VOL. XIII,
THK W. C. T. U.
0 . V ifinilftl Cnnvcnl irn
t ew Yrk paper gives the following
Vof tlx; manner in which' the National
tentiou of the Womln's Christian Tern
1'nion was conducted:
ltitni at a political Convention.women
J'i.kI :it the end of th iin-t day s work.
F, . witn the fiftwmth annual Conren-
lia'of tlic National Woman's Temperance
rBm at as session in ine merro-
l, jt m i t i it H o! iso. Th a :-s7 delegates fi I led
u ,h m-kN "i the orchestra floor. Each
j?Wj:ib i" 'I' to to voice the sentiments of
i,,, meiiiln'i Nnf th organization and with a
.-.i- : l i : 4 u s, ,i s
jti? wmi ; i ins rHuyininuiij earn aeiegat
ai'it.i " 1 rir-it matronly dignity. Not
(fentiii' i ii i wnM.it rxmutocouiu oe more
p.nM. woiin'n. A natonal political conven-;
ti,,n cmilil ho hardly -more impressive. The
jl-fropihitan (-ra liouso -has an immense
jtiilit'T iiin. ami when it i miea 10 lis reraoc-r,.,v-is
and with wivnen at that the
n h a grand one.
All ovt-r the house there was the quieS of a
rVlil H nt i vc body conscious of tho importance
it work. ireM'ieni r ranees i-.niarciu
ri!!i.ml wuh the foremost figure in the group
of Ttnri''s and executive otlicers on me
itiL''-. There were cathcred the twenty-six
Mil crillH'IV tcnis Ol uep iriniHmn wu
pa l r tM)rts of the work under thfir super
1 1 ... . i. i j
vision. Ah their turns cmuc, e.icu wimm
t-p to the side of Miss Williar I s table, and
Ure, for the ten minutes allotted, smna
and address the -10 M) . auditftfs. An ouicial
turn-keeper ta a i;II when the ten minutes
is up, lind then the speaker stops short and
vh way to another.
Tho huines.-; of tin- morning ami atternoon
w.'istlie reanng H over u score oi rejjons
upon the re-iilt of 1 ho Union's work m its
Tiwiny fields. Each p;ier was presented by
pi-rintfii 'lent of a department. There
HH'lalionT.s in th-e special branches in every
a'e and town wherever, irorn Alaska to
Hun la. the wearers of the white ribbon live.
tlie work of each local band is f uporvised
iv -one chief lor the entire country. lhesU-
r iiten lent of the press department, Jvsther
Honsh. of -Vermont, .told what her
fjsters h.td done; 10: t. lngalH told
tilmrtt. ii.ii-eotics; Carolina A. Leech, of Ken
tucky, alxiut the efforts to .get the use of
ntroliol in medicinal compounds abolished;
K. A. Kcmoiid, of Now ork, reported atout
unf rineiiicd wine and the Sacrament of tho
I-ord's Sii)iper. 1 he resume of Augusta
Coop r I'.nstol.of New Jersey, on Labor and
Capital was presented lut not read, Ieeause
of Iwr ahseiiee - J. K. Barney told of the re-
furmj ix-eoniolished in Prison and .TrM A
)M iwierwm, of Minnesota, about Associ
HtM Chanties, ind Jennie Casseday about
th Flower Mission. The story of endeavors
miiamr tie colored people of the North w as
rtlnttl hv V 1. V Hnrnnr fif 1'aniiuvlffnnia
h ro'lf a colored woman, and K. J. 1L Early,
iio(iit i-olored woman, sjioke of the things
doiitt7n(ii her ra;-o in the Mouth.
An aeeount of the help given to raise tho
slanilird of moralily am ong; soldiers and
vn'erywas presented by 8. A; McClees of
.New Jersey : reforms seeurod for the good
of rahi oaii employes were outlined by Jen
ninidh. of Maryland, add Adi M. Bitten-
h ii'ler of Nelraka, who o,ily iast Monday
s admitted to plciul before the bar of the
rnit.ed .Stat Supremo Court, toll of the
"rk done by the Department of legislation
nl iWitions. A. S. IkMijamin-, of Aiichl-
wn, a woman of affairs, recounted the pro-
i''.s-i Hindu by thelo-.;al unions and the Con-
fir ion in tlie intrica,i s of p irliamentary
ua.'e; llannali.i. rai ey of Maine appeared
is historian of the advance in peace and in-
u-rnationai arbitration; Dr.Mary Weeks
Bm nel t won nppluhso in telling how the Na
tional Temperance hospital at Chicago cures
tiie sick without whisky, brandy, or a drop
f nl(t)hnl in any medicine.
Tlrt doings of the Evansolistic Board were
tvroTinted by S. M. I. Henry, of Illinois,
miil .f. C. ISateham told what her department
hml done to secure more complete observance
of the Sabbath. Hannah Whitall Smith was
t'lhavo toM about tho department "of Bible
mailings, but she is in Loudon, absent for
thi lirst time from a convention, and so her
report was pnonted by proxy, and a cable
gram of affectionate remmtrancn was sent
to iler. Mair I'.Uen Vest, of Illinois, re
Vin tnl for the department of the School of
elnnls anil T M I 'firwft r if 111irtni tntil
.inn ner i.ii Hirers were doing to build tho
tfiii)ei-anco Temple in Chicago.
Venerable and kin lly face I Clara Barton,
Hthe lied ('ro Society, was introluced in
Wmornin The Convention stood and
i Vrl ha li l kerchiefs at her. She made a
' V l'eoiiveviii'rthe iToetinir of the Soeietv
...I.L. lt ... . . .....
nfdie lei I (Voss to the Society of the White
r.il'iMin. It was only a little while ago that
Mi".s harloii hml Iwen to see inperor Fred--mek,
jni,i President Willard Fa d that in
Jimier nf his memory and in -gmtitude for
Ins wel, oii.e to Miss Barton "The Watch on
th' Khiue" ought to be played. She said
'hat the society could not "asree with the
Hermans on the beer question, but they
""r.M respe-t their love of home. So' the
'm-H.le ijmrtet lifted up their Bilvej" horns
iin l p.1,1 cornets and playeil the Gerrnr.n na
tional anthem.
A delegate ad dressed the Chair and said
'l it many present hail never seen Neal Dow,
w temperance aostle from Maine, and
hint. knuwiriLr he was in the hall, she moved
lint Mks Wilhud introduce him. 'Ihe gray
'"lind octogenarian was hidden behind a
s, i--'.i. M iss Willard hsl him to the front of
'h" t re. The old crusader smiled and didn't
jnui'l being put on exhibition. The lad es
M'hel, and he talked a little to let them
whit kind of a voice a man of his
K'is u:ay have if he doesn't tipple.
" hen ikhiii car.ie it brought the most im
r'" su e moment of the day. It s the custom
i v., nUen who wear the white ribbon of tho
JiijHm t bow their heads in prayer every day
!n ii th dock shows the hour of 12. T The
rust..ni is ol (served everywhere. Hardly a
twiis!up crosses the ocean that does not
'""i v lnemU-r of the sisterhood of temper
?n'.and her .sisters are scattered all over the
W'l. so athe sun at every instant of the day
''ti ls in the zenith of some siwt on land or
't may lie conceived that at every
nnii nt in the twenty-four hours a petition
b wiiij; oirered up by some member of this
rani,'itinn. But noi one woman alone
weil her head in New York yesterday at
n. There were four thousand who knelt
inn . .
1 ?1-',wJ'iss Villad'8 voice lel in an appeal
""l, an 1 when she came to the words,
'r l ather who art in heaven," the entim
J nlilae joined with her in rejeatin:; the
Potion common to every Christian creed.
jj'H'Mii-ht gathering was the biggest since
hat nVt"ntion began, and the young people
''captured it without doubt. In fact, it
''i the programme as "the voune ladies'
..''"ill!:." Tliisd ron rht. Inls of voiins- men.
' f l"e yirls went on thestige nnd made
, s'lmvv-of loveliness witb Mrs. Frances J.
1 l'tlS !.. , ."t
l the centre of it.
(iip exercises le::an with music and prayer,
'; n reading from the Bible-all theses
p" , 'n this way and then Arthur R.
h.,,,,r,n.. President of the Junior l-o.
to.,'. 1 ('l"1 Kw York, welcomed the
ninri ' Nv,""(, to the town. Ida C. Clothier
ioi, '.'''i ''yhotlv lauprh when she replied in a
of er in Iha .liinior lninn.
i-v7v.u tor ine luousaiiua oii'i iiivu
'1 s!n tinisho.1 Iwi- nivin a. watch wai
r,ii!i,'""''1 to by her friends of Mass
"wiav m,n.n:.. ii tti; n
tii,-;
, III I.UO
Opera House, and
's,
u v ITi C-. I 1
in tne afternoon on
l'i;,. v lu itv.',' 'd a sermon at night by
( lv "uei rouows on " 1 be ixclesiastl
At n vu oi omen.
U'r n , , At the evening session a nuro-
wiuresses were made.
FeFttn-it-?w TO?'ltoous to the North
ai, !-ortL , v ltai". I'rance,- Belgium, Hol
U a "Uny,ud Denmark-have eAere.l
U-4uo ntvwherby the sale of spir
fQ SBn. khermen and other persons
min$ prohibited, "4avwa
list,," n,, t!t.m en-Monday the Convention
1 , ri'iwts of National Organizers,
Kat ., V!ir"s. speeches were madehy delo
"tilieV T l'"nrilwMr6 elected President
r.f... f. U-- lwvuiHnT riiUl lt-i llnf-a mil
- . .i.i
TWO PROCESSIONS MEET. I
I
A Eegnlar Battle Emaee-Several Fersont
Seriously Hart
Wednesday evening a Republican pro cession,
composed chiefly of colored
men, met a Democratic procession at
Twenty-sixth street and Sixth avenue,
New York, and riotous struggle ensued.
snore winaows were smashed and several
are reported injured. -
The colored Republicans far outnum
bered the members of the Jefferson asso
ciation of the ninth assembly district,)
with whom lh'iy fought. Numerous col-
orcd inhabitants of the neighborhood, j
who had turned out lo see the immense .
colored procession, fell to and assisted
the colored paraders. Missiles flew in,
every direction and hand-to -hand fights 1
were everywhere. Store windows were '
smashed and : women ran into every I
available place of shelter. Several shots
w re fired. The patrolmen were driven
off the avenue, and bst ned to the Thir-1
tieth -street' police station, The stores I
were all closed between Twenty eighth ;
snd Thirtieth streets and shep keepers j
with drawn revolvers protected their !
property the best they could. The drug !
owic ui oieen, -io oixtQ avenue, was
at once nnea witn a ciowa of frightened
women v ho rushed in, knocking every -thiuff
off the counters and forcing back
Steen. With a great effort, and revolv- j
er in n ma no at length closed his
doors. .
Thomaj Murphy wai found stabbel in
the back. An old man named Kildea
was forcc l through a show case and was
uncohsciius Jrom the los of blood. IJe
was caTtieT6ff by friends. Peter Mc
Dermott, of the Democrats, was knocked
down and both eyes and face dreadfully
cut; James Byrne was either shot or
stabbed, and was found unconscious,
'lie was taken to New York hospital.
Meanwhile, the different hospitals were
summoned to eend ambulances, and Cap
tain Reilly sent a reserve of seventyrfive
men to the scene. The latter at once
proceeded to clear the avenr.e, and mtt
with little opposition, as a majority of
the rioters, after the first clash of
aims, mingled with tho sight seers of
. the street.
There were fully fifty peoplo injured
in one way and another at the riot.
Oil from tho torches poured over the
streets and caught fire, and men on horse
back dashed through the streets injuring
many. No one was killed. The sticks
of torches were used as weapons.
A Helpful Spelling Rhle.
A correspondent of the Hartford Con-,
'ant 6ays: In convcrsat on with the
principal of cne of our private schools
iu the subject of "spelling," he asked
me if I had seen the .'ei"or 4ie" rule
vhich appeared in your paper some days
ago. lie luruicr asKca me n i Knew tne
rule given by E. A. Abbott in "How to
lell the parts of speech," viz: "Eive,
ieve." It is sometimes difficult to de
cide in such words as "receive," "be
lieve " etc., rrhether the "e" or "i"
should come firs but the difficulty will
vanish if it is borne in mind that (ex
cept after "c') "i" com.es first. (1) Be
lieve, reprieve, retrieve, grieve, mis
chief, miseh'evous. (2) Deceive, deceit,
conceive, conceit, receive, receipt.
1 then asked him if ho knew the fol
lowing rule on which 1 had been brought
up and which, for ma'iy yean, has done
tne most excellent service. He confessed
that he had not, and, after hearing it,
asked me if "1 would not send it to' you,
as he knew it would help 'so many of
the little folks ' " The rule is as fol
lows. I cinnot give the authority and
perhaps I do not give the exact phrase
ology: Words in wh'ch the termination
"tion" can bo given are spelled "ei."
Words to which it cannot be given are
spelled "ie."
.. deceive, reception; deceive, de
ception. Pelieve, grieve, mischief, etc. (No
"tion" can be given,)
1 have not tried to hunt up any ex
ceptions to this rule. There may be some,
but I do not know them.
They "Watched" Her.
, Mrs Ch arlcs N Thorpe, wife of the
president of the Keystone Watch Case
Company, of Philadelphia, calhd by ap
pointment on Mrs Cleveland at Oak
View Wednesday, and on behalf of 850
women employed by the company, pre
sented fo her a watch, the case of which
was made by them. In presenting the
watch Mrs Thorpe said: "The women
and girls employed in the Keystone
Watch Case factory at Philadelphia,
have made the case of this watch, and
beg to pres-'Bt it to Mrs. Francis Cleve
land, as a specimen of their handicraft.
As they thus honor themselves they
would indicate also their a;prtciation of
the advanced position the wife of the
President has taken towards the word
ing women of America, and expiess
their gratitude that she ha so unfai i ig
ly used her influence in their behalf.
That she may ever live as an example to
her countrywomen, is tLe prayei of those
whose names are herein appended'
A Block Ituriiel,
At Shelby Monday night fire brokeout
iu the AVray block, originating in the en-
gine room of tee Aurora newspaper, i ue
town is without tire apparatus, sudncth
could be done. The block was consum
ed. The occupunU were the Southern
Express company, Babbington. Roberts
& Co., wholesale and retail ttitioners
and printers, Gardner & Quinn, whole
sale and retail druggists, D C Webb &
Sn, general merchandise, the Aurora
aud Babbingtou, Roberts & Co, jobprin
ters. The other buildings were used for
stciage. All the property is a complete
loss. A number f explosions of kero
scue ani gunpowder occurred, but no
persons were seriously injured. The
loss is $3o,000 to $40,000. The total in
surance is less than $10,000.
r AlFJ Heady.
What in the name of common sense,
Jones, makes you go around with such a
heap of cotton stuffed in your ears?' ,
' "Well, von nee the fact is thatldme
i out almost overy evening, and the piano
usr Uia$ one Jwi to bo prepared. W.'
DEVOTED TO TUB A DVAXCEMEXT OP IMWSniLB AXD
, IiEIDSVILLE,
EXAMINING BUSSIAN PRISONERS
DESTINED POB SIBERIA.
Convicts With Heads Half Shaved
-Identif ri nar .by Photographs
A llnse of Prisoners.
From Ceorge Ken nan's latest article
in the Cen ury on life among Russian
exiles, we quote the following: The
prisoners had disembarked before we
reached ourdestinatioo. We found them
assembled in two dense gray throngs
it the ends of a long wooden shed
which w as surrounded and turned into a
jort of cattle-pen by a high plank wall.
Here they were identified, counted and
turned over by the convoy officer to the
warden of the Tomsk forwarding prison.
The shed was divided transversely
through the middle by a low wooden
barricade, at one end of which was a
fenced inclostire. about ten feet souare.
for the accommodation of the officers
who tod to take part in the reception of
the party. About half the exiles had
been formally "received" and were stand
ing at the eastern end of the shed, while
the other half were grouped in a dense
throng at the western erfd, waiting for
their names to 1 e called. The women,
who stood huddled together in a group
by themselves were mostly in peasant
Costumes, with bright-colored kerchiefs
Dyer - their heads," "and their faces, 1
thought, showed great anxiety and ap
piehension. The men all wore long
gray overcoats over coarse linen shirts
snd trousers; most of them were in
:h.vins, and the bare heads of the con
victs anil the penal colonists had been
l alf shaved longitudinally in such a way
that one side of the scalp was smooth
and blue, while the other side was hidden
by long neglected ha r. Soldiers stood
here and there around the shed, leaning
upon their bayoneted ri.'es, and inside
the little enclosure were the convoy ofli
rer of the party, the warden and the
lurgeon of the Tomsk forwarding
prison, the chief of the local bureau of
exile administration, and two or three
Dthcr officers all in full uniform.
Colonel Yagodkin introduced us as
American travelers who desired to -see
the reception of an exile party, and we
were invited to stand inside the en
closure. The officer who was conducting the
examination of the convicts drew a folded
paper from a large bundle in his hand,
Dpened and glanced at it, and then
ihouted, '.Nikolai Koltsof !" A thin,
pale man, with heavy, wearied eyes and
i hopeless expression of facey who was
Standing in the front rank of the exile
party, picked upthe gray linen bag that
lay beside him on the lloor, and with a
slow clink, cl'nk, clinkof chains walked
to the inclostire. The examining tfticer
compared his face carefully with a photo
graph attached to the "stateinispeesok,"
r "identification paper," in order to
make sure that the pale man had not
"exchanged names" with some other
sxile, while a Cossack orderly examined
a:m from head to foot and rummaged
through his bag to see that he had neither
lost nor surreptitiously sold the articles
of clothing that he had received in Mos
:ow or Tiumen, and that his "stateini
jpeesok" called for.
"Is everything there?" inquired the
officer.
"everything' rej lied the Cossack.
"Stoiya !" ("Pass on.") sa:d the lieu
tenant: and the pale-faced man shoul
ilercd his bag and oined the ranks of
the "received" at the eastern end of the
shed.
"The photographs are a new thing,
whispered Colonel Yagodkin to me;
"and only a part of the exiles have them.
They are intended to break up the prac
tice of exchanging names and identities."
"But why should they wish to ex
change names?" I inquired.
"If a man is sentenced to hard labor
it the mines," he replied, "and has a lit
tle money, he always trie3 to buy secretly
the name and identity of some poor devil
of a colonist who longs desperately for a
drink of vodka, or who wants money
with wh'ch to gamb'e. Of course the
convoy otlicer has no means of prevent
iug this sort of transaction, because he
tan not possibly lemember the names and
faces of the four or live hundred men id
his party. If the convict succeeds id
Ending a colonist who is willing to sell
his name, he takes the colonist's place
nd is assigned a res:dence in somejvil
I ige, while the colon st takes the con
vict's place an l goes to the mines. Hun
dreds of hard-labor convicts escape in
this way."
The New York Prod ace Market,
BUTTER AND EGGS
( Veamery Butter, 23 to 24c
Dairy 17 to 20c
Factory " 13 1-2 to 14c
Eggs 17 to lite
MEATS AND POULTRY
Live Veal Calves 7 to 8c
Calves (couutry dressed) 9 to 10c
Lambs 6 3 4 to 6 1-4
Sheep 412to5c
.Hoes 9 1-4 to 9 1-2
Spring Chickens 14 to 15
Fowls, Southern, 13 to 14 1-2
Turfceys 10 to 15
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
Apples "3 00 to 2 .V)
Pears 2 00 to f4 00
Peaches .75 to 1 00
Grapes 5 to 6c
Watermelons (bbl) $7 00 to fS 00
Beans, J175tot2 00
Peas (green) per bu., 1S87 1 GO
CHARLOTTE COTTON MARKET
Middling fir 8 3-4
I Good MidJhng y
Strict Middling 91,
Midd ing 912
.Tinges - 8
! Stains 7 a 8
A Hit; Killing Feast.
The unique feast of the winter will be
an "oid-fashioiie l hog-killing" at Pied
mont Park, Atlanta, Us. A number of
ladies will undertake it for the benefit
of the- Ciirls' Industrial Home. A cold
day will b selected, and twenty hes
killed, scalded and quartered. The
tegular Wjrk of hog-killing time on the
plantation will be gone through with,
and sausages stuffed and dropped, fatty
bread, cracklings, backbone, spareribs,
owl and pigs' feet will be served with
good milk aud butter, corn bread and
pickles. There will be a charge of
'twenty-five cents admission and fifty
rents fpr dinner, breakfast and supper.
long illneis from whieh sleep relievci pi
4 arerr aixteeb hours. n
n Kuru fr i u i i" i,'i'ii i
N.. - C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1888.
7AEXZS8 ALLIAYCE
The Convention at Salelga-What the Farm
ers art Doing
One of the chief officers of the Farm
ers' Alliance, of North Carolina, has
given some important information about
the work of this powerful order. Fri
day and Saturday meeting of the county
business agents, in connection with the
State business -agent and executive com
mittee, was held at Raleigh. S B Alex
ander, the head of the order, presided.
Twenty five counties were represented
by business agents. Plans were matured
for the general government of agents
throughout the State in conducting al
liance business through State agents,
sub-agents and county agents. All bus -inefs
of alliance men must be transacted
just as rapidly as possible. The Alliance
is organizing its own means for the ad
vantage of its members.
Iu Mecklenburg the Allian -c has its
own cotton yard with salesman, weigh
ers, etc., and will handle all cotton
grown by its members. Twenty thou
sand dollars was raised and put in bank
to the credit of this enterprise alone.
In Granville county a tobacco ware
house has be?n secured and also a tobac
co factory, and a hundred thousand dol
lar capital stock put into these enter
prises. In Rockingham county one of the
largest warehouses has been leased and
this, like the one in Granville, will
handle all the tobacco grown by the al
liance members. Various other enter
prises are i binned.
The Alliance is to-day in-existence in
seventy-five counties, and there are
county organizations in sixty-three of
these. There are 1,273 in all, with r early
65,000 members. The Stite business
agent, W A Darden, was a s'gned to
duty at Raleigh.
Frequent conferencas will ba held
with him by county agents. It is claimed
that alliance organization in North Caro
linajs more complete than in any other
State in the South. The policy of the
order here is to iake shor steps and
sure ones. The order is growing rapid
ly and its members are in high spirits.
They are far more indepondent than
other farmers. At one time the -opposition
of merchants to alliance business
schemes wes threatened. 'This has now
passed away.
A telegram was received by State Sec
retary Polk, which announces that the
time of the meeting of tho National Al
liance is changed from January 16 to
December 5, at Meridian, Miss. Dele
gates were appointed to represent the
State Alliance as follows: S B Alexan
der, of Micklenburg; S L Polk, Raleigh;
D M Payne, of Jtobeson; J C Beamtn,
of Sampson, aEd Elias Carr, of Edge
comb. Political News.
Secretary Bayard spoke in --Baltimore
We3"esday. 2,000 Democrats attended.
21 Congressmen will'' be elected in
Ohio on the 6th of November.
Over a hundred men have been arrest
ed fer false registration in NeW York
City.
Judge Thurmsn addressed a large gath
ering of the Democracy Thursday at
Newark, Ohio.
It costs $22,000,000 to run a Presiden
tial campaign. Ifjo:ise3 Belva Lock
wood trapsing around in an oil bonnet
next year you'll know the reason why.
At Terre Haute, Ind, during a parade
on Tuesday night, Dollie Phelp?, aped
20, was murdered by a man named Gal
loway. He escaped, but was recognized
and will be t anght.
At Bo.-t'jn, on Sunday, twenty-one
women in convention nominated Miss
Alice D Stockton, of Wheaton, as the
candidate of the Equal Rights party for
Governor of Massachusetts. The candi
date is 26 ye ars of age.
' The editor of the Rocky Mountain
Herald is oat with the following notice
in his paper: "If you owe this concern
a cent please pay up at onGe. We need
what is due.in order to make some mote
bets bu the campaign.
Saved by a Boy.
A man giving his name as Dix
on, ag'd about 75 years, anived at
Gaeensboro, N. C , and related a moet
startling story. He said he had been
overtaken Tuesday morning by two arm
ed men, whose intention to first rob and
hang him was evidenced by their calling
him to halt, at the same time demanding
his money and producing a rope. The
interference o f a boy, however, prevent
ed the double crime of high-way robbery
and lynching. The boy states that he
saw one of the nvn throw one end of the
rope over a limb and tic a knot in the
other end. This attracted his attention.
ne had a gun, and walked up near. The
men saw him and fled. Mr. Dixon hails
from the we?t, and hid on his person a
ticket stamped at Kansas City, Mo., to
Raleigh, N. C, also about or e thousand
dollars in money, beside papers, checks,
etc., to cover several thousand dollars.
He arrived at Raleigh Tuesday night.
He siys the story is true in all particu
lars.
Russian Official Carelessness.
. George Kennan, in one of his articles
on liussia, published in the Cn'ttrj
JIa j.jiine, tells a good story, frustrating
the carelessness that characterizes the
working of the Russian government. A
"ttola nachalni" or head of a bureau,
in the provincial administration of To
bolsk, while boasting one dsy of his
power to shape and direct governmental
action, made a wager with another
chinornik that he could get the Govern
or of the province the late Gov. Lbso
gors-ki to f ign a manuscript copy of the
Lord's Prayer. He wrote the prayer out
in the form of an oleial document on a
sheet of stamped rapr. numbered it.
attached the proper seal to it and handed
it to the Governor with pile of other
papers which required signature. He
won his wager. The Governcr duly
signed the Lord's Fi aver, and it wa
I robably as fca-mless an official docu
meot as ev;.- enroe yit of his o 1 cc.
The worn coiner h already foonet a
lice ne. f oi.t ir,ation of syllables to
3esigoate the tW?i by eltctric shock
thai the Uw 1 o prcserlbea. Electro
&c;tr H the asd rt InTMtion
TUB STATE AT URGE.
1 TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Water is reported to have frozen
in Alabama Monday.
Higginbotham's spinning and weaving
mills at Gl&ssow were burned Thursx
day. Loss 50,000.
The fire at Huen field, near Cassel,
Germany, has been subdued. The dam
age will bej about $500,000.
The corner-stone of the big Sprockets
sugar refinery in Philadelphia was laid
with appropriate ceremonies Tuesday af
ternoon. There was a mutiny among the con
victs in prison at Orbetello, Italy. Thir
ty prisoners and several jailors were kill
ed or wounded.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been a . decrease of
about 1 4,000,000 in the public debt dur
ing October.
At Sherbrooke, Quebec, at a banquet l
give n 10 tne lion John llenry Pope on
Tuesday night, Sir John MacDonald
made a stirring speech against the an
nexation of Canada to the United State.
George II Vandergnft, a well known
conveyancer of Philadelphia, has disap
peared, taking with him various sums of
money given him by frie nds to invest ir
mortgages, and said to aggregate about
115,000.
A banquet was given at Hotel Conti
nental, Paris, to commemorate the dedi
cation of the statue of Liberty enlighten,
ing the woild, which whs given by the
French people to the United t ites.
Petroleum has been discovered in an
Artesian well being sunk at Pouck's
tannery, Va., at a depth of C00 feet.
The discovery b s created a great stir
among the people.
.The llaytien man of-war Toussant
Louvature has captuied the British
fcchoocer Alta, which left New York
about the 19th inst with a heavy cargo of
arms and ammunition. The Alta clear
ed for Antwerp. ?""
The International Peace Arbitration
Society met in Paris. It was resolv
ed to organize an international congress,
to meet in 1889, representing America,
England, France and other countries fa
vorable to the plan.
Senator's Fun.
T
Senator Vance claims that the people
of North Carolina are tho most law abid
ing people in the world, and to prove it
be tells of a newly appointed justice of
the peace who, on a public occasion,
when a fight seemed imminent, com
manded the peace, and preserved it by
rushing between the two combatants,
drawing a knife a foot in length, and
threatening instant death to the man that
should violate the public peace.
Vance's colleague in the Senate, Ran
som, does not permit him to get ahead of
him in the praises of their State. He
gives an instance which illustrates the
love 0 justice which animates the body
of North Carolina magistrate, as well as
their ingenuity iu threading the mazes of
the law and arriving at its true meaning
and intent.
A newly appointed justice of the peace
in one of'the eastern counties of North
Carolina was trying a civil case of much
difficulty, in which the law seemed to be
in much doubt. "One lawyer contended
that the law was dead in favor of his cU
ent; the other lawyer was equally posi
tive that the law was clearly on the other
side. The court w as in great doubt for
a time, but a lucky idea occurred to his
mind.
"Gentlemen,1' said the court, "the
facts in this case are well a?certained,but
the law seems to be doubtful. The at
torneys on each side have stated what the
law is, but they do not agree. The court
decides that as the facts are established
by the oaths of the witnesse s, the law
must be established in the same manner.
The court requires each attorney to
swear that the law i3 what he has assert
ed it to be."
One of the attorneys, Senator Ransom
says, tcok the required oath without hes
itation. The other demurred, and, of
Course, lost his case.
Alpine Glaeiert.
Glaciers filled every valley and ravine,
ind the ice stood up in tall ramparts
wherever the 6pace was too naerow to
hold its rigid waves. Glacier ice is
snow that has for a considerable time
been subjected to enormous pressure. ,11
you squeeze a snowball in your hand uflf
til it is very hard it become icy. So in
the Alps, the continual fall of snow is
the pressure and the sun's heat the
warmth which produces those seas ol
ice that are called glaciers. There are
over COS of tlem jn Switzerland, and
some are coeval with the glacial period
of this continent, while others are now
in process of formation. Winter is their
season of rest, but with the Spring they
resume their onward motion, due to the
combined action of heat and gravitation.
For in spite or their apparent immobility
all Alpine g'aciers do move constantly,
although with d.fierent degrees of speed,
aud, like liquid streams, they carry witb
them debris of all sorts, but principally
the stones that fall upon their surface
from the mountains' sides. The glacier
starting in its purity from some white,
unsullied peak, loses before many years
its spotless character. The wintry frosts
gathering into iron bonds-- the streams
that trickle down the mountain side
expand the water in freezing and shatter
rocks with a force that the most solid
cliffs cannot possibly resist. Thus
broken fiagments drop on to the once
unspotted bosom of the ice sea and swell
its burden with advancing years. The
debris thus brought down lorm what are
called moraines. Each glacier has a
moraine on either side-of it; its end is a
terminal moraine,and when two glaciers
unite, their lateral mors nei join and
fo?m a'medial moraine. One of the
largest medial moraines hereabouts I saw
as we came down from this excursion,
it i in the centre of the Morteratsch
Glacier and is about 50 feet or more
broad and perhaps 20 feet high In it
centre. Se-e Turk Timet.
The richest mine in A 03 trails, :f not
in the world, is the Mount Morgan, of
Queensland. One of l the Roths hilai
once offered 19,000,000 for it, and the
offer was refused. Its value is variously
estimated t from (GO, 099,000 to 3QV
THE BAIL WAY WORLD.
New Enterprises of Interest to the
PublicSome Notes of Kin
dred Industries.
The annual report of the Alabama rail
road cemmi&stssioners will show that
about 550 miles of new railroad were
built m the state during the year ending
June 30th.
Fifty ore cars were recently receive 1
bj the Alabama Great Southern
fiom the works of the United
States Rolling Stock Company In
Anni-ston. The real has alieidy
lecivcd several hundred of these cars.
Next March, according to superintend
ent Rigney, the Adams Lx press Cum pi ny
will open communication between I o 1
don nd Paris. The European tnvel of
president Hoey have convinced him that
the venture cm bo made a profit iblc one.
The meeting of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers in Richmond, Va.
was, ou October 19th, aldresscd by rep
resentatives from the fireman's and
switchmen's biotherhoods on the federa
tion scheme, but no paper was submitted
for action. Absolution was adopted
endorsing the action of chief Arthur in
all matters pertaining to the brotherhood
since the last session. This virtually
sustains chief Arthur's action in tke "Q"
strike.
C ARTEnSVILI.E AND GALXESVII LE AIR
like. This company has issued a pro
s pectus, which shows that the road is to
mn from Cartersville, Ga, through the
great iron and manganese district of
north Georgia. Beasley's Gap, Pine Log
mountain?, and Ball Ground, where it
crosses the Marietta and North Georgia,
and thence tl: rough a mnrble region and
a fine agricultural region to Gainesville,
where it will cDnect with the i.ichmoni
and Danville system. The directors are:
W II Howard, M A nardin, W J Hey
ward, Georga II NYarrin, L S Ilumford,
W C Baker. John J Calhoun. General
offices, Cartersville, Ga.
the line is 76 miles.
The length of
Carolina, knoxvii.le and socthern.
This railroad ii being constructed from
Augusta, Ga. to Knox villa, Tenn, a dis
tance of 292 miles, via Tree to, Ninety
six, and Greenville, S C; Brsraid and
near Waynesville, N C,and Sevier ville to
Knoxvilcj, Tenn. . The grading is near
ly completed from Augusta to Greenville
and 20 miles beyond, and track has been
laid fiom Greenviila west 20 miles.
Among the contractors are Tanner &
Robinson, McCarthy, Ross & Co, and J
B Ross, in South 'arolin; D L Boyd,
in North Carolina, and Fortune in Ten
nessee. The road is being built by the
Georgia Investment and Construction
Company, R B Sibley, president, Augus
ta, Ga. J B Humbert, of Princeton, S
C, is president of the railway company.
JT Stone is chief engineer of both the
construction and railway companies.
Several of the verdicts relating to fa
tal railway accidents recently rendered
by coroner's juries place the resj onsibili
ity for terrible disasters upon mp!oye-s
of various grades, and in tome instances
the parties accused have been arrested.
This course has been adopted in connec
tion with the dreadful dis iste r On the
Lehigh Valley, and similar proceedings
haveoccuirei in reference 10 -simul a
neous railway accidents in other portions
of the country. It is evident that safety
cannot be abiolule'y ensured by any
safeguards that railway companies cim
provide. After every possible adjunct
has been furnished m ich must bi left to
the filelity, discretion, aud reliability of
the men who run trains. No matter what
defect or neglect miy ca-ise a , terrible
disaster, the company on whofe lines it
occ urs usually pajs a heavy penalty ; and
it is becoming a question how far means
for increasing the realizing sense of re
sponsibility of certain classed of train
men will be adopted.
An Eel Fools a Snake.
An amusing encounter between
water snake and an eel occurred in the
Hudson lii er,- near a dock at GIasco,
N. Y. Receatly a party of fishermen
noticed a commotion in the shallow
water on one side of the dock, and lean
ing over tbe.v aw a large water snake
moving landward, with an eel nearly
half the size of the snake. The reptile
had the eel by the throat, and the slimy
thing was evidently making for dry
ground, where it could more easily dis
patch its prey, which was making a fran
tic effort to get free. Tyice the eel
squirmed itself looe from the snake and
made for the water, bot ea-h time it
was recaptured and b. ought to land.
After a third chase :or the eel the snake
seemed to lose all patience, and winding
itself about the wiiggling eel, pressed
nearly all the lire out ot it, ana iaea
dropped it on the beach. The eel was
apparently dead.
Ihe snake wound itself in and out of
a little opening under the docjc, return
ing etery now and then to smell its pre
sumably dead prey, for wh:ch it was
evidcctly getting op an appetite. The
latter had nst disappeared under the
rock a fotirtU time when the eel, which
had been p aying 'pcim. began moving
toward the water. ncn the snake re
turned to the pot and fouud no fish for
dinner its rt;o tments were like those of
an angry, diap ointed ch M. It lashed
it ta I "furiously, coiled itself half a
do cn times its though preparing to at
tack an enemy, moved rapidly round
snd rou:d tlie"it a here Ihe rel had
la'ift. nd th-n made for the open water,
whence it v as i-oon lost to view. AV
Yuri irn.
Sena an Armr Jlsrriaxe Rralatloas.
Dr A. C. Bernsjs, Jr., relates in the
St. Louis 'r-yjr a feature of
German army life which may be new to
many people in this cou :try. A young
lady nbim be met ii Reri-n inferroed
him that she was engaged to an ocer in
the army of the rank of Major. He ex
pressed the hope that the happy day was
near at band, when h sighed and said
in effect that it mgt be for ear, and
it might be forever. On bis inquiring
further be learned tint the Major could
cot obtain leave to be married because
there were SI pTcers ant-ad of him who
could only get married in their regular
orde-. He has to await his turn. This
Is military discipline with a iengesnce,
American evaporated apple art largely
jisldiaCerzsj,
NUMBER .31.
Piedmont fliMJno Rcuto.
Richmond DanvllU . Railroad.
CflMSlMlllSQEQct Oct. 21 1ES3
Trains Ran by 75 Meridian TIdm.
DAILY.
ROUTnBOUNTJ. .
NO.0. 50,
Lr New York,
Lv Philadelphia,
Lt R-ltimor,
Lv Washington,
Lv ChsrlottMvfDe,
L T.vnchhurr,
Ar Danville
13 15am.lpta
7M am 57 pm
9 4Aam 9 43 p m
ll&4am 1100pm
S40pm, 300am
4.1pm 5 Warn
S 30 p ra 745 am
Lv Richmond, S 10 put 330am
Lv BurkuvUls, 513pm 4 31 am
f .v Keysriils, IMpm ft 11 am
Lv Danville, 8 SO p m h OS a m
Ar Greensboro, 10 35 pm 9 43am
LvOoldiib.ro, 3 40pm 4810 pm
Lv lUloi-h, 4Mpm 1 4A am
Lv Durham , SMpia lit im
Ar Grve shore 8 2 p m 7 40am
Lv Salem MUpm 6St)am
Lv Greensboro, 10 Hi p m VSOsm
Ar (Salisbury, 13 01am 11 lb am
ArSttevniv 151m 12 13 p sn
Ar Attheville, - 744am 444pm
Ar Hot Springs, . 9 13 a m 8 10 p m
Lv&tlmbury 1128 am 1133 am
Ar Chariot, 1 5-1 a m 13 40 p m
Lv HpartanbuTf; 4 40a ra 3 37pm
Lv Grwnville, 8 SO a in 4 fi p m
Ar Athtnti, 11 00 a in 0 4'lpra
Lv Charlotte 3 10 am lUOpm
Ar C 'lumMa ALOam 523pm
Ar Augusta lOLOpm 0 11am
NOHTIIBOUND. " "
N0.6L Wo. 53.
Lv Augusta SUpn 8 30 m
" Columbia ' 10 16 p m 13 35 p m
Ar Chirlott 4 00pm 515pm
Lv Atlanta. 6 00 p m ? 10 a m
Ar Greenville, 1 00 a m 1 51 p m
" KnaH a burg, 3 11 a at 3!tfpm
Charlotte, 4 .10 a m 5 30 p ra
" Salisbury, 6am 705pm
Lv Hot Springs 8 05pm IS 10 pm
Akhville 944pm 1 ft u m
" KtAtosvflle 3 no am 8 01pm
Ar Salisbury 437pm 643pm
Lv Salisbury r (27pm Tllta
Ar Greensboro, . 8 08 a ra 8 40 p ta
Salem, 1140am tl2 34am
Lv Greensboro, 050am IQftOpm
Av Durham. 11 Xi p ra 4 80 a m
" lUlHigh, 155pm 0 5s m
Ooldsboro, 4 10pm 11 43 am
Lv Greensboro 8 05pra 3 50 a m
Ar Danville 9 47am 1020 pm
" Key ville, 12 41 d ra 1 44 a ra
" Hurkevtne, 130pm 2 JWam
" Richmond. S30pm 5 15 am
Lynchburg, 12 40 pm 13 55 am
" Charlotteaville, 2 55 p ra 8 00a m
" Washington, 7S1pm OOam
Baltimore, 8 50pm 8 20 am
" Philadelphia, 3 00am 1047 pm
" New York, 8 20 a m 1 20 pm
Daily. t Daily, except Sunday
huccpino cab sxavrcc
On Trains 50 and 51 , Pullman Buffet sleep
er between Atlanta and New York.
On Trains 52 and 53, Pullman Buffet sleep
er between Washington and Montgomery,
Washington and Augusta, Pullman sleeper
betwen Richmond and Greensboro. PuU
man sleeper between Greensboro and Raleigh.
Pullman Parlor Car between Salisbury and
Knoxville.
Through tickets en sale at principal sta
tions to all points.. For rates sad informa
tion apply to sny sgrnt of the company, or
to Ja. L TAYLOR, Gen.1 Fana Agmnk
80L Haas, Trafflc Manager.
' lVasbirfton, D.C.
J. 8. Perns, Di v. pass. Agent,
lU- Jimood, Va.
W. A. Tvnx. Dir. Pass. Ag. Raleigh, If. C.
Cape Fear & Yaffil Vallej EaM
COXDEHSED ftCHEiyCXK JIO. 4.
Taking effect .145 a. m., Monday, Aug. 13, TO
THAISS MOVIWO BORTH.
Ka 1
, Passenger St Freight ft
Mail. Accornodat'n
Ijere IiennetUville 5 45 am. 00 p ra
Arrive Maxton 7 05 8 20
Maxton 7 15 " V 15 "
Arrive Kayettevflls 9 (W . 1 35
Leave Fayetterille 9J1 am. 9 23sjn
Arrive Sanford 11 15 " 1 40 p.m
Iavertanford 1127 " 2
Arrive Oreensboro 2 3? p.m 7 25 "
Leave Greensboro 3 00 p. m 1015 am
Leave Germanton 7 30 a.m
Arrive Mt. Airy 700 p,m 5 15 p.m
No. 1 dinner at Greensbora
Freight sod Aacc'm'n dinner at Germantoa
TKAIJrS MOVrAO SOCTH. .
Na 2
rsMeogarft Freight sc
MaiT Accomejdat'B
Lv Mt Airy 3 45 a. ra. 9 15 am.
Leave Germanton 5 30 o.m
Ar Greenatirjro 7 45 4 40 p.m.
Lv Greensboro 10 Or) am. 730a.m.
Arrive Kan'ord 1 35 p. m. 2 0 p.m.
LeaveHanford 155 330 h .
Arrive FayettevOls 4 Oil bU 44
Leave FsyettviOs 4 15 M 6 45 a.m
Arrive Mai tM 815 ' 11 00
Ltsv Maxton 25 1200
Arrivs lien nets ville 7 45 - 2 30 p.m.
No. 2 breakfast at Greemboro.
Freight and Arcm'n dinner st Germanton.
No. 2 dinner at Sa nford.
rACTOBT BRAJfCH. ITUaOBT AJTO AOCOMOtrTw
Trains Moving North.
Leave Milboro
Arrive Greenaboro
8 00 a. m.
930
Trains Moving Boota.
Leave Graenshuro
Leave Fact JnocUon
J 30 p.m
80 "
Arrive Milboro 5 W
Pawenger anl Xail Trains roa daily ex
eeritSondsy. - ' . '
Freight and Aexommodation Train rims
from bennrtcvilte to Fayetteville Toaiar,
Tbnrsdsv s and Sstardsys; from FsysttsviiM
to Greensboro on Mondays, Wedas dsys and
rri,li- trrm Oreetwhoro to Mt. AirV l
Mondajn. Weloesdays snl Fridays; from Ml
Airy to Greciteboro on Tueedaya. Tborsdsya,
arvi StnMsy; fmm Greeasboro to Fa vet U
rill on Tiwxdays, THnrsdsys and Saturday,
ruy rvm F4)eaeville to Bnntvitfs on
Moo ;sys. Wedaesdays and Fr-Uvj
Gsnml Passecr Altxt,
.JiW.TRY,