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iu a play presented
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lv
1 amateurs in Pittsburg, a
;' that eitj-, John Singleton
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i Uit-y Brown. The scene was
it faithful ly and aroused loud
which was turned into lanien-
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titi 'ii wiicii it was discovered that
N'l-'VtiTi whs really dead. The pistol
I'tvwn r.r-cil. which was supposed to be
leaded with blank cartridges, oarried a
real bu'.'et iu.-tead.
;reat Landslide In Vermont.
News has been received at Montpeiler,
Vt . ff a
i' laudslide that occurred on
ue ! tu.
m tue mountains near Lin-
i.le half a mile wide came
de of the mountain, a dis
,l,.wu the
tance ct over half a mile, sweeping off
every tree and movable rock, which
vtiv ji'ed iuto an immense heap of
.!..! ri in the valley below. Several
f:iv::; weve partially covered. It was
. ii ; v a r-hoit distance from the big slide
.bat secured June 8, 182t.
W. H. GAITHER,
ATTCRMEY-AT-LAW,
NEW' Of, - - - N. C.
J. E. THORNTON,
Keeps constantly
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on hand all
Also a vari
ety
o! bitnal robes.
NEWTON, N. C.
J. R. CAMPBELL, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
NEWTON, N. C.
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e neoj
!c of Newton and Catawba
LITTLE,
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Siirz-i : .t rout ion Given to all kinds of
("!"-ii,in. Oilice in l'ount & Shrum
hi;ii!iiig up utairs.
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M iiiv n.-v HiKviali icfl offered this yar
i r !; tirst time ns well as the standard
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fifi'-r Ii in Professional services to the
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in tli" punt, hopes to merit a con-
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Kivi'ii to diseases of women and children.
;i( residence.
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TLe intense itching and smarting inci.
Vnt to eczema, letter, salt-rheum, and other
'!i'n- s of the skin is instantly allayed by
n
lympT Chamberlains Lye and bkm
'r.'iei.t. Many very bad cases have been
ninnently cured by it. It is equally
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('T sore ninnies: chanced hands, chil-
I i'lin-:, frost hi'es, and chronic sore eyes.
l "r Nile hy druggisU at 25 cents per box.
Try Dr. Cady's Conditio-. Powders, thev
re just what a horse tieeilswhcn in had condi
h"ii. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge.
i nr S-iIebv T. R. Abemetliy.-
Ernest L. Moore,
FnfeaMc Earlier and Hair Eresser
MAVTON, N. C.
I ! keeps a First class Tonsorial Parlor
wlif-re you will always find clean towels
find sharp razors, and a polite and afc-
b-iitive barber,
l-very one coming to Newton desiring
J thing in the Tonsorial Art will be
passed after they call on me, for I always
!'iiue an my customers.
Y fiKN'TS WANTED For War in Cuba,
hy Senor Onesnda. Cnban renresen-
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st Washington. Endorsed by
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A Immrizii for agents. Only $1.50. Big
'""ik, t.ijr coinmissions. Everybody
AMiit the only endorsed, reluible book
di iitH freo. Credit triveii. Freight paid.
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J. B,
NORTH CAROLINA
mm
Why Popular Education Has Failed
in This State.
BY SUPT. LOGAN D. HOWELL,
Of Raleigh, Before the University
Summer School The Cost of Edu
cation, Etc.
The following is a brief synopsis of a
paper read before the University Sum
mer School by Superintendent Logan
D. Howell, of Tialfiio-b
lar Education Has Failed in North
Carolina:"
In considering the results of popular
education in North Carolina, -we must
compare this State with all others in
the Union. One of the results of edu
cation is -wealth. Judged by this stand-
aid education in North Carolina has
lamentably fa;led. For with the ex
ceptions of South Carolina and Mis
sissippi there is less wealth ner canita
in North Carolina than anywhere else
in the Union. But South Carolina and
Mississippi have over half their popu
latton black. North Carolina one-third
only.
But the first object of education is to
remove illiteracy. Judged by this
standard our popular education has
been an ignominious failure. In fact
there is no popular education here.
i or the people are not educated. More
than a third of those over ten years
oi age cannot reaa or write. Uur con
dition is worse than that of any other
htate or territory except six, namelv
Louisiana, South Carolina, New Mex
ico, Alabama, Mississippi and Georsria.
But all these States except New Mexico
nave a larger per cent, of nejrro popula
tion than North Carolina. Virginia
ana j? lonaa also liave a Iarprer per oent.
of negro population than North Caro
lina, yet their illiteracy is less than
ours.
These facts are unpleasant to admit.
but the most humiliating is this, that
our State was nearer being the most
illiterate in 18i)0 than it had been
in 1870. It is true the whole
amount of illiteracy was somewhat
reauceu. isut we nave been more
laggard than other Southern States.
Florida which has nearly half its popu
lation black has gone by us, so that
whereas in 1870 we ranked 8th in illit
eracy, in 1890 we ranked 7th. At this
rate it is only a question of time when
North Carolina, the other States having
educated their children, will be the
home of the most illiterate people in
the American Union. Shall we let this
come to pass?
Already it is the home of the most il
literate white people in the United
States except in the Territory of New
Mexico. Our State ranks worse in il
literacy when we compare the white
people of the different States than we
count the negroes. This does not mean
that the white people of North Carolina
are more illiterate than the negroes. It
does mean that the white people of
North Carolina are the most ignorant
of all the white people in the United
States except in New Mexico, and that
the negroes of North Carolina have
more education than the negroes of
several other States.
About one white person out of every
four in North Carolina cannot read; to
be exact, the illiteracy is twenty-three
per cent. The enormity of this appears
when we consider other States. Massa
chusetts and Nebraska have less than
one per cent, of illiteracy among their
native white population. There are
seventeen States with less than two per
cent. Counting the District of Colum
bia and excluding the Indian Territory
and Alaska there are forty-nine States
and Territories. There are thirty-seven
of these that have only half as much
illiteracy among their native white
population as Aorth (jarolina. mother
words the white people of North Caro
lina are twice as illiterate as the white
people almost anywhere else in the
Union, including the htates of Mary
land, Delaware, Missouri, Arizona,
Texas, Florida, Misrissippi and West
Virginia We have more illiterate white
persons than South Carolina and
Georgia combined, more than Alabama
and Mississippi, more than Louisiana
and Texas, whose combined white pop
ulation is twice as great as North Caro
lina's. Delaware, Maryland, District
of Columbia, Virginia and Florida, to
gether, fall short of North Carolina's
number of white illiterates, but their
aggregate native white population is
over twice as erreat.
The cause of this large per cent, of
illiteracy is seen when we compare the
scnool terms of other States with North
Carolina. The report of the United
States Commissioner of education for
1S94 and 1895, gives the average length
of terms of the public scho Is of the
United States, one hundred and forty-
one days, or over seven months. North
Carolina's is tha shortest term of all,
sixty-three days. For twenty years we
have been struggling in vain to teach
four months in the year. All the other
States except South Carolina, Alabama
and Oklahoma, have more than a four
months' term. The school terms in
New Jersey, Pdiode Island, Massachu
setts. Marvland, District of Columbia
and Connecticut are three times as long
as ours. There are thirteen States that
have an eight months' term or longer,
twenty-four States that have a seven
months' term or longer, thirty-one
States that have a six months' term or
longer, this includes Virginia, Arkan
sas. mcl JVentucKv: mere are iony-oue
States (all but eighty that have five
months' term or longer, this includes
Georsria. Louisiana, Mississippi, West
Virginia, Texas and Florida.
Our position a-nong the sisterhood of
States is then this: m per cent of llliter
acv of the whole population, seventh;
in per cent of illiteracy of the natiye
-tihite. oeonle. second: in length of
;hool term, fortv-ninth; in amount ex
pended for each pupil, forty-eight; in
amount of tax m proportion to wealth,
forty-third; in salaries paid teachers,
fnrtv-ninth.
There can be only one excuse for
cthVi & condition enormous taxes for
thin ars. But taxes in North Caro
lina are not enormous. They are less
than anvwhere else in the Union, ex
cept in Nevada and Idaho. The tax
rate for all purposes in North Carolina
is something over half the average for
h United States.
There is no pleasure in making pub
f s:ic.h humiliating facts about our
State except for the hope that they
mr arouse to action. For these con
ditions exist, and North Carolina must
face them. Shutting our eyes to them
will not remove them; denying them
will not change them. But having
seen the cause of onr failure, we ought
to know how to make our public schools
a success.
Nearly half the school population did
not go inside of a school last year. But
what was done by the other half? Little
more than lear the A, B, C's. Not half
the children studied arithmetic. The av
erage -white teacher in North Carolina
enrolls during the three men the she
teaches, forty-one children. But their
attendance is irregular, and if we should
visit her school on an average day, we
should find twenty-eight pupils present,
only thirteen of these far enough ad
vanced to study arithmetic, only seven
geography, four in grammar and two
in United States history.
-Let us see what it costs to educate
children in the different States. The
average for the United States is $18.98
a year for each child. We spend upon
each child only 3. 40 a year. This is
less than any other State, except South
Carolina, which speuds 3.29. The
wealth of Massachusetts is five times as
gieat as North Carolina's, but Massa
chusetts spends for each child at school
about ten times as much as we, $33.98.
Seven Southern States spend for the
education of their children twice as
much as we do: New Mexico, Florida,
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas
and Arkansas.
Our State tax is already one of the
largest, only six other States having a
heavier one. But when we come to
count the local taxes and the general
tax North Carolina drops to the lowest
of all but six.
There are objections that local taxa
tion may suit Maine, but it will not
suit our condition as an agricultural
people. We hear men saying that good
schools cannot be maintained among a
population so scattered as ours. Local
taxation is not peculiar to the North or
to cities. Kansas and- Nebraska are
great farming States and settled only
about half as thickly as JNortn Carolina.
Kansas has no State tax and Nebraska
only three-tenths of a cent, but by local
taxes Kansas beeps its schools open six
months in the year and Nebraska
seven. Arkansas is not as densely set
tled as North Carolina. Its tax rate
for schools is two and a half times as
great as ours, and two-thirds of it
comes from local taxes. Arkansas'
school term is nearly twice as long as
ours.
None of the following States are so
thickly settled as North Carolina and
they raise all or nearly all their
school funds by local taxes, and all
have an average school term of from
five to eight months: North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming,
Wisconsin. Minnesota, Florid, Louis
iana.
Compared with other States south
and west North Carolina is well popu
ulated. Scarcity of population cannot
excuse our illiterate condition.
JNor can we pleau the negro as an
excuse. Seven States (South Carolina,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Flor
ida, Virginia, Alabama) have a larger
share of negro population than N orth
Carolina, and they all have a larger
school term than ours, and all but Ala
bama have a heavier school tax. Geor
gia has 300,000 more negroes than
North Carolina aud a school term ten
weeks longer. Virginia has 75,000
more negroes than North Carolina and
a school term twice as Ions' and a
school tax nearly twice as great as oura.
Public School Election, Aug. lO
By act of the General Assembly an
election will be held in every township
in North Carolina in which there is
jocal taxation for school purposes, Tues
day, August 10. for the purpose of
lm
proving the public schools by
taxation.
local
The State of North Carolina has ap
propriated 850,000 out of the general
fund to be apportioned among the
townships voting in favor of local tax
ation. If a township votes a tax of 10
cents on the 3100 worth of property and
30 cents on the poll, and thus raises
500 in addition to the usual school
fund, the State will add 8500 more
making the extra amount added to the
school fund in the township SI, 000. If
the township raises $300, the State will
cive &300. If it raises over $500, the
State will add $500.
Any township that votes for local tax
ation will, therefore, be sure to have
first-class public schools.
Col. J. S. Carr. of Durham, has
promised to give $-500 to the school
fund of the county that votes the largest
per cent, of its votes for local taxation.
Let all strive to get this bounty.
Bemember the day, August 10. Be
at the voting place and bring your
ighbors. To stay away will be equal
to voting against this plan to feet good
schools for only a small expense. J.he
tax of ten cents on the $100 is only one
dollar on a thousand or five dollars on
five thousand. Surely every citizen
will see that thus the best schools can
be obtained cheaper than any other
way.
J. W. XSAlJjEX,
Hugh Mokson,
L. D. Howell,
". H. Mebaxe,
D. H. Hxlii,
Committee.
V B. Those desiring literature for
information or to distribute, send to J.
W. Bailey, Chairman, Baleigh, N. C.
TO WITHHOLD UrSKAT.
State Organization PropSd In Ken
tucky to Bring About Higher Prices .
Kentucky wheat growers met at
Lexington to take steps toward with
holding their present crop of wheat
from the market until the higher prices
which they expect to become a ceitain
ty. Millers are paying 62 cents for
new wheat, and the farmers think
the price will be at least 75 in less than
a month. John B. Kennedy, of Bour
bon county, was made chairman, and
William Steele, of Woodford, secretary.
A paper on the production and
price of wheat sent by J. T. Flynn, cS
Chicago, was read. He insists that
there is not a surplus of wheat, and the
price will certainly go up between now
and fall.
Col. Tobias Gibson, of Woodford, made
a long speech urging the farmers to get
together and form a state association
and protect themselves from the manip
ulators of the speculators. He offered
the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted:
"That the farmers of the counties of
the State be recommended to form far
mers' associations at their county seats,
with a view to ultimately forming a
State organization to which the county
organizations are to be subordinate.
Lexington, Ky., Dispatch, 12th.
BODY FOUND TIED TO BUSHES
Young
Tennessee Girl Murdered
Near Her Own Home.
At West Point, Tenn., Miss Rene
Williams, a young girl, sister of David
W iltiamq n. tAleeranh operator, was
found murdered and tied to a bush.
hnrriblv mangled and had
been dead several hours.
She left home to pick berries, and
fttilinor tn return, friends went in search
for her. They found her dead body
aud immediately searching parties were
formd to look for the murderer.
Ther a is little doubt that the mur-
tHII h canffht. is the whole sec
tion of country is I eing scoured by
armed bodies of men Vth bloodhounds.
South Carolina S. S. Association to
Be Held at Camden.
IRST REGIMENT ENCAMPMENT.
Goes to Korea as a Missionary Va
cancies at Wlnthrop Anderson's
Growth Other Squibs.
Here is the official call for the annual
convention of the South Carolina Sun
day School Association, which is to ba
held in Camden this year, August 24th
to 26th:
The program for the State Sunday
School convention is now being propos
ed and will be published in a few
days. It is expected that some promi
nent Sunday school workers from
abroad will be present this year and
practical, helpful meeting is hoped
for.
Let no active Sunday school work
er, whether omcer teacner or pastor,
who desires to improve himself and
his school, miss this occasion.
The people of Camden are mating
arrangements for loyally entertaining
the convention.
Let every delegate and worker ex
pecting to attend notify Mr. C. W.
Birchmore as soon as possible.
Beduced rates on the railroads will
be promulgated from junctional stations
in ample tune.
County statistical secretaries are
urged to at once proceed to perfect
their statistical reports ana lorwara
to Prof. B. O. Sams, State Secretary,
at Gaffney, S. 0.
County treasurers will also lorwara
to the State convention treasurer,
Kev. W, L Herbert, at Florence, S.
C. , any funds due on pledges, etc.
The county vice-presidents will please
see that the county convention is ar
ranged for, a practical, helpful pro
gramme prepared and assist in every
possible way to mate it a success.
Also let every county president prepare
and forward to the undersigned or
bring to the convention a report of the
condition of the organized work in his
county.
"Organization" will be one of the
principal topics for discussion at the
approaching meeting.
Fraternally,
Chas. H. Oablislb.
Chairman Executive Committee, South
Carolina Sunday School Association,
Spartan burg, S. C.
Great preparations are being made
for the encampment of the 1st regiment
of State Volunteer troops to be held at
Orangeburg for one week, beginning
August 2(5. All the commands of the
regiment are expected to be in camp,
and commands from all over the State
are invited to be on hand also. It is
understood that the Governor's Guards,
of Columbia, are endeavoring to make
arrangements to attend the encanin
ment. Adj't General Watts has asked
the war department to detail one com
missioned and two non-commisdioned
officers to attend this encampment, and
instruct the soldiers. This request, if
granted, will put two commissioned
army officers in charge of the encamp
ment. Lieutenant Stokes being al
ready detailed for that service. Gen.
Watt3 will very shortly forward to
Orangeburg all of the tents that will be
necessary for the encampment. He is
confident alao of securing a cent a mile
rate for the commands attending the
encampment.
Grand Master Barron, of Columbia,
assisted by the Masons of Spartanburg
City and County, laid the corner stone
of the new Spartanburg graded school
building, with appropriate ceremonies.
He used the silver trowel made ior
Lafayette, which Lafayette used in
laying the corner stone of the De Kalb
monument in Camden in 1825. That
is now the property of the grand lodge
of the State. After the ceremonies Mr.
Barron made a short address, explain
ing that Masonary was not in conflict
with anything, or any order that
sought to make humanity better and
nobler.
Dr. Mattie B. Ingold, of Rock Hill,
expects to set sail from San Francisco
on August 5, bound for Korea, whither
she goes as a foreign missionary, being
sent out by the executive committee of
the foreign mission department of the
Southern Presbyterian church. She
has been under appointment for this
work for about six years and has been
spending that time in thoroughly fit
ting herself for the important and diffi
cult work which she is to undertake.
The following scholarships are vacant
at this time at the Winthrop College,
for women: Aiken 2, Beaufort 1,
Clarendon 1, Charleston 1, Cherokee 2,
Colleton 2. Georgetown 1. Greenville 1,
Greenwood 2, Lancaster 1, Laurens 1,
Marion 2. Newberrv 2. Oconee 1, Rich
land 1, Spartanburg 1, York 1. They
are to be filled by competitive examina
tion on Aug. 18th.
The assessed value of the property of
Anderson county, exclusive of railroad
property, as shown by the auditor s
books, is se,45l,448, an increase of
$220,000 over last year. The assessed
value of all property will approximate
$7,000,000. ,
The Congressional campaign for Mc
Laurin shoes is now on in the Sixth
District. The candidotes are J. M.
Johnson, L. S. Bigham, J. E. Ellerbe,
D. W. McLaurm and Jr. D. Bryant.
The election of the new county of
Edisto has been ordered for Aug. 18.
The Pythians of Charleston expect to
celebrate New Year's Day. 1898, in
their castle halL
J. C. Hunter has captured the post-
office at Union. He is a Lilly White
Republican.
The Secretary of State has granted
a charter to the Carolina Tobacco
Warehouse Company, of Darling
ton.
Newberry's electric light and water
works plants are n earing completion.
The State Board of Pensions is rap
idly getting everything in readiness
for the payment of the State's pension
ers. Abbeville's list has already been
approved.
The Southern railroad is going to
test the power of the city of Columbia
to make it open ways for streets under
or over its tracks a right which the
city has maintained.
Sheriff D. J. Bradham, of Clarendon
county, has withdrawn from the Con
gressional race in the Sixth district.
Failing health is the cause.
NEWS ITEMS.
Sonthcrn FNsncll Pointers.
Mrs. W. J. Cocke, of Asheville, N.
C, committed suicide white tempo
rarily insane.
Richmond, Va. , wants the next con
vention of the Baptist Young People's
Union.
Emanuel Riclt, a prominent Atlanta
merchant, committed suicide by cutting
bis throat.
The struggle over the proposed Ten
nessee constitufaonai convention has
opened up vigorously.
At Charlotte, N. (J., John Austin,
aged 10, kills Eeli Caton, aged 12;
both white.
The Inter-State Cot tonseed Crushers'
Association met atv Nashville, Tenn.,
and organized.
The erection of a) twenty-ton cotton
seed oil mill will bel'comnienced at La-
Tma, Ga., at once
At Martinsville, Fa. , Wade Lester,
charged with the murder of young
Davis, by poisoning," was acquitted.
An ordinance to proliibit persons from
spitting in street cars has been passed
by the Charleston, (S. C. ) city council.
Miss Mattie R. Tyler, grand-daughter
of the former President of . the United
States, has been appointed postmaster
at Courtland, Va.
Wiley Barlow, who was arrested at
Mt Airy suspected" yof being the party
who shot Mrs. Springs at Lexington,
N. C. , proved to be the wrong man.
A lady on a train of the Georgia rail
road was fatally injured by a piece of
piping falling through a window of the
coach and striking her on the head.
An unknown Negro man was found
leaning against a tree on the farm of
Hon. D. E. Finley, about two miles
from Bock Hill, S. CL, dead. He was
evidently killed by lightning.
George W. Fremont, a colored law
yer of Alexandria, Va , was convicted
in New York City for fraudulent ob
taining money for the Fremont Poly
technic School in Alexandria, an insti
tution which has no existence.
A. J. Carmichael, a Georgia convict
has sued the Georgia Penitentiary
Company for $20,000. Under threat of
being whipped he was made to wort in
danger, and was mangled by a rock,
is his claim in the petition for the
above amount.
All About the North.
Saginaw, Mich. , is in the throes of
street car sttike.
Three thousand troops were in inter-
State camp at San Antonio, Texas.
Women are getting $2 a day for driv
ing teams in the harvest fields of Cow
ley county, Kan.
John Addison, a famous horse thief,
was shot by pursuers, after a hard
fight, west of Dallas, Tex.
Frank McLaughlin, proprietor of the
Philadelphia Times, died of rheuma
tism and gout at his residence in Phila
delphia.
At Chandler, O. T., Miss Grace Allen
is under arrest, charged with poisoning
Miss Phronie Eches and her mother.
Jealousy was the cause.
Clearly acquitted of assaulting Min
nie Latta, a girl, John Sims, an aged
man. of Dutch Mills, Ark., was shot
and killed by the girl's brother.
The next conference of the Epworth
League will be held in Indianapolis,
Ind. , and the next session of the -bap
tist Young People's Union at Buffalo,
N. Y.
R. C. Hevdlauff, ex-engrossing clerk
of the Wisconsin Senate, who has fig
ured in a sensational forgery case at
Ashland, committed suicide by shoot
ing.
John P. Lovell, founder of the J ohn
. Lovell Arms Company, of Boston,
Mass. . has been stricken with paralysis
at Cottage City and is in a critical con
dition.
In a fire in Jearsey City, N. J.
children were suffocated and a man be
came insane and tried to prevent the
rescue of his family. Policemen and
firemen did heroic work in rescuing
people from the burning building.
Miscellaneous.
England is now having the first hot
weather of the year.
Spain will be asked to pay $75,000
for murdering Dr. Ruiz.
An aeronaut is to fly from the sum
mit of Pike s Jfeat to Colorado
Springs.
Twenty thousand delegates attended
the Epworth League at Toronto.
Canada.
The delegates to the Pan-American
congress have concluded their tour of
this country.
The window glass workers, about
6,650 persons, will again athliate with
the Knights of Labor.
The London Spectator thinks Debs'
movement means a Western Populist
for President in 1900.
The Canadian Alien Labor law will
be strictly enforced against workmen
from the United btates.
On the 19th Consul General Lee vis
ited the jail at Havana, Cuba, and dis
tributed money to naturalized Ameri
can prisoners.
Turkey has issued an ultimatum to
Persia demanding the withdrawal of
cartain Persian troops from Turkish
territory.
A Havana, Cuba, newspaper makes
a vicious, but absurd, attack on Consul
General Lee on account of his report
in the Ruiz case.
The official statement of the Bank of
Spain shows a note circulation of $27,
000.000 in excess of the authorized
issue, and has increased the adverse
coiiment on Spain's finances.
Floods caused by the heavy rain of
the past few days have done great dam
age in the southern part of Quebec
Many people are homeless and much
damage has been done to early crops.
It is said that Mrs. Lease gives warn
ing at this early day that she will not
support Mr. Bryan for President in
1900 unless he positively agrees to make
free silver the leading plank in his
platform.
Washington Gossip.
A Washington dispatch save that
France and England contemplate the
completion of the Panama CanaL '
Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
has introduced a bill to make every post
office a savings bant.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Terence V. Pow
derly, of Pennsylvania, to be Commis
sioner General cf Tmmmigration.
There is definite talk of accepting the
Pacific Railway's Reorganization Com
mittee's offer of $28,500,000 in settle
ment with, the Government.
II
EEKLYCOMHERGlALRtPORT
he
Miners' Strike the Only Hin
drance to Better Business.
R. G. DUN & CO'S REPORT.
Crops Helped By Abundant Rains.
Still Large Stodks of Cotton Goods
Accumulated.
R, G. Dun & Co's. report of trade
for the week ending July 17th. says:
cepting the great coal miners' strike,
which may terminate at any time,
there is scarcely a feature of the busi
ness outlook which is not encouraging.
The crop prospects haye been improved
by needed rains, and foreign advices
continue to promise a large demand.
In many home industries, particularly
in building, there is more activity than
in any year since '92. and the week
has brought a better demand in boots
and shoes and in wooelns, whille the
movement of freight, mostly iron oro,
through the Salt Ste Marie Canal,
is the largest in its history. With
the money market unclouded, there is
nothing in sight to hinder rapid im
provement when uncertainty about
legislation has been removed, for the
miners' strike could not last long if
business and industries should become
active. There is now much less appre
hension of a failure of fuel supply than
there was during the first few days,
when prices rapidly advanced. Large
quantities of coal from West Virginia
have reached Northern markets, but
some of the miners in that State have
struck. The advance in wheat to 81
cents was not due to Government esti
mates, which were followed by a de
cline, but to foreign advices, and con
siderable buyinaf for account. Demand
is largely felt from Australia. South
Africa, Brazil and even Argentina,
while the promise for European crops
is not considered bright. The disposi
tion of farmers to teep back wheat for
higher prices may affect the outward
movement, but Atlantic exports during
July, flour included, have been 3,115,-
443 bushels, against 2,953,81. last year,
although in the same weeks 4,659,315
bushels of corn went out against 1,574,-
073 last year. Wheat closed four cents
higher for the week and corn i cent
higher. Cotton is a sixteenth higher,
the closing or partial stoppage of im
portant New England mills hardly neu
tralizing, in the market's estimation,
apprehension of injury from drought.
The cotton goods market does not vet
reduce large accumulated stocks, as the
curtailment of production shows, but
is growing a little more healthy with
out change of prices. Woolens for the
coming season have not been generally
shown, though in some low-priced
goods an advance of 7J per cent, was
asked and presumably will be asked on
better grades. There is rather more
business in re-orders and the tone is
more confident. Speculation in the
wool market continues with prices at
all points stronger, at Boston advanc
ing with signs of a boom among deal
ers, in which manufacturers are tak
ing little part, at current prices, and at
the West, where holdings are looking
for a great advance. Imports at Bos
ton were 28,862 bales in two weeks, and
dealers are said to have brought 100,-
000 baleB more in London. Sales were
10,420.000 pounds at the three markets
for the week, and 24.572,800 in two
weeks, of which 12,607,200 were domes
tic.
The output of iron furnaces July
was 164.064 tons weekly, against 168,
380 June 1. but several furnaces have
gone into blast since June 1. and the
output is large for the season. Presum
ably an unprecedented Bhare of it is tc
supply the great steel companies which
are even now putting more furnaces
into blast, and have heavy orders taken
when prices were dropped, while the
demand, for structural shapes and plates
is large, and for bars improving, though
steel bars are now at the lowest quota
tion ever known in Pittsburg, 87i to 90
cents, with Bessemer pig quoted slight
ly lower.
Failures for the week have been 263
in the United States against 269 last
year, and 27 in Canada against 39 last
year.
MADE A DY1XO STATEMENT.
A Woman Assaulted, Knocked in
the
Head and Thrown on a Bed.
Major Terrell, a negro, criminally
assaulted Mrs. Martin Thomas, a white
woman living in the country, five miles
from Elba, Ala. She was alone in her
house with her six-month's-old boy.
During the assault the woman was
struck on the head and thrown on the
bed beside her sleeping infant. Fagots
of pine wood were then piled around
her by the brute and set fire. The flames
. ill .i. .
attracted, tne attention oi some passers-
by. and thev reached the woman in
time to get her dying statement. The
baby was roasted. JLerreU was arrested
and was being given a preliminary trial
when a mob broke up the court, tooK
him out and hanged him.
STTLIi AJiOTHEB CASK.
A special to the Advertiser, from El
ba, Ala., says: "Mrs. Thompson was
found by her children burned to death.
She was" lying on the floor with all her
clothes burned off and her body charred
except the head. Cotton was stuffed in
her mouth, and some bruises were found
on the head. A negro named Terry,
who worked on the placet was arrested
on suspicion. He admitted staying at
the house until midnight. One report
says a mob took charge of the negro,
but another special from Troy says he
was not lynched. The location is many
miles from the railroad.
The Tariff Bill Agreed On.
The Republican conferees on tile
tariff bill, representing the two houses
of Congress, have agreed upon all the
items of the bilL and the result of the
partisan conference will be submitted
to the Democratic members of the con
ference at the full meeting. Cotton
baa-sins and ties are taxed, the stamp
tax dropped, and the sugar schedule
has been changed quite materially. It
is thought now that an early adjourn
ment of Congress m in sight.
Taxing Municipal Property.
Under a decision by the Attorney
General it is probable that all water
and gas plants and all other forms of
municipal property which pay a reve
nue will hereafter be returned for taxa
tion in Atlanta. Ga.
Will Not Send Women to the Rock
Me.
Women prisoners are not to be put
to work on the rock pile in Kansas
City, Kan- The Board of Police Com
missioners who decided last week that
tViia should be done, have rescinded
their order in deference to public
opinion.
TUELKY APPOINTED.
A Memphis Man Named as the Suc
cessor to Senator Harris.
A dispatch from Johnston City to
the Comnierciel Appeal, says that Gov
ernor Taylor has appointed Thomas B.
Turley, of Memphis, United States
Senator, to succeed the late Senator
Harris.
Thomas B. Turley was born in Mem
phis, Tenn., in 1845. His father was
the late Thomas J. Turley. His mother
was Mrs. Flora C. Turley, a daughter
of William Jattle, one of the earliest
settlers about Memphis. She died a
few years ago. The membess of Mr.
Turley's father's- family were Virgin
ians, and his mother's North Carolin
ians. He attended the various schools
of Memphis up to the breaking out of
the late civil war. He enlisted in the
first year of the war in the Maynard
Kifies, Company "L," One Hundred
and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment.
He was wounded twice, once at Shiloh,
and again at Peach Tree Creek, in front
of Atlanta. He was captured in the
Battle of Nashville and taken to Camp
Chase, Ohio, where he was held until
March, 1865, when he was exchanged
and returned South.
After the war Mr. Turley passed two
years at the University of Pennsylva
nia, where he was a law student. Since
1809 or '70 he has been practicing law
in Memphis, and at present he is a
member of the firm of Turley & Wright.
He has never held office of any kind.
He was married in 1870 to Miss Irene
Rayner, daughter of the late Eli Ray-
ner, of bhelby county. I lye children
have been born to himself and wife, all
of whom are living.
HIS POSITION OS THE TARIFF.
When questioned as to his ix)sition
on the tariff bill, now before Congress,
Senator Turley said that he had not
studied the law technically, but that he
was as near a free trader as it was pos
sible to be. Referring to the differences
of opinion which have developed among
Democrats in the discussion of the bill,
he said that he is strictly in accord with
the Democratic declarations through
the long series of years, and is in favor
of tariff for revenue only. The Sena
tor preferred not to express any opin
ion regarding Cuba, believing that the
question would not again demand the
attention of the present session of Con
gress. On the financial question, Mr.
Turley is strictly in line with the re
cent Chicago platform. The new Sena
tor will leave for Washington at the
ealiest possible moment.
CHARLOTTE POSTOFF1CE.
Mullen, it Seems, Has Been Slated
Senator Pritchard.
by
A special from Washington to the
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, says: The
indications point to the early appoint
ment of J. M. Mullen to the Charlotte
postmastership. Mr. Mullen's case is
in the hands of Senator Pritchard and
while the latter is not discussing the
subject it is believed that he has slated
Mr. Mullen for the place. The other
candidates, W. C. Cowles and Messrs.
Leary snd Gordon, have not relaxed
their efforts to land the prize but it
looks as though they were leading a
forlorn hope.
W. S. Clanton has been selected as
aseayer cf the United States mint at
Charlotte. His case was considered by
the Secretary of the Treasury and Sen
ator Pritchard a few days ago and the
appointment was practically settled.
Xi"' Gndger is to be made consul
general at Panama. Acting Secretary
of State Day addressed a letter to Sen
ator Pritchard stating that the Presi
dent has authorized the appointment
of Mr. Gudger and the nomination
will probably be made with the next
batch of consular appointments. It was
not to be made till after Congress ad
jurns, as the President has informed a
number of Congressmen that he will
make no more foreign appointments till
after he returns from his summer vaca
tion. Haifa Million From Tobacco.
Bristol, Tenn., Dispatch says Major
A. D. Reynolds, who starting from
nothing has made S525.000 profit as a
tobacco manufacturer there in twenty
years, sold his plant to a syndicate for
o0,0K). Major Reynolds retires from
the business because of his religious
convictions, which of late have made
the manufacture and sale of toboeco
distasteful to him. It is probable that
he will engage in evangelical work.
Union and Confederate Natives.
The Navy Department has prepared
for issue Volume 5 of the official records
of the Union and Confederate navii
in the war of the rebellion, carrying
the history of the operations of the
navies well into the middle period of
the late war. The publication is spar
ingly illustrated with pictures of some
of the most famous ships of the old
wooden navy. It is to be had only upon
application to Congress.
Dr. Ryder Probably Lynched.
A special to the Constitution from
Columbus, Ga., says: Dr. W. L.
Ryder, who, on Easter Sunday a year
ago, brutally shot to death the sweet
heart who had rejected him, was taken
from the sheriff and is probably lynch
ed. Only the news of the bare fact
that he was forcibly seized and taken
from the sheriff's custody can be
learned at this time. This was his sec
ond trial.
They Want to Hear Debs.
Union men of Salisbury, N. C. , have
invited Eugene V. Debs, the labor
leader, to speak there at an early date,
and it is understood that he will accept.
At Spencer, a suburb of Salisbury, are
located the principal shops oi the
Southern railway.
Will Organize Silver Clubs.
Chairman Keith, of, the "national
silver party," in North Carolina, says
he expects to see silver clubs organized
in every township in the State before
1900.
Calling on the President.
Pittsburg councils in regular session
on the 19th passed a resolution calling
on President McKinley to use his
good offices in settling the miners
strike.
Tampa Bay Improvements.
The Secretary of War has sent Con
gress an estimate of S33J, 000 as to the
cost of improvements of Tampa Bay,
Fla. , for a 24-foot channel.
Rush for Gold in Alaska.
The stories of the rich gold discover
ies in Alaska have set the people wild
in several Pacific Slope towns. The
rush for the new Eldorado promises to
be something wonderful.
oOO Men Thrown out of Work.
At Alexandria, Ind., by a strike of
the bit-drawers at the plant of the
Kelly Ax. Manufacturing Company, 500
men are made idle.
TILLMAN I
SUCCESSFUL.
His Dispensary Bill Gets Through
U. S. Senate Without Opposition.
WILL HARDLY PASS THE HOUSE.
General Effect of the Bill Is to Carry
Out the Provisions of the 8outh
Carolina Dispensary Law.
Senator Tillman has succeeded
passing his dispensary bill through the
Senate without objection. The bill
provides that all fermented, distilled or
other liquors transported into any
State or Territory for use, consump
tion, or sale shall be subject to the op
eration and effect of the laws of such
State, and shall not be exempt by
reason of being introduced in original
packages for private use or otherwise;
and such States shall have absolute
control of such liquors within their
borders, by whomsoever produced and
for whatever use imported, provided
that nothing herein contained shall be
construed as effecting the internal
revenue laws of the United States or of
liquors in transit through such States.
The general effect of the bill is to
carry out the provisions of the South
Carolina dispensary law, notwithstand
ing the numerous decisions obnoxious
to the enforcement of the said law. The
bill passed the Senate without a word
of discussion, by unanimous consent.
It was reported from the commerce
committee more than a month ago.
Senator Tillman has been industrious
ly at work upon it ever since. The
trouble will come when the attempt is
made to pass it through the House.
Senator Tillman admits that he hardly
expects to get the House to pass on it
during the present session, but he
looks for favorable action next winter.
Tho position of the bill is improved by
its passage through the Senate,
although many bills have failed to be
come laws after being passed by one
branch of Congress.
TO MAKE VK iN U. S.
Spain and Japan Leagued Together
to Protect Cuba and Hawaii
Taris, July 15. (By Cable) A dis
patch to a news agency in this city says
enquiry at the American embassies
there has elicited a confirmation of the
rumor that the governments of Spain
and Japan have arranged an
offensive alliance against the United
States. The teinis of the understand
ing, which is for the mutual pro
tection of Cuba and Hawaii, provide
that in the event of an actively agres
sive movement on the part of the United
tates, tending toward interference in
Cuban affairs, or persistence in the an
nexation of the Hawaiian Islands, both
Spain and Japan shall declare war sim
ultaneously against the United States
and shall make demonstrations along
both the Atlantic and Pacific coast
lines of the country.
SOI BUBVKI IX W-jSJH2IG;TOS
Washington, July 15. (Special).
Little credence is placed in official
circles here, in the statement that the
Spanish and Japanese governments
have entered into an offensive alliance
against the United States for the mu
tual protection of Cuba and Hawaii.
WOMEN ON T11E ROCK PILE.
Kansas Women Threaten Vengeance
If the New Order is Carried Out.
Tho orders of the police commission
ers of Kansas City, Kan. , that women
prisoners must work on the stone pile
along with the intm, has caused a great
commotion, and has not yet been put
into effect. Perhaps it may never be.
The Current Eyeut Club, an organiza
tion of women, has expressed itself as
immeasurably shocked, and has called
an indignation meeting to protest
against the threatened disgrace and
degradation of women.
The members threaten that enforce
ment of the order means the retirement
of the police commission from office at
the first opportunity, and as women
vote in municipal elections, the threat
is not regarded as altogether an idle
one, and may have its desired effect.
Their principle objection is to that part
of their order compelling the women to
work without skirts and to wear over
alls instead. The police officials stand
by their order and say that the first wo
man prisoners whose fines are not paid
will go to the rock pile.
A STUBBORN FIGHT.
House Conferees May Concede Free
Cotton Bagging and Ties.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, says the
House conferees are making a stubborn
fight against free cotton bagging and
free cotton ties, and the friends of the
Senate amendment will have a Lard
tight to keep these articles off tha
dutiable list. The Senate conferees in
sist that these articles shall be on the
free list, and the question may have to
be fought out in opeu session again.
Senator Bacon is of the opinion that the
House will finally yiold to the Senate
on these two items. He says he has ev
ery reason to believe the duty on raw
cotton imposed by the Senate will
stand.
Ohio Valley KailrtMKl Sold.
Ohio Valley Railroad has been sol I
at Henderson, Ky., to Judge Hum
phreys, representing the Central Trust
Company, of New York.
Was Burned to Ashes.
The Cincinnati Tribune says the mur
derer and ravisber of Mis Bene Wil
liams, near West Point, Tenn., has
been captured near IVuitton and ex
piated Lis crime in the streets of West
Point, in the presence of 500 people.
The fiend was riddled with bullets and
his body was burned to ashes. The
crowd fell back, and those who ha-I
pistols fired volley after volley at him.
The crowd then gathered wood, and
building a fire over him, watched the
ghastly scene until the murderer
burned to ashes.
To Distribute $400,000.
Nearly 400,000 is soon to be distrib
uted among various institutions by the
trustees of a fund set aside by the lata
Miss Belinda Lul, of Koxbury, Mass..
in part as follows: Hamrton, Va,
Normal Institute, ?2 .eO;; Tnskegee.
Ala., Institute. :20,0u0 Calhoun. Ga..
University, 510,00.
Baptist Yous People's Union.
At Chattanooga, Tenn.. the seventh
International Convention of the Eap
tist Young People's Union of America,
hn!iithitont 4.9G0 delegate, and
j some of the most prominent Baptist
- --ir in the country are prases t.
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