L. XXII. WELDON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891. NO. U4, •ETtCOUPINSMOKC- tOUTHKRN 1XP08ITI0N. A FAST ENGINE. PRESIDENT BUTLER OF WOHBN TAKE TRIM OVP AT VIVAL MEBTINU IN CANADA. «weeks ■go, • diipttoh from -n, Ont., says, the Free Methodisls ^ series of revival ueoting in ham, and made many converts. ; seemed particularly anxious to ered into the fold. As the num- eoarerts increased the excitement, and the meetings, which were held town hall, grew so noisy that com- was made to the authorities, and vivalists were notified on Tuesday hey would have to hold their meet- elsewhere. othing daunted they left the place, putting out scouts to advise their ds where the meeting was to be held, adjourned to a large vacant lot in edge of town. Here they were ad- hy J. F. Fraiser, a revivalist, iled into the prevailing mode of •le dress, and said women are born atiful and die miashapen because of wearing of corsets. Fraiser is an : and powerful speaker, and bis ords created great excitement among the women present. “Throw off the accursed invention,” he cried, “throw it off and go to Qod as you left Him! Burn them rather than burn yuurselven in everlasting firel" This suggesting struck a responsive chord, and he had haidly ceased speak ing when an enthusiast piled up material for a bonfire and applied a match. It wu a weird scene—the dusky evening, the crowd of religious enthusiasts, quiv- ering wi(h excitement, surrounding a fire which shot up long tongues of flame. “Bam ibeml’* hytterically oried a fooiaine voice in the crowd; and, push ing and panting, a young woman of twenty-five forced her way to the centre near the bnalie. She wu tugging at her dteas. There was a sudden gleam of white shonldeM in the firelight and she flung her ooraet into the flames saying she would die as God had made her and not as she had made herself. Her example was eoatib|oua; and in less than half an hour not \ woman in tha crowd wore a corset, and nothing re mained in the blace but a mass of gro- tesqnely twisted corset steels, amid which the flames playfully flickered. The ex citement was so great and the nervous strain so intense that several women grew faint, but they had burned their corsets and Were happy. The Free Methodists eonsider the revival a great success, and ulk of carrying the war into (he States. co^)pbr*Vh)n With parmbrs. A plan of oo-operation with farmen of the State has been instituted by which the benefits of N. C. Agricultural Kxperi- nent Station are brought more directly before, their attention. All of the aub- •llianoes in North Caroliua (numbering nearly 2,300) have been requested to form “Experimental Committees,” the ohainnan of which is to be in constant oommnnication with the Station Press Bulletins^ as well as regular and special bulletins and reports of progress of the Station, are sent tothete committees, and the matters contained in them are dis cussed. A question-box is slso used, io which any member can deposit any qiNition. After discussion by the meet ing, headed by the Experiment Oom mittee, the questions, if desired, can be aabmitted to the Ecperiment Station fur answer. These questions may be em- braced ander any division of agriculture. Every Qrani^e in the State has also been asked to adopt the plan. From the number of ExperimenMl Committees irhich are being formed, and (he interest being expressed, the plan will doubtless prove an unboundra success. It is ipnttifyiag (o note (hat (he recent meet ing nl' the N. C. Parmen* State Alliance ^,^webead pawed,a resolution, endors- ^ ' plan of B.xperimental Com- by the N. 0. Experi- mittees form nent Sution. BBV. THOMAS DIXON TO OFFBa THB PBAYBRATTtlB OPENING—NOTES OF THE PBOORE88. A reporter spent an hour at the Expo- aition grounds yesterday and afler a look through the big building, assured Mr. John T Patrick of his belief that every thing will not bo ready by O^stober 1st. But Mr. Patrick says the State exhibit will be in place by that time. He does not know whether all county exhibits will be or not. On thu I5th the work of ar ranging the Stiite exhibit began. Mr. Patrick was asked whan the building will be painted and he assured the repor ter that would be done before the open ing. The exterior of the bnilding is cer tainly very unattractive now. Mr. Pat rick was also asked as to the mode of il lumination of the building and grounds at night Be replied that they would not be kept open at night, and that al though every electric light company in the country had been oorresponded with not one would make a propodtioh. The reporter who had happy recollections of the delightful nights at the State Expo sition of 1884, expressed his great regret that this exposition would not be availa ble to the public at night—just the time when many would desire to see it. Mr. Patrick also spoke of the danger firom fire at night. As has been stated, the exposition opens October 1. The opening prayer will be offered by Rev. Thomas Dixon, of New York. Ad address will be deliv ered that day by Mr. Ootsvius Cohen, editor of the Charleston, South Carolina, World, his subject being “The Ileal New South.” Ten of tho States will havu exhibits. Florida has a spsco 200xtii feet, Ken- tucky^xlS; the others 40x15. In the east court a pavilion has been specially prepared for the horticultural exhibit, which will be in charge of Prof. Massey, of ths Agricaltural College. Florida will send fresh flowers and fruits every week during the exposition. People who come bere from the North and West will like to see a turpentine distillery sod a oottou gin and press. All these will be in operation in the machinery annex. The negroes have all the ground floor of the grand stand building for their dis tinctive exhibit. • Mr. Patrick was asked if they would fill'it. He said they would, and that they httd applied for an addition to it, fifty by one 'hundrd feet in sise. The sise of the^ present building is fifty by two hundred and fifty. There are t« be races every day daring the ezpoaitioti. There will be two Weeks of racing for good purses. Letters have been received from Alliancemen in far away WisooiMiOi stating that they will be here. Theiiumberor persons formerly. tesideuM of this State who will come will be very large. Of course the railway fare is so I6w, (only a cent a mile, Mr. Patrick smtes) (hat it is a capftal oppor tunity for' them to revisit • their old homes. Inlbmiation has been received here that South Carolina troops, from Colum bia, willy^ present. Tbe exposition is certainly well advertised in other States. Five n^en are now at work puttting np bills ao^ lithographs, all in a radius of 160 miles. Raleigh will in a few days be billM. A MEW LOCOMOTIVE—WILIi HAVE rOUB CrLINOEBS. MA8TEB UECHANIO BICHARD8 DESiaNS AGAIN EXPRESSES HIMSELF ON THE THIRD PABTY QUESTION. President Butler, of the State Alli ance, gave your correspondent a special interview to day regarding the “Third Party" matter. He said: “The' Third party eaaoot necessarily be said to be on its feet in North Carolina. If you go into the country and talk to good men they will tell you that if it is necessary, and nothing else will do, they will favor the Third party. A great many good men will say this, but it merely expresses their desire fur relief and tUo necessity for such relief. ,^hey‘lo!»lr to the lead ers for suppuirt They trust them. It all means t'lat if these leaders were to say that there were no other means of re lief they would go with them and embark in this Third party enterprise. No dic tatorial leadership can bring this about. These people must see tho need of the Third party themselves. In addition to this they must have the assurance of the men upon whom they depend. In other words, if they were sat down upon and could get no relief they would resort to these extreme measuies. The necessity for such measures can only result from indiscreet action. If the movement were started it would astonished you to know how many people would go into it. But to start it, both sides, those in and those out of the Alliance, w>)ttld bo to blame. I have no apprchentioo of the Third party in North Csrolins, because the form ation of that party would be the result only of bad management by the Alliance and of an extreme position taken by the order. I do not believe it will take such a posi tion or that those outside of the order will be governed by prejudioe. Some persons claim that the Third party may be formed by people who are opposed to the Alliance snd forming what they might call a straight Democratic party, but 1 have no idea of any such thing. There is loo much patriotism in the State, and the Alliance will give no rat ional cause fur any such movement. Mr. Butler spoke in general of Alli- liance plans. The presidents of the State Alliance from the National council and this is now working on a new sub-treas- ury bill which will be prepared ready for submiwion to Congress. “Tbe Alliance,” he says, ‘-is figbtingfor victory; victory in the best, easiest and safest way. It is not going further than the resolutions regarding the sub-treasury plan. It means little more than the mere increase of the volume of the curreicy. What tho Alliance is pledged to and will stand by is a larger volume of currency and a flexible one. If that can be accomplish ed without tho warehouse scheme, so much the better. Tbe State bank system is popular in North Carolina, but not elsewhere. In the meetings of the coun cil the president of the Alliance of this State has voted for that plan, but the other presidents opposed it and the north west will never consent to it. As a nat ional organisation we can never get it, and therefore we have ahandoned it.” At 21A Youno Man Thinks—That he’ll never marry. That liis father knows very little. That the world needs remodeling. That money can be picked up in the streets. That he’s the person to attend to tho remodeling. That he has absorbed sU tha knowl edge of the world. That the world is a huge play-ground. “If the new engine I am about to have constructed is not capable of making one hundred miles an hour I'll give her away to the first person I meet.” . This astounding statement was made yesterdsy by Mr. Jaoksoa Richards, tbe master mechanic of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, who was exhibiting to a party of deeply interested persons the drawings for a locomotive which, if sue- cassful, is almost sure to revolutionise the construction of the high speed locomotives of the future. Mr. Richards, who is re cognised all over the United States as having no peer in knowledge concerning locomotives and railroad machinery, has been working on his latest invention for the past ten years, and a few^ days ago the drawings wore eompleted and the patent was applied for. / The new invention^ will enable a gigan tic stride to be taken' in the matter of high speed loeoinbtives, and, if the new flyer is as successful ss experts predict she will b^, it is more thsn likely that the time between Philadelphia and New York will be made in less than an hour. A specimen engine will be built for ex hibition at the Worid’a Fair, and the trial trip will be made between here and that uity. In outward appearance the new loco motive will not differ materially from the speedy engines now used on the Phil adelphia and Reading railroad between this city and New York. I'liu |j«ouliari- ty of construction Iie4 in the fact that instead of the two cylinders, as used at present, there will be four. One cylinder will be located on each side of the loco motive frame as at present, and the other two will bo cast in what is known as the cylinder saddle. The inside pair of cylin ders are to be in one piece, and will Ke on an angle. The outside cylinders an to be horisontal as at present. The four cylinders will entirely overcome what k known to engineers as the dead center, and the engine will be perfectly balapoed without any counter-balance in the wbeela. This latter improvement will, to a large degree, do away with tho vecioos pound ing which has proven so destructive to modern road-beds. The perfect balancing of the engine will bo largely due to the working of the two cylinders ao near her centre, and these same cylinders, working as they do, from such a central point of vantage will help odt in the matter of speed to a great degree. According to the experts who have examined the drawings, the valve motion is perfect. There wi'l be four valves— one to each cylinder—and they will be operated by two links, the same as now used for two cylinders. The engine is designed to be built on the Wooton fire box, the same as it now used on the fsmous “206," which made a nils in the remarkable time of 39; 4 5 seconds ou August 27. Tbe ordinary speed of tbe destined world-beater will be eighty-five miles SA hour.—Pbilaiklphia Reeord. CONSUMPTION CURED. An old physician, retired firom prac tice, having had placed io his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consump tion, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lunst Affiictions, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous De bility and all Nervous Complaints, after having t^ed its wonderful curative pow ers in thoBiBnd of cases, has felt it bis duty to make it knoWB to his Mffiering fellows. Actuated by.this motive and t deto to r^eve haman suffering, I WiB send free of charge, to all who desim it, this recipe, in German, French or with full dirMtions for prapniag awl; using. Sent by mail by i^siiibg whh; stamp, naming this p^H.T>-W. A.. Noyes, 820 Powers’ Blow^ptedieetw, I?. Y. ' Am soon aa yon discover any falling of 'iiiW>rjltjiyB«M n«e Hall’s ) to tllM ni^e secretion! mPdlesm'gn M or rhlJdreo who WAat botld* Mnny Peii«fi« imusl down Aen orsnrotk or lismulw^. ossss. Brown’a-Irttii Bltt(*rM itsMtellia snUB. aUla dlsMttsa, lemoreeeeBYlifc and oom malsrlfc M tiia tsMiih ^ A VOUNG I.AUY OUTR^BO. THE 800UNDBEL SKINNED ALIVE AND CUT TO PIECES. The Picayune’s Shreveport, La., special says : The news was received here to day of a most heinous outrage committed on the person of a young lady school teauher near Arcadia. The school was two miles from the young lady’s home, and the other after noon, after schoji was dismissed, she started to walk home. In a lonely place she Wiis set upon by a burly negro, who dragged her into the woods near by and tied her to a tree, where she was kept for two days. The searching party found her there on the eveningvf the Second day, when she (old them the storj>..with the request tn.hidenearbyas the negro would soon MMNi. This they did, and in a short wWleAe negro made bis appearance and msM^plbred. He wa.s fearfully tortued, rbtilll'ili^ned alive and literally cut to •ieees; Bis body was left in tbe woods m lilM biHzards to dispose of Bo^'s Sarsaparilla is in favor with all i( uutuuiues economy anH ^^iMgtb. 100 Doses One Dollar. RARE MINERALS. NORTH CAROLINA IS ThK STATE FOB THEM. North Carolina is the State of all oth ers for rare minerals. The preface of Bulletin 74 of the United States Geolo gical Survey says that since 1881 *'a goodly number of species hag been added to the lists,” and that minerals formerly supposed to be rare are’ now found abun dantly and have acquired commercial importance' “For example, in response to an industrial demand, North Carolina has supplied sircon and menagitc by the ton, and ssmaiskite by the hundred weight, and the output can be increased almost indefinitely. The State has also contributed to scienco several new speci* mens as yet not found elsewhere, and aome of these, notably among the vermi- culites, are significant for the light they shed upon other aasociated minerals.” The commercial demand referred to comes from the manufacturers of the Welsbach light. This invention consists in sstuiating a fine film of silk with a solution of these minerals. This is placed over the flame of a common Ar- gand lamp, the heat from which destroys the silk, but leaves the mineral work intact. Tho peculiar quality of these minerals is that they absorb certain of the colored rays, and give a pure, bright, light, like that of the sun. Since the Wellsbach lamp has been introduced in London it has displaeed *11 other illumi nators for the use of chemists and mi- croscopists, for it is more steady and re liable than any other, bright daylight not excepted. The one trouble thus far hu been that the fllm would not bear trans portation, but recently the manufacturers think they have overcome this by in casing it in solidfied petroleum. When the film, thus protected is put in position, the flame quickly burns away the coating as well as the silk. Should this prove to be practicable, then the demand for these minerals will' draw heavily on North Carolina’s grest supply. FIRST FEMALE ENGINEER SHE RUNS A WEST VIRGINIA TRAIN AND 18 A PRETTV QIRL. A dispatch from Clarksburg, W. Va., says; The Cairo and Kanawho Valley Railroad, a narrow line connecting with the Baltimore and Ohio, at Cairo, in this State, claims the distinction of employing the only female railroad engineer in the United States. The lady's name is Miss Ida Hewitt. She is the daughter of Col. Hewitt, one of the principal stockholders of tbe road. Miss Id i, who is a veiy beautiful and accomplished young woman under twenty years of age, has always been fond of looking at machineiy. She has spent a large portion of her time in the shops of the company. She finally became a machinist of no mean ability, when she undertook the task of tunning an engine on the road, and her success was so great that she is now regu'arly employed in that capacity, and makes her daily run with as much regularity as a veteran engineer. Her engine is said to be a model of neatness and clean liness, and she rarely misses making schudule time. It is understood that she has been invited to run an engine at the World's Fairnext year in Chicago. No person should travel without a bos of Ayer's Pills. As a safe and speedy remedy for constipation and all irregular ities of the stomach and bowels, they have no equal, and being skillfully sugar- coated, are pleasant to take, and long ^ tain their virtues It ill said that deaf people ' seasick. Do not let your stock r the streets. THE CREAT STAPLE. the cotton obop of thb united STATES FOR 1890-91—RECEIPTS AND EXPORTS FROM VARIOUS FORTS. You canlfiot be.too particui medicliitiS you use. Wbeti blood purifier, be sure you g SarsHparills, and no other. It'ini' gle with, pnrity.'and Mi.ilis* e«iry of blood iM ,uur body. It makes weak strong. The cotton crop of the United States for the yesr ending with the close of August, 1891, amounts to 8,652,S97 bales, to that time was tbe largest ever grown, by 1,341, 275 bales. The foreiga exports show that of so excess of 878,382 bales over last year to foreign ports Great Britain hu takea 479,330, France 86,3G2 and tbe eontin* ent, etc., 312,690. Among the foreign shipments daring the year have been 4,494 bales from New York to Japan. SOUTHERN COTTON CONSUMPTION. The principal gain in consumption has been in Georgia and North and South Carolina. In (he two latter a laige number of the old mills have increased iheir spindles, and nearly all the spindles in those Ststes have been busily engaged. The returns from Georgia last season showed seventy mills, including four burnt and one changed to woolen, leaving sixty five. This season's returns show sixty-one mills, sn apparent reduction of four. This difference is due to three mills having been merged into other con cerns, and one reported new last year, but which thus far has not been built Of the sixty-one mills fifty-five have been in active operation and six idle. A comparison of 60,000 new splindles reported in Georgia lut year shows, that while they consumed last season 13,597 bales—many of them not having run full time—this season they consumed 22,619 bales. This gain however, has been psrt- ly offset by r^uction in several of the larger mills, which complained of enforc ed idleness of psrt of their machinery on account of scarcity of labor. Rednction to finer counts of yarns has also, io a de gree, reduced tbe consumption of some of tbe mills. North Carolina shows the heaviest in crease in spindles, though the largest gain io quantity of eottoa consumed ha* been in South Carolina. The total consumption of the Soutk for tbe twelve months ending August 31, 1891, has been 504,664 baK against 546,894 last year, making a gain of57,767 bales, of 10.56 percent. This is a handsome showing, considered in ad dition to the material gain of last year. As a matter of fact, there arc several States whose consumption now amounts to as much asthnt of the entire South a little over ten years ago. Calculated in pounds, the Soutbera mills have used up during the past year the equivalent of 572,671 bales of last season's weight. The following tables show totals of mills, looms, spindles and consumption by States. SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS 1890 91 Balw Conmnied Mills. Spindles. 18SI1. Alabama, 27 122,058 39,145 Arkansas, 5 19,525 610 Georgia, 61 467,039 153,818 Kentucky, 6 48,750 15,536 Louisiana, 4 54,500 13,660 Mississippi, 11 60,56S 15,162 Missouri, 2 17,500 1,528 N. Carolina, 120 462,961 140,508 S. Carolina, 51 446,525 164,957 Tennesse, 31 154,506 30,508 Texu, 6 r.3,996 6,522 Virginia, 15 101,919 23,707 Total, ^9 1,989,845 604,661 The following were the receipts at ports in North (jurolina for the year end ing September 1; • 1891. 1890. Wilmington, 189,326 134,916 Newbern, 25,744 6,355 Washington, 41,776 21,768 Morehead City, etc. 2,045 69r Total, 558,890 163 The following are the net receipt and export^ of bales of cotton American ports during the year September 1: New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile and Pens»col», Receipt' 2.077,7' l.r-'
