2 THE PANAMA OFFER SEN no CONGRESS Details of Isthmian Commis sion's Report. WHY PANAMA IS FAVORED It is Forty-Five Millions Less in Es timated Cost. 134 6 MILES SHORTER FFO* SEA TO SEA, I These Are Amorg »he Advantages That Are Pointed Out. Rocs* veil Sends the Re port to Ccngress With Simple Letter of Transmittal, (By the Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., Jan. 20. —The Pres ient toay sent to Congres, with a mes sage simply transmittal, the supplemen tal report of the Isthmian Canal Com mission, in which it is unani mously recommended that the offer of the new Panama Canal Com pany to sell all of its rights, property and unfinished work to the Unit ed States for $40,000,000 bo accepted. They orderer the report printed in the Conßressional Record and also as a doc ument. The report gives in full the corre spondence Which has passed between the commisstrm and the Panama Canal Com pany at Paris, which includes a cable gram. from the President of the board dated January 9 as follows: “The new Panama Canal Company de clares that it is ready to accept for the totality, without exception, of its prop erty and rights on the isthmus, the amount of $40,000,000, the above offer to remain in force until March 4, 1903.” The report states' that the “totality” mentioned In this message includes fif ty-six parcels of land amounting to 30,- 1)00 acres, which cover nearly all the ground required for the actual construc tion of the canal. It also includes 2,431 buildings used for officers’ quarters, hospitals, storehouses, etc-, also an im mense amount of machinery consistinß of floating plants, tugs, dredges, locomo tives, cars, etc. It also includes all ex cavation work accomplished upon the main canal lines amounting to about $50,- 700.000 cubic yards. The value of the work already done is estimated at $22,- 595.02 S less contingencies estimated at $4,- 679, 005, leaving an agßregate of $27,- •174,033- The offer also embraces all of the existing 70,000 shares of the Panama Railroad and Canal Company except 1,100 shares held by individuals in Europe and the United States. Against this proper ty are mortgage bonds amounting to $3,- 439,000. Os this amount the canal com pany owns $871,000. It also holds in its treasury $1,064,000, subject to the sale of cancellation, leaving in the hands of the public $1,504,000. These bonds bear 4Vfc per cent, interest. There also are out standing $996,000 six per cent, sinking fund bonds. The transfer also will in clude three passenger and freight steam ers of 2,000 tons each. The railroad company owns an undivided half Interest in the islands of Naos, Culebra, Perieo and Flamenco, in the Bay of Panama, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company be ing the joint owner- Besides its right of ways- terminal, wharves and considerable areas of land, it owns nearly the whole of the town of Colon, the houses there being constructed under lease. Summing up the commission finds the | total value of the property to be as fol lows: Excavation work done, $27,171,033, Panama Railroad stock at par, $6,- ! 886,300. j Trial, $36,360,333. Add ten per cent to covt’r omissions, $3,639,667. Total, $40,1:00.000. The estimated tost of constructing the Nicaragua Canal is $45,630,704 more than the cost of completing the Panama Canal. The estimated annual cost of maintenance and operation is $1,300,000 greater at Nicaragua than at Panama. The Panama route would be 134.6 miles shorter than the Nicaragua route from sea to sea, witn fewer locks and less curvature, both In degrees and miles. The estimated time for a deep draft vessel to pass through the Nicaraguan Canal was placed at 33 hours as against 12 hours for Pan- | Pina, these estimates being the time of actual navigation and not including de lays for winds, currents or darkness. If tlie passage were made without interrup- ( tion, about a day could be saved by the Nicaragua over the Panama route by or- j dinary steamers handling commerce be- j tween our Pacific ports and all Atlantic | ports and about two days by steamers of the same class trading between our gulf uerts and north Pacific ports. The time advantage of the Nicaragua route would j be less in the case of fast high-powered s1 earners, the use cf which is increas- i Between Atlantic ports and the west coast of South America, the Panama route has the advantage of about two J days and between gulf ports and the i west eor.st of South America, the Panama route has the. advantage of about one day. The trade of the western coast of pouth America is a very important one which has hitherto been in European blinds. The ofUr leceived from the new Panama Canal Company to convey all its property, including all its interest in the Panama Railroad to the United States ' will make the estimated cost of the two canals as follows: Niraragi'.a, $181*,864,062: Panama, $131,- 233.358. Th»> transfer would give title to all the land now held by both the Panama Canal Company and the Panama Railroad Com pany. which cov.-is nearly all lands re quired for the construction of the canal. The land held by private parties at Nica ragua must be acquired and its acquisi tion may prove expensive. The question whether the new Panama Canal Company can make a purchaser a valid title to the property formerly be longing to the old company, its predeces sor. is considered at length. The canal company is absolutely prohibited to cede or mortgage its rights under any coosid eration whatever to any nation or foreign government under penalty of forfeiture. The contract with the railroad company contains a like prohibition and declares further that the pain of forfeiture will i he incurred by the mere act of attempt ing to cede or transfer its privileges to la foreign government and such an act is I declared absolutely null and of no value or effect, but for the purpose of per mittting the new Panama Canal Com pany to enter upon the negotiations which have resulted in the present offer, Colombia has waived these prohitions and has authorized the company to treat directly with the United States with a view to the use and occupation of the territory of the former for canal pur poses if opr government should select the Panama route for an isthmian canal. After the old company failed a liquidator was appointed by the French c ourt to take charge of its property and affairs- When the new company was formed he was authorized to contribute to it the rights, privileges, plans, docu ! ments.. plant and unfinished work in the | hands and under his control, and in con sideration of this grant, he was to receive • sixty per cent, of the net profits of the enterprise after deducting all expenses, charges and stipulated dividends to be distributed by him among the parties in interest. This interest of the old com pany is still under the protection of the j liquidator and he must be a party to any arrangement that may be entered into for a sale and conveyance of the proper ty, and as he derives his authority from t*he triuunal that appointed action requires the approval and confirmation of the court- The papers befre the com mision show that the liquidator has agreed to the proposition, and that he is acting under judicial authority. A deed to the properly executed by the canal company and the liquidator re quires the approval of the government of Colombia because of the prohibition already referred to In the concessions and for the further reason that the re public owns 50,000 acres of 100 francs each of the stocK of the company fully paid, of which it cannot be deprived without its consent. Such a transfer of title thus approved would give to the United States the same right, title and interest In the premises that the new Panama Canal Company now has, but that would not be sufficient. The exist ing concessions thus purchased would be valuable only because their owner ship by the United States would remove the obstacles in the way of negotiations between the two governments for the oc cupation of Colombian territory by the United States for canal purposes; but these concessions are unsatisfactory and insufficient and a new arrangement must be made if an isthmian canal is to be constructed by our government across the Isthmus of Panama. The grant must be not for a term of years, but in perpetuity, and a strip of territory from ocean to ocean of sufti cient width must be placed under the control of the United States. In this strip the United States must have the right to enforce police regulations, pre serve order, protect property rights and exercise such other powers as are ap propriate and necessary. The business relations between the railroad and canal companies and the Colombian Govern ment must also bo settled. The advantages of the two canal routes have been restated according to the find- j ings of the former report. There has ! been no change in the views of the Com- 1 mission with refei’ence to any of these conclusions then reached. But the new proposition submitted by the new Panama Canal Company makes a reduction of nearly seventy million dollars in the cost of a canal across the isthmus of Panama, according to the estimates con : tamed in the former report. The report concludes as follows: “After considering the changed con ditions that now exist and all the facts and circumstances upon which its pres ent judgment must be based, the commis sion is of the opinion that “the most practicable and feasible route’ for an Isthmian Canal, to be under the control, management and ownership of the United | States ‘is that known as the Panama 1 route.’ ” j The report is signed by the entire com- I mission. * | The State Department will now proceed ,to arrange a protocol with Minister j Silva engaging Colombia to approve the transfer of the franchise of the Panama Company and to make any desirable ex ! tension of time, both in the allowance ( ' for the completion of the canal and in the life of the lease. OBEKNBBOKO FOB BALL. Eddie Ashenbaclc Writes That the Outlook is Bright and Bosey- Ashenback is hapty. That’s the way he writes from Greens boro. j He went to Winston yesterday after feeling the baseball pulse in Greensboro. His report is that Greensboro will eer ( lainly bo in the North Carolina League. his letter says that the. Elks are inter j esting themselves and that it will surely J be a go there. I His letter also intimates that he has good news from Winston-Salem, and that the Twin-City will be with the ball crowd. Ashcnback goes from Winston to Charlotte, and will then return to Greensboro, so he writes. His letter is bright with hope. He is the base ball missionary, and on him now depends the league. The news from the east is that a num ber of cities will be ready for Ashen back, and will talk business when he arrives. ADMIBAL SCHLEY’S APPEAL The Draft is Finished. May be Handed to Boosevelt Wednesday, (By the Associated Press.) Baltimore, Jan. 20.—Isidor Raynor, counsel for Rear Admiral W. S. Scjjley has finished the draft of the appeal from the Findings of the Court of Inquiry and will go to Washington tomorrow for a conference with the Admiral. It is ex pected the Admiral will be ready to hand the appeal to President Roosevelt on Wednesday. The document contains over 100 type-written pages. Frank Duncan, a notorious safe blower under sentence of death for murder, and three other prisoners, made their escape lrom the Jefferson county. Alabama, jail by sawing through numerous bars aud < ulting the lock off tlie outer gate of the prison yard. THE NEWS AND OBBEVEK. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JAN. 22. 1902. 1 VICTORY FOR THE PANAMA ROUTE A LOBBY TRIUMPH The Frienda of the Nicaragua Route Will Fight Hotly This Attempt by Railroad Interests to Defer Action (By Arthur McEwon in New York Journal) | Washington, Jan. 20.—1 f the late Collis i P. Huntington were alive and in Wash ington tonight, he would be smiling. The Isthmian Canal Commission, in making its supplementary report in favor of the Panama route has done exactly as Mr. , Huntington would have desired it to do. Though Mr. Huntington is dead, the railroad interests which he represented are very much alive, and as' determined as ever he was to prevent the building i of an inter-oceanic canal by either the Nicaragua, Panama or any other route. I H3d Panama been popular throughout the country and strong in Congress, as Nicaragua is, we should have seen all ! the interests now booming Panama ar i rayed on the side of the unpopular Nl j caragua. Anything to prevent action, I everything that will promote delay—that I is the policy which animated the oppou- | 1 entß of the Nicaragua Canal. * * * Every one who can be controlled by the railroads and Hanna is out for the Pana ma Canal. * * * The (tone of the re ! port is far from being enthusiastic or in sistent, and its chief argument—that the Panama route would cost $5,000,000 less , than the Nicaragua—is laughed at. In an enterprise so vast as an intcroceanic ' canal. It verwges on absurdity to figure ' within $3,000,000 of the total. / Years have been spent in clearing away] j the difficulties from the path of the ; Nicaragua Canal. The private companies . have been got rid of, the Clayton-Bulwer j treaty is out of the way. and Nicaragua j and Costa Rico have granted all terri-1 ( torial fights asked for. All that is need- | ed now is for Congress to act and the United States to go ahead and dig. WHY? WHY? WHY? Practical men naturally ask why we' should begin all over again when there is ' not the least necessity for it —why we should wade into a new bog of private | rights, Government concessions, protocols and treaties, j Further, there is that tremendous vote of the House —308 to 2—by which the J Hepburn Bill was passed two weeks ago. I That was the voice of the country. Can ' that be reversed by the Panama lobby, ' and the Panama advocates who don't be- ! long to the lobby? Hardly. The most that the lobby hopes for is to prevent legislation at this session. And that tclli the whole story. * * * ! The men who have striven so long to bring the Nicaragua Canal within sight | are hardly going to allow their engines ' to be derailed, or even stopped for long, | because a Panama log has been thrown 1 across the track at the eleventh hour by hands which have a very familiar look. There is a good hot battle right ahead. DEATH FOLLOWED DEFEAT ! W. H. HofFineister Fails of Be-election and Ehoots Himself (By the Associated Press.) St. LoUis, Jan. 21. —William H. Hoft meister, of St. Louis, ex-Suprenie Re corder of the Legion of Honor, commit ted suicide at the Planters’ Hotel today j by shooting himself. The onlv witness to the suicide was 1 George M. Ackley, of Kansas iCty. Depu ty Coroner Bogher took charge of the re mains. Mr. Hoffmeister was defeated last night for re-election as Supreme Recor der of the Legion of onor by C. T. P. White and an entirely new Supreme Council was elected after a sensational contest. One feature of the struggle was the arrest of Otto A. Overbeck candidate for Supreme Chancellor, (the highest officer in the order) and leader of the opposi tion to 'he administration. Mr. Overbeck was arrested while on his way to the meeting where the elec tion was to be held. I At the four courts a complaint was 1 lodger] against Mr. Ove.’jeeK for carry- I ing a concealed weapon. Friends of the Overbeck ticket however procured MV. Overbeck’s release on bond and hurried with him to the meeting hall, where they arrived in time to vote, his one vote being necessary to win. Ackley, who says he was in an ad joining hath room when the shot w r as J fired, expressed the belief that Hoff meistev killed nimself because he bad been defeated in his candidacy for re election. “Hoffmeister was drinking last night,” said Ackley, “and he told me there ’would be trouble. I knew he had a revolver and I took it from him and locked it up. Mv own revolver was in my valise and this he used to shoot himself.” George W. Teasdale. an intimate friend of the dead man. said: “Mr. Hoffmeistcr’s accounts w r ere in vestigated by the Supreme Council re cently and were found to be in good shape.” After hearing the testimony of Messrs. Ackley and Teasdale and S. I. Barnard, the coroner rendered a verdict of sui cide. IN MEMOBY OF OEN LEE The Great Chieftain’s Birthday Celebrated An Address by Montague (By the Associated Press.) Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 20.—Governor A. J. Montague, of Virginia, was the guest of honor tonight at the Virginia Society’s annual celebration of Lee’s birthday. The Governor and his party arrived early in the day over the Southern from Rich mond. At 10 o’clock they were given a reception by Governor Candler at the State House, and were the guests during the afternoon at a social function at the residence of W. N. Mitchell, President of the Virginia Society. Tonight Governor Montague delivered an address on General Lee, which was followed by a banquet. The speakers at this concluding event, of the celebration were Governor Candler, Mayor Mims, of Atlanta; Bishop Kcilley, of Savannah; Hpn. Clark Howell and Frank H. Rich ardson. No Overtures For Peace by Boers. London. Jan. 20- —The Colonial Secre tary, Mr. Chamberlain, in the House of Commons this afternoon said there was no foundation for the reports that over j lures for peace in South Africa has been made by the Boer envoys. I Arrangements for i-omsolidattug lli<- I i.et and twine mills of the country arc peatiug completion. THEY CELEBRATE LEE'S NATAL DAY Memory of South’s Great Chieftain Honored. A BANQUET AT NEW YORK Daughter of General Lee and Mrs. Davis Present. LETTER OF REGRET FROM THE PRESIDENT ■ ■'» ■■■■— The Barquit is Given by the ConfdTate Ve erans Camp of New Yotk. The Day is Fittingly Celebrated in A lan'a. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Jan. 20.—The twelfth annual banquet of the Confederate Veterans Camp of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria tonight was attended by over 500 per sons, half the number being women. As the. banquet was given in honor of the memory of General Robert E. Lee. the presence of his daughter, Miss May Cus tis Lee, lent additional interest to the occasion. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the President of the Southern Confed eracy was there, too, as w'cll as many oth er representatives of Southern society. Mrs. Davis occupied the table directly in front of that, at which the guests wear seated and when, before the toasts were given. Commander Owen introduced her, the entire company arose and gave her an ovation. The oratory was enlivened by song?, by Miss Elizabeth Brinsmade, formerly of New Orleans, and C. J. Busbnell, a violin solo by Miss Fannie Marks, of Alabama, accompanied on the piano by Miss Irma Rcgg, of Texas, and a recitation by Miss Marian Childers, formerly of Texas. President Roosevelt sen* a letter ad dressed in Colonel O’Chiltree which lead: “It was once my good fortune to speak to the Southern society in New York end I enjoyed it so much that 1 wish it were now possible tc be present at the icunion of the Confederate Camp: but I find it to be utterly out or the ouestion. It is a double regret to have to refuse you as well as to lose the pleasure or being present at the camp. Give my most cordial good wishes td the members of the camp and their guests: and be lieve me. hoping that the union may be most successful.” Commander Owen, who was toast i aster, was the recipient of a badge, ,lobn 3. Wise, presenting it in the name 'of the New York Camp, \ddresses were male on the "Uncrowned Heroes of the Confederacy.” by James Lindsay Gordon end “South' in Ideals” bv Raluh H. Hol land, President of the Kappa Alpha Fra ternity. THE SHIPPING DEALS Efforts of Companies to Com bine to Raise the Rates on Freights. 1 Q U I I I If II confinement. Cur- gnaran- Ii I 111 lill tted or po pav. 11. It VKAL. jj J II > IHI Mnn’gr China springs .-•an tarium. Bex 3 Aisuil S? ANNUAL REPORT To the North Carolina Corporation Com missioners of the Columbian Building and Loan Association OF RICHMOND, VA. ASSETS. Loans on bond and mortgage (face value) •••••$ 82,500.00 ♦Real Estate, forclosure... .* 21,849.19 Cash on hand and in bank 88.00 Taxes advanced borrower 195.38 Insurance a 1 0.22 Advance on stock 10,268.38 Call loans 9,100.00 Interest due on loans 1,366.50 Premiums due on loans 1,366.50 Bills receivable 1a,481.72 Amounts 4.4.33 Total $143,263.22 'How acquired, foreclosure or pur chase? LIABILITIES. Due shareholders due install ments paid $ 67,165.00 Surplus 27,798.79 Due-on prepaid “C” 44,791.00 Accounts 3,508.43 Total $143,263.22 REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1901- RECEIPTS. Subscriptions on shares $ 87,202.30 “Paid up,” "prepaid” or “part paid” stock 44,(91.00 Premiums received 1,228.75 Interest received 1,228.75 Fines received 191.50 Other receipts in detail, viz: Interest on stock advances 2,344.14 Accounts 35,409.06 Rcnt» on R. E 536.82 Total $172,932.32 DISBURSEMENTS. Local Treas. Com $ 192.83 Local and other securities, mortgages 82,500.00 Paid on withdrawals, dues 19,015.00 Paid on withdrawals, dividends. 4,945.17 Salaries 2,305.00 Advertising and printing 13.75 Rent and stamps 458.41 Other disbursements, in detail. Stock Adva 10,268.38 Bills received 15,481.72 Insurance on R. E 54.15 Taxes on R. E 580.60 Call loans 9,100.00 License tax 226.22 Real Estate 21,849.19 Insurance advance —. ■ 570.22 Accounts 5,283.68 Cash on hand 88.00 Total ....' $172,932.32 Amount of authorized capital.sl,ooo,ooo.oo Par value of each share 100.00 Number of shares in force during the year (A.l 1,951 Number of shares in force 1 During the year (C.) 953 Number of shares in force at the end of the year 2,904 In conformity with the law, 1 hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the sworn statement of the Colombian Building and Loan Association. Rich mond, Va., on December 31st-, 1901, now on file in the office of the North Carolina i Corporation Commission. This tire 20th day of January, 1902- FRANKLIN M ’ N EILL», ! Chairman. • H. C, BROWN, Clerk. Seaboard AirLineßv “CAPITAL CITY ROUTE.” Short Line to principal cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba, Texas, California and Mexico, reaching the Capitals of six States. IN EFFECT DECEMBER 1, 1901. SOUTHWARD Dailv. Daily. No. 31. No. 27. Lv. Raleigh, S. A. L 3:32 am 7:36 pm Ar. llanilet, S. A. L 6:20 am 10:25 am Arrive Columbia, S. A. L... 8:35 am 1:00 am Ar. Savannah, S. A. L 12:05 pin 4:40 am Ar. Jacksonville, S. A. L... 3:50 pm 9:05 am Ar. Tampa, S. A. L 5:09 am 5:04 pni No. 33 No. 41 Lv. Raleigh, S. A. L 2:50 am 3:55 pm Ar. Hamlet, S. A. L 5:55 am 7:30 pm Ar. Wilmington, S. A. L.. 12:05 pin Ar. Charlotte. S. A. L 9:23 am 10:30 pm Ar. Atlanta, S. A. L 3:55 pin 7:50 am Ar. Augusta, C. & W. C.... 5:40 pm Ar. Macon. C. of Ga 7:20 pm 11:20 am Ar. Montg’rv, A. &W. P... 9:20 pm 6:30 pm Ar. Mobile, L. & N 2:55 am ...» Ar. N. Orleans, L. & N 7:25 am Ar. Nashville, N. C. & St. L 3:00 am 6:55 pm Ar. Memphis. N. C. &S. L. 4:10 pm 8:25 am NORTHWARD. Daily. Daily. N. 32 No. 38. Lv. Raleigh, S. A. 1 2:05 am 11:05 am Ar Norlina, S. A, L 8:50 am 1:05 pm Ar. Portsmouth, S. A. 1,.... 7:15 am 5:25 pin Ar. Washt’n, N. & W. S. B 6:55 am Ar. Baltimore, B. S. P. C 6:45 am Ar. N. Y., O. D. S. S. Co 1:30 pm Ar. l’liila, N. Y. P. & N.. 5:46 pm 510 am Ar. N. York, N. Y. P. &N. 8:15 pm 8:00 am No. 34. No. 66. Lv. Raleigh, S. A. L 1:35 am 10:20ara Ar. Norlina, S. A. L 3:30 am 11:55 am Ar. Richmond, S. A. L 6:35 am 3:o6pm Ar. Washington, P. R. R... 10:10 am 6:35 pm Ar. Baltimore, P. R. It 11:25 am 11:25 pm Ar. Philadelphia, P. R. R... 1:36 pm 2:56 am Ar. New York, P. R, R 4:13 pm 6:30 am Note—a Daily except Monday. b—Eastern Time. Connections at Jacksonville and Tampa, for all Florida East Coast points, and Cuba and Porto Ri\o. At New Orleans, for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. SLEEPING CAR SERVICE. Nos. 31 and 3*—Florida and Metropolitan Lim ited. Drawing Room Sleeping, and Through Day Coaches between New York and Jacksonville. Through Drawing Room Buffet Sleeping I’ars be tween New York and Atlanta. Nos. 31 and 34, 32 and 33 carry Case Cars be tween Hamlet and Savannah, Hamlet and Athens. Nos. 27 and 66—Florida and Atlanta Fast Mail. Through Drawing Room Buffet Sleeping Cars be tween New York and acksonville, connecting at Hamlet with Sleeping Car to and from Atlanta. Tickets on sale to all points. Pullman Berths Reserved and reservations made on outgoing steamers from Norfolk. Baggage cheeked from hotel and residences without extra charge at Up-Town Ticket Office, Tarboro House Building. C. H. GATTIB, C. T and P. A. Bell, Raleigh and Interstate ’Phones, 117. 11. S. LEARD, T. R. A., Raleigh, N. C. R. E. L. BUNCH, Gen. Pass. Agt., Portsmouth, Virginia. JAMES M. BARR, First Vice-President and Atlantic Coast Line R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. DATED ** .1-2 • 3'"* c . 3 . Dec. 22nd, 1901. c -~ o- 5 6 75 *a, 55ft Isr. Q(2 sec sec |A.M.|P. M.IP. M.jA.M.|P. M. Leave Weldon 11l 50J 0 38! | ] Ar. Rocky Sit ! 1 00110 32 | I IP-M.|_ | J Leave Taroro 112 22| | 7 22| 1 T.v. Roekv Mt I 1 05|10 021 7 52] 5 45112 52 l eave Wilson 1 5911 1«| 8 31; 6 2*l| 2 40 Leave Selm.i j 2 I>s| 1T 59 !•*•••! Lv. Fayetteville 1 4 30| 1 121 j j Ar. Florence ’ 7 35| 3 15] ! | |P. M.|A.M.| Vr. Goldsboro ] ! ! 9 20]..... |...,.. Lv. Goldsboro 1 1 7 SO 3 h> Lv. Magnolia ..... I 8 371 4 2» Ar. Wilmington j ! 1 iW ]o| 6 **o I I ] P M.|A.M. jP. M. TRAINS GOING NORTH. ]aTm~ IP.M-I J g .. g '? % £.Jo\- £ o’’3 ©’s = ©sl © 3 ,2 2 seSseCx seClsea seC Lv. Florence *lO 05] [8 M j Lv. Fayetteville .... 12 40; jl9 09] Leave Selma j 2 10 11 ’-•»] ! Arrive Wilson ! 2 -x * - 07] I 1A.M.7 |P. M.jA.M. Lv. Wilmington ! 11 jJW » W Lv. Magnolia | ••••;! ] » * Lv. Goldsboro ■ I 7 1 9 o7|L2 20 IpTm.l ]A.M.IP. M.*P. M. Leave Wilson *.l 2 !!3i 8 20 11 :*i l 0 451 1 IS Ar. Rocky Mt ] 3 50 , 9 00] 12 10,11 23) 1 53 Arrive Tarboro !•••••) 9 34 ! Leave Tarboro i - :; lj j Lv. Rocky Mt 3 501 |l2 431 ! Ar. Weldon 4 53] ] 13( \ ; Yadkin Division Main Line—Train leaves Wil mington, 9:10 a. in., arrives Fayetteville 12:20 j>. m „ leaves Fayetteville 12:42 p. in., arrives San ford 1:58 p. Hi. Returning leaves Sanford p. m., arrive Fayetteville 4:20 p. m., leave Fay etteville 4:30 p. ni., arrives Wilmington 7:la 1 Benneitsville Branch—Train leaves Bennettsviile 8:10 a. m., Maxton 9:05 a. in.. Red Springs 9:32 a. in., Park ton 10:41 a. m., Hope Mills 10:5.) a. m., arrive Fayetteville 4:45 p. in., Hope Mills 5:00 p. m. Red Springs 5:43 p. in., Maxton 6:10 p. in., arrives Bennettsviile 7:15 p. m. Connections at Fayetteville with trajn No. 7S at Maxton with Carolina Central Railroad, at Red Springs with the Red Springs and Bmvinore Railroad, at Sanford with the Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway, at Gulf with Durham and Charlotte Railroad. Train on the Scotland Neck Branch Road leaves Weldon 3:15 p. rn., Halifax 3:29 p. m., arrives Scotland Neck at 4:10 p. in., Greenville 6:47 p. m. Kinston 6:45 p. in. Returning leaves Kin ston 7:30 a. in., Greenville 8:30 a. in., arriving Halifav at 11:05 a. m., Weldon 11:20 a. m., daily except Sunday. . Trains on Washington Branch leave, W ashington 8:00 a. in. and 2:45 p. m., arrive Parmele 8:5.> a. in., and 4:10 p. m.. returning leave Parmele 11:10 u. in. and 5:22 p. m., arrive Washington 12:30 a. in. and 6:15 p. m„ daily except Sunday. Train leaves Tarboro, N. C., daily except Sun dav 4:35 p. in., Sunday 4:35 p. in., arrives Ply mouth 6:35 p. m., 6:30 p. m. Returning leaves Plymouth daily except Sunday. 7:30 a. in., and Sunday 9:00 a. m., arrives Tarboro 9:oa a. m., 11:00 'a. in. , ~, , Train on Midland N. C. Branch leaves Golds boro daily, except Sunday, 5:00 a. m., arriving Smitlilield 6:10 a. m. Returning leaves Sindh field 7-00 a. m., arrives at Goldsboro »:2,» a. m, Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky Mount at 9:30 a. rn., 4:00 p. m., arrive Nashville tu..:u a. rn., 4:23 p. ni., Spring Hope 11:00 a. m., 4:15 n. m. Returning leave Spring Hope 11:20 a. in., 5-15 p. m., Nashville 11:45 a. in., 5:45 p. in., arrive at Rocky Mount 12:10 p. in., 6:20 p. m„ daily except Sunday. Train on Clinton Blanch leaves Warsaw for Clinton daily, except Sunday, 11:0* a. in. and 4:15 p. ni. Returning leaves Clinton at 6:4.) a. in. and 2:50 p. ni. Train No. 78 makes close connection at Weldon for all points North daily all rail via Richmond. * H. M. EMERSON, General Passenger Agent. J. R. KKNLY. General Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. SPECIAL HATES VIA SEABOARD Alit LINE RAILWAY. Five dollars to Charlotte. N. CJ„ and re turn, account Fifth Annual Poultry Show. January 7-10. Tlckcta to bo sold Janu ary G, 7, 8 and 9, final return limit January 11. C. H. GATTIS, C. V. & T. A.. Yarborough House, Raleigh, N. C,