North Carolina Newspapers

S - - s 7 En rm VOL. XIX. NEWTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1897. NO. 28. New EE H. GAITHER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, NEWTON, - - - INJ. C. jTiTthornton, constantly wood colli ns. robes. on hand all Also a vari- e'.v NEWTON, N. C. R. CAMPBELL, M. D., 1 'HYSICIAX AND SURGEON, NEWTON, N. C. 0 professional services to t::e Co: Newton and Catawba J. LiTTLi RESiESf DEiiTlSr. NEWTON, N. C. in Ycvnit & Shrnm's Baildiris;. A. P. LYNCH, ATTnUXEY-AT-LAW, NEWTON, - - - - N. C. ;- : i! . t ; 'n t ion Given to all Urn's f 'iis. O lire in Vount & Sl.nuu build::.?- up stairs. SALESMAN WANTED To Muiiy f.T ti.-vari-t: TI:- ! ti-rn ' Hooit l ur grade Nursery Stock. i, .--. ' .il'.its cfrVr.d thisv'ar fir-t ;ii.' n w li as the M.i .third s oi i'ruits and ornafn.'ii'r.ls. i..-ii.V learned. Wiii lor ilii'T on Hilary or cnmn issioii. . Hi:.). & Thomas, Maple Avenue '.i;r-'ii's, Wtr-t Ui.Mer, I"a. J. C. WHITESIDE, M. D., PHYSICIAN AM) SURGEON, NEWTON, N. C. Off-r lii-' Professional sendees to the piij ;. N -wtoTi and the public generally;.-. ';: g grateful for a very liberal pat-ronng- i:. prist, hoped to merit a con-tim:a:.-":';!,' s,i:i.e. Special attention given to iils.-ast-i? of women and children. Utfi' - at r-sideuce. ! ::asf.s or tiic skin. itching nnd smarting inci. . !.::, tetter, salt -rheum, and other i'il.e skin is instantly Hayed by :-2 la;n s i'.vo and lkin i'.vo and Skir . Many very bad cases hare been t'v cured by it. It is equally : ivhing piles and a favorite rem r nipples; chapped hands, thil--t Mi'-:, r.nl chronic sore eyes. y dr.:-:;!.'..- at 25 cents per box. v 1 r ! -r nalt Ti t Ur. CnJy'.s CondiltOT Tovf Jers, they -t w Lit a h-;rse needs when m bad condi-l--'-.od purifier and vermifuge. t.a. iv T. II. A!.'rr".'t!.v. Ernest L. Moore, Eltlct and Eeir Ercsser m:vton, n. c. H. t'-!:r -. ;.s a 'irt class Tonsorial Parlor you will always find clean towels razors, tiiid a polite and at- .-hfirti.-r. F.v v i,t;m coming to Newton desiring Buy t!.it.' in he Tonsorial Art will be ! -i-. 1 -i:U'T thy call on rnc,for I always t'I'-a-i' ail my uuntomerB. A 'HINTS WANTED Kor WariuCnha, :.y : nor Qijf..Md, Cuban renn sen- ;.t V.'a.-l.ii.jjt.M). Endorsed by i' ' itriot-'. I:i tremcndntig demand. . ; ?. i t'.r jigfiits. Oi.ly $1.50. I'.ig - ' v coinii'issioi.n. Everybody only f-i.rl. r-.ed, reliable bfok. ('r i!ir iveii. FrH!?ht paid. ' -i i tr.'ifiii, and make 300 a month v' ii- in t'uh;i. Ad.lresH tfidav, THE !"VA1. I'.OOK ( ONCEHN, 352-150 ri' :. St ( Licaso. lliicklen's Arnica Salve. J.'e.-t Salve in the world for cuts Th l;f,ii- tl I.. ! ;.v r ..r---i. Ulcers. Salt Rheum, r S. res, Tetter, chapped Hands, i 'ti: .s, corns, and all Skin Erna a . 1 positively cures Piles, or no r- pur. d. It is guarnteed to give p. i ti t siitis'actioii or money refnnd- i. i n.-t- 'j.. ceuts per. box, l? T. I!. Abernethy. For Sale i'ul. lie School F:iection,'Aug. lO. ii a"t ot the General Assembly an e ect;on will be held in every township -orL:. t arolina in which there is no 1 - a', tuv.'ition for school pur poses, Tues- A i-u-tio. for the purpose of lm- I'l'ovin the public schools by local tttXiit i.j;j. I at state of North Carolina has ap- K'-'i.! luted s.V), 000 out of the general ...ii . to l.e armortioned amonir the t(".V -Ml -s voting in favor of local tax UtL.ii ' If a township votes a tax of 10 IS ii m the 3100 worth of property and fm the poll, and thus raise m addition to the usual school the state will add &500 more, the extra amount added to the 1 'I fund in the township $1,000. If ti.H 1 L'i'.l- Star . ownship raises .Jaoo, the State will If it raises over S500. the " " ill adl $.-;0O. township that votes for local tax- a.i.'U will, therefore, be sure to have t.r-t r-foi... la.-s public schools. (. S. Catr. of Durham, has s"d to trive SoOO to the school full' of the county thatvotes the largest 1 (-1-.-, '"i. ol its votes for local taxation. J. 'ill strive to ?et this honntv. I'C: at ;! ii. her the day, August 10. 3e voting place and brine: your io V"tiii,r against this plan to get good r'io N for only a small expense. The ;i''f tr.n cents on the $100 is only one on a tuousanu or five dollars on t-iousand. Suiely every citizen that thus the best schools can ''i.tained cheaper than any othe. ii-., 'v.l 1-0 J. W. Bailey, HCGH MOBSON, Ii. D. Howell, ('. H. Mebane, D. H. HiLii, Committee. Those desiring literature for t ion or to distribute, send to J. :y, ( hairman, Raleigh, N. C. ii.!(,r:;,; i:,t Thf-ro ouj OT.TH'llinjr ver ex. r.t to be a national statute all ex-pugilists to remain WEEKLY III! 1 Dun's Explanation of the Shutting Down of Big Cottoi Mills. COAL AND IRON DIFFICULTIES, general improvement Reported The Foreign Demand for Wheat and the Advance in Price. R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade for the week ending July 31st, pays. Dispatches from almost every Northern city of importaace, report without exception, . improvement in business, and from Detroit to Seattle and Portland splendid crop prospects. The task of adjusting the business and industries of the country to condition created by a new tariff has pro gressed with gratifying rspidity and ease. Even the increasing strength of striking coal miners probably forwards the adoption of the uniformity plan, which promises to remove most of the causes of such struggles. Some con fusion is caused by events seemingly contradictory by closing of large cotton mills when many other works are start ing, and by a decline in some prices when others are advancing, but the balance is unmistakably on the right side. The most important events since the passage of the new tarin, which waa generally anticipated a week ago, has been the marked increase in foreign de mand and advance price for wheat, which has risen cents during the week, with Western receipts for the first time exceediog last year's, with Western railroads besieged for cars, and with Atlantic exports of 1, 718,73!) bushels of flour included for the week, and 6,351,178 bushels in four weeks, against 6,917,865 last year, with heavy contracts for shipment, exceeding 1,200,000 bushels on a single day. Liv erpool reports a shipment from Amer ica to Northern Bohemia and French markets. Excited speculative sales have little influence. The fact that corn exports exceed last year, although the price has aavaneea to 6'.b cents, is further proof that lor eign demands are not subsantial. With crop news still favorable, producers may probably realize something like $80, 000, 000 more than lastyear on wheat, which means a great cifl'erence in pur chases by agricultural States. Corn also advanced 1.2j cents ana cotton a sixteenth, though reports as to yield are good. The industrial sky is partly clouded by coal and iron difficulties, and by the closing of some large cotton inilis. Hav ing run for months far ahead of consum ing demand, on cotton bought at com paratively high prices, the mills see ahead a large crop and cheap cotton, and it is but the rational way to halt the production and clear off accumulated stocks, at the season when vacations are common and begin the new year on its own basis. Ihe woolen manufacturers answer wholesomely and aaoderatly to the new tariff conditions, and while the opening of light weights below about SI m cost has met a very encouraging demand, the advance in prices asked is not large. Delay in the iron industrv""is partly because a steady rising demand does not j et raise prices. In some products prices are a shade lower notwithstand ing a larger demand, owing to competi tion between works, but IJessemer is a shade higher. In structural work. plates, sheets and bars for the enor mous operations of agricultural imple ment works, the demand, increases, as it also does for rolling stock owing to the abundance of crops. The failures for the week have been 236 in the United States, against 281 last vear. and 28 in Canada, against 40 last year. DIXGL.EY V'EUSUS WILSON. A Comparison of the New Tariff Law AVlth the Old. The comparison of the present tariff law with the Wilson Act authorized by Congress has been completed. It was made by Chas. H. Evans, who has been engaged in the preparation of ail the tariff bills with which Congress has dealt since 1872. The comparison is made in rates expressed in ad valorem tflrms between the present law and the Wilson law. The statement places the average duty rate under the new law at 54. 66 per cent, ad valorem, as against an ftvp.rae-e of 40. 10 under the Wilson law. the average being figured upon th basis of values in 1806. The statement shows the following increases in percentages : Chemicals from 28.53 to 30.67; wools and woolens from 47.62 to 86.54; silks from 46.96 to 532.41; earthenware and glassware 35 to K2.47: metals 38.11 to 49.24; sugar 40.94 to 74. 16: tobacco 109.06 to 121.90; agri cultural products 22.44 to 38.42; spirits, etc., 61.54 to 68.83; cotton manuiaciur- ers 42. 75 to 52. 66. Some of the increases expected m revenue are as follows: Chemicals from sl fna 2H9 to 38. 423. 084: earthen and Glassware from 88.006,839 to $12,303,- 148; metals from $13,196,416 to $17,487,- siis-ar from 829.910,703 to $54,207,642; agricultural products from $7,727,614 tr. ft14.Ka7.fi00. These estimates are based upon the supposition that the value and volume of imports will remain tne same. Preacher Sentenced to Penitentiary. W. M. Dubges, a Baptist preacher, iMoann and politician, at Macon, ua. tina snnteneed to five years in the peniteutiary for embezzling of school funds. Taken to Italelgh for Safety. At Kittrell, N. C, a negro named ( riarrra T?nrH made a criminal assault upon a Miss Cartlett, white, 18-years-o!d, and had to be taken to Raleigh for oftfpfv Tn the meantime the Governor woaAWrnnhed as follows: "Terrible ronp. nn white woman has been com- mittflfl Xesrro is in jail. Will you or der special term of court upon request of commissioners and petition from citi zens?" Governor Russell at once or dered a special term of court to begin August 16th, Judge Brown to preside. Spalding Found Guilty. At Chicago, the jury in the third trial of Charles W. Spalding, treasurer of the Hlinois State University and presi dent of the Globe Sayings Rank, re turned a verdict of guilty. The present trial was on an indictment charging Spalding with hypothecating $25,000 in county bonds. Spalding's punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary. Ho will make a strong fieht before he goes to the penitentiary, and will carry the case up to the last court. The duration of his sentence will be settled by the prison board of the State. JEWS IN PALESTINE. Scheme for an Independent State is Favored By Hebrews. A cablegram from London says the representatives of the Baron Hirsch charities seem to take very seriously the scheme of Dr. Theodore Hertzl, of Vienna, for the formation of an inde pendent Jewish State in Palestine. It is said that the Hebrews are organizing in all parts of the world. 1 he Doctor intends first to send an exploring expedition to thoroughly overhaul the land from end to end, and to establish telephones, telegraph and other modern scientific conveniences before opening the territory to general settlement. To obtain sovereignty over Palestine. he says, will be easy, as the Turks will be glad to let it go. He points to his decoration to the Turkish government as evidence that he thinks favorably of his scheme. If Turkey should refuse to give Palestine up, he says the Otto man empire will disintegrate, aud then a Jewish companv can obtain Pales tine when the powers divide up Turkipk territory. it it proves impossible to get Pales tine he will turn to Argentina. To confer on this point a congress will be held at Bastle on the 29th. The Doctor says there is no doubt that this congress will be the redeemer of the Hebrews. There is no intention to follow socialistic lines. He proposes a limited monarchy like that of Great Britain. The capital of the Jewish company is to be $250,000,000. NO SEIZURES TO BK MADE. The Order About Coupons or Articles Attached to Smoking Tobacco, Cigarettes, Etc., Modified. , A modification of the recent circular of instructions to collectors of internal revenue has been made. Theso in structions declare that all packages of smoking tobacco, fine cut, chewing to bacco, or cigarettes, containing articles prohibited by section 10 of the new tariff act, or having such articles at tached or connected therewith, or ad vertising any promise or offer or gift, reward or prize, contrary to the pro visions of the new act, are subject to seizure. The new order directs that all viola tions of this section of the act be re ported to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, but no seizure shall be made without specific instructions from him. Some question has arisen as to the pow er of the department in the premises. 1 he contention is made that Congress has no power to fix by law regulations governing the packing of articles sub ject to internal revenue, unless in some way the power or convenience of the government m the collection is affected; also that this provision is in restraint of trade, and interferes with legitimate business. Until the department has determined the question no seizures will be made under this provision of the aw. RACE WAR "IN TEXAS. Two Negroes Killed and a Number of Others Shot at a Stone Quary. A squad of negroes who had been working on the Kansas City, Houston and Galveston railroad, near West Lake, La., were recently transferred to the stoue ouarv near Thornbeck. Texas. Whites of the neighborhood objected to the negroes being employed in the quarry and a pitched battle'oc curred between the whites and negroes. Two of the negroes were mortallv wounded, and several others were les"s seriously shot. Knives, guns and pis tols were used in the melee. TROUSEK-MAKERS STRIKE. Three Thousand Walk Out In New York. In New York three thousand trouser makers have struck to enforce the in crease of piece-work prices, so as to en able them to earn about $10 weekly each. The week's work is fifty-nine hours. Nearly all the strikers are mem bers of Pants-Makers' Union No. 1. Since last fall the prices for making trousers have been reduced so that the operators who work steadily every day make only about $( a week. They claim that they cannot support them selves and families on this pittance. BAD CROP NEWS. The Kansas Corn Crop Blasted by Hot Winds Not Over Half a Crop. A special to the Topeka (Kans. ) Capi tol from every corn producing county in the State show that this year's Kan sas crop of corn will not be over 50 per cent, of last year's. Hot winds have withered the product in the southern half of the State, and few fields w ill average over fifteen bushels to the acre. In the southern portion, except in the far east, there will be no corn. In the northern belt, north of the Kansas river, though needing rain, corn has not shown the least sign of drought, and will make a full crop if relief comes within a week. No hot winds have blown there. FOUGHT IN A CHURCH. The Pastor Said It Was a Church and Community of Liars. There was almost a riot in the Mem orial Methodist Protestant Church at Camden, N. J., caused by Pastor Pet titt declaring that, "there are liars in this church, and the whole community is a set of liars, to which Irustee Mor gan took exception, rising to protest. Another trustee started to put Morgan out, and Morgan showed fight. The prompt interference of others prevented a serious riot. Collapse of Boom Property. A special telegram from Florence, Ala. , to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, says : All the property of the Florence Land, Mining and Manufacturing Company, and the Florence Education al and Development Companv, has been sold at auction to N. C. Etling, agent for creditors, for $60,000. The property was once thought to be worth ?3. 000. 000. and was bought up by the land company prior to the boom of 1888, Trouble Over a Keg of Beer. Three hundred members of the Sev enth Regiment, Illinois N ational Guard, had trouble with citizens at Springfield about some kegs of beer which the sol diers were bringing to Camp Lincoln. Three soldiers were prostrated by the heat and one citizen had a bayonet run in his eye and the eyeball severely cut. Big Shipmedt of Mica. Messrs. Chevis Franeberger and J. A Burleson are in Chicago where they have sold all the mica they had on hand. Mr. Lt. A. (Jettys shipped them over. $2,000 worth of mica trom here. Cleve land (N. C. ) Star. HEARING AT FLAT ROCK Judge Simonton Will Decide In a FeiT Days What Constitute an "Original j Package." The Columbia (S. G.) Register of tha 28th says the hearing in the original package cases was held yesterday at Flat Rock, N. C, before Judge Simon tonf but no decision was rendered nor was the least intimation given as to what it would be. Attorney-General Barber was present, representing the State; Mr. P. H. Nelson, of Columbia, repre senting Meetz as agent of the Portner Brewing Company and Pfeifer; Mr. Shuman, of Greenville, representing Jf ayne, of that city; Messrs. 15. A. rloo good, of Charleston, and P. A. Wilcox, of Florence, representing Stackley, of that city, as agent for Gugenheimer & Co. The main and practically only ques tion before the judge, was what consti tutes an orignal package. The various attorneys practically had the same case, and contended that the bottles in a package shipped into the State were the original package. In the case of Stackley, of Florence, it appears that the stuff was shipped to him is bottles packed in a car and it was contended that each one was plainly an orig inal package. To both of these positions, the attorney general took exception, contending that the box in which the bottles were shipped was the original package, and not tha bottle. He contended, further, that in the Gugenheimer shipment all the bot tles m the car substituted the package and ctust be sold as such. Very volum inous authorities were quoted by all of the attorneys, and the judge seemed to be deeply interested. Mr. Barber opened and was followed by Messrs. Hagood and Wilcox and Mr. Nelson closed. The attorneys re turned from flat Rock last night and all expect a decision within a few daya. TOBACCO MEN SQUEAL. The Moisture in Their Leaf Will Have to Be Paid For. A dispatch from New York says the new tariff bill has caused a panic among tobacco importers, and they declare that one short paragraph in the new law means a loss to them of thousands of dollars every year. The paragraph is a part of sectioa 33 of the act which compels importers to pay duty on to bacco at the weight at which it goes in to the bonded warehouse. This takes from the tobacco men a privilege that has for many years been accorded to them by the tariff laws. Under the Wilson act and previous, importers have had their tobacco reweighed at the time of its withdrawal from bonded warehouses, and on this weight duties were collected. The weight of tobacco is greatly reduced during the bonded period by evaporation. Experts esti mate that the importers save $25 to $40 a bale on Sumatra, and tome times as higii as $70 a bale on Havanna leaf, by paying on the dried-out tobacco. J !Krters will now gain nothing by j lay, but must pay duties at $1.85 per pound for the weight at the time of its arrival. They estimate the loss to im porters in New York alone will be $500, 000 a vear. TALK OF A CLOTH C03IBINE. n Experiment That Will Likely Be Tried in the East. A dispatch from Fall River, Mass., 6ays when the cloth business is dull, and the prospects for dividends poor, the stockholders feel privileged to make suggestions, which explains vhy there has been more or less talk of late con cerning a cloth trust. The proposition has been advanced to pool issues in managing the mills, reducing expenses regulating the supply according to de mand, and the introduction of other in novations. As nearly as can be ascer tained, it is not the idea to group all the factories under one head at the out set, but to experiment with lour or five companies. One agent would dis pose of the output, and the services of middlemen in the shape of brokers would be dispensed with. It is claimed commissions take too much out of the mills, and that the drain is unneces sary. New Civil Service Regulation. President McKinley has promulgated an amendment to the civil service rules providing that there shall be no re movals from positions subject to com petitive examination except for just cause in writing, to which the accused has had opportunity to make defence. This also includes all within classified service and all employees of the cus toms house office, one employee in each internal revenue district to act as cash ier or chief deputy or assistant collec tor, all subject to competitive examina tion. Has Carried Out Its Pledges. At a dinner at Boston, given to Sec retary Gage, he makes a speech on tar iff and the money question; he says the administration has carried out its pledges as to the former and "the breeze of prosperity brings comfort and restoration" and that the administra tion can be relied on to carry out its pledses as to the money question, that it will not be idle in this respect. The Virginia Prohibitionists. W. T. Rundick. State chairman of the Virginia Prohibition party, has issued a call for a State convention of the party to meet in Lynchburg on August 20th, to nominate candidates for Gov ernor, Lieutenant-Governor and Attor ney-General. All Virginia Prohibi tionists will have a voice in the pro ceedings. Tariff Bill Printed. The first copies of the tariff act for circulation have been received at the document rooms of the Senate and House at Washington. The bill makes a pamphlet of seventy pages. There will be fifty-thousand copies in all to be cir culated by Congress. Islands Shaken by an Earthquake. The islands of Antiguo, St. Kitts and Guadeloupe, Jamaica, of the Leeward group, experienced a severe shock of earthquake at noon on the 28th. Swept Away in a Sadden Flood. At Prattsburg, Steuben county, N. Y. , a olondburst flooded the village and caused damage to the amount of $10, 000. Bridges and buildings were wash ed away in large numbers, vid mAny people were imperiled. Warned Not to Start Before Spring. The Colonial office in London has warned intended gold seekers that it will be useless to start for the Klon dike before spring, as the journey is possible only intke summer time. !R.R.GOMMSSI0NGIRGULilRS Magistrate Convicted of pounding a Felony. Com- OLD NORTH STATE CULLINGS. Big RevenuesSoldier Pays an Old War Debt Making Money Out of Poultry. The railroad commission on the 27th issued the following circular: From and after the 1st day of Sep tember, 1897, the Western Union Tele graph Company shall not charge or collect more than 15 cents for trans mitting any message of ten words or . imucr, exclusive of date, address and signature, beween any two points with in the limits of this State on its lines, nor more than one cent for each addi tional word. Whenever a message is sent over two or more telegraph lines owned, con trolled and operated by separate and distinct corporations or individuals, the joint rate shall not exceed 30 cents for each message of ten body words or less, exclusive of date, address and signa ture, between any two points within the limits of this State and one cent for each additiional word. Effective Sep tember 1st. Telegraph companies other than the Western Union Telegraph Company shall be allowed to charge and collect 20 cents for a message of ten body words or under, exclusive of date, ad dress and signature, between any two points within the limits of this btate, on their respective lines and not more than one cent for each additional word. Effective September 1, 1897. The following figures give some idea of the great volume of business done in the Asheville office of the internal revenue. Ihe statement covers from July 1, 1896, to June 30. '97: Lists : S 29,853 43 Spirits 581,25144 Cigars and cigarettes 4,848 30 Snuff 601 86 Tobacco 1,055,872 89 Special tax 15,059 01 Total...: $1,687,592 43 The amounts by months follows: July, 1896 $121,172 23 August, 1896 126,460 33 September, 1896 . October, 1896 November, 1S96. . December, 1S96-. January, 1897 . February, 1897... March, 1897 April, 1897 May, 1S97 June, 1897 .... 152,414 83 .... 147,283 83 .... 135,668 01 .... 161,211 25 .... 166.003 07 143,465 28 144,949 17 120.881 93 131,657 95 136,424 52 Total $1,6S7,592 43 The collections at the various offices for the year were: Winston $890,114 60 Statesville 469,330 91 Asheville 216,070 61 Mt. Airv 122,066 36 F. E. Hege, chief of the poultry de partment of the State Experiment Sta tion, is arousing much interest in "fowl culture," in the State. He says the chickens and eggs produced are now worth more in cash than any agricul tural product. The raising of chickens for the Northern markets is a profitable. and srrowing indnstrv- In one uav ro- cently 40,Oi!0 chickens were shipped from two points to the Northern mark ets. Several conntv poultry associ ations have iatelv been formed and the Buncombe Association has just been incorporated. Poultry fairs are to be held at Shelby, Asheville and Char lotte. In the Superior Court at Concord, D. M. Widenhouse and M. M. Furr, both of No. 9 township, Cabarrus county, have been convicted of compounding a felony. Mr. Furr is one of the Populist magistrates. He has been deposed from office of justice of the peace and is to be deprived of any office of honor or public trust in the State of North Caro lina and to pay a fine of $50 and the costs. Mr. idennouse was fined $20 and the costs. Both have been given notice of appeal. Never in the history of Cabarrus has such charges been brought against her officers. Charlotte Observer. During the war Jesse Snatherly, a Confederate soldier from Montgomery county, saved the life of a Ne.w York soidier who was wounded. The woods ha.l caught fire and the Federal sol dier called for help. Snatherly took him to a safe distance and provided him with water. He has sent Snatherly $800. The railway commission increases the valuation of all the divisions of the Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line; it decreases the valuation of the Atlantic and Danville; the others remain the same; the in crease on i ail ways, steamboat and tel egraph lines is about $3,009,000. While Deputy Revenue Collector Hill and a Ksse were making a raid on moonshiners in Lenoir county they were fired on by ambushed moonshin ers. F. T. Harper was hit by four buckshot and seriously injured. Arrests will follow. The moonshiners are known. The still was destroyed. It is said that under the new law no pictures or coupons can be put in cigarette boxes or in smoking tobacco . packages and the statement is made that this will throw a lot of people out employment. The truck crop in the eastern part of the State has proven very remunerative this season, and the Goldsboro Argus savs that along the line of railroad be tween that place and Wilmington large quantities of strawberry plants are be ing planted. The "gold fever" has spread from Staulev county into Rowan. Some good finds are being made. Representative Linnev has introduc- ed a bill to reduce the tax on aisiuiea spirits to 70 cents per gallon. The Raleigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer learns that the Heck estate of Raleigh owns 1,080 acres of land in the Klondyke region of Alaska. Governor Russell has been invited to attend the annual Washington birthday dinner of the Connecticut society at New Haven, Feb. 22nd. L. L. Love, of Pennsylvania, con templates putting up a large rolling mill at Salisbury. Asheville has changed its time from eastern to central, to conform to the railroad time standard. NEWS ITEMS. Fonthern Pencil Pointers. In court at Winchester, Va. , two law yers had a dispute and one struck the other with an inkstand inflicting a dan gerous wound. Albert H. Heitz, a well-known phos phate miner at Charleston, accidentally shot and killed himself. The national association of Dental Examiners and representatives of the chief dental colleges met at Old Point. Va. Bfre the Tennessee Bar Associa tion Justice' Walter Clark, of North Carolina, delivered an address; he ad vocated many changes in the federal constitution, which he says is now un democratic. A cotton mill at Natchez. Miss., sus pends work for want of raw cotton. At Starke. Fla.. Henrv Crosbv killed himself with poison; his wife also took poison, but her life was saved. In Charlotte, X. C. , during the past year 240 new buildings have been erected, and there are now being buiit 112. Besides this, two cotton factories, the Louise mill and the webbing factory of Mr. A. C. Summerville have been built, the fine new courthouse has been completed, and a large number of business buildings have been remodeled until they are practically new build ings. The News, Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has refused fo interfere in thecase of John Tyler Cooper, former Mayor of Atlanta, and later clerk of the county commis sioners, convicted of embezzling funds of the county, and Cooper will have to serve three month s imprisonment, to which he was sentenced by the court. A syndicate is about to close the pur chase of most of the coal mines of Fast Tennessee; the price is about $5,000, 000, and if successful over 3,000 miners will be given employment. There is a rumor in Laurens, S. C, that Ex-Senator Irby is to draw out of the Congressional race and help i-x-Governor Evans. The Virginia Populists may tender the nomination of Governor to Tyler. Prof. P. H. Patterson, an educated and influential negro, was murdered in a church in Montgomery, Ala. The Banister Baptist Association (colored) in session at Houston, Va. , adopts resolutions denouncing criminal assaults on white women, and the class of negroes who commit them. The attendance at the Tennesee Cen tennial Exposition last week numbered 45,39a Governor's Guards, of Austin, won the interstate drill at San Antonio, Tex. Neeley Zouaves won the Zouave prize. Dr. Scott, brother-in-law of Governor Bradley, superintendent of the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, has been declared unfit for the place by the grand jury, and his removal demanded. An insurance company has withdrawn its business from Greenville, N. C, Pitt county, because it did not deem it safe to continue its business in a town controlled by negroes. General Lafayette McLaws, the old est surviving Confederate major gen eral, died Sunday at Savannah. Ga, aged 76 years. The Stewarts in the Methodist church at Albertsville, Ala., finding their church revenue insufficient, have levied an annual tax of $10 on each tobacco chewing member of the congregation. The plan is said to work admirably and to bring in a goodly revenue. It is reported that Florida will get some relief from the hated water hy acinth. A red spider is said to be rap idly destroying the plants. The erection of a twenty-ton cotton seed oil mill will be commenced at La vonia, Ga., at once. Savannah's first new bale of cotton was sold at 10 cents, and classed at ful ly middling. Florian Bindewald, of the Augusta (Ga.) Brewing Company, was drowned while in bathing. Charles Walsh was shot and killed while by a policeman in Atlanta, Ga. , resisting arrest. All About the North. Schlatter, the "divine healder" found dead in Arizona, Canton, O. has "reappeared" in In the 16 to 1 saloon, at Texarkana, Foster shot and in Riley Balthrop, a mer- Ark., J. W. stantfy killed chant. The Democrats of Marvland held held their State convention; harmony prevailed and everything went as Gor man dictated ; it declared for bimetal lism without specifying any ratio. AtYonkers, N. Y., fire destrovs a factory in which were working t00 men and girls; there were no casualties. William R. Valentine, a well-known Brooklyn newspaper man, who claimed to be the author of "Casey at the Bat," died at Oyster Bay, L. L, aged 35 years, of abscess of the brain. The Brooklyn J ockey Club announces the Junior Champion Stake of $15,000 for 2-year-olds, to be run in '98. A lodging house that will cost $350, 000, where working people can find comfortable homes at cheap rates will soon be completed in New York. Miscellaneous. Floods in Germany are doing great damage. A cyclone at San Jose, 1 11., killed five people. t President McKinley is having a good time at Lake Champlain. United States is protesting against Canada's copyright policy. A bride and groom committed suicide at Houston, Tex., because the latter could not find work. Forty Bteamers have l.cen chartered in Atlantic ports to load grain for Eu rope. The partial eclipse of the sun, which was visible in this part of the United States,' on the 2fth, is the last solar eclipse that will be visible ir this tuu-t until May 27, 1900. Two coaches of an excursion train went through a trestle near Marietta, O. No one was killed. A freight train stalled in a tunnel in West Virginia and the crew was over come by foul air. The conductor died. Missionaries in the Tien-Tsin district of China fear an uprising of natives and possible massacree of Christians. A dam at Middletown, Conn., broke, and forty men were compelled to flee for their lives. A great wheat combine is on in St.' Louis, Mo. About 8,000,000 bushels are already in hand, and prices have advanced. David R. Francis, former Secretary of the Interior, is at the helm. BUYING COTTON IN NEW YORK. Cotton Sent From the South Being Shipped Back to Southern Mills. Mr. A. P. Rhyne, the Mt. Holly (N. j C.) cotton manufacturer, was in Char lotte last week and in an interview with a News reporter said hii mill i1? work ing cotton that was shipped from Geor gia to New York, and is now shipped from New York back to North Carolina. A great many cf the North Carolina mills are now buvmg their cotton in the New York market, and the Goldsboro 1 I a. C. ) mill last week had shipped to them from New York cotton that was last fall sold on the Goldsboro market; it still had the Goldsboro tag on it after traveling to New York and back. It costs now onlv ten cents to ship from Galveston to New York and ten cents from New York to Norfolk. The rate war between the ocean steamship lines has so demoralized rates that one can ship from Galveston to New York via Norfolk to Charlotte for less than half the cost cf shipping from Galves ton to Charlotte direct. THE VIRGINIA POPULISTS. One Nomination Made Five Men to Fix Up the Balance of the Ticket. At the Populist State convention as sembled at Roanake, Va., Major Gaines withdrew from the race for the nomination of Lieutenant Governor, and Capt. Edmund R. Cocke was nom inated by acclamation. Capt. Cocke accepted the honor and thanked the convention for conferring it upon him. It was decided to make no further nominations for the other two places on the State ticket, but to x pedite matters a committee, consisting of General James G. Shield, of Fau quier, chairman; J. 11 a kin Hobson, Dr. T. W. Evans, of Campbell; Sena tor W. H. Hale, of Franklin, and W. H. Graverly, of Henry, was appointed with full power to add or to take from as deemed best. In short their duties are to look after the interests of the party, in case the Democratic conven tion decides to endorse their candidate. There was a hot speech by General Field. The convention adjourned sine die. AMERICANS IN CUBAN PRISONS. Consul General Lee Gives Stat De partment Their Names. Consul General Lee has informed the State Department at Washington that in the event of the release of the Amer ican, Louis Smelian, now confined in jail at Havana, there will remain of American citizens imprisoned in Cuba in addition to the five Competitor pris oners, only the following: Manuel Feenandez, confined in Fort Cabanas; Rafael Fernandez Y. Diaz, at Sagna La Giande; Julio Thomas Sainz and Frank Agramont, at Santiago. All of these prisoners are charged with rebellion with arms in hand and are held subject to the ordinary milita ry jurisdiction. The United States consul at ?JanzanLlo has cabled the secretary of State a contradiction cf the story that Albert Slusser, an American, has been captured by Spanish troops and taken to that place. TRADE AS VIEWED BY JOBBERS. 127 States Indicate an Increase in the Volume of Business. The Wholesale Grocer, of Chicago, II!., published answers from jobbers all over the country, to qnestions re garding trade. The replies were from jobbers in twenty-seven States and fifty per cent, show an increase in the volume of business for the first half of l-fT, as compared with the same period last year; o0 per cent, report the vol ume about the same, and 20 per cent, note a decrease. The question of definite improvement in conditions was answered affirmatively by 10 per cent. Sect ion ally, 64 per cent, of the jobbers in the Southern Ststes, 65 in the East ern, 70 from the Western, and i5 per cent, from the Central States, said A PREACHER'S PROPHECY. West Virginia Minister Says God Sent Prosperity Is Coming. Rev. Chas. Ghiselin, a Presbyterian minister at Shepardstown, W. Va. , has published an open letter to the farmers of this country prophesying that wheat is soon to go to $1 a bushel, and urges them to form a combination among themselves, helping to tide each other over until this propesy is realized. He eays prosperity has come as a gift from God, and not from any political party or measure. He bases his prediction on the 75, 000,000 bushels supply and the appar ent Eastern demand. He figures a profit to the United States of $200,000, OOo on the crop. THE C03I1NC1 ISSUE. Senator Butler Says it is Government Ownership of Monopolies. A special to the Wilmington, N. C, Messenger from Raleigh: Populist National Chairman Marion Butler says in a signed editorial: "Public owner ship of national monopolies is the com ing issue. Conditions are daily creat ing stronger puuuc sentiment in every quarter of the country for this solution of the gravest problem before the American people, me greatest issue of modern times is now squarely drawn. This and the money question will be the two overshadowing issues in the campaign of 1600." Gudger Gets a Consulship. Rev. Ki Gudger, of Asheville, N. C, has been appointed consul general to Panama. It was believed, when Con gress adjourned that "Ki would not get his commission until the President should return from his summer vaca tion. That was the information he re ceived from Senator Fritchard prior to leaving Washington for his North Car olina home. "Ki" will return to Wash ington in a few days, receive his in structions and journey to Panama. Will Meet in Omaha in 1S9S. The United States League of Build ing and Loan Associations' convention was held at Detroit, Mich. A number of papers were read, and the following officers were elected and then adjourned to meet in Omaha 18!8: President, Lake Sanborn, of Galesburg, His. : first vice-president, Wm. Blummer, of Buf falo, N. Y. ; second vice-president, Timothy R. Foster, of Vicksburg, Miss. ; third vice-president, Thomas J. Fitzmorris, of Omaha, Neb. ; treasurer, Wm. C. Sheppard, of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; secretary, Herman Cellorius, of Cincinnati; assistant secretary, G. F. Kosmayer, of New Orleans. fl V: ' Hi r-i-i Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its r-at leavening strength and hetdthfuaes1.. Auit the food against a!u?!1 acd all forir. of adulteration corurnon to the cheap brands ROYAL. BaKIN: TOfri'' !: 0 , M:w Vl'UK CROPS NEEDING RAIN. Worth Carolina's Crop Bulletin For Week Ending Aug. 2d. The week ending August 2d, 1897, has generdly been favorable. Showers occurred the first days of the week, followed by warm, dry, sunny weather which will not prove injurious if ri oper seasons occur in early August. Crops are beginning to need rain again, and in a few counties, which received lea-st rainfall last week, are beginning to suffer now. In general crop conditions are now excellent; in some counties es pecially fine. Though cotton is shed ding some the damage so far is insig nifieent. The early corn crop is made. Crop prospects at present throughout the State could hardly le better. Eastern District Rains continues! over Monday and Tuesday (27th!, after which dry, warm weather set in, with, abundant sunshine, which continued to the end of the week. The weather was favorable, but is now getting too dry over many counties. Crops are doing very well", mostly laid by and work done. Some early corn is being dam aged by dry weather, but most of the crop is made, with some fodder nearly ready for stripping. Lute corn needs rain, but still looks green and promis ing. In some sections farmers say prospects are for the finest corn ci ops in three or four years. Cotton is doing well; about all hilled: some shedding reported on light lands. Tobacco cur ing fall blast, with excellent results; peanuts doing veil: tweet potatoes promise a fine yield. Farmers are planting turnips and "rutabegas, some of which are up. Central, District. The past week was dry and very warm. Though show ers occurred on Monday aud Tuesday, the ground has been pretty well dried out, so that ram is beginning to be needed, especially for turnips. Farmers are about done laying by crops which are in good condition. Cotton is fruit ing well, and generally holding squares, though there are a few more reports of sheddiug this week than last. A black beetle seems to be doing some damage by cutting ofl forms. Earlv planted corn promising and about made. Early patches of fodder are Wing pulled in the south. Late corn Mill small, but early fairly well. Cron will probably be short, but in some couiit'.es is reported best for many years. Tobacco improved since the rains: some danger by rlea bugs; crops will be shx.rt on account of diminished acreage. Sweet potatoes fine. Peas making rapid growth; w ater melons plentiful. Breaking land for wheat and oats continues, lurnips still being planted. Western District. Light rains oc curred the first of the week f oilowed by warmer dry weather with abundance of sunshine. The nights have been a lit tle cool in the mountain sections. The weather has been favorable and the crops continue to do well. Crops aro about laid by in south and east iortiou. In many counties crops are reirted to be in exceptionally good condition; in a few, Catawba especially, cotton and corn are beginning to t-ntier for rain. Bottom corn is doing very well, upland not so well. Cotton is growing, shed ding very little and is nearly laid by. Large crops of ieas have been planted in stubble land, are up and fine. Tur nip seed being sown. Much hay was put up the latter part of the week in the w est. INTERNAL 'REVENUE RECEIPTS. Report of the Commissioner hows a Decrease From the Previous Year. The preliminary report of t ue Com missioner of Internal Revenue fo-r tne rear ended June 3''. ls'-'7, shews iu-i the total receipts during the period were $14,619,y"S, a decrease as com pared with the previous year of v"-l!,-100. The receipts for the several sources of revenue, w ith the increase or decrease, as compared with the fiscal year 1".i6, are stated as fol lows: Spirits $82,t'-.V:, an in crease of $1,338,487; tobacco .:,7'. ; a decrease of $1,301 ; fermented liquors $32,472,162, a decrea?o of $l,::i2,ii: ;; oleomargarine $1,034,129, a decrease of $185,302; rilled cheese $18,H'J2 not in force in 18'); miscellaneous $";"?. 283. a decrease of $69,2:. Bauks and bankers $"5. a decrease of $4.?. I he amount of withdrawals for consump tion during the last year is piTtn as follows: Fruit brandy 1.14 -Ml gi:r:s, a decrease of 2!"4,IT;; whiskey s. U. 245 gallons, an increase of 1,79:1, :Ui; beer, porter and all 24,42?,r.4 barrels, decrease of l,4'.t:5,Hi. Number of cigars and cht-r.ts weighing over 3 pounds j-er !,", 4,083,1G9,037; number of cigarettes 4,153,252,470, an increase cf l'r.,4 53.7-';', tobacco, chewing and smoking, 7' S12 pounds, an increase of 7,"7. 5t,. ; oleomargarine, 42,534,550 louu-1-, a decrease of .tr?9,214. The States from which the larger col lections were male during the year a-a given as follows: Illinois, SM-J.l 15. '.-'.!; New York, $18,420.7. .;; Kentucky, $15, 657,957; Ohio, $12,74,V,; Pennsylva nia, $11,446,317; Indiana, V'-V; Missouri, 7,364,662; Maryland, $o, 454,795. The Population ofCrecce The United States minister tc Greece has supplied the State Department at Washington with some advance figures of the Greek census, taken lastOctoler. They 6how a total jopulaticn for the country of 2,4i?,8ij, as against the total of 2,187,20- in the vear !;?. There were 1,2 males, and 1,lr:G,- 990 females. There were twelve towns with a population in excess of l-y .int. At Waco, Tex., two brothers name 1 Kivett were killed in a stock brokerage office by a man named Lamden. w i .nr.At3 thn Indiana Slats ' prison at ilichlsan dry are dying with eca- umf'tion. I'