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r Newton En 1 TT VcK. XIX. NEWTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1897. NO. 37 UK SIFT v. ?. GAITHER, ATTCRNEY-AT-LAW, f-j-VTOH, - - - N. C. jT-. THORNTON, -t.irdly on hand all I' l'lns. Also a vari- Ni AVTON, N. C. j. R. CAMPBELL, M. D., FH Ci AX AND SURGEON, NEWTON, N. C. i: professional services to i :' Newton and Catawba 0::--- j. B. LITTLE, h :. i mm mm. NLVTON, N. C. . Y o i :i l .X; S'.rimi's Building. A. P. LYNCH, ATTOUNKY- NEWTON, - AT-LAW N. C. Given to all kinds of in Yount & Shram o.:i in,.; WANTED rr;!i!i' Nursery Stock. Iii-s oft -ml Ibis yar is .cl! as the standard s and ornamentals. i! liiwiM-J. Write for );i;y ir commission. mas, Maple Avenue Vt.-r i heater, Pa. vi inn 'i : i. J.C, WHITESIDE, M. D., Vsl; "I A N AND 8LEOEON, NEWTON, N. C. , i'r.o-ssi - uul services to the Y ..ton iin i the public general ;. : . . ..-i'ul i;r a very liberal pat : , '.I-.,- ;';i -t. hopes to merit aeon-i-iiht'f ::u.: Special attention . . . of women and children. On roi;;.. tlii'l ' Er - r r- 4- L. Moore, ?!$ EertiT and Heir on N. C. b- k- s a First class Tonsorial Parlor wh-r-' vf.u will always find clean towels a.. ! -'i,;: ; razors, and a polite and ac- t-: : '.'irii-T, i'v-ry '-'no coming to Newton desiring any ri.i::g in th Tonsorial Art will be 1;""! .-,?!. t thoy call on me, for 1 always i is!! "it customers. A ; NTS U'ANTIID For WarinCuba, ;' ;:or Q:i-sad:i, Cuhan repr-sen-at Wi!-!.ir.ft n. Endorsed by itriotn. In tremendous demand. '. i fur ng.-ntf. Otily $1.50. Hig comnii-'-ious. Everybody !n' only endursefj, reliable book. ri-e. Ocdit given. Freight paid. '. trHoh. and nnke f 300 a month rin Cnba. Address todav, THE SAL I'.OOK ( -0NTERN, 332-358 .p St., f'hicasro. DESCENDANT OF BOONE. Oau-'Mer of the Great Grandson of ti'.c Ancient Daniel in St. Lonia. t T.i. li-; possesses the distinction of ! : thf birthplace and the residence : youngest descendant of Daniel the historic pioneer and hunter i- K'-ui.u--ky. She is the baby daugh- rr..'FxrAT of- dasiel booxft. f L. X. Boone, the traffic manager ' Western Union Telegraph Corn- Mr. Boone is the great-grand "f the ancient Daniel. His grand ' was the younjrest and favorite "f the nioneer. General Nathan "'. who was an officer in the Uni t.-.i states armv. General Boone's ,v .t son was John C. Boone, " . tvjfe was Marv Wardlow, of - uri, and these two were the '"i!j..;,;irents of the nink and white ''y. Miss Boone is now five months '''' a i:d does not greatly resemble her :!":!'"''.'d ancestor. Tradition has it '' it lils eyes were of a beautiful sky while Baby Boone's eyes are of a ! 1 brown. The Boone blood Is evident in Baby Boone's little 1'i .Mier Hudson Wardlow Boone, a 4- y-:i!--(,M. He has the light hair of his f-T.-at-Ki-and father. Little Ilud lias also the Boone blue eye. He is -"'i' "n his legs, brave and manly, ' ;t whether he has the spirit of his -" 'it anc'stor is a matter to which ' alone ran testify. His Infant sis- ,,'r he a strong woman if her baby- fulfills Its promise. Withont Effort. Anxious Mother I don't understand l r'W it is, Bertie, that you are always at foot of your class. I.( rtie I don't understand It myself 'l it I know It's dreadful easy. Boston J ronseript. gii Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The ftest Salve in the world for cuts 'riied, Horses. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, I' ver Sures, Tetter, chapped Hands, f'i'ii Minns, corns, and all Skin .brna ll aud positively cures Piles, or no l ,, required, it is guarnteed to give 1" t ,ect HiitinFantinr. rr mnnflV TGI QUO "1- Price 25 cents per. box. For Sale r POkYER FOR 1 MILLS. A rnmn r u' rL- n i j n ' A Column Of Pine Chips Picked Up For the Fireside. I- LMblKIBUTION PEABODY FUND. Poultry and Slieep Shipments Mont- gomery to Speak For Russell The nvt... i,-t. n Ujster Kntry Costs. Mr. Henry Fries, of Salem, is now building an electric plant on the Yad kin river that will furnish power for the mills at Winston. It is the only laut of the kind in the State, and is creating much talk among the indus trial men. There is a plant in Anderson, C, and one in Columbia, S. C, something like this plant will be. Mr. Fries' plant is thirteen md a half miles from town, and when completed will furnish motive power for the two cotton mills, the woolen mills, a grain mill, a planing mili, the city electrio lights, street cars and lights and the water works. Contracts for the above power have been closed. The cost will amount to over S100.000. The power will be ,000 and 2.500 horse power. Before Christmas the plant will be in opera- ion. I he material for the pole line is already at hand and work will begin at nee. It is a bijr enterprise and will be ooked forward to with much interest by the mill people of the State. The Charlotte Observer says: The Pamlico county costs in the ovster en try matter are giving State Treasurer W orth sleepless nights. There are (595 cases, and the costs aggregate 4,200. There was iudgment in the Superior Court for this amount, the cases having been consolidated to save the State fur ther expense. The solicitor appealed because the cases were consolidated. The she. ill" aud clerk of Pamlico are the sole pr.rties in interest. Judge Bryan, in his iindings iu this case, said the amount was honestly due. It is claimed that the solicitor w as unable to find any flaws, though there were two investiga tions in the Superior Court. Treasurer orth has beeu invited to examine the bills of costs to find fraud, but he has not done so. Some weeks ago there was a serious wreck on the North Carolina Lumber Company's Kailroad at Tillery. Sev eral cars were smased, and Engineer W. Barber hadhis arm badly crushed. barely escaping with his life. He re ceived other injuries from which he thinks he is permanently injured. Last week he entered suit againt the coin- . t ,r 1 pauy lor ;',uuu damages, ma counsel are Alessrs. V. 1. Day ana Davia Bell. Tom Boyd, a colored train hand on the Scotland Neck road, fell dead at Tillery while in the act of taking a drink of liquor. He had come down on the freight train from Weldon and had gone into a bar for a drink. The bar teuder had turned to get a glass of water for him, and when he turned around Boyd fell to the floor before taking the liquor. He expired in a few minutes. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction is informed by Dr. Curry that North Carolina will receive this year from the Peabody funds, 2,400 in scholarships at Nashville and $3,400 in cash. The latter goes to the Greens boro Normal and Industrial College and to the best of the negro normal schools and to the High Point and Washington public schools. Last year $6,000 in cash was allowed. In the office of the Secretary of State it is learned that in 1795 Tench Coxe, of Pennsylvania, sold to the Jiew York Speculative Land Company a quarter of a million acres of mountain land which he had entered. This lana is in what is now Polk, Rutherford, Cleveland, Mc Dowell and Henderson counties, ine New York company has sold it out, save about one-fourth, to farmers, re serving all mineral rights. That Murphv is a great shipping point is clearly demonstrated from the fact alone that since tne nrst oi Novem ber Elliott & Wood have shipped over 10,000 worth of poultry ana eggs. From the best information we can get Cherokee and Clay counties have shown nearly 10,000 sheep this year. Mur phy Bulletin. James H. Cutler, of Boston, has pur chased for Northern capitalists that part of the old West Asheville and Sul phur Springs trolley line between the passenger depot and the sulphur springs, and will rebuild it. This is believed to mean that the company will rebuild the Hotel Belmont, which was reached by the sulphur springs road. Governor Russell has selected Judge Walter A. Montgomery, of the Supreme Court to make the speech accepting, on behalf of the State, the portraits of the three colonels of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, Z. B. Vance, Henry K. Burgwyn and James H. Lane. . Governor Russell is invited to open the Winston Tobacco Association Fair, November 3d, to participate m a pa rade and be the guest of the Associa tion He is also invited to open the Colored State Fair, at Raleigh, Novem ber 2d. Secretary of State John Sherman sends the Governor a formal invi tation for the State to make an ex bibit at the Paris Exposition in 1900, in accordonce with the act of Con gress inviting all States to participate, The Southern Railway people are mnkino' great efforts to discover the white woman who gave birth to a child f on a train, near Asheville, and threw it from a rnpidly moving train. Its body was found. The Council of State agrees to lease to Raleigh for seven years its granite quarry half a mile east of the city. It was from this quarry that the stone used in building the capitol was taken. Oxford months. had eleven deaths in three The register of deeds, Mr. J. W. Chapin, tells us that over SIOO.OOO in mortgages have been cancelled in this county in the last thirty days. This shows that the people are paying their debts. The survev of the Durham and Char lotte railway is in progress at the rate of a mile a day between Pittsboro and Haw river, in the direction of Durham. There is quite a lot of surmising as to who will be Raleigh's next post master. J. B. Hill, A. W. Shaffer and C. T. Bailey are the most prominent aspirants. JAPAN'S BNTKRPRISE. Money Appropriated to Teaon Ameri cans How to Make Tea. SeTerl months ago the Japanese Tea Gnild seat to this eountry a special . commission to investigate the condition I ff ttiA Tn . J. x T - Mt tt:i.j ."u oimucao tea iraue in me uuueu States and Canada, and to co-operate ith its American representatives in giving publicity to the merits of Japan- AHA t.aa on3 V.A M4-VnJM A paring them ,ea bazaars are to be opened in many 01 tne Principal cities in the United States nfl nBr.aAa i.j;.. ----- . uuu.cj vuvs.o luvtiyu vnu enjoy a cup of fine Japanese tea made by experts, and at the same time re ceive instructions which will enable them to make it equally -well at home. More than half the tea consumed in the United States and Canada is of Japanese growth, yet most Americans apparently do not understand how to prepare it so as to develop its delicious qualities. The Japanese Government has appro priated a large fund to aid in prosecut ing this educational work- . The Jap anese Tea Guild has issued this official recipe for making Japanese tea: First. Use a small, dry and thor oughly clean porcelain teapot Second. Put in one teaspoonful of tea leaves for each cup of tea desired. Third. When using Japanese teas, pour on the required quantity of fresh boiled water, and let stand with closed lid from two to three minutes. Never boil the leaves. In order to retain the natural flavor, Japanese tea leaves should be kept in tight can or jar, free from moisture. Note. To thoroughly enjoy the nat ural, delicate and sweet flavor, neither sugar nor cream should be used. AN EDITOR MOBBED. Students of a Texas College Force Him to Retract. W. C. Brann, editor of Brann's Icon oclast, was the victim of a mob of 200 students of Taylor university, a Bap tist institution, at Waco, Texas. Mr. Brann was sitting in his publishing house when four men took him by force to the college campus and threatened to hang him. Under threats of death, he was compelled to sign a retraction of an article he had written reflecting on Taylcr university. Heir Mysteriously Kidnapped. A Philadelphia, Pa., special says: Frederick G. Rust, who is heir to a large estate near Charlottesville, Va. , but who lias been a patient in the Penn sylvania Hospital for the insane for nearly nine years, being only .slightly demented, has been kidnapped in a startling way. With one of the atten dants he entered a cab to go to one of the down town hotels to play a game of billiards. The cab was stopped on the street by Bix men, who dragged Rust in another vehicle and drove oft with him. There is no clue to the identity of the men or their destination. The 3Iayors' Convention. The mayors' convention in Columbus, O., merged themselves into a perma nent organization, and styled them selves the "League of American Muni cipalities." The following officers were elected: John McVicar, Des Moines, Iowa, president; Mayor Col ier, of Atlanta, vice-president; Mayor Black. Columbus, treasurer; and the following trustees: Mayor Warner, Peoria, 111; Councilman Walker, Ireu- ton, . J. ; Councilman .hand, .Min neapolis. Detroit, Mich., was chosen as the next place of meeting. Death of Gen. Neal Dow. Gen. Neal Dow died at his residence in Portland, Me. The end was peace ful and he retained consciousness until an hour before he died. Gen. tow was born in 1803, being 94 years old. He was the father of the Maine promo tion law, passed in 18ol. Starving at Dawson City. A special from Seattle, Wash., says five thousand miners have food for a lew weeKS oniy. ana iney are fleeing from an awful death starvation Some have dared the perils of snow bound trails to escape, and rescuers are going to get the others, lyphoid fever and scurvy are claiming victims. Gen. Miles Coming Home. Gen. and Mrs. Nelson A. Miles and and aide de camp, Capt. Morris, have sailed for the United States on the American Line steamer "St. Louis." Pithy New , Items. A Missouri man wants to establisn a cob factory at Salisbury, N. C. The orange crop of Florida promises to yield for the year about 500,000 boxes. Isaac Bell, the principal owner of the Old Dominion steamship Line, died in New York. Anrairiafire in Manitoba "has been fanned by the wind until it is close about Winnipeg. A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Santa Cruz, Cal. , the vibrations be ing from east to west. At Philadelphia John T. Starbuck, defeats Jimmie Mitchell by six yards in a twenty-five mile bicycle race. James T. Drummond, the president and founder of the Drummond To bacco Company, died in St. Louis. Loftin, the colored postmaster a.t Hosransville. Ga., will probably be transferred to some other government position. John Cheatham, white, was arrested in Rock Hill. is. U., ior tne muraer o a man a fellow -moonshiner 22 years ago, in Wilkes county Norm Carolina. BADGES AND PISTOLS. Gov. Ellerbe Orders Constables Send Them la, to Gov. Ellerbe has followed up his of ficial proclamation in regard to the re moval of the constabulary by issuing the following circular letter, which has hepin sent to everv member of the force of the State: Columbia, Sept. 27, 1897. Mr. S. State Constable: Sir: Governor Ellerbe directs me to notifv vou that vour commission as State Constable expires on the 30th day of the nresent month by virtue of his oroclamation of this date revoking all Kneli commissions. You will t that time send me your badge and pistol and an v other ororjertv you may have oe Inn orino' to the State: also ship to State Commissioner anv ' contraband goods win mav have seized and on hand at that time. Very respectfully, W. Wr. Nobeis. Clerk. On Averv side the action of the Gov ernor has been most heartily approved by all classes of people. C0LLECI0R8 DEPUTIES An Opinion by Assistant Attorney General Boyd mm RENDERS CIVIL SERVICE Null and Void, So Far as Protecting the Men Now in Office Are Con Corned. The Washington Star prints the fol lowing: Assistant Attorney-General Boyd is writing an opinion, which will probably receive the sanction of Attorney-General McKenna. sustaining the collectors of internal revenue and the United States marshal who have discharged a large number of deputies. The opinion is really in the case of Collector Brady, of Virginia, but will cover the cases of a number of Southern collectors of internal revenue, who have followed the precedent set by Collector Brady. It is said these dismissals and the at titude of the attorney have been talked over at cabinet meetings, with an agree ment that the opinion of My. Boyd shall represent the views of the President and administration. It will be careful ly worded, so that the spirit and letter of the civil service law will be upheld. The position to be taken by the decision is, that the tenure of office of a deputy collector or deputy marshal runs w;th that of the chief v h anno in ted i i i. It will be held that the positiou is one and of an administrative character that no position of this kind can be considered permanent. No official of the government, it will be held, can be compelled to do anything more than is expressly required of him and it is not required that collectors and marshals re-appoint the deputies of tneir predecessors. Mr. Boyd will hold that the collectors and marshals can appoint whoever they please and do not have to call upon the civil service commission for an eligible list. It is held by the civil service commissioners that the collectors and marshals have to make temporary appointments if they have no eligible list, and if they have an eligible list, they must select their deputies from that. WHEAT, CORN AND OATS. Good General Yield of Wheat; Corn Falls Miort. The Orange Judd Farmer in its final estimate of the year's wheat crop, says that figures based on actual threshing returns indicate a total yield of 589,000,- 000 bushels, of which 873,530,000 bush els is winter and 215,470,000 bushels spring wheat. With the exception of Illinois and Missouri, the winter wheat yield repre sents the full capacity of the soil. The spring wheat yield in Minnesota and the Dakotas has proven a disappoint ment, the aggregate being only 12y, 090,000 bushels. I he shortage there is i in a measure counterbalanced by tne i erood vield in Nebraska. Oregon and V ashmgton. Ihe report says the corn crop is exceedingly disappointing, at an outside estimate of 1,750,000,000 bushels. Drought during the past two months reduced the average con dition from 82.3 a month ago to 73.0 on October 1. An average oat yield of 29.7 per acre suggests a crop ot bi4,000,000 bushels, 100,000,000 bushels more than last year. NEGRO GIRL DENIED ADMISSION. Ex-Congressman Miller's Daughter Could Not be Publicly Taught. The Poughkeepsie, (N. Y.) Dispatch says: Ex-Congressman T. E. Miller, of South Carolina, recently applied to Eastman College for admission for his daughter, but, on account of the large number of young men from the South in the institution it was thought by President Clement C. Gaines inadvis able to give her public instruction. A letter to that effect was sent to the young woman's father, with an offer to give her private instruction, l his was not agreeable to ex-Congressman Miller and he sent his daughter to a school in Brooklyn. She is very light in color, and would not be suspected of having negro blood. Her father is a lawyer, is well educated and was recently chosen president of the South Carolina Negro Normal and Industrial College. SIX KILLED AT A CROSSING. A Passenger Train strikes a Wagon Load of People With Deadly Effect. A special to the St. Louis (Mo. ) Dis patch, from Willow Springs, .Mo. , says: A passenger tram on tne jv. u.t Ft. S. & M. R. R. , ran into a wagon containing seven persons, at Dead Man's Cut, three miles North of here instantly killing six and fatally injur ing the other one. ihose killed were Phillip L. Wooten, Phillip Wooten, Jr.. Amanda Wooten, Dora Wooten, Mrs. Francis Malbrey and an infant child four months old. Excursion Train Wrecked. One person Killed, one so badly in jured that he died soon after the acci dent and many injured is the record of a wreck on the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge at Cotopaxi, Col. , seven ty-two miles west of Pueblo, caused by the breaking of a journal on one of the coaches. Miners Demand Better Wages. The JNational Congress of miners, which has been in session at Liege. Belgum, decided to make a demand for an advance of 15 per cent in wages. If this demand is not granted by the mid die of JNovember tne executive com mittee will call a general strike. Champions of 1898. The Boston baseball club defeated the Baltimore team for the pen ant in the National league, thereby winning the Temple cup and making them the champions for 1898. Winston's Tobacco Trade. The Winston, N. C. , Tobacco Association held its annual meeting last week when President Edmunds read his annual re port, which showed that 14,061,912 nonnds of leaf tobacco were Bold on that market for $888,177. Also that 15,344,069 pounds of tobacco were man ufactured there during the past year. The stamp on revenue collections ag gregated $920,524.17. Strikers Return to Work. Four hundred longshoremen have given up the strike at Savannah, Ga., and returned to wore. THE WORLD OF TRADE. The Past Week Marked bv the In. creased Activity In Wool, Etc Bradstreet's Commercial Report for the past week says in part: General trade is marked by the increased activ ity in wooL hides, iron and steel, and their manufactured products, but busi ness in the quarantined distriots re mains at a standstill, and at all except few northwestern distribution centers in spring wheat States, where business is relatively most active, there is a check to the demand for dry goods, hats and clothing. Favorable reports come from a region extending from Knoxville to St, Paul and from Omaha to Millwaukee. The tendency is to increase the probable yield of cotton. The price movement shows a Ion? list of unchanged quotations including ' various iron and steel staples, wool, j hides, print cloths, lumber, nails, pork, beef, coffee and sugar. Increases are confined to a nominal advance for i '.thracite coal, 25 cents for Bessemer j pig iron, fractional gain for leaf to- i bacco. naval stores, butter, lard and another advance for woolen goods. Po tatoes have reacted from the extremely high prices at the West, and cotton is off further. Lead is lower, as are corn, oats and flour, in sympathy with wheat, which dropped 2 cents on Brad street's reported increase of nearly 10,000,040 bushels in the world's visible stocks. The total number of business failures in the United States for nine months by Bradstreet's is 9,8S3, a decrease of 13 per cent, from the corresponding total last year, but !3 per cent, more than i 1894 and 11 per cent, fewer than in the corresponding period of 1893. This year's failing corporations, firms and individuals report 3118,484 liabilities, a total of 30 per cent smaller than one year ago, about 6 per cent, larger than in nine months of and of 1894, and 64 per cent, less than in the corresponding period of 1893. The rate of failures in propor tion to the number in business is de creasing. With reference to liabilities the falling off is noticeably rapid, business failures throughout the Do minion of Canada amounted to 1,015 for the past nine months, a falling off as compared with last year of 150 or less than 10 per cent. Total liabilities are 10,653, OUu this year, against 312, 219,000 last year. WHEAT FROM KANSAS. Train Loads of It is Being Shipped From Charleston. Last week a trainload of wheat ar rived in Charleston S. C. , over the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad from Kansas City, and was at once stored in the grain elevator of the South Carolina and Georgia road. General Traffic Manager Emerson's trip out Vest was anything but a fail ure, it was a success, and as the re sult of his visit over 100, WX) bushels of grain are now en route from Kansas City to this port. This immense ship ment will be closely followed by an other equally as large. The facilities for exporting grain to foreign ports are equal to those of any 'ruthern port and were brought about lulouK" tuons ui rama jiau- aSar Emerson of the South Carolina aud Georgia road. The elevator is a first-class one and in construction is modern, as it disposes of grain in small er and thinner bulk than many North- n elevators. A vessel can receive a cargo of 2-jO, 000 bushels without shift ing its position, which is a great ad vantage in handling a shipment. UNDER DEATH SENTENCE. Two Condemned to Die in N. C for Burglary, Captured. A special from Red Lodge, Montana, says bneritt uun cas arrested 1. u. Moore and Charles Rich. The men are wanted at Marshall, N. C, where they are under sentence to be hanged for burglary, a capital offense in that State if committed after midnight. The names above given are assumed ones. The men are brothers named George and William Cody. George Cody says he and his brother are innocent of the crime charged. He says: "We were convicted and sentenced to be hanged Oct. 4, 1894. We carried the ease up to the Supreme Court, and while waiting -for its decision were induced to leave the jail from which murderers had dis covered means of escaping. We wan dered to Old Mexico and California, and finally came here about a year ago." Trying Gov. Atkinson's Wife. The trial of the wife of Governor At kinson, of West Virginia, began at Glennville, W. Va., after Judge Bliz zard had overruled a demurrer to the indictment The charge is forging the uame of her late husband, Judge D. C. Camden, to certain receipts. The oros- ecution is being pushed by the heirs of Judge Camden, the indictment being found shortly before her marriage to Governor Atkinson. The Governor ap peared in court with his wife, and it is said that conviction and sentence do not alarm the defendant as she will rely on her husband for a full par don. The Yellow F ever Situation. The reports from the yellow fever district, up to the 2d, says: At New Orleans there were twenty-three new cases of yellow fever and four deaths; the disease is spreading all over the city; at Edwards there were nineteen new cases and one death; at Mobile there was one case only and one death; new cases are reported, in other Ala bama towns; at Biloxi the yellow fever is becoming more malignant Cotton Mill Resumes. TheFarmumsville, Mass., cotton mil has started upon full time after a shut down of about one year. The mill is the principal industry in the village, giving employment to about 200 hands. Death of Maj. Lewis Ginter. Major Lewis Ginter. head of the firm of Allen & Ginter, branch of the Ameri. cau Tobacco Company, died at his home, Westbrook, near Richmond, Va. Aged 73 years. French Towns Ruined By Rain. Torrents of ram have fallen in the departments of Aube, Ariege and Haute Garonne. Bridges have been demolished, villages have been flooded, many houses have been undermined, aad great damage generally has been occasioned. Earthquakes In Borneo. Earthquakes are reported to have shaken many places on the northeast coast of Borneo, and a new island has been thrown up near Meoaphakul. TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH. The South. Geo. W. Reed has been appointed postmaster at Biltmore, N. C. Sarannan, Ga., is to spend $200,000 on her Bewerage system. Counterfeit half dollars are floating around some parts of North Carolina. National Pythian Press Association will meet in Nashville, Team, Oct 25-27. It is Faid Buffalo Bill's Wild West show will not come through this section this season. Attendance at the Nashville (Tenn. ) Exposition last week shewed something over 60,000. i The Supreme Court of North Carolina ! has recently granted licenses to rifty- four lawyers. j The Woman's Exposition of the Caro i linas, which was held at Charlotte, N. C. , cleared $1,782.22. The Natchez (Miss.) board of health has interdicted the pale or receipt of New Orleans papers ir that city. - A. P. Grace, of Statesville, the court stenographer, has disappeared, and all efforts to find him have been vain. A party of Savannah, Ga., darkies, who have reached Liverpool en route home, gives the usual reports about the false promises of Liberia. Ex-State Secretary Alexander Dor sey, of West Virginia, shot and killed himself at Moundsville while despond ent over his business reverses. Geo. W. Vanderbilt, who went to Europe last March, has returned and will be in Asheville, N. C. , in a few days. At Apalachicola, Fia., a white man killed a negro without provocation and came near being lynched by infuriated negroes. President McKinley and Cabinet have been invited to be present at the grand parade and collision of locomotives at the Macon (Ga.) Carnival, which takes place on the 11th and 12th. Fire at Elk Park, Mitchell" county, N. C, destroyed property of the value of 15,000, on which " there was only 2,500 insurance. Crazed hy poverty and suffering, Martha Paulson, aged 35, of Suflolk, Va., leaped m front of a railway train and was fatally mutilated. Dr. A. J. Phelns. a wealthy planter. and lately president of the Mississippi . -i - i i -c-- 1 T IT. levee board, died at Vicksburg. He was Grant's surgeon-general during the siese of Vicksburg. W. S. Robertson, president of the Watkins-Cottrell Company, of Rich mond, Va,, has purchased the business of the J. E. Diekerson Company, the largest hardware house in Asheville, N. C. Capt, B. B. Bouldin. for the past two years in charge of the revenue office at Lynchburg, Va., returns to Greens boro, N. C, to take charge oi tne omce there again. CoL W. H. Chapman, of Greensboro, succeeds Capt. Bouldin at Lynchburg. Polly Brannuni, the eldest woman in Tennessee, died the other day age at the age of Hi9. She was the daughter of a Revolutionary patriot and m her day was acquainted with Sevier, Blount, Roan, Carroll. -Sam Houston, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, Folk and other men of national reputation. The North. A big malt trust has been formed in New York. George H. Lewis, the millionair coal operator, died suddenly in Bufiaio, N. Y. The grand jury of Ripley county, Ind., adjourned without indicting the Versailles lynchers. At East Longmeadow, Mass., a mother and two children perished in the burning of a dwelling house. It is settled that the Bostons are the champions for 1 ftfS. They already have a percentage of 704, while Baltimore cannot hope to get 700. The State convention of the Demo cratic national party of Massachusetts (gold Democrats) met in Boston and nominated for Governor Dr. William Everett. The Booneville stage was held up at Ukiah, Cal. , by two masked men, and J. R. Barnett, a passenger, was shot and killed. Frank Fedellin, at Detroit killed his son and Joseph Stadelmana, and shot his wife in the right shoulder. Family troubles the cause. Mrs. Mary Devine and others, of Al ton, 111. , have sued the State, claiming $25,000 for the life of Mrs. Devine sson, who was hanged for murder twelve years ago. Two miles south of Kansas City, Mo., two men stopped a cable car and at the rtoint of pistols secured what small change the conductor had and es caped. Train roliers held up a Rock Island passenger train ten miles north of Chickasaw, I. T., and relieved the passengers of two or three hundred dollars. I Miscellaneous. November 1st is set for the date of the sale of the Union Pacific Railroad. The receipts of this government con tinue to fall many thousands of dollars daily below its expenditures. , lohn W. Mackay and I. E. Han- ckette have gone to Nevada to close a trade for the Silver Peak mines for about 1,000,000. Foreign. Spain's cabinet has resigned. Charles B. Davis, Consul at Florence, Italy, has resigned to enter business at New York. The Argentine Government has in vited bids from United Mates architects for a $4, 0t0, 000 railroad station at Buenos Ayres. h Washington. At the Monetary commission at Wash ington, D. C, J.W. Fries, of North Carolina, was appointed on the com mitte on demand obligations of the gov ernment Hal Ha! You remember," said the gentleman in the bald wig, "how all the world went to Chicago four years ago:' T do," answered the gentleman in the pea-green whiskers. Well, now, all the world has gons to Wheeling." Cincinnati "Enquire!-. Gettinsr at the Root of Ih'n-TS. Lea f sadly) I don't know wh3t to do with that boy of mine. He's been two years at the medical college, and still he keeps at the foot of his class. Perrins (promptly) Make a chiropo dist of him. TioVBits. X. C. CROP BULLETIN. A Touch of Frost in th? Mountains Without Any I)a:iiaa;?. The week ending Monday.Sept. 2Hh, 18.17, was decidedly lower in tempera ture, especially on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, which were cold and cloudy with brisk northwest winds and rata. Rain ccenrred on three days but averaged less than one inch for the State, and though of some benefit to turnips and late potatoes came too late for any other crops. Neither was there sufficient rain to fill water courses or wells. At some points whert the rainfall vas heaviest a little faii plowing and seeding was done at tht end of the week, but at most points but iittie could be done. The last three days of the week were warm and dry, and the drought cannot be considered broken yet. A touch of frost occurred in the mountains without any damage. Cotton is about all matured, and up land ail open. The rainfall was of nc value, while the high wind did some damage by blowing out lint. A further den rioration of the crop took place during the week, and there is nc doubt that the government report for September will show a great decline. Picking, interrupted for twe days by the rain, has since progressed very rapidly. Late corn did well in east ern counties, elsewhere on account ol drought it dried emmature; is beina gathered. Tobacco is nearly all houseJ and cured. Sweet potatoes and peanuta were badly damaged by drought; dig ging peanuts is progressing now. Late Irish potatoes were helped a Lt t!e by the rain, and turnips, though looking bad, have started growth since the showers. Early sown rye seems to be making a start, but most fall seeds are nearly a failure. Much rebreaking of wheat land had to be done and all fall work is being de layed. Large quantities of rough food, fodder and hay have been saved in good condition. Trees have begun to shed their leaves. BIGGEST FREICHT ENCINE. It Will Haul Forty-five Loaded Cars up a Mountain. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany is constructing, at its Juniata shops in Altoona, Benn., the largest, heaviest, and niosv powerful freight engine ever designed. It is intended to haul ore from the lakes to Pitts burg over the Erie and Pittsburg road, in competition with Carnegie's new line. It will not differ from the stand ard Pennsylvania Railroad freight engine except in size and weight, but, as it will have double the hauling ca pacity of the class R freight engine now in use, this difference is of the greatest importance. The steel boiler, or steam generator, of the new engine is a gigantic affair, 72 inches in diam eter and 24 feet in length. The sheet in the barrel of the boiler is 13-16 of an inch in thickness, fast ened with one inch rivets. It will contain 318 flues. The naked boiler will weigh 42,150 pounds. Some idea of its size may be obtained from a comparison with an ordinary boiler, which is from three-eighths to one half an inch in thickness, 18,000 to 22,000 pounds in weight and contains from ISO to 200 flues. The engine is of consolidated type, four wheels con nected with pony truck, and will weigh, when completed, ninety-six tons. The wheel centres are of cast steel, the full diameter of wheel 56 inches. The cylinders will have a 22 by 28 inch stroke. The guides will be of steel, two bars. The engine will carry 210 pounds of steam. The cis tern in the tender is constructed of steel three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and will have a capacity of 4,500 gal lons. It is expected that the new engine will haul forty-five loaded cars up the mountain from this city. The most powerful freight engines now in use haul but twenty loaded cars up the same elevation. When in service on the Erie and Pittsburg read it will be in connection with 100,000-pound cars. The capacity of the ordinary car is 60,000 to 80,000 pounds, the greater number being 60,000. The new en gine, however, will only be in com plete working order with 100-ton cars behind her, when twenty miles an hour ean be made with ease. These cars will be fully equipped with air brakes anl every appliance insuring safety, and will not carry a train crew, the w hole duty of managing the train devolving on the engineer. In this I respect the train will not differ from a J passenger train, which is controlled almost entirely by the engineer, the duties of the conductor and brakemen relating mainly to the passengers. Chinese Prodigy at Figures. Charlie Chan, a Chinese curio dealer of Colorado Springs, Col-, is a mathematician, whose ability to solve the most intricate of problems with almost lightning rapidity by use of a Chinese abacus has just come to light Some Eastern tourists made purchases of Chan the other day aggregating $3S9. 82. These purcb ases ranged from five cents to $35. The Chinaman took his rack, and before the tourists were aware he was counting he had the correct result. This excited the pur chasers to ask auestiona about the mode of calculation, and to give Chan sums to do. The party found that the merchant from the Orient had marvel ous talent in handling figures. Col lege professors were told of the prod igy, and to satisfy themselves went to his shop to put him to a test. Prob lems, ponderous and intricate, were given to him, but he proved equal to them all aid displayed a dexterity in handling his beads and an accuracy in computation that caused the profes sors to pronounce him a wonder. Chang is regarded as the wealthiest Chinaman in Colorado, and is a suc cessful business man of thirty-five toots cf flo-e. He Droudlv traces his westrv back for 2,000 years. His mnsical talent is also remarkable. . St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Teller ' Grimshaw Is the cn'y man of mv acquaintance who invariably wina n m rrnment with a woman." As- kins "How, in the name of wonder, does he do it?' Teller "Oh! he states his side of the case and walks off." Puck. The old maid's soliloquy: "At seven teen years of age I inquired which is he? At twenty, who is he? At twenty- -a-hat rm h? And now. where i& he?" Flieges.de Blattar. Royal malte.s the food pare, wholesome aad deiicioas. HP. 9 pig k ii FQYDER Absolute! Pure IIOVM. BMCTNO POWT3FR CO., MEW TOOK. THOUGHT HE WAS A H83Q.' Dilemma of tte Man Who Heia Bathtub Tosether. One of the most ridiculous situations which at the time bring the coldest sweat out of a man's brow, and ever after remain with him as a constant source of mirth, occurred to a Sheltoa merchant a few days ago. De thought he would take a bath, and as his flat is minus one of the chief requisities for the job a bathtub he extemporized one out of a small wash tub and en joyed a cooling ablution. He had just concluded and stopped from the tub for the towct when sud denly the top hoop of the tub burst with a sharp report, and the man saw to his horror that the whole contents of the tub would soon be flooding the floor. At the same moment he thought of the store beneath aud th? amount of damage the water would do as it ran down through the ceiling. He is a man of quick thought, and iu a moment he did the only thing possible, threw him self down beside the tub and. clssping his arms around it, held the already fast swelling staves together. He was successful in keeping the water in but what a situation. He dared not yell, for he was hardly in a condition to receive callers, especially as hia"ew that all in the block at the tide were of the gentler sex, and - he realized at once that the only thing left for him was to stay in that position until the return of his wife, who was out on a shopping expedition. Like the boy who saved Holland. io manfully remained in his most uncom fortable position until relief m the shape of his wife appeared. Then to cap the climax, wucn lie assea nor to get a rope or any oi l thing to tie about the tub. she, after a lon fit of uncon trollable laughter, asked him why he didn't carry the tub and contents out to the sink room and pour out tlje water. With a look that froze the smile os her face he did as she said. nd without a word donned his clothing and wandered out into the cold, unfeel ing work1., a crushed and humiliated man. Ansonla Conn. -Sentinel. A Fickle Monarch. The fickleness of monarehs is pro verbial, and is well illustrated by th movements of the King of Siam iu Scotland. As originally arranged, the visit was to last a week, Edinburgh and Glasgow sharing alike in the hon or of the kingly presence. First, the Glasgow visit was deferred, and then absolutely abandoned, while the visit to the Scottish capital was restricted to a couple of days. Glasgow is feel ing mightily sore over this curt treat ment, but even some of the hong s Edinburgh entertainers have reason for some heartburning. The royal programme on ednes- day included a visit to Edinburgh Castle, whtch contains the jewelled regalia worn by the Kings and Queens of Scotland. When the party drove up to the castle gates the King changed his mind, evidently presuming his treasure to be an insignificant article alongside some of his own costly jew els at home. At the Forth Bridge the resident engineer was about to give an explanation of the principle of con traction and expansion of the bridge, when the King interrupted him with the remark, "It's too wet," and re entered the train. Westminster Gaz Ua Another British novelist has boon si duced into coming over here by the prospect of making a few more Ameri can dollars. This time it is the retirin i and modest author of the "Zenda" stories. Lovers of the romantic have enjoyed the lively work of Mr. Haw kins, but it is doubtful If they will car at this day to hear it read by the au thor. Dickens first set the fashion of authors reading their work to audi ences, and he was followed by Thack eray and many others. But both Dick ens and Thackeray were somethingrof public entertainers, the former espe cially so. The breadth and human in terest of his writings, too, helped to make his readings a success. Ian Mac laren called forth a lively interest 1 cause he was. besides being a jiopulat writer, a noted philosopher. Mr. Haw kins is none of these thing. He is not even a public speaker, and has not yet attempted to test his powers iu that di rection. It is hardly likely that he will add to his popularity by this American trip, although, of course, his admirer.- over here will 'o glad to see him. -- Ashamed of Their Sma'l Beginnings. It is a singular fact, which we have observed on more than one occasion, that most men. when they have at tained prominence in political life, or in social life, or men of wealth, prefer not to have it said that they were once poor and had to work for a living. They seem to be ashamed of the fact that ihey have made their own way in the world and made a success of it Very often we have had occasion to notue this when called upon to write up people, and have more than once been requested not to mention the fact the subject of the sketch was once a poor fel off, engaged in some very small business, not small in the sense of being mean, but small in the sense of being insignificant San dusky (Ohio) Register. At an anarchist picnic lu New York on the Fourth "forty kegs of lx.tr. twe gallons of whisky and several dozen sandwiches" w?re consumed. Tht sandwiches probably were included bj mistake.
The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.)
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