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M -, - , I . -....... T.. i. . f. ... . I nninirn mnr-m . .ruausKsa at WILMINGTON,! N. C. $1 oo A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. 8SSSS88388S88S8SS 8SSgS88S8S8SgS83 sipoow Zl 88?8888S8SiSSSa8 I tqjnon 9 88S8S888888888888 sinaow 8 88888888888888888 8S888888S82888888 888888S88S8888883 8288882888888888 88888888888883888 ih o o a. at o o c W u : O" ....... . . ... i Entered at the Post Office at WUmtgton, N. C, ax Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. H The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as follows: ' . '. . ! ' Single Copy 1 year, JJOKfge paid ....$1 00 " B months " 44 . -80 ' S months 80 WELCOME WEEK. ;v j Additional Committees Appointed The Site for the Fireworks Display Be- Wilmington's Welcome Week is still on. The President, Mr. Geo. R.FreTSch, yesterday appointed the Bureau of In- iormation, and Mr. Thos. D. Meares, chairman of the Parade Committee, added the following gentlemen to his list: J. A. Everitt, Sr., J. D. McEachern, S. Van Amringe, D. O'Connor and H. L. ;' lentress. " . ' .. The Bureau of Information is com .k. . - W. H. Carr, (chairman.) Jake Greene- wald. J. D. Bell, J. McK. Tolar. W. Slo curab, E. L. Davis, uyn. Burnett, B. F. Lee, O. F. Love, O. P. Cazaux, T- H. Thorrioson, H. H. Waxman, Octavius Hicks. R. E. L, Holmes, Walter Mc Rae, Fletcher Whitaker, E. A. Northrop, L. Weil, S. D. Hankins, J. S. Burnett. W. H. Gilbert, Wa' Puf?h. Geo. V. ?irrnor M. Tarohi. 1 Sia Simon. Henrv Gerkcn, L. P. Best. i The headquarters of the Bureau will be announced In a few days. Its object is , to see that every visitor has com fortable quarters while here during Wel come Week, and it is earnestly requested that parties who can accommodate visi tors will notify the committee at an early date, stating rates and the -number they can accommodate. ( The Committee on f ire Works re ports that a site has been selected for the display of 'fireworks in the large open field to the right of ' the Wilmington Street Railway tracks just before reach ing Hilton. It is an excellent place for h Htenlov anH rnnvpnipnt hwincr with. in a stone's throw of the street cars. An amusement committee will be ap- The Committee on Decorations say , that decorating will be done more ex- 1 tensively tbis year than last, f several ' merchants have already given sout con tracts lor very costly designs,: for both residences and places ot business. , Mr. Jas. F. Post, Jr., Chairman ot the Music Committee, will arrange! an elab orate programme and appoint his com mittee to-morrow. Bev, Dr. Fritohard. ' . f The following brief but comprehen sive sketch of Rev. Dr. Pritchard, from the Faveiteville Baptist, will be read with interest: j - Dr. Thomas Henderson Pritchard, the new Dastor for Charlotte, was born in Davie county, N. C, and attended Wake Forest College from 1849 to 1854. gradu ating in thf class of 1854 as Bachelor of Arts. H ias the orator of j bis class from the Philomathesian society. During 1834-55 be was agent for the; College. He was soor? ordained, to the ministry at Hertlordl N. C, serving as pastor from 1855 to 1858, when he went to the Theological Seminary at Charlottesville. Va.. spending eighteen months. He then became pastor at Fredericks burg. Virginia, and from 1860 to 1865 was pastor of the Franklin Square church. Baltimore, and at I Raleigh. From '65 to '68 he was pastor at Peters burg. Va.: from '68 to '79 the First church. Raleigh: from '79 to '82 Presi dent of Wake Forest College. After leaving Wake Forest he was for a while pastor of the Broadway church, Louis ville, Ky. In 1883 be became pastor of the First church Wilmingtonwhich be has served since. He leaves for Char lotte January 1st. He has been closely associated with the Baptist interests of North Carolina, and is now the North Carolina member of the Centennial Committee. For the work he is giving much of his time. I Severely Injured, t . 1 - , Mr. Wm. J. FuHong, a machinist em- nlnvprl at Mtsrs. Burr & Bailev's shODS. was painfully hurt yesterdaji morning. He was seated on the floor, working on an iron newel-post for the new Court House, when a fellow workman wheel- ine a truck accidentally knocked over another newel-post leaning against the wall of the building. The iron column weighing about 400 pounds Jell on Mr. Furlong, cutting a deep gash; in his head and severely mashing and j breaking a blood-vessel in his right foot. He was taken to Dr. Bulluck's office 'at once by his brother, Mr. Jno. J. Fnrjlong and J. w. Meiyin, ana alter naving; uis wounus dressed was sent to his home on Nun street, between Third and Fourth. Last night1 he was restingeaslly.j A Bjld Challenge to the Wilmington Fox - Club. - I Policemen on duty late Friday night, on South Front street, were astonished to see a large gray fox trotting sedately through that thoroughfare, waving his "brush" as if in defiance of the Wilming ton Fox Club. He came down Market street in the same gallant style, and turn ing into Front, with a twist Of his tan, "sought the wild heights" In the direc tion of Greenfield. , f ; RIVER AN D MARINE. ' The British steamer Cae Coldnrta; 1.767 tons, from Philadelphia for Wil mington, arrived at Southoort yesterday. A1so, the Norwegian barque Watte, from savannah, Ga. j , , ne schooner Ella Watts which re torned to this port a tew weeks ago dis abled, having completed her repairs. -..wj yesterday lor Philadelphia. ... "TfT VVTTT Additional Committees Announoed. ' The following is a list of the Recep tion, Transportation ; and Advertising committees appointed for ' Welcome Week,viz.r " . - Reception Committee AG. Ricaud. chairman; Hon.' Geo. Davis. Hon. A. M.' Waddell. Tames Sorunt. D. G. Worth, A. David. Norwood Giles, F. H. Mitchell, Wm. Calder. T. F. Divine, Octaviohs Hicks, Harry Walters, J. H. Daniel,-W. R. Kenan, J; T. Harper, J. W. Atkinson. M. J. Dineelhoef. -W. A. If rench, George " HonneU, Wm. Goodman. . W, T. Daggett, C.T. Bennett. . J. E. Montague, L. S. Belden. C G. Southerland, W. S. War rock. H. A. Whiting. R. j: Jones, Geo. W Kidder. G. .W. Williams, W. L. DeRossett, Ed. Borden D. H. Walsh, E. J. Powers. Samuel Northrop. I. I. Macks. BenJ.- Bell, Sol Bear, James F Post, C H. Schulken. J. F. Garrell, R. C Bowrjen, J. H. Taylor, J. H. Hanbyi D. C Love, J. W. Norwood. W7 L, Pars ley, Wra. Lattimer, J. W. Perdew, Luhr Vollers, Wilkes Morris. Jos. D.Smith, Jas. H. Chadbourn, Geo. Harnss. N Jacobi. O. M. Filyaw, W. P. .Oldham. W. M. Hayes, Jr., W. H. Alderman. J: L, Dudley, A. Weill. Col. J. D. Taylor. Transportation Committee J. - H. Barnard, (chairman), T. M. Emerson, J. H. Sharp. T. C. James, Gabriel Holmes. D. L. Gore, A. G. Hankins, C W.Worth John LeGwin, R. R. Love, S. P. Mc- Nair, M, F.Croom. E. R. Hicks, H. P, West, George W. Huggins, B. F. Lee, W. M. Cummine, P. L. Brideers, H. L. Fennell, Seymour Merrill, A. J. Howell, Jr John M. Wright, W. E. Worth, A Nathan, J. Solky, L. BlethenthalL Advertising Committee G. G. Lewis, (chairman) W. H. Bernard, L. P. Best, J. W. Jackson, B. F. Cooper, J. T. James, Alex. McDonald, G. P. Cotchett, T. B. French, J. D. Bell, Henry Gerken, Geo. Strong, Wm. Pugh. J. D. Mallard, Henry Thompson, L. Burnett. Fireworks Committee W. E. Sprin ger, (chairman), W. H. Carr, J. D. Nutt, M. F. Heiskel, H. M. Emerson. Archie Warren, Hansom Collins, I. D. Bell, Henry Schulken, P. H. Hayden. Nor wood Huske, M. JJHeyer, C. J. Mitchell. H. L. Fentress, Martin Newman, C M. Whitlock, Jno. Maunder, Dr. W. E,. Storm. H. L. Fennell. R. C. Bowden, H. T. Bauman, J. Hicks Bunting, Ui. M. Robinson. W. F. Barksdale, J. S. Hooper, I. S. Worth. Wm. Merrill, Mosely Hubbard. E. P. Boatwright. J. S. Burnett, W. W. Hodges, S. A. Schloss, I. M. Bear. Simon Sanders, G. . Boney, Joe D. Smith. Willie Fleet. Andrew Smith, H. S. Tucker, Benjamin Jacobs, W. M. Hays. Jr., W. C. Peterson, John F. Garrell, Bonnie Southerland, W. C. VonGlahn, George L. Morton, J. A Montgomery.. t The contract has been given out for the fireworks, which are to be on a much larger and grander sole than last year by far the "largest and grandest display ever seen in the Carolinas. TOBACCO GROWERS. Premiums Awarded acd Prices Paid at the Sales at Kooky Mount. , , Special Suur Correspondence. Rocky Mount, Nov. 3. The ales yesterday closed with prices satisfactory to all. and the premiums paid to each, respectively. The result brought many pleasant' smiles on r the faces of those who received the yellow coin, tselow is given tne-awaraea pre mium list. The total amount of tobacco sold yes terday was 122,943 pounds; cash paid,$20. 108. Tbe largest check was for S3,353.30- The highest price paid per hundred was $115. The largest quantity by one man was 18.518 pounds. First Premiums Threewitts. Halifax county. $75: I. T. Sharp, Nash. $75 J C Cobb. Elm City. $30; Walker & Mc Dowell. Edgecombe. $30; J. A. Whitaker, Nash. $75; R. H. Ricks. Nash. $30; Tay lor & Ricks, Nash, $40. Second Premiums J. C. Cobb, Elm City, $50; J, C Cobb. Elm City, $50; Mrs. Meeks. bdgecomoe, zu; uiarK x Mann. Nash. $20; Lula Brewer, Nash, $50; Levi Jones, Nash, $20; A. B. Nobles, Edgecombe, $25. Third Premiums J.-T. Sharp. Nash, $20; J. C Cooper, Rocky Mount, 20; M. T. Williams. Elm City, 11 u. , The total average of sales was 17 cents per pound. COTTON FACT8 ANQ FIGURES. Net receipts at all U. S. ports 43,- 721 bales; stock 926,397. , Receipts i of cotton here yester day 1,857 bales; same day last year, 1,819 bales. ' A general strike of operatives . in British cotton mills began yesterday; 65,000 people are idle. . - New York futures closed firm at an advance of ten and twelve points on closing prices Friday; sales 107,200 bales. November opened at 8.02, and closed 8.11, ecember 8.23, and closed 8.27; January 8.85, and closed 8.40r Feb ruary 8.46, and closed 0.0a; - raarcn 0.00, and closed 8.64: April 8.68 and closed 8.74: May 8.78,'and closed 8.84; June 8.89, and closed 8.93. Georgia cotton crop report, Nov. 4: Snfeciallv full reports upon the cotton cfop show a further reduction to be ne cesaarv in the estimated yield. Consider- inc that tbe late irosts have stopped an further maturing of late cotton in the northern half of the State, the total yield cannot be over 00 per cent. 01 a iuu crop. In the northern districts, the frost was so severe tnat many oous aireaay developed have become soft and cannot possibly open witn. the most favorable weather. The best results have been re alized along a belt extending from the Savannah river to the sontnwestern cor ner nf the State. Along this belt the rrnn is estimated at 71 oer cent, of a full yield. The poorest result is in the south eastern counties, where 65 per cent, is tbe estimate. Nine-tentns 01 tne crop has been picked and the most 01 mis is already marketed. In the northeast sec tion, perhaps, a fifth of the crop is still in the field, while in the southeast hard ly a twentieth remains unpiciceo. Thf rainfall was lizht in the cotton region yesterday. In the Wil mington district Newbern .and Golds- hMY. .. the ' onlv stations that : re- sW w w w , - w . . oorted rain. The mercury dropped to 42 degrees (as the minimum) at Weldon and Lumberton. v.. - -1L JoLiOd - --.; ..-- v -., . . . - i i Cases Tried Yesterday The Business of -. the Term Concluded. - , . e Court convened at 10 o clock yesterday morning with all the officers present, - j The grand jury came into Court and reported that they had disposed of all the business before them and were there upon discharged. - i . In the case of j John A. Wright, charged with corruptly influencing; wit nesses to absent themselves from Court, a verdict of guilty with recommendation hto mercy was rendered. The ". Court sentenced the prisoner to pay $10 fine and costs. Lawson Wright, Columbus . county,; charged with retailing liquor without li cense, -was acquitted. Mr. H. L. Stevens, of Kenansville, and DuBrutz Cutlar, of Wilmington,' were admitted to practice in the court. Gib Buie, Robeson, retailing. Ver dict not guilty... . ) Wingate White, Columbus, retailing without license. Not guilty. B. G. E. Daughtrey, charged with dis tilling without license. Continued for defendant. - .1 . V , W. C. Tew, distilling without license. Verdict guilty. Judgment, thirty days imprisonment in Cumberland county jail and to pay $100 fine. There being no further iury cases petit jury was dis ready for trial the charged for the term. The Court will meet at 8 o'clock this morning to settle up some cases on the civil docket. i The case of S. H. Manning vs. the "Liverpool and London and Globe In surance Company, on trial Wednesday, was compromised and - settled. The suit was brought to recover tbe amount of a policy for $3,000 on the steamer Boss which was burned last year. A policy of $1,300 in the Liberty Insurance Company of New Vork was contingent upon the issue of this case.; but before it cot to tbe iury a compromise was effected by which the companies con sented to the payment of $3,500. THEVVEELMEN. Wilmington's Representatives in the Bicycle Parade and Contests in Charleston. j The wheelmen of this city who went to Charleston, b. C. to participate in the bicycle races and parade which took place there Wednesday, have returned. pleased with their visit and the hospi talities shown them by the Charles- tonians. I One of our boys brought back two of the prizes. Tbe race against time, one mile was, won Dy Isaac near. 01 Charleston. Time, 2.85 2-8. In the half mile; race, six entries, C. H. Cooper won third prize a ten dollar bicycle bell. ! In the two-mile race, six entries. Isaac Bear was first; C H. Cooper was second, receiving a fine lantern. W. H. Wynne, of Raleigh, won the first prize for fancy bicycle riding, and was awarded a beautiful gold medal. The- boys report the bicycle parade Wednesday as being magnificent, about 400 cyclists being in line. The wheels were elaborately decorated with lanterns. Messrs. C H- Cooper, . P. Hemsberger, W. R. Morrison aiid Julius Schwarz, of Wilmington, were in the parade, and afterwards all the wheelmen partook of .an elegant supper given com plimentary to them. FOR WELCOME WEEK. Two of the Committees Appointed Mer chant! Bea nested to Bend in Their Names. ' ... ' : v : The President af the Wilmington Wei come Week scheme has apoointed two of the committees on Decorations and Parade as given below. The Executive and Finance Commit tee report that they are making good headway, iand after the election the work of all the committees will be pushed with much energy. The committee on parade requests that all tbe merchants who have not sent in their names to enter floats in the Trades Parade,1 which will be much larger than the one last year, win please do so, so they can be assigned their places at once. j Committee on Decoration S. H. Fishblate, chairman; R. M. Mclntyre. Rob't I. Katz, A. D. Brown, G. W. Chesnutt, Clayton Giles. Oscar Pearsall, Henry McQueec, G. L. Morton, W. R. Barksdale, F. Rheinstein, T. C. Craft, I. L. Greenewald, W.'H. Yopp, Wm. Poisson. I. Bates, W. H. Green, R. R. Bellamy, H. H. Crpnenberg. C. W Yates, Jno. Tiylor, H. G. Smallbones, Sam! Bear, JrJ A. Shrier, J. V. Grain ger, T. W. Clawson, J. A. Springer, Jno. G. Marshall. F. W. Foster, P. Hems berger, Fred Hashagen, E. P. Donlan, W. Hewlett and J. H. Watters." Committee on Parade T. D. Meares, chairman; J. H. Davis. W. H. Gilbert, W. Perdue, J. M. Wright,1 M. Jacobi, Owen Love, Carl Polvogt. Jno. T. Piatt. J. C. Stout, Walker Taylor, W. C. fones. A. Adrian, H.- Savage, H. W. Malloy, Jno. K. Williams, N. B. Ran kin, Isaac Bear1, Col.v E. D. Hall, J. J Hopkins. R. W. Price, A. A. Brown, L. F. Brown, Hi H. Munson, T. C. James, W. A. Riach, J. G. Oldenbuttle, E. H. Sneed, J. C Stevenson, J. W. Murchi- son, J. H. Hanby, F. W. Kerchner, W. L. DeRosset. I Jr R. W. Hicks and W. A. Whitehead. - Other committees will be announced In a few days.' ROCKY MOUNT TOBACCO SALE. ' Rocky Mount, Nov. 4. Editor Star : In my report yester- day I suted that Mr, Williams, 01 King- wood, received the prize for having the . - ;-L ' t v ' largest quamiiy 01 . woatw . uu. uur bition. The secretary informs me that it was wrong, and that Col. R. R. Gotten, of Falkland, had the largest quantity fourteen thousand and five pounds which entitled him -to and he didje ceive the seventy-five dollars. CoL cot ten received the prize of seventy-five dollars last year lor having brought the largest quantity. ! Jl A il A WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, NOYEMBER, 11, Mysterious Disappearance of the Editor of the Wilson Advance. t- V'-- By Telegraph to the Morning Star.-' Charlotte, N. C4 Nov. 3Charle8 Vilson, editor of the Advance, at Wil son.N. C, has disappeared most myste riously from his home there, and so far all efforts to trace him have failed. Wil son was to have left Wilson on the 8.20 o'clock train last Monday morning for Greenville, N. C. In his room was found an unfinished letter which he had writ- teu to a lady friend, and in the last par agraph he stated that he must close, as it was then 2 o'clock. He did not go to Greenville, and ho trace whatever of his whereabouts have been obtained, though telegraph wires - have been diligently used. Foul play is suspected., r . .., t WAR IN AFRICA.' . Success of the French in Their Campaigft Against the Dahomejana, 1 . -" B Cable to the Homing Star. Paris, Nov. 3. Gol." Dodds. com manding the French forces operating against Dahomeyans, has telegraphed the details of the fighting that took place October 20th and 21st. - His dispatch says: ;-; . :? '. . " . . "The French were attacked at Ako by the whole strength of the Dahomeyans. Theatives were repulse! . with heavy loss alter two days fighting. . Col. Dodds adds that King Benonsin now wishes to come to terms. The French commander, as a preliminary condition. insists upon ine evacuation, of the' Da- homeyan lines along the river Koto. King Behonsin refused, and October 26th the French column, which had in the mean time been reinforced, attacked and carried two lines and the entrench ments between Ako and Kotopa: On October 27th, the French captured the important line along the Koto to the strongest fortified -position the French have yet captured. The total French loss throughout these-battles -is ten killed and seventy-three . wounded. After staying three days on the banks of the Koto. Col. Dodds advanced along the road to Kana, preparing for his final march to Abomey, the capital. Col. Dodds concludes his dispatch by stating that the resistance of tbe Dahomeyans is becoming less vigorous, owing to the enormous losses they have sustained in their numerous engagements with the French. '. ' ' LATE FOREIGN NEWS. A General Strike of Operatives in Eng lish Cotton Mills Fifty-five Thonsand Persons Idle. By Cable to the Morning; Star. London, November 6. Efforts to bring about a settlement of the threat ened strike in the cotton manufacturing industry have failed. Thirty mills at Ashton closed this morning, and the long threatened crisis is on. A general strike of operatives commenced this afternoon, and 55,000 persons are idle. xne spinners nave a good cniei in Mawdsley, Secretary of the Amalga mated Association of operative Cotton Spinners. It is. not likely that he will give way without a severe struggle. In commenting upon the. outlook to-day tbe Pali Mall Gasetu says it has no doubt that the heavy .tariff on cotton goods abroad is at the bottom of the difficulty. If Harrison , is elected, it adds, there is no chance of a better opening in the United States. Even if Cleveland Is elected a reduced duty on British cotton goods is uncertain. With all European markets practi cally closed against British products, the: outlook is not good. The secretaries of the Spinners' and Masters' Associatons and the masters and men themselves are confident of victory. Both sides are prepared for a long struggle, 'and the end of the contest is hard to foresee. As far as monev is concerned, tne spinners are in a good condition to sfay out for a very long time. Maudsley. promises that each striker will be paid ten shillings weekly, in addition to all allowances made for children and grants of local associations. . - THE POPE IS SICK. Alarming Condition of X,eo XTU round Unconscious in His Boom. -By Cable to the Morning Star. London, Nov. 5. A dispatch from Rome to the Pall Mall Gazette says that the Pope' is very ill. The clerical papers make every effort to conceal the fact of his illness. . A few days since his Holiness was found motionless in his room, and his condition caused a panic in tbe Vatican. Physicans were hastily summoned, and they succeeded in re storing him to consciousness. His Holi ness is very feeble and faints easily. He has been forbidden to do any work. Rome, November S. A representative of the Associated Press Jn this city de termined to set at rest the various ru mors concerning the health of the Pope, and called at tbe Vatican and obtained an audience . with His Holiness. He found that the Pope was enjoying most excellent health. To-day he gave an audience, lasting half an hour, to the Grand Duke and Orand . Duchess Ser- gius, of Russia. I COTTON FUTURES. .. The New York Futures Market Yesterday. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Nsw York, Nov. 5 Hubbard. Price & Co.' cotton review says: - ; ' The statistical position, as made up by this morning s Chronicle, is as follows: Visible supply, 8,506,485 bales, 3,114,685 bales of which are American; crop in sight, 2,196,952 bales; cope in sight du ring the week, 381,790 bales; plantation deliveries 325,800 bales. Another sur- frise to the trade was in the advices rom Liverpool to-day, that market be ing higher when a decline bad been ex pected. The improvement, our cable informs us, was due to a growing con viction that the strike will only be a par tial one, the large spinning districts of Richardale and Heiburn refusing to lock out their operatives. This leaves to the old Home and Association . the burden of sustaining : the movement. An ad vance in yarns in Manchester will work in favor of the operatives as the spinners of one section will realize that they are stopping only to . throw profit into the hands ot other masters. According to the Chronicle the movement is now 1,- 036,000 bales behind that of last season. Those who have a favorable opinion of the market feel confident that the move ment from now on will lose another mil lion bales. Our market opened steady at five points advance, gradually hard ened and became firm, closing at the best prices otthe day. j -Fire yesterday at 'San Bernardino, CaL, destroyed the Stewart Hotel block, the finest in the city, including tne san Bernardino : and the First National Bank. Losses aggregate.t200.000; partly insured. The cause of tbe fire is un known.'' ' , - Km LIGHTNING NOTV2IGZAGL7 " Some Popular Errors Corrected by the Photo graphic Lens. Several traits of lightning have been discovered by photography that were not previously suspected. v .This is particularly true of the course. taken by a thunderbolt. So ephem eral is the flash it seldom lasts over a two-hundredth part of aseo- ond, and some authorities say that occasionally it endures only a mil lionth that the eve can distinguish little beyond the general route "tray- ersed,;.- . '-.i;-:.- v :L-i'r The poetio and popular conception of .the path of lightning is that it is a series of 1 zigzags much sharper than those of a Virginia rail fence. . Pho tography proves, however, that the track does not contain a single angle, but is : sinuous, like a river.' It is a curious fact that in 1856. before this fact wasthus established, Mr. James Nasmith declared to the Britr ish Association for the Advancement of , Science that ' he had never ol served the zigzag form of lightning. "but that to his eye the flash always appeared., as in a diagram which he offered,1 showing only curves . and with or without branches or forks. . It is now evident that he was an -exceptionally keen observer. Photo graphs reveal not only the smuoaty of: .the track; but also the ramified character of many flashes. Some times the filaments diverging from the main line are numerous and deli cate as the rootlets of a tree or the small tributaries to a riyer. Whether these branches flow into or out of the principal stream it is not easy to say ; yet electricity often discharges itself by a number of routes, the quantity of fluid taking each one being in pro portion to the conductivity of the air or other -substance through which the current at that point passes. : These photographs of ramified lightning render much more intelli gible than was formerly the jcase some of the stories of thunderbolt: freaks. Unquestionably, instead o DVlXbCU.jr VIUIOUH BJXryn VU f " ' . fro around the room or among sev eral buildings, as has been supposed- was the case in several instances, the stream has divided into several, each taking a tolerably direct course to the earth. ! Besides the sinuous and ramified types, photography shows the exist ence of a ribbonlike streak, flat, thin. and wavy, quite distinct from other forms. Then, too, there is the "me andering" variety, which wanders all over creation without any distinct aim.- Still another record made by photography is called "dark" light ning, because the streak produced when a print is made from the neg ative is black and not white. Pre cisely how this effect is caused has not yet been satisfactorily explained. One suggestion is that it is due to overexposure of the photographic plate. A similar result is obtained : with the sun sometimes, where the very intensity of the light reverses 'the effect.. It might also, it is thought, be produced by a previous was exposed and leaving a line of nitrous oxide in . the air along its route. . . . - -. A subsequent flash, slightly far ther away, would illuminate the whole field, but fail to penetrate this streak. Absorption of the rays would occur somewhat as in the case of a gas in the spectrum. New Haven Palladium. Took His Word for It. He was faultlessly attired and was waiting at the street crossing for an opportunity to get through the stream of vehicles. A cab driver turned his vehicle out of the car track, and as it passed close to the curbstone it struck a loose paving block, throwing a shower of mud over the dude. j "What do you mean by thatf ' cried the bespattered young man. "If you will climb down from that seat I will knock your head off." i , The driver stopped. "Can you do it?" he inquired. 'Yes, I can, and 111 prove, it, too, if you will get down 1" "WelL if you re sure you can do it I guess 111 stay where I am if it don't make any difference to you," replied Pat as he drove on smiling broadly. Chicago Mail. -- - - - Sighting a Cannon. A clever-, utilization of photog raphy, for the purpose of correctly sighting a cannon, is due to the In genuity of Marquis de ! fraysseix- Bonin, a naval captain, i He calls it the tir optique. - The object to be aimed at being' reflected on a plate, the marksman has only to bring the sight of his cannon on to the object reflected on the plate. ; This is done by a small, delicately arranged me chanical apparatus. The moment the pointer of this instrument touches the object on the plate the cannon is fired. New York Journal. - Above All, "Know Thyself." Young man, this is our advice to you. XX you love a young girl tell her so manfully, with no cowardly" beating about the bush, j If she says she does not reciprocate your love it won't klli you. H ot at alL There are others just as good as she. v V1- If she says she loves you and will marry you, don't ask her to wait till you have made a fortune, but just invite her to come with you and help you to 1 -sake one. Ludgate Weekly. Raleigh Chronicle ; It is rumored that application will be -made by Chief supervisor ot Elections shatter for the appointment ot many deputy United States marshals, . the purpose evidently being, to attempt ; to make arrests on election day. -There are now over 900. convicts on the penitentiary farms on the Roanoke riyer. j- There are this season fewer hickorynuts and wal nuts in this section than at any time in many years. The crop of acorns is also remarkably light. ; ' j;,;; ; . ; A Paris dispatch says : Mrs. Deacon has abducted her eldest daughtir from the convent in which j she was placed, pending the result of her divorce pro ceedings. The dead body of C H. Brown was found in a barn near Winston, NrC last evening, with a bullet hole in the fore head. A note in his pocket indicated that he had committed suicide to avoid the poor house. . r v . 1892. Beady for Business. ."".. To be diligent in business is com mendable., but surely one may err on the side of too great diligence by be ing ready for-a trade at an, unsuita ble time. A : map peddler in pursu ance of his vocation chanced to stop at a hotel in a Long Island village. A friend whom he had known else where 'seeing him at the hotel invited him to a party which he was to give the same evening. The map peddler came, and when received by his host at the door was found with three maps in his hands. -Howdedor' he said. "Got any nails? I thought as there was to be a good many folks here tonight Fd hang up some of my maps here and let 'em look at 'em. Good chance f er business.. Maybe some of 'em would like to.buy 'em; and I could- explain 'em Just as well as not. v; His host endeavored to persuade him that it would not be a suitable place to urge his business, much to the man s surprise. 'Now, you don't understand." urged the peddler " Twould amuse and interest 'em ; they'd be pleased,' and besides that, bein visitors, they'd " feel sort of 'bilged to buy." ; i But he was then spoken to so plainly that he was forced to aban don greatly to his surprise as well as his regret his project "of mm gling business with entertainment. Youth's Companion. ; i Tbe Sound of Bella. ' Bells have, always been regarded by the ignorant and superstitious as invested with miraculous powers, and even educated people are often extremely sensitive to then , ringing. Although their deep sonorous peals, arousing imaginative effects for merly attributed to them, are no longer believed, there is a .certain awe in the solemn peal of the tolling bell. A chime of sweet bells has a weirdly soothing power, and the joy ful ringing of a troop of bells makes all who hear it jubilant. One of the peculiar beliefs of early days was that bells drove away evil spirits, calmed the sea as far as they icould be heard, and if rung during a thunderstorm saved "the country from disaster. Strange tales have1 been told of bells that were rung by unseen hands, which circumstance was always followed by some public calamity. The subject of bells has always been a most fascinating one. Poets have discoursed' upon them in lyric rhymes. Our own Longfellow wrote no less than nine poems On bells, the most famous being his "Bells of Lynn." Detroit Free Press.," The Smooth Stan of Flora. "There are many ways of turning a penny," soliloquized J. a. Morton. 'Some tune back a smoothspoken fellow turned up in Flora, His. He went to the bank and had an audience with the president and cashier. . He had a little story all ready, audit wore the garb of plausibility. Sev eral banks had been robbed recently, and the youngster pretended to pos sess the confidence of the gang that was doing the' deviltry. The next, descent, he said, would be made on the Flora bank. "He, the good young man, would notify the officers of the ' exact time of the intended raid in order that the robbers might be appropriately rounded up. He was sent to Decatur, the alleged rendevous of the robbers, and there lived in royal style, while the bank officers sal; up nights to guard the treasure, and waited in vain for the note of warning. It did not come, and when the good young man had worked the game for all it was worth he folded his tent like the Arabs and made a sneak for green fields and pastures new." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. : j : - How One Fact Was Discovered. In the early part of this century an English button maker became fa mous for the 6teel waistcoat buttons which he used to manufacture with lines cut upon them for ornament. He gradually put the lines nearer and nearer together, and observed that as he increased the number of lines the buttons became more and more iridescent. He explained his discovery to a scientist who began experimenting upon ruled plates of steel. The result was the wonderful 'diffraction grating" which is now used in place of the glass prism upon all great telescopes to break the or- dinary ray of light into its primary colors. Youth's Companion. The Return of Birds. I am convinced that the same woodpecker occupies the same cavity in a tree winter after winter, and drums upon the same dry limb spring after Bpnng. I like to thing of all creatures as capable of local attach ments and not insensible to the sen timent of home. John Burroughs in Century. - : Carefulness in Eating. Dr. Samuel Johnson said: "Some people, have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my stomach very studiously and very carefully, and I look upon it that he who does not mind his stem ach will hardly mind anything else." '' It Was in Pawn. " Mip Summit Can you tell me the time by your watch, Mr. Hardup?7 Hardup (sadly) JNot bexore next Week. Exchange. V v The Comforting Fan Motor. Among the various contrivances of later years tending to render .life worth living during the heated term the ubiquitous little electrio fan mo tor certainly holds no mconsiQerable place. 'A few dollars expended for the plant and one cent per hour more or less for the electrio power to operate it is surely not an extrava gant outlay for the amount of solid comfort one receives "as a quid pro quo ai he toils at his desk during the breathless midsummer days. The latest improvement in this line is a motor which has an additional slow horizontal rotation upon its standard, whereby the breeze of the fan is im partially distributed to every part of the room. JMgmeenng Juagazme. j v Savannah, Nov. 5. Spirits turpen tine firm at 27 cents. Rosin firm strained $1 051 10. NO. 51 DANGER YAWNING. A Father Belates to His Son His Method . of Learning; the XMon. ' 'Dont yawn like that again, Harry. ' In the first .place- it's not polite to . yawn in the presence of other per- . sons, and in the next place it's dan-; gerous business, this yawning.,,,, That's what a father said to his seven-year-old bby as the two were. : coming up from Coney Island. j - - The boy had heard before that it -was impolite to yawn, but he had never before been . told . that there was danger in yawning. - He wanted to know right awayf in what the: danger lay. . ... ' "Well, ni tell you," answered; the father.:;. "If you keep on yawning ; -you may some day dislocate your jaw."- ;. : ' -: ' . : -. . - ' , - "Dislocate ;my. jaw, papal Why, that's the funniest thing I ever heard in all my life. Do you mean that I might get my mouth so wide open that my jaw would get .out of place and stick fast?" . : - . "Yes, that's just what I mean." -, "And did you ever know it to hap pen, papa? , ; ' ; "Yes, it happened to me once.1' r -uxeany, papal". "Yes, Harry." - "When was it, papa?" "The time that I was in jaiLw "In jaiL papal Were you ever in jail?" ... . . - 'X- .-.; v "Yes, Harry, I was locked up in .jail once. by accident. The jailer didnt know' that I was in the cell and shut the door and went off and left me." 1 Harry climbed up into his father's lap, put his arm round his father's neck and jkissed him. 'Tin sorry about that, "papa," he said. ' "Did they keep you locked up very longl" "Half a day, my boy, and there rasn't a book nor a newspaper nor anything else to look at I couldn't do a thing except wait. It got to be very tiresome waiting after the nov elty had worn off. It was like being shut up in a big closet with only a little window in it. After awhile I began to yawn. I'd never been told how dangerous it was to yawn, and so I didn't know enough to stop it, and the first thing I knew I had yawned my jaw out of place. "There I was, locked up in a cell, with my mouth wide open. I couldn't cry out for help, and if I could have shouted nobody would have heard me. There was only one thing to do, and that was to keep on waiting for the jailer to come back." "I guess you were pretty glad when the jailer came, weren't you. papa?" j - . '' "Indeed I was, Harry, jand you may be sure he was very much frightened when he discovered me there in the cell, my jaws wide apart; and speechless." , "What did he do, papa?" "He ran after a doctor as-fast an his legs eould carry him." "And what did the doctor do?" 1He put my jaw into place again." ; 'lAnd could you eat your dinner that night just the same as ever?" ' "No, Harry; I couldn't. I had to drink my dinner that night. " Harry looked very solemn for a few seconds. Presently he looked up into his father's face and said, "I wish I had been there to take a picture of you, papa." New York Times.. What' a Dynamo-Electrio Machine Is. In reply to an mquiry from a cor respondent, the dynamo-electric ma chine may be defined as a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in the form of electric currents, or1 vice versa, by the operation of setting conductors (usually in the form of coils of copper wire) to rotate in a magnetic field, or by varying a mag netic field in the presence of conduc tors. - . - The term is also applied to a ma chine by means of which electrical energy is converted into mechanical energy by means of magno-electric induction, in which electrio currents are produced by the motion ox per manent magnets, or of conductors past permanent magnets. Machines of the latter class are called "mo tors," those of the former "genera tors. Pittsburg Dispatch. An Odd Means of UTellhood. An elderly lnLladeiphian earns a fair livelihood guessing. He makes guesses at everything when prizes are offered to stimulate the guesser. He answers newspaper competitions. puzzle contests, tells the number of beans in a bottle and other instruct ive things. He comes out strong at fairs, riddle matches and magazine prize questions. The hit of his life was when he secured the $500 offered by an agricultural society for cor-; rectly computing the number of grains of corn in an ear still growing on the stalk. It is such a matter of business that he would not consent to guess a woman's agejwithout a fee. Philadelphia Press. Take Things Easier. It is generally agreed among natu ralists that the tortoise is the long est lived of all animals. The moral fe plain. Don't break your neck running "after "something you are not sure of and not worth r the breath after being captured. In other words, don't run at all if you can get along better on , a slow, sure walk. It is not work which kills nen so much as the hard way they go about doing it. Lancaster Fxn,m iner. - " - - ' - ' Affectation Is Common. . We all hate affectation; we all hate it, I say, not-, excepting those them selves affected. , out does he : or she exist who, in youth at least, was not open to the charge? "If any do it must be a dull creature, as honest as you please, but barren Of fancy as. an automaton, v Human instinct rec ognizes this. , In antithesis to the af fected it sets the plain man, the simple maiden, the woman of busi ness, none of whom is ever fired by imagination or ruined by enthusiasm the passive and active forms of the same quality. These excellent indi viduals are uncultured also as a rule: for wtio can digest learning unless he be under the spell of a feeling more powerful than conscience, or indus try? .National Observer. , Charleston, Nov. .-spirits "tor- Dentine steady at 27 cents. Rosm steady good strained $1 ,00, X ' ' " " " - ' ' - - - Enterprise: narots barn and stables were burned. Seven head of cattle and one horse and " a large amount of provender were lost. The biggest potato we have seen this year - was brought to our office last ' ' Friday by Mr. F. H. Linebarger, of r: Caldwell's township. It weighed eight pounds. "-. .;; "v Shelby Review. Prof. R. j Bal four, of Grover, a well-known and here- -tofore respected citizen of this county, -' was arrested at 5rover Saturday on a' serious charge. The allegation fs that he , attempted rape upon a little nine -year . old daughter of Mary Bridges, who lives at Grover. Balfour was arrested imme- ' diately and taken before Esq, D. J. Har din. He waived ah examination, and. after investigation, ; Justice Hardin bound him over to the next term of the Superior Court in the sum of (500. Smithfielrl Heraldv Mrs. Betsy Powell died Wednesday night, about 10 o'clock, at the residence of her son, Mr. C S. Powell. She was in her 76th year and had been in feeble health for several months. Rain is - needed very much. ; The river here, is the lowest it has .been in many years and the small streams have almost entirely stopped ' running. The ground is so dry that it is almost impossible to plow. We ' are indeed pained to know that Mrs. W. G. Hollowell has again lost her rea son. Deputy Sheriff C B. Saunders " took her to the asylum at Raleigh Wednesday. She was token there last spring but did not stay long before she was sent home greatly improved. j' Wadesboro Messenger-Intclligen -cer: Mr.: T. A. White showed us yes terday a cotton boll which contained thirteen locks of seed cotton, some- thing we " never heard of before the -usual number being four to five locks to ' the boll. Mr. Ben Knotts. who lives with his son at the cottonjactory, had the misfortune to break his arm in a very unusual manner last Monday night. He was walking in his sleep and fell out of the door, fracturing his arm just at the shoulder joint. , - j Raleigh Chronicle : There are now only 120 convicts, in the peniten tiary. The revenue officials have advices of the seizure of the government distillery of Rufus Honeycutt in John-' ston i county. The distillery was sup posed not to, be running, but it ; was found that Honeycutt was illegally mak ing rum. All the property, including two stills, has been brought here and stored in the government building. An illicit distillery at Mandate, Chatham county, owned by Oliver Lewis, has also been seized. Newbern Journal: Hon. W. T. Caho has received information from a re- , liable old colored man from Pamlico 1 county of designs upon his life. The colored man while passing through a piece of woods last Friday night came, unobserved close upon two men sup posed to be Gideonites who were in a - r . 1 - . am: 01 tne xence mienuy conversing. His attention was arrested by hearing Mr. Caho's same called, and by listening he found they were plotting his assas sination. Fearing for Mr. Caho's life he came to the city and warned him of his danger. Besides their .remarks in . reference to the contemplated murder the men spoke boastingly of bow they would control the prices of both pro ducts and labor when they "came into power. m A.a.a.0 ail. a- . si VIU.E, Nov. 1. Our community is great ly shocked over the killing last night young Jack Wilfong, which occurred a point on tne lsiana rora roaa, ic Wilfong had participated in the g: parade here and was returning to 111 ir r, mm -inn:r ssa ti iub t nn s 'lr'inino nrn' met with . lour men at the point eg tiarpn a n n otrAf a ifxxr vArn. r them, a young man by the name of Miller, took exception to an e. wnicn ne (wiuongj addressed Viora hut . nrbirh MtllAr aIIah-' time both menwere on the Wilfong struck Miller and MilaVi5 his knife a terrible one infltfT 18 among other wounds, a deadly across the right forearm, completely sev ering both arteries. Before medical aid could arrive, he bled to death. Charlotte Observer : This is - IUU Uia fcaaaaV. 1U iiiab A. lib - UULIUU . Va Ami im a nmn wtm thn tri Mm haa Kuan nSlrerl in t KfAr th Imvai k . - bad been killed by the frost. Mr, John'B. Gibson, of the upper-part of this county, died Wednesday 'morning alter a long and painful illness, aged about 52 years. Jo Harris, colored, of Pine- ville, took part in thQ torchlight proces sion Tuesday night. The next night the negroes of that section had a meeting at China Grove and sent for lo to come to the meeting. . He went; wearing his Cleveland hat that he wore Tuesday night. The negroes cut his hat up and beat him up pretty badly. He recog nized a number of them. 1. H. Collins, , who came from Pineville last evening, reported that lour ot the negroes Jeff Woodhull, lohn Biggers, Jim Roan and Jim -Wilson, were arrested yesterday ' and were being tried before 'Squires Barnett and Harris last evening. T Charlotte News: Mr. E. Motz, superintendent of the Brewer gold mine, was at the Central this morning with a 15-pound brick.- It was a beauty, and at tbe mint its value was ascertained to be $3,000. Mr. Motz comes up every few days with bricks of that kind. Peyton Norman, colored, was arrested this morning, charged with stealing $135 ,. from Mr. E. R; Dodge, superintendent of the Electric Light Company. Mr. Dodge had the money in a drawer of his desk, and while - he was oat ' some one pried - tne desk open ana relieved the drawer ot 'its contents. The new hotel at Bryson City, on . the Murphy branch of the Western Car olina Railroad, was burned to the ground last night. All the guests es caped unhurt. The hotel was a $12,000 structure, owned and managed Dy wm. A. Blackburn. It was insured for $5,000. - The farmers say that all the cotton has been picked out in Mecklenburg. The crop shows up short. There is a lot of cotton yet at the gins, but the farmers have been marketing it as fast as they could get it ready. . Goldsboro Headlight: "Pat, the . Ripper," will find himself in hot water . immHiatTxr nftr ..the election. War rants charging him with various criminal offences will be 'served on him, besides he will be turned out of the Baptist church at the deacons' meeting next Wednesday night. His odious charac ter, profanity and murderous designs are against him. There is consider able uneasiness among our farmers about their corncrops, as there are many bugs inside the shuck that are completely de- . straying the grain. Not a single ' relative ot iat nxum win vote ior mm next Tuesday. They are all Democrats. The lamiiy ot Mr. jonn uavis, in New Hope township,! was doubly be reaved last week. On Thursday night. . Jas. B. Davis, aged 80, the eldest son. died ot pneumonia, and tne iouowing nighti Mr. John Davis, aged 56 years, died from softening of the brain, tr We learn that the remains of Mrs. Lorena Rich were exhumed at Faison, Tuesday, by request of the father of the deceased. Mr. T. O. Kellev. of this CitV. An autopsy made by the coroner and jury revealed that her neck was broken in two places, and also a - fracture of the skull. A telegram was at 'once sent to the sheriff of Colleton county, ordering the arrest of W. C Rich, the husband of theeceased, at Walterboro,- S. C It will be rememberej that Rich was 1 ar Tested several weeks ago, but was hon orably acquitted of tbe charge of murder for lack of sufficient evidence. :,. 1
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