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Just received 400 BOYS'
PANTS from 50c. to
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Nobby Up-to-Date LIGHT WEIGHT
TOP COATS, $.6.00 to . . . V ...
200 pairs' Working Pants,
warranted not to rip, . . .
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Full Shapes and other (I0 Efl
.25 to ... . . . . . . . , ; tpUntjU
STIFF HATS, Full Shapes and other
kinds, from $1
in fart wp have almost anvthincr that a erood dresser may desire. Remember that we have ONLY ONE PRICE AND
SELL FOR CASH and that we do business at 304 South Elm Street. Money refunded on all purchases if goods are not
satisfactory, and no questions asked.
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1SH OLOTHIBES, - - - 304 So'iatla. EJlaa. St.. O-reerLsTooxo
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SALESMEN: Will H. Matthews, Chas. Lindsay, Ohas. Brower, Harry Sergeant
EMPEROR DEPOSED.
CHINESE RULER FORCED TO
ABDICATE HIS THRONE.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Empress Dowager Will
I Permir Him to Resign His
i Position A" Child Emperor
Ffom the Ching Dynasty Se
lected to Succeed Him Rus
sia May Interfere With the
j Plans-v-Troops Massed to
I Preserve Order.
Victoria, B. C, Oct. 2 The steamer
Olyrapia has reached here from Yoko
hama with over 200 natives and 4
white passengers. A despatch from
Pekin to the North Chioa News says
that arrangements for the dethrone
ment of the Emperor Kuang Hsu are
proceeding apace. The empress dowa
ger's choice has definitely fallen upon
Tu Teiian, the 9 year-old son of Duke
Thsai Lan, to succeed Kuang Hsu as
emperor of China. This imperial can
didate can only speak the Manchu dia
lect, and knows no Chinese. Kuang
Hsu has already been urged to draw up
a memorial to the empress dowager
asking to be allowed to resign hi
throne, owing to his chronic illness.
Pretense will be made by the empress
dowager to , refuse acceptance of the
resignation, and the empress will be
asked to consider the matter again.
This will be done three times and at
the the third time the resignation is
to be accepted a showing that the em
peror is really anxious to resign.
The troops of Prince Ching and Jung
Lu will be under arms on the occasion
of the dethronement la case something
untoward should happen. Duke Tsai
Lan is a close friend of Prince Chinsr.
and there are doubts whether the Jung
Lu party will be atisfied at this
further strengthening of the Ching
faction by the appointment of the em
peror. There are rumors that perhaps
Russia will have something to say be
fore the dethronement takes place, as
Chinese officials in Fang Tien have re
cently resolved that the Russians are
preparing to send a large force to Pe
kin in a few days.
' VESSEL WRECKED BY BATS.
The steamer Olympia brings news of
the loss of the steamer White Cloud, a
paddle steamer, which was proceeding
from Hong Kong to Manila under an
American charter. .The vessel found
ered when about ninety miles from
Hong Kong, and seven men were
drowned. The crew - had just time
enough to get away from the steamer
when she foundered. The mate's boat,
containing six besides himself, was
driven into the vortex with her. The
captain's boat, containing six. people,
was picked up by a Chinese junk and
taken to Shanghai. The disaster is
said to have been due to the ravages of
the white .rat. The vessel's seams
opened outand she simply collapsed.
Gen, Fitzhugh Lee is expected to
return from Cuba in a few weeks
to spend some time.
The Young People's Christian
Temperance Union has decided to
push temperance work in Canada.
. Senator Hanna denies that he
will resign from the head of the
National Republican committee be
cause of ill-health.
Robert Scott, colored, who fiddled
for Lafayette at a reception given
by Thomas Jefferson, died at Char
lottesville, Va., aged 96.
Eleven persons, all women and
children, are reported drowned in
the wreck of the steamer Scotsman
at the Straits of Belle Isle, New
foundland. Dispatches from Greece say a
severe earthquake around Smyrna
killed 1000 persons, injured 800
and demolished 200 houses .and
two villages.
President McKinley realizes his
mistake in mitigating the sentence
of Commissary-General agan and
would be glad to have him apply
for retirement.
Amos L. Allen, formerly private
secretary to Thomas B. Reed, has
been nominated as Reed's succes
sor by the Republicans of the First
Maine district.
Generals Mac Arthur, . Wheeler
and Wheaton have established
headquarters at Angeles, in the
Island of Luzon, and are awaiting
orders to advance.
President J. G. Schurman, of
Cornell University, chairman of
the Philippine Commission, has
aeciarea in favor of ultimate inde
pendence for the islands.
One of the Southern Railway's
warehouses at Pinner's Point. Va..
I -was destroyed by fire last Friday
night, entailing a loss; of several
hundred thousand dollars.
A publication issued by the
Bureau of Statistics of the Treas
ury Department says there are 10,
000 miles of railroads in Africa in
operation or under construction.
The Navy Department has as
signed officers to command three
Spanish ships sunk in Manila bay
by Admiral Dewey, and subsequent
ly raised and repaired at Hong
kong. Consul General Wildman,' at
Hongkong, in a report to the State
Department says the competition
to control the trade in the Philip
pines is growing keener every
month. .
The Southern Stove Manufac
turing Association, composed of
leading stove manufacturers of the
South, has advanced prices of
stoves 5 per cent in Southern terri
tory, to be effective at once. This
makes the price of , stoves 30 per
cent higher than last year when
iron began advancing.
! The Pullman Palace Car Com
pany having failed to schedule any
personal property for taxation, the
board of assessors put it at $1,500,
000. The board of review has
raised it to $8,900,000, and in ad
dition to this the company will
have to pay, to the State of Illinois
a tax on the capitalization.
: Gilbert H. Purdy, the seaman in
charge of the Olympia's hold, is
the oldest member of her crew, and
is a veteran of three wars. "In
the battle of Manila," he says, "I
was told to carry jwater to the
wounded ; but I and the surgeons
and the chaplain didn't have any
thing to do, as there were no
wounded."
Figures received at the State De
partment from the German Bureau
of Statistics, through Vice Consul
Hamnauer, at Frankfort, show that
last year Germany imported from
the United States more goods and
products than from any other
country, the total being $208,785,
500. In the same time we bought
from Germany goods to the value
Of $79,611,000.
1 Late official advices from Samoa
give accounts of meetings of the
provisional government at Apia, at
which steps were taken to have
native judges try cases between
natives and native officials to
solemnize marriages and keep tax
records of property owned by the
Samoans. Two judges were chosen,
one being an adherent of the form
er King, Majietoa, and the other a
Mataafan. i
i ' ' ! :
Hobson City, the new negro
town in Alabama, has its charter,
its mayor and council and its city
officers, but it lacks one thing yet
to make it go, and that is money.
It has no power to assess taxes
until next year and the police
court is not yet a very paying in
stitution, but funds are needed
right now for various things. To
create a supply to meet the press
ing demand, the mayor has asked
for free-will offerings.
j The beef trust is causing more
people to eat fish, and in the cities
fish has almost doubled in value by
reason of the great demand.
ENVOYS TURNED DOWN.
Otis Sends Them Back With
the Message That Only the
White Flag: and Ground
ing of Arms Will
Pass
Washington, October 2 A disDatch
from Gen. Otis was received at the War
Department this morning, giving an
account of his meeting with the insur
gent envoys. General Otis said the in
terview with Aguinaldo'a representa
tives indicated that the leaders; were
manoevering solely with a view to se
cure recognition of the insurgent gov
ernment. All such overtures were re
jected and the envoys were informed
that the only thing the United States
would recognize was a white flag and
the grounding of arms.
He also informed the envoys that
such capitulation on the part of the
insurgents should come quickly, in
order to avoid the consequences of ac
tive war, as the United States did not
intend tr permit any delay in the mat
ter. . . .
The course of General Otis is approv
ed by the War Department. Secretary
Root took the dispatch from General
Otis over to the White House for the
President's consideration. I
BURNED TO DEATH.!
Mrs. Fanny Scott Locked Her
Children In Her Room and
Then Went to a Dance.
Tallulah Falls, Ga., October 2.! Sat
urday night ,Mrs. Fanny Scott, 8
widow, left her home near here to go
to a dance in the neighborhood.1 Be
fore leaving her home she carefully
locked up her three children, fastening
also the wooden window shutters.
About nine o'clock some persons in
the vicinity beard the children's voices
calling, "Mother, mother! j Ob,
mother I" and in a moment they no
ticed the dwelling to be on fire. .With
all speed .they approached the bouse,
but too late. The little wooden struct
ure bad fallen in a blazing mass of
timbers. ..'-"
The three children were burned to
death in the fire, the bodies being char
red and burned beyond recognition.
Only a lamp was burning when the
mother left her home, and it is presum
ed an explosion caused the fire. The
ages of the children were eight, six and
one and a half years.
It is reported that the unfortunate
mother has lost her reason. j
Three years ago if anybody had
proposed that the United States
acquire the Philippines, even as a
gift and with their full consent, be
would have been regarded as fit for
a lunatic asylum. In what way is
it more desirable for us to expend
our blood and treasure in conquer
ing these islands, than it was under
President Cleveland? .
Clergymen Long Li red.
The figures collated by the life insur
ance companies in the United States
and England show that as a rule clergy
men are long lived. Physicians and sci
entists agree that among the elements
which contribute to long life ore sobrie
ty, regular hours, outdoor exercise,
some mental occupation, and above all
serenity the quality which qualifies
one" for honorary membership of a Don't
Worry club. Clergymen, perhaps, como
nearer to complying with these condi
tions than do people in other walks of
life. What & known asNeuville's table
of professional men gave the following
averages of the length of life in 1,000
cases taken of illustration : Physicians,
52 years; lawyers, 54; merchants, 57;
teachers, 59; clergymen, CO. The aver
age life of sailors in those conntries in
which accurate records ' are kept is 46
years, of mechanics, 48 and of farmers
Co, though the average for farmers is
unduly high perhaps.
Long life among clergymen is rather
the rule than the exception. Cardinal
Mertel (he is a Bohemian and occupies
at Borne the office of vice chancellor of
the Sacred college) is 02, the pope is 87.
The Very Rev. Henry Liddell of Ox
ford, who died on Jan. 19, was 87.
Bishop Wilmer is 81, and Bishop Wil
liams of Connecticut is 80. A French
statistician somev years ago made the
discovery, corroboration of which, has
been afforded in the United States of
late years, that persons drawing pen
sions live longer than those who don't.
What is known among insurance men
as Rasper's table gives the percentage
of persons of various prof essions in Eng.
land who reach the age of 70 years as
follows; Physicians, 24; teachers, 27;
artists, 28; lawyers, 29; clerks, 82;
soldiers, 32 j merchants, S3; farmers,
40; clergymen, 42. New York Sun.
Cbl Cutting la War.
Although not a cable laying nation
and with a strangely apathetic policy
toward projecting new lines of sub
marine telegraph in the past, our war
with Spain has demonstrated that the
Washington authorities were -keenly
alive to the importance of cutting or
controlling the cables connecting Cuba
with Spain. Of the many naval prob
lems which this modern war is expect
ed to solve, that of testing the relative
value of cables in deciding the fate of
combatants is not the least. The isola
tion of Cuba from Spain was one of the
first steps undertaken by our naval
authorities, and the success of the work
has demonstrated its feasibility. J
From a strategic point of view the
cables are therefore of inestimable value,
and if earlier in the conflict the United
States had severed all communication
between the blockaded island and the
mother country the war would have in
all probability been shortened. A na
tion shut off from communication with
the rest of the world is effectively block
aded ; but, so long as cable messaages
can be transmitted bade and forth, the
most rigid blockade of ships is some
what doubtful in obtaining the desired
results. G. E. Walsh in North Ameri
can Beview.
NOTICE OF SALE!
I will sell at public auction, at tfci cor.
honse door In Greensboro, on Monliy, r
6th, 18W, my land situated tii mlltiM
Greensboro and containing H' acret. Tjx
im a rood one and a ball itory lramt bailee
gooa log kitchen and a tobacco bars ci
place. Also a very sood orchard. Tbii
It well watered. There arc about Ijicw
young pine timber and a imull raralot ft
will make a rood truck farm. Trmi ot tLt-One-half
caah and balanca in nx nuuttiti
percent. Interest. ,
JAMES'S. KAVJ .
- - McLeamvlIIe. S.C
Notice by Publicatioi
NORTH CAROLIN A, the Si:jti..rf
ORDER" OF fl'HLK" ATIOS.
Edna L. (;, plaintiff,
" ... Elmer L. Cj:t--rrfMd.iit T
It appearing from 'the aflKUvit of 11:J
Case In this action that Elmer l Ci, fJ;
ant therein, is not to be f'und in p
and cannot after due diligence f f,'un;'Vf
utate, and It further aptai in that .a
has been instlt
a decree of ai
matrimony betw
uted for the purine r.;Wi
.1 court diM,hm
nti!T ana fl-Tr
and a divorce absolute rrm ai-i ll7"" .
It ia therefore ordered that notice
tion be published once a week i;r i
the (iRKKNSBORO PATRIOT, a wrk!r tf
published in the county nl uw-
puoiisiicu in ' (lie cimiuj , , f-But
notifying and requiring the neif
appear at the" next term of the sui-ct-'
or said
December,
niinifrnr ttiA riipf therein ueman-ir
granted. . j m.' ,
witneas my nana im v' i I v C J
r at tne next tei m ' - it, 4
I county to be held on the
iber, lHy, at the court liou-ei. 5ar
answer or demur th the mf, ,
1899.
Notice of Execution &i
North Carolina. jn the Stycr' Cesf'
GflLFORD COLKTT. I . '
W. ti Brown, '
John GalWer.j.
By Tirtne of an executwm direrte Gf
dersijrned, from iBeSuperwr "-,
county, in the above ent.tied actiua. ,
MONDAY, '.NOVEMBER f ,
. . 1 - ,.t ..11 ' i
at the court V , h V) tJT
to the highest w,l:h'i7.terM
execution, all the rijrbt, title an 1 1 u v
the said John CiIIfttier.rfero.ln.
following dcnbed real estate. l' tj
lowing dVribed -n.l leji W
Guilford county on the isth nr g:
18S, The rollowinr rea'wtate ,,j
of John tihr-,'"t.T;,c ar'n
in Guilford wrnty. a uld
ho. 7 m block Ne- 40. ;
in block Ho. S of the t.i"P .j,
Sonth Greensboro 'm : in U
bonnde4 " M ws: I tTrrt tV
bemjc on the north ille hne. l
front and running b k to J-nr on 4
4 in block No.S frontmK flflT k y,
Asbeboro atreet. W "f A Jw
ing fifty feet on the . v ;H 1 in
fronting aouth. M" l".t l.!e of,
fronting fifty feet u 1
street fronting ulK nu-w' 1
by the South 5Stiu,r. fl"4
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and reRistereu iu . .. lf liuu
117 or tne isegi -
which reference .ltit
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