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BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM."" VOLUME XXV. WILSON.N. C., MARCH 7, 1895. NUMBER 10. 9 ofl I) c AI.I. YOUR SPJC- ! A I. atikntion to a LINK O l 'Black Sa tines ji ST RICCEIVKD AT ti i V ii N 1 THE CASH I RACKET STORES J. M.' LEATH, , m n ;i i; NASI I unci TARUORO St'j. M IHtnrlinc. TalkT Is your mamma in? ' Little V illie Yes'm; she's up stairs comhiif her hair. Caller-Well I'll not disturb her; I' call again Little Wiliie Oil. you won't disturb her; dis is ler Sunday hair she's comb- in' now; she can leave it on de chair an' finish it when you go home. Brooklyn Lade. . - " - i fr'ilr til if -:mc; 'I lading tho needed merit to more than inake gond all the advertising clai-ned for them, the following four remedies have reached a phenomenal sile. Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, each bottle guaranteed Rlectric Hitters the great remedy lor liver, stomach, and Kidneys, ISucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and Dr. King's New Life Pills, .which. are a perfect pill. All the remedies are guaranteed to do just what is claimed for them and the dealer whose name is attached herewith will le glad to tell yon more of them. Sold at Margrave's Drugstore. lit I IIIii.iIk. Ethel Oh, niiimma,. we are having such fun pl'ayiiig being married to Harry ! . . M.imimi And who is Harry's wife? E hel 1 am now, but the other girls are going to be just as fast as he gets a divorce. Judge. A II mil. r.u rMtt About Hood's Sarsaparilla it expels bad humor ; nd crsates good b urn or. A battle for blood is what Hood's Sar saparilla vigorously fights, and it is al ways victorious in expelling foul- taints and giving the vital fluid the quality and quantiiy of perfect health. It cures Scrofula, salt rheum, boils and other blood diseases.' Hood's Pills act easily, yet promptly and efficiently 011 the bowels and liver. Watts I .n't there a play called the "Kentucky Colonel?" Potts 1 believe there is. ' I think it s s ) .11 s rt 1 a t ink dr i ma, though I am not sure. She (bitterly) "Before, you married me I was an angel. I'll never be that again I suppose. He (sarcastically) 'Weft, I live in hopes. jliKm The Old Friend And the best friend that never fails you is Simmons Liver-Regulator, (the Red Z) -that's what you hear at the : mention of this -excellent Ljver medicine, and ' people should not : be persuaded that anything else Will do. It is the King of Liver Medi cines ; is better than pills, and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel It acts directly on the Liver, Kidney and Bowels and gives new life to the whole - sys tem. This is the medicine you want. Sold by all Druggists in Liquid, or in rowder to be taken dry or made into a tea. O-EVERY PACKAOK-et HaithaZSUnpla red on wrapper J. H. ZEIUN COW Philadelphia, Pa. ' A pair in a hammock Attempted to kiss, But in less than a jilly Mrv,i.1u.Rf.uin From a letter written by Rev. J. -Gun- derinau, of Dimondale Mich.," we are permitted tO' make this extract: "I have no hesitation in jrecommending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the re Suits were almost marvelous in the case of my wife. While I was . pastor of the Baptist Church at Rives Junction she was brought down with. Pnuem'onie succeeding La Grippe. Terrible p'arox ysms of coughing would last hours with little interruption and it seemed as if she could not survive -themK A friend recommended Dr. King's New Discovery; it was quick in its work and highly satisfactory in its results." Trial bottles free at Hargrave's Drug Store. Regular size 50c and $1. . - A Clnver Kiimllv- "What is Joaii doing?" "He's an engineer." "And Pedro?" "A lawyer." -"And Carlos?" - i ."He's a doctor.' "And the old man?" "The old chap has to work to ktep the lot from star. ing." Ex. Tut) ll-ai for the Family. Macon, Ga. "I have found Simmons Liver Regulator the best family medi cine. 1 have used it in indigestion and billiousness, and found it to relieve im mediately. After eating a hearty sup per, if 011 going to bed 1 take a dost of it; 1 never feel any : bad effects ot the supper." Dvid G. Sparks, Ex-Mayor. Yojur druggist sells it in powder or liquid; the powder to be taken dry or made into a tea. An Mrfftilk) Woman. Husband (breathlessly) Lam to start bn a tri, 111 two hours, and you can go with me if y ou can get ready. The Galveston, Texas, bagging fac tory has teen put in operation again with about 100 operatives. The plant has commenced work on a cargo of " jute from India. The Mammoth Spring, Ark.,1 cotton mills has secured contract to supply the Arkansas state penitentiary with clothing, in competition with eastern aud other mills. Kaiser Wilhelm has nominated Em peror Francis Joseph, of Austria Field Marshal of Germany, to till tnc vacancy caused by the death of Archduke Albert of Austria. The Vienna "Frembenblatt" claims information from a trustworthy ouj-ce that Prince Lobaaoff-Rostovski, Rus sian Ambassador to Austria will be Russian foreign minister to succeed the lae M. d Giers. The Vienna correspondent of the Liondon Uentral JNews states that a number of persons, mostly students, have been arrested 'iu Keeff and Odessa on suspicion that they were engaged in revolutionary plots. . ! Ex-Premier Gilloitti haa appeared before ' the examining magistrate of Rome and denied the competence of an ordinary Judge to try him in connec tion with the documents which had been published by the order of the chamber of deputies. The war department of France haa completed experiments with a new gun which is guaranteed for a thousand rounds. After 8,000 rounds had been fired -' with the heaviest charges "of smokeless powder, the gun was found in a fair coudition. - Cleveland Fr poring for Another Hunt Washington, Mareb: The indica tions are that the president expects to go to North Carolina on a fishing and ducking trip shortly if ter ad jonrhuaent of congress. He will go on the Violet. General Post's Baeeeoaor In Coujrresa -GAX.VA, I1L, March 1. George W. Prince, of Galesburg, was yesterday nominated on the 1,470th ballot by the tenth republican" convention to succeed Geaeral Post in congress. v ' CHEAT D ATT LES are contin ually going on in the human sys tem. Hood's Sarsaparilla drives out dis ease and R E3TO RES HE A LTH . Big lot of shawls at big reductions at Young's. .18 NORTH CAROLINA Current News for the Week l Throughout tha State. TAXATION UNDER THE KW LAW. Htory or the Mont Destructive Firs Kmia In tUe HUtory of the Little ( ltjr. . SUI n .lor I rank! Din of rnuuniotittt ut K lrtii Kinston, N. d, March 1. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.' lire broke out in Bryan Field's stables and rapidly spread to the won k1 buildi tips in the rear of Oettenger Brother' store and the opera house. The two main business- blocks of the town are in ashes or smouldering ruins. , including the stores of Einstein Broth- ers, . 11.; ljolteiv Oettensfer Brother. Pried ner, Cox & Co-., hardware store; ! C. W. Crabtree. Abbott & Summer ell. Hawsou Brothers. c J. W. Collins, Lof ten's bank, the bar-rooms of IT C. Har rison and J. L. Whaley and Wagoner's beer bottling establishment, Jlotet Tull, the Free Press office,'-Dr, Tutl'r residence and ! office, residence .of S. Einstein. II. H, Wilson, Sheriff Sutton, Dr. W. Av J. -Pollock, ' A. J. ; Loften S. M. llarrell, and W. II. Brock' resU dence and stables. - The flying apar'.; t burned two or three houses occupied by colored people in another part ol the town. . n It is by , far the severest fire ever known in Kinston. Ther loss -is fully $22,6oo, and - the insurance in the ag greate is small. The fire . was under control by 6:80 o'clock. ' The Newberaie fire engine arrived here at 7:20 and is now throwing water nn t.li flinonl1tfriur miinft. " i Theoria-inof the fire isreported to have been a eigarette stump, carelessly thrown by a boy iu liryau Field's b tables. NEW NORTH STATE REVENUES. Taxation Vndur the Hill That Itecntly . Pasxetl. Ralrioh, N; C.( March 4. Under the revenue act the poll tax is 91.24, the state tax is cents,- the pei-sion 8f cents, the school 16' cents, on incomes and gross profits from property not taxed 5 per cent, and on gross, incomes derived from salaries and f.es X per per cent on excess over $1,000 to, $5,000. and xi per cent between $5,000 and $10,000. The tax on cigars is 5 cents per-1,000 and on cigarettes 10 cents per 1,000. The sewing machine tax is 8500, piuno or organ dealers' tax $250. The tax on drummers is $100, which shall : give exemption from all other license ' . n'L .. 1 : 9 t L2t X ile luxuw wr maul aun wuia nies is $100 and a tax of i per cent on gross receipts in this state. State banks are to pay 50 on $25,000 capital and $2 for each $1,000 over that amount. Budd ing and louud association!! pay tax ac cording to paid-iu capital. The tax on railways is I per cent on gross receipts, telegraph and tel phone companies i per cent. , MANY AFTER THE PLUM. . And Still Another Candidate for 1 the Carolina Railroad t-'ouimlsnlonor-hlp. Rai.kioh. N. C., March 4. There is another candidate in the field for; the railway commissionership, this being -John W. Graham, of Warren county, who was the populist candidate' for state superintendent of public instruc tion. It was the expectation of S the populists to caucus on the question of railroad commissioner Saturday night but the caucus was not held. There was a caucus of populist senators, who decided to go against all bills making alterations of the charter of Raleigh, unless t he people expressed a desire for a' change. DEATH OF SENATOR FRANKS. Was 1' resident pro tern of the North Caro lina State Senate. . J , Raleigh, N. C March 1. Sena tor Edward M. Franks, from the eighth district, president pro tern of the 'sen ate, died in this city at 2:45 o'clock yes terday morning of pneumonia. He was thirtv-eight years old and leaves one child. -k ;'. -:- -..".p,- The flags on the capitol were at half mast all . day and tne legislature ad journed, .until 3 o'clock in respect to his memory. His remains were carried last night to IUchlands, Onslow county. his home, lie was quite prominent in his county and represented it in the legislature in 18V1. !. Carolina Want a State (Inard T Rai.kigh. N. C March 4. The bill to repeal all appropriations to the state guard is up as a special order in the house today-., It a sweeping bilL Some of the populists are very bitter nguinst the guard, and aUackcd it during the campaign, terming it the "standing army." , . t ... BRIEF. NORTH CAROLINA-IN Eighty more convicts " have, bi-en added to the great force on the farms on the Roanoke. , - . Syndicate orgnjiize.d at Springfield, Ohio, to mine . rich gold Ileitis near Charlotte. . ; . The University is to have a $20,000 Yonng Men's Christian Association building. The movement was begun Sunday night. v ; It is alleged that some " of the popvf lists now care very little for the county government bill si nee the ' republicans ran over them hvavily in that matter. V Editor liar man. of the Southern To bacco Journal, has gone to Florida to write up the tobacco interests of -that state for the railroad companies, whose guest he will be during the trip. . The fusion caucus has agreed on H. G. Ewart as judge on the new- criminal covrrt circuit, composed of Buncombe, Madison, Henderson and ' Haywood counties. There was quite a fight against Ewart Ex-Governor Bob Taylor, pf Tennes see, has accepted an' invitation to de liver his "celebrated lecture - on "The Fiddle and the Bow" at the University on June 1st. , We will sell you snufl at 25c per pound Young. Big reductions on men's neck weai this week at Young's. AlDine and Derbv hats' at M. T. Young's. . Ladies shoes at ;oc a pair a Young's. Get your garJens ready and get the best seed from Hargrave. NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLTUARE ' An OnHn oT the Week's Work In Itoth I fientito nod Iloumv The following is a condensed, synop Bis of the proceedings of both branches of the general assembly . for the past -i week: , .;-:V:-: ' . ' 85-cH Day. Senate was devoted to the bill to lend the Confederate monuihentul a's. nota tion tlOOOO out of the direct tax tutfi rcjay for statuary for the monument. The: rt'.JC us -slon lasted several hours and much ln-rest . wm taken. ; It was defeated, ayes 8. nays' 2. i In the house a substitute for ttio bill t;o re . peal the Henrietta cussing law passed. Other : local bills vere passed.- ...... .. , 3ctu Pat. In the senate bills were ratillOu as follows: - .,- . : . Itoq ulring railroads to redeem unused ticketsr : to ereate a new township In Forsyth county; to confer certain privileges on the Atlantic and Danville railway; - to incorporate yortlt. academy. In the house of representatives the - Kill i A i' : A.A.t.0 script to redeem at the option of holders, pass ed after an amendment, that it shall not apply where a contract to the contrary is made, had been-adopted. An amendment to except Crayen and New Hanover counties "was lost. The Douglass adjournment matter- hold ': the rTTZZZl M, .4- : In the forenoon in honor to the memory of Scn j tor Franck, who died at his boarding house In j this city. On re-assembllng the senate took ' up the bill to abolish the criminal court of New Hanover and Me klenburg counties. It pro posed to establish a new criminal court circuit embracinK New Hanover. Wake, W:iyne, i Craven, Mecklenburtf, Forsyth, Kdsecombe : and Halifax. The bill passed lis second read : inir. Mr. Bwart is elected judge of tho Bun combe criminal oourt. 3STH Day. In the senate Mr. Grant Intro duced a bill to complete the confederate mon ': umcnt, appropriating $10,000 and ask;d that It ; be taken up at once. Passed second reading. The county government bill came up' as a special order. Tho bill passed. In the house bills passed giving the whtte Agricultural ami Mechanical college $10,000 annually and tho colored Agricultural and Mechanical college $5.000 annually; reducing the salr.riesof railroad commissioners to $1,500 to take effect at the expiration of : J. W. Wilson's term; refluir'ing lire insurance companies to pay tLo face value of policies in case of total loss. A SENATOR'S WISE PLAN. Will Extend a Net f ar Out Into the Ocean X- Off the North Carolina Coast. Rai.kioh, N. C, March 4.' Senator Campbell, of Cherokee, has a plan for stopping all the fish which move-northward along the . coast of thin state so the people here can eapture them and and thus develop a great industry. His plan proposes the setting of great nets, reaching miles out to sea in which the fish will be caught. Campbell is a deep thinker and sees much in this plan, lie has made a fine record here as a speaker- and is openly, talked of as a candidate fcr governor. He thinks this new plan will . capture the eastern voters. ENDORSE CRISP FOR DELEGATE. Tho House Prouo.ea Hint, as a Representa tive to 1 he Monetary Coiiferonep. , Washingtox, March 4. The follow ing resolution was presented in the house at a late hour last-night by Mr. Bailey, democrat of Texas, and passed without a dissenting vote amid up plause Mr. Richardson, democrat of Tennesse, being in the chair : ; . T Whereas, It is the earnest desire of the house of representatives that the speaker shall be one of the delegates to the international monetary conference on the part of the house of representatives, v - " Resolved, That the Hon. Charles F. Crisp is hereby requested to designate himself as one of the three delegates to be selected by him in pursuance to the provision of law. TEN THOUSAND MEN IDLE.- I ke Ureatest Strike Now on In the History of New York City. ' Ne YorIc. March 1. At a ' meeting of walking delegates yesterday it was decided that the master builders had no intention whatever of compromising or of meeting the strikers half way. This being the case, the delegates final ly decided ; to make no more offers of any sort to them. A resolution was adopted calling out today every man who is connected with the building trades association. It means that more than ten thousand men will stop work." FORCING THE CONTRACTORS. Aggressive Toiler Faraned by , the Hoard . of Walking DleratM In New York. N jcw York, March 2. The board of walking delegates began an aggressive policy in the matter of the strike at ' 10 o'clock yesterday. The fight is on and will be carried onwith determination. Six hundred more men were called out yesterday on three up-town buildings: The men "called out belong to the various buildings trades. Today iriore men will be called out and others will strike each day until the contractors are forced to' settle. - , vThe Proposed University of America. - Washington, - February 28. Repre sentative Uainer, of Nebraska, has in troduced a bill to establish the Univer sity of .mer'ictii in which each state, territory and ' congressional . district shall be en titled to an equal propor tionate number of students, chosen by means of open competitive examina tions. .,,n, ; - lint All on Crew Were saved. -i Washington, D. C, March 2. Super intendent Kimball of the life-saving service ia informed that the Bark Woodan, of Stettin. Germany, from St. Pierre, to Wilmington, N. C, in ballast. . . . . 1 T.A T , crew" 01 ti, stranueu on x'ryiDgjr-an Shoals, N. C., yesterday The crew were saved.. y National Bank In Nebraska Fails. .'. Washington, March 2. Comptroller Eckels is informed that the Holbridge National bank, of Holbridge, Neb., cap ital $75,000, failed yesterday. The bank owes toO.OOO. Bank Examiner Whitr more has been directed to take charge of the broken bank. Contract Goes to a Chlcairo Firm. Washington, March 1. The contract for the erection of the public building at Newberne, N. C, was yesterday awarded to Grace & Hyde, of Chicago, 111, at 37,726. . Prominent Soath Carolinian Dead., CHABiJtSTON, S. C, February 38. Hon. William Alston Pringle, for many years recorder of this city, died here last night, aged 7 years. For seven years or more Mrs. W. D. Louder, of Quincy, Ky., was subject to severe attacks of cramp colic. Mr. S. R. Morse, a druggist of that place, recommended Chaimberlaids Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which has effected a permanent cure, saving her much suffering besides the trouble and expense of sending for a doctor, w men was oiten necessary, t or sa e i? 1EWED Work of the Throe Sessions of the Momorablo Body. SILVER, TARIFF, AND BOND MATTERS Summary of the Work of l-oth' Rranchwi of Thstt Honorabie liotiy Kroiu the ' Extra Session to Fresi-ut Tlinn. . - What Has Uc-oa Done, i'. :."""- " :'.: . f - .- Wasiiiisotos, March 4. Congress ad journs at noon today. Itoth branches have been in continuous session since Saturday, nifht and dav All the groat appropriation bills were in the hands of the president at daylight this morn ing. The graud total of appropria tions, subject to some few changes,.is fourfa to be 497,904,001. This is di vided among the bills as follows : , . . Agricultural Army.. Diplomatic. , District of Columbia. Fortilications Indian Legislative. . ." Military Academy Naval Pensions , Poslofllee Sundry i-Wil. : ; Urgent deficiency . . .-. . a,a,7nu 23,ii63H 1.575 07S 6.916.5: -1 1 . SW0.9-H U 9 O.tXM IM.-Ot W). IIW.1KM 141 :iK1.5 hy.5,fi.ij, 47.14O.U0l General deili-ieney . . . Miscellaneous 50.) 00.1 Permanent ...... 113(73 051 Summitry of Work Accomplished. Washington, March 4. The threo sessions of the fifty-third congress, ex piring at noon today, were - dominated by three controlling issues. The first by the silver question. "The second by the tariff question. Tho third by tne financial question. On the 7th of August, the con gross convened in extraordinary sch sion for the avowed purpose of repeal ing the compulsory silvor purchase' pro vision of the law of 1SJ0. This was tho silver session. Mr.. William L.' Wilson, chairman ol the ways and means committee, pre pared a bill in conformity to the recom mendations of the president's message, and on the 28th of August, 1893, this measure passed tae house. The senate in the meantime had been preparing, through the committee 011 finance, a substitute bill, and on the first of No vember this senate . substitute received the approval of both v houses and .be came law by the approval of the presi dent. This measure, and the repeal of the remaining vestiges of the recon struction federal election laws, closed the important work ; of the extra ses sion. The Reversion of the Tariff. . - Upon its meeting in regular session in December, 1893, congress entered upon the consideration of the reversion of the tariff. The Wilson tariff bill, passed by the house, Februa ry 1st, 1894, was set aside for the Jones-Gorman compromise tariff bill, adopted by the senate on the third of July. IS94, after four months', debate, and the house was "given the option of the "senate bill or .nothing." It took the' senate bill and sent it to the president on the 15th of August, 1894, President Cleve land permitted the bill to become a law without his approval, and in an infor mal manner communicated to individ ual members of congress his, dissatis faction with the inadequacy of the changes made in the tariff system. f Supplemental-to the passage of this tariff law, the . senate entered upon a profitless and inconclusive investiga tion of rumors that senators had been improperly influenced to vote for tho senate sugar scedule and had speculat ed in stocks of the so-called "sugar trust company," Lock of Financial Legislation. The third and last, or "financial" ses sion of the fifty-third congress has been especially marked by the refusal of both houses to put into legislative shape the recommendations of the pres ident for the alleviation of tho string ent financial situation. The president in his annual message called attention to the continual deple tion of the gold reserve and complained that though it was "perfectly and - pal pably plain that the only way under present conditions by which this re serve, when dangerousljdepleted, can be replenished is through the issue and sale of bonds of the government for gold, congress has not only thus far declined to authorize the issue of bonds best suited to such -a purpose, but there seems ' a disposition,: in some quarters to deny both the necessity and the power for the lssue-of bonds at all." Ihe l ate of a Banking BI1L The banking-and currency committee of the house, with the approval ofthe administration, submitted a financial measure which among other provisions. materially modified the J ational bank ing laws and repealed the restrictions on, state bank circulation--' This bill was defeated by six majority. ; It was ! followed by a second message from the president, received by both houses of congress December 2Sth, in whiah the president said that- whatever might havebeen the merits of tkj original plan proposed by him, he was "now convinced that its reception by the congress in the advanced stage of the financial : situation necessitated addi tional or different legislation." He once again recommended the passage of a law authorizing the issue of low interest bearing bonds to maintain the gold reserve. The banking and cur rency committee responded to this sugi gestion by offering on the first of Feb ruary, 1895; a bill to "authorize the secretary of the treasury to, issue bonds to maintain a sufficient gold ' reserve and to redeem and retire United Slate notes." '-- - : " . :.: - ' : " What Led to the Bond issue. '" After only two days debate this bill was also def eated by . a majority of twenty-seven. On tue next day the president informed congress that he had negotiated a xnditional sale of over .sixty-two 'millions . of dollars of four per cent coin bonds to a syndicate largely representing foreign capitalists. Bncklen's Arnica Salve' ' The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands," Chilblains, Corns. andall Skin erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 23c per box. For sale by B. VV. Hargrave. ' Who can beat this! isc will buy a 25c bottle of the best cough syrup ..HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT. Vicp-l'j-rBldent llaldwlu and the. Employes of the Southern Come ; to Tnrma. "Washington, February "28. After a . conference lasting three days, between . Third Vice President Baldwin of the Southern rail way - and tbtf . federated board of employes organizations that ara mainly interested in the new.gchcd ule of rates proposed. by the . Southern , railway, an agreement was"' reached ' yesterday afternoon after a verj har j monious discussion of .the schedlile in. , all its phases. This schedule was sign- ed by the men last night at tha3fliee , of Mr. Baldwin, and it practically re , mams as it was first offered, with some t modifications of the rules la Instance where it Was pointed "out to Mr. Bald win that the men thought they should be differently, prescribed. The sched ule will go into effeet May 1st.,-on all lines of the Southern railway and iii ease either side should wish to make a change in the future a sixty days nCP I tics to the other party will be'rc-iuired.1 MORGAN WAS FOUND GUILTY. Sentenced to Serve Klgbtcten War in tho Virginia Penitentiary.... " Staff-OKI), C. II., Va.. March 1. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the jury reuclivd a verdict in- the Aequia t'reck train ro!Tery case, after being out only ten minutes. The verdict reads : We. the jury of the indietefl prisoner, Chan. Morgan alias Charles Augusta. Morantielil. Hud him KuHty as charged in the indictment and fix his iczm of confinement in the peniten tiary at eighteen years." The execution of the sentence will be suspended until the fifth day of April next to enable Morgan's counsel to ap ply for an appeal. The commonwealth announced, that it was ready to try Charles J. Nearcey, Morgan's accomplice in the robbery. Searcy was brought ' into court and through his counsel asked for a continuance.- No objection being raised it was so ordered. There tire four other indictments pending against Morgan The verdict meets with general ap proval. THE FIGHT IN THE EAST. Mory of the Defeat (liven the 4 hinesa Ke ceutiy Near 'I a I'inar slian. . Tokio, March 2. Field Marshal Oyama report's that on the morning of February 24, the first division. of the Japanese army about Kai Ping defeated the enemy near Ta Ping Shan. In the afternoon of the same day a force of aboutl3,000 of the enemy .with twenty guns began an attack from Peiroaitaz, Tonchahotz, Faovanaim. After a heavy cannonade we attacked their centre at three o'clock in the af ternoon and repulsed them driving them toward Kingcow. Our loss was 20 killed, 250 wounded including seven of ficers. The enemy lost UOO kHled, Numlier of their wounded is . unknown. Natives state that the Chinese came in full force 20,000 strong led" by Gen' erals Sung Ma, Shang and Chang Sung. TWENTY FO0R MEET DEATH. The frx . ct Number Killed In the New Mex ico Mine Explosion. Oerrii.os, N. Mex., March. 1 The ex citement arising from Wednesday's disastrous mine explosion abated some what today and the exact number killed is definitely known. Twenty four bodies have been recovered which accounts for all the men except one, a stranger, who was to commence work Wednesday and who has not been found. Most of the victims were bur ied yesterday afternoon, making the largest funeral New Mexico has ever seen in time of peace. THE RENO HOTEL BURNED. The Celebrated Nebraska Inn V recked by - Fire and Water, Nohfolk Neb., March! 2. At 12:30 yesterday, fire broke out in the rear of. the Reno hotel. The wiid was blow ing a hurricane from the fnorth and for a time it seemed as though the flatnes tvould.leap across Main street and de stroy everything in their path., The hotel is completely wrecked inside by fire and water. Loss heavy. ' THE NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. The State of Georgia Will Sell the Koad at an Karly Date. ' ' - Atlanta, March ' 1. Some . time ago the state of Georgia took control of the Northeastern railroad to secure itself, the state having guaranteed the road's bonds. Under an act of the last general assembly the governor Will sell the road at an early date. The road's indebtedness to the state is 8260.000. . government Not Paying Kzpenses. Washington, March 2. For " two thirds of the current fiscal year (ex- eluding the amount due the treasury sinking fund) the expenditures ' of the government have exceeded the receipts by g"JO275,000 as shown by the treasury otHeial statement of receipts and ex peTWitures issued yesterday. , Now Orleans bvrewmcu I liantre Front. New Oulkans, .March 2.- The screw men of the port have effected a change of front, and from today will screw cotton in - steamships for thirty-five cents per bale on steam and forty-five on sailing vessels. Large Phosphate Purchase In I-lor Ida. Jacksoxvhj-k,. Fla March 1. Eastern capitalists haye purchased 6,500 acres of phosphate lands in Levy coun ty, Fla., paying-therefor $05,000 cash. A large mining plant will be establish ed near" Bronson. Seed For Drought SuCerers. Washington, 1). C, March 2. The senate inserted in the sundry, civil ap priation bill an amendment appropria,-ting-300,000 for seed to be distributed to the people whose crops were de stroyed by drought last summer. : . Lronard-Scott, the Publisher, Dead. Jacksonville, Fla., -March 2.- Leon ard Scott, founder of the Leonard Scott publishing company of New York, died here last night of chronic bronchitis, aged 85 years. The remains wil bt, f'rf warded to New York to .lay. A Fevere rhoumatic pain in the left shoulder had troubled Mr. J. H. Lqper, a well known druggist of Des Monies. Iowa, for over six months. At times the paia was so severe that he could not Hit anything. With all he could not get rid of it until he applied Cham berlains . Pain Balm. "I 'only madje three applications of it," he says "and have since been free from all pain He- now 'recommends it to 'persons similarly afflicted. It is for sale by E Highest of aU ia Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report COTTON INTHESOUTfl Facta and Suggestions Concern ing1 the Situation. ADDRESS TO GROWERS OF THE STAPLE What the Depression la Due to, llow to Remedy It and When to .Proceed. " The Question ' Dlscnraed by One In Position, Washington; March 4. The follow ing is a copy of a letter written to cot ton growers by Alfred It. Shepperson, editor of Cotton Facts, and secretary of the sub-committee on cotton of the" senate committee on agriculture :. Washington, D. C, March 1895. To the Cotton Growers of the South: - I have ho pecuniary interest whatever in the cotton market and it is well known to promi nent merchants all over the country that I never have had any. Asa close observer of all matters pertaining to cotton. I have thought it would not be deemed out of jhice to present to the cotton growers of the country soma facts and suggestions concerning the cotton situation.- -. - ; . The price of middling cotton In Naw York l:i now 5 9-46 cents per pound against 74 corns on March 1st, 1894, while corn is now 45 cents per bushel in Chicago against 35 cents a year ago. The decline in cotton is over twenty-five per cent, while the advance liT corn is thirty per cent. 1 - " . , The New york quotation for cotton and tho Chicago quotations for corn, however, do not n ally present the economic aspect of the mat ter In its strongest light, as the cotton, grower does not receive the New York price for his cotton, but actually gets very much less, as freight to New York and all handing and sell ing charges and the cotton buyers profit have to be deducted so that the planter, at present prices, only obtains about four cents-per pound for middling cotton, and the crop will not average so high in quality as that grade. Neither does he get at the Chicago price the corn he has to buy, as freight nnd charges and usually a large profit are added to tho Chicago price, so that to-day the southern farmer who buys corn instead of raising it, has to OS to 74 . cents per bushel for It. ' - Corn is the most Important cereal for tho south as Its abundance and cheapness Insure ample food for tho fawners and their animals, while an insufiicient supply and high price in volve the opposite results. The southern cot ton growers obtain a large proportion of their grain and meat from other sections of tho country. Confronted now with a large shrink age in the. value of cotton coincident with n great appreciation in the value of corn, the sit uation seems to imperatively demand of tho cotton growers a reduction this spring of the acreage devoted to cotton and an increase giv en to food and forage crops. The present depression ia cotton is duo In great part to the very large stocks in European and American markets and the fear that the acreage in cotton will not be reduced thin year. Notwithstanding the fact that the spinners have bought much more cotton than lust season, the stocks in European and Amer ican markers are four hundred thousand bales more than at this time last year. The price of cotton is at the lowest point since 1848. and a large crop this year would un doubtedly send it still lower. Every planter knows that present prices ofcotton are much below the average cost of production. In view of the facts stated, 1 earnestly re commend as manifestly for the best interests of the cotton growers of the country, a vers material curtailment of cotton acreage thin spring and an increase in all food and forage crops and that greater attention be given to the raising of live stock and farm animals.. Food crops of every description shonld bo raised on all southern farms and cotton should be made a" surplus or money crop. It Is proba ble that a moderate crop this year will sell foi actually more money than a large crop. Very respect ully, : Alfred B. Shepperson. BISSELL LEAVES THE CABINET. Hon. W. I. Wilson, of West Virginia Hue. ceeds Him a Poatmastcr-Ueiieral. Washington, February 28. Postmas ter General Bissell set at "rest all doubt as to his. purpose of remaining in the cabinet by tendering his resignation to President Cleveland yesterday after noon. This action was not taken has- rtily. As far back as the early ajitumn. Mr. Bissell felt that his law practice at Buffalo required his personal-attention and at that time he notified the presi dent that sooner or later he would' be compelled to . retire to private life. Nothing further passed between- the two gentlemen with reference to the matter until ten days ago" when Mr. Bissell again assured the president that he must soon resign his portfolio. Queen- Lll Sentenced. Honolulu, March 4.- -A correspon dent was informed yesterday morning by a cabinet officer that ex-Queen Lil iuokalani has been sentenced -to serve five years in prison, and to pay a fine of 85,000. It jus understood that tho sen tence will not be changed by the presi dent. ' - O'Gorman, tbe Irish Nationalist, Dead. New Yobk, March 4. -'-Richard O'Gor man,"the eminent Irish nationalist, scholar and orator," died at 10 o'clock last night at his home in this city, in the 75th year of his age. Two years ago he had a severe attack of the gripp and his death was the result. Death of George D Hoyden. Chicago, February 28. George D. Boyden, one of the heaviest operators and one of the best known members of the board of trade, died in his apart ments at the Union League club last night, after a short illness, of quinsy. Children Cry for Scott's Emulsion : . , : ;"" 1 1 1 1111 ' -:;. of Cod-liver Oil, with HypophospHtes of lime and Soda, is a constructive food that nourishes, nru&'the blood, ": creates solid flesh, stops wasting and gives strenrth. It is" for all - - - . ' - - .. W asking Diseases like OoMumption, Scrofala, Ariarriia. Marasmus; or for doughs and Colds, Bore Throat, Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Loss of Flesh and General Debility. Scott's Emulsion has no equal as. nourishment for Babies and Growing Children. Buy only the genuine put up in salmon-colored wrapper Send for pampUto Scott' t Emulsun. FREE, 8oott A Bowne, N. Y. All Druggists. SO cents and SI. 7T WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. A heavy rain has broken the drou! in northern Texas. The Mississippi is now open to r gation as far as Cario. ' The Chicago sailed from Gil . .... New York yesterday. . i.-. The postoffiee at Shiloh, N. J., burglarized last night. 1 : The condition of Murderer Gentry at Philadelphia continues to improve. . . The drouth district of Nebraska was bleesed yesterday with a heayy rain. The Norfolk, Conn., Iron works have closed, throwing 200 men out of work. Lord Loscbcry's condition is much improved despite the condition" of his insomnia. The James river, at Richmond, after being frozen over for two weeks, has been opened for navigation. ; The weavers at the Lancaster Mills, Clinton, Mass., struck Monday morn ing against a reduction of wages, t ' Mrs. Isaac Hope, of UlissfieldjMich., has fallen heir to nearly 81,000,000 by the death of an uncle in Africa. A bill has been introduced in the Del aware legislature forbidding the print ing of lottery tickets. - Messrs F. and II. Fries,' of Salem, N. C are interested in a new cotton mill company" now being organized. - '. Tho accounts of missing Secretary Gruchy, of the Buckeye Building and Loan Association, are short St, 500, A movement is afoot at Denmark, ,S. C, for the organization of a $50,000 stock company to budd a cotton mill. A company has been organized to build a cotton factory at Siler City, N. wa ufuia . v yi . n 11 a m 1 its-lit -n m. i. biz The body of a man- supposed "to be that of J. R, Seeley, - of Springfield, . Mass. was found in Chicago yesterday. Nine-tenths of district assembly No. 8 at Pittsburg will desert the old Knights of Labor for the new organiza tion. , . Actors McKee Rankin-and Patrick O'Neill were arrested at Kansas City 1 yesterday for obtaining board through deceit. ' - . The Holt county. Neb., relief com mittee denounce as frauds persons so liciting aid in the east for the drought sufferers. ' Six robbers were ' frightened away from a Chicago hotel yesterday morn inrr rt-ftov linvinff antn,ij 4V.n .. . M three guests. . , - ' The house of representatives of Mls owuii ui;&c&t.t;u vjju uixi against mgn hats in theatres and churches by a vote of 40 to 51. L W. II. Hazel, wanted in New York for ; obtaining money under false pre tences, has left San Francisco in charge of an officer. ' . -h- The Fort Mill, S. C., Manufacturing Co., has decided to put in 5,200 addi-" tional spindles, and order for same has been placed. . - - . A movement has been started at La Fayette, Ala., for the erection of a cot-" ton mill, aud subscription books aro ; being circulated. . " Secret service detectives ia Chicago yesterday arrested two men and a wo man who have been engaged in exten sive counterfeiting. . . . . - - - C. Donnelly, an Omaha,' Neb., gam bler, testified before" the grand jury ' yesterday that he had paid to an offi cial 81,800 lor protection. - Two skeletons, believed td" be those of two young men who left Kansas City six years ago, have been found in a cave near Comstock, Tex. . After an alleged humorous debate the , New York legislature has killed Assemblyman Duncan's - anti-theatre high hat bill by a vote of 18 to 42. Empress Eugenie leaves England for Corsica" today to sojourn in" Ajaccio. The government is taking precautions to prevent royalist demonstrations. ; The contest over the will of Mary L: Isbell at New Haven, Conn., was con- , tinued until next - Monday because of the alleged discovery of another will. ' ' . .'.'litis to ' y - ) ept'iiftiaand -t uiw-.rj . '';. Wj, iv.auiily la 2GOD'S SARSAPARILLA. ' ' io J - ".- Advertise.-'-.".'"'."-'.:.."...'.''.. There is a man who sells his stock", Whose credit standeth as a rock Whose name is known by all who buy Whose face shines with prosperity,. - Who is this man? . Give him your ear His goods he advertises here. t; - Pitcher's Castorla. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla by E. M. Nadal, druggist. at Hargrave s drugstore. M. Nadal. ; "