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Swain County Herald. Published Weekly at Brieon Cttyt H. A. Hodgo, Ed. & Pub I A young woman at Oktend', Belgium, Is said to take a tea Uath every day in the year, remaining inf the water about fifteen minutes. The enterprising Washington corre tpondeut of a Western paper recently telegraphed to his paper an imaginary Interview with Dr. WhartoD, the acknowledged authority on international law. When he saw the paper the next morning he was horrified to learn that Dr. Whar;ea had died early the previou? evening at the time when he wai repre sented a3 chatting with the corre spondent.. The present year will witness the ad dition to the United States Navy of at least fire new ve3?els, the Vesuvius, Yorktown, Charleston, Petrel and Balti more, with the possibility of the Con cord and Bennington joining the num ber. The Philadelphia and Newark will also be launched tbi summer from Cramps" yards, so that the coming fll will see the trial of naval vessels follow ing one upon the other in quick suc cession. The wotk on the Concord and "Bennington is being pushed steadily forward, and it h expccteU that both vessels will be launched before July. A rather novel proceeding took place a few evening ago, says the Ne? Orleans ' IWies-DiiAorra', on the public square of Helena, Ark. A white mac had been fined for carrying concealed weapons, and he did not desire tb go to jail, and did not have enough to paj the fine and costs. Under the law, as it now staftd-t, and the county convict farm ha? been abolished, tjie white man was fjut up for sale by the constable (a coHJTeM ma i) a :d sold. He was bought in at the late of twenty-five cents per day for as Miany days a it would tak the prisoner to work out the fines and cost3 at the rate of seventy-five cent per day. : ... - The other night in the city coart, states the Constitution, occurred one of the most remarkable linguistic perform- j anccs ever witnessed in an Atlanta court of justice. It was in the case of J)utto Tumasso, who is suing the Atlanta and West Ind Street Railway for damages. There whs a witness on the stand who spoke only French. There was only one interpreter who spoke French, and he poke only French and Italian. There was only oco Italian interpreter who spoke Italian and English. So the testi mony of the witness delivered in French as trans'ated icto Italian by the first interpreter, then from Italian into Eng lish by the second interpreter, and thus through three tongues reached the judge. The i Chinese Navy has wonderfully Improved, writes Frank G. Carpenter, since the late war with France. . Thoir Northern Bquadron is commanded by an English naval officer, and their ships, built in England and Germany, are among the best of tho small men-of-war afloat. They carry the latest improve ments in the way of guns and the hulls of some of their boats are of steel. They are, I am told, now making gunboats of the'r own, and they have a cruiser of 2100 tous and of 2100 horse-power, which they built not long ago. The country has but a small national debt, amount ing, say the statistics, to not over $23, 000,00i and by a judicious taxation it could establish a navy and army which mitrht make the rest Of Asia tremble. Electrical science seems to be branch lag out into new f.elds almost daily. One of the latest developments to be ex plained and illustrated "in the electrical press is an electrical aid to the rapid compilation of statistics, now in use ic the otlice of the Surgeon-'Jeneral,' United States Army, for compiling tlio army health statistics. The facts iu the indi vidual record are punched f orn uniformly . printed recordiug cards, and tabulation of these card is entirely mechanical andH electrical, the cards being run through a press and there-ulting electrical con nection through the punched holes beinir recorded upon a series of counters ar ranged to register to ten thousand. Any desirable or possible combinations of the date recorded upon the cards may be electrically tabulated. It is proposed tc employ this machine in the digestion oi the statistics of the eleventh census, which is soon to be taken. - A letter from Co3ta Pica says that the people there tako life easily. It takes twenty employes to run a short train of cars. AU dress in reorgeous uniforms, and the conductor is resplendent in sil ver and gold decorations. Passenger purchase tickets on credit, and sixty days are allowed for the payment of freight bills. Out in tho country goods are car ried by ox teams, and it frequently take-, a team a week -to make fifty miles. No body is in a hurry, and nobody cares to do to-day what can be put oi until to morrow. The necessarses of life are cheap, and long credit is forced upon the purchaser. Nobody steals anything, and a poor teamster will carry thousands of dollars many miles for thirty cents. Such a thing as highway robbery is un heard of. The people have no violent prejudice against anything except hard work, and they will do anything to help a stranger until he proves hiniself dis agreeable. Then they will notify him j to leave, and if he is slow about it they I w!l foroe him to go. Altogether, Costa ! Kica Is a pleasant country for a lazy I man. . . ! . INDUSTRIAL GROWTH THE SOUTHS BOOM HAS COME. Nearly Sixty Millions Capital Organized or Enlarged Since Jan. l The Manufacturer1 Record publishes itswuartcrly report of the Sou h's indus- trial progress, giving tne car and character of business of lamp, location 1,259 new industrial enterprises that havje b?en or- gauized since January 1st. of capful and capital stock bv this list of new enterpri The amount presented SOB and tne enlargement of old plants duriu g the last three months, as compared time in 183S, was as follows: ith same State. Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi N. Carolina S. Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia 1SS9. $10,078,000 3,052,000 704,000 4,953,000 8,551,000 1,920.000 4,118,000 709,000 '2,12,0G0 860,000 4,839,000 0,945,000 5,2SG,000 3,390,000 1S83. ti,093,000 1,950,000 1,313,000 2.793.0C0 5,466.000 1,233,000 2,069,000 ! 491,000 3,000,000 1,844.000 3,519,000 6.424.000 2,990,000 1,477,000 Total "158,227,000 $S.668,000 These figures show a gain of near $20, 000,000. The comparison of new enter prises organized cr projected during the last three months, as compared with the corresponding time in j 1888, gives the following: 1839. Iron furnaces j 19 Machine shops & foundries 41 Agricultural implement I factories 4 Flour mills : 39 Cotton mills 33 Furniture factories j 22 Gas works 1 0 Water works 25 Carriage and wagon fac tories I j 14 Electric light companies 05 Mining and quarrying en terprises i i j 141 Wood working factories, ' etc., 325 Ice factories 31 Cunning factories 40 Stove foundries 1 Brick works . ' 52 Miscellaneous iron works, rolling mills, etc., j 21 Cotton compresses -1 j ; 5 Cotton seed oil mills j 16 Miscellaneous enterprises not included in fore going j: j 354 1888. 3 36 4 35 32 16 10 26 27 42 139 253 12 103 2 . 38 277 Total 1,259 1,070 "The bare recapitulation of xiinor en terprises and industries outside af mines, railroads, furnaces and factorie i under taken or enlarged in the bouth during the past three months is a task in itself, but what with the proiects rtnat are formirjjr. mnnv all but executed! and the building outlook in almost every city and town, the industrial record for the year promises to be the greates in the enter- aouth's history. The range df "prise is vast and really emb aces the whole field of industry. &c krcelv a week has passed since the opjening of the year that has not witneasedlthe for mation of companies backed bv millions of capital to prosecute great enterprises, w hile the number of smaller brut none the less important ventures hasl surpris ingly multiplied.- The fact is that the Scmth's real boom has come." The Imperial Chinese Marriage. The fourth day of the twelfth moon "was sehcted a3 the auspicious date when the preliminary presents of the Chinese Emperor's weddiDg were to lie taken over to the residence oi the br de-elect. On this day all the Princes, Dukes, and 31iuisteis of state wore the r court dresses, and the eunuchs and oi her per sonal attendants put on i their embroid ered robes. The gates of the Forbidden City were festooned with lant :rns and ornamental balls, made by knot :ing to gether silk bands. The imperii ,1 house hold prepared 200 ounces of gold,-10, -000 ounces of silver, and one j:old tea set, two silver tea sets, one silv?r basin, 1000 pieces cf cloth, twenty pon e3, With saddles and bridles complete. T ic Board of Ceremonies appointed 1 i Hut g Tasso, director of the Court of Tacrine lal Wor ship, and Tsung Chu than, Pre ident of tho Colonial Oltice, to take th 2se pres ents to the residence of the bri le elect, accornpanied by the usual eunuchs, and deliver them over to the limperi il father and mother-in-UTwV j ( The actual presents given to I uke and Duchess Kwei (the l.mperor's uaents-in-lawj cansistcd of 100 ounces of gold, one gold tea set, one silver tea set, o'JQO ounces of silver, one silver bas.D, 500 p'eces of satin, 1000 pieces of c oth, six ponies, one saddle and bridle, 4ue bow and arrow, two sets of court presses, two sets of unofficial dresses one for summer and one for winter ', ope sable garment and one waist band. TH i broth- ers of the bride-elect also received ap propriate dresses as presents. I ! When these presents arrived at the residence of Luke lvwei he and his Duchess eceived them at their door, upon their k iees, in token of their profound apprec ation of the imperial favor. They then enter tained at lunch the high dignitaries who came as bearers of these nuptial gifts. The imperial household gava instruc tions to the manufacturing department ol the Board of Works to ha.-e four sedan chairs made in preparation for his Majesty's marriage, one ph i ni: ;: chair, one ceremecial chair, and two yellow ceremonial chairs. The Imperii I Equi page Department directed thai j sixty four of the most experienced chr ir bear ers be selected, and these p act iced carrying tho lmrer.al wedding- chair once every three days before the mar riage, so that no accident mightfha -pen on tne nappy occasion. ;a i jctincuca Chronicle. A New Southern Eoute. PHn.ADBt.pniA. pa. The Pennsjl- vania Railroad Company, it is said is negotiating for a new route to the south. The contemplated plan provides for the extension of the 2sew York, Philadtlphi a ana JNorioiK into the western North Carolina, thence to Cha part of rieston, and then to arrange a traffic contract with the Seaboard and Koan loke ; the Raleigh and Gaston, the South C aroiiua, the Augusta Air Line, aod other and smaller lines. The agreement stated, is now being considered it- is by.' the diiectors, with some prospect cf f ul termination. ' success - Old Lady (in drugstore) "Can l taki this medicine, young fellow, with im punity?" Boy (busy eelling stamps) yes, yrou can take it witji impunity, oi with a-little milk and lime 'iratei'K F0E F0EEIGN MISSIONS!. E. T. Lincoln for England, Egan for Chili Pension Commissioner. : ROBEET T. U5COLS. Robert Todd Lincoln, norainatel by the President as United States Minister to Eng land, U the son of the late . President Abra ham Lincoln, and was born in Springfield, 111., in 1843. From a local school he was sent to the Illinois State University, and thence to Harvard in 18-30, where he graduated in 1864. He entered the army In the winter cf that year as a Captain ou "General Grant's staff, and took part in the operations wbicb re sulted in the surrender of Lee at Appomat tox, at which he was present. President Lin coln received the first news cf Le's surren der from bis son, who reached Washington, April 14. The President was assassinated that evening. Young Lincoln resigned his commission in the army and entered the law firm of Scam mon, McCajg & Fuller, in Chicago. He has continued to practise at the Chicago Bar, with some interruptions, ever si oca He went to Europe in 187:2, where he remained several months. President Garfield appointed him Secretary cf War in his Cabinet in 1SS1. Since his re tirement from that position be has frequent ly, been mentioned as a possible Presidential candidate. Mr. Lincoln is married to a daughter of ex-Secator Harlan, of Iowa. PATRICK EGAN. Patrick Egan was born in County Long ford, Ireland, about 1840, 'and received a gooi English education. He moved to Dublin when a boy and became a clerk in a Mercan tile o!fice. Later he became Secretary of the City Miliing Company and had a stand in the'Dublin Corn Exchange. :i He was connected with the Fenian onani 2a;ion iu ls33,and later was somewhat promi nent in Isaac Butt's Home jEule movement. Ha wa with Michael Davitc, one of the original members of the Land League, and was its first Treasurer. To avoid the seizure of ths funds by the English Government on the passage of Secretary Forster's Coercion Act he moved to Paris ia 1831, and managed the finances of the organization from there for two years. Returning to Dublin he resumed his busi ness in grain and was also interested in a series of bakeries and provision stores. Learnin? that the Government intended arresting him he made his escape to this country and settled ia Lincoln, Neb., six year3 ago. There he has been engaged in the grain business and ia real estate transactions ever since . : COR?OP.AT. TASSER. Ths above; is a portrait of Corporal Tanner, of Brooklyn, N. Y". , the United States Com missioner of Pensio.i. Commissioner Tan ner is no .v in possession of th; office to which he was nominated, th3 Sanate havinz con firmed him the day after his na ne was 33at in by the President. His Chie? Clerk is A. W. Fisher, of North Carolin i. A Big Whaling Story. Captain Samuel Feirick, of the schooner James H. Gordoa, which has arrived at Bal timore from Charleston, S. C, reports that when about seventy-five miles E. S. E. of Cape Henry, a school of whalas was mat. They came so close to the vessel that pieces of wood were dropped on their backs, at which they squirted fountains of water in the air. At one time the sea appeared like a mass of confused fire from the gambohng of the creatures. Lines of phosphorescent light, sometimes as far as the eye could reach, were visible from the ship's deck, as ths whales raced after one another through the water. All that night the mignty fish played around the vessel without accident. At 6:30 o'clock on the morning of ' the 25th the Gordon suddenly "brought. up" being shaken from stem to stern. Looking over the bow, it was seen that the vessel had struck a monster whale. Ths water was dis colored and blood yehowinj that the Gor don had struck the fish a terrible blow. The whkles disappeared from about the vessel shortly after the collision. Captain Pedrick is confident there were 109 whales- in ths school, all of which, the first mate, an oil whaler, says were sp?rm whales. It is sup-' posed they were attactedin shore by follow ing the schools of mackerel now off ths coast. A Triple Mnrdar. . TV. H. Harvey, bookkeeper for W. J. Lyow, of Guelph, Canada, was arrested, charged with embezzling f 40J0 from his em ployer, and was shortly afterward bailed out by. Dr. Lett. During the forenoon Harvey purchased a revolver. The Chief of Police had occasion to visit Harvey'e residence dur ing the afternoon and found the house clcce-l. -. - Forcing an entrance he found Harvey's Ut t'e girl ot twelve years lying dead on the floor of the front bedroom w4tb a "bullet hole yaherjead. Turning from the -awful sighs he found the eldest daughter lying beside a td dead The chief then wfentdown stairs and found Airs. Harvey with. sqfcimUar bullet wound. Harvay was sesn drirlpV jward Schaw station, and was pursued- tot-, arrested. Harvey was Superintendent of. St. George V Church Sunday-school. He attempted M nauraer his son and' commit , suicide beira beimr arristsd. ' T B ALL OVER THE SOUTH NEWS FE0M EACH STATE Fanner'a Alliance Activ&-Uote3 of Acci dents, Eta, Classified. SOUTH CAROLINA. Jack Wede, who wss disemboweled in Colleton county, by Ed. Seilet?, died at the city. hospital ia Charleston Wednes day. The Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago railroad will" erect their machine shops at Blacksburg. $ 10,000 worth of machin ery has already been purchased. The Ninety-six Manufacturing Co. has been incorporated for the manufacture of cottonseed oil and fertilizers in the town cf Ninety-six. The capital stock is $20,000. $75,000 is to be raised in South Caro--lina and the same amount in Savannah, and northern capitalists will furnish the rest of the money necessary for building the Southbound Railroad from Colum bia to Savannah. . Northern capitalists are prospecting in Orangeburg and Berkeley counties with a view to buying 50.000 acres of timber lands, and contemplate, it is said, build ing a large saw mill aod f urniture factory if purchase is made. A. M. Flagler's yacht "Oneida" ar rived at Charleston from New York Tuesday. His married- daughter, Mrs. F. II. Bennett, of New York, came on the yacht and died during the voyage. The yacht came in with colors at half mast. " At Charleston two negroes named John Rose and Jacob Weiress -juarrelled about ten cents which one owed, the otner. weiress nai a shoe kniie as sharp as a razor and with jit he the neck of Rose and then fled. stabbed "A po lice man on horseback pursued him and captured him. The wounded' man is now at the hospital and will not recover. The report of the special committee appointed by the Diocesan Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church to try and arrange a settlement of the color question, which led to the secession of nearly all the Charleston churches two years ago, is published. The report recommends a compromise which pro poses to admit colored clergymen to the convention who have been in connection with the church for 12 months prior to May, lj889. It also proposes a separate convocation for the colored churches under, the alministration of the Bishop. provision is made for the admission of colored lay delegates. The Diocesan Convention meets at Anderson in May next. . : j VIRGINIA. New York parties have bought the Dismal Swamp canal for $85,000, and will deepen it and lengthen the locks. Ida Shumate has been appointed post master at Covington, Fauouier oounty, and A. II. Myers, at Eagle Rock, Botetourt county. The Richmond Locomotive and Ma chine Works wiljl enlarge their works to turn out 100 standard locomotives in ad dition to their present output. The Richmond Chemical Works has been incorporated with James G. Tinsley, President, and 8. W. Travers, secretary and treasurer, to build fertilizer and chemical works in Richmond. The cap ital stock is $100,000. The Iron Gate Land and Improve ment Co. w ill build " a manufacturing town at Iron Gate, near Clifton Forge. Have privilege of building iron fur naces, water work?, factories, etc. Cap ital stock is $2,000,000. Harry Payne, a ten- year boy at Roa noke was struck on the head with with a baseball bat in the hands of a .negro boy about the same age. Testimony be fore the coroner's developed that he was murdered. The youthful criminal was jailed. In June last Jed Pritchett outraged the person of a small white girl, near Danville, and was condemned to die. His execution took place Friday at Dan ville, and was highly sensational. ,He fought like a tiger and refused to stand on the trap. The trap was finally sprung, and the poor wretch was pushed off the scaffold to his doom. The services of four deputies were required to execute him. Under the new statute the body was shipped to the University of Virgin ia for dissection. :' TENNESSEE. A new $20,000 jail is being erected in Athens. The American Investment -Company with a capital of $500,000 has been chartered at Chattanooga, Hon John R Neal, member of con gress from the third Tennessee district, in the fiftieth congress, died at his home, Rhea Springs, after an illness of two months of consumption of the bowels. Governor Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, will deliver an address at the Scotch Irish Congress, to be held in Columbia in May, He will be the especial repre sentative of Kentucky. Silver, lead and alumiaum ores have been discovered near Murfreesboro. A syndicate of capitalists have leased about 600 acres and are testing the ore. They will purchase mining machinery for de veloping the mine. - At an! election held in Chattanooga, the insurance of $700,000 In bonds for streets and sewers was approved by a vote thirty times as many for as against it. The city is wild, with excitement over the almost unanimous vote " Work will commence immediately upon two miles of asphalt pavement and several miles of sewerage. Mack Francis and James Turney were hanged at - Lebanon Wednesday after noon for the murder of Lew Martin last summer. They showed a . great deal of bravado, and confessed their guilt after mour.tins the scaffold. Francis strug gled much bet Turney died instantly, his neck being broken. Thr execution was private, but a large number of peo pls etood around the gallows. GEORGIA. Prospects are good for a big fruit crop throughout the state. , Fifteen hundred acres will be planted in watermelons between Fort Gaines and Coleman station. The Atlanta and Florida Railroad Co. have arrarged for. the extension of their road from Fort Valley to Cordele. Little Aurelia Brook, aged seven, was burned to death in Wilkinson county, Tuesday, at her father's home. Her clothes had caught fire. An East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia southbound passenger train, running at a speed of forty miles an hour, collided ,with a freight train twenty, miles south of Atlanta. Engineer Gillon of the pas sealer train was killed. FLORIDA. The fecretary of the treasury has awarded the contract for the construc tion of a sea-wall at Key West to Dennis McGhee at $23,000. New York parties have bought 14,000 Acres of land near Eagle Lake and will plant largely in tobacco. They will cure their tobacco by a new (steam) process. There entered the port of Pensacola during the month of February sixty-nine vessels, havinjr an fiffErresrate tonnage of 46,713; cleared during the same period were fifty -six - vessels, with a combined tonnage "39.869. The exporiations con sisted of 12,006,000 superficial "feet of sawed timber, l.94,000 superficial feet of hewed timber, and 13,812,000 super ficial feet of lumber, all yellow pine. The value of the exportation was $864,- OTHER STATZS. Tbe northbound passenger train from the City -of , 3Iexicor on the Mexican National railway, was wrecked at Mali vato, Tex., and the engineer and fireman were killed. In the senate of the Arkansas legisla ture, a bill was passed last week fixing the license in each county at $500 for the privilege of selling proprietary medi cines. If the proposed act becomes a law, it would prohibit their sale in the state. At Mount Vernon, Ky., James Baker shot and mortally wounded Moses Gat liff. Gatliff's wife had run away with another man. Gatliff pursued and re captured her at the depot where they were to take the train. He began beat ing her. Baker remonstrated, and Gat liff shot at him. Baker shot Gatliff, wounding him fatally, and surrendered to the sheriff. . ""' NORTH CAROLINA. J B Wilkinson has been elected presi dent of the Maxton & N W Railroad. The Atlantic Coast Line may extend the, road, now building from Scotland Neck to Kinston, to Wilmington. Gen John A Young, postmaster at Charlotte, died. Friday at 1:00 o'clock, at his home in that city, in the "75th year of his age. The contract for track-laying on the High Point, Randleman, Ashboro & Southern Railroad has been awarded to the Greystone Granite Construction com pany, of Henderson. Lumber Mill and Tramway The Cape Fear Shingle Co., has been organized in Harnett county, with J E Tayior, presi dent, and W E Murchison, secretary, for the manufacture of shingles, lumber and laths. They will build a tramway four miles lorig and a transfer across Cape Fear river. The capital stock is $10,000. In Granville county, Spencer Weaver, a halfwitted white man, killed his sister in law by striking her on the neck with a stick of wood, The victim was Mrs M Longwis, who, having no home of her own, spent a portion of her time with her sister, Mrs Weaver. She often quarreled and fought with the man who has i ow slain her. All the parties con cerned are very low in the scale, mental ly and morally." " Wearer is In jail. News has been received from Frank- lin of the shooting of Lee Lyon, a des 1 perate negro, who has served a term in the penitentiary, . and. who has been a terror to that community since getting out of prison. A warrant was issued for his arrest for stealing. When officer Porter, with several easistants - endeav - ored to arrest him,' he attacked them with a pitchfork, whereupon he was shot, six bullets . being fired into him. At the inquest a verdict of justified homicide was rendered. 0VEB THE CE03STIE3. Items of Interest About Bailroads Running Through Oui Soutnlacd, At the recent convention of Railroad Commissioners in Washington, Commis sioner Duncan, of South Carolina, asked the pertinent question : 'What is inter state commercel" Some of tho railroads in that state run out beyond the borders and back again, and claim that their tariff comes under the interstate regula tions, thus evading the state . law regu lating railroad commerce. The Louisville and- Nashville ordered seven more consolidation freight engines from the Rogers Locomotive Works, at Paterson, N. J. They are to be received within sixty days. Nobfolk Aitp Western Extensions. This company let contracts for con structing 10 miles of road on the Clinch Valley division. Nearly 100 mile3 of this division has been let, and the first thirty miles haves have been completed. At the annual meeting of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line for election of officers, the following directors were chosen for the following year:' Hiram W Sibley, Eugene Kelly, Richard Irvin, B R Mc Alpine, Skipwith Wilmer. Chas M Fry, R H Rochester, Joseph Bryan, J Henry Williams, James" H Young, P P Dickinson and J W. Brown. At the meeting of the new board, Hi rem W Sib ley was unanimously elected president of the company, for the twelfth time, but positively dec-lined to-serve, and Eugene Kelly was elected in his place. The Raleigh and Augusta Air Line has received from the-Baldwin Locomotive Works three 8-wheel passenger engines, and has received a dozen within the past twelve months. The road is also build ing in its shops at Raleigh three new passenger cars. r Alabama. Midland. The line from Bainbridge, on the Savannah, Florida and Western, to Ozark, Ala., 80 miles, will be all graded by May 1st. In Ala bama the road will pass through Gordon, Dothan, Newton, OzarkBrundige, Troy and Ada, and thenca to Montgomery, a t3tl distance of 175 miles. The North west and Florida road is how controlled by the Alabama Midland, an 1 over it this road will reach Montgomery, making connection at Ada, 20 miles south of that city. The North west and Florida ex tends fromMontgomery south to Luverne, Ala. 51 miles. It is 3 foot gauge, but will be changed to standard. A move ment is on foot to extend the Alabama Midland to connect with the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham road. The present bonded indebtedness on the 175 miles is $2,800,000. The stock is $1,600,000 of common and $800,000 of preferred. "Losing Ills Bead." It N0RTH AND WEST. HEWSY ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH. Being A Condensation of the Princinal Han pollings in Different States. rIToAB SrsxoLxs,a well known contractor and builder cf Bethlehfcn, Ptnn., committed joteide. Exoessiv drinking droT him to tb commission of the deed. xPssnX2TT CLScrxuksn has been ap pointed, by a New York Supreme Court Ju4g, one of three commlssionert of Esti mate and Assessment iu the matter of the High Bridge Park. 1 ; A csssbml strike of carpenters occurred at St. Louis at 9 o'clock in the mornis. Over 1700 men demanded eipht hours as a day's work. . a FBEiaHT train plans! through a burn . ie bridge over BarVa Creekt W. Va., and two tramps were burned to death in tha wreck. Jobs Botlxs, of Clinton, Ma, attempted to cross Grand River, which was mach swollen, with Us, wife and six children in a wagon. The wagon Was overturned in mid stream, and four of the children were drowned. Wuxiax EnwARna, a white man, who had tbe mail contract from WaShbarn, Da kota, to Coal Harbor, has been murdered by his Indian wifa, Jakes C. Caleoux, a tinner, prominent in business, religious and social circles at JDarton, Term., crazed by flnaaciaTloinn, at tempted to kill his Camiy and himself. He and his wife ware fatally injured. The Koderack, trading schooner, was cruising between , Graham and Moresly Islands, Alaska, when five seamen two Americans, Henry and Anderson, and three Kanakas landed, taking some trinkets for barter with the Indians. The Indians de molished the whale boat' in which the sailors came ashore and then killed, the five. During March 1005 fourth-class postmas ters were appointed by the new Fostmaster General ; 430 were appointed to succeed post masters who had resijnsd, and 534 to take the places of others suspended or removed. Major Marcus A. Rsxo, formerly of the United States Army, i9 dead, in his fifty fifth year. For failing to go to General Custer's relief at the Big Horn massacre, Major Reno was dismissed the service in 1SS0. The? Navy Department for the following vessels Samoa: . The Richmond, has i&sued orders to go at once to now in Rio de la Plata, South America; the Alert, now in Honolulu, and tha Adams, now. fitting for sea at the Mara Island Navy YarJf Cal. The reduction in the public debt during March amounted to $18,605,655,- and for the first niae months of the current fiscal year, 150,900,394. The total debt, less cash in the Treasury, is $1:114,33,032. Cash or surplus in the Treasury is $3 1,006,593, against $48, 093,158 a montn ago. Ths new Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, Messrs. Tichenor and Batcheller, took the osth of ofSce, and began at once the discharge of their new duties. John Henry Pops, Canadian" Minister of Railways,' is dead. A letter- from Henry M. Stanley, dated September 4, 188?, has reached a friend of the explorer in Edinburgh.' Mr, Stanley says he is well and in good spirits. - He met Emin " Pacha on tbe shores of Albert Nyanza. They were together for tweaiy-six days. . Countess Josephine Radstzst com mitted suicide at Vienna, Austria, try shoot lag tftrself with a revo!y.r. ...... Tee German men-of-war Alexandrine and Spertoer have been ordered to Samoa to re place the lost vessels. Ths Standard Oil Company has . pur chased the entire Crof ton oil field in Pennsyl vania. ' : ' Flames among the oil tanks at Long Island City, N. Y., destroyed property worth $150, 000 and burned one workman to a crisp. Tobias Samms, a colored man, about thirty-five years old, was murdered in New York city by bis brother Reuben, twenty.two years old, with whom fc had quarreled. The violent wind and snow storm from the northwest, - rendering tho atmosphere as dense as a London fog, caused five collisions off New York harbor, in which four vessels were wrecked, one life lost and many more jeopardized. Queen Victoria oabied a message of sympathy to. President Harrison for the loss of life aboard our warihlps in Samoa and the . President sent an appropriate reply. Toe Secretary of the Interior has issuad an important order directing that heads of bureaus and other officers of the department will hot call for resignation? except by di rection of the Secretary. ' ' The widow of General Stonewall Jackson, to whom was tendered the office of postmis tress of Lexington, Va., ha? declined to ac cept tbe same. Terrible prairie fires were raging near Cavour, Dakota. Frvs companies of troop3 were La Okla homa clearing out the invaders. A destructive wind storm prevailed in Southern Ohio. Two man were drowned by the capsizing of a small boat near Lawrence burg, Ohio. Both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature have passed a bill adoptiag the Australian tystem of voting. Two miners, Hermann Manti and Peter Jacobson. Were instantly killed by the ex plosion of a dynamite cartridge, which they truck in drying, ia the Copper Falls mine t Houghton, Mich. Tbe Belgian mail packet Comtesse de Flanders was sunk in collision in the English Channel. Fourteen lives were lost and the mails were lost with the vessel. The annual boat race between crews re presenting Cambridge and Oxford Univer sities was rowed on the Thames, London, over the usual course.f our miles and two far longs. Cambridge won by three lengths. The funeral of John Bright took place. He was buried in the old Quakers' burying ground at Rochdale, England. Lkoitive has sentr a peace commission of three to Cape Haytian by tbe steamer Delta. The commi4ion is empowered to confer with Hyppolite about establishing some basis of relationship on which the war con be de clared off. So far this year there have been fifteen duels and sixteen: suicides at Monte Carlo, the great Italian gambling resort. It is estimated that the losses due to the collapse of the French copper rinz amount to $30,000,000. A. French torpedo boat has foundered off Cherbourg In a hurricane. Her captain and fourteen of her crew were drowned. COURT Peter SCHUVALoyr. gnished Rusan diplomat and General, died n sb x-eiersDurz. afBd itrwu Tkx town of Pinsk in RnKlt h stroyad by fire. Six parsons were burned to death. . Ofthe number of saloons there has been STSii!.0 ? th aTOJ proportion to th. growth of population. SIX WAE SHIPS BUKt Many Officers and Men of Booh H& itiea Drowned, iXspatches from Samoa state tbtx American mw-oi-war irenton, and lupsic and tne German Adler, Olga and Eber were driven on a - frtnr rfz v..U(.-0rj nsd. anrl - xorty-six men were arownsd. and nrmtn crews nin offipera anri rcen lost their lives. The storm occurred on ilarch 18. it , also reported that sixteen merchantnun lost. The American war snips ireckoi wr 3 mand of Hear Admiral Lewi3 wi3 A KimberlT CO a. whose staff is aa follows: The Trenton was a sh p risree j wooiei i cruiser, and was built ia 137i He:- dispUo, ! men t was tons. In iSSl sbe naj, the flagstaff of tha European squa lrm. aj continued in that capacity up to the lira i of this disaster. ' The Trenton was considered tte-.-U wpoden vessel in the navy. Sue v.-as bull; ; the Brooklvn Navy YarxL The Nipsie was the best known cf tue United Srtes war veaiDls at Samoa was put in commission a year ani a ha'f ag arriving at Apit !ast Nbreia v?r. She had long been ratvl in nivai ciro". u a scond-rae cru sjr, har;:ia wo dea huil bark rigged . She oa. rielsix fc.v.n. motlr amoo'h bore, in her miin laltery. Sh) iiad a displacement of U75 ton--. ihe complement of tLa N pj.'c ua; JT4 mi rines and blue jackets,, a though some of bar short time men wtra seat ho-rka from Samoa when the Adam? left for B -n Franc'.s o U January last. The Vandalii was a hark-ri.-ei v.-ooJen cruiser (second rate.1, with a disp?acmc-Et oi 2100 tons. She wa? rebuilt in iS4, and ia lS8lbelongei to the North Amarlcaa squad ron. She carried a battery of eizht gnus, most ly smooth bore D-in.-h Dahlgreo's for bar broadside battery an i two Parrot rifles for pivo's. Tha OUa had bean tha most formidable of' the Herman vessels at Ap'a She Is unarm, ored aad unprotected, a single deck cruisar built in ISSO, and eqnippad with a battery of eight six-inch Kruop riiies and a number of Hotchkiss revolving cannon. She had a spead of fourteen knots and a crow of 2Z7 raaa. Her displacement was 2200 tons. ; The German war vessels Adler and Ebar , wera inferior to the Olga both in size m4 i strength. The Adler carried four Krupn ! guns and the Eber carried threa. i The Eber was equippe 1 for torpado sarrlca. Captain Fritz, who commanded tbe Adlar was one of the seamen and fighters of whoai Germany was proudest. The Big Celebration. The following is the official proramou of the Washington Centennial Celebration t ercises at New York : ' "Wednesday, April 17. ormal opening at the , Loan Exhibitku of Historical Portrait in the assembly room of the Metropolitan Opera House, at 8 r. M. Monday, April SyArrivnl of thd Prii. dent and Cabinet at 11 o'clock, am.,u Elizabethport, where thay will ombark at once for New York city on the United Statai steamer Despatch. Governors, Conntii slopers and other guests will embark at fltSJ oIock, a. u., on tha steamer Erastui Wiman at the ferry tlfp foot of W Twenty-third street, and proceed to Eliza . bethport and to meet tha Despatch and a company her to the city. The steamer Sirlus will also accompany the Despatch The line of United States war ships, 3acLti and steamboats will be formed in the uppcf bay aod after salutimr will follow iunhis order: 1, President: 2, Governors and Com missioners; 3, other guests. On arrival ti the foot of - Wall street, a barge manned bf shipmasters from tho Marine Society of New York, Captain Ambrose Snow, cqtcc swain, will row the President ashore. He will then be received by Chairman William O. Hamilton, of the Committee on States. Ths Presidential party -will U escorted to the Equitable Building, whan a collation will be serve! and a receptioa given. This will consume the time from i until 4 o'clock. After the recepliou at tbe Equitable Building the Presidrat and Gov. ernors will proceed to tho City Hall, undei military escort, where thero will bo a publio reception in tbe Governor's room, from 4 to C o'clock. - Tn tha evening occurs tbe Centennial BaJL Tuesday, April 30 Services of thanksgiv ing in the churches . of New York . and through oat tbe country at. nine o'clock a, u. A special service cf-thanlcssiiving will t given at St. Toufs Churclt at nice o'clocif a. it., which 1 he l'residerrt will attsnd. . At 10 a. it. the commemorative Centonhia) exercises will taUe place on the south frent of the Sub Treasury .Building, the Scene cf the inauguration csremony on April 80, 1189. lha exercises will consist ofpraytf by tie r.ev. Dr. 11. .B. Storrs, p. poem It " John Grcenleaf WbiUier, an oration by Chauncey MDepew- aiid' mi address if ("resident Harrison nnd benediction by the Most Rev. Jlichael Augustine Corrlgan, Archbishop of New Yoi . . After these exercises the military parade will take place under command of Major General John M. Scoflel J. The vight of fiat is given lo the military and naval cadeu, followed by the troop? of the regular army, and the National Guard in the following order, each State contingent beinjj hoadel by its Covered and his staff: Dels vara, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Con necticut, Massachusetts, SlarylanJ, Soutfc Carolina, Virgrlnia; New York, North Caro lina and llhode Island. The other StaUt will follow in the order in which they were admitlel into the Union. Following will be two hundred companies of the Loyal Legion, and then the posts of the Grand Army. The route will be up Broadway to Waver - ley place, to Fifth avenue to -Pifty-nlnta street. Tbe reviewing stand will be at Madi son Square and Twenty-fourth street. From a to 7 o'clock a reception will be given the President by the Art Gommittee at the Loan Exhibition rooms in the Metropoli tan. Opera House. At ? o'clock p. u. the banquet will occur. - v s Wednesday, May 1 The Ind astral sjyl Civic parade. Wednesday, May 8 Close ot tbe Loan fahbition. The'.Parhi&ll fominiaaion. ite farneu commission resonHed its nv tiog iu Londen. Sir Charles Russell opened the case for the Paroellitea. H declared taS the testimony of the 10 witnesses proluceJ by Attorney-General Webster, leading couo selfortbe Timet, wa3 irrelevant. He ai mitted that crime prevailed in Ireland to a' greater or less degree, and" said that tbe col. lapse of tbe Times' a case in the matter ef the alleged Parnell letters abolished the pita and marrow of tbe inquiry. The court was asked by the Times to indict a whole nation, a proceeding which Burke bad declared be infeasible. Judicial rules were invalid when a whole peoplo moved. He declare that thoughtful mmds -were convinced tbat the time had come to try tbe erpwimeat oi bom rule in Ireland. - A-Novel Ceremony. Senator Prjor Carter, of Macon coufity, Tenn, and Mrs Cordelia Jordan of 5sb ville, were united in marriage in tha Tennessee State Senate Chamber, in tbe presence of both houses of tbe General Assembly, tbe two speakers occupying prominent positions on the stand. The ceremony was performed by Governor Taylor, this being the first time tbat a marriage has been solemnized in Ten nessee by a governor Both branches of the legislature passed a bill empowering the governor and the speakers to psrform the marriage in question. There Wer present a larse number of citizens, an4 the affair was very interesting for various f re isons. The members of the senate pr j seated a handsome silver service to the happy counl. The senator stands six vear- n,1 Ja f l,din a members t . . vr - of the backwoods - deJe?ation. Tbe bride is considerably younger, and w "well and favorably known in the 'city. Eznotien, it is held, come to person jfar bfteuer by couUgion than they fpnn j theflYet inlhe hnman breast. I -in ,, O. Rittnkouse. 2as lieutenant; L'eat2la. Greea'eaf A.- Merriam, sarratary.
Swain County Herald (Charleston, N.C.)
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