North Carolina Newspapers

The Weekly Star. WM. H. BEEN AED, Editor and Prop. WILMINGTON; N. C. Friday, February 5, 1886. sarin writing to change ;your address, , ! rfveorwwr direction as welf as foJl parUoularsas where you wish your paper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made. w-Notloes of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, &o are charged for as ordinary advertisements, but only hall rates when paid for strictly In advance. At this rate GO cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. - ' ""Remittances must be made by Check,Draft Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. rost masters will register letters when desired. - earOnly such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. "Specimen copies forwarded when desired. NOTES AND ERRORS, It is well to note other facts and errors concerning silver. One stand ing assertion of the gold bugs and their organs" is that to , continue to com silver is to drive out all the gold from the United States. This gross, palpable, inexcusable error has been thoroughly exposed in the Senate byseveral members, and in the House by Representative ReaganT . It is an absurd statement. Look at .France. With a population of 38,--000,000, it has $540,000,000 of silver in circulation an average of $14 : per Aead of the entire population. France has $850,000,000 in gold which' -13 $250,000,000 more gold than England bae, with its gold standard. Why has not the silver "driven out" the)gold in. France ? France's dollar ii'but 77 cents and yet it does not "drive out gold." Why "should our 80 cents dollar drive out gold from the United States ? France has three times the circulation that the United t States have. The Mining Register and Journal of Finance says.- . "England, with all her wealth, employing but $94,000,000 in silver money, and a professed gold country, demanding all pay ments toner to oe mans lu-gum, sue still $250,000,000 behind France in the sup ply of her fcelovedmeial yellow gold. 'In Prance cold and silver are taken upon an equality by all the banks and bankers throughout the country. Here the city banks refuse silver on deposit. This, of itself, is enough to disarrange our, mone tary affairs, and because it does sd, Con gress should del-end its own act oi maKing silver dollars a legal tender by instructing those banks as regards their duty to the neoDleof this country. "In France the supply of silver coin ia $14 per head of the population. In the United States the supply ofSilver coin is $3.75 per head. ,'Is it not proper for us, a silver-producing country, to employ at least as much silver as France, a non-producing silver country V . - ' " -' . England 033 no silver mines, but the United States have. Why should our country shape its financial policy then after the British , standard ? Therr are some $300,000,000 invested in the machinery, &o., for Bilver mining in the United States. There are over 130,000 people at work in the mines. , In the face of this fact it is urged by the gold bugs that our country should demonetize silver that is, cause it to be degraded and to cease to be a standard of values, Said Representative Reagan in his practical, statistical, able speech in the House: .;. - . "Why should we follow the example of Great Britain and Germany on the silver question? Both of these are great creditor - nations; their people are holding large quantities of the interest-bearing securities of other countries Great Britain to the ex tent of $3,250,000,000, and Germany to the extent of $2,000,000,000. The United States is a debtor nation to the extent of $1,843,713,715 80, as shown by the public debt statement for December, 1885. -The public debt of the States, territories, coun ties, townships, towns, cities, boroughs, villages and school districts of the United States was in 1880 $1,117 585,546, as shown by the United States census. The railroads of the United States in 1880 were indebted io the amount of $5,658,914,158. These three classes of indebtedness amounted in the aggregate, at that time, to $8,620,213, 419 80, and the last two items ha ve'no doubt been considerably increased since 1880. This " does not include the private indebtedness of the country, and I have not the means of stating what that is, but it is probably as great in the aggre gate as the public indebtedness. Now, by following the- example Great Bri tain and Germany on the silver ques tionr we should aid them in about doub ling the value of the $5,250,000,000 of securi ties they together hold on foreign countries, as compared with the labor and property out of which these securities are to be paid. And-we should about double the amount of labor and property which would be required to pay the $8,620,213,419.80 of our public - indebtedness as well as of all private in debtedness. A comparatively few bond holders, bankers and money-lenders in this country would be benefited by such folly, while the vast mass of the people would be injured and impoverished by it. :" "We ought nbt to follow their example, because such a course would injure the world at large while doing a great wrong to our own people. We ought not to follow their example for another important reason : Great Britain is not a silver-producing country, and Germany pioducesvery little. The report of the Director of the Mint, recently laid before us, shows the world's product of silver for 1884 to have been $115,147,878. Of this sum it shows that the United States produced 448,800,000, which is more than 42 per cent of the world's. product for that year. We are asked, therefore, to sacrifice the silver interest of the greatest silver-producing country in the world." But to return to the error before referred to. ; Has silver coinage' driven gold out of the United States? So far from this there is more gold 'in the United States than at any pre vious time in the history of the conn-', try. The charge is an old one and as false as old. - Senator Coke, in hjs masterly and, unanswerable speech on the 14th of January, says: "Official reports placed the amount of gold in this country in 1878, when the sil ver coinage law was passed, at $244,353, 890. The Director of the Mint reports on the 1st day oi July, 1885, the amount of gold in the United States to be, bullion and coin, $609,021,731. So instead of silver remonetization driving gold out of the country as predicted, the amount of gold in : the country has nearly trebled. This is a ' fact which no amount of theorizing can answer, and it is a fact which utterly anni- - hilates the old Argument against silver coin age. We coinbnly $24,000,000 of silver per annum, and the Director of the Mint - reports the gold product of the mines of the United States at $38,800,000 for the last - fiscal year, and it was more the year before ; --and besides we have the imports of gold to add to our stock oi that metaL The fact as shown by the statisticson this subject is that gold has accumulated in " this country more rapidly since : the re- rrumetaation of silver than it ever did be- : fore." Just here it is well to mention an , other fact, for the Stab is seek ing to - gather all the - light possible on this great question of the. cur rency. What if thai fact ? - W . qu..te fpi.-is Senator Coxo:, , , Thtre is not. M71 a oold standard coun try in Europe, which has not more silver in proportion to population than the President, though claiming t willing to have coined here, and not or.e of them that does not, as our omciai reports show, coin silver every year.! Great Bn- tain coined to loo neny vuc much silver ss she did gold, and ia 1883 her silver coinage was only $500,000 les than her gold coinage the two- being nearly equal. i " . .' If the developi-d. stationary. foail:ztJ states of Euroye are compelled iocuio some silver annually, even those f them which have the tingle oki standard to mitt -increased demands there, what mu4 be tuc necessities of this great country id us grnu march of progress and improvement .?" .-, 1 Silver certificates have beeu found extremely convenient and the peo pie in the South have been anxious and prompt to avail themselves ot the opportunity to- exchange gold for silver certificates. This j is oue of the facts that have been either ob scured or ignored. It has been sought to make it appear that there are no silver ceriitioaiea issued T that they are unpopular. But what are the facts ? There are silver cer tificate now in use to the amount of $143,000,000. Mark thai, j . The gold bogs and their organs have been telling that the Treasury Department ami its vaults were over flowing with, silver lollare. The Treasury officials have been mainly responsible for this gross, inexcusa ble misstatement, s These r officials have inade the people believe that the coinage of $2,000000 a month was a great piece of folly and ex travagance. The crowded condition of the vaults and the foolish extrava gance in coiaissr more silver have been the staple arguments relied up on by designing demagogues, and officials and eelSah ; organs of the bondholders. ; Now what are the facts? We now ; turn to Senator Coke, and bin statements are not to be challenged. in or ouf of the Senate because tbey are true. He says: "They fail to stv'c she whu'i.s ;rutb, for the official- t tfint Departsnect know as well as anvoodv that there are in actual circulation among the people tear dollars of niter coin to one aouar oj gota com, ana in three fourth of the silver dollars in .be Treasury are reprtseraeaoy suver cerujicaies in active circulation among the i people. maintaining the prices Of . property, the wages of lbor, and doing good service as ready instrumentalities m the business and commerce of the country, and- thl silver certificates issued, must bo kept then? are required by po-Vitive etatufc to be kepuheie for tbtir redeocplioa. ! ' "The official report of the Director of tira Mint shows on the 1st day of Julv.-1885, the total coinage of silver dollars to have been 1:203.881 381. audi of this amount $33,471,269 es ia the batiks end in general circulation tinopg the people in acluHl ct)io. icaviug in the treasury lbo. 413 112. hoc) against tbw stnount in the Treaburv ib&t there irrre ouUlnadiux 140.323 140 of silver certificates ! These silvt-r certificates are redtemable ia silver dollars on deosaod, and of course the eilver dollars must be kef in' the Trensury to tedeem tttem. j ' It is an indisputable fact that these wilver certificates were eagerly sought by the people of the; South until the Treasury Department took it I upon itself to order the discontinuance of their issuance There ia but !$25i- 000,000 of the silver dollar coined that is uot'io circulation at tiii hour, ! i, Senator Coke most tM-tt'inw.tly'ak: 'VVi.v i? ibis amouoti!ot in circul-.tiont I r sti b? reiidinff friotn the Treasurer's r. (.ui t. cnr.de ai ibe beinniDf? of this ses- suia of Cuogreiss Oil page 14 te : ' The issue ot t?i!ve oVitificaKs bv Trea surer ofBccr in '.as .-jouib aa1-Wei. for g. id coia deposited jwiib lis Ass slant Tresurer at New Yorki under depattinent- a! circuifir of Seostuibdr 18, 18S0. was dis c fi iuued in J ipnai v ta&t (1885) ! The aaicobt whicb -hed ft-fca tsud io this manner to :ne dai? nsnUd was $80,730,500. ' The gold coin iwss j paid. tv-r the sub- treasury counter aouar tor aoutir, for thu Kiivi-r ctrii(jci-4! which are re definable only in silver dollars . These c!':-i:. 5-:liOBet,.diuoted silver dol lars, not worth so much as gold by 20 per -cet'f . ftCc-irding to fcliu reports . or tbe T.:-Mirv Derjar'.diecl. which cumber. a ih-v t'-l! us.i the 'st'ssnry vaults a-.d c-tDHoi be gotten into circulation, are t:heio redeem theee; sme, silver certift- attrs which the people; ate glad to get dol 1 '. for doiiqr ia exchange for tbe gold coin If Uiti prcciice of j allouj the people of t boutb aod west to give gold coin in -xcIiaDf-e i-s silver cehidcates bad not been dis:- it lied on the 1st of January. 1885, now more than one year ago, the ratio at wiu.-h the exchanges had been mude up ti time wouia have put in circulation 3-oj i be people silver certificates cover- in, t L.rgtr amount nf silvir dollars than are now in the Treasury unrepresented by outstanding silver cei-wncates. Thee are very Important, very in elmctive facts. ; i Let the readers of the i'TAB oarefullv study the facts we have beerr j collating for some dayc. O'.hfrficts may follow, if we dtem.it weceswy.'.'-:. " V. TJE tflFAnoUS A8SACI.T8OF THE "For ay t f a'i are dark and tricks that are vain" the New ; York editor peculiar." The New York Sun has made a very Revere attack' upon Secretary Lamar ana Attorney Wen eral , Garland, in f which it :very seri ounly implicates the character of both Cabinet officers aod holds them up as very corrupt, men. The Sun is so very bitter as to charge that Secreta ry Lamar is corrupt from a desire to oblige. Mr. Garland, or because of "rtorne deplorable intellectual eccen tr icity." It hold upi its hands in holy horror at the venality of these two high official?, and declares that it execi'dx in shame anything that haa ih cm red in ; American history We have not the Sun at hand, bat the meaning' of the attack is as stated, according to our recollection, The World, that seems hostile to Mr, Cleveland and all connected with his Administration, joins in the assault, and is very reckless after its manner. The Tribune, a depraved Republican sheet, of course has ranch to say. Now there is no -just cause for such unseemly work. . .These : papers are trying to make out a very great scan dal r in which at least two distin guuhed and honorable Southern men are made to be the chief participants. Not content with this it is sought to bring in other prominent members of Congress, and : among them Ssnator Vanoe. W prepared for yesterday JStak & paragraph r?Mshich the Sena- tor'a very emphalio denial was copied. t wan onulttd but appears elsewneru to-dav. V."e have no doubt that it will turn out with others as with or emi- jient Sunator-that tbe tflfort to black-. en wait tbe workraiiuly of.corruption- ;bIs aided aod abttte.l by Now York papers that are sometimes held up an modeU for Southern editors. by-cal low youth that worships at the shrine of material fiduve?. The attack on. Senator Vaiice wa9 dehberatf-Iy and wickedly made be oauNO his brother, Geu. R9bert B. Vance, connected, with the Patent Office, might bavo to make some de-" oisions in connection -with the tele phone companies. ;If Senator Vance" could be blackened in any way and made to appear a an owner of stock in the Pan Company then suspicion would be thrown upon his brother in case be decided adversely t the claims of tbe Bell Company. Senator Lamar'a handd are as clean as VauceV. " He has made a full re port in which he. favored the bring ing of a suit, by the United States Government agaiumt the Bell Com pany for certain frauds it is charged with. As the Supreme Court had decided that -the Government could not bring a uit without Cougreg so directing, Secretary Lamar had t-x amined into the matter, of the Bell Telephone Company and had recom mended that nuit ,b brought. If the Republican organs and unscru pulous bo called Democratic pa pern, that have in all probability bsen paid to do their infamous work of elamler and defamation, can blacken Secre tary Lamar they hope thereby :o make capital fur tbe Bel! Company It id very certain that a uit ought to be;hrougbt, and it U equally pertain that what Secretary Liruar has done in no way involves his oharacior uui shows him to, be a painstaking, scru puloua and effioieul Sterol ary of the Interior Department he im one of the ablest, morn honored and most influential of Senators. There 'ha not been a purer mau in CongreA in thirty years than he, if ihere wa ever one. What about Attorney General Garland? He owt ed . before ho be came number of Mr Clevelaod'a Cabinet some otock in the P&ri-Eleo trie Company. He has not bad any thing what ever to do wiib the bring-in-; wf a suit aga:nt the Bell Com pany. The" firtit Step tak-u ly the G-v, runi.nl t while be "was ab setjt in- Arkansas iaL Summer. The plan of ibe dirty newspapers and those ttey teprtitnt is easy to be ui:dtrt'od. If they by insinuation or more direct attack oo briug re proach upon the Attorney General? who is the la r officer of tbe Govtrn- met!, ' they hope to get up a big scaudal somehow. Mr. Garland has not l a, a we said, any thing to do wifb biir.giwg or conducting the sHit, and he will tot have any thing to do with it. The only -possible thing that can b-j truthfully affirmed in eo far m l,e ii involved U that be still ow lis stock in one of the tblepbon companies that is ictt-reeted in the rtsulu of an investigation. Secretary . Ltmar owns no stock, and he ha eimply recommendtd that a uit be brought for reaons that appear to him good and sufficient. This ia the head arid front of his offending. No one who kootra ibis eminent aud pure gentleman will doubt his honesty in giving his de cision or IiIm ability to anderctaod the merit, of the case. Attorney General. Garland, i a gentleman who record is without the shadow of stain, and where he it heal k i n be is most honored, revered, esteemed. Tbe following from the Washington. Post is to the point: T "First. A large number of reputable per sons charged under oath that Mr. Boll's patents were fraudulently obtained. "Second It was the sworn duty of the Secretary of the Interior, on Kucb a show ing, to order an investigation . 'Third. He has done so, and as a result the proper officers have been designated to present the whole matter before a compe tent judicial tribunal fur adjudication. The Attorney General bas nothing to do with it, either in person or by representatives the Solicitor General, Mr. Goods, teing as separate and distinct an entity as though created by another Government. 'Fourth The Attorney General has never denied, or sought to deny, that be is the owner of stock in another and rival telephone company. This, he frankly ad mits, disqualifies him from having anything to .do with the case. Such occurrences, al though frequent, involve no disgrace." So it is a clear case that the Bell Company should be looked into: The only legal way is the one that has been proposed. The fact that Attor ney General Garland owns eome stock in the Pan can be no possible excuse for rascally proceedings on the part of the Bell. The latter is charged with f raud. It is innocent or guilty.' The only way to estab lish either now is to have a thorough legal investigation. If innocent no harm can possibly accrue to it from judicial scrutiny. A resolution of in quiry has been introduced, in the House. Spirits TarpcnUne A Question for DUtUlera. - : . t v The Fayetteville Eveninq News says: - "When spirits turpentine is quoted at 89 cents in Wilmington, erode turpentine is put down at $1.50 per barrel, when it ia well known that one barrel of crude tur pentine makes 6J gallons of spirits. There is a gentleman in Fayetteville who says that he would like to buy ten thousand barrels of crude turpentine at $2.00 a barrel when spirits ia 89 cents, and here arises a ques tion. . Is not Wilmington in her own light to pay so small a price for the crude article? Our Fayettpvill market is governed by Wil mington : quotations and as long as the price ranges so far below what it might be there, our producers, who bring in crude turpentine here and along the railroads and -river loss a profit which they are entitled to." . - When Northern papers,' of either party, bring: railing : accusations against a true Southern man, how ever "damaging we jput no confidence in them . until; corroborated .by con olnsive evidence. The South knows only too well, how swift such papers are. to believe evil. and how pr one some of t-bem are to espouse the cause of a corpwratiou or-, an individual for a consideration. Some of these pa- pera-tbo Sun and -.World especially, have been bringing serious charges agaiuipt Secretary- Lamar and -At torney General i Garland, " and " they have even tried to implicate Senator Vance. -When slast week we saw what was said we were sure it was a wicked lie and so determined to say nothing about it until we heard from hinl. " The Washington 'correspon dent of the Charlotte JDbserver inter viewed bim and here ia the result: "Governor, you then 'have no interest whatever, in the Pan Electric Company T "The whole story, so far as it relates to myself, is a scandalous, bare-footed, bald headed lie. I have no stock or interest in the Pan Electric Company, either in my own or any other name.- I told the World correspondent so, -yesterday. He said that the company's - books showed that two ladies held the stock alluded to. I- den ie4 the feet as emphatically as I have done to vou. Senator Harris will make io a few days a full, explicit statement of the affairs of the company. His statement will: show that I have not-and baTe had nothine to do with the stock of the company's affairs. Now. let me say this:" I wish distinctly to ba understood as holdinz - that there is nothing wrooif in owning this stock, and in denying tnt t own any, I mass nt vnmc lion of censure on tbe srentlemen who do. Tbey have the right to it. But as I baye t i . : , never engtgea in specuiauon oi any kiuu, it would be singular if I went into it in my old age " The New - York World having periated in slandering Senator Vance by reiterating the charge that be owned stock in the' Pan Telephone Company. : He has sent a denial di rect to that widely circulated but dis reputable pper. .Senator Vance sty a: . r'- -- . .' . ' "It becomes my duty to denounce the whole story as untrue. Ia no conceivable way shape ;or form have I bad any con nrctk'n with that company.- I have tbe etatemeot of Gen. Casey Young, Secretary, t the effect that no stock is now or ever has beeu set down in tbe books of that eompany ia my -name or in the name of any one for me; that I never had any con nection, directly or indirectly, with that company to bis knowledge. and that it is rot possible for me to have done so without his knowledge; that the Udies referred to (only two of whom own stock) are not re lativts er even acquaintances of miue and that they are the real owners of the stock hich appears in their-names As your correspondent refused to tell the truth tef vet ; he had beec informed of the facts, I write directly to you and ask tbe publication of this statenient.. ' Tht attempt of some dirty New York sheets to lie down honorable gentlemen is most disgraceful. 'The Washington correepondent of tbe Philadelphia Times writes of the villainous attempt to blacken two of the Cabinet: . . "It i well known here that tbe powerful combination interested in the Bell patent have boldly gone into the public field to drive out of the Cabinet both Messrs. Gar land and Lamar. Tbey say they will com pel the President to reconstruct bis Cabinet so far as Qirland and Juamar are concerned Tbu fccbeme is unquestionably , the biggest contract ana most audacious jo r.ver un rier'aktn by ss unscrupulous . monopoly, For wteks past the agents of the Bell com hinatiun hnve haunted the departments and Newspaper Kow, willing to spend money or information and material and to hired atssul's upon the Aticrcey-Qen-rl -r the ?rcretnry of the Interior ibe -form and Cold Wave. '. The strong tonlherl7wicdsand higher empt-rature predicted fnr this section yes terday by the Signal Service were fully verified. a3 well as th prediction "concern ing the cold. ..wave.'- The variation in the tempera" nre was remarkable even for Wilmingtm .The readings at the Signal Office io the early' morning showed a tem perature of 84J degrees, which by 7 a. m. Lid risen to 521, and at 3 p. m. to C3 der grees At this hour rain set in,' accompa nied b peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning. After - this .the temperature bfgm to decline, aad by nightfall it was growing colder i apidly, until at 10 p m.. wbeu tbe lai observation was taken, the mercury was down ' to 88 degrees, i The velocity of the wind during the day was twenty-four miles an hour. Out telegraphic , dis patches rep art the heaviest snow storm of the season in Vir ginia and Tennessee, with low temperature aur bib winds, and from the appearance of the clouds last night some of tbe "weather-wise" thought that there might be- a fll of the fleecy flakes even here in Wil mington be.fore morning. . - i The WlimiBKton, -Ctaadboora Jk Cos- vtayboroasili R. tL. Co. . ; There was a very large meeting of the citizens of Horry county, S. C at Con way borough on Monday, to advance the interests of the above mentioned road. The crowd was ts'imated at fully one thousand people, and was almost unani mous in favor of a subscription of seventy five thousand dollars to complete the road from it -present terminus, which is four tees miles fiom Cbsdbourn, on the W., C & A R K , to Conway borough. This city was represented by Mr. W. H." Chad bourn and Lieut. Gov. Stedman, both of whos addressed tbe assemblage. . There were sit or eight speakets also from South Carolina, The nnmii-etion of the road within . fpw months is an assured fct. It wilr-htrcelv benefit this city, .and it is straoxe 'that so1 little has been said or done by.- our mer chants in ih behalf. Uur people will owe the benefit derived from tbe enterprise, in a very large degree, to the energy and busi nescjeapacity of Mr. W.H. Cbadbourn and Mr. Jas. Li - unad bourn, jr., of Cbadbourn Columbu? county, N. C , who have given wj it ibucb uuie. : "Tne Coca Be -f Tonic of the Liebie Co, com' wed as it is with Coca, quinine and iron, forms a most valuable adjunct to the practice of medicine. From the experi ence we have had wita it we are forced to speak in favor of it,' and to recommend its use, Beef, iron, and quinine cannot be surpassed by any other three ingredients in or out of the dispensatory, for invigorating an enfeebled system, and' when such reme dies ean be obtained combined, from so re liable a house as Liebig's, it behooves the profession to patronize the same to tbe full est extent" Professor C. H. WUkinunn M. D., Editor Medical and Surgical Se Forelcn Exports. ; .-"V": ; Heun. Alex. Bprunt & Son 'cleared yes terday the barque Heinrich von Bchroeder, for Liverpool, with 2,215 bales of cotton, weighing 101.61T pounds and valued at $92,000 frSf-i Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co. cleared the barque Bialip, for Antwerp, with 8,875 barrels of rosin, valued at $3,400. , . - Functional derangement of the female Sstem is quickly cured.by the use of Dr.. V. Pierce's Favorite Prescription." It removes pain and - restores health and strength. By all druggists. . f CO UNTY. A FMAIJBS. Proceedings of tbe Hoard of Comnal- , - . alonera. - ' . - , Ther BoardI p( Coramissioner8.ot New Hanover county met in regular monthly Eetsion at the Court. House-yesterday after noon. -H. A -Bagg, Esq , chairmao, pre- . . . , . r t r - nr.,L T AM Slueu. anu aiesere., d. u. iiuriu, ttujia Moore, James A.r Montgomery and E. L. Pearce, commisslooers, were present. '- Tbe County Treasurer submitted his re pot t for the month -of January, showing a balance on hand to the credit of the gen eral fund amounting to $23,075 73, and $24 799 95 10 (he credit of the educational fund; all on dc-posit io the First National Bank of. Wilmington. . ' - I The Register of Deeds submitted his re port of fees from marriage licenses for Jan uary, $14 25, and exhibited the Treasurer's receipt for the same. , - . " ' j , The Chairman reported collections, of delinquent taxes on real estate amounting to $1,600 81.': ; - - s -'. Isaiah West aud John Meir were granted permission to retail spirituous liquors. Thomas Brown was relieved from the payment of poll tax on account of physical disability, ' , - It was ordered, that from and after thia date the court room shall not be used for any other purpose than public ' meetings, and permission for Its use for. this purpose must be obtained from the commissioners 6f the county. j Tbe County Treasurer was ordered to pay to.Jame8 M. McGowan $6.66, on ac count Of tax - remitted on retail liquor license, being lhe county's proportion, j Carl Dabbert and Geo. Waddell were ex empted from the payment of poll tax on ac count of physical disability. ' . " . ' - The following Jurors were drawn for the March term of the Criminal Courtr viz: E J. Littleton. O. A Peterson, Chas.' Wat- ters, J D. H Klander, M. H. Curran, H. Schulken; W. J. Beach, F. E. Hashagen, Jas F. -.Prl.. J. A. Ccrbett, John H. Sharps J. F. Stanland, J. Alvis Walker, D Greene- wald, S. J. Ellis. Geo. W. 8mith, Thos. E, Mayer. Simuo Blumenthal, W. II Mont gomery. Q. D. Rese&nl, J, P.Montgomery, R. B. Newkirk, E L Ennett, W. L Ja cobs," M. 3 Ci'StiD, W. M. Hurst, Jr., W. T. Daggett, E"-T. Suden, G. " W. Bishop. P. :Heinsberger. ! The Board then adjourned, subject to the call of tbe chairman Deatb of ITIra. Haney. Mr. 8. A. Haaey, of tbe Signal Office, has the sympathy of our whole community in the terrible affliction which has befallen him in the death of his young and devoted wife. The loss it all the more painful be4' cause sudden and unexpected; and the stricken husband U now, confronted by the saddest event of his life.' " The fair young bride of a few years now rests in Oakdale, beside hsr sister, , Mrs. Rhodes, , who was touctc-l by the blighting hand of Deatb but two ytsra -siace. - Oh ! it is too sad, But it in only tb jse who, with torn and bleediu hearts, hvo seeu a fond and af fectionate wife or daughter laid away ia the tomb who eti fully appreciate such a loss. ' '-. " .'- Mrs, Haney was the daughter of Mr. George W. Hardwicke. of the Stab news paper, at whose borne th? died ; was a na tive of Lynchburg, Va., and with her pa rents bad been a resident of this city for about ten years Her sickness was of only three davs' duration, and she passed away at the t ;vrly eu of twenty -three jeara. In all the rclitt ids of life a wife, mother, daughter, bister ana mend she was a model ofdufy aud affection. The tum nl services tok place fiom St. Paul's EjUcop8l church, of - which Mrs. Hanej was a member, at 31 o'clock yester day afternoon. Rev. T. M. Ambler ofB- ciaticg The tt'.ltndance was very large and wns a merited tribute to tbe lovely qualities of tbe deceased. Slowly and mournfully tbe funeral cortege moved from the church to Oakdale, that beautiful "home of tbe dead," and there was laid to rest all that was mortal . of one who had faithfully discharged eery duty in life, ? The floral tributes were numerous and elaborate, and tbe grave was tenderly and tastefully dressed by the hands of sad and sympathizing friends "'Tis thus with all things earthly. And all things we have cherish'd; 'Tis thus our joys are blasted, And all our hopes are perish'd." Monthly Exports. The following is a statement of the for eign exports from the port of Wilmington for -the month of January, as compiled from tbe books in.the Custom House Cotton 4,670 bales (2. 140,448 lbs), valued at $199,000. Spirits turpentine 787,176 gallons, val ued at $62,699. - . Rosin 26.648 barrels, valued at $26,476, Lumber 803,000 feet, valued at ' $4,- 83?. ; Miscellaneous, $1,272. Total value of exports for tbe month. $293,839. PENDER NEWS. Pablle Meetings at BnrgawThe Blair : Edaeatlonal Bill Endorsed. Star Correspondence. Poist Caswell, Feb. 2. On yesterday i visited tsurgaw ana witnessed the pro ceedings of the Board of County Commis sioners, the County- Board of Education and the County Board of Health. In the afternoon a public educational meeting was held, when the merits aud demerits of the Blair Educational bill, now pending before uonerees, were uiscussea. The' Board of County Commissioners, of which nr. James U. Alderman is chairman. transacted business of a routine character 1 "brovidinir for tbe county poor. &c, 1 he isoara oi Jducation. of which Mr. James Fulton Moore ia Superintendent, is a live, progressive Body, ana is dome stood work for the educational interests of Pen der county, : The County Board of Health, of which Dr. Walter C. Murphy is President, meets Quarterly for tbe discussion of medical sub jects The subject for discussion yesterday was Gipntnena. ur. it. i. Sanders read a paper, ana a lengthy conversational dis cussioo followed upon the different plans or tie tmenioiinis dreaded disease. Dr. Lucas stated that he had ; used large doses of spirits of turpentine with benefit, and suggested in support of his theory that tbe frequent application of this remedv. rich in czone, tended to destroy the dipht heretic poison produced in the throat. Drs. Batch- well,: Ennett and Porter followed in the discussion. : Dr Murphy tendered : his resignation as President, which., the Board declined to accept. " - The Educational meeting was largely at- tendea, ana a spirited discussion was parti cipated in by the Rev. A. L. Phillips, Messrs. A. R. Black and Luke McClammy. Dr. Batch well and others, followed upon the Blair Educational bill. s The question recurred upon the passage of the preamble and resolution reported by a committee, endorsing the bill., and tbey were adopted by a large majority. Among those who voted in the negative were .Messrs. Luke - McClammv. T. J. Armstrong, J. D. Powers, W. T. Ennett. J U. Foy and others; and among those who voted to support the bill were Messrs. A. R. Black. A: L. Phillips. John R. Paddison. G.-F. Lucas, R. T. Saunders, S. 8. Batch- well, J. JT. Moore,; K. H. MurphyvJ. H Murnbv and others. Dr. Porter was President, and Dr. Mur phy acted as secretary., . L. WASHINGTON. Death or ' ,n . Bayard Supreme Court It 1 vision In tbe Vlrxlola Cou pon ... CaaesM-Natlonal Banlta. - - . . y . TvSearapT to the Morning sta-..! WAsnraoTOjr; February 1. Mrsr Bay ard, wife of the Secretary of State, died here this morning. - The Supreme Court of the United States to-day in the cases of William L. Royal vs State of Virginia. Robert P. Barry va. E. G. Edmunds,- treasurer; of Fauquier county, Va., and Wm. H. Sands vs. E. G. Jiidmunds (the Virginia coupon cases) re versed the deciision'of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, end. decided that the tender of eoupons in payment of taxes 18 legaL Y ASHXNGVosf. Ftb. l. it is stated at the Treasury D- partmenl that ninety two NalionaL banks hold about $6,140,000 of tbe tea million three per cent, bonds whicn are included in tbe 133rd call issued Friuay. , ... Wasuikqtok,; Feb.-2 The resolutions of Messrs. Riddleberger and Pugh, as to the relations between the President and the Senate, will come up for consideration in the morning hour to morrow, and fllr. lio gan will have the floor at 2 o'clock on the Dakota bill. The Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice will on Thursday begin an investigation of the Telephone cases, as authorized by the House of Rep resentatives, c s - - N CHASLOTTR A Hotel Fire-One of tbe Gneate Fa " - tally Bnrmed Ueatb. ' Caaaed by a Lamp Explosion. Chablottb, N. C, Feb. 1. Sunday morning at 8:30 o'clock fire was discovered in a room in " the Charlotte Hotel. .The fire - alarm sounded,1 and investigation. showed that the bed on which Alexander Heinowsky. a painter, slept was on - fire. He was badly burned and died this morn ing from the effects of - tbe burns. The fire is supposed to have originated from a cigar - or from matches in - his pocket. Three other men in the same room were nearly suffocated by smoke. Heinowsky was a Russian ; and bad been living here about a year. Mrs Harriet Brewer at Caldwell station died to-dav from burns received by the ex plosion of a kerosene lamp. - Sbe was read ing a newspaper last night, when the lamp exploded, tier son and anotner gentle man were sitting at a table and were fear fully burned while trying to extinguish the burning clothing of tbe sutterer. ; ; VIRGINIA. Disastrous Railroad Collision Crlml- - nal Nes;lls;enee the Caaae One 9Ian Killed and Several Other Daner- ; ontlr Wounded Bev. Dr. I,affertr Sllchtly In j ored. Stauhton, February "3. A "disastrous collision occurred on the Chesapeake &Ohio Railroad here at 1 o clock this, mornine, No. 8 night express ran into a freight train on a siding, and completaly wrecked both en ernes. Gettings. of Richmond, fireman of No. 8, was killed, his body being terribly scalded and mutilated. G. . W. Ettinger. master machinist, of Richmond, had his right arm and leg badly broken, aud received a bad scalp wound, Zego Lowery. of Richmond, engineer of No. 3. had bis throat and arm scalded, and bis condition is dangerous, Charles Smaller, of Staunton, engineer of tbe freight tram, had his body bruised and bis bacK badly sprained The only passenger hurt was Dr. Lafferty, of Richmond, who was standing in the sleeping car and was knocked down and bruised, but not seriously. The accident was caused by criminal negligence. The freight train was on the side track, waiting the arrival of the ex press. The conductor tola his brakeman, Samuel Vie, that when the express passed he should turn the switch. Vie went to sleep and was aroused by the passing freight train. He got .up and changed the switch lust as the express came in sight. aad betorc the fatal error was discovered the train dashed on the siding and the en gines locked, the two boilers being jammed together, INDIANA. A Tonne Farmer murdered Blood' hounds and a Posse In Pnranlt of tbe murderer. Evansville, Jan. 31. A from Rock- nort. Ind - savs: About 6 o'clock Ralnnlnv evening, as Stephen Ellis, a young and wealthy farmer of this county, was on hia way home and when but a short distance from town, he became engaged in a ouar rel with a man named Cisney, hailing from Southern Illinois, who has been visiting in tne neighborhood for- tbe past few weeks. Daring the altercation Cisney drew his revolver and shot Ellis in the heart, killing him instantly. Cisney then fled. . The news of the murder spread rapidly, and by 7 o'clock several hundred determined men and balf a dozen blood hounds were scour ing the country for Cisney, who, if found wm be lynched NEW HAMPSHIRE. Frnlt Treea Killed by a Violent Storm Concobd. Jan. 31. The storm which ended last night raged for forty-eight nours, ana has caused great damage throughout the state. Heports received from some of the largest fruit growers say tneir orcnaras are entirely ruined. PoRTSHfOtTTfT Jan 81 .ThB damnum done by the storm of ice and sleet is unpa- raueitd rne inlury to garden and fruit trees is beyond calculation.. It is believed every peach tree in PorUmouth is killed Similar reports are received from other towns. In Nottingham,1 one man lost thousand peach trees. . '. COTTON. N Y. Commercial and Financial Chronicle New Toek, Jan. 29. The move ment of the crop, as indicated by our telegrams from the. South to-night, is given below. For six days end ing this evening (Jan. 29), the total receipts have reached 134,804bales, against 110,310 bales last week, 108, 488 bales : the previous week, and 165.006 bales three weeks since; mak ing the total receipts since the 1st of feept., 1885, 4,113,246 bales, against 4,126,992 bales for the same period of 1884, showing a decrease since Sept. l, 1885, of 13,746 bales. The exports for the week ending this evening reach a total of 114.642 bales, of which 68,976 were to Great Britain, 11,464 to France and 34,202 to the rest- of the Continent. ' ' Yesterday there was an r advance .of 5 points on better foreign advices and an improvement in cotton goods, i.auBiut' buiuo revival ui cuuuueuce in better prices. " To-day a firmer open ing was followed by a decline, the interior stocks not declining as muoh as was expected. A feature of the business in futures the past week is the large amount of premiums paid, to exchange contracts for .early de liveries for the more distant months, when, it is believed by the bull par ty, the conditions will be favorable to a higher range of prices. Cotton on the spot " was lower on Saturday last, but a decline of 1-160. ' was not quoted till Monday; and on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning an . unusually ; large business was done for home consumption. -Yesterday there was a firmer feeling. To-day there was no change, middling -uplands closing at 9 3-1 6o. The total sales ; for forward delivery for the week are 694,000 bales. . - v :" t-j:Hrowna Little Joke. - i'Why, Brown, how short your coat is," said Jones one day to hia friend Brown who.wittily replied: "Yes; but it will be -long enough before I get another." ; Borne men spend so , much for medicines that neither heal nor help them, that newclothes is with them like angels' visits few and far between. Internal fevers, weakness of the lungs, shortness of breath and lingering coughs, soon yield to. the magic influence of that royal remedy, Dr, B, V. Pierce's . "Golden Medieal Discovery." . , f , . FOIZEIOJ. , -., , r Ittr. Gladstone -Summoned y br. the Qneen The German JPreaa on Polit ical Eventa In EngiandThe Mone tary Qneetlonln France. By Cable to the Horning Star. Louon, Feb. 1. Mr. Gladstone left Lon don thia morning in response to the com mand of the (jueen. At the railway station he was greeted with cheers by th people gathered there, - and smilingly bowed his acknowledgments. . He will return to Lon don to-night. Mr. Gladstone received an ovation-on his arrival at Portsmouth. He made a few remarks; thanking tbe people for their cordial reception, and saying that his future life was certain to.bevery short. Bkblin, Feb.' 1. -The National Zietuno in an article on recent events in English politics, censures Mr. Gladstone'for gain ing control of the Government by what it 6tyles gross intrigue. "-. i- The at. yasstcM ZMtung, reremng to the fall of Lord Salisbury, says it is easier for Mr. Gladstone to gain a victory in Parlia ment than to establish a durable govern ment which would command the respect of foreign nations. . - London, Feb. 1. Mr. Gladstone has arrived at Osborne and has received tbe personal command of the Queen to form a cabinet. It is officially announced this afternoon that Mr. Gladstone kissed the hands of her Majesty on receiving her com mand, - Both Houses of Parliament met to-day and adjourned - until Thursday, pending the formation of a new Cabinet. 1 I Pabis, Feb. -1. The Government : has appointed a permanent commission to ex amine into the question - in relation to tbe monetary standard at home and abroad. ; -f Loitdqn, February 3. The new Cabinet is officially announced as follows : . Mr. Gladstone, Prime 'Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; Sir Farre Herschell, Lord High Chancellor; Earl Spencer, Lord President of the . Council; EL C ;H.' Childers, Home . Secretary; Earl 'Rose berry,. Secretary for Foreign Affairs: . Earl Granville, Secretary for the Colonies; Earl Kimberly, -Secretary for -India; H. Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary for War; Sir Wm. Vernon-Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Marquis of Ripon, First Loid of the Admiralty: J. Chamberlain, President of the LocabGovernment Board; G. O. Trevelyan, Secretary for Scotland; A. J. Mundella, President of the Board of Trade;. John.Morley, Chief Secretory for Ireland. . - -' , j The, folio wing appointments have been made under the new administration: Earl Sydney, Lord Steward of the Queen's Household: Arnold Morley," Patronage Secretary; Charles Russell, Attorney Gene ral. , . ' j The composition of the new Cabinet has caused great surprise. It is thought to show marks of a compromise. I iSOUTH CAROLINA Cfaeater'a Plucky: Sheriff Death or. a Prominent Citizen of Charleaton. By Teiegraph'to the Morning Star. . Charlotte. N. C. Feb. 1 At Chester. 8, C, Sunday night, while; Sheriff Hood was in jail in the discharge of his duties, he was attacked by three colored prisoners, who succeeded in getting the keys of the jail and a pistol away from the Sheriff. A scuffle ensued, in which the pistol drop ped to the floor. The" Sheriff regained possession of the . weapon and shot one prisoner dead, after which the other two surrendered. . $' f Charleston, Feb. 1. Gen. Wilmout G.' Dessasure of Charleston, died at Orlando, Fla., to-day in the 64th year of his age. He was an able and distinguished lawyer, president of the Cincinnati Society, a prominent Mason, having been invested with Thirty thirddegree in 1874, and a member of all; local societies of a literary and charitable character. He was a mem ber of the State Legislature almost continu ously from 1848 to 1864, and served during the war as commander of the reserve troops in the defense or Charleston. ' ' , TEXAS. Fatal Shooting Affray, at a Private Residence In Houston A Lady in the Caae. : i By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Houston, Jan. 3. A fatal shooting af fray occurred here last evening between Jack Crowley, a sporting man ' of this city, and Jack Hanlon, a Galveston .gamb ler, i Crowley was almost instantly killed, and Hanlon . seriously f wounded, two bul lets entering his body. " One of them pene trated his lung, and the other lodged mthe groin. The shooting occurred in the par lor of the residence of John Delany. Both men had been paying attention to Miss Delany. It appears the lady sent Crowley to Galveston on Friday, bearing a sealed missive for Hanlon. . Both men came here on the same train yesterday, and Hanlon took a carriage for the Delany residence, whence Crowley followed on foot, Crow ley entered the house a few moments after Hanlon, and was apparently, unknown to the latter. Miss Delany says she was in the rear part of the house when the shoot ing occurred, and that she i3 engaged to marry Jlanlon. She is a very handsome brunette. Hanlon will probably die from his wounds. Both Hanlon and Crowley were; widely known among sporting men. New York Comparative Cotton State ment. Bv Telegraph to the Horning Star. -New 'York, January 29. The follow ing is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending this date: h - ' 1886. 1885.. Net receipts at all United States ports during the week. 134,725 75,294 Total receipts to this date. .............. 4,086.241 4,009,698 Exports for the week. ; . 111,532 91,865 Total exports to this ' date. ... ............ 2,490,210 2,786,900 Stock in all United States ports. . . .. ; r.. . . 1,083,239 ' 885,457 Stock at all interior towns.... .v.. 237 896 156 214 Stock in Liverpool. 618,000 823,000 American - afloat for Great Britain. .... . . . 201,000 300,000 EXPORTS FOB THE WEEK. ! COASTWISE. New York Schr Fannie Klmmey 307,000 ft lumber. . Balttmorb Schr Fannie Tracy, 165,000 feet lumber and 221,400 shingles. - New York Steamship Regulatof 499 bales cotton. 125 bbls spirits, 284 do rosin. 405 do tar, 104 do crude, 10 do pitch, 45 pkgsmdse, 100 bags chaff,' 5,000 juniper bolts,; 152,816 feet lumber, j'; .. l y' H FOREIGN. S;-:-:.; '.v' ' Castries, St Ltjctb, W I Schr La moine 168,467 ft lumber. - Baltimore Schr Maggie J Lawrence 175.000 f tlumber, 200,000 shingles. 276 bbls rosin. - '---;.-.. . ' Liverpool Ger barque Heinrich Von Bchroeder 2.215 bales cotton. ; . , Antwerp Dan barque Rialto-3,87S bbls rosin. . : . ' , .- - . f I CONSTJBIPTTION CURED. ; An old physician, retired from praottoe,having had placed fn his hands by an East IndiamUelon ary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consump tion, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Long Affections, also a positive ani radioal euro for Nervous Debl'lty and all Nervous Com plaints' after having tested its wonderful cura tive power in thousands of oases, has felt it his duty to make it known to hts suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve hu man suffering,! will send free of oharge.to all who desire It, this recipe, in German, Trench or Eng lish, with toll directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addres-ing with stamp, naming this paper, W.A.Notm,149, Powers'sSlodLRoenv ter.K. Y. ' ' - r THE FOHTUNB OB" NO. W 8T. CHARLES 8T. Yesterday, at noon, a reporter for the Pica yune met in the reception room of The Louisiana State Lottery Company's office Mr. Leon Marthe, the well known proprietor of No. 16 St. Charles street.! He had called to transact a little busi ness, and Uking out his pocket-book he dis played a lottery tlsket, which was s amped 68, 235. one-tenth of the First Capital Prize in Deo. 15th Drawing one-tenth of S150.0CO, or $15,000 for one dollar. N O, Picayune, Dec 19. - ' FORTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE OF AN OLD NORSK. Mr. Wtnslow's Soothmg Syrup is the prescription of one of the best .Female Physicians and Nurses in the United States, and has been used for thirty yoars with never failing safety and success by millions of mothers and children, from the feeble Infant of a week old to the adult. It correct acidity of -the stomach, relieves wind colio, regulates the bowels, and gives rest; health and oomtort to mother and child. -We believe it the Best and Surest Remedy in the world, in all eases of DYSENTERY and - DIARRHOEA -- IN CHILDREN, whether arising from teething or any other cause. Foil directions for using wUl accompany each pottle. Nonegennine unless the fao simile of CURTIS & PERKINS Is on the out side wrapper. Sold by all Medicine Dealers. 85 casta a bottle. Spirits.Turpentine. We regret to learn that Mr. D. S.; Blair, editor of the Lenoir Chronicle has lost two of his children. ' ' Lumberton Robesonian; Shoe Heel dots: The cold weather which we bad a few weeks ago completely killed all tbe oats that were sown prior to that tune. The exodus of the colored population to ' Arkansas has sot ket stopped. Twenty or twenty-five have left this place within the last week. A colored woman, who was cooking for. Mr.-W. G. McLean, near Floral College, went to a neighbor's Satur night, the 24th ult., to sit up with a corpse. TfptnrniniF hnmn flnnrlnv meirnTn. 1 r -- UV1VLU day she built a fire and went to sleep before it. - Her clothing caught on fire and was iu a light blaze when she' awoke. She then ran out into the yard, but before assistance came she was so badly burned that she died the following Tuesday evening. ; Newton Enterprise; A 13-year old son of Mr. Hosea Jarrett, who lives near Keeversville. fell while skating on the ice on Sunday, January 17th, and broke his leg. The receipts from internal reve nue taxes for the week erlded January 24th were comparatively light, amounting to $5,554.16. A cow belonging to Rob ert Kistler. near Keeversville, died of hy drophobia last Monday. The cow was bitten by a mad dog about a year ago. The same dog bit oue or two cows belonging to George Cauble, one or two of -which have died. -The name of the man who eloped with a Georgia girl and married her, and who had a. wife and children in Lin coln county, is Thomas B. Hayes, and he was married to Julia Tucker, in Lincoln county in 1877, by L. D. Haynesj J. P. j-'RaleigD News-Observer: The Salisbury Watchman states that the old monument standing ia the Lutheran ceme tery there, erected in 1825, to the memory of Archibald Henderson, Chief Justice of North Carolina, by - the members of the - Salisbury bar, is leaning considerably and will soon fall if the found is not repaired. S But Archibald1 Henderson was not Chief ustice. He was a very eminent lawyer, and, as the able and .accomplished Judge Murphey said of him in his fine address at Chapel Hill, he was '"the model lawyer of North - Carolina.' He was a brother of Chief Justice Leonard Henderson and both were natives, of Granville. The late Hon. Hugh Waddell told us that the Legislature desired to put Archibald Henderson on (he Supreme Court Bench but he declined, saving that one of the family was enough. Stab Salem Press: George Clodrel ter, of Bethany, Davidson county, received $38 a hundred, for tobacco on the floors of a-jwarehouse in Winston.. The pro- prietor of the Winston Daily are making arrangements to publish a weekly Dem ocratic paper. One mau told us that he has found that there is more clear profit in keeping gocd laying hens than in keeping good milk cows. He says it will cost more to keep a cow well fed for twelves months than to keep thirty good layers. He says that 175 pounds of butter is a good yearly yield . for an ordinary cow. ' This at 25 cents a pound amounts to $43.75, and counting the skim milk at $26.25, it foots up $7o-. Thirty extra layers, he says, ought to produce 500 dozen eggs, and these at 15 cents a dozen would amount to $75. He says it does not pay to keep hens after they are three years old. Elizabeth City Falcon: A . mouth of Roanoke river, where tbe one washed away by the recent storm stood. The goversmeut will no doubt rebuild the light. house as soon as possible. News comes to us of a negro woman too indo lent to split wood,- attempted to kindle a fire with coal oil and was terribly burned. 'The different mills and factories in this section have all the work they can attend to. Some of them are running day and night. - Judge . C. C. Pool . has tendered his resignation as Collector of Customs for this pert, to take effect March 81st. Another case of "didn't know it was loaded" came to our ears last week from the quie little village of Woodville, about eight miles west of this city. A youngwhite mau named Richard Sawyer accidentally shot a negro boy with a gun loaded with bird shoU -4 ... ' Raleigh News- Observer ; The State Board of Pharmacy meets here next Tuesday. As showing the high prices paid for tobacco in the Raleigh market it should be stated that at the Farmers' Warehouse-Friday Mr D. C. Beck,of Granville county, averaged $58.25.' This, Moore & Proctor claim, is absolutely the highest av erage ever made on the Raleigh market. -On the Smithfleld branch of the Wil mington & Weldon Railroad, eight miles from Smithfleld, Friday night, the rear part of the train left the track and was dragged 209 or 300 yards. The passengers were badly shaken up. The train finally broke in two.: Ho person was hurt. The revival meeting at the Third Baptist church, which has been in progress two months, shows no signs of closing. About fifty conversions have been effected thus far. . It is reported that Winston cap italists will associate themselves with the Winston , & - Fayetteville Railroad Com pany and make arrangements to complete the road. - ' Mod Finger and his j sister-in-law, Mrs. Barnett, an account of whose elopement and subsequent capture in Alex ander has been published, were tried be fore a magistrate at Lincolnton Friday. Both parties acknowledged the stealing of the money, their intimacy prior to the robbery, and in fact everything they were charged with. They were sent to jail in default of bail, to await trial at the next .term of Lincoln Superior Court. The New ton Enterprise says the woman is com pletely infatuated with Finger, who is uglyenough to stop a clock every time he looks at its face. When her husband offer ed bond for her she refused it, saying that she "loved Hon," and intended to stay in jail as long as he did. Saturday her hus band visited her in jail and again offered to furnish bail for her, but she still refused to allow it and declared that she detested him. He then went away and bought a lot of nice furniture, which he sent to her room in the jail. She is only 15 years of age, but has been married two years. ! Charlotte Observer: A very fine specimen of oil painting by a home artist is on exhibition at Rods & Adams's book store. It is a painting of the late Rev. Dr. J. M. P. Atkinson, once President f Hampden Sydney College, and was execu ted by Mrs. John E. Brown, of this city. The excellence of the work has been very generally commented upon. ' - There was a tremendous flocking of commercial tourists to this city last night, and both hotels were full" up to the eaves. Pneumonia is prevailing to a considerable extent throughout .the country at present, while there are several cases in the city ' Throughout tbe country, the disease appears , - - l : . . . - i a - iu uc ui th uiaiiuaui 1J pc tuu iwu laiai cases were reporred to us yesterday. Mr. Wm. H. Kirby, jof New York, who has secured the contract for grading the Massachusettts & Southern Construction Co. 'a railroad from Black's Station, on the Air Line, to Shelby, arrived at the Belmont last night. Mr. Kirby had just returned from a trip along the proposed line, and stated to our reporter that'he will begin work on next Wednesday, February 3d.' He will break ground at a point three miles from Blace's,- and will work both ways. He has sublet portions of the line and will prosecute the work to a rapid completion Hickory Press: The Piedmont Wagon Company received a few days ago a car load 47,000 pounds of wagon tires. - Mrs; Dr. H. T. - Trantbam, nee Miss May F. -Henderson, "sister of Hon. J. 8. Henderson, 'died ia Salisbury on the 22nd Inst, v Mountain apples are bringing on the Hickory market 50 cents per bushel and cabbage 2 cents per : pound. Mr. Holden Davis, of the Cove Creek section of W or an an mnrtv .vritoa hia hrnthar f r j. C. Davis, of Hickory, that during the recent cold snap the thermometer stood at 21 degrees below zero, the enow was 8 to 10 inches deep, and tbe ice 2T inches thick. At the time the letter was written, Jan. 21, a second snow was falling. In that sec tion,: he says,- five or six negroes and a large number of cattle, hogs and chickens had frozen to death. He also writes that during the storm an end wall of the brick court house at Boone fell in. and so badly damaged the building that : it will cost the county about $1,000 to repair it. The in side work was so badly damaged that it is considered dangerous to enter the building. Other houses in Boone were blown down. Write ia figures any number you please; multiply it by 2; then add 8772; divide the sum by 2, and subtract the number first written; the remainder will be 1888, the present date, - . .