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There is riot a State IpJthis Union, that does not take more or less in terest icTrail roads and give them more Oi less encouragement,, while there is not a State in the Union that takes half as 'much interest in country roads or pays fhalf .the attention to them that it should, There is not a , Siate in the Union, as far. as; 'We know, that has a road system at ali, roLany thing that might be called road system. ' f J We are told that the jState of ' ginia had, before the days "of Vir rail , roads, soijie of the best public high ways in this country, and that the wound throusrh the mountains in such a way.iby such excellent grades, that a person riding in the Stage coaches of those days would scarcely realize tnat he was ascending orde- scending "travelled a mountain. We have over some of .these same. roads si ace, add saw but engineering. few traces of the fl ne skill (that made these mountain roads tne ad- miration of the traveller; It we had never had any railroads a l . ' H doubtless by this time have I i i - t M a fine system of turnpikes, at least in the liTder: States, for their necessity would ;h4ye been recojjnized; but the railroads nave so overshadowed the ."dirt" road that it has been almost r i forgotten y the States and b een left to the jcounties and the jtpwn ships to be patched up and kept n shape the; best they can, which liacks : very litt b'e. There e of being as bad as possi- is hot a leading nation in Europe tpat hasn't roads that should make this country ashamed of itself. roads that a pair Of stout does will w pull a heavier load over than a j pair of horses would over" the average American road much of the year. .' It would be hardly fair to institute a compiirsbn between this ctawntryH ana the leai i ding countries of Europe and" ekpeci to ave as. godq toad here as ;tney have there, because .Sheir roads are the w-jrk of ages and! they are simply keeping up sys " terns' some of which were established i i . I . ! i i ecnturiesago.' This is true, but ithere the Gevii-nment looks after the road as a matter of puolic policy and pub 4iVeconomy while our Government do ndt, but let the toads take! care of themselves. That's the difference, ButStW Legislatures ! will leve'r orivf a nil Lion like this serious a .t-- 'i r, .-" i I T tention until prodded up to it by th people, andt strange to say, the very people, the farmers, who are most dr rectly interested in good roads, are the . people who! seem to realize this th least.! and to sav the least about it. They, wpuU probably be the first to I- :t . i ; i- , i J i . protest if It were proposed to.tax their property t6 construct good, substan tial and purab ef highways. There is a political party ' which has sprung up within the past few years which claims to be the especial champion of the farmer, and as such appeals jto the farmers of the country for their support and. votes, i That many ot tne tarmers so regard it is shown by the fact that it Ipolfled kt - the last election 1.037,060 Votes, the large majority of which were cast by farmers! i '. ' r . ' i One of the leading demands in its platform, and one, to which its fol- lowers ttached much importance, is for th 'Government ownership p railroa on the ground that if the Government owned and operated the railroads ported freights j could be ! trans- 1 1 i over them at much lower 1 rates ; than they ! - I are now, andhati thefarmers would thus save !a , good deal of money. If this were practicable and all that is said were true, the saving of freights on the railroads, if the cost of trans portatioh were put down to the very lowest; figure possible, wouldn't amount lo a I respectable fraction! of ' the money the farmers of the country would save if! they had good, level, 'solid roads tp wagon their products tothi mmrket town or to the railroad station. There isn't one farmer in ten n knostj of ,the States of this -Uniprl'who does hot now pay from two to tjiree times as much annually to do this as he would- have to to pay it he had good pads to do his marketing' upon. When it costs a farmer $100 in time and labor, not to speak' of the hardship to himself and araft animals, to delfver his crop in market which could be done with $50 if he had good roads, he loses just $50. and this takes no acconnt T VOL. - XXIV.: of what he often Loses by being un able' tp' deliver his products when the . prices are" highest because he cannot plow through the mud to do it. "I On horse on a p-nbd. hard road. withreasonable: grades, can haul as much -iuL.borses ;on a bad road, ind two horses could haul as much is four, so that the farmer with good roads, could do his hauling with one- lalf the draft animals necessary to do tBe same amount of ,work over bad ; roads.-. Thus the farmer with ihe good roads would, save the cost of the large-number 6f horses, which !tne' rarmer with the. had rosrls must. tkeepi and the cost of feeding as well 1 both of Which would amount to a very considerable item on the aver age farm.V ' This is : the statement for one farmer. , Let it apply, as it does, to all tne tarmers on an tne paa roaas. 1 and then let some one figure up what the grand. aggregatei of the cot of bad roads annually is, and see what a stupenaous r amount it will . De. They don pay.it out in dollars, but they do in time and labor and extra feed of extra stock, and in the wear -tnd -tear of stock, vehicles, harness,. txd all this means money, for time dcia laDor are worm, money, aua k ikes money to make up the wear and ear. :;!! ' If the money so lost were saved ma put into tne construction or gooa road's, .it would not i be many years iefore the high ways?pf this country. hich are nOwja disgrace to the pro gressive age in which we live, would be replaced by macadamized ways tnat would be a credit to us. i TAXATION . Taxation is One of ;tbe problems of the age, as it has been of ages, and u probably always wHl be, for taxes are someof the debts that are never paid willinglyjand the average mor tal dodges them it he can. As far as conscience goes it figures very little on the tax lists, aiuj possibly it might not De uuing violence to tne trutn to say that i 6 doesn't figure at all. There arei too many "honest" citi- zens use trie teutonic aemzen ot whom it was told that after 4?giving in his prooerty.he was mtormea oy the tax lister that ; the Legislature had passed I an act 'requiring j those who listed for taxation to swear that " ' f . - i f . !. . . I- they made a truthful statement. "Vat?" said the old fellow, "haf I got to schware do it ?" "Yes," re plied the lister, "that s the law now. Oh, - veil len," said the unsophisti Seated lister, "ven I got wschwaredo, it,' I guess I better gif in some more horses.' Und cattle, und bogs." The old fellow's conscience wasn't, both ering him a bit, he had an under- tanding withj that, and between him and his obliging conscience they had the State right along. year after year, as lots of the old man's fellow-citizens had been doing, but "dot scci are" got' him and brought1 him to taw. It'does not necessarily follow that because a ma n take adVautage of the State or municipality in the matter of taxes and tries to get off as lightly as he can that he is dishonest. Not t'all. He may be in all his dealings with his fellow citj i. i zens as individuals strictly honest and punctiliously hon- rable, but when he comes to deal ing with these same fellow citizens collectively ie won't mind beating 1hem if he can and he will justify it n the ground that "they all do it, hich comes Ypretty near being the truth, althoughit is. no justification. There is nbthing.gaihed by this in the long run, for 'the" State or the county j or the municipality must have sb much money from year to year to meet current expenses, or special obligations, and if, full re urns Of property be not made, or. prpper valuation put upon it, it sim ply necessitates a higLer rate of taxation to ;meet the t demands for money, so mat tne citizen wno re turns only a part Pf, his .taxable property or .returns it; at an under valuation, pays-as much tax on it as he would if he had m ide a t andid and honest return, others did the same. provided all Of course if others did not do the same theh.the burden would fall unequally Jipon him, and, that s where the dodging tax-payer does injustice to the one who is. -disposed to j dp the fair, square thing. The dodging system not only does injustice to those who are willing to pay their full proportipn of taxes, be they few or many,1 bujt'it does harm to the State in other j ways than by defrauding her out of taxes. States are judged very frequently by non residents seeking Information, with a view to . investment . Or to locating, by the listed valuation pf -property and the rate of taxation. If they find the farming Jutnds listed at a very low figure per acre, which necessitates a high rate of taxation, they ; are apt to conclude that the lands are either very1;' poor, or very far from market towns, and with the high rate of taxation, that: the farmer must be. pretty hard pressed to pay bis taxes and meet other obligations. This makes an unfavorable impres sion, which is not to be wondered at. - How much better impression would it make if these lands were put at 1 H something like their real value, wplch the owner would ask for them if he offered them for sale, and if the rate of taxation were proportionately lower?! ' It would notpnIy speak well tor our tanning; lands, Dut aiso. ior our State Government as wisely and economically administered. - It is not an easy thing to devise system of taxation that : would be perfectly equitable even if the peo ple taxed were strictly , honest in the matter of returns, for under "present systems the bulk of taxation is a tax on industry and when, it is not directly so it comes, in the long run out of the poor man. The tax on the farm, for instance, covers -houses. Darns, anaxtner improvements wmcn may ) add double or treble to the I taxable value of the -lands on which thty staqd although v they ar'i'lpr uucuve or notning in ine way oi inj- come,! while the adjoining farm, al though equally as good land is a sessed at a comparatively nomln figure because its owner was content to live in a cabin and let: his cattle depend for shelter upon a friendly straw stack or something of that sort, taxj of this kind is simply levying tribpte upon the industry that toiled i i an d built the house and tne barn and gi ving a premium to indolence add shiftlessness, .whereas it ought, in justice and good policy, to be the re verse,' if that were "practicable. When the manufacturer, the .mer chant, or trader is.taxed he pays the tak but adds it to his gross expenses, puts it on. the price of .his goods and somebody else pays the tax back to him. v : ; : JjjT hat's where the enormity of high tan tt taxation comes in. lhe man- ufacturer, if he puts his goods upon i - i i i i i the market! himself, adds the duties imposed tp the cost of the goods; the importer who buys 1 1 aoroaa aoes toe who buvs from same; the merchant the manufacturer or from the lniDi dr-- ter does the same, and when they get through, the people who buy tl le goods for their own use, have pa d the duties . with a considerable per cent. padded. ' .' V- 1 .. ! i 1 1 jWfiile it may be impossible to de vise a perfectly equitable 'system pf taxation, it is possible to greatly im prove the systems we have and to rje- mpve many of the inequalities witfh- out imposing narasmp on anyone, arid Che place to begin is by makidg wealth (and by this we do not mean tme lQuusiry wnicn proauces weaitn;, bear its just proportion, which it does not now in this country,1 and never has in this nor in any other. " There dollars are hundreds of millions Of i the possession of the j wealthiest P ople ot this country which ao not pay a cent of taxes andjnever h The late Jay Gould, though worth at least $70,000,000, and some say 9 000.000. Daid taxes for ! vears Pn if . ' I 0.000, and growled when a couple ot vears a?o the assessment i- - i, ... . .. i raised to o00,0P0. And yet it tne property of these men was en dangered bv violence. I they could command the militia of the States, public expense, to protectit. So gpeSil There is a wide field open tor the tax reformer. The Dallas (Texas) News dota't thin the Panama Canal scandal a big thing to make so much such' fuss about, as it wouldn't make fa patching i for our great pensipn steal The physicians of Mexico haye discovered a new remedy for typhus fevefr. They administer cooked spu dersL AS a remedy for the disease! it is Success. It not only puts a speedy erid to the typkus but also to the patient. !old Weather Notes. Eighteen inches of snow fell jat Raleigh; at Henderson twenty-two ncbes; at Weldon ten inches. At'Sylva, N. C.,! in the Blue Ridge section, Tuesday, the temperature Was down to 28 degrees below zero. " Partridges are starving and freezing to death at many places in North Caro- ina and Virginia. M : Parties at Nor fori k from Currituck Sound sav the canal near "Coinjock is perfectly jammed .with vessels unabli to move. The freeze has made it little or ho trouble to kill ducks and eeesef on the sounds. Every air-hole in the ice is hi led with them, and they are gentle to what they usually are. Myriads of fowl are! taking to the wood and fields in search of food. . Good Seeds Well Bone. I 7 - - t The railroads are doing well heir part in relieving the suffering among the poori not only in Wilmington but at other places along their lines. The Goldsboro i Argus' of . yesterday says: - ; The Wilmington & Weldon and the Rj & D. railroads, following up their generous gifts of wood last week.: have each sent forward two more car-loads for distribution among the city's needy. This is more generous on the part of Capt. John F. Divine and Col. A. ts. Andrews, because it was done in the ' face of a direct offer from - our r thi Fathers" to buy and pay cash for this wood. ,. Naval Keaeres. 1 j:'- : - The Fayetteville Observer says: f'Gov. Holt last week made requisition on ; the Navy Department for fortyLee biaga- 2t ne riiics auu complete equipments lor :n i i the Fayetteville division of the 'Naval reserve militia, of which Capt. Jas. D, McNeill is Lieutenant Commander; also, for ammunition for a 3-inch rifled gun for this division. The Newbern our- a also mentions that the. quota of arms lor the division in that city has been applied lor. ; : t WEEKLY '' : ''"'V ' V ' ' ' ' -r-. -- -H-i-. -.:. v;- -y -? ',' : , ' - WILMINGTON, N.C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, ROUGHTlME3 ON TH RIVER. Wo Boats from FayetteviUe-A.n lee Block- ado The Steamer Lisbon Ieo-Bonnd on Black Biver Bafts Tied-up and Aban doned. ! There has been no boat frora-Fayette- ville xh'u week. None need he expected until "the ice io the Cape Fear river breaks up, and from present indications it will be several . days before this hap pens. ,'' ; ! The s.tajxterzffarf, Capt. Black, ar rived -yesterday : evening "from ; Black riverrand brought news of the situation of affairs on that river, which enters the Cape Fear about twenty; miles above Wilmington. The river is frozen from shore to shore at many places this side of Point Caswell, but the ice 'was rotten and the Hurt had little difficulty in get- ing through.. The Cape Fear river, jusi above the mouth of Black river is frozen clear across. Rafts along the Cape-Fear on'thejway to-' Wilmington are tied-up and abandoned bv the raftsmen. The steamer- Lisbon, running on the upper Black river between Long View and Clear Run.fs fast in the ice in Beattys bridge reaches, with two large flits loaded with rosin and turpentine. uapt. Moore, oi tne iisoon. says tnat a norge has been formed tor about three miles and the ice is piled dp several feet in height. Snow commenced falling, at Point. Caswell at 3 p. m. Wednesday and .was followed by sleet that fell until early yes terday morning, it began snowing again at 9 a. m. yesterday and continued until 3 p. m. The trees are burdened with sleet and limbs breaking off. The roads are impassable on this account in every direction. BRANCHING OUT. The Coast Iiine to Build a New Extension j ' ' Into the Yadkin Valley. : Charleston News ana Liourur: It is stated upon good authority that the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad has com pleted a preliminary survey for a new railroad from Wadesboro, on its Cheraw and Salisbury branch, to Winston, North Carolina. The road will be ninety miles long, and will penetrate the Yadkin Valley, which has one of the m st re markable water powers in the country. the fall being about 200 feet in the mile. At Winston the road will connect with the Roanoke and S uthern. a branch ot the Norfolk and Winston, which has its terminus at that place. 1 ! The building of this connecting line will give the Norfolk and ! Western . a Southern outlet for the products of the Pocahontas coal fields, and the Norfolk and West-.rn is. therefore, thought to be in close sympathy with the enterprise. and it is considered probable that it will facilitate its construction. ! In tact it is reported that the Norfolk and .Western, as well as the Caast Line, is an endorser upon the bonds for constructing the line. When opened, however, thi road will lie operated bv the Atlantic toast Line. It is farther stated upon, the1 same au thority that the work I ot construc tion will be commenced just as soon as the locating surveys have been com pleted, and that it will be pushed to completion wy.h all possible rapidity. YESTERDAY MORNING'S FIRE. Shops of the Wilmington Iron works Company Destroyed los Estimated at $10,000 -Insurance $7,500. Fire broke out yesterday morning at twenty minutes to four o clock in the Wilmington Iron Works, foot of Nun street. Upon the arrival of the "Fire Department, which was prompt to an swer the call from box! No. 43. it -was found that the main building, which was one story and 80 by 120 feet, covered with corrugated Iron, was on fire from one end to the other, and that the flames were leaping high through the roof. The building had been on fire fully halt an hour before the alarm was turned in, and upon inquiry it was ascertained that this watchman an old colored man who lives io a small house in the yard near tti e burned building did not know how toj turn in an alarm when he dis- covered the fire,- which started in the ml ddle of the west end of the shops, The alarm' was finally given by the policeman on that beat. The fire was no) doubt the work of an incendiary as there had been no work done in the shops tor several days. The morning was on le of the coldest this winter; the water from the nozzles of the hose freez ing on reaching the ground. The firemen 'deserve credit for keep ing the fire from spreading Co the whart and surrounding dwellings and ware- bouses. The foundry, which is a separate building, east of the machine shops, was also on fire, but was not materially darn aged rhq loss is estimated at $10 000, and the insurance amounts to $7,500. as fol lows: On building, $2 000 in the Guar dian Assurance Co., ol ,i London. Eng., with Mr. Jos. D. Smith:' on machinery and tools. $2 500 in the London, Liver pool and Globe, with Mr. Tos. D. Smith; $l.50(J in the Ham burg-Bremen, and $1.- 500 in the American of Philadelphia, with Mr. T. H. B atwnght. The company will rebuild at once, ana will pht up a substantial Crick building in place of that burned down. Work will nbt be interfered with materially as the shops of the company on South Front street are fully equipped and able to meet all demands that may be made upon them. . - ! COL. DUFF GREEN REED. DeatH of a Con'ederate Veteran Chief of Gen. Wheeler's Staff! By Telegraph to the Morning Stax. New York, January 20. The funeral services over tne body ot Col. uurt GreeA Reed, who died inWard's Island Hospital Monday, were4held this after- . ; . .,,1,1 a 1 . 1 ..i..... Col. Reed was 66 years oMHjnd was born in V ginia. Uh the breaking out ot tne civil war he joined tbehf Confederate army and was promotedvto chief of Gen. Joe Wheeler's stafiJofthe cavalry branch of k the Confederate army. Col. Reed was a brave " soldier and J distinguished himself in Wheeler's I -"i D l raids Col. Reed come to New York and beeamca member of the Confeder ate Veterans "Camp of this city. His death; is said to have resulted from a shock caused by the amputation of a leg. Rev. Dr. W. W. Pageread the service of the Protestant Episcopal church. The body will be buried in the plot of the Confederate Veterans. Camp, in Maple Grove Cemetery. PEANUTS AND PEANUT EATERS. ' The Crop Far Short of Sxpeotations Prices Advancing Peanut Ceooration - An In tresUDK Curio at the Uorth The Nut's Commercial Value A Pre ventive of Intoxication. 5 The cop of peanuts, in this section this season is far short of expectations, a leading dealer estimating that it will not exceed 75.000 bushels, while the crop of last year was fully 125,000 bushels. Es timates of the Virginia" crop cannot be obtained, but it is believed that this crop ts also short. . "1 In New York, city, the Sun says, the shortage in the crop is likely to agitate a great many persons, for in Gotham, the habit of eating peanuts is more general in cettain districts than in San Francis co. Chicago or St. Louis, which are the three foremost rivals to the metropolis in the consumption of the leguminous nut.. The .peanut -fcateTsof ; the 'great cities are provided for chiefly oy the crop yieldefl by the peanut farms of Vir ginia and North Carolina.. This crop, it is announced, has this year fallen short ot 4,00jp,000 bushels, and there is a con sequent advance in the wholesale price. The quoted market rate is now five cents a pound, but the numerous Italian Counts who are interested in the retail trde still adhere to last year's rate of ten cents a quart, and are therefore en titled to and will doubtless receive the gratitude pf Gotham's peanut eaters, par ticularly on the Bowery, where a supply of peanuts has from time immemorial, been part of the theatre outfit of the bumble and enthusiastic patrons of the drama. " In times gone by certain residents of the metropolis, suffering from the lack of knowledge of the great American peanut, have affected to despise it, and to scorn the taste of those who choose it as a delicacy. But it is worth noting that the peanut has risen superior to this mistaken prejudice and has forced the respect of many who thought con temptuously of it by becoming an object of art as it were. Every New Yorker accustomed to use his eyes around holi day times has seen the proof of this in novel ornaments that have appeared in the shop windows. With a paintbrush skilfully handled,, and bits or bright colored cloths or Silks, artists have been able to 4rnetamorphose the peanut into an object that unites hu mor with an inherent beauty of aspect that is remarkable. Peanut dolls and other things have now a recognized mar ket value as curios, and it . is a fact to the eterpal honor of the lowly nut that artists of local renown have not thought iti derogatory to their art to busy them selves in the absorbing pastime of pea nut decoration, feanut dolls are found doming mantels in many studios, and elaborate art works, in which the peanut has played the most important part, are exhibited in costly gold frames. Those who think slightingly of the peanut, forget its adaptability to many useful commercial purposes. The nut has iong beer, valued for its oil. The seed contains a fluid that is an excellent substitute for, and is often sold as olive oil. ' By heating the seeds before press ing them another sort of oil is secured that is useful in the : making of soap. The seeds themselves have also been used in making certain kinds of choco late: i hose wno would soeak con- iemptou.sJx.pf the peanut- are undoubt edly ignorant ot the tact that . the vine that bears the nut is in itself an interest ing jcurio in Northern climes, quite as much indeed, as the cotton bad and branch. If the dried vine be varnished and painted and the nut gilded, parlor ornament is obtained that is sure to attract the interested interest of the owner's visitors. These decor ated vines are so seldom seen in New York that they may be classed as verita ble i curiosities. The mere method of growth of the vine has always been an interesting study to botanist3, and espe c ally to those who have acquired a lik- hg tor that fascinating science, lhe vine grows a peculiar pod, which, after the; vine has flowered, is gradually forced down into the ground by a curl pus propulsion of the vine stalk. - Once safely under ground the-pod enlarges and grows a thick, netted shell over the fruit. No other plant' has this singular method of developing its fruit. Added to its many, other uses the eanut has of late revealed aproDertv as a preventive of i intoxication that has won for it the respect of those 'who are accustomed to dally with the flowing bowl. As a turnip will absorb water, so the fruit of the peanut has a comprehen sive faculty for absorbing alcohol, and preventing- tt from demoralizing the nerves of the stomach and upsetting the thinking machine. It is estimated, for example, that if a man drinks a quart ot rhamnaune and eats a nint rf neanuts. the peanuts wik overcome the inebriating quality ot the wine without curtailing Us exhilarating effects. At ten cents a quart the population of this city are getting something which, considered as i, luxury, is well worth the money. The Death of Miss Una McDonald. The State Chronicle and other papers, in giving an account ot the accidental killing ot Miss Una Mcuonaid Dy a train on the C. F. & Y. V. R. R. at Greensboro, last Monday, state that she was a sister ot Hon. Chas. M. S ted man. This is not 'conrect. Miss McDonald was a daughter of Col. and Mrs. Jno. S. McDjnald, formerly of Raleigh, N. C, and a second cousin of Maj. Stedman. She was a teacher in the State Normal and Industrial School at Greensboro; Was of a sweet and confiding dispo sition, a gifted teacher of elocution -and vocal music, a hard student, and her un fortunate demise caused a gloom to per vade the community - of Greensboro. Generous Merchants of Bladenboro. Messrs. R. L. Bridgers & Bros., and Mr. S. L. Furgeson, two prominent mer- chantile firms of Bladenboro, N. C, made a proposition to Conductor Bow- den, of the Carolina Central J railroad, that they would each give a car-load of wood td suffering poor of Wilmington it the railroad officials would have it haul- v ed : here free.' Capt. Bowden reported the matter to officials of the road here, who agreed to do it, and the wood' will be turned over to the Chief of Police, Pr some charitable organization, who will distribute it to the ones who most need it. ! These gentlemen deserve the thanks of the community for their generosity, t ) I. O. O.F i Grand Secretary B. H. Woodell, of the I. O. O. F., instituted a lodge ot this order at Mt, Olive, Tuesday night, and initiated and confirmed the degrees on eighteen charter members in the Hall of Neuse Lodge," No. 6, at Goldsboro. The order is growing rapidly in this State. J : . i--': -. '-'3:'' 1893.1 "53 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS i- SECOND SESSION. , SENATE, j : Washington. January 19. Senator Wolcott has given notice of an amendment to the Sherman Silver Purchase Repeal bill. The amendment requires the coinage of all silver bullion in the Treasury or hereafter purchased. In the morning hour Mr. Peffer con cluded his speech in favor of a single term for Presidential officers. The new McGarrihan bill was introduced.' and referred to the.Judiciary Committee. .Discussion pt the Anti-Option but was continued mthe Senate from 2 o'clock until the time of adjournment, but no action was taken on the bill itself, or Mr. George s amendment to it. . Notice was given, however, by Mr., Wa&hburn. that he would ask the Senate to remain in session to-morrow until a final -vote was reached. ' , .. . . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The greater .part of to-dav in the Honse was consumed in filibustering. Mr. Kilgore encompassed hisobiect of defeating! action on the bill for .erection nf 9 mnnikmer! Vnthe nriann.shir, martura in Brooklyn, and one measure for the . construction of a revenue cutter forthe Pacific Coast. j The floor was then accorded to the Committee on Commerce, and the firsl bill called up was one providing for sun dry lighthouses and other aids to navi gation. Messrs. Kilgore and Brickner filibustered against this, but it passed in spite of them. j Mr. Wise then called up the Senate bill concerning testimony in criminal cases growing out of the Interstate Commerce act, with substitute providing that no person shall be excused from at tending or testifying before the Inter- State Commerce Commission, on the ground that the testimony or evidence may tend to criminate him. The sub stitute was agreed ta,-aod the bill as amended waspassed without objection. - Mr. Patterson then called up the bill amending the Inter-State Commerce act. Report accompanying the measure says that the bill is intended to obviate the construction which? the courts have placed on the word "The same line" as they appear in the fourth section of the act. They have held that where several railroads connect, constituting one line. forthe transaction of business, any less numberj forming in part the same line may charge, without violating the law, a greater, rate than is charged over the entire line. Under this ruling section four of tEe act would be practically nugatory, and the railroad company could Charge more over its own line than over its own and connecting lines for a much longer distance. The pool ing section of the act is amended by striking out the word 4,pool7 and insert ing the words "any contract, agreement or arrangement. It lurther provides that railroad companies may make "con tracts, .'agreements or arrangements" for apportioning -among themselves their traffic pr their gross or net earnings un der certain conditions to be. imposed by the Inter-State Commerce Commission'. The bill further provides that a common carried who is a corporation may be in dicted; for violation of any of the pro; visions of the act. J Mr. Lind moved to strike out section 2 of the bill, which is the section amend ing the pooling section of the original act. iThe motion was agreed to.- Mr! Boatner offered an amendment re quiring all railway common carriers to accept from connecting lines loaded cars or trains to be hauled tothe point of de livery at s a rate nof, exceeding that charged I fpir similar service over their own lines. Agreed to 85 to 58. The bill was then passed. The next bill called up was one re ported ' by Mr. Stprer, amending the Intef-State Commerce law. The object sought to .be accomplished is to make the printed and written documents in possession of the Commission ad- the missable as legal evidence with the force of similar documents of the Executive andl Departmental officers of the Gov ernment.-: It passed. Jo further business was done. Fili bustering prevailed until adjournment. SENATE. Washington, HnVZO. The credentials of Mr. Gray for his second Senatorial term from March 4th next were presented and placed on rile. Mr. Brice offered a resolution that the Senate has heard with deep regret of the death of R. B. Hayes, formerly Chief, Magistrate of the United States, and that as a further mark of respect to his memory oh this the day of his funeral -the Senate do now adjourn. The resolution was agreed to and the Senate adjourned. . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. De Armond, from the Committee on Election of j President and Vice-Presi dent, reported a bill to repeal the sec tions of the Revised Statutes concerning supervisors of election. It was placed on the Calendar. ." ' Mr. Outhwaite then rose and address ed the Chair. His object was to offer a resolution of respect to the memory of ex-President -Hayes. T3efore the reso lution could, be read, Mr. Bdtzhoover. rising to a privileged motion, moved that the House proceed to consideration of business on the private Calendar. But the members of the House, know ing the purpose of Mr. Outhwaite s resolution, voted down Mr. Beltzhoover's motion and Mr. Outhwaite's resolution was read as follows "Resolved, That this House, on this the day of the funeral of the late Rutherford B. Haves, formerly Chief Magistrate-of the United States, as a further mark of respect to his memory, do now adiourn. Mr. Outhwaite demanded the previous question Mr.: Martini (.Democrat, ot Indiana;, inquired ,!,-.. -would be in order to amend ! tke resolution so as to provide for a recess u .n. o j clock this evening. JThe Speaker replied that it would be it The previous question was voted down. MOn a division the vote in; favor of ordering the previou question' Was 128 tP 8 MrT Martin raised the point of no quorum, but subsbquently withdrew it and the resolution was adopted. 'Accordingly, at 1.10 the House ad journed. ; , . I SENATE. i i Washington. Jan. 2li The House amendments tothe Senate bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the. Mississippi river at New Orleans, was presented and con curred i in. The bill now goes to the President. The House substitute for Senate bill concerning testimony under the. Inter State. Commerce law, ; was non-con curred in. . A. conference was asked, and Messrs.! Wilson (Republican, of Iowa) Teller (Republican, of Colorado), and Pugh (Democrat, of Alabama), were ap pointed conferees, i i - Among the numerous petitions on the subject i of "opening the World's Fair Sunrjay, was one signed by Archbishop n ' - - I -. r IX if. iu Kenrick and ! Vicar-General jiBrady. of the Romany Catholic Church ; Bishop Tuttle, of he Episcopal Church, and many other citizens of St. Louis, Mo., favoring its opening" after 2 o'clock Sunday; and one from Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church j South, of St. Louis, against the Sunday opening. The resolution heretofore jbffered by Mr. Mitchell (Republicarvpj Oregon), requesting the President transmit copies of correspondence on file in the State Department relating to jthe killing of Frank Riley,, an American sailor, in Genoa, Italy, last August or September, was reported back from the Committee on Foreign Relations and agreed to. MrWa!lcbtt called up the ;ijoint resolution--introduced by him some day's ago, directing the discontinuance of the sale pf the Columbian Postage Stamp, and i made one of his brief, breezy speeches on the subject.. His was at a loss ;to' understand, he said, fwhy these stamps had ever been manufactured. He noticed tatthe Postmaster General sug gested in his annual report that he ex pected to receive $1,500 000 extra profits of their sale to stamp cpllectors. That might suit some of the little Central American States, but the-United States was too big a country to -turns" loof e un saleable stamps upon stamp fcollectors. Since the resolution was introduced, he had from many sources letters showing good reason . why . it should be passed, r Railroad clerks complain that the one-cent Columbian stamp was so e00(J nice the registration stampahat con stant mistakes were being j made by them he had one from a physician-who said; that if the sale of these stamps were! stopped i the stamps might be ljused for chest protectors. He hoped that the ! PosttjfEce Committee w.ould take speedy action on the matter. The resolution was referred t6 the Eost otfice Committee. . j -. v At one o'clock p. m. th-SjEnate went into executive session and at half-past two the doors were re-opened - The credentials of Mr. Turpie for his second Senatorial: term J beginning March 4th next, were presented "and placed on hie. ( j The Anti-Option bill was tlhen taken tjrie up, jhe question being on Mr. Vilas' amendment to Mr." George's substitute. The bill was discussed for an hoar, and then went over without action -until Mondav. The Senate then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Ih the morning hour Mr.f Outhwaite called up thSenate bill for parking the line? of battle at Gettysburg. Several amendments were recommended by the Committee on Military Affairs, and these gave opponents of the measure an opportunity to filibuster agaipst it. Fili bustering was confined to th,e Texas dele gation, but it was successful, and the morning, hour expired withd'ut final ac tion on the bill, j ; - Mr. Blount reported the Cpnsular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill and it was placed on the Calendar, when the floor was accorded to the Committee on Com merce and the National Quarantine bill was called up. The debaTe xvas ushered in by an eloquent speech frojm Mr. Ray- nor, of Maryland, who depicted the dan ger which was imminent td the people of this country from unrestriicted immi gration, and, who urged upoi the House the necessity of agreeing to some national law! which would prptect usPfrom an in vasion of the most deadly eiemy ehol eraji Some constitutional objections were raised against the "measure, jbut outside of Mr. Raynor's speech and a few re marks made by Messrs. Cock ran and Lodge, little interest wos manifested in the -bill. - i - t . Throughout- the day confusion in the House was very great and its culmina tion was reached when an amendment was offered, the reading of Which' could not be heard ten feet fromjthe clerk's dek. To this fact! Mr. Dickerson called attention. ; He added that the bill was aa important onej and should not be acted upon in a scene of. such utter inat tention. He therefore moved that the committee (for the bill wasj!eipg con sidered in Committee ot the;VVhole) rise. That was agreed to and tbeb, oh motion: of Mr. Raynorthe House at 5 15 took a recess until 11 ; o clock Monday. The ettect ot this action will be to bring the bill up. Monday. J A QUARANTINE STATION. - . ! -. . - I- - : Southport Leader, January ip. The report that the quarantine station for the port of Wilmington would be built on what is known as Dan's rock, a small mud flat lying between Battery arid Stryking islands, southeast of South- port, Caused; considerable unfavorable htomraent in this city.- The Leader is glad to state that -this will; not be the place selected by the. Quarantine Board for the stat'ion hospital, and!! other build ings, but some place fariher.ue the river, probably opposite Bowensyille. Plans, specifications and estimate? have been made in regard to this most necessary establishment, which will be presented at a meeting Pt the Quarantine Board, probably held at South por to-day, as Doctors 1 nomas and Burbank are ex- - -1 . J - 1 ll TTT '1 i pected to be down by the at noon. IThe Board intends to P present the matter of a suitable quarantine station for the port ot Wilmington,! one similar tp those found at other Southern ports, to the present State Legislature and ask fpr an appropriation sufficient to build and equip one. This port is practically unprotected now and unable to cope. with any epidemic should, one enter. It is not only a matter of one city's in terests, but the entire South! stands -im perilled as well.- : y ', I The quarantine grounds now used are not where they should bei They are, too near South port, and e very person here will be glad of a change to some place higher up the river. - ij I The place known as white Rock, southeast of Price's creek light, is an ex cellent place for the location of a quar antine station. It possesses the advan tages of being- fairly well protected from wind and water, can be reached at low water, does not endanger $outhport, is well isolated, and near it quarantine grounds tor vessels can be established Which will; be : out of the) way of the regular' river,. traffic and nbt endanger or stop commerce on the Cape Fear. J The action of the Board will be watch ed with great interest as wifl its recom mendations which must meet general public approval and co-operation.. - Drs. Thomas and Burbank did not go down to Southport yesterday. - I j DR. S. O. WILSON ARRESTED. '.''.' -"J- .'. I v The Gideon's Band Iieader Arrested, by ithe Grand Jury of Wake County Bv Teleeraph to the Morning Sour. , Raleigh, N. C.,Jan.l9.-5-Dr.S. Otho, Wilson, head of Gideons Band, a secret political oath-bound order which is an but-growth of the Populist wing of the Farmer's Alliance organization, was in dicted by i the Grand Jury of . Wake county to-day for belonging to a secret political organization.' He was arrested, and says he will demand an early trial by the court which is now m session. , , ,: SPIRITS . TURPENTINE. Henderson Gold 'Leaf-. The ice is ten inches thick on the neighbor ing ponds, and large sheets of water not accustomed toi freezing are - covered Bouaiy across. It is creditable to the health of the town t hat in a place : the size pf Henderson, with more than 8,000 inhabitants, there was not a single death 'iwrain oi uecemoer. Dunn Times: Tuesday night v the turpentine - stills of Mr. Wm. Cul breth caught fire and were consumed in, a few minutes by the rapid flames. Also a lot bf crude turpentine and a number of barrels of rosin were destroyed. . But for the faithful work of the citizens of ' v the town, both white and colored, much more carnage might have been done. How ;it originated will be a mystery. We dpn't know how much the loss will ' amount to, but it will be heavy .- Fayetteville Gazette :' We re- -gret to chronicle the death this iweek of Mr. Henry Smith, at Hillsboro, Texas,, - last! Saturday, the 11th inst., from in jit- r ries by a gun shot wound a few days pre- 1 vious, ;the particulars of which were given in our last issue. Mr. Smith was the son pf Captj. J. C. Smith, formerly a resident of this :ity, and a veteran steam boat man, now running on the steamer "Compton," between Point Peter and Wilmington, and leaves a wife and several children, with a large circle of friends to mourn his sad demise. 4i i GreensbriroartW: This com- ' munity was greatly shocked last Mon- : , ' tay by the awful and sudden death of Miss Lina McDonald, a teacher in the XT .11 T ! , 1 T J , r 1 . xtiurmai i raining ana industrial scnooi of this place! It seems she was taking a . walk! an while on the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad about opposite v ' the new cotton factory she stepped aside to let the 2 p. m. train pass, and was by some means drawn under the wheels of the (passing train. Her tracks 'in the? snow show that she had stepped off the railroad track, and whether she slipped and fell or was drawn by the suction of the passing train will never be known, as no eye saw the manner of her tteath, the,' engine haying passed before she ; ynvi struck by the train. vtwICaurmburg- Exchange: Capt. JosephA. Parker died at his residerlce in thistfoWn. on -Mondav afternoon tsrat. at: 4 o'clock. He had been in feeblpv health for some-time, and oh Tuesday.. -" the 10th inst., hewas taken violently ill with pneumonia, and grew rapidly worse unfil the end pame. Capt. Parker was-f borh in Nanserhond county, Va., Febru- ary (1st, 1825, and for more than twenty years has been a citizen of Laurinburg. H On Friday, the 4th. Mr. John Robinson, blinded by steam from ar engine tn the round house, stepped Into a pit about four feet deep and sprained his left arm, besides breaking his collar bone! Died, on last Friday morn- ing, of heart disease, in his 67th year, . Mr. jlohn T. McKenzie; of this township. Mr. jKcKenzie s death was quite, unex pected. We had .seen him on our p streets in his usual health only a few days; before. -4 Raleigh News and Observer: Whit might hove been a terrible acci dent i was narrowly averted yesterday morning about 2 o'clock just as the ln agurkl ball at Stronoch's auditorium was breaking up Several ladies had donned their wraps preparatory to starting home through the snow storm and were stand- ing about the stove in the ladies' dress ing room. All' at once there was a cry and it! was discovered that the cloak of -Miss Mamie Cooper had caught fire from the stove and she was quickly be coming enveloped in flames. There, was almost a panic at frst, the ladies screaming .and- running ' about with fright, but some of the gentlemen with presence of mind quickly came to the rescue of Miss Coopar and with the aid of a shawl and other thick articles suc ceeded in smothering theflames, With , the exception of a bad fright Miss Cooper was net injured, but it was a narrojw escape. ! jCharlotte Observer: A child of f a coldred woman named Conner froze to . death yesterday at its home on Hilt street.: The mother went off to hunt wood! to make a fire to warm the child by, as it was suffering so from cold, She did not know thato was in a freez ing condition when she went out, but when she returned it was lying in the . , floor ifrozen st iff. The child was about three pr four years old. William James Robinson, colored, was. arraigned hpforpi 'Smiirf Davis. wMfrHav. on the . charge of breaking into Mr. L. N. Web ster's; store last Saturday night, and was bound over in the sum of $50. Robin son was arrested Monday, on the charge, as suspicion pointed strongly to' him as being jthe thief, but for lack of evidence the case was dismissed. At a late - hour Tuesday night he was arrested at the cornef1 of B and , HuT streets by officers Rigler and Killough, "and it was found ., that he bad his pants stuffed with bacon. His house was then searched, aud quan- tities; of flour and provisions were found, which, as the Yankees say, "hadn't ought to have been there." . I Greenville Reflector: The town oi G: if ton can lay claim to more division . than perhaps any small place on the . Cont sent. Itj is situated in two conn- . ties, three townships, two Congressional districts, two senatorial districts, .and -two ( judicial districts. The creek run ning; through the center of the town is , the dividing 1 ine between Pitt and Le- ! noir counties. The freezes of last week caused navigation to be suspended on tue riven - iiikc uuaiiLitica ui iv. -gathered against both the' railroad and .. county bridges, and the river was full of floating pieces. From Pactolus to Wash ington the entire river was frozen over. The: Roanoke river was reported frozen. ' ("While driving a log cart through the woods list Thursday, Mr. W. W: Thomas', of Carolina township, met with ; an accident in which one of his legs was broken. ThA cart had turned over and ' in trviiiff to det it back one wheel fell off ' arid istriking hirn below the knee-broke Dot n small DOnes oi toe icg. nc say in : the Woods half an hour before bis calls for heir) were heard. About 11 o'clock on .Wednesday .night - of last week! the barns, stables and buggy house , of Mjr. W. A-Darden of Greene county, were destroyed byl fire. It js believed thad the buildings were set on fire. The losslts estimnted at $1,500, upon which there was no insurance. . " '-HShelbv Review: Mr. David Mc- ' Swaiin, asjed labout 80 years, was seriously hurt by a fall at his home near Moores- . boroi Monday. His condition is critical. f4Miss Mary Wilkins, aged about 70 years, was jfound dead in bed at her honje near tjhis place Wednesday morn- ingj I She retired in her usual health the night before. Dr. , D. M. Pruett. whose critical illness we noted some weeks ago, fis dead, Our ' Mooresboro' correspondent writes that he died on the 9th instant of phthisis. A little four- yeaf-old soif o,f Mrp. Thomas Spangler, near Double Shoals, was burned to death frnday. - The little fellow was playing around, a fire in the yard, when his cloth ing: caught The "clothing was burned.. -entirely offJ He died in a few minutes. u Thieves effected an entrance into the store of Hambright &Keeter,at Gror ' ver bne night last week and stole a lot of valises, shoes, pistols and notions. -, Thev were so closelyursued that they abandoned I most of the stolen goods near the Kings Mountain Gold . Mioe. Thev are known and will yet be caught. L The dress of little mary, aged two gn'da half years, daughter of Capt. and Mr. J. R." Moore, caught fire Monday and Beforel the flames could be exiin- guished, the dress was burned entirely otf.t v The promptness of Mrs. Moore an4 the childes woolen underware saved her! from a Jiorrible death. As it is. she is fearfully biirned and although it is , believed she will : recover, she , is , ma critical condition. -. , .