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v on v. SANFORD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1891. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB APRIL 86, 1881 r 1* “And th# Word of the Lord oame unto Jonah the second time, saying,” From the belly of the fish Jonah cried unto the Lord, “nd the Lord heard him; and spake unto the ib, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry and (chap, a, 1, 10). Jonah’s prayer is *;ely made up of quotations from the lms, as many as eight or ten different salms being quoted from (see marginal ref rences), teaching us that afflictions Open up he mine of Scripture, and make real to us ords before unheeded (Ps. cxix., 67,71). If onah in the fish’s belly was hot hid from »od’s sight and hearing, where can we hide from Him (Ps. cxxxix., 7-101? Observe the tobedienoe of the fish. At the word of the [Lord it swallows Jonah, and at the word of tiie Lord it caste him out. Consider also the •little fish of Matt, xvii., 557, and the multi ,tudeof Johnxxi, 6, andaskyourself if like them you know no will bflt His. 2. ‘‘Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city.” How very gracious of the Lord to come to him the second time with the same .message (chap, i., 2) 1 How very patient and long suffering He is with us! ‘‘And preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee/’ This is the whole responsibility of every preacher, for we are simply messen gers of the Lord of Hosts. ‘‘Thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thoil shalt speak.” • ‘Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and Bpeak with My words unto them.” “Now therefore go. and I will be with thy mouth, and teach tnee what thou shalt say.” Ana our Lord Himself testifies that the Father gave Him a commandment what He should say and speak (Jer. i.,7; Ezek. iii., 4; Ex. iv., 12; John xii., 49). How careful we should bs to get our message correctly, and speak it faithfully in the power of the Holy Spirit! 8. “So J onah arose and went into Nineveh, according to the Word of the Lord.” Now he is obedient. This is what he should have done at first instead of going to sea. By his willfulness he has lost much precious time and grieved his Lord. But let us take it to ourselves. Are we obedient to the word of the Lord, or wasting time and grieving the Spirit by Our waywardness and disobedi ence? , 4. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey.’’ Many days had he journeyed from the seashore across the coun try (look at your map and note the distance) and much time had ne for meditation and communion with his God. However lonely the way and long the journey, he had the consciousness that he was doing the will of the Lord and that the Lord had sent him. ! ''‘And he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” What a strange cry for a lone man in a great and 'prosperous and wicked city! Who would give heed to him? who would believe him? Would they not arrest and imorisonhim as a disturber of the peace? With these things he had nothing to do; he was simply deliver ing his master’s message, and ms master would see to all else. 5. “So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sack cloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them,” God was with His servant, the Spirit of God was in the message, and where the word of a king is there is power <Eccl. viii., 4). One man with God was a majority in this case, and so also was it at Pentecost, when through Peter 8000 became truly penitent and accepted Je6us of Naza reth as Saviour and Lord and Messiah (Acta ii., 41). But here is a whole city of half a million of people affected by the word of one man—aio,Jit is not the word of a man, it is from the mouth of a man, but the words are tjw words of God. It does not say that the people believed Jonah, but that they believed o. "for word came unto the king' of- Nin eveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him. and covered him with sackcloth, ~nd sat in ashes.” So the word of the Lord through this humble man reached even the heart of the king on his throne, and he humbles himself before God, as. well as the lowest in the city. 7. “And he caused it to be proclatifced and published through Nineveh, by the decfee of the king and his nobles, saying.” The' king and his great men have put themselves on the side of Jonah and his uod. This 4a surely a great victory for Jonah, and we would ex pect to find him full of joy because of the success of his message, and to see even the king on his side for God against sin; but no, he is displeased, and very angry, and wants to die (chap iv., 1-8). “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed nor drink water.” Surely this was a great and thorough repentance, at least on the part of the king ana his great ones who ordered this Bevere fast. If you knew any one so bur dened by sin that he would neither cat nor drink till he knew his sins were forgiven you would be apt to consider him very much in earnest. 8. “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God.” Why include the cattle, for they had not sinned? Though they sin not, /el they suffer because of man’s sin, and God cares for cattle (chap. iv.t 11). The creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope; be cause the creatioh Itself also shall be deliv ered from the bondage of corruption into the .glorious liberty of the children of God (Rom. jviii., 20, 21). That the very beasts shall yet (be^blessed tap God’s redemption see Isa. xi., “Yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that Is In [their hands.” Outward sorrow without a turning away from sin would avail nothing, for Goa eearcheth the heart. And inward Borrow must be accompanied by the actual turning away from all evil. 9. “Wo can tell if God will turn and re pem that >nt, and turn away from His fierce anger, at we perish not?” Had they such light as Israel had, how they would have been encouraged! If they bad known of the re pentance of Atari), how it might have helped them (II Kings xxi., 29). 10. “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evjl way.” “The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good,” and “the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whoa© hearts are perfect toward film” (Prov. xv., 8: II Ghron. xvi.,9). He sees unbelief, and it grieves Him; He sees faith and obedience, and He is pleased. “And God repented of the evil that He had said that He would do unto them, and He did it not.” Bee His promise to act thus given at a later date to Israel (Jer. xviti., 7, 8). Although it was just as He had always done for Israel, as is fully recorded in the book of Judges^ or as in Ps. cvi. 43, 44: “Many times did He deliver them, but they provoked Him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. Neverthe less He regarded their offlction when He heard their cry.” As to God repenting, we have only to remember one or two things. Being unnhangeable, and knowing the end from the beginning, He cannot change His bind as we do or ever be sorry for anything He does (Mai. iH.. 6*Num. xxlll., 18; Acts *vM 18). But from the beginning, foreseeing all things, He knew that with individuals and nations He could pursue a certain course or mode of treatment to a certain point, and that then He would have occasion to do dif ferently; and these turning points to His modes of treatment are called repen tings. We change our mind and then change our ldnct or mode of action; He changes His ds of treatment, knowing beforehand \t He would do so just at that particular May the repentanoe of Nineveh not t upon u#,. but humble us before God! SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Southern >' Hen And Measures Paragraphed. Newsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Point* In Our Own and Adjoin ing States. VIRGINIA. The T. M. C. A. of Danville has elect* ed J, L. Atlee, Jr., of Portsmouth, their secretary. The body of a man was found in Pat rick county Tuesday horribly mangled. The name of the North Danville Pres byterian church is changed to Shelton Memorial church, in honor of the late W. N. Shelton, who made large dona tions to its building fund. Mayor Yancey, of Lynchburg, sent three small boys to the prison reform, near Richmond, Tuesday. The formal opening of of the Roanoke & Southern Railroad from Winston-Sa lem, N. C., to Martinsville, Va., was celebrated by the people of Martinsville on April 15th. A negro who has a white wife in Roan oke, says the Richmond Time*, is want ed for the murder of a colored woman who was legally married to him. The white wife has been arrested. v Lyon G. Tyler, of William and Mary’s College, has been selected as Virginia’s member of the pan-American congress in Washington. The much-talked-of fight between Bill Nally, of Washington, and Walter Campbell, of Philadelphia, took placeat Alexandria Wednesday night. ' Contra ry to all expectations it was a glove fight of ten rounds for a purse $100 to the vic tor and $35 to the vanquished. Camp bell knocked out his opponent in ten rounds. It took place on the stage of the Opera House in the presence of about five hundred spectators, and was un doubtedly the most brutal and disgrace ful affair that has ever taken place in Alexandria. NORTH CAROLINA. Dirt has been broken for the new Union depot at Raleigh. Rev. C. R. Woods, D. D., of Missouri will preach the Baccalunreate sermon at Trinity College this year. The electric street care will be running in Charlotte in a few weeks. The old horse car tracks have all been replaced witp full equipment for the electric sys tem. JBill Fife began a series of meetings in Raleigh, April 12th. The Catawba Valley Masonic Lodge, of Morganton, is to be revived. The first train on the Yadkin railroad entered Albemarle, the county seat of Stanley, on Saturday last, and John R. Drake was the only passenger. The 281st law ! passed by the re cent Legislature, allows a person, after ten days’ notice at court house, to apply to clerketo change his name—can only be changed once. A new land company, composed of Maj, L. A Burke, of Aberdeen, 8. D. Prof. Carr and S. 8. Brown, of Qreensboro, has been organized, and is buying up land around Statesville. Just what use they will make of it is not yet known. Several large capitalists from New York and Ohio have just purchasod 1, 200 acres of land in the “Southern Pines,” near Raleigh, on which they will iplant 50,000 peach and 6,000 pear trees. About 350 acres are now being cleared to begin the planting. ovum uoiwiiuiA. Rev. Peter Goldsmith and wife, left Greenville, Saturday for Guadalajara, Mexico, as a Baptist Missionary. '• The Charleston Port Society celebrated its 69th anniversary in Grace church Sunday. Two infants were cremated alive near Greenvil le, Wednesday, while their par ents were out in the fields. The aggrega te earnings of all South Carolina railroads for February were $971,900.48, an increase of $66,967.81 over the same m onth of last year. The diamond ring to be awarded to the lady who sold the greatest number of tickets for the “Fall of Babylon,” at Columbia, was won by Miss Percival. The committee has selected Greenwood for the location of the Baptist State Or phanage, whieh will be called “Carrie Maxwell Orphanage,” taking its name from a daughter of ex-Testator Maxwell, of Anderson county, who gave $40,000. The town of Greenwood gives $2,200. Charles Boyd, of Atlanta, who went to Charleston about two weeks ago, and started a watch club, was raided and fined $20 Tuesday for carrying on a game, of chance. The local jewelers got wind of his game, and forced the police to ar rest him. Boyd says he lias a jeweler’s license, and will go on with his business. A reward of $1,000 is offered for the capture of a white man and two negroes i and the recovery of $1,560 they stole from James Gardner, employed by the Brewer Mining Company, while he was returning from the town of Kershaw to tbs mine, last week. TENNESSEE. J. W. Taylor, of Omaha, Neb., has purchased a 1,215 acre .tract of manganese ore land in Wayne county. Maude Scoles, the daughter of a pros perous merchant of Hamilton county, was drowned irr Sale creek. She was rescued in ten minutes, but couldn’t be resuscitated. New York, Boston and other parties have purchased the Bellevue and High land additions, at Johnston City, of 60 acres for $75,000. ^ The county court and city council, of Chattanooga, each appropriated $500 to eutortain President Harrison during his stop there. - i The 8tivers planing mill, near the E. T. V. A G. railroad bridge, Chattanooga, was burned to the ground, Wednesday; loss, $10,000. A tvonderfol freak of nature took place . on the farm of David Stokley, at New port, a few daya ago. A cow gave birth to a calf with two well-developed heads, but the calf was dead when found. The hide was taken off and will be preserved. The northern papers are making merry at the expense of Governor Bhchanan, of Tennessee, who pardoned a man in the penitentiary, only to find out later that the fellow had forged his petition, signatures and all. There is nothing fun ny about it. The prisinor acted like a bold, bad man, and should feel thorough ly ashamed of himself. Toof, McGowan & Co., a prominent firm of wholesale grocers and cotton fac tors in Memphis, made an assignment last week. Liabilities are $137,000, as sets, *875,000. Gov. Buchanan has received a letter from John X. Richardson, special agent in Washington to collect the fund com ing to Tennessee under the act refunding the direct tax, in which he states that he has found all the assessment and sales books and other records except the stub receipt books. He is having the records copied. ' GEORGIA. The citizens of LaFayette have decided to build a fine academy and to start up a first-class school. The Compress .Company of Washing ton declared a dividend of 20 per cent, for the year past. The capital is $20, 000. In Augusta the society people are in a flutter of excitement over the claim for the estate of an old harness-maker, amounting to about $2,500, brought by the famous Hargous family, of New York. The estate was about to be turn ed over to the county, having been un claimed for twenty years. The farmers in the vicinity of Abbe ville have restricted their acreage of cot ton this year, and have correspondingly increased their acreage of grain and other crops. The wisdom of this course will be manifested when the crops are gather ed and marketed. H. C. Odom, of Leesburg, who was possibly the largest merchant in the coun ty, was closed by the sheriff under mort gages amounting $35,000. The stock yards in Augusta now have to go. The law is in effect, and the board of health is going to have the law enforced to the lettter. The Presbyterians of Cedartown have about finished their elegant $8,000 chufch, land have called for their pastor, Rev. John Knox, of Kentucky. Nine prisoners cut their way through the roof of the Fulton county jail Wed nesday night, and for more than half an hour breathed the air of freedom. When in the act of descending a rope made of blankets they were detected and recaptured. FLORIDA. J. W. Watson is the new mayor of Kissimmee. Bishop Gilmour, who has been very ill at St. Augustine, and whose life was despaired of, began to rally Sunday and continues to improve. Hon. E. S. Crell, ex-state treasurer, was elected mayor of the Palatka, Tues day on the democratic ticket. The Florida Palmetto Brush company has been organized at St. Augustine with a capital of $10,000 to manufacture brush es from the palmetto root on a larger scale than heretofore. The Tampa National Bank has been chartered to succeed the Commercial Bank at Tampa. The North Beach Railway Co. at St.' Augustine has applied for a franchise to operate a street railway by steam pow er. The white squadron sailed from Tampa for Hhvana. A nortnern party win erect an ice fac tory at Fernandina at a cost of $10,000. L. H. Davis, of New Jersey; A. R. Swoope, J. M. Bfyan and others have in corporated the Delta Canal Co. to con struct a canal from Lake "Apopka to Lake Griffin in Lake eounty. The cap ital stock is $50,000. Reliable telegrams received from Gainesville, state that the Florida crop of beans and cucumbers will bo very short, as a result of the frosts. Savannah truck ers will replant those articles heavily to meet the deficiency. The following gre the officers of the State Legislature:—Jeff B. Brown, Key West, president of the senate, and Dr. J. S. Gaskin, of Starke, speaker of the house; C. N. Finlay, of Lake City, sec retary of the senate, and Dr. William For sythe Bynum, clerk of the house. OTHER STATES. The Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney-General, of Mississippi, consti tuting a Board to fix the prices on certain public State lands, have determined to place on sale 80,000 acres of pine lands which have recently been granted to the State by the United States. The price is fixed at $2 per acre. Kansas City find Chicago packers have recently purchased 80,000 head of Texas Jattle at a cost of $2,500,000, or an aver ageof $31.25 per head. It will require 250 trains of 10 cars each to transport this stock to the packing houses. The Rt. Rev. Thomas Brennan, tho new Catholic Bishop of Texas, was con secrated at Brie, Pa., on Sunday. Texas is a new See, and Bishop Brennan is its first Bishop. A Negro Admitted to the Bor. Savannah, Ga., [Special.]—For the first time in the history of Savannahs negro was admitted to practice at the bar after passing a most rigid examination. He is John H. Kincle, of Virginia, A leading member of the bar, prominent in social life, advocated his admission Sen Butler Gets $900,0001 Washington, D. C.—General B. F. Sutler, of Massachusetts, has received from the United States treasury $200, 000 for property owned by hi™ at the corner of New .feney avenue and B streets, Washington. Emin Pssha' is engaged in constant hostilities with the Artba south of Lake , Tiptofia, Africa. ALLIANCE COLUMN. Interesting Alliance Politics From the West. The Xanana Senate Announces Itself the Defender of the State’s Honor. Topika, Kah,—The House has passed a compromise bill appropriating $60,000 for the aid of destitute settlers in the Western counties of Kansas. The Senate lias agreed to concur in the hill. The money to be used for the purchase ol seed grain in the counties where the crops last year were destroyed by drought. The following resolution has been passed ip the Senate: Whereat, the passage of the House bill commonly called the Elder tax bill and others of like character by the Hmifce of Representatives of this 8tate has caused great apprehension and distrust among thy holders of Kansas securities, and is, as we believe, doing the people of this State great and irreparable injury by causing the withdrawal of all foreign Capital from our State, thereby rendering It impossible fgr the debtor class of our people to renew their mortgages or even paytheirlinterest accruing thereon; there fore be it Beeolmt, That it is the sense of this Senate that no wild or visionary measure, calculated in its nature or by its provi sions to injuriously affect the people of this Btate or the credit of the same, can or shall pass this body. The House, in Committee of the Whole, has recommended the passage of Sena tor Richter’s Alien Land Ownership bill. The measure is a most stringent one, and provides that aliens who now own land in the State must dispose of it in ten years under penalty of forfeiture to the State. Aliens who acquire by inheritance or in satisfaction of debt must sell it within five years from the time of secur ing title. Corporations, 20 per oent. of whose stock is owned by aliens, are pro hibited from owning over 6,000 acres of land. FARMERS ALLIANCE NOTES. The National organizer of the Farmers’ Alliance is now in Oregon, and he sends word that the wheat raisers there are flocking to the Alliance standard. The Kansas Alliance leader, who lately hoisted the name of ex-Senator Ingalls as the Alliance candidate for President, has not yet met with any encouragement. , „ - The Alliance in the State of Washing, ton, which held a convention lately, took no action in behalf of a third party, bqt favored the establishment of produce ex changes and co-operative mills. The husiness managers of the Southern Farmers’ Alliance Exchange held a con tention at Birmingham, Ala. Meas ures were adopted regarding the hand ling of this year’s cotton crop and the establishment of a cotton tie factory, and other business of a practical kind was transacted. Several branches of the Farmers’ Alli ance have recently - been organized in New Hampshire- The charge that Senator Chandler has been coquetting with the Alliance is the subject of a great deal of speculation in both parties in the State. The Boston Herald has obtained inter views regarding the Farmers’ Alliance from a large number of the Old Grangers of Massachusetts. Nearly every one of them says that the Alliance cannot find favor in the New England States. According to the Secretary of the Minnesota Alliance, there are over 60, 000 members of the organization in that State; and both of the political parties are afraid of its power. The leaders of the Kansas Alliance are preparing for the local elections next1 month. The women are even more active in the political field than they were last year. ill JXatioaalista of Rhode iBland, who are anxions to join forces with the Farm ers’ Alliance, have nominated a full State ticket for the spring elections on a Socialistic pl&tform. The candidate for Governor is an engineer, the candidate for Lieutenant-Governor is a newsdealer, and the other candidates are mechanics or shopkeepers. The New Nation says: “To the Nationalists of Rhode Island has been reserved the distinction of bringing out the first full-fledged party ticket.” Some of the Western farmers are hav ing hard luck. The following pathetic announcement is made in the news col umns of a Nebraska paper: “John, Thompson's dogs are all dead but twelve.” A Thoroughbred Son Juan. Parkersburg, W. Va., [Special.] — Oliver Deacon, a well-known society young man of Tom’s Creek neighborhood, Cabel county, has made a reputation as a Don Juan. He deceived a young woman namod Hash under promise of marriage, and officers were sent after him, but he made his escape into Kentucky. He was to have married Miss Hash on March 30. it now appears that the Hash girl is not she only one interested in Deacon’s whereabonts. There are no fewer than dghteen young and handsome women in the same neighborhood to whom Deacon was engaged on the date fixed for his wedding with Miss Hash. People in Cabel county threatened to hang Deacon, but he evidently considers himself safe, as he has written a friend that “they don’t hang gentlemen in Kentucky.” Bo Says the Leader of the 400. “The Prince of Wales,” said Ward McAllister the other day, “is the best dressed wnuisn In the world. I don’t believe that she ever wears the same dress twtee, and she has her hair dressed in Paris every day. She wears false hair, you know, and she sends her wifts over to Paris daily. While one wig is going across the Channel to France to be dress ed the other is coming to London, April Bnow in Alabama. 1 Birmingham, Ala., .[Special.]—Snow fell hqte and all over North Alabama Sunday. The fall was slight, but it was 1 the first April snoff jp tjjis vicinity iij over 40 yens. ‘ . THREE BRITISH SYNDICATES. Buying Up Large Properties in the South for Development. Baltimore, Md. , [Special.]—This week’s Manufacturers’ Record publishes extracts from a letter of an English cor respondent holding very intimate rela tions to iron and steel and financial cir cles of Great Britain, which states that the British company which has purchas ed property in Sequatchie valley, East Tennessee, has £300,000 capital and is the strongest English directory yet organ ized for operations in the south. The American representatives are John H. Inman, John C. Calhoun and General Chamberlain, of the Southern Iron Com pany, of Chattanooga. Another syndicate has sent out an emi nent British expert to examine 100,000 acres of timber, coal and iron and fireclay lands on Licking river, . in Kentucky, which will be purchased-and developed if the expert’s report is satisfactory. A third syndicate, with a capital stock of £4,000,000, is being organized to make extensive purchases in the south,for which negotiations are now in progress. This company is to secure its property in time to begin work next autumn. The same writer says that the recent rumors that the British syndicate behind the Kimball town company of Tennessee haspurchas ed also the properties of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, in that state, and will unite all its acquisitions under one management, are correct. This reported purchase does not include the Alabama properties of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. .VIEW OYSTER FIELDS. Governors of Maryland and Virginia to Inspect Them. Richmond, Va., [Special.]—Governor McKinney received a letter from Com mander Joseph B. Setb, of the Maryland state fishery force, which reads: ‘ ‘Governor Jackson wishes me to confer with you and arrange a time when you can give us a day or two to look over our oyster fields. He would like a time between the 15th of April and the 15th of May, but will accept your convenience,” “Governor McKinney’s private secre tary, Mr. McLeod, replied: “I am in structed by Governor McKinney to ac knowledge the receipt of your communi cation of the 3l8t uit., and say in reply that he will be glad to go over the oyster fields with Governor Jackson and your self, and have a full and free conference with you and him on the Oyster ques tion, and thinks it may result in good to both States. “I would suggest that the best and most pleasant time would be some time in May. Make up your mind as to the exact date, and we will arrange to meet you at any time and place you may desig nate.” MR. INMAN HAS CONTROL. The Annual Election of the Tennes see Coal and Iron Company. Tracy City, Tenn., [Special.]—The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was held here, and resulted in the election of almost an entirely new board of directors. John H. Inman’s friends held a majority of the stock by proxy and otherwise, with the result that the old board named by William Duncan was retired. The following are the d - rectors elected: John H. Inman, Thom as |C. Platt, C. C. Baldwin, W. C. Shel don, James Stillman, F. T. Brown, James T. Woodward, Samuel Thomas and A. B. Boardman, of New York; Thomas Barrett, Napoleon Hill and Enoch Fry, of Memphis; Nat Baxter, Jr., and A. M. Shook, of Nashville, and T. T. Hillman, of Birmingham. The direc tors met for organization April 15th, in New York, and. Nat Baxter, Jr., was elected president, wj^ich office he filled before, when Inman was in control. He Knew Memphis. He was a backwoods Tennesseean seeing Washington last week, says the Star, with an official friend, and the last night they did ‘‘Cleopatra” as presented by Mrs. Bernhardt., He was greatly impressed by the per formance, and in that scene where the Egyptain Queen 6its upon “ the terrace overlooking Memphis, his enthusiasm bubbled over. e “Moonshine and Molasses!” he ejacu lated in a whirring whispeV; “ain’t that a socker from the headwaters? What is it anyhow?” “It’s Memphis.” Whispered the offi cial, holding him down. “Come off,” he said, after a moment’s reflection, “it ain’t. They don’t talk French in Memphis. I sold a car load of rinses down there last fall.” Small Grace for Hawkins. Washington, D. C.—John -Hawkins, who embezzled $320 in money orders from the postoffice at Newberry, 8. C., will have to serve all but one month of his imprisonment. ^ The President, in acting upon Hawkin’s appeal for a,par $on, made the following endorsement upon the back of the application: “In consideration of the fact that Hawkins had served one month in jail after sentence,his term of imprisonment is commuted to fourteen months.”* The original sentence was fifteen months and a fine of one hundred dol lars. Attorney General Miller declined to recommend Executive clemency. An appeal was made to show that Hawkins was an illiterate man, not familiar with the law and was led to do wrong to as sist hi* largo f amUj; - - - ■— Pool Sellers to Test a New Law. Nashville, Tenn., [Special.]t—It is understood that men who have hereto fore conducted pool rooms in this city will open a room on the Memphis races and endeavor to make books, the object being to test the constitutionality of the act recently passed by the General As sembly, confining all betting on races to the tracks on whieh the races are in progress. The old law gives the pool men the right to open books at any place on races run in the State, but the new law gives them no such tight. BAENUM IS NO MOEE. The Great Showman, After a Long And Useful Life, Dies at His Homs in Bridgeport, After Three Konth’s Illness—His Travels in the South Before The War. Bridgeport, Corn., [Special.]—'The great showman, P. T. Barnum, passed away at 0:22 o’clock in the evening, in the presence of his grief-stricken family. Dunnjr the period of Mr. Barnum’s in P. T. BJJWUM. validism and confinement to the house, which began twenty-one week9 ago last Friday; there have been frequent fluctua tions in his condition, from each of which he rallied, although in each instance with slightly lowered vitality. Mr. Barnum sank into comatose condi tion, from which it was evident that there would be little hope of his again returning to consciousness. When the end finally came, it was peaceful, and to all appearances, painless. The physicians say that Mr. Barnum had no organic disease, whatever, the en feebled heart action which had been ap parent for the past few months being due to the gradual failure of his general men tal powers, resulting from old age. He was above eighty. Phineas Taylor Barnum was born at Bethel, Conn., July 5th, 1810. After clerking awhile, he opened a country store, and made money out pf various lottery schemes. In 1829 he be came the editor of The Danbury Herald of Freedom. * ^ Moving to New York in 1834, he pur chased Joyce Heath, an aged colored wo man, for $1,000, and exhibited her as Geovge Washington’s nurse. He made $1,500 a night out of the show, and soon had money enough to organize a small traveling company. With this company, some time during 'he thirties, he traveled southward in wagons. At that time there was no rail loads, and few towns in north Georgia. Following the old Indian roads through Georgia, he entered Alabama, on his way to Montgomery. One man in the com pany was very eager to get into a row with the Indians, and his blood-thirsty talk made Barnum resolve to test his courage. The showunan took a few mem bers of the company into his confidence, and at a given signal they dasnted out from the woods in all the glory of red paiut, feathers and blankets, brandishing their tomahawks and yelling like mad. mec. •i us! as Darmim expecieu, me man wuo was hunting for a fight put spurs to the horse and fled at lightning ^peed in the direction of Montgomery. He was final ly overtaken, but the adventure mortified him so much that he embraced an early opportunity of leaving the company. At one place on his southern trip, Bar num came near losing his life. He had blacked his face, and was taking a negro minstrel part in the performance, when he heard a quarrel at the door of the tent. Forgetting his black face, he went out and endeavored to quiet a drunken white man who was trying to force his way in. The stranger at once drew his pistol, swearing that “no d—d nigger” should talk to him in that style. Noth ing but presence of mind and a prompt explanation of the situation saved the manager, and after that when he blacked his face, he was careful not to forget his assumed character. He discovered Tom Thumb and start ed him through Europe, meeting Queen Victoria, and other crowned heads. Later he brought Jenny Lind to this country, and made a fortune out of her. He failed in business many times, but always picked himself up again, His museum in New York, and his circus, are famous all over the world. He was a staunch republican, and was once defeated for congress in Connecti cut. During the first Cleveland cam paign, he offered to sell out his Connecti cut property at 25 cents on the dollar, if the democratic candidate was elected. After the election, he was challenged to stand by his promise, but he backed out. His books, “The Life of P. T. Bar num,” “Struggles and Triumphs,” and “The Humbugs of the World,” have been widely read. Mr. Barnum frequently lectured onj temperance and other popular subjects. He was always a moral man, kind-hearted and charitable, and many of the greatest men of the country were his intimate friends. Several times during his career he was forced to begin life anew without a dollar, but people felt so much confi dence in his integrity and ability, that they were always glad to help him. Had his energies been directed in other chan nels he would have di-tinguished him self in more useful and reputable walks of life. As it is, he made himself the prince of showmen. * ~ Death of Sister Mary Stanislaus. Csablebton, 8. C., [Special.j—Sjster Mary Stanislaus, known in the world as Miss Catherine Coventry, and one of the oldest sisters in the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, died at the advanced age of eighty-one years. She took the veil in 1846. She was the leader of the band of sitters who left here at the opening of hostilities, and served during the entire confederate war in the hospitals of Vir ginia. She was a devoted adherent to | the lost cause. • A Tonngr Hu la AMm. the 1 i trade. If a young mu ia really bound to { to Africa he can find an opportunity way or another, and if he doeen’t i roughing it in a savage lud and a healthful climate, he haa plenty c periences and adventures tkat are times exciting if not always eg and does not regret“his visit to world. Mr. Carl Steokletnann, a I navian who lived m Indiana, is su ample of this sort of a young man. went to Africa a poor boy when he\. hardly out of his teens. He was'd termined to go and see something of .. land which Stanley and others had i eloquently described. Casting about f an opportunity, he finally succeeded i securing employment at the station <;" Liverpool firm in the West African tre. - and a short time after found him Mayumta, some way above the mouth of the Congo. Here he lived fpr ab three years, during which time, he le| the Piote language, studied the ni carefully and collected a great deal of i formation about their hatuts and folk lor made an overland expedition through tt little known valley of the KwilUrSTrati t Stanley pool, and finally returned to this county with one of the largest collections of African curiosities that has ever been brought here. His fine examples bf na tive carvings, cloth and many other manufactures have been seen try many thousands of our people, particularly in Indiana and Ohio. Stecklemann had no ; intention of remaining here very long. Nearly two years ago he returned to the west coast again, and is now at the head of the large trading station where he was originally employed as a clerk. When he was passing through New York two years ago on his way back to Africa, he said he loved that country very much, and that it was the ambition of his life as soon as he had accumulated money enough to do something in the way of original explorations.—Goldthihaite’t Geographical Magazine. . , -~0 Galveston Will Honor the President. Gauveston, Texas, [Special.]—Mayor Fulton sent a message to the City Coun- . cil sayiog that President Harrison, ac-. companied by a distinguished party, ■would arrive here on April 18, and re main two days. Inasmuch as this would be the first time in the history of the State and the city for the Chief Magis trate of the nation to honor Texas and Galveston by a visit, he suggested that the Council take such action as was nec essary to accord to the party a reception commensurate with the dignity of the occasion. Preliminary steps are now be ing taken, and the Presidential party will be received cordially. Great Confederate Gathering; United States Senator Walthall and Ex-Governor Lowry will deliver orations at the unveiling of the Confederate monu ment in Jackson, Miss., on June 8rd. Governor Lowry will, it is understood, offer a tribute to the l te Jefferson Davis, while Gen. Walthall will speak of the Confederate cause. It is expected to be the greatest demonstration of Ex-Confed erates iu Mississippi since the war, and preparations for the event are .projected on a big scale._ , | A Female Miser Starves to Death. New York City, [Special.]—Kate lloach, aged 60, one of the characteis of the 4th ward, was found iu her miserable hovel, slowly dying of starvatiou. She was removed to the hospital where the doctors say she cannot recover. A search was made through her apartment, and amid the rags and squalor, the of ficer found over $2,000 in gold and bills, and bank books, calling for nearly $4,000 more. __^_ A Chimney 460 Feet High. The chimney for the royal smelting works of Saxony is to be 460 feet in height, and to have an inside diameter of twenty-three feet at the base, tapering to 16^ feet. A flue, 1093 yards in length, connects the works with the chimney, which is on a hill about 200 feet higher than the works_America» Machinist. Bids for Government Building Sites. Washington, D. C., [Special ] -.Olds were opened at the Treasury department for sites upon which to erect public buildings in the following cities: Utids ville, N. C.; Meridian, Miss.; Home, Ga.; Staunton, Va., and Norfolk, Va. A number of sites were offered for sale to the government at each place. A special agent will be sent to each city to examine the sites offered. Beating the Half-mile Becord. Mobile, Ala.—The world’s halfmile walking record has been.broken here by Henry G. Elink, Jr./thS present cham pion one-mile walker of the world. Elink did the half-mile in 2 minutes and 65 sec onds on a sandy track, five laps to the . half mile. The record for half a mile was formerly 3 minutes 12-4 sconde. Yellow Fever on Shipboard. Southampton, Eng., [Cablegram.]— The Briti-h steamer Trent, from iiraiihan , zrr.rr . emU id been placed in qjiarai During the passage ports and the Kiver Flattc, has arrived here and been placed in quarantine. During the passage from Brazil four deaths from yellow fever occuri board the Trent. The steamship's had not yet been landed A viaduct costing $4,000,000 has cently been finished at Melbourne, Au trails. The work of constructing it volved some eight or nine mites of neling and eleven miles of iron pipes i syphone. By this additional waters Melbourne will be eble to supply i tion from #50,000 to 700,000. Freezing Weather in Jackson, Miss., [Special. |—' cury here Saturday night went the freszing point and mat< aged tender vegetation of alt The Saltan of Turkey hs» given I sums of money to aid the C ers by the recent ioin»<' fas is very anxious to 1 Germany and to lettoot will) that Empire.
The Sanford Express (Sanford, N.C.)
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