The News and Observer
VOL. XXXIX. MO. 73
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IS NEARING ITS CLOSE
THE DIJRRINT CASE MAV RE
GIVEN TO TIIE JURY
THURSDAY.
OURRAHT'S MYSTERIOUS LETTER
It is Said That Its Contents are Known
and That in it Durrant Says he Saw
the Last Details of the Murder and
Saw Pastor Gibson and Another Man
Prominent in Church Affair* Rend
ing Over the Body of Blanche Lamont
--The Letter Opened by his Lawyers.
San Francisco, Oal., Oct. 25.—The
trial of Durrant is nearing its close and
the case will be probably given to the
jury next Thursday or Friday. Attorney
Dickinson for the defense has s-aid be
will conclude on Tuesday morning, to
which day the case has been continued,
and Attorney Duprey, also for the de
fenae, will probably finish for Durrant on
Tue j day afternoon. District Attorney
Barnes expects to begin his argument on
Wednesday morning and to complete his
closing address the same day.
Judge Murphy's charge will be long
aai exhaustive, and its delivery may
take a day. The exhibits are numerous
and in the cases of some will require
much study on the part of the jury. This
is especially true of the comparison of
the notes of Durrant and those made by
Student Glazer with whom Durrant
quizzed.
It is understood that the District At
will parallel the two sets of notes
and argue that Durrant’s could not be
more like Glaze's without hiving been
copied verbatim The District Attorney
will, it is said, also attack the roll call,
and will call attention to the error in
marxirg student Gavin present when
he was, in fact, absent. Tao jury will
be asked to j id<e for itself as to the
alleged similarity Intween the hand
writing of R v. J George Gib ion, and
that on the package enclosing Blanche
Lamont’s rings.
The Examiner says that the contents
of the mysterious letter, which was to be
opened in case Theodore Durrant is con
victed, are known. Ia this letter, it is
said, Durrant makes the statement that
he saw tie last details of the murder,
and saw K- v J Geo. Gibson and another
man, prominent i * church affairs, bend
ing over the body of Blanche Lamont.
The Examiner says that though Durrant
requested bis lawyers not to open the
letter until he was convicted, they have
opened it, and so remarkable were the
statements it contained, that even they
did not b lieve then, and refrained from
us'mg them in Durrant’s defense.
THE GEORGIANS DIDN’T SCORE.
And the University of North Carolina
Hon by 0 to 0
Special to the News and Observer.
Atlanta, Ga., OcL 26.
The University of North Carolina de
feated the University of Georgia to-day
in a hotly contested game of football, by
a score of 6to 0. Fifteen hundred peo
pie witnessedrhe game. The white and
bine was worn by hundreds of Carolin
ians now living in Georgia.
Stephen, by a seventy yard run, made
a touch-down in five minutes, and Whit
aker kicked the goal. The game was hot
from beginning to end.
Georgia by good rushing and heavy in
terference over tackles took the ball with
in two yards of the goal. The Caro
linians by supreme effort, and uphill,
carried the Georgians baek ten yards.
The features of the game were the far
ground gains of Stephens, Moore, Col
lins, Bacid. The right tackling of Butler,
Stanly, Merritt, Gregory, and Hurley
was very creditable. White played
splendid center.
The game was seen by Governor At
kinson, Hoke Smith and the fashion of
Atlanta.
The city is full to night of Virginia,
North Carolina and Georgia students.
Carolina as usual is on top. Tne boys
are taking in the Exposition and enjoy
ing the Southern Educational Associa
tion.
Winston, Alderman and Baskervilleof
the University faculty are here enjoying
sights with the students.
University of Virginia W in*.
Charlottesville, W. Va , Oct 26.
The foot ball game between the Gal
laudot College (deaf mute) and Univer
sity of Virginia today resulted 16 to 6
in favor of the University.
Washington and Lee Henteu.
Lexington, Va., Oct. 26.—The Blacks
burg, Va , cadet foot ball team from the
Virgiuia Agr cultu a! and Mechanical
Goll-ge, defeated Washington and Lee
University tbi* afternoon; score, thirty
to nothing. The vi-.itora played a strong
aggressive gjime.
Pennsylvania and Lafayette.
Philadelphia, Oct. 26.—Tue Univer
*iry of Pennsylvania football team de
fea*ed the Lafayette eleven to day by the
soore 30 to 0 in two halves of 80 and 25
minutes.
Cornell and Harvard.
Oamuridgr, Mass., Oct 26 -Cornell
went (i iAij before the heavier and
stronger H .rvard eleven this afternoon
by a -.core of 25 to 0. Cornell was badly
defennd. but nicy made a game fig t
and played pluexily from start to finish.
Neither Kide‘Bcond.
New Haven, Cor u., Oct. 26.—Foot
ball, Yale 0; Boston Ataletic A s>c a
tion 0
AVeslyan au Easy Winner,
Middletown, Conn., Oct 26. Wtea
iyan, 18; New Jersey Athletic Club, 0.
MISS VANDERBILT’S M VRRIAGF.
Col. and Mr*. W. F. Smith,of Winston, j
Invited to Atteud.
Special to the News and Observer.
Winston Salem, N. 0., Oct.. 26
The social event in Salem this week
was the 40th wedding anniversary of
Prof, and Mrs. Edward Leinbach Their
home was the scene of a delightful gath
ering of relatives and friends of the fam
ily, and young and old rejoiced with
them that they have come safely thus tar
on life’s journey. An elegant collation
was served and music gave added pleas
ure to the evening. Mrs. Leinbach sang
very sweetly some of the beautiful old
songs which she had sung forty years
ago. „ ..
Co’, and Mrs. ,W. F. Smuh, of this
city, have received au invitation to at
tend the marriage of Miss Consuelo Van
derbilt to the Duke of Marlborough, the
event to be celebrated in New York a r
high noon on November 6th. Colonel
Smith is first cousin to Miss Vander
bilt's mother. Their were
brothers. It is stated that Miss Vander
hilt’s memento trom her parents will be
$15,000,000. They will also present the
man she is to wed with $8,000,000.
The directors of the Roanoke and
Southern Railway held a business meet
ing in Winston last night. The board
authorized the payment of interest on
the Roanoke and Southern equipment
bonds by the Norfolk and Western re
ceivers.
Sher ff Lindsay, of Hamilton county,
Mo., was in Winston last night looking
for W. F. Barne3, a white man, who is
reported to be under arrest at Stone
ville, N. C Barnes is wanted i i Mis
souri for forging a note for S4OO. He
also stands charged with stealing money
from some young ladies at a house where
he boarded while in Missouri. His peo
ple live in Winston.
A telegram was received in Winston
to-day from Gov. Carr, stating that he
had issned a requisition for the removal
of Barnes to Mi*souri.
The Female M ssionary Society of the
Moravian church gave their annual love
feast Thursday night. The address was
delivered by Rev. Dr. H. A. Brown, of
the First Baptist church. A collection
amounting to S6O 60 was taken.
The farmers in the Piedmont section
are unable to market their tobacco on
account of the drought. Many of them
are borrowing money on their crops in
order to meet fertilizer and ether hills.
The situation is quite serious. Many
termers have not been able to sow any
wheat yet awhile, while others say that
wheat already sown has died since com
ing up.
Dr. Joh' M Rothro k, one of David
son county’s test known physicians, died
near Bethany last night, aged 70 yea*-*
Russell Pratt, a young man who was
kuked by ahorse near Winston, August
15th, died at the home of his uncle, Col.
Alsoup, to-day.
Winston shipped 250 000 pounds of
manufactured tobacco this week.
A large residence of William F rester,
near Roaring river, Wilkes county, was
destroyed Jby fire, with its contents, yes
terday. It was insured two weeks ago
for six hundred dollars.
H ILL GIVE THEM NO EXCUSE.
Steve Brodie Proposes to Have that
Fieht Yet.
Chicago, 111, Oct 26 —Steve Brodie
says he is determined to see whether
Corbett and Fitzsimmons really want to
fight. He accordingly offers a purse of
$5,000, to be contested for in private
with twenty men on a side. He has posted
a forf*it of SSOO with the Inter Ocean
and says he stands ready to pull off the
fight at any time. When asked whete
he expected to pail off the mill, Brodie
declined to name the exact locality.
“You may say.” be said, “that it will
take place in the State of New York. I
have pulled off fights there before, and
can do it again.”
Tne Stake Money Returned.
New York, Oct. 26.—Phil Pwver this
a f ternoon turned over to Sheriff Bulling,
o' Brock'yo, the $2,500 which was pate
of the Fitziimmons Corbett stake money
put up for the fight by Fitzsimmons. The
return of the money was on an order by
Judge Beach, of this eitv, to satisfy a
j idgment of the Metropolitan Printing
C unpaDy, of New York.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Committee May Meet In January] to
F-x the Time and Place,
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 26.—1 n an
interview, 8 P. Sberin, secretary of the
Democratic National Committee, says he
does not believe the committee will meet
before the middle of January to fix the
time and p’ace of the next National con
vention He says a conference of the
officers of the committee has not even
t~een suggested. There seems to be an
impression among the Republicans that
there will be a long, hard fought cam
paign, said Mr. The leaders of
that party seem to believe they ought to
go into the campaign as early as possi
ble. I believe the business world would
I ke to see a short campaign.
Death of Mr*. James E. Knstfee.
Paris, Oct. 26 - Mrs. J Mines E.
Bustle;, wife <>f United States Amhas
sador James E. Eustice, died suddenly
this morning at Rotoathvieland, of heart
failure. Sue had been ill for only a few
davs. Mr. Eustice received the unex
nected news at the Embassy and loft
immediately for the death bed.
Atlanta O t. 26 —lt was decided to
day bv the Exposition company to
November 30 aside as Wheelman’s day.
There will be racing, and prizes aggre
gating $1,500 will be offered.
RALEIGH. N. C.. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1895.
THEY WILL NOT SUBMIT
NEGROES OF SOUTH CAROLINA
PRO TEST AG A INST THE NEW
ELECTION LAW.
WILL APPEAL TO THE COURTS
And if that Fails to Congress, and If
That Fall* to the People of the Coun
try to Compel the State to Give Them
Their Rights, Says Delegates Whip
per and Small—Claim that the State
has Never Been Under Negro Domi
nation, not, During the Days of 186 H.
Columbia, S. C,, Oct. 26. —la the
Constitutional convention to day, W. J.
Whipper, a colored delegate, of Beau
fort, addressed the convention for two
hours, contending that the negro never
had been responsible for the frauds com
raitted in South Caiolina, when they
were in power, but that it was the
work of designing white men for
which the negroes were not res
ponsible. He declared that the
scheme of disfranchisement before
the convention was gotten up by design
ing men for their own interest. Though
it would be parsed, the negroes, said
Whipper, would fight it in the Supreme
Court of the United States and in Con
gress, and if all these failed, before the
people of the country.
Whipper was prominent in the days of
negro domination in the State, and hav
ing an intimate acquaintance with the
men who governed the State then, his re
marks possessed more interest than they
otherwise would.
He admitted at the outset that the
negro was now the inferior of the white
man, owing to his lack of educational
advantages and the fact that he had
been free only thirty years. He denied
that there ever had been negro rule in
the State. True, they had a majority in
the convention of 1868 and subsequent
legislatures, but they were but the too’s
of designing white meD, who directed
them as tney pleased, even when they
could have elected every officer from
constable to Governor the white man
always had the most offices and no ne
gro was ever a Governor, or a Judge or
a Sheriff or any other high official. He
claimed that in his town of Beaufort,
where the negro had a majority of
twenty to one of the population they
always elected a white mayor and gave
the whites half the council.
Tnesc things showed, he claimed, that
the bugaboo of negro domination and
the destruction of white supremacy were
but subterfuges gotteu up by designing
men who wished to profit politically
thereby. He held that*the devotion of
the negro to his master’s family and in
terests while he was away fightiDg bat
tles to forge m >re firmly the shackles
about his slaves, made the white people
owe him a deep debt of gratitude which
would be ill repaid by taking away from
him his rights.
He said the negroes intended to sap the
foundations cf the Convention itself in
the United States Supreme Court; and if
that failed, to appeal to Congress; and if
that failed, to trust to the people of the
country to compel the State to give them
their rights. He was followed by Gen.
Robert Smalls, also colored, who made a
short address endorsing Wnipper’s senti
ments.
Debate on the question was adjourned
until Monday.
HOMAN’S MISSIONArFsOCTETY.
No ladecent Show* Will be Allowed at
the Rocky Mount Fair.
Special to tlie News and Observer.
Rocky Mount, Oct. 26.
The Woman’s Missionary Society of the
Methodist church for the Washington
District is now in session here. Among
the delegates present are Mrs. Swindell
and Miss Pescud, of Raleigh.
At the opening exercises last night
Mrs. Underwood welcomed the delegates,
which was responded to by Mrs Swin
dell An instructive and entertaining Bible
talk by Miss Pescud, closed the exercises.
Tne sessions will last till Monday.
The authorities of the Rocky Mount
Fair Association have allowed no inde
cent shows ever to be in their grounds
uor have they permitted any gambling
for the last ten 3 ears.
Rev. Mr. Charles Fetter, of the mission
work of the Episcopal Church, preached
in the Church of the Good Shepherd last
night.
Mr. 8, K Fountain has put up a tele
phone service, the exchange system of
which is his own invention and manu
facture. There are about fifty sub
scribers, and the ’phones work admira
oly.
THE MAD IGASCAK TREAT Y.
Tbe Ihlttßd Aeci-pt* the Protectorate
ot France.
Paris, Oct. 26 —The treaty between
France and Madagascar has been pub
fished In brief the Queen accepts the
protectorate of France The lat ter repre
sent* Madagascar in all foreigu relations.
Questions concerning foreigners will be
in the hands of the French resident gen
eral. and the Republic undertakes to de
fend Madagascar against all dangers.
Tbe ieeident general will have control
of the international administration of
Madagascar, bat tbe republic does not
assume responsibility for the treat it g or
concessions b<••■etofore granted. Public
expenditures and the debt will be se
cured by the revenue of the island. Toe
Queen agreee not to contract a loan
without the authority of the republic
Tbe French du loraats and consuls
abroad are charged with the protection
of the interests of the island.
TAR HE:ELS IN HIGH FAVOR.
I'liree Promoted in the Treasury De
ment iu a Week.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. U., Oct. 26.
Mr. W. F. Carter, of. North Carolina,
has been promoted in the office of the
Auditor for the treasury Department
from S9OO to SI,OOO. This is the third
North Carolinian promoted in the
Treasury Department within the last
week.
Mr A. C. Shaw has received a letter
from'Cousul W. M Little, of Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, concerning two patents which
a citizen of that country wishes to in
troduce iuto the United S'ates. Mr.
Little said he expected to visit this coun
try and his home in Charlotte early next
year.
The Governor's foot-guard of New
llaven, Conn., arrived in this city last
night, returning from Atlanta. Major
Benjamin E Moore, officer in charge,
said that one of the most important
events during the entire trip South and
one which the entire gu <rd, consisting
of 150 men, most appreciated was Mrs.
Stonewall Jackson’s shaking hands with
every member in Charlotte, where they
stopped over.
Bill N>e lectures here to-night on
Farming in North Carolina. His lecture
will be illustrated, showing how per
pendicular farming is carried on in tbe
western part of the State.
Miss Sallte Perry, of North Carolina,
i 3 visiting at Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Harper,
of No. 12 I street, northeast, having ac
companied them from the Atlanta ex
position.
Mr. A. M. Wells, who has been spend
ing his vacation at his home in Duplin
county, has returned to Washington, ac
companied by bis family.
Mr. I). 8. Hoover, who was so seri
ously hurt by colliding with the street
car a few days ago, is rapidly im
proving. His eyes, which were reported
damaged, will not lose their sight.
Mr R. A. Stutts, of Moore county, is
very ill at his residence with typhoid
fever.
Mr. I. Fearing and wife leave to-night
for Elizabeth City to spend several days.
Isaac W. Durham has been appointed
postmaster at lioscoo, N. C.
Arrival*.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Clark, Asheville.
M. Patten, North Carolina.
L. W. Scott, Greensboro.
A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY.
Two More of the Beaufort Insurance
v Cases Decided Yesterday.
Special to the News ami Observer.
Beaufort, N. C, Oct 26.
The jury in tue case of Di. T. B Del
amar and Levi T. Noe for forgery brought,
in to-day the expected verdicr. of not.
guilty Judge Graham remarked to the
jury, “Gentlemen I am not responsible
for your verdict.”
The solicit r made a mo'ion that the
cases be moved from Carteret county on
the ground that the State could not get
a fair trial because of prejudice against
the iisuirar.ee companies who are prose
cuting these defendants. After argu
merit pro and con the Judge moved the
cases to Jones county court which meets
next week and bound the defendants
over under five hundred dollar justified
bonds to appear at Trenton next Tues
day.
The impression seems to be among the
outside public that the verdict was just.
The in- urance cases ou the civil docket
were moved to Craven county to be
tried in February next. These are the
cases for enforcing payment of the poli
cies which the companies are claiming to
be fraudulent.
TAKE NO FUSION IN Til El It’S.
Texa* Populist* Hill Form No Alli
ance With Any Other Party.
Fort Worth, Tex., Oct. 26. -Tie
State Executive Committee of the Peo
ple’s party met to day in this city, wirh
all the members present either in person
or proxy. About fifty prominent raeo
be sos the party from over the State
were in attendance. The committeo de
termined on forming no fusion with a ty
of the other pilitical pirties, and will
work alone both in State and national
affairs, adhering strictly to the Omaha
platform. The committee will make no
concessions whatever. The place for
holding the State Convention was left
with the committee to determine later
on, it will probably bahekl at Austin.
Contemplated Railroad Changes,
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 26 —There is a
rumor in railroad circles which seem 3 to
have some foundation in fact, that Pres
ident James Clarke, of the Mobile and
Ohio Rail Load will shortly succeed Gen
eral Manager B F. Yoakum, of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Road Pres
ident Uiarke, so the story goes, will be
succeeded by J. G. Mann, the present
General Manager of the Mobile and Ohio.
Mrs. Thomp*on Hound Over.
Special to the News and Observer.
Hickory, N. C., Oct. 26.
Justice Hawser at the hearing of the
Thompson abduction ca e bound Mrs.
Thompson over to court for taking her
son, Hugh D’Ann, from Claremont Col
lege a few days ago.
Gov. Seal*’ Nephew in Jail.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 26 —Oullen Seals,
an alleged nephew of ex Governor Seals,
of Alabama, is iu jail here. He failed
in attempting to absco d with $250 of
city tax collections. He was employed
as clerk to the Collector.
WAR SCARE IN EUROPE
THE RUSSO-CHINA TREATY THE
FEATURE OF INTEREST
IN POLITICS.
ANO THE VENEZUELAN DISPUTE
The F'ar East* rn Development* are
flost Senou*, and the End of the
Venezuelan Affair is Not Yet in
Sight—No Harmony in the Iri*l»
Party—Tobacco Growing in England
—Mis* Vanderbilt’* Bridal Bonquet—
It is l‘i E'eet in Circumference.
(Copyrighted 1895, by the Associated Tress.)
London, Oct. 26.—The war scare
caused by the despatch to the Times from
Hong Kong published on Friday morn
ing, making public the concessions said
to have been granted bv China to Rus
sia, including the right to build rail
roads which would connect Vladivos
tok with Port Arthur, and the
privilege of anchoring a fleet at
the latter place, was the main
feature of interest ia the political world
during the past week, although the Ven
ezuelan dispute with Great Britain
attracted much attention. The far east
eru developments are most serious, if the
Times correspondent has been well in
formed, and the end of the Venezuelan
affair is not in sight, unless ail the pres
ent outward s'gns are deceiving.
The speaker today, alluding to the
Venezuelan question, makes light of the
intervention of the United States ia the
matter and says:
‘ ‘The bluster of a portion of the Ameri
can press need not be taken very seri
ously, inasmuch a3 the press has been
blustering with better cause against us
for the last sixty years. It is true that
this bluster now derives significance from
the fact that America has a navy and
group of naval chauvinists. She also
has manufactures whom protection has
s imulated to over production and who
want a marktt| for their superfluous
goods. But these considerations apply
to tbe case of Cuba with far more -orce
than to Venezuela, and it looks as if the
ma*s of Americans thought that in the
latter case at any rate, they did ne t ap
ply at all. ”
The Fpecial dispatch from London in
regaid to Venezuela have stirred up the
British fore ; gn office as well as the Uni
ted States Ambassador, the Hon. Thomas
F. Bayard, as they have been freely re
cabled to the London Times. The Mar
qnis of Salisbury, who was at Hatfield
House, personally sent a contradic
tion of the report that aa unpleasant
interview had taken place between him
self and Mr. Bayard, and it was upon
this that the Times’ denial of the report
was based. The Marquis of Salisbury’s
words in making the denial were:
• Lord Salisbury m*de no such oh
nervations to Mr. Bayard as are stated,
nor has he yet sent any reply in writing
of any kind to thß United States commu
nication.”
Mr. Justin McCarthy’s ejection of the
Plunkett scheme to bring about harmony
in the Irish party by calling a confer
ence of the members of all shades of
opinion, to decide upon the measures to
be brought forward for the benefit of
Ireland, is not calculated to inspire be
lief in the McOarthyites’ sincerity to do
their utmost for the country. Mr.
Plunkett’s proposal was one which, it
is claimed, might have been accept
ed by every Irish politician, as
he did not ask one of them to
relinquish his own views of the political
question; hut he simply wanted to devise
means to help the Irish tenant to get his
produce in market at a remunerative
price. The Redmonitcs were willing to
accept the invitation. The Conservative
newspapers naturally say that the Me
Oatehyitea prefer the poverty stricken
Ireland which keeps the home rule ag : -
tation alive to a prosperous country
which would not do so.
The attempts to grow tobacco in Eng
land were still per-isted in this year, in
spite of the failure of the crop of 1894,
and have had much improved results
Mr. Fiennes 8. W. Cornwallis, of Linton
Park, formerly member of Parliament
for Maidstone, and Mr. 0. H. Brasser,
Preston Hall, have been the leading ex
perimenters. A fine crop has bfen
grown and is now being dried.
Mr. Cornwallis has written a letter
to the newspapers, in which ho says
that he expects presentable tobacco
will be produced by this year’s crop He
adds that as the growth of tobacco is
legalized in England, there will be a
large reduction in duty, which the home
grower will have made. Tnen, however
low grade the tobacco, it might easily
be grown on exhausted land and limited
to a suitable area in order to prevent ex
tensive cultivation
The bridal bouquet intended for Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt, upon the occasion
of her marriage, November 6rh, to tbe
Duke of Marlborough, will be taken to
New Yo’-k to-day by a steamship sailing
from Liverpool. It is excop'ionally
large and beautiful, and is made up
from the moat choice and valuable
flowers ever gathered in the historical
eardens and conservatories at Blenheim
This magnificent bouquet, which is most
tastily aranged, is twelve feet in circum
ference.
England and the Uuited State*.
London, Oct. 26.— The alarmist dis
’ ateh to the Times from Hong Kong,
published yesterday, announcing that
Russia, by the treaty recently secured
with China, ha* acquired the right to
anchor a fleet at Port Arthur and built
railroads which would connect Vladivos
tok with that port, remains the great
subject for newspaper comment, al-
PRICE FIVE CENTS
though the report has rot v t b'on con
firmed 1 y the Br .ish fort ign office.
The Westminster Gazetic uus after
noon, commenting upon tbe develop
ments in the East, points out that, iu its
opinion, an excellent opport unity is now
offered for making a beginning with
what is described as “the union in the
higher diplomacy of the United States
and Great Britain, to which all thinking
men in the Knglish speaking world so
confidently book forward ”
Continuing, the Westminster Gazette
remarks.
“America, with ourselves, is a pacific
power. For years back the has taken
great interest in the development of
Japan, Corea and China. The interest
of John Bull and cousin Jonathan is
identical. Neither desires to disturb the
statu quo; both wish to get a fair share
of what commercial advan'ages may
be going. Should the Times’ Hong Kong
despatch be confirmed and the Czar’s
advisors unfortunately persevere in
their determination to disturb the bal
ance of power in the far east, Japan
will look for friends, and those friends
are, obviously, Great Britain and the
United States.
“The little anxiety in the foreign office
now would be cheaply bought if it is led
thereby to carefully consider the future
diplomatic and naval relations between
tbe old country and her strenuous sons
across the Atlantic and to realize that
the English speaking world can better
employ its strength Than in international
squabbling over such petty matters as
the boundaries and obligations of Vene
zuela and Nicaragua.”
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The Cuban d ly at the Atlanta Exposi
tion has been postponed to December 1.
Whitney Glass Works and other prop
erty to the amount of $106,000 was de
stroyed by fire yesterday at Glassboro,
N. J.
The New England Cotton Manufac
turers’ Association went to Columbus,
Ga., in a body yesterday to see the mills
there.
Secretary Carlisle has not yet fully de
cided whether or not he will go to Ken
tucky to vote at the coming election.
The last day upon which he can register
is Wednesday next.
The well-known wholesale dry-goods
firm of Bamberger, Bloom & Co., of
Louisville, Ky., made an assignment, yes
terday afternoon. Liabilities, $1,200,000;
assets about the same.
Early yesterday morning about a
dozen houses were burned in Woodbury,
a Baltimore suburb, causing a lass of
about $30,009. It was c used by the
explosion of a gasoline tank.
Senator Hill spoke three times in Ohio
yesterday with ex Gov. Campbell. In
di.-e issiug the Democratic tariff law,
Senator Hill said it would finally woik
out for the good of the country. If a
mistake was made in collecting too little
taxes, that could be remedied. At least
•the rnouey which had not been collected
was still in the pockets of the people and
not piled up in the treasury as a surplus.
PAROLE EVIDENCE EXCLUDED.
Judge Coble Refuses to Admit tbe tes
timony ol Senator Dowd in the Peni
tentiary Case.
Judge Coble yesterday decided not to
admit parole evidence in the quo war
ranto proceedings brought by 11. C.
Dockery and others for possession of
the State Penitentiary.
This excludes the testimony of Senator
Cary Dowd, who was put on the stand
by the defense the previous afternoon.
It practically means that tho defense
will not be permitted to prove that the
fusion directors were elected before the
Act creating their offices was ratified.
As was the case the day before, most
of the time of the cour was taken up
by the argument of counsel. Mcßae,
D*y and Whitaker spoke for the plain
tiffs, arid Shepherd and Busbee for the
defendants.
Death ot Capt. Drummond.
Caps. W. F. Drummond is dead.
For thirty years he hai been passing
from Norfolk to Weldon and Raleigh,
and then baek to Norfolk again. He was
known to everybody as the jovial and
courtly conductor of the Seaboard Air
Line. He was an encyclopedia of every
thing that had happened wituin his reach
during these thirty years. He remem
bered and often related funny incidents
that occurred when both himself and tho
road over which he ran were young.
He sometimes seemed a little uncivil,
but he was not. He was too noble, too
generous, and too broad miuded to beat
auy time anything bu r considerate and
geuteel, what seemed to be indiffrence
or crustiness, when you knew him well—
were becoming characteristic. He was
large of statue and his heart was big in
proportion.
He was a consistent Christian and
gave unsparingly to charity and to his
church. He was teken sick in May last
and has been gradually declining until
Thursday night when he quietly passed
away at the home of his si*ter, Mrs E.
A. F Fletcher, iu Acomac county, Va.
Thoma*ville vs. Cary.
The Alliauce executive committee yes
terday visited Tbomasvillo to lot k over
the town with a view to its availability
aa a site for the new Alliance choc fac
tory. At this point the contest has nar
rowed down to Cary and Tnomasville.
The latter offers more money, 1 ut Cary is
nearer Raleigh, is on two lines of rail
road and is an unusually good site for
in'-nuteetering purposes.
Sometime this week the committee
will meet here again to settle the loca
tion.