ter's visit to her daughter, Empress Frederick, at Baden. The newspapers announce that tbe Emperor of Germany, the Emperor of Russia and tbe Emperor of Austria will meet at some point on the Aus trian frontier in the autumn. Viehna, Aug. 2- Jury trials in the cases oi true Anarcnists in Austria and Hungary have been suspended for one year. Settling Vp for a Railroad Accident. By Telegraph, to the News and Observer. Boston, Mass., Aug. 2. 'AH of the thirty-five cases against the Boston & Providence Railroad Company arising out of tbe Bussey Bridge accident have been settled without trial. Two cases were referred to arbitrators, in one of which Oscar H- Norman was awarded $18,000. The highest amount received by any one injured in the accident was $25,000. It is under stood that the whole cost to the Com pany was about one million. The bills of physicians paid by the company amounted to about $100,000. Ballroad Accident. By TeleurApU to the News and Observer. Somerset, Ky., Aug 2. The freight train on the Cincinnati & Southern Railroad Tuesday night broke a truck of the second car from the engine and all tbe cars tumbled down an 150 feet embankment and were com pletely wrecked. The conductor and two tramps were killed. Washington Notes. By Telegraph to the News and Observer. Washington, Aug. 2 Bond offer ings today aggregated $553,000. Ac cepted, $25,000 four and a halfs at 107.45. A tABIPAIO.V Of PRI.VCIPL.SUi. ASortoaa Blew Is MatuchatttU Rrpnfc 1- A Boston telegram of the 29th ulto says : Some doubt has existed as to the position in the present campaign of Harvey N. Shepard, for many years Assistant Attorney-General of Massa chusetts under several itepuoucan administrations, but Mr. Shepard set tled the question last evening by coming out sq08rely in support of Cleveland and tariff reform in a speech delivered at Walpole, where he ad dressed a Democratic meeting for the first time. "In such a campaign as this," said Mr. Shepard, "with my convictions, no course is open to me but to support, by speech and vote, tho Democratic party and its candi dates, and I do this cheerfully and with no misgivings, but with mi whole heart and strength, because the Unit, has come when we are to engage in a campaign conducted upon princi pie. In the issue as presented the Democracv is the champion of free dom and of the people, waging battls on behalf of 60,000,000 consumers against trusts and rings and corrupt combinations. Right and logio and reason are on our side." The defection of Mr. Shepard is the most serious blow dealt the Bay State Republicans iu the present cam- PigP- ' l A A TS 1; ' - h 1 it if reporter teat : a 4 reaon. -rvU officer his been arrested at Kiel I on the charge of bjr a spy. :j LABOR. MEETING OF THE COMMITTEES OF THE TWO PARTIES. AS CXSUCCESSFCL EFFOBT AT COMPROMISE A CHALLENGE Fi!OM MB. OOW- DSET TO MB. BTRF.ETEH OTHER NEWI. By Telegraph t the News auil Observer. Chicago, August 2. The following is the account furnished by the local press bureau of the labor maeting of yesterday: A conference of the executive com mittees of the Union and the United Labor parties was held here this even ing to see if some settlement of their disagreements could not be reached. J. W. Goihorn of West Virginia, W. W. Jones of Camargo, Von Schilling of Milwaukee and half a dozen other representatives of the Union Labor party were present. The United La bor people proposed to divide the electors in the States be ween the parties. Tbe proposition was refused. They then offered to withdraw their ticket from half the States if the Union Labor party would do the same. This was hkowise declined. The United Labor party representa tives then agreed to withdraw both ticKcts and nominate in joint con vention a new one. This was re fused and the Union Labor m demanded as a basis oi compromise nothing less than a complete with drawal of the United Labor party candidates without conditions, and their support of the Union Labor party. The United Labor committee bade them good day and withdrew from the room. Robert Cowdrey, the United Labor party candidate for 1 resident of the United States, has issued the follow ing challenge to A; J. Streeter, the candidate of the Union Labor party : "There can bo no excuse for the existence of two labor parties in this country, and as all efforts to unite the two parties have proved futile, I hereby challenge you as the represen tative of tihe Union Labor party to meet me in friendly debate to sustain the cla ms of your party that you have a remedy that will curs the evils you are complaining of, and on the show ing thus made to let the voters of tbis country judge whether your party or the United Labor party has tbe true remedy for the evils that we would Cure."' A Portrait of Caswsll Wanted. Cor. ol the News asd Observer; Chapel Hill, N. C , Aug. 2, '88. Messrs. Gay Bros & Co., of 34 Reade street, New York city, have now in ihe hands of the printer a work entitled "The Great Republic of the West, Its StateB and Territo ries," by Benson J.. Lossing, LL. D., the eminent and accomplished histo rian, l ney sees to give among oiner illustrations the portrait of the first Governor of each State and Territory. Of tbe forty-eight wanted, they now have thirty eight. Among those still unfound is that, of Richard Caswell, the first Governor of North Carolina nnder the constitution of 1776. The services of this man to his adopted State were so many and so varied that his life, history and his fea tures should not be allowed to sink into forgetf ulness. 'Born in Marylanl August 3, 1729,he came to North Caro lina in his seventeenth year and began a career which was bounded only by the State's power to give and the length of life to receive. If any per son knows of the existence oi any portrait of any kind of Gov. Caswell, either in the possession of private parties or in a public institution, it is earnestly requested that they corre spond with me at once in regard to the same. Perhaps Dr. R. H. Lewis, of Kinston, to whom so much is due for his aid in the erection of the Cas well monument there, may be able to throw light on the subject; or Mr Henry R. Bryan, of New Berne, who is a distant connection, I think; of Gov. Caswell (Caswell's second wife being Sarah Heritage), may possibly aid us. James Pinckney Henderson, the first Governor of Texas, was a native of North Carolina, and belonged to the same family as Hon. John 8. Hen derson, now Representative in Con gress from the seventh 'district. He was also Attorney General of Texas, Secretary of State, her minister to France and EnglandJMajor-General of her forces in the Mexican war and Senator in Congress, where he died m 1858. If any person knows of an o 1 painting or a photograph of this distinguished Carolinian they will confer a' real public benefit in thus aiding the praiseworthy attempt to preserve the features and likenesses of the first Governors m a complete gal lery of portraits, something that has never before been attempted, and will be more difficult as the years roll by, as well as more apprecia'ed. Stephen B. Weeis, Sec'y N. C. Historical Society. P. S. State papers friendly to this undertaking will please copy. THE Jl.lE Bl'G ROAD. IT8 FIRST VICTIM CUT IN TWAIN. Cor. of the News and Observer. Tatlobsville, N. C, Aug. 1. Oar railroad killed its first victim last night, three quarters of a mile east of tbe depot, running over the body of Calvin Bogle who had been to a bar-room, two miles down the railroad and it is supposed laid down on the trace or attempted to get aboard the train while it was in mo tion His body was cut in two. The engineer did not know that he had run over any ore. The section hands poiDtr out before the train left came back and reported the body found Bogle was a large man about 40 years old and leaves a wife and two chil dren. He was a bard working man but would get drunk. He has been working at a saw-mill near town for some few weeks. Our railroad is an extension of 'the A. T. & O. R. R- from Charlotte to Sta'eBville. known asLinney's "June- Bug Road." Four fishermen have arrived, at BatifliJOLs haying beenL eoedL in arf exhausted condition on the Banks. . . V . Brtf, From tnc Seashore. Cor. if the News and Observer. Wilmington, August 1. As the encampment is now num bered with the things of tbe past, those having the firemen's tourna ment in band are actively engaged in raising funds and perfecting arrange ments. Every white fire company in tbe State has teen invited to attend and the prizes offered will be substan tial purses. The tournament or con test will take place about the 18th inst, and last for four days. From the auditor of the Seaooast Railroad it is learned that 30,000 per sons went over the road during tbe encampment. It is estimated that the steamboats of the lower Cape Fear squadron transported between 14,000 and 15 000 souls, the larger number going to Carolina Beach. The Burgaw & Onslow Railroad appears to be a fixed fact. This road will be a spur track of the Wilming ton & Weldon of about thirty-five miles in length and will doubtless prove a valuable feeder to the W. & W. railroad and Wilmington. It will put the valuable and almost exLaust less oyster beds of New River in easy reaching distance, besides it will handle much of the corn crop of the eastern counties, and its route lies through as fine timbered lands as can bo found. Work on the extension of the C, T C I- r . x a . v . it. u. is progressing very satisiactoruy. About three hundred hands are now at work and this num ber will be largely increased early in ice montn. Mrs. Frances Hoffman Watson, wife of Rt. Rev. A. A. Watson, was interred in Oakdale yesterday after- uuuu. &n immense concourse ioJ lowed her remains to their Last rest ing pla-p. The venerable and beloved Bishop na8 the heartfelt sympathies of the community in his bereave ment. The machinery for' the paint and oil mills has arrived and is being placod in positi n. Ihe standard Oil Co is enlarging its plant and will about double its present capacity. Wrightsville d attractions seem to nave taken sucn a n-m grasp on some oi tne encampment v sitors that many of them are still here revelling in the pleasures and luxuries. offered. The Inand P aca Hotel is doing a fine, business, and notwithstanding the fact that the building is not yet finished, its guests prefer to pat up with some little inconveniences rather than leave. The beautiful oak grove is quite an attraction to many; in fact, an oak grove almost, in a stone's throw of the ocean is a very unsual thing. Outside fishing is very fine and much fun is bad by those who are fond of trolling, while pole and line nshing never was better. In a short time blue fish will be at their best, and it is the opinion of old fishermen that the waters surround ing the Hammocks contain the gam est blue hBh, drum and mackerel to be found on the coast. It is rather late to talk of the En campment, but if yon could only hear the oompliments paid by our ladies to the Governor s Uuard and tbe enco miums heaped upon Col. Olds you would pardon my tardy allusions. I think each one of " the bovs in Green suits and white helmets" carried back a heart dangling from his belt, but it was not exactly right for the married men of the company to fool the poor girls as. they did. If the members of the Governor's Guard enjoyed their visit as much as our people enjoyed their society, then there can be no question as to the impression they took away with them. General Jones and wife and Capt. Gotten and family left yesterday for their respective homes. oiarah Tbe Warrlna Kansas Towns. Bali imore Sun. The country ought to take note of the barbarity of the couutv seat war in Kansas. It is atrocious that citi zens should shoot each other down in their anxiety to have their own par ticular real investments boomed by being selected for court-house sites. An investigating committer, with Senator "Bill" Chandler at its head, should start West at Once to put an end to the shameful doings in bleed ing Kansas. NEWS OBSERVATIONS. The West Virginia prohibition ists have met in convention and nom inated a State and electoral ticket. A conference of political friends of 4en. Mahone was held at his resi dence in Petersburg Thuesday night. -All the amendments to the Par- cell Commission bill were defeated. It is thought that Justice Day will decline to serve. The libel action of William O'Brien against the Cork Constitu tion has resulted in a verdict in favor of Mr. O'Brien for 100 damages. -The New Jersey Court of errors and Appeals have decided that the new high-license-local option-law is constitutional. Chief Justice Fuller has rented the granite house on Fourteenth street, extended, Washington, which belongs to Mr. A. L. Barber. This house is one ot the nnest in the District and occupies One of the most eligible sites. It is just outside the boundaries of the corporation, on the hill which commands Washington on the north, called Meridian Hill, be cause the meridian from which the National Observatory makes ita calcu lations is along the brow of the hill. Bauereisen, Godding and Koe- cel, three of the men charged with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy conspiracy, had a hearing at Aurora, 111., Moniay. Informer Bowles tes tified that Bauereisen purchased some ammonia and several packages of blue vitriol and gave it to him, with in structions to go to Mendota and put it in tbe tanks ol several locomotives. Bowles went to Mendota, but the en trines were closely watched and he had no opportunity to use the stuff. Tbe prisoners were held Bauereisen on charges of conspiracy, malicious mischief and unlawful handling of dynamite. . Godding - on -charges x of coftspoavcy and naiungoi aynamite, and Keogel on the charge of handling dynamite. A DRAW. THE FIGHT BETWEEN HAVE LIN AND MURPHY. both men entirfly isep ri attkh f.ohtt sine bounds. By Teletrraph t.itli S-ws and Observer. New Yobe, Autust 2r-At 8 57 this morning the fight between Havelin, of Boston, and Murphy, of England, was declared a draw. The men had. fought forty n ne rounds and were fighting for three acd one half hours. At the end both were entirely used up and unable to go on. The fight took place at P.aiu Poitt, up the Hudson. TattAS-rarir, dxmochatic platform We again congratulate the people ol North Car olina on ike continued enjoyment of peare. iiood government and general prosperity under the Dent, eeratlc administration of the alTalfs of the State which has now 1-een unbroken for so many years ; ' upon the Just and impartial enforcement of the law; upon tbe lurreaVlng efllctency of our com mon school sy Win, aud the progress made In pop ular euucauon ; upon me improvement ana en terprise manifested In nil parts ot the HUte. VS e again elialleee a comparison between this- state of things and the outrages, crimes aud scandals WDlea attended Republican ascendancy In our orders. We pledge ourselves to exert in the fu ture as in the past our beet eftorts to promote tbe Deal interests oi tne people ot all sections of the State. Aflirmiim our adherence to Democratic principles as heretofore enuncraied in Wie plat forms of the party, it is hereby Resolved, lhat no government has the right to burden its pevpte with taies beyond the amount -required to pay its necessary expenses and grail- . ually extinguish its public debt; and that when ever the revenues, however derived, exceed this amount, they should be reduced, so as to avoid a surplus in the treasury. That any system of tax ation which necessitates the payment of a pre mlum of S270 by tne government ou each $ 1,000 ol its bonds, taken up with the millions that would otherwise lie idle In Its vaults, aud paid lo bond holders wlu purchased, in many instances, at less than iar, is undemocratic, oppressive aud 10 Iquitious, and should lie refonneo. The course ot our Democratic Representatives In Congress, In their efforts to give relief to the people from bur densome Internal revenue and tariff taxation. meets with the approval of the Democratic party ot this State and wo respectfully recommend that tf they find it impossible to give to our people all tne relief demanded, they support any jut and practical measure preseated in Congress that will aflord a partial relief from such existing burden. Besolvea, 1 hat while the details of tiie methods bv which Uie constitutional revenue laritt shall be gradually reached are subjects which the rep resentatives 01 our people at tue national capital must be trusted to adjust, we think the customs dnties should lie levied for tlie production og pub clL.revenue, and the discriminations in their ad justment suoum be such as win place the highest rates on luxuries ana me lowest ou me necessa ries of life, distribute as equally as possible the unavoidable burdens ef taxation, and conler the -greatest good on the greatest number . nesoiveo, inai we. as nereioiore, iavor,auu will never cease to demand, the unconditional abolition of the whole internal revenue system, as A war tax not to be justified iu limes ol peace ; as a grievous uurueu to uie people aim a source 01 annoyance in its practical operations. We call the attention of the people of tne btate- to the hypocritical pretensious ( the Republican party In their platforms that they are in favor ol the re peal of this onerous system of taxation, enacted by their party, w hile uie Republicans in uon press are taxing their energies to obstruct all legisla tion inaugurated by the representatives of the ueinecratic party to relieve tne people 01 a or a part of this odious system. Resolved, That the course of tbe Democratic party, in furtherance of popular education, is a sufficient guaranty that we favor the education of the people, and we will promote and improve Uie present educational advantages so far as it can be done without burdening the people oy exces sive taxation. Resolved. That, to meet an existing eni.we will accept, for educational purposes, from the Feder al government, our pro ra;a snare of the surplus in its treasury ; Provided, that It be disbursed through State agents and tbe bill tor the distribu Uon be free from objectionable f i-aturt s. Resolved, That the United State briny on gov ernment and ours a national .rarty, we denounce Ute efforts of the Republicans to force n ational Issues la Congress and elsewhere, and to promote dissension and ill-will between the ioile of Urn duf stent sections of our common country. I Resolved. That it is out to tne n oiue 01 our eastern counties, who bav so cheerfully borne their share of our common burdens, that tbe pres ent or some equally effective system of couity government shall be maintained. Aesotvou, 1 nai uie uriwciafcic party 19 ui'ivwi to any further extension of tbe "No-feDce" law, unless such extension shall have first been au thorized by a majority of the qualified voters witbla the territory to be affected thereby. , Resolved, That the Democratic, party uas ever been the party of the workingiuan, and has never poues, nor have u usis -or-comot-pools' ever grown up under laws enacted by it. Tbe contest in tbis country being between aggregated capital, seeking to crush out all competition, and tne individual laborer, the Democratic party is, as it has ever been, against the monopolist and in favor of a just distribution ol capital, and demands the enactment ot laws (hat will bear equally upon all. Resolved, That as all taxation bears most heav ily upon the laborer, it is the doty oi the legislator, as a direct benefit to the workingman, to keep the expense of our public institutions at the lowest limit consistent witn wise ana emcieni manage ment. - The Democratic party opposes any compe tition between f re ' and convict laitor, but it Insists that com lets shall not remain idle at the expense ot honest tabor. Resolved, That ours being an agricultural State ft is our duty as well as our pleasure to uromote any and all legislation that Is best calculated to advance the interests uf agriculture; and that in so doing we will most eneclitauy advance me in terests ol mechanics, manufacturers and labor ers. Resolved. That the Democracy of North Caro lina cordially approve the administration ol lion. Alfred M. Scales, as honest, patriotic and conser vative. Resolved. That the ability, wisdom, nonesty. patriotism, independence, faithfulness to duly and manly courage of President Cleveland have won uie aujiuxaiH'n 01 an Kooa uieu , hiu mo m tarests of the eountrv demand ins rt -noiniuatiou and his re-election. ' Duncan Rose, of North Carolina, has been appointed a spec:al exami ner in the Department of the Interior at Washington at a salary of $1,400. You- vjsiohT PURE Ita suoerior axeellenoe nroven in mil lions of homes for more than a quartet of a oentury. It is used by the United State Government. Endorsed by the heads of the Oreat Universities as the the Strongest, Purest and most Health fui. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powdee does not contain Ammonia, Lime ot Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKINO POWDEB OO. STSW TORE. OmOaOO ST. LOUIS. You can stop that scratch ing and fretting by uslag Beaburv's Hydronaphtnot WILL YOU EXCHANGE SUFFERING FOR COMFORT AND JOY? 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